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It's looking more as if the Cowboys will keep their deep stable of running backs rather than trading one for help elsewhere. Marion Barber, Felix Jones and Tashard Choice might be the best threesome in the NFL, but it has been difficult to get all three involved in a single game, which has led people to speculate that either the declining Barber or the rising Choice could be dealt. Cowboys COO/executive vice president Stephen Jones said at the Combine he expects all three to return next season. But that doesn't mean there won't be a shift in how they are used. It's very likely that Barber's touches will decrease and those of the other two will increase. Keeping Felix Jones healthy has been an issue, and it always could be something the Cowboys must worry about, which factors into the team keeping all three backs. But it was clear he was the team's best back at season's end, when he started showing the kind of game-breaking skills for which he was drafted.
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oh, no thanks. we don't need a napkin...
Brock and I attended a launch party for BMWLP Campaigns or similar. At least i think that's where we were. They have a really long name. Anyway, I'm friends with the "W" in BMWLP so Brock and I headed down to SoMa having no idea what to expect other than free food. We will really go anywhere that promises something for free, having absolutely no shame in screaming, "Oh wait! Is that the last slider? Dibs!" across a crowded party.
We were delighted to arrive to gorgeous and slightly hip offices, packed with a relative who's who of political nerddom, which meant of course, we'd find people we knew. Right away, I spotted my "uncle" Cliff, who pointed out to us anyone of interest. But Brock and I were far more concerned with the passed duck rolls and open bar, where my diet coke was served in a wine glass, still my cup of choice. Oh look! Herrera, Dufty, Adachi, Cisneros (zzzzzz) and I chatted with my new pal, Chuck Finnie whom I now love. That is of course, until Willie walked in.
It was like Moses parting the Red Sea. The over-flowing loft-like office fell into a hush, myself included, and Da Mayor walked through, shaking hands like a distracted Tom Cruise at a movie premiere. I don't know if Willie Brown really is that famous and powerful or if he just does a really good job at making people believe he is, but Heath Ledger could've risen from the dead and asked for a beer and someone would've shushed him. "Zip it, Dundee. Willie's here!"
Willie walked in, spoke and then, just as magically and abruptly as he arrived, departed. I wondered how many of these he had to attend, figuring that if His Honor spent 7 minutes at each event, he could really make some serious rounds. Willie was dressed very Wilkes Sport and donned what appeared to be a boiled wool baseball cap, which I found decidedly fashion forward and fabulous. I've said it before and I'll say it again, I dig Willie Brown.
Brock soon discovered the short rib sandwiches, Dotty LeMieux asked me if the Chronicle actually pays me for my blog (Yes. Did Carole actually pay you?) and we met a fabulous married lesbian couple, with whom we chatted until attacking the dessert table.
I really can't express to you the high-end-ness of the caterer, but they were passing mini black tea ice-cream cones and frozen carmels with sea salt. Brock enjoyed a truffle with his champagne when all of a sudden, "Oh my God, Beth. I think I lost a tooth!"
With that, he spit a rock into his palm.
"Maybe that means you win something?"
It was literally like a piece of gravel, and yet, this is why people should invite us to their parties. We didn't really care. I know people who would've screamed from the mountain tops. "Oh my God! A rock! Someone alert the media!" Not us. We simply shrugged and took a picture. I'm still not convinced the rock wasn't pre-existing in Brock's mouth somewhere. Plus, the dessert table was actually MADE out of chocolate. It was very Willie Wonka.
We finally left after not being able to find any to-go boxes and headed across the street to Wallgreens where they do NOT sell cigarettes. I'd read something about this travesty but had yet to experience it. Of far greater importance to Brock and I, however, were the four extremely hot firefighters who walked in before us. We literally stalked them in the aisles, Brock clutching his heart dramatically any time one walked past him. We could not have been more obvious in our drooling and I'm amazed we weren't arrested.
We considered feigning cardiac arrest before heading home, which we did with tummies stuffed full of food which, incidentally, tastes way better when it's gratis...
5 comments:
- Greg said...
the short rib sliders were excellent. the whole thing made me feel like I was on an episode of "Top Chef."
I posted some pics of Sir Willie on Flickr this afternoon...
- Be_Devine said...
"Dotty LeMieux asked me if the Chronicle actually pays me for my blog (Yes. Did Carole actually pay you?)"
Them gold in that there mountains. Pure gold!
- greg said...
here's the pic
- sfmike said...
You went to an influence peddler's Launch Party and in walks the Emperor of California Influence Peddling, Willie Brown, Jr. himself. Of course the crowd went radioactively electric, and way to describe it with a perfect, tasteless Heath Ledger analogy. Way to get to the heart of it, goddess.
- Brock said...
Debris aside, the food was very tasty. (And judging by that photo, it's time for me to make a call to Tim the trainer.)


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Alex talks with Luke Rudkowski of We Are Change in New York. Rudkowski and fellow WAC member James Lane confronted former vice president Dick Cheney in Washington, DC, during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference.
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In the We Are Change video below, Marxist converted into card-carrying neocon David Horowitz reveals something not really surprising – he knows very little about September 11, 2001, or at least claims to know very little.
The events of September 11, 2001, define the pro-war, anti-Muslim agenda of the neocons, and yet Horowitz comes off as completely clueless. He is like a deer caught in the headlights. He is like a babe in the woods without his soap box at Fox News.
He feigns ignorance of the established fact that Mahmood Ahmed, then director of Pakistan's ISI, ordered Saeed Sheikh to wire $100,000 to hijacker Mohamed Atta. On the morning of the attacks, Ahmed had a breakfast meeting in Washington, D.C., with House and Senate Intelligence Committee chairmen, Rep. Porter Goss and Senator Bob Graham.
Horowitz is also clueless about the fact that six out of ten 9/11 commissioners doubt the official story and some suspect they were deceived by the Pentagon. The co-chairs of the Commission, Thomas Keane and Lee Hamilton, said that the CIA and the Bush neocons "obstructed our investigation."
The co-chairs of the Commissionadmitted that their report was driven by political considerations. In other word, it was steered by neocons in the Bush administration for the sake of creating an excuse to invade small countries and wantonly slaughter Muslims.
David Horowitz is a member of the neocon intelligentsia. It is difficult to believe he has no knowledge of the event that literally defines the neocons and their illegal wars against Arabs and Muslims, so far resulting in over a million and half calculated murders.
Of course, we have to take into consideration that Horowitz's main obsession is attacking people he was once associated with as a Marxist, so knowledge about the facts surrounding 9/11 come in at best as a distant second. He is also an enemy of libertarians and especially Ron Paul because Paul is opposed to the total warfare state and the neocon mass murder campaigns in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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Horowitz may be dismissed as just another ideologue on the CIA's payroll. Horowitz's operation has taken money from Richard Scaife, the "philanthropic" billionaire who worked with the CIA. Scaife's Forum World Features, a foreign news service, was a CIA front that disseminated propaganda around the world.
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In this irreverent quest, he follows American Jewish leaders to the capitals of Europe, as they warn government officials of the growing threat of anti-Semitism, and he tacks on to a class of Israeli high school students on a pilgrimage to Auschwitz.
On his way, Shamir meets controversial historian, Norman Finkelstein, who offers his unpopular views on the manner that anti-Semitism is being used by the Jewish community and especially Israel for political gain. He also joins scholars, Stephen M. Walt and John J. Mearsheimer, while they give a lecture in Israel following the release of their book "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy", about the un-proportional influence the Israel lobby in Washington enjoys. Yoav visits Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, the must stop for all world leaders on their visits to Israel. While in Jerusalem, he drops by the house of his grandmother that offers her insight on the issue and declares that she is the "real Jew".
The film questions our perceptions and terminology when an event proclaimed by some as anti-Semitic is described by others as legitimate criticism of Israel's government policies. The film walks along the boundary between anti-Zionism, rejecting the notion of a Jewish State, and anti-Semitism, rejecting Jews. Is the former being used to excuse the latter? And is there a difference between today's anti-Semitism and plain old racism that is affecting all minorities?
Opinions often differ and tempers sometimes flare, but in Defamation we find that one thing is certain – only by understanding their response to anti-Semitism can we really appreciate how some Jewish people today, and especially modern Israelis, respond to the world around them, in New York and in Moscow, in Gaza and Tel Aviv.
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WASHINGTON: A treasure trove of US documents implicating Pakistan in its support for terrorism exploded in the public domain on Sunday, sending officials in both countries scurrying to defend a dubious alliance and straining a phony partnership based on a misreading of the ground sentiment and situation.
WikiLeaks, a whistleblower organization that publishes sensitive government leaks from anonymous sources, put a staggering 91,000 documents, mainly ground reports from US military personnel, in public domain on Sunday. Many of the documents exposed Pakistan's double-faced policy of fuelling terrorism in Afghanistan while claiming to be fighting it as an US ally.
In effect, the chronicles suggested that Washington was blindly paying Pakistan massive amounts of money for access to Afghanistan even as Islamabad uses its spy agency, ISI, to plot the death of American and Nato troops, allied Indian personnel, and undermines US policy. The most devastating leaks showed that Pakistan allows representatives of its spy service, ISI, to meet directly with the Taliban in secret strategy sessions to organize attacks against American soldiers in Afghanistan, and even hatch plots to assassinate Afghan leaders, including President Hamid Karzai.
WikiLeaks worked with three media organizations–The New York Times, Germany's Der Spiegel and The Guardian–to make sense of the massive cache of documents, while not disclosing how it got hold of it. Stunned Washington experts compared it to the leaking of the Pentagon papers during the Vietnam War. What the cache highlighted most was the continuing Pakistani perfidy, and American credulity in accepting Islamabad as an ally and funnelling billions of dollars in aid even as it helped plot US downfall in the region and killed American soldiers.
"Americans fighting the war in Afghanistan have long harboured strong suspicions that Pakistan's military spy service has guided the Afghan insurgency with a hidden hand, even as Pakistan receives more than $1 billion a year from Washington for its help combating the militants," the New York Times said in its assessment of the report. "The records also contain firsthand accounts of American anger at Pakistan's unwillingness to confront insurgents who launched attacks near Pakistani border posts, moved openly by the truckload across the frontier and retreated to Pakistani territory for safety," it continued.
"The behind-the-scenes frustrations of soldiers on the ground and glimpses of what appear to be Pakistani skullduggery contrast sharply with the frequently rosy public pronouncements of Islamabad as an ally by American officials looking to sustain a drone campaign over parts of Pakistani territory to strike at Qaida havens," it added.
That policy of ambivalence and appeasement continued even into the hours after the WikiLeaks expose, as US and Pakistani officials rushed to control the damage. US national security advisor James Jones condemned the "disclosure of classified documents by individuals and organizations", which, he said, "could put the lives of Americans and our partners at risk, and threaten our national security", when, in effect, the documents suggest it is Washington's appeasement of Pakistan which is doing that.
US officials also argued that the documents posted by WikiLeaks covered a period from January 2004 to December 2009 and pre-dated President Barack Obama's new strategy announced on December 1, 2009, when they suggested there began a turnaround "with a substantial increase in resources for Afghanistan, and increased focus on Al Qaida and Taliban safe-havens in Pakistan, precisely because of the grave situation that had developed over several years".
"I don't think anyone who follows this issue will find it surprising that there are concerns about the ISI and safe havens in Pakistan. In fact, we've said as much repeatedly and on the record," one official explained. "The period of time covered in these documents (January 2004-December 2009) is before the President announced his new strategy. Some of the disconcerting things reported are exactly why the President ordered a three-month policy review and a change in strategy."
But the official also cast aspersions on WikiLeaks and its motive, saying, "It's worth noting that WikiLeaks is not an objective news outlet but rather an organization that opposes the US policy in Afghanistan."
Pakistan, as usual, reacted with fury to the disclosures, calling the leaks "malicious and unsubstantiated". An unnamed official in Islamabad was quoted as saying, "They were from raw intelligence reports that had not been verified and were meant to impugn the reputation of the spy agency."
A more restrained reaction came from Pakistan's ambassador to the US Hussain Haqqani (whose book chronicles the Pakistani military's jihadi connections and outlook). "The documents circulated by WikiLeaks do not reflect the current on-ground realities," Haqqani said, plying the current Washington-Islamabad line that whatever happened was in the past.


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Hello all,
I have been using Sass quite a lot over the past few months and for instance, if I have two classes on an element and want to add styles to each I would use this:
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According to the official info, it's deprecation, not replacement, in a particular scenario:
&foo is gone, but & foo is ok (must have a space)
Use @extends instead of this.
@extend doesn't replace the reference to the parent selector: &. The two function differently and serve distinct purposes. The new '%' provides a better placeholder instead.
What @extend does now is producing new selectors. With the '%' new implementation, @extend behaves also like '&' and it adds to the existing selector, it doesn't create a new one, only it's not restricted to referencing the parent selector only, like '&' is.
The problem with '&' placeholder is that it's restricted to current nested SCSS, and collects all the selectors to the node.
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If someone was bullish on HLF, selling these puts short for 8 would actually be a good trade. A good plan would be to roll down to lower strikes in case the price declines. It would not surprise me if someone like Icahn is already doing this trade.
If the share price were to drop to 40 within the next few months, he would make around 40% profit on his Jan 2016 put options. He could then start scaling out of his position. Another strategy would be for him to start selling short lower strike puts as the share price declines to create put spreads. But most likely, he is not planning to do any of these strategies. I agree that he is paying a huge time premium for these options. One of the most difficult decisions is when to take your profit. If he is determined to prove a point, he may end up holding these puts for too long and lose all of the premium.
Which put options were you trading? The wide bid/ask spread always cut into my profits.
There is now a 50% retracement. Looks like the market wants to retest the previous high. Then, a new high or double top?
I wonder how many shares of Google does she still own?
What had caused the big decline during the last week of March and then the subsequent bounce?
Expect a bounce from here.
Nice rally! Any Fed intervention today?
I think the Fed would be happy if the market just trades in a channel for the rest of this year, with a lot of volatility of course. Maybe with a lot of days like today, they could make enough money to pay off the national debt.
Which strikes do you own?
I only have options for BX. I have a core holding position and trading positions. Try doing some call spreads whenever it dips. You can acquire a position having an effective share price below the actual share price. For example: Jan2015 30/34 call spread for around 2.30, effective share price would be 32.30 (0.70 below current share price).
If you look at the 2 previous large declines for this year, Jan 23 and April 4, each one of these had 2 major down legs with a slight upward bounce in between. Now, is this the bounce before the second major leg down?
If you are now all cash, how are you planning to get back into the market?
Have you thought about how you are going to transition from a long position to a short position?
What do you think of the Jan2015 UVXY puts, either the 10.00 or 15.00 puts. If the share price drops by just 5, these puts should double in value. I am thinking of scaling in my purchase. If it continues to rise, I would start buying higher strike puts. Ideally, short term ITM puts would be bought near the top.
Does the Fed actually support the market by buying stock futures or option contracts? With essentially an unlimited amount of money to play with, the Fed could easily prevent any possible selloff while also making a substantial amount of money during the process.
I still remember back in 2009 when C had peaked in the low 5s (pre-split). I was staying in Atlantic City at the time. I ended up selling my long position. However, I did continue to do a lot of option selling to collect the premium. I finally stopped doing this after the reverse split. The stock is still trading in the same price range for the past 5 years. It looks like it will have to break out of this range before the buyers return.
In 2011, the market started declining around July 24, which is what also happened this year. The market did not bottom until early Oct. If this repeats, UVXY should at least reach 50.
It is now near the apex. Looks like it wants to break down.
Hey King, some of the guys on Fast Money today just recommended Citigroup. They mentioned it is below book value. Are you still playing it?
I have some other UVXY call spreads and SVXY put spreads. This portion of my portfolio is very small, around 4%. In addition to these, I have a small amount of Jan2015 OTM call spreads in SVXY. I will be adding to these spreads as the share price declines. I will also be day/swing trading SVXY with Aug and Sept calls.
At the current price of 11.69, you should be able to buy the March 6.00/15.00 call spread for a debit of around 3.65 This would give you an effective share price of $9.65 which is $2 below the current price. Max profit would be $5.35
Keep your shares while doing this as a secondary strategy. Profits from this will lower your cost basis.
I have some UVXY sept 35/45 call spreads for a debit of 1.65
Since this is a bullish strategy (3 calls to 1 put), it would appear to work best in a long term rising market. If you had bought on Jan 2, 2014 whe SVXY was 66, you would be holding the 92.00 calls. You would have made a nice profit, but only if you had sold near the high. However, if your buy date just happened to be this year's high price of 93, you would have ended up buying the 130.00 calls.
I just noticed that the 200 dma for SVXY is now at 68.33 This is the midpoint of the 52 week high/low. This morning, the SPY bounced off it's 100 dma.
What about the idea of buying on a monthly basis.
If SVXY is above it's 50 dma, you would buy one call (or one unit).
If below the 50 dma but above the 150 dma, you would buy 2 calls.
If below the 150 dma, you would buy 3 calls.
Any calls bought while below the 150 dma would automatically be sold when it rises above the 50 dma.
Does anyone have a program to back test this strategy?
Which options do you have now?


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Charter school supporters can claim victory in at least one high-profile ballot initiative (Georgia) and perhaps one other (Washington) but each state has a different story to tell—and lessons to teach.
In what may arguably be defined as a landslide, 59 percent of Georgia voters empowered the state to create an independent commission to authorize charter schools. But that margin of victory doesn't even tell the whole story.
Consider Gwinnett County, the state's largest school district, which has allowed only three charter schools within its boundaries and which filed the original lawsuit that ultimately killed Georgia's previous independent authorizer (hence the constitutional amendment). Gwinnett superintendent Alvin Wilbanks once said that the question before voters would only empower the state to "privatize, defund, and dismantle public education." But 63 percent of the county's voters disagreed with him and said yes to the amendment.
The state's largest counties followed suit, including Fulton County (where 66 percent of voters said yes) and DeKalb County (64 percent). This highlights the arrogance of Wilbanks and other district superintendents, who warned that the amendment would only diminish "local control" of public education. An overwhelming number of citizens decided that the most "local" kind of school is one where the decision-making power rests at the school level, not in some faraway district office that holds veto power over all public education.
The same can't be said for Washington...
The Milwaukee voucher program remains one of the most tightly-regulated school choice programs of its kind in the nation, and it deserves better than the sloppy conclusions of Diane Ravitch. In a blog post earlier this week, Ravitch noted—correctly—that tougher standards applied to the Wisconsin state test went badly for all Milwaukee students, especially voucher recipients (just 10 percent of whom were proficient in reading, compared to 15 percent of their district peers). But then she reports that legislation expanding the Milwaukee choice program to Racine absolved private schools of the requirement that they administer the state tests to their voucher-bearing students. "Therefore," she writes, "their proficiency rate will not be known or reported."
This is absolutely untrue. For the past few years, students in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program have had to take the Wisconsin Knowledge Concepts Examination (WKCE), which is the same test administered to all public school students. When the Wisconsin legislature expanded the voucher program to Racine last year, nothing changed this requirement. In fact, test results for private schools in Racine and Milwaukee, as well as for public schools throughout Wisconsin, were recently recalculated to comply with a higher standard of proficiency. Those results are available to the public here—and they'll continue to be made public.
What has changed is the release of a report card that assessed public schools using measures that included achievement growth on state tests,...
It may be tempting for legislators to point to the scandalous payments made to an Orlando charter school principal as a reason to tighten regulations governing all charters. In the last week, we've learned that the principal of the now-closed NorthStar High Charter in Orlando not only received a $519,000 contractual payout from her board, her compensation exceeded the amount the school had spent on classroom instruction. (NorthStar closed before the Orange County School Board could shut it down for poor academic performance.)
But now might be a better time to set aside legislative energy and ask whether school boards are doing enough to provide oversight of the charters in their portfolios (as in many states, only school districts can authorize charter schools in Florida).
It may seem hard to hold the Orange County School Board accountable in this case. According to one official at the Florida Department of Education, the last couple of financial reports that NorthStar High sent to the school district showed that the principal earned about $73,000 a year. But her actual pay was much more. Last week, the Orlando Sentinel unearthed details showing that salary, stipends, and bonuses last year brought Principal Kelly Young's annual pay to about $305,000.
Why would the district question the charter school's own reporting? Because there is enough information in independent audits of the school to question whether it was fiscally and organizationally...
On Election Day, Georgia voters will get to decide whether their state can authorize and oversee charter schools, a power that rests almost exclusively with locally elected school boards. Of course, school districts have urged Georgians to maintain the status quo by voting no on the constitutional amendment before them, contending that a new state bureaucracy would be unanswerable to their needs and concerns. But voters should consider what "local control" of public education has meant in the Peach State.
Fundamentally, it has empowered most of the state's larger school districts to keep charter growth (and, therefore, school choice) moderate at best. Nowhere has that been more evident than in Gwinnett County, Georgia's largest school system (and the thirteenth largest in the nation) where charter students make up less than 1 percent of the public school population.
Perhaps Gwinnett was on Republican state Senator Fran Millar's mind when he wrote recently in the Atlanta-Journal Constitution that "there are areas of this state where local school boards will not approve any charter school." But Gwinnett is hardly alone, and that is why voters should say yes to a charter commission independent of Georgia-style "local control." Promising charter providers shouldn't have to depend only on the whims of a recalcitrant school board.
Consider that:
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett promised a school-choice juggernaut in the Keystone State when he campaigned for office two years ago. Not only has no crusade has ever come to pass, Corbett and the GOP-led state assembly let a modest charter school reform bill languish in the House recently without a vote. This should have been an opportunity for the state's executive and legislative leadership to pay more than lip service to education reform. But, again, they failed.
What's worse, the bill the House killed had already been weakened through compromise. The effort to create an independent state board to authorize charters was removed to accommodate complaints for local school boards, which—with the exception of virtual schools—remain the sole charter authorizers in Pennsylvania. What was left was a commission to recommend a smarter funding strategy for charters, a provision to award high-performing charter schools with a ten-year contract (up from five), an application of the state's Ethics Act to charters, and a move to allow charter networks to oversee multiple schools with one board, among other things.
Many states have already adopted one or more of these strategies. And, it should be noted, that one of the more controversial elements of this legislation was the commission that could only recommend to the state assembly different funding measures for charters. Legislators were concerned that the commission was "stacked...
Anyone who cares about Catholic education ought to watch what's happening in Philadelphia, not just because the archbishop there has turned twenty-one of his schools over to a private foundation, but because that foundation is applying business principles to schools that sorely need them.
For starters, the Faith in the Future Foundation two weeks ago chose a longtime education and charter-school guru named Samuel Casey Carter to shepherd its new network of Catholic high schools to viability. Carter has a resume you don't generally find in a school administrator, and he knows how to measure a school's effectiveness in ways that would be lost on the typical bishop.
But, if they succeed, Carter and Faith in the Future have the potential to invigorate a vital sector of education throughout North America.
One would be hard-pressed to find a diocese presently undertaking an analysis of the market conditions affecting its schools and its finances, but that's precisely what Carter spent his first few days on the job developing. In a recent interview, he laid out a plan that would examine 1.) which of the seventeen high schools and four special education schools now in his charge can continue to compete with neighboring public and charter schools as well as high-quality private, college-preparatory schools, and 2.) which schools are running deficits and may need the most help—financial and otherwise—to accomplish their mission....
One of the central tenets of the charter-school idea is that these institutions should be open to all comers, regardless of an applicant's home address. Ending "zip-code education," after all, is a major motivation behind the school-choice movement. It's a big deal, then, that a District of Columbia task force is looking into allowing charter schools to offer preferential treatment to applicants from their immediate neighborhoods. To be sure, a handful of other cities have already allowed such preferences—Denver, New York, New Orleans, and Chicago. In those cases, the neighborhood preferences were either sought by the schools—so that they could serve a needy local population—or school districts, as conditions of handing over public school buildings. That approach makes us a bit squeamish, but can be justified if the goal is to ensure that disadvantaged kids in a given locale have access to a great education. What's impossible to justify, however, are preferences (or outright boundaries) that might keep poor kids out of charter schools. That's precisely what could happen in D.C. if charters in certain gentrifying parts of the city, like Capitol Hill's Ward Six, are allowed to use these preferences. The charter movement shouldn't be doctrinaire. But it shouldn't fall back into the exclusionary traps of the old public system, either.
RELATED ARTICLE: "D.C. considers neighborhood admissions preferences for charter schools," by Emma Brown, The Washington Post, October 3, 2012....
At some point, we ought to acknowledge that the traditional union contract is incompatible with the untraditional concept of charter schools. That should be easier to do now that the nation's first union-led charter school is struggling to stay open.
Now seven years old, the UFT Charter School is one of the lowest performing schools in New York City (it has scored two Ds on the city's report card in three years) and its authorizer, the SUNY Charter Schools Institute, will soon consider whether to renew its charter.
This is a bad development for the United Federation of Teachers, considering that former UFT President Randi Weingarten said in 2005 that the school would "finally dispel the misguided and simplistic notion that the union contract is an impediment to success." Many factors certainly may have contributed to the dismal achievement at the school, where less than a third of students are reading at grade level. But if anything, the UFT has shown us that union contracts are a poor fit for successful charters.
About 12 percent of the nation's charter schools are unionized, according to 2010 data from the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. More than half of those have contracts because state laws impose collective bargaining on charters. The other half includes schools that have seen growing disinterest among teachers to maintain unions that were first organized by employees who left after a...
Let's set aside the poor box office results for Won't Back Down (which set a record for the worst film opening ever). There are still as many as twenty states considering legislation that would enact the parent trigger that inspired the film. Hollywood may not have the mojo to move these measures along more quickly, but there are many lawmakers who remain convinced that parents should be empowered to fire a school's management if it's failing their children or hire a charter provider who may do the job better.
For a law like this to succeed—and it remains far from clear whether it can—it ought to give parents as many tools and options as are available. That's why it was troubling to see the trigger's most evangelical supporter, Ben Austin, take an ideologically rigid stance against the role that for-profit educators might play in these turnaround efforts.
Austin heads up the Parent Revolution in California, which was the first state to pass a trigger law (it did so in January 2010) but he's been busy lobbying for the trigger outside the Golden State and he's been arguably influential in getting more states to take this policy seriously. His opponents have been busy as well, however. And it doesn't matter whether Austin served in the Clinton White House or if he remains a committed Democrat. Teacher unions, school systems, and other establishment groups have...
Next month, Georgia voters will head to the polls to decide whether their state can establish an independent commission to authorize and oversee some of its charter schools. Such a panel once existed in the Peach State and authorized sixteen schools before the state Supreme Court voted 4-3 last year to dissolve it on grounds that it was "palpably unconstitutional." The original commission had authorized charters over the objections of local school boards, which brought the suit against the state and which remain the most fervent opponents of the current referendum. (Districts, of course, would compete with the schools operating under the commission's direction.)
Unfortunately, the press and interest groups are largely on the school boards' side, bemoaning the potential loss of "local control" and the prospect that the state would authorize schools unanswerable to local communities. According to a pre-election poll, however, at least half of Georgia's voters appear to feel differently. Not surprising, considering that twenty years of charter schooling have highlighted the dysfunction of Georgia-style "local control" and the extent to which school boards and superintendents will go to preserve their near-monopolies. Ten other states have independent panels of this sort to authorize charter schools, precisely so that promising charter providers don't have to depend on the whims of recalcitrant school boards. Georgia should rejoin them....


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I've just gotten into paleo over the past 2 months or so but I'm doing a lot of reading. I just got the Primal Blueprint, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, and Deep Nutrition from Barnes and Nobles. The WAPF and Deep Nutrition advocate fermented or sprouted seeds/grains. Are ALL grains not allowed in paleo simply because paleolithic hominids would not have eaten them, or is there a biochemical poison/explanation for why they are not allowed?
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If you were a healthy person who grew up eating WAPF-style your entire life, with your grains always soaked or fermented, then you'd probably be fine to continue doing so. Especially if you weren't genetically disposed toward gluten intolerance and you weren't eating large amounts of modern gluten-heavy wheat, but mixed other more traditional grains into your diet.
But very few of us fit that description. We grew up on Wonder bread, mac & cheese, and thick crust pizza. Not only were our diets filled with gluten and anti-nutrients, but those were accompanied by large volumes of inflammatory PUFAs from vegetable oil and fructose from refined sugars. We're damaged, so just starting to soak the grains to remove some/most of the harmful ingredients may not be enough to get us healthy.
An analogy: If you're trying to avoid a sunburn, just reducing your time in the sun to short enough periods will do that. But if you're already badly sunburned and peeling, you have to get out of the sun entirely so you can heal.
Besides all that, soaking/sprouting/fermenting is a fair amount of work. If you like the process of baking, you might enjoy the work, with its various steps over time and containers of wet grains sitting around on your counters. But if you're just looking to get good quality, good tasting food into your body without turning it into a full-time job, steak and eggs are a heck of a lot easier.
I never could fathom having to sprout grains just so I could eat them. I don't know what is the obsession with trying to eat a neolithic food that I know does damage to my body...soaked or not.
The obsession is so great in vegans that they began to sprout anything that would sprout because they perceived that the sprouts are always a good food source.
Then they started sprouting buckwheat and juiced the sprouts. They contracted a condition called fagopyroism...a condition that results in the skin being very very sun sensitive. http://www.townsendletter.com/Dec2004/buckwheat1204.htm
I have been eating paleo for 2 years, and I do eat sprouted rice and corn. I also eat sprouted beans, sprouted rice and I use sprouted wheat flour for baking. Then texture is a little different from wheat flour and gluten free flour, but as far as I understand sprouted grains digest similarly to vegetables. I have had no ill effects from eating the sprouted grains, and have found several online suppliers. My family has slowly been making the switch to paleo, and these sprouted beans/grains have really helped with the transition. I eat 40% vegetable, 30% protein and 30% fat. This combination of protein, veg/fruit and fat seems to work really well for me, and I have lost 80lbs in the last two years through this change in my diet. I buy my fruit and veg at our local food co-op, this encourages me to eat seasonally. I also eat raw dairy/yogurt that I get from a local dairy. I have found that the least amount of processing is best. Good luck on your paleo journey. It changes your life, but in some really great ways. I have RA, Fibromyalgia, IBS and chronic migraines. This change in my diet has completely changed the quality of my life when it comes to overall pain level and inflammation. It is the best thing I have done for myself.
Not a clue. If you mean things like bean sprouts and alfalfa sprouts... they aren't really grains that can't be eaten without processing. They are little green edible shoots that are going to become plants...and I eat them. Great source of sugarless, starchless, won't make me fat food.
My view on this is that it is just easier to say avoid all grains, rather than saying avoid gluten containing grains, and others are okay if they have been prepare properly i.e. soaking, fermenting, etc.
As always, Stephan Guyenet has wonderful insights...
It also seems widely accepted that people with autoimmune diseases should avoid all grains.
I think the main thing is that most grains (save white rice and buckwheat, I believe), have anti-nutrients. The soaking/fermenting DOES help, a lot. However, they are still present. Because they are still present, they can harm the body. Even if we don't show any outward symptoms, for years even.
That said, I also came to Paleo via WAPF and still hold onto a lot of WAPF ideals and practices. I still have beans occasionally (soaked/sprouted)...I still do some soaked grains, although I always avoid gluten.
I am not a paleo nazi, and do believe there is still room for knowledge in this arena. However, I do think this is the closest thing to a diet that could potentially heal people of a lot of allergies/illnesses.
I'm late to the party, but for me it comes down to nutrient density. WAPF likes to throw around the term "nutritious", and though in context to what was bioavailable in grains that are NOT ancestrally prepared, the nutrient availability is significant, in context to just about every other food source there is, ancestrally prepared grains are still basically a pile of sugar with very little nutrition. For me, Paleo is about getting all the nutrition I can in for every calorie of food I eat.
not so sure foodies are seeking that which is easier. So soak away! ...Paleo has been helpful, up to a certain point, Ive had to start avoiding eggs, pork and anything more then a table spoon of fat or two a day... it looks like i have autoimmune hepatitis of the liver, and my body is waffling with a Ovarian Cysts diagnosis (sometimes i have all the symptoms, sometimes i don't..explain that?)...Anyway, I would love to get back into sprouts for simple variety, so is it yea or nea?
For most people, they ARE fine. They just aren't an IDEAL source of nutrients (and a bit of a pain to prepare) when compared to the foods we more commonly recommend like eggs, liver, salmon, beef, etc. But if you like them and tolerate them, go for it.
I've come to this page with the same question. I see to aspect as to why grain and seeds should be unhealthy. First grains and seeds have a high starch content. Second Grains and seeds have natural toxins, all plants do but in different amounts. The thin is that the process of sprouting tricks the grain or seed to transform its starch into sugars which it uses as its energy source until photosyntheses is possible. So sprouted Grains and seeds have a vary low content of starch hand a high fiber and sugar content. The question as I see it is whether it's still poisonous, due to its toxins.


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With $12 million in state funding as an incentive, IBM is building an IT center in Dubuque, Iowa, that it says will employ 1,300 workers providing support to IBM's U.S. outsourcing clients.
The state finalized the agreement to contribute to the project on Thursday. And while the money Iowa is pitching in is clearly an incentive for IBM to locate in Dubuque, another reason for the company's interest may be the state's lower IT wages.
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Indeed, IBM's decision to locate in a renovated building in downtown Dubuque, which has a population of just under 60,000 people, may be part of a trend by vendors to expand in lower-cost -- and lower-wage -- regions of the United States.
Mike Blouin, president of the Greater Dubuque Development Corp., said that as part of the deal IBM is obligated to offer salaries that begin in the low-$30,000 range and go all the way up to $70,000 or so, with the average salary in the mid-$40,000.
The Greater Dubuque Development Corp. was involved in the talks surrounding the project. IBM officials declined to comment on the wage agreement.
IBM has already received some 3,000 applications for positions so far, with a third meeting meeting basic requirements for work, said Blouin. Hiring will begin this spring.
Blouin said that 10 percent of IBM's workforce will come from the company's existing labor pool, with the remainder hired locally and from two- and four-year colleges within 100 miles of Dubuque. In fact, IBM has already started recruiting students from nearby Kirkwood Community College.
The lower cost of living was a factor in IBM's decision, said Blouin. The company "is clearly trying to demonstrate that they can bring work to the U.S. shores and do it competitively," he said.
IT salaries in the Midwest can be 20 percent to as much as 50 percent below the wages paid on the East and West coasts, said Nate Viall, a Des Moines-based recruiter who specializes in finding candidates for IBM's i (formerly i5/os) mid-range application development jobs.
IBM, which has some 80 global delivery centers worldwide, said growth in its services business is creating the need for expansion. The types of jobs at the new center will include systems management services and operations, database management and project management services.


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Breast cancer questions answered
Talking about breast cancer
Here are the questions and answers from our live chat with Dr. Wende Logan-Young:
Q: My mother had breast cancer; am I definitely going to get it?
Dr. Logan-Young: No. You're at increased risk of getting it, but you're more likely not to get it than get it. The average woman has a one-in-nine chance, but a woman with a mother or sister who had breast cancer has a one-in-six chance. So that means five out of six of those women won't get it. Age and gender are more of risk factors than anything else.
Q:I'm deathly afraid of getting breast cancer; what can I do to prevent it?
Dr. Logan-Young: There's very little you can do to prevent it; just make sure you find it. The studies about risk factors such as dietary fat are inconclusive. But recommendations such as low-fat diet are good for preventing other illnesses such as heart disease. More women die of heart disease than breast cancer. One article was published that said exercise reduces the risk of breast cancer--but it was just one article. Still, these are good, healthy habits. Instead of focusing on preventing breast cancer, put your energy into preventing heart disease since your risk is eight times greater of dying from heart disease. Most of the recommendations are the same -- low-fat diet, regular exercise, high-fiber diet and others. It can't hurt to adopt healthy habits.


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Seeking peace. Striving for justice. Together.
A Season of Peace is a four-week pilgrimage designed to deepen the pursuit of peace for congregations, small groups, families, and individuals. Through daily peace reflections, family activities, Bible studies, youth activities, an exciting intergenerational Peace Fair, and other online resources, you will be invited to enhance and expand your focus on your calling as a peacemaker. Expect encouragement, challenge, inspiration, and education.
The themes for A Season of Peace are based on the Presbyterian resource The Biblical Witness to Peacemaking, a 365-day walk through the Bible focusing on peace and justice passages.
Path of Peace Daily Reflections
Each year The Presbyterian Peacemaking Program invites leaders from our partner churches around the world to come to the PC(USA) to share their experiences as peacemakers in their own lands. This year they will be here visiting the churches of our mid-councils between September 27-October 21.
There are still some peacemakers with available times on their itineraries. Please consider hosting a peacemaker in your presbytery or synod. The Presbyterian Peacemaking Program covers the cost of all air travel. Often funds to host the peacemaker are available from the congregation's or mid-council's Peacemaking Offering funds.
As far back as I can remember I have always questioned the motives of why things happen in a certain way. Events in our lives are woven together to form a mysterious path that only God understands. Nativity sparks interest in our hearts because we think about what God's plans were with the gift of an only child, given as a gift of grace.
Every time we honor Jesus' name during this period of Advent, we honor love. In a world where materialism, consumerism, and individualism have become our focus, God's everlasting love challenges ...
This is the season of hope and celebration! As we prepare for Christmas and are surrounded by friends and family, it is easy to be joyful and refreshed like the parched desert and the blossoming crocus. Jesus Christ is to be born tomorrow, and this will strengthen, comfort, heal, and provide for us! Praise the Lord!
As the season comes to an end, family and friends will go back to work, decorations will go back in boxes, and the pace of everyday life will return. Does this mean we have to wait until Easter or next Christmas ...
This passage is about a cosmic connection in Christ in which Zechariah could not speak until his actions said, "Yes, I trust you Lord." Elizabeth called Mary blessed because Mary said, "Yes, I trust you Lord." Neither Elizabeth nor Zechariah fret, fuss, nor worry about the name of their son. How often do we feel that if we don't fret, fuss, and worry, whatever we want will not work out for the best?
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2. Lower the Anchor Slowly
With the vessel stopped and your life jacket on, lower the anchor slowly into the water from the bow. Do not throw it over the side as this tends to foul the line. As you lower the anchor, your boat should begin to drift backward with the wind or current, allowing the anchor to move down and away as it enters the water. This backward drift is important. If your boat is stationary when the anchor reaches bottom, the chain piling on top of it can prevent it from digging in. Therefore, if your boat is not drifting backward on its own, put the engine in reverse and move slowly backwards as you pay out the anchor rode. This stretches the chain out from the bow and ensures that the anchor will be lying on the bottom facing in the correct direction.
3. Keep Tension in the Anchor Rode
Keep tension on the anchor rode as you pay it out to keep the bow of the boat pointed toward the anchor. This ensures that your anchor, chain, and rope stay straight and don't become tangled. If you're anchoring in strong winds, you may actually have to put the engine in forward gear to control the speed and direction of backward drift.
4. Setting the Anchor
With the anchor rode out and the boat in the intended swing zone, secure the rode and let the anchor dig in and stop the boat. Exercise caution as you do this. Wrap the rode once or twice around a cleat and keep your hands well clear. Once you feel the anchor begin to dig in and set, put the engine in idle reverse and back down on the anchor to secure it to the bottom. This is especially important in areas where the bottom has a layer of sand and grass. Once the anchor is set, take note of any reference points (landmarks) in relation to the boat. Check these points frequently to make sure you're not drifting.


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The word synergy describes your Southern Baptist Convention well. Your church is totally autonomous (self-governing) -- uniquely worshiping, serving and sharing Jesus. Youre also part of an enormous network of like-minded, Bible-believing, missions-sending, eternity-impacting churches -- the SBC. Each SBC church voluntarily contributes through the Cooperative Program and special mission offerings to mobilize a huge missions and ministry force. Yes, your individual church is awesome. Yet together, were even better. Thats synergy.
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The jungle is a dangerous place, filled with guns, roses, and gank opportunities. Jungling itself is an art, and while art is a matter of expression there are some cardinal rules you must follow:
- Know thy champion.
- Waste not thy time.
- Smite thine objectives straight and true.
- When thou holdeth or taxeth a lane, miss not thy last hits.
Breaking these rules is a sin worthy of being cast into the deepest fires of Elo Hell.
=Jungling 101=
I do not recommend jungling before level 20. Having tier 3 runes and a plethora of mastery points makes an incredible difference in your ability to jungle effectively. It won't take you long to get that far, so enjoy the learning the other aspects of the game first.
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For new junglers I recommend Amumu, Jarvan, and/or Nasus. These three champions represent slightly different variations within the same jungle style, which should help bring into focus what your strengths and weaknesses are. It's also good to have several options available, as your preferred champion will sometimes be banned or picked. Amumu and Nasus are also relatively cheap.
Master Yi, Nunu, and Warwick are technically the cheapest junglers. However, Master Yi is a highly contested ban/first pick at the moment, Nunu is an extremely technical counter-jungler, and Warwick is completely useless for ganking before level 6 (which makes him not all that viable).
Runes are assumed to be tier 3.
Runes: Attack Damage Quints, Attack Damage Marks, Armor Seals, Magic Resistance Glyphs
Place your remaining mastery points based on your champion's role and needs. You'll typically be diving deep into Offense or Defense.
This is just the basic, universal setup. "Optimal" setups will vary wildly based on your champion, both team's compositions, and other conditions.
There are two basic routes you need to know.
The Standard:
For many junglers this route will require assistance from your team.
- Start at either the Ancient Golem or Lizard Elder. Do not use Smite.
- Run straight to the other buff camp.
- Clear the camp, using Smite to last hit to secure the buff.
- Look for a lane to gank/hold.
The Extended:
On junglers with weaker clears, or who aren't receiving assistance, this is the preferred route.
- Start at either the Ancient Golem or Lizard Elder. Use Smite.
- Clear the three small camps.
- Clear the remaining buff camp. Smite should be available, use it.
- Look for a lane to gank/hold.
With experience you'll eventually grow out of fixed routes, but for new junglers they're helpful to give some structure to an otherwise abstract and complicated role.
Ganking is one of the more difficult parts of jungling, particularly for new players. It's an extremely complicated topic with nuances and tricks far beyond what is covered here, but for now approach ganking in the following manner.
- Consider your health. Don't gank when you're weak.
- Ask the lane about any wards their opponent may have placed.
- Avoid any known wards.
- Avoid being seen as you enter the lane.
- Cut the target off from their escape route as much as possible.
- Close in for the kill.
Remember that ganking should be a surprise to your opponents, but not to your allies. Ganking is more than wandering aimlessly into a lane.
=The Meta=
The current meta heavily favors junglers with strong early game presence, with a slight preference for those who transition into tanky initiators later.
The most competitive junglers at the moment are Zac, Jarvan, Elise, Nocturne, and Nasus. Other notable junglers include Master Yi, Amumu, Sejuani, Eve, and Udyr. This is not an exhaustive list.


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