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11 months ago
in Huckabee Tops GOP Power Rankings, Paul Takes Third on The Iowa Independent
I agree with everything you just said. I just had to say something... I am amazed that you wrote down my thoughts on the matter... even your estimation of the Democratic candidates.
If only everyone could hear Ron Paul's message, perhaps America would receive hope and become the best country in the world to live in again.
If only everyone could hear Ron Paul's message, perhaps America would receive hope and become the best country in the world to live in again.
1 year ago
in noodad » Choosing a Dance Studio on Noodad
Way to go, Suz.... Good article.
I\'ve always tried to involve the dads at my studio to make them feel a part of it and also to give them a feel for what their kids are doing. I didn\'t want them to feel like an outsider, like it was a \"girl\'s club\" of sorts or that they were only around to pay the bill and be the chaffeur. I wanted to get to know the dads because sometimes I didn\'t have a clue which dad was with which kid.
I offer a \"Boys Night Out\" and the dancer gets to bring their dad, stepdad, age appropriate brother, etc. OR their mom if no dad is around or available. They participate in the class and have always come away with a newfound respect for dance and what the teacher is doing, even more admiration and pride towards their kids and a few have even signed up for classes!
I\'ve always tried to involve the dads at my studio to make them feel a part of it and also to give them a feel for what their kids are doing. I didn\'t want them to feel like an outsider, like it was a \"girl\'s club\" of sorts or that they were only around to pay the bill and be the chaffeur. I wanted to get to know the dads because sometimes I didn\'t have a clue which dad was with which kid.
I offer a \"Boys Night Out\" and the dancer gets to bring their dad, stepdad, age appropriate brother, etc. OR their mom if no dad is around or available. They participate in the class and have always come away with a newfound respect for dance and what the teacher is doing, even more admiration and pride towards their kids and a few have even signed up for classes!
1 year ago
in noodad » The Scam Called Kid Recital Videos on Noodad
I don\\\'t allow parents to videotape dress rehearsals, I don\\\'t allow anyone. I have several reasons. I used to but a mom of a student\\\'s friend came and videotaped (supposedly for the kid) and 2 complete numbers were stolen and seen performed during the halftime show by the dance team of the next city\\\'s school! That\\\'s stealing.
It is my responsibility to keep the kids safe so I go out of my way to make sure of this. There have been a few attempted \\\"takings\\\" of kids - a dad who didn\\\'t have custody, by a \\\"predator\\\", I know of a few and I know this has happened at other types of kids activities. Is it safe to allow everyone to videotape at random? No, it\\\'s not safe in many ways.
No one should ever put a video on the internet of a kid without specific permission by the parent and whether you set your page to private it doesn\\\'t matter. You cannot control what someone whom you give permission to access the site, will do.
I have seen an over zealous parent get in the way so bad videotaping and he even turned on a flash, that his kid fell off the stage!! She broke her leg. He went up to the front of the stage and followed her. Other parents were upset and rightfully so. The entire class who had worked so hard all year fell apart(and if you think about it it\\\'s more than a years work, you keep dancing year to year and what you see is a result of all training). I was mortified. I vowed never to get into that predicament if I had my own studio. I once sat behind a parent at a recital years ago and never got to see the person I came to see because all I could do was to look at that camera. It was on the entire show and it was a full house, no empty seats. Plus, you videotape the show, you miss the show! It\\\'s NOT the same. It\\\'s also rude audience behavior. You can\\\'t go and videotape \\\"The Lion King\\\" just because you paid for a ticket. There are also copyright laws and the music is protected and belongs to the composer and choreography belongs to the choreographer or the studio, depending on the arrangement.
I\\\'ve seen parents get into fights, verbal and physical. They do it at sports games, too. Parents behave SO badly at times. They bring a huge board in with coolers to put on top so people won\\\'t sit in those seats. They \\\"save\\\" seats and then someone comes in an hour later or during the 2nd half for the seat and meanwhile a parent who was there on time to see their chld and who paid just as much for the dance education (it is EDUCATION) is upset. You want a good seat - get there on time.
Just because you pay for lessons, etc. doesn\\\'t mean you shouldn\\\'t have to pay for the performance. Tickets pay for the performance, police - you have to pay their cost then pay into a special general retirement fund for cops so you are paying double, extra insurance you have to carry, technical staff, auditorium rental, equipment and backdrop rental (talk about thousands), lighting, etc. You can\'t ask for or get donations if you are not an officially designated non-profit organization!!
So you know ASCAP doesn\\\'t allow the sale of videos for a profit. They also don\\\'t allow parents videotaping which they consider stealing of the music. They are very strict. Teachers/owners don\\\'t agree with a lot but they are obligated to follow their rules and there\\\'s more co.\\\'s than ASCAP now. We have to pay to use the music in class or performance. We\\\'re allowed to have only so many performances.
Your use of the word \\\"gang rape\\\" especially when talking about a field that is primarily female and considering you\\\'re talking about your daughter, is something I find EXTREMELY offensive.
Good thing your daughter doesn\\\'t skate...let\\\'s see...used skates $400 and of course they keep growing out of them. The costumes are easily $1000+ up. Ice time, etc. What about hockey? Even gymnastics.
BE GLAD YOU HAVE A CHILD THAT HAS THESE INTERESTS AND THE ABILITY TO PERSUE THEM. She has a healthy body and mind and the support financially and physically from you...and you\\\'re complaing about $30. One of my students (started with me at age 14 and she\\\'s 29 now) just lost her child. I bet she\\\'d pay $30 in a heartbeat to see her kid over and over again. You are a good dad to support your chlid\\\'s interest. I have seen many over the years who don\\\'t get the opportunity your child has.
However, you should be ashamed of your original post and the term \\\"gang rape\\\" over and over. You owe an apology. As for calling your studio owner\'s business a \'rinky dink operation\'...how insulting and arrogant. My \'rinky dink\' operation is my career and I guess I wasted all that time in college and gaining performance experience as well as spending money yearly on continuing education. Talk about snobbery.
In the meantime, I just heard the auditorium I use is upping their prices yet again for my annual show. Since tuition is for classes and studio costs I guess it means I have to increase my ticket prices a bit so I don\\\'t pull the money out of my own family\\\'s survival.
No, it\\\'s not going to a new car. My 1995 Chevy with no a/c and a door handle that is broken on the driver\\\'s side (not fun in the winter) but leaves me with no car payment to make because I can\\\'t afford one, will have to keep getting us where we have to go.
You really should think this through and know the whole picture of things before spouting off and this is directed at you and anyone else who feels the same. Otherwise you appear ignorant. Got a gripe? Make a conference appt. and talk about with your studio owner.
There are always options and you have the option to have her stop dancing. By the way, $30 is cheap. Most cost around $40ish and that quote comes right from the video company. What do I get? A copy for the studio. As for pictures, I didn\\\'t offer them and parents asked for them so I made it available. Buying is always an option. What do I get for offering it? Surely not a trip to Hawaii!! I get a copy of every photo taken for the studio. If there is a company out there who pays a percentage to the studio owner, trust me the owner deserves it and it\\\'s very small. The owner has to be there, pay for utilities, often pose the kids, deal with parents and any issues that may come up.
When your child watches the tape she/he\\\'ll watch the entire show and feel a part of something special, which it is, vs. only watching their own dance. Dancers like to see the entire dance so they can see what it looks like, so you know. The close-ups get in the way. I have my videographer do a pan but otherwise have the entire dance filmed so entrances and exits, formations, etc. aren\\\'t missed.
You are giving your child a wonderful gift, the gift of dance whose lessons will enhance and benefit her life forever.
It is my responsibility to keep the kids safe so I go out of my way to make sure of this. There have been a few attempted \\\"takings\\\" of kids - a dad who didn\\\'t have custody, by a \\\"predator\\\", I know of a few and I know this has happened at other types of kids activities. Is it safe to allow everyone to videotape at random? No, it\\\'s not safe in many ways.
No one should ever put a video on the internet of a kid without specific permission by the parent and whether you set your page to private it doesn\\\'t matter. You cannot control what someone whom you give permission to access the site, will do.
I have seen an over zealous parent get in the way so bad videotaping and he even turned on a flash, that his kid fell off the stage!! She broke her leg. He went up to the front of the stage and followed her. Other parents were upset and rightfully so. The entire class who had worked so hard all year fell apart(and if you think about it it\\\'s more than a years work, you keep dancing year to year and what you see is a result of all training). I was mortified. I vowed never to get into that predicament if I had my own studio. I once sat behind a parent at a recital years ago and never got to see the person I came to see because all I could do was to look at that camera. It was on the entire show and it was a full house, no empty seats. Plus, you videotape the show, you miss the show! It\\\'s NOT the same. It\\\'s also rude audience behavior. You can\\\'t go and videotape \\\"The Lion King\\\" just because you paid for a ticket. There are also copyright laws and the music is protected and belongs to the composer and choreography belongs to the choreographer or the studio, depending on the arrangement.
I\\\'ve seen parents get into fights, verbal and physical. They do it at sports games, too. Parents behave SO badly at times. They bring a huge board in with coolers to put on top so people won\\\'t sit in those seats. They \\\"save\\\" seats and then someone comes in an hour later or during the 2nd half for the seat and meanwhile a parent who was there on time to see their chld and who paid just as much for the dance education (it is EDUCATION) is upset. You want a good seat - get there on time.
Just because you pay for lessons, etc. doesn\\\'t mean you shouldn\\\'t have to pay for the performance. Tickets pay for the performance, police - you have to pay their cost then pay into a special general retirement fund for cops so you are paying double, extra insurance you have to carry, technical staff, auditorium rental, equipment and backdrop rental (talk about thousands), lighting, etc. You can\'t ask for or get donations if you are not an officially designated non-profit organization!!
So you know ASCAP doesn\\\'t allow the sale of videos for a profit. They also don\\\'t allow parents videotaping which they consider stealing of the music. They are very strict. Teachers/owners don\\\'t agree with a lot but they are obligated to follow their rules and there\\\'s more co.\\\'s than ASCAP now. We have to pay to use the music in class or performance. We\\\'re allowed to have only so many performances.
Your use of the word \\\"gang rape\\\" especially when talking about a field that is primarily female and considering you\\\'re talking about your daughter, is something I find EXTREMELY offensive.
Good thing your daughter doesn\\\'t skate...let\\\'s see...used skates $400 and of course they keep growing out of them. The costumes are easily $1000+ up. Ice time, etc. What about hockey? Even gymnastics.
BE GLAD YOU HAVE A CHILD THAT HAS THESE INTERESTS AND THE ABILITY TO PERSUE THEM. She has a healthy body and mind and the support financially and physically from you...and you\\\'re complaing about $30. One of my students (started with me at age 14 and she\\\'s 29 now) just lost her child. I bet she\\\'d pay $30 in a heartbeat to see her kid over and over again. You are a good dad to support your chlid\\\'s interest. I have seen many over the years who don\\\'t get the opportunity your child has.
However, you should be ashamed of your original post and the term \\\"gang rape\\\" over and over. You owe an apology. As for calling your studio owner\'s business a \'rinky dink operation\'...how insulting and arrogant. My \'rinky dink\' operation is my career and I guess I wasted all that time in college and gaining performance experience as well as spending money yearly on continuing education. Talk about snobbery.
In the meantime, I just heard the auditorium I use is upping their prices yet again for my annual show. Since tuition is for classes and studio costs I guess it means I have to increase my ticket prices a bit so I don\\\'t pull the money out of my own family\\\'s survival.
No, it\\\'s not going to a new car. My 1995 Chevy with no a/c and a door handle that is broken on the driver\\\'s side (not fun in the winter) but leaves me with no car payment to make because I can\\\'t afford one, will have to keep getting us where we have to go.
You really should think this through and know the whole picture of things before spouting off and this is directed at you and anyone else who feels the same. Otherwise you appear ignorant. Got a gripe? Make a conference appt. and talk about with your studio owner.
There are always options and you have the option to have her stop dancing. By the way, $30 is cheap. Most cost around $40ish and that quote comes right from the video company. What do I get? A copy for the studio. As for pictures, I didn\\\'t offer them and parents asked for them so I made it available. Buying is always an option. What do I get for offering it? Surely not a trip to Hawaii!! I get a copy of every photo taken for the studio. If there is a company out there who pays a percentage to the studio owner, trust me the owner deserves it and it\\\'s very small. The owner has to be there, pay for utilities, often pose the kids, deal with parents and any issues that may come up.
When your child watches the tape she/he\\\'ll watch the entire show and feel a part of something special, which it is, vs. only watching their own dance. Dancers like to see the entire dance so they can see what it looks like, so you know. The close-ups get in the way. I have my videographer do a pan but otherwise have the entire dance filmed so entrances and exits, formations, etc. aren\\\'t missed.
You are giving your child a wonderful gift, the gift of dance whose lessons will enhance and benefit her life forever.
1 year ago
in FOX ATTACKS! The Environment on FOX Attacks!
The world is not the same now as it was when GOD created it thousands (NOT MILLIONS) of years ago. It will continue to change. People probably to contribute to some changes; however, do you think we can stop this now. We can slow it down. But, if the liberalists think that censoring television (taking away freedom of speech) will help, they are sadly mistaken. I am a conservative. I do not agree with everything said on FOX; however, we have a right to at least one channel among the hundreds on television today. I will support those that advertise on FOX and I will not support those that discontinue to advertise on FOX. How long has CNN been on the air. If conservatives tried to force them off the air, there would be such an uproar about freedom of speech. If you take FOX off, I want CNN off!!!!
Fair is fair.
Liberalistat can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen.
Fair is fair.
Liberalistat can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen.
1 year ago
in Becky Garrison: Bathroom Humor on God's Politics
Becky- This article reminded me of a recent conversation between a few relatives and a friend of mine- all who have had, at one time or another, worked as a waitress. They all (4 out of 4) stated that people who worked at their restaurants would request not to work Sunday lunch/afternoons. Why? Because the church going crowds would be the poorest tippers all week . . . and believe it or not- some church members wouldn t tip at all, they would only leave a tract! Shameful- and what a pitiful witness. Suz
1 year ago
in The drawback of popularizing science - and how come some folks are flummoxed by math? on Granite Geek
I just found your blog and find it very interesting. My husband and I have a podcast where we talk about history with respect to architecture and engineering called aspire at szilverwolf.com. Please check it out if you would like. I am finding that there are only very select groups of people interested in our subject choice. I was not interested in history in engineering school either. I think that had to do with a busy schedule though. The "Carl Sagan Syndrome," mentioned above is also very upsetting. There has to be someway to inspire our students into science! I will have to check out this book. Well I love the article!
1 year ago
in Snapshot: Sojourners/Call to Renewal Staff at Work (for Peace) on God's Politics
SOJO- Nice!
Thank you for all you do for the cause of Peace. S P.S. Too bad McCarthyism is still alive and well.
Thank you for all you do for the cause of Peace. S P.S. Too bad McCarthyism is still alive and well.
2 years ago
in Horizon Forum comments thread on Education Futures
I attended the first Horizon Forum in April 2006, and someone brought up the Thomas Friedman quote about the problem of having "21st century students, and 20th century educators." Does anyone know what 21st century educators would look like, beyond broad conceptutalizations such as the need to be more paternship-oriented and better with technology? Is anyone writing/talking about this in a concerte way (i.e., speculating on profesional development teacher models or specific skills?) Is there new terminology for "teachers"?
2 years ago
in Le château de Modave on Blogging The News
Le mariage de la radio et du blog! :-)
Amusant!
Amusant!
4 years ago
in The Fly Bottle Cash-for-Content SuperNovember Fundraiser on Will Wilkinson
I just did it out of love for my bro...
4 years ago
in Scared on Brian's Blog
I understand how you feel. Sometimes you doubt yourself when
Someone else sees a different way. Isn't weird, no matter how
much we don't want it, we feel we need to accepted. And yet the only
thing that matters is what God thinks. I just pray for the Peace
of God. So that way I know what I did was right. Even if it may
not be right for someone else.
Someone else sees a different way. Isn't weird, no matter how
much we don't want it, we feel we need to accepted. And yet the only
thing that matters is what God thinks. I just pray for the Peace
of God. So that way I know what I did was right. Even if it may
not be right for someone else.