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What is the purpose of GreatSchools?
To improve K-12 education by inspiring parents to get involved.
When was GreatSchools founded?
Bill Jackson, a former teacher, founded GreatSchools in 1998 to catalyze parent involvement — a force that he believed was vital to the process of achieving excellence in education.
Where does GreatSchools get its funding?
GreatSchools receives generous support from leading foundations that share our goal of empowering parents to support their children's education, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Robertson Foundation and the Walton Family Foundation. GreatSchools also generates funding through our advertising and content licensing programs.
Can GreatSchools help my family if we move?
We sure can. You can look up the best schools in the area you are moving to by ZIP code, school district or city name.
Why should I join GreatSchools?
While all visitors can access school data, expert advice, articles, and our community content, we invite users to register with us so they can publish, post, and connect with members of our online parent community. This makes for a truly interactive and rewarding experience. Join GreatSchools and become a parent ambassador to represent your children's schools on the GreatSchools Web site for the benefit of other interested parents.
How can I join GreatSchools?
Registration is easy – and free. When you register, you have the chance to tell GreatSchools a bit about you and your family, which in turn helps us put you in touch with resources that can help you navigate your child's education.
What types of schools does GreatSchools.org provide profiles for?
GreatSchools.org profiles more than 100,000 public elementary, middle and high schools in the United States. Charter schools, magnet schools, year-round schools, and some continuation and alternative schools are included as well.
In addition, GreatSchools.org includes basic information on more than 50,000 private schools. This information is limited because private schools are not required to give tests or report results.
Exactly what does a school profile include?
Public school profiles in every state include most or all of the following information:
In addition, all schools have the option of "upgrading"–at no cost–to a GreatSchools School Account, which allows school principals and administrators to add information about curriculum, programs, activities, and photos.
Where does GreatSchools get its data?
Public school test scores for most states come from the state Department of Education. School contact information and teacher/student statistics are obtained from both the state Department of Education and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
Why do some states have more school information than others?
We publish school data for all 50 states and the District of Columbia. However, State Departments of Education vary widely in the amount and type of data they release, so the specific data points we are able to acquire may be somewhat different from state to state.
How often is school information updated?
Our goal is to update all data at least once a year in every state, using the most recent available information from either the state Department of Education or the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
Information on School Accounts is updated as often as school principals choose to edit their information.
What should I do if I see incorrect information on your site?
We strive to keep our school information up to date, but we realize there may be changes that are not reflected in our data. If you see any school information, such as contact information, that you know to be incorrect, please take the following steps, so that we can provide our users with the best possible information:
What if I know of a public or charter school that is not listed on GreatSchools.org?
We rely on state Departments of Education and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) for our school directory and are unable to add public or charter schools individually to our Web site. If a public or charter school is missing from our site, it is usually because these data sources failed to provide the information. If you know of a public or charter school that is not listed, we recommend that you contact the appropriate state Department of Education to ask them to list the school. We are working to expand our capabilities so that our school listings are always completely current.
Where can I find information about teachers, students, school events, and job opportunities at a certain school, or get copies of transcripts?
GreatSchools is not directly connected to any particular school and cannot relay your questions or comments to school officials. We do not have information about current or former students or staff at any school or employment with a particular school or district. Contact the school directly for this type of information.
How can I get a custom report based on the data shown on GreatSchools.org?
All requests for custom reports based on our data should be directed to firstname.lastname@example.com. Be sure to let us know if you are a nonprofit or for-profit organization and how you intend to utilize our data. Please note, a fee may be charged to cover our processing costs.
Why does GreatSchools have less information about private schools than public schools?
Unlike Public schools, private schools are not funded with public money, so they do not have to report data about their schools or make it available to the public. We continuously strive to acquire additional private school data whenever available.
Where does GreatSchools get its private school information?
Our private school information comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and some state Departments of Education.
What if I know of a private school that is not listed on GreatSchools.org?
If you know of a private school that is not listed, please submit the school's information to us. Note: We can add private schools individually, but do not have the resources to add public or charter schools individually.
Can the school principal send GreatSchools new information that isn't otherwise available?
Once a private school is listed on our site, the school's principal may provide additional information, free of charge, through our School Accounts feature. School leaders can request access here to edit the profile.
Where can I find additional data, such as test scores and teacher experience, about private schools?
Contact the schools directly. You will find contact information for private schools on our school profiles.
Didn't find the answer you're looking for? Contact us about our school information.
Where does GreatSchools get its preschool information?
Our preschool information comes from Market Data Retrieval (MDR), the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and some state Departments of Education.
Why does GreatSchools have less information about preschools than K-12 schools?
Unlike K-12 schools, preschools are not regulated or tracked by any state or national data provider. We continuously strive to acquire additional preschool data whenever available.
What if I know of a preschool that is not listed on GreatSchools?
If you know of a preschool that is not listed, please submit the school's information to us.
Where can I find additional data about preschools?
Contact the preschools directly. You will find contact information for preschools on our school profiles.
Didn't find the answer you're looking for? Contact us about our school information.
How are the GreatSchools Ratings calculated?
GreatSchools analyzes each school's performance on state standardized tests and provides a one-through-ten rating for the school's performance relative to other schools in the state. Our ratings also allow you to compare the performance of particular grade levels and groups of students to comparable groups in other schools in the state. A rating of "10" means that the group's test scores are in the top 10% compared to scores for the same group across all schools in the state. In other words, that group's test score performance is as good as, or better than, 90% of the scores for that group in the state. A rating of "1" means that the group is in the bottom 10% compared to scores for that group across all schools in the state. Learn more about GreatSchools Ratings.
GreatSchools' Overall Ratings are calculated by averaging the ratings for each grade and subject. A Test Score Rating is not given if fewer than 50 schools have data for a particular group. The different student groups (category, ethnicity and gender) are identified by the state Department of Education; if there is a small number of students in a particular group in a school, data is not reported for that group.
Please keep in mind that it's important to factor in information other than Test Score Ratings, including the quality of each school's teachers, the school culture and special programs, when evaluating a school. Also note that GreatSchools Ratings are not linked to any performance ratings given by the state Department of Education.
Didn't find the answer you're looking for? Contact us about our ratings.
What is a School Account and is it free?
An GreatSchools School Account is absolutely free. It allows the principal or other school official to add the following information about the school directly to their GreatSchools.org profile:
As an added bonus, the School Account also lets the principal or other school official edit the school's contact information directly, in the event that the school's address or phone number has changed since we last updated it.
Why do I need a School Account for my school?
GreatSchools.org is the most visited K-12 education Web site in the country, attracting thousands of people every day. Parents, community leaders, potential volunteers, funders, teachers and people looking for education jobs will have access to information that you provide about your school. You can use your profile to draw attention to your school's successes and unique qualities, and even point your school community straight to your GreatSchools profile to gather important information. It's a great way to spread the word about your school to a broader audience, even if you already have a school Web site.
How do I create a GreatSchools School Account?
Creating a School Account is simple! Principals and school officials, get started on your school profile by requesting a School Account. Our team will manually verify your affiliation with the school to ensure that only authorized individuals may edit your school's information.
Learn more about the resources we offer for schools.
What type of city information does GreatSchools offer?
GreatSchools includes most or all of the following information for cities:
What does a school district profile include?
School district profiles in every state include most or all of the following information:
What are your disclaimer terms for School and District Boundaries Map?
Not all school and district boundaries are included. We strive to ensure that all data and information is accurate, however, the data and visualization tools are for general informational purposes only. To verify legal descriptions of boundaries or to determine school locations or attendance, please contact the school or school district directly.
What is the source of the information that appears in the School and District Boundaries Map?
The boundary information is provided to GreatSchools by Pitney Bowes. It is compiled from various sources and is for general informational purposes only. School attendance zone information is subject to change throughout the year. To verify legal descriptions of boundaries or to determine school locations or attendance, please contact the school or school district directly.
How often is this data updated?
The School and District Boundaries information is updated four times each year.
Didn't find the answer you're looking for? Contact us about School Accounts.
What is the "new and improved" GreatSchools?
We are rolling out major improvements to our school pages in key states that provide rich data. These enhancements are designed to give you a fuller picture of the schools you may be considering. Features include:
To make sure your school is ready for its close-up, encourage your principal to complete a free School Account today.
Didn't find the answer you're looking for? Contact us about our ratings.
What exactly is a Parent Survey?
The survey allows parents to add the following information directly to their school's GreatSchools profile:
How do I compare schools?
You can compare schools that are near a certain address, or within a specific district, county or state. Just click on the "Compare Schools" link at the top of any school profile or visit the tab 'Research & Compare' to get started. It's possible to compare schools in different counties by saving schools to My School List, then comparing those schools.
Can I compare schools in different states?
Unfortunately, it isn't possible to compare student achievement across states because different states administer different standardized tests.
Why are private schools missing so much data?
Private schools are not required by law to publish the same information as public schools.
My School List is a tool that lets you compile a list of schools, save and compare them. To build a list, go to any school profile on GreatSchools.org and click on the link, "Add this school to My School List," next to the name of the school. Once you have a list of schools, you can easily compare the schools in your list.
Didn't find the answer you're looking for? Contact us about comparing schools.
How do I go back and forth between the mobile website and the full site?
When you visit GreatSchools.org from a smart phone, you will automatically see our mobile-optimized website. To view the full site, tap on the View Full Site button at the bottom of the mobile web page. From the full site, return to the mobile website by clicking on Go to Mobile Site link in the top right area of the page.
Why aren't all the GreatSchools.org features and tools available on the mobile site?
Currently, we have made the most popular GreatSchools features and tools available on the mobile website. Over time, we plan to add more features and articles to the mobile site.
Why can't I "sign in" to my GreatSchools account on the mobile website?
Sign In has not yet been made available on our mobile website. To access your account information, tap the View Full Site button at the bottom of the mobile web page and click the Sign In link in the top right area of the page.
Why don't the schools I saved on the mobile website match the schools in My School List on the full site?
When visiting the mobile website, saved schools are stored on your mobile phone only. On the full website, "My School List" is saved to your Greatschools member account. At this time, your account information is only available when visiting our full website. In the future, you will be able to manage a single list on both sites by signing in to your account.
What type of content can I find on your site?
GreatSchools has more than 1,000 articles on a range of topics relevant to parents of preschoolers to high school students. Written by our expert staff and consultants, the articles explain in parent-friendly terms such timely topics as how to choose a school, and understand test scores and report cards; how to work with your child's teacher, what your child's curriculum should be grade by grade, and what to do if your child is the victim of bullying.
What newsletters does GreatSchools provide?
We publish free email newsletters to help you help your child succeed in school. You can subscribe to newsletters for your child's school and/or grade level, and get timely tips and advice.


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A state Senate committee advanced legislation Tuesday that would increase court costs for Orleans Parish's Criminal District Court and the Louisiana Supreme Court.
The Senate Committee on Finance made quick work of Senate Bills 124 and 155, both sponsored by state Sen. Ed Murray.
Murray, D-New Orleans, cited revenue concerns as the reason for the legislation.
"Costs have not been increased in a really long time," he said.
SB124 would increase maximum criminal court costs in Orleans Parish from $25 to $100 for non-indigent defendants who plead guilty or are convicted. Additional costs are allowed for defendants in misdemeanor and felony cases that do not involve a traffic citation. For misdemeanors, the maximum additional cost would increase from $250 to $500 for misdemeanors and from $2,000 to $2,500 for felonies.
SB155 would increase state Supreme Court filing fees from $150 to $300. The court also would be able to double the fees for rehearings and reconsiderations.

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Note: This topic has been unedited for 2524 days. It is considered archived - the discussion is over. Do not add to unless it really needs a response.
I see this is a pretty large wikia of Naruto related things. However, I think this site would suceed more if it had it's own wiki and forum using a software like MyBB on it's own server and not sharing the wikia servers. Plus, you'll be able to manage this more effectively :)
Just a suggestion, I love the content that has been put on here.—This unsigned comment was made by Speysider (talk • contribs) .
If you were to get a domain name, I suggest getting narutopedia.net, as the .com/.org are taken :(


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Very lovely hotel; rooms are quite spacious and beautifully furnished. Robin and Nicki were welcoming, looked after our every need, and volunteered with directions, restaurant reservations, and other information as needed. They made us feel quite at home but didn't hover. Especially loved the room with the fireplace. The location of the hotel is wonderful for visiting Caen, Bayeaux, Rouen, and the Normandy beaches.


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The Health Insurance Marketplace is supposed to provide a competitive private health insurance market where individuals and employees of small businesses can shop for affordable coverage.
The Affordable Care Act (also called the Health Care Act) will expand access to affordable health coverage. To do this, the government is creating insurance exchanges, referred to as the Health Insurance Marketplace.
Health Insurance Marketplace
The Marketplace is supposed to provide a competitive private health insurance market where individuals and employees of small businesses can shop for affordable coverage. Some Marketplaces will be run by the state, others by the federal government or a combination of the two. They are currently being set up and are supposed to be up and running by Oct. 1, 2013.
Open enrollment for health insurance coverage through the Marketplace begins Oct. 1 for coverage beginning Jan. 1, 2014. Individuals who don't have insurance coverage after 2013 may pay a penalty.
Employee Notices
To make sure employees have the information they need to access the Marketplace, beginning Oct. 1, employers must provide their employees written notice of the health coverage it may offer along with an explanation of the new Marketplace coverage options.
Note: Although the President's administration recently announced a one-year delay of the mandate for employers to offer health insurance coverage or face penalties, the delay does not affect the requirement for employers to provide notices to these employees.
Employers Subject to the Notice Requirement
Most employers will be subject to this requirement as it applies to those covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). In general, the FLSA applies to employers that have one or more employees who are engaged in commerce and gross annual sales of $500,000 or more.
Providing Notice to Employees
The notice must be provided to all employees, regardless of plan enrollment status or of part-time or full-time status. A separate notice does not need to be given to dependents or other individuals who are or may become eligible for coverage under the plan, but who are not employees.
Content of the Notice
The notice must include specific information. The Department of Labor (DOL) has provided two model notices (one for employers offering insurance coverage, the other for employers not offering coverage) that may be used.
Timing and Delivery of the Notice
The notice must be provided in writing by first-class mail or, if certain requirements are met, it can be delivered electronically. It must be provided by Oct. 1 to employees hired before that date. Employees hired after Sept. 30 must be given the notice at the time of hiring.


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Cripple Crow by Devendra Banhart
For some reason I resisted Devendra Banhart for a long time, but then I finally gave in and soon ended up downloading all of "Cripple Crow" from emusic. It's so pretty and summery; I especially love the songs sung in Spanish. Favorite track: "Little Boys."


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Oyster #98: Charlotte Gainsbourg
"That's the only thing I can do ... be as close to me as I can in the moment."
When you have a 30-minute window with someone of Charlotte Gainsbourg's stature, you need to make every second count. Actress, singer and Balenciaga muse that she is, she is also the daughter of two incredible pop-culture icons: Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg. That's not just genetics, that's a legacy. For Oyster #98, we spoke to Charlotte about what it was like having Serge as a father, how she has struggled to let him go, and what she hopes to be remembered for.
I'm on hold. This is the third time I've tried to interview Charlotte Gainsbourg for this issue. The first time the scheduled call didn't happen at all, and the second time I was on hold for 14 minutes and 22 seconds with no result. The anticipation is making me lose my cool. My palms are sweaty and I am talking to myself.
To be fair I am just practicing my questions out loud, but now — after seven minutes and 15 seconds of waiting — I've also starting answering myself as though I were Charlotte. It's hard to get her voice right — that British inflection with the French hesitation — plus the hold music is very distracting. It's like the soundtrack of an eighties sexual thriller starring Mickey Rourke. (And yes, this is exactly my train of thought at this time. I know because I took notes.)
It's 8 am in Berlin where Charlotte is, so she can be forgiven for the delay — but given our history I can't help but wonder if there's a diva hidden behind her soft gaze. Just as I'm indulging in the notion of Charlotte Gainsbourg throwing a tantrum about her hotel sheets being of an inferior thread-count, we are finally connected and the sweetness in her voice brings my mile-a-minute delusions crashing down. "Hello Alice. How are you?"
Charlotte has recently released her fourth album, Stage Whisper, which is why we are talking. It's the second album she has done with Beck, and prior to that she has worked with Air, Radiohead's Nigel Godrich and, of course, her father, who produced her debut album (Charlotte for Ever) in 1986. Growing up with Serge no doubt had a huge influence on her own sound, and I wonder if he gave her instruction from a young age. "No, not at all," she says simply. "I remember I wanted to play the piano, but he didn't want me to play an instrument. I wanted to play the violin, so my mother gave me a violin and he threw it away … Starting the violin is very hard on others."
Although Serge wasn't interested in listening to the screechy attempts of a beginner violinist, when Charlotte was nine her parents split and she took up piano. She was able to bang away at her mother's house all she liked, until she felt ready to perform for her father. "He made me play in front of him and I remember I was quite proud," she says, and I can hear a smile in her voice. "The music — that was part of what we experienced together. He was always very generous with his own projects, so he was always sharing what he was doing and wanting to have a… not a criticism, but feelings about each score he was doing. We had a piece of paper and we had to mark every song with stars. He was very modest, in a way, because he needed peoples' impressions. That, we shared."
The father-daughter act had their infamous public debut in 1985 with the song 'Lemon Incest', which had a film clip depicting the pair half-clothed lying on a bed, Charlotte's breathless, out-of-tune vocals betraying her age. The song reached number two on the French charts in October of that year and remained there for four weeks, despite (or perhaps because of) its slightly suspect video and lyrics — "The love we'll never make together is the most beautiful, the rarest, the most disconcerting."
Charlotte has already explained countless times to many other people that she was aware the song was intentionally controversial — and that she was happy to play her part in it — so I don't ask her about it. It was obviously just typical of Serge; he liked causing a stir — he was delighted when 'Je t'aime… moi non plus' was banned by the Vatican in the late sixties. Some of Serge's best moments happened on national television and are now immortalised on YouTube, such as his awkward comment to a young Whitney Houston ("I want to fuck her") and the time he burnt a 500 Franc note in protest against high taxes. The latter stunt didn't go down to well for Serge or Charlotte — such perceived extravagance made Charlotte unpopular at school (apparently there are downsides to having Serge Gainsbourg as a dad).
So, did he offer any advice on how to cope with this bullying? "No," she says emphatically. "You know, all my life, people thought that my father was a drug addict. I knew he wasn't. I knew who he was. It was a different period. People were shocked by my mother posing naked in a magazine; they thought she was a whore. That wasn't embarrassing. I was embarrassed by different things, like having to cope with him being just a little impolite with people because he was drunk. That was a little tougher. But I wasn't embarrassed for the things people thought. Not at all."
Charlotte's bond with her father was so tenacious that when he died of a heart attack in 1991, she refused to release his body for burial, and instead sat by him for four days in his house. It's morbid, to say the least, but the grief had made her numb and she lived blindly through each day as though it were all a bad dream. "People could have said that I was there for a month and it would have made sense. Time just stopped. I didn't think about it. I feel that I've never gone through the real process of grieving with my father. It's something that I've always tried to deal with but was never able to, so [I am] always putting it aside, and I still have a lot of work to do — that, I know. So, this thing of staying with him, it just was that I could not let go. Someone had to take me away."
Serge's house on rue de Verneuil in Paris looks just as it did when he died: every surface is covered with photographs, ashtrays, toys and clutter. "This is like a grave, but it's a weird place. I mean, it's not a weird place — I'm like Miss Havisham [of Great Expectations]," says Charlotte. "I kept the house exactly as it was. I can come in and think he is going to come out of the bathroom." The house is Charlotte's now. She doesn't live there but has kept it running — the heating, the alarm, paying the bills — for 21 years. It is her sanctuary, but it is also a mausoleum.
"I don't know what to with it. It's a burden I have and it's mine alone. People suffer from things much more difficult than this, but it's true that I bought his house and everything inside thinking that I would make a museum out of his house. And then, after 18 years, I decided not to, because it was too much. I wasn't being true to myself because I wanted to keep the house as secretive as I could. People knew everything about his life — I think that it is the only thing that I can keep to the family."
Family is everything to Charlotte. Though her parents had some wild times, her life has been fairly low-key (or maybe she's just good at kee-ping private things private). She met her partner, actor/director Yves Attal, when she was 19, and now has three children with him. They are, she says, both her greatest joy and her greatest weakness. "[Being a mother] is my main focus, in a good way and in a bad way too."
She likes to take her children to the house on rue du Verneuil, as they never got to meet their grandfather. "It's important for me that they see the house. Because I have this strange relationship to the house and to everything that was close to him, they can feel the weirdness too. But I hope they don't get too much of it, I hope I protect them a little from my own madness because it's not completely healthy… I mean, it's not something I'm trying to hide from myself or that I feel embarrassed about. I do see there's something that I haven't dealt with, but it's part of everybody's process. Maybe I'll never go through it. The fact that I'm conscious of it makes it alright, I guess."
By now my diva theory has been completely quashed (and I'm not going to lie — I'm kind of disappointed). But Charlotte is obviously comfortable with fragility; it is part of her appeal. It's in her lyrics, her vocals and has been fundamental to her best film roles. If Serge Gainsbourg is remembered for his prolific music career, reckless lifestyle and sense of humour, Charlotte believes her own legacy will be her work with director Lars von Trier. "I'm just very proud to be in his work. I'm not trying to be modest about it … Antichrist and Melancholia are films that I'm very proud of because of his vision. I think it's very rare for an actor to be close to filmmakers that are real artists, that don't make lots of compromises."
Von Trier is notorious for his lack of compromise, often pushing his lead actresses to near–nervous breakdown — a mental state that frequently mirrors that of the characters they are playing. He shot the apocalyptic final scene of Melancholia so many times that Charlotte felt as though she was no longer acting. She has said that throughout filming he would tell her she was not suffering enough and that he wanted to see real tears. While this might sound like emotional torture, for Charlotte it is the kind of sacrifice you need to make in order to produce great art. In fact, the idea of suffering for art is second nature to Charlotte. Although her voice is gentle and her tone is light, there is an intensity about her that suggests she is at ease with life's heavier moments — like sitting with her father for four days after his death.
I am surprised at how modest, even self-deprecating, she seems. Her music career, she insists, has come not from a place of entitlement, but rather one of exploration. "I don't really know what direction I want to go, apart from finding something intimate. Because that's the only thing I can do … be as close to me as I can, in the moment. I don't have any message to tell."
She says she gets stage fright when it comes to live performances, so I ask her if she feels comfortable watching herself in films. "I've always felt that sense of doubt doing films, and that never changed. I find myself critici-sing everything I've done — or that I've not done, that I can see is missing. So, I'm very critical, but that's just the way I am."
Despite the fact that she is an award-winning actress and the likes of Beck and Air have jumped at the chance to work with her, she does not sound insincere. I feel compelled to jump in and reassure her, but before I do she says, "I wish I wasn't so critical, but it's not as if I lament on what I've done — I can forget, which is great." And in that moment I remember: she's Charlotte Gainsbourg, she doesn't need me to make her feel better about herself.
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Officers will be at elementary schools starting Thursday
Published: Wednesday, January 2, 2013 at 9:08 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, January 2, 2013 at 9:08 p.m.
Local authorities will have school resource officers in every elementary school in the county starting today, but a city commissioner stressed that the initiative is merely a "stop-gap measure" — and not a long-term solution.
"There are communities all across the country wrestling with this issue," City Commissioner Lauren Poe said, "but it's more complex than 'let's just throw some officers in schools.'?"
The new staffing procedures are a response to the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting last month in Newtown, Conn., in which 26 people were slain — 20 of them school children.
The Gainesville Police Department will staff 12 city elementary schools: Duval, Finley, Foster, Glen Springs, Littlewood, Metcalfe, Norton, Rawlings, Talbot, Terwilliger, Williams and the One Room School.
The Alachua County Sheriff's Office will staff the remaining 12 schools in the county: Alachua, Archer, Chiles, Hidden Oak, Idylwild, Irby, Lake Forest, Meadowbrook, Newberry, Shell, Waldo and Wiles.
Up until now, only middle and high schools have school resource officers.
GPD spokesman Ben Tobias said the staffing is important for the safety of the community.
"We want the students and their parents to feel comfortable, safe and secure," he said, "and we want administrators and teachers to be able to concentrate on teaching the children instead of worrying about security."
Tobias said staffing will be accomplished by some temporary reassignments and use of overtime funds.
"Basically, it's a shell game," he said. "We are allocating resources where we need them the most without compromising the safety of the citizens of Gainesville."
The cost to staff the 12 schools within city limits will be about $5,100 a day, Tobias said, adding that the cost to hire 12 new officers is estimated at around $1.3 million the first year and about $900,000 each year thereafter, with first-year costs being higher because of expenses like new cars and weapons.
"In an ideal world, where funding and staffing is not an issue, we would simply hire 12 new officers to put in our schools," Tobias said.
ASO spokesman Art Forgey said money will come from the existing budget for the fiscal year, and deputies who serve as school resource officers will be paid overtime, so as not to take any existing deputies off regular duties.
"This is not by any means an indefinite proposition," he said, "because we don't have the funding to do it."
Commissioner Poe said he met with GPD Chief Tony Jones and Dr. Maggie Labarta, president of Meridian Behavioral Healthcare Inc. of Gainesville, to discuss options for preventing a similar tragedy similar to Sandy Hook in Gainesville. Poe said he feels strongly that the mental health aspect is something that should be strongly considered.
He said he asked Jones to put together a recommendation for the commission on what the police department can do in the short term, and in the long term he's looking at programs that could train school officials to identify people with mental health issues. These crimes, he said, are typically carried out by adults.
"Should it be a reason to increase the size of the force purely because of a reactive measure to the Sandy Hook shooting?" he asked. "We need to make sure we're meeting the needs of the community, but whether that means an armed officer in an elementary school, we don't know."
Poe said the decision to hire more officers will need to be made through the budget process, and right now the priority is meeting the immediate costs.
"Long term, what we're talking about is how do we as community officials make sure mental health is a priority," he said. "There's no harm in having an officer there, but there are so many variables. It's not going to solve the problem by itself."
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Since their formation in 1997, the Boston Trio has become one of today's most exciting chamber music groups. Acclaimed for their superb sense of ensemble and wondrous balance, these virtuosic and profound musicians are committed to creating exceptional and daring performances of standard and contemporary repertoire around the country and abroad.
Violinist Irina Muresanu, cellist Astrid Schween, and pianist Heng-Jin Park each have distinguished careers as soloists, recitalists, and chamber musicians, and have appeared with major orchestras and premier chamber music festivals throughout the United States and Europe. Schween, who made her debut as soloist with the New York Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta, enjoys a varied concert career as a soloist and chamber artist. She has been soloist with major orchestras in Canada, U.S., and in Europe. Muresanu, who has appeared as a soloist with the Boston Philharmonic, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, and other top international orchestras, is the recipient of top prizes at the Montreal International Competition and the Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition. Heng-Jin Park, who made her solo debut with the Boston Pops at the age of 15, and is the founding member of the Boston Trio.
Recent highlights for the Boston Trio include performances at UCLA and the Redwood Arts Council, their debut at the Sanibel Chamber Music Festival, performances at the Rockport Chamber Music Festival and Carnegie Hall's Weill Hall, their debut at Virtuosi Concerts in Winnipeg, and a performance of Beethoven's Triple Concerto with the Boston Classical Orchestra. Other recent performances include the Trio's debut at Merkin Hall, nationally televised performances at the Belgrade Music Festival at the Kolarac Foundation Hall in Serbia, a tour of Utah, and numerous other concerts across North America.
The Trio has been invited to perform on numerous prestigious chamber music series, including the Bank of America Celebrity Series; Seiji Ozawa Hall in Tanglewood; the Bay Chamber Concerts in Rockport, Maine; the Harvard Musical Association concerts; Concerts at the Point in Westport, Mass.; the Kalliroscope Gallery concerts at the Indian Hill Music Center; Brigham Young University in Utah; Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; the Howland Chamber Music Circle; the North Pointe Series in New York; the Fitchburg Performing Arts Series; and the Stockbridge Summer Music Series.
The Trio has also performed on the Boston Symphony Orchestra's "Prelude" Concerts; at Rockefeller University in New York City; the Longy School of Music; Nichols College; and as soloists with the Newton Symphony, performing Beethoven's Triple Concerto. Boston Trio collaborations include a concert in Jordan Hall with the Borromeo String Quartet to benefit the Red Cross for the victims of September 11, and performances with the Bill T. Jones Dance Company. The Boston Trio, who are frequent guests on "Classics in the Morning" and "Classical Performances" on Boston's WGBH Radio, released their first CD in 2000, featuring music of Ravel, Brahms, and Suk, and their latest CD, recorded in Jordan Hall in 2013, will be released on the Centaur label.
Committed to bringing chamber music to a broader audience through outreach activities, the Boston Trio has coached chamber music at the Tanglewood Institute of Music and served as Chamber Music Ensemble in Residence at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge from 1997 to 2004. The Boston Trio is the Ensemble-in-Residence at the Killington Music Festival in Killington, Vermont and at New England Conservatory's Preparatory School. The individual members serve on the faculties of New England Conservatory, The Boston Conservatory, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and are in demand as masterclass teachers throughout the United States, Asia and Europe.
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Though drought-plagued California is in line for some much-needed precipitation, it likely won't be enough to stop the intense drought that now dominates the state. In a graphic seen here, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration showed just how much Monday's storm will affect the California drought.
According to the latest "Drought Monitor" report, more than two-third of the state is in extreme or worse drought, marking the worst drought some in the state have ever seen.
"During the four-week period ending Feb. 4, California's coverage of extreme to exceptional drought surged from 27.59 to 67.13 percent," Brad Rippey, a meteorologist in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Office of the Chief Economist, said in an analysis here. "California also experienced its first-ever coverage of exceptional drought (D4) in the nearly 15-year history of the U.S. Drought Monitor, beginning on Jan. 28. By Feb. 4, nearly one-tenth (9.81 percent) of California was considered to be in D4."
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The accommodation reflex is a reflex action of the eye, in response to focusing on a near object, then looking at distant object (and vice versa), comprising coordinated changes in vergence, lens shape and pupil size (accommodation). It is dependent on cranial nerve II (afferent limb of reflex), superior centres and cranial nerve III.The change in the shape of the lens is controlled by the cilliary muscles inside the eye. Changes in contraction of the ciliary muscles alter the focal distance of the eye, causing nearer or farther images to come into focus on the retina; this process is known as accommodation.[1] The reflex, controlled by the parasympathetic nervous system, involves three responses; pupil accommodation, lens accommodation, and convergence.
A near object (for example, a computer screen) appears large in the field of vision, and the eye receives light from wide angles. When moving focus from a distant to a near object, the eyes converge. The ciliary muscle contracts making the lens more convex, shortening its focal length. The pupil constricts in order to prevent diverging light rays from hitting the periphery of the retina and resulting in a blurred image.
Information from the light on each retina is taken to the occipital lobe via the optic nerve and optic radiation, where it is interpreted as vision. The peristriate area 19 interprets accommodation, and sends signals via the Edinger-Westphal nucleus and the 3rd cranial nerve to the ciliary muscle, the medial rectus muscle and (via parasympathetic fibres) the sphincter pupillae muscle.[2]
Pupil and lens accommodationEdit
During accommodation, the pupil increases the depth of focus of the eye by blocking the light scattered by the periphery of the cornea. The lens then increases its curvature thus increases refractive power. The ciliary muscles are responsible for the lens accommodation response [3]
Convergence is the ability of the eye to simultaneously demonstrate inward movement of both eyes toward each other. This is helpful in effort to make focus on near objects clearer. Three reactions occur simultaneously; the eyes adduct, the ciliary muscles contract, and the pupils become smaller.[4] This action involves the contraction of the medial rectus muscles of the two eyes and relaxation of the lateral rectus muscles. The medial rectus attaches to the medial aspect of the eye and its contraction adducts the eye. The medial rectus is innervated by motor neurons in the oculomotor nucleus and nerve.[5]
Focus on near objectsEdit
The refractive index of the eye's lens system allows the eye to produce sharply focused images. For example, geometrical optics show that as a distant object is brought closer to the eye, the focus of the object becomes blurrier in the plane behind the retina; however, as a result of the increase in the refractive power of the eye, this image becomes clear. The refractive power mainly resides in the cornea, but the overall refractive power is achieved by the actual lens changing its shape.[6]
In order to fixate on a near object, the ciliary muscle contracts around the lens to decrease its size. The suspensory ligaments relax and the radial tension around the lens is released. This causes the lens to form a more spherical shape achieving a higher level of refractive power.[7]
Focus on distant objectsEdit
When the eye focuses on distant objects, the lens holds itself in a flattened shape by on the suspensory ligaments(zonal fibers). Ligaments pull the edges of the elastic lens capsule towards the surrounding ciliary body and by opposing the internal pressure within the elastic lens, keep it relatively flattened.[8]
Opposite of fixating on a near object, the ciliary muscle relaxes and the diameter of around the lens increases to increase the lens' size. The tension along the suspensory ligaments is increased to flatten the lens and decrease the curvature and achieve a lower refractive power.[9]
Neural circuitEdit
Three regions make up the accommodation neural circuit, the afferent limb, the efferent limb and the ocular motor neurons that are between the afferent and efferent limb.
1. The afferent limb of the circuit
This limb contains the main structures; the retina that contains the retinal ganglion axons in the optic nerve, chiasm and tract, the lateral geniculate body, and the visual cortex.[10]
2.The efferent limb of the circuit
This limb includes Edinger-Westphal nucleus and the oculomotor neurons. The main function of the Edinger-Westphal nucleus is to send axons in the oculomotor nerve to control the ciliary ganglion which in turn, sends its axons in the short ciliary nerve to control the iris and the ciliary muscle of the eye. The oculomotor neurons functions to send its axons in the oculomotor nerve, to control the medial rectus, and converge the two eyes.[11]
3. Ocular motor control neurons
Neurons that are interposed between the afferent and efferent limbs of this circuit and include the visual association cortex, which determines the image is "out-of-focus, ends corrective signals via the internal capsule and crus cerebri to the supraoculomotor nuclei. It also includes the supraoculomotor nuclei (located immediately superior to the oculomotor nuclei) that generates motor control signals that initiate the accommodation response and sends these control signals bilaterally to the oculomotor complex.[12]
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There's way too much depth worldwide for just one guy to be Tiger's rival. I don't see it happening anytime soon. So many guys are just unbelievably good.
I do predict a huge year for Tiger next year. 8-10 wins and 2 majors. IMO, after watching the tournament last weekend, he's back. His swing isn't where he wants it yet, but it's already a million times better than it's been in the last 6 years with Hank. He's already getting it in play off the tee at a much higher percentage. Tiger is virtually unbeatable if he gets the ball in the fairway consistently. Freak miracles need to happen for him to get beat when that occurs. 2011 should be a very entertaining year for golf, unlike 2010.
"....the two players I liked watching the most were Barry Larkin and Eric Davis. I was suitably entertained by their effortless skill that I didn't need them crashing into walls like a squirrel on a coke binge." - dsmith421
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I love Joe's writing. But I think he's got it wrong here.
Golf is different than any of the other sports he used as analogies. Losing a step finishes you in baseball, football, basketball... the sports in which hardly anyone stays competitive after 35 unless they're mutants or using PEDs.
Golf is much more mental. That's what Tiger has to get back. His mental edge. Everything else will fall in line if he gets his head right.
Is it solipsistic in here, or is it just me?
If anyone can have a career resurgence after all this, it is Tiger.
But what I think needs to be realized, is that the Tiger Slam occured a decade ago. Really...it has been 10 years. Tiger has won 2 majors in the past 50+ months. His knee is an issue. Age is an issue.
He's not gonna be a slouch, but today, I don't see him beating Jack's record of major wins. Just my opinion.
Looks like Tiger tanked on the final day in Dubai, IIRC he had 3 bogeys and a dbl.
The bigger news right now is his spitting incident. Coming from a baseball background spitting is about as normal as you can get. I guess golf is looked at differently.
I suspect it will be very difficult for him to attack both practice and the course in the same manner and with the same ferocity that he once did.
Next Reds manager, second shooter. --Confirmed on Redszone.
Lost in the first round on the first extra hole to Thomas Bjorn today at the Match Play. Won the 18th to force the tie and then shanked the drive on the next hole and couldn't recover.
What if this wasn't a rhetorical question?
All models are wrong. Some of them are useful.
Typically, pros play 3-4 weeks in a row, rarely no more, then take a week or two off. You have to remember that when these guys are playing 3-4 weeks in a row, it's everyday for those weeks with no time off or time at home. It's grueling and exhausting, more than you can imagine. Playing more than a few weeks in a row leads to burnout. Quickly.
I still fully believe Tiger will be fine and will win soon. His swing isn't where it needs to be yet, but it still looks much better to me than it did with the Haney slop. It's his short game, usually the best in the game, that is lacking due to neglecting it with his practice sessions. Once his short game regains best-in-the-world form, he'll win and win often.
"....the two players I liked watching the most were Barry Larkin and Eric Davis. I was suitably entertained by their effortless skill that I didn't need them crashing into walls like a squirrel on a coke binge." - dsmith421
Thanks for the great insight Redhook.
(I meant to write that I don't expect him to play EVERY week, but it seems as if he just isn't out there as much as he should be).
He is also on the wrong side of father time. Tiger for the longest time relied on freakish athletic ability to pull off a lot of his shots. His swing was very violent if you think about it. He used his brute force to get himself out of danger quite often. There were times when a normal tour player would have to hit a wedge out of the rough and lay up from 180. Tiger would pull out an 8 iron and muscle it onto the green. He could hit a shorter iron from 200 yards when other guys were forced to drop down to longer irons. As Tiger ages and loses some of his physical abilities his game will suffer.
Tiger's mental game is lost right now. His confidence also seems lost. That is the most important part of your short game. Tiger for the longest time was the master of his domain, now he looks a little humbled. I just don't know if that unwavering swagger will ever come back. He is good enough to win tournaments now, but I doubt we ever see him back to the level he once was or even wants to be.
So does Tiger catch and surpass Jack now for most majors won? At one time it was a lock. Now I would imagine it's down to a coin flip.
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Susan Tufts Fiske is Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology at Princeton University's Department of Psychology. She is a social psychologist known for her work on social cognition, stereotypes, and prejudice.[1] She has authored over 175 publications and has written 7 books, including her most recent work Social Beings: A Core Motives Approach to Social Psychology. Social Cognition, a graduate level text she wrote with her dissertation advisor, Shelley Taylor, defined the now-popular subfield of social cognition; a new version was published in 2008. She also edits the Annual Review of Psychology (with Daniel Schacter & Robert Sternberg) and the Handbook of Social Psychology (with Daniel Gilbert & the late Gardner Lindzey).
Biographical informationEdit
Fiske is married to sociologist Douglas Massey.
Fiske received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1978. According to her chapter in the 1994 text The Social Psychologists: Research Adventures, she was still in graduate school when she coined the term 'cognitive misers' to refer to individuals' tendencies to use cognitive shortcuts and heuristics. She also popularized the phrase 'thinking is for doing' (paraphrased from William James, "My thinking is first and last and always for my doing").[2]
Susan Tufts Fiske, is a Professor in the Department of Psychology, Princeton University
Main areas of interestEdit
Fiske was the first social psychologist to testify in gender discrimination cases, including the landmark Hopkins v Price Waterhouse, ultimately heard by the Supreme Court.[3]
Funded grantsEdit
She is a past President of the Association for Psychological Science and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and current President of the Foundation for the Advancement of Behavioral and Brain Sciences. She was also elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
In 2009 she received the Donald T. Campbell Award In 2010 she received the APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology
Editorial board/consulting editorEdit
Association affiliationsEdit
- Fiske, S T (2004). Social Beings: A Core Motives Approach to Social Psychology. Wiley.
- Fiske, S T, Gilbert, D T, & Lindzey, G. (2009). Handbook of Social Psychology. (5th ed.) Wiley.
- Fiske, S T, & Taylor, S E (2008). Social Cognition: From Brains to Culture. McGraw-Hill
Book ChaptersEdit
- Fiske, Susan T. (1993). Social Cognition and Social Perceptions. Annual Review of Psychology 44 (1): 155–194.
- Fiske, S T, Schacter, D L, & Sternberg, R. (2009). Annual Review of Psychology. Annual Reviews.
- Fiske, S T & Borgita, B. (2008) (2008). Providing Expert Knowledge in an Adversarial Context: Social Cognitive Science in Employment Discrimination Cases. Annual Review of Law and Social Science 4 (1): 123–148.
Further readingEdit
Brannigan, G G & Merrens, M R (1994). The Social Psychologists: Research Adventures. McGraw-Hill.
External linksEdit
- Fiske's Page at Princeton
- Social Psychology Network Professional Profile
- Fiske's editorial work at [1]
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A police officer who was battling cancer was found dead in his patrol car Friday morning from an apparent self-inflicted gun shot wound, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.
K9 Officer Ed Krawcyzk, 46, a 20-year veteran of the department, was on duty overnight and expected to get off at 4 a.m.
When he couldn't be reached overnight, dispatch alerted officers and he was found dead inside his patrol car around 2 a.m. just outside the Police Memorial Building on Bay Street.
Undersheriff Dwain Senterfitt said Krawcyzk had been battling cancer for five or six years.
"He has been undergoing cancer treatments," Senterfitt said. "He's come back and left, that kind of thing. At this point it's really early and we don't have much else."
Senterfitt said Krawcyzk was married with a family, and that he was also part of the JSO family.
"It hurts. It's a big family. I've known Ed most of my career and just like people in groups everywhere else, we all hurt when someone in our family is hurting," Senterfitt said. "We have people at his house with his family so well just work through this the rest of the day."
In January 2009, Krawczyk (pictured with his son) noticed a tumor on his neck that grew to the size of a grapefruit. It was a rare form of throat and mouth cancer. Krawczyk didn't use tobacco products and his doctors were puzzled.
"It's crazy, they said I had a better chance getting struck by lightning in Florida than getting this cancer," Krawczyk said.
His fellow officers held a spaghetti dinner benefit to help his family pay medical bills.
"It has been unbelievable, the amount of support we've had from our friends and family. If it was not for the love, prayers and support of these people we would not have been able to make it through," said Krawczyk's wife, Susan.
At that time Krawczyk was looking forward to returning to the force.
"He said, 'Hey, I'm going to beat this.' He said, 'Hey, I'm going to be back, I'm going to be back in this uniform and help protect the citizens of this city,'" said fellow officer Charlie Wilkie, Krawczyk's best friend.
Wilkie said Krawcyzk (pictured left with his son) was built like a soldier and had a real soft spot for his three children. He said that in four years, Krawcyzk beat cancer twice, all while doing the job he loved so much.
"Every time you saw him, you saw a positive person," said former JSO officer and Channel 4 crime analyst Ken Jefferson, a friend of Krawcyzk said.
That positivity is what Jefferson said immediately drew him to Krawcyzk, and a trait that drew hundreds to his side after his cancer diagnosis.
"In my opinion, he took the diagnosis very well," Jefferson said. "And what I mean by that is, he didn't like it, but he was determined to fight it, determined to beat it, his attitude was always positive."
Wilkie said Krawcyzk underwent months of treatment for nasopharyngeal carcinoma, a rare and often times aggressive throat and mouth cancer.
In August 2010, he had a setback, with a cancerous tumor removed from his femur and hip socket.
By 2011, Krawcyzk had lost nearly 30 pounds but was cancer free and back to work with a renewed hope and spirit.
"He was somewhat different in the fact that he had a different perspective on life," Jefferson said. "He appreciated people more, he appreciated life more. He talked about his family a lot."
Close friends say the devoted father had seemed more tired and preoccupied in his final days, but because of his strong front and no-nonsene attitude, they didn't push for an explanation.
Now with a wife, two sons, a daughter and a mountain of loved ones and colleagues left behind, all can only wonder what could have driven a man who fought so hard for his life to suddenly decide to take it.
Doctor: Cancer can take physical, emotional toll
Doctors say head and neck cancers are very different than cancers in other parts of the body because the effects can be so obvious. While they are quick to point out treatment is different for every patient, they say it typically lasts between six and eight weeks.
"Suicide is very rare among cancer patients, so we're always sad to hear when tragic events like this occur," said Dr. Jessica Bahari-Kashani, of Memorial Hospital.
Bahari-Kashani never treated Krawcyzk but said the physical and emotional toll cancer can take on a patient can be overwhelming.
"It's very tough emotionally, physically and financially," she said. "All aspects of your life can be affected."
Bahari-Kashani said Krawcyzk's rare form of cancer, along with chemo therapy and radiation treatment, can present side effects including weight loss, lack of energy, difficulty swallowing and depression.
"During the course of the treatments, they're monitored very closely by their doctors and are encouraged to got to support groups," she said. "And we check for any signs of depression and we try to screen people very well."
Funeral arrangements are still pending, for Krawcyzk, but friends say it could be as early as next Tuesday.
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Mimosa pudica* has an extraordinary defense system. The leaves of this plant along with its stem fold inward and droop in seconds when touched or shaken. If the disturbing force persists, it will do a second downward movement exposing sharp needles covering its stem. This is enough to expel insects. The mechanism required for this action is activated by electrical currents. These currents are similar to those used in the human nerve system. Plant reactions are not as fast as ours. However the electrical currents conducted by the nectar channels can cross a distance of 30 centimeters in just a couple of seconds. Reaction rate will be higher as the ambient temperature rises. Bottom of each leaf (at the junction of the leaf stem) is noticeably swollen. The cells here are filled with water. When the warning signal reaches here, the lower half of the water at the bottom of the swelling empties itself, whilst the upper half takes in this water. And the leaf droops down. All the leafs shut down one by one in succession like dominoes as the signal propagates through the stems. After such a defensive action the plant will need 20 minutes to refill its cells and raise its leaves. (Malcolm Wilkins, Plantwatching, New York, Facts on File Publications, 1988, s. 141-142)
Like all other living beings Allah created the plants and furnished them with perfect systems as to demonstrate His Greatness, His Might and His Infinite Wisdom. This perfection of the system created by our Lord is described in Qur'an as:
"He Who created the seven heavens in layers. You will not find any flaw in the Creation of the All-Merciful. Look again – do you see any gaps? Then look again and again. Your sight will return to you dazzled and exhausted!" (Surat al-Mulk, 3-4)
* Mimosa pudica (also called Sensitive Plant), is a creeping annual or perennial herb.


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This collection consists of the correspondence, muster rolls, miscellaneous records, clothing and equipment books, and miscellaneous military correspondence relating to West Virginia Union regiments during the Civil War.
The majority of the regimental records were delivered to State Historian Virgil Lewis by Mr. Thompson of the West Virginia Adjutant General's Office in 1911.
Muster Cards are included with each West Virginia or West Virginia related regiment (or militia) which include information compiled circa 1899 by the state Adjutant General's office from the official muster rolls, order books, correspondence, and other material included in this collection.
Restrictions: The Archives does not currently have the necessary equipment to make proper photostatic copies of oversized items such as muster rolls and order, descriptive, and clothing books. Staff may determine whether an item is too large and/or too fragile to copy.
To order copies or obtain further information about the collection, contact Terry Lowry at (304) 558-0230. There is a minimum, non-refundable research fee of $15.00 for out-of-state residents and $5.00 for in-state residents.
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Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas grew up in Montpellier, France. He attended Ecole Polytechnique then received his PhD in Economics in 1996 from MIT. He taught at Stanford Graduate School of Business and Princeton University before joining UC Berkeley department of economics.
Professor Gourinchas' main research interests are in international macroeconomics and finance. His recent research focuses on the importance of the valuation channel for the dynamics of external adjustment and the determination of exchange rates (with Hélène Rey); on the determinants of capital flows to and from developing countries (with Olivier Jeanne); on international portfolios (with Nicolas Coeurdacier); on global imbalances and currency wars (with Ricardo Caballero and Emmanuel Farhi), on international price discrimination (with Gita Gopinath, Chang-Tai Hsieh and Nick Li) and on the global financial crisis (with Maury Obstfeld). He is the laureate of the 2007 Bernàcer Prize for best European economist working in macroeconomics and finance
under the age of 40, and of the 2008 Prix du Meilleur Jeune Economiste for best French economist under the age of 40. In 2012-2013, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas was a member of the French Council of Economic Advisors to the Prime Minister. From 2009 to 2016 he was the editor-in-chief of the IMF Economic Review
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WOMEN are being discouraged from returning to work after having children because tax, childcare costs and lost government benefits leave some clearing as little as 20¢ from every dollar they earn.
Modelling for the Grattan Institute shows the second earner in a family - generally the woman - is effectively being penalised for working because the more they earn the more they lose in government payments such as family tax benefits.
''The current system strongly discourages mothers from paid work,'' the chief executive officer of the Grattan Institute, John Daley, said.
In only one of the 10 family scenarios modelled for the research did it prove financially rewarding for the woman to work full-time instead of part-time.
Even in that case - a family with one child with one parent earning $40,000 a year and the other $24,000 working part-time - the mother increased the amount of money she took home after taxes and childcare from only 33 per cent to 35 per cent.
The worst situation was for families with two children with both parents earning an equivalent full-time wage of $40,000 a year.
In that case, the woman kept only 20 per cent of her take-home pay for working three days a week but 17 per cent if full-time.
Mr Daley said women with lower earning capacity were more strongly discouraged from work.
''They take home a smaller proportion of any money they do earn and a much smaller dollar amount,'' he said.
If an extra 6 per cent of Australian women worked, the size of the economy would grow by about $25 billion a year, the Grattan Institute modelling found.
In every family type modelled, the woman's pay dropped once there was a second child, largely because of childcare costs.
In a family in which both parents earned $70,000, if they were working full-time the woman kept 39 per cent of her pay if she had one child but only 10 per cent if she had two children.
Families needed to have one partner earning $100,000 a year and the second earning about $60,000 a year, and have only one child for the second earner to keep more than 60 per cent of the take-home pay.
Mr Daley said families faced difficult choices between needing to work and how much work could be done before it was no longer worth their while.
''Mothers face a high opportunity cost in seeing less of their children and in dealing with the stress of juggling work and family responsibilities,'' he said.
But the Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Elizabeth Broderick, stressed the importance of women remaining in work. The longer they were out of the workforce the harder it was for them to return, she said, leading to older women facing retirement with little in savings or superannuation.
Finding affordable childcare and flexible work arrangements remained a problem, she said, but she warned women against staying away from work for too long.
''With paid work comes economic power. So many women are entering retirement in poverty because they chose to care,'' Ms Broderick said.


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AN impressive field of 16 professionals from all over the country are due to take part in the first Somerset Open at the Wyvern Club, Mountfields Road this weekend.
World ranking points will be at stake.
Somerset's top three players are on show – Wyvern's number one and three time Somerset champion Luke Bishop, current county champion Jim Bamber and Jonathan Taubert.
The first round action gets under way on Saturday morning at 11.30am.
All spectators are welcome to see the highest quality squash ever held locally.
Match schedule: Saturday – 11.30am-2.30pm and 4pm-7pm. Sunday – semi-finals at 11.30am and the final at 6pm.


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Currently enrolled at another institution of higher learning and looking to transfer to the Mount? Mary Catherine James, Transfer Coordinator, has set aside specific days where she is hosting one-on-one interviews with you. Bring your transcripts for evaluation and your questions to be answered! Interviews can be scheduled every half hour between 9:00am and 3:30pm. Interested in taking a student-led tour of campus? We also offer tours at 10am and 2pm. You must call to register and reserve your interview time- 1.800.448.4347.


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SPARTANBURG, S.C. – Despite trailing by one at the beginning of the third quarter, 4-3, the Saint Leo men's lacrosse team was unable to upset fifth-ranked Limestone College, falling to the Saints by a final score of 10-5 on Sunday afternoon from the Spartanburg High School Stadium in Spartanburg, S.C. The Loss opens the Lions' 2014 campaign with a mark of 0-1, while Limestone advances to 3-0 on its young season.
Seniors Matt Obermeyer and Tom Horn led the Lions on the day, scoring two goals apiece, while Obermeyer tacked on an assist for a team best three points. Michael Mastracchio added a goal of his own, while Chad Marino and Ryan Burke contributed to the scoring efforts with an assist each to wrap up the day.
Limestone saw a game high goal total from Todd Nakasuji, who scored three of the Saints' 10 goals. Mike Messenger and Joshua Williams scored two goals each, while Messenger contributed two assists for a game best four points.
The game opened up with two unanswered goals from the Saints in the first quarter, and another to open the second stanza. But the Lions answered back with a goal from Horn at the 9:11 mark to set the score at 3-1. Nakasuji fired an unassisted shot between the pipes five minutes later to pull Limestone ahead to a 4-1 lead, but with two second left before the break, Marino connected a pass to Obermeyer to notched his first goal of the day for a 4-2 tally at the half.
Mastracchio opened the third period with a goal at the 13:12 mark off of an assist from Obermeyer to pull the Lions to within one, 4-3, but Limestone scored two more to set the score at 6-3 entering into the final quarter.
The Saints tacked on two more, extending their advantage to 8-3 with 12:40 left in the game, but a goal from Horn off of an assist from Burke pulled the Green and Gold back to within four, 8-4, with 7:36 on the clock. Despite the Lions' best defensive efforts, the Saints scored their ninth goal 32 seconds later, and added one more at the 5:54 mark to pull ahead 10-4.
Obermeyer closed out the day with an unassisted goal at the 4:10 mark, but the Lions were unable to capitalize on their offensive opportunities for the remainder of the game.
Sophomore Dave Moore earned 15 saves on the day, including six in the first quarter and five in the final period, while Limestone earned 14 saves. Moore faced a total of 42 shots, and 25 shots on target, while Patrick Sheridan for Limestone saw 26 shots and 19 on frame.
The Lions earned 33 ground balls, including six from Moore, and four apiece from Paul Aramanda and Kevin Hutchinson. Saint Leo was successful on 11-of-16 clear attempts, but were thwarted at the faceoff-x, winning just 3-of-18 attempts.
The Lions return to action on Tuesday, February 18, when they take on Shorter University in Rome, Ga. Game time against the Hawks is slated for 3 p.m.
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Did you know?
The entire village of Rhodes was declared a South African National Monument in 1997.
A fine South African all-weather destination is the so-called 'tail of the dragon' – the Eastern Cape Highlands. (It's named the 'tail of the dragon' as it's at the end of the mighty Drakensberg mount range. 'Drakensberg' means 'dragon's mountain'.)
The tucked-away village of Rhodes is the perfect weekend hideaway and a travel base for adventurers taking on the many mountain passes in the area. Winters are all about deep snow, and summers mean a riot of mountain colours.
Looming above Rhodes is Naude's Nek, the highest pass in South Africa at 2 500m. At the bottom of the pass is the Naude's Nek Monument, dedicated to Stefan and Gabriel Naude, who pioneered this pass on horseback in 1896.
Rhodes was established on the farm Tintern on September 16 1891, and one of the first leading lights was a Scottish cleric who became a dominee (minister) in the Dutch Reformed Church: Richard Ross.
Fluent in both English and Afrikaans, Ross would alternate between the two languages each Sunday while conducting services.
During the South African War (also known as the Anglo-Boer War), Ross was interned by the British at their concentration camp in Aliwal North. After the war he vowed to preach only in Afrikaans.
Rhodes is made up of an alluring jumble of architectural styles, from the rather grand traders' residences of old to the flat-roofed houses of local farmers.
An enduring feature of Rhodes is the local hotel. Once known as the Horseshoe Hotel, the Rhodes Hotel was the scene of much carousing, no doubt helped by the ox wagon-loads of liquor dragged over the mountains from East London. In fact, a star ox called Wydeman had his horns polished and mounted above the bar after he died.
Rhodes even underwent a much-publicised 'hippie period' for a while, as followers of alternate lifestyles moved in. Today it's a much-beloved weekend destination for city dwellers who want to fish, hike, ride their mountain bikes or simply hide away somewhere deep in the hills.
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Who to contact
Walks and trails info
Roger Brown of Rhodes Rambles
Tel: +27 (0)82 358 8712
Tel: +27 (0)45 974 9264
Rhodes general info
Dave Walker of Walkerbouts Inn
Tel: +27 (0)45 974 9290
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Denorbin Farm: Gavin Small
Tel: +27 (0)45 971 9052
Wartrail and New England rock art sites: Dawn Green
Tel: +27 (0)45 971 9078
How to get here
Rhodes lies approx. 60km east of Barkly East on the R396 through Moshesh's Ford.
Best time to visit
Rhodes is great throughout the year: deep snowfalls in winter (May to August), hot days in summer (September to April).
Around the area
There are excellent examples of San rock art in these mountains. You are welcome to see some of the art by prior arrangement and under guided supervision. See information under Contacts.
Tours to do
Several walks of varying duration and degrees of strenuousness have been marked on the 900ha village common. Marked trails can also be enjoyed on the farm Den Hagen near Rhodes.
Get around
You can reach Rhodes in a sedan in good weather, but for more access to the mountains and more travelling fun, it is advisable to drive a 4X4 vehicle or a 4X2 pick-up truck with good clearance, especially so in winter, when snow is common. And, at all times, you should drive cautiously and slowly in these mountains.
What will it cost
Accommodation costs are not expensive, and vary according to your choice of farm stay, guest house, self-catering option or local hotel – check the Rhodes Village website for options.
Length of stay
You should stay for at least a weekend in Rhodes to savour the area – or make it a base for a week's travelling around the southern Drakensberg.
What to pack
Seasonal packing: lots of warm clothes for winter, including special snow gear; good, light hiking gear for summer visits.
Where to stay
There's so much accommodation up here that it depends on your preference. Check the Rhodes Village website for options and prices.
What to eat
You're in river-fishing country – ask your hosts for their special trout dishes.
What's happening
The Wild Trout Fishing Festival is usually held on the third weekend in March.
Best buys
Pottery from Play Café in Rhodes.


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PSG defender Thiago Silva says he could never turn his back on Barcelona
Paris Saint-Germain defender Thiago Silva says he could never rule out a move to Barcelona in the future.
By Lucas Brown
Last Updated: 10/04/13 12:07pm
PSG travel to the Nou Camp on Wednesday evening for the second leg of their Champions League quarter-final, with the game tied 2-2 on aggregate.
Silva has been heavily linked with a switch to the Spanish giants on a number of occasions and the Brazilian says that, although he is happy at PSG, a prospect of a move in the future is something he could not turn his back on.
"You can never close the doors though because you never know what will happen," the Brazilian told El Mundo Deportivo.
"I have been a Barca fan since I was a child and followed them since they had Romario, Rivaldo and Ronaldo. I was the number one fan of those teams and the one they have now, after Wednesday I will continue to support them.
"But for now, I am happy at PSG and hope to continue to help them move forward with the project here."
Silva only moved to Paris in the summer but Barcelona were reportedly in the hunt for his signature back then too.
"There were important talks with my agent, but we gave our word to Leonardo, who I knew from Milan," he added.
"Once I had given my word it was difficult to go back, but one never knows what the future holds. People can dream."
Reports have suggested that there is a buy-out clause in the defender's contract which Barcelona may be willing to meet, but he says it is not something which affects him.
"I have only just come here and I am not thinking about that. It is something for my agent to worry about," he added.
"People know that bureaucratic things can be resolved in some way. When you sign a contract you only think about staying for all of it, but that depends on many things.
"I have always respected opponents and it will not be me that closes any doors. I am happy now, but I cannot predict the future."


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