The Caring Solidarity framework is both descriptive and aspirational. It is an attempt to empower White teachers to do the work of interrogating their racial privilege and join in Caring Solidarity with their African American students. The framework can be used to describe teachers who are working in Caring Solidarity with their students and to develop teachers with intention toward Caring Solidarity. We are in a unique historical moment that demands White teachers become more effective in their schools, classrooms, and communities and for researchers to find ways to describe those teachers who build relationships of solidarity with students. Considering today’s tenor of the conversation around race, picking up this book and considering its contents is an act of defiance of the current climate, and/or one of devotion to the art and craft of teaching children. Caring Solidarity is not a replacement for current frameworks such as Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy or Abolitionist Pedagogy but is a map for White teachers to journey toward those pedagogies. Everyone starts from somewhere. The path is winding and long but the goal, to create an equitable and humane classroom, is worth the trip. The purpose of this theory is to point the way.

For any professional designer or developer working in the world of web technologies or multimedia, Flash is the must-have application, and knowing how to use it effectively is vital. Add in ActionScript 3.0, and Flash becomes an even more powerful tool for the development of high-performance web applications. The Essential Guide to Flash CS4 with ActionScript introduces and explores the possibilities available to you by using Flash CS4. You will learn the basics of Flash's working environment and, using a step-by-step approach, work through the features of Flash and ActionScript needed to quickly achieve results. From navigating the interface to using graphic tools to write scripts and troubleshoot, you'll master deploying highly interactive applications with rich audio, video, and animation. Written for the beginning-to-intermediate Flash user, this book uses complete examples that highlight best practices that you can apply to your daily work as a developer or designer in today's rich media world.

The environmental field and its regulations have evolved significantly since Congress passed the first environmental law in 1970, and the Environmental Law Handbook, published just three years later, has been indispensable to students and professionals ever since. The authors provide clear and accessible explanations, expert legal insight into new and evolving regulations, and reliable compliance and management guidance. The Environmental Law Handbook continues to provide individuals across the country—professionals, professors, and students—with a comprehensive, up-to-date, and easy-to-read look at the major environmental, health, and safety laws affecting U.S. businesses and organizations. Because it is written by the country's leading environmental law firms, it provides the best, most reliable guidance anywhere. Both professional environmental managers and students aspiring to careers in environmental management should keep the Environmental Law Handbook within arm's reach for thoughtful answers to regulatory questions like: How do I ensure compliance with the regulations? How do the latest environmental developments impact my operations? How do we keep our operations efficient and our community safe? The Handbook begins with chapters on the fundamentals of environmental law and on issues of enforcement and liability. It then dives headfirst into the major laws, examining their history, scope, and requirements with a chapter devoted to each. The 25th edition of this well-known Handbook has been thoroughly updated, covering major changes to the law and enforcement in the areas of Clean Air, Clean Water, Climate Change, Oil Pollution, and Pollution Prevention. This is an essential reference for environmental students and professionals, and anyone who wants the most up-to-date information available on environmental laws.

15-year-old Kenny, just released from three years in a state hospital, slips away from his new school in the pre-dawn hours with Joe, a fellow student, known for his skills in the wilderness of the Au Sable River Forest. Paddling through verdant forests on the fabled Au Sable River, Bosco Academy students, braving brutal Michigan weather and a hijacked canoe, must use both prayer and a hatchet to triumph over armed bandits.

Between June 2003 and November 2004, residents in 15 Iowa counties participated in referenda that sought their approval of a measure that will allow the introduction of casino gambling in their counties. In eight of these counties, the measure failed; in the other seven, the measure passed. Because casino expansion has received considerable coverage throughout the state, this study asks whether the frames used by Iowa newspapers to report, interpret and explain the issue had something to do with these voting outcomes. Framing theory was used to analyze the results of a content analysis of the coverage of four newspapers that serve different Iowa counties one year preceding and one year following each county's casino referendum. The results show that the three most prominent frames used were the expansion debate, tax and economic frames, suggesting a tendency to construct the issue in financial terms. The other frames identified were the political debate, social cost, moral and revenue frames. The newspapers' coverage was characterized by heavy reliance on state and local politicians as information sources; pro-gambling activists were also cited frequently, drowning out the voices of anti-gambling activists. These information sources were the main agents of frame construction in the news. The opinion pieces were evenly split between those positive toward gambling (105) and those against it (105); the other 46 pieces were neutral toward the issue. This tone or orientation was found to significantly differ across the four newspapers and vary with the referenda outcomes in each of the four counties.

"Bodies are piling up in Franklin as young people succumb to a deadly new opioid called Ace of Diamonds. When the police chief is implicated in the murder of a local dealer, the investigative lead falls to straight-arrow police officer Matt Riley. With few options at his disposal, Matt persuades heroine addict Cody Ware to go undercover as a confidential informant to infiltrate the cartel and stem the flow of drugs into their small western Pennsylvania town. Overcoming a mutual dislike, the two men work closely together. But, as Cody traces the local pipeline to Pittsburgh, its shrewd and calculating boss lays a trap that could cost Cody his life. And, further south, El Animal works from his lavish estate in Mexico to solidify his control of the cartel, leaving a trail of bodies from Mexico to Texas and beyond. While fighting Ace of Diamonds, Matt and Cody are also fighting their own personal demons. Matt, a former Marine who was seriously wounded in Afghanistan, struggles with PTSD. Cody continues to struggle with opioid addiction and nearly relapses. Lives are shattered as vicious drug lords fight to maintain and expand their empire and Matt and Cody dig in to protect their town"--

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