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A landowner involved with plans for a 2,980-acre resort near East Canyon accused the Morgan County Planning chairman of trying to sabotage the Yaryca Master Planned Community during a Aug. 14 public hearing. Many local residents praised any efforts to put a stop to the resort proposal.
"You ran the meeting with a negative attitude that hurt us," said Glen Burton, referring to the July 10 planning commission meeting.
Burton, a current resident of Mesquite, Nevada, had traveled 350 miles to attend the July 10 meeting in Morgan. When he arrived, he witnessed Commission Chairman Roland Haslam speaking to an unidentified person promising to stop the Yaryca development.
Haslam asked Burton to identify the person he had been speaking to, and when Burton said he didn't know, Haslam replied, "It is he said, she said."
Burton—who has spent over four decades in local government, nine of which he served on the Weber County Commission—said his lawyer asked him to bring the issue up during the public meeting. He said it was "not comfortable to do."
Morgan resident Shelley Paige said if Haslam said he was going to stop it, she could see why.
"I am concerned about wildlife, recreation, traffic, noise," Paige said. "It could force the widening of Highway 66. I am really against this."
"If you did say it, you have my vote," said Jessie Franich, Porterville resident. "I don't feel this will benefit us in any way, shape or form. I have nothing good to say about this."
Paige and Franich were not alone in her concnerns. Of the 45 people who addressed the commission Aug. 14, 33 spoke out against the development.
Investors, landowners see the positive
Yaryca landowners are hoping they can get residents and other dissenters to see the positive side of their plans. Nine of them addressed the public, which packed the public hearing to standing room only.
"The property is well positioned as a good resort area," said Dave Kimball, a Yaryca investor. "If we try to not draw swords, we can come to a solution."
Burton, who owns 60 acres in the community, agreed.
"This is a wonderful parcel of property," said Burton, who has owned property in Morgan County for eight years. Burton is the group's local government consultant who swam at Como Springs in his youth, was involved in the Envision Morgan process years ago, and plans to have a second home in Morgan County some day.
"My dad realized this was a beautiful area for people to enjoy," said Brenda Freeman, a former Morgan resident.
"I know you don't like outsiders coming in, but time for change is coming," said Yancy Scott, whose family has owned property in the proposed community since the 1960s. "My kids love to come up to this area and use the facilities. People want to come up and enjoy this. We are going to do what we can to push it. Keep in mind that what we have here isn't a bad thing if you take a look at it."
Morgan resident Dave Corpany said there were similar plans for this property years ago, but when county officials asked for a study about how to protect the wells downstream from the proposed resort, "they backed out and didn't develop."
Robyn Scott, Yaryca profit sharing manager, acknowledged those previous plans from the 1970s and '80s but said plans were abandoned after one partner backed out.
"We don't want to destroy this area," said Robyn Scott, whose father owned the land since 1960. "I love that ground. We can make this a beautiful area."
This time around, Morgan's planner and planning staff is recommending changing the future land use map to make way for possible development of the resort, said Nate Harbertson.
"You have a heck of a planner," Burton told the Morgan County Planning Commission. "He is a real professional. He is spot on."
"These are people you believe in," Halverson said. "It is in harmony with future land use plans that have taken place" such as Envision Morgan. "We are trying to improve the county. We are here to improve the community. A group of people want to bring an impact to this community for the greater good. Think about what we can bring. It is not all negative."
"We have every intention to work with you," James Tracy, representing the potential developer, told the Aug. 14 crowd. "The developer I represent has no intentions to ram this down your throats."
At the least, the 52investors who have an undivided interest in the land deserve to build on their own property, said Nancy Sivulich.
"Why can't I build on my land that I bought eight years ago?" she asked. "At least be considerate to know we have bought land in Morgan as you have bought land in Morgan."
Majority speak out against proposal
Approximately 73 percent of those taking the pulpit during the Aug. 14 public hearing spoke out against the proposal.
Brent Porter, a member of the last Porterville Richville area plan committee, said a resort in the area was contemplated, but not to the large scope currently being proposed.
Former Morgan County Councilman Bruce Sanders asked the planning commission to send the proposal back to the Porterville Richville area plan committee.
"If you are going to change the land use map for 3,000 acres, I would see if it is agreeable to the citizens of Morgan," he said. "This would have a huge impact on this county, a huge negative impact."
Morgan resident Les Adams agreed.
"We, the long-term residents of Porterville, have earned the right to say 'no,'" he said. With races, bicyclists and traffic produced by Scout trips, "Highway 66 is already a mess. We don't want it. We don't deserve it."
"This doubles the size of our community," said recent move-in Jeremy Belinski. "No one has earned the right to change Morgan County."
Erma Carter, who has worked with the Weber River Water Users Association, said the new development could add pollution to waterways and take away water inflow.
"East Canyon River is an open sewer," she said. "We are losing our ground water."
Porterville resident Laura White said she is worried about the power infrastructure in the area, since it already "constantly" goes out. She is worried that her road may have to be demolished to make way for the widening of Highway 66.
Morgan resident Jenny Earl is worried that with more homes could come more children the local school district is not prepared to educate.
"That kind of growth in this county would be devastating," she said.
"We don't want another Wasatch Front in this area," said Morgan resident John Paige. "It would be devastating to our roads."
Morgan resident Matt Barr agreed, saying that 1,700 homes could bring in traffic equivalent to the Ragnar relay race that comes through the county each year.
"We would be looking at Ragnar everyday," he said. "I don't know of anyone in Morgan who would vote for Ragnar every day."
Jay Rust agreed, saying "We have bike riders coming out our ears, typing up that highway all the time." He said county crews would have a hard time plowing the roads for increased traffic in the winter.
Morgan County Historian Linda Smith said she hoped the developers plan considers the pioneer trails going across the property including the Mormon Pioneer Trail, Hastings Cutoff and Pony Express.
"The landowners are the steward of the land and our heritage," she said. "I would like to caution before the stewards destroy the evidence of this priceless trail, to stop and take time to learn the history of the area. It is a diamond in the rough for Morgan County and the land stewards."
She said it could become a historical site worthy of vacationers stopping to see.
Kent Wilkerson, former Morgan County planner, agreed, saying he was in favor of a "very careful community."
"You stand on top of that parcel, and it looks like it did when those immigrants came through back then," he said.
"The reason East Canyon and Morgan is a jewel is because we don't have a boat load of houses here," said Arnold Mikesell. "Take a look in the future, folks. Park City used to be a small town. Jeremy Ranch used to be flat like the property here is now."
"Be cautious, be careful, because Morgan is beautiful," said Adam Chamberlain, a civil engineer and two-year Porterville resident. "Once damage has been done by bulldozer or to pavement or groundwater, it is hard to reverse it."


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Durban - The exclusion of Ina Cronje from the KwaZulu-Natal executive may have had something to do with the Special Investigating Unit's probe into the affairs of the KZN Treasury.
Late last week President Jacob Zuma signed a proclamation authorising the SIU to probe the appointment of a service provider in the KZN Treasury.
The SIU will also probe unauthorised, irregular or fruitless and wasteful expenditure incurred by the Treasury for an event remembering those soldiers who were exiled on St Helena – an island in the South Atlantic.
Also under investigation is the KwaZulu-Natal Sharks Board and the Durban International North Sea Jazz Festival which cost R28m, but never took place.
Sources told the Sunday Tribune Cronje was not appointed to the executive in May in an attempt to shield her from the investigation.
However, Premier Senzo Mchunu's spokesman, Ndabezinhle Sibiya, denied this, saying Cronje was not involved in any wrongdoing.
Another source defended Cronje, saying the former MEC was one of the people who initially suspected irregularities by the Treasury service provider and engaged the SIU.
However, another provincial government official said Mchunu sits on Zuma's Presidential Infrastructure Co-ordinating Committee which would have been apprised first about the dealings of the KZN Infrastructure Crack Team.
"The premier had no choice but to pull out Cronje from the executive. Whether she was being shielded or became the first political casualty of this mess, only the powers-that-be can say. The same was likely to have happened in the Agricultural Department where you had an MEC with a direct line to the president," he said.
Political analyst Protas Madlala said it would not make sense to shield Cronje if she was aware that these things were happening at the KZN Treasury.
"Either way, the SIU will also want an explanation from her," said Madlala.
The 18-member team, launched by both former premier Zweli Mkhize and Cronje in August 2011, was sent to several areas to open bottlenecks in infrastructure projects undertaken by municipalities. These included the Msunduzi, eDumbe, uThukela, uPhongolo, Mtubatuba, Hibiscus Coast, Greater Kokstad, Hlabisa, uMkhanyakude and eNdumeni municipalities.
It included experts from various technical disciplines. The team had a three-year mandate and Cronje said at the time they wanted to spend all the money that was set aside for infrastructure in the pro-vince wisely.
"We want the province to become a model for spending wisely and correctly on infrastructure," said Cronje.
At the time the province had R12 billion for infrastructure and was also in line to get a further R6.1bn.
While the team unlocked R22 million worth of projects in Nongoma, invested R40m to upgrade Pietermaritzburg Airport, R20m to upgrade Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi Airport and R15m to upgrade Richards Bay Airport, costs escalated.
The service provider was then called in to assist. Now the SIU will determine if the payments to the service provider were done in a manner that was fair, competitive, transparent, equitable or cost-effective.
Treasury spokesman Ntokozo Maphisa said the pro-vincial Treasury's Internal Audit Unit had already commissioned independent service providers to investigate alleged irregular procurement and expenditure relating to the Infrastructure Crack Team and the North Sea Jazz Festival.
The commissioning of this probe happened under Cronje.
He nonetheless welcomed the SIU probe.
"The provincial Treasury also referred these matters to the SAPS for criminal investigations. Both the criminal and independent forensic investigations are at an advanced stage. The provincial Treasury will assist the SIU in every way possible as, like the SIU, it is determined to root out corruption in the province," said Maphisa.
The DA and the IFP have welcomed the investigations. The IFP said there was now a dark cloud hanging over the provincial Treasury, which is expected to set an example for other departments.
The DA urged Mchunu to extend the investigations to all public entities in the province.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — An officer was critically injured and another wounded by shrapnel Sunday after a "distraught, suicidal 61-year-old man" opened fire on police.
According to Portland Chief Mike Reese, an officer knocked on a door in response to a call and was immediately shot through the door. After scrambling for cover, he called for backup, and one of the responding officers was shot in the abdomen by what was believed to be a rifle with a scope, according to The Oregonian.
That officer was rushed in for emergency surgery. He is currently in recovery and listed in critical condition.
According to The Oregonian, officers were able to defuse the standoff with the suspect, convincing him to surrender. He is currently in custody.
The two officers who initially responded were Central Precinct Officers Andrew Kofoed and Timothy Lowry. The bullet went through Kofoed's pant leg but didn't hit him, according to KPTV, but shrapnel hit his vest.
The following video discusses the suspect's emotional condition as well as the improved health of one of the officers. A full release from the Portland Police Department can be seen below the video.
Here is the offical release from the Portland Police Bureau:
This morning, Sunday March 6, 2011, at approximately 9:15 a.m., Portland Police officers responded to a residence in the 3300 block of Southeast 10th Avenue on the report of a distraught, suicidal 61-year-old man.
Central Precinct officers arrived in the area and received additional information that the man might have guns stored in the garage, but there was no information that he was threatening to use them. The information officers received was that the man was threatening to hurt himself by taking pills.
Officers attempted telephone contact with the man who did not answer, so the officers walked up to the residence to make contact with him. At approximately 9:22 a.m., the officers were met with gunfire from inside the residence and one of the officers, a 9-year-veteran, received shrapnel to his ballistic vest and suffered minor injuries.
The officers retreated from the door and immediately began requesting cover officers to respond. The Special Emergency Reaction Team (SERT) and Hostage Negotiators were also requested to respond.
One of the responding cover officers from East Precinct arrived and was making an approach on foot towards the residence to assist with surrounding the house when the suspect fired at him, at approximately 9:34 a.m. The 13-year-veteran police officer was struck in the lower abdomen. Additional officers immediately responded to assist the downed officer. Officers fired cover fire towards the gunman while other officers performed an officer-rescue to remove the downed officer and get him to a safe location. The officer was transported by ambulance to Emanuel Hospital where he underwent surgery.
At this point, the officer is out of surgery and in recovery. He is listed in critical condition.
SERT and Hostage Negotiators arrived and immediately began developing a plan to secure the area and to make contact with the suspect. Negotiators talked to the suspect on the phone and convinced him to peacefully surrender to police. At approximately 10:34 a.m., the suspect exited the residence and surrendered to officers.
Detectives have now taken over the investigation and will remain in the neighborhood for several hours as they process the crime scene and conduct an investigation into today's shooting.
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Why EJB endpoint is neccessary?
Jack Zhou
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May 11, 2004 14:20:00
For me, You can always use a JSE and let JSE delegate to
if services like transaction, security is required. So what is the benifit using
end point? I guess the EJB end point in the
server will probably be ceated via a behind scen JSE. However, this "behind" scean JSE give very samll benifit for development. Is it possible, a vendor can realiaze a EBJ end point without createing a
? I'd rather not using EJB endpoint to keep my deployment simple.
Am I missing something?
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I asked a pretty similar question a week ago. Here is
Richard's nice response
to it.
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May 12, 2004 04:18:00
Thanks Dushy,
I actually read that thread. My point is that you don't lose any thing by not using EJB end point. When you use JSE, it is like an adapter of the EJB, you still can have all these benifits from the service offered by ejb container. My guess is that EJB endpoint in J2EE1.4 is rather a convienance. I wish some one can give an example about features that can only obtained from EJB endpoint or I have to give a significant effort to achieve the same via JSE endpoint. My problem is that I believe vendor will actually create a sevlet to intercep the HTTP request which carry a soap message, then call the EJB. Does EJB accept HTTP request without using a servlet?
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May 12, 2004 16:29:00
If you want to build your servie based on
, directly using EJB endpoint will save those "extra" stuff such as locating EJB home, using IIOP to communicate ... Internally, the app server may still need to locate the EJB Home ect. But Just as CMP entity beans, server does it better
My two cents.
Also, Monson's response in that post still holds perfect sense ....
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May 12, 2004 23:12:00
EJB end point implies the JSE internally doing the EJB lookups and invoking the intf method. But the lookups and the invocation could be made more efficient if managed by the application directly - like use of service locator with home interface caching etc. At least the Axis implementation of EJB end point doesnt seem to have any such optimization, it loads the intf classes and looks up home intf every time. So maybe it is a good idea to use JSE endpoint and then call your ejb method from it if you need to.
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May 13, 2004 05:24:00
My take on it is this :
with servlet endpoints that are mere adapters to the ejb (stateless and Message ) issues like transaction begin ,commit , rollback require to be understood by the adapter , then as the moderator pointed out , the adapter in turn can get the transaction context and propagate the transaction.
You could wrap the logic of detection of transaction related stuff into a template
, but that it will get used by any one else except your group I doubt.
The issue I see in this is : the fact that the developer is coding the plumbing , a business developer should not be doing this becuase that means changes in standards requires changes in the code .
on the other hand if you go with the ejb endpoint , the work is done by the app server , changes in standards , means upgrading your app server , and not your code thro out the enterprise .
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Richard Monson-Haefel
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May 15, 2004 21:38:00
Don't assume too much about how the J2EE app server works under the covers. While its likely that some vendors will use
to wrapper SOAP calls to EJB endpoints this cannot be assumed as the only way to implement EJB endpoints. An EJB container may provide its own mechanisms for processing HTTP requests and delegating them to EJB endpoints.
In the end, the EJB endpoint is useful when you need to coordinate several operations within a transaction - operations that are managed by the endpoint - like accessing a
database and a JMS messaging service in the same transaction.
EJB endpoints are also useful when you need to take existing stateless session beans and expose them as Web services - this may be more common than you think. A lot of business defined stateless session beans as business interfaces to their systems. Making the accessible as Web services just opens them to yet-another-type-of-client.
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I'm really lucky to have the opportunity to meet with and learn from young people, who have wonderful ideas and look at the world in new, refreshing ways.
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I whipped around expecting to see Jesse. But, it was Zack… Zachary Lane.
"Um, hey," I responded.
"I, um… You look nice today," he said nervously. And walked off quickly before I could reply.
"Well… thanks," I said muttered to myself.
Zachary always sat behind me, but he never said anything to me… I could sometimes feel his breath, blowing through my hair, which made me realize that he leaned forward whenever I leaned back in my chair. I knew that he liked to look at me or even to smell me… a few people did. But I never expected him to say anything. Maybe… maybe there was something noticeably different about me. --or, maybe Jesse had said something--
Jesse inched up behind me as I walked out of the door.
"Hey, did you see that?" I asked.
"That guy?"
"Yea, weird… he never speaks to me…"
"What'd he say?" he asked, pulling me off to the side.
"All he said was that he thinks I look nice--"
"You sure he didn't mean that about your panties?"
"I wanted to kill him, I swear," Jesse said. "I glanced over and saw him playing in your hair…"
"I didn't feel any of that…"
"And when you leaned forward, your shirt rose, and I could see the brim of your underwear. And, if I could see it from where I was sitting, I'm pretty sure he had a damn good view."
"Oh, no…" I whined, covering my face with my binder. "That's so embarrassing…"
"Don't stress out about it. You'll live, but he won't if he ever pulls that shit again."
Jesse put his hand on the small of my back and pushed me in front of himself. I tugged on the waist of my jeans and held my binder close as he walked me to 7th period.
All the while I was in class, I couldn't focus… I couldn't help but to think, I'm his… I'm Jesse's… And no one could touch me but him… No one could hold me, squeeze me, kiss me but him…
At times, I found my legs trembling from the imagined feel of his hands tracing my inner thigh…
After class, walking out front had even felt dangerous… The skin of my thighs slightly touched every now and then, and the vibration of each step made my body weak.
"Oh! Meg!" I gasped. "You frightened me--"
"You need to get your head out of the clouds."
"I know," I said shamefully.
"Well, what's got you so spaced out?"
"Don't tell me it's that dark-haired, mysterious fella'," she said with a giggle.
"Well, maybe just a little…"
"I told you, it's useless," she twittered again. "Won't be long before we're together."
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Join EcoVoce in celebrating 15 years of innovative music that inspires joy in nature and renewed commitment to preserving the Earth
EcoVoce Celebrates 15 Years
Join us in our 15th anniversary year as we continue our musical journey of inspiring a renewed
commitment to ecology and giving voice to the wonders of nature.
EcoVoce's Calling
We combine a passion for music and nature to create concert programs that entertain, educate, and inspire diverse audiences. The "Eco" part of the name comes from the word ecology, and "Voce" is the Italian word for voice. The year 2014 marks a new milestone for us, with over 90 concerts and outreach programs that have brought an awareness of the beauty and fragility of nature to children, families, and music lovers alike.
Our concerts, under the direction of Denise Freeland, feature original works by living American composers and weave together music, poetry, and images to create a unique and uplifting performance experience.
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This year, you will see a new, expanded EcoVoce. In addition to our traditional EcoVoce trio of piano, voice, and flute, we are creating both a new multi-voice ensemble and an all-instrument group. Our music will be more global, reflecting the expressions of other cultures on our planet.
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The Marion County Development Commission is adding new features to their website. Director Carla Eysink says that, for the first time, their travel guide will be available online this year. She says she knows a number of people travel here for things like graduations and weddings. She encourages residents to share that travel guide information with those friends and family, allowing them to download it, flip through, and see what Marion County has to offer.
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Imperialists Explain How to Rule the Middle East Through Force and Coercion
Posted By John Glaser On July 2, 2013 @ 10:44 am In News | Comments Disabled
On behalf of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Brookings Institute, Max Boot and Michael Doran are openly arguing [1] for a return to the mafia-like political warfare of the Cold War era. "With the end of the Cold War," they lament unironically, "America's tradition of political warfare all but died."
How sad. The statement is anything but true, but Boot and Doran want the U.S. to recommence its long tradition of overthrowing democratically elected governments, covertly supporting foreign miscreants, distributing mass international propaganda, and dishing out torture and death through covert or third-party means. Specifically, this intensified campaign of coercion and warfare ought to be directed at – of course – the Middle East.
Clearly, the president needs options between military intervention and complete nonintervention — ways to influence developments in the Middle East without deploying Reaper drones or sending U.S. ground forces. To give Obama the tools he needs, the U.S. government should reinvigorate its capacity to wage "political warfare," defined [2] in 1948 by George Kennan, then the State Department's director of policy planning, as "the employment of all the means at a nation's command, short of war, to achieve its national objectives." Such measures, Kennan noted, were "both overt and covert" and ranged from "political alliances, economic measures (as ERP — the Marshall Plan), and 'white' propaganda to such covert operations as clandestine support of 'friendly' foreign elements, 'black' psychological warfare and even encouragement of underground resistance in hostile states."
"At their worst," they admit, "such policies propped up strongmen with scant legitimacy — think Cuban president Fulgencio Batista and the shah of Iran — and invited anti-American 'blowback.' But at their best, they enabled the United States to aid freedom fighters behind the Iron Curtain and beyond."
I dare say they are drastically understating the "worst" effects and dramatically overstating the "best."
If we don't reinvigorate America's political warfare in the Middle East, they advise, then we will "cede the Middle East to malign actors such as Iran, Hezbollah, al Qaeda, and the Muslim Brotherhood," and "risk creating a situation that will require, at some point in the future another massive military intervention by the United States."
Notice the wording: if we don't rule the Middle East by force and coercion, we will "cede" it to others. This of course implies the Middle East belongs to us. And of course those other bad guys that we'll "cede" the region to are all "malign actors." Not us though: our policies of supporting dictatorship, engaging in illegal wars that kill hundreds of thousands, economic warfare, covert action, cyber-attacks, and aid to terrorist groups — those aren't malignant. Those are just to save everyone from other malignants.
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If you are wondering where to go these vacation where you would get some heath benefits and your children would get all the fun and learning that is a part of their curriculum as well, choose to go to Rajasthan, more specifically to Ranthambore that is located near town Sawai Madhopur, which is 132 km from Jaipur and 362 km from Delhi. People come down to Ranthambore mainly for its wildlife Sanctuary. The permits for specific safari time could be arranged from the Resorts of Ranthambore among which you will choose to stay in. Otherwise one may have to waste a lot of time in unknowingness here. Ranthambore Resorts are meant for all the travelers who are wishing for their own comfort zone in jungle.
You need to be book before you want to go for Ranthambore national Park, as there are only 2 safari-visiting hours per day. At the entry you would find a good crowd mainly agents who are trying to make bookings for their customers. Staying in Ranthambore Resorts will save you from this effort, as they would do that for you without you standing and sweating at the entry gate in the heat of Rajasthan. You can find most of the hotels and resorts in Ranthambore at the highways of Delhi Mumbai. They could vary from normal to luxury as per your standards of life. Among them are Vanya Vilas, Tiger Den Resort, Tiger Moon Resorts, The Pug Mark, The Tiger Villa, Nahargarh, Khem Vilas, Ranthambhore Regency, Taj Sawai Madhopur Lodge, Ranthambore Forest Resort, Hotel Green View Ranthambhore, Raj Palace Resort, and many others in the list. Choose the one among Ranthambore Resorts that is meant for you.
Ranthambore Resorts are also an opportunity to explore the other tourist avenues in the national park like Ranthanbhore Fort, Bakula, Kachida Valley, Lakarda Anantpura and Jogi Mahal. Bakula is known for many water holes around which many wild creatures could be spotted. Tourists prefer to go there. Kachida Valley has Panthers who stay here to avoid conflicts with tigers. Sloth beers with their food in Anthills are found in Lakadra Anantpura. Be comforted in Jogi Mahal when you are tired of the day and schedule. Resorts in Ranthambore are best for all the pain they take instead of you for if you just want to see the national park and nothing else on your own. Your time at Resorts in Ranthambore is made comfortable with the provision of all the modern amenities. Have fun!


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Health officials in Tennessee say they are investigating what could be a new mosquito-borne virus in the state.
The Tennessee Department of Health told media outlets on Tuesday that the state may have its first cases of the chikungunya virus, which is painful but not usually fatal.
Officials said those exhibiting symptoms recently traveled to the Caribbean, where the disease has reached an epidemic state. Symptoms, including a high fever, nausea and joint pain, can be severe.
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Gotham City Imposters steam sale - worth it?
I played the beta of this and hated it. Now a few months later, I just watched the TotalBiscuit WTF 2, and it looks like lots of problems are now fixed, and it looks quite fun, if perhaps a bit grindy.
However, it still seems to have a lot in common with Brink, which I only played for 3 hours in total.
Have people been playing this? Is it worth picking up in the sale?"Give all your money to CoD. Give yourself to CoD. Play only CoD. There are no other games. Nothing else matters. Shoot the men. Shoot all the men. Shoot them all the time."
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In Praise of Smaller Schools
We are in the midst of a nationwide search for a single magic bullet in education. But the more evidence that is gathered, the more obvious it becomes that no such single magic bullet exists.
That said, a new study (abstract; PDF) on school size — not class size, but school size — is worth a look. Here's the abstract; I have bolded the most relevant conclusions:
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One of the most wide-ranging reforms in public education in the last decade has been the reorganization of large comprehensive high schools into small schools with roughly 100 students per grade. We use assignment lotteries embedded in New York City's high school match to estimate the effects of attendance at a new small high school on student achievement. More than 150 unselective small high schools created between 2002 and 2008 have enhanced autonomy, but operate within-district with traditional public school teachers, principals, and collectively-bargained work rules. Lottery estimates show positive score gains in Mathematics, English, Science, and History, more credit accumulation, and higher graduation rates. Small school attendance causes a substantial increase in college enrollment, with a marked shift to CUNY institutions. Students are also less likely to require remediation in reading and writing when at college. Detailed school surveys indicate that students at small schools are more engaged and closely monitored, despite fewer course offerings and activities. Teachers report greater feedback, increased safety, and improved collaboration. The results show that school size is an important factor in education production and highlight the potential for within-district reform strategies to substantially improve student achievement.
Does Early Education Reduce the Achievement Gap?
John List and Uri Gneezy have appeared on our blog many times. This guest post is part a series adapted from their new book The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life. List also appeared in our recent podcast "How to Raise Money Without Killing a Kitten."
The past 60 years in the U.S. has seen dramatic policy changes to the public-education system. The '50s, '60s, and '70s saw desegregation and affirmative action, and since the '80s there have been efforts to increase school funding, the introduction of voucher systems, and the creation of countless charter schools. In between we've seen efforts to reduce class sizes, introduce technology into classrooms, improve teacher credentialing, and a massive attempt to leave No Child Left Behind.
What do we have to show for all this? That's hard to say. Even though many programs have a high price tag, they were never implemented with an eye towards assessment. The data we do have shows that not much has changed over the past 30 years. The figure attached shows how the racial achievement gap in test scores has persisted for white and black Americans since the late 1970s.
If you don't like the breakdown by race, then consider that the high school dropout rate among high-income families in 1972 was 2% and in 2008 it was still at 2%. For low-income families, though? In 1972 it was 14% and in 2008 it was still at 9%. This sort of trend (or lack thereof) is manifested in dozens of measures of academic achievement, all of which suggest that the past 60 years of educational reform has very little to show for itself. Read More »
Should We Stop Children From Learning to Cheat?
A Freakonomics Radio listener named Sandra Elsen writes:
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Today, I went to my son's kindergarten. He attends the local International School (what the Realtor described as the "Hippy-Dippy" school, lol), in a semi-rural area, just outside of the city in a middle-class town.
There, I was asked to help them learn a new game. The concept was simple: a six-sided block had three 1's and three 2's marked on each side. They had to trace the number that was rolled on their worksheet. Roll, trace. Once five of one number was achieved, either the firetruck or the firefighter (pictured at the bottom of the sheet) "won." The teacher indicated it was a "race" to see which picture would win.
Are Tenured Professors Better Classroom Teachers?
The argument over tenure for university professors is a long and boisterous one.
Levitt, for one, is in favor of abolition. If you are on that side of the argument as well, you may be pleased to read a new working paper by David Figlio, Morton Schapiro, and Kevin Soter (all associated with Northwestern, in one capacity or another) called "Are Tenure Track Professors Better Teachers?" (gated, sorry). Short answer (in their study, at least): no.
The abstract:
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This study makes use of detailed student-level data from eight cohorts of first-year students at Northwestern University to investigate the relative effects of tenure track/tenured versus non-tenure line faculty on student learning. We focus on classes taken during a student's first term at Northwestern, and employ a unique identification strategy in which we control for both student-level fixed effects and next-class-taken fixed effects to measure the degree to which non-tenure line faculty contribute more or less to lasting student learning than do other faculty. We find consistent evidence that students learn relatively more from non-tenure line professors in their introductory courses. These differences are present across a wide variety of subject areas, and are particularly pronounced for Northwestern's average students and less-qualified students.
How Many Years Does It Take to Learn to Be a Lawyer?
President Obama recently proposed an interesting solution to the skyrocketing cost (and declining popularity) of law school: make it shorter:
"This is probably controversial to say, but what the heck, I'm in my second term so I can say it," Obama said during a stop at the State University of New York at Binghamton. "I believe, for example, that law schools would probably be wise to think about being two years instead of three years because [….] in the first two years young people are learning in the classroom."
In the third year, he said, "they'd be better off clerking or practicing in a firm, even if they weren't getting paid that much. But that step alone would reduce the cost for the student."
The Daily Dish reports on various responses to Obama's suggestion. For example, law professor Matt Bodie wonders if the change would really decrease costs: Read More »
Paying Kids to Go to School Instead of Working
A new working paper (abstract; PDF) by Eric V. Edmonds and Maheshwor Shrestha analyzes whether schooling incentives (in the form of conditional cash transfers) effectively reduce child labor, which is a persistent problem in developing countries. Their conclusion: you get what you pay for. From the abstract:
Can efforts to promote education deter child labor? We report on the findings of a field experiment where a conditional transfer incentivized the schooling of children associated with carpet factories in Nepal. We find that schooling increases and child involvement in carpet weaving decreases when schooling is incentivized. As a simple static labor supply model would predict, we observe that treated children resort to their counterfactual level of school attendance and carpet weaving when schooling is no longer incentivized. From a child labor policy perspective, our findings imply that "You get what you pay for" when schooling incentives are used to combat hazardous child labor.
Losing Experienced Teachers Is Bad for Schools, Right?
Maybe not. A new working paper (abstract; PDF) by Maria Fitzpatrick and Michael Lovenheim finds that offering early retirement to experienced schoolteachers doesn't have a negative effect on students' test scores, and in some cases leads to an improvement. The abstract:
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Early retirement incentives (ERIs) are increasingly prevalent in education as districts seek to close budget gaps by replacing expensive experienced teachers with lower-cost newer teachers. Combined with the aging of the teacher workforce, these ERIs are likely to change the composition of teachers dramatically in the coming years. We use exogenous variation from an ERI program in Illinois in the mid-1990s to provide the first evidence in the literature of the effects of large-scale teacher retirements on student achievement. We find the program did not reduce test scores; likely, it increased them, with positive effects most pronounced in lower-SES schools.
What Happens When You Teach Parents to Parent?
A new working paper (abstract; PDF) by Paul Gertler, James Heckman, and several other co-authors examines the impressive long-term effects of a Jamaican program that taught low-income parents better parenting skills. Here's the abstract:
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We find large effects on the earnings of participants from a randomized intervention that gave psychosocial stimulation to stunted Jamaican toddlers living in poverty. The intervention consisted of one-hour weekly visits from community Jamaican health workers over a 2-year period that taught parenting skills and encouraged mothers to interact and play with their children in ways that would develop their children's cognitive and personality skills. We re-interviewed the study participants 20 years after the intervention. Stimulation increased the average earnings of participants by 42 percent. Treatment group earnings caught up to the earnings of a matched non-stunted comparison group. These findings show that psychosocial stimulation early in childhood in disadvantaged settings can have substantial effects on labor market outcomes and reduce later life inequality.


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Numerology of a Name
The importance of a name is well understood. In the material world we hold great value in the naming of items. A pair of sport shoes is worth more if it has the name Nike or Adidas than something lesser known. The power of the brand has emotional wealth to consumers that corporations turn into material wealth.
How we name ourselves, the objects around us and our children is also of emotional, spiritual and sometimes material importance.
Numerology of the name can reveal the hidden attributes of names through their relationship to numbers. A is 1, B is 2, C is 3 and so on, the table below gives the number value for each letter of the english alphabet.
When choosing a name for a baby, or a name for a business, Numerologist are often consulted to make sure the name chosen gives the best start in life.
The free Name Numerology analyser can be used on your own name as it was written down on your birth certificate. If you have altered or shortened your name or if you have married and changed your surname you should try both your original, full, name as well as the name you are know by today. Think about how your name appears on your bank cards, email address, business cards etc. Analysing these variations of your name will give you insight as to how the world perceives you and how you fit in and respond in life to others and situations.
The free numerology name analyser can also be used on business names. Take for example the name Google. It has a Soul Urge of 8 and a Quiescent Self of 8 showing a tendency for power and wealth in it's make up. It's Expression is a 7 being the number of thought, study and analysis.
Note: The analyser is numerically based on the English Alphabet (a to z) and does not take into account non-English characters. You can analyse your name if you enter it in the English form and it will tell you how you and the English speaking world relate to each other.
The Soul Urge (aka Motivation or Heart's Desire) is derived from the vowels of your name. It is the essence of your being and what lies behind your every decision and direction you take.
The Quiescent Self (aka Inner Dreams) reveals a secret dream, your inner desires, or maybe even fantasies. It is derived from the consonants in your name.
The Expression is derived from all the letters in your name. It is the sum of both your soul and dreams. This is how the world see's you, it is how you express yourself to the outside world. A common mistake to make in Numerology is to call this your Destiny. This is incorrect, you are not the path you travel. Your Destiny is your Life Path which is calculated from your date of birth.
The Karmic Lesson and Subconscious Self apply only to humans and not businesses, objects or words like "Love", "Hate", "Peace", "War".
Our Free Numerology Calculator for your name does all the hard work of calculations for you. Also take a look at our Free Numerology Calculator for Destiny & Life Path, the Free Numerology Calculator for your Essence (Essence combines your date of birth with you name) and the Free Numerology Forecast Calculator for this year and the next few years to come.
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Recently I have discovered for myself, that the difference of the source and encoded audio can be easily obtained by inverting source audio and mixing it with the encoded one. Then the idea of encode algorithm came into my head: just try to keep the signals difference at the same level (or less), defined by user. Thus, the audio quality is simply measured by volume of the difference of the signals, and this difference is nothing but distortions, produced by encoder.
The whole algorithm looks like this:
1. Take maximum allowed volume of signals difference from user.
1. Make a copy of source audio and invert it.
2. Split both source and inverted audio on frames of the same size.
3. Encode first frame of source audio, mix the result with first frame of inverted audio and calculate the volume of obtained difference.
4. If the volume of the difference is higher, than allowed by user, add some bitrate and repeat from item no. 3.
5. If the volume of the difference is not higher, than allowed by user, add first encoded frame to the final output.
6. Repeat items 3-5 with second, third, etc... frames, until the end of the source file.
Of cause, this algorithm is much slower then just direct encode, but definately if should not be slower, than video encoding (and people are ready to wait for many hours while their videos are being encoded).
I tried to reproduce this algorithm manually by test using WavPack hybrid mode as an encoder (source audio sample was splitted on 11 parts of 1 second), and it showed, that 23.4 % of space/bitrate could be saved. Another important thing is that the user is guaranteed, that he will not get distortions with volume level, higher then he expects, so he can safely encode many files simultaneously without looking at the content. User gets freed both from unnecessary waste of bitrate and uncontrolled distortions.
The only thing is needed is that some audio developers get interested in this idea and implement it as a computer program.
The whole set of files of the WavPack test I've made is here.
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For the record, I'm not in any position to define what constitutes a "proper" psychoacoustic model. I've seen WavPack Lossy been classified as not having a psychoacoustic model and as having a weak psychoacoustic model. I'm pretty sure I've seen the same done for LossyWAV. It seems easy enough for someone like myself to simply hedge a bet and say it has a weak psychoacoustic model.
At any rate, I hope we can agree that what was being offered by the OP can't even be classified as having a weak psychoacoustic model.
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SIGLER, HENRY (ca. 1815–?). Henry Sigler, barber and inventor in antebellum Texas, was born around 1815 in Virginia. He was a free black resident of Galveston before the Civil War. Sigler advertised a "few tunes of good violin music" with every haircut. He obtained a patent on an improved and safer fish hook in 1854. He sold the patent for $625 to two men from New Orleans in 1858.
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Two law enforcement officials identified the driver as 34-year-old Miriam Carey, of Stamford, Conn. She was traveling with a 1-year-old girl who avoided serious injury and was taken into protective custody. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation.
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Cook/prep time: More than 2 hours
Number of cookies: 12
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2 cups unsifted cake flour
½ teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
2/3 cup of unsifted powdered sugar
¼ cup granulated sugar
2 ½ sticks unsalted cold butter
1 teaspoon clear vanilla
½ teaspoon peppermint extract
1 teaspoon red wilton icing color
2 tablespoons unsifted cake flour
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1 Combine the flour, baking powder, salt and sugars in a food processor and process briefly to mix. Add the cold butter in pieces, pulse with bursts until the mixture has the consistency of cornmeal. Add the vanilla and process until the mixture just forms a ball.
2 Divide the dough into 2 equal portions, return one of the portions to the food processor. Add the peppermint extract, red coloring and the 2 extra tablespoons of flour to the processor and process until just incorporated. Be sure to not over process dough. Wrap dough in saran wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.
3 Roll out each portion of dough between sheets of waxed paper. You want rectangles of about 11 X 8 inches by 1/8" thick. Leave the dough between the sheets of waxed paper and slide onto a baking sheet. Refrigerate again until firm, at least 1 hour. Remove the dough from the refrigerator. Put the nonpareils in a shallow 9X13 dish.
4 Peel off the top sheet of waxed paper from both doughs. Brush the vanilla dough very lightly with water. Using the waxed paper lift the peppermint dough and flip onto the vanilla dough so they are stacked. Press with your fingertips to seal the two doughs together. Remove the top sheet of waxed paper and trim the edges so they are even.
5 When the dough is just pliable (but still cold) roll up the dough (beginning with the long side) like a jellyroll. As you begin to roll, gently curl the edge with your fingertips so you don't get any air pockets as you roll the dough into a log. As you roll the vanilla portion may want to tear so just pinch the tears together as they happen and keep rolling.
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Instructions for craft:
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- Staple the two squares back-to-back, but leave one side unstapled.
- Create a 4 x4 ½ inch square of each of the liturgical colors from colored
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He jokes now about the magazine story that ended his 34-year military career, but retired four-star Gen. Stanley McChrystal was reticent to say much Friday beyond his well-honed speech on international affairs at Carnegie Mellon University.
"I retired in 2010, after an article in Rolling Stone magazine, you might have heard about it," he said, evoking laughs during an hourlong talk at the University Center. "I cut my subscription to the magazine and brought them to their knees. And that day — 34 years in the Army, it's tough. I'm making a career decision of 90 degrees, completely unexpected."
He declined an interview request to discuss his upcoming memoir "My Share of the Task," scheduled to be published by Portfolio, an imprint of the Penguin Group.
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Climb the windy, restored ramparts of the Kadifekale (Turkish for "velvet castle"), built soon after Alexander the Great swept through Smyrna, for sweeping views of the city and its harbor. Perched on Mount Pagos, the castle was frequently rebuilt after various mishaps, and was enlarged and strengthened by successive conquerors. The structure looks like a childhood fantasy of a medieval castle, with solid stone blocks (some dating from Alexander's day), Byzantine cisterns, and Ottoman buttresses jutting out to support the walls. Locals will warn solo visitors (especially women) not to visit the Kadifekale alone for fear of being hassled or harassed, particularly by people who inhabit the shanty-like area around the site. Consider asking a taxi to wait for you.
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The Kind Diet Book By Alicia Silverstone
The top cookbooks of the last DECADE have been picked by PCRM (a committee of doctors) and you might be surprised at the results. Or maybe not!
In no particular order, below is a sampling of the cookbooks deemed as most healthy and lest healthy. By certified doctors!
Best Cookbooks – Conscious Cook by Tal Ronnen, The Kind Diet by Alicia Silverstone, Vegan Soul Kitchen by Bryant Terry.
Worst Cookbooks – Kitchen Classics by Paula Deen, Atkins The Complete Cookbook by Atkins, "Kill It And Grill" It by Ted Nugent.
It should come as no surprise on the Paula Deen book. I would go a step further and say ANY Paula Deen cookbook should be treated as heart-attack inducing material. lol. We all know this, but she is entertaining. Just wished she wouldn't peddle such malarkey.
I don't have Alicia's book, but its definitely on my "must have" list. If you have it, weigh in below on what recipes you like?
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