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When Frank Wren and the Atlanta Braves brass went into this off season, it was clear that they were looking for a right handed bat that could play multiple positions, preferably both in the infield and outfield. Early on the Braves acquired Joe Mather, a right handed batter who has a career .233 avg with descent power of 193 major league at bats. While playing mostly in the outfield, though he can play both corner infield positions as well. A 3rd round pick by the Cardinals in the 2001 draft, Mather has average to above average power, evidence by the 31 home runs he hit while playing in AA and AAA in 2007. He has a career .255 minor league average, so there is not much upside there. Despite his inability to hit for average, his ability to play multiple positions must be the reason the Braves have been high on him over the last few seasons. With all that being said, is he the right answer for the Braves? Scott Hairston is available, and has the ability to play all the outfield positions, hit for power, and has descent speed. He is never been a full time player, and would probably sign a deal for 1.5 million plus incentives. He could possibly be a good fit for the Braves. I've heard the Braves dabbled in the Andrew Jones world earlier in the off season and considered a reunion. He obviously has power, but his speed is gone. He is still better than 80% of outfielders defensive wise, though he has lost a step or two. His average is a big negative and he strikes out way too much, so his reunion with Atlanta is very unlikely.
Lastings Milledge, to me, is a very intriguing option. Once a top prospect in the Mets organization, Milledge has played the last season and a half with the Pirates. Still young,(he is only 25,) he has yet to live up to the high expectations he was once burdened with, though he has played admirably since coming to the big show as a 21 year old with the Mets in 06'. Though he mostly played left field with the Pirates last season, he is fully capable of playing any of the three outfield positions. The only real negative with Milledge, has been his attitude, though, since leaving N.Y, he has been a "model" citizen, not getting in to trouble. If he is willing to play for a 'CLASSY" organization like the Braves, I believe he would be a very valuable asset. He is first year arbitration eligible, and could be signed for a good deal. I would be willing to give him a one year, $1.25million deal with incentives to make up to $3million. I would even give him a club option for 2012. As I said, he is only 25 and if he plays up to his abilities, he could be the starting CF for the Braves this season. Gary Matthews Jr. is still a very good defensive outfielder, though his offensive ability has severely decreased over the last few seasons. If Atlanta is looking only for a late inning defensive replacement, Matthews would be a fine fit. If he would be willing to sign a minor league contract, and earned his spot during spring training, or called up during the season, would that really be that bad? His ability to switch hit isn't a bad thing either. Everyone know Manny Ramirez is still out there, and that he would attract tons of fans, but I can play better defense, and at this stage of his career, he is pretty much a DH only. Randy Winn has yet to sign a contract, and after signing for $1.1million last season, he can still play the game. His numbers have tailed off the last two seasons, but would be a fine veteran addition to any team. Winn has always played the game hard, and he left S.F. one season to early, so I know he would love to have a chance to win a World Series before he hangs up his cleats. Atlanta would give him a legitimate shot at that dream. That pretty much wraps up all available right handed/switch hitting free agents left on the market. The Braves could always make a trade for an outfielder, but that story is for another day.
Now, if the Braves are interested in finding another Omar Infante type, and let's face it, who wouldn't, there might be one or two utility players, mainly infielders, still available. Willy Aybar, who briefly played for the Braves in 2006 due to personal issues, has played very well the last three seasons for the Rays. He is currently unsigned, and could be signed for a reasonably rate. He plays multiple positions, and is a switch hitter, and would not be a bad option for the Braves. The only question is, how bad did he strain his relationship in 06'? Bobby Crosby can play any position, and play them very well defensively. The main issue with him is his bat. He was tagged as a future offensive force coming out of college, and lived up to his billing in the minors. Since reaching the big leagues, however, he has had injury issues and by the look of his anemic .236 career average, the big league pitching has been a little more than he can handle. Defensively, I say yes, overall though, I say pass!!
With Alex Gonzalez in his first full season in Atlanta, there is no way to know how he will perform. He has never been a high average guy, but he has always hit for descent power and played above average defense. There is a player available that plays solid "D", but has always been more of an average guy than a power guy. That guy is Cristian Guzman. Guzman had three consecutive solid seasons with Washington before a trade to Texas late last season. After the trade, Guzman only played in 15 games due to both injury and, quite honestly, lack of need. The good thing about this is the fact that Guzman's, a very good major league shortstop, value has diminished. When healthy, Guzman is an everyday player, who plays solid defense, but, other than hitting for a good average, does not provide much else. He could probably be signed rather cheap, but if he is not playing every day, there is no guarantee he would be the effective player he is as a starter. My opinion, not sure, probably pass.
Jerry Hairston, brother of before mentioned Scott Hairston, is quite possibly, a perfect fit for the Braves. He plays both in the infield and outfield. He is a solid defensive player and hits for both a descent average and descent power. He is a veteran player and from all accounts, is a positive influence in the club house, which is always a good thing. At 34, he's not a spring chicken, but he is a SOLID player. Another good aspect of possible signability is the fact that he has never earned more than $2.3million in a season. If the Braves offer him a one year deal worth around $1.5million, I believe he would sign, and his ability to play almost any position means a chance to get a good amount of at bats. If I were Frank Wren, I would be jumping at the chance to sign him.
Other available players with a chance to contribute to the team are; Andy Laroche, Felipe Lopez, Julio Lugo, and Chad Tracy. Out of these four players, I would prefer them sign Tracy. Though he is a lefty, he has hit 20+ home runs twice in his career, and though he has not been a regular the last few seasons, that could actually be a plus. He does not mind coming off the bench, and can be signed rather cheap. All in all, the Braves already have a pretty good starting 9, and a solid bench. They can go in to the season with the team they have and be solid. If the do decide to pick up another bat, maybe they will read this and use their knowledge wisely. As always, I wish you all a good day, and as always, GO BRAVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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On Friday, Lily Berlin came to our staff lineup before dinner service to pour her wines for the crew. She and her family are the owners and operators of El Molino, on of the smallest wineries in NV and (I believe) the only one that makes Pinot Noir from exclusively Rutherford grapes. They also make a Chardonnay, and those are their only two labels. It's an insider's wine, rather than a cult wine–there's no tasting room, there's no marketing scheme, but it's available if you ask for it.
There are so many things to like about this operation–first are the Lily's eggs that appear eponymously on the solbar menu. Right now we're serving one soft-boiled with a homemade griddled English muffin and a quenelle of white sturgeon caviar. (Uh, if El Molino made something bubbly, I'm sure it'd be a great pairing. Till they do, reach for the Deutz.)
The eggs come from "heirloom" varieties of chickens–not hybrids that have been bred for a top-heavy meat-to-bone ratio–and the 150 or so of them run around the grounds at the winery and enjoy a healthy diet that includes a lot of grass. The grass, in turn, provides beta-carotene, and thus do the yolks have a wonderful school-bus-orange tint when the guest cuts into one at the table.
But the chickens aren't on property as an affectation–the egg whites they produce are used to fine the wine. The family has long since been using this method rather than chemicals.
Another thing to like is the natural approach to vinification–organically farmed grapes, processed with the help of gravity, and fermented with wild yeasts. It's doesn't seem too "handled", something that I am constantly trying to get cooks to understand when it comes to plating food.
The last thing to like is the wines. I am especially impressed by the fact that in an age of multiple varietals and "vineyard-designates", El Molino continues to produce the same two cuvees: Chardonnay and Pinot Noir.
The Chardonnay is as fully ripe as a NV Chard should be, but the winemakers eschew malolactic fermentation in favor of a more food-friendly flavor profile that is balanced between acid, oak, and fruit. As a chef, I appreciate the restraint shown by this style of vinification.
The Pinot Noir is more elegant that I would expect from a Rutherford Pinot (if there were others out there to have compared it to). I wouldn't have guessed that it is 14.5% abv or that it gets 70% new oak–the wine is that well integrated. The fruit is big, the wood is there, and there's no burn to the alcohol. It's a wonderful wine that leaves you wanting more because it doesn't taste overextracted, and the whole cluster fermentation provides adequate structure.
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After performing below five percent in the state, Treadwell Elementary and Middle Schools are being turned into Innovation Zone – or iZone - Schools.
"They'll receive additional support additional teachers additional technology they'll be in school for an extra hour so every single thing that we need to do during the school day were going to maximize that instructional period," says Dr. Sharon Griffin, Interim Director of iZone Schools.
Treadwell Elementary and Middle Schools are two of 69 Memphis schools that performed in the bottom five percent in the state; 59 of those are elementary and middle schools.
"The school does have scores in the bottom 5% of the state and I'm excited about the school getting additional resources," says Parent Jennifer Shiberou, who has one child at Treadwell Elementary School.
The schools will receive extra state funding through School Improvement Grants (SIG), but it comes with some regulations. In some cases it may mean losing the current principal, but across the board it means gaining extra resources tailored to the school's needs.
"If the school was on the list or failing the bottom five percent because of literacy then a portion of those dollars will go toward additional literacy resources," says Griffin, "If it was math It was technology whatever it was the need of the school we would use those dollars to support those schools in those deficit areas."
As a part of being an iZone school, it means the schools will lose some programs and gain some programs. Treadwell parents at a community meeting about it Thursday night say they want to keep at least one program: The dual-language program. The program allows students who participate to learn their class work in both English and Spanish.
Shiberou's child is in the program, and she says, :It was only started a few years ago and the kids were in the program are doing a great job and parents have been promised that is the best program will actually continue all the way to high school."
Learn more about what it means to be an iZone school on the Memphis City Schools website here.
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Parliament is discussing a bill that will introduce a 90% discount for large power consumers on their transport and system services tariffs. The measure is a response to the German transport tariff discounts for large industries. Large-scale consumers (at least 50 gigawatt hours a year), with at least 65% plant operationality will be entitled to a correction of up to 90% on their annual electricity offtake volumes.
The European Court of Justice has ruled on preliminary questions in a dispute between three Dutch energy companies – Essent, Eneco and Delta – and the state over the compatibility of Dutch energy law and the EU Treaty. The case will now be continued before the Netherlands Supreme Court.
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Both established in the last three years, UKQMS an East Midlands based business and quality Management Company and Cube Precision Engineering who specialise in manufacturing throughout the Aerospace, defence and automotive sectors have signed a joint agreement for corporate hospitality at Warriors for 2012/13 season after connecting through the use of social networking site twitter.
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Q. When I was in Europe last month, I caught a cold and developed an awful cough. Luckily, a German pharmacist understood my sign language and sold me a miracle cure that cleared it up in a few days.
The medicine is Makatussin and it contains "Thymianfluidextrakt" and "Sternanisol." It comes as drops to be put on a sugar cube or in tea. It worked so much better than the Robitussin DM I usually use that I would like to find something similar here. Is there a medicine like it?
A. Makatussin contains extract of thyme and star anise oil. The German government has approved both herbs for colds and coughs.
We know of no similar medicine available in the U.S. You could, however, make yourself a tea with thyme leaves, approximately one half teaspoon per cup, and a piece of star anise. You can buy this spice where Chinese groceries are sold.
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Hello; a few more questions. Thanks for all of your thoughtful answers the last time!
1. I know the Cubs are looking for a free agent CF; they have made that quite obvious. Also, many posters here seem to feel that our current options, i.e., Sam Fuld and Reed Johnson, would be pretty equivalent to what is available on the FA market.
My question is: are there any CF that may be available via trade?
My thought would be a CF on a team that is unlikely to be competitive and that would need to rebuild. My first thought would be David DeJesus of the Royals.
Here's a guy who is not in their long term future, who will become a FA after 2011 and during the next two years this team will have almost no chance of making the postseason. They need SP badly. We have plenty of young pitching that has the potential to develop into at least solid MOR pitchers (Marshall, Gorzelanny, and Wells), and if we keep Silva they won't all get the chance to start.
They also have plenty of bad contracts to try to dump on us to take him.
I realize he's not the best option in CF; neither is Byrd or Podsednik, or for that matter most of what teams are putting out there in CF. I think it would be a reasonably solid option and it would seem that the Royals, who need to rebuild and who are not in our division or league, would be the natural choice. If the Cubs are indeed thinking of contending this year (a big if), I would think they would strongly consider trading at least one top prospect for a player of this nature. He is no star, but he is at least solid, will get on base, and do a better job of solving the CF dilemma for now without paying out an outrageous contract.
2. Are there any teams out there that might have a remote interest in Silva? I know it's a stretch but I am honestly wondering. Obviously, once again, there would have to be a trade of bad contracts.
As for the Royals, they are the only team that might actually consider him.
They need a steady innings eater to protect their younger pitchers, need another starter, and have terrible contracts on two middle relievers they do not need (Juan Cruz and Kyle Farnsworth) or want. I would think there would be potential to dump Silva + pay the difference in return for Farnsworth and Cruz. The difference in what KC would have to pay would have to come out to zero. In other words, KC would lose nothing except Farnsworth and Cruz and obtain Silva instead.
While Farnsworth and Cruz are not great options, we at least have a need for middle relievers, and they might play a role if they could bounce back. We do NOT need another starter like Silva as we have plentiful BOR starter options. KC on the other hand could really use another starter and could hope that Silva turns out to be reasonably solid. It would be sending trash for trash, but at least each team would get something it might potentially need.
We have so far saved $9 mil off of Bradley's $21 mil contract. This leaves Silva for two years, $16 mil. These two relievers are set to make $7.75 mil for 2010 (4.5 for Farnsworth in 2010, 3.25 for Cruz in 2010) with club options for 2011 (0.5 mil buyouts each) which would certainly be decined (for a total of 1 million). So these guys essentially cost $8.75 million. Would Silva + 7.25 million be worth giving up for these two? I would think, if KC would take it, that it would be worth the chance. KC gets the chance that Silva could return to his Minnesota performance days and get a solid SP. The Cubs would get two middle relievers they know at least one of whom might be able to provide something useful. Wouldn't save any money except that we could stop worrying about signing Matt Capps and try to focus on making at least one of these two guys useful.
The big question is whether KC would take it or try to get us to take Jose Gullen in addition. The only good thing about Guillen is that his contract ends after 2010. I would actually consider it if somehow it would land us DeJesus.
Anyhow, I am sure that many of my thoughts make no sense, but would like to hear from all of you as to why.
3. Why was Orlando Hudson not playing last year in September? Was he hurt? I remember at the beginning of last year, people were complaining that we did not get him when we had the chance and had signed Aaron Miles instead. Then, I heard he was benched for Ronnie Belliard. What happened? Was he hurt or did he just start slumping?
I would think he'd be a solid pickup only if he's sitting out of the dance with no one to ask him out at the end of the FA period and is willing to sign for cheap the way he did with LA last year.
4. Has there been any consideration to putting in Blanco at SS and having Theriot play 2nd or be traded? Theriot acutally has trade value, and our middle infield defense was poor; SS is more of a defensive position. I honestly also thought Blanco's spproach to the plate was similar to Theriot's and that in a year or so he would essentially turn into a Theriot-like player. I don't think we'd lose much in terms of production and could get a useful player in return to trade for the CF we need or for prospects for future trades.
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Rainbow is planning a third Winx Club movie, The Mystery of the Abyss, which is being released as part of the brand's 10th anniversary celebrations.
The top kids' content creators in the business gathered in Cannes, France, in April to showcase their new offerings and extend the reach of their top series.
Rainbow is collaborating with the kids' website CitizenKid to host four Winx Club treasure hunts at parks across France later this month.
Rainbow has sold their girls' series "Mia and me" to Nick Jr. in the U.S. and Turner in France.
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By Robin Jedlicka - bio | email VALDOSTA, GA (WALB) - Times are tough. Wouldn't it be nice to get a big check in the mail? A Cook County family recently got an unexpected check for nearly $4,000. But it seemed a little fishy. It was from a business they'd never heard of.
When they did some checking, they found out they would have lost a lot of money if they had cashed the check.
A random check was the last thing Rebecca Young expected to find in her mailbox.
"My first reaction was 'this is probably a scam.' But I wanted to be sure because I didn't want to give up money."
The business check, which allegedly came from Plymouth Canton Medical Center in Canton, Michigan, is for a whopping $3,850."
Having no ties to that company, Rebecca was suspicious. She faxed a copy of the check to the manager of the bank that issued the check.
"She faxed that check back to her fraud department. Within about 20 minutes, they called me back and said that the account was already flagged, and that they had done this before."
If the Youngs had cashed the check, they would have received a call informing them that the check was a mistake and that they need to return the money. That's where the criminals make their profit.
"They look extremely efficient. They're very good when they do these. The checks look really good, the letters look really good, they put phone numbers in there that say contact this number."
When we tried to contact the number included on the Young's check, we repeatedly got an answering machine. Our call was not returned.
Bank workers say the lesson here is easy. "If it seems too good to be true- it is!"
Sometimes, it can pay more NOT to cash a check then to willingly deposit one.
The Young family worries that with so many people in need, more are likely to cash checks without taking precautions.
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I have done dozens of reboots of modem, router and computer. On one occasion repeated reboots of the modem didn't do anything, but when I rebooted the router, everything then reset correctly.On the other hand, the first day this happened, I took the router out of the loop and it didn't help.There doesn't seem to be any pattern.
Don't forget with an eMTA modem disconnecting power doesn't reset it either due to the battery backup. There's a little reset button on the back if you haven't been using that.
It now day 6 of daily outages.I remove the battery when I reset the modem, so that not a problem.Just how do I get any one at Cox to acknowledge that it is unacceptable to lose your phone service everyday?Even if I can eventually get the service back after repeated reboots, THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE.Ready to cancel the telphone service.
Well really there is three possible problem's that are causing your issue. One is there is a problem home side with wiring. Two the modem it's self is having problem's, and need's to be replaced. Three there is a local cox issue in your area that need's a fixing. Personally I think your issue is One or Two. Which I suggest having a tech visit. Call cox tell them your having issue's with the eMTA modem, and think it may need to be replaced. Telling them this, should be in the notes to the tech who is sent out, and should have a replacement eMTA modem on hand. Also make sure the tech checks signal level's, to make sure there isn't a line issue that is the cause of the problem.
I would agree that a service call is a good next step, especially if you're also losing phone service.
Any advice on calling Cox and getting them to agree to send someone out? My experience so far has been I have to go through a 10-20 min session with the automated systems and then maybe get to speak to a human. If at any point in this process the modem makes a connection they consider it fixed.The one technician I spoke with said that I should wait to see if it happens again and wouldn't schedule a visit.Since there seems to be a chance that the modem is bad should I just take to a service center and request a replacement?
If you continue to have problems with that let me know and I'll see what I can setup from here.


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NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WMBF) - When it comes to sports in North Myrtle Beach, city leaders will say their bread and butter is basketball and baseball, but leaders are thinking outside of the box when it comes to expanding sports tourism.
City leaders tell WMBF News their making concerted efforts to get rugby, lacrosse, flag football and even quidditch for next year.
The Athletic Director for the city Paul McCulloch, said they're trying to get organizers of those events lined up for dates by Labor Day.
The most non-traditional of the group is quidditch, which is a Harry Potter inspired game popular among college students.
James Custard is visiting North Myrtle Beach from Ohio and he admits he's heard of quidditch games being played on college campus and he thinks it would be a good idea to bring it to North Myrtle Beach. "I think it would be a good place to get people interested, it definitely would get college age kids down here," said Custard.
The quidditch world cup was last hosted in Florida during the month of April. Eighty teams competed from all over the country and at least 1,500 people attended the event.
City athletic leaders put in their proposal for the quidditch world cup recently, and they're hoping to hear back sometime in September.
McCulloch said when developing sports tourism in the city they want to spread the word that North Myrtle Beach is a great place to play and visit.
"The more national companies we get associated the more it puts our name out there," explains McCulloch.
These events would be played at the new outdoor sports complex facility which is still on target to be finished March 1.
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Historic Car Dealership Is Closing Its Doors After Nearly A Century In Business
April 26, 2012
Reed Brothers Automotive (formerly Reed Brothers Dodge), one of the oldest continuously family-owned car dealerships in the nation, is closing its doors at 15955 Frederick Road in Rockville, Maryland for the last time on May 1, 2012.
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- Reed Brothers was franchised as a Dodge dealership in 1915; only one year after the first Dodge automobile was made. Lewis Reed and his brother Edgar, who joined him in business in 1919, were the first to sell Dodge cars in Montgomery County Maryland. The company continued for two generations later under the Gartner family and has sold tens of thousands of cars to generations of local drivers.
In 1928, when Walter P. Chrysler took over after Horace and John Dodge died, Lewis Reed became an original member of the Chrysler family. By 1929, the year of the stock market crash that began the Great Depression, nobody could afford to buy cars. Like most other businesses, the Great Depression hit hard. Reed Brothers had to rely on its Service Department to make ends meet. But, the dealership survived through these lean times.
Reed Brothers faced another setback during World War II. All U.S. car manufacturers stopped production of cars in order to concentrate on equipment for the military. Reed Brothers had no new cars to sell for three and a half years. When manufacturers halted car production and many dealers went bankrupt, Lewis Reed converted his car showroom into a display room and sold GE washing machines and other large appliances. The first car after the war was the1946 Dodge, which sold for about $800.
Initially, Reed Brothers sold Oldsmobile and Hudson, along with Dodge. Later they became Dodge Plymouth dealers. The first Plymouth was built in 1928 and Plymouths were sold at Reed Brothers until 1969, when the Plymouth car was given to the Chrysler dealers.
Reed Brothers Dodge has also operated their own full service Gulf gasoline and service station. In fact, the company was the first Gulf gas dealer in the Washington, D.C. area, selling gas at its original location in Old Rockville at the triangle at Viers Mill Road and Rockville Pike. They carried a full line of Gulf lubricants, Goodyear tires, Willard batteries and many other well known brands of merchandise.
The dealership survived The Great Depression, World War II, the first Chrysler Bailout and resurgence under Lee Iacocca, the sale of Chrysler to Daimler and the sale to the private equity firm Cerberus. Reed Brothers has, in fact, survived everything but Chrysler itself. Whether a franchise is run by a second- or third-generation dealer or is older than even Chrysler itself didn't seem to matter when Chrysler decided to cut dealership ranks during their 2009 bankruptcy process. After almost 95 years selling Dodges, Reed Brothers was one of the 15 dealerships in Maryland and 789 dealerships nationwide notified by Chrysler that their franchise agreement would not be renewed.
Reed Brothers has occupied two locations, the present one at 15955 Frederick Road, Rockville and the original one that stood at the triangle where Hungerford Drive, Viers Mill Road and Route 28 intersect. In fact, Dodge Street in Rockville got its name because Reed Brothers Dodge was located there for so many years. The original site is now the Francis Scott Key Memorial Park. When the state widened the roads in 1970, the dealership moved to its present location on Route 355 at the Shady Grove Metro.
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What Parents Can Learn from Teachers
Five Educators Share Their Insights Into How Kids Learn And How Parents Can Help
In the near-constant debate about education in New York City, parents often find themselves with unanswered questions. From the first parent-teacher conference of kindergarten—the tiny chairs, the spindly capital letters in your child's earliest attempts at a story—to the physics teacher's beaker-lined lab in high school, parents look to their child's teachers for information and guidance, for knowledge and insight. Too often, there's precious little opportunity to really explore the bedrock basics: what helps children learn and how families can best support their kids.
The Blackboard Awards, an annual event hosted by New York Family's parent company, Manhattan Media, honoring some of the city's best educators, invited a panel of New York City teachers to a freewheeling conversation, starting with these fundamentals. Our panel is drawn from public and independent schools, from early-elementary education, middle school, and high school. Together, they have nearly 80 years of in-the-trenches classroom experience. We are grateful they've shared their time and thoughts with all of us.
What makes a child teachable?
Lynn Bernstein: Two things: curiosity and the ability to tolerate frustration.
Nancy Arcieri: I think it has everything to do with the teacher. Every kid is teachable if the teacher creates the environment that's needed.
Caroline Gaynor: Imagine asking what makes a child walk, or talk. It's just understood. You're going to read, you're going to write, you're going to think. That is a promise teachers need to give to parents. You will learn, just like you walked.
Jon Goldman: I agree absolutely; it's a given: water is wet, the sky is blue, kids are going to learn. How and what they learn is up to the environment and the people they are exposed to.
David Lebson: I believe that a child's education rests on a tripod of teacher, child, and parent. If any one of those legs is missing, it's going to be a challenge. If two are gone, the kid's not going to succeed. It'll be a miracle.
What can we say to parents who worry that their child hates to read. Is it really that bad?
Caroline: I don't believe that a child can hate to read. Where it breaks down is that the right book has not been put into that child's hand. The child may have never felt that success. The most important thing is lap time—putting your child on your lap and making reading an everyday part of your life.
Lynn: Don't force a child to try to read; you want to inspire her desire to read on her own. It's got to be cuddly, cozy love time at home so that when the child comes to school and goes to get her just-right book, it's filled with associations of snuggling with mommy or daddy or a loved person.
Let's talk about how the role of reading changes from the early years to middle school, when kids need to be able to synthesize information from texts.
Nancy: Many of our parents do not speak English. They do not read what the kids are reading. So that means that of the three prongs, the teachers have to be that much stronger. For kids who say, "I don't like this or that," it's just another way of saying, "I don't understand this and no one's listened to help me with it."
David: Reading for pleasure and being able to decode the science textbook are two very different things. For a kid who can't process a science textbook, that's something a teacher can help with.
Jon: The idea of sitting down with a good book—not necessarily defined by teachers as important, but one that can take you away—is the key. That's what summer reading should be. If your child wants to spend an afternoon reading a pile of comic books, let him. Make reading less of a job.
David: How many of us have picked up a book and read three chapters and put it down? It's important to remind children that it's OK to say, "This isn't the right book for me."
Nancy: I'm for more structure. Reading has such stiff competition. If I'm 12 and I've got an hour free, the Internet is far too tempting to sit down with a book.
Do children learn differently today? They're multitasking in a tech-saturated environment, yet there are things they can get online that we couldn't put our hands on as students. Is a tech-dense life a boon or a bust to teaching?
Jon: There's both a boon and a downside. The boon is they can do incredible amounts of research online. The downside is plagiarism. At first, students didn't understand that they were engaging in intellectual and academic theft. Then, they started getting better and better, so we eventually had to subscribe to [the anti-plagiarism website] turnitin.com.
Caroline: It's not that children learn differently, but that what is being imposed on us may hinder how we teach. Teachers now have to teach only to the test. That is what scares me the most.
Lynn: The other thing about technology is, again, modeling at home. I have kids for whom technology means Gameboys, Wiis—pacifiers, stuff to keep the kids out of their parents' hair. Other parents set up the computer for play, research, and games. That's technology as a tool, not a pacifier.
Nancy: In our culture, the focus is, how busy are you? We think if you can do 10 great things at the same time, you've achieved something. That's the measure of your success. I think there's a level of distraction that kids have to deal with today that we didn't have to.
David: I agree, [but] we're asking the wrong question. It's not, are kids better at multitasking? But, what kind of tasks are we asking our kids to accomplish, and what pieces of equipment are in place to help them?
Nancy: They don't realize that their presentation of self is taken seriously. It's a very, very dangerous world. They need to be taught that to present yourself in this virtual world is how the world is going to see you, whether you were kidding, or that picture was a mistake, or you weren't taking yourself seriously.
How do parents, even with the very best interests of their children at heart, undermine their kids' success or unintentionally sabotage curiosity?
Lynn: Many young children don't know what interests them. Parents need to present opportunities to try different things. When the child shows an interest, let her pursue it. Parents overwhelm their children with their own enthusiasms; they set expectations and goals and plans. Let the child be the leader.
Jon: Many parents, at least at a high school level, begin to abrogate their responsibility as parents. A perfect example is summer curricula. Parents say, "What can you do to make sure that my child reads over the summer?" I'm very straightforward; the answer is "nothing." It is completely up to you. I can't go in and unplug the TV, turn off the iPod, disconnect the Internet, and say, "OK, we as a family are all going to read this book and, over dinner sometime, we're going to sit and talk about it."
Nancy: Parents need to see reality for what it is and to not focus on the negative. When a kid's report card has eight As and then a C , for a parent to look at the C and say, "What is going on here? What is wrong with that?" it is just devastating.
Lynn: The other thing is praise. It needs to be honest, tied to achievement, and not hyperbolic or false. And before parents say, "You're wrong," ask the child, "What are you thinking? Why do you think that?" There's always a grain, a reason why they say what they do.
David: I remember learning something from an elementary school colleague. When a child shows you a piece of artwork or a story, rather than saying, "Oh, that's beautiful!" ask him questions. "I see you used a lot of green. Tell me why?" It's really almost magical.
Caroline: Ask those open-ended questions.
Jon: Parents forget that you don't have to be great at everything. It's OK to be average at some things. Some kids earn predominantly As and Bs, and then there's that one C. The parent comments that this is unacceptable, why hasn't the teacher noticed that my child is at risk? I say, at risk of what, of being on grade level? Because that's what a C means. Kids have to feel free to make mistakes. We learn as much from mistakes and failure as we do from success, if not more. Accept it, own it, because that's how you're going to learn.
Homework's an issue from the early grades up. What should parents understand about it? How much should they get involved?
Caroline: Homework is an indicator for the teacher. Did the teacher teach what she had to teach today? Did the children understand it, or does she need to re-teach it? If a child is having so much difficulty, spending hours with her homework, just send a note into the teacher. Don't have the child anguish over it. Don't do it for him, just let the teacher know.
Lynn: I have to say I have a slightly different take on it. I appreciate parents helping the children. Don't do the homework for them, but it's another adult explaining the math, or going over upper and lower case letters.
Caroline: And just to clarify, all I want the parents of young children to do every night is read with their child.
Jon: Speaking at the high school level, helping is OK—much, much more important than helping is monitoring the fact that it's being done. There's nothing wrong with taking breaks from your time on task. Obviously, if the kid is working eight hours straight and having difficulty with it, there is a problem.
Lynn: I think time management is something that begins in the early years, by third grade. Don't tell your child that he or she has to do the homework right away. Maybe your child needs a half hour off. Talk to your child, agree on a schedule, check in, see if it's working. Part of the agreement is if it's not, we're going to redo it, but children need to be part of the decision.
Jon: Stop at the playground on the way home.
David: The most important thing a parent can do is make sure the work is getting done. We have a supervised study hall that we're trying to do with the sixth grade to help them with time management. At the beginning of the 45-minute period they write down what they think they can accomplish, and at the end they write down what they did accomplish.
Lynn: It really is a human condition to underestimate the amount of time we think a task is going to take. So parents should never say, "Whatever made you think it's going to only take 40 minutes?" This is normal; most people do this. Let's give ourselves extra time and think how good it will feel if you finish before.
Nancy: Time spent wringing your hands is much better spent rolling up your sleeves. I always tell my kids to stop planning to plan. Get started.
Jon: It's always reasonable for a child to ask, "Why am I doing this?" David: It's absolutely reasonable for a parent to ask why. Parents should also understand there's a difference between, "Can you help me understand why this is important?" and "Why is my daughter doing this crap?"
A lot of parents find that their child's education, especially in the younger grades, doesn't resemble how they were taught. There seems to be less emphasis on content than process. There's less rote memorization and less emphasis on grammar and knowing all your historical facts by a certain age. Why the shift?
Lynn: There are so many facts and so much knowledge that there is no way that any human being can learn it all. What we're trying to teach children to do is to ask questions and learn how to find the answers.
Jon: It's breadth versus depth. You don't need to know the date of the Bay of Pigs invasion; that's so readily available right now. I think kids should know the multiplication tables. You should know up to 12 x 12 by the time you're in the 4th grade, because it makes your life that much easier.
Nancy: There is catch-up that needs to be done, which means that we have to change the curriculum to fit the needs of our students. So we have kids with 144 IQ who cannot tell you what a noun is and what a verb is because they haven't been taught. They don't know math in many cases because they haven't been taught.
Jon: Kids should know by the time they're in high school how to structure a paragraph and correctly use capitalization and punctuation. You have to know the rules before you can break the rules.
Caroline: If a child writes a beautiful essay, why is it important that he tells you exactly what the noun is? I'm playing devil's advocate. If this child writes well, why is it important that the child learn this is the noun, this is the predicate?
Jon: If they communicate their idea, but they can't tell me whether that's the subject or the object, they know it innately, I don't have a problem with that. I do have a problem with the kids who can't write because they were either never gifted enough to pick it up on their own or were never getting the instruction. I find that I spend so much time hammering it home, the idea that you can't just sit down and write your paper even if it's a piece of creative writing.
How do you know when a parent is helping his child too much or doing her homework for her?
Nancy: Just the voice of the writer. You have to know your kids well enough, you know how they write. When you've got vocabulary in there and you certainly know this is not a kid who experiments with words.
Lynn: Handwriting? First grade? Dead giveaway. Or a child who I know did not get that lesson today in math sends in perfect homework.
Caroline: Or an artistic model, you see one kid who had this little messy model, but that's the best he could do, and then the other kid has this gorgeous model and he doesn't usually draw or create that way.
Jon: It's not as much of a problem [in high school] that parents are doing the homework as it is them fixing things up. Jon: There's a difference between helping and doing.
Is there something we're missing? Something we haven't asked you about that we should know?
Caroline: I go back to what David said in the beginning about the three prongs. I like working with parents. It makes my job not just easier, it makes it better. Parents have a wealth of knowledge that I don't have.
Nancy: Teachers grow to love your child. We are in the position of raising children; it's just in a different space. And we care deeply about them.
David: We want parents to trust us. Parents need to feel empowered. The school is responsible for doing something to make parents feel that they have a place in school.
Jon: The most important thing is to be involved, especially if in the public sector, with not just the school but the bigger picture. They should be phoning, faxing. It's unacceptable to have a $450 million budget cut in education when there's a promise of the $600 million additional funding. It's wonderful that some schools have the ability to be funded by PA associations. It is not right that other schools don't have that same access. Public education means that the public has to get involved.


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Mielziner: Master of Modern Stage Design. 2001: by Mary Henderson. Foreword by Frank Rich. Back Stage Books, a division of Watson-Guptill Publications/BMI Communications. ISBN: 0-8230-8823-5. 320 pages.
A quarter-century after his death, Jo Mielziner remains one of the two or three greatest designers in Broadway history. His unbeatable credits include the original productions of Strange Interlude, Street Scene, Of Thee I Sing, On Your Toes, The Women, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Pal Joey, The Glass Menagerie, Carousel, Annie Get Your Gun, A Streetcar Named Desire, Mister Roberts, Death of a Salesman, Guys and Dolls, The King and I, Picnic, Can-Can, Tea and Sympathy, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Most Happy Fella, Look Homeward Angel, Sweet Bird of Youth, Gypsy, The Best Man, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, 1776 — and those are just the high points. For decades, his meticulously conceived, painterly work set the standard for how a Broadway show should look.
In this gorgeously illustrated volume, the noted theatre historian Mary C. Henderson traces Mielziner's life and work. The child of a feckless society portrait painter and a sometime journalist for Vogue, he grew up, somewhat unconventionally, in Paris and New York, and got involved in the theatre through his brother, Kenneth MacKenna, a young Broadway leading man. By the mid-1920s, Mielziner was a regular fixture on Broadway, his work deeply influenced by the ideas of Gordon Craig, Robert Edmond Jones, and other devotees of the New Stagecraft, who wished to do away with chintz-covered, realistic sets in favor of a more streamlined approach. He found success early, but his real heyday came after World War II, when his collaborators included such names as Rodgers and Hammerstein, Tennessee Williams, Joshua Logan, and Elia Kazan.
Henderson does a remarkably thorough job of tracing Mielziner's career, offering many perceptive comments on what did or did not work about various designs. She also presents a sympathetic yet clear-eyed view of his often troubled private life, which included three failed marriages and various problems with his children, making it clear that his Roman Catholic faith — he was a convert — provided a constant solace in times of trouble.
Along with her comments about Mielziner's design techniques, Henderson also discusses Mielziner's not-always-happy career as a theatre consultant, especially his problematic experience working on the Vivian Beaumont and Mitzi Newhouse Theatres at Lincoln Center. She provides much information about the scenery and lighting shops of the period (Edward Kook was one of Mielziner's closest friends). And of course, many other designers make appearances, including Ming Cho Lee, Patricia Zipprodt, Lucinda Ballard, Robin Wagner, and many others.
Henderson's prose is often less than gripping and sometimes she tells too much; when Mielziner moves to the Dakota apartments on 72nd Street, she stops to provide a history of the building, to no real purpose. Also, readers of this magazine, already familiar with the function of, say, a lighting dimmer, will probably grow tired of the way she over-explains the most basic theatre terms. Anyone who chooses to pick up a book about Mielziner will probably need no assistance in these areas.
And yet, anyone interested in the history of modern stage design will be terribly grateful for the complete overview that Henderson provides of Mielziner's career. That's not to mention the stunning parade of color reproductions of his designs that can be found on nearly every page. Not only are the classic designs, like Guys and Dolls or Death of a Salesman featured; the abundant illustrations make clear that even fast flops like the musicals Christine (1960) and Dance Me a Song (1950) benefited from masterly designs. My personal favorites are the sketches Mielziner did for Rodgers and Hammerstein's backstage musical Me and Juliet. They infuse their mundane theatrical subjects with a sense of dark glamour that makes me wish I'd seen the original production.
These days, it's a kind of miracle that a life of Mielziner would receive this kind of lavish, careful treatment. For this reason alone, the book belongs on the shelf of every young designer and in the library of every college theatre department.


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|The Second Time Around
|Written by Mike Terry Contributing Writer
|Thursday, 12 July 2012 04:46
Los Angeles Dodgers' Matt Kemp looks on during batting practice prior to their baseball game against the Chicago White Sox.
Both The Dodgers And Angels Are Positioned To Make The Playoffs, But Both Also Need Some Things To Go Right In The Second Half
With the All-Star break in the review mirror, both the Dodgers and Angels resume their 2012 playoff chase. And although both teams are in good standing(s) at the moment for a playoff berth (especially with two wild card slots this year), they have taken opposite paths to reach this point.
Los Angeles (47-40) started the season red hot, going 16-7 in April. They have gone 31-23 since, but lost 15 of their last 20 going into the break. Somehow, someway, they still lead the National League West, albeit by a half-game over the San Francisco Giants.
Anaheim (48-38) – and let's just call them Anaheim for brevity's sake – began the season packed in ice. The Angels got off to their worst start in franchise history (6- 14), and that's saying something considering the franchise's history. But they rebounded to win 42 of their next 66, and were 13-7 in their last 20 games. They are currently in second place in the American League West, trailing first place Texas by four games.
The Dodgers return to regular season play on Friday at home against San Diego – which, by the way, won six in a row before the break. The Angels also resume on Friday on the road against the Yankees, who have the best record in baseball (52- 33).
Los Angeles Angels' Mike Trout heads to the on deck circle to start a baseball game against the Cleveland Indians.
There are, as usual, various variables that will ultimately decide the postseason hopes for both teams.
Here are a few to consider, starting with…
For the Dodgers, it's simple. They need both Matt Kemp (left hamstring) and Andre Ethier (left oblique) back in their lineup, and back to the form both displayed in the first half.
When Kemp (.355, 12 home runs, 28 RBI) was looking like the game's best player in April and May, and Ethier (.291, 10, 55) was leading the league in runs batted in, they were able to mask the other weaknesses in the Dodger lineup. But since both have been hurt, the offense has become invisible. In those last 20 games, the Dodgers have averaged 2.15 runs a contest, and scored more than five runs only once. On the plus side, solid No.2 hitter Mark Ellis is back and appears fully recovered from his leg injury. But leadoff hitter Dee
Gordon, who had surgery to repair a torn ligament in his right thumb, probably won't return until early to mid-August. Gordon leads the majors in stolen bases (30), and without him the Dodgers have a harder time manufacturing runs.
Now that Albert Pujols and Kendrys Morales have begun to hit consistently the Angels' lineup, fueled by young All-Star sensations Mike Trout and Mark Trumbo, is looking as potent as those of the Rangers, Yankees, Tigers and Red Sox. In their last 20 games, for example, the Halos have averaged a healthier 5.7 runs.
The injury bug has bitten in a more vulnerable spot, however; the starting pitching rotation.
Jared Weaver remains the ace and most durable starter. After that (deep breath)…C.J. Wilson had a blister on his left middle finger and had to miss the All- Star Game. Dan Heron went on the disabled list with back spasms, and Jerome Williams was sidelined by a respiratory problem. Ervin Santana just hasn't been himself.
Which brings up the possibility of…
To be honest, neither team has a bunch of deal-ready prospects in their respective farm systems, nor do they have players other teams crave or they want to part with.
It's hard to imagine fellow GMs knocking down the Dodgers' Ned Colletti's door and begging him to deal James Loney, Juan Uribe, Juan Rivera, Tony Gwynn Jr., or Elian Herrera, to name a few.
Likewise, the Angels' Jerry Dipoto shouldn't expect many return calls by offering Vernon Wells (still on the disabled list), Macier Izturis, Bobby Wilson and John Hester.
When it comes to each team's best prospects, they're already here.
That leaves the waiver wire, but because both teams are high in the standings, the teams with lesser records would have the first claim on available players – not a great roll of the dice.
Then there's the role that Fate will play in the second half with the…
The Dodgers have 75 games remaining; the Angels 76. Interestingly, both start up the second half with gauntlet runs in July that won't win the divisions, but could help lose the divisions.
After the Padres series, the Dodgers have three home games against the Phillies (with Ryan Howard and Chase Utley both back in the Philadelphia lineup) before going on the road to face the Mets, Cardinals and Giants. The Mets nearly swept the Dodgers in a recent four-game series in Los Angeles; St. Louis in July and August is miserably hot and humid; and the Giants threw three straight shutouts against the Dodgers the last week in June.
To increase the feelings of trepidation, the Dodgers are 20-24 overall on the road so far.
Anaheim is also facing a brutal stretch, that pretty much covers the rest of July. Following the Yankees series, the Angels remain on the road to play four in Detroit, before coming home to face Texas and Tampa Bay, then finishing the month in Texas.
August has stiff tests as well.
Any combination of cold bats and noodle arms could prove disastrous.
Most teams like to be within 5-6 games of a division or wild card leader going into September. That means not falling apart in July and August.
Some Final Thoughts
Those aren't the only issues facing the respective teams. Other questions include:
Can the Dodgers' Chad Billingsley (4-9, 4.30) and the Angels' Santana (4-9, 5.75) snap our of their respective first half funks and contribute positively down the stretch?
Can Trout (.341, 12, 40) and Trumbo (306, 22, 57) keep up the pace they have set so far, or does the pressure of the pennant race grind them down?
If Trout does continue his remarkable play and help the Angels into the playoffs, could he join Boston's Fred Lynn and Seattle's Ichiro Suzuki as the only players to win Rookie-of the-Year and Most Valuable Player in the same season?
When Gordon returns, can he get on base enough to give the Dodgers some desperately needed speed and energy at the top of the lineup?
Can managers Don Mattingly (Dodgers) and Mike Scioscia (Angels) keep from overworking their bullpens, especially in the August and September heat?
The answers will have so much to do with what can or does happen in October.
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All of the graphics cards named below except for the two CrossFire setups were tested for power consumption on the Asus A8N32-SLI mobo. We were forced by the driver lockout to use the ATI CrossFire reference mobo instead for the CrossFire cards, so power consumption for the CrossFire systems will vary due to the difference in motherboards. Also, please note that the Radeon X1900 XT shown here is actually the CrossFire master card, so its power consumption is probably slightly higher than a non-CrossFire X1900 XT that lacks the additional chips needed for image compositing.
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Farina Accused Of Misappropriating Confidential Student Info
by Marcia Chambers | September 29, 2009 12:12 PM | Permalink | Comments (11)
Denise Farina, the tenured teacher at the center of a rare public termination hearing, used her teacher's pass code to take confidential information from a student data bank at the Mary T. Murphy Elementary School to give to her paralegal for use in her case — a violation of federal law, the attorneys at the hearing said.
The bombshell disclosure came Friday as Farina's public hearing continued before a special committee of the Branford Board of Education. She is the one who asked that the hearing be conducted in public.
A tenured elementary school teacher at the Mary Murphy School for the last 27 years, Farina is fighting to save her job. She has also filed a federal lawsuit against the Board of Education asserting various discriminatory actions. The federal lawsuit has figured in these hearings.The hearings take place at the Community House on Church Street.
Although she is on suspension or administrative leave with pay, Farina still had a working pass code that gave her access to Infinite Campus, a school data base. It was not clear why. Schools Superintendent Dr. Kathleen Halligan told the Eagle during a recess at the hearing that Farina's access would be cut off immediately.
The disclosure that the Farina legal team had the confidential test information from fourth-grade students at the Murphy school came from Mica Notz, Farina's paralegal, who is acting as her advocate at the hearing. Notz, who is not an attorney, has sought the data for months. Redacting student names was key to the process and was discussed at a procedural hearing in August. Farina's actions came to light Friday morning while Notz discussed an exhibit.
Speaking on behalf of Farina, with Farina present beside her, Notz said in an interview at a lunch break Friday that Farina entered the data base on her own the week before. "It was in an effort to show her class test scores had improved. It was for verification only. For internal use only. I did not make it a public exhibit. These were the DRP's [Degrees of Reading Power] tests for '07-'08."
The fact that Notz did not make it a public exhibit may not matter. According to William Connon, who is acting as overseer or procedural adviser for the Branford Board of Education at the hearing, "Notz thought she had the right to see it but these are confidential student records and she doesn't."
At the hearing, Michael J. Rose, who represents the school district, was incredulous.
"This is an absolute violation of federal law. You can't go into a data bank and get other pupils' scores by names. This is a very serious issue. And to use it for a due process hearing?" he said, shaking his head in disbelief.
Connon (pictured far left) ordered the school district to redact the names. "This is a directive from the moderator. She is violating the federal law. This is wrong." He also ordered the exhibit to be revised and said witnesses may not discuss it.
Connon and Rose said afterwards that Farina's actions came as a surprise.
Rose said that in order not to violate federal law — the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) of 1974 — the test scores Notz wanted had to be subpoened. Then school officials would redact the names before giving the information to Farina's legal team. A subpoena had been issued but not properly served, Rose said. So the matter was in legal limbo when Farina went into the data base.
Rose said in a subsequent interview that "in my opinion by giving the names of students without permission from their parents, she violated the federal law. I was shocked."
What action might be taken against Farina remained unclear. There was some discussion at the hearing that Farina's actions could lead to an immediate termination. Superintendent Halligan told the Eagle she would look into that.
Nor was it clear if Notz would face investigation. The actions of the paralegal raise questions. At this hearing the firm's leader, Eugene Axelrod, was not at her side. On Friday a young attorney named Robert Mollen sat at the table. Mollen did not intervene as Axelrod has. Nor did he try to keep Notz in check as Axelrod has. She was on her own.
The group that will decide whether to fire Farina or not includes Frank Carrano, the chair of the Board of Education, and two board members, Michael Krause and David Squires. They were silent during this aspect of the hearing.
As the afternoon session began, Notz created more pandemonium when she declared that Connon, whose role is equivalent to an administrative judge, had personally interviewed 14 teachers at the Murphy school as potential witnesses for the school district. Connon said he had done no such thing and that she had accused him wrongly.
Attorney Rose, who represents the district, immediately told the committee he was the interviewer. Logically he would have to be; he is calling witnesses and presenting the evidence for termination. But even after Rose openly declared he had gone to the school to interview these witnesses, Notz did not believe him. She said she had an email from a state union official who identified the lawyer as Connon. She would not step back from her belief until she checked further, she said.
In between these confrontations Notz finished up her cross-examination of Halligan. This had taken weeks. Finally, at 2 p.m., Attorney Rose called the principal of the school, Anthony Buono,(pictured below) to the stand.
His portrait of Farina was devastating on every level as was Dr. Halligan's. Contrary to Farina's assertions, Buono testified that Farina was the only fourth-grade teacher whose overall standardized scores went down. He described her as disorganized and unable to follow through even when given intense outside help.
In an understated voice he ticked off a litany of failures that explain why the school district would take a long and difficult set of steps to remove a tenured teacher from her post. He said she failed to do required assessments of her students, had failed to teach science and other key subjects and was consistently late to school. Farina says she had been fighting cancer and back surgery and had serious insomnia problems.
"When we asked her to submit her actual assessments, we in fact found that a large amount of the assessments were never done. And large amounts were fraudulent.
We were using this to monitor student progress and to determine if progress was being done for her class. Without baseline data we were unable to use the test for that year," he said. At the time she was teaching a fourth-grade class.
Buono also said for the first time that Farina's problems did not start with his tenure. He said there were "issues" during her long stint as a kindergarten teacher and they were known to the former principal. "There was a lack of understanding of the kindergarten curriculum," Buono said. "The level of instruction was very low. This was kindergarten. Children were working on the alphabet. But the vast majority of the kids already knew their letters. She did not go further than that."
Buono described numerous efforts to provide outside help for Farina in the classroom over a three year period, ending in the spring of 2008. It is likely these witnesses and other teachers will testify.
Farina came into the Branford school system at age 22. She had tenure by the time she was 26. Her father was a well known athletic director and football coach when she got her first and what turns out to be her only job.
The next hearing is scheduled for Friday, Oct. 9, at 9 a.m. at the Community House where Buono will continued his testimony.
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Posted by: FIX THE SCHOOLS | September 30, 2009 8:41 AM
And meanwhile....$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
Branford taxpayers - had enough yet? Why does this "teacher" deserve this level of due process?
Posted by: Anne | September 30, 2009 9:46 AM
Sounds like the teacher has inadequate legal representation. It seems like she simply printed out her own student's scores innocently (something teachers do all the time without violating FERPA) but any trained educational lawyer would tell her that she could not use them in court that way, especially if there was an outstanding subpoena for the data.
If she was only teaching the alphabet when she taught Kindergarten, why was she given a transfer to the 4th grade? It's nearly unheard of for someone who's taught K for 20+ years to be transferred up FOUR grade levels -- it requires intensive retraining and support. Essentially, it's like being a first year teacher all over again, something nobody fighting cancer could possibly succeed at.
Furthermore, if her teaching was truly unsatisfactory before she was transferred to the 4th grade, why was this not documented then? Why was she not given an improvement plan then?
The testimony sounds damning, but I'd withhold complete judgement until the full story comes out.
I'm a former teacher and I fully support removing bad teachers from classrooms. No teacher wants to work alongside ineffectual or actively negligent teachers -- it makes our jobs harder. But the worst teachers I've seen stay in classrooms not because of unions or tenure laws, but because they are inadequately supervised by administrators. Too often, teachers are only supervised as a punitive measure, not on a regular basis as a way to support and improve their teaching. Principals come down on teachers who "cause trouble" (ie question authority) or who parents complain about. I wouldn't blame parents for complaining about this teacher based on what I've read. But I'd certainly blame administration if she's always been like this but no one bothered to pay attention 'till she got cancer.
Posted by: Anne | September 30, 2009 10:04 AM
Just skimmed the teacher's complaint for her federal lawsuit -- indeed, she claims that the Principal never once observed her teaching before she was placed on an improvement plan.
This seems to confirm my suspicions above -- she claims she had gotten nothing but good evaluations until this point, and surely she has documentation of this. At the very least, this principal is himself guilty of negligent supervision if he didn't observe her. And to transfer her to 4th grade, a CMT grade level, with no retraining and no support is simply setting her up for total failure. It makes no sense. She may as well have been transfered to teach high school.
Posted by: settle this NOW | September 30, 2009 10:18 AM
One thing we all know is this, the only people who will end up happy this situation wasn't handled differently are the lawyer for the town who I'm guessing will end up charging well over a half a million dollars by the time this chapter and the federal lawsuit ends.
I'll bet anyone that after those half a million in attorneys fees are collected the town agrees to a settlement where this teacher is made whole for her salary and benefits until she reaches the 30 years of service mark and gets her full retirememt benefits.
Wouldn't it be nice if just once someone in a position of authority in Branford chose to step up and be a leader and made the settlement BEFORE the lawyers got their millions.
Posted by: Concerned | September 30, 2009 11:09 AM
This is the problem with teacher tenure law, the only way to remove an incompetent or ineffective teacher is through this level of due process, which is a lengthy, expensive process. Many boards avoid the whole thing because of the money and bad press. Kudos to the Branford Board for pushing the issue. The tenure law should be reworked to allow for removal of incompetent workers...the private sector allows for this, those teaching our children should be ameneable to the same processes, not only in the area of review and evaluation, but removal as well. Until that happens, boards are forced into these extreme situations and it is very unforunate for all involved.
Posted by: Emil | September 30, 2009 11:15 AM
The record in this case shows that Ms. Farina did not received "excellent" evaluations before her transfer to Fourth grade. She received very poor evaluations. The statements in her lawsuit are simply that - statements. And they are false.
Posted by: cba | September 30, 2009 12:25 PM
it seems that this
"paralegal" is in way over her head
Posted by: dee | October 1, 2009 1:21 PM
To Emil-
you would have to see all of Ms. Farina's evaluations for the last 28 years, and yes, many from year 1 to present WERE quite satisfactory!!!
Obviously, the opposing counsel is not bringing those to light, are they?
Posted by: Sue | October 2, 2009 9:47 AM
So many opinions by readers on a one side story of a reporter who seems to be reporting for the Board of Education and not as an �Independent� reviewer. Hello people, these hearings are open to the public, why not attend them to really find out the truth of what is happening here. If you were in attendance you would know that the those test scores were not only requested by way of a legal subpoena that the school board refused to comply with, but the school board was also ordered and demanded to produce those test scores on at least three, if not four different occasions. In fact, those test scores with redacted student names were submitted as an exhibit weeks ago and subject to discussion and argument at the prior hearing and when the teacher�s legal representative tried to discuss those test scores the Board�s Attorney began arguing that there was no way for administration to confirm the validity of those test scores and refused to allow them to be discussed. The panel ordered the Board of Education to once again produce the test scores. When they were not produced once again at this last hearing, the teacher, having been told she needs to demonstrate the validity of the test scores, showed up to the hearing with the requested proof. Why was there no federal violations weeks ago when the Board argued the validity of the test scores, yet now when proof is provided they cry afoul? The Board of Education only took offense and began yelling federal violations because they did not want those test scores to be validated. The paralegal argued that she was told by the school board that the test scores were no longer available, yet the teacher was able to just go on her computer and print them out? Now stop and ask your self why wouldn�t they want those test scores disclosed or validated? Why would they use those test scores as part of the reason to terminate the teacher and then not produce the evidence? Something smells fishy here and I don�t think it is the teacher or her paralegal; in fact I give them applause for doing what they were told to do, validate. Since those test scores were not disclosed to the public and only provided to school officials for verification purposes only, the issue is? Oh wait, that is right, the Board of Education has not complied with the panel or a subpoena to produce those same test scores! Those scores must make a grand statement in favor of the teacher if you ask me. Why then the big story in regards to them? Since the school board didn�t block the teacher from obtaining the test scores in the first place, weeelll who violated the law? The guilty party is not the teacher or her paralegal if you ask me. Makes me wonder if the paralegal knew what she was doing all along and the school board and their attorney's are the ones who just might be in way over their heads?
Posted by: susan barnes | October 2, 2009 9:33 PM
Knowing very little about this case, I am in no position to comment on the specifics. However, it is of great interest to me that NOT ONE person who has commented will identify themselves. Could it be that they merely lack the courage of their convictions OR could it be that they are afraid of the vindictive retaliation to which they will be subjected? I must say I agree with the opinions of SETTLE IT NOW. But, hey, it's only taxpayer money, so what do those in authority care?
Posted by: gail | October 7, 2009 9:04 AM
duh, kathleen.........too little too late
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