| Education Management LLC Reports Fiscal 2007 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Results
Education Management LLC, one of the largest providers of post-secondary education in North America, today reported its financial results for the three months and twelve months ended June 30, 2007. For the fourth quarter of fiscal 2007, net revenues rose 19.1% to $347.7 million from the fourth quarter of fiscal 2006. For the twelve months ended June 30, 2007, net revenues rose 16.5% to $1,363.7 million from fiscal 2006 net revenues with net income of $32.2 million. .
Chilled soup can serve as starter dish
When the weather turns warm and the days are long, everyone, it seems, wants to entertain outside. A recent cooking class I taught on cooking outdoors was evidence. My menu starred a number of delectable items, including barbecued pork, homemade coleslaw and, for dessert, a blueberry buckle. But the first course -- chilled avocado soup topped with a fresh tomato salsa, sort of like guacamole in a bowl -- received the most attention. Although this soup can easily kick off a summer supper, it could also step into the role of a main course. You could serve it as is or make it more substantial by adding a garnish of grilled skewered shrimp to each bowl. (Simply marinate the shrimp in fresh lime juice and olive oil along with some chopped garlic and cilantro for 30 minutes, then thread two or three on skewers and grill until curled and pink.) My students loved the enticing blend of flavors, the contrasting textures and the vivid colors of this soup.
Arabic public school divides Brooklyn
This city's first Arabic public school opens this week, and already it has created enough controversy to cast its ultimate future in doubt. The troubles started early. First, parents banded together to block the proposed Khalil Gibran International Academy from opening in Brooklyn's trendy Park Slope neighbourhood. The city agreed, saying the elementary school building proposed by the board of education did not have the necessary space. And, perhaps not parenthetically, some parents said they feared the school would be a security risk. So, the school would be established instead in Brooklyn's Boerum Hill area, which has a large Arabic population. Then, the woman hired as principal, Debbie Almontaser, resigned after the New York Post reported that she wore an "Intifada NYC" T-shirt. Instead of condemning the word intifada — a call for violence in the Middle East — Almontaser told the scrappy tabloid that the slogan was not meant to inflame hatred and to encourage violence but was instead meant to tell women to "shake off" oppression.
School committee recommends salary schedule
The Williston Public School District 1 Finance Committee made a series of recommendations Monday that apply to the 2007-2008 school budget.Salary pay schedules were recommended for aquatics instructors and lifeguards for the E.J. Hagan Aquatics Center, also known as the indoor swimming pool.Base pay for a lifeguard/aquatics center director without experience is $7.25 per hour. A lifeguard/aquatics instructor with 17 years of experience would receive $11.75 per hour.In a related matter, Denbea Quinlan was recently recommended to be hired as the new aquatics center director. She previously held that post for the Williston Park Board when it ran the swimming pool.The school district recently acquired operation of the pool during a dispute with the Williston Park Board over a mill levy the school district rescinded for the park district.
THAILAND: NBC urged to get tough on junk food ads aimed at kids
Academics and consumers' rights advocates yesterday called on the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to heed the best interests of children in new regulations to control snack and junk food advertising. The NBC will meet today to finalise restrictions on snack advertisements. Gothom Arya, chairman of the National Economic and Social Advisory Council (Nesac), which has studied the issue, said restricting junk food ads is a necessary part of national policy. "Children today are easily influenced by advertisements, while many ad makers are not responsible to society. Snacks and junk food have become poisons for children, while parents are paying more for this stuff," he said. Nesac had earlier recommended measures to the cabinet to cope with junk food problems, including quality and advertisement controls, labelling, and restrictions on sales in schools.
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