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Buy pink? Not so fast!
by Susan Bach, Director of Communications, Wisconsin BBB
If you're like me, you've been watching a lot of football lately and have noticed all of the pink gloves, cleats and other accessories that NFL players have been wearing in October to help promote Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It's hard NOT to notice when a 300-pound football player is wearing hot pink shoes! I applaud the NFL, and hope it makes a lot of money when it auctions off those items – since I know that all of the proceeds will benefit the American Cancer Society.
But what about the other pink items that I can purchase – supposedly to benefit breast cancer? At my local shopping center, I can buy a pink balloon, a pink hairbrush, a pink box of crackers, a pink hairdryer, a pink phone case, a pink candy bar, or a pink t-shirt. I can't, however, find any specific information on these products that tells me if, in fact, part of my purchase goes to a breast cancer charity and which charity that might be.
The flood of pink products can only be attributed to more and more manufacturers realizing the sales power of pink products. Some products are genuine, cause-related marketing promotions; a win-win for both the charity that receives a portion of the proceeds each time a product is sold, and the business that increases its product sales. Unfortunately, other pink products are fakes whose only intention is to line the pockets of greedy businesses capitalizing on people's generosity.
Before you buy a pink product, make sure you thoroughly inspect it to make sure that you're buying the product for all the right reasons. Ask yourself these questions:
- Which charity does this product support? Do I support the charity's mission and believe in its programs?
- How is the charity receiving the contribution? Will simply purchasing the product result in a contribution to the charity or will I need to do other "homework" to make sure the contribution is received?
- How much of the purchase price is being donated to the charity?
- Is there a limit on the amount of money the company will donate to the charity? Has the company reached that goal?
- Can I make a bigger impact by donating directly to the charity?
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IN RESPONSE TO POPULAR DEMAND: All-Hebrew Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur Machzor with halachos and instructions
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"The Evolution of U.S. Presidential Debates:
from George Washington to Barack Obama"
Douglas Brinkley, Ph.D.
Author, Cronkite, The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America; editor, The Reagan Diaries
Monday, October 8, 2012
7-9 p.m.
The Helene Fortunoff Theater
Monroe Lecture Center
South Campus
Book signing to follow.
Sponsored by the Hofstra Cultural Center.
Douglas Brinkley is a Professor of History and a Fellow at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University in Houston, Texas.
This event is free and open to the public.
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8 Meetup Groups match "Speaking Brazilian Portuguesse" near Norwalk, CT
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Hi there! We are a FUN after work party cruise group which plans a weekly Wednesday Brazilian party and a weekly Thursday Latin night. Our events are either FREE admission or DISCOUNTED admission for those members who RSVP in advance. For more information about us check out http://affairsafloat.com
Esse e um grupo pra reunir as mulheres brasileiras que vivem em Long Island. Para aquelas que estão querendo se reunir para conversar sobre nossa cultura e vida em outro pais e principalmente para fazer amigas e dividir experiências. Esse e um grupo para almoços, cafezinhos, visitas a museu, teatro, cinema, shopping, qualquer atividade que nos de felicidade. Esse e um Meetup bem brasileiro e por isso muito alegre.
Let's dance sexy and fun Brazilian dance! We offer the class, special workshops with visiting instructors, and parties.
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If you love Brazil and live in the NYC area, this is your Meetup group. Use our message board for more information on Portuguese language and Brazilian culture in New York City. Let us know about great events happening or ideas of your own. Ate logo!
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All languages are welcome! This is a group for people looking to practice any language in a social environment and make a difference in the world. All our events benefit causes around the world and many of them are FREE or cheap to you. We provide flag stickers as a fun way to identify your language partners. There's no set structure, just a room full of people speaking many different languages. Our mission is to make the world a happier, more connected place through learning and understanding. …
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o grupo esta localizado em Rye,ny. Vamos nos encontrar em atividades em conta por aqui, como playdate em casa, parque, piquenique, biblioteca, etc.....Nos podemos tambem organizar eventos culturais c/ as criancas! e qualquer outra coisa divertida c/ as criancas!
Welcome! This group is open to all fluency levels of native and non-native Portuguese speakers. We will meet once a month to practice and learn Portuguese through conversation. Cost is $2 payable at the Meetup, which helps cover the costs of communicating through the Meetup.com website. Sejam bem vindos! Este grupo está aberto a todos aqueles fluentes na Lingua Portuguesa, não importa qual seja o seu nível, nativos e não-nativos. Vamos nos encontrar uma vez por mês para praticar e aprender o por …
Join our group and meet people from around the world! We are lovers of many cultures, customs, traditions as well as its history and diversity. We also love people who want to talk about areas with strong cultural roots. A variety of languages will be spoken. We are open to suggestions for events, venues or places to visit. There are no strangers here; only friends you haven't meet! If you RSVP yes and can't make an event, please change your RSVP to a no. I am looking for assistant organizers an …
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December 21, 2012
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European Commission approves Crane deal for MEI Conlux
Crane announced that the European Commission has approved the definitive agreements to implement the licensing and divestiture commitments by Crane related to its pending acquisition of MEI Conlux Holdings. Crane said that with this approval, it intends to close the acquisition of MEI during the week of December 9. The $804M purchase price for the MEI acquisition will be financed through a combination of cash on hand and additional debt. Crane also reaffirmed its previously announced estimate of accretion associated with the acquisition of MEI within the first twelve months of ownership at 20c per share, including 7c per share of synergies. Crane also reaffirmed its estimate that synergies will reach $25M pre-tax, or 30c per share, at the end of 2016.
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Colorful and cute! This charming Kris Bear sparkles in clear crystal with a printed black smile. A Fuchsia crystal butterfly sits on his right hand, while a butterfly in Violet crystal perches on his left ear. Decoration object. Not a toy. Not suitable for children under 15.
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Editors' Picks
HP CloudSystem adds horsepower in OpenStack private cloud push
HP rolls out new CloudSystem for OpenStack-based private clouds, but IT pros say it's still uncommon to find such environments among enterprises.11 Dec 2013
Top five solid-state flash storage news stories of 2013
This year, solid-state flash storage joined mainstream storage conversations. These five stories include technologies that are shaping flash use.09 Dec 2013
Waterbury Hospital turns to PHD Virtual for VM and tape support
Waterbury Hospital in Connecticut needed diverse backup support, so it chose PHD Virtual because it offered support for virtual machines and tape.06 Dec 2013
Networking blogs: AWS joins ranks of Desktop as a Service providers
This week's networking blog roundup includes discussions about Amazon's DaaS initiative and a Yelp for IT.06 Dec 2013
Top 10 financial technology stories of the year
As 2013 draws to a close, read our list of the year's most popular financial technology stories.06 Dec 2013
HP tape storage systems top midrange, enterprise groups
HP has been close to the top in our Quality Awards for tape storage systems, but this time it leads in both the midrange and enterprise classes.05 Dec 2013
Tools to manage virtual server storage
Virtual server storage threw a monkey wrench into the works of supervising storage, but a well-assembled toolkit can restore comprehensive management.05 Dec 2013
Hot data storage technologies for 2014
These six storage technologies are ready to take their place -- and have an impact -- in your data center in 2014.05 Dec 2013
Tarmin revamps 'data-defined' GridBank object software
Tarmin adds platform support and performance enhancements to its GridBank object storage for data analytics and discovery.04 Dec 2013
Improving mainframe performance with runtime and compiler optimization
Reducing mainframe CPU usage should be a priority. Learn how to tune IBM LE options for better performance without source code changes.03 Dec 2013
IBM adds mobile application management tools with Apperian integration
IBM MobileFirst shops now have a way to develop and distribute mobile apps, thanks to new Apperian integration with IBM Worklight.26 Nov 2013
IBM storage GM: Flash impacts everything
Goyal says flash isn't a product -- it impacts all of IBM storage. The same goes for open standards such as OpenStack and LTFS.25 Nov 2013
SDN market: Opportunity or disruption for channel partners?
Analysts say the SDN market will be very disruptive for networking VARs focused on hardware sales, with a shift in focus from hardware to software.25 Nov 2013
IBM channel chief Mark Hennessy maps out partner growth strategy
IBM channel chief Mark Hennessy lays out partner priorities for 2014, including how the company sees partners plugging into cloud, analytics and social technologies.22 Nov 2013
News briefs: CenturyLink's cloud acquisition; Salesforce, HP partner
This week, CenturyLink makes another cloud acquisition with Tier 3, while Salesforce.com and HP announce a partnership to market 'Superpods.'21 Nov 2013
Top CIOs know IT employees don't need morale killers like stack ranking
In Searchlight: Stack ranking? Yahoo could learn from CIOs about valuing employees. Plus: IBM will share Watson, Facebook's $3 billion bid and more.15 Nov 2013
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EMC belatedly joins all-flash array field with XtremIO
EMC's fast storage array took the slow route to market, but XtremIO all-flash array became available today after 18 months of development.14 Nov 2013
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Updated: 10/11/2013 - I'm SO CLOSE to being able to do a pull-up. So my trainer introduced something new into my training.
One man was killed in a single-vehicle rollover Thursday morning. He was the only person involved.
The crash happened northeast of the Fountain and Academy intersection on Academy Park Loop near Nazarene Bible College in Colorado Springs. The northeast portion of Academy Park Loop was closed for several hours while police investigated the scene.
Police say the driver, identified Friday as 39-year-old Micah Henagar, was speeding and lost control of his SUV. He died at the scene.
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Updated: 06/18/2013 - We did a quick helicopter tour of the Black Forest burn area. Someone asked why the video looks shaky.
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Let-Me-Google-That-For-You redirects users to Bing instead of Google – April Fool's joke or more sinister intentions?
April 1, 2010 6 Email article | Print articleUpdate: It seems like the Bing redirect was an April Fool's joke because LMGTFY.com is back to normal.
LMGTFY.com ("Let Me Google That For You") is a website that allows people to run Google search queries for other people and link the queries to them. Just for the heck of it I decided to click "Who is Ashraf?" at the top of dotTech. To my surprise, LMGTFY redirected my search query to Bing instead of Google:
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Teresa Conrads, daughter of Larry and Debbie Conrads of Cortez, will be joined in marriage to Ethan Kellogg of Highlands Ranch, Colo. on Aug. 13, 2013, in Nassau, Bahamas. Teresa and Ethan are students at Northern Colorado University in Greeley, Colo. Ethan is finishing his degree in Criminal Justice, while Teresa is majoring in Sociology. Teresa is a 2010 graduate of Montezuma-Cortez High School. Ethan graduated from Rock Canyon High School in Highlands Ranch in 2009.
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Where do you see Tom Cruise going next week.
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This guest blog series describes approaches that seek to address one of the most critical issues facing the rapidly growing public charter school movement: its leadership pipeline. The examples from Georgia and California show how partnerships have been developed to create training programs that teach the specific skills public charter school administrators need to run a successful school. If you would like to share additional examples of leadership pipeline programs, post them to @charteralliance or #charterleadership on Twitter. In 2012, the Charter and Autonomous Leadership Academy (CASLA) sent out a national survey to public charter school stakeholders to determine training needs for charters school leaders. These results presented a strong interest in charter leadership training. After several years of research and development, the CASLA program has created and implemented an innovative university-based charter leadership program in which participates earn a master's degree in education (charter leadership) and a state credential authorization. Just as successful K-12 charter leaders must be entrepreneurial and creative, the CASLA university team successfully navigated the public university institutional system to create an accelerated, efficient, and personalized entrepreneurial program. The CASLA program is based on research, best practices, and creative solutions to meet the needs of charter school leaders in Los Angeles and eventually nationwide.
CASLA is housed at California State University Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), a four-year urban public institution located in the urban city of Carson in Los Angeles County. CSUDH is one of the most ethnically diverse campuses in the California State University system. The school is accredited by both the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) and the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing.
Since California has a very high percentage of start-up schools (as opposed to conversion schools), CASLA's innovative program is focused on start-up schools. During our research, aspiring and current charter leaders requested relevant and current content, and alternatives to weekly evening classes in traditional university credential programs—due to the traffic congestion in Los Angeles and responsibilities of charter leaders. In addition, current charter leaders requested assistance with career options beyond their tenure as charter school leaders. The CASLA program is addressing the needs.
The CASLA leadership curriculum is designed based on the knowledge, skills, and disposition as articulated by current and former successful charter leaders, as well as small area public school district superintendents. The CASLA program incorporates sophisticated video conferencing using technology-based instruction to personalize and individualize the delivery and content. Participants attend two weeklong seminars in the summer, and content courses are web-based. One charter conference attendance is required. Content courses are six weeks in length; field research, extensive reading, and personal reflection are critical components. Charter case study is a major strand throughout the 15-month credential/certificate program. The critical internship component incorporates shadowing, field-research, and residency. Current and retired successful charter school leaders teach the content courses. Participants are grouped in a cohort. Current charter leaders benefit from web-based certificate programs, on topics such as master schedule development, essential elements of instruction, conflict resolution, improve rigor through effective use of data, etc.
The elements of the CASLA program form a comprehensive system that prepares and supports charter leaders who are committed to improving teacher practice and student achievement. CASLA school leaders are now leading over 10,343 charter students in the greater Los Angeles area, with 57 percent of our CASLA leaders representing the minority groups of our diverse student population. Over 4,000 charter students have been positively impacted by our field research to improve student achievement. CASLA plans to create national regional centers. We invite inquires. The CASLA program is the beneficiary of a supportive relationship with the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, our California Charter School Association (CCSA), and a federal grant funded through the Office of Innovation and Improvement in the Department of Education. Image via CASLA website
This guest blog series describes approaches that seek to address one of the most critical issues facing the rapidly growing public charter school movement: its leadership pipeline. The examples from Georgia and California show how partnerships have been developed to create training programs that teach the specific skills public charter school administrators need to run a successful school. If you would like to share additional examples of leadership pipeline programs, post them to @charteralliance or #charterleadership on Twitter. For a number of years, the Georgia Charter Schools Association (GCSA) has anecdotally recognized a high turn over rate in its charters due to a number of factors—including governance issues and the heavy workload associated with running a multi-million dollar non-profit and a public school. In 2008, research from the University of Washington's National Center for Charter School Research Project published data to validate GCSA's concerns in their study, Working without a Safety Net by Christine Campbell and Bethany Gross. With the growth of the charter sector nationally and in Georgia, increasing the pipeline and retaining quality talent became a practical matter. The National Governor's Association and others in the education research field, such as Robert Marzano, all agree that leadership is the second most influential factor in student achievement, next to the classroom teacher. This further emphasizes the importance of addressing leadership succession and capacity, and that is exactly what GCSA set out to do in late 2008.
When we decided to address leadership preparation and retention, it was a huge undertaking. Where do you start? We recognized that the issue with leadership turnover and quality in charters was rooted in inadequate skills and competencies to do the job. But to write curriculum for a training program, you really have to define first what a high quality charter school is and does. So the first step was to bring stakeholders together from our district authorizers and the State Department of Education's Charter Schools Division to develop Quality School Standards. Out of these standards we were able to then identify the key competencies of a high quality leader and the training required to get them there.
Through a grant provided by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, we started with a 10-day intensive training program with 2 modules – business and leadership – and a strong mentor model from education and business backgrounds to support the leaders. The program pilot was a success. We realized, though, that while we could adequately train the leaders we had, we would never really move the bar in the sector toward a pipeline to meet demand and cross the bridge with the traditional public schools until we actually impacted training programs in the university system for a broader reach. So we set out to find a university partner who would be visionary enough to rethink educational leadership preparation.
In 2012, GCSA partnered with Kennesaw State University's (KSU) Bagwell College of Education and Lake Oconee Academy (LOA), the partnership's model school site, to offer an Education Specialist Master's degree program. It leverages GCSA's expertise in disseminating information to a statewide network of charter schools, teachers, and leaders and its knowledge and experience with quality schools and leadership; KSU's strength as one of the largest educator preparation programs in Georgia; and LOA's outstanding record of leadership and student achievement. This Ed.S. degree program focuses on charter-specific skills and competencies required for leading a high quality public charter school and replicates many of the award-winning charter school leadership practices of LOA, a Georgia Platinum School for Highest Academic Achievement in which approximately 75 percent of the students qualify for federal free or reduced-cost meals. Candidates selected for the Ed.S. program receive grant-funded scholarships for their four-semester graduate program.
Building on educational research in effective leadership, most of the program's content, developed in collaboration between KSU and GCSA from its original CharterLeader pilot, is delivered in a residency model at each candidate's "home" school site. There, they are required to demonstrate expertise through "real life" performance projects. Candidates from both charter and traditional backgrounds come together throughout the program at retreats to share best practices, and to collaborate and to meet with experts in the field. Throughout the program, candidates receive ongoing coaching from educators with expertise in leading and founding charter schools, as well as veteran leaders in the traditional and independent school sectors.
We are about half-way through our first cohort and ready to recruit for the second cohort. We are very excited about the progress we have made and the promise the CharterLeader program holds for the future growth and efficacy of the charter movement. There has been much learning along the way in establishing the program and the partnership. We look forward to sharing these learnings with our peers in the charter sector and to broaden the reach of our work.
The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS) is pleased to launch a guest blog series which will feature contributions by leading international education experts. The goal of this series is to expose our readers to the challenges and successes of establishing charter schools in different parts of the world. Our contributors have experience in charters schools either as providers or in the case of Cecilia Maria Velez, former Minister of Education for Colombia, spearheading programs which improved educational quality by allowing private agents to operate public schools serving low-income students.
This series take our readers on a tour well beyond our borders by looking at adaptations of the public charter school model in the United Kingdom and Kurdistan. We begin our series with a contribution by Tony McAleavy, Education Director, CfBT Education Trust, U.K. followed by Carl Bistany, board member of SABIS® Holdings and President, SABIS® Educational Services s.a.l. and SABIS® Educational Systems, Inc. As Manager of the new EdAdvance education resource (formerly EdInvest), it gives me great pleasure to highlight the global impact made by the public charter school model. To receive newsletters and bulletins about developments in the international education market, please write to: email@example.com. Our website will be operational shortly.
NAPCS is pleased to launch a guest blog series which will feature contributions by leading international education experts. The goal of this series is to expose our readers to the challenges and successes of establishing charter schools in different parts of the world. The USA is not the only country where charter type reforms are taking place. CfBT Education Trust—the non-profit organisation that I work for—is heavily involved in similar reforms in England. For over ten years, the government in England has been encouraging the establishment of 'academies,' which are public schools, but they are not controlled by the local education authority. I say 'England' and not 'the UK' because there is a degree of federalism in the UK, which means that England, Scotland and Wales have different education policy. Tony Blair was a great fan of academies. He encouraged them particularly in high poverty urban areas where some public schools had a long history of failing to deliver acceptable outcomes. By 2010 there were 200 academies, and they were beginning to deliver better outcomes as measured by the national tests that English students do at age 16. They were nearly all 'secondary schools' for students aged 11-18. While the academies were making a difference, they still represented a small fraction of the public school system in England which has over 20,000 public schools. (Of course, I am using the term 'public school' in the American sense; as you may know, we English quirkily use 'public schools' as the phrase to describe our elite private schools!) Everything changed in 2010. There was a change of national government. The Labour Party lost power and the new government was dominated by the Conservative party. Conservative politicians were great fans of the charter school movement and the Swedish 'free schools.' Prime Minister David Cameron and his education secretary Michael Gove set about a massive expansion of the academies programme. Gove has visited the States many times to find out about how charters work. Shortly after the 2010 election, the leading UK newspaper The Guardian ran story headlined: 'Can Gove's American dream work here?' Michael Gove is particularly enthusiastic about the KIPP schools, and he often describes their impact on life chances in his public speeches. Michael Gove has encouraged a massive expansion of the academies. Two years on, the number has gone from 200 to 2000. He has also introduced a new category of academy known as a 'free school.' Most of the Blair academies were 'new start' versions of failed existing schools. The free schools are different; they are brand new schools set up in response to parental pressure for change at local level. The first 24 free schools were opened in September 2011. A further 52 free schools opened in September 2012. There is huge controversy around these changes. The teaching unions are very unhappy about the academies and free schools. Some of the free schools have a religious affiliation and in the press there is some criticism of this religious dimension. There is also a big debate about whether or not 'for profit' companies should be allowed to operate free schools and academies. At the moment they cannot. Only non-profit organisations can get involved but this might change.
Image: Author Tony McAleavy, Education Director of CfBT Education Trust Tony is CfBT's Education Director, with corporate oversight of the educational impact of all our activities. Tony also has responsibility for corporate business development and advises the Trustees on CfBT's public domain research programme. He has played a major part in the development of our international consultancy practice, and he has worked extensively on our growing portfolio of education reform projects in the Middle East. Prior to joining CfBT, Tony held senior school and local authority posts in England. He has published extensively on the subject of school history teaching and has an MA in Modern History from St John's College, University of Oxford.
NAPCS is using the Charter Blog to feature public charter schools that prepare students for college using a range of instructional strategies. NAPCS asked school leaders to tell us in their own words how they use different instructional methods to create a "college-prep" focus. By combining data on instructional strategies from a national survey with on the ground stories of the work of charter schools, NAPCS wants to show the scope of possibilities in how charter schools can provide great learning environments for students. Myron B. Thompson Academy (MBTA) recently celebrated its tenth anniversary. The school, which began as an idea in a white paper on virtual learning back in the early 1990s, has blossomed into the oldest online school in Hawaii. Test scores are stellar, the curriculum is rigorous, teachers and students are thriving, and dynamic change is always in the air. At Thompson Academy, grade 7-12 CORE courses are taught online, while many electives are face-to-face. Five years ago, the school realized that "canned" courses, with computer-graded quizzes were not adequately preparing students. The redesign of curriculum began with grade 7. Select teachers and the curriculum director spent a year researching and developing meaningful content, interactive teaching strategies, and quality assessments. The first group to complete the redesigned curriculum is currently in the tenth grade. These students have provided input on the degree of challenge in their classes, requested the development of specific course offerings, and provided the impetus for continued curricular redesign. Most courses are now developed and field-tested by teachers with assistance from the curriculum office. Professional development is ongoing, primarily in small groups, and courses are continuously updated, using data from assessments and student comments. A week in the life of MBTA students begins on Monday morning, with a log-in to courses and a check of the weekly plan for each class. Students work in depth and at an accelerated pace. There will be content to read, Google Docs "discussions", WebEx sessions, homework, projects and tests. All teachers offer one-on-one live or virtual tutoring. Students may contact their teachers via e-mail, instant message, telephone, or in person. Many teachers keep the lines of communication open in the evening. The Academy has students on the four major Hawaiian Islands, so working across distances on collaborative projects is the norm. MBTA is currently at work on the design of two Institutes for 11th and 12th graders: one in STEM, with initial courses focused on the operations of a smart grid for electrical systems, and one in humanities, offering AP courses and interdisciplinary competitions in International Extemporaneous Speaking, Debate, and History Day projects. Institutes will be both virtual and face to face. In the near future, students at Myron B. Thompson Academy will complete all required courses by the end of junior year, allowing for specialization in the senior year. Students feed into the online secondary program from Thompson's elementary division, which is a combination of at-home and at-school instruction. Parents and teachers work together to deliver approved curriculum to K-6 students. While the elementary is primarily "high touch" instead of "high tech", teachers also offer virtual lessons. Students are issued iPads and use these to document their learning. MBTA strives to be an incubator of ideas, to push the boundaries of virtual education, and to truly teach our students. We have had many successes and look forward to many more.
Sharon Abrigo, Director of Curriculum Find Myron B. Thompson Academy on the Public Charter School Dashboard
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At DREAM Charter School, my expectation as school principal, and the expectation of everyone who works in this building is that each and every one of our students is going to college. High academic achievement will get our kids ready, but that's not the only critical piece of setting our scholars up for success. We add to high academic expectations three things: health and wellness, family engagement, and full inclusion. It takes all of these elements working together to truly develop young learners and get them ready for life in the 21st century. At DREAM, we make no argument that academics reign supreme. But we also want to create a healthy environment of support so that our scholars can successfully brave the rigors of academic excellence.
At DREAM, health and wellness includes character development. We tell students to never give up; mistakes are how we learn; when something is hard, that just means we're learning. We let our scholars know from the very beginning – as early as kindergarten – that this work is really hard, but we are going to push them, and they can take the challenge. We let them know that if the work is easy, they're probably not learning; and if it's hard, they can't opt out.
Physical well-being includes active recess even in the cold of winter, a full curriculum of physical education, and healthy meals that are modeled by every adult working here. Emotional and mental well-being is supported by a robust social work department that brings social workers into the classroom, lunchroom and school yard – our social workers don't just show up when a student is in trouble. And they're not only committed to the student, they're committed to their families.
Which brings us to our families. Our Director of Family Engagement makes sure our students' families feel welcome at DREAM. We recognize that parents are our students' first teachers, and by doing so, we need to hear their voice when it comes to educating their child. Because what happens at home is just as important as what happens at school, we provide monthly family events that support our parents, such as legal clinics, reading and math workshops and nutrition classes. Beyond these formal gatherings, our families know they're welcome at DREAM any day of the week.
Finally, DREAM values diversity – we are a full inclusion school where special education and ELL students learn side by side with general education students. We believe that all students have something to learn from students who are different from them. By having diverse students learning together, we are cultivating a generation of compassionate, rounded adults. This is supported by two teachers in each classroom – one general education teacher and one ELL or special education teacher – who partner to individualize each scholar's education in a shared learning environment.
This all sounds great, right? Well, we're proud to say that it works. This year the New York City Department of Education gave us an A on our Progress Report. And our recent state test scores ranks DREAM out of 90 NYC Charter Schools second highest in improvement in ELA and sixth highest in improvement in Math. At DREAM, academic excellence does not come at the cost of recess, physical education, family programs and diversity – it comes through them.
As far as I'm concerned, college is on the horizon for all students at DREAM Charter School. Making that a reality is my job. Eve Colavito, Principal, DREAM Charter School www.dreamschoolnyc.org Find DREAM Charter School on the Public Charter School Dashboard
The mission of The Intergenerational School (TIS) is to connect, create and guide a multi-generational community of lifelong learners and spirited citizens. To teach and live out the concepts of lifelong learning and spirited citizenship, we surround our young students with opportunities to engage with the broader community and to learn with and from individuals of all ages who exemplify this ideal. TIS is located in Cleveland, Ohio, one of the poorest cities in the nation. Over the 12 years that TIS has been operating, we have developed the intergenerational learning model from a seed of an idea into a vibrant and successful school with not only 224 "young" learners (grades K-8) but approximately 300 adults and older adults who participate in a wide range of intergenerational programs each year.
A "walk through" at TIS demonstrates the ways in which we operationalize this mission. Walking into one primary classroom, it is reading workshop. Students are scattered throughout the room; some are engrossed in reading his or her own self-selected book, others are reading with a partner, a few are working with the teacher. Looking more closely, you will see that the class includes students of a variety of ages and some of the older students are reading with and helping some of the younger students. This is the first step toward instilling an inclination of "community service" in the children: if you know how to do something and someone younger does not, you have the opportunity to teach what you know. Hence at TIS a fundamental belief is that everyone is at once a teacher and a learner at all times.
Meanwhile in the hallway, ensconced in comfortable sofas and chairs are some of our oldest participants, senior citizens who have been trained to mentor our young readers. Together one elder and one child explore the wonderful world of books, which prompts discussion and the sharing of life stories between the two. Over the course of weeks, months, and even years, the elders notice the growth of their mentees as readers, and as poised and thoughtful partners in increasingly rich conversations. Further on, area college students are tutoring math students and developing relationships that will inspire TIS students to see college as a part of their own future.
Yet another class is preparing to leave to visit their nursing home partners. That day they will be deepening their own understanding of the civil rights movement by collecting the stories of those residents who were a part of it. These stories will be rewritten into picture book format to be shared with their primary cluster reading partners later on.
These are just a few examples of intergenerational learning activities that take place on a daily basis. Intergenerational experiences not only deepen and personalize learning, but have spillover effects on overall school culture and outcomes. From the academic perspective, TIS students consistently post some of the highest test scores in the state of Ohio. The school has had 6 years of Excellent ratings, and 2 years of achieving Excellent with Distinction status out of 9 years of being rated. But test scores do not tell the full story. TIS students develop a profound respect for their elders and benefit from the patience, caring, and consistency that characterize these relationships. The come to value people of all ages and from all walks of life. The presence of older adults contributes to a calm and respectful school climate. Meanwhile the older adults, including some with memory loss, know that they are making a profound contribution to the next generation and leaving a true living legacy.
We have coined the term "intergenerativity" to denote the powerful synergy that emerges when the generations learn together. To us, this represents community service at its most profound and personal level. Cathy Whitehouse, Founder, Principal and Chief-Educator, The Intergenerational School www.tisonline.org Find The Intergenerational School on the Public Charter School Dashboard
At Paulo Freire Freedom School ("PFFS"), a middle school charter in Tucson, Arizona, we believe that real knowledge comes from experiences that are authentic and engaging. Young people learn when learning is connected to the real world they live in and to the issues they care about.
Across the country, students and parents, principals and teachers alike, express growing concern that public schools are narrowing their curricula to only those bodies of content and skills that can be measured effectively through standardized testing. They worry that this narrowing of focus at the expense of powerful teaching and learning puts students at risk of not understanding deeply the 'big ideas' in science, math, and social studies, or critical 21st century skills, such as collaboration, creativity, communication, and critical thinking that are needed in today's workplace.
At PFFS we have adopted Project-Based Learning (PBL) as our pedagogical and curricular focus. PBL is "an instructional approach built upon authentic learning activities that engage student interest and motivation. These activities are designed to answer a question or solve a problem and generally reflect the types of learning and work people do in the everyday world outside the classroom." (http://pbl-online.org/) The term PBL can be used to describe a variety of experiences, including problem solving, group work, service learning and expeditionary learning. At PFFS we use PBL in two different ways: as an integral part of the regular classroom curriculum and as experiential learning experiences outside the classroom walls.
In the classroom, our students are regularly asked to work in teams to solve a problem or investigate an issue. These projects involve real world situations that quickly engage students because the relevance of their work is immediately apparent. For example, in our 8th grade Humanities curriculum, a final project asked students to work with a partner to create their own Political Party addressing critical topics studied throughout the year such as the role of government, civil rights, and economic policy. After detailing their Party Platform, students then had to try to "sell" their party to other students by using political ads and slogans. An election was held that demonstrated how effective their marketing had been.
Many of the projects at PFFS are interdisciplinary, such as our "Barbie Bungee" exhibition. Students are first asked to recreate life-size Barbies using the same scale as the Barbie doll. Then they researched and reported out on a social justice issue connected to the doll (i.e. the manufacturing practices at maquiladores along the Mexican border with the United States, or the impact of unattainable images of beauty on adolescent self-worth). The project ended with students 'bungee jumping' Barbies from a balcony to estimate, measure, and analyze velocity.
Sometimes our projects take on a life of their own as happened last year when the entire school was transformed into eight different biomes. In small groups, our entire student body researched biomes on the planet to get a real sense of each biomes' ecosystem. Students then recreated an ecosystem (minus humans) to scale in different parts of the school building with charts and posters explaining their pristine dioramas. On the third day we introduced humans. Students had to return to their research, assess the impact humans have had historically on different biomes, and then create governments and economic systems to meet the respective needs of their biome civilizations.
While we fully embrace the concept of PBL, we know and have seen that too often what is called project-based learning is little more than students doing prolonged group work. Sometimes these projects include extended periods of "art time" (e.g. hours spent decorating dioramas). While perhaps enjoyable, these activities might not push students into higher levels of learning. Thus, any PBL at PFFS must be designed with an eye to what are the desired student learning outcomes and how effectively and efficiently the project supports those outcomes.
The other area where PBL is used is outside the classroom through experiential learning. These experiences are not necessarily about working on solving or analyzing real life issues in an extended project that culminates in a student created demonstration. Experiential learning at PFFS consists of students being exposed to a panoply of outside environments aimed at building their background knowledge and establishing relevancy and motivation.
We create a special week of Intersession programming two times during the year, when teachers work exclusively with approximately a dozen students to explore an area of passion in depth. Teachers propose topics based on their passions/expertise and students then rank their choices. In the past we have offered a diverse mix of experiences including Space Exploration, Backpacking in the Rincons, The Story Behind Stuff, Upcyling, Circus School, Let Freedom Sing (the use of freedom songs as part of civil rights movements), Love Not Borders (border study), Move It (dance and political expression), Building with a Conscious, and Political Musical Theater.
Expeditions, which take place every Friday for a third of the school, are one day field experiences. These range from going to the University Arizona medical school to conduct sunscreen experiments, to volunteering at a homeless shelter, to attending student matinee performances put on by the Arizona Theater Company.
The rationale for exposing students to learning outside the classroom walls lies in research showing that building background knowledge significantly helps students in their academic studies and helps students make connections between what they are learning in classroom with the larger world to motivate students to learn.
Our students perform well on their standardized tests, but we believe this provides only a limited snapshot of what they know and can do. We look forward to the new performance based-assessments that will be coming soon with the Common Core which promise to measure a larger part of student achievement. Arguably, our most important performance metric is that our students are excited about coming to school and they love learning. In a survey given to our 6th and 7th graders at the end of last year, 100% said they enjoyed coming to school. We believe that this evidence is at least as significant as making AYP on our annual report card.
JoAnn Groh, Co-Founder and Co-Director, Paulo Freire Freedom School www.paulofreireschool.org
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A general purpose high-pass filter plugin. It shows up as Filters->Generic->High Pass Filter. You can select a blur radius that sets the size of detail to be passed by the filter, as well as an option to keep the source layer or replace it.
EDIT: Updated to use grain extract rather than the previous method, This looses less histogram data and is closer to the Photoshop version...
It actually implements 5 different high pass modes:
They are all straightforward, using a basic "duplicate, blur, grain extract, merge down" process, with a few small details added for each, except the Redrobes mode. The steps he described were:
Get an image 1.
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The first Germans to arrive in Louisiana settled in the River Parishes on the outskirts of New Orleans. Glenn Falgoust shares the story of what has come to be known in Louisiana as the German Coast. Like many other cultures, the Germans celebrated the boucherie, or hog butchering. Chef Folse joins his brothers and a few good friends to celebrate this tradition. Bob Cheney, a one-man-show, plays traditional German songs on his accordion.
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"Wayfinding" refers to the tools and processes used to help people, well, find their way from a starting place to a destination, and possibly also help them get more information about the facility.
Old-school "analog" wayfinding includes printed signage, both permanent and per-occasion; paper maps, directions and asking somebody. But hardcopy can be out of date, incomplete, not detailed enough or not indexed in a way that lets us figure out our destination. Plus, the people we ask don't always know the answer.
I don't know about you, but I've spent way too much time being lost in convention centers, hotels, airports, hospitals, company headquarters, college campuses and other places where the GPS-enabled map/direction app on my iPhone wasn't helpful. This includes, at times, buildings of companies where I've worked — even when I've got my destination written out and checked the map on the wall. Or I have asked people for directions.
So I'm more than ready for tools like wayfinding digital signage that can save me time and frustration — and I can't be the only one..
Digital wayfinding for drivers (and passengers), bicyclists, pilots, etc. typically uses a mobile or embedded device, like a dedicated-purpose Garmin navigator or an app on your iPhone or Android smartphone.
This may yet come to pass for building and campus wayfinding. (Google, for example, is apparently already at work mapping university campuses and some buildings; I have a vision of fleets of smartphone-equipped iRobots maze-solving their way around these facilities.)
Meanwhile, organizations are turning to digital signage as a better way to provide wayfinding to tell me — and others — where to go and how to get there when we're on foot in buildings and on campuses.
Like digital signage in general, wayfinding digital signage is being put to use in a growing range of markets and venues, notably meetings and hospitality (convention centers, hotels, and resorts); colleges and universities; hospitals and other medical facilities; and business offices and public spaces, residential complexes and other facilities.
This includes both within individual buildings and for multi-building campuses. Additionally, retail stores and malls are taking advantage of wayfinding digital signage…and even cruise ships are using digital wayfinding signage.
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August 4, 2009
Weather vs. Climate
Seattle and the Pacific Northwest are frying under a heat wave this summer. In New York, it's so cool that the New York Times has called it "the summer that isn't." And Texas is suffering under the most severe drought since the 1950s.
What does this all mean for climate change?
Absolutely nothing.
Every time we write about climate change, someone writes in saying that they are shocked that Smithsonian would perpetuate such a myth. Don't we know about the record cold/snow/rain/etc. in Minnesota/North Carolina/Utah/etc.? Obviously, there are some people who do not understand the difference between weather and climate. Let's start with the dictionary definitions:
Weather: the state of the atmosphere with respect to wind, temperature, cloudiness, moisture, pressure, etc.
Climate: the composite or generally prevailing weather conditions of a region, as temperature, air pressure, humidity, precipitation, sunshine, cloudiness, and winds, throughout the year, averaged over a series of years.
In short, weather is a data point. Climate is a collection of data.
You can think of it like the economy. I can tell you that the Dow is up 112.61 as I write this, at 9,284.22. This is the weather (partly sunny, 84 F). But it doesn't tell you anything useful about the economy as the whole (like the weather conditions don't tell you anything useful about climate). A graph of the Dow over the last year, showing a terrifying decline followed by a steady rise, begins to tell the story of the last year. But to get a true picture of the economy, we'll need to look at lots of other bits of data, like consumer confidence, unemployment rates and durable goods orders. It's complicated, messy and hard to understand. That's climate.
Now, if you make changes to the country's economic situation, for example, by raising taxes, that is going to have some effect on the economy as a whole. Economists will crunch the numbers and come out with predictions. They won't all be the same, but they will probably trend toward some particular end.
Adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere is akin to raising taxes. We've changed the climate situation. And while these climate models—which are far simpler than economic models and more certain—may not agree on the specifics, the general trend is that temperatures are going to rise.
And they have been rising. And more than that, we can already see the effects of that rise. Just read the magazine: We've featured melting glaciers, melting permafrost and changes in plant and animal distributions in the Andes and, closer to home, the Northeast, to name a few.
So please don't write to us to say that we're neglecting the latest weather superlative. We're not. We just have our eyes on the bigger picture—climate.
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nice article but you can say it much shorter:
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How can you say the temperatures have been rising, since they have been falling since 2000? CO2 is as beneficial as oxygen, without it we would all parish.
A trend from 2000 to 2009 does not describe a climate. Look at this link to see what a trend in climate looks like for a more reasonable time period, the last 130 years.
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Born in Arkansas, R&B/Gospel/Soul music master, The Reverend Al Green grew up in Grand Rapids before setting off for stardom. A sold-out Meijer Gardens welcomed him home Monday night with open arms, smooth moves and permagrins.
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A rainy day of rest in my own bed has done me so much good. I seriously had the most amazing time at APE. I have so much catching up to do AND so much art/comics to pump out, I'm incredibly excited.
I flew up there this time – convenient YES, obnoxiously terrifying during take-off and landing YES. I almost choked on my gum on the return trip, I slammed my face into the seat in front of me as we landed. The pilot's lucky I didn't punch him in the balls but I guess he didn't deserve it seeing as how he DIDN'T crash the plane..
In honor of my recent flight, here's an airplane playlist I thought of during my travel.
Listen to these as you dreamily stare out the window of the plane.
001 The Flaming Lips – Flight Test
002 Bright Eyes – At The Bottom of Everything
003 Beirut – Scenic World
004 Daft Punk – Nightvision
005 Fever Ray – Mercy Street [Peter Gabriel cover]
006 Jeremy Messersmith – Skyway
007 Mount Eerie – You'll Be In The Air
008 Ratatat – Alps
009 Sufjan Stevens – All Delighted People [Classic Rock Version]
010 The Whitest Boy Alive – Above You
011 Brazilian Girls – Me Gustas Cuando Callas
012 The Postal Service – We Will Become Silhouettes
013 The Magnetic Fields – The Book of Love
014 Neutral Milk Hotel – In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
015 Air – Surfing on a Rocket
016 The Flaming Lips – Approaching Pavonis Mons By Balloon (Utopia Planitia)


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Here is a look at the life of Tommy Franks, retired four-star Army General.
Personal: Birth date: June 17, 1945
Birthplace: Wynnewood, Oklahoma
Birth Name: Tommy Ray Franks
Father: Ray Franks, a mechanic
Mother: Lorene Franks
Marriage: Cathryn (Carley) Franks, (1969-present)
Children: Jacqueline (Franks) Matlock
Education: University of Texas, Arlington, B.B.A., 1969-1971 (summa cum laude); Armed Forces Staff College, 1973-1976; Army War College and Shippensburg University, 1984; Shippensburg University, M.P.A., 1985
Military Service: U.S. Army (1965-2003)
Other Facts: Grew up in Midland, Texas and attended Robert E. Lee High School, the same high school as Laura Bush.
Franks is adopted.
Served three tours in Vietnam, and rose through the Army ranks to become commander of U.S. Central Command.
Timeline: 1965 - Joins the Army.
1967 - Is commissioned as a second lieutenant as a graduate of the Artillery Officer Candidate School in Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
1967-1968 - Vietnam, 9th Infantry Division, 2nd Battalion, 4th Field Artillery: serves as Forward Observer, Aerial Observer, and Assistant S-3. Also served with the 5th Battalion, 60th Infantry as Fire Support Officer.
1968 - Cannon Battery Commander, Fort Sill, Artillery Training Center.
1973 - Commander of the 1st Squadron Howitzer Battery and Squadron S-3, Second Armored Calvary Regiment, West Germany. Also commands 84th Armored Engineer Company and serves as Regimental Assistant S-3.
1976 - Pentagon, Investigations Division, Army Inspector General.
1977 - Executive Assistant, Office of the Chief of Staff, Army and serves on the Congressional Activities Team.
1981 - Commander, 2nd Battalion, 78th Field Artillery, West Germany.
1987 - Commander and Chief of Staff, Division Artillery, First Calvary Division, Fort Hood Texas.
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1991-1992 - Assistant Commandant of Field Artillery School at Fort Sill.
1995-1997 - Commander, Second Infantry (Warrior) Division, Korea.


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According to WFRV-TV, a Brown County family says living across from a turbines has caused health issues so severe they've had to move. Sarah Cappelle tells the station she was having ear pain, headaches, insomnia, and her body was quivering all the time. Lasee says they're not alone, and will bring more than a thousand pages of what he says is proof the turbines are causing harm.
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