Gads Hill Center ? Blog Archiv ? Gads Hill's Spring Gala 2012

Gads Hill Center is thrilled to celebrate it?s 7th annual gala, Bridging the Gap to Achievement, on May 10, 2012.

Doors will open to a cocktail hour at 5.30pm at the beautiful Galleria Marchetti, located at 825 W. Erie Street.

Dinner will be served at 7pm.? Tickets may be purchased online by following this link.

Since 1898, Gads Hill has offered a place where families can be safe and unified, children can grow healthy and strong, and parents can build for the future.? Soon after opening its doors, Gads Hill offered kindergarten, singing groups, cooking classes, a savings bank with 350 depositors, sewing clubs, and activities for school-age boys and girls.

Today, Gads Hill is a family resource center with the mission of partnering with the community to develop the assets of children, youth, adults and families.? Serving Chicago?s primarily low income neighborhoods in the southwest side of Chicago, including Pilsen, Little Village, McKinley Park, Brighton Park and North Lawndale, and others, Gads Hill continues to help families create a better life for their children.

Gads Hill provides high quality early childhood education to up to 400 children, from infancy through five year olds with a variety of center and home-based programs that prepare children to enter kindergarten ready to read and learn.

Our after-school services provide safe care for more than 250 students, including homework help, creativity and play for elementary school students, positive role models to middle school students, mentoring and advocacy for at-risk high school students along with college preparation and support. We assist families in identifying resources in the communities we serve. And finally, Gads Hill is open to the community for aerobics, basketball, General Mill?s healthy cooking classes, university courses, neighborhood meetings and events.

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Wisconsin Democrats pick mayor to challenge governor

MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Wisconsin Democratic primary voters on Tuesday picked Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett to face controversial Republican Governor Scott Walker in a recall election next month, a test of labor union strength in a battleground state before the November general elections.

Barrett lost the Wisconsin governor's race to Walker by 5 percentage points in 2010. Since then, Wisconsin has been split by what Barrett called a "civil war" over Walker's drive to curb union power in the state.

"Wisconsin cannot afford to continue to suffer through Walker's ideological civil war," Barrett said in a statement after he was declared the winner.

Walker infuriated Democrats and labor organizations weeks after taking office in 2011 by pushing a measure through the Republican-led legislature that curbed the collective bargaining power of public-sector unions.

The law set off massive protests at the capitol in Madison. In January, Walker's opponents submitted more than 900,000 recall petition signatures to the state elections board, triggering a June 5 recall election of the governor.

Walker easily won the Republican nomination on Tuesday.

"Democrats are so angry with Walker, this election is about the 'Not Walker' factor," said Timothy Dale, assistant political science professor at University of Wisconsin, Green Bay.

If he loses, Walker would become only the third U.S. governor to be removed from office by recall election.

Barrett, a moderate Democrat who has said he would try to restore civility to government, defeated Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk, who was more confrontational and received most of the support of labor unions.

Falk congratulated Barrett and told supporters that the next four weeks "may be the most important in our state's history."

"If we all keep working together, in 28 days we may get our state back on track," she said.

Republicans quickly hit back at Barrett, saying he had a "failed record" as Milwaukee mayor.

"Over the next four weeks, it will become even clearer to Wisconsin voters that Tom Barrett represents nothing more than the failed policies of the past, and it's Governor Walker who is moving our state forward."

A poll taken before Tuesday primary vote had Walker and Barrett virtually tied in the recall election.

Almost everyone in Wisconsin has already decided what they think of Walker, leaving only 5 percent to 6 percent of voters undecided in recent polls.

The key to the outcome is likely to be which side does the best job of turning out its vote, analysts said.

Wisconsin is also seen as a battleground state that will be hotly contested between U.S. President Barack Obama and likely Republican nominee Mitt Romney in the November 6 elections.

Walker's union law forced public-sector employees such as teachers to pay a portion of the cost of health insurance and pensions, capped wage rises and required their unions to be recertified every year.

While the union measure is the reason Democrats are trying to recall Walker, the issue has not been the focus of their attacks so far in the campaign. Polls show Wisconsin voters, like those across the nation, are more focused on jobs.

Democrats have hammered Walker since a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report showed Wisconsin lost 23,900 jobs, the most for any state, from March 2011 to March 2012.

Money from campaign contributions is flooding into the state with conservatives supporting Walker and unions backing the Democrats. Walker raised $13 million from January 17 through April 23, according to finance reports filed in Wisconsin - more than seven times the combined amount raised by Barrett and Falk.

(Reporting by Brendan O'Brien; Editing by Mary Wisniewski and Greg McCune. Desking by Christopher Wilson)

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RewardLoop Raises $1M For QR Code-Enabled Loyalty Programs

RewardLoop, a startup offering a nifty new approach to customer reward programs, has raised $1 million in Series A funding. To get started with RewardLoop, businesses need to install an adapter that connects to their point-of-sale system (namely, the technology that handles the checkout and payment process). Then, whenever someone makes a purchase, a QR code is printed at the end of their receipt, which they can scan in order to get loyalty points at the store.

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Deal of the Day ? Pre-order: HTC Evo 4G LTE Smartphone [Sprint]

Tuesday’s LogicBUY Deal is a pre-order for the Sprint HTC Evo 4G LTE Android Phone in black on sale for $149.99, with free shipping and free activation ($36 value).? Features: 4.7″ S-LCD 2 1280 X 720 display, 4G LTE connectivity, 8MP rear facing and 1.3MP front facing camera, 1GB RAM, 16GB built-in storage (expandable via [...]

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Twitpic for iPhone review: not even close to being an ?Instagram Killer?

Twitpic is one of the most popular photos hosting services for Twitter and now they've released their very own iPhone app that lets you browse through the photos of all the people you follow on Twitter who have share their photos with Twitpic, add comments, a well as add filters and effects to your own photos to share to Twitter and Twitpic.

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Pebble watch gets updated to Bluetooth 4.0 before it even arrives

What are you going to do when you get an unprecedented response from your new Kickstarter project? You throw in some extra features to keep your new fans happy. Allerta, the same company behind the InPulse smartwatch, has announced that its new Pebble smartwatch will now arrive with low-power Bluetooth 4.0 compatibility. The watches will still interact with Bluetooth 2.1, but inclusion of the latest version should ensure a better degree of future-proofing, with a view to hooking up with wireless heart monitors in the near future. The new feature will be built into the watches ahead of its release and enabled with a later software update. Better still, the makers promise that these Bluetooth plans have been in the pipeline for a while and shouldn't affect the watch's launch date.

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Virgin Mobile USA and Boost take WiMAX live, ship HTC EVO V 4G and EVO Design 4G on May 31

In sync with Sprint's plans to get its sub-brands on 4G using its legacy WiMAX network, both Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile have trotted out their initial 4G lineups. The early Virgin mix includes retreads of two Sprint data-only devices -- a Broadband2Go-badged version of the Sierra Wireless Overdrive Pro 3G/4G hotspot and a matching version of the Franklin U600 previously seen at Clear. Virgin's real star, however, is the HTC EVO V 4G: though it's ultimately the EVO 3D with a slightly more 2D name, it's shipping with Android 4.0 from the start and has HTC's Frankenstein-like Sense 3.6 rather than the 4.0 of the One series. The network upgrade and all three new devices swing into action on May 31, and while your $35 minimum monthly plan will stay in effect even with unlimited on-device 4G, you'll need to spend $300 (contract-free) to take home an EVO V 4G, $150 on the Overdrive Pro or $100 on the U600 stick.

Boost Mobile is also going the Sprint rebadge route through the HTC EVO Design 4G. As with its bigger brother over at Virgin, the single-core EVO Design 4G is identical in hardware to its Sprint equivalent but slaps Android 4.0 and Sense 3.6 on top to keep the software fresh. The update does mark the first time a Boost phone gets Visual Voicemail, so you can feel slightly less guilty when you miss a call. HTC's phone will oddly cost the same $300 off-contract as the more advanced EVO V 4G, although Boost is likely counting on customers sticking around long enough for an all-inclusive unlimited plan to drop to $40 per month and make it worthwhile.

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