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New CAO
According to the PI, Susan Enfield will be introduced on Monday as the new CAO. She comes to us from Vancouver, where she is deputy superintendent. She was CAO in Portland from 2004 to 2006. I will be interested to hear what people know about her.
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/407777_schools01.html
Posted by Michael Rice at 7:19 PM
All I've read so far is that she left Portland Public Schools a couple of years ago, when the Superintendent at the time, Vicki Phillips, was apparently performing slash and burn techniques on Portland's schools similar to what we are currently experiencing in Seattle (before leaving to join the Gates Foundation). ["Hurricane Vicki" -- Willamette Week, http://wweek.com/editorial/3313/8520/]
"Some of Phillips' own hires have also left or changed jobs under her leadership. Susan Enfield, who earned $117,000 a year as director of teaching and learning, followed Phillips from Pennsylvania, where they had previously worked together in the state's education department. But Enfield left in the summer of 2006, less than two years after taking the job, and her position, which is now advertised at $132,000 a year, remains open. Enfield now works for the Evergreen School District in Vancouver, Wash. She did not return phone calls."
So if Enfield left Portland because she did not agree with Phillips, then that might speak well of Enfield.
Meanwhile, and speaking of new hires at SPS, here's a bit of information on what a "Broad Resident" is, from a Portland education blog called Global Ideologies in Education:
http://www.ourglobaleducation.com/2009/04/broad-foundation-and-portland-public.html
As has been discussed elsewhere recently on this blog, Supt. Goodloe-Johnson has quietly requested the addition of a "Broad Resident" to her admin staff to the tune of $100,000 or so.
Many of us have questioned this request. Who or what is a "Broad Resident" and why do we need it? Why isn't this expenditure and potential outside influence being publicly discussed or voted on by the School Board?
Why is our District funding yet another admin person when SPS admin is already bloated? And why is it the Superintendent can find money for another admin person, but can't find the funds for essential people like teachers?
According to the blogger in Portland, "Broad Residents" come from the Broad Foundation, which funds half their salaries (while the school district must fund the other half). What they do in the District isn't clear. If it's some kind of glorified internship or on-the-job training, why is our District/taxpayer money paying for this?
Moreover, who invited the Broad Foundation to Seattle and why?
This matters because Broad has an agenda and vision for public schools that has not been openly discussed or voted on by our School Board or even the Superintendent.
As mentioned elsewhere on this blog, the Broad agenda for "education reform" consists of training superintendents to act like CEOs, apparently to run school districts like corporations, standardization and apparently endless testing are part of the plan, along with a disdain for the teacher's union, which is viewed as an obstacle, and an apparent endgame of corporate-run, for-profit charter schools funded by public money.
Did any of us vote for that? Was that in Goodloe-Johnson's job description?
Yet, we have a School Superintendent who was trained by the Broad Foundation, who was recently evaluated in her annual review by a fellow Broad affiliate, Tom Payzant (therefore, neither an independent nor objective outsider), and is now requesting the Seattle School District also fund a Broad Resident to work at her side.
Who is running our school district?
Sahila said...
Gavroche - are you cross-posting this information to Harium's blog, and sending it to Board members?
If not, and you have the time, please would you?
My question to the Board, which I intend to pursue quite vigorously is this: Do you know about the Broad connection as its being manifested here in Seattle and do you know/understand what is the Foundation's mission?... If not, then here is factual data to inform your future decisions and to revisit past ones. And I (we) expect to see concrete signs that you are acting on this new information.
If you do know all of this, why are you pursuing this (Broad influenced) path without coming clean to the SPS community about your intentions?
I think of all the things that have been going on, this link and the lack of public involvement in choosing to go down this path (and, as has been pointed out repeatedly Washington's refusal twice to sanction charter schools), might be the strongest thread we have to be able to call a halt to this whole process.
What I noticed in reading her Linked In profile, is she spent just 4 years in the classroom before moving into a rotation of admin positions, each notably short.
It does seem she's been trying to move north, as she was a strong contender for superintendent of Bellevue PS this past winter.
I have to say, that undergrad in english/lit at Berkeley is comforting somehow. Surely she would not favor standardized LA curriculum??
I presented the information to the board on Monday regarding the Broad Resident and Payzant. The statement submitted to the Board is as follows:
Public Hearing on the School Budget for 2009-2010
First, I would like to note that I e-mailed to Michael DeBell and Mary Bass the contact information for the State Project Manager supervising the Pre-Disaster Mitigation funds for the State of Washington. This is the $3M grant that can be used to seismically upgrade the Meany building.
For the next item, I will be referring to page 23 of the budget that describes the expenses of the Core Administration. One of the key changes noted is an addition to the superintendent's office of a Broad Resident and a senior admin staff position for an increase of $127,000.
Several of us want to know if this is related to the Broad Foundation. The Broad Foundation is clear in its' goal of establishing charter schools in urban areas around the country.
Charter schools basically being privatized schools that use public funds and which are more exclusive than inclusive of school populations.
In fact it's common knowledge that Dr. Goodloe-Johnson is on the Board of Directors for the Broad Foundation. What might be less common knowledge is that Tom Payzant, the "independent evaluator" who was a part of the superintendent's yearly evaluation this year is also a Broad graduate who is listed as a speaker in the Urban Superintendents' Academy on the Broad Foundation's website.
It is also our understanding that the Broad Foundation will be paying for half of the Broad Resident's salary. We would like to know why we will be paying for this position at all when our students desperately need more teachers. Even one teacher can make a profound difference in the lives of many students and a positive impact on a school community within a year.
We want to know why there is so munch involvement with the Broad Foundation when none of us have either voted for or requested the Broad Foundation's involvement in our school system particularly when we have voted twice against charter schools in our state.
We are following the money and we don't like where some of it is going.
We would also like to know how the $9M Gates' Foundation gift is being used by SPS. On KUOW, a representative of SPS stated that the money was being used for additional testing. If that is the case I want to know why the money is being spent on additional testing when we have the WASL, what is the test, who is evaluating the test results and what is the purpose is of the testing.
Basically we want more information provided on these subjects and more transparency on the use of our money.
beansa said...
Here is some more info for y'all:
The Broad Residency provides:
Immediate placement in a full-time managerial role in a school district or charter management organization reporting to a superintendent or top executive
Opportunity to work on projects positively impacting student achievement
Eight quarterly professional development sessions over two years
Access to a national network of leaders making an impact in public education through management
$85,000 - $95,000 annual salary
The Broad Residency is a two-year leadership development program that places participants into full-time high-level managerial positions in school districts and charter management organizations (CMOs), where they can have an immediate impact on the education of America's students. Broad Residents receive two years of professional development and access to a nationwide network of education leaders. The Residency is designed for individuals with an advanced degree (e.g. master's, juris doctorate, Ph.D.), at least four years of work experience and a successful track record of leadership and/or management.
Many school districts are the size of Fortune 500 companies. They need leaders and strong managers who understand the complex operations of a large organization—successful professionals with experience in human resources, operations, finance, strategic planning and other critical business areas.
In school districts, Broad Residents report directly to the superintendent or a top cabinet member. In CMOs, Residents report directly to the CEO or chief operating officer. Residents are often tasked with leading major projects like opening new schools, leading budgeting processes, increasing operational efficiencies or improving human resources. Residents earn starting annual salaries of $85,000 to $95,000 and participate in a series of professional development sessions over the course of two years. At the conclusion of the two-year program, The Broad Residency expects that school districts and CMOs will hire Residents permanently in their current positions or promote them into more senior leadership posts.
Now in its seventh year, The Broad Residency has placed more than 165 Residents in more than 35 urban school districts and CMOs nationwide. Eighty-six percent of Broad Residency alumni still work in education and continue to positively impact student achievement as leaders in the education industry.
(to be continued...)
(continued from previous comment)
Former Broad Residents of SPS - that's right, this is not the first Broad Resident of our district
1) BRAD BERNATEK
The Broad Residency Class of 2006-2008
Current Organization: Seattle Public Schools
M.B.A., Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
M.A., Business Administration, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
B.A., History, University of Michigan
Brad Bernatek currently serves as director of research, evaluation and assessment for Seattle Public Schools. In this role, Bernatek runs the department responsible for student statistics including enrollment, demographics, evaluation and standardized testing. During his Residency, Bernatek served the district as interim manager for research, evaluation and assessment and as special assistant to the chief operations officer. Previously, Bernatek has served as manager of strategy consulting for IBM Business Consulting as well as a strategy consultant at PriceWaterhouseCoopers. He began his career as a financial analyst at Ford Motor Company, where he worked on the business plan for global training initiatives related to the Ford 2000 reorganization. Bernatek has a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Michigan, a master's degree in business administration from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, and a master's degree in business administration from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.
2)CORDELL CARTER
J.D., University of Notre Dame Law School
M.S., Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University
B.A., Political Science, University of Washington
"I believe that our school systems must harness the tools and knowledge of the private sector to deliver world-class services to our children. Furthermore, as a former public school student, I am obliged to assist public schools and students because others did the same for me years ago. While I have volunteered in public schools wherever I have lived, The Broad Residency provides me an opportunity to add value to schools and students everyday."
Prior to joining The Broad Residency, Cordell Carter was a visiting attorney in the legal department of Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau (KfW) Bankengruppe in Frankfurt, Germany. In this role, he focused on public-private partnerships and the European carbon emission credits trading system, and advised on several aspects of U.S. law. Previously, Carter was a management consultant for IBM Business Consulting Services, where he focused on enterprise architecture and business process reengineering projects for federal and state government clients.
3)JESSICA DE BARROS
M.P.A., University of Washington
B.A., Political Science, American University
"My mission is to dramatically reduce the achievement gap in urban public schools, and I believe The Broad Residency will provide me the opportunity to accomplish this. As a graduate of Seattle Public Schools, I believe it is time for me to directly apply my skills to turning the district around—with a focus on students of color and low-income students."
Prior to joining The Broad Residency, Jessica de Barros created education policy at the local, state and national levels. Most recently, she started her own consulting business to assist school districts, national foundations, nonprofit organizations and government in developing policies to improve high school graduation and career readiness rates. Previously, de Barros served as the senior policy analyst in the Seattle mayor's office for education, where she developed and managed policy for the Families and Education Levy, a 7 million investment in preschool, after-school, middle school, dropout prevention and school-based health programs. She worked with stakeholders to develop a new accountability system to track outcomes, measure progress and make program changes to improve results for low-income children and children of color. De Barros has also worked for the Center on Reinventing Public Education at the University of Washington, Children's Home Society of Washington, the U.S. Senate and the U.S. Department of Labor.
This last one doesn't work for SPS but is with the Gates Foundation:
4)KY VU
Current Organization: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Residency Placement: San Francisco Unified School District
M.B.A., Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, 2000
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1992
Ky Vu currently serves as program officer for education for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Prior to joining the Gates Foundation, Vu served as director, state and federal programs for the San Francisco Unified School District where he also served as special assistant to the superintendent during his Residency. Prior to joining the district, Vu taught Algebra and Advanced Placement Calculus at Leadership High School, a public charter high school in San Francisco. He has also served as a management consultant with Ernst and Young and A.T. Kearney and held various marketing strategy positions with Charles Schwab & Co. Vu began his career as a U.S. naval officer. He holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a master's degree in business administration from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
All this and more can be found here:
http://www.broadresidency.org/
So. From the info I got from the Broad Residency website, it looks like we've had these residents for a while now, huh?
Glad to know the powers that be are keepin the people informed!
Gack.
MathTeacher42 said...
I checked out her linked in profile thing above - I googled her high school 'media academy' but I'm not confident I have the correct place.
Her list of accomplishments looks like the stuff I read on the Board Foundation, and it looks like much of the blather I read about during our great education ... ha ha ha ... reform legislation a few months ago.
Big Words, Big Sentences, Big Paragraphs, Big Tomes
NO Details About HOW to implement any ideas, NO MONEY to pay for the non-existant details.
(well... in their defense, if you have no clue what your ideas cost in time, hence you have no clue about what you're going to do, why bother paying for it?)
She's young enough - maybe she REALLY wants to change how things work, instead of just creating more powerpoint blather ???
Bob Murphy
Hey Mr. Murphy you said:
"Big Words, Big Sentences, Big Paragraphs, Big Tomes
NO Details About HOW to implement any ideas,"
I thought you were talking about Cleveland STEM, which was approved by a 6-1 vote.
Harium said he was a big STEM advocate but voted no.... because of far too much uncertainty in this situation.
As always Harium sees through the "Big Words, Big Sentences, Big Paragraphs, Big Tomes" and mindless blather to analyze what he is actually voting on.
If anyone has pie-in-the-sky for sale, I have a suggestion for 6 potential customers.
The blather you are not hearing about:
http://www.k12.wa.us/Communications/PressReleases2009/WASL-HSRelease.aspx
Go to the above right to get the Presentation Materials .pdf
On page two you will find class of 2011 WASL Math pass rate 45.26%
which is a drop of over 4 points from last year.
Without adequate k-8 math preparation .. high school math improvement is impossible.
Currently 90+% of WA elementary kids are in some reform math program about 66% are in either Everyday Math or TERC/Investigations. About 65+% of middle schoolers are in Connected Math.
The Adoption Committees do not even read the National Math Advisory Panel's materials ...
Pure math insanity is what is produced largely out of ignorance.
By the way on the Broad resident discussion Brad Bernetek was the SPS principle data cherry-picker in helping CAO Santorno push through the worthless Everyday Math adoption.
When I pointed out the EDM-Connected math failure in Denver Brad's comment was there is nothing written that this failure was due to the instructional materials, it could have been other factors.
Well now we know one of the other factors is not altitude. The EDM-Connected Math combo does not work at 5000 feet or at Sea Level.
Let us have one more round of applause for Dr. Bergeson's twelve years of math leadership shenanigans. Oh her entire math team is still working at OSPI.
The Best of Luck to new CAO Enfield in her attempt to navigate through this embedded mine field and produce an adequate or better education for ALL students in math.
What a refreshing change that would be if she can pull that off.
My questions are really along the lines of -what as this foundation's cadre accomplished for students? Specifically, are students with disabilities better off where these people have been in the mix, are middle managers effective and present and making decisions that assist building teams and families in working together? Aside from the big picture politics of the Broad Foundation, could anyone give specifics as to what has been accomplished by the Broad Foundation people in concrete terms especially in bringing our school districts' historically 2nd class citizens in from the margins? I am also interested in what families' experiences have been with the new CAO in other districts.
Chris S. said...
Anonymous, I agree. I want to see some data that the Broad Foundation's projects actually "positively impact student achievement", close the achievement gap, improve efficiency, etc. Preferably peer-reviewed. They've been at it long enough - sounds like there should be some numbers from Portland at least.
Sorry for the cross-posting....
I think the time is ripe to focus on the Broad Foundation influence operating in the District.... this connection, which is becoming firmly entrenched and widespread, seems to be at the root of much of this undesirable path we're on... expose and maybe work to remove that influence and we might have a chance to change track....
Re: Direct action... my posting of the Air New Zealand body-painting ad - honesty and transparency - brought forth a suggestion from Christ Stewart on the Alt Schools Coalition group that we turn up at Board meetings with scripted lessons painted on our bodies...
My response below:
"Three cool ideas.... body-painted protests at board meeting(s) - really like that, Chris - maybe you should post this idea to all the other networks and to the Blogs - mass complaint campaign, rolling school boycotts... there's enough in that to get some media coverage... what other really creative, funny, quirky ideas can we come up with?
Thinking about planning and implementation of some or all of the above...
I'm willing to have a meeting at my house (in Greenwood) to get started on this during the weekend 18/19 July... my preference would be on the Sunday afternoon 19th, from noon - 2.30pm, leaving enough time for family fun later.
Happy to have kids come - they can play, watch movies etc.
We could start the complaint campaign at that meeting - would just need to print/photocopy large quantities of complaint forms, I can provide envelopes and some stamps...
Let me know if anyone is interested and we'll take it from there..."
Sahila
email: metamind_universal@yahoo.com , telephone: 206 297 7511
From: Chris Stewart
Subject: [ASC] Re: A New Take on Transparency and Honesty - Kiwi-style!!!
OK, let's show up at the board meeting in body paint! Maybe with
scripted lessons painted all over...
I would assume that if the Broad Foundation is paying half the salary, this is a fellow we would not have were it not for the Broad Foundation. Paying half of the salary for an administrator who is producing gains for students in the district doesn't necessarily sound like a bad public/privatish partnership.
Except for one thing. Where can I go for data that demonstrate to me what paying half the salary for these fellows has brought to the district? I have been a fellow (not an education fellow) before; you often have lots of projects. But what can the central office point to that has improved schooling for Seattle's students that we would not have had but/for these fellows? That's my question. Which is not to say that I don't think all of the concerns about the Broad Foundation itself are or aren't well-founded -- I'm as suspicious as the next person -- but whatever the agenda of the organization may be, if we're paying for a fellow, I want to know what we're getting in return. Specifically.
dj.... my concern would be that the fellow work on agendas that are sanctioned by the SPS community, not agendas that are being promulgated by the fellow's parent foundation...
I hate it that Broad people (hence Broad agendas) are being insinuated into SPS executive management in such a quiet, underhand, devious, 'under the radar' manner ... a very effective tactic on the part of the Foundation... not at all transparent and easy to spot and stop... and before we know it, we will be so far down this track that we wont have any wiggle room, sovereignty or autonomy left...
Are we running schools or a corporation? SPS is a bureaucracy, not a corporate entity. The viewpoint is different and the financial structure is different.It's amazing to me the way the Broad seems to just advertise for the position of a Resident, use anyone with some sort of business background, provide them with on the job training for a couple of years at a nice beginning salary and then put them in these positions of great influence, unbeknownst to the rest of us.
The person overseeing enrollment and demographics had a crucial role in the school closures.
We were constantly reminding SPS and the board about the demographics for the Central District and Capitol Hill areas, that according to the census bureau there is projected to be an increase of 50%-100% school aged children between 2005 and 2012 and yet they closed the only elementary school and junior high school in the area. They kept saying that our schools were under enrolled and yet now DeBell is talking about opening 4-5 schools in the north end, including Old Hay which they just closed.
SPS continually responded to our concern about a lack of schools in the central area by saying that they were using the numbers from the census bureau to make their determinations.
With Don Kennedy, our superintendent's buddy from SC, and people like Bernatek running all of the numbers, numbers that can be manipulated any way you want them to be or simply hidden, the only one coming out of this a winner is the Broad.
We really need to take back our public school schools here in Seattle.
DJ, I agree with you. We need specifics about what is being accomplished for whom, and what has been accomplished and for whom in other districts. If the Broad Foundation is supposed to help create a better management cadre and improve services to students and families and teachers what evidence is there that it is actually making a difference? In our experience, knock knock knock at the door of middle management in this district and no one is home.
Sahila,
I agree with you. We need to get together, discuss the presence of the Broad in our school system and come up with some actions showing our concern.
Also now that we know the who's who of Broad graduates in SPS, it's time to focus on what they are doing and evaluate their performances ensuring that they are working in the best interest of our children and not that of the Broad or any other corporate interest.
Dora, hasn't Mary Bass been calling for an audit of the demog/enrollment division of SPS?
Dj asked- "Where can I go for data that demonstrate to me what paying half the salary for these fellows has brought to the district?"
Here's a few more related questions-
How are residents placed with the district? Interview? Who initiates the process, Broad, SPS, the individual? Given that it is Broads expectation that residents stay on in the districts they go to serve- how much forethought is there in the need for permanent placement?
Let's get specific- Brad Bernatek. Was there an interview process? Open to the public? Did board members attend? After his 2 year residency, it appears he took over the position of the person he had interned with, Ramona Pierson. I've heard from others in the district who did not know this change in personal was on the way. Can anyone with more history in the district offer their memory of this transition?
The Broad Foundation and SPS have conflicting goals. We are a public agency, with democratically elected oversite, policies aimed at engaging and empowering participants. Last night at the board meeting, public testimony included a reminder that parents through PTAs, support schools by hiring teachers, purchasing supplemental material. In contrast, Broad believes in increased administration, privatization, data collection/interpretation and new tests to collect data. There is a philosophical difference in vision and approach- and we the public should know when and how these ideologues come to work for us.
As I understand it, Ramona Pierson quit rather unexpectdly after several very loud, very public fights with her boss at the time. Brad Bernatek was not working for her at the time, he was working for the COO and stepped in because a lot of things were left in chaos.
Anyone able to confirm if SPS is paying any portion of these salaries?
Another troubling factor in all this is the Broad Foundation's stated objective (or M.O.) of "honing in on" troubled school districts that either are in bankruptcy or have been taken over by the city/mayor.
Neither of these conditions is currently true in Seattle.
In fact, despite a poorly run overstaffed central administrative office (full of Broad Residents, apparently -- which may explain its bloatedness!), Seattle's public schools, by and large, are quite strong, with some nationally recognized schools and programs. Yes, there are weak areas and inequities that should be addressed.
So how does Broad (rhymes with "toad") plan to make its case for a privatized takeover of Seattle Public Schools via charters if our district isn't asking for this?
It would, in theory, need to create an environment that is "ripe" (to use one of Broad's own terms) for charters to move in.
How does it do that?
Looking at all the mind-boggling, reckless, rushed and illogical decisions and changes made by this School District this past year under the leadership of Broad board member and graduate, Maria Goodloe-Johnson, with no clear benefits in sight, one might question this Superintendent's objectives for our District.
Are she and her admin staff (larded with Broadies) genuinely trying to improve Seattle Public Schools, make them strong and desirable for all the kids in the city and lure back the high percentage of private school attendees into the public system?
Will school closures that ignore demographic trends and community needs, teacher layoffs, mindlessly standardizing curricula, implementing a failed math curriculum, weakening alternative and highly capable schools, abolishing fresh cooked meals for middle and high schoolers in favor of central kitchen airplane food -- add up to a stronger, more desirable School District?
Or do these "reforms" create chaos and mistrust and weaken schools and parents' faith in the system, and potentially open the door to a public cry for the city to take over the School District? If so, Mission Accomplished, from the Broad perspective, and the next step would be to present the idea of privately run charters as a "solution."
This, of course, is just a theory -- a "Chaos Theory" if you will.
But it really has been difficult to see how Goodloe-Johnson's erratic, poorly executed "Plan for Excellence," which has disenfranchised parents, has little to no community buy-in, and has elements that seem shrouded in secrecy, is putting our kids and their schools on a positive, stronger path.
This is not a new story. There are always those who come from the corporate world who believe that the corporate way to run a business is applicable everywhere.
Well, there's ample evidence that that's just not true.
Our country just finished 8 years under the "leadership" of the first U.S. president with an MBA, and look where that landed us -- in two quagmires overseas and an economy in a tailspin such as we've not seen since the Great Depression.
We now have ample evidence of the for-profit, oversight-free "business models" of the Ken Lays and Bernie Madoffs, Phil Gramms, Kerry Killingers, etc. etc, of the world, and it has left our nation in ruins.
The Broad/Gates-types are the same kind of people who wanted to privatize Social Security. Thank God that didn't happen, for look where everyone's retirement savings would be now.
Above all -- and this is the heart of the matter for me and for many others on this blog I would venture to guess -- our children are not commodities. Their schools are not "enterprises." Their principals are not "CEOs."
Their learning is not a "profit" opportunity. (These are all terms quoted from Broad literature.)
Successful schools are collaborative, creative communities in which parents have a say and teachers are respected, principals are members of the team, and children are the primary focus.
(Sahila -- feel free to re-post my messages wherever you like.)
gavroche - loved your last post - to the point, clear, logical, paints a very compelling picture of what's going on.... can you get the Times or PI to run it as an editorial? Maybe send it to the radio and tv stations, particularly the public broadcast systems? I feel I cant do that cos I'm not the author and they might want to follow up with you...
I will post it to Harium's blog, plus the Alt Schools Coalition, plus our own (AS#1)lists, and maybe it can go to ESP, Nora? I've tried and tried to get on their list but it never seems to happen!
WenD said...
Can we have a new thread devoted to the Broad Foundation? I'm intrigued by who they are and why they have established a foothold in Seattle. Looks like SPS has joined the inner circle. NYC, Philly. I'm sure MG-J is keen on winning the Broad Prize.
She has some interesting company on the Broad board, mostly from the corporate world. The newest member is former Bush Secretary of Ed. Margaret Spellings. Ever the George W protégé, she's famous for saying, "I talk about No Child Left Behind like Ivory Soap: It's 99.9 percent pure. There's not much needed in the way of change." (I found this quote after Googling "Margaret Spellings" and "hack.")
Another notable board member is Louis Gerstner, former CEO of IBM, now with the Carlyle Group. I'm sure you're all familiar with the CG. Second largest private equity group in the world. We got yours, you didn't, seems to embody their goals. His latest idea is taxing capital gains at 80 % for short-term investments. Lou, of course, would be immune from this rule.
If the Broad Foundation is all about cultivating leadership in schools, Gerstner isn't really my idea of a leader, unless you seek a role model for corporate greed. He fired 60K employees from Big Blue and pocketed millions and got away with it. Stock manipulation is the sign of a true leader, especially when the SEC looks the other way.
I'm waiting to see exactly how Mr. Gerstner will put the equity back in education.
http://www.broadeducation.org/asset/419-tbc_board_announcement.pdf
Lists the rest of the board.
ConcernedSPSParent said...
Hi Sahila,
I'd certainly like to come along
and discuss the Broad influence on
the SPS. Do you think it would be
worth inviting Sherry 'Rubber Stamp' Carr?. Also (not trying to sidetrack
the agenda) I would find a quick
overview of the various groups
'interacting' to deliver education
direction enormously helpful - I'd
even offer to take notes and post:)
To Anonymous,
Yes, Mary Bass has mentioned having such an audit.
I think that we need to carefully examine at this point the enrollment numbers that caused this rush to close schools. I can tell by the budget numbers that a savings of $3M was hardly worth all the moves and closures that occurred this time around.
SPS could have saved far more than that by doing what so many other companies and public agencies have done and gone to a four day work week. We might even see some efficiencies with that schedule in place.
When the superintendent was asked on Weekday with Steve Shere about the option of savings by having employees go to a four day work week or some similar arrangement, DGJ said that it would only be a temporary fix and therefore was not an option. When she was asked if the $3M was a savings over a long period of time or just a one time fix, she said that it was only a one time savings. All that pain for so little gain.
You do have to wonder, was that complete imcompetence on the part of the superintendent and her team or part of the chaos theory that gavroche refers to.
Our superintendent also said that class size doesn't matter. Charter schools would offer smaller class sizes.
If school closures happened because of budget concerns, well, we saved little. If it had to do with enrollment, well, we have 1,200 students over the estimated amount enrolled for this fall, most of these students will be entering kindergarten. Just as the census bureau had projected.
Then why all of this chaos and pain? Together the Broads and the Gates provided our superintendent with $10M for doing such a wonderful job. Why couldn't that money been used to prevent the rif's or schools closings?
You just have to wonder.
"You just have to wonder."
Sure do as Gates, Broad and MG-J are unlikely to provide any straight answers.
The answer I'd like is how many instructional coaches are running about?
At one time when the Budget was an issue there were going to be big cuts at Central Admin and no coaches unless specifically paid for out of grants. Guess there are no budget worries now as coaches seem to be abundant and central admin expands or am I wrong about that?
Still trying to figure out how Mr. Bernatek, and by extension how other foundation folks, come to be in permanent positions at SPS.
If Ms. Pierson's leaving left things in a bit of chaos, I understand someone needing to step in- but why Mr Bernatek, with so little time in the district? And at what point did this become a permanent position? Did the open position have to be internally or publicly posted? And, if his residency was in Research, Eval and Assessment- why was he in working under the COO and not Ms. Pierson in the first place?
I guess I'm just unclear about the process. I do think that Broad's influence and placement complicate matters. In trying to learn a little more, I found Charlie's comment from the New Strategic Plan post here at SSS in January of '08.
"Hey, here's an item from a recent District brochure: "An Overview of Accomplishments 2005-2006"
"Support from Gates and Broad Foundations. Received
an $800,000 Gates Foundation Grant to fund the strategic
implementation team, work on first round of closures, and
implement additional recommendations from the Community
Advisory Committee on Investing in Educational Excellence.
A grant-funded Broad Foundation resident is working on
strengthening strategic planning capacity in the district...
I think the money paid the salary for Brad Bernatek, an assistant to the COO. I wonder if the Broad Foundation is satisfied with the yield from this investment. Surely Mr. Bernatek provided them with some report of his impact and benefit for the District.
Mr. Bernatek apparently still works for the District. His title is "Special Support & Program Evaluation" in the Operations Division."
Actually, I'm something of a fan of Mr. Bernatek and his work. He usually presents good and valuable data and he is one of the few people I have seen within the District who knows how to work with data and interpret it.
While he has, in a few select cases - not at all in the bulk of his work, presented data in a way that, while true, isn't entirely honest and unbiased, he will acknowledge the bias if you confront him with it. I respect that.
I appreciate that Charlie. My questions are much more about process- as I don't have experience with Mr Bernatek.
So- how do foundations come to partner with SPS? Maybe we apply for grants, maybe they approach us, maybe there are connections between admin folks who have worked together in the past. I'm curious about the rules and roles- what has and hasn't worked historically. And, I'm not sure it's a good idea for foundation trained folks to join us as residents with or without the expectation of post-residency positions UNLESS there is a well known, widely understood and accepted partnership between the district and foundation. Broad's 4th Quarter EQ quotes Dr. GJ as saying she hopes to have 4 more Broad residents next year- that's a lot of influence. We should be clear on what it means, who it serves.
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@Gavroche,
Did you happen to read Naomi Klein's "Shock Doctrine?" Your Chaos Theory and her shock doctrine are very similar--create a completely unstable environment and do disorient the population so that the people with the agenda (Friedmanite economists/Broad Foundation surrogates) can swoop in and remake the landscape without any resistance.
Insightful and disturbing!
In regard to grants and where they come from and why....
I just do not know anything about the appearance of a $756,000 grant to hire Education First.
Sure seems like help I would decline until I knew a lot more about who is providing the money.
For math expertise I see nothing worth buying from them.
Direct quotes from Broad's Website (4th Qtr. EQ) ref'd by Owlhouse:
New Broad Residents Jessica de Barros and Cordell Carter (Class of 2008–2010) who recently joined Seattle Public Schools, have also discovered that their work in the Seattle district requires all of their skills, talents, and knowledge.
"This is a great challenge," said de Barros. "I've never had an experience like this."
Carter, who has degrees in political science, policy, and law said, "I'm using my entire education, unlike any other job I've had previously. Education is so complex. I had no idea."
Carter has appreciated the complexity, finding his work challenging, engaging, and rewarding. "I'm doing interesting work every day," he said, "and doing something that has an effect on real people."
Seattle's Broad Residents areworking to transform Seattle Public Schools, and Goodloe-Johnson knows they will continue to help implement her reform vision and make a difference for Seattle schools. Does she want more Residents?
"Absolutely," she said. "I want four next year."
So for anyone who loves business analogies, let me ask this question: Why are we bringing in Broad Resident Newbies with no education background whatsoever? How on earth are they qualified in any way to have a job with a school district, besides Broad's influence and connections?
I don't care of each has 10 Harvard MBAs. Why should we parents tolerate their on-the-job training, while paying 1/2 their salary?
SPS has its head screwed on backwards! The true professionals in the classrooms are maligned as lazy, union-protected sloths while the administration is filling up with Broad Foundation Newbies who say things like "I had no idea" and "I've never had an experience like this."
I didn't realize Broad's connections means one can get a job in a major school district, with voters paying 1/2 the training wage (for the training wheels), with ABSOLUTELY NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED! None. Zip. Nada. And the Super would like FOUR of them.
But what if parents, who have never been consulted about this, DO NOT want corporate CEO types invading the administration of our schools to further their own agendas?
Let's call it what it is: A Hostile Takeover of our schools by corporate interests. The same corporate interests that drove our economy into the ditch, if not the grave, and now think their greatness should be spread throughout our schools.
Amen and pass the potatoes, wseadawg.
It's great to see on this blog so much information and discussion about the Broad and the influence that they have already had on our school system.
I find it interesting that Gates and Broad provided money to SPS for a package of items including school closures in 2008. Since when would we need money to determine what schools should be closed and which should stay open? Why would it be their concern?
I have so many more questions than answers right now.
I'm beginning to think that these school closures were nothing but an exercise of moving chess pieces on a board. It didn't have anything to do with saving money or handling under enrollment as DGJ said it did. We saved $3M in the closures which is nothing and so far our district is over enrolled by 1,200 students for the fall. That means 1,200 students over what their initial estimate was.
They closed, threatened and marginalized several alternative programs, split APP, moved SBOC out of Queen Anne, closed AAA, etc. These programs are a very important part of SPS. These are the smaller schools that provide an alternative to the larger traditional schools (sounding familiar...as in charter schools?)and have been exceptionally successful. Why touch them? Someone told me recently that DGJ doesn't like small schools and that's why she is going after the alt ed programs. I don't think that's it at all. As far as the Broad is concerned, there should be only one alternative option to public schools and that is the charter school.
And Charlie, Mr. Bernatek might be a fine man but he does have all of the data in his hands and we know that data can be manipulated as easily as a CFO can manipulate the numbers.
"While he has, in a few select cases - not at all in the bulk of his work, presented data in a way that, while true, isn't entirely honest and unbiased, he will acknowledge the bias if you confront him with it."
So does that mean that we now have to follow everything and confront this person each time that he provides data to the public?
"Believe nothing, question everything"?
That might be the case for now. At this point I would say many of us are in that mode and we all need to be questioning everything now, among ourselves, to the board members and to the staff within SPS.
I have decided not only to speak in front of the board, basically just for public record, but also to start picking up the phone and calling people within the SPS structure when I have questions. There is so much to get to the truth about and we need to start doing that now.
And the chaos theory/Shock Doctrine does apply here. Make a mess of things, cause people pain and then allow people like the Broads to come in and save the day.
No way. Not here. Not now.
Dora Taylor asks "
So does that mean that we now have to follow everything and confront this person each time that he provides data to the public?"
In short, yes.
But that's the way that it has always been and always will be.
On school closures and Gates and Broad providing money.......
What is needed would be a study as to how to keep schools open by using non-SPS co-tenants at schools to keep all the schools open.
I thought Gates were the small schools folks. I guess only when it is the Gates idea.
The idea should be to keep schools as neighborhood schools to strengthen both families and community. I advocated for this and so did Harium during campaigning in 2007.
It is much easier for MG-J and the board to reactively close schools than pro-actively plan financially sound ways to keep schools open.
But then where would the charters be housed when that is slammed through?
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David Kahn (writer)
David Kahn (b. February 7, 1930[1]) is an American historian, journalist, and writer. He has written extensively on the history of cryptography and military intelligence.
David Kahn 2009
(1930-02-07) February 7, 1930 (age 91)
Historian, journalist, writer
The Codebreakers - The Story of Secret Writing
Susanne Fiedler (divorced)
Oliver and Michael
Kahn's first published book, The Codebreakers - The Story of Secret Writing (1967), has been widely considered to be a definitive account of the history of cryptography.[2]
2 The Codebreakers
3 Later career
BiographyEdit
David Kahn was born in New York City to Florence Abraham Kahn, a glass manufacturer, and Jesse Kahn, a lawyer.
Kahn has said he traces his interest in cryptography to reading Fletcher Pratt's Secret and Urgent as a boy. Kahn is a founding editor of the Cryptologia journal. In 1969, Kahn married Susanne Fiedler; they are now divorced. They have two sons, Oliver and Michael.[1][3]
He attended Bucknell University. After graduation, he worked as a reporter at Newsday. He also served as an editor at the International Herald Tribune in Paris in the 1960s.
It was during this period that he wrote an article for the New York Times Magazine about two defectors from the National Security Agency. It was the origin of his monumental book, The Codebreakers.
The CodebreakersEdit
Main article: The Codebreakers
The Codebreakers comprehensively chronicles the history of cryptography from ancient Egypt to the time of its writing. It is widely regarded as the best account of the history of cryptography up to its publication. Most of the editing, German translating, and insider contributions were from American World War II cryptographer Bradford Hardie III. William Crowell, the former deputy director of the National Security Agency, was quoted in Newsday as saying "Before he (Kahn) came along, the best you could do was buy an explanatory book that usually was too technical and terribly dull."[4]
Kahn, then a newspaper journalist, was contracted to write a book on cryptography in 1961. He began writing it part-time, at one point quitting his regular job to work on it full-time.[5] The book was to include information on the National Security Agency (NSA), and according to author James Bamford writing in 1982, the agency attempted to stop its publication and considered publishing a negative review of Kahn's work in the press to discredit him.[6] A committee of the United States Intelligence Board concluded that the book was "a possibly valuable support to foreign COMSEC [communications security] authorities" and recommended "further low-key actions as possible, but short of legal action, to discourage Mr. Kahn or his prospective publishers."[6] Kahn's publisher, the Macmillan company, handed over the manuscript to the federal government for review without Kahn's permission on March 4, 1966.[6] Kahn and Macmillan eventually agreed to remove some material from the manuscript, particularly concerning the relationship between the NSA and its British counterpart, the GCHQ, because Kahn felt pressured by the intelligence community.[7]
The Codebreakers did not cover most of the history concerning the breaking of the German Enigma machine (which became public knowledge only in the 1970s). Nor did it cover the advent of strong cryptography in the public domain, beginning with the invention of public key cryptography and the specification of the Data Encryption Standard in the mid-1970s. An updated edition in 1996 included an additional chapter covering events since the original publication.[8]
The Codebreakers was a finalist for the non-fiction Pulitzer Prize in 1968.
Later careerEdit
Dr David Kahn with a plaque from the National Cryptologic Museum Foundation to commemorate his 80th birthday in 2010
Kahn was awarded a doctorate (D.Phil) from Oxford University in 1974, in modern German history under the supervision of the then Regius professor of modern history, Hugh Trevor-Roper.
Kahn continued his work as a reporter and op-ed editor for Newsday until 1998 and served as a journalism professor at New York University.
Despite past differences between Kahn and the National Security Agency over the information in The Codebreakers, Kahn was selected in 1995 to become NSA's scholar-in-residence. On October 26, 2010, Kahn attended a ceremony at NSA's National Cryptologic Museum (NCM) to commemorate his donation of his lifetime collection of cryptologic books, memorabilia, and artifacts to the museum and its library.[9] The collection is housed at the NCM library and is non-circulating (that is, items cannot be checked out or loaned out), but photocopying and photography of items in the collection are allowed.
Kahn lives (as of 2012) in New York City. He has lived in Washington, D.C.; Paris, France; Freiburg, Germany; Oxford, England; and Great Neck, New York.
PublicationsEdit
Plaintext in the new unabridged: An examination of the definitions on cryptology in Webster's Third New International Dictionary (Crypto Press 1963)
The Codebreakers – The Story of Secret Writing (ISBN 978-0-684-83130-5) (1967)
Hitler's Spies: German Military Intelligence in World War II (Macmillan 1978) (ISBN 0-02-560610-7)
The Codebreakers – The Story of Secret Writing Revised edition (ISBN 0-684-83130-9) (1996)
Cryptology goes Public (Council on Foreign Relations 1979)
Notes & correspondence on the origin of polyalphabetic substitution (1980)
Codebreaking in World Wars I and II: The major successes and failures, their causes and their effects (Cambridge University Press 1980)
Kahn on Codes: Secrets of the New Cryptology (Macmillan 1984) (ISBN 978-0-02-560640-1)
Cryptology: Machines, History and Methods by Cipher Deavours and David Kahn (Artech House 1989) (ISBN 978-0-89006-399-6)
Seizing the Enigma: The Race to Break the German U-Boats Codes, 1939–1943 (Houghton Mifflin 1991) (ISBN 978-0-395-42739-2)
The Reader of Gentlemen's Mail: Herbert O. Yardley and the Birth of American Codebreaking (Yale University Press 2004) (ISBN 978-0-300-09846-4)
How I Discovered World War II's Greatest Spy and Other Stories of Intelligence and Code, Boca Raton : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014. ISBN 978-1466561991
^ a b * Metzger, Linda (1984). Contemporary Authors New Revision, Vol. 12. Thomson Gale. pp. 243. ISBN 978-0-8103-1941-7.
^ Burchard, Hank (May 5, 1972). "Leading cryptanalysts seek to break secret code reported to tell of buried treasure in Virginia" (PDF). The Washington Post.
^ David Kahn Official Website Archived January 31, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
^ "David Kahn: Historian of Secret Codes" Archived September 13, 2005, at the Wayback Machine by Arnold Abrams, in Newsday 2004-09-19 (via History News Network)
^ Bamford, 1982, p. 126
^ a b c Bamford, 1982, p. 127
^ Bamford, 1982, pp. 128–130
^ The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writing Archived December 11, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
^ National Cryptologic Museum – Acquisitions
SourcesEdit
Bamford, James (1982). The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-006748-4.
Kahn, David (1967). The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet. Scribner (later reprinted by Macmillan, 1996). ISBN 978-0-684-83130-5.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to David Kahn.
Kahn's Remarks to the NSA at its 50th Anniversary Celebration
James Madison Project profile
New York Review of Books profile
David Kahn: Historian of Secret Codes by Arnold Abrams, in Newsday 2004-09-19 (via History News Network)
The Intelligence Failure of Pearl Harbor by David Kahn, from Foreign Affairs (Winter 1991/92)
Codebreaking and the Battle of the Atlantic[permanent dead link] by David Kahn. USAFA Harmon Memorial Lecture No. 36 (1994-04-04)
Decoding the NSA A 1996 interview with Kahn, while he was a visiting historian at the NSA
The Hebern Code Machine
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Jim Maurice Published: August 17, 2021
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ST. CLOUD -- We are seeing water levels on the Mississippi River in St. Cloud that we haven't seen in decades.
The city of St. Cloud announced Monday that it was shutting down the second unit of the hydroelectric dam after water flows dropped to just 700 cubic feet per second. The city says this is the first time it has had to completely shut down the dam since the drought year of 1988.
According to data from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, the flow was down to just 587 cubic feet per second, as of 6:45 a.m. on Tuesday. The graph below shows the decline of the water level from June 1st to now. It was at about 4,500 cfs to start the summer.
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The U.S. Drought Monitor says, as of last Thursday, 42 percent of the state is in an extreme drought including all of Benton and Sherburne counties and the eastern half of Stearns county. With little to no rain in the state since last Thursday, that number is most definitely going to go even higher with the new weekly report comes out this Thursday.
As of Monday, St. Cloud is restricting lawn watering to just one day a week.
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With new features such as mini-programs and brand zones, and by investing in China's second-largest e-commerce website JD.com, WeChat has increasingly built out its commerce capabilities in recent years.
Today, it has become one of the top options for brands and retailers that hope to capitalize on the social commerce trend in China. Many players have taken advantage of WeChat's social nature to encourage users to engage in social shopping.
The latest blockbuster is Pinduoduo, a Groupon-like e-commerce company launched by ex-Google engineer Huang Zheng in 2015, whose market valuation has jumped 10 times in one year, reaching $15 billion by April 2018. Unlike Groupon, Pinduoduo makes WeChat its preferred platform for selling products. It offers high incentives – up to 90 percent off – for users who recruit enough friends and family to sign up for deals on the app.
Pinduoduo is a powerful example of the commercial potential of social sharing, and it points out the direction that the Chinese e-commerce market seems to be heading – a convergence of social media and e-commerce that is already shaping the expectations of WeChat users every day. However, Pinduoduo's success depends on massive discounts and coupons to incentivise sharing. It is too concerned with low prices for most luxury players.
So, what are some good ways for luxury brands and retailers to strike a balance between seizing the opportunity without downgrading their brand image?
The success of luxury e-commerce platform Net-A-Porter in the West shows that brilliant editorial content (text, images, videos, etc.) is a smart way to win over a group of high-end consumers without undermining a brand's sense of exclusivity. Making content not only high-quality but also meaningful helps build up long-term loyalty from customers.
On WeChat, one good example is JD.com's luxury platform TopLife, which launched last November. From the beginning, TopLife has put a great emphasis on developing their editorial content. For example, it has a monthly column written by fashion writer and author Yvonne, who provides gift ideas inspired by TopLife's offerings. Yvonne's writing, coupled with nicely-crafted images and videos, makes the experience stand out from other online platforms. At the end of each story, readers are directed to the purchase page where they can buy all the items mentioned in the piece. "T classroom" is another section of TopLife's WeChat where users can find rich fashion content, ranging from a guide to suits and streetwear trends to hot events in major international cities.
Major brands such as Gucci have already tried out social commerce on WeChat, but they don't directly sell on the platform. During the past Spring Festival in China, Gucci launched a mini-program to sell its special "Year of the Dog" collection to consumers. The mini-program, which looked like a typical e-commerce site itself, directs users to the brand's official Chinese website when they click on the "buy" button. Similarly, the American premium cosmetics brand Estée Lauder requires users to register with its e-commerce site before checking out any deal on WeChat. Continuing the shopping journey on brands' official website can make sure consumers receive an authentic brand experience. It also helps brands to collect customer data.
For luxury brands that do directly sell on WeChat, many decide to maintain a sense of exclusivity and prestige by offering limited edition collections. The French luxury powerhouse Christian Dior is a prime example. As the first luxury brand to host flash sales on WeChat in late 2016, Dior has continued this business model, but chooses to only sell certain items with limited quantities during a special occasion such as China's Valentine's Day. Players like Givenchy and Burberry choose to maintain their exclusivity through working with key opinion leaders like Mr. Bags.


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In just a few days, many of us will gather with our families around a table brimming with turkey and all the trimmings to reflect upon all that we are thankful for—from another year of health and happiness to the football game we'll watch over our second slice of pumpkin pie.
Unfortunately, during this holiday that traditionally celebrated a bountiful harvest, many of us will remain unaware that conditions for this nation's farmworkers have changed little since, nearly 50 years ago, renowned journalist Edward R. Murrow's "Harvest of Shame" reported on the dismal conditions faced by migrant workers.
Several months ago we wrote about the exploitation faced each day by Florida's farmworkers. Tomato pickers in the state haven't received a raise since 1978, receive no overtime pay, sick days, or benefits of any kind, and have no right to organize in order to change these conditions. In the most extreme conditions, workers are forced to work against their will in situations of modern-day slavery.
At the same time, we also wrote about a beacon of hope in the fields: the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), a membership-led farmworker organization that has been working since 1993 to improve wages and working conditions for Florida farmworkers. At that time, in response to the CIW's Campaign for Fair Food, five food industry leaders (McDonald's, Burger King, Subway, Taco Bell's parent company Yum Brands and Whole Foods) had entered into agreements with the CIW in which they agreed to the three principles of the Campaign for Fair Food: to pay one more penny per pound for its tomatoes directly to the workers that picked them; to establish a code of conduct in their supply chain to ensure that workers were being treated with dignity; and to enter into a dialogue together with workers and growers to guarantee a voice and a place at the table for farmworkers.
In the time since—as a direct result of the Student/Farmworker Alliance's Dine with Dignity campaign—food service providers Bon Appétit and Compass Group have also come to the table and committed to work with the CIW.
These agreements are proof that the days of the harvest of shame are numbered, but more work must be done to ensure that we continue along the path towards justice and dignity and create real systemic change in Florida's agricultural industry. It is now time for supermarkets Publix, Stop & Shop, Giant, Ralph's, Kroger and other Kroger-owned grocery chains, as well as food service providers Aramark and Sodexo to address the sub-poverty wages and human rights abuses faced by farmworkers picking their tomatoes.
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Gannett to Host Women's Open House
By wpengine | September 23, 2003
For many female students, the daily stresses and responsibilities of living independently at college can lead to countless health problems, ranging from eating disorders and tobacco addiction to depression and anxiety. Tomorrow afternoon from 5-7 p.m., Gannett: Cornell University Health Services will host their first-ever "Women's Health Open House" to make young women on campus more aware of these risks, and of the variety of services available to help prevent and treat these problems.
"Coming to college is a transition, especially since most students have always had someone to take care of their health needs," said Nina Cummings, health educator at Gannett. "This [open house] is a chance to encourage women to take charge of their own health and learn about what types of questions they should be asking."
Staff from Gannett programs, such as Cornell Healthy Eating, Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) and the Tobacco Cessation program will be on hand to answer questions. Medical staff will also be available to provide information on sexual health and birth control methods.
In the past, Gannett has focused on outreach programs to educate groups such as athletic teams, fraternities and sororities about health risks and prevention but this will be the first open house at the health center.
"There are many barriers for women, especially in their first year, to take the first step towards taking control of their health care," said Sharon Dittman, associate director of community relations at Gannett. "The purpose of this open house is to make people feel welcome, less afraid, and empowered."
The organizers' goal is that women will walk away with a proactive attitude towards their health.
"You don't have to wait until you are totally, completely depressed and stressed out to come and see a counselor," Cummings said.
The open house will also feature free massages and free food. Peer educators will give tours of the facility, including the newly renovated Level Six.
Nicole Augustine '04, intern at Gannett, will staff a table on women's sexual health, focusing on the female condom as a way to give women power in protecting their bodies from disease.
"I'm hoping this open house will give a lot of women good information about what it is to be healthy and will empower them to take action to see the doctor more often and take good care of the mind and the body collectively," Augustine said.
Archived article by Stacey Delikat
By wpengine September 25, 2003
As a junior, I knew moving on to College Ave would bring some additional headaches. I even agreed to pony up way too much a month for a room in a house so poorly maintained that the rats from Donlon wouldn't live there. But one month into the school year it has become glaringly apparent that there is a scam going on in Ithaca, one that would make Tony Soprano himself smile. While my more affluent roommate chose to spend a ridiculous amount of money on a parking space for this year, I mistakenly thought I could just park in the street and save some money. However, apparently Collegetown was designed before the prevalence of the automobile, leaving out entirely that important key to urban planning: adequate parking. There are exactly enough spots on College Ave so that roughly one half of its residents can squeeze their cars into the 24-hour parallel spots. Even better, only half of that number can actually park because so many of our classmates from Long Island and Westchester are nice enough to jam their oversized SUV's into spaces fit for three cars. Aesthetically pleasing and great for the environment. Thanks guys. Soon a part of my routine became driving circles endlessly around C-town trying to find a spot. After the tenth lap my patience usually gave in, and I parked in one the metered spots, wishfully thinking that I could wake up and move my car before 9 AM when the meter maid comes. Ha. In the unlikely event that I do find a free spot, I leave my car there until I absolutely have to use it, in order to save my space. Not quite the plan I had behind bringing it up to school. The City of Ithaca has become like my new landlord. It seems like I pay a monthly rent to them just to keep my car here. I don't try to park illegally, but I still have more tickets than I know what to do with. (The folks at the athletic department could learn a thing or two from these guys.) When I sent the last check, I asked if there was a way to make monthly payments on the internet. Might as well try and make it easier. After spending half my "book" money on parking tickets, I finally had the light bulb go off and looked into renting a space for the remainder of the year. Almost as pointless as trying to get up before class. Have you seen what they charge for parking here? I'm not a stingy person, but if I pay that much for parking, I better have an awning, a personalized nameplate and some ex-hotelie detailing my car when I'm not using it. The City of Ithaca has of course done nothing to alleviate the parking problem, but they do provide friendly and courteous meter maids who have an almost preternatural sense of when a parking meter has run out. To top it off, all of the landlords seem to have to come to a consensus that parking in Ithaca should cost roughly the same as parking in Manhattan. It doesn't take much to see a conspiracy is involved. I can see it now: dozens of graying old hippies sitting around a table in the back of Collegetown Bagels deciding that it's alright to make the students take out loans for parking. The City doesn't mind as long as they get their little envelope every week. From me. The only hope comes from the University, which recently won a court case about the west campus parking lot. Come on President Lehman, make them an offer they can't refuse. Or else next year I'll leave the damn car at home. Archived article by Gautham Nagesh
The World's A Stage
I have a good friend back home who has a tendency to put on a one-man show now and again. When I say "now and again" what I actually mean is that right now he is putting on a show to any audience present, and by the end of this column he will begin again with another. You know the kind of guy: The kind of guy who wants everybody in the room to know he's there. The kind of guy who feels that it's his life's duty to entertain anyone and everyone he meets. The kind of guy who is undoubtedly within a 50 ft. radius of you right now, if you can bare to tear your eyes away from the fascination magnet that is daze. The fact is: the world around us is in no shortage of people seemingly happy to be the center of attention. Quick cut to the thespian world and, umm, where did all these one-man shows go? The one-man show is a rare species indeed. Heaven knows the ratio of group-performance to one-person acts currently running nationwide but I would imagine it's astoundingly lop-sided. Isn't this slightly surprising in a profession so inherently competitive, so filled with efflorescing actors fighting for the limelight? The truth is, putting on a one-man show involves high risk from the perspective of the writer or director. Go fishing in the sea of out-of-work actors and you'll be lucky if you catch someone who can effectively pull-off such a task. Perhaps one of the most memorable one-man shows in recent history was Steven Berkoff's One Man. The play was split into three vastly different performances. The first of these was a version of Edgar Allen Poe's gothic horror story, "The Tell-Tale Heart," in which Berkoff is a murderer who kills another character played by himself, who is then later interrogated by policemen played by himself. In the second, titled "Dog," Berkoff played both an Englishman and his pit bull, exploring the relationship between this stereotyped twosome. The last part of One Man is titled "Actor" where Berkoff portrayed the lifetime of a struggling but persistent actor. Berkoff's originality and talent as an emotional and physical actor was never in question, but the play still received mixed reviews. The problem is that one person can seldom please everybody. A large cast, on the other hand, is a lot more conducive to pleasing a diverse audience; whether it is due to the range of characters with which to connect, the visual appeal of a busy and lively stage, or maybe it's just that having one person can become tiresome to watch. I for one know that my dislike for Eddie Murphy arose from his ever increasing attempts to turn his movies into one-man shows (see Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps). Casey Stangl, a Minneapolis-based artistic director and director of several one-man plays, notes, "The actor-director relationship is very different with one-person shows — more intimate, more concerned with playing to the actor's strength." It is inferred then that the actor-audience relationship will be different, as we are not so much seeing an actor molded to a role, but rather a role molded to an actor. As a result, if an actor displeases an audience, the audience is displeased with the play. And this is the risk that seems to be avoided. Of course, these one-man plays are out there — often peaking out of the shade of off-Broadway venues and the like — but the prominent response to a one-man show is incontestably one of intrigue, for example: "ooh this is different," and not, "oh another one of those." The former of these sentiments is currently being heard around Ithaca as Becky Mode's acclaimed one-man show, Fully Committed, is running at the Kitchen Theatre through October 11. The play follows "a day in the life of an out-of-work actor who mans the red-hot reservation line at Manhattan's number one restaurant. Coercion, threats, bribes, histrionics-a cast of desperate callers will stop at nothing in their zeal to land a prime reservation, or the right table." The play stars Joe Schmo as Joe Schmo and is directed by Rachel Lampert.The play, which has seen success in both New York (The Cherry Lane Theatre) and Los Angeles (The Coronet Theatre), has dropped onto our collective doorstep providing us with probably the only chance to see such a play in Ithaca this year. This rarity leads me to say, if you see only one show all year, you should make this it. As for my friend back home, I'm hoping his frequent but ultimately enjoyable solo acts could lead to a successful acting career. I'm also hoping that if I get to write about it, I'll be praising him like I would Berkoff — not grimacing at the screen like I do with Murphy. But that's a column for another day. Archived article by Tom Britton


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Today, the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) signed an agreement with the Cameroonian Government to finance the construction of the Mbalmayo Regional Hospital Project, with the provision of a soft development loan amounting to USD 12 million. The agreement was signed by SFD CEO, Mr. Sultan bin Abdulrahman Al-Marshad, and the Cameroonian Minister of Economy, Planning, and Regional Development, Alamine Ousmane Mey.
The financing agreement will help to build and equip the hospital with a capacity of 200 medical beds and develop specialized medical departments, centers, and buildings spanning a total area of 14,000 m2. The project will also include an area for operational services covering up to 8,500 m2. The hospital will be fully furnished and equipped with electricity, water, and sewage facilities. The development plan also comprises the rehabilitation of the road that connects the hospital to the national road to ensure easy access to the hospital. The project will also include a helicopter landing pad for medical emergencies.
SFD CEO, Mr. Sultan bin Abdulrahman Al-Marshad, and the Cameroonian Minister of Economy, Planning, and Regional Development, Alamine Ousmane Mey.
The project is expected to serve thousands of people from the Cameroonian capital as well as neighboring cities and villages, providing access to quality healthcare services. It will help tackle chronic disease and reduce mortality rates. The hospital will also alleviate overcrowding in Yaoundé and Douala hospitals.
The signing ceremony was attended by Mr. Abdulrahman Alzaben, Chargé d'Affaires at the Embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the Republic of Cameroon, and several officials from both nations.
In his speech, SFD's CEO Al Marshad affirmed that the project will be co-financed by SFD, the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development, and the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA), with a total value of USD 38.8 million. Mr. Al Marshad reiterated that the project is a vital undertaking that will positively contribute to the social development of the Cameroonian people. The project will provide the necessary support for basic infrastructure services, enabling society members to access all their daily needs to improve their social and economic living conditions.
Al Marshad expressed his appreciation for the efforts exerted by both nations for more than 40 years to achieve the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The project, he emphasized, is of great importance to safeguarding Cameroon's future and ensuring the development of its burgeoning and thriving sectors.
Minister Mey praised the important role played by the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, through SFD, in supporting development projects and improving the health sector in Cameroon. He emphasized the importance of the developmental relationship with the Fund over the past decades. The Minister further underlined that the Mbalmayo Regional Hospital project will be essential to people and communities across Cameroon, offering greater access to quality care and modern, specialized medical centers.
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package ikube.aop;

import static org.mockito.Mockito.verify;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;
import ikube.ATest;
import ikube.index.handler.database.IndexableTableHandler;
import ikube.model.Indexable;
import ikube.toolkit.ApplicationContextManager;
import ikube.toolkit.FileUtilities;

import java.io.File;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;

import mockit.Cascading;
import mockit.Mockit;

import org.apache.lucene.document.Document;
import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Ignore;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.mockito.Mockito;
import org.mockito.invocation.InvocationOnMock;
import org.mockito.stubbing.Answer;

/**
 * This test is to see if the intercepter is in fact intercepting the classes that it should. Difficult to automate this
 * test of course so it is a manual test. We could of course write an intercepter for the intercepter and verify that
 * the intercepter is called by Spring, personally I think that is a little over kill.
 *
 * @author Michael Couck
 * @since 30.04.2011
 * @version 01.00
 */
@Ignore
public class AopTest extends ATest {

	@Cascading
	private Document	document;

	public AopTest() {
		super(AopTest.class);
	}

	@Before
	public void before() {
		Mockit.setUpMocks();
		when(indexContext.getIndexables()).thenAnswer(new Answer<List<Indexable<?>>>() {
			@Override
			public List<Indexable<?>> answer(InvocationOnMock invocation) throws Throwable {
				return Arrays.asList();
			}
		});
		// .thenCallRealMethod()
		indexContext.setIndexName("indexName");
		indexContext.setBufferedDocs(10);
		indexContext.setMaxFieldLength(1000);
		indexContext.setMergeFactor(100);
		indexContext.setBufferSize(64);
		indexContext.getIndex().setIndexWriter(indexWriter);
		indexContext.setIndexDirectoryPath(this.indexDirectoryPath);
	}

	@After
	public void after() {
		FileUtilities.deleteFile(new File(indexContext.getIndexDirectoryPath()), 1);
	}

	@Test
	public void enrichment() throws Exception {
		IndexableTableHandler indexableHandler = ApplicationContextManager.getBean(IndexableTableHandler.class);
		when(indexableTable.isAddress()).thenReturn(Boolean.FALSE);
		indexableHandler.addDocument(indexContext, indexableTable, document);
		when(indexableTable.isAddress()).thenReturn(Boolean.TRUE);
		verify(indexableTable, Mockito.atLeastOnce()).isAddress();
	}

	@Test
	public void monitoring() {
		// TODO Implement me
	}

}

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