text: We added some new events to the events page as well as added a list of this year's prizes on the Grand Prize page! Find out what you can win! Welcome to the official web site of the 67th Annual 4th of July Parade and Celebration in Warren, PA. Each year our committee is dedicated toward making our celebration bigger and better for you. I am pleased to announce that our 67th Annual 4th of July Celebration has grown into a three day event with plenty of fun for everyone. The celebration will open on Friday, July 4th with the Parade sponsored by United Refining Company/Kwik Fill. Our parade is known for being one of the best in Pennsylvania. The 2014 edition will feature 12 plus marching bands, 20 to 30 floats, drill and dance teams, color guards, fire trucks, clowns and much more. Another unique parade highlight is our "Veterans March." Leading the parade will be an entire division of Veterans from all branches of the armed forces. Veterans from the crowd are always invited to walk or ride along. Very unique to our parade is our annual pre-parade show located at the General Joseph Warren Park. This year's show will feature music performed by local and regional talent. Bleacher seating is available at a cost of $12.00 per person. Your reserved seating includes a Grand Prize ticket, lunch and the best seat on the parade route. You don't want to miss this. Following our parade, a multitude of activities will take place at Betts Park located on the west end of town. For 2014 we have signed Bates Bros. Amusements for our three day event. This amusement company is the same that does our Warren County Fair. Mr. Bates has promised to bring his ferris wheel and merry-go-round plus as many rides that will fit at the Park. He is also bringing games of skill and food vendors. Our Organization is currently in the process of contacting and contracting with Vendors of many products. We will hold the very popular Cutest Baby Contest and schedule plenty of contests and activiites for all age groups. Everyone is asking "When are the Fireworks?" Our gigantic fireworks display by Gibson Fireworks will be Saturday night July 5th at 10:00. Each night there will be musical entertainment provided by some of the top bands in the region. Our committee is hard at work rounding out the schedule of events, which will make the 67th annual celebration in Warren, PA one that will be remembered for a long time. Keep visiting our site for further updates and check us out on Face Book. Sincerely Yours, Wally Post General Chairman


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Why would I ever buy clothes based on this action? I fully support the decision, and voted that way. No one, baseball least of all, wants to face the fact that the game has been stained over at least the past 10 years by rampant steroids use. Now they will have to face it. And Mark Ecko's clothing line sucks balls.
You might not, but in the big picture it's the same reason people buy things when they see advertisements on TV or in magazines--exposure works.Originally Posted by Maddogg420
And Ecko's business empire isn't just the ecko unltd. brand with the rhino either.
I have a few Ecko shirts. That's all I have to say really.
Now the question is, will Bond's bust at the HOF be pre or post steroid use?
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Still waiting for DOE to respond to this note a high school English teacher sent me last week:
I was just given a copy of the GaDOE's Curriculum Maps for ELA 9-12th grades. I need some help from you before I quit my job and lead the charge for every other high school English teacher to do the same. I have taught for many years, am am good at my job, am an asset to the school at which I teach, and love teaching.
I have rolled with the punches of increased class size, decreased paycheck size and all the other gripe-worthy problems in education. I am not a whiner, a crier (literally or figuratively) or a complainer, but after today, having seen a document that reduced me to tears, I am inspired to leave teaching in the state of Georgia.
Today I saw the CCGPS Curriculum Map. I have provided the link for the 9th Grade ELA CCGPS Map for you.
If I am reading this document correctly, I have four nine- week sections. Fair enough. In each nine-week section I have to tackle one major piece of literature and seven small pieces of literature, easily done, and honestly probably a low number.
Here is the rub. It suggests that my students are to write 4-6 analyses and 1-2 narratives every nine weeks. Let's do some math. On the low end, I am looking at grading 20 and at the high end 32 process writings a year.
Here is a little Math for you and a little fact about the population I serve. First the fact: If Johnny writes it, his parents will want meaningful feedback written on it or on a rubric and will complain if they don't get it.
Now for the Math: 20 x 35 (my class sizes this year) = 700 papers per year. 700 x 5 (the number of classes I will teach) =3500. Each paper takes me a minimum of 10 minutes to grade. I will spend 35,000 minute or 583.33 hours or 24.3 days or 72.872 8 hour work days a year grading only students' written assignments. THIS IS THE LOW END!!!
I would do the Math for 32 papers, but I may have to jump out the window if I do. Also, I get a grand total of 9,900 minutes or 165 hours of planning time. During those times I plan and do everything else teachers are asked to do—I am going to spare you the list that I know you have seen too many times.
I send you this e-mail not in an effort to gripe to you about my woes, but to ask you to help me get to the bottom of this ridiculousness. I get that the more kids write the better writers they become. My kids write often, but not 20-32 full process papers a year. Please help me and every English teacher in the state by getting some clarification on this matter.
The DOE has passed the information to the county curriculum coordinators, and they are going to treat this document as final CCGPS ELA edict from on high. I guess what I am asking you to do is investigate the DOE's intentions with its ELA curriculum mapping before I grab my pitchfork and torch and storm their great fortress (or at the very least get arrested for indecent exposure)!!!
P.S Ok, so I did the high end math without jumping out of a window: 32 papers a year requires, 933 hours or 116 (8 hour) work days of pro bono grading. What can I say; hyperbole makes me happy!
–From Maureen Downey, for the AJC Get Schooled blog
April 26th, 2012
9:41 am
Wow. Just … wow. If the DOE will do this to high school teachers – obviously without considering any consequences – what are they going to foist on us middle school teachers?
April 26th, 2012
9:41 am
Yeah yeah yeah. All you teachers are just breakin my heart. You chose teaching because you thought it was glorified babysitting, then you found out you may have to do some work and that really bummed you out.
Do your job, change careers or SHUT UP!!
April 26th, 2012
9:42 am
I reviewed the link above for the ELA CCCPS and I'm confused. It seems to very much reflect the type of activities students were assigned in English class back in my day (when there no class size requirements). I remember many, many reading assignments, writing either paragraphs or full papers almost on a daily basis, with full papers due at the end of a session. I don't recall that our teachers struggled to read, critique or grade said papers.
April 26th, 2012
9:55 am
I recall my algebra teachers having to grade anywhere between 60 to 120 papers per night. Yes, we had homework everynight.
April 26th, 2012
9:57 am
It's all insane. What happened to the days when the teachers were empowered to do their jobs…in their own discretion…without all of the interference and kibitzing from State Educrats? What happened to the days when the teachers were empowered both in laying down their rules relative to academics and student comportment? I remember sitting in Mrs. Hayes's Sophomore English class — in the afternoon, after lunch, upstairs, with no air condition — and learning and re-learning the rules of grammar. We learned how to write cogent sentences and paragraphs — and with no foolishness allowed in the classroom. The mere idea that one of us students would "bow up" to Mrs. Hayes is fanciful. Our Assistant Principal at the time (he later spent about 30 years there as principal), Mr. Williams Screws, would have thrown the proverbial book [or, perhaps a literal book! Ha!] at us. Mr. Screws was revered by us students, but we knew that he did not play when it came to supporting the teachers!
Yes, at Jordan High, we learned to diagram sentences by obediently going to the chalk board and doing it in front of the entire class. If we couldn't correctly diagram the sentences, then we were properly embarrassed. Yes, properly embarrassed. Embarrassment is a great, healthy way of motivating students. It works. Now, as a teacher, you know which students are doing their best and when to tread very lightly on this embarrassment tool. But, for those scoundrels who just did not do their work and apply themselves — yes, you were embarrassed! Mrs. Hayes would properly embarrass us. It's funny, but I learned that the embarrassment tool is used plentifully in law school as well…with the dreaded Socratic Method. If you brought your butt to class without preparing (having read many cases the night before) and you were called on in class and could not answer the professor's queries, you were embarrassed!
But, today… Ah, today… All of the onus for the child to learn is put on the back of his teacher. The teacher MUST do this. The teacher MUST do that. What MUST Johnny do? What MUST Johnny's parents do? Nothing. It's all about putting the onus and pressure on Johnny's teachers, and this doesn't work. Johnny's teacher can only teach Johnny; she can't learn Johnny. That's not even proper English. © JRAT, April 26, 2012.
April 26th, 2012
9:58 am
Howard: volunteering for a job, perhaps? You'd think differently if you were to try it for a while. Sounds like there might be some openings.
As to the writing requirement, we're still figuring that one out at my school. There's not a length specified, and we're finding that analyses can be something as simple as analyzing a character or an argument in a reading selection. Those can be fairly short writings. The narratives, we're hoping, can be a combination of one fairly short piece followed by a bigger piece as a summative writing. The summative writings would require the in-depth grading that the e-mail author mentions.
We're hopefully going to get more detail on the requirements in the next couple of months. I'm just not going to panic until I see exactly what the state DOE folks consider an analysis and a narrative.
April 26th, 2012
10:01 am
Yes, at Jordan High, we learned to diagram sentences by obediently going to the chalk board and doing it in front of the entire class
You didn't learn how to diagram a sentence until high school? Wow, that's kind of late in the game, Try Mrs. Jacobson's 4th grade class at Huntley Hills Elementary back in my day – now that was a teacher that knew how to teach students how to diagram a sentence. She did not let up until we "got it".
April 26th, 2012
10:02 am
At the last two companies I worked for, layoffs occured, my overtime was done away with, my salary was cut and my work load was increased considerably. I just had to accept it as I could not afford to quit and risk months or years of unemployment.
I am not unsympathetic to this teacher. I just hope, if she quits, she can find another job and not face months and months(years?) of unemployment.
April 26th, 2012
10:04 am
Dunwood Mom: I thought the same thing, but then realized how much more paperwork I do now as a teacher compared to when I started back in the old days. We also have many more meetings, trainings, etc. We seem to be spending an inordinate amount of time planning and writing down what we're going to do and how we're going to do it, then analyzing data on top of data to judge how we did it that we don't have a lot of time to actually do it. We're going to have to push to make sure we're given a balance of time to grade the writings and provide meaningful feedback.
April 26th, 2012
10:06 am
Hey Howard, I actually think the article is a little hyperbolic. There are some ways around the extremes of grading each full essay, but the underlying trend is valid. Teachers are being asked to do more work with less time.
It might seem to you that we, I'm a high school English teacher as well, are saying that we don't want to teach our kids, but in reality, that's what we want to do. As the politicians and departments of education pile on more work that only appears to be teaching, we have less time to actually teach or prepare meaningful lessons. If we have a finite amount of time and are asked to do more and more superficial tasks, that's less time for instruction.
The increased number of essays each semester is a perfect example. Students learn from exposure to the writing process. With an increased number of essays, teachers can't spend as much time revising, editing, and reworking the essays the students are writing. If I assigned twenty papers a semester for my students, and did little to work on them, my students would learn less than they would if I assigned one essay that we labored over all semester.
There is a trend in educational leadership that is detached from the realities of the classroom and quality instruction. What we want is for our leaders to realize the implication their decisions have on classroom instruction.
April 26th, 2012
10:15 am
"Teachers are being asked to do more work with less time."
As is everyone else who is currently employed. This hash that has already been hashed and rehashed. Bottomline is "The Universe is indifferent.'
That being said, do your job or get out.
April 26th, 2012
10:20 am
Wow. Thanks for the informative column. I think this a PERFECT example of government at work. It fails at almost anything it tries to manage, supervise or accomplish. I used to teach writing at a community college and, because I was conscientious and wanted to provide constructive criticism, saw how much extra time was spent grading and marking up compositions. That is why I eventually got out of teaching, though I loved it. I would envy math teachers who only had to mark whether an answer was right or wrong. The educational system in America is broken for a number of reasons, but the DOE is certainly not going to be able to fix it.
April 26th, 2012
10:20 am
@ Dunwood Mom: No, I didn't mean to imply that this was the first experience that we had diagramming sentences. Sorry. But, this emphasis on the rules of grammar was what I was hoping came across. It was a constant thing in our schooling process. Today, most of the kids can't write a lick. Not a lick. Just non-sensical verbiage. Perhaps I exaggerate because I am shocked at their apparent lack of exposure to the rules of grammar.
April 26th, 2012
10:20 am
Hi Dunwoody Mom,
We are actually being asked to be much more diligent about our responses to students than teachers used to be. One of our main problems is that nothing is ever taken off of our plates, so we are asked to write these papers in which we explore the entire writing process, from conception to revisions and beyond.
While we can do some of the work in smaller chunks, we are faced with too little time to provide useful feedback to our students. To give you an idea of the feedback expected of us, here is a quote about Marzano's view of feedback – he is THE name in educational reform to many current administrators.
Marzano refers to another meta-analysis, of nearly 8000 studies (!): "the most powerful single modification that enhances achievement is feedback. The simples prescription for improving education must be 'dollops of feedback.'" Marzano makes these points: "Feedback should be corrective; timely, specific and criterion referenced; and students can effectively provide some of their own feedback." Rubrics, Marzano goes on to point out, can be a valuable tool for feedback.
While I agree with the idea of providing better feedback, the requirements to do so many essays each semester prohibits this for many of the essays students write.
April 26th, 2012
10:21 am
The main problem I see is that differentiation is seemingly ignored or disallowed. Why force a student who already writes well to go through the same number of assignments meant to improve those skills as a student who needs more development in those areas? It is this type of top-down mandated, scripted and inflexible curricular 'innovations' that have seriously run down the quality of our schools over the past years under NCLB. This new stuff is shaping up to be NCLB on steroids – not a good thing. Teachers need the flexibility to adapt on the fly for their students' needs and strengths in order to provide the best educational experiences. This on size fits all, you will all be the same and standardized is killing us.
April 26th, 2012
10:21 am
"one size" –
April 26th, 2012
10:23 am
We understand that you are unemployed and bitter about not being able to find a job. I'm sure something will turn up eventually.
April 26th, 2012
10:29 am
By my math, that's less than one paper to grade per student per week.
Let's re-do the math and help this poor English teacher keep from jumping out the window:
5 classes, max 1 hour each, so that's 5 hours of teaching per day, 180 school days per year… total teaching time is 900 hours. Add 165 hours of planning time (using her number). 600 hours of grading time (rounding up the low number). We're at 1600 hours so far, for full-time pay and benefits. Most people work 2000 hours per year for full-time pay and benefits at less personally rewarding jobs.
Teachers need to be paid more, no doubt, because we need to value it more than we do. Same as police and firefighters.
But this teacher's argument isn't going to sway people that she's overworked once they do the math.
April 26th, 2012
10:30 am
Ok, 1665, I lost a number in there. Still not up to 2000 hours.
April 26th, 2012
10:32 am
Im gainfully employed my friend and have been for quite sometime. I expect "extra duties as assigned" and ALWAYS rise to the occassioin. These public employees are a pitiful lot. Most live a miserable, self-imposed lifestyle and Im happy for them. ; )
April 26th, 2012
10:33 am
Man, I wish I had of gone to school, gotten an easy degree, and then went into a job where I had built-in 3 months off in the summers, plus Christmas break, spring break, a lot of times fall break, and all the other holidays that schools get. Then, I know I could feel sorry for this teacher that is still being asked to work much less than me, for roughly the same money, and she gets benefits.
April 26th, 2012
10:33 am
Your child will be so happy when he or she goes to college and can write! Let's maintain high standards and hire teachers who can meet and exceed those standards. After all, we are working for the kids, not for the teachers. Thank you Mr. Trotter!
April 26th, 2012
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April 26th, 2012
10:34 am
Oops! Thank you, Mr. Trotter!
April 26th, 2012
10:34 am
Okay, I realized as I was posting that I should have said that I wish I had of gone to school and gotten an easy degree. I did go to school, I just chose to do something that didn't involve babysitting children.
April 26th, 2012
10:35 am
Back to fancy private school comparisons… honors high school English … 4 books a year plus some poems and other "add ins" — teachers have total "say so" over curriculum — 9th grader has done the "Odyssey" "Catcher in the Rye" and is now working on "Julius Caesar" (I don't remember the 4th) — they spend most of a quarter on the one book … chapter by chapter… thoroughly understanding it (11th grader has done "Great Gatsby" "Huck Finn" "Scarlet Letter") — they write very long papers that are graded, re-written, self-graded, teacher-graded, re-written, etc. -they learn to read, write, analyze in a setting with 15-18 kids and excellent feedback. My 11th grader has been getting 11s and a 790 on the SAT writing — he can write really well. We'll see about the 9th grader — this is, to me, college English and they'll be ready for college. It presumes that the teacher is really good with English (my older son's DCSS English teachers were very well educated but didn't have the ability or flexibility to teach this way — his skills aren't nearly as good). I think this is "overkill" by the state — the teachers need to be able to do their jobs well and need to have small enough class sizes to be able to do their jobs well and then there need to be consequences for not doing them well (e.g. new careers….) — the kids need to be able to read and write — but they will have other classes and they (teachers and students) need the ability to put a lot of thought and energy into the things they are reading and writing… this seems overboard.
April 26th, 2012
10:47 am
Seems as though the teacher in question should do as the rest of us do when we're dissatisfied at work — seek another job. Why all the drama?
And who is 'Ron F" and why does he have so much free time (and column inches)?
April 26th, 2012
10:51 am
For those who are so quick to calculate, please include before and after school meetings, mandated trainings, parent-teacher conferences, open houses and back to school nights, IEP meetings you may need to sit in on, and PTA meetings you are mandated to attend. In addition, if this teacher sponsors a club or sport make sure to add that too.
He/She only referenced the curriculum coverage, A teacher's job goes beyond that.
April 26th, 2012
10:53 am
Your "real" degree now allows you to be unemployed and sit at home responding to blogs.
April 26th, 2012
10:54 am
please include before and after school meetings, mandated trainings, parent-teacher conferences, open houses and back to school nights, IEP meetings you may need to sit in on, and PTA meetings you are mandated to attend. In addition, if this teacher sponsors a club or sport make sure to add that too.
Does that really total 300 more hours? That would just get them up to the number of hours the average full-time worker is supposed to work, and we all know about working overtime and weekends when the boss says to….
April 26th, 2012
10:55 am
Still though, they're being asked to work far less than most people do for, yet they get paid for full time work, and have awesome benefits. I work more than full time, barely get paid for it, and have never worked anywhere with benefits. You can try and rationalize it anyway you want, but no matter how much I respect teachers for what they do, I lose that respect very quickly when they start complaining because they're asked to actually do their jobs.
April 26th, 2012
11:04 am
@Anonmom: Interestingly enough, my 9th grader has read most the books you mentioned in his public school. In addition, he's also read the "Hunger Games","To Kill a Mockingbird", "Speak", "Anthem", "Fahrenheit 451″, along with lots of note cards and writing assignments in his Lit class and Civics class. He will also come home with a summer reading list and assignments to complete before school starts.
I'm pleased with his progress. However, his teacher is frustrated because she has 30+ students in her classes (6 total classes, some as large as 36) and feels the quality of her written feedback has dropped this year due to the large class size. She's actually taken a couple of personal leave days this year to "catch up" on her grading.
Class sizes must return to a reasonable size.
April 26th, 2012
11:04 am
T-square: if it's so easy, come do it and let me know what you think. Critics love to throw out your argument, and it's irrelevant. Judge it when you've done it. The benefits were offered, once upon a time, as a means to attract better folks to the profession. Trust me, until you've done it, you have no idea what the job involves. It looks rosy from the outside. Come try it and you might see things differently.
April 26th, 2012
11:08 am
Do what my high school teacher did. When he assigned a report he stood in front of the class and said: "You have (some amount of time) for this report so there's no excuse for grammatical or spelling errors. If I find one error of this type, you will fail the assignment, and I won't bother reading the rest."
I imagine he found this to be a time saver.
April 26th, 2012
11:09 am
@ByteMe – That gets them to the average full-time worker rate in 190 or less days (due to unpaid furloughs). The average full-time worker has 251 days (365 – weekends & 10 vacation days)….Sounds like more than 8 hour days to me!
April 26th, 2012
11:12 am
I moved on from a high school English position last year, and the grading load and class sizes were two reasons why. I couldn't imagine having to keep up with these new requirements. The intent of the DOE is admirable, just not pragmatic, and it will have a detrimental effect on student performance as teachers will not be able to provide the kind of feedback and revision opportunities that lead to better writing skills.
The choice for frustrated English teachers is now between providing inferior instruction and leaving the profession. Sucks for Georgia.
April 26th, 2012
11:15 am
Ron – I'm sorry, where exactly did I say anything about it being easy? I said the degree was easy. There is a difference. Everyone I went to high school with that went to college and couldn't handle it, either dropped out or transferred into an education major. I don't know anyone who could successfully make the argument that a teaching degree is anywhere near as difficult as an engineering, architecture, psychology or most other degrees. But hey, you keep acting like you're being persecuted by being expected to do your job, and I'll continue looking at you and laughing because you sound like a fool.
April 26th, 2012
11:19 am
I love arguments that essentially say, "My job is just as bad so you should suffer too." So– if you are hitting yourself in the face with a cinder block, and I am only hitting myself in the face with a baseball bat, I should be grateful for the baseball bat?
Or– I could just stop hitting myself in the face.
That's the real crux of that argument. Make all the arguments you like about how teachers should just suffer, because everyone suffers. In the end though, you need to ask for how long teachers will suffer. Quality education requires quality educators. How long do you think quality educators will put up with this? Especially considering how much venom Georgians spew at teachers on blogs like these.
Also- many of these calculations about "full time working hours" are comparing 12 months of work to 9 months of work.
So, you are saying on top of the great responsibility of molding the future, teachers should cram 12 months of work into 9 months of time, allow their profession to be continuously bashed by most people, have the weight of every single of 162 students' emotional, physical, and academic well-being on their shoulders while completing all the paperwork, meetings, and CYA required by the state?
If they speak out against it, you call them whiners. You tell them–stop whining and just do it.
They may stop whining and do it…but they will only do it until they find something better in the job market. Then they will speak with their feet.
Yeah. That will make education way better.
April 26th, 2012
11:19 am
Another Teacher – How many people do you think actually work only 8 hours per day, and actually take their 10 vacation days? What about weekends, do you honestly believe that no one works on the weekends either? Maybe try looking at the real world, and you'll see that your idea that there are only 251 work days in the year is a tad bit ridiculous.
April 26th, 2012
11:19 am
@T-Square; sounds like you picked the wrong profession. You should have become a teacher, poor baby.
April 26th, 2012
11:21 am
If school was a 50 week a year deal, there would be enough time.
April 26th, 2012
11:24 am
1. The new writing and reading requirements under common core are spread across all subject areas. For example, a Lab Report for Chemistry would count as an informative/explanatory text for that student for that year. The ones who should be complaining are the History and Science teachers who are now responsible for all 32 (in HS) CC ELA standards in addition to their own content standards.
2. Where does it say that every assignment has to be a traditional multi-page essay? Have them make a wiki, Facebook page, or some kind of other project what displays the same kinds of learning and curriculum mastery. Be creative, there are other ways to build good critical thinking and writing skills without the 5+ page essay.
3. When have new standards ever changed anything? We will have a completely new set of standards five years form now and another new set five years after that. Do what every teacher does. Look at the standards and determine what the real learning goals are. When you see "W.9-10.1 Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence", what does the standard ask for? Not necessarily an essay. It wants kids that can smell out the BS and explain why it's wrong. I may be mistaken but that's always been an educational goal for teachers everywhere. The standards are there because we should have a broadly similar educational experience no matter where we go to school. Well, and because the politicians and educational industrial complex assume that their standards are something new and different and impactful.
If you're looking at the standards or the curriculum guides and assuming that you now have to follow it verbatim, you're doing it wrong. Innovate, apply best practices, and respond to your students' needs.
April 26th, 2012
11:24 am
The relative difficulty of college degrees is too subjective for you to even begin to develop a supported opinion on. However, there is evidence to support that higher paying fields attract the best students. So the solution is simple: pay teachers more and get better teachers. But from your previous ill-informed comments, I highly doubt you support that kind of logical reasoning.
April 26th, 2012
11:31 am
Byte me–then there is "duty" directing traffic, monitoring the lunchroom, putting kids on and off buses, etc.
April 26th, 2012
11:31 am
Poor Baby – Say what you want, but one day, my profession will actually pay off with the time I'm putting in now. And I won't be taking money from taxpayers to do it.
Forced to be Anon – You make good points, but I think you miss some of our points. For me, it isn't whether the teachers are going to eventually leave or not, and I'm not saying you should suffer because I do. I'm saying, everyone has unrealistic demands placed on them by their bosses, and the rest of us have to find ways to deal with them or get fired. Very few people have the security that most teachers enjoy and expect in their jobs. It just doesn't happen, yet they get upset when they're asked to do more. I don't understand it.
April 26th, 2012
11:32 am
"When have new standards ever changed anything? We will have a completely new set of standards five years form now and another new set five years after that. "
Isn't that a sad commentary? Teachers have so little trust in the staying power of education fads, they are advised to just wait five years–it will change.
April 26th, 2012
11:34 am
"Say what you want, but one day, my profession will actually pay off with the time I'm putting in now."
Teaching won't? For whom? Society in general or just teachers?
April 26th, 2012
11:35 am
"I'm saying, everyone has unrealistic demands placed on them by their bosses, and the rest of us have to find ways to deal with them or get fired."
Or leave. Again proving my point that teachers will just quit. Is that your solution? Just let them all quit and see what the cat drags in to teach kids?
Again- that will definitely make the profession better. Excellent solution.
April 26th, 2012
11:37 am
jnes – You're right, I would rather that teachers were volunteer only. Did I ever say anything supporting the position you put out there proclaiming it to be mine? I would, in fact, support paying teachers more, but only if they actually earned it. By which I mean, performance based reviews that determined who was actually teaching, and who was merely babysitting. To your first point, you really think that you couldn't gauge the relative difficulty of an education degree vs an engineering degree? Wow. Just wow.
April 26th, 2012
11:39 am
Hey T-Square,
I hope you are being contrary now to prove a point, but you must know that teachers don't just work their contracted hours. I certainly work much more than that, and I'm sure you do as well. I have no doubt you work hard and in the current economy many people who work hard aren't receiving just compensation.
The argument you are making paints a caricature of what teachers do. No one is trying to imply we should just work our contracted hours. Every English teacher I know works many extra hours with no more than a passing complaint. Most of my contracted hours are spent working with students, teaching classes, planning lessons, doing menial tasks like duty and running copies for those assignments. Most of my grading happens outside of school already. I spend at least ten hours a week grading, and many more trying to innovate or stay up to date on my subject area. What we are worried about is literally not having enough time to actually instruct the kids. Tchr brings up some good points, but the trend from the DOE is to continue piling on things that don't really impact a student's learning. We need to streamline the process and give teachers the time to teach effectively. Wouldn't you agree that focusing on student learning is paramount?
I'm interested in your response, but please try not to pull out a few words for your response, but reply to my overall comment.


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Summary: When Jason Goodwin explored the Ottoman Empire in Lords of the Horizons , The New York Times Book Review hailed it as "a work of dazzling beauty...the rare coming together of historical scholarship...with luminous writing." Now he returns to Istanbul, with a delicious mystery-- The Janissary Tree . It is 1836. Europe is modernizing, and the Ottoman Empire must follow suit. But just before the Sultan announces sweeping changes, a wave of murders threatens the fragile balance of power in his court. Who is behind them? Only one intelligence agent can be trusted to find out: Yashim Lastname, a man both brilliant and near-invisible in this world. You see, Yashim is a eunuch. He leads us into the palace's luxurious seraglios and Istanbul's teeming streets, and leans on the wisdom of a dyspeptic Polish ambassador, a transsexual dancer, and a Creole-born queen mother. And he introduces us to the Janissaries. For 400 years, they were the empire's elite soldiers, but they grew too powerful, and ten years ago, the Sultan had them crushed. Are the Janissaries staging a brutal comeback? The Janissary Tree is the first in a series featuring the most enchanting detective since Precious Ramotswe of The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency . Splendidly paced and illuminating, it belongs beside Caleb Carr's The Alienist and the historical thrillers of Arturo Perez-Reverte.
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Gold (7-3) Korea (Mi Sung Shin, Hyun Jung Lee, Seul Bee Lee, Un Chi Gim, Ji Sun Kim)
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Bronze (7-3) Japan (Chiaki Matsumura, Miyuki Sato, Emi Shimizu, Miyo Ichikawa, Yuta Matumura)
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The 2011 edition of the games, which is supported by the World Curling Federation, will feature a Mixed Doubles Curling competition for the first time as well as traditional men's and women's team curling.
Mixed Doubles Teams: Australia, China, Finland, Hungary, Japan, Latvia, New Zealand, Switzerland, USA invitational
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Alex Siri, 15, has autism and is considered nonverbal. Alex uses an iPad program to let others know what he wants or how he is feeling. Alex's father is hoping his son will also benefit from a new bill proposed by Sen. Charles Schumer. If passed, Avonte's Law would use federal money to pay for a voluntary program to help police locate missing at-risk autistic children using GPS tracking devices.
The proposal is named for Avonte Oquendo. The 14-year-old boy ran away from his Long Island City, Queens, school in October and was found dead earlier this month in the East River. Schumer made the announcement Sunday with Avonte's mother by his side. Schumer said it would be similar to a federal program that tracks seniors with Alzheimer's disease.
Just weeks before Avonte disappeared, Alex wandered away from his Upper East Side apartment. Luckily, he was quickly found.
Project Lifesaver is a similar private program already doing this for at people at risk.
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Until Alex gets such a device, his dad has tagged his shoes with his name and address and hopes Alex never needs that again.
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Match Preview: Union vs New York Red Bulls
Philadelphia Union vs New York Red Bulls
PPL Park – Chester, PA
2 Wins – 0 Draws – 4 Loss
- This will be the 7th meeting between these two teams.
- The Union are 2-2 against NYRB at PPL Park.
- The last meeting between these two sides saw the Union lose 2-0 at Red Bull Arena.
Injury Report:
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OUT: DF Brandon Barklage (L plantar fascia injury); GK Ryan Meara (L hip surgery); MF Lloyd Sam (R knee PCL injury)
OUT: DF Bakary Soumare (R knee menisectomy recovery)
DOUBTFUL: DF Gabriel Farfan (R ankle stress reaction), DF Sheanon Williams (ankle peroneal/Achilles strain)
QUESTIONABLE: MF Danny Cruz (L big toe sesamoid stress fracture)
PROBABLE: DF Chris Albright (illness)
- New York Red Bulls are currently sitting in the 4th spot of the Eastern Conference with 54 points.
- The highest New York can finish is 2nd and the lowest is 5th. This final game could drastically change their playoff positioning.
- New York has only won 2 of their last 8 games. The Union, on the other hand, have now lost 2 in a row after a good streak of winning 3 of 4.
- The Union have never been swept by the Red Bulls in a season. This has been a year of firsts though, with NYRB winning at PPL Park for the first time.
- Recent rumors in the media suggest NYRB coach Hans Backe is on the hotseat and a disappointing end to the season and a quick playoff exit could mean unemployment for the manager.
Danger Men:
- Thierry Henry: As the highest paid player in MLS, he needs to come up biggest when there is the most on the line. Even though Philadelphia is out of the playoff picture, it is massively important that Red Bull avoid the Wild Card game and the possible embarrassment of going out at that stage. The offense goes through the Frenchman and he has more experience in his pinky than the whole Union midfield has combined…even with Brian Carroll in the lineup.
- Kenny Cooper: When the Red Bulls ran over the Union in July, it was obvious there was no one on the Philadelphia back line that could slow down the giant forward. He has scored 3 goals against the Union this season and is the perfect example of the type of forward the Union could really use in 2013. Valdes and Okugo will need to be on their best form to keep him out of the net.
Match Up to Watch:
- Kenny Cooper vs. Carlos Valdés/Amobi Okugo: Things didn't go so well in this match up in July as the big man buried the Union. There is much less on the line for the Union this time around and the center back partnership should hold nothing back in harassing Cooper.
- Thierry Henry and Rafa Marquez: There might not be a pairing of players that Union supporters hate more in the league than these two. They are the perfect example as to the difference between the two teams. Just their personality is enough to make me hate any team they play on, and that is before their on-field antics.
Prediction: 1-1 Draw
- Despite the poor performance in Houston, expect Hackworth to have the young guns fired up for this one. It is the last game of the season and the last chance to gain a moral victory for the Philly faithful. The chance to force New York to go on the road in the Wild Card Round should be enough to make any Union player, supporter, or hot dog server salivate.
- Things are not going smoothly in the Red Bull camp. There have been shake-ups in the front office staff and rumors of more changes coming to the coaching staff. Since the off-field issues have started the results have taken a turn for the worse. Will the pressure of the looming playoffs be too much for the high-priced flops from New Jersey?
- No matter what happens I hope the crowd comes out to back the young Union lineup. These guys have been through a lot this season and no matter what happens Saturday they have never given up. Unfortunately, due to work I will not be able to make the game in person, but if you listen closely to the Southwest of PPL Park, you'll be able to hear me screaming at my TV from Owings Mills, Maryland. COME ON THE U!


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We are pleased to be able to bring you some first-look character concept art and film stills from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. These unique insights into the behind-the-scenes work are the first in a series of three large rollouts for the film which are being released in the run-up to its release on March 5, 2010. Scroll through our second gallery to see character concept art and descriptions for The Caterpillar, The Red Queen and The White Rabbit.
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In the last four years Bethel College administrators have extensively engaged in an initiative to coordinate various services of the college to its students: academic support and tutorial assistance, career services, service learning, student retention, leadership development, wellness programming and the Freshman Year Experience. This fall a Life Calling and Student Enrichment Center will be established to collaboratively serve students in those areas. The driving force behind this initiative is multi-faceted:
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The college has examined existing models at other colleges and universities, and discovered that each college/university customizes this collaborative initiative according to its specific needs and existing structures. After attending conferences, engaging consultants and reviewing similar efforts at other institutions of higher learning, Bethel formed an ad hoc committee this past year to identify the needs of the college, its students and means by which these needs can best be met. The Purpose Statement for the Life Calling and Student Enrichment Center reads as follows:
The purpose of the Life Calling and Student Enrichment Center is to serve students by facilitating academic achievement, individual growth, leadership development, and a personal journey toward a life calling.
Kathy Gribbin, Ph.D. serves as the vice president for life calling and student enrichment. Michelle Yager, currently director of career services, will team with Gribbin as the director of student enrichment. Gribbin and Yager have already begun the process of restructuring, staffing and developing all of the necessary building blocks for implementing the Life Calling and Student Enrichment Center in the Academic Center this fall. This is an initiative that will grow and strengthen with each year.
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It looks like orangutans are just as fascinated with iPads as the rest of the primate world (humans included).
It looks like orangutans are just as fascinated with iPads as the rest of the primate world (humans included).
A New York based not-for-profit called "Orangutan Outreach" has begun a program called called "Apps for Apes" in twelve zoos across North America. They are letting the orangutans play with (but not use on their own) donated iPads. Like other highly intelligent creatures, orangutans can get bored or depressed without mental stimulation. The iPads, or more specifically, the apps on them, help keep them entertained. Apparently, apps created for children are popular and the apes are said to be fond of nature documentaries by David Attenborough. Insert your own joke here. Check out the TIME story and see videos at the Orangutan Outreach site at RedApes.org. http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/09/06/apple-and-orangutans-apes-found-to-be-enamored-with-ipads/
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Q&A: Could my 3-year-old have ADHD?
I have a question concerning my 3-year-old son. Until recently he has been in a home childcare setting. I received complaints about his behavior at the two most recent visits. I thought it was because of lack of attention (because he wasn't that bad at home). Now, I am a stay-at-home mom and realize my son seems to never stop. My fiancé and I have read What to Expect, The Toddler Years and found the section about ADHD. All of the questions the book asked we answered yes. At my youngest son's appointment the pediatrician suggested that we ignore Kyle when he is doing "bad" things. I told her that makes it worse.
She just said, "Well, we won't medicate a 3-year-old for AD/HD." She didn't offer any other advice. We want to have more children, but I need advice on Kyle first.
Kyle's father has a younger cousin who has ADHD. Is this something I should be concerned about?
There are two separate components to the issue you raise. The first is whether your son has ADHD, and the second is what can you do about his current behavior, no matter what it is ultimately called.
Your pediatrician is right in that the ADHD label isn't meant for children under 5. Not only is distractability and impulsivity part of normal toddler behavior, but each child matures at his own pace and outgrows traits differently. The medications used for ADHD also aren't given to younger children. The side effects can be more severe and hard to interpret.
However, ADHD does run in families and is at least four times more common in boys than girls. It is possible that Kyle will ultimately have ADHD, but it is too early to tell and there aren't any tests to confirm this now. On the other hand, you still need to cope with an active, challenging preschooler. Besides medication, many therapies have been tossed around over the years. Some, like megavitamin therapy aren't effective at all and can be dangerous.
What can help you and your family now is learning a set of parenting strategies that can bring more structure and control into the house. Effective parenting skills help decrease problem behaviors while building your son's self-esteem at the same time. These skills are taught by a therapist, usually a family counselor. Going to a counselor doesn't mean you aren't good parents already or that the problem is severe, and it can empower you and give you more skills to handle a challenging preschooler. Your pediatrician should be able to make this referral for you.


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Volumes could be written about disparities in breast cancer (or any kind of cancer or health care in general) treatment, but this important topic has been receiving extra attention since Angelina Jolie went public with her decision about prophylactic bilateral mastectomies. Yes, she she "priviledged" to even have the choice to make, let alone to proceed through the surgeries and recovery with the best care and support that money can buy. That in no way minimizes her personal pain. Choosing to remove two heathy breasts is terrible for any woman.
I don't have anything new to add to this discussion, but have found myself thinking about the disparities even within our own institution. I firmly believe that every oncology patient at BIDMC receives the same world class medical and nursing care; I know that treatment decisions are never made based on financial resources or social class or ethnicity. The very best care is prescribed, and then we all work hard to make it happen. For some women, however, that takes a lot more work than for others. Even for those of us who have loving families, supportive friends, good medical insurance, adequate finances, and some degree of comfort negotiating a large medical center, it is really tough. Consider how much more challenging it is for women who are alone, who don't speak English, who can't take a day off from work without losing income, who are already worried about a ill family member or a child in trouble with the law or losing their homes or a multitude of other real life issues. We surely have patients for whom cancer is the least of their troubles.
This is on my mind because of this essay by Nancy Brinker, the CEO of the Komen Foundation, in USA Today. Honestly, I have my criticisms about Komen, most related to the scandal with Planned Parenthood and the whole Pink campaign, but they have done and continue to do a lot of very good work. Did you know, for example, that, outside of the federal government, Komen gives more money to research grants than anyone else? This is a thoughtful essay and worth a few minutes of your time. Here is the beginning and then a link to read more:
There is still a lot of work to be done in the fight against breast cancer, including making sure all women have the opportunity to make their own personal decisions about their medical future.
I commend Angelina Jolie for helping initiate a dialogue about health issues women face.
There are still far too many women who don't have access to high-quality care.
Where a women lives and how much money she has should not determine whether she lives.
Angelina Jolie, at 37 years of age, performed a tremendous public service when she recently announced she had a preventive double mastectomy to minimize her risk of getting cancer. She explained that she did so because she carries the BRCA1 gene mutation, which significantly increased her chances of developing breast and ovarian cancer.
This was an extremely personal and difficult decision. I know, since I made a similar decision when I was in my late 30s after being diagnosed with breast cancer, which was determined years later that it was also from carrying the BRCA1 gene mutation.


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A celebration of new work written and directed by Suffolk University students.
Very Savage, written and directed by Theo Goodell, explores the extremes of sibling rivalry.
Tout Compendre, C'Est Tout Pardonner, written and directed by Caitlin Kenney, is an exploration of Vincent Van Gogh's relationship with parents, brother and lover. Using music and improvisation. In English.
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- Vintage: 2013
- Varietal: Gewurztraminer
- Appellation: American
- Acidity: 0.59
- pH: 3.21
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As liberal decency has severed itself from intellectual integrity, and exiled harsh truths, these truths have found new allies, and become considerably harsher. The outcome is mechanically, and monotonously, predictable. Every liberal democratic 'cause war' strengthens and feralizes what it fights. The war on poverty creates a chronically dysfunctional underclass. The war on drugs creates crystallized super-drugs and mega-mafias. Guess what? The war on political incorrectness creates data-empowered, web-coordinated, paranoid and poly-conspiratorial werewolves, superbly positioned to take advantage of liberal democracy's impending rendezvous with ruinous reality, and to then play their part in the unleashing of unpleasantnesses that are scarcely imaginable (except by disturbing historical analogy). When a sane, pragmatic, and fact-based negotiation of human differences is forbidden by ideological fiat, the alternative is not a reign of perpetual peace, but a festering of increasingly self-conscious and militantantly defiant thoughtcrime, nourished by publicly unavowable realities, and energized by powerful, atavistic, and palpably dissident mythologies. That's obvious, on the 'Net.
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Participants in the Summer Reading Program at Evans Public Library in Vandalia were recently treated to a program on Heidanes Hidden Timbers and their therapy dogs.
The Fourth of July is being celebrated in three area communities.
The Vandalia Lions Club is again providing a carnival in the Vandalia Lake marina campgrounds. This year, the carnival is available on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
On Saturday evening, at dusk, the Lions will again provide the community's fireworks display over the lake.
The village of Farina's Fourth of July celebration begins in the middle of Friday afternoon and runs until late that evening.
While they hope to keep all of the state's historic sites – including the Vandalia Statehouse – open, officials of the agency overseeing those sites are faced with reducing hours of operation.
Three days after a leak at the Patoka Tank Farm, Marathon Pipeline operations are "pretty much back to normal," according to a company spokesperson.
U.S. Route 51 between Patoka and Vernon is again open to traffic.
A Marathon Pipeline spokesman at the scene of a Sunday leak at the Patoka Tank Farm said that Route 51 was reopened at 8 a.m. today (Monday).
Angela Graves of Marathon said Monday morning that the company is estimated that about 1,000 barrels of crude oil were leaked, adding that it is "a rough estimate."
Cleanup of the site, she said, would likely take several days to complete.
Tools for School, a program for only Fayette County in-need students to select free school supplies, is working on its 2014 fundraising campaign.
Last year, more than 600 school children – kindergarten through junior high, from Brownstown, Farina, Ramsey, St. Elmo, St. Peter and Vandalia – were served by Tools for School.
Monetary donations received from businesses, churches, organizations and individuals are used to purchase notebooks, paper, pens, crayons and other supplies noted on the Fayette County school supply lists.
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The Brownstown Fire Department has learned about a scam in which callers say that they are representatives of the BFD and are soliciting donations.
Anyone receiving phone calls seeking donations to the department should not agree to make donations.
A representative of the department said that the BFD does not solicit donations.
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Kevin Aukamp of rural Vandalia was listed in last week's Public Record as having been arrested for driving under the influence and improper lane usage. The charges were subsequently dismissed at the request of the Fayette County State's Attorney's Office. We apologise for the error.
The C.E.F.S. Economic Opportunity Corporation's Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program will begin taking applications for summer energy assistance on July 7, and will conclude on July 23 or when funds are exhausted.
Appointments for the first day of the program can be scheduled on July 3.
Appointments will be set on a first-come, first-served basis until the available funding is gone.
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Boy Scout Andrew Redlawski, a Stage IV Wilm's Tumor survivor, takes a popcorn order from Mara Jelich, executive director of Radiation Oncology at Karmanos.
Andrew J. Redlawski has experienced a lot in his 10 years of life. He was diagnosed with Stage IV Wilm's Tumor, a tumor that forms in the kidneys and occurs mostly in children, in June of 2008, a month after he turned 5.
"We took him to our pediatrician and the doctor felt a large lump in his stomach and directed us to another hospital for further observation and treatment," said his mother, Julie Redlawski. "We did not feel good about that decision. First, we prayed to God that our son would be OK and then we had a meeting with my husband Marv's extended family, who has dealt with childhood illness before.
"There was no question, Andrew had to be moved to Children's Hospital right away. We literally stopped the surgery that was planned for Andrew the very next day and drove him down to Children's Hospital. Now, five years later, we know it was the best decision we made for Andrew's care."
During his treatment at Children's Hospital of Michigan, Andrew underwent chemotherapy and surgery, and he received radiation treatments at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Center.
Julie and Marv describe the atmosphere at Karmanos and Children's Hospital as "a big loving family who just wrapped their arms around them and reassured them that their son would be OK."
"It was such a wonderful experience knowing that Andrew was in such professional and capable hands," Marv said. "Not only did the staff at Karmanos and Children's Hospital know what they were doing for our son, they explained it in very understandable language the treatments that he needed and what we would experience during the healing process.
"I don't know how they did it but they made us feel like Andrew was their only patient."
Andrew spoke about his time at Karmanos and Children's Hospital.
"It was kind of hard being in the hospital," he said. "Some parts I didn't like but some of it was kind of fun" including a raffle he took part in while being treated that netted him some cool pool toys.
He said it was challenging to stay still while receiving radiation but that the beds were comfortable at Children's Hospital. And though receiving chemotherapy, surgery and radiation may seem daunting to the average person, Andrew says, "It sounds like a lot but it wasn't too much."
Today Andrew is cancer-free, doing great and enjoys many activities most boys like – fishing, hiking, camping, building forts, climbing trees, building bird houses, wrestling with his four brothers, riding horses and even chasing the chickens that he raises at his East China Township home, which also serves as a small farm.
Andrew continues to visit Karmanos and Children's Hospital for his annual check-ups and while he is there, he sells gourmet popcorn to the staff that treated him to raise funds for the Cub Scouts.
"It's fun seeing everyone," he said on a recent trip to Karmanos' Gershenson Radiation Oncology Center (GROC), decked out in his red, beige and plaid scouting uniform to take popcorn orders.
Andrew works hard to raise funds for the Scouts so that he can take part in the troop's various activities including camping, archery, fishing, soap box derby racing and crafts as well as field trips with his fellow members. His favorite trip was to Frankenmuth and he's also been to Disneyland and the Great Wolf Lodge.
Andrew has been a successful salesman in years past, raising as much as $2,000 for the Scouts. He has also won top prizes through the various sales contests through the Scouts, including a sleeping bag, full camp outfit, model cars and gift cards. He says he's used the gift cards to purchase Halloween costumes for himself.
Though Karmanos treats mostly adults with cancer, the center's GROC treats about 300 children each year with radiation oncology services, many coming from Children's Hospital. They see kids with a wide range of cancers. Jay Burmeister, Ph.D., chief of Physics within the Department of Radiation Oncology at Karmanos and Wayne State University School of Medicine, said staff really enjoys seeing Andrew when he visits to sell his popcorn.
"Andrew is fun and it's refreshing to see him year after year," he said. "It's great to see him doing so well."
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The dog day was great! There was a big turnout and everyone had a lot of fun, even the Leos, although we all had to work really hard!
That week a hurricane came by that almost prevented us from having the event. Fortunately it didn't come ashore and the day was blustery but bright and sunny.
I was in charge of the Kidz Zone with Michelle (who is also an Easton Leo) and we had to keep an eye on a bunch of little kids. We had a great time helping the kids make arts and crafts and playing with their CUTE dogs!! I think it made a lot of kids happy to have a place that they could hang out, while being involved in all kinds of activities.
There were dogs of all kinds everywhere and they were all adorable! Fidelco had a booth and attended with a couple of guide dogs in training, they did a guide dog demo in the morning. All of the vendors were really nice, some had great stuff to sell, while others were very informative, and of course most brought their own dogs. Our advisors (Nicoline and Marnie) did a WONDERFUL job overseeing everything and kicking our butts into shape. We owe them so much.
The day was long and full of all kinds of dog related activities and events. My friend Michelle said that, "the dog day was an experience I'll always remember", seeing a bright smile on every person's face made it totally worthwhile even apart from all funds that we raised that day for the Town of Easton Animal Shelter and Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation. I was glad about the turn out and I was happy to help such a great cause." The other Leo's had a similar reaction, all feeling that we did a great thing for our town and community while having fun!
We can't wait to start on new projects to help people!
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California's Great Craft Beers
Made using everything from cocoa nibs to sweet potatoes, The Bruery's sophisticated small-batch craft brews have beer connoisseurs buzzing.
Just before noon on a bright spring day in the Chicago neighborhood of Bucktown, a sleepy Patrick Rue shocked himself back to life with a spicy top-shelf Bloody Mary. The night before, the 29-year-old law school grad had been surprised—along with 2,000 other attendees gathered in the ballroom at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers—when he won not one but two golds in the 2010 World Beer Cup, a prestigious global competition of craft brewers. Beating out 50 other contenders, Rue's Brett Autumn Maple topped the Experimental category, and his Oude Tart, which judges noted had "beautiful rose and cherry notes," bested 20 other entries in the Belgian-Style Flanders/Oud Bruin or Oud Red Ale group. Inevitably, some serious revels commenced after the five-course gala. "It was an incredible night," recalls Rue. "I wasn't expecting to win anything. There are so many amazing beers in the categories we entered."
Rue's World Beer Cup triumph was the latest in a string of hits for the California native, whose upstart company, The Bruery, has barnstormed the beer world from an unlikely base camp: Orange County. He's fast becoming the torchbearer for a mini-revolution now hitting Los Angeles, one in which the city's finicky gourmands have pretty much gone craft beer–crazy, following the lead of craft-brewing capitals like Chicago, New York, San Diego and Portland, Oregon. Beer-focused bistros, specialty beer bars, festivals and several new brewing projects have fired up recently, with more on the way. Thomas Keller's Bouchon in Beverly Hills is among the top-flight restaurants serving Rue's beers, which were the first L.A.–made brews to find relative fame and a twenty-state market. In the food-obsessed city that proudly spawned the drive-thru cheeseburger stand, Wolfgang Puck's empire and, most recently, the Korean taco, craft beer is suddenly very much at the table.
Rue's Chicago celebration was as unexpected as it was deserved: His company, an ambitious, if thinly capitalized, joint partnership with his brothers and parents, hadn't even turned two, and it was only just starting to turn the corner financially after burning through his trust fund and then some. Rue, for his part, was an unlikely brewmaster. A few years ago he was in law school, reluctantly headed for a law career, when his wife bought him a home-brewing book from a 99 cent bookstore. Soon Rue was blowing off homework to brew dozens, even hundreds, of batches. "I'd brew almost every weekend and during the week, when I was 'studying.' I got to know my local brewers and begged them to let me intern for free," Rue recalls. In other words, he was preparing for a different kind of bar.
The diligence obviously paid off. Rue's balanced but aggressively innovative beers bested entrants in styles traditionally dominated by long-established Belgian firms and domestic craft-brewing powerhouses like Delaware's Dogfish Head. As he sipped his liquid breakfast (with a pair of local craft ales for dessert), he explained the logic behind what appears to be a strategy of unhinged experimentation. Rue hews mainly to Belgian brewing traditions, which, generally speaking, tend to produce beers that are spicier, more intensely flavored and higher in alcohol content than their American counterparts, and often bear the tannins and acids from wood barrels and wild yeasts. Since its inception, The Bruery has released a total of 84 beers, though some, conjured out of such ingredients as Thai basil, pasilla peppers and purple mangosteen, are only dimly recognizable as beers to the layperson. To make his award-winning Autumn Maple, Rue roasts yams on a barbecue until they are soft and sugary, then smashes them up and adds them to a mash tun, a brewer's tank used to extract fermentable sugars that normally come entirely from grain.
Such formulations sound bizarre, but they're often delicious and drive Rue's small-batch momentum forward. While a winery must wait a year for every vintage, craft brewers can brew every day, which allows them to try almost anything. (It helps that beer's base ingredients are also modestly priced and store well.) Marketing his beautifully labeled bottles through specialty bars, traditional distributors, a large mail-order "Reserve Society" and directly out of the tasting room, Rue has built a thirsty, curious clientele.


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Favorite Find Friday: Sania's Brow Bar Angled Brow Pencil
Written on April 26, 2013 at 9:00 am , by Molly Ritterbeck
I'm a big fan of a filled-in brow. Even the densest of brows can benefit from a little shaping with a pencil or shadow. Personally, I find it easier to work with a pencil, but the unique shape of Sania's Brow Bar Angled Brow Pencil ($25, saniasbrowbar.com) makes it totally foolproof. The wider edge of the pencil works perfectly for filling in the thicker part of your brow while the thinner side helps define the tail after the arch and offers more precision. Bonus: the other end holds a spoolie brush so you can just flip it around and comb through to blend the color for a more natural look. It has everything you need for amazing arches in one easy-to-use pencil, and it never needs to be sharpened (score!).
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Should You Shape Your Own Brows?
Written on January 30, 2012 at 3:45 pm , by Fitness Magazine
Straight, curved, angled: Arches come in all different shapes. I've always had thick eyebrows with hardly any hair on the ends. It just doesn't grow there (weird, I know!) After years of waxing, my crazy brows have inevitably thinned out, so I recently began filling them in for the a fuller look— and the illusion of having hair where there isn't any. The results? Amazing!
Eyebrows frame your eyes and grooming them can make such a difference. My technique:
- Brush the hairs upward and trim any that extend beyond your natural arch.
- Take out the tweezers and pluck any unwanted stray hairs.
- Use a brow pencil as close to your natural color as possible to lightly draw in individual hairs.
- Top with a coat of eyebrow gel to set and polish off your look. Try Revlon Fantasy Pencil and Gel, which comes with both products in one package.
Tell us: Do you shape and fill in your brows, go au naturel, or visit a pro?
-By Wanda Rosa, beauty intern
Categories: Beauty On the Go, Makeup Musts | Tags: arches, brows, eyebrow gel, eyebrows, grooming, pencil, pluck, Revlon Fantasy Pencil and Gel, tweeze
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Free Birthday Brow Shaping from Benefit!
Written on March 17, 2011 at 1:02 pm , by April Franzino
Today's our birthday, so we're letting you in on a special gift: Starting this month, visit a Benefit Cosmetics Brow Bar on your birthday, and receive a free brow service—just present an ID with your birthdate. Find the location nearest you (there are over 300!) here.
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