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Early Childhood Education Update - June 2012
June 06, 2012 | Child Care and Early Education
In this issue:
- CLASP Releases New Home Visiting Toolkit
- Lessons from Early Childhood Observation Protocols for K-12 Classrooms
- States Outline Barriers to Providing Infant-Early Childhood Mental Health Services
- Paid Leave Policies Strengthen Families
- Greater Government and Community Support Needed for Kinship Caregivers
- Informing CCDF Policy Using Research on Children's Health and Safety in Child Care
- Children's Health and Obesity Prevention in Early Childhood
- Preschool Programs Provide Benefits to English Language Learners (ELLs)
CLASP's newly released toolkit, Home Away from Home, offers help to states exploring partnerships between home visiting and family, friend and neighbor (FFN) caregivers. Many young children spend significant time in the care of family, friend and neighbor caregivers, in particular infants and toddlers and children from low-income families. Home visiting is an important strategy for reaching vulnerable children in FFN care and providing their families with needed services, as well as improving the quality of FFN care and the learning environment for children in that setting.
CLASP's toolkit provides detailed information on available home visiting models and their potential for use in partnership with FFN. It includes a planning guide for states to explore home visiting partnerships, including potential policy changes that may need to be considered. The toolkit also includes case studies of existing partnerships between home visiting models and FFN providers in specific states and communities. Each case study includes information about the model used, professional development and workforce implications, implementation, challenges, and any available evaluation results.
A recent report from the Center for American Progress (CAP) outlines how early childhood education can provide a model for how to conduct classroom observations for the larger K-12 education system. In recent years, increased attention has been given to teacher evaluation and the need to use evaluations in determining what improves student outcomes. Early childhood programs make observations on a variety of program features, including health and safety considerations, materials and physical layout of spaces and classrooms, and the interactions between children and adults-including conversations, emotional tone, or physical proximity. Teacher and classroom observations can be analyzed systematically and used to predict future student learning gains when aligned with specific supports.
CAP's report examines the strategies of early childhood program observation, and offers a set of lessons that may be helpful to states and districts as they begin to implement new, more rigorous observation protocols in K-12 classrooms. Key lessons from the report are designed to be used by K-12 educators as they begin to use new observational measures as well as policymakers and district leaders who advocate for the use of such measures. The report's main lessons include:
- Making sure that any measure that is used provides information in the form of metrics that discriminate among those being assessed. Observational measures should consist of codes and benchmarks that are applied rigorously.
- Observations that are used for decision-making and performance improvement must adhere to a standardized procedure. Training protocol, parameters around observation, and scoring directions are three key elements that should be standardized in any measure.
- Choosing tools that have documented reliability across observers, teachers, time, and situations. Reliability of observational protocols and scoring systems is fundamental.
- Observations of teacher performance should show empirical relations with student learning and development in order to use observation as an instrument in improving student outcomes.
- Time considerations must be taken into account when choosing observational tools-observation takes time and different observational tools will require different time commitments.
- Observational protocols have the capability of identifying teacher classroom behaviors that matter for students, describe typical practices, how classrooms or teachers compare with a national or district average, predict the likely contribution of a teacher to a child's learning, or document how a teacher's practices have improved with professional development. However, observational measures should be used with caution and users should not try to apply them in every circumstance.
- Observational measures can be used for both accountability and program-improvement, but as policy and program investments change over time it may be necessary to raise the bar on performance standards.
- When using observational measures, teachers benefit most when feedback is individualized, highly specific, and focused on increasing teacher observational skills, self-evaluation, and helps teachers see and understand the impact of their behaviors more clearly.
Read the full report from CAP >>
Infant-early childhood mental health (I-ECMH), also referred to as social and emotional development, is defined as a child's capacity to develop close and secure adult and peer relationships; experience, manage, and express a full range of emotions; and explore the environment and learn in the context of family, community, and culture from birth to age 5. State and federal policies aimed at supporting the development of infants and young children must also address I-ECMH. Currently, challenges still exist in financing and delivering infant mental health promotion, prevention, and treatments. ZERO TO THREE (ZTT) published an article looking at the scientific evidence supporting I-ECMH policies; examining the issues national, state, and local program directors and mental health providers face providing I-ECMH services; and proposing recommendations for federal-level policy improvements.
Infants, toddlers, and parents can all experience serious mental health issues that affect development, and if left untreated, mental health disorders can affect multiple domains of development and have detrimental effects on future health and developmental outcomes. ZTT conducted interviews with 23 leaders in 10 states as well as with national experts to determine the barriers as well as successful strategies associated with financing and delivering I-ECMH services. The barriers highlighted as most significant include: 1) a lack of evidence-based practices and policies in mental health, early learning and development, or health care reform for I-ECMH, 2) reimbursement issues that hindered their ability to pay for I-ECMH, 3) having eligibility determinations and diagnoses impede appropriate I-ECMH services, 4) a lack of trained providers in I-ECMH, 5) a larger system serving young children that does not adequately include I-ECMH services.
In order to address the barriers that states and local programs and providers face, ZTT offers a set of policy recommendations to put in place at the national level. Individual agencies and departments can take action to help better integrate and provide I-ECMH services and support.
- Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) should issue guidance to state Medicaid agencies expressing its intent to include infants and young children in mental health treatment. In addition, they should urge consistency across states and regions in I-ECMH screening, diagnosis, and treatment, and encourage states to develop policies that support the reimbursement of I-ECMH services.
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Agency (SAMHSA) should develop and adopt federal polices and encourage states to develop policies that support I-ECMH concepts and interventions. SAMHSA should address the needs of infants and young children who have been affected by adult domestic violence, substance abuse, trauma, and mental health issues. They should also increase the focus on I-ECMH throughout all SAMHSA initiatives.
- Department of Education's Early Learning Initiative team and the Office of Special Education Programs should develop and adopt federal polices, while also encouraging states to adopt policies, which focus on supporting I-ECMH concepts and interventions. States should be provided with resource materials that highlight the connections between I-ECMH and early learning, including supports for children with special needs and their families. States should also be supported and encouraged to develop comprehensive early learning and development systems, and financing strategies that are inclusive of I-ECMH promotion, prevention, and treatment.
Read more about I-ECMH in ZTT's complete article >>
The United States remains the only industrialized nation without a national paid family leave program that helps support workers when they need time off to care for a new baby or a sick child. A lack of a paid family leave policy has left parents trying to meet the needs and expectations of both work and family. Low-income parents in particular often work in jobs that provide few family-support benefits, making the demands of family and job even more challenging to meet. Research has shown that paid family leave provides many benefits to business, including improved employee retention rates and increased job satisfaction. However, growing research is showing that paid family leave also has beneficial effects on a child and parental physical and emotional health. A policy brief from the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) zeroes in on the effects of maternal employment and parental leave policies on child health, cognitive, and emotional development; maternal health; and the health of parental relationships.
Mothers who take paid family leave have been shown to breastfeed for longer and at higher rates, which leads to positive health outcomes for both child and mother. Additionally, paid family leave policies have been shown to be associated with lower infant and child mortality rates, higher birth weight, more well-baby doctors' visits, complete immunizations, and better parent-infant bonding. More parental time with babies also has positive social and cognitive benefits for children including higher cognitive scores, fewer externalizing behaviors, better bonding with parents, and increased parental responsiveness to child's cues. Moms who receive paid family leave show lower rates of depression, and more complete physical recovery from childbirth.
Included in the brief are multiple recommendations for policymakers, researchers, public health and early childhood stakeholders, and business groups on how to address and implement paid family leave policies. NCCP's brief suggest that a paid family leave policy solution can build on existing policies, including the Federal Family Medical Leave Act and State Temporary Disability Insurance Program, and is supported by research that documents the benefits for business, families, and children. They recommend using statewide family leave policies currently in place in California and New Jersey to serve as models, and that it is possible to implement a paid family leave policy that is cost neutral or incurs minimal expense to a state.
Read the full NCCP brief on paid family leave >>
The Annie E. Casey Foundation recently released a policy report detailing the struggles of kinship caregivers and the need for greater support from government and communities for kinship families. Kinship care refers to children who are cared for full time by blood relatives or other adults whom they have family-like relationships with, such as godparents or close family friends. Extended family members and close family friends care for more than 2.7 million children in the United States. Kinship caregivers are more likely to be poor, single, older, less educated, and unemployed than families where at least one parent is present.
Kinship caregivers also often face increased financial burdens when taking on the care of children, and the financial burden can be even more severe when kin are already caring for other children, take in large sibling groups, are retired, or are living on a fixed income. A majority of kinship caregivers do not receive financial assistance either, and many are unaware of the government supports that exist to help them care for the children they've taken in. Less than 12 percent of kinship families receive TANF support and only 17 percent of low-income kinship caregivers receive child care assistance. States often prefer placing children with kin over families unknown to children, however there is uneven progress across states in actually seeking out and engaging family connections to place children with kin. Additionally, current state licensing requirements and practices often prevent kin caregivers from being approved as foster parents. Kinship caregivers also face barriers to becoming children's legal guardians.
The report provides a set of policy recommendations to strengthen the support system for kinship families.
- Increase the financial stability of families by ensuring kinship families have access to the benefits they are eligible for, and by designing TANF-funded programs that meet the needs of kinship families.
- Strengthen the involvement of kinship families in the child welfare system through aligning public agency and court practices with the philosophy of placing children with kin; assuring that decisions to divert children to live with kin instead of entering the state custody is guided by sound policy and practice; reforming the foster home care licensing requirements; and by adding subsidized guardianship to the permanency options for foster children.
- Enhance other community-based and government responses for kinship families by offering stable housing, affordable legal representation, access to health care, the ability to enroll children in schools, and access to community-based supports.
By implementing these types of policies and strategies throughout the different levels of government and within a community, kinship caregivers and the children in their care will be able to receive the support they need.
Read the entire report on kinship caregivers >>
The Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) provided child care subsidies to nearly 1.7 million low-income children in 2010 and is the largest source of federal funding for child care. The CCDF program requires that state lead agencies certify that state or local laws are in place to protect the health and safety of children receiving subsidized care in three main areas: 1) prevention and control of infectious diseases, which includes age-appropriate immunizations; 2) building and physical premises safety; and 3) minimum health and safety training appropriate to the provider settings. A brief from Urban Institute and the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) highlights recent research that can help inform lead agencies as they consider ways to support state licensing and other systems that influence children's health and safety.
Children's health and safety is supported through appropriate child:staff ratios and group sizes, good hand washing practices, having staff who are informed about immunizations and medication administration, and having comprehensive emergency procedures in place. Health and safety training for providers is also crucial to the safety and health of children receiving care. Providers should be trained in first aid and CPR, SIDS prevention and safe sleep practices, and child abuse identification and prevention. State lead agencies and child care providers should also consider going beyond the CCDF-required categories and promoting health and safety practices related to nutrition and physical activity, health screening and consultations, and mental health consultations.
Research on health and safety for children in child care can help inform CCDF policy, and in turn benefit providers and the children and families they serve. The research shows that:
- Health and safety components of programs help protect children. However, there are major variations across states with respect to regulations, enforcement of regulations, and support.
- Nutrition and physical activity regulations and interventions may help prevent obesity, and health and mental health consultations and screenings are also ways in which children's health can be supported.
- Training and other supports have an impact on children's health and safety.
Further research is still needed on the health and safety practices in home-based child care as well as on the health and safety practices in subsidized care supported by CCDF. CCDF policy would also benefit from a better understanding of how regulations, enforcement, and training supports work together to impact health and safety. Additionally, studies using child health assessments as quality measures are needed.
Read more on the health and safety of children in child care >>
As childhood obesity rates increase, more attention is being paid toward what policies and action communities and government can take to help prevent the steady climb in childhood obesity rates and help improve children's health. Two reports, one from the National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education and the other from the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP), take a close look at what can be done to prevent obesity starting in early childhood.
- Preventing Childhood Obesity in Early Care and Education Programs - This report from the National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education provides a set of standards that are evidence-based as well as expert consensus-based, and span three topic areas: nutrition, physical activity, and screen time in early care and education. The report recommendations include breastfeeding for infants and having infants fed by a consistent caregiver, and requiring regular meal and snack patterns, appropriate serving sizes, and self-feeding for toddlers and preschoolers. Nutritional education for children as well as parents and caregivers is also encouraged. With respect to physical activity standards, they recommend active opportunities for physical activity and playtime, both outdoors and indoors; and that child care providers utilize policies and practices that encourage physical activity. Additionally, screen time should be limited. These standards can be used by a variety of individuals from families at home to caregivers and teachers in classrooms to health care professionals and policymakers. The report encourages interaction among families, caregivers/teachers, and health care professionals to help implement these standards.
Read the complete standards >>
- Comprehensive Obesity Prevention in Early Childhood: Promising Federal and State Initiatives - NCCP's report looks at a range of early childhood obesity prevention initiatives to help inform states of ways they can build cross-system efforts that reduce childhood obesity rates. While providing strategies, the report also draws attention to the need for greater coordination across early care and education systems and other early childhood systems to help reach children and families who are both in and out of early care and education settings. Five overarching policy recommendations are provided. They include: 1) enhancing child care licensing regulations on nutrition and physical activity; 2) expanding nutrition programs such as the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) to help reach food insecure families with infants and toddlers; 3) states can use quality rating and improvement systems (QRIS) or other incentive programs to promote health nutrition and physical activity; 4) child care health consultants and pediatric medical homes can help promote healthy nutrition practices and physical activity; 5) obesity prevention initiatives should be coordinated at the state-level to help integrate the different federal funding streams available.
Read more about state initiatives and policy recommendations >>
A new study from the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) finds that the early reading skills of children from linguistically isolated households (those without any adult English speaker) can significantly improve with participation in a center-based care program the year before kindergarten. Over half of 4-year-olds in California, where the study focused on children of immigrants, and almost 20 percent of young children of immigrants in California live in linguistically isolated households with little or no exposure to English. Children whose parents do not speak English and who receive little exposure to English prior to entering school often begin kindergarten lagging behind their peers in school readiness skills.
While the report finds improved early reading skills among linguistically isolated children, the size of gains were similar to those made by children of U.S. natives and would not close the achievement gap between these children and their English speaking peers. The report's authors suggest that early education programs targeted toward linguistically isolated children might have a greater impact in reducing gaps in school readiness skills. The study also found no improvements in early mathematics skills for linguistically isolated children. The report's authors encourage policymakers specifically in California to consider the merits of center-based programs for linguistically isolated children, and consider increasing the enrollment of these children in the state preschool program. Additionally, they encourage further research to examine the longer-term school trajectories for linguistically isolated children so that the benefits of center-based programs can be more fully assessed. Policymakers are also urged to consider funding preschool in conjunction with other evidence-based early intervention strategies for disadvantaged children like home visiting programs, which combine parent education with child participation in early education programs.
Read the full study from PPIC >>


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Things couldn't have gone much better for the St. John's IceCaps Tuesday night at Mile One Centre.
With Winnipeg Jets general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff on hand at Mile One Centre, the IceCaps put on a show and defeated the Portland Pirates 5-1 in front of a fifth straight capacity crowd.
The IceCaps received plenty of opportunities to snap their home power play drought, and finally did so in the second period of Tuesday night's victory. Riley Holzapfel banged a rebound past Pirates goalie Curtis McElhinney at 6:33 of the second to end an 0-for-24 skid with the man advantage. Until that point, the IceCaps had gone 0-for6 on the night and appeared destined to keep the streak intact.
Holzapfel's marker might have been just enough to lift the curse. Just six minutes later, Jason King netted his third of the season to give the IceCaps their second power play marker and third goal of the period. Brett Festerling and Travis Ramsey added third period goals for the home side.
Goaltender Edward Pasquale, making his first start of the season, looked sharp in making 29 saves. Pasquale, a draft pick of the former Atlanta Thrashers, had been a healthy scratch in all but one game this season but showed poise and athleticism all game long in picking up his first win.
The IceCaps once again fired plenty of pucks at the opposing net. McElhinney saw 41 shots, including 18 in the second period, as St. John's outshot Portland 41-29 overall. The IceCaps have now outshot their opponents in all seven games this season.
Portland opened the scoring in the first period on a power play of its own when Kyle Chipchura snapped home a shot from the side of the net, but that was all the Pirates could muster on this night. St. John's didn't respond until John Albert's first of the season at 3:57 of the second period, but cruised after that.
The game featured a slew of penalties, with St. John's finishing 2-for-11 with the man advantage while Portland converted on just 1-of-7 chances. Eight minor penalties were called in the first period alone.
With the win, the IceCaps move to 5-1-1-0 on the season and into sole possession of first place in the Atlantic Division.
St. John's wraps up its six-game homestand tomorrow night against the Pirates before heading off on a six-game road trip. Brian Rogers has the call on 930AM This Is Newfoundland Labrador and online at www.stjohnsicecaps.com. Puck drop is set for 7:30 p.m. with the pre-game show beginning at 7:00.
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Class-action suit filed against McKeesport Area schools
There are 39 comments on the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story from Oct 14, 2010, titled Class-action suit filed against McKeesport Area schools. In it, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that:
A class-action lawsuit was filed on behalf of residents of the Auberle group home in McKeesport against the McKeesport Area School District, alleging that the Auberle residents who attend the district's schools are educated in separate classrooms.
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#1 Oct 15, 2010
This is just unreal who gave these students the idea to sue and even agreed to represent them?
#2 Oct 15, 2010
Wow! Who were the jackasses who enacted this policy and didn't see this lawsuit coming?
#3 Oct 15, 2010
This is McKeesport! Screw the laws. Break them, try to get away with it, and pay later.
#4 Oct 15, 2010
give them a chance in regular classes if they are trouble then put them back in there own place.as for a lawsuit you gotta be kidding.where do they think they are.............
United States
#5 Oct 15, 2010
You know what? GOOD FOR THEM!!! The administrators and school board officers don't care about laws. They try to enforce whatever they want, whenever they want-whether it is the right thing or not. I am soooooo tired of MASD thinking that they can and should get away with everything. This is just the start of MANY lawsuits to come down the line. It's about time their *ss*s be put to the fire!
#6 Oct 15, 2010
It goes back a long ways. We never had so many problem children when we had a two parent household
& parents would simply beat their kid's asses if they got out of line. We can thank the liberal agenda that created 40 years of welfare that caters to dysfunctional families, kids = dollars,,
bad kids = SSI & the 'we will tell you how to raise your children' crap. This was all done for political gain & it was & is controlled by the Democrats & was the beginning of the Democratic party becoming the Socialist party that favors the masses for votes.
Don't fault me for telling the truth until you research it. Look at any city in this valley &
the monies rolling in to support the useless welfare breeders. The politicians are deep in bed with this, they make no attempt to aid the working class because it doesn't pay. They can sit on their dead asses, do nothing & claim credit when the free money rolls in.
#7 Oct 15, 2010
Hey ass clown, dont make it sound like bad parenting is the property of liberals. My dad was a liberal and he was a disciplinarian. And a very hard worker. Bad parents come in all shapes and sizes. I could embarrass some people by listing the names of children of republicans who are on welfare, or living on HUD.
#8 Oct 15, 2010
Most of the children who are in Auberlie are there because they were already in some kind of trouble. The school district is placing them in an alternative education program for that reason.
#9 Oct 15, 2010
The kids should all enter MASD with the same opportunity. Nobody is born good or bad. To pigeon hole kids with the Auberle label is crap. Good suit!
A lot of Auberle kids are good kids with PARENTS that failed or lost them or passed on.
Know what you are talking about before you shoot your mouth of in public.
#10 Oct 15, 2010
How true that is. It used to be that the kids in Auberle were dependent children who had crimes committed against them, and they were the victims. Auberle couldn't make any money to stay afloat that way, so they started taking the overflow of criminal kids from the inner city. Shuman Center is over-crowded so they send the overflow to Auberle and get reimbursed by the state because Shuman Center is overcrowded. They County don't want no problems like they have had is the past with the state, so they send them there. They should be seperate from the mainstream students. They are a negative influence. The school district is doing the right thing. That is another incident where the city lead by his lordship Brewster slipped them in under the cover of darkness and created a juvenile detention center without the public's or school district's knowledge. Actually, you have a another Shuman Center Detention Center right here in McKeesport!! Hats off to the school district for seperating them.
#11 Oct 16, 2010
Shadow Hey ass clown,
Who you talkin to, is your mother on here ?
Another moron that has to call names when someone dis-agrees with him. You need to read slower, I said it was the liberal agenda that has pushed & empowered this by telling parents how to raise their kids. Obviously you seem to have missed out on a few of those disciplinarians lessons in manners. What is an ass-clown anyway ? A left-wing
lib-socialist Dem. or what. Hug & Kisses !
#12 Oct 16, 2010
My point is, a liberal agenda in government does not mold a person into a good parent, or a bad parent. No government could or should tell me how to raise my kids. Anyone who does not have a mind of their own, in my world, is an ass clown.
Children emulate their parents. Not politics.
What is a liberal agenda anyway? Please describe it to me in layman's terms.
#13 Oct 21, 2010
I am glad they are where they are I dont want them with my children. They tormented my daughter caused alot of problems.
#14 Oct 22, 2010
Facts are facts. Like it or not the following facts are true:
(1)The McKeesport School District strives to do what is in the best interest for all of its students; this includes the students from the Auberle.
(2) The alternative ed classes at East End Academy are staffed by dedicated teachers who work tirelessly to help these kids reach their individual potential.
(3) The students are constantly evaluated, and only return to tradition class setting when they are ready.
(4) Both Auberle and MASD work as a team putting the best interests of each student first.
(5) Many of these students are unable to learn and progress in a traditional school setting; this leaves the alternative education program as the only hope for these students to someday becoming productive members of society.
This lawsuit is without merit.
#15 Mar 2, 2011
WHY DON'T ALL OF YOU STOP BLAMING THE SCHOOL BOARD FOR EVERYTHING!!!!!! My GOODNESS people JB runs the whole city and school board .... I DONT EVEN LIVE THERE AND I KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON!!!!! he may have nothing to do with this issue but really I look at what the school board has done for the city and you are very lucky to see where your money is going.....i see some big taxes where i live and they do NOTHING and i mean NOTHING good with our money!!!!BE THANKFUL!!!!
#16 Mar 2, 2011
hey, here's an idea - put them in a class taught by Battista - I'm sure her sex antics will get their attention and then they will become interested in going to school. she can teach them that is they get caught doing anything wrong or committing crimes they should just blame others for all their troubles and then sue the school board. and yinz are wondering where these kids are getting their bad influence from - THE CLASSROOM ITSELF!
#17 Mar 2, 2011
You're entitled to that opinion, without doubt.
But please, enlighten us, what is the school board
doing that is beneficial to the taxpayers ?
Inquiring minds want to know.
We didn't vote them in to simply be controlled, mindless puppets to do the bidding of the local
political agenda. Doing that is a conflict of interest & breaks the little trust we may have had in them. They have in essence become nothing more than a board of political prostitutes. Not meant as a simple, lowly attack. Explain their behavior.
#18 Oct 2, 2011
How would you feel if a Elementary School Child tell you to go F_ck off and say kiss my A__!!! They learn that in the Home of the single parent who has nothing better to do than lay around get Knocked-Up collect Welfare,get Drunk,get High and live 2 doors down from Mom who done the same thing!Check out the Crawford Village Area/Harrison Village Area...Not to forget those that got over on the System...Driving brand new SUV's;Using the modern day food stamps with their carts full of non-nutrician items!!! Their children are wild,disobedient,foul mouth worst than a drunk on the streets...Think I'm joking? Talk to a School Bus Driver from that area!!!
#19 Oct 5, 2011
Um, Battista has been fired... HOWEVER, your cheating, family-destroying, bar hopping, golden couple have miraculously gotten away with their sexual escapades and are still teaching. Your idea would work with those two lying pieces of garbage just as well though, I suppose. poor kids don't have a chance in hell:(
#20 Oct 6, 2011
I agree. They ALL should have been fired. None of them should have been rewarded with a buyout. Hell, the State Board of Education should have stepped in and stripped their credentials. The School Board, the Administration and the Teacher's Union sent our kids a clear message. Do what you want if you have friends in high places.
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"Star Wars: Episode VII" possibly has its first actor.
According to Latino Review, Jonathan Rhys Meyers (best known for his lead role in Showtime's "The Tudors") is talks to star in the upcoming "Star Wars" movie.
Meyers previously worked with J.J. Abrams in 1996's "Mission: Impossible III."
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Details about what role Meyers is reportedly in talks to play are not known.
"Star Wars: Episode VII" has a tentative release date of 2015.
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In related "Star Wars" news, Disney announced on Monday via Twitter that a new animated series, "Star Wars Rebels," is in the works.
"Production has begun on 'Star Wars Rebels,' an exciting, all-new animated television series based on one of the greatest entertainment franchises of all time. Scheduled to premiere in fall 2014 as a one-hour special telecast on Disney Channel, it will be followed by a series on Disney XD channels around the world," a statement read. "The action-filled series is set between the events of 'Episode III' and 'IV' -- an era spanning almost two decades never-before explored on-screen. 'Star Wars Rebels' takes place in a time where the Empire is securing its grip on the galaxy and hunting down the last of the Jedi Knights as a fledgling rebellion against the Empire is taking shape. Details about the show are a closely guarded secret at this point."
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Are Today's Entrepreneurs Less Ethical?
By David E. Gumpert
An American entrepreneur I know was telling me recently about his plans to sell prescription drugs in the U.S. over the Internet from a Central American country. The drugs can be obtained at much lower prices south of the border, he explained, so he can sell them at significant discounts on U.S. prices, and still make hefty margins. I told him it sounded a lot like what is already going on from Canada. Yes, he said, but he would be able to offer many drugs, and do so even more cheaply, than Canadian suppliers.
My first, instinctive reaction was to wonder about the law. It's generally illegal to sell or import prescription drugs from outside the U.S. Well, he said, he'd be operating "under the radar" and would thus be unlikely to encounter trouble. Besides, he'd be doing lots of American consumers a big favor by enabling them to bypass high American prices.
The Robin Hood explanation aside, is this entrepreneur's business activity ethical? Can any business that knowingly violates existing laws and regulations, no matter how questionable, be ethical?
That question was brought home to me recently by a posting on the listserv of the Academy of Management, an organization primarily of business-school professors, seeking input for a research paper examining "new business formation using Internet technology, where the basis for the business raises ethical questions." Two examples cited by the researcher were Canadian-based Internet pharmacies selling to American consumers and file-sharing that makes available popular music for free. Concluded the researcher: "I'm seeing this as…a new venture whose very essence puts it at the edge (or over) of ethical behavior."
Since that posting went up at the end of August, I have found myself thinking an awful lot about it as I read the news, and also realizing that the answers to the questions I raised aren't as open and shut as I initially thought. Contradictions abound. Even as the FDA has launched a campaign to shut down Canadian-based Internet pharmacies, Illinois is pushing a proposal to get around the restrictions so the state can shave millions in healthcare expenditures by supplying its current and retired workers with drugs purchased from across the border. In Springfield, Mass., the city government has actually been buying Canadian drugs for its employees, and has received warnings from the FDA.
Recording companies are suing individuals who download free music from the Internet to avoid purchasing CDs. Yet the highly publicized effort has the appearance of sticking a finger in the dike, as millions of ordinary individuals continue the practice, apparently fully able to suppress any guilt feelings that might arise.
Another such example, one not even touched on by the researcher is online gambling. Gambling is illegal in most states, except in certain government-sanctioned areas or for particular activities, like lotteries. Yet Internet gambling is now estimated to be a $6 billion-plus industry, with nearly half of that amount coming from Americans. As Visa and Mastercard, along with PayPal have discontinued doing business with online gambling sites (presumably as expressions of their ethical standards), gambling entrepreneurs have turned more attention to Europe and Asia, though Americans still find other ways to support their online habit.
Can the contradictory practices we're seeing with legally marginal online businesses be traced to unethical entrepreneurs? It's natural to want to point to easily identifiable villains. Yes, I sense that is too simplistic. The questionable ethical behavior we are witnessing could be viewed as an inevitable offshoot of the new freedom enabled by the Internet. In the matters of prescription drugs and the recording industry, it could also be seen as the entrenched behemoths finally getting their comeuppance. It's possible as well to blame corporate chieftains at companies like Enron and Worldcom for setting bad examples for would-be entrepreneurs.
Some experts claim our business schools aren't doing enough to teach ethics. It really shouldn't be surprising that entrepreneurs are pushing legal limits in the ways they use the Internet to exploit opportunity. We're a society that encourages people to go heavily into debt to buy SUVs and big-screen televisions as part of a national obsession to drive GDP growth ever higher, ever faster. We're a society in which, increasingly, it's not about how you play the game, but whether you win.
Bottom line, entrepreneurs are about serving markets. Entrepreneurs who provide products or services in demand by particular markets stand a good chance of successfully launching and growing their businesses. Sometimes, though, government regulations and practices aren't as clear as they should be, or don't adequately anticipate technological or other changes. I remember a successful entrepreneur who, some years ago, was complaining about excessive government environmental regulations. "I don't care what decisions they make about the rules, just tell me what the rules are," he told me.
Right now, the growth of the Internet has rendered a number of rules much less clear than they used to be. That researcher trying to make a connection between legally questionable businesses and entrepreneurial ethics may find himself on a deadend path.
David E. Gumpert is the author of Burn Your Business Plan: What Investors Really Want from Entrepreneurs and How to Really Start Your Own Business. Readers can e-mail him at email@example.com


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With the top pick in the 2008 NFL Draft, Miami Dolphins team officials will open themselves up to praise or ridicule in future years as they learn whether they selected a franchise player who can help turn their club around, or a player who leaves them wondering how they could have possibly missed the mark so badly in sizing up his potential versus actual ability to succeed in the NFL.
The number one overall pick from the past five seasons -- Oakland's JaMarcus Russell, Houston's Mario Williams, San Francisco's Alex Smith, New York's Eli Manning and Cincinnati's Carson Palmer -- are still on the roster of the teams who originally drafted them, which is at least a start.
Manning became a Super Bowl MVP after an erratic start in New York, Williams has silenced critics who mocked the Texans for passing on running back Reggie Bush, and Palmer has become the franchise quarterback that Cincinnati desperately needed.
But Smith hasn't convinced too many onlookers that he was worthy of his draft-day status, while it's simply to early to tell where Russell will land as the Raiders continue to revamp their roster in hopes of turning around their franchise's losing ways.
Looking back at the picks from six to 10 years ago, they've certainly traveled divergent paths since that proud day when their names were called out before all other college football players from their draft class.
QB David Carr had no idea of the difficult years that were looming when he was selected with the top overall pick on Draft Day, 2002.
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Former Texan quarterback David Carr was the top pick in 2002, and after surviving 249 sacks in Houston he spent a forgettable season in Carolina despite having the opportunity to step up and start when Jake Delhomme was lost for the season after just three weeks of action. Carr now heads to New York to play for the defending World Champions where he'll likely be exposed to his harshest critics yet if he has to step in for Manning and falters.
Michael Vick was 2001's top pick, and while he had wowed NFL fans with his mobility he only completed 53.8 percent of his passes during his six seasons prior to landing in prison for his role in dog-fighting activities. Although his overall athleticism helped him earn three Pro Bowl selections, his NFL future is cloudy at best. Any team that signs him after he serves his sentence could face a substantial public relations backlash and risks investing in a quarterback who's skills will have eroded during his absence from the playing field.
The Browns misfired in consecutive seasons with their 1999 NFL Draft selection of Kentucky quarterback Tim Couch and 2000 pick of Penn State's Courtney Brown, both of whom are no longer in the league. Brown landed on the injured reserve list five times during his six-year career, although three of those instances were during the final month of the season. The only year that he started all 16 games was during his rookie season when he made 69 tackles and was credited with 4.5 sacks. Meanwhile, Couch hasn't been able to latch on with another NFL team after sputtering in Cleveland for five seasons. He's been out of the league since 2003.
That leaves just the 1998 top overall pick, the Colts' Peyton Manning, as the sole top draft pick during that five-year stretch as the one who truly became the kind player that clubs hope for when they send that first name up to the podium.
But don't forget, when the Colts selected Manning some draft prognosticators and GMs were touting the physical abilities of Washington State's Ryan Leaf, who the Chargers selected with the second pick of the draft, over the former University of Tennessee quarterback. While Leaf may have looked the part, he crumbled under the weight of the NFL spotlight and the speed of the game. He was cut in 2001 and then tried to find a new home during short stints with the Buccaneers, Cowboys and Seahawks prior to his retirement in 2002.
It's also interesting to note that Manning and Palmer are the only top picks in the past ten years other than Vick to be selected for at least one Pro Bowl appearance. The Colts quarterback has made the trip to Hawaii eight times while Palmer's been there on two occasions.
It's likely you'll see at least Mario Williams and Eli Manning make it at least once before their careers are over. And it's simply too early to tell how JaMarcus Russell will fare.
With eight of the last ten top picks used on quarterbacks and the other two used on defensive ends, it's likely that the trend will continue with Miami in need of talent at both positions. And unless the Dolphins trade down, Virginia defensive end Chris Long is still the odds-on favorite to be their pick.
Ed Thompson's player interviews and NFL features are published across the Scout.com network and at FOXSports.com. You can contact him by email through this link.


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Spending time on online is just part of his role as Haberman's Connection and Engagement Group Director. Ask Nathan about what he does, specifically, and his list is as vast as the Web: digital advertising planning, social media strategy, online consumer engagement, online reputation management, public speaking, writing, website strategy, user experience design, search engine optimization, online community development and studying Google.
On the flipside, his personal passions are laser-beam focused. Food systems. Spiritual discovery. Health. The natural world. They all draw him to true business pioneers who benefit from Nathan's unique approach to authentically pursuing social media campaigns, interactive marketing initiatives, website strategies and many other digital-based experiences.
His love for systems thinking, creativity and New York Jets football led him to a bachelor's degree in social work from Minnesota State University and a master's degree in education from Cal State–Hayward.
He also studied to become an Experience Economy Expert through Pine and Gilmore — one of only 100 in the nation who study and explore the impetus of change in business, rather than its manifestation. Prior to joining the Haberman, Nathan honed his craft at the nonprofit health system Banner Health in Phoenix and PRACS Institute in Fargo, North Dakota.
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I'm normally one to shy away from having those annoying "one-use only" kinds of kitchen gadgets. I don't own any madeleine pans, or a springform ice cream cake pan, or one of those giant "cupcake" pans. I don't own pancake molds, or pie crust edge cutters. I see no reason to own a yogurt maker, and as cute as this little pie maker is, I can't see myself getting one. The only pieces of one-use kitchen equipment I own are a waffle maker (because homemade waffles are the best kinds of waffles- see here and here), a cherry pitter (because after one attempt to pit 2.5 pounds of cherries by hand, I realized how practical investing in a cherry pitter could be), and an ice cream maker (because, like waffles, homemade ice cream is the best kind of ice cream- this is my favorite). Oh wait, there's actually one more one-use kitchen gadget that I own. A pizzelle maker, of course.
I don't actually remember getting it, though.
I've always looked forward to the holiday season, for many obvious reasons, like giving gifts, decorating Christmas trees, seeing the window displays along 5th Ave, attempting to create really elaborate gingerbread houses (and never finishing them), and of course, making (and eating) Christmas cookies. I love all kinds of Christmas cookies, and pizzelle are one of my favorites. Pizzelle are traditional Italian waffle cookies, and are popular around the holiday season. Even though I'm not Italian, I grew up eating pizzelle every year around Christmas time, and eventually, my mom must have decided to get a pizzelle iron for us to have at home. I don't remember when this happened; all I remember is that we went from not having a pizzelle maker one day to suddenly having one the next. This was several years ago, and I've been making pizzelle around Christmas time ever since. In fact, I can't even imagine letting Christmas go by without these cookies!
I usually just make the traditional type of pizzelle, which is a hard, crisp cookie that's often flavored with anise. This time though, I wanted to change things up and make a chocolate version of the classic buttery waffle cookie that I've enjoyed for so many years. The chocolate pizzelle might have to become a new tradition! They were delicious, and a welcome change. I love traditional pizzelle, but the chocolate pizzelle were just as lovely! They weren't ridiculously chocolatey, but you could definitely taste the difference from the traditional cookies. I think that the next time I make these, I'm going to make some sort of chocolate filling to sandwich in between two pizzelle...now that sounds like a great tradition that's definitely worth starting!
Making pizzelle is quite simple. The batter comes together in seconds, and it can be completely mixed by hand- no mixer needed! The process of actually cooking the pizzelle cookies is probably the most time-consuming part, simply because you can only make two pizzelle at a time on a pizzelle iron, and they take about 30-45 seconds to make. It's a little time consuming, but not hard at all! One trick I've learned over the years is to drop the batter just slightly behind the center of each pizzelle mold, so that when you close the iron, the batter will move forward, and you'll get perfectly centered pizzelle every time. What's great about making pizzelle is that when you take them off the iron, they are still soft, so you can roll them up into cones or cannoli-shapes, and fill them with cream, or other sorts of fillings. I guess this one-use kitchen appliance can serve more functions than just making flat pizzelle after all!
Pizzelle are some of my favorite Christmas cookies, and while I love the traditional anise cookies, this chocolate version is definitely a close runner-up. If you have a pizzelle iron, you should definitely give these cookies a go!
Chocolate Pizzelle
recipe from Food Network
1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt
3 large eggs, at room temperature
1 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted and cooled slightly
confectioner's sugar, for dusting the cookies
Whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt together in a large bowl. Set aside. In a medium bowl, briefly whisk together the eggs, sugar, and melted butter, until smooth and evenly combined.
Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and pour in the egg-butter mixtures, and gradually mix until a thick batter has formed.
Preheat a pizzelle iron according to the manufacturer's instructions until hot, about 10 minutes or so. Lightly spray the hot iron with nonstick baking spray. Drop about one tablespoon of the batter slightly behind the center of each cookie imprint. Close the pizzelle iron, and cook each cookie until a puff of steam comes out from the iron (about 30-45 seconds). Carefully open the iron, and with an offset metal spatula, remove the cookie from the iron and allow it to cool on a wire rack. The cookies will be soft and malleable when you remove them from the iron, but will harden in a few seconds. Repeat with the remaining batter. Once the cookies are cool, dust with powdered sugar, and enjoy!
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Remove garden hoses from their spigots. Cut off the water supply to outdoor faucets before the frosty weather arrives. Leave the faucets turned on so the pipes are drained before winter.
Insulate vulnerable pipes. Using heat tape or heat cable (sold in hardware stores), wrap uninsulated water supply lines anywhere heat doesn't reach, such as the garage, crawl spaces, or under cabinets.
Allow water to trickle through pipes. Even during freezing spells, regularly let a little water―cold or hot―to run through the pipes. Set the thermostat at 65 degrees, and open the cabinets under sinks to expose them to as much heat as possible. If you're leaving for an extended period during the winter, turn off the main water supply, set the thermostat at no lower than 55 degrees, and keep the cabinets open.


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The city's low-income housing authority has been troubled by bad financial management that exposes the agency to "questionable practices and poor decisions," according to an audit released Thursday by City Controller Wendy Greuel.
The Housing Authority of the city of Los Angeles, which has an annual budget of more than $1 billion, oversees about 75,400 housing units and is engaged in an effort to add 30,000 more units over the next 10 years.
Greuel's audit found no explicit wrongdoing, but rather that HACLA managers failed to establish financial controls that could identify spending abuses or evaluate basic financial performances. The agency lacked a long-term strategic financial plan and has not performed an inventory of its fixed assets worth more than $5,000 in more than seven years.
"HACLA should be a leader in fiscal responsibility, because every dollar that is not accounted for or is misspent by management is one dollar less that can go towards providing housing in the city," Greuel said.
Greuel initiated the financial management audit in the wake of a damning audit last year of HACLA's travel and discretionary spending that found housing authority employees routinely spent thousands of dollars on lunches and dinners at posh restaurants.
Some employees were given personal incentives such as clothes, gift cards and electronics; some were found to have "double-dipped," paying for expenses with agency purchase cards and later being reimbursed for those same costs.
In total, Greuel found the agency spent about $300,000 per year on travel during 2009 and 2010, a 300 percent increase over travel expenses in 2006.
The abuses led to the ouster of the then-authority's top executive, Rudolf Montiel, and members of the board that oversee the agency.
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa handpicked the agency's new CEO, Douglas Guthrie, in December. He was confirmed earlier this year.
In a statement, Guthrie said he had enacted a number of personnel and policy changes that "have paved the way to bolster the agency's financial operations to safeguard taxpayer dollars."
Under Guthrie, the agency has made changes to its travel, vehicle usage and credit card purchasing policies.
The agency also has hired a new chief financial officer, and all members of HACLA's Board of Commissioners had to undergo a round of financial management training administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
In addition, the commission has formed an Audit and Finance Committee, according to an agency statement.
"We agree with the overall conclusion that there are opportunities to enhance internal controls and strengthen HACLA's financial management system," Guthrie said. "I am committed to carrying out the mission of providing affordable housing for Angelenos with transparency and accountability."


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Nowadays we are used to a course having 18-holes, but this was not always the case. Many started out with nine, or even less – St Andrews is a prominent example. It originally had twelve and the course was generally played twice.
Definition to the game and its architecture can mainly be attributed to the three great architects of golf, Harry Colt, Alister Mackenzie and James Braid. The three men designed courses and modified existing courses, setting down the blue print of the architecture we see on most golf courses today.
Colt worked predominantly with Alister Mackenzie as a partnership for many years. MacKenzie went to Australia on Colt's behalf, whilst Colt saw to enquiries from the mainland of Europe, North America, and the Far East. These great architects produced impressive results, but tension between the two eventually saw Mackenzie's departure. Colt later formed Colt Alison & Morrison in 1928 with Charles Alison and John Morrison, with the partnership designing or redisigning some 300 courses.
Whilst MacKenzie and Harry Colt were drawn to other countries, James Braid's fear of flying limited his ventures. Having designed only one course in the United States, he never actually visited the site. Instead, Braid travelled the length and breadth of Britain constructing golf courses after his playing career began to subside. He created over 250 courses in the United Kingdom, the best of them in his homeland. Braid is remembered for his inland courses in the UK, most noteably The Kings Course at Gleneagles.
Colt himself was the key influence to Belgium and Holland, whereas Mackenzie on the other hand, whilst notching up several designs in the UK, is mainly recognised for his brilliance in the design of Augusta National.
Designs tended to follow trends, with the dogleg becomming a feature from these early 20th century designers. This type of design was unusual on links courses favoured by Colt as they mainly follow coastline. However, Braid made plentiful use for them on inland layouts as holes often wound their way through trees and hillsides.
Bunkers in particular pulled everything together, Colt, perhaps staying closer to what he saw on the coast, preferred a small but deep punishment for error, not the shallow pits that so many modern designers now favour, MacKenzie preferred flourishes of sand in strategic places warning the player of pending danger, whereas Braid favoured bunkers that defended the green.
In essence, the three designers loosely followed the same three rules, being that firstly, early holes should ease you into the round, secondly, routing of the course would be determined by the land, and thirdly, ideal courses would make use of every club in the bag. Advances in technology and design have since dispensed of these loose rules, as courses have become increasingly challenging to suit the modern day player and equipment. Augusta as an example, is far departed from its original design.
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A nursing officer has filed a judicial protest against the Minister of Health after having been transferred to Boffa Hospital. She had served at St Luke's and then Mater Dei, since 1982 and was never subject to any disciplinary action.
Frances Anastasi said her transfer was unjustified and it was clear that this was vindictive. The transfer, she said, would cause her serious psychological harm, as confirmed by a certificate issued by a psychiatrist.
The NO said that a short time before she was told of the transfer, she had herself requested a transfer to Mosta health centre because of serious family problems. But once the situation deteriorated, she had been about to withdraw her request.
She had met the minister to argue against her transfer and explain her personal circumstances. The minister had asked her where else she could serve within Mater Dei, but later sent her a message saying no one was ready to accept her at Mater Dei. He expressed his regret.
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The stars of the Royal Ballet are athletes more "hardcore" than Olympians and football's biggest names, according to sports photographer Rick Guest.
Guest said he was bowled over by the physical prowess of dancers including Zenaida Yanowsky, above, Edward Watson, top right, and Johannes Stepanek, right, who he captured in motion for a new exhibition.
He found the dancers more impressive than his normal subjects such as Cristiano Ronaldo. "When they're right in front of you doing something, it's such an experience. To say I'm smitten barely covers it," he said. "They don't look like athletes because their job makes it look effortless.
But the reality is they're hardcore athletes. There are girls who look so tiny that if you touch them you'll break them and they do things no burly rugby player would dream of. They are breathtaking."
Guest, 45, has spent his career photographing Manchester United stars, the England rugby team and athletes from diver Tom Daley to Jessica Ennis for advertising campaigns. Dancers, he says, "can repeat their moves time and time again in a way footballers can't because they' have no 3D visual awareness of what they're doing."
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naomi Cassata
3/01/2010 / Holidays
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Colored eggs, bunny rabbits, candy filled baskets and fancy outfits have all become the symbol of Easter. Jesus' resurrection is scarcely touched upon as all these other preparations have crowded him out of the picture. The extent of most Christians' knowledge of Easter is that Jesus died on the cross and three days later rose. Rather than a time of reflection and thankfulness to God, the account of Christ has simply become a mere story with very little meaning.
What makes Easter so special anyway, and why not share this special day with the Easter bunny? Jesus' death and resurrection are the most important events of all time. No other event even comes close to the sacrifice he made for mankind. Without his death, we would have no hope for an eternity with our God, in Heaven. During those agonizing moments in the garden of Gethsemane, he was in the valley of decision. He prayed for guidance and strength to do what God's will for him was to doto take the punishment of our sins, so that we could be reconciled with our Creator. Jesus willingly gave up his life for us.
The story doesn't end here. If this was all there was to Easter, it would be a solemn holiday with no reason to celebrate. Instead, we would lament Christ's death. When Jesus was laid in his tomb, those that knew him thought this was the end of his life. His followers were distraughthow can this man who opened blinded eyes, made deaf ears hear, walked on water and even raised others from the dead, succumb to death? It contradicted everything Jesus stood for and taught. He was supposed to be "The Resurrection and The Life," and the very Son of God! But what they didn't know, at the time, was this was all part of God's plan from the very beginning.
Anytime God's hand is in something, you can trust that life is the end result. Three days later, the grave began to stir and death began to quake. Death could not hold Jesus down and the tomb could not seal him in forever. Jesus had broken the power of death! If Jesus had remained in that tomb, he would not have been who he claimed to be. The words he spoke would have been buried with him. But his words are truth and "He is Alive!" He ascended to his Father, and is seated at His right hand (Ephesians 1:20).
Jesus gives all those who follow him this promise. In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. And where I go you know, and the way you know" (John 12:2-4 NKJV).
So you see, Easter is a time of thankfulness to God for sending His Son to die for mankind as well as a time of celebration, knowing that, just as Jesus ascended to the Father, so shall we be with Him for eternity.
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West Shamokin hangs on to defeat Apollo-Ridge
For almost eight minutes Wednesday night at Apollo-Ridge, the host Vikings found themselves in a scoring drought against West Shamokin.
Those Wolves failed to slow Apollo-Ridge in mid-December. But, with third place on the line in Section 1-AA, West Shamokin stepped up its efforts and stifled its opponent in the rematch.
Able to survive Apollo-Ridge's late rally, West Shamokin (10-9, 5-5) won, 59-53, to secure at least a share of third place. The Wolves led by one after the first quarter, six by halftime and 16 by the end of the third quarter. But the Vikings (14-7, 4-5) cut the deficit to four with about three minutes remaining in the game.
"I think Apollo-Ridge took us a little for granted," said West Shamokin coach Mike Nagy, whose team lost, 67-52, at home on Dec. 21. "They had their way with us at our place, and our kids wanted to gain some respect back."
After 3-pointers in consecutive possessions by Alex Smith, Apollo-Ridge led, 15-12, with 1:16 left in the first quarter. But Anthony Rocco's back-to-back buckets put West Shamokin ahead, 16-15, at the quarter break.
Those four points became part of a 14-0 run for West Shamokin. Rocco had six points during the run, Zac Horner had four, and Damon Craig had four.
Cody Billingsley's two free throws ended the drought with 1:27 left in the half.
The third quarter proved to be just as frustrating for the Vikings, who made seven of 21 field goals in the first half, including two of 10 3-point attempts. After a layup by Tre Tipton 14 seconds into the quarter, Apollo-Ridge was scoreless for four minutes. It finished with just six points in the quarter.
"It was one of our better defensive games," Craig said. "We were all on the same page and clicking together."
West Shamokin, meanwhile, continued to roll with a balanced offense and an effective 1-3-1 half-court zone defense.
Facing a potential home blowout as the fourth quarter started, Apollo-Ridge responded with its most dominant stretch of the game. Lucas Burrell managed a steal and a fast-break layup 30 seconds into the quarter. Then came a 12-0 run that included a fast break by Burrell, a floater in the lane by Josh Reynolds, a 3-pointer by Evan Davis and five points from Tipton, who finished with a team-high 16.
Rocco refused to watch his Wolves squander another fourth-quarter lead and took over, scoring eight of his game-high 26 points in the final 4:14.
"We fell behind, and I felt the kids started to panic a little bit and rush the shots," Apollo-Ridge coach Matt Gourley said.
Apollo-Ridge will host Ford City (6-14, 2-7) Friday in its section finale.
"I think it makes a huge difference for the psyche of our team," Gourley said of the loss. "I think it's important for us to go in (to the playoffs) as winners rather than just fighting for playoff positioning."
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Re-hang old door - framing the casing
I am restoring an old door that used to hang on the exterior opening for my basement. Currently, a crappy home-made "barn door" hangs in the opening. There is no threshold and only some trim around the door - just enough to keep most of the rain, but hardly any of the wind out.
Where can I find some information about how to build a proper casing for the new/old door so I can have a weather tight opening?
And/or what might you suggest to make sure my end result looks nice and works well.
I can't wait to re-hang the old door, circa 1880s.
Do you have any pictures we could see? Sounds like you need a jamb built first before you think about the casing.
Door Jamb - Door Casing? I guess I'm a little behind on my carpentry vocab. I'll take some pics tonight and post them.
Generally, you will have to:
1.) Alter the door for fitment of a new frame with jamb arrangement.
2.) Alter the opening for new fitment of door with the added frame and jamb arrangement.
Which one is more suitable for you?
Either way, you would need to remove the door from the opening and fabricate a jamb frame around it. Attach with hinges, add hardware and weather stripping. Re-install new door arrangement in previous opening.
Alantic, you're right on what you're saying but you may need to back it down to a more "homeowner friendly" vocabulary. You can confuse somebody not meaning too.
Until we see some pictures we can't really tell you "Exactly" what you need to do, at least I can't.
What I prefer to do "sometimes", is to provide an answer to get them on the correct thinking track/correct path. Often, the poster can "fill-in" some of the "blanks". The ones they can't figure out, they usually come back and ask about. That eliminates having alot of needless typing and eye-blurring blather, about what they may already know, or, what they may be able to figure out on their own.
(Example: I mention installing hinges. The average person should be able to do a search on the web for "Door Hinge Installation". Can you imagine writing about "all" the nuances of door hinge installations?)
So, instead of doing a huge amount of writing, an incredibly detailed diatribe (all about doors, door installations, door hinges, door frames, door jambs, door openings, what each part is called, etc).....I initiate with the basic answer: Where they should start at. Often, that get's them into the specific area that they need to look into. Then they can ask the specific questions, after that.
Example: "OK, thanks for your reply, I understand about this, and I understand about that, but what I meant to say, was what about A & B, and how do I make C fit into D."
Voila, specific questions now asked, for either myself, or other members to answer more precisely (which they often do).
An incredibly, overly-detailed instruction-dissertation = unnecessary.
I've benefited GREATLY from all the help on this site (thanks) and I appreciate the proper vocabulary. I find I get better treatment at my local supply store if I ask for the right item rather than a doohicky to remove a thingy from the whoosiewhatits. Learning new things is one of the best parts of DIY for me!
The one time I had a problem was when I was advised to "repack a valve". Lacking the genetic knowledge on how to do this (must code on the Y) I had a hard time finding specific step-by-step instructions. In the end, I got the best info on the back of the package of valve packing.
I'll post pics of my door problem later today.
Wishing you the Best!
I'm Not sure if this would be an option or no - sometimes premade basement access doors are a good option for often very minimal extra investment.
Could the antique door be used elsewhere on the home?
Check out some pics of the opening, old door, and current door. The old door fits the opening like a glove - I'm surprised but the door and the opening is still square! I'm most concerned about the lack of threshold and how best to hang the door so it will seal well. Do I need to change how the opening is framed? What sort of weather sealing can I add?
Yeah, a pre-made door might work better - I have no doubt there have been some improvements in weather sealing in the past 130 years. But I didn't want a new house. And I don't want a new door. I bought a house built in 1803 with an 1880s 'addition'. I know it comes with some compromises - mostly when it comes to heating - I'm ok with it. I'm keeping the 200 year old windows too. They're so pretty.
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For five months, Australia's wealthiest person has kept out of the public's gaze details of her management of a family trust. Three of Gina Rinehart's children have brought proceedings in the NSW Supreme Court to remove her as trustee.
Rinehart is the largest single shareholder in Fairfax Media, the publisher of the Herald. The summons filed by the three children contains the particulars of the basis for removal of Rinehart as trustee, including allegations of misconduct in the administration of the trust. The conduct is said to have taken place in September.
That's pretty much all we know, because since September when the application by the children was first made, Rinehart has engaged teams of lawyers at considerable expense to keep the family's linen from being examined and reported upon, as would usually be the case with court proceedings.
This is despite the Court of Appeal in NSW discharging earlier suppression orders and saying quite clearly that allegations about individuals being aired in open court ''is the price of open justice''. The lid is still clamped shut in this game of suppression, discharge and stay.
It's easy to get lost in the maze, but it's worth trying to track our way through it, if only to marvel at what can be achieved when money and determination are no object.
On September 5 last year the children made their application to the court for relief relating to the management of the trust of which they are beneficiaries and their mother the trustee. It came before Justice Paul Brereton. Eight days later the judge made a suppression order under the Court Suppression and Non-publication Orders Act, which came into force in the middle of last year.
He pointed to a deed which required family disputes about the trust to be confidentially resolved by mediation and, if that failed, arbitration. By October 7, Justice Brereton had changed his mind, finding this was not a dispute that was covered by the terms of the deed and so there was no basis for a suppression order.
However, he didn't quite pull the plug on Rinehart, issuing an interim suppression order until any appeal was determined. Unhappy, Rinehart sent her lawyers to the Court of Appeal, where on October 31 acting appeal judge Murray Tobias gave her a new suppression order.
Media interests, including Fairfax, then sought a review by a bigger court of appeal. On December 7 the Chief Justice, Tom Bathurst, along with Justices Ruth McColl and Peter Young delivered a major judgment on the importance of open justice, and in the process sought to confine some of the more extravagant interpretations of the court suppression act.
They also threw out Tobias's suppression order.
Two days later, Justice Margaret Beazley, another appeal judge, stayed the lifting of Tobias's suppression order until Rinehart could dispatch more lawyers to the High Court.
Just before Christmas, Justice Brereton rejected an application by the media interests, including Fairfax, to vary the interim suppression order.
By January 13 this year it was all back before another appeal bench - Chief Justice Bathurst and Justices Beazley and McColl, where Rinehart and Ginia Rinehart, the one child opposing her sibling's claims, sought a further stay until a special leave application to the High Court had been decided. The appeal judges refused, saying the applicants do not have substantial prospects of success in obtaining special leave from the High Court. In doing so they changed this aspect of the law in NSW.
Rinehart and Ginia were not going to take this lying down and went in search of another judge more in line with acting appeal judge Tobias.
They found one in Canberra - Justice Susan Crennan in the High Court. On February 1 she further stayed the December 7 lifting of the suppression order until March 9, when the application for special leave will be heard and determined.
In the interim, a new assault on a different front was opened up before Justice Michael Ball in the equity division of the NSW Supreme Court. Rinehart and Ginia asked him to give another suppression order on a different basis, that reporting of the proceedings surrounding the trust would endanger the applicants' safety.
On February 2, Justice Ball rejected that argument and as a result we read some email traffic from the three children concerned that they were insufficiently funded to protect their safety.
There is also an appeal on February 8 against Brereton's decision that the proceedings brought by the children are not a breach of the deed. That was heard in secret and is reserved.
Rosters of silks have kept the rotten reptiles at bay, so far. And this from the biggest shareholder in a newspaper company that wants to report what's going on.
The wonders of lawyers, guns and money.
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Private banks work wonders to lure the super-rich
By Anjuli Davies and Sinead Cruise
LONDON (Reuters) - What do you get the client who has everything? An evening at a sleep school to get tips on how to beat insomnia? A chance to play cricket with former England star Andrew Flintoff? Advice on finding the right school?
These are just some of the services offered by Barclays in its "Little Book of Wonders," underscoring the lengths to which the bank is prepared to go to win the custom of the super-wealthy at a time when its traditional businesses are struggling with weak economies and tougher regulators.
"There is more to wealth than managing one's assets," said David Hughes, Head of Affinity Partnerships at Barclays, which oversees the Little Book of Wonders. "This is a complement to the financial advice we give clients and a recognition of the world in which our clients exist."
Attracting the business of wealthy clients, worth an estimated $42 trillion globally, is critical for banks seeking not only to maintain their profitability, but also to diversify their sources of funding and reduce their reliance on capital markets.
"Private banking, given the relatively lower capital requirements and the fee based nature of revenue is an area of growth and competition which is expected to increase," Jill Zucker, a partner at McKinsey's, told Reuters.
Private clients pay on average 1 percent of assets under management in fees to their wealth managers each year, estimates specialist wealth management consultant Scorpio Partnership.
Banks are keen to attract such fees as profits remain squeezed in other parts of their business, from high street lending to commercial and investment banking.
For example, Barclays reported a 38 percent rise in adjusted pre-tax profit in its wealth and investment management division in the first 6 months of the year compared with a 15 percent rise in its retail and business banking and 11 percent rise in corporate and investment banking. Continued...