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The Williamsburg Conference is the pre-eminent gathering of leading Americans and Asians committed to strengthening US-Asia relations. Founded by John D. Rockefeller, 3d in 1971, the Williamsburg Conference has brought top leaders from Asia and the United States together for the past 38 years to discuss the greatest challenges facing the Asia-Pacific community and develop creative approaches for addressing them.
To assure its continued vitality, in 2007 the Williamsburg Conference has shifted its structure from the three co-convenors system of previous years to the Steering and Executive Committee system. 17 distinguished individuals from the Asia-Pacific region currently serve as members of the Steering Committee and seven members of the Steering Committee also serve on the Executive Committee. Members of the Committees assist the Asia Society in identifying key themes/issues to be discussed, and recruit the next generation of leaders of the region to participate in the Conference.
The Williamsburg Conference provides a forum that brings together the top leaders from government, business, academia, and other sectors from across Asia and the United States to thoughtfully explore the most challenging issues facing the Asia-Pacific community and develop proposals for how these challenges can be collaboratively addressed; and build a network of these leaders whose relationships with one another developed through the Williamsburg process can facilitate engaged multi-national and cross-sectoral dialogue and the peaceful resolution of any conflicts that may emerge.
The three-day Williamsburg conference has been held in 17 countries across Asia, including Siem Riep (Cambodia), New Delhi (India), Hanoi (Vietnam), Zhongshan (China), Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia), Ubud, Bali (Indonesia) and Fukuoka (Japan). It has also been held five times in the United States.


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When I was a kid growing up in Cleveland, my father would follow my mother around the house before Election Day, lecturing her to vote Republican. "I don't know who I'm voting for yet," my mother would lie, cheerily. "And it's a secret ballot, don't forget." Those exchanges — funny, good-natured, even sweet — bring home to me that while politics has always divided us, today our differences run deeper, wider and depressingly more bitter. Partisanship rules, from the halls of Congress to the kitchen table. We've traded in presenting facts for scoring points, precision for volume, dialogue for sarcasm. Or we've just shut up, ceding the floor to the most virulent.
So what does this mean for Election Day? Expect the nation to feel even less united. Expect another divided Congress, in numbers and in ideology. And expect the presidential winner, whether it's Mitt Romney or Barack Obama, to talk passionately about cooperation and bipartisanship. Just don't expect anyone to believe it.
This piece first ran in Printers Row Journal, delivered to Printers Row members with the Sunday Chicago Tribune and by digital edition via email. Click here to learn about joining Printers Row.
The latest installment of a Pew Research Center tracking survey showed that Americans are more polarized in their values and basic beliefs than at any time in the survey's 25 years.
"Unlike in 1987, when this series of surveys began, the values gap between Republicans and Democrats is now greater than gender, age, race or class divides," Pew said. "The average partisan gap has nearly doubled … from 10 percentage points in 1987 to 18 percentage points in the new study."
Other surveys show a similar hardening of positions. People who vote Democratic are more likely now to identify themselves as "liberal" than they were 30 years ago, while people who vote Republican are far, far more likely to identify themselves as "conservative."
The word "moderate" as a self-identifier is losing popularity.
This attitudinal shift shows up most clearly in polling since 2000, starting with the contested election of George W. Bush and then gaining steam with Barack Obama's victory four years ago. Vitriol once uncommon in polite political discourse ("fascist," "war criminal," even "Nazi") became easy rhetoric for some Bush critics. And for those who cannot abide Obama, "socialist" and "dictator" are among the more polite insults.
Gallup approval rating surveys show how much Obama and Bush have in common. In the eyes of their party stalwarts, they could do no wrong. But to members of the other party, they're abject failures.
In 2004, the year Bush was re-elected, his average approval rating from Republicans was 91 percent, while from Democrats it was only 15 percent. That party difference is 76 percentage points.
Now, through October 2012, Obama has averaged positive marks from 85 percent of Democrats and only 10 percent of Republicans. That's a 75-point disparity based on party affiliation.
Go back to Clinton, George H.W. Bush or even Reagan, and you'll see the disparity in Gallup polls fall to 60 and below. And Jimmy Carter, who today is a punch line for the right? In his last year in office, before losing to Reagan, 24 percent of Republicans approved of his performance. Twenty-four percent! (Sadly for Carter, only 53 percent of Democrats did.)
Some centrist observers point with hope to the decline in those who identify as Republican or Democrat. That is true. The parties are shrinking, according to Gallup, Pew and other polling organizations.
But here's the flip side: Those who identify as independents are increasingly less engaged in the electoral process. Those who do identify by party increasingly hold the hardest ideological positions their party offers. And those who lean the farthest on their party's ideological spectrum are by far the most likely of any Americans to vote. This is especially true for Republicans, which helps explain why the Tea Party movement wields such influence.
Writing for the FiveThirtyEight blog at The New York Times, Nate Silver teased apart data to show that over the last decade or more, the ideological identification of people who voted for Republicans in Congress has shifted measurably. In 2002, less than half of Republican voters called themselves "conservative." In the mid-term Republican rout of 2010, two-thirds described themselves as such.
"This is why Republican politicians find it difficult to compromise," Silver wrote. "Republican members of Congress have a mandate to remain steadfast to the conservatives who are responsible for electing them."
The numbers are less striking on the Democratic side, with self-described moderates still making up the plurality of the party. But the direction is the same.
The result is that the political middle, which itself has been drifting rightward since Reagan won the presidency, can be a cold, lonely place.
I know I don't talk politics much anymore. I'm wary of unintentionally offending someone or, worse, uncovering a true believer who will rattle off a string of easy absolutes about what's wrong with this country and how to fix it.
"It used to be we operated from a consensus,'' said Douglas Schoen, a longtime political strategist and commentator whose new book is called, "Hopelessly Divided: The New Crisis in American Politics and What It Means for 2012 and Beyond."
"Now we don't," Schoen said. "We operate from 'us versus them.' You see it with your own friends. I see it with mine."
Schoen has advised mostly Democrats in his career as a pollster and campaign strategist. But he works hard in "Hopelessly Divided" to blame both parties equally for the bad faith and intransigence that define our political system today.
"It's the parties," Schoen said in an interview. "It's the voters. And it's the system, with the special interests all being polarized. It's all reinforcing.
"Is there any element here that's pulling to the center? No. None."
Just ask Dick Lugar, now serving out his last term as the senior senator from Indiana.
For much of his political career, Lugar was a classic moderate Republican, routinely praised for working with both sides of the aisle and, among other things, for helping to secure nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
I met with Lugar a couple of times when I was a Moscow correspondent. He was all you would expect in a veteran senator from Indiana — serious but not sober, comfortable in his own skin, informed, polite. We talked loose nukes, Chechnya, Kremlinology and U.S.-Russia relations. If he ever mentioned domestic politics, I don't remember it.
Now Lugar is a lame duck, bounced out of running for a seventh term when he lost a Republican primary in the spring to a Tea Party-backed candidate, Richard Mourdock. Where Lugar spent decades building bridges in Congress, Mourdock opened his general election campaign by saying this: "Bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view."
My mother liked Dick Lugar, too. She mostly voted Democrat when I was growing up — or so the family, my father included, assumed. But she split tickets, too, informed by her profound Roman Catholic faith, in search of candidates who shared her values and views on abortion, war and how a society should care for its most vulnerable. She appreciated Howard Baker and John Danforth and other moderate types who would seem out of place in today's Republican Party.
If she were still alive, my mother also would have liked things about Mitt Romney, I suspect. At least the Mitt Romney who served as governor of Massachusetts, who has presented himself over the last several weeks of the campaign not as "severely conservative" but as a centrist who values bipartisanship and can bring people together. Pair that Mitt Romney with a Democratic-controlled Congress and you could have the kind of government my mother would support, the kind of government a lot of Americans might support.
But that outcome is all but impossible. For starters, it's a valid question whether the things Romney said during the primaries or the things he said last week are what he truly believes. And if Romney wins, he will do so on the strength of Republican turnout, according to most projections. The coattails of a Romney win would help the Republicans hold onto the House and, perhaps, flip the Senate.
Simply put, a Republican sweep is far more likely than a split government in which Democrats lose the White House, hold the Senate and win back the House. Fewer than one in five voters splits a national ticket these days. And that trend is going down too; most ticket splitters are older voters.
As for the reverse split, with the Democrats in the White House and the GOP ruling Congress? The last two years of gridlock promises only that America would see a lot of Obama's veto pen until 2016 were that to occur.
Straight party voting never occurred to me when I started voting. That practice seemed no more responsible than the method my grandmother reportedly used — going down the ballot and checking every Irish name on it. (According to how my mother told it, that approach ended the day she realized that a man she helped elect bore less resemblance to the Mike Kelly she knew in her native Ireland and more to the Hall of Fame running back, and African-American, Leroy Kelly of the Cleveland Browns.)
Ticket splitting requires trust. You have to trust the politicians, at least somewhat. You have to trust the system. You have to believe that the two parties will try to work together, and that if one party gains the upper hand, it won't use it to cater to its own special interests and take revenge on the other side.
That trust has evaporated.
"The American people now understand far better than their leaders do that the U.S. political system has lost so much public confidence as to be unsustainable in its present form," Schoen writes in "Hopelessly Divided."
Schoen takes aim at the role of money in the electoral process and the role of lobbyists in influencing, if not writing, legislation. He blames the parties for enforcing more ideological purity than ever before, and then using gerrymandering and other tactics to distort the democratic process. And he warns that this broken system is not only robbing the nation of its ability to solve problems. It's robbing Americans of their hope for the future.
Colin McMahon is the Chicago Tribune's national content editor.


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The U.S. Marine Corps is arguably one of the most revered institutions within the U.S. Department of Defense. So, when Combined Task Force – Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) leadership recently welcomed members of the Djibouti Armed Forces (FAD) into the U.S. Marine Corps Corporals Course, it was a distinct honor.
Initiated by the Japanese military, Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) supported a joint-nation noncombatant evacuation operation (NEO) exercise and training here, Sept. 29.
U.S. Embassy representatives from eight East African nations joined military leaders from U.S. Africa Command and Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa at Camp Lemonnier Jan. 24, for the 2017 East Africa Security Synchronization Conference.
Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines of Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa, Camp Lemonnier and tenant units shed blood, sweat and tears during the Joint Warrior Competition here, Sept. 9.
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Huntsville, Alabama rap duo G-Side has broken up. The group's 2011 record, The One..Cohesive, garnered a ton of mainstream media attention, leading to a slot for the duo at the Pitchfork Music Festival and features in publications like Spin. And just this past weekend, the duo was supposed to play at the Hopscotch Music Festival in North Carolina, but only one of the group's members, ST 2 Lettaz, showed up, accompanied by a back-up singer and producer.
ST tells Spin that the split was amicable, saying that both he and Yung Clova are busy now doing their own things. ST 2 Lettaz' new EP, R.E.B.E.L., should be out this month, while Clova's been releasing new songs on Twitter. The G-Side record that had been scheduled to come out, G… Growth & Development, will now be released as an ST solo record either in December or January.


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In February 2020, CloserStill featured in the Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work for list for the third year running. We have also ranked in the top 100 in the last four Sunday Times International Track listings of Britain's companies with the fastest growing international sales and in 2017 were listed in the Financial Times FT1000 Index as the fastest growing exhibition organiser and one of the fastest growing companies of any kind in Europe.
In the last seven years, CloserStill has been repeatedly recognised as a leading innovator with its people, teams and events winning multiple awards (over 30 in total) including Best Marketing – five years in succession – Best Trade Show, Best Launch Exhibition, Best Marketing Campaign, Best Brand Extension, Industry Rising Star – two years in succession – Best Operations team, Best Sales Person and Management Team of the Year. CloserStill was voted the 'Most Respected Company of the Year' at the 2016 Association of Event Organisers Excellence Awards.
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Our team now numbers over 350 in offices spread across the UK, France , Germany, USA, Hong Kong and Singapore. As we continue to grow and develop the business we are interested in speaking to talented and passionate people who want to build a career in events. We run active graduate schemes in London, Singapore and New York and are also interested in hearing from experienced event professionals wanting to join our winning team.
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Hunger strikers at the University of California at Berkeley tried to block the school's administration building today but people could still get inside, according to a university spokeswoman. The students held a rally today at 3:30 p.m, and then marched to the Chancellor's residence. A twitter message at about 5 pm said "Admin has contacted us: there will be a meeting only if we end up the hunger strike." Strikers posted this video of the march on their Facebook page on Monday night. -more-


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No, it's not a way to encourage population growth. Shame on you for thinking that. Archimedes' Screw is a way to draw up water for drinking or irrigating fields.
So the zombiepocalypse has passed. You now live in a world full of technology that there is no longer infrastructure or manpower enough to use. You pass the shut-down nuclear power plant. When you see the massive tech company buildings, you don't stop, because you know all that's in them is discarded ironic fedoras and iPads not sturdy enough to shatter a zombie's skull. You just keep walking until you find an open field by a section of river. It's time to start rebuilding society, fertile-crescent style.
But, you think, you're still going to have to move the water from that river to your fields. You may not be able to build a complicated irrigation system, but you can build, or scavenge enough parts, to make Archimedes' Screw. Archimedes' Screw is pretty much what it sounds like. It's a screw. Generally the screw is encased in a tube. The bottom of the screw is placed in the water and the top of it turns on dry land. As the screw is turned, the bottom of it scoops up a little water. The water is caught in the 'threads' of the screw and winds its way up to the top, where a continuous flow of water is gained without the effort of hauling up heavy buckets.
There are plenty of uses for Archimedes' Screw on a farm. Irrigation is perhaps the most important one, but plant harvesters are horizontal Archimedes' Screws. The twisting motion of the screws pulls up the plants, which the screw then transports to a bin. If you're planning on keeping fish stocks, Archimedes Screws can also pull up small fish without damaging them, allowing you to transport them elsewhere.
Sewage plants also use Archimedes' Screws to drain liquid from full containers (You might want to set aside a special, sewage-only screw for this one. I'm just saying.).
If you're not up to shaping metal or carving wood, a simpler version of the screw is a tube wrapped around a cylinder. It's easy enough for a child to make. Below, see a child making and then demonstrating one, and be shamed.
Via Kenyon College, Drexel.edu (This site has detailed instructions on how to build a screw.), and ThomasNet.


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It must be a genetic mutation. That may be an explanation for the often well-intentioned but common-senseless decisions that come out of government offices.
Sarasota City Hall seems particularly prone to this. Maybe it's in the water.
Two recent examples:
• The request for proposal on the city's Palm Avenue garage.
• The city's announcement last week that it hired a $50,000-a-year environmental specialist.
What were they thinking?
When the city issued its RFP for the parking garage, as reported in The Sarasota Observer last week, its requirements for the contractor were so restrictive that they would have excluded most of Sarasota County's contractors from the bidding process.
The stipulations:
• A minimum of having designed and constructed five similar projects, two with a government agency, during the past 10 years;
• The architect and engineer must have worked on three different parking structures, two of which must be of similar scope and size in Florida;
• A minimum of three design/build projects involving concrete parking structures in Florida.
Sure, we all get that the city wants to hire a qualified contractor. But is it too much of a stretch to think that in contemplating the qualifications for a city-owned, taxpayer-funded project deliberate thought and consideration might be given to these two fundamental ideas:
1) The unemployment rate in Sarasota County exceeds 10%. Let's do what we can to give as many local contractors as possible an opportunity to bid.
2) Let's do the most we can to patronize our local employers. If it makes economic sense, buy local.
You would think those two thoughts would be automatic.
Thanks to the doggedness of Kerry Kirschner, executive director of the Argus Foundation, the city last week revised the RFP.
In the case of the city's hiring an environmental specialist, this is a real lulu. A classic make-work, government job in an area that isn't even close to a pressing, high-priority item.
In the city's announcement of this new position, city officials said the specialist "will coordinate" (there's a key word) "the city's sustainability efforts, with an emphasis on developing an action plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase recycling within the community."
Are they serious?
To a large extent, this is not surprising. This kind of overreactive, environmental wacko-ism has spread far and wide in governmental circles. But here again, as with the parking garage RFP, there appears to be a lack of contextual thinking.
Two weeks ago at the City Commission meeting, two groups — one representing organizers of an ecumenical music festival and the other representing the property owners and merchants of St. Armands Circle — appealed to city commissioners not to impose new park-usage fees on special events.
The fees, these two groups argued, would be highly detrimental to community activities that draw the participation of many taxpayers and tourists.
The justification for the fees was to generate additional revenue — estimated to total $40,000 a year — to help offset the increased time city employees were devoting to processing permitting fees for public events in the city. Commissioners also were told the new fees would help the city avoid laying off more employees in this tough, recessionary period.
Now put the two together — a new, niggling tax that irritates and annoys residents, the very people who pay their share of taxes and then some, in part to protect city jobs, followed by the hiring of a $50,000 city employee in a non-essential position.
No wonder we're cynical.
It must be a genetic mutation. That may be an explanation for the often well-intentioned but common-senseless decisions that come out of government offices.


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We got locked out of the apartment and couldn't wait to eat our 5 euro shwarma bun!
Went shopping in Marais, our favourite place. We went there almost every day.
I tried on this distressed leather jacket but it was wayyy to big. Obviously. The lining was cool though.
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Projects Abroad names Greg Thomson as the new CEO
Projects Abroad would like to announce that Greg Thomson has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer. Greg assumed his role on August 15th 2016 and has succeeded Dr Peter Slowe, the company's founder, who will remain in the company as the Executive Chair.
"Greg will be an excellent Chief Executive," said Peter. "He knows Projects Abroad, has lots of relevant experience, and has been very successful in all the posts he has held. Above all, he is the right person because he believes in our mission and shares our values."
Peter founded Projects Abroad in 1992, and has taken it from a small family-run affair and transformed it into one of the largest international volunteering organizations in the world, annually sending nearly 10 000 volunteers abroad to join various projects and internships. After 25 years leading from the front, Peter felt it was time to hand over the day-to-day running of the company.
"I am honoured to have been selected as Chief Executive," said Greg, in response to the appointment. "Projects Abroad is a great company, with amazingly dedicated staff and tens of thousands of talented and passionate volunteers. There's so much we want to do in the communities where we work. I'm eager to get on with this new and exciting challenge."
Greg has a clear vision for the future of Projects Abroad and has put together a strategic plan and an executive team to help him implement this.
Having started his journey with Projects Abroad as a volunteer on the Teaching Project in China in 1999, Greg has grown with the company. He has worked in a variety of roles, including Country Director for Ghana and most recently as Operations Director. Greg grew up in Scotland and holds a BA in Politics from Edinburgh University.
"Peter has built an amazing company that has changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people all around the world. I'd like to thank him for his hard work over the last two decades to make this company such a success."
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The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice held a town hall-style meeting on Tuesday night to get feedback from the community about its newest initiative.
The department's "Roadmap to System Excellence" is a push by the department to manage, assess and allocate resources to make sure the right services are provided at the right time to juvenile offenders, according to department Secretary Wansley Walters.
Walters and other members of the DJJ sat in a large room at Santa Fe College filled with community members, and microphones were set up for questions after a short introduction about the program. Walters said the DJJ is uniquely positioned in the state to be a forerunner in juvenile crime prevention, especially because the full spectrum of juvenile justice falls under one umbrella.
"This is a unique opportunity Florida has," she said. "This is not happening on this scale anywhere else."
Walters outlined three types of children that come into contact with her department. The first type is a group that simply makes mistakes but might not be repeat offenders, she said. Those kids generally don't come back and use the fewest resources.
The second — and largest — group, she said, are the kids with personal issues and criminal tendencies. Some of them suffer from substance abuse and have mental health issues. She said the key with this group is recognizing and using the right resources for these children while they're young.
The third group, she said, is a lesser known one. These are children who act out in serious criminal ways and violent actions. She said those children can generally be recognized by age 12 and younger, and that they need special attention and the DJJ needs to be proactive at every level.
Deputy Secretary Christy Daly said the DJJ is going around the state to "see what's working and what isn't." She said the DJJ's roadmap involves specific ways to manage at-risk youth.
The first way would be diversion of children who pose no risk to public safety and have no need for deeper-end services. Daly said too many kids are unnecessarily placed in the juvenile system and should be diverted away from detention and residential facilities like halfway houses.
She also said youths who are likely to show up for court should receive alternatives to lock-up so they can remain with their families and in their communities, as this may help lower the child's likelihood of reoffending.
"Youth that don't belong in detention," she said, "are going to leave with worse risk factors than when they went in."
Florida also has a wide range of residential facilities, but Daly noted the number of residents has declined by 44 percent in the past five years.
During the question-and-answer portion of the night, two women from the State Attorney's Office raised some concerns.
Assistant State Attorney Rebecca Mickholtzick said she'd like to see more emphasis put on accountability for arrested and charged juveniles. She said the state lacks sanctions to deal with children who violate probation and end up getting released in court anyway. She'd like the state to have "more teeth" so there are consequences for juveniles who violate their probation, "so it's not a joke to them."
Assistant State Attorney Pam Brockway asked Walters about funding.
"Where's the funding going to come from?" she said. "In principle these are all wonderful ideas, but what about the smaller counties?"
Brockway said Alachua County is full of resources, but there are children with severe mental health problems in lesser known counties and nowhere to place them. She said the burden can't be placed on teachers and schools.
Walters said that was part of the reason she was traveling for the meetings, to reinvest money in the system toward the "front end" and recognize the problems where they arise.
Other participants praised Walters for showing up and taking the time to confront and talk about issues facing kids in Florida, and many in the crowd applauded the efforts of the DJJ members.
Gainesville Police Department Chief Tony Jones said he was delighted to see so many people attend the event.
"It went well. We saw an open dialogue and that they are open to suggestions," he said. "It's a step in the right direction."
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After 24 hours or so of speculation regarding his football future, Logan Thomas will be where most originally thought he would and should be — back in Blacksburg for another season.
The Virginia Tech quarterback announced Tuesday afternoon that he will be returning to the Hokies for his senior season, eschewing an early leap to the NFL. With rumors of a significant shakeup to Tech's offensive coaching staff on the horizon, many thought Thomas would go against the long-held belief that he would return and leave for the draft instead of playing under a new coordinator in 2013.
In the end, however, Thomas couldn't leave on the heels of a 7-6 2012 season that left "a bad taste in my mouth."
"I'm deciding to come back to Tech to better myself and this team for the future," Thomas said in a statement released by the school. "I'm looking forward to what this upcoming season holds. The NFL has always been a goal of mine, but the NFL will always be there while college is only a five-year experience that you can't get back."
Thomas informed the coaching staff yesterday of his decision.
As a redshirt sophomore in 2011, Thomas completed nearly 60 percent of his passes for just over 3,000 yards with 19 touchdowns and 10 interceptions. He regressed significantly in 2012, barely completing 50 percent of his passes (51.3). His passing yards dropped despite 38 more attempts, while his interception total jumped to 16; that was the fourth-highest total at the FBS level.
At 6-6, 260 pounds, Thomas certainly has the size to compete at the next level. Another year at this level — even with a new coordinator — will likely do the player a world of good, however.
Virginia Tech will open the 2013 season in the Chick-fil-A Kick Game against two-time defending BCS champion Alabama, whose starting quarterback AJ McCarron announced last month that he would be returning for his senior season as well. Interestingly, another opener scheduled for the upcoming season will pit Clemson against Georgia, whose junior quarterbacks — Tajh Boyd for the former, Aaron Murray for the latter — announced this month they would also be turning down early entry into the NFL for another season at the collegiate level.
With Thomas' decision official, there are just two known quarterbacks who have declared for early entry into the draft — Tennessee's Tyler Bray and Eastern Washington's Kyle Padron.
As it stands right now, a total of 74 players have declared for early entry. An official list from the NFL is expected to be released Wednesday.
If a player has not signed with an agent, he has until Jan. 18 to withdraw his paperwork and return to school.


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New Carroll County teachers get lessons before first day of school
District training teachers on lessons, teacher-student relationships
Summer vacation has officially ended for new school teachers in Carroll County.
On Friday, more than 100 new hires returned to campus and, for the most part, to class. At least for a day, the first-year teachers became students.
"(I'm) nervous to the point where you want to do well, but not nervous to the point where you don't know what it is you're doing," said Kimani Jones, a new teacher.
The help provided to the new teachers transcends the classroom, providing lessons of the do's and don'ts of teacher-student relationships, especially when it comes to how they use social media.
"(They teach us) to really watch what we do, watch what we put out there and make sure everything is completely appropriate. Everyone can see it. The technology is crazy (with) what they've done with it. I mean, you type your name in Google, and you can find everything about you," said Courtney Heller, a new teacher.
As such, the district urges the new teachers to keep their distance.
"You need to be careful because even if you're not friends with a student, they may have an older brother or relative, and things can get around that way. You just have to be very, very savvy about the online trail that you leave," said Don Chambers, of the Maryland State Education Association.
For some Carroll County educators, this is their first teaching job -- and their second career.
"Perhaps they've had a career in the private sector and they want to try something different. Maybe they've always had a passion for teaching and now, because they've done that other career for a while, they decided to pursue teaching," said Jimmie Saylor, the district's director of human resources.
"They're rookies, they're new, they don't know the area, they don't know the school. Plus, they're a little nervous," said Kimberly Dolch, principal of North Carroll High School.
But being green isn't all that bad.
"I think it's great they do this a week before they start with us because they get the ins and outs of the system. They learn about the grading system, they learn about policies, they get their ID badge, and they get comfortable. So, it's not like (they arrive on) the first day and they're shocked with everything," Dolch said.
The first day of school is around the corner: Monday, Aug. 27, which is about the same for most school systems across the state.
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LETTER- Tenant has the right to shower alone
I enjoyed your article ["The Tough Customer- Open door policy: Towel-clad woman traumatized," March 26]
This was good to learn, and I will never let Associated Brokers Realty manage any of my properties. I would never give a key to a tenant's dwelling that I would not give to my own house, and I would never give the key without first asking the tenant's position. I would never put in a lease that I could give the key to outside contractors without the tenant's permission.
For Ms. Matavelli, I would advise using a door chain if she has one and request one be installed if she doesn't have one (and it is allowed by the lease).
There is no reason a landlord or their agent should be able to gain access to a dwelling when the tenant is there. The tenant can let them in when they are dressed, etc. If the tenant isn't there, the chain won't be hooked, and the landlord can gain access if necessary.
It is shame that some landlords and agents make the use of the door chain necessary.
In general, the tenant is paying for the undisturbed use of the dwelling, and common courtesy applies. If you can't contact the tenant in advance, you shouldn't show up. I try to treat people as they would like to be treated. Ms. Matavelli certainly wasn't happy with the way she was treated, and I wouldn't be either.
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Michael Arceneaux writes at Ebony that Tim Scott — the man South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley named to replace Jim DeMint and thus become the nation's only black senator — makes a specious argument when he says that advertising can bring more diversity to the Republican Party.
… During an appearance on CNN's Starting Point, Scott said of the GOP's challenge in luring minority voters: "What we have to continue to do is work through the process of marketing and the ideas that we represent. I believe America is still very much a center-right country. And so what we have an opportunity to do is to walk into new places, new territories, and simply say the plan is clear, the way forward is clear and market ourselves effectively in new places."
How many times have we heard this in the past and has anything ever changed? Like, brother, can you spare a clue? Sister, do you have some sense to spare? Universe, can you send this man a sign?
There is plenty of new data out that suggests that America's political future looks far more favorably to liberalism than conservatism. Scott, with his religious conservatism, anti-gay viewpoints and past attempts to remove entire families off of welfare should one try to strike might bode well in South Carolina in the interim, but how far can politicians with similar beliefs fare in larger states with a more varied population?
And while marketing can do wonders, what kind of evil genius can make cutting funding for HIV/AIDS and impeaching President Obama look appealing to Blacks, Latinos, and women? Or for that matter, to younger Republicans?
Read Michael Arceneaux's entire piece at Ebony.
The Root aims to foster and advance conversations about issues relevant to the black Diaspora by presenting a variety of opinions from all perspectives, whether or not those opinions are shared by our editorial staff.
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This last one is "easily turned into glass (for vodka)." How badass is that?!
I've been a fan of Open! Design & Concepts' jewelery for a while now. It all started when I spotted the ring below.
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In this lesson, students apply the B-D-A (before-during-after) reading comprehension strategy as they explore varied aspects of disability by investigating rich, interactive multimedia resources. Beyond Affliction: The Disability History Project is a National Public Radio documentary series about the shared experience of people with disabilities and their families since the beginning of the 19th century. The companion website, which features audio transcripts, text transcripts, images, timelines, primary source documents, interviews, and other resources, provides the main source of information for the students' literacy activities. Students will use what they learn to create a visual presentation and answer comprehension questions.
Laverick, C. (2002). B-D-A strategy: Reinventing the wheel can be a good thing. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 46(2), 144147.
- High school students need guidance in effective reading comprehension strategies when working in varied content areas.
- Prereading, during reading, and postreading comprehension monitoring strategies are an essential component of reading instruction that should be explicitly taught.
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Intended for individuals preparing for naturalization and for successfully completing the oral interview and written test required for U.S. citizenship. The course provides an overview of significant historical events; facts and concepts of federal, state and local government; current political, governmental and social information; and explanations of United States' culture and institutions. The naturalization process and the One Hundred Questions developed by the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (BCIS) are also covered. This course may be taken four times for credit. This course can only be taken on a pass/fail basis. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor is required. (2 lecture hours)


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Warhead (full title Lord Warhead the Conqueror of A Thousand Mothers) is a well known violent psycho.
Warhead was raised in the frigid north by a tribe of primitive vikings, pirates and iceworlders, ruled by Warhead's mom. In his adulthood Warhead became the ruler of a mighty interstellar imperium through Koincidence.
Today Warhead has become a member of The Immortal Empire, and rules his realm with an iron fist like any good dictator should. It was under his control that Fico fell.
The Warhead Family
When the number of planets annihilated under Warhead's rule started to number in the hundreds (even before the crowning ceremony was complete), his meddling generals decided that something had to be done. They arranged a marriage for him with the lovely Mrs. Warhead, who curbs the worst of his excesses, but only when she's looking.
Despite near-constant dalliance with moms throughout the BrikVerse, Warhead has only one confirmed offspring: Mini-Warhead, who was born Immortal and is being trained to one day follow in his father's footsteps and bring death and madness to the galaxy. Others have claimed Warhead ancestry, including Silvadream and PedoNuker, but such claims are commonly interpreted as attempts to irritate Warhead and are rarely taken seriously.
Warhead is painfully suspicious of all forms of Beige Carpets, which can be used by Pedos to traverse time and space, like some kind of internet groomable TARDIS.
Warhead is subject to characteristic rages which often contain too much power to be localized to one minifig. These, refracted through the contradictory effect of being both Undead and Immortal, have a disruptive effect on the psychik fabric of the BrikVerse. Conflict, paranoia, open violence, and mom-lust erupt wherever Warhead's influence is felt. This has resulted in the appearance of Warhead's Evuul Doppelganger Negaverse opposite, Pacifass, along with the Nega-Nega-double-opposite FedoraNuker.
Warhead Shards
In response to his brief decapitation during the Fall of Fico at the hands of Agent Aegis, a Gamma Corps hero, Warhead picked up his own severed head and used it to slay Aegis. This was awesome, but the effort required caused different aspects of Warhead's personality to splinter off, shedding echoes of himself throughout the BrikVerse and leaving the true Warhead weakened. Two are known to reside in Medivo and Hellius; several more have been seen in other forum battles, and may even be responsible for the sudden increase in forum battles compared to previous years. It is thought that until Warhead regains all the splinters he will never be whole or as powerful as he once was. The task of hunting down these echo personalities is already underway. Some were spared, at least temporarily, for their usefulness in commanding Immortal Legions.


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NEW YORK — Organize Now. Rebuild Now. Better Service.
These are not commandments from an overbearing mother; these are party lines in a surprisingly competitive and lively nonpartisan special election being held tomorrow to fill a Queens City Council seat.
What makes the race even more odd for being so sought after is that whomever wins the race will have to jump back on the campaign trail soon after delivering a victory speech. The next citywide elections are just around the corner, with the primary set (at least for now) for September. The Queens seat was vacated when James Sanders Jr., successfully moved up to the state Senate after defeating indicted incumbent Shirley Huntley.
A Liberian, a Jamaican, two Haitians, a disgraced former councilman and an Orthodox Jew are among the eight candidates battling for the Council seat.
The winner of the special election in the 31st district will also be faced with representing some of the neighborhoods hardest-hit by Hurricane Sandy, including Far Rockaway, where thousands were left without power and train service was knocked out for weeks.
The district, tucked into Queens' far-flung southeast corner, ropes in the neighborhoods of Rosedale, Laurelton, Springfield Gardens and an eastern chunk of the Rockaway Peninsula.
Local leaders expect that demographics will weigh heavily in the decision of who gets elected.
Bishop Charles Norris, the founder of a large church in Jamaica, Queens, is a political power broker of sorts in the area and a former resident of Far Rockaway.
He has made it absolutely clear that the old New York anomaly of a white elected official representing a majority black area is unacceptable to him and others. He said he fears that the majority black district will be deprived of social and economic services at the expensive of a vocal, and more politically-active, minority. "I would hope that the other people in that race would see the light and do the math. If all of them stay in the race, none of them are going to win," he said.
It was already a difficult year for the district when in late 2012 police say a driver drunkenly swerved off Brookville Boulevard, a single lane roadway near John F. Kennedy Airport, and plunged into marshland on Dec. 30, killing a pregnant woman who was a passenger in the vehicle.
That accident is what motivated Marie Adam-Ovide, the district manager of Queens Community Board 8 and a Haitian-born 41-year-old resident of Laurelton, to run for the seat. "How come no one ever thought there needed to be railing or protective barrier on that boulevard?" she asked. "A woman ended up dead. I realized then that Brookville Boulevard was something, among many things, that needed looking into."
Adam-Ovide, a relative long-shot in the race who has spent most of the nearly $7,000 that she has raised in private funds, according to the website of the city's Campaign Finance Board.
There is a disparity, she explained, between neighborhoods like Jamaica Estates and Fresh Meadows and the minority areas of the district, which she said don't receive the services and attention that they deserve. She lamented the trash lining large thoroughfare like Merrick Boulevard. In contrast, Community Board 8's Union Turnpike last year received a thorough cleaning up from the DOE Fund, thanks to funding from the local councilman, James Gennaro.
The gregarious Sanders received mixed reviews from the candidates running to replace him. Adam-Ovide implied he neglected her community when he decided to run for State Senate, "concentrating instead on where he gets bigger bang for his buck."
Saywalah Kesselly, the oldest candidate in the race at 52, was more direct, labeling Sanders "a dismal failure." Kesselly, like Adam-Ovide, is not originally from the United States. Unlike Adam-Ovide, he hails from Liberia, and is running on a platform of bringing a "holistic" approach to local schools.
After Sandy, education may be the biggest stated priority among the candidates. P.S. 156 in Laurelton has been targeted for "truncation" by the Dept. of Education, meaning the DOE will be phasing out the middle school grades — six through eight — while keeping the others.
"I want to bring holistic learning centers here with extended days, weekend hours and after school programs that will help our young people," said Kesselly who, with $12,330 raised, is near the bottom of the pack. "We have a high unemployment rate that needs to change. We need job training and business development. There are young people here who are drug dealers and if we redirect them, they will be the best businessmen and women in the country."
Kesselly, a past member of various nonprofits, is the executive director of the African Center for Community Empowerment, a nonprofit founded in Far Rockaway to solve problems that have plagued the neighborhood like gun violence. Insisting, like many candidates do, that he is a "not a politician," he said he would consider not running in the primary if he lost the special election.
Donovan Richards, Sanders' most recent chief of staff, is unlikely to step aside for anyone. Only 29, Richards entered politics when a friend of his was murdered in South Jamaica, Queens. At an anti-gun violence rally a week after his friend's funeral, he met Sanders and, soon after, Richards became his protégé. In 2008, Richards ran an uphill race against incumbent Assemblywoman Michele Titus and lost.
Richards is in a stronger position for the Council race, counting the backing of the Working Families Party, the United Federation of Teachers and 1199 SEIU, which independently spent several thousand dollars in support of his campaign, according to filings. He is also the top fundraiser in the pack with almost $60,000 from private contributions.
Diving into the Sandy relief efforts in Far Rockaway, Richards said he noticed a difference between the aid and attention granted to the eastern, minority-heavy section of the peninsula and the white western portion, like Breezy Point.
"I slept in shelters with my constituents and on the ground on rocks and I can tell you there was no presence of FEMA, the Red Cross or LIPA for the first fifteen days after the storm," he said. "I saw how people were left to fend on their own. I take nothing away from what's happened to people in Breezy Point, the whole peninsula was hit hard, but resources should have been more equitable."
Richards argued he is the best person to replace Sanders because he knows how to navigate the City Council bureaucracy. Lacking a learning curve, he will be able to immediately, he said, work with government agencies and relief groups to ensure the Rockaways fully recovers.
If Richards, with his raft of high profile endorsements, is the favorite, his biggest threat may be the man who ran and lost against Sanders in 2009: Jacques Leandre.
The 42-year-old native of Haiti is a charismatic presence in the community, an attorney who founded the aforementioned youth football program in Rosedale. According to campaign finance records, as of Feb. 17, Leandre has been able to raise about $32,000 in private funds — a far cry from Richards' total of nearly $60,000.
But Leandre has the experience of a campaign under his belt and the community name recognition to make him a top contender for the seat.
"I think the most pressing issues for the district are education and elderly services, or lack thereof," Leandre said, explaining his platform. "We also need to rebuild the Rockaways. For me, the task is moving the community forward and bringing some innovative vision and ingenuity to the job. I want to expand on the work that's been done not only by him [Sanders] but by predecessors as well."
Leandre's candidacy might have been given a boost last week when he appeared on many local television stations as the impassioned attorney defending a 19-year-old black man who had been beaten by police in Flushing, Queens on Jan. 8. Police charged the man, Robert Jackson, with marijuana possession and resisting an arrest, among other charges, but civil rights leaders have alleged the police used unnecessary and brutal force.
Leandre also garnered headlines for challenging the petitions of six candidates in the race. All of the challenges failed and candidates who were sued banded together to blast Leandre.
Selvena Brooks, a public relations specialist, was among the candidates who came together against Leandre, accusing him of "a cynical, anti-democratic exercise, and a waste of the court's time and taxpayers' money."
Brooks, the former spokeswoman for Senate Democrats, is running on the Rebuild Now! party line. Brooks has called for a rebuilding of education that would restore cuts to vocation and technical training programs, investment in new infrastructure projects and a coordinated relief effort for Sandy-ravaged areas, including opposition to property tax hikes on afflicted homeowners.
"We would have liked to have seen more done in the community for recovery efforts," the 29-year-old Brooks said. "We've been here in trenches working with local clergy and ensuring people in the Rockaways get the help that they need. There are many are still hurting. People are living in hotels across the city; it's unacceptable to live in your own city and not get the services you need."
Pesach Osina, who did not respond to repeated requests for comment, is a former staffer of energetic Rockaways Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder who also happens to be Orthodox Jewish.
A native of Brooklyn, Osina has lived in Far Rockaway since 1999, according to his campaign biography. The neighborhood is home to a growing Orthodox Jewish enclave that is a revival of communities that had dwindled in the 1970s not far from the black and Hispanic sections of Far Rockaway.
Allies of Osina contend that his candidacy is desperately needed because funding for community programs and social services has been virtually denied to their institutions. Writing in 5 Towns Jewish Times newspaper, Osina's campaign treasurer, Eli Shapiro, argued that their community programs received less than one percent of the money allocated to the district over the past five years.
Michael Duncan, a native of Jamaica (the country), served as Sanders' chief of staff in the 2000's but angered Sanders when he decided to challenge him in 2009. Duncan, like Leandre, was expecting Sanders to be term-limited, but a controversial and overwhelming vote by the City Council allowed elected officials to seek third terms.
A veteran of PTA boards and Rosedale resident, the 49-year-old Duncan said he led the successful fight against the arrival of a so-called "hot sheets" motel in Springfield Gardens. Residents feared it would attract prostitution and other illicit activity and now the property is being turned into a strip mall.
"I've had four more years to build more bridges and more relationships in the district," Duncan said of his 2009 loss. "Based on my service to the people in this community, I'm the person to represent this district."
The only former elected official in the race did not respond to requests for comment. Allan Jennings represented a Jamaica and Ozone Park-based district last decade and was a notorious presence in the City Council, having been censured for sexually harassing staffers. He has run for numerous offices sense. Jennings' campaign committee is not registered in the district. He has raised a grand total of $25 for the race.
Image of Far Rockaway, Queens, by Kate Gardiner, used under Creative Commons license.


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Trade Winds channelled through Saint Lucia New National Hospital for natural ventilation—World Architectural News reports.
The Saint Lucia New National Hospital (SLNNH) is a monumental endeavor by many measures: for the Government of this Southern Caribbean island nation it is an investment replacing a near 100 year old institution and anchoring the Health Care system; for the European Union (EU) it is the single largest endeavor in cooperative development in the Americas; for the regional consultants partnering the European designers (Sir Frederick Snow and Partners Ltd (UK)) it is a seminal opportunity.
The local consultant team, lead by architects Michael L. St. Hill Architects & Planners Ltd (previously Tropical Architecture Group (St. Lucia)) joined at the beginning of the construction phase. There were immediate challenges with the early discovery that recent construction, completed after the original design, necessitated the remodeling of the site. This was turned to a feature with the introduction of monumental steps sweeping down to the building.
The architects have used colour to great effect; borrowing from the rich hues of the local stone to make the long front facade into a broad smile. Inside, levels and sections are colour coded to orientate and give comfort, a sense of place and even of home to staff, visitors and, ultimately, patients. The design adopts a simple parti: the body of the building a curve of technical, 'serving' areas (Surgeries, Dialysis and Physiotherapy Suites) springing wings of 'served' spaces – mostly wards.
The hospital is set on a hillside overlooking the Caribbean Sea; ideal for rest and recuperation and for a relatively low tech, passive and economical approach to sustainable energy design. Wards in the wings are without active air conditioning, relying on channeling the Trade Winds through the configuration of windows and bris soleil. A constant challenge for the design team of Sir Frederick Snow and Partners and Michael L. St. Hill Architects was technology and 'construction culture' transfer. Ultimately the demands of 21st Century hospital standards of performance and design are rigorously maintained.
The SLNNH has 120 beds, Maternity and Delivery Suites, 2 Operating Theaters and Day Surgery, Dialysis and Physiotherapy Suites, Outpatient Doctors' Offices, Radiology Suites, Intensive Care Unit and Forensics Department with ancillary services. Designed to resist the region's hurricanes and earthquakes it is set to serve Saint Lucia for a century after construction is completed in July 2013. Upon commissioning the EU will have committed over €40m to a vital project that deepens the partnership with the Caribbean. The alliance extends to businesses, design consultants and contractors given the opportunity to cultivate trust and strong partnerships.
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TORONTO (AP) DeMar DeRozan scored 23 points, Amir Johnson added 16, and the Toronto Raptors beat the Phoenix Suns 101-97 to snap a six-game losing streak on Friday night.
Kyle Lowry scored 15 points, and Jose Calderon had 13 points and nine assists for the Raptors, who ended Phoenix's seven-game winning streak in Toronto. The Suns hadn't lost there since Jan. 4, 2004.
Marcin Gortat, Shannon Brown and Jared Dudley all scored 14 points for Phoenix. Goran Dragic had 13, and Michael Beasley chipped in with 12.
It was the second straight loss for the Suns, who were routed 117-77 at Detroit on Wednesday. That marked their third-biggest margin of defeat in franchise history.
Phoenix's Luis Scola scored the first basket of the fourth quarter, but the Raptors answered with a 7-0 run - including five points from Johnson - to lead 87-78 with 9:04 left.
A 3 by Calderon made it 92-85 with 6:54 remaining before back-to-back baskets by Scola cut it to 92-89. Mickael Pietrus, in his Raptors debut, made a 3 from the corner before Sebastian Telfair and Jermaine O'Neal answered for the Suns to make it 95-93 with 3:53 to go.
Phoenix trailed 96-95 with just under two minutes left when Dragic committed a turnover. Johnson finished the breakaway with a running dunk, putting the Raptors ahead by three points.
Brown's layup made it 98-97 with 1:07 left, but the Suns couldn't take the lead. Gortat missed a shot, and Scola failed on the next two possessions. Lowry grabbed the rebound on Scola's second miss and was fouled. He made one of two from the line to put Toronto up 99-97 with 14 seconds to play.
Brown tried to drive for the tying basket but missed a layup. Andrea Bargnani was fouled on the play and sealed the Raptors' win by making two free throws with 3 seconds left.
After trailing by as many as 10 points in the first quarter, Toronto went ahead for the first time on a breakaway dunk by Terrence Ross at 6:42 of the second. Johnson followed with a running dunk, putting the Raptors up 40-36.
Dudley scored 11 points in the second to put the Suns back on top, but Lowry's 3 pointer at the buzzer got the Raptors within 52-51 at halftime.
Beasley scored eight points in the third quarter, but DeRozan rebounded his own blocked shot and made a buzzer-beating jumper. He then converted the free throw to put Toronto up 80-76 heading into the fourth.
After signing with Toronto earlier Friday, Pietrus had six points and two rebounds in 30 minutes.
NOTES: Bargnani returned to Toronto's lineup after sitting out Wednesday's loss at Memphis because of a sore left ankle. ... Toronto waived F Dominic McGuire to make room on the roster for Pietrus. ... Singer Drake watched from a courtside seat. ... Toronto's losing streak was the longest current skid in the NBA.


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'A clear screw-up:' Officials continue search for answers in school deficit probe
The investigation into the root cause of an estimated $2 million shortfall in the Board of Education's current budget continued Friday.
That's when more figures were presented by Elio Longo, the school district's business manager, to the school board's ad hoc committee probing the recently revealed shortfall, in an attempt to track down what went wrong.
But there was still confusion over why it happened and why the school board and other municipal officials weren't made aware sooner that there might be fiscal problems, in particular with a spike in the number of large claims in the board's health insurance fund, resulting in additional costs of about $1.35 million.
It was a "clear screw-up that year," Superintendent of Schools Elliott Landon said during the meeting of the board's Health Insurance Fund Review Committee meeting Friday morning in Town Hall. He said decisions were made "on bad information" and "that won't happen again."
"We did make mistakes," said school board member Brett Aronow, the committee chairwoman. At one point, she said the board also seems to have "double counted what we expected to save and that was a mistake."
Board of Finance member Tom Lasersohn questioned Longo about projections made by Segal Consulting, the school district's insurance consulting firm, that might have led to the shortfall. In particular, he wanted to know about projections made for large claims on the health insurance fund.
Longo said there was an increase in the number of large claims over the previous year, which the consultants based their projections on.
In a memo to Longo, Segal Consulting said: "Budget projections are completed using the most recent enrollment and claims experience available at the time of the projection. Since there are variables such as increased large claim activity and claims volatility that cannot be foreseen, Segal recommends margin be added to claim projection to protect against these fluctuations."
The memo said Segal had recommended a safety margin of $772,000 be included in the budget for this fiscal year. That recommendation, however, was not followed by school officials.
Selectman Helen Garten asked why there was a spike in large claims.
"You can't predict two heart transplants and one liver transplant," said Landon. He added the person who was responsible for keeping track of that budget -- Nancy Harris, the former business manager, "is no longer here." Harris, who had been the district's assistant superintendent for business, retired at the end of the last academic year.
Representative Town Meeting member Jack Klinge suggested the committee invite Harris to one of the ad hoc meetings to see "what was going on in her mind. He said she's a resource that can provide explanations and help resolve questions."
The full Board of Education will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the cafeteria at Staples High School. The insurance consultants will be at that meeting to help answer "any outstanding issues," said Aronow. But Lasersohn suggested it might be better to meet with the consultants in a more informal format, like Friday's meeting.
Landon suggested that if Lasersohn has specific questions that he forward them to Longo who will email them to Segal Consulting.
As the school board grapples with the deficit in its current budget, Landon recently unveiled a $110.9 million budget he proposes for 2014-15.
That spending plan proposes a 6.5 percent boost in spending over the current $104 million budget, and more than 2 percent of the hike is allocated to cover the gap in this year's budget.
Landon has also included $742,600 in the proposed budget's health and medical insurance account -- as a claim fluctuation margin, or safety net -- to address future, unanticipated health expenditures that are being blamed for this year's shortfall.


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It comes up after you've dragged yourself out of bed and it goes down way before you're ready to hit the hay—in a perfect world, the sun would revolve around you.
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Leg lamp from A Christmas Story: too corny.
Genie's lamp from Aladdin: not enough light (or wishes).
Lava lamp: What is this, the '70s?
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Watanabe, a Hilo native now living in Salt Lake, mixes functionality with whimsicality in his simple, yet fun, designs. (You can tell from the name alone that he doesn't take himself too seriously.) He uses his background in electrical engineering to wire lights into his own creations, such as his Andy Warhol-inspired soup-can lamps and his animal-cracker-box lamp with Hawaiian animals on it. Right now, he's working on a 1950s kokeshi-doll lamp with the folks from Shop Toast in Kaimuki. The repurposed doll, found in an antique shop, is just one of the atypical materials Watanabe likes to experiment with. And it would go great with your Japanese-themed décor, unlike the crystal chandelier you've been eyeing.
After a few design classes at OTIS Art School in L.A., Watanabe moved home in 2009 and put what he learned to work. He frequently takes woodblock-printing classes at the Honolulu Museum of Art School, as he prefers to do things with his hands and not with Photoshop, which makes every piece unique. He plans on incorporating some of his hand-carved prints into his lamps, and is even doing a Japanese Woodblock Printing demo at his booth in the Honolulu Festival this weekend.
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