Here's your early warning that Google is scheduled to announce its earnings for the fourth quarter of 2012 at 4:30 p.m. Eastern time on Jan. 22. Or, if history repeats, its printer may decide to do it a few hours early, sending Wall Street into a tizzy.
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'There's a few surprises,' she hints to MTV News about 2013 album.
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When the students at Sandy Hook Elementary School arrive at their new building Thursday, a familiar face will be there to greet them ? their "new old principal."
Donna Page (pronounced Pa-jhay), the school's former principal, is leading the new school as interim principal, telling parents it was her "calling" to return after the tragedy. Parents have dubbed her the "new old principal" because Page was the school's leader for 14 years before retiring in 2010.
The school's principal Dawn Hochsprung was among the first victims of Adam Lanza's Dec. 14 rampage that left 20 children and six school staffers dead.
Once the Sandy Hook school had established that they would be able to use the former Chalk Hill Middle School building in nearby Monroe, Conn., parents knew that next biggest obstacle would be finding someone to lead the school through such a traumatic time.
"The next piece of the puzzle was, okay who is going to take the reins here? Who could possibly come in and fill Dawn Hochsprung's shoes?" parent Karen Dryer told ABCNews.com. "She was a truly amazing leader and friend. I worked very closely with her."
Dryer is a classroom volunteer in her 5-year-old son's kindergarten class at Sandy Hook Elementary School, and she has been helping the school prepare for Opening Day, as they call it, at the new building.
"We didn't think it was possible until we got a voicemail from Donna reintroducing herself and saying that when she heard [about the shooting] she knew it was the calling that she needed to come out of retirement and take the position of head of school," Dryer said.
"I started crying when I heard the message. It's still emotional," Dryer said and she cried again remembering the moment. "It was such a blessing and such an amazing relief because it was like, 'Oh my, now we can breathe. They're going to be okay.'"
Dryer's daughter, now a high school sophomore, was a student at the school when Page was principal and she knows her well.
"She's amazing. She's an extremely strong woman," Dryer said. "She is the perfect person to come in and take control and lead this school and staff forward."
"She could be a tough one, but she does everything completely out of love. That's why she stepped forward and came out of retirement. She loves the school, she loves the staff. The staff all know her and respect her and she knows a lot of the kids because she only just retired a couple of years ago."
Page has quickly stepped into her old position, taking charge by helming the round-the-clock effort to prepare the new building.
"I want parents and families enduring the loss of their precious children to know their loved ones are foremost in our hearts and minds as we move forward," Page wrote in a letter to the school community about the first day back to school. "We recognize your needs are paramount in our preparations and planning. Your strength and compassion has been, and will continue to be an inspiration to me and countless others as we work to honor the memory of your precious children and our beloved staff."
Students, families and teachers are participating in an open house today to visit the new school. Classes resume on Thursday.
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Incunabula: Ong's Hat
You have been searching for us without knowing it, following oblique references in crudely xeroxed marginal "samsidat" publications, crackpot mystical pamphlets, mail order courses ... a paper trail and a coded series of rumors spread at street level ... and the propagation of certain acts of insurrection against the Planetary Work Machine and the Consensus Reality ... or perhaps through various obscure mimeographed technical papers on the edges of "chaos science" ... through pirate computer networks ... or even through pure synchronicity and the pursuit of dreams. In any case we know something about you, your interests, deeds and desires, works and days ... and we know your address. Otherwise...you would not be reading this...
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I?m not a huge fan of the holiday season. When I was 19, I worked in a grocery store. I?m pretty sure my relative disdain for the season started while working a cash register between aisles of Santa-shaped chocolates and overpriced eggnog. I tolerated the crowds of people who purchased produce and cookies and I smiled, my irritation level peaking each time I was asked if the store sold organic carrots.
The customer, after all, is always right.
But the dreadful repetition of Christmas music drove me to surrender my apron midway through December.
My experience aside, many people look forward to the holiday season. We relish cherished time with family and with friends, fantastic food, time off from work and the giving and receiving of gifts. It?s a time when children smile and shake the gifts under the tree. Pretty great, right?
I hate be somber, but these things often lead to a holiday hangover. Unfortunately, twelve glasses of water, an aspirin and time in bed won?t cut it.
So here are some tips ? sarcasm included! ? to get back on track:
When all is said and done, the New Year having passed and the tree having been packed away, it?s time to get back to life. Like any bad hangover, give it some time: life moves on. Enjoy it. Relish in the ?normal? parts of life ? before Halloween reminds you that the holiday season is right around the corner.
Sarcasm aside, try a few of these out and if all else fails, well, try a long nap and aspirin.
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While most children see dream jobs, spouses and freedom in their futures, Brian Bailey saw only death. The autistic boy, who stopped speaking at 18 months, grew up with anxiety about getting older, and his rocky educational track record early on didn?t allay his fears.
?I was obsessing from the beginning about his future, asking ?What am I going to do?? ? said his mother, Jennell Bailey, as she recalled his one week in a Baltimore public school general-education classroom, where she said he wasn?t flourishing.
But in 2014 when Brian Bailey graduates from the St. Elizabeth School in Baltimore ? a nonpublic institution that is part of a group called the Maryland Association of Nonpublic Special Education Facilities ? he will be eagerly anticipating the next stage of his life.
For Baltimore schools, special education still a work in progress
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MANSEF, which is made up of schools that take in special-education students who are referred from public schools that can?t meet their needs, recently commissioned a report that showed that their post-graduation results outpace national outcomes for students with disabilities who receive services in public schools.
The study found that students with disabilities who graduate from MANSEF?s nonpublic schools are more likely than their public school classmates to be employed, enrolled in a post-secondary school and living independently and are less likely to have been exposed to the juvenile justice system.
?It was critical for us to know and validate the heroic efforts of the staff working in our schools, and really make sure that the education we provide is really top-notch,? said Dorie Flynn, executive director of MANSEF.
Flynn said that while the system?s nonpublic schools follow the state?s curriculum and are subjected to intensive annual evaluations and regulations by the state Department of Education, the organization wanted a snapshot of its results.
?It?s really important to do outcome studies,? Flynn said. ?You don?t want to do something if it?s fruitless.?
The research was compiled by Deborah Curran, a researcher and professor at the Johns Hopkins University, who called the results encouraging.
The MANSEF graduates were compared to results found in a study done by the U.S. Department of Education called the National Longitudinal Transition Study 2, which tracks a sample population of special-needs students who receive services in public schools as they transition to adulthood. The MANSEF study represented students from 18 nonpublic institutions two years after they graduated in 2007 and 2008.
Curran said the longitudinal study, which served as a model for the MANSEF study, was the most comparable data available, though students in the national study often have more severe disabilities.
?It demonstrates that these students, with the proper supports in place, they can go on to be very engaged in their community, in the world,? Curran said. ?I was surprised at how engaged they were, how many were out there doing something.?
For example, the percentage of students who graduated from MANSEF schools and were employed within one year was 53 percent compared to 27 percent nationally.
The number enrolled in a four-year college was 11 percent, compared to 4 percent in the national sample; about 74 percent of MANSEF special-education students were living at home after one year, while 84 percent were nationally.
And about 16 percent in MANSEF schools had been involved in the criminal justice system, while 58 percent in the national study were.
An original MANSEF school, St. Elizabeth is one of 93 programs in Maryland that serve students in a setting that is small, well equipped and heavily staffed.
?We are able to collaborate and individualize to an intense degree,? said Lori Revitz, clinical coordinator at St. Elizabeth. ?Because we understand them so well, we can help them understand themselves.?
The debate around inclusive settings, in which special-education students are in general-education classrooms rather than being segregated, continues to be contentious. But parents and educators at St. Elizabeth ? which has extracurricular activities like proms, sports teams and a student council, and where students have jobs and can even take college courses ? say that young disabled adults are in a setting where they can flourish.
?The truth is [there is more] normalization here than in inclusion,? said Joshua Gervais, transition coordinator for St. Elizabeth. ?One of the biggest things that holds students back is socialization. Here, they?re good enough.?
For Mary Lee Richardson, that was key to choosing St. Elizabeth for her 16-year-old, autistic son, who was struggling in a Baltimore County high school. Soon after starting school, he fought going every day because few knew his name, let alone his frustrations.
Article source: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/education/bs-md-ci-nonpublic-schools-20121231,0,5410760.story
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks closed out 2012 with their strongest day in more than a month, putting the S&P 500 up 13.4 percent for the year, as lawmakers in Washington closed in on a resolution to the "fiscal cliff" negotiations.
The S&P 500's gain for the year marks its best performance since 2009, as stocks navigated through debt crises in Europe and the United States that dominated the headlines. Still, with numerous issues involving budget talks unresolved, markets could still be open to a shock should the deal break down unexpectedly.
Fittingly, in the last session of the year, stocks bounced back and forth on the headlines out of Washington, as both President Barack Obama and Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell issued statements indicating a deal to avert the cliff was close.
"The worst news could have been the president coming out and saying, 'We don't have a deal and we've giving up,' and he didn't say that," said Ron Florance, managing director of investment strategy for Wells Fargo Private Bank, based in Scottsdale, Arizona.
"My personal skepticism, I don't trust anything out of Washington until it is signed, sealed and delivered, and it is not signed, sealed and delivered."
While a deal on the cliff is not yet official, investors may be ready to take on more risk next year in hopes of a greater reward.
McConnell said an agreement had been reached with Democrats on all of the tax issues in the potential deal, removing a large hurdle in the talks. An agreement is needed in order to avert a combination of tax hikes and spending cuts that many believe could push the U.S. economy into recession.
A source familiar with the matter said an emerging deal, if adopted by Congress and President Barack Obama, would raise $600 billion in revenue over the next 10 years by increasing tax rates for individuals making more than $400,000 and households earning above $450,000 annually.
Despite the uncertainty, the market encountered only occasional bouts of volatility this year. For the first time since 2006, the CBOE Volatility Index or VIX <.vix>, the market's favored indicator of anxiety, did not surpass the 30 level, a threshold that usually signals heightened worry among investors.
"Given all the threats in 2012, the VIX was relatively tranquil," said Bill Luby, the author of the VIX and More blog in San Francisco, citing the crises in Spain and Greece, along with constant intervention from the Federal Reserve.
The Dow Jones industrial average <.dji> gained 166.03 points, or 1.28 percent, to end at 13,104.14. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index <.spx> gained 23.76 points, or 1.69 percent, to finish at 1,426.19. The Nasdaq Composite Index <.ixic> gained 59.20 points, or 2.00 percent, to close at 3,019.51.
Monday's gains enabled the S&P 500 to snap a five-day losing streak, its longest skid since September.
The S&P 500 closed out 2012 with a 13.4 percent gain for the year, compared with a flat performance in 2011. The Dow rose 7.3 percent in 2012 and the Nasdaq climbed 15.9 percent.
Financials <.gspf> were the strongest of the S&P's 10 industry sectors this year, gaining more than 26 percent, led by Bank of America
Of the S&P's 10 sectors, only defensively oriented utilities <.gspu> ended the year lower, falling 2.9 percent.
Gains in Apple Inc , the most valuable U.S. company, helped lift the Nasdaq. The stock rose 4.4 percent to $532.17, lifting the S&P information technology sector index <.gspt> up 2.2 percent. For the year, Apple rose 31.4 percent, ending with a market value of about $501.4 billion.
Each of the Dow's 30 components finished the session in positive territory, led by a 3.2 percent climb in Caterpillar Inc
Volume was modest, with about 6.06 billion shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq and the NYSE MKT, slightly below the daily average of 6.42 billion.
Advancing stocks outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by a ratio of 6 to 1, while on the Nasdaq, four stocks rose for every one that fell.
(Reporting by Chuck Mikolajczak; Editing by Jan Paschal)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/stock-futures-edge-higher-cliff-talks-continue-004506710--sector.html
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