16. 48915 2018 Executive Operating BudgetMetro paratransit services will be changed due to the loss of $3.9M in federal Medicare funding associated with implementing Family Care in Dane County. Paratransit services will be provided through contracts between Madison Metro and private transportation vendors.

Not all celebrities are paired with an equally famous significant other. So while Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have learned to share the fan adoration, people like Matt Damon’s wife former bartender Luciana Bozan Barroso remain blissfully behind the scenes. But not all are content to fade into the background as their acclaimed partners bask in the glow of high wattage careers and lucrative deals.

The changing place of women in society has made it more difficult to use gendered images and thus it is necessary to discuss whether mothering is an essentially female activity. After acknowledging the complexity of the gendered language and the reality that most women arrive at mothering through a specifically female bodily experience, the thesis goes on to state that the practice of mothering is not instinctual but learnt. It involves learning through a relationship with a particular child and what is learnt are human ways of being and doing which are not gender specific.As the child is a growing developing human being the relationship and activity needs to be adaptable and contingent, requiring concrete thinking.

Think it got a couple of more years in it, said Calimano. Will be looking for stuff to do. And in the right location it will do well. NAYLOR: The commercial truck industry supports the new ban. The president of the American Trucking Associations, Bill Graves, appeared at todays news conference alongside LaHood and other administration officials. He said the prohibition on texting on hand held devices was appropriate, but he indicated further steps by the government might be more problematic..

The real issues here are religion and, of course, politics. With regard to religion, the hostility towards the veil is representative of a more generalised opposition to Islam in France, an opposition that is grounded largely in fear. It is telling that much of the initial media commentary on the law was accompanied by a description of the different types of Islamic head dress, complete with illustrations.

In this paper we consider discourses of friendship and belonging mobilised by girls who are not part of the dominant ‘cool’ group in one English primary school. We explore how, by investing in alternative and, at times, resistant, discourses of ‘being nice’ and ‘being normal’ these ‘non cool’ girls were able to avoid some of the struggles for dominance and related bullying and exclusion found by ourselves and other researchers to be a feature of ‘cool girls’ groupings. We argue that there are multiple dynamics in girls’ lives in which being ‘cool’ is only sometimes a dominant concern, and that there are some children for whom explicitly positioning themselves outside of the ‘cool’ group is both resistant and protective, providing a counter discourse to the dominance of ‘coolness’.