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2008 ALA TechSource Gaming, Learning, and Libraries Symposium
Prior to the conference I had the great privilege of meeting with my colleagues on the expert panel of the ALA Gaming for Learning project funded by the Verizon Foundation. On Saturday we had an inspiring look at ThinkeringSpace that is exploring how physical and virtual environments might promote creative and critical thinking. I was particularly taken with the power of the "learning by prototyping" approach to creating the ThinkeringSpace and testing its ideas. Especially in projects involving "physicality" it seems like libraries would do well to adopt the "build a prototype and test it out" and perhaps we'd avoid some costly construction mistakes but for web resources and the like prototyping would help us put ideas in front of library users and get their reactions before we are overly invested in a particular approach. Even more though I was inspired by how open the project staff were to our questions and comments and their willingness to seek the best ideas to be had even if they didn't think of them on their own.
Elmhurst College's session on their gaming events was contextualized by the document Learning Reconsidered: A Campus-Wide Focus on the Student Experience and it was excellent to see a framework for the educational and learning impact of co-curricular programming in libraries and involving students in developing the programming. Librarians have a lot to learning from student affairs professionals on how to empower students as leaders of events. This came out as a tip in the session Videogame Night in the Academic Library, which was an outstanding presentation that demonstrated just how rich an academic/intellectual experience a gaming event can be made to be.
I focused my attendance at the conference on sessions about academic libraries and to the extent possible on those focused on information literacy. The information literacy games are intriguing but I'm concerned about the "fun factor" and motivation to play ... I wonder if there is a way for students to play a game on a different topic that would enable information literacy skill development and in which success is dependent on high levels of information literacy abilities? School Library Services of the Genesee Valley BOCES is working in this arena for K-12 - see their AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Learner Gaming Alignment document ... anyone doing this for higher education?
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- Jenna Weidenbenner said...
This week on the seriousgames listserv, there's been a related discussion about introducing serious games in Higher Ed and the feedback from students. A number of educators have found that, aside from faculty responses to the idea of gaming in the classroom, many students have been reluctant to accept the intertwining of something they do for leisure with academic expectations. Thus, even games that could tap and develop information literacy skills might not be appreciated by students. On the other hand, given today's visual world, finding legitimate ways to integrate games and learning goals might be useful in enhancing a range of literacy skills -- informational, media, technology, etc. There's some compelling research being conducted in Minnesota (http://www.videogamesaslearningtools.com/) and Wisconsin (http://epistemicgames.org/eg/) as well as in other areas across the country.
- November 5, 2008 at 3:28 PM
- Paul said...
Lisa, I think your comment on the "fun factor" and motivation to play are really a hurdle for games in the classroom. College students were weaned on "edutainment" games that were not engaging or very fun. When they were given a game to play it often resulted in the substitution of worksheets practicing skills. Unfortunately, for the students there was little substitution. The games were only electronic worksheets.
This experience also plays into the hesitation that Jenna commented in. The "intertwining" of leisure and academic was a concern at first for IM, Facebook, and other mediums. Isn't it just a matter of time until gaming follows the acceptance trend (or fad depending on your point of view).
The next step to gaming within the higher education curriculum is to create games, as you said, "on a different topic that would enable information literacy skill development." If we think of gaming and information literacy, than just like info lit, the more it is tied to meaningful content the more successful it can be.
While I've been fortunate to help highlight the work of libraries creating info lit games, we are missing a larger potential. We can remove the game out of a library context and still teach info lit skills. And by removing the library context it is possible to remove some of the reluctance that Jenna describe.
There's a lot of work to do on that end, but it's work worth doing.
- November 11, 2008 at 11:16 AM


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But comedians like Schumer don't adhere to social codes; they break them. And Schumer's unflinching personality shines in The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo. From the beginning, Schumer offers her form of an apologia by way of paring back expectations: She insists the book is not a memoir or an autobiography ("I'll write one of those when I'm ninety"). Rather, it is simply a collection of personal essays that, she exclaims, "has NO SELF-HELP INFO OR ADVICE FOR YOU."
And yet, it does. The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo is speckled with kernels of advice about sex and love and self-worth and gaining confidence in the workplace. (Amy quite literally faked it hard until she made it.) Despite her attempt to prove otherwise, Schumer chronicles her life with digestible stories that impart powerful messages through a kind of logic of the opposite: she makes mistakes so that we can learn from them. "I have no wisdom to offer you," Schumer implores. "But what I can help with is showing you my mistakes and my pain and my laughter."
Here, 10 of the most powerful moments where she shows that while living unapologetically and fearlessly isn't a path free of mistakes – like getting a tramp-stamp tattoo of some unidentified "tribal" origin (or dating a guy who wants to make your vagina his "own personal moccasin" by fingering you with his toes) – it is the only way that we are able to find strength within ourselves, including through all our flaws. The message is one that Schumer, for better or worse, epitomizes: Do not be afraid of your humanity, do not be afraid of the messiness or life and certainly do not be afraid of demanding your worth in the world.
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While the chapter "On Being New Money" may be borderline offensive, the unapologetic flagrance with which Schumer talks about money – "The best part about having money is that you get to be an asshole and burn money on stupid shit" – functions to subvert those social codes that women shouldn't talk or care about their income. Schumer refuses to seek moral righteousness through humility and some kind of feigned indifference to money, and talks about the privilege of money with refreshing candor. She hated being broke, and super-hated being "Vanilla Ice broke, before HGTV Ice." Schumer is also under no delusion that this golden streak of hers will last forever. ("I won't be famous forever – not even much longer actually.") At the chapter's conclusion, she writes with sincerity: "I don't believe that money changes your level of happiness. But things do get easier and I feel great in the moments when I can help someone." Money does make things easier – contrary to what Schumer contends, has been proven to make people happier – but the chapter works to change the discourse around women and money.
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"You can't be a comic and make complete strangers laugh without a strong hustle," Schumer begins her chapter "Can't Knock the Hustle." If you weren't born with a silver spoon, you better love to work only like Rihanna can sing about in order to get all that you want. Schumer learned early that she could close on any deal by making adults laugh: "Whether it was teachers catching me talking in class or cops catching me with beer in my backpack on the beach, it always felt like my only way to get home free was to make everyone laugh," she writes. "It always dismantled the power structure within seconds. Being funny was my ultimate hustle!" And, while making people laugh still didn't save her and her sister from getting the maximum charge for shoplifting merchandise from a department store she simply calls "Schloomingdale's," Schumer realizes through this big mistake how she wanted to focus her energy: "[T]he hustle I'm honing isn't about shoplifting or lying or winning friends with horrible heists gone wrong," she observes. "It's about being my own best advocate and knowing how to take what I deserve in life without bringing anyone else down." The ethical difference for Schumer is in the objective: the bettering of one's self is a far more noble enterprise than tearing down or harming someone else. Success, she realizes, isn't about "sleight of hand or trickery," but about hard work.
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"There is nothing better than being your own boss," Schumer begins her chapter "Faked It Til I Maked It." She acknowledges that all these jobs – including an under-stimulating job at a lesbian bar, teaching aerobics in college and working at a bodega where her pay was regularly docked for eating too many hotdogs – were significant because through all these "pretty unglamorous, regular, shitty, low-paying jobs," she realized what she was supposed to do: Be her own boss. "Nothing feels better than running the show on my own now," she writes, because "every person reading this [book] knows how much personal dignity you sign over when you work for someone you don't like or for a company you don't care about." And she acknowledges that all her jobs prepared her for being in charge. For women castigated as strong-willed, opinionated, and unwilling to be submissive – women who seem incapable of landing and sticking to one line of work – the answer might be that they need to become entrepreneurial. They shouldn't be working for others. Like Schumer, they should be working for themselves.
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In the chapter "My Only One-Night Stand," Schumer describes what amounts to the ideal casual sexual encounter with a man she met while touring who looked like Gaston from Beauty and the Beast. You can almost hear Schumer singing, "No one's slick as Gaston / No one's quick as Gaston," as she's eyeing him up and down. "My clitoris was thumping like the Tell-Tale Heart and I kept thinking of the 98 Degrees song 'Give Me Just One Night (Una Noche),'" she writes. Schumer is not a one-night-stand type of girl – no matter what audiences intuit from her raunchy standup routines – and while she knows they aren't "cure-alls for broken hearts and low self-esteem," she understands why why this one was important: "[S]ometimes when you're trying to fix a problem with sex, you find that sex is just its own reward. No lessons to be learned. No agenda other than fun." Not to mention it's a proven antidote to stress. "And sometimes," she continues, "tons of well-deserved orgasms from a guy looking at you like you're lunch right when you fucking need it is just what the doctor ordered."
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Conservation is self-preservation for Schumer against all the "energy vampires," who demand "mindless small talk" or, say, demand an official response anytime some Bob or Joe comedian she may know makes some offensive remark. Schumer understands her acceptance of being introvert as a type of feminist act. "When you're a performer – especially a female one – everyone assumes you enjoy being 'on' all the time," Schumer observes. "The unintentional training I received when I was little was that because I was a girl and an actor, I must love being pleasant, and making everyone smile and feel comfortable all the time." The message for women is that instead of letting the world suck them dry of their time and energy and talent – all at a fraction of the cost of men! – they need to be more judicious about giving their energy out to the world.
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Amy Schumer writes that she "officially became a woman" not when she got her first period, not when she had sex, and not even, technically, through her bat mitzvah. Rather, it was at her bat mitzvah, when her voice cracked better than Peter Brady's while chanting her Torah portion. Why? Because in that moment, just as the audience began laughing at her, she stepped outside herself and her fears and laughed at herself. Soon, the entire audience joined in – and she felt like she was in control. "I'm pretty sure that's why I officially became a woman that day," she explains. "Not because of the dumb ancient ceremony... No, I became a woman because I turned a solemn, quiet room into a place filled with unexpected laughter." The ability to laugh at oneself, Schumer demonstrates, is both humanizing and empowering, because it conveys to others that not only are you in on the joke, you're writing it.
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In her concluding chapter, "Forgiving My Lower Back Tattoo," Schumer relives how she got the eponymous tattoo, gross infection and all. She knows what message the tramp stamp sends to people – that she's "trash" and has made "poor, poor decisions" throughout her life. But she doesn't care: "I wear my mistakes like badges of honor, and I celebrate them." Because it is only by making mistakes that we learn how to navigate fraught or treacherous situations, she concludes that "the tattoo represents the opposite for me today. It reminds me that it's important to let yourself be vulnerable, to lose control and make a mistake." Through experiencing the pain of a making a mistake – or five – Schumer knows it's less painful to fuck up than to harbor the resentment of never trying. "After having all my fears realized and being insulted to no end, I got stronger," writes Schumer.
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Frequently in her book, Schumer breaks the story narrative to speak directly to readers as a way to emphasize one of her most important messages: "Love yourself!," she writes. "Your power comes from who you are and what you do!" The language rings like a mantra: "I say if I'm beautiful. I say if I'm strong. You will not determine my story." At the same time, Schumer does not shy away from conveying the message more idiosyncratically: "I'm a real woman who digests her meals and breaks out and has sweet little pockets of cellulite on her upper thighs that she's not apologizing for," she asserts in the chapter "Letter to the Editor." Likewise, she knows women need reminding, amid the sheer inundation of of body-shaming advertisements about the natural smells of women's bodies, that "vaginas are supposed to look and smell like vaginas." She points her fingers at women's magazines, "Keep your strange scented washes away from me," she implores. "I'll allow my bag to keep its natural aroma of chicken noodle soup, thank you very much."
Empowerment is taking control of the narrative
Through the wild variety of stories, the ultimate message Schumer imparts to readers is how important stories are. We tell stories in order to make sense of life, but we also tell stories as a way take control of our lives. This message carries a profound emotional weight in Schumer's stories about her abusive boyfriend in "The Worst Night of My Life," and about her sexual assault in the chapter "How I Lost My Virginity." By taking control of the narrative and telling her story, she gains the agency she never had. And that makes her powerful. And it helps make all women powerful, too: "I'm opening up about my 'first time' because I don't want it to happen to your daughter or sister or friend someday. I want to use my voice to tell people to make sure they have consent before they have sex with someone," because, Schumer writes, "this happens so frequently that clearly we need to talk about it."
The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo is not just another vehicle for Schumer to test her comedy chops through self-aggrandizement – it's anything but. Like the literary antecedent cheekily appropriated in the title, our protagonist falls down repeatedly, but gets back up stronger than ever. And for women, Schumer's many mistakes and poor decisions function to illuminate the many ways society inveighs women. The stories of these mistakes offer women space for catharsis.


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Norwalk leaders on new schools plan: 'Fix it First'
Updated, 2:19 a.m., complete story.
NORWALK, Conn. – Norwalk parents are suffering from a misconception – they think the $118 million capital budget request submitted by the Board of Education this year will mean that their child's school will soon be fixed, Mayor Harry Rilling said Monday.
In fact, the BoE facilities plan front loads construction of two new schools and plans renovations at older schools, in other parts of the city, in five or 10 years, said Rilling, State Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff (D-25), State Rep. Chris Perone (D-137), State Rep. Bruce Morris (D-140) and other leaders as they announced an alternative plan to "Fix it First."
Video by Harold Cobin at end of story.
The plan, a surprise to most BoE members, is to spend $100 million of Norwalk capital funds, plus the expected 32 percent contribution from the state, to repair issues at all 19 schools within three years. Then new schools would be considered.
This announcement at a morning press conference has ignited a firestorm of online outrage.
"We met with Duff and Morris on Friday morning — 3 days ago! — at Columbus School to discuss our facilities plans, and they didn't say ONE WORD about this alternative plan they had obviously been cooking up for some time," BoE chairman Mike Lyons said on the Facebook group Norwalk Parents for Education. "We have been totally open and transparent throughout this planning process, and thought we were having an honest discussion with our legislators. With all the NPS people involved in Facilities there, that would have been a perfect time to bring up alternatives. Instead they played dumb, and then this morning sand-bagged us with this half-baked alternative plan based largely on obsolete plans from over a decade ago."
Duff, in return, said to NancyOnNorwalk that he was shocked that no one at the Board of Education has reached out to the state legislative delegation.
State Rep. Chris Perone (D-137) said something similar three months ago.
"We're in the phone book," he said. "Call us."
The background of the proposal
The Fix it First plan hinges on enacting a plan approved by the BoE in 2012, to build an addition onto Jefferson Magnet School.
The BoE plan was developed by Silver, Petrucelli & Associates and Milone & MacBroom in a $300,000 facilities feasibility study initiated in 2014 by then-Norwalk Superintendent of Schools Manny Rivera. It's was debated by the BoE Facilities Committee, led by Mike Barbis, for most of a year before making its way to the entire Board in December.
At that point, BoE member Yvel Crevecoeur, who attended Monday's press conference, led an effort to take the plan in another direction. He attempted to gain another two weeks to discuss educational options, making a motion to approve the concept of building new schools but hold off on choosing curriculum. That failed five to four, with Crevecoeur, Shirley Mosby, Artie Kassimis and Sherelle Harris voting yes. The four abstained on the following vote, on the overall plan.
While the recommendations made by Silver Petrucelli for physical improvements have been discussed for a year by some BoE members, the educational components were also a surprise, sprung by Superintendent of Schools Steven Adamowski in December after a racial balancing study negated the original plan for a South Norwalk neighborhood school.
The approved plan calls for K-8 magnet schools at Ponus Ridge Middle School and at the Nathaniel Ely pre-school site, followed by renovations to the current Columbus Magnet School and Jefferson Elementary School. Then other schools might be addressed; although there's an effort to address electrical problems at Cranbury Elementary School and Fox Run Elementary School within a year or two.
Morris has opposed the Ely plan, pleading repeatedly for more community input, especially after Adamowski announced that Columbus would move to Ely.
The press conference
Also standing with Rilling, et al, at Monday's bombshell press conference were Common Council member Steve Serasis (D-District A), the Rev. Lindsay Curtis, former BoE member Rosa Murray and two mothers whose children formerly attended Cranbury, April Guilbault and Blaire Anderson.
"I have spent countless hours in the classrooms volunteering and I see exactly firsthand what these classrooms in these schools need. Every year, we have our hopes risen in terms of new infrastructure improvements and it just isn't happening. I believe that I can speak for many parents and say that my patience is running out. I am done with waiting and I can say that I don't think that our city is giving our students the fundamentals they need to achieve the way we want and hope that they will achieve," Guilbault said.
"What has been presented by the Board of Education has been very myopic," Curtis said. "For whatever reason, for whatever the motivation. But this makes so much more sense, that we are caring for our community, known as Norwalk, that all of our children deserve the very best, and better schools than what we have now."
"The current Board of Education plan endorses spending almost a quarter of a billion dollars on four schools (one new, two rebuilds, one with addition/re-build) when every school requires attention," the Fix it First handout states.
The conditions at Jefferson would not be addressed for seven years, Duff said.
The PowerPoint presentation from a December committee meeting, which is posted on the NPS website, shows that Jefferson's "renovate as new" project would start in 2024. The actual 2016-17 capital budget request shows the renovation planned for 2019.
Adamowski argues that some of the school's population would shift to Ponus or stay in South Norwalk at the new Ely school under the BoE plan, hopefully easing overcrowding at Jefferson. Ponus is regarded as "swing space," a place to put the kids when schools are being renovated.
Duff pointed out that Silver Petrucelli's enrollment statistics show a drop in the number of children in coming years.
"It begs the question, why would we spend that kind of money when we can have money in the existing schools that we have right now, and provide the needed renovations for schools, again, like Cranbury, Fox Run, Columbus, Jefferson and all the schools across the city of Norwalk?" Duff said. "… We could use that money smarter and better for the parents, students and taxpayers of the city."
In 2012, the BoE approved a capital budget request that included plans to put a one-story addition on the back of Jefferson Elementary School in 2015-2016. A one-story addition to Cranbury Elementary School was planned for construction in 2016-2017. A two-story addition for Columbus Magnet School was planned for 2017-2018.
The approved 2012-13 capital budget had $987,834 scheduled for Jefferson in2013-14, $3.7 million in 2014-15, $4.28 million in 2015-16 and $1.46 in 2016-17.
The Planning Commission, in 2014, included $357,000 for Jefferson in its 2015-16 plan and nearly $8 million in its 2016-17 plan. These expected expenditures were moved back a year in the 2015-16 capital budget, with $358,000 scheduled for 2016-17 and $7,949,000 in 2017-18. The plans were not in the 2016-17 budget at all, after Rivera's facilities study steered things in another direction.
Now, "All the other schools out there are on some sort of a 15-year plan that hasn't been funded or even really approved or has any kind of a plan whatsoever, so parents who are sitting there, waiting for their schools to be fixed, will be waiting over a decade for their schools to be fixed. Many parents like myself will be long gone, out of the system," Duff said.
Rilling said he's gotten a lot of emails from parents requesting support for the BoE's plan, but an "overwhelming number" of them referenced repairs at existing schools, that won't happen for at least five years.
"Parents who are reaching out to me, saying please fix our schools. … That's what this meeting is about: let's fix our schools," Rilling said. "… We want to really turn the pyramid upside down from what the Board of Education plan is."
Fix it First makes more sense, Morris said.
"This also allows us to do something else that many of us have been talking about, part of the 'Board of Ed' process, and that is take a look at the entire district because part of the strategic operating plan does include open school choice," Morris said. "So, this will allow us to address immediate needs that benefit the most kids with the fewest amount of dollars, and revisit that plan district-wide to see how do we really implement school choice, also in the most effective way, and it will really help us with school achievement."
"We want to give students the best infrastructure we possibly can but we also have an obligation to the taxpayers to make sure that we spend their money wisely," Rilling said. "This plan here allows us to fix some very, very critical issues in a lot of the different schools. It became apparent to me when I started getting emails from many parents that the information that was put out there wasn't accurately being portrayed. People were thinking that the current plan would be fixing Cranbury School, Wolfpit School, Jefferson School – this year, and that's not the case whatsoever."
"I have no idea why back in 2012 when they voted on the capital plans that nothing ever got done, but now it's time to say, 'Let's get the schools fixed, let's make sure we do it right, let's do the students who are currently in the schools a good facility and a good infrastructure,' and also protecting the taxpayer dollars," Rilling said. "We have lots of people who can't afford a significant tax increase this year but if we do it right we can protect them and still give the children the schools they deserve."
"It's a tragedy that this one fell back in this process. This plan would address those portables immediately," Morris said.
Jefferson lost its computer lab because it ran out of space, Perone said.
"This school is maxed out. This school is at 171 percent capacity, he said, of the 600 students crammed into a school built for 400.
His son was in fifth grade at Jefferson when news came down that the school would be fixed next year, and he thought he'd miss it because he was moving on, Perone said, explaining that was only last year.
"At the rate, they are going he is likely going to be graduating high school by the time they get around to fixing this school," Perone said. "There are a lot of kids in there; this is a great school, a great magnet school, and the strengths of the school are very solid, but at the same time, this is … It's doing the right things. We need to do right by it as well. That is why we are singling out this school as an example of why we need to prioritize and why we need to fix it."
Parents have had school repairs dangled in front of them, only to have the plans dropped, Duff said.
"Parents and students all across this city are hungering for construction to be done on the schools," Duff said. "I think that's why you see parents who are very anxious about, 'When is this going to happen?' They seem excited about the fact that there may be some construction but we want to make sure that it's clear to them, that in the plan that the current Board has put out, it doesn't address any of the schools except Ponus Ridge Middle School, over the next four years. Anderson spoke of the electrical problems at Cranbury.
"The inability of those buildings to handle the technology that is necessary now for all of children to succeed – and all of the state district tests are being administered now on electronics. The students have these Chromebooks that crash in the middle of them trying to take a test. The whole school goes down," she said, asserting that the data in the tests is lost.
Norwalk High School parents, speaking to the BoE Facilities Committee Monday night, said the school's wireless has a tendency to shut down, with some parents paying on their data plans to allow their children to get work done in the school.
"The piece that has not been fully discussed here is how will the capital plan affect the operations plan," Morris said Monday morning. "We know that the budget that we were given this year is a huge one, so if we are really going to do something for schools in the future there needs to be a plan that even operationally everyone understands and wants to vet."
"That is not anything that we have not already asked for," Curtis said. "… There's a lot of smart people out here."
Crevecoeur and Serasis were silent.
"As Board members, we should be diligent with our fiscal responsibility as well as our responsibility to our children," Mosby said. "We should make sure that all children are being taken care of at the same time. That is why I strongly support this, where it's going to touch all of our children, kids that are in need now as well as addressing issues of the future."
Fix it First would repair issues but is not the "renovate as new" approach sponsored by the BoE and its consultants.
"The plan would be to spend money on an addition here at Jefferson to get rid of the portables first, and then do the rest of the schools as well," Duff said.
"(Renovate as new) could end up becoming the second phase of the plan. At least you got to do the (Jefferson) addition because the real immediate need was to get rid of the portables," Morris said.
No mention was made of children being bused out of South Norwalk, which the BoE has said is costing millions annually.
The Ponus construction has been estimated by Silver Petrucelli as costing $400 a square foot.
"When we really looked at it, when can accomplish the same thing for $200 a square foot," Rilling said.
"A lot of reasons to fall back and do this the right way for our kids and our taxpayers," Morris said.
The backlash begins
"Obviously, we've had no opportunity to study this, since they choose to release it through a press conference instead of talking to us," BoE Chairman Mike Lyons said in an email. "Which is pretty astonishing, considering that Duff and Morris sat in a room with us on Friday morning at a meeting called to explain our facilities plan to them, and didn't say ONE WORD about this other 'plan', even though all the school staff and Board members involved in facilities planning were there for the meeting. It's sad to see the mayor and these officials stoop to a political stunt instead of having a serious discussion about the plans with the people actually responsible for rebuilding our schools."
Then the bloodletting began on Facebook.
"I've seen this three page 'plan' put together by politicians and you can compare it to the hundreds of pages in the professional plans we based our decisions on. Considering that Sen. Duff told us three days ago that he hadn't even seen our overall plan, I think calling this alternative 'half-baked' is completely accurate," Lyons said.
"Cranbury parents should ask themselves if they are prepared to have their kids go to school in a construction zone for 3 years," BoE member Bryan Meek wrote. "Don't worry the project wouldn't start in less than 2 or 3 years, so your kids might be gone by then. The plans we spent 2 years on crafting addressed this. Don't be fooled by this political theatre."
"I have been involved in Norwalk government since 1982 and I have never seen such an underhanded political stunt in all those 35 years," Lyons wrote. "I'm sitting here in utter astonishment that these people would play political games like this with the well-being of our children. If this was a legitimate proposal, why not mention it to the Board leadership, and instead hold a press conference where the news media got the 'plan' before the Board did? I'm beyond disgusted."
NPS weighs in, Duff denies being 'underhanded'
NPS Communications Director Brenda Wilcox Williams released this statement at 6 p.m.:
"Members of the Board of Education and Superintendent were surprised and disconcerted by the press conference this morning, during which Mayor Rilling and Senator Duff outlined an alternative facilities plan for Norwalk Public Schools. Neither the Mayor nor Senator Duff had any prior communication with the Board or Dr. Adamowski prior to what is perceived to be a 'political' event.
"There are many questions regarding the outlined plan, which appears to be based in part on a now-outdated document from 2012. The proposal does not appear to conform to the updated Facilities Master Plan Study completed last year, or the Board of Education's Strategic Operating Plan. It does not meet current building standards, account for swing space during construction or provide enough seats for Norwalk growing enrollment of school children. It is doubtful that the majority of the Board could approve such a plan, which may not be practical, factually accurate and has had no community input.
"The Board will have no further comment on the alternative plan until Mayor Rilling has the opportunity to meet with Board members and share his ideas."
Duff emailed NoN a response to the accusation of being "underhanded:"
"This is a plan to fix schools first and present another idea to the public.
"We used the BOE 2016 facilities plan as our base, the 2015 facilities report for a Norwalk High School and the 2012 capital plan approved by the BOE.
"Many times I asked board staff for updates and then sent a letter in December to Dr. Adamowski to ask more formally.
"Frankly, I'm shocked that the BOE would vote and approve on a plan asking the state for $60 million without seeking any input.
"Our current schools need immediate help, especially Jefferson. Fixing the schools first and then considering new schools is a much more logical plan."
Barbis seeks to rally motivated parents
Barbis, at the Monday night meeting, encouraged NHS parents to contact Rilling.
"There is a whole group of people in Norwalk who are not playing by the rules," Barbis said. "We've been working on a facilities plan for the whole school for two years now. Legislators who never partook in any of the discussion, never came to any of the meetings, and now they are saying after the fact – yes, I'm talking about Bob Duff … Now he's come up with this alternate plan. It's going to be too late to get any of it filed with the state by June 30th. We're going to lose a year because of political gamesmanship."
Finance Director Bob Barron recommended funding the Ely request but cut the Ponus request in half. This is a step in the process, that moves through the Planning Commission and the Board of Estimate and Taxation before hitting the Common Council.
Barbis said Barron rejected the plan and, "It really puts all the work the 'Board of Ed' has been doing for two years, it kind of wastes all that effort."
"Under state statute it is our responsibility to develop the plans and vet them, it is then up to the city to fund them. It is very clear that was the mayor and Bob Duff did today that they are not planning to approve the plan… The mayor at the end of the day calls the shots when it comes to the capital budget. It's not the Board of Ed."
"Crafting capital budgets in Norwalk is a collective effort controlled by the Charter," Common Council Finance Committee Chairman Bruce Kimmel (D-At Large) said in a late-night email. "Each year the BET sets a limit on capital spending and the Council has final say on who gets what. Of course, the Mayor plays an important role, especially on the BET, but in reality devising capital budgets are collective endeavors, as it should be."
A 'smoke screen'
"They can say anything they want," Lyons said. "It's all a parent-manipulating smoke screen to cover what's going on here, which is killing work on the schools for a full year, just as Bruce Morris wanted. Those projects back in '12 (which I voted on a month after taking office, basically just as a rookie member endorsing the previous board's work) were an unplanned, haphazard set of school projects without even a semblance of anything like a master plan (sort of like the City when it comes to Zoning, come to think of it). Manny Rivera said we needed to stop doing everything in this school system on an ad-hoc basis and actually come up with a long-term, comprehensive, interconnected plan. We finished the last ad-hoc projects (Naramake and Rowayton), and did the first complete study of the system in 20 years. We spent a year analyzing it, adjusting it, holding multiple public meetings, and approving it. That whole time the Mayor sat as an ex-officio member of the BoE and said NOTHING about the plan. Bob Duff never came to a meeting (Gail Lavielle did, to several) and said NOTHING about the plan. On Friday Duff sat in a meeting with us to discuss the plan and said NOTHING about it. And today — with no studies, no professional analysis, no bipartisanship and no public input at all (funny, I thought that was some kind of crime!) announced a return to the very kind of unplanned, ad-hoc approach to these problems that got us here in the first place. I'm really, really tired of these political games."
"I stand ready, willing and able to help work together to get a plan agreed to and approved by the deadline. As a parent, I want to get working as quickly as possible on our schools," Duff said.
Morris denied that it's a stunt.
"On numerous occasions since the BOE's community meeting held on October 26th, I and others requested the opportunity to provide input toward the Facilities Plan," Morris said in a late-night email. "Members of the public specifically requested the BOE allow an advisory group provide input before a decision was made. Community input was reduced to unscientific surveys that provided the answers the BOE was looking for and three minute statements allowed at the end of the few Facility Meetings held between November and December. I respectfully and consistently made the case that the proposed plan and more importantly process to determine a plan, did not adequately allow an opportunity to vet other options. I was initially allowed to speak longer than three minutes at one meeting and then cut off from speaking. At one meeting a Board member slammed his hand on the table while demanding an alternative plan from me. I don't understand why the BOE, who did not allow a collaborative process toward developing their plan, would now be disturbed that an alternative has been offered after the fact. Prior to the BOE vote on their proposed plan, I advised members during that meeting, the legislative delegation had not been consulted about their potential decision.'
Morris continued, "This isn't about political stunts – it is about elected representatives ensuring the needs of all citizens are met efficiently and equitably. This plan is good for more students and staff members than the BOE, it is better for all taxpayers, addresses Jefferson portables sooner rather than later and provides potential to collaboratively plan a high-quality school choice system."
Original story, published 1:35 p.m. Feb. 13:
Updated, 4:50 p.m., Video from Harold Cobin added, along with comment by Bob Duff and response from Mike Lyons. Correction, 3:22 p.m.: April Guilbault and Blaire Anderson have children that went to Cranbury Elementary, not Jefferson; 4 p.m. BoE members abstained.
NORWALK, Conn. – A group of Norwalk leaders has announced a plan to fix Norwalk Public Schools – in opposition to the plan developed by the Norwalk Board of Education.
Mayor Harry Rilling, State Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff (D-25), State Rep. Bruce Morris (D-140) and State Rep. Chris Perone (D-137) held a press conference Monday morning to say "Fix It First."
Video by Harold Cobin at end of story.
That's the name of their campaign to spend $100 million on executing needed repairs on Norwalk Schools, as opposed to the BoE- approved plan to spend $117 million on building two new schools, in preparation for renovating various schools into a new condition.
"We feel we can spend $100 million plus the state reimbursement money, to not only fix schools like Jefferson but Cranbury, Fox Run, Columbus, and other schools – Norwalk High School – all around the city of Norwalk," Duff said.
The men were joined in their press conference by BoE members Shirley Mosby and Yvel Crevecoeur, Common Council member Steve Serasis (D-District A) and two mothers, April Guilbault and Blaire Anderson.
"I have spent countless hours in the classrooms volunteering and I see exactly firsthand what these classrooms in these schools need. Every year, we have our hopes risen in terms of new infrastructure improvements and it just isn't happening. I believe that I can speak for many parents and say my patience is running out. I don't believe our city is giving our students the fundamentals they need to achieve the way we want and hope that they will achieve," Guilbault said.
The Fix It First plan hinges on building an addition onto Jefferson Elementary School, which BoE members say has 600 students in a space built for 400 students. Fix It First proponents are using an plan approved by the BoE in 2012 for an addition on the school, which has not been built.
Morris called that a tragedy. The Fix it First plan would immediately address Jefferson's overcrowding, Rilling, Duff, Perone and Morris said.
"I have no idea about this plan. I have seen nothing. No one at the Board of Ed either," BoE Facilities Chairman Mike Barbis said in an email.
"Obviously, we've had no opportunity to study this, since they choose to release it through a press conference instead of talking to us," BoE Chairman Mike Lyons said in an email. "Which is pretty astonishing, considering that Duff and Morris sat in a room with us on Friday morning at a meeting called to explain our facilities plan to them, and didn't say ONE WORD about this other 'plan', even though all the school staff and Board members involved in facilities planning were there for the meeting. It's sad to see the mayor and these officials stoop to a political stunt instead of having a serious discussion about the plans with the people actually responsible for rebuilding our schools."
Rilling and Perone pointed out during the press conference that Lyons and Barbis voted for the addition.
Rilling said that "an overwhelming" percentage of the emails he has gotten in support of the BoE plan reference fixing the existing schools. Parents don't realize that the BoE plan puts off fixing schools for years, he said.
The BoE plan was approved on a 5-0-4 vote. Crevecoeur and Mosby abstained, along with Sherelle Harris and Artie Kassimis.
Morris has been pushing to allow South Norwalk to discuss educational options for a new school there. This plan would allow that, Morris said.
This story will be updated.


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decided: August 6, 1968.
Appeal from order of Orphans' Court of Dauphin County, No. 195 of 1961, in re estate of Mike Lock, deceased.
Howell C. Mette, with him Walter K. Swartzkopf, Jr., and Rhoads, Sinon & Reader, for appellant.
Ralph S. Snyder, with him Earl J. Melman, and Melman, Gekas, Kusic & Nicholas, and Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, for appellee.
Bell, C. J., Musmanno, Jones, Cohen, Eagen, O'Brien and Roberts, JJ. Opinion by Mr. Justice O'Brien. Mr. Justice Roberts concurs in the result.
Author: O'brien
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This is the appeal of Esther Raechel Lock, surviving spouse, from the decree of the Orphans' Court of Dauphin County. That decree denied Esther Lock's claim for the allowance to her of the family exemption in the estate of Mike Lock, her deceased husband, and vacated her election to take against the will of Mike Lock.
Mike Lock died testate on January 24, 1961. His will was duly probated on March 9, 1961. On July 28, 1961, Esther Lock, the widow, filed an election to take against the will and on September 9, 1961, filed an application for allowance of the family exemption. On September 13, 1961, the executor of decedent's
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estate filed his answer to the application for allowance of the family exemption and a petition for a rule to show cause why the election to take against the will should not be stricken, vacated and set aside. The parties filed appropriate pleadings and the consolidated matters were heard on November 28, 1961.
The record of the hearing established, inter alia, that the decedent, Mike Lock, and Esther Lock were married on May 25, 1952. The marriage was the second for each. The decedent at the time of the marriage was 58 years of age and his wife 54 years of age. Each had separate estates and children by a prior marriage. On May 22, 1952, the decedent and his betrothed entered into an antenuptial agreement providing in essence that neither party should have any rights in the estate of the other by reason of their marriage.
In the hearing in the court below, the estate introduced the antenuptial agreement and rested. Mrs. Lock contended there, as she does before this Court, that the antenuptial agreement was ineffective to bar her right of election against decedent's will and her right to the family exemption for two reasons. First, she claimed that the agreement was invalid from the outset since there was neither a reasonable provision for her nor full and adequate disclosure to her of decedent's assets at the time of execution of the agreement. See Hillegass Estate, 431 Pa. 144, 244 A.2d 672 (1968). Secondly, even if initially binding on her, the agreement was no longer binding, she claimed, by virtue of its breach by decedent in failing to provide a home for her. The court below held that there was no breach and that there was adequate disclosure, and thus did not have to reach the question of whether there was a reasonable provision.*fn1
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We agree with the analysis of the court below holding that appellant failed to prove a breach of the agreement. However, we disagree with his disposition of the case as regards the disclosure issue. On the evidence properly before him, it was error for the court below to find a full and adequate disclosure. The court relied upon the testimony of Martin H. Lock, Esquire, son of the decedent and the attorney who drew the antenuptial agreement in dispute, as showing disclosure. Martin Lock testified that he disclosed to Mrs. Lock, prior to the signing of the agreement, the extent of Mr. Lock's property and net worth. However, the ...
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Penalty u/s 78 - Business Auxiliary Service - Receipt of comission - Bonafide belief - Held that:- In this case, most (about 92%) of the impugned demand of service tax alongwith interest was deposited voluntarily by 5.4.2006 and the remaining (about 8% of the impugned demand) was deposited alongwith interest just before receipt of show cause notice. Such voluntary deposit itself gives credence to the contention of the appellant that it was under bonafide belief that the commission received from .....
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September 1 was the first University of Memphis football game of the season. As usual, the tailgating was fun...the game, let's just say it's a good thing we've got Memphis Tiger Basketball to look forward to!
Fun times after the game (or whatever you want to call it)
That Friday was Zoo Brew at the Memphis Zoo. My company, Mahaffey Tent and Party Rentals, sponsors this event, and it's always a super fun time. 100s of beers to sample from all over the world (not to mention seeing your co-workers in rare form)...yes, please!
Mahaffey's tent at Zoo Brew
The weekend that followed was quite the debacle. From running into old friends at our favorite East Memphis restaurant, Pacific Rim, on Friday to bar-hopping one too many places downtown on Saturday, it made for a long few days.
Brent and me at Pacific Rim
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We had my friend Kelly and her fiance over for dinner Sunday night. I was so glad Brent and Will finally had a chance to hang out. Monday morning was the annual Chick-fil-a 5K. Such a fun race in Downtown Memphis! Running it with two great friends made it even better.
My birthday was September 8. My family got together the Tuesday before to celebrate. No matter what's going on or where any of us are at, we always get together and have a great time celebrating birthdays and holidays. Being in a divorced family, this is a rare thing. We're very lucky! Got a bunch of gift cards, a poster with my first marathon pics and finish time (THANKS, MOM!!), a beautiful bouquet of lilies and roses sent to work and a day at the spa from my hubby. It was an amazing day!
After Bailey telling me "happy birthday cake!" :)
My fabulous assistant decorated my cube at work!!
The hubby surprised me with beautiful flowers at work
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This past weekend was the Road Race Series 10K #1 at Shelby Farms Park. I ran it with Autumn, Erin, and Meredith. We got rained on while walking to the start line, but it stopped after just a couple minutes. The rain was welcomed, as it cooled off for our 6.2 miles. I'm going to miss the second 10K, as I'll be out of town, then we have two 10-milers, two half marathons, and then the St. Jude Half Marathon. It's a good thing I enjoy running. :)
Speaking of running, Autumn and I have started a once-weekly run at 4:15am. I know...we're crazy. But she's a teacher, and like me, she enjoys getting her workouts done in the morning. Since I don't have to be at work until 8, I get another hour or so of sleep after my run. It's actually not so bad...except for the fact that I have become a coffee drinker after 29 years of never needing it. Great.
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Today, looking out across a seemingly boundless cosmos filled with an unimaginable variety of exotic objects, it's easy to forget that the Universe we currently admire is the product of a violent event that occurred 13.75 billion years ago.
As we know, the leading theory for universal birth is the Big Bang, where everything came from nothing, in a single energetic burst of inexplicable creation. So, if we turn back the clock back 13.75 billion years, what would we see?
My instinct would be to say "energy, the Universe was filled with pure, violent energy," but according to some mind-bending work by Jonas Mureika from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, Calif., and Dejan Stojkovic from SUNY at Buffalo in Buffalo, New York, the answer may be a little more complicated than that. In fact, it may be so weird that we can't even imagine what it would have been like.
According to an interview with PhysOrg.com, Mureika and Stojkovic have calculated that the early universe didn't only possess a hot, energetic primordial state of matter, but it also had a primordial state of dimensions.
If they're correct, the three dimensions of space and one dimension of time that make the four-dimensional spacetime we live in today isn't how it's always been - the Universe may have existed in a lower dimensional state in the past.
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The thinking goes like this: Shortly after the Big Bang, the Universe possessed only one dimension of space and one dimension of time. It was basically a straight line. As the Universe began to cool, and expanded, this one dimension of space became "wrapped up" in such a way to create two dimensions of space and one of time - a plane, like a sheet of flat paper.
The transition from one to two dimensions of space was calculated by the researchers to occur when the Universe "cooled" to an energy level of 100 TeV (tera-electron volts, a measurement of energy commonly used in particle physics). A period of time after that, the Universe continued to expand and cool until it reached an energy of 1 TeV. At this point, the Universe got promoted to a higher dimension; three dimensions of space and one dimension of time, i.e., the Universe we live in today.
Mureika and Stojkovic think the Universe will eventually be promoted again, to a five-dimensional state, at some point in the future.
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Evidence in Cosmic Rays?
This is all well and good, but isn't it just a fanciful notion that our universal dimensions are evolving to higher and higher states? Even though string theory predicts there could be many dimensions and those weird hypothetical Higgs singlets (yes, the ones that kill grandfathers) need to travel through a fifth dimension for their time-traveling shenanigans, what's the evidence for the Universe existing at lower dimensional states?
It turns out that Mureika and Stojkovic may have found some of that much needed evidence: When measuring cosmic ray particles with energies above 1 TeV, they appear to align themselves to a two-dimensional plane. "This means that, above a certain energy level, particles propagate in two dimensions rather than three dimensions," the PhysOrg.com article clarifies.
This effect would suggest these very high energy cosmic rays originated from a period of time before the Universe acquired three spatial dimensions.
It gets better. As gravity cannot exist in 1- or 2-dimensional space, if we ever detect a gravitational wave signal, there should be a very strong cut-off in gravitational wave frequency. This cut-off could represent the transition of when space changed from a 2-dimensional to 3-dimensional state. Gravitational waves can only exist in three-dimensional space!
Also, the particle physicists' Swiss Army Knife of particle accelerators, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), may be able to probe this 1 TeV transition when colliding particles beyond these energies - if a two-dimensional signal is received, perhaps that is evidence of this dimension-energy relationship.
So What?
Apart from trying to prove the early Universe was a very weird one-dimensional straight line, how else would this research be useful?
There are a huge number of cosmological conundrums that don't seem to "fit" with our current knowledge of the Universe (hint: dark energy and dark matter), so the dimensional "evolution" of our Universe might be able to help.
But how could we even begin to comprehend what a "lower-dimensional" Universe would have been like? Well, that would be like trying to describe a three-dimensional object to a two-dimensional lifeform, in reverse, but I'll let Carl Sagan explain that bit:
Publication: Detecting Vanishing Dimensions via Primordial Gravitational Wave Astronomy, Mureika & Stojkovic, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 2011. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.101101
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I joined Larry Mantle on his KPCC radio talk show in Southern California this morning for a discussion of State Senator Kevin De Leon's bill to limit California's electric vehicle rebate program (up to $2500 off purchases) to low and moderate income customers. The LA Times covers some of the debate here. SB 1275 would direct the California Air Resources Board to figure out the best way to spend limited rebate funds by limiting access to high-income earners.
My take? California's overriding goal should be to maximize electric vehicle adoption rates, and if targeting limited public funds on low-income communities is the way to do it, then please proceed. It makes sense in some ways: over half of Tesla owners did not cite the rebates as a motivating factor in their purchases. So why not redirect some of that rebate money to lower-income people where it would make a difference?
A number of listeners on the show today disagreed, and some even took offense that "successful" people were being "punished" by this bill. Personally, I think the state has a strong interest in maximizing the value of limited public funds, and if that means supporting low-income people and helping to expand the market in those communities, let the state go with it. I'm sure many of those listeners would also be upset about their tax dollars not being spent in the most efficient manner, either.
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Discussion in 'Landscape & Cityscape' started by rasmis, Oct 13, 2005.
If I could make the photo smaller it would look nicer maybe
nice capture. the sky, beach, and land scene work well together!! someone in the hammock would look cool....cool shot i like it :thumbup:
very beautiful place - great capture
nice click.... lovin' the peace...
great picture, was the sky as blue as it is in the picture in real life?
heres a smaller version for ya
Hi again, Rasmis, welcome again,
and sometimes the evenings do get this blue, don't they. It does not happen too often in my country but I remember one summer evening that turned quite surprisingly blue, it was an incredible sight!
This scene is so tranquil, so peaceful --- but it would have been nice to see at least ONE person in the photo enjoying this serenity of the dusk.
Where is this?
Hi LaFoto
I took the photo of what is existing only. I do not like to make arrangements. That is why I didnot put anybody into the scene. In fact I waited some time for somebody to get in the scene but...
Anyway it is an island in Thailand. I was there for my honeymoon. We were the only guests in the hotel. May be that is why there was no body around
I understand
Well, it is a very nice, serene, inviting (I would have come! ) photo!
LaFoto, i think what makes this picutre so great is the lack of people in it... but if you had to have some one in frame some one sleeping on the hammock would fit in with the tranquilty of this scene IMO
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Like little babies who if they don't get 110% of what they ask for, they ruin everything for everyone. Heck, if I don't like what my Republican Congressman or Senators are doing, I write them a tell them! That's a lot better than having a liberal Democrat Congressman or Senator. I am not too happy with my Senator John Cornyn and his new bill to open the flood gates to H-1B visas, but I am not going to send him out on his butt. I hammer him on his issues that I do not like. I'd rather hammer a Republican than a moonbat liberal Democrat.
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Thanks Tom, if we go another election cycle and the knee jerk conservatives grow in numbers, we are going to lose in 2008.