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10-year-old submits follow-up to controversial photo
After enduring weeks of controversy surrounding his photographic depiction of a police officer beating his little brother, 10-year-old Jackson Potts II decided to make a new image.
This one is more staid. It shows his 7-year-old brother, Dietrich, gazing down at a cross. The new piece will be hung in place of Jackson's first photo — banned by church leaders as disturbing to children — during Ecclesia Church's opening tonight of its stations of the cross exhibition.
"He's looking at a little cross, knowing what's going to happen," Jackson said Friday, describing his new piece and referring to Jesus' crucifixion. "I still wanted it to be a kid because of the innocence, because Jesus was innocent."
The controversy started when Jackson was invited to do station No. 7, where Jesus falls for the second time, in the church's annual stations of the cross exhibition (there are 14 stations depicting Jesus' march to crucifixion and one showing his resurrection).
He finally settled on his brother being pummeled by a man dressed like a police officer.
"It's the innocence of Jesus as a child," Jackson said in a recent interview. "And a police is like a Roman guard."
But when he submitted the photo to Ecclesia, the elders balked, worrying children would be frightened.
They offered Jackson the option of creating new art.
Jackson wasn't very happy about it, but the home-schooled fifth-grader finally agreed. With help from his dad and Dietrich, he created the new photo last week.
Though he's become something of a controversial symbol, Jackson is now a celebrity of sorts.
After Ecclesia refused to hang his work, Houston's well-known G Gallery offered to put it up. A Canadian church also decided to hang it. Meanwhile Jackson has been appearing on radio shows and was even offered a job as a contributing photographer for a local magazine.
All the attention stunned his parents, Jack and Sue.
"I'm surprised that it's affected people really powerfully — people who wouldn't consider Christ and his suffering," said Sue Potts.
It's also taught Jackson some life lessons.
"I think I've learned that not everyone is going to like what I do," Jackson said.
There's one aspect of Jackson's new photo that could raise some eyebrows. On first glance the cross looks like it could be a phallic symbol.
But Jack Potts said it's just an innocent coincidence and church leaders agree.
"I think the picture is pretty self-evident," said Marc Brubaker, curator for Ecclesia Church's Xnihilo Gallery.
Added Jack Potts: "I don't think Jackson's mind can go there yet."


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Vaporizing Robots vs. Hospital Bacteria
Hydrogen peroxide vapor released from robots makes for a more sanitary hospital, say researchers at Johns Hopkins.
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 2, 2013 — It may sound like something out of a comic book, but villainous drug-resistant bacteria lurking in hospitals, known to many as superbugs, may have finally met their match — detoxifying robots the size of washing machines.
Manufactured by Bioquell Inc. of Horsham, Pa., the robotic devices are currently in use in 20 hospitals throughout the country. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore have been studying the machines, which release disinfecting agents, specifically hydrogen peroxide vapor — essentially bleach — into the air of patient rooms while simultaneously decontaminating the chemical to minimize exposure and health risks for patrons and employees.
Hospitals are hotbeds for bacteria — microbial organisms brought in by patients and spread among other patients that ultimately find permanent homes in hospital rooms. (The longer you stay, the greater your risk of getting a hospital-acquired infection.) The vapor is expected to be highly effective at killing and preventing the spread of superbugs, which are resistant to most standard drugs.
"Hydrogen peroxide vapor, as spread around patients' rooms by these devices, represents a major technological advance in preventing the spread of dangerous bacteria inside hospitals and, especially, from one patient occupant to the next, even though sick patients were never in the same room at the same time," senior epidemiologist at Hopkins and study leader Trish Perl, MD, MSc, said in a press release.
Such cleaning devices were first seen during the 2002 war on SARS in Singapore, and got more attention shortly thereafter in the United States as a potential response to anthrax threats. For two and a half years, Hopkins researchers tracked roughly 6,350 patients, half of whom were admitted to vapor-cleaned rooms. Of the bacteria found in Hopkins' hospital rooms in the course of the research, the majority was on surfaces that had not undergone the vapor treatment. Among the wards in the treated rooms, Hopkins experienced a 64 percent reduction in patient infections and a 80 percent decrease in aggressive bacteria colonizations in patients, according to the study, published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
"Our goal is to improve all hospital infection control practices, including cleaning and disinfection, as well as behavioral and environmental practices, to the point where preventing the spread of these multiple-drug-resistant organisms also minimizes the chances of patients becoming infected and improves their chances of recovery," said Dr. Perl.

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There is a common problem in school systems today that is rarely spoken about in the media. Students are pushed to read literary novels too soon or are given a heaping amount of reading material for the summer. In turn, children learn to associate reading with something they "have to do" not something they want to do. I despise reading so much that I have become a professional skimmer (it is a talent). Don't get me wrong, I have been influenced and felt connected to books throughout my life. I loved Catcher in the Rye so much that I went out and bought Franny and Zooey. Do you think I finished that? Nope. I was pretty damn close to the end, though. It isn't like I have spent my entire life glued to the television and never find joy in immersing myself in a book. It's just that I find myself to be the girl who never finishes anything (books, at least)—I'm basically the evil doctor in Jimmy Neutron. I eventually became banned from buying any reading material because they inevitably turn into dust collectors.
Then, I was introduced to "Milk and Honey." After going through a massive change in my life, a friend of mine suggested I buy the book of poems written by Rupi Kaur. With no questions asked, I found my way clicking "check out" on Amazon within minutes. I am one that expresses emotion in extremes, and the only mechanisms that help me through are writing, drawing and pretty things. Clearly, I have a spending problem—if you haven't figured that out yet. I like to pride myself on being a self-taught retail therapist. These activities calm my mind and help to make sense of all of the chaos. Reading was NEVER something that felt peaceful for me. Rather, it made me antsy. Then I opened up the first page of Rupi Kaur's book of wonder and was instantly hooked. Reading through "Milk and Honey" was as if I was reading about myself. Kaur is able to write about her personal experience in such a fantastical manner. Her style is unlike anything I have ever seen before. Almost every page had a drawing, a way in which the author expressed her emotions. As I read, the more I wanted to keep going. I had a new epiphany page after page. I sat in the same spot reading each line of text three times over. If "Milk and Honey" can impact my life, I assure you: it will change yours, too.
Here are a few of my favorite lines from the hurting, the loving, the breaking and the healing.
Do you ever feel that you aren't appreciated enough? Don't worry, you're clearly a work of art, and these fools just cannot understand.
My entire life I grew up learning how to "kill people with kindness." This poem puts my mother's wise words in such an elegant and simple manner. It is much easier to be kind and lead your life with compassion than it is to be cruel. These seven words sum that up perfectly.
I'm someone who is small but makes an entrance. Due to my loud voice, everyone notices when I walk into the room. Now, this isn't a conscious act. I do this without knowing. Commanding attention is a part of my personality. I bet many "innocent" and "tiny" girls like me feel the same.
After going through a few tough times in my life, like everyone in this world does, I grew into a stronger human being. We weren't put on this earth to handle anything we weren't meant to. Kaur exemplifies this in her poem above.
Being someone who tends to react in extremes, I can relate to this wholeheartedly. Notice I said react rather than act. I REALLY don't have a great ability to stop and think.
My whole life I felt it was hard to express myself without offending or bothering others. Then I thought to myself "F**k it, I'm awesome. I'm made this way for a reason." My internal voice has just as much of a potty mouth as I do (honestly, even worse). Kaur does a great job at making readers feel comfortable in their skin. I even made this poem my phone background.
After all of the shitty events that go on in our world, this quote does a great job at making sense of it all. There is always a way and a reason to persevere and keep going.
This is the story of my life. The easy way out is clearly not human nature. Why do we always thirst for the chase?
After living through a few years of college and being on the outskirts of partying and hook-ups, this is something that hits home for me. It isn't that hard to do the right thing, yet, so many struggle with doing so.
We're all made different for a reason. It's vital to appreciate our differences rather than tear them down. We need to stop and value the little things that we otherwise would ignore.
Nothing else matters than love and family. There are many people I have met throughout my life that are primarily focused on money and success. Being wealthy does not make a rich life and monetary means cannot buyout loneliness.
Stop looking for other people to make you whole. Don't look around the corner for someone else. YOU are around the corner. We have to love ourselves first which is something that most of humanity seems to struggle with. We're stuck with ourselves for the rest of our lives, no one else.
Maybe if everyone read this book, we'd have world peace.
After always searching for something "more," I have come to realize that my relationships in life are blooming as a result of who I am. Confidence and self-love are vital to lead a happy and healthy life. Putting too much credit on others can only prove to be detrimental. Something to remember: People keep coming back as a result of the way YOU made them feel.


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Welcome to our counseling center Familienzelt (Eng.: family tent)!
We provide different services around the topics pregnancy, birth and living with a baby.
Playgroups for babies
We are offering two playgroups for mothers or fathers with their babies:
Tuesdays 1.30 – 3.00 p.m. for babies from 2 to 9 months
Tuesdays 3.30 – 5.00 p.m. for babies from 10 to 15 months
This is a good possibility for the mums and dads to have a cup of tea and get in contact with other parents. And for the children it is a great way to get to know other kids in a new, interesting and safe environment. The groups cost 2 € per family.
Due to corona we need your registration if you want to attend (phone: 030 - 32 23 071). Please bring along a blanket and your own toys for your baby.
We are looking forward to meeting you!
We offer different classes for parents and babies, e.g. infant massage, playing & movement, PEKiP® and others. Those take place in German, but there is a lot of nonverbal interaction so it is no problem for us if you are not speaking German yet. If this is fine for you, we are happy to welcome you there!
The prices vary by class-type, just contact us for more detail.


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Happy hump day friends! I hope your week is going nicely. I have a nice cranky almost 2-year-old today who didn't sleep so my day is lovely. Oh the joys of motherhood I tell ya, one day at a time! This is my favorite age, but yet also my least favorite age. They are learning so much and showing us that but at the same time they are gaining their independence and with that comes tantrums. My daughters new word is "no." She absolutely loves saying it, although it is absolutely adorable, she uses it to reply to anything my husband or I ask her. It gets quite frustrating at times because we don't really know if she means it, or if she just chooses to say it.
I had totally forgot that I had made this rice a while back. This stuff is my absolute favorite rice ever! I'm so angry in myself with this picture though, it is absolutely horrible. I cannot wait until I save up enough funds to get a big girl camera, that will make life so much easier when it comes to my blogging. As of now, I will be happy that I am able to actually just take pictures!
We usually make this as a side to one of our Mexican meals, but this I could eat as a meal all by itself! Yum, this is going to have to be made in this house here again soon. Rice is something I keep stocked in our pantry and rarely every run out of. We are a big rice family, mainly my husband. He adores when I make fried rice (another post another time). So if you're needing something for next weeks Taco Tuesday here ya have it folks! Add this along side with your tacos, enchiladas, etc and you will have an amazing meal!
1 cup uncooked white rice
1 (14 oz) can chicken broth
1 cup sour cream
1 (4 oz) can diced green chiles
2 cups shredded Monterey Jack cheese, divided
1 (14.25 oz) can corn, drained
1/4 cup chopped cilantro
Salt and pepper
Pre-heat oven to 350. In a large pot, bring the rice and chicken broth to a boil. Once rice begins to boil, cover and reduce heat to low. Simmer for 20 minutes or until all broth is absorbed and rice is tender. Spray an 8×8 baking dish with cooking spray set aside. Remove rice from heat and stir in sour cream, green chiles, 1/2 cup Monterey Jack cheese, corn, and cilantro, salt and pepper. Mix well. Pour rice mixture into prepared dish, and top with remaining 1/2 cup of cheese. Bake uncovered 30 minutes or until cheese is melted and it is slightly golden. Serve and enjoy!
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Today the European Commission presented the proposal for a regulation on how to include Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) into the EU 2030 Climate and Energy framework.
The Confederation of European Forest Owners (CEPF) welcomes the recognition in the proposal of afforestation as an important measure to mitigate climate change, but wish to see more ambition when it comes to the role of sustainable forest management and use of wood products, which in the long term creates the largest sustained climate mitigation and adaptation from forests.
"Establishing new forests is a cost-efficient climate mitigation action, which also comes with a number of other benefits, for example creating habitats and providing a renewable raw material for the growing bioeconomy. However, in the EU there is a limited potential for how much land can be afforested", says CEPF Secretary General Emma Berglund.
Berglund continues: "Forests already cover 40% of EU's land and the sustainable management of these existing forests holds a great climate mitigation potential by maintaining or even increasing the forest carbon stocks and sequestration of CO2. Carbon can then be stored in wood-based products and substitute fossil fuels, promoting the shift to a fossil free society. And, at the same time, through active management, forest resilience to climate change and disturbances can be enhanced".
For further information, please see the CEPF position paper on LULUCF.
Alongside the LULUCF proposal, the Commission presented a proposal on binding greenhouse gas emissions reductions for Member States in the so called Effort Sharing Decision (ESD). Furthermore, a European strategy for low-emission mobility was announced.


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January 24, 2017
A Manayunk woman was charged this week in connection with the shooting death of her tenant over a rent dispute, according to media reports.
The incident occurred Saturday around 2:30 a.m. on the 4300 block of Boone Street, FOX29 reports.
Authorities said 28-year-old Anthanasia Moncrief allegedly shot her roommate, 32-year-old Richard Spadel, in the back during an argument. Medical personnel pronounced Spadel dead at the scene around 3 a.m.
According to philly.com, Spadel rented a room in Moncrief's house. The argument stemmed from Spadel failing to pay rent to Moncrief.
Moncrief was later charged with murder and other related charges after giving a statement to police.


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text: Environment Planet Earth You Know It's Hot Outside When the Traffic Lights Are Melting By Shea Gunther Writer University of New Hampshire Rochester Institute of Technology University of Southern Maine Shea Gunther is a writer, entrepreneur, and podcaster living in Portland, Maine. He covers topics such as renewable energy, climate change, and nature. our editorial process Shea Gunther Updated June 05, 2017 Photo: Jets and Zeppelins/Flickr. Share Twitter Pinterest Email Planet Earth Weather Outdoors Conservation Redditor Mohayat lives in Kuwait and snapped this amazing photograph of a traffic light literally melting under the hot summer sun. a burning car (edit: turns out it was a burning car that melted the traffic light). Here is the current weather and forecast for Kuwait. Want to see something crazy? This is the forecast for Phoenix, Ariz. Here is Las Vegas. Is the term "the oven states" a thing? Because it should be. The new reality is that the southern and western states in the U.S. are going to bake every summer. Throw in steadily declining water supplies across the region, and it's not hard to envision future population shifts to cooler and wetter states. How do you really live in a place where it's hotter than 100 degrees for more than 100 or 120 days straight? Welcome to the new world. Thank you global warming.


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Sun n Fun Resort 7125 Fruitville Rd, Sarasota, FL
Chairperson/organizer –
Round up volunteers for that morning to move tables, benches, clean them and generally set up
Round up volunteers for that morning to move tables, benches, clean them and generally set up
Secure dog run/play area and have signs to have people clean up.
Arrange enough volunteers to remain after the event to rearrange, bag trash transport it to proper area, etc.
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The Tax Relief Act of 2010 ("TRA 2010″) carried over the ability to continue to deduct interest without regards to
date the loan was taken out. But, like many of those "extender provisions" passed last year, it is not permanent. After 2012, the tax law will revert back to the pre-EGTRRA rules and interest on a student loan will only be deductible for the first five years of repayment.
Join the the revolt! Public education belongs to the people of America.
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Interest on student loans only deductible first 5 years of repayment as of 2012.
The Tax Relief Act of 2010 ("TRA 2010″) carried over the ability to continue to deduct interest without regards to
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Student loans in Australia and United Kingdom not same as USA, Congress should not pass student loan payroll deduction bill
There is an income threshold in both countries students have to meet to start paying back the loans. In the UK its over 21,000 pounds that converts to over $32,000 in USD.
Does Australia Have the Answer? - Brainstorm - The Chronicle of Higher Education
In Australia "Currently, that threshold income is around $45,000 per year and as soon as the borrower meets that threshold, whether it is while the student is still in school or even years after graduation, repayments begin. The monthly payment amount is not based on the size or term of the loan, but instead on the borrower's level of income, with students at the threshold level paying 4-percent of their earnings in loan payments and those earning higher wages paying no more than 8 percent of their earnings. Unlike in our Income Based Repayment program, interest does not capitalize and the total amount due does not increase just because a longer repayment term is in order (unless the economy is so strong that CPI increases dramatically over that period of time, in which case one would assume that wages would maintain a similar rate of growth). Perhaps most importantly, there are no defaults in the Australian student-loan program. It is the Australian Tax Authority that collects student loan payments, not the Department of Education, and the borrower has the option of either making payments through routine payroll deductions (similar to the way in which Americans pay their FICA and other taxes) or through annual tax assessment." https://www.gov.uk/student-finance/repayments
Hispanic graduation rates increased
Hispanic graduation rates 71% a 10 points increase, the highest from other ethnic groups in NCES most recent figures.
Graduation rates improved for every race and ethnicity in 2010, but gaps among racial groups persist. Asian students had the highest graduation rate, with 93 percent of students finishing high school on time. White students followed with an 83 percent graduation rate, American Indians and Alaska Natives with 69.1 percent and African Americans with 66.1 percent.
National high school graduation rate reaches a four-decade high : http://wapo.st/VWyNNQ
Friday, January 25, 2013
Crisis in DC schools school closures push more students into charter schools
How to privatize a public school system? Hire DCPS Chancellor Kaya Henderson.
D.C. Council members fear schools near tipping point as students flee : http://wapo.st/Um1xhX
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Teacher evaluation plans are in so are the charlatans...!
California Gov. Jerry Brown criticized state and federal education policy
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
New student loan bill automatic payroll deductions
Congress will consider overhauling debt collection in the $100 billion-a-year U.S. student loan program, replacing it with automatic withdrawals from borrowers' paychecks tied to their income -- a system used in the U.K. Legislation that Wisconsin Republican Representative Tom Petri plans to introduce as soon as this week would require employers to withhold payments from wages in the same way they do taxes. Payments would be capped at 15 percent of borrowers' income after basic living expenses.
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Prince George County students miss morning classes
Prince George's County continues to struggle with late school buses : http://wapo.st/W9k8yu
Should NYC teachers be penalized for Mayor Bloomberg's ignorance of the process...
In analyzing the breakdown, both sides said a major cause was disagreement over how long a plan should be in place before it sunsets, or has to be renewed. City officials said their vision was for any deal to never sunset. City officials criticized the union for seeking such a clause for 2015, just before any potential dismissal process could get under way. They called that bad public policy that they would not enact even if money was to be lost. But Michael Mulgrew, the president of the union, said the process for dismissing a wayward teacher could continue even if the tenets of an evaluation plan subject to collective bargaining were in need of renewal, a position echoed by Mr. King. More than 90 percent of districts whose evaluation plans won state approval had plans that included provisions to sunset after a year. Henry L. Grishman, the superintendent of the Jericho School
State Ed still waiting on NYC to comply with submitting teacher evaluation plan.
On Friday, in a letter to Dennis M. Walcott, the city's schools chancellor, Mr. King said he would have no choice but to withhold or redirect federal money unless the city submitted plans by Feb. 15 showing it was working toward putting a new teacher evaluation system in place. Specifically, Mr. King said, the city should focus on training teachers and school leaders in carrying out any new plan - something he said had not been done yet.
Trying to shed the student loan debt, WSJ, 5/2012
However, making federal loans easier to discharge through bankruptcy would be politically thorny, given that taxpayers would pick up the tab if those debts were shed." - You picked up for your American Corporate Greed debts; but you do not want to pick up for your children??
Student loans again, sue the goverment for fraud....?
Just about every student has legal standing for suing the US government for negligence, and for violating the RICO statutes. Participating in a known fraud, is a criminal act, and the US government is accessory to it all, because they allowed it, in fact, they made it happen.
Lo and behold it's that student loan debt again!
"If I had been one of the crooks who diverted funds out of a savings-and-loan bank in the 1980s, loans insured by the Feds, I would no longer have any obligation to pay those debts by now --- the statute of limitations would have tolled. Indeed, I could have bankrupted on them at any time. But I borrowed a student loan and have no option until the day I die. Fortunately, inasmuch as I am aging and in poor health, neither the Government nor their collection goons is going to be able to get much out of me. It is a pity that the olnly alternative to debt-slavery is death!"
"Student loan borrowers have been unfairly targeted so that the bankers can profit at our expense. There is absolutely no logically fair reason why Student loan repayment is held to such a high standard. They should be dischargeable in bankruptcy, lenders should have to restructure defaulted loans for those who need it and they damn sure should not be allowed to garnish wages without a judgement! Not allowing any kind of restructuring of loans is utterly stupid and counterproductive. It doesn't get the loan paid back. It doesn't help either party. It's merely punitive towards the borrower who took out the loans in hopes that they would find a decent job once they gained an education. In MANY cases this does not happen. When they stop sending jobs overseas and stop expecting folks to actually live and pay bills on $10 an hour, MAYBE we can buy the BS they're selling. (...and I say "they should stop sending jobs overseas, because the corporate crooks are in bed with the legislators who do nothing to help the folks who put them in office!)"
Oh lord, the student loan debt
....and don't you just love how the government wants to BAIL OUT the private loan companies on top of everything else.... Obviously with taking away bankruptcy and wanting to bail out these companies the goverment obviously doesn't care about its citizens, at least not the ones who TRIED to do the right thing and go to college, but obviously failed in a failing economy.
Oh my...what about that student loan?
The US government has bailed out Wall Street and big business repeatedly at the expense of once again low to moderate income American tax payers. It is beyond time for the predatory student loan industry to crumble while students forced to borrow student loans receive relief instead of government sanctioned knighthood into perpetual poverty and credit unworthiness.
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Saturday, January 19, 2013
Race harassment case won
Court Upholds $1M Award in School Race-Harassment Case
By Mark Walsh
on December 3, 2012 5:50 PM A federal appeals court has upheld a $1 million jury award against a small New York state school district found to be deliberately indifferent to persistent racial harassment of a high school student by his peers. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, in New York City, ruled unanimously in favor of the family of Anthony Zeno, who is half-white and half-Latino and is described in court papers as "dark-skinned." Zeno was 16 when his family moved in January 2005 from Long Island to the heavily white community of Pine Plains, in Dutchess County, N.Y. At Stissing Mountain High School, where racial minorities were less than 5 percent of the student enrollment, Zeno quickly encountered the harassment, including students calling him "nigger" in the halls and telling him to go back where he came from, according to court papers. A student ripped a necklace from Zeno's neck and referred to it as Zeno's "fake rapper bling bling." There were also direct and implied threats aimed at Zeno, and references to lynching.
Social media tells the truth what happened at Hamburg school district teachers vote down APPR
January 12, 2013- The Hamburg Teacher's Association (HTA) voted overwhelmingly on Friday to turn down the district's APPR plan. The vote results were announced by Superintendent Steven Achramovitch, at special meeting of the Hamburg Central School District Board of Education, at the administrative building, at 4:30 P.M. The substance of the meeting is as follows:
Hamburg teachers say no confidence in super or board
The Vote was a Vote of No Confidence Against
Achramovitch While it is true that the Hamburg teachers are opposed to state testing being used to evaluate them, Achramovitch being the judge and jury in the appeals process and APPR in general, most Hamburg teachers voted against APPR because they do not trust Steven Achramovitch. Achramovitch strong armed the teachers into taking a wage freeze last school year by threatening to "cut teachers." Once the teachers agreed Achramovitch laid off most of the teachers anyway. Achramovitch has demonstrated that he can push around the HTA leadership (Mrozek and Garra) but the teachers followed their real leader, C.C., and drew a line in the sand.
Hamburg teachers say no to APPR
Hamburg Teachers: Stop Threatening Us Posted by dianerav The Hamburg (NY) teachers union has refused to agree to a deal on teacher evaluations that would give all power to the superintendent; they want an independent person to make the final judgment when a teacher appeals a bad evaluation. Negotiations broke down when an administrator threatened that teachers would be fired if no agreement was reached. Remember that the deal is about getting $450,000 for the district to comply with
Friday, January 18, 2013
The indentured servant generation
But there's something special about student loans. Two things, in fact. If you default on your mortgage, the bank gets to take your house. Same thing with an auto loan. And if you can't pay your credit card bill, you can discharge the debt in bankruptcy. But the lender can't repossess your degree, and the 2005 bankruptcy bill made it impossible to discharge the debt. So if the labor market recovers in two or three years, we're going to have a huge cohort of people who've been unemployed or underemployed and got delinquent on their loans put into a kind of debt peonage situation where modest increases in wages are clawed back by the need to repay all this old debt. Fair enough, you might say, they did take out the loans. But the standard penalty for taking out a loan you can't repay is that you declare bankruptcy and become a bad credit risk in the future. That's not just a way of being nice, it's a policy response to the fact that forward-looking and backward-looking penalties have different impacts. If past debt makes it harder for you to get a loan today, that has no impact on your incentives to work —it just means you have to be thrifty. But if past debt makes it harder for you to increase your disposable income, it works like a tax that depresses workforce participation
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Student load debts have surpassed credit debts in the United States. Student loan debt outpaced credit card debt for the first time last year and is likely to top a trillion dollars this year as more students go to college and a growing share borrow money to do so. "In the coming years, a lot of people will still be paying off their student loans when it's time for their kids to go to college," said Mark Kantrowitz, the publisher of FinAid.org and Fastweb.com, who has compiled the estimates of student debt, including federal and private loans
More on student loans....
If you want to get a name as an economic seer, try this one. The next subprime crisis will come from defaults on student debts, starting with for-profit colleges and rising to the Ivy League. The parallels with housing are striking. In both, the written warnings aren't understood, especially on penalties and interest rates. And in both, it's assumed that what's being bought will rise in value, in one case the real estate, in the other the salaries which will accrue with a degree. One bubble has burst; the second is already losing air. Still, there's a difference. With mortgage defaults, banks seize and resell the home. But if a degree can't be sold, that doesn't deter the banks. They essentially wrote the student loan law, in which the fine-print says they aren't "dischargable."
Student loans the new peonage system....
"Taxpayers and other lenders have little risk of losing money on the loans, unlike mortgages made during the real estate bubble. Congress has given the lenders, the government included, broad collection powers, far greater than those of mortgage or credit card lenders. The debt can't be shed in bankruptcy. The credit risk falls on young people..."
DC Chancellor to shutter more schools
A protege of former DC Chancellor Michelle Rhee, she took over the DC schools after Rhee stepped down, Kaya Henderson Chancellor is closing more schools, 23, amid community protests.
Kaya obtained most of her early training in public education in Teach for America and The New Teacher Project Rhee founded to recruit and train teachers for public schools.
DC has become a leader in the charter school movement and schools closed in previous years benefited it, especially after a law passed for charters to take over closed school buildings.
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Obama gun control proposal to include ARM police in schools
Obama considering armed cops in schools
Friday, January 11, 2013
Gov. Cuomo proposes longer school day in state of state address, 2013, Wednesday
If 7:50 am is too early and 4pm not
long enough, try 6 am or 5pm, or extending the school day. What about paying more money to enter a profession that has salary disparities across the nation, would you take a bar-like exam, pay a fee to earn a starting pay of $32, 800 yearly or less in other cities?
Gov. Cuomo last year on education
Gov. Andrew Cuomo State of the State address 2013, less grandstanding when he spoke in this video, but still touts allocating grants to schools not based on financial need but on performance. And his reform commission proposed teachers pass a bar type of exam to recruit into the profession. Yet, with a starting salary for a teacher in Buffalo Public Schools at $32,800, it discourages prospective candidates from entering the profession.
Thursday, January 10, 2013
New York trailed behind Maryland ranked No. 1 in education
New York's public school system cited again behind Maryland that took top ranking in an annual study that examines education policies and student achievement across all 50 states.
C'mon King Cuomo what public schools need in New York are less competitive grants and a more equitable formula for funding schools not casino gambling in the upstate NY region to promote tourism and the economy.
"For the fifth year in a row, Maryland's public school system took the top ranking in an annual study that examines state education policies and student achievement across all 50 states and the District according to the Washington Post. Education Week gave Maryland a B-plus in its "Quality Counts 2013" assessment. Maryland was the only state to earn the grade. Massachusetts, New York and Virginia trailed immediately behind Maryland, with overall grades of B. These four states maintained the same rankings they held in last year's report."
Adell Cothorne complaint about DC schools
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Rick Timbs Statewide School Finance Consortium response to State of the State address
Cuomo state of the state speech on education
When it comes to education, some topics Cuomo discussed were longer school days and years, more pre-kindergarten and funding based on performance and paying high-performing "master teachers" $15,000 extra a year for four years to teach other teachers.
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Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Cuomo's education reform agenda draws criticism
Advocates of public education do not have high hopes for Andrew Cuomo's latest initiative to reform's the state's education system. "We want to see what exactly the governor proposes, " said Billy Easton, the executive director of the Alliance for Quality Education. "He has talked a fair about performance, but he has also cut a lot of funding. We have to see what the particulars are."
Monday, January 7, 2013
Michelle Rhee a new memoir ...
Michelle Rhee still continues to pimp herself out as an advocate for education reform and children.
Rhee doesn't disappear or go away always manages to stay in the limelight of the public education circuit.
And she is started her career teaching in an inner city public school through Teach for America in the nineties where she admitted taping shut the mouths of her elementary classroom students to keep them quiet in the hallway.
After a stint running a program to recruit teachers, she was recruited to run the Washington DC Public School System appointed chancellor from 2007-2010, until she had to step down when voters elected a new mayor.
Her tenure was laden with controversy, especially the allegations high test scores in several DC schools were the result of tampering through erasing, a topic of a special Frontline TV program Tuesday.
The Answer Sheet columnist wrote, "the "Frontline" film, by education reporter John Merrow, examines Rhee's record in the District, where her aggressive reforms between 2007 and 2010 turned her from a relative unknown into a polarizing edu-celebrity, both applauded and criticized for her unapologetic approach to fixing the District's long-troubled schools. "
Today, she presides as a lobbyist for the Children First organization she created.
Now, she wrote a memoir touting herself as a radical fighting for children when it's all about fighting for herself looking for that next opportunity to continue reaping profits on the pubic education circuit.
Sunday, January 6, 2013
The Latin Journal Blog: From the Barrio by Maria Rosa: Looking back at King Cuomo's newly formed educatio...
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Buffalo teachers and district settled involuntary transfers dispute
Friday, January 4, 2013
Washington DC parents and teachers express outrage over schools plan - World Socialist Web Site
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Al Jazeera buys Al Gore's Current TV, deal expands its American viewers...
Although it got bad press when it recently put down over $300 million to buy the progressive Current TV from former VP Al Gore, the deal helped Al Jazeera expand its viewers to 40 million in the American market.
It's an award-winning broadcast news known for coverage of global events from Arabe Spring to Al Qaeda and controversial messages from Osama Bin Laden a decade ago.
Al Jazeera has a respectable worldwide audience based in Qatar funded through its emir.
There was some bad media attention when Time Warner dropped Current TV after Al Jazeera sealed the deal, but it's not final.
Al Gore founded CurrentTV in 2005.
Al Jazeera buys CurrentTV from Al Gore captures wider US TV audience
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's new ny education reform commission issued its first preliminary report
Dr. Rick Timbs, Statewide School Finance Committee commented on the report criticized it for not going far enough to help school districts in high needs areas from the inequitable state school funding formulas and the devastating impact of the property tax cap on others.
"It is no secret that there are gross inequities in aid cuts and in the distribution of aid to school districts,'' said Dr. Timbs. "The more than 400 school districts that make up the SSFC need SOLUTIONS to stem the massive aid cuts they have endured in recent years —cuts that deny children a sound, basic education. They need solutions like an end to state-created funding cuts, increased mandates and changes to the Foundation Aid Formula —changes that would distribute aid based on need, rather than politics.''


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Intel Processor Trace is a hardware feature that recording information about software execution with minimal impact to system execution. Existing hardware is unfriendly to enable Intel PT in guest because the implementation of shadow ToPA is very complex. Intel PT VMX improvements will treat PT output addresses as Guest Physical Addresses (GPAs) and translate them using EPT that serves to simplify the process of Intel PT virtualization for using by a guest software. We have submitted a patch set to enable Intel PT in XEN HVM guest for collecting hardware behavior, backwards debugging for GDB and so on. We also plan to implement system mode for tracing XEN hypervisor and guest's behavior if necessary.


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The prophet Isaiah, one of four of the greatest prophets of the Old Testament, expressed himself in this way: "Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of Armies!" (Is. 6:5). Isaiah confessed two things:
- He learned to use vile language with his people, whose heart was full of wickedness (Matt. 12:34).
- He also confessed that Jehovah could not stand uncleanness, and for this reason he was going to be killed. Then one of the seraphim above the throne of Jehovah took a burning coal, flew to him and purified his lips, removing his iniquity (Is. 6:6-7).
Jehovah proved with this that, being holy and pure, he does not use people who are impure and sinful. Following this line of holiness that Jehovah followed, the priest could not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or a profaned woman, only a virgin (Lev. 21:13-14). Along these same lines, why did Jehovah force the prophet Hosea to marry a prostitute and to have three children with her? Through it Jehovah denounced the corruption of Israel and Judah, but did not have pity on the prophet Hosea and his three children. The command of Jehovah to the prophet is an indecency, and the apostle Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, declared: "(Love) does not act unbecomingly" (1 Cor. 13:5). There are many Christians worshipping Jehovah today who say, based on Hosea: I am as I am because God made me so. If Hosea could be a prophet, I can be a pastor. With this, the doctrine of the new birth is discarded (John 3:3-6). But Jehovah was so demanding in the area of morals! The woman divorced by her husband was forbidden to return to him when she was defiled by another man (Deut. 24:1-4). If the daughter of a priest played the harlot, she was burned alive (Lev. 21:9). A disobedient and stubborn son was stoned to death by the command of his own father (Deut. 21:18-21). The command of Jehovah was: "You shall consecrate yourselves therefore and be holy, for I am Jehovah your God" (Lev. 20:7). Next, he says: "The adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death" (Lev. 20:10). If a man lay with another man, both would be put to death (Lev. 20:13). If man or woman approached an animal to mate with it, they were stoned, and also was the animal (Lev. 20:15-16). And the text ends with the words: "Thus you are to be holy to Me, for I Jehovah am holy" (Lev. 20:26). Many doctors and theologians oppose me saying: "Do you not take into account the historical and cultural context of the time? God had to be stricter, then." And I answer: Jehovah demanded from them holiness and a moral behavior that was impossible in those days in which they lived. What demoralizes these doctors and theologians is that those things that Jehovah forbade them, under death penalty, within our developed historical and cultural context are freely practiced. Pornographic commerce is free in the whole world in every instrument of communication, and Jehovah does not command the stoning of the Christian who adopts these practices.
Jehovah was so contrary to the immorality and corruption of customs, that a certain day, when Balaam, the crazy prophet, counseled the Israelites to get corrupted with the Moabites, a people that Jehovah hated, and to sacrifice to Baal of Peor (Lord of Peor) with the Moabites, Jehovah sent, in his wrath, a plague that killed 24,000 (Num. 25:9). He commanded Moses to take all the heads of the people and hung them in sacrifice to Jehovah (Num. 25:4). The wrath of the killer god stopped only when Phinehas, son of Eleazar, the son of the priest Aaron, took a spear and pierced both of them through, the Israelite and the Moabite woman, through the belly. Then the wrath of Jehovah ended (Num. 25:7-8; 31:16).
Since Jehovah is so holy and has such pure eyes that he cannot see evil (Heb. 1:13), why did he allow indecent narratives of such low moral level in the Old Testament? Lot, Abraham's nephew, left his uncle and went to live in Sodom. His daughters were perverted, and when two angels delivered the family, at the destruction of the Sodomites, they went to live in a small village named Zoar, in a cavern. The older one gave wine to Lot, her father, and lay with him, and conceived. On the following day she said to her younger sister: Let us give wine to our father, and you will lie with him. And they did so. They both had their children. They were children of incest, practiced with their own father. Why did Jehovah, who cannot look at evil, allow a narrative offensive to good costumes? The narrative teaches how to accomplish an abominable act. In the book of Proverbs we have a detailed narrative, which incites a woman to betray her husband when he is travelling. She goes seeking another man, and says to him, "I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. Come, let's take our fill of loving until the morning. Let's solace ourselves with loving. For my husband isn't at home. He has gone on a long journey" (Prov. 7:17-19). The description is insinuative and suggestive. Why did Jehovah, so opposed to such acts, allow such narratives that rouse carnal pleasures? In the book of Song of Songs, Solomon describes what he desires in his beloved woman, the Shulammite: "How beautiful are your feet in sandals, prince's daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a skillful workman. Your body is like a round goblet, no mixed wine is wanting. Your waist is like a heap of wheat, set about with lilies. Your two breasts are like two fawns, that are twins of a roe" (Cant. 7:1-3).
The text has plenty of poesy and sensuality. If Jehovah is so pure of eyes, why did he place in the Old Testament narratives that feed impure eyes?
Israel degenerated greatly and Jehovah declares that this corruption comes from far, from their birth. He said to Ezekiel, the prophet: "Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother: and they played the harlot in Egypt; they played the harlot in their youth; there were their breasts pressed, and there was handled the bosom of their virginity. And the names of them were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister: and they became mine, and they bare sons and daughters. And as for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah" (Ezek. 23:2-4). Jehovah spoke to Ezequiel 1,100 years later, that is, Israel degenerated in Egypt and the kingdom ended 100 years later because of the corruption of Egypt. But Jehovah was the one responsible for their move to Egypt. Jehovah describes to Ezekiel the debauchery of his people, and also declares that he delivered them to the same debauchery (Ezek. 23:19-20). But Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, said: "Love does not act unbecomingly" (1 Cor. 13:5).
The story of David was scabrous, for he committed adultery, and commanded the death of the husband in order to be able to adopt the child of prostitution. Jehovah severely rebuked David, condemning his terribly sinful act. Then Jehovah says something that makes the most ignorant Christian shudder. What you have done, David, is too base and vile for my pure eyes and my divine holiness to bear, for this reason I will do worse than you did. I am going to take your women before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, who will lie with them in broad daylight (2 Sam. 12:11-12). How could Jehovah do the very thing he forbids? To whom did Jehovah give David's women? To his son Absalom (2 Sam. 16:22)! But charity, that is, love, does not act unbecomingly; and God is love. How is this? The answer is that the love revealed by Jesus Christ, the love that comes from the Father, the love that is characteristic of the Holy Spirit was not known to Jehovah, the destroyer of souls (2 Kings 1:9-12; Luke 9:51-56). Jehovah knew only wrath, fury, and vengeance. We know the love of God thanks to Jesus, for we love and pray for those who persecute us.
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4WD beach access an ongoing dispute
DEBATE on the restrictions placed on four-wheel-drive vehicle access to Brooms Head and Wooli beaches has continued, as Clarence Valley Council confirm it has received complaints about the installation of boom gates.
In response to the complaints, 4WD enthusiasts have voiced their concern that a small number of people doing the wrong thing will ruin the favourite pasttime for future generations.
Council environment, planning and community director Des Schroder said the council had received three requests about vehicles on Brooms Head beach since the start of the holiday season in December.
"On Sunday a resident told (the) council there was a vehicle on the beach and the occupants had damaged a sign that had been erected advising of the new beach access restrictions," Mr Schroder said.
"Police were notified and officers went to investigate.
"The same resident advised of a second incidence of a four-wheel drive vehicle on the beach.
"These have been fairly isolated incidents. Generally the new policy seems to be working quite well."
The council confirmed permit holders would not have access to the affected beaches until June, with only essential service vehicles, boat launching vehicles and emergency services allowed access.
Brooms Head local Graeme Coulter said he regularly used his 4WD to access the beach, and it was a minority that caused problems.
"I'm worried a way of life for me and a lot of other people will be taken away from us because some people don't want us on the beach," Mr Coulter said.
"I've been taking the kids out on the beach for years and it's never hurt anybody.
"There's just a few people who are doing the wrong thing, so why is it not possible to keep a ranger out so that everyone can enjoy (vehicle access)."
Wooli's James Watson said he saw irresponsible drivers on Wooli Beach, reporting three close calls within a week.
"What is it going to take before (the) council does something about the 4WD stupidity on the beach," Mr Watson said.
"On December 28 I called (the) council's emergency number after a near miss while walking on the surf edge.
"On January 4 I called again around 8.45am regarding a 4WD hanging off the lip of the dune out the front of our nearest beach access heading towards the breakwall.
"By 12.30pm the same day there was a second vehicle in trouble in the same place heading towards Wilson's Headland, despite council staff having apparently closed all 4WD entry points at around 9.30am.
"It's dangerous for kids, families and other beach users. Another vehicle also passed at speed within two metres of my kids who were making sand castles despite shouts from me to the driver to slow down.
Drivers of vehicles with disability permits can continue to drive on many Clarence Valley beaches despite restrictions introduced by the council late last year.
The council's acting general manager Troy Anderson said the council's beach access policy included provisions to ensure people with disabilities could still get to the beach.


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Mumbai, Feb 13: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) precluded chances of banks reporting divergent asset classification norms on the same account by stating that if in a consortium a bank faced default, others must start taking action to recover the dues.
This is part of a revised framework on resolving stressed accounts, put up late on Monday night on the RBI website.
The framework did away with many existing guidelines on stressed accounts while simplifying them under a single code. This means the RBI's existing norms on Scheme for Sustainable Structuring of Stressed Assets (S4A), ownership norms on stressed accounts, guidelines on Joint Lenders' Forum (JLF) and Corrective Action Plan (CAP), Strategic Debt Restructuring Scheme (SDR) and such myriad of schemes are now part of a simpler, easy to reference, scheme.
"The extant instructions on resolution of stressed assets such as Framework for Revitalising Distressed Assets, Corporate Debt Restructuring Scheme, Flexible Structuring of Existing Long-Term Project Loans, SDR, change in ownership outside SDR, and S4A stand withdrawn with immediate effect. Accordingly, the JLF as an institutional mechanism for resolution of stressed accounts also stands discontinued. All accounts, including such accounts where any of the schemes have been invoked but not yet implemented, shall be governed by the revised framework," the RBI said.
The new guidelines will not impact the existing loan resolution cases as the RBI said the "said transition arrangement shall not be available for borrower entities in respect of which specific instructions have already been issued by the central bank to the banks for reference under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code. Lenders shall continue to pursue such cases as per the earlier instructions."
"All lenders must put in place board-approved policies for resolution of stressed assets under this framework, including the timelines for resolution. As soon as there is a default in the borrower entity's account with any lender, all lenders —singly or jointly — shall initiate steps to cure the default," the central bank said on its website.
This eliminates chances of banks interpreting assets.
While one bank classified an account as stressed, or non-performing asset (NPA), others continued to show them as standard. This required the RBI auditors to force show them as divergence in NPA reporting. While private banks lead in the game at first, the third quarter results of State Bank of India revealed a divergence of more than Rs 230 billion in NPA classification.
The RBI's new mandate means that that is unlikely to happen going forward as once an account is marked as stressed in one bank, other banks will have to acknowledge that and start following a standard procedure.
"The resolution plan (RP) may involve any actions/plans/reorganisation including, but not limited to, regularisation of the account by payment of all over dues by the borrower entity, sale of the exposures to other entities/investors, change in ownership, or restructuring," the RBI said, while mandating that the resolution plan should be clearly documented by all the lenders.
Continuing with its earlier stance, the RBI said lenders shall identify incipient stress in loan accounts, immediately on default, by classifying stressed assets as special mention accounts (SMA). If the principal or interest payment or any other amount wholly or partly overdue between one to 30 days, an account would be SMA-0, for 31-60 days SMA-1, and for 61-90 days, SMA-2 would be the categorisation.
Starting February 23, the defaulters of above Rs 50 million and above will be monitored by the RBI on a weekly basis, as banks will have to report the status of those accounts at the close of the business day on Friday to the RBI's Central Repository of Information on Large Credits (CRILC).


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It is believed that every woman embodies a celestial beauty when she is clad in a bridal attire. A divine glow that kisses her face is more beautiful than the sum of the embellishment she wears altogether. In many of the Bollywood romantic movies, we've seen our favourite actresses in the bridal avatar. Though people have appreciated all of the bridal avatar of our actresses, there are some which were meant to leave a mark in our hearts. Let's have a look how our ravishing on-screen brides looked in their wedding avatar.
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Also Read: 6 Celebrity Couples Who Gave Us Major Wedding Goals!
1. Aishwarya Rai in Jodhaa Akbar
Aishwarya Rai sported a heavy gold traditional Jodha-styled Bandh Gala Necklace. You will be shocked to know that around 200 craftsmen worked around 600 days to prepare the authentic jodha style jewellery. Nearly, 400 kg of gold was used to prepare the jewellery like that of the Mughal era. Aishwarya Rai's mesmerising beauty was furthered by the excellent craftsmanship of the artisans. To sum up, her bridal look in Jodhaa Akbar gave us a quick glimpse how Jodhaa must have looked at her own wedding.
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2. Nargis Fakhri in Rockstar
Keeping aside her acting skills, but Nargis rocked the Kashmiri bride look in Rockstar. No one could have looked better than her for this role. If you believe the facts, Imtiaz Ali actually had a meeting with a Kashmiri Pandit family to get the know-how of an authentic Kashmiri wedding. Manish Malhotra and Aki Narula were appointed to design the bridal wear for Nargis Fakhri. The exquisite jewellery perfectly symbolised the rich and exotic Kashmiri culture.
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3. Alia Bhatt in 2 States
Alia has never looked so beautiful than this. There's no doubt that nearly everything looks fab on Alia Bhatt. But this bridal attire took her beauty to a whole new level. Her designer red and yellow lehenga with minimum embellishments perfectly epitomized how a traditional Tamilian bride looks.
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4. Kareena Kapoor in 3 Idiots
Though this Indian beauty has donned the bridal avatar in her real life as well, but her most loved wedding avatar was the one in 3 Idiots. The way she wore a helmet with a bridal attire took the audience by surprise. She wore a heavily embroidered orange Anarkali dress with pearl golden jewellery. Her complete ensemble was quite a different from what we've been seeing in most of the Bollywood movies. But one thing's for sure, people totally loved it!
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Also Read: 15 No-Makeup Looks of Mouni Roy To Sweep You Off Your Feet!
5. Anushka Sharma in Ae Dil Hai Mushkil
This year, Anushka Sharma's Channa Mereya look was the most talked about topic. The heavily embellished bridal dress was designed by none other than the veteran designer Manish Malhotra. The muted hues of salmon, pink and peach in her lehenga along with the long-trail dupatta made her look like straight out of heaven. Though the young actress has donned the bridal look thrice in her career, but this was certainly her best.
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6. Katrina Kaif in Singh is King
Katrina Kaif looked a goddess walking down the carpet when she wore the red A-line lehenga with golden embroidery. The green brocade blouse contrasted pretty well with her lehenga. Her dupatta has the turquoise border to make the whole ensemble alluring and contemporary. Though Ms. Kaif has donned the bridal dress in 4 movies till now, but this one is our favourite.
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Also Read: Top 9 Stylish Celebrity Mommies of 2016 Who Amazed Us!
7. Kalki Koechlin in Yeh Jawani hai Deewani
Kalki endorsed a perfect blend of a traditional and a modern bride in her movie, Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani. One cannot forget the scene when she's gulping down the whole glass of whisky bottoms-up! Her accessories were kept minimal, which gave a contemporary look to her wedding attire. She stole the limelight in the song Kabira for the complete length.


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Once upon a time, a television show was delivered through the cathode-ray tube to American living rooms in orderly half-hour or hour-long bursts. Seasons began like clockwork in the fall and closed up shop in spring; in between was the deathly dull valley of reruns. Predictability ruled the production side as well. Writers spent long hours in airless rooms drumming up jokes or churning out cliff-hangers, but they knew exactly how long they would be there and what they were delivering. In our current age of peak TV, there are no certainties or standard formats anymore. A series can consist of 4 episodes or 24; it might broadcast weekly or stream online all at once in a giant, binge-ready bloc. Networks launch shows at any time of year. As the series in production swell in number, taking on a dizzying array of shapes and sizes, and as cable and streaming channels compete with the major networks for viewers' attention, there's also a new fluidity to the way shows are created. Traditional television practices—such as producing elaborate, pricey pilot episodes as the basis on which network executives decide what shows to put on the air—are being reconsidered.
"It's the Wild West," says screenwriter Evan Dickson, who's developing a TV series alongside horror director David Bruckner. "I feel like the landscape changes from month to month." The partners are currently running a three-week-long mini–writers' room funded by a studio to "pressure test" eight episodes' worth of story ideas and "see how they hold water."
The rise of such "mini-rooms" represents a potentially seismic shift in the way TV is made. Mini-rooms (the "mini" can mean fewer writers, a shorter time frame, or both) offer the promise of flexibility and reduced costs for studios and networks, while increasing opportunities for less experienced writers to get their feet in the door. But mini-rooms also threaten to turn a profession that was reasonably stable and lucrative into yet another poorly paid spoke of the gig economy. "[The mini-room] was a very unusual thing when I first got into television, which was only five years ago, and now they're everywhere," says Patrick Somerville, a writer for The Leftovers and creator of the forthcoming Netflix series Maniac. Having both worked in and run mini-rooms, Somerville worries that the industry is pushing toward a freelance model, one far less secure than the writers' rooms of yore. "With creative flexibility also comes the danger of exploitation of writers—less guaranteed time, less guaranteed income," he says.
'Mini-room" is an open-ended term that can describe a range of setups. Gina Welch, who has written for Feud and Ray Donovan and is developing a series based on Carmen Maria Machado's story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, says the phrase often refers to rooms "where there's no expectation that a whole show is going to get written. They're just sort of either a cauldron of ideas or they're to get the creator going on writing a pilot." In recent years, cable channels such as Starz and AMC have experimented with a "script to series" process that short-circuits the traditional development model. Instead of spending millions on a cast and crew for a pilot, executives fund a less expensive writers' room in which a small number of scribes generate scripts and a detailed story arc. Based on these materials, the network will decide to green-light the series or smother it at birth. Starz programming chief Carmi Zlotnik says he has four or five such small writers' rooms going at any given time. "Our approach to all of our shows is to be bespoke and try to figure out what is the right thing that each show needs in development, in production, all the way through," he says. The network's two most recently premiered series took slightly different paths. For Vida, scripts were written and a mini–presentation video was shot to test out actors; Sweetbitter went straight from mini-room-generated scripts to shooting an entire series. The focus on scripts over pilots was born of economic necessity at Starz, Zlotnik says. A pilot can cost two or three times (or more) as much as a single episode of a series. That's a lot of money to blow on a bet. Zlotnik compares his team to "venture capitalists in a creative medium, where the businesses are the shows. The [writers'] room is part of a system of staged investment that manages the risk." He says that in the standard pilot model of production networks start a new series with lots of unknowns. "You're budgeting and trying to imagine, 'What are we going to need for the last episode of this season that hasn't been written yet?' " he says. "Eventually, it comes and smacks you in the face." Working out the story arc in advance gives a much better sense of what the show requires in terms of sets, locations, cast, and all the other expensive variables that go into creating a fictional world. David Madden, president of original programming for AMC, SundanceTV, and AMC Studios, says that when he likes a pitch the next step is not a pilot but a room that will generate four or five scripts, which amounts to half of the network's usual 10-episode season. The writers are also asked to hand in "a supplementary document that basically lays out the rest of the season, and maybe gives people a sense of what the next season or two might be."


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A definitive list of all the times when violence was the answer
Those times when violence just solved all the problems.
For world leaders, it can be a tough decision to support the use of violence.
Sometimes rival nations act belligerently, riots get disruptive, or underground networks of almost impossible to identify enemies use guerilla tactics to terrorize small locales in the hopes of provoking a disproportionate response.
During crises, leaders will inevitably be confronted with options like punching, kicking, or intiating sustained carpet bombing campaigns.
Violence inevitably hurts people, and disproportionately affects those who aren't involved in the actual conflict that prompted the violence.
However, many argue that violence is an answer.
So without further adieu, here is a definitive list of all the times violence was successfully used to resolve systemic issues:
So that list isn't exactly filled with events. While it is sometimes true that violence becomes necessary to end the psycopathic evil being perpetrated elsewhere (Nazi Germany), violence rarely achieves its intended goal and always creates broad collateral damage.
In the wise words of Martin Luther King Jr:
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral,
begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.
Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.
Through violence you may murder the liar,
but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth.
Through violence you may murder the hater,
but you do not murder hate.
In fact, violence merely increases hate.
So it goes.
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence,
adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness:
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, pp. 62-63 (1967)


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Lose More Weight and Climb to New Heights
It takes prioritizing your time and a commitment to overcome a mountain in order to lose weight sometimes. Jenn has done both because she has made her hopes a priority. Her weight is continuing to drop as Jenn sets her hopes high and proves to herself each day that she can climb the highest mountains—an expression she took quite literally when she conquered the physical challenge of hiking Camelback Mountain.
Hiking Camelback is a beautiful and scenic adventure that is quite demanding on the human body. Jenn has wanted to hike Camelback Mountain for some time now, and she decided to wait no longer. Steep stair cases, rock scrambling and climbing is all part of an experience that gets your heart pumping as you trek to the top of Phoenix's highest natural elevation.
"Going to Camelback Mountain involves cardio and a full body workout; it's three hours of working out," said Armando.
Armando's standard of working out is so rigorous that it would make some drill sergeants envious. So if Armando is comparing the hike to three hours of his standard of working out, then it is no wonder that Jenn has hesitated to take on Camelback Mountain until now. "I was really unsure because I heard how hard it was," said Jenn about being able to hike Camelback Mountain. "I wanted to prove to myself that I could do it."
Between her weight loss and a vigorous training program, which is loaded with interval progressions, Jenn was confident that her body was ready to take on Camelback Mountain. So she recruited a group of friends and off they went. The hike proved as challenging as rumored, but in the end she conquered Camelback Mountain and marveled at the beauty its summit has to offer.
"It was probably the hardest thing I have ever done in my life," said Jenn. "But once I got to the top, it was SO worth it. Every minute of complaining and wanting to turn around was a hundred percent worth the view of Scottsdale. It literally took my breath away! There were so many people that we met on the hike up too — it was nice to have strangers encouraging you to finish and then seeing them at the top giving you high-fives…it was pretty awesome!"
Jenn has truly climbed to new heights as she has lost weight, and her accomplishments are outstanding!
Here is a summary of her weight loss numbers to date — Jenn started at 193 pounds and her current weight is 151 pounds. When you met Jenn she had already lost 30 pounds and weighed 163 pounds; she had a short-term goal of losing an additional 13 pounds over the course of eight weeks. So far Jenn has lost 12 pounds and is easily on the way to meeting her short-term goal, which puts her that much closer to her final goal of weighing 125 lbs.
Okay, that may have been a bit confusing and read like a story problem from AP algebra, so let's chart it out.
Jenn's Progress and Goal Chart:
Original starting weight = 193 lbs.
-Weight before beginning short-term goal = 163 lbs.
Short-term goal = to lose 13 lbs. in 8 weeks (so she would then weigh 150 lbs.)
Progress to date for short-term goal = loss of 12 lbs.
-Current weight = 151 lbs.
1 pound to lose to accomplish her short-term goal!
Long-Term Goal Weight = 125 lbs. (26 lbs. to lose to get to final goal weight)
Total Weight lost to date = 42 lbs.
With only one pound left until Jenn meets her eight week goal it she is well on her way to success! Join us next time for a special video segment featuring Jenn and her journey by signing up for the Living Healthy RSS feed!
Posted on April 9, 2012, in exercise, Fun, Helpful, LA Fitness - Real Stories, LA Fitness Blog - Living Healthy, Motivational Tips, Weight Loss and tagged Arizona, blog la fitness, camelback mountain, fitness, goals, Health, hiking, Jenn's Story, LA Fitness, LA Fitness articles, la fitness blog, la fitness comments, LA Fitness news, la fitness reviews, Living Healthy, Lose Weight, Real Stories, tips, top tips, weight loss. Bookmark the permalink. 1 Comment.
Wow…! Eventhough Jenn already lose 42lbs, she is still planning to lose more..
I really like her determination.. I hope I could be as determined as her.. xD
Keep up the good work and youlll make it soon.. 🙂


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When you arrive in Las Vegas, the first thing your eyes do is adjust to all the sights. Everywhere you look are neon lights, huge buildings and crazy characters, which can lead to major sensory overload. Sometimes it's hard to take it all in, especially when it comes to taking photos to show your friends and family back home. Sure, you could take pictures of the grand hotel entrances and the swanky interior decor, but how do you truly capture the essence of Vegas in a photo? How do you get that perfect shot of yourself, your family or your significant other without hundreds of tourists in the background blocking the view?
In a world where social media feeds have replaced photo albums, getting that "perfect shot" is first on most visitors' to-do lists. With the major rise of Facebook and Instagram, we have learned to rely on pictures to capture a moment and tell a story. These insider tips are sure to make your pictures stand out, and help you tell your next Vegas story in a much more creative way.
You're most likely staying on the Strip, so start your morning off by heading over to the Bellagio. You'll want to get there as early as possible, preferably while everyone else is still in bed or getting ready for breakfast buffets. Typically, people take a picture in front of the fountains during the show. Instead, work your way up the left side of the fountains. Turn your back towards the strip and get ready to frame the most magical shot of not only the fountains, but also the Paris Eiffel Tower. You have just photographed two of the most iconic Vegas attractions in the same frame without even breaking a sweat!
Next, while it's still early, work your way over to the Tropicana. Although the newly renovated Tropicana exterior is a gorgeous sight to see, nothing beats the amazing view of the New York, New York you get by standing on the corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Tropicana. There on the corner is a patch of grass with some small palm trees, and if you stand perfectly center, you can capture the entire New York, New York skyline in your frame, including the Statue of Liberty. The same location also gives you unobstructed views of MGM's famous gold lion.
Your next stop does not require early morning hours, so you can enjoy your day sightseeing and experiencing all the city has to offer before heading over to the Flamingo. Enter the self-park garage and make your way to the very top floor. There, you will be rewarded with one of the most beautiful views of the Strip. Every corner of the top level provides breathtaking backdrops for your selfies, including the massive Linq High Roller.
Any local would recommend that you spend some time in Downtown Vegas before ending your trip. There, you will be fully immersed in a past era, and you can experience all the beauty and history of vintage Las Vegas. The Little White Wedding Chapel, most notable for marrying celebrities such as Paul Newman, Judy Garland and Frank Sinatra, is a must-see. You can stage a wedding photo under the Tunnel of Love to surprise your friends back home, or even snap some shots of the timeless pink Cadillac parked outside.
Finally, this list would not be complete without mentioning the Neon Boneyard at the Neon Museum. This location used to be part of La Concha Motel, which was destroyed in 2005. Now it is where old neon signs go to retire, and where visitors go to snap what are arguably some of the most fascinating photos you can find in Vegas. If you are a true fan of vintage Las Vegas, you are sure to find an old hotel sign that will spark some memories.
Head to a show, museum and more when visiting Vegas alone
Experience this famed drag show 8 nights a week
Learn about the human anatomy through this fascinating exhibit
From St. Patty's Day and March Madness to Comedians and Concerts
These tours will show you the night sights of fabulous Las Vegas
Head back in time to the roarin' '20s at these fun establishments
From comedy to family-friendly shows and even adult productions, here are our top shows under $59
From country to classical, pop and more
See these 'Aussie hunks' heat up their new stage at Mosaic Theater


text: Bozo criminal for today comes from Santa Ana, California, where bozo Ruben Gonzalez burglarized a home. He collected several items, including cell phones and a PlayStation game console. And then he made his getaway, right? Wrong. Instead, our bozo took his loot and headed to the bedroom of the homeowners, where he curled up at the foot of the bed and fell asleep. The man of the house was awakened when our bozo moved and touched his leg. A brief scuffle ensued and sleeping beauty was chased from the residence, but not before the homeowners recognized him as someone who lives in the neighborhood. The cops were called and were directed to our bozo's home where he was placed under arrest.


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Home > WORDWAYS > Vol. 43 > Iss. 3 (2010)
Word Ways
Article Title
The magician and historiam Max Maven poignantly eulogized Martin Gardner in his article "In Memoriam" in the July 2010 issue of GENII magazine. Commenting on the diverse interests of Gardner in non-fiction, puzzles, recreational mathematics, philosophy, games, skepticism, word play and magic, Maven noted: "So far as is known, the final Gardner publication during his lifetime was a magic trick that he contributed to the May 2010 issue of Word Ways, a quarterly journal with a small but fervent readership. I will mention, without humility, that the trick was based on one of mine -- which in turn was based on one of Martin's."
Recommended Citation
Farrell, Jeremiah and Farrell, Karen
"80 Years of Gardner Magic,"
Word Ways: Vol. 43
, Article 5.
Retrieved from: https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol43/iss3/5


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The Camille Conte Show 3-31-17
Hail! Hail! Rock and Roll as we pay tribute to Chuck Berry who also shines bright inside The New Music Spotlight. March Birthdays include Eric Clapton, Elton John, Steven Tyler and more. Plus news from the road and I return from an amazing weekend in Los Angeles. Sending March out with a bang that's for sure. Enjoy.


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In the context of developing bilateral contractual relations, negotiation has taken a prominent place as a decision-making and regulation process. Also, the challenge of renewed multilateralism is closely linked to the ability of the international community to foster truly productive negotiation processes in a rapidly evolving global context.
Throughout history, the speech has been one of the most powerful forms of communication. Technological, social and economic changes have enhanced that power. As digital communication has increased, speeches have had to become more authentic and honest.
Humankind is indisputably entering a new digital era. The impact of rapid technological and scientific advances on our lives is so great that World Economic Forum's founder Klaus Schwab termed this process as the Fourth Industrial Revolution. We are the witnesses of the transcendence through new frontiers.
Culture is a powerful factor in shaping how people think, communicate and behave. It therefore affects how they negotiate. Taking participants from the simple to the complex, this compact and practical course will look at the cultural dimension of negotiation.
UNITAR is delighted to start the new "International Law in Focus" Workshop Series that will explore cutting-edge legal topics.
Nowadays, as a result of the globalisation process, individuals and organizations constantly need to be engaged in developing their cross-cultural competences in order to operate effectively in a multilateral setting and avoid barriers, misunderstandings and prejudices in negotiation and mediation processes.