The Family Foundation School Dog House

11 a.m. Saturday October 30, Marcy, NY: A group of search and rescue dog handlers and there canine companions named Eagle Valley Search Dogs found human remains matching the description of a woman missing since March of 2009. Co-Owner of The Family Foundation School, who is also the president of the Eagle Valley team, brought along dog training students to help.
Only after an hour after the search was underway did Vice President of the team Katie Danzig and her blue tick hound find the remains. The team had planned a two day search and, if necessary, to return to the scene this coming spring to continue the search.
The remains are thought to be that of Laura Pickard of Whitesboro, NY. Pickard went missing March of last year after being seen heading towards the Durham Public Library. Pickard had a history of struggling with psychosis and clinical depression; it is thought that she intentionally overdosed before lying down in the wooded area where her remains were found. The Whitesboro Police Department says that they are not positive that the remains belong to Pickard and have sent them to the lab to be confirmed. According to uticaod.com Pickard’s sister, Jennifer Ferrusi, was quoted saying, ““They’re confident that it is Laura. Of course, we have to get scientific proof by matching the DNA … but everything is consistent that it is her.”
Ferrusi said that she is saddened by the discovery, but she takes comfort in having the closure. She is very thankful for Eagle Valley and the Whitesboro Police Department for the search and discovery.
“It was neat to be a part of the search,” said dog training intern Jimmy G. “I think of it as a once in a lifetime experience to be able to help a family gain closure after such a tragedy.” Jimmy, along with Nash B, was brought along to assist Rita with the search.

The edification of successful teachers: the role of the family

The Edification of Successful Teachers: The Role of the Family
In 1915, John Dewey argued that "experience is educative ... it increases the quality of one's interactions with important objects and events in the immediate environment and lays the groundwork for even more expansive interactions in the future" (p. 291). Interpersonal relationships play an important role in providing guidance, advice, support, and feedback in the learning process (Haney, 1997). Accordingly, relationships are experiential and nurturing (Jipson & Paley, 2000), providing a fundamental foundation for the behaviors of successful teachers.
Data-driven perspectives on how families have influenced future teachers have largely relied on interviews for their methodology. Gordon (1993) identified dimensions such as the effects of family, and Feiman-Nemser (2001) interviewed a single teacher to better understand familial influences. The purpose of the study reported herein was to examine the role of family relationships on successful teachers by using multiple subjects and archival data sources. This study does not attempt to evaluate relationships; rather, it provides insights into relationship experiences of successful teachers as voiced by the teachers at the elementary and secondary school levels. Archival data were chosen for this study in order to understand if and how teachers perceive familial relationships when the specific subject was not solicited. Thus, our study provides a description that was not obtained through direct questioning.

American Family Association

The American Family Association (AFA) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that promotes conservative Christian values^[1][2][3][4] such as opposition to same-sex marriage, to pornography, and to abortion,^[5] as well as other public policy goals such as deregulation of the oil industry and lobbying against the Employee Free Choice Act.^[6] It was founded in 1977 by Rev. Donald Wildmon as the National Federation for Decency and is headquartered in Tupelo, Mississippi.
The AFA defines itself as "a Christian organization promoting the biblical ethic of decency in American society with primary emphasis on TV and other media"^[7][8] It pursues its views and other issues through a number of activism efforts, including boycotts, buycotts, Action alert e-mails, publications on the AFA's web sites or in the AFA Journal, broadcasts on American Family Radio, and lobbying.^[9] The AFA is classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.^[10][11] The organization has an annual budget of roughly US$14 million and owns 180 American Family Radio stations in 28 states

Southern Poverty Law Center

n its Winter 2010 Intelligence Report, the Southern Poverty Law Center designated the FRC as a hate group,^[32][5] saying that the organization "pushed false accusations linking gay men to pedophilia."^[33][34] FRC President Tony Perkins dismissed the hate group designation as the result of a political attack by a "liberal organization" and "the left's smear campaign of conservatives."^[5] The FRC ran an open letter advertisement December 15, 2010 in two Washington, DC newspapers signed by, among others, twenty U. S. House of Representatives members (including incoming House Speaker John Boehner), three U. S. Senators, four state Governors, and one state Attorney General.^[35][36] The open letter ad stated:

The surest sign one is losing a debate is to resort to character assassination. The Southern Poverty Law Center, a liberal fundraising machine whose tactics have been condemned by observers across the political spectrum, is doing just that.

Peter Sprigg

The Family Research Council's Senior Researcher for Policy Studies Peter Sprigg was criticized by gay rights activists^{[20][21][22][23]} when he, in his official capacity as a fellow of the FRC,^[24] stated that gay behavior should be outlawed and that "criminal sanctions against homosexual behavior" should be enforced.^[25] More recently, Sprigg has publicly suggested that repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy would encourage molestation of heterosexual service members.^[26] When asked about Sprigg's comments regarding the criminalization of same-sex behavior, FRC President Tony Perkins said that criminalizing homosexuality is not a goal of the Family Research Council, but did not denounce Sprigg's statements.^[27][28] Perkins repeated the FRC’s association of gay men with pedophilia,^[27] saying that "If you look at the American College of Pediatricians, they say the research is overwhelming that homosexuality poses a danger to children." The opinions expressed by Perkins are contradicted by mainstream social science perspectives on same-sex parenting^[29] and the likelihood of child molestation by homosexuals,^[29][30] and some scientists whose work is cited by the American College of Pediatricians have accused the ACP of distorting and misrepresenting their work.^[31]

Family Research Council

The Family Research Council (FRC) is a conservative, Christian right group and lobbying organization formed in the United States in 1981 by James Dobson. It was fully incorporated in 1983. ^[1] FRC was designed to be a lobbying force for conservative legislation on Capitol Hill. In the late 1980s, FRC officially became a division of Dobson's main organization, Focus on the Family, but after an administrative separation, FRC officially became an independent entity in 1992. The function of FRC is to promote what it considers to be traditional family values. FRC is affiliated with a 501(c)(4) lobbying PAC known as FRC Action.^[2] Tony Perkins is the current president of FRC.
In late 2010, the organization was labeled as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center,^[3] citing what the SPLC calls FRC's "propagation of known falsehoods — claims about LGBT people that have been thoroughly discredited by scientific authorities — and repeated, groundless name-calling." The SPLC further stated that "viewing homosexuality as unbiblical does not qualify organizations for listing as hate groups." ^[4] FRC President Tony Perkins dismissed this as a political attack by a "liberal organization" and "the left's smear campaign of conservatives".^[5] Twenty-three members of the U.S. Congress and four state Governors signed an open letter of support for the Family Research Council in response to the SPLC's designation.
FRC promotes socially conservative views on many issues, including divorce, homosexuality, and abortion. FRC does not limit itself to social conservatism, also promoting a variety of other views.^{[citation needed]}

My Family Tree

The Family Tree Searcher site grew out of efforts to trace my family trees. I found most of the clues to my ancestry by searching online, particularly for my great-grandmother Cora Burns (pictured at the right). Much to my surprise, the ancestry of Cora Burns can be traced back to the Quaker colonization in 1682. If you go back further, some lines of her ancestry have supposedly been traced back to nearly the year 1,000. I now have a lifetime hobby to verify all this information.
As I became fairly good at searching the various websites, friends and relatives have asked me to give them suggestions for searching for family trees. This website grew out of those suggestions.

Family Tree Searcher Review

"Overall this site is easy to use and very valuable. It provides a quick and easy way to try and get past an end-of-line ancestor. However, as with all genealogical information, it still requires verification of sources and conclusions. I recommend this site to any researcher who wants to locate other researchers on the same line. This website should be in the toolbox of every genealogist using the Web." Lawrence M. Hamilton, Jr., Hamilton National Genealogical Society, Inc. Click here for the full review of the Family Tree Searcher site.