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Childs Restaurants
Childs Restaurants was one of the first national dining chains in the United States and Canada, having peaked in the 1920s and 1930s with about 125 locations in dozens of markets, serving over 50,000,000 meals a year, with over $37 million in assets at the time. Childs was a pioneer in a number of areas, including design, service, sanitation, and labor relations. It was a contemporary of food service companies such as Horn & Hardart, and a predecessor of companies such as McDonald's.
Childs' logo of 1907
Childs Restaurant, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, circa 1908
|None in operation since late 1960s
|Manhattan, New York City, United States (1889 )
|Samuel Childs, William Childs
Number of locations
|107 locations in 29 cities in 1925
Area served
|New York City and other northeastern U.S. cities
|Pancakes, American cuisine
The first Childs Restaurant was launched in 1889 by brothers Samuel S. Childs and William Childs, on the ground level of the Merchants Hotel (current site of One Liberty Plaza, also previously the Singer Building), at 41 Cortlandt Street (between Broadway and Church Street), in New York City's Financial District.[1] The brothers' concept for the establishment was to provide economical meals to the working class, quickly, with an unusually high emphasis – for the period – on cleanliness and hygiene. Their novel design format included white tiles, white uniforms, and waitresses instead of then-common waiters.[2] In addition to these signature characteristics, Childs locations also featured their pancake griddles in the front window. Within five years, Childs had grown to five profitable locations.[3] They also are credited as inventors of the "tray line" self-service cafeteria format, which they introduced in 1898 at their 130 Broadway location.[4]
In 1898, the brothers, confident and ready for more aggressive expansion, combined with several investors to legally incorporate The Childs Unique Dairy Company, with capitalization of $1,000,000, and the stated intent to "establish and operate restaurants in New York City and elsewhere".[5] It was widely speculated, and finally confirmed in 1912, that several officers of the Standard Oil Company were investors in the restaurant chain, including Henry Morgan Tilford and Charles Sweeney.[6] At some point, "duPont interests" also gained a significant stock position, which would eventually cause problems for the family owners.[7][8]
In 1899, F.O. Hendrick, a nephew of Samuel and William Childs, launched a casual luncheon restaurant at 142 Fulton Street, practically across the street from his uncles' first location on Cortlandt Street, which was by then 10 years old and highly successful.[9] After a short period of family competition, Hendrick ultimately brought his restaurant under the Childs umbrella, and remained an operating executive of Childs Restaurants until the family lost control.
In 1906, fifteen similar restaurants (called "green doors") which were independently owned and operated by Ellsworth Childs (brother of Samuel and William) were consolidated into the company. Thereafter, Ellsworth remained an executive of Childs until his death in 1929, and is cited as a driving force behind the physical expansion during that period.[10][11]
Peak yearsEdit
In September 1919, the company launched an employee stock ownership plan for its restaurant managers, and three years later, extended the plan to all employees. Within 10 years, employees would own almost 25% of the company's common stock.[12]
By 1925, the chain operated 107 locations in 29 cities, served 50,000,000 meals every year, and was reporting consistent annual profits of $2,000,000. The company also grew to include other real estate interests. In March 1925, company President Samuel S. Childs died, although he had not been personally involved in the business for some time, instead focusing on his political career and many other civic and business activities. Operation of the restaurants had long been delegated to his brother and co-founder William, as Vice President and General Manager, and other family members.[3]
The late 1920s witnessed a roller-coaster of events for the company. In November 1925, the Childs company became a major partner in the development of the landmark Savoy-Plaza Hotel, at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street.[13] Around 1927, William Childs began to impose his vegetarian dietary preferences on the chain's menu, which generated significant backlash from customers and his fellow managers and investors.[7] The company's stock reached a low of $44 in 1928,[14] and during a board meeting on December 12, 1928, William was pressed into resigning as President, but remained Chairman of the Board. At the following board meeting on January 30, 1929, William attempted to turn the tide by firing several executive officers and company directors, replacing them with family members.[8][15] A proxy battle ensued, but on March 7, 1929, William and his supporters lost the fight to retain control of the company he co-founded 40 years before, by then valued around $37,000,000.[16] He did retain a modest non-controlling equity position, which he eventually sold and/or bequeathed.[17][18]
Decline and rebirthEdit
In the 1930s, no longer under the direction of the Childs family, the chain returned meat to its menus, introduced alcohol at many locations (after the repeal of Prohibition),[19] and launched a new subsidiary division called "The Host", meant to be lower-priced than Childs. The company also obtained the hot dog vending license for the 1939 World's Fair in Flushing Meadows, which turned out a financial mistake.
In August 1943, under pressure of significant debt maturity, the company filed for bankruptcy reorganization.[1] Childs emerged from bankruptcy in 1947,[20] and continued to operate through the 1940s and 1950s.
By 1950, the company had shrunk to only 53 locations, and was losing money. Nonetheless, it managed to acquire the candy and ice cream maker Louis Sherry Inc., and announced several significant operational changes, including "returning to its old custom of flap-jack making in the windows" and the introduction of prepared meats, to eliminate the need for butchering on-site.[21]
In 1955, a young hotelier named A.M. "Sonny" Sonnabend assumed the presidency of the Childs company, and pointed the enterprise in a new direction. In a series of coordinated transactions, the company's name was changed to Hotel Corporation of America, it acquired the Plaza Hotel in New York (across the street from the Savoy-Plaza Hotel, which Childs had developed), and entered into long-term leases for three other hotels in Boston, Cleveland, and Chicago.[22][23][24] The company was then structured into three divisions: restaurants, manufacturing and distribution of packaged foods (via subsidiaries Receipe Foods, Fred Fear, and Louis Sherry), and hotels.[25]
In 1961, substantially all of the remaining Childs restaurant operations, now greatly diminished in number and considered part of the company's past, were sold to the Riese Organization (National Restaurants Management Inc.),[26] which as of 2009 operates more than 100 restaurants throughout New York City, including franchised units of Dunkin' Donuts, KFC, Pizza Hut, T.G.I. Friday's and Houlihan's. A number of the Riese properties are former Childs Restaurants.[27]
In 1970, Hotel Corporation of America (formerly Childs) was again renamed, to Sonesta International Hotels Corporation (NASDAQ: SNSTA).[28] As of 2009, the company operates 25 hotels on 3 continents, and owns several cruise ships, and is still led by the Sonnabend family.[23]
Despite their market position, Childs Restaurants were distinguished for their architectural quality, and former locations continue to be appreciated by historic preservationists.[29][30][31][32][33] In his design and construction efforts, William Childs and his internal architect of 30 years, John Corley Westervelt,[34] consulted and engaged respected architects including William Van Alen (modernist designer of the Chrysler Building), Hirons & Dennison, Pruitt & Brown, and McKim, Mead, and White.[30] One design critique from 1924 declared that Childs "...stands as a milestone marking an enormous advance in the taste of what we are pleased to describe as the 'common people' of America".[35] In more recent years, celebrated architect Robert A.M. Stern described the Childs design as "austerely-elegant", and recognized their savvy in tailoring design to environment, such as in midtown Manhattan, where Childs was the first to make "dramatic use of large sheets of curved glass for corner windows", now a common technique.[29][36]
Notable locationsEdit
The table that follows is an incomplete list of locations that were built for Childs and reflect the company's style. Note that references often have pictures and more detailed histories, and links in the Address column, where provided, link to individual Wikipedia articles about the buildings listed:
|Notes and 2014 Status
|Manhattan, NY
|815 Broadway
|By John C. Westervelt. In use as a small commercial building.
|Manhattan, NY
|36 West 34th Street
|By John C. Westervelt (alteration of 1885 building). In use as a commercial building. Westervelt's office was here until his death in 1934.
|Manhattan, NY
|194 Broadway
|By John C. Westervelt. Demolished in 2007 to build the Fulton Center at the existing Fulton Street station.
|Brooklyn, NY
|1208 Surf Avenue
|By John C. Westervelt. Closed 1943. Designated New York City landmark, home of Coney Island USA arts organization.
|Toronto, ON
|279 Yonge Street
|By John C. Westervelt. Closed by 1963. In use as a Hard Rock Cafe until ca. 2015. Vacant as of February 2018.
|Brooklyn, NY
|530 Fulton Street
|By John C. Westervelt. In use as a commercial building.
|Manhattan, NY
|377 Fifth Avenue
|By Severance and Van Alen. In use as a commercial building.
|Brooklyn, NY
|219 South 4th Street
|Has plaque with Childs logo and year built, but historic use and connection to Childs is not clear. Presently a commercial building.
|Brooklyn, NY
|2102 Boardwalk
|By Dennison & Hirons. Closed 1952. Designated New York City landmark, now part of Ford Amphitheater at Coney Island. Prototype for later nautical themed buildings.
|Manhattan, NY
|604 Fifth Avenue
|By William Van Alen. Altered, in use as a T.G.I. Friday's.
|Queens, NY
|63-19 Roosevelt Avenue
|Nautical theme. In use as a commercial building.
|Manhattan, NY
|421 Seventh Avenue
|By William Van Alen. 14 story building housed a restaurant on ground floor and some corporate functions above. By 1940 restaurant had moved next door to 425 Seventh Ave. Altered, in use as an office building with ground floor retail.
|Washington, D.C.
|2 Massachusetts Avenue NW
|By William Van Alen. Closed 1955. In use as a bank.
|Atlantic City, NJ
|Boardwalk at South Carolina Avenue
|Nautical theme. Attributed to George P. Post. In use as a commercial building.
|Queens, NY
|36-01 Broadway
|Nautical theme. In use as a commercial building.
|Trenton, NJ
|12-14 East State Street
|Modernist, designer not known. Closed by 1950s. Demolished in 1987.
|Manhattan, NY
|811 6th Avenue
|Nautical theme. Altered, in use as a McDonald's.
|Queens, NY
|67-09 Fresh Pond Road
|1930 est.
|Nautical theme. In use as a bank and small office building.
|Brooklyn, NY
|534 Flatbush Avenue
|Nautical theme. In use as a commercial building.
|Queens, NY
|59-37 Queens Boulevard
|Nautical theme. In use as a commercial building.
|Queens, NY
|45-02 43rd Avenue
|Nautical theme. In use as a commercial building.
|Brooklyn, NY
|6620 18th Avenue
|Nautical theme. Demolished circa 2007.
|Queens, NY
|15-02 College Point Blvd.
|1931 est.
|Nautical theme. In use as a commercial building.
|Brooklyn, NY
|1801 Avenue M
|1931 est.
|Nautical theme.In use as a commercial building.
|Queens, NY
|245-01 Jamaica Avenue
|Nautical theme. In use as a commercial building.
Closing dates, where known, are indicated in the above table. None of the nautical themed restaurants built in the early 1930s appear in 1940 telephone directories, indicating that Childs' had vacated those structures by that date. The earlier locations in Manhattan and Brooklyn do appear in those directories, with the exception of the very early location at 815 Broadway and of the South 4th Street location, which is not known to have been a restaurant and may have been otherwise used by the company.[45][61][85]
The following locations were not necessarily built by the Childs Company, but are notable for other reasons:
- New York
- 41 Cortlandt Street, New York, NY (First Location)
- 42 East 14th Street, New York, NY (longtime corporate headquarters, also housed a restaurant)[86]
- 200 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY (corporate headquarters in later years)[61]
- 3 Beaver Street, New York, NY (Demolished in 1928 to build part of 26 Broadway, also known as the Standard Oil Building)[87]
- 1501 Broadway (at 43rd Street), New York, NY (below the Paramount Theater)[88][89]
- 1551–1553 Broadway (at 46th St NW corner), New York, NY[90]
- 1546 Broadway (between 45th & 46th Streets), New York, NY[89]
- 2276 Broadway (at 82nd Street), New York, NY[91]
- 300–304 W 59th St (SW Corner Columbus Circle), New York, NY[92][93][94]
- 1939 New York World's Fair: this temporary location, in the Fair's Railroad Building, seated 1000 patrons, and featured elaborate murals.[95]
- Washington, D.C.
- 1423 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W., Washington, DC[96]
- New Jersey
Related businessesEdit
Although legally separate from the core Childs Restaurants chain, the founders and various family members operated a number of other businesses throughout the 20th century. Below are brief summaries of those operations.
In 1929, William Childs purchased a historic property near his home in Basking Ridge, NJ, and converted it – without making any structural modifications – to an inn and restaurant. The Olde Mill Inn and The Grain House Restaurant. This upscale operation was distinctly different from the traditional Childs Restaurants, yet it also met with great success. The family continued to operate it for some time,[99] but The Olde Mill Inn and Grain House Restaurant was eventually acquired by The Bocina Group, which continues to operate it as of 2009.
In December 1929, after being ousted from the core company, William Childs announced that the family had taken over the Archambault Restaurant at 2678 Broadway, and would relaunch it as "Old Algiers" – the first in a series of "old-world" themed restaurants. In this business, he partnered primarily with three nephews, Ellsworth E. Childs, William S. Childs, and Wallace A. Childs.[14][100] The new company was soon organized under the corporate name Old London Inc., which was also the theme of their second 1,000-seat location, launched in 1931 at 130 West 42nd Street.[101] This enterprise did not expand much further, likely due to William's advancing age. He died in 1938, and is buried behind the Basking Ridge Presbyterian Church near his New Jersey estate, with a large number of other Childs family members.[102]
As of 2009, the original F.O. Hendrick location is still an operating diner, now called the Anytime Cafe.
Key executivesEdit
Family-controlled periodEdit
- Samuel S. Childs, Co-Founder and President (1889–1925)
- William Childs, Co-Founder, Vice President & General Manager (1889–1925), Chairman & President (1925–1929/30)
- Luther Childs, Director (? – 1929)
- Ellsworth Childs, Director (1906–1929), Treasurer (1929)
- William S. Childs, Director (? – 1929)
- F.O. Hendrick, General Manager (? – 1929)
- William A. Barber, General Counsel[103]
Later periodEdit
- S. Willard Smith, President (1929–1931)[104]
- William P. Allen, President (circa 1932)[105]
- George D. Strohmeyer, President (1933–1941)[105][106]
- Edward C. Field, President (1941–1948)[107]
- John F.X. Finn, Court-Appointed Trustee (1943–1947)
- John L. Hennessey, President (1948–1949) (Former President of Statler Co., Inc.)[108][109][110]
- John J. Bergen, Chairman (circa 1950)[111]
- N. Clarkson Earl Jr., President (1950–1951) (Former executive at Howard Johnson's Restaurants)[112]
- Charles Crouch, Executive Vice President (circa 1950)
- Abraham M. Sonnabend, President (1954–1963) (Converted Childs into Hotel Corporation of America, later Sonesta International Hotels Corporation)[24][113]
Popular cultureEdit
In musicEdit
The song "Manhattan", written by Rodgers and Hart in 1925 for the musical Garrick Gaities, and famously recorded by Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald and others, includes the lines:
We'll go to Yonkers – where true love conquers – in the wilds, And starve together dear – in Childs
In printEdit
The poem "Spain in Fifty-Ninth Street", written by E.B. White, tells the story of a brief but emotional interaction between a Childs hostess and a random customer (described as a "man of affairs") at the "Spanish Childs" location, presumably on 59th Street.[114] White wrote a number of other short stories and poems that referenced or featured Childs, likely due to the daily presence of the establishments in his life during the late 1920s and 1930s in New York City.
In filmEdit
The opening montage sequence of Neil Simon and Gene Saks' 1968 film The Odd Couple includes a shot of a neon-signed Childs restaurant in New York City, one of several locations Felix Ungar (Jack Lemmon) visits before checking into a fleabag hotel to try to commit suicide.[115]
In televisionEdit
Jimmy Darmody suggests to Richard Harrow, "Let's go get a steak" [at Childs] in the season 2 finale of Boardwalk Empire, "To the Lost".
Playwright David Belasco incorporated a complete reproduction of a Childs Restaurant in his 1912 production of Alice Bradley's The Governor's Lady.
Composer George Antheil, who spent part of the 1920s in New York City, selected a Childs Restaurant as one of several iconic American locations (along with the Bowery and the Brooklyn Bridge) for the setting of his 1930 opera Transatlantic.[116][117]
In the 1953 musical Wonderful Town, which depicted life in New York City during the 1930s, the song "What A Waste" (music by Leonard Bernstein; lyrics by Betty Comden & Adolph Green) in Act I includes the lyrics:
Girl from Mobile,
Versatile actress,
Tragic or comic,
Any old play,
Suffered and starved,
Met Stanislavsky.
He said the world would
Cheer her some day.
Came to New York,
Repertoire ready,
Chekhov's and Shakespeare's and Wilde's.
Now, they watch her flipping flapjacks at Childs.
What a waste,
What a waste,
What a waste of money and time![118]
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- ^ "N. Clarkson Earl Dies at 68; Led Childs Restaurant Chain", The New York Times, Page 47, February 19, 1969
- ^ "A.M. Sonnabend Is Dead At 67", The New York Times, February 12, 1964
- ^ White, E. B., Poetry: "Spain In Fifty-Ninth Street", The New Yorker, June 15, 1935, p. 14
- ^ The Odd Couple theme song, film soundtrack, original music score, YouTube
- ^ "New Opera To Be Laid In Childs Restaurant...", The New York Times, February 16, 1930, Page 28
- ^ Watson, Steven, Prepare for saints...the mainstreaming of American Modernism", (University of California Press, 2000, ISBN 0-520-22353-5), Pg. 327
- ^ Lyrics from "What A Waste", Wonderful Town, 1953, based on life in New York City.
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13 May 2008
A Flexible Approach(HKTDC Enterprise, Vol 05,2008)
Versatility means not only being alert to marketing opportunities in various niche sectors, but as Product Innovator Ltd shows it also requires a firm to operate to its strengths.
A comprehensive approach is equally important, according to Product Innovator Ltd Director Arthur Yuen. "We are set up as a vertically integrated services company, and our mission statement is to help our clients and business partners with product ideas and production so that they, in turn, can better achieve their business objectives," he says.
"We view our customers as close business partners, and we hold ourselves accountable to our partners by honouring commitments, meeting requirements, providing solutions, and striving for the highest quality," he insists.
"Clients greatly appreciate our services and abilities in terms of sourcing, designing, manufacturing in the right factory to ensure quality, safety, competitive pricing, and timely delivery. They are all areas of great importance."
To support the objective of strict quality assurance, for example, Product Innovator continually conducts vendor assessments, factory audits, product inspections, laboratory tests and logistics management exercises.
Sourcing sells
Sourcing services are also very popular with the firm's clients. "This service stems from our trading origins, and we have developed an impressive sourcing intelligence network that extends throughout the Chinese mainland and Southeast Asia," Mr Yuen claims.
"We can access suppliers of reliable materials and components at competitive prices thanks to our great resources, professional staff and long-term experience," he continues. "We are able to offer products made of virtually any kind of material imaginable, regardless if we manufacture them or source them from one of our many reputable partners in Asia."
Helping clients also extends to offering advice and options on the design front. "We have in-house design and R&D teams that benefit from a cross-fertilization of ideas incorporating visualization and creativity and reliable engineering practices," says Mr Yuen.
The design emphasis is on innovation in terms of new combinations of materials and manufacturing techniques. "We do this to improve product quality, and differentiate ourselves from competitors," Mr Yuen says. "This approach has seen us develop and manufacture products for large global brand names over the years."
In the long term, the firm intends to develop new product lines bearing in-house labels. For 2008, for example, Product Innovator is placing the emphasis on clocks, and intends bringing to market a home decor item.
"We now have children's clocks available with epoxy stickers on the dials to add a three-dimensional look," says Mr Yuen. "Our wall clock range offers pendulum versions that are suitable for promotional purposes. There is an ideal space for a logo or message on the pendulum."
Keeping time
The range of clocks available includes a Jumbo Wall Clock, a Keypad Wall Clock, a Glass Lens Square Wall Clock, a Mini Square Desktop Alarm Clock, a Message Desktop Alarm Clock and even a Slim Watch model.
Another approach taken by Product Innovator is to add value to otherwise mundane products. "For example, also new this year is a range of LED candle lights with a sound-activated switch that is a novel way to turn on the light - a simple knock will do it," Mr Yuen mentions. "In this case, our customers also appreciate the idea of environmentally friendly smokeless candles and we see good potential for this line."
Product Innovator conducts its business mainly into Europe and the US, with only a small percentage of exports going to Japan, the Philippines and Thailand.
It certainly sounds as if Product Innovator Ltd is meeting timely demand on lots of different, and profitable, fronts.

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Step 2Season to taste with salt and pepper, then add the thyme and cook, stirring occasionally, until the sauce is thickened, about 5 minutes.
Step 3Add the carrots and cook another 5 minutes. Add the turkey and peas. Heat through, then remove from the heat and keep warm.
Step 1Heat the oven to 425 degrees.
Step 2Whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt in a medium mixing bowl. Cut in the shortening until the pieces are no larger than small peas. Make a well in the dry ingredients and pour in 1 cup of the milk and the chives. Stir with a fork until the ingredients are incorporated.
Step 3Pour the filling into a large, flat baking dish. Tear off the Biscuit Topping in roughly 2-inch pieces, and scatter them over the meat and vegetables. Brush the remaining tablespoon of milk over the biscuit dough. Bake the pot pie until the biscuit topping is browned on top and fully cooked, 20 to 30 minutes.


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Climb to the top, but I don't know what for.
It's quiet until I hear a voice from the mountain
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Ashes...my burned hut...
But beautiful like cherries blooming from the hill
One of my patients...just before he died
And just before I left the hospital and began to travel
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And watch the shadows slowly filling the valleys below.
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Job Hunt
Money Talks
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Understanding salaries can make the difference between a good job offer and a great one.
Congratulations! You completed your coursework, presented your portfolio, sailed through your interview, and received your first job offer! Now you can call yourself a real teacher, and you're already looking forward to setting up your classroom.
Before you accept that new job, have you considered what you are getting? Sure, money wasn't the reason you became a teacher. But once you graduate and enter the "real world," it will make a difference.
So, how can you tell whether that shiny new job offer really passes muster? Look at the bottom line—how much will you get paid?
A high starting salary should be a new teacher's number one consideration, says Bob Willoughby, associate director of research for the New Jersey Education Association.
Whether a teacher stays in a district for one year or 10, that initial paycheck will impact his or her cumulative career earnings, he says, so beginning educators should seek out districts with the strongest compensation packages.
New teachers also need to monitor their overall workload and find a salary that compensates them accordingly, says Bill Raabe, director of NEA's collective bargaining and member advocacy department.
Although districts should pay teachers for assuming new responsibilities, like coaching a sports team or supervising a club, realistically new teachers won't be able to access such perks—at least not at first, he says.
"The reason the basic salary is so important is you don't have as much time to do extra duties because you are spending so much time preparing to be in the classroom," says Raabe. "If there are too many ways to earn extra money, then your basic salary may not be that great."
Once you know what a district pays during your first year, look at the salary schedule, which outlines how much you will earn for future years of service. Ideally, teachers should advance one "step" on the schedule for each year of teaching experience they accrue until they reach the district's maximum salary, which they should achieve in the fewest years possible, says Willoughby.
In other words, the best salary schedules have the fewest steps because they allow teachers to earn higher salaries sooner.
At the same time, the salary schedule should compensate teachers for professional development and the advanced degrees they earn during their careers, Willoughby adds. Likewise, nontraditional students should explore whether a district credits their nonteaching work experience toward their total years of service.
In addition to analyzing their total salary, new teachers need to look at their take-home pay, says Raabe. Once you subtract taxes and other deductions, how much money will you receive each week? That figure may decrease if the school district also deducts health and other insurance premiums or pension contributions, Raabe says, which ultimately cut into the amount left for your living expenses.
Prospective teachers also can compare salaries between school districts by contacting their state affiliates for salary information or by reviewing school district Web sites, Raabe adds. For salary comparisons by state, check out the State Stats.
Ultimately, you simply should get paid what you are worth.
"You have to believe you deserve it. That's one of the things I have found with
our new teachers, their expectations are not where they should be," says Willoughby. "They deserve a good quality salary and they shouldn't be shy about it. … You do good work for good people, and you ought to be paid a professional salary for it."
Here's more information on teacher salaries.
Want to join the fight for professional pay for America 's educators? You can join NEA's efforts to ensure a minimum $40,000 salary for all teachers and a living wage for education support professionals. Learn more.
Because We're Worth It
Just as one about to be married does not want to ponder the shocking statistic that nearly half of all U.S. marriages end in divorce, a soon-to-be teacher does not relish hearing that nearly half of all new teachers leave the profession within five years (in fact, some 20 percent leave after just one year). But ignoring these statistics won't get us any closer to changing them.
Truth is, a big part of the turnover problem is salary-related. Teachers are paid less than those who work in other professions requiring similar education and responsibilities.
Teacher salaries have risen a scant 0.8 percent since 1996, says the Economic Policy Institute. That's a whole lot less than the 12 percent increase other college-educated workers have enjoyed over the same period.
NEA Today profiled six teachers and education support professionals in the November 2006 issue and found that those numbers mean uncertain futures and second jobs for people like second-year teacher Allison Wegg:
An empty cupboard, A full slate of bills.
If Allison Wegg had more money, she wouldn't eat quesadillas every night. "I'd probably buy better groceries," she says—like strawberries. Oh, the life of a new teacher, earning $30,000 and living in one of the nation's most expensive cities. She lives in a $500-a-month, one-room apartment in the center of Seattle. To make space for her couch, her bed sits on a loft. "I don't think I'll ever have a house in Seattle, unless I marry a millionaire," she says.
For now, Wegg relies on the generosity of her parents. Her mother, who is a bookkeeper, has tallied the cost of their loans at more than $10,000. "I want to show them that I can make it," Wegg says. "But every month, I end up overdrawing my checking account or taking a cash advance on my credit card."
This will be Wegg's second year as a full-time special education teacher in Kent, Washington. And, even though her job means she drives an unreliable car, can't afford graduate school, and eats too many nachos, she loves it."I see myself teaching forever," she says.
—From "Why Money Matters" by Mary Ellen Flannery. NEA Today, Nov. 2006.
Here Comes the Neighborhood!
In an effort to jumpstart revitalization areas, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) launched a program that offers HUD-owned single family homes at a 50-percent discount to eligible teachers, law enforcement officers, and firefighters/EMTs.
The Good Neighbor Next Door Program is open to teachers employed full-time by a state-accredited school that provides direct services to students in the area where the home you are purchasing is located.


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1."Illumination comes to those who hear the song of Light unchanged, unflickering, eternal — Light that is one though the lamps be many."
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2."The eye is the lamp of the body; so then if your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light.
Mathew 6:22
3."O father, I have been made steadfast through God; I now see not with the eyes, but by the operation of spiritual energy in the powers. I am in heaven, in earth, in water, in the air; I am in living creatures and plants; I am in the womb, before the womb, after the womb. I am present everywhere."
The Corpus Hermeticum, Book 13, translated by Clement Salaman
4."Mere intellectual enlightenment cannot recognize the spiritual. As the sun puts out a fire, so spirit puts out the eyes of mere intellect."
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The conventional pronunciation, as it is written at the beginning of every grammar of hieroglyphs, is simply a conventional reading invented by the scholars (the "e" between the consonants and the reading of the glides, like the "3" and the "w", as fixed vowels, as it is for example for "Netjer/Netjeru" and for the names of the Gods such as 'Heru', 'Aset', 'Djehuty' and so on), and it does not reflect the real pronunciation of the Egyptian language: only thanks to the Coptic and to the transliteration of Egyptian words in other languages it is…
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"The human heart is like a night bird. Silently waiting for something, and when the time comes, it flies straight toward it."
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Each of the first eight stanzas is dedicated to an artist and describes their artistic styles and works. The eight artists are Rubens, da Vinci, Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Puget, Watteau, Goya, and Delacroix. All of these artists are described as drawing inspiration from darker sources, or "Deducing beauty from crime, vice and terror." Just as Baudelaire was able to use the sick, evil, and decayed as fertilizer to grow his Flowers of Evil, so these artists managed to take the grotesque and perverse and create stunning works of beauty.
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A wild whirlwind of a mess, without any coherence, without even a guiding principle.
A wild whirlwind of a mess, without any coherence, without even a guiding principle.
This film tells us that the gulf between what we want to know and what we can know may never be illuminated.
Roger Ebert on James Ivory's "Howards End".
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
An article about today's noon premiere of a new movie about architect Benjamin Marshall at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
An article about the screening of Horace Jenkins' "Cane River" on Friday, November 1st, at the Academy Film Archive in Los Angeles.
Scout Tafoya's series on underrated films heads into the 2020s with a Tony Scott classic.
Scout Tafoya's video essay series about maligned masterpieces celebrates Steven Soderbergh's Solaris.
Far Flung Correspondent Seongyong Cho pens a letter to Roger about Michael Apted's 63 Up.
An FFC on Gavin Hood's Official Secrets.
A review of FOX's 9-1-1: Lone Star, starring Rob Lowe and Liv Tyler.
A personal report from the 2020 CCA Awards.
Named after the David Cronenberg film, this is the blog of former RogerEbert.com editor Jim Emerson, where he has chronicled his enthusiasms and indulged his whims since 2005. Favorite subjects include evidence-based movie criticism, cinematic form and style, comedy, logical reasoning, language, journalism, technology, epistemology and fun. No topic is off-limits, but critical thinking is required.
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UPDATED 01/28/10: 2:25 p.m. PST -- COMPLETED!: Thanks for all the detective work -- and special thanks to Christopher Stangl and Srikanth Srinivasan himself for their comprehensive efforts at filling the last few holes! Now I have to go read about who some of these experimental filmmakers are. I did find some Craig Baldwin movies on Netflix, actually...
Srikanth Srinivasan of Bangalore writes one of the most impressive movie blogs on the web: The Seventh Art. I don't remember how I happened upon it last week, but wow am I glad I did. Dig into his exploration of connections between Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" and Jean-Luc Godard's "History of Cinema." Or check out his piece on James Benning's 1986 "Landscape Suicide." There's a lot to look through, divided into sections for Hollywood and World Cinema.
In the section called "The Cinemaniac... I found the above collage (mosaic?) of mostly-famous faces belonging to film directors, which Srikanth says he assembled from thumbnails at Senses of Cinema. Many of them looked quite familiar to me, and if I'm not mistaken they were among the biographical portraits we used in the multimedia CD-ROM movie encyclopedia Microsoft Cinemania, which I edited from 1994 to 1998, first on disc, then also on the web. (Anybody with a copy of Cinemania able to confirm that? My Mac copy of Cinemania97 won't run on Snow Leopard.)
The thing is, Srikanth has no key to tell us who's who. So, with his permission, I thought we could collaborate on one. If you feel like it -- after you've completed Professor Russell Johnson's "My Ancestors Came Over on the Minnow..." quiz, which I haven't yet (mull over question #28, why don't you?) -- see how many of these you can identify. (Keep in mind, some of these pictures may have been taken several decades ago, and some are flopped and/or anamorphically distorted.) Below are some of the ones I identified at first glance (in other words: the really easy ones!), listed by rows (top to bottom, I through IX) and columns (left to right, 1 through 20). Some of these faces are so familiar they're driving me crazy, but I can't put names to them. Help! Post your own IDs (and let me know if I got any wrong -- I've put question marks by a few I'm unsure of) and eventually, we should be able to figure this thing out together!
Most recent update: 2:25 p.m. PST 01/28/10 -- COMPLETED!:
Row I 1. Victor Erice 2. Rainer Werner Fassbinder 3. Agnes Varda 4. Robert Bresson 5. Robert Aldrich 6. Robert Altman 7. Youssef Chahine 8. Michelangelo Antonioni 9. Gillian Armstrong 10. Dorothy Arzner 11. Stan Brakhage 12. Mauro Bolognini 13. Peter Bogdanovich 14. Blake Edwards 15. Carl Theodor Dreyer 16. Doris Wishman 17. Ingmar Bergman 18. Craig Baldwin 19. Mario Bava 20. Catherine Breillat
Row II 1. Luis Buñuel 2. Charles Burnett 3. John Frankenheimer 4. Maya Deren 5. Ken Loach 6. Jacques Demy 7. Su Friedrich 8. Robert Flaherty 9. Arthur Lipsett 10. Joseph Losey 11. Kenji Mizoguchi 12. Francis Ford Coppola 13. Mikio Naruse 14. Antonio Margheriti 15. Georges Méliès 16. Guy Maddin 17. Joseph H. Lewis 18. Sergio Leone 19. Howard Hawks 20. David Lean
Row III 1. Tim Burton 2. Federico Fellini 3. David Cronenberg 4. Werner Herzog 5. Krzysztof Kieslowski 6. Clara Law 7. Abbas Kiarostami 8. Stanley Kubrick 9. Fritz Lang 10. Shohei Imamura 11. Satyajit Ray 12. Woody Allen 13. John Waters 14. Margarethe von Trotta 15. Idrissa Ouedraogo 16. Jacques Rivette 17. Nicolas Roeg 18. Raoul Walsh 19. François Truffaut 20. Otto Preminger
Row IV
1. Jane Campion 2. Sam Fuller 3. Joe Dante 4. Jia Zhangke 5. Alanis Obomsawin 6. Preston Sturges 7. Pier Paolo Pasolini 8. Don Siegel 9. Zhang Yimou 10. Preston Sturges 11. Robert Siodmak 12. Leslie Thornton 13. Yasujiro Ozu 14. Nicholas Ray 15. Claude Sautet 16. Tsui Hark 17. Eric Rohmer 18. Edward Yang 19. Sam Peckinpah 20. Don Siegel (again)
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1. Leos Carax 2. Lucio Fulci 3. George Cukor 4. Chuck Jones 5. Idrissa Ouedraogo (again) 6. Carol Reed 7. François Ozon 8. William Wyler 9. Joseph L. Mankiewicz 10. Fred Zinnemann 11. Michael Winterbottom 12. Jean Cocteau 13. Kon Ichikawa 14. Tomu Uchida 15. Jonathan Demme 17. Roberto Rossellini 18. Alfred Hitchcock 19. James Whale
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1. Claude Chabrol 2. Lucio Fulci 3. Melvin Van Peebles 4. Akira Kurosawa 5. Jacques Tati 6. Jerzy Skolimowski 7. Glauber Rocha 8. Bernardo Bertolucci 9. Richard Linklater 10. Jerzy Skolimowski (again) 11. Hiroshi Teshigahara 12. Paul Verhoeven 13. Luis Garcia Berlanga 14. Werner Schroeter 15. Steven Spielberg 16. Tsai Ming Liang 17. Roberto Rossellini 18. Jean-Luc Godard 19. Michael Almereyda 20. Francesco Rosi
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1. Chang Cheh 2. Vincente Minnelli 3. Jean-Pierre Melville 4. King Hu 5. Mamoru Oshii 6. Martin Scorsese 7. Richard Franklin 8. Mitchell Leisen 9. John Schlesinger 10. Theo Angelopoulos 11. Melvin Van Peebles 12. Anthony Mann 13. Roger Corman 14. Peggy Ahwesh 15. Terry Gilliam 16. Arthur Penn 17. Bertrand Tavernier 18. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea 19. Clint Eastwood 20. Emeric Pressburger
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1. Henri-Georges Clouzot 2. Michael Haneke 3. Terry Gilliam (again) 4. Lars von Trier 5. Andrei Tarkovsky 6. Bertrand Tavernier 7. Sergei Eisenstein 8. Brian DePalma 9. David Fincher 10. Edgar G. Ulmer 11. John Carpenter 12. Phillip Noyce 13. Yoshimitsu Morita 14. Wang Xiaoshuai 15. Sadie Benning 16. Kira Muratova 17. Wong Kar-Wai 18. Margarethe von Trotta 19. Jean Vigo 20. Andy Warhol
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1. Joel & Ethan Coen 2. Terrence Malick 3. Michael Mann 4. Takeshi Kitano 5. Nagisa Oshima 6. John Sayles 7. Willi Forst 8. Mike Nichols 9. Yvonne Rainer 10. Orson Welles 11. Bill Forsyth 12. Wim Wenders 13. Jerry Lewis 14. Steven Soderbergh 15. Gaspar Noé 16. Jim Jarmusch 17. Maria Novaro 18. Leo McCarey 19. Michael Powell 20. Billy Wilder
Is it just me, or are some of the usual -- and most familiar -- suspects missing: Roman Polanski? Budd Boetticher? Frank Capra? Buster Keaton? John Huston? Chantal Akerman?...
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In anticipation of his upcoming conference presentation, Defining Optimal Segmentation Territories – 10 Years of Research at Predictive Analytics World San Francisco, May 14-18, 2017, we asked Frédérick Guillot, Senior Manager, Research and Innovation at The Co-operators General Insurance Company, a few questions about his work in predictive analytics.
Q: In your work with predictive analytics, what behavior or outcome do your models predict?
A: At the Co-operators, we leverages predictive modeling for many purposes. We are using more traditional models to quantify the insurance risk of our clients. We also leverages more advanced techniques such as propensity model to maximize client engagement.
Q: How does predictive analytics deliver value at your organization – what is one specific way in which it actively drives decisions or operations?
A: Most pricing decisions regarding our insurance products are backed by predictive modeling. Predictive models also allow us to be more agile in many operational areas such as in the buying process, or the settlement of claims.
Q: Can you describe a quantitative result, such as the predictive lift of your model or the ROI of an analytics initiative?
A: Mixing traditional predictive modeling with geospatial analytic and Big Data is a very fertile research area for insurers. We spent more than 10 years so far in refining the way we are defining our segmentation territories, and each improvement translates into tangibles benefits for the organization. Over time, we managed to triple our territories' homogeneity.
Q: What surprising discovery or insight have you unearthed in your data?
A: On the perspective of creating segmentation territories, I definitely think that the increasing availability of geospatial open data now enable many more opportunities for improving models and get more accurate predictions of insurance risk.
Q: Sneak preview: Please tell us a take-away that you will provide during your talk at Predictive Analytics World.
A: If you are not a little shy about a new predictive modeling application you are launching within your organization, you probably wait too long before releasing it. The territory analysis I will present in my talk is a good illustration of the minimum viable product mindset in which you better launch fast, and iterate over time to grow your model accuracy.
Don't miss Frédérick's conference presentation, Defining Optimal Segmentation Territories – 10 Years of Research on Wednesday, May 17, 2017 from 11:40 am to 12:00 pm at Predictive Analytics World San Francisco. Click here to register to attend. Use Code PATIMES for 15% off current prices (excludes workshops).
By: Eric Siegel, Founder, Predictive Analytics World
Eric Siegel is the founder of Predictive Analytics World (www.pawcon.com) — the leading cross-vendor conference series consisting of 10 annual events in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington DC, London, and Berlin — and the author of the award-winning book, Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die – Revised and Updated Edition, (Wiley, 2016).
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Free Legal Assistance Helped More than 1,000
Collaboration among lawyers resulted in 40-plus events across the state
NASHVILLE, Nov. 4, 2011 — Tennessee lawyers helped 1,109 state residents by providing free legal advice throughout the month of October as part of the Tennessee Bar Association's Celebrate Pro Bono initiative.
Now in its third year, the initiative brings together bar associations, law schools, law firms, legal services providers and individual lawyers to offer free services to those unable to afford a lawyer. This year, more than 350 volunteers - including lawyers, law students, paralegals and language interpreters — held more than 40 events and activities across the state. These events included legal advice clinics, programs to educate lawyers on how to handle pro bono cases, and community education presentations on topics such as wills, powers of attorney, bankruptcy, foreclosure and landlord/tenant law. In addition, as a result of training provided to lawyers during the month, an additional 81 cases will be handled free of charge for state residents.
Though the initiative ended in October, low-income Tennesseans have a resource they can tap into at any time through OnlineTNJustice.org — a joint project of the Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services and the Tennessee Bar Association that matches individuals with volunteer attorneys. More than 250 lawyers have agreed to provide services through the website. Learn more about this free service at www.onlinetnjustice.org.
|Gov. Haslam proclaims October as Celebrate Pro Bono Month
The Tennessee Bar Association (TBA) is the largest professional association in Tennessee with more than 13,000 members. Founded in 1881, the TBA provides opportunities for continuing legal education, professional development and public service. The TBA's dedication to serving the state's legal community is evidenced by its membership roll, which represents the entire spectrum of legal practice: plaintiff and defense lawyers, corporate counsel, judges, prosecutors, public defenders, government lawyers and legal services attorneys.


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We headed north this week for our first ever Northern Employment Symposium at York St John University.
One of the main purposes of running this event was to cater for more officers based in the North. This was a move much appreciated by former Royal Engineer Barry Heap who was happy not to make the usual trip down south.
He said: "'I've gained many things from today. Even if I'd only left with one nugget the event would have been worthwhile. I'm leaving with a bag-full of nuggets."
RAF Air Traffic Controller Karen Lofthouse said: "This event has given my confidence a boost. I know that there are people out there who are willing to help, who appreciate I'm coming with a broad skillset."
She admitted though she had struggled with networking initially and that it can 'take time' to build your network. She added: "You never know what a simple cup of coffee might lead to though."
The focus on networking as a 'conversation', rather than a severe 'hard sell' was a point reiterated by Vic Vaughan of The Referral Institute (pictured). He said: "When you're networking, you're not looking to sell to that person, you're just talking to them. It's unlikely they can help you, but they may know someone who can."
Peter Boulton, Head of Project Management Services at Transport for Greater Manchester spoke about the need to 'stay calm in situations, think clearly and act appropriately' to be a good project manager, while Nick Everard, Managing Director at J1 Consulting stressed the importance of needing to 'know what you want' before approaching recruiters.
Jo Anna Robinson, Talent Services Manager at Serco, praised officers for their 'inherent leadership and people skills' as well as the more 'specialist expertise' they bring to organisations. She emphasised the importance of being yourself and remembering that although civilian employment will be 'different', companies are looking for your skills.
James Fisher, who served 16 years as an Officer in the Parachute Regiment joined Deloitte earlier this year as a Manager Risk Advisory . Life in the Army was an 'incredibly rewarding and enriching experience', where he led several transformational projects such as the delivery of a new telecommunications system to the Army's high readiness task force. Interestingly for James, one of the biggest challenges was realising just how transferable his skills were.
He said: "People tend to focus on the 'soldiering' aspect of the Services but that's really only about 10% of what you do. The other 90% is actually very similar to many systems in the workplace – there's a lot of IT and project management.
As an industry, the Services have probably got some of the most robust management controls as, for excellence to endure, decent management is an essential ingredient." He added: "You don't fully appreciate all you've done, until you start doing something new."
James also advised using the training money you receive in transition from the Services, wisely. "Don't rush in to spending it on any old course that isn't right. It's better to use it as a bargaining tool with employers at an interview, and show commitment to investing it in your career."
Colonel Mike Butterwick of the 4th Infantry Brigade also attended the event and expressed the importance of supporting service leavers as they set out on their next career path. "Now that the OA has a presence in Leeds, I look forward to seeing this developing further, while we build a really good network in the North."


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The Internet of Things is the between systems administration of physical gadgets, vehicles (likewise alluded to as "associated gadgets" and "brilliant gadgets"), structures, and different things inserted with hardware, programming, sensors, actuators, and system network that empower these items to gather and trade information.
At the end of the day, gadgets will have the capacity to associate with different gadgets with or without human mediation. At the point when a machine is fitted with sensors, it can realize what condition it is in and, at whatever point essential, start its very own support.
Ten Million driverless vehicles are relied upon to be out and about by 2020 and are required to diminish traffic fatalities by 90%. So as to get you to your goal securely, vehicles will talk different autos, to the climate station, to the Dept of Transportation, stop lights and the plain street you drive on.


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Innovative research projects for 2016
Thanks to the generous support of the AS community, the Angelman Syndrome Foundation has funded groundbreaking research proposals, each focusing in a different and very important area of AS research.
These studies take unique approaches to further understanding the complexities of Ube3a and how the paternal copy can best be reactivated. The extensive study about anxiety in individuals with AS is a first for AS research and refining the overall picture of the significant role that anxiety does play in AS.
Understanding how Angelman Syndrome Neurons Perform in the Brain
Dr. Eric Levine – University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Imagine a traffic light at a busy intersection: when working correctly, the traffic light directs vehicles where they need to go and traffic flows properly. In the brain, the "traffic lights" control the signaling at synapses, which are the intersections between brain cells, or neurons. In an individual with Angelman syndrome, the flow of information at certain synapses is not regulated properly, leading to symptoms such as developmental delay, seizures and movement disorders.
In order to study the molecular mechanisms that are responsible for the symptoms of Angelman syndrome, this research will use a recently discovered technique that allows skin or blood cells from individuals to be converted into brain neurons that can be studied in the laboratory. For the first time, the research team will be able to evaluate the intersections (synapses) of human Angelman syndrome neurons at a cellular level. These studies will focus on a process called synaptic plasticity that adjusts the strength of synaptic intersections. The synaptic plasticity process plays an important role in forming proper neuronal circuits during brain development, and it is also critical for learning and memory throughout life. The research team will determine whether signaling malfunction by the molecule BDNF (the "traffic light") causes deficits in the synaptic plasticity process in Angelman syndrome neurons. Issues with BDNF signaling could be responsible for the language impairments, seizures, and other symptoms of Angelman syndrome.
This research is important because it will:
- Identify a novel role for the molecule BDNF in the synaptic signaling process in individuals with Angelman syndrome.
- Provide a platform for screening potential therapeutics in human neurons.
Understanding Ube3a Isoforms
Dr. Ype Elgersma – Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
The UBE3A protein has two variants called isoforms. This information has been known for some time, but only recently, research discovered that these two isoforms of UBE3A travel to different locations in the brain. The research team is applying this new knowledge to understand the basis of Angelman syndrome.
In typically developing humans, one of the UBE3A isoforms travels to the synapse, where neurons intersect in the brain and are told what to do. With the recent discovery, we now know the other UBE3A isoform goes to the nucleus of the neuron, where DNA is located.
These two isoforms work together for normal brain functionality. In individuals with Angelman syndrome, we know that UBE3A is not functioning properly (or entirely absent), but we do not know which isoform of Ube3a is responsible for causing Angelman syndrome, if not both.
Using this new knowledge, the research team will evaluate two types of mice: one missing the synapse isoform but keeping the nucleus isoform, and another missing the nucleus isoform but keeping the synapse isoform. This approach allows the team to research how each isoform impacts the mice, possibly shedding light on the importance of each isoform's function.
This research is important because it will potentially:
- Identify the importance of UBE3A isoforms in Angelman syndrome brain development.
- Determine if the synapse isoform and/or if the nucleus isoform has greater impact on brain development, helping future research narrow its focus on which isoform is most important.
Finding new ways of Unsilencing Ube3a with CRISPR/Cas9
Dr. Mark Zylka – UNC-Chapel Hill
Based on previous research conducted at Dr. Mark Zylka's lab and Dr. Ben Philpot's lab, Dr. Zylka's team will continue this work with the goal of unsilencing the paternal copy of Ube3a using new methods. Past research has shown that topoisomerase inhibitors, a drug compound, can unsilence the paternal copy of Ube3a, but that this drug also affects a number of other genes. Dr. Zylka's team will use new technology (CRISPR/Cas9 screening technology) and a new approach to unsilence Ube3a, called a genetic screen. We know there are more than 20,000 genes in the human genome, and this genetic screen will evaluate each of those genes to see if any of them can unsilence the paternal copy of Ube3a. This is a novel new approach that has not been conducted before. In the end, the research team hopes to have a list of genes that can unsilence paternal Ube3a with little to no impact on other genes during the process.
Why this research is important:
- We know from previous research that unsilencing Ube3a using specific drugs can affect a number of other genes in the process.
- This research, using CRISPR/Cas9 screening technology and a new approach to unsilencing Ube3a, will look for genes—rather than drugs—that can unsilence paternal Ube3a with little to no impact on other genes during the process.
See more about CRISPR/CAS9 technology.
Understanding the ability for Learning Improvement if Ube3a is Restored in a Later Life Stage
Dr. Geeske van Woerden – Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Dr. Geeske Van Woerden and her lab will research the best time to correct certain symptoms of AS when Ube3a is restored in a mouse model. Overall, the research team attempts to answer the question: can certain behaviors or symptoms of AS be reversed by activating Ube3a, at any life stage? Additionally, Dr. Van Woerden's team will seek novel new tools for learning/intellectual abilities for drug testing.
To accomplish this, the research team will use an AS mouse model and evaluate the ability of mice to learn specific tasks. The mice are genetically modified to be born with AS, and they experience the symptoms of AS throughout their entire life. The research team will use a list of specific tasks to see if the AS mice have difficulty learning a particular task. If a particular task stands out among others as more difficult to learn, the research team will then use another mouse model and activate the Ube3a gene. The team will then re-evaluate the mice's ability to learn that specific difficult task once Ube3a is activated. This will help the team understand the chances for cognitive or learning improvement if Ube3a is restored in a certain life stage. This research will help answer the question about the importance of the Ube3a gene at different life stages and with different learning abilities or behaviors. Additionally, this will result in a novel cognitive behavioral task that will allow us to study the effect of new drugs on learning/intellectual abilities in AS mice.
This research is significant because it will:
- Help understand the chances for cognitive or learning improvement if Ube3a is restored at a certain life stage.
- Result in a novel tool for learning/intellectual abilities to be able to test new drugs in AS mice.
These two items will help AS researchers understand the optimal window to restore Ube3a in an AS mouse model to best improve cognition and learning abilities.
Evaluating Anxiety in Individuals with Angelman Syndrome
Dr. Christopher Keary – MassGeneral Hospital for Children
Many families of individuals with Angelman syndrome express concern to their doctors about anxiety in their loved one. However, very little is understood about anxiety in individuals with AS at the clinical level. Many clinicians feel that once physical symptoms of AS are managed, emotional symptoms of AS (such as anxiety) remain that are much more difficult to evaluate, or even treat. With this research project, Dr. Keary seeks to find ways to assess and measure anxiety in individuals with AS, which has never been done before. Having a better understanding of anxiety in AS is an important step towards developing future treatment strategies for anxiety in individuals with AS and improving their quality of life.
To accomplish these goals, Dr. Keary will conduct in-person meetings with individuals with AS and their family members/caregivers to perform evaluations to assess for anxiety. Dr. Keary will assess and measure using:
- Standardized tools for measuring anxiety that are validated in individuals with developmental disabilities.
- Standardized tools for measuring anxiety that are un-validated in individuals with developmental disabilities. In order for tools to become commonly used and accepted (validated), they have to be tested in people with that disorder—many haven't been tested on individuals with AS, which is what has made it difficult to define the issue.
He will then determine how useful these tools are and how much they coincide with problems the individual is experiencing. Furthermore, Dr. Keary will be exploring if specific genetic types of the diagnosis (deletion +, etc.) affect anxiety differently.


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First off let me say thank you for all the kind comment on my last post. Thank you for your prayers. I can feel them and they are helping.
Saturday morning I awoke feeling better. Lighter. Plus, I had a salon appointment for a hair cut. Bonus. After my hair appointment I got a pedicure. Whoa. I was feeling much better. Then, Sunday happened. Church with the family is always a mood booster. Then after church I took Mr. P along with two of his buddies to see Madagascar 3. I sat eating popcorn and candy and laughing hysterically with the boys. It was a very funny movie! A very good weekend and my mood had improved severly. I was relaxed.
Then MONDAY happened. Why? Why? Why Monday, do you have to be like that? What's up with you? I'm divorcing Monday. Yep. Well, actually I think it will be more like a separation. You see this is the last Monday of the school year (praise the heavens).
I woke up with a cold. Stuffy nose, sore throat. Blah. I had a crabby argumentative 8 year old....to the power of 10. Ugh. I decided to walk the kids to school so I could get some exercise. We headed off late because my adorable 6 year old couldn't find his shoes (the ones that are supposed to be in the shoe closet). He eventually had to wear black dress shoes (with white athletic socks, shorts and t-shirt). Yes. This goes against all fashion rules I have set for my children but the alternative was snow boots.
We had to walk fast and numerous times I had to
As I was standing enjoying the time to catch my breath I heard my phone ring. It was my MIL. I answered and had a moment of confusion wondering why she wanted to know when I'd be home. Suddenly I remembered! Oh! CRUD (not the word I really used)! The thought raced into my head I HAVE A DOCTOR'S APPOINTMENT!! Arghhhhhhhhh! I quickly looked at my watch, 9:15. Appointment time, 9:30. My MIL was waiting at my house to watch the little ones.
As I raced home as top speed I realized I had not even had a shower yet. AND...this was THE appointment. You know...the yearly! The pap! The one where you shower for an extra 10 minutes, shave, deodrant, lotion, etc. Ugh!
I whipped into my driveway with the stroller wheels on fire. It was now 9:30. I tried to call my doctor's office...got the recording machine...accidently didn't hang up my phone and left a message saying how annoyed I was that nobody was answering the phone. Awesome!
I ripped my clothes off, jumped in shower, shaved my legs, washed...good enough, and hopped out. Dried, put my sweaty clothes back on and ran to the car. Time 9:35. And Cam...No, this does not prove that I can get ready in 5 minutes all the time.
I called on my way (yes, broke the law) and told them I was on my way. Arrived in office at 9:42. Whew! I was taken right back. Hmmm....maybe there is something to being late. NO waiting. Had my appointment. No blood work since I had eaten. But to top off the whole morning...I got a shot! Owie!
By the time I left I was ready for dinner and pj's. There was a lull in the middle of the day until I sat around too long and suddently realized it was time to LEAVE for swimming lessons. Here we go again.
So, you see Monday and I are breaking up. It's over...at least until September.


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With an massive sense of excitement in the air, 200 dogs and the people who love them came together at the Harford County Equestrian Center in Bel Air on Saturday, October 12, 2013 to set a new Guinness World Records title by holding the world's largest gathering of dogs wearing the same bandana in one location. Official confirmation of the record came in an email from Guinness officials on Monday, March 4, 2014.
The attempt was organized by the Humane Society of Harford County (HSHC) as part of their annual Walk & Wag-a-Thon and Pet Fair fundraiser to raise funds for and awareness of pet homelessness. The Walk & Wag-a-Thon and Pet Fair is the largest event of its kind in Harford County. This annual fall festival is a fun-filled experience for pets and pet parents alike with pet contests, raffles, vendor displays, food and music and more.
"We wanted to do something unique to involve the Harford County community and spread awareness of pet homelessness in the area," said Mary Leavens, executive director. "The Guinness World Record attempt was exciting, and what made it even more special was the crowd of dogs who joined us who were absolutely perfect canine citizens. We have an amazing animal-loving community who helped us set a new world record!"
Guinness has very stringent procedures for qualification, so cooperation among participants was vital. HSHC wishes to recognize its many supporters who helped achieve the record by registering each canine friend, standing with their pet in their appointed line, and waiting for the required timeframe while volunteer stewards physically counted the number of canine participants. Two independent witnesses – Harford County Sheriff Jesse Bane and Jean Matteu from Frank Hajek & Associates, P.A. – directly observed the proceedings and signed official statements for Guinness officials. Mid-way through the attempt, a remote controlled helicopter flew overhead and took aerial photos of the event.
People who participated in setting the record can share in the excitement by purchasing their very own official Guinness World Records Certificate of Participation by contacting HSHC's Nicky Wetzelberger at 410-836-1090, x104 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
The official confirmation of the record can be viewed at http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/9000/most-dogs-wearing-bandanas.


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