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There's really only so much pity that can be mustered for a steam train. Unfortunately pity is what this documentary is fuelled by, which makes for a pretty tedious journey.
During World War II, the narrator mournfully tells us, the once-celebrated Flying Scotsman was put to work in the war effort and 'largely ignored'. To compound the tragedy, the London to Edinburgh train's popularity, which had begun to wane when its 100mph record was usurped in 1936, dropped considerably as cars became increasingly common in the '50s. Since then it's been a relic, a glowing example of British manufacturing achievement. But the train's uselessness has also made it a financial burden. It has significantly dented three millionaires' fortunes (it bankrupted one) in its attempts to swerve the scrapyard, and we even see children compliantly donating their pocket money towards its upkeep.
Obviously there's little doubt that the Scotsman should be preserved. But any sense of the real significance of the train in its heyday gets lost somewhere between elderly men reminiscing and a lot of ridiculously po-faced fawning.
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Most of us don't know, but we have been deceived for hundreds of years with regard to Jeremiah Horrocks' observation of the 1639 transit of Venus. Every picture showing the Cytherean silhoutte on the solar disk as recorded by Horrocks turns out to be plainly wrong. The source of all error: seventeenth century astronomer Johannes Hevelius.
Horrocks didn't leave us any drawings of what he saw on that fateful day of December 4, 1639. All we have to go by is the wordy account of his observation, of which it is a miracle that it has come down to us at all. After his early death, several unfinished autograph manuscripts of his account Venus in sole visa were found in 1659 by John Worthington, Master of Jesus College, Cambridge, among the papers of the young astronomer's friend and co-witness of the transit William Crabtree. Worthington sent two of the latest drafts to Samuel Hartlib, who in turn sent them to the mathematician Nicolaus Mercator, so that these could be combined into a single document – a publication that never came to be. The Greenwich Observatory and the Cambridge University Library currently hold three handwritten copies, which could be identified as identical to one of the copies sent to Mercator. A poor transcription and conflation based on these two manuscripts was obtained by Christiaan Huygens from Paul Neile, who sent it to Johannes Hevelius. The latter would finally publish Horrocks' Venus in sole visa as an annex to his book Mercurius in sole visus Gedani, published in 1662.
Hevelius added an image of the solar disk to the report, based on Horrocks' description of his observation. This is the first image that's in error.
Hevelius' image (to the left) shows the solar disk, with the zenith at the top and the three positions of Venus as observed by Horrocks' between ingress and sunset. However, if the path of Venus relative to the zenith is computed for the 1639 transit as observed from Much Hoole, the difference with Hevelius' rendering becomes readily apparent: in the image of Hevelius, Venus is moving towards the horizon, whereas in reality Horrocks must have seen the planet moving towards the zenith. Also, the three positions of Venus are spaced equally in Hevelius' drawing, whereas the three observations by Horrocks were made at intervals of 20 and 10 minutes respectively.
This representation of the solar disk is not how Horrocks would have seen the image of sun on his screen. The solar image projected by the Galileian telescope used by him, was inverted top to bottom, but not left to right. So, while Venus was in the bottom-left corner of the sun in reality, Horrocks would have seen Venus in the top-left corner of the projected image. Hevelius however, in his printed publication of Horrocks' account, changes the astronomer's own words to place Venus in the top-right corner of the projected solar image:
Primò pro Inclinatione Lineâ diametrali perpendiculariter ad Horizontem insistenti circuli tamen plano ob Solis altitudinem aliquantum reclinato, inveni Veneris umbram hora dicta 3 15' Solis discum intrasse grad. 62 30′ circiter (certe inter gr. 60 & 65) à vertice ad dextram.
(In the first place, with respect to the inclination, the line of the diameter of the circle being perpendicular to the horizon, although its plane was somewhat inclined on account of the Sun's altitude, I found that the shadow of Venus at the aforesaid hour, namely fifteen minutes past three, had entered the Sun's disc about 62 30′, certainly between 60 and 65, from the top towards the right.)
The three handwritten manuscripts of Venus in sole visa all have "ad sinistram" (to the left) instead of "ad dextram", as does a mid-1659 letter of Nicolaus Mercator to Samuel Hartlib, quoting directly from Horrocks' own writing. Still, Hevelius thought Horrocks was in error and changed it to "ad dextram". Also, John Wallis added the note "lege dextram" (read right) after "sinistram" in his Opera Posthumus of Horrocks. Both Hevelius and Wallis must have been confused about the orientation of the projected image by a Galileian telescope. Their error is also reflected in three historic paintings of the 1639 observation of the transit of Venus.
The 1903 painting of Jeremiah Horrocks by J.W. Lavender (to the left) and the mural by Ford Madox Brown from the 1880s showing William Crabtree (in the middle) both have the silhouette of Venus at the top-right corner of the solar disk, while is should have been in the top-left corner. The third painting, a 1891 oil painting by Eyre Crowe (to the right), doesn't show Venus at all, but the eyes of Horrocks are directed to the upper right corner of the solar image. The 1859 stained glass window in the church of Much Hoole also shows Horrocks viewing the projected image of the sun; here, Venus is incorrectly at the bottom-left corner.

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A Few Thoughts About the Fifty Shades Trilogy
Writing specifics aside, and spoilers, the Fifty Shades of Grey is a romance novel. Hot shot rich entrepreneur seduces college graduate, teaches her kinky ways, they get into an uncomfortable situation, and she leaves him. Fifty Shades Darker explains major tension between the lovers. In Fifty Shades Freed, James packs up the main story line with bumbling children and a new side to the two characters.
I'm really glad I read it, though. It's almost an exercise in editing. Generally speaking, the trilogy is a sin against all literary sacraments. However, I like how James crafted antagonist elements: a hard to bear past, a jealous ex-lover, a ghostly ex-lover, and a very bitter commissions editor/childhood acquaintance. Very well done James.
However, I think I skipped 95% of the "erotic scenes" (IKEA erotica scenes) and kinda glazed through the other aspects of the trilogy. I might, though, read another book by the author. Just to see if she picks up the craft or continues her writing ways. We'll see.
*Edit. If you read the books and have a favorite part you should comment and we can talk about them ;)
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my 2 cents: anybody who can get the american public to read makes me happy! book clubs are in full force thanks to her. that can only benefit us! (plus i actually liked the books) :)ReplyDeleteReplies
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Thanks for the review! It certainly is taking America by storm. I haven't read it yet, & I may not. We'll see! I'm waiting for my friend to finish it first and report back to me!ReplyDelete
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Well, I've managed to briefly surface from my Diablo 3 coma. I'm nowhere near done enjoying this game, which puts me in a bit of a pickle this week.
I've got Diablo 3, of course. I still love TERA, and I need to put some time in so that I can hit level fifty and register for Vanarch (a sort of governor of a zone) before the end of the week. And starting tomorrow, I'll have Dragon's Dogma clawing at the remaining shreds of my free time.
But I'll worry about that tomorrow. Right now my mind is on Diablo 3. Though the game had a rocky launch (and honestly I think it was silly for anyone to expect anything else), things seem to be running fairly smoothly now. I'm currently on Nightmare mode with some friends with my Monk, my main character. I've also got a handful of Hardcore characters that I'm playing exclusively with a variety of people.
I really sort of feel like my monk will be my only "softcore" character, just to get all the way through Inferno with. For every other character, the lure of hardcore mode is too enticing to resist. I did lose one character already, my Witch Doctor, Oobadoo. I thought I'd cleared an area, and I alt-tabbed out to answer a message, and when I tabbed back in ten seconds later, he was dead. He was only level nine, so it wasn't a crushing loss. My second Oobadoo is now level twenty, and it's starting to get a little nervewracking approaching boss fights.
Last night I was playing him in a full public game, and a L14 demon hunter started the Butcher event before everyone was ready, and ended up locked in the Butcher's room alone. That was the end of his character. I've had a couple of close calls myself, narrowly popping a potion just in time to save myself, and it's this feeling of danger and mortality that attracts me to Hardcore mode so much.
In regards to the game at large, the gameplay mechanics and whatnot... it's Diablo. If you've played a Diablo game in the past and enjoyed it, chances are you'll enjoy Diablo 3.
Normal mode is pretty easy. It's the acclimation setting. You'll rarely die, there isn't a ton of challenge, but you'll have fun. Nightmare mode gets noticeably harder. It's less of a spam/AOE fest and you have to consider your targets and your positioning a bit more carefully. Enemies can do surprising amounts of damage, so you have to be careful. I can only imagine what Hell and Inferno difficulties are like, but I doubt they'll disappoint.
A lot of people complained about Diablo 3 not locking in your skill selections, but rather allowing you to change your skills/runes on the fly, whenever. They said it was going to make Diablo 3 too easy. Whatever. I absolutely love this skill system. On top of the fact that certain situations require different abilities (difficulty level, for instance, gradually becomes more single-target based over AOE-based as you ramp up), it's just nice to be able to try something different for a while. Sixty levels of mashing the same combination of abilities is boring.
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Jim Hornfischer is president of Hornfischer Literary Management, a literary agency specializing in nonfiction based in Austin, Texas. His clients include Ron Powers, Steve Forbes, George Friedman, Annie Jacobsen, Alex Kershaw, and H. W. Brands. Prior to becoming a literary agent, Hornfischer was an editor at HarperCollins in New York. A native New Englander, he is a graduate of Colgate University and holds a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law.
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On 24 September 1852, Jules Henri Giffard flew 17 miles in the first passenger dirigible (steerable airship). LEAD is being founded on the 159th anniversary of this auspicious event.
The motivation for this group grew out of the Discussion Thread Building an actual Airship Prototype (thank you Dr. Ironbeard).
For starters, a few discussions will be set up to help with organization. They will be very general with the intent of keeping the number of discussion threads manageable.
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2. Be excellent to each other. Impractical ideas have a way of inspiring other ideas. Constructive comments are welcomed - personal attacks are not.
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Try to avoid business issues and decorative ideas.This is about getting a payload off the ground and keeping it there.Continue
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The first step for anyone who is serious should be to build a working model that is as small as practical. The small size makes many of the buoyancy issues more difficult.Continue
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Well it is true that we have been finding lots of people interested in this project we should consider doing some active recruiting at Steampunk Events. This has two obstacles to overcome. First I tend to find out about events when people post…Continue
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For the big dreamers amongst us.GO FOR IT!Continue
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This Group is primarily for Airships, in the form of Dirigible Aerostats, but I would like to propose a subcategory of Aeronefs. The Albatros of Verne's Robur the Conqueror (1886) was an aeronef, a brute-force helicopter of massive size. …Continue
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Much of the original thread was focused on these.Continue
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Hello Gentlemen and Ladies of refined class and dinstinction.You may have read my initial comments concerning operational parameters in the L.E.A.D. forum (under the medium airship category) regarding the very real, and very serious undertaking of…Continue
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Something that might lift a payload of several hundred kilograms.
It seems to me that a hybrid lifting gas system utilizing solar heated helium might not be a terrible idea.
There is also an airship resources link at the bottom of their page.
This a good video detailing some of the current construction techniques. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdZ20Rqyo6s
http://www.madehow.com/Volume-3/Airship.html How airships are made.
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Music-obsessive activity, in general, appears to be about music. You could, on the surface, mistake it for being about music. But in fact what it is about is memory and love....more
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From June through December of 2012, I kept a diary of musical impressions that didn't develop into longer pieces....more
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The Great Falls School District is releasing details about its investigation of reported hazing incidents at Great Falls High School.
The incidents led to sexual assault charges against student Alex Mauricio Botina-Roehm.
Superintendent Cheryl Crawley neither confirmed nor denied that school officials did everything in their power to address this issue when it happened, but it looks like this incident could bring about changes for the school district in the near future.
According to the Great Falls School District, recent hazing at Great Falls High School was acted on immediately by school staff.
Still, the problem wasn't addressed entirely; Crawley said, "What we learned included the fact that there is, there's sort of a grey area, shall I say, in the laws about reporting."
Crawley says when a school counselor found out about the abuse, it was reported to a school administrator right away, but because Montana law on the matter is unclear, school staff were unsure that a report to the state was required.
Crawley said, "Everyone is led by the language of the laws to understand that we're reporting child abuse, which people think of as young children and when the abuse occurs by someone in the family or in the child's living situation."
It wasn't until November 10th when Crawley says the district was notified, when a student's grandmother called the police.
The district conducted a hearing to determine if board policy was violated and ultimately determined that 18 year old Alex Botina Roehm would not return to public school campuses.
The Great Falls Police Department also conducted it's own investigation.
While Crawley stands behind her staff, she admits more work needs to be done.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) â¿¿ Republicans' divisive plan to help a mining company open a huge open-pit iron mine in northern Wisconsin would cost the state more than $170 million meant for recycling and environmental protection programs every year, according to new projections.
The legislation is designed to clear the regulatory path for Gogebic Taconite's plans for a mine just south of Lake Superior. Republicans insist the measure will help create hundreds of jobs in the economically depressed area and thousands more for heavy equipment manufacturers across the state.
Democrats and conservationists insist it would open the door to devastating pollution and ruin one of Wisconsin's last pristine regions.Part of the proposal would drastically reduce state fees that mining companies pay for producing waste rock. Mining companies currently pay $7.03 per ton of waste rock. Most of that money goes to help fund local governments' recycling efforts, pollution abatement, brownfield cleanup and bonds for cleaning up contaminated land. According to estimates the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau released Wednesday, the bill would slash that to a little less than 3 cents, resulting in a loss of up to $171 million annually. "It's a free ride for a mining company," Rep. Fred Clark, D-Baraboo, said Thursday. "It's part of why so many people object to the bill just on economic grounds." Under the legislation, mining companies' only obligation to the state for waste materials would be a 1-cent per ton environmental repair fee, a 1-cent per ton groundwater fee and a 0.7-cent per ton fee for the Waste Facility Siting Board, an arm of the governor's office that facilitates talks between landfill license applicants and municipalities. Mining companies wouldn't have to pay a recycling fee, which is currently $7 per ton. The bureau's report, released Wednesday, notes that Gogebic Taconite expects to extract about 8 million long tons of iron annually over the mine's 35-year first phase; a long ton is 2,240 pounds. The bureau said that would lead to about 29 million tons of waste per year, including 18 million tons of tailings, the crushed ore waste left over from processing iron pellets, and 11 million tons of overlying rock.
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There's been a growing movement lately suggesting that the 17th Amendment, which provides for the direct election of senators, should be repealed. For a "let's repeal and amendment" call, it's not actually that crazy.
Just look at judges. There's some arguments for having elected judges, but also some very good ones for having them be appointed. Likewise, goes the theory, we might be better off having one of the two houses of Congress not directly elected by the people, but rather one step removed, so that members of the senate could be chosen by a slightly less politicized method.
But, that's not what Michael Mannheimer (Northern Kentucky) is talking about. He thinks there's an argument that the 17th Amendment is unconstitutional. It goes basically like this:
Article V guarantees all states equal suffrage in the Senate. For those of you unfamiliar with our founding document, Article V sets out the rules for amending the Constitution. So, Article V is basically saying that no amendment can deny states their equal suffrage.
The next piece of the argument is that "the states" and "the people" are different under the Constitution. Not really a controversial point of view.
So, the 17th Amendment takes the states' representatives in Congress and gives those seats to the people. Senators are now chosen not by the state, but by the state's citizens, and that's a pretty important distinction.
The real key to Mannheimer's argument is interpreting "equal suffrage." Since no states can appoint senators, they are all equal. But, Mannheimer argues that the equality and suffrage parts are two separate concepts. The states cannot be denied equal standing with the other states, nor can they be denied suffrage.
Interesting to think about, but entirely academic. No Supreme Court would ever strike down a constitutional amendment.


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The Enormous Crocodile was first published in 1978. It was the first of Roald Dahl's stories to be illustrated by Quentin Blake.
Crocodiles are such greedy creatures - and their favourite lunchtime snack happens to be a juicy child or two! The Enormous Crocodile isn't as smart as he thinks though, so he had better watch out...
As a young man, Roald Dahl lived in Africa. Not only did he have to avoid hungry crocodiles, but also marauding monkeys and deadly snakes. These experiences remained with him, and he remembered them when he came to write The Enormous Crocodile many years later.
The Enormous Crocodile was first published in 1978. It was the first book Roald wrote for younger children, and it was also the first of his stories to be illustrated by Quentin Blake - marking the beginning of a now legendary partnership.
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NEW ROCHELLE, NY -- In a press release yesterday, Mayor Bramson joined other area mayors in calling for an "end to gun violence" in response to the Newtown school shooting.
Rather than join other parents in calling for immediate steps to address the long-standing failure of the district to meet even the State's minimum requirements for school safety at his own children's school, Bramson is instead spending his time trying to score cheap political points and get his name in the newspaper by jumping on the "Assault Weapons" ban bandwagon.
Bramson would do well to consider that his own children's school does not have a current, updated Safety Plan on file with his own police department. Instead of wasting time pontificating about what Congress should be doing maybe he should be spending his time getting affairs in order right here in New Rochelle where he is the Mayor. Under the City Charter, Mayor Bramson would take control of the New Rochelle Police Department in an emergency. Imagine an active shooter invasion at the school attended by the Mayor's own children. He opens up the binder containing the school's Safety Plans and finds the plans he holds are all dated "2001".
Where are his priorities? Where are those of the rest of our so-called leadership in New Rochelle? If any of these people had any real concern about the safety of our children in New Rochelle they would demand an investigation by the Commissioner of Education or the Attorney General into the widespread failure to implement the Project SAVE law which was signed into law in 2000, three months after the Columbine school massacre.
If Noam Bramson was really interested in protecting children in our schools -- including his own -- in the wake of the Newtown school shooting, he would have been at the disastrous the New Rochelle Board of Education meeting on Tuesday. He would have learned that the district claims to be in full compliance with the Project SAVE law despite his own Police Commissioner knowing they are not. He might have wondered as have many others why school security was not even on the agenda, why the school board was combative and argumentative rather than patient and understanding as parents expressed their concerns about school safety in New Rochelle.
The Mayor has proposed criminal background checks for all purchasers of firearms of any kind but expressed no opinion the district hiring employees without performing criminal background checks or retaining employees who commit violent crimes.
The Mayor wants to prohibit the manufacture for civilian use of certain semi-automatic firearms, limiting the size of magazines to 10 clips and making it a federal crime to smuggle or sell prohibited weapons or ammunition but has no opinion when 8th graders use a gun to threaten a 6th grader on a bus and then enter a middle school with the gun.
If this law were passed tomorrow, would it do anything to make children in New Rochelle safer? Keep in mind that New York State has its own version of an "assault weapons" ban on the books.
To take the most extreme case, had this law been in effect since 1934 when the United States banned fully-automatic weapons, would it have prevented the Newtown school shooting? In other words, before almost every "assault weapon" existing today was manufactured.
Adam Lanza, 20, did not own any guns and under Connecticut law was not permitted to carry or use a handgun of any kind due to his age.
Nancy Lanza, 52, owned 7 weapons: .223-caliber Bushmaster XM-15 rifle, 10mm Glock 20 SF handgun, 9mm SIG Sauer handgun, shotgun, 45 Henry repeating rifle, .30 Enfield rifle, .22 Marlin rifle.
Neither Nancy Lanza nor Adam Lanza had a criminal record and all of the weapons owned by Nancy Lanza were purchased legally. The proposed criminal background check for all gun purchasers would not have prevented Nancy Lanza's guns being in her home that day and state laws did not prevent Adam Lanza from carrying two handguns into the school.
What remains is a question of whether an "assault-weapon" ban would have prevented the shootings in Newtown.
Adam Lanza's first murder was committed by firing four .22 caliber rounds into his mother's face, using the .22 Marlin rifle she owned. The Mayor's proposed ban would not have prevented Lanza's first murder.
Lanza left the house where he lived and to the Sandy Hook Elementary School, taking with him the .223-caliber Bushmaster XM-15 rifle, 10mm Glock 20 SF handgun, 9mm SIG Sauer handgun, and the shotgun. He left behind the 45 Henry repeating rifle, .30 Enfield rifle, .22 Marlin rifle. At the school he left the shotgun in the car.
While a full report will later be issued, initial reports from the Connecticut State Police are that Lanza used the .223-caliber Bushmaster XM-15 rifle on his victims and used one of the handguns on himself as first responders entered the building. Initial reports are that Lanza fired over 100 rounds and had over 100 more rounds in magazines he brought with him.
If the Bushmaster XM-15 had been banned as an "assault weapon" and the magazines Lanza carried been limited to 10 clips, would that have prevented Lanza from shooting people at the school?
Given his access to the 6 other weapons and that his first murder was with the .22 rifle, the answer is "no".
To those not familiar with guns, it sounds dramatic to say that Lanza had "hundreds of rounds" of ammunition. The reality is more mundane. A fairly typical purchase of ammunition at Wal Mart would be a box of .22 caliber bullets; a box with 50 rounds costs about $7.00 and a 10-pack of 500 rounds for about $30. It would be almost standard for a gun owner to have hundreds of rounds of ammunition for their gun, most of which would be used for target practice and most of the rest for hunting. Lanza could have armed himself with a thousand rounds for the price of an XBOX video game.
Would an "assault weapon" ban have limited the lethality of the attack?
That would depend on a variety of factors including Lanza's skill with the weapons, his ability to re-load, the functioning of the different weapons and many other factors. The Smith & Wesson M&P15 semi-automatic rifle used by James Holmes to kill 12 people at a movie theater in Aurora, CO jammed after he had fired 30 rounds.
There is simply no way to know. Had he not had the XM-15, which the Mayor now proposes to ban based on its appearance, he could have just as easily used the shotgun to blast his way into the school and use the 2 handguns to kill his victims at the school.
A list of multiple-homicide shootings in the United States suggests that a deranged gunman can kill many people with all sorts of guns that would not be considered "assault weapons" including handguns, .22 rifles and bolt-action rifles.
The bottom line is that all guns are dangerous. Banning certain guns because their cosmetic features make them "look scary" will not make the remaining "un-scary" guns less dangerous. The simple fact is that any weapon in the hands of a mentally-ill person is scary -- the same for a car, a knife or pretty much anything else that can be used as a weapon. And recall that that the 9/11 hijackers used knives and box-cutters to hijack four planes and kill almost 3,000 people.
The Washington Post has a good article on the "Assault Weapons Ban" otherwise known as TITLE XI--FIREARMS Subtitle A--Assault Weapons of H.R. 3355 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994.
All of that said, the question remains: why is the Mayor spending his time seeking to lobby the federal government where he has absolutely no role or even influence and ignoring New Rochelle where he resides, where his kids attend school, where he works and where he serves as the most-senior, highly-paid elected official in the City?
What would happen if the Mayor of New Rochelle issued a press-release calling on the school district to come clean on their decade-long failure to comply in word and spirit with every aspect of the Project SAVE law, demand that they provide an immediate accounting of deficiencies, explain how they intend to remedy those deficiencies and when and the removal of any persons found to have been derelict in their duty with regard to Project SAVE compliance.
Apparently the Mayor of New Rochelle believes his elected office is better used to lecture politicians in Washington how to change to Federal law to his liking rather than roll up his sleeves here at home to work on pushing our school district to comply with State law that is already on the books.
If the Mayor were serious about protecting the children of New Rochelle he might consider the law was allowed to expire because it did not work -- the Center for Disease Control found no decrease in gun violence as the result of the "assault weapons" ban. The United States Department of Justice National Institute of Justice found that the effects on gun violence from restoring the ban would be so small as to be unmeasurable because "assault weapons" are so rarely used in gun crimes. The Violence Policy Center which supported the Federal "assault weapons" ban concluded "the gun industry easily found ways around the law and most of these weapons are now sold in post-ban models virtually identical to the guns Congress sought to ban in 1994."
If he were to take a look he might find that school districts throughout the County the Mayor proposes to run -- Mamaroneck, Scarsdale, Port Chester, and others -- have already held school board meetings devoted entirely to school safety. He might then wonder why the New Rochelle school board just had a 3 1/2 hour meeting and school safety was not even on the agenda.
The New Rochelle Board of Education has been overtly hostile to the New Rochelle Police Department -- ask any cop, any senior officer, ask the Police Commissioner. School security has actively thwarted criminal investigations and refused to provide evidence in criminal cases to investigators from the NRPD and the District Attorney's office. Despite a law requiring them to do so, the Board of Education does not have a current, updated district-wide plan on file with the police department nor is one available on the district web site. They do not have a current, updated plan for Albert Leonard, Isaac Young, Ward, Trinity, Jefferson, Columbus, Davis, Barnard, Webster or the Alternative High School. All of the plans for these schools, and the district-wide plan, date back to 2001. They are supposed to be updated every year. The high school plan is dated 2006.
Like every municipal official, the Police Commissioner ultimately serves at the pleasure of the City Council which the Mayor runs with an iron fist. Yet someone how cannot manage it so the police department demands that the district provide then with the required safety plans updated annually.
At the board meeting on Tuesday, Schools Superintendent Richard Organisciak stated that the board approved a district-wide safety plan in a resolution in 2009. I have been attending almost every board meeting since 2008. I have no recollection of any of the required public input periods or public hearings in all that time. Regardless, the law requires that the district-wide safety teams and building-level safety teams meet annually to review the plans, these teams are required to have specific types of people on them, the district must give public notice when they make changes and allow the public to provide input and hold a public hearing. That is one district and 11 schools or 12 plans.
Superintendent Organisciak's "defense" for his willful neglect of the Project SAVE law during his six years in charge is that once, three years ago, one of the 12 required plans was updated. Mayor Bramson is silent.
If Mayor Bramson were really concerned he would join other parents in filing a "310" complaint with the New York State Education Department to seek the removal for those responsible and demand an end to the school district practice of attempting to coverup criminal activity in the schools by students and adults and criminal activity by their employees in and out of the schools. Or perhaps explain to the public why he supports a school system that employs violent criminals and gives them unfettered access to our school buildings, teachers and children. Maybe he can explain that to the parents of the young man left in the street with a fractured skull by district employee Willie Clark.
It is time to end the charade that there need be some "Chinese Wall" between our City government and Board of Education and get down to cases on how to make our schools safe while ridding ourselves of the incompetent board members, administration and staff who have, for many years, turned a blind-eye to violence in our schools and the demonstrable failures to provide for the safety and security of our children.
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Tonight at the Oscars, there was a really amazing pizza party. Jennifer Lawrence, Brad Pitt, Jared Leto, and Channing Tatum all chowed down on delicious slices courtesy of Ellen DeGeneres aka the BEST HOST EVER. Now thats a pizza party wed want to be at.
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BY JOE COWLEY Staff Reporter October 8, 2013 9:29PM
Chicago Bulls head coach Tom Thibodeau is seen on the sidelines during the first half of an NBA preseason basketball game against the Memphis Grizzlies Monday, Oct. 7, 2013, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
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It was just further evidence that when NBA coaches are cornered into discussing basketball analytics, anything can come out of their mouths.
"Churchill has a great quote that went something along the lines of he didn't believe in any statistics that he didn't doctor himself,'' Thibodeau said. "I think there is a place [for analytics] in our league, and I think it's good. It may be getting overplayed somewhat right now. I think the trained eye is very important, but numbers are a part of the equation.''
While stats and numbers still play second fiddle to 23 years of coaching and watching for Thibodeau, he said he has been a student of analyzing numbers since he worked under former coach Bill Musselman his first few years in the NBA.
The dangers, however, are becoming obsessed with the numbers and basing full evaluations on them, or not understanding how to work the numbers so they give a coach or executive a true measurement.
"The biggest thing when you're looking at statistics is comparing apples to apples,'' Thibodeau said. "Often times that gets overlooked. So there is a biased confirmation. You can go into it and say, 'OK, this is what I think,' and you can get the numbers to confess to anything.''
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