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COVINGTON - Two Newton County state legislative delegates attended the Newton County Board of Education's meeting last week to hear the board's concerns."This meeting is a tradition of the past few years," said Newton County School System Superintendent Steven Whatley before the meeting. After inviting the county's four delegates earlier this year to hear the board's legislative concerns, State Sen. John Douglas (R-Social Circle) and State Rep. Doug Holt (R-Social Circle) attended Tuesday's combined work session and regular monthly meeting before the state session starts again Jan. 12. In November, the board members selected 10 issues they felt most important to present to the legislators that give their positions on state policies, procedures and funding of public schools. "We realize there is a state and local budget crunch; we realize that we are one of the many agencies ... (and) all of us receive a slice of the state pie," Whatley said to the legislators. "Our concern this year ... really deals with issues such as authority and the economy and taxing." Items on their list include supporting an increase in the state maximum class size requirements, a fair and equitable tax reform and increase of funding for maintenance and operations and not supporting the taking away of local funding power and vouchers to allocate public funds for private schools and home study, among other issues. "We know you have a difficult situation," Whatley told the legislators. "We feel education is a top priority in this district and this state." Board members especially wanted the legislators to know how certain tax cuts hurt the local school systems. "It's not really relief; it gets passed down," board member Cathy Dobbs said. "The bottom line is you get what you pay for. ... We're going to have to cut services when we'd like to have a quality (school system). That's what we'd like in Newton County." Douglas, a former Newton County BOE member, and Holt said they appreciate the invitation to the meeting and also the hard work of the board and the school system; they listened to the board's concerns, commented on a few of them and told school officials they would keep the conversation in mind during the session. "This is good food for thought for me," Holt said. Douglas said he's glad to see the growth in Newton County slow down so the system can catch up for the moment, and Whatley reminded him that eventually families would move into the unsold dwellings and new homes in the county to once again fill up the school system. "The pains should be less, and we'll do whatever we can," Holt said. Michelle Floyd can be reached at email@example.com. SideBar: At A Glance 2009 Legislative Priorities for the Newton County Board of Education 1. Compliance with maximum class-size requirements 2. Tax reform 3. State tax policy 4. Impact of tax legislation 5. Authority over local funs 6. Study committee on governance issues 7. Capital Outlay - regular and exceptional growth entitlements 8. Vouchers 9. Appropriation of funds for educational resources and textbooks 10. Maintenance and operation funding
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Yes, it would be. They're each separate, random drawings.
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I'm not too fond of CHI Sir Fangar, but I entered anyway. Some of his parts could be useful, I reckon.
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The Blue Earth County Attorney's Office has ruled that no charges will be filed against the Mankato police officers involved in the death of a 26-year-old Nicollet County man in January. Officers were dispatched to a grocery store in downtown Mankato on New Year's Day after Andrew Derek Layton of North Mankato was found passed-out in the store lobby. When the officers woke Layton up, he reportedly became combative, and a taser was used. Layton went into cardiac arrest after being taken to jail and was hospitalized. He died on January 5th. Medical examiners have ruled that Layton died because of complications dealing with excited delirium causing cardiac arrest. This condition can heighten a person's anxiety, cause speech disturbances, hallucinations and other bizarre behavior most commonly due to police restraint or use of tasers. He also reportedly had heart disease, and was intoxicated at the time of his arrest.
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Miramont Hostel
This is the newest and probably the best hostel in Bucharest. We have young staff so fun is guaranteed. Every night turns special.
We have a few different types of rooms, from private and mixed six- and four-bed dorms to twin and single rooms.
Each floor has two bathrooms with showers.
There is a big kitchen and yard beside the building.
Our young staff gives you the best service and fun.
We can offer you free maps of Bucharest and the precious information.
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- Airport transfers
- Breakfast not included
- Cable TV
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1. From the Otopeni & Baneasa Airport:By bus - there is the express bus 783 (2 trips ticket = 2 Euro), it is leaving every 15 minutes during week days and every 30 minutes during week-ends, from around 5.00 a.m. up to 11:00 p.m. You should leave the buss at the Unirii Place. From there you have to take the Metro 1 station to the Timpuri Noi metro station.
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From the metro station Timpuri Noi you can reach us very easy - 300 m. We are very closed to the centre , one metro station from Unirii.
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Design Competition - Design Off
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• Are you a graphic designer who wants more attention and visibility for your work?
• Do you want to hang out with other designers at one of the top museums in Minnesota and show off your mad designing skills?
Join in the competition at the Stearns History Museum "Design Off" Monday, February 10, 2014. The museum is looking for artists and designers who want to participate in a competition to create a concept design of a front porch to represent the museum's new vision.
What does that mean?
In October of 2013, Executive Director Tim Hoheisel presented a new vision to the museum board of directors. Hoheisel proposed the Stearns History Museum become the "Front Porch" of the community.
Many people fondly remember growing up in a house with a front porch. The front porch was a place that was welcoming to everyone, it was a place that stimulated conversation from all who were sitting around on the porch about all things relevant to the family and community. Conversations were about history, politics, religion, family, food, parenting, sports—virtually anything. A front porch was a place for friendly fellowship where people were comfortable talking about anything. It was a place where people who gathered there felt relaxed and happy.
Stearns History Museum staff are beginning the work to make the Museum even more of a place where everyone feels welcome and where we push the traditional boundaries of what a museum can be. We want the museum to serve a similar unifying and comforting purpose as a front porch. We hope to become a place where everyone feels welcome to not just look at exhibits, but participate in programs, and engage in conversations about anything.
Unlike a front porch on a house that only serves a single family or small neighborhood, the Stearns History Museum wants to be the Front Porch of St. Cloud, Stearns County, and Central Minnesota.
To publicize the new vision of the museum, we are holding a one night design competition, a "design off."
Who: Designers and artists, professionals and students
What: "Design Off" competition—create a concept design, a graphical representation of a "front porch" for the Stearns History Museum to use in its marketing
When: Mon, Feb 10 Set up: 4 to 5 p.m.
Work: 5 to 7 p.m.
Gallery walk at 7 p.m. judging at 7:30 p.m.
Where: Stearns History Museum, 235 33rd Ave. S., St. Cloud (in Heritage Park) www.stearns-museum.org or www.facebook. com/StearnsHistoryMuseum
Why: The winning design will receive a $500 cash prize from the museum and the winning design will be used in museum marketing.
To join the competition please RSVP by 5 p.m. Feb. 7 and contact executive director Tim Hoheisel, 320.253.8424 or by email email@example.com.
Food and beverages will be available for designers and the public.
Free Wi-Fi is available for designers to use.
Details, Details, Details:
Museum overview:
The museum's mission is to "engage people in the exploration of the County's diverse heritage by providing connections to the past, perspective on the present, and inspiration for the future."
The Museum collects, preserves, and interprets local history through exhibits, programs, and an archives that educate, entertain, and inspire visitors. The Stearns History Museum is part of a 100-acre nature park with walking trails, abundant wildlife, and a skateboard park.
The Stearns History Museum is nationally accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, one of only 6 of 562 museums in Minnesota to have accreditation. In 2013, the Museum also became an Affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, and is the only museum in Minnesota to have such a partnership.
We want designers and artists to create a concept design of a front porch to be the graphical representation of our vision. It can be traditional, abstract, futuristic, minimalist—whatever. We welcome creative ideas! The winning design must be able to be delivered to the museum as a vector file. For example, if a hand-drawn sketch is submitted and wins, it needs to be able to be recreated and delivered as a vector file.
We are not looking for a new logo design for the museum. The Front Porch image will be used to promote our new vision. We want a concept design that we can use for our Front Porch branding. The concept design would be used in addition to our logo.
The concept design will accompany our name on our website, letterhead, and history magazine Cross-ings. It needs to be able to be used in small and large formats from a thumbnail on stationary to the entire cover of the magazine to possibly billboards, etc.
Specifics for the design:
1. Effective without color; looks good in black & white
2. Scalable. Works at 1 inch and 100 feet.
3. Versatile & multi-purpose. Has to reproduce well on business cards, pens, letterhead, mugs, tradeshow booths, etc.
Judging will be done by a panel of museum staff and board members. Designs that are inappropriate or completely off topic will be eliminated.
All concept designs will be on display in an exhibit at the museum for visitors to see
Work is to be completed and displayed by 7 p.m. The museum has a printer on site that is capable of printing 13" x 19". A gallery walk for the public and competitors will be held from 7 to 7:30 and visitors will be able to see the completed designs. At 7:30 the winner will be announced.
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Transportation between CDG and ORY
I need a train/metro/bus/cheap service between Cdg airport and Orly airport. Need to make a connection to Marseille on the same day.
I need a train/metro/bus/cheap service between Cdg airport and Orly airport. Need to make a connection to Marseille on the same day.
Hi Barb,
There is a great website run by the Parisian airport authority that will let you know, but you need to know which terminal you arrive at in CDG, and which one you depart from at Orly.
Just click here to see the options.
Take the commuter RER Line B train from CDG to Antony Station, then xfer to the very short Orly line. Fare E 8.60.
See metro/RER map at ratp.fr
You can either take the RER train thru Paris to the Antony stop (this is the RER B-4 line), then the driverless Orlyval train to the airport. Cost is, I think, about 14 Euro. See here for a pdf map of the regional train network in and around Paris. Cost, is, I believe, about 14-15 Euro. The other way, prone to traffic jams, but no schlepping luggage around, is the Air France Bus Line 3, which makes a direct run and costs about 19 Euro.
So If I get on at CGD on the blue line where do I switch the the green to get to Orly?
On the Metro and RER map the RER B line is blue, but the short link on the Orlyval from the Antony RER station to the airport is yellow. To what green line are you referring?
For the record, the combined fare for the RER and Orlyval is €17.60.
sorry looking at the map incorrectly. How long do you think the trip will take from CDG to ORY?
Depending on which RER you board (some don't make as many stops as others), it's been my experience it''ll take anywhere from 75-100 minutes. If you go to the Paris regional transport site, you can enter your specific dates and times and get an exact timing. Use as your origin "Aeroport Charles de Gaulle 2 TGV - RER" or "Aeroport Charles de Gaulle 1" (depending on whether you're arriving at Terminal 2, or Terminals 1 or 3), and as your destination, "Aeroport d'Orly Ouest ORLY" or "Aeroport d'Orly Sud ORLY" (again, depending on which Orly terminal you're leaving from, altho they're only about 2 minutes apart.)
The Paris RATP navigator estimates 1 hour and 19 minutes, at 10 a.m. The time could vary a wee bit by the time of day.


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Born: December 29, 1921 in Manitowoc, WI
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Last Best Show: Any Wednesday at the Lizard Lounge - 0 Comments
We don't have road houses around here. We have the Lizard Lounge.
But transplant any of the four guitarists at last night's Lizard show to any honky tonk outside Nashville (or Austin or Biloxi) and they'd crush the competition. No disrespect to the fine Southern swamp rock bands, but our guys are better.
Go next Wednesday and tell me I'm wrong. Or just take a look at the players' pedigrees.


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In need of Experienced Linux User!
I have been using linux for a year now (Mandrake 6 months and SuSE 6 months(in that order))
And the only help i could get was from typing man 'appname' in the console and reading the README files in different folders...
Well, now i'm sick of it, i need someone to help me with the problems i get because most of them are NOT written in these (still greatly written) doc files...
Please contact me on:
MSN: firstname.lastname@example.com
or AIM: MisterRevan
If you don't want to help me once every week or so then you could reply here with an adress to a general forum where i could get help with all sorts of linux problems, thanks
p.s: The problems do include the NVIDIA drivers :P
(I know its selfish of me but i swear that the day i know enough, i WILL teach others the way of the linux ;) )
That is the most useless post you could've written asking for help. If you have a specific question, try asking that. If you want general linux help, spend the 3 seconds it takes to do a search on Google and find one of a bazillion forums, or use the mailing list of your linux distribution.
Dude ffs
That forum sucks..
Also, it takes such ****ing time to wait for a reply in the forums
and my problems are NOT written in any forums neither..
Beleive me i've tried all the types of help possible.. this IS the best
But why don't you at least post a small description of your problem(s) so people could decide whether they're capable to help or not...
oh, allright.. i'll try
First, my samba server doesn't work (I've edited smb.conf so that it should work coz it did with Mandrake..)
I'll show you the smb.conf after i switch to Linux
Second, My samba client works.. but only if i start up lisa (manually) and use kde's konqueror to browse the network.. But since i like to use gnome more than kde it gets a bit bothersome.. i wanna use nautilus
Third, I don't know how to change the inetd thing so that it automatically starts up lisa, or if i would like to remove something.. i'm not able to.
This is a good example of why i need to have contact with someone over instant messaging; There's lots of smaller stuff i don't know that i'd just like to quickly ask someone and get an answer within a few minutes instead of waiting around forums, getting flames for not knowing somebody that knows something like this...
Fourth, I'm having trouble using wine to emulate some stuff that i use to emulate without problems.. it works, but only as root..
Fifth, If i start up a console and go 'su' then start up something that X should handle, it wont let me.
Sixth, I don't know how to start gnome or kde on any other X server than the default one...
Seventh, Eighth, Nineth... Ahundredandeleventh, Ahundredandtwelveth..
I've got more questions.. lots more, however i can't think of them right now since they seem to float away as i don't get any answer to them in forums (*big fat hint*)
Why don't you try and find a local linux user group? They may be better prepared to give up the time required to be a mentor...
To be honest all you need is google, and enough time to tweak conf files.
For Q1-3, I don't use samba at all, like to avoid windows. But I'd check out SFU 3.5 it has an NFS client/server for windows 2k/xp/2003, and is free.
For question 4, it is usually a permissions problem when something works when root. Check if you can write to the drive in question as a normal user. Also make sure you're using the latest versions of wine, or consider crossover office it's very friendly
For question 5, suse is a little odd with this, just use sux -c "/path/to/command" and a program will run as root with x.
For question 6, my suse 9 pro has a little button on the k menu to start annother session, it's red! (I may have misread your question)
Good Luck, maybe email me your samba config I'll ask a mate...
good place to get package updates for suse: http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/
Hey, thanks :D
Unfortunatly i don't have that time..
When samba works, it works great, both over linux and windows users.
I've checked it and set permissions to full on all the files i know i use.. Is there no way to find out what it uses?.. like debugging or verbose or something (half-noob here, i'm not completely sure what those two words mean yet)
Thanks again :)
one thing I noticed is that if you share a file on a fat32 partition it makes it a lot easier to use samba with it because of permission issues. just keep posting questions and people will answer. i find a lot of help at nforcershq's linux forums.
Whats the adress to "nforcershq's linux forums"?
This isn't exactly a general Linux help forum, but it's been pretty slow lately so...
For your fifth question, you might need to manually enter in the path to what you want to run, such as /usr/local/bin/some_application. Many distributions do not set up the root users' $PATH the same way as those of normal users.
What are you trying to run in superuser mode? It's best to avoid using superuser privileges whenever possible since it leaves your system vulnerable to malicious code that might try to plant trojans or otherwise modify with important files.
For question #6, I like to manually edit my ~/.xinitrc file. Desktop manager startup scripts are usually found in /etc/X11/Sessions, so if you put a line in ~/.xinitrc that contains /etc/X11/Sessions/wmaker, it should start Windowmaker (wmaker). However, your distribution probably uses something like KDM or GDM to allow you to choose between desktops graphically. They usually have a drop-down menu that you select a desktop from before logging in. If you log out, you should be able to access this menu.
Do you have any questions specific to nVidia hardware?
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Picture: Uma Thurman and Arpad Busson Nelson Mandela birthday dinner held in Hyde Park - Arrivals London, England - 25.06.08
Newly engaged Uma Thurman is unashamed to admit she was wrong when she vowed she would never marry again.
The Kill Bill star ruled out ever walking down the aisle again after she split from fellow actor Ethan Hawke in 2003. She had previously been married to Harry Potter star Gary Oldman.
But, speaking out for the first time since announcing her engagement to multi-millionaire businessman Arpad Busson last month (Jun08), the actress insists she is happy to go back on her word.
She says, "I'm going to have to retract my statement of never. I'll have to eat my words - what a surprise."
Thurman split from first husband Oldman in 1992 after two years of marriage. Her divorce from Hawke was finalised in 2005.


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PAGE UPDATE: After a many year search I was able to finally get my hands on part of the William Schaefer Warner Brothers ledgers. In those ledgers I was able to find better box office information on about 40% of Errol Flynn's movies. Most of my previous Errol Flynn box office numbers were pretty accurate....but 3 movies needed major adjustments. Gentleman Jim (1942) and San Antonio (1945) were the big losers as I had their box office numbers too high. Their box office reduction knocked both movies out of the Top 5 in my rankings of Flynn movies. The big winner was Northern Pursuit (1943) as I had its box office too low. The box office adjustment moved Northern Pursuit from 36th to 19th place in my rankings...as well making it into Flynn's Top Ten box office hits. In this update I have also included, when available, worldwide box office and box office rank by year. 02/11/2015.
Even though I consider myself a pretty knowledgeable movie buff, I knew very little about Errol Flynn
before researching and writing this page. I basically knew two facts
about Errol Flynn. One.... he is the most famous Robin Hood of all-time
and two... he made some pirate movies. After a month of reading numerous
books, checking out websites and watching a few documentaries on him, I
am now much more familiar with the life and career of Errol Flynn. I
would highly recommend checking out the Errol Flynn Blog for even more information on the life and times of Errol Flynn....just follow this link....The Errol Flynn Blog.
Errol Flynn(1909-1959) was born in Tasmania. As a child he used to
play with a wooden sword that his parents told him had belonged to
Fletcher Christian. Many times he would play on his grandfather's
boat...acting out Douglas Fairbanks pirate movies. This training would
come in handy when he turned his attention to acting. He would appear in
his first film when he was 24. By the time he was 26 he had already
secured his first starring role in a big budget movie, Captain Blood.
Captain Blood was a huge success and turned Flynn into a star. At 28 he
turned into a superstar with his performance as Robin Hood in 1938's The Adventures of Robin Hood.
From 1935 to 1950 Flynn was one of the most successful actors in
Hollywood. However his "playboy lifestyle" began to catch up with him.
Starting around 1950 his movie career started to stall as his off screen
lifestyle started to impact his health. He would regularly smoke at
least a pack of cigarettes a day and drank heavily. Problems with his
liver and heart eventually led to a fatal heart attack in 1959.
Errol Flynn has 63 acting credits. This page will look at 50 of his
movies. The other 13 acting credits are either bit parts or tv parts and
are not included. There will be a Top Ten Box Office table, a Top Ten Critic and Audience table and a Cogerson Movie Score table that will rank all 50 of his movies from Best (Robin Hood) to Worst (Cuban Rebel Girls). And at the end there will be 10 possibly interesting facts about Errol Flynn.
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1. Errol Flynn was the first actor to play Fletcher Christian
in a film that had sound. He played Christian in 1933's The Wake of the
Bounty.....later Clark Gable, Marlon Brando and Mel Gibson would play
the same part.
2. Errol Flynn and the Perry Mason connection. One
of his first Hollywood movies was The Case of the Curious Bride...which
was one of the first ever Perry Mason movies. Flynn got to play the
corpse. Later Flynn would co-star with Raymond Burr in Mara Maru....Burr
would later go on to fame playing Perry Mason on the television series.
3. Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland were one of
the screen's most popular couples. They would appear in 9 movies
together from 1935 to 1943. Olivia de Havilland is still very much alive
as she approaches the century mark.
4. Errol Flynn was married 3 times in his life. His
first marriage to Lila Damita produced a son named Sean. His second
marriage to Nora Eddington produced two daughters named Deirdre and
Rory. His final marriage to Patrice Wymore produced one daughter named
5. His son Sean, followed in his dad's footsteps and has 10 IMDB credits to his name. His most famous movie role was in The Son Of Captain Blood (1962). The Son of Captain Blood was a sequel to the movie that made Errol Flynn famous, Captain Blood(1935).
Later Sean Flynn turned towards a career as a freelance
photojournalist. Sadly, Sean Flynn went missing while on assignment in
Cambodia in 1970.
6. The saying ..."In Like Flynn" became popular when
Flynn was tried for statutory rape in 1942 but was acquitted....during
the very high profile case, comedians of the day started to use the
saying and it caught on.
7. His drinking was legendary....he would inject
oranges with vodka and eat them during his breaks so no one would know
he was drinking on the set....during a play in the late 1950s his
assistant would stage alcohol throughout the set, so Flynn could drink
while performing.
8. Errol Flynn and Alan Hale Sr. (one of my favorite
character actors) appeared in 11 movies together. Alan Hale Sr. was the
father of Alan Hale Jr....better known as The Skipper on Gilligan's
9. The movie My Favorite Year is
based on Mel Brooks' encounter with Flynn on a television show in the
1950s....in that movie Peter O'Toole played the Flynn character. Also
Jude Law portrayed Errol Flynn in The Aviator.
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Efficient conversion of values into readable byte strings.
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To install the port: cd /usr/ports/devel/hs-bytestring-show/ && make install cleanTo add the package: pkg install devel/hs-bytestring-show
cd /usr/ports/devel/hs-bytestring-show/ && make install clean
pkg install devel/hs-bytestring-show
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Affects: users of lang/ghc and */hs-*
Author: email@example.com
The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compiler has been updated to version
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rebuild or reinstall all the dependent ports by one of the following
# portmaster -w -r ghc
# portupgrade -fr lang/ghc
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Note that prefixes used for hs- ports (Cabal packages) have been
changed to PREFIX/{lib,share,share/doc}/cabal/ghc-GHC_VERSION to
enable more seamless upgrades in the future.
Affects: users of */hs-*
Due to some unexpected dynamic linking problems, Haskell Cabal ports with
binaries that link to their own libraries may not work. With default
configuration, the following ports are known to have this problem:
Agda, BNFC, pandoc, and uuagc. (Their port revision are now bumped.)
In general, it is recommended to rebuild the port if you are
experiencing that the corresponding binary will not start, e.g.:
% agda
Shared object "libHSAgda-2.3.2-ghc7.4.2.so" not found, required by "agda"
Note that the recent devel/libffi update caused some breakage in the Haskell
ports with the DYNAMIC option enabled. The problem has been identified and
fixed since then. All Haskell ports have been updated to their latest stable
versions or bumped as DYNAMIC is enabled by default.
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GHC has been updated to version 7.0.4, and Haskell Platform to version
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Platform versions or latest versions.
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Update the default version of GCC in the Ports Collection from GCC 4.7.4
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Tested by: antoine (-exp runs)
Approved by: portmgr (implicit)
- Update The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compiler to version 7.8.3
- Update Haskell Platform to version 2014.2.0.0
- Update Yesod Platform to version 1.2.13
- Update Gtk2Hs to version 0.12.5
- Update Pandoc to version 22.214.171.124
- Update git-annex to version 5.20140717
- Unbreak wxHaskell ports
Please note that port revisions for all the Haskell ports without version
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New ports (69):
databases/hs-esqueleto: Type-safe EDSL for SQL queries on persistent backends
devel/hs-Glob: Globbing library
- Reroll and update bootstrap Haskell compilers to GHC 7.6.3 on 8.x and
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- Bump port revision for lang/ghc and all dependents, as a consequence
Obtained from: FreeBSD Haskell
Update the default version of GCC used in the Ports Collection from
GCC 4.6.4 to GCC 4.7.3. This entails updating the lang/gcc port as
well as changing the default in Mk/bsd.default-versions.mk.
Part II, Bump PORTREVISIONs.
Supported by: Christoph Moench-Tegeder <firstname.lastname@example.com> (fixing many ports)
Tested by: bdrewery (two -exp runs)
- Stagify lang/ghc and all the Haskell Cabal ports
- Update HACKAGE_SITE to follow changes in upstream
- MAKE_ENV now sets LC_ALL and DESTDIR for Haskell Cabal ports
- Further minor cosmetical changes: replace USE_GMAKE with USES, get rid of
${DO_NADA}, some refactoring
Obtained from: FreeBSD Haskell
- Fix a run-time problem with lang/ghc on FreeBSD 10.0 and later, caused by
the iconv changes (basically GHCi was rendered unusable)
- Fix build for x11-toolkits/hs-wxc, while here
- Bump port revision for all Haskell Cabal ports as they have to be rebuilt
PR: ports/184806
Reported by: many
Obtained from: FreeBSD Haskell
Update to libmpc version 1.0.1 which brings the following fixes:
- Switched to automake 1.11.6, see CVE-2012-3386.
- #14669: Fixed extraction of CC from gmp.h.
- Fixed case of intermediate zero real or imaginary part in mpc_fma,
found by hydra with GMP_CHECK_RANDOMIZE=1346362345.
This is on top of the following changes from version 1.0
- Licence change towards LGPLv3+ for the code and GFDLv1.3+ (with no
invariant sections) for the documentation.
- 100% of all lines are covered by tests
- Renamed functions
. mpc_mul_2exp to mpc_mul_2ui
. mpc_div_2exp to mpc_div_2ui
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
devel part 2)
- Add a missing period
Obtained from: FreeBSD Haskell
Efficient conversion of values into readable byte strings
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You have 4 red and 5 blue counters. How many ways can they be
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How can you arrange the 5 cubes so that you need the smallest number of Brush Loads of paint to cover them? Try with other numbers of cubes as well.
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Zumf makes spectacles for the residents of the planet Zargon, who
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Winifred Wytsh bought a box each of jelly babies, milk jelly bears,
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Hover your mouse over the counters to see which ones will be
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There are 4 jugs which hold 9 litres, 7 litres, 4 litres and 2
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Can you arrange 5 different digits (from 0 - 9) in the cross in the
way described?
My cube has inky marks on each face. Can you find the route it has
taken? What does each face look like?
Cherri, Saxon, Mel and Paul are friends. They are all different
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The ancient Egyptians were said to make right-angled triangles
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Make a pair of cubes that can be moved to show all the days of the
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Ten cards are put into five envelopes so that there are two cards in each envelope. The sum of the numbers inside it is written on each envelope. What numbers could be inside the envelopes?
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About five miles east of Millersburg, a turnoff on Rte. 557 leads south to the aptly named village of Charm. Surrounded by lush, rolling farmland, Charm makes you feel as if you've wandered into a Grant Wood painting. Amish farms are limited in size to the amount of land that a single family can work without modern machinery, and each rise in the road will reveal as many as a dozen farmsteads, their simple white houses, huge dairy barns, and neatly furrowed fields laid out as precisely as the squares on a checkerboard.
Returning to Rte. 39 east, the drive soon reaches another farming town, Berlin, where visitors can learn about the Amish and their Anabaptist kin, the Mennonites. Stop at the Mennonite Information Center, located on County Road 77, just off Rte. 39. Its chief attraction is a grand cyclorama, or circular painting. Measuring 10 feet high by 265 feet long, this magnificent mural depicts the heritage of the Amish and Mennonite people from their mutual origins in medieval Zurich, Switzerland, in 1525 to the present.
About one mile east of town, a former Amish farm offers tours, buggy rides, quilt-making demonstrations, and a pondside that makes a great spot for a picnic.
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Of all the picturesque towns that can be seen along the drive, perhaps none is as distinctive as Sugarcreek. Nicknamed The Little Switzerland of Ohio, Sugarcreek really does conjure up the flavor of a Swiss village. Here you may find yourself bobbing to the beat of polka music that drifts out from the town's storefronts, all colorfully decorated with appealing alpine scenes.
Sugarcreek is also the departure point for the Ohio Central Railroad, which offers tours of Amish country. The depot is on Factory Street, not far from the local McDonald's—equipped with hitching posts to accommodate Amish horse-drawn buggies.
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At New Philadelphia head southeast on Rte. 259 (High Avenue) to Schoenbrunn Village State Memorial, site of Ohio's earliest Christian settlement. Founded in 1772 as a Moravian mission to the Delaware Indians, Schoenbrunn (German for "beautiful spring") lasted only five years, but today its 17 reconstructed log buildings evoke life on the Ohio frontier. The original cemetery endures as a mute memorial to the heroic men and women who braved wilderness and war to make their homes here.
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The original dust skirt on our ShopBot took one too many hits and frankly I wasn't a big fan of the design. This one is built using some scrap 3/8" polycarbonate, a 2" #8 bolt and nuts, and 16 3/8" x 1/4" cylindrical rare earth magnets.
There are 2 pieces to the design.
The first is the main shoe that clamps onto our spindle.
The second piece is used as the spacers as well as the dust skirt. You can create as many spacers as you need for the length of bits you use. I made 2 to start.
This system makes it extremely easy to remove the skirt for bit changes, z-zeroing, or operating without the hood altogether. It stays out of the way of the Y gantry when the z axis needs to be raised. It also eliminates the need for that silly thumbscrew that held on the factory dust hood. You could rarely get to it when you needed to and it was located in a potential pinch point.
I've included the DXF files so you can take this to any cad/cam combo you like.
Step 1: Create a jig to hold your polycarbonate blanks
I cut rounded corners at the ends of the main shoe and skirt pieces but left the long edges at the full 5" width.
It looks nice and the magnetic part seems to make a lot of sense since you're able to zero the bit and just attach it when you're done. The vinyl part worries me though as it doesn't bend equally in all directions like a brush and also, if it gets stuck in a cut, wouldn't it tear off the magnetic part?
I really wouldn't want to be in the shop when that thing comes off and gets in the routers way. Are the magnets really strong enough?
The vinyl skirt was actually part of the original dust skirt shipped by Shopbot. It's pretty flexible stuff and I've never had it get stuck on anything. The magnets are more than strong enough to hold the skirt on securely.
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CAMERON — A seventh-inning run broke a 1-all tie to enable the Cameron Yellowjackets to edge the Panama Razorbacks 2-1 Thursday afternoon.
Tied at 1 in the seventh inning, a Panama error allowed Brennan Barclay to score from third base to give the Yellowjackets the victory.
A suicide-squeeze bunt by Drew Hopson scored Trey Byrd from third base to give the Razorbacks a 1-0 lead.
A Panama error allowed Blaise Lomon to score Cameron's first run in the third inning to tie the game at 1.
Three Panama Razorbacks will participate in the Class 2A State Powerlifting Meet, which will take place today in McLoud. The lucky trio will be Gabe Harp at 168 pounds, Ryan Farrar and Bobby Lotchleas at heavyweight.
LeFlore County Demcrats and Republicans will hold grass roots organizationsl meetings next week
The LeFlore County Democratic Party will hold precinct meetings at 7 p.m. Thursday. Precinct meetings will be held at voting places in which each person votes.
For more information, contact Reba Amend at (918) 647-3250 or email@example.com.
County Republicans will hold their annual precinct meeting and county convention at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 16, at Western Sizzlin in Poteau.
Business will include election of precinct officials, convention delegates and officers.
Friday afternoon's home doubleheader against the Arkansas Baptist Buffaloes at Ival Goodman Field started on the right foot for the homestanding Carl Albert State Vikings baseball team, but finished on a down note for the locals.
The Vikings took the opener from the Buffs 9-0, but the visitors from Little Rock claimed an 8-1 victory in the nightcap.
Joe Underwood, 76, of Panama died Thursday, March 7, 2013. Services will be held at 1 p.m. Monday, March 11, at First Assembly of God in Spiro. Burial will be in Spiro City Cemetery under the direction of Mallory-Martin Funeral Home.
Kenneth Wayne Anderson, 80, of Summerfield died Thursday, March 7, 2013, in Talihina. Services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday, March 11, at First Southern Baptist Church in Heavener. Burial will be in Summerfield Cemetery under the direction of Dowden Funeral Home.
SHAWNEE — Getting 18 points from Norman's D. Brown in her final game as a Lady Viking wasn't enough as the Carl Albert State College Lady Vikings came up short in their 63-56 loss to the Murray State College Lady Aggies in the Region II Tournament quarterfinals Thursday afternoon at Oklahoma Baptist University's Noble Complex.
The Lady Vikings loss to Murray State ends the 2012-13 season for the Lady Vikings at 12-17.
Carl Albert State College Lady Viking D. Brown, a 5-3 sophomore shooting guard from Norman, has been named to the Oklahoma Collegiate Athletic Conference Women's Third Team.
Adrion Webber, a 6-5 sophomore shooting guard from Muskogee, has named to the Oklahoma Collegiate Athletic Conference Men's Third Team.
The Poteau Lady Pirates got to play on their new-look softball field for the first time this spring, and they didn't disappoint their fans Thursday afternoon.
Taking advantage of five Wister errors, the Lady Pirates were able to blank the Lady Wildcats 12-0 in a four-inning, run-rule victory.
Editor's note — Thursday afternoon's Heavener road game at Red Oak was canceled, with no make-up date scheduled.
The Carl Albert State College softball team had a dramatic win and a rout in taking a home doubleheader from the Northern Oklahoma College-Tonkawa Lady Mavericks on Thursday afternoon.
A four-run seventh inning rallied the Lady Vikings to a 7-6 come-from-behind win in the opener. Then, they corraled the Lady Mavericks 13-6 in the nightcap.
The Lady Vikings, who had Saturday's home twinbill canceled against Arkansas Baptist, will return to action at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Shawnee for a doubleheader against Seminole State.


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I think that anyone can guess where I got the idea for this poem. This poem is more-off straightforward. Comments are open.
What a Horrible World
I see
Skies of Black.
Rivers of Fire.
The Red Roses
And Fade
Into dust.
All out
With people
In every direction
Trying to avoid
The inevitable.
But Everyone Knows
Their Doom is Near.
And I Think
To myself
This was once
A Civilized World.
I see
A Beautiful Sun.
A gentle breeze
Rustles the trees.
It is Summer
It is July.
This is in
A Park.
With green leaves
Green grass
And beautiful
Green trees.
The many Pathways
Are Octagonal Cobblestones.
But the birds
Are silent.
A boyfriend
And girlfriend
Are arguing.
And their love
Is now
At an end.
And they walk away
From each other.
To look back
And Forevermore
Hate each other.
And I think
To myself
What a Loveless World.
I see children playing
Baseball in the streets.
Along Brooklyn
Row Houses.
And a child
Knocks one
Out of reach.
He got a homerun.
But what if I told you
He came home
In a casket
After serving a tour?
Turn to Frowns.
And I think to myself
What a Hateful World.
Beer bottles
Six-pack rings
Used condoms.
And Toxic Chemical Drums
Lay in a river
Of green water.
One the side
Is a Factory.
In shadow.
Their Smokestacks
All expel gas
Into the atmosphere.
And I think to myself
This was once
A Beautiful World.
I'm having
A cup of tea
At a café
That is amidst
All this misery.
I only had
Enough money
For the tea
And not to tip
The waiter.
She Grimly
Shuffles off
After I gave her
The money.
And I'm sorry
To say
But this
Is a Greedy World.
Not to mention
A bankrupt one
As well.
And overall
I sit here.
Trying to quiet
My mind
But I cannot.
Because I am
A Tormented Man.
And Broken.
And finally
As I write this
I will now end this.
But before I go
I Will Say This.
And I think to myself…..
What a Horrible World.
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education was in a worse state in 1990 than we realised. While
the Jomtien report recognised that the 1980s had been a bad
decade for education, the time-lag in getting figures meant
that the scale of deprivation was not then clear. At that
time we thought that 130 million children were out of school;
by 1995 the reported figure for 6 to 11 year olds had risen
to 145 million (Colclough 1993: 1, UNESCO 1998: 18). We can
also now see that, in real terms, developing country expenditure
fell, in constant 1998 US$$, from $192.7 billion in 1980 to
$149.5 billion in 1985 and had only crept up to $194.0 billion
by 1990 (UNESCO 1998: 110, with figures deflated using US
CPI). The figures for sub-Saharan Africa, and for expenditure
per student or per head of population are worse than this.
There is a mood of optimism about the Jomtien documents that
sits oddly with the figures, at least as we now see them.
In terms
of technology, the mood was of hope unfulfilled. Ministries
of education were using most of their budget and much of their
energy seeking to keep schools staffed and open, using conventional
approaches, with little time or money left over to explore
the new. In consequence, the record of using distance education
and communications technology to support basic education was
patchy. The Jomtien background document said, 'It can be argued
that the literacy and basic education potential of the new
communication technologies (and educational innovations) has
never been fully realized' (Inter-Agency Commission 1990:
hindsight, we can distinguish five kinds of initiative: alternative
secondary institutions, programmes for raising school quality,
adult education and extension, teacher education and the work
of open universities in relation to basic education. Two more
were coming over the horizon: the use of computers in schools
and the creation of two new international agencies, the Commonwealth
of Learning (COL) and the Centre International Francophone
de Formation à Distance (CIFFAD). This is a wider set of categories
than those used in the Jomtien roundtable paper which concentrated
on interactive radio, radio for out-of-school learners, and
inservice teacher training (Nielsen 1990: 5-7).
We look
at each of these areas in turn.
Both governments
and NGOs have been attracted by the idea of using technology
to create an alternative to schooling usually to reach remote
children, who could not get to school. The Latin American
radio schools, stimulated by the Roman Catholic church, the
Mexican Telesecundaria, set up by government to offer television-based
secondary education, and the correspondence study centres
for junior secondary education of the governments of Malawi,
Zambia and Zimbabwe are all variants of the model. (In the
1990s they were joined by the open schools of India and Indonesia.)
(1990: 6-7) reported on this work, mainly in Latin America,
and distinguished between programmes leading to a primary-school
qualification and those that provided 'basic education in
the form of literacy and numeracy (often in combination with
training in livelihood skills and consciousness raising activities).'
He noticed that the programmes were under-documented but suggested
that there were at least 15 programmes of the former type
and more of the latter. The radio schools combined a concern
for basic education with programmes of political and social
mobilisation. With hindsight it looks as if the radio schools
may in fact have played a more dominant role in the 1970s
than the 1980s. The effect of the depression in Latin America
in the 1980s seems to have been to leave campesino families
with too few resources even to meet the modest demands in
finance and time of the radio school system (cf. Kay 1989:
202; Schmelkes 1994). Their work also tended to bring them
into conflict with both church and state authorities. The
first radio school Acción Cultural Popular of Colombia, which
had enrolments of over 150 000 in the 1970s, fell foul of
both and closed in 1989 (Gallego 1993, Fraser and Restrepo-Estrada
The work
of the radio schools was significant both socially and methodologically.
Their existence demonstrated that, within some jurisdictions,
it might be possible to create a parallel system of education,
reaching both children and adults, and working where the state
was unable or unwilling to do so. The decline of the radio
schools, and the fact that they have few equivalents in other
parts of the world, suggest that the model is fragile and
difficult to transplant. The methods they used demonstrated
the potential strength of radio, with its relatively modest
costs and its power for change when linked with some kind
of face-to-face study.
by 1990 had experimented with out-of-school education mainly
for the growing number of primary-school leavers who could
not get into secondary schools. Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe
ran study centres that widened access to junior secondary
education, using some radio, but relying predominantly on
correspondence lessons. They were not particularly efficient
(offering what was seen as a worse method of teaching, run
with minimal resources, for the children who had performed
worse at the end of primary education) but, with modest costs
per student, were able to offer some educational opportunities
to children who might otherwise have had none. By 1990 study
centres in Malawi were attracting more students than the regular
secondary schools: enrolments were around 28 000 in Malawi,
11 000 in Zambia and 31 000 in Zimbabwe (cf. Perraton 2000:
41-5). Again the model looks fragile: all three systems were
to come under strong pressure in the 1990s to move from being
an alternative kind of school towards being a regular secondary
Up to
1990 the most ambitious attempt to use technology to raise
the quality of basic education and widen access was the television
project in Côte d'Ivoire. The programme was launched in 1971,
with the intention of reaching 21 000 1st grade children in
the first year and with the other 5 grades added every year.
By 1975 it was reaching 235 000 children but, while long-term
forecasts suggested that eventual costs per student would
fall to a level lower than those of the conventional system,
the actual costs falling on the government reached a level
that it could not sustain. The programme also failed to attract
the support of teachers, parents and politicians that might
have acted as a counterbalance to its unhappy economics. In
1981 the government of Côte d'Ivoire closed it down. Its shadow
fell upon subsequent proposals to use technologies, or distance
education, within schools. The funding agencies that had financed
the early stages of the project now showed the deepest scepticism.
A review of World Bank experience in 1987 referred to the
'apparently disastrous Ivory Coast educational television
experiment. Although evaluation studies showed some positive
outcomes, the project has "sunk without trace" and educators
say that never was so much wasted, including Bank funds, on
such poor television broadcasts with so little effect. This
project coloured attitudes towards distance education throughout
the international aid and lending community' (Hawkridge 1987:
The collapse
of instructional television led to a new interest in radio.
Nielsen (1990: 2) notes that almost all countries were already
using radio to support primary schools but that there was
no comprehensive review of the field and that documentation
was sketchy. It still is. In contrast, investment by the United
States Agency for International Development into Interactive
Radio Instruction has led to well-documented research on this
particular variant. By 1990 it had been tried out in six locations
in Latin America, two in Africa and two in Asia. There was
evidence of effectiveness in terms of learning gains and it
was hoped that, by encouraging success among children, the
projects would do something to raise completion rates at primary
level. The costs were additional to the costs of regular schooling
but were then estimated at $0.25-$1.00 per student (roughly
equivalent to 1998 $0.35 to $1.30 if we assume the earlier
figures were at 1989 prices) (ibid: 5-9). More recent information
on costs is in chapter 5, below.
We can
distinguish three main approaches to the use of information
and communication technology to adult education. One is to
press mass media into service in support of state literacy
campaigns. Short-term advances in literacy have been claimed
(e.g. in Cuba, Nicaragua, and Tanzania) but longer-term maintenance
of adult literacy has proved more difficult. As a variant
of this approach, Kenya used distance-teaching methods to
train literacy teachers. In 1990, as in 1999, powerful national
literacy campaigns were the exception rather than the rule.
For the most part their costs, in terms of adults made literate,
had been too high to be sustainable. Second, as we have seen
above, mass-communications methods have been used to offer
equivalence to schooling, both for adults and for disadvantaged
children. Third, extension agencies and public-education programmes,
especially in agriculture and health, have used mass media
to reach their scattered audiences. By 1990 there was widespread
international experience of farm broadcasting and of health
education through mass media, often by public agencies and
sometimes by NGOs. Practical experience and theory together
demonstrated that the combination of broadcasting with group
study could be an effective way of providing nonformal education
for adults.
As with
school broadcasting this work was under-documented. One important
review of world experience concluded in 1988 that 'most efforts
to use communication technology do not do what they are meant
to' (Hornik 1988: ix). He went on, however, to demonstrate
that there was sufficient experience of running mass-media
public-education programmes for the world to know how to do
so successfully. There was, however, then - and now - little
political will to put the lessons into practice. The 1970s
and 1980s had seen radio forums in India and Ghana, intensive
radio campaigns in Botswana, Tanzania and Zambia, but by 1990
all were in retreat. The conclusion of the MacBride Commission,
ten years earlier, can stand as an assessment of the position
in 1990:
recent years the importance of communications for development
has been constantly stressed both at the political and technical
levels, in many United Nations forums and above all in Unesco.
Nevertheless this recognition has not been reflected in
assistance to communication projects.
Neither the legislators
nor the managers of development assistance have followed
in the path mapped out by the policy-makers. (MacBride et
al. 1980: 221)
recent years the importance of communications for development
has been constantly stressed both at the political and technical
levels, in many United Nations forums and above all in Unesco.
Nevertheless this recognition has not been reflected in
assistance to communication projects.
Neither the legislators
nor the managers of development assistance have followed
in the path mapped out by the policy-makers. (MacBride et
al. 1980: 221)
By 1990
distance education had been widely used for teacher education
where its strengths, in reaching remote students and allowing
them to work on the job, had attracted the support of ministries
of education. In Nigeria, Tanzania and Zimbabwe, large projects
had been set up to educate the increased number of teachers
required as each country announced a target of universal primary
education. There was gradually growing experience of attempts
to link learning at a distance with guided supervision of
classroom practice, the nub of successful distance education
for teachers. Nielsen notes that the numerical imperative
to recruit and provide some training to trainee teachers had
taken precedence over studies of effectiveness, but identified
16, out of some 40 projects, where there was some evidence
of effectiveness. He found the evidence on cost-effectiveness
moderately encouraging, with costs per student generally between
one-eighth and two-thirds of conventional alternatives but
noted the shortage of studies on the classroom effectiveness
of trainees. There was some evidence that student teachers
trained at a distance gained prestige within their communities
and were more likely to stay in their communities than those
who went away to study (Nielsen 1990: 10-11).
education for teacher training still faced problems of acceptance
and integration. While it had been used, in most continents,
as a way of providing either initial training or upgrading,
it was seldom integrated into the regular structures for teacher
education, curriculum development, and teacher support. Much
more often it had been adopted as an apparent way of eliminating
untrained teachers from the system, to be abandoned once that
job was done. Botswana, Malawi and Swaziland, for example,
had run projects of this kind only to find that untrained
teachers remained obstinately in the system. Radical and imaginative
programmes of teacher support - like the establishment of
District Education and Training Centres (DIETs) in India -
often explored other ways of raising teacher quality but did
not embrace distance education which remained under a different
Open universities
were playing two roles in relation to basic education. First,
their rapid growth had given distance education a new legitimacy.
Second, through outreach and teacher education programmes
they were directly affecting basic education.
education, had been transformed between 1975 and 1990 by the
establishment of large open universities, especially in Asia.
China, India, Indonesia, Iran, the Republic of Korea, Pakistan,
Sri Lanka, Thailand and Turkey had all set up national open
universities by 1990; by this date most of these institutions
had more than 100 000 students with 400 000 at the China Radio
and TV University and 480 000 in the correspondence departments
of Indian universities. They joined well-established open
universities in the industrialised world and gave a new impetus
to basic, as to higher, education. Allama Iqbal Open University
in Pakistan, for example, was running experimental projects
of adult, nonformal education (and was to be followed, in
its concern for basic education, by open universities in Bangladesh
and India in the next decade.) In Indonesia, Pakistan and
Sri Lanka the open universities had taken on major responsibilities
for the inservice training of teachers. China was using distance-teaching
methods for the initial training of a large proportion of
its teachers.
But the
major significance of the open universities was existential:
open and distance learning was no longer an educational distraction,
dominated by shabby institutions of no prestige and within
the private sector, but part of the mainstream of world education.
were playing a minimal role in basic education in 1990. They
were, however, at the time on their way into the classroom,
with experimental projects completed or under way in countries
as varied as Britain, Fiji, India and Kenya. They were being
used within the curriculum, to support the teaching of existing
subject matter and to introduce computer studies of various
kinds as a new element in the curriculum. But, at this stage,
they were not being used, as they came to be a decade later,
as a means of communication or for access to data banks of
the Commonwealth of Learning and the Centre International
Francophone de Formation à Distance were set up in the late
1980s to promote educational cooperation in and through distance
education, within the Commonwealth and la francophonie respectively.
They were represented at Jomtien but it was too soon for their
work to have an impact on basic education
In his
assessment Nielsen did, however, look at the potential for
international cooperation, arguing that 'compelling cases
can be made for cross-national transfers and cooperation'
(Nielsen 1990: 17). Institutions were already sharing information,
mainly through journals, and there was a handful of examples
of the transfer of courses from one jurisdiction to another
and of cooperation in the development of course material.
The economic benefits of this kind of cooperation were demonstrated
by the example of Interactive Radio Instruction where it was
difficult to justify investment in course production unless
material could be reused repeatedly and used across frontiers.
of the institutions needed to apply technology to basic education
were already in place in 1990. Most countries had educational
broadcasting services. A growing number had either state or
NGO distance-education institutions that were working in basic
education, either by offering courses direct to adults and
children out of school or through teacher training. To illustrate
the diversity of approaches, table 2.1 identifies some of
the institutions that were already working in this area in
1990 in subsaharan Africa and Latin America. Development was
geographically patchy, with more and more varied activity
in these subcontinents than in much of Asia or the Arab region.
there have been dramatic changes in technology over the last
decade, which may bring significant changes to the practice
of higher education, many of the technologies that can benefit
basic education were already established by 1990. Radio and
television were widely used for education. Computers had started
to arrive in the classroom, although they were not yet being
used for communication - the big change of the 1990s. Satellite
links were in regular use and there had been important demonstrations
of satellite broadcasting in, for example, the Indian SITE
project. The use of technology to raise quality in the classroom
or widen access beyond it was constrained more by cost and
credibility than by institutional or technological development.
were four obvious growth points for distance education and
the new communication technologies in 1990. First was teacher
education where projects
2.1 Some distance-educationand technology projects in Africa
and Latin America (Not available)
all round
the world were helping to meet the demand for a better educated
workforce. Projects were attracting large numbers and, by
using methods that were an alternative to conventional teaching,
were demonstrating savings in terms of cost per students.
there had been a number of attempts to change, strengthen
and even reform education through technology. This was the
aim of the Côte d'Ivoire television project and of the curriculum
projects using Interactive Radio Instruction. It lay behind
the early experiments with computers in the classroom. The
record was uncertain and marked by projects that came to an
early end. In most cases, the costs of using technology here
were additions to the cost of regular schooling and, for that
reason, difficult to sustain within tight budgets.
despite a mixed record of success and failure, the idea of
offering an alternative to schooling through technology continued
to influence educators in many parts of the world. Latin American
experience suggested that a model that rested on a powerful
NGO movement and used radio to reach rural audiences was potent
and effective so long as it was politically sustainable. In
South Asia, where enrolment ratios lagged behind most of the
world, there was a continuing interest in a nonformal alternative
to school which might meet demands in remote areas at costs
lower than those of schools. The Mexican radioprimaria and
Telesecundaria projects had demonstrated that, in a large
country with a shortage of rural schools, broadcasting-based
alternatives could be effective. In subsaharan Africa, at
junior secondary but not at primary level, there was modest
evidence of success for some students in correspondence study
centres. While some of these programmes attracted adults -
and in some cases were originally designed mainly for an adult
audience - most of their students were in practice adolescents
of secondary school age. In the next decade it was to become
steadily clearer that these lessons were important for the
expansion of junior-secondary education even if, at primary
level, there was no substitute for school.
The fourth
growth point was at the open universities, in particular where
they were beginning to apply their methods to basic education
and to teacher training as well as to degree programmes.


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Almost all of the members of the People's Temple had been poisoned, nearly a third of them were children. Those who resisted were forced to take the poison by armed guards. In the end, Stoen's warnings and Ryan's trip didn't help most members of the People's Temple. Stoen ended up losing her son, John, in the massacre and Jones taught the world a lesson about the power a single hypnotic leader can have over his people
Jones was found shot in the head with the bodies of his flock lying around him. It's not clear who fired the shot that killed Jones.
Jonestown Memorial
Minister Jynona Norwood, who lost 27 relatives in the mass suicide, leads today's ceremonies in Oakland.
Norwood is campaigning to build a wall commemorating the victims, saying it's up to the living to speak for the dead.
The mass grave is now only marked by a modest headstone and Norwood says she believes a more substantive memorial should be placed at the burial site.
Norwood and her supporters have a fund-raiser planned in February and are also working on a documentary.


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The Week 22 numbers look like this… 5 year comparison Week 22 170 GP YTD Avg +/- GP Avg +/- Avg +/- GP 2006 13,932 6 15,082 15,361 143 2007 16,209 16.34% 6 16,311 … Continue reading
Freddie Ljungberg will change in the visitors' locker room at Qwest Field Saturday night as the Chicago Fire make the trip to Seattle to tangle with the Sounders. "It's going to be weird," he told the Fire's official Web site. … Continue reading
The Week 21 numbers look like this… 5 year comparison Week 21 162 GP YTD Avg +/- GP Avg +/- Avg +/- GP 2006 14,771 9 15,093 15,424 137 2007 17,381 17.67% 9 16,134 … Continue reading
Everyone knows when you travel up to Toronto, Ontario, Canada you will have a tough time earning any form of points against this Toronto FC side at their fortress called BMO Field. The challenge for the Red Bulls was to … Continue reading
Well I have to say that this was a very good week for MLS sides getting involved with the CONCACAF Champions League Group Stages. In the first week of competition we saw three of the four sides earn wins. Unfortunately … Continue reading
Fresh off a 2-1 win over Cruz Azul in CONCACAF Champions League play in mid-week, Toronto FC will try to ride that momentum when it hosts the New York Red Bulls Saturday afternoon at BMO Field. The Red Bulls and … Continue reading
The Week 20 numbers look like this… 5 year comparison Week 20 154 GP YTD Avg +/- GP Avg +/- Avg +/- GP 2006 17,497 7 15,233 15,449 128 2007 23,740 35.68% 7 16,027 … Continue reading
Once again it was another fantastic night of Football at Red Bull Arena and from the first row in the lower bowl all the way to the last of the upper bowl, it was a full house and not one … Continue reading
Seven games dot the Saturday schedule, and the main attraction has to be the Galaxy's visit to New York to face the Red Bulls. New York is coming off a 1-0 win over Toronto on Wednesday, while the Galaxy is … Continue reading
Tonight was the second match of three within a week for the Red Bulls as they haven't seen a league win in the last five. A strong Toronto FC side was coming to Red Bull Arena and looking to steal … Continue reading
The Week 19 numbers look like this… 5 year comparison Week 19 145 GP YTD Avg +/- GP Avg +/- Avg +/- GP 2006 92,650 1 15,378 15,194 121 2007 25,407 -72.58% 5 15,897 … Continue reading
On an overcast afternoon at Red Bull Arena the media came to see the newest signing of the New York Red Bulls and of course their third Designated Player that they signed to improve the club. Mexican International Defender & … Continue reading
On Saturday night, July 31st was the official debut for Thierry Henry in Major League Soccer as the New York Red Bulls traveled down to Houston and faced the Dynamo at Robertson Stadium. The hope was to see a successful … Continue reading
The Week 18 numbers look like this… 5 year comparison Week 18 137 GP YTD Avg +/- GP Avg +/- Avg +/- GP 2006 11,399 7 15,564 14,549 120 2007 15,894 39.43% 6 15,966 … Continue reading
What a fantastic match this was down at Robertson Stadium in Houston, Texas. The action was hot and heavy along with the terrible weather this time of the season and of course the first league match for Thierry Henry with … Continue reading
In a post-game interview after last night's All-Star game, Landon Donovan said "We have had transfer interest and we will have some time to think about it and see where it goes. There is interest from a number of teams." … Continue reading
The Week 17 numbers look like this… 5 year comparison Week 17 129 GP YTD Avg +/- GP Avg +/- Avg +/- GP 2006 16,028 7 15,592 14,698 113 2007 13,974 -12.82% 4 15,830 … Continue reading
It started with Cuauhtemoc Blanco coming to the Chicago Fire, then reports of Omar Bravo going to the Kansas City Wizards and Nery Castillo also making a move to Chicago, but now the Captain of Mexico's national team will be … Continue reading


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