governor's plan would end teacher furlough days < ');" class="size11 blue"> RateHawaii Gov. Linda Lingle has proposed a plan to end the state's hotly disputed teacher furloughs and cancel a planned 10 percent reduction in school days.At a news conference Sunday, Lingle called for shifting teacher-only days to regular classroom time and tapping the state's rainy day fund to cancel 27 planned furlough...
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Okla. ed board wants use of Rainy Day Fund now < ');" class="arial11blue1"> RateCuts in state funding for education mean teachers at one northeastern Oklahoma school now must clean their own classrooms while their superintendent scrubs the toilets. A superintendent in a neighboring county is considering laying off five teachers. Yet another is asking veteran teachers to consider early retirement.State...
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Thattai is a traditional South Indian snack, great to nibble with piping hot tea on a rainy day. I learnt this recipe from my mother who was an excellent cook.Sieve the flour and fry it in a kadai to remove any excess dampness. Sieve the flour again.To this flour add butter, salt, coconut, sesame seeds, urad dal powder, Bengal gram dal, asafoetida and mix well.Have a traditional recipe your grandmother...
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Sanaa Bhambri provided the silver lining to a rainy day by outplaying Indo-Japanese player Anastasia Malhotra to enter the second round of the NECC-ITF Women's Tennis championships....
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What is it about rainy weather that makes children, parents and teachers anxious, watchful and excited, not necessarily in that order?There are too many things to watch out if it’s a working and a rainy day. Children are restless and distracted seeing water around them, parents get concerned about their health and teachers get extra cautious of where students are going to tread.Perhaps that’s why during...
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MUMBAI:Residents of the western suburbs seem to have saved up for a rainy day, rather a"dry'' day.The BMC's decision to impose a 100% cut on water supplyfor 24 hours on Friday did not seem to inconvenience people much__anticipatingcrisis, they prepared for the worst and stored water. "In our colony, there is abig tank in which we had stored water supplied till Thursday. So, we did notface any problems,''...
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Phil Jaques is trying to get his career back on track after back surgery and he scored 40Another rainy day in Sydney has reduced the match to a battle for first-innings points after only 47 overs were bowled on the third day. New South Wales were on 2 for 151 with Simon Katich on 48 and Usman Khawaja on 25, and they needed a further 349 to overtake Western Australia's 8 for 499.The second day had also...
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President Barack Obama went to the national burial ground for war heros to place a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns, a day after leading a memorial service for those slain in the Fort Hood shootings.On a gray, rainy day, Obama took part in a tradition honoring not only those who lost their lives in battle but also the men and women who serve U.S. military missions worldwide today. Wearing a black...
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Take a peek into the Malnad of yore at the wonderfully-preserved home of Kannada poet KuvempuSome years ago, while watching the award-winning “Kanooru Heggadathi”, two things lingered — the lush greenery that painted the screen, and the Kannada poet Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa (Kuvempu) on whose novel it was based. And, I made a mental note to visit the poet’s rain-drenched hometown some day, and see...
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Shortfall » Business group plan relies on tapping reserves, increasing some taxes.The Salt Lake Chamber is urging the Legislature to balance the state's mammoth deficit with a combination of spending cuts, tapping the Rainy Day Fund and by other measures, while sparing public schools and higher education from more reductions."We believe that balancing the budget is easy. The hard part is doing it in...
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