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Oregon set to select first lesbian House speaker
Nov 15, 2012 | 16 Comments
By JONATHAN J. COOPER
Of the Associated Press
SALEM — Oregon House Democrats are expected to select the nation's first openly lesbian woman to lead a state legislative chamber.
Rep. Tina Kotek of Portland is likely to be chosen Thursday night as the House speaker beginning in January. Her selection would be another milestone from an election that brought a series of victories to the gay community, including the first openly gay U.S. senator and the first bisexual member of congress.
With her selection, openly gay leaders will control the House in four of the 50 states. The Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund says that's more than ever before and up from two before the election.
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Who is deciding what perversions are acceptable? More importantly, who decides what perversions are celebrated vs shameful? Congressman Anthony Weiner was forced out of office for sending images to a female. But we are supposed to be happy about this. I don't get it.
I hope you use this as a time to teach your daughter about the Civil Rights Movement and the Suffrage Movement. You don't have to agree that this is ground breaking news. It shouldn't be ground breaking news because people shouldn't have to be struggling for basic civil rights in the year 2012 in our democratic nation.
Here is how you will eventually come to agree with me and know it is sin. First you will convince the majority of Americans that it is a civil rights matter (and you have almost completely succeeded in doing that at this point in time). Then, you will get all of the laws that protect traditional marriage changed. And guess what? You and all other gays will still feel miserable. Why? Because you can't do what is wrong and feel right. It really is as simple as that.
If you want to feel happy, change your behavior, not the laws.
Believe me, I speak as one who knows.
People often believe that news reports are motivated by a desire to promote an agenda, when the real motivation is to report something that meets the definition of news.
This short, factual story clearly met that definition -- a first-in-the-nation event related at least indirectly to a high-profile social issue that is drawing political and religious debate, legislation and ballot measures across the country.
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WoW Mack! I hope your God doesn't judge you as harshly! Speaking of one who has lesbian and gay ex-in-laws, and friends, I can only observe their homosexuality is genetically based. I don't agree with the extremes in the lifestyle such as displayed in the Castro district of San Fransisco particularly in the 90's, but maybe we what we are going through is the pendulum swing. What my ex-brother in-law went through in the aids crisis when he lost his longtime partner and most of his friends was horrendous. Not to have rights as partners because you are gay. I experienced this on an heterosexual level when I lost my "husband" because we were not legally married. I was treated by the local funeral home where he was taken without my permission when he died, as if I was not the next of kin. I hate Macy's!!! He was my partner and my soul mate. They treated me with no regard or respect!
Don't get me wrong, I feel that everyone deserves to be treated with kindness, respect and dignity regardless of what behaviors they choose to engage in. I feel bad that you were treated unkindly by Macy's.
I have just learned from my own experience that there are certain laws in this universe that when obeyed bring happiness and peace and when violated bring misery.
One example is the law of gravity. It is a great law. It is nice to not be always floating around the room. It keeps me in my seat as I'm typing this. But if I were to climb up on the roof of my house and throw myself off, that same law would with 100% certainty cause me to experience a lot of physical pain, maybe even death.
There are countless physical laws like gravity that we all agree on because the results are so readily visible and measurable.
I have come to learn that there are laws that govern our level of happiness and misery that while not as visible or measurable are just as certain.
I have learned that homosexual behavior brings misery and heterosexual behavior does not.
We can convince voters and judges to rule throwing ourselves off of houses to be pain free and pleasant but it won't do any good. You cant just vote the laws away.
I believe the only way to be happy is to obey the laws that lead to happiness. And don't just take my word for it. A person with same sex attraction can experiment with living or not living the laws that govern sexual happiness and contentment and see what kind of results they get.They will then know the truth for themselves.
In the mean time, I strongly believe that EVERYONE should be treated with kindness and respect. We are all so very imperfect at living these laws of happiness. And we are all in this together. We needs each others love and support.
"Sin?" "Perversion??" "CHOICE???"
I had a family member who was gay. I grew up with him, there is NO doubt in my heart or mind that he was born that way. He was a child of God just like any person who reads or responds to this article. He was kind and funny, smart and talented. He did not choose to have blue eyes, nor did he choose to be gay. Our family accepted him, valued him, loved him unconditionally. Sadly, it was a different time (the 1970s) and there were others in his life who held intolerant contemptuous "opinions." They DID have choices, and they chose to make his life miserable. So miserable in fact, late one night he could no longer deal with the denigration and put an end to his own life.
God bless the courageous members of the gay community who have found a way to take their rightful places in life, and to make their contributions. Thank God for an ever-increasing tolerance and understanding in our society for those born different but EQUAL. Discrimination is NOT an American value. Perhaps that is the best way to parse this news story for a ten-year-old? The message has nothing to do with bedrooms.
If one cares to discuss sin and perversion based on GENUINE choice, let us turn our attention and outrage to something like professional boxing. Two adults of the same gender choose to climb into a ring and beat each other bloody for the purposes of entertainment and financial gain. THAT is definitely a choice, a choice that seems far more appropriate to criticize or judge than two adults of the same gender who love and care for each other.
I think your post goes right to the very heart of the issue.
Does God create children that are born "Gay?" or does he create children that are born with a complicated mixture of genetic and environmental factors that lead very early in life to feelings of "same sex attraction?"
The same could be asked of any other misery producing behavior. Does God create children that are born "alcoholics?" or does he create children that are born with a complicated mixtures of genetic and environmental factors that lead to strong feelings of desiring to destructively "binge drink?"
Just like the law of gravity, the natural law that governs sexuality and happiness is stubborn and unyielding.
Labeling gays as gays only ads to the separatist ideas that flow through America veins. If you wouldn't normally insert a persons sexuality in an article because they are straight, why do it when they are crooked? It's stupid and it underwhelms what the original topic is. Another women is going to be in the House, is that not news worthy enough? I bet women from other countries may find that simple bit of news inspiring, unfortunate all we can see is a chance to amplify our differences. Grow up.
Believe it or not, there are people in this world, let alone... in the US that do NOT believe in God. Here is another novel thought, there are gay and lesbian people that actually DO believe in God. The world is certainly a mystery, I would think that if I was G/L I would shine away from religious ideas simply because they directly contradict what I feel in my body, but that's just me.
Assuming they are all sinning is ridiculous, because in that assumption you are insisting that they all BELIEVE, and that may not be the case.
I get what you are saying, but positioning that logic into this argument is ineffective. Have you ever stopped to think that the homosexual misery could be brought on by the heterosexuals refusal to accept? Maybe the fear of rejection by their own families and society is what brings on the misery, not the actual act of being homosexual?
I have known quite a bit of miserable adults in my life, yet none of them were homosexual. I have known few homosexuals in my life, yet the ones I did know were very happy and content in the lives they had made.
There is no logic to something as illogical as life. People are born, that is the only given, oh that and death.
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Johann (Baptist) II Strauss
Johann Strauss II, nicknamed the 'Waltz King' for his 400-odd waltzes that became as much a feature of the Viennese concert hall as the dance floor, typifies the elegance and style of Imperial Vienna in the late nineteenth century. In later life he also turned to the composition of operetta and has continued to prove immensely popular in both the concert hall and opera house.
The eldest son of Johann Strauss I, he was born in Vienna on 25 October 1825 and immediately exposed to the music of his father, whose orchestra used to rehearse in the family apartments. Although Strauss encouraged his sons to learn the piano, he intended Johann for a banking career. Therefore, after studying at the Vienna Schottengymnasium, Johann entered the commercial Studies Department of the Polytechnic Institute in 1841.
Unknown to his father, however, Strauss had been learning the violin with Franz Anton and studying harmony and counterpoint with Joachim Hoffmann and Joseph Drechsler. In 1843, he left the Institute and resolved to dedicate his life to music.
Having obtained a license 'to hold musical entertainments' in August 1844, Strauss hired 24 musicians and announced his debut as a conductor and composer. The press greeted his appearance with enthusiasm, but he had to wait for the death of his father in 1849 before he could fully inherit the elder Strauss's mantle and stature.
Aside from an early showing of political naivety, when he supported the 1848 revolutionaries, Strauss displayed a shrewd commercial mind, never letting an important social, political or cultural event passing without an accompanying work to commemorate it.
A series of masterful waltzes dating from the late 1850s onwards ensured that by the mid 1860s, he was the leading composer of dance music. He held the position and duties of Hofballmusik-Direktor from 1863 to 1871, when the title, previously held by his father, passed to his brother, Eduard, on the grounds of ill-health.
With waltzes such as An der schönen, blauen Donau (1867) Strauss undertook tours to Paris, London, Boston, New York and Berlin, establishing an international reputation. A period of illness in 1853 had prompted a trip to Russia, and Strauss returned every year between 1856 and 1865 to conduct a summer season of concerts.
In the mid 1860s, on the advice of his first wife Henrietta Treffz (he was married three times), Strauss began to experiment with operetta, much to the delight of Vienna's theatre owners who were growing uneasy at the increased cost of importing Offenbach's works.
Beginning in 1871 and continuing for the rest of his life, Strauss wrote a series of operettas, though only three found international success: Die Fledermaus (1874), Eine Nacht in Venedig (1883) and Der Zigeunerbaron (1885). Even then, Strauss continued to arrange operetta melodies into dances and marches for concert halls and balls. He finally died on 3 June 1899 after a long and distinguished career.
Although composing many fine Polkas, Quadrilles and Marches, not to mention his operetta masterpieces, it is Strauss's waltzes that he is most revered for. By turning the rustic dance form he inherited from his father and Joseph Lanner into a sophisticated, quasi-symphonic work, influenced by the modern practices of Wagner and Liszt, he affected a complete revolution of dance music.
With waltzes such as Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald (Tales from the Vienna Woods), Kaiser-Walzer (Emperor Waltz), and most famously, An der schönen, blauen Donau (On the Beautiful Blue Danube) Strauss forever captured in music a period in Viennese Imperial society that would soon be consigned to oblivion by the ravages of the 20th century.
Related Composers: Johann Strauss I, Lanner, Josef Strauss, Offenbach, Lehar, Eduard Strauss
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- Overture 6:32 min
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- Act II - Finale: 'Brüderlein und Schwesterlein...' 3:20 min
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Die Fledermaus (the Bat) is perhaps the finest of all Viennese operettas. First produced on 5 April 1874 at the Theater an der Wien, it is a satirical portrait of Vienna's noveaux riches in the absolutist background of the Austrian monarchy.
The operetta is farce-like in nature and is full of mistaken identities and devious lawyers. The title refers to one of the characters who attends a masked ball dressed as a Bat! The operetta received a tame reception at its first performance; perhaps its satire was a little too close to home; but it has gone on to huge worldwide success.
The lighthearted overture, in particular, has become hugely popular in the concert hall and incorporates several of the operetta's biggest numbers. It wonderfully introduces one of Strauss' finest comic creations.


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When a collaboration is in the mix, Steven Alan strives to partner with the best in class and whenever possible work with domestic factories. When the idea hit for a suiting collab, Hart Schaffner & Marx was the only company that came to mind. Steven has many HSM and Hickey Freeman suits in his archives and found their company history of 100+ years very inspirational as a designer. They have a wealth of information in regards to cut, materials and quality. In turn, HSM was very familiar with Steven Alan as a brand and was equally excited to do a partnership. As a result both brands brought a lot to the table in designing the capsule collection, Hart Schaffner Marx for Steven Alan. Back To Product View All From This Designer
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We teamed up with Hart Schaffner Marx, originating from downtown Chicago and known for their expert craftsmanship, to bring a selection of exclusive suiting in traditionally inspired cuts and fine fabrics.
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Harrison had planned to retire last year, but stayed as the school transitioned to a new principal.
"Because Mr. (Ted) Bryson retired last year, a lot of staff encouraged me to stay one more year, and Mr. Bryson asked me to stay," Harrison said.
She said it is time to retire.
"Things are in good hands," Harrison said.
Her retirement plans include cleaning out the papers and things she has accumulated as a teacher, and spending more time gardening.
She said she also wants to use the time to catch up on things she has been putting off.
Harrison said she chose a career in education because she loved to read and wanted to "work with kids and work with books."
"I can read almost anything and enjoy it, and that's what I try to tell my students," Harrison said.
She said many of the students do not want her to leave.
Only one year was spent at another Bradley County school. This was spent teaching at Michigan Avenue Elementary School.
Harrison was named Teacher of the Year for fifth through eighth grades at a recent meeting of the Bradley County Board of Education.
"That was extremely gratifying," Harrison said. "I just really couldn't believe it."
She said many times younger teachers are chosen for the honor and it is usually a classroom teacher, not a specialty area.
Her education career began in South Carolinia, where she worked for two years. After those two years, Harrison got married and the couple moved to Albany, Ga. There, her husband worked for M&M Mars.
It was M&M Mars opening a plant here that brought the couple to Cleveland, and Harrison accepted a job in the Bradley County School system. The majority of her time has been spent at Oak Grove.
"I think the thing that I enjoy most about it is being able to work with all the kids and seeing them grow up," Harrison said. "In the library it's different. I say it's like being a grandparent."
Harrison said she was able to watch the children grow from pre-kindergarten to fifth grade. The retiring educator said she is still in contact with her first principal from Oak Grove.
"Oak Grove has always been like a family," Harrison said.
In South Carolinia, Harrison taught at one of the few departmentalized elementary schools.
"I was a part-time librarian and I also taught social studies and math," Harrison said. "It was really unusual in those years for an elementary school to be compartmentalized."
Many changes have come to education and to school libraries throughout Harrison's career. Technology has been a large part of these changes.
Harrison said because technology changes so fast "it makes it very difficult for the school system to keep up."
Recent changes in state standards and education have also been challenging.
"It's an exciting time to be in education," Harrison said.
Harrison said the TEAM evalution was a difficult change for teachers. She said she likes the Coach model that the school system switched to this year better.
Harrison's last year as an educator saw her proctoring the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program for the first time.
Common Core standards are another change that began in her last year. Harrison said overall Common Core seemed like a good idea. However, she said the school system should implement it carefully.


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You know, I'm just taking this as a sign of the times, folks. The old school gamers, like myself, are simply no longer the target market demographic. The new generation of 'WYSIWYG' gamers brought up on video games and other products with focused visual stimuli are. Is this good or bad? Niether. It's just business.
It's kind of like the transition from radio to TV. One medium takes the back seat to another. The old radio programmes like The Shadow and Fibber McGee and Molly where the family entertainment of the day. They required imagination and a good mind's eye to enjoy but once TV came along, and the quality of it improved, radio drama and comedy was on it's way out ( everywhere except the UK which still has a great and thriving radio tradition).
And how about plain old reading? Just try to get my younger brothers (I'm 37, they're 25 and 16) to sit down and read a book. It ain't gonna happen unless it's a comic book or extremely short and they have to do it for school. They'll surf the net, but they aren't so much reading as skimming. Nope, it's TV or Video Games or nothing. We're talking ADD overdrive here, and not because of some medical condition, but because of the 'see it, feel it, move on' culture we live in.
Another example are the Owens kids. I kind of started a Big Brother/Little Brother thing with the youngest when I worked at Games Workshop and now I'm like an uncle to the whole lot of them. They and their friends tried to pick up D&D4E lately and were bored to tears. They told me about it over a game of (surprise) Warrior Knights. From what I could gather, thae problem was that their DM is a kid the same age as themselves and he ran the game like a tabletop MMO or boardgame, not really an RPG. I don't think he really grasped the 'point' of an RPG and a boardgame or MMO without the visual bits was extremely boring to his players.
Enter FFG and their new 'approach' to RPGs. I think that they are, from a purely business perspective, doing exactly what needs to be done. This hybrid of RPG & Eye Candy, this RPBG (Role Playing Boardgame) is exactly the right product for this modern culture. Do I like it? No. Will I buy it? Probably not. But then I lament the loss of Old Time Radio and just wish people would slow the heck down and read a friggin' book or otherwise use their imaginations instead of overloading their senses on technological addition, loud music, violent video games like GTA and movies and TV that are mostly filled with nothing but gratuitous sex and violence (I truly believe modern culture is actually retarding our deveolpment as a society). So, I am not their target demographic. I am an anachronism as far removed from the business model of the modern gaming industry as my Grandfather was from computers. So I wil lbuy their board games, and enjoy those.
So what is there to do? I will share the less fiddly ones with my brothers (who would call Warrior Knights a Bored Game' although they love Munchkin, Guillotine and Citadels) and play the more fiddly ones with the Owens kids and my friends. I will keep my WFRP 1st and 2nd Edition books and play RPGs with my aging gamer buddies until it is no longer fun or we all die as relics of a gaming age of 'those thrilling days of yesteryear,' but in the end, I hope FFG makes it big with this new product, if for no other reason than it allows them to make more great boardgames and provides at least some reason for kids to get off the bloody computer/XBox for a few minutes to socialize with their friends over a tabletop game. I hope that last activity, at least, continues on far into the future...


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(Okay, so much might be an overstatement. But once is too many. Once traumatizes me enough to write a blog post. And it's been at least two times this year, so I'm overdue. Therefore, I present to you: my semi-reprinted blog post from May 21st, last year. You can read the original right here. Then proceed.)
10. The opposing teams are being paid off to not just win, but walk-off win. There are a lot of suspects for this. The TV networks. Or B-Squad players who want more innings and opportunities. Or ridiculously wealthy season ticket holders who want excitement and a little more bang for their buck. Or, as applies to the Mariners, Starbucks. They're from Seattle, right? So maybe they sell more espressos when there are walk-offs or something.
9. They have a strange condition like Bella Swan (Twilight, anyone?) that leads them to thrill seek.
8. Josh Byrnes/Ned Colletti/Kevin Towers/Daniel O'Dowd put their heads together and put a spell on the Giants so that they would not just lose, but lose in cruel and unusual ways. I know, I love those guys too!
7. It's totally random and there is no explanation.
6. Walk-off win years happen every so, we-get-walked-off-against-years happen every so often too. I'm not real strong on math, so maybe some probability experts could take it from here?
5. The Giants are doing it on purpose, because they're on a mission to prove to Sabes that they really have no offense and they really need to do tons of trades and things before they will be good.
4. They're borderline really good, which is why they lose so closely. (Encouraging, right? Kinda-sorta.)
3. They peak too early. By inning 9, they've done everything they're going to do. I don't totally buy this but, hey, they say it all the time about political candidates and everyone knows the politics media is smartsmart.
2. Karma for giving out Orange-and-Black Fedoras at AT&T Park last season. Doing evil things can cause you to be cursed, you know.
1. It's something in the water. My vote goes to that.
I need to go lust after pictures of Angels Stadium now. I am rather partial to that place, although not its inhabitants. Note to any Giants fans who might be down there for the series: it's quite lovely, but also Weird with a capital W. Like, Twilight-Zone weird. It's something in the atmosphere. You'll know if you go. Or maybe it was just a fluke the night I was there and you'll leave thinking, She is cray-zee. Which I might be. But that place is still weird.
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The Catholic Church made headlines in March when of its U.S. cardinals spoke out against the House of Representatives' "enforcement only" bill. Donald Kerwin of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network explains the church's interest in immigration and its position on reforming immigration policy.
In the most recent session of Congress, four legislative proposals addressing unauthorized immigration and general immigration reform have been introduced. MPI's Eliot Turner and Marc R. Rosenblum compare their provisions for enforcement, employer sanctions, legalization, and guest worker programs.
Spain's latest regularization program, unlike in the past, is part of a more comprehensive approach to combating illegal immigration and employment. Joaquín Arango of Complutense University of Madrid and Maia Jachimowicz outline the program and provide some preliminary results.
Over the past 25 years, regularization programs have become more common. Amanda Levinson explains their challenges, their outcomes, and why governments choose such programs.
An ILO study of Bahrain, Kuwait, Lebanon, and the United Arab Emirates highlights the special risks of domestic work for women. Gloria Moreno-Fontes Chammartin discusses the findings and implications.
MPI Senior Fellow Doris Meissner discusses U.S. immigration policy during the Fireside Forum on Foreign Policy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The other participants are Christine Neumann-Ortiz, Executive Director of Voces de la Frontera and Douglas Savage, Assistant Director of the Institute of World Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
A discussion on the gains that young adult immigrants or the U.S.-born children of immigrants have made in education and employment, with speakers: Michael Fix, Jeanne Batalova, Andrew P. Kelly, Raul Gonzalez, and Margie McHugh.
The conference offered law and policy analysis and discussion on cutting-edge immigration issues. Featured panelists included high-ranking government officials, academics, advocates, and other immigration experts.
This discussion focuses on the MPI report, "Executive Action on Immigration: Six Ways to Make the System Work Better," which outlines administrative actions that can be implemented to improve the immigration system.
In a report by MPI's Labor Markets Initiative, noted economist and Georgetown University Public Policy Institute Professor Harry J. Holzer examines the economic reasoning and research on these questions and looks at the policy options that shape the impact of less-skilled immigration on the economy. The discussion is on what policy reform would best serve native-born American workers, consumers, and employers, as well as the overall U.S. economy.
MPI is pleased to host a discussion with experts from both KIND and the Women's Refugee Commission, focusing on the causes of the increase in unaccompanied minor migrants, the situation these minors face once detained or apprehended, and the challenges confronting both nongovernmental organizations trying to provide aid and the U.S. government agencies responsible for processing minors through the system.
A discussion with Dr. Noppawan Tanpipat, Vice President, National Science and Technology Development Agency; Frank Laczko, Head, Migration Research Division, IOM; Dovelyn Rannveig Agunias, Regional Research Officer, IOM, and Policy Analyst, Migration Policy Institute (MPI); and Kathleen Newland, Director of Migrants, Migration, and Development, Migration Policy Institute (MPI).
This discussion highlights the best practices and experiences of different countries in engaging and maximizing the contributions that diasporas can and do make to the development of their country of origin, and more broadly the experience of policymakers in both sending and receiving countries and the related challenges and opportunities they face.
The launch of the Diaspora handbook and a joint panel discussion that explored the opportunities and challenges that governments face when developing strategies to engage diaspora populations.
A discussion with Rosario Farmhouse, Alejandro Mayorkas, Jasenko Selimovic, Peter Sylvester, and Demetrios G. Papademetriou, MPI President.
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This MPI panel discussion examines the U.S. deportation system with analysis on migrant apprehensions, removals, returns, and criminal prosecutions, and launches the report, "The Deportation Dilemma: Reconciling Tough and Humane Enforcement."
This report profiles the current-era deportation system, exploring the new legal authorities, spending increases, and policy changes over the last two decades that have resulted in the removal of more than 4.5 million unauthorized immigrants since 1996. The report analyzes key trends in border and interior apprehensions, deportations, and criminal prosecutions, and examines the policy levers available to influence deportation policies, practices, and outcomes.
Within days, the Obama administration is expected to reach a milestone that has brought fear and anger to immigrant communities: A record 2 million removals since taking office. At the same time, the administration is accused of failure to enforce immigration law for its actions to shield from deportation hundreds of thousands of unauthorized immigrant youth and others. How are these two seemingly contradictory realities possible?
A quiet policy transformation is taking place in Europe, as policymakers increasingly turn to a strategy of "mainstreaming" immigrant integration—seeking to reach people with a migration background through needs-based social programming and policies that also target the general population. This report assesses mainstreaming efforts across government in Denmark, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
MPI experts, along with representatives from Gwinnett County Public Schools and the University of Georgia's Center for Latino Achievement and Success in Education, discuss the educational experiences of Georgia's first- and second-generation immigrant youth and where Georgia's ambitious education reforms have met—or failed to meet—the needs of this growing population.
This event with UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres features findings from UNHCR's report, Children on the Run, which examines the increasing numbers of children from Central America and Mexico who head off alone to find refuge in the United States, fleeing violence, insecurity, and abuse. The discussion provides analysis on the reasons behind the growing migration of this vulnerable population and offers recommendations. Read the report here.
This report analyzes the educational experiences and outcomes of immigrant youth ages 16 to 26 across Georgia's education systems, encompassing K-12, adult, and postsecondary. By examining these interconnected systems together, the analysis offers linked strategies for advancing the educational attainment of Georgia's immigrant youth.
This panel discussion on unaccompanied minors focuses on a report by Kids in Need of Defense and the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies at UC Hastings College of the Law, whose primary conclusion is that children face a U.S. immigration system created for adults that is not required to consider the child's best interests.


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Cloud computing continues to expand as a popular IT solution for data storage and backup, application sharing and other essential functions, while enterprise adoption of cloud services is also changing the responsibilities of IT employees.
Information Age recently held a roundtable debate for IT workers, enabling them to share their experiences regarding the transition of established IT tasks to a modern, cloud-based environment. According to the source, the discussion revealed several trends, but none were more indicative of the current enterprise landscape than the conclusion that IT departments have transitioned from technology enablers to supplier and service agreement managers.
"We're looking at terms and conditions a lot more carefully now after a couple of cock-ups," one IT manager told the source. "Now we insist on compensation if a service falls over."
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"Supplier management is the IT department now, but it's essential that there be some technical expertise coming from inside the business," said a construction company IT director, according to Information Age's report.
As more businesses in nearly every industry adopt cloud products like Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Software-as-a-Service, IT departments will be tasked with hiring employees with considerable cloud skills and knowledge of service contracts, experts say. According to a recent Gartner study, cloud solutions like SaaS, IaaS and Platform-as-a-Service are the third-ranked technology priority for CIOs this year, behind only business intelligence and mobile technologies.
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Within the first class resort of Windsor Palms lies our Calderdale vacation condo. Enjoy the views and fresh southern air from the comforts of a private screened porch. The third floor location provides for better views than most other condos in the building. Walt Disney World is just a short drive to the east, along with the other popular Theme Parks of Universal Studios, SeaWorld, and Old Town Kissimmee. Top shopping centers and inviting restaurants are also close by.
3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms are stretched out amongst 1270 square feet of vacation living space. 6 guests can comfortably sleep in the bedrooms. The master bedroom features a queen bed, 22" LCD TV, and an attached private master bathroom. A second bedroom has a queen sized bed, and the third offers 2 twin beds. Additional sleeping space can be found in the living room on the sleeper sofa. For convenience, a clothes washer and clothes dryer is available.
Budget conscious vacationers will be able to make great use of the fully-equipped kitchen. Prepare delicious and unique meals in the comfort of your vacation rental! All pots and pans, dishes, glassware, and eating utensils are included. The kitchen is not located far away from the living room; making it simple to entertain the entire family through vacation. A 42" plasma TV serves as the centerpiece in the living room complete with a DVD player for movies. Wi-Fi internet access is a great amenity to help stay connected with reality while on vacation.
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George Partin III, a second-grader at St. Linus School in Oak Lawn, recently made a video for cable access television about getting in shape. He is pictured at the BITV studio in Blue Island Thursday, March 21, 2013. | Brett Roseman~Sun-Times Media
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George Partin III is a 60-pound muscle machine.
He's also a kid on a mission.
The 7-year-old would like all of America to shape up. But he'll start with his hometown of Blue Island.
With some technical assistance from his dad, George recently put together a video of fitness tips. Filled with advice from a local doctor as well as some gym regulars, the film, "Get Fit, Blue Island," will air for four months beginning April 1 on Comcast's Blue Island TV (cable channel 4) and on AT&T U-verse's cable access channel, which is available from the Wisconsin border to Kankakee. Right now, it can be seen on YouTube (youtube/oZV8e3UcocQ).
"I'm doing this so people know how to stay fit," George said. "A lot of people are overweight and out of shape."
On March 15, George and his dad, George Jr., who is videographer and chief editor for the city of Blue Island, took a camera inside MetroSouth Fitness Center and George got busy exercising his communication skills.
First, he interviewed Dr. Zahrain St. Jean, a Blue Island family practitioner on staff at MetroSouth Medical Center. She gave him lots of advice.
George loves bowling, soccer and long-distance running, as well as running around with his friends at recess. In good weather, he and his dad go to Sears Park, where young George does the various workouts at the different stations. In cold weather, they head to Chicago Ridge Mall early in the morning to walk before the shoppers arrive.
Though he sounds like a muscle machine, George is also a typical kid. He likes playing video games — "sometimes," he says. He loves SpongeBob. He's a White Sox fan. And his favorite subjects in school are reading and science.
"I just read a book from the library about Mercury," he said. "It was pretty good."
His goals are to run a 5K race and to get others to embrace his love of exercise.
His interview with St. Jean resulted in lots of good advice.
"She told me when you go to the store, you can park far from the entrance and get more exercise by walking," he said. "You can take the stairs instead of the elevator."
And kids, he said, can go on walks with their families on the weekends.
"People can also get healthier by eating less junk food and eating more things like apples and bananas," he said.
Personally, he prefers bananas and oranges, but all fruit is good for you, he said.
Some of George's teachers at St. Linus School in Oak Lawn saw the video and complimented him on it.
"One teacher wanted my autograph," he said.
George also interviewed several people working out at MetroSouth Fitness Center.
Among the exercisers he interviewed was Jerry Wagner, financial analyst for MetroSouth, who said he keeps in shape by climbing stairs — lots of them. For the past two years, Wagner has climbed the Oak Brook Terrace and all four presidential towers. He recently took third place in the Oak Brook Tower climb.
"George asked me why I do it and I told him because it's great exercise," Wagner said. "And it's a great thing for families to do together."
Wagner said he sees lots of kids talking with their parents while making the climb.
"It's a great way to do things together, especially in the winter when it's hard to find things to do," Wagner said.
Other workout warriors shared tips about the importance of stretching before working out, being consistent and doing it.
George's project earned him a fitness pin from Cub Scout Pack 4104 in Oak Lawn.
It's not the first pin for George, nor is it his first time taking an interest in the welfare of others in the community.
At Christmas, George donated to several organizations to help homeless people and kids in need. Those organizations included Public Action to Deliver Shelter in Chicago Ridge, Angels Touch in Blue Island, the VFW in Midlothian, the St. Linus Food Pantry in Oak Lawn, and the St. Linus Cub Scout Pack 4104 food drive in Oak Lawn.
George's dad said his son raises money by saving cans and then turning them in for cash.
"He would like to raise $50 to donate to the Ronald McDonald House and (Advocate Children's) Hospital in Oak Lawn before the end of the school year," George Jr. said.
George has also earned several Cub Scout belt loops, including for map and compass, language and culture, video games, physical fitness, nutrition, hiking and bowling. He will receive his physical fitness pin in April.
Meanwhile, MetroSouth plans to use the video to promote its fitness center.
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Hijab Martyr
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Egypt funeral for court stabbing victim
Sherbini's body was returned to Egypt from Germany for the funeral in Alexandria [AFP]
An official funeral has been held for a pregnant Egyptian woman stabbed to death as she prepared to give evidence in a German courtroom.
Several government representatives took part in the funeral for 32-year-old Marwa Sherbini in the northern city of Alexandria on Monday.
Sherbini was stabbed 18 times by a German man of Russian descent, formally identified only as Axel W, last week as she was about to give evidence against him as he appealed against his conviction for calling her a "terrorist" for her wearing the hijab.
Her three-year-old son, Mustapha, witnessed the knife attack on his mother, who was three months pregnant with her second child.
'Hijab Martyr'
Sherbini's husband, Elwi Ali Okaz, an Egyptian academic, was also critically injured as he tried to protect her.
Al Jazeera's Rawyeh Rageh, reporting from Alexandria, said that the case had attracted huge attention in Egypt.
"The local council here in Alexandria, the victim's hometown, has decided to name a street after her and the press is describing her as the 'Hijab Martyr'," she said.
"At least two protests are expected to take place in Alexandria and Cairo as this is being seen as a xenophobic and Islamophobic attack.
"People on the street and members of parliament are asking the government not to take the issue lightly."
Hundreds of mourners gathered for the funeral, some chanting "Down with Germany" and scuffling with police, witnesses said.
'Criminal act'
The German embassy in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, said that the attack was not a reflection of German attitudes towards Muslims.
"It is a criminal act. It has nothing to do with persecution against Muslims," Magdi al-Sayed, a press officer, told the state-run Egyptian Gazette.
"People are looking for victims and Muslims are sometimes seen as a viable option"
Sulaiman Wilms, European Muslim Union
But Sulaiman Wilms, the head of communications at the European Muslim Union, said that the incident was at least partly representative of the situation faced by Muslims across the continent.
"It definitely reflects a certain spillover from certain elements of the public-media discourse, but it also reflects the general violence and degredation of order which we have within European societies in these times of global crisis," he told Al Jazeera from Cologne.
"People are looking for victims and Muslims are sometimes seen as a viable option."
Sherbini's family have called for revenge following the deadly knife attack on Wednesday.
"If she was just stabbed once, I would have said this is a mad man, but the number of times she and her husband were stabbed reflects the extent of racism this man had in him," Tarek Sherbini, the victim's brother, said.
"Here in Egypt, we believe in 'an eye for an eye'. The least we expect is the death penalty for the murderer."
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