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Washington DC, Northern Virginia, and vicinity
I'm grateful for the opportunity to join the Lice Happens team. I appreciate the flexibility my job offers me as I pursue my nursing degree.
Being a Lice Treatment Specialist is also a great outlet for me to express my passion for helping people in need and making them feel at ease. I'm able to do much more as a matter of fact – educate and train, and reintroduce smiles and laughter back into a home that was in crisis mode when I arrived. Nothing feels better than leaving a family with hugs!
I really enjoy working for this great company and I can't wait to help you!


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Wal-Mart Stores (NYSE:WMT) is not one of those companies with a rich heritage stretching back to the early days of retail. The company was started in 1962 in Rogers, Arkansas by Sam Walton with the single objective to offer the lowest prices possible. It has since grown to 11,000 stores in 27 countries.
The question becomes: is Wal-Mart getting too big? Its nearly half a billion in sales is more than the gross national product of many countries. Are companies like Kroger (NYSE:KR) and Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ:COST) waiting in the wings to topple the old giant?
Wal-Mart marches on
There's a new face at the helm of Wal-Mart: Doug McMillion takes over for Mike Duke as president and CEO beginning February 2014. According to Rob Walton, chairman of the board, McMillion possesses "a deep understanding of the economic, social and technological trends shaping our world." McMillion was promoted from the position of president of Wal-Mart's international business.
This leads me to believe that Wal-Mart will continue to focus outside of the United States for growth opportunities and seek to address the challenges of building an international business. The third quarter showed growth in international sales of only 0.2% to $33 billion, while domestic sales increased 2.4% for Wal-Mart and 1.1% for Sam's Club. The company says the slow growth was caused primarily by currency exchange fluctuations. Total revenue reached $114 billion for the quarter.
Operating income from international stores decreased 1.4% from the previous nine months to $4.1 billion. Operating income from domestic stores reached $7 billion for the quarter and $21.6 billion for the nine months, both improved versus the previous year.
Kroger -- more than a grocery store
Kroger is dwarfed by Wal-Mart when you compare the number of stores--Kroger has 2,414 locations compared to Wal-Mart's 11,000. However, Kroger increased its number of stores by 8.8% when it acquired Harris Teeter stores in late 2013.
Kroger's third-quarter sales were $22.5 billion, leading to an operating profit of $534 million -- a decrease from the 2012 third-quarter profit of $596 million. However, on a nine-months basis, the operating profit remains improved versus the previous year.
Kroger's stores carry more than groceries, just like a Wal-Mart, but not every Kroger store offers clothing, sporting goods, and electronics. The good news for Kroger is that it is totally based in the United States, so no pesky currency exchange fluctuations affect its results.
Costco Wholesale buys and sells in bulk
What's different about Costco is you have to pay a membership fee for the privilege of shopping at its warehouse-style stores. The company's strategy is to offer a limited selection of nationally-branded products across a wide variety of merchandise categories at low prices. In other words you might only find three different brands of peanut butter, whereas in a grocery store you'd find 10. Consumable products are often sold by case quantities only.
Costco is the second-largest retailer in the United States based on annual sales of $102.8 billion. Its 648 warehouses are operated primarily in the United States -- 461 locations in all. The company has 87 warehouse stores in Canada, 10 in Taiwan, five in Australia, nine in Korea, 33 in Mexico, 25 in the United Kingdom, and 18 in Japan. That's a presence in only eight countries compared to Wal-Mart's global footprint of 27 countries.
Costco's first-quarter results for 2014 -- for the three months ended Nov. 24, 2013 -- showed a 5.4% increase in sales to approximately $24.5 billion versus the same quarter last year. The cost of merchandise was high at 89.2% of sales. Selling, general, and administrative expenses were $2.5 billion, resulting in operating income of $668 million.
Advertising is limited to announcing new warehouse openings and recruiting new members rather than offering discounts to the general public. Foreign exchange fluctuations also affect Costco, but less than compared to Wal-Mart, since the majority of sales occur in the United States.
Costco has improved its operating income for the last five years, but the rate of improvement has slowed from 16% in 2010 when compared to 2009 to a 10% improvement in 2013 over 2012.
To invest or not to invest
Wall-Mart is on solid footing domestically with steady growth. I have to wonder about its international performance, which is about one-third of the company's sales and stores. The company is closing 50 stores in Brazil and China and is ending its franchise agreement for retail stores in India. This will dilute earnings per share by about $0.10 per share. I'd hold onto any Wal-Mart stock but would decline to invest more until the new CEO has time to have an impact.
Costco is a great concept for those shoppers who have the disposable income to buy a case of peanut butter at a time alongside their weekly grocery and sundry items. For those on a tighter budget, bulk purchases are not as attractive. Taking a look around Phoenix, where I live, Costco is located in more upscale areas than Wal-Mart. The discounts available from bulk purchases certainly encourage members to shop at Costco, but they also may discourage new members to a degree since a membership costs $55.
Kroger is my first choice for investment even though it's No. 3 in size behind both Wal-Mart and Costco. The company has had "40 consecutive quarters of positive identical supermarket sales," says David Dillion, Kroger's CEO, in a press release announcing the third quarter results. Clearly Kroger has positioned itself to give customers the brands they want in quantities they want at the prices they want.


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City of Largo Adopts KDE 2.1.1
Dave Richards, Systems Administrator for the
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:09:14 -0400
I am not on the kde-devel group, this message is being sent from
Technology and Design Goals
The City of Largo is a thin client/X shop. We have 400 thin client
Cutover & Runtime Issues
The cutover has gone really well. Most of the issues that we
Custom Changes
I had to make some changes to startkde to accomodate our thin
KDE Applications
I have some notes on certain features that would help with
I hope this information is interesting to you all, I hate to think I wasted
Dave Richards
Network traffic
How about the network traffic. Is it a normal 100Mbit ethernet connection? Can one nic handle so much traffic (X, nfs, sound, surfing,...) ?
By brambi at Wed, 2001/07/25 - 5:00am
Re: Network traffic
I have used Envisex terminals with Xwindows over 10Mb LAN links to hp-ux boxes with no probs. This was at a large international company about four years ago. We used them for a number of server-based apps for specific tasks including a pretty chunky help-desk tool, about 200 users concurrently, with unrestricted surfing (Netscape Navigator), email (good ol' OpenMail) without any quotas, and all under CDE. In my experience, you only need 100Mb in the office if you are doing a lot of large file transfers or have Windoze pushing out NetBUI and the like ;)
Bizarrely, the IT department decided to put a Windoze desktop on each desk to allow us to use Office, and then replaced the help-desk tool with a suite of NT server-based tools. Shortly after Openmail was replaced by Exchange :(
Whilst the new tools allowed us to do more, I shudder to think of the increase in cost. The net traffic was still easily coped with over 10Mb, even with the massive increase due to the extra and bloated emails, file "sharing", and inevitable worms!
The final irony was the IT department was then outsourced to reduce costs!!! Any IT admins out their might like to think about that the next time they are asked about the possibility of running a thin-client network as opposed to Windoze desktops :D
By harmless at Fri, 2003/07/04 - 5:00am
Thanks for your efforts Dave. This is amazing. It's impressive how one individual like you made a difference by deploying Linux/KDE.
I hope the KDE project learns from your experience and makes the next version of KDE even more suitable for the enterprise.
A synergy has started here, let's keep it well and alive!
By KDE User at Wed, 2001/07/25 - 5:00am
Dave Richard's e-mail
Can anyone tell me Dave Richard's e-mail account so that I can ask him how did he accomplish such wonderful task?
By Fabricio Abreu at Wed, 2001/07/25 - 5:00am
Re: Dave Richard's e-mail
By KDE User at Wed, 2001/07/25 - 5:00am
Our announcement to kde-devel has certainly gotten a lot of emails and comments. I appreciate the suggestions and thoughts. I haven't seen any people doing things the same way, because more people set up departmental servers, but instead we are running application servers. Each of our servers performs one function.
I read all of your comments, and will respond to the questions asked.
* Yes, I would love to help with a detailed how-to guide for this kind of rollout. The cost savings are just amazing. Anyone buy NT licenses yet for thin clients? They have dropped all concurrent licenses, and it's going to cost anyone that wants to use NT a fortune. Thankfully, we have always been mostly a Unix shop where concurrent prices are the norm. Centralized NT only supports about 40-50 on the same hardware that we can get hundreds on with Linux/Unix.
* Wallpapers. Anyone that has worked for Government understands our concerns. Not only can we get sued, but all it takes is one newspaper reporter coming in and seeing something, *anything* with which to write an article to sell papers. "City Employee Uses Taxpayer Dollars To Have Offensive Background". The 8 bit color thing is another issue, non-technical people have no idea what they are doing to their color cells. Wallpapers come up *first*, so your 256 colors are gone before any software is started. Also, people were picking wallpapers stored in NFS mounted drivers. It is unknown what happens to KDE when it tries to get wallpaper from an NFS mount that is down for whatever reason (reboot, etc). It might just *hang* and wait. Anyone ever try and do an ls in a mount that is down? Or 'df'?
* The 11MB of memory thing was good news for us. Being that memory has dropped so much, we can certainly accomodate that per user. Sticks of 1GB are about 1500 dollars, very cheap. KDE 1 running on Unixware was only a partial deployment in order to get them used to KDE for a few years until we installed this version. We only ran the kpanel only, window management came from the terminals. In KDE2, we are using 100% of KDE, window management is being done on the host.
* NAS is the sound system being used. NAS is client/server and works almost the same way that Xwindows does. The guys at NCD did a great job with it. It's available for free now. I know that some people have looked at doing a Win32 port of it (another question asked). I would suggest getting on the NAS list server and if you want to try and port it, that would be great.
* Network performance is fine, we are hardly using any of our network. The network really should be a major part of a white paper we make one. Xwindows needs realtime access to the servers, and some switches do store-and-forward which is tested and designed for client/server only. What it does is hold stuff for a good time to send them, which kind of doesn't work well when you are typing things and the keystrokes are going back and forth. ;) We have a Gig backbone, and fiber was run to all of the closets in the city, and then each closet has switched 3com 3900 devices. We don't have any hubs in the whole city. The switches automatically hide all of the broadcasts between switches. NAS works in realtime. In fact, we run the Realplayer over the network, and the sound and video are in sync.
* We use rsh because the big server only does KDE. One of the biggest things that people complain about with 'mainframes' is that if the mainframe is down, everything is down. So they way that you get around that is that you build applications servers. If one machine is down, or being rebooted, only one option from the Kpanel is inactive. Everything else works. Okay, so WordPerfect is down for 10 minutes, I'll read my email or check something on the web. From the user perspective, it looks like one big machine, but each icon choice is calling a different machine. The rsh sends the signals over to that machine to initiate a session and check to make sure that user has permissions to run that software. NT with Citrix accepts rsh commands and can start up software that way in an Xwindow via the UIS. This is really cool because it turns off the Windows Start bar and all options of NT. Only the software requested via the rsh is started.
My very old presentation at SCO Forum 99 is still out there-->
We have been running this design for about 7-8 years now, but the power of KDE has certainly given us a lot better front end for our users.
By Dave Richards at Wed, 2001/07/25 - 5:00am
Re: Responses
I was wondering how you managed to get 230 users working from only one application server. Dividing the workload is indeed a very good idea.
Had we had such a big client base going, we would probably still have used the XTerminal kit I referred to earlier. But we would still have divided it like so.
NFS + NIS server
We tremendously enjoy the simplicity of the XTerminals kit. But your setup is definitely both tried-and-true and extremely cool.
Cheers and congratulations,
By Jerome Loisel at Thu, 2001/07/26 - 5:00am
PC script
"What is happening is that people are installing their own wallpapers, and now I'm going to have to write a script to find all of them that are in use and check to make sure they are 'politically correct' in the workplace."
could you please post the PC-script, would be interesting to see ;-)
anyways: great deal!
By zapalotta at Thu, 2001/07/26 - 5:00am
Why are you telling KDE users
This is a great story, and I'm just itching to try implementing some sort of similar system at my school as well, if the monks there are at all interested.
By Gavin at Thu, 2001/08/16 - 5:00am
The KDE Kiosk Mode Howto at http://www.brigadoon.de/peter/kde/
By Admin at Sun, 2001/11/04 - 6:00am
why thin client?
any old pc with minimum 16mb of ram, no hard disk, no cd, no floppy, just a bootable eprom from rom-o-matic.net or pxe support and u got dummy terminals with ALL the apps on the server running locally.
By Mohammed Arafa at Tue, 2002/09/03 - 5:00am


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a party for bee
I had such lovely dreams for Bee's fourth birthday party. A flower theme, out in the backyard. Children running around the backyard on a scavenger hunt to find various flowers in the garden, potato stamping flowers onto goodie bags, planting their own flowers to take home in little pots, a flower pinata, etc. And then it rained. Again. (Remember C's party this summer?) So we moved the party inside. Again.
At least the kids had cute hats to wear. I made these out of paper I had around, and then fashioned a few more tissue flowers to staple to the side. (I'm pretty fast at making those now!) The kids looked awfully cute in their party hats.
And we somehow came up with enough games to entertain them. Do you remember that great party game where you tie a balloon onto everyone's ankle and then you try to stomp on everyone else's balloon? I remember it being great fun.. the three and four year olds felt otherwise. Bee was the first to cry when her balloon got popped.
But they all perked up for cake. Bee wanted cupcakes this year, with flowers on them. We piped frosting into little petals and laid a Necco wafer in the middle. I cut out a few leaves for them to sit on.
And then the pinata. I hoped to find a pretty flower pinata at the party store, but there were none. So we bought a soccer ball pinata that was white with bits of black tissue on top. We pulled off the black tissue and then covered the entire thing with rows of tissue paper petals. (Special thanks to JR who did most of the work.)
Here it is almost finished. We were hoping it would look like the camellias that have just bloomed in the front yard. I think we came pretty close. We were a little sad to have the kids bash it into a million pieces.
And so, our little one is four! We can hardly believe it. We love her so. Happy birthday sweet Bee.. I'll be praying for sunshine for your next birthday party!


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I've just been reading a great piece on the Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters Blog, seems Chick-Fila-A boss Dan Cathy let his bigotry show in an article in Forbes Magazine.
The flames were re-ignited Tuesday when company president Dan Cathy told the Baptist Press he is "guilty as charged" of donating to anti-gay charities. Then the company tried to fix the problem with an announcement on Chick-Fil-A's Facebook page that sent the whole controversy massively viral. Here's the exact verbiage:
"The Chick-fil-A culture and service tradition in our restaurants is to treat every person with honor, dignity and respect – regardless of their belief, race, creed, sexual orientation or gender. We will continue this tradition in the over 1,600 Restaurants run by independent Owner/Operators. Going forward, our intent is to leave the policy debate over same-sex marriage to the government and political arena."Chick-fil-A is a family-owned and family-led company serving the communities in which it operates. From the day Truett Cathy started the company, he began applying biblically-based principles to managing his business. For example, we believe that closing on Sundays, operating debt-free and devoting a percentage of our profits back to our communities are what make us a stronger company and Chick-fil-A family."Our mission is simple: to serve great food, provide genuine hospitality and have a positive influence on all who come in contact with Chick-fil-A."
Translation: "We'd like to close our eyes now, count to ten, and you should forget all about our fervently avowed political views — which we won't be changing — and go back to eating our chicken a lot."
Which didn't work.
This non-response didn't answer the questions on many people's minds: Will the company stop donating to groups that are actively opposing gay-marriage laws, and controversial "gay-curing" groups such as Exodus International? Also, how are gay employees treated at the company given the corporate culture?
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Sorry, Cathy, we heard you the FIRST time. Retractions of this nature are remarkably disingenuous, and no one with a working brain is going to be fooled by them.
Personally, I have ZERO intention of patronizing Chick-Fil-A now or in the foreseeable future, and I encourage my fellow atheists to join me in boycotting this bigoted organization.
I was surprised to see a demolition site where the Chck-fil-a in my town used to be... Good riddance!
I'd be intrigued to know the circumstances behind that demolition and what business that particular franchise had done before it was closed.
Maybe mismanagement. It was in a good location and appeared to do a lot of business. It was definitely not due to atheist boycott. I don't think me and the other three atheists in Mo'Town had much of an impact on em ;-)
ugh. and I love Chick-Fil-A so much (the chicken and fries). WHY :(
i've eaten there all too often, but i am done with them. they've slipped me the pickle for the last time.
Why are some of you so upset? It isn't like none of this was known before.
i didn't know. i knew the owner was Christian but his fundie views were news to me.
I know you aren't but, there a couple posters who seem to be.
maybe it's just ... cheap crap
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Is work making you fatter?
'Wellness programs' may be all the rage, but do they only help people who are already healthy?
Fruit bowl in the kitchen, bike racks in the basement, corporate discount at the local gym … are Aussie businesses doing enough to help their staff slim down and shape up?
Or do corporate wellness initiatives only appeal to the already trim and taut and alienate the tubbier types who need them most?
They can do, says Dr Nhlanhla Mpofu, the medical director for occupational health at International SOS, a national consultancy that provides healthcare services to firms in the resources, manufacturing and corporate sectors.
While fitness-conscious staff are often happy to take part in company-sponsored sports and nibble a free apple, overcoming the resistance of hardcore sedentary types and fatty-food fans is more of a challenge.
"The best approach is to try to foster a group mentality," Dr Mpofu says.
"Workforces doing things together – many people are more receptive to this than individual efforts."
The all-in-it-together approach has worked a treat at insurance company Budget Direct, whose employees recently completed a 12-week, post-festive season health and fitness challenge.
General manager for assessing and supply Russ Waller mustered the troops for his division, roping in 54 staff from the call centre, vehicle assessment, administration and managerial ranks.
Staff were asked to nominate activity goals for the period and the company kept a tally of the collective kilometres walked, run, cycled and swum.
Allowing workers to set their own bar helped boost the participation rate, Waller believes.
"We wanted it to be open to all, not just the athletes in the company," he says.
"It's important that everyone can take part. Make it inclusive in nature … let them choose any activity and contribute, albeit at a small level. Don't make people feel awkward. It's about encouraging the participation, not forcing it on anyone."
The fitness or fatness of workers varies significantly by industry and occupation.
Participants ranged from serious cyclists, who pedalled hundreds of kilometres, to a ladies' walking group, which convened for a stroll three mornings a week.
At the end of the 12 weeks, the group had clocked more than 15,000 kilometres and participants were invited to celebrate by entering a corporate triathlon together, with entry fees subsidised by the firm.
Some of the 20 who took up the offer were fitness event virgins, Waller says: "People took part who could hardly run 100 metres [before the challenge]."
The fitness or fatness of workers varies significantly by industry and occupation.
An American study of obesity prevalence by occupation released earlier this year by the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention showed employees from the transport, security, cleaning and construction industries weighed in heaviest.
Workers with higher socio-economic statuses typically exhibited healthier behaviours, with teachers, doctors and lawyers topping the tree for trimness.
It's a similar story here in Australia. Two thirds or more of workers from the mining, utilities and transport sectors had Body Mass Indexes in the overweight to obsese range, according to Department of Health research from 2008.
Keeping the momentum of wellness programs going is vital if organisations want to see a significant improvement in the health and fitness of their workers, corporate wellness consultant Katrina Walton says.
Companies often get a quick win from an isolated initiative – a weight-loss program or pedometer challenge – and fail to follow it up, which means changes to habits are not sustained, she says.
"Challenges are great but the benefits tend to be short lived if they're not integrated into a broader, long-term program."
It's advice the Redland City Council has taken to heart, after deciding to take its aging and bulging workforce of 1000 in hand three years ago. With the help of a $50,000 grant from the Queensland government, the council built a rudimentary outdoor gym and began offering weekly exercise classes for outdoor workers.
While a few hide from the process because they feel "too fat", most have embraced the opportunity to shape up with workmates, Redland City Council's workplace health, safety and wellbeing service manager Peter Gould says.
Notable success stories have included one subsequent Biggest Loser contestant and the program has also succeeding in "scooping up some inside people along the way", he says.
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Apartment MYLOW in Caleta de Sebo for 4 persons with terrace, views to the ocean, WIFI on the go and less than 200m to the sea. This property can be rented with 'WIFI on the GO' (it is optional, available on request and has an extra cost of 4€/day not included in the property price), which provide you with a portable WIFI modem so that you can connect from your PC, tablet or phone from anywhere. This island is for special, sensitive travellers, who know how to enjoy nature, silence, beauty, as well as sunny and solitary beaches.
La Graciosa is probably one of the few places in Europe where there are still no tarmac roads. It is the most unknown and the one that lavishes most serenity of the entire Canarian Archipelago.Although the origin of the name is unknown, it might be due to the fascinating colours of its beaches and volcanic mountains, and how these change from dawn to dusk, painting different landscapes that evolute from different tones of red to yellow through the entire spectre of browns and ochres. Who ever seeks a place that is different will be thrilled by this charming and perfectl suited island.
The traveller will find fresh fish restaurants, great coffe terrace with WIFI and bike rentals shops.For the more adventurous: scuba diving, trekks, kayak and boat tours.
There is high frecuency (every hour) boat service to/from La Graciosa (Caleta de Cebo) to/from Orzola (Lanzarote). Lanzarote is a a gift of nature and without any doubt an incomparable paradise combining the magic of its history with an enviable spring climate throughout the year, beautiful beaches and breathtaking landscapes, a paradise of unique nature which friendly people proved to know how to take care of.Lanzarote is a volcanic island, largely covered by lava fields caused by volcanic eruptions in the eighteenth century.
Lanzarote was the second Biosphere Reserve in the Canaries, adding a new component:for the first time was declared by UNESCO a territory as a whole, including all of its population centers. The perfect symbiosis achieved in Lanzarote between man and nature is without any doubt the main cause of this international recognition.The island you will find amazing beaches, secluded coves, trekking path, bike rentals, many surf, kite and windsurf schools, scuba-diving, boat trips. You could do some climbing up to the Volcanoes, relax in one of the amazing SPA or practice Yoga during the sunset.
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Rhode Island was able to maintain its lead after Day One and finished with a total of 191.5 points after 22 scoring events to outpace runner-up George Mason, who finished with 169 points. Duquesne (102), VCU (97) and Saint Joseph's (80) rounded out the top five. Massachusetts finished sixth with 68.5 points followed by La Salle (68), Fordham (42) and Saint Louis (38).
Over two days of competition, Rhode Island won several events including the Pole Vault (James Strawderman), Hammer Throw (Mahlik Handley), Javelin (Nick Danner) and the Decathlon (Trent Baltzell) while racking up a total of 20 medals throughout the championship.
George Mason's Adrian Vaughn was named the Men's Track Performer of the Year after winning both the 200 meters (21.18) and the 400 meters (47.06). Vaughn was also a member of the 4x100 relay and 4x400 relay teams that finished first in their respective events.
VCU's Brandon Ruffin was honored as the Men's Field Performer of the Year after finishing first in the Hammer Throw (17.35m) and the Discus (51.02m).
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Grounding Learning in Place
Three case studies show how to grow passionate local leaders and activists.
In Coffeeville, Oakman, and 19 other communities in rural Alabama, secondary school students have taken on the task of publishing community newspapers in towns where local journalists closed up shop decades ago. With the support of PACERS (Program for Academic and Cultural Excellence in Rural Schools), an initiative underwritten initially by the Ford and Annenberg Foundations, they gain the skills of media professionals and the commitment of engaged citizens.
PACERS, in short, generates passion. At a May 2005 convocation celebrating the program's accomplishments, student Ozzie Pugh said that attending a PACERS event was like coming to a family reunion. "PACERS is a life source, a guide," said Pugh, now a graphic artist for a local paper in Montgomery, Alabama. "It taught us to help ourselves, to come up with ideas, to come up with a medium that helped our community. It gave students a chance to create voice."
Like Pugh, Laura Pittman, then a senior at Oakman High School, also spoke of voice. "I'm not talking about me speaking to you, I'm talking about that silent voice you hear when you read," she said, "where somebody has gone out and researched an issue, or investigated something. ...We help others determine what they want to believe. It has helped me feel proud when people in the community come up and say that my article helped them to decide where they stand."
PACERS "graduate" Fred Fluker, now on the staff of the Detroit Free Press, said that the opportunity to participate in the community newspaper project transformed his, and his classmates,' identities. Instead of being passive students, they became "active citizens, public servants, and professional journalists, providing a voice for our community." The citizens of Coffeeville quickly warmed to their work. Adults began to congratulate them for their efforts and, being sensitive to their new role, the students made sure their work was worthy of praise. At one point, Fluker and his peers decided not to distribute an issue because it contained too many grammatical errors. They knew that a failure to meet high standards would affect their capacity to fulfill their community responsibilities.
Reclaiming a Place for the Local
PACERS represents an emerging approach to curriculum development called place- or community-based education, which seeks to link classrooms more tightly to their communities and regions. In addition to the journalism project described above, PACERS has helped encourage teachers to document local art and history, to work with students to create new businesses, and to strengthen the teaching of science through the development of aquaculture and gardening projects. Place-based education works to cultivate students' knowledge of the unique characteristics of their home communities and to engage them in meaningful and authentic work. It begins with the belief that young people will be more likely to invest their time and energy in the care and support of the places where they live if they are familiar with local assets and come to see themselves as valued contributors to the common life of their families and neighbors.
Humanity faces major global challenges, and it is becoming increasingly clear that neither nation states nor transnational corporations display much willingness to invest the energy or resources needed to seriously address issues such as climate change, the peaking of oil production, or the dislocations caused by economic globalization. Major cultural and social adaptations will be required in coming decades if the wellbeing of human populations and the integrity of natural systems are to be protected and improved. It is not surprising that those who have the most at stake in the status quo are reluctant to embark upon a transformational agenda that could threaten their privilege and power. This means that meaningful change must take place outside the centers of current political and economic authority-and those places include the neighborhoods and communities where most citizens lead their lives.
Public education in the United States and most of the world directs little attention to localities or to grooming citizens to be involved in local affairs. Schools and their leaders instead aim to prepare young people to participate in a competitive market economy-a focus that tends to treat allegiance to particular communities and places as secondary to career and mobility. Moreover, curricula linked to standardized tests preclude lessons that could engage students in activities that address local issues, induct them into the give and take of participatory citizenship, and offer experiences likely to stimulate a connection to people and place.
Fortunately, the PACERS program and two other U.S. case studies described below-the Kualapu'u School on the Hawaiian island of Molokai and a high school in Lubec, Maine-show how schools and teachers who have adopted place-based educational approaches are now demonstrating ways to prepare today's young people to be the socially and environmentally responsible innovators that the future will require.
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In the mid-1990s, three teachers at the Kualapu'u School began an effort to infuse an exploration of pressing environmental issues into their work with fifth and sixth graders. At the time, Molokai was beginning to experience the development pressure previously encountered on the other islands of the Hawaiian chain. The teachers believed it was important for their students to learn about matters that would affect the wellbeing of the island's 7,500 residents, and the land and resources that had supported them for generations. In order to do that, they created a program called Providing Resolutions with Integrity for a Sustainable Molokai (PRISM), modeled on the work of Harold Hungerford and Trudi Volk, environmental educators at the University of Southern Illinois (USI).
The PRISM program brought students together with resource managers to study a number of topics critical to community health, topics which students themselves selected. These included fishpond restoration, ecotourism impacts, native wildlife habitat loss, recycling, and water rights. Community members from outside organizations helped students uncover the information needed to develop reports that would be credible to island residents and decisionmakers. They also encouraged a systematic approach to research that greatly improved the quality of student work.
At the end of each academic year, students organized a two-day symposium during which they presented findings to their families and neighbors-modeling a process that has come to influence other public meetings on the island-then developed action plans based on what they learned. The action plans have led the students to work with a state representative to compose and present a bottle bill (to encourage glass bottle recycling) to the state legislature, restore traditional fish ponds, write a column for the local paper, and set up a school-wide, and then an island-wide, recycling program.
The program quickly impressed island residents, who took pride in their children's ability to uncover the underlying issues in community debates and to present their findings in a public setting. By 2002, students' work at the Kualapu'u School had come to the attention of national observers as well. A news release from the website of Hawaii's Second District congressman, Ed Case, highlights the impact the project was having. "The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 9 Office in San Francisco has singled out Kualapu'u School's PRISM program as a winner of the agency's 2003 Environmental Achievement Award for exceptional work and commitment to the environment," the release says. "All of us in the Second Congressional District and throughout our Hawaii can be so very proud of the students who have made this amazing program a model of success and sustainability."
Ironically, curriculum constraints associated with the implementation of the federal No Child Left Behind Act (a 2001 U.S. law that sharply increased the role of standardized testing in public schools and, some say, decreased curriculum richness as a result) later led two of the founding teachers to create a charter middle school (grades 5-8) in an effort to continue this work. To make sure that it remains accessible to the island's largely low-income students, the new Aka'ula School has intentionally kept its tuition to no more than US$1,000 a year even though its costs per student are closer to US$7,000-an arrangement made possible by local fundraising, in addition to state and federal grants. During the 2004-05 academic year, the school enrolled 45 fifth through eighth graders. By the fall of 2006, that number had risen to 61.
A five-year study of the teachers' earlier work at the Kualapu'u School, by USI's Trudi Volk and Marie Cheak of Western Illinois University, helps explain why the island's residents are so interested in supporting an educational approach grounded in local concerns. In addition to enhancing students' capacity to analyze environmental issues, make presentations at public meetings, and participate in activities aimed at addressing community dilemmas, students also demonstrated significant gains in their ability to read diverse and complex texts, write reports for public consumption, and speak with clarity and confidence. Learning for them became something meaningful and worthy of their attention, leading them to take on challenging tasks that required higher levels of mastery than those generally associated with their grade level. Students' work also resonated beyond the classroom into their island community, providing a model for the exploration of controversies that encourages the expression and careful consideration of multiple viewpoints in a safe and accepting environment.
Cultivating Possibilities
Eight thousand kilometers to the east of Molokai, students in a small high school in the Atlantic coastal town of Lubec, Maine, are engaged in comparable efforts to improve the long-term prospects of their own community, this time by focusing primarily on economic development issues.
Lubec and other villages and towns located on Cobscook Bay have experienced the wrenching loss of jobs and income encountered by many communities across the United States that have long depended upon resource extraction. In the 1940s and 1950s, Lubec was home to 20 sardine canneries; now only one remains. Per capita income for the roughly 2,000 town residents is approximately $9,000 a year (U.S. per capita income is about $22,000). Young people in the community see few opportunities for themselves when they graduate from high school, so many join the more than 25,000 young adults who have left Maine in the past decade, robbing the state of its most valuable resource. In an effort to jump-start their economy and create viable employment opportunities for their young people, community members in Lubec have actively supported science teachers at their kindergarten-through-12th-grade consolidated school in their efforts to incorporate marine studies and an aquaculture project into the curriculum.
Although initially viewed with skepticism by locals more accustomed to fish obtained the old-fashioned way, aquaculture has come to be seen as one of the few options available to restore the regional economy. In the mid-1990s, Lubec residents matched funds from the Rural Challenge, an educational reform initiative underwritten by the Annenberg Foundation, to launch a project aimed at teaching students the skills needed to participate in this emerging industry. A young science teacher at the school, Debbie Jamieson, adopted the project enthusiastically and saw it through its start-up years. She was followed by a fisheries scientist, Brian Leavitt, who had previously worked with the marine conservation group Atlantic Salmon. Together, their efforts over a decade resulted in an aquaculture program that has enjoyed sustained community support and has been well integrated into the school science offerings.
Initial grant funds were devoted to transforming an abandoned water treatment facility into an aquaculture lab with a variety of tanks used both to raise fish for commercial purposes and to conduct experiments. At the outset, Jamieson and her students hoped to raise Atlantic salmon, but without refrigeration equipment they found they were unable to cool water to the temperature needed for the salmon to survive. Instead they shifted their focus to farming tilapia, a tropical species that has thrived in the lab's conditions. These are sold to local restaurants and help to offset some of the cost of the project.
The students' other projects have also reaped valuable lessons. Seeking permission to farm mussels on a dock anchored in Cobscook Bay, for example, not only taught them how to deal with the challenges faced by any fish farming operation, such as predators and disease, but also how to negotiate state and federal bureaucracies. Exploring the possibility of harvesting sea urchin roe for exportation to Japan involved experiments to determine what combination of feed would result in roe whose color matched the golden hue prized by Japanese consumers. Their labors were rewarded with an opportunity to share their findings at a scientific conference held at the New England Aquarium in Boston. Similar experiments were carried out on trout, with the aim of enhancing their growth rate.
In addition to gaining practical skills related to both aquaculture and hydroponic farming, students are learning to become entrepreneurs. Once the aquaculture lab was up and running, they developed plans and found funding to construct a greenhouse that uses water from the fish tanks to irrigate a variety of vegetables, which are then sold to local food outlets and restaurants. (This is a hugely important progression for a small town: the economic vitality of small communities across the United States depends upon the willingness of young adults to believe that they can create their own economic opportunities and need not depend upon large corporate employers located elsewhere. Sadly, many who lack this belief and can leave, do leave, and more and more rural communities are abandoned to the elderly, the infirm, and the young adults unable or unwilling to move.)
Outside of the aquaculture lab, Leavitt and his students engaged in more formal scientific studies of local and regional ecosystems. One of these projects involved monitoring phytoplankton levels in Cobscook Bay and then contributing the findings to a statewide database. Leavitt had participated in similar studies while working for Atlantic Salmon in an effort to determine why fish in some sites were experiencing higher mortality rates than in others. After he began teaching at Lubec High School he created opportunities for students to become involved in this research. They didn't believe him initially when he said that their work was part of a statewide monitoring effort, but after they saw that he was serious and realized the importance of what they were doing, their research activities became a source of great pride with the students.
Lubec High students are also involved in other similarly important work, collaborating with peers from other communities around Cobscook Bay to study ocean circulation patterns and locate places where nutrients or pollutants are likely to collect. They release drifting devices into the bay and track them using GPS recorders and data logging equipment. The information is then fed into computer models that convert their findings into animated graphics used by local fishermen as well as federal agencies and national organizations.
Linking formal education to the aquaculture project and other important maritime issues has made the high school's curriculum more immediate and relevant to students, which is reducing dropout rates, increasing attendance, boosting student performance, and raising career aspirations. Project founder Debbie Jamieson and successor Brian Leavitt both observe that students who had developed reputations for discipline problems in regular classrooms often become deeply involved in classes when they can participate in meaningful hands-on learning. Likewise, some students who find reading a challenge have learned that understanding and filling out a state application for a mussel farm is something they can do. Reading, writing, and math also play into their work in marine science classes, and because students clearly see the purpose for these activities, they are more willing to invest the energy and attention required to be successful learners. More graduates from Lubec High School are going on to higher education, many pursuing coursework in marine sciences and engineering. Others have realized, through school-based enterprises, the possibilities for entrepreneurship in an otherwise economically depressed region.
The aquaculture and associated projects at Lubec High School have stimulated a sense of possibility that had faltered with declining fish harvests. Whether current activities initiated by the school and embraced by townspeople will be enough to reverse the economic downturn of the past decades remains an open question. What is clear, however, is that young people and their elders are demonstrating more faith in their own capacity to address these challenges in ways that could lead to positive outcomes. Without this faith, all Lubec can hope for is continued economic decline and the out-migration of its young. The development of an educational program grounded in local affairs is demonstrating that fortunes may be changed if people are able to link new ideas to learning and to collective action and investment. This is the real work of Lubec, and public school students are no longer outsiders to this process but critical participants.
Young People as Regenerative Resources
Making the transition to a world that is both ecologically sustainable and socially just will require people in thousands of communities to show the imagination, good sense, and tenacity demonstrated by these young people in Alabama, Hawaii, and Maine. Although these examples are all from rural communities, similar efforts are taking places in cities from Boston to San Francisco, and other countries as diverse as India, Kenya, New Zealand, and Norway. It is imperative that educational approaches capable of engendering a connection to place and a commitment to action and leadership at the community and regional level become more widely practiced. Schools and classrooms that incorporate local interests, concerns, and affairs into their curricula, and which induct students into community processes, provide an important venue for accomplishing this end.
Gregory Smith is professor of teacher education at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.


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Mizrachim in Israel – Letting the Demon Out
Cross-posted with Times of Israel.
There is a terribly ugly phrase here that is used whenever someone (usually Ashkenazi) doesn't want someone (usually Mizrachi) to talk about anti-Mizrachi racism in Israel. The whistle-blower, the moaner, the inciter is accused of "letting the ethnic genie out of the bottle". That is the literary translation, though a more literal translation would refer to the escape of the ethnic "demon".
It's a shocking phrase, which is used by the most seemingly enlightened of public figures, and its connotations are so widely accepted that it is gradually falling into cliché. Historically, anyone who has tried to call the Ashkenazi establishment on its appalling treatment of Mizrachi Jews has been accused of rabble-rousing, of irresponsibly inciting uncontrollable violence on the streets. Though in many ways the Israeli phrase is more insulting, suspecting the Mizrachi of uncontrollable destructive urges, literally demonizing Mizrachim who protest at their treatment.
It is heart-breaking to realize that this is a prejudice that dare not speak its name while its effects are seen everywhere. In academia, the justice system, government, finance, Mizrachim are rarely seen, despite their making up over 50% of the Jewish population of Israel. Only in the percentages of those under the poverty line, those with poor academic results, and those who populate the prisons do Mizrachim score highly.
And yet to point out this state of affairs is so frowned upon it is like pulling out a rotting carcass in the middle of a dinner party. Not only does it stink, but it is a spiteful act, designed only to spoil the party.
It is perhaps only to be expected that the latest example of this phenomenon is connected to money. New shekel notes are being designed and printed with the images of famous Israeli role models. They are all heroes of the Ashkenazi establishment. None are Mizrachim. What is upsetting is not only the decision of the Finance folks, but also the fact that the media has no patience for anyone pointing out these hurtful and unnecessary choices. Mocking memes are rolled out, complaints are cut off mid-sentence, and damage is denied.
For many years I had accepted the standard definition and excuse for the problem. Mizrachim – Moroccans in particular – were victims of an insensitive absorption policy in the early years of the state that led to them being humiliated, poorly housed, and culturally deracinated by the host Israelis of the early 50s.
How could this have happened? How could Jews have treated their fellow Jews in such a way? I had always given much weight to the mainstream narrative that pointed out how Ashkenazi Israelis of the 50s were so numbed by the horrors of the holocaust and the ravages of the Israeli War of Independence, they simply did not have the emotional energy to empathize with someone who has "only" lost their belongings, language, and self-respect. "It is true," they sigh, "that Mizrachi children were told to Hebraicise their names and forget their culture, but a new united nation needed to be forged. Don't forget, even Yiddish was banned back then."
And then a few months ago singer-songwriter Ehud Banai broke my heart. He recently brought out a collection of his memoirs called This is The Place, and in it he tells the story of the Kinneret Yemenites. As is his style and temperament, the story is told almost as a tangent, gently recalled and just as gently acknowledged. But still, a disturbed character in Banai's book tells of a devout Yemeni community living on the banks of the Kinneret, at the same time as the Degania Group was busy weaving legends out of pioneering and working the land and inventing Kibbutz for the world.
The white European chalutzim did not take kindly to the presence of these Yemenites. They did not like their religious devotion, and had no respect for their work (back then it was simply accepted that Yemeni laborers were paid half what European laborers were paid). When Kibbutz Degania moved to its permanent dwellings in 1930, it desired the land on which the Yemeni community was living. And so the Yemenites were simply moved out. Expelled. Evicted. And Kibbutz Degania took their land.
How can I count the ways this breaks my heart?
First, I fell in love with Israel and Zionism through the stories of these very chalutzim pioneers. These foundation stories of Israel, shared around the camp-fire, of chalutzim and chalutzot, turned my relationship with Israel into a romance. The "inverted pyramid", the ill-fitting clothes, the late-night discussions – I fell in love with it all.
We didn't avoid questions about the status of women in the early kibbutz, nor did we duck issues of attitudes to local Arabs (remember that heroic and horrific story of uprooting and replanting a forest planted with Arab labor?) – but internal racism? Never. Who even knew that there were other Jewish communities by the Kinneret who hadn't read Borochov and who wore kippot?
Second, very few people in Israel know about this story even now. Feminist reappraisals of Zionist history abound, and "New Historians" have raked over Israel's treatment of Arabs, but assessments of this European Zionism's attitudes to the Jews from Arab lands have never been received with the same respect. To this day the official history text book of Israel – a massive 500-odd page tome published by the Education Ministry – has all of four pages chronicling the aliya of Arab Jews (Ethiopians remind me it is still better than the one paragraph awarded to the story of Ethiopian aliya!). When called on this in a recent meeting between the Education Minister and Mizrachi activists, the editors proudly pointed out that the 4-page Mizrachi problem has been solved: The new edition will have seven pages.
Is it any wonder the racism continues? Is it any wonder the easiest way to create a funny character on TV is to give him or her a Mizrachi accent?
And if Israelis hardly teach themselves about the Mizrachi narrative, how can we Israel educators bring it up with our Diaspora-based students? Will they even care?
Finally the story of the Yemenite pioneers breaks my heart because this discriminatory treatment of Mizrachim was common practice many years before the Holocaust. These Yemenites were not thrown off their land by shell-shocked survivors of the Nazis: They were shooed away by bright-eyed ideologues who didn't even see them.
I finally got it. There was no excuse for the early treatment of Mizrachim in Israel. It wasn't an unfortunate by-product of post-Holocaust trauma. It was racism. That's all. Plain racism.
And there is never a good time to talk about it. When elections loom, to bring up this racism is to make political capital (and indeed the Shas party does in my opinion work to exploit rather than heal the hurt). When elections are over, to point out the shockingly low number of Mizrachim in the government and leading parties, is to get in the way of kicking the Haredim. When the racist jokes are repeated, one must always keep one's sense of humor. And when the only remaining symbols of value in this country – the shekels – are reprinted without a Mizrachi face – just stick it on your forehead, you monkey.


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Kate Beckinsale Suffers Wardrobe Malfunction, Has to Be Sewn Into Her 2014 Golden Globes Dress
Kate Beckinsale arrived at the 2014 Golden Globes just minutes before the show began, and you would never guess by her calm demeanor that the actress narrowly missed having a major wardrobe malfunction in public on the red carpet!
The British star admitted that just before she left, the zipper on her dress broke. She was running late to the red carpet because she had to be sewn into the gown in the car. Yikes!
Kate took the incident in stride, joking, "Otherwise it was gonna be the 'Golden Globes' -- in a bad way. It's been a rotten day."
Regardless of the zipper drama, we think Kate looked ah-maz-ing at the awards show!


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I've found that when I answer a difficult question, I have a tendency to "adopt" the question. What I mean by this is that I follow the question because I want to see what other people are doing to find solutions, and I've already invested the effort to understand the nuances of the question, so I am suddenly very qualified to evaluate and critique most answers.
The result is that I am often commenting on other peoples' answers causing little conversations like this:
Joe Bob: Here is my answer, it is very cool.
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corner case x?
Joe Bob: @Chris Cunningham Good point; I've modified my answer to fix that.
Chris Cunningham: @Joe Bob Okay, but now what about
corner case ywhich used to work but doesn't now?
Joe Bob: @Chris Cunningham I don't understand what you mean by
corner case y.
Is this obnoxious, helpful, against Stack Overflow policy/etiquette, or just completely unremarkable?
One possible reason this practice might be harmful is that it may set a high barrier to entry for new people to post answers, since it looks like someone has already adopted the question and is viciously critiquing every attempt to help. One way the practice is helpful is that it provides nearly instant feedback to new answers and might drastically improve the quality of answers.
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One tough ticket: Prince Harry's Greenwich polo match invite-only
If you thought you'd get to stomp the divots made by Prince Harry's horse, think again.
A charity match at the Greenwich Polo Club pitting the 28-year-old British royal against some of the sport's top talent, including Nacho Figueras, the face of Ralph Lauren, will be by invitation-only, Greenwich Time has learned.
There are no tickets for sale for the May 15 Sentebale Royal Salute Polo Cup, which will benefit children in the severely impoverished African nation of Lesotho, a situation that drove Harry to co-found his own charity.
Harry's visit to Greenwich will culminate a six-day goodwill tour by the prince to the U.S.
"He's the royal darling," said Natalie Pray, Greenwich branch president of the English-Speaking Union.
The youngest son of Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana will play for the Sentebale Land Rover Team, while the Argentine model/polo player Figueras will captain the St. Regis Hotels & Resorts team.
Peter Brant, the polo-playing newsprint magnate who is married to former supermodel Stephanie Seymour and owns the Greenwich Polo Club, will also compete against the prince's team.
The charity event made its debut in 2009, with Harry falling off his pony during a match on Governors Island in New York.
"We hope to raise even more money this year from the event, enabling us to help many more children," Cathy Ferrier, CEO of Sentebale, the charity co-founded by Harry and Lesotho's Prince Seeiso in memory of their mothers, said in a statement.
The English-Speaking Union, which brings local Anglophiles together every June for a garden party to celebrate the birthday of Queen Elizabeth II, has no formal events planned around the prince's visit.
"He has a full program," Pray said. "He doesn't have spare minute."
St. James Palace on Monday released details on Harry's upcoming trip, during which he is expected to visit wounded soldiers at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center outside Washington; Capitol Hill for an exhibition on efforts to clear land mines, a favorite cause of his late mother; New York City; Denver, and sections of the New Jersey shore ravaged by Superstorm Sandy.
Pray, who was born in Australia, spoke enthusiastically about the prospect of taking in the polo match.
"He works hard. He served his country in Afghanistan," Pray said, referring to Harry's flying helicopter combat missions. "He upholds the faith. I think he's super."
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The Hubble Fellowship Program now includes all research relevant to present and future missions in NASA's Cosmic Origins theme. These missions currently include:
- Herschel Space Observatory,
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More than 310 of the most prominent and active scientists in this field have been supported at a crucial phase in their careers by this program, and the Hubble Fellowship Program continues to be one of the highlights of NASA's pursuit of excellence in space science. Each year, the current Hubble Fellows convene for a three-day Symposium to present the results of their recent research and to meet face-to-face with other Hubble Fellows and with the scientific and administrative staff who manage the program. The 2013 Symposium will be held on March 4-6, 2013 at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, MD.
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