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Census crucial in Minnesota
ST. PAUL - Federal law requires every American to fulfill only one civic duty, and it comes around just once a decade - fill out the federal census form.
Minnesota officials say the state's citizens should fulfill that duty, and for the sake of the state they should only complete a census document delivered to their Minnesota address.
In essence, the 2010 census is a battle among a dozen states to maintain, or expand, their congressional representation. Minnesota is in the middle of that battle and could lose one of its eight U.S. House seats after all Americans are counted.
With the Constitution requiring equal representation, when the population is tallied once every 10 years, states rapidly gaining population may gain seats, and thus power, in the U.S. House while those not growing as fast, or losing people, could drop seats.
Minnesota is on the bubble. As estimates stand now, Minnesota would lose one of its eight House seats, but figures are so close that even a few more people counted in the census could make a difference.
So Minnesota officials are doing their best to make sure that every Minnesotan is tallied in the official count next April 1.
That means they are asking every Minnesota snowbird, spending the cold winter in Arizona, Texas, Florida or other warm locale, to fill out a Minnesota census form, not one where they call home only during a few months.
"Go, enjoy," Minnesota State Demographer Tom Gillaspy said to snowbirds. "When you are done there, don't forget to fill out your (Minnesota) census form."
South Carolina and Nevada are among warm-weather states that plan campaigns to influence snowbirds to fill out census forms while there, but Gillaspy said that the House seat and millions of federal dollars could be lost to Minnesota if too many fill out forms in other states.
The state could lose federal funds because they often are doled out based on population.
An unexpected ally could help Minnesota retain its House seat and keep some of those federal dollars that otherwise could head south. The economic recession actually could help Minnesota because it has slowed migration to warmer states, Gillaspy said.
Some of that impact may be clearer Tuesday, when the federal Census Bureau releases new population estimates. But those are only estimates, and state officials will not know the recession's true impact for another year, when official census figures are released.
Not only does state government stand to gain if everyone is counted next spring, local governments do, too.
"It is a pretty big deal in some communities," said Laura Harris of the League of Minnesota Cities.
Just 29 percent of northwest Minnesota's Mahnomen County responded to the 2000 census, and in the northeast's Cook County, less than 40 percent returned census forms. In many northern Minnesota counties, fewer than half of their residents completed census forms.
That means their population was under-counted and they lost state and federal funds.
Harris said many programs split up funds based on population, most notably local government aid, where state funds are sent to cities that cannot pay for adequate services by themselves. More than $400 million is sent to cities this time of year and again in the summer.
More than $400 billion in federal funds spent across the country are based on population.
At least 90 communities have established committees to make sure everyone possible is counted.
"Every person that gets missed means a loss of funding at the local level," Harris said.


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The one with all the
|Talking it up | Adrian Beard
|Words, words, words | Tom Rank
|Spoken language in the GCSE curriculum | Julie Blake
|Plugging the gaps | Andrew Buckton
|Don't save it for KS4 | Harry Dodds
|Webwatch | Alison Powell
|The lucky dip of slang | Geoff Barton
New Teachit resources for GCSE 2010 (and many more to follow!)
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Let it be a bit of fun, says Adrian Beard. It's the most exciting development in GCSE English in all the time I've been teaching, says Julie Blake. Too good, in fact, says Harry Dodds, to save for KS4. Grand, says Geoff Barton.
If you haven't yet turned your thoughts to how you might approach the study of spoken language at GCSE, now's the time to get just a little bit fired up about it.
Katie Green
GCSE has always offered continuity (of a sort, admittedly) with A Level when it comes to studying literature, but with language there has been nothing, despite the fact that we have always used the term English Language in KS4. When QDCA were formulating their plans for new GCSEs in English, therefore, I suggested that this might be the chance to at least acknowledge that there is a whole academic route in English that is not literature, and which has been flourishing in all sorts of institutions for the last thirty years. And so we have the study of spoken language: a mere 10% of one option, and it has to be written about (!), but it's at least a start.
Throughout my teaching career, writing has been something which 16-year-olds both produce and analyse. Speech, on the other hand, has only ever been produced, and often without any recognition that speech might be more effectively used if you actually analyse it. And then more recently the old binary division between speaking and writing has been broken apart by hybrid genres which blend aspects of both in a dizzying array of ever-changing genres.
Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.
Deborah Tannen
So, let's celebrate the study of spoken language as a small step towards the study of speech (and its hybrid forms) and enjoy the opportunities it offers us to engage students with something which by and large they are rather good at – communication in its many different forms and genres.
The best way to study spoken language is to think in terms of spoken discourses, and if we take the term discourse in its broadest sense, it can connect with all the aspects of context and culture which are as important to the understanding of written media or drama texts, as they are to spoken data. It is important, I feel, to help students to see that speech isn't something that just comes out of our mouths (or via a keypad) but that it has its own scripts and conventions, all bound by contexts that are cultural, political, and ultimately power-based. What we say and how we say it comes from culturally modelled and learned conventions – just as writing does too.
School itself is a good place to start, with all its different types of speech events. Then there are media genres, regional patterns, age, technological uses and functions, etc. The more the unit can be based on investigating data the better, and the more each student can have ownership of that data even better still. It should also be clear that spoken language is not something separate from the rest of language use: it forms part of a coherent whole.
When I was asked to come up with some useful terminology for the study of spoken language, I did so with some trepidation. So please don't let this unit go the way of many others, and become a set of terms to wade through and use regardless. And please don't let it become a set of national task banks, with worksheets and templates. Instead let it be an integrated part of a course which thinks about discourses in the many senses of the word, which understands the connection of speech to specific people and specific locales, and which can be analysed at many levels of ability.
But above all let it be a bit of fun, something to explore and something which addresses some of the realities of our daily lives and how we lead them. As I am frequently told in the discourse of coffee houses: Enjoy!
Adrian Beard teaches at York St John University, and is a principal moderator for speaking and listening at GCSE.
The introduction of spoken language study is the most exciting curriculum development there's been in GCSE English in all the time I've been teaching it. Let's face it, unless you're prepared to stretch the semantic scope of the word 'development' to include death by anthology, there hasn't been very much anyway. So where do you start? My advice is always with the question: what do we already know about this? The short answer is almost always 'more than we thought we did', but if it's longer answers you're after, here are mine.
We know students enjoy studying authentic spoken language. Collectively, we know this from our work with factual broadcast media products, from our experience of teaching spoken language at A Level, and from our experience of teaching with mini dialogues and listening exercises on TEFL courses. Students enjoy the here-and-now feel of spoken language, the recognisable everyday unpolished nature of it, and the dynamic energy that real dialogues and conversations have. We know presenting this in linguistics transcripts can be daunting at first, but as the GCSE awarding bodies all seem clear, this is not to be 'watered-down A Level'; there's plenty of scope for creating accessible written representations. We know that audio and video sources work well.
Talk to people about themselves and they will listen for hours.
Benjamin Disraeli
We know it creates opportunities for hands-on 'making' projects. With audio recorders on most mobile phones and laptops, the opportunity is there for students to collect samples of data from their own lives. There are ethical issues to be considered – we don't want bullying interactions, for example, or people being recorded without their explicit consent – but this is valuable work to do for the lives young people live in an uncritical YouTube world. The 'making' lies not just in recording the data, but also in transcribing it, a practice which can work wonders for developing the observational skills to improve analysis.
We also know it allows us to shape the work to real student interests. When the focus of study is how attitudes to language operate in society, or how the dynamics of conversation work, we are free to select data from just about any context. The fact that at least one awarding body is prepared to support students collecting data in their community languages, rather than a world of monolingual English they may have less access to, makes this a curriculum development with enormous potential not just to engage all our students in our subject in a new way, but also to celebrate our collective multilingual diversity.
Whenever I've taught spoken language at A Level, students have come to class bubbling to tell me how their new knowledge helped them understand what was 'really' going on in a conversation overheard on the bus. Teaching about attitudes to spoken language variety can change the way students see themselves: their accent and dialect something to respect in themselves and others, not write off as 'not proper'. Why would I not be rushing gleefully towards a new scheme of work?
It's good that the study of spoken language is now embedded in GCSE specifications – it will at least get some attention. However, I think it's too important a part of a pupil's whole experience of English to be dealt with purely as another GCSE hurdle – it ought to be part of the curriculum from Year 7 onwards.
Four informing principles:
|'Any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.' Jerome Bruner
|We should acknowledge that the divisions between key stages are arbitrary and more to do with administrative convenience than with defining what pupils can learn.
|Pupils bring with them a sophisticated, if unarticulated, body of knowledge about their use of spoken language, and that constitutes a legitimate area of study.
'Knowledge about' spoken language is useful in its own right, but shouldn't supplant the need to engage pupils in the use of as much spoken language as possible, and in as many contexts as possible.
Things to do:
|In Year 7, ask pupils to identify the language communities to which they already belong, or have belonged – home, primary school playground, street/peer group, possibly even church – and to describe the distinguishing features of each linguistic context. They would articulate linguistic knowledge that they probably weren't even aware that they had and could use. No reason not to tell them that they've been exploring the ideas of idiolect and sociolect – nothing conceptually beyond them there.
Move from here to looking at how their own experience suggests that Grice's maxims apply to their own conversation.
|They would find exploring politeness theory and positive/negative face illuminating, too.
|Move from there to look at the ways in which others use language – accent and dialect, initially, moving on to introduce ideas of the differences that contexts make. Looking at the spoken language of the sports commentary should be accessible and interesting enough.
Look at the ways in which language use changes according to speakers' roles and relationships. Draw on their own existing experience.
|Explore the difference between real and represented speech – compare transcripts of real speech with scripted dialogue. You could use materials drawn from comedy here – Blackadder would be good, simply because so much of the humour is rooted in the language choices characters make.
|Keep them talking – lots of group work, presentations, discussions. Get them to discuss the effectiveness of the spoken word in helping them learn.
Think 'oracy' before you think 'Assessment Objective'.
Possible approaches:
http://www.naldic.org.uk/ITTSEAL2/teaching/SpokenLanguage.cfm – this is EAL-focused, but informative.
The National Oracy Project – Google for it. A search on 'A model of learning from the National Oracy Project' is particularly helpful.
When I started teaching A Level English Language – rather too many years ago to dwell on – some of our funniest lessons were spent delving into the lucky dip of slang. ('Slang, n: informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions; often vituperative or vulgar' – wordnet.princeton.edu).
These lessons would almost write themselves, and they were rich in linguistic curiosity, illumination and slightly guilty laughter.
You only have to open a good slang dictionary and the fun begins. One of the best is Tony Thorne's Dictionary of Modern Slang (Bloomsbury), a veritable treasure trove of unexpected vocabulary, with a particularly rich seam of Australian slang.
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.
John Maynard Keynes
These words and phrases help us to map the sprawling and often unexpected underbelly of human attitudes towards crime, sex, drugs, bodily functions and the many other lexical favourites of slang.
I could fill the whole column with examples, but we're afraid the spam filters might latch on to us, so – homework time – go and research it for yourself.
What an insight such language use gives us into topics that often don't often officially get in through the classroom door. And after the cheap laughs and brief distaste at some of the lexical items, we can get into the more meaty business of exploring why it is that some people in some groups in some contexts use expressions like these sometimes.
It gets us into the giddying richness of spoken language. I've occasionally felt that we allow ourselves to get unnecessarily hooked on the technicalities – the stuff about how pauses and hesitations are represented in transcripts, or the way scripted drama differs from spontaneous language, and so on.
Let's occasionally assign our students the roles of that fascinating and slightly dark movement of Britain in the 1940s, Mass Observation, when thousands of volunteers across Britain would keep diaries of what they saw and heard – an extraordinary collective diary of the people by the people (see Britain: Mass Observation published by Faber). Get students collecting fragments of spoken language, exploring the way usage shifts by age, gender, region and our allegiance to different groups and gangs.
Let's set students a slang challenge. Choose an obscure word – say 'loon-slatt', an obsolete name for an old Scottish coin worth thirteen pence halfpenny, the proverbial amount of the hangman's fee (interesting in itself, don't you think?). Then set the challenge. During conversations at home or in the common room or on the bus, students have to smuggle the word into their usage as if it's a trendy new piece of slang meaning 'good' or 'cool'. An example would be: "I saw the new Shrek movie last night and it was amazing, really loon-slatt." They report back on what happens.
Quite whether this would get the approval of the new government's wish to ensure that all pupils experience 'the best that has been thought or said' I'm not sure. But we are doing something deeply educational and culturally important here that perhaps we allowed our language work sometimes to miss: celebrating the glorious ever-changing zesty richness of the language we speak.
As my Uncle Ernie would have said: "Grand."
First you can't get them to be quiet, then they won't talk – and now it seems we have to to persuade them to write about talk. Well, what goes around comes around – I'm old enough to recall when our local authority English Adviser could support projects that didn't just have a narrow focus on targets such as getting more A* to Cs (or: points mean prizes). The National Oracy Project was one such (until the last Conservative government closed it down) and I can still remember a Head of Department who made clear his opinion that he wasn't there to listen to what they had to say – they were there to hear what he had to say. I recall, too, that his sports jacket was embellished with a badge for AEC buses – it seems he had clear views on public transport too. Now hold very tight, please, as we have yet another route change for the GCSE bus.
Confronted with yet another set of examination developments, I turned, as any NATE member can, to the March copy of English Drama Media. (However recently you have joined NATE, your subscription gives you access to the complete archive of periodicals – such good value!) Carol Atherton's article on 'Studying Spoken Language at GCSE' not only got me up to speed on the differences between specifications, she also has some excellent practical suggestions, such as studying teenage slang or the range of dialects in the school locality. As well as well-known websites such as the BBC's Voices and the British Library's Sounds Familiar, Carol alerted me to a site I'd not come across before, the International Dialects of English Archive, which contains recordings from around the world. She suggests listening to two contrasting accents and asking students to make notes, as they listen, on their perceptions of the speakers. What might someone's accent tell you about their personality, intelligence, social class or level of income? Even better, if you can, to ask students to make and comment on their own recordings. Today computers, cheap digital voice recorders and even iPods make this very simple. Using the excellent free Audacity software, students can edit their recordings, add commentaries and even post them online as podcasts. If you'd like a bit more help with this, take a look at the case studies on podcasting on the NATE site – they include simple help sheets and even a slide show to get students started.
It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him.
George Bernard Shaw (Pygmalion)
A Level Language teachers are well used to this kind of study. I had the pleasure recently of visiting Louise Astbury's class at Oldham Sixth Form College for NATE's learning platform project. As part of a unit on language and power, Louise had recorded a number of programmes such as The Weakest Link and Hell's Kitchen USA. The College had access to eStream, which stores recordings and splits them into easily annotated 'chapters' for students to select and annotate the features they observed – allowing them to collaborate in groups by accessing the videos from college or home. I'd forgot just how cruel that Anne Robinson can be! YouTube is a less sophisticated alternative source.There's plenty more about spoken English at NATE Conference (9-11 July). Research presentations on Friday cover topics such as children's discussions and classroom talk and there are seminars on the British Library's resources on language. 'Goodbye to the Cat on the Mat' looks at a new web-based resource for language teaching at KS3-5. Not to be missed – call 0114 255 5419 to book a last-minute place!
'Spoken language' is obviously a key component of 'social communication'. It's hard to separate 'speech' from 'language', or either from 'communication'. However, 'speech', 'language' and 'communication' are looked at separately and are recognised as individual areas of difficulty for students who have Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN) in the National Strategies Inclusion Development Programme (IDP).
No one would be excused for finding navigating the IDP – a CD ROM-based 'toolkit' to support teachers who work with students with SLCN – almost impossible, which is a huge shame. The purpose of the CD ROM toolkit is to support teachers in meeting the needs of pupils with language difficulties, and the materials, once found, can be very useful. It is certainly worth a frustrating explore if you or your SENCo has a copy that you can get your hands on.
There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.
Mark Twain
The new unit on Spoken Language gives students the opportunity to focus on how speech and language are used in everyday contexts to communicate. This presents itself as a fantastic opportunity for us to help pupils with SLCN to get to grips with some of the more difficult aspects of spoken language that most children learn through the normal course of their development.
In particular, this unit is a great opportunity to spend time focusing on developing students' verbal reasoning skills. Fundamentally, this is the ability to understand what has been said and then to work out the implication of what they have heard.
Another key area of focus can be non-literal language, such as inferred meaning, idioms, jokes and sarcasm.
Finally, students can be taught about using language appropriately in different social situations, such as turn-taking in conversations, learning how to start and end conversations, understanding intonation, volume and style.
The IDP suggests teachers audit the speech, language and communication skills of the students in order to find out the areas that the students have gaps in, as each may have very different needs. If, for instance, you are aware of some students who have very poor auditory memory, you can support them in getting more out of the spoken language that they hear through giving them visual prompts. This could be as simple as some photographs from Google images.
Whatever the student's main area of difficulty, strategies can be put in place to help them understand spoken language better and therefore be more able to access and complete this unit.
The more we teach students about spoken language, the better they will understand how we communicate, and many students with SLCN could really do with these opportunities to plug some developmental gaps.
I know some colleagues are starting to shake in their boots (or sandals – hurrah for the sunshine!) about the prospect of the new GCSE spoken language units, but really, there is nothing to fear. We are assured by the exam boards that this is not a case of learning long lists of complicated terminology. Students will be able to gain top grades without knowing that 'hedges' can refer to anything other than leafy boundaries.
What they will need to be able to do is to explore their own talk, recognise how we modify talk for different contexts and analyse how we use features of spoken language in our multi-modal conversations. And there are plenty of useful sites around that should help unwobble your wellies.
The Open University's Word4word is a lovely place to start and offers, amongst other things, a downloadable language survey kit, a guide for conducting effective interviews and example conversations to listen to.
An alternative to that is the Introduction to Conversation Analysis by Professor Charles Antaki of Loughborough University. This offers a slightly more detailed guide to how and why one makes a transcript.
The BBC has lots to offer spoken language students. There's the iPlayer for a start, providing a plethora of audio to analyse. Then there are the transcripts for a number of radio programmes, including You and Yours and Case Notes, as well as several TV shows, for example Horizon. The BBC Voices site provides a wealth of recorded interviews, all focusing on accents and dialect in the UK, as well as a word map and a section on language change.
As for multi-modal talk, well the list could go on and on ... The real problem will be getting past your school's firewall. This list of social networking sites at Wikipedia might help.
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As Iron Dog snowmachine race leaders rest up in the old Alaska gold mining town of Nome, federal investigators are busy back down the Iditarod Trail working to determine the cause of a Sunday airplane crash that critically injured an Anchorage attorney and professional racer.
Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board have moved the Cessna 170B that crashed into a lake near the Rainy Pass Lodge Sunday afternoon. The accident resulted in Alaska Air National Guard pararescuers transporting the critically injured pilot, Robert Stone, and passenger Jason Wichman from the lodge, a landmark on the Historic Iditarod Trail and official checkpoint for several winter sporting events along the trail.
A good weather window out at Rainy Pass gave NTSB officials an opportunity on Tuesday to transport the aircraft wreckage by helicopter to Wasilla where it will be analyzed in conjunction with the federal investigation into what caused the accident.
Photographs of the crash site were taken prior to removal of the aircraft, which had been supporting Iron Dog racers Aaron Bartel, 22 of Anchorage, and Brad George, 19 of Wasilla, the third-place team into the halfway stop of Nome.
Rainy Pass Lodge owner Steve Perrin said on Sunday that "the aircraft had taken off during windy conditions." Stone and Wichman, a former Iron Dog competitor, were medevacked from the lodge to Providence Alaska Medical Center, in Anchorage.
National Weather Service observations from nearby Puntilla Lake reported winds late Sunday afternoon from the northwest at 8-10 knots with gusts up to 18. The aircraft reportedly stalled and landed in a nose down position.
Support aircraft work directly for the teams and are not formally affiliated with the race. Some teams can have multiple aircraft and pilots working with them. The pilots primarily operate under general aviation rules and thus are granted more latitude in decision-making than their commercial counterparts.
In the past 20 years, there have been several accidents with Iditarod-affiliated aircraft, which fly supplies and support personnel into and out of checkpoints along the 1,000-mile sled dog race. Almost all of the accidents were due to pilot error. Errors include failure to compensate for adverse weather conditions, including winds, and poor landing site selection.
The NTSB will likely have a final report on the Rainy Pass accident within six months.
Colleen Mondor covers all-things aviation for Alaska Dispatch's Bush Pilot blog and is author of 'The Map of My Dead Pilots: The Dangerous Game of Flying in Alaska'


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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2+ months. I interviewed at Jabian Consulting (Atlanta, GA) in April 2012.
The interview process included 2 HR interviews, a 2:1 in person interview, then a final interview with the 3 Partners of the firm. Also, there was an online personality test (where some guy over-analyzes every answer, and therefore the applicant is forced to carefully think the anticipated perception of each answer... so what good does this really do?)
The final 'White-Boarding' presentation interview was tough. I'm sure there is a different rubric for different experience levels, but the interview approach is the same regardless of experience or intended role in the company. As a consultant with 3 years experience the scenario of me representing the firm for an initial brainstorming meeting with the CEO and COO of a new client that has a new problem they don't understand is..... ridiculous. Obviously that is what the Partners are there for. So to judge all candidates based on this final interview method leaves a one-dimensional work force that is capable of excelling at this one particular exercise.
Based on the interview method and acting scenario the founding Partners come off arrogant, rude, and leave you with no desire to work for them... can't speak to if this goes away upon starting work.
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2+ weeks. I interviewed at Jabian Consulting (Atlanta, GA) in January 2011.
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The interview process started with a phone screen, following by an in-person interview with the HR Director with pretty standard questions (walk through your resume, why Jabian, career plan, strengths/weaknesses, what is your unique talent you bring to consulting, etc.). Throughout the process, you may get invited to Socials where other Jabian employees are present. Everybody is very nice and open to networking. The Social is an opportunity to meet other consultants and get to know the firm. Treat it as a formal recruiting event (be professional, dress appropriately, be open to chatting with anyone and everyone, don't get drunk). Pay attention to details about THEM (will help in the next interview) as well as showcasing yourself. After that, you have an interview with consultants who go through the standard skills/behavioral interview questions. It is pretty easy-going and remember you may have met these people at the social. Final interview is with the partners. Initial conversation is interview chit-chat, but the final part is a 15 min role-playing exercise. Be prepared to showcase your talent. It is a performance so take the role and be in the moment. It is your typical case interview format; broad business problem/challenge/situation, time to ask questions, and then articulate your solution.
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The interview process begins with a phone interview with the Recruiter. The next interview is in person with the Director of HR. The next interview is in person with several line employees ranging from Manager to Director. The final interview is with the three Partners who own the firm. In the final interview 15 to 20 min is used as a role playing exercise where the interviewee is the Jabian consultant and the three Partners represent a existing client with a very broad need. The interviewee is given a brief summary of the situation and about two minutes to ask questions (with most answers being "we don't know yet") prior to beginning the exercise. The interviewee must go outside the room and knock on the door to begin. FYI, during the exercise the interviewee is expected to write on the white board (even if the situation would seem not to call for it). I don't have an explanation for the requirement to write on the white board, I just know I was specifically told to write on the white board...even tho the situation was an initial meeting regarding a very broad need. So whatever you do WRITE ON THAT BOARD! Maybe it's an Accenture thing (all three partners are ex-Accenture). I had an interview at another company with another ex-Accenture person and she was very board oriented as well.
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The Help Movie Review
Based on the best-selling novel by Kathryn Stockett and directed by Tate Taylor, The Help is set in Jackson, Mississippi, during the early 1960s, when African Americans were denied equal rights. Find out more in this Kidzworld Movie Review!
Revolving around the lives of several families and their African American maids, the story starts with Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan (played by Emma Stone) returning home after graduating from university to find her family's maid Constantine has left without anyone telling her why.
Skeeter really wants to tell people about the lives of maids in Jackson Mississipi, but Aibileen is afraid it will put them both in danger
Octavia Spencer helps keep this movie funny in all the right places
Skeeter's mother (played by Allison Janney) worries that her daughter will never attract a husband
An aspiring writer, Skeeter quickly lands a job at the local newspaper, but not writing the kinds of stories she thinks will matter, in fact she writes a daily cleaning column and so turns to her friends' maids to get advice. She decides to dig deeper into the problems in her hometown's society after spending time with her friends who have all married and started families while she was at school, and she soon finds that even though the maids are like part of the family, no one has ever bothered to hear their side of things. Meanwhile they are often treated poorly, especially when the wives in charge are trying to make a good impression on their friends. Struck by inspiration Skeeter decides to collect stories from all the maids about their experiences and turn it into a book, starting with the maids of her friends, like patient and sad Aibileen (played by Viola Davis) and sassy Minny (played by Octavia Spencer). The maids and Skeeter hope the book will drag a place too stuck in its ways into the civil rights movement that is sweeping across America during that time.
The Help has an outstanding cast, and they pull off a movie that is uplifting and funny, but also dramatic and serious. Emma Stone is incredibly likeable as the courageous young journalist who wants to make a difference and empathizes with plight of the hired help, and Viola Davis' performance as a patient, shy woman who never raises her voice when spoken too harshly but loves children is heartbreaking, and the audience truly feels her strength of character when she decides to speak out and help Skeeter, and eventually learns to speak her mind even to her employers. Octavia Spencer's sassy scenes where she quips one-liners make the movie incredibly funny, and Bryce Dallas Howard does an excellent job of portraying a woman so stuck up and concerned with appearances that she intimidates her friends and family with her foolish ideas of what is "right."
An added bonus in seeing this movie is the fantastic clothes, especially the beautiful dresses and shoes from this classic era in fashion. Overall The Help is a good film that will make you laugh even through the tears.
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Rangers' Colby Lewis makes another rehab start; club expects Feliz back in September
From the crowded Department of Injury Rehabilitation:
+ Right-hander Colby Lewis made his fifth injury-rehabilitation start with Double-A Frisco and seventh overall. The club is uncertain of the next step for Lewis. He can remain in the minors on rehab assignment through Aug. 15. If Lewis makes one more start on four days rest, he would be on the same schedule as Ogando. That would figure in the club's decision.
+ Right-hander Neftali Feliz, recovering from Tommy John tendon-transplant surgery, pitched in a game on Friday night for the first time since May 18, 2012. He had two strikeouts in a scoreless inning with the rookie-level Arizona League club. Assistant general manager Thad Levine said the club expects Feliz to pitch in the majors in September.
+ Left-hander Michael Kirkman pitched five innings in his first rehab appearance, with TripleA Round Rock, on Friday night. Levine said Kirkman will prepare as a starter so that he can make up for lost time and also be ready for a variety of roles on the major-league level.
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D.C. police say a man who allegedly tried to sexually assault a 60-year-old woman in northwest D.C. on June 5 is now in custody.
Police say 58-year-old Paul Mannina of Ashton, Maryland, was charged with assault with the intent to commit first degree sexual assault while armed, and burglary while armed in connection with the incident in the 2700 block of Chesapeake Street, NW.
Mannina had a Taser and attempted to sexually assault the adult female attorney before fleeing, police say. According to police, the suspect knew the victim.
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This new The Avengers mashup is not an official trailer for the highly anticipated Marvel movie — but it's made from official trailers! And it's pretty much two-and-a-half minutes of ass-kicking awesomeness.
Composed of clips from the individual movies featuring members of the Earth-saving team — Thor, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, Iron Man 2 and Captain America: The First Avenger — plus bits from the recent Avengers ad that aired during the Super Bowl, the massive clip is probably the most comprehensive video compilation for the film so far.
Made by the folks at Screen Rant and Synn Studios, the mashup is essentially what those of us salivating for the superhero team-up film need to hold us over for a couple months. Oh, and the soundtrack is "Animus Vox" by The Glitch Mob, which was dope already. We'll shut up now and let you watch.
The Avengers, directed by Joss Whedon, hits theaters May 4.
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Devan Grote '11 arrived at Gettysburg with a passion for writing and literature. Outside of class, her interest in service projects drew her to the College's Center for Public Service (CPS). Devan worked with the Campus Kitchen and Adams County Food Policy Council last summer, and she is currently the service vice president for the co-ed service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega. Her experiences with CPS transformed how she thinks about working for the greater good:
"I did service projects in high school and past College semesters, but through CPS I developed strong relationships with people in the community. The Center encourages us to learn from those we serve and to deeply examine the 'how' and 'why' in each situation, things that people don't always think about when they're helping others. This made me want to do more, to go beyond providing help and to seek sustainable solutions. I want to plan my career around public service because I know that whatever I do after College, I'll do it much better when I'm working for a purpose."


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CCU bands to perform in Spectrum Concert
James L. Tully, professor of music and director of bands, leads student music groups for an hour of uninterrupted music. The event features everything from guitars to drums, and styles from classical to jazz to show tunes. The grand finale spotlights the CCU Symphonic Band as they perform �Danzas Cubanas� and one of John Philip Sousa�s most popular marches.
The event is the first-ever Coastal Band Program fundraising concert. CCU Bands and the Office of Philanthropy have united to raise money for needed improvements to the marching band�s practice field and for new uniforms.
General admission is $9; alumni, senior citizens (ages 65 and over) and Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Members are $7; CCU and HGTC faculty and staff are $3 (two per valid ID); CCU and HGTC students are $3 (one per valid ID); teens (ages 11 to 17) are $3; and children (10 and under�must be accompanied by an adult) are free with ticket.
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Bob Bowlsby asked pointed questions and conducted plenty of his own research before accepting the job as Big 12 commissioner.
"I, like many people, had a vision of this conference as being unstable," Bowlsby confessed Friday.
But after his early apprehension, he said it wasn't long before he was convinced that the league that teetered on disaster a year ago was committed to thriving in the ever-evolving college football landscape. Bowlsby, athletic director at Stanford the past six seasons, takes over for Dan Beebe, who was fired in September 2011 and was replaced on an interim basis by Chuck Neinas.
"I think the future of the conference is exceedingly bright," Bowlsby said during a press conference Friday to formally introduce him. "I am very enthusiastic and bullish about the future of the Big 12."
Bowlsby has agreed to a five-year contract. Just a year ago, it was uncertain whether the Big 12 would last that long. Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Texas were all eyeing the Pac-12. Texas A&M and Missouri were shaping their respective exits to the SEC. Eventually, Beebe was ousted. The future was anything but bright.
Neinas managed, through the chaos, to bring in West Virginia and TCU. Just as important, he initiated a television rights deal that would ensure a minimum six-year commitment from the remaining teams in the conference. All revenue from first- and second-tier television games would go to the Big 12 instead of the individual schools, thus making it a much harder decision for a school to leave for another conference.
Bowlsby said that is likely to be extended beyond six years.
"Revenue rights is the essence of any ongoing media package," he said. "The longer we go, presumably the more stable we are. ... Most of the contracts are between 12 and 15 years."
Bowlsby also addressed possible expansion of the Big 12, which is at 10 teams and no longer has a conference championship game. Louisville from the Big East and Notre Dame, an independent in football, are most frequently discussed as potential Big 12 targets.
"I'm not going to presume a direction we will go," he said. "It has to be expansion that has at its roots enhancement of the league. There is nothing magic about 11, 12 or 10. To the extent that we can advance our agenda, we ought to at least consider that. We are very excited about the 10 we have right now."
Bowlsby and Texas athletic director DeLoss Dodds have a longtime professional relationship. Bowlsby was asked directly whether Texas, a program many thought was being too demanding and intrusive and making the Big 12 uncomfortable for everyone else involved, would continue to rule the roost. To that, Bowlsby said that he hasn't "been very good at being a puppet." In other words, don't expect the Longhorns to call all the shots.
"Texas is always going to be an 800-pound gorilla in college athletics and that isn't going to change," Bowlsby said. "They are committed to the conference and committed to the best outcomes not only for them, but the other nine members."
Bowlsby was a wrestler in college and said he has even wrestled in some Big 12 venues. He has been to every campus in a professional capacity as well. He enters the position with the biggest change to come in major college football—a BCS playoff—on the horizon. And, the waves of expansion continue. Whether at Stanford or Iowa, where he was AD for 15 years, Bowlsby has been an influencer.
He characterized the Pac-12 before Larry Scott became commissioner as a "sort of loosely wound configuration of sometimes like-minded universities." That's not the way he left it, with Bowlsby playing a major role in the Pac-12 landing ground-shifting television deals. It's from that experience he steps into his new position.
"I think the Big 12 can do anything the Big 12 wants to do," he said. "The landscape is changing quickly and we're going to need to change with it. ... It's not a geographic footprint anymore. We're talking about an electronic footprint."
Said Oklahoma State president and Big 12 Board chair Burns Hargis: "We felt he could take the Big 12 to the next level in this new era of collegiate athletics."
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text: As many of you know I curate the exhibitions at the Valley Photo Center. The next show is a LF show of work from the members of the Western New England Large Format Photography group, LF photographers from all around the NE region. Well... the turn out has been rather small and there is not enough work to fill the main gallery, probably just enough to go on the Teller Wall. I asked Bruce Barlow if I could extend the drop-off deadline to this coming Saturday, April 1st, and invite NE-APUG'ers who shoot LF to join in the exhibit. If you have two photos you would like to exhibit ("Ready-to-Hang") I invite you to drop it off at the VPC this Sat from 10:00 am 'til 4:00 pm. I had toyed with the idea to make a request last week, but (1) I had hoped for a good response from the WNELFP members on Sat and (2) was quite preoccupied with the events of the day. The exhibit runs from April 5 to May 5 with a reception on Sunday April 9 from 2:00 to 5:00 pm. Again two photos, ready to hang. You can PM me if interested or just show up. I thank in advance any and all who may participate. Sorry for such a short notice. gene


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The Fresh Prince theme, Google translated to Chinese and back [video]
The Fresh Prince theme is probably the only TV theme song that we all know the words to. Well, we did know the words until Collective Cadenza translated them to Chinese and back, resulting in this hilariously bad mix.
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Last week's top seller Soul Calibur IV's sales have dropped 24 per cent since last week, but it still manages to come in at number two.
Third-placed title Mario Kart Wii was boosted by an 11 per cent sales rise this week, while also on the up were THQ's Big Beach Sports (up one place to four) and Activision Blizzard's Guitar Hero III (up five places to number six).
So, this week's top ten all-formats chart courtesy of ELSPA/ChartTrack is as follows:
1. Wii Fit (Nintendo)
2. Soul Calibur IV (Ubisoft)
3. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)
4. Big Beach Sports (THQ)
5. Wii Play (Nintendo)
6. Guitar Hero III (Activision Blizzard)
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Last week, we wrote about how Supervisor Scott Wiener was trying to push back the preservationist movement from conserving every crumbling building and sign in our fair city. As it turns out, some preservationists could potentially gain -- personally-- from marking every tree, park, and library as historic.
Wiener was rather blunt in his complaint, claiming the Historic Preservation Commission is unbalanced, consisting of only members who favor conserving all aspects of the city. In a move that certainly delighted urban developers, Wiener has called for a hearing to discuss how to better balance the city's past with the need for its future.
"If we have a commission made up exclusively of advocates for historic preservation -- only advocates -- that is a problem," Wiener said.
But there's a less obvious problem than preservation commissions wanting to preserve things. Some of the commissioners are historic consultants themselves -- and could benefit personally from their decisions.
Here is the backstory: The city hired a local historic preservation
consultancy firm to conduct surveys that would help the commission and the
city create historic districts. That firm, Page & Turnbull, used its own formula to decide what properties would be deemed worthy, and decided that more than 600 properties in
SOMA would become part of a new historic district.
So anyone who owns a property in a historic district and wants to do anything to it would hire historic preservation consultants to guide them.
Charles Chase, for instance, is both chairman of the Historic
Preservation Commission and a project director for Architectural Resources Group, a local historic preservation consulting company. His company, along with Page & Turnbull, is listed as one of the 19 selected consultants that could be hired to help with redevelopment projects in historic districts.
Is this creating a scenario where commissioners and planners could potentially benefit from creating larger Historic Districts?
Concern about this type of conflict of interest is starting to surface at City Hall. In a letter from Townsend
Street Associates, Raymond Bregante, the managing partner, calls Chase and the commissioners out on this very issue.
"Has the [Planning] Department created an unintended appearance of a
conflict of interest by allowing a consultant to increase its potential
client pool by proposing and justifying new property for historic
preservation in SOMA?" Bregante wrote.
Chase didn't return repeated phone calls to SF Weekly, and Wiener refused to comment on the seemingly potential conflict of interest.
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before i joined the army, i made sure i could do the minimun PT requirements. i think it was 40 sit-ups, 40 push-ups, and run the mile in less than eighteen mimutes. i weighed about 205 at 5'9". even got my long hair cut off before i joined. doing the minimum once a day seemed easy. once i got into basic, after about 2 weeks of double timing and "drop and give me fifty" all day everyday, i was reduced to not even being able to the minimum due to arms, legs and every other muscle being turned to rubber. after about about 5 or 6 weeks of this, i had went from 205 lbs to 165 lbs of lean mean fighting machine. at this point we litteraly did hundreds of push-ups and sit-ups no problem everyday. running a mile in less than 12 minutes. 3 pull-ups? try 25 for a minimun. climbing up 25 or 30 feet of rope using your legs is rough, let alone straight up without your legs. main thing i think we were being taught was agility and stamina. mostley stamina.
OK. This is before you joined the Army.
Hundreds of pushups each day?
A minimum standard for pullups?
Climbing a rope with your legs?
What MOS are/were you?
Where was Basic and AIT? Did you do them separately, or were you OSUT?
Running a mile in less than 12 minutes? I should hope so.
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Chelsea agree deal for Piazon
Chelsea have agreed a deal to sign Sao Paulo starlet Lucas Piazon when he turns 18, in a move that will see him join the Premier League champions in January 2012.
Piazon, dubbed by some in his homeland as the new Kaka, is currently playing for Brazil in the South American Under-17 Championship and the deal is reportedly worth £5.3 million.
The player was also courted by Juve, who appeared to have won the race for the teenager two months ago after he spent a week training with the Italian giants. That sparked erroneous reports he would join them in January next year. Instead, he is set to move to Stamford Bridge in line with FIFA laws after Sao Paulo agreed to sell him.
Sao Paulo vice-president Carlos Augusto de Barros e Silva confirmed the deal was in place, and was done so they could pay for the signing of Luis Fabiano.
"It is a big deal for the club," he confirmed. "The value of it is almost the same as that of Luis Fabiano. He nearly joined Juventus earlier this year, but now everything has been resolved."
Piazon has never played a senior game for Sao Paulo and will sign the deal when he returns from Ecuador next month.
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TITLE : Circulating tumor cells identification in advanced stage non-small cell lung cancer (CIRCUBRONCH)
BACKGROUND : Circulating tumor cells identification is a new field of research in oncology, and some studies have been conducted with success on breast and prostate cancer. Nearly 80% of lung cancers are diagnosed in an advanced stage (IIIB, and IV). Circulating tumor cells identification and monitoring these cells after treatment could help the clinicians to detect relapse or be a prognostic factor.
PRIMARY OBJECTIVE : Circulating tumor cells identification, and monitoring in advanced stage lung cancers (IIIB and IV).
SECONDARY OBJECTIVES : Predictive value of the monitoring of circulating tumor cells on the therapeutic response. Prognostic value of identification of circulating tumor cells at the time of diagnosis.
STUDY DESIGN : This study is a prospective, monocentrique trial analyzing the identification of circulating tumor cells in stage IIIB, and IV non-small cell lung cancers.
Duration of the inclusions: 54 months.
Duration of the study: 66 months.
PROCEDURES : Detection of circulating tumor cells with CellSearch system (Veridex), and a cut-off of 5 cells/7,5 ml of blood.
SAMPLE SIZE : 200 patients
STATISTICAL ANALYSIS : Detection of circulating tumor cells is predicted in 20% of stage IIIB, and IV non-small cell lung cancers included in this study. The cut-off is 5 circulating tumor cells per 7,5 ml of blood.
|Stage IIIB Non Small Cell Lung Cancer Stage IV Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
|Other: blood samples
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Diagnostic
|Official Title:
|Circulating Tumor Cells Identification in Advanced Stage Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
- Identification of circulating tumor cells in locally advanced, and metastatic non-small cell lung cancer. [ Time Frame: 18 months ]Circulating tumor cells will be search with the Veridex method, and a value per 7.5 f blood will be recorded.
- Identification of a cellular profile according to clinical factors (sex,histology, …). [ Time Frame: 18 months ]epidemiological,and clinical characteristics of patients with advanced lung cancer
|Study Start Date:
|June 2012
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|December 2017
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|December 2017 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: specific procedure
Circulating tumor cells will be search with the Veridex method at inclusion and after the third chimiotherapy
Other: blood samples
3 tubes (15 ml)
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|Child, Adult, Senior
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Advanced stage NSCLC (stages IIIB, and IV) with measurable or evaluable disease at diagnosis.
- Age ≥ 18 years.
- Measurable or evaluable disease according to RECIST criteria.
- Ability to sign informed consent.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Prior cancers within 5 years, except for non-melanoma skin cancers, and in situ cervical cancers.
- Prior chemotherapy, radiation or surgery for lung cancer.
- Inability to comply with study and/or follow-up procedures.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01658332
|Christelle Clement-Duchene
|Nancy, France, 54511
|Principal Investigator:
|Christelle CLEMENT-DUCHENE, MD
|Responsible Party:
|Central Hospital, Nancy, France
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01658332 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|June 16, 2012
|Last Updated:
|July 29, 2015
Keywords provided by Central Hospital, Nancy, France:
lung cancer
circulating tumor cells
monocentrique trial
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Lung Neoplasms
Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung
Neoplastic Cells, Circulating
Respiratory Tract Neoplasms
Thoracic Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Lung Diseases
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Carcinoma, Bronchogenic
Bronchial Neoplasms
Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplastic Processes
Pathologic Processes
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Nash County drug dealer gets 18 years in prison
Posted June 28, 2012
A convicted drug dealer from Rocky Mount was sentenced in federal court Thursday to 18 years in prison.
Kendwall Kendell "Showboat" Barnes, 36, also received 10 years of supervised release following his prison term, which was handed down by U.S. District Court Judge James C. Dever III. In January, Barnes pleaded to a charge of conspiracy to distribute and possession with the intent to distribute crack cocaine.
Barnes had been selling crack cocaine in Nash County since 1997, according to States Attorney Thomas G. Walker. In February 2010, officers from the Rocky Mount Police Department used confidential informants to purchase more than 100 grams of crack cocaine from two mid-level dealers in Rocky Mount. An investigation revealed Barnes as the supply source for the dealers. Law enforcement said he distributed more than 17 kilograms of the drug in Nash County since 1997.
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UPPER MONTCLAIR, N.J. – Brian Nielsen's future with the Red Bulls remains very much up in the air.
Nielsen, signed to a loan deal last April, played just 105 minutes in 2010 before succumbing to a knee injury. A string of knocks limited him to just one MLS substitute appearance this season, but he made it clear he wants to come back to the team.
The Danish winger will have a discussion with sporting director Erik Solér and head coach Hans Backe sometime this week to determine whether or not he will return to New York in 2012.
Admittedly, his fate is very much unknown for the time being.
"I don't really know; I have to talk with the staff," Nielsen told MLSsoccer.com. "I don't know yet. I would like to come back, yes."
Because he is on a loan deal from Red Bull Salzburg, the possibility exists that Nielsen could go back to the Austrian club or even be transferred or loaned to another European side. A former Danish U-21 international, the winger showed glimpses of creativity and a good touch during his brief spell on the field last year.
And although life in the city has been to his liking, Nielsen didn't pull punches when discussing his professional fortunes.
"Soccer wise, I haven't [enjoyed it] – I haven't played," Nielsen said. "Otherwise, yes, I've enjoyed it."
He said he feels fully recovered from the knee issues and groin injury that plagued him late in the summer as he worked to get back on the field. He hopes to continue to round into game shape during the offseason, even while facing an uncertain future.
"I feel great. I feel no problems with my knee anymore," Nielsen said. "Had a little problem with my groin right now, but I feel good. The plan is to go back and train with some club in Denmark and then do my offseason program by myself."
A big reason why he'd like to return to the club is that Nielsen feels he hasn't had the chance to show management or Red Bulls fans what he is capable of doing on the field. Asked if he felt like there was unfinished business at Red Bull Arena, he nodded emphatically.
"One hundred percent," Nielsen said. "I don't really feel like I've showed anything yet. I played what, one game this year and what, three games last year? I haven't really shown anything yet. I'd like to come back and show what I can do."


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The Bodercks know business. After all, Steve Boderck and Laura MacDonald-Boderck have over 30 years of combined experience in banking, real estate and marketing, among other areas.
"Both of us have had wonderful careers ... and this is an opportunity to give back to society in some way or form," MacDonald-Boderck said.
Now the couple is planning a new challenge in a new field - education.
Slated to begin Sept. 1 in Los Altos, the Bodercks will open FasTracKids Academy, an educational enrichment academy for children, 3 to 6.
"It was about a year ago when we were actually living in Idaho, and Laura wanted to figure out something to do ... a business to start," said Boderck about getting involved with FasTracKids, "something with giving back and having a business. She found FasTracKids. ... When we moved back to the Bay Area in September (2003), she became more involved in understanding the company and took a full interest in starting the work."
FasTracKids International Ltd., headquartered in Denver, Colo., offers curriculum in 12 areas, including astronomy, biology, economics and mathematics. The program uses CD-ROM-based lessons to engage children in learning.
"The goal of the academy is to 'teach children how to learn. Kids are our future," said Boderck who, with his wife, is a licensed FasTracKids area developer in Santa Clara County.
"Both my parents were in the education field. ... and having the ability to be with children and to enhance their ability to learn and to stimulate their minds so that they have more of an open book, more exposure to what's available to them in this world, I think, gives back to society."
The curriculum is based on the company's belief that early childhood education does not meet the needs of every child in school. The company has stated educational goals, including how to apply and transfer the things they learn, develop communication skills and stimulate brain development.
"It enables (children) to become better people or discover what they want to do and what they want to be," Boderck said. "In my mind, it's getting to them at an early age so that they can become better people and have more exposure to this big, huge, vast world that we live in."
Classes will be scheduled 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Mondays through Fridays, with some Saturday classes. Sessions will meet once a week for a two-hour class, according to Boderck.
Pricing begins at $195 per month, according to MacDonald-Boderck, but the academy will offer price breaks for parents who enroll their children longer than a month. The classes will have an 8-to-1 student-to-teacher ratio, according to MacDonald-Boderck.
"What I hope to achieve is to bring this type of educational program to areas, to the disadvantaged, to children all over," MacDonald-Boderck said.
The Bodercks FasTracKids Academy is scheduled to open Sept. 1, at 941 Fremont Ave, Loyola Corners.


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Unemployment rates are slowly falling, and the economy is beginning to grow again.
But for one particularly hard-hit segment of the unemployed — former high-income workers — finding another job is a struggle between balancing their own expectations and overcoming the prejudices of potential employers who view their former salaries as an obstacle.
"There are 4.6 unemployed workers for every job opening in the country right now, and we know that employers are getting a slew of applicants for every position, so they can be very picky," said Heidi Shierholz, an economist with the Economic Policy Institute in Washington.
"Older workers, once they get laid off, they're much more likely to get stuck in unemployment. They have spent a long time developing a certain set of experiences and wage needs, and when you're in an economy where jobs aren't plentiful, it's hard to find jobs that meet those needs."
Workers in high-paying sectors such as finance and technology lost their jobs at a faster pace in this last recession than did those in lower-paying industries, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Large numbers of engineers, executives, sales representatives and others whose six-figure salaries were stripped away in 2008 and 2009 are struggling not only to live, but also to recapture some piece of those former lifestyles.
A study by the Mergis Group, a Fort Lauderdale recruiting company that specializes in professional and executive-level positions, found that the confidence level among employed accounting and finance workers about their own job security had reached its highest level in three years.
"The report illustrates that workers' confidence in the economy and job market have dimmed. Conversely, workers are now indicating greater confidence in the future of their current employers and in their ability to find a new job," said Brendan Courtney, president of the Mergis Group.
Economists say that although the employment picture looks bleak now, there are strong indications that companies are beginning to hire again.
"Job growth has already started to mend," said economist Ken Mayland, president of Clearview Economics LLC in Cleveland.
Mayland likened the recovery to that after the recession of 1990-91, when job growth lagged significantly for more than a year before accelerating substantially in 1993. The swings are even more substantial for high-income workers, he said.
"Going into the most recent recession, you saw a bigger decline in high-paying jobs, and now coming out of this recession, consistent with our history, we are starting to see the faster growth of high-paying jobs," Mayland said.


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KARACHI, Aug 7: Chief Justice Mushir Alam of the Sindh High Court on Wednesday directed the inspector general of police to provide thumb impressions of all absconding accused across the province to the National Database Registration Authority to track them down.
He also ordered the IGP to submit a list of all absconders in the province.
The chief justice gave these directions while perusing the IGP's report on police failure to arrest Uzair Jan Baloch, an absconder in the Arshad Pappu murder case.
He directed the IGP to inform the court if the database/thumb impressions of the absconding accused were available with Nadra.
The CJ also directed the police chief to inform the court whether any step to get the national identity cards of the absconders blocked was initiated by the police, further ordering him to immediately initiate the process.
In his report on the police failure to arrest Uzair Jan, the IGP stated that the SHO of the Chakiwara police station was placed under suspension, while the SSP-South was issued an explanation notice.
Besides, the report said that SSP-City was directed to conduct intelligence-based raids for the arrest of the absconder.
On July 25, the CJ had directed the provincial police chief to submit a report as to why Uzair Jan was not arrested by the police when he was accessible to media people publicly.
Uzair Jan, chief of the self-styled Karachi City Alliance that was previously known as the Peoples Amn Committee, was an absconding suspect in the Arshad Pappu murder case and an anti-terrorism court had ordered the police initiate the proceedings to declare him and others proclaimed offender in the case. Uzair Jan hosted an Iftar dinner for journalists in Lyari on the same day when the ATC issued directives to the police. The event was attended by over 500 media persons, belonging to both TV channels and newspapers.
Govt told to set up quick response force authority A division bench headed by Chief Justice Mushir Alam directed the federal and provincial authorities to establish a centralised "Quick Response Force Authority" to combat rising crime of kidnapping for ransom and illegal detention. The bench was seized with the hearing of a case of three missing persons who were picked up by Rangers on Sept 11, 2012 and since then their whereabouts were unknown.
The bench observed that it was a matter of record that gangsters and criminals involved in crimes, including kidnapping for ransom and illegal detention, were operating at national level and even in some of the cases they operated from beyond the territorial limits of the country.
"Such criminals seem to be more organised than the law enforcement agencies", CJ Alam remarked and added that the challenge posed by criminal needed more extraordinary efforts by all the law-enforcement agencies of all provinces and the federal government.
The court underlined the need of establishing a centralised Quick Response Force Authority to attend such issues with promptitude rather than entering into bureaucratic delay of seeking permissions/sanctions from one or the other provincial/federal agency.
The bench directed the Sindh home secretary and interior and defence secretaries to join hand to establish a centralised focal agency to meet this ever-increasing challenge.
The petitioner, Samra Jan, moved the SHC against the kidnapping/arrest of her grandson, Irfan Uddin and two other relatives — Samiullah and Shaukatullah — on Sept 11, 2012 by the Rangers.
The deputy attorney general assured that he shall ensure that the secretaries of interior and defence coordinated with the Sindh home secretary and home secretaries of other provinces to establish a rapid response force.
The bench directed the provincial law officer to ensure that the home secretary hosted meetings in this regard without any delay.
The court directed the authorities to submit a report on Sept 5 with a concrete mechanism of proposed quick response force.
The petitioner, represented by Advocate Zahooruddin Khan, submitted that her grandson and two relatives were intercepted and arrested by Rangers near Hub Chowki when they along with 14 others were coming to Karachi from Quetta after attending a jirga.
She said that they had shifted to Karachi from Wazirstan due to an army operation and drone attacks.
The investigation officer submitted in his report that the petitioner informed that his relative Muhammed Daud Asad told her that he had received a call from a cellphone which was issued in the name of Saeed Reaheem Khan on his cell number. The caller introduced himself as Zain Shanwari and asked Daud that missing persons would be released on payment of Rs1.5 million.
The IO said that he went to the given address of the subscriber, but it proved incorrect.
He said that another cellular number provided by the petitioner was in the name of Kausar Bibi. The IO said that he got the details of the subscriber whose address was shown at Kot Najeebullah, Haripur.
He said that the home department was moved for permission to proceed to Haripur. He said that on Aug 2 he obtained the photocopy of Kausar Bibi's national identity card from Nadra, but the address was found to be incorrect.


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The sights and sounds of the summer are back on the boardwalk in Seaside Heights as wide-eyed kids try their luck in the arcade. Hopeful they'll nab a prize. Twelve-year-old Chelsea Wheeler is back on Casino Pier, her first trip since Sandy.
"It's like awesome because I'm like it's still alive! It's here because this is family here to me and I'm always coming every summer. It's my life here!" she said.
The rides are in full swing. Eighteen are now open, including two new ones. Another three new rides will open later this season. Casino Pier staffers are gearing up for what's typically a busy Easter holiday weekend. It's something they missed last year since the 82-year-old pier didn't open until the end of July.
"Easter weekend has always been a big deal at Casino Pier. It's a great start to spring," said Casino Pier Marketing Manager Maria Mastoris.
"It's always great to be back especially this time of year. I remember back in the day growing up during the Easter weekend, everyone would get dressed up on Easter Sunday and walk the boardwalk," said California resident Charles Parlapanides.
As for the famous Jet Star Roller Coaster, which was destroyed by the storm and became a symbol of Sandy's wrath, Casino Pier officials haven't set a timetable to replace it, but crews will begin replacing the upper deck of the pier this summer.
In an effort to lure tourists here for the next few days and ultimately the summer, Casino Pier offers half price ticket sales over the holiday weekend. The company expects to hire about 100 more employees this season compared to last year. Revenue then was off about 25 percent from previous years.
"Last year you can't even compare it to any other season because we didn't have half our pier like we normally do and half our rides didn't open until the end of July," Mastoris said.
"Not coming here last year we missed it. That's what the Jersey Shore is — coming to the boardwalk, enjoying the food, the rides, the smells, friends," said Forked River resident Laura Wheeler.
Game stand owners are thrilled to be back on the boardwalk this holiday weekend.
Last Easter, Vinny's Games was set up in the parking lot.
"We only got three months last year. My season consists of seven months — March through September and weekends in the winter and I need those months to pay my rents. The rents are high, the taxes are high," said Vinny Scuzzese.
"The importance of being open in Seaside Heights, especially our boardwalk, is our tax rate is basically 75 percent of our rate is the boardwalk, between the beaches, parking meters, revenue from the licenses from our stands," said Seaside Heights Director of Special Events Michael Grachen.
Back in the arcade, as the carousel whizzes by, we catch one lucky winner. Jersey Shore business owners hope by the end of summer, they'll all be smiling as much as she is.


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I had a great time playing with a few new papers from the new MME line "Lime Twist". I really tried to walk on past this lovely product at my LSS but the grey and gold mix just kept calling me back to drool over them. Finally I gave in. MME has such amazing sticker sheets out! They sure give you lots of bang for your buck and are great for layering. They even have twine to go along with this line!! I indulged in a few more skeins!! Now I have grey and gold in my twine collection!! Yes, I have enough twine for life!!
Here is little Thomas looking just as cute as ever, enjoying some Cheerios!! I loved the balloon die cut and decided to give it some texture by stitching on it. This unleashed my love of hand stitching and so a stitching I did go.
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Are you having a traditional Thanksgiving meal or are you doing something different this year?
Feel free to share your menu, any unique dishes you are serving or any funny cooking stories from the big day.
Enjoy your Thanksgiving meals, everyone!
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Are you having a traditional Thanksgiving meal or are you doing something different this year?
Feel free to share your menu, any unique dishes you are serving or any funny cooking stories from the big day.
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Thanks to all for sharing your WONDERFUL menus!! And just think of the great leftovers you will have Friday. :-)
We went to my aunt's house near Charlotte for the day. I brought broccoli slaw, fruit salad and a carrot cake. We had a wonderful time with family from all over and the food was excellent!
Amomoftwo - Congratulations to your SIL on her new home (and her frugal shopping skills)!
I hope everyone had a wonderful day!
Ahhhh, the sound of a very contented tummy!! DH smoked our turkey, as usual, I made the dressing, sweet potato, green bean casseroles, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry relish, stuffed celery and crusty french rolls, and cranberry gingerale to drink - various desserts. What a feast, my favorite holiday! Good thing we don't eat like this every day!! Hope everyone else had a great day also - the weather was absolutely perfect!!!
Just got home from my SIL and daughter's first Thanksgiving in their new home. Her frugal grocery shopping has enabled them to purchase some nice furniture and other decorative items~all tips learned from Faye! Our meal was frugal and delicious including turkey, ham, corn frozen from her MIL's garden, collards from a local farmer, NC sweet potato casserole, 2 types of mac n cheese, cranberry salad, green bean casserole, and we finished with pecan pie bites and brownies. It was so nice to be her guest!
Since it's just the two of us, we had turkey breast, stuffing, gravy, green bean casserole, baked sweet potatoes, roasted brussels sprouts, crustless pumpkin pie (1 point per slice!), and pumpkin cheesecake (for DH, and grandson later in the weekend).
I almost never share menus here, since I so seldom cook. Yes, it's true. I feel like I've been in the kitchen ALL day today, but I'm really not complaining. I enjoy making a nice meal, once in a while. :-)
Happy Thanksgiving, folks!
We are having turkey, fried sausage (for my husband who does not eat turkey), creamed potatoes, green beans for grandson, butter beans for granddaughter, collards, dressing & gravy, Christmas rice (named that for the beautiful colors in it). Also cheese cake, pumpkin roll and pecan pie. Can't wait to eat at 6:30!
JDOUGLAS13, would love to have your recipe for your lemon pie. Would love to try it since we like lemon so much. Is it tart or sweet? Happy Thanksgiving to you all.
Ascherer -- I have fond memories (and stories of course) of hotel room kitchens! I hope you have a wonderful day with your family! :)
This is the first year in many that we are not having M&C. I thought I'd give DW a break LOL. The lemon meringue pie is done and the turkey is in the oven. Sides will be baked sweet potatoes, stuffing, green beans (with some for the Princess) and creamed onions.
Wishing everyone a truly happy day with your loved ones.
ascherer - your menu sounds wonderful! It's great that your rooms are next to each other. At least you don't have to trek food down the hallway. Thank YOU for all your posts and friendship as well! Have fun with your family!
Our family is having the traditional turkey, dressing, gravy, honey ham, green bean casserole, sweet potato casserole, cranberry relish, cranberry sauce, homemade rolls, and who knows what else the other ladies have already or are going to make. The funny part is that this is being done in two hotel suite kitchens (Thank you Marriott). Thank goodness the rooms are side by side.
There are more desserts than I can list. All of us brought some.
I got lucky. I am excused from cooking today. I know I will still be in the middle of it but just following orders. I'm in charge of Saturday nights dinner (homemade venison chili and corn bread muffins). Friday, of course, will be leftovers.
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. I am thankful to be a member of this blog, for the friendships I have made through this blog, and all the money Faye & this blog have saved me. =^-.-^=


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Junction meets buyer expectation
Edged by the greenery of Westerfolds Park and the Rosanna and Heidelberg golf clubs, the suburb offers privacy, space and views.
Rocco Montanaro, of Morrison Kleeman Estate Agents Eltham, says Lower Plenty is the best address in the north-eastern green wedge.
''It's so tightly held because it consists of just a few streets. It's only 16 kilometres from the CBD and you can still find an acre [4046 square metres] with a pool and tennis court. There are some quite large holdings around Cleveland Avenue and a good mixture of new estates, such as Lakeside, which has about 50 large, expensive homes, all on acre blocks.''
A 4000-square-metre block here will sell for about $1 million.
''Last week, we sold a 35-year-old house on half a hectare for $1,351,000. The new owner will renovate. We recently sold a home for $3.6 million — the highest sale ever in Lower Plenty,'' Mr Montanaro says. ''When you see sales like that, it gives people confidence to buy in the area.
''We've just listed a home in Amberley Way and we're expecting about $2.2 million or $2.3 million.''
Older houses closer to Main Road are more affordable.
''We recently listed a house on a standard block on Old Eltham Road and have had quite a lot of inquiries,'' Mr Montanaro says. ''It's around the $700,000 mark. We get buyers coming from everywhere.''
The few apartments or townhouses available are from $600,000.