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In David Mamet's captivating Broadway hit "Race," a court case involving race and sex causes three lawyers to get real about their own beliefs, at A.C.T. through November 13, 2011
What do you get when you mix three attorneys with a white man accused of raping a black woman? It all depends. David Mamet's dramedy "Race," which has its West Coast premiere at San Francisco's A.C.T.(American Conservatory Theatre), uses a not-so-straightforward scenario of rape to explore the complex world of sexual and racial politics and our discomfort at talking about our deeply held beliefs. When Jack Lawson (Anthony Fusco), Henry Brown (Chris Butler) and Susan (Susan Heyward) are roped into defending Charles Strickland (Kevin O'Rourke) a wealthy white man who appears to have raped a young black woman in a hotel room, we quickly see how this law firm operates. Their mandate is to get their client off the hook by whatever legal means available, despite the truth. Newly-hired associate Susan is most challenged. As a young black woman, she empathizes with the victim and grows increasingly uncomfortable as a zany defense strategy involving a red sequined dress unfolds, but being new and lowest on the totem pole, she has little power to stand-up directly to her two senior partners. While the two men spar directly each other about their respective assumptions about racial relations and sex and power dynamics and what may have really unfolded in the case, Susan finds non-verbal ways to assert herself, proving she is not as naïve as she presents. White versus black; male versus female; privilege versus underprivileged–each character at first seems to conform to certain perceptions but then doesn't. Personal convictions and prejudices are road-tested all around by Mamet who also explores the predatory nature of the news media.
Given Mamet's track-record for presenting first-rate controversy, "Race" has no real shock impact─it has been upstaged by some of the racially-repugnant language currently on television but it is an entertaining puzzler hat offers a wide platform for exploration of our own deep prejudices. The 2009 play also has an uncanny applicability to the issues in the highly-publicized case against former International Monetary Fund Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn for allegedly sexually assaulting a New York hotel maid in May of this year. The shift in that case came when the Manhattan County District Attorney's office disclosed in a letter to the defense team that the accuser admitted to lying on her 2004 asylum application and subsequent lies were then revealed. Separating out and isolating issues relevant to the case at hand became part of a legal and media extravaganza and personal biases and projections were intentionally whipped up. In rape cases, it seemed that one needed to be the near perfect victim, whereas, the friends, family, and supporters of the accused, a man of great wealth and power, argued that he was a certainly seducer but not a rapist. Justice was a game that was to be played out and the truth was something else.
At the end of the first act of "Race," lawyers Lawson and Susan are debating the Strickland case when Susan tells Lawson, "This isn't about sex. It's about race."
"What's the difference," Lawson asks. "It's a complicated world, full of misunderstandings. That's why we have lawyers." "Race" explores what's at the heart of our biases and the world of sin that attorney-client privilege can hide. At 90 minutes, without intermission, with a four member cast, and all set in a law firm's conference room, it is one the best productions in A.C.T.'s recent history. Alert: intentionally coarse language.
Cast: Anthony Fusco as partner Jack Lawson; Chris Butler as partner Henry Brown; Susan Heyward as associate Susan; Kevin O'Rourke as wealthy client
Directed by Irene Lewis; scenery by Chris Barreca; costumes by Candice Donnelly; Lighting by Rui Rita; Sound design by Cliff Caruthers
"Experts Talks Back" special post-show discussions: Delve deeply into the issues raised by "Race" with legal and cultural specialists leading discussions about many of the provocative topics that percolate throughout the production:
• Friday, October 28, 2011, following the 8 p.m. performance: Regina Arnold, a former rock critic who teaches at Stanford University, leads a discussion about race and ethnicity in today's popular culture, moderated by Edward Budworth, A.C.T.'s groupsales and student matinee representative.
• Thursday, November 3, 2011, following the 8 p.m. performance: Mary McNamara, a white collar criminal defense lawyer who was named one of the top 50 women lawyers in Northern California, leads a discussion moderated by Patrick S. Thompson, a partner at Goodwin Procter and a member of A.C.T.'s Board of Trustees.
• Thursday, November 10, 2011, following the 8 p.m. performance: Wilda L. White, executive director of the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice at UC Berkeley School of Law, and Jennifer Madden, deputy district attorney in Alameda County, lead a discussion moderated by Patrick S. Thompson, a partner at Goodwin Procter and a member of A.C.T.'s Board of Trustees.
Admission to all Experts Talk Back events is free with a ticket to Race; the discussions will take place in Fred's Columbia Room on the lower level of the American Conservatory Theater (415 Geary Street, San Francisco).
Details: The West Coast premiere of "Race" runs through November 13, 2011; tickets (starting at $10) are available by calling the A.C.T. Box Office at 415.749.2228 or at http://www.act-sf.org.


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The wolf is coming!
I have a love for coincidence. Seeing similarities in different parts of my life makes it seem like there is a plan to the universe. It allows my imagination to posit a (usually incredibly unlikely) future based on what I'm seeing. The universe cares about me and is sending me hints so that I can guess what happens next.
That makes this current case of Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon somewhat disturbing.
Everywhere I look, I'm seeing Ragnarok. That can't be a good thing.
It started when I began planning the second Thropes book. I'm planning the second book so that I can put the appropriate foreshadowing into the first book, so stop judging me for being a procrastinator. Lycanthropes came about as a result of a curse by a Greek goddess. So gods are real. And how would that change society? Having a pantheon of hands-on Greek gods would change a few things.
Not to mention that if the Greek gods are real, then wouldn't that indicate that the others are as well?
So World War I is now a battle between the legions aligned with the Greek gods and those who worship the gods of Asgard. A couple of the days of the week have changed. As have a couple of months. I've ditched Roman gods altogether. And then left it as "time manages to push things back to what we know and love".
But there's Norse gods version one. And the wolves of Fenris.
And then I picked up Magnus Chase book one by Rick Riordan. He's a very funny man and he really knows his mythologies. The writing isn't phenomenal, but the stories have heart and the voice of Magnus is highly amusing. Oh, and he's the son of a Norse god. Trying to stop Ragnarok.
Then my character in World of Warcraft levelled high enough to hit Northrend, and suddenly I have all of the Norse mythology I can handle, with Loken and Thorim and Jotunheim and Freya amongst other places and deities. They even have valkyr.
Following on from this, with the new WOW: Legion, they are opening up new Norse areas, including Helheim, as dungeons. It all looks very impressive.
Finally, I'm reading Morning Star by Pierce Brown. Third in the Red Rising series, it's an engrossing work of war in space and the segregation of peoples based on colour rather than skill. Well worth a read.
The mighty Obsidian warriors live in the icy Antarctic wastes of Mars. They follow a Norse mythology and answer to Asgardian "gods" who keep them subjugated.
This is happening people. The time of the wolf is upon us! Sharpen your axes and drag out your horned helms. Let's get the end of the world happening.

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I've been going through lots of changes behind the scenes that is leading me down a new path I call "scalable living."
To get there, over the past year, I've unfollowed about 10,000 people on Instagram. Then I did the same on Quora. I deleted hundreds of apps from my iPhone. Totally changed how I communicate with all of you (I almost shut down my blog, instead, preferring to spend time where most of you are hanging out anyway: on social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, and Google+).
Over that same time I added more than 1,500 filters to Gmail, which clean out my inbox of a lot of crap. Rebranded our shows to "Small Teams, Big Impacts."
These changes will continue the rest of the year. Here's where my head is at:
I might only have one day left on earth. Several people I knew died this past year at a younger age than I am at (I'm 47). That struck me. What would I do if I only had one day left? What would I change about my life.
Well, I would focus on doing things that have scale. For instance, instead of calling each of my family members one by one (I don't have much time left, for instance) I would get them all on a Google+ hangout together. That has scale. Calling them one by one doesn't. By the way, the hangout would be shared with the world. That has scale. Letting you hear the news second hand wouldn't.
Now, we don't need to be so dramatic about these choices we make. After all, I hope I have more than one day left here (someday I won't even have that, though) but let's take it into smaller things: sharing and curation.
Over on Facebook I laid out a challenge to people. I called it the frictionless-sharing shootout.
See, if you really want to know who I am and what I'm doing, Facebook is dramatically ahead of other publishing systems. Visit my profile and you'll learn what music I'm listening to, what questions I've voted on over on Quora, what news I've read, and much much more. Subscribe to me and you'll know — while I do it — what articles I'm liking and commenting on.
That's mostly done "frictionlessly." That's scalable living, because I didn't need to explicitly share those things with you. See, writing a blog post is hard. It takes time, thought, and, I'd argue, even a bit of talent and experience to keep it interesting.
Worse than that, though, is that each time I publish I am keeping YOU from living in a scalable way. Why?
Sharing something like "I'm listening to Skrillex right now" means you have to see it on your screen, and pay attention to it. If you are still using an old-school RSS reader (I am using new school ones, like Flipboard, or Facebook) then they won't be filtered out. If I do enough of them you will unsubscribe because I'm bringing too much noise and not enough signal to your life. You can sense that's not scalable living.
So, what role does a blog have in this new world. It certainly is NOT centralizing my life. Facebook is — by far — the best place to do that. This morning alone I listened to several songs in the car. Do you really want me to post every time that happens here? No way. But on Facebook that's easily dealt with. Even better Facebook usually filters that stuff out and Facebook gets better over time at figuring out what you want to engage with and what you don't. If you saw everything I did on my profile come through on your home feed you would unfollow within an hour. Instead 330,000 new people in the past year alone have subscribed to me on Facebook. Why? It's scalable living and having great inbound makes life more interesting.
Over on Quora, after unfollowing everyone, my inbound got a lot more interesting. Why? Because only once in a while are people interesting (even the most interesting people are only interesting once in a while, I've learned, while talking with hundreds at lots of conferences that have lots of interesting people). Quora, when you focus it on topics, brings you MUCH more interesting things. I was sitting on University Avenue last week looking at the Palo Alto topic and learned so much about a city I've spent a lot of time in.
Same is true everywhere I've applied "scalable living" techniques to. Can you write a script using IFTTT to do something for you rather than you do it yourself? You did click on IFTTT to learn about what it is, right? That stands for a service that lets you write scripts following a "if this then that" statement. You can do all sorts of things with Twitter, Facebook, Evernote, Email, Weather, and other channels. Scalable living for sure.
Have you "tuned" Facebook yet to bring you interesting stuff? Did you even know you had to tune it? First tip: run this tool to separate people you don't talk with often into your acquaintance feed. Then use the other tips I sent to my friend Jason Calacanis.
I'm going to try to refocus my efforts with startups on this new kind of living. Entrepreneurs need to live this way to increase their chances for success. Paul Graham talks about "leverage-able moments." That's scalable living. Putting yourself in play to get the most out of life. When I answer Quora questions, like this one on connecting with high-profile people, that's what I'm trying to do.
Even when I listen to music on Spotify, I'm trying to do that. Because you know that I listen to Skrillex one of you suggested I listen to Ratatat. Of course I liked their page on Facebook. Why? Because that brought me more news about them to my news feed.
Companies can do this too. Beyond using Cloud Computing, you can use tools like New Relic which helps you watch your cloud infrastructure, or integrate other services that do things like comments (I use Facebook here, but Universal Studios uses Echo).
Doing those things is scalable living.
Anyway, enough rambling. You can blame this whole post on Tim Ferriss. On his Facebook feed he posted a New York Times article on the Busy Trap and said it was one of the best articles he's ever read in the New York Times. I agree, but Tim is one of the best authorities on scalable living I've ever met. So, Tim, this is for you! That article did, indeed, rock, and is aiming at the same thing I am: scalable living so you have time to hang out with your friends and not be "busy."
That said, the article is wrong. The first rule of scalable living is to get control of your inbound. That means telling a lot of people "sorry, I'm too busy to have lunch with you today."
What that really means is that Fred Davis, one of the founders behind Wired Magazine, will be here in a few minutes and we're just gonna sit around this afternoon thinking about the future. The future is scalable living. Oh, and those Google Glasses things are gonna be how it arrives! 🙂


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Parents are welcome to visit the school and classrooms to observe the school's programs for brief periods of time that do not interfere with instruction. Approval by the school administrator is required for this type of visitation.
Learn more about volunteering at your school's Get Involved page.
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Learn more about SAC's at your school's Get Involved page.
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In accordance with the policy stated in DoDEA Regulation 2095.01, "School Attendance," August 26, 2011, as amended, school attendance is mandatory. All students are required to attend school to ensure continuity of instruction and that they successfully meet academic standards and demonstrate continuous educational progress. School attendance is a joint responsibility between the parent or sponsor, student, classroom teacher, school personnel, and, in some cases, the Command. Students with excessive school absences (or tardiness) shall be monitored by the Student Support Team to assist in the completion of all required work and successful mastery of course objectives.
Daily student attendance is identified based upon a quarter of the school day formula. Students will be identified as present or absent, based on the following criteria:
DoDEA considers the following conditions to constitute reasonable cause for absence from school for reasons other than school-related activities:
Unexcused absences may result in school disciplinary actions. An absence from school or a class without written verification from a parent or sponsor will be unexcused. Student attendance is calculated based upon the date of enrollment in a DoDEA school, which may occur anytime during the school year. Student attendance monitoring is designed to provide a continuum of intervention and services to support families and children in keeping children in school and combating truancy and educational neglect. Parents should notify the school of their child's absence 30 minutes after the start of the school day. Too many unexcused absences may trigger the Student Support Team to convene.
More about DoDEA Attendance Policy (dodea.edu/StudentServices/Attendance)
The Principal may authorize an accelerated withdrawal of a student who must withdraw from school 20 or less instructional days prior to the end of a semester, in accordance with Section 3.1.d, of DoDEA Administrative Instruction 1367.01, "High School Graduation Requirements and Policy," [TBD]. Accelerated withdrawal will only be considered if the parent/sponsor presents PCS orders. The parent or sponsor must present verification of the date required for the student to depart from the school (e.g., PCS orders). All of the conditions of an accelerated study program outlined by the student's teachers must be met prior to withdrawal in order for grades to be assigned and credit to be granted. Students who withdraw prior to the 20-day limitation of the accelerated withdrawal policy will receive "withdrawal" grades rather than final grades. In this case, the sponsor/parent should notify the school two weeks prior to the date of withdrawal.
At the beginning of each course or grade level, every DoDEA teacher shall make available information regarding grading policy and course requirements to parents and students. This information will be provided to parents and students by the end of the first month of the school year or by the end of the first month of the semester in the case of a semester course.
If any student demonstrates unsatisfactory progress or achievement, teachers must notify parents with enough time to correct the deficiency. Notification must occur as soon as unsatisfactory achievement is evident, and not later than the midpoint of the nine-week grading period.
Timely and accurate reporting of student progress shall be accomplished for students in grades 4–12, using the approved DoDEA Electronic Gradebook (EGB) System. All assignments (e.g., quizzes, tests, examinations, homework, speeches, etc.) that are used to assess and report student progress shall be promptly evaluated and/or graded, posted in the EGB, and returned to the student. The normal period of evaluation and posting should be no longer than ten calendar days from the day the assignment is collected, with reasonable exceptions for large projects. At a minimum, one assignment or grade should be recorded per week in the EGB System. To create an account and access the EGB System, please visit the DoDEA SIS Gradebook for instructions.
A traditional letter grading system will be used for grades 4–12 report marks.
|Numerical Range
90 – 100
Excellent: Outstanding level of performance
80 – 89
Good: High level of performance
70 – 79
Average: Acceptable level of performance
60 – 69
Poor: Minimal level of performance
F (failing)
0 – 59
Failing (No credit awarded)
For purposes of calculating a student's high school GPA, the following scales shall be used:
|Unweighted Standard Scale
|Weighted Advanced Placement (with AP exam)
For grades K–3, achievement codes rather than letter grades will be used.
Consistently Displayed: Student exhibits the skills/behaviors independently with minimal teacher support.
Developing/Progressing: Student exhibits the skills/behaviors with teacher guidance and support.
Not Yet Evident: Student exhibits the skills/behaviors in isolated or rare instances, or with a great deal of support. The performance is inconsistent and below the normal range of expectancy for a student at this grade level.
Not addressed: The knowledge, skills, and practices embodied in the grade-level standards were neither taught nor evaluated this marking period.
Homework is one means of developing the necessary skills of independent study and learning for present and future use. Homework promotes organizational skills and a sense of responsibility. It is also an opportunity for parents to become actively involved in their child's learning and for each child to reach his/her full potential. Through homework, students are given the opportunity to complete additional practice and application to strengthen skills; to expand and/or enrich regular class work; to complete work started in class; to make up work due to absence.
Teachers may assign homework as determined necessary to enhance student learning that is taking place in the classroom. Each child works at his/her own pace, so the amount of time needed to complete specific assignments may vary. The types of homework may vary to enable the student to have experience/practice in reading, writing, computational skills, and other subject areas during a given week. Frequency and length of assignments will be grade appropriate. At a very minimum, a child should read or be read to 15-20 minutes nightly
Students are responsible for ensuring that they:
This includes:
The DoDEA School Meals Program (SMP) supports academic achievement by providing nutritious meals to your students through the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program.
Visit your school's School Meals Program page for more information and the latest school menus.
Students are expected to actively participate in the educational process, including school-sponsored activities in and outside of the classroom, as deemed appropriate. Students should bring to the attention of a school employee behavior or activities that may endanger the safety and well-being of themselves or others.
Students shall:
Students are expected to dress in a manner that complies with the school's dress code policy as directed in DoDEA Administrative Instruction 1353.01, "Students Rights and Responsibilities," April 6, 2021. Please refer to your school's Web site or school handbook for specific dress code policy.
Management of student behavior is a responsibility shared by students, sponsors/parents/guardians, teachers, and the military command and school communities in general, in accordance with DoDEA Administrative Instruction 1353.01, "Student Rights and Responsibilities," April 6, 2021. Student behavioral management consists of teaching and reinforcing positive student attitudes and behaviors. Students shall treat teachers, administrators, and other school staff with courtesy, fairness, and respect; and teachers, administrators, and other school staff shall treat students with courtesy, fairness, and respect. All students will be disciplined in a fair and appropriate manner. School administrators shall operate and maintain a safe school environment that is conducive to learning. School administration will ensure prompt investigation and response to incidents or complaints involving students made by students, parents, teachers, or DoDEA staff members.
In accordance with the policy stated in DoDEA Administrative Instruction 1347.01, "Student Disciplinary Rules and Procedures," April 7, 2021, discipline shall be progressively and fairly administered. Disciplinary actions include, but are not limited to, verbal reprimands, conferences, detention, time-out, alternative in-school placements, school service programs, community service and counseling programs. Other behavior management techniques will be considered prior to resorting to more formal disciplinary actions that remove a student from school for a suspension (short or long term). Long-term suspension or expulsion following a first offense may be considered when a student poses an immediate threat to his or her safety or the safety of others (e.g., offenses involving firearms or other weapons, fighting or violence, or the possession, use, or sale of drugs). Additional rules and procedures can be reviewed in DoDEA Administrative Instruction 1347.01.
In the wake of school violence throughout the world, it is important to analyze the causes of violence and implement preventive measures to assure that every student and adult will feel secure in the school environment. DoDEA implemented a system-wide Bully Prevention program as a part of the Safe Schools and Character Education program.
Bullying is defined as a means to have power over another and it takes many forms: physical, verbal, and indirect such as gossip and isolation. Bullying leaves long-lasting scars for its victims. Bullies have a higher incidence of antisocial behavior, domestic violence and crime as adults. Society pays a heavy toll for tolerating bullying behavior and bullies.
In DoDEA schools and community, bullying will not go unchallenged and will not be tolerated. All students, staff members, parents and the community play vital roles to ensure our children are not bullied, do not act as bullies, and will not allow others to bully. Our schools have a moral obligation to provide our students and the school community with the proper information, prevention strategies, and defenses to create a safe, accepting and caring environment for all.
Each student, together with the student's parent or guardian (if applicable), shall acknowledge and sign Form 700, "Use of DoDEA Internet and Use of Information Technology Resources," before he or she is assigned a user account. In accordance with Enclosure 4 of DoDEA Administrative Instruction 6600.01, "Computer Access and Internet Policy," February 16, 2010, the following are required of all students:
The signed agreement (Form 700) is to be retained in the administrative office at the student's school for the duration of the student's enrollment. A copy will be provided to the student and, if applicable, the student's parent or guardian.
Use of personal social media between parents/teachers/students is discouraged. The only acceptable form of social media communication between parents/teachers/students is through official school social media.
Student transportation is defined as the transportation of students from their assigned bus stop to school at the beginning of their school day, during the mid-day and for return to their assigned bus stop at the end of the normal scheduled school day. DoDEA principals are responsible for monitoring student loading/unloading zones when students are coming and going from school sites, including administering discipline. A school bus or any device operating to provide student transportation will function as an extension of the school. The walking distance for students in grade 6 and below should not exceed one mile from the student's primary residence to the school or designated bus stop. Students in grades 7–12 may walk up to 1.5 miles from their primary residence to the school or designated bus stop. These distances may be slightly expanded or contracted to conform to natural boundaries such as housing areas or neighborhoods. In locations having middle schools, which include grade 6 (i.e., grades 6–8), the walking distance criteria shall be the same as the criteria for grades 7–12.
Transportation is not authorized to take students to their homes or to eating facilities for their mid-day meal. No other transportation between the assigned bus stop and the school will be charged to commuting transportation unless stated in a special education student's IEP and/or required by Section 504 guidelines. "Curb-to-curb" only applies to students with disabilities who require such service as documented in the student's IEP. DoDEA District Superintendents, in coordination with the District Logistics Chief and the supporting military installation commanders, will establish a commuting area to determine eligibility for transportation of dependent students.
School administrators, athletic directors, and coaches shall ensure that the eligibility rules are observed in all DoDEA interscholastic athletic competitions in accordance with in DoDEA Manual 2740.1 and the Far East Programs Procedural Guide (FEPPG) - 15 May 2023
DoDEA Manual 2740.1 and the Pacific Area Interscholastic Athletics Program Manual provide a uniform interscholastic athletic program and guidance on student travel eligibility. This policy extends to both academic and athletic events.
Athletic Contests: Students must participate in ten days of practice prior to competing in any athletic contest. Athletes participating in consecutive athletic seasons are exempt from the 10-practice rule as long as 10 days have not passed between active participation in the preceding sports season. Students transferring from another school may begin participating in contests immediately if the 10-day practice requirement has been met.
Far East Tournaments: Students may participate in the Far East Tournament if they have been a member of the team/activity for at least one-half of the season. Before departure for any Far East event another parent/player meeting will occur to review the Code-of- Conduct and to discuss expectations while attending the event. Players whose parents do not attend this meeting will not travel to the Far East event and/or participate in any games at the event.
Attendance Prior to Events: Students who do not attend school will not be permitted to participate in or attend any school- sponsored event that same school day, which includes a practice or game. Principals are authorized to make exceptions to this policy. (DoDEA Administrators' Manual – 1005.1).
The Policy Team of OPLP administers and operates the DoDEA Issuance Program, the Issuance Focal Point Working Group, and facilitates DoD-level issuance coordination for DoDEA.


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The recent case of Chelsea King, a 17 year old girl who went missing while jogging on a trail in the San Diego area, has garnered much media attention. Now that John Albert Gardner III has been charged with the rape and murder of Chelsea King many are left questioning how someone could commit such a horrific crime against another human being. John Gardner has a history of sexually violent acts against minors, and previous court documents reportedly describe him as "callous and vicious." This extreme callousness and lack of remorse for others has actually been linked to a deficit in the brain of people like him. In some ways, these individual's brains are more like that of a reptile than a human.
Individuals with a serious lack of remorse and who prey on other human beings are often referred to as psychopaths. This term is often used interchangeably with the term sociopath. Essentially, what these terms refer to is a specific personality structure in which in an individual lacks remorse for their actions, demonstrates extreme narcissism and has a predatory nature towards other human beings. They have no sense of empathy and are almost completely motivated by self-interest. Although many psychopaths are criminals- not all are. It has been suggested that they tend to be overrepresented in politics, top ranks of corporations, law enforcement agencies, law, and in the media.
Robert Hare, Ph.D. is a specialist in the area of psychopathy. He defines some of the key characteristics of psychopathy as:
- Aggressive narcissism
- Glibness or superficial charm
- Grandiose sense of self-worth
- Pathological lying
- Cunning / manipulative
- Lack of remorse or guilt
- Shallow
- Callous / lack of empathy
- Tendency to engage in a socially deviant lifestyle
- Need for stimulation
- Parasitic lifestyle (living off of others, taking advantage of other peoples' kindness)
- Poor behavioral control
- Lack of realistic, long-term goals
- Impulsivity
- Irresponsibility
- A history of juvenile delinquency
So how are the brains of psychopaths different from other humans? Research has found that they vary in several ways. One is the difference in how their limbic system operates. The limbic system is a part of the brain that is essentially right in the middle of your brain. It is responsible for regulating emotions, some aspects of behavior, long-term memory, and other functions. What researchers have found is that the limbic system in people considered to be psychopaths processes information differently. Brain scans have shown that there is little to no activity in the part of the limbic system that produces a sense of empathy. The part of the limbic system that modulates affect and emotions and the parental response to offspring that is present in mammals, is essentially non-active in the brains of psychopaths. It is as if this part of their brain is functioning similar to how a reptile's would. In a sense they really are "cold-blooded."


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< Architectures | ARM
Fedora 18 for ARM
The Fedora ARM team is pleased to announce the final release of Fedora 18 for ARM processors. Installer images and pre-installed images are now available for download on both ARMv5tel (in the 'arm' directory) and ARMv7hl (in the 'armhfp' directory) ABI formats at the following location:
What is included in the Fedora 18 for ARM release?
The Beta release includes prebuilt images for Versatile Express (QEMU), Trimslice (Tegra), Pandaboard (OMAP4), GuruPlug (Kirkwood), and Beagleboard (OMAP3) hardware platforms. Fedora 18 for ARM now includes an install tree in the yum repository, which may be used to PXE-boot a kickstart-based install on systems that support it, such as the Calxeda EnergyCore (HighBank). Prebuilt images can be written directly to SD Card, USB, or SATA drive and in most cases can be booted without any additional steps or configuration. Please see the board-specific release notes for additional information.
Release Notes
- Board Specific Notes (If your device is not listed in the supported images and you would like to offer your assistance please contact the Fedora ARM team.)
- Feature List
- Common F18 Bugs
Raspberry Pi and other Remixes
If you are looking for a Fedora 18 on a device that wasn't mentioned above it may not have official support due to some licensing issue or lack of upstream support. Unofficial Fedora remixes are available for additional targets including the Raspberry Pi and other popular devices. The list of known Fedora 18 remixes is catalogued at Architectures/ARM/F18/Remixes. Likewise, root filesystem tarballs are provided to help you make your own remixes.
Known Issues
- Pre-built images were composed using tools in Fedora 17 due to unfinished work on Fedora 18 livemedia-creator tool.
- When using the images on the Pandaboard, Trimslice, Kirkwood and the Beagleboard the system will automatically reboot and repartition the root filesystem on first boot. To prevent this delete the '.rootfs-repartition' flag in '/' or by passing a kernel command line argument of 'nofsresize'.
- When upgrading the to 3.7.X kernel on the Trimslice you will require a new version of U-Boot that supports Device Tree.
- The latest version of U-Boot on the Trimslice reduces the available memory to 512M. (This has been reported to CompuLab and should be fixed in a future release)
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he Victorian age saw extensive changes in attitudes to divorce as well as in divorce laws, which also began to figure differently in the literature of the time. The separation of husband and wife occurs regularly in the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century novel, though when a divorce is obtained it is usually an event consigned to the margins of the narrative. When cuckolded Mr Rushworth gets his divorce at the end of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park (1814), for instance, it is simply a plot-device in order to dispose of a minor character. A wife's adultery was sufficient grounds for a divorce at the time, though not vice versa, but this double-standard never becomes a controversial topic in Austen's fiction, even while the victims of unhappy marriages, adulterous relationships, and separations populate the world of her novels, undercutting the marriage-endings to which her courtship plots eagerly proceed. By contrast, in the Victorian novel and specifically the Victorian sensation novel, a genre that flourished from the 1860s onwards, divorce laws become a central theme. The most famous Victorian novel about a custody quarrel is without doubt Henry James's What Maisie Knew (1897), and Maisie the first literary child-heroine victimised by the end of her parents' marriage. Divorce and custody laws, however, are the subject of various little-known Victorian novels, reflecting a pervasive concern with the changing attitudes at the time. Wilkie Collins's The Evil Genius (1886) is of particular interest as it combines a sensational plot involving a custody quarrel with intriguing insight into the reconfiguration of fatherhood at the time.
The second half of the nineteenth century witnessed a notable change in the legal status of child custody, while it also saw a transformation of domestic masculinity and the creation of a new ideal of fatherhood in the contexts of the emerging nuclear family and the idealisation of the home. In Road To Divorce, Lawrence Stone speaks of a revolution in attitudes towards child custody in cases of separation and divorce. In 1857, the new "Matrimonial Causes Court" was empowered to allocate custody of children in divorce cases. In 1873 another act enabled Chancery to award custody as it saw fit, and by 1886 "it had become morally accepted that it was only right to grant custody of young children to their mother" (390). The same decades that issued these legal changes ironically saw far-reaching reconfigurations of domesticity, the family, and the role of the father. Emphasising that domesticity "was essentially a nineteenth-century invention" (1), John Tosh highlights its significance for the creation of a domestic masculinity in his study A Man's Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England:
Never before or since has domesticity been held to be so central to masculinity. For most of the nineteenth century home was widely held to be a man's place, not only in the sense of being his possession or fiefdom, but also as the place where his deepest needs were met. Questions to do with domestic affections and domestic authority permeated the advice books read by men, as they did the novels of Charles Dickens. (1)
This alignment of domesticity with a specifically familial masculinity engenders a paternal love that is decisively different from a patriarch's interest in the continuation of the male line. Seen in the context of Wilkie Collins's deeply ambiguous and often contradictory diatribes against Victorian laws, Heart and Science and The Evil Genius sheds a revealing light on the representation of changing laws as well as of homes, children, and fathers in the Victorian novel.
Related Materials
- Love and Law in Wilkie Collins's Fictional Families
- "The Law of Abduction": Marriage and Divorce in Victorian Sensation and "Mission" Novels
- The Law of the Father: Victorian Sentimentality and the New Fatherhood
- The Victorian Custody Novel: Deceived and Deserted Daughters in The Evil Genius
- "Poor Lost Papa": Old and New Fathers in Mid- and Late-Victorian Fiction
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NitroPack is the all-in-one performance optimization service. It combines everything you need for a lightning-fast website. Image optimization, code minification, caching, CDN, lazy loading – you name it, NitroPack has it.
NitroPack performs all optimizations in the cloud. This makes it a very lightweight solution with a lower CPU overhead compared to standard caching plugins.
Our service provides you with the following (typically paid extra) functionalities included without the need for additional configuration:
- Cloudflare CDN – we automatically serve your static assets from a CDN based on Cloudflare
- Image Optimization – we optimize all of your images automatically and convert them to WebP
- Cache Warmup – we keep your most important pages optimized at all times
Apart from these, NitroPack offers other unique features and benefits like:
- Incredibly Simple Setup – getting started with NitroPack is a breeze. There's no technical configuration or a 15-step installation process. And you don't need to be a developer to set it up. Simply follow these 4 steps and you'll be done in no time
- No risk of damaging your original site files – NitroPack works on copies of your site files. You don't like the results from an optimization? No problem. Purge your cache and start over. Even if you decide to disable NitroPack your site will go back to the state it was in before activating our plugin
- Cache Invalidation – you can invalidate cache files instead of purging them. This allows NitroPack to keep serving your visitors from cache while a fresh copy of the cache is being generated in the background. Cache invalidation is awesome for high traffic situations like campaigns. It allows you to keep updating your site while still serving cache to your clients. And with NitroPack, cache invalidation happens automatically. (For more info on this, scroll down to the "NitroPack and Campaigns" section)
- Critical CSS tailored to each of your unique layouts – most plugins that provide critical CSS functionality prepare a single critical CSS file per post type. Even when you have multiple pages with the same post type but different layouts. NitroPack detects this and generates unique critical CSS for each unique layout. Oh, and because desktop and mobile devices have different viewports, NitroPack also uses different critical CSS for each device type 😉
- Optimize resources linked statically into your theme files – NitroPack will discover and optimize all resources linked into your theme, even ones that come hardcoded into your CSS files (even if they are multiple levels down an @import chain)
The configuration requires no technical knowledge. All you need to do is select your desired optimization level: Standard, Medium, Strong or Ludicrous. Besides that, NitroPack does all the work.
Other Key Features
- Minify HTML
- Minify CSS files and inline CSS defined in style tags and attributes
- Minify JavaScript files and inline script tags
- HTML, CSS and JavaScript compression
- Gzip and Brotli compression
- Optimize images
- Convert to WebP
- Lazy load images (including CSS background images)
- Lazy load iframes
- Cloudflare CDN
- Image previews for YouTube and Vimeo embeds
- Defer CSS
- Defer JavaScript
- Font rendering optimization
- DNS prefetch
- Compatible with mobile, tablet and desktop devices out of the box
- Multisite ready
- Support for scheduled posts
- eCommerce compatibility
- Multilingual support
- Advanced resource loading mechanism
- Resource preloading using web workers
- Automatic cache management – NitroPack will automatically update its cache files when you update content on your site
- Option to exclude certain pages from being cached
- Option to exclude any resource from being optimized
- Option to ignore URL parameters that do not modify the content of your pages (e.g. campaign parameters like utm_source, utm_campaign, etc.)
- Cloudflare integration
- Sucuri integration
- Generic reverse proxy integration (NGINX, Varnish, etc.)
- No database connection needed
Running Marketing Campaigns with NitroPack
Two major issues often come up when running a campaign. First, each visitor hits your server with a unique URL request. Second, you lose your cache if you update content on your site.
Most optimization plugins come up short when it comes to both issues.
At the same time, NitroPack has two powerful features that help you thrive in these high traffic situations:
- NitroPack recognizes campaign parameters in the URL and ignores them when looking up a cache file for the campaign request.
- Cache invalidation – typically, when you update content on your site, caching plugins have to purge their cache and start rebuilding it. When a purge occurs during a high traffic period your visitors will no longer be served from cache. And your server will have to work extra hard to generate new cache files. As a result, the user experience on your website takes a hit. NitroPack solves this problem by invalidating the cache, instead of purging it. This method allows NitroPack to refresh the cache files in the background. At the same time, you still serve your clients from the slightly outdated cache files. As we already said, this happens automatically. You don't need to worry about caching during an important campaign.
Whether you're running a big campaign or your site suddenly becomes trending, both features are crucial for keeping your visitors happy.
So, if you want a fast website right now, go over to the Installation section and download NitroPack.
Incompatible Plugins
WordPress is designed to have only a single active page cache solution at a time, otherwise conflicts can arise. We do not recommend using NitroPack together with another caching plugin, like:
- WP Rocket
- Autoptimize
- Swift Performance
- WP Fastest Cache
- WP Fastest Cache Premium
- Powerpack (WPTouchPro)
- W3 Total Cache
- Breeze
- PhastPress
- WP Super Cache
- Litespeed Cache
- Swift Performance
- PageSpeed Ninja
- Comet Cache by WP Sharks
- Hummingbird
- SG Optimizer
- WP-Optimize – only the page caching must be disabled, not the entire plugin
- Smush – only the lazy load option must be disabled, not the entire plugin
- JetPack – only the lazy load option must be disabled, not the entire plugin
- ShortPixel – only the WebP conversion option must be disabled, not the entire plugin
3rd Party Services Used By The NitroPack Plugin
The NitroPack plugin acts as a service. It calls/sends data to our API servers, which perform all of the optimizations.
As a result, our infrastructure does all the heavy lifting. That's how NitroPack ensures low CPU overhead for your servers.
To learn more about what NitroPack provides as a service as well as what data it collects and uses, please visit:
- Our website – https://nitropack.io/
- Terms of Use – https://nitropack.io/page/terms
- Privacy Policy – https://nitropack.io/page/privacy
NitroPack also uses Cloudflare and Bunny CDN to accelerate content delivery across the globe.
For more information about these services, please visit:
- The official Cloudflare page – https://www.cloudflare.com/
- Cloudflare Terms page – https://www.cloudflare.com/website-terms/
- BunnyCDN's website – https://bunnycdn.com/
- BunnyCDN's Terms of Service – https://bunnycdn.com/tos
- Bunny CDN's Privacy & Data Policy – https://bunnycdn.com/privacy
- Click the "Download" button on this page. You'll get a .zip file, which you can save on your computer.
- Go to your website's dashboard, open the "Plugins" menu and click "Add new". After that, choose the nitropack.zip file and click "Install Now"
- You now need to connect your website to NitroPack. Simply go to https://nitropack.io/ and create an account. After you log in, you'll see a "Connect Your Website" menu on the left. There, you'll find a Site ID and Site Secret.
- Go back to your website's dashboard. Click "Settings" and find the NitroPack option. Finally, enter your Site ID and Site Secret and click "Connect to NitroPack".
That's all there is to it!
Does NitroPack modify site files?
No. NitroPack works on copies of your site files. However, it does modify your wp-config.php file if WP_CACHE is not enabled yet.
I installed NitroPack but my pages are still slow. Why?
After installing and activating NitroPack, you must log into your account, go to "Connect Your Website" and use the provided Site ID and Site Secret to connect the plugin to our cloud service.
Why my scores are still low after connecting NitroPack?
After connecting NitroPack you need to select your desired optimization mode – Standard, Medium, Strong or Ludicrous. Once you do that, please visit your home page and allow NitroPack a minute to prepare an optimized version of your page. You can then run the tests again.
How long does it take for pages to get optimized?
It usually takes NitroPack a few seconds to optimize your pages.
Can I use another page caching plugin and NitroPack at the same time?
WordPress's design allows you to use only one page cache solution at a time. Other page cache solutions are designed this way too. However, you can use other non-page cache optimization solutions perfectly well with NitroPack.io (e.g. database optimization plugins, object caching, etc.).
What if I have a question?
You can contact us anytime at https://m.me/getnitropack
Will NitroPack slow down my server?
No. We've designed NitroPack to be a very lightweight solution that adds no CPU overhead to your server.
Contributors & Developers
"NitroPack – Cache & Speed Optimization for Core Web Vitals, Defer CSS & JavaScript, Lazy load Images" is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.Contributors
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- Bug fix: Resolve connection issues
- Improvement: Move the plugin's data directory into wp-content/cache/
- Improvement: Automatically run cache warmup when the permalink structure has changed
- Improvement: Automatically purge cache when the front page configuration is changed
- Improvement: Overall stability improvements
- Bug fix: Resolve fatal error when WCML is active
- Bug fix: Resolve error when purging cache in WP-CLI mode
- Bug fix: Fix typo in the diagnostics report
- Update: Temporarily disable the changes related to Gravity Forms as further improvements are needed for optimal experience
- New Feature: Added compatibility with Geotargeting WP
- New Feature: Cache warmup now detects sitemap files automatically. Supported providers are: Yoast, RankMath, JetPack & Squirrly
- Improvement: Detect categories of new posts more accurately for a more precise cache purge
- Improvement: Automatically clear cache when WP Bakery's custom CSS is updated
- Improvement: Automatically clear cache when Elementor's custom code is updated
- Improvement: Resolve issues with gravity forms where forms could not be subitted after certain period of time
- Improvement: Resolve issues with WPForms where forms could not be subitted after certain period of time
- Improvement: Better compatibility with WPML's WooCommerce options
- Improvement: Ability to dismiss notifications
- Improvement: Various improvements in the UI
- Improvement: Overall stability improvements
- Bug fix: Resolve issues when purging cache via WP-CLI
- New Feature: Add support for additional domains
- Bug fix: Resolve errors for undefined host in WP-CLI
- Improvement: More reliable way to determine to current hostname
- Improvement: Compatibility improvements with Cloudflare's APO
- Improvement: Compatibility with Advanced Math Captcha
- Improvement: Added ability to localize the plugin
- Improvement: Better compatibility with The Events Calendar to increase cache hit ratio
- Improvement: Overall stability improvements
- Bug fix: Remove incorrectly placed notices in the connect screen
- Feature: Introduce a new features "Ecommerce Cart Cache" for WooCommerce sites
- Improvement: Add new filter "nitropack_is_archive_page"
- Improvement: Overall stability improvements
- Improvement: Update the compatibility with SiteGround's Dynamic Cache layer
- Bug fix: Resolve cache bypass issues on LiteSpeed
- Improvement: Better handling of healthchecks after LiteSpeed .htaccess configuration
- Bug fix: Resolve an issue with sitemap XSL schemas
- Bug fix: Resolve an issue AMP pages
- Bug fix: Resolve an issue with activate/deactivate if opcache_reset is not available
- New Feature: Completely compatible with LiteSpeed servers
- Improvement: The help button is now an interactive widget
- Improvement: Full compatibility with WPX Cloud
- Improvement: Resolve an occasional issue with the cache layer on Pressable
- Improvement: Overall stability improvements
- Bug fix: Correctly purge cache when a post transitions to a draft state
- Improvement: Add exclude for a healtcheck endpoint in Pagely
- Bug fix: Resolve compatibility issues related to Aelia Currency Switcher
- Bug fix: Resolve an issue causing settings to be reset to "Standard" mode
- Improvement: Make the connection to our API servers even more stable
- Improvement: Out of the box compatibility with Aelia Currency Switcher
- Improvement: Implement a better way to check for Download Monitor URLs
- Improvement: Overall stability improvements
- Bug fix: Fix cases of missing elements in Thrive Theme
- Improvement: Overall stability improvements
- Bug fix: Fix 'headers already sent' error in CLI and WP_CRON modes
- Bug fix: Fix cases of missing elements in Fusion Builder
- New Feature: Compatibility with DreamPress hosting
- Improvement: Full compatibility with Pressable's caching layer
- Improvement: Full compatibility with Rocket.net's caching layer
- Improvement: Overall stability improvements
- Bug fix: Resolve an issue where separate URLs were incorrectly using the same cache files
- Bug fix: Switching between prod and staging environments no-longer causes issues with cache sync
- New Feature: Compatibility with Savii hosting
- New Feature: Basic compatibility with Pressable's caching layer
- New Feature: Basic compatibility with Sucuri as a caching layer
- New Feature: Admins can now receive notifications related to system events
- Improvement: Improved compatibility with Cloudflare's APO
- Improvement: Improved compatibility with Rocket.net
- Improvement: Overall stability/compatibility improvements
- Improvement: A better way to detect the popular Cookie Notice plugin
- Improvement: Compatibility with WP Engine's Smart Plugin Updater
- Bug fix: Resolve an issue when running on PHP 5.6
- New Feature: Compatibility with Vimexx
- Improvement: Make some of NitroPack's requests even lighter weight
- Bug fix: Resolve an issue which was preventing some admin actions from functioning correctly
- Disable the compatibility with LiteSpeed servers as purging its cache with variation cookies isn't working per spec
- New Feature: Compatibility with Fastly
- New Feature: Compatibility with Closte
- New Feature: Compatibility with Beaver Builder's cache purge
- New Feature: Compatibility with the Cookie Notice plugin
- New Feature: Add generic compatibility with LiteSpeed servers
- Improvement: Better efficiency in the API calls leading to less overhead in admin operations
- Improvement: Vastly better support for popular cache proxies, making a much better use of existing infrastructure
- Improvement: Better compatibility with WP Engine
- Improvement: Better compatibility with Kinsta
- Improvement: Better compatibility with SiteGround
- Improvement: Better compatibility with Pagely
- Improvement: Better compatibility with Cloudways
- Improvement: Better compatibility with Flywheel
- Improvement: Clear existing proxy cache when NitroPack is activated or deactivated
- Improvement: Show more helper messages to guide the administrator in resolving detected issues
- Improvement: Prevent duplicate connections which were previously causing the cache to get out of sync
- Improvement: More granular and accurate detection of inventory updates in WooCommerce
- Improvement: The safe mode prompt is now on the deactivate step
- Improvement: Handle a specific case of Cloudflare's Flexible SSL coupled with a redirect
- Bug fix: Resolve an issue with the WooCommerce PayPal Checkout Payment Gateway plugin
- Bug fix: Various form submission issues have been resolved
- Many bug fixes and stability improvements
- Change: Bump up the tested-up-to version for WP 5.7
- Bug fix: Resolve a constant already defined error
- Bug fix: Resolve an issue with the positioning of the status dot in the admin bar
- New Feature: Safe Mode toggle within the plugin's dashboard
- Improvement: Add support for an upcoming improvement in the compatibility with reverse proxies like Cloudflare and Sucuri
- Improvement: Add a filter to allow the list of cacheable post types to be extended –
- Improvement: Better handling of WooCommerce price updates
- Bug fix: Cache warmup was not being triggerd when posting a new article. This is resolved now.
- Improvement: Faster cache purge via the webhook
- Improvement: Purging/Invalidating cache via WP-CLI is now direct and provides better feedback of the result
- Bug fix: Any cache purge was triggering full cache purge on the local server. This is now resolved.
- Bug fix: Resolve an issue causing a fatal error related to undefined class name
- New Feature: Compatibility with Cloudflare APO
- Improvement: Better resilience to network related issues
- Improvement: Faster cache purge
- Improvement: Overall stability improvements
- Deprecation: Removed the Invalidate All Cache option. The invalidate action is much better suited for single page invalidations.
- Improvement: Performance improvements in content updates
- Improvement: Better compatibility with Download Monitor
- New feature: Extended WP-CLI compatibility with ability to purge/invalidate by URL or tag
- New feature: Add a method for dynamically preventing automated purge/invalidate
- Improvement: Compatibility with jQuery 3
- Improvement: Better compatibility with SiteGround's dynamic cache layer
- Improvement: Overall stability improvements
- Bug fix: Resolve an issue with undefined HTTP_HOST key
- Bug fix: Resolve an issue with reverse proxy cache purge through the webhook
- Improvement: Stability improvements
- New Feature: Pagely compatibility
- Improvement: Even better compatibility with WooCommerce's Geolocate option
- Improvement: More accurate sync with Avada's date based containers
- Improvement: Better compatibility with reverse proxies
- Improvement: Stability improvements
- New Feature: Much simpler and easier connect method
- New Feature: Support a new "nitropack_meta_box" capability which allows you to grant access to cache purge on different user roles
- Improvement: Better status notices
- Improvement: Stability improvements
- Improvement: Better compatibility with ShortPixel Adaptive Images 2.x
- Improvement: Overall stability and performance improvements
- Improvement: Handling of stock quantity changes in WooCommerce via the REST API
- Improvement: Overall stability and performance improvements
- Improvement: Better handling of stock quantity changes in WooCommerce
- Improvement: Better handling of updates to non-public post types
- Improvement: More efficient use of our API
- Bug fix: Fix an issue with slow cache propagation after full purge
- New feature: Add admin bar entry with quick links to useful actions like purge cache
- New feature: Add WP-CLI methods for invalidating/purging cache
- New feature: Add WP-CLI method for running cache warmup
- Improvement: Automatically detect outdated cache files restored from a backup and do not serve them to clients
- Improvement: Automatically detect connection issues and suggest steps to resolve these
- Improvement: Automatically start optimizing after the plugin is connected successfully
- Improvement: Performance improvements
- Bug fix: Resolve a fatal error in the SDK on certain PHP versions
- Improvement: Workaround for issue with communicating to our servers in LiteSpeed environments
- Bug fix: Resolve an issue with domains starting with "www." which was introduced in v1.3.9
- New feature: Ability to connect/disconnect using WP-CLI
- Improvement: Recognize updates to WooCommerce Cart Reports post types to reduce cache purges
- Improvement: Better Ezoic compatibility
- Bug fix: Resolve an issue with saving the compression status when configured manually
- Overall stability improvements
- New feature: Add support for local AJAX caching
- Improvement: Better SiteGround compatibility
- Improvement: Ezoic compatibility
- Improvement: NGINX Helper compatibility
- Bug fix: Resolve an issue which caused problems in WP CLI
- Improvements in the automated cache purge
- Overall stability improvements
- Bug fix: Resolve an issue causing insufficient permissions error
- Bug fix: Resolve an issue with nonces in REST requests
- Improvement: Show instructions for configuring recommended hosting settings if needed
- Improvement: Better detection of taxonomies and archive pages
- Improvement: Better compatibility with ShortPixel
- Improvement: Better WP Engine compatibility
- Improvement: Updated nonce handling
- Bug fix: Category pages were not being optimized if archive optimization was disabled. This is now fixed.
- Bug fix: Fix an issue with custom cache expiration for The Events Calendar
- Improvement: Better compatibility with Kinsta
- Improvement: Improved handling of post status transiotions
- Improvement: Allow optimizations for archive pages
- Improvement: Optimize all post/page types by default ot avoid confusion why a certain URL is not optimized.
- Improvement: Automatically refresh cache based on comment actions (posting, approving, unapproving, etc.)
- Improvement: Workaround for an issue in the WP Engine environment which causes timeouts in certain network communication scenarios. This resolves slow post/page updates in the admin area.
- Improvement: Nicer cache purge reason messages
- Bug fix: Resolve an issue where the home page was not always updated after publishing new posts/pages
- New feature: Option select which post types and taxonomies get optimized
- New feature: Option to enable/disable the automated cache purges
- New feature: Automatically warmup new posts/pages
- New feature: Add meta box to allow cache purge/invalidate from the post/page edit screens
- New feature: New and improved way of tracking relationships between pages allowing for smarter automated cache purges, which affect less cache files
- Resolve layout issues in the admin panel on mobile
- Add compatibility with GoDaddy's managed WordPress hosting
- Stability improvements
- Synchronize the nonce and page cache life times
- Improve cache synchronization when updating menu entries
- Improve cache synchronization when making appearance customizations
- Fix false "plugin conflict" error with WP Optimize
- Stability improvements
- Added support for Fusion Builder's container expiration
- Added compatibility with the Post Expirator plugin
- Added compatibility with the Portfolio Sorting plugin
- Stability improvements
- Stability improvements
- Improved cache management for scheduled posts
- Fix cache expiration for posts scheduled for dates in the past
- Better update handling
- Stability improvements
- Prevent crashes originating from missing functions.php file
- Better handling of automated updates
- Automatically update the advanced-cache.php file after plugin update
- Performance and stability improvements
- Initial release


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Update: Chicago high school student Hadiya Pendleton, a 15 year old who performed at last week's inauguration events and was planning to go to Paris, was fatally shot in the back on Tuesday, Jan 29 , while hanging out with friends in a park. Please call Congress.
The Senate Judiciary Hearing on gun control was held
this morning on January 30; Gabby Giffords opened the hearing, saying:
Thank you for inviting me here today. This is an important conversation for our children, for our communities, for Democrats and Republicans. Speaking is difficult, but I need to say something important. Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something. It will be hard but the time is now. You must act. Be bold. Be courageous. Americans are counting on you. Thank you.
The video is below, and it's incredibly moving – when Gabby Giffords tells you that you have to be courageous, it carries quite a punch.
Here's what we can do, now, today, to help protect boys and girls, men and women in all of our communities: We can call our elected representatives and tell them that we support the President and Vice President in their efforts.
In a democracy, that's our job, our sacred duty. And if Gabby Giffords can go to the Senate, we can damn sure call Congress.
Sample script:
Hi, I'm calling from [location], and I just wanted to make sure that President Obama/Senator XXXXX/Representative XXXXX knows that I support the White House gun control initiative.I think that things like background checks, limits on magazine capacity, and a ban on assault weapons are common sense tools to help us protect each other, and I hope that efforts will also be made to work with inner city communities to address their particular needs — I know that less than 1% of urban populations are responsible for about 70% of all shootings in cities, and it's tragic that so many people are held hostage to that violence.
Phone numbers:
- The Senate: 202-224-3121
- The House of Representatives: 202-224-3121
- The White House: 202-456-1111
Find your Senators and Representatives:
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- The Senate: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
- The House of Representatives: http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/
And if you've called them all already – call them again, or send an email. Ask your friends and family to do the same. If you have some money to spare, you can give some to The Brady Campaign — there are floods of money behind the gun lobby, and that's why it's so powerful. We have to counter with everything we have.
And the first thing we have is our voice.
"Speaking is difficult, but I need to say something important…. We must do something. It will be hard but the time is now. You must act. Be bold. Be courageous."


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A comprehensive planning resource to help teachers prepare and deliver component 1 and 2 of the WJEC/Eduqas A/AS Level Computer Science syllabus - for first teaching from 2015. This free Cambridge Elevate teacher's resource is also available as a printable PDF for use in planning and in the classroom. It includes lesson suggestions as well as tips on teaching a linear course with synoptic examination. Content is mapped specifically to assessment objectives and includes additional stretch and challenge opportunities. Accessible online and on tablet devices through the Cambridge Elevate app (iOS and Android).
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- 9. Economic, moral, legal, ethical and cultural issues relating to computer science
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- 14. Databases and distributed systems
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The Louisville Courier-Journal has a lengthy feature on the life of Robert Bingham, the fiction writer and founding editor of Open City magazine who died of a heroin overdose in 1999. There's no strong time hook to the piece, except that his sole novel, Lightning on the Sun, was published ten years ago this month, and that he was born into a family that owned the Courier-Journal. Still, it's a sad, interesting read, following up on the influence Bingham has had on writers working today, both financially (PEN American Center awards the Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers to debut works of fiction) and in terms of specific guidance to authors, among them Sam Lipsyte:
One of the writers Bingham helped launch was Lipsyte. Lipsyte's recent novels have won significant awards, but his first break came when Open City published his story collection "Venus Drive." They met as fellow students at Brown.
"He was really an early champion of my stuff," said Lipsyte, whose latest novel is "The Ask." "He was the guy who was calling me up saying, 'Let's do this.'"
Within his own fiction, Bingham was keen at being a provocateur. It served him persuasively.
"Rob Bingham's work has lasted because he was great at the anti-hero, fascinated by failure, and failure is usually the most deeply personal and most difficult-to-satire aspect of storytelling," said Sam Brumbaugh — whose debut novel "Goodbye, Goodness" was published by Open City — in an e-mail.


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"Great Garden Design showcases more than 300 of the best garden designs of the last 10 years from 50 top designers and members of the Society of Garden Designers (SGD). Author Ian Hodgson's ground-breaking survey of contemporary garden design provides ideas and inspiration to help you create the garden you've always wanted. Planting schemes, style guidance, practical insight and expert knowledge will generate new ideas for every situation, every area, all tastes, budgets and sizes of garden. By examining the best work of such talents as Tom Stuart-Smith, Luciano Guibbilei, Dan Pearson, Andy Sturgeon and Charlotte Rowe – as well as lesser-known designers whose work deserves wider recognition – you can use this book to discover:
• cutting edge design and detail
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Ian Hodgson is a qualified landscape architect and the former editor of The Garden (published by the Royal Horticultural Society) with over 25 years' experience as a writer and editor for the horticultural press. He trained at Kew, and is now Editor-at-Large for Garden News and Garden Answers magazines."
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Perfect Furniture Delivery Index
- 12/3/2012
The Perfect Delivery Index is a measure that assumes that problem deliveries are within the control of the operations department, with the exception of customer errors and well hidden manufacturers' defects. Here's how to use this tool and others to move toward making 100% perfect deliveries.
Color Appeal
- 12/3/2012
Try using this "no-fail" color palette in at least one of your furniture store displays each season and see the results!
Business Intelligence & Mobile Dashboards
- 12/3/2012
No matter which software system you are running, you have thousands of report queries available. How you sift through this data and make sense of it all is the purpose of business intelligence or "BI".
Building Your Dream Team By Creating Team Players - Part 3
- 12/3/2012
To create a group of sales associates who are real "team players" you must develop and maintain a healthy working environment as measured by four criteria: attitude, connection via communication, having fun and walking the walk.
Retail Success Stories - Part 16
- 12/3/2012
This month's retail history tracks the progress of retailer Bothwell Furniture founded as a furniture and bedding manufacturer in 1904. Today at 40,000 square feet it is one of southwestern Ontario's largest furniture showrooms
The Lost Secrets Of Scientific Selling - Part 4
- 12/2/2012
In the first three installments of this series, Furniture World readers learned to identify and develop productive and mutually beneficial relationships with the toughest and most elusive personality types. Read on to find out how salespeople in your organization can increase sales performance by questioning some of the conventional assumptions they hold about success and selling furniture.
Parallel Performance Furniture Profit Analysis
- 12/2/2012
There are many strategies furniture retailers use to involve and motivate employees, but an important and often overlooked one, is to share with them financial information about how your business performance is trending.
Editor's Corner: September/October 2012 Issue
- 10/8/2012
How positive, empathetic and effective are your employees?
The Lost Secrets Of Scientific Selling - Part 3
- 9/25/2012
We learned how to develop productive relationships with tough personality types. Read on to find out how to use this information to improve your sales performance.
Attitude Re-adjustment
- 9/25/2012
If you are negative about the state of the world and the tone of political discourse, it couldn't hurt to read Ray Morefield's latest article.
Gross Margin Is In Your Head
- 9/25/2012
David McMahon presents proven strategies that can produce 50 to 60 percent gross margins even in highly competitive markets.
Charitable Giving Series: Bob's Creative Giving
- 9/25/2012
Bob's Discount Furniture combines random acts of kindness with institutional giving in a uniquely structured charitable giving program.
Better Bedding & Sales Series - Part 8: Bedding Anatomy 102
- 9/25/2012
This time, we continue our exploration of mattress anatomy by looking at springs and their role in mattress support, comfort and durability.
Research: How Are Mattress Companies Doing On Facebook And Twitter?
- 9/25/2012
While Facebook and Twitter certainly represent an enormous potential audience, how effective have they really been as a marketing platform for businesses?
The Touchpoint Experience
- 9/25/2012
Multi-touchpoint analysis leads to a new era of branding.
Building Your Dream Team By Teaching Product Knowledge
- 9/25/2012
Get the dream sales force you deserve by establishing standards, committing to ongoing learning and communicating the right information to your customers.
Retail Stories: The RoomPlace
- 9/25/2012
The RoomPlace celebrates 100 years in business. Marketing foresight and a focus on family are keys to its success.
Facebook: So What's There To Like?
- 9/25/2012
The fallacy of Facebook as a brand strategy.
Editor's Corner: July/August Issue
- 7/13/2012
Selling mattresses is about to get more adversarial.
The Lost Secrets Of Scientific Selling - Part 2
- 7/12/2012
In the second part of this series we will examine the lost art of mastering our relationships with difficult customers. We will learn how to develop productive and mutually beneficial relationships with the toughest and most elusive personality types.
The Merits of "Show & Tell"
- 7/12/2012
Sales personnel who fail to explain industry terminology and the unique features that benefit the potential buyer, frequently fall back on price and discounts to close the sale.
From Trash To Treasure
- 7/12/2012
Habitat ReStore and Louisville area furniture stores Haverty's and Ashley Furniture Homestores create a win-win-win for the retailers, customers and the community by encouraging furniture donations and pick up.
Bedding Anatomy 101
- 7/12/2012
The past seven installments in this series on selling better bedding presented tools and techniques the best retail furniture stores use to price, promote and present mattresses, pillows, mattress protectors and foundations. This time, we start an exploration of mattress components and construction with when, why and how to bring up components and construction.
Building Your Dream Team - Part 1
- 7/12/2012
This is the first in a series of articles you can use to build a Dream Team from the ground up. This time you will get an overview of the three skills your team has to master to excel at home furnishings sales.
Retail Success Stories - Part 14
- 7/12/2012
Design oriented Insideout Homestore, has fun while expanding its business with a new store theme, social networking initiatives and selling condo packages.
Get Noticed Online!
- 7/12/2012
In a cluttered online world, attending to the basics of good website design and marketing can make a huge difference to your furniture business. Covered are practical tips and techniques.
The Lost Secrets Of Scientific Selling - Part 1
- 6/6/2012
This article illuminates the basic principles of a selling technique that is based upon behavioral science. Want to reach the top much sooner? Want to serve customers better? Is your mind open? Good! The code to human behavior has been cracked. Get ready for some revolutionary selling ideas!
Article Marketing - Part 2
- 6/6/2012
In the March/ April issue, Margo DeGange discussed what article marketing is, and what its benefits are. This time she provides guidelines for writing and using your articles.
The Merits of Questions & Answers
- 6/6/2012
In this installment of Furniture World's 90 Seconds To Success Series, Ray Morefield discusses how to listen, when to talk, and the role of persistence in selling furniture at retail.
Think Profit! - Part 3: Cash Flow
- 6/6/2012
An in-depth look at how to analyze one of your three critical financial statements: your statement of cash flow.
Sales Excuses
- 6/6/2012
Replace your sales associate's sagging excuses and you will replace more of your shoppers sagging beds with brand new bedding!
Give Without Borders
- 6/6/2012
Jenny & Dennis Jones offer advice to fellow retailers based on their experience helping rug weavers in India through the Alternative Education Program.
Display Ideas 2012
- 6/6/2012
A review of the Trends display at the recent Canadian Home Furnishing Market featuring twelve instructive vignettes. A little bit of whimsy can make the sale!
60 Retail Success Stories - Part 13
- 6/6/2012
This series, commemorating Furniture World's 142nd year of publishing, continues with the story of how, after two decades of business in an expanding economy, an Alberta-based retailer successfully re-brands to express its vision, and attract new customers.
Think Profit! -Part 2: Your Balance Sheet
- 4/11/2012
An in-depth look at how to analyze one of your three critical financial statements: the Balance Sheet.
Employee Theft
- 4/6/2012
Theft is a big problem in our industry. Here are simple ways to protect your business.
Retail Success Stories - Part 12
- 4/6/2012
This series, commemorating Furniture World's 142nd year of publishing, continues with the interesting history of iconic Massachusetts based retailer Bernie & Phyl's.
Article Marketing - Part 1
- 4/6/2012
It's a totally free, awareness-building tool that draws ideal clients right to your door.
Selling Better Bedding & Mattresses Series - Power Bases
- 4/6/2012
Part six of Furniture World's selling better bedding series features expert sales tips and techniques that will help you to increase attachment rates on power bases.
Ninety Seconds To Success Series: Your Biggest Competitor
- 4/5/2012
"Who is your biggest competitor?" We answer this question and explain why seemingly small things in the "profession of persuasion" make a significant difference.
Charitable Giving: A Hope To Dream
- 4/5/2012
Interview with Kendra Maggert, Interactive Marketing Manager, Ashley HomeStores, Ltd., the first in a series focusing on furniture industry charitable initiatives.
Mattress Wars - Part 2
- 4/5/2012
How can you benefit from changing mattress retailing trends? By embracing them.
Plug In To Domestic: Sell More Made In America Furniture
- 4/3/2012
If you've made a decision to take advantage of the uptrend in furniture production and sales of Made in USA and Made in Canada furniture, this article is a must-read.
Think Profit!: In-Depth P&L Analysis
- 3/20/2012
An in-depth look at how to analyze one of your three critical financial statements: the Profit and Loss.
90 seconds to $uccess Series - Your Price Is Too High
- 3/20/2012
"Your price is too high!" How do we cope with that comment? How do we overcome that objection? What is the most successful response?
Selling Sleep Essentials - Pillows & Mattress Protectors
- 3/20/2012
Part five of Furniture World's selling better bedding series features expert sales tips and techniques for furniture and bedding retailers that want to sell more pillows and mattress protectors
Time For Furniture Store LED's
- 3/20/2012
Today we can give a direct answer to the $64 question, "Are solid state lighting systems ready?"
Google AdWords: Ultimate New Media Marketing
- 3/20/2012
Maximize your impact with Google AdWords & Paid Search, the ultimate new media marketing.
Retailer's Stories - Part 11 Hermann Furniture
- 3/20/2012
Part 11: Retailers share interesting stories of growth, hardship and their strategies for success.
Media Mix Magic - Part 4
- 3/20/2012
By putting the proven principles of evidence-based advertising to work, you will be able to leverage media to revitalize your market share like nothing else can.
Selling Sleep Essentials - Pillows & Mattress Protectors
- 1/19/2012