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R.l.P. Steve. We hardly knew ya.
Interested in having an impact on your school? Wondering where to voice those concerns or great suggestions? The School Advisory Committee (SAC) might be what you are looking for. The SAC is an elected body of parents and teachers that meets throughout the school year to discuss ways to make the school a better place for students. The SAC is established under Public Law 95-651 and is mandated by the Department of Defense to exist in all DOD Schools. Meetings generally occur once a quarter with a transition meeting for the next school year.
Student standards of conduct and discipline.
Training for SAC board members is typically held at the beginning of each school year. Parents may wish to serve on the SAC board or simply attend meetings and provide input. Talk to your school liaison officer or principal to find out more about the SAC at your school as well as other higher level advisory committees within DODEA.
For more to help your student, visit Europe Family and MWR's website for an Inbound Student Handbook or, visit your installation's SLO website.
Airbnb short term renters paid $114,000 in room tax to Green Bay in the first year of its agreement with the city.
Airbnb hosts in Green Bay made about $1 million from renting out their homes and spare rooms in the last 12 months.
Airbnb paid $114,000 in room taxes in Brown County in the 12 months ending Aug. 1, more than twice its original projection of $55,000, the company reported this week. That puts hosts' total revenue at about $1 million after subtracting Airbnb's listing fees, Airbnb Midwest Public Affairs spokesman Ben Breit said.
Host revenues increased more than 60 percent since calendar year 2016 when Airbnb hosts earned $603,000. Breit said the average host in Green Bay makes about $4,400 each year, down from $4,700 each year in 2016.
Streetwise is a shameless self-promoter, so this seems like a good time to remind you we recently wrote about the lack of inspections at short-term rental properties in Green Bay and other Brown County communities.
If you're staying at a short-term rental in town, it's a good idea to ask whether it has been inspected and whether the operator pays room tax. While Green Bay and Airbnb have a collection agreement, other communities and short-term rental websites do not.
Brad Toll, president and CEO of the Greater Green Bay Convention and Visitors Bureau, said the extra money will help the region pay off remaining debt on construction of the Resch Center and KI Convention Center and, soon, the new expo center.
But he said the organization still has concerns about visitors' safety since not all short-term rental properties are inspected for fire and safety issues.
"Making sure that guests staying in our community are safe is probably the most important factor," Toll said.
Toll said it's clear short-term rentals are having an impact on traditional hotels; the region's hotel occupancy rate is down 1.7 percent for the year.
That decline isn't solely related to short-term rentals on Airbnb or VRBO.com; Toll noted the Delta Hotel by Marriott, 2750 Ramada Way, in Ashwaubenon, has been closed much of the year for a major renovation.
"There's little question it's having an impact on the hotel community," Toll said. "A 1.7 percent (decline) isn't tragic, but it is something we're keeping an eye on."
Published Nov. 10, 2015 at 9:06 a.m.
"Heaven only knows whether God is planning to have a rock band on hand for Judgment Day, but if so, Jackson Browne should be given consideration for the gig."
Thus spoke the Milwaukee Sentinel's review following Browne's appearance at Uihlein Hall in April 1975. Luckily, the kind of praise that might have gone straight to another performer's head didn't find a home in Jackson Browne's. Exactly 40 years later, with a spate of albums and countless live performance under his belt, he's still the thoughtful, soft-spoken guy who penned "Doctor My Eyes," "Rock Me on the Water" and "These Days."
Now 67, while the rest of us battle middle age, he's somehow managed to retain that lanky frame and a full head of hair. "I'm just lucky," he said. "It's good genes, which I think come from my Norwegian family." Browne said he took after his grand uncle, who, despite advanced age, is remarkably fit and active.
"He even goes mountain climbing," he added.
Browne will appear on Saturday, Nov. 14 at the Riverside beginning at 8 p.m. In a recent interview, he shared some thoughts on his musical influences, his collaborations with guitarist David Lindley and his role in mythologizing an Arizona town in our collective consciousness.
OnMilwaukee: Can you talk a little about the 1970s California music scene and your part in it?
Jackson Browne: That was a time when musicians who liked folk music were gravitating to Los Angeles because of the clubs. Places like the Golden Bear, Mon Ami, they offered the opportunity to perform as well as hear music that wasn't being played elsewhere. L.A. was a gathering place for aspiring songwriters like Don Henley, J.D. Souther, the musicians in groups like The Byrds. It was a crucible-like environment.
I cultivated a friendship with J.D. Souther, and he helped me with my songwriting. I brought Warren Zevon to some peoples' attention because he was doing some really amazing things with his music. But there's no way I can take any credit for what came out of there. It was a bunch of writers and performers that just happened to be in L.A. at that time. And it wasn't just L.A. There were other places round the country generating great musicians, like Gainesville, for instance. Tom Petty and Mike Campbell from the Heartbreakers came out of there, as did Bernie Leadon and Don Felder from the Eagles.
OnMilwaukee: Who were some influential people for you?
Browne: Oh, so many. The Beatles, Bob Dylan, but also Hank Williams, Doc Watson. I loved Dave Van Ronk. And Mississippi John Hurt. "A Song for Adam" is in his style. Folk music, jug bands too. And rock and roll radio. The Top 10 stations. They'd play The Doors and then a crossover song like "Oh, Happy Day," by the Edwin Hawkins Singers. You'd hear that and go, "Hey, that's gospel!"
OnMilwaukee: Over the span of your career, you've changed the way you perform your songs. Is it fair to say Jackson Browne is still a work-in-progress?
Browne: I don't think I'd say that. The songs I still play are the ones that have stood the test of time. They carry a certain charge whether they're played with the full band or with maybe another guitar and a keyboard. When I was much younger, I opened for band at hockey arenas with just an acoustic guitar. That just didn't work. What continues to interest me is playing the songs that good in different ways. The studio version that appears on the album may be the definitive version, but there are other ways to play them that work, as long as they're played emotionally.
OnMilwaukee: Define "stand the test of time."
Browne: Not all my songs are deep or meaningful. Some of them I wrote when I was 15 or 16, and they're naïve, or callow.
OnMilwaukee: Some of your songs have a political theme. Is there a risk to you as an artist with that?
Browne: I don't think there's a risk because the songs with a political or social subject are my own journey to exploring the world. I don't see much difference in a song about love or a relationship and one about a social injustice. Both convey a need or desire to understand.
Where you could go wrong with either one is if you become too positive about what you're saying. Most of my songs ask questions, or they have an, "I know about this but I don't know about that" thing going on, like "Standing in the Breach." State your doubts, and you'll discover what you're sure of. That's what draws people into a song.
OnMilwaukee: Could the Jackson Browne "sound" have been created without David Lindley?
Browne: No, I don't think it could. I wrote the songs without David there, but the sound of his fiddle, his slide guitar, that's a big part of me. It brings the charge to those songs. He's an emotional, spontaneous player. The solo on "Late for the Sky?" David just played that. All of my efforts have been about joining up with other musicians. I'm not a soloist, but I have a sound in my head, and I know it when I hear it. Collaborating with someone like David helps me eliminate everything until I find what I'm looking for.
OnMilwaukee: "Take It Easy" put Winslow, Arizona on the map for a lot of people. Does that surprise you at all?
Browne: Well, the line in that song, which I wrote with Don Henley, does mention Winslow, but that city was already a big part of the southwestern leg of Route 66. A lot of people pass through there, and that included me in those days when I was on the way to do a show.
In 1970, I was driving a '53 Willys wagon, and it broke down in Flagstaff. I couldn't afford to pay the garage to rebuild the generator, and I was lucky to meet a guy at the auto parts store who taught me how to do it across the counter so I could keep driving. I think "Take It Easy" was half-written by that time, and it already contained the iconic imagery of the girl, the Lord and the flatbed Ford. It's all about redemption. What I recall was standing on that corner in Winslow and looking at a very tall, thin Navajo man.
OnMilwaukee: They put a statue of you on that corner.
OnMilwaukee: What would you be doing if you hadn't found success as a musician?
Browne: I don't know. I've never done anything else. Maybe I'd have learned to write prose. I can barely write a postcard. I like photography, so I may have pursued that. Or journalism, that's something I might have gone to school for.
The following are results of the Haliburton Muskoka District Summer Games 2018 Ontario Senior Games Association 55+ from May 24 to June 4.
Like its author, Jim Hinkson s latest coaching book The Art of Motivation for Team Sports is all about motivating athletes to be not just great team players, but also great people.
Starting this week in Haliburton, the Drop-in Basketball for youth (from 11 to 18) will provide an opportunity for players to build their skills by learning the fundamentals and advance their knowledge of the game.
Randall Wood knew life up in the Highlands was different than Uxbridge, but when he saw an emu from his club house s back deck in June he soon realized how different.
Not even a decapitated dragon head could take the Haliburton Highlands Paddlers off their game this past weekend.
Racers cruise from Head Lake Park to the starting line during powerboat racing in Haliburton Village during the weekend of Aug. 18 and 19.
Sunny blue skies were served up for the third annual Maple Leaf Haliburton Triples Tennis Tournament, on Tuesday, July 17 at Rotary Park.
Thank you to the Haliburton BMO for sponsoring the T-shirts that will be worn by the Haliburton Muskoka successful winners who are advancing to the OSGA 55+ Provincial Summer Games hosted by Mississauga in August.
Speed-loving spectators will have the chance to watch plenty of action on Head Lake on Aug. 18 and 19 when about 70 racers take to the water in hydroplanes and runabouts in races with speeds from 30 miles per hour to 85 miles per hour.
Assistant manager of the Montpelier Mansion Don Graham discusses the legacy of the mansion in the main library to a group of visitors Sunday who got to view "hidden spaces" that most mansion guests don't normally get to see.
Carol Bindel of Laurel winds her way up the narrow "Training Staircase" up to the second floor of the mansion.
Montpelier Mansion is hosted its "Hidden Spaces" tour which takes visitors to places of the mansion not normally open to the public, Sunday, October 7, 2018.
Indiana State Police Sgt. Stephen Wheeles said traffic was diverted to US 31 as the roadway was cleared and officers investigated.
No one was significantly injured in the incident, according to Sgt. Wheeles.
How similar are OS X and Linux?
We are witnessing a major shift in the tech industry.
Following the public display of love for Linux by Microsoft and “open sourcing” of .NET, now Apple is also doing something similar.
Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering said during his WWDC 2015 keynote, "We think Swift is the next big programming language. The one we will all be doing applications and systems programing on for 20 years to come. And we think Swift should be everywhere and used by everyone. And so we are going to be doing something really big. Today we're announcing that Swift will be open source."
The announcement was greeted with a huge round of applause from the audience.
Federighi (who is undoubtedly one of the most entertaining Apple presenters) had more surprises in store. He then shocked us by saying, "We will be rolling out the compiler and standard libraries for iOS, OSX and Linux."
Yes, he did say Linux. It’s exciting to see the words Linux and Open Source at the grand stage of an Apple event. It’s certainly a sea change in the market.
The company said in a blog post that Swift will be released under an OSI-approved permissive license. Source code will include the Swift compiler and standard library. While GNU GPL is also an OSI approved license, I doubt Apple would choose that one; my wild guess is it would be BSD or Apache license.
Simon Phipps the former director of OSI was cautious about it and told me, "While every additional piece of open source software extends the opportunities for software freedom, the critical question for a programming language is less whether it is itself open source and more whether it's feasible to make open source software with it. Programming languages are glue for SDKs, APIs and libraries. The real value of Swift will be whether it can realistically be used anywhere but Apple's walled garden."
Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of The Linux Foundation congratulated Apple on this important move and said, "This is a smart move for Apple and a big win for the developer community. Apple has long valued developers, but this week adopted a key strategy that has become the defacto approach to programming languages: open source."
He further added, "It’s inspiring to see companies like Apple and Microsoft validate the work we’ve been doing for more than two decades. As we move deeper into the complexities of the Internet of Things (IoT), mobile computing and automotive technologies (key battlefields in tech), Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Google and many others look to open source software to advance innovation in these areas. Equipping the developer community with what it needs is the right way to go."
When I asked Eric S Raymond, the author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar and renowned open source developer, he said, “I am generally in favor of anyone open sourcing anything, but know nothing about this case so can't judge its relative importance well."
The good news is, unlike a few open source projects, Swift development will have community involvement. Apple said in a blog post that "contributions from the community will be accepted — and encouraged."
That’s a smart move by Apple because it’s not just the community that will benefit from the open sourcing of Swift. In fact, Apple will be the biggest beneficiary. No software is free of bugs and Swift is no exception. The community contribution will help Apple in finding and fixing the bugs in the language and make it even better.
Open Source is a win-win model and Apple has made ‘Swift’ but right moves.
It’s inevitable, warns Middle East expert and filmmaker Joel Gilbert — Israel and U.S. interests around the world are facing the relentless juggernaut of an Islamic revival that can’t be derailed.
If you are still one of those Americans who believe that 9/11 was a mindless attack on a decadent U.S. by Islamic fanatics without a comprehensive long range plan and design, “Farewell Israel: Bush, Iran and The Revolt of Islam” will open your eyes.
“Farewell Israel” reveals the full story of Israel and the West’s misunderstanding of Islam — and the coming tragic consequences of misunderstanding.
If you are lucky enough to view the film, your mouth will drop open more than once.
Not just a history lesson, the film provides the viewer with a dramatic insight into just who is that hooded forbidding enemy of the West out there lurking in the darkness. What truly motivates him? And, most importantly, what exactly does he want so badly that he is willing to give up his life?
A Middle Eastern studies specialist, Gilbert is one of the few Western scholars of historic Islamic-Jewish relations. He has lived, studied, and traveled in the Middle East, including Egypt, Israel, Morocco, and Pakistan. He speaks Arabic and Hebrew, and lectures on the Middle East.
Both he and his film have a lot to say. Perhaps the best summation of the underlying theme is know your enemy. If you know him, you’ve completed the first step in possibly defeating him.
Why the enemy is anything but inscrutable and how his every move can be telegraphed by history and culture.
Islamism is an internal struggle. It’s not a war against the West.
Bush’s biggest blunder post 9/11 was not attacking Afghanistan or even Iraq, it was unwittingly falling into al-Qaida’s carefully planned trap by pushing for free elections throughout the Islamic world.
Why it is dangerously simplistic to believe that a policy of fostering secular democracies would produce a population less likely to attack America.
Another big attack on the U.S. is not coming — because it would not be in the enemy’s interest.
Why the next president should abandon the Bush policies and encourage, supply, and support all secular, non-Islamic governments willing to help put down this type of violent behavior.
How the mindsets of Jimmy Carter and President Bush are alike.
Why Jews today live and thrive in Iran — despite that country’s call to wipe their homeland off the map.
What exactly would be a winning policy that would foil the plans of the worldwide Islamic movement.
Why the destruction of the Jewish state is such an imperative.
Why “Radical Islamic” is a total misnomer.
Why Israel has not bombed Iran’s nuclear sites.
Why the polling booth is considered a more powerful weapon than terror by those orchestrating the Islamic revolt.
What’s freedom got to do with it?
Newsmax: Mr. Gilbert, let’s pick up where we left off in our discussion. One of the things that grip you as watch this film is that you get a sense of this inevitability of the coming of great catastrophe, not only to Israel but to American interests around the world. Do you sense the same thing, that if we continue on the same course, things are going to, at some point, reach the inevitable boil?
Gilbert: Absolutely. I think if all of the pieces are in place; it’s similar to the history of World War I — it wasn’t a question of “if,” it was just a question of “when.” And when it started, it wasn’t even like it was such a big deal. It was just like let’s have it out and do this.
Newsmax: Your excellent film aside, don’t many Americans believe these radical Muslims are not going to be satisfied until the whole planet is under a non-secular Muslim cultural and religious umbrella? Am I wrong?
Gilbert: I think most Americans are a little distracted by that concept because we focus on the notion that if we defeat the radicals then everyone else feels a different way. There’s no such thing as radical Islam. I mean, there are media concepts that we make up to deal with things that we are unable to understand on a deeper level.
Islam’s internal struggle to restore their own society does contain a few — just like you have in the Christian world or in most religions – that profess that one day everybody will agree that theirs is an exclusive truth and that one day the whole world will recognize this.
Newsmax: In the perfect Islamic revival -- the perfect storm — if successful, what would it mean geographically?
Gilbert: Geographically, every country that has a Muslim majority population would become under Islamic rule, Islamic law. At some point there would reemerge the kind of centralized Islamic authority that existed in history for 1200 years, where Islam reignd over the civilized world.