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Using the Past to Navigate the Present
One of the most fulfilling parts of my administrative work this year has been observing classes and learning from my fellow educators. I've been assigned to observe teachers in a few different departments, one of them being social studies. As I've sat through many classes in this discipline, I've realized that students are gaining more than facts and dates in today's social studies classes. They are gaining, from their teachers, a chance to understand the present through the lens of the past. Never has that been more needed than at this time.
At their best, social studies teachers avoid the sound bites, the pundits and the social media comments. They focus instead on depth of study and of thought. They encourage reflection, deliberation and collaboration. They help students re-discover the reality that nothing has ever come easy in America, that despite our freedoms and opportunity we often take steps forward and backward at the same time.
The students in these classes read stories of individuals who have never given up on the promise of America. They study leaders who were unwilling to stop reaching toward the promise of the Declaration, toward a fuller and more just Constitution, and toward an electoral process that represented everyone. They write essays and DBQs and take part in class discussions and presentations about the constant tug and pull of American history.
The challenges of this divided nation are growing by the day. It's reached a point where many of us can feel this underlying vibe of stress connected with our national events and political sphere. Even on our best days, many of us still feel the static queasiness of "What's next?" In relating that feeling to the teens in my school, I wonder if one social studies class per day is enough at this point. These classes, as great as they are, have curricula to cover. Our kids have questions about issues all over the map, literally and figuratively. We owe it to them to answer those questions.
Book groups, discussion clubs and additional humanities-based study are all emerging in my school as well. Some teens are recognizing that as lifelong learners they've got a responsibility to deepen their understanding of the challenges we face. At my church, we've had teen discussion groups related to race this year, and we've combined conversation, video and reading to try and understand America's history of race relations. My church is definitely not the only extracurricular group offering students the chance to think about American history. Pop culture is doing its part, too, from film to television to music videos. Streaming services like Netflix, YouTube and Spotify offer many volumes of though-provoking media. And yes, there are still books that students are reading – and enjoying – on their own.
Education is grounded in the free association of ideas and the belief that our students can become our next leaders. As we work toward that goal, it's essential that we recognize that different eras bring different responsibilities. This time period calls for a deep dive into history, journalism, literature and media, to gain a stronger sense of where we are, how we got here, and how we can move forward. As I see this at play throughout and beyond my school, I see many reasons to hope. The only way forward is to keep exploring both yesterday and today.
Decorating the Office
I've never had an office before. Cubicles and classrooms defined the first 25 years of my working life, which was just fine, thank you. But as a school administrator, I get an office. It's tiny, with most of the floor space taken up by a large desk, file cabinets and a bookcase. But there's also plenty of wall space, and that's where I had to make choices upon entering the room.
What would I hang on the walls of my office? And what would that say about my values as an assistant principal? As students began entering the office during this first week of school, I happily gave them a tour.
One wall was reserved for a series of Apple "Think Different" posters that my wife gave me during my first year of teaching, 19 years ago. I've had them up every year since, so there was no doubt that they would make their way into the room. They feature black-and-white photos of famous innovators, from Mahatma Gandhi to Amelia Earhart to Jim Henson to Pablo Picasso. The "Think Different" slogan has always fit into my core values as an educator, so I want students to see those words as often as possible.
There are no diplomas on the walls, but there is a teacher award plaque and photos of my students, one of them a framed photo of a journalism class given to me last year by the students themselves. Another photo was sent to me from a just-graduated senior, who is studying abroad in her first semester of college and wanted me to see her enjoying a rugby game in New Zealand. Another photo shows students from the community service club I've advised, posing with a patient from Children's Specialized Hospital during a dance marathon fund-raiser. With these snapshots from my teaching life, I hope to show students how much I care about their lives.
There is a small, three-tiered table in a corner, which features an old-school typewriter on the top level, a reporter's notebook and recorder on the second level, and a newspaper drawing on the bottom. The table reminds me of the journalism that serves as the foundation of my work experience, work ethic and work philosophy.
The bookshelf features texts that support my work in education and adolescent development (from Carol Dweck's Mindset to Susan Cain's Quiet to Angela Duckworth's Grit to Frank Bruni's Where You Go is Not Who You'll Be), as well as books that encourage dialogue on social justice and community engagement (Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me, Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy, Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, James McBride's The Color of Water). There are also books that remind me of how I grew into my role as an educator and thinker, from authors such as Jonathan Kozol, Anna Quindlen, Fred Rogers and Ralph Ellison.
Outside my door, there are two dry-erase boards: One for students who need to leave me messages, and one featuring an inspirational quote of the day. On the first day of school, I posted a quote from the writer Rainer Maria Rilke: "And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been."
Beyond the innovators, snapshots, mementoes, books and words, there's another piece to this room that serves as perhaps the most visible part of my office décor. On three of the walls, I have hung photos and drawings of bridges. Many of them depict the Brooklyn Bridge, which has long been my favorite New York City landmark. From poster-sized photos to New Yorker covers to a painting by my daughter, I surround myself with the 135-year-old architectural beauty that spans the East River because I find it incredibly inspiring.
But as a writer and English teacher, I also see a metaphor here. Adolescence is, in many ways, a bridge between childhood and adulthood. And administrators are often bridge-keepers who help connect students, faculty, parents and the overall community with one another. Finally, schools themselves are bridges, designed to help learners connect with one another, with academic disciplines, and with their own individual thoughts. We're constantly building bridges for students as they share information, and also within students as they connect the dots between prior knowledge and new discoveries, between assumptions and reality, and between fact and fiction. In so many ways, educators are the engineers of personal growth, and it is our job to keep the pathways clear for students to make important crossings and to take the risk of reaching for the other side.
There are a lot of quotes out there supporting this metaphor, but I'll leave you with one. During a lecture 55 years ago, Ralph Ellison said, "Education is all a matter of building bridges." This seems as true to me today as it was to Ellison in 1963.
So yes, I have an office now. But the essence of my work remains the same as it ever was. In case I forget that, I've got the bridges to remind me.
Labels: Angela Duckworth, Anna Quindlen, Brooklyn Bridge, Bryan Stevenson, Carol Dweck, Frank Bruni, Fred Rogers, James McBride, Jonathan Kozol, Ralph Ellison, Rebecca Skloot, Susan Cain, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Think Different
The Athlete as Educator
The public school that LeBron James and his foundation opened in Akron, Ohio, two weeks ago is impressive on so many levels. It goes out of its way to service students who are struggling academically and have had difficult childhoods, and it offers so many layers of support, from small class sizes to daily meals to a longer school day and year. His foundation also offers educational opportunities for students' parents, and free tuition to the University of Akron for students who have received mentoring in his program. Like Bill and Melinda Gates and other educational philanthropists, James is ensuring that his commitment to education is grounded in strategies that researchers have deemed successful.
President Trump's comment about James' intelligence misses the point entirely, as this is an athlete with more riches than he can imagine, yet he's choosing to commit significant time and money to students whose futures hang in the balance. James' school will receive plenty of attention in the years ahead, and he will surely be there to oversee and continue supporting it; in so many ways, this is as wise an investment as any American can make. James' is by no means the only urban school that is working to turn lives around, but it's most definitely a model for others to consider following. In that sense, James is an athlete and leader who many of us might consider emulating as well.
Curtis Granderson, the Toronto Blue Jays outfielder who has played for a number of teams in his baseball career, has taken a similar approach in terms of using his platform as a professional athlete to serve others. Granderson has promoted education, fitness and nutrition throughout his career, from his own foundation to the ballfield he helped build in Chicago. Granderson has won the Roberto Clemente Award, given annually to a major leaguer who has exemplified service and sportsmanship. Like James, Granderson sees his success as an opportunity to bring along younger generations, just as his parents – both educators – did for him.
Earlier in the summer, there was widespread coverage of James' decision to sign with the Los Angeles Lakers. Right now, there's talk about whether or not Granderson will be traded to the New York Yankees or some other team this month, as his Blue Jays are out of contention. While sports signings and trades are interesting, my real question about these 30-something athletes is what they'll do with their careers after retirement. In what ways will they lead when they actually have the chance to serve their communities full-time? Will James open more schools? Will Granderson run for office? How will they lead?
In my school, I have a bunch of sports books on hand for any student who's looking for a nonfiction read. Some of these books focus on athletes who have had impacted both sport and society, from Clemente to Arthur Ashe to Bill Bradley to Jackie Robinson. Their stories are some of the most important American narratives of the last 70 years, as they mark a place where fame and popular success overlap with civic engagement and a much deeper sense of victory. I hope we commit more time in our schools to reading and discussing the impact of sport on society.
In a lot of ways, the most fascinating athletes in society are the ones who add to their highlight reels after hanging up their spikes. Instead of game-winning baskets or home runs, this new footage captures these men and women changing the world, one step at a time. So whoever you play for, LeBron and Curtis, I'm not worried – just keep on following that famous mantra: We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
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Labels: Arthur Ashe, Bill and Melinda Gates, Bill Bradley, Curtis Granderson, Donald Trump, Jackie Robinson, LeBron James, Roberto Clemente, University of Akron
The Puppy Days of Summer
July is a quiet month in most school buildings. It's a time when administrators, custodians, computer technicians and secretaries do a lot of preparing for the onslaught of activity that will take place in just a matter of weeks. I've been enjoying the quiet at school, especially since life at home is a whole lot more hectic than usual. Two and a half months ago, we came home with a rescue puppy, and life has most definitely not been the same.
I was reminded of how this 60-pound, 6-month-old Labrador/Great Dane mix landed in our house just as I was sitting in my serene office this past week. You see, one of the ways I've been preparing for my new job as an assistant principal is by studying and reviewing my school district's Board of Ed-approved policies, so that when issues arise I am better versed in the rules. One of the many board policies in our district is the one regarding live animals. It's not the most-read policy, of course, and I would imagine it was designed mostly for science classes. But it can apply in other ways as well.
Take this past April, for instance. One of my colleagues asked if the Community Service Club that I advise would be willing to welcome a visit from a dog rescue organization for which she volunteers, as the group was looking for teens to help them out as well. I asked the students, and they said yes, they'd love a visit. My colleague then asked if we'd be OK if the dog rescue person brought an actual dog with her to class. I said no, that wouldn't be allowed. She said maybe it would, if the principal agreed to it. I said sure, feel free to ask.
When my boss was asked about the dog, he dutifully referred to the aforementioned board policy, which stated that in this kind of situation, a live animal could enter a classroom if all students and parents had been informed, and no one was allergic to the animal. I sent out a note to parents, and a few days later, we had our visit. The dog rescue worker entered the classroom, followed by a "foster parent" who held the leash of a 4-month-old Lab/Great Dane nicknamed "Big George" by the rescue group.
When this black Lab stepped gingerly into the room, he settled on the floor, resting his head on the leg of a student who had knelt down to pet him. He seemed like the gentlest puppy I'd ever met. My students fawned over him, and several of them signed up to volunteer for the rescue group. As for me, I found myself skimming the organization's website, looking at the writeup on Big George. He was found in a garbage dump in Georgia, it said, and his name came from the theme to this litter – all of them were named after characters from the novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. I emailed my wife the link and wrote, "I don't know why I'm sending you this." She responded that she didn't know, either. She passed the link along to our daughters.
We had a dog already. Our 8-year-old golden retriever, Daisy, was perfectly content, if a little lonely. But she found her life turning upside down when we brought her to a meet-and-greet with this friendly puppy. And when we brought that puppy home, Daisy was even more confused. It was as if she knew what we were in for before we did.
We have spent the past 11 weeks raising a puppy – which, in case you have never done so, is second only to raising a child in its degree of difficulty. George is growing about 20 pounds per month, and by the time he's filled out he will look more like a pony. He likes to get our attention with a howl that sounds like it came from Chewbacca. When losing his baby teeth, he would shake his head to try and free the dangling tooth, thereby sprinkling blood all over the floor. He drinks from his bowl and then walks away while still swallowing, leaving puddles of water all over the place. He chewed his leash in half, and chewed the laces off my running sneakers.
George is learning to stop pulling on his new leash, which is important because he's almost stronger than we are already. He wants Daisy to play all the time, but that's not our older dog's style. So between growling and completely ignoring him, Daisy is mentoring George on the art of settling down. We take him for three walks a day, and he still has energy to spare. One day he was stung by a bee or wasp, and we had to give him Benadryl. When the medicine knocked him out, we enjoyed our quietest night in months.
A day in the life of Big George features all kinds of fun. Today, for instance, we had a 5:30 wakeup call, as he howled from inside his crate. I tried to take a nap after work only to have him hop on the bed next to me and start chomping on a bone. While clearing off the table after dinner, I was treated to him dipping his snout in the garbage pail, leaving a trail of couscous across the kitchen floor. And tonight, my wife says we need to order an XXL dog crate since he's grown out of the 42-inch crate we already have.
There's no board policy on raising a puppy; that's my own riddle to solve, outside of work time. The dog days of summer will be more literal than figurative for us this year. But the family will figure it out together, and George will mature and pay more attention to our rules. Eventually. Meanwhile, I'll keep sneaking away to work each day, trying to recover from dog education by focusing on the education of teenagers.
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Labels: Big George, Chewbacca, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Great Dane, Labrador retriever
Lessons from a Neighbor
As I begin my career in school administration this week, I've been paying attention to the many mentors in my life. While there have been plenty of role models on the job and outside of work, I've also found inspiration from mentors whom I have never met – writers, public servants, activists and storytellers, to name a few.
Recently, I got the chance to learn again from a childhood mentor. My wife and I saw the new documentary Won't You Be My Neighbor?, which revisits the life and work of Fred Rogers. If a theater near you is playing this film, I strongly recommend seeing it.
It's been a long time since I watched Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, and this documentary illustrates the degree to which Rogers combined his training in ministry, child development and television to offer a program that was unlike any other show before or since. Rogers offered deep commentary on the world while also speaking directly to children about the most basic of human emotions and behaviors.
The core of Rogers' message was not complicated, yet it is so difficult for many of us to adhere to with consistency. He offered complete support to the children with whom he was speaking, both on screen and in person, without any judgment. He told children that they were all special in their own way, and did not ask for their back stories in order to believe this to be true. He encouraged them to care for one another, and to use love as a guiding principle in life.
He opened each show by inviting his TV friends into a community of neighbors, and closed each show by reminding us that "it's such a good feeling to know you're alive." When I observe the stress that so many students experience today, as they try to figure out how to succeed in highly competitive academic, athletic and social media environments, Rogers' words seem almost radical in their simplicity and importance. And when I learn of children and adults struggling in so many ways both in my own neighborhood and far beyond it, Rogers' message seems to be about the most important one I can think of.
Rogers also dove directly into the most controversial issues of the day, and spoke with children about violence, family separation, race, intolerance and disabilities. When he dipped his feet into a children's swimming pool along with François S. Clemmons, an African-American actor who played the role of "Officer Clemmons," the two men did so at a time when many public swimming pools were still segregated. When Rogers' puppet character King Friday XIII built a wall around his castle in 1968, he did so during a period in which many Americans were worried about the changing makeup of their neighborhoods (a sentiment that continues in many places to this day). The stunning sight of this puppet leader "building a wall" 50 years ago is not lost on viewers.
When Rogers' puppet Daniel Striped Tiger asks what the word "assassination" means, he is speaking right after Robert F. Kennedy's murder. One can imagine Daniel doing the same today with terms such as "terrorism" or "migration" or "school shootings." And in a different episode, when Daniel asks another character if he is a "mistake," we see Rogers going straight at the essential issue of childhood self-esteem and self-love.
Fred Rogers was so compassionate that he lives on as a caricature to some of us. We think of the opening song, where he changes into his sweater and sneakers, with the traffic light and the trolley rolling around the bend. Some of us smile at the memory, and leave it at that. But this film reminds us just how much was going on inside that 30-minute program, and how real the Neighborhood of Make Believe really was. Throughout the film, director Morgan Neville interviews former crew and cast members, but as the film nears its end, he slices together images of each cast member crying. It's been 15 years since Rogers died, but his work and his love left such a profound impact on these individuals that they are moved to tears in discussing the man. And that's just the adults.
Despite the many struggles around us today, there are still a lot of great role models in this world. But it can be hard to focus on selfless giving, on true service toward others, and on the need to talk through the tough stuff. Fred Rogers did all of those things, pretty much every day of his adult life. I can't say I'll be able to do that as a school administrator. But if I can reach for just a sliver of the impact he had, I will at least be on the right track.
In an archival interview shown in the film, Rogers puts it this way: "Love is at the root of everything – all learning, all parenting, all relationships. Love or the lack of it."
Here's to the love, and not the lack. Time to get back to work.
Labels: Daniel Striped Tiger, Francois S. Clemmons, King Friday XIII, Morgan Neville, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, Neighborhood of Make Believe, red Rogers, Robert F. Kennedy, Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Endings & Beginnings
This is a story about change. It's a story about new journeys, and about goodbyes. It's not a sad story at all, but it's not an easy one, either.
In a matter of a few weeks this spring, I learned a few things: One, that a student of mine had been named high school journalist of the year for the state of New Jersey; two, that I'd been given a distinguished teaching award from my school; three, that I'd been hired as the newest assistant principal in my school; and, lastly, that this new job would preclude me from continuing to serve as the adviser of our school's newspaper.
It was a lot for one spring, and it definitely kept me on my toes. I joined my award-winning student and her parents in late April at the New Jersey Press Foundation's spring banquet, and watched as journalists from across the state applauded her ambitious reporting on teen e-cigarette smoking. She had covered this topic so well that a reporter quoted her and her article in a New York Times story. In the days that followed, I shared the news of her success with anyone who would listen, and there were a lot of people excited to hear about it.
As April leaned into May, I found myself moving through the detailed interview process for our school's open assistant principal position. Just as that position was offered to me, then approved by the Board of Education, I also learned of the teaching award. It might have seemed strange to some that a "distinguished teacher" was leaving classroom teaching. For me, though, the goal was clear: To see if some of the cool stuff that goes on in my classroom can be passed along on a school-wide level. I can only learn if this is possible by trying it out, and this seemed like the ideal time to give it a try. So I did.
Once I became an administrator-in-waiting, it was also time to find a replacement for me as newspaper adviser, due to the justified concerns over an administrator having any prior review over an uncensored, student-run newspaper. My students were crushed to learn that I wouldn't be their adviser, but students and staff have worked through this together, through communication, determination and aggressive hiring. I've spent hours making sure all the pieces of our journalism program are detailed on paper, and will continue communicating the nuts and bolts of our program to those replacing me throughout the weeks and months ahead.
While I will continue interacting with students every day, I've willingly taken on a position that removes me from classroom teaching. Earlier in my career, I vowed that as long as I remained in education, I would never leave the classroom. Now, as I prepare for my 20th year as an educator, I am willing to broaden my definition of "the classroom" to include the school as a whole. It feels bittersweet right now, of course, but that's because goodbyes can be hard.
When I left reporting for teaching in the summer of 1999, I moved to a different state, and worked in an entirely different venue. I missed reporting, but I was surrounded by all the stimuli of education. Now, as I embark on another career switch, I will not be moving far. In fact, I'll walk past my classroom every day and will see all that I left behind. It will be like looking out the classroom door back in 1999 and seeing the newsroom across the hall. Change is tough, but it's even tougher when the pieces of your goodbye remain in your line of sight. Of course, that classroom – and the newsroom that preceded it – will also serve to remind me of what I'm aspiring to do, and why my experience as a reporter and teacher might just translate into an effective school administrator.
June is a bittersweet month for students; they draw the logos of their colleges on graduation caps, then toss those caps in the air with glee – only to retrieve the caps in tears, hugging those friends to whom they must now say goodbye. I usually stand on the periphery of that scene every June, retrieving a few stray beach balls and packing my things for the summer. This year, though, I'm right in the midst of the bittersweet. I'm ready for what's next.
After our seniors tossed their caps in the air this past Friday at the football stadium down the street from our school, I wasn't sure what to do. I found some car keys that a student had left behind, and held onto those until a teacher said he could bring them to the kid. I helped the custodians fold some chairs. I smiled for some student photos, and even took a snapshot of a family. As I prepared to leave, a student with whom I'd worked throughout the past four years ran over to me. He'd been the president of our school's Community Service Club, and I've been that club's adviser for a dozen years. This young man has grown into the type of leader who can change the world, and I can't tell you how proud I am of him. In some small way, I've tried to help nurture his leadership and compassion for the past four years. Wishing him the best was bittersweet, but also a reminder of the reason I'm making this transition: To try and make more of those connections, in as many ways as I can.
Educating children is a leap of faith: You don't necessarily get to see the end results of the impact you're trying to make on students' lives. They may not recognize it, and certainly may not run across a field to give you a goodbye hug. But you do the work anyway, modeling the kind of thinking, caring, leading and inquiring that you hope they'll take with them into this crazy world. Sometimes we get a bonus, and some students tell us we made a difference in their lives. But we don't ask for that. We just ask for the opportunity to step into the school and do our best.
After departing the graduation, I walked back to the school and stepped into the classroom that is no longer mine. I packed up some boxes and brought them to my car. In one hand, I carried a small bag with a few gifts and cards from students. I would read the cards when I got home, and the tears would be there. But for now, I was just clocking out on my 19th year of teaching, ready for
another chance to make a difference in September.
A Family Education
I can't yet remember all their names. Give me some more time and I will. But my, I am glad I met them.
During our Spring Break this past week, my parents brought my daughters, my wife and me to Ireland for a week. Most of the trip consisted of sightseeing, from Dublin, Galway and Belfast to the Giant's Causeway, Cliffs of Moher and Dingle Peninsula. But toward the end of our trip, we gathered in a pub in Castlewellan, just outside Newcastle in Northern Ireland's County Down. Greeting us were some 30 members of our family – people my dad had connected with in researching his family tree.
He'd been at this for a while, and my parents had met several of these relatives before. My dad's cousin Arthur, who lives in the U.S., has been his partner in research. They've shared family information, photos and discoveries. Several years ago, my parents had visited the Hynes homestead, grave site and stained-glass window, as well as the quarry where my dad's grandfather, John Hynes, worked before emigrating from Ireland and becoming a well-respected granite worker in Brooklyn. But now, my dad was introducing these relatives to his own son and granddaughters.
And they taught me so much in one night. From Thomas, I learned that it now costs more to sheer a sheep than it pays to sell the wool, so the family's farming business now focuses on raising lambs to sell for meat. From Martin, I learned that the farm is a side job for most in Ireland, as it typically doesn't pay enough on its own. From Peadar, who teaches Irish language classes and coaches Gaelic football, I learned that his secondary school doesn't allow any smartphones or tablets in class.
From Kathleen and Malachy, I learned how much life has improved in Belfast over the past two decades, as years of sectarian violence have given way to a booming tourism scene. From Mary, I learned that anniversary masses play a major role in many Irish families, as a means of honoring those who have died. And from young Odhrán, I learned a new nickname for our family, as seen on the back of his Gaelic football jersey: "Hynesey."
My dad was two generations removed from his ancestor who left Ireland. Now, the two generations following my dad have connected with those roots, just as he has. I'm a mutt whose ancestors emigrated from various European countries. I had met a couple of relatives from Iceland 40 years ago, and that's been it. But now my older daughter is following her Irish cousin on Instagram, and I'm in a Hynes family Facebook message group.
There are, of course, plenty of family members here in the U.S. whom I know and love, yet have not seen nearly enough of lately. In our ever-hectic lives, extended family members often find ourselves promising to get together more often than actually doing it. Then, someone passes and we see one another, wishing it were under better circumstances. The Hynes family members in Ireland expressed similar sentiments.
But be that as it may, it was truly a special night. They walked into the pub, shook our hands, and introduced themselves. Family. Now I've met them. Not a bad education for one Spring Break. Thanks, Dad.
Labels: Belfast, Castlewellan, Cliffs of Moher, County Down, Dingle Peninsula, Dublin, Gaelic football, Galway, Giant's Causeway, John Hynes, Newcastle
Talkin' Baseball
The two Syrian men smiled at me from across the table. I was their ESL teacher on this Saturday morning, and they were ready to learn.
We began with a review of basic conversation; I'd write down the phrases, and they'd repeat them out loud.
"How are you?" / "I'm fine, thanks. How are you?"
"Can I help you with anything?" / "Yes, I need a job."
We moved on to verbs (to be, to have) and nouns (desk, table, chair). I am an English teacher, which is not the same thing as an ESL teacher. Many of the regular ESL teachers at this refugee-assistance program were absent on this Saturday morning, as it was also the day of the March for Our Lives. So I was doing my best, and these men were working hard.
At one point, I decided to write another conversation question on our yellow legal pad. It was a simple query:
"How about those Yankees?"
The men said the words aloud with me, but had no idea what they meant. I wrote down the word: "Baseball." They pronounced it together: "beis – bol." I asked them if they enjoy football, or soccer as we call it in the U.S. They said yes, they do. Baseball, I told them, is America's original sport. Our national pastime.
I showed them video clips from baseball games, and they were intrigued. We didn't have time to review all the rules and terms, but I told them to keep an eye out for baseball. And if someone asks them "How about those Yankees?" or, dare I say, "How about those Mets?" I advised them to respond, "I hope they win this year."
It's spring, and this weekend brings us the start of baseball. So dare to dream. Every team is technically in the pennant race as April approaches. It's the season of opportunity.
These two Syrian men didn't know a thing about baseball, but they know a lot about starting over. They're familiar with new seasons in life. They've lived that, for sure.
We finished our ESL session, and one of the men gathered up the notes we'd written together on the legal pad. He tapped his pencil to the paper. "Baseball," he said. That's right, I told him. Baseball.
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Labels: Baseball, March for Our Lives, New York Mets, New York Yankees, Refugees, Syria
Thirty Minutes
It was just 30 minutes. There and gone in an instant. But in a newsroom, so much can happen in a half-hour.
On this Friday afternoon in March, after two snow days and a delayed opening, the student-reporters for our school newspaper hadn't met since they'd sent out this week's paper to the printer on Tuesday night – a half-day ahead of schedule, in preparation for the snow. The paper had been printed on Thursday, and we had somehow managed to get it in our hands and deliver it during our shortened Friday homeroom. But now, at 2:15 on a Friday, we had a half-hour to focus on the stories that lay ahead of us.
Two of my students were hard at work on an in-depth inquiry into why so many schools in New Jersey and America are still segregated by race. Another two students were planning interviews for a story about the different positions parents take with regard to substance use by their kids. Still another pair were working on a follow-up story to our coverage of teens and e-cigarettes, with plans to interview adults who profit financially from teen use of these devices.
Another student had written a first-person essay on what this school paper means to her, to be published in a new local magazine that had asked for contributions from us. And another student was working on the latest in her podcast series on immigration.
And, of course, there were the sports. Two of our sports editors were creating a giant NCAA Tournament bracket on the staff whiteboard to keep track of the men's basketball tourney throughout March Madness season. And they were planning to preview the games in our paper, along with a story on how the recent NCAA basketball scandal has impacted the outlook fans have toward the annual college tournament.
Another student was taking photos, some to accompany the magazine piece, and others to be used for publicity. Publicity was in order because one of our staff members had just been named New Jersey High School Journalist of the Year, with a nice scholarship to go along with the honor.
Still another student was preparing to cover the event taking place this Wednesday morning at high schools across the nation. The nationwide organizing body is calling it a "walkout," while others are using different terms: remembrance, assembly, protest. Either way, it's been prompted by the shooting in Parkland, Fla., and is part of the powerful student dialogue on gun control taking place around America. The student covering this event will have just an hour to write her story, as it's taking place during our Wednesday morning deadline. She'll follow that story by traveling to Washington, D.C., 10 days later to cover the nationwide march for gun control.
So, as I was saying, 30 minutes. There's a lot to do. A lot to talk about. A lot to plan. But my, that newsroom was humming. You could feel it.
The Unarmed Teacher
Most schools have not had shootings, but all schools have had students with struggles. These struggles range from family crises to student stress to mental illness to harassment and bullying. As a teacher, I know that part of my job is to be available and supportive to students who need to talk about their difficulties.
That's why I make sure my classroom is a safe and inviting place for students. My walls are covered with inspiring artwork, I welcome everyone who walks into the room, and I make sure my room is used for school clubs and activities, so there is always a bit of a buzz in the area as students come in and out to check in with me about after-school events.
Over the years, it has never occurred to me that my room would be safer for students were I carrying a weapon. In fact, I am certain that the presence of a gun in my room would have deterred some students from stopping by to talk. A gun would not have added to the kind of emotional and physical security that these students sought. They wanted to learn from me, teach me something, talk with me, and enjoy the learning environment that we'd created together. They needed a smile, a song played in between classes, and photos on the wall depicting Malala Yousafzai, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Kermit the Frog. Not guns.
There are some students and adults who argue that arming teachers would help bolster school safety, but these arguments fall short on many levels. For one, they lack clarity on where the guns would be stored, and how they would be accessible in moments of crisis. In addition, they fail to address our nation's deep struggles with racial profiling, and how that might affect students and teachers of color. And they also don't address how guns would make a classroom more inviting for that student who is struggling and needs to talk.
Like many teachers, I have visualized what my actions would be should an active shooter enter my school. My thoughts have always been that I would do everything in my power to keep my students physically and emotionally safe. I've treated every lockdown drill seriously, and have taken the time for mental preparation. I've established in my mind that I would take a bullet to protect any student in my care.
But holding a gun in my classroom would be different: It would require a major shift in my own demeanor, moving me from nurturance to enforcement. This shift would turn some kids away, and it would alter my own approach to the job. I can't see a benefit in that. In fact, it seems to undercut the purpose of an educator, as part of the teacher's job is to help students envision a more just and peaceful world. Our job is to help them see a way to make things better; adding guns to the classroom seems more like surrendering to the darker side of human nature. Teachers don't specialize in despair; we prefer to work with hope.
On Friday, about an hour after school had ended, a student of mine stepped in the room to talk. A family crisis had made it impossible for her to complete a story assignment for me, and her red eyes and tears revealed how upset she was about it. We talked it over, I listened and I did my best to offer words of support. There was no easy solution, and we'll talk again tomorrow. But in that moment, she needed to hear from someone that it would be OK. I did my best to provide that.
Nothing about this conversation would have been enhanced by the presence of a gun. As we consider measures to improve school security, let's remember the true purpose of the teacher – as a source of instruction, guidance and encouragement. Teachers offer safety, but it's not the kind of safety a weapon provides. It's the kind that comes from the heart and mind. The kind we can't live without.
If we change our societal view of what we want from a teacher, we will have to live with the consequences. Because once you change it, there's no going back.
Labels: Gun control, Kermit the Frog, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Malala Yousafzai, School shootings
After Parkland
My students are in the midst of a five-day weekend, and their well-deserved break began at about the same minute that a 19-year-old began shooting ex-classmates and staff at a high school in Parkland, Fla., on Wednesday. It soon became clear that this was another school shooting with multiple fatalities, yet also a shooting in which students had used their phones and social media platforms during the event to document for the world just what a school shooting looks and sounds like.
I'm aware that nearly every media platform has been a forum for gun-control debate over the past four days, and I'm also aware that many students at this Florida high school have been speaking out, channeling their grief toward gun-control activism. It's a teachable moment, so what does a journalism educator do?
First, you respond to the messages you're sent. The first journalism student who reached out to me about the shooting sent an email at 1:30 a.m. on Friday. She had stayed up late writing a powerful opinion piece about guns in America. I responded to tell her she had done what she needed to do, which was to get her words down on paper. I followed up with emails to the editor-in-chief and business managers to see if they were interested in adding more pages to next week's paper, in order to cover this issue. They said they were up for it, and other students began volunteering to write and lay out pages for our coverage. My advice to the writers was to do what that first student had done – write what is on their minds. We'll have time to do more reporting on this issue in the weeks ahead, but for now the kids seemed to need an outlet for their emotions.
I have witnessed the powerful emotions this debate produces. Twenty years ago, I was a reporter for the Staten Island Advance, and I was assigned to the gun-debate beat. School shootings were on the rise, and so were protests. I traveled with a group of protesters to Springfield, Mass., the home of gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson. The protesters placed pairs of shoes belonging to individuals who had died from gun violence in a local park, then traveled to Smith & Wesson's headquarters to march.
One of those protesters had lost her husband to a gun murder, and she had become a nationwide leader in the cause. Another had lost her son when a neighborhood child got his hands on a gun left unattended in a home, and accidentally shot the young boy. This protester told me about her commute to work, and how it took her past the cemetery in which her son was buried. She would drive into the cemetery each morning, mourning her son's death before continuing on her way to work.
I also interviewed gun advocates at the local sportsmen's club. As they gathered for dinner and fellowship, these avid hunters told me what I've heard time and again over the past two decades: Guns don't kill people; people kill people. I listened, took notes, and thanked them for their time.
The following year, two young men shot and killed many of their classmates at Columbine High School in Colorado, and now school shootings had become part of our national parlance. I interviewed Staten Island students who had been questioned in their schools because they, like the Columbine shooters, wore trench coats. They were confused as to what a coat had to do with gun violence. So was I.
Two months after Columbine, I left full-time reporting for full-time teaching. My working life, since the summer of 1999, has been devoted to teaching first, and writing second. I have taught writing skills to many students, and over the years the classrooms and schools in which I've taught have become more and more protected from the outside world. The Newtown, Conn., shootings of more than five years ago led to stricter security in schools across the nation. The school shootings, however, have continued.
At no time during these two decades have federal legislators passed any laws regulating the Second Amendment rights that Americans have. When nothing happened after Newtown, it seemed as though federal gun regulations were simply an impossibility. Now we have Parkland, with Snapchat videos documenting the violence. We have students appearing on the Sunday-morning talk shows to challenge their legislators.
As an educator, my job is typically to keep my own political views out of the classroom. My role is to ask good questions, support students in their journeys of discovery, and remain present for all voices that arise. I've had students conduct projects on safe gun use, in which they documented the ways in which they and their parents used guns safely at shooting ranges. I've also had students write passionately about the need for stricter gun control. And just a few months ago, I helped a student as she wrote a news story about her peers' views on gun control, featuring students on both sides of the issue.
When we resume school on Tuesday, I will remain dedicated to helping my students feel safe and protected in finding their own voices on this issue. But I also want my students to feel safe and protected in the literal sense, and that's where it becomes difficult for teachers like me to remain truly objective on this issue of school shootings and guns. I have a very hard time understanding why we can't regulate a guaranteed right more closely. Full background checks, a national gun registry and bans on semiautomatic weapons seem like common sense to me. Laws like those passed in Connecticut after Newtown seem completely reasonable, and in keeping with the Second Amendment rights that many Americans treasure.
I'm happy to share those views with students if they ask. But back in the classroom, I will encourage them to talk and listen and find their voices. I am a teacher who views gun control as a must. But I am also a teacher who must support his students. I'll start by encouraging my student-reporters to go after it, both in their opinion pieces and in their own reporting. Their peers in Parkland have experienced a nightmare, and instead of hiding their heads these teens are inviting us all to a serious and necessary conversation. I'm going to encourage my kids to take part.
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Teacher Dad
I had known for a few months that I'd be teaching my daughter. I just didn't know what she should call me.
Not Dad. And definitely not Mr. Hynes. Ideally, also not any of the names she might have mumbled under her breath throughout the past 16 years.
But like it or not, here we were together. At my high school this year, I am the only journalism teacher. Katie goes to this school, and she wanted to take Journalism I. So on the first day of school, I looked out upon my class of ambitious young reporters, and among them I saw my own flesh and blood.
I introduced the class to them, talked about my own journalism experience, and asked them if they could identify the terms "journalism," "news" and "media." They were interested, and we were on our way.
At some point in that first class period, Katie raised her hand. "What should I call you?" she asked.
I thought to myself, "Didn't I have an entire summer to think this over?" I did, and I had not considered it. Searching for an answer, I flashed back to my previous job, an alternative school in Boston at which I had taught for three years. At that school, teachers were called by their first names, to deepen the sense of community among students and staff. "That will work," I thought to myself.
"OK," I said to the students, who were actually quite interested in where this was going, "I don't want Katie calling me 'Mr. Hynes' in class, so I'm going to give everyone in this class complete permission to call me 'Warren.' "
The kids smiled; some of them even let out a "Yes!" or a fist pump. When class ended, one of the students walked up to Katie and said, "Man, I really thought he was going to say that we could all call him 'Dad.' "
Over the next few weeks, a few students tried out "Warren" to see how it felt, and they ended up going back to Mr. Hynes. As for Katie, it's kind of a funny thing; she calls me "Warren" all the time at home, along various other "W" first names, such as Wally and Wendell. That's all done in a loving attempt to get under my skin. I can handle it, as I'd much rather she call me by a nickname than not talk to me at all.
At school, though, she really couldn't avoid "Dad." It just came out that way, even in class. In moments when life is busy and stressful – which school can often be – we need to call our parents what they are to us. I'm Katie's dad, and her brain couldn't take the time to consider my first-name suggestion. She just needed me to be her father.
When school was over, and she was Face-Timing a friend on the phone while I walked by, it was back to "Hello, Warren." When I called her down to dinner, she'd respond with "Yes, Warren." But during those journalism classes, she'd call me over with a question by waiting until I walked past her desk, then whispering, "Dad."
We made it through the semester-long class in one piece, and now she's off to other activities. But as the second semester began, I scanned the rosters for my spring blog writing class and saw something even more terrifying than teaching my daughter.
I'm now teaching her boyfriend.


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STOP me if you have ever heard this BEFORE: The New York Yankees WON a series!
Posted on June 4, 2019 by Avi Mehta in Baseball, Major League Baseball, New York Yankees // 0 Comments
IMAGINE thinking the Red Sox are STILL a good team this season?
The 2019 New York Yankees have WON NINE straight series and are the HOTTEST team in baseball. The NINE consecutive series wins is a Franchise Record since 1998, which ENDED in a World Series CHAMPIONSHIP. This past weekend, the Yankees took the first TWO games against the Boston Red Sox, who now fall to TEN games back in the LOSS column of the Yankees. Now the Bronx Bombers had NORTH of the Border to take on the Toronto Blue Jays, which begins a SIX game road trip between Toronto and Cleveland this weekend.
Yankees vs Red Sox Series Recap:
The Red Sox came into this season as the DEFENDING World Series Champions, while the Yankees had a DISAPPOINTING season FALLING to the Red Sox in the Postseason, so these games are HUGE for BOTH teams and Mother Nature got in the way as the game on Thursday is POSTPONED till August, so the FOUR game set turned into a THREE game series.
The rain DELAY on Thursday helped the Yankees as they did NOT need to have a Bullpen game in the series and could REST their bullpen arms which was HUGE for them the REST of the weekend.
On Friday night, the Yankees had slotted JA Happ as the starter, while Chris Sale took the mound for the Red Sox, EVEN THOUGH Sale had been TERRIBLE against the Yankees EARLIER this season, he has TURNED the corner and had looked GREAT in his starts before this series but DJ LeMahieu made sure he did NOT turn the corner against the Yankees.
It just got loud in here. pic.twitter.com/ubkJ4wweNi
— New York Yankees (@Yankees) June 1, 2019
LeMahieu added ANOTHER home run LATE in the game to make it a 4-1 as the Yankee bullpen HELD ON to give the Yankees the FIRST win of the weekend.
After the HUGE win against the Red Sox' BEST pitcher on Friday Night, the Yankees were looking to continue their HOT streak on Saturday Night with their BEST pitcher on the mound in Domingo German, who came into the game with the MOST wins of ANY pitcher in the MLB. Domingo was NOT good as he lasted ONLY until the FOURTH inning and gave up THREE runs in the game.
The Yankees were leading 3-1, before German COUGHED UP the lead, but then Gary Sanchez came to the RESCUE for the Bombers.
EL GARY!!! pic.twitter.com/UwAx0dILe6
— Mehtaphors (@mehtaphors1) June 2, 2019
The Yankee Bullpen did their job AGAIN on Saturday Night as the Yankees WON their NINTH series in a row and were looking for the SWEEP on Sunday Night against David Price, who had NEVER won a game at Yankee Stadium since joining the Red Sox.
EVEN though Price STRUGGLED early in the game, the Yankees NEVER got the BIG hit against him and FELL in the FINAL game of the weekend to the Red Sox. The BIG story towards the END of the game and AFTER it was Clint Frazier, who was TERRIBLE in the field.
Frazier has had an EVENTFUL tenure with the Yankees, whether it was him ALLEGEDLY asking the Yankees for Mickey Mantle's No.7 (a RUMOR Clint has said NEVER happened), the Yankees asking him to CUT his LONG Red hair back when he was still a Prospect, him spending the ENTIRE 2018 season AWAY from baseball due to LINGERING Migraines from a Concussion, or him being GREAT in REPLACEMENT of the INJURED players this season. On Sunday Night, ANOTHER big moment in his Yankee' career when he made THREE boneheaded plays in right field that ENDED any chances the Yankees had of WINNING that game.
It seemed like EVERY ball put in play was hit towards Clint and he BOTCHED every single one of them. I GENUINELY felt bad for him because there was NOTHING he could do in the moment to fix his Yips and AFTER the game he AVOIDED talking to the Media which is ALWAYS a big deal in New York, so Clint needs to just LET everything CALM DOWN. ALL signs are pointing towards him working EXTRA HARD before games to fix his outfield errors but it is going to take some time for EVERYTHING to get FIXED and time might be running out for him as he is MOST LIKELY going to be the ODD man out in the outfield once EVERYONE gets HEALTHY, so he is just PRESSING out there.
The Yankees are turning the page on to the Blue Jays this week and they are CLOSE to acquiring ANOTHER pitcher in Dallas Keuchel, who is going to be a HUGE addition for them so the team is getting BETTER and HEALTHIER as we speak.
Didi Gregorius is going to be the NEXT player that RETURNS as he is SLOTTED to join the team on Friday in Cleveland. Giancarlo Stanton participated in a SIMULATED game this morning so he MIGHT be back by the END of June.
Aaron Judge and Dellin Betances are STILL progressing but are STILL FAR from coming BACK to the Yankees.
This week the Yankees take on the Blue Jays, who are NOT a good team so the Yankees should have NO problems in CONTINUING to WIN ANOTHER series.
PITCHING PROBABLES
Game 1: Tonight- Clayton Richard vs Masahiro Tanaka
Game 2: Wednesday Night- Trent Thornton vs James Paxton
Game 3: Thursday Night- Edwin Jackson vs JA Happ


Who are the British, and where are their oldest stories found?
When the Romans arrived in Britain 1,969 years ago, they recorded that the people of the island were called Britons. Of course, this was recorded by the Romans in their own language. The British version of their name was something along the lines of Brythoni or Prytani.
The people of Britain at that time were mostly people who had been living in the Land for at least 6,000 years.
The Celts had arrived in Britain by then, and they seem to have been a minority elite who had a great deal of influence on the culture and language of the people, much like the Romans and later Normans did.
'Celt' or 'Keltoi' is from the Greek meaning barbarian, so 'Celt' is not what they would have called themselves.
It is not too clear when the Celts first came to Britain, there may have been several incoming waves of different Celtic tribes arriving during the Bronze and Iron Ages, and possbily even during the Neolithic. They brought wealth, metals, new skills and creative artistry, as well as their language and culture.
The modern development of this Celtic language still exists, amongst the Irish, (who speak Goidelic-Celt) and the Welsh (who speak Brythonic-Celt).
This identifies the Welsh as the living descendants of those Celtic tribes who came to Britain, and also of the majority indiginous British people who lived in the land at that time and took on the Celtic language.
We don't know what languages were spoken in Britain before the Celts, or what cultural groups the Shamanic Hunter–Gatherers may have evolved from, but their descendants undoubtedly contributed to the Welsh gene pool and there seems to have been a smooth transition of ideas and beliefs.
The Celts, then, having a still existing language and a strong oral tradition, become our strongest link for finding nuggets of wisdom about the distant past in Britain. The ancient Welsh language written in early manuscripts has changed very little compared to the English language as it was spoken in Chaucer's time.
In the Celt/Welsh language, P and B are radical and soft (mutated) versions of the same consonant, likewise, T and D.
The name of the land varied along the lines of Bryd, Pryd, Pridd, Bridd, Brid. This led to 'Prydain' which is the name of Britain found in early Arthurian stories.
So, as P becomes B and T becomes D, Prytani becomes Prydain, becomes Britain.
British names and especially place names connected to these are likely to be rooted in the name of the land itself. These include Priddy, Bridport, Bridlington.
The word 'Pridd' (pronounced 'preeth') means 'earth' in the Welsh language.
British Shamanism is not Celtic because of the time difference between Shamanism in Britain and the arrival of the Celts, but there is a probable evolution through Shamanic culture in Britain to the Celts.
If we think of the time differences from the paleolithic, or even the mesolithic, to the arrival of the Celts, even at the earliest possible dates that they could have arrived, we are talking about thousands of years, they are huge periods of time apart.
Based on the speed of change today, we might think a lot changed in that time. In my short lifetime, computers and mobile phones have been invented and technology has changed nearly everything.
However, time has been speeding up and back then, things changed very, very slowly comparatively.
Despite the onset of farming and the development of religions, much remained the same or similar for huge periods of time in the past and some fundamental beliefs, wisdoms and knowledge was 'coded' into early stories, beliefs, folk practices and song which have, in some cases, survived even into today.
Rituals like touching wood for good luck, for example, a very pagan ritual that comes from a time in the far and distant past and is quite possibly Shamanic. It's just a question of remembering what it means, because, if we work that out, we learn a lot about our ancestors' relationship and understanding of trees, of luck, of life. We find out that, as usual, it's all about understanding energy, how to store and how to access energy.
Medieval times are pretty 'modern' compared to paleolithic times but people in the Middle Ages were very supersticious and carried out a lot of 'pagan' rituals despite being Christianised, rituals involving beliefs that had roots in the very distant past. We have written records from this time, in fact we have written records that we know for a fact date back to events in the 300's AD. We can, furthermore, hypothesise that events in stories first written down between 1000 to 1200 AD are telling of events from hundreds, if not thousands, of years previously.
The Celts will have been influenced by the existing majority population upon arriving and settling in Britain, and the oral tradition supports the idea that the Celts may have arrived much earlier than we suppose.
The Celtic Druids show evidence of having practices that evolved from an earlier Shamanic tradition. Indeed, the Four Branches are themselves ancient stories that suggest a connection and progression from much earlier times to a Bronze Age culture.
So, it is to early Welsh mythology we shall turn to search for clues of even earlier times in Britain.


How Much is Car Insurance in Pennsylvania?
The car, truck, or SUV that is being insured is a significant factor when looking for the best cheap coverage in Pennsylvania. Vehicles with higher performance, poor crash test ratings, or a track record of large liability claims will cost significantly more to insure than safer models. The tables below shows insurance prices for some of the more affordable vehicles to insure.
Data based on single male driver age 50, no speeding tickets, no at-fault accidents, $500 deductibles, and Pennsylvania minimum liability limits. Discounts applied include claim-free, safe-driver, multi-vehicle, multi-policy, and homeowner. Prices do not factor in specific location which can impact premium rates greatly.
Data variables include single male driver age 50, no speeding tickets, no at-fault accidents, $500 deductibles, and Pennsylvania minimum liability limits. Discounts applied include homeowner, multi-vehicle, multi-policy, claim-free, and safe-driver. Prices do not factor in zip code location which can revise price quotes noticeably.
Premium data assumes single male driver age 50, no speeding tickets, no at-fault accidents, $500 deductibles, and Pennsylvania minimum liability limits. Discounts applied include safe-driver, multi-vehicle, homeowner, claim-free, and multi-policy. Rate information does not factor in garaging location in Pennsylvania which can increase or decrease premium rates considerably.
For drivers in Pennsylvania, one of the big factors that help determine insurance cost is where you live in Pennsylvania. Cities with larger populations or higher claim trends like Philadelphia, Chester, and Norristown tend to pay slightly more, whereas areas with lower crime rates and fewer weather claims receive better rates.
The illustration below lists the highest-priced areas in Pennsylvania to purchase car insurance in.
How much does car insurance cost in Pennsylvania?
Rate quotes are estimated as specific Pennsylvania zip code can influence coverage rates greatly.
Finding reliable, cost effective car insurance is not always easy, and figuring out which company quotes the cheapest insurance rates in Pennsylvania will require even more shopping around. Each insurer has a proprietary method to establish rates, so we'll go over the insurance companies that tend to have lower prices in Pennsylvania.
General Casualty generally has some of the most affordable car insurance rates in Pennsylvania at around $726 annually. Erie, Travelers, Penn National, and USAA also qualify as some of the cheapest Pennsylvania car insurance companies.
As illustrated above, if you are a customer of Penn National and switched to General Casualty, you might see a yearly savings of in the neighborhood of $90. Customers with USAA could save as much as $91 a year, and Amica policyholders might cut rates by $256 a year.
Understand that those rates are averages across all drivers and vehicles in Pennsylvania and and are not calculated with a rate discount in Pennsylvania. So the company that fits your situation best may not even be included in the above rate chart. That underscores the importance of why you need to quote rates from as many companies as possible using your own specific driver information and vehicle.
The easiest method to enjoy car insurance in Pennsylvania is to be a cautious driver and avoid accidents and violations. The diagram below demonstrates how citations and at-fault collisions impact auto insurance rates for different categories of driver ages. The data assumes a single male driver, comprehensive and collision coverage, $100 deductibles, and no policy discounts are applied.
In the previous chart, the average cost of auto insurance in Pennsylvania per year with no violations or accidents is $2,528. Factor in two speeding tickets and the average cost surges to $3,357, an increase of $830 each year. Now include one accident along with the two speeding tickets and the 12-month cost of insurance in Pennsylvania jumps again to an average of $4,209. That's an increase of $1,681, or $140 per month, just for not being attentive to the road!
Picking the best insurer can be a challenge considering how many companies provide coverage in Pennsylvania. The information in the lists below may help you select which car insurance companies to look at when comparing rates.
These ratings include companies that write coverage in many states, so companies with more of a regional focus will not be included in the list. To compare prices from these and other top-rated companies, click this link.
The diagram below shows how choosing a deductible can change annual premium costs when trying to find cheap insurance in Pennsylvania. The rates are based on a single female driver, full physical damage coverage, and no policy discounts are applied.
As shown above, a 30-year-old driver could lower their car insurance rates by $402 a year by changing from a $100 deductible to a $500 deductible, or save $606 by selecting a $1,000 deductible. Even younger insureds, like the 20-year-old example, could save up to $908 each year just by using higher deductibles.
If you do decide to increase your deductibles, it will now be necessary to have enough in a savings account to pay the extra out-of-pocket expense, which is the one inconvenience of using high deductibles.


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Supreme Court Requires Narrow Proof of EEOC Conciliation Efforts
On Wednesday, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court agreed that federal courts have authority to review the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's attempts to conciliate discrimination charges when the agency concludes that the employer violated federal civil rights laws. Title VII and related laws require the EEOC to engage in "conciliation" attempts to resolve the matter. In some recent cases, employers have accused the agency of making only perfunctory attempts at settlement before rushing to sue the employer.
When employers raise these objections in federal district court, the EEOC has argued that courts do not have the authority to review the substance of their conciliation efforts, and that they can only require the agency to confirm that it has attempted to settle the matter. In Mach Mining, LLC v. EEOC, the employer argued for a very different standard of review. Noting Title VII's emphasis on settlement efforts, the employer argued that the Court should adopt a standard of review that requires the EEOC to demonstrate good-faith efforts to conciliate through a checklist of settlement procedures.
In its opinion, the Supreme Court rejected both of these arguments, opting instead for an intermediate standard of review. First, the Court confirmed that federal courts have the statutory authority to review EEOC conciliation efforts, and that this authority means more than having the agency promise that it tried. However, the Supreme Court also rejected subjecting the EEOC to a detailed code of conduct in its conciliation efforts.
Instead, the EEOC must take two steps in conciliation. First, it must provide employers with specific information about its conclusions as to the employer's misconduct, and the effect of such misconduct on employees. Second, the EEOC must try to engage the employer in a discussion that would result in the employer remedying the alleged discriminatory conduct. The EEOC would typically provide an affidavit certifying these steps, and the employer has the opportunity to provide evidence that these steps were not taken. If the district court finds for the employer, it must return the matter to the EEOC until appropriate conciliation efforts conclude.
Practically, this decision may delay the EEOC's rush to litigation. At a minimum, employers facing cause determinations should be given a full opportunity to understand those findings, and an explanation of what steps the EEOC views as necessary to resolve them. Hopefully, this will provide an opportunity for resolution of some EEOC charges prior to litigation.


In the world of cycling the biggest race of them all is the Tour de France. The prestige, popularity and history of the race make it the penultimate cycling event for cycling fans and professional racers alike. The race has stood the test of time and is quite possibly the hardest sporting event in the world considering it lasts three weeks, forces the riders to race for up to seven hours a day, and covers some of the highest roads in Europe.
The Amgen Tour of California can't compare in terms of legendary status, and with only eight days of racing the California tour is roughly only one-third the length of the Tour de France. However, the recent 2010 edition had many riders and team staff members saying it was too hard. In fact if you look at the results for just the sixth stage between Palmdale and Big Bear Lake (7,000ft above sea level) eleven riders didn't make it to the finish line within the 9% cutoff time, and 17 starters simply decided to drop out. That makes 28 riders who never made it to the start of the stage 7 time trial in Los Angeles. Less than half (63) of the 128 starters actually officially finished the entire Tour of California.
Ok so the Big Bear day was hard, but how hard was the Tour of California to finish? Was America's most prestigious event simply too hard and if it continues to be as demanding will it be to the detriment of the event moving forward?
It is hard to argue with an experienced rider such as Julich who himself has finished on the podium in the Tour de France. In an attempt to add some objective data to Julich's opinion we might find some answers by simply comparing and contrasting the eight hardest consecutive stages of the 2009 Tour de France with power files collected from this year's Amgen Tour of California.
And the winner is the Tour de France at an 8-day total accumulated value of 31,479kj and an average of nearly 4,000kj a day. The Tour of California is just behind with a daily average of just over 3,500kj a day.
*Fuglsang- Stage 8 is not available so we can assume it was around 3,000 based on Darren Lill's power file and the two finished in the same group together tied for 40th place 15' down.
The 2010 Amgen Tour of California's winner, Michael Rogers, completed the race in 33hrs and 8 minutes, as compared to 33hrs and 3 minutes for the accumulated finish times for stages 2-9 for the 2009 Tour de France winner Alberto Contador.
There is no clear winner within this category. The times are almost exactly the same.
TSS® is a very valuable metric to track since it takes into account the intensity of the race as compared to the individuals own functional threshold power value. Besides an Intensity Factor® being accounted for, the TSS value also takes into account the duration of the race. This has much more meaning than kilojoules since kilojoules do not account for the relative intensity of a race. What might be a threshold pace for one rider may be a lower tempo type zone for another, yet if the two riders weigh the same, and recorded exactly the same watts, the KJ's would also be the same.
Yet again another toss-up here. Fuglsang recorded an enormous 431TSS points since he was in the long breakaway group. In contrast Sorensen measured 391TSS points within stage 7 of the '09 Tour de France. Fuglsang would have had a lower value if he hadn't been off the front for so long. It seems as if the hardest days in the grand tours measure around 400TSS points.
The Tour of California had a slight advantage when you compare the total accumulated TSS values of the two riders in the Tour of California versus Sorenson's highest eight-day accumulated value from the Tour de France.
Now of course it goes without saying that the Tour de France as a whole is harder since it is three weeks long, but now we can see how the Tour of California is just as difficult as the hardest week of the Tour de France. The US domestic teams certainly deserve a lot of credit for any amount of success they find at the Amgen Tour of California. The race has evolved to a level where the European-based riders can't simply show up with sub-par fitness. Just finishing the Tour of California now pushes each rider to the limit and keeps pretenders away.
Whether this is good or not for the future of the Amgen Tour of California is yet to be seen. One thing that is certain is if the race continues to be as hard as this year's edition some of the bigger names in the sport may opt to skip the Tour of California as their classic's season ends.
Dirk Friel is the co-founder of TrainingPeaks, former professional cyclist and USA Cycling coach. As the President of Peaksware and Chief and GM of Fitness Brands at TrainingPeaks, Dirk has helped Tour de France teams, Olympians, World Champions and age group athletes to use TrainingPeaks tracking, analysis and planning tools to optimize their training for 20 years. Follow him on Twitter @dirkfriel.


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Photographers have a wonderful gift – they show us a different perspective of some of the most recognizable events, places and even people. They know how to find the right angles, they see creative opportunities all around them.
When it comes to travel photography and famous tourist attractions, we all have specific images of the landmarks. These photographs are represented by our most popular photographs, they're the classic representation of the places. But we're interested in something new, something we haven't seen before.
We covered many of these famous locations in the first part of this article series, and today we'll be looking at 15 more locations and how differently they look through the eyes of other professional photographers.


A teacher at Mount Hebron High School, Mike is currently in his 14th year as men's varsity coach. Mike was the 2004 coach of Howard County Champion Men's soccer team. Mike was also named 2003 Baltimore Sun's Howard County Coach of the Year for basketball for his Howard County Champion team.
OUR STAFF: A highly qualified staff with years of coaching and camp experience is hand picked for each camp. The staff consists of peole who are well-educated in the game of basketball and who know how to communicate this knowledge to young players.
FREE GEAR: Each camper receives a t-shirt and a water bottle.
CERTIFICATE OF PARTICIPATION: Each camper will receive a certificate of participation with his/her COLOR PHOTO at the end of camp.
HUMMEL DAY: A Viking Basketball Camp Tradition, Hummel Day is a uniform contest day that returning campers look forward to each year.
CAMPER OF THE DAY PRIZES: Each day, coaches from each group select one or more players as the "Camper of the Day". This award is based on a combination of positive attitude, teamwork, willingness to learn and hard work.
COMPETITION DAY: Another Viking Basketball Camp tradition, competition day allows players to demonstrate the skills they have learned during the course of the week. Awards are given.


Established in 2001, Carino la Mer, the southernmost oceanfront sub-neighborhood at Hammock Dunes, consists of 28 lots located between the Atlantic Ocean and State Route A1A. These properties are clustered into nine groups of three lots sharing a common entry from A1A, plus one lot sharing an entry with a Hammock Dunes common property for beach activities. Each of the 28 lots is 100 feet wide with setbacks allowing a 60-foot wide house to be constructed, all with dune walkovers to the coquina sand beach. By 2004, all lots were quickly sold by the Developer.
Just in back of the individual lots, the Hammock Dunes Community owns the dune down to the mean-high-water line and maintains and protects this area for uniformity and the vitality of the vegetation. The walkovers are also maintained as common property.
Three oceanfront residences have been built in Carino la Mer, complying with strengthened 2003 (or more recent) building codes. Homes built to current code are much easier to insure at reasonable rates. Purchasing oceanfront houses outside Hammock Dunes built before the year 2003 subjects the buyer to lower construction standards. The minimum house size is 3,500 sq. ft., but the two existing houses exceed this requirement. Houses usually have three floors, not counting the garage level.
All Carino la Mer lots are located east of the Coastal Construction Control Line (CCCL) and require auger-cast piling foundations per the requirements of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FL-DEP) through their permitting. The lots require analysis of core drilled soil samples by a geotechnical engineer and a structural engineer for foundation design. The Hammock Dunes "Design Review Committee" can provide information on all building requirements. Excluding the cost of the lot, property owners should anticipate spending between $2.4 million and $3.0 million in carrying costs, design, permitting, and construction of their homes, and over three years before completion. As compared to many other sites in Florida, these costs are very attractive for an oceanfront residence.
As Carino la Mer is less than 10% built, there remain many opportunities for lot purchase and construction of Mediterranean-style homes with up-to-date materials and designs. Adjacent lots may be combined to build a larger residence if desired. Come experience the joys of oceanfront living with lines of passing pelicans, ospreys diving for fish, dolphins cresting, and even whale watching.
Combined, Carino la Mer and its northern sub-neighborhood of Playa del Sur form a stretch of 1.3 miles of Atlantic oceanfront properties all within Hammock Dunes. This is unique in Florida and will offer a truly outstanding lineup of 71 beautiful homes on the Atlantic when completed.


How To Answer About Hobbies In Job Interview ?
During an interview, several questions are being asked and one among them is about your hobby. When being asked about your hobby, never lie about it, they can recognize. Moreover, your hobby must sound like an actual hobby. To help you with answering for hobbies in job interview, here we write this blog.
To mention watching a movie is not a hobby unless you know about the current movie releases, popular directors and their movie-making styles, basic movie genres, and who played what role in famous movies. Simply watching movies like watching series is not a hobby. Writing and reading books is also not a hobby unless you can show some credibility to the articles.


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Home > About Sri Lankan Tea
What's Tea?
Tea as a brew is a luminous coloured liquid which possesses a pleasing aroma and is a delicious and fragrant beverage taken hot or cold. But what really lies behind this beverage which has managed to retain, and indeed, increase its popularity over millennia?
Tea Production
The tea plant (Camellia sinensis) is a species of tree related to the camellia. Its flowers are yellow-white and its fruits small and hard-shelled, similar to a hazelnut. The evergreen leaves are leathery, dark and slightly serrated. Given minimum annual temperatures of 18 C, moderate and infrequent frosts, a uniform annual precipitation of 1600 and a good balance of sunshine, a tea plant can easily grow to become 100 years old. Wild tea plants are indeed reputed to reach an age of up to 1,700 years.
Tea Facts
Why Does Tea Have Two Names Throughout the World? The English word tea and its many cousins (e.g. tay, thé, tey) trace their roots back to the name for tea in the Chinese Amoy dialect: Te (pronounced "tay"). On the other hand, cha – the Mandarin Chinese word for tea, gave birth to cha, chai, char and related names in use today.
Cultivation of Tea
The first tea bushes of commercial quantity were planted in Sri Lanka by James Taylor, at Loolecondera Estate in Lower Hewaheta in the Kandy district, in 1867. Since then, following the coffee blight in the mid 1800s, all of the coffee which was grown in the mid and high grown district has been replaced with tea.
Tea tasting, much like wine tasting, uses similar steps – visual, smell, taste and touch. You can tell a lot about a tea by examining the dry leaves. Gently press some dry leaves in your hand – most new teas are a little springier and less likely to crumble than older teas. Look for fibres, dust or stalks and note the leaf size.
Assam: The world's largest contiguous tea growing region, situated on either side of the Brahmaputra in Northern India.
Autumnal: The Darjeeling Autumnal begins after the second flush period (October/November) and has a more full-bodied taste than the second flush. The yields are not as high as during the peak times, however.
History of Tea : Sri Lanka
The plantation industry in Ceylon, now called Sri Lanka, began in 1825 with the widespread planting of coffee In 1839,
Tea from Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
Sri Lanka has over 188,000 hectares under tea cultivation yielding about 298,000 tonnes of "made" tea, and accounting for more than 19% of world exports.
The Beginings of Tea
Nothing predisposed the island of Ceylon, a British crown colony since 1802, to such a fate, for tea plants did not figure among the local flora. Yet from the early nineteenth century, several enthusiasts used their estates as experimental plots. In 1839, Dr. Wallich, head of the botanical garden in Calcutta, sent several Assam tea plant seeds to the Peradeniya estates near Kandy.


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Dino Kids ist ein US-amerikanischer Jugendfilm aus dem Jahr 1993. Der Film erhielt mit Dino Kids 2 und Dino Kids 3 zwei Fortsetzungen.

Handlung
Ein zwielichtiger Abenteurer verliert einige Eier. Sie landen bei Austin, seiner Schwester und seinem alleinerziehenden Vater. Als sie schlüpfen, entpuppen sie sich als Dinosaurier, die nun gegen allerlei Anfeindungen verteidigt werden müssen.

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Hintergrund
Der Film ist seit dem 6. Oktober 1993 als deutschsprachige VHS erhältlich. Seit dem 20. Juni 2014 ist der Film unter dem Titel "Jurassic Kids" auch auf DVD erhältlich. Die 1. Fortsetzung erscheint unter dem Filmtitel "Jurassic Kids 2" am 22. August 2014 auf DVD.

Weblinks

 Offizielle englische Internetpräsenz

Einzelnachweise

Filmtitel 1993
US-amerikanischer Film
Jugendfilm

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Guinea-Bissaus fotbollsförbund, officiellt Federação de Futebol da Guiné-Bissau, är ett specialidrottsförbund som organiserar fotbollen i Guinea-Bissau.

Förbundet grundades 1974 och gick med i Caf 1986. De anslöt sig till Fifa år 1986. Guinea-Bissaus fotbollsförbund har sitt huvudkontor i staden Bissau.

Se även
Guinea-Bissaus damlandslag i fotboll
Guinea-Bissaus herrlandslag i fotboll

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Fotboll i Guinea-Bissau
Idrottsförbund bildade 1974
Medlemmar av CAF