Half a Loaf is Better Than None: Sullivan Revisited

Janet and Mark Sullivan married in September of 1967. Mark entered medical school the following year while Janet completed her undergraduate studies. For the next nine years of their ten year marriage, Mark attended medical school for four years, then completed his internship and his residency for five years. Janet provided support by working full time, and then part time when they moved to Oregon in 1972 for the benefit of Mark\u27s career. She continued to work part time after their daughter was born in 1974. Janet and Mark separated in 1977 or 1978, then Mark set up his practice in Orange County, California, with money borrowed from his mother. Assets acquired during the marriage consisted of used furniture and two automobiles with payments outstanding. Mark, however, possessed his medical degree, and Janet\u27s attempt to gain an interest in Mark\u27s degree catapulted the Sullivan dissolution into the national spotlight. Courts in sister states awaited California\u27s approach to what has become the most hotly contested issue in family law today

Half a Loaf is Better Than None: Sullivan Revisited

Janet and Mark Sullivan married in September of 1967. Mark entered medical school the following year while Janet completed her undergraduate studies. For the next nine years of their ten year marriage, Mark attended medical school for four years, then completed his internship and his residency for five years. Janet provided support by working full time, and then part time when they moved to Oregon in 1972 for the benefit of Mark\u27s career. She continued to work part time after their daughter was born in 1974. Janet and Mark separated in 1977 or 1978, then Mark set up his practice in Orange County, California, with money borrowed from his mother. Assets acquired during the marriage consisted of used furniture and two automobiles with payments outstanding. Mark, however, possessed his medical degree, and Janet\u27s attempt to gain an interest in Mark\u27s degree catapulted the Sullivan dissolution into the national spotlight. Courts in sister states awaited California\u27s approach to what has become the most hotly contested issue in family law today

The orientation and ongoing training of superintendents in the Free Methodist Church USA

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Teacher salary differentials using Purchasing Power Parity (PPP): a South African perspective as both a ‘source’ and ‘destination’ country

AbstractTeacher migration is a problem for developing countries as it impacts on delivery of qualityeducation. The potential to earn higher incomes remains the most common factor drivingteacher migration. This study seeks to investigate how the South African teacher salarystructure compares with the equivalent salary structure in six prominent migrating countrieswhilst highlighting the economic appeal of South Africa from a Zimbabwean teacherperspective. Using a representative basket of commonly bought goods (including food,entertainment, fuel and utilities), a purchasing power parity (PPP) ratio is used to equalisethe international price of buying that basket. Our study makes comparisons, using a PPPindex, and allows the identification of real differences in salaries for our selected countries(South Africa, United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan andZimbabwe) for selected teaching categories. Even when controlling for differences in thecost of living, the incentive for a South African teacher to seek work overseas remainsstrong and increases with career experience. A worrying conclusion for South Africaconcerned with keeping its experienced teachers is that as more human capital is gained byexperience, the greater the incentive to emigrate

South African Sucrose Quality in Sugar: Determinants and its Empirical Implications

The study investigates which factors determine sucrose quality in the South African sugar cane production process. Though South Africa is the 8th largest producer of sugar cane in the world and the highest in Africa, a decline has been observed in the production of high quality sugar in the country. The study adopts the Auto Regressive Distributive Lags (ARDL) technique to analyze sugar cane production time series data from 1980 to 2016 in South Africa. Ten variables were tested, including Average Temperature, Stalk growth, Evaporation, and Soil Water Content (100mm). Our findings revealed that on both the short and long run, some of the variables investigated have the tendency of increasing sucrose level in sugar cane while an increase in other variables would decrease sucrose level altogether. However, the impact of Soil Water Content (100mm) appears not to be statistically significant on sucrose production in our regression model in the short and long run. Of special interest are Stalk growth (Reference sugar cane) and average temperature, as their values are more significantly germane as regards the quantity of sucrose obtained during sugar cane processing in South Africa.&nbsp

Civic Engagement and Urban School Improvement: Hard-to-Learn Lessons From Philadelphia

Philadelphia’s Children Achieving was a sweeping systemic reform initiative. Systemic reform eschews a school-byschool approach to reform and relies on coherent policy, improved coordination of resources and services, content and performance standards, decentralization of decision-making, and accountability mechanisms to transform entire school systems. Led by a dynamic superintendent and central office personnel, Children Achieving was the first attempt by an urban district to test systemic reform in practice. In 1996, the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) at the University of Pennsylvania and its partner, Research for Action (RFA), were charged by the Children Achieving Challenge with the evaluation of Children Achieving. Between the 1995-1996 and 2000-2001 school years, CPRE and RFA researchers interviewed hundreds of teachers, principals, parents, students, District officials, and civic leaders; sat in on meetings where the plan was designed, debated, and revised; observed its implementation in classrooms and schools; conducted two systemwide surveys of teachers; and carried out independent analyses of the District’s test results and other indicators of system performance. An outline of the research methods used by CPRE and RFA is included in this report

Deep-Flow Hydroponic Culture: Copper Toxicity at 8 μM (0.13 ppm) in Tomato

Plants have more than 100 copper-containing proteins. About half of the Cu in plants is in the chloroplast, bound to plastocyanin, where it helps absorb oxygen radicals. Cu is considered adequate in solution at 2 to 4 μM (0.03 to 0.06 ppm). The requirement for Cu is so low that it can sometimes be supplied from contamination. The effect of higher levels is not well studied. Here we report the effect of Cu at 0, 4, and 8 μM (0, 0.06, and 0.13 ppm Cu) in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) in a deep-flow hydroponics system

Ultra-low-cost logging anemometer for wind power generation feasibility surveys

We describe the design and implementation of a cup anemometer capable of logging average wind speed, maximum wind speed and seconds with wind above a criterion speed, on individual weeks. The instrument will operate for at least 54 weeks on two AA dry cells. The intention is that this instrument be deployed to ascertain whether it would be economical to install a wind generator, at a fraction of the cost of a multipurpose weather data logging station. It is designed around a $2 microcontroller that provides non-volatile memory. Provision has been made for using either a magnetic reed switch or the motor from a discarded hard disk drive to sense rotation. The latter enables the use of an otherwise worthless bearing and drive assembly to provide an especially frugal solution