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Survivors of Typhoon Haiyan are evacuated by C-130 military planes at the airport Thursday, in Tacloban city, Leyte province, central Philippines.
TACLOBAN, Philippines The air was thick with the stench of decay as sweating workers lowered the plastic coffins one by one into a grave the size of an Olympic swimming pool.
Scores of unidentified bodies were interred together Thursday in a hillside cemetery without any ritual the first mass burial in this city shattered by last weeks Typhoon Haiyan.
Six days after the disaster, some progress was being made in providing food, water and medical aid to the half-million people displaced in the Philippines. Massive bottlenecks blocking the distribution of international assistance have begun to clear.
Soldiers on trucks gave out rice and water, and chainsaw-wielding teams cut debris from blocked roads to clear the way for relief trucks in Tacloban, the capital of the hardest-hit Leyte province.
Thousands of people continued to swarm Taclobans damaged airport, desperate to leave or to get treatment at a makeshift medical center.
We know the gravity of our countrymens suffering, and we know that, now more than ever, all of us are called on to do whatever we can to help alleviate our countrymens suffering, President Benigno S. Aquino III said in a statement.
Authorities say 2,357 people have been confirmed dead, a figure that is expected to rise, perhaps significantly, when information is collected from other areas of the disaster zone.
With sweat rolling down their faces, John Cajipe, 31, and three teenage boys who work at the Tacloban cemetery placed the first body in the graves right-hand corner.
The second body followed two minutes later, carefully placed alongside the first. And so on, until scores of coffins filled the 6-foot (2-meter) deep grave. A ritual to sprinkle holy water on the site is expected to be held Friday, one week after the typhoon struck.
A portion of the femur was removed from each corpse by the National Bureau of Investigation. Technicians will extract DNA from each bit of bone to try to identify the dead, said Joseph David, crime photographer for the bureau.
I hope this is the last time I see something like this, said Mayor Alfred Romualdez. When I look at this, it just reminds me of what has happened from the day the storm hit until today.
The massive flow of international aid was bolstered by Thursdays arrival of the USS George Washington in the Philippine Sea near the Gulf of Leyte. The aircraft carrier will set up a position off the coast of Samar Island to assess the damage and provide medical and water supplies, the 7th Fleet said in a statement.
The carrier and its strike group together bring 21 helicopters to the area, which can help reach the most inaccessible parts of the disaster zone.
The United Kingdom also is sending an aircraft carrier, the HMS Illustrious, with seven helicopters and facilities to produce fresh water, Britains Ministry of Defense said. It said the ship is expected to reach the area around Nov. 25.
The U.S. already has a half-dozen other ships including a destroyer and two huge supply vessels in the area, along with two P-3 aircraft that are being used to survey the damage so that planners can assess where aid is most needed, the 7th Fleet said.
We are operating 24-7, said Capt. Cassandra Gesecki, a spokeswoman for the Marines, who have set up an operations hub near Manilas international airport. We are inundated with flights.
Valerie Amos, the U.N. humanitarian chief who toured Tacloban on Wednesday, said about 11.5 million people have been affected by the typhoon, which includes those who lost loved ones, were injured, or suffered damage to their homes or livelihoods.MORE IN Wire NewsMADISON, Wis. Full StoryKABUL, Afghanistan Afghanistan has fallen so far from Americans consciousness that some may... Full StoryCHARLESTON, S.C. Full Story
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By Christopher Thomas
Something as simple as body language can be the key to helping solve a crisis involving a person with mental illness.
"(Officers) often have their hands on their guns with crossed arms," Katie Murphy of Coastal Care Therapy said. "An open stance goes a long way in deescalating a crisis. Get on level if they're sitting instead of bearing down on them."
This is one of several tips offered by Crisis Intervention Team training, a program that seeks to teach law enforcement how to identify the signs of a mental health crisis and help deescalate it.
Local involvement in the program began in 2009 when the Jacksonville Police Department and Albert J. Ellis Airport Police Department sent officers to receive training. The Onslow County Sheriff's Office followed suit the next year. As of the end of 2012, 13 law enforcement agencies in Carteret and Onslow Counties have officers that are certified in the program. Onslow County Sheriff Ed Brown said the program has become a major presence in his agency. In October, four more of his deputies passed the course. Brown said CIT training helps his deputies fulfill the role society needs them to fill.
"We're society's knights in shining armor, and we have to be ready for all issues," Brown said. "There are a lot of crisis here involving people who have mental issues. We need to be ready to handle that."
One of the people credited with bringing the method to the southeastern part of the state is Ernst Hayman, a retired chemist from Milwaukee who has called Eastern North Carolina Home since 1991. Hayman also has a son with schizophrenia.
While attending a conference for the National Alliance of Mental Health (NAMI) in 2006, Hayman said he found out about CIT and in Wake County sat in on a course, which is usually reserved for law enforcement, and became certified in the program.
"I was sold and I wanted to bring it back here," Hayman said.
Hayman brought the system east of I-95 and it caught the attention of what was then called the Southeastern Center for Mental Health Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services where the course was first taught in 2008. Murphy of Coastal Care said the program not only gives officers the tools they need to help deescalate a potentially harmful situation, but to break down social barriers and foster a greater understanding between law enforcement and those who suffer from mental health problems.
"If someone's falling out because their sugar dropped, that's one thing, but if someone's falling out because they have a mental illness, we have a different reaction," Murphy said. "This does a lot to break down stigma."
If officers ever find themselves in a situation where they need additional help in defusing it, mental health representatives are available to officers and the people they're assisting. According to Murphy, these representatives, which are part of a unit called the "mobile crisis dispatch" are on call all day, every day and are an essential part of the program.
"If something has escalated to the point where 911 is called or there is concern of a threat to self or others, right then, when mobile crisis answers the phone," Murphy said. "They go right to assist officer to see how they can help.
"They are the lifeline of CIT training."

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And he met a little friend (just to the left of Tim in the last picture) named Sean to play around with. My dad and Sean's dad, the guy with the blue shirt and glove right in the middle of the picture, were my main foul ball competition. Both my dad and I only played for fouls until we got one, then we concentrated on watching the game. As that last sentence implies, yep, we both got one.
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Interactive Travel Map | Text the Secretary | Behind the Scenes PhotosSecretary Clinton visited the Presidential Guest House today in Pretoria, South Africa, where she met with South African Minister of International Relations Nkoana-Mashabane.
Today, Secretary Clinton and South African Minister of International Relations Nkoana-Mashabane discussed enhancing the U.S.-South African bilateral relationship and underscored the importance of working together on regional and global issues. Secretary Clinton said, "[W]e believe strongly that, under South Africa's leadership, many of the issues that confront our world, and particularly Africa, will be much closer to being solved and resolved. We are a fellow democracies, fellow members of the G-20. We know we have to work together to build a global architecture of cooperation. Without that, many of the challenges that we face individually and together as inhabitants of this world will not be resolved."
Secretary Clinton continued, "We stand ready to support President Zuma as he seeks to deliver progress for the people of South Africa in the priority areas that have been established. And of course, President Obama has a special desire to work closely with President Zuma, to work closely with South Africa. We look forward to strengthening our partnership to confront the scourge of HIV/AIDS.... And as we look at many of the issues that we face – we talked about them all. We talked about working together to realize the vision of a free, democratic, prosperous Zimbabwe. We worked – talked about working together to resolve the north-south differences in Sudan. We commend the work that South Africa has done through the Southern African Development Community toward a peaceful resolution to the crisis in Madagascar. And we look forward to the South African-U.S. business council creating even more opportunities for trade and exporting."
Secretary Clinton concluded, "South Africa, on the international stage, is playing a more important role. And we want to work together on everything from climate change to nonproliferation. President Obama's historic declaration of a few months ago to move toward a world of zero nuclear weapons was actually inspired in many ways by what South Africa did voluntarily. And South Africa has been on the forefront of that movement. So there is a lot to be done. It is a formidable agenda that we face. But I know that the minister and I are interested in making sure that our two countries not only lead, but demonstrate the kind of cooperation that results in positive results for the people of the world."
Read the full transcript of the Secretary's press conference with South African Minister Nkoana-Mashabane.
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It is good to see this in an ever changing world. South Africa is leading the way in development internationally and a simple reading of the following will provide you with a summary of how far they have come from a victimized nation to imputing the international community.
It demonstrates their overall concern in development at all levels, from human to industrial.
Now, if only it can be expanded with security.
Sooner or later, Africa will emerge from a tribal, splintered and victimized nation and people as Nkoana-Mashabane laying down a path to development.


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The man accused in the fatal stabbing of a Waianae teacher Friday was diagnosed as a schizophrenic by a court-appointed psychologist a few months ago who also attacked fellow patients at Hawaii state hospital, according to court documents.
Tittleman Fauatea has a history of mental illness going back at least six years, records show. Recent psychiatric evaluations reveal more details about his mental problems.
On Friday, Fauatea bought a foot-long kitchen knife at the Longs store at an Ewa shopping center, walked off without his change and then repeatedly stabbed Waianae High School English teacher Asa Yamashita, according to court documents.
Fauatea was arrested in June on suspicion of harassing a woman at an apartment complex in Ewa Beach, court records show. He was arrested again in August on suspicion of trespassing at a 7-Eleven convenience store in Kaneohe.
Authorities transferred Fauatea to the state mental hospital for evaluation, where he told staff that "...he believed midgets were reading his mind."
"He also reported that the television talks to him," but state hospital staff said his responses to questions were often "incomprehensible," according to court records.
A psychiatric evaluation said he was arrested three times in Las Vegas, had three psychiatric hospitalizations in California and also underwent mental treatment at Kahi Mohala on Oahu before going to the state hospital last fall for at least two months.
While he lived with an adoptive sister in California in 2003, he called 911 several times, with the false report that she was lying dead in bed, records showed.
Psychologists said Fauatea was prone to make verbal and physical assaults on people, suffered from paranoia and hallucinations, and would show inappropriate sexual behavior, which included "staring at girls, asking young children at the Laundromat for their phone numbers and touching himself in public."
When a psychologist evaluated him in October, Fauatea denied he was mentally ill. He said he did not think medication was helpful for him. Fauatea said the only medicine he needed was Advil. The court-appointed psychologist found him "not fit to proceed" to trial, saying he suffered from schizophrenia.
The report said he showed "hypersexual behavior, which is primarily flirting inappropriately with most all of the female staff and patients on the ward."
The court report also says the 25-year-old graduated with a certificate from Moanalua High School in 2002 and has only held two jobs since then, both of which he lost because he would not follow supervisors' orders.
A second evaluation by the same psychologist in mid-November found Fauatea "probably fit to proceed" to trial, saying he posed a "moderate" risk to himself and others because of delusions and hallucinations. That report noted that he assaulted three fellow state hospital patients in separate attacks on Oct. 29, apparently because he was angry that the court didn't release him from custody.


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i have been thinking about weaning for a while now, and i think it's time.
only problem is, i don't know where to start. i go on a weekend trip (away from my son) in 3 weeks. it will be the first time i'll be away from him for more than 8 hours. PapaT will be at home with him, but i know it will be difficult b/c he nurses at night.
so that is another reason i would like to wean before the trip, to make their lives easier.
right now he nurses about twice a day and then night nurses. my supply has also gotten significantly lower in the past couple of weeks.
any suggestions on what i can do? should i wean before the trip or use that time to wean? i just don't want it to be so difficult on them when i'm away.
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text: So, I've been meaning to post this for a while. DD is 6.5 months now and we haven't needed the NS for a couple weeks now. I don't even use it at night. She just started playing with it so much while eating that it would fly off sometimes. Then a couple times she would pull it off and immediately latch and eat without it. I think I was more attached to it than her... I can't tell you how freeing it is to finally not have to use it. I don't have to constantly rinse it or have mini panic attacks in the car wondering if I've just left it at home. I don't think it was the worst thing in the world using it, but just wanted to give some hope to other moms that are trying to wean from it, that sometimes it just happens


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Past, Present, Future
South Pasadena celebrates 125 years with an eye toward tomorrow and a hold on its heritage
By Justin Chapman , Kevin Uhrich 02/28/2013
For as long as it's been a city, South Pasadena has rightly considered itself its own town, and not merely an extension of much larger Pasadena.
Of course, it had been just that to some degree in its early years, kind of like siblings inasmuch as the slightly younger city is contiguous to Pasadena, and it had taken in those families and others escaping the toxic hustle and bustle of its much larger neighbor to the north in the late 1880s and early 1890s.
Unlike Pasadena, however, South Pasadena, outside of some conveniences of modern life, has remained pretty much as it was since the early decades of the last century, its many tree-lined streets filled with stately homes fronted by lush, well-trimmed lawns projecting a small-town feel that people from other communities envy and TV and film production crews seek out in attempts to depict a largely bygone image of Any Town, USA.
And, unlike just about any other town in the US (except for, perhaps, Pasadena), South Pasadena has always been a distinctly unique and special place, one that served as home to socialites, diplomats, politicians, industrialists and other players on the world stage, including First Lady Lucretia Garfield, the widow of slain President James Garfield. Even President Teddy Roosevelt stopped by once while on his way back from the Panama Canal in order to pay a visit to Mrs. Garfield, staying at the luxurious but long-gone Raymond Hotel while here.
The quaint and quiet community, once inundated with orange groves, is no less attractive to modern-day celebrities, actors like Academy Award winner William Holden, Meredith Baxter (a South Pasadena native), and "Mad Men's" Alison Brie, among many, many others.
For these folks — and roughly 25,000 other men, women and children — living in such an idyllic place, where many homes are actually historical landmarks, streets in the commercial district are dotted with mom-pop-businesses, and the biggest employer is the local supermarket, preservation and self-protection are top priorities.
Perhaps because there is only one weekly newspaper in town, or because people living in sprawling Los Angeles to the south have their own problems to worry about, many people may not be aware that South Pasadena has been locked in a battle for its very existence, a struggle to stop construction of a long-planned connection between the Long Beach (710) and Foothill (210) freeways which would rip through town, destroying any semblance of the lovely little city people know today.
It is for these reasons that most folks who live here have united around what has become known as The Fight — a decades-long resistance to Caltrans' plans to connect the two freeways. For now, South Pasadena has won this David and Goliath battle, but The Fight is far from over. Instead of an overland route, the state is now considering building twin tunnels that would carry cars and mostly trucks to and from the two freeways, an idea that is being fiercely opposed by most citizens and community leaders.
As South Pasadena City Librarian Steve Fjeldsted explained to Pasadena Weekly reporter Justin Chapman, "South Pasadena is much more preservationist than just about any community in Southern California." Surrounded by LA and other communities that have lost their identities to urban sprawl, South Pasadena, Fjeldsted said, stands apart, as well as prepared to continue The Fight in order to maintain a coveted way of life well worth preserving.
Birth of a City
Self-protection lies at the heart of South Pasadena's very beginnings as a city
By Justin Chapman
Centuries before white settlers inhabited the southern portion of the San Gabriel Valley, the city we now call South Pasadena was home to members of the Hahamongna branch of the Tongva tribe of Native Americans.
Also known as Gabrielinos, tribe members built thatched dome structures along the banks of the seasonal Arroyo Seco. There they lived and worked the land and streams and traded with other Tongva tribe members who lived throughout modern-day Los Angeles. When South Pasadena incorporated in 1888, very few Native American people were allowed to own land.
"The Arroyo Seco was really the cradle of civilization for Indians that inhabited Pasadena and South Pasadena," said South Pasadena City Librarian Steve Fjeldsted. "It not only gave them their water, but was also part of their trade and travel routes. Of course, later it became one of the first routes between Pasadena and Los Angeles."
When Spanish explorers began colonizing the area in the 18th century, Indian culture was absorbed by the missionaries. California became a Mexican province when Mexico won independence from Spain. According to the definitive historical text by Jane Apostol, "South Pasadena: A Centennial History," very few Indians received shares of land "when the property once controlled by the missions was given away in huge land grants on which ranchos were established." Most of present-day Altadena, Pasadena, San Marino and South Pasadena formed the boundaries of Rancho San Pasqual.
What is now known as the Flores Adobe, the oldest house in South Pasadena, served as headquarters for Mexican Gen. José María Flores during the Mexican-American War in the 1840s. The adobe, which is still around today, is the place where Mexican commanders drew up their plan of surrender to the United States.
In the 1870s, members of the California Colony of Indiana began moving to the area and started purchasing property. San Gabriel Orange Grove Association members Calvin Fletcher and Benjamin Eaton were among those who invested in land at the southern end of the colony, south of Columbia Street.
"They started subletting it, more people came out, and South Pasadena has remained independent and small to this day," said Fjeldsted, "but that's part of its earliest beginnings."
According to Fjeldsted, it is a common misconception that South Pasadena split off from Pasadena's historic Indiana Colony to form its own city. In fact, residents of what used to be Rancho San Pasqual always thought of themselves as a separate entity from Pasadena, and petitioned for their own school district and post office a decade before incorporation.
"I think part of the misconception comes from its name, which makes it sound like it's the southern part of Pasadena or Pasadena junior. But despite the name, South Pasadena is its own community," said Fjeldsted.
One of the reasons residents of South Pasadena decided to incorporate was to keep Pasadena's seedy elements away from its borders. "There was a lot of wildness taking place in Pasadena: saloons, ladies of the night and other forms of wild behavior," said Fjeldsted. "In order to stop it, Pasadena incorporated and had its own ordinances forbidding those things, but then it all moved down to the other side of Columbia Street. The settlers here didn't want Pasadena's riff raff and bad behavior coming to South Pasadena, so it incorporated on March 2, 1888, and passed the same ordinance that Pasadena had passed. That just moved some of those things farther south to Los Angeles, but that's what solidified the entire community into being incorporated."
Self-protection, which continues to be a strong trait of the community to this day, was at the heart of South Pasadena's very beginnings as an official entity. Apostol noted that a leader of the temperance and anti-saloon movement of the day, Dr. Hiram Reid, said South Pasadenans had to incorporate in order to have "police control over their territory … and thus they were compelled by sheer necessity for self-protection to incur the expense and trouble of forming a city corporation."
Freeway Fighters
South Pasadena has come to be defined by 'The Fight' against the 710.
By Justin Chapman
At the turn of the last century, there were few other places that anyone would rather be than sunny Southern California. And one of the best, if not also one of the most exciting places to be was South Pasadena, home of a widowed first lady, Lucretia Garfield, and visited by diplomats, industrialists, even President Theodore Roosevelt, who stopped here once on his way back from Panama, staying at the luxurious Raymond Hotel.
While Fair Oaks Avenue and Fremont and Mission streets were still dirt roads, the Raymond dominated the landscape for miles in every direction and drew wealthy clientele from the East Coast.
"The Raymond Hotel actually attracted rich visitors to the sunny skies and warm climate of South Pasadena," said South Pasadena City Librarian Steve Fjeldsted. "It was a world class luxury hotel that attracted well-to-do tourists from back East for the most part and put South Pasadena on the map in the minds of lots of people. It burned down twice and, after the second time, it was never rebuilt. By that time, this area had grown up quite a bit and it had done its job to attract a lot of people and a lot of attention to this area."
Another major draw to the area in the early part of the last century was Edwin Cawston's world famous ostrich farm, which at the time was located right next to the Arroyo Seco. According to local historian Rick Thomas, ostrich feathers symbolized wealth and upper-class refinement and remained popular in America for nearly 50 years.
"It really was for the feathers and the fashion," said Thomas. "Cawston made a whole entertainment element to it. Eventually, it went out of business because women's fashion changed."
However, with economic growth came the need for increased mobility. With the area's population growing, and the advent of the automobile, South Pasadena quickly found itself sandwiched between the Long Beach (710) and Foothill (210) freeways, which the California Department of Transportation, Caltrans, has tried to connect for more than 50 years.
In 1949 the city of South Pasadena passed its first resolution against the proposed route, and by the 1950s Caltrans had begun the seizure of hundreds of homes in South Pasadena, Pasadena and El Sereno through eminent domain and hardship sales.
If any single thing has come to characterize South Pasadena over the past five decades, it has been the dogged resistance of this little city to the state, and ultimately winning … so far.
The struggle to stop the state from connecting the freeways, or, "The Fight," as Thomas calls it in his Images of America book, "South Pasadena," has been going on for more than five decades.
"In the '70s, it got shelved and nothing happened for about 10 years," said veteran freeway fighter Joanne Nuckols, who has served as chair of the city's Transportation Commission. "Then, all of a sudden, Caltrans decided to pull it off the shelf in the mid-'80s and everything started up again. That pretty much lit a fire under everybody that we really needed to look at this."
The cities of Los Angeles, La Cañada-Flintridge, Sierra Madre, Glendale and South Pasadena all have passed formal resolutions against the proposed route, but cities like San Marino and Alhambra continue to support Caltrans' proposal. Pasadena has expressed strong concerns about the project, but it has stopped short of formally opposing it because they believe their hands are tied by the voter approved Measure A. That proposition called for completing the extension between the two freeways. However, it did not specify how the extension should be completed.
"South Pasadena fiercely protects its small town environment," said Thomas. "Unfortunately, this town is so uniquely positioned to be the travel point from Los Angeles to the San Gabriel Valley, so it just gets in the way of transportation corridors. The whole city was considered endangered early on. We don't even need that designation anymore because we have so much clout."
While The Fight has been the source of much controversy over the years, it has also contributed to defining South Pasadena in other ways.
"The preservation movement and The Fight kept the small-town atmosphere," said former Mayor Harry Knapp, another longtime freeway opponent. "The freeway fight gave some uncertainty to developers, even now, and preserved that small town feel that we're really trying to keep."
Today, even with an overland connector route permanently off the table, The Fight continues, with city leaders now opposed to plans to connect the two freeways with two giant 4.5-mile-long tunnels.
'An island in the sea of madness'
South Pas strives to maintain its small-town feel as Caltrans pushes freeway tunnel option
By Justin Chapman
On Saturday, the city of South Pasadena will be celebrating its 125th anniversary with a litany of free events. The library will host authors Mary Ames Mitchell tonight and Jim Gallo and Dan Rice tomorrow night, accompanied by the local band Cottage Industry.
Then, from 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday, the city's actual birthday, a "Neighborhood Night on the Town," sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce, will feature open houses, art exhibits and live music throughout South Pasadena.
But while the city certainly has reason to celebrate, residents and community leaders are all too aware of the lingering threat that is the Long Beach (710) Freeway extension.
For one thing, the freeway problem has not gone away; it has just moved underground. Caltrans is now considering five alternative options to an overland connector route: build nothing, increase bus rapid transit lines, build light rail lines under Fair Oaks Avenue, improve traffic management, and build the tunnel.
Citizens are equally opposed to the tunnel connector plan as they were to the surface route, which Caltrans has said is off the table, though the agency still refuses to sell the homes it bought up through eminent domain as surplus properties.
"We think the tunnel is too harmful," said 710 opponent Joanne Nuckols, who served as chair of the city's Transportation Commission. "We don't like the no-build option either, because we think something needs to be done to resolve the stub ends of the freeways, which is something they do not have in any of the plans. We think the combination of the [bus rapid transit option], surface improvements and resolution of the stub ends of the freeways, and extension of the Gold Line as opposed to the rail line they're proposing, would do a long way to improve the traffic flow in the [freeway extension] corridor," Nuckols said.
"The combination of the non-tunnel alternatives would be a lot less expensive than the tunnel and, cost effectiveness-wise, would move a lot more people and solve a lot more of the transportation problems," Nuckols said.
Former Mayor Harry Knapp agrees that something needs to be done to improve traffic flow in the corridor.
"Let's say this whole freeway thing goes away. You still have to do something," Knapp said. "One of the major ways we proposed to improve traffic on Fair Oaks [Avenue] was to eliminate the two northbound lanes that turn left onto the 110 Freeway just before State Street, and instead extend the defunct exit ramp on the right. But Caltrans owns that ramp and doesn't want to pay for it. If Fair Oaks moved a little bit better, a lot of people would use Huntington [Drive] and go up Fair Oaks."
Other issues that face the city in the coming years include balancing preservation needs with economic growth.
"There's some growth desired, but we just want to keep the mom and pop stuff here and keep out the big box stores," said Knapp. "Downtown development is one concern. In the original plan, the Rialto Theater was going to be an anchor. But Landmark owns the building and they don't want to do anything with it, so it's kind of demolition by decay right now."
Preservation and self-protection will continue to play a big role in shaping the city for years to come, with strict laws on the books limiting the trimming and removal of trees, as well as a 45-foot height restriction for buildings.
"South Pasadena is much more preservationist than just about any community in Southern California," said City Librarian Steve Fjeldsted. "It's surrounded by much larger more populated communities, which have, in part, lost a lot of their identity with development and so forth. South Pasadena has been threatened by the 710 Freeway, and it's really galvanized the community. Pridefully and stubbornly so, South Pasadena has strived to retain its own identity because it's like an island in the sea of madness."
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Great article about an heroic city! As the city of South Pasadena celebrates its 125th anniversary, let us praise the stalwart citizens who singlehandedly defended their city from the 710 freeway. They are an example to the rest of us: eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.


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Clearly, any form of car drama really gets me mad. Don't hit me please.
One of my favorite scenes from the newest episode(s).
Dag, you nonchalantly got crushed by a car and you're fine?
Im awake again, 4 hours of sleep sounds like enough for now.
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More intense rainfall events may lead to greater flooding in some regions. Global warming is
expected to accelerate the hydrological cycle and thus raise the percentage of precipitation that
falls in violent bursts. In addition to floods, this could contribute to more landslides, avalanches,
and soil erosion. Greater flood runoff could decrease the amount of surface water captured for
irrigation and other purposes, although it could help to recharge some floodplain aquifers.
The intensity of tropical cyclones is likely to worsen over some areas. The risks include
direct threats to human life, epidemics and other health risks, damage to infrastructure and
buildings, coastal erosion, and destruction of ecosystems such as coral reefs and mangroves.
Major climate patterns could shift. Although centered in the Southern Pacific, the El
Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon affects the weather and climate in much of the tropics.
Climate change could intensify the droughts and floods that are associated with El Niño events
in these regions. Similarly, new patterns could emerge for the Asian summer monsoon, which affects
large areas of temperate and tropical Asia. Likely impacts would include a greater annual variability
in the monsoon's precipitation levels, leading to more intense floods and droughts.
It is difficult to predict local and regional trends for extreme events. For example, a
warming of the tropical oceans would by itself be expected to increase the frequency, and perhaps the
severity, of tropical cyclones. But other factors, such as changing winds or storm tracks, might
offset this effect at the local level. Another example: because climate models are poor at
representing small-scale events, they tend to disagree on whether or not the intensity of
mid-latitude storms will change.
While extreme events are inherently abrupt and random, the risks they pose can be reduced.
Improved preparedness planning is urgently needed in many parts of the world, with or without climate
change. Better information, stronger institutions, and new technologies can minimize human and
material losses. For example, new buildings can be designed and located in ways that minimize damage
from floods and tropical cyclones, while sophisticated irrigation techniques can protect farmers and
their crops from droughts.
Climate change also has the potential to cause large-scale singular events. Unlike most
extreme events, singular events would have broad regional or global implications and be essentially
irreversible. Examples of such calamities would include a significant slowing of the ocean's
transport of warm water to the North Atlantic (which is responsible for Europe's relatively
benign climate), a major shrinking of the Greenland or West Antarctic ice sheets (which would raise
sea levels by three metres each over the next 1,000 years), and an accelerated warming due to carbon
cycle feedbacks in the terrestrial biosphere, the release of carbon from melting permafrost, or the
emission of methane from coastal sediments. Such risks have not yet been reliably quantified, but
fortunately they are expected to be quite low.
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Prof. Yvette Christiansë co-teaching Africana studies course with colleague in South Africa.
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The education of new psychoanalysts and psychotherapists is the central mission of the Center. There is no goal to which more time, attention, creativity, and hard work is devoted than the continuous development and improvement of these educational programs.
The faculty for both psychoanalytic and psychodynamic psychotherapy programs include many of the leading psychoanalytic scholars in the country. Widely-emulated curricula are deeply rooted in the intellectual history of psychoanalysis, but are, at the same time, modern and multifaceted, emphasizing the comparative study and critical thinking. The Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research is a graduate program of Columbia University in which theories and practices are explored, examined, challenged, and refined through careful scholarship and lively intellectual debate.
If having explored the world of psychoanalysis through introductory offerings like Why Psychoanalysis, Fellowship, or Externship, you feel ready to begin formal training in psychoanalytic or psychotherapeutic theory and technique, hope you will find a program here that suits your educational needs while respecting your work schedule and your other life commitments.


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Big news for Vidyo, Inc. today in the academic world! Vidyo has partnered with Internet2, a member-owned advanced technology community founded by the nation's leading higher education institutions, to create and provide a low-cost, subscription-based video communications service for all Internet2 university members and thousands of public K-12 schools in the United States. After a thorough trial run of the Vidyo-based solution at Arizona State, Emory and Northwestern Universities, the Vidyo NET+ Service is expected to be available for early adopter enrollments this May. Arizona State University was extremely influential making this happen; in fact, they sponsored Vidyo as a NET+ Service, based on the great experience they've had using Vidyo at ASU for the past several years. Accordingly, we could think of no one more appropriate to share their first-hand experience with Vidyo. The following is an account from Guy Mullins, ASU's Director of New Media, Academic Technologies:
When we first introduced the use of Vidyo at ASU, it was for one particular purpose: a class at the School of Life Sciences in which our students in Tempe, Arizona communicated and collaborated with leading research scientists and experts from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's facilities on Barro Colorado Island, in the middle of the Panama Canal. We needed a video communications solution that would allow students and faculty at ASU to connect easily and interact seamlessly with the Smithsonian experts in these remote tropical areas. It was no small feat … but Vidyo well surpassed any of our expectations and news of this exceptional communications tool spread rapidly. Mainly through 'word of mouth,' we soon had others in our academic community requesting Vidyo and downloading the application.
To date, we've seen well over two thousand downloads of the Vidyo client application across our community. In terms of demand, we are about double the number of monthly client downloads over this same time last year.
With this in mind, we have started to look a bit more closely at who among our community are using Vidyo.
Based on our early analysis of our usage data mapped against our general user directories, it appears that Vidyo is still primarily a tool of the technical minded staff at ASU. I anticipate that the next wave of adoption will come from faculty and researchers. Opening up this technology to a much broader range of users through simple-to-use and inexpensive Vidyo desktop tools, we're finding many more rich, interesting, and innovative uses for video communications across our entire university and beyond.
We're seeing scientists from a wide range of disciplines collaborate on research with their colleagues from around the world; we have expert guest lecturers being introduced remotely into our classrooms; field reports being filed by our broadcast journalism students; collaborations in the arts, theater, and more. It is inspiring to see how a new technology can really have an impact in improving our teaching, learning, and research capabilities. Given the strong growth patterns of Vidyo usage , we believe we are only at the beginning of what is yet to come in terms of videoconferencing in the academic community. This global thinking has ironically also spawned some new ideas at home that we hope to explore soon; we've realized that our campus is large enough and diverse enough that we actually have numerous "field trip" opportunities we can engage in across campus – or even just down the hall – in which Vidyo can be utilized to bring hundreds of students into lab spaces, studios, research environments, and more. We look forward to some of these "inside the box" approaches to deploying Vidyo to enhance our teaching and learning activities.
We are now averaging more than eleven hundred calls per month (1114 calls per month as of March 2013 – see above chart) either person-to-person or in collaborative group meetings. That is far more than we were seeing just a short time ago, and arguably a ten–fold increase over any previous videoconferencing technology we've deployed in the past. Again though, looking at our current rate of growth for Vidyo usage and adoption, I'm confident that in another year the numbers we're seeing today will be relatively quaint by comparison. The future of videoconferencing with Vidyo looks bright at ASU.
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Guy Mullins, Director of New Media at ASU's University Technology Office, has over 25 years of experience in higher education media production. A focus on documentary and research production combined with networking and social media collaboration, Guy's work blends both traditional and emerging approaches to educational media applications. Guy has a B.A. from the University of Arizona, where his studies focused on Radio & Television; minor studies include Fine Arts and Business, and a M.Ed., Arizona State University, with an emphasis in Educational Media & Computers.


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Plaquemines Parish Council Chairman Kirk Lepine announced his candidacy for parish president last week, kicking off his campaign tonight at Bayou Barriere Country Club at an event open to the publi
At our May board meeting, Plaquemines Medical Center recognized and celebrated our employees who have been with us for 10+ years.
Several members were noted for their outstanding service throughout the Rotary year with the highest honor going to Clerk Of Court, Kim Turlich-Vaughan, being awarded the "Rotarian of the Year" awa
The Plaquemines Parish School Board honors educators who retired at the end of the 2015-2016 school year.
Thanks to the Boothville-Venice Elementary School PTO for working hard all year so that the students could end the year with the biggest Principal's Party of them all with five waterslides, hotdogs
Belle Chasse Academy's Girls on the Run students recently participated in the final 5K of the 2015-2016 school year.
Made possible through a partnership between Girl Scouts Louisiana East, the YMCA of Greater New Orleans, and the Belle Chasse YMCA, about 40 Girl Scouts camped out overnight by the track behind the
The demolition phase on the old Pointe-a-la-Hache Courthouse nears completion, leaving little more than the tower intact.
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Plaquemines Parish Sheriff Jerry Turlich presents a check for $1,660 to Julie Olsen, executive director of Plaquemines Community C.A.R.E. Centers, Nov. 30 at the PPSO building.
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The Modern Warfare 2: Stimulus Pack is upon us, available exclusive to Xbox 360 owners for the next 30 days, but that shouldn't stop PC and PS3 owners from watching from the sidelines at home. Friend of G4, Matt Pascual, took the maps to task with this comparison video looking at how the "Crash" map is depicted in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 versus how it exists in the original Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. You'll notice that it's still a very faithful rendition of the classic map. Of course, throw familiarity out the window once someone calls in the AC-130. See for yourself here:
UPDATE: The brightness was higher on the original video, so we've since recaptured the video below. Our intention was to walk through the attention to detail of the new maps, so we apologize if the original video misrepresented that. This should set the record straight:
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Twin Valley Senior Center moving, with help
EAST MONTPELIER Theres excitement among members of the Twin Valley Senior Center, which is moving from its existing cramped quarters to a new building on Route 2.
The move has generated a great deal of support, including a $14,000 grant and volunteer labor coming soon from the Home Depot in Williston.
Rita Copeland, executive director of the senior center, said the move from the Old Schoolhouse Common in Marshfield is taking place now and into next week. The center serves seniors from six communities: Cabot, Calais, East Montpelier, Marshfield, Plainfield and Woodbury.
The donation from the Home Depot has given the center a big boost for its kitchen plans, and volunteers are due to help with the kitchen installation Monday and Tuesday, said Copeland. Crews from the Williston store are due to be on hand for two days to get the job done, she added.
Also, the stores crew will help paint and ready the new 2,000-square-foot meal and activity center, which the senior center hopes to be fully in by May 14.
The center is the recent recipient of a $10,000 grant from the Woodbury Fund, said Copeland, which also will go toward getting the new senior center off the ground. She said local donors, including residents from the towns served by Twin Valley, have contributed to making the long-held dream of a new senior center possible.
A grand opening and thank you celebration will be planned at a later date.
Without Home Depot, our new facility would not have been possible, Copeland said. Seniors in our communities depend on our luncheons, activities, transportation, exercise programs, health clinics and Meals On Wheels. ... Our new location at Blueberry Hill Commons allows our Twin Valley Seniors organization to meet the increasing demand for nutrition, health and social services to our communities.
The center offers meals, exercise classes, programs, foot and blood pressure clinics, tax assistance and health education. Seniors play cards and enjoy music, movies and other entertainment.
The assistance that has come to the center through its fundraising for the move will also help it increase and support its Meals on Wheels program, Copeland said. Meals are prepared, packaged and delivered to the homebound residents regardless of ability to donate financially, she said. Delivery is performed by volunteers and staff who check in on the residents they deliver to and encourage them to come to the center, she said.
A fundraising dinner is being hosted at the new center May 25 from 4 to 6 p.m. featuring chicken divan, rice, salad and dessert for $10. Call Susan at 223-6954 to reserve a spot.
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Greetings earthlings!
We're currently located in Los Angeles, California in the heart of Hollywood. Sunset blvd, 34° N, 118°W, in a building at The Crossroads of The World and we have finally begun recording our second full-length album with producer Shaun Lopez (Deftones, Far, Crosses). Also on board is Executive Producer Andrew Dawson (Kayne West, Lil Wayne). We always feel at home and the most inspired in LA, so inevitably we were drawn back here to find the perfect place with the right vibes to create this record. So here we are in an old set of cottage style bungalows, with the 1930's still lingering around in the air. It's insanely perfect for us. This past year we have been hugely influenced by retro-futurism, vintage outer space, and oddball classic movie soundtracks.
|March 12, 2012
Buzzine sat down with Nate, Jack and Andrew of Fun. on the release day of Some Nights. Click above and watch the video to see the band answer questions about the making of the band Fun. and the making of Some Nights. Click HERE to read the full interview!
|March 11, 2012
Congratulations to Greg F. of Grand Rapids, Michigan for choosing the name for the new Fun. t-shirt. The 'Some Guys' t-shirt is available now in The Fueled By Ramen Webstore - click HERE to order it now!
|March 10, 2012
Jonathan Diener from The Swellers sat down and answered some questions from street teamers and fans. Here is Part 1:
Does anyone in the band have any pre or post show rituals?
We all have our own set of rules and rituals, but I think the most important law we abide by is NO EATING AN HOUR BEFORE WE PLAY. I've had some bad instances with a foot long sub a few years ago… We all make sure to stretch at least 20 minutes before we go on to prevent injury and soreness the next day. A lot of people think they're invincible, but when you're on tour your body acts like an 80 year old man. You smell and you hurt everywhere all the time haha!
What are you currently listening to on your iPod?
Right now the number one album I can't stop listening to is Nada Surf's 'The Stars Are Indifferent To
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|March 09, 2012
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4.02 Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theater (tickets)
4.04 Kansas City, MO @ Beaumont Club (tickets)
4.05 Kearney, NE @ University of Nebraska
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The Enemy of the Enemy of my Friend?
Sunday afternoon I had my first opportunity to hit the ballpark, soak up some rays, drink a few beers and enjoy watching the Nats as they entertained the visiting Cubs. However, as they say, sometimes the best laid plans of mice and men…..
Turns out that after a week of ridiculous heat and asthma inducing humidity, the weather gods decided to turn things on their head a little bit and go more for the mid-50's with mist sort of atmosphere. And I'm not going to lie. When you're sitting in the upper upper deck, way out in left field and that wind starts to blow off the Potomac, it ain't pretty. And it wasn't. But, I'm a trooper so I got decked out in my Sunday finest and headed for Nationals Park.
What can I say? It's a new-fangled ballpark. They serve mixed drinks, they have Ben's Chili Bowl and the seats aren't too nasty yet. The game was a close-fought contest and the Nats prevailed. There were a couple of spectacular plays by Reed Johnson of the Cubs in centerfield and Ryan Zimmerman of the Nats at third.
But in the end, although I love visiting new parks, there's really only one place that I consider home when it comes to watching baseball: Comerica Park. And yes, I know it's new and I know it replaced Tiger's Stadium which was a classic old ballpark. But you know what? When it comes to the Tigers, I don't think they can do any wrong. This is a team that made me accept Gary Sheffield as one of our own despite the fact that I still picture him in Yankee pinstripes. And I just don't have anything close to that affinity for either the Cubs or the Nats. The closest thing I could come up with is that the enemy of the enemy of my friend is my friend. But, that's a pretty tenuous connection.
So, as it stands, I'm just going to have to sit tight and enjoy baseball as I can. But don't worry. The Tigers come to Baltimore in July and I haven't been to Camden Yards yet. The Olde English "D" will be flying free in the Chesapeake Bay breezes. Of that you can be sure.
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Comerica is an awful ballpark in my opinion. Having grown accustomed to those ballgame road trips to Tiger Stadium in my college days, where you were afraid to touch anything because of all of the communicable diseases and archaic horse trough urinals, going to Comerica is like going to an amusement park. And I really dislike scoreboards that are oddly placed, like the giant one in left field. Between the neck strain, obstructed vision from the left field side and the rabble rousing inherent with the ferris wheels and roller coasters, I'd rather watch a game in a crummy dirt pile. Would it have been so difficult to put the giant scoreboard in centerfield where EVERYONE could see it?
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205 Interpersonal Communication (3-0-3). Designed to increase the student's understanding and implementation of effective interpersonal (dyadic) communication behaviors and skills. Examines basic verbal and nonverbal elements affecting communication between individuals in family, peer group, and work contexts. Acquaints students with theoretical underpinnings of intercultural communication.
208 Fundamentals of Speech (3-0-3). Develops proficiency in oral communications through the learning of basic forms, uses, and techniques of public speaking. Emphasis is on practical aspects of speech writing, listening, and oral presentations. PR: A grade of "C" or better in English 101.
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310 Oral Interpretation (3-0-3). Performance as a method of inquiry into the study of literary works. Students will learn basic performance skills, become familiar with the language of literary analysis and explore the literary genres of prose, poetry, and dramatic literature. PR: SPCH 208 and ENGL 102.
325 Advanced Public Speaking (3-0-3). Builds upon foundational material from Fundamentals of Speech (Speech 208). An in-depth examination and application of careful, articulate, audience-focused public communication in a variety of contexts. Designed to develop and sharpen public speaking sk8ills through presentation, observation, and analysis. Careful research, organization, audience analysis, critical thinking, and effective delivery will be emphasized throughout the course. Prepares students to enter the public dialogue from an ethical and theoretically grounded base. PR: SPCH 208.
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Authorizers Select for Quality
In the design of everything from the application timeline to the review criteria, all of the authorizers profiled here use their application processes to select high-quality schools to authorize. The application requirements encourage applicants to provide meaningful information about areas of school management that these authorizers have learned are the best indicators of success, including a description of a compelling mission and well-researched educational program, a solid business plan, and well-thought-out governance and management structures. The process also usually requires applicants to provide strong evidence of the community's support for the proposed school. Over the years, these authorizers also have developed review processes that provide reviewers with ample time and a variety of opportunities to get to know the applicants in order to reliably assess their capacity to create and sustain a successful charter school.
Employ a variety of evaluation methods to assess applicants' capacity
Early on in the charter movement, many authorizers relied on only one written application to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of a potential charter operator. More recently, all of these offices have begun to employ a variety of evaluation methods to assess an applicant's capacity, including a multistage application process, in-person meetings to offer feedback on the application, review by internal and external review teams, and formal interviews. (Table 2 provides a few examples of the main stages in the charter application process used by different authorizers.)
Figure 3. VOA and MN Charter School Sponsorship Program Selection Criteria
The Volunteers of America of Minnesota Charter School Hallmarks
Small schools - Research shows that students are more successful in small school environments. Students receive more attention and are able to farm strong relationships with their teachers in small schools. Their size allows teachers to work closely with parents and students to develop individualized learning plans that address the learning style of the student, resulting in a more beneficial learning experience for all involved.
A focus on marginalized students - VOA of MN is committed to working with children and families in need. Currently, many students are not served well by the traditional public school system. Some of these students fit the traditional "at-risk" profile, but many others have been pushed to the margins for reasons such as unique leal11ing styles, lack of social skills and nonconformity. VOA of MN assists in the creation of schools that will help all students succeed.
A focus on service learning - Service learning is an educational strategy where students gain and apply academic knowledge and critical thinking skills to address genuine community needs. It is a powerful and authentic method of learning that gives students opportunities to reflect on their place in the world. As our name suggests, VOA of MN believes that all persons are assets for their community, and seek to extend to all youth the opportunity to contribute as a volunteer and community-creator.
Schools that fill a void in the community - VOA of MN is committed to assisting in the development of educational opportunities that do not currently exist in the community. In addition to being innovative, schools seeking VOA of MN sponsorship should have curriculum design that is research-based, supported by best practices and aligned with the Minnesota Graduation Standards.
A commitment to racial, ethnic and socio-economic diversity - To counter the trend toward increasing segregation in our schools and our society, VOA of MN strongly believes in the importance of diverse learning environments. A diverse student body and staff enrich the educational experience by exposing students to new perspectives and causing them to examine their own perspectives and experiences.
Table 2. Examples of Different Application Processes
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|Indianapolis Mayor's Office
|Letter of intent, including general location, grades served, anticipated enrollment
|Prospectus, including summary of school mission, leadership team, prospective students, curricular approach
|Final application, including interviews by internal staff and review by external contractors and a charter schools board
|New York City Office of Charter Schools
|Intent to apply, including general location, grades served, anticipated enrollment
|Intent to apply, including general location, grades served, anticipated enrollment
|Concept paper, including vision for the school and capacity of the planning team
|Panel interview by charter schools staff
|Final application, including proposed leadership, curricular model, start-up and five-year operating budgets
|Central Michigan University Charter Schools Office
|Initial application, including vision, business plan and proposed curriculum
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In Indianapolis, the mayor's office has a multistep rolling application process (see fig. 4). The applicant's letter of intent starts the process and gives the authorizing staff a sense of how many applications to expect in a given time period. Though not required by law, the mayor's office then requires a prospectus to extend the time for the authorizing staff to get to know applicants and offer feedback to help them improve on their proposals.
The application requires a description of the proposed education model, but according to the mayor's former charter schools director David Harris, "It's not about the model. It's about the people." In retrospect, he cites as an example one of the mayor's newly authorized schools that contracted with a well-respected construction company for the school's facility. The company made a six-figure mistake regarding the cost. The chair of the school's board was a sophisticated and high-profile business person who had access to the resources to solve the problem. "We couldn't have anticipated that problem; they couldn't have anticipated that problem," says Harris. "But they had people who had the ability to do the work and a board that could support them in overcoming unforeseen obstacles."
After the mayor's authorizing staff has reviewed an application, it then presents its findings to the Charter Schools Board-a group of community leaders with experience in education, business, and law. The board invites selected applicants to submit a full application, which is examined by a team of external reviewers and the Charter Schools Board. These groups expand the authorizing staff's perspective and offer additional expertise to assist the mayor in making his final chartering decisions.
Figure 4. Indianapolis Mayor's Office Application Steps
Step 1:
Applicant is identified as a new design applicant or an existing design applicant.
Step 2:
Some applicants asked to reapply.
Step 3, 4:
Step 5:
Selected applicant submits Full Application
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Step 9:
Mayor notifies applicant of determination
City-County Council ratifies
Charter documentation finalized
The Office of Charter Schools in New York City (NYC) follows a similar multiphase application process. Reviewers there have learned to look in each stage for proposals that take advantage of the unique features of charter schools while showing tangible ties to the community and a plan for effective oversight. Jim Goenner, executive director of the Charter Schools office at Central Michigan university (CMU), describes this type of multiphase application process as "both an art and a science." Staff members at CMU follow the "science" as they evaluate the school's financial viability and proposed education plan. Much of the "art" takes place during the second phase, when successful applicants are invited to meet with CMU staff members to discuss and refine their applications.
Require strong evidence of community support
Across all sites, one of the most important determining factors of a school's success is its ties to the local community. Some schools are started by a community-based nonprofit and, as such, they have a built-in understanding of the unique needs of a particular community as well as an established reputation within that community. Other schools are started by the operators of national school models who may have to invest considerable time and energy in learning about the community and in building support for their school among local residents.
Regardless of the school's founder or its mission, these authorizers have learned that schools are most likely to attract students, successfully serve their learning needs, and draw upon local resources if they have strong community support. Whether they require school operators to engage in a formal partnership with a community organization or simply ask for letters of support from community representatives, each of these offices uses its application process to ensure that schools are in touch with the communities they intend to serve.
Building community support has become a major focus of the Renaissance 2010 initiative in Chicago Public Schools (CPS). Because there is opposition to the initiative from the local teacher's union and some community groups concerned about the district's decision to close several low-performing and under-enrolled schools, staff members in the Office of New Schools have invested considerably in a strategy to build neighborhood support for the new schools. Internally, the Office of New Schools has created two staff positions dedicated to community relations. These staff members analyze school data and produce press briefings and other materials that highlight the performance gains made by CPS schools.
Chicago's efforts go beyond public relations, however, to forge deep community involvement in the new schools process. The Office of New Schools sets up Transition Advisory Councils (TACs) in communities that have new charter schools opening in recently closed non-charter school buildings. (See fig. 5 for a flyer used to recruit TAC members.) Each TAC includes 10-12 members of the community who go through an application process and are then selected by staff members from the office of new Schools to represent their neighborhood. TAC members meet regularly and have several responsibilities including: 1) developing a list of guidelines about what type of school they would like in the neighborhood, 2) conducting outreach activities to deliver information to community members about how new school operators will be selected, 3) hosting public forums to collect information about community concerns and deliver information about the school selection process, and 4) recruiting individuals from within the community to operate new schools. In addition, one TAC member participates in the district's process of selecting the new school's operator.
Figure 5. Flyer to Recruit Members for Chicago Transition Advisory Councils
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The Renaissance 2010 initiative seeks to create 100 high-quality schools in designated communities of need by 2010. These schools will be held accountable for performance through 5-year contracts while being given autonomy to create innovative environments using 1 of 3 governance structures: charter, contract, or performance. With 38 high quality schools created in the first two rounds, Renaissance 2010 is right on track.
What are Transition Advisory Councils (TACs)?
Transition Advisory Councils serve as liaisons between Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and communities to ensure new schools offer high quality educational options that reflect the community's needs and interests.
What is the role of TACs
Meet regularly to discuss and determine the community needs in the new school Conduct community outreach activities and collect citizen input Network and host public forums with community leaders, groups and organizations Make recommendations to CPS about the new school proposals
Who is on a TAC?
The Office of New Schools is seeking TACs for the following school buildings:
Download an application: www.ren2010.cps.k12il.us
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Past concerns of TAC members have included whether a school would take students from the immediate neighborhood and whether a school would train students to work in neighborhood industries. In both cases, district officials addressed these concerns by including questions about them in the application review process. TAC members also have gone on "learning trips" to see successful schools both in Chicago and around the country. At this point, the TAC program is still relatively new, so it is too early to determine if TACs will influence the level of community support for the new schools. But many TAC participants report that they appreciate being involved in the selection process.
When asked to list the top three factors that will determine a school's success, the staff in the mayor's office in Indianapolis reply, "People, people, people." The mayor's charter application requires evidence of parental demand to ensure that the school will fulfill its enrollment projections, as well as several letters of support for the school. Most importantly, however, as part of the review process the staff carefully evaluates the founding group's capacity to access community resources and garner support from the community. Most applicants demonstrate this capacity by partnering with a local business or community organization. Fairbanks Hospital in Indianapolis, for example, partnered with a charter board to operate a school that serves students who are recovering from alcoholism or drug addiction. The Indiana Black Expo, a nonprofit dedicated to showcasing the achievements of African-Americans, led the application for the Andrew J. Brown Academy, a school in eastern Indianapolis; and students at Christel House, a charter school supported by local philanthropist Christel DeHaan, benefit from her local ties as well as her experience managing children's homes and schools around the world. These types of partnerships help ensure that schools authorized by the mayor's office have an authentic connection to the communities they serve, even if the original impetus for the school did not come from that community.
Across all of these authorizers, applicants' demonstrated capacity to draw upon resources in the local community is an important part of the selection process. The NYC Office of Charter Schools requires evidence of an applicant's partnerships with students, parents, and community organizations as collaborators and stakeholders, as well as three letters of support from representatives of the community that the school intends to serve. In California, applicants that come to the State Board of Education (SBE) for approval of their charter through the appeals process must appear before the Advisory Commission on Charter Schools (ACCS), an advisory body composed of representatives of charter school operators and administrators, teachers, school district and county-level education officials, parents and other community members. The ACCS conducts public hearings that provide an opportunity to explore each school's petition in depth. The charter division uses these hearings as an informal method to gauge community support and the applicant's capacity. If stakeholders are absent from a school's hearing, the ACCS views this absence as a red flag indicating that the school may not have the necessary support within the community to be successful.
Engage in responsible risk-taking with regard to innovative school programs
According to a recent study by Andy Smarick of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools,9 80 percent of the charter school laws that include a preamble or purposes sections mention "encouraging classroom innovation" as one of the purposes of the law. This purpose presents a dilemma for many charter school authorizers who feel pressure to adopt proven models in order to meet the pressing needs of underachieving students but who also want to encourage innovation in the hopes that new ideas in break-the-mold schools will prove successful as well. All of the offices agree that one way to balance the risk involved in authorizing an innovative program is to carefully evaluate the applicant's capacity to implement its plan during the application process.
Justin Testerman, the director of the Charter School Sponsorship Program at VOA of MN, likes to use a venture capital analogy to describe VOA of MN's approach to authorizing schools. According to Testerman, applicants generally fall into one of three categories. First, there are "whole school models," like Success for All or Core Knowledge Schools, that have a research base to support their approach to improving student achievement. These models require schools to adopt a schoolwide curricular and instructional approach, and in some cases a governance approach, that has been developed elsewhere. Second, there are applicants that base their proposals on best practices. While the entire school program may not have been tried before, there is some evidence, perhaps anecdotal, that these practices have been successful elsewhere with a similar group of students. Finally, there are applicants that submit proposals to try education approaches that have never been done before. As Testerman looks across the 12 schools that VOA of MN has authorized, he notes that there are a few schools that fall into all three of these categories.
According to Testerman, "Trying new things is part of what charter schools are about." EdVisions Off Campus High School is an example of a school that VOA of MN decided to authorize despite the risk entailed in the school's featuring an approach that had not been tried before: project-based learning that is facilitated online. When asked how VOA of MN makes the judgment call to authorize such a higher risk approach, Testerman says it comes down to the people. The VOA of MN staff members ask themselves, "do we trust these people? do they have the right capacity?" In the case of EdVisions Off Campus High School, "We had worked closely with EdVisions in the past and knew them to be capable and talented innovators. We also knew the organization was not going to let that school fail and would back it up with their own money if necessary, so we were willing to take a chance on this school."
In Massachusetts, opening innovative schools is a high priority despite ongoing pressure from education officials of the Massachusetts Department of Education who would like the state to offer charters only to conventional, proven school models. A very contentious and difficult school closing in 2005, and the negative publicity it generated,10 could have caused the Massachusetts Charter School Office not to take risks on innovation, and yet that has not happened. According to Jeff Wulfson, the Massachusetts Department of Education Associate Commissioner for School Finance and District Support, who oversees the charter office, "If we can't stick our necks out, we shouldn't be in the charter business."
In continuing to reward charters to innovative models, the Massachusetts office has remained true to both the spirit and the letter of the state's charter law, which reads:
The purposes for establishing charter schools are: to stimulate the development of innovative programs within public education; to provide opportunities for innovative learning and assessments . . . and to provide teachers with a vehicle for establishing schools with alternative, innovative methods of educational instruction and school structure and management.11
Given this mandate, it is not surprising that the state's 57 charter schools represent a broad spectrum of education approaches. There are urban, suburban, rural, arts-focused, college prep, and Montessori schools. In 2006, the state granted a charter to the Fall River Maritime Public Charter School, a fifth through eighth grade program that will be operated under a unique governance model in which teachers own the school. The school will be small (founders project an eventual enrollment of 80), projectbased, and focused on marine science.
Because the New York charter school law has a different emphasis, the SUNY Institute's application process is not as focused on innovation as some of the other authorizers. According to the new York charter law, charter schools are intended primarily to increase learning opportunities for students who are at risk of academic failure. With this goal in mind, the SUNY Institute generally seeks out applicants that have a track record of success with schools serving low-income families or applicants that propose a model that has been successful with inner-city students. From the SUNY Institute's perspective, it is too great a risk-and outside the bounds of the law-to approve innovative charter schools for innovation's sake. When faced with a proposal for a school model that has not been tried before in New York, the SUNY Institute staff press the applicant to explain how its model will work with students who are at risk for academic failure. While the SUNY Institute welcomes new approaches, the office has little tolerance for applicants who come without a clear understanding of the proposed education model. According to Jennifer Sneed, Senior Vice President of the SUNY Charter Schools Institute:
They can't know everything, but do they understand what they don't understand? Have they gone to visit other schools that are using this model? Have they researched where this model has been tried before with similar types of students? The lay of the land has changed so much. Even five years ago, you couldn't go out to a charter school [in New York] and talk to the founders and teachers and board members. You couldn't even see a completed application. Now you can see these things; you can investigate their success.


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Despite the heavy snow, Iowa's major airports are still open.
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