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Diana Ross is willing to take over guardianship of Michael Jackson's children if the custody arrangement between Katherine and Tito Joe 'TJ' Jackson doesn't work out.
Diana Ross is willing to take over guardianship of Michael Jackson's children.
The Motown legend was named as a back-up guardian for Prince Michael, Paris and 'Blanket' in their late father's will and although they are now under the shared custody of their grandmother Katherine and cousin Tito Joe 'TJ' Jackson, she has made it clear she will step in and care for her godchildren if needed.
A family member who was present during Diana's recent visit to see the kids told the New York Post newspaper: ''For the first time, Ross said she was willing to step in 'if needed'. She had never spoken like that before.
''Whether she wanted to be listed as guardian or not, she's not going to abdicate any authority.''
After the recent drama of Katherine losing and then regaining guardianship, Diana wanted to make sure the children were fine and travelled to see them in person in Calabasas, California.
The source added: ''[After Michael's death in 2009, Diana would phone the kids to see] if they needed advice or anything else. But last week, she wanted to meet with the children in person to make sure she heard all the right things. Things you can't easily detect on the telephone, like Body Language.''
Diana, 68, also made Paris, 14, promise to call her if she or her brothers ever need her help.
According to the source, Diana left the warring Jackson family with the message ''mess with Michael's kids, and you're messing with her''.
Diana was also anxious to ensure Katherine, 82, is coping with her responsibilities and many of the Jackson family members would welcome her taking over.
The insider added: ''It wasn't just Michael who loved her - we all do. His kids like her a lot. Who wouldn't? She's Miss Ross!''


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Hall of Fame, Hall of The Very Good or Hall of Cheaters?
I originally wrote this article in January of 2015 shortly after the Hall of Fame voting and the announcement of the players to be inducted. I am reposting this article to bring to your attention a very big change in who will be permitted to vote from now on to enshrine players in Cooperstown. Look at the four changes that I call for in how the voting is done. The second one listed has in fact been changed for the 2016 voting! There will be 100 less "writers" allowed to cast a ballot this year. The Hall of Fame has decided that if you have not actively covered baseball for the last 10 years then you lose your right to vote. It is no longer a lifetime privilege. Good job by the Hall of Fame Committee because that one issue really needed to change. The 2016 Hall of Fame inductees will be announced on January 6th 2016. Ken Griffey Jr. is a lock to get elected. Trevor Hoffman may have to wait another year or two.
It was a lot easier in 1936 when the BBWAA ( Baseball Writers Association of America ) first got together to vote in the first class of hall of famers. Those first 5 inductees were Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Christy Mathewson, Honus Wagner and Walter Johnson. The term "no brainers" comes to mind so you would think that the first class of inductees and the voting that elevated these fine players to HOF status would be without controversy. I looked at the voting for that first class and managed to have a raised eyebrow at what I saw. Cy Young failed to get in by only garnering 49% of the vote? Young had 511 wins pitching over a 21 year career, a record that will never ever be broken. What does a guy have to do to get a little respect? Cy Young was later inducted of course and the award given out each year for the best pitcher in each the National and the American League was named after good old Cy after the 1955 season. "Shoeless" Joe Jackson received two votes on that first year ballot even though he had already been banned for life from the game with no eligibility for reinstatement or election to the Hall of Fame. This was as a result of Jackson's alleged involvement in the 1919 Black Sox scandal. The scandal implicated 8 players on the Chicago White Sox that were believed to have been losing intentionally and being paid off by gamblers to do so. Joe Jackson was a .356 career hitter during the "dead ball" era and hit .375 with 1 homerun and 6 RBI's in the 1919 World Series. There have been issues and controversies nearly every year since the voting the Hall of Fame started over 70 years ago.
The 2015 class of Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez, John Smoltz and Craig Biggio is a good one for the most part except for Smoltz. John Smoltz is a first ballot hall of famer? I don't even think he is a hall of fame worthy player at all but to put him in on the first ballot? He had one very, very good season when he won the Cy Young Award in 1996 going 24-8 with the Atlanta Braves. Other than that Smoltz had a very good career not a hall of fame career. When they change the name of the building to the Hall of The Very Good then Smoltz should be a first ballot inductee. Mike Piazza is one of the top hitting catchers of all time and it looks like he won't get in until his fourth year of eligibility next year. I will get back to the Piazza issue in a moment. Biggio has been labeled a "compiler" by his detractors but I have an answer for that as well. Let's not diminish a player's career that included durability, versatility, longevity and productivity over 20+ years because he did not hit 30 homers a year. What Biggio did is very hard to do make no mistake about it. Only 27 other men that ever played the game have reached 3000 hits. I for one will not diminish any of those players careers. What Biggio did is hard to do, it is unique and it is Cooperstown worthy, case closed.
The biggest problem facing the voters the BBWAA is how to handle the steroid era and the players that put up video game type stats during it. It is a conundrum of major proportions but I know what I would do if I had a vote. Players that have steroids attached to their names should be separated into 2 categories.
Category 1 – The users and abusers
These are the guys that have either failed a drug test, admitted using or have such overwhelming evidence against them that it can't be ignored. The most notable ones are Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire, Rafael Palmeiro and Roger Clemens. Manny Ramirez and Alex Rodriguez will be eligible in the future and are in the category as well. These players changed the game and its statistical records so much that they have altered the game in a way that can only be fixed by vacating the stats which will never happen. They made the millions and took the health risks and now have to live with the results. No Hall of Fame for these players, ever.
Category 2 – The locker room whispers
The players that come to mind are Mike Piazza, Jeff Bagwell, Gary Sheffield and Jeff Kent. These are the guys that players, fans and writers whispered in corners of the room about but no hard evidence ever came forward. There is a 5 year waiting period after a player retires before he is eligible for Hall of Fame. If the evidence did not present itself during a players long career plus the 5 years after then I have to measure the player based on his performance on the field and steroids does not enter into my thought process.
In addition to deciding what players should or should not be on the ballot there are big problems with the the Hall of Fame voting process. It is riddled with issues that need to change. Here are the main ones that I would like to see changes in:
- Members of the BBWAA select players that are eligible to be on the ballot from a list of all players that have been retired for 5 years. This is done via a "special screening committee".
I can't explain how these writers could put Aaron Boone, Tom Gordon, Brian Giles, Tony Clark or Darin Erstad on the ballot with a straight face but they did. No disrespect intended as these players had nice baseball careers but in no way shape or form should they even be considered Hall of Famers. This process needs to be a little more transparent to the public so the fans know how these players are being justified to appear on the ballot.
- Members of the BBWAA that have been a member for 10 years and covering baseball then have a ballot that they can cast. They are permitted to vote for up to 10 players each year.
Some of these members have not been covering baseball for a very long time but once you become a voter it is basically a lifetime job. This makes little to no sense to me. If a writer is no longer actively writing about baseball I think his credentials should be reviewed each year to ensure that the guy voting is qualified to do so. Voting for the Hall of Fame is a privilege not a right. The 2015 voting results revealed that Troy Percival, Tom Gordon, Aaron Boone and Darin Erstad all had support. Each received 2 votes except for Erstad who only received 1. I don't know if it was 7 different writers that cast these ballots but whoever it was he should no longer have the ability to vote in my mind.
- The board of directors at the Hall of Fame decide how players are elected. Currently and since 1936 they have relied on the BBWAA to vote on players.
It is not 1936 anymore so I think with all the media outlets in our lives today it makes more sense to open up the voting to others. Broadcasters and website writers come to mind. Although there has been some progress on allowing certain website writers gain eligibility to vote I do think more is needed. My real issue here is the broadcasters. Vin Scully has been broadcasting the Dodger games since the 1950's. The man has met Babe Ruth for crying out loud. He has probably watched more games live and in person then any member of the BBWAA. Scully is a good example of a guy that I feel should have a vote. Others that come to mind here in New York where I live would be Michael Kaye or Howie Rose. Kaye is a Yankees broadcaster and Rose is a Mets broadcaster. I would trust that these gentlemen would take the vote serious and do the due diligence before casting a ballot. It is time for new voices to enter into the process.
- Players stay on the ballot for 15 years and must get at least 5% of the votes each year to remain on the ballot during the 15 years. After that time has passed the only way a player can get in is via the "veterans committee".
This committee is all living Hall of Fame players and they vote every two years on players that are no longer on the ballot. This is how players such as Bill Mazeroski and Phil Rizzuto got inducted. They both had decent careers but in neither case are they Hall of Fame worthy. Rizzuto should be in as a broadcaster but not as a player. I think it is a dangerous thing when players start to vote on other players. The players and the voters get older and start to get more and more nostalgic about a player's career which can start to cloud good judgment. I would eliminate this committee. 10 years should be the max amount of time that a player should be on the ballot.
These are just a few of the changes that I would make. The board of directors of the Hall of Fame have to decide what kind of hall of fame they want as well as who should be voting on the inductees. I have visited the baseball Hall of Fame numerous times over the years and it is a great place to recall some of the great players and moments in the history of the game. It is just time to review the entire process to ensure that only the best and most deserving players are being honored.
WAR – What is it good for?
Jason Heyward after signing an 8 yr. / $184 million contract with the Cubs. Photo by Yahoo Sports.
The mysterious stat known as Wins Above Replacement or WAR as it is more commonly referred to. You hear about it more and more every day in baseball circles as another way of determining a player's value or impact to the teams win total. MLB sabermetric supporters, writers and analyst are using this stat to judge players more so it seems then using the traditional statistics that have been around since the first pitch was thrown in the 1800's. I have been trying to understand the relevancy of this "new" statistic for quite some time now and I still have a hard time judging a player using this method. First let's all get on the same page with a short and not so simple definition of what WAR is.
WAR – "A single number that represents the number of wins a player added to a team above what a replacement player would add." I will use Jayson Heyward as my example since he was my inspiration for writing this article. Heyward had a WAR of 6.5 in 2015. He was 10th in MLB and Bryce Harper was 1st with a 9.9 WAR. Keep in mind that Kevin Kiermaier had a 7.3 WAR ( good for 7th in the majors ) in 2015 and he hit .260 with 10 HR's and 40 RBI's. The caveat here is that the replacement player would be a minor leaguer not a free agent that hit 40 homers or won 20 games last year. It is a player that would replace the player "at minimal cost or effort." A more detailed explanation of WAR can be found by going to the Baseball-Reference.com website www.baseballreference.com/about/war_explained.shtml
The calculation of WAR is where the fuzzy math starts to kick in for me. I am a firm believer in a player having more value than what his traditional stats are. Some players provide significant contributions in many areas where we, the fans, just can't go on line and look at a stat for it. The best that I can figure out about WAR is that the stat revolves around runs produced on offense by a position player and runs prevented on defense for the same player combined. More emphasis is placed on defensive play at key defensive positions such as catcher vs. first basemen. In the case of a pitcher it would be more about runs prevented obviously. Sounds great, the problem is that the calculation methods look more like rocket science to me. You or I would not be able to take out our IPhone and use the calculator to figure out a player's WAR while sitting at the ballpark on a Sunday afternoon. We can figure out a players batting average pretty quickly and sometimes without a calculator. If you want some mind numbing formulas to look at then here is the link to the Wikipedia page where they "clearly" show you how some of the calculations are arrived at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wins_Above_Replacement
How does all this relate to Jayson Heyward? Heyward recently signed an astounding 8 yr. / $184 million contract with the Chicago Cubs. While I was watching the analyst on MLB Network break down the contract one of them indicated that Heyward's WAR stat may have played a role in the Cubs being so high on him. Let me just say I have no issue with Jayson Heyward's career or play thus far in baseball. He is a nice player but his stats are not exactly eye popping. He has played 6 seasons in the majors and has averaged .268 with 16 HR's and 58 RBI's. He has never driven in over 90 runs in a season. He has only hit over 20 homers in a season one time. He does not score a lot of runs and has only exceeded 90 runs scored once. He does have a .350 career on base percentage and steals around 20 bases a year while playing good defense. His WAR average is 5.18 over the 6 seasons which puts him in the "All-Star" category for the WAR statistic. The WAR status categories are as follows: 8+ is "MVP", 5+ is "All-Star" and 2+ is "Starter" and 0-2 is "Sub". Freddie Freeman came up in Atlanta about 1 year behind Heyward and both players will turn 26 in 2016. Freeman averages .285 with 21 HR's and 85 RBI's per season with an On Base % of .366 while playing a good first base. He signed an 8 yr. / $135 million contract prior to the 2014 season. His WAR average per season is 3.14. Hmmm, that is only "Starter" status. Could this be the difference in the $50 million gap between the two players? I tell you what I think. I think I would rather have signed the Freddie Freeman deal. He is a better contributor in the key categories and it is far less risk and a lot less money. Keep your wins above replacement I will take the additional HR's and RBI's at a big discount thank you so much.
Yoenis Cespedes is a free agent and has yet to sign with a club. The Cuban defector is 29 and has played 4 seasons in the majors. His average seasons look like this: .271 with 26 HR's and 92 RBI's. He has driven in 100 runs two times and is widely considered a major force in any lineup. He single handedly changed the Mets offense this past summer. He has an incredible arm in the outfield as well so he contributes on defense also. However, his WAR is only 3.95 which is "Starter" status and not the "All-Star" status that Heyward has. It looks like Cespedes will sign a deal for much less than Heyward did age notwithstanding. There are a few questions that you have to ask yourself. Which player do you think would have more of an impact in your lineup between Heyward and Cespedes? Which player has the ability to carry a team for a few weeks? Which player changes the way the others are pitched to around him? For me this is a no brainer. I will take the big bat of Cespedes and the traditional stats he produces over the Wins Above Replacement that Heyward produces every time. So what is WAR good for? Absolutely nothing in my mind.
Rangers Love Sweet Smell Of Odor
There was a sweet Odor circulating in the air at the Rogers Centre in Toronto last night as the Texas Rangers defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 5-3 in the first game of this ALDS matchup. Ranger's second baseman Rougned Odor only had 1 hit in the game but he had a big outcome on the final score. He was hit twice (both pitches were curveballs) by Toronto starting pitcher David Price. Both times Odor came around to score. He later added a solo homerun in the 7th inning off the tough lefty Price to provide the Rangers with an insurance run and the 5-3 lead. Odor also made two outstanding plays on defense in the 5th inning. Not too shabby for a 21 year old left handed hitter in his first ever playoff game who was sent to the minors earlier in the year after a miserable start to the season.
Rougned Odor enjoyed a fine rookie campaign in 2014 as a 20 year old trying to make his way in the majors. He hit .259 with 9 HR's and 48 RBI's last year in 114 games and the needle was pointing up with great expectations for 2015. Odor had a very rough start to his season this year. He batted .144 in the first 29 games and left the Rangers no choice but to send the kid to the minors to get his swing straightened out. He made his Triple A debut on May 12th at Round Rock. Odor skipped Triple A while climbing to the majors last season. To his credit he seized the opportunity and caught fire. At Round Rock he hit .352 with 5 HR's and 19 RBI's in 108 at bats. A performance worthy of promoting him back to the majors on June 15th and he promptly went 3 for 3. Odor batted .299 with 15 HR's from the day he returned to the Rangers lineup through the end of the season.
If you can't get enough of Rougned Odor after reading this article then please let me introduce you to his younger brother Rougned Odor. The 17 year old with the same name was signed by the Rangers earlier this year and spent his first season playing minor league baseball in the Dominican Summer League. It could just be a matter of time before the Odor brothers from Venezuela are both playing for the Rangers.
The series matchup continues today at 12:30 as Long Island's own Marcus Stroman will take the mound for the Blue Jays vs. Cole Hamels of the Rangers. Odor bats 8th in the Rangers lineup but he is a key part of this team right now. History has shown that playoff hero's very often are the players that you least expect it from. On May 11th I don't think anyone could have predicted that Odor would be in that category.
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Russell Crowe and Elizabeth Banks star in "The Next Three Days," writer-director Paul Haggis' remake of a French thriller about a man who tries to break his wife out of prison.
Diane Kruger, every film nerd's favorite European hottie, starred in the 2008 original "Pour Elle," the debut work from writer-director Fred Cavaye.
The trailer for "The Next Three Days," which co-stars Liam Neeson, Brian Dennehy, Olivia Wilde and RZA, is here and frankly we've got some questions:
- A woman is wrongly imprisoned and her husband decides to risk his life and, if necessary, "leave (his) kid at a gas station," to break her out of jail? Are we supposed to be cool with that? Anyone with a spouse and a kid can tell you that the surest way to end your marriage is to ditch your kid at a gas station -- it's an automatic deal-breaker.
- If Russell Crowe doesn't know how to load a gun, how on Earth is he gonna manage to bust his wife out of prison? Honestly, if you haven't got the basic skill set of a stick-up man, what makes you think you can get yourself and your wife out of a prison?
- Who's managing Elizabeth Banks' career? She's got that rare combination of comedic chops and looks that should've made her a star by now, but instead she's following up her turn in "The Uninvited" by playing a distant-second-banana to Russell Crowe.
- Why do movie studios put teasers for "thenextthreedaysmovie.com" when the only thing there is a splash page and a link back to Yahoo to watch the trailer? This nonsense needs to stop -- did the release of this trailer sneak up on them? Could they not be bothered to simply embed the trailer on their own site?
- Why was this film set in Pittsburgh? One of the nation's great underrated cities, with a gorgeous baseball stadium, beautiful architecture, some great art museums, an awesome funicular and lovely countryside in all directions -- and star of a major-motion picture?
- Paul Haggis was the creative force behind "Walker, Texas Ranger" OK, not really a question, but something to think about.
"The Next Three Days" arrives Nov. 19.


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Hina Naveed was 10 years old when her Pakistani parents brought her to the United States. They taught her never to talk about her immigration status because she's undocumented.
In 2013, Naveed received a grant from the New York Immigration Coalition to work for El Centro, an immigrant center in Staten Island. It was then that the 26-year-old became an outspoken advocate for immigrants' rights. After she graduates from nursing school later this year, she intends to pursue a law degree.
But her plans could be jeopardized if Donald Trump gets rid of DACA as part of his immigration reform. President Obama's 2012 executive action, Consideration of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, protects individuals who came to the U.S. without documentation as minors and who have made a home here. Naveed has been covered by DACA since 2013.
This week, Naveed traveled from Trump Tower in New York City to the White House in Washington, D.C., as part of the "Caravan of Courage," a movement organized by undocumented immigrants and allies to demand action from both Obama and the president-elect.
Brought together by the New York-based advocacy group, Dream Action Coalition, the protesters made stops along their route to meet with others fighting for undocumented immigrants: dreamers in Maryland and New Jersey, and organizers against an ICE detention center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Their trip culminated with a press conference in front 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on Thanksgiving.
"If DACA is rescinded on Jan. 20, I have to inform my employer and I'm assuming get terminated because there's no other way for me to continue working," Naveed said. "I won't be able to work as a nurse, because you definitely need legal status for that. My driver's license expires in May, so I won't be able to continue driving much longer. Financially, it's going to be very difficult because if I don't have any sort of income, the expenses are going to be building up."
Since Election Day, Trump has not elaborated on how he will handle DACA. In an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes," he said that he will first focus on deporting 2 to 3 million dangerous criminals, though a 2015 report by the Migration Policy Institute estimates that there are only 690,000 undocumented immigrants with felony charges or serious misdemeanors living in the U.S. After securing the border, Trump said he will craft his policy toward other undocumented immigrants, whom he called "terrific people."
NBC has reached out to Trump's transition team for comment about DACA, but has not heard back.
"We are undocumented, unafraid, and we are here to stay," Cesar Vargas, co-director of Dream Action Coalition, said outside the White House gates Thursday. "This is the country that we call home."
The protesters chose to march on D.C. during the holiday because they wanted to remind citizens around the country that a mass deportation could mean that next year some families might not be able to celebrate together.
"Look to the person on the left of you, on the right of you," Naveed said. "Imagine now that they are no longer there because they were yanked out of your house because of some ticket they had years ago."
Naveed's family moved to the U.S. because her older sister had a medical issue: a knot in her brain threatened her life. Despite surgery, doctors said her condition was deteriorating, and there was nothing they could do to stop it. Naveed's parents rejected this inevitability and her father sought solutions around the world. Finally, he brought his family to Long Island, and then to Boston, where his daughter was treated.
But his lawyer misfiled the family's request for a visa renewal, and it was denied, Naveed said. Then, their appeal was rejected. At Boston Children's Hospital, doctors said that if Naveed's sister returned to Pakistan, her illness might prove fatal.
Naveed's father chose to overstay his visa so his daughter could continue treatment without interruption. Because of his decision, she is still alive 16 years after receiving a terminal diagnosis.
"That was a happy ending, and unfortunately that also resulted in us becoming undocumented and falling out of status," Naveed said.
Ivy Teng Lei, a 26-year-old immigrant who moved to the U.S. from Macau when she was 7 and who participated in the press conference at Trump Tower on Tuesday, is the only undocumented member of her family. Her parents decided to come here in 1998 because of a failing education system and sparse jobs at home. Lei said her relatives feel guilty that she's having to live in fear of being sent back to Macau, a land she barely knows. Though she's trying to reassure them, she said, "I do want them to recognize that I am hurt.
"I am extremely anxious all the time. I'm scared of being deported," she added. "I don't know what my future is going to look like, and I'm trying to look for as much support as possible so I'm not experiencing this in a vacuum."
Like Naveed, Lei is covered by DACA. As part of her education, she studied in a competitive vocational program that only accepted four applicants and until recently worked in global marketing. Like many undocumented immigrants, she pays taxes (undocumented immigrants pay $12 billion in taxes per year, according to Maria Teresa Kumar, president and CEO of Voto Latino) but is not eligible to receive government benefits.
If DACA is rescinded, Lei said she will "have to forgo all that I thought I could have in terms of my career."
"The feeling is like you are living in this reality that you just never liked, and you went to sleep and suddenly you have this perfect dream," she said of DACA. "Everything was worthwhile. Everything you've worked for actually came to fruition. And then you woke up, and you're kind of thinking, 'Was that a good thing or was that a bad thing to have that dream?'
"I still have these cry attacks where I'm walking on the street and someone will say something completely unrelated, but it'll be like 'what are you doing for the holidays?' And it's just like, 'I don't know what I'm doing for the rest of my life,'" she continued.
She said that it's painful to live in "a country that just will not accept you, and will reject you like a bad organ transplant."
While attorneys say there are alternative paths to citizenship for people covered by DACA, like green card marriages, those take time to obtain. Naveed said she doesn't really have a plan B if DACA is rescinded.
According to Naveed, most undocumented immigrants are as afraid of being arrested by ICE and held in detention centers as returning to their country. Immigrant holding cells are notorious for their cold, unsanitary, overcrowded conditions. Last week, the Department of Homeland Security reported that 41,000 undocumented immigrants were being held at detention facilities in the U.S.
"To send everyone back to Pakistan, Mexico, China, wherever is going to be difficult," she said. "But I think that what is definitely very real is mass incarceration, and I think that that is just as scary, if not worse.
"People are afraid to leave their houses, and they're afraid to be open about their status, or to organize, or to rally, or to exercise their basic rights," she continued.
One of the "Caravan of Courage's" requests is that Obama considers closing detention centers in Texas and Pennsylvania and pardon those who are currently imprisoned for lack of documentation.
Naveed is marching on Washington to implore Trump "to alleviate those immediate fears that communities are facing" by saying he will not erect a deportation task force and by detailing his immigration reform plan. She also wants "to challenge those basic perceptions that people have" about undocumented immigrants by demonstrating that dreamers come from around the world, and from all different backgrounds. There is no cookie cutter undocumented immigrant.
Lei echoed Naveed's intentions, saying that she hoped to "encourage more Asian-Americans to stand out and talk about their stories" because a lot of people think of undocumented immigration as "just a Latino issue."


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Along with his new companion, the Doctor is getting a new TARDIS interior. BBC America released this small hint to the new design—cold metallics with Circular Gallifreyan inscriptions. Anyone want to take a crack at translating it? (Or, rather, hazard a guess as to what it's about?)
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A number of years ago my husband was visiting our daughter who was living in Ukiah at the time. They took a drive intending to go to Mendocino but never got there, and he has wanted to go to Mendocino ever since. With two grandchildren graduating high school one week apart, we chose to spend a few days between graduations in Mendocino.
I learned about the Stanford Inn by the Sea from a friend who has a cottage at Ft. Bragg. She often eats at the restaurant there, The Ravens, and loves it. As a long- standing vegetarian, I was interested to learn that this is the only vegan spa in the country. Listening to interviews of authors of vegan cookbooks and reading about how advantageous vegan eating is, I have been tempted to make the leap but have not done this on my own. What better way to experience vegan food than at The Ravens' Restaurant, a premiere vegan restaurant? This was an amazingly good decision. My husband, a non-vegetarian, could not stop raving about the fantastic food.
From the Stanford Inn by the Sea website: " We are the Stanford Inn's integrated and holistic wellness center offering nutrition, art therapy, meditation, Chinese medicine, acupuncture, acupressure, Tai Chi, yoga, massage, spa treatments, gardening, cooking, nature walks, mushroom foraging and more."
We arrived on a Sunday evening having driven in from Palo Alto with a "stretch stop" in Healdsburg- Sonoma County. It was a good place to stop briefly, lots of wine tasting and places to eat. Our GPS directed us to turn from Highway 101 to 128. We went through the Alexander Valley, to the Russian River watershed, eventually along the Navarro River through Boonville and the Anderson Valley and magically, mystically through Navarro River Redwoods State Park. The sense of majesty and beauty held as we turned off Highway 1 onto Comptche Ukiah Road and into the driveway of Stanford Inn by the Sea. Stepping out of the car on the way to register, everything felt special, calm, beautiful and uplifting.
After arriving, we were surprised and fascinated with all that was offered. So much to see and do in an atmosphere that feels safe and renewing- "It's almost like heaven. It's incredibly beautiful with the birds singing and the greenery," was my husband's comment.
Our room was beautiful and well appointed. The wood paneling all over the room maintains a natural feeling. Tucked away were a microwave, a refrigerator, and coffee maker. Keeping us in the world just a bit was a large flat screen TV with extremely good channel selections and excellent WiFi. There is also a wonderful sounds system and excellent plumbing. All of the rooms have balconies and views of the surrounding forests with ravens flying around and the ocean in the distance. Walking to our room from the reception desk, we noticed accessible rooms that were available.
It was soon time for dinner at The Ravens' Restaurant. This dinner and the one that followed the next night were wonderful and merit a separate review article. Breakfast and afternoon tea are offered as part of the guest plan but the community eats here often, too. At dinner we spoke with a couple, vegans from San Francisco who were camping nearby and noted that the restaurant is famous, and it was a great time for them to enjoy the wonderful food offering.
The lounge is a relaxing place, as well. It contains a gift shop, a bar, a restaurant area where dogs are allowed and another where they are not. Downstairs is space where various classes such as yoga take place. There is also workout equipment in addition to a gallery devoted to the history of the area and its first residents, the Pomo Indians. The pets visiting with their owners also bring a warmth and energy to the facility.
We had a wonderful time wandering the grounds. The grounds are sensuous with greenery and flowers everywhere. We enjoyed seeing the organic garden, the animals, horses, donkeys and llamas, as well as cats that are all rescue animals. We wandered down to the dock where "Catch A Canoe & Bicycles, too!" ( the name is based on the old campaign slogan, "Tippecanoe and Tyler, too!") offers rental of Canoes, kayaks and bicycles from which one can explore the rivers and trails. We found our way to the gorgeous pool in the solarium where there are also showers, a sauna, and tables and chairs to sit and relax.
We found the totality of our visit here to be much greater than the sum of its parts: the room, the food, the environment. It was an almost spiritual and totally renewing experience to stay at Stanford Inn by the Sea even for two days.
My husband and I had the chance to talk with owner, Jeff Stanford, the last night of our stay. He confirmed what we were feeling during our visit, that there is a special energy at Stanford Inn and that a stay here can and has been a life changing experience for visitors. For my husband and I, it has been an amazing experience. We have found it renewing and revitalizing. The food has been an adventure and the flavors and textures that made up the food we experienced became an experience to remember. The food was as delicious as any we have ever had, anywhere but more than that we were left feeling comfortable and healthy. As Jeff Stanford said, "You will extend your life eating this way. It is science".
Phone: 707.937.5615
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44850 Comptche-Ukiah Road
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The Horsemen are Coming
The Hellbourne General uttered a curse.
Legion scum!
There, sitting in his chambers, he plotted. Anguished cries could be heard from the heroes and soldiers who were being tortured and devoured by his minions. His nostrils were full of the sulfuric scent of the surrounding fire pits but he had not yet tasted the blood of his foes. The Legion cause still burned brightly.
Tormented by this, the General poured over ancient tomes in search of an answer. He searched for power- pure and simple. A new way to bring judgment and despair upon the world of men and beasts and finally bring his foes to their knees.
And then he found it.
A whisper on a page. Hardly a footnote.
A passing mention of an ancient ritual to return to the world the most vile and evil beings to ever grace it. The General laughed, licked his parched lips with glee and continued reading. Their defeat was near. He could almost taste it. But not yet. Preparations must be made.
First, he needed the blood of an innocent, an easy enough task. But thing got trickier. The ritual also demanded the horn of a corrupted unicorn, a thousand maggots from the corpse of a Landshark and the fiery breath of a stillborn dragon. Acquiring these were a challenge for the General but he accomplished the task and created the summoning circle needed to bring them back. To return to Newerth, the Lost Riders.
He finally began the incantation with four of his most trusted lieutenants serving as vessels for the oncoming evils. He could feel the Apocalypse nearing and knew that his dark desires were finally coming to fruition.
Soon, a dark void opened at the center of the circle and from the cold came the first rider. Sheathed in flames and wielding a mighty blade, he cut down the first soldier where he stood and bathed in his blood – War had arrived in Newerth.
Close behind was a second rider and as he came forth, the thousand maggots roared to life and consumed the second warrior, filling the hall with screams of agony. Pestilence remained where once the warrior stood.
The other lieutenants, realizing that they were actually the final sacrifices, tried to flee the gruesome scene. But the General would not allow it. He threw his cursed sword, which cut down his cowardly lieutenants. One turned in time to see the maw of Famine consume him, turning his once full frame into an emaciated husk in seconds.
The last soldier grunted defiantly as he sat himself up, bleeding profusely from where his strong legs once were. He never saw his killer. The creeping shadow of Death was swift and the Pale Rider suddenly stood over a lifeless corpse.
The Four Horsemen, together again at last, turned towards the mortal that had dared to summon them from their eternal duties. Their weapons at the ready, they approached the General but stopped when they saw what he held in his hand.
"The tear of a father without remorse," the General chuckled as he held the vial aloft and crushed it in his ironclad hand.
The tear fell to the ground and from the spot rose a great rider in white, bow in hand. Then, in a flash, the General swung his sword. Before the rider could act, the blade sliced cleanly through a gap in his armor. The great bow fell to his feet, split in half.
Immediately, there was burst of light as the power of the rider coursed through the blade of the General. The hall shook and the cursed riders watched as their former leader vanished. Newly empowered, the General took up the deceased Horseman's armor. He had just done the impossible. No mortal had ever harmed one of the great Harbingers of Destruction. As he placed the last of the rider's armor on himself, the General pulled himself atop the steed of the fallen Horseman.
"Horsemen! You will now all pay tribute to me as your new master," shouted the General.
His Hellforged blade glistened red with blood and the Riders bent their knees. Each offered a token of their loyalty to their new lord: a small seed of their power.
"Come now," said Conquest, "Let us bring judgment down upon our enemies. When we finish only the worthy will remain!"
And so the Horsemen rode into the night. Half a world away, the very roots of the World Tree creaked as the impeding Apocalypse approached. It would take great heroes to stop the utter annihilation of Newerth. A desperate call went out… will you answer?


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The parents of a slain Jacksonville teen traveled to New York City on Friday morning to see their son's photo displayed on a Jumbotron in Times Square.
Seventeen-year-old Jordan Davis was featured in Jet Magazine's January edition. The magazine cover went on display on the Times Square electronic billboard at 44th Street and Broadway on New Year's Eve and will remain there for two weeks.
The victim's father, Ron Davis, hopes his trip to the Northeast will raise awareness about violence. He wants people to look at his story and understand it's a societal issue.
"Everybody's kid, everybody's nephew, everybody's brother and sister ... it could have been anybody," Davis said. "I want people to really understand about community, and that's what we're fighting for, that people come together and not tear each other apart and tear each other's neighborhoods apart."
Davis adds that if Jordan stands for anything, he would want him to stand up for the community staying together.
"You have to be together as a community," Davis said. "We saw the '60s, how it took the country apart, and I really don't want to go back to the '60s."
While in New York, Davis met with the parents of another teen, Ramarley Graham, who was killed by a police officer in the Bronx last year.
"People that have these kind of situations, tragic, kids being killed for different reasons, I've been getting a lot of calls about that," Davis said. "You want to give them a platform to speak about their children. It's kind of like an honor."
In November, police said Michael Dunn fired into an SUV full of teenagers at a Gate gas station off Southside Boulevard and Baymeadows Road in a dispute over loud music. Jordan Davis was struck by the gunfire and killed. Dunn is charged with murder, but claims he acted in self-defense.
Mitzi Miller, the editor-in-chief of Jet Magazine, spoke Friday in a phone interview about why she chose to put Jordan Davis' picture on the cover.
"This is a good kid and this is ridiculous. It just reached a level that I felt like could no longer be ignored and we could not push under the rug," Miller said. "These are the kind of stories that will hopefully change policy in the long term and change people's hearts, and I'm just happy to help Mr. Davis get the message about his son out and help people to know that it's not OK to stand by and let things slide anymore."
The next trip for the Davises is to Washington D.C. to talk to lawmakers and spend time at the Brady Center, an organization aimed at preventing gun violence.


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Anthony Hopkins vanishes (mostly) into 'Hitchcock'
Almost 32 years after his death, Alfred Hitchcock is still shocking audiences — but the petrified patrons are not in any movie theater. Instead, the invited guests (actually paid actors) were inside a Pasadena mansion during the second week of filming for "Hitchcock," a fictionalized look at the English filmmaker during the preparation, filming and release of 1960's "Psycho."
Hitchcock — or a very approximate facsimile — was on a recent day throwing a bomb into an otherwise genteel tea party, handing out a batch of gruesome crime scene photographs to announce his intentions to tell a grisly tale of murder and mutilation.
The Fox Searchlight production, which could be ready by year's end, stars Anthony Hopkins as Hitchcock and Helen Mirren as his wife and creative collaborator, Alma Reville. The cast includes Jessica Biel as Vera Miles, Scarlett Johansson as Janet Leigh and James D'Arcy as Anthony Perkins. It is the first narrative feature directed by screenwriter and documentary filmmaker Sacha Gervasi ("Anvil! The Story of Anvil").
Hopkins' transformation, accomplished with the help of prosthetic makeup by Howard Berger and Peter Montagna and a fat suit from costume designer Julie Weiss that turns the slim Hopkins into a 300-pound giant, is not intended to hide the Oscar-winning actor completely.
"We don't want Anthony Hopkins to disappear under the makeup," Gervasi, who co-wrote Steven Spielberg's "The Terminal," said during a break in filming. "And we don't want him to sound exactly like Hitchcock, either. That wasn't the point."
Instead, the goal was to give moviegoers a little bit of both the real and the illusion — a slice of Hitchcock here, a taste of Hopkins there, all the while probing the director's complicated state of mind. During a break in filming, Hopkins said that he met Hitchcock late in the director's life at the restaurant Ma Maison. "He had no idea who I was," said Hopkins, whose acting career was just taking off at the time.
The "Hitchcock" plot follows the troubled financing of "Psycho," the director's battles with Hollywood censors and Hitchcock's desire to prove to his doubters, his wife and himself that he still had an edge. The screenplay, whose writers include Hitchcock biographer Stephen Rebello, includes references to Edward Gein, the Wisconsin serial killer and grave robber who was partial inspiration for Buffalo Bill, the villain at the center of Hopkins' "The Silence of the Lambs."
In the scene at the Pasadena estate, Hitchcock disbursed photographs detailing some of Gein's more abhorrent acts, hoping to start the "Psycho" drumbeat. It appeared to be working.
At one point, a gossip columnist in attendance asked of Hitchcock, "Am I the only one who finds this offensive?" Without missing a beat, Hitchcock replied, "I was hoping everyone would."
Of 'Anvil!' and steely resolve
Thundering Anvil makes some noise
Alfred Hitchcock, by way of heavy metal?
-- John Horn
Photo: Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock in "Hitchcock," now filming. Courtesy Fox Searchlight.


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LGBT educators struggle to balance professionalism and pride in the classroom, splittling, knitting, or quittting, in the words of the authors.
Labor unions have been on the decline for sixty years in the U.S., though they raise wages, decrease inequality, and give voice to workers. Can they rise again?
Does the dissemination of organizational financial information shift power dynamics within workplaces, as evidenced by increasing workers' wages? That is the core question of this investigation. We utilize the 2004 and 2011 series of the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) to test whether employees who report that their managers disclose workplace financial data earn more than otherwise similar workers not privy to such information.
Sociologists of labor extoll pros and cons of what trade unions do or have done, but the consequences of labor's near-disappearance are rarely mentioned.
The improbable rise of Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign presents an interesting question: why is Sanders, a self-proclaimed "democratic socialist," running as a Democrat? "In any other industrialized country, Sanders would likely be the standard-bearer for a labor or social democratic party," said McGill University sociologist Barry Eidlin, whose new study appeared in the June issue of the American Sociological Review. "But the U.S. famously lacks such a party."
by Alex J Wood
'I had to change hours. . . I felt really sick, it just hit me, it hit all of us.' These are the words that Colin used to describe the painful reality of workplace temporal flexibility for many workers. And it is an experience which is becoming increasingly common.
My eight-year-old daughter received the classic Hasbro Game of Life as a holiday gift this past year. What caught my attention right away while playing the game with her were the salaries.
Most analyses of sexual orientation and earnings find that gay men face a wage gap, whereas lesbian women earn higher wages than similar heterosexual women. However, analyses rarely consider bisexual men and women as a unique group separate from other sexual minorities. I argue that such binary views of sexual orientation—treating sexual minorities as a homogenous non-heterosexual group—have obscured understandings of the impact of sexual orientation on labor market outcomes.
This article examines the relationship between income inequality and collective labor rights, conceptualized as workers' legal and practical ability to engage in collective activity. Although worker organization is central to explaining income inequality in industrialized democracies, worldwide comparative studies have neglected the role of class-based actors. I argue that the repression of labor rights reduces the capacity of worker organizations to effectively challenge income inequality through market and political processes in capitalist societies.
Hernando was born and raised in Heredia, a small agricultural community in central Mexico with an established history of emigration to the United States. He left school at the age of eight to help his father farm their land. Seeking adventure he later decided to migrate to the United States, to Georgia where he had friends. There, Hernando found an apprentice position with a master carpenter.


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Triangulations by Brendan Baylor
Lu Way by Leah Schreiber Johnson
Green Your Events Form
Student Phonathon Callers
Library Display: Feminist Artists of Kentucky Art Exhibit
Spring Break Forms Due
Softball vs. Alice Lloyd College
Tri-State Duets: An Evening of Fiddle & Banjo with Dave Bing and Ben Townsend
Sullivan Retreat Weekend
Notary Services
Making Ideas Stick: Coal Mining Stickers
Berea Made, Berea Served: Past Student Labor
Place to Pause
Summer Break Forms Due
Labor Day-Explorign Learning, Labor, and Service (Classes Cancelled)
Midterm Grades Due
Chair Massage
Summer Registration (Summer Labor Status Forms Required)
REMINDER: Dialogue on Race and Education in the 21st Century
Asian Studies Colloquium: "Envisioning the City in Early Modern China"
Blood on the Mountain, the Kentucky Premier and Panel Discussion
Reminder: No $4 Breakfast for Faculty,Staff, or Community 3/10/16.
Weight Watchers
AmeriCorps NSSS Recruiter Visit
Peanut Butter & Gender
How to Receive Credit and Funding for Your Internship
Spiritual Seekers: An Interfaith Program
DR. VANDANA SHIVA Making Peace with the Earth.
International Women's Day Banquet
Episcopal Canterbury Club
Creative Writing Group
Cafe Social Justice
Declaration of Major-Curriculum Plans Due
*NEW* Internship Opportunities in CareerBridge
Dandelion Festival: April, 16th
Softball vs. Hiwassee College
Baseball vs. Grove City College
Sazon Latino Saturday Latin Dance Lessons
Spring Vacation
Performance Evaluation Training
Key Concepts for Performance Evaluation - for non-supervisors
Conducting Effective Performance Evaluation - for Supervisors
Baseball vs. Summit University
Surplus Sale
Mens Tennis Tri-Match With Otterbein and Hanover
Mens Tennis vs. Centre College
Softball vs. West Virginia University Institute of Technology
Living on the Over Door by Sarah McRae Morton
Wolfram|Alpha Seminar
Internship Q&A at BC&T
Sealed Bid For Vehicle
Madison County/Berea Community Blood Drive
Blood Drive
Chapel Service
Baseball vs. Cincinnati Christian University
Religion & Spirituality Forum: "Equine Spirituality: Heart of the Horse-Human Partnership"
Open Figure Drawing
REMINDER: Saturday March 19 AAUW Author Brunch
REMINDER - Volleyball
Dining Etiquette *RSPV Required*
Country Dancers Convocation
Targeting Employers
Episcopal Canterbury club
DELLA MAE Vibrant Sounds Honoring the Roots.
Last Day to Withdraw from a Spring Course
Spring Mapworks Survey (Deadline: March 31!)
TGIF Turkey
Baseball vs. Mount St. Joseph University
Senior Recital - Emily Ross, clarinet
AAUW Author Brunch
Citation Craze! Get Help With your MLA/APA/Chicago Style
Softball vs. Oakland City University
Softball vs. Spalding University
Black Music Ensemble Concert
Creating a Dynamic Thesis Statement
Empty Bowls Ticket Sales
Killer Cover Letters
Computer Sci. Internship Talks
GYUDE MOORE Of Stickers and Margins: Courage in the Face of Radical Evil.
Softball vs. University of the Cumberlands
Good Friday Observance-Classes Cancelled
Mens Tennis vs. Earlham College
CANCELLED:Catholic Newman Club Sunday Mass
Lunch with the Recruiter - Resource Group
Softball vs. Franklin College
Appalachian Heritage Reading
Softball vs. Mount St. Joseph University
Baseball vs. University of the Cumberlands
Financial policy refresher/update training session
Empty Bowls
Agony of Gaia: Special Sculpture Showing
REMINDER: No $4 Breakfast Until Fall for Staff & Faculty
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KARIM NAGI Arab Identity and the Arts: Diaspora and Outreach.
Art Reception
Spring Street Dance
"After Coal", a documentary by Tom Hansell
TGIF Myanmar
Mountain Folk Festival Dance Party
Folk Roots Spring Concert
Folk-Roots Ensemble Spring Concert
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Mountain Folk Festival- Country Dancers Gala Dance
Senior Recital - Rebecca Hahn, mezzo-soprano; Kristol Whitt, clarinet
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History of Ladew
Photo Gallery
Contact Us
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Ladew in the News
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Mission Statement
A self-taught gardener, Harvey S. Ladew (1887-1976) created 15 thematic "garden rooms" on 22 acres of his 250 acre Maryland property. As you stroll through the gardens, it's hard to believe that one man, with no formal training and very little outside help, created such a magnificent, living masterpiece. Even more astonishing is that he created the gardens in addition to transforming the old white farmhouse, into the stately Manor House visitors have the opportunity to see today.
Our Mission:
Ladew Topiary Gardens is a nonprofit, 501 (c)(3) organization whose mission
is "to maintain and promote the gardens, house and facilities in keeping with
the creative spirit of Harvey S. Ladew for the public benefit and for educational,
scientific and cultural pursuits." Both House and Gardens are listed on the
National Register of Historic Places.
Top image copyright Helen Norman Photography.


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Educational Leadership
EAD 259. Conflict Resolution in Organizations
Highlights issues related to conflict resolution in organizations. Topics include defining and diagnosing conflict, communication, power as a variable of conflict, steps in resolving conflict, defining positions, interests and needs, negotiation, mediation and arbitration. ( Formerly EAD 278T)
Units: 1
EAD 261. Introduction to Education Administration
Initial course in Education Administration sequence. Development of knowledge and skills central to managing educational organizations.
Units: 3
EAD 262. Education Leadership
Prerequisites: EAD 261. Initial course in education leadership. Development of knowledge and skills essential to organizational leadership.
Units: 3
EAD 263. Seminar in Instructional Supervision
Prerequisites: EAD 261, EAD 262. Seminar for clarification and application of modern concepts and techniques of supervision; practice in leadership roles, promoting productive human relationships, developing communication skills, and evaluation of teaching; ways of helping teachers in their credential fields.
Units: 4
EAD 264. Seminar in the Legal Aspects of Education
Prerequisites: teaching experience; EAD 261. A case study approach in reviewing important court decisions, both state and federal, that have directly affected the public schools. Legal relationships in public education applied to federal, state, and local levels.
Units: 2
EAD 265. Seminar in School-Community Relations
Prerequisite: EAD 261. Seminar on interaction with community forces, news media, political agencies, and minority groups in policy analysis and development; databased decision-making and analysis.
Units: 2
EAD 266. Seminar in School Finance and Business Administration
Prerequisite: EAD 261. Economic perspectives and practices of school finance and business admin istration; local, state, and federal responsibility for financial support of education. (2 seminar hours)
Units: 2
EAD 269. Site-based Leadership
Prerequisites: EAD 261, EAD 262, EAD 263, EAD 272. Includes essentials of site leadership: school law, finance, community relations, personnel, and support services. In-depth research into restructuring, teacher empowerment, and student achievement in culturally diverse schools.
Units: 4
EAD 271. Seminar in School Facilities
Prerequisite: preliminary credential or permission of instructor. Emphasis on planning, design, and function of educational facilities so they are consistent with the educational goals of the school and school district. (2 seminar, 2 lab hours)
Units: 3
EAD 272. Advanced Curriculum Design and Development
Prerequisites: EAD 261 or permission of instructor. Nature and scope of curriculum development; administrative determiners of curriculum; influence of governmental agencies and organizations, foundations, business and industry, and power structures as curriculum determiners; international influence on curriculum development and curriculum evaluation at various levels of govenmental operation.
Units: 4
EAD 273. Ethical and Professional Issues in Education Administration
Prerequisite: Preliminary Administrative Services Credential or permission of instructor. Seminar on the ethical and professional issues of administrative professionalism, examined in the context of the various roles the administrator is expected to perform as a practitioner.
Units: 3
EAD 274. Instructional Systems and Leadership for Equity
Equip students with the knowledge and skill to create systemic and systematic responses to adress the diverse levels of student need and use evidence of student learning to create and deeply embed a culture of equity and continuous improvement.
Units: 3
EAD 275. Seminar in Advanced Techniques of Personnel Administration in Education
Prerequisite: EAD 261. Advanced techniques of staff improvement in-service, staff participation in policy making, improvement of communication channels and methods of communication, economic and contractual relationships,and improvement of working condition; work and responsibility of nonteaching staff members.
Units: 2
EAD 277. Computer Applications in Education Administration
Prerequisite: preliminary credential or permission of instructor. Factors relating to assessment and implementation of computer applications to support educational programs and administrative operations in school districts, including computer assisted instruction, student personnel, fiscal and property controls, personnel, and related educational and business functions characteristic of school districts. (2 seminar, 2 lab hours)
Units: 3
EAD 278T. Topics in Advanced Education Administration
Prerequisite: preliminary credential or permission of instructor. Seminar covering special topics relating to education administration: new developments in education administration, special populations, and current research.
Units: 1-3, Repeatable up to 8 units
EAD 278T. Diversity in Higher Education
The goal of this course is to provide campus leaders with timely, cutting-edge, and actionable information they can share with members of their campus community on a broad range of topics revolving around diversity and inclusion in the U.S. higher education. (Offered Fall 2020)
Units: 3
EAD 278T. Student Affairs in Higher Education
This course introduces students to the field of student affairs, by focusing on topics such as organizational mission, engaging student populations, campus environments, assessment and accountability, diversity, campus and community relations, as well as professional standards and competencies. Students will also explore student engagement in higher education and gain theoretical perspectives and practical approaches for working with diverse student populations. (Offered Fall 2020)
Units: 3
EAD 278T. School Accounting
Units: 3
EAD 279. Advanced Administration Fieldwork
Prerequisites: employment in a position requiring an Administrative Services Credential and permission of instructor. Supervision of Professional Administrative Services Credential candidates in their place of employment. The type of assignment will depend on requirements of the university and will be individually developed in corporation with candidate's employer. Includes seminar discussion of field experience and required research. CR/NC only. (40 hours required for 1 unit)
Units: 1-8
EAD 280T. Topics in Professional Development
Prerequisite: preliminary credential or adviser permission. Advanced-level studies in theory, procedures, and application of education administration principles. Includes such topics as: community advisory committees, marshalling resources, interventions for school improvements, technology utilization, and restructuring. CR/NC only.
Units: 1-3, Repeatable up to 4 units
EAD 280T. Assessment in Higher Education
This course focuses on the foundational knowledge and skills related to assessment in higher education and leadership in creating more learner-centered environments, The reading material encompass the study of a wide variety of outcomes-based assessment methods and instruments used in higher education, from classroom assessment techniques to surveys, standardized tests, and focus groups. (Offered Fall 2020)
Units: 3
EAD 280T. Assessment, Analysis and Information Systems
This course is designed to develop knowledge and skills necessary to make effective data-driven decisions, including the use of a continuous improvement processes and the strategic collection and application of multiple data streams to inform, manage and analyze systems. (Offered Fall 2020)
Units: 3
EAD 281. Transformational Leadership
Prerequisite: EAD 283 and permission of instructor. A course for experienced practitioners in organizational development. Interventions for restructuring, including site-based management, staff development, strategic planning, and team building, as well as individual and community iterventions aimed at transforming schools and other organizations into world class operations.
Units: 2
EAD 283. Professional Development Induction
Prerequisites: preliminary administrative services credential, full-time employment in an administrative position, and permission of instructor. A professional development course is required for the professional administrative services credential. First course among advanced credential requirements. RP or CR/NC grading only.
Units: 2
EAD 284. Professional Development Assessment
Prerequisites: completion of professional administrative services credential coursework and permission of instructor. A professional development course is required for the professional administrative services credential to verify satisfactory completion of the induction plan and individualized course of study to meet the advanced credential requirements. Final course among the advanced credential requirements. CR/NC only.
Units: 2
EAD 287. Internship I
Prerequisites: employment in a position requiring an administrative services credential, concurrent enrollment in EAD 261, and permission of adviser. Supervised administrative practice with emphasis on leadership, school management, classroom supervision, and community relations, while employed in a full time position requiring an administrative services credential. Includes seminar discussion of internship experiences, professional development plan, and required research. CR/NC only. (CSU liability insurance fee, $8)
Units: 3
EAD 288. Internship II
Prerequisites: employment in a position requiring an administrative services credential, completion of EAD 261, EAD 262, EAD 272, and CI 285, taken concurrently with EAD 263 and EAD 269, and permission of adviser. Supervised administrative practice with emphasis on continuation of professional development plan, leadership, school management, classrooms supervision, and community relations. Student must be employed in a full time position requiring an administrative credential. Includes seminar discussions of internship experiences and required research. CR/NC only. (CSU liability insurance fee, $8)
Units: 3
EAD 290. Independent Study
See Academic Placement -- [-LINK-]. Approved for SP grading.
Units: 1-3, Repeatable up to 6 units
EAD 298. Project
Prerequisites: advancement to candidacy for the master's degree; B average on 24 units of the master's program including ERE 220. A project consists of a significant undertaking appropriate to graduate study in education. An approved proposal is required for enrollment. Approved for RP grading.
Units: 4
EAD 298C. Project Continuation
Pre-requisite: Project EAD 298. For continuous enrollment while completing the project. May enroll twice with department approval. Additional enrollments must be approved by the Dean of Graduate Studies.
Units: 0
EAD 299. Thesis
Prerequisites: advancement to candidacy for the master's degree; B average on 24 units of the master's program including, ERE 220 and completion of an acceptable thesis proposal. Preparation, completion, and submission of an acceptable thesis for the master's degree. See Kremen School of Education and Human Development's graduate programs coordinator for school thesis guidelines. Approved for Rp grading.
Units: 4
EAD 299C. Thesis Continuation
Pre-requisite: Thesis EAD 298. For continuous enrollment while completing the thesis. May enroll twice with department approval. Additional enrollments must be approved by the Dean of Graduate Studies.
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See the Dead Or Alive star's surgery transformation
Pete Burns never shied away from flaunting his individual style and he had a fascinating face.
Born in the Wirral on 5 August 1959, Pete married hairdresser Lynne Corlett in 1978 before embarking on his music career.
The singer was in the bands Nightmares In Wax and Mystery Girls but eventually found fame with his group Dead Or Alive.
Pete had his first cosmetic surgery procedure on his nose and his group scored a No1 hit with their most famous single You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) in 1984.
After showing off his unique fashion sense in the video, Pete continued to experiment with his look over the years.
In 1995 the outrageous star channelled a gothic vibe with long black hair, smoky eye make-up and pale white skin.
The music star started having injections in his lips in 2000 and by 2002 had had various cosmetic surgery ops to transform his face.
Pete stepped out with a variety of hairdos in the following years and happily mixed things up, often teaming women's clothing with fancy dress garments.
2006 was a big year for the vocalist – he divorced Lynne, started dating Michael Simpson and entered the Celebrity Big Brother house.
Following his appearance on the show, Pete released a book and also discussed his surgery mishaps in ITV documentary Pete Burns' Cosmetic Surgery Nightmares.
The following year Pete sued a Harley Street surgeon, who admitted liability in administering injections on his lips from 2000 to 2004, and the singer accepted a £450,000 out-of-court settlement in 2009.
Pete continued to showcase his inimitable style and went to London Fashion Week with piercings all over his face in 2010.
Using brightly coloured wigs to change his do meant Pete never had a dull look.
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Barbie Blank, the artist formerly known as Kelly Kelly in the WWE, underwent a hair makeover and the Florida native is looking even hotter than she used to look while in the WWE.
The 25 year old – who joined WWE as the youngest Diva ever at the age of 19 – got rid of the bleached blonde hair and opting to go more for her natural look.
The result is, well, simply stunning! You can see the photos she tweeted and some which were posted on Heyman Hustle below.
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The "Spring 2013" posters for Grand Theft Auto V that leaked this weekend were definitely real, as the European retailer GAME went and Tweeted images of the same thing. IGN screencapped a Tweet sent by the retailer. The Tweet has since been taken offline. Platforms for the game are Xbox 360 and PS3. No sign of a Wii U or PC version yet (ever?).
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"The darkness and light are both alike … I am fearfully and wonderfully made."
- Psalms 139:14
From their first appearance in the pages of Peter Parker the Spectacular Spider-Man #64 (Mar. 1982), it was plain to see that Cloak and Dagger were not your usual Marvel characters. They were two single-minded teenagers with incredible powers driven to root out the evils of the drug trade at any cost.
Cloak and Dagger were diametrically opposed, one of light and one of darkness, but forever bound together. Wronged and victimized, they didn't set out as heroes, but rather as vigilantes, eager to extract their revenge. They struggled to be heroes as they tried to temper their vengeance with justice. They were devoted to each other, but often found themselves at odds. It was these conflicts, both internal and external, that made Cloak and Dagger so compelling.
The 1980s was the comic generation of the teen with titles like The New Teen Titans, The New Mutants, and Power Pack exploring real teenage issues. In 1982, Nancy Reagan kicked off her "Just say no" campaign against drugs and it drew world-wide attention. Drugs, crime, and justice were themes Cloak and Dagger dealt with regularly.
I recall not liking Cloak and Dagger when I had originally read their stories. Looking back on it now, I believe it had to do with the tone of their stories, rather than the characters. The Spider-Man titles were usually light-hearted and fun with a level of conflict you knew wouldn't have any significant impact. But, the issues in which Cloak and Dagger guest-starred carried a certain weight to them. And I'm not saying that a weight or depth to a comic book is a bad thing, but it was a radical shift in the escapism I had sought out as a kid. Their relevant and hard-hitting stories didn't hold any punches as they boldly and honestly discussed topics like prostitution, drugs, and violence.
Enter Cloak & Dagger
It was initially difficult to understand Cloak and Dagger's motivations through their early appearances in Peter Parker Spectacular Spider-Man. Writer Bill Mantlo successfully eroded any feelings of condemnation that a reader might feel as they witnessed Cloak and Dagger's brutal methodology.
Cloak and Dagger were contrasted against Spider-Man, allowing both Mantlo and the reader to explore the role of vigilantes. They were children without colorful costumes or secret identities. They didn't use witty banter to down play the seriousness of the violence they were perpetrating. While Spider-Man acted out of a sense of responsibility, Cloak and Dagger acted out of a sense of necessity, having no choice as they felt they were instruments of vengeance. They didn't have the supporting cast that Spider-Man could depend on; they only had each other.
In their first appearance, Spider-Man couldn't stop them from killing a drug dealer. He tracked down the dangerous and misguided duo only to discover they had captured the drug dealers responsible for changing them into Cloak and Dagger.
"It is not justice we want, Spider-Man. It is vengeance! These men must die!" Cloak declared. Protagonists killing bad guys, even though it was difficult to condone, was not seen in the pages of any Marvel Comics at that time (even the Punisher at that time was using his "mercy bullets" rather than live ammunition).
Cloak and Dagger blurred the line between villain and hero. Reading this issue, it was easy to sympathize with them and demand revenge. But, you could also feel Spider-Man's point of view, believing the drug dealers had to be brought to justice and not murdered in cold blood.
Cloak and Dagger proved to be popular, spawning several more guest appearances in Peter Parker Spectacular Spider-Man. They tangled with the wall-crawler as they followed the drug chain, confronting powerful mobsters, like Silvermane and the Kingpin.
Peter Parker the Spectacular Spider-Man #82 (Sept. 1983) was a significant issue as Mantlo cleverly used the Punisher as another point of contrast to Cloak and Dagger. As the Punisher's war on crime escalated, it took a toll on him, eroding his sanity and driving him into madness. If Cloak and Dagger continued on their reckless path of vengeance, would they spiral down into madness like the Punisher?
With the growing popularity of Cloak and Dagger, there was a noticeable decline in their unrepentant vigilantism. In their early appearances, Cloak and Dagger had no moral reservations about killing the drug dealers they preyed upon, but if they were to be heroes, that approach had to change.
Mantlo added a new facet to Dagger's light daggers, allowing them to purge the devastating effects of drug addiction rather than inflicting deadly force. Cloak and Dagger's righteousness was also tempered as they focused on the enablers rather than the victims.
After their popular appearances in Peter Parker the Spectacular Spider-Man, Marvel gave Cloak and Dagger their own miniseries in late 1983. Rick Leonardi drew the miniseries as Ed Hannigan and Al Milgrom were busy elsewhere in the Marvel Universe.
"Rich Leonardi has brought an intensity and excitement to Cloak and Dagger that is more than I ever could have hoped for," gushed Bill Mantlo in Marvel Age #6 (Sept. 1983). "His design is daring and original. His characterization insightful. His draftsmanship a joy to behold."
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by Zalman Alpert
The Jewish people are known as the "people of the book," and over the centuries it has sacrificed much not only to live by that book, the Torah, but to maintain the integrity of its text as well.
A Torah scroll, however, may not contain notations. Thus, Jews used to write codices (sing. codex) that contained, not only the Torah's text, but punctuation (nekudos), musical signs (trope), and additional notes along the margins that assisted soferim who wished to write Torah scrolls (and other Biblical books) properly and accurately.
The oldest extant, and most authoritative, codex is the Aleppo Codex, or "Crown of Aleppo." Many people believe that it is this codex that the Rambam refers to in his discussion of writing a sefer Torah in the Mishneh Torah.
This codex is also the subject of a new book, The Crown of Aleppo: The Mystery of the Oldest Hebrew Bible Codex, by Drs. Hayim Tawil and Bernard Schneider – both scholars of note (Tawil is a professor of Hebrew Language and Literature at Yeshiva University and Schneider is a highly-respected international lawyer with a special interest in the Bible). In it, the authors describe, in detail, the history and tribulations of this codex. "Who wrote it?" "How did it reach Aleppo, Syria?" are just some of the questions the book discusses.
The authors also describe, at some length, the events of 1947 that led up to an Arab pogrom against the Aleppo Jewish community and the destruction of the synagogue that housed the codex. Miraculously, most of the codex was saved and eventually made its way to Israel. When the codex resurfaced in Israel, however, most of the pages from the Torah were missing. The surviving portions were largely from Nevi'im and Kesuvim.
Were the other pages destroyed? Lost? Tawil and Schneider offer several different explanations, and hold out some hope that these pages may yet surface (being held, in the meantime, by members of the former Aleppo Jewish community).
All in all, Tawil and Schneider have managed to produce a book that, not only discusses the details of writing a Torah scroll and the history of the Aleppo Codex, but also presents a tale of mystery and intrigue that may yet be solved to the delight of scholars and the Jewish community.
Thus, the book, which includes wonderful photographs and interesting endnotes, appeals to readers of all sorts. As usual, the Jewish Publication Society has produced a truly fine work.
Hopefully, we will soon celebrate the resurfacing of the Aleppo's Codex's missing pages, and their relocation in Jerusalem.
Zalman Alpert is reference librarian at Yeshiva University's Mendel Gottesman Library of Judaica.
from The Jewish Press
The original article may be found here.


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The Secret To Better Education... Is Dumb Robots?
from the surprise... deptA year ago, in writing about innovation in education, I mentioned an observation I had about learning, combined with a prediction about how technology could help revolutionize education in a good way:
One of the other lessons I learned in teaching (and in tutoring before that) was that the best way to truly master a subject is to teach it yourself, and have people asking you to explain it back to them. This is why I'm not joking up above when I talk about the possibilities of having certain subjects taught by other students as well. You might think you fully understand a subject, but just wait until people start asking questions (similarly, despite quite a bit of study in the subject, my full "understanding" of certain aspects of information economics didn't become really clear until I had to explain them repeatedly via this blog). And, of course, it need not be students teaching students -- but you could have software designed to act like a "learning" student, where the student has to "teach" the software.It appears that others have had the same idea... and been doing some studies about it. Via TechCrunch, we learn of some new research, by Shizuko Matsuzoe and Fumihide Tanaka at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, that found that when students "taught" a "dumb" robot, they learned a subject much better (in this case, it was Japanese students learning English):
Matsuzoe and Tanaka found that the children did best when the robot appeared to learn from them. This also made the children more likely to want to continue learning with the robot.They note that most traditional "educational" robots tend to work in the other direction... acting as "teachers" for the kids. But those appear to not be nearly as effective as when you flip the relationship. As I found back when I taught, having people continually ask you questions to clarify their own understanding forces you to truly understand the subject yourself at a much deeper level than if you're just a "student."
You can take a look at the full study over here (which, it's great to see, is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License). And there are some really interesting findings. First, the difference in performance with and without the robot is pretty significant:
Contrary to our initial assumption, the average percentage of questions answered correctly was in fact higher than the results obtained on the day of the experiment (we predicted that it would have been lower because the children might have forgotten the learned verbs). Subsequent interviews with parents (details in Section 6.3.3) provided us with some clues for this result. Most parents told us that their children appeared to enjoy the experience of teaching the care-receiving robot so much that he or she continued to play the game at home, even after several days, weeks, and wherever similar objects were found.While this is still early research, it's definitely encouraging, and hopefully more people will start to explore similar ideas. Teaching kids by having them teach others could be a really effective way to create a much deeper level of understanding within students, rather than just teaching them to learn by rote.


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In hopes of generating some working capital for next year's event, I have decided to reissue one of my personal favorites and most popular AE86 Nights shirt. For those of you that know me, I like keeping the AE86 Nights products as limited runs to make it that much more special for the people that are able to grab one at our events. However, due to the popularity and requests for the OBEIGHTSIX shirt, I have decided to reissue through a teespring.com campaign giving everyone the opportunity to purchase them in a variety of color ways. Also included in the campaign are girl's shirts and pull-over hoodies. I have never sold hoodies at the meet due to costs, but this gives the opportunity to grab one if you so desire.
I appreciate the constant support throughout the years, and hope to keep going and make it to our 10 year anniversary in 2017. I personally owe a lot of friendships to this humble meet and strive to keep it as grassroots as possible. I know there is no way for us to compete with the glamour and flash of 86Fest, but I hope we have been able to provide a humble setting for all of you AE86 and Toyota enthusiasts to gather and share ideas and stories.
Anyway, if you are interested in participating in the campaign, please follow the link below and pick up a shirt.
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I was hunting whitetail in some rough country. As I was climbing down a hill, I took a tumble (no round in chamber) and whacked the rifle hard as I fell. I was climbing down to field dress a doe my dad took. When I finished gutting her I saw a buck approach. I think the doe scent on the doe and me was twitterpating the buck.
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Scottish politicians at #PovertyAssembly 2012
The Scottish Assembly for Tackling Poverty has always had a unique mix of attendees and speakers, brining together people from the third sector, frontline workers, community activists, journalists, bloggers and politicians. We thought we'd share the list of local and national politicians speaking and debating at the assembly this year, including their social media channels where available.
Day 2 – Fri 16th March
10.40am Local Approaches to Tackling Poverty: Debate with representatives of Local Government in Scotland
Cllr Archie Graham – Deputy leader Glasgow City Council, Scottish Labour Party
Robert Brown MSP – Scottish Liberal Democrats
Richard Sullivan – Scottish Conservative Party Candidate
Cllr Martha Wardrop – Glasgow City Council, Scottish Green Party
Cllr Douglas Yates – East Renfrewshire Council, Scottish Nationalist Party
2.15 Actions for Tackling Poverty
Plenary feedback from political representatives involved in the evidences sessions:
Bob Doris MSP – Scottish National Party
Anne McGuire MP – Scottish Labour Party
Patrick Harvie MSP – Scottish Green Party
Drew Smith MSP – Scottish Labour Party
Kenneth Gibson MSP – Scottish National Party
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J. Fergusson, Illustrations of the Rock Cut Temples of India, London 1845, pl.XV
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Illustrations Of The Rock-Cut Temples Of India: Selected From The Best Examples Of The Different Series Of Caves At Ellora, Ajunta, Cuttack, Salsette, Karli, And Mahavellipore. Drawn On Stone By Mr. T.C. Dibdin, From Sketches Carefully Made On The Spot, With The Assistance Of The Camera-Lucida, In The Years 1838-9, By James Fergusson, Esq. - London:: [1845]
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The great Danny Roberts of the award-winning bluegrass band The Grascals burns this original tune on his Sorensen VX mandolin this week on Mandolin Mondays.
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(Phoenix, Ariz. – Sept. 21, 2005) Attorney General Terry Goddard today announced the indictment of Timothy James Reeves, 35, for fraud, theft and forgery while working as an accountant at Alcor Life Extension in Scottsdale.
Reeves was indicted by the State Grand Jury on September 15. The indictment alleges that while working at Alcor, Reeves falsified checks to pay himself monies totaling more than $100,000 and then falsified ledgers to hide the extra funds. The indictment also alleges that Reeves wrote a letter to Smith Barney pretending to be a supervisor at Alcor, allowing Reeves to withdraw funds from the trust account of an Alcor customer.
He was indicted on one count Fraudulent Schemes and Artifices, one count Theft and 12 counts of Forgery. Reeves faces up to a maximum of 60 years in prison. He will be arraigned in Maricopa County Superior Court on September 26. Assistant Attorney General Todd Lawson is prosecuting this case.