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McGraw-Hill Building
Architect Raymond Hood of Hood, Godley & Fouilhoux was commissioned by James H. McGraw, then president of McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, to design and construct a single building in which to house all the facets of the organization. Prior to construction, the company headquarters was housed primarily in a twelve-story building at 469-473 10th Ave. The publishing company filled the space to capacity and had even added a thirteenth floor to try and accommodate their needs but the building proved inadequate. Additionally, other divisions of the operation were located in the Penn Terminal Building at 370 Seventh Ave. It was important to McGraw to consolidate the organization under one roof. Client Driven Factors: This commission required housing for all the activities of a large publishing company including printing, binding, shipping, editing, and business. McGraw-Hill was a fast growing company that needed flexibility in design that would allow their company's various divisions to evolve. Hood opted for what was essentially a large loft designed to house all of the company's publishing functions. The typical floor was simply a large open space that provided flexibility for the company's varying needs. Elevator banks were in the center and egress and restrooms arranged to maximize light exposure to the floors. Hood maximized light from all directions and at all times by creating the prominent horizontal bands of windows that wrap around the entire structure alternating with smooth, simple, and unbroken blue-green terra cotta bands. The blue-green color that famously envelops the building was considered blue to the architects and green to the client. It was not clear whether this design scheme was an aspiration of Hood to which McGraw did not object, or if there had to be some persuasion between architect and client. Designing buildings of a single, bold color was both a practice and an aspiration for Hood. The site bought by McGraw for the building was larger than the company needed and architect and client both agreed to reserve 130'-0" on the 42nd Street side for future development. Hood later suggested that if he had used the entire site the resulting building would have been low and squat.
The McGraw-Hill building is a thirty-four-story building containing 567,000 square feet of floor space. The building site is situated between 41st and 42nd Streets between 8th and 9th Avenues on a lot approximately 130' wide by 197' deep. The main entrance is located at 330 West 42nd St. Setbacks on the north and south elevations occur on the 11th, 16th, 32nd, and 34th floors. Views from the east and west give the impression of a stepped tower, but these elevations are a single plane with no setbacks. Eleven-foot high letters that spelling "MCGRAW-HILL" crown the building, which help to hide the buildings water tower tanks and utility spaces. The building's four facades are visually composed of alternating horizontal bands of double hung windows and blue-green terracotta blocks. These exceptional and distinguished horizontal bands of glazing and masonry have come to uniquely identify the McGraw-Hill building as Hood's most innovative—and possibly most controversial—architectural design. At its roots, the exterior was simply a frank reflection of the interior configuration, itself a reflection of the company's needs. The continuous bands of windows were a functional solution to the need for copious amounts of light, extending them from desk height to as close to the ceiling as building code would allow. Between the bands of windows Hood opted for simple, unbroken lines of blue-green terra cotta. Horizontal curving bands of green and blue enameled steel separated by narrow chrome bars flank the recessed five-door-wide entranceway. The interior lobby is simple and faced in solid green enameled steel panels. McGraw-Hill's design is considered to be a blend of the Moderne, Art Deco and International Styles.
The 34-story building is a steel frame construction with extruded terra cotta cladding. Federal Seaboard Terra Cotta Corporation in South Amboy, NJ, manufactured the original terra cotta that contained interlocking mortar clinched joints. The crowning sign announcing "MCGRAW-HILL" is composed of hand-made hollow terra cotta blocks. Bands of windows wrap the building with breaks between them reflecting the vertical steel columns. Seemingly endless, these ribbon windows are actually groupings of four double-hung windows with metal panels between them painted dark green to appear uninterrupted. The lower floors were designed and braced for factory use, reinforced to withstand the vibrations and weight of the presses. Upper floors were 12-feet tall and used for processing, clerical and corporate offices as well as additional rentable space.
McGraw-Hill sits on what is now one of the most commercially dense areas of New York, a hub for transportation and business just west of Times Square on 42nd Street between 8th and 9th Avenues. The building spans the block from the north side of 41st Street to the south side of 42nd Street. To the east is the massive Port Authority Bus Terminal complex that extends to 8th Avenue. To the west of the building is the Times Square Station Post Office, which was originally part of the land bought by James H. McGraw with the anticipation of building an expansion at a future date. In 1951, this western portion, which remained unbuilt, was sold and the post office was constructed. Midtown West, now the site of many skyscrapers, offices and high-rise residential buildings, was until recently relatively underdeveloped and considered highly undesirable and dangerous by most New Yorkers. At the time of construction, Midtown West—also known as Hell's Kitchen—was a low-rise, high-density residential and manufacturing area and its reputation as sleazy and perilous contributed to McGraw-Hill's long-term isolation. Although separated from the Midtown hustle, west of 8th Avenue offered inexpensive land while maintaining proximity to Grand Central and Pennsylvania stations. Additionally, zoning laws restricted factory functions between 3rd and 7th Avenues. The isolated site ensured that the McGraw-Hill structure would dominate the skyline as it did for nearly fifty years. New high-rise construction in the immediate area of McGraw-Hill over the past decade has ended the reign of the "Green Giant" as the sole dominator of the western horizon line. The New York Times Tower (Corner of West 41st St and 8th Ave) stands to the south at 52-stories though the building is over 800 feet tall, The Orion (350 West 42nd St.) just to the west at 58-stories is separated only by the post office, and plans to develop a tower over Port Authority threaten to all but obscure McGraw-Hill from the skyline.
It was aesthetically important that the blue-green glazed terra cotta blocks be smooth and uniform. To create a smooth surface on the block, ground up bits of terra cotta biscuit were introduced into the clay, minimizing the clay block's tendency to change shape when fired. The sheer quantity and size of the terra cotta units required for Hood's design necessitated the use of mechanically produced extruded blocks. An order of this magnitude, at that time, was the most zealous application of this material in architectural history. The rapidity offered by machine-extrusion allowed terra cotta to compete to some extent with similar advancements in metal and glass. Hood's choice of terra cotta cladding demonstrated that terra cotta was compatible in modern, high-rise construction. However, production at that level also created a far greater margin for error in color variations and quality control. Blocks for McGraw-Hill had to be grouped on site based on their hue ranges of blues and greens so as to make color transitions as seamless as possible. In his design decisions Hood, already a pioneer in establishing a precedent for skyscraper design with the Tribune, Radiator, and Daily News building, further stretched the current perception of how verticality could be defined and represented in a skyscraper. Visually, the building is a layering of floors with repeated horizontal emphasis.
Divisions of the McGraw-Hill Company were originally intended to occupy of eighty percent of the building. The remaining space was intended for office rental. The Skyscraper as an architectural expression still had no definitive form, style, and composition and was still being experimented with and finessed. This form-in-flux is epitomized in the Gothic Chicago Tribune Tower, which is also iconically where Raymond Hood achieved international fame. The skyscraper was also an urban architectural declaration of corporate success and power. The McGraw-Hill Building was both emblematic of McGraw-Hill's corporate success and the freedom architects like Hood had in skyscraper design. Hood was fascinated by the relationship of color in how we perceive architecture, and was a featured architect in the Architectural and Allied Arts Exposition in 1927. He was quoted then as saying that New York of the future would consist of "gayly colored buildings…enlivened by the drastic change of color schemes." He believed entire buildings would have one distinct color, not just architectural embellishments. The McGraw-Hill buildings removed location offered a unique opportunity to design a building that would be viewed unobstructed from 360 degrees.
McGraw-Hill is a streamlined building whose aesthetic potency is in its horizontality and use of bold use of color rather than ornamental detail. There are differing accounts regarding who was responsible for choosing the blue-green color scheme. According to the architects, they toyed with practically every color of the rainbow before settling on what they considered a blue schema. The terra cotta cladding was designed to be a darker blue at the base and gradually lighten as the building rose until "it finally blends off into the azure of the sky..." An account of James H. McGraw's perspective states that McGraw was presented with colored terra cotta samples and that he emphatically insisted on green, above objections from others who were in favor of black with orange trim. In further opposition, McGraw is quoted as saying "There's too much Princeton around here!" referring to his sons enthusiasm for Princeton University whose colors are black and orange. Halfway through construction, McGraw was reportedly surprised and disgusted by the green building and remarked to one of his associates, "Who picked that color?" In addition to colored terra cotta glaze, the metal windows were painted an apple green color and stripes of vermilion were used selectively throughout the building, such as on the top jambs of the windows. Narrow horizontal bands of blue on every window shade were Hood's intent to further accentuate the horizontality. Originally, the green color scheme was continued throughout the interior down to the elevator operator uniforms. The color green had been studied by experts was believed at the time to be the most restful for office workers' eyes. The building has two distinct profiles. From the east or west, the setbacks are viewed as wide broad steps that narrow the building as it ascends. But viewed from the north or south, the appearance is of a large, uniform slab: a classic design of the International Style. As they had for the American Radiator and Daily News Buildings, Hood and Fouilhoux insisted the design profile for McGraw-Hill was the result of zoning laws and economic requirements although these same requirements were at play with both previous buildings but yielded vastly different buildings.
Initial reaction to McGraw-Hill was mixed. It inspired debate not just about its aesthetic merits but also into what style it was categorized. In 1931, the New Yorker called the color "a rather dispiriting grayish-green tile" and disapproved of its horizontality. On the other hand it stated approvingly that the building was "austerely free from any architectural ornament". Alfred T. North in 1932 wrote: "Lacking all the earmarks of historical architecture, this building is running the gauntlet of criticism." The Washington Post in 1934 printed "Form Follows Function" in which the author writes that McGraw-Hill and its clean-cut contours is the supreme example of Raymond Hood's genius and that it is a machine-age building that "was builded for a modern age of glass and steel." McGraw-Hill is considered an example of the International Style of architecture, as defined by Hitchcock and Johnson. The building envelope corresponds with their principles of volume and of exterior rhythm and regularity reflecting the supporting elements found beneath the façade. McGraw-Hill was chosen in 1932 by Hitchcock and Johnson as the only building from New York City to be a part of The International Style exhibition. It was one of only four buildings chosen from the United States and the only terra cotta building in the exhibition. Hitchcock and Johnson assert that it "marks a significant turning point in skyscraper design." The concurrently published book The International Style says this about McGraw Hill: "The lightness, simplicity and lack of applied verticalism mark this skyscraper as an advance over other New York skyscrapers and ring it within the limits of the international style…The regularity approaches monotony except for these set-backs, which are determined by legal requirements rather than by considerations of design. The heavy ornamental crown is an illogical and unhappy break in the general system of regularity and weights down the whole design." As the International Style became increasingly more prominent throughout the world, McGraw-Hill's importance increased as being the first American example. By 1936, the McGraw-Hill Publishing Company had come to accept and relish this characterization. In the revival of interest in Moderne and Art Deco, historians have also claimed McGraw-Hill as a creation of Moderne and Deco. No matter how you group it, the building revolutionized notions of material use, verticality, color, and simplicity as they applied to skyscrapers. Among architectural scholars, McGraw-Hill is undeniably considered one of the most influential skyscrapers of all time.
McGraw-Hill is one of the most iconic skyscrapers in New York. It bridges the Moderne, Art Deco, and International Styles. It is representative of advances in technology and modern movements toward simple, frank architectural expression. McGraw-Hill stands up as one of Raymond Hood's boldest designs, expressive of his desire to unite color and architecture.
HITCHCOCK, Henry Russell, and Philip JOHNSON. The International Style. Boston: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, 1995.
KHAN, Hasan-Uddin. International Style, 1925-1965. Los Angeles: TASCHEN, 1998.
KILHAM, Walter H. Raymond Hood. Boston: Architectural Book Company, Incorporated, 1973.
TUNICK, Susan, "The Evolution of Terra Cotta: 'Glazing New Trails'", APT Bulletin, Vol. 32, No. 4 (2001), pp. 3-8.
TUNICK, Susan. "The Reign of Terra Cotta in the United States: Enduring in an Inhospitable Environment, 1930-1968", APT Bulletin, Vol. 29, No. 1 (1998), pp. 43-48.
ROBINS, Anthony W. McGraw Hill Designation Report, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Designation List 127, September 11, 1979.
GRAY, Christopher, "Streetscapes/The Old McGraw-Hill Building; A Color-Filled Restoration of a Colorful Skyscraper", The New York Times, March 14, 1999. "The Sky Line", The New Yorker, July 25, 1931, pp. 38-39.
DOLKART, Andrew S. The McGraw Hill Building, National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination, June 1979.
GOLDBERGER, Paul. "Green Building Is a White Elephant: Awkward Location A Brash Design A Shocking Green Sold in 1970 Architectural Heritage. " New York Times, 3 Nov. 1973, pp 31.
"M'GRAW-HILL GETS BIG BUILDING SITE: Publishing House Buys Larkin Plottage in West 41st and 42d Streets. TALL PLANT MAY BE BUILT Property Occupied by Score of Old Houses First Intended for 110-Story Tower", (1930, May 30). New York Times, 37.
SPECTER, Michael. "A Big Void Left By McGraw-Hill Fills Up at Last: Void Left by McGraw-Hill Fills Up", New York Times, 13 Sep. 1981.
MATTHEWS, Henry. "The Promotion of Modern Architecture by the Museum of Modern Art in the 1930s", Journal of Design History, Oxford University Press, Vol. 7, No 1 (1994), pp. 43-59.


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WAC Assessment
The Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) program has developed a rigorous assessment project that will allow the University's WAC curriculum to develop over time based on the data collected by the study. This study will determine whether distributing the responsibility of teaching writing across the curriculum is enabling students to improve their writing. Departments needing additional support for improving student writing can also be identified, and the results of this assessment can be used to leverage additional funding for a sustained focus on the teaching of writing across the university. Furthermore, we will determine whether students perceive increased learning as a result of integrating writing-to-learn practices across the university.
The purposes of this assessment are to evaluate the effectiveness of the WAC program and to discern where improvements can be made. Individual students and faculty WILL NOT be assessed. After students submit their materials, all data and scores will remain anonymous and confidential and will only be reported in aggregate form.
Class Selection
With assistance from the Office of Institutional Effectiveness & Analysis, a stratified random sample of course sections across days of the week and class times will be selected from the pool of FAU WAC courses.
Faculty will not be asked to have their classes participate in the assessment process more than once every three years.
The Assessment Process
Before the term begins, the attached Explanation of WAC Study document will be distributed to faculty whose classes have been selected. Faculty will be asked to relate the instructions for the assessment project to their students. Students will receive an email with information on their role in the assessment project and will be directed to the attached Online Consent Form. Each participant should anticipate spending approximately 15 minutes to complete the survey. To participate, they will use their FAU email addresses and passwords for secure access to the submissions website.
Students will be asked to submit a first and final draft of an out-of-class paper (preferably written near the end of the term). After uploading the documents, students will then be asked to fill out an online survey, which includes some biographical data and reflections on changes they have made in their writing over the term.
University Mandate
The University Faculty Senate has mandated that all students in classes selected to participate are required to complete the university assessment process; however, they may elect not to have their completed survey and paper submissions used for research purposes. Student participation in the publishable WAC study should not affect their grade for the course nor their G.P.A. in any way; however, instructors may elect to enforce a penalty for failure to participate in the university assessment process.
WAC Assessment Rubric
The following rubric is used for holistic evaluation of student papers. While departments are encouraged to use the assessment documents below as a model for creating their own, they are not required to do so; however, students must receive a copy of this rubric early in the semester so they will know the criteria by which their papers will be evaluated for the WAC program assessment study.
- WAC Assessment Rubric
- WAC Benchmark for Acceptable College Writing
- WAC Benchmark for Acceptable College Writing (Table)

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Northfield Mount Hermon engages the intellect, compassion, and talents of our students, empowering them to act with humanity and purpose.
The NMH Board of Trustees developed and approved this mission statement in 2009. Board members, along with students, faculty, and staff, also look to a set of core values for guidance and inspiration: excellence, respect, integrity, persistence, creativity, and teamwork.
These fundamental values are manifested in our community through:
- A teaching and learning culture that helps students become versatile problem-solvers, compassionate thinkers, and effective communicators.
- An innovative academic curriculum that offers choice and challenge.
- Vibrant, engaging, and expansive co-curricular programming.
- Transformative responsibilities and experiences, including the work program, social-justice programs, global study, and sustainability initiatives.
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Finally, a "fiscal cliff" breakthrough
Updated 4:30 p.m. ET
Most of the world is counting down to a midnight New Year's celebration while Congress continues to watch the clock and count down to another deadline, despite the efforts of lawmakers to avert the "fiscal cliff."
Those efforts are inching closer to the midnight deadline, but leaders from both parties indicate that a deal is within reach.}
President Obama took to the stage with middle-class taxpayers standing behind him this afternoon to announce that Congress is making "progress" and that "it appears an agreement...is in sight."
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., described the status of the talks even more positively saying he and his main negotiating partner, Vice President Joe Biden, are "very, very close to an agreement."
While he didn't provide details, McConnell said on the Senate floor, "We've reached an agreement on all of the tax issues."}
Multiple congressional sources tell CBS News that the two sides have agreed on a permanent income threshold for the expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans: $400,000 for individuals and $450,000 for families. For weeks, Democrats have pushed for letting the cuts expire for those making over $200,000 and families making over $250,000 while Republicans have wanted to renew the cuts for all Americans, including the wealthiest.
Additionally, agreement has been reached on the estate tax, which was set to increase from 35 percent to 55 percent in 2013. Instead, the compromise sets the new rate at 40 percent with the first $5 million exempt from being taxed.
Other likely components of the deal include an increase in capital gains and dividend tax rates, which would increase from 15 to 20 percent. There would also be an extension of the Earned Income Child Tax Credit, a permanent fix to the Alternative Minimum Tax and a one-year extension of tax credits for renewable energy development. And doctors would be shielded from a massive reimbursement gab for treating Medicare patients.
The entire tax deal would raise about $600 billion, aides said.
Also agreed to is a major sticking point for Democrats: an extension of unemployment benefits for two million Americans whose benefits expired over the weekend.
With negotiations still ongoing and the timing of a vote on a "cliff" deal still in flux, the House announced this afternoon that it is not likely to vote on any deal tonight.
What this means is that although the country will technically go over the "cliff" at midnight, the significant progress in the negotiations signals any detrimental impact from the "cliff" will be avoided, even if a vote happens after midnight - that is, unless a deal is eventually voted down in Congress or the talks collapse altogether before a vote.
Vice President Joe Biden and McConnell have been the key negotiators over the past 24 hours and the movement on taxes represents a huge step forward on this last day of talks before the cliff.
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What has not been agreed upon is what to do with automatic budget cuts, known as the sequester. The $110 billion of cuts to defense and non-defense government programs are set to go into place in the new year. The president said he had hoped any deal would be more comprehensive and address the sequester and the deficit in "a balanced way."
Even though deficit reduction was the Republicans' top priority, the president used the possible exclusion of the sequester to take a swipe at Congress. "[W]ith this Congress that was obviously too much to hope for." He said.
Some congressional Republicans and aides didn't take very well the president's condescending remarks.
"So....I'm confused....does POTUS want a deal or not? Because all those jabs at Congress certainly sounded like a smack in the face to me," Erica Elliot, communications director for House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, wrote via Twitter.
Emphasizing the importance of deficit reduction to his fellow Republicans, McConnell urged his colleagues not to hold up a deal because the sequester might not be addressed today. He called the tax portion of the "fiscal cliff" the most important component as taxes are set to rise on every wage-earning American tomorrow. "Let's take what's been agreed to and get moving," he said.
"Action on the sequester is something we can continue to work on," McConnell added.
The agreement on taxes comes hours after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., updated the holiday-starved, grumpy and weary "cliff" watchers and announced the obvious: time is running out and that "there are a number of issues on which the two sides are still far apart."
Reid said discussions continue but any sort of agreement will "need cooperation from both sides."
As negotiations continue, the tenor and focus of the talks have shifted from the top member in the House and the president to the Senate leaders.
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, who for weeks negotiated directly with President Obama, froze himself out of the arena just before Christmas with his ill-fated attempt at a "Plan B" that landed with a thud among a few dozen of his own members. Then, after Mr. Obama flew back from his Hawaiian vacation, presumably unhappy about leaving paradise for the cold and deserted nation's capital, and summoned congressional leaders to the White House and dumped the onus of reaching a deal on the laps of Reid and McConnell.
Alas, Sunday, McConnell found himself throwing his hands up in exasperation after Reid slow-walked a promised counter-proposal and he picked up the phone to the White House to find, as he put it, "a dancing partner" in Vice President Joe Biden.
As negotiations are taking place between McConnell and Biden, the House of Representatives is in "hang loose" mode - as Reid put it over the weekend.
While time is running out, it is becoming less likely that Congress could pass anything before midnight tonight. While the legislative body can move quickly to pass legislation, it does take time to write and print the bill, vote on it and send it to the House. Reid has told senators not to make plans tomorrow or through January 3.


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That the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has saved a single life is unproven and doubtful. But it did something good for the country last fall by provoking a long overdue reaction against bureaucratic bullying.
The TSA has been rolling out more of its "Advanced Imaging Technology" scanners, with the goal of having 1,000 in service by the end of 2011, covering around half of the security lanes at our nation's airports. These machines demand more of us than just striding through, as with the traditional metal detector. That can be done with some semblance of dignity.
The new scanners that stand between us and our right to travel freely—a right hallowed in Western tradition back to Magna Carta, where movement in and out of the realm was protected even for foreigners—require us to stop and spread our limbs submissively. We are then doused with X-rays or millimeter waves to produce a bizarrely inhuman yet laid-bare image for a bureaucrat to contemplate, ogle, or blankly run his tired eyes over. Anyone who refuses to submit to this electromagnetic strip search is required by TSA policy to undergo a very through pawing and pat down, including between the legs.
Yet shortly before Thanksgiving, one brave American, John Tyner, became a national hero for recording himself resisting a TSA agent's attempts to molest him at the San Diego airport, an incident that popularized the slogan "don't touch my junk!" The idea that the TSA was ramping up its assaults on our dignity and privacy for no discernable benefit swept the country. The push back culminated in organized calls for everyone to opt out of the scans on the day before Thanksgiving—overcome the system by overloading it.
The new technologies are undignified and meant to be. The illusion of choice surrounding their use is intended to funnel us into an even more undignified situation. Be exposed electronically in full, or physically molested, or go back home. These are unprecedented demands on Americans moving through the theoretically free world, not some penitentiary or asylum.
But the principles behind the TSA's new strategies are very old. Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon is being built in miniature, but with an even wider angle of view. While the 19th-century utilitarian philosopher Bentham dreamed of a system that could keep watch at all times over particular classes in need of surveillance—he was thinking of prisoners, students, and workhouse denizens—the American Panopticon gazes upon any air traveler without regard to criminal background or mental history.
A second philosopher who saw this coming was Michel Foucault. What Foucault wrote about the insane asylum's effect upon its inmates applies eerily and equally well to what the TSA does to everyone who passes through its screen: "The problem is to impose, in a universal form, a morality that will prevail from within upon those who are strangers to it." Sadly, given the number of Americans who reacted to November's anti-TSA furor with a hearty "who cares if you have to be watched or grabbed in order to travel? The experts say it's needed," the TSA appears to have succeeded in constructing a new morality.
These bureaucratic procedures quickly assume all the privileges of reality, as if they are an external force that no American in his right mind should waste time fighting. It is disconcerting to me how often I find people who lived through those days forgetting that as recently as 1995 one could get on a plane anonymously, without showing any papers, beyond a ticket, to anyone.
But it is heartening that the rituals of resistance are in play against the latest power-grab. Some pranksterish Americans have taken to selling undergarments with the Fourth Amendment printed on them in metallic ink that will supposedly show up clearly over your image on the new scanners. Meanwhile stories of petty-tyrannical behavior from TSA agents stream forth. The TSA itself knows its agents are not to be relied on to understand their own rules. Its website assures us that we have the right to turn the Panopticon back on the state, in our own small way, by filming at airport checkpoints in a non-intrusive way. But the site also tells us to be aware we are likely to be harassed for doing so anyway.
The institutional players are acting their parts in the resistance rituals. The ACLU has collected over 900 stories about TSA abuses from aggrieved Americans. The Electronic Privacy Information Center has filed a lawsuit challenging the Fourth Amendment constitutionality of the scans and patdowns. Rep. Ron Paul has offered a bill mandating that TSA agents should have no legal immunity for whatever assaults they commit on unwilling Americans in the course of their work. But congressional oversight of the TSA is meaningless—already deputized by Congress to do whatever it decides is necessary, TSA need not care what we think of it.
The TSA has created the perfect enemy for any bureaucracy: one that can never be defeated, that could be anyone, and that creates excuses to funnel money to favored interests until the end of time. It does not matter that the Government Accountability Office and various security and imaging experts have noted that the new scanners might not have detected the "underpants bomber" whose attempt to blow up a flight to Detroit on Christmas 2009 provided the pretext for the new measures. The scanners produce images sharp enough to rob Americans of their dignity, but not sufficiently clear to detect flat, irregularly shaped explosives worn close to the body, according to Leon Kaufman and Joseph W. Carlson's study "An evaluation of airport X-ray backscatter units based on image characteristics" in the Journal of Transportation Security.
The revolt against TSA by Tyner and other citizens fed up with the surveillance state gave a few of us a momentary feeling of real security—grounded in an enduring American spirit of dignity and resistance to tyranny. But that proved to be as illusory as the safety offered by the agency's blind yet all-seeing machines.Scridb filter


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Democrats are working hard to make sure conservative groups are silenced in the 2014 midterms.
President Obama and Democrats have been at great pains to insist they knew nothing about IRS targeting of conservative 501(c)(4) nonprofits before the 2012 election. They've been at even greater pains this week to ensure that the same conservative groups are silenced in the 2014 midterms.
That's the big, dirty secret of the omnibus negotiations. As one of the only bills destined to pass this year, the omnibus was—behind the scenes—a flurry of horse trading. One of the biggest fights was over GOP efforts to include language...


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EEOC Office of Legal Counsel staff members wrote the following letter to respond to a request for public comment from a federal agency or department. This letter is an informal discussion of the noted issue and does not constitute an official opinion of the Commission.
Title VII: Religious Discrimination ---- HHS Provider Conscience Regulation
September 24, 2008
Office of Public Health and Science
Department of Health and Human Services
Attention: Brenda Destro
Hubert H. Humphrey Building
200 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Room 728E
Washington, D.C. 20201
Re: Provider Conscience Regulation
To Whom It May Concern:
As Legal Counsel of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), I am writing in response to the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Provider Conscience Regulation, which was proposed to ensure that HHS funds "do not support morally coercive or discriminatory practices or policies" by health care or research entities with respect to performing abortions, sterilizations and other lawful health services or research activities pursuant to the Church Amendments and related laws. 73 Fed. Reg. 50,274 (August 26, 2008). HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt explained in a press release that "[t]his proposed regulation is about the legal right of a health care professional to practice according to their conscience" and to be free of discrimination on those grounds.1
Title VII prohibits employers from treating applicants or employees differently from others due to their professed religious beliefs, practices, or observances. An employer may not refuse to recruit, hire, or promote individuals of a certain religion, may not impose stricter promotion requirements for persons of a certain religion, and may not impose more or different work requirements on an employee because of that employee's religious beliefs or practices. Therefore, Title VII prohibits health care employers from discriminating against any applicant or employee in hiring, promotion, termination, or any other term or condition of employment based on religious or moral beliefs. The only exceptions to this broad prohibition are for religious organizations6 and for ministerial functions.7
Title VII defines religion broadly. It protects religious beliefs, practices, and observances, including those that are traditionally theistic8 in nature as well as "moral or ethical beliefs as to what is right and wrong which are sincerely held with the strength of traditional religious views."9 We believe this broad definition of religion under Title VII encompasses the religious beliefs or moral and ethical convictions that are the subject of the proposed Provider Conscience Regulation, because objections to the practices addressed by HHS's proposed rule are often based on beliefs that fall within Title VII's definition of religion. That is, the objections are often based on "a sincere and meaningful belief that occupies in the life of its possessor a place parallel to that filled by … God," or "concern[] 'ultimate ideas' about 'life, purpose, and death.'"10
Title VII requires employers to reasonably accommodate the sincerely-held religious beliefs, observances, and practices of its applicants and employees, when requested, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on business operations, which is defined as more than a de minimis cost. The concern that motivated the proposed Provider Conscience Regulation with respect to employment – that health care employers deny certain religious accommodations and thereby infringe on the employee's ability to practice religion – is already addressed by Title VII and the law developed under it.11
Title VII provides the legal framework under which complaints of employment discrimination based on religion, including denial of reasonable accommodation, have been judged for over forty years. Title VII's religious accommodation requirement, which incorporates a defense of undue hardship, has consistently been approved by the courts. See Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Hardison, 432 U.S. 63, 84 (1977) (to require an employer to bear more than a de minimis cost to accommodate an employee's religious practice would be an undue hardship as it involves unequal treatment of employees on the basis of their religion); see also EEOC v. Ithaca Indus., Inc, 849 F.2d 116, 119 (4th Cir. 1988) (en banc) (religious accommodation under Title VII does not violate First Amendment establishment clause); International Ass'n of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Lodge 751 v. Boeing Co. 833 F.2d 165, 171 (9th Cir. 1987) (same); McDaniel v. Essex Int'l, Inc., 696 F.2d 34, 37 (6th Cir. 1982) (same); Tooley v. Martin Marietta Corp., 648 F.2d 1239, 1244-46 (9th Cir.), cert. denied 454 U.S. 1098 (1981) (same). Introducing another standard under the Provider Conscience Regulation for some workplace discrimination and accommodation complaints would disrupt this judicially-approved balance and raise challenging questions about the proper scope of workplace accommodation for religious, moral or ethical beliefs.12
As a practical matter, introducing another standard under the Provider Conscience Regulation threatens to create confusion for health care employers, who would still be subject to Title VII standards for these as well as all other requests for religious accommodation. This confusion would be particularly acute for smaller employers that have fewer resources and employees, such as doctors' offices and smaller pharmacies. By HHS's own estimate, approximately half of the more than 580,000 entities that will be affected by the proposed regulation are doctors' offices and pharmacies.13
Given these legal and practical concerns, Title VII should continue to provide the legal standards for deciding all workplace religious accommodation complaints. HHS's mandate to protect the conscience rights of health care professionals could be met through coordination between EEOC and HHS's Office for Civil Rights, which have had a process for coordinating religious discrimination complaints under Title VII for over 25 years. See 29 C.F.R. part 1691, 48 FR 3574 (Jan. 25, 1983) (as amended) (Procedures for Complaints of Employment Discrimination filed against Recipients of Federal Financial Assistance). Thank you for the opportunity to provide these comments and please feel free to contact me at (202) 663-____.
Reed L. Russell
Legal Counsel
1 HHS Press Release, Regulation Proposed to Help Protect Health Care Providers from Discrimination, August 21, 2008.
2 Title VII also prohibits employment discrimination on the bases of race, color, sex, and national origin. 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2(a).
3 See proposed Provider Conscience Regulation at § 88.3 (Applicability) and § 88.4 (Requirements and Prohibitions).
4 See id. at § 88.2 (defining "Individual;" "Workforce;" "Entity," and "Health Care Entity).
5 See EEOC Guidelines on Discrimination Because of Religion, 45 Fed. Reg. 72,612 (Oct. 31, 1980), codified at 29 C.F.R. § 1605.1 (hereinafter EEOC Religion Guidelines).
6 Under Title VII, religious organizations are permitted to give employment preference to members of their own religion. See 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-1(a) and § 2000e-2(e)(2). See EEOC Compliance Manual, Section 12: Religious Discrimination, at 12-IC1 (July 22, 2008), available at http://www.eeoc.gov/policy/docs/religion.html#_Toc203359492 (hereinafter EEOC Religion Compliance Manual).
7 Courts have held, based on First Amendment constitutional considerations, that clergy members cannot bring claims under the federal employment discrimination laws. See EEOC Religion Compliance Manual, supra note 6, at 12-IC2.
8 "Theistic" is defined as "believing in a god or gods." The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Ed, Houghton Mifflin Co. (2004), available at http://dictionary.reference. com/browse/theistic (last visited July 2, 2008).
9 See EEOC Religion Guidelines, supra note 5.
10 See EEOC Religion Compliance Manual, supra note 6, at 12-IA (discussing Title VII's broad definition of religion).
11 See generally EEOC Religion Compliance Manual; supra note 6; EEOC Religion Guidelines, supra note 5, at § 1605.2.
12 For a discussion of the constitutionality of the duty to accommodate under Title VII as well as the constitutionality of broader accommodation requirements, see Barbara T. Lindemann & Paul Grossman, Employment Discrimination Law, 368 - 369 (C. Geoffrey Weirich ed., BNA Books 2007) (1976).
13 See 73 Fed. Reg. at 50,280 (estimating that of the 584,294 entities affected by the proposed rule, 234,200 will be physicians' offices and 58,109 will be pharmacies (chain and independent)).
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Online activists fret over extremism
Internet activism's heroes are sometimes labeled its destroyers.
Supporters of online freedoms worry extreme acts may thwart the momentum gained last year with the crushing defeat of anti-piracy legislation. Those concerns underscore a central fear in activist circles: how to advocate a cause without destroying its credibility.
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The latest example came this past weekend, when the online activist group Anonymous took hold of the U.S. Sentencing Commission's website, replaced it with a YouTube video and threatened to release "warheads" containing sensitive information about the Justice Department. The group linked its actions to the department's treatment of Aaron Swartz, a young tech pioneer who faced up to 35 years of prison time after hacking into a subscriber-only database of scholarly articles. He committed suicide earlier this month.
"We understand that due to the actions we take we exclude ourselves from the system within which solutions are found," the group said in a statement. "There are others who serve that purpose, people far more respectable than us, people whose voices emerge from the light, and not the shadows. These voices are already making clear the reforms that have been necessary for some time, and are outright required now."
Those people also reacted to Swartz's death with cries to overhaul the computer fraud act. But the more radical measures could hinder that effort rather than propel it.
"There is a huge difference between documents made available online like Congressional Research reports and taking down websites," First Amendment lawyer Marvin Ammori said. "But prosecutors will probably look at what Anonymous did and use it as an excuse to continue equating the two."
That means more overall scrutiny.
"It basically puts the rest of us under a microscope," said Jillian York, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's director for international freedom of expression. "We have to be much more careful about everything we say lest it looks like we support illegal behaviors."
But legality itself doesn't appear much of a dividing line. Swartz's violations and potential punishment are used as an anthem for reforming existing laws. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has become as much an icon of online freedom as a hunted criminal. And Internet actions in Iran and Syria, while illegal, are helping alter a regime.


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A two-time team Most Valuable Player (1971 and 1972) and a native of Southern California, Craig Cullen '72 is considered one of the program's top two way forwards. During his four seasons with the Warriors, Cullen was instrumental in leading Boston State to the 1969 and 1971 Codfish Bowl Championships. For his efforts he was named to the All-Tournament team in 1971.
Named an ECAC Player of the Week as a junior and senior, Cullen established himself as one of the most gifted student-athletes to ever wear the Green and Gold. When not on the ice, Cullen was a four-time Dean's List honoree, and received the Boston State College Scholar Athlete Award at the end of his senior season.
On the ice he closed out his junior campaign ranked second on the team with 24 points, which he then surpassed as a senior with a combined 38 points in 1972. Defensively solid, Cullen was considered a top penalty killer, but when given the opportunity was able to make things happen offensively. He finished with 81 total points (35 goals, 46 assists) in 66 games.


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Our membership has been growing organically since IDPC was set up in 2006. Members can be NGOs, academic institutions, think tanks or professional networks, but they must have a national or international outlook, and a credible track record in the drug policy field.
There are no membership fees, but all members need to be committed to supporting the IDPC vision and mission, strategic directions, policy principles and work plan.
IDPC has two types of membership: network members help disseminate our ideas and materials, while partner members are more actively engaged in the implementation of our work plan. We come together to facilitate open debate on drug policy issues, and to promote more humane and effective policy at a national and international level.
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KeyCanada.ca needed a new banner ad design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 26 designs submitted by 13 freelance designers.
Design a 31"w by 79"h vertical print ad for our trade show banner. We are a soon to be launched real estate search portal looking for a print banner ad that compliments the look and feel of our logo and website.
KeyCanada.ca - Your Online Real Estate Community
Design a trendy internet web 2.0 style print banner. Our website has a similar style to Zillow.com and Trulia.com. Also check out our blog at Keycanadablog.ca for more ideas.
Our official logo can be found here KeyCanada.ca Logo and to download the file please go here KeyCanada.ca Logo - .ai or KeyCanada.ca Logo - .eps or KeyCanada.ca - .psd. Here is an alternative logo idea that might be useful KeyCanada.ca Logo2.
- Include our logo - KeyCanada.ca
- Tag Line - Your Online Real Estate Community
- Primary colours include green (see logo); terracotta; pastel blue
- Selling points include - Free; Agent Friendly; Meet New Clients; Increase SEO; Connect With Other Agents;
- Preferably in .ai format but welcome other formats - the design is what were interested in
- We are looking forward to your ideas!!!!
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Search to resume for bodies of 2 teens missing in White Oak Bayou
Search efforts will resume Sunday for the bodies of two teens who disappeared in the White Oak Bayou during Friday's storms.
Harris County Sheriff's Office deputies plan to use jet skis and possibly boats to search the shallow areas of the bayou near the 7200 block of Fairbanks North Houston, authorities said.
Witnesses reported seeing a 2000 Mazda B2500 pickup truck with two occupants drive off a bridge into the bayou near Fairbanks North Houston and Emmott roads in northwest Harris County around midnight Friday.
An 18-year-old male driver and his 17-year-old female passenger were reportedly in the pickup, which was recovered about three hours later. No bodies were inside the truck at that time.
Authorities have been in contact with the teens' families, but their names have not been released.
Friends have identified the driver as Eric Cabrera, a student at Houston CAN Academy Charter School. Cabrera had a 2-year-old son, according to friends.
"He has so many more years to live," Michelle Perez said. "We have to find him."
Swift currents and debris kept Harris County Sheriff's Office marine unit divers from searching Saturday in the bayou, which was estimated to be 20 feet deep at the time of the accident, said Sgt. Doug Hudson with the Harris County Sheriff's Office marine division.
"It's just too dangerous," he said.
About a dozen deputies on foot combed miles of the bayou banks Saturday afternoon, but were not able to locate bodies. The recovery effort was temporarily suspended around 4 p.m.
Northwest Harris County received about 6 inches of rain, making it one of the hardest hit areas by Friday's storm. Rainfall totals ranged from 7 inches in Liberty County to just 1.5 inches in other parts of the region.
High water made portions of U.S. 59, West Loop and U.S. 290 feeder roads impassable, according to the Harris County Flood Control District.
While no house flooding was reported, the Houston Police Department responded to about nine accidents.
Texas Department of Public Safety officials reported one death when a vehicle hydroplaned and hit a tree in northern Williamson County near Austin Friday.
For the rest of the state, the rain was welcomed. The storms lowered highs to the mid-80s and lows to the upper 60s along the Gulf Coast.


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Chris Eben needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 150 designs submitted by 36 freelance designers.
Creating a new consulting organization focused on product development, strategy and design. I am the founder and president and intend to use this company to promote my services and build personal and organizational brand recognition. I am also planning to use this company to develop new and exciting web 2.0 products and concepts based on my 15yrs of experience in product design and development. The culture and personality of the company should be focused on new technologies and startups but should be professional and appealing to a broad audience. I draw a lot of inspiration from simple and minimalist designs.
This is a service based business in the business to business marketplace. For the most part, I will target early stage and startup companies who need help with product concepts, development, design and strategy. The audience will often be very design savvy and will be drawn to a mixture of sleek, modern design with a little bit of the young, energetic "startup" vibe we see online everyday (not the stuffy design of established service businesses, like law firms, accountancies, management consultancies, etc). Think about a young, energetic, go-getter customer/audience who is also sophisticated, business savvy and not easily fooled.
The previous set of information should provide enough to get going as I don't want to be too specific and stifle your creative ideas and concepts. The company name is "Variant" which should stand for "not your typical way of doing things"... "a different (varied) perspective"... "not your everyday, typical products"... etc. You get the idea.
This logo will lay the foundation for all other designs associated with starting a company, especially for the website (likely requiring a future custom wordpress theme).
NEW INFORMATION: Have change name from "Variant Consulting" to just "Variant"
I would like the design to be simple with an image of some sort that gives the perception of variances, changes, differences without necessarily just using the letter "V" in a different way.
I made the mistake of looking for designs with tints, shadows, reflections, etc but think this is actually the wrong direction. The design needs to be simple, and evoke the appropriate sense of the brand. It needs to work on the website but also on print (both color and black and white). All designs should be presented in color and also in black and white against both black and white backgrounds.
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– President Barack Obama at the Wakefield High School, Arlington, VA on September 8, 2009
President Speaks to Nation's School Children
On September 8, President Obama addressed students across the country in his back-to-school speech. The President emphasized the importance of education and challenged students to set both short- and long-term goals. It was broadcast live at 12:00 noon Eastern Standard Time and can now be seen on the White House website http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/A-Message-of-Hope-and-Responsibility-for-Americas-Students/. For school children's reaction to the speech, go to http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/The-Presidents-School-Speech-Student-Reactions/
ED and White House Engage Students in Video Contest
The U.S. Department of Education (ED), in collaboration with the White House, through a contest called, "I Am What I Learn," will ask students to respond to the President's challenge by sharing their personal stories through visual media. To further engage students the contest requires students to create a video up to two minutes long, expressing the steps they will take to improve their education in the current school year and the role it will play to fulfilling their dreams. Students will be asked to submit videos between September 8 and October 8. For more details about the contest, go to http://www.ed.gov/iamwhatilearn/index.html.
The First Family Celebrate Independence Day with Military Families
To celebrate Independence Day and to honor military heroes and their families, the First Family invited 1,200 troops and military family members to attend the Fourth of July gathering on the South Lawn of the White House. The celebration included volleyball and traditional refreshments.
Secretaries Read to Military Children for Read To The Top! Event
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki and his wife, Patricia Shinseki, read to more than 100 children in grades pre-K through four from Bolling Air Force Base, the Fort Myer Youth Services program and the Anacostia Child Development Center for the Department of Education's summer reading initiative, "Read to the Top!" on Monday, July 27th, at the Department's headquarters in Washington, DC. The Shinsekis are advocates for military families and children. The Department has partnered with community organizations nationwide to address summer reading loss in response to President Obama's national volunteer campaign, "United We Serve," which challenges all Americans to engage in sustained, meaningful service to meet growing social needs resulting from the economic downturn. The U.S. Department of Education's weekly reading campaign continued through August and featured various children's books read by the Secretary, other Cabinet members and top Administration officials.
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i3 Fund Available in 2010
This fall, the Department will announce guidelines for the Investing In Innovation, better known as the i3, fund, a $650 million competition under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. According to Secretary Duncan, this new fund will "create robust incentives to expand what works, invest in promising practices, and boldly innovate." The initial step will be to publish draft guidelines in the Federal Register, providing 30 days for the public's comments. Grant awards under the i3 fund are expected to be announced in 2010. For more information see Secretary Duncan's remarks about the new fund at http://www.ed.gov/news/speeches/2009/08/08202009.html.
The Secretary of Education Approves Seven New Awards
The U.S. Education Department has awarded seven colleges $250,000 each to operate Veterans Upward Bound programs that help veterans develop academic and other skills needed to succeed in postsecondary education. The primary goal of the program is to increase the rate of enrollment and completion of postsecondary education programs. "Offering this assistance is our responsibility and our duty to the men and women who served in our nation's military," said U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. "Helping them access college is good for the nation that they will continue to serve as productive and participating members of the civilian community." The programs will provide academic and personal counseling, mentoring and tutoring, and offer refresher courses for veterans who have not completed high school or who may be high school graduates but delayed the start of their postsecondary education to serve in our nation's military. Veterans Upward Bound programs will also assist veterans in obtaining support from sources such as the Veterans Administration, state agencies, veterans' associations and other groups that aid veterans. A list of grantees can be found at http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2009/08/08252009.html. Other information about the program is available at http://www.ed.gov/programs/triovub/index.html.
DoD Education Activity Director and Deputy Director Meet Secretary of Education
On August 20, 2009, Dr. Shirley Miles, Director of the DoD Education Activity (DoDEA) and Charlie Toth, Deputy Director of DoDEA, visited Secretary Arne Duncan at the US Department of Education Headquarters to discuss the DoDEA school system, its achievements and current initiatives. Dr. Miles reviewed the DoD-ED Memorandum of Understanding, the involvement of ED in the Advisory Council for Dependents' Education, background information on the DoDEA school system and the initiative the Virtual School which will provide online support for students who move frequently to and from military bases around the world.
DoDEA Awards Grants
DoDEA is working to ease the transition of military students and providing resources to Local Education Agencies (LEAs) who educate military dependent students. The Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) Educational Partnership has awarded 44 grants to public schools throughout the nation through the Promoting Student Achievement at Schools Impacted by Military Force Structure Changes FY 09 Competitive Grant Program. There were two categories of grants -- competitive and invitational. Competitive grants focused on enhancing student learning opportunities, student achievement, and educator professional development at military-connected schools with projected military student growth between 2007 and 2009 due to force structure changes. The invitational grant program is specifically focused on schools that support installations with frequent and/or sustained deployments, or who are located in remote locations. All grant applicants were required to submit a summary of needs and link how their proposals addressed their unique needs. A particular emphasis was placed on supporting the needs of children from military families who are in transition. "This is the first year DoDEA has been able to execute our grant program and it's very gratifying to be able to offer assistance to the schools that are educating our military's children," said Dr. Shirley Miles, Director of DoDEA. "We are looking forward to seeing how the districts implement the programs they've developed. We know that all children in the grant recipient districts will benefit from these awards."
DoDEA Schools Close the Achievement Gap
The gap in academic achievement between white and black students in Department of Defense Education Activity classrooms is smaller than the national average in U.S. public schools, according to the findings of a new study. The results indicate that black students in DoDEA are scoring higher than their stateside counterparts on the center's tests. In fact, DoDEA schools beat all but a handful of states in all grades and subject areas studied in the report, which was prepared by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Hugh Price, a Princeton University visiting professor who has looked at various education programs nationwide, was part of a panel organized by NCES to look at the report. He said he believes the gap is smaller in DoDEA schools because parents get involved in their children's education, and the students are in two-parent homes.
ED Facilitates Teleconference Meeting with DoD and VA
On June 9th Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) facilitated a teleconference meeting with staff from Department of Defense (DoD) and Veteran's Affairs (VA) as part of the Interagency Agreement (IAA) between OSERS' National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research and the VA. The following topics were discussed: 1) progress toward a second IAA to implement the approved plan for a Congressionally-mandated Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) registry, and 2) next steps in the development of a VA Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center TBI Database that will parallel the TBI Model Systems National Database. Representatives from the Veterans Brain Injury Center also participated.
ED Staff Briefed on Troops to Teachers Program
On July 9th ED employees attended an Education Policy Briefing that showcased the joint ED/DoD program Troops to Teachers. Troops to Teachers is a program that helps eligible military personnel begin a new career as teachers in public schools where their skills, knowledge and experience are most needed. The program also helps these individuals find employment in high-need local education agencies (LEAs) or charter schools. In the presentation, Troops to Teachers administrators and teachers discussed the history of Troops to Teachers, the experiences of participants in the program, and Troops to Teachers program outcomes. The presenters were Dr. Jeffrey P. Cropsey, Director of Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support; William P. McAleer, Chief, Troops to Teachers; and Troops to Teachers participants, now classroom teachers, Michael Siekkinen, Tommy Thompson, and Philip Dabney.
ED Attends Conference about Base Realignment and Closure Activities
Representatives of ED's Federal Real Property Assistance Program, which conveys surplus federal real property to eligible educational organizations, attended the Association of Defense Communities (ADC) biannual conference held August 2-5, 2009 in Boston. The ADC is a nationally-recognized organization that provides technical assistance and networking opportunities to the military, Local Redevelopment Authorities, elected officials, the business community and federal agencies working collaboratively on the closure and realignment of military installations resulting from Base Realignment and Closure Act (BRAC) recommendations. At the conference, the Department's representatives attended a variety of sessions on the military's progress with implementing the 2005 round of BRAC closures and realignments, as well as legacy BRAC properties from four previous rounds, pending legislative initiatives, updates on environmental issues and similar topics. The military departments indicated they were on track to meet the legislative requirement to close identified bases and reserve centers and redeploy personnel to newly constructed or expanded facilities across the country by September 2011. The Department's representatives were also able to meet with some of the educational Public Benefit Conveyance applicants and representatives from Local Redevelopment Authorities across the country while attending the conference.
States Impacted by BRAC
The National Governors Association's Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) leads a Mission Growth Working Group that was established under a cooperative agreement with the Department of Defense, Office of Economic Adjustment (OEA), and is comprised of state representatives from: Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Virginia. To provide assistance to affected states and communities, and enhance the relationship between states, military communities, and growing military installations, the Working Group helps OEA to ensure a responsive program of assistance as a result of BRAC (base realignment and closure). On the basis their reviews, evaluations, and experiences with growth-impacted areas, the Working Group has identified three areas in priority order: workforce development, education, and transportation. The Working Group is co-chaired by governor-designees from Maryland (Lt. Governor Anthony Brown) and Georgia (State Senator Seth Harp). To find out more go to NGA Issue Brief: Organizing State Efforts to Respond to Mission Growth.
ED and DoDEA Participate in DoD Family Readiness Conference
Catherine Schagh, Director of Impact Aid, presented at the Department of Defense Family Readiness Conference in Chicago (IL) September 1-3, 2009 informing attendees about the Impact Aid Program. Kathy Facon, Chief of DoDEA's Educational Partnership, provided two sessions on Reaching and Supporting Public Schools Serving Military Students. Elaine Kanellis and Connie Gillette, from DoDEA's Communications department, provided a session on the critical importance of communication between schools, military commands and parents.
Support for College
All Children of Fallen Heroes to Receive "Fry" College Scholarship under War Supplemental
A provision authored by Congressman Chet Edwards to expand GI Bill benefits to children of fallen U.S. service members was included in the final 2009 Supplemental Appropriations bill, which funds U.S. military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Senate passed the final bill 91 to 5 after the House passed it 226 to 202. The bill was signed into law by the President on June 26, 2009. The provision, authored by Edwards as a member of the conference committee, expands the current GI Bill education benefit to cover the full cost of a college education for all children of fallen soldiers. The new benefit will be known as the "Marine Gunnery Sergeant John David Fry" scholarship in honor of a fallen soldier with three young children from Edwards' district. For more information go to http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/06/tns_fry061209/.
Changes Will Benefit Military Veterans
A host of changes to student aid programs came on July 1. Many of these changes benefit students by lowering the cost of student loans, increasing grant aid for Pell Grant recipients and military veterans and providing new assistance for students with unmanageable education loan debt. See article at http://www.nasfaa.org/publications/2009/aw1july061509.html which summarizes some of the major upcoming changes to the student aid programs.
700 Colleges Tie the Yellow Ribbon
About 700 colleges signed up for the new Post-9/11 GI Bill's Yellow Ribbon Program, which allows colleges to enter into dollar-for-dollar matching agreements with the federal government to pay veterans' educational costs above those covered by the base GI Bill benefit. Under the new GI Bill's Yellow Ribbon Program, colleges and universities can enter into separate matching agreements at the undergraduate and graduate levels and for different colleges or professional schools. Colleges predetermine the maximum number of eligible veterans and the maximum amount contributed per student, per year. For more information about the program go to http://www.gibill.va.gov/GI_BILL_Info/CH33/Yellow_ribbon.htm
ED and DoD Collaborate to Match Eligible Students
The Higher Education Act of 2008 (HEOA) created a provision to provide surviving children of members of the U.S. Armed Forces who were killed in service in Iraq or Afghanistan since September 11, 2001, a maximum federal Pell Grant award. Federal Student Aid and the Office of General Counsel are working with the Department of Defense on the appropriate legal documentation to identify the eligible students for a data match.
Service Brings Loan Forgiveness
The Senate introduced Senate Bill 1603 (Brown, D-Ohio), that amends section 484B of the Higher Education Act of 1965 which provides for tuition reimbursement and loan forgiveness to students who withdraw from an institution of higher education to serve in the uniformed services (Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions).
Federal Student Aid Staff Attend Job Fair
On September 30, 2009 Michelle Draughn, Chief of Staff at Federal Student Aid (FSA), will be representing FSA at a job fair in Fort Bragg, NC. Ms Draughn will inform military families of how they can access information on financial aid and scholarships.
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ED Employee Participates in Campaign for Healthy Homecoming
ED staff participated in a meeting July 30th of the Organizational Committee of the Campaign for Healthy Homecoming, hosted and supported by Survivor Corps. The purpose of the meeting was to develop the National Homecoming Roadmap, a plan intended to improve the reintegration of service members and veterans returning home from deployments. Outcomes of the meeting included proposing coordination methods and identifying the leadership structure for working groups in the areas of education, employment, community, peer support, health care, and resilient families. The Campaign includes leading nonprofit and veteran service organizations, governmental departments and agencies, corporations, academic institutions, veterans and family members. The initiative resulted from the recommendations of the Community Reintegration Summit held in Washington, DC on January 26-27, 2009. To read the Findings Report from the Summit, visit www.survivorcorps.org.
ED Team Coordinates Information on Wounded Warriors
The Pathways to Leadership program, a new leadership training opportunity, tasked 18 employees in three teams with proposing a project that would benefit ED. One of the three teams, Team Aurora, developed a proposal to coordinate the Department's activities related to Wounded Warriors. Team Aurora will act as a clearinghouse of information on ED offices serving Wounded Warriors. Anyone with programs, services, suggestions or activities that target or benefit Wounded Warriors, please contact Team Aurora: Chaun Eason at firstname.lastname@example.com; Olivia DeWitt firstname.lastname@example.com; Valerie Hough email@example.com; Amy Klosterman email@example.com; Helena Myers-Wright email@example.com; or Katina Stapleton email@example.com.
ED Informs Hiring Heroes
On July 22nd Katherine Coates, Federal Student Aid, provided financial aid information to Marines and their families for the program, Hiring Heroes, at Camp Pendleton, CA. Approximately 400 Marines and their families attended.
ED Attends Change of Watch Ceremony
ED staff attended the Change of Watch Ceremony for the Vice Commandant of the Coast Guard, August 7, 2009. Among those in the official party were Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security, Admiral Thad W. Allen, Commandant of the US Coast Guard, the outgoing Vice Commandant, Vice Admiral Vivian S. Crea and her successor, Vice Admiral David Pekoske. As second in command and Chief Operating Officer of the Coast Guard, Vice Admiral Crea oversaw the operations management of the organization and was responsible for efficient and effective daily functioning of the Service.
ED Assists in Back-to-School Events for Military Families
Dr. Patricia Crisp of Region VI (Dallas) is working with the Fleet Family Support Center of Naval Air Station (NAS) Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base (TX) to prepare for back-to-school events.
For Your Information
Cell Phone Recyling Program Helps American Troops
Cell Phones for Soldiers is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that has raised almost $2 million in donations and distributed more than 500,000 prepaid calling cards to soldiers serving overseas. Cell Phones for Soldiers expect to collect 50,000 cell phones each month through a network of more than 3,000 collection sites across the country. Proceeds from donated cell phones are used to purchase prepaid calling cards for American troops. Donated old cell phones help accomplish the mission: Help Our Troops Call Home. For more information, go to www.cellphonesforsoldiers.com
Military Health Records Project Set to Expand
A Defense Department pilot program designed for easy access to medical files could propel government and military recordkeeping into the 21st century. The MiCare personal health records program, having undergone successful testing at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, WA has received the go-ahead light for expansion, and DoD officials hope it will provide a " virtual lifetime electronic record" for service members. Security will be a top priority in further development of the program, which is a joint effort between DoD, the Veterans Affairs Department, Microsoft and Google. MiCare is a Department of Defense sponsored Web site where beneficiaries can sign up to have their electronic health records delivered to a Personal Health Record (PHR) of their choice. For more information go to http://fcw.com/articles/2009/07/23/dod-military-electronic-health-records.aspx?s=fcwdaily_240709
Military Kids Come Together at Camp Courage
This is the first year of operation for Camp Courage, a cooperative venture involving the Boys and Girls Clubs of South Puget Sound, Operation: Military Kids (OMK) and other agencies. From July 12th to 15th campers were able to attend for free, thanks to a grant from OMK, a partnership between Army Child and Youth Services, 4-H and Washington State University. Originally conceived as an experience for the children of Wounded Warriors, Camp Courage also included other military kids and a few of their nonmilitary friends. One goal of Camp Courage was to encourage kids, military and nonmilitary, to talk. OMK provides youth program opportunities for school age, middle school and teenaged youth and connects them to support resources where they live. Go to http://www.operationmilitarykids.org/public/statePOCNewsDetail.aspx?type=event&ID=1167 for more information.
Social Security Benefits Veterans
Anyone who's had active duty service prior to January 2002 and planning for retirement may qualify for a higher social security payment because of military service for active duty any time from 1940 through 2001. Up to $1200 per year of earnings credited at time of application can make a substantial difference in social security monthly payments upon retirement. Bring your DD-214 to the Social Security Office and ask for the benefit. Go to http://www.ssa.gov/retire2/military.htm for more information.
Stress of War Impacts Children
The years-long U.S. commitment in Iraq and Afghanistan is taking a significant toll on the children of service members, who are 2½ times more likely to develop psychological problems than American children in general, new research indicates. The study, published in the Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, found that deployment of a parent was correlated to high stress levels in the parent who remains at home, which it said was linked to greater psychological impact on children. The children of service members deployed in wartime were commonly racked with worry over the safety of both parents and were under intense strain from the upheaval of changing schools and their relationships with service providers. For more information go to http://journals.lww.com/jrnldbp/Abstract/2009/08000/The_Psychosocial_Effects_of_Deployment_on_Military.1.aspx
Workshop Addresses Needs of Military Families
The U.S. Department of Education collaborated with the Washington State Office of Public Instruction to provide a workshop on August 4, 2009, that was consistent with the 2009 Office of Safe and Drug Free School Conference theme, The Power of Change: Healthy Students, Safe Schools and Engaged Communities. The workshop focused on the unique challenges of military-connected students, the current support provided by local, state and federal governments and organizations, successful options and best practices that address student mobility and frequent deployments and Base Realignment and Closure. Presenters were Dr. Charles Boyer, Special Advisor for Military Families, U.S. Department of Education, Office of Innovation and Improvement and Dr. Mona Johnson, Director of the Washington State Operation: Military Kids Project, Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
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16 Tips From The Depression Era That Are Actually Life Hacks
1. When making a meal with ground beef, replace some of the beef with lentils.
Substitute up to half the amount of beef with cooked lentils. You've save a little money and consume less fat and calories.
2. Oatmeal also makes a great meat extender.
3. Make your own toothpaste.
All it takes is sea salt, baking soda, and peppermint oil.
4. Save strawberry pint containers for storage.
Instead of throwing out those cute little pints, save them to organize small objects, like nail polish or your keys.
5. Reuse your clementine boxes.
Use them as plant holders or magazine holders.
6. Grow your own herbs and vegetables.
You'll have flavorful chives, mint, and basil on hand at all times and end up saving money by not having to drop cash each time you need fresh herbs.
Check out 13 vegetables that magically regrow themselves. Scallions, garlic, and celery are all plants that you should save the ends of and plant in your own home.
7. Mash potatoes with the skin on.
It will bulk up your mashed potatoes and give you an extra dose of vitamins from the skin. Just be sure to scrub them clean before cooking.
8. Keep a soup stock bag in the freezer.
Add leftover bones, onion ends, and vegetable peels. Once you've stockpiled enough odds and ends, boil it down to create homemade stock.
9. Start hoarding sugar packets.
Your friends might laugh at you for channeling your inner grandma, but you'll be laughing your way to the bank. Every time you get a cup of coffee, take a few extra sugar packets. By the end of the week, you'll have enough sugar for a batch of cookies.
10. Reuse every single container that comes into your home.
Remove the labels from glass pasta or jam jars and use them as a drinking glasses. Or, if you're feeling super luxurious, gild them.
11. Put whiskey in your soda.
During the prohibition era, they would sneak home-brewed bourbon into their soda. While it's no longer necessary to get your buzz on so discreetly, this still makes a delicious drink.
12. Make apple pie with Ritz crackers.
During the Depression, apples were expensive and hard to come by. Some thrifty folks figured out that when they broke up the more accesible Ritz crackers and flavored them with lemony simple syrup, they got a filling that's unbelievably similar to that of apple pie.
13. Shave with a straight razor.
In addition to having the closest shave of your life, you'll never have to buy razor cartridges or double edge blades ever again. Just give your straight razor a nice stropping and you're good to go.
Bonus tip: storing it in mineral oil will keep it from corroding and will make your straight razor last indefinitely.
14. Make a "wacky" depression cake that is accidentally vegan.
This recipe uses vinegar and oil, which act as cheaper alternatives to eggs and butter. Get the full recipe here.
15. Before brewing, throw a pinch of salt into your coffee.
The salt reduces bitterness and creates smoothness, making cheaper grounds of coffee taste a whole lot better.
16. Save everything, and never replace an item you can fix yourself.
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