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Burleson ISD Opens New STEAM Middle School
“A STEAM school integrates the content and skills of science, technology, engineering, and math, but also incorporates the elements of art focused upon visual and graphic design,” said Chief Academic Innovation Officer Dr. Leslie Bender-Jutzi. “Content in all subjects, including electives, will be STEAM focused.
“It is very exciting to see BISD progressively think about how best to serve its current and future students.Thank you for asking parents to complete the survey,” a parent commented on the survey.
“Not only will our families have more choice in their middle school students’ education, the new school will provide greatly needed relief at our two existing middle schools,” Dr. Jerry Hollingsworth, Associate Superintendent of Educational Operations said.
“This is the first of many innovative choices that our district intends to offer its students,” said Jimerson. “We understand that the best learning occurs when it is relevant to the learner, and the STEAM middle school will deliver our curriculum in a highly-engaging manner.”
Read more at: Burleson ISD Article
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Thank you…
A really BIG Thank You to all that emailed, texted, called, posted on social media and sent carrier pigeons wishing me a happy birthday yesterday! I really appreciate ALL of them.
It was “Shower with a friend” day and even though I didn’t receive any takers I did get a couple of not in this lifetime and thank you but I’ve already had my shower.
Steve
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January 2016 Newsletter by Steve Young
Welcome to the most current Housing Trends eNewsletter. This eNewsletter is specially designed for you, with national and local housing information that you may find useful whether you’re in the market for a home, thinking about selling/leasing your home, or just interested in homeowner issues in general.
Please click on this link to view the Housing Trends January 2016 Newsletter:
Steve Young’s January 2016 Housing Trends News
Steve Young’s Housing Trends eNewsletter is filled with local and national real estate sales and price activity provided by MLSs and the National Association of Realtors, U.S. Census Bureau key market indicators, consumer videos, blogs, real estate glossary, mortgage rates and calculators, consumer articles, and REALTOR.com local community reports.
If you are interested in determining the value of your home, click the “Home Evaluator” link for a free evaluation report:
What is the value of my home or property?
Sound decisions can only be made with accurate and reliable information, and I am happy to be a trusted resource for you. Thank you for the opportunity to provide you with this monthly eNewsletter, and I look forward to answering any questions you may have and to the opportunity to be your REALTOR® in the future.
Sincerely yours,
Steve Young
RE/MAX Associates
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The donut saga
This was too good not to share…
Ok guys, clearly y’all need an intervention! Good grief this donut thing is getting out of hand! Since I think each of you are awesome in your own rite and should live the longest life possible without complications from overeating donuts…. here’s my plan:
Step 1 ADMIT YOU ARE THE, umm I mean HAVE A PROBLEM (ahemmm, Gallegos)HAHA
Step 2 START RATIONING YOUR DONUT INTAKE
Disclaimer: Now don’t be too hasty in this… your body may start doing weird things as the consumption of these chemically enhanced, petroleum based, plasticized carbs and sugars are reduced. Maybe start by cutting the days you eat them down, or the number in a day… just “food” for thought...
Step 3 START MOVING MORE (except Steve, he moves around all the time) GET UP FROM YOUR DESK, WALK SOME LAPS AROUND THE BUILDING…Oh who I am kidding! Place the donuts in the kitchen so you’ll have to walk to get them! (Bonus: other people will consume them too thus enabling you to complete Step 2 more expeditiously)
Step 4 START REPLACING THE DONUTS WITH MORE HEALTHY ALTERNATIVES. ie: carrots, apples,bananas, grapes etc BAHAHAHAHAHAHA As IF!
Step 5 FORGET STEPS 1-4 AND JUST EAT THE DAMN DONUTS, LIFE IS TOO SHORT
Just keep them away from the front desk cause whaleshape does NOT look good on me!
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2016 Good Year to Buy, Sell a Home, says Real Estate Center Chief Economist
COLLEGE STATION, Tex. (Real Estate Center) The Texas housing market has been going strong the last few years. While it’s likely to cool off some this year, the chief economist for the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University said now is still a good time to buy or sell a home. Low interest rates make it an especially appealing time to be a buyer, said Dr. Jim Gaines. The biggest challenge is the lack of selection.
“The only reason that it might not be a good year is some buyers may have a hard time finding what they want,” Gaines said. “We still have a shortage of existing inventory being listed for sale.” Last month, Texas had a 3.1-month housing inventory. The Center considers 6.5 months a balanced market.
“You’ll have to work very closely with an agent or someone who is close to the market on a day-to-day basis, because in many of our markets properties are being grabbed up almost as soon as they come up for sale,” Gaines said, “often on the same day and with multiple offers.” In other words, once you find a home you like, be prepared to act quickly. This is good news for sellers, who will probably have no trouble getting the price they want — at least for the first half of the year. “I think we’re going to see a slowdown in the housing market this year, but the market’s not going to stall,” Gaines said.
The median price for a home in Texas last month was $201,900, up $8,200 from the previous month and up $9,900 from a year ago. “The past four years we’ve had this tremendous imbalance between the demand for housing and the supply being offered for sale. What I think will happen is the demand is going to slow down, and builders will keep supplying because they’ll find there’s still a very good market for new homes. People will decide now’s a good time to buy or sell, maybe before interest rates go up. The market will end up more balanced than it’s been. “Buyers will start finding that home prices won’t go up as fast and maybe some bargains will come out there.”
By Bryan Pope, Associate Editor, Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University
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Happy Birthday Mozart
Born on January 27, 1756, in Salzburg, Austria, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a musician capable of playing multiple instruments who started playing in public at the age of 6. Over the years, Mozart aligned himself with a variety of European venues and patrons, composing hundreds of works that included sonatas, symphonies, masses, concertos and operas, marked by vivid emotion and sophisticated textures.
Click here to enjoy The Best of Mozart
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Great article by Kirby Anderson
Censorship and Intolerance: by Kirby Anderson
Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz has been on talk shows expressing his concerns about the censorship that is taking place on college campuses. As I have mentioned in previous commentaries, it is helpful when someone who would disagree with you on everything from politics to theology at least agrees with your concerns about what is happening in the universities these days.
He was on Fox & Friends last week to comment on the growing intolerance of the left and began by reminding us of our history. He said that when he was teaching back in the 1950s, “there were attempts to censor speech by Senator McCarthy. The right wing was trying to censor left-wing speech. Now it’s the hard left that’s trying to censor . . . conservative speech, Christian speech, pro-Israel speech, you name it.”
He took on the latest campus fad about safe spaces. He said, “We have to distinguish between safe spaces for ideas, there should be none, and physically safe places where you’re not intimidated or you’re not threatened. And Christian speakers, pro-Israel speakers, speakers that are not politically correct today, have their physical safety endangered.”
He lamented that when he speaks on college campuses in favor of Israel, he needs armed guards to protect him “from radical leftist students who would use physical intimidation. They won’t give me a safe space. They won’t give pro-Israel students a safe space, they won’t give Christian students a safe space.”
He also talked about a group of pro-life Christians who were attacked for saying that all lives mattered. “They were told to be subject to training, and sensitivity, and the president of Smith College had to apologize for using that term.”
Alan Dershowitz is right. I applaud him for speaking out about censorship and intolerance on campus. We need others to join him and speak out.
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Need a fresh start?
Hosea 6:3 Let us know, Let us pursue the knowledge of the Lord (with Philippians 3:10). His going forth is established as the morning; He will come to us like the rain, Like the latter and former rain to the earth.Psalm 5:3 My voice You shall hear in the morning, O Lord; In the morning I will direct it to You, And I will look up.Lamentations 3:21-23 This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope. Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed (see Malachi 3:6), Because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.2 Peter 1:19-21 And so we have the prophetic word confirmed, which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts;The morning is the gate of the day, and should be well guarded with prayer. It is one end of the thread on which the day’s actions are strung, and should be well knotted with devotion. If we felt more the majesty of life we should be more careful of its mornings. He who rushes from his bed to his business and waiteth not to worship is as foolish as though he had not put on his clothes, or cleansed his face, and as unwise as though he dashed into battle without arms or armor. Be it ours to bathe in the softly flowing river of communion with God, before the heat of the wilderness and the burden of the way begin to oppress us. Charles SpurgeonNotice a theme running through these Scriptures and Spurgeon’s comment?
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NATIONAL DISC JOCKEY DAY
National Disc Jockey Day is observed annually on January 20th.
A disc jockey, or DJ for short, is a person who plays recorded music either on the radio or at a club or event. The first disc jockey was an experiment on the airwaves. In 1909, sixteen-year-old Ray Newby was a student under the supervision of Charles “Doc” Herrold at Herrold College of Engineering and Wireless. He played the first records over the airwaves before the word disc jockey even existed.
I got to do some Disc Jockey work years ago, I guess around 1974 at KBUY Country Music studio which was located in the old Seminary South Shopping Center. Started learning how from the main afternoon drive Dude and station manager then progressed to doing a Sunday morning show introducing Church’s, etc. from 7-11 AM then from 11- Noon got to play music. After that did the Midnight to 6 am program for several months, lotta fun.
This is Steve Young, your all night radio host playing those records back to back as the trees blow in the breeze at the mighty, KBUY constant country music for Ft Worth-Dallas. (I never put Dallas first, not even back then!)
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