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Are you an Android 2.3.x or 3.x user wishing for face recognition technology to unlock your phone? Or a Nexus S user who didn't get face recognition with the Android ICS update? Or an ICS user curious to use other face recognition technologies? FaceRecog App is what you've been waiting for! FaceRecog is a FREE multi-user face recognition App that can be used to lock your phone, block calls and pretend like a replacement for lock screen. You can disable/enable any of these features in the App settings. The App requires one "Administrator" user who can unlock the phone with a password in addition to trained faces.
Face recognition systems are usually limited in performance by lighting conditions, facial pose and expressions. For example you might have used systems where face recognition works perfectly at home, but not in your office. Or ones where it where it confuses your face with your friend's. To overcome this, FaceRecog gives you the complete freedom by allowing you to train your face multiple times in different conditions and setting your own 'confidence threshold'. You can experiment with these features to find the optimal configuration that suits you! You can also choose to have others use your phone without revealing your password by letting them enroll their faces. To configure the App for the first time, download the App to your device and follow the on-screen directions. For details on optimizing the App for best experience and other information visit http://vediket.com/facerecog/
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Visidon AppLock
Visidon AppLock lets you choose the apps to be protected. Your face is a key to open them! Application uses the frontal camera of your mobile and verifies in real-time that the face matches the one allowed to access the private apps.
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Screen Off and Lock
**To uninstall the app, please go to the setting page and click the "Remove device administrator" button**
With over 2 million of users and over 30 languages support, Screen Off and Lock is the No.1 screen off application in Google Play Store.
Screen Off and Lock allows you to switch off your devices from:
1. Launcher shortcut
2. Launcher widget 1x1 - 4x4, resizable in Android 4.0+ (Also available in lock screen for Android 4.2+) (Donate version)
3. Notification
4. Floating button over all apps! (Double tap to use it) (Donate version)
5. Search button (if your device has it)
Other features:
1. Screen off animation (including the most famous Old TV style)
2. Screen lock/unlock sound effect
3. Screen off vibration
For those who cannot see the screen off animation even the app is reinstalled, please follow the procedures below:
Android 4.x: Go to "Setting > Developer options > Transition animation", and then select 1x for this option.
Android 2.x, Make sure you selected the option "All animations" under "Settings > Display > Animation".
Smart Phone Lock - Lock screen
*** Reviewed as the most intelligent lock screen by addictivetips.com ***
Are you worried about exposing your PIN and Pattern while you unlock your phone?
Here comes Smart Phone Lock for the rescue.
Smart Phone Lock will set the current phone time as your unlock PIN for the lock screen. It will change the PIN magically on every minute! So, each time you unlock the device, the PIN will vary and you need not worry about prying eyes around you. The best part is, you need not memorise anything to remember the PIN. The modifiers will allow you to enhance the security to the next level.
Modifiers :
1) Offset PIN - You can set a number (Positive/Negative) and that number will be added/Subtracted from the current time.
Lets say the time is 03:30 and the offset is +10, then the current unlock code will be 0340.
2) Reverse PIN - If you enable this modifier, then the PIN is reversed number of the current time.
Lets say the time is 03:50 and the PIN to unlock the lock screen is 0530.
Also, Smart Phone Lock provides Date PIN as an alternative way to change the PIN. If you use Date PIN , then the PIN to unlock your lock screen will be changed based on your phone date.
FAIL SAFE : If you forget the PIN , Don't worry.At any point of time, you can use your default PIN which you have entered during the app installation. Default PIN will act as backup code to unlock your phone. So, you can log in with default PIN. Even if you forget the default PIN, after entering 3 wrong default PIN , there is an option to get the default PIN through SMS to the registered phone number
You can also hide Smart Phone Lock app icon from the App list by selecting hide icon option under settings. If you hide the icon, it will be tough to find you are using Smart Phone Lock. You can launch the app by dialling/calling 1234 in the phone.
The application provides various options like :
1. Swipe to unlock - Optionally you can enable the swipe to unlock screen in the app settings.
2. Widget Support - Optionally you can add any widget to the swipe screen. So you can control your music player , see weather details or any statistics by adding appropriate widget to the swipe screen.
3. Uninstall protection - Optionally you can enable the uninstall protection, so that others can't uninstall the application without proper authentication. You need to disable the uninstall protection before trying uninstall application.
4. Unlocker Protection - Once, you enable the unlocker protection, if anyone tries to unlock your mobile with wrong password, the application will take photo using front camera (if available) without showing the preview and notify you after unlocking the device.
5. Lockscreen Background - You can select any background image as per you wish for the lock screen
6. Battery saving mode - This application is designed to consume very very less amount of battery. If you wish, you can enable the battery saving mode in the application settings to increase the battery life further.
The app is password protected, you can access the app only after entering the default pin which you have set during installation.
New Features:
* Support for 24 hour timePIN
* Option change your custom lock screen pictures
* In-app purchase to remove ads
* Hiding the application Icon from the app list
IF YOU FACE ANY ISSUES WHILE UNLOCKING THE PHONE CONTACT US BY MAILING email@example.com OR BY FILLING THE DETAILS IN THIS FORM —> http://goo.gl/gEHBZA
To become beta tester of this application, please fill the following form -> http://bit.ly/BetaTesterz . Then mail us to email@example.com.
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★ #1 App lock in over 50 countries.
★ Over 50 Million users, supporting 24 languages.
☞ AppLock can lock SMS, Contacts, Gmail, Facebook, Gallery, Market, Settings, Calls and any app you choose, with abundant options, protecting your privacy.
☞ AppLock can hide pictures and videos, AppLock empowers you to control photo and video access. Selected pictures vanish from your photo gallery, and stay locked behind an easy-to-use PIN pad. With AppLock, only you can see your hidden pictures. Privacy made easy!
★ With the help of App Lock, you may:
Never worry about a friend borrow your phone to play games again!
Never worry about a workmates get your phone to have a look again!
Never worry about private data in some apps may be read by someone again!
Never worry about your kids may changing phone's Settings, paying games, messing up it again!
1) How to change password?
Open AppLock, left menu , settings, Unlock Settings
2) I hide AppLock icon, how to open AppLock now?
There are two ways to open it:
1. dial pad
enter #password in your dial pad, and tap call button to open AppLock.
2. Browser
domobile.com/applock open this website in your browser,
3) How to stop other people uninstall AppLock?
Please enable Advanced Protection in settings of AppLock, so nobody can uninstall or kill AppLock without password.
You can disable Advanced Protection in settings, when you don't want it.
4) How to uninstall AppLock?
After you enable Advanced Protection, nobody can uninstall AppLock without password. If you want to uninstall it, open AppLock, left menu, scroll down to last item, tap the uninstall item to delete AppLock.
5) I forgot my password,How to find it?
Tap AppLock icon to start AppLock.
If you are using pattern lock, please change to number lock.
Tap the 'forgot password' or '?' .
If you remember security answer, you can reset your password by security answer.
Enter your security answer.
Reset your password.
If not, you can reset your password by your security email.
Get reset code from the app to reset your password.
6) I can not move in/out my photo in the vault.
Please check you internal storage space, if only 10% free ,system will not let us to move file in to vault.
7) Account Type
There are three types of account in the Applock;
1) Premium: paid, premium features , no ad.
2) AD: free , premium features , ad.
3) Basic: free, no ad , no premium features.
You can choose your account in Account Center. first item in Left menu.
---- Features ---
• Protects any apps using password or pattern
• Photo Vault, hide pictures
• Video Vault, hide videos
• Customize background, set your favorite photo
• Themes
• Fake cover
• Profiles, easy to change the locks
• Automatic lock at given time
• Automatic lock at given location
• Random keyboard
• Lock switch(WiFi,BT,3G/4G Data...)
• Widget for quick locking/unlocking
• Locks incoming or outgoing calls
• Lock system Settings
• Lock Google Play Store
• Quick lock switcher on status bar
• Re-lock policy: allow short exit, no need to unlock again
• Prevent apps from being uninstalled
• Hide AppLock's icon from launcher
• AppLock can be prevented from being uninstall
• AppLock cannot be killed by task killers
• Little memory footprint and power-saving
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Keypad Lock Screen
For increased security
You have to just enable pin lock in settings in this application
and create own password for unlock phone screen.
*Slide to unlock.
*Enter pin to unlock.
*A lot of beautiful wallpapers to choose
*Choose Unlock Animation
*Keypad Lock Screen also allows to use wallpaper from Your gallery
*Unlock sound enable/disable.
*Unlock vibration enable/disable.
LEO Privacy Guard
Why do I need this App?
LEO Privacy Guard is the most downloaded and trusted privacy protection tool on all Android markets. It's the perfect safeguard to keep your phone safe from annoying snoopers. With multidirectional all-round protection and premium functions, you can heave a sigh of relief and not worry about:
Girlfriend/boyfriend trying to go through your messages when you're in the shower.
Parents/kids curious about your gallery and FB status.
Colleagues accidentally see "private" pics/videos when you let them use your phone.
What does LEO Privacy Guard do?
• Remarkable protection for your apps with just one tap.
• Easy switching between multiple mode options.
• Automatically lock or unlock by desired time & location.
• Be a know-it-all to your device's safety with privacy alerts.
• Keep snoopers away from private pics, videos, SMS and call log.
• Uninstall storage draining apps and back up the important ones.
• Keep your data plan and battery usage under control effortlessly.
• New design for user interface, simple, handy and intuitive.
• Give your screen a makeover with a bunch of stylish themes.
For more info
Website: http://www.leomaster.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/App-Master/1709302419294051?fref=ts
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Privacy_Lock
Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/109812241250582068738/posts
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/AppMasterFun
Gallery Lock (Hide pictures)
Hide pictures and videos! (KeepSafe).
"Gallery Lock" hide pictures and videos and it is an app that is absolutely needed for protection of personal privacy. The product is one of the most popular apps in the world and is one of the top 10 apps sold on Google Play.
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• Hide Photos & Videos (Keep Safe)
• Stealth Mode supported : this feature hides a launch icon.
• Watchdog : After 3rd failed password attempt, built-in camera takes photo of attacker.
• Share pictures from Gallery Lock to any applications.
• Cloud Backup supported to Google Drive, Dropbox, Box
• Folders supported.
• Beautiful designs
• Rotate and zoom features
• Slide Show supported.
• Mp3 background music playing supported while slide show.
• A variety of viewing mode.
• Multi-select feature for fast hiding, un-hiding, sharing
• Easy-to-use PIN,Pattern access
• Extra features for Keep Safe.
# FREE version (version w/ ads)
# (Important!) Before uninstall the Lite version, undo the hide function of the photos and the videos. If you uninstall the program without undoing the hide function or Factory reset of device, the photos and videos will be lost.
# It is recommended that you purchase the app after checking to see if the free assessment Lite version runs properly.
- Call permission : for Stealth Mode feature.
- Take Picture permission : for WatchDog feature
# Method to recover photos when problems occur
If for some reason Gallery Lock does not run, recovery can be made by following the method below.
1) Uninstall Gallery Lock
2) Download Gallery Lock from the Market and install it.
3) Go Setting in the Gallery Lock, Tap "Find/Recover Missing files" menu.
4) The missing files will be recovered to /mnt/sdcard/DCIM/recover path.
5) run default Gallery application and check whether those files are recovered properly.
# Please send an email for any questions that you have. The developer of the app does not have authorization to reply to comments here.
app lock
With app lock you can lock your applications using either PIN or lock pattern.
This application is a very strong and useful tool for protecting you applications. You can enable or disable the lock service, you can switch between text password lock mode and lock pattern mode.
Using app lock you can protect your privacy and keep your phone more personal.
Frequently asked questions:
1- How to change password?
Open app lock, hard menu or soft menu button, Settings, Change password or change lock pattern.
2- How to stop other people uninstall the application?
Please enable "uninstalling prevention" in app lock settings, then only authorized people can uninstall it using the password.
3- How to uninstall the application?
Please disable "uninstalling prevention" in app lock settings, then only authorized people can uninstall it using the password.
4- I forgot my password How I can reset it?
Open app lock, If you are using pattern lock, please change to text password lock from menu options then select "Reset password" and answer the security questions, If you had not set the security question, send me an email and I will send you a master key to open the app and change the password.
Soft Lock Screen
Safe your real power button life time.
1. Go to Security -> Device administrators
2. check off Soft Lock Screen
3. uninstall
Smart Lock Free (App/Photo)
You can meet here the most essential App which hides Apps/Pictures/Media Files by managing password.
Do you mind somebody executing Apps or taking a look to pictures and media files on your mobile phone?
Smart Lock provides you lots of features such as locking App, staying awake and locking auto screen-rotate.
No one can see locked Apps/Pictures/Media Files!!!
Suppoert for android 5.0 (Lollipop)
Main Features :
- Locking App
- Staying awake (Executing locked App)
- Locking auto screen-rotate (Executing locked App)
- Locking each Picture/Media File
- Locking USB Storage
- Change notification of mobile phone number
Voice Lock Screen
Alternative way for unlocking is also available when you can't say your un locker code public..
✔ Set your own voice password.
✔ You can also set number password just in case if voice password doesn't work.
✔ Enable Voice Lock with a single button.
✔ Select from 4 available attractive themes in Voice lock screen.
✔ A very simple User interface.
✔ Voice Lock Screen absolutely for free
✔ Simple and best Voice Un locker App for Android
Offline voice recognition is supported only on devices with OS Jelly Bean and above. For older versions, internet connection is required.
Folder Lock
You can transfer files from Gallery, PC/Mac, Camera and Internet browser.
Below is the list of all the features:
• Protect private photos
• Hide sensitive videos and pictures
• Password-protect secret audio
• Lock down important documents
• Write secure notes
• Record voice recordings and memos secretly
• Import Saved Contacts
• Create Contact Groups
• Secret Contacts Group multiple SMS
Save Protected Wallet Cards
• Credit Cards
• Bank Accounts
• ID / Social Security
• Licenses
• Business Cards
• Business Info
• Health and Hygiene
• Passport
• General Purpose Cards
Secure Browser (leaves no traces and privacy enabled)
• Download files from Browser
Import files from
• Gallery
• SD Cards
• Secure Browser
View, Run and Play
• Media Player for Videos
• Audio Player for Music and Audios
• Picture Viewer for Photos
• Document Editor for Documents
Settings and Options
• Hacker Deterrents
• Decoy Password (Fake Password)
• Brute force attack prevention
• Takes snaps of unauthorized login attempts
• Logs unauthorized login attempts
• Deterrents on multiple invalid login attempts
• Backup Password in case of forgotten password
Documents: csv, dbk, doc, docx, dot, dotx, gdoc, html, pdax, pdf, rtf, rpt, stw, sxw txt, uof, uoml, wps, wpt, wrd, xhtml, xml, xps, epub, ppt, pptx, xls.
Pictures: png, jpeg, bmp, gif, webp.
Videos: 3gp, mp4, mkv, ts, acc, mpeg-ts, webm.
Audios: 3gp, MPEG-4, mp4, m4a, aac, MPEG-TS, flac, mp3, mid, xmf, mxmf, ota, imy, mkv, ogg, rtttl, rtx.
Archives: rar, tar, gzip, 7z, gz, log, torrent
This is FREE android app that provides security to your data, mainly when you share your mobile with somebody else and you want to hide some personal information.
Folder Lock for Android Phone is the extension of the popular Folder Lock for Windows Desktop. You can visit http://www.newsoftwares.net for more information.
FaceLock Pro
See our tips and FAQ for help on how to do a proper face training: http://www.facelock.mobi/tips-and-faq A bad training can impair recognition or recognize other people.
There are *NO ADVERTISEMENTS* in FaceLock Pro.
Pro version comes with all these features you'll love:
- Lock as many apps as you want with your face (applock, gallery lock, whatsapp and facebook lock).
- Lock screen replacement (like FACE UNLOCK) (experimental, lock screen might not work perfectly on all devices).
- PATTERN lock is now available!
- Set PIN, Pattern or password as alternative access method
- More locking options, delayed lock
- Hide notification, show icons in lock screen and lots of other visual customization options.
- Tasker plug-in
- And we are working on even more features... better than gotya and cerberus!
About security: task manager, settings and market are protected so no one can kill or uninstall FaceLock out of the box. Face recognition is reliable and safe with the default settings. For recognition in difficult lighting you can train more images whenever you are not recognized. For increased security you can raise the security level. Tasker, Locale, EasyProfiles and Llama integration has been tested with Tasker so far.
By downloading this software you agree to the terms of the end-user license agreement: http://www.facelock.mobi/facelock-for-apps/eula
Smart AppLock (App Protector)
★ The Beginning of AppLock, Supporting 31 languages ★
Smart AppLock is an AppLocker or App Protector that will protect your installed applications using a password or pattern!(Facebook, WhatsApp, Line, Twitter, Snapchat, Skype, Gallery, Camera, Gmail and any app you choose)
■ Main features
✔ Protects(Locks) installed Apps using password(PIN or Words), pattern, or gesture
✔ Detects and Takes a picture of the Intruder(after failed attempts to unlock) and send the captured picture to email!
✔ Support Fake Forced Close pop-up(instead of lock screen)
✔ Set individual passwords for each app(multiple passwords)
✔ Profile feature for each user
✔ Decorate the lock screen(background and theme)
✔ Support a variable size pattern(1x1 ~ 18x18)
✔ Remote Lock Controll by SMS keyword
✔ Home Screen Locker
■ Other features
• Various locking method(PIN, Pattern, Passcode, Guesture)
• AppLock Hidden(Stealth) Mode
• Lock screen timeout and Lock screen rotation
• Lock incoming calls and outgoing calls
• Wi-Fi(or Bluetooth) whitelist to deactivate lock at whitelisted locations(Smart Lock)
• Set Lock Time to only activate lock at certain time
• Lock 3G, 4G data, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and more
• Uninstallation Prevention
• Backup and Restore
• and Lots of More features
Smart AppLock is the best app locker or app protector that will secure your smartphone and protect your privacy. AppLock also can lock your data such as pictures, SMS messages, and videos.
• Can I lock any app?
- Yes, you can lock any installed apps in your device.
• How can I lock the app?
- It's simple, please add apps you want to lock, and set your password.
• How can I prevent this app to be uninstalled?
- Please enable 'Uninstallation Prevention' option in default settings, then AppLock is never uninstalled.
• Is there a feature for forgotten password
- Yes, if you set your email or security QnA, you can initialize your password when you forgot password.
• Can't run AppLock(or AppLock disappears in App Drawer)
- if you hide AppLock's Icon in options, and then AppLock will disappear. To run it, please put 'Widget' of AppLock in Widget List and click it.
• Can I detect instruder
- Yes, If you enable 'Observer' feature, 'Observer' will take a picture of instruder and send it via your email.
• What is Remote Lock
- If you send Lock(or Unlock) Keyword using SMS to your phone from other phone, then, your phone will be locked.(or unlocked) - phone number doesn't matter
* App Name is changed from Smart App Protector.
■ tag : applock, app locker, app protector, smart app protector, password, pattern, pin, gesture, screen lock, rotation lock, app manager, safe, security, secure, sms lock, message lock, snapchat lock, whatsapp lock, gallery lock, image lock, picture lock, photo lock, video lock
Message Lock (SMS Lock)
Do your friends always borrow your phone to play games? Do you concern your short messages may be read by people you do not want to?
SMS Lock helps you out!
SMS Lock is a light tool to protect your personal short messages (SMS & MMS).
The cute lock is designed upon Android system level, to provide fully privacy protection to your short message box (Messaging). After enabling SMS Lock, there will be lock pattern protection when opening short message apps.
Safe Gallery Free (Media Lock)
You can download and hide any favorite photos from web page.
You can manage the albums of gallery handily and view & move pictures easily.
Supported Language : English, Japanese, Korean, Arabic
[ Main Features ]
- Gallery : Show all media files on your phone. manage the gallery. (Gallery Lock)
- Safe Photo : Show all locked photos.
- Safe Video : Show all locked videos.
- Safe Web Image : Show all locked web images.
- Screen Lock Type : PINs, Password, Pattern
[ Tip ]
- Be careful when deleting unlocked media files. If you do that, you will lost media files. Steps to recover it : Safe Gallery Reinstall > Setting > Lock Media Recovery
- App Hide : If "it is not installed application" or is not running in the launcher, because it is checked "App Hide Mode" at Set up. Please use dial "#789" in your phone and press call.
- When not execute calling to dial : Run Widget(Safe Gallery 1x1) > Enter Quick Running number > Run app
- Settings of app > Recovering media file : it can recover disappeared or invisible locked media files.


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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI spent his 84th birthday at work Saturday, making appointments, giving a speech and receiving top aides while well wishes arrived from around the world, including Queen Elizabeth II.
Benedict, who was born and baptized as Joseph Ratzinger on April 16, 1927, in the Bavarian town of Marktl am Inn, Germany, was "spending a normal working day," Vatican Radio said.
No rest for the pope was immediately scheduled. His birthday fell on the eve of the start of a heavy stretch of Holy Week ceremonies, including Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square on Sunday morning and a Way of the Cross procession at the Colosseum on Good Friday.
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — Bobby Bradley is ready. He has been training for about five years and learned from some of the most experienced and decorated pilots in the sport of ballooning.
But he'll be making his own mark on the sport when he lifts off from a desolate patch of New Mexico desert in about seven weeks: At 9 years old, Bobby will become the youngest trained pilot to fly solo in an ultra-light hot air balloon.
So is he excited? "Definitely," he says.
Worried? "Not at all," he says.
"I've been flying since I was 4, so I've had a lot of time to train and I've always wanted to solo," Bobby said during an interview with The Associated Press.
Eastern and a portion of the downtown business area were without power for approximately 40 minutes Friday evening.
Officials with the Los Alamos Department of Public Utilities reported that an underground cable near Deacon Street failed. Electric Lineman were able to isolate the affected area and backfeed power from another circuit to customers until permanent repairs can be scheduled for Saturday morning.
Boundaries of the affected area was 15th Street east to East Gate and North of Trinity to Canyon Road. The cable failed at 4:40 p.m. and was restored at 5:25 p.m.
ESB meeting
The Environmental Sustainability Board will host a meeting at 7 a.m. April 21 at the Eco Station Administration Building.
DPU meeting
The Department of Public Utilities (DPU) board will meet at 5:30 p.m. April 20 at the DPU conference room.
Waffle breakfast
The Los Alamos High School baseball team is having a waffle breakfast Saturday at the Masonic Lodge. Tickets are $5 in advance or $6 at the door. For more information or for tickets, contact Connie at 672-4066.
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The Pajarito Spanish Dance Alliance will present its first recital of Flamenco and Spanish Dance at 3 p.m., Saturday at Fuller Lodge.
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Thursday's memorial service for Rep. Jeannette Wallace, 77, was a fitting tribute to the kind of person many came to know to her to be through the years. She is described as having been an advocate, passionate, willing to listen, fair, tireless and a member of the community.
Those words had been expressed about her since her death from illness last Friday, her son Terry Wallace Jr., told the 350 people filling Immaculate Heart of Mary Church for the service.
Los Alamos teens now have a place to call their own.
Last year, a young person was quoted as saying, the only places to hang out late at night were Smith's Food and Drug and Sonic; not exactly ideal haunts for a teenager.
The Los Alamos Family YMCA, along with Los Alamos County, is changing things for local teens with the recent opening of a Teen Center.
Now that hang-out spot is being presented to the community during an open house, which will start at 12:30 p.m. next Thursday at Trinity on the Hill Episcopal Church.
The event will feature tours of the center, opportunities to meet with the staff, henna drawings and a barbecue lunch. There is no fee to attend the event.
The New Mexico Public Education Department has sent letters to 34 of the state's 89 school districts, notifying them about audits of their funding numbers.
Los Alamos Public Schools received one of the letters.
In the letter addressed to Superintendent Gene Schmidt from PED Secretary Hanna Skandera, the state education department is questioning data that "showed significant and unusual increases in the areas of special education — both in the number of students identified and the services provided — and in expenses for teacher training and experience.
"These increases — inconsistent with recent trends — suggest abnormalities or potential errors in the data provided by school districts."
TUSHKA, Okla. — Destructive storms that tore across the country's midsection left at least seven people dead after smashing uprooted trees into homes in Arkansas and ripping apart the only school in one tiny Oklahoma town, officials said Friday.
A tornado swept through Tushka in southeast Oklahoma town late Thursday, killing two sisters in their 70s, Salvation Army Capt. Ric Swartz said.
The tornado also injured at least 25 people as it ground through the town of 350 residents, said Gilbert Wilson, Atoka County's emergency management director.
He said witnesses reported seeing two tornadoes that merged to form a single twister. The National Weather Service confirmed a single tornado hit the area.
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Posted: 07/01/2014 - The planned launch of a rocket carrying a NASA satellite designed to track global warming has been postponed.
Updated: 06/30/2014 - A tropical depression has formed off the coast of Florida and is expected to develop fairly quickly into the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season.
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Posted: 06/29/2014 - LOS ANGELES (AP) - A saucer-shaped NASA vehicle launched by balloon high into Earth's atmosphere splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Saturday, completing a successful test of technology that could be used to land on Mars.
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Do voles favor Camellia roots as a first choice meal?
As a Pro I was contacted by a friend in the Greensboro area last evening. Problem: Camellias dying and when removed the roots were heavily chewed either by rats or voles (that's my guess unless some hamsters have escaped). No sign of other plants being attacked in this beautiful organic garden with soils that we all dream of having. I know how to handle the rodent problem. That is not my question. Rather I am asking if those of you in that general area have had a similar problem with Camellia roots favored by rodents over other plants?
I planted two 3-year old camellias this fall which were promptly eaten by deer, despite many other "tastier" offerings in the garden at that time. The voles haven't found it yet, but in the rodent category the rabbits also favored these plants with their winter attentions.
So, this isn't too helpful, really...but they do seem to be tasty treats for furry feeders. I'd imagine the roots are just as tasty at tea-time.
I know this is an old thread but I had to return a camelia with a one-year-guarantee to a nursery because it had curled and dried up. I tried to dig it up to take it back and when that didn't work, I pulled it up and something had chewed clean through the entire main stem which was at least an inch in diameter! I couldn't believe it and didn't realize rodents would do this!!!!! Just heartbreaking. I have another, Rose Dawn, that is doing fine and I replaced the dead one. Wonder if I can put something around it to keep rodents away???
I have had problems with pine voles for several years.
I now have to plant all new my plants in 1/4 inch wire mesh baskets.
I have tried everything from slate chips, hot pepper, glycerine and even mouse traps.
Camellias are one of their favorites.
You know the more we work to loosen our soils and mulch over top of them to retain moisture/deter weeds the more we create the perfect habitat for voles.
They aren't as good an excavator as a mole and will happily live under your mulch chewing on surface roots of shrubs and perennials and digging through the loose lovely planting soil to get to the younger roots.
Deer, I read, are drawn to freshly dug soils we're planting and particularly drawn to fertilized soils. Some aroma attracts them.
As for the voles..this property has them and first thing I did was to remove all the leaf litter and pinestraw and bark mulch to take away their 'cover'.
Got gobs of raptors. Now I only have owls and a couple of younger hawks ..nesting pairs driven off by owls. Now the raptors can do their job for us since we've exposed their food.
That is what I have had to do, too.
The bark mulch was perfect for the voles.
New subdivisions coming in around our acreage ran off the predators.
I leave the ground exposed even though some mulch would help retain water.
This spring I have noticed the hawks and owls are returning.
Last week, I was working in my rose garden when I spotted a Barred Owl in a pine tree.
I got the binoculars and noticed it had caught a vole and was eating it.
The owl then watched me garden for about one hour.
What a treat!
You're lucky ! I miss the murderous screams of the Barred Owls. Had them for 4 years until the Great Horned moved in and drove out the Barred.
As I understand it, both will drive off the redtailed hawks.
This house I started with a couple nesting pairs of hawks and some immature owls.
Now the owls are dominant which is better for my squirrel problem (explosion). Owls are more territorial and more efficient hunters.
Now if I could just find a non-clawed anteater I have two huge carpenter ant nests in the forest.
You can have both owls and hawks. Some hawks and owls take over former nesting sites of the other species. There is an association between the type of hawk and owl. For instance, I'm in bottom land and have red-shouldered hawk and barred owl. I attended a program by an expert on owls last year and learned about this.
Red-tailed hawk has a different type of owl associated with it.
Voles have eaten and killed one of my Nandina 'Firepower', a sterile cultivar. I look for holes, then bait a small re-usable mouse trap with peanut butter or sunflower chips. The traps are labeled as disposable at Lowe's. The trap is then covered with a large flower pot with a rock on top.
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By midseason he'll have more end-over-end rotation on that flip, but this is good for April.
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My boy loves Yasiel Puig. My girl loves Clayton Kershaw. They've never been to Los Angeles in their lives. How does this happen?
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Rarely is the question asked, is our Puig learning?
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This is gonna turn some heads.
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The league now requires Cuban players to get a much more difficult to obtain clearance to sign than even the federal government requires.
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This man should live someplace crazier than a McMansion in Sherman Oaks.
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Yasiel Puig is slipping, man.
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Don't believe the anti-hype.
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Ethier is owed $18 million in 2015, $18 million in 2016, $17.5 million in 2017, and $17.5 million or a $2.5 million buyout for 2018.
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Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has rejected calls for early presidential elections as attackers torched the Cairo campaign headquarters of a youth group petitioning for his removal from office.
The developments on Friday come as tensions rise ahead of June 30, when Morsi marks one year in power as Egypt's first freely elected president following the 2011 uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
Morsi told the state-run Al-Ahram daily ahead of the anniversary that demands for an early presidential vote were absurd and illegal.
He warned against violence during upcoming demonstrations, which the opposition plans for the anniversary to demand his ouster.
"Violating the law, the use of violence or inciting for it are unacceptable and will not be permitted," Morsi told the newspaper on Friday.
"We are in a country with a constitution and law. We had free and fair elections and the talk about early presidential elections is absurd and illegal."
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The lengthy interview was a throwback to Mubarak's era when the paper served as a government mouthpiece, glorifying the regime's perceived successes and never challenging authorities.
Unidentified assailants petrol-bombed the opposition campaign's central Cairo offices of Tamarrod, at dawn on Friday causing fire damage to the main entrance but no casualties, the official MENA news agency reported.
The youth volunteer group said it had so far collected seven million signatures for Morsi's removal from office by June 30 and it aimed for 15 million signatures - two million more than the number of votes the embattled president garnered in last year's election, which he won with 52 percent of the votes.
Hassan Shahine, one of the campaign founders, said they had received threats before the 3.30am attack, alerting some activists to stay overnight at the office.
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A Brotherhood spokesman, Mourad Aly, dismissed the accusations, and said that it had no reason to "burn the office of a group as weak as this".
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It has provoked a counter-drive, called "Tajarod" or "Impartiality," which has gathered millions of signatures in Morsi's support.
At the Cairo offices of the anti-Morsi petition, the front door and the ceiling were blackened from the fire and ashes covered the floor Friday but the group pledged to press on with its campaign.
"We are holding on to our pacifism, we are a peaceful campaign," said activist Mai Wahba, adding that the attack "will only strengthen the opposition."
The petition has no legal force, which underscores the campaign's limitations but the opposition highly depends on the size of the upcoming anniversary protests to give weight to their call.
The organisers said once they had 15 million signatures, they would take the petition to the Supreme Constitutional Court to seek new elections, although there was no basis for this under the country's newly adopted constitution. Morsi has three more years to his term.
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Wood floor to stone floor transition
Our house is a new build, not old, but we are pretending it's a 200 year old Caribbean house that we are restoring. We will have a wood floor in the kitchen and greatroom that is the "original" part of the house. Our foyer can be entered from the greatroom through a 5' wide doorway with louvered French doors. The wall is 12" thick between these two areas. We are pretending that the foyer was originally an outside porch (but there is no step down---both floors are on the same level) and will have a stone floor and that the louvered doors were the original doors to the outside. What do you think would be appropriate for a threshold for this doorway? I was thinking we should use the same wood as the wood floor in the greatroom but have a special piece made that is as wide as the doorway instead of having the random width boards just flow into the threshold. Hope this makes sense and would appreciate any ideas.
Hard to say without a photo and also whether the "reno" is to look somewhat primitive or sophisticated. Assuming the former, I'd say rough stones for a threshold.
(Incidentally, dw is from Portland, JA and I have mortgages on property there.)
I hope there's a lot of whitewashed stucco! And you're not creating your dream home in the middle of, say, Minnesota.
Worthy, thank you. No pictures yet as we just have a concrete block bunker at the moment and I doubt I could figure out how to post a picture even if I had one. We are in central coastal Florida and the exterior will indeed be what the builder is calling "old world" stucco painted white. The general idea is that the original owner was a merchant who rose is the world to afford a bigger house and added on rather than building new. Thus we have the "old old" wing of the house with the kitchen, great room and 2 upstairs bedrooms connected by the foyer to the "merchant's addition" that now has the master bedroom and office. This has not been researched for historical accuracy but is sort of a take off on the idea of how the Pennsylvania farmhouse grew with the income and family size of the farmer. Also, when we decided to build I was determined not to plunk another Italianate villa on the landscape. I hope I'm not committing an atrocity against an island style home but this is what the architect came up with.
Agree with "worthy"... hard to say what's appropriate without more info on the conditions, type of stone, etc. I would suggest that any transition from stone (or tile) to wood should preferably be made "flush", sans raised threshold (ie "tripping hazard"). Since the dissimilar materials will certainly move differently, use a pliable sealer at the joint between the two.
And, hey, BRAVO, BRAVO to your wonderful-sounding architectural ideas for the "additive-looking" home. Indeed, the typical old house grew in this manner, as owners and needs evolved over time, or the owner became more affluent. What you describe is atypically charming, compared to the phony-Med monstrosities commonly "designed" and constructed new these days.
Best wishes and good luck!
Here is a link that might be useful: Ask Mason
I think your idea of a wide wooden threshold for the transition, that will fit under the door that separates the two rooms is right on target. I've seen such arrangements and they look very good to me. It is also a good deal less expensive and complicated than the alternative you are considering, stone or concrete. Since this threshold (some call it a "saddle") will raise the floor a bit, you might have to have the bottoms of the door cut and, since both areas are heated/aircontitioned, you should make sure that there is enough space so that the air between the rooms can circulate some. The challenge will be to find a carpenter or floor specialist who can do it right.
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It's official, this year is most foul
Ladies and gentlemen, your 2010 sports all-stars:
Jim Joyce! Bennett Salvatore! Koman Coulibaly! David Price! (No, not that David Price, the AL Cy Young favorite; David Price, the guy in the blazer who stole the show at the PGA Championship on Sunday.)
Refs have been making the news for all the wrong reasons lately. We've whistled their eight biggest blunders of the past 12 months.
'You blew it'
Another day, another major sporting event ruined by the officials.
If you liked the umpiring in the 2009 MLB playoffs, the refereeing in the 2010 NBA playoffs and the officiating of the 2010 World Cup, you must have loved the conclusion of Sunday's PGA Championship.
It's a great name for a golf course and it pretty much sums up the dire condition of officiating in pro sports: Whistling Straits.
Whether replay is altogether proscribed, used minimally or employed thoroughly and microscopically, apparently there is no sporting event the officials cannot hijack and ruin.
Time and again, the nonathletes find a way to wrest control of the outcome from the players. Sometimes, it's a missed call that can't be revisited. Sometimes, it's a blown call that can't be reviewed. And, in golf, it's often the picayune application of the letter of the law – aided greatly by magnified high-definition television images – to disproportionately punish a golfer for a minor transgression through which he gained no advantage.
Ah, the glory of competition!
If the goal of any umpire or referee is not to be noticed, it's safe to say the past year has not been a good one for the officials.
The Year of the (Inept) Official may have reached its apotheosis on Sunday when Price and his fellow functionaries halted the proceedings so they could determine if an electron on Dustin Johnson's club had made contact with an electron of earth in a patch of matted-down dirt that at one point in time had been intended to be a bunker.
Johnson may have grounded his club. Price definitely grounded the championship.
There's a reason there's a time limit on how long an NFL official can spend under the hood. The idea isn't to get into every call on a molecular level. Replay is there to quickly and efficiently correct calls that were clearly missed.
Did Dustin Johnson violate the spirit of the law? Of course not. Did he violate the letter of the law? It depends on the quality of your television. On my TV, it did look like some grains of dirt (you could hardly call it sand) had been disturbed after Johnson addressed the ball.
And for that he was bounced from a three-man playoff for the title and into fifth place.
The overly officious officiating became the story, so much so that CBS' David Feherty was actually interviewing Johnson while balls were in flight during the playoff Johnson had been excluded from.
Martin Kaymer's eventual victory was greeted with polite applause. The roar that might accompany a 25-year-old's first major title was muted by the crowd's (correct) suspicion that Johnson had suffered a grave injustice. Hard to cheer for a guy who may have won because some busybody borrowed a magnifying glass – CBS' high-def replay – to eliminate the competition.
Later on Sunday, the Mets' Jose Reyes would clearly steal second base only to be erroneously called out by Ed Rapuano.
The blown call gave ESPN the perfect opportunity to share the results of its recent study of close calls in Major League Baseball.
Over two weeks in June and July, big-league umps got 66 percent of close calls right. They missed 20 percent, and 14 percent were just too close to call even with the help of high-def replay.
The study was brought about in part because MLB umps had proven virtually incapable of getting a close call right in the 2009 playoffs and also missed a handful of not-so-close calls, most notably by Tim McClelland. Time and time again, replay would reveal the limitations of the men in blue.
Those limitations approached Greek tragedy on June 2, when Jim Joyce cost Armando Galarraga a perfect game by, as Joyce said, "kicking the s(pit)" out of a call at first base. The story should have been Galarraga tossing baseball's third perfect game in less than a month. But because it's the Year of the Official, the story quickly became about Jim Joyce and the way he handled his gaffe.
Gee, just think about it, if baseball entered the 21st century and expanded replay, Armando Galarraga might have a perfect game, but Jim Joyce wouldn't have appeared on the ESPY Awards.
Joyce referred to his flub on what would have been the 27th out of a perfect game as "the biggest call of my career." Wrong again. Joyce was the left-field line umpire when Mark Bellhorn hit what would prove to be a decisive three-run home run in Game 6 of the 2004 ALCS. After the ball hit a fan in the stands and bounced back onto the field Joyce ruled the ball in play. It was only after all five of the other umpires – despite being farther from the play – told Joyce they had seen it correctly that his mistake was rectified.
Home run replay would now protect against that near fiasco. Oh, that replay could have saved Joyce from the fiasco of June 2.
At least baseball is opening its traditionally narrow mind to expanding replay.
Even as call after disastrous call marred this year's World Cup, FIFA president Sepp Blatter resisted cries to employ TV technology to save his sport from the repeated mistakes of incompetent officials.
Those cries grew loudest in the United States after Koman Coulibaly, an official from that footballing hotbed Mali, cost the United States a victory against Slovenia by disallowing a perfectly good goal by Maurice Edu. Replays showed that not only should Edu's goal have stood for a 3-2 U.S. victory, but three separate Americans also were being assaulted on the play.
What Coulibaly saw and called remains a mystery.
Amazingly, Coulibaly barely stood out in a sea of officiating incompetence.
Jorge Larrionda and his assistant Mauricio Espinosa both somehow missed a goal by England's Frank Lampard on a shot that hit under the crossbar and landed well behind the goal line.
In Germany's quarterfinal romp over Argentina, official Ravshan Irmatov deemed an obviously incidental handball by Tomas Muller intentional, issuing a yellow card that disqualified the tournament's Golden Boot winner from the semifinal against Spain.
In the scrappy Spain-Netherlands final, Howard Webb let off Nigel de Jong with a yellow card for his flying karate kick to Xabi Alonso's sternum, an attack that might have netted jail time had it occurred on the street.
The officiating was so bad in the World Cup, some fans must have found it a seamless transition from the just-completed NBA playoffs, which were officiated so haphazardly that it was not uncommon for both opposing coaches in a playoff series to bemoan the poor quality of the refs.
The low point for the NBA officials may have come in Game 3 of the Finals, when they consulted replay on a disputed possession call late in a tight contest.
The replay showed that Bennett Salvatore, Danny Crawford and Bill Kennedy had missed a call as spectacularly as a call can be missed.
The officials had ruled that the ball had gone out off Boston's Rajon Rondo and awarded possession to the Lakers. The replay clearly showed L.A.'s Lamar Odom was the last to touch it. The replay also clearly showed the reason Odom could not haul in the rebound was that his arm was being held by Rondo, an obvious foul.
So not only had they missed who the ball went out off, but they also had missed a clear foul, too.
Of course, the idiotic restrictions of replay didn't allow them to retroactively call a foul on Rondo or even keep the ball with the Lakers. They were obligated to compound their initial mistake by making another and awarding the ball to the Celtics.
At this point, of course, Celtics fans were already calling for Crawford's head, having watched him achieve the impossible: turning in an inferior officiating performance to his running mate Salvatore.
And just when you thought maybe the NFL had avoided this bad officiating pandemic, along came Bill Leavy to remind you he had royally screwed up in the Steelers' Super Bowl XL victory over the Seahawks.
Two weeks ago, without being asked, Leavy announced he had "kicked two calls in the fourth quarter" of that Super Bowl. He went on to add: "I'll go to my grave wishing I'd done better."
What, is he trying to get invited to next year's ESPY Awards?
Maybe, as a dreadful official, he just felt obliged to pipe up in this, the dreadful Year of the Official.
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"Evil is expository hell."
The actual plot was short. The book could have been 75% shorter than what it was. The main story was spectacular. I, however, was not entertained by the expository style. Present tense action was submerged in volumes of what has gone before. Including several repeated facts. I found myself not caring for them. Who are they now? What motivates them now? I enjoyed hearing Dr. Impossible's story. The long version of a villian's origin story. That alone would have been great (the fact I thought Dr. Impossible was a whiney punk aside), but the real story, the one that was being told was the actual caper. I didn't need to know every single hero's origin story in excruciating detail. Just tell me the story. Or change the story to be the biography of Dr. Impossible. The performances were okay. And the story was okay. I've read a few Hero Stories and heard "Hero" and so far this is my least favorite. By far.
"Good, not my thing though."
Probably not, The HBO Series covers it quite well. I didn't feel much of importance was lost.
The narrator made all the non nobles sound like stupid old men and all the nobles sound like pompous old men.
Two things, I'm not the best to review this book. I don't like extended stories. Epic is fine but there were so many view points I stopped being interested in most of them. John Snow and Danny were the stories I wanted to follow and had to put up with the rest. I'm not a fan of having to muck through stories I don't care about even if they do advance the over all story.
The narrator is talented but he didn't fit the book. His voice wasn't vast enough for the gobs of characters in the book. Jim Dale, Simon Vance, Nigel Planer, would have, in my opinion been a better choice (and not because they are all English). James Marsters perhaps (though he became famous sounding like a Britt.)
"Dresden meets American Gods."
Easy listen. I like to listen to books at work so I can't have them take too much of my attention.
It was okay. The ride to the end was imagined, vivid, clear. So much better than the end. That's not to say it was disappointing but it wasn't the clincher. I did leave the book satisfied and wanting to listen to the next one but not because of the ending.
Not sure, I didn't like the fact that he said Jengis instead of Gingis, and even if this is (and I don't know if it is) the correct pronunciation of it the cultural norm is Gingis and Atticus' whole thing is about fitting in.
The book itself was very fun. I thought the feel of it and the interactions were really fun. I didn't like Atticus all that much. It was very hard for me to accept the fact that a 2100 year old would be so young in interactions, especially in his own mind. It didn't work for me that he would think and act like a twenty something. In a later book he explains that Druids have certain Mental Disciplines that allow him to adapt but even with that there is a weight that comes with age, any one sitting in an old forest can attest to that, so why is he so fresh? Doesn't make sense.
-I didn't find the ideas all that new. Even the Author mentioned Neil Gaimen in a later book so I think there was some deep influence. That being said I do think Kevin Hearne did do a good amount of research and made the story his own. Good job.
-I liked the widow, and his relationship with her was the only really acceptable thing. His love for her shown through and I would like to hear more about the authors experience behind that relationship.
-Oberon was another hard to get past point of the story. I cannot believe that a dog is or ever will be THAT capable of abstract thought. Even if he is a druid's pet and 10-ish years past the normal life expectancy of a normal wolfhound. His innocence was refreshing. And the frank observations were a nice touch.
-Over all I liked the book. I thought that it was well paced and fun. Oberon was hysterical and the magic rules were well thought out and intriguing. I did get pulled in and listened to the next two. Not as fresh as I would have liked but entertaining none the less.
-If you like Dresden AND Sookie then yes this is a great book for you. If you are looking for a way to solidly speak of magic then this is also a book for you. If you are looking for a powerful read then perhaps not.
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The d:dicate range also includes the well-known MMC4007 hi-SPL omnidirectional capsule, previously known as 4007, now in a modular version. Widely used for measurement purposes, this capsule has an very wide dynamic range and can handle extremely high sound pressure levels.
Both capsules are widely used for picking up drums, percussion, brass instruments, and for measurement purposes—and both are entirely compatible with other d:dicate preamplifiers.
Completing the d:dicate line-up are microphones from the familiar DPA Reference Standard series, which has been absorbed into the d:dicate range with all former Reference Standard products now carrying d:dicate branding. These include the modular 4000 and 2000 series, which are manufactured to perform within very narrow tolerances and offer exceptional linear frequency responses, high SPL and superior gain before feedback.
Within the 4000 series there are a wide variety of capsules including the new 4018 supercardiod, 4017 shotgun, 4015 wide cardioid, 4011 cardioid and 4006 omnidirectional.
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Christian Poulsen, CEO of DPA Microphones, says: "Our new d:dicate Recording Microphone range gives customers the ultimate in flexibility as any microphone in the range can easily be transformed into a new variant simply by choosing a different capsule or preamplifier. Customers will also find that owning several capsules is more cost effective than purchasing a completely new microphone.
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Carole Bartolotto: The problem with concluding that GMOs are safe is that the argument for their safety rests solely on animal studies. These studies are offered as evidence that the debate over GMOs is over. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Lauren Steiner: To our surprise, the regulators didn't try to shut us down. Security didn't storm the room. None of the workshop attendees booed us. So we continued the same chant for three minutes.
Joe Mathews: Thanks to Xi Jinping, Chinese millionaires have propped up the state's sagging real estate market, universities, and companies.