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Porter (carrier)
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|Look up porter or carrier in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
A porter, also called a bearer, is a person who shifts objects for others. The word derives from the Latin portare (to carry).[1]
Historical meaning[edit]
Human adaptability and flexibility led to the early use of humans for shifting gear. Uneven terrain, such as in mountains, alleyways and markets, and a lack of formed roads, such as in jungle, makes the use of porters economical where one can hire people to shift inexpensively.
Porters were used commonly as human beasts of burden in the ancient world, when labor was generally cheap, especially in societies that depended on slavery. The ancient Sumerians, for example, enslaved women to shift wool and flax.
In the Americas, where there were few native animals of burden, all goods were carried by porters called Tlamemes in the Nahuatl language of Mesoamerica. In colonial times, some areas of the Andes employed porters called silleros to carry persons, particularly Europeans, as well as their luggage across the difficult mountain passes.
The use of bearers for litters to shift persons of rank or religious idols, especially in formal processions, seems to have extended their practical function into that of ceremonial status symbol in the often conservative protocol of court and cult, a role continued into the 20th century with the papal sedia gestatoria and possibly echoed in the modern funeral pallbearer.
Porters, in this sense, continued to work in warehouses well into the 20th century.[2]
Current meaning[edit]
Porters are still employed to shift burdens in many third-world countries, especially where animals like camels, oxen, horses and dogs, or vehicles like carts, trucks, ships, trains and aircraft, have not taken over human bearers' traditional functions or where such alternatives are not practicable. Child soldiers are also typically compelled to serve as porters.
The Sherpa people of Nepal have established a reputation as mountaineering porters, and are considered indispensable for the highest Himalayan expeditions.
Porters who work at railway stations in India are called coolies, a term for unskilled Asian labourers. The term "coolie" was also used in China for porters in general.
The term "porter" is also used in general for hotel, railway, hospital and airport employees who shift luggage.
In many public places such as airports, border crossings, sea ports and railway stations, porters are often a nuisance to tourists, shifting their luggage without permission and demanding excessive fees.
North American terminology[edit]
The industry-specific terms bellhop (hotel porter), redcap (railroad station porter) and skycap (airport porter) are used in North America. Railroad station porters (not train porters) traditionally wear distinctive red-colored caps for easy identification, contrasting with the caps in blue or other colors, normally worn by other train personnel. This practice originated with an African-American porter named John Williams who devised it in order to stand out from the crowds at Grand Central Terminal on Labor Day of 1890;[3] the success of his strategy led to its adoption by others in the profession.[4]
Employees of car rental and new and used auto dealerships tasked with shifting and preparing cars for use or sale are called porters.[citation needed]
The Dufresne Group Inc. (Ashley Furniture Homestore and Dufresne Furniture) uses the title 'Porter' for its employees that work in the Warehouse (Shipper/Receiver).
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- Herinneringen aan Japan, 1850 - 1870: Foto's en Fotoalbums in Nederlands Bezit ('s-Gravenhage : Staatsuitgeverij, 1987), pp. 106–107, repr.
- New York Public Library, s.v. "Beato, Felice", cited 21 June 2006.
- ^ The Concise Dictionary of English Etymology, p. 363
- ^ A. Ford (Railway Department, Board of Trade) (1908) "North-Eastern Railway: Date&ndash20th November, 1907. Place–Market Weighton. Name of Person Injured–George H. Hoggard. Age–39. Capacity in which employed–Goods porter" General Report to the Board of Trade upon the Accidents that have Occurred on the Railways of the United Kingdom During the Year 1907 (Series: Papers by Command, Volume 94) His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, page 203
- ^ Drake, St. Clair; Cayton, Horace R. (1970). Black Metropolis. University of Chicago Press. p. 237. ISBN 978-0-226-16234-8.
- ^ Railway Progress. 1950. Retrieved 24 March 2013.


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L to R: Tima Masters, Victoria Mulder, Jason BrinkJason is an excellent writer with eclectic tastes and I spent far too much time last night reading his Crimson Cannonball blog when I should have been dictating my charts. He is also a very talented photographer and you can access a gallery of his images here. I suggest viewing them in the slideshow mode to optimize the experience.
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Today, I made some shoes for a woman who has only walked once in her life. I was walking down the hallway on some errand when I was met by one of the orthopedic surgeons. In his hand he held two shoes, the type you would tie onto the bottom of a cast to make it possible to walk. He asked me if it would be possible to cut the shoes down, to fit smaller feet. I examined the shoes, and asked if I could see the patient who needed them, to get a better feeling for her disability. He had mentioned she had a congenital birth defect that had never been corrected, but nothing could have prepared me for the sight that greeted me when I walked into the room. In the hospital bed (and she is one of the fortunate long term patients who gets an honest-to-goodness bed) lay a woman with a smiling face and bright eyes, her name was Adnisse. Her younger sister, Mali, was at her side. Adnisse was draped with a light sheet, but underneath the sheet I could see the ugly bulky shapes of external straighteners. The end of the sheet was pulled back to reveal her feet...two twisted and broken clubs.
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upholdSyllabification: up·hold
Pronunciation: /ˌəpˈhōld /
Definition of uphold in English:
verb (past and past participle upheld)[with object]
1Confirm or support (something that has been questioned): the court upheld his claim for damages
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- The courts eventually upheld her claim to the property, but only because she had no son to inherit it.
- The release of the film could be halted if a plagiarism claim is upheld by a High Court judge next week.
- A recent Court of Appeal decision upheld an insurer's right to refuse a claim for theft because keys had been left in a car.
confirm, endorse, sustain, approve, agree to, support;
champion, defend
1.1Maintain (a custom or practice): many furniture makers uphold the tradition of fine design
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- As a teacher, he was conservative and upheld the traditional techniques of teaching.
- We shall continue to uphold the noble tradition upon which our church has been built.
- It helps keep the village running smoothly and upholds the village's customs.
maintain, sustain, continue, preserve, protect, champion, defend, keep, hold to, keep alive, keep going, back (up), stand by
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upholder noun
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- Rather I admire the Queen as one of the last upholders of the value of reticence in public life.
- Finally, although many had strong political beliefs, they did not see themselves as upholders of any particular substantive political orthodoxy.
- In fact, the view is that the party has to keep the government on its toes, precisely because governments are by nature conservative and are upholders of the status-quo.
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as somebody who has played games for a living for much of the last 6 years I can honestly say: jesus, omg (dorks). why?
Because you're a douchebag?
Bin playing games for 20 years before it was "cool". The Xbox lot are just gaming Hipsters, frankly. COD and all that. Shiite.
First, been. Second, your first sentence suggests you're a hipster. The second suggests you do not know what a hipster is.


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Blessed with a sharp, powerful voice custom-made for belting, singer-actress Nell Carter, 54, who died on Jan. 23 in her Beverly Hills home after a long struggle with diabetes, was the unruliest of showbiz creatures: an all-around entertainer who never apologized for living large.
Her full figure recalled Mae West and Bessie Smith, but the 4'11'' star had other influences, saying she aimed to be ''Judy Garland without the tragedy.'' Unfortunately, she faced similarly daunting obstacles. Growing up in racially torn Alabama, she witnessed her father's death when he stepped on a power line; she was raped at 16. In her 30s, she battled cocaine addiction. (Ironically, Garland's daughter Liza Minnelli sent her to rehab.) She lost a brother to AIDS in 1989, and suffered a brain aneurysm three years later.
Luckily, Carter's vivaciousness propelled her through myriad setbacks -- and onto Broadway. After moving to New York City at 19, she warbled through a smoky circuit of clubs before making her stage debut with Richard Gere in the 1970 musical Soon. She followed with roles in Jesus Christ Superstar, Hair, and the Fats Waller musical revue Ain't Misbehavin', which earned her a Tony in 1978. In 1983, Carter and costar Andre De Shields won Emmys for the show's TV version.
Carter finally became a household name -- and earned two Emmy nods -- playing saucy housekeeper-cum-surrogate mom Nellie Harper on the '80s NBC comedy Gimme a Break! True to her fiercely outspoken nature, Carter lashed out at critics who complained that her character reinforced outdated ''Mammy'' stereotypes. ''She was a force to be reckoned with,'' recalls costar Telma Hopkins, ''a person with the kind of energy that helped her overcome any limitations.''
And a person with an incredible voice. Says De Shields, ''I'm going to miss that brass band that lived in her throat.''


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Naturalizing Daffodils. Probably nothing in the gardening world is more foolproof and more rewarding than naturalizing' daffodils. Because unlike most other garden flowers, these fantastic plants are super-easy to plant in fall, they don't care about soil, as long as it's well-drained, and they'll bloom beautifully for you with absolutely no work every spring after you plant them. Best of all, daffodils increase over the years, each bulb developing into a blooming clump. All you have to do is pick the spots. The one thing to remember is that you won't be able to mow that area until the tops die down. Everything else takes care of itself. In a new or established wildflower meadow, the wildflower plants grow up around the daffodils hiding the fading foliage, so there's no work to do. And if you're planting wildflower seed, what could be easier that to pop in the bulbs when you have the ground already turned?
About the Wild Daffodils. Like wild tulips which are more the size of crocus, most of the wild daffodils are tiny too. They're generally small wildflowers that have been hybridized by the Dutch into the big tall beauties we know today.
Unlike tulips which are native to Central Asia, daffodils are European wildflowers, native to areas of France, Spain and Portugal.
Holland is not the ancestral home of any bulb flowers. But it's the home of almost all the hybrids, since the Dutch hybridizers have not only created thousands of new flowers gardeners love, they've developed a huge national industry that supplies bulbs to gardeners worldwide.
To a wildgardener, of course, the original un-hybridized species (and their close hybrids) are all interesting, and even better, they're all dependably perennial. Plant them once, and they're there forever. Unlike the hybrids which develop bigger and bigger clumps each year, and have to be divided every few seasons for good bloom, the wild species simply spread, like they do in the wild. So there is absolutely no maintenance for the wild bulbs, once you get them established.
Here are the major wild species:Narcissus tazettaNarcissus triandrusNarcissus pseudonarcissusNarcissis jonquillaNarcissus poeticus recurvusNarcissus clyclamineus
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Comments about American Meadows Tazetta Daffodil Bulbs Geranium:
Gorgeous orange rimmed yellow shallow cups with brilliant white petals. This one was a late bloomer for me which filled in nicely after most of my other daffodils have gone. A rich beautiful fragrance to die for. 1 to 3 flower stems per bulb with multiple 1.5 to 2 inch heads per stem. Definitely one of my favorites in the garden right now. I wouldn't change a thing! The only issue I had was that not all of the bulbs came up. Would definitely recommend adding to anyone's collection.
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I love them, easy to grow, have good scent, beautiful flowers
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I love tazettas
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Each stem produces several flowers so the areas where I planted them look so full. My tazettas are late spring bloomers in WI so they are blooming after my other daffodils have withered. They grow in sun areas and shady parts of my yard too. They ares so easy to plant and grow, and the deer leave them alone.
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since I live in Miami I put my bulbs in water (which I did years before with success) and not one open up that was very disappointed than this year I decided to get a lot of bulbs, because I trusted your quality
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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Several flower bulbs are part of the onion family, and because of this I like to use Onions as a representation of how important bulb size is. Which of the onions on your shelf go bad first? The smallest ones! Larger onions are more resilient, taking longer to dry out/rot and can withstand swings in temperature better. Flower bulbs are the same. Larger bulbs will withstand disease, draught, large amounts of moisture, and colder temperatures significantly better than the smaller ones.
Here at American Meadows we are committed to providing you with the highest quality bulbs. This means we do everything we can to source the largest bulbs possible. Below is a comparison of bulbs purchased from three different retail stores:
Each of the glass tubes contains 20 Dutch Master Daffodils. Starting from the left, the first tube is what is sold here at American Meadows, the middle tube was purchased at a local "Home Supply" box store, and the third is another online retailer. The difference is easily noticeable.
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|Di – stance: versts, miles... (1925)
by , translated by Dmitri Smirnov
|From the collection "After Russia" 1922-1925. Published: Paris, 1928.
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To Boris Pasternak
Di — stance: versts, miles...
Have di — vided, di — vorced us,
To force us to be quiet
In two opposite corners of the world.
Di — stance: versts, horizons...
Have unsticked, unsoldered us,
Moving apart, have crucified,
But they didn't know that we are an alloy
Of inspirations and sinews...
They haven't quarrelled, but scattered,
Stratified us...
The wall and the ditch.
They have settled us apart like two eagles —
Conspirators. Versts, horizons...
Have not disordered but lost us.
They've shoved us like orphans
Into the slums of the earth's latitudes.
Which is it? Which March is it already?!
They've divided us like a pack of cards!
24 March 1925
Other translations[edit]
- Dis-stance: versts, miles... – with no indication of the translator's name
- Distance: versts, miles... – with no indication of the translator's name
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Mexican Wedding Traditions
Madrinas y Padrinos
One of the main Mexican wedding traditions involves the bride and groom choosing a couple to act as their sponsors and mentors. This couple is the 'Madrinas y Padrinos' and act as Mexican godparents. They sponsor the family with both with financial assistance and spiritual and emotional guidance throughout the entire wedding process.
Wedding dress
The bride has a lot of choice when it comes to her dress, but the gowns are always very personal. The fabric for Mexican wedding gowns is important because, according to Mexican wedding traditions, it preserves the identity of the community. Some states tend to use embroidered lace, others use velvet, and the state of Chipas uses chiapanecan textile which they feel is the fabric of the soul. Whichever fabric is used, it is common to have flowers embroidered into the dress. Another one of the Mexican wedding traditions encourages brides to tie three ribbons, yellow, blue and red, on their lingerie under their dress to symbolize the abundance of food, money and passion in the couples' lives to come.
There are two key features unique to Hispanic or Mexican wedding traditions that occur within the full Roman Catholic mass. These are the rituals of the "el lazo" and the "las arres." The first of the two Mexican wedding traditions, the el lazo, is a ritual where the couple is joined by a beaded or jeweled rope placed around their necks in a figure eight formation. The second of the Mexican wedding traditions in the mass is the las arres, where the groom gives the bride thirteen gold coins, representing Christ and his disciples. These two rituals show the couples' commitment to each other and their togetherness. They are the most well known of all the Mexican wedding traditions.
After the
At the reception, guests continue to dance and party. The Mariachi band is the most common choice for music according to Mexican wedding traditions. The band play lively songs for traditional dances like the "money dance" where guests pin money to the new couples' clothes, and the "La Vibora de la Mar" where guests dances hand in hand under a bridge formed by the bride and groom both standing on chairs.
Food and drink
Popular Mexican dishes for entrees or cocktail treats include flavorful rice, beans, corn tortillas, and fajitas, but the main dishes are usually beef or chicken. There are three popular cake choices according to Mexican wedding traditions: either a rum soaked fruit cake, a "3 leches" cake, or an almond cake, all of which are Mexican specialties. Whatever is served, there is usually a lot it, along with tons of alcohol to accommodate the hundreds of guests, traditionally up to 500!
'Torna Boda'
Because Mexicans like to party, the "torna boda" is the last of the Mexican wedding traditions, and essentially is the after party for those party animals who are still going strong when the sun comes up the next day. Tacos or tortillas are served as comfort foods to aid the impending hangovers and the guests retire from a long and exciting day of celebration.


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Janine Denomme is dying. She has advanced colon and liver cancer, and a final wish: to have her funeral at Chicago's St. Gertrude Catholic Parish, where she has devotedly worshipped and served for years.
The only problem is that she was ordained a Roman Catholic Priest last month. And the Catholic Church forbids women from becoming priests. In fact, it kicks them out for doing so.
So, last week, Denomme discovered her funeral wish won't be granted. The church in which she has faithfully worshipped during her life will not be the church in which she is honored after her death.
The decision not to honor Denomme's wish was made by the Archdiocese of Chicago, said the Rev. Dominic Grassi, pastor of St. Gertrude's. "They told me I could not have the funeral here," he said.
In a written statement, the archdiocese outlined the reasoning behind its decision: "Only a baptized man validly receives ordination. Since Christ chose only men to form the 12 apostles, the church recognizes herself to be bound by this choice made by the Lord himself. For this reason, the ordination of women is not possible."
The statement continued that women who are ordained priests and "simulate the sacrament of Holy Orders automatically remove themselves from the Catholic Church."
Still, an organization called Roman Catholic Womenpriests ordained Denomme and continues to ordain women priests and deacons worldwide. The group began in 2002 by ordaining seven women. Today, there are nearly 100 ordained female priests or deacons, including three in the Chicago area, and the number is growing, said Bridget Mary Meehan, a spokeswoman for Roman Catholic Womenpriests.
And Meehan says the ordinations are technically valid: "Our first bishops were ordained by a male bishop with apostolic succession, in full communion with the pope. Therefore, our orders are valid."
Technically valid or not, the Catholic Church's local leaders have denied Denomme's request for a funeral at St. Gertrude's, and that denial has been met with anger, sadness and confusion.
In an online journal entry, Denomme's partner, Nancy Katz, said, "Janine has not yet been able to articulate her reaction to the church hierarchy's decision to refuse her request to have her funeral at St. Gert's."
But Katz imagines that Denomme would take the high road. "It is my fervent belief that Janine would say, 'I want my funeral rite to be a celebration of love and faith. I want it to be inclusive. I do not want my funeral to be a political rally,'" Katz said in the journal.
Still, Katz acknowledged that the decision raises important questions that need to be addressed. "We, both individually and as a community of faith, have to answer the questions posed by the actions of the church hierarchy in rejecting Janine," she wrote.
One of those questions, from Meehan's perspective, is whether the Catholic Church is actually following the word of Christ. "The institutional leaders are contradicting the message of Jesus here, which is love one another," she said. "How is denying a funeral to someone living Christ's example of love for one another just? It's not."
The church's decision to reject Denomme's wish also raises questions of equality, Meehan said. "Pedophiles have been protected and covered up, but women who are stepping up to serve their church, which is in great need at this moment, are being excluded and punished harshly," she said.
Cristina Traina, a Northwestern University religious studies professor with expertise in Roman Catholic theology and feminist theory, explained the ancient roots of the Catholic Church's policy against female priests as a metaphor for marriage.
According to the New Testament, "The priest is supposed to symbolize Christ, who is a spouse of the church. The church is the bride and Christ is the bridegroom," she said. The problem, she continued, is that the bride and groom symbolism is out of touch with contemporary gender roles.
"The metaphor is archaic," she said.
Despite that, the church isn't likely to change its position soon, said Martin Marty, the University of Chicago Divinity School's Fairfax M. Cone distinguished service professor emeritus.
"I think the church is profoundly wrong in its approach. It slights biblical witness to the crucial roles of women," he said. But "it's hard to picture it changing soon."
Roman Catholic Womenpriests are going to keep trying. "We're like the Rosa Parks of the Catholic Church," Meehan said.
"We're not accepting second-class citizenship; we're not going to stand at the back of that bus. We are going to lead this church into its true calling, which is to be a Christ-centered, serving church of the people of God, not a hierarchal, dominating power over the people."
At the end of the day, those close to Janine just want to see her dying wish granted.
"I would love for Janine's final wishes to be respected and her request to be met. Because the one thing we all deserve in life is to have our final wishes be met," Jeremy Carter, a friend of Denomme's, said.
"If [the Catholic Church] spent as much time learning to love as it does separating and telling people that they can't be a part of that religion, the entire world would be a different place," Carter said.
Marty is pragmatic.
"Much as so many would like to see her last rites and memorial and burial a fully sanctioned Roman Catholic event, there's no chance that it will be," Marty said. "Acting in conscience as she did, she can at least die in peace with herself and God, if not with the church and its dogma," he said.


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|Sarah Gonzalez, in blue, a UW-Eau Claire student mentor during the pilot Blugold Beginnings outreach program this spring, enjoyed lunch on the Central Campus Mall with fifth-graders from Sherman Elementary during their field trip day on campus. (UW-Eau Claire photo by Jodi Thesing-Ritter)
EAU CLAIRE — More than 1,000 fifth-graders in west-central Wisconsin will participate during the next academic year in programming aimed at increasing their access to a college education, thanks to a recent $120,000 grant received by the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
On June 8, Gov. Jim Doyle announced UW-Eau Claire's selection for the grant, allocated from the Wisconsin College Access Challenge Grant, which is administered by the Great Lakes Higher Education Guaranty Corp. on behalf of the state. UW-Eau Claire was selected from among nine Wisconsin colleges and universities that competed for the funding to replicate UW-Green Bay's successful Phuture Phoenix program to encourage young at-risk students to pursue higher education.
The grant will support UW-Eau Claire's development of an elementary school component to its Blugold Beginnings program, a multifaceted effort to expand access to college through precollege outreach. Blugold Beginnings also has a high school component, started with reallocated UW-Eau Claire funds, and a middle school component, created with support from a UW System Committee on Baccalaureate Expansion grant.
"We are very excited to work with UW-Green Bay staff who will pass on what they've learned in their six years offering the Phuture Phoenix program in eastern Wisconsin," said Jodi Thesing-Ritter, UW-Eau Claire associate dean of students and principal author of the grant.
The Blugold Beginnings programming for elementary school students will enable UW-Eau Claire to provide as many precollege students as possible with "college knowledge," Thesing-Ritter said.
"By middle school, many students already are getting the message that they can't go to college," whether because their parents didn't attend college, the students have earned poor grades in elementary or middle school, or their families' incomes would not be sufficient to pay college tuition costs, she said. Through Blugold Beginnings, these young students learn that those factors need not be barriers to continuing their education after high school, she said.
This spring, UW-Eau Claire conducted a successful pilot outreach program for elementary students with the fifth-graders from Sherman Elementary School in Eau Claire, Thesing-Ritter said.
"The teachers and kids were very pleased with the program and have talked about it for a month afterward," she said. "With our small sample size for the pilot program, I know we made a big difference in just a little bit of time."
Through Blugold Beginnings, UW-Eau Claire students will serve as tutors and mentors throughout the 2009-10 school year for fifth-graders at the four Eau Claire Area School District schools with the highest rates of students receiving free and reduced lunches, Thesing-Ritter said. A spring 2010 field trip day on the UW-Eau Claire campus also will be provided to fifth-grade students from all Eau Claire district schools and schools in surrounding districts that choose to participate.
The grant money also will support the development of a mentoring and tutoring course in UW-Eau Claire's College of Education and Human Sciences. The course will be available to university students who wish to work as Blugold Beginnings mentors and tutors.
Sarah Gonzalez, a UW-Eau Claire senior psychology major from Sheboygan, has been working as an intern with the Blugold Beginnings program.
"I am so excited that we've received this grant," Gonzalez said. "We now have the chance to show that programs such as this one are effective in providing opportunities to otherwise underrepresented students, and this will hopefully lead to other programs being implemented in the future. I am so proud that this project is finally becoming a reality."
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Judge denies jail sentence reduction for Don Dwyer
Anne Arundel County Delegate Don Dwyer will still be serving jail time during the upcoming General Assembly session.
A judge on Tuesday denied Dwyer's request to reduce his 60-day jail sentence.
Dwyer was convicted of driving under the influence in August and boating under the influence last year.
He began serving his jail time in November only on the weekends.
Dwyer's attorney said the sentence could still be adjusted in the future.
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Just wondering what everyone thought of Devlin fitting into Philbin's offense.
Just wondering what everyone thought of Devlin fitting into Philbin's offense.
"It happens all the time," Taylor said. "It's not an exact science and personnel guys aren't the end-all, be-all. " Jason Taylor,2011
probably will fit into practice squad
When death smiles upon you, the Infantry man smiles back. WV says Im not a patriot and Jeff Ireland is a Boss so it must be true.
We will sign Peyton, draft someone 2nd or 3rd, cut Devlin. He has no business being in the NFL!!!
Im all for keeping him on practice squad he might develop
I don't get the infatuation with a bonafide clipboard holder. 2nd string clipboard holder at that.
"Fundamentals, technique, execution -- primary. Scheme -- secondary."
"We will incorporate an aggressive, up-tempo, attacking style in all three phases of the game."
"Our team will play with discipline, poise, and maximum effort."
"I want us to be the best tackling team in the NFL, the best team in pursuit, I want to take the ball away from other teams, I want to rattle the opposing quarterback every opportunity we get."
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people way overrated him but A second year on practice squad could not be a bad idea
Trade him to the Rams for their pick, with the potential of Devlin we probably don't even need to trade our 1st!
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I know that I haven't been around in a very long time.
Honestly, I don't have a reason.
I guess I was putting my energies in other areas, including my art and photography.
In addition to that, I recently left Ohio.
Now, I live in Texas.
The move to Texas caused a cancellation in our most recently planned trip to Walt Disney World (June 2013)
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That means that by the time we make it back to Florida, we will have not been there in 9 months.
While 9 months may not seem like that long for most people, it is the equivalent of the "normal" family, who goes once every couple of years, to take a five or six year break.
To put it in perspective, we went to Walt Disney World five times last year.
Five times!
I will be returning in September for our annual trip to celebrate our son's birthday.
Trust me, we are counting down the days.
In the mean time, we are doing the last minute planning ans counting down the days.
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Grapevine has it that Raipur North and Raipur Rural are two sure-shot wins for the Congress, thanks to a weak BJP nominee in one and non-performance in the other.
The real thriller would play out at Raipur South and West, where two sitting BJP ministers are in the fray. In the first, all eyes are on mayor Kiranmayi Nayak of the Congress, who is taking on the BJP's five-time winner PWD and tourism minister Brijmohan Agrawal, and people rate her chances high. Why the constituency would suddenly ditch Agrawal is not clear, but the overall grouse of scam taint, insipid governance, bad infrastructure, growing traffic troubles, and plain anti-incumbency might have something to do with it.
Party insiders claim Agrawal has persuaded 22 Muslims and one Dalit to stand as independents so they might cut the minority and Dalit votes. But Nayak is confident. "Agrawal's brothers are into extortion and his corrupt record is well known. People are fed up," she said.
In Raipur West, housing minister Rajesh Munot, who has held fort for a decade now, is apparently going neck and neck with his Congress rival, Rahul brigade member Vikas Upadhyay. The minister has been accused of being involved in a multi-crore scam over the allotment of a mall contract, something that is expected to affect his poll prospects.
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At Fireside, you can share what's on your mind about education.
Noted that several people on Fireside seemed delighted by Michigan Professor Gary Miron's attacks on KIPP. Having been on a panel with Miron, I can report that he regards the charter movement as a "distraction." He is hardly a neutral observer (neither am I).
But I know several of you share his views that the real problem with students is too many poor people - and that schools can't overcome this.
You may want to read the response from KIPP to Miron's assertions (Below) - although given the deep ideological, quasi religious belief that some have about poverty and students, Kipp's response won't make much difference for some.
There certainly is evidence that poverty has a huge impact, and makes progress for some students more difficult. There also is evidence that a number of district and charter schools have been able to overcome the impact of poverty.
I realize ignoring this research makes it easier for educators to justify failure. I've been hearing about this for literally 40 years. How sad for the students.
Joe Nathan, former inner city public school teacher & administrator & PTA president
Statement by KIPP regarding report: "What Makes KIPP Work?" by Dr. Gary Miron and colleagues at Western Michigan University
March 30, 2010
At KIPP, we welcome any rigorous and objective review of our schools. We have participated on several occasions with outside, independent reviews, such as the 2010 study by Mathematica Policy Research.
Today we received a copy of the report "What Makes KIPP Work? A Study of Student Characteristics, Attrition and School Finance," by Dr. Gary Miron, Jessica L. Urschel, and Nicholas Saxton at Western Michigan University (WMU). In our quick read of the WMU report we observe significant shortcomings in the methodologies used, and must therefore reject the core conclusions made by Miron, et al. about KIPP.
While this report focuses on some very fundamental issues for KIPP—student enrollment, attrition, and finances—its findings do not hold up to scrutiny. We have identified, based on our quick review of the report, multiple factual misrepresentations and errors of analysis, which we would like to address.
For example, the WMU report claims that KIPP received $5,760 per student in private funding for the 2008 fiscal year. However, this result is based on an analysis of only half of our schools, and includes at least two instances where private revenue for regions was misclassified -- including not distinguishing between funds for operating versus capital expenses. When we look at correctly classified data for these two KIPP regions, and include all KIPP schools that were in operation that year, the number drops to approximately $2,500 per student.
We have included a fact sheet with a closer examination of inaccuracies the WMU report's data and methodology. Given the limited time we have had to review the document, we are not assuming that this is by any means a comprehensive review.
Fact Sheet: A Closer Look at the Data: "What Makes KIPP Work?
In the March 2011 report "What Makes KIPP Work? A Study of Student Characteristics, Attrition and School Finance," Dr. Gary Miron and his colleagues at Western Michigan University raise some important questions about KIPP schools. These three questions are ones that we take seriously and have studied over time.
Taken collectively, the WMU report suggests that the progress made by KIPP schools is fundamentally dependent on selective admission of students, high levels of attrition, and private funding that supports significantly higher rates of spending than in traditional district schools. We reject these assertions.
What follows is a closer look at the fact base around these issues:
Fact 1 – KIPP schools on average have higher concentrations of low income and minority students, and lower concentrations of special education and LEP students. We do not attract the most able students.
KIPP schools are open-enrollment public schools, and do not use selective criteria for admission. The findings regarding student demographics in the WMU study are generally consistent with those in the Mathematica report, which concludes that "KIPP schools have student bodies characterized by higher concentrations of poverty and racial minorities and lower concentrations of special education and LEP students."
What the WMU study does not address, however, is the considerable evidence that KIPP is not promoting selective entry, or "creaming" students. In fact, our students most often come to us with lower academic achievement levels than their peers. The Mathematica report concluded that "KIPP middle schools enroll students whose entering fourth grade achievement is lower than the district-wide average" and comparable to the average for neighborhood feeder elementary schools.
Fact 2 – KIPP schools do not have systematically higher (or lower) levels of attrition as compared to schools within their districts. KIPP student achievement gains cannot be explained by student attrition or selective entry.
The WMU report claims that KIPP schools have significantly higher levels of student attrition than neighboring school districts. The researchers arrived at this conclusion by comparing annual school-level enrollment data for KIPP schools to total school district-level enrollment over a three-year period.
The WMU report relies on an apples-to-oranges comparison, as the district attrition figures do not take into account students who transfer from school to school within a district.
In addition, the WMU report overstates KIPP's enrollment decline due to incorrect data. For example, WMU reports that KIPP Academy of Opportunity in Los Angeles served 2 eighth grade students in 2008-09, when it actually served 64 eighth graders (see Appendix A, page 4).
A more rigorous analysis of student attrition is provided by Mathematica's 2010 report. It uses student-level data and compared student attrition at KIPP schools to individual schools in neighboring districts with similar demographics across thirteen communities. In addition, Mathematica's report found that KIPP's achievement gains cannot be explained by student attrition. Even when explicitly accounting for student attrition, they found that KIPP's "impacts on students' state assessment scores in mathematics and reading are positive, statistically significant, and educationally substantial."
Fact 3 – KIPP schools received far less than $5,760 in private revenue per pupil in fiscal year 2008 for operating expenses.
WMU claims that KIPP has a "$6,500 advantage" per student over neighboring district schools in fiscal year 2008—due in large part to their asserting that KIPP receives $5,760 in additional private funding per pupil. WMU's private funding number is inflated for several reasons: the report uses a selective sample of our schools, misunderstands how KIPP schools use private funding (i.e., does not distinguish between operating and capital expenses), and contains incorrect data points.
First, WMU creates a non-representative sample of schools that leads to the overstatement of KIPP's private revenue per pupil.
To get to the $5,760 per pupil in private funding at KIPP, WMU used a sample of 28 of the 58 KIPP schools that operated during 2007-08 (Table 1, page 21). This is roughly half of the schools in operation that school year and for which WMU collected data (see Appendix D). This sample of 28 schools included 71 percent of the network's private revenue but only 45 percent of students served in 2007-08. If they had used the full sample size of KIPP schools operating in 2007-08, WMU would have calculated per pupil private revenue of $3,715—which is $2,000 less per pupil than their estimate.
Second, the report fails to acknowledge that KIPP and others turn to private funding to compensate for the inequities in public funding on several fronts – capital expenses, start-up costs and general operating costs.
Whereas districts receive taxpayer bond money to fund facilities and other capital projects, KIPP schools that are denied access to public facilities must look to private funding to match the bond proceeds received by districts. Furthermore, private funding supports start-up costs which are only incurred in a school's early years. Of the 58 KIPP schools operating in 2007-08, 24 of the schools were in their first, second or third year of operation during the year examined and had not yet reached full enrollment. KIPP schools grow one grade level at a time, requiring them to fund an administrative staff on the public funding associated with a partially enrolled school, which makes the private funding need higher in the earlier years; as a school grows to full enrollment, the need for private funding diminishes. Lastly, in addition to capital expenses and start-up expenses, studies have demonstrated that charters receive less public funding for general operating expenses.
Finally, at least two of the private revenue figures used in the analysis are incorrectly classified (see page 21).
For example, of the $17.3 million in private revenue reported by KIPP Houston in 2007-08, more than $10 million was restricted for purchasing land and building or renovating schools, not general operating expenses. In addition, the stated figure of $8.1 million private revenue for KIPP schools in Newark, NJ (TEAM Academy) is the result of a misclassification on the 990 form. Team Academy's audited financials for that year report $1.5 million in private revenue; the remaining revenue was actually state and local public revenue and, therefore, was double counted in the WMU analysis. When adjusting KIPP's overall private revenue per pupil for just these two material corrections with KIPP Houston and KIPP Newark schools, the average revenue for KIPP schools in fiscal year 2008 decreases to approximately $2,500.
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Fair enough, Joe. I wasn't really engaging with the KIPP structures one way or another - just re-surfacing what I see as a frequently entrenched educational mistake that the key problems with poverty in education are all to do with lack of money, rather than a deep clash of mindsets.
(So, I was neither gunning for you, or against you! [Just salivating!])
Thanks for your note Ian. Since we don't know each other except via the cyberworld, it's a little hard to know how to respond. Frankly, I don't see anything in what I've written, or what KIPP wrote, that suggests all that is necessary to produce high achievement with students from low income families is "money and machines that go bing." Yes, teaching and school must identify and address cultural issues. In fact, a New York Times article from several years ago praised KIPP and several other groups of schools for dealing directly with this issue.
I think I'll leave it at that - except please call me "Joe". Thanks again for responding.
Thanks Joseph,
You've rung the bell, I must salivate!
Probably fortunately - since I'm out of the clutches of the US educational 'system' - I'm also clear of the KIPP movement, and the charter schools debate. But I am passionate about the poverty issue, from both experience and training (thanks, Ruby Payne, for one). When we identify the poverty issue as being soluble simply with money and machines that go 'bing', we've written a cheque to be torn up, unless our teaching and schooling actually identifies and addresses the cultural issues. (So the pathway to improving educational outcomes - structurally is with strategically trained teachers, a commitment to speaking to the neighbourhood culture and values and translating middle-class schooling patterns and expectations, AND money.) The pathway for radical engagement outside the classical (and failing structures) is with substantial additional interventionary connections, such as Daniel Bassil has created through the Tutor/Mentor Connection.


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Dearborn Heights recreation center HYPE fights to be recognized as non profit to avoid big taxes
Updated On: Feb 06 2013 09:19:05 PM EST
Before the Dearborn Heights community center was built, organizers say they were led to believe the city would recognize the center as a tax-exempt organization. That all changed when they received a bill.
It hasn't been in the city for a year, but the future of the multi-million-dollar recreation center now could be in jeopardy. The issue: Organizers do consider HYPE Athletics Community a non profit facility, but the city of Dearborn Heights does not.
Without the city's recognition as a charitable institution, HYPE is on the hook to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in property taxes to Dearborn Heights.
"They're basically saying we haven't submitted enough information to prove our charitable status, when we feel otherwise," said Ali Sayed, HYPE founder.
There is a membership fee to join the facility but the organization provides tutoring, mentoring and other programs for free.
Despite its non profit status with the federal government, Dearborn Heights won' approve.
"Some of the concerns they have to address are some of the fees that they charge," said Dearborn Heights Mayor Dan Paletko. And how they cannot be discriminatory. They have to be very open to the general public. And those are items they need to define."
Non profit legal expert Randy Barker explains why Dearborn Heights may shy away from considering HYPE a non profit entity.
"Municipalities are struggling for cash to provide the services they provide. So, they're sometimes reluctant unless there's just a clear cut case that this person is entitled to this exemption," said Barker.
Sayed feels the city has a bone to pick.
"All I can see is the evidence has been brought forth, has been treated with discriminatory and biased treatment, basically," said Sayed.
The mayor recognizes that HYPE provides a good service to a lot of people but says he cannot order the assessor to break the law. Meanwhile, HYPE has began circulating a petition.
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OVERTIME: Ferris 65, Wayne 65
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