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Draymond Green's podcast took center stage after Game 3 of the NBA Finals
Draymond Green is at the center of the NBA Finals again — but not for his play on the court ... again.
Following an abysmal Game 3 where the Golden State Warriors forward fouled out with just two points, four rebounds and three assists in 35 minutes and his team lost 116-100 to go down 2-1 to the Boston Celtics, Green responded to a question concerning his weekly podcast, "The Draymond Green Show."
Bleacher Report's Jake Fischer asked Green if he thought what he said on his podcast before Game 3 affected the way the Celtics played against the Warriors, particularly with his breakdown of how to defend Derrick White, Marcus Smart and Al Horford.
Green, who appeared a little perturbed by the question, asserted that his comments on the podcast weren't any different from what he would say at the podium after a game and likely wouldn't have affected the Celtics' Game 3 strategy. He did, however, appreciate Fischer's organic promotion of his podcast.
Draymond gets annoyed with reporter who asked if he was worried the Celtics were listening to his podcast for intel pic.twitter.com/JbIQzXIR9K
— gifdsports (@gifdsports) June 9, 2022
"Oh that's just contested shots. If that's X's and O's then… you're reaching for something," Green said Wednesday night when asked about his podcast. "It's all good though. Keep going. Reaching heavy. When you find that they are taking X's and O's away from your podcast. The only thing you said was White, Smart and Horford, hmm. You went for it. Respect. Appreciate the podcast promo you gave me. 'The Draymond Green Show,' the next time just mention it that way."
Warriors head coach Steve Kerr was also asked after the game if he thought Green's podcast revealed anything the Celtics could use in Game 3. Kerr didn't know what Green said, but added he didn't think Green's podcast was a distraction.
"I don't listen to the podcast so I don't know what he's said on there. It doesn't bother me," Kerr said after the game. "It's 2022. It's a different world. Players are part of the media now. It is what it is."
Naturally, Green had a more candid reaction to Game 3, his play and questions about his postgame activities on his actual podcast. He said his podcast "ain't going nowhere" and he'll film it no matter what happens in the game.
"Y'all gone get this podcast. Win, lose, draw. Hoisting the trophy, putting my ring on my finger, you name it."
Draymond Green goes off on the recent criticism of his podcast. pic.twitter.com/VAm8jNjdbc
— Complex Sports (@ComplexSports) June 9, 2022
Green's show launched as a weekly podcast in November 2021 for The Volume, a network founded by Colin Cowherd and iHeartMedia earlier that year. While episodes were originally scheduled to be released weekly during the season, Green has posted episodes the day after Warriors' games throughout the 2022 postseason – including the NBA Finals.
Reactions to Green's podcast
A few former NBA players and media personalities weren't too keen on Green taking time to podcast following a Finals game. Namely, Isiah Thomas and Kendrick Perkins both thought Green's poor performance was a direct result of his attention to his off-court endeavors.
"Where you play 34 minutes, you have 4 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 points. Draymond Green does that in a grade school game, not in the NBA Finals... He has lost focus in terms of concentrating on beating the opponent"
— Isiah Thomas on Draymond Green's performance in Game 3 pic.twitter.com/tf8EdEZnCu
— 𝙏𝙖𝙡𝙠𝙞𝙣' 𝙉𝘽𝘼 (@_Talkin_NBA) June 9, 2022
Look like Draymond was more prepped for his post game podcast than the actual game. Just an observation, never mind me tho. Carry on…
— Kendrick Perkins (@KendrickPerkins) June 9, 2022
Former NFL defensive end Chris Long, who has a podcast of his own, did tweet in support of Green podcasting after games. Long tweeted that postgame activities vary from player to player and are rarely distractions. He even pointed out that Michael Jordan golfed with Danny Ainge before Game 2 of the 1986 Eastern Conference first-round matchup between Jordan's Chicago Bulls and Ainge's Celtics.
"If you think @Money23Green 30 minute postgame podcast affects his play, then we should definitely let players skip media availability bc that's more distracting and time consuming," Long tweeted. "The criticisms are goofy."
More Game 3 controversy
Green's podcast wasn't the only problematic issue for him in Game 3. He also endured a bevy of boos — including some explicit ones — from Celtics fans during his pregame introduction and throughout the game.
While Green said he didn't really react to the crowd because "they did what I expected," Green's wife, Kerr and teammate Klay Thompson came to the forward's defense.
Thompson and Kerr sarcastically called Celtics fans "classy" while Green's wife, Hazel Renee, called them "disgusting."


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All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
We traveled to Cleveland last weekend to attend a wedding and boy was it HOT there.
The wedding ceremony took place in a massive, old Catholic church that did not have air conditioning.
Before we went into the church we were told the ceremony would be quick. But if we felt faint to exit out of one of the side doors to grab some fresh air.
Now I am Catholic, have been my whole life.
I have attended thousands of masses, and several Catholic weddings. Quick is never a word I would use to describe either. If you have attended, you know what I am talking about.
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Protein Pumpkin Breakfast Cake
Waking up to a piece of this moist and tender Pumpkin Breakfast Cake is one of my favorite things about fall. Low in calories and high in protein, it's a healthy morning pick-me-up that tastes like a decadent treat!
For the Protein Pumpkin Breakfast Cake
- 1 can organic pure pumpkin
- 1 cup old fashioned oats processed in food processor into flour
- 2 cups unsweetened Almond milk or unsweetened coconut milk
- ¾ cup pure maple syrup
- 4 whole large eggs
- ¾ cup AllWhites 100% Liquid Egg Whites or 6 additional egg whites
- 2 teaspoon pumpkin spice mix
- 8 Tablespoons vanilla whey protein powder
For the Dark Chocolate Drizzle
- 3 tablespoon dairy free semi-sweet chocolate chips {enjoy life}
- 1/4 teaspoon extra virgin coconut oil
Make the Cake
Preheat oven 350°. Grease a 9 x 13" pan with baking spray or extra virgin coconut oil.
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Add the Topping
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Oh Autumn opens up my heart, my soul, and my mind to the deliciosity of this present moment in time. Each free falling, color changing leaf intoxicates me like an opulent sip of wine.
Oh Autumn, so refreshingly refined, in my mind the finest moment of all time. For I can hear the soul of each tree whisper to my subconscious mind that my heart must lovingly shed its vibrantly colored leaves, resting in the solace that in time that this transformation shall be my saving grace, like that of unlocking the bountifully glorious treasures of a gold mine.
Oh Autumn, the essence of you is indelibly imprinted into the vessels of my heart, for you and I are interconnected, marvelously intertwined. For I am eternally yours and you eternally mines.
Oh Autumn I honor your metamorphic nature, for it reminds me of the inevitability, the necessity of change, reconnects me with the marvel of mother nature, there is no feeling greater. Makes me want drop to my knees and oh so devoutly thank my creator.
Oh Autumn you were manifested by our savior, and so this season I shall soak in and forever savor. Oh what a soulfully divine flavor. For my affinity for your autumn breeze shall never waiver. Although, as all seasons eventually end, I shall always be grateful for the comfort that you bring, allowing for me to transcend and delve into the depths within. I shall keep your cherished memory near my heart, delightfully kindred, amazingly akin, a close companion, a felicitous friend.
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The pudding club: on pregnancy politics and writing
All sorts of things can happen to you when you're pregnant; there are stories of women losing hair, teeth, balance. For my part, I lost my words: I was hit with a comprehensive case of writer's block.
I knew in the pit of my stomach that if I sat down and tried to type, nothing would come. Formerly, I had sent out pitches awkwardly yet enthusiastically, come home from work ready to try and coax words out of the laptop at the kitchen table, and jealously shored up antisocial weekend hours to write. Now I simply tumbled off the bus and onto the sofa to watch My Kitchen Rules each evening, my anxiety for the contestants' pasta disasters temporarily looming larger than the fears centred on the contents of my womb. (Stop making ravioli, cooking show contestants! It rarely ends well.) Outside of the realm of work, I couldn't manage anything more complex than a status update.
As someone who had always been healthy and able-bodied, it had never occurred to me that a physical change might affect my thinking, or my ability to convey those thoughts. Nevertheless, the mere notion of writing exhausted me. My faith in the mind-body split, a clean line between my physical and mental selves, was irretrievably shaken.
A few times I wondered whether, instead of attempting to wrestle with matters political with a capital p, I could try to document the strange new experience of carrying another living creature. Maria Tumarkin wrote recently that the 'kind of personal essay written in English that bugs me the most seems built to elicit a triumphant "me too!" out of the reader'. Pieces on pregnancy seemed prone to fall into this category: morning sickness, amiright ladies? I knew that the personal was political, of course, but this mantra is arguably being stretched; media observers speak of a 'first person industrial complex' or 'personal essay economy'. However, it's also true that women's experiences are more likely than men's to be dismissed as not deserving of serious attention. In her book Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner, Katrine Marçal observed:
Shakespeare's Prince Hamlet can embody a universal question. To be or not to be, is to be like him. We all learn to relate to him, even women. Hamlet's utterances are a human experience…To give birth is, however, not a human experience. It's a female experience. That's how they've taught us to view the world…No one reads books about childbirth in order to understand human existence.
During the first few months of pregnancy, my thoughts seemed to collapse on themselves. The personal was nauseated, the political seemed beyond my grasp and all I wanted to do was sleep. Writing about being knocked up risks banality, true, but in my fog of anxiety and fatigue I clung to the banal with relief.
Pregnancy can be all-absorbing. In all the bustle of scans and appointments and angst about what not to eat, drink or do, it is easy to become single-mindedly focused on the self, as well as a new and growing other. I began to feel at some distance from the wider world, sealed off in my own expanding girth. It was helpful to step back and think more about this strange new state. Certainly, being pregnant carries consequences which are graver than a hobbyist's temporary inability to thinkpiece.
I was acutely aware of my own luck. This was a planned, wanted baby and I was healthy, financially secure and well cared for. I also knew that such good fortune was unthinkably fragile. A previous pregnancy had ended in miscarriage halfway through the first trimester: an entirely statistically normal, unremarkable event which caused considerable quiet grief.
During this second confinement I worried endlessly about my future offspring's welfare. There are (as I quickly learned, leafing nervously through the 'Complicated Pregnancy' section in What to Expect When You're Expecting) a myriad of things that can go wrong for both mother and baby; there's a reason so many women in old novels die in childbirth. In researching ways to prepare for birth, I came across one website that posited that women with particularly large babies did not necessarily need caesarean sections, as nature didn't give you more than you could deal with. Reflecting that nature callously doled out ectopic pregnancies, placenta praevia, pre-eclampsia and stillbirths (not to mention, say, incurable cancer), I concluded that this reasoning was arrant bullshit. Nature might be many things, but she wasn't benevolent.
Pregnancy is self-evidently political in that it concerns power: it's a time when a woman might be denied an abortion, abused by her partner, discriminated against in the workplace, damned as a burden on the welfare state. It's also political at a more abstract level, though. A pregnant woman nurtures an entity which is totally reliant on her; a state I began to see as preparation for a relationship based on the dependence which is so fundamental a part of the human condition.
Part of this condition, of course, is that we are animals: gestation, birth and breastfeeding are humbling reminders of this. Humans are unusual mammals, though. Not only do we need to care for our elderly, but our young are born with no capacity whatsoever to survive on their own. One evening, as one does, I watched a ridiculously cute online video of a baby pygmy hippopotamus taking his first swim. At only a few weeks' age, he was able to toddle down to the water's edge, swim confidently, and walk out again. I reflected that my own baby, at a similar age, would be unable even to roll over. Of course, humans ultimately learn skills, such as abstract reasoning, which are forever denied to Obi the baby hippo. Nevertheless, our infants' vulnerability is striking – and terrifying.
Human babies' neediness has wide implications. In his book Why Marx Was Right, Terry Eagleton pronounced that humans 'are all ''prematurely'' born' in that, '[f]or a long time after birth they are…in need of a prolonged period of nurturing'. Eagleton noted that some psychoanalysts see this 'unusually prolonged experience of care' as the cause of much havoc in later life: 'If babies could get up and walk away at birth, a good deal of adult misery would be avoided, and not only in the sense that there would be no bawling brats to disturb our sleep'. However, there are also political consequences of this need for care; Eagleton observed that 'infants very quickly imbibe some notion of what caring for others means…later on, they may be able to identify a whole way of life as callously indifferent to human needs'. When we refer to radical free market policies as 'inhuman', this is not all just lefty hyperbole.
I thought about all of this as I lay in my comfortable groove on the sofa. Of course, I knew about the importance of interdependence in an abstract sort of way. I had read the right books about the importance of care work; had long jettisoned my rather nineties feminism-is-all-about-career-progression intuitions; wrote articles which dutifully underlined the need to value the work performed by parents; felt a vast and blurry sense of gratitude and guilt to my own mother and father; understood theoretically that looking after an infant was demanding. However, I knew that I was on the edge of something very new: a time when the abstract would become concrete.
Things were already feeling pretty real: as my constant, silently kicking companion reminded me, I was no longer alone in my own body. As Eula Biss notes in her book On Immunity, '[o]ne of our functions, as women, is to be divided'. She writes that pregnancy 'confounded my personal understanding of the distinction between self and nonself'. Other distinctions were blurring, for this was the strange limbo period that separates non-parenthood from parenthood.
I began to see the fracturing of my mind-body split as preparation for a much bigger change. There would soon be a time when a person containing my genetic material, built within my body, would exist in the world as a vulnerable being apart from me. Human beings are social animals and can never really be self-contained units; already, those I loved drifted about in the world apart from me. Nevertheless, the coming separation felt freighted with significance. Pregnancy, I realised, did not cut me off from the wider world at all but enmeshed me in it more tightly than ever.
Months passed. The moment of division was coming; suddenly it was mere weeks away. I was excited, over-anxious, unable to sleep. I didn't know what the end of this particular narrative would look like. Perhaps there would be no end. All I could do was wait to see what came next.
That is a pretty great post.
This is kinda validating. I'm trying to develop as a writer while battling a 17-year chronic illness. It's a demoralising trip trying to write through the inflammation and brainfog. Makes rewriting and revision so much harder. This morning I've been unsure whether I have the ovaries to continue trying to navigate the submission process. It becomes easier after a while to decide to just write for yourself. Putting yourself out there on the line is a vulnerable act at the best of times. It requires a robust body to be able to roll with the rejection punches. This piece reminds me why it's so damn difficult.


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VIDEO: Mark Messier one-on-one
Mark Messier may have stepped away from his position with the New York Rangers this summer, but he hasn't left the game he loves.
Messier has teamed up with Bauer Hockey, Inc., and Hockey Canada as part of their Grow the Game partnership. The initiative seeks to add 1 million new players to the game of hockey by 2022, with Canada serving as the starting point of those efforts. As part of their work, Bauer Hockey and Hockey Canada announced a pilot project this week that attempts to break down the barriers that keep children from playing the game.
THN's Matt Larkin was there and he spoke to Messier about growing the game of hockey, Canada's talent pool, the Gretzky trade, and more.
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About WRI Brasil
WRI Brasil is part of World Resources Institute (WRI), a global research organization whose work extends to over 50 countries. WRI encompasses the work of almost 700 professionals in offices in Brazil, China, the United States, Mexico, India, Indonesia, Europe, Turkey and Africa.
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As a nonpartisan organization, WRI Brasil seeks to contribute so that resources are invested in sustainable urban infrastructure projects that can guarantee the well-being of current and future generations. After all, 70% of all the infrastructure expected to exist in cities around the world by 2050 has yet to be designed and built.
More than a billion people around the world rely on forests to their livelihoods – whether as a form of work, food, fuel or material needs. In Brazil, a forested country by nature, our trees can generate wealth and employment for our population, with the development of a forestry economy based on wood and non-wood products. Furthermore, trees are vitally important to maintaining a healthy environment, protecting the soil and water and regulating the climate of both the country and the planet.
Despite this potential, Brazil is still home to vast expanses of degraded areas. Estimates are at around 30 million hectares, the equivalent to the area of Poland. These areas are largely unproductive and offer low agricultural value, thus failing to perform either a productive or ecological role.
Landscape restoration and reforestation can recover degraded areas, making them productive and generating environmental services through the recovery of their ecological functions. Restored areas benefit farmers through diversification of food production, wood production, as well as fruits, seeds and pharmaceutical inputs, increasing resilience and promoting a sustainable economy around forests. Restored areas help preserve water sources, protecting the soil, renewing air and sequestering carbon, thereby mitigating climate changes and reducing risks in food production. Additionally, they play an important role as natural infrastructure: planting and conserving forests helps to improve water quality and reduces the risk of flooding and landslides in cities.
The WRI Brasil Forests program generates and disseminates expertise and tools, promoting articulation and engagement among actors interested in landscape restoration, contributing to improved public policies, the mobilization of public and private resources, coupled with monitoring of results to scale up forest restoration and reduce the risk of deforestation. Through this effort, WRI Brasil hopes to create conditions for the efficient use of Brazilian land, combining the preservation and maintenance of environmental services with the development of a vibrant economy of forest-related products and low carbon agriculture.
Some of the program's areas of operation include:
- The development of a new forestry economy through ecological restoration, silviculture with native species and agroforestry systems;
- The identification of opportunities for restoring forest landscapes and cost-benefit analyses for interventions;
- The use of natural infrastructure to supply water in major cities;
- The promotion of gender equality and adapting to climate change;
- The development of monitoring systems to assess the results of restoration and conservation projects and initiatives;
- The implementation of demonstration units to convince farmers of the benefits of restoration and conservation;
- The mobilization of cities around the conservation and restoration of forests; and
- The implementation of participatory diagnoses to identify opportunities for restoration and social mapping of landscapes.
These areas are focused on helping Brazil to fulfill its restoration commitments, especially its NDC goal as part of the Paris Agreement. It hopes to restore 12 million hectares by 2030, fulfilling the Forest Code, while simultaneously creating opportunities for jobs and income in the rural area by means of the restoration and reforestation chain. To generate scale and meet this goal, WRI Brasil works in partnership with companies, government agencies and farmers, and acts in coalitions such as the Atlantic Forest Restoration Compact, the Brazil Climate, Forests and Agriculture Coalition, and Initiative 20x20.


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Contracts – DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY
Press Operations | Release No: CR-047-18 | March 13, 2018
Capco LLC,* Grand Junction, Colorado, has been awarded a maximum $7,121,492 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for carbine barrels. This is a five-year contract with no option periods. This was a competitive acquisition with three responses received.
Location of performance is Colorado, with a March 13, 2023, performance completion date. Using military service is Army. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2018 through 2023 Army working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime, Warren, Michigan (SPRDL1-18-D-0052).


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Healthcare Organizations Falling Short on Security Awareness
This month saw the publication of the Security Scorecard 2016 Healthcare Industry Cybersecurity Report which casts light on the general state of healthcare cybersecurity defenses. The report shows the healthcare industry still lags behind other industry sectors with many security vulnerabilities left unaddressed.
For the report, Security Scorecard analyzed security ratings of more than 700 healthcare organizations – including hospitals, health insurance companies, and healthcare manufacturing businesses – between August 2015 and August 2016.
Each organization was rated for its security performance across ten categories and comparisons made to other industry sectors. The healthcare industry was below the industry average in six of those categories: DNS health, endpoint security, IT reputation, password exposure, patching cadence, and social engineering. Overall, the healthcare industry ranked 9th for overall security.
The study revealed 55% of healthcare organizations had a network security score of C or worse, indicating multiple access points to networks had been left open and could be exploited by hackers
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The industry rated particularly badly for patching cadence. 47% of healthcare organizations were operating with unpatched vulnerabilities within their network. 63% of the 27 largest hospitals in the country rated C or worse for patching cadence. Patches had been issued to correct known security vulnerabilities, yet they were not being applied promptly leaving organizations vulnerable to cyberattacks.
IP Reputation scores were also low, in particular at medical treatment organizations, many of which received a rating of C or worse in this area. Organizations with low IP Reputation scores had legacy infrastructures, a myriad of devices connected their networks, were not applying security patches promptly, and used older devices with out-of-date software. According to the report, "IP Reputation is one of the most predictive factors in the Security Scorecard platform. Organizations with a C or lower are over three times more likely to suffer a data breach than organizations with a B or higher."
The introduction of IoT devices has introduced many new risks. The rush to use new IoT medical devices has seen them introduced without full security controls being employed. This has created many security weak points that could easily be exploited by hackers.
An analysis of healthcare ransomware incidents showed medical treatment centers were most heavily targeted. 96% of all ransomware incidents were recorded at medical treatment centers. Healthcare manufacturing rated the worst for malware infections with 88% of organizations experiencing a malware incident during the study. Overall, 75% of healthcare organizations had been infected with malware in the past year.
Malware and ransomware infections strongly correlated with poor security awareness among employees, which was rated under 'social engineering'. The healthcare industry stood out from other industry sectors as being particularly poor in this area.
The report suggests the major security weaknesses observed in the healthcare industry "are all signs of a large infrastructure that isn't keeping up with the increase in devices, connections, and applications that make up an organization's networks." While all of these areas must be addressed, the study shows that perhaps the best starting point is improving employees' security awareness.
As noted in the report, "While healthcare's IT department may be keeping on top of infrastructure issues such as DNS Health and application security, without proper employee security training, an organization can be highly susceptible to social engineering attacks."


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About E.V. Legters
After working in advertising, traveling widely, and raising three children, E.V. earned her MFA at The Vermont College of Fine Arts and for many years lived in Connecticut teaching writing and literature at local colleges and writing studios.
This year, pursuing a life-long dream, E.V. relocated to Portugal and is writing full-time. Follow her via Necessary Madness, A Writer on the Move in the blog tab.
Her stories have appeared in literary journals including Glimmer Train, Alaska Quarterly Review, and StoryQuarterly. Her debut novel, Connected Underneath, was published in the Spring of 2016, and The Vanishing Point was released in May, 2017. She is at work on a short story collection and her third novel.
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Fresh, engaging and to the point. E.V.'s passion and enthusiasm for writing shows in her teaching; her methods allow each student to develop their own style of writing. I was amazed at the improvement in my own work after just a few classes with her! Although she laid out the plan for the course on day one, I found that she was always able to adjust the lessons to suit the class dynamic, while still giving constructive feedback to each individual. I had a great time learning from her and have a well-developed writing portfolio to show for it!
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The Dovetail joint is one of the joints I personally like the most, not only does it look beautiful. Its super strong and makes whatever your making instantly cool showing it off! Most people think dovetails are very hard to make, and although it requires some skill (for if you never used a chisel before its like driving the bike for the first time) The principle is very simple and anybody can do it with some patience and practice.
there are different types of Dovetails, the most commonly used dovetails are
So lets start with the tools needed to make a Dovetail joint, Of course there are different ways to make a dovetail joint so lets just go for the most common.
Once you have all your tools gathered and your wood ready. you can start with some Dovetailing! once again I would like to note that it can be done in different ways depending on the person making them, its just a matter of opinion. So when I make Dovetails I start with the Tails first.
the angle of the tails is usually 1:6, after marking your tails Use your marking gauge to make a little cut on the waste parts (this so you can put you chisel in after sawing) afterwards you can make the first cuts with your saw, when you cut all the sides of the tails you can place a board along the shoulders to remove the waste material with your chisel and make sure you will go straight down. then just clean the tails with the chisel so they will be all smooth and ready to go into their "not yet made" sockets.
the next step will be to mark the sockets, the best way to do this is to place your tailboard on the pinboard, and use the already made tails as a template for your sockets, marking the angle and width on the end grain of the wood. Once you have your Sockets perfectly copied you should mark the depth of the socket which is the same as the thickness of your Tailboard. Again use your marking gauge to cut the waste parts for easy chiseling. Once done you can make the cuts with your saw, remove the waste material and smooth out the sockets. Be careful this time!! cuz everything you remove to much you cannot put back!! Rather remove less and a bit more afterwards then to much the first time. Try to make the sockets a perfect fit for your tails, Not to tight but Definitely no gaps either!
If you are doing everything right, your tail and pin part will not fit at first, keep removing little slices of wood from your sockets untill eventually they will fit without huge gaps or to much sounds pushing them together. they can be tight, just not to tight for you will also have to add some glue when clamping them.
Some other nice Examples of Just Right Dovetails to inspire your on your future journey to Dovetail making!


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A. Use the hyphen with the compound numbers twenty-one through ninety-nine, and with fractions used as adjectives.
CORRECT: Sixty-five students constituted a majority.
CORRECT: A two-thirds vote was necessary to carry the measure.
B. Use the hyphen with the prefixes ex, all, and self and with the suffix elect.
CORRECT: The constitution protects against self-incrimination.
CORRECT: The president-elect was invited to chair the meeting.
C. Use the hyphen with a compound adjective when it comes before the word it modifies, but not when it comes after the word it modifies.
CORRECT: The no-holds-barred argument continued into the night. The argument continued with no holds barred.
D. Use the hyphen with any prefix used before a proper noun or adjective.
CORRECT: His pro-African sentiments were heartily applauded.
CORRECT: They believed that his activities were un-American.
E. Use the dash to indicate an abrupt change of thought. In general, however, formal writing is best when you think out what you want to say in advance and avoid abrupt changes of thought.
CORRECT: The inheritance must cover the entire cost of the proposal—Gail has no other money to invest.


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From Collider:
The first trailer for the horror pic Silent House has gone online. The film centers on a young woman trapped in her family's crumbling, secluded lakeside house. While the logline sounds pretty generic, the catch to this horror movie is that it plays out in real time and is designed to look like it was shot in one take.


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Probably only a small handful of very serious type fanatics were salivating over the idea of a documentary about the ubiquitous font Helvetica, but to his credit, first-time director Gary Hustwit finds those people, winds them up, and lets them go, and their outsized personalities make Helvetica far livelier than the film's boxy, sleek-but-generic typeface necessarily deserves. In an opening montage, typical of the film's colorful approach, a series of designers effuses about Helvetica's vastness: "It sort of just seems to come from nowhere—it seems like air, it seems like gravity." "It's hard to evaluate. It's like being asked what you think about off-white paint. It's just there. It's hard to get your head around something that's that big."
Hustwit doesn't have much problem getting his head around Helvetica, to the degree that he tries: He presents a short history of the font's 1957 creation and subsequent boom period, when an era of crowded design and flowing script-fonts gave way to a need for "rational typefaces" to present a growing wave of information in a sharp, legible, emotionally neutral way. But mostly, he just lets a bevy of experts pontificate on what makes a good font, on formal typography training vs. unrestricted creativity, and on ugliness as a disease designers are trying to cure. Some of his interviewees consider Helvetica a blessed counter to the 1950s' cluttered visual styles; others consider it part of the problem, because it's an overused, sterile, easy choice. Either way, they express themselves in entertainingly broad, emotional terms. (One German designer, in response to the question of why Helvetica is still popular after 50 years: "I don't know. Why is bad taste ubiquitous?")
Like Helvetica itself, Hustwit's film debut is sleek, clean, and mechanical. He sets his talking-head interviews to modernistic, minimalist music, and spaces them out with rapturous montages focusing on the many, many public signs and familiar corporate logos in Helvetica. Even the interviews are bright and slick, since they take place in the designers' professional spaces, which tend to be spacious, shiny, and calculated for impact. His doc sprawls a little, and could use more focus and more concrete information—in particular, he often neglects to identify his multinational interviewees by profession or country of origin, or explain why he chose them, apart from the way they can be trusted to sigh over Helvetica as "the perfume of the city." Then again, given how they manage to turn a narrow fanatic's subject into an expansive, widely relevant discourse, maybe he doesn't need any other reason.
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How Music Education In Schools Benefits The Business
Plato once said that music is a more potent instrument than any other for education. Music is something loved by all, but not everybody gets a chance to participate in it.
According to a recent research, it has been found that music uses both sides of the brain which increases the scope for development in a person. Music can help in developing a child's mind academically, emotionally, and physically.
In the rapidly changing world, music education in schools needs to be next on the academic agenda because of its proven academic, personal, and social benefits. According to the leading American band, Backstreet Boys, "Practicing music reinforces teamwork, self-discipline, creativity, and communication skills, and can enhance creativity among people be it, adults or students".
Participation in music allows a child to socialize which is essential for their growth. Music is a way of making friends as it comes without limitations and boundaries. Therefore, institutions should think again about including music in their curriculum on a regular basis.
Develops language and reasoning
Schools should come up with a music class which can help student's develop the language and reasoning skills. Students who are into early musical training have more advanced and creative mind as compared to others. Institutions can contribute to developing the student's brain via music which can imprint information on young minds easily.
Improvement of social and interpersonal skills
Teaching faculties can help the students gain multiple positive effects on social developments via music education. Musical students being more aware than others, carry more appreciation and gratitude for the other people around them. Educators can teach students to be a better team player and impart a greater sense of responsibility with the help of music in their curriculum. Music can help students learn to support each other, working towards a common goal. Thus, participation in music can be beneficial for building character and personality in students which can certainly raise the education business.
Music is remedy
Music has been used as a part of therapy for centuries. It can be beneficial for breathing, posture, heart, and immune system while practicing music as it directly affects nerves of our body. Helping the students to develop motor skills via rhythm instruments can be an effective way of attracting people towards a particular business. Musical training can be further used as a great tool for successful inclusion of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in general education. Institutions can also contribute towards eliminating depression and anxiety from students with the help of music.


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Paint It Black: Wasteland's New LookBook
I am currently loving Lauren Hastings in the new Wasteland lookbook titled "Paint It Black." The beautiful and mysterious lookbook was shot by Harper Smith and features looks that combine bohemian aesthetics with black magic (from black lace pieces to fringe kimono jackets, maxi dresses and beautiful accessories). I can't get enough of the the dark and edgy vibes!
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Since then we moved our launch date from August to June (in case you thought I'm even worse at math than I am), and Bill's retirement date from June 1 to April 1. We played with earlier dates, but family and finances dictate our reality so I think those are final.
A year has passed and, of course, in hindsight it flew by. Christmas seems mere weeks ago. It has been 12 months since we had our marriage celebration. Bill's new knees are six months old. The 40th Reunion is behind us. In just a couple weeks Richie will be a Senior.
Are we where we hoped to be after a year? Yes and no.
|More yes than no
I'm happy with our progress.
Financial challenges happen no matter what your lifestyle. The lessons we learn over the next twelve months that get us to our final goal will be valuable ones to take with us.
The fitness goals are easier. Just get off our asses. Something else valuable to take along!
As this anniversary-of-sorts comes round next year we will only have weeks left. Now THAT really won't be that long.......
|We will be so close!


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With Aereo, Chet Kanojia took on the broadcast industry — and lost spectacularly. Now, he is getting ready to go up against an equally formidable foe: Kanojia is about to unveil a new startup that could provide wireless internet access in major metropolitan areas across the U.S., and in turn directly compete with big incumbents like Comcast and Time Warner Cable.
Kanojia has been working since the end of 2014 on this new project, and thus far succeeded in keeping a cloud of secrecy around his efforts. His new company, which has hired at least 20 former Aereo employees, is currently in stealth mode, using the name "Project Decibel" to keep outsiders guessing. The company's website simply states that it is "creating powerful and unique technology products and services that have meaningful impact on consumers."
Next week, Project Decibel has invited select journalists to an event in New York to unveil what it has been up to — but there's enough evidence out there already to piece together what's to be unveiled.
For starters, Project Decibel registered a trademark for "Starry" last fall. That trademark application covers "wireless and wired telecommunications and data networking hardware; network routers; wireless routers; wireless access points" as well as "providing access to the Internet; providing access to digital content; Internet access provider services," amongst other things.
But Project Decibel didn't stop there. The company also incorporated a new entity called "Starry Inc.," which has since registered with the IEEE – a standards body for the wireless industry — to build wireless devices. Separately, Project Decibel became part of the Wifi Alliance, further suggesting that it will build Wifi-based hardware.
Both companies registered numerous web domains, including Starry.com, Starrywifi.org and Starry.us to prepare themselves for a commercial launch. During that process, numerous connections made it clear that Starry and Project Decibel are in fact one and the same. For example, Project Decibel registered the Starry.com domain on September 20 of last year, only to switch the registered owner to Starry Inc. on October 11.
But the most damning piece of evidence for what Kanojia is up to comes in the form of a FCC application filed earlier this month. On January 8, a corporate entity called Starry Spectrum LLC asked the FCC for permission to test some new wireless equipment. Starry Spectrum just happens to be using Project Decibel's office address, and the application personally lists Project Decibel engineer John Westbrook.
The application details that Starry is working on wireless transmission equipment operating in the 3.8 Ghz range. Each test setup would consist of 15 base stations to be installed at a central location, and up to 250 devices presumably placed in people's homes — suggesting that Starry is testing some kind of wireless internet access points. Basically, the company may sell or lease consumers a special kind of router that connects to a nearby wireless transmitter, very similar to the way a cell phone works, but for in-home internet access.
And here's the kicker: Starry doesn't just want to test this setup in Boston, where it is currently headquartered, or in New York, where it also has an office. The company applied for tests in 15 metropolitan areas across the U.S., including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Detroit, Washington D.C., Seattle and Denver.
In this context, it seems all too fitting that Kanojia suggested a talk titled "Challenging the Monopoly: The New Broadband" to the upcoming SXSW event in Austin, Texas. (This event, as well as the Starry trademark, were first reported by Cnet Thursday). During his talk, he planned to deliver "a compelling discussion of the new technologies on the horizon that will change how we access the internet."
A Project Decibel spokesperson declined to comment when contacted by Variety, so we will have to wait for next week's event for an official word on what the former Aereo team has been up to. But there is plenty of evidence to suggest that it's all about wireless internet access.
And who knows? Maybe Kanojia will also throw some media play in for old time's sake. The Starry trademark application also mentions "electronic transmission and streaming of digital media content." Because if you take on Comcast, you may as well meddle with their video business too.


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Tofu Green Goddess Pesto
What you need:
1 block silken tofu
1/2 cup olive oil
2 large bunches of fresh flat leaf parsley, (just the leaves)
2 packages of fresh basil, (just the leaves)
1 package of fresh chives
What you do:
Using a blender or food processor, blend the tofu and olive oil until creamy.
Add the herbs and blend and until the herbs are will chopped. The result should look like light green creamy sauce.
I have used this as a dip as well as a sauce. It is really good on spaghetti squash.
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Management Perspectives: Extreme Corporate Makeover
Jan 1, 2007 8:00 PM,
By Don Kreski
How to change your company's outlook.
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Have you ever lost a project even though you had the low bid? There are many reasons why that might happen, but the most common is that the customer simply doesn't believe you're able to finish the job, or finish it as smoothly and as reliably as someone else. There are lots of factors that could contribute to why they might get that impression, but sometimes, it's just because the AV contractor doesn't look the part.
"If you have an outdated logo or your letterhead looks like it was created in the 1960s, that just doesn't say 'high-tech company,'" Says Bob Carlson, vice president at United Visual, an AV integrator in Itasca, Ill. "It tells people, 'This is a stagnant company, one that isn't really aware of what's going on in the world.'"
Reality TV has brought the concept of extreme makeovers to our culture. Just as changing a hairstyle or a wardrobe can help people change their fortunes, largely because humans naturally react based on visual cues, a makeover can also help your business' fortunes. If you've begun to suspect that your company needs a similar change, the question isn't so much whether to do it, but how to go about it.
Carlson says United Visual went through its own major makeover in 1996. (For full disclosure, I'll note that I was the company's director of marketing at that time).
"The whole image of our company changed with the new logo design and the new graphic design," he says. "It stepped the company up a notch. It made us look more professional and more credible in our industry."
United Visual entered a period of rapid growth after this change, Carlson says. "The company tripled in size in a five year period. A lot of things came together at the same time, but the graphics change certainly was a big part of it. People had a lot more confidence in us seeing the professional presentation of our company."
One reason the new logo worked so well, according to Carlson, was that it was eye-catching. "Before the change, I never heard customers say that they had noticed our trucks on the road," he says. "But with the logo change and the updated truck design, lots of people would say, and still say, 'Oh yeah, I've seen those trucks all over the place. They have that very cool design on them.' Our logo ties in well with our name, and that makes it easy to recall."
The switch to a new look can be a lengthy process. At United Visual, the logo itself took about four months to create. But that was only the first step. Brad Caldwell, president of Anaheim, Calif.-based Integrated Media Systems, says when he updated his company's look, it took at least six months to complete the process.
"The logo was only one element," Caldwell says. "You're also looking at all the additional support materials that go along with it: the brochures, the website, the business cards. If you create a nice logo, but present it on 5lb. paper, it's not going to work."
Typically, the process goes something like this. The person in charge of the project—maybe the company's president, marketing director, or another manager meets with managers and officers to define, in some brief form, the goals and values of the company. The graphic designer takes these ideas and tries to put them into a visual form. Normally, that takes many iterations, with the designer submitting multiple drawings and management giving feedback, choosing the versions they like best and explaining what they like and dislike about each.
"The goal was to create something that represents the strength of our company and was consistent with our culture," Caldwell says. "Since it would be seen by people prior to ever speaking with us, it had to represent us in a way that was appropriate, support our message, and help to prompt people to call us."
Tony Bonilla, who runs a graphic design business outside Chicago, says that when he creates a logo, he tries to capture the essence of the company in its purest form.
"I'm from the school of 'less is more,'" he says. "A lot of companies try to add too much to the logo. The simpler the icon, the quicker the customer gets what you're trying to say, the more powerful and better the logo will be."
Bonilla says he sees the creation of a logo as a distilling process that requires a large number of drawings and a great deal of communication to get right. Sometimes, company mangers don't understand what he's trying for.
"You're looking for the simplicity of an IBM," he says, "but then they'll say, 'Wait a minute. I'm paying X amount of dollars and you're just giving me three letters?' "
Of course, changing the image of a company can be emotionally and politically charged. "To come up with good results," Carlson adds, "you have to get someone in the ownership on board. Not halfheartedly—they've got to really be behind it."
If you do everything properly—hire the right designer, give him or her the information and feedback they need and the time to do the work—the new look should last a long time.
"If it's good enough," Bonilla says, "it should never change. Sometimes a business will change, and sometimes companies tweak logos just to try to modernize them. Look at Coca-Cola. A few years ago they made their logo look different, going to a block type style. But now they went back to what works, what makes people feel good about their product."
Achieving timelessness may be a lofty goal, however. "Most don't have the capability or the market presence of a Coca-Cola or an IBM," Caldwell says. For that reason, Caldwell says a logo will probably need updating every 10 to 15 years, though ideally, you should be able to keep some continuity with the old look of the firm. "Of course, when we made the change we already had a good logo," he says. "We went through this process once before."
Carlson, on the other hand, was skillful or lucky enough to come up with something that he says he hopes may last much longer. "Our designer definitely came up with a winning design," he says. "I'm still happy with it after 10 years. And it's still current."
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There is only one halal eatery we came across in Pisa. There could have been more but we did not do a walkabout around Pisa. 'Halal Food & Doner Kebab' is located directly across the street from Garage Cammeo, the private parking lot close to the Leaning Tower. On the opposite side of the eatery, is Burger King. The dishes served are more Indian oriented but a couple of local dishes are also available. We had lunch and dinner here and expect to pay €7 for a meal. From this eatery, it's a short distance to the walled entrance into the grounds of the Leaning Tower.


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Friday, November 23, 2012
Black Friday protests at Walmart
A splinter organization launched by the United Food and Commercial Workers union is launching a series of protests and walkouts at Walmarts across the country today, to protest the dire working conditions at Walmart. All I have to say is, good luck with that. I am deeply sympathetic with the many who object to the business practices of Walmart, but speaking as one who happens to work for a big box myself, these companies have made thwarting union movements into an art form. This movement will almost certainly be crushed like a gnat by Walmart, and all it will do is make the lives of the workers who choose to participate in this even worse than they already are.
Last year, Target had something similar happen in Valley Stream, a town in Nassau Country, not that far from the city. The same union that is organizing the Black Friday Walmart protests, the United Food and Commercial Workers union, organized a union drive amongst Target employees in Valley Stream. They did make significant progress, to the point where there was a formal vote on whether the store would be able to be unionized. The vote failed, amongst accusations of intimidation by Target and threats that the store would close. One employee that I know of was terminated who was instrumental in trying to get the union into Target. Later, a judge ordered a new election due to proven corporate misconduct. Target responded by closing the Valley Stream store for "renovations".
I do recall reading somewhere that closing a Target store for renovations is pretty unprecedented; any remodeling that is done is usually done when the store is closed at night, while it stays open during the day. Who knows if the store will even reopen at all? This is just one example of the lengths that big-box corporations will go to avoid unionization in their stores. I do not think the near-term prognosis for unions is good. Since America's manufacturing base is pretty much dead, they are trying to find a foothold in the service sector and that is immensely difficult due to the very strong push back by the owners in that sector.
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Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Marijuana Legalized in Two States
In a story that was probably missed by everybody (including news outlets) because of the bigger presidential election, two states (Washington and Colorado) approved measures, voted by the people, that would allow the use of marijuana, not just for medical use, but for recreational as well.
I wonder how long it will take the federal government to crack down on this?
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Monday, November 5, 2012
You Get to See Me in the Flesh, But Do you Want To?
Update: As of a couple of hours ago (around 4 PM), the gas station near where I recorded this did run out, according to the Gas Buddy website.
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Friday, November 2, 2012
Cable Down
Spoke a little too soon. My power never went out, but my cable/internet did on Tuesday. As luck has it, I was able to link to an open network and am able to post this. I hope that with this new found connection, I'll be able to post until my internet is back up. I feel we're getting a sneak preview of the long emergency. I have seen mile-long lines for gas. Someone I work with has not had power since Monday.
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Hurricane Sandy
It is Tuesday, 9:30 AM EST in my neck of the woods, and it is a somewhat overcast day, but with more than a hint of sunshine. Of course, it's very windy, but to be expected. I had not been keeping up-to-the-date with the hurricane, but from what I understand, today is supposed to be worse than yesterday was, but it doesn't feel like it...yet. Last night, parts of our gutter and an awning overlooking the porch in our backyard came down, and there is a huge tree limb that is blocking passage through our street. But, other than that, things are going as they usually have. Our electric worked like a champ, a few slight outages (the biggest one was for a little under a minute), but otherwise an uneventful night. I'm sure it's a different story for many others, however.
Did read an article that was pretty interesting. There is going to be a pending gap in our weather coverage, thanks to the aging of crucial satellites that provide critical data to our meteorologists and news sources about these hurricanes and storms. A replacement satellite won't be set into the air until 2017, at the earliest, due to mismanagement, lack of funding and difficulty in launching the replacement. Yet another example of how our infrastructure has been allowed to go to shit, since nation-building in Iraq and Afghanistan, and tax breaks for the rich (excuse me, the "job creators") takes much higher priority in Washington.
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Foolish Consumer Spending Can Be Meaningful
This is one of those times where I'm blogging without a clear direction of where I'm going, or what point I'm trying to make, and I'm hoping that problem is able to rectify itself by the time I'm done. I happened upon this article in which a self-sufficient blogger is talking about the foster children she has helped raise, and that in many instances, they come from very poor families. These families are often food-insecure and regularly decide on which of their many bills they will pay for the month, and these decisions can carry heavy consequences, such as phone service being turned off, or even electricity or heat. But at the same time, there are certain examples of opulence and luxury in these poor families that prevail even in these dire circumstances.
For example, some of the poor families that this woman has mentioned as having come across, have state-of-the-art cellphones, or give generous gifts to loved ones or throw lavish parties. Now, those of you who read this will probably condemn these people in the strongest possible terms, and in a lot of ways, I'd usually agree. However, one of the points this writer makes, and I do agree with her as well, is that our culture places enormous, almost overwhelming demands on people of every class to have these things. Just as you may condemn them for spending money on a smartphone as opposed to keeping their house stocked with enough food to get their family through the month, if they didn't have a smartphone or a flat-screen, you'd condemn them for being backward and ask, "what kind of person doesn't have a fancy television?" Definitely a situation in which the person is damned, no matter what they do.
She makes other good points, and I wholeheartedly recommend the article. But I wanted to make one more point. It kind of reminded me of my situation. I still live at home and do not have enough money to either move out or buy a car. Being locked out of these two options has basically fucked any chance I have of finding a better job and obtaining the things (I don't mean material by "things") that I always assumed that I would have when I was younger. I do have a Bachelor's degree and a postsecondary certification, so working at a low-paying service-level job is not what I had in mind at the age of 33, and it has been a very bitter pill to swallow. But I'm digressing. The point I wanted to make is that the one thing I do perhaps spend a bit recklessly on is gaming. I have all the latest consoles, and regularly buy games. Now, I don't buy the latest, 50-to-60 dollar Call of Duty game, but between buying used games and downloading games off of Xbox Live or Playstation Network, I do spend a good deal.
And I question myself all the time, "is this the best use of my money?" I love games, but can't help but feel that I could put my money towards a better purpose, be it by saving or something else. When I make a particularly big purchase, I will agonize over it for days on end. But something my mom has said to me a couple of times will make me give in and buy it. What she has said to me, when I'm agonizing, is "Jeff, why are you working?" And from what, I understood the gist of that article and what the writer was trying to say. Yeah, the poor should prioritize having enough food on hand and making sure all the utility bills get paid. But what some of us would call "bad choices", those choices being things like spending money on liquor or cigarettes or the latest gadget, can be all that stands between someone and the abyss. A person cannot live on food alone. In a life without stability and in which you don't know what's coming at you from one day to the next, sometimes that bad choice is the only meaningful thing you have. We all need our escape. For me, it's games. It opens up a world to me that I am unable to experience in any other way.
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Can Our Teachers Spell?
This story comes out of Australia, but I have no doubt that this is true in a lot of the western world, including in the U.S. Today's teachers are remarkably deficient in both spelling and grammar, according to tests performed by an Australian news program. Three different generations were tested for spelling and grammar proficiency, and the newer the generation, the lower the average score. To put the matter in an even starker light, the questions that teachers failed on were ones that your average 7th grader should know.
I'm troubled, but not surprised. I find spelling and grammar mistakes all the time, that should be fairly easy to avoid, while reading articles online. But I am by no means perfect. An astute wordsmith can probably find at least one error with my grammar in this post alone. But I do try my best to be coherent and to spell properly. I do feel that today's person is a little too reliant on spell-check. It's gotten to the point where writing something on my iPod or cell phone will be automatically corrected for me, even if I didn't solicit assistance from the AI. But I do feel that an even bigger culprit appears to be people's reluctance to read an old-fashioned book. In this country, people seem to be notoriously averse to reading, and I doubt that feeling changes much even if you go up the educational ladder. The visual medium (movies, TV, games) has really taken over in a big way for the vast majority of people. And for those who do read, it's usually some variant of pop-fiction, like Twilight, Harry Potter, or the latest James Patterson novel. I mean, it's better than not reading at all, but I do feel that the average adult should strive for a deeper reading experience than one that a 7th grader could have no problem with reading.
For the record, the last few books I've read were "Catcher in the Rye", and I'm about to start "The Berlin Years", a series of short stories about life in pre-WWII Germany, that was listed on the "Times 100" list of the best English-language books written in the 20th century. But I'd also recently read the 5th installment in the Harry Potter series, so I'm not immune to a harmless, easy read.
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June 22, 2022
Dear Bryan ISD Employees,
I am writing with an important compensation update following this week's Board meeting, as I know it will be of interest to many employees. I am pleased to share that our Board of Trustees approved salary increases that will impact staff members at all levels of our organization, ensuring that we are able to maintain a high-quality workforce by offering competitive benefits. Throughout the last few months, our finance team has continued to carefully weigh all budget considerations and has worked collaboratively with our human resources team to ensure that we are doing all we can to invest in our workforce and the staff members who are at the heart of everything we do.
Compensation Plan
The compensation plan approved by our Board of Trustees Monday provides all eligible teachers, counselors, librarians, and registered nurses with a step increase on the salary schedule, plus an additional increase that amounts to at least $1,500. The starting teacher pay in Bryan ISD will also increase to $50,000, which is a $2,000 increase from our previous starting salary.
Additionally, the compensation plan approved by the Board includes pay increases for eligible auxiliary and paraprofessional staff that will amount to three percent of the midpoint and a $2.00 per hour increase for eligible food service staff. Eligible administrators and professional staff members will receive a pay increase of two percent of the midpoint.
The increases adopted this week are in addition to the previously approved 4 percent in retention stipends for returning staff members.
Staffing Updates
This week, Bryan ISD expanded our Local Innovation Plan to allow degreed professionals to teach in all courses with the exception of special education, bilingual, and PreK. You can learn more about our Local Innovation Plan at www.bryanisd.org/doi.
In Bryan ISD, everything we do is student-focused and supports their academic and post-secondary success. We are proud to have a team of dedicated professionals who join in this important work, and our efforts to recruit additional staff members are ongoing. I encourage you to share information about our current job opportunities with friends and family members who may be interested in joining our team. As you may be aware, Bryan ISD is a District of Innovation (DOI), and our Local Innovation Plan has provided us with the ability to recruit non-traditional teaching candidates in our hard-to-fill areas, such as career and technical education (CTE) and world languages. Expansion followed the successful implementation in these areas and response to the growing demand for teachers to support our student learning. It is my hope that all of our Bryan ISD families are enjoying a safe and relaxing summer. We look forward to welcoming you back at convocation on August 10… but until then, enjoy the break!
Ginger Carrabine
Bryan ISD Superintendent
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