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Thank you Mel425 for the scan! It's from Who Magazine Australia.
This is from the public Facebook page of one of Lullaby's producers.
Lullaby is opening in theaters on June 13th in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Denver, Minneapolis, and Phoenix.
Yay, Philly! And we should be seeing the trailer soon.
This scene of a Passover meal from a hospital bed is the strangest of uplifting film moments.
Richard Jenkins stars as an ailing patriarch inLullaby, a man about to stop treatment for terminal cancer. One of his final meals is with his wife (Anne Archer), son (Garrett Hedlund) and daughter (Jessica Brown Findlay).
It's also one of the first family moments the group has shared in years, with a visiting police officer joining in the meal.
"It's a beautiful moment for them," says Lullaby director/writer Andrew Levitas. "It's making good memories up until the end. It's not dark. It's a family sitting around having one of the nicer meals they have ever had together. Even considering the circumstances.
"It's the point of all of this," Levitas adds, explaining a driving Lullaby theme. "There are so many dark and scary things in this world. But if you can connect with family and find love, even bad things don't feel so bad."
There is plenty of bad in this ultimately positive tale of a financially rich but broken family whose members have been torn apart by illness for years. It opens June 13.
The film follows successful business leader Robert (Jenkins), who decides to take himself off life support after a decade of illness. But it's mostly seen through the eyes of his troubled son, Jonathan (Tron: Legacy's Hedlund).
"This is a hero's journey for Jonathan, which is central to the story," Levitas says. "We're basically watching someone who has been lost for years find himself."
Levitas says viewers will see a very different side of Hedlund, who was last seen in a memorable cameo for Inside Llewyn Davis. In Lullaby, he lashes out onstage, performing in a rock band and in his personal life.
Meanwhile, Jenkins instantly makes himself sympathetic while trying to pull his family together in the final hours of his life. "Richard is just the kind of father so many people wish they could have," Levitas says. "He shows it's never too late to reclaim your life."
The cast is filled with great actors pulled together by Levitas, including Archer andDownton Abbey's Findlay. Terrence Howard stars as a sympathetic hospital doctor, and Jennifer Hudson is a scene-stealing nurse.
Meanwhile, Amy Adams managed to make time in her schedule to play Jonathan's ex-girlfriend.
"People were passionate about this story and believed in what we were saying," Levitas says. "Amy showed up and did her thing."
Jenkins' character might not find his miracle cure. But once again, the strangely uplifting mode kicks in for the on-screen family man.
"At the end of his life, Richard is surrounded by people he loves, and he's able to smile, knowing he has lived a great life," Levitas says. "He knows he has had the life he wanted. That's how he finishes it. We should all be so lucky."
Garrett Hedlund and Michael Pena Cast in John Michael McDonagh's War on Everyone
Writer/Director John Michael McDonagh scored a big success in 2011 with his first film The Guard and looks set to repeat it with new comedy Calvary, in cinemas next week. But the filmmaker already has his sights set on his next project.
McDonagh has been talking about the script for War on Everyone for a few years now, mentioning it back when we interviewed him for The Guardand it seems it's finally coming to fruition. The story is said to be about 'two confrontational, totally corrupt cops in Alabama' and we've got the scoop on who will be playing them.
In our recent interview for Calvary, McDonagh said: "The next movie looks like it might go with Michael Pena and Garrett Hedlund about two corrupt cops in Texas." Confirming that it would indeed be War on Everyone, he goes on to talk about the stage that the film is at:
"They're already attached to it, it's just trying to get the financing you want to make the movie you want. I think we need about $8-10 million. Let's say Calvary is a success, that'll be a help. If Michael and Garrett have a film coming out that's a success that'll help and that will all get us the money hopefully to put the pieces together and add a few supporting actors that add financial value. So if we can get that it will probably happen in October/November 2014."
Expect more news on the film very soon. Pena is currently out with his Cesar Chavez movie and is the lead in a Mark Neveldine exorcism movie, Hedlund has a thriller with Mark Wahlberg from the writer of The Departed.
From the Kings of Leon Facebook page. I think Garrett may have been at their concert in Los Angeles last night, but so far only saw on mention on twitter and no pictures.

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Although the emirate's commercial property market is going through a tough phase, it will stabilize itself in the long-term future, says Matthew Green.
April 16, 2009 8:14 by Matthew Green
Global markets around the world have been unraveling at an alarming pace and although Abu Dhabi is not immune to the wider slowdown, it seems to be better positioned than the majority. Some of the key dynamics helping to underpin the market include: historic undersupply, pent-up demand, large budget surpluses, significant investment in infrastructure and diversification of the economy.
All these factors have helped form a robust market which is supported by real demand for property that has created a sound platform for growth and sustainability even in the face of tough market conditions.
Comparisons with Dubai
Although many comparisons can be drawn between the office market of Abu Dhabi and Dubai, some major variances also exist. This is becoming increasingly apparent as conditions deteriorate in both local and global markets. Dubai is seeing rents and prices decline significantly as occupier demand evaporates. This situation is likely to be further compounded by the handover of over 13 million sq ft of office space within the next two years, a figure that alone is greater than the total office stock in Abu Dhabi City. It seems while Dubai is heading towards a significant oversupply situation, Abu Dhabi will remain chronically undersupplied, at least in the short-term. Importantly the majority of current stock in Abu Dhabi is also concentrated within aging buildings that largely fail to provide an international standard of product to occupiers. This situation in itself offers opportunities for landlords to target tenants or for occupiers to bargain better terms within current premises. Currently there is only 2 million sq ft of Grade A office buildings based on international standards. Whilst, only 14 percent of the upcoming commercial developments are expected to be of Grade A quality by 2011.
The Abu Dhabi government has taken decisive measures to support the controlled expansion of the emirate. This was realised in the form of the Abu Dhabi Plan 2030 which provides a framework for the overall metropolitan expansion, valid for the next 20 years. To realise the scale of planned development, Abu Dhabi is expected to inject over AED700 billion in various infrastructure projects within the next five years.
Abu Dhabi has suffered widespread undersupply across virtually all market sectors over recent years with major infrastructure projects necessary before many developments could begin. While the pace of development in Dubai has been mind-blowing at times, Abu Dhabi has been more methodical and planned in its approach. Historically, there has been very little development of dedicated office buildings in Abu Dhabi, other than for owner occupation. This has obviously led to undersupply as the emirate struggled to keep pace with the population boom in the UAE. This is beginning to change as the market has been inundated with requests from international companies potentially entering the Abu Dhabi market, and looking for Grade 'A' level quality office space.
Despite the pressing economic turmoil being experienced globally, Abu Dhabi continues to push ahead with some of the regions most ambitious and anticipated projects, a positive indication of the emirates' financial health. The majority of these ventures are directly linked to Abu Dhabi's drive to boost it's stature as a world class tourism and business destination as part of its wider economic diversification strategy. Unsurprisingly then it is the quasi-government ventures that remain the most active in the market and this trend is expected to continue as private sector involvement suffers.
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This apartment is located in a quiet part of Venice, near Campo Bandiera e Moro in Castello, just behind Riva degli Schiavoni, a few minutes from San Marco square. It is located in the second floor of a traditional sixteenth century Venetian house; it has been the atelier of a painter for many years, due to its particular lighting conditions.
The living room and kitchen face a pleasant garden and are exposed to light and air; this is also due to very large sky windows located on the roof.
The apartment has a closed bedroom with a double bed and a living room which can be isolated with a curtain with a double sofa bed.
The apartment is about 5 minutes walking distance from San Marco square and about 15 minutes from the Biennale Gardens; just a few steps and one reaches the waterfront on the San Marco Basin.
The apartment can be reached by public transport boats n°1 and n°51 from the train station and Piazzale Roma, ?San Zaccaria? stop.
This was a charming, well-equipped apt in the center of Venice--within walking distance to many sights, vaporetto stop, and indoor and outdoor markets. Host & Sr. Andrea were gracious and informative. The apt is just off a campo, where locals gathered. An altogether enjoyable vacation.
It was perfect! Good apartment, quiet neighbourhood, and close to San Marco! Helpful people! Recommendable
Très bon emplacement, commerces d'alimentation proches.Le salon et la cuisine sont lumineux même en hiver et c'est un vrai plaisir de lire dans l'appartement (mais la chambre et la salle de bains sont sombres).La cuisine est bien équipée, wifi parfait.Le seul inconvénient de l'appartement est la porte de la salle de bains qui cogne dans le lavabo quand on l'ouvre. Pour utiliser le lavabo il faut donc absolument fermer la porte.
location is central but also close to the more specific areas, apartment with good design, pleasant atmosphere and everything needed, practical stuff was easy and the local contact with Andrea congenial.
This is a simple, comfortable apartment and ideally situated for visiting Venice and seeing the sights. We walked from one end of Venice to the other and if we needed a ferry to return, the two closest stops covered every possibility for the homeward journey. It was also easy to locate after we disembarked from the (rather slow) boat from the airport. We liked the location at the edge of the main tourist areas and we found some great little 'authentic' restaurants and shops for buying wine,cheese and provisions within walking distance. The apartment itself has a feeling of space and very roomy for two people. We had a third person with us for two nights and still plenty of room once the fold out bed was returned to a couch and privacy with the dividing curtain drawn . It would be the same for 4 people. It is very light filled and airy and the view of the little garden out the windows is very appealing. The beds are comfortable, particularly the one in the bedroom. It has the basic kitchen equipment you will need if you want to cook at home and was very clean.
We would certainly recommend it to others as it is exceptional value for money in an otherwise very expensive city.
Nous avons passé un trés agréable séjour à Venise dans cet appartement.
Il est trés bien situé,permettant de visiter de trés nombreux sites à pied.
La place Saint Marc est toute proche,et le quartier trés agréable,typique et vivant.
L'appartement est trés clair et fonctionnel.
L'accés depuis l'aeroport est trés simple,grace aux explications de Umberto,et l'accuei sur place est trés sympathique.
Si nous retournons à Venise,ce sera dans cet appartement,que nous recommandons vivement.
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Hockey is carved in Stone
Mark, Mike, the whole family Stone loves the game
For Mark Stone, it was a journey that started with baby steps.
Check that. Before baby steps.
You see, every Saturday afternoon, father Rob Stone played rec hockey at Sargent Park Arena. Their kids would play alongside the rink. Eldest son Mike was about three years old. Like father, like son.
Mark was two years younger. Like older brother, like little brother.
"Mark wanted to play hockey, too," mother Jackie recalled, when her youngest son was a baby. "But he couldn't walk. So I got him one of those walkers with wheels so he could play by moving his legs around. He'd be up and down with the rest of the kids."
These days, Mark is a 19-year-old star with the Western Hockey League's Brandon Wheat Kings, who leads the league in scoring (65 points in 33 games), and last week cracked Team Canada's 2012 world junior lineup in Alberta. Mike, 21, is a defenceman with the AHL's Portland Pirates, in his sophomore season as a professional.
Both brothers are NHL draft picks -- Mike taken in the third round (69th overall) by the Phoenix Coyotes in 2008 and Mark selected in the sixth round (178th overall) by the Ottawa Senators in 2010.
But then hockey has always been a family Stone affair, proving the journey to the world's summit for teenage hockey players is rarely a mountain climbed alone.
When the Stone boys were toddlers, Jackie knitted them black socks to serve as skates on the kitchen floor. The dinner table had to go, so there was more room for games.
She tried to get them to play with Lego, but they'd just turn the stuff into sticks and pucks.
Before they entered kindergarten, Jackie religiously took the kids to Mom and Tots skating. "If I was going to take one," she reasoned, "I was going to drag the other one, too."
But Mark didn't need dragging. Dad Rob spent countless hours playing hockey with the boys in the driveway of their Westwood home. Even at age four, Mark despised losing.
"He's always been a fierce competitor from the first time he played the game," Rob chuckled. "I could tell you some stories, but I won't."
Of course, Rob Stone could tell a few stories. Back in 1977, he was a sports reporter for the Sault Star, in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., where he covered the arrival of a 16-year-old phenom to the OHL's Greyhounds by the name of Wayne Gretzky.
Years later, both of Stone's boys would leave home at age 16 to pursue their junior careers -- Mike with the Calgary Hitmen and Mark two years later with the Wheat Kings.
Mike left first, and once a month, Jackie would drive to Calgary to see her son play and stay for a week.
For two years, both sons were toiling in the WHL at the same time. So the parents who used to chauffeur the kids criss-crossing Winnipeg for minor hockey games were now criss-crossing the Prairies to catch as many games as they could.
"One year," noted Rob, a vice-president with Standard Aero, "I put 40,000 kilometres on a vehicle."
As fate would have it, Michael's Hitmen and Mark's Wheat Kings met in the semifinal of the 2010 Memorial Cup, held in Brandon. The Wheat Kings prevailed 5-4 in overtime.
"That was the absolute worst," Jackie remembered. "Everybody asked, 'Who are you cheering for?' What can you do? It was nasty."
The Wheat Kings were then trounced 9-1 by Taylor Hall's London Knights in the final, which is a reminder that the family absorbs the losses, too.
After all, on two previous occasions, both of the Stone boys were cut from previous Hockey Canada tryouts for under-17 teams. "Those are painful days," Rob said.
So imagine the angst last week, when the mother who knitted those black socks -- who used to sit by the computer when her first son left for Calgary just waiting for an email message -- got word that her little boy had make the final cut.
"Definitely, it was relief," said Jackie, who found herself up pacing the kitchen floor every morning at 5 during the Team Canada tryout camp. "You just want to sort of scream, cry... you don't know what to do."
Those are the good days; like the nights when Rob and Jackie Stone sit down and watch one son play via Internet broadcasts on the East Coast and the other suit up for a game on the West Coast. Said Jackie: "We start at six o'clock and we don't end till midnight."
The boys are all grown up now, but in a way nothing much has changed at the Stone home. It's still hockey almost every night.
On Christmas Eve, the Stone parents loaded up the car for the drive to Edmonton. Sure, they could have flown, but what's another 1,260 kilometres (and back) on the odometer now?
"This is going to be a very interesting experience and probably one of the best experiences we've ever had in hockey," Rob said. "You always dream of your kid making it to this kind of competition. And this is going to be pretty special."
No more Mom and Tots. It's the best in the world now.
"We're probably all excited," Jackie Stone said. "But me, I'm butterflied up. I'm looking forward to this. I'm ready."
Time to move the kitchen table, boys. The hockey is about to start.
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While attending Boissevain High School in the late 1970's, Randy Turner one day read an account of a Winnipeg Jets game in the Free Press when it dawned on him: "Really, you can get paid to watch sports?"
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After jobs at the Stonewall Argus and Selkirk Journal, he began working on the Rural page for the Free Press in 1987. Several years later, he realized his dream of watching sports for a living covering the Winnipeg Goldeyes and Bombers.
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Two new studies explore how discipline changes during childhood and adolescence, and what family factors affect those changes. They conclude that when parents use physical discipline through childhood, their children experience more behavior problems in adolescence.
They find that parents typically adjust the way they discipline their children in response to their children's growing cognitive abilities, using less physical discipline (spanking, slapping, hitting with an object) over time. As children grow older, physical discipline becomes less developmentally appropriate. However, when parents' use of physical discipline continues through childhood, by the time their children are teens, they're more likely to have behavior problems. Teens of parents who stop using physical discipline when their children are young are less likely to have these behavior problems.
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Commentary: Good Ethnographies Make Good Theories
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Abstract The extremely high quality of the ethnography in this collection of articles is attested by the various challenges the authors pose to my own previously published ideas about universals of child rearing. In a 2005 article, I posited that child rearers everywhere (1) engineer the environment to insure that the child's experience of the lessons to be learned is constant, so as not to dilute their impact; (2) use emotionally arousing techniques such as beating, frightening, shaming, teasing, and praising to make these lessons motivating and memorable; (3) enlist the further motivational force of approval for good behavior and disapproval for bad; and (4) predispose or prime the young child with foundational components or simpler versions of the lessons to be learned, readying the child for these later, more complex lessons. I find it necessary and helpful to qualify each of the four claims in light of the case studies presented in this issue. [mothering, child rearing; universals; ethnography and theory; case studies]


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a way to connect the dots. Making the cyber rounds is "The Cavernous Divide" by Scott Klinger, from AlterNet (posted March 21): "As the number of billionaires in the world expands, so does the number of those in poverty." Duh. The yawning income gap is not news. Nearly every issue of our quarterly digest carries a similar quote. Yet the connection was worked out long ago by one of America's greatest thinkers, Henry George, who labeled his masterpiece, Progress and Poverty. Techno- and socio-advances always enrich few and impoverish many. Yet progress also pushes up location values – the geonomic insight (is Silicon Valley cheaper now or more expensive?). Instead of taxing income, sales, or buildings, society could collect those values of sites, resources, EM spectrum, and ecosystem services via fees and dues, which would lower the income ceiling, and instead of lavishing corporate welfare, pay out the recovered revenue via dividends, which would jack up the income floor. Dots connected.
a new policy from a new perspective. Once your worldview shifts — so that vacant city lots are no longer invisible — then epiphany. "Of course! Why didn't I see it before?" Once you do see the emptiness and what damage it does, how can you ever go back to the old paradigm?
of interest to Dave Lakhani, President Bold Approach (Mar 8) and Matt Ozga (Jan 29): "I write for the Washington Square News, the student run newspaper out of New York University. Geonomics seems like it has great significance, especially in this area. When was geonomics developed, and by whom?" About 1982 I began. Two years later, Chilean Dr Manfred Max-Neef offered the term geonomics for Earth-friendly economics. In the mid-80s, a millionaire founded a Geonomics Institute on Middlebury College campus in Vermont re global trade. In the 1990s, CNBC cablecast a show, Geonomics, on world trade as it benefits world traders. My version of geonomics draws heavily from the American Henry George who wrote Progress & Poverty (1879) and won the mayoralty of New York but was denied his victory by Tammany Hall (1886). He in turn got lots from Brits David Ricardo, Adam Smith, and the French physiocrats of the 1700s. My version differs by focusing not on taxation but on the flow of rents for sites, resources, sinks, and government-granted privileges. Forgoing these trillions, we instead tax and subsidize, making waste cheap and sustainability expensive. To quit distorting price, replace taxes with "land dues" and replace subsidies with a Citizens Dividend. Matt: "This idea of sharing rents sounds, if not explicitly socialist, at least at odds with some capitalist values (only the strong survive & prosper, etc). Is it fair to say that geonomics has some basis in socialist theory?" A closer descriptor would be Christian. Beyond ethics into praxis, Alaska shares oil rent with residents, and they're more libertarian than socialist. While individuals provide labor and capital, no one provides land while society generates its value. Rent is not private property but public property. Sharing Rent is predistribution, sharing it before an elite or state has a chance to get and misspend it, like a public REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust) paying dividends to its stakeholders – a perfectly capitalist model. What we should leave untaxed are our sales, salaries, and structures, things we do produce.
the study of the money we spend on the nature we use. When we pay that money to private owners, we reward both speculation and over-extraction. Robert Kiyosaki's bestseller, Rich Dad's Prophecy, says, "One of the reasons McDonald's is such a rich company is not because it sells a lot of burgers but because it owns the land at some of the best intersections in the world. The main reason Kim and I invest in such properties is to own the land at the corner of the intersection. (p 200) My real estate advisor states that the rich either made their money in real estate or hold their money in real estate." (p 141, via Greg Young) When government recovers the rents for natural advantages for everyone, it can save citizens millions. Ben Sevack, Montreal steel manufacturer, tells us (August 12) that Alberta, by leasing oil & gas fields, recovers enough revenue to be the only province in Canada to get by without a sales tax and to levy a flat provincial income tax. While running for re-election, provincial Premier Ralph Klein proposes to abolish their income tax and promises to eliminate medical insurance premiums and use resource revenue to pay for all medical expense for seniors. After all this planned tax-cutting and greater expense, they still expect a large budget surplus. Even places without oil and gas have high site values in their downtowns, and high values in their utility franchises. Recover the values of locations and privileges, displace the harmful taxes on sales, salaries, and structures, then use the revenue to fund basic government and pay residents a dividend, and you have geonomics in action.
an economic policy based on the earth's natural patterns. Eco-systems self-regulate by using feedback loops to keep balance. Can economies do likewise? Why don't they now produce efficiently and distribute fairly? The answers lie in the money we spend on the earth we use. To attain people/planet harmony, that financial flow from sites and resources must visit each of us. Our agent, government, must collect this natural rent via fees and disburse the collected revenue via dividends. And, it must forgo taxes on homes and earnings, and quit subsidies of either the needy or the greedy. As our steward, government must also collect Ecology Security Deposits, require Restoration Insurance, and auction off the occasional Emissions Permit. And that's about it – were nature our model.
a way to connect the dots. Making the cyber rounds is "The Cavernous Divide" by Scott Klinger, from AlterNet (posted March 21): "As the number of billionaires in the world expands, so does the number of those in poverty." Duh. The yawning income gap is not news. Nearly every issue of our quarterly digest carries a similar quote. Yet the connection was worked out long ago by one of America's greatest thinkers, Henry George, who labeled his masterpiece, Progress and Poverty. Techno- and socio-advances always enrich few and impoverish many. Yet progress also pushes up location values – the geonomic insight (is Silicon Valley cheaper now or more expensive?). Instead of taxing income, sales, or buildings, society could collect those values of sites, resources, EM spectrum, and ecosystem services via fees and dues, which would lower the income ceiling, and instead of lavishing corporate welfare, pay out the recovered revenue via dividends, which would jack up the income floor. Dots connected.
not exactly Georgism, the Single Tax on land value proposed by Henry George. He did, tho', inspire most of the real-world implementations of the land tax that some jurisdictions enjoy today, and modern thinkers to craft geonomics. While his name and our remedy both begin with "geo" since both words refer to "Earth", the two have their differences. (a) George pegs land monopoly as the fundamental flaw while geonomics faults Rent retention. (b) To fix the flaw, George was content to use a tax, while geonomics jettisons them in favor of price-like fees. (c) George focused on the taking while geonomics headlines the sharing. George envisioned an enlightened state judiciously spending the collected Rent while geonomics would turn the lion's share over to the citizens via a dividend. (d) And George, as was everyone in his era, was pro-growth while geonomics sees economies as alive, growing, maturing, and stabilizing. Despite these differences, George should be recognized as great an economist as Euclid was a geometrician.
the Great Green Tax Shift maxed out" Economically, taxing pollution and depletion does reduce pollutants and extracts – and thus the tax base; plus such taxes are regressive, requiring a safety net. On the other hand, collecting site rent is progressive and generates a revenue surplus payable as a dividend to residents, which can serve as the safety net. Environmentally, taxes on waste and extraction do not drive efficient use of land, as does getting site rent. Better settlement patterns do reduce extraction upstream and pollution downstream. Politically, green fees have less impact if applied locally; local is where grassroots movements have more impact. Yet getting rent usually entails shifting the property tax (or charging user fees), the province of local jurisdictions; both mayors and city voters have been known to adopt a site-value tax. Ethically, putting into practice "tax bads, not goods" skirts the issue of sharing Mother Earth which collecting rent confronts head on. Since nothing is fixed until it's fixed right, ultimately, greens must lead humanity into geotopia where we all share the worth of Mother Earth.
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There are pics of two gardens from start to finish that I put in using wintersowing, trading, a little $, and mostly TIME, and lot of advise from GW!
The album 'making the purple and orange garden'
the album 'making the blue and yellow garden' and 'plant tag how to's' can be inspirational .... or just a nice reprieve while enjoying your A/C with an ice tea.
Wishing you the best this garden season!
Karen, Loved all your pics of the gardens. And of course while I was there I had to check out your other albums. The house painting is awesome. Loved your brushstrokes also. Great Post. I love going to Webshots and looking at gardens
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Charter schools have expanded quickly in the past three years, and now the growth is poised to take on a new, virtual dimension.
The legislature required the state Board of Education to approve two online charter schools next year as part of a pilot program. The state board is set to OK a framework and timetable for online school applicants to get considered. Applications for online schools looking to get into the test cycle are due in October.
The state has talked for years about how to handle online charters. The previous state education boards have been deeply skeptical of them. K12, an online school, has sued the state trying to gain entry.
Approval of an online charter could come as soon as Thursday. N.C. Connections Academy is one of the 12 charter schools an advisory board has forwarded to the state board for consideration to open in fall 2015. N.C. Connections Academy followed the established path for charter approval, and board members have discussed being in the unusual spot of approving an online charter as it would the brick-and-mortar schools, while preparing to launch test online programs that would open at the same time.
Board member Becky Taylor, who is in charge of the subcommittee that oversees charter school policies, would not say whether she would recommend the board approve N.C. Connections Academy on Thursday.
Even without the online schools, charter policies are on pace for more changes that could seed quick growth. Eleven traditional charters that would open in August 2015 are up for approval Thursday, and the board is poised to approve a "fast-track" option for charter applicants that have experience operating successful schools and want to copy them. Charters on the fast track would not have to go through the typical planning year, and could open months after their approval at the start of an academic year.
The first fast-track applications would be submitted in July and if approved, could open in 2016 rather than 2017.
The fast-track option recognizes that the state has experienced charter operators who know how to get a successful school started, said Eddie Goodall, executive director of the N.C. Public Charter Schools Association.
"This just minimizes the time needed to get a school up," he said.
Since the legislature in 2011 removed the 100-school limit on charters, their numbers have grown to 149.
Yevonne Brannon, chairwoman of Public Schools First NC, said other states have found trouble by expanding charter schools too quickly.
There hasn't been a deep look at student achievement at the charters that opened in the last few years, Brannon said.
"A smart plan would be evaluating those charters on an annual basis," she said. "If they're working well for students, let's applaud them. If not, let's not waste another year of a child's time and taxpayer dollars."
The trend of charters concentrating in large counties would continue with this latest round of school approvals. Of the 12 new charters up for approval, one, PAVE Southeast Raleigh Charter School, is in Wake; two, KIPP Durham College Preparatory and Excelsior Classical Academy, are in Durham; and three, the Charlotte Lab School, VERITAS Community School and Queen City STEM School, are in Mecklenburg.
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Does anyone know of a marble installer in the Seattle area who is a "trained applicator" of Clearstone? Thanks!
I contacted them and they said no, the best bet was to call a fabricator and ask them to get certified.
I was thinking Crocodile Rocks in Kenmore, WA would be a good candidate b/c they deal with a lot of marble. Want to gang up on them with me? I am sure if they got more than one request inside of a week they might consider it.
They definitely seemed nice. We're kind of tunnel visioned at this point. Open to any material (almost) but we've got 2 slabs on hold elsewhere and are just looking to see if we can find anything that would be a better match than what we've already selected.
Okay I called and talked to Sheris. She said she would look into it. They were going to start using a product made by dry treat that was supposed to help prevent etching but I called around about it and I guess it doesn't work that well. She was not convinced of the claims of clearstone, she has heard of it before and said that hotels use it but that they need to reapply far more often than every 15 years. She said she would get back to me.
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Good to see this happing over there in Seattle, i hope that Sheris has not got Clearstone confused with something else, hotels in some parts of the USA have used Clearstone however they have not had it long enough for it to be recoated, we have had it here in Australia on tops in Bars, kitchens, bathrooms, and tables for more than 10years and it is still performing well.


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