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Testimony :: His Excellency Mircea Dan Geoana
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I would like to start with a very brief summary of Romania's objectives for our Chairmanship-in-Office, what we believe have been the most pressing issues during the year so far and what we hope to have achieved by the end of the year.
When we took over the Chairmanship, we wanted to ensure that all OSCE Participating States should continue to believe that the OSCE was addressing issues of concern to them and their citizens in a practical and action-oriented way.
Our objectives were:
· that the OSCE should remain relevant and useful as an instrument for crisis management, conflict prevention and post-conflict rehabilitation;
· that it should remain a key body for promoting the rule of law and human rights;
· but that it should also strengthen its activity in other areas such as the economic and environmental dimension;
· and that it should be prepared to cope with new security challenges such as organised crime and corruption, international terrorism and extremism.
We were also concerned that the OSCE should pay more attention to regions which had been less in the international spotlight, such as the Caucasus and Central Asia.
I would mention four specific issues which have taken much of our attention this year: Macedonia, Kosovo, corruption and organised crime, and terrorism.
The situation in Macedonia has given us a clear lesson that conflict can still erupt unexpectedly. The situation has stabilised for now thanks to the concerted and intense efforts of the US, the EU, NATO and the OSCE. The NATO operation to disarm and disband the ethnic Albanian groups was a clear success. But there were worrying signs that some groups were trying to delay the Parliamentary process which would have thrown the whole peace agreement in jeopardy. As CIO, I joined NATO Secretary General Robertson, EU High Representative Solana and Special Envoy Pardew in making clear to political leaders in Macedonia that they must respect the spirit of the Ohrid Agreement. Artificial delaying tactics will not be acceptable to the international community. The Albanian parties have returned to Parliament, the President has agreed that the amnesty declaration needs to be clarified, and there is every sign that the Constitutional amendments will be approved by the end of the month.
But the really hard work is still ahead: rebuilding confidence within the population. The OSCE's role in this is critical. The Government's decision to send Macedonian security forces back into areas affected by the conflict without first consulting the international community was unwise and counter-productive. Fortunately, no violent incidents took place and the Government agreed that security forces would not be deployed in sensitive areas until OSCE monitors were in the field. We have taken the necessary decisions to put 120 monitors in the field, including police observers, and have begun a pilot programme in 5 villages near Kumanovo. We are working closely with the US on training for a multi-ethnic police force which is an essential element in the confidence-building process.
The 17 November elections for self-governing institutions in Kosovo are the most important event of the year. These elections must be inclusive if we want to see viable and sustainable institutions in a multiethnic Kosovo.
The OSCE has played an important role in organizing and supporting the voter registration process. More than 170.000 Serbs have registered on the electoral lists and a representative number of Serb political parties have registered as candidates. Our main priority now is to ensure that on the day the Kosovo Serbs actually exercise their vote. We have pressed the authorities in Belgrade to encourage a strong turn-out. For our part, we are working with UNMIK and KFOR on the security concerns raised by Kosovo Serbs and Belgrade so that refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) feel they can return safely to their homes.
Among our many activities in Kosovo, it is worth highlighting the work of the Kosovo Police Service School which is training local police officers and trainers. The first Kosovo Police trainers of the KPSS graduated on 1 August and are now training police cadets. The School aims to provide police training in line with democratic standards for at least 4000 locally recruited officers, including members of minority communities and women.
The long-term future and stability of Kosovo and all those who live there is still far from certain. We must strive for a working relationship between Belgrade and Pristina. The international community must keep making this point both to the Albanian leaders in Kosovo and to the authorities in Belgrade.
Corruption and Organised Crime
The Romanian Chairmanship has consistently emphasized that corruption is a serious threat to OSCE values. Corruption and illegal activity like money laundering, trafficking and organised crime endanger not only economic growth and sound development, but also our security. And we must pay particular attention to the links between organised crime and terrorist groups, particularly on the financing side.
The OSCE Economic Forum in May focussed on Transparency and Good Governance. OSCE can play an important part in stimulating the political will to develop and implement the necessary legislation. Promoting regional co-operation, strengthening civil society and increasing civil participation in the governmental decision-making process can contribute to good governance.
Let me mention some concrete examples of on-going projects in this field.
The OSCE Presence in Albania, along with the World Bank and the European Commission, continues to provide direct advice and strategic planning on anti-corruption issues.
The OSCE Office in Armenia is coordinating the International Anti-corruption Joint Task Force. Together with other OSCE missions in the Caucasus, they have built up a network of NGOs.
US support and financial contributions to OSCE anti-corruption activities have been enormously valuable. We are grateful for US continued support for such important projects.
Concrete action could include:
· Promoting the adoption and implementation of international legal instruments; developing codes of conduct (an Economic Forum recommendation);
· Holding periodic consultations with partner institutions and organisations (such as the tripartite meeting on good governance, last February, with the Council of Europe and the UN);
· Involving OSCE Field Missions in the Council of Europe's GRECO evaluations, under the Stability Pact anticorruption initiative.
· Cooperating with the SECI Regional Centre on Combating Cross-Border Crime. Romania has encouraged the SECI Centre to make contact with Central Asian law enforcement authorities who are interested in the SECI experience and in cooperating in SECI activities against organised crime.
In the fight against organized crime, we have focused on the illegal trafficking of human beings. The Romanian Chairmanship organised a regional Conference in May this year on Illegal Trafficking which was attended by the Director of the FBI and other senior Government and law enforcement representatives from South East Europe and European Union countries. The agreed conclusions of that meeting set out priorities for national, regional and internationally coordinated action to eliminate human trafficking, including a role for the OSCE.
The OSCE has taken its responsibilities seriously. The OSCE/ODIHR is chairing the Stability Pact Task Force on Trafficking in Human Beings and has initiated a number of projects in the field, for example in Kosovo, Armenia and Albania. Our field missions work alongside the IOM in developing public awareness campaigns and are active in advising governments on anti-trafficking legislation.
The 11 September attacks against the United States brought home more than any other single act of terrorism the dangers from international terrorism to freedom, humanity and the security of the individual, values which the OSCE is committed to defend and uphold. The OSCE condemned rigorously the 11 September attacks. We have fully supported the creation of a strong and broad international coalition against terrorism and the targeted strikes launched by the United States and United Kingdom against Al Qaeda terrorist training camps and Taliban military installations in Afghanistan.
But, along with other international organisations, we have also begun to consider what specific contribution the OSCE can make in the international fight against terrorism.
In my address to the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna on 20 September, I mentioned three areas where I believe the OSCE can bring added value:
· Making use of our political will and solidarity in committing to joint action, with a strong Declaration on combating terrorism to be adopted at the Bucharest OSCE Ministerial;
· Focussing our attention on addressing root causes, such as economic and social marginalisation which can be fertile ground for extremist ideologies, and fighting the "grey zones" of organised crime, including trafficking in people and arms;
· Acting as a bridge between regional initiatives in order to set common priorities.
Co-operation between OSCE states can only be truly effective if all States strengthen or introduce anti-terrorism legislation, including European-wide powers of arrest and extradition of suspects. A common legal framework is essential for the exchange of information and expertise between law enforcement agencies. The appointment of an OSCE Police Adviser, which is supported by most OSCE States, would be the first step in promoting this kind of active cooperation.
The Bishkek Conference on Terrorism, Drug Trafficking and Organised Crime in December provides a good opportunity for us to review the state of play on signature and ratification of the various UN Conventions on Terrorism and to strengthen police and judicial systems in the democratic context. Our hope is that the Central Asians can draw on the experience of other countries in counter-terrorism.
We have now set up a Task Force in Vienna to look at concrete steps the Participating States should take to co-ordinate our efforts to combat terrorism with the aim of developing an OSCE-wide Action Plan against terrorism for adoption at the Bucharest Ministerial in December.
Human Rights
The protection of human rights has been a core activity for the OSCE since its inception in Helsinki in 1975. The Romanian Chairmanship believes that this should remain so. Respect for such basic rights as freedom of expression, freedom of religious belief, freedom to vote and the equal treatment of minorities, including the Roma, are fundamental for security. We have spent many years and vast resources on crisis management and rebuilding societies after conflict. It might be going too far to say that if these basic rights had been respected fully, we would not have witnessed the vicious conflicts of the past ten years. But I am convinced that the results would not have been so catastrophic or have required such massive international intervention if free and democratic systems had been in place.
Cooperation with International Organisations
Governing all our activity has been the principle of working in close synergy with other international organisations: namely, the UN, NATO, the European Union, the Council of Europe, as well as other more specialised agencies such as the UN High Commission for Refugees and the International Organisation for Migration.
Future Direction
The Romanian Chairmanship's priorities for the OSCE Bucharest Ministerial are to set the agenda for the next few years in certain areas. We are aiming for the following results:
· Strong declarations on Terrorism and on Illegal Trafficking
· Appointment of an OSCE Police Adviser
· Adoption of an OSCE Action Plan on Roma/Sinti issues
· Strengthened commitments to assist with quality refugee return
· Substantive declaration on South East Europe
· Agreement on Institutional Strengthening, including legal capacity for the OSCE
I believe that if we want to build sustainable democracy in South East Europe, it is time to look for a strategy for the region as a whole. The time for ad hoc localised solutions is past. The syndrome of dependency on the major powers cannot continue indefinitely. The countries of the region must start to exercise responsibility themselves by looking to their own resources and by developing healthy regional cooperation systems. This is not an overnight process and the international community must remain engaged. But we should be pushing now for more effective self-governance in line with OSCE standards.
I have highlighted only the most pressing issues but am happy to offer more information on other areas of activity.


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Lt. Col. James Parack, 8th Army Provost Marshall's Office speaks with Capt. Nicolai Birch the U.S. Army Pacific Contingency Command Post Provost Marshall in the Combined Operations and Integration Center at the 8th Army Main Command Post, Command Post Oscar, Camp Walker, Korea during exercise Ulchi Freedom Guardian 2013 Aug. 17. The 8th Army Rear Command Post consists of members of 8th Army and augmenters from U.S. Army Pacific, the U.S. Army Reserve and National Guard, the U.S. Air Force and members of the 2nd Operational Command, Republic of Korea Army. UFG 13 runs from 6-30 Aug. and is a Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff-sponsored, Commander, USPACOM-directed, United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command and U.S. Forces Korea Command annual joint/combined command post exercise. The exercise is designed to enhance the combat readiness of ROK and U.S. supporting forces through combined and joint training while improving ROK-U.S. combat readiness, joint/combined interoperability and interoperability among United Nations sending states. Improving participating units readiness so they can maintain stability on the Korean peninsula is also a priority of the exercise. Approximately 3,000 U.S. personnel from the U.S. and bases throughout the Pacific region are augmenting the more than 28,500 U.S. forces already stationed in the ROK to participate in the exercise. UFG is carried out in the spirit of the ROK/U.S. Mutual Defense Treaty signed between the nations in 1953. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Kevin P. Bell) (RELEASED)
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text: Exploring EVE Online's offline 'Fanfest' in Reykjavik Culture 28 March 11 by Duncan Geere Eve Is RealFor many of its players, the line between the real world and the world of EVE is remarkably blurry.CC-licensed: Duncan Geere "FUCK YEAH SPACESHIPS!" roars a crowd of around 2,500 people in a sports hall in the chilly city of Reykjavik.They've all travelled from around the world to Iceland with one thing in common -- a love of the ultra-deep, ultra-complex, massively-multiplayer online role-playing-game EVE Online, where fleets of spaceships engage in trade, politics, and of course war.This is Fanfest -- an annual gathering of fans of the game, run by its Icelandic developer, CCP games. But they haven't just come to cheer riotously at videos of turrets firing. They've come to meet the people that they spend hours and hours of time with in the in-game world.For a sizeable chunk of players, EVE is the only game they play. That's partly because accomplishing anything of note in EVE requires days, weeks and even years of in-game time. But it's also because EVE attracts a rather different demographic to the likes of Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto.Among the dark-haired, dark-clothed twenty-something majority milling around, there's a distinct minority of noticably older players, too. People who might be accountants, or lawyers, or executives in real life. That's because success in EVE is a game that's rarely about having the fastest trigger finger. Success requires politics, economics and careful preparation.Stepping out of Reykjavik's slate-grey drizzle and into Fanfest is like entering another world. Logos of the different factions adorn the walls, along with adverts for products that only exist in the game, like the energy drink Quafe. At one point, an announcement over the loudspeakers cautions players that the lights are going to change. "Do not worry, we are not under attack," reassures the voice.EVE players don't form clans, or guilds, like in other multiplayer games. Instead, they form corporations, which tend to belong to a larger group of corps known as an alliance. The balance of power in the EVE galaxy is controlled by the relative strengths of these alliances, and peering into the dark corners of Fanfest, you can make out groups of shadowy players, crafting their plans for how they're going to infiltrate their rivals.Unlike other games, the gameworld isn't split among a number of copies known as "shards" or "realms" that different players occupy -- everyone is in the same game world. The biggest and deepest part of EVE is its economy, and it's possible to buy subscription time, and even tickets to the fanfest itself, using a commodity called PLEX that can be bought with both in-game money and real-world cash.As a result, the economy has to be closely monitored, because a crash in how much PLEX are worth could have implications for CCP's subscription income. The company hired a full-time PhD economist in 2007, whose job it is to publish a quarterly report on the state of the game's virtual economy.However, despite the economy being closely monitored, it's not tightly regulated. Almost anything goes, and CCP purposefully takes a very light tough. If you scam another player out of billions of the in-game currency ISK, you won't get a ban -- you'll get applauded by other players for your subterfuge. Working your way up the ranks of your corporation until you're given the keys to the bank vaults and then running off with all the funds is not only permitted, it's positively common.But that means that EVE players are also very good at working out when they're getting scammed, and they know that shelling out for a plane ticket and a hotel in Iceland to attend Fanfest is a remarkably good deal.It's a good deal because it means that they get to have an influence over what happens to their game. CCP uses Fanfest to get direct feedback from players about what they like, and what they dislike, about different aspects of EVE. Roundtable sessions, chaired by developers, are run on aspects as niche as asteroid mining, artificial intelligence, and the low-security areas of space, where mercenaries and pirates lurk. The reason that CCP pays so much attention to its fans is that a massively-multiplayer game sinks or swims on the strength of its community. If a community isn't happy, your game is dead. After a CCP developer was caught cheating in the game in 2007, the company opened elections for a "Council of Stellar Management", consisting entirely of players, who have a direct line at any time to the developers. Read page 2 12 Read on one page Latest on wired.co.uk


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"Dr. Howard Strafford Bowie was born August 10, 1846, at "Cleveland," the home of his parents, near Forestville, Prince George county, Maryland. He was a student at St. Timothy's Hall, near Baltimore, and later at Washington College, Kent county, Maryland. He then attended lectures at the Medical University of Maryland in Baltimore. In 1869 he was appointed one of the clinical assistants at the Baltimore Infirmary. He took his degree in medicine at the University in the class of 1870, and became assistant physician to the Baltimore Infirmary. Later he resigned this position and went to Montant Territory, where he pursued his profession for several years, but finally returned to Baltimore and resumed practice in that city. He was one of the organizers of the "Northwestern Dispensary," as well as attending physician to that charity for years. He was a member of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty and Curator, as well as visiting physician to the Church Home for a long time; he retired from active practice in 1890, and resided at his house on North Eutaw street (Hamilton Terrace) in winter, and at his country place near Catonsville during the summer.
On October 7, 1879, Dr. Bowie married Laura Virginia Berkley, only daughter of Edris Berkley and his wife Virginia (Enders) Berkley. Though born in Fairfax county, Virginia, Mr. Berkley for a great number of years lived in Baltimore. The history of the Berkley family is interwoven with that of Virginia for nigh three centuries, and its men have assisted in upholding the honor of the "Old Dominion," both in peace and in war for many generations. The progenitor of the Virginia family was John Berkley, of Worcestershire, England, who emigrated to Virginia in 1658 (?). His son, John Berkley 2d, died in 1692, and left a son, John Berkley 3d, who married a widow, Mrs. Susanna Linton, daughter of Thomas Harrison, of Dumfries, Prince William county, Virginia. John Berkley 3d's fourth son William Berkley Sr., married Elizabeth ____, and their eldest son, William Berkley Jr., born about 1720, married a widow, Mrs. Barbara Reid, daughter of George Walker, of Westmoreland county. His son, Benjamin Berkley, married Lucy Newman, and had two sons, John Walker Berkley, who married Elizabeth Brewer, and George Newman Berkley, who was father of the late Mr. William Berkley, of Alexandria, Virginia, whose wife was Elizabeth Pattison. Edris Berkley, son of John Walker Berkley, married Virginia Enders, and had two children: Mrs. Howard Strafford Bowie, as previously shown, and Dr. Henry J. Berkley, of Baltimore, who married Ella Linthicum, a great-granddaughter of Governor Robert Bowie. They have one child. Issue of Dr. Howard Strafford Bowie and his wife Laura: Virginia Berkley, born July 8, 1880; Edris Berkley, born May 9, 1882; Allen Strafford, born November 13, 1884; Eleanor Howard, born August 15, 1888.
Dr. Howard Strafford Bowie died at his residence, 811 Hamilton Terrace, February 26, 1900, after an illness of about two weeks, from heart failure. The remains were interred in Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore. His death was a distinct loss to the community, in which his position was of the highest.
Devoted to his profession, he was deservedly crowned with its choicest rewards. To attain success he never resorted to extraneous means, or any of the arts by which popularity is often purchased at the expense of science and of truth. He rose by patient, arduous, unremitting toil, unfaltering courage, and inflexible determination to succeed. Possessed of a thorough classical and medical education and innate talents, he loved science for science's sake, and was over-enthusiastic in his efforts to elevate the standards of his profession. His marked public spirit was evidenced by both word and deed, and he accomplished much for the benefit of his city, particularly with regard to public hygiene and general sanitary measures. A man of deeply imbedded convictions as to right and duty, he was true to them as is the needle to the pole -- of large faith and a great heart, and wealthy in his sympathy with sorrowing, and ever ready to contribute to alleviation of distress. His culture and refinement, coupled with his genial manners and his warmth of attachment to friends, secured him a highplace in the affections and esteem of a large circle of friends. Perhaps the richest and most beautiful traits of his character was his strong domestic sentiments and habits, which impelled him to seek his completest happiness in the family circle, and rendered him its joy and light."
Source: Baltimore: Its History & Its People. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912.
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Dr. Howard Strafford Bowie Biography
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- Life Goes On said...
beautiful post.
- S. Lincecum said...
Thanks! It's all online at Google Books.
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I have had Chris King hubs laced to Stan's Crest rims and DT Swiss 240s hubs also laced to Stan's Crest rims. I love the fast engagement of the Chris King and the lightness of the 240s. I9 is the perfect happy medium. Prior to purchase this wheelset, 240s with Stan's Crest was my favorite wheelset. However, I9 quickly changed my mind. It is a much stiffer wheelset with very little weight gain. With wider internal than the Crest, it allows me to run even lower air pressure to get more footprint. I am currently running tubeless with 16 psi front and 25 rear with great result.
However, one gripe I have about these wheels is that it is some what difficult to get the beads seated when going tubeless. The tires fit so loose that I had to use a compressor with the valve core removed to get enough air in quickly to seat the beads.
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Great wheel-set . Running a 2.35 on the front and a 2.2 on that rear. No complains. These wheel-sets are light and fast. Love the I9's hub sound
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pretty much holding them up at gun point.
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Richard K. Armey, the group's chairman and a former House majority leader, walked into the group's Capitol Hill offices with his wife, Susan, and an aide holstering a handgun at his waist. The aim was to seize control of the group and expel Armey's enemies: The gun-wielding assistant escorted FreedomWorks's top two employees off the premises, while Armey suspended several others who broke down in sobs at the news.
Wowsers. So that's how it works in Washington these days?
The coup lasted all of six days. By Sept. 10, Armey was gone — with a promise of $8 million — and the five ousted employees were back. The force behind their return was Richard J. Stephenson, a reclusive Illinois millionaire who has exerted increasing control over one of Washington's most influential conservative grass-roots organizations.
Stephenson, the founder of the for-profit Cancer Treatment Centers of America and a director on the FreedomWorks board, agreed to commit $400,000 per year over 20 years in exchange for Armey's agreement to leave the group.
The episode illustrates the growing role of wealthy donors in swaying the direction of FreedomWorks and other political groups, which increasingly rely on unlimited contributions from corporations and financiers for their financial livelihood.
So, Armey successfully extorted $400,000 from Stephenson? Is that how it works in Washington these days? Because Freedom!
pretty much holding them up at gun point.
they should have called the DC police. Unless Armey had a permit he could have been sent to prison for a long time.
... and waited for the billiionaire to pay Armey off. This does not bode well.
Not $400,000. Armey extorted $8 million to be paid out at the rate of $400,000 per year. How is this not armed robbery?
I love how they have this swaggering confidence when it comes to walking around with their compensation for their small penises, but when it comes to being publicly named as a gun nut they completely lose their shit.
... of foul-mouthed bloggers of the left? While I find the reaction of the gun nuts/advocates/owners funny, nevertheless I don't like what the newspaper did, for the same reason I don't like "outing" people.
Well, I pretty much accepted my personal info could end up out there when I started blogging. And I've always treated my identity as basically a poorly concealed secret; if you want to find it, it's not that hard. My full name is on my site twice - including the main page. My email has my real name, I've uploaded YT videos of me speaking, identified the small town I live in...if someone wanted to build a dossier on me it wouldn't be hard.
This is part of the whole "public in the internet age" debate. If you have a mortgage, your SS# is on it and that is a public record - but you have to go to the local courthouse to get it. It's not like you can look it up online. Should it be? It's public. We have to hash through all that.
What makes this funny for me is that unlike, say, receiving food stamps or having a mortgage, gun owners are very vocal about how awesome their gun ownership is, so it would seem to be not the least problematic for them to advertise it to the whole world, right? Let the criminals show up and eat lead.
Bonus fun: seeing them claim a right to privacy, an idea the right has endlessly ridiculed over the years.
A "poorly kept secret" is exactly it. Still, that doesn't mean I want all the poorly kept secrets exposed in a single place on a handy map.
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Yes, the schadenfreude on the gun nuts, but also, perhaps, a self-indulgence with bad consequences.
First, you use (in your earlier comment in this thread) 'gun nut' to refer to everyone who has a pistol permit. Good work! Of course, 40-50% of US households include a gun, but who cares about that?
Second, you equate gun owners with 'the right' and presumably being pro-life (is that what you meant by the right to privacy they ridicule? Because they don't ridicule the 4th amendment per se). Good work again! Cause no one who is pro-choice ever owned a gun!
P.S. With the site upgrade, the previous thread got cut off. Will you now admit that the supposed 17% reduction in gun crime which you wanted me to address was a baloney claim? (I pointed out in the previous thread that the report didn't say that where you think it did--you just misread it)
Here is the report: http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/204431.pdf
Look on p. 2, with the report's numbering, not the pdf's, (which is where you pointed me to), at the sentence that starts "Following implementation of the ban, the share of gun crimes involving AWs declined by 17% to 72% across the localities examined for this study". And remember that you claimed it was saying the law led to a 17% reduction in gun crime (not, as it says, the share of gun crimes involving AWs).
Gun nut. n. One whose self-actualization depends on owning, discharging, or
fondling handling firearms.
Self actualization being at the top of Maslow's hierarchy (unilke, say, life).
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This definition may be helpful in distinguishing between the over-lapping but not identical classes of gun nuts, gun advocates, and gun owners.
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It's clear that not all gun owners or advocates are gun nuts. It's also equally clear that the collectively, gun [nuts|advocates|owners] won the culture wars; what's the number of guns in circulation? Something like 200 million? I doubt we're ever going to get them back in the box. It's also clear that collectively, those gun [nuts|advocates|owners] who funded the NRA had some (not all) responsibility for winning the culture war they indeed sought to win.
So, two questions:
1) Where does the militarization stop? Boxer just suggested putting the National Guard into the schools. Do you support this? What happens when the National Guard gets outgunned, as they will?
2) Why not just say that externalities are acceptable? All policies have externalities, some lethal. So why not just say that if the outcome of Second Amendment Rights (as defined by Scalia) is the occasional massacre, that this is an acceptable price to pay?
NOTE I think I understand wuming's argument on a disarmed populace, but I also think that if gun [nuts|advocates|owners] were serious about the argument that only they, as armed populace, could protect the country from tyranny, they would have long since done something, anything about it, say after the Patriot Act, or the NDAA, and certainly by the time of the "kill list." So it's all rationalization. (I don't advocate this, but if you accept the often very eloquent framing, gun [nuts|advocates|owners] have long since failed the test they themselves have set.)
Well, I personally feel safer in an environment with less guns. And, no, I don't support sending the national guard or armed guards or whatever to schools. And my view regarding such massacres is pretty close to the WSWS article on Columbine.
In the previous thread I was merely making a factual point that a law such as the 1994 automatic weapons ban could not be expected to have effects significant enough to measure, based on the NRC and the DOJ NIJ studies of the 1994's law's effects. I brought it up because that was the 'common sense' policy danps proposed there. In response, danps made an entirely false claim which I was expected to address. I pointed out I thought the claim (about the 17% reduction) was baloney, and when danps clarified the source of the claim I pointed out that that was misreading the report's very clear language (which to me suggests danps is suffering from terrible confirmation bias on this topic, to the point of misreading clear language and ignoring blatant contradictions).
BTW, lambert, are you still planning on getting the last week of posts from the old to the site?
For the sake of preciseness, let me acknowledge that danps was not proposing exactly the 1994 law, but rather something like it but without grandfathering of weapons and ammo already out there. However, and as I pointed out, the central reason the 1994 law didn't have much of an effect (the fact, explained in the report, that automatic weapons are only used in a tiny percentage of gun crimes in the first place) would apply to this proposal as much as to the 1994 law.
Following implementation of the ban, the share of gun crimes involving AWs declined by 17% to 72% across the localities examined for this study (Baltimore, Miami, Milwaukee, Boston, St. Louis, and Anchorage), based on data covering all or portions of the 1995-2003 post-ban period. This is consistent with patterns found in national data on guns recovered by police and reported to ATF.
So a ban of AWs with grandfathering reduced the AW crime rate. That indicates effectiveness. The Australian AW ban - with no grandfathering - was summarized here:
Australia's 1996 gun law reforms were followed by more than a decade free of fatal mass shootings, and accelerated declines in firearm deaths, particularly suicides. Total homicide rates followed the same pattern. Removing large numbers of rapid-firing firearms from civilians may be an effective way of reducing mass shootings, firearm homicides and firearm suicides.
Yet you accuse me of "terrible confirmation bias on this topic, to the point of misreading clear language and ignoring blatant contradictions." So in addition to being a gun nut, you're suffering a pretty serious case of projection. Maybe you should work that out with a therapist instead of making it other peoples' problem.
First of all, you claimed it was a "17% reduction in the gun crime rate". Those were your exact words. And that claim is 100% false and explicitly contradicted in the report. If you still don't understand the difference between "gun crime rate" and "the share of gun crimes involving AWs" you should learn some basic (high school level) math and reading comprehension.
Instead of admitting that the claim you made was simply false and based on misreading, you now instead claim a reduction in "the AW crime rate". Well, sure, I can believe that a ban on automatic weapons would reduce the rate of crimes involving automatic weapons. But that doesn't change the fact that the claim you made of a "17% reduction in the gun crime rate" was false and contradicted by the report itself, just like I said in that thread and in this thread.
And as the example in Australia shows, did so even in categories of guns not covered by the ban. That was the original point I was making, and the one I am trying to stick to. The non-grandfathered ban in Australia had dramatic ("more than a decade free of fatal mass shootings"), not negligible, effects.
Again, just to be extra clear: That is the main point I am trying to get at. An effective ban on assault weapons will result in a reduction of assault weapon violence. The more comprehensive the ban, the more dramatic the reduction. It also appears to prompt a secondary reduction of other gun violence as well ("accelerated declines in firearm deaths, particularly suicides").
Instead of addressing that, you've seized on what should have been a brief point of clarification ("it was AW violence, not all firearm violence") as being dispositive of all that. I wonder why that is?
"Should it be renewed, the ban's effects on gun violence are likely to be small at best and perhaps too small for reliable measurement. AWs were rarely used in gun crimes even before the ban. LCMs are involved in a more substantial share of gun crimes, but it is not clear how often the outcomes of gun attacks depend on the ability of offenders to fire more than ten shots (the current magazine capacity limit) without reloading." (from the same report)
Note that I'm not opposed to what you're proposing. But I am opposed to your making patently false claims such as the one you made that the 1994 reduced the gun crime rate by 17%. Such a figure, if it had been true, would have been a hugely significant effect. So claiming it's true, when it's not, is a huge misrepresentation. It's not about "a brief point of clarification" but about a major falsehood. In fact, I have been focusing on the reported effects of the 1994 law (I provided several quotes about it in the old thread). But the fact that it takes a back-and-forth of about 8 messages just to get you to recognize a straightforwardly false claim you made as false (which I supposed you now realize even if you can't bring yourself to say it explicitly) makes clear it's pointless to discuss it with you. So, adieu.
of Australia's ban, you focus exclusively on the speculated effects of legislation I am not talking about. I understand why you need to cling to that thin reed, and also why you need to speak in dry statistical language (those not massacred as the result of a ban will not feel statistically insignificant, you can be sure), but the fact that you can't/won't make the simple connection of "fewer guns = less gun violence" is exactly the kind of Zero Concessions! intransigence that is the mark of extremists like Wayne LaPierre. And that quite frankly allows for terms like "gun nut" to take persistent hold in the public imagination.
I spent several hours over on the militia boards (and at least on the Maine board I read, any racists got slapped down hard; good). A few impressions:
1. Wow, utterly different culture, right down the writing style;
2. What do I care if some guy out in the Unorganized Territories has a hunting rifle? (Yes, there is the vegetarian/Buddhist thread, but that thread is not this thread.) I don't care.
3. For purposes of public policy, I don't see why guns shouldn't be regulated exactly like cars. License every single one of them, and require training. I wonder if at a minimum that training should be in proportion to lethality (accepting for the purposes of argument the right for any and everybody to own working assault weapons). I mean, if there are increasingly higher thresholds for cars, trucks, construction machinery, airplanes, then why not for rifles, assault weapons, machine guns, tanks, nuclear weapons? (The last two for Second Amendment absolutists; I would like very much to know where the right to bear arms stops, since a right with no limits or boundaries isn't a right.)
4. I don't regard Scalia's opinion on a personal right to gun ownership under the Second Amendment as legitimate. That is because I do not recognize any Supreme Court decision after the Court was recomposed following Bush v. Gore as legitimate (including, bonus points, CItizens United), because Bush v. Gore was a right wing coup.
5. Those poor schlubs are just as resentful of the bailouts and the banks and just as shocked and demoralized by the collapsed economy and American decline as the rest of us.
6. Yes, there really are gun nuts.
So I've been using, rather than "gun nuts," gun [nuts|advocates|owners]. Overlapping, but not identical classes: Some people belong to all three categories, some only to one.
What would seem to be common to all categories is funding the NRA. Perhaps I should go farther and introduce an additional form of notation like gun [nuts(100)|advocates(100)|owners(5)] to express the idea (and I'm just making up the numbers) that 100% of gun nuts are NRA members, 100% of gun advocates are NRA members, and that 5% of gun owners are NRA members (setting the last number low because estimates of gun ownership, if they are to be relied on, are so large). That's a compact way of saying that not all gun people are identical.
That said, it seems obvious to me that the NRA, as a very well-funded and extremely powerful organization, had a large role in changing the culture to (uniquely in the world) encourage gun ownership. And they were as successful as, say, the tobacco lobby was. And to the extent that gun [nuts(100)|advocates(100)|owners(5)] funded the NRA, they own that success. What really frosts me, however, is that gun [nuts(100)|advocates(100)|owners(5)] won't agree to own the externalities that their cultural success produced. We get a lot of bullshit and evasion and finger-pointing instead. For example--
Certainly for gun[nuts|advocates] and gun[advocates] (e.g., Boxer) the answer to problems with guns is always more guns; a classic self-licking ice cream cone, like any arms race. With Ron Paul, amazingly enough, I find the concern for dead (white) children in Sandy Hook, when coupled with no concern for dead (brown) nauseating. But the fact that plenty of liberals suck doesn't get the G[NAO]s off the hook! That said, the only argument from public purpose -- as opposed to my gun, my property -- I keep hearing from [nuts(100)|advocates(100)|owners(100)] is the idea that noble gun [nuts|advocates|owners] serve as an important check against tyranny. Well, I call bullshit on that: If the warrantless surveillance, the Patriot Act, the TSA, the DHS, the NDAA, the "kill list," and domestic drones hasn't brought the G[NAO]s out to do whatever they thought they should do when tyranny arrives, what is going to?
What I'd really like is a county-level map of gun ownership. In the meantime, this will have to do. Here's state level data from a mapping geek blog (more). The Guardian has this world map, which makes Ameria's exceptionalism evident, but doesn't go below the country level.
This study from the NBER has some interesting stats.
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By Wednesday night's seventh inning, he probably figured he was better off watching him on television. It was Trout who ended the final scoring chance the Mariners had in a 1-0 loss Wednesday night to the Los Angeles Angels by hauling in a Zunino drive to the left field wall with two on in the seventh inning.
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The last thing the Mariners need right now is to face a team that can defend like the Angels. Seattle's offense has hit several additional home runs this season, but lately has resembled squads of two or three years ago in terms of ineptitude when the ball doesn't leave the yard.
The Mariners are struggling to get runners on base, then are among the game's worst at driving in anyone they do get on. They have seen their scoring limited to just an inning or two per night throughout a seven-game trip that ends Thursday, causing most contests to be closer than they have to be, or turn into blowout losses when their opponent gets going.
Saunders did as good a job possible of limiting the damage on the six hits he allowed over eight innings in tossing the complete game. But it wasn't enough to overcome his offense's struggles against Wilson.
It was Trout who broke the scoring ice, in front of 35,401 at Angel Stadium, by using his speed to leg out a double on a ball cut off by left fielder Raul Ibanez before it could reach the corner. Trout then tagged up and took third on a fly ball hit to medium-depth in right center and then scored easily on the wild pitch.
"It was a changeup down and away,'' Zunino said. "It just sort of sped up on me a bit. We were obviously just trying to be careful over there in that situation and wanted to keep the ball down in the zone.''
Saunders didn't have much to complain about the rest of his 100-pitch effort. But he clearly wanted that one back.
"It was a tough one,'' Saunders said. "I'm more mad at myself for letting a run score on a wild pitch. It's just one of those things where runs were hard to come by tonight.''
Runs have been impossible to come by for his team the two times Saunders has now faced the Angels. He debuted with the Angels in 2005 and spent parts of six seasons pitching with them. His Diamondbacks team managed just one hit here off Ervin Santana in a 2-0 loss his only previous start facing the Angels.
"I just picked the wrong day to pitch, really,'' Saunders quipped.
Saunders said he knew he would have to step up his game the way Wilson was dealing. The only other Seattle scoring chance came in the second inning when Kendrys Morales reached on a high chopper that Wilson allowed to hit the ground – perhaps hoping it would go foul.
Morales later took second on a wild pitch and then – two strikeouts later – Zunino walked to put two on. But Michael Saunders hit a pop-up foul to shallow left and it was run down by shortstop Erick Aybar.
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Rod Atkins (my General Manager back when I worked in pSeries and now Senior Vice President, IBM Systems and Technology Group) has been using the term "tune to task" in place of "fit for purpose."
In her guest blog post on the Mainframe Zone, Mary Shacklett does an excellent job in explaining why words do matter.
What I took away from this is that, either way, it speaks to the need for Visibility, Control and Automation™ (VCA).
The realities of the business today are based on heterogenous environments that continue to transform and evolve and becoming increasingly complex as you start to build private clouds and then as you start to pull public cloud resources into your organization to then create a "hybrid" cloud environment.
Much like what we discussed in the security video, the fundamentals are still the same. This becomes a conversation multiple platforms. "Tuned to task." Requiring the same levels of VCA as you use to maintain the levels of governance and reduce risk and for your business before you embarked on this journey.
"Have it to you by lunch, boss!" I'm sure is not the answer that you give. Right?
Here's the thing: it's not all doom and gloom. By any means.
Bowman Hall and Barbara Korte are back to talk about some of the challenges our customers are facing managing heterogeneous and hybrid environments in the Cloud, and what IBM can do to assist.
They discuss a broad range of questions you might be thinking about (like managing multiple hypervisors) but more importantly they discuss the approach that only IBM has for providing VCA as the cornerstone for your service management practice.
As a marketing guy, I can tell you that we planned it so that VCA was the central theme for all of our videos (YouTube playlist).
Take time to watch the video (and the others in our playlist) and contact your IBM sales rep or one of our Business Partners using the Business Partner Locator website to talk about VCA and what you're doing with cloud in your organization and get cloud ready!.
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Iowa State linebacker Tau'fo'ou charged with drunken driving | The Des Moines Register | DesMoinesRegister.com
This is Taufoou's second offense since joining the Iowa State football team after transferring last year from the College of San Mateo in California.
He was charged with fifth degree misdemeanor theft after allegedly stealing a wireless computer adapter from the campus Memorial Union book store on Sept. 17, 2009 according to Iowa State police department officials.
Ugh....well, perhaps a scholarship here I guess. I hope George is ready to play.
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I blame it on Dan McCarney just because Tornado Man is the OP.
Besides Knott and Klein who is left at LB?
Originally Posted by BoxsterCy
huntt26 is a winner!
He gone.
Kansas wears Adidas.
Gone for a single DUI? Doubt it.
*Forgot about the stealing of the adapter. I still doubt he's gone. I'd think he's got one more screwup alotted to him before he gets the boot.
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Originally Posted by huntt26
Besides Knott and Klein who is left at LB?
George, Mattison, Bennett, Morton, and Morgan.
Originally Posted by CYphyllis
Gone for a single DUI? Doubt it.
I would say the same thing if he hadn't had the theft earlier. I think the two together will probably leave him off the team but then again, I don't get paid a bunch of money to make these decisions.
Originally Posted by CYphyllis
Gone for a single DUI? Doubt it. Eh, forgot about the stealing of the adapter. I still doubt he's gone. I'd think he's got one more screwup alotted to him before he gets the boot.
Might depend on if he blew low enough to plead it down to something else. But I'd give it even odds whether he's still on the team this fall.
I wouldn't say he is gone. CPR may put him on some kind of probation, or re earn his scholarship.
Time for him to go.
He will not be kicked off the team for an OWI, 1 game suspension is likely.
Originally Posted by UNIGuy4Cy
He will not be kicked off the team for an OWI, 1 game suspension is likely.
If that was it, I would agree. Except in this case, he has also been caught stealing university property already, and was given a second chance.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) - I've always been a lover of video, especially short films. Maybe it's because I seem to be constantly busy and I can't seem to sit down for more than a little while at a time. So, now, here comes Vine, and I can't quite get enough.
Being a Social Media Coordinator, I read thousands of tweets a day. If I see the word "Vine" in a tweet, you better believe I'm going to click on it. But, what do I look for? What does everyone look for in a Vine video?
Vine, a Twitter-owned app that was only available on iPhone for almost three months, is a video-sharing tool that's now offered on the Android platform as well, with only six seconds allotted to tell whatever story the filmmaker is telling. They can stop and start however many times they'd like, just by touching the screen, but there are no take-backs unless he or she decides to trash it and start over. For continuous shooting, the filmmaker keeps his or her finger on the screen.
When I'm scrolling through my feed on Vine, I look for creative videos- ones that visually tell a story in a creative way. And that's what "Editors" look for too. Vine users can see Editors Picks under the Explore tab.
Vine, like Twitter and Instagram, allows Filmmakers to caption their mini-movies using hashtags. Like any hashtag-friendly social media venue, he or she should use hashtags that people would search, and of course, that make sense to the video.
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This was my first Vine video made with sticky notes and a Mates of State quote:
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Auto Meter Elite Series Gauges - Gauges In StagesWritten by Johnny Hunkins on November 1, 2012 The Nova gets a modern console with Auto Meter's new feature-laden Elite race gauges
Every year, us lucky editors sit down with aftermarket manufacturers and listen to their best new product pitches. Going in, we never know if we'll be stifling back yawns, or if a new product is going to grab us by the balls and say, "Hey, check me out!" At this year's manufacturer's conference, we got a nice surprise from Auto Meter with their new Elite series gauges. The Auto Meter Elite gauges were designed for the racing environment; a large, easily read face helps keep your attention on the road or track, an advanced design stepper motor improves durability and precision, and all Elite gauges have small solid-state data acquisition grade sensors. And while that stuff is definitely cool, what really got my attention was one feature that I'm kind of embarrassed to admit. Simply put: These gauges are perfect for us older guys whose vision isn't the best.
As soon as the Auto Meter guy showed us that the dial changes color the moment it goes over (or under) a preset level, we were sold. Let's face it—you just don't drive around staring at your gauges. You're looking at the road. We're all familiar with shift-light tachometers, and the Elite line takes that idea to the next level. Set your gauge face to automatically change from green to red if, for instance, your coolant temp goes over 220 degrees. Even better, once your gauge changes color when it goes into the warning zone, it will begin blinking rapidly when it gets 10 percent higher than the preset warning level. I call it gauges in stages—and you don't even have to be staring at the dial to know if your proverbial excrement is hitting the rotational ventilator. The warning is bright enough and big enough that you need not position the gauge directly in your line of sight. You are free to place the gauge in a more out-of-the-way location. For us, that means the A-pillar doesn't have to be festooned with gauges like a refugee from the NOPI Nationals, nor will we have to drill a one-year-only dash for a bunch of gaping holes.
Wish we could say we thought of all that when we first saw the Elite gauges; it was actually Auto Meter's new '08-11 Dodge Challenger gauge pod that spurred the idea to drop a set of Elites in the Nova. During the same meeting, the guy from Auto Meter showed us that they had developed a three-gauge pod for late-model Mopars (PN 5287). He went on to say after they started the project for mother Mopar, they realized it could work for most muscle cars, and did we want to try one? Uh, you betcha. And if you don't mind we'll take three Elite gauges with that—oil pressure, water temp, and voltage. Those are the three essentials we needed to keep our Dart 400 SHP small-block healthy.
Meanwhile, Tech Editor Christopher Campbell had just finished a story on putting a '69 Camaro SS console with factory-style gauges in Project EcoNova (see "Decisive Shift," Mar. '12). That was way cool, because the X-body shares a ton of sheetmetal with first-gen Camaros and the '69 console fit like it was meant to be there. Only problem—the console, shifter, and gauges cost $1,100, and didn't provide modern comforts like a usable armrest, cupholders, or a place to lay a cell phone. Our low-buck solution was to find a late-model console on eBay. We'd seen a couple of Novas at cars shows that had a center console from a late-model Dodge Neon, so we found one on eBay from a '05 SRT4 for $75. The plan was to place the Elites in the Auto Meter pod, then mount the pod to the console. We even added an extra power point under the clamshell!
And speaking of "we," that would be Outlaw Motorsports in Riverside, California. We recommend Outlaw Motorsports to anybody in SoCal who needs quality, affordable work on their muscle car. Ron Aschtgen runs the place, and he's been wrenching on our Nova for the past year. He chewed through the install so fast, we had to hold him back to get the photos and video. (Speaking of video, head over to YouTube.com/PopularHotRodding and look for "1968 Nova—Auto Meter Elite Gauge Installation.")
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Installing the Challenger gauge pod on the Neon console doesn't require the base pedestal that comes with the kit. Here, Outlaw's Ron Aschtgen mounts the bottom of the gauge clamshell directly to the console.A pop rivet gun is a wonderful tool to have 'round the shop. After drilling some small holes in the base of the Auto Meter gauge clamshell and into the console, Aschtgen mated them together with five small pop rivets.The Nova's tunnel slopes more rapidly than the Neon's, and there's no flat surface to mount the console, so Aschtgen built a mounting pedestal out of aluminum. This allowed him to firmly bolt the Neon console to the tunnel using the existing holes in the console.The Auto Meter Elite gauges came to us mounted on a carbon-fiber faceplate; the gauge assembly just drops into the channel and the top of the clamshell clips right on.Elite series gauges also have another cool feature—they can control other stuff like switches, lamps, ignition kill, rev limiters, pumps, alarms, or relays. Need your fans turned on? Your temp gauge can switch the fan on and off at your high- and low-warning set points. This feature is called Pro Control, and the wiring scheme for it is called out clearly in the instructions. Our Nova doesn't need this—yet.When Outlaw Motorsports installed our Painless Performance wiring harness, we knew we were going with console gauges, so the switched 12V power wire and the headlight illumination wire were already in place. Here, Aschtgen crimps both wires with a pin terminal so the console and gauges can easily be installed or removed. Note that the TCI Fast-Gate shifter has already been mounted, and how the shifter gate from the Neon console has been enlarged to accommodate the travel of the TCI lever.Now the fun part—bolting in the console. Check out the extra power point under the clamshell. The dangling wire is the power point ground, which was attached to the tunnel. The oil pressure and temp gauges come with plug-in sensor harnesses, which plug into the rear of the Elite gauges.Here's the two harnesses for oil pressure and water temp—they just need to be fed through the firewall into the engine bay.Auto Meter includes the oil pressure sender and a �-inch NPT adapter with the Elite oil pressure gauge, but we needed a 90-degree adapter to clear the firewall with our Dart SHP block. Auto Meter recommends a small dab of liquid Teflon on the threads to aid sealing. Once the sender is mounted on the block, the pre-terminated Auto Meter harness just clips right on.
We reused the temp sender from the previous set of Autogage gauges; the output is the same and the Elite gauge harness clips right on. Auto Meter includes a new sender if you don't already have one screwed into your intake manifold.To adjust your warning set point, momentarily press and release the "WARN" button. When the gauge flashes, the needle will move to the current set point. Press "WARN" to move the set point down, or press the "PEAK" button to move it up. Your set points are saved, even when the power is off. You can also choose from seven illumination colors, and any color can be designated for a low or high warning level.


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|Attendance policy, calendar reviewed
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A school calendar for 2010-11 was adopted, and first reading of a new attendance policy was approved at the April 6 meeting of Holyoke School District Re-1J Board of Education.
Next year's school calendar includes 173 student-teacher contact days. As a result, the board policy which requires 180 student days was waived for the upcoming year.
Attendance policy changes are extensive. The most significant change is the elimination of academic penalty related to attendance.
Students and parents/guardians will be notified by letter when a student reaches their fifth day with an absence in a semester, excluding school-related absences. At that time, a member of the attendance committee will be assigned to the student.
Tardiness has been expanded in the policy to include consequences, but not grade reduction, suspension or expulsion.
Full details in the draft policy were presented by the study committee in January and reviewed by the board at its March 16 meeting.
After receiving staff input, the attendance policy was approved on first reading last week. It will return to the April 20 meeting for final approval. Additionally, revisions to the current truancy policy were approved.
Board member Kim Killin asked about discussion students are having regarding consideration for eliminating the current exemption from taking finals.
Principal Susan Ortner said that is not part of the attendance policy, but instead falls under the Positive Behavior Support (PBS) system. She said discussion is out there, but no recommendations or decisions have been made.
Classes start Aug. 19
In the 2010-11 calendar which was adopted, students will start classes Thursday, Aug. 19, after four staff inservice days.
The last day of school for students will be Friday, May 27, when they will be dismissed at noon.
Staff requested to keep a March vacation day during the week of parent-teacher conferences, which will be Friday, March 18. The calendar also includes Friday, March 11 as a vacation day to coincide with state basketball tournaments.
Other vacations include Monday, Sept. 6, Labor Day; Friday, Oct. 22; Nov. 24-26 for Thanksgiving; noon on Dec. 21 through Monday, Jan. 3 for Christmas; Friday, Feb. 18 to coincide with state wrestling; and April 22-25, Easter.
Staff inservice days with no school for students are scheduled on the first Fridays of September, October, November, December, February, March, April and May, as well as on Monday, Jan. 3 and BOCES inservice on Monday, Sept. 27. Half-day inservices are set for the ends of the semesters, on Tuesday, Dec. 21 and Friday, May 27.
Placement of 6th graders under evaluation
Supt. Bret Miles explained the current process of evaluating the 2008 decision to move the sixth graders to the JR/SR high school. He emphasized it's in the best interest of the district to look back on such major decisions to see if they worked.
Since March 9, there have been meetings with current JH teachers, the last two sixth grade teachers, fifth grade teachers, parents of current fifth graders and parents of current sixth graders. Additionally, test data is part of the evaluation equation.
The morning of the school board meeting, the administrative council met to review information that was collected at the parent meetings.
Miles said they're taking a comprehensive look at the people directly affected. He added they've received good feedback at this point and will continue to update the board on progress.
Killin commented from one of the parent meetings, noting she would like to see an academic analysis in writing to compare trends and cite the impact on students in the elementary and JR/SR high settings.
Other business
In other business April 6, the Re-1J Board:
—accepted the resignation of HS social studies teacher Roger Brady at the end of his current teacher contract.
—approved Jack Garrison as head HS wrestling coach for 2010-11.
—recognized gifts for the Stanley and Shirley Travis Scholarship, Justin Strode Scholarship and Holyoke Marketplace Scholarship.
—granted use of the new gym for a summer volleyball camp Aug. 2-5.
—heard from FBLA adviser Kristi Ham and members Elise Nelson, Sydney Nelson, Sarah Heermann and Whitni Redman, who told about the opportunities in FBLA and their accomplishments throughout the year.
—heard attendance reports for recent parent-teacher conferences from JR/SR High ºPrincipal Ortner. She also shared conference report numbers from the elementary school.


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