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Adobe adds a simpler UI, Web services connections, and plenty more
Flash forward from my 2004 review of Macromedia Flex 1.5 — a product plagued by limited, proprietary features, clumsy development opportunity, and a hefty price tag — and you'll find a refreshed suite sporting more than just a new proprietor.
Adobe Flex 2.0 demonstrates a solid advance in support of RIA (rich Internet application) development and delivery, comprising an updated components framework and SDK, a new Eclipse-based IDE for drag-and-drop layout and code management, and a separate data services application for mediated server-side messaging and data integration (see also a screencast of Adobe Flex 2.0).
With Flex, developers can create Flash-based apps with features such as chat, real-time dashboards, reliable messaging, and data push services designed to run in the revamped Flash Player 9 virtual machine. Flex 2 now supports serverless, stand-alone app deployment as well — good for offline apps in need of periodic connectivity.
On the downside, companies with an investment in earlier versions of Flex face a bit of a migration hurdle. Although Version 1.5 apps will continue to run in Flash Player 9, they will need to be recompiled under Flex 2 to take advantage of any new capabilities, so prepare for some code parsing.
And, although the new Flash Player shows performance tweaks, debugging, and improved XML support, it is currently available only for Windows PCs and non-Intel based Macs — making this somewhat less flexible in customer-centric deployments.
Adobe needs to watch competing products, such as Laszlo Systems' OpenLaszlo, which deliver a comparable Flash-based experience. The open source platform lacks some component refinement and data integration found in Flex 2. Laszlo, however, recently announced plans for dual compilation, which will add a DHTML and AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) runtime that would bypass the need for the proprietary Flash engine.
Notably, Adobe is also working on an AJAX bridge and has done a 180 on its licensing structure — making Flex available free of charge and opening its source code to developers.
Specifically, the framework, SDK, and a basic version of the server-side data engine, Data Services Express, are free. For more than one CPU or clustering support, you still must invest in the full Data Services 2 app. The Builder 2 IDE is an added expense, but it's well worth its cost, as it eases the learning requirement of Flex's new ActionScript 3.0 language and provides a developer-friendly foray for Flex into IT departments.
In all, I found Adobe Flex 2 a superb choice for streamlining development of enterprise-grade, data-driven RIA applications. With good built-in capability for real-time messaging, collaboration, and graphical data binding, Flex's muscle will help businesses break free of the constraints confining today's Web-based application delivery.
Getting started with Flex was straightforward. Wizards guided setup of the Builder and Data Services components along with a developer version of JRun 4 — with the option to configure alternate J2EE app servers as necessary.
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In my recent policy brief arguing for a reboot of charter school governance, I said that states need to create the right policy environment to ensure that management companies aren't acting as puppeteers determining all the moves of a charter school and controlling the governing boards that ought to be in charge. When boards are mere rubber stamps, questions about accountability, incentives, and conflicts of interest are sure to follow (look at the calamity that has befallen the American Indian Model charter schools in California to see how an ineffectual and subservient board can crash even the highest flying charter).
But as my colleague Kathryn Mullen Upton pointed out yesterday, there's plenty of blame to go around when problems like this surface. Charter boards that agree to arrangements that effectively make them subordinate to managers and vendors are as much at fault, said Upton, who oversees the Fordham Foundation's charter authorizing operations in Ohio. Moreover, authorizers that grant a charter without even looking at the management agreement bear responsibility, too.
The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools has recommended policies that explicitly assert the independence of the boards that ordinarily hold the charter and ultimately answer to the public. These include performance contracts that not only show how a board will assess a vendor's performance but will terminate the contract if necessary. And there ought to be laws, just as in Florida, that explain how a governing board will maintain an arm's-length...
It may seem absurd that one of California's worst-performing school districts can kill the state's finest charter school network. But that is the reality facing the 650 mostly poor and minority, but very high-achieving students enrolled at the American Indian Model charter schools. The Oakland Unified School District voted 4-3 last month to shut down the network after a state audit reported that a lack of financial controls allowed the charter's former principal and chief executive, Ben Chavis, to improperly enrich himself with millions of dollars of school business.
It is, however, hard to see how the Oakland district could have responded differently. The audit, which was issued in June 2012, concluded that Chavis was able to channel $3.8 million from school accounts to his personal business interests—mostly because the charter's governing board "failed to maintain and exercise its responsibilities, authority, and control."
Indeed, the audit showed that a charismatic and assertive school leader had control over American Indian's governing board instead of the other way around. Auditors found multiple examples of self-dealing and conflicts of interest in transactions that benefitted Chavis' consulting, real estate, and construction enterprises—transactions that often put Chavis in the position as landlord to the schools he led. But there were no evidence that the board approved these dealings or ever put them out for competitive bidding. "The lack of due diligence and internal controls by the governing board has effectively granted [Chavis] and his spouse unrestricted access to the assets of the organization and...
Compromise is rarely considered a political virtue. That's why political analyst Peter Wehner made a distinction between compromise and prudence. "Compromise can't be judged in the abstract," Wehner wrote for Commentary. "It can only be assessed in particular circumstances. It takes wisdom and statesmanship to discern when to hold firm (on fundamental principles) and when to give ground (on tactics and secondary issues)."
The description helps us parse two different outcomes on school choice legislation in two states: Mississippi and Tennessee. In the former, at least one charter school advocate bemoaned the "compromised bill" that went last week to Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant, a bill that finally allows start-up charters in the Magnolia State and an independent state authorizer but also allows better-performing districts to effectively neuter that new state body. In the latter, Tennessee's Republican Governor Bill Haslam decided last week to pull his favored voucher bill before letting any legislative members of his party amend it. Haslam sought a limited voucher program for low-income students in low-performing districts, whereas Republicans lawmakers wanted to enlarge it to serve more families.
No doubt Haslam wants private school choice in the Volunteer State. Last year, he directed education commissioner Kevin Huffman to lead a task force to study how a voucher program would best work and embraced the concept in January when he appeared with Jeb Bush at a forum on education reform. But he never once made room for negotiation; when legislators...
Andy Rotherham deserves respect as one of the most thoughtful proponents of education reform, as well as an impressive institution-builder. He and I probably agree on 90 percent of the issues, though we have sparred at times over the federal role, the balance between "excellence and equity," and sundry other topics.
My greatest frustration, though, has been his unwillingness to offer full-throated support for school vouchers.
Maybe he's finally ready. In a blog post yesterday, he predicted that if current reform efforts stall, the future will bring a "low-accountability environment coupled with much more choice" and pointed to the Indiana voucher program (recently upheld by that state's Supreme Court and hailed by Michael Gerson in the Washington Post) as a sign of things to come.
What Andy may not fully appreciate is that Indiana's voucher program has accountability in spades. As David Stuit and Sy Doan explain in their recent report for Fordham, School Choice Regulations: Red Tape or Red Herring? , the Hoosier State has an "annual performance-accountability rating system" for participating private schools that is based on the results of state assessments—the same tests that public school pupils take. Indeed, the fact that private schools will soon be held accountable under Common Core standards and assessments has become a major issue in the Hoosier State—because it gives palpitations to the right, not the left! (Other recently enacted private-school-choice programs, including those in Louisiana and Alabama, also include significant testing and accountability requirements.)
So if...
It is, perhaps, no longer news to see yet another 1.5 percent decline in Catholic school enrollment in the United States. However, two separate but related facts make this year's annual statistical report from the National Catholic Educational Association more troubling.
1. Charter enrollment exceeded Catholic school enrollment for the first time this school year (in 2011–12, each sector had about the same number of students). Catholic school enrollment dropped 1.5 percent to 2,001,740 students, while charter school enrollment increased 13 percent to 2,326,542 students. From here on, any graph plotting student numbers in each sector likely will look like a pair of open scissors.
2. A recent report from U.S. Census Bureau researcher Stephanie Ewert shows that private school enrollment is negatively associated with charter school enrollment. This is similar to what economist Richard Buddin found in his report last year for the Cato Institute when he looked at charter and private school enrollment trends from 2000 to 2008. Ewert looks at more recent years and found that states with substantial increases in charter school enrollment experienced substantial decreases in private school enrollment—particularly at Catholic schools.
Vouchers and tax-credit scholarships have surely offset some of those shifting patterns (Buddin noted that 190,000 students left private schools for charter schools between 2000 and 2008, but about that same number got public aid for private schools by the end of that time period). Most of those private-school-choice programs, however, are so limited in scope, their vouchers so limited...
The New York Times published a semi-balanced story today on the growth of the private school–choice movement—and attention is always welcome—but it also helped perpetuate two nagging myths about vouchers and tax-credit scholarships:
1. Reporters Fernanda Santos and Motoko Rich wrote, "Research tracking students in voucher programs has also not shown clear improvements in performance." Not true. As nine scholars and analysts noted in an Education Week essay published last year, results from gold-standard voucher research have consistently shown (among other positive effects) modest academic gains and outsize graduation rates among voucher recipients when compared to their public school–district peers.
2. The story also repeated the fable that vouchers are accompanied by no accountability for academic results. Wrong. Choice advocate Dick Komer of the firm Institute for Justice told the Times that the only real accountability that matters is parental choice. Voucher opponent and union chief Randi Weingarten railed, "There's absolutely no accountability with vouchers." Both are wrong.
In fact, the two newest voucher programs, both of which have captured much attention (Indiana and Lousiana), as well as the proposed initiative in Tennessee, make clear that underperforming private schools won't be welcome in these programs, for these (and many other) choice programs require participating private schools to administer the same assessments as are given in public schools and bar schools from continuing in the program if their assessment results are weak and stay that way.
It turns out that the oldest voucher program United States, the...
When the charter school movement started twenty-plus years ago, charters represented a radical innovation in governance: School districts would no longer enjoy an "exclusive franchise" on local public schools; they would compete with public, independent, autonomous (but accountable) charter schools too.
Much has happened in the charter sector since then—in fact, what began as a community-led, mom-and-pop movement has evolved to include a burgeoning assemblage of charter school networks, as well. But the laws ruling charter school governance remain largely the same. It's time for a reboot in order to address three critical problems.
First, state laws and authorizer policies often require a full-fledged governing board for every charter school, and these policies make no exception for high-performing charter networks (such as KIPP and Rocketship Education). Thus, replicating at scale is difficult. In fact, only ten states explicitly allow for networks to operate multiple schools under the oversight of one governing board* and three states (Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Iowa) explicitly prohibit the practice.
Second, management organizations—especially for-profits—often control their schools' governing boards, leading to serious questions about accountability and conflicts of interest. The Fordham Institute, both as an education think tank and a charter school authorizer in Ohio, firmly believes that governing boards and...
Ordinarily, states that measure the academic performance of public school students assess students with disabilities no differently than students in general education. But exceptions are made, primarily for children with severe cognitive disabilities. And testing accommodations frequently are part of a student's Individualized Education Plan (such as extending the time it takes to take a test).
Those exceptions partly explain why the Thomas B. Fordham Institute excluded special-education voucher programs from a study of how private schools view the regulations that come with various voucher and tax-credit-scholarship programs. Traditional testing tools aren't always the best measure for students with special needs, but that doesn't mean no accountability measures should follow special-needs students who leave a public school for a private school with a publicly funded voucher.
Virtually no accountability measures, however, exist in most of the nation's special-education voucher programs, including the largest such program in the United States, Florida's McKay Scholarship for Students with Disabilities. And the coalition of schools that oversees the McKay program appears to want to keep it that way—and it's wrong to do so.
The McKay Coalition surveyed its own Florida schools after Fordham published School Choice Regulations: Red Tape or Red Herring, which surveyed private schools in communities served by four prominent voucher programs in Indiana, Ohio, and Wisconsin. The Fordham report found that only 3 percent of non-participating schools cited governmental regulations as the most important reason to opt out. Regulations that restrict student admissions and schools' religious practices are more likely...
The Georgia Senate recently took an incremental step toward responsible and accountable private school choice by unanimously passing a bill that shines more sunlight upon the Peach State's embattled tax-credit-scholarship program. If the House concurs, then parents and taxpayers will have more information about the students and the scholarship groups that participate—a good thing, to be sure.
But Senate Bill 243 doesn't go far enough. Yes, it requires the nonprofit groups that administer the scholarships to disclose the number of students they serve and the amount of tax-credited donations that they receive. Well worth making public—but it reveals nothing about the program's educational value.
Why not also pull back the curtain on student performance? Most of the school-voucher and tax-credit-scholarship programs that exist in other states are designed to show the public at least how they're performing overall in terms of student achievement. For example, private schools participating in the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship administer a standardized test to their scholarship students and report the results to an independent analyst, who then studies the program's effectiveness and reports to the legislature.
For a quartet of reasons, Georgia should at least do something similar.
1. Parents, policymakers, educators, and the taxpaying public deserve to compare the gains that students make in different school environments....
Alabama Governor Robert Bentley today signed into law his state's first private school choice program—a K–12 tuition tax credit—avoiding what was perhaps the most ridiculous attempt yet to thwart efforts to enact a voucher or tax-credit plan anywhere.
Bentley put his signature on the Alabama Accountability Act one day after the state's Supreme Court lifted a restraining order that prevented him from even getting the bill, which passed two weeks ago along party lines. The Alabama Education Association had convinced a state judge last week to block legislative staffers from sending the bill to the governor, arguing that too many Republican lawmakers privately discussed rewriting a separate measure to include the tax credit without calling a public meeting.
The Alabama Supreme Court sensibly determined that the restraining order issued by Judge Charles Price was "premature." The bill hadn't even become law, and according to the top justices, there was no "existing case or controversy" that needed adjudicating.
In other words, there was no one harmed. As political scientist Joshua Dunn noted, courts don't typically intrude in the internal workings of a state legislature, as a matter of separation of powers. The notion that the teacher union might have suffered "irreparable harm" without the restraining order (Judge Price's words) was ludicrous.
Now that the bill is law, Bentley and others who supported the tax credit can expect a lawsuit. And families whose children are zoned to a failing public school and who are hoping for the private school...


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Sochi Olympics inspire Bronx residents to visit Van Cortlandt Park Ice Skating Rink as first-time skaters
THE BRONX - With the Sochi Olympics in full swing, News 12 The Bronx decided to see if the Winter Games had any effect on local businesses.
Last year, the skating school at the Van Cortlandt Park Ice Skating Rink had 80 people enrolled. This year, the number has shot up to 150, many of whom are first-time skaters.
The rink's assistant manager attributes the growth in skaters to the popularity of the Olympics.
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Gia, a 4-year-old first-timer, says watching ice skaters during the games inspired her to lace up a pair of skates and give it a go herself.
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Employment minister Mark Hoban urges Croydon businesses to take on young people
10:40am Monday 14th January 2013 in News
An employment minister has urged businesses to take on some of the borough's 2,515 out-of-work young people.
Mark Hoban, minister of state for work and pensions, encouraged Croydon employers to take advantage of rebates for hiring long-term unemployed youngsters.
Firms can pocket up to £2,275 for taking on young people who have been out of work for six months as part of the government's 'youth contract'.
Mr Hoban said: "My message to businesses in Croydon for 2013 is simple: we've got up to £2,275 of cash sitting on the table waiting for you to take it up. So take on a young person who's been out of work for six months and the cash is yours.
"There really is no better time to change a young person's life and invest in the future of your business at the same time, so snap up the money before someone else beats you to it.
"With the extra work experience placements and apprenticeships we're also providing we will ensure young jobseekers have the skills they need to make a real contribution in the workplace. They just need to get their foot in the door so they can prove their worth to local businesses."
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Thunderstorms, wildfires and tornadoes
are commonly seen across the state of Texas and the Red Cross is taking steps
to make sure they are prepared for the worst.
Saturday volunteers got a glimpse of
what happens during these disasters and how they need to respond.
In Tyler, volunteers were
briefed on the drill before heading out into the field. In Nacogdoches, it was
no different.
Volunteers made their way through a
Nacogdoches neighborhood assessing damage in a mock tornado drill.
40 Red Cross chapters and 700
volunteers across Texas and Oklahoma participated in the first ever multi-state
disaster drill.
"They're joining forces to simultaneously
test their ability to assess damage," said Kristy Brice, Branch Director
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As a part of their assessment volunteers look
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This would be a great collection for beginning fans of Nightwish. Includes my personal favorites "Wish I Had An Angel" and "Over the Hills and Far Away". Tarja has a gorgeous voice. Depressingly, they have decided that a change of vocalists is needed. For all those new to Nightwish, listen to this. Missing songs like "She is my Sin" and "Planet Hell".
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Not less than one of the leading bands of the Finnish music scene. The unique combination of heavy metal and female singing has made this ingenious band rise like a rocket into the awareness of people around the world. The composer of the band's music, Tuomas Holopainen combines elements from movie music to the traditional metal in a way no one has ever done before. If you like good music in general you will love this album…16 tracks. Universal. 2005.
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If you've never experienced this bands music, this is were you should start. All the songs are very good and showcase what this band is all about. I could do however without the Pink Floyd cover at the end on the cd, but overall it's a good listen. The texture and power of their music is excellent as it flows with ease. They are a heavy rock/metal band make no mistake about that, however they are very melodic in how they approach this task. If you like chick singers belting it out, keyboard style nuances/textures, power cords through Boogie stacks, bass and drums holding in all down/together and driving it forward, than this is a must listen. The first disc is strictly music and good music, mostly their hits so to speak. The second disc is live coverage and is a nice bonus. The liner notes are ample and include the lyrics. Overall a good beginners set or a set for someone trying to thin the cd heard a little. Like most Greatest Hits packages, some stuff is missing, however overall it's a pretty decent package.
Highest Hopes: The Best of Nightwish Excellent music by Finland's symphonic metal band, Nightwish. Living in the U.S. we are not exposed to many of Europe's best artists and musicians. Don't miss this band. You will love them. Even if you are not a heavy metal fan, you will love this music, because it is symphonic metal. That means it's way more than metal guitars, drums and screaming vocals. Tarja, the female singer, is a trained opera singer. Toumas, the keyboardist, is a musical genius. Toumas writes the music. The bass guitarist, Marco, has what's called a "raucous" voice, but he is outstanding, and also helps compose some of the music. The lead guitarist, Empu is not only extremely talented, he's gorgeous! The drummer is the best I've ever heard! Check out Nightwish!! You will love them. They're touring the US in the Fall. Look for their new album in September.
I love Nightwish, and I am glad they released a best-of compilation. However, I think it is unfortunate that to get a cheap price on the CD in North America, you have to buy the Argentinian import, or one from the EU for a higher price. There are sixteen songs in total, making this compilation a fairly complete one. There are some very good songs spanning their entire career are on the album, however a couple of my very favorites aren't on the disc. "Sacrament to Wilderness" and "Come Cover Me" are (in my opinion) the best tracks off "Oceanborn" and "Wishmaster" respectively, are not present. There are three tracks on this hits compilation that are not on the standard editions of the full-length albums. To get more of the rare tracks, one would have to buy the more expensive dual-disc edition (sold on Amazon.com for an outrageous price). Drakkar released a better compilation in Germany that includes more rare songs, and is on a single disc. This German compilation did not have any of the latest tracks off of "Once," as it was produced in 2004. An reviewer on this site wrote in saying that Amazon.com told them the disc was unavailable. While I can't check the reliability of that claim, the only store I saw that CD in was located in Europe. In other words, the better compilations are not widely available in the States, even as an import. To sum up the review, it is a sacrifice to buy the (least desirable) greatest hits compilation, but at least it has a lot of songs (and to be fair, everyone's favorite songs are different). Nightwish is an incredible band, and even a decent compilation is a great one.
This is a good collection of songs from the band, but there are songs they should have not left out… Like "Beauty And The Beast", "The Pharoh Sail To Orion", and "Gethsemane".
There is a really cool cover of the Pink Floyd song "High Hopes" on here… That is definatly worth checking out.
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RALEIGH — Coach Sherry Norris' Chapel Hill girls team is thinking state 3A championship this year, but the Tigers picked up an impressive championship trophy with their 60-55 overtime win against West Forsyth Saturday afternoon in the finals of the HighSchoolOT.com Holiday Invitational girls bracket at Broughton High.
The 11-0 Tigers, ranked No. 1 in The News & Observer, were 30-2 and state 3A runners-up last year, but had to survive a fourth quarter comeback by the Titans to get into overtime against a team featuring a pair of 6-foot-2 twin seniors, Jasmine and Jessica Jones, who have signed with Auburn.
The Tigers' balance and experience was decisive.
"Let me just say we're very happy about winning this game tonight; that was a very tough opponent," Norris said. "It's the largest team we've played this year and they just pounded and pounded the boards. We lost the lead in the fourth quarter, but turned it up a notch defensively and got some critical steals and were able to finish and hit some free throws."
Chapel Hill led 39-31 after three quarters but Jessica Jones, who finished the game with 24 points and 16 rebounds, outscored Chapel Hill 12-2 to open the fourth quarter and put her team ahead 43-41.
Chapel Hill needed an outside jumper from Raziyah Farrington with four seconds left to tie the score at 47and force overtime.
Once in overtime, Autumn West hit a free throw for the Tigers and tournament MVP Jamella Smith got a pair of baskets for a 52-47 lead. Chapel Hill led the rest of the way.
Smith scored 19 for the Tigers, followed by Farrington (17 points). Center Catherine Romaine had 10 points and point guard Tamia Eatmon scored 8 points and had 6 steals.
"When Tamia went out with foul trouble, Jessica Wall came in and played well," Norris said. "I think our balance is our strength. We complement each other and play well together. We kind of joke that we're a team with nine guards and two post players.
"Defensively, we play well and any of them can score. We've got 11 players and we're 11 deep. We can put them all out there and know they can play."
Stevens shines: Cary's Azura Stevens, a Duke recruit, scored 26 points, grabbed 28 rebounds and blocked 7 shots in a 52-45 victory against Greensboro Dudley. Stevens smashed the Holiday Invitational girls' rebounding mark with 79 rebounds in three games. The Imps finished fifth.
Stevens leads the area with 32.1 points and 19.3 rebounds per game. The state record for rebounds per game is 20.3, by Henrietta Walls of Central Davidson in 1978-79.
Riverside tops Hillside: Hillside coach Ovester Grays said his team had talent, but had to develop chemistry. The Hornets didn't on Saturday as they lost their third straight game in the Holiday Invitational girls' tournament, 52-51 to Piedmont Athletic 4A rival Durham Riverside.
Caps fall: The Broughton girls lost to West Craven 64-57 in the third-place game. University of North Carolina recruit Jamie Cherry scored 26 points for the winners.


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PETERSBURG, Va. (AP) -- Services have been set for a Virginia State Police trooper fatally shot Thursday during an Interstate 85 traffic stop in Dinwiddie.
State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller says a wake for 63-year-old Master Trooper Junius A. Walker will be held Monday from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Good Shepherd Baptist Church in Petersburg.
Funeral services for the 35-year State Police veteran are scheduled for 11 a.m. Tuesday at the church. Burial will be for family only.
Officials say 28-year-old Russell E. Brown III of Chesterfield is charged with capital murder and two felony firearms counts. He's also charged with attempted capital murder for allegedly exchanging gunfire with another trooper.
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DINWIDDIE, Va. (AP) -- A Dinwiddie County prosecutor says she will seek the death penalty against the man charged in the shooting death of a Virginia state trooper.
Commonwealth's Attorney Lisa Caruso announced her intentions Friday at Russell Ervin Brown's arraignment. The 28-year-old Chesterfield County man is charged with capital murder in Thursday's slaying of 63-year-old Master Trooper Junius Walker.
According to media reports, Brown said in court that he expects to be executed.
Attorney Joseph Teefey was appointed to represent Brown, whose next court appearance is March 18.
DINWIDDIE, Va. (AP) -- Virginia State Police have identified a suspect arrested in the fatal shooting of a trooper during a traffic stop.
State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller says 28-year-old Russell E. Brown of Chesterfield was found hiding at a business about a half-mile from where Master Trooper Junius A. Walker was shot off Interstate 85 on Thursday.
Geller says Brown has been charged with one count each of capital murder of a police officer and two felony firearm counts.
Brown is being held without bond at the Meherrin River Regional Jail in Alberta. It wasn't known whether he has an attorney.
The 63-year-old Walker was a 35-year State Police veteran.
DINWIDDIE, Va. (AP) -- Gov. Bob McDonnell says a trooper involved in a shooting along Interstate 85 in Dinwiddie County has died.
McDonnell says 40-year state police veteran Master Trooper Junius Walker was shot while on duty on Thursday.
Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller says Walker was shot multiple times around 1:30 p.m. He called for backup, and a trooper who arrived within two minutes saw a male suspect shooting into Walker's car. The second trooper fired at the suspect, who fled into the woods on foot.
The suspect was arrested before 2 p.m. Charges are pending.
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PHOENIX -- Arizona motorists are paying more at the pump again this week.
Officials with Triple-A Arizona said Thursday that the average statewide price for unleaded regular gasoline is $3.34 a gallon. That's more than 13 cents higher than last week.
This week's national average is $3.55 per gallon, up by more than 13 cents from last week.
Triple-A analysts said the price rise is typical for this time of year in Arizona as spring approaches and demand for gasoline starts to increase.
Tucson has the state's lowest average gasoline price at $3.14 a gallon while Flagstaff has the highest at $3.43.
Wyoming has the lowest average gas prices in the continental U.S. at $2.99 a gallon. California has the highest at $3.98 a gallon.
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ARLINGTON -- "He's in there. Get ready for something special," exclaimed Greg Marra as he climbed inside the trailer of a pristine moving van, and examined a seven-foot-tall wooden crate.
It contained a life-sized statue of murdered former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle.
Marra sculpted it at his studio in Florida. It arrived Thursday afternoon at Schaefer Art Bronze Casting in Arlington, where the artist helped unload it and prepare it for bronzing.
"He was a sniper, but also a humanitarian. You see that in the piece," Marra said. "The Holy Spirit moves in my hands."
Marra was sculpting a tribute to SEALs at his Sarasota, Florida, studio when he heard Kyle had been killed by a troubled veteran he was trying to help. Greg Marra switched his focus and worked non-stop from photographs.
The soft clay weighs more than 400 pounds. It shows Chris Kyle as he would have looked in Iraq -- imposing and lethal.
A truck driver donated time and fuel to bring it to Arlington. Patriot Guard Riders and police rode escort. When Marra tried to buy a plane ticket, a Delta Airlines employee refused, and paid for it herself.
Marra marveled at how well the statue weathered the trip.
"The American spirit must have held it together," he said.
He's nervous about revealing it to Chris Kyle's family Friday. After it's bronzed in several weeks, he says they can put it wherever they want.
The clay statue will be on public display at Schaefer Art Bronze Casting at 132 S. Collin St. on Saturday and Sunday from 3-6 p.m.
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Some member in this forum actually welcome the 60D with plastic body for the lighter weight. One member actualy suggest team up a light weight DSLR body with a light weight plastic lens (50mm f1.8 II). It is a mistake. I am not against plastic body but I am against lightweight. It is just simple physics. 1. When we push the shutter release button, our hand do have the tendency to move. The heavier the camera, the less movement it will be. 2. After the shutter button is pushed. The mirror will flip up and the camera body will come down (conservation of momentum). The heavier the camera , the slower the camera movement. We know that any movement during the exposure will cause unsharpness of the picture. So a heavier camera will have less and slower movement and hence a sharper picture. In the old film dates, people actually attach lead plate on the light weight SLR to minimize camera movement.
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"I've never used a light weight camera plus light weight lens and I've never used a heavy camera plus heavy lens so let me make a guess about what happens based on an incorrect model I've built and applied some physics to."
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Zac and I aren't having marital problems. Williams is just so much easier for people to say and spell.
I have been called Mrs. Cochran more times than I can count in the past two years. I'm not sure if some people see a "c" where it doesn't exist or add a couple of letters to make themselves feel better.
In any case, I'm glad Zac and I didn't name our firstborn son Johnnie.
Last week, I was known as Jennifer Cohorn in several newspapers throughout the state when the Associated Press picked up one of my articles.
The story was copied word for word, but the byline was butchered. I guess the AP editors assumed that I had misspelled my own name.
Frankly, I question their choice of material, but if I'm the best they can do I would rather not be known as a Cohorn.
If any Cohorns are reading this, I'm sure you are perfectly lovely people. My husband just happens to be a Cohron.
For the record, that is pronounced like moron with a "c."
I have been asked by several people why I didn't hyphenate my last name or not change it at all like many famous women.
I read somewhere that Hillary Rodham Clinton was fit to be tied when the new stationery she ordered after getting married came back bearing the initials "HC" instead of "HRC."
I consider myself to be a liberated, open-minded female. However, I don't think I have to hyphenate my name in order to prove that I did not lose my former self when I became Zac's wife.
Our marriage is based on more than semantics.
Do I love his last name? No. But I love him, which is why I became Jennifer Cohron in the first place.
Maybe that's why I got upset when the AP got my name wrong.
My last name is a representation of the man I married. I took it willingly as a sign that I am completely committed to him and our life together.
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They can mend a relationship or destroy it, cheer up a friend or slander an enemy. They can be forgiven but never forgotten.
Even our cherished freedom of speech has it limits. If I yelled "Fire!" in a crowded room as a prank and even one person died in the dash to the door, my First Amendment rights would not be enough to save me from legal consequences.
Our words matter, and we all need to remember that.
A friend told me recently that she and her daughter are making an effort to not call themselves fat.
My friend's daughter was 9 when she went on her first diet.
No one told her that she was fat. She just overhead the women in her life criticizing their bodies, and she developed negative thoughts about her own.
Now she doesn't want the young girls in her dance classes to have an unhealthy self-image because of a comment she made offhandedly about herself.
Thoughts frequently pop in my head and fly out my mouth before I can stop them. It's a bad habit that I've been trying to break for a long time.
I used to keep an index card on my desk with Ephesians 4:29 written on it -- "Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen."
Talk about conviction.
It seems that for the past month I've been writing about things I want to do better this year.
I am officially adding self-censorship to the list.
Wyatt is already starting to babble. Pretty soon he will be repeating everything that Zac and I say.
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A Chat With Steven Lutvak and Robert L. Freedman, the Gentlemen Behind the Murder
By Carey Purcell
Steven Lutvak and Robert L. Freedman, the composer, lyricist and bookwriters for the new musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, chat with Playbill.com about their long journey to Broadway.
It's taken ten years for Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak's musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder to slash its way to the Broadway stage. Adapted from the novel "Israel Rank" by Roy Horniman, which was the inspiration for the film "Kind Hearts and Coronets," starring Alec Guinness, the musical comedy follows Monty Navarro, a young man who learns he is ninth in line to inherit a fortune — and sets out to murder everyone who stands in his way.
Prior to its Broadway engagement, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder made its world premiere at The Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, CA, and played an engagement at Hartford Stage. The Broadway production began previews Oct. 22 at the Walter Kerr Theatre, prior to a Nov. 17 opening, starring Bryce Pinkham as Monty and Tony winner Jefferson Mays (I Am My Own Wife) as the eight family members standing in his way.
Freedman and Lutvak previously collaborated on the musical Campaign of the Century. In 2006, the duo received the Kleban Award for Lyric Writing for the Theater and the Fred Ebb Award for Songwriting for the Theater — the first time these two awards were presented to the same team in the same year.
Freedman and Lutvak chatted with Playbill.com about the process of adapting the book into a musical and the secrets behind inspiring the audience to root for a murderer.
Tell us about the musical. How does a gentleman commit murder?
Steven Lutvak: I've always said that we all want to kill our families. But, because of the way we've done it here, we have the cathartic thrill of murdering these people, knowing that he will come back as somebody else. So we get to have our cake and eat it, too, in a certain way.
How do you make the audience root for Monty, even when he's committing murder?
What is it about British entertainment that you think Americans love so much?
RLF: It's just a coincidence that "Downton Abbey" appeared as we were getting this show mounted. We actually started writing it in 2004. We're both big fans of "Downton Abbey." This is like "Downton Abbey" on acid, or "Downton Abbey" meets Little Shop of Horrors. We're not a horror story at all, but there is some suspense.
The musical seems to be saying a lot about class structures in British society. There's a song titled "I Don't Understand the Poor."
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According to police, he was shot in the torso.
Ornelas was transported to San Antonio Military Medical Center in critical condition.
An officer at the scene said drugs were found on him at the hospital and shell casings were found inside his car.
Police said Ornelas was not cooperating with investigators and they do not know what prompted the shooting.
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I AM sure that most of us feel that there has been a shortage of activity in repairing our often seriously damaged roads but our recent Sporting Courses events have found such action in abundance!
Every event from the Circuit of Pendle and Circuit of Ingleborough in early March through the two Ribble Valley based events to the Nelson Wheelers' Circuit of the Dales last weekend have been hindered in some way with temporary traffic lights affecting most of them.
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And, according to Carr, the management of IT is therefore withering into a simple discipline of risk-management and cost-optimization. IT managers should no longer worry about delivering cutting-edge solutions that make their companies more effective -- they should stick to the knitting of minimizing costs and risks from services that are increasingly procured as outsourced (utility) services. In other words, IT organizations are effectively on the same level as janitorial services -- necessary maintenance, but hardly innovators.
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|b) Do you support limiting the number of terms for North Dakota state senators and representatives?
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|e) Do you support imposing spending limits on state level political campaigns?
|f) Do you support adopting statewide standards for counting, verifying, and ensuring accuracy of votes?
|g) Do you support prohibiting the reporting of media exit polling results until all polling locations in North Dakota are closed?
|h) Should North Dakota recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
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|j) Should North Dakota allow non-family members to become shareholders of a family farm in the state?
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|b) Implement the death penalty in North Dakota.
|c) Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
|d) End parole for repeat violent offenders.
|e) Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
|f) Decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.
|g) Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes.
|h) Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
|i) Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth.
|j) Increase funding for state and local emergency agencies to prevent and to respond to terrorist attacks.
|k) Other or expanded principles
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|a) Support national standards and testing of public school students.
|b) Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any public school.
|c) Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any private or religious school.
|d) Increase state funds for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure).
|e) Increase state funds for hiring additional teachers.
|f) Support teacher testing and reward with merit pay.
|g) Endorse voluntary prayer in public schools.
|h) Require public schools to administer high school exit exams.
|i) Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries.
|j) Increase funding for Head Start programs.
|k) Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable.
|l) Support sexual education programs that include information on abstinence, contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods.
|m) Support abstinence-only sexual education programs.
|n) Other or expanded principles
Employment: Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding employment.
|a) Increase funding for state job-training programs that re-train displaced workers and teach skills needed in today's job market.
|b) Reduce state government regulations on the private sector in order to encourage investment and economic expansion.
|c) Provide low interest loans and tax credits for starting, expanding, or relocating businesses.
|d) Provide tax credits for businesses that provide child care for children in low-income working families.
|e) Require an annual report listing the assistance provided, actual jobs created, and average wages paid for all state economic development programs.
|f) Increase state funds to provide child care for children in low-income working families.
|g) Include sexual orientation in North Dakota's anti-discrimination laws.
|h) Increase the state minimum wage.
|i) Other or expanded principles
Affirmative Action: Should race, ethnicity or gender be taken into account in state agencies' decisions on:
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|b) State college and university admissions
|c) State contracting
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Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding the environment and energy.
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|b) Support increased production of traditional domestic energy sources (e.g. coal, natural gas, and oil).
|c) Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused, or abandoned.
|d) Support funding for open space preservation.
|e) Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law.
|f) Other or expanded principles
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|a) Maintain and strengthen the enforcement of existing state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
|b) Ease state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
|c) Repeal state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
|d) Allow citizens to carry concealed guns.
|e) Require manufacturers to provide child-safety locks on guns.
|f) Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows.
|g) Require a license for gun possession.
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|a) Ensure that citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms, or state-funded care where necessary.
|b) Transfer more existing Medicaid recipients into managed care programs.
|c) Limit the amount of punitive damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
|d) Support patients' right to sue their HMOs.
|e) Support patients' right to appeal to an administrative board of specialists when services are denied.
|f) Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
|g) Legalize physician assisted suicide in North Dakota.
|h) Allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
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|b) Increase funding for employment and job training programs for welfare recipients.
|c) Increase access to public transportation for welfare recipients who work.
|d) Support current limits on benefits given to recipients if they have additional children while on welfare.
|e) Redirect welfare funding to faith-based and community-based private organizations.
|f) Use federal TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) funds to extend health and child care subsidies to the working poor.
|g) Support marriage promotion programs for welfare recipients.
|h) Eliminate government-funded welfare programs.
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