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Originally published March 25, 2012 at 9:13 PM | Page modified March 26, 2012 at 10:07 AM
About 2,000 march in Seattle to protest Florida teen's killing
About 2,000 people marched in Seattle on Sunday to protest the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old Florida youth whose killing by a neighborhood crime-watch captain has ignited a national furor.
Seattle Times staff reporter
Some 2,000 people marched in Seattle on Sunday to protest the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old Florida youth whose killing by a neighborhood crime-watch captain has ignited a national furor.
"I AM TRAYVON MARTIN," read one sign in the crowd, the same words that a packed audience at Greater Mount Baker Baptist Church shouted loudly and repeatedly in unison before the march began.
Many wore hooded sweatshirts — commonly called hoodies — because that is what Martin was wearing when he died. And some held bags of Skittles candy and cans of iced tea because that was what the unarmed African-American youth was carrying when he was confronted by the watch leader, George Zimmerman, the 28-year-old son of a white father and Hispanic mother.
"Our blackness is not a crime," the Rev. Harriet Walden, who founded Mothers for Police Accountability in Seattle 22 years ago, told the crowd.
Martin was killed in Sanford, Fla., on Feb. 26, sparking a growing reaction across the country centered on racial profiling and justice.
Zimmerman, who shot the youth amid reports of burglaries in the community and who claimed self-defense, has not been arrested. State and federal authorities have launched investigations into the shooting, which occurred after Zimmerman called police to report a suspicious hooded figure walking in the neighborhood. Martin had been visiting his father in the gated community.
On Sunday, African-American churches across the nation amplified the calls for justice.
In Seattle, the marchers traveled late Sunday afternoon from the church on South Jackson Street near 23rd Avenue South to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park more than a mile south.
Walden's group sponsored the event, along with others including the Baptist church, the Seattle and King County branch of the NAACP and American Friends Services Committee, a Quaker organization.
Among those who attended was 83-year-old Justus L. Singleton, of Bellevue, who said he wasn't sure he would complete the march but felt compelled to try.
"I'll go as far as I can," said Singleton, who carried a sign reading, "We are ALL Trayvon Martin."
"I don't want to see this kind of injustice continuing," he said. "We've had enough of it. I emphasize we."
At the other end of the age spectrum, 10-year-old Kaileah Mayer, of Seattle, turned out with her father, Ed Mayer, who recalled that at about her age, his mother took him to Temple University in Philadelphia to hear Huey Newton, a Black Panther founder.
"This is important for her," Mayer said of his daughter who held a sign reading, "NEXT TIME IT COULD BE YOUR SON."
"It is part of our history," the father added.
James Bible, the president of the local NAACP, said that as a result of the shooting, his nephew started an anti-racism program at Odle Middle School in Bellevue.
Bible joined other speakers at the park in decrying Martin's killing.
"Words do not do justice to what was stolen from humanity," Bible told the racially mixed crowd, noting that Martin's parents had the same hopes and dreams of any parent.
"They named him Trayvon," Bible said.
Jesse Hagopian, a teacher at Garfield High School, invoked the name of 14-year-old Emmett Till, the victim of a 1955 lynching that raised awareness about the brutal realities of Jim Crow laws.
"Let Trayvon be our Emmett, too," Hagopian told the crowd.
At the church rally preceding the march, the Rev. Kenneth Ransfer, the congregation's pastor, led the crowd in chants.
"Justice for the Martin family" and "Arrest George Zimmerman now," those in the church shouted in response to his cries.
But Ransfer, who wore a white hoodie and held up Skittles and iced tea, cautioned, "Let justice do its job."
Material from The Associated Press was included in this report.
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In 1999, Professor Sugata Mitra installed a computer on a sidewalk in the poor neighborhood of Kalkaji, India.1 Mitra observed the children who discovered his so-called "hole-in-the-wall" computer and asked them what they thought about the machine. Mitra, whose experiments inspired the story behind the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, expected the children to have questions about how to use a computer and what they were supposed to do with it. Instead, the children taught themselves how to use the keyboard and navigate the Internet—in English. They didn't ask for instructions, they wanted a faster processor and a better mouse.
Mitra repeated his experiment in several other Indian villages, and, again, children taught themselves how to use the computer and learned skills and information that schools in the West have been teaching for decades. Mitra explains that his discovery taught him that while it may be "fashionable" to say that the school system in the West is broken, it's more accurate to say that it's obsolete.2 "It's just that we don't need it anymore. It's outdated," he says.
Decades of stagnant student test scores and underwhelming high school graduation rates in Arizona and around the country substantiate Mitra's isolated findings. Traditional classrooms cannot equip every child for whatever their unique future holds, whether they move on to college or enter the job market. In fact, school, as we have known it, may be part of the problem. Students shouldn't be assigned to a school based on their ZIP code. They should be free to choose the best classes, tutors, or extracurricular activities from a menu of options online or in traditional classrooms, no matter where they live.
To give every child great educational opportunities, the future of learning must be based on four pillars:
• Every student should be eligible to choose the best school or set of classes from different schools and learning centers;
• Students should have access to self-paced instructional tools;
• Education funding should be student- and parent-directed and based on student outcomes;
• And students should be able to combine the credits earned in classes held at different schools and learning centers to complete their course of study.
Arizona has only started to unlock the potential of flexible, challenging educational innovations that focus on student needs and not on a system of public schools. This paper explains what the future of learning should look like and provides examples from states that are taking bold steps into the future like Arizona, Louisiana, Florida, and Utah, along with schools around the country using groundbreaking instructional methods.
Mitra's "hole-in-the-wall" experiments started with a simple question: "What is going to be the future of learning?"3 After documenting case after case of children in the slums of India using a computer to teach themselves complicated material in a language foreign to them, he had a new question: "Could it be that we don't need to go to school at all?"
Now, travel halfway around the globe to the United States and imagine sitting with your child at the dinner table and preparing for the new school year. But instead of reading a letter telling you what school your child is assigned to, you have a menu of schools, classes, tutors, and extracurricular activities to choose from, some located nearby and others online. This educational directory lists such options as virtual classes, schools that focus on the liberal arts, classes in computer programming, and even lessons taught in another language.
You select math, English, and art classes offered by a local charter school, where your child will sit with friends she's had all of her life. In the afternoon, she'll study Spanish and music online and prepare for the SAT in an evening class at a nearby private school. She swims on the swim team at the neighborhood traditional school twice a week.4
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New technology and bold legislative advances in educational choice are bringing us closer to the day when this hypothetical dinner-table exercise becomes a reality for every family. However, this vision for the future is a sharp contrast to the factory model of education we have come to accept. We have grown accustomed to the routine of parents sending their children to an assigned public school, and these schools employ administrators, teachers, and other staff who receive their pay regardless of how many children learn to read or drop out of high school. The question for parents and their students in the next generation must change from "Where do we go to school?" to "How do we want to learn?"
Out with the Traditional School, in with More Options
Students must learn marketable skills they can use to enter the workforce, attend college, go to graduate school, or pursue whatever opportunities are available to them. What a student learns is more important than just going to school. According to the Arizona Department of Administration, 20 of the fastest-growing occupations in the state are heavily populated by science- and math-intensive fields: biomedical engineering, network systems and data communications analysis, medical science, and radiation therapy, to name a few.6 Yet only two states rank lower than Arizona on a national science test comparison for 8th graders, and only four states score lower than Arizona in a 4th grade national math comparison.7 Individuals with lower levels of educational attainment have fewer choices in life, just like those who attend schools that do not prepare them for work in fields where jobs are available. This burden creates more disparity in societies around the globe. School, as we know it, has not bridged the divide between students performing at different achievement levels because every child learns material at a different pace.
Figure 1: Arizona Department of Administration, Fast-Growing Occupations in Arizona 2008-20188
Source: Arizona Department of Administration, "Fast Growing Occupations in Arizona '08-'18," http://www.azstats.gov/pubs/labor/FastGroOccs.pdf.
Evidence from student test scores and high school dropout and graduation rates indicate that education is due for an upgrade. Arizona student test scores in math and reading on the Nation's Report Card have been unchanged for decades, and Arizona is in the middle of the pack when it comes to graduation rates. Arizona's average annual improvement in the state's graduation rate between 2006 and 2010 is positive, though still near the middle of U.S. states (20th), but Arizona's freshman graduation rate (how many freshman from the class of 2006 graduated in 2010) ranks 42nd in the country.9
Compared to the national average, Arizona students are also not taking the kind of classes that will challenge and prepare them for the jobs in the employment sectors listed above. Arizona's student participation rates in Advanced Placement courses, college-level courses taught in high school, and college entrance exams are well below the national average.
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Source: The College Board, "The 9th Annual AP Report to the Nation," February 13, 2013, http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/ap/rtn/9th-annual/9th-annual-ap-report-single-page.pdf, p. 36; The College Board, "The SAT Report on College & Career Readiness: 2012," http://media.collegeboard.com/homeOrg/content/pdf/sat-report-college-career-readiness-2012.pdf, author calculations; ACT, "2012 ACT National and State Scores: Average Scores by State," http://www.act.org/newsroom/data/2012/states.html.
Around the United States and the world, the way in which students are educated through the traditional school system cannot change fast enough. Education is a critical predictor of a person's future quality of life, no matter where he lives. The OECD reports that the unemployment gap between individuals with different levels of educational attainment grew between 2008 and 2011.10 Around the world, individuals with lower levels of education saw their unemployment rate grow by 3.8 percentage points. Critically, during the recent financial recession, data showed that completing coursework was not as important as which courses a student completed and what he learned in those classes:
The changes in enrollment rates, employment rates and investment in education observed in the first years of the recession indicate how . . . individuals, families and societies as a whole fared during the most challenging economic and social crisis in recent history. Highly educated young people from fields of study in high demand found a job easily . . . and could envisage a prosperous life ahead of them. For others, a tertiary qualification [college degree] did not bring the expected rewards, either because the labour market was contracting too much—often protecting older generations at the expense of the youngest generation of workers—or because their chosen field of study was already saturated or not aligned with the needs of the labour market.11
Parents and legislators must give tomorrow's students the opportunity to reverse these trends of low test scores and the lost opportunities because of mediocre graduation rates and too few students taking challenging course material. Students need more than just an assigned school and more than even choices between schools—they need choices between challenging classes, extracurricular activities, and other educational options.
We need to build an educational future for our children based on four pillars:
• Every student should be eligible to choose the best school or set of classes from different schools and learning centers;
• Students should have access to self-paced instructional tools;
• Education funding should be student- and parent-directed and based on student outcomes;
• And students should be able to combine the credits earned in classes held at different schools and learning centers to complete their course of study.
Every Educational Choice Should be Available Anywhere, to Everyone
Education savings accounts in Arizona are making school-assignment and seat-time requirements things of the past. The accounts give students choices between schools, individual classes, tutors, and extracurricular activities like academic clubs. Launched in 2011, the Arizona Department of Education awards eligible families a bank account worth 90 percent of the state portion of a child's per student funding from the school funding formula.12 Parents can use the accounts to enroll their child in an online class, buy textbooks, pay tuition at a K-12 private school, pay for individual public school classes, hire a personal tutor, or even pay for college. One of the accounts' most distinctive features is the number of options parents have for their child's education.
Families have taken advantage of the accounts' flexibility in creative ways. Savings account families subscribe to online education websites such as BrainPOP, for example, that can be accessed anytime, and some families have bought Saxon curriculum materials to use for homeschool, along with Rosetta Stone software to help with foreign language instruction.13 Families are keeping unused funds from year to year, saving for their child's college tuition, and hiring individual help for their student in different subjects.14
Lawmakers in other states are following Arizona's example. In the past two years, legislators in Florida, Iowa, Montana, Utah, Oklahoma, and Missouri have introduced education savings account legislation, though the bills have not progressed.15 One state has even given parents the flexibility to use tax-credit scholarship funds for different purchases. Under tax-credit scholarship laws in place in 11 states, including Arizona, individuals and businesses donate funds to charitable scholarship-granting organizations. The scholarship organizations award private school scholarship to K-12 students. Since 2012, New Hampshire students have been able to use K-12 private school scholarships to either find a school that meets their needs or pay for homeschool expenses.16 New Hampshire's scholarships are similar to Arizona's education savings accounts because Granite State families can use their scholarship money to buy homeschool materials and textbooks or to pay private school tuition, allowing them to choose where and how their child learns.17
New Hampshire's law is a significant upgrade to private school scholarship laws around the country. Other states that have enacted scholarship tax credit laws, such as Florida, Iowa, and Georgia, have designed the provisions to help families pay private school tuition. Education savings accounts and, to a limited degree, New Hampshire's scholarships help parents meet a child's needs through more than just the choice of a school. Families have the flexibility to meet their child's unique needs through the purchase of different educational products and services.
Another distinctive feature of Arizona's savings accounts and the K-12 school vouchers available in Indiana and Louisiana is that hundreds of thousands of students are eligible to use the accounts and vouchers. In nearly every state that allows students to use vouchers or scholarships to attend private school, the scholarships are only available to students who meet certain criteria. For 20 years, the nation's oldest voucher program, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was limited to students in the school district who met certain income restrictions.18 In 2012, lawmakers expanded student eligibility to include children in Racine (located 30 miles south of Milwaukee), and in 2013, legislators changed state law to include any student in the state who is eligible for the free and reduced-priced lunch program. However, the new law only allows 500 students outside of Milwaukee or Racine to participate in the 2013-14 school year. Likewise, in Mississippi, only children with dyslexia are eligible for scholarships, and school vouchers in Douglas County, Colorado, are capped at 500 available slots.19 These limitations mean some but not all children who need better options have the chance at a successful future. Every child should be eligible for educational innovations that give them the chance at a great education.
In 2011, Indiana lawmakers made more children eligible for school vouchers than any other state's scholarship program.20 Some 530,000 Indiana children are eligible for vouchers, and more children applied for a voucher in the program's first year than in the first year of any K-12 scholarship program in U.S. history (3,919).21 Indiana children from low- and middle-income families are eligible for a full or partial scholarship. In Louisiana, 380,000 state children are eligible for school vouchers.22 Approximately 1 in 5 Arizona public school students is eligible for an education savings account, a total of more than 220,000 children.23 Eligible Arizona students are: special-needs children, children assigned to schools that earned a "D" or "F" on the schools' state report card, children of active-duty military families, and children adopted from the state foster care system. Incoming kindergarten students that meet any of these criteria are also eligible for an account. In order for all children to have the chance at a superior education, lawmakers must give all students more options than their assigned public schools and not limit school choice laws to select student populations or restrict participation with modest enrollment caps.
Figure 3: Public School Enrollment in Arizona, Indiana, and Louisiana vs. Student Eligibility for Educational Choices
Source: National Center for Education Statistics, "2012 Digest of Education Statistics: Table 36: Enrollment in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools, by region, state, or jurisdiction: Selected years, fall 1990 through fall 2021," http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d12/tables/dt12_036.asp.
School choice will not level the playing field for all students if only students that meet certain income- or special-needs-related categories are eligible. The disparities between students from different backgrounds will remain as long as only a few children can choose a school that fits their needs. If access to innovative educational options—or any options at all—is limited, the resulting student success will be limited. These restrictions must become a thing of the past if a great education is to become a reality for all students.
Self-Paced Instruction
"Education technology" used to mean the number of computers in a classroom. And for years, education leaders around the country added computers to their schools. The ratio of children to computers with Internet access was more than halved between 2000 and 2008 (from 6.6 students per computer to 3.1).24 The percentage of classrooms with Internet access jumped from 8 percent in 1995 to 94 percent in 2005.
Figure 4: Percent of Public School Classrooms with Internet Access, 1995 vs. 2005
Source: National Center for Education Statistics, 2012 Digest of Education Statistics, "Table 109: Number and internet access of instructional computers and rooms in public schools, by selected school characteristics: Selected years, 1995 through 2008," http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d11/tables/dt11_109.asp.
Michael Horn, co-founder and executive director of the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, and Meg Evans, Program Associate at the Christensen Institute, explain that putting more computers in the classroom did not necessarily change what happened in the classroom: "To the extent that [the public school system] has employed technology, it has done so to sustain and reinforce its factory-model processes, not to fundamentally change them."25
International data confirm this finding. In The Smartest Kids in the World, Amanda Ripley reports that a survey of 202 exchange students from 15 countries found that students "overwhelmingly agreed that they saw more technology in U.S. schools [than schools in their home countries]."26 Ripley adds that "even students from high-performing countries said they saw more technology in their U.S. classrooms than back home" and "seven out of ten American teenagers who had been abroad agreed." Just because classrooms have computers does not mean that students are more likely to learn what they are being taught.
Instead, we must consider education technology as any hardware or teaching techniques that help students learn more material, better and faster, Horn says. For example, Summit Prep charter school in Redwood City, California, has replaced requirements on how many hours a student is required to attend class with self-paced instruction using online tools.27 Summit employs a hybrid learning model where students spend part of each day with a self-paced online program and part of the day in a classroom. Carpe Diem Collegiate High School, a charter school in Yuma, Arizona also uses a hybrid instructional method.28
Summit children set goals for themselves when they begin their online exercises and are free to choose from a playlist of different online educational applications. Similar to shopping at an Apple computer store, where customers go to the Genius Bar to get help from technicians, students can visit a tutoring bar for extra help. They interact with teachers and other students in breakout sessions. Once a student has finished his assignments, he takes an online test to see if he's met the goals he set earlier in the day. Teachers' roles at Summit are different from a teacher's role in a traditional classroom. Summit teachers act as a student's team member as he makes his way through new material and demonstrates that he understand the lessons.29
Forty-two percent of Summit students qualify for the free or reduced-price lunch program, and the school has a 94 percent on-time graduation rate.30 The Daily Beast named Summit one of its 10 "Miracle High Schools," and the school is ranked 11th in California according to U.S. News & World Report.31 Summit's hybrid model gives students the flexibility they need to learn at their own pace using both online tools and person-to-person interactions, making more effective use of both computers and people.
Online learning pioneer Salman Khan and his Khan Academy helped inspire Summit's new instructional method. Khan Academy started as a YouTube channel with educational videos but is now a fully-functioning, free online resource where students watch lessons, take quizzes, and track their progress, and teachers can monitor the progress of all the students in their classes. As featured on 60 Minutes and supported by Silicon Valley icon Bill Gates and corporate titans like Google, Khan Academy features 4,500 videos for students on subjects ranging from multiplication to the French Revolution.32 Students sign in to the site with their email address and set up an account, and the site tracks their progress through different lessons. The entire Los Altos School District, in Santa Clara County, California, along with students at Summit Prep, KIPP Academies around the country, Eastside Prep in Palo Alto, California, and Oakland Unity Charter School in Oakland, California use Khan Academy as a part of their school day.33 Los Altos students watch lectures and videos at home, then come to school the next day to work on their assignments (commonly referred to as a "flipped classroom"). In class, teachers review the lesson from the previous evening and help students as they finish their exercises.
Students that struggle with different subjects can spend more time on the material, while others in the class can move on to the next topic. "The benefits allowed teachers to rethink instructional time, and we are actually finding that we have more time," says Alyssa Gallagher, Los Altos assistant district superintendent.34 "Teachers aren't spending time on skills that students already know."
Business would proceed at a snail's pace if every employee had to wait for all of their co-workers to finish the same task before moving on to the next step or a new project. Teachers in traditional classrooms are forced to decide whether to move on to new material before every student has caught up or wait until every student demonstrates that they understand the material before moving on. Either way, some children in a class are going to struggle. Every child is different, and the future of learning will be defined by education technology that allows them to move at their own pace.
Education Funding and Student Outcomes
Traditionally, taxpayers fund public schools based on the number of students enrolled. Arizona's traditional school finance formula is no exception and is woefully outdated. Schools report enrollment near the end of a school year, and the state pays schools in the next school year based on the prior year's enrollment.35 In Arizona, $125 million taxpayer dollars are wasted as children change schools from year to year or during the school year, and the state pays schools regardless of whether a student learns subject material.
As more states, including Arizona, allow students to take courses online, use an education savings account, or attend private school using a voucher, states must adapt their outdated formulas to take into account these choices. Traditional school funding systems struggle to account for virtual school funding, in particular. Arizona has 52 virtual programs enrolling 30,000 students, and 1.8 million students take distance learning courses nationwide (275,000 students are enrolled in full-time online schools).36 Students enrolled in online courses may not complete coursework for weeks before they are deemed truant or to have dropped out. State treasuries pay virtual schools even if students disappear in cyberspace, and students may re-enroll in a traditional school having not done any work at their online school. As a result, taxpayers pay twice for a student to take the same class, which is not only expensive but creates havoc in state academic accountability systems. Student information systems based exclusively on traditional school enrollment are not sophisticated enough to account for student mobility.
Arizona's education savings accounts are more effective than state-managed student databases at facilitating school, course, and extracurricular choices and school funding. As explained above, the state deposits student account funds directly in the account, eliminating the need for state computer systems to track where a student is learning at any given time. Account holders make purchases using a debit card or PayPal. The accounts replace bureaucratic, centralized student information systems with a financing tool that resembles a personal bank account.
States that have not yet adopted education savings accounts have found other unique ways to pay for online classes based on student course completion. The Florida Virtual School was the nation's first model for incentive-based online school funding. Florida pays the state virtual school, the nation's largest online K-12 course provider, for in-state students only after the student successfully finishes a class (Florida Virtual School offers classes for students living anywhere in the country, and out-of-state students pay tuition).37 In 2008-2009, the state paid Florida Virtual $1,054 for each course credit earned. Florida Virtual has both full- and part-time programs, and the school enrolls students from all 50 states and 57 countries.
In 2011, Utah enacted a similar funding model for all of the state's online course providers and pays online schools based on student course completion. Utah students can enroll in up to three classes online per year from providers anywhere in the state, including online charter schools and school district virtual classes.38 Online schools receive half of a child's funding when the child enrolls and the remainder when he finishes the course.39 Critically, state law requires that a child's school automatically accepts credits earned through an online course. In Arizona, state law allows districts to prohibit students from earning credits online, and some Arizona school districts, including Scottsdale Unified School District, Chandler Unified School District, and Deer Valley Unified School District, adopted policies that limit a student's online course options.40
Arizona's education savings accounts, Florida's statewide virtual school, and Utah's funding system for online classes are more efficient funding methods for students and taxpayers and eliminate much of the waste in centralized databases. Schools have the incentive to offer classes and services that parents and their children need and make sure children finish their coursework, and taxpayers only fund schools if a course provider successfully helps a child learn.
Individual Course Selection
In June 2013, Louisiana joined Arizona in making it possible for students to select individual courses and no longer limits what a child can learn by what is inside classroom walls in their assigned schools. The Louisiana State Board of Education approved $2 million for the Louisiana Course Choice pilot program, which allows students to choose from a menu of classes anywhere in the state.41 Parents and students visit the course-choice Internet homepage, select their desired class and enter their ZIP code, and the website generates all of the options for a specific course at schools located nearby or from online schools.42 Options available to Louisiana students include Florida Virtual School classes, courses from the online school K12 Inc., and in-person as well as virtual classes at nearby public and private schools. School counselors are available over the phone to help families select the appropriate course levels and navigate through the selection process.43 The state will cover enrollment costs for traditional and charter public school students, while private school and homeschool students must pay tuition.
Figure 5: Louisiana Course Choice Screenshot
Source: Louisiana Course Choice, http://www.louisianacoursechoice.net.
Louisiana's database includes 42 course providers in more than 90 locations. These courses include Advanced Placement classes, gifted courses, ACT preparation classes, and classes at all state colleges and universities. Similar to the Florida Virtual School, Louisiana does not pay course providers the full per-student amount unless the child finishes a course on time. More than 2,000 students have enrolled for the 2013-14 school year.44
Louisiana's course choice and Arizona's education savings accounts put education at a student's fingertips instead of requiring a student to go to one location for a certain number of hours. This creates life-changing options for disadvantaged children and students in rural areas that may not have easy access to high-quality classes in their hometowns. The College Board reports that only 33.7 percent of U.S. public schools offer Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate classes in the core subjects of English, math, science, and social studies.45 This means that two-thirds of public school children in the United States, approximately 37 million students, are excluded from the most challenging classes available to them—classes that would help them prepare for higher education or the employment opportunities in technical fields such as those available in Arizona cited earlier.
Louisiana's course choice system is a model of how to give every child access to challenging classes and reduce the disparities between children living in different geographic areas and at different income levels. Lawmakers in every state should create a database of classes and make the options available to families. Arizona's education savings accounts would facilitate a payment system for the classes, and parents could use their child's account to pay for the courses. The accounts' flexibility will also allow families to pay for tutoring services, standardized test fees, and other curricular or extracurricular activities that will help meet every child's unique needs.
Building a Future on these Four Pillars
There is more evidence to demonstrate the value of flexibility and choices in education than the findings from Professor Mitra's colorful experiments. As lawmakers consider the four ambitious ideas described in this paper to give more children the chance at a bright future, they should build the case for change on findings from school choice research such as:
• While traditional school student test scores have shown little improvement in reading and no improvement in math since 1973, charter school students around the country have shown steady improvement. In a study of 1.5 million charter school students, Stanford University researchers found that the average charter school student posted achievement scores that are the equivalent of eight additional days of learning in reading compared to peers at traditional schools. This is a significant improvement from 2009, when the same researchers found that charter students posted scores that were the equivalent of seven fewer days of learning.46
• Goldwater Institute research found that a higher percentage of Arizona charter schools earned an "A" on their state report card in both 2011 and 2012.47 These report card grades are based on year-to-year student achievement on the state test and the improvement among the lowest-performing 25 percent of a school's students.
• In the first study of the impact of school vouchers on college attendance, researchers found that African American students using a privately funded school voucher in New York City saw college-enrollment rates increase by 7 percentage points. For African American students that used a voucher for even a few years, their college-enrollment rate increased by 24 percent over their peers at traditional schools.48
• Researchers found that Washington, D.C. students using a voucher to attend private school were significantly more likely than their peers not using vouchers to graduate from high school.49 Similar positive effects on graduation were found among students using a voucher in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.50
• Without exception, school voucher and tax credit scholarship awards cost taxpayers less than the average public school spending per child in the 50 states. In some cases, scholarship awards are half the size of average per student spending.51
Figure 6: Arizona Average Tax Credit Scholarships, Education Savings Account, and Charter School Average Student Awards vs. Average per Student Funding at Traditional Schools
Source: Arizona Joint Legislative Budget Committee, "Overview of K-12 Per Pupil Funding for School Districts and Charter Schools," September 6, 2013, http://www.azleg.gov/jlbc/districtvscharterfunding.pdf; Arizona Department of Revenue, "Private School Tuition Organization Income Tax Credits in Arizona: A Summary of Activity FY 2012," http://www.azdor.gov/Portals/0/Reports/FY2012%20private%20schl%20tuition%20org%20crdt%20rept.pdf, and author estimates based on Fifty-first Arizona Legislature, First Regular Session, SB 1363, http://www.azleg.gov/DocumentsForBill.asp?Bill_Number=1363&Session_Id=110&image.x=-919&image.y=-34, and e-mail communication with the Arizona Department of Education, August 13, 2013. Author calculations. Note: Special-needs student average funding is not included in the education savings account figure provided in this graph. Arizona funds special-needs students in traditional schools and using a savings account at a higher level than the statewide per student average. Education savings accounts are still worth 90 percent of the state funding that would have been used for a special-needs child in a traditional or charter school.
For more than 15 years, researchers have documented how school choice gives parents more flexibility to meet their children's needs and promotes student achievement. Arizona is a national leader in school choice, but as explained above, student eligibility for education savings accounts is still based on certain criteria. Other states with similar programs also limit participation. Limited participation can only result in limited results and limited cost-savings.
Policy Recommendations
1. Make all children eligible for the future of learning. As states consider education savings accounts, course choice options, virtual schools, and private school scholarships, lawmakers should make these options available to all children, not just students that meet certain eligibility requirements. Just as every child is free to attend a public school, so should every child be free to choose from better opportunities that will meet their needs. And parents should not be limited to choices between schools for their children. Arizona, Florida, Utah, New Hampshire, and Louisiana have enacted flexible, innovative ways for parents and students to find a challenging education online, in the classroom, or through a combination of educational services.
2. Allow children to move at their own pace. "Flipped classrooms," where children study at home using tools like Khan Academy and then complete coursework during the school day, and hybrid classrooms help schools make the most of computer hardware and teachers. Students should be free to earn course credit anywhere and finish classes when
they can demonstrate they have mastered the subject material.
3. Create student-based education funding systems. Lawmakers should use education savings accounts and Florida and Utah's mastery-based student funding laws to guide them as they replace seat-time requirements with proficiency requirements. Students should not be rewarded for simply showing up each day, and states should not pay schools exclusively on student enrollment. Centralized databases that process school district and school payments have long outlived their usefulness, and states like Arizona, Florida, and Utah have found ways to give parents and students more control over education funding.
4. Move from school assignment to course selection. Arizona's education savings accounts and Louisiana's course choices elevate student needs above funding school systems. Students should have choices as to where they learn and how they learn. Savings accounts and online course databases give parents and students the freedom to evaluate their needs and determine how, when, and where a child will learn.
Processor Mitra's experiments, along with new schools and educational tools such as the Khan Academy, flipped classrooms, online schools, and hybrid schools like Summit Prep, upend the notion that we must devote more resources, time, and training to traditional classrooms. Individuals and organizations around the world are taking notice. In February 2013, Mitra was awarded a $1 million prize to continue his work with Minimally Invasive Education.52 Khan Academy continues to add free content to their website with the help of charitable contributions, and more independent charter schools open every year to give parents more options than local traditional schools.
While we should not expect all students to thrive in a self-paced environment, neither should we expect all students to succeed in a structured classroom. Every child is unique, and decades of academic results show that a system of assigned schools does not meet the needs of every child. Children must be free to learn anywhere, anytime, using any resources—hardware, software, teachers, classrooms, and beyond—available to them.
Lawmakers in Arizona, Louisiana, and Utah, along with innovative schools in different parts of the country offer a glimpse of the next generation of educational innovation. Education savings accounts, course choices, and discrete online classes make children's needs and skills the focus of education, not a system of schools.
Legislators and school officials must replace seat-time requirements, which require children to spend a certain number of hours at a desk each day, with policies that ask students to demonstrate proficiency in different subjects. Once a child has learned the material, they should be free to move on to the next level, regardless of where their peers are in the lesson. Taxpayers should fund classrooms only after students have demonstrated mastery over their subject material.
Schools should enhance a child's access to educational opportunities, not require students to enter the same classroom for 180 days each year. Students should have the flexibility to learn wherever they want, whenever they want, from whomever they choose. This is the future of learning.

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But in order to qualify for these benefits, you need to show your VA Benefits Award Letter, also referred to as an award letter. This is a letter that comes from the Department of Veterans Affairs and shows your level of disability and the amount of your monthly benefits. However, the problem that many veterans have is that they either misplace the letter, or need another copy and don't know how to get another.
If you or another veteran are receiving disability and want to qualify for a reduced VA loan, you will need to provide your Home Loan Expert with your award letter. The easiest way is to create an account on ebenefits and download the documents you need from there. You may also call your regional VA office and they will be able to walk you through the process.
If you have not yet applied for disability, and are looking to use your VA loan benefits, you'll need to have an approval from the VA before you can receive your benefit.
A friend and team member just went through the process of applying for the information with his dad and said it was incredibly easy.
He created an ebenefits account and printed off the actual awards letter application. They filled out the application and gathered the following information:
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- 3 years of tax returns
- 2 most recent pay stubs
- 2 most recent social security awards letters
Most of this information is readily available online and can be printed at home.
After returning the application along with the above documents to the local regional office, it took about a month for them to review his application because they had all the documents up front.
If you have already been receiving benefits and need a copy of the awards letter, remember, go to ebenefits and you can download all of your documents and approvals there. Or if you prefer to talk it over with a person, call your local regional VA office and they can help you.


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Game Info : Tomb Raider delivers an intense and gritty story of the origins of Lara Croft and her ascent from frightened young woman to hardened survivor, armed with only raw instincts and the physical ability to push beyond the limits of human endurance. Superb physics-based gameplay is paired with a heart-pounding narrative in Lara's most personal, character-defining adventure to date. Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition features An all new Lara model created to take advantage of the power of next-gen consoles, native 1080p gameplay, reworked lighting, and more. More Info Download bellow


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Auschwitz – Media lies or the truth at last?
By wmw_admin on February 1, 2015
Allegations that Nazis committed an industrial scale atrocity known as the "holocaust", first originated with a Soviet commission. The same commission that blamed Germans for the Katyn massacre
Category: Feature Posts, Hidden and Revisionist History
CIA tried to give Iraq nuclear plans, just like Iran
By wmw_admin on February 1, 2015
Evidence emerges that the CIA once proposed to give slightly flawed nuclear plans to both Iraq and Iran. David Swanson explains
Category: Feature Posts, Hidden and Revisionist History, Iran, Iraq
Iran holds 'counter-sabotage' drills at enrichment plant
By wmw_admin on February 1, 2015
Iran reportedly conducted drills at Fordo underground uranium enrichment facility on Friday to train staff how to react to a military strike
Category: Feature Posts, Iran
My Lifelong Struggle With Freemasons
By wmw_admin on February 1, 2015
Ever wonder why so many white men seem so cold and soul-less? Society has been subverted by this satanic cult which literally steals souls, one at a time.
Category: Commentary, Feature Posts, Freemasonry
Critics Say New Iran Sanctions Could Kill Negotiations, Lead to War
By wmw_admin on February 1, 2015
Thomas Hedges speaks to Jamal Abdi from the Nation Iranian-American Council who says that failed talks could lead to armed conflict
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In Memory of Anthony Lawson
By wmw_admin on February 1, 2015
A few words from Anthony Lawson's son to mark the passing away of one of the great commentators of our time
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State Kidnapped Homeschooled Children
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Another indication marking America's transformation into a full blown Police State
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Dead at the Stupor Bowl from an American Sniper
By Les Visible on January 31, 2015
It is kind of in my blood and I actually enjoy the spirit of competition and good sportsmanship. However… I bring up the Super Bowl today to point out its negative aspects
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Shameless Dershowitz Campaigns For Israel
By Gilad Atzmon on January 31, 2015
An interesting but little known fact: 'Shalom' doesn't really mean peace of reconcilliation. Literally translated it has another meaning entirely. Gilad Atzmon explains
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China Vs Facebook
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Today's New York Times features the familiar whine about China's censorship of the Internet. But nowhere in this piece is there any mention of China's stated reason
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Jobs Doug will fight for you by delivering on the #1 priority in our state: jobs for all Maryland.
Safety Year after year our state is ranked among the 10 most violent states in the nation. Doug has a plan to make Maryland one of the 10 safest.
Veterans Our state's veterans have served us with honor, often at great cost to themselves and their families. When they return home to Maryland, we should do all we can to honor them.
HEALTH CARE Doug was an early and ardent supporter of President Obama's health care reform law, which guarantees all citizens access to high quality and affordable care.
Environment Doug will build on his record of working to protect our environment and the jobs and industries that depend on a clean, thriving Chesapeake Bay.
EDUCATION Closing the minority achievement gap will be one of Doug's most important causes.
ENERGY We have outlined a range of renewable proposals that are good for our agricultural economy and good for the environment.
Good Government Doug's reform ideas are built on a core belief: the public deserves better and quicker access to legislative and executive spending decisions.


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Tree Limb Pickup begins
Tree limbs are to be no longer than 8' and no greater than 10" in diameter. Tree limbs must be in place by 8:00 a.m. Remember, the Village has a right to refuse to remove any landscape waste deemed not a tree limb. Tree limbs are defined as a limb remove from the trunk of a tree. Trunks and root balls of a tree may not be removed by the Village.


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Conflict is a part of life. We face conflict in business as well as in our personal lives. Most people will tell you they hate conflict. It takes too much time, energy and money away from what really matters. Unresolved conflict not only adds stress to our already hectic lives, but drains our resources and affects our ability to do our job. So what do we do? Avoidance is how many "handle" conflict, yet this merely adds to the problem by delaying its resolution. Conflict will not go away on its own. We need to actively do something to resolve it. If we know how to properly address it, conflict often can be a tremendous benefit to us and our business. To do this requires a skillset many of us simply do not utilize.
What is it we mean when we talk about a Conflict Resolution toolkit? There are twelve broad skills for successful conflict resolution. These twelve skills help us not only connect with others more efficiently, but effectively as well. The shift from adversaries to partners in solution creation enables us to move past our personal differences into result orientated possibilities and solutions increasing our productivity, our time, and reducing our bottom-line.
Skillfully dealing with conflict is an essential managerial tool. When we stop worrying and trying to hide from conflict we can realize how beneficial conflict can really be. For example it can point out our company's inefficiencies, as well as its areas of expertise. This positive information from conflict often goes unrecognized because management and staff are taught that it is "fight" or "flight". The reality, however, is that the best thing to do when faced with conflict is simply "flow" and to do that requires a conflict resolution skillset.


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Mysore district in-charge Minister S.A. Ramdas said in Mysore on Monday that the district administration was inviting ambassadors of 70 countries to take part in Dasara festivities. The district authorities were in touch with the Delhi government to liaise with the ambassadors concerned.
The Minister said that the Mysore district officials would formally invite Sri Siddeshwara Swami from Bijapur to inaugurate the Dasara festival on October 14.
Mr. Ramdas was addressing presspersons at the Mysore palace here after welcoming the first batch of six Dasara elephants. In reply to a query, he said that Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar would formally inaugurate the Dasara Authority, which will organise all functions related to the festival in future. The government has released Rs. 6 crore for organising Dasara festivities and Rs. 4 crore would be released later.
A Government Order would be released soon with regard to constitution of 27 different committees (samitis) to conduct Dasara.
Yuva Dasara will not be held this time. A Vidwat Goshti would be organised to commemorate the literary contributions and development of Mysore under the rule of Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar. Scholars from across the nation would be invited to participate. A meet on music would also be held to commemorate the development made in the field under the rule of Jayachamaraja Wadiyar. A Government Order would soon be issued on the two events.
Deputy Chief Minister K.S. Eshwarappa would be requested to hold a videoconference with the Chief Executive Officers of the zilla panchayats to discuss preparations being made to take out tableaux from each of the districts during the Dasara procession. Mr. Ramdas said that all civil works in the city would be completed before Dasara. The Minister said Rs. 5 crore would be released for the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Mysore City Corporation (MCC). The MCC would work in co-ordination with the district administration to ensure successful Dasara.
Kabini water will be supplied to the city during Dasara. Mayor M.C. Rajeshwari was present.
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The Blood Type Diet Archives Volume 3
Posted By: Louie AndersonDate: March-13, 1998 at 21:51:23
Just spent the last hour cruising for a term paper andcame across "Healthexcel"- a company that does analysisof metabolic types. Blood type was one of their 9 determinating factors. ER4YT was one of their recommended books. (although they made the aside that even though blood type is a factor,it is not enough, you need to know your metabolic type yada,yada.) My guess is they are probablly very expensive. I wonder if this is helpful and how much value it has. Does anyone have any knowledge /experience with these folks? I posted a question there and will see what happens..
In the meantime...Peter, Ed, Heidi, Steve??
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Baltimore initiative to help consumers identify healthier food options
New signs indicating healthier food options
BALTIMORE - Baltimore officials are unveiling new signs to make it easier for consumers at city markets to identify healthy food options.
On Wednesday, officials will unveil new signs that will make it easier for customers to identify healthy food options when purchasing prepared foods at Lexington Market.
Eventually, officials hope to expand the strategy to more than 100 carryout vendors across Baltimore's six public markets, which are visited by more than 4.2 million customers annually.
It's part of the Get Fresh Public Markets initiative, which aims to increase the availability of healthy foods and local produce.
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AES News
- 137th Audio Engineering Society Convention Breaks Records and Draws Acclaim from Attendees, Exhibitors and Presenters Alike
- Convention reminds West-Coast audio community, "If It's About Audio, It's At AES!"
- AES 2014 Election Results
- The results are in!
- Time to Vote: 2014 AES Elections
- Deadline was Friday, July 11th
- AES Showcases Latest Audio Innovations and Best Practices at 136th International Convention in Berlin
- Successful Technical Program and Exhibition draw high attendance and positive response from attendees and exhibitors alike
AES Press Release: AES Amsterdam 2008
Preliminary Program on the Web
For Release: March 19, 2008
Preliminary Program on the Web
Amsterdam, March 2008: The AES has uploaded the very comprehensive and exciting program for the 124th AES Convention in Amsterdam, May 17 – 20, to the AES website. This preliminary version of the program allows attendees to plan their visits and to select the events that most interest them from the very varied list of topics.
"The AES is the only European Convention which acts as a platform for all fields of pro audio. We focus on Broadcast, Live Sound, Recording and all other sectors of the pro audio industry," said Roger Furness, executive director of the AES. "The topics range from papers about acoustics to a workshop dealing with Yesterdays FX's today. Or, from a tutorial on archiving to a live sound seminar addressing the different types of mixing consoles. Audio networking, file-based production and, of course, surround sound recordings are other important subjects in our Convention program."
On the AES website, the preliminary calendar is now available with drop-down boxes which show more detailed information about the selected item. Please visit www.aes.org and click on 124th Convention to display the program information, for hotel booking and for pre-registration.
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I want to make a floor plan for a kitchen for review but I haven't had much luck with floorplanner.com, ikea.com or homestyler.com. Is there a site for dummies? |
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A favorite on this forum is to use Google sketchup. But, if you are having trouble with floorplanner or ikea, I'm not sure you'll have a lot of luck with sketchup either. But, you might be able to post your graph paper plan in this forum and kindly get help from someone who does use those programs well... |
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Thanks. I posted them in another ongoing thread and didn't get any replies after that but I will start a new thread with them. |
- Posted by mykitchensdone (My Page) on Sat, May 25, 13 at 22:04
Hi Gale Just found floorplanner.com, great site. Really to be used for an entire house plan, but you could use it just for an individual room. It wasn't too hard after a bit of trial & error and has very nice support people who fixed some errors I had made. You can also see your design in both 2D & 3D. The first project is free, after that you need to subscribe. Helene |
For kitchen only plans, the tool at NKBA.ORG works good. http://www.nkba.org/VirtualPlanningTool.aspx |
- Posted by liriodendron (My Page) on Sat, May 25, 13 at 23:14
Graph paper, a straight edge and a dark, fine, pen are wonderful tools.(Extra fine Sharpies are good to go over intial, sketched-in pencil lines.) Get help with accurate wall/room measurements, get the outline on graph paper and sketch away. When you have something you want to share, take a pic of it, post it to Photobucket and then add it to the thread. Easy-peasey and no technical (electronic or drawing) skills needed. You can d/l graph paper to your printer, if you need it and the stores are closed. Just Google it. Graph paper has an added advantage over a computer diagram in that the grid makes it easy to quickly evaluate the dimensions on interior aisles within the plan. That's even more important than how you arrange the elements along the exterior walls. It also helps you get real about any islands that are flitting about in your mind's eye. HTH L>. |
I'm going to redo my graph paper one with a straight edge. But I did get the NKBA one to work for me in Chrome (wouldn't load in firefox) and it's very eye-opening to see it in 3d. I see things that might need changing that were not evident on a flat piece of paper. |
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General Surgery Qualifying Exam - Overview
About the Exam
- The General Surgery Qualifying Examination (QE) is offered annually as the first of two exams required for board certification in general surgery. The QE consists of approximately 300 multiple-choice questions designed to evaluate a surgeon's knowledge of general surgical principles and applied science.
- It is a one-day exam lasting eight hours and is held at computer-testing facilities across the U.S. Results are posted and mailed approximately four weeks after the exam. The exam's contents are copyrighted and may not be reproduced or disclosed in any manner.
- Next Exam: August 13, 2015 (2016 Exam: July 19, 2016)
General Requirements
- To be eligible for this exam, applicants must:
- Accredited Program: Have satisfactorily completed a residency training program in general surgery accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) or Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. All training must be completed by July 1 to be eligible for that year's QE.
- Training: Have met all ABS training requirements for graduate education in general surgery.
- Professional Activity: Be actively engaged in the practice of general surgery as indicated by holding full surgical privileges in this discipline at an accredited health care institution, or be currently engaged in pursuing additional graduate education in a component of general surgery or other recognized surgical specialty. An exception to this requirement is active military duty.
- Operative Log: Submit an operative experience report that is deemed acceptable to the ABS, not only as to volume, but as to spectrum and complexity of cases. See training requirements for specific operative experience requirements.
- Medical License: While possession of a medical license is not required to apply for the QE, candidates must possess a full and unrestricted U.S. or Canadian medical license to take the Certifying Examination. Applicants are required to immediately inform the ABS of any conditions or restrictions in force on any active medical license they hold.
- Adhere to the ABS Ethics and Professionalism Policy.
How to Apply
- Individuals who meet ABS requirements may apply for the QE through the online application process, which is posted each year in early spring (Application Instructions). Applicants in U.S. programs must use the login information mailed to programs at that time. Canadian applicants should contact the ABS office for access.
- After your application is approved, you will be sent instructions on how to register for this year's exam and submit payment of the separate exam fee.
- Once you are registered for the exam, you will be mailed an exam admission authorization letter with final details and instructions on reserving a place at a computer-testing center. You must have this letter to reserve a testing center spot.
- Active duty military personnel who may encounter difficulty taking the exam due to their service should contact the ABS as soon as possible.
Exam Opportunities and Admissibility
- Applicants who complete residency in the 2012-2013 academic year or thereafter:
- Will have no more than seven academic years following residency to complete the certification process. The seven-year period begins upon completion of residency, not when an individual's application is approved. If individuals do not apply immediately after residency, they will lose exam opportunities.
- Upon application approval, they will be offered a maximum of four opportunities within a four-year period to pass the QE. If an applicant decides not to take the exam in a given year, it is a lost opportunity as the four-year limit is absolute.
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My first time in, I sat at the crowded oyster bar and made the acquaintance of Mary's clam juice-enhanced cousin, the Bloody Caesar. This classic cocktail, rimmed with lip-smacking Old Bay seasoning, supported a chilled prawn big as a baby's arm. Spotting little-neck clams on the blackboard menu, I special-ordered them raw on the half-shell and was immediately pegged as an Other Coaster already obvious from my little love-fest with the complimentary relish tray filled with this Philly-girl's favorites: hot cherry peppers and pickled herring.
Call it a co-ink-y-dink, but Oceanaire, open less than a year, shares my January birthday, as well as my universal affection for fresh seafood in all its global glory. Granted, I'm keen on the Northwest's holy triumvirate of salmon, halibut and Dungeness crab as much as the next person, but sometimes you just have to break out of the Seattle seafood mode. I do it here at this high-energy, steakhouse-style seafood house, where old-fashioned can-do service, a fresh sheet updated twice daily and a soundtrack that swings to a '40s-era beat conspire to ring my chimes.
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57 and to God -- thanks, to Him who is giving us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ; | 57 But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. |
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Come early for Himalayan Happy Hour and join Graphic Canon contributors Peter Kuper, Valerie Schrag, Shawn Cheng, Fred Van Lent, Rebecca Migdal, Sandy Jimenez, and Brendan Leach for a pre-program book signing in the café followed by a presentation and discussion of The Graphic Canon in the theater with artists Molly Crabapple, Sanya Glisic and Gareth Hinds and editor Russ Kick.
Ticket includes pre-program tour of the comics exhibition Hero, Villain, Yeti: Tibet in Comics and a book signing with the editor and artists after the program.
Artists Molly Crabapple, Sanya Glisic and Gareth Hinds join Editor Russ Kick for the launch of The Graphic Canon, a gorgeous, one-of-a-kind trilogy that brings classic literatures of the world together with legendary graphic artists and illustrators. Called the "graphic publishing literary event of the year" (Publishers Weekly) Volume 1: From The Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons takes us on a visual tour from the earliest literature through the end of the 1700s. It features, The Tibetan Book of the Dead reimagined by Sanya Glisic, Molly Crabapple's version of Dangerous Liaisons, Gareth Hinds' watercolor telling of The Odyssey, as well as Hamlet, The Divine Comedy, The Arabian Nights, Tale of Genji, The Canterbury Tales, The Tao te Ching, Gulliver's Travels, Don Quixote, Candide, an Incan play, a Native American folktale, works by renowned artists Will Eisner and Robert Crumb and much, much more.
Edited by Russ Kick, The Graphic Canon is an extraordinary collection that will continue with Volume 2: Kubla Khan to the Bronte Sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray (August 2012), and Volume 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (October 2012). The entire trilogy features over 189 works of literature visualized by more than 130 illustrators and artists. Most of the works are specially commissioned for this book; some rarely seen before.
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First of all, if you're hesitating between this and number 323, Extra-Light Platinum, know that this is more forgiving. If your hair isn't quite pale enough--and it needs to be almost white before getting 323 anywhere near your head--then opt for Platinum Beige. My hair has really been through the wringer lately, sort of like the hair version of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and this finally got all of the yellow out without making it strangely blue (White Beige) or doing nothing (Extra-Light Platinum). I'm sure 323 is brilliant if you are able to get your hair that light without it falling out, but if not go for Platinum Beige. It's a really nice, almost-natural white, like the color children have. Even better, it doesn't make hair fried, yet lasts much longer and is much more effective than the semi-perm toners. If you're going platinum, I highly recommend this.
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It worked fairly well after bleaching the crap out of my hair. I used 20 vol. clear developer. I would not recommend using this unless your hair has been bleached to the color of the inside of a banana. It completely took out the brassiness, leaving platinum blonde hotness, and I will definitely be purchasing again.
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Yay, I finally found something to tone bleached hair with properly. I used platinum beige because I wanted something that wasn't too cool or warm in the blonde shades, and this came out perfectly! This was very gentle and killed all the yellow and brass I had in my hair. It is for VERY light hair so it won't work on non bleached hair. This came out a really light ash blonde, so it looks awesome. I am going to keep using this dye after my bleaching from now on. I will buy this again!
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