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No response from County Administrator MICHAEL DAVID WANCHICK during the May 18-20, 2016 Budget Hearing when I asked about the possibility of canceling UF's contract as a result of its invidious discrimination against horticultural agent Keith Fuller.
While Sandra Parks says, "a budget is a moral document," County Administrator WANCHICK lacks moral character.
Here's Jake Martin's investigative story:
St. Johns County horticulture agent's removal raises questions of UF's power over county facility, resources
Posted: May 27, 2016 - 11:23pm | Updated: May 27, 2016 - 11:58pm
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By JAKE MARTIN
Supporters of Keith Fuller, the former horticulture extension agent for St. Johns County removed from his post last year by the University of Florida, say his ousting is indicative of problems greater than personnel spats at the county's Agricultural Center and symptomatic of the university's power on the county's dime.
Fuller, who has also been an unpaid columnist for The Record for three decades, was given notice by UF of the non-renewal of his annual contract on Aug. 4, 2015. What ensued has become a nearly yearlong fight to regain his job, aided by Agricultural Center volunteers loyal to Fuller, against a backdrop of questions raised about St. Johns County's memorandum of understanding with UF for extension services.
The terms of that memorandum, approved by the Board of County Commissioners in June 2014, changed the status of Fuller and others at the Agricultural Center from long-standing county workers to non-tenured and non-permanent employees of UF.
Meanwhile, the county continued to pay 100 percent of Fuller's salary and benefits, as well as those of several other former county employees. According to county documents, Fuller's salary for the 2015 fiscal year was $51,594.71 plus $14,343.33 in pooled fringe benefits.
Of the 12 extension positions identified in the county's projected payroll budget for the 2015 fiscal year, eight were paid 100 percent by the county, three were paid 60 percent by the state and 40 percent by the county, and one was paid 20 percent by the state and 80 percent by the county.
The county's reimbursement to UF for salaries and benefits for the 2015 fiscal year was $501,478 but budgeted at $582,715. Budgeted for the 2016 fiscal year was $600,200, which has again been requested for the 2017 fiscal year, according to this year's Administrator's Budget Workbook.
County officials have said limiting liability of tenured faculty is the reason why St. Johns County has refused to amend or cancel the memorandum to bring Fuller back as horticulture extension agent. Additionally, County Administrator Michael Wanchick has said there is nothing particularly unique about the arrangement with UF.
Opponents of the memorandum — many of whom are Fuller supporters — say the county is paying for less responsibility, but also for less control, particularly in matters of the selection or retention of employees. They also question the fairness of ceding such power to UF considering taxpayer money is footing the bill for extension services whether those dollars come from the university or from county, state or federal sources.
According to the UF/IFAS Extension Impacts and Budget Annual Report for 2014, UF/IFAS Extension received a total of $77,391,889 from federal, state and county governments in the 2014-15 fiscal year. Federal sources, not including grants and contracts, provided $4,782,341, or 6.2 percent; state sources provided $42,510,882, or 54.9 percent; and county sources provided $30,098,666, or 38.9 percent.
Supporters of Fuller say what's been lost since his departure is a county voice in a leadership position at the Agricultural Center in exchange for several voices from the university's headquarters in Gainesville calling for volunteers to put the matter to rest and move on.
Fuller told The Record in April that he and other employees were not aware of the full ramifications of the memorandum until a meeting with UF human resources staff after it was signed.
"The deal was done and then we were informed," he said. "We were kept out of all that. It finally came to light."
Fuller, whose annual contract was renewed the month prior to receiving his notice of non-renewal, was removed from his post and transferred to the Florida Partnership for Water, Agriculture, and Community Sustainability in Hastings for the subsequent year. He is to be terminated in August at the expiration of his contract.
A longtime St. Johns County resident, Fuller had put in nearly 20 years of service to the county and UF Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences as an extension employee. He graduated from St. Augustine High School in 1977 and, later, from UF, where he majored in what is now called environmental horticulture.
UF/IFAS administrators say the university is not required to provide justification for Fuller's dismissal because he does not have permanent status with the university. However, administrators have cited "personnel infractions" in meetings and communications with extension volunteers and community members.
Florida is an employment-at-will state, meaning an employee can be dismissed by an employer for any reason — without having to establish "just cause" for termination — and without warning.
Supporters of Fuller's reinstatement point to his work with the county's Master Gardener program, 4-H, an Arbor Day program he implemented and his assistance in establishing two community gardens on extension property.
Fuller said there has been some bad blood at the Agricultural Center that was partly a result of a lot of changeover in the St. Johns County extension director position following David Dinkins' removal from the post in July 2010. Further complicating matters, the memorandum resulted in a mix of annual contract employees of UF and tenured UF faculty.
Asked why he thought he was targeted for dismissal, Fuller replied, "It was the easiest fix because I wasn't tenured."
His stated goal from the very beginning: "I just want my job back." But it would appear Fuller's fate is all but sealed.
UF/IFAS administrators told extension stakeholders this week Fuller will be replaced by Terra Freeman, a Level II employee who holds a master's degree in landscape design. Fuller was a Level I employee due to his degree level. UF advertised the position at Levels II-IV, meaning the replacement would cost county taxpayers $10,000 to $60,000 more in annual salary. Freeman is expected to start at the St. Johns County Extension on July 1.
In a meeting with county Master Gardeners and other horticulture enthusiasts shortly after Fuller's reassignment, Tim Momol, central district extension director for UF/IFAS, said he couldn't go into specifics as to why Fuller was removed.
Momol said it was a personnel issue and that Fuller went through a counseling process twice, starting in September 2014.
Counseling, however, is not considered disciplinary under UF Regulation 7.042. Further, termination for "personnel infractions" is not covered under UF Regulation 7.013, which was cited in Fuller's dismissal letter.
However, UF Regulation 7.013 does state the university can terminate any non-tenured or non-permanent faculty member, any time, for any reason. The non-renewal notice also said Fuller had the right to appeal the decision if he believed his rights were violated.
Fuller has argued throughout his grievance process that because of statements made by Momol and Nick Place, dean of extension for UF/IFAS, concerning Fuller's "personnel issues," the university should have pursued termination via the "just cause" regulation.
UF Regulation 7.048 defines "just cause" for termination as incompetence or misconduct and requires that the notice of termination or suspension specify the reason for termination or suspension.
Momol signed Fuller's last annual performance appraisal, dated Feb. 5, 2015, in which Fuller was given a "commendable" overall rating.
Comments accompanying Fuller's "exemplary" performance in delivery/contacts read: "Number of local programs and clientele contacts are admirable. Teaching skills are top notch and agent relates well to his audience." However, comments for his "improvement required" performance in communication and reporting skills read: "A professional tone of voice with faculty, staff and volunteers is required at all times. We will appreciate your attention to this area in 2015."
Additional comments, lacking in Fuller's three previous appraisals, said Fuller "puts an extreme amount of effort into his extension programs and provides knowledge and skills that are respected throughout the community."
Fuller was given an "exemplary" rating in each of his three previous appraisals, all of which were signed by Momol.
Fuller entered the grievance process in September.
Master Gardeners and Fuller supporters Linda Gillis and Grace Paaso said they assumed they had a commitment from UF that Fuller's position would not be filled until his grievance process was over.
As written in an email from St. Johns County Commission Chair Jeb Smith to Paaso dated Oct. 13, 2015: "I just received an email from Gainesville saying that Administration wants to relay the message that they intend NOT to hire anyone to fill Keith Fuller's position until his appeal process is complete."
However, UF announced in April it would begin interviewing candidates. The offer to Freeman was made earlier this month. Fuller, in the meantime, is still in Step III arbitration of the grievance process.
Smith, who was not on the County Commission when the memorandum was approved, requested a meeting with Place, which took place on Thursday. Calls to Smith on Thursday and Friday were not returned. Place was not reachable for comment on Friday.
Understanding the memorandum
St. Johns County commissioners approved the memorandum of understanding with UF for extension services as a consent agenda item at their meeting on June 17, 2014.
The five-year agreement with UF is effective through Sept. 30, 2019, barring modification or earlier termination. According to the memorandum, either party may terminate the agreement, without penalty or cause, with one-year written notice to the other party. The agreement may also be extended in five-year increments by mutual written agreement, and with formal approval by the board.
One purpose of extension services, according to the agreement, is to provide research-based educational information from the university to Florida residents on subjects relating to agriculture, aquaculture, family and consumer services, 4-H youth development, environmental horticulture, natural resources, Sea Grant, energy and other programs.
Another purpose, as stated in the memorandum, reads: "To assure that educational programs meet the needs of local clientele, and comply with Section 1004.37 of the Florida Statutes, it is essential that the University of Florida and the County identify respective responsibilities."
The Agricultural Center is county property, not UF's, although UF is responsible for the programs on site. According to county documents, county responsibility for recurring operating costs and non-recurring capital costs at the extension were $94,326 and $27,497, respectively, for the 2015 fiscal year.
As laid out in the memorandum, with respect to broad program authorization, "all extension programs within the county are subject to the county authorization and approval."
"Substantive program changes (additions, deletions, etc.) are subject to county approval prior to implementation," the memorandum continues.
With respect to matters of employment, however, the memorandum states "the county shall pay the county's proportionate share of the funding for salaries and fringe benefits of the extension faculty and staff."
There is no explicit mention in the agreement of the county's involvement in the hiring or firing of extension employees.
Fuller's supporters say the county and UF are not abiding by Florida Statute 1004.37, dealing with county extension programs.
As written in Florida Statute 1004.37: "Boards of county commissioners or other legally constituted governing bodies will approve or disapprove of persons recommended for extension positions in the county."
If a county's governing body notifies the extension that it wants a list of three qualified candidates, the extension service "shall, for each position, make its recommendation by submitting a list of not fewer than three qualified persons, or all qualified persons if three or fewer."
Even without such a resolution, the statute says "the extension service shall recommend one qualified candidate to the governing body."
County attorney Patrick McCormack told The Record he did not think UF's selection for the horticulture agent position would have to come up before the Board of County Commissioners for consideration.
He said some of the statutory language only applies where a staff member is "recommended" to the county, which, he added, does not occur through the current agreement. He also said Fuller's employment status, per the agreement, is not a county personnel issue but rather a UF personnel issue.
There are no reported cases specifically interpreting Florida Statute 1004.37. However, McCormack said the Florida Supreme Court has described that when directions of a statute pertain to "the proper, orderly and prompt conduct of business merely," the provision may generally be regarded as directory and not mandatory.
He said the memorandum was mutually negotiated and that the county's interest in entering the agreement stemmed from a situation in which the county was "forced to defend" personnel-related complaints against a university staff member the county could not control.
"The county does not want to be liable for something it does not have control over," he said.
McCormack said the county is not alone in reacting to liability issues and that other counties, such as Leon County, have, or are considering, similar agreements.
"Any county agreement can be re-looked at," he said. "I don't think there's necessarily any need to do that in this instance, but the county may consider revisions if needed to optimize the program."
McCormack did not participate in the negotiation of the memorandum.
According to its website, UF/IFAS has extension offices in each of Florida's 67 counties. But not all counties have memorandums of understanding with the university.
At least five counties with such memorandums approved within the last five years include language pertaining to the hiring of extension employees under university and county responsibilities, all of which cite Florida Statute 1004.37.
Another, Lake County, has an agreement including additional county control over hiring and firing.
As written in that memorandum: "University and the County will jointly agree on whether to fill vacancies in positions of County Extension Faculty and/or Program County Extension Faculty. ... The County has the authority to remove an individual appointment with or without cause and shall provide written notification to the University of such removal."
The appeals process
Fuller requested his personnel file on Aug. 21 and formally filed for appeal on Aug. 30. The request was not fulfilled until after 5 p.m. on Sept. 15, just days before his grievance process was set to begin.
He traveled to Gainesville on Sept. 21 to meet with Place for Step I of his grievance procedure and received a negative decision from Place on Oct. 18.
Fuller again traveled to Gainesville on Oct. 28 to meet with Jack Payne, senior vice president of UF/IFAS. Fuller and his supporters said that meeting took less than 15 minutes.
Like Place, Payne issued a negative decision, denying Fuller's reinstatement within a week.
"Both Regulations 7.048 and 7.013 are available for use when terminating a faculty member who does not have Permanent Status," Payne wrote. "Termination under Regulation 7.048 results in immediate termination. Regulation 7.013 provides an appropriate notice period. Your notice period was one year."
Fuller then filed for Step II of his grievance procedure on Nov. 17 and soon after traveled to Gainesville to meet with associate provost Angel Kwolek-Folland. The provost's negative decision was dated Dec. 18, at which point Fuller filed for his Step III arbitration review with UF President Kent Fuchs.
Tackling disruption
On Jan. 15, Place issued a letter to the St. Johns County Stakeholders of Extension and IFAS stating there would be a review of "continuing disruptive influences" in the extension. After a Jan. 25 meeting with Gillis, Wanchick agreed to ask Place to postpone the arbitration process until the results of the review of the extension office were available. Place denied the request.
Stakeholders at a March 3 general meeting provided comments including: "UF has ignored the office," "MOU between County and IFAS not giving candidates to County Commission for approval of hiring," "Employees not being forthright, fear of repercussion," "[Fuller] fired for lack of education & employee complaints," and "UF should have terminated [Fuller] rather than sending him to Hastings (so UF would have had to tell him why so he could defend himself)."
Place sent an email to stakeholders on March 31 attaching the formal report dated March 16.
Included in the report were comments from stakeholders including: "Lack of leadership," "These processes have been done over and over — it's a dog and pony show," and "There is misperception about the Keith Fuller grievance process — it didn't look into the reason he was fired. They only review whether or not they followed UF procedures in terminating him."
Extension faculty and staff, when asked what they could do to improve working relations with Master Gardener volunteers, gave replies including: "Try to understand that many SJC Master Gardeners are Type A personalities and set in their ways," "Remember the Golden Rule," "Hold volunteers accountable for code of conduct (+terminate volunteers if deemed necessary)," and "Don't bring in past issues to new volunteers."
When asked what UF/IFAS administrators could do to improve working relations between volunteers and employees at the extension, faculty and staff provided responses including: "Hurry up and hire [a horticulture extension agent]," "Stop giving volunteers so much power," "Support office," "Correct inaccurate information in the media," and "Official 'rebuttal' to [Master Gardeners] to dispel misinformation and address their allegations."
As written in the report's conclusion: "What is lost in the dry listing of issues and solutions is the associated depth of feeling expressed by many parties. Distrust, anger, and frustration were expressed as were real loyalty and concern for St. Johns County Extension."
UF/IFAS administrators, in conversations with the county's Master Gardeners, have asked for everyone to "move on," but some volunteers say that's asking for too much.
In a May 24 letter from Master Gardener Nana Royer to Jim DeValerio, interim horticultural agent for St. Johns County, she said UF's statements on the Fuller situation haven't helped volunteers make sense of "confusing changes" at the Agricultural Center over the past year.
"I do not agree it is okay to simply stand aside, pretend all is well and let a wrong (Fuller's dismissal) go unrighted," she wrote. "To move forward, as you have suggested, would require that I stand on the shoulders of the bullying, the lies, and the disrespectful censorship by the UF/IFAS administration, as well as the inaction of the St. Johns County Commissioners."
She closed her letter with notice of her resignation as a UF/IFAS Master Gardener volunteer.
For Royer and other volunteers at the Agricultural Center, in lieu of an explanation for Fuller's dismissal, it remains to be seen what, if anything, is gained in his absence.
mlawrenc 05/28/16 - 05:36 am 32I hereby resign from the Master Gardener program in protest
It's obvious the county was and still is unwilling to amend/rescind the MOU despite advocacy and testimony from their own constituents. Kudos to Commissioner Smith for trying to get to the bottom of this. Kudos to Grace Paaso and the Gillises for standing by Keith's side for almost a year. Keith taught me everything I know as a Yankee transplant. His communications skills and knowledge were outstanding. Now we will pay more for an outsider. The plan for his removal after a commendable review shows the fix was already in. Our AG center will never be the same without his energy, enthusiasm and knowledge. Our county is losing a true asset and one of
the kindest people I've ever known.
sponger2 05/28/16 - 07:59 am 42Goes to show you...
All these alleged "separate entities" are in fact intertwined politically as well as financially. Add to that, his replacement will cost 10 to 60 thousand more a year of taxpayer money. Care to comment on that Muse?

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This book just isn't for me, although I in no way think it is a bad book. I enjoyed the beginning, but it's been tedious for me for so long that I just can't bring myself to keep trying to get through it.
The writing is great, and so are the characters. If you are into paranormal stories and mysteries, this is likely the book for you. The Hollows is a very mysterious place and a great setting for this series.
But for me it started to get really old and tiring when I realized it wasn't just about one woman with these super powers. It wasn't about two women with these powers. I think around now it's about at least a dozen people with different powers, and so this is when I started losing patience. Keep in mind I am used to more "realistic" mysteries and thrillers, I am absolutely not against this particular genre, it just doesn't grab me. As we are informed that this OTHER character is ALSO possessed with powers, I started to wonder how in the hell can no one in this town find any of these missing children?? You have a ton of missing kids and adults, a whole town of people with powers including SEVERAL who converse with the dead, but no one has been able to solve this mystery?
So I'm out with this one. I don't want to discourage anyone else from picking it up though, because if you like this genre I genuinely think this is probably a good book and it will draw you in to reading all the other stories in the series, I am SURE of that. For me though, it's time to move on.
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The Ed. Dept.'s Been Pared Back. Here's What That Means for States
Does push for efficiency leave states in the lurch?
In an online video interview last year, television personality John Stossel drew U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos' attention to rows of empty desks as they walked through the Department of Education.
DeVos made it clear she sees a streamlined staff as a feature of her administration, not a bug. She's made it clear to managers that, "If you're going to make a case to hire more people, you better have a really good reason," she said.
That extends to the main office for K-12 policy, charged with overseeing billions in funding for K-12 schools, most of it aimed at vulnerable children. The office of elementary and secondary education lost nearly 14 percent of its staff between the end of the Obama administration in January 2017 and the midpoint of the Trump administration at the start of this year.
OESE has also gone through a top-to-bottom reorganization that consolidated some smaller offices within the agency and merged K-12 with the office of innovation and improvement, which oversaw charter school grants and other programs. The goal, according to a department spokeswoman: to make OESE, which is in charge of implementing the Every Student Succeeds Act, more efficient and to enable its staffers to look at the various grant programs it handles more holistically.
For the Trump administration, a streamlined department is a step toward shrinking the federal footprint on K-12 and allowing states and districts to take the lead, since they are closer to the students and, in the administration's view, can best serve their needs.
But civil rights advocates have serious concerns about whether a smaller team can adequately ensure that states are following federal rules for the most-vulnerable groups of students, including poor children and those of color.
The U.S. Department of Education has seen a reduction in staff overseeing K-12 education in the past two years. That includes career staffers and political appointees. The drop in full-time staff positions comes amid changes at the department, including the office of innovation and improvement being folded into the office of elementary and secondary education.
Political Appointees
January 2017: 15
January 2019: 9
Career Staffers
January 2017: 294
January 2019: 258
And there are big questions about how the changes—especially the staff reductions—are affecting the department's core "customers": state officials, who often look to the federal government for technical assistance and to explain ESSA, a relatively new and often murky federal law.
Some state officials say they haven't noticed much difference between their interactions with staffers during the Obama administration and the Trump years, and they attribute any changes to ESSA, which turned over a lot of decisionmaking authority to states.
But other officials describe long waits for answers to technical questions, harried staffers, and a lack of overall support and technical know-how, including when it comes to improving the lowest-performing schools.
In the past, "you'd reach out to a program officer and you'd get timely responses to inquiries," said one state official who, like five others interviewed for this article, requested anonymity to speak candidly about interactions with the department. "Now what we're seeing in some instances is that responses are going unanswered for months at a time."
But others say they can't tell the department has slimmed its ranks—and that the new leeway gives them room to make progress on their own priorities.
"I'm enjoying the flexibility to get our legs underneath us," said Matthew Blomstedt, the commissioner of education in Nebraska, which has recently made changes to testing and other areas. He thinks the department hasn't veered from its mission of working to protect vulnerable children. Officials pushed Nebraska hard on its ESSA plan, one of the last to be approved, he said. "I give them credit for making us think a bit harder about the equity charge under [the law]."
'Dear Parent' Letters
For her part, DeVos appears proud that her agency has focused its efforts on educating families about the law, issuing, for instance, a parent guide to ESSA, rather than reams of guidance for state officials.
"Instead of 'Dear Colleague' letters, I much prefer 'Dear Parent' letters," she told the National School Boards Association last month, according to prepared remarks. "I encourage you to lead within your state. Embrace the freedom ESSA allows and the freedom for which many of you fought."
The Education Department did not respond to questions about how state officials perceive its interactions with agency staff.
Ary Amerikaner, who served as a deputy assistant secretary in OESE during the Obama administration, worries that the thinning ranks may jeopardize the department's ability to support states in educating historically disadvantaged students and to provide needed oversight.
"As a civil rights advocate, I know that some state leaders are trying to do the right thing, and I'm worried for them that they are not getting answers from the department that are allowing them to move forward," said Amerikaner, who is now the vice president of P-12 policy, practice, and research at the Education Trust, a civil rights organization. "History tells us some state leaders are not trustworthy when it comes to vulnerable kids, and we need the federal government to be playing their role as watchdog. Without sufficient bodies, the OESE can't do either of those things well."
But Michael J. Petrilli, who served in the Education Department during President George W. Bush's administration, said now that ESSA has turned over much decisionmaking authority to states "there's not a ton for those folks to do, or at least there's not as much for them to do."
"Those staff cuts reflect an administration that really is not trying to lead when it comes to K-12 education," said Petrilli, who is the president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a think tank. "They do not see it as their role to have a vision of what school improvement looks like or how [federal funds] should be spent or what the next set of reforms should be at the state and local level."
Dwindling Morale
The total number of staff members in the elementary and secondary education office has dropped from 294 career staffers at the end of Obama's tenure to 258 midway through Trump's term, in part due to attrition. And the number of political appointees, such as deputy assistant secretaries, has fallen, too, from 15 at the end of the Obama administration to nine about midway through Trump's term.
One potential reason for the departures: a dip in employee morale. The department ranks dead last among 27 midsize federal agencies when it comes to employee job satisfaction, according to a December report from the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service that ranks "the best places to work" in the federal government.
What's more, a separate report administered by the Office of Personnel Management earlier this year, found that morale had slipped at the Education Department. Only 61 percent of employees felt the agency was successfully completing its mission in 2018, compared with 73.2 in 2016, before the Trump team took office.
The current leaders at the department "really see the role of [the agency] as one of compliance, to only hold states accountable for what is in the law," as opposed to helping them look beyond it, said one recently departed department employee. "There's a space for leadership that's just going to be a void."
It's clear that career staffers are trying to do more with less—but they are largely succeeding, one state official said.
"You can definitely tell they're stressed and busy and trying to cover way more than they probably can handle. But at least the folks that we work with have done everything they can to get back to us." The official said the department is responding to states within the time limits set by ESSA, "but it definitely is taking every last second of what they've got."
An official in another state said the department has been responsive to any questions asked, but the official's state has largely steered clear of asking the federal government for help or clarification.
"I think in some ways that's an approach that many states are taking, to not necessarily ask a lot of questions," the official said.
'Making This Stuff Up'
Some state officials, though, say things are slipping through the cracks.
For instance, one state official said the department didn't provide clarity on how to distribute a federal grant until deep into the school year. That created a "potential mess," the official said.
State officials also say they could use more clarity on parts of ESSA they are not getting now from the federal government, particularly on pinpointing research-based solutions for low-performing schools—what the law calls "evidence-based interventions."
"There's not enough support coming from the federal government in terms of what constitutes acceptable interventions," one official said. "We've had to do a lot of [professional development] on our own on how to vet evidence."
This official's state wants to make sure its districts are only spending school improvement dollars "on things that are proven to work," this official added. But without clear direction from the department, districts are pushing back on the state's efforts to impose stricter standards for what constitutes a school improvement strategy backed by evidence, the official said.
An official in another state has had largely positive interactions with department staff but still sees the leeway as a double-edged sword.
"It's good to have flexibility, but then you really are making this stuff up," that official said. "I would like to have some guidance because I imagine their guidance is research-based."
This official wishes the department were more proactive, offering additional assistance on things like college-and-career readiness, prekindergarten, serving English-learners, and strategies for fixing low-performing schools. That's something former staffers say is harder to do with fewer hands.
"That's what we try to do for districts, anticipate the needs," the official said.
But others see the changes as welcome—and say they may not go far enough yet.
"There's still a little bit of a disconnect between the appointees and the career," an official from another state said. "In general, we appreciate less prescriptiveness. I think it's going to take some time for the general ethos of the DeVos regime—less prescriptive, more-hands-off—to actually spread to the people doing the work."
Melissa McGrath, the chief of staff for the Council of Chief State School Officers, which represents state school chiefs, said the interactions have been smooth.
"CCSSO has maintained a productive working relationship with the U.S. Department of Education, and they have been responsive to our organization."
Christopher Ruszkowski, who until recently served as secretary of education in New Mexico, said he felt like the ESSA plan process offered states "healthy scrutiny." But he's worried the department's hands-off attitude could lead it to approve changes to plans that water down accountability. (The state's new governor, Democrat Michelle Lujan Grisham, has pledged to make big changes to the ESSA plan Ruszkowski put in place.)
"I don't think [the department] should be given a pass when states start to create lower expectations for teachers and lower expectations for students, when they start to not hold students accountable for performance," he said.
Vol. 38, Issue 23, Pages 1, 19Published in Print: February 27, 2019, as K-12 Staff Pared Down at Ed. Dept.
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text: In the 46 years since the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case that made abortion legal, the most vocal opposition has come from the Catholic Church. But in the last few years Evangelicals have begun to widen the ranks of the pro-life movement. Why is this so odd? Traditionally Catholics and Evangelicals, although both are Christians, have historically been at odds doctrinally, and that's putting it mildly. But now they have found common ground, the Southern Baptist Convention has officially created their own pro-life wing. Daniel Darling is the Vice President of the SBC's public policy arm and now heads its 'Evangelicals for Life' movement.


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Logitech sees growth opportunity, seeks to build more HomeKit, Google Now devices
Long-time accessory maker is looking to widen its involvement into the home automation and "internet of things" marketplaces, rather than throwing in as a development partner solely with Apple, Amazon, or Google.
After a market recovery earning the company $1 billion in sales, with 50% margins, Logitech is seeking deeper entry into the burgeoning home automation market. Not straying far from its existing product lineup at first, one product Bloomberg claims is in the works is a line of home surveillance cameras tied a Logitech cloud service.
"There's no way these big players are going to want to be in every little puddle around their operating systems," said Logitech CEO Bracken Darrell of the move. "We've always been in categories where the big players are."
Logitech will likely not have an omnibus release, spanning the entire range of home automation gear, however. According to Bloomberg, the company is spending it's relatively meager $150 million research and development budget on stressing design in just a few areas to start.
"The smart home looks difficult," said researcher Torsten Sauter. "They have no software, no ecosystem. Logitech is much more a design company than a tech company."
To jump-start the development, Logitech may very well buy its way into the category. As part of the company's financial recovery, in 2008 it purchased Ultimate Ears, which is now 15 percent of the company's sales.
So far, Logitech products are walking the line between companies. Some of Logitech's UE products can utilize Apple's Siri and Google Now, and some of its remote controls leverage Amazon's Alexa.


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No one understands how that brain of yours works, including you!
You have a unique thought process, and it results in some pretty crazy ideas.
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As the home of the out-of-town mall and the big-box retail store, of hollowed-out city centres and mile upon mile of featureless urban sprawl, the US isn't exactly renowned for small-scale thinking. Yet, as the BBC's Tom Geoghegan reports, echoing the verdicts of a clutch of recent books, a localist mentality appears to be thriving in smalltown America.
The revival of previously declining towns and cities, catalysed by this focus on the local, may not seem that noteworthy to us Brits, given that such a movement has been discernible here for the last 20 years. But, as Geoghegan points out, it is when you consider both the political and economic gridlock between Republicans and Democrats in Washington and the predominant narrative of national decline. While Trump blathers on about "Making America Great Again", others are actually busying themselves trying to do just that on a local level.
Of course, there is the danger that this revival may merely constitute gentrification, routinely celebrated for smartening up areas, boosting property prices and making places more appealing to live but also often deeply problematic in excluding or expelling those who are priced out. (It would be interesting to know what Mark Binelli, the author of the excellent book The Last Days Of Detroit, which I'm still meaning to review, makes of all this.)
Nevertheless, the evidence gives cause for cautious optimism that the country might finally be coming to the realisation that bigger isn't always better and that thinking small can result in significant change.
Friday, June 22, 2018
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Previously, there was news about a Manhattan con man, 21 at age, Nicholas Truglia. This man hacks the phones from Silicon Valley bigwigs and tries to steal their cryptocurrency. According to Nicholas Truglia, he wasn't the one to do it. Moreover, he specifies that he was leading by a waiting car with 2 burly deputy sheriffs. However, these allegations are not true.
As per the records by Santa Clara Superior Court, the computer whiz reportedly steals $1 million. They accomplish this mission from San Francisco father considering two Robert Ross.
Truglia also highlights the heist from back October 26, about a scheme- SIM swapping. He coaxes cellular customer-service spokesperson to transfer his victim's phone number into a number that he holds. This gave him free access to the device and sealing out the owner.
The official explains, Ross was helpless and was watching as his phone backs out. Meanwhile, Truglia transfers his cash within both Coinbase and Gemini accounts. He converts the cash in bitcoins and shifts the amount to his personal account.
Moreover, the reporting conman was trying to pull the similar scam on Saswata Basu and Gabrielle Katsnelson. First one is the CEO at 0Chain, a blockchain storage platform, and the other is a co-founder at SMBX startup. Additionally, court records specify that their phones are taken away and he hasn't gone with cryptocurrency.
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Why Professors Don't TeachSeptember 21st, 2009 by Potato
Margaret Wente is a columnist for the Globe, so she doesn't tend to do as much research as a journalist would (which, as you know from my disdain for the quality of mass media reporting, I don't hold in especially high esteem either). So usually I don't bother commenting on her mistaken ideas in the columns she writes, but this week's missive on why professor's don't teach hits a topic that's close to the heart, and also contains some really questionable logic.
"[Professors] can make $125,000 a year, with a good pension and six months off each year to do as they please. Their duties include sharing their research at conferences in Italy or Mexico, whose popularity hasn't waned despite the advent of the Internet. Meantime, what many of their students need most is remedial instruction in basic composition. But there's no future in that.
Setting aside the fact that no professor I know gets six months off per year, or that going to a conference is a sweltering, stinking mess of networking, politicking, and shameful self-promotion that is just about the opposite of a beach vacation as the article implies… setting all the nonsense in that one paragraph aside, how can it make the remotest bit of sense to have a professor making 6 figures teach remedial composition?!
I agree that the quality of teaching in universities could stand to be improved, and that teaching should be a higher priority in universities, and that professors should be held to a higher standard of interaction with their students. But the issues that many people are hanging onto with the problems in undergraduate education are really problems in high school education. Remedial composition, seriously? A university-bound student that can't write an essay is an issue; a university graduate who can't an even bigger one. However, the universities can't really be expected to do the hand-holding and remedial stuff that shouldn't be getting through the cracks of the high school system in the first place. I've long believed that Ontario went the wrong way in trying to save a few bucks by eliminating grade 13. The labour of graduate students is nearly free, certainly cheaper than a certified high school teacher, but nonetheless, these general education issues that are not degree-specific should be handled in high school where they belong. It's unfair to the students to make them pay tuition to learn what should have been covered in their basic, government-provided education; it's unfair to society to misallocate resources so badly that people that are specialists, even world-experts in their field, might be expected to teach basics and hand-hold students that don't even want to be there. Of course, many universities (including UofT and UWO) do have classes for things like how to do research in the library, how to write an essay, how to make a CV/resume, how to do remedial math, etc. It's just not part of the "curriculum" — it's up to the students to seek out the help from the various workshops. And again, it's not high school: a university student is expected to be moderately capable and self-directing.
Beyond that, teaching is considered a little more highly than her column indicates: at both UofT and Western, every student evaluates every instructor (and TA) for every class. Those evaluations are looked at, and serious issues are dealt with. Beyond that though, the question is raised: what metric tells you it's broken? How do you know when a professor is not doing a good job in their role as a teacher? Students will beat up a "hard" professor in those comment forms more than they will one that can't teach! The article quotes one professor who says that his departmental head never came to watch him teach — and that is probably true for many professors. However, if the departmental heads did pay attention to teaching, and sat in on a few lectures, how would that make things any better? Professors don't have to take "how to teach" courses, and perhaps some do need that sort of help, but departmental heads don't take "how to evaluate adult education" either. They don't have to take on large courseloads as part of their job. Indeed, universities are very research-oriented, and despite the masses of undergrads taking up space on campus, they're a bit of an afterthought in the whole system. It's just where we get the next generation of grad students from. Maybe it would be nice if professors could opt to take on more teaching loads, and get just as much compensation and job security. That would require more money though — all sorts of organizations, from government to private industry provide funds for research (and here I'm focusing on my own area of the sciences), but you can't get salary support for offering to spend more time teaching. It's publish-or-perish (or perhaps more exactly, land-grants-or-perish) out there, and only a change to that method of employment incentivisation will allow for a change in teaching philosophies to take hold.
I'd love to see that, personally, for a number of reasons. As I pointed out a long time ago when discussing women in science*, the typical professorial life is very hostile to making a family: long hours, an encouragement to move between cities to stay at different universities, and basically zero job security until one gets too old to bother with children. Focusing on your teaching is similar: it just doesn't lead to making your career as a professor any better (except for the warm feeling that you helped your unappreciative bratty students).
We just don't incentivise teaching, and maybe if we did it would make for a better university system, and at the same time might fix the "women in science" problem. If there was the option for a professor to spend 80% of their time teaching and only 20% doing research, we might get better teachers, and more women in academia.
As someone who's thinking of going into academia, I'm also 100% in favour of Margaret Wente's dream world of six months off every year off to do whatever I want along with a 6-figure salary and a pension, and where the classes I do teach don't require any prep work. Sounds almost as good as being a newspaper columnist: spend 20 minutes a week hacking out a column, send it off to the editor to fix, and then sit back on the deck of the cottage and wonder if you should have done some research on researchers first. Plus the only qualifications are an undergrad degree that you can acquire while stoned!
* – I know I discussed it at some length somewhere, but I can't find it in the blog archives to link to. Maybe it was a comment on someone else's website?
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September 23rd, 2009 at 2:34 pm
The Globe published someone else's rebuttal to the stupid article above.


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18 years in to their career, and Rise Against come back to the UK to prove that they are still as powerful as ever.
With their UK tour kicking off at the o2 Academy Birmingham, we were lucky enough to catch the chaos as it happened.
Opening up the evening was punk band Pears, who have got to be one of the craziest live bands out there. Before the first note had even been played, frontman Zach Quinn had already taken his shirt off, suggesting that things were about to get sweaty. A fun and interesting start to the evening, Pears are definitely a band to catch if you ever get the chance.
Continuing the evening was the highly anticipated Sleeping With Sirens. As a distinctive amount of the bands t-shirts could be seen among the hundreds of Rise Against merchandise, it was clear that Sleeping With Sirens still have the same loyal following that they accumulated when they first started back in 2008. A chorus of screams could be heard as the band walked on to the stage, and the band impressively smashed out an array of old songs and new in the half hour slot they had allocated. Frontman Kellin Quinn voice was still as definitive as ever, as was his impressive vocal range. There was never a dull moment watching the pop-rock quintet, as even guitarist Nick Martin went for a wonder around the venue!
As the wait for Rise Against shortened, the buzz of excitement grew. As the lights went off, the screens came on to show animations in almost a story like form. This just made the audience more excited, as roars and cheers became louder and louder. As the band came out, it was instant go time, as they hit straight in to Chamber the Cartridge. Constant movement around the stage, it was safe to say that Rise Against were ready to put on an impressive performance.
"We're excited to be playing our new stuff in Birmingham for the first time!" frontman Tim McIlrath exclaims, and was responded with another large round of cheers. There wasn't one moment where any of the band members looked as though they were bored, as each one had a large smile plastered on their face at any given moment. It's truly a spectacle to watch when a band puts as much energy as they can in to their live shows, the moment that they really connect with their music and their fans.
As the night progressed, fans were treated to a different variety of old hits and new bangers. Prayer of the Refugee got one of the bigger reactions of the evening, before the band walked off, and McIlrath entered with an acoustic guitar. "This, has definitely been the perfect way to kick off the UK leg of this tour" he claims, as he begins to play Swing Life Away.
After McIlrath powered through People Live Here and Hero of War on acoustic, the rest of the band had slowly joined back on stage. The band took a moment to look out to the audience, before McIlrath dedicated Survive to Soundgarden's Chris Cornell and Linkin Park's Chester Bennington. "And to us, the survivors". An emotional and raw performance that had the audience singing at the top of their lungs.
After then powering through Wolves and Give It All, it was time to bring the main set to a close. As the crowd begged for more, the band graciously came on for the encore, performing Audience of One and, of course, Saviour.
Rise Against are a band that have truly proven they have every right to be where they are. The whole night was high-energy start to finish, and Rise Against really outdid themselves.


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Milan Tegeltija
President of the Banja Luka Basic Court
President of the HJPC BiH
Mandate: July 2014 – July 2018
Milan Tegeltija was born on 16 October 1971 in Pančevo. He graduated from the Law School of the University of Banja Luka in 1995, where he also passed the bar exam in 1997.
After completion of internship in 1997, he started his own law practice. In the period 1998 to 2001, he served as judge of the Banja Luka Military Court, and then from 2001 onwards, as Advisor to the Ombudsman of Republika Srpska. In March 2004, he was appointed as a prosecutor in the District Prosecutor's Office Banja Luka.
The High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina (HJPC BiH) appointed Mr. Tegeltija as President of the Banja Luka Basic Court in March 2007.
On behalf of district courts, the High Commercial Court of Banja Luka, basic courts and district commercial courts of Republika Srpska, he was elected as member of the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of Republika Srpska in June 2014.
Mr. Tegeltija is the President of the Association of Judges in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and also a longtime trainer of the Judicial and Prosecutorial Training Centre of Republika Srpska and of the Judicial and Prosecutorial Training Centre of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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I will see what happens in the morning.. if nothing then I will see if I can contact Microsoft customer service. It was a german company in fact who the operating system came from ..
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Does it have a COA sticker similar to the one in the Reinstall tutorial below?
Builders are not allowed to resell the OS without one. If they sold the same key repeatedly then they may have counterfeited the sticker.
The Product Key is online via Google search which may mean its widely circulated. Having the COA and any receipt or bank debit history gives you the best case.
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Yes I have the COA and the receipt via paypal I believe... so perhaps I will contact support today - hope they are quick
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HI - I have tried to get support from microsoft but have no idea where to go - there isn't a place to report counterfit programs.. or request support unless you pay for it and if I go to enter my product id it says this is not supported in my country so they don't want to help obviously.
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Ah ha I have managed to get hold of someone.. will keep you informed
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yes after 3 hours with remote assistance the support man Alfred Boo decided the computer need to complete an update but the key is definately bad so I have to buy another apparently.. after 3 hours the pc finally was rebooted and hte agent was meant to stay online.. when it came up again he'd gone and the chat lines were closed. I stil have the same .net 4.5 error and nothing has changed...
Must go and do my animals.. we have a farm and my husband isn't here today.... so much for microsoft..
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Win 7 Home Premium SP1 32 bit
Hello.. you should not have had these issues.. seems you were in contact with people who in remote assistance were or are scamming you.. If you have legit paid for OS from Microsoft should be no issue to do a clean reinstall as noted in above posts my Maxie and Greg
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I don't have legit support from Microsoft.. that ran out a long time ago - I just went to the microsoft assistance chat line and a technician logged in. He said if they couldn't sort it this time then I would have to pay.
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I was not referring to any type of tech support as you have that here from us for free.
I specifically referenced MS Customer Service which is another department that deals with issues of OS purchase, legitimacy and possible piracy.
If you googled MS Support you probably got a scammer as suggested. If they connected remotely they may have planted something on your PC. Run a full scan with Malwarebytes and SUPERAntiSpyware now to check, declining their trial versions at install to use the on-demand scanners.
Here are the actual Global Customer Service phone numbers - Microsoft
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California Seniors Have Healthiest Behaviors in U.S., Report Finds
In California, residents age 65 and older engage in more healthy behaviors than seniors in any other state, according to a report by the United Health Foundation, the Monterey Herald reports.
However, the state ranked 18th overall for the health of its older residents (Johnson, Monterey Herald, 5/21).
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For America's Health Rankings Senior Report, researchers used data from more than one dozen federal agencies and private research associations to asses each state's senior health on 34 measures.
They found that California in 2014 ranked 18th in the country for senior health, up from 24th in 2013.
California seniors had the highest overall score for healthy behaviors in the country, with the state scoring among the top 10 in the U.S. for:
- Avoiding obesity, with 21.1% of seniors being obese;
- Maintaining dental care, with 73.2% of seniors regularly attending dental visits;
- Not smoking, with 5.9% of seniors smoking; and
- Taking part in physical activities, with 21.4% of seniors inactive.
In addition, the report found that the state ranked fifth for having prescription drug coverage available to 88.4% of seniors.
The report also found that nursing home quality in the state has increased, with 51.6% of beds receiving a rating of four or five stars, compared with 45.6% in 2013. Hospital deaths among seniors also declined by 10% over the past year, according to the report.
However, the report noted that there is a high rate of food insecurity in California, as well as limited access to home health care and high rates of hospital deaths.
Among all states, the report scored California:
- 42nd for home health care;
- 45th for social support;
- 47th for hospital deaths; and
- 48th for intensive care unit use (America's Health Rankings Senior Report, May 2014).


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Recently published research from Euromonitor International, "Retailing in Sweden", is now available at Fast Market Research
Boston, MA -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/09/2013 -- Store-based retailing saw increasing retail value sales in 2012, even though growth was slower than the retail value CAGR during the review period, as consumers cut their expenditure and became even more cautious, due to the poor economic forecast. The number of outlets continued to decline at the same pace in 2012 as during the review period, even though sales area saw an increasing trend, which can be explained by the increasing size of outlets. Internet retailing remained the fastest growth...
Euromonitor International's Retailing in Sweden report offers insight into key trends and developments driving the industry. The report examines all retail channels to provide sector insight. Channels include hypermarkets, supermarkets, discounters, convenience stores, mixed retailers, health and beauty retailers, clothing and footwear retailers, furniture and furnishing stores, DIY and hardware stores, durable goods retailers, leisure and personal goods retailers. There are profiles of leading retailers, with analysis of their performance and the challenges they face. There is also analysis of non-store retailing: vending; homeshopping; internet retailing; direct selling, as available.
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Responding to the NEELB Strategic Area Plan Consultation, Ballycastle SDLP Councillor Dónal Cunningham applauded the long standing level of collaboration and co-operation between Cross and Passion College and Ballycastle High School.
"I am confident that this level of co-operation and partnership can be built upon within the Area Learning Partnership, and that both schools will continue to work together to meet the needs of all their pupils delivering the statutory curriculum which includes the Entitlement Framework"
"I have no doubt and there is strong evidence that this co-operation enhances the quality and range of provision and raises and improves standards. "
"As well as improving education standards, co-operation between the two schools has had a very positive impact socially in terms of friendships and community cohesion and provides the template for other areas "
"Both school campuses require Capital Investment from the Department which if given priority would serve to maximise the use and sharing of existing school estate"
"Ballycastle can look to the future in the confidence that they have two strong all ability post primary schools, each with their own identity and ethos, but willing to share resources and facilities in order to provide a top quality post primary experience "


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In college recruiting, employers don't value multitasking as one of the skills at the top of their list. While multitasking may demonstrate effort, it does not necessarily produce the best results. Many students list multitasking on their resumes because multitasking is a popular soft skill candidates have been taught to list on their resumes. The bottom line is recruiters want to hire candidates who produce results.
Anne Grinols, Assistant Dean for Faculty Development and College Initiatives at Baylor's Hankamer School of Business, asserts that employers care more about hiring candidates who have outlined their accomplishments in detail on their resumes over candidates who have simply listed lots of popular soft skills at the top of their resumes.
"Job candidates who say they can multitask think they are saying they can accomplish more than others because they can focus on more than one thing at once. However, multitasking can also be seen as a negative. I think this is because efforts to multitask have had unfortunate results: poor outcomes and burnout of those trying to do it for extended periods of time.
In the real world, most of the time, results count more than the process to achieve them. A good process is more likely to result in consistent, good results; so process matters. But it matters precisely because of the results, not on its own account.
Employers are more interested in outcomes than efforts. Multitasking refers to the latter. I would not use the term 'multitasking' on my resume. Instead, I would indicate expertise in multiple areas, timely production and excellence in outcomes."
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Anne Grinols serves as Assistant Dean for Faculty Development and College Initiatives in Baylor's Hankamer School of Business. She teaches in Baylor's full-time and online MBA programs. Her research areas include interpersonal communication, ethics, and online education. As assistant dean, she supports faculty development in teaching and research, and has a leadership role in the ethics initiatives in the business school. Before coming to Baylor in January 2004, Grinols was director of management communication for the University of Illinois Business School, where she taught management communication and critical thinking for business from 1996-2003 and oversaw the MBA Communication Center.
If you want to stand out from the pack and make a video resume, there is a lot to think about. It's not as simple as picking up a camera and starting to film. You need to plan, film and edit your product to make sure it makes the best impression possible. So, if you still want to make this unique resume, here are a couple tips to consider: (more…)
Humans are biologically and specifically social animals. Each and every individual possesses an intellect, instinct and a drive to pursue a certain path in which they excel at accomplishing. Every person has a set of preferences, skill sets and attributes that contributes to the overall success. Imagine how easier and simpler the world would be if all of those distinct skills and traits were to combined as it would solve million of our problems, wouldn't it?
Teamwork is one of the most obligatory principles that every organization must uphold in order to achieve the desired, targeted goals and ambitions. This write-up has been drafted for the convenience of those who are in need of encouraging a dedicated teamwork among their employees or those who need to know how to construct a perfectly functioning team. (more…)
We have heard that honesty is the best policy. When it comes to finding jobs, recent college graduates can get some advice on being honest in the following post.
How far would you go to get a job? Would you bend the truth? Exaggerate your work history, education and skills? Blatantly lie during a job interview? The Greek word parrhesia means "freedom of speech." It also implies that one is obliged to speak the truth even if that involves a degree of risk. And most certainly: unless
For students interested in finding an internship for this coming fall, check out five new opportunities in the following post.
Featured: Featured It's that time again… get a head start on the FALL 2014 school semester with a NEW resume-buildingFALL 2014 internship. We have a bunch of FALL internships going up every week but these are theTOP 5 FALLinternships waiting for you to apply now!Click below to submit your application:read
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If you want to find an internship in the fashion world, learn more about a new opportunity in the following post.
Featured: Featured As you know, we have new internships going up on the site each week — many of them in the fashion realm. One of our employers, Cynthia Rose NY, has posted their opportunities with us for quite a while and we wanted to give you all the inside scoop. If you've ever wondered what it
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If you are a college graduate looking for an entry level job, check out this post, featuring an infographic, of the top 10 cities where you may have the best chance to find one.
Yes, the situation is that dire – we go where the jobs are. If relocation is an option after college, Apartment Guide and Indeed has a helpful roundup of the top cities for entry-level job openings as well as the jobs and salaries,…
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Whether you're an employer hiring for or a job seeker searching for recent college graduate jobs, it is important to understand what's is going on in today's workplace. The following post includes an infographic that can help employers and job seekers in the working world.
In part due to recent technology advances, and partly a result of the influence of the growing number of Millennials in the workforce, today's workplace is nothing like professional environments of the past. This infographic from Recruiter.com shows how the face of the workplace is evolving. How will this affect your career? How will your job
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If you plan on starting a business as an entry level job, the following post has five things you should remember.
At age 16, I started my first business. I was among the throngs of a community that gathered on muggy summer nights to cheer on the home team at our high school football games. Cheering means one thing: yelling. And yelling means people will have tired, sore, dry throats. For the penny-pinchers unwilling to spend concession stand prices
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If you're hunting for an opportunity to pursue acting as an internship finder, the following post lists some areas where you can find opportunities.
Featured: Featured Whenever I'm speaking at a school, I always get at least one student who wants to be an actor or actress when they graduate. They always ask me what types of internships they should do. Here are a few tips on the types of internships you should be looking for as an actor/actress. read more
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The first thing we do every morning is to look at ourselves in the mirror. Mirror dream is one of the thoughts often experienced because the mirror represents our imagination, so this is related to the conscious or unconscious mind.
Dreaming with mirror can also symbolize some conflicts. A mirror is useful for seeing your defect, tangled hair or acne on the body, this can give some views of an internal conflict; inner struggle, frustration over time, failure to meet your expectation or be excluded in social life.
The dream is very personal. You are the most reasonable person to be able to interpret your dreams. In general, the mirror is the image you want to project to others. You must know the dream context and events in your life to see the meaning of mirror in dreams. Close your eyes and try to remember the reflected image when dreaming with a mirror.
What does it mean to dream of a mirror?
Dreams of a mirror for a single person means to marry. A mirror can also be interpreted as a divorce. Reflecting has different meanings depending on the purpose of your reflection. When looking in the mirror to apply makeup or use mascara, you pay attention to your relatives.
- The broken mirror dream symbolizes the recent emotional damage. The small part of your soul has been torn apart by significant psychological distress. In other cultures, it is certain that breaking the mirror brings havoc.
- Dreams with clean mirrors or cleaning a mirror symbolize purity, brilliance, positive energy, and optimism.
- Mirror dreams are related to how others see you, with the image you project. It implies a strong desire to improve, not just your outward appearance, but also your way of thinking.
- Breaking the mirror in a dream means you are not satisfied with yourself. You want to look for radical changes in life.
- Dream of sick and see a mirror means you have to take better care of your health. This vision can also relate to death.
- Looking in the mirror and seeing someone else is a sign that someone will come to your monotonous life. Of course, it can also relate to the arrival of new members of your family.
- Dream of seeing shadows spread across the mirror represents your insecurity


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This Sunday we look at one of the great Christogical passages in all the Bible, Colossians 1:15-20. Paul just prayed for these new believers to know the Will of God and to Walk with God, being Fruitful, Knowledgeable, Powerful and Thankful, Colossians 1:9-14. As I pointed out last week, these new believers needed to know that there was a NEW WILL and a NEW WALK.
That being said, their is a NEW WORSHIP, The Lord Jesus Christ. Take a look at this great passage. Most scholars think it was one of the first Christian poems or songs of the first century Church. It has two stanzas: 15-17 and 18-20. We know this because Paul uses the word "PROTOTOKOS" in 1:15 and 1:18. This word means "first born." Look at verse 15 and 18. The Lord Jesus is the first born of what in 15 and what in 18? Now this does not mean that our Lord had a beginning as some cults teach, (I will show you this Sunday) but rather that He was Supreme, Preeminent. Note our poem first deals wth the NATURAL CREATION, the Cosmos, 15-17; and the SPIRITUAL CREATION, the Church, 18-20.
Paul wanted the church in Colossae and wants the church in Centennial to know that whatever the question Jesus Christ is the answer; whatever the problem He is the solution!
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People want better education, health facilities: Rashid
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ISLAMABAD: Minister for Railways, Sheikh Rashid said that people wanted to get better educational and health facilities and for this, Pakistan Tehrik e Insaf (PTI) government was taking all necessary measures to achieve the objectives.
The PTI government would have to deliver in 100 days as people holds expectation from Imran Khan, he said while talking to a private news channel.
He said Prime Minister Imran Khan wanted to bring back the looted money from the corrupt elements abroad adding that a top brass of the political group had been facing court trails in that regard.
A 100 million youth were supporting Imran Khan and PTI will have to deliver within hundred days for their satisfaction, he added. He said Imran Khan wanted to promote cricket and for this, measures would be taken to build grounds.
Sheikh Rashid urged the people to provide suggestions through social media, so that we could bring changes in the institutions like Railways.
To a question about relations with India, he said we want better relations with all neighbouring countries. Pakistan had developed strong relations with Russia and it was for the first time in the history of the country, that the forces of Russia had observed training exercise together, he added.
He said there must be a way forward where both the nuclear power states restart dialogues for the peaceful solution of Kashmir issue.


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If you'd love your pitchers to have better movement, here's a great drill to help make that happen.
All pitchers work on their snaps and spins and, yet all their pitches don't move. Don't panic, I've got the drill you've been looking for.
Pitchers seem to constantly practice their spins and snaps and yet, they still struggle making their pitches move or making adjustments to their movement. On the surface, that sounds like it should be pretty easy. We usually yell out something like, "come on Cindy, make an adjustment" and expect that wisdom to do the trick. But we all know, it doesn't. In fact, it usually just makes the pitcher more tense which ends up making things worse.
Making any pitch move requires the pitch to have 2 different segments:
- The Forward Part: which is always the longest since every pitch has to travel at least 38 feet forward
- The Movement Part: which is always the smallest part of every pitch since the pitch can't move too far or its way out of the zone.
The problem is most pitchers practice their different pitches always focusing on the Movement Part and totally forget about the Forward Part. Every great pitch combines the two.
So, here's a great drill I've used to help pitches work through the puzzle of how much forward and how much movement they should give every pitch – I call it Close, Middle Far and it works like this:
- Use your regular homeplate (which we'll call the Far plate) and then create 2 more plates, each about 10 feet in front of the other. Use either throw down plates, chalk or even baby powder to make the 2 other plates (Picture 1 to the left).
- Your pitcher will warmup her movement pitches, and then throw 3 pitches (of the same pitch) from each distance – Close, Middle, Far.
- So it would look like this:
- 3 curves (Close, Middle, Far)
- 3 drops (Close, Middle, Far)
- 3 Screwballs (Close, Middle, Far)
- 3 Pitch #4 (Close Middle, Far)
The Far distance won't be hard since it's really just the standard pitching distance. It's the Close and Middle that will be a challenge. The pitcher needs to make sure her pitches are speed appropriate for the distance – meaning the Close distance needs to be slow and yet still curve, or drop or rise or screw. Like I said, this will be really hard for them at first, but as the catcher moves back and as the pitcher gets used to it, she'll start to do much better.
This drill forces the pitcher to work on separating the Forward path of the ball from the Movement part.
This will be SUPER hard for your pitchers the first couple times through, but the more they adjust the better they'll get. And the good news is, this will REALLY help your pitchers distinguish between Forward part of each pitch and the Movement part – and knowing which one needs adjustment.
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