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The most important partnership for sustaining a successful magnet school is that with its host district. This means that, in the planning phase, school developers benefit from creating a clear and indispensable role for the magnet school to help meet identified district needs. Sustainability in this context involves the need for a magnet school to develop without compromising the other schools in the system, now and in the future. As Hamilton County's director of urban education puts it, "The district can't have just a few good magnet schools while the rest of the schools are going to pot." Thus, part of the definition of a successful magnet school is that it contributes to the district's growth—it serves as an incubator of best practices that can be used elsewhere in the district, it is a leader in school reform, and it is part of a portfolio of school choice.
For fiscal sustainability, a district needs a vision and strategic plan in which its magnet school program plays an integral role in school improvement and general enrollment management. Without a district commitment to continued funding after an MSAP grant has expired, it is difficult for magnet schools and district offices to retain the key personnel needed for magnet schools' continued success. All profiled schools, except for FAIR, have either received MSAP start-up funding or else reside in a district that has used this funding to develop new magnet programs and solidify district infrastructure, including on-site magnet coordinator positions and central office support for enrollment and marketing. A successful pioneer school can prompt the growth of a district magnet program. By serving as an example of a successful district school, that first school demonstrates district capacity to operate effective schools, thus enabling district staff to take advantage of available federal or state funding; reciprocally, an individual magnet school can be the beneficiary of district-level efforts to secure such grants.
Magnet school educators can serve as innovators who bring about change throughout the district. River Glen is a "school that we use to train other two-way programs," says founding principal Rosa Molina, explaining the frequent visitors who come from all over the district and state. In its 20-plus years of existence, River Glen has evolved into a national model and groundbreaking school reform leader within San Jose Unified School District (see fig. 9 on p. 43). Former River Glen staff now hold key central office positions to support school reform efforts on a more systemic level. For example, in 2005, former principal Cecelia Barrie was asked to lead a new two-way immersion program in another district school.
Each of the sites featured in this guide disseminate their practices to other elementary and middle schools in support of district goals. Combs, for example, has been a leader in district- level professional development and has volunteered to pilot new district programs, like a positive behavior management initiative. The school's improvement plan closely mirrors the goals of the district and the superintendent's Strategic Directives, which cover school management with a focus on recruiting and training high-quality staff. Combs' extensive curriculum and orientation binders have been used as exemplary models throughout Wake County schools for inducting new staff. In the Aldine District, magnet schools are part of a systemwide peer review process: Teams of school staff visit each other and conduct extensive performance-based reviews. The process also serves as a way to share best practices.
As an interdistrict consortium, West Metro Education Program brings together suburban and urban systems under the common goal of eliminating the achievement gap, using FAIR as an exemplar for success. Known locally as "the best game in town" for professional development, the consortium serves as a valuable resource for teachers seeking to build cultural competence and learn strategies to close the achievement gap. It offers three pathways for professional development: Courses given through the Cultural Collaborative, which offers professional development in best practices for meeting the needs of a diverse student population and promoting cultural understanding; the formation of Equity Teams, developed in partnership with the Pacific Educational Group to help such schools as FAIR address systemic issues of equity; and workshops and coaching through the National Urban Alliance of Effective Education. The collaborative serves as a powerful regional network for educators committed to equity. It supports FAIR staff while also connecting them to teachers from other schools. In this relationship, FAIR gets highlighted as a model demonstration school whose influence on improving teaching and learning reaches classrooms far beyond its own.
Leaders in the featured magnet schools work closely with district staff to address issues beyond those faced in the school building. In Aldine and Clark County, for example, the elementary school magnets are incorporated into a larger K-12 feeder system that allows students to continue their theme-based course of study through high school. This magnet feeder system (which Aldine district staff describe as vertical strands for engineering, visual arts, and performing arts) creates opportunities for theme-based professional development and the alignment of standards across grade levels and schools. One aim of having districtwide coordination of magnet programs is for students to experience smoother transitions as they move up through the grades and change schools and avoid dipping in terms of performance levels. Aldine staff also have collected data that shows the K-12 feeders are working to maintain high enrollment, retaining families throughout upper grade levels. Even if students decide to switch themes, once they have experienced choice through an elementary magnet, they are likely to graduate from the district through one of the magnet strands.
Figure 9. "Then and Now" Chart Showing Growth and Change at River Glen Elementary & Middle School
|Then - 1986
|Now - 2006
|2 Kinder & 1 First Grade
88 Students
520 students
|Strand within a school
|Schoolwide Magnet
|70% Spanish-speakers
30% English speakers
|40% Spanish-speakers
60% English-speakers (primary)
|90% Title I
|49% Title I
|Thematic Teaching using teacher made materials
|Design curriculum using district mandated texts
|Grade level planning
|Grade level and cross-grade level articulation
|Teacher experts in instructional strategies
|Schoolwide training by district mandates and site-selected topics
|Evaluation study (10 years)
English and Spanish assessment
|State mandated assessments/
Spanish language assessments
|Parents educated with model, program advocates
|Parent participation in school
|Recruitment, time consuming, difficult to attract diverse students
|Long wait list, program sells itself, known programs; district support
|River Glen SJUSD
The U.S. Department of Education does not mandate or prescribe particular curricula or lesson plans. The information in the figure above was provided by the identified site or program and is included here as an illustration of only one of many resources that educators may find helpful and use at their option. The Department cannot ensure its accuracy. Furthermore, the inclusion of information in this figure does not reflect the relevance, timeliness, or completeness of this information; nor is it intended to endorse any views, approaches, products, or services mentioned in the figure.
Source: River Glen Elementary & Middle School. Used by permission.
Table 3. Various Funding Sources for Profiled Schools and Affiliated Partnerships Promoting Sustainability
|Funding Sources
|A.B. Combs
|Title I (based on census poverty data)
District funding (magnet programs, assessment, professional development)
Various grants (outdoor classroom, technology, etc.)
|FranklinCovey company (professional development)
North Carolina State University, College of Engineering (tutoring and mentoring programs) Marshall Brain's Web site HowStuffWorks (science consultant)
YMCA (after-school program)
|State Integration Revenue
District and West Metro Education Program funding (magnet programs, assessment, professional development)
|Stages Theater (theater residency)
Various local artists and arts organizations (arts instruction, programs)
National Urban Alliance for Effective Education (literacy)
|Magnet Schools Assistance Program*
Prime Six (state funds allocated by district for desegregation)
Parents as Learning Supports (PALS) grant (parent involvement in math education)
State Senate Bill 404 grant (math, computer specialists)
National Science Foundation grant (professional development)
District funding (magnet programs, assessment, professional development)
NBA Cares Program (2007)
|Community Bank of Nevada (economics program)
Local water district (classroom instruction)
Scott Foresman publishers (professional development)
|Normal Park
|Magnet Schools Assistance Program*
Normal Park Education Fund (professional development and staffing)
District funding (magnet facilitator, transportation to museums)
Institute of Museum and Library Sciences grant (museum-based instruction)
Allied Arts grant (artists-in-residence)
Chattem, Inc. (Activboard technology)
|Partner museums (professional development, instruction)
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (professional development school program)
Community artists and architects (school building renovation, playground)
|Title I (based on census poverty data)
Title III (for English language instruction)
District funding (magnet programs, assessment, professional development)
Grant from Governor's Educator Excellence Award Program
|Cooperative After-school Enrichment Partnership Grant (after-school program)
Rice University and University of Texas (professional development)
|River Glen
|Title I (based on census poverty data)
Title VII (state grant for bilingual programs)
State block grants (formerly state desegregation funds)
HABLA parent group
|San Jose State University (professional development and student teachers)
2-Way CABE (professional development, start-up assistance)
* Magnet Schools Assistance program (MSAP) grants are federal funds awarded through district magnet programs for new magnet schools' start-up costs during the first three years of planning and implementation.
Note: All legislative titles refer to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
In all of the profiled schools, magnets are viewed as a critical component of school choice, providing families with multiple options and increasing the likelihood that they will be satisfied with the quality of education their children receive. In some districts where a feeder path is not currently offered for a magnet theme, school staff work closely with the district leadership to create viable options and retain families. River Glen, originally designed as a K-5 model, was expanded to include grades 6 through 8 after getting feedback on the difficulties of continuing the dual immersion theme at a separate middle school site. At Normal Park, a proposal to split and grow the current K-5 model into two separate sites (K-3 and 4-8) is being developed. It aims to stem the flight of families from the public school system in middle school.
In these ways (e.g., serving as models and incubators of innovative practice, contributing to school choice), the profiled magnet schools forgo a competitive, elitist approach to school improvement and base their continued success on supporting a network of high-performing schools throughout the district.


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I thought Bennett would be more of a factor last week but really didn't show up. I think it had more to do with the inability of the O line to block. Given that I'd like to see him have a big game this week!

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Twenty-eight Pulaski Technical College students were inducted Wednesday into the Student Government Association - the largest induction in the history of the college.
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Stephanie MencimerMar. 26, 2012 1:16 PM
Yes, we know this isn't how Catholic bishops actually dress.
For the past several months, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has been waging war on the Obama administration over reproductive health care, declaring it no less than a battle over religious freedom. But on Friday, a federal judge ruled against the bishops in a fight over whether the group could impose its views on contraception and abortion through its control of taxpayer dollars.
For the past six months, the bishops have complained very publicly that the administration is anti-Catholic and biased against religious groups because it refused to renew a contract with the group to provide services to victims of human trafficking. The bishops had been administering virtually all the federal money allocated for such services, about $3 million a year, doling it out to subcontractors who served victims all over the country. The USCCB had prohibited the contractors from using the federal funds to pay for staff time to counsel victims on contraception or abortion, or to refer them for such services. (Federal money can't be used to pay for abortions except in the most extreme instances, but it can pay for contraception.)
In 2009, the ACLU sued the Department of Health and Human Services, arguing that such rules violated constitutional prohibitions on mixing church and state. Last fall, while the case was still pending, the Obama administration decided not to renew the bishops' contract, largely because the bishops refused to provide those key reproductive health services that are frequently needed by victims of trafficking. The decision set off a firestorm in Congress, where House Republicans accused the administration of bid-rigging and violating the bishops' religious freedom during a marathon oversight hearing in December.
But on Friday, a federal judge in Massachusetts essentially validated the Obama administration's position, ruling in favor of the ACLU in the lawsuit over the contract. Even though the bishops no longer have the contract, they had joined with the ACLU in asking the judge to rule in the case to settle the constitutional issues. US District Judge Richard Stearns explained why the bishops were in the wrong. He wrote:
To insist that the government respect the separation of church and state is not to discriminate against religion; indeed, it promotes a respect for religion by refusing to single out any creed for official favor at the expense of all others…This case is about the limits of the government's ability to delegate to a religious institution the right to use taxpayer money to impose its beliefs on others (who may or may not share them).
To insist that the government respect the separation of church and state is not to discriminate against religion; indeed, it promotes a respect for religion by refusing to single out any creed for official favor at the expense of all others…This case is about the limits of the government's ability to delegate to a religious institution the right to use taxpayer money to impose its beliefs on others (who may or may not share them).
Stearns also cited an earlier Supreme Court ruling that found that the framers "did not set up a system of government in which important, discretionary governmental powers would be delegated to or shared with religious institutions." The judge's ruling is potentially a big one: It calls into question the entire basis of the federal faith-based contracting initiative, implemented by George W. Bush, which gave tremendous power to groups like USCCB over taxpayer dollars. Stearns found, in fact, that it was USCCB that was making the decisions about how the federal anti-trafficking law should be administered—a job that properly rests with the government, not the church.
USCCB was clearly unhappy with the ruling. Sister Mary Ann Walsh, the USCCB's spokeswoman, said in an email, "The USCCB is disappointed by the decision and is likely to appeal. The decision seems to ignore the right of free expression of one's religious beliefs."
ACLU Senior Staff Attorney Brigitte Amiri said in a statement after Friday's ruling:
"The court is right to insist that organizations receiving government funding cannot use their religion as an excuse to discriminate and withhold crucial services from victims of human trafficking. The court's decision ensures that people who have been forced into horrific circumstances will have access to all necessary services—including reproductive health care—to rebuild their lives."
"The court is right to insist that organizations receiving government funding cannot use their religion as an excuse to discriminate and withhold crucial services from victims of human trafficking. The court's decision ensures that people who have been forced into horrific circumstances will have access to all necessary services—including reproductive health care—to rebuild their lives."
Andy KrollMar. 26, 2012 1:10 PM
George Zimmerman is free to walk the streets of Sanford, Florida. But the gun he used to shoot and kill 17-year-old Trayvon Martin is in police hands, Mother Jones has confirmed.
A spokeswoman for the city of Sanford says that the Sanford Police Department took into evidence the gun that Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain, fired at Martin on February 26. That was the day that Zimmerman had called 911 to report "a real suspicious guy" clad in a hoodie, who turned out to be a kid walking home from a nearby 7-Eleven with a bag of Skittles and a can of iced tea. Zimmerman's pursuit of Martin led to a physical altercation between the two, wherein Zimmerman shot and killed Martin. Zimmerman's lawyers claim it was an act of self-defense, despite mounting evidence to the contrary.
One month has passed since Martin's killing, which has since ignited a national controversy. To mark the sober anniversary, the Brady Center To Prevent Gun Violence, a leading gun control group, blasted out a press release: "GEORGE ZIMMERMAN STILL HAS HIS GUN AND HIS LICENSE TO CARRY AND USE IT." That's half-right. Zimmerman no longer possesses the gun he used to kill Martin. But he still has a permit to carry a concealed weapon—and, thanks to Florida's gun laws, he still has the right to buy a new handgun instantly and travel to 35 other states while packing heat.
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Kevin DrumMar. 26, 2012 12:50 PM
From Paul Waldman, on Rick Santorum's latest video apocalypse:
Holy crap! Was that a shot of Barack Obama forcing a little girl to bite the head off her beloved guinea pig? Maybe not, but almost. Apparently, it will take Obama only two years to turn America into some combination of "The Day After" and "Saw."
Holy crap! Was that a shot of Barack Obama forcing a little girl to bite the head off her beloved guinea pig? Maybe not, but almost. Apparently, it will take Obama only two years to turn America into some combination of "The Day After" and "Saw."
Paul isn't exaggerating. Santorum's ad really does open with a Saw-like shot of a flock of crows shrieking as they fly away from an abandoned, windswept little town. The Santorum campaign is really getting desperate.
Mar. 26, 2012 12:10 PM
Becky Welch, widow of 1st Lt. Robert F. Welch, takes a moment to remember at the Memorial Dedication and Fallen Hero Ceremony, on March 9, 2012. 1st Lt. Welch died last year from wounds suffered in a rocket attack at Forward Operating Base Salerno, Afghanistan. US Army photo by Staff Sgt. John Zumer, 3/1 BCT Public Affairs.
Kevin DrumMar. 26, 2012 12:05 PM
Via Joe Weisenthal, this chart from BarCap shows the growth of the tech sector with and without Apple. Take Apple's stock out of the equation, and instead of growing 8% over the past year, the tech sector has shrunk about 3%. It's true that you can see an effect like this on any kind of aggregate index if you remove the top performer, but given the size of the tech sector this is a pretty stunning example of the effect.
Kevin DrumMar. 26, 2012 11:13 AM
Paul Krugman comments on the Obamacare court case being argued today:
We know, or I think we know, that a single-payer system — in which the government collects taxes, and uses the revenue to provide health insurance — would be constitutional. I mean, I don't think the court is about to strike down Medicare.
Well, ObamaRomneycare is basically a somewhat klutzy way of simulating single-payer. Instead of collecting enough revenue to pay for universal health insurance, it requires that those who can afford it buy the insurance directly, then provides aid — financed with taxes — to those who can't. The end result is much the same as if the government collected taxes from those under the mandate and bought insurance for them....It is in no sense more interventionist, more tyrannical, than Medicare; it's just a different way of achieving the same thing.
We know, or I think we know, that a single-payer system — in which the government collects taxes, and uses the revenue to provide health insurance — would be constitutional. I mean, I don't think the court is about to strike down Medicare.
Well, ObamaRomneycare is basically a somewhat klutzy way of simulating single-payer. Instead of collecting enough revenue to pay for universal health insurance, it requires that those who can afford it buy the insurance directly, then provides aid — financed with taxes — to those who can't. The end result is much the same as if the government collected taxes from those under the mandate and bought insurance for them....It is in no sense more interventionist, more tyrannical, than Medicare; it's just a different way of achieving the same thing.
Agreed. This whole case has a serious air of angels-dancing-on-the-head-of-a-pin. The individual mandate is enforced by a tax penalty, and if it were called a tax penalty it would be OK. But since it's called a fine it's unconstitutional! Congress can tax everyone and then provide them with health insurance — outsourced to a private company if it wants to. But it can't require everyone to simply buy the exact same health insurance directly for the exact same price! Raich may seem like a precedent that binds conservatives to uphold Obamacare, but Raich was an as-applied challenge. The current case is a facial challenge!
And on and on. Maybe these distinctions really matter. But to an awful lot of people, they sure sound an awful lot like mere excuses to reach a conclusion they want to reach. That's because, broadly speaking, it's nearly impossible to argue that Obamacare is even close to pushing the envelope on Congress's power to regulate interstate commerce. It's aimed at a particular sector (healthcare) and uses a particular method (the mandate) to accomplish its goals, but lots of acts of Congress use slightly new and different ways of accomplishing legitimate goals. The methods of 1787 just don't map precisely onto 2012.
We'll see. If the conservative justices are simply bound and determined to make their mark and overturn Obamacare, they will. But if they do, they're going to have to torture the law pretty hard to get there.
More here from Adam Serwer on possible outcomes.
Kate SheppardMar. 26, 2012 6:00 AM
Why don't women hold more patents? The National Bureau of Economic Research examined the question in a new working paper, and on Thursday, NPR's Marketplace featured a segment with Freakonomics author Stephen Dubner about the issue.
The radio segment was bothersome. Dubner started by blaming women for there being "room for improvement in the innovation field," then proceeded to argue that the disparity might be because men are bigger "risk-takers," and concluded by suggesting that segregating the work force is the best answer. The segment had an overarching tone of, "Geez, womens, would you get your act together? But do it somewhere else, the menfolk are busy."
That's not to say the data in the NBER paper isn't interesting. The Bureau found that overall, women hold 7.5 percent of all patents, and only 5.5 percent of commercial patents. Men hold the rest. Many people assume that this is because women are less likely to hold degrees in things like engineering or hard sciences, but that only accounts for 7 percent of the massive gap. And simply increasing women's representation in those fields "would have little effect absent other changes."
More important, the authors found, is increasing the number of women working in electrical and mechanical engineering, the "most patent-intensive fields," and increasing the number of women working in jobs that focus on development and design—a disparity that accounts for 40 percent of the gap in commercial patents. They also found that the fact that women working in the kind of jobs where they might develop ideas to patent tend to be younger than their male counterparts accounts for 29 percent of the gap.
But here's what both Dubner and the NBER paper missed: women are actually closing the patent gap quite quickly already. The National Women's Business Council released a report earlier this month that found that women have doubled their share of patents in the last 22 years. Women hold 18 percent of the patents filed since 1990. And in 2010, the number of patents granted to women increased by 35 percent. So I'd say women are actually doing pretty well these days.
Azeen GhorayshiMar. 26, 2012 6:00 AM
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Since 1991, when The Magnetic Fields released the first of their 11 albums to date, the iconic pop group has created a singular genre of ultra-sincere yet superbly tongue-in-cheek love songs. Nothing exemplifies this better than three-volume concept album 69 Love Songs, an ode to cliché that ranges from the heartbreaking ("All My Little Words") to the supremely silly ("Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits") all in, you guessed it, 69 tracks. Their music has always been firmly rooted in ideas of nostalgia—doing drugs, going to bad parties, cruising aimlessly in cars, and, most of all, reflecting on love or love lost between girls and girls, girls and boys, or boys and boys, if never their grown-up counterparts.
Adam SerwerMar. 26, 2012 3:08 AM
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments concerning the constitutionality of Obamacare—a.k.a. the Affordable Care Act, or ACA—beginning Monday. (Last week, Obama reelection campaign manager Jim Messina sent out an email to supporters noting that he and the campaign are proud of "Obamacare," thus claiming the term from their foes.) What will the justices decide? Here are a few of the probable scenarios:
The Supreme Court punts. The first day of oral arguments is devoted to whether or not the Tax Anti-Injunction Act, a law that bars legal challenges to taxes before anyone actually pays them, applies to the individual mandate—the Obamacare provision that levies a tax on individuals who don't purchase health insurance and are not otherwise covered by an employer or government program. By taking this road and embracing an argument first laid out by Judge Brett Kavanaugh, a George W. Bush appointee, the Supreme Court could avoid dealing with the constitutionality of the individual mandate until after the 2012 election. Doing this could make the mandate ultimately more likely to be upheld, because the high court would be acknowledging that the mandate is a tax and falls under the federal government's constitutional authority to levy taxes.
"This might end with a whimper rather than a bang," says Adam Winkler, a law professor at the University of California–Los Angeles. "If the court rules that the Tax Anti-Injunction Act applies, then all of the hullabaloo will be for naught."
The Supreme Court tosses out the whole law. Conservative opponents of the ACA argue that the individual mandate—only one provision of the law, albeit a central one—is an unconstitutional assertion of federal power, and they insist it ought to be struck down. But they also want to see the whole law ruled unconstitutional. Aside from the individual mandate, conservatives are also challenging the constitutionality of expanding Medicaid to 16 million more Americans. By the White House's numbers, that's about half of the Americans who will ultimately get coverage under the ACA. In his brief, former Solicitor General Paul Clement, who will be arguing for the ACA's challengers before the court, suggested that if either the individual mandate or the Medicaid expansion are ruled unconstitutional then the entire law should go. As TPM's Brian Beutler points out, it doesn't help that Congress didn't include in the original bill a "severability" clause (a traditional legislative provision that essentially says that if a portion of a law is struck down, the rest of the legislation still stands). This makes it easier for opponents to argue the entire law should be scrapped.
If the court doesn't rule on the individual mandate, however, that still leaves the question of whether the ACA's Medicaid expansion is constitutional. But experts speculate the court is unlikely to leave the mandate alone but overturn the health care law based on the Medicaid expansion.
The Supreme Court tosses the mandate and the ban on discrimination on the basis of preexisting conditions. The ban on insurance companies refusing to cover individuals on the basis of preexisting conditions is arguably the most popular part of the Affordable Care Act. Nevertheless, the Obama administration has argued that if the high court should choose to strike down the individual mandate, the whole bill wouldn't have to go. But, the government also notes, the prohibition on insurance companies discriminating on the basis of preexisting conditions would have to be dumped, because without the mandate the law's other provisions would "create a spiral of higher costs," with individuals getting sick and enrolling at the last minute. "The federal government's position is that [if] the mandate goes, other important things go too," says Doug Kendall of the Constitutional Accountability Center.
The Supreme Court strikes down the individual mandate and keeps everything else. Neither the conservative challengers to the law nor the Obama administration would be particularly happy with this outcome. It would leave the current law mostly intact. But it would also, administration officials fear, bankrupt the insurance companies still forced to provide coverage without the necessary financial resources to do so. (Without a mandate, the insurance industry will have fewer customers and less resources to handle an influx of those people with preexisting conditions.) However, during the five and a half hours of oral arguments, the high court will also be hearing from H. Bartow Farr III, who will be arguing for the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals' position that the court doesn't have to strike down anything other than the individual mandate, if the court finds it unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court upholds the entire law. In the post-Bush v. Gore era, where the justices' opinions often seem to reflect little more than the ideological positions of the parties that appoint them, it seems difficult to imagine that the Affordable Care Act fully survives. But it could happen. George Washington University Law School Professor Orin Kerr, a former clerk for Justice Anthony Kennedy, is pretty bullish on the ACA's chances. Last August, he predicted that "the mandate will be upheld by a vote of anywhere from 6-3 to 8-1."
Something crazy happens. The above scenarios seem like the most likely outcomes. But this is a historic case, and it's possible that the court could fail to find consensus one way or the other, leading to the justices splitting in a way that no position ends up with a clear majority. It's unlikely, but anything could happen.
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On the technology side, there were also several recommendations for Downcast as an alternative to iTunes. And, of course, lots of other recommendations that were a little farther off the beaten path than the ones above. Click the link for more. Enjoy.
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Shelfuter - Computer in a Shelf 19th Jan
Shelfuter is my first mod pretty much, you can't really class a side panel mod a mod because of how easy it is. but anyways.
I do have some joinery experience of course, and a step dad who works with stainless steel anyways pics below
Ok, the wood here is just simple chipboard, When I built the shelving I wasn't particularly going for anything fancy. So I will be putting wood at the back there and to the right all the way to the bottom of the shelf, I don't fancy showing much of the wall.
I will be covering over the screws you can see to the left. I will possibly get my step dad to make me a mobo tray as well as pci slots and the I/O. but we'll see
I will fill in the gap at the far bottom right as well. and cover the screws over. I aim not to have any visible screws
So your aware, The shelf to the right is also exactly the same as it is to the left of the TV, it's an absolute mirror image apart from the shelf to the left being 2 cm smaller in width. I just haven't included it in the picture for some reason
So yeah, dimensions.
height: just under 640mm
depth: a foot, just over 300 mm
width: just under 400mm
So I have a fair amount of room to play with.
Part 1 will be putting my hardware in (hardware below)
Part 2 will be watercooling it, although the watercooling part will be split into 2 parts as well
Thats pretty much it
Constructive criticism welcome
A big thanks goes to Noctua for the discounts!
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|23rd Jan 2013, 13:41
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Update: 21nd
When I went to a mates house to get an old case, I was lucky to find he had a case with a removable motherboard tray, which has made things so so so much easier. Brought it home and gave it a wash, smelt of smoke a bit, I think I might spray this as well, because it's got a few scratches and I'd prefer a matte black finish.
Yesterday a lot of progress was made with the shelfuter. I purchased a 600mm by 12mm by 1200mm MDF board (tried to find something better but this will be strong enough.) Bought two long pieces of wood, not MDF board, got some natural stuff for this. It's 1.8 meters by 35mm by 35mm. Also got some hinges, a door handly thing and a padlock (only because it looks epic and when locking it, it sounds awesome).
I cut a piece from the MDF board to make the door, It fits in the door space literally millimetre perfect. I also cut another bit of wood to screw the hinges to. The screws that came with the hinges are about 2mm too long, so I'll use a spacer or 2 to fix that.
I had a huge amount of trouble getting that out after getting it in
I realised earlier that this was kinda unnecessary, but the door has already being cut down a bit to compensate. It doesn't matter too much to me though honestly. To fit the MDF board in, I had to cut part of the chipboard that supports the top right, I cut like 2cm off it to fit in on. I'm not actually using that PSU there btw.
After this I then cut some more MDF board to put to the back of the shelf. This again ended up being millimetre perfect as usual. I then realised I was routing cables behind this, (which I discovered would be VERY VERY difficult to do once it comes to building the PC). I decided I'd get the long piece of wood, and cut two 40cm bits to go to the top and bottom.
This has left a big 3cm behind the wood for cables, should be enough, may even route tubing behind here its so big. I don't quite know why but it looks a fair bit bent, It would be because of how tight it was, this shouldn't be a problem.
Here it is with it screwed together and back in place.
After this, I realised the distance between the PSU and where the door would sit was like 9cm. So I cut another bit from the wood so I could slot the PSU into it and also not have the wires hanging out as they are now.
More updates to come later today (this was all from yesterday)
|23rd Jan 2013, 13:42
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Update: 22nd
Below is the PSU in place with the cutout for the 24pin and the 4pin to be hidden behind the wood out of site.
I found this old HDD cage from an old case. This no doubt will be sprayed matte black. A hole will be cut at the back just behind the HDDs for the HDDs. You can also see the new wood for the hinges, this stuff is working so much better
Here is the door from the front, I'm not too happy about having the hinges visible, it could of being done where the hinges are on the inside, but the screws I used were slightly too big, and came out about 2mm on the wood. I'd prefer for the screws to poke out on the inside rather than the outside. So that's why you can see the hinges. You can also see my drawing for the window, the section at the bottom will be mesh, there only the PSU and HDDs (not SSD) to be seen here which aren't too interesting to me. There will also be a mesh section at the top. In the middle will be the window which will have the entire motherboard visible.
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|23rd Jan 2013, 21:27
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you can decorate the front of the door and that way the hinges wont stick out to badly, maybe cover with some sheet aluminium with a hole cut for the window.
|24th Jan 2013, 08:19
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I was considering just splashing some paint on the entire shelving, I think a bit of Ali might not work well, looks wise. Thanks for the suggestion
Tomorrow, I will be cutting out the window/mesh for the door, also will be spraying the mobo tray and the HDD cage matte black
|30th Jan 2013, 07:41
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|31st Jan 2013, 13:52
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It's being a while, apologies for that, Ah well, a new update is here finally. I've cut the door out, cut holes for cabling, cut a hole for the power cable, cut out the I/O and PCI area from the wood, attached the mobo tray to the wall and mounted my SSD. All I need now is a 4/8 pin extension and a 24 pin extension.
Here is what the door looked like when I first cut into it.
Here is the door once sanded down and cut to the right sizes. I originally was gonna have rounded corners, but it was a tad difficult and my cuts were not too accurate because of the crappy jigsaw.
Here is a pic of where I drilled a hole for the HDD cables.
This is a really crappy hole I made for me to be able to power up the PSU with the power cable and that.
Here is my drawing where I cut the I/O and PCI bit out.
Here it is, all in, motherboard, cpu cooler, ram and the HDDs. Looks pretty smart to me. There are four screws on the I/O PCI at each corner, which keeps it very very secure to the wood there.
Muwhahaha, my SSD has legs . Nah, thats going on the wall just like that, inspired by TTLs SSD mounting idea in Orca. It probably won't work quite as well, but hey.
I knew it, SSD mounting was a bit of a fail, only the top two screws are in, I deleted a photo of my 24 pin cutout and my 4/8 pin cutout by mistake. here is the SSD cable cutout with the SSD mounted and also fully cabled, will be getting black sleeving for all the cables there.
|15th Feb 2013, 13:39
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It has been a while, my apologies for that. I've been very busy at university, I still am to be fair.
As you can see, the HDD cage has now being painted Matt Black. Believe it or not the motherboard tray has been painted Chrome. It was an idea from a friend so it would be reflective in the LEDs, but the chrome doesn't fit with the matt black. I do quite like the reflectiveness, but finger marks and various scratches are much more visible up close. This actually happened several days ago, the motherboard tray has now being sprayed matt black and is currently drying as I'm writing this update.
I've also now put in the extra support. I'm not so sure it will of made much difference, it does still sag a bit, but I'm expecting it really simply to sag no more than it is already.
Got me paint ready, the colours are very very close indeed. The entire shelving is going to be painted in this colour. The Noctua fan frame seems to be almost the same colour, which is good. It pretty much means I won't have to spray the fans, which I'd like to avoid.
If your wondering, I broke two of the blades, then decided to brake the rest, then I took the brown bit of entirely.
|21st Feb 2013, 14:43
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Here is the pic of the motherboard tray now.
I have also now made a cover for the PSU to hide the cables and the PSU.
Still needs sanding
I found it very hard to cable things so I've cut out a big bit behind the motherboard tray to be able to cable things before putting the motherboard tray, it would still be somewhat difficult to cable, but not as hard.
Now I needed to bring the sander out. Everything was sanded down to a decent level. Now we are ready for painting. In the photo, I used a different paint, it's the same colour, but satin rather than gloss. Anyways, the photo below is after 2 coats, with the second drying. No undercoat was used, can said it didn't need it. Bullshiiiit!
It looked better after 4 coats, but still not perfect now. Needs a good sand as well
|21st Feb 2013, 15:59
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Great idea and good job mate.
I hope we will finish it done soon
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|21st Feb 2013, 16:23
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Coming on a treat. Only thing that stands out to me is : How does the PSU airflow work ? I've probably just missed that in the thread, but it looks almost totally enclosed.
|21st Feb 2013, 18:06
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Again, thanks for pointing that out
A big thanks goes to Noctua for the discounts, they can expect an order from me of two NF-A15 PWMs and some sort of CPU cooler sooner or later
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|10th Mar 2013, 13:51
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To be fair guys, not a right lot has happened with relation to the build itself, it's more like additional features to my workspace. Anyways, on with the update. All that has really happened is I scratched the paint off with a small knife (no heat gun sadly) and put a small (very) cover of pva glue and then added some white primer to be safe.
Dunno if you lot ever say my crappy monitor that I had on top of my wardrobe, well this is it again, just wall mounted instead. It's fine for daily use, my 22in 1080p TV is what I use for gaming.
I dropped my HDD cage, I absolutely almost **** myself, because I found it 2 days after it happened. I was sanding away and it vibrated off the shelf, hit the bed post and hit the floor, when it came to finding the HDDs, 2 days later, I found them on the floor.
So I quickly hooked everything up, roughly and found they were alright, which was hugely lucky I think.
About 3 weeks ago, I took an A3 piece of paper and decided to make an exact size of a 360 monsta rad and this is what it would look like, without the fans. The actual height from the wood is just under 130mm. So it wouldn't fit in push pull, but bare in mind I'd have to take a jigsaw to the roof to get the hot air out and the wood is 10mm thick. so in the end I'll have just under 10mm gap between the wood and fans. The reason I want it above the wood there is so I can hide tubing behind the wood to the pump which will go between the PSU and the HDDs (see a previous picture about this). Not only that, but at the front of the shelving it is 39cm in width, but at the back, it is 41cm in width.
Here is the picture after the pva glue and the primer.
|5th Apr 2013, 23:26
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Right, now I have all the painting finally sorted. Anyways I will start from the primer on the door. I've being doing the work in the garage by the way.
Here is the rest after having a primer coat. It has being sitting there with a primer for more than a week when the photo was taken, that is why it looks a bit beaten.
Right then, all painting done, I decided to do two lots of primer and satin to get a better finish and it certainly paid off.
Installation, step 1
Step 2
Then the PCI wood bit, screw them all together, put the backplate/wood thing in, then screw the door on and finally all the components.
Also, I decided to sort out the cutout for the PSU.
and then everything in
Seems you've seen it a fair amount I didn't bother to put the board and psu etc in and have a photo up on here.
I also ordered £87.01 worth of stuff from SpecialTech.
|6th Apr 2013, 00:26
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Interesting idea, but man that last round of pictures are a little excessive
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|19th Apr 2013, 23:02
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On Tuesday the 9th April, a package arrived for me which had all of the above for the project.
which contained the following
I did take pictures of the majority of things I bought, but I had to put this one up here because of how well it has worked out.
I was very very happy with the quality of the 360 rad grill, the sturdyness and the power coat is exceptional.
The switch was a tad hard to figure out, I couldn't understand the sheet of paper about size A5 which had a diagram of what means on and off, thats all that was on it.
I am also impressed with the sleeved cables from Silverstone, the quality of them compared to the sleeving on the power supply is outstanding, same goes for the NZXT cables I bought.
Annoyingly, I scratched the acrylic a bit, to the point where it was way to visible, soooo, I made it much much worse :P and I'm going to make it even worse still.
Here is a picture of the HDD cage, everything from here was in. If you look carefully, below the SSD that same cable is there, which you would of thought I'd of changed, your right I am, I just hadn't put it in yet, I found the cable in currys so I went to get it after college one day.
Looking to the top.
Radiator grill in. At first I wanted to cut a hole in it, instead the right side of the rad grill is in contact with the wall so I can easily fit a radiator IF I end up watercooling
I had to take a picture of it in the dark, it does indeed look great and I'm happy with the result so far.
There aren't too many things to do apart from the watercooling part.
So far, I have recently run into two problems, one of which is the worse problem there could be.Moving house the next problem is my FX-6200 is heading towards Silicone heaven. I have a sheet of stainless steel mesh to go in at the bottom, I need to drill a 15mm hole for the switch on the bottom of the wood the door is attached to and then a 80 by 80mm hole for the rear fan. I also need to purchase Noctua fans for the rad grill and the rear. Then it's water cooling time, IF it seems that I won't have the time I'll stick an NH-D14 in there.
Until next time, which could be the last time, thanks for reading.
|22nd Apr 2013, 10:09
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Good build so far.
Well, like you said moving house will be a pain with such an stationary pc case.
And you said the other solution already.....watercooling would be the best way in such a more or less closed up case.
I planned also a pc in a shelf (to be precise it was an old pc stand) and first ideas where sole air-cooling. But as planning went on I realised it will be to closed for effective air cooling.
So graphics and cpu cooled by water and two big fans for the rest.
Should be cool enough even in summer
Wish you good luck to prevent your cpu from burning
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This year several students have volunteered to introduce themselves through the Harvard Kennedy School School (HKS) admissions blog with a self-authored post.
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Prior to joining the Kennedy School I was the principal of KIPP Philadelphia Charter School and then a stay-at-home father for our precocious daughter Hazel. Every time I hired a new teacher at my school the first thing I made them read was this powerful quote from the ancient Chinese philosopher Lau Tzu:
"Thirty spokes converge on a single hub – it is on the hole in the center that the use of the cart hinges. We make a vessel from a lump of clay – it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful. We make doors and windows for a room – but it is the empty spaces that make the room livable. Thus, while the tangible has advantages, it is the intangible that makes it useful."
All institutions of learning are powerful not just because of the books in the library and the nameplates posted on offices, but also because of the scholars that fill the halls and the conversations that flow from the classrooms. I find myself repeatedly reflecting on this quote as I get my bearings after a wonderful and rigorous start to my time at the Kennedy School.
I joined the Mid-Career/MPA program because I knew the 'tangible' direction I wanted to pursue in improving the world around me: use my training and experience as a community organizer and school leader to build an organization that can be a positive disruptive force in building power and opportunity in struggling communities. It was a "no-brainer" that the Kennedy School offered me the best array of courses, professors, resources, and training to build such an organization.
I also joined the Mid-Career MPA program because I knew I didn't know the 'intangibles' for making sure what I do is authentically contributing to making the world a better place. Simply put, I still "don't know what I don't know." As I meet amazingly talented students from all over the world, I am excited by the couches and convening spaces in the large Kennedy Forum that I can use as a home base to build the relationships and support networks to challenge my way of thinking about the world and create real opportunities for being a disruptive force for good.
This July and August the Mid-Career summer program has proved to be the perfect and poignant kick-starter to this process by providing an intensive spring training of skills and methods of learning that make me confident to begin my journey.
Whether or not you know the tangibles or intangibles of your future goals and pursuits, what is important is to find a place and program that best fulfills both the quantitative and qualitative training and guidance you will need as you prepare yourself to make sure our world is doing just a little bit better tomorrow than it was yesterday.
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"It was a 'no-brainer' that the Kennedy School offered me the best array of courses, professors, resources, and training to build [an organization that can be a positive disruptive force in building power and opportunity in struggling communities]," says Leslie.


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With the death of Bill Bivens on Sunday, Aug. 13, 2012, OVAE and all friends of adult education lost a knowledgeable, kind, and dedicated public servant—with a wickedly droll sense of humor. Bill was the go-to guy for all things technical related to the National Reporting System for Adult Education (NRS). He joined OVAE in 2005, shortly after the online NRS System was launched. Bill continued to develop and expand the system, becoming a most helpful friend to state-based data experts throughout the country.
Bill's knowledge of data analysis and technical possibility was honed through his work with the Bureau of the Census. He was able to share his knowledge of the many Census sites and studies that were useful to the field of adult education. Much of Bill's long career had links to his rural West Texas roots. He was an expert in rural government, economics, and resource delivery, and used his skills in working with the Farmers Home Administration, the Appalachian Regional Commission, and the National Governors' Association, where he was the senior policy fellow for rural affairs.
We will greatly miss Bill's helpful suggestions, his wealth of knowledge, his absolute commitment to adult education as an opportunity for students to expand their skills, and as a crucial partner in our country's economic stability and growth.
New National Center for Innovation in Career and Technical Education
OVAE awarded a three-year contract to RTI International (RTI), an established and respected research institution, to administer the new National Center for Innovation in Career and Technical Education (NCICTE or the Center). RTI, located in Research Triangle Park, N.C., will serve as the prime contractor and administrative leader of the Center. The team members are MPR Associates; Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce; ConnectEd: The California Center for College and Career; FHI 360; Laurium Evaluation Group; Coverent; Workforce Enterprise Systems; Mercury Labs; IT-CNP; and Windwalker Corporation. The supporting partners are Association of Community Colleges; Association for Career and Technical Education; National Association of State Directors of Career and Technical Education Consortium; and Career Academy Support Network
The NCICTE is authorized by the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Act to conduct research, dissemination, and professional development and training activities. Based on the comments and suggestions received from states, professional CTE organizations and other stakeholders on the secretary's priorities for CTE, and on current knowledge of research regarding CTE, the Center will focus on four areas identified as research and evaluation priorities of the highest national concern: programs of study/career pathways; curriculum integration; technology enabled-learning; and professional development. The Center will also conduct secondary analyses on critical issues in CTE that address one or more of the four priorities areas. Additionally, the Center will conduct training and disseminate information on an upcoming information clearinghouse website, and through social media such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google Plus, and Pinterest. More information on these research studies and training and dissemination tasks will be published as they become available in future OVAE Connection issues. Department of Education contact: Carolyn S. Lee, firstname.lastname@example.com.
Carol Norris is congratulated by Secretary Arne Duncan at the Aug. 7 OVAE all-hands meeting for her critical role in disseminating OVAE Connection.


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By Kris Rodriguez
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(Dec. 7, 2005)--The University of Texas at San Antonio and the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSC) host John Maunsell for a presentation, "Effects of Attention on Sensory Signals in Monkey Visual Cerebral Cortex," at 4 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9 at UTHSC Medical School Room 3.104A.
Maunsell, a professor of neuroscience and ophthalmology at Baylor College of Medicine, is also funded through grants from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
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- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
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The seminar, free and open to the public, opens the new San Antonio Neuroscience Alliance (SANA), offering a collaborative interdisciplinary neuroscience initiative for doctoral students studying in neuroscience or related fields.
"This is open to any doctoral students doing neuroscience-related research in a variety of disciplines including, but not limited to, biology, chemistry, psychology, engineering and kinesiology," said David Jaffe, SANA co-chair.
The program is expected to enhance the value of the doctoral education experience by facilitating the opportunity to enroll in complementary neuroscience-related courses at both institutions, supporting faculty who will serve as co-mentors and facilitate the process to increase student participation. Currently, UTSA and UTHSC have approximately 70 students enrolled in their combined doctoral neuroscience research programs.
Additionally, the program plans to provide stipends on a competitive basis to assist students in funding their doctoral educations, sponsor monthly research colloquiums, and support a distinguished speaker seminar series. Interaction between the two campuses will also be fostered by a spring retreat (May 10) where neuroscience doctoral students will have the opportunity to interact, present their current research, and attend a plenary seminar given by an invited speaker.For more information, contact David Jaffe at (210) 458-5843 ) or Randolph Glickman at (210) 567-8420.


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Dann-Messier on the Federal Government's Role in Empowering Americans to Make Informed Financial Decisions
On July 15, 2010, Brenda Dann-Messier, assistant secretary for vocational and adult education, testified before the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs about efforts by the Department to help Americans improve financial decision-making. Dann-Messier argued that the lack of financial literacy is a threat to the nation's economic security and that financial education is part of the solution. She noted that the Department is committed to helping elementary, secondary, postsecondary and adult students develop the knowledge and skills to make sound financial decisions for themselves, their families and their communities. She also emphasized measuring student outcomes, pointing out, "…across the board, we're not only looking at what we are doing, but also asking ourselves if it is working."
Dann-Messier began by focusing on postsecondary education students, and on the fact that the Talent Search, Upward Bound, and Student Support Services programs, part of the federal TRIO programs that support college access and success, are required to include financial and economic literacy activities for students
Turning next to the Department's Federal Student Aid (FSA) program, Dann-Messier noted that it is ramping up its student aid outreach and awareness efforts to increase Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) submission and college enrollment rates, especially among students from underrepresented groups. FSA educates students and families about the costs and benefits of postsecondary education and the various programs that can help them afford postsecondary education. Further, the recent changes to direct lending help ensure that all students have access to reliable and affordable federal student loans while also increasing the funding available for federal Pell Grants for the highest-need students. Further, Dann-Messier pointed to new regulations, effective July 1, that updated the minimum loan counseling content standards and aligned them with the provisions of the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 (HEOA). These new requirements can help borrowers better understand their repayment obligations
Dann-Messier next addressed the lack of financial literacy among many adult learners. She cited recent studies showing that low financial literacy—in particular, the inability to understand and perform basic calculations related to interest rates and inflation—is positively correlated with unfavorable financial decision-making. Since the National Center for Education Statistics has reported that 22 percent of adults lack even basic quantitative literacy skills and another 33 percent have only basic quantitative skills levels, more than 120 million American adults may be vulnerable to predatory lending practices or to making seemingly small mistakes with major financial consequences for themselves and their families. To address this concern, the Department is investing $2.3 million to increase numeracy levels in adults through its Adult Numeracy Instruction Project.
At the elementary and secondary levels, Dann-Messier cited the Excellence in Economic Education program, designed to strengthen teaching and learning in personal finance, economics and entrepreneurship, as well as the Civic Education program, which has supported the development of instructional materials and teacher professional development programs in economic literacy in elementary and secondary school classrooms. For fiscal year 2011, the Department has proposed to enhance states' and high-need school districts' abilities to promote financial literacy by consolidating these programs into the new Effective Teaching and Learning for a Well-Rounded Education program. The program would provide $265 million—17 percent more than in fiscal year 2010—to support innovative practices in a range of subjects, including financial literacy.
During the past year and a half, the Department has worked with other agencies as part of the Financial Literacy and Education Commission (FLEC). Dann-Messier testified that ED's most significant partner in the FLEC effort has been the Department of the Treasury. The Department worked closely with Treasury to carry out the 2010 National Financial Capability Challenge, a voluntary online personal finance exam administered by over 1,500 teachers in every state and several Department of Defense schools overseas to over 76,000 high school students. This will be repeated annually. Further, ED is working with Treasury on the report on postsecondary financial literacy programs required by the HEOA. Other activities being planned include back-to-school events with FLEC partners to highlight schools that connect financial education and financial access by linking with local banks and credit unions.
Massachusetts Funds, Learn at Work at 11 Worker Training Sites
Massachusetts' Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development recently allocated $1.6 million in workforce training and American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds to support the state's Learn at Work program. Launched in November 2009, the program is supplemented by $400,000 in funds from the state's Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. The 11 new grants go to local organizations to promote public-private partnerships across industries throughout the commonwealth. Partners provide workplace basic skills and English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) for youths and adult workers at their work sites. Participants must be 16 and older, employed and not enrolled in high school. Classes may include adult basic education (reading, writing and computation below high school diploma level), ESOL, and basic computer instruction.


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Go see my buddy Tom at Chevy Truck Salvage in Santa Ana, CA. Tell him Travis sent you. He has tons of parts.
His # is 714-554-1850
If you ever come across a clean un molested 69 tailgate let me know.
The cab and misc parts are SOLD!
Just the cab, 1 left side fender, misc trim, two glove box doors and a few boxes of brackets etc.
$300 for what's left.
If it doesn't sell by Friday its going to my buddy's GM truck salvage yard
Need this stuff gone
$500 for everything.
Need it out of the driveway. Make offer for everything.
Cab-Factory A/C-uncut dash
2 Glovebox doors
hood (rough)
side window glass & misc trim
boxes of original brackets
2 cowl panels
Just Call
There out there. With a 4x4 you will probably have better luck finding a long box and making it a shortbed. Shortbeds are real hard to find.
Im looking for a short bed 4x4 any ideas? Kinda a project truck
$600 cash takes everything.
Is this thing on? nobody looking for a Classic C10 cab? Bring on the offers.
1970 Chevy C10 truck cab/doors/fenders-Trim etc
Got a 1970 C10 Cab, 2 good doors, 1 parts door, two right side clean fenders, side glass, trim. A bunch of misc parts.
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cbrgator: sir; give considerations to the Beretta "Stoeger" Cougar 8000
Ruger SR9;
I have researched both and found them most attractive. Beretta 8000 never was marketed correctly; move the plant to Turkey; cheaper labor; reintroduce as the "Stoeger" Cougar 8000; save the consumer around $400.00. Beretta will be the 'service' center. It is a Beretta.
Ruger SR9 will be the next 'generation' of the polymer generation. Priced and typical Ruger "service" is to be expected.
My first choice; Glock #2 Ruger SR9 #3 Stoeger Cougar 8000 #4 XD9/40
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#1 Sun 07 Aug 11 8:57pm
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What's For Dinner?
Hi guys, just for a bit of fun I thought I would ask you lovely people to inspire me for what tomorrow's evening meal should be?
I've been struggling to decide between jamie's mac & cheese and his bolognese ragu.
http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/past … oni-cheese
http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/memb … 0Rag%F9%20(Bolognese%20)/1271
Have any of you guys tried either of these jamie meals? If so, which is the more tastier?
Any other suggestions would be fantastic. No fish though please, family isnt a fan
Finally, Im definitely going to make his cheats cheesecake from 30 min meals. Is this as amazing as it looks?
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#2 Tue 09 Aug 11 9:14pm
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Re: What's For Dinner?
Response is probably too late for your dinner plans, but if I had to choose between the tow you've listed I'd have to go with the ragu - at least it has some veggies! I haven't tried either of these particular recipes, but I have tried the 30 minute cauliflower mac & cheese which was great (and the green goddess dressing and salad was divine)!
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#3 Sat 02 Feb 13 11:09am
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Re: What's For Dinner?
Prawn salad.
#4 Sat 02 Feb 13 12:57pm
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Re: What's For Dinner?
We just had Asian-style calamari and salad.
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Re: What's For Dinner?
Roast sirloin of beef
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I was recently experimenting with pollen substitute and I thought Id share what I did and found. Actually, Ive been thinking about this for over a year and have finally gotten around to it. In mid Sept I noticed that one of my nucs had plenty of stored honey but was very low on pollen and there were almost no larvae. Assuming pollen was the limiting factor, I wanted to see if feeding pollen substitute would remedy that.
As for the pollen substitute, I followed Randy Olivers recipe to make a rather thick mixture. Id call it a little thicker than play-doh. I rolled out two golf ball sized chunks, as thin as I could, between sheets of wax paper. Then I rolled the two discs on either side of some nylon window screen. I stapled the screen to an ~1/8 wide bar then added another ~1/8 wide bar, to maintain bee space over the comb, and installed it within the brood area. Below are a couple of pictures to help explain.
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Heres what it looked like after a week. The nuc had also tripled its brood area.
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Oh, heres one more pic (not a very good one though). Since I wanted to see what the bees thought of it I installed a small amount in my observation hive. Since I didnt really want to open the hive I just slid it in under the edge of an empty bar. The bees liked it but, after two weeks and as you would expect, the side against the hive wall was full of SHBs larvae.


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I just looked it up and that is now what I have. I have a plastic monitoring board. Someone who uses Mann lake equipment could advise you better then I!~ sorry...
I just looked it up and that is now what I have. I have a plastic monitoring board. Someone who uses Mann lake equipment could advise you better then I!~ sorry...
Thanks for your reply. There is actually a post where this is discussed pretty thoroughly, but everyone was extreme about it. You had those from Midwest and back East saying that they kept it off throughout their cold snowy winters! This had me extremely confused.
Here I am worried that I am going to freeze my bees in our tepid cool nights!!! lol
Thanks again - Lori
I know, true, huh? I was concerned about moving a swarm into a new box after dark tonight and the guy laughed at me...he says they are already living outside (cause it is a swarm...duhhhh) so no, you won't hurt them to put them in a box, they will just recluster. Have you checked out some of the youtube videos of hives in the snow and what they do to insulate them? We are so spoiled here, you more then I since you are in San Diego!
Aren't you new to this? Yet you are going to move a swarm into a box/hive? Wow! You sure are going to learn quick what it takes to work with bees!!! Are you going to do this alone or have help?
I haven't paid that much attention to the bee videos regarding snow, but I bet it's a bit of work...just like all the preparation they have to do to prepare for a hurricane *g* All I seem to have to worry about is ants so far...
As far as the screened bottom boards:
#1 SBBs tend to raise the likelihood of bees absconding (when open), so be careful about opening your SBBs under new hives that aren't well established yet
#2 There are VERY mixed opinions out there about the benefits/drawbacks of screened bottom boards, especially when it comes to leaving them "open." My personal opinion (and I believe Michael Bush's as well, if I remember right) is that leaving the SBB open can actually be DETRIMENTAL to the bees ability to effectively cool the hive. This is because bees use evaporative cooling (like the old "swamp cooler" air conditioners), the effectivity of which relies HEAVILY on an ability to control airflow & having a wide-open bottom on the hive doesn't make that very feasible.
#3 My Opinion: If you have the entrance reduced down to where you're concerned about the bees' ability to "keep cool," and you can't/aren't willing to get a robber screen, you won't likely hurt your bees any by opening the drawer/board/trap door under your SBB an by anywhere from a "bee space" (3/8") to maybe 1"...just enough to give the bees somewhere to fan, but not enough that they can't still control the airflow through their hive.
Hope that at least helps a little
>How long do I keep them penned in and what determines my next steps?
You did the right thing stopping things immediately, but I would be immediately working on the next step. Keeping them confined is very stressful. The simplest quickest way to help is put some screen (window screen will do in a pinch but #8 would be best) over all of the entrance except the last 1/4". This makes an entrance that is one bee wide and confuses the robbers by letting them smell the hive all the way across. Then you could build a real robber screen with more of a convoluted path to the entrance. The point of either of these is that robbers go by smell and local bees go by a memorized path into their hive.
Michael Bush bushfarms.com/bees.htm "Everything works if you let it." ThePracticalBeekeeper.com 42y 40h 39yTF
[QUOTE=robherc;801609]If you want to know if your hive's still "viable," you can check on them in the evening, after the bees have stopped flying; that way you won't be making it harder for them to guard against the robbers in the process
Thanks for your quick response! I have built a robber screen, as you suggested and will install tomorrow morning before sunrise when all the girls are inside.
Forgive me for my ignorance...but when I go into the hive, exactly what am I looking at to determine if it is still viable? Is it the number of bees, the amount of stores, etc?
I really appreciate your help!
I had been concerned because mine is a Kenyan TBH and only has about 7.5" of entrance to begin with and only about 6" of space to go above the entrance because of the way the legs are connected. This explanation really helps me "understand" how it works...and I think my version should work fine.
Your book was a Godsend this morning when I needed quick answers on how to stop the robbing! Thanks for all your knowledge and time you so generously share!
When looking to see if a hive is still "viable," all you really need to see is about 2 frames covered in adult bees, and some fresh eggs/young larvae. As long as a hive has that much, they have a good chance (my guess is, if they are still fighting at all, then they haven't been overcome by the robbers yet, so you have very little to worry about)


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About a ten years ago, the Canadian Jewish Humanitarian and Relief Committee, launched a creative writing contest for the homeless. The prize? $2000. Now, a decade later, word has gotten out that the odds of winning are high, and the homeless are coming in droves to pen their stories. Stories that will help them find a better life.


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Artistic Flat In Historic Centre
Número máximo de hóspedes4
Tamanho45 m2
Andar no.1
- Cozinha
- Lavadora / Secadora
- Permitido fumar
- Recebe famílias (com crianças)
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|Calle dei Cerchieri, 30123 Venezia, Itália
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Cosy and well-furnished, the apartment contains three single beds and a double sofa bed. The rustic living area features a well-equipped kitchenette and a dining table, and the apartment contains a bathroom and shower room.
Centrally located, many of the most popular tourist attractions can be easily reached within just a short walk. Around San Marco Square guests will find Doge's Palace, and the iconic Bell Tower and Clock Tower.
Public transport around Venice is via the Vaporetto water bus. Throughout the islands guests will find many stops and various routes, allowing them to travel with ease.
Regras da casaAn obligatory city tax of €1.50 per guest per night applies.
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The apartement had what we needed. It is located very nice, close to a square whith several pubs and restaurants, and close to the ferry from the airport.
Giorgio met us at the ferry-station, and showed us where the nearest shops were, before we went to the apartement.
Thank you Giorgio! Best regards Viveka and Ingmar
We had a delightful 2-night stay at Giorgio's apartment. It is in an ancient building, down an alley, with its own courtyard. So peaceful. Inside there is everything you could need -and Giorgio and Angela made us very welcome.
Very convenient as to its location. Bit small but full of character so if you have seen enough dull hotelrooms, like us, this is fine. Not unimportantly, beds were alright as well.
Nice apartment, well located. Giorgio was really nice and easy to talk to.
The only thing we didn't like was the fact that there was no Wifi.
Giorgio was a wonderful person to work with. He was waiting for us when we arrived and guided us through winding streets to our location. The accomodations were quaint and old, but it was so full of wonderful character and had everything we needed, as well as in a great location. Giorgio was very helpful on things to do and available if we needed or had any questions.
Artistic Flat In Historic Centre is located in great place. Giorgio service is outstanding. It is perfect place to rent and reasonable price!
We enjoyed our stay in Venice, and we liked Giorgio's appartment, it is very well located. We would only complain about the kitchen stuff (pans, pots, etc) because they were a bit old. Giorgio was a nice and formal host. And the appartment certainly has its charm if that is what you are looking for.
There was simply great to live in the heart of Venice. We got all what we was need.
Bathroom was planed not for fat people but was OK for us. A lot of thanks to Papa Giorgio.
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