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Companies may ritually drop words such as teamwork, empowerment and job flexibility, but if they don't embody these concepts in the form of new strategies, they are left with a work force that reflects none of these things. Employees are too busy reaching for the next rung of the corporate ladder to lend a hand to their peers. Managers cling to tokens of control such as salary-range points and job boundaries. And the companies remain entrenched in the same rut of paperwork, procedure and politics.
To solve these problems, organizational developers increasingly turn to banding—a system that replaces traditional, narrowly defined positions with broader categories, or bands, of related jobs. Gone are the frequent, small promotions, each position isolated from the next by a new title and range of control, a few extra perks and a modest pay boost. Employees in a banded pay system can stretch their understanding and abilities within a relatively wide range of positions. From time to time, they pick up added responsibilities and win increased compensation. With their focus no longer tilted to the top of the company hierarchy, employees can see their peers as equals rather than competitors and their work as a series of challenges rather than roadblocks to be overcome on the way up.
In addition, banding allows managers the opportunity to focus on new forms of compensation, abandoning the "system says" mentality of salary control points and job grading for more people-based systems, such as skill-based pay. The broader job categories give even large companies the flexibility to reassign their human resources when they need to be reassigned, not when the paperwork is complete. Corporate restructurings are less disruptive to employees, and easier for the personnel department to process, now relieved of the burden of rewriting and evaluating hundreds of jobs.
But banding is not a quick-fix to be plugged in without careful consideration, and it is not right for all companies. Managers must be trained to deal with banding's broader salary ranges and fewer control points. Workers may resist the change as just another HR experiment or a management scheme to take away their security blankets. And morale may suffer as employees at all levels struggle to adjust to the absence of frequent, if small, symbols of their increased value.
Nonetheless, many well-known companies—Northern Telecom, General Electric, Data General, Aetna, Duke Power, Chrysler, Pennzoil and Harley Davidson, to name a few—have adopted banding. And others have dabbled in banding, long before the idea became prevalent. "We banded well before banding," recalls one HR executive. "We just didn't label it."
Banding helps an organization initiate and respond to internal changes more quickly.
One of businesses' major interests today is to flatten the organization. Along with this change must come a new job-grading structure. Traditional grading systems were designed to support a vertical, hierarchical organizational order. But if the layers disappear—as they are at many organizations today—then traditional (micro) grades lose their utility. In fact, retaining more management grades than there are levels could confound the organization's efforts to keep the extra layers from reappearing. A grade that has been vacated as a result of delayering is like a front-row parking space at a crowded mall: It won't be long before somebody parks there.
If your leadership team is serious about reducing the number of management levels, then banding is a possible solution. As a form of organizational change and not simply a new compensation system, banding is particularly attractive to evolving organizations. After tripling its sales volume in seven years, Marysville, Ohio-based The Scotts Company, a lawn and garden products supplier, began to break down its hierarchy to ensure that its divisions remained highly responsive to customer needs. "To facilitate our flattened organization," says Bob Stern, Scotts' vice president of HR, "we needed a job structure that was consistent with our broad organizational structure. Banding was a good marriage."
Senior management at Norand, a Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based maker of portable, computerized data management systems, saw things very much the same way. Tremendous growth led to tremendous change in the way that Norand's employees performed their jobs. Less hierarchical than ever before, Norand needed to become "incredibly nimble," says Michael Wakefield, the company's director of HR. But Norand's old job-grade pay system was, in Wakefield's words, "incompatible for our new environment." A banding program, combined with competency-based pay, proved to be the best option, and the company is currently in the midst of implementation.
By doing away with the job grading system, banding also can allow a company to respond more quickly to internal changes. As organizations flatten in response to a more competitive marketplace, frequent organizational changes— affecting people, structures, reporting relationships, and entities—occur. During a restructuring, roles and responsibilities are shuffled, and job holders often end up in essentially new jobs. The inevitable question then becomes, "Is the new job bigger or smaller than the old one?" The HR department is accountable for resizing jobs, and even moderate changes in duties can yield a change in grade within a traditional structure's narrow lines of demarcation. Unfortunately, after downsizing and retrenchment, jobs often get smaller, warranting a reduction in grade level. But that rarely happens, since leaders are unlikely to call for demotions in the downsizing postmortem. By the same token, grade increases as a consequence of restructuring are equally uncommon, even when individuals land bigger jobs as part of a mandated work system redesign.
Banding permits moderate changes in job boundaries without as many job recalculations. Like traffic in a six-lane highway instead of a two-lane road, bands hold a greater number and variety of jobs. By keeping levels essentially stable even as job size and scope are expanded or contracted, banding actually facilitates organizational change by allowing a company to respond more quickly to competitive pressures.
There is, of course, the risk that employees will see banding as just another HR initiative. And for employees already bombarded with change, there's a real danger there. Says Scotts' Stern, "A concern we had as we moved into banding was the ability of our people to absorb a new way of looking at things." So Scotts is doing what many other companies are doing: It has gone ahead with its plan to implement banding, ensuring that key steps along the way are carefully communicated to all employees.
For example, it is important that employees understand exactly what banding involves and what the key organizational and business strategies are behind it. Employees whose jobs will be combined in the same band must know whether their salary levels will be impacted by the new system; specifically, if salaries above the new range maximum will be reduced to fit into the new salary range. Employees will also have questions about the changes in their jobs. Explain whether their positions will be reevaluated before being slotted into a band, or mapped using a conversion table.
Once banding is implemented, it can help speed up the job grading and evaluation function. Job analysis, job description, job evaluation, and related communication constitute a resource-intensive process. This process all too often fosters dysfunctional behaviors because managers and employees see it as little more than an organizational game—one in which HR plays the detective role in screening job descriptions to weed out the "puffed-up" claims that embellish real job duties and responsibilities.
Because there is a fine distinction between levels and job boundaries, managers, employees, and even HR professionals use guesswork and intuition to arrive at evaluation-point totals and corresponding grade levels. The sheer volume of reevaluation requests, imperfect information, and micro grades challenge even the most skilled and diligent analyst.
Most current job evaluation systems support a vertical structure with numerous grade levels. To maintain equitable internal grading relationships with so many choices, most companies use a combination of point-factor evaluation and market pricing.
Banding provides a unique alternative. Point-factor systems can be abandoned in favor of a simpler, easier-to-maintain system. Since there are far fewer decisions to make in a banded structure, leveling decisions are more obvious and straightforward. But since not all controversy and uncertainty is eliminated, we advocate the use of some defensible, objective, and consistent technique. For example, a classification and market-pricing approach is sufficient for predicting band level. In some environments, whole-job slotting will suffice.
Also remember, when it comes to pay legislation, the most relevant comparisons are still within a work group, not between functions or distant locations. Allowing managers to own a part of the job evaluation decision can actually increase the scrutiny on internal equity, especially if they are held accountable for decisions.
Banding encourages a team-oriented, versatile work force.
Traditional structures lend themselves to stratification, as people in higher grades can perceive themselves to be "more important" to the organization than those in lower grades. Such attitudes are unproductive and can become particularly problematic when formal and informal interactions become limited to people at the same tier and prevent effective information sharing, cooperation, and collaboration.
Instead of teamwork, an overly vertical structure causes competition, as employees race to climb to the top of the hierarchy. Not everyone can get there, so there must be winners and losers. For the winners, grades represent visible levels of achievement, titles of distinction, and a financial panacea; for the losers, they are demotivating labels.
But grades are not the only culprits. Other HR support systems-performance appraisal ratings, job posting/bidding procedures, and merit pay-drive similar behavior. Divisions and competition are reinforced informally as well. For example, it may be unusual for members of your organization to have lunch with others who are more than one grade below them. Similarly, if meetings are most often held within level, chances are your employees may find themselves unable to work together effectively. One of the key advantages of banding is that it creates a less level-conscious work force. While power, authority, and hierarchy will never disappear, the focus is more on similarities than differences in a flatter structure.
Through banding, companies have found that they can address the barriers to communication and teamwork. At Nashville, Tennessee-based Northern Telecom, banding was implemented first for non-exempt, self-directed work teams whose members were expected to work together to produce high-quality products. Because team members rotated their work, everyone needed to be able to perform each other's work interchangeably. Yet, before banding, team members occupied four different grades and titles. As part of the banding process, the four grades and titles were combined into one band and one generic title. The end result was team members who viewed one another as equals, a perception that better fit the reality of their work life.
A team-oriented mindset can lead to a flexible work force that is better suited to a complex, fast changing, and competitive business environment that demands that employees perform and lead like never before. Banding is a necessary factor in making this change: the diversity of experiences and broad business and market perspective required of today's leaders cannot be obtained by progressing up the "functional chimney or silo"—the narrow occupational job ladders that produce specialists. Banding dismantles the functional chimney, enabling workers to learn and earn more for taking non-traditional career turns, such as lateral development moves.
While specialists are rewarded for learning a little more about something they already know a lot about, lateral development job changes produce a breadth of knowledge and practical understanding, resulting in better prepared and informed human resources. Unfortunately, though, the career patterns within most organizations today are essentially one-dimensional: up the job function ladder and into management.
In contrast, in-level, or lateral, job moves can result in changes in function, role, business unit or internal organization unit. Banding breaks down the barriers to lateral movement and de-emphasizes vertical promotions, as there are fewer opportunities for vertical elevation and greater opportunities for horizontal movement. However, while there are fewer band-to-band promotions, those who do go up are more likely to be ready to take on increased responsibility, thanks to the breadth of knowledge and experience gained by horizontal job changes.
If leadership team members lack a broad business or organizational perspective, banding could prove instrumental in filling the development gap. It reduces obstacles to lateral moves, causing employees to transfer existing knowledge and acquire fresh experience. And the fact that banding often goes hand-in-hand with competency-based pay programs creates a manageable change strategy.
Banding provides a new approach to compensation.
In the absence of a banded pay system, narrow salary ranges and midpoint controls have been used to support the steep grading structure. In such systems, it is understandable why employees are rapidly promoted, as even high-performance employees typically receive reduced pay increases after they hit the midpoint (or middle) of their salary range. An increase in grade results in a lower range position and qualifies the employee for higher potential merit pay treatment. Too often, salary range control points, including minimums, midpoints, and maximums, yield an overly mechanical pay function. Instead of using judgment and exercising flexibility, many managers and HR professionals use these control points like a street light-low in range means "go" (green); middle of the range means "yield" (yellow); and high in the range means slow and stop (red). While traffic tickets are unusual, managers are strongly discouraged from deviating from these signals. Since organizational conformity is the tendency, most managers are only too anxious to follow the rules.
With salary ranges that are as much as twice the width of traditional ranges and generally without midpoints, banding broadens salary ranges and reduces the control-point myopia. Instead, more flexibility exists in a banded range to reward the right behaviors and achievements, making it more difficult to use the system to explain a manager's salary decision. Admittedly, pay treatment flexibility and increased managerial discretion increase the likelihood of internal pay differences. But if these differences are justified based on individual contributions or skills, pay equity can be preserved.
Some practitioners worry about a loss of control in banding, that managers will push the elevator button and take every employee to the top of the structure without regard to budget requirements. No need to worry. The same budgeting tools used with traditional systems—such as salary planning, forced performance distributions, and position-in-range control— can be employed to avoid overspending. At Northern Telecom, payroll increase budgets were underspent by approximately $2 million during the first year of banding (1991), even though the company insisted that the change would be payroll neutral. In this case, the surplus was explained by two factors that might easily be experienced by other firms: Managers stayed within their salary increase budgets, since fewer dollars were spent on promotions; and the dollars reallocated from the promotion to lateral pay budgets were way underspent. At Northern Telecom and other companies, employees need more than a financial reward to take an in-band job change, partly because that type of move is still counter-cultural.
Because banding indeed requires a change in employees' mindset, it may be necessary for HR to modify some current policies and attitudes to ensure the acceptance of the program. One such change is the deemphasis of upward promotions, with the focus switching to emphasize lateral moves. Specifically, there must be equal opportunity for pay increases regardless of an employee's upward or lateral movement. Celebrate lateral moves as the company would promotions, including general announcement letters or postings.
Another important factor in encouraging a work force to make lateral job moves is to eliminate all barriers to job posting at the same level. Employees should be aware of all opportunities, not just those above them. In addition, provide a safe harbor policy, a promise that if an employee's lateral move outside his or her area of expertise does not work out, he or she has the choice to return to the former position.
As for the less-rigid compensation system, there is good reason for line managers to avoid abusing the wider salary ranges. "Most managers know what is the right thing to do," says Mike Umphres, senior advisor for compensation at Northern Telecom. "Did managers take their employees to the top of the narrower salary [grade] ranges? No, so why would you be concerned about unjustifiably increasing employee salary levels in a banding structure? Besides, managers have departmental expense budgets that they must stay within."
Another technique that can help control potential abuse of salary ranges is the use of merit cash, or lump-sum payments in lieu of base salary increases. Merit cash is often used in conjunction with a position-in-range policy; that is, employees are awarded merit cash if performance warrants and they are high in the salary range.
Finally, it is up to managers to make the best decision for the individual. "I don't think overspending would happen at any corporation if a reasonable job has been done to train managers on the fundamentals," Umphres says.
Because banding gives more flexibility in pay strategies, it also allows room for experimentation in compensation. For example, at Scotts, management is constantly looking for ways to manage compensation. Says Bob Stern, "Banding provides us with an opportunity to develop a more effective compensation structure and still allow for the personal growth and development of our people."
One possible compensation strategy that organizations may take a look at is competency-based pay. This system permits employees to progress through a broad set of defined skill blocks as they demonstrate their increased proficiency. No specific job is defined, but rather the boundaries generally encompass an entire work process or occupational stream.
Any change to this type of compensation requires a new structure for delivering pay. Narrow salary ranges and specific jobs and levels based on duties and responsibilities do not align with a focus on individual abilities. In a job-based pay system, job holders wait for promotional opportunities to open up. Contrast that with a person-based pay system, in which workers flow through continuous units of skill based on the ability to learn and demonstrate work-related skill, knowledge, and competencies, with eligibility for requisite training regulating the flow of employees.
Employees moving through the skill blocks receive pay increases but, generally, no title changes. The majority of person-based designs stimulate a breadth of skills and are introduced in high-involvement, high-performance work systems with more egalitarian cultures.
Banding is well aligned with this alternative reward system, as it provides broad salary range spreads but no midpoints, spans more than one traditional job level or classification, and requires more generic titles. Pay plan designers, in effect, must band in developing person-based structures.
Organizations that wonder whether competency-based pay is necessary to gain greater flexibility and productivity might start with banding. In certain environments, especially with low- to semi-skilled occupations, widening job boundaries as a part of banding might be sufficient for motivating employees to take on new skills and lateral assignments. In other situations, skill-based and lateral pay might be required. In either case, banding can be the first phase of a more comprehensive strategy, appending skill-based pay in a later phase, as needed.
Look before you leap.
As with any other new management framework, banding represents significant organizational change—and organizational change often produces concerns. At Scotts, the concerns were fundamental. Says Stern, "People are always apprehensive about changes in what they view as near and dear to them. Like their compensation."
"Banding certainly represents a paradigm shift," adds Norand's Wakefield. "With our banding and competency-based pay programs, we're saying to employees: 'We're no longer paying you for what your job is and what it's worth, but rather what you know and what you can do with that knowledge.' "
This atmosphere makes effective implementation and communication two keys to banding's success. Effective implementation involves adoption of a systemic approach to this organizational change. Attention must go beyond the mechanical implications on compensation. So many policies and programs are attached to grades and titles that other HR functions, such as training and development, communications and HRIS must change, along with the non-HR functions, such as legal and key line functions.
In addition, avoid making incremental changes in the overall design. When reinventing an entire work system, one quantum change provides a smoother transition than a series of jerky, stop-and-go policy redirections. Also, allowing line managers to present banding to their work groups drives home the idea that this it not just another HR experiment. However, HR should remain available to ensure that communications materials and terminologies are understood.
It's important to explain why the change is being implemented. The majority of companies that have converted to banding did so not to fix a compensation problem, but to improve overall organization effectiveness. In the process, they realized that the pay structures needed to be modified to reinforce the desired behaviors and results. This requires employees to understand the big picture—why their organization is expected to perform better because of the change.
In Wakefield's view, the propriety of banding comes down to a "fundamental equation." Says Wakefield, "From the business side, we spend tens of millions of dollars a year in cash compensation. Like any other investment, there's an internal rate of return that we must achieve on our compensation investment. And we feel that banding and competency-based pay can help us achieve that rate of return."
If your organization is like so many others, it's searching for ways to improve. As a Scotts Company plant manager put it, "People who perform narrow, specialized jobs find it much harder to imagine change." Little wonder that banding, while no panacea, is a proven means of aligning with new, and increasingly common, organizational change imperatives.
Personnel Journal, January 1994, Vol.73, No. 1, pp. 72-78.


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Barack Obama
Mitt Romney
We all know the entire world looks towards PD for guidance. Everything that was or is cool since 2005 started on PD. That being said, NYT, Fox, WSJ, MSNBC, The Gallup Poll and Rasmussen have all been eyeing us for clarification on this years election. Well PD, lets give them some.
Anyone can vote but I am more interested in seeing what the outcome will be for of age Americans on PD.

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When you click on the sort by date button on the desktop version it will not allow the arrow to be enabled for group by date. When you group it by date there is a distinct bar that shows your emails grouped by the date.
This works fine in the web but not on the desktop. Also, when I switch between the two; desktop and web some of my saved files do not show up.
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(Sports Network) - Fortunately there are 82 games in an NBA season, so when a
team puts up a clunker it has plenty of time to get it out of the way.
The Philadelphia 76ers are hoping they can do just that Friday versus the
Utah Jazz in the continuation of a five-game homestand at Wells Fargo Center.
Philadelphia fell victim to the then-winless Detroit Pistons Wednesday night
in a 94-76 loss, its second in a row since winning three straight. The Sixers
scored just 17 points in each of the first two quarters and were led by Lavoy
Allen's 14 points off the bench. Jrue Holiday was the only other scorer in
double figures for the 76ers with 12 points.
"It's one of the few times since I've been as coach where this team played
with a lack of effort," 76ers coach Doug Collins said. "Playing against a team
that's desperate, 0-8, I told them this team is a lot better than their
record. I thought we were in slow-motion."
The Sixers shot just 29.8 percent for the game, but committed only four
turnovers. They scored 24 points off 18 Detroit miscues.
Apparently the loss to the Pistons didn't bother Sixers big man Spencer Hawes.
"It's not the end of the world," Hawes said. "We're going to get it right.
We're going to get it back on track."
Philadelphia is 0-2 on the homestand and has dropped three straight and seven
of its past eight games in the City of Brotherly Love dating back to last
season. It is in the midst of playing eight of nine games at home.
The 76ers, who were second in the NBA in scoring this preseason with 102.7
ppg, are currently second-to-last in scoring with 88.0 ppg. However, the
Sixers are fifth in the NBA in scoring defense (91.1 ppg).
Utah will resume its four-game East Coast road trip Friday and has split the
first two tests of the trek.
After outlasting Toronto, 140-133, in triple overtime on Monday, the Jazz
dropped a 98-93 decision against Boston two nights later. Paul Millsap led the
charge with 20 points and 12 rebounds, while former Celtic Al Jefferson
recorded another double-double with 13 points and 14 boards.
Gordon Hayward, Mo Williams and Derrick Favors scored 14 points apiece for the
Jazz, who made 40.2 percent from the field and sank 7-of-15 3-pointers.
Williams came up empty in the clutch and missed all five of his shots in the
fourth quarter.
"I'm proud of the way our guys fought. I thought we hung in there, gave
ourselves a chance to win," Jazz coach Tyrone Corbin said.
The Jazz are only 1-5 away from Salt Lake City this season and will close out
the road trip Saturday in Washington. Jefferson has six double-doubles on the
season for a Utah team that is sixth in the NBA in scoring (99.9 ppg).
Utah and Philadelphia split two meetings a season ago, while the Jazz have won
14 of the past 18 matchups between the teams. The Sixers are unbeaten in two
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Michael Brantley went 3-for-4 with two homers, three runs and five RBI in Sunday's 9-6 win against the Tigers.
Daniel Murphy went 3-for-4 with his eighth homer and 15th double to lead the Nationals past the Phillies 4-3 on Monday.
Bryce Harper is day-to-day with a right knee contusion.
Jeff Locke pitched a three-hitter for his first career complete game as the Pirates drubbed the Marlins 10-0 on Monday.
Ian Desmond doubled and ripped a two-run homer in Monday's victory over the Indians.
Marlon Byrd went 4-for-4 with a solo home run in Monday's loss to the Rangers.
Collin McHugh went the distance against the Diamondbacks on Monday allowing three runs while striking out eight in an 8-3 victory.
Adam Duvall had his first career two-homer day in Monday's win over the Rockies.
Joey Votto smashed career home run No. 200 in Monday's slugfest victory over the Rockies.
Carlos Gonzalez doubled and smacked a two-run homer in Monday's loss to the Reds.
Nate Karns struck out six while allowing two runs over 6 2/3 innings in Monday's 9-3 win over the Padres.
Twins placed INF/OF Danny Santana on the 15-day disabled list with a left hamstring strain.


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On September 26, 1928, truck driver Ray Tenney of Buckhannon was killed when his gasoline truck broke through the floor of a covered bridge in Upshur County.
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"Ray Tenney Killed In Bridge Collapse"
"Buckhannon Man Is Killed When Bridge Gives Way"
"Funeral Services Held For Accident Victim Last Friday"
Death Certificate of Ray Tenney
On September 26, 1936, a train wreck occurred at Hemphill in McDowell County.
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Hopper Makes Friends at Big Lake Leap Into Reading
Hopper the frog made some new friends at the Big Lake Public Library's Leap Into Reading storytime on Friday, Sept. 28.
Hopper is Great River Regional Library's Leap Into Reading mascot. He is visiting each of the library's 32 locations as they offer Leap Into Reading events throughout the year. Leap Into Reading is an effort to promote reading and encourage literacy spearheaded by the Minnesota Department of Education.
In Big Lake, the children gathered around as Branch Manager Nancy Lee read stories before they made paper bag glove puppets. Here are a few of the stories she read:
Frog Counts To Ten by John Liebler
The Croaky Pokey by Ethan Long
Leap Back Home To Me by Lauren Thompson
Fine As We Are by Algy Craig Hall


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Variable TN3L1 : Long-lasting mosquito net - Brand A
Type: Discrete
Format: numeric
Width: 1
Decimal(s): 0
Range: 1-9
Valid case(s): 1426 (1427.4)
Invalid: 6574 (5650.6)
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 9
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Head of household or other responsible household member
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
Literal question
Is the net (are any of the nets) any of the following brands:
Read each brand name, show picture card, and circle codes for Yes or No for each brand. If possible, observe the net to verify brand.
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During training, you will be shown all the common mosquito nets that are available in the country. The brand name is often located on the net itself. A picture of the different types of nets available in the country may also be provided for reference during interviews. Use this to identify the type of net in the dwelling and circle the corresponding number on the questionnaire. Read the name of each brand of long-lasting nets in turn: "IS THE NET (ARE ANY OF THE NETS) BRAND A? IS THE NET (ARE ANY OF THE NETS) BRAND B?" Read each brand name aloud and if the response is 'Yes', circle the corresponding code. Then proceed to ask about the pre-treated nets: "IS THE NET (ARE ANY OF THE NETS) BRAND C? IS THE NET (ARE ANY OF THE NETS) BRAND D?" and other nets: "IS THE NET (ARE ANY OF THE NETS) BRAND E? IS THE NET (ARE ANY OF THE NETS) BRAND F?" Note that if the respondent has indicated the number of nets in TN2, you should still have the respondent confirm the presence or absence of each of the brand of nets in TN3. For example, the respondent may have indicated that there is only one net in the household. If the respondent indicates that there is a net in the household of brand A, you should still continue down the list of nets and code 'No' for all other nets. It is possible that once you mention the brand names of net, the respondent may remember an extra net not included in the figure in TN2. If the respondent is not sure whether a net is one of these brands, try to observe the net, if possible. If it is not possible to observe the net(s), use the pictures you were given to aid in identification. When you finish asking about the brands of nets from A to F, ask the respondent if there is any other brand of net. If 'Yes', code TN3o3, and write down the brand of the net. If there is another net for which the respondent does not know the brand, code 'Yes' for TN3o4.


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46-63 Metropolitan Ave., 718-386-4282, Ridgewood, Queens
Ridgewood is the new Bushwick, especially when it comes to this cool, delicious, handcrafted hangout that could very well jump-start an influx of new business to the neighborhood. Chowhounds are threading their way to this remote outpost, packing the oilcloth-covered tables and sharing plates of seared organic salmon with vermicelli noodles and peanuts, and caramelized wild shrimp with bacon, ginger, garlic and basil. Chef/owner Jimmy Tu used to work at Eleven Madison Park and spent a year eating his way through Vietnam, which means this is some of the most technically accomplished, high-quality Vietnamese food you'll find in the City. Go with a group in order to try as much of his menu as possible, including the crispy seafood crepe with bacon and the scrumptious chili mackerel banh mi. Coconut tapioca pudding with jackfruit and palm seeds is a dream. To drink are creative, thirst-quenching juices and Vietnamese iced coffee; otherwise it's BYOB.


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I purchased a G15 a few years ago before a trip to New York. Frankly, it was just too inconvenient to carry around one of my DSLRs on and off subways, to the Giants Stadium, and other places with a couple small kids along for the ride. But, I certainly didn't want to go all the way to NYC without the ability to capture great shots.
I came home with a few hundred wonderful photos taken throughout the city; day and night; indoors and out.
What a great investment. If this camera had the ability to pin-point focal points, I'd leave the D200 and D3100 home 90% of the time.
In addition to the camera's performance, I really like the solid feel of the camera. Very well built.


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One of the many 4.0 stories hit the home page of digg tonight.
PS: For those who didn't see their logo in the 'customers' box on the home page, digg (the company) is a Zimbra customer. Good mix of PC, Mac, and Linux desktops with mobile sync needs so a perfect fit for Zimbra's mix of technology.


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A tonsillectomy is a surgery to remove the tonsils. Quite often, a tonsillectomy is performed at the same time as an adenoidectomy, a medical procedure to remove the adenoid glands.
The tonsils help defend against infections. However, children with large tonsils may be more susceptible to sore throats and ear infections. You and your child's doctor may want to consider a tonsillectomy if your child has any of the following:
The surgeon will insert a small tool into your child's mouth to prop it open. The surgeon then cuts and/or burns away the tonsils. The doctor will control bleeding, and the cuts heal naturally without stitches. A tonsillectomy is usually done in a hospital or surgery center.
Prior to the tonsillectomy, your child's doctor may request that your child have a blood test (complete blood count, electrolytes, clotting factors), as well as a physical exam. Make sure to communicate to your child's doctor or nurse what drugs your child is currently taking. Also include any drugs, herbs, or vitamins you may have bought without a prescription.
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On the day of surgery
Your child will stay in the recovery room after surgery until they are awake and can breath easily, cough, and swallow. Nearly all children go home within several hours after this surgery is performed. Children rarely need to stay overnight in the hospital for observation. Complete recovery takes about 1 to 2 weeks. During the first week, your child should avoid people who are sick. It will be easier for your child to become infected during this time.
After surgery, the number of throat infections is usually lower, but your child will likely still get some. Rarely, bleeding after surgery can go unnoticed and cause serious problems. A common symptom to be aware of is excessive swallowing. It may be a sign of bleeding from the tonsils.
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Originally Posted by jenbickel
Lol!! life isnt fun without a little trouble!!
If that's true then, I'll bet you have a TON of fun!!!!!!!
Did King's Camo authorize this?
Arise... Kill, Eat! - Acts 10:13
lmao, you bet I do!!
Here are a couple I've had for several years
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Those are WAY awesome Jerry!
Originally Posted by Elkoholic307
Did King's Camo authorize this?
Yep, they sure did
Originally Posted by jenbickel
Those are WAY awesome Jerry!
I wasn't too happy with the artist that did the bear. He wasn't much of an artist!
I still think it looks good!!
I have a hunting related tattoo. Your's are pretty sweet.
Oh wow SprintNShoot... I LOVE yours!
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Zimbra 7.01
Windows XP SP3
I was initially excited to find Zimbra a few days ago, and it seemed great when I installed it.
But although it "works" for the most part, I have found it to be pretty buggy.
It's a nice program, so I thought I'd invest a little time in trying to help fix it, and see how responsive vmware is to see if it is worth my time.
The most siginficant bug I have encountered so far it that the auto sync stops working after a few passes.
I have about 5 e-mail accounts set up, one Google and 4 Yahoo. Each is set to update every minute (although I tried setting other periods of update and had the same problem).
When I first start the program, all accounts seem to automatically update properly a few times. Then the updates just stop.
After it stops updating, the Yahoo accounts never display the circling arrows (indicating that it is syncing), and the Google account displays the circling arrows non-stop... the arrows are there all the time.
I think some module is crashing because after installing Zimbra, when I go to shut down the computer, I get the error sound and an error message flashes on the screen that something crashed. So far I have not been able to catch what it is, but I will try to find out.
I have been able to get things to manually sync using the send receive button. So, for now, that is what I am doing.
That's about all I can offer right now. Maybe this is a known bug?
All my Yahoo accounts also have the red dot with the "x" next to them for the address book updating error as well. I know you are aware of this issue.
Thanks for listining. I hope the bugs can be worked out because it would be a great program if it worked better.


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UPDATED- July 12, 2012
by Julie Montanaro
There were two carjackings in Tallahassee just hours apart and in both cases, the drivers were confronted at gunpoint.
The first carjacking happened in the parking lot of Michaels on Governor's Square Boulevard at about 5 o'clock Tuesday evening.
Tallahassee Police say three men approached a woman reading in her car and ordered her out at gunpoint.
The second carjacking happened outside the AMC Theatre at Tallahassee Mall just after 10 p.m.
A man says two men approached him with a gun, punched him and took his car.
Shoppers outside Michael's were surprised to hear that a woman was carjacked in broad daylight.
I'm always worried about going out places at night, but at 5 o'clock in the afternoon? That's kind of ... particularly scary to me," Angela Perry said as she and her two children got into their minivan.
"I mean it's happening over and over all around, but up here in this area, I'm surprised. It would be more likely to happen at the mall to me than a place like this," Gail Howes said as she and grandson left the store.
Tallahassee Police believe the carjackings are related because the stolen cars were later found parked side by side at 2502 Holton Street.
23 year old Immanuel Boone was arrested and accused of robbery, carjacking and more. Right now, he's charged only with the carjacking near Michael's.
Boone told police he and a friend used the car to "move" some drugs.
Tallahassee, Florida - July 12, 2012 - 11am
The Tallahassee Police Department confirmed that they are working two separate armed carjackings. Both of the carjackings took place on Tuesday, July 10th and both involved weapons. The first carjacking happened in front of Michaels craft store (1524 Governors Square Blvd.) around 5pm. The next happened outside of the AMC Theater at the Tallahassee Mall around 10pm. Police say right now they do not know if the carjackings are related. 23-year-old Immanuel Boone has been charged with robbery and carjacking for the incident in front of Michaels. Police are still investigation the second incident.
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Tallahassee, Florida - July 12, 2012 - 9am
Eyewitness News has confirmed that the Tallahassee Police Department is currently investigating two carjackings that took place off of Governors Square Boulevard. The carjackings took place yesterday. Details are limited at this time, but we expect to have more information later today.
Stay with WCTV for details.


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We have 435 instructional videos covering a broad range of scuba diving topics. Use the video category links on the right of this page to navigate to the specific video you want to view. All videos are hosted by our professionally trained Scuba Diving Instructors with years of experience.
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By David Ingram
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In a move marijuana advocates hailed as a historic shift, the Obama administration on Thursday began giving U.S. states wide leeway to experiment with pot legalization and started by letting Colorado and Washington carry out new laws permitting recreational use.
The Justice Department said it would refocus marijuana enforcement nationwide by bringing criminal charges only in eight defined areas – such as distribution to minors – and giving breathing room to users, growers and related businesses that have feared prosecution.
The decisions end nearly a year of deliberation inside President Barack Obama's administration about how to react to the growing movement for relaxed U.S. marijuana laws.
Advocates for legalization welcomed the announcement as a major step toward ending what they called "marijuana prohibition."
"Today's announcement demonstrates the sort of political vision and foresight from the White House we've been seeking for a long time," said Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, an advocacy group.
"I must admit, I was expecting a yellow light from the White House," he said in a statement. "But this light looks a lot more green-ish than I had hoped. The White House is basically saying to Washington and Colorado: Proceed with caution."
Marijuana remains illegal and tightly controlled under federal law, even as about 20 states, plus the District of Columbia, allow the use of medical marijuana. Voters in Colorado and Washington legalized recreational use in groundbreaking ballot measures in November 2012.
Obama had signaled he did not want a new crackdown, telling ABC News in December: "It does not make sense, from a prioritization point of view, for us to focus on recreational drug users in a state that has already said that's legal."
The leeway for the states will go only so far, though, if Colorado, Washington or other states show they are unable to control the drug, the Justice Department said in a statement.
Forty-two percent of Americans age 12 or older have used marijuana at some point, according to a 2011 survey by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Obama has said he used marijuana when he was young.
One opponent of marijuana legalization said his group would redouble efforts to spread word of the negative effects the drug can have on adolescents.
"This is going to really quicken the realization among folks that more marijuana in our communities is not a good thing," said Kevin Sabet, a co-founder of Smart Approaches to Marijuana.
The Justice Department could have sued to block the Colorado and Washington laws from taking effect under the theory that they conflict with the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, the primary U.S. anti-drug law.
Coupled with the decision not to sue, the Justice Department sent a four-page memorandum to federal prosecutors nationwide outlining eight priority areas for marijuana enforcement.
While department officials said they are committed to enforcing federal restrictions on marijuana, prosecutors have now been told not to expend effort on cases unless they fall in one of the eight areas.
The areas include distribution to minors, situations when marijuana revenue is going to other criminal enterprises, trafficking across state lines and growing on public land.
The criteria mean, for example, that federal prosecutors will not charge a marijuana dispensary simply because it is large or profitable, said a Justice Department official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
But the criteria also stop short of guaranteeing immunity for anyone, leaving business and individuals open to prosecution if the case fits one of the eight areas, the official said.
Colorado and Washington will need to have regulatory systems to protect against those types of crimes, or else risk giving up the whole experiment, the department said in a statement.
Attorney General Eric Holder had a phone call on Thursday with the governors of Colorado and Washington to inform them of the decisions and told them there would be a "trust but verify" relationship between the Justice Department and the states, said the department official.
State officials said they shared Holder's concerns.
"This reflects a balanced approach by the federal government that respects the states' interests in implementing these laws and recognizes the federal government's role in fighting illegal drugs and criminal activity," Washington Governor Jay Inslee and Attorney General Bob Ferguson, both of whom are Democrats, said in a statement.


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Have made these several times.Love it and its easy. Can eat with veggie or crackers, etc.
I took this recipe to a party even though I had not made it before and it was a huge hit! I doubled the recipe and used Frank's Red Hot Wing sauce. I also baked it for 30-35 minutes instead of using the microwave. Everyone raved about it! I will definitely make this again!
I made this recipe for a tea party and it was gone so fast served w/ crackers. Everyone enjoyed this. Instead of chunky chicken I chopped my chicken in a food processor just to make sure everyone had plenty of chicken. I will definitely make this recipe again.


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|South Holyoke development stalled with drainage concerns
|Written by Kyle Arnoldy
In an effort to get the ball rolling more quickly with the residential development plan for south Holyoke, attorney Russell Sprague, representing Robin Lake Development, attended the Tuesday, March 4 Holyoke City Council meeting.
RLD had presented a drainage study for the southwest portion of Holyoke and a proposed plan of action for moving forward with development at the Feb. 25 council work session.
At Tuesday's meeting, Sprague stated his hope that council members would agree to retain T.C. Engineering Inc. out of North Platte, Neb., to perform a follow-up to the drainage study. The study would be necessary to determine potential solutions for drainage issues as well as provide insight into expected costs.
RLD's proposed plan includes filling in or shrinking the O'Neal pit, currently used to handle drainage from the southwest portion of Holyoke. A pump station at a four-and-a-half-acre pond nearby would have to be constructed with increased capacity for pumps and pipes in the area for storm water to flow through. Residential lots are planned to surround the pond.
The plan was met with some resistance as City Superintendent Mark Brown voiced some concerns.
"I, for one, say no to that, but I am not an engineer," Brown said. He explained that in a 24-hour event, 1,800 gallons of water is going into the pit, but in a downpour that could accumulate 3 inches in 45 minutes, anywhere from 3,000-5,000 gallons a minute could be draining. "It's going to be a nightmare to control the variations of flows."
Too much stormwater rushing through the pipes could also cause water to rise through storm drains in the areas of Gordon Street and Hale Street on Worley Avenue.
Brown also noted that if the water were directed down an alternative path, the city would have to deepen and widen the ditch line along Evans Avenue to accommodate the increased amount of water. The culvert under Johnson Street would also have to be looked at.
Another aspect taken into account by council members involved a possible bike/walking path along Johnson Street. In the past, the council has discussed adding a bike path along Johnson Street that would run from Regent Park to the airport, connecting with the current bike/walking path.
If the bike/walking path is still an option in the future, Brown commented that construction would have to take into account runoff from the street. What was holding street runoff before would have to be able to handle the capacity of the drainage pit as well.
Before discussion concluded, council members approved giving Brown authority to spend up to $2,000 to retain T.C. Engineering Inc. to review the plans and give suggestions.
Officials report
Brown reported that street crews had been busy with snow removal. He also noted that there had been no power outages since the Feb. 18 meeting.
Holyoke Police Chief Doug Bergstrom reported that from Feb. 13-26 the department had received 53 calls for service, made two arrests, written four reports and issued six warnings.
Other business
In other business March 4, the council:
—approved special events permits for Manos Unidas for April 19 and May 17.
—appointed Mary Austin to serve a five-year term on the library board.
—waived the building permit fee for remodeling the interior of the Holyoke Golf Course clubhouse.
—approved a liquor license renewal application for Cobblestone Inn and Suites.
—approved the purchase of a Funbrella for the Holyoke Swimming Pool from Anchor Industries Inc. for a total of $790.
—appointed Sandy Saylor as the supply judge and Linda Williamson, Sonya Houghtelling, Marianne Sullivan and Cathy Sullivan as judges for the municipal election April 8. Alternate judges are Larry Stein and Linda Willmon.
—set wages for municipal election judges at $10 per hour and $12 an hour for the supply judge.
—approved the purchase of a desk and an office chair for a total of $1,025 from Computers Etc. for the new city office assistant, whose wage was set at $11 per hour.
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I am trying to set up a Funambol server to sync Blackberrys with Zimbra, but I'm running into a pretty basic problem that I haven't been able to find an answer to. I go through all of the steps outlined in the wiki at the link below, but for some reason, it doesn't show as a module in the Admin Tools interface. It shows the Email and Foundation modules, but no Zimbra module. The installation of the connector from the command line seems to happen with no errors, so I have no clue where things could be going wrong. Every other resource I have checked for problems with the Zimbra Connector involves problems after the connector is already successfully installed, so if someone could point me in the right direction, that would be great. Thanks for any help anyone can offer!
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Video: Grantfork Upper Elementary school bus collides with semi
Video: SB I-55 closed near Litchfield after bus collides with semi
Video: Talia Kaplan has reaction from parents in Grantfork
Video: Some students taken to St. Louis hospitals
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Montgomery County, IL (KSDK) - Two students remained hospitalized after a school bus rear-ended a semi on Interstate 55 in Montgomery County.
Michael Sutton, Superintendent of Highland Schools, said on Tuesday morning that three students have broken legs and two of the three students will have to have surgery. One of the students was released Tuesday morning.
Illinois State Police said southbound Interstate 55 reopened at mile marker 60, near Litchfield at 11:00 Monday night.
PHOTOS - Bus collides with semi
State troopers said the 66-year-old driver of the school bus, identified as Henry Jaeger, rear-ended a semi that slowed down for construction traffic around 4:30 p.m. Monday.
The bus was carrying 33 students from Grantfork Upper Elementary in who were returning from a field trip to Springfield, Illinois, according to Sutton. There was 41 people total on the bus, including the driver and chaperones.
Henry Jaeger had serious injuries and had to be extricated from the bus.
Jaeger is employed by First Student and has been a driver since 2009. He has no previous accidents. A First Student spokesperson said Jaeger has been suspended pending the outcome of an internal and police investigation.
Twelve-year-old Jessica Davis of Alhambra, Illinois was airlifted to Cardinal Glennon in St. Louis with with a broken leg. She's expected to have surgery on Tuesday.
A total of 11 people were taken to five hospitals. The driver of the school bus was taken to a Springfield hospital, along with at least one student. Seven students were initially taken to St. Francis Hospital in Litchfield. Hillsboro Area Hospital also received some students with non-life threatening injuries to be checked out.
St. Francis Hospital has confirmed two students they received were airlifted to Children's Hospital in St. Louis.
Two others were treated in the emergency room and are listed in fair condition. Three others were discharged.
The parents of the uninjured students were given the option of having their children examined as a precaution at another hospital.
Teachers, chaperones, and the school principal accompanied students on the field trip. A number of Lincoln landmarks were visited. The trip was for fifth and sixth graders, and the bus that crashed, was carrying sixth graders.
"Right now very fortunate. Although there were some injuries in the accident as you can tell by the looks of the bus we were very fortunate not to have any critical injuries," said Superintendent Sutton.
Illinois State Police said Henry Jaeger was issued a ticket for failing to reduce speed to avoid an accident.
The bus is operated by First Student.
Maureen Richmond, a spokeswoman for First Student, said all buses in their fleet passed an IDOT inspection in March 2012. Additionally, every driver conducts a pre-trip inspection before transporting any children, every day.


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Hello everyone!
I've searched in the forums for a post like this one and have not found any specific topics, besides general external LDAP authentication help.
We have configured the external LDAP authentication successfully.
Is there a way to import all the users configured in the external LDAP as Zimbra users? We have +200 users and would like to create the e-mail accounts on Zimbra automatically
Also, when a new user is created on external LDAP, it could be imported automatically on Zimbra?
Thanks in advance!!


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We decided to test upgrading Spamassassin using the sa-update script which Zimbra now includes in /opt/zimbra/zimbramon/bin.
In the event the test was successful; here's what we did:
First, we opened the sa-update script in an editor and found Zimbra had made a number of edits. We wanted to avoid editing the script itself, in effect gambling that Zimbra would not change default paths with subsequent releases.
We saw that the LOCAL_STATE_DIRECTORY mentioned in the script did not exist, so we created it manually as follows:
zimbra@viognier:~> cd data
zimbra@viognier:~/data> ls -al
total 44
drwxr-xr-x 11 zimbra zimbra 4096 Aug 13 00:06 .
drwxr-xr-x 69 root root 4096 Aug 13 00:18 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 zimbra zimbra 4096 Dec 29 2009 altermime
drwxr-xr-x 9 zimbra zimbra 4096 Aug 25 22:53 amavisd
drwxr-xr-x 3 zimbra zimbra 4096 Aug 13 00:06 cbpolicyd
drwxr-xr-x 3 zimbra zimbra 4096 Apr 6 2008 clamav
drwxr-xr-x 3 zimbra zimbra 4096 Aug 30 04:08 dspam
drwxr-xr-x 6 zimbra zimbra 4096 Aug 13 00:03 ldap
drwxr-xr-x 3 zimbra zimbra 4096 Aug 13 00:05 mailboxd
drwxr-xr-x 4 postfix zimbra 4096 Aug 13 00:06 postfix
drwxrwxrwt 13 zimbra zimbra 4096 Aug 30 21:46 tmp
zimbra@viognier:~/data> mkdir spamassassin
zimbra@viognier:~/data> chmod 755 spamassassin/
zimbra@viognier:~/data> ls -al
total 48
drwxr-xr-x 12 zimbra zimbra 4096 Aug 30 21:46 .
drwxr-xr-x 69 root root 4096 Aug 13 00:18 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 zimbra zimbra 4096 Dec 29 2009 altermime
drwxr-xr-x 9 zimbra zimbra 4096 Aug 25 22:53 amavisd
drwxr-xr-x 3 zimbra zimbra 4096 Aug 13 00:06 cbpolicyd
drwxr-xr-x 3 zimbra zimbra 4096 Apr 6 2008 clamav
drwxr-xr-x 3 zimbra zimbra 4096 Aug 30 04:08 dspam
drwxr-xr-x 6 zimbra zimbra 4096 Aug 13 00:03 ldap
drwxr-xr-x 3 zimbra zimbra 4096 Aug 13 00:05 mailboxd
drwxr-xr-x 4 postfix zimbra 4096 Aug 13 00:06 postfix
drwxr-xr-x 2 zimbra zimbra 4096 Aug 30 21:46 spamassassin
drwxrwxrwt 13 zimbra zimbra 4096 Aug 30 21:46 tmp
Next, by scrolling through the script you come to a list of the options. We elected to run the update thus:
zimbra@viognier:~/data> cd ../zimbramon/bin/
zimbra@viognier:~/zimbramon/bin> ./sa-update -v --updatedir /opt/zimbra/conf/spamassassin --allowplugins --refreshmirrors
Update available for channel updates.spamassassin.org
Update was available, and was downloaded and installed successfully
There are a number of other channels available, but we wanted to keep Spamassassin fairly vanilla for now, just updated.
So, next we checked that things looked OK:
zimbra@viognier:~/conf/spamassassin> ls -al | grep updates_spamassassin_org
drwxr-x--- 2 zimbra zimbra 4096 Aug 30 21:47 updates_spamassassin_org
-rw-r----- 1 zimbra zimbra 2599 Aug 30 21:47 updates_spamassassin_org.cf
zimbra@viognier:~/conf/spamassassin> cat updates_spamassassin_org.cf
# UPDATE version 1162027
include updates_spamassassin_org/10_default_prefs.cf
include updates_spamassassin_org/20_advance_fee.cf
include updates_spamassassin_org/20_aux_tlds.cf
include updates_spamassassin_org/20_body_tests.cf
include updates_spamassassin_org/20_compensate.cf
include updates_spamassassin_org/20_dnsbl_tests.cf
include updates_spamassassin_org/20_drugs.cf
include updates_spamassassin_org/20_dynrdns.cf
include updates_spamassassin_org/20_fake_helo_tests.cf
include updates_spamassassin_org/20_freemail.cf
include updates_spamassassin_org/20_freemail_domains.cf
include updates_spamassassin_org/20_head_tests.cf
include updates_spamassassin_org/20_html_tests.cf
include updates_spamassassin_org/20_imageinfo.cf
include updates_spamassassin_org/20_meta_tests.cf
include updates_spamassassin_org/20_net_tests.cf
include updates_spamassassin_org/20_phrases.cf
include updates_spamassassin_org/20_****.cf
include updates_spamassassin_org/20_ratware.cf
include updates_spamassassin_org/20_uri_tests.cf
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Starting amavisd...done.
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The tougher reading standards could potentially hold back 12 percent of Ohio third-graders, according to The Columbus Dispatch.
With the new rules, kids would be tested every year starting in Kindergarten. Any kids who are below standards would receive special tutoring, and any who fail to improve to "proficient" or above by the time of the third-grade reading test would be held back.
Similar standards were passed in Florida a decade ago. While it was rough at first with 13 percent of third-graders in Florida being held back, scores have begun improving, Patricia Levesque, former education advisor to former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, told The Dispatch.
However, research shows holding kids back hurts them more than helps. After reviewing decades of research, the National Association of School Psychologists found that grade retention has "deleterious long-term effects," both academically and socially.
Kasich has also proposed tougher grading standards for schools and districts, which he hopes will hold schools more accountable.
Republican critics don't necessarily oppose all the reforms, but they would like to see the reforms implemented more carefully and slowly. School officials, state education groups and teachers unions have repeatedly asked for more time to tell parents and teachers about the upcoming changes.
The news comes at a time when states around the country are moving to enact education reform after years of disappointment. In 2010, the U.S. fell to a rating of "average" in the international rankings released by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. The U.S. ranked No. 14 out of 34 OECD countries in reading, No. 17 for science and a below-average No. 25 for math.
One bright spot was found earlier this year when a report showed U.S. high school graduation rates had increased to 75.5 percent in 2009, up from 72 percent in 2001.
President Barack Obama has tried to encourage widespread education reform with his "Race to the Top" initiative. The program pushes states to compete for funds with education reform plans. The states with the best programs are then rewarded federal funds as they implement reform.
Former Gov. Ted Strickland won funds for Ohio with his reform plan, and U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan congratulated Ohio for being on schedule with reforms earlier this year.
Walnut Hills High School has once again been recognized among the country's top high schools, ranking No. 1 in Ohio and 90th in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report's annual Best High Schools rankings. The ranking considered 22,000 public high schools, distinguishing some with gold, silver or bronze medals based on factors such as state proficiency standards and students' college preparedness. Indian Hill High School ranked third in Ohio and 140 in the country, with Wyoming High School fourth in the state and 143 nationally.
In other education news, state legislators have introduced bipartisan legislation to curb pension debt, while will result in teachers working longer and paying more into the retirement system. The bills were introduced by Senate President Tom Niehaus (R-New Richmond) and Senate Minority Leader Eric H. Kearney (D-North Avondale).
Anyone willing to admit to having purchased male sexual enhancement product Enzyte is eligible to receive a piece of $24 million that the U.S. Justice Department has released to pay people who bought products sold through fraudulent practices. The former Forest-park based company's founder Steve Warshak was convicted in 2008 for conspiracy, fraud, money laundering and producing stupid commercials involving a smiling white guy's penis-like garden hose working better after using the company's product.
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incumbent, was handily defeated by Tea Party challenger Richard
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As expected, North Carolina yesterday passed its ban on gay marriage, 61 percent to 39 percent. The Los Angeles Times reports that the measure is more restrictive than other states' marriage amendments: "The measure is more restrictive than all but three of the marriage amendments passed in other states, according to a study published by 11 family law professors at seven North Carolina universities. The measure could even deprive unmarried women of protections against domestic abuse, while restricting child custody and visitation rights for unmarried gay or straight couples, they said."
The Atlantic recounts a series of potentially misleading reports about the CIA thwarting of an Al-Qaeda plot to destroy a U.S. bound plane. Initial reports suggested that a CIA double agent infiltrated the terrorist organization, but later accounts attribute the work to an intelligence agent for Saudi Arabia.
Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are, died Tuesday in Connecticut, four days after suffering a stroke. The following is an excerpt from a Philadelphia Inquirer obituary, which notes that an estimated 10,000 of Sendak's works and papers are collected in Philadelphia's Rosenbach Museum & Library:
Jonathan Bartlett, a University of the Arts graduate, now a freelance illustrator in Brooklyn, said, "What matters to me most as an illustrator is that he was incredibly honest in his books. He had no qualms about speaking the truth to kids. That's why his work has had such visceral impact for so many years."
Jerry Spinelli, a children's book writer living in Wayne, said, "He focused on the fringes, the backwaters, the side-pools, the under-noticed areas of common human experience, and he could transform that into stories, told with pictures even more than with words."
Former Cincinnati Red Josh Hamilton hit four home runs last night to lead the Texas Rangers to a 10-3 win over the Baltimore Orioles. Today the team decided to go ahead and reengage in contract extension talks with the 30-year-old former overall No. 1 pick.
Supporters of low income housing programs are criticizing a bill proposed by U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Westwood). Chabot's proposal would impose restrictions on people who use the federal Section 8 housing program, which provides vouchers to help poor people pay their rent. Among his changes, people only would be able to use the program for five years. In Cincinnati, however, 53 percent of clients already leave the program within five years. Of the 47 percent who remain, many of them have problems like mental health issues and likely would become homeless and more expensive to deal with for the government, a housing advocate told The Enquirer.
To prepare for an influx of foreign visitors when the World Choir Games begin here in July, a new language translation tool is being launched. Cincinnati-based Globili is testing its text and mobile application for cellphones and smartphones that translates signs, menus and ads into about 50 languages. The event will be held July 4-14 at various locations in downtown and Over-the-Rhine including the Aronoff Center for the Arts and Music Hall.
It's been 147 years since the U.S. Civil War ended, but Kentucky lawmakers are just now getting around to abolishing a pension fund for Confederate veterans. The measure, which passed Kentucky's House of Representatives unanimously on Feb. 29, now heads to the state Senate for a vote. No one who is eligible to receive the pension has been alive for at least 50 years, lawmakers said. I guess things really do move more slowly in the South.
Business at the venerable Blue Wisp Jazz Club has increased since it moved to a new location at Seventh and Race streets in January. The club's owners attribute the jump to more pedestrian traffic and the number of hotels located near the new site. The front room includes a bar and restaurant accessible with no cover charge, while the back room is reserved for performances by Jazz musicians.
Steep spikes and drops on standardized test scores, a pattern that has indicated cheating in Atlanta and other cities across the nation, have occurred in hundreds of school districts and charter schools across Ohio in the past seven years, a Dayton Daily News analysis found. The analysis doesn't prove cheating has occurred in Ohio, but documents show state officials don't employ vigorous statistical analyses to catch possible cheating, discipline only about a dozen teachers a year and direct Ohio's test vendor to spend just $17,540 on analyzing suspicious scores out of its $39 million annual testing contract.
In news elsewhere, the U.S. Supreme Court begins its constitutional review of the health-care overhaul law today with a basic question: Is the court barred from making such a decision at this time? The justices will hear 90 minutes of argument about whether an obscure 19th-century law — the Anti-Injunction Act — means that the court cannot pass judgment on the law until its key provisions go into effect in 2014.
When it recently was announced that a U.S. soldier who allegedly went on a shooting spree in Afghanistan would be charged with 17 counts of murder, many people wondered about the number. After all, early reports indicated Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, a Norwood native, allegedly killed 16 people. Military officials decided to charge Bales with murder for the death of the unborn baby of one of the victims, a senior Afghan police official said today.
In a possibly related incident, a gunman in an Afghan army uniform killed two NATO soldiers today at a base in southern Afghanistan, NATO's International Security Assistance Force has said. Details were still sketchy, but NATO said in a statement that an individual wearing an Afghan soldier's uniform had turned his weapon against international troops. Coalition forces then returned fire, killing the gunman.
China and the United States have agreed to coordinate their response to any "potential provocation" if North Korea goes ahead with a planned rocket launch, the White House says. North Korea says the long-range rocket will carry a satellite, but U.S. officials say any launch would violate United Nations resolutions and be a missile test.
Somehow, 71-year-old Dick Cheney managed to get a heart transplant Saturday after spending nearly two years on a list waiting for a suitable organ to become available. Cheney, a former U.S. vice president and — some would say — unindicted war criminal, got the transplant even as much younger, healthier people continue to wait for a new heart. (My guess is he made a pact with Beelzebub.) Cheney has had five heart attacks over the years, the first occurring at age 37.


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Kevan Abrahams, the Legislature's minority leader, said that the current maps provide for "fair fight" districts, explaining that residents have elected both Democratic and Republican majorities in the past 10 years. He added that the Democrats' plan, which mostly keeps districts intact but moves a few thousand residents into other districts to account for population shifts, should have been up for consideration on Monday.
The deadline to approve a new map is March 5, and the Legislature, in which Republicans hold a 10-9 majority, is expected to vote on it at its Feb. 25 meeting.
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Bellmore-Merrick Central School District offers details of $47.6M bond
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The fine details of a $47.6 million bond proposal to upgrade the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District's seven buildings emerged at a Sept. 11 meeting of the Board of Education, including what work would be performed at which schools and a date for a possible vote.
Central District officials said they are looking at Dec. 2 as the likely date for a public vote on the bond, which, if passed, would fund new science laboratories, bathrooms and synthetic-turf fields at Grand Avenue and Merrick Avenue middle schools, and Calhoun, Kennedy and Mepham high schools.
Architect Joseph Rettig and engineer Fred Seeba, of the district's Patchogue-based design firm, BBS Architects, Landscape Architects and Engineers, laid out renovation plans at each of the five schools, as well as the Brookside Central Administration Office in North Merrick and the Jerusalem Avenue School in North Bellmore, which the district rents to the Board of Cooperative Educational Services.
BBS's proposal includes $7.5 million for new artificial-turf athletic fields, $6 million for new bathrooms and $5 million for new science laboratories at each of the district's five schools, as well as renovated music, art, faculty and guidance rooms, refinished gymnasium floors, kitchen ceiling and lighting replacement, removal of vinyl asbestos tiles, masonry work and new doors where needed. In addition, the plan calls for:
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• Ceiling replacement where needed throughout the school.
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• Renovation of the family and consumer science and group instruction rooms.
• Renovation of the main lobby.
• Ceiling replacement where needed throughout the school.
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• Removal of a locker room and shower to create storage space for athletic equipment.
• A new photo lab and art room.
• New auditorium sound and lighting equipment.
The list of work is still subject to change, said Superintendent John DeTommaso. Work would primarily be done during summers over three to four years. The following is a per-school cost breakdown for the work: Kennedy, $12 million; Mepham, $12 million; Calhoun, $10 million; Grand Avenue, $9.8 million; Merrick Avenue, $7.2 million; Brookside, $7.1 million; Jerusalem Avenue, $100,000.
If the proposal goes to a vote and residents approve it, 53.9 percent of the total cost would be funded through New York state building aid. Local taxpayers would fund the remaining cost.
Cynthia Regal, the district's deputy superintendent for business, had said at a previous meeting that the average homeowner could expect to pay $98 more per year in property taxes if the bond were to pass, or $1,410 over the bond's 15-year life.
On Sept. 11, Regal said she decided to estimate the possible tax impact more conservatively because the interest rate on bonds has risen in recent months, which would add to the annual property-tax bill. Now Regal estimates that the bond would increase the average bill by $101 per year, or $1,515 over 15 years.
Board of Education Trustee Susan Schwartz asked Rettig and Seeba how much it would cost to install air-conditioning in each of the district's auditoriums. Schwartz said that temperatures are only expected to increase with climate change, and having air-conditioning would make attending performances at the auditoriums more comfortable for residents.
"That's definitely something we want to consider," Schwartz said of auditorium air-conditioning.
Officials noted that the Rockville Centre School District is installing air-conditioning in classrooms throughout the district at a cost of nearly $2.4 million. The project is part of a major renovation that Rockville Centre is funding through a $45.9 million bond that passed in March.
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In a recent letter to the editor Mr. Fleischman, of Merrick, indicated that synthetic turf fields aren't important and went on to suggest that the installation of these fields would cost taxpayers $94. In addition, the gentleman randomly added $350 to what he says is a standard increase to get to a $500 figure. This "fuzzy math" is meant to do little else but scare and confuse people to support his position on the fields. The truth is that the fields themselves would cost the average homeowner in the district less than $15. Furthermore, the current condition of the fields are nothing short of dangerous and these fields are a necessity to mitigate potential liability. If Mr. Fleischman is not concerned with the safety of children he should ask himself if a $15 investment is worth mitigating a potential multi million dollar claim against the district. I find it ironic that he chose to take issue with the fields and not to question the $7M earmarked in the bond issue to renovate the district's administrative building.
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DAYTONA BEACH — Why should retailers offer all the Black Friday savings?
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The Halifax Humane Society has jumped on the holiday bargain bandwagon with its second annual Black Friday adoption project.
On Friday, all black or predominately black dogs, cats and other pets will have their adoption fees waived. All other animals under Halifax's care will have their adoption fees cut in half.
The Halifax Humane Society, which cares for about 350 animals each day, offered the same Black Friday deal in 2011 and adopted out more than 70 animals, said Tyler Stover, community outreach director.
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All pets up for adoption will be spayed or neutered, have received their vaccinations and be implanted with a registered microchip. Their humans will get one month of pet health insurance, also at no additional cost, as well as other goodies, Stover said.
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The American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) has expressed "deep concerns" over the proposed funding cut for the Department of Homeland Security's Port Security grant program that was included in the Continuing Resolution (CR) bill that recently passed the House of Representatives.
In a letter sent to Mary Landrieu, chairman of the Senate Appropriations/Homeland Security Subcommittee, and to Ranking Member, Dan Coats, AAPA president and CEO, Kurt Nagle noted that H.R. 1 proposes to reduce the funding for this program by two-thirds. This would bring the funding level down from $300 million to $100 million.
"The authorized level for the program, $400 million, has been appropriated in earlier budgets," the letter stated.
In an interview with LM, Susan Monteverde, AAPA's vice president of government relations, said that the cut is unprecedented.
"As recently as two years ago, we were getting $450 million with the added stimulus incentive," she said. "Admittedly, not all of the that money was spent, but we see that as a consequence of the slow release of funds from DHS."
The AAPA pointed out in the letter that the Port Security Grant program provides needed federal help to harden security at U.S. ports.
"Most port areas have developed five-year plans to enhance security by ranking projects based on risk," stated the letter. "By decreasing this funding, these five-year plans cannot be carried out, leaving critical security enhancements undone."
Nagle noted that additionally, these funds are used to help maintain current levels of security by providing funds for maintenance and replacement of broken systems in order to sustain a certain capability. Reducing these funds by two-thirds, he said, will have a negative impact on current ability to protect ports, as well as plans for future improvements.
"As you consider the Continuing Resolution, we urge you to give serious consideration to the impact such a drastic cut will have on the nation and ask that you reject the House level of funding for this program," said Nagle. "Instead, AAPA calls for you to bring the Port Security Grant program on par with other Homeland Security programs and provide funding for at least $300 million in the final bill."
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