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Can you give me an opinion/ advice on this description and situation of DD aged 6 pls? - long sorry(42 Posts)
DD was always a bright and responsive child. She seemed to grasp all milestones of speech and movement v quickly and was just very "aware" from an early age.
At pre-school she again seemed to do v well and her reading and writing was coming along. We decided to go for an "assessment day" at the local Independent school with a reputation for being highly academic. She loved it and got a place so we kind of went ahead although I always had misgivings about if it would be right for her.
Year 1 went well but she had a lot of absence as she developed a medical condition that needed 1 week hospitalisation and ongoing treatment. This I feel broke her stride a little although she made progress in a class of extremely able girls.
Year 2 in Nov sadly she required another hospitalisation and treatment which I feel really threw her confidence wise and emotionally and she has struggled academically since. The other girls are steaming ahead and DD just isn't "into" reading, writing and Maths like I assumed she would be.
To give an overview she writes neatly and joined up as they have been taught but has trouble spacing. She reads v nicely when she is set as H/wk, ORT level 7, but doesn't seem to grab the many chapter books I have bought her and read for the love of it like I and DH used to. The kind of things they ask them to do in class is write a story about something. Some of the others write an A4 page nicely spaced and good spelling v descriptive. DD is very basic and less than half an A4 page. She can't seem to make the leap of imagination and put it into her work.
She draws beautifully, has an incredible fantasy life with her toys and is a whizz on the computer but when I steer her to the more "educational" games she won't try and leans towards the games for younger 3-5 group. I must admit at times I have got v frustrated at her for not picking up things quickly asp in maths ( they are working on division and Times tables) and I feel terribly guilty for that
She is very articulate at home and has a great vocabulary, but at school I think she doesn't show her true personality although she has socialised brilliantly and is very happy with good friends there. Playdates are always successful. She can be very unsettled by loud sounds and is twitchy which I have noticed a lot recently.
She is empathy personified and makes mature conversation where she asks others about their feelings -almost like a little councillor! and listens beautifully.
My concerns are I don't want her to feel like she is constantly catching up with these dare I say very academically pushy extroverted girls in her peer group when she is a gentle, uncompetative soul really. My instinct tells me to move schools to a more relaxed environment but would that be doing her any good in the long run?
Thanks for reading
Dd is six she is probably the higher end of average. Very articulate and writes pages of stories at home for fun. Her writing however is not joined up, not very neat and spelling is "interesting".She has just started beginning to read very short chapter books. She was never interested in reading and writing particularly at Pre school or even reception. She has come on leaps and bounds ths year because she wants to. I never pushed her reading, although part of me wanted to.
It would seem the other children at working at a very high level but you really need to speak to the teacher to see how your daughter is doing.
A change of school may or may not help. She would possibly be top end of the class in a non selective state school or she may catch up with the others in her existing class later.
Part of me just wants to say FFS she's only six.
DD is also 6 and in year 1. She is at the brighter end of average in reading and writing, in the top 5 of the class (I know this for various reasons) and working to level 2b in reading and level 1a in writing. She reads well but her spelling is pretty random and very phonetic. She can write very neatly, but doesn't always and her spelling is not always consistent.
Maths wise, she is probably about average for her class. There s literally no way that she could do times tables or division and is really only just getting the number line straight in her head.
She is at a very good state infants, but for what it's worth, her friends at private school are much the same and in fact working at a lower level. It's possible you are unlucky in that the other children are exceptionally bright, but this might push your DD on. I honestly don't think you have anything to worry about though.
I found myself concerned that DDs maths is not up to her literacy, but I am trying to remind myself that she doesn't need to be top of the class in everything and that someone has to make up the middle ground!
honestly she sounds like she's doing fine considering she's only 6 - in any other setting she'd be right at the top
fwiw when ds1 was half way through Y1 he'd only just started reading at all - but was reading chapter books fluently by the end of the year so they can make astonishing amounts of progress in a very short space of time at that age
At that age he could barely write a sentence and it certainly wasn't joined up, however he's 16 now and predicted all A*s and As for GCSE
Do talk to her teacher and make sure they flag up any possible concerns sooner rather than later - a friend's dd is at a very similar academically high-flying prep attached to senior school and she's been advised that her dd won't make it into the senior school so they need to start looking somewhere else for her
It does sound like a very high achieving class- more like your average year 3!
She sounds a very bright little girl.
Keep an eye on whether she is happy at this school.
Chat to the teacher if you feel her confidence is down.
Good luck.
For some children, what they do at school is "work" and in the same way that we don't want to work outside our normal working hours, nor do they. Attempting to get her to read at the edge of her current capabilities at home may simply be too like work. Dropping back to easier books at home could provide a fun way to consolidate her existing skills and provide a steadier platform for her to go on from. Don't feel that doing so isn't helping her to advance - it will both help her to practise existing skills and get her back to reading for fun. If you get to the point of fed up and tired then you will be reinforcing any negative feelings she has about the situation or activity.
Writing imaginative stories is hard because you have to keep the ideas in your mind while sorting out spelling, punctuation etc. Once these things become second nature to her, the imagination will move from her spoken stories onto paper.
It is also very easy to hear about individual skills of other girls and combine them into one. It is likely that X will have neat handwriting, Y will be better at constructing sentences and Z can do her times tables. There will occassionally be children who can do all well, but most children have comparative strengths and weaknesses. This will be magnified by what is on display (unless the school displays all the work or does so more fairly) and what the other mothers say.
All of that said, I think that some children are better off being at the top of a mixed ability class than in the middle or bottom of a selective one. It all depends on the child in question and you might like to think of moving her for year 3 (ideally to somewhere taking on at least 50% of their year 3s so she isn't "the new girl") or secondary level to a more mixed school. At the moment she may not know that she is at a selective school and that even if she is in the bottom 25% there, she is still in the top 10% of the wider population (or whatever the figures are).
ORT 7 is pretty good for yr1.
If you do want to try chapter books you can try the "Morris the Cat" books, I think my DD managed (and enjoyed) them at stage 7.
It sounds like she is doing well. I would have a quick chat with the teacher if you are concerned.
I do not think that even easy chapter books are that much fun for someone on ORT 7, I'm afraid. I see exactly what you want for her but it's no fun struggling with the mechanics of reading in order to get a good story - more fun for you to keep reading her the chapter books and develop her love of stories. Her reading will get fluent in the end (ORT 7 would be a bit above average in my Y1 DD's class so it's really fine).
If you are feeling frustrated when she struggles to grasp some concepts, it may affect her confidence and set up a bit of a vicious cycle with her not wanting to try in case she cannot do it and in case this causes friction with you. I am not trying to make you feel more guilty but just that if she senses you feel anxious about this, it might make her feel anxious too. Is there someone else in the family who might be able to help her with her maths homework if it has become a bit of a stress point? I often find
lumbering enlisting the grandparents with the odd bit of homework helps if the DCs are getting wound up or finding it hard.
Also education is a marathon not a print - sometimes others will be ahead, sometimes your DD will race ahead. Try not to read too much into either. Sometimes if a child is very advanced at a young age, it is easy to assume they will always be years ahead of their peers whereas they may go though peaks and troughs of progress.
More importantly, it sounds like she has enormous emotional intelligence and real empathy. You can teach maths skills in a few evenings but emotional skills take a whole lifetime for some to acquire. If she has this already, the rest will follow but perhaps not right away and not at an even pace over the years to come.
She has had to deal with a lot of stuff, in spite of that she has been good at establishing friendships (which is often one of the areas this age group struggles with in my experience as a primary school teacher). I would leave her where she is. She needs some time to catch up. You can help her catch up during weekends maybe, but I would first speak to the teacher to see if this is really necessary.
I expect that if she can have an uninterrupted run, she is going to be fine.
A few of my Y2 class write an A4 page+, but many don't. Your dd sounds completely normal and, luckily, has the verbal and social skills to help her progress.
Before you move schools...... it is documented that service children who often move schools need about 6 months 'settling down' time when they move. It seems like lots of people are happy to move their children from their perfectly reasonable schools without considering the detrimental effect on the child.
At my school, the 'transient groups' of children always lag behind the children who have been at the school for all the primary years.
If she is happy where she is, then leave her. Maybe she isn't the very best reader or writer of stories, but she sounds as if she is doing very well nevertheless. The other stuff will come, if she is intelligent and articulate. My Ds1 was a bit like this, did fine in Y1 but without shining, didn't really want to read chapter books etc. I worried a bit because as a child I always had my head in a book. He found his stride in Y2 and that teacher and this year's (Y3) have both, unprompted, used the word 'bright' to describe him. He now reads Harry Potter books for pleasure at night and wakes up talking about them, he misses nothing, he can hold a conversation on lots of topics and is shrewd and perceptive. Given the choice he would still prefer to write a story on half a page rather than ten pages, but that is not a measure of intelligence! I think your daughter will thrive and flourish in the next year or so, and if she is happy socially I wouldn't jeopardise that. Being in a very able class can only do her good as she will progress with them, instead of perhaps being the best in a less able class and not having the motivation to make further progress. It doesn't matter what anyone else is doing, ultimately!
If she is happy, and if you are happy with the school itself, I would leave her.
But, do try and ignore the work on the classroom wall/other parents etc. I was always amazed by the beautiful neat written work compared to the messy stories written by my DS in infants. The teacher kept telling me it was fine, that his imagination and vocab was the key thing. Sure enough, he was 7th out of 30 to get his "pen licence", and was described as a "comfortable level 4" at the end of year 3. This is a child who could hardly hold a pen in year 1.
Your DD sounds a bright girl. I think you maybe need to encourage, but don't stress.
Hope her health is settling.
my dgs is in Y1 at a state school where he is said to be doing very well [ORT Purple] etc.He couldn't write an A4 page of beautifully spaced joined up writing! He can write a page of interesting work but it will be obviously by a 6 year old iykwim! Your dd sounds great to me.Relax for a while and let her develop at her own pace.The teacher will tell you if there is cause for concern.
ds is 6 and wouldnt write a page of A4. He doesnt read chapter books but likes it when I read them to him - recently finished the third of the Magic Faraway Tree books. DS has been doing times tables and division but is the only person in his year doing them as they dont normally start that until higher primaries (he gets 1 to 1 maths teaching on a Monday as he has shown a flair for maths since he was at nursery). DD is 9 and reads for pleasure but didnt start reading chapter books until maybe age 7/8.
Is your daughter's confidence knocked by the fact that she is not top of her class (hate that phrase but you know what I mean), or is the worry largely yours?
In all classes there is a range of ability. The more academically selective the environment, the harder it will be for your daughter to be amongst the most able - that's common sense.
If she was making the same progress but was top of her class would you be happy?
Ultimately a highly pressured academic school may not be the best place for your dd because as you have pointed out it is possible to be very bright without needing or enjoying that kind of competition. But 6 is probably too young to make that decision, esp if she is quite happy.
You can't force your child to enjoy reading for pleasure.
Children will develop at their own pace and whilst you can encourage and offer opportunities to learn, you cannot choose what activities they will be good at or enjoy.
I would leave her to get on with her school work at school, help her with homework and then just play with her. If there is a problem with her levels, the school will let you know.
Otherwise, the only person who cares whether she is top, middle or bottom of the class is you.
Just let her play and choose the activites she likes. Her reading skills will develop naturally but by trying to force it, you might put her off completely.
Btw the children in the Year 1 state school that I work in are reading up to level 10 ort and working on times tables and division. But only those that are ready.
There are also children who are still learning simple graphemes and phonemes and number bonds to 5. There is a massive difference in the expected ability at that age, so don't worry about, it's too stressful for the child.
Reading your post I would echo what some have already said and would comment that:
1 - Not loving reading is just a phase and it isn't an indication of being or not being academic in my experience. She might feel the pressure to read and I would encourage her to read even 3 or 4 years olds stories if that's what she likes to do (have had similar with DD1...)
2 - It sounds like she has issues with her confidence, which is not surprising considering what she is going through. One of my children has been very ill last year and he is a whole year behind developmentally and is slowly catching up. It's not to say it always happens that way but it can do in my experience.
3 - Moving her is not going to necessarily address the problems as it depends entirely on what the cohort you move her to is like - even in a bog standard state primary you can find a group of extremely bright children, way more advanced of what you have described in the OP. (This certainly was/has been the case in all my children's classes so far). If she was in the middle or bottom group of a different primary and then had to start again with no friends it would be even worse for her - I would be inclined to keep her where she is.
4 - Finally it is true what others' on here have said and take with a pinch of salt what the other children are up to. Some might be very advanced all round or in some areas but I would be shocked if - even in a top selective school - all children are writing beautifully with no help or doing maths 2 or 3 years ahead. There is always a range!
So.......................the first thing I would do is to stop feeling the competition and just carry on making sure your DD is making good progress. Good luck with it and hope your DD is recovering and doing well with her health.
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Warchant.com spoke with Florida State University President Eric Barron last week about a wide range of topics concerning athletics at FSU including the canceled West Virginia football game, the progress of the indoor practice facility, an evaluation of the work by athletic director Randy Spetman and how the overall economic situation at the school affects the athletic program.
D.C. Reeves: How important are athletics to this university, and what makes them so important at Florida State in particular?
Eric Barron: There are a lot of different factors. One is I enjoy it thoroughly personally, another is that it is the number one way alumni come back and connect with their university. The whole presence of winning sports on all sorts of different levels is another opportunity for students to excel. It certainly changes the campus environment to be able to be out there and root for the team or just look at everybody rushing the court in basketball or the excitement over a big game in football. So there are just many, many facets.
A lot of schools see increases in admissions when big teams win. We have an application set that is way beyond what we can accept anyway, but these things do make a difference. So there are a lot of different factors of why athletics are a great thing to have.
D.C.: Since you've been on the job, how much feedback do you receive from students or alumni regarding athletics?
EB: There are a lot of questions and comments about it. A lot of curiosity. People have different things that they like. We have die-hard baseball fans, die-hard football fans and die-hard basketball fans. It really depends on who you're talking about. I have large numbers of people who tell me 'Why do I not hear more about academics?' So it's all over the place. But uniformly, people are proud when we do well, no matter what it is. But athletics can probably generate more e-mails than just about any other topic. With very strong opinions - it's either A or B - there's usually very little in between.
D.C.: How important are home football games for Florida State, and how much do you think losing the West Virginia game hurt FSU economically for the upcoming season?
EB: We would have made a substantial amount of revenue off of the West Virginia game. Plus it would be a team that had a national reputation, so beating them helps develop a season and develop your ranking and that's important. Now obviously, on the one hand, West Virginia, you look at them and say 'You didn't need to do that.' And on the other hand, West Virginia is looking and saying 'You (the ACC) didn't need to take two teams out of the Big East (Pitt and Syracuse).'
And (West Virginia) is playing a little bit of a game in claiming that they're going to keep the game that follows (the 2013 game in Morgantown, W. Va.) because they know the ACC will go to a longer game season in league and that means we might not be able to play it, so it's a little bit of a game there. And if you knew that far enough in advance, you'd fix it. But this isn't far enough in advance. It's a very, very difficult situation, but there is not much you can do about it. I've never seen people work so hard to find a team to play.
D.C.: What is your feeling about the football program's indoor practice facility?
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There's only one problem with it, and it's that you have to pay maintenance year in, year out. So there's a cost to that that's not going to go away. It's not just building it. So that will be a challenge for athletics and boosters to support that. But it's going to happen, so this is good.
D.C.: Any update on the timetable for the construction of the IPF?
EB: Well they'll move very quickly. It has to be bonded, and any bonding issues has to go to my trustees and the Board of Governors. So that will take time in itself because I think even the Board of Governors have to have any bonding issue 30 to 60 days in advance and my Board of Trustees has to have it first. So you're not talking about turning it around instantly because we're just working on the bonding right now. And then football season is going to come and we're not going to want to do it then, so I have the feeling they'll jump all over it as soon as football season ends and have it ready by the 2013 season, that's what I bet.
D.C.: FSU athletic director Randy Spetman's contract expires in less than a year. How do you feel he has done in his time here?
EB: It's hard to argue against the data. So what do you have? The other AD's elect them as their chair nationally - that's an interesting thing that occurs. All these teams are successful. The highest two years in our history in the Director's Cup and going into the spring at No. 2, which is certainly the highest we've ever been. No compliance issues. A lot of academic success stories. That's a pretty good record.
We've just done a survey of athletics - we're not done yet - to get feedback on how all of athletics is functioning. So we'll have even a lot more information here. But, there are not too many people who can claim that kind of success with an athletic program.
D.C.: Is there any timetable for a decision on Spetman's contract?
EB: Once we're inside a year, which we are, it's time to start talking about it. But we've just gone through the legislative cycle and we're not done yet with a lot of financial issues coming out of that legislative cycle. So I need a little time.
D.C.: Considering how the program has transformed the past decade, what are your thoughts on this year's basketball team?
EB: It's fantastic. It couldn't be healthier to have winter/spring sports and solid fall sports because then you're bringing people back to Tallahassee all the time. You have that excitement all the time. So it's absolutely great to see a team beat Duke twice, beat North Carolina twice, that's phenomenal. I can take all of that, but I'll tell you the best part was seeing all of those guys on the court after beating North Carolina (in the ACC Tournament). They just had a good time.
D.C.: There has been talk of Florida State increasing its control of the Tallahassee-Leon County Civic Center. It was even mentioned as something the school could acquire in the latest state budget. Are there any plans to do anything with the Civic Center?
EB: There are all sorts of issues surrounding the Civic Center. And a lot of it, because it involves legal issues right now, we're not really talking about because they have to be resolved. But I would say that we know we have to find a way to have a better facility. And we know that it's been struggling financially. And this is not a statement about Tallahassee, civic centers all over the country, especially in medium sized cities, are struggling. It's part of why the economy is struggling. That facility is very important to Florida State because we need to have a facility. Otherwise you can't do basketball, otherwise you can't do commencement. So the best thing to say at this particular time is that a lot of heads are being put together to figure out a way that this civic center is better than it is right now.
It's very important to the community, and it's a shared facility. Any kind of shared facility is tricky. And money hasn't been put into maintenance and making the place look good in a long time because the money hasn't been there to do it. We have a strong interest in making sure the community needs are served and that FSU has a place we can play basketball.
D.C.: Is there more motivation to improve the Civic Center based on the recent success of the basketball team?
EB: Your facilities are an important part of recruiting. A lot of our teams, they would tell you that facilities have been an important part of our recruiting. The Civic Center looks pretty drab these days.
D.C: How would you evaluate the overall success of Florida State athletics in the past year?
EB: Isn't it fantastic that every team you look at is out there competing to be great, going to postseason play? Some are better than others, but you know, the runs for soccer and volleyball were fantastic. ACC Champs (in basketball) was wonderful and beating Notre Dame (in football) was a lot of fun. So it's a very healthy athletic program. It could always use more money, but it's a very successful athletic program.
D.C.: The state government continues to slash the budgets of universities throughout Florida. Can that affect Florida State's athletic programs and does it affect them?
EB: We've had a long history where except for the student athletic fee, no dollars from this state goes to athletics. From tuition, and certainly not from the state, that wouldn't even be legal. And we've watched the academic budgets being cut severely, six years in a row - that's really tough to take - while there has been some growth in athletics. There are a lot of cases of schools, including a noted rival (Florida) who give back quite a bit for academics. Certainly our program and the boosters give back to make sure the university is successful. So in that way, the budget of the university doesn't really affect the athletic budget except for the fact that - we would always like it if we got a little bit more on the university side if the athletic program is really successful. And this has gone up and down over the years depending on what the need has been. I sort of feel like the boosters have been generous in terms of their contributions, I do think athletics needs more, but the university is not in a position to give it.

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323 UAB physicians recognized on list of 2013-14 "Best Doctors in America"
There is some impressive praise coming from a new medical database.{} According to the "Best Doctors in America" database, hundreds of the nation's top physicians practice at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Health System.The 2013-14 list recognizes 323 UAB physicians in 65 specialties who are among the top 5 percent of clinicians in the United States, as voted by their peers. This is the second year in a row that UAB has had more than 320 physicians ranked on this national list.Best Doctors is an independent, knowledge-based medical referral service headquartered in Boston. Its surveys ask peer physicians, "If you or a loved one needed a doctor in your specialty or a related specialty, to whom would you refer them?"Nominations for the list are anonymous, and doctors' evaluations are confidential, according to the company. The system of review, based on methodology started in 1989, includes a method of catching and correcting bias for or against particular physicians or groups of physicians.


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I would be a seller here. The company is heading in the opposite direction and investors would be wise to stay away, at least until management can demonstrate that the company has a solid plan for the future. On the other hand, should the stock drop by another 20%, I'm willing to reconsider. F5 ( FFIV) F5's recent earnings miss made investors uncomfortable. Although 6% profit growth in a tough macro climate should be considered decent, it fell short of analysts' estimates of $1.18 per share on revenue of $366.1 million. Essentially, although F5 grew revenue and EPS by 15% and 6%, respectively, the company missed on both its top and bottom lines. The good news is that it has some catalysts on the horizon, including a new product cycle that starts this year. F5 is still a solid company with an excellent management team. The company continues to log quarterly performances that speak to its sound business. But this continues to be a story about valuation. With guidance having come down and revenue growing at a slower rate, the prudent play here would be to wait a couple of more quarters to see how IT spending rebounds. The risk in the stock is still too great. Hewlett-Packard ( HPQ) Beleaguered tech giant Hewlett-Packard is just too beaten up to think that things can get worse. Its challenge is to figure out ways to restore the confidence of Wall Street. Though not an easy task at this point, it's not impossible. To that end it has been working hard to prove that itdoes not need to be Apple in order to survive. But unfortunately, it has not worked. At this point I'm not so sure if CEO, Meg Whitman is still the right person for the job. Though HP was a mess when she took over, it is tough to dismiss that the company's stock has lost 45% since she took over just a little over a year ago. While a lot of that can be attributed to the surge of mobile devices that has affected its PC business, HP has had plenty of opportunities to stop the bleeding.
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A man whom prosecutors say was found dripping in blood has been convicted of stabbing to death his girlfriend and her mother at a Los Angeles County condominium.
The Daily Breeze of Torrance ( http://bit.ly/17iC8Ks ) says jurors on Monday convicted 32-year-old Virgil Tate of murder and attempted murder. He faces life in prison without chance of parole.
Prosecutors say Tate believed 36-year-old Tracie Brooks was cheating on him when he stabbed her 15 times with a steak knife in January of last year at her mother's condo near Carson.
Fifty-eight-year-old Carol Brooks-Jurgens was stabbed 32 times with a larger knife and a boarder was attacked with a bread knife and broken glass but he survived.
Prosecutor Emily Spear says Tate was `dripping in blood' when he was arrested.
Information from: Daily Breeze, http://www.dailybreeze.com


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Read the details of the new "Celebrity Select" Flexible Dining Option here.
WOW Dave this is great information and I need to think about this. I will read that article twice! With 2 coming up on Celebrity and I am going to try Free Style first on NCL Oct 4th. I wonder what we will like. I guess we are lucky to have all this to think about. Thanks for the information http://bestsmileys.com/thumbs/7.gif
If you think about it - this is the natural evolution of the traditional dining concept and the freestyle concept - with the help of stateroom reservation interface - this should become a highly effective way to enjoy shipboard life!! An idea whose time has come! However, I believe this will have some effect on the formal nites!http://cruise-chat.com/groupee_commo...icon_frown.gif
A lot of new cruisers - and some experienced ones - don't realize that the assigned seatings concept was born out of necessity owing to limited space on ships. It is quickly becoming a vestige of the past, although many of us embraced it early and cling to it for traditions sake, and of course for the usually jovial times we have at an assigned table. For us I think I can say we prefer assigned, but it would depend on the itinerary. There are instances when I'd prefer flexible dining. Even now, we usually eat dinner at least once in an alternate venue - usually the buffet dinner.
Thanks again Dave, keeping us up on the news. We have an upcoming cruise booked on the Century, since we are sailing for the first as a couple, this might be a great time to try this. I was kinda picturing my DH looking(grazing) around the ship waiting for me to get ready for dinner each evening http://cruise-chat.com/groupee_commo.../icon_wink.gif
After a try at RCI's My Time Dining, we ended up just the four of us each night. My DH is a great talker and I think we would like to dine with others at late dining. I do miss meeting new folks, but this time it was good for the four of us.
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'Stripping of Adivasi woman was isolated incident'
K Anurag in Guwahati | November 27, 2007 17:38 IST
Reacting to reports in both print and electronic media about the stripping of an Adivasi woman on the streets of Guwahati during unprecedented violence last Saturday, the Assam government on Tuesday said that it was an isolated incident committed by some miscreants and shouldn't be projected as a common happening in the state.
"Assamese society holds women in very high esteem. It was an isolated incident of stripping by three miscreants who have already been booked. There was no other similar incident in the recorded history of Assam. The media should also highlight that the incident has been widely condemned by all sections in Assam and that the woman was also bailed out by some sensible persons on the street," Assam government spokesman Dr Himanta Bishwa Sharma said.
He further said that there was not a single people's group in Assam which was opposed to the Adivasis' demand for Scheduled Tribe status.
"Three all-party delegations from Assam House have so far submitted memoranda to the Union Home Ministry in support of ST status for Adivasis who have been living in Assam for two centuries now. The Assam government has already given in to the demand. Nobody should try to give an impression that the Assamese are against Adivasis," the spokesman said.
He further informed, "There are 67 injured Adivasis in Guwahati Medical College Hospital and 30 in Mohendra Mohan Choudhury Civil Hospital. All of them are ready to be discharged except one who has suffered serious head injury."
The state government has announced Rs 3 lakh compensation to the next of kin of the person who perished in Saturday's violence.
The Adivasi woman who was stripped will be given Rs 1 lakh as compensation and a job in the government.
The Assam government has appointed a one-man judicial inquiry commission to be headed by Justice (Retired) Manisana Singh to probe into Saturday's violence to fix responsibility as well as find out involvement of any third force, if any, in instigating the violence.
Meanwhile, the Greater Guwahati Cable Operations Association has decided to black out two private nationwide news channels for telecasting a 'distorted' story about the mob violence and the isolated stripping incident.
A spokesman of the cable operators association said that local viewers had asked for blackout of the two news channels complaining that they had been telecasting 'one sided' story about the violence and stripping incident without taking any comment from the locals in Beltola area in Guwahat where the violence erupted on the streets.


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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The state Regulation and Licensing Department's Securities Division said Tuesday it has ordered two investment companies involved in the illegal purchase of monthly pensions and disability payments from veterans and resale of them as investments to halt the scheme immediately.
Securities Division Director Alan R. Wilson issued a cease and desist order Monday against Albuquerque-based Equity Advisors and its owner Sidney Evans, and Voyager Financial Group, a Delaware LLC that previously was based in Arkansas.
Federal law prohibits the sale or assignment of veterans' benefits. Also, secondary sales of Veterans Administration payments constitutes a "security" under the New Mexico Uniform Securities Act. Under that Act, the securities were to be registered and disclosures were to be accurate. Voyager and Evans failed to comply with either.
Evans did not respond to the Journal's request for comment Tuesday. Attempts to reach Voyager Financial Group were unsuccessful.
Voyager would buy veterans' monthly pension and disability payments for single lump sum that was far less than the future value, and then package them as investments to be sold to investors, the department said in a news release.
The investors who purchased the contracts were not told the scheme was in violation of law, and therefore, the payments could be diverted back to the veterans at any time.
Evans and his company sold 16 of these investments to eight New Mexico residents while Voyager has sold these illegal investments in several states through consultants such as Evans at least since 2011, the department said.
Anyone who has been contacted to buy or sell veterans' benefits should contact the New Mexico Securities Division at 1-800-704-5533.
The Securities Division plans to impose $40,000 in civil penalties each against the companies.


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My son cries and is upset by almost everything when he plays with other children. Granted, they're always pushing him around, pulling on his clothes and hair, taking things out of his hands, etc, but isn't that all kids his age do?
Other kids don't seem quite so reactive, and I think we make other parents feel bad. Their child can do the slightest thing like pull on his shirt and he turns red and starts bawling, then when they discipline their child, that makes him cry even more and he comes back to me and doesn't want to play with other kids anymore.
When they first meet, he's interested in the other children but once they upset him, he prefers to just turn his back and play by himself.
Is it a confidence thing? When we're at home or at the grandparents', he's roughed up by our dogs and they don't upset him, it just seems to be people and places he's not really familiar with.
Is there anything I can do to make him less sensitive to other kids or be a little more resilient?
It's very early, he likely just would rather be held and cuddled by you at this age. You are his stability, his protection and world. There will be so much time once he is older to interact with children of all ages. At this age though, mother is largely an infant's world and buffer against all that he feels vulnerable to. I would just respond to his needs, and when he is older he will feel safe and secure and respond more comfortably to the interactions.
My Little Miss was (and still is, to some extent) easily upset and frightened by other children's rowdy and rambunctious behavior. Since rowdy and rambunctious is pretty normal, I mainly stuck close to her and we played with her on my lap for a while. If another baby came on over to investigate, I'd do the majority of the interacting so I could head off any really aggressive behavior that might send mine into hysterics, and also so Little Miss could see what was expected when another human walks up to you with a smile on their face and a toy in their hand.
I did curtail one relationship with a mother/daughter pair because the daughter was very, very boisterous; when she would run up to my daughter and scream and jump the mother never ever did anything to model calmer behavior for her daughter, although my daughter would shake and cry without fail. The mother also accidentally hurt my daughter, and didn't seem to care, actually saying it was fine. Obviously it was an accident, but it's not fine, please pick my poor kid up and apologize for your mistake! So it wasn't the fact that my kid couldn't handle the other kid, it was that I noticed that this pair found their behavior perfectly acceptable at all times, no matter what the consequences. Little Miss still has plenty of little friends that make her cry, but the other mothers are right there with me, talking the kids through the interaction in a way so no one feels rejected and no one feels consistently terrified. As an adult, if someone is just "too much" for me, I'll maybe tell them they're a bit overwhelming, but try to do so in a way that makes them feel that I like them and want to be around them, or I'll just cut down on contact. You can model both behaviors for your sweetling, although you can't expect anything to sink in for years and years yet.
And on 09/23/2011, we were three; husband, daughter, and me!
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TAPPER: In New Hampshire, just a few minutes ago, the former governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, announcing his presidential campaign, said, quote, "Barack Obama has failed America." Romney said that there was a recession already in place when President Obama took office, but he made the recession last longer. Your thoughts?
CARNEY: Well, there will be a time and a place for the president to engage in 2012 election politics, and my guess is, that'll be 2012.
But I will say that when this president took office, we were in the deepest recession since the Great Depression. The president inherited the largest deficit in the history of the country from an administration that had, when it came into power eight years previous, inherited budget surpluses from a Democratic president.
The recession got worse before it got better. When this president took office, we were hemorrhaging jobs at a rate of 600(,000) to 700,000 a month. The circumstances were unprecedented,
save the Great Depression, as you well know. All of you covered it. There were moments in the first few months when this president took office, long before anything he could do, any action he could take could take force, where people were talking about unemployment rates of 25 or 30 percent, you know, bank holidays or nationalization of the banks. The situation was severe. The crisis was profound.
The president took dramatic action, including unpopular decisions like bailing out the auto industry, the American auto industry, because he felt it was the right thing to do. He felt that the
million jobs associated with the auto industry were worth saving if we could extract from those companies measures that would ensure that they -- or give them a better chance of succeeding. As Ron Bloom said yesterday from this podium, there's ample evidence to suggest that that decision was the right one.
We have now experienced 14 straight months of private sector job creation, 2.1 million jobs created. Again, he's taking office with an inheritance of a Great Recession and 600(,000), 700,000 jobs lost per month; in the last 14 months, 2.1 million created; seven quarters of economic growth.
Having said that, we are a long way from home. As the president makes clear every time he talks about the economy, there is work to be done.
Unemployment remains unacceptably high.
That is why he took measures like he did just in the last six months -- extending the middle-class tax cut; ensuring in the negotiations on that tax cut, with the Republicans, that we get a payroll tax cut holiday for working Americans so that if you're making $50,000 a year right now, you're getting a thousand dollars extra because of that tax cut that the president insisted on; the American opportunity tax credit to ensure that Americans -- American children can go to college or help them go to college; the child care tax credit extension to help families with children, who -- when parents are working.
Going forward he is, as you know, pushing free trade agreements that will -- three of them -- which will produce 70,000 jobs – create or support 70,000 jobs in America. Pushing for an R&D tax credit for things like clean energy investment, to make that permanent so that we can invest in industries that will create jobs and remain in America and will drive competition in the 21st century.
There is no issue that matters more to this president than the economic health of this country and the job security and job creation in this country, and job security of Americans and job creation in this country, so he's focused on this very directly.
TAPPER In the meeting yesterday with House Republicans, a number of the House Republicans said to the president that they wanted him to introduce a budget that was score-able -- that CBO could actually assess -- instead of what he introduced, the broad outlines and the April speech at GW, and the president seemed to indicate he was not going to do that. You -- I think you said from the podium that he wanted something score-able that was part of a compromise, not his own separate budget proposal. Why not? If the Republicans in the House are saying it would help the negotiating process to have a score-able --
CARNEY: Well, we heard two things -- we heard two things from the Republicans yesterday: one from the speaker that we need to get these negotiations wrapped up and finished in the next few weeks, and that the president should put forward a new plan, a new proposal, that should make its way through Congress and be scored. I don't think those are compatible.
Everyone knows what the president's position is, what his plan is, the parameters of his plan. It's quite clear. The Democrats are aware of it. Republicans are aware of it. The president's spoken about it at length.
And that is what the vice president brought to the table for these negotiations. We are at a point now where we don't need new plans. We need to find common ground around the shared goal of significant deficit reduction and come together, hold hands, and agree that we're going to get this done and find as much common ground as we can in what the president believes needs to be a balanced approach towards deficit reduction -- because as I said earlier, it is not a goal unto itself.
And it should not be done in a way that harms economic growth, which is a serious concern. And that's why the president's so committed to maintaining investments in education and infrastructure and in innovation, areas like clean energy that are the drivers -- will be the drivers and are the drivers of economic growth going forward.
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Get an overview of this hotelHotel in Lincoln with free parking
Popular property highlights
Situated near the airport, this hotel is within 6 mi (10 km) of Nebraska Wesleyan University, Memorial Stadium, and University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Nebraska State Capitol is 6.7 mi (10.8 km) away.
Hotel Features
This smoke-free hotel features WiFi in public areas, coffee/tea in a common area, and a meeting room. Self parking is free. Additionally, laundry facilities, a 24-hour front desk, and free newspapers are onsite.
Room Amenities
All 69 rooms provide conveniences like refrigerators and microwaves, plus WiFi and LCD TVs with cable channels. Guests will also find separate bathtubs and showers, free local calls, and desks.
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Motel 6 Lincoln NE
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Motel 6 Lincoln NE features a picnic area, coffee/tea in a common area, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. Public areas are equipped with wireless Internet access (surcharge). This business-friendly hotel also offers laundry facilities and an elevator (lift). Complimentary self parking is available on site.
Motel 6 Lincoln NE is a smoke-free property.
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Record Store Day marks second annual celebration
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There's something to be said for convenient music. You can click "Buy" on your laptop in the confines of your white-walled bedroom to download your favorite song of the minute. Or browse for albums in your local big box store in the midst of vacuums and blenders. But come on, forget about all of that.
There's only one place that will make you remember what music means to people, and what people mean to music: a record store. An authentic, hole in the wall, vinyl-smelling, bass-thumping record store.
Saturday is the second annual Record Store Day, a celebration of the culture of music now observed by more than 700 independent retailers nationwide. Hard to find vinyl releases will be exclusively available in record shops, including names like Neil Young, Regina Spektor, Jenny Lewis and early anti-pirating advocates Metallica.
Eric Levin, founder of both the Association of Independent Media Stores and Criminal Records of Atlanta, co-founded Record Store Day after his comic book shop observed Free Comic Book Day. He said he took the same mentality of celebration and sales and applied it to record shops.
"I think it's amazing what we've accomplished in two years," Levin said. He's seen vinyl sales increase, partly due to young kids who find more enjoyment in physically owning music.
"I think we're going to see more record stores," he said. "I'm always hearing about new stores. There's always going to be an entrepreneurial spirit behind this art."
Dan DuChaine is the co-owner of Rush-Mor Records, 2635 S. Kinnickinnic Ave., an establishment that has quite the story in itself. DuChaine was a longtime customer of the record store and bought it in 1996, along with employee William Rouleau, when it was going to be turned into a cigarette depot. The two guys decided they'd give business a go for a year and see how it treated them. One year turned into five, and it's been breathing ever since.
In a culture of instant gratification, technology and anti-social habits, DuChaine said record stores are becoming more of niches in themselves these days. But he is quick to deny fears of record stores' extinction.
"You can buy beer and drink it at home, but people still go out," he said. "People want to interact, meet more people."
The average visitor that strolls into Rush-Mor is between the ages of 25 to 45, DuChaine said. A steady customer base of regulars keeps the place going, and he still sees a few customers that recall the day they saw Elvis perform.
When DuChaine and Rouleau were about to buy Rush-Mor, another record store owner shared some wise words with the men.
"He said to me, 'You'll never get rich, but you'll meet a lot of cool people, learn a lot of culture and hear a lot of new music,' " DuChaine said.
For Record Store Day, Rush-Mor seems to be applying that mind frame to their celebration: an all-day pub and live music crawl through the Bay View neighborhood starring local artists and bands.
The afternoon will start around 1 p.m. at Frank's Power Plant, 2800 S. Kinnickinnic Ave., with a performance by Bear Proof Suit, a local hardcore punk band. A congregation of people will travel to various venues for acts including Father Phoenix, Wereworm and the hip-hop of C-Section. Finally, at Club Garibaldi, 2501 S. Superior St., at 8 p.m. both the Ill Ego Aliens and hip-hop group The Rusty P's will perform.
"It's easy to be selfish and be like 'Hey, come here and hang out here all day,' " DuChaine said. "But it's more like, 'let's go explore the neighborhood.' "
The Exclusive Company, 1669 N. Farwell Ave., is also participating in Record Store Day. The store sells all music under the sun — from old school soul and funk to obscure bands to the top 40 of the day. Manager Terry Hackbarth said the store is 100 percent regulars and caters to hardcore fans who see music as a lifestyle.
On Saturday, 15 Milwaukee — and Madison area — bands will be playing at Exclusive as part of an all day party at the store, complete with free food, beer and record sales. Bands playing include Pezzettino, Sleep Tight Co., The Candeliers, Invade Rome, Plexi 3 and The Nice Outfits. The store will also be selling an album with various selections of the featured bands. All proceeds will go to Milwaukee's independent radio station WMSE 91.7.


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i shot this three legged doe, when i first saw her she was walking with a limp and i could not see her legs as she was in knee high brush,i though she was gut shot and shot her.when looking at her later,i saw the missing leg. it was all healed up and had been missing for some time. if i had known that i would have let her pass. eastbank.


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Slackware 12: KDE Font problems
Hi all,
I am a Linux newbie and I'm having some serious difficulty getting KDE to behave with any sort of font consistency.
I have a 32" Sony LCD TV/Monitor that I am using in conjunction with a KVM switch to jump back and forth between my Windows box and a box running Slackware 12. The Slackware box is a Dell Optiplex GX270 and has an Integrated Intel Extreme® Graphics 2 video card. My resolution is set to 1360 x 768.
When I first started up KDE with Slackware, all the fonts were tiny and illegible (forced fonts DPI off). When I tried resizing the fonts from the control center, the results were very disproportionate. For example, at the default size, the main K menu is illegible. However, if I change the size to make the K menu legible, all my application toolbars become huge and disproportionate. The same is true for the "General" font; it is too small at its default value for me to see some types of general text displays, but if I raise it, the text in applications becomes massive.
Now, if I try to turn forced fonts DPI on (96 DPI), I can adjust my fonts so that everything looks great ... until I open up any application and then everything looks oversized and distorted again. So, to summarize, here is what I've tried:
- When fonts are small, I tried turning on forced DPI and that worked for everything except my applications, in which all the fonts became massive and distorted
- When I keep forced FPI off, I can tinker with my fonts so that everything looks normal except my menus and text
I've tried messing with xorg.conf as suggested in some threads, but to no avail. Curiously, any modifications to my resolution had no effect at all, so I must not be doing something correctly. For example, I tried modifying the following line:
DisplaySize 1280 x 768 # mm
DisplaySize 359 201 # 96 DPI @ 1360 768 mm
This didn't really accomplish anything, although I'm sure its possible I botched the syntax. I also tried adding a line to the files section as suggested in other threads:
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
... but this didn't help either.
I'm not quite sure what the root of the problem is. If anyone can help, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Have you tried going into the Control Panel -> Fonts ? Check that box that says "Adjust all fonts" and select the desired font size that looks decent. You might also need to adjust the size of the icons as well under that sub-menu.
Hmm...well...you can always try adjusting the resolution.
I can adjust the resolution on my Linux box (make it smaller), but that doesn't address the issue that I'm having. It seems this has to do with the configuration of the fonts through KDE.
Here's another thing I'm not quite understanding: I've read that the xorg.conf file can be manipulated to change display settings, yet any changes I make to that file are not reflected in the KDE output. For example, in the "Monitor" section of xorg.conf, I've chnaged the display to a bunch of different resolutions, yet the resolution in KDE always remains the same. :S
Here's another display problem I'm having:
My monitor is capable of 1360x768 resolution. Vertical/Horizontal frequencies are to be respectively set at 60/47.7, according to manufacturer's specifications. Now, by default, Linux sets these frequencies to some odd ranges, and the result is these awful continuous "waves" in my KDE display. Needless to say, I have a headache after like 5 minutes of looking at it.
Now, when I try to change the refresh rates in xorg.conf to static numbers, the KDE won't even load. It totally refuses my changes. Now if I change my VF/HF to 1024x768 standards (75/60), the display is crystal clear. The point is, I don't want 1024x768. I want 1360x768 resolution. How can I achieve this and impose the correct VF/HF on the KDE?
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The following information is meant to educate
you to the potential noise pollution impact of hard-rock quarries, asphalt and
concrete plants. This page will be updated as we learn more about the
potential impacts of these types of operations.
If you have information to included on this page, please email the webmaster.
In this section
Noise generated by a quarry operation will continue over the life of the quarry. This noise comes from blasting, stone crushers, truck traffic, bulldozers, loaders, and general noise from the operation of multiple plants within the quarry operation. This section covers information about noise pollution and its impact on the surrounding residential and school environments.
In the future, more information about noise
will be
found here.
Noise Pollution
One form of pollution that is characteristic of industrial societies is noise. Quarry operations must comply with federal and state noise regulations. However, historically surrounding neighbors of quarries find that noise is almost always a major problem.
The intensity of sound is measured in units known as decibels (dB). At a level of 80 decibels, sound is annoying; but steady exposure to noise in excess of 90 decibelsa level that is frequently exceeded by many common urban sounds, such as jackhammers, heavy machinery, jet planes, and excessively loud musiccan cause permanent loss of hearing.
This Website is by a group of citizens in California who have been fighting a quarry. This page is called "What about noise?" is a good introduction to the decibels generated by a quarry.
Explosives are placed into holes drilled in the rock and in a series of timed explosions large areas of rock face are shattered to enable extraction and crushing. Blasting is essential for ongoing rock extraction.
Air Blast
A rush of air that moves out from the blast site accompanies each explosion. Limits are set for the force that can be experienced at neighboring properties.
Ground Vibration
Explosions shake the ground for some distance around the blast site. Residential properties around the quarry may experience significant increases in the effects of blasts. These will suffer loss of amenity as a result of these increased effects. These effects will continue for the life of the quarry 30-50 years into the future.
Stone Crushers
Within the quarry itself a number of pieces of plant emit penetrating discrete sounds. Rock breakers are a strong percussive noise that has been commonly mentioned by disturbed residents. The stone crushers that constantly crush the extracted rock into smaller and smaller fragments make continuous noise. These give off a loud and penetrating drone.
Truck Traffic
Truck traffic makes varying noise levels. Haul trucks and loaders within the quarry are on the move continually during operations. Transport trucks arrive empty and are filled. Filling often results in loud crashes and thumps as empty metal bins are loaded. All trucks and mobile plants have loud and penetrating reversing beepers that may be a constant nuisance to local residents.
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NEIL ARMSTRONG, NASA astronaut: That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
GWEN IFILL: More than 40 years after astronauts first landed on the moon, those initial steps still represent a crowning achievement for American spaceflight.
MAN: Beautiful, just beautiful.
GWEN IFILL: President Kennedy first articulated the goal in 1961.
JOHN F. KENNEDY, President of the United States: I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth.
GWEN IFILL: When the moon flights ended, President Reagan set the bar even higher.
RONALD REAGAN, President of the United States: Tonight, I am directing NASA to develop a permanently manned space station and to do it within a decade.
GWEN IFILL: Not even disasters like the loss of the space shuttle Columbia in 2003 derailed the dream of space travel.
President George W. Bush in 2004:
GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States: Our third goal is to return to the moon by 2020, as the launching point for missions beyond.
GWEN IFILL: But, in the budget he proposed yesterday, President Obama cancels those plans, which would have cost taxpayers $100 billion by 2020. Instead, he calls for spending $6 billion over five years to focus on research and commercial development of rockets, robotics and other space-related technology.
At a Senate hearing today, the president's budget director, Peter Orszag, defended the cut.
PETER ORSZAG, director, Office of Management and Budget: There is a new course being charted for the future of human spaceflight that involves more advanced technologies, longer-range R&D, investments in technologies that will help us leapfrog existing technologies and allow us to have human spaceflight to different parts of the solar system.
GWEN IFILL: But Senator Bill Nelson of Florida argued, Americans may not be able to get into space at all without help.
SEN. BILL NELSON, D-Fla.: If those commercial rockets don't work, then, for the foreseeable future of the next decade or so, we're going to be reliant on the Russians just to get to and from our space station.
GWEN IFILL: Nelson said he will oppose the cuts. And other senators whose states depend on the space industry can be expected to follow suit.
Now, for a closer look at what the president's budget might mean for NASA and the future of human spaceflight, we get two views. Michael Griffin was NASA administrator under President George W. Bush. He is now director of the Center for Systems Studies at the University of Alabama at Huntsville. And Bretton Alexander is president of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, a business group committed to developing private sector space travel.
Welcome to you both.
Mr. Griffin, if we look at cost vs. benefit, as we do when we consider budgets, is ending human spaceflight, at least for the moment, for the time being, the way to go?
MICHAEL GRIFFIN, former NASA administrator: Not in my opinion.
I think the contribution of human spaceflight to the posture of America in the world and the technology and industrial base that we have today more than pays for itself.
GWEN IFILL: You were at NASA when the Constellation project, as it was called, the George W. Bush project we just referenced, was authorized.
Do you think that — in the end, that project was unsustainable?
MICHAEL GRIFFIN: Not at all. It's called unsustainable because the budget that NASA was told it had was continually eroded by both the Office of Management and Budget in the Bush administration and two congressional continuing resolutions.
If you keep cutting the budget, you can make anything unsustainable.
GWEN IFILL: So, your basic problem here — or you think the basic problem here is that it was underfunded all along?
MICHAEL GRIFFIN: Which is exactly what the Augustine committee pointed out. The budget that we had starting out on the program was adequate to do the job. The budget that we wound up with just a few short years later was not.
And I'm quite grateful to Norm Augustine for pointing that out. I guess the best hope I would have now is that the Congress would fix that problem, rather than creating new problems.
GWEN IFILL: Bretton Alexander, as you look at what the president's decision has done or might do to human spaceflight especially, what's your first reaction?
BRETTON ALEXANDER, president, Commercial Spaceflight Federation: Well, I think this is a long-overdue change for NASA. It's a paradigm shift away from government being the only ones that can do human spaceflight, that it's so special that it has to be government.
We don't let the government do our health care. We don't let the government fly our airlines. And, so, the government isn't the only ones that can do human spaceflight.
And with all due respect to Administrator Griffin, the Orion program, the Ares program that he referenced, both of those got all the funding that they had expected and more under the previous administration. And, in the end, their costs were billions of dollars over cost and many years behind schedule.
The Augustine committee pointed out that they would require at least $50 billion more over the next 100 years — or — excuse me — over the next 10 years in order to get to — back to the moon. And then we would get there about a decade late. And the problem with that is that it was unsustainable. It was a monolithic program. All the money was going into one massive effort. And I believe that it collapsed under its own weight.
GWEN IFILL: Let me explain for our viewers what the Augustine commission was. It was a panel that was appointed, a 10-member panel, including former astronauts and others, who made this report last September.
Part of what that Augustine commission panel came up with, Administrator Griffin, was this idea, it seemed to be the handwriting on the wall that what we saw happen yesterday in the president's budget was inevitable.
Was it not inevitable?
MICHAEL GRIFFIN: Well, not at all. In fact, frankly, I would characterize it as a faith-based initiative.
But before we continue on that vein, I have to refute Brett's facts. The Aerospace Corporation — and I'm quoting — "found that the program is largely on track and within the original funding profile." The Aerospace Corporation was hired by the Augustine committee to make a cost assessment of Constellation.
And quoting Sally Ride, a commission member, "The program comes pretty close to performing as NASA advertised that it would. NASA's planning and development of Constellation was actually pretty good."
And it is completely incorrect to say that Ares and Orion received the funding that it was stated that they would receive.
GWEN IFILL: Well, let me ask you…
MICHAEL GRIFFIN: Exploration funding was — exploration funding was cut by $12 billion just in the time that I was administrator.
GWEN IFILL: Well, let me ask you this, Mr. Griffin, to follow up on your point. "Pretty good." In this time of deficits and spending priorities, competing spending priorities, was pretty good going to be good enough?
MICHAEL GRIFFIN: It was actually excellent. And it's more than good enough.
Let me point out that, in this time of deficits and spending priorities, that NASA fits within the domestic discretionary portion of the budget. You could cancel the entire domestic discretionary portion of the budget, all of it, and not close the deficit. The domestic discretionary portion of our budget is one-eighth of our total spending.
GWEN IFILL: How about that?
MICHAEL GRIFFIN: How about that?
BRETTON ALEXANDER: Well, I think that, you know, we disagree on the facts and what the Augustine committee said.
But they did say that it would require $50 billion more over 10 years just to get to where we had planned to go. I think what this administration has done…
MICHAEL GRIFFIN: Well, that is — that is correct.
BRETTON ALEXANDER: What this administration has done is add money to the five-year budget plan that they — had been proposed last year, adding $6 billion.
And, in the human spaceflight portion of that budget, they have taken a bold new approach. They have taken it away from one monolithic program to go back to one destination, and — and changed it into a technology program, to develop game-changing technologies in order to make exploration cheaper, more cost-effective, and safer, and more rapid in the near term.
GWEN IFILL: Let me ask you both.
I will start with you, Administrator Griffin. Assuming for a moment — this is a big assumption, because, as we know, with budgets, sometimes, Congress gets to say a word or two, and it might not turn out the way the president has planned. But, assuming for a moment his proposal actually happens, what are the consequences for not only human spaceflight, but the future of NASA?
MICHAEL GRIFFIN: Well, I agree with Brett that it would be a paradigm change for NASA. It would take the agency from being a mission-oriented organization, which I happen to believe is the right approach, to a technology sponsor.
I don't believe that's the right function for NASA in our society. Now, that's a philosophical disagreement that I have with Brett. And I respect his opinion, but I simply don't agree with it.
GWEN IFILL: And let me ask…
MICHAEL GRIFFIN: So, that would be the long-term change for NASA.
GWEN IFILL: And let me ask you, do you think that there is any room for a public-private partnership as NASA goes forward?
MICHAEL GRIFFIN: Of course I do. I'm a primary sponsor of commercial spaceflight. And it's something that I believe will happen and must happen in time.
It's simply that I — as I often say, we manage to have military aviation and civilian private aviation exist in the same country. I personally do not see why commercial operators cannot develop their capability without deciding that they have to take down NASA's capability to do spaceflight.
GWEN IFILL: As someone who represents commercial operators, I will ask you to start with that and work back to the question about the future.
BRETTON ALEXANDER: Well, I think what the administration has done is say that we do need a paradigm shift in human spaceflight. Bringing the private sector into it will bring efficiency into it.
It — actually, what they are planning to do is have commercial companies develop vehicles. And these are the same commercial companies that traditionally act as contractors to NASA, the major aerospace companies in the U.S. that have been the industrial base that have built all the spacecraft for the last 50 years.
With new entrants, as well that have other ideas and innovation, working together and hand in hand with NASA, we're talking about developing spacecraft to go to the International Space Station. That is a far simpler mission than going back to the moon, going to Mars, or going somewhere else. And that's why it can be done quicker, more cheaply.
The simple fact of the matter was that we were — with the old program, we were not going to be going back to the moon for well more than a decade. And we were going to be relying on the Russians to get to the International Space Station for the better part of this decade, if not longer.
GWEN IFILL: Aren't we going to be relying on Russia's — the Russians and China anyhow to get a seat on their — whatever their shuttle would be?
BRETTON ALEXANDER: We have an arrangement to get a — to ride on the Russians', but we don't have to do that, you know, for as long as if we bring commercial providers in to focus on the simple mission of going to the International Space Station, rather than focusing on the mission to go back to the moon.
GWEN IFILL: Bretton Alexander, Michael Griffin, thank you both very much.
BRETTON ALEXANDER: Thank you.
MICHAEL GRIFFIN: Thank you.
JIM LEHRER: For the record, Senator Bill Nelson, who appeared in Gwen's setup piece, was an astronaut, a payload specialist, who flew on the space shuttle Columbia in 1986.


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I teach a variety of courses within the Chemistry Department at Saint Anselm. In recent years I have taught General Chemistry, Physical Chemistry and Instrumental Chemistry, as well as their corresponding labs. These courses are required for many of our science majors, and an integral building block to the Chemistry major.
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The Prince and the Pauper (Paperback)
Modern Library, 9780375761126, 240pp.
Publication Date: July 8, 2003
Set in sixteenth-century England, Mark Twain's classic "tale for young people of all ages" features two identical-looking boys--a prince and a pauper--who trade clothes and step into each other's lives. While the urchin, Tom Canty, discovers luxury and power, Prince Edward, dressed in rags, roams his kingdom and experiences the cruelties inflicted on the poor by the Tudor monarchy. As Christopher Paul Curtis observes in his Introduction, The Prince and the Pauper is "funny, adventurous, and exciting, yet also chock-full of . . . exquisitely reasoned harangues against society's ills." This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the Mark Twain Project edition, which is the approved text of the Center for Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association.
About the Author
Christopher Paul Curtis, winner of the Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King Award, is the author of The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 and Bud, Not Buddy. He is currently at work on a novel entitled Bucking the Sarge.
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Concrete5 vs Joomla! vs Drupal vs Wordpress
This blog post is something I've wanted to put together for a while. I tried to compare Concrete5 with Drupal in a previous post, but I wanted to include Joomla and Wordpress and make the comparison a little more detailed and organized. I'll start by taking a developer's prospective, a developer prospective, then a client prospective.
Please comment on what you think can be added, especially as versions and features change.
The versions I will be comparing:
Concrete5 220.127.116.11 (The most recent as of the writing of this article)
Drupal 6.22 (Ver 7.8 is the lastest, however I've not used it as much as 6)
Joomla! 1.5 (1.7 is currently available, however the site I've done most work on is still on 1.5)
Wordpress 3.2.1 (The most recent as of the writing of this article)
Concrete5 - The requirements are very straightforward. Nothing out of the ordinary. One screen setup is convenient. If you want to choose a different native language, then you must do so after install.
Drupal - Similar install procedure. Very straightforward. A few more options at the onset of the install.
Joomla! - I haven't installed a Joomla! site in a while, I'll download it and try it out and update the post!
Wordpress - The have a famous 5 minute install. I'd agree - straightforward approach to install.
Concrete5 - A helpful community most of the time. I've seen a few unanswered questions. For the most part, the core team will chime in when necessary, and there are some amazing people who consistantly help out.
Drupal - The community is very good at answering well formed questions. There is an amazing amount of content to find on Drupal, so most oftern a Google search will yield an answer.
Joomla! - Joomla's community is on par with Drupal, but there are many paid modules which provide support outside of the main Joomla community.
Wordpress - Arguably the best community. A lot of community efforts to build extensions and themes at no cost.
Addons / Extensions / Modules
Whatever you want to call it, these are the things that extend the core functionality.
Concrete5 - Unique to the others, concrete5 has a marketplace similar to an app store. All purchases have a guarantee of both working, and being supported. Many free add-ons, some paid. All addon's are vetted by a peer review, and purchases are made through Concrete5's website. All addons are on a per-site basis.
Drupal - Thousands of modules. This is a benefit and a detriment. You can oftern find a dozen plugins that all have similar features. Knowing Drupal is knowing Drupal modules. For every opensource banner / gallery / lightbox etc. there is at least two Drupal modules. I've found that active module will give decent support, and I've had bad experiences with paid Drupal modules.
Joomla! - A similar markeplace to Concrete5, however the addons are not vetted in the same manner as Concrete5. I'd say of all the systems, Joomla tends to have the most polished and most advanced addons. Some are pretty bad, and it's hard to tell based on the ratings. Support is often hit or miss. Some addons you pay for the annual support, and others are lifetime.
Wordpress - Similar in size to Drupal, there are thousands of addons available. Constant version updates do cause issues with compatibility of addons, and Wordpress suffers from the same issues as Drupal with many addons for one purpose.
* Update (1/28/2012) - I recently worked on a Wordpress 3 site, and was looking for a plugin that would help me set a few widgets up only on a specific page. When looking for a plug-in to manage widgets, I found 4 that looked like they would work. The most promising didn't work for ver 3.x of wordpress so that's out. The other two had reviews saying they didn't work. The last one looked fine, except you had to use PHP code and "widget logic" to determine where the blocks would appear. That ultimately means my client will never be able to modify where his block goes.
The Code
Concrete5 - MVC. Easy to undestant and easy to overide.
Drupal - Does not use MVC, nor does it fully use OOP. Often has nested functions. The result - fast code execution without acceleration. It is harder to read, and in my opinion it was less intuitive to override. [cite]
Joomla - OOP - Done fairly well. I haven't had the pleasure of really overriding core functions, but I've read enough to know that some high end sites have used Joomla! as a framework by overriding a lot of the backend. Joomla's code is 8 times the size of Drupals. An example of what some might call "bloat".
Wordpress - a codebase similar to Drupal's. It had the fewest comments compared to Joomla! and Drupal. [cite]
Themes / Templates
How easy is it to make the site look like the comp? How hard is it to go from HTML to Template? What kind of resources are available?
Concrete5 - Getting the site to look like a comp is very easy. There are content areas and blocks, with custom templates that can be attached to each. All of these blocks can have overrides and can be moved via drag and drop. All pages can have defaults (nav etc.) that get created through a gui.
HTML to template can take less than 15 minutes depending on the complexity of the site.
There are less resources for free/paid templates then Drupal / Joomla or Wordpress, however in my experience, if I need a template from monster template or themeforest, I can often purchase the HTML version and have it "concretized" in less than an hour.
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Mullumbimby MC Iggy Azalea is quickly learning the ways of the media world after recent comments she made about fellow Antipodean, Lorde, appeared to take a shot at the Auckland prodigy, despite the pair having earlier teamed up against the critics.
Azalea currently occupies the top two spots of Billboard's Hot 100 survey between No.1 single Fancy and her feature spot on Ariana Grande's Problem, so interest in her every word is at a premium. Unfortunately, among her recent words were comments to Billboard on the Team singer's performance with the surviving members of Nirvana upon their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April.
"I think when you're doing a tribute to someone that's dead, generally it should be the person's peer," Azalea said. "Lorde is not Kurt Cobain's peer. No matter if she killed the performance or not, I just don't think it's appropriate."
We don't think her use of the word "killed" is appropriate here but anyway, Azalea was quick to laugh off the story that erupted from her comments, tweeting: "Lol I have a feud with lorde now? I Don't think so she's my southern hemispheric soul sister. Keep reaching world."
Lorde, meanwhile, was on the receiving end of further criticism this week when Guardian reviewer Michael Hann gave her sold-out show at London's Brixton Academy on Sunday night a respectable, rather than rave-worthy, three stars out of five.
While praising her "wonderfully unselfconscious" dancing and her voice's "slight husky catch that lends gravitas even when the sentiments don't quite deserve it", Hann found the gig "literally a little monotonous".
"The songs are of almost uniform pace and tone," he wrote. "With Tennis Court out of the way three songs in, there's a distinct sag until Royals and Team are played towards the end of the set, because everything sounds the same."
At least Lorde herself found solace in a review of her show at the Shepherd's Bush Empire on Thursday, retweeting it to her 1.73 million followers. That it was by a different Guardian writer will hopefully teach both her and perhaps even Azalea a little more about the ways of the media world.
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