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Ry Cooder On World Cafe
September 7, 2018 • Cooder and his band re-imagine some of those classic blues and gospel songs he loved as boy. He discusses how his latest album 'Prodigal Son' is ultimately about reverence.
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Ry Cooder, 'The Prodigal Son,' Returns
May 3, 2018 • The 71-year-old raconteur returns to the old songs and inhabits the guises of death-haunted bluesmen to speak to the issues of the current era.
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Thelma & Luis: An Alt.Latino Road Trip With Attitude
May 26, 2016 • The lure of the open road was too much to resist this week, so Alt.Latino turns the volume up on a collection that includes Central American heavy metal, Cuban guitar jazz and Brazilian DJs.
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Ry Cooder, Ricky Skaggs, Sharon White, Cheryl White, 'Just Over In The Glory Land'
December 23, 2015 • After accepting a lifetime achievement award, Skaggs and company give a barnstorming performance.
A Dustbowl Lament from an American Chameleon
March 20, 2007 • The Woody Guthrie-esque lament "Cardboard Avenue" pushes the influences together to create a new style that's distinctively Cooder.
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'Midnight In Mexico': The Alt.Latino Interview With Journalist Alfredo Corchado
October 16, 2014 • Corchado covered the Mexican drug war during its bloodiest peak. He joins Alt.Latino to discuss his book Midnight In Mexico and the music he enjoyed while writing it.
Sigur Ros, Three 6 Mafia Buzz with New Music
June 24, 2008 • Julianne Shepherd of The Fader discusses this week's new music releases, including albums by Sigur Ros, Three 6 Mafia, Hercules and Love Affair, and Ry Cooder.
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Manuel Galban's Meandering 'Mambo'
May 31, 2008 • Cuban guitarist Manuel Galban became known in the U.S. after playing with Buena Vista Social Club and winning a Grammy with Ry Cooder. But Galban has long been famous in Cuba because of his work with one of Cuba's most famous groups of the 1960s.
Cooder's 'Buddy' Revives Tales of a Bygone America
March 6, 2007 • On his latest CD, Ry Cooder recounts hardships of the Dust Bowl migration through the story of a "red" cat named Buddy and his two traveling buddies. The story was inspired by a real feline who slept in a suitcase.
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Music's Renegade Historian in Rural America
August 16, 2006 • Many contemporary listeners know Ry Cooder as the producer and guitarist behind Buena Vista Social Club, the 1997 project that revived the careers of long-forgotten Cuban ballad singers. Lost among his early works is an eclectic little under-loved gem: Boomer's Story.
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Director's Cuts: Grammy Time
February 5, 2006 • Weekend Edition Sunday music director Ned Wharton takes a look beyond Mariah and Bono at some Grammy nominated music you might not have heard. Jimmy Sturr's Shake, Rattle and Polka, anyone?
Ry Cooder Digs Through 'Chavez Ravine'
July 5, 2005 • Guitarist, composer and singer Ry Cooder is the latest in a string of artists to take up the story of Chavez Ravine — an impoverished Los Angeles neighborhood of immigrants. Years ago, Los Angeles officials picked the area as the new home of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Today, Chavez Ravine is the home of Dodger Stadium.
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World Cafe Looks Back: World Music
March 26, 2012 • David Dye recalls the incredible world music artists who've appeared on World Cafe in the past 20 years, including King Sunny Ade, Angélique Kidjo and Bela Fleck; plus Ry Cooder on producing Buena Vista Social Club.
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First Listen: The Chieftains Featuring Ry Cooder
March 1, 2010 • Cooder's latest recording project is a cultural mashup of Mexican and Irish music called San Patricio. The album is performed by the Irish music icons in The Chieftains, along with Cooder himself and a handful of celebrated Mexican musicians. Hear the album in its entirety for the week leading up to its release.
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Greetings From L.A.! 'Global Village' Picks Local Favorites
August 7, 2011 • Betto Arcos, host of the KPFK world music program, returns with a playlist of Los Angeles musicians who have caught his ear.
'Mambo Sinuendo': Ry Cooder Returns to Cuba
January 27, 2003 • In 1997, Ry Cooder sparked an international interest in Cuban music as producer and guitarist on the hit CD Buena Vista Social Club. He recently returned to the same studio where that album was recorded, this time to collaborate with legendary Cuban guitarist Manuel Galban.
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Arizona Law Inspires Latin Protest Music
August 17, 2010 • Alt.Latino looks at the artists most vocally opposed to the controversial legislation.
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Exclusive Premiere: New Ry Cooder Single
June 24, 2010 • Arizona's ongoing battle over immigration has inspired a new single from guitarist, composer and venerated session musician Ry Cooder. The song, "Quicksand," will be released June 29, but you can hear it on the All Songs Considered blog now.
Listen to 'Quicksand' by Ry Cooder
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The Chieftains And Ry Cooder Tell 'San Patricio' History
March 7, 2010 • With St. Patrick's Day just ahead, an unusual musical mash-up has surfaced. Paddy Moloney and his legendary Irish group The Chieftains have joined forces with Ry Cooder and Latino artists on a new album called San Patricio. The record takes its name from a battalion of the Mexican-American War.
Ry Cooder: Telling America's Story
April 9, 2007 • The Grammy-winning singer/guitarist has spent his decades-spanning career experimenting with rootsy American music — from Dust Bowl folk to blues, gospel and world music. He's released more than 20 albums, counting his film scores, dating back to the early '70s.
Ry Cooder's 'Chavez' Suite
October 3, 2005 • For more than 40 years, Ry Cooder has shown his prowess as a gifted musical jack-of-all-trades. His latest release, Chavez Ravine, is a concept album dealing with the demise of the Mexican-American Los Angeles neighborhood of Chavez Ravine.
Ry Cooder in-studio on World Cafe - 09/15/2005
Spoon, Keith Jarrett, Kraftwerk
May 18, 2005 • Remembering lost L.A. with Ry Cooder; 'Bohemian Rhapsody' retooled by Grey Delisle; A new vocal recording from Brian Eno; Legendary jazz pianist Keith Jarrett and more.
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The Alliance for Excellent Education report: Teacher turnover high in low income schools
Melanie Smollin has an excellent post at Take Part, Five Reasons Why Teacher Turnover Is On The Rise:
With approximately 1.6 million teachers set to retire in the next decade, replenishing America's teaching force should be a top priority. But filling classrooms with new teachers is only half the battle. Retaining them is equally important.
Numerous studies show that teachers perform best after being in the classroom for at least five years. According to a McKinsey study, 14 percent of American teachers leave after only one year, and 46 percent quit before their fifth year. In countries with the highest results on international tests, teacher turnover rates are much lower—around 3 percent.
This constant cycling in and out of new teachers is a costly phenomena. Students miss being taught by experienced educators, and schools and districts nationwide spend about $2.2 billion per year recruiting and training replacements.
Why are so many new teachers fleeing the profession after so few years in the classroom? Here are the top five reasons teacher turnover is an ongoing challenge:
5. BURNOUT: A recent U.C. Berkeley study of Los Angeles charter schools found unusually high rates of teacher turnover. At the 163 charter schools studied, teacher turnover hovered around 40 percent, compared to 15 percent at traditional public schools.
Since demands on charter school educators are seemingly boundless, including extended hours, researchers theorized, burnout is a viable explanation for the teacher exodus. "We have seen earlier results showing that working conditions are tough and challenging in charter schools," explained U.C. Berkeley's Bruce Fuller. "Charter teachers wear many hats and have many duties and are teaching urban kids, challenging urban kids, but we were surprised by the magnitude of this effect."
4.THREAT OF LAYOFFS: In response to annual budget shortfalls, districts nationwide have sent pink slips to tens of thousands of teachers each spring for the past four years. In 2011, California sent out 30,000….
3. LOW WAGES: U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan recently said that teachers should earn between $60,000 and $150,000 per year. That's a far cry from the current national average starting salary for teachers, which is $35,139….
2. TESTING PRESSURE: Since the No Child Left Behind Act was introduced in 2001, standardized test scores in math and reading have become the most important accountability measure used to evaluate schools.
Studies show that pressure to raise student test scores causes teachers to experience more stress and less job satisfaction. Many educators resent narrowing curriculum and stifling creativity in favor of teaching to the test.
On the National Center for Education Information's "Profile of Teachers in the U.S. 2011," the majority of comments submitted by survey respondents were "expressions of strong opposition to the current emphasis on student testing."
As states increasingly rely on standardized test scores to evaluate individual educators, determine teacher pay and make lay-off decisions, testing pressure will only increase.
1. POOR WORKING CONDITIONS: When the Gates foundation polled 40,000 teachers about job satisfaction, the majority agreed that supportive leadership, time for collaboration, access to high quality curriculum and resources, clean and safe buildings, and relevant professional development were even more important than higher salaries.
But working conditions in many public schools remain far from this ideal—especially for beginning teachers, who are most likely to be assigned to the highest-need schools. Despite the added challenges they face, these teachers are often given few resources and little professional support. http://www.takepart.com/article/2011/08/09/five-reasons-teacher-turnover-rise
Since many teachers will be leaving the profession in the next few years, the question is what effect teacher departures have on students and are there traits of teachers who choose to remain in the classroom which should be studied.
Alexandria Neason of Hechinger Report wrote in the Huffington Post article, Half Of Teachers Leave The Job After Five Years. Here's What To Do About It:
A new report, published by the Alliance in collaboration with the New Teacher Center (NTC), a non-profit that helps schools and policymakers develop training for new educators, found that about 13 percent of the nation's 3.4 million teachers move schools or leave the profession every year, costing states up to $2 billion. Researchers estimate that over 1 million teachers move in and out of schools annually, and between 40 and 50 percent quit within five years.
The high turnover rates are sometimes due to layoffs, "but the primary reason they leave is because they're dissatisfied," said Richard Ingersoll, an education professor at the University of Pennsylvania whose research on teacher retention was published in the report. Teachers say they leave because of inadequate administrative support and isolated working conditions, among other things. These losses disproportionately affect high-poverty, urban and rural schools, where teaching staffs often lack experience.
A Consortium on Chicago School Research (CCSR) report found that schools serving low-income, minority students turn over half of their staffs every three years, deepening the divide between poor and wealthy students to the most experienced teachers.
But the new report says poor retention isn't a commitment problem. It's a support problem… http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/23/teacher-turnover-rate_n_5614972.html?utm_hp_ref=education&ir=Education#es_share_ended
Here is the press release from The Alliance for Excellent Education:
Teacher Attrition Costs United States Up to $2.2 Billion Annually, Says New Alliance Report
Report Includes State-by-State Teacher Attrition Costs, Says Comprehensive Induction Programs Can Improve Teaching Effectiveness and Retain High-Quality Teachers
WASHINGTON, DC – Roughly half a million U.S. teachers either move or leave the profession each year—attrition that costs the United States up to $2.2 billion annually, according to a new report from the Alliance for Excellent Education. This high turnover rate disproportionately affects high-poverty schools and seriously compromises the nation's capacity to ensure that all students have access to skilled teaching, says On the Path to Equity: Improving the Effectiveness of Beginning Teachers.
"Teacher attrition hits states and school districts in the wallet, but students and teachers pay the real price," said Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia. "The monetary cost of teacher attrition pales in comparison to the loss of human potential associated with hard-to-staff schools that disproportionately serve low-income students and students of color. In these schools, poor learning climates and low achievement often result in students—and teachers—leaving in droves."
The report cites the well-established principle that teaching quality is the most powerful school-based factor in student learning—one that outweighs students' social and economic background in accounting for differences in student learning. It also notes that chronic gaps remain in disadvantaged students' access to effective teaching—a scenario that unmistakably harms students, but also has an impact on teachers.
Without access to excellent peers, mentors, and opportunities for collaboration and feedback, teachers' performance in high-poverty schools plateaus after a few years and both morale and work environment suffer. Ultimately, the report notes, these hard-to-staff schools become known as "places to leave, not places in which to stay." According to the report, high-poverty schools experience a teacher turnover rate of about 20 percent per calendar year—roughly 50 percent higher than the rate in more affluent schools.
To calculate the cost of teacher attrition, the Alliance worked with Richard Ingersoll, professor of education and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to the national figure, Ingersoll also provides cost estimates for all fifty states and the District of Columbia that range between roughly $2 million in Delaware, Vermont, and Wyoming and up to $235 million in Texas.
Teachers leave their profession for a variety of reasons, including inadequate administrative support, isolated working conditions, poor student discipline, low salaries, and a lack of collective teacher influence over schoolwide decisions. Turnover is especially high among new teachers, with 40 to 50 percent leaving the profession after five years, according to research cited in the report.
To curb turnover—especially among new teachers—the report recommends a comprehensive induction program comprised of multiple types of support, including high-quality mentoring, common planning times, and ongoing support from school leaders. Teachers who receive such support have higher levels of job satisfaction, rate higher in their classroom teaching practices, and are associated with higher levels of student achievement. Unfortunately, only about half of novice teachers receive mentoring from a teacher in their teaching field or have common planning time with other teachers.
The good news is that multiple initiatives are now under way to develop professional standards for beginning teachers, strengthen preparation, and shape strategies to address the developmental needs of teachers throughout their careers. The report highlights the work of the New Teacher Center (NTC), a national nonprofit organization headquartered in Santa Cruz, California that partners with states, districts, and policymakers and has established a well-designed, evidence-based induction model for beginning teachers that increases teacher retention, improves classroom effectiveness, and advances student learning.
NTC also partners with states and districts to report data on teaching and learning conditions using its Teaching, Empowering, Leading, and Learning (TELL) survey to help states develop policies and practices that connect related factors, such as school leadership, teaching, and learning conditions, and specific educator policies.
On the Path to Equity cautions that policies to improve teaching effectiveness are complex and depend on individual teachers' abilities as well as the working conditions within schools. It adds that systemic approaches are needed to reverse the inequities in the distribution of teaching talent and to foster school environments that support the kind of ongoing, intensive professional learning that positively impacts student learning. To this end, the report offers five policy recommendations for states and districts:
•	Require regular evaluations of teachers using multiple measures.
•	Develop systems to encourage high-quality educator development and teaching.
•	Require comprehensive induction programs for new teachers.
•	Embed analysis and improvement of teaching and learning conditions.
•	Support staff selection and professional growth systems that foster collegial collaboration.
"To fundamentally transform education and help students meet the higher performance required by the Common Core State Standards and other college- and career-ready standards, the culture of how teachers are supported must change," said Wise. "Such a change requires new initiatives and structures to attract, develop, and retain the best teaching talent in high schools serving students with the greatest needs, as well as a system that ensures that new teachers receive comprehensive induction and access to school-based collaborative learning."
On the Path to Equity includes a state-by-state breakdown detailing the number of teachers leaving the profession, as well as a low and high estimate of teacher attrition costs. It is available at http://www.all4ed.org/reports-factsheets/path-to-equity.
At 1:00 p.m. (EDT) today, the Alliance will hold a video webinar on the report that will feature Mariana Haynes, PhD, Senior Fellow, Alliance for Excellent Education; Terry Holliday, PhD, Commissioner of Education, Kentucky Department of Education; Richard Ingersoll, PhD, Professor of Education and Sociology, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania; and Ellen Moir, Executive Director, New Teacher Center. RSVP to watch the webinar at http://all4ed.org/webinar-event/jul-17-2014/.
The Alliance for Excellent Education is a Washington, DC–based national policy and advocacy organization dedicated to ensuring all students, particularly those traditionally underserved, graduate from high school ready for success in college, work, and citizenship. http://www.all4ed.org
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Every population of kids is different and they arrive at school at various points on the ready to learn continuum. Schools and teachers must be accountable, but there should be various measures of judging teacher effectiveness for a particular population of children. Perhaps, more time and effort should be spent in developing a strong principal corps and giving principals the training and assistance in evaluation and mentoring techniques. Teachers must be compensated fairly for their work. Dave Eggers and NÍnive Clements Calegari have a provocative New York Times article, The High Cost of Low Teacher Salaries http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/opinion/01eggers.html?_r=0 The Center for American Progress has a report by Frank Adamson and Linda Darling Hammond, Speaking of Salaries: What It Will Take to Get Qualified, Effective Teachers In All Communities http://americanprogress.org/issues/education/report/2011/05/20/9638/speaking-of-salaries/
No Child Left Behind A Parents Guide
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MSNBC video: Why Do Good Teachers Leave? http://video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-news/46622232/#46622232
Debate: Are Teachers' Unions the Problem—or the Answer?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2010/03/18/debate-are-teachers-unions-the-problem-or-the-answer.html
Quiet Riot: Insurgents Take On Teachers' Unions
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2087980,00.html#ixzz1zgjC7qGS
Can Teachers Unions Do Education Reform?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204124204577151254006748714.htm
Let a New Teacher-Union Debate Begin
http://educationnext.org/let-a-new-teacher-union-debate-begin/#.Ujthycb-osY.email
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University of Pennsylvania study: True grit of individual teacher linked to effectiveness and retention
Holly Yettick reported in the Education Week article, Study Links Teacher 'Grit' with Effectiveness, Retention:
In recent years, we've heard a lot about gritty students. Now grit researchers are turning their attention to teachers. In a study published in the current issue of the peer-reviewed journal Teachers College Record, University of Pennsylvania researchers Claire Robertson-Kraft and Angela Duckworth found that, for novice teachers in high-poverty school districts, higher levels of "perseverance and passion for long-term goals" (aka "grit") were associated with higher rates of effectiveness and retention.
"No single factor alone should determine a hiring decision for a teacher," said Robertson-Kraft, a doctoral candidate in education policy and former 3rd grade teacher. "But the study does suggest that grit is one factor that could be considered among many."
This is not the first study of teachers and grit for Duckworth, an associate professor of psychology and MacArthur Fellow who has been credited with coining the term "grit" in 2007. An earlier study, published in the peer-refereed Journal of Positive Psychology in 2009, also found that grittier novice teachers were more effective novice teachers. However, a limitation of that study was that it relied on self reports of grit. (For instance, participants were asked to rate the extent to which they agreed or disagreed with such sentences as "Setbacks don't discourage me.") A problem with self-reported measures is that people are more likely to agree with socially desirable statements simply because they think they should.
For this more recent study, the authors developed a method in which raters scored 461 novice teachers' resumes. This method assigns 0 to 6 points based on the extent to which a teacher sticks with an activity over a period of years and also attains "moderate" or "high" levels of success in that activity. For instance, a teacher with no multiyear activities in college would receive a score of 0, which would indicate a shortage of grit. The highest score of 6 might go to a gritty teacher who was a "member of the cross-country team for four years and voted MVP in senior year" and was also "founder and president for two years of the university's Habitat for Humanity chapter." The unnamed teacher-training organization that provided the data for the study is now using a version of this rating system as one of multiple tools to help make hiring decisions.
The rating system could be promising, according to Matthew Kraft (no relation to Robertson-Kraft), an assistant professor of education at Brown University. Kraft was not involved with the study…. http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/inside-school-research/2014/03/gritty_teachers.html
Here is the synopsis from Teachers College Record:
True Grit: Trait-Level Perseverance and Passion for Long-Term Goals Predicts Effectiveness and Retention Among Novice Teachers
by Claire Robertson-Kraft & Angela Duckworth — 2014
Background/Context: Surprisingly little progress has been made in linking teacher effectiveness and retention to factors observable at the time of hire. The rigors of teaching, particularly in low-income school districts, suggest the importance of personal qualities that have so far been difficult to measure objectively.
Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study: In this study, we examine the predictive validity of personal qualities not typically collected by school districts during the hiring process. Specifically, we use a psychological framework to explore how biographical data on grit, a disposition toward perseverance and passion for long-term goals, explains variance in novice teachers' effectiveness and retention.
Research Design: In two prospective, longitudinal samples of novice teachers assigned to schools in low-income districts (N = 154 and N = 307, respectively), raters blind to outcomes followed a 7-point rubric to rate grit from information on college activities and work experience extracted from teachers' résumés. We used independent-samples, t-tests, and binary logistic regression models to predict teacher effectiveness and retention from these grit ratings as well as from other information (e.g., SAT scores, college GPA, and interview ratings of leadership potential) available at the time of hire.
Conclusions/Recommendations: Grittier teachers outperformed their less gritty colleagues and were less likely to leave their classrooms midyear. Notably, no other variables in our analysis predicted either effectiveness or retention. These findings contribute to a better understanding of what leads some novice teachers to outperform others and remain committed to the profession. In addition to informing policy decisions surrounding teacher recruitment and development, this investigation highlights the potential of a psychological framework to explain why some individuals are more successful than others in meeting the rigorous demands of teaching. http://www.tcrecord.org/content.asp?contentid=17352
What the various studies seem to point out is there is no one remedy which works in all situations and that there must be a menu of education options.
A Lively Debate Over Teacher Salaries
http://www.nytimes.com/schoolbook/2012/01/05/a-lively-debate-over-teacher-salaries/
Are Teachers Overpaid?
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/01/02/are-teachers-overpaid/
Some Teachers Skeptical of Merit Pay
http://www.nytimes.com/schoolbook/2012/01/13/some-teachers-skeptical-of-merit-pay/
Washington D.C. rolls out merit pay
https://drwilda.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/washington-d-c-rolls-out-merit-pay/
Report from The Compensation Technical Working Group: Teacher compensation in Washington https://drwilda.wordpress.com/tag/teacher-recruitment/
Fordham Institute report: Teacher pensions squeezing states
https://drwilda.com/2013/06/07/fordham-institute-report-teacher-pensions-squeezing-states/
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Study: Teacher turnover adversely affects students
Melanie Smollin has an excellent post at Take Part, Five Reasons Why Teacher Turnover Is On The Rise
But working conditions in many public schools remain far from this ideal—especially for beginning teachers, who are most likely to be assigned to the highest-need schools. Despite the added challenges they face, these teachers are often given few resources and little professional support.
Since many teachers will be leaving the profession in the next few years, the question is what effect teacher departures have on students.
Matthew Ronfeldt, University of Michigan, Susanna Loeb, Stanford University, and Jim Wyckoff, University of Virginia have written the study, How teacher turnover harms student achievement. Here are their findings:
This study finds some of the first empirical evidence for a direct effect of teacher turnover on student achievement. Results suggest that teacher turnover has a significant and negative impact on student achievement in both math and ELA. Moreover, teacher turnover is particularly harmful to the achievement of students in schools with large populations of low-performing and black students.
Much of the existing literature assumes that teacher turnover impacts student achievement by changing the distribution in quality of teachers in schools. That is, if the teachers who leave a school are worse than those who replace them, then turnover is assumed to have a net positive effect. In this view, stayers, and their students, are merely bystanders who do not affect and are not affected by turnover. Although this study finds evidence that changes in teacher quality explain some of the effect of turnover on student achievement, the results suggest there may be a disruptive impact of turnover beyond compositional changes in teacher quality. First, results show that turnover has a harmful effect on student achievement, even after controlling for different indicators of teacher quality, especially in lower-performing schools. Also, we find that turnover negatively affects the students of stayers – those who remain in the same school from one year to the next.
Thus, turnover must have an impact beyond simply whether incoming teachers are better than those they replaced – even the teachers outside of this redistribution are somehow harmed by it. Although this study does not identify the specific mechanism by which turnover harms students, it provides guidance on where to look. The findings indicate that turnover has a broader, harmful influence on student achievement since it can reach beyond just those students of teachers who left or of those that replaced them. Any explanation for the effect of turnover must possess these characteristics. One possibility is that turnover negatively affects collegiality or relational trust among faculty; or perhaps turnover results in loss of institutional knowledge among faculty that is critical for supporting student learning. More research is needed to identify the specific mechanism….
Finally, the findings of this study have policy implications. Though there may be cases where turnover is actually helpful to student achievement, on average, it is harmful. This indicates that schools would benefit from policies aimed at keeping grade level teams in tact over time. One possibility might be to introduce incentive structures to retain teachers that might leave otherwise. Implementing such policies may be especially important in schools with large populations of lowperforming and black students, where turnover has the strongest negative effect on student achievement.
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/teacherbeat/TchTrnStAch%20AERJ%20R%26R%20not%20blind.pdf
If this society is serious about educating ALL children, then there must be strategies to reduce teacher turnover and burnout.
Marguerite Roza and Sarah Yatsko from the University of Washington's Center onReinventing Education have an interesting February 2010 policy brief. In Beyond Teacher Reassignments: Better Ways School Districts Can Remedy Salary Inequities Across Schools Districts Roza and Yatsko report:
Inside nearly all large school districts, the most experienced and highly paid teachers congregate in the more affluent schools. The opposite takes place in the poorer schools, where teachers tend to be more junior and lower paid, and teacher turnover is higher. Financially, this maldistribution means that a larger share of the district's salary dollars are spent on the more affluent schools, and conversely, the poorer schools with lower salaries draw down less funds per pupil. The problem, of course, is that the resulting dollar allocation patterns work to reinforce achievement gaps, not address them…
This brief addresses this concern by demonstrating that districts would NOT need to mandatorily reassign teachers. It shows that there are other ways to restructure allocations that do not systematically shortchange the neediest schools. Discussed here are four options that districts could pursue to remedy school spending inequities created by uneven salaries:
Option 1: Apply teacher salary bonuses to some schools to balance salaries
Option 2: Vary class size across schools to level spending
Option 3: Concentrate specialist and support staff in schools with lower-salaried teachers
Option 4: Equalize per-pupil dollar allocations
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Every population of kids is different and they arrive at school at various points on the ready to learn continuum. Schools and teachers must be accountable, but there should be various measures of judging teacher effectiveness for a particular population of children. Perhaps, more time and effort should be spent in developing a strong principal corps and giving principals the training and assistance in evaluation and mentoring techniques. Teachers must be compensated fairly for their work. Dave Eggers and NÍnive Clements Calegari have a provocative New York Times article, The High Cost of Low Teacher Salaries The Center forAmerican Progress has a report by Frank Adamson and Linda Darling Hammond, Speaking of Salaries: What It Will Take to Get Qualified, Effective Teachers In All Communities
Tags: Better Ways School Districts Can Remedy Salary Inequities Across Schools Districts, Five Reasons Why Teacher Turnover Is On The Rise, How teacher turnover harms student achievement, Student Achievement, Teacher Pay, teacher Retention, Teacher Training, Teacher Turnover
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Columbia University Irving Medical Center study: Brain differences detected in children with depressed parents
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Pope calls for end to 'culture of rejection' towards young unemployed
By Sarah Mac Donald - 24 July, 2013
Work and earning a living brings personal dignity Pontiff highlights.
Pope Francis has warned that the current level of youth unemployment created by the global crisis risks creating a generation who has never had a job.
Speaking to journalists on the flight to Brazil for World Youth Day, the Pontiff commented that "the global crisis does not bring good to the young."
He described work and earning a living as bringing personal dignity.
"The young, at this time, are in a situation of crisis. We are somewhat accustomed to this culture of rejection: too often we discard the elderly. But now, also with the young unemployed, the culture of rejection reaches them too. We have to eliminate this habit of rejection!" the Pope warned.
He asked the seventy journalists onboard the plane to help him work for the good of society, for both young and old.
On his first international apostolic journey, he expressed his wish to encounter the young and to promote a society able to unite the forces of youth with the experience and wisdom of maturity.
"This first trip is precisely to meet the young, but to find them not isolated from their lives – I would like to find them as part of the social fabric, in society. Because, when we isolate the young, we do a great injustice: we remove their sense of belonging," he said.
"The young belong – they belong to family, a homeland, a culture, a faith… they belong in this way, and we must not isolate them! But above all, we must not isolate them from the rest of society. They are the future of the people, this is true!"
The Pope then spoke about the lot of the elderly, underlining that a society "has a future if it advances on both sides."
"I often think we do injustice to the elderly; we cast them aside as if they had nothing to offer us. They have wisdom, the wisdom of life, the wisdom of history, the wisdom of the homeland, the wisdom of the family, and we need all this", he said.
The Pope was formally welcomed by President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil on arrival late on Monday as well as thousands of pilgrims who lined the streets of Rio to catch a glimpse of the Pontiff in his small open top Fiat car.
Up to 1.5 million young pilgrims are expected to crowd into the Brazilian city to participate in World Youth Day events over the next few day, the highlight of which is Mass celebrated by Pope Francis on Sunday.
By Sarah Mac Donald
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This may still be a debated topic amongst fans, but according to the writer for Assassin's Creed Syndicate, Jacob is canonically bisexual.
of events fall in love with him. Jacob maintains a certain distance throughout, however, at the end of Reclaiming Control of London, Jacob and Maxwell share a kiss as Jacob painfully ends his life.
You may think that kiss was just a sign of Roth's madness, but the lead writer confirmed it was because he was madly in love with Jacob. He goes on to confirm Jacob's bi-ness by saying he has to "figure himself out" after the tragic death.


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The Aster hospital (Aster Al Raffah Hospital) in Sohar is a JCI accredited, 60 bed multispeciality hospital in Oman that provides specialised treatments for acute and chronic disorders, while the Aster hospital in Muscat (Ghubra) is an 80 bed multispeciality medical facility that is equipped with the latest healthcare technology and equipment. The Aster Al Raffah clinics provide primary health care services and possess highly skilled and experienced specialists who are adept at accurately diagnosing and providing treatments for both simple and complex disorders in a wide variety of specialisations, thereby providing the residents of Oman with easily accessible, high quality healthcare services.
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Kevin Smith calls Warner Bros.' decision to axe Batgirl movie 'an incredibly bad look'
Posted on: 8th August 2022
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Kevin Smith is annoyed he won't see Michael Keaton as Batman in the Batgirl movie.
Kevin Smith has weighed in on Warner Bros.' decision to cancel the upcoming Batgirl movie.
On the latest episode of his Hollywood Babble-On podcast, the Clerks filmmaker slammed Warner Bros. Discovery for axing Batgirl starring Leslie Grace after spending $90 million (£74 million) on filming earlier this year.
"It's an incredibly bad look to cancel the Latina Batgirl movie. I don't give a s**t if the movie was absolute f**king dogs**t man – I guarantee you that it wasn't," he said. "The two directors (Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah) who directed that movie did a couple of episodes of Ms. Marvel and it was a wonderful f**king show and they had more money to do Batgirl than they had to do an episode of Ms. Marvel."
He also revealed that he had been working on a TV adaptation of the DC Comics series Strange Adventures and that was canned following WarnerMedia's merger with Discovery.
Smith said he understood why his show was scrapped as the characters weren't well-known, and then added, "But who the f**k don't know Batgirl?! And more importantly, with all due respect to everyone in the cast, I'm sure they did a great job, Michael Keaton came back as Batman and now we're not going to f**king see that."
Keaton reprised his role as Bruce Wayne/Batman – who he portrayed in the early '90s – alongside Grace, J.K. Simmons and Brendan Fraser when the movie was filmed earlier this year.
During an earnings call last week, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav hinted that The Flash standalone movie is still on track for a release in June 2023, despite its leading star Ezra Miller's run-ins with the law.
Reacting to that "problematic" decision, Smith said, "That is the baffling thing. It's like, I don't give a s**t how bad the Batgirl movie is, nobody in that movie (is) very complicated or has anything in their real life you have to market around, but with The Flash movie, we all know there is a big problem."


We are the parents of a 13 month old boy who seems to be growing by the minute. Since we were the last of our friends and family that have entered the parenting arena, we are lucky enough that our loved ones have gifted us smartly. For our baby shower and our sons birthday party our friends and family gave very thoughtful and useful items. Especially when it came to clothing items. Just the right sizes for him to grow into. Experienced parents just know exactly what would be most helpful to new parents & a new baby. Up until now we haven't really had to shop much. Our son had received so many clothing items that we were covered for his first year of his life. So much that we really need to invest in a larger storage system for just his clothes. We are now finding that we have to shop more since he quickly outgrows EVERYTHING. Items tagged for 18 to 24 mo olds are starting to need replacements...the things that were given to him to "grow into" are dwindling! He is already into most of them. Mom & Dad will now have to shop more often for baby clothes. It can be quite an adventure. I do enjoy shopping for outfits for our little guy. There are so many really cute outfits to choose from. I can only imagine the fun that moms of daughters must have!
Since he does outgrow things so fast I try to find the best deals that I can. We always gift his outgrown items (which are usually nearly new and worn just a few times) or donate them. No need to store them "just in case" we have another boy. Some people that we know have done that but we don't have the space to store an accumulation of clothes and would rather it be put to use than put away.
Baby clothes are fun to shop for and so are accessories! For our Maui trip I had the best time shopping for baby sunglasses, hats, and beachwear! Toys are another beast altogether. Our son has received SO MANY TOYS. Is there such a thing as too many?! YES! Soon it will be time to find new homes for his toys. It won't be too tough now since he hasn't really developed any attachments to any one particular thing. BUT as he gets older I'm sure it will turn into a battle.
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Guess who's going to BlogHer '11?! I am! I have been dreaming of going for some time now. I'll be a first timer. My husband knew how badly I wished to go and offered to pay my registration fees. Truly sweet of him but I wanted to make my way there without him buying my way in. I have been getting my feet wet again in the blogging arena since I had dropped the habit back in 2004. I couldn't quite justify the cost. Especially since I have been a bit directionless. OK not directionless - just headed off into EXCESSIVE directions! I'm all over the place when it comes to blogging. I can't find my niche. Quite honestly, I don't want one. I don't want to be wedged into any one place no matter how much I'm told it is a necessity. Maybe I'll change my ways once I have a few sessions under my belt at BlogHer. I'm stubborn though - so I doubt it. It's bad, but I don't always care what "experts" think. I do what makes me happy.
I looked into doing sponsored posts as a means of raising funds to spend on my BlogHer registration. I do work outside of the home and earn a decent living but I refused to spend our family resources on my blogging venture. So far I'm proud to say that I've earned a pretty penny dabbling in Sponsored Blog Posts. Enough in fact to cover the cost of registration PLUS a couple of cute outfits! It's been a gratifying experience earning money doing something that I enjoy. Especially since I would be doing it ANYWAY.
I was thrilled when I was invited to participate in a contest sponsored by Naturalizer Shoes & MyBlogSpark (Blog Post: BlogHer '11: Cynthia The Super Hero?!). The prize? An entry to win a sponsorship for my attendance to BlogHer '11 and to share some great shoes with conference attendees!
I even attempted to volunteer a few months ago. The volunteer positions were all filled. Apparently they fill up quickly. Recently BlogHer re-opened their call for volunteers. Of course I had to find out all I could about that. They were only looking for a few spots to fill.
Today I registered for the conference. The cost? $0. Lesson learned: Where there is a will, there is a way!
Hmm...now I've got to find a way to obtain a SmartPhone to use while at the convention! My current phone is ultra low tech! Do I have time before the conference to locate a sponsor for a SmartPhone and learn how to use one?! That way I can leave my laptop at home. If not, how about a sponsor for a stylish and comfortable laptop bag?! Oooh....a clothing sponsor to help me with my BlogHer '11 "Look". Maybe a company to offer new hair & make up? I'm dreaming but like I said: Where there is a will, there is a way!
I have stumbled across a link up that sounded like a fun post to join in on. Just click on the icon to participate. Thank you Jenny of Sippy Cup Chronicles!
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I have a few blog posts detailing some of my experiences with sponsored posts and I am very happy to answer any questions that you may have.
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BlogHer '11: Cynthia The Superhero?! "Shoe To The Rescue"
I have no claim to Superhero powers but with help from Naturalizer and MyBlogSpark that could all change! Imagine ME coming to the rescue of my fellow Bloggers at THE event of the Summer: BlogHer 2011, which just so happens to be hosted in my lovely hometown of San Diego! When I received the invitation to be one of the select bloggers chosen to participate in the Naturalizer "Shoe to the Rescue" contest, I was doing backflips! I am absolutely thrilled to participate for a chance to win a sponsorship to the event.
I am going to be a "first timer" to this event so you can imagine my nervous excitement! I have been doing my research by catching up with seasoned conference pros such as Parenting by Dummies. With her lovely post a few months ago: Dumb Mom's Guide. Making the Most of Blog Conferences, I feel like I have the inside scoop on what to expect. Like a nervous girl attending her first day of high school, so many thoughts crowded my head. It can be intimidating attending an event of this magnitude as a newbie! Naturally, the thought of "what to wear" was tops on my list. I'll be experimenting with a few different looks! I'll try to post what I come up with!
I really find comfort in having an "assignment" should I be selected. What better way to ease the nerves AND make friends by being a helpful hero?! I would be on the lookout for BlogHer conference attendees who are wearing uncomfortable shoes and coming to her "rescue" with an emergency pair of the Naturalizer Violette! Trust me - it will be obvious who needs help! From experience, I know what an uncomfortable walk looks like!
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Ladies, please channel your good Karma my way and cross your figers (and toes!) that I am selected for the opportunity to rescue those in need! I'll have more than a "band-aid" for blisters - I'll be armed with a cute, comfy pair of stylish Naturalizer footwear for relief!
This fabulous opportunity was presented to me by Naturalizer and the Brown Shoe Company, through MyBlogSpark. This post serves as my entry to win a sponsorship for my attendance to the 2011 BlogHer Conference.
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Samabe Bali Suites & Villas Is Awarded "The Best Batik Beach Resort"
Samabe Bali Suites & Villas adds one more award in its recognition list in this year as the Best Batik Beach Resort. The award is granted by the Sevenfold and Luxury Themed Hospitality on 1st October 2015 to welcome the Batik day. The awarding night took place in a restaurant in Kuta area.
Having a chance to meet Mr. Arief Gunawan, the initiator of this award, Samabe team questioned the innovative idea of this award "I am a fan of Batik, and I would like to honor resorts and restaurants maintaining the heritage of Indonesia, and one of them is Samabe Bali Suites & Villas", said the Javanese-born man. This year is marked as the first year of Batik Award, and in the following months, Mr. Arief will keep inspecting hotels & restaurants in Bali to choose the next winners.
"I am really honored to have been granted this award. It was a surprise for me to learn our concern on culture is awarded" said Mr. Ralf Luthe, the General Manager of Samabe Bali Suites & Villas.


Hi, my name is Candia, and I may have developed a crush on a llama.
I'm not in love with a llama. But I have a llorra, llorra llove for a llama.
The question may well have been posed countless times by jealous partners wanting to know how they can possibly compete with their loved one's affections for the fluffy camelids with the huge eyes for, as you can see, there is an awful lot to love. I've spent time admiring camels' shaggy humps at West Midland Safari Park, and I've enjoyed snuffling up to alpacas and drinking in that gorgeous digestive biscuit scent, but right now my heart belongs to a llama called Macchiato.
Macchiato – or 'Maccy', as he's fondly known – lives at Briery Hill Farm, near Newent, with Lisa and Steve Hill, and seven other llamas: Stardust, Horace, Bowie, Merlin, Quentin, Picasso and Pocket Rocket...oh, and five rescue dogs, two cows, some rescue chickens and a pair of wood-dwelling pigs called Brian and Trotter.
The Hills moved here at the end of May from the Derbyshire village of Church Broughton where Steve was a dairy farmer for 35 years, at one time managing 190 acres with a herd of 150. So, what brought them to the rolling hills of Gloucestershire and a llama trekking business?
"Llamas are such wonderful animals to be with," says Lisa, "they have a calmness about them...and they're all very individual, with their own little quirks." And right on cue Stardust starts humming absent-mindedly as though doing a little light dusting. "He does that all the time," Lisa confirms.
They spent time looking for the perfect farm to set up their business, which would also make a lovely home for them and their daughter, 18-year-old Angel. When they found Briery Hill, near Newent, it ticked so many boxes. Though it didn't have any fencing in place – Steve had to set to work immediately – it had 21 acres of grassland, a nine-acre wood, two acres of gardens, a lake and an imposing 17th-century farmhouse. It really is ridiculously idyllic, and the views across the rolling Gloucestershire countryside and out towards the Malverns quite make you catch your breath with the sheer beauty of it all. And the llamas have come from Annie Austen at Watertown Llamas in Devon – Lisa and Steve intended initially to bring home just two: "The difficulty is who you don't choose," smiles Lisa.
On the day I visit, Storm Ophelia is whipping her way across Ireland, and in the west of England we're experiencing the strangeness of weather conditions caused by her outflow: winds gusting through the trees, a slate-grey sky with rapidly-moving clouds, and the reddest of suns caused by tropical air and dust from the Sahara in the atmosphere. The llamas are restless.
"They can sense something's different," says Steve, as the llamas raise their heads to the blackening sky, and their huge, heavily-lashed eyes become impossibly larger. But they remain serene, and it's true they do have a calming effect on us humans, too. As the three of us walk out across the fields in camelid convoy – we each have a llama on lead – the boys are most definitely in charge and set the pace, stopping occasionally to feed on the long, lush grass. It's only when we approach the woods that they falter – Brian and Trotter are in there, and the trees are singing a song created by Ophelia.
We pause, listening to the wind in the branches and marvelling at the alien sun until the llamas are ready. As I watch Maccy's face, I can sense he's weighing up the situation and deciding what the course of action should be: fight, flight, or maybe just munch on some more grass.
Once it's been established that the pigs aren't in that part of the woods (they're fenced off so don't stray on the paths), we press on with the llamas sure-footedly leading the way. The woodland has previously been used for trial-biking and so we encounter little mounds of earth along the way, which Lisa points out is a bonus for llama trekking: "They love standing on hills and mounds." And, sure enough, each takes it in turn to stand at the top of a mound, handsome head aloft, looking regal. Our photographer Antony naturally sees this as his cue to take some pictures, and the boys oblige with their best sides.
It is, of course, a pleasure to walk in beautiful countryside and through ancient woodlands at any time, but the presence of the llamas does bring an added sense of wellbeing. You can feel that they're at one with their surroundings, and this makes you all the more aware of the beauty of the autumnal day… there's no need for constant chatter as we walk with our graceful companions, occasionally burying fingers into soft neck fur. It really is a treat for all the senses.
Back at the llama paddock, we reunite our three with their five companions...and Pocket Rocket, Stardust and Merlin have a little play at 'touch phone' with our mobiles before all relieving themselves in the toilet area. Housetrained llamas – is there no end to their talents!
The whole experience is an uplifting one, and we wend our way to the summerhouse on the lawns leading down to the lake where cream teas are waiting. A proper china teapot, cups and saucers, clotted cream and the best scones I have ever tasted.
I ask for the recipe, but I think it's probably part of the Briery Hill magic that can't be replicated.
Llama trekking experiences make a wonderful gift, starting at just £35 per person for around one-and-a-half hours. The experience starts with a short introduction to llamas, followed by grooming, trekking and general interaction.
Briery Hill also has a lovely self-contained holiday let – a converted stone barn called The Granary – that sleeps two. Call 07580 158010 or 01989 720517 to book.


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Juan Frausto Pallares (* 10. Juli 1941 in Tomelópez) ist ein mexikanischer Geistlicher und emeritierter römisch-katholischer Weihbischof in León.

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Juan Frausto Pallares wurde am 21. Juni 1968 zum Priester geweiht.

Papst Benedikt XVI. ernannte ihn am 10. Dezember 2005 zum Titularbischof von Vagrauta und Weihbischof in León. Der Bischof von León, José Guadalupe Martín Rábago, spendete ihm am 24. Februar des nächsten Jahres die Bischofsweihe; Mitkonsekratoren waren Giuseppe Bertello, Apostolischer Nuntius in Mexiko, und Renato Ascencio León, Bischof von Ciudad Juárez.

Papst Franziskus nahm am 28. Oktober 2016 seinen altersbedingten Rücktritt an.

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Römisch-katholischer Bischof (21. Jahrhundert)
Römisch-katholischer Geistlicher (20. Jahrhundert)
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METROPOLITAN OF IOANNINA
SPYRIDON VLACHOS (1873-1956)
In 1928, the old and once populous Jewish community of Ioannina numbered 1,963 members (9 per cent of the population). On 25 March 1944, 1,850 members of the community were deported. Just 163, including those who escaped deportation, survived.
The prelate
Spyridon Vlachos (1873–1956) served as Metropolitan of Ioannina from 1916 to 1949. He distinguished himself in the in the struggle of the Northern Epirotes. He played an active role in the Greek Army's surrender after the German offensive, thus avoiding troops being taken captive. In 1949, he was elected Archbishop of Athens.
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The deportation of Ioannina's Jews was followed by the looting of their belongings. Metropolitan Spyridon had the Torah scroll and other religious objects removed from the Old Synagogue and placed in safekeeping, in the diocesan offices. He also had sewing machines removed from Jewish homes, along with any valuable costumes, so that these could be given to their owners when they returned. As the losses were great, some sewing machines remained unclaimed, behind the Ioannina Synagogue, for many years. Metropolitan Spyridon and Mayor Dimitris Vlachlidis averted the destruction of Ioannina's Old Synagogue by the Germans on the pretext that they intended to convert it into a public library. Both men were awarded the ultimate honour by the Jewish Community of Ioannina with the inscription of their names on a marble plaque at the synagogue.
"We shall always remember that Your Beatitude took under your safekeeping at the Holy Diocese of Ioannina the scrolls of our Sacred Bible and other articles of the Holy Synagogue there, which after liberation Your Beatitude returned to the few Jews who had survived. For all these deeds we thank you with all our heart." Extract from a letter by Chief Rabbi Moshe Pessah (10 June 1949)
Photini Constantopoulou and Thanos Veremis, Documents on the History of the Greek Jews: Records from the Historical Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Athens, 1998, p. 390.
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Archbishop Spyridon among the hierarchy of the Church of Greece.
Spyridon Vlachos as Archbishop of Athens and All Greece.
The funeral of Spyridon Vlachos.
ARCHBISHOP OF ATHENS AND ALL GREECE
CHIEF RABBI OF ATHENS
METROPOLITAN OF ARTA
CHIEF RABBI OF VOLOS
METROPOLITAN OF DIMITRIADA
METROPOLITAN OF DIDYMOTEICHO


A Republican-led House committee has endorsed a bill to lift the four-decade-old ban on crude oil exports.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved the legislation Thursday, setting up a possible vote on the House floor by the end of the month.
The 31-19 vote in favor of the bill included support from three Democrats and all 28 Republicans who voted. The White House said President Barack Obama opposes the bill, arguing that a decision on whether to end the ban should be made by the Commerce Department, not Congress.
Lawmakers who support the bill say an ongoing boom in oil and gas drilling has made the 1970s-era restrictions obsolete. Opponents say lifting the ban would benefit big oil companies at the expense of U.S. consumers and even national security.


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COSHH Regulations demand the safe storage of hazardous items. These Cabinets isolate flammable materials and vapours from potential sources of ignition and clearly identify hazardous products in case of a fire. Working towards many of the principals outlined in DSEAR Regs.2002, High visibility 270 degrees labelling conforming to BS5609.
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