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MGT514: IT Security Strategic Planning, Policy and Leadership
Sun, August 24 - Thu, August 28, 2014
Really good case studies and examples which prompted useful class discussion -this helps to --- understanding.
As I progress in my career within cybersecurity I find that courses such as MGT 514 will allow me to plan and lead organizations forward.
Mastering the Strategic Planning Process
Strategic planning is hard for people in IT and IT Security because we spend so much time responding and reacting. Some of us have been exposed to a SWOT or something similar in an MBA course, but we almost never get to practice until we get promoted to a senior position, and then we are not equipped with the skills we need to run with the pack.
In this course you will learn the entire strategic planning process: what it is and how to do it; what lends itself to virtual teams; and what needs to be done face to face. We will practice building those skills in class. Topics covered in depth include how to plan the plan, horizon analysis, visioning, environmental scans (SWOT, PEST, Porter's etc.), historical analysis, mission, vision, and value statements. We will also discuss the planning process core, candidate initiatives, the prioritization process, resource and IT change management in planning, how to build the roadmap, setting up assessments, and revising the plan.
We will see examples and hear stories from businesses, especially IT and security oriented businesses, and then work together on labs. Business needs change, the environment changes, new risks are always on the horizon, and critical systems are continually exposed to new vulnerabilities. Strategic planning is a never-ending process. The planning section is hands-on and there is exercise-intensive work on writing, implementing, and assessing strategic plans.
Creating Effective Information Security Policy
Policy is a manager's opportunity to express expectations for the workforce, to set the boundaries of acceptable behavior and empower people to do what they ought to be doing. It is easy to get wrong. Have you ever seen a policy and your response was, "No way, I am not going to do that?" Policy must be aligned with an organization's culture. We will break down the steps to policy development so that you have the ability to develop and assess policy successfully.
Developing Management and Leadership Skills
The third focus of the course is on management and leadership competencies. Leadership is a capability that must be learned, exercised and developed to better ensure organizational success. Strong leadership is brought about primarily through selfless devotion to the organization and staff, tireless effort in setting the example, and the vision to see and effectively use available resources toward the end goal. However, leaders and followers influence each other toward the goal; it is a two-way street where all parties perform their functions to reach a common objective.
Effective leadership entails persuading team members to accomplish their objectives while removing obstacles and maintaining the well-being of the team in support of the organization's mission. Grooming effective leaders is critical to all types of organizations, as the most effective teams are cohesive units that work together toward common goals with camaraderie and a can-do spirit!
Leadership tends to be a bit "squishy" and courses covering the topic are often based upon the opinions of people who were successful in the marketplace. However, success can be as much a factor of luck as skill, so we base this part of the course on five decades of the research of social scientists and their experiments going as far back as Maslow and on research as current as Sunstein and Thaler. We discuss leadership skills that apply to commercial business, non-profit, for-profit, or other organizations. This course is designed to develop existing and new supervisors and managers who aspire to go beyond being the boss. It will help you build leadership skills to enhance the organization's climate and team-building skills to support the organization's mission, its growth in productivity, workplace attitude/satisfaction, and staff and customer relationships.
Course Syllabus
MGT514.1: An Approach to Strategic Planning
Mark Williams
Sun Aug 24th, 2014
Our approach to strategic planning is that there are activities that can be done virtually in advance of a retreat, and then other activities are best done in a retreat setting. On the first day, we will talk about some of the activities that can be done virtually.
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
- How to plan the plan
- Historical analysis
- Horizon analysis
- Visioning
- Environmental scans (SWOT, PEST, Porters etc.)
- Mission, vision, and value statements
MGT514.2: Planning To Ensure Institutional Effectiveness
Mark Williams
Mon Aug 25th, 2014
This will include the retreat section of the course where we do the core planning activities of candidate selection, prioritization, and development of the roadmap.
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
MGT514.3: Security Policy Development
Mark Williams
Tue Aug 26th, 2014
You will experience the most in-depth coverage of security policy ever developed. By the end of the course your head will be spinning. Students and other SANS instructors who have seen the scope of the material have the same comment, "I never realized there is so much to know about security policy." Any security manager, anyone assigned to review, write, assess or support security policy and procedure, can benefit from Policy in Depth. You will learn what policy is, positive and negative tone, consistency of policy bullets, how to balance the level of specificity to the problem at hand, the role of policy, awareness and training, and the SMART approach to policy development and assessment. We cover different levels of policy from Information Security Management System (ISMS) governing policy to detailed issue-specific policies like acceptable use, approved encryption and end of life disposal of IT assets.
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
- Policy establishes bounds for behavior
- Policy empowers users to do the right thing
- Should and shall, guidelines and policy
- ISMS as governing policy
- Policy versus procedure
- Policy needs assessment process
- Organizational Assumptions, Beliefs and Values (ABVs)
- Relationship of mission statement to policy
- Organizational culture
MGT514.4: Comprehensive Security Policy Assessment
Mark Williams
Wed Aug 27th, 2014
In the policy section of the course, you will be exposed to over 100 different policies through an instructional delivery methodology that balances lecture, labs, and in-class discussion. We will emphasize techniques to create successful policy that users will read and follow; policy that will be accepted by the business units because it is sensitive to the organizational culture; and policy that uses the psychology of information security to guide implementation.
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
- Using the principles of psychology to implement policy
- Applying the SMART Method to policy
- How policy protects people, organizations and information
- Case study, the process to handle a new risk (Sexting)
- Policy header components and how to use them
- Issue-specific policies
- Behavior related polices, acceptable use, ethics
- Warning banners
- Policy development process
- Policy review and assessment process
- Wrap-up, the six golden nuggets of policy
MGT514.5: Leadership and Management Competencies
Mark Williams
Thu Aug 28th, 2014
Essential leadership topics covered here include: leadership development, coaching and training, employee involvement, conflict resolution, change management, vision development, motivation, communication skills, self-direction, brainstorming techniques, benefits, and the ten core leadership competencies. In a nutshell, you'll learn the critical processes that should be employed to develop the skills and techniques to select, train, equip, and develop a team into a single cohesive unit with defined roles that operate together in harmony toward team-objective accomplishment.
There are three goals for the leadership component of this course:
- Establish a minimum standard for knowledge, skills, and abilities required to develop leadership
- Understand and leverage the motivational requirements of employees
- Establish a baseline understanding of the skills necessary to migrate from being a manager to being a leader
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
- Leadership building blocks
- Coaching & training
- Change management
- Team development
- Motivating
- Developing the vision
- Leadership development
- Building competencies
- Importance of communication
- Self-direction
- Brainstorming
- Relationship building
- Teamwork concepts
- Leader qualities
- Leadership benefits
Additional Information
Laptop Recommended
Pencil and paper would suffice for the labs, but we recommend a laptop with a word processor.
If you have additional questions about the laptop specifications, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
Who Should Attend
This course is designed and taught for existing, recently appointed, and aspiring IT and IT Security managers and supervisors who desire to enhance their leadership and governance skills to develop their staff into a more productive and cohesive team.
You Will Be Able To
- Calculate the half life of information
- Establish a strategic planning horizon appropriate for your organization
- Conduct any of the well known environmental scans ( SWOT, Porters 5, Pest and many others )
- Facilitate out of the box thinking (brainstorming, reverse brainstorming, synergetics)
- Select between candidate initiatives and preform �back of the envelope� planning
- Understand how policy is used and when it is needed or not needed
- Manage the policy creation process
- Develop policy for difficult topics such as social media
- Evaluate policy using using the SMART methodology
- Understand the use of leadership competencies in developing leadership skills
- Select a few competencies to work on to further your effectiveness
Author Statement
This is the course I wish I had taken 30 years ago. Colleagues, it doesn't make sense to wait till you are in a management position to focus on your governance, management, and leadership skills. If one can improve by one or two percent each year, it is a major achievement. Leadership is a race of endurance, not a sprint; start early and be persistent. This course will set you on the path. It is a solid blend of tons of research as well as personal experience from a number of leaders in information security. I had read about SWOTs for years, but was shocked by how difficult it was to create a strategic plan and get it approved. Some executives or auditors would say it doesn't look out far enough, others would say it isn't realistic to look out so far, some would say you are too bold, others you are too tame. One strategic plan I did the heavy lift on went through 18 revisions and still had only mixed approval. I was reading everything I could on planning and looking at published plans, and finally I saw the key - "plan the plan." It is the same basic notion as "plan the dive, dive the plan." Since senior management generally signs off on policy, you want to write balanced, defendable policy that gets approved the first time. The goal of both the planning and policy sections is simple: to give you the tools to create repeatable, successful products. The final section will help you build management and leadership skills to enhance the organization's climate as well as team-building skills to support the organization's mission and its growth in productivity.
- Stephen Northcutt


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Mike G from our US office writes...
Since the Deepwater Horizon offshore rig exploded and sank in April, BP has devoted inadequate resources to the oil spill response, withheld information from the American public, and denied access to spill sites to journalists. So our ship the Arctic Sunrise is heading to the Gulf to do an independent assessment of the impacts. We believe it's way past time the full, unabridged truth about the extent and nature of this oil catastrophe was told to America and the world.
The reports coming out of Louisiana about cleanup workers and even local police helping BP enforce a media blockade have been nearly as frustrating as watching the oil spew into the Gulf without cease for almost three months (a hat tip is most definitely deserved here to Mother Jones' Mac McClelland, who has been chasing this story all along and doing a great job of reporting what's happening on the ground).It's in BP's best interest to limit media access to oiled beaches and wildlife, as the more they can contain the truth about just how much damage has been done, the more they can limit their liability to pay for that damage later on. We released our ScamWow video last week to highlight this very sad and galling state of affairs.
We've also had a team on the ground since the start of the disaster, tirelessly investigating local beaches and coastal ecosystems to take measure of the extent of the damage. Our team has taken copious photos and posted numerous oil spill updates on our blogs to make sure folks can see for themselves just what BP has done to the Gulf.But BP is cracking down on public access more than ever, so we're stepping up our efforts. The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise is on its way to the Gulf for a three-month expedition to document the true impacts of the BP Deepwater Disaster on the Gulf's marine life and unique ecosystems. This tour is especially crucial now because even if BP has finally capped the leaking well, the crisis will continue for some time, endangering wildlife and ecosystems, destroying the region's fisheries, and affecting the ocean for decades to come. It's important that we not let the focus shift away from the truly extensive catastrophe that is still unfolding in the Gulf, whether more oil is spewing out of BP's well or not. The Sunrise will leave Tampa, Florida during the week of August 9th and visit the Florida Keys and the Dry Tortugas before approaching the wellhead during the first month of the expedition. The crew aboard the Sunrise will be examining everything from the plankton on the surface to the subsurface plumes and the deep-sea corals on the floor of the Gulf.The Arctic Sunrise is a 50-meter long, icebreaker ship that was purchased by Greenpeace in 1995. Since then, it has peacefully protested whaling in the Southern Ocean, documented climate change and glacier melts in the Arctic, and was the first ship to circumnavigate James Ross Island in the Antarctic, which was an impossible journey until a 200m thick ice shelf connecting the island to the Antarctic continent collapsed. Throughout the expedition, the Arctic Sunrise will host independent scientists and researchers who will be looking for oiled marine mammals, turtles, fish, and sea birds. Charles Messing and Jose Lopez from Nova Southeastern University will be on board looking at sponges, which filter large quantities of water and are therefore useful for looking at sub-lethal impacts of oil and dispersants. We'll announce other on-board scientists in the coming weeks.So keep checking back on this blog for live interviews with our onboard campaigners and scientists, video and still photography from the Gulf, and an interactive, web-based Virtual Ship Tour that will allow you to come along for the journey. In the meantime, you can help by calling for an Energy [R]evolution.
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What a Joke... where have you been Greenpeace? R U Bought off from some entity? This is the first media report from your port that I have seen. Sham...
What a Joke... where have you been Greenpeace? R U Bought off from some entity? This is the first media report from your port that I have seen. Shame. Where are the independent air and water reports from the Gulf of Mexico on your site? I would like to know.
U R No better than the beltway in DC. Shame. Get real and do some real work on the Gulf Coast (Gulf of Mexico). Pick up some of "Matt Simmons" work and do some Real reporting, otherwise, stay away. "You will do more damage than what has already been done." Where is your info on the "BP oil spill" I do not see it on your official website?
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Great- putme to work. I spent over 20 years working in environmental chemistry testing for hydrocarbons, PCB's and metals. I would be more than happy to help!
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Originally Posted by Arwing
Sadly, i only made it to the ice factory. With more time (and a Thai friend) i could have discovered many more of the places featured in the movie. For some reason there is little to no information regarding this online. Yet for his last movie, "Enter the Dragon" there is a plethora of information. All the scenes, locations and how to get there. I had to pick up my things from Chiang Mai and then i head south to Phuket (where i fly to Australia from). So i had a lot of ground to cover on only a 30 day VISA. If i get the chance in the future, i'd like to document this as fully as i can. It's always nice to have an excuse to come back and it was great seeing Issan again too.


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October 10, 2013
LAWT News Service
Songstress Martha Taylor LaCroix will perform at The Gardenia on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013. She will be accompanied in her classy vocal style by legendary pianist Karen Hernandez and highly respected multi-talented Dave Hopkins on percussions. Entitled, "A Joyful Noise in Song," the performance will include a tribute to breast cancer survivors, family and friends. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. October 11 has significant meaning to survivor Ms. LaCroix, as well. It is the day she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1990. Dinner will be served from 7 to 9 p.m. and the show will begin promptly at 9 p.m. The performance will be presented by social networking jazz diva, Dolores Peterson.
"Consistently interesting" is how Ms. LaCroix was described by one reviewer. Her vocal stylings encompass a range of musical influences from spiritual classics to traditional jazz compositions. Ms. LaCroix earned her professional chops as a singer with the chorus of the New Orleans Opera Company several years ago. She later joined the Dick Stabile (musical director for Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis) Orchestra in New Orleans as a vocalist. Like so many spirited musicians, Ms. LaCroix began singing as a child in the church of her legendary father, the Rev. Gardner C. Taylor at Concord Baptist Church in New York City. Her father inspired her first CD "Seasoned for Fathers and Sons." Her sophomoric recording "The Reason - Seasoned for Christmas" is a collection of spiritual Christmas selections most notably her popular rendition of "I Give You Jesus."
Ms. LaCroix has released three recordings that reflect her varied musical interest. The most recent is collection of jazz classics recorded and produced with legendary pianist and arranger Howlett Smith. This recording features some popular originals by Mr. Smith including, "Let's Go Where the Grass is Greener" originally recorded by vocalist extraordinaire Nancy Wilson. Titled "Jazzily Seasoned with Martha Taylor LaCroix," this latest recording echoes the words of another reviewer who said; "Marti comes across with a cool, elegant, diamond-and-pearl restraint."
The Gardenia is located at 7066 Santa Monica Blvd. (one block east of LaBrea Blvd.) in West Hollywood. Tickets are $10 plus dinner or a two drink minimum. Reservations are encouraged and are available by calling: (323) 467-7444.


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UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN River Falls
Parent PLUS Loan Borrower Instructions
To borrow a Parent PLUS Loan at UW-River Falls, you must complete the Parent PLUS Loan Request Form and sign a Master Promissory Note (MPN). The U.S. Department of Education performs a credit check and approvals are good for 90 days. Parents can borrow the PLUS Loan for their dependent undergraduate student. A completed Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is required to borrow the PLUS Loan. If you are a parent that is not going to complete the FAFSA, please contact the UW-River Falls Financial Aid Office.
Step 1: Complete Form
Print and complete the Parent PLUS Loan Request Form (linked below), and submit it to the UW-River Falls Financial Aid Office. This form will authorize the Department of Education to conduct a credit check.
Step 2: Master Promissory Note (MPN)
Complete the Parent PLUS Loan MPN on the U.S. Department of Education's website: Complete Parent PLUS Loan MPN (log in with parent information, select the "Complete Master Promissory Note" link, and then select the "Parent PLUS" link to start the process).
The PLUS Loan is a creditworthy loan and a credit check will be completed to determine eligibility. The Department will send a letter to you regarding the credit decision for your PLUS Loan application. If you have questions about the credit decision, contact the U.S. Department of Education at 1-800-557-7394.
If a parent is denied, the student becomes eligible for additional Unsubsidized Stafford Loan up to $4000 (freshman/sophomore) or $5000 (junior/senior). Only one parent needs to apply for the PLUS Loan. If both parents apply and one is approved and one is denied, the student is not eligible for the additional Stafford Loan.


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"Regrettably, NBC continues to attack Remington, and now the entire firearms industry, with disappointing and factually inaccurate reporting, and calls for more government regulation. In the coming weeks, Remington will make available information supporting the true historical facts, and showing NBC's manipulation of clear and readily obtainable evidence," said George Kollitides, CEO and executive chairman of Freedom Group and Remington.
"Brian Williams again demonstrated NBC's anti-gun agenda with an upfront call for additional government oversight of firearms. Rather than encouraging the exercise of personal responsibility and safe firearms handling, NBC, trial lawyers and their paid, so-called 'experts' have chosen to point the finger of blame at Remington and the firearms industry by misleading and sensationalizing issues involving tragic, but readily avoidable injuries. This reporting only further damages NBC's already questionable investigative and reporting practices. Remington will soon provide facts and materials that were readily available to NBC, but either ignored or never pursued, on our website, www.respectremington.tv."
In 2010, NBC News' "Dateline" attacked Remington's Model 700 trigger system. This time, NBC went after Remington shotguns, Models 870 and 1100. There are more than 20 million of the shotguns in the hands of gun owners.
Before the program aired, Remington launched a counterattack, with a detailed statement and a highly effective website: www.respectremington.tv.
"The previous CNBC story was based on rumors, unsubstantiated claims and misstatements, rather than factual evidence of the reliability and performance of the more than five-million Model 700 bolt-action rifles produced over 50 years. The misinformation and sensational allegations were clearly addressed by Remington in a point-by-point rebuttal, to which CNBC never bothered to respond," Remington's statement reads.
In the latest report, CNBC senior correspondent Scott Cohn once again conducts the investigation, using his favored "paid experts."
"These 'experts' have been repeatedly hired by plaintiff's attorneys to testify against Remington, as well as at least 16 other firearms manufacturers, to suit their own personal and economic agendas," Remington points out.
Remington features its own experts on the website, www.respectremington.tv, while providing very damaging video that clearly discredits the "experts" used by NBC.
"Model 870 and 1100 owners know the truth. These shotguns are used extensively under the most demanding conditions. Tens of billions of rounds have been fired through these firearms, which are valued for their performance and durability by tens of millions of hunters, shooters, law enforcement and military personnel who have relied on these firearms for over 60 years," Remington's statement reads.
Even before the segment aired, comments critical of the program appeared on NBC's "Rock Center" website. They include:
Once again, it appears that NBC is demonstrating its lack of journalistic integrity, its thirst for sensationalism and its overt anti-gun agenda.
Wow — does NBC ever learn its lesson? They were exposed for their shoddy journalism the first time they tried to attack Remington, they were recently caught manufacturing facts and altering a 911 tape, and now this?
Don't you think that with the millions and millions of these guns out there, there would be more reports of accidents if there was a design flaw?
Your producers have proven they'll do anything to "juice up" a story — from manipulations and omissions to downright lies.
Well-done to Remington and Freedom Group for facing down these media attacks. Yes, the program aired, but Remington has provided a place for the truth to be presented. Visit www.respectremington.tv.
By Russ Thurman, Shooting Industry Magazine, publisher/editor.


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Annual or perennial herb, generally fleshy
Stems generally glabrous
Leaves simple, alternate or opposite, sometimes stipuled
Inflorescence various
Flower bisexual, radial; sepals generally 2(8), free or fused at base; petals 318, free or ± fused; stamens 1many, free or inserted on corolla; ovary superior or partly inferior, chamber 1, placenta free-central or basal; styles 28, generally fused at base
Fruit: capsule, circumscissile or 23-valved
Seeds 1many, generally black, generally shiny
Genera in family: ± 20 genera, ± 400 species: generally temp Am, Australia, s Africa; some cultivated (Lewisia, Portulaca, Calandrinia )
Reference: [Bogle 1969 J Arnold Arbor 50:566598]
Family description and key to genera by Dieter H. Wilken & Walter A. Kelley.
Annual, perennial herb, ± fleshy, from taproot or fibrous roots, generally glabrous
Stems generally several, generally spreading to ascending
Leaves in basal rosette or basal and cauline, simple, oblanceolate to spoon-shaped
Inflorescence: raceme, panicle, or umbel, scapose, leafy, or bracted; flowers generally on 1 side of axis, deciduous or persistent in fruit; bracts generally < sepals, scarious
Flower: sepals 2, ovate to reniform, generally scarious or scarious-margined, persistent in fruit; petals 24, minute, < sepals, tips adherent and cap-like in fruit, falling as 1 unit; stamens 13; style 0 or 1, thread-like, stigmas generally 2
Fruit: capsule, generally translucent, 2-valved, generally compressed, oblong to ± round
Seeds 1many, black, generally shiny
Species in genus: 8 species: w Am
Etymology: (Greek: cap, from petals in fruit)
Reference: [Hinton 1975 Brittonia 27:197208; Thomas 1956 Leafl W Bot 8:911]
Observation of flower, seeds requires 20X magnification.
Annual, 211 cm; taproot slender
Stems spreading to ascending, leafy
Leaves basal and cauline, 13 cm; basal withering in fruit
Inflorescence: raceme or panicle, open to dense, 13.5 cm, axillary; bracts ovate to elliptic; flowers subsessile, persistent to deciduous in fruit
Flower: sepals 25 mm, equal to unequal (outer > and wider than inner), ovate, round, or reniform, scarious to membranous; petals 3, 1.53 mm, generally white; stamens generally 3; stigmas sessile
Fruit 37 mm, ovate to oblong
Seeds 1015
Ecology: Open areas, chaparral, oak or pinyon/juniper woodland, coniferous forest
Elevation: 7003350 m.
Bioregional distribution: s High Sierra Nevada, s San Francisco Bay Area, n Inner South Coast Ranges, Transverse Ranges, East of Sierra Nevada, n Desert Mountains
Distribution outside California: w Nevada, Arizona
(1 other var. in s AZ, n Mex.)
See the CNPS Inventory for information about endangerment and rarity.
Inflorescence: flower deciduous in fruit
Flower: outer sepal ovate to ± round, margin narrowly white-scarious to membranous
Seed: margin fine-tubercled
Ecology: UNCOMMON. Chaparral, oak woodland
Elevation: 7001100 m.
Bioregional distribution: s San Francisco Bay Area (Mount Hamilton, Santa Cruz Mtns), n Inner South Coast Ranges.


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SEATTLE (AP) Seahawks linebacker Leroy Hill has made his first court appearance since he was accused of assaulting his girlfriend.
Hill made an initial appearance in King County District Court. He is being held on $150,000 bail and has a second court appearance scheduled for Friday.
According to a probable cause statement released during Thursday's hearing, Hill's girlfriend told police she was assaulted numerous times for more than five hours on Tuesday. The woman told police she was struck 15 to 20 times by Hill, including being hit with a bottle of alcohol in the legs and torso. The woman told police she was restrained from leaving his residence for most of the day, and had her cellphone taken by Hill. The statement also says Hill used a knife to cut up two of the woman's purses and a pair of shoes.
Hill is being held on investigation of third-degree assault-domestic violence and unlawful imprisonment-domestic violence. Both are felonies in Washington state.


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Develop and Support Families
A New Approach
For years, the child welfare field has talked about "retention" of foster and adoptive families, but the idea of retention has focused mainly on the needs of agencies rather than the needs of families. We recognize that many child welfare systems such as yours are concerned about retaining families in order to have a large enough pool to pull from for children and youth in foster care, but there is a better approach.
We encourage you to focus on actively developing and supporting both prospective and current foster and adoptive families, rather than focusing on retaining them. By meeting a family's needs, you increase their ability to address each child's unique needs, while also strengthening their relationship with your child welfare system. The traditional view of retention suggests passively holding onto families, whereas development and support involves building and nurturing a relationship with families so that they continue to feel equipped to meet the needs of children and youth.
The idea of developing and supporting families is a significant departure from the old approach of retaining families. The information below highlights ways to shift from a "retention" approach to a "development" approach.
What Does "Developing Families" Mean?
Having a pool of well-prepared and supported families makes it possible for your child welfare system to provide placement stability and permanency for children and youth in foster care. By actively and continually developing the foster, adoptive, and kinship families working with your child welfare system, you can help ensure that you will have a pool of families who will be able to meet the needs of the children and youth they are parenting. Just as your staff needs ongoing professional development in order to meet the ever-changing demands of their work, families need ongoing development so they can feel competent in caring for children and youth, accessing appropriate and high-quality services, and advocating for their children's needs.
How to Focus on Developing Families
- Development begins at first contact with a family. Each step of the process should be increasing the family's ability to meet the unique needs of a child in foster care. Additionally, when you place a child with a family, recognize the need to continuously help the family develop their skills and capacity to meet that child's specific needs. Partner with the family to determine what additional information, parenting strategies, and other support will help them feel confident and capable about parenting the child.
- When a child leaves a family's home—whether for reunification, another placement, or permanency—have an "exit interview" with the family. Through this discussion you can help the family process their questions or grief about the child leaving their home, share insights about what worked well as the family parented the child, and identify new developmental needs for the family to help them feel better equipped for future placements.
- Prospective families want to feel confident that your agency will help them be prepared to meet the needs of children and youth in foster care. Your response to families when they first inquire about foster care or adoption sends a strong message to them about what kind of relationship they can expect to have with your agency. To identify your agency's strengths and possible areas for improvement, take our agency self-assessment Is Your Response System Family Friendly? (PDF – 131 KB).
Family Development and Support as Active, Integrated Processes
Many child welfare systems think of "family support" as a set of post-placement services, but truly effective support is integrated into a child welfare system's efforts to develop families from their first point of contact with the child welfare agency.
Support for families can—and should—take many forms. As you directly engage with individual families, you have the opportunity to learn more about what each family needs to feel supported and to build a positive relationship with your agency. By building parents' skills and confidence, you not only help them feel supported, you also help ensure that your pool of families can meet the diverse and specific needs of children and youth in foster care.
Strategies for Developing and Supporting Families
- Even the most motivated and resilient prospective families can become discouraged and deterred by the licensure or approval process, and while waiting for a placement. Connecting them with experienced families, or other waiting families, and encouraging them to keep going can help families feel less isolated and provide some much-needed motivation.
- Actively partner with parents to help them assess their own strengths and areas for improvement. Then connect parents with training and other learning opportunities specifically related to the improvement areas they identify.
- Some agencies facilitate "while you wait" support groups as well as groups for families who already have children and youth placed with them. This allows families to build relationships and support networks that can sustain them not only as they go through the process, but also as they become parents.
- After families have had children and youth placed with them, they still need to be actively developed and supported. This includes receiving ongoing information that helps them continually build their capacity to meet children's needs. By building the capacity of parents both before and after you place children and youth with them, you build and sustain a pool of parents who can provide placement stability and permanency for children and youth in care.
- In addition to sharing information with parents about the history and needs of children and youth in their home, talk with them about how to prepare for and respond to each child's behaviors. Initiate discussions and actively seek ideas from prospective and current parents about ways to help them build their skills for addressing specific needs and behaviors of children and youth they are parenting or may parent in the future.
- Provide parents with information and training on effective, evidence-based interventions and parenting techniques for addressing children's specific needs. Offer trauma-informed trainings and other learning opportunities and help connect parents with other relevant learning opportunities available in their community.
- Technology and the Internet can provide opportunities to build virtual support groups that are a valuable option for families who may not be able to gather in the same physical location. An open and reciprocal line of communication with the agency plays a significant role in helping the family feel supported and respected.
- Supporting families requires providing support wherever they are. If you are working with a family in another part of the State or in another State or country, be sure to explore the resources and services available in their area.
- Child welfare systems frequently report losing many prospective parents at each step of the process from initial inquiry to approval. By engaging and supporting families from their first point of contact with your agency, you can demonstrate to families that they will have the support they'll need from your agency pre- and post-placement. Some ideas for doing this include:
- Connecting prospective parents with current foster, adoptive, and kinship families to help them learn more about parenting children and youth in foster care and to begin developing a support network.
- Providing a parent liaison or mentor who can help them navigate the process of becoming a foster or adoptive parent, including both completing the procedural steps and addressing their concerns and questions.
- As you develop targeted and data-driven recruitment strategies, use the same data and information on the targeted communities to plan for your family development, preparation, and support activities. For example, if you're conducting targeted recruitment to recruit families for teens, be sure that you have information and resources to share with prospective families about how to meet the needs of teenagers in foster care. For specific ideas, see our information packet Going Beyond Recruitment for Older Youth: Increasing Your System's Capacity to Respond to Prospective Parents and Prepare Older Youth for Adoption (PDF – 648 KB).
A Customer Service Model for Family Retention and Support
Our customer service model for child welfare systems is built on a belief that each participant in the child welfare system—from the person who sweeps the floor, to the agency director, to the judge, to the foster, adoptive, or kinship family—must feel like a valued member of the team and take to heart the act of providing good customer.
The needs of child welfare staff and families—internal and external customers—are quite similar. Both desire to:
- Feel respected and valued
- Be considered significant contributors to the challenging work of child welfare
- Receive supports needed to fulfill responsibilities for their role
- Experience opportunities for growth
- Receive timely responses to their needs
See a larger version on page 11 of Using Customer Service Concepts to Enhance Recruitment and Retention Practices (PDF – 850 KB).
How Diligent Recruitment Relates to Supporting Families
Many elements of comprehensive diligent recruitment relate closely to your efforts in supporting families, including:
- Using a "customer service" model when responding to prospective foster and adoptive parents
- Having procedures or processes to address barriers presented by the agency in order to increase the rate of retention of prospective foster and adoptive parents
Building your capacity to address these elements of diligent recruitment will help you develop, retain, and support a pool of families who can meet the needs of children and youth in foster care. Having this pool of families will help you provide placement stability and permanency to children and youth and ensure that families are able to meet the needs of children and youth they are parenting.


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First in, and a first timer to PPN boot! is Megan of Chez Megane - a wonderful blog with a terrific start to the roundup. It's a Portobello Mushroom Pesto on Penne and looks absolutely delish.
Another PPN first timer is Judith of Think On It and she shares this pasta with cabbage and cherry tomatoes that she discovered on a trip to Puglia (in the heel of Italy). I never would have thought to use cabbage in a pasta - this recipe changed my mind.
Alisha of Cook, Craft, Enjoy is back with a super easy (perfect for me in the thick of moving) and delicious looking Chicken Parmesan. If only I could find a pan!
Ashley of Ashley's Travel also joins us for the first time with this lovely Lemon & Ginger Chicken with Noodles. It has all my favorite ingredients.
Haalo of Cook (Almost ) Anything is back with a gorgeous and easy dish (good thing for me since this week everything seems a challenge). This Gnocci Sardi with Asparagus and Saffron really says "Sunshine" to me. And I always love just saying the word "Gnocci" - so musical!
Next up is Katie of Other People's Food (another first timer here - welcome!!!) She shares another Gnocci dish. This one is with Pancetta and Broccoli Rabe. It also looks fabulous.
Myriam of Once Upon a Tart and a fabulous regular at PPN made these absolutely perfect ravioli filled with sage and ricotta. If you don't have a pasta machine, try a rolling pin or bottle of wine.
And Sher of What Did You Eat? is back with a gorgeous dish of Spaghetti with Scallops & Hot Garlic Sauce. Unfortunately her scallops tasted a little metallicy - not the fault of the recipe, which does sound delicious.
Eunice of Lemon Almond joins us for the first time with Zhaijang Mian, which she says is the Chinese equivalent of Spaghetti Bolognese. It looks and sounds divine and I can't wait to try it!
Next at the table, is Shawnda of Confections of a Foodie Bride. She's here for the first time and since she eats pasta often, I hope she plans on sharing more of her dishes with us. This time she brings us Chicken Pesto Pasta using farfalle. They're one of my favorite noodle shapes and always make me smile.
Gattina of Kitchen Unplugged, a regular PPNer is back with one of my favorite kind of pasta - Baked Shells. Her's are stuffed with Zucchini, Onion, Salami & Fontina. How fabulous is that!
Katherine of Toast Point is another PPN first timer and a pasta junkie. Welcome! She brings Buckwheat Pasta with Cabbage & Almonds to the table. So up until this week I've never heard of cabbage in pasta and this roundup has two!!
and the guests just keep on coming! Abby's here from Eat the Right Stuff with Sausage Ragu with Spinach and Tortiglione. And just looking at it calms me down.
Rosa of Rosa's Yummy Yums is back with a wicked Thai Noodle and Liver Stir Fry that sounds awesome and looks amazing.
Truffle of What's On My Plate is a PPN first-timer too - and I'm so glad she decided to join the fun. She brings a very exotic Calamari on Squid Ink Fettucine with Roasted Tomato Sauce. Sounds scrumptious.
Barbara of The Humble Housewife is back with this Creamy Italian Sausage and Mushroom Pasta. All my favorite ingredients in one easy dish. Who could ask for more!?!
Judith of Aroma Cucina is back with a really intriguing dish - Ravioli with Toasted Ricotta. How cool does that sound! You have to check out the secret.
and, finally, my own sad story...you know the adage about the shoemaker's children having no shoes...well...read it and weep for me. Next week will be better. Everything move related will be done and my flight to Halifax is next Thursday, so expect something simple from me.
Liberal Foodie is back with this sort of sad lasagna story. Not as perfect as she expected, but it will be better next time.
I feel terrible! In all the chaos around here - packing for the movers, organizing for the garage sale I somehow overlooked Lis of La Mia Cucina (one of my favorite blogs) and a spectacular pasta maker (along with everything else she makes). She submitted this awesome (all my fave things) Campanelle in a Creamy Garlic Sauce with Baked Garlic/Herb Shrimp . I wish I had some on the table right now - oh yeah - I don't HAVE a table! I guess it will be one of the first dinners I make in Halifax.
I will be adding late additions to this week's Presto Pasta Night until Saturday. Any I receive after that will be part of next week's PPN Event. So don't forget to join the fun. Remember that ALL noodles dishes count as pasta for this fun event. Find out how to participate here.
In the meantime....Happy Pasta Eating!!!
Related links: Food and Drink easy cooking pasta Food Blogging Event Presto Pasta Night


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With all of the shopping you've just done, probably the last thing you want to do the day after Christmas is MORE shopping -- however, you could be leaving some amazing deals on the table. In fact, if you were smart, you'd celebrate Christmas on Dec. 27. Hey, not a bad idea. Too bad I just thought of it. Not only do stores need to clear out their holiday inventory, they also need to clear out their year-end inventory, so it's usually a double-whammy of sales. Here are 8 of the best bets for places you should be able to find deep post-Xmas sale-poloozas.
According to Deal News, January is the best time to buy HDTVs because brands role out their new models that month, and it's time to get rid of the old. Last February, LCD HDTVs dropped by 6%. Late January will also see heavy discounts on tablets, digital cameras, and laptops.
Home Furniture
Several home outlets, like Home Depot and Pottery Barn, will introduce new furniture collections in February, which means that stock will have to move soon, so expect prices to slash for December and January.
US-Mattress already has up to 50% off on mattresses through December 25, but DealNews says to expect even steeper discounts after the big day.
Year-end deals will start on December 23 and extend until after Christmas. Sign up for daily emails on daily deals.
The day after a big holiday like Christmas is the best day for scooping up deals on Godiva chocolates, normally a bit pricey for the average chocoholic.
For the best year end deals on clothes, DealNews recommends Banana Republic, Club Monaco, GAP, and French Connection. Last year, you could find deals of 50% off on clothes that were ALREADY marked down 75%. That's like free clothes, people.
Christmas decorations
It goes without saying -- though I'll say it anyway -- that the time to buy Christmas trimmings is the day after Christmas. You can get a grear deal on a tree too -- if you're sticking to that December 27 Christmas thing (can we make that catch on?). Kohl's already has some steep discounts, expect them to go down. Hallmark is another place you can expect discounts on Christmas goods.
People make all kinds of resolutions after the holiday to slim down get in shape. Since stores know this, they're more likely to slash their prices to take advantage of people's fragile willpower -- which will probably wilt with high prices. Check out Sports Authority and Lululemon.
More from The Stir: Why I Trash Some of My Kid's Christmas Presents
Where are your favorite places to buy after Christmas?
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The best thing about the Discovery Lab is that all the mess is contained inside, and it is very easy to clean! When we were ready to try the slippery slime recipe, I had no trouble washing out the Discovery Lab. The recipe calls for cornstarch, warm water, and food coloring. Then it says corn syrup 'as needed' but no specific amount. So when we first made it, the slime was very liquidy, so they say to add more cornstarch to thicken it if needed, which I did, but the slime became lumpy and wouldn't mix in. Also, I think I should've doubled the recipe next time we make the slime because it really didn't make enough to really handle easily with the gloves on.
My daughter wanted to reach her hands in and see what the slime felt like without the glove on her hand. She did alright with the spoon, but she found it rather akward to try and mix the slime with her hands inside the gloves. The Discovery Lab is one of those toys that never grows old because you can keep reinventing new purposes for it. It is designed for ages 4 and up. We have yet to try the worm farm, but the guide says worms are available at most tackle shops or pet shops.
The Discovery Lab also has caps that fit over the holes where the gloves attach, so if you're not using the gloves, you can use it more for viewing, perhaps with the terrarium. One thing I did find interesting was that if you place the lid on the terrarium while the soil is still moist, condensation will then start to cycle in your terrarium and the water droplets will fall back down onto the soil just like real rain! The terrarium will begin watering itself! This is a fabulous way of teaching kids about rain and the water cycle because they can actually watch it happen on a small scale. The Discovery Lab would be perfect for a classroom as well. I found the instruction guide to be a bit difficult to understand; some of the wording in the directions was unclear.
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January/February 2006
In March 2001, the last time this journal focused on informal mathematics education, ASTC was about to publish Mathematics in Science Centers, the report of a National Science Foundation–funded survey of six institutions. That report closed by recommending that ASTC undertake a capacity-building initiative aimed at enabling more museums to offer mathematics exhibits and programming. Five years later, we marked the conclusion of our three–year participation in another NSF-funded project, Building Math Momentum in Science Centers (MMSC), led this time by the education research and development organization TERC. In this issue, we discuss some of the outcomes of MMSC (see pages 4–9) and also look beyond it to assess other challenges and rewards of the field's commitment to hands–on math.
• Beautiful and Useful: Emphasizing Mathematics in Science Centers, by Melvin D. George
• Gearing Up for Math: Professional Development Builds Capacity, by Deanna Beane
• Finding the Math: A Math Momentum Sampler, by Carolyn Sutterfield and MMSC Teams
• Meet Math: A Tool for Cooperation Between Palestine and Israel, by Peter Hillman
• Handling Calculus: Graphing Motion to a Understand Math, by Ricardo Nemirovsky
• Let's Replace Math Phobia with Math Appreciation, by Jaine Kopp
• Baskets and Pineapples: Indigenous Math Discovery in Brazil, by Maurice Bazin
• When to Make Math Explicit: Letting the Visitors Decide, by Suzanne Perin
• Joining the Cyberchase: A Cross-Platform Math Opportunity, by Carolyn Sutterfield, Shawntel Landavazo, and Keith Ostfeld
• Tips from the Math Forum, by Gene Klotz
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Wednesday, 5 December 2012
The news (no, there is none)
I had the birthday stain removed from my tooth yesterday, so I am basically winning at this year and no longer need to do anything, yes? Admittedly, it has had the usual domino toppling effect and now I have to go back and have something else done and the whole operation will doubtless cost me hundreds of euros I do not have. But. At least I can (i) leave the house and (ii) open my mouth in public. I will take this puny win, thank you.
The dentist is awful though, isn't it. Even when it's not actively, hurtily, awful and frightening, there is not a scrap of dignity to it, lying there having your drool sucked up by a tube as a nice young lady scrapes at your tooth filth with a high tech hook. I felt like a mangy rescue donkey having its giant yellow molars filed. Someone needs to invent an alternative to teeth, and fast.
Other sartorial issues currently pressing:
(i) No waterproof footwear apart from wellington boots. Resorted to patent Marc Jacob flats with glittery stars on for lunatics and primary school children at birthday parties yesterday (not a great look for an adult-shading-into-crone). Bastarding Top Shop have sent my boots by, I can only surmise, flightless pigeon, since it has been three weeks since I ordered them and still there is no sign.
(ii) Facial leprosy improved but ongoing. I had to resort to BURNS CREAM as suggested by someone in the comments.
(iii) No trousers that are decent and of an appropriate size.
(iv) Angry red infected eyelash follicle, which is pretty fucking ironic when you do not HAVE any eyelashes.
Solutions: none. Not getting dressed or leaving the house works most of the time, but it means that when you do go out, the problem is a million times more acute.
2. Cultural News
Further details emerge, slowly, tantalisingly, of F's 20 December opera extravaganza. There will be a scene featuring a dead Verdi (a much coveted role, I am given to understand) ascending a pile of Pompeii victims. F has several minor roles, including "Pompeii ash victim" ("How does one costume a Pompeii victim?" my friend E mused. "'Here, wear this sand cloak. Try not to move'") and my particular favourite, 'anvil'. This is well up there with all our nativity disappointments, isn't it (this, incidentally, is a good compilation of bitter Nativity stories. I have a great deal of long-cherished bitterness about being passed over various times in the school Nativity play and it was a cathartic read)? F doesn't seem to mind. He will be the very best anvil that has ever been. He will be vibrating with great musicality.
He has just filled me in on the very interesting introductory song, which includes a section that goes:
Verdi aimait beaucoup les femmes
Mais les gens n'appréciaient pas
Que Giuseppina et Teresa
Habitait sous le même toit.
Verdi loved women
But people did not approve
Of Giuseppina and Teresa
Living under the same roof.
I am febrile with excitement about the whole business.
3. Rage news
Having attempted to get ahead with my Christmas preparation with the assistance of online retailers I am being crushed from all directions for my naivety and hubris. My aforementioned Topshop boots have vanished without trace into the ether somewhere between whatever sweatshop they are made in and Uccle. Topshop customer service is predictably unmoved. Hawkin's Bazaar, normally one of my top three retailers (I am not sure what the others are - Lakeland? Betty's by Post? Yes, probably those), has totally failed to deliver me my splat frogs, bug eyed bugglies and classic joke range fake doog poo. Instead they have sent me a fucking DIABOLO, as if I were running a holiday camp for hippies. I am full of puny, foot stamping frustration. Then, to add insult to injury, I tried to track my Amazon parcel and discovered that my long overdue Hex Bugs (a sort of jolly, low-fi robotic insect) have been in Charleroi for the past five days. Five days! What the fuck are they doing in Charleroi? I've never managed to spend more than three hours there.
"They are breeding in that package, you realise" someone said. "By the time they deliver it there will be THOUSANDS of them writhing away in there"
"They have taken over the airport" someone else suggested, which would indeed be a vast improvement on Ryanair. "A swarm of them has carried Michael O'Leary off to their lair".
Which at least gave me a laugh. What a vision. Hex Bug Air would be an interesting take on aviation, I feel, going round in round in circles really fast without any discernible purpose and occasionally falling over.
I must go now, because I am behind on seventy eight types of thing, including grudgingly dumping a handful of sweets and a tangerine in the children's slippers to celebrate Saint Sinisterklaas and his horrible festival of fear and leaving realistically equine bite marks in the carrots left for his donkey, this at least, I am amply qualified to do (see 1, above).
What are your main sartorial issues currently? And which online retailer do you currently hate with the heat of a thousand suns (other rage triggers are also acceptable)?
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1) general failure (now that I'm working at home, it's subzero outside, and I have to do yoga every day) to wear anything other than nasty old tracksuit bottoms over leggings plus thermals, bobbly fleeces, etc. Also not had haircut for nearly 3 months and wearing my unflattering old specs as they are lighter than my funky ones. The greyhound is better turned out than me. (If you are still searching for the wimpet, try kitschcollars.com and the shop at grwe.com)
2) I was going to say American Apparel, for promising me a big discount if I signed up for their email newsletter, then sending me constant email newsletters but no discount code. And not replying to the 4 or 5 emails I sent asking for the discount code. BUT, then again, they've saved me from having any more nasty old trackie bottoms a few years from now.
Hope your boots have arrived.
- 5 December 2012 at 22:59
I have just run screaming from the dental hygienist ( open late week nights for your personal discomfort) where I was verbally berated for my penchant for sparkling water, which is the devil allegedly and I may as well just be gnawing sugar shards. ( rahhh!)
Back to the house where a pile of ' we tried to deliver your parcel' ( uniqlo/ eBay / John Lewis ) cards lay damply below the letterbox .
My amazon parcel is currently languishing in a warehouse in carrickfergus - status:
Possible delay in delivery due to extra carrier processing
What the actual fuck?
Clearly require Verdi pronto... Care to join me?
- 6 December 2012 at 00:01
And I have a boil on my chin.
- 6 December 2012 at 00:03
- Margaret said...
1. Three years ago I was scared straight into thorough daily flossing by a delicate flower of a hygienist who savaged my gums for a solid 90 minutes. Every time I think about skipping the floss, I can see her sweet face leaning over me with her instruments of torture.
2. Sartorially, I'm all frizzy split ends and can't fit into anything stylish. I go to work at my super-fancy magazine every day looking like a suburban mom on a day trip to the big city.
3. Last week, my Sephora package was languishing in Maspeth. This was the online tracking message: "Due to local operation disruption, packages not unloaded from trailer, expect a one day business delay." So, what you are telling me is that because some fucking TEAMSTER in fucking QUEENS forgot to unload the truck, I have to wait another day for my Bliss 24 Heaven body cream. Do you understand the condition of my elbows? I am a dried-out, dessicated husk. Seriously, Sephora, you need to start cracking the whip on UPS, like Amazon does.
- 6 December 2012 at 06:32
Teeth! Well I looked after my teeth so well that I got told off for scrubbing too hard and now my receding gums won't grow back. Flossing is a better idea. Also a big back tooth crumbled away, so I now have a big gold back tooth, and no money for Christmas of any extent. Oh well - blingy tooth for Christmas! At least it doesn't hurt now.
Heather (NZ)
- 6 December 2012 at 11:39
- mountainear said...
Interesting article in the Times a couple of weeks ago where the writer followed a dental care regime which makes traditional flossing and visits to the hygienist redundant. Sounds like my kind of regime. It's based largely on mouth washes and eating Xylitol sugar and gum. Best link I can find is http://www.drellie.com/Zellie-Mouth-Care-System.php.
- 6 December 2012 at 13:55
- Patience_Crabstick said...
Wow, I'm all in favor of a regimen that will make the dentist obsolete.
My sartorial crisis is that all my clothes suck. And I have nothing to wear to my husband's work Christmas party tomorrow.
Awful online retailer? Sundance. http://www.sundancecatalog.com/ The catalog oozes smug and entitlement, the prices are ridiculous, and once, when I foolishly ordered a pair of boots from them, they sent me the wrong size and it took them something like five months to process my return. If zappos can do it in three days, there's no excuse for anybody else.
- 7 December 2012 at 01:04
- ghada said...
شركة تنظيف بالطائف شركة الهدي افضل شركة نقل عفش بالطائف كذلك هى افضل شركة رش مبيدات بالطائف
شركه الهدى
شركة رش بالطائف
خدمات الطائف
شركة تنظيف بالطائف
شركة تنظيف فلل بالطائف
نظافه عامه بالطائف
شركة تنظيف منازل بالطائف
شركة تنظيف شقق بالطائف
- 23 December 2016 at 17:28
- ghada said...
نقل عفش بالطائف
بالطائف شفط بيارات
تسليك مجارى بالطائف
تنظيف خزنات بالطائف
رش مبيدات بالطائف
نقل عفش بخميس مشيط
شركة عزل اسطح بالطائف
- 23 December 2016 at 17:28
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Laura Bush, the Consumate Administration Hack & Hypocrite
Cortez writes "As Laura Bush pontificates to other nations on what they should be doing on literacy, lets look at what hubby is ACTUALLY doing:
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"In presenting his fiscal 2006 budget request to Congress, Bush said he wants to reduce funding for the adult education program because an analysis by the Office of Management and Budget found that it was difficult to assess the program's effectiveness. If the cuts are approved -- as state adult education officials fear -- federal funding for adult education programs in Pennsylvania would drop from $19.3 million this year to $4.8 million next year.""
Perhaps the hypocrisy is in uping the support for programs that don't work, as Democrats like to do:
"Bush said, "I can't think of anybody in the Congress who is not for helping low-income families become literate. The problem is that after three separate evaluations, it has become abundantly clear that [Even Start] is not succeeding. People are not becoming more literate."
How much would you think would be appropriate to continue a program that isn't succeeding? Head Start has been proven time and again to be a failure but we continue to fund it. We have probably graduated our Head Start kids into the Even Start adult program. Cradle to Grave non-education for all Americans, so we can keep them poor and on the rolls of the Democratic Party.
Was Laura Bush recommending that middle eastern countries develop programs that don't work?
a Dissident Voice's perspective
Re:Depleted Unranium
Well! -- speak of the devil and he shall appear!
Depleted Uranium Bill Introduced into Congress, The Lone Star Iconoclasttruthout.org>, and reprinted at TruthOut.org. The fact that is reprinted there no doubt means that this is an unAmerican and unpatriotic movement, but, then, the twenty-one co-sponsors are all democrats, and every Right thinking person will tell you that makes them bastard-traitors who are soft on terrorism to begin with.
Congressman Jim McDermott (D-WA), a medical doctor, on May 17 introduced legislation with 21 original co-sponsors in the House of Representatives that calls for medical and scientific studies on the health and environmental impacts from the U.S. Military's use of depleted uranium (DU) munitions in combat zones, including Iraq.
Since McDermott wants a scientific study he'll never get it, of course, not from the anti-intellectual Bush regime. What he should do is use reverse psychology and table a bill calling for proof that DU is actually a kind of superenriched fertilizer that is good for growing things and little children. The Republicans will go for that and results will show otherwise, and then they'll have to try to cover it up.
Depleted Unranium
Just as Agent Orange in Vietnam continues its legacy of death and horror unto generations long after the war officially ended, so Depleted Uranium will be a scourge of the Iraq occupation for decades.
Helen Caldicott on Depleted Uranium.helencaldicott.com>
back to literacy
I do hope those of you with three-day weekends have enjoyed them. As the daughter of two WWII veterans and the granddaughter of two WWI veterans, Memorial Day is quite meaningful to me. But I did want to bring the discussion, albeit belatedly and briefly, back to literacy.
Even Start evenstart.org> is a family literacy program, which serves parents and children. It is based on school and community partnerships. It is a federal program that is administered by states. In Pennsylvania, the local school districts that receive grants must partner with their public libraries, which receive a percentage of the grant monies. Both schools and libraries work with local literacy providers. This is a good thing.
In my experience, the problems with Even Start are those familiar to anyone experienced with federal, state and school district bureaucracies. But I think the families, adults and children, do benefit. These are the people who most need help. If you had worked with an Even Start program, I think you would care more about these families, than standing on soapboxes, she says stepping down.
Re:hissy fits
Relax, mdoneil; I didn't expect those of you enjoy the company of lunatics, small time dictators, neo-fascists, and Islamophobic Christo-fanatics to get it. And the fact that you sanction the murder of 100,000 Iraqi civilians, the murder of 1,660 or so American serviceman, and the siphoning off of billions of tax dollars into the pockets of Bush's corporate bum-chums is equally too bizarre for adequate comment.
By the way, you do know, don't you, that using munitions coated with depelted uranium constitutes nuclear warfare? You know how long that stuff is going to be hanging around in Iraq, polluting the environment they have to live in? But, of course, who cares. After all, they aren't lily-white, American God-worshippers, are they?
No fear, mdoneil. Your Bush regime has had no credibility with me from Day One.
Re:hissy fits
You would like to see the US bombed with dirty bombs but your only concern is that it might drift northward and pollute Canada.
Amazing, that is simply too bizarre for adequate comment.
I have always tried to respect people if their opinions differed from mine, perhaps more if their opinions differed from mine as discourse is the fonudation of a functional democracy. However fang face I'm afraid I just can't give you the benefit of the doubt anymore.
I have read enough of your commentary to realize that your comment is not just hyperbole or political grand standing. You have crossed the line from rational discussion to fanatical anti-Americanism.
I hope you enjoy the company of lunatics, small time dictators, Communists, and Islamofascists.
Re:Head Start is NOT a FAILURE
Well if the ALA has a policy then we can rest assured all is well.
Re:Memorial Day
That's a nice piece of whacko spin, and mininterpretation as per the Republican bent. The illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq is not a war of self-defense, it is military misadventurism and I have no doubt that Washington would not countenance it. Neither would Jefferson, Franklin, or John Stuart Mills, to name a few.
Re:hissy fits
Nice piece of Republican denial there, Greg, but genocide is also genocide when it is perpetrated by Amerika. And while Saddam is in jail we still need to send Bush off to the Hague to be tried as well.
As to bombing North Korea, I'm rather ambivalent about that. I'd like nothing better than to see N.K. bomb you back with a couple of dirty nukes, but I know pollution; the fallout won't stay on just your side of the border.
Re:Memorial Day
Here's a fascinating siterationalrevolution.net>. Here's a quote from anotherhomeofheroes.com> that puts it in perspective:
"If we desire peace, it must be known that we are at all times, ready for war."
President George Washington
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Memorial Day
1659 U.S. troops dead in Iraqicasualties.org>
Study: Iraq Invasion Has Killed 100,000 Civilians
Re:hissy fits
"How about the willful murder of 100,000 innocents based on a complete and obvious tissue of lies? Anything crass in that? "
There are other words for that, but no worries, Saddam's in jail so while we keep finding mass graves in Iraq at least we know there won't be any new ones. Now if we could just start bombing the Sudan and North Korea, I'd be happy.
You have a nice weekend Mikey.
Re:hissy fits
So you're saying that cold, hard facts are crass?
Or just those facts which are embarrassing to Bush supporters?
How about the willful murder of 100,000 innocents based on a complete and obvious tissue of lies? Anything crass in that?
hissy fits
You know, at least my heading had something to do with the article. This is just crass.
Bush said, "I can't think of anybody in the Congress who is not for helping low-income families become literate.
Isn't this the same George Bush who forced on the American education system a program so badly flawed that it was counterproductive from the get go, and which Congress won't even fund the way it needs to be funded?
Perhaps the hypocrisy is vested in the current government in power.
Head Start is NOT a FAILURE
One of the Robo-Group-Think mantras of conservatives is to condemn Head Start. If something helps people less fortunate than them, conservatives think it's bad.
Many U.S. librarians believe in helping the poor and the American Library Association has a policy; see Library Services for the Poorlishost.org>.
Instead of rote repeating of republican talking points these anti-child, anti-humanity types ought to show some intellectual curiosity and look at Head Start Facts.nhsa.org>
Re:Depleted Unranium
Typical Bush-bashing again and again. Can't you libs come up with anything good to say. Can't you ever put your moaning and whining aside and look at the positive long-term effects: FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY for Iraqi citizens. You just don't get it do you. Well, one thing you do know how to do is change the subject because this thread was originally about the failure of the Head Start program that the country is wasting billions of dollars on. How can anyone say it is actually working when evidence suggests that it doesn't. Our children are not making vast improvements. If anything they're graduating high school without the knowledge, aptitude and skills required to function literately in society.


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The past two days have been spent working a fair bit on my lathe, trying to learn how to knurl.
I have purchased a set of cutting knurls and their toolholder, that allow me to cut a 45-degree diamond pattern.
When you haven't even seen one of these in action, it is hard to know if you've set the tool up properly, but suffice it to say that my first few attempts fell dismally short of being satisfactory. So off to the Practical Machinist website, where I asked for advice. The replies led me to another website, from a competing manufacturer to my tooling, where there was some very instructive material posted. See this.
Armed with a little more knowledge than I had before, I managed to get something resembling what I was looking for, although it still isn't perfect. Of course, that will just mean a bit more lathe time.
Two shots, both of the same piece, just one is darker than the other to cut down on the reflections: