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CSI Sondrio County football resumes March 3/4/5 with 4 lost first leg games recovered (3 for promotion and 1 for excellence), while the regular tournament for both categories begins the following weekend, March 10/11. The increase in infections with the new Corona virus has led to the obligation to resume the football activity proposed for […]]]>
CSI Sondrio County football resumes March 3/4/5 with 4 lost first leg games recovered (3 for promotion and 1 for excellence), while the regular tournament for both categories begins the following weekend, March 10/11. The increase in infections with the new Corona virus has led to the obligation to resume the football activity proposed for the Italian Sports Center, but the Football Committee of the Sondrio Football Committee, despite the many difficulties, did not not failed and worked hard, coordinating with all sports clubs to prepare the schedule for the second round.
"It was a task which required many revisions on the part of the committee – explains football director Silvio Guglilemana – to meet the different needs of the clubs, putting them in line with the needs of the committee in terms of balancing the individual days. "
"The challenge in particular was to design the promotion group that offers the greatest distances in terms of kilometers between the participating teams (from Campodolcino to Isolaccia) – continues Guglielmana – here we had to arbitrate the availability of facilities and teams for week shifts with the doesn't need to make the schedule too long.
Three fights are scheduled in the middle of the week for excellence and two for promotion
In fact, three midweek fights are scheduled for Excellence (13/4, 19/4 and 3/5) and two for Promotion (12/4 and 18/4), with a conclusion set for May 20. in Excellence and as of May 26 /. 27 Promotion. Follow-up of a queue with play-offs and closure of the final round with the award ceremony on the date, place and format to be determined later. From the end of May, spaces will be reserved for regional stages which will feature the best ranked teams in Excellence.
"However, we are happy to have once again succeeded in finding a solution acceptable to all, always in synergy with the clubs, giving a willingness to listen to every problem – concludes Guglilemana – listening, dialogue and resolution problems are concepts that are still very rare in sport. Modern and especially in the world of football. Football, where lack of communication and interaction is often the rule. Now we want to play regularly the second part of season, hoping at last, with spring, to finally get out of this difficult state of health.
Return of Excellence 2021-2022-2
Promotion return 2021-2022-2
]]> Mark your calendars for food and wine events coming back in 2022 https://flworfound.org/mark-your-calendars-for-food-and-wine-events-coming-back-in-2022/ Tue, 11 Jan 2022 22:00:46 +0000 https://flworfound.org/mark-your-calendars-for-food-and-wine-events-coming-back-in-2022/
PENNGROVE Crab and Drive Food at JavAmore Café Dungeness crab lovers can enjoy a crab drive-through meal on January 22 consisting of fresh crab, pasta salad, bread, Thousand Islands dressing and dessert. You can pick up your order from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the JavAmore Café, 10101 Main St., Suite A (at the […]]]>
Crab and Drive Food at JavAmore Café
Dungeness crab lovers can enjoy a crab drive-through meal on January 22 consisting of fresh crab, pasta salad, bread, Thousand Islands dressing and dessert.
You can pick up your order from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the JavAmore Café, 10101 Main St., Suite A (at the corner of Old Redwood Highway and Main Street in Grove Plaza).
The cost is $ 65 per person. To reserve tickets, call JavAmore Café at 707-794-1516. Place your orders before Tuesday, January 18. Tickets available in advance only. A representative confirmed on Tuesday that the drive-through event is proceeding as planned, following the county's latest health restrictions.
Tasting of return barrels for the March long weekend
Wine Road in northern Sonoma County will bring back its annual barrel tasting event from March 3-6.
During the barrel tasting, wine enthusiasts can visit the cellars of the cellars to taste the wines directly from the barrels and buy primeurs.
Tasting is done only by reservation in each cellar, with shorter time slots than before to limit the number of visitors at any time. Reservation times are available at 11 a.m., 12 p.m., 1 p.m., 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. All reservations are 45 minutes for the tasting and 15 minutes for the next winery.
Everyone in the group needs a reservation, including the designated driver.
The list of participating wineries will be posted online by January 27, and tickets go on sale at 9 a.m. on February 3. The cost is $ 200 for a four-day ticket (March 3-6); $ 75 for March 3 only or March 6 only. Designated drivers cost $ 10 for four days and $ 5 for Thursday or Sunday only. There are no tickets only on Friday or Saturday.
To book and for more information, go to wineroad.com.
Weekend Passport back to Dry Creek in April
Passport to Dry Creek Valley, one of Sonoma County's premier food and wine events, returns April 22-24 with lavish food and wine pairings at over 40 Dry Creek Valley wineries.
During a weekend you can taste quality wines, gourmet dishes and entertainment in the vineyards; take wine tours; taste exclusive vintages; and meet the wineries and winemakers behind the Dry Creek Valley wineries.
Each cellar will have a unique Passport theme. Two-day and Sunday-only tickets for Passport 2022 are already sold out. Designated driver tickets and tickets for boutique events will be available by February.
For more information, visit drycreekvalley.org and click Passport.
Food and wine retrospective tasting at Copain
Copain Wines will be hosting a food and wine tasting retrospective from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday January 15 of its acclaimed 2012 vintage. A representative confirmed on Tuesday that the event is proceeding as planned.
Situated on a hill overlooking the Russian River Valley, Copain is known for producing site-specific Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Syrah from cool climate vineyards in Mendocino County, Anderson Valley and Sonoma coast.
To complete the surge in wines, the estate will offer you a classic winter pairing: beef bourguignon.
The tasting windows fill up quickly. Tickets cost $ 65 per person and can be booked at exploretock.com/copainwines.
Editor-in-Chief Diane Peterson can be reached at 707-521-5287 or diane.peterson@pressdemocrat.com. On Twitter @ dianepete56
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Gathering of Warbirds Meeting: The Gathering of Warbirds reunion will take place on May 21 at Madera Municipal Airport in California. The event is a fly-in and drive-in that educates attendees "on what it took to win WWII," said event organizer Arnie Schweer. The event will feature a variety of unique warbirds, including a Republic […]]]>
Gathering of Warbirds Meeting: The Gathering of Warbirds reunion will take place on May 21 at Madera Municipal Airport in California. The event is a fly-in and drive-in that educates attendees "on what it took to win WWII," said event organizer Arnie Schweer. The event will feature a variety of unique warbirds, including a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt and several North American P-51 Mustangs. Schweer also said that "the event is combined with a classic car show so that people can not only watch the warbirds take off and land, but they can also see over 80 classic cars. You can't beat that for 10 $. "
Ray Fagen Memorial Air Show: Each June, the Fagen Fighters WWII Museum hosts an impressive warbird-only air show and warbird flight event for the public and the aviation community at the Granite Falls / Lenzen-Roe-Fagen Municipal Airport. Memorial Field in Minnesota. The museum has a unique collection of flying warbirds, including two North American Mustang P-51s, a Lockheed P-38 Lightning, a Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, and even a Curtiss JN-4 Jenny. This year's air show will be on June 18 with a rain date on June 19. Locals can enjoy the practice show on June 17, according to Evan Fagen.
Thunder over Michigan: the The Thunder Over Michigan Air Show will be held July 16-17 in Detroit, Michigan. The drive-through air show will feature dozens of iconic warbirds and even displays from the United States Navy Blue Angels. If you want to experience the history for yourself, consider purchasing a flying experience in the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress at the Yankee Air Museum or the Bell UH-1H Huey during the event.
Wings of the North AirExpo: The Wings of the North AirExpo will take place July 23 and 24 at the Flying Cloud Airport in Minneapolis. The event, which falls the weekend before EAA AirVenture, is the perfect gathering place for warbirds to stop before they form and fly to Oshkosh, Wisconsin. In recent years, the AirExpo has hosted British fighters such as the Supermarine Spitfire and the Hawker Hurricane and even large American bombers like the North American B-25 Mitchell and the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. The event's daily air show, pilots meet, seminars, US Air Force demonstrations and food court make the event a family-friendly event that showcases past foreign and US air power. and present.
EAA AirVenture Oshkosh: Perhaps the largest and most well-known warbird event takes place during the last full week of July each year at the Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh. The event, which the Experimental Aircraft Association has dubbed "the world's greatest celebration of aviation", is the perfect opportunity to watch, hear and even feel history. Whether you're looking to get up close and personal with an elusive Hawker Sea Fury or a more common Cessna L-19 Bird Dog, hundreds of different warbirds can be spotted in the skies and on AirVenture grounds every summer.
Cascades air show: The Cascades Airshow will be held August 26-27 at Madras Municipal Airport in Madras, Oregon. The event will feature warbird and general aviation activities, including tours of the Erickson Aircraft Collection, which houses a variety of flying and static warbirds, including a Messerschmitt ME-109, a Martin AM-1 Mauler and a Grumman F8F Bearcat. Other activities include acrobatic performances, live music, and a car show.
Gathering of warbirds: The twentieth annual Warbird Gathering will be held at the Warhawk Air Museum in Nampa, Idaho, on August 27-28. The two-day event features flyovers, food vendors, US Air Force demonstrations, a guest speaker and in, "said Heather Moore of the Warhawk Air Museum. Participants are invited to visit the the museum's Facebook page to stay up to date on event plans.
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Bear Creek Nature Center – 245 Bear Creek Road. Registration required: 719-520-6387; communityservices.elpasoco.com/nature-centers.
• Swimming in the forest in January, from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., January 22, from $ 20 to $ 30.
• Active Adults: CHS Historic Walk – Law and Disorder, 2:45 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. Jan. 22, $ 7 to $ 15.
COTREX – The official app for Colorado Trails; trails.colorado.gov.
Rocky Mountain Trails – Information on more than 70 hikes; rockymountainhikingtrails.com.
• Nature's Classroom: Winter adaptation, for grades 1 to 3, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Fox Run Regional Park, $ 4 per person.
• Full moon photography workshop, 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., Sunday, Clear Spring Ranch, $ 20.
Visitor Center and Nature Garden of the Garden of the Gods – 1805 N. 30th St. Registration required.
• Indoor treasure hunt for children, from 10 am to 11 am from Wednesday to January 26; tinyurl.com/2c49skxy.
• Amazing Animal Adaptations, for ages 8 to 12, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Thursday, $ 5; tinyurl.com/4ujy94eb.
• Why are wolves in Colorado? 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, $ 5; tinyurl.com/3uvv9s7w.
• What weather is it ? 3 p.m.-4 p.m. January 25, $ 3; tinyurl.com/2dbsxr4j.
• Fire Ecology, 3 to 4 p.m. on January 27, $ 3; tinyurl.com/2p886r7d.
Fountain Creek Nature Center – 320 Peppergrass Lane, Fountain. Registration required: 719-520-6745; communityservices.elpaso co.com/centres-nature.
• 2 and 3 outdoors: snow rabbits, for 2-3 year olds, 10 am to 11:15 am, Thursday to Friday, $ 3 per person.
• Frozen Fauna, Saturdays 10 am to noon, $ 4 to $ 5.
• Jr. Bird Club, for ages 8 to 15, 8 to 11 am on January 22, $ 10.
• Live birds of prey, 10 am to 11 am January 29, $ 4 to $ 5.
Colorado Bird Watching Trail – Coloradobirdingtrail.com lists places to see birds and wildlife.
Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center – 4729 Twin Rocks Road, split. Limited tours available. Register: 719-687-9742, wolfeducation.org.
Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site – 3106 Gateway Road. Living history programs available with tours, demonstrations and hands-on activities. Entrance from $ 3 to $ 8. Tickets required: rockledgeranch.com.
Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Black Forest Trails Association – 6.30 p.m., Black Forest Community Club, 12530 Black Forest Road; black Forest trails.org.
Outdoor skills
Fly fishing for trout – 1025 Zuni Street, Denver. Registration: 303-733-1434, troutsflyfishing.com.
• Umpqua Signature fly tying course with Landon Mayer, 6 to 8 p.m. January 24, $ 100.
Functioning
Visitor Center and Nature Garden of the Garden of the Gods – 1805 N. 30th St.
• Galop in the Garden 5K, from 3 pm to 5 pm on Thursdays until March 31; gardenofgods.com/things-to-do/things-1/5k-fun-run.
Pikes Peak Road Runners – Go online for events: pprrun.org.
Many state parks are looking for volunteers. For more information, visit tinyurl.com/y9qafa2o.
The advertisements are published within the limits of available places. Information by email at least two weeks in advance: listings@gazette.com.
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Dogs are improving everything and they just saved 2022 with these adorable calendars. If your New Year's Resolution needed to be more organized but you need a little motivation so look no further. We've rounded up the cutest dog calendars from all of your favorite brands. Discover our best choices among The works, WH Smith, […]]]>
Dogs are improving everything and they just saved 2022 with these adorable calendars.
If your New Year's Resolution needed to be more organized but you need a little motivation so look no further.
We've rounded up the cutest dog calendars from all of your favorite brands.
Discover our best choices among The works, WH Smith, Calendar Club and more.
Two Labrador puppies in a meadow. Credit: Canva
Dog calendars for 2022
Cute Dogs 2022 Square Calendar and Planner Set
What could be better than a adorable dog calendar? A adorable dog calendar and what is an agenda.
The Works offers this nice set with everything from Labrador puppies to baby King Charles Spaniels.
It's RRP is £ 12 but you can now to gather for the absolute bargain price of £ 1.50.
Take it home via the Works website.
Spiro Puppies Calendar 2022
Your heart will melt at this adorable calendar for puppies that starts off strong with a sleeping King Charles Spaniel puppy.
With an adorable puppy for each month, this spiro calendar is hard to resist at the best of times.
Now that the calendar has been reduced from £ 10 to £ 4, it is frankly impossible.
To gather via the WH Smith website.
Seven adorable dogs. Credit: Canva
Calling all dog lovers, if you are looking for one calendar with your favorite breed then Calendar Club is the place to go.
That you are crazy about Corgis where are you mad about westies, the calendar company has cut prices by up to 40% now.
This Staffordshire Bull Terrier 2022 Calendar has been reduced by 40% and could be yours for just £ 3.59.
If you can't get enough of pugs, this 2022 calendar understand 12 unique months of perfect pug photos for just £ 5.99.
And to make sure 2022 is your year, you can also buy this little diary from Dogs Trust to go with.
The agenda is at -20% and will set you back £ 4.79 with £ 1 of the sale going directly to the animal charity.
Card factory
Square Dog Calendar 2022
There is nothing cuter than dogs – except dogs in party hats, Halloween clothes, and reindeer antlers.
Add these perfect doggies to your cart and enjoy a full year of beautiful puppy photos.
Take advantage of the monthly surprise because each puppy's outfit is seasonally appropriate with dog treats from spring through winter.
This could be yours for just £ 2.00.
Buy this puppy calendar via the Card Factory website.
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LITERARY EVENTS Colorado Cowboys Poetry Gathering – Saturday-Jan 16, The American Mountaineering Center, 710 10th St., Golden, check prices online: coloradocowboygathering.com. PRICE "The party dolls" by Colorado Springs author George Hayward won the Non-Fictional Military History category at the BIBA, the annual awards for best independent books. NECESSARY GUARDIANS Children's Literacy Center – 719 471-8672, […]]]>
Colorado Cowboys Poetry Gathering – Saturday-Jan 16, The American Mountaineering Center, 710 10th St., Golden, check prices online: coloradocowboygathering.com.
"The party dolls" by Colorado Springs author George Hayward won the Non-Fictional Military History category at the BIBA, the annual awards for best independent books.
NECESSARY GUARDIANS
Children's Literacy Center – 719 471-8672, children literacycenter.org.
Digital hoop – Pikes Peak Library District customers can use Hoopla Digital to access free videos, music and audiobooks from smartphones, tablets, PCs and Apple TV; hoopladigital.com.
EBooks and more – Free e-books, e-audiobooks, e-magazines with the PPLD library card. Click CyberShelf at ppld.org.
LIST OF LIBRARIES
Pikes Peak Library District: ppld.org.
• Calhan, 600 Bank Street.
• Cheyenne Mountain, 1785 S. 8th St.
• East 5550 N. Union Blvd.
• Fontaine, 230 S. Main St.
• High Prairie, 7035 Old Meridian Road, Falcon
• Library 21c, 1175 Chapel Hills Drive
• Manitou Springs, in the Manitou Art Center, 515 Manitou Ave.
• Monuments Library, 1706 Lake Woodmoor Drive
• Old Colorado City, 2418 W. Pikes Peak Ave.
• Palmer Lake, 66 Lower Glenway
• Penrose, 20 avenue N. Cascade.
• Rockrimmon, 832 Village Center Drive
• Ruth Holley, 685 N. Murray Blvd.
• Sand Creek, 1821 S. Academy Blvd.
• Ute Pass, 8010 Severy Ave., Cascade
CARLOTTA OLSON, THE GAZETTE
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NEED HELP? Harley's Hope Foundation – Provides financial assistance for major veterinary care and behavior modification services, access to a list of Colorado animal care resources, and educational information on preventative care and animal safety: harleys-hopefoundation.org, 719-495-6083. AVAILABLE Safe place for pets – Find homes for the pets of terminally ill owners. For more information […]]]>
Harley's Hope Foundation – Provides financial assistance for major veterinary care and behavior modification services, access to a list of Colorado animal care resources, and educational information on preventative care and animal safety: harleys-hopefoundation.org, 719-495-6083.
Safe place for pets – Find homes for the pets of terminally ill owners. For more information on animal placement or to find animals available for adoption, call 719-359-0201 or go to safeplacepets.org.
Adopt a pet shelter license plates – One-time fee of $ 80 for new or replacement plates in addition to other taxes and fees, renewal fee of $ 25. Part of the funds go to the Pet Overpopulation Fund; colorado.gov.
LOOKING TO HELP?
9 rescue of lives inc. – Foster homes required. Medical supplies and care provided; 719-591-4640; colorado9lives.com.
Breeder Release Adoption Service – Donations of money, food, collars and harnesses for dogs accepted; breederadoptions.org.
Happy cats paradise – Need for volunteer cleaners and adoption assistance as well as donations of Costco gift cards, groceries and office supplies; lightly used cat equipment accepted; 719-362-4600, happy cats havre.org.
See what the cat brought – Volunteers for shelter duties and foster homes for wanted kittens and cats, 2129 E. Boulder St .; 719-331-6852, lookwhatthecatbroughtin.org.
Rocky Mountain Cocker Spaniel Rescue – Volunteers and host families wanted; rockymountaincockerrescue.org.
WHAT TO DO IF ?
If an animal bites you, your animal runs away, or you find a stray animal, call Humane Society of the Pikes Peak area, 719-473-1741. To list a lost or found pet, go to hsppr.org.
Email adoption shows and pet events at least two weeks in advance: listings@gazette.com.
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Today only, as part of its Gold Box offers of the day, Bright Day Calendars (99% Lifetime Positive Feedback) via Amazon Offer a selection of its 2022 priced calendars from $ 5.50 with free shipping for Prime members or for orders over $ 25. If we had to pick a favorite timeline on sale today, […]]]>
Today only, as part of its Gold Box offers of the day, Bright Day Calendars (99% Lifetime Positive Feedback) via Amazon Offer a selection of its 2022 priced calendars from $ 5.50 with free shipping for Prime members or for orders over $ 25. If we had to pick a favorite timeline on sale today, it would be Country Roads 2022 at $ 5.59. For comparison, it normally costs $ 10 and today's deal marks a new all-time low. This 2022 calendar features a new photo of a country road each month to give you a refreshed design throughout the year. Each day of the month lets you write down tasks, due dates or schedules so you know what's going on at a glance. Check out the other calendars for sale here, then head below for more.
Since you're saving almost $ 5 with today's main offer, consider using that extra cash by purchasing a Pack of 4 Sharpie S-Gel pens. At present, the multi-pack can be picked up for $ 4.50 on Amazon now and it will be easy to jot down due dates and reminders on your new calendar.
Another great way to stay organized throughout the year is to have a laptop with you everywhere. While our phones often fulfill this role, Apple's iPad mini could be a little better at this task given its slightly larger screen and support for Apple Pencil. Right now, you can pick up the cellular model for less than $ 1 off its all-time low at $ 630, but this deal won't last long, so be sure to take advantage of the savings before the price goes up.
More information on the country roads calendar:
New Year's Resolution Stay Organized: Countdown 2022 to the Christmas Calendar! Santa only comes once a year, so make sure you don't miss him! The countdown to the Christmas calendar will keep you alert each day, to make sure you are ready when the most wonderful time of the year arrives. Don't forget to hang up your stockings!
High Quality Goal Setting Planner: Christmas Calendar 2022 – Closed Size: 12 x 12 inches. Open: 12 x 24 inches. Don't bleed through! 13 color images! All photos are hand selected from a wide range of photographers around the world! No compromise is made on the image quality or content of our holiday wall calendar.
VERSATILE: A classic square calendar is great for creating a personalized look in bathrooms, living rooms, bedrooms, home kitchens, office, office, garage, classroom at school, even your shed or cellar, den or bar. ! This calendar runs from September 2022 to December 2022, providing four additional months for planning. (September 2022-December 2022 is an overview.)
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Lost school days causing schedule issues Many school districts in the DMV have only been to school for one or two days this week because of snow, if any, and in a year when many parents want their kids to go to school. school after being away for much of last year, anxiety is mounting. […]]]>
Lost school days causing schedule issues
Many school districts in the DMV have only been to school for one or two days this week because of snow, if any, and in a year when many parents want their kids to go to school. school after being away for much of last year, anxiety is mounting. Many parents want to know: are we about to make adjustments to school calendars?
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Three districts in northern Virginia closed Thursday. Fairfax County's largest public schools announced their closure on Wednesday, and Arlington and Alexandria followed suit shortly thereafter.
Arlington and Alexandria both alluded to staff issues as the reason for their shutdown.
FOX 5 spoke with Fairfax Superintendent Scott Brabrand to learn the background to their decision.
"We are in a pandemic, and things we never considered before are having bigger impacts than ever, especially staff this year in the pandemic," Brabrand said.
READ MORE: School closures in Northern Virginia fueled by staff shortages, COVID-19
FCPS has announced a plan where their central office will be empty for the next few weeks. Central office staff will deploy to schools to help with staffing, all to ensure the district remains open to in-person learning, which all districts say they want to do safely.
So, are the issues we're seeing going to have an impact on school calendars? It is still too early to tell, officials said.
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DC, Maryland, and Virginia all have built-in snow days, and virtual days are counted as teaching days.
However, in Virginia, only 10 unplanned virtual days are allowed each year, according to new state guidelines, which means that a potential impact could occur on the road if a particular district has personnel or service issues. weather report.
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The Anne Arundel County Board of Education has officially approved a 2022-2023 school year schedule that sees classes start for students on the Monday before Labor Day and end on June 16, 2023. The schedule, approved at the January 5, 2022 board meeting, calls for the first day of class to be Monday, August 29, […]]]>
The Anne Arundel County Board of Education has officially approved a 2022-2023 school year schedule that sees classes start for students on the Monday before Labor Day and end on June 16, 2023.
The schedule, approved at the January 5, 2022 board meeting, calls for the first day of class to be Monday, August 29, 2022. It also restores two full days of parent-teacher conferences at the start of Thanksgiving week, with two partial days of parent-teacher conferences in March.
The calendar maintains the traditional Easter / Spring holiday week and calls for all schools and offices to be closed during the events of Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Eid al-Fitr. As has been the case for many years, the 2022-2023 schedule also contains four days of early layoff to allow staff to focus on fairness and the opportunity gap.
Three days are scheduled in the calendar for closures in the event of inclement weather.
EVOLUTION OF THE SCHOOL YEAR CALENDAR 2021-2022
Also at its January 5 meeting, the board adjusted the schedule for the current school year to provide a system-wide closure on May 3, 2022. This day had previously been designated as a professional development day during which there were no lessons for the students.
Both calendars are available on www.aacps.org/calendar.
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"Going Directly At The Beast"—WePay Takes on PayPal with New Tools for Online Merchants
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WePay emerged from the Y Combinator venture incubator in late 2009 with a plan to make it simpler for people to round up money online from groups of other people; think of a carpool driver collecting gas money from his riders, for example. Well, you can still use it for that. But as it turned out, there was one particular category of money-collectors who really liked the Palo Alto, CA-based startup's services: small merchants.
So WePay introduced a new product this week tailored especially for them. Called WePay Stores, it lets anyone set up a Web-based e-retailing operation in just a few steps.
The startup is marketing the service as a simpler, cheaper alternative to merchandising platforms like eBay, Shopify, Etsy, and Eventbrite. But most of all, it's going up against PayPal—the eBay subsidiary known not only for helping consumers send and receive cash digitally, but for its payment processing services, widely used by e-retailers, government offices, political campaigns, nonprofits, and even banks.
WePay's knock on PayPal is that it's complicated and expensive to set up a merchant account and add PayPal buttons to an existing website. WePay says it only takes a few minutes to set up a store on its site; the startup will host the store for free, keep track of customers' shopping carts, and handle credit-card or e-check payments when they're done.
The startup keeps 3.5 percent of each transaction. That's slightly higher than PayPal's fee (1.9 percent to 2.9 percent, plus $0.30 per transaction), but the flip side is that WePay doesn't levy any monthly charges or setup fees, the way PayPal and eBay do.
One of the first businesses to use WePay Stores is Startup Tees, which sells T-shirts bearing the logos of Silicon Valley companies like Heroku, Reddit, Hipmunk, and Dropbox. (It's probably no coincidence that most of the featured companies are Y Combinator alumni.) "It literally took us a few minutes to build a store on WePay and drop it into our site—and it brought in a few hundred dollars of revenue within the first few hours," said Zach Johnston, co-founder of Startup Tees, in a statement.
WePay has 33 employees these days, and has raised more than $9 million in venture funding from Highland Capital, August Capital, and individual investors. To hear co-founder Rich Aberman tell it, the startup isn't shifting away from its original mission, but rather getting closer to its essence.
Even before introducing WePay Stores, the startup had already quietly dropped its early emphasis on group payments, Aberman says, having discovered through conversations with customers that the service's real selling point was its ease of use compared to other online payment systems. Even users who really were using WePay to manage group payments didn't think of what they were doing that way, he says: "They're just looking for 'the easiest way to collect money online.'" From there, he says, it was a short step to providing merchant tools for the subset of users who wanted to sell things online.
I interviewed Aberman about the news yesterday via e-mail; here's the full Q&A.
Xconomy: Describe the changes this week.
Rich Aberman: For a long time, we qualified the PayPal comparison by saying that we're focused on helping normal consumers collect money from friends, supporters, fans, members, et cetera, while PayPal is focused on helping merchants accept payments online for products and services. But today we're going directly at the beast by announcing WePay Stores—a suite of tools intended to make it easy for merchants to sell items online. We found that our focus on simplicity and transparency resonates with merchants as well as consumers.
We think this is in-line with our current strategy of providing both payments (like PayPal) and the tools that people use to actually collect money—such as selling tickets, accepting donations, sending bills, and now creating stores. By handling both the payments piece and providing the tools that people need, we make it really easy for anybody to get up-and-running in under a minute, with no merchant account, technical ability, or even an existing website.
X: What happened to the emphasis on group payments?
RA: We don't call ourselves a "group payment platform" anymore. We still serve the same customers—generally non-techies that want to get up-and-running quickly without all the complex bells and whistles—but now we just say that "WePay will helps you collect payments online without the hassle," because that's really the pain point that we're solving.
X: Does the introduction of WePay Stores represent a major "pivot" for WePay, or just an evolution?
RA: Definitely an evolution. From day 1, the direction of our product has been determined by our users. We originally built a way to bill your friends or members for group activities, like bachelor parties and group vacations. What we found was that people came to our site looking for an easy way to collect money for various different things, but "collect money" meant different things to different people.
We found, very early on, that a lot of people really needed to sell tickets to their events, not send bills, even though the profile of the user was the same. Or that they wanted to collect donations in any amount rather than sell tickets. So our strategy evolved from: "Here is one tool for one use-case" to "We help you collect payments without the hassle by providing easy-to-use tools for any use-case."
We found that some of our users were beginning to look for more "merchant-like" tools (i.e. they also wanted to sell things online). We thought it was a perfect opportunity to better service a subset of our existing customers, while at the same time busting into the merchant space, which we think is a green field opportunity.
X: Did the group payment idea prove to be too small?
RA: I don't think so. You can build a billion dollar business servicing just groups that want to collect money online (organizations, clubs, teams, group travel, fantasy sports, etcetera). But I don't think the best way to acquire these groups is to call yourself a "group payment platform" because that's not how they self-define— they're just looking for the easiest way to collect money online.
X: How and when did you discover that users were more interested in the underlying platform and its simplicity?
RA: We just asked our users why they chose WePay over other services. It always boiled down to the same things: it takes almost no time to start collecting money online, you don't need technical ability, or an existing website or merchant account, and you don't need to go anywhere else to get the tools that you need. Those points became our marketing messaging and they have since driven the development of the product.
Now we know how to answer the question: "How are you different from PayPal?" The answer: "We both help you accept payments online, but WePay holds your hand through the process of going from never accepting online payments to getting up and running with whatever tool you want." If you want to sell tickets with PayPal, you have to plug it into Eventbrite. If you want to sell items, you have to plug it into Shopify or Etsy. If you want to accept donations, you have to put a button on your own website. With WePay, you can do any of those things in under a minute, and it just works. That message, in particular, really resonated with users.
Wade Roush is the producer and host of the podcast Soonish and a contributing editor at Xconomy. Follow @soonishpodcast
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We've been seeing occasional reports of problems, vaguely described in Blogger Help Forum: Get Help with an Issue, referencing posts being overwritten by other posts.
I have been working on my post, for days. This morning, I opened it, to edit - and discovered that it now contains material from another, newer post! How do I recover my older post?
You can't. Blogger is not a Content Management System - and when you destroy a post, it's gone.
This report is a bit annoying. We can suspect that there is a problem - but we get no clue how to prevent the same disaster from destroying our own blog.
My personal policy was simply to advise people to avoid leaving posts, in Draft status, for long periods of time.
Publish sooner, and edit after you publish. Unfortunately, some blog owners will spend days - and weeks - working on new posts, before publishing.
Generally, nothing untoward happens - and I get called names, for instructing people to not do something, that helps them enjoy publishing their blog. Today, we saw a clue as to what may be happening - and possibly, one precaution that we might take.
I had two different Draft posts open - and one post replaced the content of the other. It's not recoverable, according to Blogger.
This scenario is still annoying - but it's maybe avoidable.
Has this ever happened, to you?
I've had instances where I open two posts, simultaneously (or one, immediately after the other), so I can move content between the two. Occasionally, I may click on two different "Edit" links in Posts, in rapidfire mode - and open two post editor tabs in the browser. Click - Click - and start work.
Looking at the two post editor windows, I observe that I have two copies of the same content. Looking at the browser address window, I see two different URLs. Obviously, I managed to open the same post, twice.
If it happens, no problem. Recovery is simple.
To avoid stupidly editing the same post twice (which copy should I save?), the solution is simple. Save neither.
Close both tabs, immediately, without saving either - and start over. Open the two posts, for editing, again - but be more careful to not mis click the mouse - or what ever I did to cause the potential disaster.
So far, no problem. I have not lost a post, because of overwriting. Maybe, I've been lucky - or did I just repel an elephant attack?
The longer you take, when editing, the greater chance that you will see this happen. So think, when editing posts, for long periods of time.
Draft posts may not leave you so nonchalant.
What happens, though, if you open two Draft posts, and the contents of one open under the edit URL of the other? Can you quickly and safely close both tabs, without saving either?
When you edit Draft posts, your posts are subject to malfeasance by AutoSave. What happens, if you open two posts - and AutoSave saves the content of one post, into the other?
And there is one possible scenario, how one Draft post can overwrite the other.
I open two previously published posts, simultaneously - a lot. I open a Draft post - and one or two published posts, simultaneously - occasionally. I have never opened two Draft posts, simultaneously - that I can recall.
OK, we don't know the cause of the base problem.
Admittedly, we don't know why this happens, that one post would open under the URL of the other - though I have a gut feel for what is going on.
It's not recoverable, according to Blogger.
Blogger knows that this is happening.
Just don't let the problem destroy your post.
If the known problem is real - and if Blogger has not yet managed to fix the problem - just don't have your work become a casualty of the problem.
If you are going to maintain multiple Draft posts, over long periods of time - and you ever have occasion to edit two posts, simultaneously, open each one, deliberately. Open one, verify the contents, and the post editor URL - then return to the Posts menu, open the second, and verify the contents and the post editor URL.
Don't open multiple post edits, in rapidfire mode. You won't be editing, quickly - open carefully, and edit carefully.
Call me names, if you wish. You may regret, some time.
Maybe, you will again call me a ninny. Maybe not. But, if you ever watch a long developed Draft post destroyed, you may change your mind.
Or, you can be more careful, starting now. The lost work, that you may save, may be your own.
Sometimes, the undo arrow on the post editing bar or the classic Ctrl+Z can save the day.
But one has to act immediately upon realizing the situation, before the buffer contents are replaced by another post or whatever.
By pressing "undo" once may clear the whole content of the post (showing an empty screen), no panic, since by pressing "undo" a second time brings back the original content.
Good tip, and thanks. "Undo", or "Undo" x 2, can indeed save the day!
But you gotta have nerves of steel, to outrun "AutoF**k". I call it that, in memory of another Blogger Expert, who rhymed it with "When that s**t happens, you're out of luck!".


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Piece of the Pie: Incentivizing Veterinarians Through Partnership
For the past few years, we have noted a rising number of deals between corporate and private veterinary practices. Lavishly funded by private equity capital, consolidators pay up to 18 times more than what a practice is worth. While getting a generous paycheck is lucrative, practice owners are worried about what's going to happen with their respective legacies and whether acquirers will take good care of their teams.
Early in the consolidation game, practice owners were not given much choice. Corporations would roll up 100% of their businesses, obligating the former owners to stay on as clinicians for a couple of years. Today, practice owners can afford to be pickier and leverage the increasing corporate interest to sell at better terms — for them and their employees.
From joint venture partnerships to all-employee equity participation in the consolidator itself, we'll discuss different options that practice sellers can choose from to extract maximum value from the deal.
This webinar will lend itself to those involved in the industry, such as current and aspiring practice owners and their associates, corporate groups, and investors in animal healthcare.
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Dr. Beth Davidow
Dr. Karen Felsted
Dr. Ivan Zak
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Beth Davidow is an Assistant Professor at Washington State University and Consultant at VIN. She also blogs The Veterinary Idealist, where she covers essential topics in the industry. Beth worked in many types of veterinary practices and held almost every position, including kennel, reception, assistant, associate, emergency doctor, criticalist, medical director, and owner. In 2003, she co-founded the first 24/7 multi-specialty hospital and community blood bank, which grew to two locations and 150 staff and then was merged and sold. Since 2002, Beth has been a consultant for the Veterinary Information Network (VIN). From 2017–2019, she was the vice president of the American College of Veterinary Emergency Critical Care and is now the president-elect of the organization.
Karen E. Felsted is the founder and president of PantheraT, MS, CVPM, CPA. After graduating from the College of Veterinary Medicine at Texas A & M University, she practiced both small animal and emergency medicine on a full-time basis while maintaining a veterinary accounting and consulting practice. In June of 2001, Karen opened her own accounting firm specializing in financial services for veterinarians. She has spent the last 15 years working as a financial and operational consultant to veterinary practices and the animal health industry. Karen is currently a member of the Veterinary Economics' Editorial Advisory Board and has also served on the boards of VetPartners, the CATalyst Council and the CVPM Board of Directors.
Dr. Ivan Zak has earned multiple accreditations in veterinary medicine. After graduating, he worked in 35 veterinary hospitals across Canada, where he was inspired to create Smart Flow, a first-in-the-industry workflow optimization system. Smart Flow was subsequently acquired by Fortune 500 company IDEXX, where he became General Manager of the Software division. After consulting 500+ practices worldwide on workflow optimization, he decided it was time for a new adventure. Dr. Ivan has a holistic view of the whole veterinary business market and he's making his next step the creation of a more cohesive, unified platform that will ultimately benefit the veterinary professionals.
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More than 1,500 people are now homeless in Black Country and Staffordshire
By Heather Large | News | Published: Nov 22, 2018
More than 1,500 people are recorded as homeless in the Black Country, Staffordshire and Wyre Forest, according to new figures released by charity Shelter.
Shelter says more than 1,500 people in the Black Country, Staffordshire and Wyre Forest are homeless
Walsall, Wolverhampton and Sandwell are all among the West Midlands' 'hotspot' areas, with the highest levels of homelessness.
The charity says there are dozens of people sleeping on the streets across the region while hundreds of others are stuck in temporary accommodation, including hostels and B&Bs.
The number of people without somewhere to live in Walsall is 603 including 20 who are sleeping on the streets.
In Wolverhampton there are a total of 470 people recorded as homeless with 19 known to be rough sleepers.
While in Wyre Forest there are 215 people recorded as homeless with 11 spending nights on the streets.
The figures show there are 155 individuals without accommodation in Sandwell with 10 rough sleepers.
In Stafford the total number of people known not to have a home is 23 while in Cannock there are five people sleeping on the streets.
Shelter says the The number of people recorded as homeless in the whole of the West Midlands has reached 23,800 - an increase of more than 2,500 compared with 2017.
The charity has launched an urgent appeal in response to the statistics, saying they show 'the true scale of the region's worsening housing crisis',
Vicky Hines, manager of Shelter's Birmingham Hub, which helps people across the region, including the Black Country, said:  "It's unforgivable that thousands of people in the West Midlands have been swept up by the housing crisis and now have no place to call home.
"These new figures show that homelessness is having a devastating impact on the lives of people right across the region.
"Due to the perfect storm of spiralling rents, welfare cuts and a total lack of social housing, record numbers of people are sleeping out on the streets or stuck in the cramped confines of a hostel room.
"We desperately need action now to change tomorrow for the hundreds of thousands whose lives will be blighted by homelessness this winter.
"Shelter's services have never been more needed.That's why we're asking the public to support us this winter so that we can answer as many calls as possible and have trained advisers on hand when people need them most."
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How long does it take to become a good photographer? How much technique do you need to know before taking great photographs? Is it essential to have lived enough to tell strong stories through your images?
Well….after seeing some of my AS Photography students' work who are now 16-17 years old and have only been learning photography for the last four months, a lot of these questions might need a second thought!
After a three-week road trip through the American West, Talias' Warm Land depicts the daily life of a community of farmers from Arizona. Following the production of this rather impressive project, Talia will be publishing her first artist book in the next couple of months. Stay tuned!
Phoebe has been exploring the facial features of different ethnicities. Demonstrating an exceptional control over studio lighting, her amazing close-up portraits can only be the beginning of a successful photographic career.
Anali took light as the defining character for her project. After a long research process, she focused on nature at night and successfully depicted a variety of subjects lit by the moonlight.
Helen explored the relation between movement and water. Through a series of images depicting male swimmers at the sea, Helen discovered the power of photography to record movement.
Negar's self portraits are the result of a deep research on cinematographic lighting techniques. Using projected shadows from her own body, this project demonstrates her understanding of composition and photographic lightning.
Jessie was influenced by the masters of street photography for the production of her final project. She decided to portrait London life in its innumerable manifestations and after a long journey, she produced an outstanding body of work of the British Capital.
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March 25th marked the eighth annual Back Up Your Birth Control Day of Action, a day to "raise awareness about and increase access to emergency contraception (EC)." You can find a fact sheet about EC (also known as Plan B ® or the 'morning after pill') on the Back Up Your Birth Control website, which includes info like:
• EC is designed to help prevent pregnancy AFTER unprotected sex or the failure of other birth control methods.
• EC is a higher dosage of the same hormones found in many types of regular birth control pills.
• It can be taken within 5 days of unprotected sex or birth control failure but EC is most effective when taken as soon as possible after unprotected sex or the failure of other birth control methods. In the first 24 hours after intercourse, Plan B can prevent 95% of expected pregnancies.
• EC is NOT the "abortion pill" and will not terminate an existing pregnancy or cause birth defects if a woman takes it when she is already pregnant.
In the United States women eighteen and over can currently purchase Plan B pills without a prescription but earlier this week a federal judge ordered the Food and Drug Administration make EC available over the counter to women as young as 17.
The judge ruled that the FDA had "improperly bowed to political pressure from the Bush administration in 2006 when it set 18 as the age limit...The agency has 30 days to comply with the order, in which the judge also urged the agency to consider removing all restrictions on over-the-counter sales of Plan B."
Back in 2006 the FDA had also ordered that Plan B be stocked behind pharmacy counters, in contrast to other over-the-counter contraceptives like condoms, in order to enforce the age restriction.
So this current ruling is excellent news for young American women! If you find yourself in need of emergency contraception, timing is crucial and women of any age shouldn't have to jump through hoops to prevent pregnancy when there's a product that will safely help them do that on the market.
In theory, over the counter access to Plan B is something that Canadians of all ages already have. Last May the National Association of Pharmacy Regulatory Authorities accepted a recommendation that Plan B be made available on drugstore shelves rather than behind the pharmacy counter, making Canada (with the exception of Quebec) the fifth country to allow emergency contraceptive pills to be sold as an over-the-counter product.
Unfortunately, the reality of EC access is different. Seven pharmacists I contacted within my Ontario town this past November all told me they kept Plan B pills behind the counter. This was also the case in drugstores I contacted in Brampton and Scarborough. In further researching this situation I found that while the Ontario College of Pharmacists follows the NAPRA policy, the College doesn't regulate the placement of products within a pharmacy. So while a pharmacist is now permitted to put Plan B on the general shelves along with Tylenol or mouthwash, they aren't obligated to. Which pretty much leaves us with the 2004 status quo here—which was when Plan B became available without a doctor's prescription and changed to behind the counter status.
Some Ontario pharmacists cite fear of theft as the big reason Plan B remains a behind the counter drug in all but name but I'm more concerned about people (especially young or vulnerable people) who may feel daunted at the thought of requesting emergency contraception from their pharmacist and therefore risk going without. I'm hoping that this new U.S. federal court ruling will inspire the States to get it right and do a better job of removing hoops to EC access than we've done up here so far.
I know that if, when writing I Know It's Over, buying Plan B pills had been as simple as dropping by Shoppers Drug Mart and tossing the pills into a basket along with a tube of toothpaste, the intelligent but frightened sixteen year old characters at the centre of my story would have done just that and I would've had to pen a very different novel.
It's been four years since the last new Our Lady Peace album but at last the release of Burn Burn is right around the corner and I know Finn (One Lonely Degree) would be psyched. The exact release date of Burn Burn is to still be announced but Our Lady Peace played some of the new songs at the CHUM FM FanFest in Toronto two weeks ago and I'm posting their performance of upcoming single All You Did Was Save My Life here for Finn:
Truthfully, since writing One Lonely Degree I think about her pretty much every time I hear Our Lady Peace. Yeah, real life music reminds me of a fictional character. It's a weird life, being a writer!
Anyway, if you want to hear more from Burn Burn:
* Waiting For Something To Happen
* White Flags
* Monkey Brains
And here's an older OLP tune to enjoy while you're at it. Do You Like It:
A couple of weeks ago I posted the news that I Know It's Over had been named to the New York Public Library's "Stuff for the Teen Age" list. The entire list has now been posted online so you can have a look at it yourself if you like:
* NYPL Stuff For The Teen Age 2009
This year's list consists of a total of one hundred books, movies, music and games so not only is I Know It's Over up there with fantastic novels including The Adoration of Jenna Fox, Kendra, The Hunger Games and My Life as a Rhombus, it's also in the company of movies like The Dark Knight and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, the videogame Guitar Hero and Beyoncé's I am... Sasha Fierce album.
I'm absolutely stunned that I Know It's Over is on a list with all this amazing stuff! Huge thanks to the New York Public Library and the NY teens who helped them design their 2009 list!
I'm also very pleased to say that One Lonely Degree has received a starred review from Kirkus! The review will be in their April 1st issue.
Early this afternoon I was walking down Front Street in Toronto with Paddy, talking about Canadian TV show Being Erica, when he told me that Margaret Atwood had just walked by. She'd seen him notice her and had smiled at him so he'd said hello. All this while I was obvliously chattering away about the great Toronto locations (the Distillery District, Yorkville, Centre Island, Front Street, Casa Loma etc.) being featured in Being Erica.
To top it off we were on our way to watch Canadian road movie One Week at the time. So quite the Canadiana moment all round!
Every second review of this movie I've read (possibly more) have described One Week as a love letter to Canada and, indeed, that's exactly what it is—with gorgeous scenery, references to national hero Terry Fox and Tim Hortons' roll up the rim contest, a musical soundtrack that includes tracks ranging from Sam Roberts Hard Road to French Canadian folk song Un Canadien Errant, a Stanley Cup encounter and a cameo by Gord Downie—Canadians, you gotta see One Week!
Not only is One Week beautiful and full to the brim with Canadiana, it manages to nicely sidestep the cheese factor that could've easily accompanied the material. Main character Ben (played by Joshua Jackson) is diagnosed with stage four cancer in Toronto as the film opens. He should be headed straight for treatment but with a diagnosis that says Ben may have a maximum of two years to live, he's adamant about stealing some time for himself before he becomes a patient. So Ben buys himself a motorcycle and drives west across the country, on his way to mile zero of the Trans-Canada Highway. It's a voyage of both internal and external discovery that I think Canadians will appreciate most but international viewers will also appreciate the film's charm, sincerity and breathtaking landscapes.
* Read the Toronto Star's review of One Week
* Visit One Week's official website
One Week Trailer:
George Stroumboulopoulos discusses One Week with Joshua Jackson on The Hour:
One of my favourite things to do whenever I'm in Ireland or the U.K. is pop into as many bookstores as possible and scour the shelves for books that aren't (yet) available in Canada. Broken Soup by Jenny Valentine was one of the YA novels I picked up in London in December.
I always have a backlog of reading material so just got around to starting it last night and finished it up first thing this morning. About a third of the way through I fell into a state of awe that never let up. No surprise, then, that author Jenny Valentine won the Guardian children's fiction prize with her debut novel, Finding Violet Park (which I have to get my hands on ASAP!).
What a shame, I thought after I'd read the final page of Broken Soup, that readers in North America are missing out on this breathtaking novel. But I'm very happy to say that just minutes later I read on Wondrous Reads that Broken Soup is being released in North America! In fact, having looked it up on Amazon, I can tell you that it's available on March 24th. I hope you'll ignore the new nondescript cover (which you can check out on Wondrous Reads) and trust me that there's a warm, original, intelligent book lurking underneath—a book about loss, friendship, family, memory, a book with three dimensional characters that you'll admire and care deeply about and be sorry to say goodbye to.
The year is young but I'm already betting this will be one of my favourites reads of 2009.
You can read more about Broken Soup and Jenny Valentine here:
* Times Online review of Broken Soup
* The Guardian review of Broken Soup
* BBC Interview with Jenny Valentine
*** March 23rd Update***
I spotted a copy of Broken Soup (complete with U.K. cover) at Chapters in Toronto on the weekend and it turns out the novel was published in Canada by Harpercollins in January 08. Come tomorrow U.S. readers will also be able to check out the book.
Lately I've realized that there are many, many questions about writing I'm not very good at answering. Most often I have no clue where my characters or plotlines spring from. When a character pops up (from who knows where!) I pretty much just try to follow along with the story they seem to be attached to as best I can.
I'm sure there are writers out there who are much more tuned in to their process, but to me the whole thing feels a little like being Allison Dubois, only the situations and people I happen to pick up on are fictional.
However, there is one writing question that I have a definitive answer for and that's something my editor asked the first time we spoke on the phone: What made you want to write YA?
When I discovered I wanted to write books about teenagers I hadn't, in fact, read any young adult novels in over a decade. It was watching The Salingers, five orphaned young people ranging in age from infancy to early twenties, try to deal with all the crap life had to throw at them in the TV show Party of Five that convinced me that I wanted to write about young people.
Together The Salingers and their friends face Bailey's alcoholism, Charlie's cancer, the domestic violence committed against Julia, unplanned pregnancy, sexual assault, mental health issues and more. These are serious problems—ones their parents would've clearly found difficult to deal with but Charlie, Bailey, Julia and Claudia (Owen's too young during the course of the series to take any responsibility) must struggle with them without the benefit of experience. They're intelligent and sensitive people but without the life skills that years of living add.
Watching Party of Five I realized that's exactly what I wanted to write about—young people going through things that would be a challenge for anyone (whether that's family problems, addiction, career decisions, death, romantic relationship stuff etc.) but even more so for them because of their youth. I don't mean just the obviously heavy issues either. Something like being forced to move across the country away from your old network of friends and then having to take a science class with a bully of a science teacher (when you're not scientifically inclined in the first place!) while the guy/girl you can't stop thinking about steadily ignores you, can be a challenge. As a young person you usually have little control over where you live, your surroundings, the rules imposed upon you (sometimes lack of rules and guidance can be a problem too) and your circumstances in general. While you may be able to avoid science class later in life if you've discovered physics isn't your cup of tea, that's often not an option when you're sixteen. And dealing with your tyrannical teacher or unrequited crush may be a little easier if you've worked through a similar experience in the past.
I wanted to embed Bailey's intervention scene from season three here for people who may not have seen Party of Five. Lacey Chabert gives such a powerful performance as twelve year old Claudia in that scene (one of my favourite Party of Five moments), as she pleads with her brother to get help for his drinking. But it's no longer available on YouTube so I had to settle for a snippet of dialogue instead. The dialogue itself does a great job of showing what a wonderful, emotionally complex show Party of Five is:
Claudia: [sobbing] No, no, no, no! I can't take this, Bailey. I mean, you can't do this anymore.
Bailey: Claudia--
Bailey: No, Bailey, I mean it, that's it. That's it. I mean, if you don't...if you don't go and get help, then I don't want to see you. You can't come over here, and you can't see me, and you can't see Owen, and I'm not gonna come see you, and I'm not gonna call you, and...I'm not even gonna think about you.
Charlie: Claudia--
Claudia: No! [to Bailey, crying] I love you. More than anyone else. I love you the best. You know that. This is the only thing I have that I can take away from you. To make you stop. Either you get help right now, or get out of here.
[long pause, then Bailey exits the room without a word]
—Intervention, Party of Five
And here's an earlier scene which shows Bailey's siblings and his girlfriend, Sarah, setting up the intervention:
It's interesting to note that Party of Five's ratings were very low its first season but Fox executives had faith in the show and kept it on the air anyway. The ratings picked up in subsequent seasons and PO5 ran for six seasons in total.
After being inspired by Party of Five I went on to read tons of young adult books and write several of my own. I hope I would've found my way to YA fiction eventually anyway, because it's impossible to imagine loving any other type of fiction in quite the same way, but if there's one thing that turned my attention to writing for and about young people, it's undeniably watching Charlie, Bailey, Julia, Claudia and their friends try to meet life's challenges with only each other to lean on.
Sometime during my lingering zombie sickness (a sickness that's gone on so long now that it's basically been incorporated into my personality) I did an interview with Jill (thank you, Jill!) at Reading is Bliss that's now up. I talk about writing and publishing, The Lighter Side of Life and Death, which is the book I'm revising at the moment and things I couldn't live without. Jill's review of I Know It's Over is also up on her blog and she's having a contest this Friday to give away 3 copies of Wherever Nina Lies by Lynn Weingarten so if you'd like to nab one check back then.
Yesterday afternoon I found out that I Know It's Over was named to The New York Public Library's Stuff for the Teen Age 2009, the multi-format, multimedia, targeted, and teen-tested update to their Books for the Teen Age annual list. I love that the list is multimedia this year and am so very happy to have been included!
I've seen a few articles and blog entries online that I've wanted to link to in the last while and am only now catching up on. Let's start off optimistically, with this BBC article: Optimism is the cure for the downturn. Now, I don't believe in the philosophy that The Secret espouses, that all we have to do to make our lives golden is think positively, but Sir David Tang's article which states, "Pessimism is the most serious cause for the global economic tsunami," makes a lot of sense to me. The more we hear about how badly stocks are performing and how much various company profits are down, the less confident people are going to feel about hiring new employees (or even keeping the ones they already have) and making major purchases (or even minor ones!).
On one hand, it makes perfect sense to be frugal and keep ourselves up to date with news of the current economic crisis. On the other, submerging ourselves in negative financial info on a daily basis is bound to fill us with fear and uncertainty (which could be crippling). And if no one spends any money how will we ever get out of this mess? Read what Sir David Tang advises and do let your government know how important you feel it is that they invest in infrastructure.
If you read my blog you'll notice I don't spend much time talking about celebrities but so many people have been discussing Chris Brown's recent assault on Rihanna lately, some of them judging her for supposedly getting back together with him or offering excuses for Chris' violent behaviour, that I want to point people in the direction of this fantastic entry on the topic from the Yes means Yes! blog: What it doesn't mean. The entry breaks open some of the myths surrounding abusive situations—e.g. getting back together with someone who abuses you doesn't mean you're stupid and deserve what you get next time or that what your abuser did wasn't so terrible in the first place.
While we're on the subject of romantic relationships I wish everyone who has a teenager, or writes for teenagers, or is concerned about what's happening in their lives would take a few minutes to read Heather Corinna's Scarleteen post on young women and sex: How Easy It Isn't. Heather's done such an amazing job of bringing enlightened, inclusive, nonjudgmental sex-ed to the Internet with Scarleteen that I truly can't say enough good things about her. I think some people, if they don't look at the present state of our culture too closely, may assume that young women today have it easier when it comes to sex.
Heather points out that while many young American women today grow up aware that no means no, "they don't always have an easy time saying it or feel the permission to. Too, many young women are more frequently, and at earlier ages -- which for some is due to sexual development happening earlier historically than it ever has for women before -- finding themselves in the position of responding to sexual invitations and situations."
She has this to say on pornography: "...it -- like every other media -- has also continued to more frequently broadcast from and for the lowest common denominator and {girls} are inundated with an even greater volume of homogeneous and sexist sexual messages, beauty and sexual ideals and representations of sex from men and/or for men but dripping over with women in whatever mold they imagine into being for themselves. The feeling that sex needs to be about performance and one-upwomanship -- and one young women often express feeling sex-as-competition is not merely between they and friends but they and professional sex performers -- rather than personal expression seems to be growing..."
For an exploration of a fairly new type of body image problem young women are faced with you can read this F Word blog entry on a British TV show where doctors performed a labiaplasty on a nineteen year old girl.
Finally, The Republic of T blogged about the murder of fourteen-year-old Larry King and how reading about Larry's experiences reminded him of some of his own experiences at that age. He highlights the astonishing spin some media have put on Larry's murder. Example from The Advocate:
Guided by a welcoming support system at the group home where he lived, the teenager was encouraged to dress as he pleased and live as the person he wanted to be. What King and others didn't recognize was that this encouragement—and his response to it—placed him on a collision course with a culture that found him repulsive.
Even before his death, Larry King was notorious. He was the sassy gay kid who bragged about his flashy attire and laughed off bullying, which for him included everything from name-calling to wet paper towels hurled in his direction. King was an easy target—he stood 5 foot 4 and was all of 100 pounds.
…As wonderful as this encouragement sounds, did it put Larry in harm's way by sending him out in a world not ready for him? It may be beyond the capacity of kids to reconcile a tolerant atmosphere like Casa Pacifica with the xenophobic, conformist nature of school. Children like Brandon McInerney are products of their society, one that simply does not know what to do with a boy in heels.
As The The Republic of T surmises: "The consensus seemed to be that Larry "brought this on himself" and that someone allowed him to do so or failed to stop him from doing so — instead of that harassment (let alone death) shouldn't have been the consequence for being Larry." He discusses "the time-honored schoolyard tradition {Larry's classmates} will go on to uphold as adults: that of policing gender." And asks how, as one person against a group, you deal with the onslaught of harassment.
Looking at how long my post here is, considering it's basically a collection of links, you can probably see why it took me so long to get around to writing it! So I'll sign off now, closing with Billy Bragg singing Lovers Town Revisited way back when so we can all enjoy the flashback and get energized!
With Harper threatening an election if the opposition don't let the Conservatives have their way with a shadowy 3 billion $ slush fund it's time to start dreaming about all the Canadian citizens (and some folks who could hopefully be persuaded to take out citizenship) that could be a better Prime Minister than current leader Stephen Harper. Let's face it, it would be difficult to do a worse job. At present the country has virtually no idea what to do to earn a buck other than sell off every last remaining natural resource within its borders (Canada, I love you dearly but the truth is harsh and oil, water, minerals etc. are finite!). So here's my list of suggested candidates for Prime Minister, in no particular order:
* Ronald McDonald
I'm not certain if Ronald McDonald is actually a Canadian citizen but surely that's a technicality we could iron out by slipping him a passport (we should also get him a decent suit). McDonald's, unlike so many companies located in Canada, is still showing a very healthy profit. McDonald's is one of only two companies in the Dow Jones industrial average whose share price rose in 2008 (the other was Walmart). Also, McDonald's, unlike our Conservative federal government, don't appear to take issue with paying their female employees equal wages.
* Elizabeth May
The Green Party leader was the clear winner of the national election debates in October when she tore into Harper's utter lack of concern for the environment, his disdain for our socialist style healthcare system and the fact that he seemed completely oblivious to looming economic woes. Let's recall for a moment (and groan) how Harper, during those debates, stated that Canadians weren't worried about their jobs. Elizabeth May has a handle on what Canadians want and that's not handing along the festering open sore that is the Alberta tar sands for future generations to clean up. It's not clinging to our dependence on fossils fuels up until the very last second that life as we currently know it becomes unliveable. May wants innovation, new ways for the country to earn its living. Also, unlike Ronald McDonald, she already has an appropriate wardrobe ready to go.
* Rick Mercer
Speaking of wardrobe, who looks better in a suit than Canadian comedian Rick Mercer? Mercer's wicked sharp wit would skewer his opponents during Parliamentary question periods. He knows the issues, the players and all the angles and with the economy going down in flames we may as well go down howling with laughter.
* Margaret Atwood
Canadian novelist and environmentalist Margaret Atwood is passionate about wildlife conservation. Her eloquence and intelligence are unrivalled. In addition, Atwood's talent for envisioning dystopia scenarios (The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake) could help us detect and navigate our way around potential real life science gone wrong and fundamentalist threats. Following the motto Offred discovers scratched in her cupboard in The Handmaid's Tale alone could take us far: Don't let the bastards grind you down.
* Justin Trudeau
Our wonder boy of the future—Pierre Trudeau's eldest son—could be the wonder boy of today. Why wait? So what if he's still a little rough around the edges, it seems we could use a little raw dynamism at the moment. That soulless ultra bland I could beat a lie detector test before my morning coffee persona Harper wears isn't doing the nation any good. Get ready for your close-up, Justin!
* My Super
I realize not many of you know him so you'll have to take my word for it but the superintendent of the building I've lived in for the past eight years doesn't threaten to call an election whenever he receives a complaint (or make an equivalent super gripe which I suppose would be something along the lines of, "Well, you just see if you can find another super who would do half as good a job!"). Everyone's problems are his problems. He may not be happy about having to deal with them but he does the best he can, as amiably as possible. He's transparent (unlike our current PM) about the building's issues, even when they're unpleasant, and accessible (unlike our current PM who has done all he can to keep Canadians in the dark, including keeping the press at as great a distance as possible). If you left Stephen Harper the keys to your apartment when you got home from vacation you'd likely find he'd sold it to the highest bidder. When cornered he would blame said sale on the nearest member of the Liberal party and proceed to solicit a donation to the Conservative party. With my super, there are no such concerns and with my super in charge of the nation, we would all be able to rest easy.
* Barack Obama
We already know and love him and okay, I realize he already has a full-time gig as President of the United States but with just a tenth of their population how much tougher could it be for him to manage us too? If we could get him on our side we'd finally be able to stop fretting about the threat of American protectionism. Also, Barack is already pals with our Governor General Michaëlle Jean so heaven forbid (because we don't want to encourage this kind of behaviour!) he should ever need to prorogue Parliament MJ is bound to give him the thumbs up. One thing though, and this is a BIG one, Obama's support of same sex civil unions but not marriage would have to change. It's gotta be the full deal, Barack! If Stephen Harper (who is no ardent supporter of human rights) can be the PM for a country that recognizes the right of same-sex couples to marry, you should be able to get with the human rights program too.
* Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor (jointly)
These two Blue Rodeo frontmen have spent years travelling this great land of ours and have never shied away from social criticism. They've lent their musical talent to such causes as disarmament and the endangered West Coast rainforest and have spoken out in favour of native rights. They also know how to unload a couple albums (11 not including solo albums and greatest hits compilations!) and could help us figure out how to sell Canadian artists (and musicians, filmmakers, novelists etc.) and tourism to an international market. The country could use some clean $. Closing argument in their favour - the following lyrics from Love and Understanding:
"Many have tried
In many ways
All I see are longer rows of crosses on the
Soldiers' graves
So do what you have to
And when it's all been said
Love and understanding are the best answers
I've heard yet"
Yeah, me too, guys. Ever think of getting into politics? And if not could you give Rick or Margaret a call?
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A 38-year-old Hamden man is accused of a brutal attack in a local bar on Memorial Day.
Rodney Scalzo is accused of beating two people with a baseball bat inside Tasmanias Sports Bar, at 1537 Dixwell Avenue, on May 31.
Police were called around midnight and found two bar customers bleeding profusely from the head. One victim, a 34 year-old West Haven resident, was nearly unconscious, police said.
Police said Scalzo went into the bar and started arguing with one of the victims and punched the person. Another customer stepped in and pepper sprayed Scalzo.
Scalzo ran and police soon found him in a nearby adjacent parking lot and arrested Scalzo, police said.
Police have not identified the two victims. One was taken to Yale-New Haven Hospital with a head injury.
Scalzo was charged with two counts of second-degree assault and disorderly conduct. Scalzo, who was detained on a $50,000 bond, is scheduled to appear in court in Meriden on June 11th.


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WASHINGTON—The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today announced a proposed rule that would limit discretionary work authorization for aliens who have final orders of removal and who have been temporarily released from DHS custody on an order of supervision (OSUP). The rule would align the issuance of discretionary employment authorization with the administration's priorities to protect U.S. workers and strengthen immigration enforcement.
The rule will encourage these aliens to depart the country
Orders of supervision allow DHS to place conditions on and monitor aliens with final orders of removal who have been temporarily released from DHS custody until DHS has the travel documents necessary to remove the alien from the United States. The OSUP contains several conditions for release, including a requirement that aliens cooperate with efforts to procure the travel documents for removal, check in with DHS on designated dates, and present themselves for removal once it is arranged.
"Authorizing employment benefits to aliens who have already had due process and have been ordered removed by the U.S. government undermines the rule of law and weakens DHS enforcement and removal operations," said USCIS Deputy Director for Policy Joseph Edlow. "This effort would also remove the economic incentive for these aliens to not cooperate in the effort to obtain travel documents to return to their home countries."
Under current regulations, an alien who has a final order of removal and who is temporarily released from DHS custody on an OSUP is generally eligible for an employment authorization document (EAD). This creates a disincentive for the alien to depart or cooperate with their home country to obtain travel documents to depart the United States. These aliens have used substantial government resources throughout the removal process and have ultimately been ordered removed from the United States by an immigration judge.
Under the proposed rule, only a small subset of these aliens who can demonstrate that DHS has determined that their removal from the United States is impracticable would remain eligible for discretionary employment authorization. DHS will require such aliens to establish economic necessity to work, consistent with other discretionary EAD categories, and USCIS will assess whether they warrant a favorable exercise of discretion for a grant of employment authorization. In addition, aliens who qualify for discretionary employment authorization under the proposed rule and subsequently seek to renew their work authorization would also be required to establish that their employer participates in E-Verify and is in good standing in the program.
The proposed rule also would limit the validity period of the employment authorization for aliens released on an OSUP to one year, regardless of whether it is an initial or a renewal employment authorization. When a final rule is published, the changes made by the rule will apply to initial and renewal applications filed on or after the final rule's effective date. Aliens who are employment-authorized prior to the final rule's effective date will remain employment authorized until the expiration date on their EAD, unless the EAD is terminated or revoked. The final rule also would not affect applications to replace EADs granted before the final rule's effective date.
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DENVER | A Colorado state Senate panel advanced a bill Wednesday that would grant minimum wage and overtime rights to thousands of farmworkers and allow those workers to organize and join labor unions.
The bill, sponsored by three Democratic lawmakers, would regulate working hours for overtime, rest and eating breaks, and guarantee farmworkers living in cramped quarters space in those quarters that conforms with distancing guidelines recommended by health authorities to stem the spread of the coronavirus.
Several U.S. states allow farmworkers collective bargaining to some extent — among the many rights originally denied them on the basis of skin color under U.S. labor laws first adopted in the 1930s.
Last year, Washington became the first state to grant farmworkers overtime protections through the courts. California is phasing in some overtime protections, while New York last year began requiring overtime pay when farmworkers work more than 60 hours in a week. Maryland and Minnesota also offer overtime protections to farmworkers.
"Generations of workers have been exploited for profit," said Sen. Jessie Danielson, a bill co-sponsor who was raised on a family farm in northern Colorado.
Danielson told the Senate Business, Labor, and Technology Committee that most farmers and ranchers treat their workers well. But she cited a litany of abuse, including relentless work hours in all weather conditions, substandard housing, lack of regular access to medical care and the fear of retribution, including firing, for workers who complain about their labor and living conditions.
"The pandemic brought the struggle of these essential workers to the forefront," Danielson said.
Organizations representing much of Colorado's $8 billion agriculture industry oppose the bill, arguing that it would impose financial hardships on individual farmers who often operate on thin margins because they are at the mercy of volatile market prices and weather conditions that can threaten their crops and livestock.
"Our members and workers' hours often are determined by weather — trying to protect animals and crops from hail, or from the freezing that we saw on the Western Slope that devastated the peach crop last year," said Taylor Szilagyi, spokeswoman for the Colorado Farm Bureau, an industry advocacy group. "In these emergencies, it's all hands on deck, and our workers don't fit into a regular 8-to-5 job."
Wednesday's 4-3 vote sent the bill to the Senate Appropriations Committee.
The AFL-CIO, the Colorado Farmworkers' Rights Coalition and dozens of labor and Latino advocacy groups supported the bill, many arguing it's a continuation of the United Farm Workers movement established decades ago by Cesar Chavez during California's famed farmworker labor struggles.
The bill would grant farmworkers the state minimum wage, currently $12.32 an hour; require overtime for anyone working more than 40 hours a week or 12 hours a day; and require meal breaks, rest periods and, in hot weather, access to drinking water.
It would severely restrict the use of a short-handled hoe, known in Spanish as "el brazo del diablo," or the devil's arm. The hoe has been the bane of sugar beet, lettuce and other crop workers because its use forces laborers to engage in backbreaking work by stooping day after day, year after year, often resulting in permanent injury. California banned its use in the 1970s; Arizona, New Mexico and Texas have instituted similar bans.
The bill would offer protections for workers reporting unduly harsh or unsafe conditions and require the state to create rules to oversee the bill's provisions, field complaints and act on behalf of aggrieved farmworkers when needed.
Some farming groups said they weren't consulted on the legislation. But Nicole Civita, policy director for the advocacy group Project Protect Food Systems, insisted that bill backers had reached out to the agriculture sector from the beginning. Danielson, too, repeatedly urged bill opponents during the hearing to work with her.
"We're not talking about benefits or perks or vacation. We're talking about the bare minimum of money needed to keep yourself alive," said Valerie Collins, a former National Labor Relations Board attorney now with a nonprofit labor law firm.
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