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I just searched this forum for "Whole House Fan", but I didn't find much about them (except this and this).
I'm curious to hear what experiences you all may have with these simple and relatively inexpensive devices out in the real world.
Here are some pictures and a basic definition of the type of fans I'm talking about:
4.7.12 Alternative Systems - Ventilation Cooling (2013 CA Energy Efficiency Standards)
The CEC also maintains a list of models approved for sale in California. Does this list adequately represent the state of the art?
Or are there other emerging whole-house ventilation technologies that home professionals ought to know about?
For this discussion, let's try to not confuse an old school "Attic Fan" (which isn't designed to ventilate a conditioned space) with a "Whole House Fan" (which is).
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Your experience is a good one and you are right about finding the best system for each home's unique needs.
Tamarack makes an excellent product but it is a bit costly on a dollar per CFM basis.
Their motorized and insulated damper was the only game in town until Invisco brought out their thermally broken dual damper that is available motorized but works will with gravity and costs less.
Invisco also created the SmartSpeed(tm) - the world's first automatic speed control. Your customers can't find a more efficient system.
WHFs are ideal for the bay Area and Sacramento valley because of the sudden temperature drop.
I used to install Tamaracks until the Airscape came along around 2004-5.
The customer service at that time was so bad at Tamarack that I never went back - they may be better now as they are still in business.
Have you installed any Airscapes? http://www.airscapefans.com/ - they have got the remote controls working properly and have good multi speeds and other accessories as well as online tech. http://www.airscapefans.com/products/Shop/Natural-Cooling/Whole-Hou...
I haven't yet found anything that compares favourably to all the Airscapes - they are well made - strongly constructed. If you are not using an A/C much the energy savings on an A/C upgrade are minimal (as long as the unit and duct leaks are sealed) and the cost of a changeout high - plus solar is taking off here as California is the start up guinea pig for solar instal corporations trying to make it big so 25 watt fans at low speed becomes a sales point once people understand the low CFM principle for cooling the shell.
Making a set of customized closing insulated ceiling doors for closing after use would work with some of the others but there might be a lot of maintenance wear and tear and eventual leakage from improper usage
I am a whole house fan 'Fan'- though I have never had one of my own. I've been in houses that do have them and have always thought they were great. After reading 3 pages of comments I've decided: yes, I still like them for Midwestern Missouri homes as long as: Attic Sealed properly with Insulated Dampers with Plenty of exhaust area. I'm on the fence as to how much Value- "comfort and economics" per Dollar is achieved.
Thanks to everyone who gave their 2cents on the subject.
My parents built a split-level house in the '60s that had a large, belt-driven whole house fan with louvers in the ceiling of the 2nd floor. It was right beside the pull-down attic stairs. In the '80s they had AC installed (in the attic) and one of the returns was in the same hallway ceiling as the stairs/WHF. They rarely used the WHF as there are few nights here that are cool enough (and dry enough) where the fan improved comfort. Their second floor was extremely uncomfortable in Winter (Mid-Atlantic state). A couple years ago my father and I removed the stairs (created an insulated/gasketed hatch panel) and created a R-36 foam box to cover the entire WHF. That and adding additional attic insulation, sealing some gross leaks and some duct sealing made the upstairs much more comfortable.
The take away for me is that WHFs are mainly dependent on climate (my brother/sister-in-law have one in the Bay area (no AC) and it works real well for them), proper attic ventilation to match the fan flow, and - a topic that has not been voiced here - neighborhood security. If you live in a home where the open windows are available to home invaders (and this is becoming a very likely scenario in all places, not just urban) then the reduction in cost of operation vs AC is much less valued than the security of using AC. If you are using a WHF to only cool off the upper-floor(s) at night (again, maybe for security reasons), then you probably need a much smaller fan capacity (to match the input area) vs the "whole house"; maybe a window fan exhausting air while opposite-room windows admit outside air will work just as well and be far less costly, invasive, and impacting to your pressure/thermal shell. It all depends...
Well put David. Horse and buggy used to be a primary transport. The world has moved on.
Good point about security - there are ways to make windows secure as the openings are small if more than one windows is open.
Another is noise. WHFs need open windows so noise can be a problem.
However people in cities who live on main streets who open the front windows for ventilation may get better sleep if the air is drawn by a whole house fan from the back of the house where it is quiet outside.
Years ago I put a 1,000 cfm in a 2 story 4,000 sft Victorian with no attic insulation - the ground floor stayed cold all summer anyway because of tree shade but the second floor was hot and noisy - I told them I did not expect big results especially before the insulation was installed.
They had instant 'magic' results and a quiet nights sleep for the first time in ages.
Nice work with the box - do you have any photos?
Thank you, David! There are a lot of costs to whole house fans, and I've become less of a fan of them (no pun intended) as my Building Science knowledge has increased. Here are a few that come to mind for my climate in Cleveland:
WHFs were a good solution when we didn't have AC. We now have efficient ACs. Too cheap to buy an AC? Get a WHF, but accept the consequences. They are indeed a horse and buggy. Air seal the attic and use window fans, it works in my 1835 home (with no AC except a window unit in the bedroom) until outside temps go over 80. I still have some mean radiant issues then, though, the wall may be hot from the sun, which an AC would have helped with throughout the day.
A 'fixed' house with controlled air leakage and decent insulation and a small, right-sized AC running can keep humidity levels down in the entire house. How about we educate people and show them the way? I'm having nice initial success doing just that.
BTW The YouTube video of the WHF cover is a box my crew built about 3 years ago when I was still contracting.
Finally, as I've learned in the past year or two, I've decided my house is too expensive to fix and I'm looking to move so I can fix my house in the same way I recommend to clients.
Thank you Nate Adams,
Thanks for taking the time to carefully write up the issues with Whole House fans from
a building science perspective. with all the pros and cons.
Much appreciated.
Jan Gravemaker
Energy Auditor Seattle
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Yet the unmeasured "savings" wives tale persists. Dogmatic belief being tightly held on to. Not a single case study to prove cost/benefit.
@ Tedd - Respectfully, sir, I see no indication here that anyone is intending to "lie" or perpetuate myths. Instead, I see colleagues from different parts of the country sharing their informed and HONEST opinions. Frankly, that's all I had hoped for.
Clearly Whole House Fans are not for everyone / everywhere. But as I, and others here have indicated, in some hot dry climates (especially the marine-influenced zones where most people in California live), the temperature can really cool off at night. For >25 years our family's been using a WH fan to take active advantage of this natural ventilation resource that's available to us.
Still, this exchange has given me plenty to think about beyond my own limited anecdotal experience with WH Fan technology.
We have no A/C, but in the summer friends often remark how cool our house feels, because we have a decent envelope, control our solar gains with triple-wall cellular shades, and charge our mass overnight by opening some strategic windows (thanks, stack effect). If the forecast high is going to be over 90F, we just run the WHF for ~20 minutes in the morning (to super-charge the floors and pre-chill the attic) and for ~30 minutes at night (maybe as much as two hours when we know it's going to be over 100F for >3 days). During heat waves, we've learned to pay closer attention to our timing, open the closet doors, and other tricks to ensure the mass is fully charged.
My wife is the self-appointed fan-master. She watches the weather report, the pollen count, and the indoor/outdoor thermometer, and runs her own proprietary algorithm accordingly. It might sound a little over-deliberate, but for us it's become as easy and routine as brushing our teeth. It also makes us feel more in touch with the seasons (which may sound strange coming from a Californian, but hey, it's all we've got).
We've never missed not having an A/C (not since we replaced 64sf of west-facing glass upstairs), except for maybe a few evening hours during the hottest week or two of the year. But for us, that's just a good reason to go out for a walk or drink a glass of wine on the deck until the fan can catch up.
And at ~$45/month peak electric (PG&E Tier 1 ~$0.147/kWh) if somebody forgets to close a window and we overheat, we can still afford to just take the whole family out to dinner!
Meanwhile, our neighbors live in a flop plan of ours (1986, 2-story, 2200sf), and sadly their A/C seems to run day & night, all summer long. For us, the noise of their A/C is probably a bigger "comfort" complaint than any we've ever have with our own indoor temperature or IAQ. (Funny what starts to matter as we age.)
I suspect that our adaptation to our mass radiant conditions (vs. air temperature) and our anticipation of the temperature swing are both key to our perceived high comfort with this admittedly low-tech cooling system. To this point, I recall Danny Parker remarking that his SF Bay Area friends operate their home similarly, which, when visiting from Florida, he finds uncomfortably TOO COLD for summer evenings. To each his/her/zir own.
I realize our climate and our behavior are atypical (everyone's is), but I'm curious where the cross-over point for this technology really belongs (particularly now that sealed, insulated, variable-speed, and sensor-controlled models are coming onto the market). The few formal technical assessments of these devices that I've seen to date strike me as a good start, but inadequate, and I suspect probably too conservative to estimate their true potential when installed and used properly. I'm encouraged that some others in other climate zones are curious about this too.
If anything, this discussion proves that we still have a long way to go before "home energy pros" are in consensus about what measures to recommend to a public even less informed than we are.
Thanks everybody for another spirited discussion!
Sorry - no photos. But it was similar to many other projects easily found. I used multiple, overlapping layers of 2" polyisocyanurate (2 on the sides, 3 on the top) glued together with urethane construction adhesive (I also used duct tape to hold the panels together so the adhesive could set up properly). Side panels were foamed/caulked/sealed to the existing ceiling joist areas around the fan base; top panel was partially inset into the side panels (the first 2 polyiso layers) and also had door weatherstrip at the joint of the uppermost polyiso layer and the side walls (just in case someone in the future wanted to re-use the fan). The box structure was large enough to contain the entire fan/motor/belt drive assembly.
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It was by a stroke of good fortune that Monique Kane, just named "Woman of the Year" by state Sen. Joe Simitian, is where she is today. The director of Community Health Awareness Council narrowly escaped death as a child escaping the Nazi invasion of France in World War II.
Kane, now in her early 70s, hardly looks her age. She was two years old in 1940 when the Nazis invaded France. Her mother, an American, fled and hitchhiked across France with three children in tow to catch the last civilian ship to the U.S. "We were pretty emaciated" by the time all four of them reached the ship, Kane said.
Things got worse when the ship encountered a German U-boat. Expecting the ship to explode, the passengers boarded lifeboats, Kane said.
"The captain of the German ship and captain of the American ship had a conversation," Kane recalled. "And the American captain talked the German captain out of bombing us."
The narrow escape had a lasting effect on the family and Kane, despite her young age.
"My parents remained separated for years," Kane said. Her mother, who had followed her marine engineer husband to France, "wouldn't go back and my father wouldn't come home. He finally did when I was 13. I grew up without a father.
"I think it also made me a pacifist," Kane said. "I saw how much my mother was traumatized by that experience. I think it really influenced me."
Serving the needy
Kane went on to be a teacher and a therapist, and has helped to provide mental health care to the city's most needy at CHAC since 1986. Kane was honored as "woman of the year" last week by state Sen. Joe Simitian, who bestows the award to one woman every year among his 931,349 constituents in his district's 13 towns and cities.
"I am so deeply honored to have been selected," said Kane. "It certainly is a reflection of our excellent staff. I started out years ago as a therapist, so I was always in this kind of work, but when I came to CHAC I was amazed at how many lives of children and teens that we touched and how we helped them grow emotionally and build good skills."
Kane has gained the respect of Dr. Barry Groves, superintendent of the Mountain View Los Altos High School District, among many others.
"Monique Kane has been the steadfast leader to ensure that we've had uninterrupted counseling service for over two decades in our community," Groves said. "Over the last decades our students are experiencing a great deal of stress in the classroom and at home. It's more important than ever that we provide these counseling services to our kids and their families."
"The work that Monique and CHAC do with troubled young people and their families is an extraordinary gift to the community," Simitian said. "Under Monique's leadership, CHAC helps people avoid self-destructive behavior and find the way to healthy lives and rewarding family relationships."
CHAC has expanded by leaps and bounds since Kane started, serving 11,917 clients last year in 31 local schools and in its clinic at 711 Church Street. It has become known as a leading training facility with as many as 80 student interns providing counseling services, seeing children at local schools and patients in the clinic who pay depending on their income. There were only 16 such interns in 1986. Kane says she still trains a few interns every year and also has a small private practice on the side.
She became a licensed therapist in 1976 and had no trouble finding patients, mostly children and couples, for a private practice she ran until she was hired by CHAC in 1986. She had been recommended by a colleague to then-CHAC director and co-founder Dodie Alexander. Kane asked for an interview, but Alexander said, "When can you start?"
Alexander explained later than she trusted her staff's assessment of Kane.
Two years after taking the clinical supervisor job at CHAC, Kane filled a vacant clinical director position at CHAC and in 2000 became executive director after filling in on an interim basis several times.
'Quiet determination'
Kane is rather soft spoken and quiet for a leader of such a large organization. Kane says she leads in a "democratic" way, empowering her staff, and also has a "quiet determination" many don't see.
But even in college she says she was attracted to leadership positions, serving on the student council while earning her teaching degree at Salve Regina College in Rhode Island. Kane says she wasn't really sure what she wanted to do for a career, and nursing and teaching were the obvious choices for a woman in those years. But as a teacher in public elementary schools in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and, in 1968, in Menlo Park when her husband took a job with Raychem, Kane found that she had a talent for working with the most troubled kids. It eventually led her to become a licensed marriage and family therapist.
"Often schools were giving me kids who were having problems in other classes," Kane said. "I just did really well with those kids." She says it helps to have "a sense of humor, patience, empathy and understanding."
Kane had several kids of her own by the time she decided to go back to school to become a trained therapist, and said she was fortunate to find an independent study program based at Vermont's Goddard College that allowed her to study on her own time in California under qualified professionals of her choice. As a requirement of graduation, she gave a weekend workshop on a study she conducted about transgendered people.
Kane grew up among extended family in Rhode Island and attended Catholic schools. Her Catholic mother never remarried after fleeing France. "I don't think they did a lot of annulments then," Kane said.
Her mom's father, a physician, had previously moved the family from Canada to Rhode Island. Kane attributes her ability to be "diplomatic" to her mother, who stressed to Monique the manners of high society, and that it matters how you say something.
'Work that I love'
Kane is married to her second husband, Bill Heinz, with whom she has two-step sons. She leads a quiet life, hiking every day at Foothill Park in Palo Alto, where she now lives, and reads mystery novels. One of her three children, Susan, died from an illness 14 years ago at age 32, which still hurts, Kane said. She has a son who teaches at a Southern California community college and runs an organic avocado and mushroom farm with his wife. She has a close relationship with her other daughter, a hairdresser in Los Altos. She also has several grandchildren, one of whom is living with her while attending college. Her family keeps her "balanced," she said.
"I actually have worked as an adult doing work that I love," Kane said. "The secret in life is to do what you love and get paid for it."


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Terry Evans should be atop Lamar's wish list
In the week since the Steve Roccaforte Era ended, the names that have been bandied about by local media and fans as the next Lamar basketball coach really make you wonder if everybody just wants more of the same.
Some of the names that have been mentioned are Pat Knight, who went 1-1 against Lamar at Tech and Alvin Brooks, the former Lamar player who did zero as the head coach at the University of Houston.
If the powers that be at Lamar hire one of these also-rans, expect an extension of the era of staleness.
But let me throw a name out there that no one is talking about and should be — if those aforementioned powers that be are serious about making the men's program viable again.
Terry Evans. Who? Terry Evans.
For starters, unlike the names that have been mentioned as possible candidates, Evans is a proven winner. He's currently the head coach of Division II power Central Oklahoma, where he's put up a ridiculous 193-80 record in nine seasons at the helm and is coming off a 30-4 season, where his Broncho team lost in the regional championship.
Under Evans' watch, Central Oklahoma has played in seven national tournaments and won five Lone Star Conference North Division titles with seven 20-plus win seasons.But that just scratches the surface of what Evans could do for Lamar University. He's currently in contention for the job at his alma mater, Oklahoma, where he played for … you guessed it. Billy Tubbs.
From 1989-1993, Evans, a four-year starter at point guard, made his mark on Sooner Nation, leaving the school as the all-time leader in 3-pointers made (259), 3-point attempts (698) and assists (651). He ranks second in steals (265) and 13th in points scored (1,361). Not too shabby.
What's even better is that, assuming he doesn't get the Oklahoma position — and with all due respect to Evans, there are some big names contesting for the job — he wants to be at Lamar.
"I am very interested in the job at Lamar, so much that I have already applied," Evans told The Examiner in phone interview. "Coach Tubbs and I are good friends. We talked and he thought I should apply for the job at Lamar."
When Tubbs returned to coaching at Lamar, the Cardinals hosted Central Oklahoma in 2004 and narrowly escaped an upset by winning 78-73.
Evans' resume is impressive beyond what he's done at Central Oklahoma. He has won at every level, plus basketball is in his DNA. His father, Eddie, was a two-time All-Big Eight point guard at Oklahoma and coached and won three state championships in high school and was the head coach at Central Oklahoma from 1978-82.
As a high school player, Evans helped guide Millwood High School to three consecutive state titles before playing for the Sooners. After graduating from Oklahoma with a degree in business management and a master's in human relations, Evans coached in the high school ranks at Midwest City High School in Oklahoma, and his team went on a 100-11 run and won three Class 6A state titles. He also was the director of basketball operations at the University of Oklahoma in 2001-02.
So while it's easy to be impressed with Evans' credentials, the next question is can the guy recruit in Texas considering he's an Okie.
"I have former college teammates all over Texas," said Evans. "Literally one in every city. I also have very good friends that work in the AAU circuit." Evans likely used his sources because he has no recruiting budget at Central Oklahoma.
It doesn't hurt that the best player on Evans' roster from last season is a Texan, out-going senior Dauntae Williams from Missouri City, who prepped at Fort Bend Elkins. The 6-foot-4 Williams led the team in scoring with 20.9 points per game, and Evans says that he will likely be picked in the NBA Draft later this summer.
"UCO has a policy in place where most of the scholarships have to be given to players in Oklahoma," he said. "But Dauntae is from Texas. He was one of my top players on the team and is getting looks by several NBA teams."
Tubbs was unavailable for comment but was quoted by the Tulsa World regarding Evans and the Oklahoma job — and while you'd expect Tubbs to say nice things about a former player, Evans sure sounds a lot like what Tubbs and Company are looking for in the next Lamar head coach.
"As far as circles and Xs, Terry's record speaks for itself," Tubbs told the newspaper. "We played against him a couple of times when I went back to coaching at Lamar. We brought them in for exhibition games, and he was always tough to play against."
Tubbs went on to say that Evans is very good with players and has a great personality. "I'm really proud of him would be the best way to put it."
"Coaching's coaching, and recruiting's recruiting," Tubbs said to the Tulsa World. "If you can do both at the D-II level, you can do them at D-1."
Last week, I said Lamar has to hit a homerun with this hire. They need it, and there's no more room for mediocrity. If Evans is passed over for the Oklahoma job, this could be Lamar's first homerun hire in the men's program in more than two decades.
Roccaforte interviewing at Tech, others
Steve Roccaforte could soon be leaving Beaumont. Sources say that Roc will make a trip to Lubbock to meet with good friend Billy Gillespie, who was just hired as the basketball coach at Texas Tech.
He will also visit with Auburn head coach Tony Barbee and more than likely meet with Kentucky head coach and former boss John Calipari. The Wildcats are scheduled to play Ohio State in the Sweet 16 round of the NCAA Tournament on March 25 in New Jersey.
Fred Davis contributed reporting for this column.
Chad Cooper can be reached at (409) 832-1400, ext. 241, or at cooper [at] theexaminer [dot] com.


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HONOLULU (July 26, 2012) – The first-round matchups of the 2012 Diamond Head Classic were released on Thursday and the ETSU Buccaneers will face No. 17 Arizona in the first round of the tournament on Saturday, Dec. 22. Game times will be announced at a later date, but all first-round games will be televised live on ESPNU.
Despite the 1,900-plus mile trek from Johnson City to Tucson, there's some history between ETSU and Arizona as the 14th-seeded Buccaneers stunned the third-seeded Wildcats, 87-80, in the first round of the 1992 NCAA Tournament in Atlanta. Overall, the two programs have only met twice in their history with Arizona defeating the Blue and Gold in the 1991 Preseason NIT in Provo, Utah.
"Playing in this tournament is a great opportunity for our team," said ETSU men's basketball head coach Murry Bartow. "This is a tremendous field and Arizona could be one of the top teams in the country when we see them in Hawaii. Sean (Miller) is a great coach and this will be strong challenge for our team. When we entered the tournament, we knew it would be a tough field, but it's great for our program to get the national exposure. We are looking forward to heading out there and making sure it's a great experience for our team."
Arizona finished fourth in the Pac-12 last season with a record of 23-12, 12-6, and lost to Bucknell in the first round of the NIT. The Wildcats return eight letterwinners and two starters from last season's team, while Arizona will also have Xavier transfer Mark Lions eligible for the 2012-13 season.
The other two teams lined up in ETSU's bracket are Miami (Fla.) and Hawaii. The first-round winners will play each other, while the two losing teams will play in the consolation bracket. Both of those games will also be aired live on either ESPN2 or ESPNU.
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ESPNU will carry eight of the tournament games, including all four first-round games. ESPN2 will air the third-place game and the Championship Game on Tuesday, Dec. 25, along with the one of the semifinals on Sunday, Dec. 23. ESPN3 will have one game and the entire tournament will be available through WatchESPN, accessible online at WatchESPN.com and through smartphones and tablets via the WatchESPN app to fans who receive their video subscription from an affiliated provider.
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The 2012 Diamond Head Classic, an eight-team men's college basketball tournament, will feature 12 games over the three days. Each team will compete in one game per day, advancing through a bracket-tournament format. The two teams that remain undefeated throughout will face off in a championship match.
The family-friendly tournament and resort destination of Honolulu will host the teams to three days of play, practices and the unique spirit of Aloha from the Hawaiian Islands. Teams will also have the opportunity to attend the Sheraton Hawaii Bowl played during the same week. Additional information, including travel packages, can be found on the Diamond Head Classic Web site at www.diamondheadclassic.com.
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Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson is not only a strong supporter of charter schools, his office is the only mayor's office in the country granted the power to authorize charter schools by the state charter law. The mayor's office oversaw 16 charter schools in the 2006–07 school year, four of which opened in that year. In the 2004–05 year, 100 percent of the mayor's schools made AYP, compared to 38 percent of schools in the Indianapolis Public Schools system. Still in its early years of authorizing, beginning in 2001, the mayor's office has been focused on developing strong selection and oversight processes instead of rapidly opening large numbers of schools.
Authorizing through the mayor's office brings high visibility, ready political and financial resources, and familiarity with community-based organizations and neighborhood needs. It also offers immediate accountability through Indianapolis voters. Mayor Peterson has made his charter efforts very public through press releases, public addresses, and an annual report on charter schools. The report includes detailed performance assessments and profiles of each mayorauthorized charter school based on the office's Charter School Performance Framework.
Under charter law in Indianapolis, the mayor and his staff are able to make authorizing decisions without interference from the state or district. The Indiana State Board of Education can overturn chartering decisions but cannot grant its own charters.
The mayor's overarching goal for charter schools is to expand public education opportunities throughout the city, specifically by opening more charter high schools, increasing financing for charter school facilities, attracting top education leaders to Indianapolis, and engaging the business community in Indianapolis public schools.
So far, the mayor's office has made significant progress on all four of these fronts. Nine of its 16 schools in the 2006–07 school year include high school grades. The mayor's office also provides low-cost capital financing for charter school facilities. A bank provides up to $20 million in loans—backed by the city's Local Public Improvement Bond Bank—for qualified charter schools, which can borrow at tax-exempt rates to purchase, construct, renovate, or lease a facility. The mayor's office recently helped launch a new nonprofit organization, the Mind Trust, to attract talented leaders into the city to launch new schools and start other education ventures in Indianapolis. And most charter schools authorized by the mayor's office operate in partnership with local community organizations and businesses, which help them make local connections and draw upon community resources.
To make authorizing decisions, the mayor's office is advised by the Indianapolis Charter Schools Board, a group of community leaders with experience in education, business, and law. The board's primary role is to assist the mayor's office with decisions about approvals. The board also has helped develop criteria by which to judge charter school applicants, has reviewed and approved the application process that the mayor's office uses, and provides continuing oversight of the achievement, finances, staffing, and facilities of charter schools authorized by the mayor's office. Once the mayor decides to grant a charter, the City-County Council votes on whether to ratify his decision. As of January 2007, the City-County Council has ratified all of the mayor's decisions to grant charters.
Staff in the mayor's charter schools office describe their office as a "bureaucracy-free operation." It has only four staff members, and its director reports directly to the mayor. These staff members handle core tasks, such as communication with school leaders about regulations, compliance and policy-setting in the school. The mayor's office also relies heavily on external consultants for more intermittent responsibilities, such as site visits, accountability reports, and parent surveys. Several of the external consultants are leading experts in their fields—from school accountability to opinion surveys.
In partnership with these consultants, the mayor's team has developed tools and best practices that are used by other authorizers around the nation, including a comprehensive accountability framework23 and a monitoring system that gauges school performance on governance, finance, and student achievement several times per year.
The office is continually revising its processes. The charter application, for example, has been revised five times, as has the timeframe in which schools are expected to open—both in response to feedback from their schools and experience gained from watching these schools get up and running.
The mayor's office has been very strategic about recruitment of new charter applicants, addressing a "talent shortage" on three fronts: attracting successful school models nationally that have the capacity to replicate in Indianapolis; creating a climate that is conducive to charter school success, including creating a city-backed charter facilities financing program; and recruiting and providing training to build a supply of strong charter school leaders in Indianapolis. Indianapolis has been able to recruit several national school models to replicate in the city, including Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP), Expeditionary Learning Schools Outward Bound, and Lighthouse Academies.
When asked what is most important in charter applications, the mayor's office staff members are likely to answer, "People, people, people." The Indianapolis staff views people as the most meaningful factor in a school's success: applicants' capacity, not just their abilities or their intentions. In the words of David Harris, former director of the office, "It's not about the model. It's about the people. For example, one school dealt with a well-respected construction company that made a six-figure mistake about the cost of the facility. The chair of the [school] board was a sophisticated and high-profile business person who had access to the resources to solve the problem. We couldn't have anticipated that problem; they couldn't have anticipated that problem. But they had people who had the ability to do the work and a board that could support them in overcoming unforeseen obstacles."
All charter schools authorized by the mayor's office are required to develop an accountability plan during the first year of their charters, in which they define their specific performance goals. All schools also are required to administer state examinations in all state test grades and to administer additional tests in both the fall and the spring to measure progress over the course of the school year. Schools also are encouraged to develop school-specific goals based on the school's mission, but these are not required.
The charter law in Indiana only provides one type of recourse for authorizers when a school is out of compliance: revoking a charter. There is no intermediate penalty, which poses a significant challenge for the mayor's office when otherwise successful schools have trouble complying with nonacademic requirements. If a high-performing school is out of compliance, the mayor's office will send a letter to the school leader, then perhaps a reminder letter, and will talk to the school's board, but the mayor's office will not deliberately attempt to undermine the school's success, for example, by issuing a press release indicating that the school is failing. When a school faces nonacademic challenges that do not warrant closure, the mayor's office relies on repeated communication to encourage the school to address the challenges effectively.
The big question regarding a mayoral authorizer is what will happen when the current mayor departs. The prospect of a non-charter-friendly successor has guided the authorizing staff since the beginning, and they are consistently focused on creating sustainable policies, processes, and protocols that stand the best chance of ensuring some longevity in charter authorizing regardless of who comes into office after Mayor Peterson.
|Signs of Success: Indianapolis Mayor's Office


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The first step toward overcoming an addiction is admitting you have a problem. So here goes: My name is Chad Killebrew, and I'm addicted to Words with Friends.
The first step toward overcoming an addiction is admitting you have a problem. So here goes: My name is Chad Killebrew, and I'm addicted to Words with Friends.
You may have heard of the two-player word game similar to Scrabble available for smartphones, tablets and computers. Released in July 2009, it quickly became one of the top-selling apps in the iOS app store. Alec Baldwin brought it more attention when he was kicked off an American Airlines flight in December 2011 for refusing to stop playing on his iPad.
My sons first introduced me to the game last year. While I had played Scrabble from time to time over the years, it never ranked as one of my favorite board games. As an English major and journalist, it seems like I should have enjoyed Scrabble more.
But I quickly became hooked on Words with Friends. While my sons quickly moved on to other games, I found about three people to play consistently, including my sister-in-law. She's a big-time Scrabble player, so I often lost when we first started playing.
Over time my skills improved, and the results became more even. I would occasionally go on a winning streak. However, some sage words she relayed stayed in my mind: It all comes down to which tiles you receive.
Words with Friends, like Scrabble, certainly involves skill. A healthy vocabulary provides a huge asset. But ultimately, when you find yourself staring at seven tiles, and five of them are i's, you're not going to make many high-scoring words.
Players have different motivations for competing. I will confess I attempt to play the highest-scoring word I can, especially when battling my son, sister and sister-in-law. I need to maintain those family bragging rights, you know.
In a game this week, my sister-in-law took a fairly sizeable points lead. But I was able to play a J, worth 10 points, on a triple-letter square as part of the word eject on a triple-word square. That brought me 99 points and put me into the lead; it also produced an exclamation of excitement that drew a puzzled look from my wife.
One major difference between Scrabble and Words with Friends is the ability to try words to find out if they're legitimate. In Scrabble, if you play a fake word and an opponent calls your bluff, you lose a turn. But in Words with Friends, you can try many combinations, and the program politely tells you if it's not a word. So I will often put together combinations of letters that seem like they should form a word, and then see if they do. Seeing the program say "Sending move" brings a smile to my face.
Some might call this cheating, but I prefer to think of it as being creative. I look up words that I'm surprised to find are real after I make a play. That's how I learned jato meant "a jet-assisted takeoff." I played that one against my sister-in-law.
My sister visited over Christmas, and she downloaded the game to her iPad. I've discovered she takes a similar approach as I do, and I have questioned some of her word plays. She spelled addax recently, and when I chatted my suspicion about whether she really knew that word, she replied to the effect "doesn't everyone know it's a large, pale-colored antelope of North Africa?"
I am trusting that she's not visiting one of the websites where you can enter the tiles you have and find results of various words. To me, that's cheating, although someone else might view it differently.
The more one plays, the more he or she learns those valuable two-letter words with high-scoring tiles, like za, qi, jo and ka. The game really can increase your vocabulary if you take the time to look up words of which you don't know the meaning.
But back to my addiction: I decided I might be overdoing it when I had six games going at once. I was attempting to read two books at the same time, and I wasn't making much progress due to interruptions when one of my opponents took his or her turn. Since I play on my iPhone, I felt compelled to respond with my turn.
So as some of those games ended, with me winning some, my opponent winning some, I decided to scale back until I finish at least one of the books. But I'm finding I miss the ding that happens when an opponent takes his or her turn.
All things in moderation, the old adage says. Hmm, adage: That might generate a high score if played on the proper squares. I'll have to keep that in mind.
Chad Killebrew is executive editor of The Dispatch. He can be reached at 249-3981, ext. 215, or at email@example.com.


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Possumdude0 wrote:Another note: Genesis 6:3 "Then the Lord said, 'My Spirit shall not abide in [1] man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.'"
I used to think this passage meant the maximum lifespan was set at 120 years (with some individual variation). But while reading some stuff for this post I came across an alternate interpretation that the 120 years is the amount of time until the flood. I haven't given much thought to this interpretation yet, since I only just heard of it, but it is possible that my interpretation has been wrong. If someone else ever brings it up, keep this in mind.
So, what we have from studies is the fact that humans of the time lived to be about 30-40. We have the bible claiming either that they SHOULD be living to 120, or that 120 is their MAX. Neither makes sense though when you consider what people believe concerning people like Noah and his (and other's) ages. We've got noah living to be about 950, Issac (180), Abraham about the same (175),
Possumdude0 wrote:That sounds pretty good. Except that our average life expectancy has been increasing over time (as opposed to maximum life span, which has remained about the same). Sure, better medical science can explain why we live longer now. But eating a more natural diet didn't seem to help people then. I've got nothing against processed foods, although stuff like McDonald's is probably unhealthy if eaten too often (like I do).
That's because EVERYTHING is better, not just medicine. We're fed all the time, we have houses, we have sanitary conditions, we don't have bears mauling us (usually), etc.
This is more proof that you're horrible at science (which makes sense, you being christian and all).
Possumdude0 wrote:That's because EVERYTHING is better, not just medicine. We're fed all the time, we have houses, we have sanitary conditions, we don't have bears mauling us (usually), etc.
That's fine. I'm just saying that processed foods aren't the health issue you make them out to be. A lot of food we eat today is very unhealthy, but that isn't because it's "processed". There are plenty of healthy processed foods out there.This is more proof that you're horrible at science (which makes sense, you being christian and all).
A cheap shot and an ad hominem. What does my religion have to do with it? And why do you claim that being a Christian makes me bad at science?
Possumdude0 wrote:I try to avoid arguments that are based on things my opponents do not yet believe in. The cosmological argument I gave in previous posts is based in the Big Bang theory, which is generally accepted. That's why it's my favorite argument to start off with, because I'll have common ground. Arguing that sin has caused a degradation in creation leaves me with no common ground. Without any common ground, arguments never get anywhere at all.
Ad Hominems aren't always logical fallacies. Your religion has to do with your science ability in that you're believing in a religion that has tons of evidence against it.
I'm not saying "zomg all teh processed foods are bad!!!!111" - but there is a lot of research out there suggestion that processed foods are a large part of the obesity and disease
we see rampant.
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Police Department
Lincoln Police Investigate Solicitors
Over the last several days, mailboxes throughout Lincoln have been peppered with bright yellow flyers offering curb painting services. According to the notice, reflective address numbers and graphics can be painted on curbs for a nominal fee. Citizens have expressed concern about the legality of the business, which is not identified on the flyer. Upon inspection of work completed, the painters are in violation of City Code. They are creating numbers larger than the ordinance allows and offering logos which are not permissible. In review of public records, it is possible that proper permits have not been obtained.
At this time, Lincoln Police need assistance in identifying the individuals involved. Witnesses have described a male and female driving a white Pontiac Grand Am with Utah license plates. If you have further information that could lead to their location or identification, please call the Lincoln Police Department at 402.441.7204.
Though there are reputable businesses offering these same services, our concern is with the person(s) distributing flyers similar to the one pictured below.


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While it seems increasingly likely Apple will be going with a bigger, close to 4-inch iPhone 5 screen, and that that screen will be close to a 16:9 aspect ratio (making it taller but not wider). However, until we see Tim Cook or Phil Schiller (or dare we hope, Jony Ive?) hold it up on stage, we still have time to dream.
Rather than go over all the options again here, I'll point you to Rene's excellent post on the 4-inch iPhone from a few days ago. Give it a look, then come back here and vote on which 4-inch screen option you'd most like Apple to go with? 2:3 at 960x640 stretched? 2:3 at 1920x1280 stretched? 9:5 at 640 x 1136 taller? 2:3 at 1092x728 bigger? 16:9 at 1280x720 bigger and taller? 3:4 at 1024x768 bigger and taller? Or do you deeply, truly still hope Apple sticks with the 3.5-inch iPhone that brought them to the dance in the first place?
Vote up top and tell me why in the comments!


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The Top 8 Features of iOS 7 That Actually Matter
Aug 29, 2013 5:00 AM PT
One of the best things about Apple's iOS machine is how it churns out a new release every year that packs new features that most every old iPhone or iPad can use. Upgrades. You can count on something new from Apple even when you're not standing in line to buy a shiny new iPhone 5S or 5C.
Other manufacturers push out updates too, but none are as good at it as Apple. It's one of the reasons we're enthusiasts here. So what do I find particularly interesting about iOS 7? Of the dozens of new tweaks, which grab my attention as a long-time user and actually promise to change how I interact with my iDevices? Here are eight that are on my mind now.
8. The Wholesale Redesign Into Layers
Look, the old iOS was getting clunky, chunky, and it resembled secondhand shirts that even Macklemore would pass by. Certain elements of Android and Windows et al sport a much more modern look -- and while the "feel" of how those looks actually function doesn't always satisfy in person, the new iOS 7 will change that.
Inside the new look, your background image will bleed color through transparent layers, and iOS 7 will pick up dominant colors and use them to infuse much of the experience. In this way, if you're a deep earth-tone kind of guy, you don't have to live with the pastel-ish little girl's room mess that you see on Apple's website and in so many screenshots.
Is this true customization? Not really -- but it's a start.
7. Control Center
Arguably, the least innovative but the most usable new feature, Control Center finally puts commonly needed controls into quick availability instead of forcing you to drill down into Settings to change something as simple as your screen's brightness. Now, with a simple up-swipe from any screen, you'll bring up a panel of frequently used tools and switches, like a button for Airplane Mode, WiFi, Bluetooth, music -- and even a flashlight.
About freaking time. Not having these features was not only embarrassing for Apple, it represented an outright pain in the ass for its most active users. I cannot imagine why it took so long. Now I'm just hoping that Apple will let us customize Control Center with the controls each of us uses most.
6. Photo Management
The world's most popular camera is getting some new usability features and built-in filters, and that's nice and all, but storing and managing your photos on your iPhone in iOS 6 sucks. In iOS 7, the new Photos app promises to radically change that. More to the point, if you buy a new iPhone, you should opt for more internal storage than you used before. Why? You'll want to keep more photos on your phone, because you can manage them through Collections, Moments and Years, which are smart groupings based on time and place. Sort of like Events in iPhoto on your Mac.
Pretty much everyone I know likes to keep their photos on their iPhones -- even when they back them up to iCloud or their Mac. I'm seriously looking forward to the new Photos app.
5. Sharing With AirDrop
While it's easy enough to send a text with an image or an email with an attachment, AirDrop introduces a new sort of sharing for iOS 7 users: Via WiFi or Bluetooth, you can see other users and send them objects. While the idea is that you would be automatically visible in AirDrop to your contacts running iOS 7, you can also make yourself visible to anyone nearby using iOS 7 -- or to no one at all.
To receive an object, you have to accept it. Simple communication is easier, faster and maybe more fun. Oh, and your stuff isn't traveling through a cellular service provider's messaging system or email, so your private snapshots might be just a little safer. Maybe even from the NSA.
4. Unified Smart Search Field in Safari
What? How is this important? I'll tell you how: If you're anything like me, you love the unified search/url fields in your desktop browsers. When you come to iOS 6 on your iPad or iPhone, you're constantly typing the wrong thing in the wrong place -- like a long search term into the url field, which gets you nowhere. Aggravating and baffling.
Unified search is finally coming in iOS 7, though, along with a new way to view tabs, which is patently unsexy but promises to be super useful.
3. iTunes Radio
Oh boy, if there's one feature that promises to disrupt, it's iTunes Radio, which offers built-in free radio channel-like music streaming. Tightly integrated with iTunes and making it easy to buy tracks you want to own, it will likely become an indispensable new music channel for most iOS 7 iPhone users -- and it could make the apps for similar services like Pandora or Spotify get virtually dusty.
Why am I looking forward to it? Music discovery and the ability to de-clutter my music experience. Better yet, the ad-based free service might be less irritating than competitors, and if not, a US$25 annual fee to iTunes Match (handy service) will kill any ads that further clutter my mind.
2. Swipe From Left to Go Back
I am not a fan of the upper left back button in iOS 6. Sure, it's always there, and sure, it has the nifty little arrow sort of icon that points you back, but sheesh -- I don't know how many times I try to swipe back from within apps, from within Safari, to no effect.
Apple has successfully introduced swiping navigation elsewhere in its ecosystem, and any time I run into an app or spot that doesn't accept it, I'm briefly confused and irritated. Like the featured carousel items in iTunes on the Mac. You have to click the arrow buttons -- can't swipe them. Sheesh. I'm definitely looking forward to putting this tiny little tweak to use.
1. Privacy and Blocking
There are, it turns out, three related features that I'm pleased to see: better ways to limit ad tracking; a Do Not Track feature in Safari; and the ability to block someone from contacting you. Groundbreaking? No. But for people who value a small (if irrational and impossible) sense of privacy in a digital world, welcome. Very welcome.
Of course, you might experience ads that aren't targeted to you personally, so if you get tired of hygiene product ads, you might want to let the world constantly update their data on you. And the blocking? Great for ex-friends, creepy people, and businesses that somehow got your iPhone number.
Of course, as we get nearer to Apple's September unveiling ceremony, there's the chance that we'll see something completely new that even the beta-testing developers haven't seen yet.


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Reviewed by Adam S. (age 8)
This true story makes me feel excited, scared, sad, and happy. The exciting part is when their dad leaves. They are home alone! It is a sad part, too, because they don?t know where he?s going or when he?ll get back. The scary part is when a snake comes to the brothers. I like the good colors in the illustrations.
I recommend this book if you enjoy learning about families back then. I think a teacher should read this book to kids.


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Sad empty wagon train May 18, 2013
There are at least a dozen wagons I have fallen off of in my life. The marriage wagon. the church attendance wagon. the non-smoking wagon. the debt-free wagon. The college degree wagon. The see-the-doctor-regularly wagon. You get the picture.
For the most part, after falling out, I have picked myself up, dusted off, and ran after the the darn thing to get back on. I have succeeded in most cases. I have the boarding passes to prove it! A wonderful husband. A master's degree. A year smoke free. Okay, I still have a few to find a seat on again but I have at least run beside them once or twice since falling.
The saddest wagon of all, however, is the weight loss wagon. And it's more of a train circling a place called "healthy"with cars you move through as you work your way to the conductors seat. My cars include hydration, supplements, diet, cardio, strength training, support, personal bests, confidence….. Etc. It's fast, and if you miss it today you try again in an hour, or tomorrow. The fact of the matter is, the longer I wait to step on, the more cars get attached and the more expensive the ride. As I get older, the faster I want to get to my destination but the slower I move through the cars.
Im buying a fresh ticket today. Its too important not to. I'm 45 days from 42. I'm gonna turn this thing around right now, and get back on track.
On vacation, which means poor eating choices for last 3 days. Can't wait to get home tomorrow, and then have another week off to get on track before I add the stress of work back in. I was back up to my January 1st 2013 weight of 217 a few days ago. I'm probably more now. Its my all time high on the scale. I am committing to exercise, write, and stay tuned in to my W.O.W. forums girls. I have also sigend up for the 3FC biggest loser challenge beginning tomorrow. I hope to lose 30 lbs in 6 weeks and am going to follow the old faithful slim in 6 to get there. Wish me luck! Gotta figure out how to get out of my own way this time!


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Above the Earth
photographs by Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Can you tell what this photograph shows? Yes, that's a tree in the center—one of the last standing in this part of Tsavo National Park in Kenya, Africa. In the 1970s, human hunters, settlement, and drought caused herds of elephants to crowd into the park, where their overpopulation seriously damaged the surrounding vegetation.
Tsavo National Park © Yann Arthus-Bertrand / Altitude.
Some human effects on the earth are obvious. This is just one refuse dump in Mexico City, Mexico, where residents deposit nearly 10,000 tons of household garbage every day. In industrialized countries around the world, each person creates between 700 and 2,000 pounds (a whole ton!) of garbage every year. That probably includes you!
Mexico City garbage © Yann Arthus-Bertrand / Altitude.
What's so important about the rainforest? For one thing, its thick plant growth keeps heavy rains from eroding the soil. In Argentina, where much of the forest has been cleared for farming, iron-rich red soil runs off into the river and out to sea. The Rio Uruguay, which runs across the picture, is ruddy and muddy, but the tributary flowing into it isn't. Can you guess why?
Rio Uruguay © Yann Arthus-Bertrand / Altitude.
More evidence of rainforest destruction floats down the Amazon River in Brazil. Logging, an important industry in Brazil's economy, uses up 7,400 square miles of rainforest every year. The loss of this habitat poses a huge threat to the global web of life, since nearly two-thirds of the world's organisms live in the Amazonian rainforest.
Amazon River Logging © Yann Arthus-Bertrand / Altitude.
See more photos from above Earth. Read Earth from Above for Young Readers by Yann Arthus-Bertrand.
- refuse: Something to be thrown away.
- What do you think the people in the photo of the refuse dump are doing?
[anno: The people appear to be collecting things from the piles of trash.]
- What kind of conservation efforts could people make to reduce garbage sent to a refuse center or garbage dump?
[anno: Answers may vary but could include that people could reuse or recycle more materials. Students might also suggest that people buy products that are sold in more efficient or recyclable packaging.]
- Find an item in the photo that could have been used to make something else or used as a fuel source. What is the item, and what could have been done with it?
[anno: Answers will vary. A possible answer would be using the wooden crates as fuel or turning the wooden crates into woodchips for a garden.]


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Tell Us How You Really Feel: Nene Says Sheree Whitfield Is 'A True B**** And That's Not Cute'
Nene Leakes has never been one to mince words when it comes to telling how she feels about certain people, but every now and then the reality TV star and actress still catches us off guard with her straight-to-the-jugular comments about her "Real Housewives of Atlanta" cast mates, past and present. Sheree Whitfield is the latest victim of Nene's tongue lashings after the "very rich b****" appeared on "Watch What Happens Live" with Andy Cohen Sunday night. Although Nene said initially she and Sheree "had a cool relationship," her current relationship with the brains behind Chateau Sheree couldn't be further from that. She told Andy of her former acquaintance:
"Sheree is the one person, out of all of the girls, that I will never have anything else to do with. I think Sheree is very evil. I think she is very mean and she is a true b**** and that's not cute. To be honest, Sheree and I had an argument before the cameras started rolling… I felt Sheree wasn't being a good friend. She would always want information from you but she would never really tell me anything. She never would tell me about stuff. She was super secretive and I hated that about her. Sheree just wasn't a good friend and I just didn't want her in my circle. I didn't want anything to do with her."
Though during the same epiode Nene said that when Kim left the show she felt like the series wouldn't be the same without her, she definitely didn't feel the same way about Sheree leaving the RHOA franchise.
"Sheree needed to go," Nene said. "Sheree brought a lot of negative energy to the cast. I felt like she brought this weird, negative energy every time she walked in. She only had business going on in her brain."
Well, damn. Nene might not be lying about that last part though. Sheree is pretty much the only housewife with absolutely nothing going on, but I'm still trying to figure out how Nene got all this power when it comes to the show. Yes, she's been a part of the cast since the beginning and is definitely one of the most entertaining cast members, but doesn't just about everyone bring negative energy to the group? How did Nene become the be-all, end-all voice on who's the worst cast member and who should stay or go? Andy must just be trying to keep his talent happy.


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Gambia hosts workshop on violence against women in West Africa
From 20 to 21 February, Gambia will host the third and last workshop of a project on violence against women in West Africa covering 3 countries: Gambia, Guinea-Bissau and Senegal. The workshop to be held in Banjul will validate the results of several case studies on the social movement of women and violence against women with the ultimate goal of achieving the implementation of a plan of action to transform the lives of abused women.
Organized in cooperation with the National Commission for UNESCO of Gambia, the event will bring together more than thirty participants, mainly policy makers, researchers and representatives from civil society.
Launched in 2011 within the framework of a joint project of UNESCO, UN Women and the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), the project will culminate in the finalization of the results of two case studies conducted in collaboration with civil society organizations, according to the method of SWOT analysis. This type of analysis identifies strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of a category of people in a given area: in this case, the social movement of women and gender-based violence.
Based on the results of these studies conducted in Gambia, policy recommendations, that can be implemented quickly on the ground, will be formulated in the form of a "political document" that will be officially transmitted to the national authorities at the end of the workshop.
Thus, relying on scientific data, taking into account the experience of the populations concerned, the proposed actions aim to contribute to the eradication of gender-based violence by strengthening skills and capacities at the national level.
The idea is to accelerate, monitor and guide social change with a view to establish a genuine equality between men and women in this country, while at the same time promoting female leadership in socio-economic, political and cultural areas.
In the framework of the same project led by UNESCO's Office in Dakar, similar studies have been conducted in Senegal and Guinea-Bissau in order to achieve the implementation of concrete measures at the national level, while obtaining a representative sample of common and specific mechanisms related to the social movement of women and gender-based violence in West Africa.
The validation workshops of the studies conducted on Senegal and Guinea-Bissau took place, respectively, on 2 and 3 October 2012 in Dakar, and on 27 and 28 November 2012 in Bissau.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 52 diseños de 7 diseñadores freelance.
Intimate Illusions
This is a logo for a Intimate Magic show at 5 star hotels. Here's a description for the show.
Ivan Amodei's Intimate Illusions will transport you back to old-world Europe, where the privileged class entertained their guests at their extravagant estates.
Set at a gorgeous Four Seasons' Hotel, in an opulent and intimate European Renaissance salon, you'll fall under the spell of Ivan's mind-bending magic and the cleverly combined sumptuous strings of a gifted concert cellist—all a mere feet away.
Witness Ivan manipulate your perception of time, unveil the mind of a mega-savant and even reveal your personal information from within 5000 Scrabble tiles.
This 90-minute show will sweep you away to a magical time where anything is possible if you just believe.
Middle to Upper class to wealthy people. The are required to dress up (Cocktail attire) to attend the show. They are attending a $65-$100 per person ticket to have an adult night out.
Only performed at 5 star hotels. Intimate show for 50-70 guests only.
Opulence, sophisticated and wealthy people attend.
Elegant, wealthy and upper class feel.
The show name is changing from its current name "Made in Italy" to its new name - Intimate Illusions.
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The tiny woman with an upside-down teapot for a head lies on the floor of Dewey Blocksma's studio. Blocksma thought he'd have to abandon her as a piece of art, but he swoops her up to his tool bench and gives her another look. He worried about the kind of nose the downward-pointing spout would make – humped at the bridge, snoutlike at the tip. "I am careful about women's beauty," he says, in total seriousness. "It's sacred ground." He runs the file along the spout at an angle, fluidly, like a violin bow. "I might destroy it," he says, adjusting his giant red glasses. But already the nose is transforming. The hump softens, and a human face emerges.
Dewey Blocksma is known for making heads out of teapots, spoons and Dutch wooden shoes. The human quality in his sculpture is beloved by art collectors – his work has been at the San Francisco Museum of Folk Art, the American Folk Heritage Gallery in New York City, and the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. But the dubious dismiss his pieces as junk slapped together, as was the case with "River Guardian," Traverse City's infamous first piece of public art installed on the Boardman River in 1999. Some call his art whimsical or rough – both words vexing to Blocksma. Others revere his work as the product of genius.
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By the time Congress got around to passing an extension of emergency jobless benefits last week, Clyde Lance no longer needed them.
On Dec. 17, his 52nd birthday, Lance started a full-time job helping train technicians for the International Society of Automation in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, ending a three-year search for a permanent position.
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The dwindling ranks of the long-term unemployed, while testament to the improvement in the labor market, also shows the diminishing returns from what economists such as Mark Zandi say is one of the most effective government programs implemented to spur the recovery: Extended unemployment insurance payments. By the time all figures are in, Lance will be among the almost 1.5 million people who stopped getting those checks last year.
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The legislation passed by Congress last week preserved benefits for harder-hit states that provide payments to the jobless for as long as 73 weeks, extending the normal program that typically lasts for the first 26 weeks of unemployment. About $30 billion in long-term benefits will be paid this year, down from about $45.5 billion in 2012, according to government estimates.
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Had the benefits lapsed, it would have decreased economic growth by almost 0.2 percentage point this year, according to estimates by economists at JPMorgan Chase & Co. in New York.
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The number of Americans on extended and emergency benefit rolls dropped to 2.07 million in the week ended Dec. 15, the latest data available, from 3.56 million in the last week of 2011 and 4.72 million in the same period in 2010, according to figures from the Labor Department. That reduces both the stimulus provided by the extension and the program's costs.
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To be sure, the decline isn't totally due to gains in employment. As state jobless rates fall, some no longer qualify for payments from the federal government, depriving the remaining long-term unemployed of benefits.
The unemployment rate has declined from a 26-year high of 10 percent in October 2009 to 7.8 percent in December, according to a Labor Department report last week. The economy added 155,000 jobs last month, and has regained 4.78 million of the 8.78 million lost as a result of the recession.
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I will believe what people say about there faith, more than your own opinions and interpretations of their faith and actions. Many Pro-Choice Catholics believe the Catholic Church is infallible and the true Church, however they don't believe the Church's teaching on abortion is an infallible one. Their main argument is that over the centuries that Church has not been 100% against abortion and that it wasn't until recently that the Church has taken a stance against all forms of abortion, and there is some truth to that, historicaly speaking. So really pro-choice Catholics, well at least the many that I know, don't deny that the Church is infallible, they just differ with the pro-life Catholics as to whether the Church's teaching on abortion is infallible and must be obeyed or not.
I don't think the majority of Catholics deny or reject that the Catholic Church is the true infallible Church, I think that where the Church is infallible, and where it isn't, is where Catholics, esp American Catholics, differ. I have never met a Pro-Choice Catholic who rejects the Immaculate Conception or the Assumption, they agree that the Church is infallible in doctrinal matters, just not when "they tell a woman what to do with their body."
Becuase they believe, with some historical proof, that the Church has not always condemned abortion, and always hasn't taken a totally pro-life stance. I agree with you, but you can take that a little too far. Bishops can make mistakes, they can even be heretics, and even the vast majority of the magisterium can teach heresy, there a several examples of this in Church History. The Church's offical dogmas and doctrines can't be wrong, if the Church is infallible, but the magisterium, or most of it, can teach heresy..
Right, when it comes to a woman's body. But they do believe the Church has the aurthority to tell them what or how to believe when it comes to doctrinal and dogmatic issues.
Jennifer, I am very close to women who have had abortions, and most of them believe they did absolutely nothing wrong. They had abortions with in the first few weeks of their pregnancy, and truly believe they just had a blob of tissue removed, they in no way think it was a human being, or that murder occured, and these are people I am very close with. They see nothing wrong with what they did.I am sorry, but not in my expirence..
So then following that logic, I assume he refuses to hear confessions? Catholics can confess whatever they want in confession, but must only confess Mortal sins, if only priests can committ mortal sins, then only priests should go to confession.
And as I said in one of my earlier posts, priests are not infallible, they each have their own expirence. And as I also said, my priest, who has been a priest for 32 years, totally disagrees, and does believe we can committ mortal sins, and that we do!
Who in the world would do something just to hurt God? Just out of a deep hate for God?
If you committ a serious sin, and you know that it is a very serious sin, but you do it anyway, you have committed a moratl sin. You must have full knowledge that it is a sin, but you just do it anyway. As I have said there are so many times in my life where I have committed very serious sins, knowing that they were very serious sins but doing it anyway, but not with the specific intention of hurting God, or to somehow show that I hate him.
But see that person couldn't stop. Now if that person intentially ran into another car, just to hurt the other person, knowing that it was very wrong to do so, has committed a mortal sin, even if they didn't do it to hurt God, or show their hate for him.
If the Church is infallible about faith and morals then its teachings must be obeyed.
Therefore if someone believes that the Church doesn't have to be obeyed then they don't believe the Church is infallible regardless of their claims to believe in the infallibility of the Church.
Also if they believe the Church can make a mistake about an issue as important as abortion then they believe the Church is fallible because an infallible organization cannot make a mistake about an issue like abortion.
What a pro-choice Catholic does is limit the Church's authority and an infallible organization ordained by God himself to 'bind and loose' can't be limited.
It doesn't matter what they say. What matters is what they do and no one who believes the Church is infallible believes that it's possible for the Church to be wrong about abortion.
No, the magisterium cannot teach heresy. The magisterium is the teaching authority of the Church. Individual bishops or even groups of bishops can teach heresy but the magisterium cannot teach heresy.
Now that's just silly. I think you think that venial sins are not serious sins. Unrepented venial sins predispose us to mortal sin. Venial sin weakens charity.
We all believe that people 'can' commit mortal sins but mortal sin requires such a complete knowledge of the gravity of the act that this priest (and many others, btw) doubt that the average person is capable of commiting a mortal sin.
They may committed things on the official list of mortal sins but as we saw in the link from the Summa, mortal sins can become venial and venial sins can become mortal based on knowledge.
What do you mean by "do it anyway?"
That had absolute faith that immediately after stealing that candy bar that you would die and go to hell and you didn't care? Or that you figured you'd have a chance to work everything out with God because you'd go to confession the next saturday? Or that you didn't really believe that God would send you to hell for stealing a candy bar?
Committing a mortal sin hurts God because it is a deliberate personal choice to disobey God's law
I totally agree. I don't know about that. Remeber niether me or your can speak for all pro-choice Catholics. But from personal expirence, pro-choice Catholics do believe that the Church is infallible, just not on abortion.
But the Church hasn't always condemned all forms of abortion, and hasn't always taught life starts at the moment of conception. So the pro-choice Catholic would ask, which one is wrong? How can the "infallible" teachings of the Church hundreds of years ago contradict the "infallible" teachings of the Church today?
But the Catholic teaching on abortion has not always been the same, and pro-choice Catholics use that to show, the Church's position on abortion can be wrong.
It is true that the entire magisterium can not teach or embrace heresy, but the vast majority can, as it has in the past, and as I traditional Catholic I would even argue that is the case today!
We are only required to confess mortal sins in confession, we can confess venial sins if we wish, and are encouraged to do so, but it is not neccesary. Therefore, if only priests can committ a mortal sin, then there is no need to have confession for laymen.
To committ a mortal sin, we just must realize and totally understand that it is a very serious sin, that it is very very bad, but we do it anyway. You don't have to hate God to committ a mortal sin! Or wish to hurt him! You just must know what you are doing is very very bad, that it is contrary to the laws of God and his Church and is forbidden, but you do it anyway.
I knew stealing was wrong and a very very serious sin, but I DID IT ANYWAY. That means that before, during, and after I stole it, I knew that what I was doing was wrong, and a serious sin.
I know so many people who committ very serious sins, and have full knowledge that they are serious sins, but they committ the sin anyway. Meaning, that they knew it was wrong, but that didn't stop them from doing it.
The Catholic Church teaches that those who die in the state of mortal sin, go to Hell. And remember we must obey the teachings of the Church, if we believe that the Church is who it claimes to be.
So, if me stealing that candy bar was a mortal sin, then yes I would have gone to Hell if I died right after stealing it. And since I had full knowledge that it was wrong and a serious sin but did it anyway, it was a mortal sin..
I don't know about that. Remeber niether me or your can speak for all pro-choice Catholics. But from personal expirence, pro-choice Catholics do believe that the Church is infallible, just not on abortion. But the Church hasn't always condemned all forms of abortion, and hasn't always taught life starts at the moment of conception. So the pro-choice Catholic would ask, which one is wrong? How can the "infallible" teachings of the Church hundreds of years ago contradict the "infallible" teachings of the Church today?
don't listen to what RHO says she hangs out on other boards she has a way of changing what you said.it was wierd I came to this Forum and spot her intials RHOand from her comments here I am sure she is the same person that has made alot of remarks at the site below.
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