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Winston Churchill Lockdown: US Incarceration Rates • World prison population 8.75 million • US: 6.5 million under correctional supervision (behind bars, on parole, or on probation) - 1/31 adults (vs. 1/77 in 1982) – 2.3 million behind bars (jail + prison) • 1.52 million in jail; 0.79 million in prison • Includes 250,000 women, 93,000 youths • 1.6 million prisoners in China Lockdown: US Incarceration Rates • 6-fold increase in # of people behind bars from 1972-2000 – And rising • # of women behind bars up 750% from 1980 • 3100 local jails, 1200 state and federal prisons in U.S. Lockdown: US Incarceration Rates • 10 million Americans put behind bars each year • 3-fold increase in # of people behind bars from 1987-2007 – Crime rate down 25% compared with 1988 • # of women behind bars up 750% from 1980 Lockdown: US Incarceration Rates and Costs • US incarceration rate highest in world –Russia close second –6X > Britain, Canada, France • Costs: $30,000/yr for prison spot; $70,000/yr for jail spot Race and Detention Rates • African-Americans: 1815/100,000 –More black men behind bars than in college • Latino-Americans: 609/100,000 • Caucasian-Americans: 235/100,000 • Asian-Americans: 99/100,000 Immigration Detention Centers • Run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a branch of DHS – Haphazard network of governmentally- and privately-run jails • Increasing numbers of detainees ("War on Immigration") – Fastest-growing form of detention in U.S. – Lucrative business Immigration Detention Centers / Guantanamo • Abuses common, including over 100 deaths since late 2003 • Guantanamo, overseas black-ops sites (extraordinary rendition) – 92% were never involved with al-Qaeda (per government data) Jail and Prison Overcrowding • 22 states and federal prison system at 100%+ capacity in 2000 • 1/11 prisoners serving life sentence –¼ of these without possibility of parole Reasons for Overcrowding • "War on Drugs" • Mandatory Minimums • Repeat Offender laws – 13 states have "three strikes laws" • Truth in Sentencing regulations • Decreased judicial independence Corporate Crime: Silent but Deadly • $200 billion/yr. (vs. $4 billion for burglary and robbery) • Fines for corporate environmental and social abuses minimal/cost of doing business • Some corporations linked to human rights abuses in US and abroad • Most lobby Congress to weaken environmental and occupational health and safety laws Corporate Crime • "The [only] social responsibility of business is to increase its profits." Milton Friedman • "Corporations [have] no moral conscience. [They] are designed by law, to be concerned only for their stockholders, and not, say, what are sometimes called their stakeholders, like the community or the work force…" Noam Chomsky Corporate Crime • "Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility." Ambrose Bierce • "A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation." Howard Scott The Prison-Industrial Complex • Private prisons currently hold 16% of federal and 7% of state prisoners –Only UK has higher proportion of private prisoners than US • 18 corporations guard 10,000 prisoners in 27 states Private prison boom over past 15 years • Reasons: – Prevailing political philosophy which disparages the effectiveness of (and even need for) government social programs – Often-illusory promises of free-market effectiveness –Despite evidence to contrary (e.g., Medicare/Medicaid, water privatization, etc.) – Increasing demand from ICE and USMS The Prison-Industrial Complex • Leading trade group: – American Correctional Association • For-profit companies involved: – Corrections Corporation of America • Controls 2/3 of private U.S. prisons – GEO Group (formerly Wackenhut) • Together these two companies control 75% of market, with over $2.9 billion revenue in 2010 The Prison-Industrial Complex • For-profit companies involved: – Correctional Medical Services – Others (Westinghouse, AT&T, Sprint, MCI, Smith Barney, American Express, Merrill Lynch, Shearson-Lehman, Allstate, GE, Wells Fargo [7% owned by Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway]) Corrections Corporation of America • Largest for-profit prison corporation • Largest detainer of undocumented immigrants – Facilitated by Arizona's SB1070 and similar laws in UT, IN, GA, AL, and SC • Earns between$90 and $200 per prisoner per night • Accused of paying lower salaries and providing less training than state-run prisons The Prison-Industrial Complex • Aggressive marketing to state and local governments – Promise jobs, new income • Rural areas targeted – Face declines in farming, manufacturing, logging, and mining • Companies offered tax breaks, subsidies, and infrastructure assistance The Prison-Industrial Complex: 2001 Bureau of Justice Study • Average savings to community 1% • Does not take into account: – Hidden monetary subsidies – Private prisons selecting least costly inmates • c.f., "cherry picking" by health insurers – Private prisons attract large national chain stores like Wal-Mart, which: • leads to demise of local businesses • Shifts locally-generated tax revenues to distant corporate coffers The Prison-Industrial Complex: Politically Well-Connected • Private prison industry donated $1.2 million to 830 candidates in 2000 elections – $100,000 from CCA to indicted former House Speaker Tom Delay's (R-TX) Foundation for Kids • Delay's brother Randy lobbied TX Bureau of Prisons on behalf of GEO The Prison-Industrial Complex: Politically Well-Connected • Spent over $20 million lobbying legislators and DHS between 2003 and 2010 • $3.3 million donated in 44 states between 2000 and 2004 – 2/3 to candidates, 1/3 to parties (2/3 of this to Republicans – More given to states with tougher sentencing laws The Prison-Industrial Complex: Abuses • Some paid for non-existent prisoners, due to inmate census guarantees • 2009: Two judges in PA convicted of jailing 2000 children in exchange for bribes from private prison companies Jails for Jesus: Faith-Based Initiatives • Increasing presence • Politically powerful • Most evangelical Christian • Supported financially by George W Bush's Faith-Based Initiatives Program – e.g., Prison Fellowship Ministries – founded by Watergate felon Charles Colson in 1976 Jails for Jesus: Faith-Based Initiatives • Offer perks in exchange for participation in prayer groups and courses – Perks: better cell location, job training and post-release job placement – Courses: Creationism, "Intelligent Design", "Conversion Therapy" for homosexuals Jails for Jesus: Faith-Based Initiatives • Some programs "cure" sex offenders through prayer and Bible study – Rather than evidence-based programs employing aversion therapy and normative counseling • Highly recidivist and dangerous criminals may be released back into society armed with little more than polemics about sin Health Issues of Prisoners • At least 1/3 of state and ¼ of federal inmates have a physical impairment or mental condition – Mental illness – Dental caries and periodontal disease – Infectious diseases: HIV, Hep B and C, STDs (including HPV→cervical CA) – Usual chronic illnesses seen in aging population Crime and Substance Abuse • 52% of state and 34% of federal inmates under influence of alcohol or other drugs at time of offenses • Rates of alcohol and opiate dependency among arrestees at least 12% and 4%, respectively – 28% of jails detoxify arrestees Inmate Deaths • 141 per 100,000 deaths in custody in 2007 • 89% - medical conditions –8% - suicide or homicide –3% - alcohol/drug intoxication or accidental injury Inmate Deaths • Blacks prisoners have ½ mortality of Black non-prisoners (fewer alcohol- and drug- related deaths, lethal accidents, and chronic diseases; guaranteed health care) • White prisoners have 12% higher mortality than White non-prisoners (higher death rates from infections, including HIV and hepatitis) Inmate Deaths • Very few prisons have hospice programs • Some have compassionate release programs, to allow death outside of prison before completion of sentence Prison Health Care • Estelle v. 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how-to: use your pretty magazines to make a festive ball garland
November 6, 2011
When I am looking for inspiration for a project, I start by looking around my office or house for what I have too much of. What am I preparing to throw out that I could use in a different way? And like many of you, I'm sure, my eye always falls on the gigantic pile of magazines atop nearly every surface in my office. We all love to keep magazines–the layouts, the colors, the ideas and inspiration–even the pretty advertisements are inevitably ripped from their glued spines and pinned to our bulletin boards. But even the most ardent magazine hoarders (I'm looking at you, Mom!) have to clean house once in a while and pick some mags to let go of. Save your favorite pages and give them new life by making my new magazine ball garland.
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- Sewing machine
- A magazine or two–I used one with lots of beautiful, brightly-colored pages
- Scissors
Below I've outlined all of the steps in photos–it's quite intuitive and easy to make your own. Luckily, this isn't a project that must be done perfectly to be successful!
This is a pretty versatile tutorial–you can use the same technique to make tiny garlands to embellish gifts, big color-coordinated garlands to wrap around your Christmas tree, or just do what I did and make something to liven up your workspace. You don't have to use just magazines for this project either–here are some other ideas:
- Use newspaper for a shabby black and white color scheme
- Fringe the sides of the circles after sewing them–fan them out and fluff the fringe!
- Cut the paper into different shapes–hearts, squares, flowers…
- Vary the sizes of the circles from stack to stack as you sew
- Make this project with other meaningful materials–cut big circles out of old greeting cards, saving the signatures of your loved ones. Reuse old school papers from your college years or artwork from a particularly prolific child in your life.
Make it project and upload your photos to our Princess Lasertron Projects group on Flickr. And if you like this project, you will also love the recycled magazine bouquet featured in the premier issue of Rock N Roll Bride's new magazine. (Those flowers are next on my list to make and I will definitely share how they turn out!)
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Thank you for sharing this great and fun tutorial.
This looks like a great project! But I'm not entirely clear on what happens in between each of the magazine-balls… How are they attached to each other? Do you just unwind extra thread and twist it?
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This is awesome…something I'd definitely love to try out ASAP!! Only that I'll get my mom to sew it manually since we don't have a sewing machine!!
brilliant idea- gorgeous pictures… what is the white contraption on the shelf? A camera? I am intrigued!
How many layer are sewn together? Very cute!!
Oh My goodness!! I have a sewing machine! I have a HUGE pile of magazines and newspapers! I can do this!!!
I would never have thought of sewing magazines. It looks amazing. I would love it if you linked it up over at The T-shirt Diaries Upcycling Linky party: http://tinyurl.com/upcycled70
I made pinwheels out of old maps for my stores windows last summer. I am going to do this project using maps. Thanks ao much!
Those are pretty darn cute.
love this! I'm a well known magazine hoarder and people donate them to my art room, which just feeds my addiction!!!
Ah I love this! Too bad through out my magazines!
Ooooo! Inspired to FINALLY set up my sewing machine! After the wedding, of course…one week away. Eeeeek!
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May drop in to WD-50 for the tasting menu tonight. Was just wondering, do you folks tip the 20% on the tasting menu or tasting menu+wine pairing? I personally hate dropping a few hundred bucks on a bottle of wine, already marked up a few hundred bucks.. and then tipping 20% on top of the markup (although I do offer sommelier a taste / bulk up tip to accomodate him)
I tip on the entire bill, excluding tax, regardless of what I ordered. Not sure why anyone wouldn't.
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ESNY and steph25 I agree with you completely. There is additional service associated with the meal when wine is ordered so why would anyone not include it in the overall tip. As far as the wine mark up issue, we aren't getting the food for what it costs the restaurant yet we still tip.
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Interesting and often discussed question, and there are numerous answers. Buried in one of KT's links is an article from Frank Bruni about tipping on wine. What I get out of what his friends, experts and people "in the know" have to say is, it depends.
We have a sizeable wine collection at home, and what we do sometimes is ask a restaurant what their corkage fee is. This gets around the question, "Can we bring our own wine?" If they don't allow it, they will let you know, but most times they do have an established corkage fee. We generally bring more unusual bottles of wine, such as limited production California wines that come from 9 barrel productions, not what they would ever have on their menu. We will leave a tip on the cc charge, but give the person who served the wine a cash tip based on 20% of what we might have paid for a bottle of wine.0 -
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Series starts 11/16
Game 1: Friday, November 16th | ||
Trail Blazers | 88 | Final |
76ers | 92 | |
Recap »Boxscore » |
Game 2: Sunday, December 30th | ||
76ers | 72 | Final |
Trail Blazers | 97 | |
Recap »Boxscore » |
Trail Blazers 88
(4-5, 0-5 away)
76ers 92
(3-6, 2-3 home)
Coverage: CSNW
7:00 PM ET, November 16, 2007
Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia, PA
Top Performers
Por: L. Aldridge 25 Pts, 6 Reb, 2 Ast, 1 Stl, 1 Blk
Phi: A. Iguodala 22 Pts, 4 Reb, 7 Ast, 3 Stl, 1 Blk
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The 76ers mobbed each other at midcourt and the fans went wild as confetti made out of programs and scraps fluttered through the air.
This might have been the only type of win more rare in Philly than one in a championship game:
Down 25 in the second quarter, 22 in the third, the Sixers never flinched.
Louis Williams and Andre Iguodala got their games going with one unstoppable and improbable basket after another in the fourth to rally the Sixers to a simply stunning 92-88 win over the Portland Trail Blazers on Friday night.
"Anything can happen, so we kept playing," Iguodala said.
The Sixers played hard, played together and never gave up.
Oh, it also helps when the shots are falling.
The Sixers made 25 of 33 shots in the second half for the highest-shooting percentage in a half in team history (76 percent). They played nothing like the team that missed 15 straight shots spanning the first two quarters and scored only 27 points in the first half.
"I've never been involved in a game like that," coach Maurice Cheeks said. "The first half was dismal and we just hung in there, we stayed together and it just says something about the character they have."
Williams was the difference, scoring all 19 of his points in the second half and creating a burst of excitement for a team that needed any kind of spark to get their season going.
Williams scored the last 10 points of the third and the first four of the fourth that kick-started the rally. He assisted on Thaddeus Young's layup that cut it to nine, and Iguodala scored on a spin move to make it 77-70.
"It's easier when the game seems to be out of reach to come in like that," Williams said. "I'm more relaxed and just want to play hard."
Five times in the quarter the Sixers made it a one-point game, only to fall short of taking the lead.
But Iguodala, who led the Sixers with 22 points, sank a pair of free throws with a minute left that made it 89-88. He sealed the win with a pull-up 19-footer and the fans that stuck around for the most remarkable win in recent team history tossed homemade confetti in the air.
Andre Miller scored 13, and the Sixers outscored Portland 36-15 in the quarter, going 13-for-16 from the floor.
"A game like this creates energy for us and for the city," Williams said. "Now we've got to take this energy into the next game."
LaMarcus Aldridge and Brandon Roy each scored 25 points for the Trail Blazers, who have lost all five road games. Aldridge and Roy scored all 15 points in the fourth quarter for Portland.
"I don't know where to start," Roy said. "It's tough to explain."
No one who watched the first three quarters could have seen this coming, especially from a rebuilding Sixers team that entered on a four-game losing streak and looked anemic early in this one.
The Trail Blazers led 41-16 in the second quarter and 64-42 late in the third.
The second quarter was particularly atrocious for the Sixers.
Travis Outlaw, Jarrett Jack and Martell Webster opened the quarter with consecutive 3-pointers to give Portland a 30-14 lead. The Trail Blazers could have stopped there and they would have still led at halftime.
Unlike the Sixers, they couldn't miss. Jack hit a runner, then swished an 18-footer that made it 38-14 and Portland stretched the lead to 45-27 at the break.
The Sixers missed their first 14 shots in nearly every kind of variety. Willie Green botched a left-handed layup (0-for-11) then missed a jumper (0-for-12) on the same possession. Green also misfired on a jumper (0-for-13).
When Reggie Evans made a routine layup with 3:54 left in the quarter, the field-goal drought was mercifully over. On a night that drew the biggest crowds of the week, only a few thousand were in their seats for this one. The ones that paid money to watch all stood and erupted in a mock cheer after the easy basket.
Fast forward two quarters later and the diehards celebrated as if the Sixers won a championship.
Roy sank a 3-pointer with 2:46 left that gave Portland a four-point cushion. But Williams hit a 3 and Iguodala added two more free throws that made it an 88-87 game with 1:30 to go.
Aldridge dunked between the two Sixers scores -- their last points of the game.
"It's a lesson learned," Portland coach Nate McMillan said. "If you mess with the game, the game will mess with you."
Game notes
Reserve Jason Smith left in the first half with a sprained ankle. He returned in the third quarter. ... The Sixers played without F Kyle Korver (groin). ... Portland rookie Greg Oden has gained nearly 30 pounds of muscle -- all in the upper body -- since he was drafted. He is up to 280 pounds.
Team Stat Comparison
Points | 88 | 92 |
Rebounds (Offensive-Total) | 3-11 | 6-17 |
Assists | 20 | 19 |
Turnovers | 19 | 21 |
Steals | 12 | 8 |
Blocks | 2 | 4 |
Fast Break Points | 6 | 20 |
Fouls (Tech/Flagrant) | 19 (1/0) | 23 (2/0) |
Largest Lead | 25 | 4 |
Top Performers
Game Leaders
Points | B. Roy 25 | A. Iguodala 22 |
Rebounds | J. Przybilla 7 | R. Evans 9 |
Assists | S. Blake 6 | A. Iguodala 7 |
Steals | B. Roy 3 | A. Iguodala 3 |
Blocks | L. Aldridge 1 | A. Iguodala 1 |
Team rosters: Portland | Philadelphia |
Next 5 Games
Portland | Philadelphia |
11/17 @WSH 7:00pm 11/19 @CHA 7:00pm 11/21 NJ 7:00pm 11/23 SAC 7:00pm 11/26 ORL 7:00pm |
11/20 @WSH 7:00pm 11/23 @DET 8:00pm 11/24 GS 7:00pm 11/27 @MIL 7:00pm 11/28 UTAH 7:00pm |
Complete Schedule: Portland | Philadelphia |


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It seems like Eddie Murphy wants to live in a world of his own. Increasingly, in movies like the execrable Norbit, he plays multiple parts and does his best to make sure that any parts played by other actors are bland and forgettable. He plays only two parts in his latest film, "Meet Dave," but he has found a way to live in a world of his own — literally. He plays the captain of an alien spaceship that plans to steal all of Earth's oceans. And he plays the spaceship itself, a white-suited humanoid structure designed to move about New York to find their missing ocean-sucking orb.
The aliens are tiny by Earth standards and it takes dozens of them to operate a human-sized spaceship. The cultural officer (Gabrielle Union, warm and elegantly beautiful as always) uses Google to explain what is going on and provide the captain with answers to questions he is asked. When he is asked for his name, she does a search of Earth's most common names and he answers "Ming Cheng."
The person asking his name is Gina (Elizabeth Banks), who accidentally hit the spaceship with her car and is trying to make sure what she thinks is a person is all right. When she says he looks more like a Dave, he tells her that his name is Dave Ming Cheng and he begins to befriend Gina and her 5th grader son Josh (Austin Lind Myers), and discover that the Earth inhabitants are not the useless barbarians he expected.
As "Dave" and, through him, his crew begin to interact with the earthlings they experience food, shopping, mochitos, salsa dancing, 5th grade bullies, and "A Chorus Line" (a couple of bars is enough to bring out the inner effeminate homosexual in a formerly macho weapons expert). They get a little drunk and they start to feel emotional.
The kids in the audience enjoyed the silly stuff, as when "Dave" ducks into an Old Navy changing room to manufacture American money out of his boxers. But director Brian Robbins (Norbit, Ready to Rumble) allows the film to sag between its weak and too-infrequent punchlines and has no idea of how to work with talented performers like Banks, who has not much to do other than a nervous laugh, and Union, limited to longing or impatient glances. Murphy seems angry and impatient with the material and the other performers. As horrible as Norbit is, at least it tried to build on the bitterness and insularity Murphy increasingly projects. Murphy manages a good silly walk but his best moments here only remind us of his better films, especially "Coming to America," another fish-out-of-water story set in New York. These days, Murphy seems like a fish out of water as an actor on screen.


text: "Facilitating Parental Involvement in Afterschool Programs: Research and Practice" Closing Paper Disseminated for a Breakout Session at the National Network of Statewide Afterschool Networks Meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico Afterschool and Family Involvement: Ideas and Voices from the Field That Can Inform State Afterschool Networks By Terry K. Peterson and Kimberly Parker 2/2/05 Developing and nurturing family involvement in learning is a key to success of children. Children are more successful in school related factors when their parents and families are involved in their lives. State afterschool networks should promote and encourage family involvement in their children's learning through and in afterschool programs. A recent synthesis of research (Henderson & Mapp 2002) confirms in a broad analyses of many recent studies that students with parental involvement, no matter their background, were more likely to Make higher grades and test scores, and enroll in higher-level programs Be promoted, pass their classes, and earn credits. Attend school regularly. Have better social skills, show improved behavior, and adapt well to school. Graduate and go on to postsecondary education. Developing positive school-family connections should be a priority of any effort to improve education and the development of our children. In the last few years there has been a substantial increase in afterschool programs located in schools and linked to schools. Because afterschool programs tend to be smaller and more flexible and often use community resources, they could contribute to efforts to increase family involvement with their children's education and development. An indication of how important it is for afterschool programs to increase parental involvement can be found in a recent study of all types of afterschool programs in South Carolina. The SC Afterschool Alliance (2004) listed eight training topics of interest for afterschool programs. ________________ Terry is a senior fellow for policies and partnerships at the University of South Carolina Education, a consultant to the Education Dean at the College of Charleston, chairs the Afterschool Alliance and directs the Afterschool and Community Learning Network, a CS Mott Foundation funded project. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com. Kimberly is a 2 former technology teacher and currently involved in an afterschool program as well as a graduate assistant at the College of Charleston In that group of eight topics, the highest rated issue by afterschool providers was "working with parents." It was rated even higher than "grant writing." However, this area of family involvement in education and development is much less explored, but of increasing importance. That is why it is not surprising to see in the LA's BEST After School Enrichment Program that parental involvement has become an integral part of each program's overall success (2004). While the research on the connection between afterschool and family involvement is fairly limited, one recent study provides good guidance on how families can be involved in their children's education through afterschool programs. The Institute for Responsive Education (Weiss and Brigham, 2003) conducted a study of existing practices of family participation in current afterschool programs. They found that the goals for afterschool programs in regards to parental involvement were typically linked to helping parents assist their children with schoolwork, meeting the parents' needs, and encouraging parents to support the staff of afterschool programs. Their study also articulated the ways to connect families with the afterschool program and learning centers: communicating with families; connecting families with programs that center around the students; allowing parents to make decisions and take an active role in leadership; and services just for families. The study also found that parental participation was more successful when food and childcare were put into action. While there appears to be a growing recognition of the importance of afterschool programs serving as a resource to increase family-education and family-school connections, there is still limited research and literature, especially, on which strategies and activities would be most supported by providers of afterschool programs. Our research project sets out to find out which strategies have the most potential in the afterschool setting from the point of view of people in the field. If afterschool venues are going to enhance family involvement and connections, we need to better understand which afterschool strategies are most appealing to a set of local afterschool providers. With the rapid ramp-up of the 21st Century Community Learning Centers across America, many educators and nonprofit and parent leaders in communities of all types have been grappling with strategies and approaches to increase connections with families and parents to help children succeed. So what better people to ask about the viability of various family involvement strategies than a sample of 21st Century Community Learning Center grantees from around the country? That is exactly what we did. How afterschool providers rate strategies to increase family involvement. 3 We asked forty randomly chosen 21st Century Community Learning Centers coordinators across America to give us their opinions and suggestions about increasing parental involvement in afterschool programs and community learning centers. First, the grantees were asked to rate eighteen strategies to increase parental involvement in afterschool programs. The four highest rated suggestions dealt with the philosophy or attitudes about ways to increase parental involvement in afterschool programs. These included a: Focus on building trusting collaborative relationship among teachers, families, and community members. Use various means to communicate with families about their children's education. Create an after school environment that welcomes parents. Recognize, respect, and address families' needs, as well as their differences. The next set of strategies was rated "important." They tend to be actions that involve specific family participation activities as well as attitudes. Sponsor family math and/or family art nights at various times during the year to encourage student-family-school connections. Share knowledge of community resources and activities. Communicate activities regarding the program through family newsletters. Provide translations for families with limited English skills. Recruit family volunteers to help with the program. Embrace a philosophy of partnership where power and responsibility are shared. Sponsor workshops for parents in the evenings or weekends. What do the grantees recommend in their own words to increase parental involvement in afterschool programs and community learning centers? The grantees were asked to give their best ideas of how to increase parental involvement in afterschool programs and community learning centers. A broad array of responses and ideas resulted from this question and real-life scenario. The ideas and recommendations can be organized into four categories: 1. Family and Community Collaborations 2. Family Programs and Activities 3. Communication 4. Parental Needs Through their own word, they provide many helpful suggestions and advice in assisting educators and parents in increasing parental involvement in afterschool programs. 4 Family and Community Collaborations Make sure that the after school program's focus is in line with the needs of the surrounding community, which will insure community buy in. Work together with Parent Teacher School Associations. Work with local churches to encourage program participation and bring families to the table to work for the betterment of children. Involve parents in the planning, implementing, and evaluation of different activities in the program. Encourage parents to visit whenever they can. Build a trusting relationship between school, family, and after school program. Family Programs and Activities Have regular family night activities where students and families are involved in the planning, implementing, and evaluation of activities in the program. Have monthly family meetings based on a survey of needs. Plan fieldtrips that involve the children and their parents. Communication Talk with parents daily. Let the parents know what is going on at the after school program. Set aside time to call and visit parents in their homes. Talk to parents directly and also use surveys to find out what parents are thinking and to determine how to better manage the afterschool program. Parental Needs Provide transportation when possible. Schedule classes for parents who need their GED. Offer parental enrichment classes to empower parents to better help their children. Create an environment that welcomes parents, and provide frequent opportunities for parents to come together to learn new skills, to socialize, and interact with other parents. Have a staff member to focus on parents' needs and how to better meet them. Respect the cultural diversity, talents, and contribution that all parents and families can share. Introduce families to schools to increase their comfort level at school. Provide ideas and workshops for things that families can do to help benefit their child's education. Conclusion In general parental involvement is important because it improves learning, reduces discipline problems, reduces unsafe and unhealthy activities, and gives youth the opportunity to build relationships with caring adults. Though research and literature is limited on which strategies and activities are best to increase parental involvement in afterschool programs, what we have found can help bridge that gap. Afterschool 5 programs have come up with many ways to help parents to assist their children in learning. The top four strategies rated by the 21st Century Community Learning Center grantees focus mainly on building relationships, communicating with families, welcoming, recognizing, respecting, and addressing family needs and differences. They create the foundation of specific activities. The group of strategies that were rated as "important" includes specific activities that afterschool programs can offer to engage and connect with families. These activities range from sponsoring family math and art nights and communicating activities regarding the programs through family newsletters and sponsoring workshops for parents in the evenings or weekends to recruiting family volunteers to help with the program. An analysis of the open-ended responses found some strong connections on which afterschool programs could capitalize. Family and community collaboration is the key framework, and thus building more bridges to link families, communities, and schools. The afterschool family programs and activities should enable parents to enjoy learning with their children. Strong and regular communication with families involved in the afterschool programs is essential to make sure parents are informed about their children's performance at school and in the after school program. Afterschool programs should take into account parental needs to provide resources to help them better help their children. Afterschool programs provide a positive venue and time to help engage families in their children's learning. In this study, the 21st Century Community Learning Center coordinators give us a viable framework, general strategies and specific approaches to increase family involvement and engagement in afterschool programs and in education in general. All afterschool programs would be well advised to heed this advice if they want to be successful. Connections between parents, schools, and afterschool programs should be a priority to improve education and children's development. Afterschool networks should include increasing family involvement and connections to learning as part of their strategies to improve the quality of afterschool programs in their state. References: Berg, Marla. (2004). School, Family, Community Partnerships During Summer School: Examples from the Wausau School District. Wausau, WI: Author Epstein, J.L. (1987). Parent involvement: What research says to administrators. Education and Urban Society. 19, 110-36. February. Henderson, A.T. and Mapp, K. L. (2002). A New Wave of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family, and Community Connections on Student Achievement. Austin, TX. 6 Los Angeles BEST. (2004). LA's BEST After School Enrichment Program's Annual Report 10th Anniversary Edition. Los Angeles, CA: Author. Peterson, T.K. (2003). Extending the School Day: building and supporting high- quality after-school programs and community learning centers. Updating School Board Policies, 1-2 and 8, July/August. South Carolina Afterschool Alliance. (2004). U.S. Department of Education. (1994). Strong Families, Strong Schools. Washington, DC: Author. U.S. Department of Education. (1996). Reaching All Families: Creating Family-Friendly Schools. Washington, DC: Author Weiss, A.R. and Brigham, R.A. (2003). The Family Participation in After-School Study. Boston, MA: Institute for Responsive Education.


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D.C. scales back Hill East development
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The District has drastically scaled back its once-grandiose plans to reshape the Hill East waterfront, opting to develop a small, landlocked area at the Stadium-Armory Metro Station into a town center rather than take the project all the way to the Anacostia River.
The decision to move the Hill East project forward piecemeal has already driven away a developer whose proposal for the larger project had won overwhelming community support. El Paso, Texas-based Hunt Development Group is no longer part of a team that still includes Abdo Development, EYA Development, Jair Lynch Development Partners, William C. Smith and Co. and Mosaic Urban Partners.
"We're not angry," said Sinclair Cooper, director of Hunt's Urban Ventures Division. "We're not mad. We're just no longer interested in this development opportunity."
The long-term concept for the Hill East grounds known as Reservation 13 — bounded by Independence Avenue to the north, 19th Street to the west, Congressional Cemetery to the south and the river to the east — remains grounded in a master plan developed by the community eight years ago, Fenty administration officials say.
But the project that Mayor Adrian Fenty promised as he launched the search for a master developer in May 2008 — one that comprised 5 million square feet of gross building area — is off the table. The two development teams still in the running have slashed their original submissions at the administration's request.
The former-HDG Waterfront Development Group, now led by Mosaic Urban Partners, and Hill East Waterfront Development LLC, led by the Franklin L. Haney Co. LLC, contracted their designs to a couple parcels between the south entrance of the Stadium-Armory Metro and the St. Coletta Charter School at 1901 Independence Ave. SE. Their proposals were due Friday.
The new plans for Hill East were disclosed to the community during a March 31 meeting between D.C. Councilman Tommy Wells, D-Ward 6, project leaders and a handful of Hill East-area residents. The Fenty administration, said one person familiar with that meeting, "just doesn't think anyone can pull this off in one fell swoop." There's no money for infrastructure, sources said, the market won't support a $1 billion redevelopment and the administration doesn't want another Poplar Point mess — where the chosen master developer dropped out over financing.
"They got burned there," said Ellen Opper-Weiner, a member of the Hill East Waterfront Action Network who attended the meeting. But Opper-Weiner said the community is squarely behind the original HBG proposal, because it "implemented the vision magnificently," and it fears the project will wither if done scattershot.
The District's original request for expressions of interest sought a developer capable of creating "a vibrant, mixed- use urban waterfront community" that would be "a model for sustainable development." But scaling back the project means, in the short term, no waterfront development or extended Massachusetts Avenue SE, which were the allures and cornerstones of the project.
Cooper said the District meandered from its plan last summer, when the administration asked the leading development teams to rethink how they would implement their respective proposals.
There were no longer guarantees, Cooper said, that the team chosen to develop the first phase would later get to complete their vision to the river. Even the master developer concept, the basis for the original solicitation that lured Hunt in the first place, was a potential cut. Cooper said Hunt was asked to "basically ignore our original master plan that we had put forward," which the firm had spent north of $500,000 to craft.
"That's not what we do," he said. "We're large scale master developers."
Valerie Santos, D.C.'s deputy mayor for planning and economic development, could not be immediately reached for comment. Her office is expected to choose a team to develop the town center in mid-May.
Hunt's initial submission featured 2.1 million square feet of residential, 473,000 square feet of office space, 100,000 square feet of retail, 80,000 square feet of medical space, wind turbines, a farmer's market and a 200,000-square-foot renewable energy plant.
The Haney plan comprised 2.6 million square feet of office, 1.8 million square feet of residential, 241,260 square feet of retail, 327,660 square feet of medical space, an energy plant, and a sports facility.
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It seems like the only thing that can stop Javier Baez is the first base bag.
The Cubs' top prospect left Friday's Cactus League game with a right heel contusion after landing awkwardly on the bag. Baez was examined by Ed Halbur, the club's assistant athletic trainer, and the injury is not considered serious, although he will be re-examined on Saturday.
The injury comes two days after the 20-year-old shortstop belted a 452-foot home run to dead center field at Salt River Field in the Cubs' 9-6 loss to the Rockies. It was Baez's fifth spring homer while maintaining a .310 average in 14 games.
A season after slugging 37 homers, it's expected that Baez will open the year in the Minors, likely Triple-A Iowa. But that hasn't dimmed speculation about his Major League readiness.
"Anything's possible," Cubs manager Rick Renteria told MLB.com. "I can't discount any of that. In the immediacy, I think we're as pleased as everybody else is as to how he's shown this spring. I think he had a pretty good showing last spring also. We'll just take it day by day and see how we go."
Baez leads the Cubs with 13 hits and is tied for the Major League lead in homers. He gave the Cubs a scare on Wednesday when he collided with left fielder Anthony Giansanti while chasing a popup.
"When any of the players go down, something grabs you a little," Renteria told MLB.com. "As a player, sometimes the initial shock of any action takes you down, so then you're regrouping as you're laying there. A lot of it is [checking that] 'I'm OK.'"
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Thursday's concert at the University of Louisville School of Music will feature the Elysian Trombone Consort and Faculty Chamber Music. Brett Dean will perform his solo viola work Intimate Decisions and The Elysian Trombone Consort will perform Dean's Night Journey. Krzysztof Wolek gives us a preview, along with some clips of Intimate Decisions.
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Open Studios, Classical Revolution & Ephemeral Art
Ever wonder what a painter or sculptor's studio is like? This weekend is your chance to see Louisville (and surrounding areas) artists work space. You can also experience Ephemeral Art (it won't hurt), and hear some American music, new and old, at The Bard's Town with Classical Revolution.
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There is a whole lot of new music happening this week and next. Brace yourself:
Let's start with this Sunday, November 10th. Classical Revolution Louisville continues its series at The Bard's Town with "Home Grown." From their Facebook page: "Come on out to the Bard's Town for some electric strings featuring our opening ensemble Electric String Fusion. Followed by chamber music by American composers including Copeland [sic], Gershwin, Williams, as well as modern composers and local composer Frank Richmond. There are also slots in the program for "performers choice" sight reading or prepared music brought in by musicians." Sunday starting at 7pm.
Next week, University of Louisville presents the New Music Festival. This annual event packs five days with as many ensembles and composers possible, from electronic to large ensemble. Brett Dean is this year's guest composer and the most recent Grawemeyer winner. He's not just showing up to lecture, he'll perform some of his viola works, too. The complete schedule is here and a summary below. All events are free.
11/13: Electronic and Improvised Music at Bird Recital Hall. Dean will perform an improvisation for viola and two computers with Vega and Krzysztof Wolek, New Music Festival director
11/14: Elysian Trombone Consort and Faculty Chamber Music. Dean will perform his piece, "Intimate Decisions," for solo viola and The Elysian Trombone Consort will perform Dean's "Night Journey."
11/15: The University Wind Ensemble will premiere Dean's "Engelsflügel."
11/16: The Grawemeyer Players will perform Dean's "Winter Songs" and Dean will perform his "Viola Concerto" with the University Symphony Orchestra.
11/17: Percussion Ensemble and Choirs will perform and Dean will play his piece "Skizzen fur Siegbert" for solo viola.
And on November 17th at 3pm, Indiana University Southeast presents acclaimed ensemble Third Coast Percussion. Fresh from the release of their premiere audio and video recording of Augusta Read Thomas' Resounding Earth, they'll present a free concert of Reich, Cage, Owen Clayton Condon and Resounding Earth in its entirety.
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Controversial Art, Le Petomane and NuLu
Le Petomane presents Test Subjects at The Bard's Town, NuLu celebrates on Saturday, and Erin Keane finds some local art controversy in this edition of Artsbreak.
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Featured Album: Beck String Quartets
Louisville composer Jeremy Beck's fifth CD release, "String Quartets," is our Featured Album. His music has been described as "unabashedly tonal, rhythmically intricate" and "warmly melodic and colorful with unexpected harmonic twists." Performing his 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th quartets are the San Gabriel (Los Angeles), Nevsky (St. Petersburg) and Da Kappo (Louisville) String Quartets.
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An official of the agency told The Hindu that a similar event will be held here on March 1 and 2.
The State Government has identified 17 vendors for the project and three of them have put up stalls at the Government Polytechnic College here to demonstrate the working of the rooftop systems.
The official said that a consumer who wants to install one kw rooftop solar system under the scheme will get Rs. 50,000 subsidy.
This includes Rs. 20,000 from the State Government and Rs. 30,000 from the Union Government. The plan is to have about 10,000 installations in the State initially. At least 5,000 of these are expected in this region (Coimbatore, Tirupur and Erode districts).
The consumer will have to submit an application to TEDA to get the benefit. It can be an application from an individual or a group of consumers (those who live in apartments). The TEDA will send a message to the consumer when it gives its approval.
The entire process will take about a couple of months. It will also give the consumer details of the vendors and the rates that they quote.
The consumer can choose the vendor. The consumer and the vendor will inform the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (Tangedco) about the installation so that it can provide net meter to the electricity service connection.
D. Devarajan of Sree Dev Solar Solutions, one of the vendors in the project and who has put up a demo system at the event, said that an one kw solar system can generate at least four units of energy a day.
This will take care of most of the essential energy needs of a household. A consumer who does not consume the entire solar energy generated can export it to the grid. With better awareness about the solar systems and the scheme, more consumers in the region are expected to go in for it.
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Summer. The sun brightened the clear blue sky. The sight was majesty. The flowers' fragrance filled the air, the birds were chirping, singing a melody unknown to man, a melody that could compete with those of the best human singers. In the dense forests of bamboo and trees that ran along the hillsides, a myriad of leaves glistened brightly. On top of one of those hills, a man was gazing on the vastness of the sea. The light blue of the sky and the dark blue of the sea seemed united like a painting. A painting that no human could paint, no matter how skilled he was.
The man gazing at the sea was actually a young Buddhist monk. He was wearing a red robe on top of a yellow one. Although his head was bald, as such is the costume of Buddhist monks, his face was handsome and exuded a sense of calmness. So calm that one would be excused for thinking that it may have been a facade and that the monk was just a very good actor. But his heart was really serene. So much that it seemed as he had left all of the world's worries behind him.
But had he ever witnessed the world's worries? No. Since a very young age, he had been training in the Shaolin Monastery. He rarely went out. This time was an exception. It seemed to him that his Master wanted to test him. Wanted to test his resolve. For if one does not faces temptation, how can he boast that he has conquered?
Seeing the beauty of nature, he sighed. It was the first time in his entire life that his serene face cracked. "What beauty! What fragrance! It is a dream!".
But then he remembered the words of his Teacher, Wang: "On your journey, you will face many temptations. You must not be fooled by them. Everything in this world is ephemeral and futile."
He drowned his excitement and regained his coolness. He walked downside the hill, towards the beach. As he walked downside, he entered further and further into the forest and the sun became less and less visible. He sensed a cool breeze. He could hear the sound of his footsteps crashing fallen leaves. He had entered a dark but majestic world, as beautiful as that of the sunny sea. The sea of blue had been replaced by a sea of green - green bamboo trees.
"Life is beautiful.", he said. "I've never seen such beautiful places in my entire life. I was always behind some closed doors, chanting hymns and praying to Buddha."
He had never thought before that he could have said such words. Maybe he always wanted to say them, deep inside him, but he never dared to. In the Shaolin Monastery he always had to follow a set of strict rules. Now, in the outside world, he was free. Free to say whatever he wanted. Free to do whatever he wanted. He was a free man!
"Freedom is one of the temptations you will face", Master Wang had warned him. "Freedom on itself is not bad. What is bad is to misuse this freedom. You have the freedom to choose between giving into temptation or conquering it. It is up to you to choose. But in order for you to be able to conquer your temptations, you must set some rules which you must follow. You must limit by yourself your freedom. If you choose temptation, however, you will lose even that little freedom. You will become a slave of your desires."
The Monk thought about it. He realized that one must limit one's freedom in order to retain a certain level of freedom. Otherwise, he would think that he is free while in reality he would have become a slave.
He continued walking towards the beach. As he reached the beach, he could see the sun shining brightly and reflecting on the blue sea, giving it a golden color. Then, he suddenly heard a splashing sound and saw circle of small ripples on the sea. He retreated by a few steps and hid himself behind a tree, which could both offer him a view of the sea and also hide him. It was the first time in his life he felt so scared.
Teacher Wang had said: "On the outside world, you shall also face fear. Until now, shielded into this Monastery, you had no reason to be afraid. But on your journey, you would be alone. Without a home. Without a friend. You would be totally alone. Then, even things you find ridiculous now, will cause you fear. You must not give in to fear. You must battle your fears. Conquer your fears."
There was a sudden splash and the monk could see first a head and then a back emerging from the water. It was surely the back of a girl. She had snow white skin and long raven hair. Her hair was dripping wet. He was awed. He had barely seen any girls on the Monastery, only those who wanted to pray and a few old nuns. And now, he was seeing the naked back of a girl. He could feel a cold sweat all over his face.
She turned towards him. At first, the monk blushed. But then he noticed that the girl had not seen him. He was still safely hidden behind the tree. Only then did he take a closer look at her. He saw her bright eyes. Her jade like skin. Her firm and fair breasts. Her slim waist. He dared not look further. He sensed a heat overtaking him. He had never felt something like this before. It was like a dream, it was like he was watching a fairy or a goddess.
"Has a Goddess descended from Heaven?", he whispered.
He then remembered the words of his Master Wang: "Women are the most difficult temptation to overcome. If you meet one, your body will want embrace her. You will feel a warmness, a heat overtaking you. You would have a desire to hug her, to kiss her and to...do other acts. You must resist that temptation. You must have a firm resolve. You must remember that all those desires are fooling you. For everything in this life is futile."
But while he had been able to overcome his amazement over how beautiful nature is, his sense of unlimited freedom and his fears, he could not overcome his desire to look again at the maiden. He gazed at her, completely mesmerized by her sight. He knew that what he was doing was wrong, but he did not want to leave. He had never seen a naked woman before nor would he ever again have the chance to see one. And especially not one so beautiful, with such skin, such eyes, such breasts. Everything upon her was perfect. She was above ordinary humans. She was above the beauty of the Gods themselves.
He felt like he was dreaming. She was an unimaginable figure, a living dream that was swimming among the sea's waves. She was like a maiden, like a magic ship floating on the sea, as magical as the ship of dreams.
The fragrance of her and the fragrance of the flowers, the sound of the sea's waves, the sun reflecting on the sea. All of those conspired to make this scene unforgettable. It was as if Mother nature wanted to give a present to the little monk. Or as if Buddha wanted to tempt him with the most beautiful woman and the most beautiful scenery on earth.
Images of his master praying were flashing into his mind. He was watching the naked woman and then his master chanting to Buddha. He was trying to get out of his mind the images of his master or the sight of the naked body, depending on which side of him temporary won in this internal struggle between his erotic desires and his holy nature.
He closed his eyes, but then he remembered his Teacher's words: "Avoiding temptations does not mean you have conquered them. You must face them to be able to boast such a thing."
So, he opened again his eyes. But the woman had disappeared. He suddenly heard a scream and a female voice shouting: "What are you doing here?"
He turn to his left and saw the woman, still naked and dripping wet. Shame and fear combined and stabbed his heart. He felt as if one thousand swords had stabbed him. He was completely lost. He could not think, he could not reply, he could not even see her. Images from her bathing and of his teacher were flashing constantly on his mind.
The woman could see that the monk was at loss. She quickly put up a white gown and said with a melodic voice: "I....I never thought anyone would come at this isolated beach."
The monk regained his composure and said with a trembling voice: "I...I..I am..am..sorry..for.."
'This is awkward', he thought. He turned around and was about to leave when the woman said, "Shall you allow me to offer you some tea at my home? It is not far from here."
He had to choose. If he went with her, he knew that he would never be able to commit himself to Buddha. But life was short. It is true that all things are ephemeral, but he preferred an ephemeral joy than an eternal apathy and coldness.
"Thank you.", he said. "I'll come."
The two of them walked together into the forest of bamboo trees. He had taken his road. His true road. Master Wang later learned about this and that his former disciple had married. He did not feel betrayed. He did not feel bitter. Nor he felt the need to forbid other monks from going out to test themselves.
He felt happy. For his disciple had found happiness. But most of all, because he thought that if one could not feel happy with committing himself to Buddha, he should not be a monk. The path of the monk was not the true path of his disciple. Only those who could return from that journey could be worthy of being fully admitted as monks.
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