| Appalachian policy prohibits student-teaching for resident assistants
Due to a new policy approved in December 2007, student teachers are no longer eligible for a resident assistant position. “The students that have done [student teaching] in the past have barely survived as an RA," Director of Residence Life Jeff Doyle said. “This was in the best interest of the residents and student teachers."Doyle said student teachers wake as early as 6 a.m. and are at school until 3 or 4 p.m., giving them only around 7 hours before they go to bed to eat, socialize, plan for the next day and fulfill RA requirements. The department feared the student teachers would be making sacrifices either in their student teaching jobs, or in the RA position. “We estimate the RA job takes 17 hours a week, student teaching is 40 hours and that's already 57 hours of weekly requirements," Doyle said.
Catholic school closures, vouchers are in national spotlight
When President George W. Bush gave his State of the Union address Jan. 28, he briefly mentioned something Catholics know all too well: Their inner-city schools are closing. Although the president did not specifically name Catholic schools, the reference to "faith-based schools" that are "disappearing at an alarming rate in many of America's inner cities," clearly described what has been happening to the nation's inner-city Catholic schools. According to the National Catholic Educational Association, enrollment in Catholic elementary schools has dropped 15 percent nationwide since 2001-02, and more than 212 U.S. Catholic schools were closed or consolidated during the 2006-07 school year. In response to the steady decline of inner-city "faith-based schools," the president said this spring he would "convene a White House summit aimed at strengthening these lifelines of learning." Sister Dale McDonald, a Sister of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the NCEA's director of public policy and educational research, has attended some of the planning sessions for the summit, scheduled to take place in late April.
N.J. woman hurt when suspected homemade fireworks explode
Authorities were in Pitman today searching the home of a woman seriously injured in an explosion of what investigators believe were homemade fireworks. Police received a call at 2:40 p.m. yesterday about a person injured in the kitchen of a house on the 200 block of West Holly Avenue. Tracy Shimkus, 41, was transported to Cooper Medical Center in Camden where she was in critical condition today and being treated for hand, stomach and face wounds. Investigators for the Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office and members of the New Jersey State Police Bomb Squad obtained a search warrant to inspect the house today to determine whether Shimkus and her family could safely return. The victim is married to Stephen Shimkus, 44, and the couple have three teenage children, authorities said.
Man who claimed ‘mercy killing’ portrayed as master deceiver
Information presented to a Multnomah County grand jury paints a much different portrait of John L. Roberts than the one that emerged last week. Roberts, 51, who was indicted Friday in the murder of his wife, Virginia Roberts, was described by some family members as a loving husband who fulfilled his terminally-ill wife's last request by shooting her in the head. But not everyone supported this image of Roberts. Some warned anonymously on The Outlook's web site and in interviews with a reporter that he is a skilled manipulator, and that his defense was untenable. A "memorandum of law" released on Monday by the Multnomah County district attorney's office concurs. The memorandum alleges there was no evidence that Virginia Roberts wanted to die. It further alleges that Roberts has engaged in elaborate acts of deceit in the past, that he had drinking and financial problems and that he was an unfaithful husband.
Colour your house
The colours you see when you walk into your neighbourhood paint store are selected months – if not years – in advance, says Sharon Grech, who is Benjamin Moore's colour and design manager for central Canada. And their selection is not a random event, but is backed by entire organizations devoted to determining what colours will fit in with current trends. Grech represents her paint company at the Color Marketing Group, an international association of more than 400 disparate members who have been gathering twice yearly since the 1960s to exchange information and predict what is going to colour our world in the coming months. The colours discussed at its most recent meeting in December will likely start appearing in 2010, she notes. "Pretty much everything that has colour is represented, from paints to shoes and cars," Grech says.
Cyber Korp's Live Demo at Gartner's Midsize Summit 2007 Big Success
CHICAGO, Oct. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Cyber Korp, a leading Agile software development and staffing solutions provider, made a huge splash on the conference floor of Gartner's Midsize Enterprise Summit, with its innovative, live demonstration of agile software development processes at work. This type of live demonstration was the first known, and successfully highlighted one of Cyber Korp's key offerings, Agile Project Delivery through its Agile Development Center (ADC) in Chicago. A volunteer from the conference, a Director of Technology from an Airline, chose to give them requirements for a software application that he would like to build. Once the requirements were taken, they were handed off to Cyber Korp's 100% Agile Development Center team in Chicago, and the development work began.
Matthews Scoffs at 'Irrelevant' Limbaugh's Media Comments
Appearing on Thursday's 1pm hour of MSNBC News Live, "Hardball" host Chris Matthews couldn't resist taking a few swipes at Rush Limbaugh. After anchor Peter Alexander played a clip of the conservative talk show host discussing the New York Times story on Senator John McCain, Matthews irritably claimed, "Rush Limbaugh is irrelevant here. Irrelevant. He doesn't know anything more than what he read in the New York Times." The radio clip, which was from Thursday's edition of Limbaugh's program, featured the host urging the GOP presidential candidate to learn a lesson from the front-page New York Times story speculating about a improper relationship with a D.C. lobbyist. Matthews's apparent annoyance at Limbaugh might have something to do with being mentioned in the clip. At one point during the monologue, Limbaugh asserted, "[McCain] has thought Chris Matthews and these other people in the drive-by media are his friends.
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