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As the STAR teachers, both Danna Jones and Stephanie Tant pointed out how the students who chose them challenge them.
Christian Mincey was named the top designer and Ayla Herbert was named the top model at the 10th annual South Effingham High School student fashion show Saturday night.
Select students from all Effingham County Schools will be participating in the fifth annual district-wide art exhibition in celebration of visual arts in our schools and Youth Art Month.
The Effingham County Extension Office announces one of its newest programs, the 4-H STEAM Extreme.
Several Effingham County students served as a page on the Georgia House of Representatives floor. Students 12 years of age and older gain an opportunity to visit the state Capitol and assist their state representative for the day.
Armstrong State University recently named 10 students from Springfield to the dean's list for the fall 2015 semester. The students receiving this honor, with their year and field of study, include:
VALDOSTA-Valdosta State University announces that 786 students completed the requirements of their respective academic programs during the fall semester. This list includes the following:
The Effingham County Board of Education will take the next step in its chosen model of governance.
Ebenezer Middle School
Eleven Effingham County High School students served as pages for state Reps. Jon Burns and Bill Hitchens on Jan. 25. The students also met Speaker of the House David Ralston and Gov. Nathan Deal. As pages, students deliver notes from constituents, lobbyists and other individuals and guests to representatives on the House floor.
Effingham County 4-H loves to give back to the community and the citizens of Effingham County. One such opportunity recently came through the mission of a Blessing Bags project.
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Tyson Ray won the spelling bee at Sand Hill Elementary School. Anthony Valdez was the runner-up.
ATLANTA-Cheyenne Hunt of Guyton earned the distinction of faculty honors for fall 2015 at the Georgia Institute of Technology. This designation is awarded to undergraduate students who have a 4.0 academic average for the semester.
WILKES-BARRE, Penn.-Bibiana Krall of Springfield was awarded a Pay it Forward scholarship to enter the Wilkes University graduate creative writing program.
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HARTSVILLE, S.C.-Taylor Hall of Springfield, graduated from Coker College May 14 with a Bachelor of Arts in chemistry.
Jason Proctor of Rincon was named to the dean's list at Auburn University.
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Busted IPO Market Presents Opportunity For Some VCs
A closed-off IPO market is allowing some later-stage venture capital firms to buy into private companies that in past years might already be public.
Such is the case for Battery Ventures and Scale Venture Partners, which have participated in a $70 million venture capital round for ExactTarget Inc., an email marketing company that has been in registration for an initial public offering since 2007.
"We can't control when the IPO window opens, but frankly we can take advantage of the conditions," said Rory O' Driscoll, managing director at Scale Venture Partners. "…This is an opportunity to own this company for the next couple years while it continues to grow."
The new funding, provided by Scale, Battery Ventures and current shareholder Montagu Newhall, will provide ExactTarget with a similar level of funding it sought to raise when it filed to go public in December 2007. Instead of trying to force its offering out in a difficult market, ExactTarget decided to take the cash and withdraw its registration.
Nikitas Koutoupes a partner at Insight Venture Partners, an ExactTarget shareholder that didn't participate in the latest round, said the board of director's discussions to postpone the IPO in favor of the funding led to a "unanimous, clear decision."
"It's a better path than the IPO because it achieves a lot of the same objectives and at the same time positions us to make some investments and take the company to market at a much larger scale," Koutoupes said.
The investment could also create some liquidity. O'Driscoll said early investors like Insight have been offered an opportunity to sell shares. He declined to say if any will participate or how large a stake the two new investors hold. In July 2004, the company raised $10.5 million from Insight, according to VentureWire archives. Koutoupes declined to comment whether Insight will sell shares. He said the firm is happy with its ownership position and felt no need to participate.
ExactTarget's latest amended S-1 filing from September showed that Insight owned 35% of the company as of Aug. 31, while Montagu Newhall owned 9%. The rest of the company's shares were held by executives and directors.
ExactTarget has perhaps the numbers to be publicly traded, at least in past years. It's recorded 13 consecutive quarters of profitability, generating a profit of $2.5 million in 2007 and $1.7 million for the first six months of 2008, according to its S-1 filing. Sales have been growing each year, reaching $48 million in 2007 and more than $70 million in 2008. This week ExactTarget announced it had welcomed 250 new direct clients in the first quarter and increased sales by 40% – that would mean it recorded $22 million in first-quarter sales based on the $15.7 million reported last year, an annual run rate of $88 million.
In the past year, more than a dozen companies that withdrew IPO filings have gone back to the venture well, but most of them, like Alien Technology Corp., Anacor Pharmaceuticals Inc. and BioTrove Inc., raised more cash from existing shareholders. A few others have added new investors to the syndicate like ExactTarget, such as:
BG Medicine Inc. – The molecular-diagnostics company picked up $40 million in Series D financing in July with three new investors participating, six months after pulling its planned offering.
Biolex Therapeutics Inc. – After withdrawing its IPO registration in February 2008, the biopharmaceutical company moved forward with a $60 million Series D financing round in part from new investors Clarus Ventures and OrbiMed Advisors.
Broncus Therapeutics Inc. – A new $38 million Series G round led by new investor Ares Life Sciences could position the pulmonary-device company for a second shot at a public offering after forgoing plans in July.
Initiate Systems Inc. – In June, the software provider pulled its registration and then raised $26 million from a list of investors that included newcomers Paladin Capital Group, Dunrath Capital, EMC Corp. and Informatica Corp. BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners and SandBox Industries later took part in a $5 million round announced in the fall.


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Year of Award: 1985
Award: Lester R. Ford
Publication Information: The American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 91, 1984, pp. 333-352
Summary: This article surveys contemporary problems and recent progress in the factorization of integers and primality testing, including many involving ideas accessible to undergraduate students.
About the Author: (from The American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 91 (1984)) John D. Dixon completed his bachelor's degree (1959) in number theory at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He received his Ph.D. (1961) in group theory under the supervision of Hans Schwerdtfeger from McGill University. Since then he has taught at California Institute of Technology, University of New South Wales, and Carleton University. He is the author of three books: Problems in Group Theory (1967), The Structure of Linear Groups (1971), and Modular Representations of Finite Groups (with B.M. Puttaswamaiah, 1976). During the past 15 years he has had an increasing interest in algorithmic problems in algebra and number theory. His mathematical heroes are the generalists such as Gauss and Hilbert.


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BRATTLEBORO A 21-year-old student at the Austine School for the Deaf will be arraigned Friday on charges of kidnapping and aggravated assault for attacking a woman at the school.
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Carroll was arrested and held at the state prison in Springfield, pending his arraignment in criminal court in Brattleboro.
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When my daughter was born, the first gift I gave her was her name. The second, the third, the fourth gifts were books. I found myself searching high and low for beautiful picture books. Books with surprisingly simple stories but a powerful message. Books with heartbreaking beautiful artwork. Books that would stimulate her imagination. A hundred and one books, each different in its own way but each created with love, passion and talent by an author and an artist.
Then one day, as I was tidying up, I found an old box with countless little texts I had scribbled over the course of my life. I realised that writing had always been a passion for me and I wondered how I could have forgotten for so long. The truth was of course that I hadn't, I had only stopped collecting those scribbles.
But when I had my daughter, I thought about all the values I wanted to pass on to her: Having enough of faith to follow your dreams. Being persistent and continuously searching to improve yourself. I wondered how I could teach her such values, if I myself did not set an example.
I decided to pursue writing more seriously. I set myself in front of my computer, wrote a number of stories and sent them off with a form letter to about 6 publishers. Each one replied with a rejection. I wondered where I had gone wrong. My writing couldn't seriously have been that bad, could it ? After all, all my colleagues had said the stories were really very cute.... So, falling back into an attitude working life as a financial analyst had taught me, I decided to research where I could have been wrong. And a whole world opened up for me !!!!
I subscribed to a whole bunch of websites and the best advice I read, was to write, write, write.... Whatever I wrote and re-wrote on each moment, seemed the best I could ever do, and yet, reading back my own work six months later, I'd realise what an idiot I had been for thinking so.
Picture books seem so easy to write. Yet everyone who has seriously been at it for some time, knows this is only a common misperception. Don't think you are the exception. I know I did and what a fool of myself I must have made :-)
This is why I set up this website. The writers and artist community is a nice one, so I want to pay it forward and share some of the knowledge I gather along the way. This website also aims to be a 'home' for our critique group. There's a blog, where each of us can post voluntarily, about any topic they wish to talk about. Besides being another writing exercise, it's also a way we develop bonds with eachother. It will be our online version of a 'Central Perk' coffeebar :-)
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Where we post random thoughts and scribbles. Feel free to say hello !
Agents which at some point of time still seemed keen on acquiring new picture book authors. (Not an exhaustive list thank goodness though... there are many more out there that we are not aware of). This list is regularly updated with new finds. Should you know of any agent not mentionned, do let us know via email. It would be greatly appreciated !!!
Writing picture books is an art and a skill you can develop further. Here are some tips that we found valuable. Feel free to let us know if you feel anything needs to be added.
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Welcome to our site. We're a happy bunch of picture book authors that have grouped together to help each other develop and grow. Feel free to browse our site. Please do read on our way of working first, if you would be interested in joining us.


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When you start working with a longer documents, cross references can be helpful when referring to items in your document such as figures, tables and headings. If you've ever read a document that read "see figure 1 below" or "See table 3" or even "Turn to page 5," then you know exactly what a cross reference is. Let's create a couple in a document that's been created for you. So we'll go to our Office button, click Open, navigate to the lesson 19 folder because that's where you're going to fins flyer 19.
Give that a click and then Open. OK. So here's a document that if we scroll through has, there's a figure with a caption and a little further down we'll see a table as well. Now you must have captions for your tables, figures, equations, footnotes, etc. to create a cross reference to them. In this case the caption simply displays the words figure or table and a number. This is what's going to be used in the cross reference. So let's scroll down here into this section that says "a quick tip from the chef" and it's about removing seeds from than a vanilla bean. OK.
"Try using a small wrench" and at the end of this sentence we're just going to click and type in some text. We'll type in the word, actually a couple of spaces, than the word "see" and leave a space. And then this is where we want our reference to show up. So we go up to the References tab on the ribbon here and see we've got Table of Contents, we've got Footnotes and Citations, Captions, Index, Table of Authorities etc. What we really want to put in here is a cross reference so we come back to Captions, we click Cross Reference and you see, we choose a reference type.
And if we click this drop-down, we've got Numbered items, Headings etc. As we scroll down we'll see that there is a Figure here as well. OK, For which caption. It knows in this document there's only one called figure 1. And we can insert a hyperlink that will take us directly to that particular figure if we want. So we click Insert and we'll click Close now to close this dialogue. And you can see it's says "See figure 1". We'll put in a period here and a couple of spaces. Now this becomes a hyperlink, which means you'll see as we hover over it, it says "Control click to follow link." So if I hold down my Control key and I click on figure 1, you can see takes me right to the figure itself.
OK, why don't we just try this with our table down below as well? You can see we've got a table and it's underneath our fall cooking classes. So let's say somewhere else in the document, like at the end of this particular paragraph, we want a reference it. We could then say, again. "Please" - we'll just change the text up a little bit - "Please go to" and then we'll put in our cross-reference there for a table though this time. So when I click Cross Reference, I need to change the reference type to a Table.
Again, Table 1 shows up. I'll insert it as a hyperlink and you can see here also that I can choose to insert a reference to the entire caption, only the label and number, only the caption page number, above /below is another option. So I'm going to choose Only label and number, click Insert. Click Close here and you can see it says "Please go to table 1." Great. Now if I hover over that, it says "Control click to follow link." I hold down Control, press click and you can see it just takes me to the table, it doesn't take me inside the caption like it did for the figure.
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By Jim Tedford, Director of Animal Welfare Initiatives and Alliances
For most of us, the "holiday season" begins in November and continues through till New Year's Day. But for the tens of thousands of dogs waiting for new homes in our nation's animal shelters, the season begins much sooner. In fact, the official kick-off is October 1. What's so special about October 1? I'm glad you asked! October 1 marks the beginning of a 31 day stretch called National Adopt a Shelter Dog Month! That's right…the entire month of October is a great big celebration of "man's best friend".
If, like me, you already share your home and your heart with several drooling, wagging bundles of joy, you will have no trouble understanding that this month is truly something to celebrate. If you don't yet have a dog in your life, what the heck are you waiting for? Lest you fall victim to the stereotype that dogs in shelters are somehow defective or "tainted goods", do not buy it! Not for even a single second should you believe shelter dogs are anything other than potential companions who need one thing ---you! While they may have fallen on hard times, most dogs in shelters adjust to new lives quickly.
I wish I had a nickel for every shelter dog I have ever befriended. I'd take a nickel for every shelter dog I've ever actually adopted! In either event, I'd be a pretty rich guy. When I started my first job in my first animal shelter back in the dark ages, it took me less than a week to fall in love. Abby was a gorgeous German shepherd who came to the shelter as a two-year-old stray. She followed just about every step I took for the next 10+ years and added to the life of my family in immeasurable ways.
A few years and a few dogs later, Tanq came into my life. This little Jack Russell terrier mix was a street-smart New Orleans stray. He passed away a few year back and it's still a little tough for me to talk about him.
Fast forward a few more years and meet Otis. He was a two-year-old Lab mix who was turned in by his owners who were moving. They probably took their sofa and their children, but they left their six dogs at the local animal shelter like recycled newspapers. Otis gave us about 12 years of love and loyalty before succumbing to a brain tumor in the late winter of 2010.
Over the past thirty years there have been many, many more. Today we live with Bodie, Henry, Sam & Lila. Three of the four were adopted from shelters and the fourth was destined to go there when we intervened. Regardless of the circumstances that led to their "break-ups" with their original families, they are each incredibly special. There are lots of ways we can enrich our lives, but for me none is as satisfying as spending a little quality time with my dogs.
I am fortunate to work at a place like PetSafe, where dogs are welcome in the office every day. I get my daily dose throughout the day. Your local animal shelter is filled with every day heroes (heroes we will celebrate next month during National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week). These folks sacrifice much to provide the best care possible for the homeless and unwanted. So, go by your local shelter sometime this month and say thanks. And, if you have room in your heart and home, consider adopting a pet. You'll be saving an animal's life. And, he might just save yours, as well!
Post your comments and tell your adoption stories. Let us know about the Abby, Tanq or Otis in your life!
ABOUT JIM Jim Tedford serves as PetSafe's Director of Animal Welfare Initiatives and Alliances. Working on the front line of animal welfare for over 20 years, Jim has served as CEO for organizations in New York, Louisiana and Tennessee. Prior to joining PetSafe, Jim provided marketing and fundraising services to animal welfare organizations nationwide. Jim holds a degree in animal science from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Jim and his wife Ann share their "empty nest" in the Smoky Mountains with adopted dogs Bodie, Sam, and Lila and a formerly homeless macaw, Gipper.


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Shirish Kunder takes a dig at Shahrukh Khan's Ra.One
Referring to the poor review of Shahrukh Khan's Ra.One, Shirish Kunder recently tweeted, "I just heard a 150 Cr firework fizzle.(sic)". Speaking about Trade Analyst Taran Adarsh's positive review of Ra.One, Shirish tweeted, "Taran Adarsh writes the review of a movie. He trends, the movie doesn't!"
Interestingly, Farah Khan and Shahrukh Khan were best friends for a long time. However, things changed and the two parted ways. Though Farah and Shahrukh have maintained that they have buried their differences, the twitter post by Shirish suggest something else.
Now, we all know that Shirish Kunder is a great friend of Salman Khan. Wonder whether the rivalry between Salman and Shahrukh has anything to do with Shirish Kunder's nasty pick on SRK's Ra.One!


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Continued from Speaking Of Meltdowns I..
In the next two posts I am attempting to explore some of the challenges in the mind of an Aspie on a regular basis as well as during a meltdown/shutdown. It will be filtered through my own Aspie mind. Remember we are all different and some of us may not respond in the same way. It is important to find the common traits, and try to understand them, but also remember our triggers, and responses vary. We have all had our own unique life experiences to mold scripts, fears, likes, interests, etc…
Also, keep in mind that something that did not upset us the day before could be catastrophic the next.
Sometimes we can explain this sometimes we cannot. My personal experience with this is that something "suddenly" upsetting me is because my senses have been assaulted by multiple avenues, my mind feels fuzzy, and I am unable to think. An example, one day I can like popcorn and enjoy eating it. The next day the smell alone can send my head reeling, and cause me to be aggravated. It normally has to do with when my senses have been completely overwhelmed.
During these moments of intense sensory issues – a meltdown/shutdown can occur.
The sensory can remind me of social confusion which taps into triggers of past experiences. If my day has not been going well, or I feel someone's "negative" vibes, my mind can go into negative scripts. Popcorn can have several negative associations not only sensory wise (getting stuck in my teeth, hurting my gums, getting burnt) I can remember times when I could only eat popcorn to survive. Either I did not have any money, or I could not force myself to eat anything else. There are situations growing up as well, my mom being fanatical about her cheese popcorn that smelled like rotten stink to me. This can open other memories and stories of my life.
What I have been working on these several months is scoping out positive memories instead.
It has been working, but it is a huge mind shift. It can throw me when I am too overwhelmed and have not had any down time. As you read on you will see the words overwhelmed, frustration and confusion a lot. Another major factor for meltdowns are those three things. There is a great frustration with not being able to communicate with others in a way that they understand. It is enhanced when you have a mind that is unaware that the other person does not understand. Another component can be when it feels like you are the one who has to put in all of the effort to try to understand them, and it feels like they are not trying to understand you it can cause exasperation – hopeless feelings.
There are elements of bewilderment when the other person has misunderstood you.
It is like a shock to the system. When you have been clear and direct, but the other person completely misses the semantics of your words it just doesn't make sense. Don't we all have the same dictionaries? What I have learned is that everyone is filtering their words through their own perspective. I may have learned this – I cannot remember this during the rise and fall of a meltdown/shutdown.
David and I miss each other's meanings, and misinterpret each other's words/actions often.
When I am in a state as I was the other night, my brain automatically goes into strict black-and-white thinking and looking for patterns. I believe the reason for this is that my mind is trying to get me balanced. I am seeking structure, and stability in the midst of what feels like complete chaos. Actually, I am not only seeking it, it can feel crucial that I get it to help me become grounded again. I tend to interrupt, and ask questions because if something seems illogical to me I cannot let it go.
I can get stuck on words or phrases.
If I am not hearing concrete, direct words, it can cause me to tailspin into another trigger path. I don't want to, most of the time I don't even know that I am doing it. I am still referring to meltdowns/shutdowns on a regular basis I do pretty well and if I am confused, I can ask. I lose my words and ability to capture words in a cohesive manner while in a meltdown/shutdown. I may repeat something over and over such as: "I cannot talk. I cannot talk." I do not like being pressured into speaking about my emotions. I need to write them and process them. Since David talks out his emotions and issues, he throws words into the air speaking whatever comes to mind because that is how he processes.
To me this feels like I am physically being covered with words.
I am unsure what the emotions or meanings are behind the words, and this causes me to be overwhelmed with confusion. Because I do feel, see, and have multiple sensory attachments to words they can seem to be penetrating my body. I associate this to my synesthsia. I have more information about synesthesia on another post with several videos here. Though, I need to process and write what I am feeling if there is unresoveled tension, I cannot move forward until it is resolved.
I will loop and create faulty scenarios to try to calm my brain.
I can see David's (others) point of view getting frustrated and wanting to just say whatever comes to mind, but I do not know how to filter those emotions or words. Saying other things aloud such as: "No I cannot say that" or "I can't say it like that." add to the frustrations and guilt I am already feeling. Even if it is not meant through negative intentions, those types of phrases feed into negative thoughts for me.
I now have feelings as if I need to be coddled, or I am a huge cause of frustration.
I want people to be able to speak freely, but yes, I do require clarity. I do not know how to remedy it. It makes me overwhelmed with sadness because I feel like such a burden. It builds up on my own frustrations of not being able to understand. I want to understand, I try to understand, but I cannot get my brain to make the connections. I am desperately wanting the connections to happen – I can feel a disconnect and it is infuriating. I don't know how to understand "processing in the moment."
My cognitive functions are already distorted.
It takes a lot to function on a daily basis with how my brain is processing, but when adding stress, anxiety, emotional/social confusion to the mix it can be "Messed up big time!" Some executive functions that include sequencing, inhibition, problem solving, and flexibility are severely delayed during the points leading up to meltdowns/shutdowns. After the meltdown/shutdown is already in full swing, these functions are basically useless. I cannot be reasoned with to some extent. It does not help that I can feel the emotions of frustration, anger, sadness, etc… from other people. It causes me to be confused because I cannot discern between what I am feeling and what they are feeling at all. I cannot think it puts me on defense and all I am doing is trying to protect myself.
Everything becomes jumble.
At that point, I just need to feel safe because I do not. I need a safe place to calm down. I need quiet. I need peace. Why do I say I need a safe place, because now my entire world is no longer safe. Words do not mean what I thought they did, places have unexpected noises, or feelings to them that seem sudden – people are no longer acting the way they normally do. It is like I just stepped into a world of fun-house mirrors. Everything has become distorted and looks scary to me. (I do not like fun-house mirrors sorry if you do, but you understand the distortion, right?)
These mirrors do not only distort images.
They distort sounds, meanings, and emotions. When people are upset or sad they begin to act differently and this takes adjusting for a person like myself. I see it in my kids too. If someone is acting different, such as their Grammy they begin to act out. They will all start stimming in their own way and continue to interrupt, Daniel usually makes very loud noises (humming, strange sounds), or will bang things on the floor. He will do things that he knows bothers us very much while we are trying to talk until he knows that everything is ok, or he understands why she is acting different.
In many cases, I have no idea why someone is upset.
I only feel their energy and I NEED to know what the problem is. I have my own ways of "acting out", or stimming when I feel something and the person is not telling me what is going on. I tend to get very angry and start to clean frantically. My anger can seem insensitive – I am not insensitive I need clear and direct. Quite honestly, it does not occur to me to ask. If I am upset, I normally say something because I tend to say whatever I am thinking. It is hard to remember that others do not do this. I can also go into meltdown/shutdown mode because it is too much for me to handle the feelings that have no explanation.
My mind cannot handle a multitude of emotions, sensory, and flustery words.
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Nerve problems. Several different conditions can damage the nerves that control eye muscles and lead to double vision:
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- Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) is a chronic form of Guillian-Barre and can affect eyes, causing double or blurred vision and eye pain.
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Almost one child or teen an hour is injured by a firearm seriously enough to require hospitalization, a new analysis finds. Six percent of the 7,391 hospitalizations analyzed in 2009 resulted in a death, says the study in February's Pediatrics, released Monday.
The damage caused by gun-related injuries rarely gets the same attention as fatalities, "but that every day, 20 of our children are hospitalized for firearms injury, often suffering severe and costly injuries, clearly shows that this is a national public health problem," says Robert Sege, director of the Division of Family and Child Advocacy at Boston Medical Center and a co-author of the study.
I'm sure proud to be a Target! Thousands of innocent people every year killed are just collateral damage on the road to that freedom. What about their freedom.
And the first gun control laws was design to keep keep blacks form guns, the African American community should be grateful.
Things changed for the better!
Would more conceal carry stop these nuts. The Chief of Police of Detroit thinks so.
"A free people ought…to be armed"
― George Washington
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. [Misattributed]"
― Thomas Jefferson
"The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles."
― Jeff Cooper, Art Of The Rifle
"The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it."
― Thomas Jefferson
"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
― Thomas Jefferson, Complete Jefferson
James Madison
"Disarm the people- that is the best and most effective
way to enslave them."
― James Madison
"Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the Constitution by claiming it's not an individual right or that it's too much of a public safety hazard, don't see the danger in the big picture. They're courting disaster by encouraging others to use the same means to eliminate portions of the Constitution they don't like."
― Alan M. Dershowitz
"The constitution shall never be construed…to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."
― Alexander Hamilton
"When the law disarms good guys, bad guys rejoice."
― Ted Nugent
And argument for gun control:
Adolf Hitler
"The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation."
― Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
The Second Amendment came about because of mass shooting of innocents by British Troops in the revolutionary war. If the British thought you were you were shot.
I have stood the line and seen first had what an armed government does to un-armed civilians but that aspect never makes the news.
"An armed man is a citizen. A disarmed man is a subject"
"A free people ought to be armed."
– George Washington
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
– Benjamin Franklin
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
– Thomas Jefferson
"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery."
– Thomas Jefferson
"The gun has been called the great equalizer" (Reagan, many others)
Lost your job? Equalize things out at work. Feel picked on? Equalize things out at school. Inconvenienced at the theater? Equalizer has you covered
Since we're such an inegalitarian society, it only makes sense people will pick up their best tool to even things back out. It's logical and fair. The 2nd amendment and the NRA are hardly relevant targets, so to speak
Its not a "lie" it was a current study which showed most children are shot by loose guns sitting around the house.
You appear to value guns over human life.
You appear to value your ugly opinions over facts.
Funny how all the old, comfy suburbanites on here think guns are horrible. Maybe they should live in the ghetto sometime and tell that to the lady living by herself.
I could supply thousands of these stories but here's one:
Dallas police said a woman shot at two people who kicked in the door to her house late Wednesday morning, killing one.
The shooting occurred at about 11:30 a.m. in the 7200 block of Concordia Drive.
Dallas police said the woman was home alone when she heard a noise — two men had kicked in the front door of her house.
She confronted the two men as they reached the second-floor landing and shot at them several times, police said.
The intruders ran out the front door, and one of the men collapsed from a gunshot wound, police said.
He was transported to Methodist Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The other man is still on the run.
Investigators said a gun recovered at the home indicates that at least one of the intruders was armed.
Charles Brown, the father of the 22-year-old woman who fired the shots, said he is proud of his daughter.
"Yeah, it is — it's puffed out because I'm real proud of her because I taught her that," he said. "I taught my girls that — to defend themselves when someone come to hurt them, and apparently she listened."
Brown said their home has been broken into once before.
"I'm feeling real disgusted about this neighborhood at this moment, that a man can't go to work and make an honest day's living without some thug breaking into his house," he said.
Because his daughter works at night and sleeps during the day, he left the gun by her pillow, just like he does every day, Brown said.
He said he will now teach his daughter how to forgive herself for taking a life.
"I really don't have a problem with what my baby done to them," he said. "I just hate that she hesitated and didn't get them both."
NBC 5's Randy McIlwain contributed to this report.
"Would more conceal carry stop these nuts. The Chief of Police of Detroit thinks so."
So does the retired police chief in Florida. You know, the one who shot a person who was texting in a movie theater: a capital offense.
i prefer the lib approach to protecting school kids rather than allowing some teachers to be armed give each child a t shirt that says " please do not shoot me"
And in Baltimore, yet another recent victory for gun violence advocates.
Maybe a newer one in Hawaii, too.
The 2nd Amendment is more about Militias than casual gun ownership.
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To add some excitement to this Waltz, there will be a free stamp set of choice randomly awarded (which always makes it a little more fun) to the lucky winner! Another winner will be chosen from those who correctly guess the number of special symbols hidden within the Design Team's projects. You can enter your guess/calculations in the chat thread for the Waltz on the Waltzingmouse House forum. (see link above).
As you waltz along, you will see this logo letting you know that you are at a participating blog.
I wish I could take credit for the layout design that I used for my project today, but I know that I saw it on line somewhere, although I cannot recall where or by whom. (shame on me, bad blogger) Using Sewing Box Hugs I stamped the flower onto green and blue cardstock and then trimmed the layers, attaching them with foam dimensional adhesive. I thought the Material Girl paper from Cosmo Cricket was just the right touch for the stitching theme.
I used an Ornare piercing template to create the scalloped piercing along the top and bottom of the blue panel and the scissor shaped brad was just the right touch and I was happy to actually use it since I've had it in my stash for a couple of years. Doesn't it make you feel good when you can actually use stuff you have been hording for a while? =)
Are you ready to waltz on? If you haven't been to the Play Room (link above), be sure to waltz over and check out all the awesome creations from the Friends of Waltzingmouse Stamps. Thanks for stopping by today.
|Stamps: Sewing Box Hugs (Waltzingmouse Stamps)
|Papers: Pure Luxury Ivory, Leap Frog and Lake Shore (Bazzill), Material Girl (Cosmo Cricket)
|Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
|Accessories: Scissor Brad (from stash), Double Crochet Lace Border Punch (EK Success), Blue Ric Rac, Corner Rounder punch, Paper Piercer, Ornare Template


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TAMMANY PARISH CORONER DOCTOR PETER GALVAN IS GAINING SIGNATURES. AND THESE CAME FROM ELECTED OFFICIALS FROM THE PARISH. THE CLOCK STARTED RUNNING ON THE RECALL EFFORT YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.. AS THE GROUP "CONCERNED CITIZENS OF ST. TAMMANY FILED THE OFFICIAL PAPERWORK IN BATON ROUGE. THE GROUP NOW HAS 180 DAYS TO GET THE 53 THOUSAND SIGNATURES THEY NEED TO FORCE A RECALL ELECTION. THE FIRST SIGNATURES CAME THIS AFTERNOON FROM MEMBERS OF THE ST. TAMMANY PARISH COUNCIL. It gives the voters the opportunity to make a determination whether the coroner still has the confidence of his constituents to continue doing the job. THE CITIZENS GROUP WILL OPEN RECALL PETITION SITES AROUND THE PARISH... STARTING MAY 25TH.. THE EFFORT TO GET SIGNATURES FROM THE PUBLIC KICKS OFF THIS WEEKEND IN SLIDELL.
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The Auburn University Harrison School of Pharmacy seeks applications and nominations for the position of Department Head of Pharmacal Sciences. This department focuses on research and instruction of basic pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences. This individual's responsibilities include: participation as a member of the senior administrative team; guiding the department regarding research, faculty mentorship and development, and graduate and professional education. Information on the School and its departments can be viewed at www.pharmacy.auburn.edu.
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Issue No.02 - April-June (1998 vol.20)
pp: 7-13
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/85.667290

The National Bureau of Standards Electronic Automatic Computer, SEAC, completed in 1950, was the first electronic computer with an internally stored program in the U.S. government. This paper describes how scanning and computer processing of images began at the National Bureau of Standards in 1956 and how the use of SEAC made possible experiments that led to the widespread use of image processing and many other computer innovations.

Russell A. Kirsch, "SEAC and the Start of Image Processing at the National Bureau of Standards", IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol.20, no. 2, pp. 7-13, April-June 1998, doi:10.1109/85.667290


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In this installment, The Tools, Bert demonstrates how he uses the brushes, filters, and textures in Photoshop to create everything from the trees in Central Park to the billboards on Broadway, and shares his techniques for keeping his project organized with layers and groups. He also touches on the importance of channels and channel calculations, and how the evolution of the tools in Photoshop from CS3 to CS5 shaped his work.
- Making a chain brush
- Understanding the layers in lights
- Using the 3D tools in Photoshop
- Using layer styles
- Creating wood and fabric textures
- Applying a layer mask
- Linking layer masks with layer styles
- Understanding channels
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Depicting glass can be quite a problem for some people. In some cases, it's just a question of going in there and creating reflections. That's what's going to give you the sense of glass. Like for instance here, way over here we'll go to this window, you see that there is glass there. How do you know? Well, it's because it's a little lighter, when you see through it, and so on, and there's reflections. The reflections is what really makes it look like there is glass there. What we're going to do is come in tight right here on this motorcycle here that my good friend Jeff Schewe is driving, and look at that windshield.
That's where we are going to work on right there is this windshield, because it has all these shapes to it. It's not just something you can see through it, but it also has all these tones that are involved here. So we're going to work on that. Now right here we have the actual bike. Here is the artwork that was created for the bike and as we are getting closer, you'll see that it does have all these little highlights that it's picking up, all these little tones, little reflections that its picking up in different areas, and the contours, and those contours will also distort things as you see through them, and so on.
So that's what we're going to create at this point is we are going to create this windshield. Not exactly that windshield, but we're going to create something similar that will have contours and hopefully that'll inspire you to create your own shapes to do something. All right! So what I'm going to do here is I'm going to create a layer, and I'm going to fill this layer with a pattern, just so that we have something that we can see through. I've got this checkerboard pattern. I'm just going to click OK. All right! That's going to be what we see through our glass. So let's turn it off now, and I'm going to create the shape. So let's go in here and create kind of a curve shape up here like this. All right! It's going to come in, and then it's going to have this little indent right here.
It's going to come out like that, and come around like this, and then come down, and then come over like that, and curve around this edge like so, and then come back up here and close it off. Okay, so there is our desired little piece of glass like some kind of a windshield or something, right? So there are a few things--I'm just kind of cleaning it up a little bit. There we go. So a couple of things happening here. So we're going to have to create a few additional paths right off the bat, because we see this little indent here.
So let's create the shape that that indent is going to be creating. So we come down here and create this long kind of a triangle shape like that, and then here we have a hard face, so we're going to create a little shape for that particular shape. Now I'm going beyond the limits, because it doesn't matter. These are going to be contained inside of our glass at some point. Right now, we're just creating the basic shapes. So we have our paths. Let's go ahead and save those so we have them. All right! So now there are a lot of steps, going to be involved in here.
You might not have to use all these steps, but keep in mind it's how something is being done, not what is being done. A little change here and there will totally give you a different effect. So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to come over here to a layer. On top of our little background here, I'm going to create a layer, and we'll call this the glass. This is the basic glass. So I'm going to select this shape right here, and then I'm going to fill it with a tone. So let's go in here and let's give a reddish gray like that, and we'll go ahead and fill that path with that color in that layer.
So now let's look at that background layer, which right now we don't see through it, right? We can't see through it. So we're going to bring down the Fill Opacity for that layer so we can see through it. There we go. The reason I'm bringing that Fill Opacity and not the Opacity is because I will be applying some layer styles to this, which I'm going to do right now. I'm going to go in there and go to the Layer Styles and give it a little Bevel and Emboss, which is going to give me a little bit of an edge. See that edge? We're just getting that little edge in there, and I don't want this dark gray in there.
I want that to be more of light tone, so I'm going to pick a light gray. Actually, we'll make it just a little darker. Okay, like that, and we have that little tone there, and then that lighter tone which just lightened that up there and click OK, so there. Anything that I applied to this, like let's just say that I go in here and take this path right here, and in the new layer, I'll go in there and let's say we fill it with a tone. It's picking up the reflection from somewhere. That's going to pick up let's say a reddish tone, right? So we'll go in here and fill it with a red.
We will just fill that path with a red in that new layer. So I go in there and say fill it. All right! So now if I clip that with that glass, since I have the Fill Opacity reduced to 74, it's going to take this, and when I clip it, it's also going to be reduced in Opacity. That's the effect I'm going to get. If you want that to have a little less opacity--which is what I want to do, I want to have a little less opacity to that-- I'm not going to clip it. What I'm going to do instead is I'm going to give it a mask.
So I'm going to turn the glass into a selection, and go to that layer and say give it a mask. And there you see that now it is opaque, so I can play around with its opacity independently of that of the glass. So here I'm going to take the actual Opacity and reduce it just a little, about like that. Now this side here should have that same red, so I should have filled them both together at the same time. So, I am. I am going to do just that. I'm going to go in there and pick that second path right there, go back to that layer, make sure I am in the layer, and I am going to just fill that path with that same color.
Click the Path and say fill it. So there you see that you have both of these with that same tonality applied, and that same opacity. Now, they are on separate layers. So I'm going to go in there to the layer and just give it a little blur. So I'm going to give it a little Gaussian Blur, just to soften up that edge, so it starts to look more like they are little indents in there. So I want to just go in there and give it just a little bit of a blur. This one needs to be a little more blurred, so I'm going to select this guy separately from the other, and apply that filter again, except this time I'm going to go a little higher, give it a little more of a blur, because that's its softer edge.
Click OK and now we get that softer edge right in there. So now we're getting this nice little highlight happening in there. All right! So now the glass is going to have other tones happening through it. So I want to go in there and apply a couple of little highlights and stuff all through this area here. So I'm going to go in and perhaps throw in some white highlights, and again I like to handle them separately from that layer, so I'm going to create a layer above the glass right here and I'm going to throw in some whites. So we'll go in here and get a nice large brush, and it's soft, and I'm just going to throw some white highlights right through here like that and maybe a little thin one right through here like that, which I can soften up at any time.
I'm going to just give them that same mask by Option+Clicking on the mask and dragging it down. And I'm going to bring down the Opacity for this one just a little so I can see through it, and you can see how we're starting to get our little highlights going through there. Now I want to add more of an edge, because I want to start adding some little highlights along that edge. So here is where it's going to get a little trickier. I'm going to go in there and turn the glass into a selection and save that selection, and we'll call it glass. I'm going to save it again, and this time we'll call it the edge.
So now, I just saved them. They became alpha channels. Now we'll see in this third one here-- and it's italicized why? because we happen to be in a layer that has a mask. See, right there. If I click on this one that doesn't have a mask and we go back to our channels, it's gone. It's a temporary place where we can see the actual contents of that mask, but here we have these two alpha channels. So what I want to do now is take this one, the edge, and see the other one.
I'm going to take this edge and just move it over a little bit to the left and down. There is that little edge of the glass. Or maybe we move it up. I want to see the bottom part. There it is. There is that little section right through there. That's what I want to see. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go into my Calculations. In Calculations, I'm going to take those, I'm going to subtract one from the other. I'm going to put the glass here. So I'm getting that edge. See, there is that edge being exposed.
So I'm going to send that to a new channel. So now let's do these guys again. Take the edge, just see the glass, and this time I'm going to move the edge in the opposite direction. I want to come in this direction. I want to get that little overlap right in there and come down a little bit about there. That's what I want. Again, I'll do the Calculations and subtract one from the other so I'm getting that edge. Send it to a new channel. Click OK. So now that I have that, I go back to my RGB here where I'm going to start to add little highlights in that area.
So we have this white light here, this strong white light. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to load this channel, and then in the layer behind the glass, let's put it right on top of this guy here. Right here, we're going to call it the white glare. And we can turn off those marching ants in case we want to just see what we're doing here. I've got white, and I'm going to take a paintbrush, and I'm just going to throw a little white highlight right into that area right in there. See? I'm throwing it into a layer that's underneath the red, so we can see it there is this little highlight showing up right in there.
Now if we want, we could put it above the glass. Now we see even stronger, and let's just throw it right along this edge here. There, just like that. We'll put a little bit of it let's say right in here. Just throw a little edge right through here, just so it starts to give it that really strong effect. Now on this side, it's going to be a red. So we're going to get the red and create another layer, which we'll call the 'red glare', because this side of glass is picking up that little red. So right here in this layer, we're going to load that other channel, this one, which exposed that side.
So now in that layer for the red glare, I can start the paint in that little red glare just the way I want it right through here just in there like that. And we deselect, and we see that we now have this chunk of glass just laying over our little background. Anything we can see through it. Any other shapes you want, you can put on top there. If you want to get even spiffier, you can go in there and add a reflection, any kind of a picture that you can just store onto this, and then it becomes a reflection. Make sure you bring that Opacity way down so it's just a little hint of a reflection of something out of the viewer's point of view there.


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Family dining seats 110 with take out and delivery available Open Monday to Saturday 11 am - 10 pm daily We accept Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Debit Gift cards (certificastes) are available. Well known for our fresh, homemade, specialty pizzas
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Restaurant features: Home-style meals, Monthly specials, Request meals accepted. Food items that best represent the food service: Speciality home-made pizzas, Chester-fried chicken, Burgers. Takeout. Children's menu.
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SMC - Specialty Merchandise Corporation996 Flower Glen Street Simi Valley, California United States of America
SMC - Specialty Merchandise Corporation I never received the packet that would explain the company, but I am still being charged. Simi Valley, California
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I am being charged by SMC for services I did not get and do not want. I never got the packet from this company which was suppose to explain how I could cancel my membership from them before 30 days. I called them, more than 3 or 4 times, as the 30 days got closer to tell them that I had not gotten any information about selling or canceling.
I have continued to call, but each time it takes close to an hour to get an answer. It makes me wonder about those high volumes of calls. Are all of those calls being made to cancel? I have finally started sending e-mails. I can tell by the answers to my e-mails they are not being read. I think they are computer generated.I am being told by e-mail that since I did not send the packet back, that supposedly contained information, before the 30 days, I still owe SMC $479.40.
I have never ordered anything or sold anything from SMC. I did finally get some catalogs that show merchandise to sell. I had told them not to send me anthing else. I will be sending this back because this is still not the packet that explains the company. I made a mistake by opening it because I thought I had finally gotten the packet they keep telling me about.
If I do get to talk to a human voice, I get a different response from each person I talk to. I am still being charged anyway. I have had to cancel my credit cards until I can get this company to stop charging me for something I do not have and did not get.
I would be glad to send the packet back and never have anything to do with this company again. How do I get out of this horrible deal? I want others to please not get involved with this company.
Please never pay for something that can keep being charged to your credit cards or bank because they will keep charging you even though you want to cancel the services you are or are not getting.
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PARKERSBURG - And the streak goes on!
Guards Taryn McCutcheon and Keya Bartlett each scored 21 points to pace previously-winless Parkersburg South to a resounding 70-41 girls basketball triumph over Class AAA city rival Parkersburg High Tuesday night at the Rod Oldham Athletic Center.
It was the 18th straight victory by the Patriots over the visiting Big Reds at the ROAC since 2001, and this one wasn't that close as South led by 17 at the half and turned it into a 30-point rout late in the fourth quarter.
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Parkersburg South's Taryn McCutcheon is fouled as she puts up a shot over Parkersburg's Haley Ackerman during their game Tuesday. South scored a 70-41 win over Parkersburg. (Photo by Jeff Baughan)
PHS, now 3-3, was hampered by being without the services of 6-foot-4 Kennedy Walker, who suffered a concussion in PHS' last game, and then lost Kailey Cox, who broke her nose in the first quarter.
But after a tight first period won 11-8 by South, the Patriots, now 1-3, broke loose for a 27-point second stanza as freshman point guard McCutcheon led the assault with 11 points in the quarter to almost herself outscore PHS, which only notched 13 to fall behind 38-21 at intermission.
In the third quarter, the Big Reds started strong with a 5-0 burst to slice the gap to 38-26 until McCutcheon had a steal for a layup and connected on a trey from the corner to stem the PHS tide and give the Patriots back a 17-point bulge, 43-26, at the 4:44 mark.
Then in the fourth, Bartlett got revved up, tallying 11 of her points in the period as with just over a minute to play, South's lead crested at 30, 70-40, on a basket by Katelyn Byrd.
For PHS, Imani Ward led the point production with 21, with Haley Ackerman was next in line with six, while Carlie Wilson added nine points, Lacey Cale seven and Kasey Williams six for South.
''Once we got it going, and with our defensive pressure, things just kind of went our way,'' said South head coach Scott Stephens. ''I know (PHS head coach) Kenny (DeMoss) was missing some kids. But the first win of the year, at home and against PHS - it can't get much better than that.''
After starting 0-3, ''we're trying to push the ball in transition more, we're trying to play a little faster, we're trying to get down before the defense gets set up,'' said Stephens. ''The first three games, we were too slow and too deliberate.''
For DeMoss now, ''our go-to kids other than Imani are injured, so that really requires your bench to step up and play. But we also turned the ball over like crazy and they couldn't miss from the 3-point line.
''Sure, Imani tried to bail us out, but South made that hard because they did a really good job doubling from the weak side on her.''


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Full-Day Pre-K, Longer Schools Days Eyed by Cuomo
Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday proposed competitive grants to entice school districts across New York state to adopt policies such as full-day prekindergarten for low-income students, longer school days and years, and new technology programs.
During his state of the state address, the governor didn't say how much money he would make available for the programs — or how the districts would continue funding the programs after the grants run out.
Cuomo also said that districts would once again be required to have new teacher evaluations in place in the 2014-15 school year in order to receive any increase in state funding. This year, New York City and a handful of other districts are at risk of losing up to 4% of their state aid because they haven't hammered out a deal on those evaluations yet, and the deadline is Jan. 17.
Cuomo's recommendations mirrored many of those outlined in a report issued last week by a commission he convened in April.
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Cuomo has used competitive grants in each of his last two budgets to try to reward good performance or efficiency in schools — about $250 million out of $20 billion sent to local districts this year. Some school officials and members of the Board of Regents have said the money shouldn't be held back in a segregated pot when all school districts were feeling the pinch of a 2% property tax cap.
Signs of pushback on Wednesday were immediately apparent as Cuomo delivered his speech. The New York State School Boards Association tweeted that the governor should keep competitive grants out of general education funding.
"We don't want to make schools compete for general school aid or reduce basic operating aid," one tweet said.
On Wednesday, the governor laid out a much more detailed round of grants, with relatively popular ideas such as funding to add 25% more teaching time to school days or years. Districts could also apply for grants to add full-day prekindergarten — or at least five hours a day — for the highest-need students.
Cuomo also proposed tougher standards for new teachers, including more rigorous student-teaching requirements and higher admissions requirements for teaching programs at the State University of New York and City University of New York, which aides said would come in the form of GPA requirements. The state also is in the process of creating a new test for incoming teachers, which has been likened to a bar exam for law students.
The governor also said he would like to pay the best teachers additional stipends to act as mentors and instructors to other teachers by expanding a program called Math for America throughout the state. The program would provide $15,000 a year for four years to so-called "master teachers."
The education proposals avoided more controversial topics, such as the distribution of state aid to districts based on need and anything related to charter schools.
Cuomo also said he supported paying teachers for good performance, but his description stopped short of what most people think of as "merit pay": increased pay or bonuses based solely on whether teachers are effective. Instead, Cuomo said he supported paying effective teachers to help mentor and train other teachers or paying them more for doing more.
The proposals were widely praised. Both the leadership of the city Department of Education and of its frequent union adversary, the United Federation of Teachers, found things they liked. The union especially supported a proposal to centralize services in individual schools, while the city highlighted extended learning and early childhood education programs.