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CONYERS, Georgia, Feb. 28, 2013 – With Pope Benedict XVI's recent announcement that he is stepping down, all eyes will soon turn to Vatican City.
"After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry," the Pope said this week in a statement. "I am well aware that this ministry, due to its essential spiritual nature, must be carried out not only with words and deeds, but no less with prayer and suffering."
He added: "However, in today's world, subject to so many rapid changes and shaken by questions of deep relevance for the life of faith, in order to govern the barque of Saint Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months, has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me."
Next month, the church is likely to call a conclave to begin the process of electing the next pope, again putting the Vatican City in the spotlight.
As a student of history, it's only natural to marvel at Vatican City 's direct link to modern day religion. While Rome has plenty of marvels worth exploring, no trip to Rome – or Italy, for that matter – would be complete without visiting the city-state.
To Christians, and especially Catholics, the site is one of the world's holiest sites – the destination of many pilgrimages. It was here that Saint Peter – one of Jesus ' 12 disciples – was buried after he was crucified circa 64 AD.
There has been a church on the site – which during the days of the Roman Empire was occupied by Nero's Circus – since the fourth century. The current incarnation of St. Peter's Basilica – a stunning example of Renaissance architecture – was consecrated in 1626.
"In ancient Rome – a city we would describe today as having been multicultural, multiethnic and multireligious – a simple Jew is executed and buried alongside a road on the edge of the city," Catholic News Service in 2006 quoted Antonio Paolucci, an art historian who served as a curator of an exhibit coinciding with the 500th anniversary of St. Peter's Basilica.
"The amazing thing, is that someone built a memorial over this out-of-the-way tomb and over time this memorial grew into the grandest church in the world," Paolucci added.
But, visitors don't have to be Catholic to appreciate the Vatican. The Holy See attracts millions of people every year, many of whom are not Catholic, and all one needs is an appreciation for beautiful architecture and a respect for history .
Many popes are buried in the Vatican's catacombs, including John Paul II , the beloved pontiff whose grave alone attracts thousands of visitors daily on a pilgrimage to connect with the revered theologian.
While the Vatican has a lot of history, at roughly 400 years old, it's one of the newer buildings in town. Still, to put it in perspective, construction on Saint Peter's Basilica began in 1506 under the reign of Pope Julius II, 56 years before Saint Augustine, Florida, the oldest continually occupied European settlement in the U.S., was founded.
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This dissertation studies the impact of after school clubs and service learning activities on students' beliefs and attitudes towards citizenship (civic participation in a democracy), civic engagement, and political and social participation. This study focuses on two different organizations: Spectrum, a Gay-Straight alliance; and AMIGOS, a service learning program. Both environments presented students with opportunities to engage in civic activities, while informing their understanding of citizenship (civic participation). The purpose of this study was twofold. First, I wanted to better understand the impact of after school clubs and service learning activities on students' beliefs towards civic participation and civic and political engagement. Second, using as my lens such issues as empowerment, inequality, oppression, domination, and alienation, I sought to gauge whether participation in programs like the ones above altered preconceived ideas students held about others. A mixed-methods approach (quantitative/qualitative) was used to examine the impact of participation in AMIGOS and Spectrum. Data sources included participant interviews, surveys, field notes, observations of training/meetings, and documents. Data were first analyzed separately and then triangulated to investigate consistency in the findings. Data from the observations were analyzed at three different stages: (1) analysis done as an on-going process while reflecting on what was observed; (2) analysis after the study was completed; (3) analysis performed over the summer, after some time and at some distance from the study. AMIGOS provided volunteers with ideal opportunities to build a sense of civic and political engagement in youth. AMIGOS integrated key elements identified by current research: it provided opportunities for teaching about civic and political engagement, and provided opportunities for reflection. In addition, it incorporated real activities: students spent from six to eight weeks in a host community trying to effect positive change. Finally, their efforts were supported, recognized and praised by family members, the communities they come from, and the communities they were assisting. Spectrum also had the potential to build a sense of civic and political engagement in their members. However, they faced challenges that risked lessening their potential impact. The club engaged in "teaching" about civic and political and engagement and provided the members with opportunities to engage in real activities. However, they did not always receive the support and recognition of their communities (school) or families, and often faced opposition to achieving their goal of equal LGBT rights.
This purpose of this study was to explore the question "What are the factors that facilitate and constrain teacher learning in a lesson study group?" through an ethnographic case study of five teachers involved in a lesson study group at a Manhattan middle school. This study had two specific goals: (1) To contribute to existing theories on how and why lesson study leads to a sense of instructional improvement and (2) To examine the larger institutional and personal factors that may contribute to or present obstacles to instructional change. Data was collected over the course of two school years, and consisted of observation notes from lesson study meetings; observation notes of teachers in their classrooms; field notes; interviews with participants and school leaders; a variety of documents, including artifacts from the lesson study group, emails, student work, and memos; audio recordings of lesson study meetings and interviews, which were transcribed, and a pre-lesson study questionnaire and survey. In order to examine the factors inside and outside of the lesson study group that affected the learning of the participants, data was coded based on factors that facilitated a sense of growth and factors that constrained a sense of growth. A framework for data analysis emerged out of the data and consisted of four main elements: structural features of lesson study, foundational features of the school and larger system of schooling, experiences within lesson study, and teacher characteristics. Analysis suggests that lesson study can create a sense of growth in teaching practice, yet lesson study in itself does not always lead to instructional change. It appears that teacher characteristics, structural and experiential features of lesson study, foundational features within the school, and larger institutional factors both facilitate and present obstacles to change in teaching practice. Findings indicate that though teachers may feel a sense of growth in their practice, they still may not change their instruction or curriculum. The implication from these findings is that lesson study alone - at least for a short period of implementation - is unlikely to create long term change in instruction.
In this dissertation I posit that schooling is a social determinant of health. Employing a mixed method, participatory action research design, this study examines and offers original theorizing on the ways in which schooling affects educational and health outcomes. This research explores how and why education is the most significant predictor of lifetime health. Grounded in critical race theory, this dissertation spans conceptual frameworks from critical theory, participatory action research, political economy, social and environmental psychology, social epidemiology and public health as a way to understand the relationship that education level has to health. It offers a detailed analysis of the relationship between education and health, the current graduation rate crisis and its historical origins, school dropout and the costs of diploma denial. I describe the research process of the youth participatory action research collective called ProjectDISH (Disparities in Schooling and Health) formed for this study. ProjectDISH created the research questions, methodology, design, protocol and methods of analyses for this mixed-method (mapping, focus groups, and survey) research study. The purpose of our research was to investigate and document the ways in which schooling and health are related, and how racialized urban educational inequities and outcomes correlate with health disparities. Supporting literature and policy suggestions are woven throughout the findings chapters. I end this dissertation by introducing a new theory of school dropout, called school non-completion, as a way to speak back to, reframe and move forward the discourse, research, policy and practices concerning school dropout. The concluding chapter also provides methodological considerations and policy recommendations for this work.
This study explores the use of coteaching and cogenerative dialogue in pre-service elementary teacher education, and the ways in which sharing responsibility for learning and teaching can afford the development of solidarity and new teachers' identity transformations. Specifically, the research detailed in this dissertation focuses on learning to teach science in a field-based methods course taught partially on a college campus and partially in an urban elementary school. I used critical ethnography guided by the theoretical frameworks of cultural sociology and the sociology of emotions. The lens of phenomenology provided the contextual aspects of the individual experience, and design experiment was utilized as the research unfolded, affording continual redesign of the work. Issues of identity and group membership are central to this research, and I have explored connections between the emergence of solidarity within a group of teachers and the individual identity transformations supported through a collective sense of belonging. A key component of this study was an analysis of the co-responsibility nurtured through coteaching and cogenerative dialogue, and thus the dialectical relationship between the individual and the collective is critical to this research. At the individual level, I examined identity development, and individual participation in a field-based methods course. At the collective level, I considered the ways that participants form collective identities and group solidarity. Two of the chapters of my dissertation are coauthored with students, as I have sought to dismantle teacher-student hierarchies and replace them with complex relationships supported through polysemic and polyphonic approaches to research. In examining identity and solidarity as they emerged from this approach, I make the following contributions to science teacher education; (1) identify resources and practices in elementary science teaching that surface in a collaborative field-based framework, (2) investigate identity transformations that occur among participants in a collaborative field-based framework and (3) explore the ways in which this approach helped pre-service teachers and myself develop a sense of community. By fulfilling these connected goals, this research draws implications for teacher education programs and provides insights towards creating collaborative approaches to teacher education courses.
Numerous studies have shown that early childhood education (ECE) contributes to educational attainment particularly for poor children. Nationally, ECE has gained considerable backing as a viable intervention to propel achievement. As ECE comes to the fore, census figures indicate that Latinos are the fastest growing minority in the United States. Latinos have persistently experienced greater rates of poverty and other risk factors that adversely affect educational attainment. Multiple risk factors as well as a "cultural mismatch" with a school system poised to educate white, middle-class, English-speaking students, raise alarm for the educational trajectories of Latino children just entering schools. Racism and linguicism exist as the social backdrop that informs public opinion regarding the education of Latino preschool children. In this context, bilingual instruction for these children may represent a libratory as well as effective pedagogical approach. This quantitative causal comparative study looks at the combined effectiveness of early childhood education and home language instruction on the English emergent literacy skills of Spanish-speaking preschool students randomly assigned to monolingual instruction or bilingual instruction. Over the course of two early childhood years - Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten -- the students' scores on multiple measures of emergent literacy skills were compared and analyzed. Results indicate that bilingual instruction offers key advantages to Spanish-speaking preschool children that mitigate some of the negative impact of poverty on achievement. Patterns emerge in the results that indicate that bilingual instruction can also potentially neutralize the association between a mother's low educational attainment and decreased achievement for the child. The multiple assessments of emergent literacy skills utilized in this study reveal inadequacies in timed fluency measures, common throughout the United States, for a population that is developing English language skills. This suggests the need for appropriate assessments that do not disadvantage second language learners. As a comprehensive analysis of what occurs in the first two years of school, this study presents compelling evidence. Bilingual instruction emerges as a powerful protective factor for young Latinos which neutralizes substantial risks while it produces comparable rates of achievement with emergent bilinguals receiving instruction only in English.
This study explores ways in which socioeconomic status and disability shape the academic experience of New York City college students with learning disabilities. Despite laws and policies designed to provide them with accommodations, college students with disabilities do not attain higher education at rates equal to their nondisabled peers (NCES, 2000). This mixed methods study examines policies, practices and perceptions at four-year institutions in New York City, and explores how the socioeconomic class of students affects their experience in schools and indicators like attendance patterns, persistence and graduation. Administrative data compiled and analyzed for a sample of baccalaureate-granting institutions in New York City (n=44) show that 43 percent of students city-wide qualify for and receive need-based federal grant aid. Colleges with lower percentages of Pell-usage (higher student body SES) have higher percentages of students with disabilities. Numbers of students with disabilities in New York City are largely underreported at about 3 percent, falling short of state and national averages. Survey data from Disability Services Officers at these institutions (n=21) and interviews with staff and students (n=19) provide supporting quantitative and qualitative data to demonstrate the ways colleges create environments that enable or hinder student success. Theoretical considerations of political economy and meritocracy interrogate the notion of how students are judged to be academically successful. Informed by these data and perspectives, recommendations for policy and practice focus on constructive ways to identify and support all students with disabilities in order to help them succeed in higher education and realize stronger economic futures.
Education Policy and the Mathematics Curriculum in New York City Middle Schools,1958-2002 This study investigates how mathematics education policy and curriculum in New York City changed over the period from 1958 through 2002. It looks at the events leading up to the ¯new math era, the back to basics movement, and the Standards movement initiated by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) in 1989. Since this period is bounded by two important pieces of legislation, the National Defense Education Act (NDEA),1958, and the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) 2001 an assessment of the arguments for and against the federal intervention in education is essential. The research methodology used for this study is the investigation and analysis of primary sources and secondary data. The primary sources consisted of archival data containing records of mathematics education policy decisions, reports of meetings of officials of the New York City Department of Education, and curricula reforms over the last fifty years. The secondary sources of data came from previous mathematics education studies in the research community, including national studies that had selected New York City as a local site. Also, major pieces of relevant scholarly work on mathematics education were consulted. After a thorough review of the relevant literature and a careful study of the data obtained from the various source documents, it could be argued that notwithstanding the best efforts of many chancellors: a) the decline of the mathematics scores as students move from the elementary to the middle grades was never fundamentally better; b) the overall mathematics scores in grades 3 through 8 are still unsatisfactory; c) the achievement gap between students in poor neighborhoods and their more affluent counterparts is still cause for concern; and, d) there is still a persistent shortage of mathematics teachers in New York City schools. I further argue that since these problems have defied all attempts to solve them under the present system, it is obvious that a more concerted effort need to be made to understand the reason for these failures in the interest of the city`s children.
ABSTRACT Educational and Occupational Aspirations of Undocumented Youth by Alejandra Maria Varela Advisor: Dr. Nicholas Michelli This study explored the educational and occupational aspirations of a group of undocumented Mexican youth by using quantitative and qualitative methods. A total of 125 participants, 62 documented and 63 undocumented, participated in the quantitative part. From this overall total of participants ten, (five males and five females) participated in in-depth interviews. The results of the quantitative phase indicated that the undocumented youth aspire to acquire a post-secondary education at almost the same rate as the documented youth despite the fact that they are unauthorized, have spent an average of ten years in the States and are not fully proficient in English. The fact that they are undocumented and face serious barriers in accomplishing these dreams did not act as a major barrier in precluding from having high aspirations. Consistent with the quantitative analysis, the qualitative data also showed that the undocumented youth are highly confident in their belief that having a higher education would eventually lead them to obtain the jobs they want even though they face such structural barriers. Time and time again during the interviews the youth explained the importance of education in their lives and asserted the fact that they want to have jobs where they are respected and where they can make enough money to support their own families. In the interviews, the youth demonstrated an awareness of how their condition of illegality might prevent them from reaching their goals, and while this is a source of great distress, confusion and uncertainty, they still continue to persevere in looking for any educational and employment opportunities available to them.
This dissertation illuminates relationships between micro-level practices of schools and macro-level structures of society through the socio-historical lens of New York State Regents mathematics examinations, which were administered to public school students throughout the State of New York between 1866 and 2009, inclusive. Fundamental research questions involved in this study are: 1) How has the classification, framing, and assessment of Regents level mathematics curricula in the public schools of New York changed since 1866?: and 2) How has popularization influenced the contents, structure and academic rigor of Regents mathematics examinations? Basil Bernstein's theory of educational transmissions provides a theoretical framework for the study, as does the lens of credentials theory. Expectations and beliefs based on theory and historical narrative are subjected to critical and empirical analyses using a longitudinal research sample containing 204 Regents mathematics examinations with 5,508 individual problems, representing the entire population of extant Regents mathematics examinations administered in the years 1866, 1870, 1880, 1890, 1900, 1909, 1920, 1930, 1940, 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000 and 2009.
Social capital theory, and to a lesser extent, cultural capital theory, have become popular theoretical constructs for understanding the replication of SES both in and out of schools. Hundreds of studies have demonstrated connected a student's stock of social and cultural capital and academic success. Fewer studies, however, have analyzed the various dimensions of social capital to gain a more nuanced understanding of how it may contribute to academic success, and fewer still have gone beyond the individual to study social and cultural capital at a school-wide level in order to understand it as the communal property of a group the way that Bourdieu and Putnam have theorized. This mixed method study uses pathway, multiple regression analysis to evaluate the interrelationships between various forms of social and cultural capital and measure their relative power to predict urban high school graduation rates. This meso-level study uses the school as the unit of analysis and considers school size, income levels and racial and ethnic mix. The qualitative portion of the study then reports on subsequent interviews of students from a school with robust levels of social and cultural capital in order to explore how these resources were transmitted, generally through extracurricular activities, to the students and how they may have used them to facilitate their graduation. The results of both the quantitative and qualitative portions of the study support the hypotheses that extracurricular activities facilitate the attainment of peer and institutional social capital, and that the presence of these forms of social capital, along with teacher social capital and robust information networks, predict a school's level of norms and sanctions (safety) which, in turn, is a strong determinant of graduation rates. The demographic analysis indicated that small schools tend to be more successful in building the social capital of its students and teachers, and that social capital is a more significant predictor of graduation in schools with high levels of minority students.


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Gap Inc. Approves New $1 Billion Share Repurchase Authorization
Gap Inc. (NYSE: GPS) today announced that its Board of Directors approved a new $1 billion share repurchase authorization for the company's common stock, reinforcing the company's commitment to returning excess cash to shareholders.
The new $1 billion repurchase program for Gap Inc.'s stock follows the company's previous $1 billion share repurchase program, which was completed during the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2012. The company repurchased approximately 17 million shares for about $539 million during the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2012 to date.
"We're pleased to have distributed close to $1.2 billion in cash to shareholders year to date in the form of dividends and share repurchases," said Sabrina Simmons, chief financial officer of Gap Inc. "This additional authorization to repurchase stock reflects the continued strength of Gap Inc.'s free cash flow generation in supporting both growth initiatives and cash distributions."
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"Young Justice: Legacy" Game Delayed Until November
Fri, August 2nd, 2013 | Category: TV/Film
Developer Little Orbit has pushed back the release of its "Young Justice: Legacy" video game, saying it it will now be available for Wii and Nintendo 3DS in addition to the previously announced PlayStation 3, Xbox 36
Millar & Gibbons' "The Secret Service" Recruits Samuel L Jackson
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Samuel L. Jackson has been cast as the villain in "The Secret Service," director Matthew Vaughn's adaptation of the Marvel/Icon miniseries by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons.
Layman and Guillory's "Chew" Takes Another Stab (Or Two) at Television
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John Layman and Rob Guillory's hit Image Comics title "Chew" is getting another shot at television following Showtime's decision to pass on developing the comic into a live-action series.
Cosplay Photo Shoot Spooks Boca Raton Residents, Police
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What began Saturday night in Boca Raton, Florida, as a seemingly harmless photo shoot for an upcoming comics convention, quickly turned into a tense confrontation with police. ROBOT 6 has the details.
The CW's "Flash" Series Will Spin Out of Three-Part "Arrow" Storyline
Wed, July 31st, 2013 | Category: TV/Film
Elaborating on The CW's plans to develop a "Flash" television series, Andrew Kreisberg and Geoff Johns have revealed details on how Barry Allen's "Arrow" debut will lead to the fully-costumed hero's own show.
Morrison's "Wonder Woman" is a 'Mother and Daughter Story'
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Grant Morrison's remarks about eroticism and S&M in early "Wonder Woman" comics left many wondering what direction he planned to take in "Wonder Woman: Earth One," and ROBOT 6 has some answers.
UPDATE: CW Fast-Tracks "Flash," Puts "Amazon" on Hold
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The CW has confirmed its plans to fast-track a "Flash" drama with the pilot to be written by Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg and Geoff Johns, and has put the Wonder Woman origin "Amazon" on hold.
Thrillbent Launches Download-to-Own Digital Comics Store
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Two New "LEGO Marvel Super Heroes" Trailers Tease Stan Lee
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New "LEGO Marvel Super Heroes" trailers introduce the larger side of the Marvel Universe as well as the first look at Stan Lee as a playable character as he web-swings and Hulks out.
First Posters for "X-Men: Days of Future Past" Merge Magnetos, Xaviers
Tue, July 23rd, 2013 | Category: TV/Film
Fox has released the first two posters for Bryan Singer's "X-Men: Days of Future Past," images which seamlessly blend the faces of stars Patrick Stewart & James McAvoy and Ian McKellen & Michael Fassbender.
SDCC: "Avengers: Age of Ultron" Isn't Based on Miniseries, Doesn't Involve Hank Pym
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In a pair of new interviews, Joss Whedon clarifies that the "Avengers" sequel is unrelated to the recent Marvel Comics miniseries, and says that an Ultron origin story doesn't require Hank Pym.
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The Ryan Reynolds-Jeff Bridges supernatural comedy "R.I.P.D.," based on Dark Horse's 2000 comics series, was buried at the domestic box office by the record-breaking horror film "The Conjuring."
SDCC: Marvel Releases "Guardians" Poster Art, Cast Photos
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Marvel Studios has released photos from its Hall H event at Comic-Con International featuring the stars - and poster art - for "Guardians of the Galaxy" and "Avengers: Age of Ultron."
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The executive producers of "Arrow" announced at Comic-Con International that Michael Jai White will guest star in Season 2 as Bronze Tiger while Kevin Alejandro will appear as Sebastian Blood, inspired by DC's Baron Blood.
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Sat, July 20th, 2013 | Category: TV/Film
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"Clone," the sci-fi thriller from Image Comics' Skybound imprint, is being developed for television with writer David Schulner penning the pilot script and Robert Kirkman serving as executive producer.
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SDCC: Cobie Smulders Guest Stars in "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." Pilot
Fri, July 19th, 2013 | Category: TV/Film
With the screening of the "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." pilot at Comic-Con International comes confirmation that Cobie Smulders appears as Maria Hill in a cameo role.
SDCC: "Kick-Ass 2" Unleashes Extended Red-Band Trailer
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Timed to coincide with the Comic-Con International panel, Universal Pictures has debuted an extended red-band trailer for "Kick-Ass 2" featuring lots of profanity and violence, and a little John Romita Jr. artwork.


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I feel quite sick with myself when I think that my vanity almost stopped me from adopting my cat, Theadora. She looked great on paper: "Aristocratic feline needs parent. Would prefer to be an only cat." At her foster home, my husband said, "She seems perfect; why are you hesitating?" I waited a beat then confessed meekly, "Her head is too small for her body, and you know how they say you look like your pet? She'll remind people of my proportion issues."
"Okay, insane person," said my kind husband. Of course I ended up adopting: Imagine if no one had taken me in! But this close call reminded me that, although my self-image has improved as I've gotten older, there's still a kernel of the old shame.
In your teens and early twenties, manyI'd dare to say mostwomen have days, or just PMS-straitened hours, when something about their appearance strikes them as intolerable, monstrous. Like a distorted Picasso subject, the parts fragment, and minor imperfections fill the mirror frame.
By your thirties, hopefully your body has been loved by someone over the longer haul, and other priorities take precedence. You focus more on your overall effect. A pimple's significance is no greater than its real one-millimeter size. As I hit 40 I'm through with the writhing I'm-unacceptable-as-I-am agony (too fat, too droopy, too pimply, feet too big, hair too lank) of my twenties; all of those specifics have lost the power to derail me. But the vestige of that feeling has migrated to my head. Quelle coincidence.
I'm convinced that it's too small for my body, and only if I'm at an impossible-to-maintain weight (for me that would be 123 pounds for my 5'7" height) do I look balanced. Could it be that, even in its death throes, my low self-esteem exerts such power that after tons of self-actualization work (if you will) I've managed to literalize my successfully shrunken head, turning it into a negative?!
We can pause here for a moment and acknowledge the delightful mockability of talking about this singular anxiety: What will women's magazines make us neurotic about next? But that's a simplistic and, frankly, depressing take on one of the great benefits of being female: unpacking the minutiae of appearance until the issues transcend their initial narcissism to become universal-truth searches, bonding devices, maybe even... art!
Since I've started investigating the small head problem, women have been coming out of the woods, like shy, silky chipmunks, to chitchat about their own tiny tops. As befits us, these conversations always involve the requisite "But you don't have a too-small head." "Yes, I do! You don't!" I hear that even Anne Hathaway thinks hers is too small. The problem with small-head "syndrome" is that, unless it's extreme, it's subjective. Part of what bothers me is that no matter what I wear with my tapered dome, I think I'll look unfashionable. Here's the logic: Actors are known to have large heads, which are thought to translate better to the screen, and the actress as determiner of beauty ideals has never been stronger. The large coconut is ascendant. Maybe the anorexic star doesn't want a thin body, she wants a big head.
I ask casting director Meredith Tucker (who, I might add, has a nice-size cranium with tons of curly hair to add to the effect) if the cliché about actors is even true. "Hmm," Tucker ponders, "I saw Carey Mulligan in The Seagull on Broadway and thought, Here's this amazing actress, but she'll never make it on screen; her head is too small. Then she did. So I think it's a myth." She pulls away from the receiver to consult her associate. "Yes!" she hollers. "It is true." I hear the words "Philip Seymour Hoffman" in the distance.
Justin Gelband, a celebrity trainer widely known for his ability to expertly tweak the proportions of his supermodel clientele (Miranda Kerr, Suvi Koponen), refuses to verify the other half of the chestnut: Actresses have big heads, models have small ones.
"That's BS," he says, and in any event, he's not interested in making generalizations, he's interested in me. "All my girls have something they hate. Our bodies are mirages. There is something else going on if you think your head is too small. You need to come see me in person so we can discuss it."


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Most people still believe that the best way to manage their money is to either pick stocks themselves or pay for trusted advice from investment advisers, brokers, or
mutual fund managers so that they can "beat the market." But for years, sophisticated families and elite institutions have achieved superior returns with a very
different method of investing that was developed by Economics and Finance Nobel Laureates.
Their secret involves implementing a sophisticated asset allocation strategy with a globally diversified portfolio, keeping investment costs low and rebalancing their portfolios as markets ebb and flow. Because they don't pick stocks and they don't try to time the market, they have less stress than active traders. They are investing, not gambling.
With MarketRiders you too can, implement these strategies for your Core portfolio.
Want to play a hunch or capitalize on an insight you might have on a market trend? Make those investments in what experts call your "Explore" portfolio. But by managing your Core portfolio with MarketRiders, you will rest assured that you are doing right for you and your family by standing on the shoulders of some of the best investment minds in the world.
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professionals to provide outstanding investment returns.
But largely because of fees they charge, these pros fall tragically short of the index they compete against. In any given year, and depending on the index of comparison, 80% of money managers underperform the market. The real travesty is seen when you evaluate this performance out over time. Within ten years, over 90% of the pros underperform, and after 20 years, 97% underperform.
And worse for you, these management fees and taxes can mean the difference between your retirement in luxury or living in a tent.
Even a conservative analysis shows you're probably paying 3% of all your money every year, to have others help you manage it. Mutual funds charge annual loads averaging 1.25% and hidden 12b1 marketing expenses that together cost you on average about 1.5% a year. If you use an investment advisor, add another 1% to 1.5% a year. Finally, have you checked the taxes you're paying on your investments? On average mutual fund taxes erode 1% - 2% off your returns because managers churn all the stocks an average of once every 18 months. This produces capital gains and dreaded taxes each April 15th.
A MarketRiders portfolio is constructed using the lowest-cost, most tax efficient, well-constructed exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that have average annual fees of 0.2%. You might not think that's a big difference. But here's how big it is. Take a $100,000 portfolio. Using the long-term average growth of stock and bond portfolio of 8% a year, compounding your gains over 20 years, and deducting the 3% in fees and taxes, you'd have $265,329. But if your fees and taxes were 0.2% instead of 3%, you would have $449,133.
That's over a 70% difference! All based upon a tiny difference in fees and taxes of 2.8%.
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|Since 1985, Mr. Swensen has been responsible for managing and investing Yale's endowment assets and investment funds, which total about $22 billion. Realizing an annual return of more than 17.2 percent on his investments over the last ten years, Swensen has added more than $16 billion to Yale's coffers. According to an analysis by investment fund research firm Morningstar, Mr. Swensen's performance tops 99% of U.S.-based mutual funds.
Mr. Swensen's book "Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment," describes the MarketRiders investment approach. Swensen states that investors should hold six asset classes. Once target asset allocations have been set, a portfolio should rebalanced regularly to stay close to the targets. Few individual investors have the time or resources to pick stocks. "Individuals who attempt to compete with resource-rich money management organizations simply provide fodder for large institutional cannon," he writes. Well-constructed indexes from non-profit fund companies like Vanguard are the best way for most investors to own index funds.
|John Bogle invented index fund investing, the principal tool used by MarketRiders. Most people do not know that Bogle formed Vanguard as a non-profit organization in order to protect working Americans from the onerous fees charged by Wall Street. Mr. Bogle took a lot of flack over this unique concept of an index fund and was even labeled Un-American. Vanguard is now the 2nd largest fund organization in the world with current assets totaling $1 trillion.
In a speech to West Point graduates Mr. Bogle states: "You'll just have to forgive my continuing enthusiasm for indexing and my unshakable conviction that low-cost index funds are the way...listen to Jack Meyer, the former manager of Harvard's incredibly successful endowment fund: 'The investment business is a giant scam. Most people think they can find fund managers who can outperform, but most people are wrong. You should simply hold index funds. No doubt about it.'"
MarketRiders couldn't agree more. Our portfolios are built using index funds and have consistently benchmarked better than active management.
|Dr. Malkiel is an economist and writer, most famous for his classic finance book A Random Walk Down Wall Street (now in its 9th edition). Dr. Malkiel also served as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers, President of the American Finance Association, and Dean of the Yale School of Management.
In his 9th and latest book, "A Random Walk Guide To Investing.." Dr. Malkiel wrote an investment book for the layperson which effectively summarizes the MarketRiders methodology of investing in low index funds across several asset classes reflecting an individual's optimal asset allocation. Malkiel outlines the benefits of index funds including lower operating costs, lower turnover, and greater tax efficiency. These advantages enable index funds to beat actively managed funds by 2 percentage points annually over time.
|Mr. Bernstein has become a well-known investment author, having written "The Four Pillars of Investing," and "The Intelligent Asset Allocator." Mr. Bernstein has been a critic of Wall Street and proposes that investors buy a well-diversified portfolio of index funds based upon their risk-return profile.
Mr. Bernstein outlines the MarketRiders approach by writing extensively to help investors arrives at the "right" mix of assets while also pointing out that if over the past 10 or 20 years an investor had simply held a portfolio consisting of one quarter each of indexes of large U.S. stocks, small U.S. stocks, foreign stocks and high quality U.S. bonds, he would have beaten over 90% of all professional money managers and with considerably less risk.
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The multisubunit eukaryotic translation initiation factor (eIF) 4F recruits 40S ribosomal subunits to the 5' end of mRNA. The eIF4F subunit eIF4E interacts directly with the mRNA 5' cap structure. Assembly of the eIF4F complex is inhibited by a family of repressor polypeptides, the eIF4E-binding proteins (4E-BPs). Binding of the 4E-BPs to eIF4E is regulated by phosphorylation: Hypophosphorylated 4E-BP isoforms interact strongly with eIF4E, whereas hyperphosphorylated isoforms do not. 4E-BP1 is hypophosphorylated in quiescent cells, but is hyperphosphorylated on multiple sites following exposure to a variety of extracellular stimuli. The PI3-kinase/Akt pathway and the kinase FRAP/mTOR signal to 4E-BP1. FRAP/mTOR has been reported to phosphorylate 4E-BP1 directly in vitro. However, it is not known if FRAP/mTOR is responsible for the phosphorylation of all 4E-BP1 sites, nor which sites must be phosphorylated to release 4E-BP1 from eIF4E. To address these questions, a recombinant FRAP/mTOR protein and a FRAP/mTOR immunoprecipitate were utilized in in vitro kinase assays to phosphorylate 4E-BP1. Phosphopeptide mapping of the in vitro-labeled protein yielded two 4E-BP1 phosphopeptides that comigrated with phosphopeptides produced in vivo. Mass spectrometry analysis indicated that these peptides contain phosphorylated Thr-37 and Thr-46. Thr-37 and Thr-46 are efficiently phosphorylated in vitro by FRAP/mTOR when 4E-BP1 is bound to eIF4E. However, phosphorylation at these sites was not associated with a loss of eIF4E binding. Phosphorylated Thr-37 and Thr-46 are detected in all phosphorylated in vivo 4E-BP1 isoforms, including those that interact with eIF4E. Finally, mutational analysis demonstrated that phosphorylation of Thr-37/Thr-46 is required for subsequent phosphorylation of several carboxy-terminal serum-sensitive sites. Taken together, our results suggest that 4E-BP1 phosphorylation by FRAP/mTOR on Thr-37 and Thr-46 is a priming event for subsequent phosphorylation of the carboxy-terminal serum-sensitive sites.
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As previously reported by the NRA-ILA in December, there is an effort underway in Nevada to ban the use of hounds while hunting black bear. The Nevada Board of Wildlife Commissioners (NVBWC) will be once again hearing a petition to impose this ban at its meeting in Las Vegas this Friday, February 1, and it is likely that action will be taken on this issue. Their agenda and guidelines for public comment can be viewed here (petition details are under 5 and guidelines are under 14).
Hunting with dogs is a tradition that continues across the country. Many dog breeds with select characteristics for hunting can be traced back for thousands of years. Seventeen states allow bear hunting with dogs. The use of hounds for hunting has never been shown to have an adverse impact on wildlife numbers. Biologists and other wildlife experts determine regulations and bag limits, just as they do with other hunting seasons.
The list of advocates for this petition reads like a who's who of "animal rights"/anti-hunting extremists, including the Humane Society of the United States, No Bear Hunt NV, Nevada Political Action for Animals, The Bear League and the American Society to Prevent Cruelty to Animals based in northern California. Emboldened by the total ban on the use of hounds for hunting in California last year, it has been a long-held mission for these groups to ban bear hunting altogether and this is the first step toward that end. Additionally, as we previously reported, Governor Brian Sandoval recently appointed anti-hunting activist, Karen Layne, to the NVBWC.
The NVBWC is responsible for establishing broad policy, setting annual and permanent regulations, reviewing budgets and receiving input on wildlife and boating matters from entities such as the seventeen county advisory boards to manage wildlife.
Please attend this commission meeting this Friday and respectfully express your opposition to this petition. This meeting will be held at 9:30 a.m. at the Nevada State Museum located at 309 South Valley View Boulevard in Las Vegas. Public comment will be allowed on each action item and is limited to three minutes. Also, please contact commission members in opposition to this petition using the information is provided below.
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A Conversation Between Two Friends
By Nii Sapei, 19-year-old, Ghana
Tano : I don't believe in God, even if He does exist.
Kofi : Oh! Why?
Tano : Coz' if there is a God, He won't allow all the evils in the world to continue. If He had such power, He could just end it all.
Kofi : Mmmm. But have you considered if God were to end all the evils in this world, I bet He would have to wipe us out too, doesn't He? Think about it. You might be saying, "But hey, I'm a cool guy." Yes, you are, but what about your utter disrespect for the elderly, your disobedience, drunkenness, gossip and stuff like that?
Tano : Look, I'm a relatively cool guy. I used to steal and tell lies, but I have gotten over them. Turned over a new leaf, dude. So what are you talking about?
Kofi : So are you justifying yourself now? You know, it isn't the evil that must be stopped or the robbery that must end. It's not the situation that must change; it's us. It's us who've got to change. Humans resist change but that's what we need. When we change, circumstances around us will change too cos we are going to influence in a positive manner what goes on in our world. In this way, evil can be put out!
Tano : Oooh I see. I…I….I guess you are right. Ok. So how can I change?
Kofi : Now we are getting somewhere. We need to change but we can't do it on our own. We need help. The Psalmist says, "I will lift up mine eyes to the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth" (Psalm 121: 1-2). God alone is our help, our very present help. He alone can cause the change we desperately need in our lives and He does it through His Son Jesus Christ. "If anyone be in Christ, he is a new creation: old things are passed away, behold all things have become new" (2 Corinthians 5:17). Change starts when we surrender to Jesus. Change starts when we believe in our hearts and confess with our mouths that Jesus is LORD, to the glory of God the Father. Change is from the inside out.
Tano : Then I want to be changed!
Kofi : Let's talk to Jesus together.
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Its surprising to know that God loves us so much but we get too immersed in life even to notice some small things he does for us.So if what we have in our hands isnt what we need we give it to him itll be our seeds.
This is a clarion call to continue to appreciate, thank & praise HIM,
considering that HE is the author & finisher of our faith. let's start now…
wow,it helped me for our orals & my miss told very good she asked me that from where did you took this conversation so i told that i took it from the book i told lies so she should appreciate me & not scold me
pratiksha…u indian???
That's a good one,do keep it up- I pray God to change Tano and the likes. Amen!
@ Danny Joy, I don't understand; pls, help!
Ok i am understand


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Gary Jones is a federal magistrate judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida. He was appointed to this position on September 01, 2010.[1]
Judge Jones received his B.A. degree from Boston University in 1975, his J.D. degree from the University of Miami School of Law in 1981, and his LL.M. degree in International Law from the New York University School of Law in 1983.[2]
Judge Jones began his career as a civil trial lawyer in Florida. He began at a large firm in Miami and later became a partner in a small litigation firm. He also worked as a part-time magistrate judge in the Northern District of Florida before he appointment to the Middle District in 2000.[2] In 2010, he was appointed back to the Northern District as a full-time magistrate judge.[3]
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Scott D. Pierce: 'Growing Up Fisher' sounds unreal but isn't
The premise of the perfectly charming NBC comedy "Growing Up Fisher" (Tuesdays, 8:30 p.m., Channel 5) seems positively preposterous.
Mel Fisher (J.K. Simmons) is a great dad and a successful lawyer who has always hidden the fact that he's blind. Until, that is, Mel and his wife, Joyce (Jenna Elfman), decide to divorce, and he comes out as sightless and gets a guide dog.
That's sort of a tough pill for his young son, Henry (Eli Baker) — who has been Mel's de facto guide offspring — to take.
Hard to believe? Sure. But truth is stranger than fiction.
"It's based on my childhood," said creator/executive producer DJ Nash. "My dad went blind when he was 11 and hid his blindness from pretty much everyone outside the family for a long, long time. And then when my parents were getting divorced, he got a guide dog so he could be the dad he wanted to be even though he didn't have the help he had before. And so we went from sort of helping him hide this secret to him becoming a poster child for the blind."
Even that scene in the first episode in which the sightless father cuts down a tree with a chainsaw was mined from Nash's childhood.
"I laugh when I think of when my dad was cutting down a tree with a chainsaw," Nash said. "I mean, that happened, and it's really funny. And I think the distance of telling it as a flashback lets us laugh."
While Nash lived through all of this in the 1980s, "Fisher" is set in the present day. And Jason Bateman, providing the voice of the grown Henry, narrates the show from the future, much as in "How I Met Your Mother."
What's more unexpected than the blindness is that "Fisher" deals with divorcing parents in a way that seems real and idealized at the same time.
Mel and Joyce are far from perfect, but they are really great parents to Henry and his older sister, Katie (Ava Deluca-Verley).
"What is true of my parents — and what is true of these parents — is that they never let the fact that they're getting divorced keep them from being amazing parents," Nash said.
There's no arguing that, while it's based on real life, the hook for "Growing Up Fisher" is unusual. But it doesn't overwhelm a surprisingly sweet, funny show about regular folks.
"It's a universal story," Nash said. "It's a story about a family who in times of great need are selfless for the sake of family."
It's not just for blind, um, viewers or blind writers, either.
"Disappointingly, as a writer on the show, my parents stayed together, and my dad can see," joked executive producer Tucker Cawley. "But I've been able to overcome those obstacles and contribute because what we're really doing is bringing stories of being parents and being kids and then telling them through this, kind of, just very specific original viewpoint."
Scott D. Pierce covers TV for The Salt Lake Tribune. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com; follow him on Twitter @ScottDPierce.


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