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There are only three kinds of ways to kick off a football. You can kick it as hard and as far as you can, you can "pooch" kick it, or you can onside kick it. It sounds simple enough to match these options to game scenarios, yet there were two choices too many for Mike Smith, the head coach of the Atlanta Falcons, who did everything in his power to blow the Falcons' first post-season victory since 2004 on Sunday.
I would like you to participate in an exercise with me.
Find someone who knows very little about football and present them with this scenario: He/she is the head coach of a football team winning by two points, with eight seconds left in the game. A field goal is worth three points, and if the opposing team kicks one, you will lose this game. So what should you do when you kick off? Do you kick the ball as far as you can, away from field goal range? Do you kick it not quite as far, but into the hands of someone who does not usually field or return the football? Or do you kick it as short as legally possible and try and recover it?
The first option could result in a touchback, which would put the ball on your opponent's 20-yard line. With eight seconds to go, they would have time for only one play to get into field-goal range, which in the NFL, would equate to a 45-yard gain on a single play. Additionally, if your cover team was on the mark, they could tackle the returner inside the 20, making this possibility even more improbable.
With a long kickoff, though, comes the chance, albeit remote, of a return for a touchdown, or a long return. Still, with only eight seconds on the clock, with a long kickoff return, there would not be time to run another play.
If you were the most paranoid of coaches, though, and the opponent had the best of all returners, you might opt for the "pooch" kick.
This is a kick of medium length and great height, where you sacrifice maximum distance to have the football caught by a player who is not a returner and does not field kicks with any regularity. He is there to block.
I believe the Riders employed this technique against the Bombers twice in 2012, in succession, and both times the player fumbled the football and the Riders recovered. In this option in our hypothetical scenario, your opponent is that much closer to getting within field-goal range, but the effectiveness of the return is decreased.
If your test subject chose either of the first two options, congratulate them, because they have superior common sense than at least one NFL head coach making millions of dollars a year, namely Mike Smith. Coach Smith, defying what would appear to be the only two logical choices, opted for option three in this game, the onside kick.
For those of you that don't know, the onside kick is primarily used when a team is behind and doesn't have time to get the football back after a defensive stop. So they sacrifice massive amounts of field position to compete for the football after it has travelled a minimum of 10 yards. It is a highly risky and rarely successful option, but when you are behind in a game, you have few other options.
With eight seconds left in this playoff game, though, while protecting a two-point lead, the Falcons attempted an onside kick.
While it is true, in the final two minutes of the half, the clock only starts after a kickoff when a player touches the football, this still doesn't excuse giving the Seahawks instant field position. While I'm certain the Seahawks were caught off guard with this tactic, because it was so incredibly idiotic they could never have seen it coming, the Falcons almost lost the game as Seattle retained possession, and had a single play to get within a manageable field-goal range.
So without further deliberation, I'm taking the San Francisco 49ers to defeat the Atlanta Falcons next week in the NFC Championship game, for no other reason than the fact that I will not bet on stupidity to make it to the Super Bowl.
For the AFC championship, the Baltimore Ravens will travel to Foxborough again to play the New England Patriots. While it took a miracle of sorts to get Ray Lewis past the Denver Broncos and into this game, in my mind, betting against Bill Belichick and Tom Brady makes as much sense as Atlanta's idea of how to protect a two-point lead.
Doug Brown, once a hard-hitting defensive lineman and frequently a hard-hitting columnist, appears Tuesdays and game days in the Free Press.
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I've been developing an API for our testers to use when writing GUI integration tests and acceptance tests for our main AJAXified web product. Having chosen Selenium Remote Control as our test engine, and writing many tests by hand and with the Selenium IDE Firefox Plugin, I've delved deeply into Selenium this past several weeks. (I've also managed to not only isolate it from our testers, but make our tests portable to any machine that you'd like to use, with no installs or executable paths, but I'll save that magic for another post ;))
So from the last few weeks, I thought I'd share some tips I've learned to make writing Selenium tests easier on yourself.
The first thing you should consider is mapping all your GUI elements to strongly typed objects, or at least a dictionary of named XPath strings. It is much easier on everyone if they can read your code and see something like
rather then something like
Hand in hand with this tip, I'll remind you to use Best Practices and get your developers to put in an ID for any web page element that will be interacted with Also, you can check out the Selenium extension called GUI_Map if you're looking to extend the Selenium core for your environment.
The code that the Selenium IDE generates for a timer loop is terrible! It loops from 0 to your timeout number, checking the condition and then sleeping for one second. This assumes that the loop itself has a negligible execution time, which is untrue in many cases. I've run into situations where for whatever reason, the timer loop runs very slowly depending on the XPath you're checking against. This means your 60 second timeout actually takes wayyyy longer, which is very annoying. Use this code instead to more reliably measure elapsed time:
DateTime start = DateTime.Now;
TimeSpan ts = DateTime.Now.Subtract(start);
bool bFound = false;
if (_selenium.IsElementPresent(elementName))
bFound = true;
catch (Exception)
{ }
ts = DateTime.Now.Subtract(start);
while (ts.TotalMilliseconds < _waittime) ;
if (!bFound) Assert.Fail("timeout");
I've found that in many situations a call to
Click() won't work, even if the Selenium IDE generated the code. This is especially true for block elements like table cells that you've styled to be clickable. Just give up and use a call to
MouseDown("element") followed by
MouseUp("element"). This works great in almost every situation.
I also searched long and hard for a Click-drag method for Selenium until realizing that this can also simply be done with
MouseDownAt("elementName", "x1,y1") followed by a
MouseUpAt("elementName", "x2,y2"). Handy if you're testing on-screen drawing or selection tools using click-drags.
One of the things the testers appreciate most is that my API handles all the overhead in their tests. Typically you'll want to split your integration tests into multiple parts, so any given test run would be composed of several tests, each of which runs a sequence of selenium commands. In order to reset our test environment for each test, I made heavy use of the Command pattern to implement file undo stacks, reversible web-steps, etc. That way, testers can go deeply into a sequence of commands and simply call the reverse of each command in the stack to back them out to where they started from. Very useful when testing anything that modifies configurations, test data, etc.
There's no getting around this one. Browser dialogs such as the file download dialog are not testable in Selenium. There is work being done to allow this in the future, but currently you're out of luck.
If you're using
WaitForCondition(), you can use the following snippet to access the DOM for the page that Selenium is running:
"this.browserbot.getCurrentWindow().imgloaded == 1", "15000"
This is handy for executing existing javascript functions as well as checking variable values.
A fundamental drawback to using a GUI direct-testing tool is the reliance on locators for GUI elements. If your locators change, your tests break, even though functionally the app might still be in perfect working order. As well as using Best Practices to make your tests as robust as possible, you need to centralize your locators (see Tip #1) and build a library of utility functions to re-use. Having 15 wait-for loops in a test or having the same navigation routines in multiple tests is hideous, not maintainable, and very fragile.
If you're making use of a framework that is using the ASP.Net 2.0 Callback architecture, this little snippet can save you a bundle. The key to AJAX testing with Selenium is making use of the various WaitFor…() methods. For a normal AJAX request, you would just do a regular
WaitForCondition or
WaitForElementPresent - so what's different about some callbacks? If you have a Callback chain -- i.e., one callback has a result that sets off another callback - you can't use WaitFors to tell when they're done. A
WaitForElementPresent on something that is changed later on in the callback chain will not work, since the element is present and sitting there while the first callbacks are executing. A
WaitForCondition might work, depending on the specific situation, but generally it's not easy to inject a semaphore around some callback object without making the test very fragile, and having to write code for multiple situations in your app. And of course using
Thread.Sleep() slows down your test unnecessarily and isn't reliable. What we really need is a reliable generic method to check that all Callbacks are complete before we start Asserting that everything worked out. So use this:
WaitForCondition("var finished = 1; for (var i = 0; i < selenium.browserbot.getCurrentWindow().__pendingCallbacks.length; i++) { if (selenium.browserbot.getCurrentWindow().__pendingCallbacks[i] != null){ finished = 0; } }; finished == 1", "15000");
This is a semaphore around the ASP.Net
__pendingCallbacks array that waits for everything to finish up and returns true when all callbacks are complete. It times out in 15 seconds (you can change the 15000 parameter to any timeout length you'd like).
There it is - 10 tips for happier test writing. Hope it helps some people out.
Very good tips! Thanks!
Thanks a lot for this article, this is exactly what I was looking for!!
A question about tip 7.
I can't get this to work. Selenium cannot find the variable i am trying to access. This is a variable that I create myself on page load.
It seems like selenium is able to access DOM variables, but not my own variables.
Any thoughts?
thnx ..This article helped me a lot
I've also found that the XPath and XPather add-ons for Firefox can make it easier to find a good XPath selector for an element.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1095 XPath
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1192 XPather
The problem with the variable it seems that it because of the wrapper that selenium uses around the window object to make it more "secure". See this link: http://crschmidt.net/blog/348/selenium-ide-getcurrentwindow-problems/
Good info!
Regarding point #9: I found XPather (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1192) to be a really nice addition to firebug when testing complex XPath expressions in Firefox.
Does WaitForElementPresent command is implemented in selenium or do we need to implement a wrapper around using selenium Wait.wait method? I am using selenium 1.0.2 snapshot and I don't see that method(command) at all to use it Java/C# langugage(not in IDE). Am I missing something here?
Thanks for the tips.
I have been trying to test a click and drag interaction on my project using tip 4 (Simulate Click-Drag with MouseDownAt + MouseUpAt) however this does not seem to work. It only simulates the click and release not the actual change of cursor position, if I moved my mouse into the spawned browser and dragged down in between the two events it worked, but not in an automated fashion. However I found that introducing mouse_move_at() in between resulted in the intended behavior.
selenium.mouse_down_at("//div[@id='events']", "8,200")
selenium.mouse_move_at("//div[@id='events']", "8,400")
selenium.mouse_up_at("//div[@id='events']", "8,400")
I think this ought to be abstracted as a standalone function in selenium.
A great read, showing that developing tests (or a test support) is real software development. We don't need to put up with using tools that generate fragile code.
Solid design for strong, maintainable tests!
gui_map for selenium is a discovery for me. I was not aware of such thing. Thanks a lot for sharing, this will ease out life a lot

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The Chief said, "The night of the fire we had to use the services of Haskin's Inc. to assist us with extinguishing of the balance of the fire which was in the basement." He continued, "The Indiana State Fire Marshall's Office sent an investigator out on an immediate call out due to the number and severity of those injured. The Investigator and I determined that the fire had originated in the basement. Due to the extent of the damages to the structure and having to remove a vast amount of debris a definitive cause was not able to be determined. The Official cause of this fire will be listed as Undetermined."
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The HTC One is a highly impressive Android device, but many users wish that they could get the beautiful hardware with stock Android Jelly Bean software. Luckily, that wish is becoming reality, as Android head Sundar Pichai announced during his D11 talk that the HTC One with Nexus UI will go on sale on June 26th on the Google Play store, and will work on both AT&T and T-Mobile.
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The LG Nexus 4 is arguably the best Android phone on the market right now (if you don't care about LTE,) but if you were bored by the black hue, you can now get it on the Google Play store and T-Mobile in white. In fact, if you buy it from Google Play directly, you also get a free bumper case thrown in for good measure. It should be stated, though, that the only difference here is the color--otherwise, it's the same Nexus 4 that was released over six months ago, running the latest version of Android, Jelly Bean 4.2.2.
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Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini announced, packs 4.3-inch display
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Today Samsung announced the Galaxy S4 Mini, a smaller take on its flagship Galaxy S4 Android smartphone. The Galaxy S4 Mini isn't really that "mini," though, since it ships with a 4.3-inch display that is larger than that of the iPhone 5--we'd say this is more of a mid-range display size, but, hey, to each their own. Additionally, it's not as powerful as the full-sized S4, as the Mini has a 1.7GHz dual-core processor and 1.5GB RAM. An 8-megapixel rear camera is paired with a 1.9-megapixel front shooter, and on the inside you get 8GB of storage (which you can expand with a microSD card.) Once nicety is that the Galaxy S4 Mini ships with Android 4.2.2, which means you get the latest and greatest right out of the gate. Pricing and availability has yet to be announced, but we're that that we'll find out next month. In the meantime, let us know if you're going for this one in the comments.
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Yesterday evening, Apple CEO Tim Cook took the state at the 11th annual D: All Things Digital conference, and spoke about many topics relating to Apple. During the D11 interview, Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher hit Cook with tough questions, most of which were answered with just enough information so as not to give away specific future plans. Talking points include wearable computing, changes coming to iOS, Apple stock price, taxes, and more. We've got the full 90-minute interview video for you after the break--check it out.
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You can now attach money to your Gmail messages
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Google is making the practice of sending money to friends as easy as attaching a document to an email. Using Gmail, you'll be able to attach cash money to your emails using your Google Wallet account, for free. The nice thing is that you don't have to have funds on your account to do this--you can just have a bank account attached to your Wallet account. Recipients of your paper won't need to have a Gmail account, which is one more thing you don't need to worry about, and anyone you send money to can return it to you as well. Google is rolling out the feature now to Gmail users over the age of 18. Check out a video that explains it all, after the break.
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Google Hangouts now live, brings together Google Talk, Voice, Messenger
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The new Google Hangouts has arrived, bringing together Google's Talk, Hangouts, Voice, and Google+ Messenger under one app and umbrella. Google Hangouts offers unified, synchronized chat that retains history across all devices, allowing you to dig into your history wherever you are, delete messages, and check out files, photos, etc. Hangouts naturally includes the previous Google Hangouts video chat features, which allows multiple people to video chat with each other, again, from a smartphone, tablet, or computer.
Hangouts it now available on iOS, Android, Chrome, and within the Gmail web client. Get a look at the video promo after the break.
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Google Play Music All Access is now live with free 30-day trial
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Google Play Music All Access is now live and official. Just head on over to Google Music and you can sign up for the absolutely free 30-day trial. Remember, if you sign up before June 30th, you lock in $7.99 per month pricing. After that, it jumps to $9.99 per month.
Google announces Samsung Galaxy S 4 with stock Android Jelly Bean, drops June 26th for $649
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Google has announced a new version of the Samsung Galaxy S 4 during the opening day Google I/O keynote, which runs the latest stock version of Android Jelly Bean. This means that the specialized smartphone sports the Nexus experience. It's compatible with AT&T and T-Mobile LTE networks, completely unlocked. The bootloader is unlocked as well, and the device sports 16GB of on-board storage, expandable with a microSD card. One major benefit is the promise of immediate system updates to newer Android versions, thanks to the stock Android being used. Since the phone has no contract, it won't be cheap. The stock Android Jelly Bean version of the Galaxy S 4 will go on sale on Google Play on June 26th for $649.
Google Play Music All Access subscription music service launches today, takes on Rdio, Spotify
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Google has just announced Google Play Music All Access at its Google I/O 2013 developer conference, the company's new subscription music service. Aside from givng you access to the millions of songs in Google's new streaming catalog, it will also incorporate tracks that you have stored in your Google Play Music account. The service launches today, and will cost $9.99 per month. Google offers a 30-day trial--sign up for the free trial by June 30th, you'll lock in a $7.99 per month rate, making it 20% cheaper than competing services like Rdio and Spotify.
It is expected that Apple will announce it's own streaming music service, possibly at WWDC 2013 in June, but rumors point to it being more akin to a Pandora Internet radio competitor than a full on streaming service where you can pick and choose individual tracks and albums that you want to listen to.
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BOISE – Juan Carlos Morales-Cardenas, 37, of San Bernardino, California, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court in Boise to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
According to the plea agreement, the defendant joined a group of individuals involved in distributing methamphetamine in Idaho and elsewhere. He supplied methamphetamine to persons who subsequently brought the methamphetamine to Idaho. The defendant also traveled to Idaho to meet with his co-conspirators, during which time he sold methamphetamine to them.
The charge is punishable by a minimum term of 10 years up to life in prison, a maximum fine of $10 million, and at least five years supervised release.
Sentencing is set for April 16, 2012, before U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge at the federal courthouse in Boise.
To date, eight co-conspirators have been sentenced to federal prison on related drug trafficking charges:
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The investigation was the result of a joint investigation of the Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF), led by the Drug Enforcement Administration, in conjunction with the Nampa Police Department.
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In the latter part of the nineteenth century and the first 50 years of the twentieth century, a number of schools were established in South Australia for children with specific disabilities. These schools were operated by charitable institutions or voluntary organisations. During the 1970s the State Government passed the Education Act and took on responsibility for educating all children, including those with a disability. Today, the government maintains special schools for students with disabilities who require intensive support, and have established special education units within regular schools to enable children with disabilities to attend. Many children with disabilities are now attending regular schools, with the assistance of special support services.
Townsend House and Minda Home
In the latter part of the nineteenth century two schools were established in South Australia for children with specific disabilities. These schools were operated by charitable institutions.
The earliest South Australian school for children with disabilities was established in 1874 for children who were deaf or blind. The South Australian Institution for the Blind, Deaf and Dumb (Townsend House) provided education which was described as 'of an ordinary school type'.
In 1961 a deputation from the Board of Townsend House went to the Minister of Education and requested that the government take over the responsibility of educating the children due to its deteriorating financial position. The government assumed responsibility and the Education Department took over control of the School. There were major changes in the approach towards educating the Deaf between 1963 and 1976 with an emphasis toward mainstream education.
In 1898 the first school for children with an intellectual disability was established at Minda Home. The home had accommodation for 22 pupils. It opened with 10 children but soon filled to capacity. The children were cared for by Matron Elizabeth Barker and educated by Miss Edna Fox. In 1962, at the request of Minda's Board, the Education Department took over the school.
Dr. Constance Davey
The South Australian Education Department first established a service for children with special needs in 1924, when it appointed Constance Davey as a psychologist. She examined children who were considered 'retarded' educationally by testing them and observing their home conditions. She provided vocational and educational guidance and was often consulted by Minda and the Blind, Deaf and Dumb School, the Children's Court, and the Children's Welfare Department.
Dr. Davey worked hard to improve conditions for 'retarded' children and established Opportunity Classes in schools.
In 1925 the State's first 'opportunity class' for problem cases and slow learners was established in which twenty children could learn at their own rate, based on Davey's testing of their intelligence.
Australian Dictionary of Biography – Online Edition
At the end of 1926 there were four Opportunity Classes, one each in Alberton and Norwood and two in Port Adelaide. On 1st October 1935, The News praised Dr. Davey for the 'wonderful' work she was doing for 'backward children'. At the time there were 21 Opportunity Classes in South Australian schools.
The first Opportunity Class teachers were volunteer teachers without any training in special education. As the number of Opportunity classes grew it became apparent that the teachers needed extra training. Dr. Davey devised a six week, full time course to train teachers to work with children with an intellectual disability. The Education Department offered the course in 1931 but it had been reduced to four weeks. It was called the 'Training course for teachers of retarded and subnormal children'. The course was open to women with three years teaching experience. Nineteen teachers attended the first course. In 1947 the name of the course was changed to 'the 'Training course for teachers of backward and difficult children'. The course continued until 1973.
Dr. Davey believed many children in the Opportunity Classes were inappropriately placed. In an Annual Report of the Chief Psychologist in 1925 she stated:
In our Opportunity Class rolls at present there are 286 children…Of this number 158 are subnormal and need the training that can be given most effectively and economically in a Special School for such children. There are eight low grade uneducable children who will always need special care and supervision. These children are incapable of school work and the Opportunity Class is not the proper place for them.
Wicks 2000 p139
As Chief Psychologist Dr. Davey continued her campaign for the establishment of a Special School but the government was satisfied with the success of the Opportunity Classes and was unwilling to do any more.
Post-War Australia
After the end of World War II parents of children with disabilities in Australia wanted their children to get an adequate education in state schools.
[I]n the immediate post-war period, the major efforts of state education departments were concentrated upon children with mild intellectual disabilities. In consequence, voluntary organisations were formed to provide special schooling for children with moderate and severe levels of intellectual disability and for children with physical disabilities…It is clear…that the rise of…voluntary organisations represented a mobilisation of concerned citizens faced with enormous problems in the absence of any government effort.
Elkins 1985 p164-5
The Crippled Children's Association of South Australia (Novita)
The Crippled Children's Association of South Australia (Novita) was incorporated in 1939 and Somerton Home was established for children with poliomyelitis (polio), where they were cared for and received an education. By 1951 Somerton Home was providing services to children with disabilities other than polio.
In 1946 The Crippled Children's Association started a school for children with cerebral palsy in a room in the Outpatient's department of the Adelaide Children's Hospital. They employed Daphne Gum, a trained primary school teacher to be the director of the Spastic Centre at the Adelaide Children's Hospital and later at Ashford House.
In 1952 they purchased Ashford House on Anzac Highway and used it as a school and therapy centre for children with cerebral palsy. In 1976 the children were transferred from Somerton Home and Ashford House School to the newly built Regency Park Centre for Physically Handicapped Children.
Today, Regency Park School and Ashford Special School are operated by the Department of Education and Children's Services (DECS) and support students with physical (Regency) and intellectual (Ashford) disabilities.
South Australian Oral School
In the mid 1940′s a group of parents with children who were deaf or hard of hearing formed the South Australian Oral School. The school taught lip reading and speech skills providing an oral education rather than sign language which was the only form of education for the deaf in Adelaide at that time. Mrs Cora Barclay became the Principal in 1950, a position she held until her retirement in 1989. The school closed in 1989 and became a therapy centre training parents to teach their children to listen and speak using the auditory approach. The school was re-named The Cora Barclay Centre.
South Australian Spastic Paralysis Welfare Association Inc.
In 1948 a group of parents and friends established the SA Spastic Paralysis Welfare Association Inc. to provide care for spastic children. The Miss Australia Wing was built in 1959 for treatment and education and by 1971 was used solely as a special school. A new complex, including the James A Nelson School was opened in 1978. The organisation changed its name to the Spastic Centres of South Australia (SCOSA) in 1983. The James A Nelson school was closed in 1993 and the children were transferred to other schools.
Changes in Education
Changes in attitudes towards education for children with disabilities began around the 1960s. In 1964, the Australian Council for Rehabilitation of Disabled (ACROD) recommended that children with disabilities should be integrated into regular schools rather than attend special schools.
The South Australian government introduced the Education Act 1972 making it compulsory for all children between the ages of six and fifteen, including those with a disability – even a severe disability to attend school to get an education. Peter Duncan was the Minister of Education at the time and was responsible for the legislation. As a consequence of the Act the Education Department had to take on responsibility for educating all children.
By 1974 there were eight Junior Special Schools and one Senior Special in the metropolitan area, as well as Special Schools within the institutions of Minda and Strathmont [Centre]. The Education Department employed approximately 150 special education teachers, who taught approximately 1,400 children.
Wicks 2000 p166
Justice C Bright
During the 1970′s the State government set up the Committee on Rights of Persons with Handicaps and Justice C Bright was the Chairperson. The Committee produced a report called The Law and Persons with Handicaps in 1978. It made a number of recommendations in a number of areas including education. They acknowledged that education for disabled children in South Australia occurred in various settings ranging from residential institutions at one extreme to the ordinary classroom in the local school at the other extreme. The report believed,
It is preferable that whenever possible, handicapped children should be placed in the least restrictive environment, i.e. the ordinary classroom…if a special class is necessary, it seems desirable that it should be conducted within the walls of normal school
The Law and Persons with Handicaps 1978 p125
Schools for all project
In 1989 the Ministerial Advisory Committee: Students with Disabilities (formerly the Special Education Consultative Committee) was established to develop policy advice for the Minister for Education in the area of children and students with disabilities. In 1992, the Federal Minister of Employment, Education and Training, Kim Beazley provided funding to the Committee with the challenge to put into practice the policy of integrating children with a disability into neighbourhood schools. The result was the Schools for all project.
This project presented a unique opportunity for research to be undertaken in neighbourhood schools to identify practical solutions to the implementation of the policy in ways that have value and meaning for students, service providers, parents and educators
Schools for all Winter, P 1993 (i)
Education Today
In South Australia, children and students with a disability have a range of educational options. These include:
• mainstream care sites, preschools and schools
• special education classes and special units in mainstream schools
• special educational settings for preschool children
• special schools
There are three education sectors i.e. State, Catholic and Independent. All have developed policies and guidelines regarding the enrolment and education of children and students with a disability. This ensures they are provided with appropriate services and support.
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Committee on rights of persons with handicaps. 1978. The law and person's with handicaps. Adelaide: Committee on rights of persons with handicaps
Cora Barclay Centre. 2007. [online]. [Accessed 17 July 2007].
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Elkins, John. 1985. 'Disability and disadvantage: Special education in Australia, Past, present and future' in Melbourne studies in education. ed. Palmer, Imelda. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, pp164-5.
Find your way home: with SA Link-up. 2005. [online].[Accessed on 30th April 2007]. Available from the World Wide Web: <http://salinkup.com.au/media/pdf/9_miscellaneous.pdf>
Life to live. 2007. [online]. [Accessed 15th May 2007]. Available from World Wide Web: http://www.dsa.org.au/life_site/text/education/index.html
Linn, Rob 1994. Perserverance: the story of Spastic Centres of South Australia. Woodville, South Australia: Spastic Centres of South Australia
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Turnbull, T. 1998. A social history of disability services in South Australia and a review of previous, current and future policy directions. Adelaide: University of Adelaide
Wicks, Keren. 2000. Teaching the art of living: the development of special education services in South Australia, 1915 – 1975. Adelaide: University of Adelaide


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Ultimate Bottom Lies Far Below
Because we never shared investors' wild enthusiasm for Cerberus, its near-collapse in recent days hardly came as a shock. The once-huge private-equity firm specialized in distressed assets at a time when even the bluest of blue-chip companies – the name Lehman Brothers springs to mind – have fallen into mortal peril literally overnight. Cerberus's biggest gambles were in GMAC and Chrysler. The latter company's future looked as bleak to us five years ago as it did in May, when the automaker went belly-up. What could…
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Treasury Default Not So Unthinkable
Although we can be certain Americans and their government owe far more than they will ever be able to repay, the question of how this debt eventually will be discharged is the economic conundrum of the day. Some think hyperinflation is the only way out, since it would allowing debtors to repay all that they owe with worthless bank notes that would be in copious supply. However, this is hardly a solution, since those on the receiving end – i.e. the lenders — would be ruined, as would the bond markets, banks and all other…
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Bank Scare a Ruse to Shake the Tree
A run on a major U.S. bank? Who could have been spreading such scurrilous rumors? They surfaced yesterday in the Rick's Picks chat room, and elsewhere, not long after we'd done some personal banking ourselves in an online account at the very same bank. We experienced no delays or problems with the transaction, notwithstanding reports of a "default situation" and "elevated" buying of put options on the shares of the bank. We were able to confirm that there had indeed been a flurry of put-buying, but the action was not so frenetic as to suggest that the bank was in any serious trouble.
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We're no fans of head-and-shoulder formations, since they are everywhere the amateur chartist might want to find them. But there is something to be said for the bullish reverse head-and-shoulders pattern that gold futures have been tracing out for the last year-and-a-half. The pattern is shown in the chart below, and it is predicting that December Gold, which settled yesterday at 997.70, its highest close since February, is about to run up to $1060. Trouble is, just about everyone we know thinks gold is about to pop to 1060, give or…


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Lake Sammamish State Park is a massive green space resource for the people of Issaquah (and beyond).
Yet, over the past 40 years or so, maintenance of the park improvements has been insufficiently funded. As a result, many of the park features are in various states of disrepair. Some have exceeded their useful lives.
This is not a result of poor Ranger performance. It is caused by a lack of funding from the state. The Rangers are credited with performing extremely well with the funding available.
It is a state asset governed by a state agency located elsewhere and with responsibility for many state parks, all with varying levels of underfunding.
Many years ago, the park had lifeguards and a lot of people visited the park for summer events and swimming. Some say that the park is now underutilized.
From 2004-2007, a citizen advisory group worked with state agencies to develop a master plan for the park. In 2007, that plan was issued. A copy of that large document can be viewed here.
It was issued just in time for the global financial crisis and has been on the back burner since then.
The Tastin' n Racin' hydroplane event was held at the park for many years with a portion of the proceeds going to support the park. The last event was held in 2012 and will not be going forward due to a variety of issues, including insurance.
In 2012, the City of Issaquah passed the Central Issaquah Plan into law which will create a dense urban core adjacent to Lake Sammamish State Park. Part of that plan includes the park as a major element of the so-called Green Necklace.
Recently, The Issaquah Press has reported on three proposals submitted for the development of the park, development ranging from light to heavy.
The Friends of Lake Sammamish State Park is a recently formed, citizen led, non-profit organization hoping to organize efforts to support the park. Issaquah 360 is a charter member of that group.
As is normal with such major public assets, there are many opinions about the future of the park. They range from allowing the park to go natural to developing it into a major regional resource including hotel and convention center.
Even among the leadership of The Friends of Lake Sammamish State Park are many visions for the park. They all recognize the need to help the park but coalescing efforts will require developing a common vision.
Underlying these uses are some fundamental decisions about what is appropriate for this public asset. Is it necessary that its use be optimized? What is optimum? Should the state be required to maintain a park of this nature if it doesn't serve at least the regional population? What about the environmental concerns arising from the flow of three salmon bearing creeks through the park to Lake Sammamish? Or the heron rookery?
These are not new questions. But there hasn't been much of a public discussion about the questions since 2007. Now the subject of Lake Sammamish State Park is arising with frequency.
We here at Issaquah 360 have an opinion on these topics. We share for the most part the opinions of John O'Brien recently expressed in a Letter to the Editor at The Issaquah Press: "bring back the lifeguards; bring in new sand for the beaches; smooth and replant the lawns; put in a couple of swimming and fishing docks; replace the bath house; and upgrade and add picnic shelters."
The park needs to remain a park. Increases in usage should not be a primary objective. Increased usage may result from these simple improvements but we should not be motivated by usage statistics. Nor should we consider allowing urban improvements into the park.
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One of the highlights of the stimulus package, according to Michael Grunwald's book The New New Deal, was the $90 billion in investment in green energy. This kick-started a moribund industry and more than doubled the output of renewables as a percentage of overall energy. What it did not do is secure the place of [...]
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Paul Ryan's Willingness to Lie Becomes Apparent Just One Week Into National Campaign
|By: David Dayen Friday August 17, 2012 8:15 am
Paul Ryan, like all House Republicans, voted against the stimulus package. Then Paul Ryan, like a bunch of House Republicans, wrote letters to federal agencies requesting stimulus funds for his district. There's nothing inherently wrong with this – if there's money on the table, you're not doing your job as a legislator unless you try [...]
End of Stimulus Causing Major Drag on Jobs and Growth
|By: David Dayen Friday June 3, 2011 9:08 am
The substandard jobs report can be summed up in one sentence: "The stimulus ended." Throughout 2009 and 2010, the stimulus package, too small though it may have been, was boosting the economy by creating demand, and therefore jobs and economic growth. While the business cycle has ticked up somewhat in 2011, the job-producing spending of [...]
Boehner's Fraudulent Speech Savaged, Agenda Criticized by Catholic Academics
|By: David Dayen Wednesday May 11, 2011 11:32 am
John Boehner's demands on raising the debt limit, an action he has already pledged to take both publicly and privately on numerous occasions, are clearly ridiculous. They also have nothing to do with reducing debt, because the rigid stance against tax increases means that under his plan the budget would add $5 trillion to the [...]
The End of the Argument on Jobs and Fiscal Policy
|By: David Dayen Monday February 14, 2011 1:41 pm
It's hardly surprising that Paul Krugman says better what I've been saying for a few days about Obama's thinking on the budget and the economy in general. The important thing, I think, is that he has effectively given up on the idea that the government can do anything to create jobs in a depressed economy. [...]
Riverside County Cops at Yesterday's Uncloak the Kochs Event Funded By Stimulus Dollars
|By: David Dayen Monday January 31, 2011 10:54 am
Lee Fang adds an interesting detail to my story on yesterday's Koch Brothers protest in Rancho Mirage. Riverside County Sheriff spokeswoman Melissa Nieburger told me that the city of Rancho Mirage contracts its police force from the county sheriff. What I didn't know is that the sheriff's department covered a large shortfall in their budget [...]
States Must Pay Interest on Unemployment Fund Borrowing
|By: David Dayen Monday January 17, 2011 9:55 am
This seems to me to be the worst possible time for the federal government to charge states interest on borrowing to keep their unemployment funds solvent. But they're scheduled payments that to this point have not been voided by the feds, and in a climate of austerity, Congress almost certainly won't do so. The interest [...]
LaHood Threatens to Take HSR Stimulus Money from Ohio, Wisconsin
|By: David Dayen Wednesday November 10, 2010 6:18 am
My favorite cabinet secretary is the one who knows how to play hardball with Republican obstructionists, who knows the leverage he holds and is not afraid to use it. I guess that's because he's the only Republican in the cabinet*. In some post-election hardball between the Obama administration and newly-elected Republicans, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood [...]
High Speed Rail, Electronic Medical Records Grants Move Through System
|By: David Dayen Tuesday October 26, 2010 11:45 am
With enough losses expected in the midterms to create enough gridlock to forestall any serious legislative action, it's worth turning to the only remaining areas to expect progress for the rest of the President's first term. Some of the stimulus programs created time-released spending over a longer period, which could be realized with results in [...]
The Policy Mistakes That Put the Country on the Road to a Lost Decade, Pt. Nth
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Bob Herbert is depressed: The problem for Mr. Obama and the Democrats is the widespread sense among anxiety-riddled Americans that the country is still in very bad shape and headed in the wrong direction. A Gallup poll last week found that 62 percent feel that economic conditions are deteriorating. The president and his party may [...]
Stimulus Comes In With Little or No Fraud, On Time, Under Budget
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Though I will continue to criticize those who use creative accounting to claim that TARP "worked," I cannot say the same for the stimulus package. You can legitimately claim that the stimulus was too small – it was, and we're facing the political consequences of that to this very day. What you cannot claim is [...]


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Fun Vermont Wedding
Weddings are such a joyous event. They are fun to host, fun to attend and fun to plan (well, at least WE think so). I recently received an e-mail from a bride who was married 2 years ago. She wrote that their wedding was STILL talked about among her friends and family. Here at the […]Read More
Trip Advisor Review of Ludlow Bed & Breakfast
We're lucky to have many wonderful reviews on our Trip Advisor page. So many, in fact, that we received the 2014 Trip Advisor Award of Excellence. This could never happen without the excellent team here at the Inn. "My friend recently got married at the Echo Lake Inn and I was a bridesmaid in the […]
Tips to hosting a family reunion
As the snow melts, we set our sights on our busy summer events. While we host between 20-22 weddings every summer, we're also a popular spot for family reunions. In fact, we're honored that some families have made us (the Echo Lake Inn) PART of their family tradition! Children grow and move away, couples retire […]Read More
Spring's arrival means winter's departure
It has been quite a winter here at the Echo Lake Inn. Full of snow with guests participating in the wonders of winter in the Green Mountains. Just this past weekend, the Inn hosted travelers of all types. A young couple confirmed their relationship with the Inn by booking their wedding at the inn this […]Read More
How sweet it is!
It's that time of the year when the nights drop below freezing and the days warm close to 40 degrees. That means something big to me…..maple sugar season has begun. That magical time of year when Vermont's prize maple trees produce gallons of sap used to make one of nature's best sweeteners. It takes about […]Read More
March Madness – Okemo Style
As the ski season winds down and the skiers begin to depart, now is the time Vermonters come out and play. Every year Okemo hosts a spring concert series and it's then that I see friends I haven't seen all winter. With the days getting longer and the hint of spring coming, I look forward to getting out […]Read More
Wedding Dessert Ideas
As we battle the frigid temperatures, it's hard to imagine that our wedding season will be here in just two months. As the owner and innkeeper of a historic property, one wedding trend I LOVE is the incorporation of all things vintage. Last year we had a festive 1940's carnival theme, a retro 1920's theme and […]Read More
Celebrating Presidents Day
"Country life does not always have breadth, but it has depth. It is neither artificial nor superficial, but is kept close to the realties." ~ Calvin Coolidge Autobiography 1929 As President's Day approaches, I like to re-read some of my favorite Calvin Coolidge quotes. The one above comes to mind when I think of the […]Read More
Groundhog Day – Vermont Style
On Sunday, Punxsutawney Phil predicted 6 more weeks of winter. We have our own little way of predicting how much longer winter will last. When the icicles start to melt, we know that spring is on the way! Stay warm, everyone, Laurence Photo: Echo Lake InnRead More
Some of our local food partners
As many of you know, we are a proud member of the "Vermont Fresh Network" and I've written about it HERE but with the annual member meeting coming up on Monday, we would like to thank all of our partners that bring some of the best ingredients to our dining room and bar. […]Read More


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Florida Finishes Strong
A day after Florida captured its first NCAA women's gymnastics team title, Gators Bridget Sloan (beam) and Alaina Johnson (bars) won individual events. Story » UF wins team title »AP Photo/Alex Gallardo
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Definitions for jeopardizeˈdʒɛp ərˌdaɪz
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word jeopardize
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
jeop•ard•izeˈdʒɛp ərˌdaɪz(v.t.)-ized, -iz•ing.
to put in jeopardy; hazard; risk; imperil.
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Princeton's WordNet
endanger, jeopardize, jeopardise, menace, threaten, imperil, peril(verb)
pose a threat to; present a danger to
"The pollution is endangering the crops"
venture, hazard, adventure, stake, jeopardize(verb)
put at risk
"I will stake my good reputation for this"
To put in jeopardy, to threaten.
After having an affair with a junior, her chances of promotion were seriously jeopardized.
Webster Dictionary
to expose to loss or injury; to risk; to jeopard
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