10 Safety Tips For Holiday Décor *teach your children about the basic rules of electrical safety. Get even more information and take advantage of federal online resources at www. http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/press/nfcsafetytips05.htm
Extractions: Release Date: December 2004 10 SAFETY TIPS FOR HOLIDAY D Hanging festive lights can transform your home into a magical place during the holiday season. But hanging them properly is critical in order to avoid electrical accidents. Keep your holidays safe inside and out with a new package of free publications from the Electrical Safety Foundation International, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, and the Federal Citizen Information Center. Use these publications to get the details on the following 10 safety tips for the holiday season: *Check to make sure all electrical cords are in good condition. *Before using lights outdoors , check labels to ensure they have been certified for outdoor use. *Keep cords and plugs away from sweating pipes and puddles. *Test your ground fault circuit interrupters at the start of every season. *Never remove the grounding feature on a plug. *Match the power needs of electrical products with the capacity of extension cords. *Don't hide electrical cords under carpets or behind baseboards. *Teach your children about the basic rules of electrical safety.
Text Only Version Of Michigan's Third District House Site After six years teaching and research at Berkeley, he moved to Calvin College in 1966 where he It is closed Saturdays, Sundays, and federal holidays. http://www.house.gov/ehlers/text_only.html
Extractions: fax (202) 225-5144 ELECTRONIC CORRESPONDENCE: In order to provide my constituents in Michigan's 3rd Congressional District faster and more effective service via the Internet, all electronic correspondents must now use the Write Your Rep service to communicate with my office. Only residents of the 3rd District will be able to communicate electronically with my office. Click on the "Write Your Rep" link below to send your message.
Reduce Waste For The Holidays In the spirit of giving, we ve gathered some holiday gift ideas that create less waste and Volunteer activities help build character and teach social http://www.moea.state.mn.us/campaign/holiday/
Extractions: The "holiday season" has begun. Time to share with family and friends often becomes lots of time shopping, parties and gatherings, food preparation—and stress. Are you feeling "holidazed"? Do you find yourself wondering how the season passes by so quickly? This year, instead of the hustle and bustle of the mall, maybe it's time for a new tradition—a no-waste holiday season. 1 million tons a week to the nation's garbage piles. And it's not just trash. The average American spends $800 on gifts over the holiday season. Think about your time and energy spent driving all around town looking at so much stuff. It's no wonder that so many people get stressed out during the holidays! A recent poll showed that people want to have more personal fulfillment and a less-stressful holiday season. Sometimes the most treasured gifts we can give are our time, love and energy. In the spirit of giving, we've gathered some holiday gift ideas that create less waste and more memories. Giving your time and/or money to worthy causes not only helps your community but gives you a sense of contribution and involvement that is hard to quantify.
Extractions: FR Doc 05-7597 [Federal Register: April 15, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 72)] [Notices] [Page 19934-19939] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr15ap05-35] Download: http://www.ed.gov/pubs/edpubs.html or you may contact ED Pubs at its e-mail address: edpubs@inet.ed.gov . If you request an application from ED Pubs, be sure to identify this competition as follows: CFDA number 84.215X. You may also obtain the application package for the program via the Internet at the following address: http://www.ed.gov/programs/teachinghistory/applicant.html TeachingAmericanHistory@ed.gov http://e-grants.ed.gov http://www.ed.gov/fund/grant/apply/appforms/appforms.html . 4. Performance Measures: We have established one performance measure for Teaching American History. The indicator is: Students in experimental and quasi-experimental studies of educational effectiveness of Teaching American History projects will demonstrate higher achievement on course content measures and/or statewide U.S. history assessments than students in control and comparison groups. VII. Agency Contacts FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Emily Fitzpatrick, Alex Stein, Harry Kessler, Neil Danberg, or Margarita Melendez, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., room 4W218, Washington, DC 20202- 6200. Telephone: (202) 260-1498 (Emily Fitzpatrick); or (202) 205-9085 (Alex Stein); or (202) 708-9943 (Harry Kessler); or (202) 205-3385 (Neil Danberg); or (202) 260-3548 (Margarita Melendez) or by e-mail:
Education World® : Lesson Planning : Presidents' Day Activities! Super lessons for teaching about the presidents of the United States! 1885 President Chester Arthur made Washington s birthday a federal holiday. http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson223.shtml
Extractions: Get your evaluation ... History Lesson Planning Article L E S S O N P L A N N I N G A R T I C L E The third Monday in February is the annual observance of Presidents' Day. This week, Education World offers five excellent activities to teach students about the presidents of the United States! Included: Activities in which students create a picture book of presidents, design a new presidential monument, imagine they are president for a day, and more! Presidents' Day is a holiday honoring past presidents of the United States. What is the history behind Presidents' Day? Take a look at our brief time line. 1796 The country first celebrated the birthday of George Washington during the last full year he was president. 1866 One year after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, both houses of Congress gathered for a memorial address on his birthday, February 12. Although Lincoln's birthday became a holiday in many states, it never became an official federal holiday.
Education World® : Special Theme: Celebrate Women's History Month! World recognizes Women s History Month with new classroom teaching resources. Many people in the United States think a new federal holiday should be http://www.educationworld.com/a_special/women_history.shtml
Extractions: Many people in the United States think a new federal holiday should be added. Some members of Congress agree, but only if that holiday honors an important woman. That's where you come in! You and your classmates must nominate a woman you think is important enough to have a federal holiday named after her. Women of Accomplishment: An Internet Scavenger Hunt
Extractions: ASA News ASEE Prism Academe African American Review ... View all titles in this topic Hot New Articles by Topic Automotive Sports Top Articles Ever by Topic Automotive Sports Science, religion, and celebrations: A paradigm for teaching holidays Educational Forum, The Winter 2002 by Montgomery, Kathleen Tansits-Wenze, Gloria Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net. It's free! Save it. As natural seasonal changes occur each year, people, too, undergo change. Personal thoughts shift from the freedom of summer to those of settling in for the winter, those of celebrations and bonding closer to friends and relatives, and those of inner meaning. Throughout time, human beings, noting these changes in nature, have created rituals to alleviate a fear of the unknown dark and cold and celebrations to rejoice in the onset of warmer weather and blooming plant life. Around the world, developing civilizations contemplated and celebrated each season in an ongoing attempt to explain the recurrence of the seasons. The resulting proliferation of feasts and celebrations across the cultures exemplify these "reasons for the seasons." Ironically, these two occurrences, seasonal changes and their corresponding celebrations, at times can combine to present a quandary for U.S. schools. This quandary is particularly noticeable when the fall equinox brings the realization that the "holidays" are coming.
Extractions: TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT by Robert M. Hunter, Registered Patent Agent This document web explains a variety of technology management activities. They include controlling access to invention data, supervision of invention evaluation and disclosure activities, milestone tracking and reporting. Access Control Intellectual property is most valuable when its owner can control its use. Special care must to taken to control access to patentable intellectual property before a patent application is filed and during the prosecution of the application (i.e., before a patent issues on the application). In addition to legal advantages, commercial advantages can be gained by controlling access to information about new inventions. In general, reasonable measures should be taken to treat such information as a "trade secret" until its release to the public is appropriate. Two types of security should be considered in controlling access to such information: physical security and software security. Physical Security . Physical security involves controlling access to the physical elements of a technology management system. While a complete discussion of physical security measures is beyond the scope of this document, the following measures are considered appropriate:
Annie's "Martin Luther King Jr. Day" Page In 1983, Congress made his birthday a federal holiday, first celebrated on Jan. African American Themes Teaching Resources for Martin Luther King Jr., http://www.annieshomepage.com/mlkday.html
Extractions: My parents raised me to believe that I could be anything I wanted to be and do anything I wanted. They also taught me that the color of a persons skin didn't matter. This may sound very naive to you. But that is always the way I have felt. We are all created equal in the eyes of the Lord. We are all His children. Remember the song from when you were younger all the children of the world....... Red, and yellow, black and white Jesus loves the little children of the world." Some people are born "color blind". Oh, that we could raise our children to be "color blind in their heart". Let us strive to be the kind of people who look at the inside and only see the best in others. As a Christian I am glad that the Lord loves me unconditionally. He sees my heart and knows the secret thoughts along with my past BUT He loves us in spite of it all. "Beloved, let us love one another. For love is of God and anyone that loveth is born of God and knoweth God. He that loveth not, knoweth not God for God is Love. So beloved, let us love one another."
Columbus Day Funology Columbus Day took place on October 12, 1792 and in 1937 October 12, became a federal Holiday. Click below to visit my other Holiday Funology pages http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/funology1/columbus.htm
Extractions: Columbus Day Funology October 12 th Columbus Day is celebrated on the 2nd Monday in October in honor of Christopher Columbus's 1492 discovery of America. For many this is a controversial holiday in that some people believe that Columbus was not a hero. In his conquest of the New World, Columbus often claimed land that already belonged to other people and mistreated the inhabitants of these areas. In many areas Columbus Day now focuses on the discovery of the New World rather than the actions of one man. The first celebration of Columbus Day took place on October 12, 1792 and in 1937 October 12, became a Federal Holiday. President Johnson moved the holiday to the 2nd Monday in October in 1968 to create a three-day weekend. Many celebrate this holiday with parades and parties sponsored by Italian-American groups. Crafts and Activities: 365 TV Free Activities : Treasure map Birthday Express : Coloring page Bizzare Stuff : Make a telescope Bry-Back Manor : Activity page Bry-Back Manor : Board game Bry-Back Manor : Word search puzzle Crafter's Community : Paddle boat craft Crafts for Kids : Celebrate Columbus Day Family Fun Magazine : Columbus game Family Fun Magazine : Treasure in a bottle Family Fun Magazine : Treasure hunt Home Arts : Make a periscope Kjetil Kjernsmos : How to use a compass Learn Look and Do : Make a compass Soft Seek : Design you own ship in a bottle
"EDUCATING THE HEART: CESAR E. CHAVEZ AND SERVICE-LEARNING servicelearning is defined as a teaching and learning educational methodology What is the status of getting the Chavez federal holiday recognized? http://www.aypf.org/forumbriefs/2004/fb011604.htm
Extractions: "The end of all education should surely be service to others." Cesar E. Chavez Cesar E. Chavez's values, through his experience in civil rights, labor leadership, crusade for nonviolent social and environmental change and consumer advocacy, provide a platform for localized service-learning programs which promote civic engagement, greater knowledge of democracy, and community involvement among youth. The Cesar E. Chavez Foundation , based in California, has coordinated K-12 service-learning projects under the name Cesar E. Chavez Service-Learning. The foundation has had an ongoing relationship with the California State Department of Education and has coordinated service-learning activities in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Illinois, and Texas. "The Cesar E. Chavez Service-Learning Initiative," said Julie Chavez Rodriguez , the foundation's community program officer and one of Chavez's grand daughters, "is taking Cesar's legacy to the next generation in a direct and meaningful way to develop both active citizens and life-long learners." Ms. Chavez Rodriguez and colleagues described the initiative to policymakers through a Capitol Hill forum sponsored by the American Youth Policy Forum. www.cesarechavezfoundation.org
The Dollar Stretcher Teaching Teens About Money Can you affect your teen s view of money for the rest must be completed if you want to be eligible for federal and state aid. http://www.stretcher.com/
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Law, Religion, And Schools Teaching About Religion. The Constitution permits objective teaching about holidays of all faiths, although they are exacerbated when the schools http://pages.zdnet.com/trimb/id23.html
Extractions: Printed in PHS #7, 1994. The weekend of March 26, 1994, my parents, my 17-year-old sister Victoria and I were the keynote speakers for the Oklahoma Central Home Educators' Consociation in Oklahoma City. During two days of speaking to the audiences and answering endless questions from parents, one question kept recurring: "How were you able to earn high school diplomas at eleven, bachelors' degrees at age 15, and master's degrees at age sixteen?" Underlying that basic question, however, were two more fundamental questions, "Why did you accelerate your educations?" and "Would you do this again?" In spite of the rapid pace, however, we never skipped any grades. In fact, we never even skipped a lesson or a part of a day's work. To us, education was not about "getting out of school quickly." It was about earning the best education possible, which meant that our grades had to be excellent and we had to demonstrate that we had really mastered each phase of the material before we moved on to the next. With Mother directing our school, however, we were able to earn l's and 2's Calvert School's equivalent of A's and B's and still complete the work in much less time than would normally be expected. Part of the secret of this acceleration was the twelve-month school year which our family followed. Mother realized early on that with ten children to teach, she did not have time to go back and reteach subjects which we had forgotten over summer vacation. She felt that ultimately it would be easier for us to study year-round. At our house, we had as our holidays from school Christmas Day, Christmas Eve, Thanksgiving Day, the Fourth of July, whatever federal holidays my father had off from work and, of course, every Saturday and Sunday. On all other days, we were expected to be studying at our places at the kitchen table. As a small child, I was really not aware of the concept of summer vacation or spring break-these were carefully guarded secrets in the Swann household. Five days a week, twelve months a year, school was in session and Mother and we were hard at work.
The Space Review: Stop Giving Thanks And Start Giving Forward a few years until we can get NASA to distribute new teaching instructions to teachers. Has anyone noticed that Christmas Day is a federal holiday, http://www.thespacereview.com/article/278/1
Extractions: Monday, November 29, 2004 Thanksgiving is a time of thanking the Pilgrims and the rest of the hearty bunch that allowed the continuing settlement of the United States. I like Squanto, Governor Bradford, the turkey, and all, but we have been thanking them for hundreds of years. Perhaps it is time to stop thanking them and start giving forward. I propose that we replace Thanksgiving with Colonization Day. Many other holidays are backward looking, which is inferior policy and fails to motivate us to new and more ambitious goals. Colonization Day celebrates all the good things that the Pilgrims and the welcoming Native Americans did while changing the tense of the holiday to the forward tense. And the rockets red glare
Teaching English In Switzerland Catherine Richards provides inside tips for finding work teaching English in Switzerland. federal Office of Immigration, Integration and Emigration. http://www.transitionsabroad.com/publications/magazine/0409/teaching_english_in_
Extractions: On Lago Maggiore in Ticino, Switzerland If you have a very healthy bank balance, you will find it relatively easy to get a permit for a lengthy stay in Switzerland. The rest of us have two or three options. The easiest option is to fall in love and get married to a Swiss. Understandably, this might not be the most practical option and does seem a bit drastic if you are only planning on staying a year or so. Many non-EU foreign nationals, including Americans, can stay in Switzerland without a permit for tourism or study for up to three months. After this you must leave Switzerland. You can re-enter after a month but only for a further three months - in total you cannot stay longer than six months in any one year. While in Switzerland, you have no right to work, and you cannot look for work. Working visas are available for more than three months but only employers can apply for them. The potential employee cannot enter Switzerland and take up work until the visa is granted. What this means then is that all the job hunting and the application process must be done back home.
Yaledailynews.com - Committee Recommends No Classes On MLK Day The holiday falls on a Monday early in the semester, resulting in a missed recommendation to cancel classes on MLK Day a federal holiday but he is http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=15036
Extractions: Text-only Non-represented staff, including unclassified staff, and those represented employees (except Trades and UW-Milwaukee graduate assistants) in the bargaining units covered by 2003-2005 contracts received one additional paid personal holiday beginning in 2004 "in recognition of Veteran's Day." Personal holidays are a subject of bargaining for represented employees that have not reached a 2003-05 contract agreement. The University grants paid leave benefits to eligible employee groups. Employees may earn vacation, sick leave and personal holidays in addition to nine legal holidays. Teaching staff may make use of the Colleague Coverage provision to cover hours in the classroom and student consultation in lieu of sick leave. Employees on an academic year pay-basis do not earn vacation or personal holidays.
