Army is planning to set up a mountain strike corps and is talking to various states including in the northeast against the backdrop of a Chinese build up of military infrastructure on its side of boundary.
"We are in talks with the governments of states including Assam, West Bengal and Bihar for setting up the Mountain Corps headquarters, which would require at least 4,000 to 5,000 acres of land," senior army sources said in New Delhi.
Around 10-12 locations in these states have been identified by the army to set up the formation, they said.The Mountain Strike Corps is being planned by the army after it established two new Mountain Infantry Divisions for the northeastern region.The two new divisions, with 1,260 officers and 35,011 soldiers, have their headquarters in Zakama in Nagaland and Missamari in Assam.
The army is also looking to deploy ultra-light howitzers and light tanks along the Line of Actual Control in Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh.The IAF, on its part, has already based Sukhoi-30MKI fighters at airbases like Tezpur and Chabua.
Eastern sector advanced landing grounds (ALGs) like Pasighat, Mechuka, Walong, Tuting, Ziro and Vijaynagar as well as several helipads in Arunachal Pradesh are also now being upgraded, much like western sector ALGs like Daulat Beg Oldi, Fukche and Nyama in eastern Ladakh.


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The Unbearable Whiteness of La La Land
What does Damien Chazelle hope we see when we look back?
By Geoff Nelson | January 6, 2017 | 4:30pm
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Near the middle of Damien Chazelle's recent movie musical, La La Land, Emma Stone's character Mia wonders if her proposed one-woman show is too nostalgic. Her love interest, Ryan Gosling's resplendent Sebastian, rejects the premise: No amount of nostalgia is too much. And on the movie goes, recalling in form and function the 1940s and 1950s aesthetics of Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and the grand Hollywood musical—a vision of the past reanimated in the present.
The film has been hailed by critics and fans alike as a piece of popular art in which to rest for a moment at the close of a punishing year. It's escapism. However, the politics of the past do not satisfy universally. A McClatchy poll on the eve of the election found 56 percent of America's white population believed life was better in the 1950s, and, according to the same poll, 72 percent of likely Trump voters agreed. Meanwhile, 62 percent of black voters thought contemporary life was better. The 2016 election wasn't a chasm into which the nation fell, it was a time machine into which many white Americans hoped to escape.
If La La Land holds the power to transport, we might ask where—and importantly when—it takes us. There lies a profound irony in liberal white folks heading to La La Land to repair after a political season overflowing with the nostalgia of white supremacy. (For all its gauzy backwards glancing, Chazelle's film might be subtitled Make Hollywood Great Again.) If seeing Gosling and Stone tap dance in the Hollywood Hills tickles something deep in some viewers, perhaps it's worth investigating the roots of that feeling and its supposed universality. Quite simply: The past represents liberation for one group, a horror show for another.
Novelist Zadie Smith spoke recently of white nostalgia while receiving the Welt Literature Prize in Berlin. "Meanwhile the dream of time travel—for new presidents, literary journalists, and writers alike—is just that: a dream," she said. "And one that only makes sense if the rights and privileges you are accorded currently were accorded to you back then, too."
White fantasies of the past are not innocuous, it turns out; they link to discrete economic and political policy. Even in the platitudinous past tense of "Make America Great Again," Trump's red hats told a truth of a kind: Their way forward was back. Smith rejects the image of white, regressive time-space with the succinct, "But neither do I believe in time travel." How could a person of color long for a past bleaker than the already admittedly bleak present? Many white viewers of La La Land may well consider nostalgic escapism as a horizontal unifier—something with which everyone identifies—but longing for the past is itself a political act.
Through a Los Angeles ruined by modernity, technology and commerce, Mia and Sebastian wander. The latter longs to open a "real" jazz club to save the genre; Mia longs for Old Hollywood, a poster of Ingrid Bergman on her wall. Eventually they long for each other, and Chazelle's camera conspicuously longs for the days of the Hollywood musical. Mia and Sebastian watch Rebel Without a Cause on their first date, only now the generational conflict isn't between disaffected young people and their conservative parents, it's between young people and their present. La La Land's cultural language speaks in the vocabulary of loss. Like Trump voters pining for an idealized, mythic past, La La Land articulates a displaced, if no less powerful, nostalgia.
So where exactly does Chazelle send the viewer? The allusions begin with Rogers and Astaire, whom Chazelle first saw while studying film at Harvard. Of the moment he discovered Rogers and Astaire, he told the New York Times this fall that he felt like he's "been sleeping on a gold mine." The Times interview was even aptly titled "'La La Land' Makes Musicals Matter Again," beating the reader about the head with Trump-ish sloganeering.
Of course, the key difference between Chazelle's homage and Astaire and Rogers' films lies in temporality. The musicals of the 1930s rarely sought historical displacement. Consider Rogers and Astaire's most famous works, films like Top Hat and Shall We Dance, movies Chazelle references with varying degrees of explicitness in La La Land. The musicals of the 1930s were escapist, to be sure—singing and dancing in the teeth of the Great Depression—but the films occurred in a version of present day. When Hollywood did traffic in nostalgia in the first part of the 20th century, it looked, famously, to the Civil War and Reconstruction, Birth of a Nation and Gone With the Wind being two of the most famous and, to put it extremely mildly, racially problematic films of the era. The racial politics of nostalgia, not unlike America's racial history, are rarely anything but gnarled. For the Hollywood musicals of the 1930s, escapism could be found in a European setting or a "cheek-to-cheek" dance routine. Chazelle, in returning to the visual aesthetics of Rogers and Astaire, suggests that escapism is instead found in the past.
Singin' in the Rain, the famed 1952 musical, did look backwards, to the 1920s. But the all-white cast did not confront the politics and social changes. The issue of the day involved, not unlike La La Land, a changing Hollywood: one moving from silent films to "talkies." A key plot point in in Singin' in the Rain revolves around a studio responding to the release of The Jazz Singer, the first Hollywood film with synchronized sound and one of the most famous musicals of its day. Of course, The Jazz Singer, though progressive for its historical moment, featured Al Jolson parading around in black face. As with so much of American cultural history, looking backwards with a romantic eye courts dangerous contemporary politics. What does Chazelle hope we see when we look back?
Among the deepest of Chazelle's references is Jacques Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, a musical from the 1960s related to the French New Wave and known largely for its heart-breaking love story and decision to have characters sing, not speak, all of the film's dialogue. Chazelle told IndieWire The Umbrellas of Cherbourg was a movie that "go[es] for broke." Of course, this reference point seems, at first, not to conform to Chazelle's dangerous white nostalgia, at the least because it emerged in the wake of a progressive school of cinema, and it isn't American. But, like so many artifacts of Western history, some investigation might suggest more than a little darkness beyond the love story in Demy's film: The main plot device dividing the two lovers, Guy (Nino Castelnuovo) and Genevieve (Catherine Deneuve), is the Algerian War. Guy leaves to serve in the conflict, returning years later with war wounds. In this case, Chazelle's reference point, and context, is bleak.
The tragedy for some viewers might well be the lost love—two white characters divided by a war—but a more critical eye might see the war itself as the tragedy. The longest and latest running of all the post-WWII colonial wars for independence, the French fought brutally to retain the Algerian nation as a colony. Ending just two years before the commercial release of Umbrellas in 1964, the Algerian War saw the French terrorize the Algerian people—the people the fictional "Guy" was sent to kill. The French, inventors of the guillotine, routinely beheaded opposition leaders in Algeria, eventually leaving more than a million Algerians dead. In a 1958 essay entitled "We Are All Assassins," philosopher and critic Jean-Paul Sartre wrote of the French army's brutal behavior, "it's beginning to horrify, and that is all." Repression of colonized people, a tradition the very term African-American references, is not the unique purview of the United States—it's all over Western art. Perhaps this is not the past Chazelle considered when the film inspired him.
One suspects Chazelle and his defenders will say analysis of this sort over-interprets, goes too far, but this is a luxury, too, a privilege. "It's only a movie" is the apologia of people who have never been victimized by culture.
Which brings us back to La La Land and its longing. What Gosling's Seb and Stone's Mia share is a commitment to the past—a place where, supposedly, dreamers dream their dreams awake. But which dreamers dreaming what dreams? Why do white Americans (in politics and film) often so wistfully return to the era before federally mandated desegregation, voting and civil rights? (Would La La Land ever have been made with two leading actors of color? Obviously not.) The film only functions as an ode to a lost era of white supremacy, and its viewers, consciously or unconsciously, participate in the delusion. The film's politics of nostalgia and whiteness are inextricable.
La La Land contains other more explicitly problematic politics—in fact, Gosling's "white jazz savior" narrative has been unpacked well by MTV's Ira Madison III. John Legend's Keith is cast as a sell-out to "pure jazz," which Gosling promises to successfully save by the movie's end. The movie concludes with Gosling taking over the piano from a black musician: The erasure of black art is complete. Madison documents the opening number, full of the many diverse faces of Los Angeles, only to see the film retrench into the middle-class bourgeois love affair of two white people. That one of them drives a Prius and the other a drop-top convertible seems to be the extent of the film's commitment to diversity.
However, Chazelle, Stone and Gosling are almost certainly not racists, if judged by the metric of personal unkindness. Their missteps lie elsewhere in the blurry discourse of cultural hegemony, the degree to which dominant ideological and political structures of oppression—like a longing for the past—must be consistently affirmed and reified. In portraying the romance and escapism of watching two beautiful people mourn the past by returning to it, Chazelle suggests viewers might enjoy this transportation, that these stories are universal. Considering the long history of racism in Los Angeles, it's uncertain which part of the past would provide a comfortable landing spot for the viewer.
How many in a La La Land audience would be unable to vote, live in their neighborhood, marry their partner, work in their job, attend their school, if Chazelle's film were successful in landing them in 1940s Los Angeles? Where do LA's Zoot Suit Riots of 1943, when thousands of white folks organized themselves into street gangs to assault people of color, fit in Chazelle's reverie? Or what of the historical record of housing discrimination, whereby 80 percent of 1940s Los Angeles real estate was off-limits to buyers or renters of color? When Gosling's character wishes the public to remember the history of jazz rightly, it's no wonder so much else must be redacted to suspend disbelief.
These realities are best forgotten in La La Land. Much is lost when we dream of—not recognize—the past. When Gosling and Stone walk into the stars, and into the past itself, at Griffith Observatory, they traffic in a dangerous political invention. People do not long for the past equally. Many do not long for it at all.
Chazelle and his movie will receive much deserved acclaim. The film is an achievement of a sort—it's beautiful and charming, if one doesn't think too hard. He's even done the work to feature a few characters of color at the margins of the action, a gesture that insulates the film from the outright racial ignoarance of the musicals to which Chazelle pays homage. But these efforts at contemporary posture, quite literally, pale in the face of the film's white nostalgia. La La Land isn't the escapism America needs right now, it's a regressive effort at time travel with no sense of shame for America's many historical sins. Chazelle engages in the most dangerous type of cultural production: to have an audience feel without thinking. In this case that means the past seems like a good enough place to escape our current problems. The film isn't as far as you might think from the asinine phraseology of "Make America Great Again."
The word "nostalgia" originates from a merging of the ancient Greek words "nostos" and "algos"—meaning "returning home" and "pain." Modern application means "nostalgia" translates to home-sickness. Of course, bizarrely enough, the Trump voter and the La La Land viewer, however separate from one another they imagine themselves, often long for a past they never experienced. They feel homesickness for a home in which they never lived.
Part of the artistic satisfaction of La La Land is in its ability to produce the pain of longing. For many white viewers—and voters—the pain reads as pleasure, like a middle-aged person walking the halls of their high school, remembering themselves more grandly than they ever were. While the romanticizing of one's youth isn't the purview of one race or another, longing for the historical past has become a dangerous cultural habit for white Americans, and whiteness more globally in the age of Brexit. But about Zadie Smith, a Brit, who knew better than to dream of time travel? Art like La La Land is best approached with a measure of circumspection. In grappling with the modern displacements jarring us all, white Americans engage in a peculiar and troubled fantasy: A time machine is the only vehicle that can bring us back home.
Geoff Nelson is a music and culture journalist working out of Brooklyn. He's appeared in The Village Voice, Bandcamp Daily, DIY Magazine and Consequence of Sound. He tweets @32feet and isn't sure if that's a compliment or not.
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When it comes to excelling a student's performance, the first thing that comes in the mind of anyone is shaping different factors in the classroom so that it provides greater impact in student's performance.
But what about the time children spend outside of school? Don't you think it too needs to be as productive as the time they spent in the classroom for their good academic performance?
Various studies reflect that out-of-school time programs help to a greater deal to develop the basic academic skills of at-risk students. Children falling in the age bracket of 5-14 years, are the ones, who spent at least 80% of their time out-of-school. If this hour of those children can be used as an opportunity to help them grow and acquire important social, emotional, cognitive and physical skills, it can be a stepping stone for them. Further, it is the best time to address their academic challenges and mental blocks while they are at school. And this is only possible when students get enrolled in some Out-of-School time program (OST) which supports students to work on their skill gaps.
In the age of technology and when much expectation is ushered on the role of EdTech to help OST program stakeholders enhance their programming value for students? Yes, indeed this space is indeed a promising area for the EdTech communities to focus upon. Formal education is the first lot to experience the immense beneficiary of education technology and now it is the vocational education too who are experiencing the same. Bringing educational technology into OST can also be promising because it would help program stakeholders to build a variety of skills, offer program staffs with a variety of options to use tools that keep students engaged and reinforce learning from the school day.
By incorporating technology into out of school time programs, program directors can benefit in multiple ways. Hence let's check out some factors in brief which make use of technology in out of school time programs beneficial.
Firstly, it allows in offering information to program participants in diverse locations and also at different time zone.
Secondly, use of technology will vitalize the program and work as a great supplement for in-class instructions. One such example of this is use of computer software can enable students to communicate, visualize and practice in-class concepts.
Thirdly, use of internet and network based software allow students to make use of a wealth of easily accessible information by linking related information to online documents.
Fourthly, technology assists in increasing students' engagement in learning and eventually enhance their ability to learn by making learning process not tedious but one that is enjoyable.
Fifthly, every student has their own pace to learn and by incorporating technology into OST programs, it allows program participants the flexibility to learn at their individual grasping pace.
Sixthly, technology also helps in promoting program participants with academic success by increasing student achievement.
Seventhly, technology incorporation will help program directors to offer enriching opportunities to the program participants which on the part of the stakeholders become difficult to offer due to limited program staff and resources.
Thus we see technology incorporation in OST programs is indeed beneficial in many respect. Now, in this piece we would be focusing on some lessons that EdTech communities should consider when they plunge on to strengthen the out-of-school programs.
To benefit OST program directors, EdTech communities have to offer various tools that qualify the needs to design curriculum with efficacy, improve students' 21'st century academic skills and help OST providers to offer more rigorous content even when they are short of time for planning.
Mostly students seek for out of school time programming because they are struggling in specific subjects. And one of the ways by which the academic sessions can become gripping for students is when engagement and fun can be gauged into the academic sessions in the program. Education technology companies must therefore offer educational technology which includes fun and academia both. Examples of such kind of EdTech solutions are game based learning tools. Note, these tools must offer materials adjusted to OST settings having a focus on project based learning and assist in 21'st century skill building.
Education based technology companies should note to include training and coaching element in the products they offer institutions as solution. Including both coaching and training feature into the product make a big difference when implementing new EdTech. Now talking of training, it doesn't have to be in person and high-touch. It can be in the form of technology as in video chat or a chatbot. Providing such tech options will help in to deepen the overall learning experience of students.
Remediation of specific skills and creating an environment to reinforce learning are two most important purpose of OST programs and to fulfill them incorporation of technology is the answer for obvious reasons. Technology helps to model program in a way that is suitable to meet student's unique needs by leveraging a tool which individualizes instruction, identify each student's needs and provide support to the students throughout the learning path.
To conclude, it's important to keep the momentum going and here the momentum can be built by incorporating EdTech in OST programs to provide positive impact on student's social and academic performance by enhancing their skills.


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"The Ableist Contract: Intellectual Disability and the Limits of Justice in Kant's Political Thought," Disability and Political Theory, edited by Barbara Arneil and Nancy J. Hirschmann (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016), 43–78.
"A Factory Afield: John Locke and Proto-Industrial Capitalism," Modern Intellectual History (Revise and Resubmit).
"Unplay: The Politics of Refusal and the History of Idleness," Mobility in Post Democracy, edited by Zoe Carey, Carin Kuoni, and Amanda Parmer (under contract with Duke University Press).
Céline Spector, In Praise of Injustice: Political Theory in the Twilight of Reason (in preparation). Translated from the French, Éloges de l'injustice: La Philosophie face à la déraison (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2016).


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The A+ Team: Standouts
NOTE: This story appeared in our October 2006 issue. For the latest data, see our October 2010 story.
by Dennis Rodkin
Braeside: Weather Report
If you're a student at Braeside Elementary School in Highland Park, you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. That's because you can always stop by the weather monitoring computer station outside Larry Hiler's second-grade classroom. There you'll find the latest data from the school's weather station, showing not only the wind's direction but also its speed as well as the temperature and the day's rain or snow total, if any.
Hiler uses data from the three-year-old rooftop weather station (purchased for about $2,500 with a grant from the school's parent-teacher organization) in various ways. His students graph daily high and low temperatures, write their compositions on subjects such as wind chill, and learn weather-related vocabulary words. In winter, they regularly report the temperature to the school office, so the principal can determine whether students will play outside that day.
"Kids are really curious about the weather and they're aware that it affects their lives every day," says Hiler, a lifelong weather buff because of his childhood in a Michigan farming community, where the weather really mattered. "So when you bring it into the classroom, they're interested." It also forges a strong connection between home and school. "Parents always tell me that within a month of coming into my classroom, their kids start running down the driveway in the morning to get the newspaper and start reading the weather page," Hiler says.
Parents see Hiler's fascination with the weather as characteristic of the warm atmosphere that pervades Braeside. "Teachers here are encouraged to pursue their own passions and bring them to school," says Paula Canchester. That goes not only for Hiler but for the third-grade teacher who's into opera and the school librarian, who's an accomplished storyteller—a sort of vocal folk artist. "If you let teachers go with their gifts and you give them great material to work with, they return it," Canchester says. Her kids prove it every time they pass the school on weekends and identify several teachers' cars parked outside. "We know they're dedicated to working with our kids," she says.
Dedication may be easier to cultivate in an affluent district like Highland Park, where the average teacher salary is $67,874, the highest in Lake County and fifth highest in the region (four districts in DuPage County top the salary ranks) and the average class size in first grade is 16, among the lowest in the county. Together, those numbers mean teachers in the affluent North Shore town get a very teachable setting (not too many kids) and are rewarded well for their work.
But Hiler says that on top of the gifts a community's affluence brings, "teachers here feel like they're invested in the community. There are opportunities to shape curriculum and experiment. You feel extremely supported."
Braeside Elementary School: 150 Pierce Rd., Highland Park; 847-433-0155, www.nssd112.org/braeside
Lake Forest: Star Tech
When Lake Forest Country Day School's 430 students return from their summer vacations in September, they'll notice some changes. The main school building's 160,000-square-foot addition was completed over the summer, part of a $19-million facility upgrade that also includes a high-tech component that puts the school's first- through eighth-grade classrooms on the leading edge of school technology, out where even some colleges haven't yet arrived.
The private school (tuition: $10,500 to $17,500, depending on the grade) spent about $500,000 to make the entire campus a wireless zone and install an innovative combination of tablet PCs and LCD projectors in 33 classrooms. Think of the devices as multimedia, multi-input, interactive descendants of the chalkboard. While roaming the classroom, a teacher equipped with a wireless tablet PC can handwrite an equation, call up prepared lecture notes, or access a Web site or video and then beam it via the LCD projector onto a wall-size screen.
"It's not a shiny toy," says Mara Grujanac, the school's technology curriculum coordinator. "The idea is to give our teachers a tool that enhances what they already do." If a teacher is talking about the Holocaust, for instance, and a child asks what the camps looked like, the teacher can call up photos, video, and other images on the spot. "It's not the teacher saying, 'I'll find some pictures and show them to you tomorrow,'" Grujanac says. "It's 'Right now, right here in this moment, let's explore the things you're asking about.'"
Unlike notes on a chalkboard that get erased later, the notes and other images used in class can be available later for students who were absent or even for parents who want to review a lesson, explains Keith Gillette, director of information technology for the school. "This breaks down some of the classroom walls," Grujanac says.
Advanced technology is nothing new at Lake Forest Country Day. Wireless PCs are deployed around the school for use by classes and also for checkout by students working on projects outside of class time. There's also the robotics program that is integral to the science curriculum from kindergarten on up. Kindergartners use "turtles," or little round wheeled robots, to measure distances in the classroom and hallways. At higher levels, kids participate in a national robotic design challenge. "It's a technology-rich environment here," Gillette says.
Lake Forest Country Day School: 145 S. Green Bay Rd., Lake Forest; 847-234-2350, www.lfcds.org
Edgebrook: Grade Inflation
Two decades ago, most students at Edgebrook Elementary School on the city's Northwest Side came by bus from other neighborhoods. It wasn't that the surrounding neighborhood, a leafy enclave of lovely homes on quiet streets, lacked children; but many local parents preferred to send their kids to parochial schools, where they could get a better education. Then Diane Maciejewski moved into the principal's office. Maciejewski set about trying to convince local parents that Edgebrook could work for their children. She gradually reshaped the teaching staff, pulling in people dedicated to rigorous education, and together they established a solid program. It includes pre-algebra in sixth grade—before most other neighborhood Chicago public schools teach it; 45 extra minutes a day of algebra for eighth graders; and an "integrated curriculum" in which reading, math, social studies, music, and other subjects revolve around common topics, each reinforcing lessons learned in the others.
Maciejewski retired over the summer, but her successor, Janice Kepka, intends to carry on with what Maciejewski started. "We expect a lot from our kids here," says Kepka. "They have accelerated reading, writing, and math available to them from the beginning."
Local parents have taken notice of the improvements. This fall Edgebrook is so full, largely with neighborhood kids, that it is adding four temporary classrooms. Parents raise money each year to pay half the salary of a full-time science and writing aide. And on last year's state report card, more students at Edgebrook met or exceeded state standards on tests than at any other neighborhood school in the city. The city schools that scored higher were all gifted-specialty campuses, whose students were upper intellects.
Edgebrook has done all this "despite huge class sizes," Kepka says. Last year's first grade had 38 students in one classroom, probably too many to get the intensive teacher attention children at that age need. This year's first grade has 60 students in two classrooms. Much of the increase from last year can be attributed to the school's spreading reputation in the community. These days, parents "clamor to get into the neighborhood so their kids can go to Edgebrook," Kepka says.
Edgebrook Elementary School: 6525 N. Hiawatha Ave., Chicago; 773-534-1194, www.edgebrook.cps.k12.il.us
Northbrook: It's Academic
Talented teachers get into the profession because they value learning, so you can figure that giving them ample opportunities to advance their own education will pay off in the classroom. That's being proved at Northbrook's School Districts 27 and 30, each with multiple schools in the top 20 on our Cook County chart. In both districts, teaching teachers is a major thrust. "We believe fundamentally that if you're better educated, you're going to provide better education to children in the classroom," says David Kroeze, superintendent at District 27. "So it's critical that you invest in your teachers, that you create an environment where they are constantly learning."
Teacher advancement is an all-out campaign in District 27, in northwest Northbrook. The district allocates 4 percent of its annual budget to professional development for teachers; according to its own study, three comparable local districts all spend less than 2 percent. In the past five years, the district has increased the number of professional development days for teachers from four (which is typical of comparable districts) to seven. And the district's teacher salaries are tied to the teacher's education level in an unusual way. In essence, teachers with only bachelor's degrees hit a pay ceiling at ten years. The aim is to encourage all teachers to upgrade to master's degrees and, after 17 years, to further degrees. The idea is to ensure that the district's teachers are always out front, bringing home the best new ideas on how to get through to children. "Where you have strong adult learning, you'll have strong student learning," says Richard Streedain, of National-Louis University.
The results are evident: Kroeze says that for many years, roughly 60 to 65 percent of his district's eighth-grade students scored in the top quartile on standardized math tests. After the district emphasized training in math-teaching skills from 1998 to 1999, that figure popped into the middle 70s, where it has remained.
In the adjacent School District 30, each teacher gets at least $400 a year to spend on professional growth. The teachers are "always bringing in ideas that lead the way," says superintendent Linda Vieth, such as asking for training on how to incorporate digital cameras, iMovies, and PDA note-taking into the classroom.
Northbrook School District 27: 847-498-2610, www.northbrook27.k12.il.us. Northbrook School District 30: 847-498-4190, www.district30.k12.il.us
Lenart: Junior Achievement
Aaron Gray was a bright kid, smart enough to land a spot at one of the elite gifted specialty campuses of the Chicago Public School system, but his teachers weren't satisfied with that. Being smart wasn't enough, they told him repeatedly. "They harped on it, that it's not just about your academic record," he recalls. "You have to be good at a number of things to be successful in life."
The teachers at Lenart Elementary Regional Gifted Center "rewarded and honored and recognized your academic achievements," says Gray, now 25 and working in Los Angeles in a business-development role for the movie ticket company Fandango while applying to some of the nation's top-ranked MBA programs. "But they also emphasized to you that the other things you do, behavior-wise, affect where you go in life."
At Lenart, located at 81st and LaSalle streets, "we have accepted that we don't only educate kids," says principal JoAnna Theodore. "We are their mother, their doctor, and their lawyer."
When she was a classroom teacher at Lenart, Theodore was big on giving out gum for kids to chew on; now there's a bowl of candy on the front office counter. "As adults, we do these things without permission," she says, "so I think children can be allowed to do these little things that make them feel their own independence, not always look to adults for direction."
At a school populated by high-octane intellects, she says, it's essential that the atmosphere be relatively carefree so kids don't get the impression they have to live up to painfully high standards just because of their academic gifts. "People come in expecting to see our kids all lined up in straight rows, marching down the hall silently," Theodore says. "But these are children. They make noise, and they're not going to stay in order. They don't have to here."
Lenart Regional Gifted Center: 8101 S. LaSalle St., Chicago; 773-535-0040, www.lenart.cps.k12.il.us
Spring Avenue: Parent Power
Teachers are the fundamental educational resource in any school, but at Spring Avenue Elementary School in La Grange, students and parents pitch in, too. Kindergartners help teach one another phonics, the basic sounds that make up words. The children partner up and coach each other through recognition of building-block sounds, explains Elizabeth Webb Peterman, the school principal. "In the old days, the teacher would do 'Ah, ah, ah; ay, ay, ay,'" she says. "The kids were just repeating it and you hoped they were applying it." Now, led by their teacher, Spring Avenue's K-Pals, as they're called, nudge each other to identify the different sounds "a" can make.
A writing consultant, Peterman says, "I would have said this was a stretch for kindergartners, but these kids are coaching one another to the point of mastering the concept." In the process, some of the learning has nothing to do with phonics; instead, it's about working together, problem solving, citizenship.
When Celeste Pearson enrolled her son in kindergarten at Spring Avenue last year, she wanted to get involved and wound up running an afterschool science program for kindergartners. It was a logical place for the Midwestern University science professor to put in her volunteer time, and one of a couple dozen afterschool programs taught by Spring Avenue parents. "It's not unusual around here for parents to offer their expertise to the school," she says. "The woman across the street teaches art, and a man down the street teaches ceramics." Pearson taught kids to make slime out of water, Elmer's Glue, and borax, and had them measure the different strengths of sunscreen on little beads left in the sun.
The kids had fun, and school officials tapped Pearson's scientific knowledge for an unusual project: vetting new science textbooks. A committee of teachers had already narrowed the range of options to a few possibilities, which they then handed off to Pearson. "I reviewed the textbooks for their scientific content, whether or nor their statements were correct science," she says. The book she chose was adopted for use this school year. Peterman says parents with expertise in other academic realms may get the nod to do the same later.
Spring Avenue Elementary School: 708-482-2710, www.edline.net/pages/Spring_Ave_Elementary_School. La Grange School District 105: 708-482-2700, www.edline.net/pages/LaGrange_School_District
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This week marked the 61st anniversary of the establishment of the modern country of Israel. Inspired by his innovative 2008 list entitled, "Sixty Things I Love About Israel," one American immigrant revisited his musings on the Jewish homeland.
1. I love that even though I may not have spoken with someone since the Ben-Gurion Administration, he will call me to check that I have somewhere to go for Passover Seder.
2. I love how you can bring your dog into any café to walk around and no one bats an eyelash.
3. I love the social norm that allows us to double-dip in peace without neurotic fear of contracting the West Nile virus. Take your Purel bottle and stick it somewhere.
4. I love that you could take a homeless person with no marketable skills, put them behind the counter of Aroma, and they'd immediately be qualified to make a little foam heart in your cafe hafuch (aka cappuccino).
5. Mirpeseot. [Israeli balconies.] They're cool.
6. I love that I visited Dracula's castle in Transylvania, ran into an Israeli, and within two minutes realized we know someone in common. That could only be cooler if she were in fact a vampire and her name was Count Shawarmula.
7. I love tsofim, the Israeli scouts. I swear, these little MacGyvers can take wheat, some duct tape, and a falafel ball and make a nuclear reactor.
8. I love the magical phrase "yiyeh b'seder," the Economica [bleach] of the Hebrew language. What can't it handle? Flat tire? Failed test? Take two "yiyeh b'seder's" and call me in the morning.
9. I love the peacefulness of Shabbat in Jerusalem. So quiet and relaxing. I can sit on my tuchus all day and not feel guilty.
Does it get better than this? Don't worry, I already know the answer.
12. I love how when it rains, people celebrate like we just won the gold medal in basketball.
13. I love that when we win a gold medal, we celebrate like a people who take pride in every individual award won by our tiny country.
14. I love the effectiveness of El Al security. All together now: if El Al doesn't do it, NO ONE SHOULD DO IT. Sorry, Delta, I'm not taking my pants off.
15. I love that while in America, Esti Ginzburg would be an 80-year-old grandmother in South Florida. Here she's a hottie patottie Sports Illustrated model who also lights the Chanukkah candles.
17. I love the number of people who hit the social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook to defend Israel when it's being blasted in the international media.
18. I love that the popular kids game Simon Says is not in fact called Shimon Omer as Americans think but rather Herzl Amar (Herzl Said).
19. I love Friday in Tel Aviv and the incredible energy on the streets, in coffee shops, and oh yes….at the beach.
22. I love Rosh Hashana dinner with my friends and their family when they feed me enough to nourish a small army.
24. I love drinking tea with only nana [fresh mint leaves] in it. Teabag–who needs it?
25. I love that Israeli tour guides know everything about every square inch of this country. If Moshe Rabbeinu [Moses of the Bible] went No. 2 on this rock, you can be sure that your guide learned it.
26. I love the uniqueness of the Israeli job search. Even if you don't get the position you've applied for, there is roughly a 57% chance that you'll be offered a date with the CEO's daughter.
27. I love that there's free wireless internet everywhere, especially in Ben-Gurion Airport. Eat your heart out, Starbucks.
28. I love that we put Shimon Peres on a wedding dress.
I don't even have a joke here.
29. I love that my friend overheard his bus driver telling Talmudic stories with morals and relating them to current events. Only in Israel.
31. I love that my cab driver offered me a peach and that I accepted it. That will happen in America when falafel balls fly.
32. I love the Israelis who take such pride in their country that they ask tourists, "You like Israel? Why you not live here???" When you've got Zionism, who needs linking verbs?
36. I love that the vendors at the shuk sell their product as if their lives depend on it and like they just downed four cups of coffee. "AGVANIOOOOOOOOT! SHTAY SHEKEL!!!!!!!!" Do they know they're selling tomatoes? You bet they do.
37. I love that a two year old can wet the bed but still sing "Avadim hayinu" for Pessach. Goooooo, Jewish education!
38. I love the brave 18 year olds who serve to defend this country. Do I even need to tell you what I was doing at that age? Let's just say it rhymes with "Meroxing body parts." Apologies to the administrative staff at Texas Hillel.
39. I love how the fruit shakes here contain the most obscure fruits in the history of the world. "Watch this….hey, can I get a shake with Abraham's desert star citrus fruit, but the one without the seeds that only grows in the Western Negev? (pause) YOU HAVE IT????
43. I love words like "teetchadesh" that neither exist nor make sense in the English language. "Wow, cool shirt! Enjoy using your new thing!" Nice try.
45. I love laughing when an Israeli turns to his friend and asks the question "mah ata dafuk?" (are you crazy?) The answer to that question is absolutely, positively, always yes. Whatever the guy just did, it was definitely dafuk.
46. I love that Agadir Burger Bar not only allows you to order a burger with just about anything on it but also publishes a calendar showcasing their waitresses.
47. I love that I just saw someone tell their pet "shev" [sit] which he of course did. He's a dog and he knows Hebrew. Between this and the two-year old singing Passover songs, does it get any better?
48. I love that you can pay for everything in tashlumim, monthly installments. One of these days, I'm going to try this with an Egged bus driver just to watch his head spin.
50. I love that Israel got its first Apple store this past year. Yeah, baby.
51. I love how people have no qualms about giving you a ride to the airport even if it's three in the morning and their wife is in labor.
52. I love the support that experienced olim (immigrants) give to prospective olim, answering questions and emails even if they've never met before.
54. I love how on Rosh Hashana, the car radio display wished me a "shana tovah." I don't care what planet you're from, that's awesome.
56. I love watching the Super Bowl until 5 AM with the guys. When you work that hard for it, you enjoy it that much more.
57. I love the superhuman Israeli hearing which allows them to pick up the "beep beep beep" of the news even while someone is using a jackhammer three feet away.
59. I love the powerful emotion I feel during the Yom Hazikaron [Remembrance Day of Fallen Soldiers] siren which you can only experience in Israel. Was anyone else caught off guard the first time they heard the siren? Seriously, I thought aliens were coming to eat my brain.
61. I love that I've had this once-in-a-lifetime experience and that it's not over yet.
Benji Lovitt is a stand-up comedian, writer and blogger living in Israel. He has performed shows about life as an immigrant for Birthright Israel, Nefesh B'Nefesh, MASA, Hillel, Hadassah, USY, Jewlicious and many other organizations. Benji's writing and humor have been featured in the Jerusalem Post, Haaretz, Ynet, Atlanta Jewish Times, PresenTense Magazine, and other outlets, and his blog, WhatWarZone.com, has won several online awards. Benji can also be found on Twitter and Facebook.
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• I love the hearing the alte-zachen man.
• I love hearing the muezzin outside the Jaffa office I once worked in, or over the hills from my friend's kibbutz.
• I love the spicy smell of wild shrubs and flowers in the Galil.
• I love that I got married ON Lake Kineret (sea of Galilee), with a full moon shining on the water.
• I love those big thin Mediterranean-style "bagels" with melted cheese and salty green "cracked" olives.
• I love how the Jordanian hills look purple in the evening across the sea of Galilee.
• I love the sense of humor that is just part of life that can so often be difficult and painful.
• I love that you can sit at a cafe for hours and no one cares if you are taking up a seat without ordering more stuff.
• I love that no matter where you are or what you are doing, in Israel you never forget how alive you are.


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#WalangPasok: Class Suspensions on October 19, 2017 (Thursday)
MANILA, Philippines - Class and work suspensions on October 19, 2017 (Thursday) are expected to be announced at certain areas by Local Government Units (LGUs) due to inclement weather conditions brought by Tropical Storm "Paolo". As of 1:30 PM, below is the list of areas with class suspensions on Thursday, October 19, 2017. METRO MANILA
To be updated soon as LGUs announce class cancellations
This is a developing story, stay tuned at this article for real-time updates on classes and work cancellations.
Meanwhile, cancellation of classes for colleges and universities will be at discretion of school officials/ administrators. PAGASA WEATHER UPDATE
According to PAGASA weather update issued at: 4:00 AM today, 17 October 2017,
At 3:00 AM today, the center of Tropical Storm PAOLO was estimated based on all available data at 885 km East of Guiuan, Eastern Samar (11.0N, 133.8E) with maximum sustained winds of 85 km/h near the center and gustiness of up to 105 km/h. It is forecast to move West Northwest at 13 km/h. Meanwhile, the Low Pressure Area (LPA) was estimated based on all available data at 165 km West of Coron, Palawan (12.0N, 118.7E) embedded along the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) affecting Southern Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.
Visayas, Mindanao, Bicol Region and the province of Palawan will experience cloudy skies with scattered rains and thunderstorms due to LPA and ITCZ. Possible scattered light to moderate with occasionally heavy rains which may cause flooding/landslides, strong winds and lightning.
Metro Manila and the rest of Luzon will experience partly cloudy to cloudy skies apart from isolated rainshowers mostly in the afternoon or evening.
Note: PAGASA weather announcement will be updated soon as the latest forecast has been posted.
Here is the automatic class suspension guidelines from DepEd.
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Albanië nam deel aan het Eurovisiesongfestival 2014 in Kopenhagen, Denemarken. Het was de 11de deelname van het land op het Eurovisiesongfestival. RTSH was verantwoordelijk voor de Albanese bijdrage voor de editie van 2014.

Selectieprocedure
Naar jaarlijkse gewoonte verliep de Albanese selectie via Festivali i Këngës, dat in december 2013 aan zijn 52ste editie toe was. Geïnteresseerden kregen tot 22 oktober de tijd om zich kandidaat te stellen. Op 4 november werd het deelnemersveld bekendgemaakt. Orges Toçe zat aanvankelijk bij deze geselecteerden, maar hij trok zich terug en werd vervangen door NA. Het festival vond plaats in het Pallati i Kongreseve in de Albanese hoofdstad Tirana. Op donderdag 26 en vrijdag 27 december werden twee halve finales georganiseerd, met telkens acht kandidaten. Deze halve finales waren echter slechts presentatieshows: alle inzendingen gingen door naar de grote finale van zaterdag 28 december. De halve finales werden gepresenteerd door Enkel Demi, Xhesika Berberi en Marinela Meta.

Tijdens de finale werden de punten toegekend door een vakjury, bestaande uit Agim Krajka (musicus), Aleksandër Lalo (musicus), Hajg Zaharian (musicus), Xhevahir Spahiu (auteur), Petrit Malaj (acteur), Eriona Rushiti (musicoloog) en Bojken Lako (singer-songwriter). De finale werd gepresenteerd door Enkel Demi, aangevuld met Klea Huta. Aan de finale namen twee voormalige winnaars deel: Luiz Ejlli won in 2005; Frederik Ndoci won zowel in 1989 als in 2006. De eindzege ging echter naar Herciana Matmuja, met het nummer Zemërimi i një nate. Voor het Eurovisiesongfestival werd het nummer wel naar het Engels vertaald, en kreeg het de titel One night's anger.

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Finale

In Kopenhagen
Albanië moest in Kopenhagen eerst aantreden in de eerste halve finale, op dinsdag 6 mei. Hersi trad als zesde van zestien acts aan, na Pollapönk uit IJsland en net voor The Tolmachevy Twins uit Rusland. Bij het openen van de enveloppen bleek dat Albanië zich niet had weten te plaatsen voor de finale. Na afloop van de finale werd duidelijk dat Hersi op de voorlaatste plaats was geëindigd in de eerste halve finale, met 22 punten.

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Halve finale 1

Punten gegeven door Albanië

Halve finale 1
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Alexis Trevelyan was born as Aksinya Konstantinova Glazkova to Zhanna Sergeyovna Kuznetsova and Konstantin Maximovich Tikhonenko in Leningrad , Soviet Union. Her parents were government officials for the Soviet Union before they discovered a plan by the government to arrange their deaths and take away their daughter to be part of some spy program called Red Room. Her parents quickly attempted to defect from the Soviet Union and escape to England where they were initially granted asylum by the British government before being handed back to the Soviets when the Soviets offered to release multiple captured spies in exchange.
The agent in charge of monitoring Alexis parents was one Charles Trevelyan and when he heard that his government was about to hand the family back to the Soviets he tipped the family off and while he could not save the parents, he faked Alexis death and raised her as his own instead. With that Aksinya Konstantinova Glazkova was dead and Alexis Juliet Trevelyan was born.
As a youth, Alexis was sent to St.Trinians for her education, she rather enjoyed the school and all the skills it taught her. Alexis could honestly say that without the school she would have likely been a very different person, a boring regular person. While Alexis was always mischievous and adventurous, without the St Trinians she would not have learned the abilites which got her noticed by spy agencies and brought the adventure and excitement Alexis desired in her life.
Once she was finished with her education she was recruited in the S.I.S serving as a field agent for a couple of years before she was then noticed by SHIELD. Once she was noticed by SHIELD she was once more put through rigorous training, she managed to graduate from SHIELD's Academy of Operations with honours. Once she graduated from the Academy of Operations, Alexis became a full SHIELD field agent, though instead of getting field tasks, she instead became an instructor at the Academy of Operations.
During the fall of SHIELD, Alexis was at the SHIELD academy and when the academy was attacked by HYDRA, the loyalist agents of SHIELD organized an defense of the academy. Alexis was part of the defense and while SHIELD loyalist fought hard, they would have been wiped out by HYDRA's powered supersoldiers if it were not for the timely arrival of back up from the SHIELD aircraft carrier the Iliad. Alexis along with the rest of the survivors from SHIELD academy then joined up with Robert Gonzales SHIELD successor faction.
Welcome to SHIELD, Alexis Trevelyan.
Your title is agent and this position will report to Chairman Robert Gonzales.


An ex-jump jockey, Ryan rode 47 winners over the sticks before spending five years with trainer Jack Berry and three years as head lad and assistant to Richard Fahey. He was granted his training licence on 15th June 1998.
Born in Ireland, Kevin Ryan is married to Jill and their daughter, Amy, is a highly promising young jockey who enjoyed a breakthrough year in 2012 when her 40 winners saw her crowned as Britain's Champion Apprentice Jockey.
Ryan trains at Hambleton Lodge, Hambleton, near Thirsk, in the very yard once occupied by racing legend Sir Noel Murless. He has around 120 horses in training.
He has won three Group 1 races – the Middle Park Stakes (with Amadeus Wolf in 2005), the Racing Post Trophy (Palace Episode 2005), and the Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp (Desert Lord 2006).
Glory Awaits ran a fine race to finish second (to Dawn Approach) at odds of 150-1 in the 2013 QIPCO 2000 Guineas, the opening race in the QIPCO British Champions Series, though he failed to build on that afterwards.
His stable star in 2013 was the two-year-old Astaire who won the Group 2 Irish Thoroughbred Marketing Gimcrack Stakes at York followed by the Group 1 vision.ae Middle Park Stakes on Dubai Future Champions Day at Newmarket. However, the runner-up in the Middle Park was also trained by Ryan, Hot Streak, and he rates him as the best horse he has trained and he delivered him his first QIPCO British Champions Series victory in 2014 in the Betfred Temple Stakes at Haydock Park, but he could only finish third behind Sole Power in the King's Stand Stakes.
The Grey Gatsby won the French Derby for him in 2014 and then ran a fine to be second to Australia in the Juddmonte International before notching another Group 1 success in the QIPCO Irish Champion Stakes, beating Australia by a neck.
As a four-year-old, he was perhaps a shade unlucky not to get his head in front in the Prince Of Wales' Stakes as he was denied by a short-head by Dermot Weld's Free Eagle.
Ryan hit the woodwork for a second time at Royal Ascot as Astaire ran with great credit to finish third behind international raiders Undrafted and Brazen Beau in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes.
The Grey Gatsby continued to run honourably in the 2015 QIPCO British Champions Series. He finished runner-up in the Coral-Eclipse – finding only Investec Derby hero Golden Horn too good – and was third in the Juddmonte International Stakes.


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New Delhi, July 17 :
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke on the phone Thursday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel during his transit halt at Frankfurt on his way back home from the BRICS summit in Brazil and both leaders invited each other for official visits.
Angela Merkel- Narendra Modi
A statement from the Prime Minister's Office said that Modi had a "fruitful" conversation with Merkel and congratulated her on Germany's victory in the FIFA World Cup, as also on her birthday.
"The prime minister conveyed that India regards Germany as a very important partner and that his government will work closely with the German side to strengthen and deepen the bilateral strategic partnership," the statement said.
Modi made a transit halt at Frankfurt on his way back to New Delhi from the BRICS summit in Berlin.
He had made a transit stop at Berlin on his way to Brazil but his talked-about meeting with Merkel did not materialise as she went to watch her country take part in the final of 2014 football World Cup.
The statement said that the two leaders agreed to meet at the earliest opportunity.
It said that the German chancellor "extended a standing invitation to the prime minister" for an official bilateral visit to Germany.
Modi complimented her on the "splendid victory of the German football team" and also "conveyed his good wishes to Merkel on her 60th birthday which is today (Thursday)."
He invited Merkel to visit India in 2015 for the third meeting of Indo-German inter-government consultations which was accepted by the German chancellor.
The two leaders also briefly discussed areas of bilateral cooperation including skill development.
The statement also said that the German chancellor has invited India to be a partner country at the Hanover trade fair in 2015.
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The media giant posted a large profit spike on mixed results from its three main operating segments.
Time Warner (NYSE:TWX.DL) posted fourth-quarter earnings results on Wednesday, Feb. 10, that showed declining revenue but surprisingly robust profits.
Here's a look at how the media giant's headline results stacked up against the prior-year period.
Data source: Time Warner financial filings.
The cable broadcasting unit, Time Warner's biggest segment by far, generated sharply lower profits, and the drop wasn't offset by growth elsewhere in the business. Meanwhile, falling revenue at the Warner Bros. division accounts for the company's overall sales decline. Both the top- and bottom-line figures were negatively affected by foreign exchange rate swings, it said.
Turner revenue ticked higher by 2% as advertising sales improved, but cable subscriber numbers fell. Operating income dove 15% due to a 22% spike in programming costs on flat sales growth.
Warner Bros. sales declined 13% on lower theatrical film revenue, which was partially offset by strong video game sales. Operating income fell 5% in Time Warner's second biggest business division.
Home Box Office revenue rose 6% mainly thanks to higher prices but also due to a slight uptick in subscribers.
Overall adjusted net income declined by 12%, and profitability slipped to 20% of sales from 21% a year ago.
Despite the fourth-quarter revenue and profitability declines, CEO Jeff Bewkes chose to focus on Time Warner's strong full-year results. "All three of our operating divisions increased revenue and profits," in 2015, he said, "while also investing to capitalize on the shift to on-demand viewing and growing worldwide demand for the very best video content."
Bewkes called out Warner Bros.' "best year ever in video games," Turner's "tremendous value to its audiences," and HBO's subscriber growth, powered by its collection of the "biggest Hollywood hits and best original programming." That operating strength gave management the confidence to boost the dividend payout by 15%, "further demonstrating our commitment to shareholder returns," Bewkes said.
Time Warner now expects to generate $5.35 per share in adjusted profit this year, up substantially from the $4.62 it logged in 2015. That forecast was also solidly higher than the $5.26 per share that analysts had been targeting. However, investors apparently focused on the negative profitability trend within the broader TV business and the stock fell 5% after the results were announced.
But the year ahead will be a busy one for Time Warner's broadcasting division, particularly around sports and news. Turner will air the NCAA Men's Basketball finals for the first time this spring, and CNN aims to own political coverage around the presidential election. Combine that with what's expected to be a banner year for Warner Bros films, anchored by Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice out next month, and it's no surprise that management is optimistic about posting improving results this year.


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Orono Wor Petchpun (Thai: โอโรโน่ ว.เพชรพูล, born August 22, 1978) is a Thai super featherweight kickboxer and bantamweight mixed martial artist fighting out of Wor Petchpun Gym in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand. He is former Lumpinee Stadium champion and three-time champion of Thailand. He is the current It's Showtime 65MAX World champion and is based in Singapore where he is a member of the Evolve Mixed Martial Arts fight team.

Biography and career
Orono started out Muay thai at the age of 15, a fairly late age to start fighting in Thailand. A year later he had his first fight in Bangkok. In 2001 he won the WMC World Muaythai (122 lb) title against Petchek Sor Suwannapakdee.

Formerly fighting under the name Orono Majestic gym (โอโรโน่ มาเจสติกยิม), Orono has mixed it up with many of the top names in muay thai. He holds two KO wins over The Contender Asia champion Yodsaenklai Fairtex, two decisions over K-1 MAX champion Buakaw Por. Pramuk and Saenchai Sor Kingstar. After fighting all the big names in Thailand at his weight class, Orono made his international debut in 2007 at the SLAMM Nederland vs Thailand III event against William Diender.

In March 2012, Orono announced his intention to compete in mixed martial arts.

Titles
 2009 Rang Yeh tournament title
It's Showtime
 2009 It's Showtime 65MAX World champion
World Professional Muaythai Federation
 2008 WPMF World Muay Thai champion 140 lb
Lumpinee Stadium
 2007 Lumpinee champion 130 lb
Professional Boxing Association of Thailand (PAT)
 2002-2003 Thailand champion 130 lb
 2001-2002 Thailand champion 126 lb
World Muay Thai Council
 2001 WMC Muay Thai World champion 122 lb

Fight record

|-  bgcolor="#FFBBBB"
| 2010-12-04 || Loss ||align=left| Tuantong Pumphanmuang || Omnoi Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2010-09-09 || Win ||align=left| Janrob Sakhomsin || Wanmitrchai Fights, Rajadamnern Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-  style="background:#fbb;"
| 2010-08-01 || Loss||align=left| Singdam Kiatmuu9 || Muay Lok 2010 Grand Stage || Tokyo, Japan || Decision (Majority) || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2010-05-29 || Win ||align=left| Atty Gol || It's Showtime 2010 Amsterdam || Amsterdam, Netherlands || Decision (5-0) || 5 || 3:00
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|-
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2010-04-10 || Win ||align=left| Damien Alamos || Sherdana K-1 Gala || Sardinia, Italy ||KO (Left elbow )|| 2 ||
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2010-03-13 || Win ||align=left| Egon Racs || Oktagon presents: It's Showtime 2010 || Milan, Italy || TKO (Doctor Stoppage) || 3 ||
|-  bgcolor="#FFBBBB"
| 2010-02-10 || Loss ||align=left| Petchboonchu FA Group || Daorungprabath Fight, Rajadamnern Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2009-12-19 || Win ||align=left| Panpetch Chor Nah Phattalung || Rang Yeh Tournament finals || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|-
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2009-11-14 || Win ||align=left| Lerdsila Chumpairtour || Muaythai Lumpinee Krikkrai Fights || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2009-09-26 || Win ||align=left| Pettanong Petfergus || Muaythai Lumpinee Krikkrai Fight || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2009-08-01 || Win ||align=left| Singdam Kiatmuu9 || Lumpini Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision (Unanimous) || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2009-06-20 || Win ||align=left| Tuanthong Phunphanmoung || Lumpini Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision (Unanimous) || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2009-05-16 || Win ||align=left| Hassan El Hamzaoui || It's Showtime 2009 Amsterdam || Amsterdam, Netherlands || Decision (Unanimous) || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|-
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2009-03-28 || Win||align=left| Warren Stevelmans || Battle of Sweden|| Stockholm, Sweden || Decision (Unanimous) || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#FFBBBB"
| 2009-02-24 || Loss ||align=left| Nong-O Sit Or || Por.Pramuk, Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision (3-2) || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2009-01-25 || Win ||align=left| Petchmankong Phetfocus || Channel 7 Stadium|| Thailand || Decision (Unanimous) || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#FFBBBB"
| 2008-11-29 || Loss ||align=left| Faldir Chahbari || It's Showtime 2008 Eindhoven || Eindhoven, Netherlands || Decision (Majority) || 3 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#FFBBBB"
| 2008-09-30 || Loss ||align=left| Saenchainoi Toyotarayong || Suklumpini Kriekrai, Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision (Unanimous) || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2008-08-03 || Win ||align=left| Atsushi Suzuki || Kickboxing vs Muay Thai - Target 1st - || Tokyo, Japan || KO || 2 ||
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2008-07-15 || Win ||align=left| Sarawut Lookbaanyai || Phetpiya, Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision (Unanimous) || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#FFBBBB"
| 2008-05-02 || Loss ||align=left| Saenchai Sor Kingstar || Suklumpini Kriekrai, Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision (Unanimous) || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2008-02-26 || Win ||align=left| Petchmankong Sit Or || Por Pramuk, Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision (Unanimous) || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2008-01-28 || Win ||align=left| Alex Cobra || || Suphan Buri, Thailand || KO (Left elbow)|| 1 || 2:24
|-
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|-
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2007-12-07 || Win ||align=left| Saenchai Sor Kingstar || Suklumpini Kriekrai, Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision (Unanimous) || 5 || 3:00
|-
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|-
|-  bgcolor="#c5d2ea"
| 2007-10-06 || Draw ||align=left| Petchmankong Phetfocus || Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2007-09-18 || Win ||align=left| Petchtaksin Sor Thampetch || Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2007-08-04 || Win ||align=left| Lerdsila Chumpairtour || Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2007-05-25 || Win ||align=left| Petchmankong Sit Or || Phetyindee, Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2007-05-06 || Win ||align=left| William Diender || SLAMM Nederland vs Thailand III || Haarlem, Netherlands || KO (Left roundkick) || 1 || 1:58
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2007-02-06 || Win ||align=left| Petchmankong Sit Or || Fairtext, Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#FFBBBB"
| 2006-12-22 || Loss ||align=left| Singdam Kiatmuu9 || Phetyindee, Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#FFBBBB"
| 2006-11-17 || Loss ||align=left| Nopparat Keatkhamtorn|| Gai Yang Haadao Marathon tournament || Nakhon Ratchasima, Isan || Decision (Unanimous) || 3 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2006-11-17 || Win ||align=left| Duangsompong Kor Sapaothong || GaiYangHaadao Marathon tournament || Nakhon Ratchasima, Isan || Decision (Unanimous) || 3 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2006-09-01 || Win ||align=left| Singdam Kiatmuu9 || Por.Pramuk, Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2006-08-08 || Win ||align=left| Kaew Fairtex || Fairtex, Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#FFBBBB"
| 2006-07-04 || Loss ||align=left| Doungsompong K.Sapaotong || Paianun, Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || TKO || 2 ||
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2006-05-30 || Win ||align=left| Doungsompong K.Sapaotong || Changsiamchai, Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#FFBBBB"
| 2006-05-05 || Loss ||align=left| Singdam Kiatmuu9 || Paianun, Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2006-03-24 || Win ||align=left| Attachai Fairtex || Wanboonya, Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision (Unanimous) || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2006-02-10 || Win ||align=left| Teelek Fairtex || Fairtex Lumpini fight night, Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision (Unanimous) || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#FFBBBB"
| 2005-11-04 || Loss ||align=left| Saenchai Sor Kingstar || Fairtex, Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision (Unanimous) || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2005-09-27 || Win ||align=left| Banput Sor Boonya || Wanboonya, Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision (Unanimous) || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#fbb"
| 2005-07-19 || Loss||align=left| Kongpipop Petchyindee || Petchyindee, Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#FFBBBB"
| 2005-05-06 || Loss ||align=left| Singdam Kiatmuu9 || Petchyindee, Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision (Unanimous) || 5 || 3:00
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|-
|-  bgcolor="#FFBBBB"
| 2005-03-18 || Loss ||align=left| Nopparat Keatkhamtorn || Petchyindee & Sapaotong, Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision (Unanimous) || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2005-01-21 || Win ||align=left| Yodsaenklai Fairtex || Wanboonya, Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || TKO (Knee strikes) || 3 ||
|-  bgcolor="#FFBBBB"
| 2004-12-07 || Loss ||align=left| Yodbuangarm Lukbanyai || Lumpinee Stadium Birthday Show || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision (Unanimous) || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#c5d2ea"
| 2004-10-15 || Draw ||align=left| Kongpipop Petchyindee || Petchpiya, Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision draw || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2004-09-14 || Win ||align=left| Singdam Kiatmuu9 || Petchpiya, Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision (Unanimous) || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2004-08-10 || Win ||align=left| Singdam Kiatmuu9 || Petchyindee, Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision (Unanimous) || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2004-07-09 || Win ||align=left| Sakutpetch Sor Sakunpan || Petchpiya, Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision (Unanimous) || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2004-05-28 || Win ||align=left| Sibmean Lamtongkarnpat || Petchyindee, Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision (Unanimous) || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2004-05-04 || Win ||align=left| Yodsaenklai Fairtex || Petchyindee, Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || TKO (Elbows and Punches) || 4 ||
|-  bgcolor="#FFBBBB"
| 2004-03-26 || Loss ||align=left| Kongpipop Petchyindee || Petchyindee & Wanwerapon, Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision (Unanimous) || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#c5d2ea"
| 2004-02-24 || Draw ||align=left| Kongpipop Petchyindee || Petchyindee & Wanwerapon, Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision (Unanimous) || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2004-01-29 || Win ||align=left| Noppakao Sor Wanchard || Daorungchujarean, Rajadamnern Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision (Unanimous) || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#FFBBBB"
| 2003-11-14 || Loss ||align=left| Esarasak Jor Rajadakorn || Lumpinee Superights, Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision (Unanimous) || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#FFBBBB"
| 2003-09-19 || Loss ||align=left| Chalermpon Keatsununta || Petchpiya, Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision (Unanimous) || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#FFBBBB"
| 2003-08-22 || Loss ||align=left| Singdam Kiatmuu9 || Petchpiya, Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision (Unanimous) || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2003-06-13 || Win ||align=left| Nongbee Kiatyongyut || Petchpiya, Rajadamnern Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision  || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#cfc"
|  2003-02-07 || Win||align=left| Kongpipop Petchyindee || Petchyindee, Lumpinee Stadium|| Bangkok, Thailand || Decision  || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#fbb"
| 2002-12-03 || Loss||align=left| Nontachai Kiatwanlop || Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|-  bgcolor="#cfc"
| 2002- || Win||align=left| Tongthai Por Burapha || || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision  || 5 || 3:00
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|-  bgcolor="#fbb"
| 2002- || Loss||align=left| Singdam Kiatmuu9 ||  || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |

|-  bgcolor="#cfc"
| 2002-08-06 || Win ||align=left| Nontachai Kiatwanlop || Petchyindee, Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision  || 5 || 3:00

|-  bgcolor="#c5d2ea"
| 2002-07-05 || Draw||align=left| Nontachai Kiatwanlop || Petchyindee, Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision  || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2002-05-10 || Win ||align=left| Buakaw Por.Pramuk || Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2002-03-22 || Win ||align=left| Chanrit Sit.Or || Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2001-08-07 || Win ||align=left| Buakaw Por.Pramuk || Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2001-07-08 || Win ||align=left| Chinarat Watcharin || Channel 7 Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2001-02-17 || Win ||align=left| Phetarun Sor.Suwanpakdee || Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-
! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2000-12- || Win ||align=left| Ekasit Sitkriengkrai || Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || TKO || 5 ||
|-  bgcolor="#fbb"
| 2000-11- || Loss||align=left| Duwa Kong-Udom || Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2000-10- || Win ||align=left| Chanrit Sit-O || Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-  style="background:#fbb;"
| 2000-09-13 || Loss ||align=left| Watcharachai Kaewsamrit || Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2000-08- || Win ||align=left| Kotchasarn Singklongsi || Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2000-07- || Win ||align=left| Charlie Chor.Chaitamil || Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2000-06- || Win ||align=left| Theparat Kiatnoppadon || Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#fbb"
| 2000-05- || Loss||align=left| Duwa Kong-Udom || Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2000-04- || Win ||align=left| Chinarat Watcharin || Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2000-03-10 || Win ||align=left| Rattanakiat Tor.Rattanakiat || Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2000-02- || Win ||align=left| Thanasak Wanchalerm || Rajadamnern Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 2000-01-18 || Win ||align=left| Chinarat Watcharin || Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#fbb"
| 1999-09-11 || Loss||align=left| Chinarat Watcharin ||  || Songkhla, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 1999-07-09|| Win ||align=left| Yodkatayu Vichitphan||Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-  bgcolor="#CCFFCC"
| 1998-12-|| Win ||align=left| Phetek Sor.Suwanpakdee||Lumpinee Stadium || Bangkok, Thailand || Decision || 5 || 3:00
|-
|-
| colspan=9 | Legend:

See also
List of It's Showtime champions
List of male kickboxers

References

1978 births
Living people
Bantamweight kickboxers
Featherweight kickboxers
Lightweight kickboxers
Orono Wor Petchpun
Orono Wor Petchpun


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If you think about it, we're in an unprecedented era with freeware. There are so many free products and services available online, it's dizzying to even try to keep up with them. Some of them, like Gmail, are amazingly useful—even game changing—and best their paid counterparts by miles. We use these free services daily without even thinking about the fact that we're getting something amazing at no cost. Moreover, we expect it now. We expect to pay nothing for many things. If you stop and think about it, this is a little crazy. Has there ever been a time in human history when we expected so much for free?
For the past few years, I really enjoyed the abundance of freeware and frequently snapped up new free services as they appeared, but I've started to have second thoughts, especially as I realize just how much my workflow depends on these free services. The good part of "free" is the cost; the downside is that you have no leverage if things go wrong. What incentive does a freeware maker have to respond to your customer service inquiries or spend time troubleshooting a problem specific to you?
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by: Shatanya Clarke
WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — In just a few days the community will gather around a family to remember their son who was killed in a tragic train accident.
About a month after an Iowa Park family lay 12-year-old Shawn Sargent to rest, a local business owner is doing what she does best.
"The family came to me the day after and they were like Kim and I was like God yes, and here we are and we have angels working in every corner of this town pulling things together for us to make this happen for this family," Stick's Place owner Kim Stevens said.
Stevens is pulling the community together in the face of this tragedy to raise money for Sargent's family.
On December 14 Sargent was killed while crossing the railroad tracks in Iowa Park to get a soda from the store.
"The passing was right next to their backdoor so they want to relocate to a new home," Shawn's cousin Kirsten Payne said.
"We're also looking at the time lost for this family, as a mother I wouldn't be able to work, and there are other children in that family that needs things, I'm sure there's counseling that's going to be needed," Stevens said.
Stevens and folks at Stick's Place hope a few hours of kid-friendly live music, live auction, a fun run, food and more will be enough to collect as many pennies as possible to go toward Sargent's parents' expenses.
"The band Revelation will be playing from 2 till 2:45 to 3:00, then we will be doing some auction items," Stick's Place Bartender Tim Maloney said.
"No family should have to bury a child ever and I have a boy and he is 12 as well and yea it kinda hit home with me and it hit home with a lot of people here in Wichita Falls," Stevens said.
"I think just to stop by to say hello and give the family a hug that would help just as much as a donation," Payne said.
Payne said this past month has been a rollercoaster for her family but it is the support from everyone that has brought them through everything so far.
Stevens' said she is expecting more than 600 people on Saturday so to make the event a success she is need of volunteers.
If you would like to donate or volunteer, contact Kim Stevens here.
The benefit kicks off at noon on Saturday at Stick's Place.
There will be a live auction and a 50-50 raffle and more.
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Local author Kristi Hugstad will publish her new book, Beneath the Surface: A Teen's Guide to Reaching Out When You or Your Friend Is in Crisis, on Sept.10, which is also World Suicide Prevention Day. September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness month.
Author Hugstad will be doing a meet-and-greet book signing at Beach Town Books, 99 Avenida Serra, San Clemente, on Saturday, Sept. 28 from 2-5 p.m. There will also be a drawing in which winners get the chance to send free copies of the book to a school of their choice.
Dana Point Author Kristi Hugstad's new book, Beneath the Surface. Photo: Courtesy of New World Library
Hugstad has dedicated her life to helping abolish the stigma of mental illness and suicide ever since her husband, who struggled with clinical depression for years, died by suicide in 2012.
That mission, along with an increase in teen suicide and mental health issues in recent years, are what inspired her to write Beneath the Surface.
Hugstad's goal is to share the things she has learned about mental health that could have saved her husband if she had known them earlier with as many parents, educators, and teens who have friends in crisis as possible.
A certified grief recovery specialist and a grief and loss facilitator for recovering addicts at South Coast Behavioral Health, Hugstad frequently speaks at high schools. She is also the host of The Grief Girl podcast and lives in Dana Point. Visit her online at thegriefgirl.com.
While growing up has never been easy, today's teens face unique challenges. In addition to dealing with cliques and peer pressure, they live in a fast-changing social media world that exposes and makes people vulnerable as much as it connects.
Factor in mass shootings, daily reports about climate change, and the prospect of crippling debt from college loans, and it's no wonder that rates of teen depression, anxiety and, tragically, suicide are soaring, says Kim Corbin, senior publicist at New World Library, a San Francisco Bay Area-based American publisher of books for adults and children.
In Beneath the Surface: A Teen's Guide to Reaching Out When You or Your Friend Is in Crisis (New World Library), Hugstad talks with, rather than down to, teens (and the parents and teachers who love them), about issues such as depression, eating disorders, PTSD, anxiety, bullying, substance abuse, suicide and more. She encourages them to reach out for help when they need it.
Each chapter of Beneath the Surface addresses a different cause or aspect of depression and suicidal thoughts, many of which are a normal aspect of growing up, Corbin says.
The book includes real-life examples of young people who have suffered depression firsthand. It aims to help readers recognize the risk factors and warning signs. It offers practical exercises to help readers quickly and confidently identify whether they or someone they know are in need of help, and if so, what to do and where to go for it.
"Depression can strike anyone and does not discriminate," Corbin said. "This book can save lives."
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Yielding to those who direct that prejudice is no way to end it.
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