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Une École Pour Tous answers the individual needs of every child. We can often accommodate children who frequented the other Montessori schools or, occasionally, non-Montessori students who would be comfortable in a Montessori program.
Parents interested in registering their child at Une École Pour Tous should:
We offer new enrolments beginning in March, after the re-registration of current students.
By registering your child at Une École Pour Tous, parents make a commitment to:
You can reach us at 613-548-4138 register for an in-class observation at Une École Pour Tous or to obtain additional information.


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Larry Dahlberg
Larry Dahlberg is a Hall of Fame fisherman and our Lead Fishing instructor.Larry Dahlberg is a Hall of Fame fisherman who has spent his life sampling everything our sport has to offer. Nobody has traveled farther or mastered the art of catching more different kinds of fish in all types of waters. Many of his theories and ideas helped write the rule book we all go by. Larry is a guide, tackle inventor, writer, filmmaker, and television host.
And, we're proud to say that Larry Dahlberg is the lead instructor in our Fishing School.
Most of all, Larry loves to observe fish, the waters they live in, and figure out what it takes to catch them on purpose.
"Whether we realize it or not," he says, "we all have a deep longing for an organic connection with the natural world. It just might be the most important missing component in most people's lives.
"Going to a place where semblance of a 'natural world' can be found, and getting to know how and when and where the things that live there are connected, can provide a spiritual and intellectual satisfaction that defines the experience, plus provides a link in the chain to understanding ourselves and our place in the world.
"It's also the best way to get to really know the creatures– whether they be bugs, bears, butterflies, or bass."
Ray Eye
Ray Eye has been called "a great outdoor living legend" by Outdoor Life magazine. You'll enjoy his teaching style, as he helps walk you through the basics of hunting.A lifelong hunter who grew up in the Ozark Mountains, Ray Eye has been called "a great outdoor living legend" by Outdoor Life magazine. He's America's most recognized wild turkey hunter, but Ray is also a master at hunting virtually any animal you can name.
Ray has hunted throughout America, across Canada and Mexico, and in extremely wild portions of Africa. You'll enjoy his teaching style, as he helps walk you through the basics of hunting for deer, rabbits, squirrels, birds of all kinds, coyotes and other predators, elk, moose, bears… you name it.
He's one of those rare people born with the 'Daniel Boone gene'… you could drop him out of an airplane in the middle of the night in a remote place, and he'd be sitting over a fire cooking what he hunted down the next day. Then–if he felt like it–he'd walk out to civilization.
You could not find a better, more qualified, or more versatile hunting teacher than Ray Eye, and we're excited to have him as lead instructor in our Hunting School.
"We need to get more people off the sidelines and into hunting," he says. "We need more people to discover that hunting builds character and self-confidence for life's journey, that it teaches responsibility and real-world safety and how to work with your hunting partners.
"And we need more people to understand that hunters are the greatest conservationists on the planet, that hunters are the true friends of wildlife."
Kevin Muramatsu
A gunsmith by trade and avid shooter, Kevin Muramatsu is an NRA certified instructor, teaches carry permit classes, and is lead instructor in our Shooting School.
He is fascinated by the inner workings of the 'tools' (guns), but also the art of being a good and consistent shooter. Kevin thinks that many people have not discovered the shooting sports because they don't have enough information about guns and shooting, and don't know where to turn to get off to the right start.
"There are basic, easily-taught concepts," says Kevin, "such as safety, recoil management, and competitive opportunities. The first gun a youngster–or any beginner–shoots should not be a .44 Mag, or a .30-06. Gun safety is simple, but absolutely necessary, and the repetitive efforts in ensuring it bring confidence."
Finally, he says, "shooting can be much more than poking holes in paper. Much more."
Dave Genz
Dave Genz is recognized as the primary driver of the modern ice fishing revolution and we are honored to have him contributing basic lessons on a variety of topics. Dave Genz is best known as an ice fishing pioneer, but he is an expert open-water fisherman as well. He is recognized as the primary driver of the modern ice fishing revolution and we are honored to have him contributing basic lessons on a variety of topics.
Dave was a member of the Silver-medal winning Team USA in the 1992 World Ice Fishing Championships. He was inducted into the Minnesota Fishing Hall of Fame in 2002. He is the most widely traveled and experienced ice angler in the history of the sport. Genz has fished extensively all across the Ice Belt, giving him the perspective to help anglers everywhere enjoy more success.
When the ice melts, Dave practices the art of catching his own minnows, loves river fishing, and fishes a wide variety of lakes and ponds.
Chad Hines
Chad Hines is our chief pointing dog trainer in the Hunting School.The outdoor world needs more young professionals like Chad Hines, owner of Willow Creek Kennels. His thriving business is home to an elite line of German shorthairs and other hunting breeds, and Chad is our chief pointing dog trainer in the Hunting School.
You will love his innovative training insights, as you tackle the challenge of shaping your own dog for its days in the field, and around your house.
Willie Strand
Willie Strand is our junior shooting consultant.Willie Strand is an avid student of firearms who loves target shooting and hunting. He is a collector of firearms from various time periods, as well as our junior shooting consultant.
"I hope a lot of people my age, and younger, will get off to the right start with our shooting school," he says. "And the same goes for adult beginners."
Willie knows, first-hand, that the public's perception of firearms and shooting can be far from on target. "We want everybody to know that it's OK to own and enjoy guns, and have fun shooting them," he says. "When more people get interested in shooting and learn to do it well, that's a good thing for many reasons."
Mark Strand
Mark Strand is founder and creator of the School of Outdoor SportsMark Strand is the founder and creator of the School of Outdoor Sports. He developed the School "because it didn't exist, and we need it," he says. "If we are going to ever reverse the trend of declining participation in fishing, hunting, and shooting, we need the elementary school for these activities. We need one place where beginners, regardless of age, can learn the basics quickly.
I believe beginners need to experience a level of success, right away, so they can see whether these sports are for them. I believe we need to encourage beginners to sample any aspect of these sports, then help them meet success in all of them, so they can freely decide for themselves what they like best.
"This is the only real road to creating a steady stream of actual, active participants."
He grew up in a family headed by his father, Dick Strand, an avid 'generalist' who hunted and fished for whatever was in season. So Mark grew up fishing, hunting, and shooting for fun, changing the game as the seasons turned.
He has worked as a salesman in a hunting and fishing store, a manufacturer's representative in the outdoor industry, and has been an outdoor writer, photographer and filmmaker since 1977. Mark wrote the book, Paint the Next Sunrise: A Future for Hunting and Fishing, which lays out his vision for the School, and what it will take to build a brighter future for the traditional outdoor sports.
Kevin Winkler
Kevin Winkler is a fanatical outdoorsman and a key "answer man" for your follow-up questions.Kevin Winkler is a fanatical outdoorsman who lives for his love of all forms of fishing, shooting and hunting. He's happiest when he's outside, and doesn't care one bit what the conditions are.
"When it's pouring down rain," he admits, "I'm the only one still out there fishing."
Rain, snow, wind, calm, hot, cold, he actually enjoys whatever the conditions bring. That's why his primary role, as one of our chief camera operators, is a perfect match for his personality. Kevin is a rising outdoor photographer and videographer, who lends his talents to capturing our lessons in both still and moving pictures.
His wish? That our lessons move you–to join him outdoors.
"I'd like to see us get back to the days when kids rode their bikes down to a local fishing spot," says Kevin. "These days, it can be important for an adult to go along, but beyond that, now that we have the School, there's nothing stopping anybody. If you don't know the basics, we will teach you. And we can do more to help beginners get started in hunting and shooting, too.
"For me, working with the School is like a dream come true."
When he is "stuck inside," Kevin loves to help answer questions in online forums related to the outdoors. That's why he is also a key "answer man" for your follow-up questions.
"We realize that different people learn in different ways," he says. "What might be crystal clear to some beginners can be hard to understand for others. That's why we have to be there, ready to answer your questions, so you don't get hung up on something. We want you out there having fun!"
Mike Walsh
Mike Walsh is a professional chef with a flair for creating fish and game recipes.Mike Walsh lists three things that he likes to do best: hunt, fish, and cook. He grew up in northern Minnesota in a family that headed outdoors to do whatever was in season. In addition to being a passionate hunter and fisherman, Mike is a professional chef with a flair for creating fish and game recipes.
He is a part-time camera man, helping capture our lessons on video, and will head up our 'Cookin' it Up' section, where you can learn the basics of cleaning and cooking what you catch and shoot.
Bob Johnson
Bob Johnson is one of our chief fundraisers, as well as a talented dog breeder and trainer.A lifelong passionate hunter and casual angler, Bob Johnson is one of our chief fundraisers. He is an experienced and talented dog breeder and trainer, and will be contributing advice to help you train retrieving dogs and get the most out of them on your hunting trips.
Bob is an innovator in both waterfowl and upland bird hunting techniques, and excited about the opportunity to share what he knows with others.
"I've gone through every stage you can go through as a hunter," says Bob, "and now, for me, it's all about getting new people to see how great a hunting trip can be. My favorite times now are taking my daughters along and seeing them out there making memories."
Matt Johnson
Matt Johnson heads up our 'follow-up answers to your questions' department.A serious angler with a passion for helping others discover the joys of fishing, Matt Johnson heads up our 'follow-up answers to your questions' department. Although still relatively young, Matt is an experienced fishing guide who has worked for years at Thorne Brothers, one of America's leading fishing shops. His youth is an asset when it comes to grasping modern technology. Matt has led development and promotion of numerous successful outdoor web sites, experience that he brings to our School.
Matt is one of our chief fundraisers, and is in charge of grant writing. He is also head of database management that helps us keep track of the beginners we are helping.
He wears all of these hats effectively, because, for him, this is a labor of love.
"Our School is going to have an immediate and lasting impact," he says. "This is exactly the formula that our sports need to build a bright future."
Larry Chrisman
Larry Chrisman is our IT Director and web designer.Larry came to shooting and hunting at age 30, so he remembers well what it's like to be starting out. He became a Minnesota DNR Firearms Safety Instructor in 2005, he says, "to help kids start out right with shooting and hunting sports." Larry is also a certified NRA Firearms Instructor and recruiter.
"It's easy for me to step up and help with the School of Outdoor Sports," says Larry. "The vision for the School is exactly what I wanted when I first started. Not growing up with shooters or hunters, I did not get the kind of instruction made available through the School. I still have much to learn about all three disciplines offered, especially fishing. I have been watching the videos and learn something new with every lesson I complete."

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My dentist said that I'd been grinding my teeth. He made a mouth guard for me. After a month or so of wearing the night guard, I noticed that I'd wake up biting down hard on the mouth guard. I also noticed jaw popping, jaw pain, etc. I continued to wear the night guard, but my symptoms became worse. I began experimenting by going some nights without the mouth guard. The symptoms would seem to improve, but never disappeared. I have now been without the night guard for over a month, but suffer from ear-ache, pain on yawning, chewing, etc., Can a mouth guard actually CAUSE TMJ symptoms?
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Meet Ruby, our special cast brass kitty.
Several years ago, we were asked by the Georgia State Railroad Museum in Savannah Georgia to create a special series of charms based on hobo symbols. Hobo symbols? Apparently, we have a unique pictographic language here in America that was created by the Hobos (men who took to traveling the rails during the Depression to look for work) to communicate with each other.
They used these symbols to mark boarding houses, fences, sidewalks, and peoples' homes to guide their fellow travelers to safe harbor, medical help, work, and community.
We worked with the museum to create these charms, hand carving and molding them. We chose certain symbols that we felt resonated with the history of the time as well as modern day.
But would these charms work outside the railroading community? Could we take these pieces to art shows and have them resonate with people today? Well, stay tuned, to find out how our kitty came to be named Ruby and what other symbols we have created.


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Between 1992 and 1995, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) was ravaged by a large-scale war. Although hostilities have ended over twenty years ago, their consequences are still felt today. In a post-war context, TRIAL helps victims of international crimes obtain justice and makes sure that their voice is heard.
Authorities in BiH have continuously invoked the need to turn the page and forget the atrocities committed during the war. But by doing so, they neglect the rights and needs of countless war survivors.
Genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, torture, enforced disappearance, extrajudicial executions, rape and other forms of sexual violence: the violations of human rights were numerous and widespread, claiming the lives of nearly 100,000 individuals. Twenty years after the end of the war, many victims are still waiting to obtain justice and reparation. Authors of these crimes remain widely unpunished.


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On the inside of the clear card I created a smaller card, that can hold a personal message, but keep it hidden from the front. For this card I created a 'scene' out of patterned papers and gray cardstock, so it looks like the Jeep is riding down the road.
Make sure to check out what the rest of the Whimsie Doodles design team members are up to. All of their blogs are linked to the left.
(1) Used orange glitter over the headlights for a bit of shine, (2) Since I had to cut off the antenna from the image, I created a 'real' one with some beading wire, (3) Layered the image for a 3-D effect, (4) A look at the scenery and sentiment on the inside of the clear card.
And now a SPECIAL OFFER for fans and readers of my blog: Use the coupon code below (ALICIA10), the next time you shop at the Whimsie Doodles Online Store and receive 10% OFF your order!
Thanks for stopping by and, as always, comments are greatly appreciated!
Digital Stamp: Whimsie Doodles (Jeep); Patterned Paper: DCWV (Flower Shower); Cardstock: ShortCuts (Clear), Neenah (Solar White), Unknown (gray); Ink: Laser Printer; Markers: COPIC; Glitter: Stickles (Orange Peel); Beading Wire: Beadalon; Decorative Scissors: Fiskars (Heartbeat)


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Top 5 Paperwork Resources for Therapists/
You became a therapist because you love helping people, not because you love paperwork!
Likewise, I got into quality improvement because I love helping therapists make their paperwork more manageable. Through my years of teaching therapists I've acquired a list of places I commonly go for answers, ideas, and inspiration. I've compiled five of them that will help you with starting out your practice and getting continued support:
While very similar, each discipline has their own ethical requirements for completing and maintaining records. These are basic guidelines for your profession and do not include state laws or HIPAA regulation. I recommend you start here because the principles are easily accessible and brief. Then, seek out laws specific to your state or recommendations from your state's licensing board or professional association. HIPAA is a whole other deal… I'd encourage you to check out Zur Institute's online courses specific to HIPAA if you want that information specifically.
•Private Practice Paperwork Crash Course
Yes, I'm going to toot my own horn for just a minute. I created a crash course on clinical documentation. In a series of videos sent out over a one week period you'll learn tips on administrative forms, writing assessments, treatment plans, progress notes and billing to insurance. My goal with this mini course is not to give you forms to copy. Rather, I want to help you gain the mindset and skills to write quality documentation that's less time-consuming and makes you feel confident for years to come!
This book has a ton of sample forms and a very affordable price tag! It is very detailed but don't let that scare you. Use the forms as a starting point and pick and choose what you like. They are based mostly on insurance billing so if you have a private pay practice you can overlook a lot of the details.
•Private Practice from the Inside Out
Tamara Suttle provides a multitude of practice resources on her website. She has an extensive blog where she frequently highlights experts in specific areas. This includes articles related to client records, HIPAA, insurance and other topics. She's also super friendly and responds to comments and questions on blog posts with record timing!
•Zynnyme's Insurance Outsourcing Video
If you decide insurance billing is for you then one of the most important things you can do is outsource your billing to an expert. It only takes one problem claim to eat up 10 hours of your time and a large chunk of your profit. Check out this blog interview posted by Kelly and Miranda from Zynnyme where they interview Tiffany, owner of a medical billing company so you can see what it's all about.
I hope you find these resources helpful. There are lots more out there but I think these are some of the best. What other resources do you use? Leave a comment below so we can continue building our resource lists!


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AJOY is an entrepreneur evangelist with a vision to reinvent the existing primary health care landscape of rural India. He intends to bridge the staggering gap between rural healthcare and mainstream nation. Gramin health aims to bring in a paradigm change in primary health care scenario of villages, tier 3,4 areas where affordable and accessible healthcare services is an issue.
With over 25 years of business experience he has been associated with some of the most successful organizations across the globe. He has remarkable presence in telecommunication, geospatial and content businesses. Ajoy is a strategic investor.
He has invested in number of companies like Paridyam Healthcare and Medical Second Opinion (India),Doc on call (Myanmar), Intersat (USA),Belgium Satellite Services (Belgium),Six Dee Technology (India),Hello Cabs (Myanmar) Intersat FZE (Dubai)Mobifusion (USA),Infotack (Bangalore)and CERT Telematics (Abu Dhabi)
Under his leadership, companies have seen exponential growth and geographical expansion in the global market, Ajoy has also been an advisor to corporate giants like Harris Corporation, Ital Cable, Tech Mahindra, Tellabs Maxis, UT Starcom, Hughes Software System and IP Unity.
.Being an engineer Ajoy understands the need of continuous ritualistic reinventing that is essential to keep the system upgraded and working.
Through Gramin Healthcare he intends to reach the remote areas, provide primary health care services.An invaluable data-mine is also been processed that can provide an essential bridge for major corporate houses and people of the underserved community that is farmers.
Ajoy has an MBA degree from the University of California, Berkeley and an Electrical Engineering degree from M.S. University, Baroda, India.


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Cricketer Zaheer Khan bowled one of the Bollywood Actress Following the footsteps of Yuvraj Singh and Harbhajan Singh. Now Zaheer too lost his heart to an actress Sagarika Ghatge. The Journey of Zaheer Khan and Sagrika Ghatge Love Story To Marriage.
Cricketer Zaheer Khan announced the news of his engagement to actress Sagarika Ghatge on Monday night. The much-in-love couple is extremely private about their personal lives, and the two have rarely spoken much about their relationship in public.
It is last night that the lovebirds announced their engagement on Twitter, where Zaheer shared a picture with Sagarika and wrote, "Never laugh at your wife's choices. You are one of them !!! Partners for life. engaged @sagarikavghatge".
Never laugh at your wife's choices. You are one of them !!! Partners for life. #engaged @sagarikavghatge pic.twitter.com/rUOtObFhiX
— zaheer khan (@ImZaheer) April 24, 2017
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It was during Yuvraj's wedding last year that the couples came into notice with their closeness in the relationship, However, the two remained tight-lipped on their relationship status and did not came into much Gossip.
Sagarika spoke about their future plan in an interview with Times of India, "We will discuss all this once the IPL is over. Right now Zak has to practice and once the league is over, we will all sit down and plan the dates and the ceremonies."
She even added that she had no idea that Zaheer was set to propose to her and she was completely surprise, "Zak secretly planned our engagement for days; and I honestly had no clue. I had no idea that he had picked up such a pretty ring for me. I can't describe that moment and it will forever remain as something very special between us. We are really blessed," She added.
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After their announcement on the twitter about the engagement, many B-town celebs and Crickets showered their blessing and wishes to the couple.
Congratulations @ImZaheer and @sagarikavghatge. Wish you both loads of love and happiness. A perfect match for life. #ChakDe https://t.co/vtUu1xOtu9
— sachin tendulkar (@sachin_rt) April 25, 2017
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Congratulations @ImZaheer and @sagarikavghatge on your engagement. Wishing you both an eternity of love and happiness together? https://t.co/bKXOxPYAf7
— VVS Laxman (@VVSLaxman281) April 25, 2017
Zak the man. Many congratulations to both of you on the engagement @ImZaheer @sagarikavghatge https://t.co/lSv0FOqrQo
— Ravi Shastri (@RaviShastriOfc) April 24, 2017
Congratulations Zak bhai @ImZaheer and @sagarikavghatge on your engagement.
— ajinkyarahane88 (@ajinkyarahane88) April 25, 2017
Welcome to the other side fella hope it's always bright for both of u many congrats and very happy for you guys @ImZaheer @sagarikavghatge pic.twitter.com/79r1fPDvoM
— yuvraj singh (@YUVSTRONG12) April 24, 2017
That phone called helped I guess..???@sagarikavghatge https://t.co/5gUgEoJu92
— ANGAD BEDI! (@Imangadbedi) April 24, 2017
Congratulations @ImZaheer and @sagarikavghatge! Wishing you the very best! https://t.co/pMadS7wHo2
— Anil Kumble (@anilkumble1074) April 24, 2017
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Many congratulations once again my friend..wished @sagarikavghatge at the Delhi airport.. Stay blessed https://t.co/QL5HiG7WHB
— Kartik Murali (@kartikmurali) April 24, 2017
Congratulations @ImZaheer ,clean bowled by Hockey, @sagarikavghatge please Hockey nahi dena rakhke.
Wish you both a great life together 🙂 https://t.co/P1JIHce81C
— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) April 25, 2017
The hockey star gets cleaned bowled by @ImZaheer #hitched Hearty Congratulations Saga @sagarikavghatge ??? pic.twitter.com/toyiJteuE8
— Prachi Desai (@ItsPrachiDesai) April 25, 2017
Woot! Woot! Congratulations you two… here's to a lifetime full of happiness… how gorgeous u both look @ImZaheer @sagarikavghatge ❤ https://t.co/GIQFejG7gB
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An 1,100-pound statue honoring hundreds of thousands of women taken as sex slaves by the Japanese Imperial Army decades ago is traveling by boat from South Korea and is just days away from arriving in Glendale, where it may become the first statue honoring the so-called "comfort women" on public property on the West Coast.
The memorial, like others on the East Coast and in Korea, has sparked controversy as opponents from Japan have emailed dozens of letters to City Council members in an attempt to block the statue from being placed in Central Park near the Adult Recreation Center.
A group of Japanese nationalists deny that soldiers took about 200,000 Korean, Chinese and other women as sex slaves during World War II, but supporters of the memorials say the atrocities are well-documented.
Chang Lee, a member of the Korean Sister City Assn., which paid for the monument, said the memorial is not about pitting one country against another. Rather, it's meant to raise awareness of a dark time in history and learn from it, Lee said.
"It's not about one ethnicity against one ethnicity. It's about human rights. It's here so this atrocity will not be repeated," Lee said. "I'm glad that Glendale has taken a bold step to do that."
The association paid $30,000 for the statue, which features a young woman in a traditional Korean dress sitting next to an empty chair.
While former comfort women have shared their stories of human rights abuse, the Japanese government continues to deny that the military forced Korean women into prostitution decades ago. In 2007, the House of Representatives passed a resolution asking the Japanese government to formally apologize but it has not done so, Lee said.
Several council members said this week they would not be deterred by the emails they have received that are critical of the memorial.
"This is a historical fact," said Councilman Frank Quintero, who visited with surviving comfort women in South Korea a few months ago.
The bronze, granite and obsidian statue is a replica of a memorial that sits in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, where surviving comfort women often protest, demanding reparations. It's the first replica in the United States, Lee said.
While the statue features a young woman, her shadow symbolizes an older version of herself. A bird on the woman's shoulder represents freedom and peace. A butterfly seen in the shadow represents rebirth.
The Glendale memorial is set to be the largest in the United States, Lee said. The others in New Jersey are smaller monuments.
Last year, Japanese officials asked Palisades Park — a small New Jersey borough outside New York — to remove its comfort women memorial but officials there refused. After that was installed in 2010, another plaque was placed in Bergen County, New Jersey. A third memorial is in the works in another New Jersey borough.
In California, a plaque honoring comfort women is embedded in a small monument in a Garden Grove shopping center, but Glendale's memorial will be the first on public property on the West Coast.
Although the Korean Sister City Assn. has already designed and paid for the statue, it still must be approved by the City Council on July 9 before it can be placed in Central Park. However, the council supported the idea of the memorial in March when members first set aside a portion of the park for sister city monuments. The item is expected to sail through the voting process.
Lee said the Korean Sister City Assn. plans to unveil the monument on July 30 at a public event in Central Park.
Eventually, Glendale officials plan to install more monuments donated by other sister cities in the park.
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[For the Record, June 27, 2013: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that the statue features a young woman in a traditional Japanese dress sitting next to an empty chair. That is incorrrect. The correct dress is Korean.]


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BBC LONDON NEWS interviewed both Mike Johnson of London and Quadrant and Bob Morton and it was broadcast on Wednesday.
L&Q admitted for the first time that that their plans 'will not make a profit'. In other words they will make a loss-in fact a loss of tens of millions of part tax payers' money. This public scandal is made worse by the fact that Waltham Forest Council has agreed with L&Q to keep this loss confidential.
In the same piece, Bob Morton confirmed that the Stow under his ownership would make 'at least £2m profit'. Remember Mr Morton is a hugely successful businessman in the Times Rich List and an owner of greyhound stadia. Future viability under Bob's ownership is proven beyond doubt.
Mike Johnson of L&Q openly admitted that 'L&Q can take a longer term approach that a house builder'. In other words, L&Q simply do not care less that they are wasting your money. A commercial builder would not have overpaid for the site and, even if they had, they would have sold by now realising their mistake. L&Q are in the privileged position of being given tax payer money to build homes however they are completely abusing this privilege by speculating on the property market. To quote Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith "I am very concerned that L&Q are no longer behaving like an RSL but like a property speculator'.
Piece by piece the truth is coming out. The fact that L&Q was in pre planning discussions with the council at least 18 months before the track closed, the fact that the council encouraged L&Q to purchase the site, the fact that certain council elements enjoy a completely inappropriate relationship with L&Q and are bending over backwards to support L&Q to justify the support they gave them to purchase the site, the fact that L&Q paid way over the odds for a completely viable greyhound track and, most telling, the fact that L&Q is quite happy to lose tens of millions of part public money to merely try to prove a point and the council are quite happy to keep this under wraps.
This is a public scandal. L&Q has already been accused of lying and being a deceitful company abusing a privilege bestowed upon them and we will continue to unravel their despicable behaviour in order to return this iconic stadium to its historical and designated leisure use and former glory for the community to enjoy.
It is now time for Parliament to stop the funding of L&Q and Saveourstow will now lobby the government for a full enquiry into the misuse of public funds by L&Q. Any councillor that supports the stow development of L&Q is in essence supporting the wasting of £25 million of tax payer money and ,while Waltham Forest has had public funding cutbacks and has hardly any jobs, it would be a misrepresentation of the community if any party supported this ill fated plan of the disgraced L&Q.


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I.T.S The Embassy. Identify, Train and Send
Pastor Robbin, founder of Women of Deliverance and AHEART, is reviving St James Bible Deliverance and establishing it as The Embassy. This is a place where God's ambassadors can come to learn how to live like the diplomat they are. Training courses will be provided on a monthly basis.
Sunday School: 8am with Pastor Peaches McCormick
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Why should you have a first look?
The first look is when the bride and groom see each other before the wedding ceremony. People said it was bad luck not to see each other before the ceremony but the truth is that this was used in arranged marriages so the groom would not back out.
• When you do a first look you can have all the creative photos and family photos done ahead of time. This leads to less stress on the wedding day. You don't have to rush around getting all the photos done between the ceremony and reception missing cocktail hour. If you do the first look you will be able to spend more time with your friends and family before the reception at cocktail hour.
• Will this ruin the moment? No, you are simply trading one moment for another. I personally have seen better reactions from the groom when couples have their first look. It is just the two of them and not a crowed of people staring. lol
• Where should the first look be? This is completely up to you. I recommend you pick the ceremony site or a pleasant area outside with decent backgrounds with some shade.
• Who should be around? I think it should only be the two of you, the two photographers, and videographer. I recommend two photographers because you need to capture both reactions (bride and groom). We typically take about 3 minutes of photos and leave you alone to talk. This is a precious moment and I don't want to interfere. I always tell the couple wave at me when you are ready to take photos. I never want to rush you.
• How is it done? You simply have the groom's back turned and the bride taps him on the shoulder. This is so the photographers don't miss the reaction and you get the full effect rather than seeing each other from a distance.
• When do you get to see the first look photos? You can view them after dinner at the reception when I show the same day edit.
Below are just a few photos from first looks we have done in the past. You should check out our full portfolio of work here Columbus Ohio Wedding Photographers. I just love these moments so much! I am so glad and privileged to have the opertunity to capture these images.
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Group Routine – Jazz, choreo by Mandy Moore
["Take Me To The River" by Annie Lenox]
Erica: The minute I saw "Annie Lennox," I thought, "Sonya Tayeh". Then I thought, "Wait, no, it's gotta be Mandy Moore. She's all about the '80s".
Kate: I love Annie Lennox songs on this show. (Ah, what a perfect place to provide a link to Ashley and Mark's season 7 dance to "Wonderful"!)
Erica: I was sad that they got rid of the swoopy scarves so early. I like swoopy scarves.
Kate: I was sad that the girls weren't together at all.
Erica: I gotta say, they looked pretty professional for this number. Way better, more energetic and together than last week's hip-hop. Even though I liked last week's bizarre concept and costuming and stuff.
Kate: Yes, but I didn't think the girls were that strong together. The partner stuff was cool, and they looked great at the end. Can we talk about the dumb/weird little choreo things they now do during introductions?
Erica: No, I skip them or go get a Coke or something.
Kate: I'm not a fan. They always look awkward. Who drinks Coke anymore?
Cat's Ensemble
Erica: Ew feh.
Kate: You know I didn't realize "feh" was a Yiddish word until a couple weeks ago?
Erica: I didn't realize "klutz" was until very recently.
Kate: Anyway, it is July. This is a January outfit. (Except for the fact that mock turtlenecks are a never outfit.)
Erica: Her hair is great, although my preference is for last week's hair, and makeup is A-OK with me. But I don't dig the dress. Maybe it's a personal thing.
Kate: No, it's a mock turtleneck thing.
Erica: Is Mary, like, on purpose trying to look old?
Kate: Oh, I like her outfit. Hah. I find myself liking old lady clothes more and more these days.
Erica: Misty again? Is this to honor Misty or because people are tired of guest judging for this thing?
Kate: I heard she's permanent now!
Erica: So no more guests?
Kate: This I do not know.
Valerie & Ricky – Bollywood, choreo by Nakul Dev Mahajan
["Dilliwaali Girlfriend" from the Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani Soundtrack]
Erica: VALERIE IN THE CHESHIRE CAT COSTUME I CAN'T EVEN THERE IS TOO MUCH CUTE.
Kate: This is when I don't pay attention.
Erica: Oh, and of course she doesn't know how to be sexy because of f*cking course.
Kate: So Ricky was fabU here, duh. Valerie had great energy as usual, and decent form/technique, but was nowhere near sharp or quick enough for this style. Not surprising, but disappointing because I want her to be good.
Erica: You know what, she really doesn't know how to be sexy. And yeah, great energy from both of them but she was not precise enough. I loved her costume, though. When Nigel said that Bollywood reminds him of something, I thought he was going to say, "When England owned everything", but he didn't. He had Misty to back up this idea that Nigel basically introduced Bollywood to the Western world.
Kate: Didn't he?
Bridget & Emilio – Contemporary, choreo by Travis Wall
["The Leaving Song" by Chris Garneau]
Erica: I like her. I don't want her to go home.
Kate: Me too. Me either.
Erica: So I'm watching this on my iPad so that I can type on my computer at the same time and, boy, the lighting was not okay for me here. But I can see well enough to know they can't send her home, right?
Kate: I kept thinking, "Where's the actual bed? They've used actual beds on the show before, what gives?"
Erica: Kate, it was like, symbolic and stuff.
Kate: Ah. Symbols. This was very good.
Erica: I really liked it. I really, really liked it. I mean, it was pretty literal in terms of the interpretation of Travis's stated ideas, but I don't mind that and I thought they — especially her — did a pretty fantastic job of it.
Kate: Agreed, very strong. She has crazy (in a good way) legs. I think she's my favorite right now?
Erica: Well, if I say she's mine, she'll be cut tonight so I'll shut up.
Tanisha & Rudy – Hip-hop, choreo by Dave Scott
["Good Kisser" by Usher]
Erica: Rudy's faces in his first performance are killing me.
Kate: In what way?
Erica: OMG SO CUTE. He's, like, 11? And he's doing salsa and he is pulling SO MANY FACES. Hey it turns out the brightness on my iPad was way down. I fixed it.
Kate: I CAN SEE 30% OF HER TUSH! IN-A-PPROPES!
Erica: So I thought she was very good at the non-hip-hoppy moves. Her legs and hips are very fluid. And I liked the concept and the costumes and all. But the whole thing didn't really gel for me.
Kate: See, I unfortunately really enjoyed this. I say unfortunately because I don't want to like Tanisha, but in this I did. A lot.
Erica: I don't know if it was the choreo but I honestly don't think it was. It just kind of felt like they weren't in the same dance.
Kate: See I thought the choreo did get a little repetitive towards the end (like, enough hip shakes) and was overall corny, but I still liked it a lot. What is happening to my brain?
Erica: Maybe I'm just too old to find any of these kids sexy. But I am enjoying Cat dishing.
Kate: P.S. There's a Chris Scott hip-hop choreographer and now a Dave Scott hip-hop choreographer. Will wonders ever cease?
Erica: Chris Scott is the skinny white one. I like him. I like Dave, too.
Jessica & Marcquet – Foxtrot, choreo by Dmitry Chaplin
["I Put a Spell on You" by Nina Simone]
Erica: I think I'm hitting my lifetime limit on this song.
Kate: What about the Hocus Pocus version?
Erica: I mean, Bette will always be Bette but I'm just tired of it. It's not a bad song or anything, I just see it come up and go, ugh.
Kate: How about Tab Benoit's? He is very sexy.
Erica: I don't know who that is. Isn't this a little fluid for a foxtrot? And, like, sexy, with their pelvises against each other and all?
Kate: Yes, and isn't she a bit too stripper-ish? Sorry, not trying to be catty, but she was way too much here. Too much.
Erica: So Marcquet is totes going home.
Kate: Shame, he's good.
Erica: I LOVE it (in a totally non-sarcastic way) when Nigel actually criticizes the choreography. Also I need to learn to do that cat's eye thing like on Jessica's eyes right now.
Kate: You're the one who taught me how to do eye makeup, I'm sure you could figure out the subtle cat eye.
Erica: It's hard; it works best with a liquid liner, which is hard to control. And I'm out of practice at makeup in general.
Kate: Use the liquid liner Mom and I use from Lancome. Great stuff. (Lancome did not sponsor this post in any way). So this dance sucked, next?
Erica: Okay, buy me some. Also, Lancome, if you'd like to sponsor a post, we'd totes take your money. I really like your eye makeup remover!
Kate: Sephora's house brand makeup remover is actually better. (Sephora is not a sponsor of this post either, but we'd take it.)
Erica: Oh, I have the Sephora one! I'm taking it with me this weekend! (To my sister-in-law's wedding in San Francisco, if you're curious.) BTW, readers, we are both doing this recap in real time and we're in a commercial break right now. That's why the long chat about make-up. Also someone stole my Diet Coke. Damn it.
Carly & Serge – Contemporary, choreo by Mandy Moore
["Foolish Games" by Jewel]
Erica: What's in the water over there? Everyone's sexing it up this week.
Kate: You toooooook your coat off, and stood in the rain. You were always craaazy like that. Er, this song is soooo your high school years!
Erica: 🙂 Zoe likes this song.
Kate: So does Aunt Kate!
Erica: It's giving me flashbacks to adolescence.
Kate: Yikes. Hey, this dance was great, and one move in particular reminded me a lot of Robert Roldan and Allison Holker's "Fix You" routine from season 7 (which I think is my favorite season ever?) — let's watch that one now!
Erica: This was a lot less of a literal interpretation of the theme but beautifully danced. I just caught sight of Cat's shoes. They kind of make me like the rest of the outfit more.
Kate: She lucked out with another good routine, and I like her despite not wanting to, similar to how I feel about Tanisha. This was very good.
Erica: I don't like her personality much but I think she's a fine dancer. And I like Serge quite a bit. Maybe because he's not 12.
Kate: Yes, he's very good. And I loved his first-ever ballroom competition outfit. And right, doesn't Carly's personality just irritate the crap out of you?
Erica: Yah.
Emily & Teddy – Salsa, choreo by Oksana & Jonathan
["Bruk It Down (Soca Remix)" by Mr. Vegas feat. Alison Hinds]
Erica: I couldn't remember who these people were – but now I'll remember that Teddy is freakin' adorable as a kid. And Oksana is like some sort of living Russian stereotype.
Kate: What else do you expect with that name? They are my least favorite dancers (skill-wise, not personality-wise). I totes noticed Emily's slip and contrary to what Misty said, I think it did mess her up for the rest of the performance because she slowed down and hesitated from there on out and just looked to nervous to do it full out.
Erica: She looked super awkward. Her hips did not look like salsa dancing hips.
Kate: And his hips are just CREEPY. Bleh.
Erica: Isn't that what male salsa hips are supposed to look like?
Kate: I guess, but he looks so creepy doing it. Me no likey.
Erica: Misty's voice is starting to make me kind of nuts. Still appreciate her commentary. Oh, wait, Emily's dancing injured? I hate that. I'm too much of a nervous Jewish mother.
Kate: When Misty was commenting on Teddy her words said "I love you" but her tone said "I think you suck but I'm paid to be somewhat nice".
Erica: Heehee
Jacque & Zack – Jazz, choreo by Sonya Tayeh
["Back to Black" by Beyonce feat. Andre 3000]
Kate: Of ALL the people to cover my girl Amy Winehouse, I would NOT want it to be Beyonce. I'm so over her.
Erica: Overkill? Damn, Sonya is being tough on Jaque.
Kate: What do you mean overkill?
Erica: Your Beyonce hate. Her costume is f-ing bizarre.
Kate: I'm sorry I'm just over her! And YES, I thought the same thing about the costume. Not relevant to the routine/song/century.
Erica: You know what, though, Sonya was right. She is kind of relying on pretty. And Misty seems to agree.
Kate: I think she's talented, but not the most talented. I was surprised at how they pulled off sexual attraction in this routine as I cannot see them together in real life, but I enjoyed their chemistry and thought this was overall great. Could have been more the choreography than the dancing, though?
Erica: Well, Sonya is a pretty amazing choreographer. Isn't she the one dating Rudy?
Kate: Sonya? No. Jacque? Yes.
Erica: Sorry, that's what I meant. Sometimes I forget the whole pronoun-antecedent agreement thing.
Brooklyn & Casey – choreo by Will "Wildabeast" Williams
["Hustle Hard Remix", Ace Hood feat. Rick Ross & Lil Wayne]
Erica: They're pulling some pretty cute faces.
Kate: Oh my god, this was quite possibly the least hip-hop routine to ever grace the SYTYCD stage. Oh my god I gasped OUT LOUD, like, SEVERAL times during this, that's how bad I thought it was.
Erica: No way. No way. I'm not saying it was super-swag or anything, but there have been some seriously non-hip-hop hip-hop routines on this show.
Kate: What drugs are you/the judges on right now? This was SO BAD! Her faces were painful to watch! There was no swag! No getting down! Gah!
Erica: Excuse me, Kate, but her faces were HILARIOUS to watch.
Kate: No, there were like "Oh, this is hard, ah, this is harder, ahhh I look crazy, eh what's next? Oh!" No. No no no no no.
Erica: Like I said. Hilarious.
Kate: Also known as horrible.
Erica: Excuse the F out of me, Nigel, but hip-hop DOES in fact require technique and precision, you pretentious, condescending, "benign racism" racist old man. God.
Mini-Group Routine # 1- Jazz, choreo by Sonya Tayeh
["So Broken (Live)" by Bjork]
Erica: So, yes, I'd prefer a group routine to solos. But can someone explain to me how this happened? Did they tell this group, like, last week, that they were in the bottom and then have them practice this? So when they bring them on stage and "reveal" it, they actually already know? Or did Sonya whip this up backstage like five seconds ago? Did all the dancers rehearse it and then just the six step into their "parts"? SO MANY QUESTIONS.
Kate: My guess is they knew the bottom 6 by, like, last Thursday, and the learned this in a couple of days. This was a first, right?
Erica: Yes, it's a first. Wait, no, there are four couples here. I'm confused. I have the short-term memory of a fruit fly so I can't even remember which of these people are actually in danger.
Kate: Yea, now I'm confused too. Off with their heads!
Erica: Again, I'm in favor of the idea. But they need to be clearer about the whole rules aspect of this thing. Maybe these are the bottom eight and they just didn't tell them which of them were actually the bottom six?
Kate: My brain hurts trying to figure it out, but I think I liked this better than the first group routine. Tanisha did do very well tonight. Hmmm..
Erica: Wait a second. Marcquet isn't there. He was in the bottom six, wasn't he?
Kate: Brain. Hurts. Also, it's only 9:38? Is there another routine still?
Erica: Maybe it's two mini-group routines, irrespective of people in danger? That's been done before, right? In Melonie and Sasha's season?
Kate: By George, I think you've got it!
Erica: Anyway, I agree with the judges. I think Sonya might be my favorite. And yup, there's a Travis routine coming. Wow, that could have been clearer.
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Mini-Group Routine #2 – Contemporary, choreo by Travis Wall
["Love Runs Out" by OneRepublic]
Erica: I love Travis's brain. Sometimes he's like, "It's about a couple in love," and I'm like, ugh, boring, but it usually isn't. And then he comes up with some crazy amazing concepts and I just love him.
Kate: LOVE! Love this song, loved this routine. It had me dancing (on the couch). LOVE.
Erica: I think Ricky might be my favorite boy now. Also this was cool. Just cool. Good job, Travis. Good job, dancers. And good job, Cat's hair, cascading down her back like that when she was at the bottom of the stairs.
Kate: And good job, girl I'm not sure who you were, with the Full Down (that's a cheerleading term)! Yea, Ricky is clearly the best on the show this season.
Erica: Do you think Sonya was looking at Travis like, "I'm going to put a knife in your neck at the wrap party"?
Kate: Ya, this totes shat on her mini-group routine. Sors Sonya.
Erica: Aw, man, hers was good, too! More group routines in general, that's what I say!
Kate: Hear hear!
Erica: Nigel's "Yeah, thanks, Cat," was totally sarcastic. Wait, four dancers next week? Why? Fox skimping on time for SYTYCD? Or is Nigel playing with us and they're saving everyone this week?
Kate: Fox is way skimping. They give this who less and less time every season; I fear the day they finally — gasp — cancel.
Erica: Can you tell we're doing this in real time? Okay, so it's Marcquet and Brooklyn. Not surprised about Marcquet. Not even really that surprised about Brooklyn although I think she's pretty good.
Kate: Me either. Happy with it. Moving on now, tune in next week for the top 14, after which we'll skip over the top 12 and go right to the top 10, at which point the judges will have no say anymore whatsoever! Right?
Erica: I don't know. I can't keep up with the rules on this show. So this week, we are posting, like, right now. Next week might be late. I am getting home from San Francisco at some time I can't remember when but I'm sure I won't be able to get a post up before mid-day on Thursday.
Kate: Yes, so patience, young grasshoppers.


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J.K. Rowling, Flannery O'Connor, James Patterson, Stephen King, Judy Blume, Carolyn Keene, C.S. Lewis, Billy Collins, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Dickens. These people wrote stuff. GOOD stuff. Words worth reading!
52-18 is more than a journal of books read and sentences shared, it's a testament to the pursuit of knowledge: literature, whether poetry, pop-fiction, fantasy, memoir, you name it, it's worth our time to explore the world of books. 52-18 is my 2017 book journal. A testament to my efforts to read more than I ever have, just because I can. Because why not?
52 books in 2017. It's gonna be tough. By the end of the year I hope to choose 18 "top" books: books I want to reread someday. 2017 will be a journey. I'm excited for the ride.
"That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet."
― Jhumpa Lahiri
52-18 ||
NOUN a blog about books (52 of them, specifically)
INITIATION: January 2017
BLOG AUTHOR: Margaret "Maggie" Almdale


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If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you.
If you are determined to learn, nobody can stop you.
In addition to learning the basics of coding we end up covering a number of impromptu topics that come up. This week our coding class had a general discussion of how the internet works - from the idea of tin cans and string to radio-like waves, cell towers and satellites. The girls are curious and usually one question leads to another. We're just happy that they seem engaged with the content.
The programs we worked on this week produced beautiful drawings because we introduced background color and pen color. We chose to use graphics as a way to teach coding since it's visually appealing and they can see instantly how creative coding can be.
Francis was the star of the day, as he helped the girls go through all of our troubleshooting steps slowly until all of the programs were working.
Just as most of the programs were running, we received a special visit from the honorable Ambrose Brima Fomba, the Area Development Program Manager for World Vision in Sierra Leone. He thanked us for our development work, and we thanked him for letting us use their internet/Skype connection for this coding class.
Near the end of class, we changed two of the variable numbers in our programs to draw a different pattern. As each of the girls got their revised program to run, they brought their laptop up to the camera to show "Auntie" Janet that it was working. This is the name they like to call her by. These were sweet and happy moments for all of us, and it was a very successful day! We ended the day with lots of smiles :)


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Opening the Academy
Theodore R. Sizer, 1932-2009
Public education is an idea, not a structure. The idea is that every citizen must have access to the culture and the means of enriching that culture. It arises from the belief that we are all equal as citizens, and that we all thereby have rights and obligations to serve the community as well as ourselves. To meet those obligations, we must use our informed intelligence. Schools for all assure the intelligence of the people, the necessary equipment of a healthy democracy. A wise democracy invests in that equipment.
—Theodore R. Sizer, Horace's Hope (1996)
In late November, an estimated thousand mourners, including Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, gathered at Memorial Church at Harvard University to honor the life and work of Theodore R. Sizer, the internationally recognized education reformer who died this past October. (Sizer, a friend to this publication, co-authored a piece with his wife, Nancy, on the misguided emphasis on standardized testing for the July 2008 issue of Common-Place.) Sizer received his Ph.D. in History in 1961, writing his thesis under the directorship of Bernard Bailyn on the so-called "Committee of Ten" who sought to reform American education in the 1890s. Published by Yale University Press in 1964, Secondary Schools at the Turn of the Century became the first of eleven books Sizer wrote or edited. Over the course of the next 45 years, his productivity as a scholar proceeded alongside a career that included serving as dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Headmaster of Phillips Andover Academy, Professor of Education at Brown, and spearheading a reform initiative that came to be known as the Coalition of Essential Schools. It was followed about a decade later by the Annenberg Institute for School Reform, a broader effort at Brown that sponsors research and analysis. Rarely has any figure in modern intellectual life so successfully harnessed the power of private institutions for public good, or achieved the fusion of thought and action, that Sizer did in his remarkable career.Rarely has any figure in modern intellectual life so successfully harnessed the power of private institutions for public good, or achieved the fusion of thought and action, that Sizer did in his remarkable career.
The seedbed of that career was a childhood and training saturated in the culture and traditions of New England. New England, of course, is the cradle of American educational civilization. Early colonies such as Hartford and New Haven (Sizer was born and buried in the town of Bethany, situated between the two cities), mandated free public schools within a decade of their founding in the 1630s, as did Massachusetts. But the region was also the seedbed of private academies such as Phillips Academy Andover, founded in 1778, where Sizer served as headmaster two centuries later. For all their differences, these educational institutions were characterized by a powerful communitarian spirit in their mission, and an avowedly moral orientation that stressed the importance of independent-minded people who would also be civic-minded participants in public life—a seeming contradiction that Sizer finessed with notable grace in forging public-private partnerships at Harvard, Brown, and the Coalition, founded in 1984. These characteristics remained discernible even in the nineteenth century, when strong-minded reformers like Horace Mann sought to adapt public schools to the needs of an emerging industrial capitalist order. Mann no less than Cotton Mather would have endorsed deceptively simple Coalition precepts such as "The school should focus on helping young people learn to use their minds well," or "The school's goals should apply to all students." (For more on these and other essential principles, see the CES website.)
Sizer had the good fortune of coming of age as the American Century crested; a beneficiary of the G.I. Bill, he entered university life and became the youngest dean in the history of Harvard at age 31 as much because of the rapid expansion of postwar academia as for his evident talent and social skills. But he was at the helm of Phillips Andover during the rocky 1970s, and was keenly aware of the economic challenges facing public education in the face of receding collective commitment. In this difficult environment, Sizer's commitment to egalitarianism in education guided his work, whether in making co-education a condition of his acceptance of the Andover post, creating a free math and science program for minority students while there, or in founding a charter public high school in central Massachusetts (and serving as co-principal with Nancy Sizer in 1998-99 to plug a personnel hole).
Photograph of Theodore R. Sizer, courtesy of John Foraste, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
Sizer was sometimes characterized as a "progressive" educator, and the label makes sense—to a point. Certainly, his vision was broadly consonant with Progressive-era pioneers like John Dewey, a clear and important influence on his work. And use of the word "progressive" to describe those like him skeptical of test-driven curricula and information delivery systems is also accurate, if a bit imprecise. But "progressive" is a word that can obscure at least as much as it reveals. Sizer's progressivism owed a lot more to, say, Jane Addams than Theodore Roosevelt. It was the bottom-up progressivism of the urban reformer, not the top-down progressivism of the elitist technocrat. His emphasis on the local and the empowerment of the individual made him a compelling figure to President George H.W. Bush, who invited Sizer to the White House to discuss his ideas, no less than President Bill Clinton, who worked with Sizer as governor of Arkansas on Re:Learning, a progressive-minded effort to launch school reform at the state level, and who summond him to visit the White House as well.
Perhaps a better term for understanding Sizer's work is "pragmatist." The figure most prominent in this regard is another New Englander, William James. The Jamesian faith that truth is something that happens to an idea is evident in Sizer's famous precept that "unanxious expectation" is the optimal stance in a teacher's relationship with a student. By acting as if a student will succeed in accomplishing a complex, independent project, you can in effect make it so: faith has catalytic power. Calling Sizer pragmatic might sound a bit odd to some, given that much of the criticism of his work centered on a belief that his ideas were impractical. This was the critique leveled at Sizer by respectful critics like E.D. Hirsch and Diane Ravitch, who long argued that a more content-based approach is ultimately the most practical one for students to make their way in the world. "Some 'essential' schools are a little loosey-goosey for my personal curricular taste," another friendly critic, Chester Finn, recently wrote. "But my chief anxiety about Ted's approach to education reform isn't that there's anything wrong with the schools; it's that this approach is not easily replicated or scaled. To which he, of course, would reply that no other approach will actually succeed, at least not when it comes to delivering bona fide education (which he never confused with embedding basic skills in scads of kids)."
To the end of his days, Sizer remained relentlessly focused on what actually works—and solutions that were the product of close empirical observation at thousands of schools. He was an early champion of vouchers so that public school families could vote with their feet, a position that put him at odds with some liberals. While determinedly opposed to the Bush administration's No Child Left Behind law of 2002, Sizer was never opposed to standards per se. What he insisted upon is that the standards for those standards be high, that those doing the evaluating did their homework no less than the students. The often unspoken appeal of standardized tests for those who champion them is the ease with which they can be administered rather than the value of what they measure. Authentic assessment is difficult; good work always is.
Moreover, Sizer understood as a matter of instinct and reflection that the search for the truth is never simply a matter of gathering information, one reason he lamented the mindless quality of so much education research and the misplaced priorities of most Ed schools. That's why, when he tried to convey the reality of everyday school life in the United States, he did so through a fictional character: Horace Smith, the beloved teacher (and later principal) of the archetypal Franklin High. Horace lives on in the pages of Sizer's celebrated trilogy: Horace's Compromise (1984), Horace's School (1992) and Horace's Hope (1996). In capturing the granular details of the classroom, and the often painful dilemmas that prevent good people from doing their best work, Sizer both comforted and inspired hundreds of thousands of students on the road to becoming teachers.
Further Reading:
Theodore R. Sizer's best known book is Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School (Boston, 1984), followed by Horace's School: Redesigning the American High School (Boston, 1992) and Horace's Hope: What Works for the American High School (Boston, 1996). Other notable works in the Sizer canon include The Students Watching: Schools and the Moral Contract, co-authored with Nancy Sizer (Boston, 1999), and The Red Pencil: Convictions from Experience in Education (New Haven, 2004). For an anthropologically-minded critique of Sizer's reform efforts, see Donna E. Muncey and Patrick J. McQuillan, Reform and Resistance in Schools and Classrooms: An Ethnographic View of the Coalition of Essential Schools (New Haven, 1996). See also Chester Finn's adversarial tribute to Sizer at Flypaper, an educational blog at Fordham University.
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A new report (pdf), as reported by a number of Ohio's news sources, predicts a depressing future for Ohio's ability to attract and retain young people.
The worse news is that its not just out-of-state students who are down on the buckeye state; the report finds that 51% of Ohio natives don't want to stay. Having spent the past four years as an undergraduate student at two of Northeast Ohio's universities, I can honestly testify that these numbers seem quite reasonable and realistic.
Some people are questioning the survey's methodology and suggesting that it only includes a biased sample from the state's "elite universities"; even so, I don't completely know that it negates the conclusion. It's true that locals have a lot invested in Ohio, but I'm starting to fear that many are falling victim to the confirmation bias. If we can't acknowledge that we have a problem, then it becomes that much more difficult to solve; and when it comes to brain drain, Ohio has a very serious problem.
When I ask Cleveland's local leadership what it would take to keep people like me around, I typically get two answers:
1. If Cleveland had jobs to offer, the city would be teaming with young people. This makes sense. Most surveys indicate that careers are extremely important to young people, but I'm not sure it's so simple. A city that has jobs to offer is good; a city that has more jobs to offer and other attractive qualities is better. Plus, it seems like college grads are moving to certain cities with high unemployment rates in spite of jobs being few and far between. Conor Dougherty's piece in the Wall Street Journal describes an important phenomenon that can easily go overlooked: cities with high unemployment aren't necessarily deterring college grads. Despite some of the worst unemployment rates around, young people are flooding into cities like Austin, Texas and Portland, Oregon using the logic, "if I'm going to be unemployed, I might as well live in a place where I want to be." Say what you want about these cities, call them pretentious yuppie magnets, talk about how we don't want Ohio's cities to become like them, or whatever else. It's hard to deny that these cities aren't doing something right. And when the economy turns, they will be in an excellent position to take advantage of all the talent they are attracting.
2. Wait until you have two kids and a mortgage, and then you'll see how great Cleveland is. Perhaps young people aren't in a position to value some of Cleveland's best assets: the dirt-cheap cost of living and the number of respectable suburban school districts. Even so, to expect everyone who moves away after college to admit their error and come running back feels like a strategy doomed to fail. Sure, we all know someone who moved to Boston or Chicago or New York City after college and hated everything about it, or someone who came to school here and fell in love with the city. The selection bias makes it easy to think that there are a lot more people who move away and come back than there probably are. Once people invest in a career, meet new friends, and get married in another place, luring them back is probably more difficult than cheap housing and a plethora of suburbs.
It's comforting to believe there is one answer, a silver bullet that will solve Ohio's brain drain problem. Yes, more local internships would be great, as would a downtown that is lively at all hours of the day and housing that an entry-level professional can afford. Different people value different aspects of cities, which makes the whole challenge of determining attracting young people that much more difficult. After all, nearly half of Ohio's graduates plan to stay, so the situation isn't completely hopeless.
Richard Florida and his research teams have done some interesting work on this question. One thing that strikes me about the research is its focus on something that is otherwise difficult to measure: vibrancy of social networks. When your friends are moving away or plan to skip town after college, that's an important selling point that a city loses. Not that making new friends isn't possible, but when faced with that proposition, it's easy to think, "if I have to make new friends, I might as well do it in a place I really want to be."


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Maybe it's just me, but the methods listed here to influence with communication seems way too much like asking for a review, which Yelp tells you not to do.
Don't get me wrong, I think these points are good advice, I just mentally can't see the difference between influencing someone to review and asking them to leave a review.
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Wait, I thought Google suggested you do not forward a desktop user back to the desktop if they visit the mobile site. Where do they say this is recommended?
I was not aware of the ~120 character limit for meta descriptions on mobile. I've taken to only using 140 characters because Google shows a date for an article and used up 16 characters there. Should we actually now target 104 characters on mobile? Or does Google never show dates on mobile?
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Spotlight on: The "Superhero" Kei-Landa
Chatters of children between ages 5 and 10 years old linger throughout the chapel of the church as the students rush in to start their day at school. The moment 8 o'clock hits, a teacher calls out "it's prayer time," followed by an echo of students excited to begin their morning prayer before class. They run into the classroom, dashing into the arms, and some even grab a leg, of their teacher Kei-Landa Rembert, also know to them as "Miss Rembert" the hip hop teacher. They greet her with hugs filled with tightness and love.
In a classroom that is decorated with alphabets on the walls, a mini children's library along side a chart of numbers and shapes, Rembert calls out for the students to bring their homework folders up to the front of the room.
"No running around in the classroom," exclaims one student who is self-proclaimed as the class monitor. "Want me to tell Miss Rembert?"
As the day goes on, an excited Rembert delicately blushes as she announces to the students that it is time to practice their phonics. Her method for teaching the students an easier way to learn their vowels, erupts into a song.
"Aa-aa-aa-aa-aaaaple" is heard in harmony from the students as they sing along with Rembert.
In a classroom full of five year olds, it can be somewhat difficult for Rembert to keep all of the students focused for long periods of time. This was proven as she read a book of poetry to the students and mentions that her favorite ice-cream is vanilla bean. A result of uncontrollable laughter, which causes Rembert to also catch the contagious laughing bug.
Rembert manages her days by having story time with her Kindergarten class, to recording in the studio or performing on stage in front of people and showcasing her rapping and singing skills as a Christian artist. She confirms that she is not a superhero, but she is living out her dream and doing what God called her to do.
"I love music, I love God," Rembert says with confidence. "He's the one who directs my life and directs who I am as a person."
She wasn't allowed to listen to secular music growing up, but remembers of when she was a little girl, her uncle giving her a CD to listen to. He introduced her to singers and rappers that represented God in a "dope" way, far from the typical gospel music. It was the way they articulated their words to sound so smooth, still keeping the 90's hip hop swag, yet talked about God all throughout.
For Kei-Kei, she knew since the age of seven that music is where God wants her to be.
In her bedroom one day, she had a vision of being an artist and making music that was uplifting onto God. Envisioning herself standing in front of people with the main purpose to bring them the truth and love. As she grew older, she wondered where that music would come from, but throughout the years, God provided lyrics for her to perform, improvement with her vocals and experiences that lead to stories to tell through music form.
Most would compare her rapping style to that of the legendary artist Lauryn Hill. "Some people say that I sound like Aaliyah," Rembert reveals. "If she were to ever rap."
As for being a kindergarten teacher, this was never something that she expected to be able to label herself, someone who once made fun of teachers.
"Who I am as an artist, overlaps who I am as a teacher, because I've been able to open up creatively with the kids," says Kei-Landa as she laughs at the memory of finding rhythms for her students when she teaches them vowels and uses rap as an learning technique. "Oh snap. We rapping the vowels," an excited Rembert says.
Being a teacher is an exciting and encouraging job for Rembert.
As far as becoming a Christian artist that is well known, she is aware of the difficulties that it takes for her message to be heard. With her confidence, she knows that it will still take some dedication and faith.
"A lot of times people look at the title more than the music, so they automatically associate me with other people they might have heard." Rembert said.
Her goal is to reach as many people in her age bracket [18-25] with hopes that they would give her a chance before they label her as a Christian artist and make their decisions from that.
One day, Rembert went out to audition for a college tour and she didn't mention to the judges that she was going to rap and sing about the gospel. After doing her audition, the excitement of the judges was overwhelming, yet they managed to say things like, "we didn't know you were a Christian rapper!" Fortunately, that didn't hinder her talent and she was able to be a part of the tour.
"I didn't tell anybody I was a Christian. I wanted the music to speak for itself." Rembert said eagerly.
Aside from God being Rembert's inspiration, she also grew up in a family full of women who inspire her and are artistic in their own way. Her mother who is an artist raised Rembert with her three other sisters and along the way released a bit of her creativity in each of them. Living in a house full of creatives, but especially women, it can get a little feisty. But for Rembert and her family, it's all about support.
"You'll hear things like, 'you're wearing my stuff', but ultimately it's, 'you make great stuff." Rembert laughed. "They leave room for me to just be me."
Between teaching Kindergarten students in a school that is located above her recording studio and going on mission trips with her church to places like Zambia in South Africa, Rembert is certain that she found the source of life. That which she declares is God, and if you go to him, he will always be there and she wants to share it with others.
Rembert, better known in the music world simply as Kei-Landa, is currently working on her first EP called 24 and before confirming a release date, she wants to make sure that it sounds like the best it can be.
"The hardest part with making this EP, is letting go," said Rembert. "The fear of coming out and not being heard, but I trust that I had to let it go."


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Mailbag: Doubts about the Privation Theory of Evil/
Berat writes:
Is there a post on the "ontological foundation of evil"? It seems to me that theistic metaethical theories have a strange implication like this: If God exists, he is the substantial ontological foundation of goodness. However, evil can't have a substantial ethical foundation like goodness since God doesn't have anything substantially evil in his nature. Therefore, evil is somehow derivative, it supervenes on God's attitudes and/or commands. It seems to be that something like privation theory of evil has to be true for a theistic metaethical theory to be able to completely explain the realm of moral values.
I'm highly skeptical of privation theories. So, my question is this: Can theism provide a substantial ontological foundation for evil as well? Like something analogous to Goodness=God's Essential Moral Nature.
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Hi Berat,
Thanks for this great question. Before attempting an answer, I think it will help to say what makes this such an important issue. If we think of God as identical to the good, as Baggett, Walls, Adams, and many other Christian thinkers propose, then we think that goodness has an essence and that it exists in a substantive way. God is the Good, that is, the ontological grounding for how we can meaningfully talk about goodness in daily life. We think that our moral judgments about moral goodness are meaningful only because there is some substantive, stable good which grounds them. Something is morally good when it bears a resemblance to God, who is the Good.
If then we ask, "What does it mean to say something is evil?" one obvious suggestion would be that there is some substantive evil which functions the same way that God as the good functions. When we say something is evil, we would mean it bears some resemblance to this object or person. This, however, would be a kind of dualism, according to which there are two fundamental and opposing forces in the world. Goodness would be grounded by reference to one and evil by reference to the other. This is contradictory to theism and, therefore, not a live option for theists.
A second option would be that evil does exist, but that it was made by God or it is sustained by him. We might think that evil is some abstract object in the mind of God which does the kind of work that the Platonic forms do.[1] God would be the ground of evil in the same way he is the ground of the number 7 or the color red. However, it seems problematic to think of evil as ontologically grounded in God in this way. If God is wholly and perfectly good, we might expect that this entails that he could not be the ground of evil. This, then, is not option for the theist either.
The skeptic might pose one more possibility: if we can meaningfully speak of evil without it having the analogous ontological grounding of goodness, then why think goodness either needs or has God as its foundation? We seem to use the term "evil" with just as much confidence as we use the term "goodness," but theists insist one needs ontological grounding and the other does not. Either both need grounds or neither does. Either way, the notion that God is identical to the good turns out to be false. Thus, the theist is faced with this "trilemma of evil": Either (1) dualism is true, (2) God is not wholly good, or (3) God is not necessary for morality.[2]
It seems that the best way to overcome these objections and sustain our commitment to the idea that God is the good is to show how it is that evil is a meaningful concept, yet has its meaning in some way disanalogous from goodness. This is why a privation theory of evil might appear at least initially appealing. It is the threat of dualism that likely motivated Augustine, the former Manichean dualist, to think of evil as a privation of the good. He says, "All things that are corrupted suffer privation of some good."[3] By this, Augustine meant that evil is not some entity which can have substance. Rather, evil is just some lack of goodness. Selfishness, for example, might be identical to a lack of love. The advantage of a theory like this is that it avoids a metaphysically substantive evil while also offering an explanation of the essence of evil. When we say something is evil, we are really saying that it lacks goodness.
However, it is not clear that mere privation can successfully ground our concept of evil. Adams suggests that God is the essential nature of the good similarly to the way that H20 is the essential nature of water. If water is essentially H20, then this would explain all the features that water has. Water is wet and quenches thirst exactly because it is H20 and our concept of water as having these features is best explained by its essential nature.[4] If evil is a unified concept like goodness, it ought to have an essence that makes sense of our usage of the term, assuming we have some understanding of evil. But it seems there is some difficulty with the idea that evil is merely privation. An example from Tolkien might help us see why this is the case.
In J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion, which contains the deep mythology behind The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, he explains that God or Eru creates the world through music. Eru intends that his creatures sing a song that corresponds to the main theme that Eru has begun in creation. When all his creatures play together harmoniously, goodness and beauty fill the world. However, some of Eru's creatures refused to play in harmony with Eru's theme and this is the origin of evil in Tolkien's mythology. If we thought of evil as merely privation, then we might expect Tolkien to explain that some creatures simply refused to play the part he was given by Eru and were silent. But instead Tolkien imagines that evil begins when Melkor interwove "matters of his own imagining that were not in accord with the theme of [Eru]; for he sought therein to increase the power and glory of the part assigned to himself."[5]
Tolkien's mythology helps us see that evil can be understood in at least two different ways. Certainly, we can imagine some creature who simply fails to play anything at all and this would a kind of evil. But it also seems that, when some creature opposes Eru's theme, this is a different kind of evil altogether. We might be able to say that Melkor's song is a privation in the sense that it lacks the order intended by Eru, but it also seems that is only one narrow feature of his act and that opposition to the good would be a better and fuller description. Opposition is something active and not merely negative, like privation. As Adams says, "No doubt privation of goodness often does constitute badness, but that is not an apt explanation of the nature of all badness."[6]
It also seems that in our everyday usage of the term evil, we often mean more than merely privation of the good. If we say that Hitler was evil, it would be surprising to find out that all we really are saying is that Hitler lacked goodness. "He lacked goodness" might equally as well describe a couch potato as it does Hitler. It may be that our moral judgment of Hitler as evil would be better explained if it turned out that evil was essentially opposition to good, perhaps opposition so strong that it amounts to hatred of the good. This concept of "opposition," I think, makes more sense of how we often see evil portrayed in mythology and culture.
Evil characters have a visceral, active quality about them that cannot be explained in terms of mere privation. Darth Vader is not merely the negation of the good or "light side" of the Force. He opposes it; he rivals it. Perhaps the greatest archetype of all evil characters is the biblical Satan, whose name literally means "the adversary." Barth argues that the demons, of whom Satan is chief, "are not divine but non-divine and anti-divine. . . . They can only hate God and His creation. They can only exist in the attempt to rage against God and to spoil His creation."[7] Here again we see the intuitive move to think of evil as opposition to the good. If privation were the essence of evil, then the archetype of evil might be better named "Nothingness" rather than "Adversary." But what we see in our best representations of evil is that their primary, salient feature seems to be opposition rather than privation. We would more naturally describe Melkor, Vader, Hitler, and Satan as hating the good rather than merely lacking it; a recalcitrant fact for the privation theory.[8]
Even if this opposition theory of evil is correct, we have not yet said how this synthesizes with theism or solves the trilemma of the skeptic. Here is how an answer might go. First, this theory easily harmonizes with the idea that God is the good without entailing or implying dualism because evil understood as opposition clearly requires that evil supervene on the good. After all, evil is not merely opposition, but opposition in a definite direction. Martin Luther King Jr. actively opposed racism and inequality and we call him good precisely for that reason. Opposition is not intrinsically evil. Thus, if we have a definite concept of evil, it will likely be best explained by relation to some stable, ultimate good to which it is opposed.
Second, evil may depend on God in the same way that the notion of privation depends on existence or being, but this does not seem to pose a challenge to God's goodness. We can think of the origin of evil as following from the reality of genuine freedom. God makes creatures with a will to choose between real alternatives, even to choose opposition to himself. God creates the possibility for opposition, but there is not a morally meaningful sense in which God is the ground of evil. If this is so, then we as theists have a way of thinking about evil that does not commit us to dualism, preserves God's status as the best explanation of the good, and does justice to our best intuitions about the concept of evil.
[1] I have in mind the sort of metaphysics Plantinga describes in "How to be an Anti-Realist," though Plantinga does not suggest that evil is one of the objects in the mind of God. See Alvin Plantinga, "How to Be an Anti-Realist," Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 56, no. 1 (1982): 47–70.
[2] Of course, there is more to say about each of these possibilities, but my aim here is just to show some initial problems that this puzzle about evil might create.
[3] Saint Augustine, The Confessions (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), 124.
[4] Robert Merrihew Adams, Finite and Infinite Goods: A Framework for Ethics (Oxford University Press, 1999), 15.
[5] J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012), 18.
[6] Adams, Finite and Infinite Goods, 103.
[7] Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics The Doctrine of Creation, Volume 3, Part 3: The Creator and His Creature (Bloomsbury Academic, 2004), 523.
[8] However, this view would not entail that privation is not evil at least in some cases. It would only mean that evil cannot essentially be privation.