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6 Performance-Enhancing Drugs More Common Than You Think
When news broke that Lance Armstrong's cycling trophies were being stripped from him because of his use of performance enhancing drugs, the Internet-o-highway erupted in a chorus of finger wagging and tongue clucking. "How dare he cheat at a method of transportation?" it collectively shrieked. "Riding bikes is supposed to be hard!"
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"What's that gaping asshole trying to prove, riding his bike up hills?"
But a subset of the Internet, a cooler, more rational, probably more handsome subset, had a different reaction. "Performance-Enhancing Drugs, you say?" we asked, looking up from our morning newspapers and gazing into the middle distance. "As a proven performer, I find that very interesting. I wonder if there are drugs that could improve useful activities instead?"
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"I shall become the Lance Armstrong of Haberdashing!"
Seeking, as always, to provide dangerously underresearched advice to our readers, Cracked set to work dangerously underresearching this. And indeed, it turns out that there are several other types of drugs available that can boost a user's performance in any number of ways. Furthermore, many of these drugs are already used, by real professionals in real jobs, probably the same ones who keep beating you in job interviews. So, for the doping-curious among you, here are five of the biggest performance-enhancing drugs you should be injecting into your eyeballs right now.
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"Please, please don't take any drugs because of something you read on this, or really any website."
#6. Stimulants
As used by truck drivers, fighter pilots, soldiers, shift workers, journalists, you (probably).
This is a big one, the performance-enhancing drug that about three-quarters of you are probably using right now, if only in one of its most socially acceptable forms.
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Assuming it's fair trade coffee of course. If it's not, you can go right to hell.
And, sure, that's just caffeine. But if it makes you more alert (and pleasant to be around), it counts, and, in some instances, is almost a mandatory part of the job. Shift workers, doctors, and anyone else who has to bust their hump late at night are all very familiar with caffeine. Comedy writers, too -- somewhere in the neighborhood of every article Cracked has ever written has involved the consumption of caffeine. Lacking it, who knows how dangerous our advice would be?
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""The 8 Most Badass Ways To Rebalance Your Retirement Portfolio? Man, Cracked sucks now."
And then there's the harder stuff. Journalists, the slightly less respectable brethren of comedy writers, have also been known to use stimulants. David Plotz, the editor at Slate, has admitted to boosting his journalistic endurance with Modafinil, a drug used to treat narcolepsy. He claims it makes him twice as productive, which seems a bit of a stretch given Slate's inability to publish badass lists of anything. And let's not forget truck drivers, who were long notorious for their amphetamine consumption, at least until the 1980s, when random drug testing was implemented.
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"Now Ronald Reagan says we're not supposed to give you any more Go Pills, so instead, we've got you here a clipboard made entirely out of crystal meth."
Happily for truck-doping enthusiasts, the practice is evidently still common in Brazil, where it is presumably accompanied by hilarious mariachi music.
#5. Sedatives
As used by shift workers, doctors, soldiers.
Kind of the flip-side of stimulants, sedatives are used by many professionals as the off-switch that gets flicked at the end of their busy days. They're especially popular among workers who need stimulants to make it through their shift, only to find themselves staring at the alarm clock at 9 a.m., massively strung out, and needing to get some rest before they can get back to their terrible, terrible jobs.
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"What's that, Captain Flashlight? You think $8 an hour might not be worth risking my mental health? Wait a second! You're not Captain Flashlight at all! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH THE REAL CAPTAIN FLASHLIGHT?"
They're a big thing in the military, as well; the Air Force, which has been using stimulants (or "Go Pills") for at least the past 60 years, gives out sedatives quaintly called "No-Go Pills," and good lord do we hope they're a different color or something.
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Red-1: Control, I think I've got a problem here.
Control: What's that Red-1?
Red-1: I think Red-5's been fucking with my pil-
Red-5: Ha ha!
#4. Anti-Nausea Agents
As used by astronauts, scuba divers.
Anti-nausea agents don't need to be explained, do they? They make the user less nauseated. That's what anti means, right?
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No, that's "Anty."
Anti-nausea agents are obviously handy for people who work on boats in roughs seas, scuba divers, or really anyone who faces the risk of barfing during the workday.
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"Is that- ? Have you been eating Lego?"
More exotically, anti-nausea agents are part of the medical cabinet that's apparently crammed in to every astronaut before each mission. Along with the expected amphetamines (because space is pretty boring) and sedatives (because it also may be filled with terrifying space monsters), every astronaut has a supply of anti-nausea agents like Scopolamine so they don't get barf all over the space station, which would be pretty close to a nightmare to clean up in a micro-g environment.
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Paranormal Activity is back with Paranormal Activity 2. The highly suspenseful thriller returns with the entire cast of characters from the first movie. Tod \"Kip\" Williams directs as former director Oren Peli moves over to the producer\'s chair. Paranormal Activity 2 is scheduled to be released on October 22, 2010 just in time for Halloween.

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The Bishop Guilfoyle Catholic High School Marauders may have brought their 'A' game from the second quarter on in the first round of the Jim Ellis Shootout at the Pleasant Valley gymnasium Friday night.
But the Marauders' overall performance was termed about a 'C' by first-year head coach Chris Drenning.
This in spite of the fact that BG reached tonight's 5 p.m. boys tournament championship game by posting a 61-49 victory over St. Jean de Brebeuf, a school based in Hamilton, Ontario.
"We played hard, but I don't think we necessarily played very well,'' Drenning said after watching his team improve to 3-1. "Offensively, we were sloppy. We weren't securing the ball, and our shot selection wasn't very good.''
BG came out of the gates slowly, and the score was tied, 12-12 after one quarter. But the Marauders took control by carrying the second period, 14-6, and never looked back.
"They [St. Jean] were playing five guys on the perimeter, and it took us awhile to adjust to that,'' Drenning said. "I thought we did a better job after the first quarter. We had a nice stretch where our pressure defense got us a couple turnovers.''
Senior guard Patrick Irwin converted two of those turnovers into consecutive lay-ups off steals, helping BG bust out to a 21-14 lead.
"Coach was telling us to pressure them coming into this game, and I was doing my best,'' Irwin said. "They lost the ball a couple of times, and I was able to capitalize.''
BG placed three players in double figures, led by senior guard Brandon Drenning's game-high 18 points and four 3-pointers. Sophomore guard Sam McCloskey added 12 points, and Irwin scored 11.
"We have good depth, and we utilized it,'' said Chris Drenning, who got 12 players into the game and watched eight of them score. "We have a lot of kids who can score, and ideally, that's what we like to do. We play some sophomores, some juniors and some seniors.''
Brandon Drenning is Chris' son. Brandon has been working hard on his 3-point game, and it showed Friday. He scored eight points in the second quarter, including a pair of 3-pointers. His 3-ball in the waning seconds of the second period gave BG a 26-18 halftime lead.
"Our tempo was good, and my teammates did some things to open up the game for me,'' Brandon Drenning said. "I've been working on my 3-point shots. That's a very important part of my game.''
It was Friday, helping BG gain separation that lasted into the second half.
St. Jean (4-10) enjoyed good balance as well, led by senior guard Christian Ferracuti's 17 points. Junior guard Lucas Johnson chipped in 14 for the Braves, who also got 11 from senior forward Anjin Marcano.
"We played smart in the first half, but we couldn't buy a basket,'' said St. Jean coach Joe Ferracuti, whose team scored only two field goals in the second quarter. "In the second half, we made a lot of mental mistakes that cost us.''
Ferracuti gave a lot of credit to BG, which led, 43-36 after three quarters.
"They're very well-coached,'' he said. "We'd make a mistake, and they took advantage of it.''
The Marauders out-rebounded St. Jean, 34-21, with senior center Zach Patterson grabbing 11. BG turned the ball over 12 times, but converted 23 of 44 floor shots.
"We definitely did a good job of rebounding,'' Irwin said. "We were able to get the ball, get it up the floor, and get some quick buckets that really changed the game.''
Brandon Drenning expects a good test in the championship matchup today against Fairview of District 10. Fairview advanced by defeating another Ontario entry, Cathedral High, 68-58 in Friday's other first-round boys game.
"It will be a fast-paced, hard-fought game,'' Brandon Drenning said of the championship game. "The Jim Ellis Tournament means something to everybody competing in it.''
ST. JEAN (49): Johnson 4 3-5 14, Ferracuti 8 1-2 17, Puna 1 0-1 3, Marcano 5 0-0 11, Dicenso 0 0-0 0, Lagleva 0 0-0 0, Mohammed 1 0-0 2, Cejes 1 0-0 2, Wilmot 0 0-0 0. Totals - 20 4-8 49.
BISHOP GUILFOYLE (61): Irwin 5 1-3 11, Rickens 1 0-0 2, McCloskey 4 3-4 12, Drenning 6 2-2 18, Patterson 2 0-0 4, Chadbourn 2 2-2 6, Koehle 1 0-0 2, Fulare 2 2-6 6, Wolf 0 0-0 0, Baldessaro 0 0-0 0, Nardelli 0 0-0 0, Brumbaugh 0 0-0 0. Totals - 23 10-17 61.
St. Jean12 6 18 13 - 49
Bishop Guilfoyle12 14 20 18 - 61
3-point goals: St. Jean 5 (Johnson 3, Marcano, Puna); Bishop Guilfoyle 5 (McCloskey, Drenning 4).
Officials: Jim Klausman, Keith Redfoot, Jim Cushion.
Records: St. Jean (4-10); Bishop Guilfoyle (3-1).
Friday's other games: Boys-Fairview 68, Cathedral High 58. High scorers-Andy Niland and Ben Kocan, Fairview, 22. Jaelin Bailey, Cathedral High, 22. Girls-Delone Catholic 68, Bishop Walsh, Md. 8. High scorer-Maddie Comly of Delone Catholic, 16 points.


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"I live inside my own heart, Matt Damon"
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At the end of the short program, Brooklee is tenth overall, and fifth of the non-qualified skaters.
At the end of the short program, Brooklee is tenth overall, and fifth of the non-qualified skaters.
After the SP, Brooklee is sitting in 10th Place and is in prime position to take an Olympic Spot.
Podium Results after SP
1. Elena Radionova RUS 64.69
2. Miki Ando JPN 59.79
3. Ashley Cain USA 57.87
4. Veronik Mallet CAN 55.79
5. Nathalie Weinzierl GER 64.60
Skaters in qualification position
1. Elene Gedevanishvili GEO 51.59 (6th)
2. Elizaveta Ukolova CZE 50.93 (7th)
3. Isadora Williams BRA 50.35 (8th)
4. Kerstin Frank AUT 48.81 (9th)
5. Brooklee Han AUS 48.74 (10th)
6. Anne Line Gjersem NOR 48.35 (11th)
Kaat Vane Daele BEL 47.87 (12th)
Fleur Maxwell LUX 47.13 (13th)
Inga Januleviciute LTH 45.74 (15th)
Alisson Krystle Perticheto PHI 45.17 (16th)
*The skater in 14th place has already qualified for the Olympics
Well next is pairs and there are no aussies in that event so sleep time! It's past midnight!!!!!
See you all in a couple of hours to dance!
Morming everyone. Its 6:30am in Sydney and I am ready to see the dance. GO DANI AND GREG.
As expected its going to be tight. Fingers crossed that they can move ahead of the main clump of couples.
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Okay it's now Dani and Greg's turn. Great outfits!
Nice opening- very peppy and bright-- what everyone loves in a quickstep.
Finnstep pattern good start, good on the standing stop....little shaky out of the standing stop though!
Great Twizzles- Danielle a little off on the second set
Nice change in mood
Good on the step sequence- Greg could work on using his knees more, maybe a tad more speed, fits the character of the dance perfectly but could be more difficult....gees I'm being picky
Wonderful transition into the Charleston- very entertaining
Great transition into the lift and fantastic rotational lift
Great performance
Fingers crossed- you can never tell with the scores in Ice Dance
50.62...great news..in third at the moment
Skaters set sights on Sochi on Day 1
"With the final Olympic quota places on offer, figure skaters from across the world converged on the Bavarian enclave of Oberstdorf, Germany overnight..."
Article Written by Alice Wheeler for the Australian Olympic Committee
Published on September 27, 2013
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Ladies' Short Program
Skater: Brooklee Han
Overall, Brooklee had a solid skate, with great execution in all but one of the elements. She seemed to hold back today (which could be a good thing) and that fall on the Triple Loop did put her behind in the music, which was evident when her arm moves didn't match to the music in the step sequence. As always she has wonderful spins- flexibility, fast rotations and a lot of beautiful positions. She can always work towards deeper edges and overall speed across the ice as well as making some of the choreography and transitions more challenging to boost her presentation mark and to help her portray more clearly what this program is about. She didn't have the same fearlessness that we usually see from her but maybe she is saving if for the Free Skate. Fingers Crossed that it's the case but overall, a super skate from her.
Technical Elements:
(Element: BV+GOE=TOTAL)
3Lo<: 3.60-2.10=1.50
FCSp4: 3.20+0.71=3.91
2Ax[10% bonus for being in second half]: 3.63+0.50=4.13
LSp4: 2.70+1.00=3.70
StSq3: 3.30+0.64=3.94
CCoSp4: 3.50+0.71=4.21
Technical Elements 27.19
Presentation (Factor results by X0.8)
Skating Skills (Range of marks 4.75-6.25) >>> 5.57
Transitions/Linking Footwork (Range of marks 4.75-6.00) >>> 5.29
Performance/Execution (Range of marks 5.00-6.75) >>> 5.75
Choreography/Composition (Range of marks 5.00-6.75) >>> 5.75
Interpretation (Range of marks 5.25-6.50) >>> 5.82
Presentation Score after factoring by X0.8 22.55
Fall -1.00
Total Score for Short Program 48.74
Rank after SP: 10th/35 skaters
Rank after SP amongst skaters looking for Olympic Qualification: 5th/29 Skaters
-See comment 32 for a breakdown skater by skater
Current Status: IN GOOD CONTENTION TO QUALIFY
Video Link to her Short Program below.
British Eurosport- Commentators Simon Reed & Nicky Slater
Danielle and Greg are 6th overall and 3rd non-qualified after the short dance! Yay!
Ice Dance Short Dance
Skaters: Danielle O'brien & Gregory Merriman
When a Dance Team start the season with an official PB, you know it's going to be a good season for them. You can tell by how they skated they trained hard in the off season. Their timing, lines, speed, unison and connection have improved immensely and I hope they will continue to improve.
Technically, the program was strong and they rewarded for that. There were a few moments of imperfection- the second set of twizzles and the steps after the standing stop section of the Finnstep pattern. Also, they need to think about the construction of their non-touching step sequence as they only received a level 2.
On the presentation side of things, their marks have improved. They have a great outgoing fun presence on the ice! But there is room the grow but they need to continue to challenge themselves with more difficult choreography and transitions and to continue to develop that connection between each other in order for them to push even further (that middle section can be a little steamier!). They also need to explore new dance holds as they tended to use alot of kilian hold (side by side dance hold). Today was a little on the safe side but knowing how much they love their Free Dance, I'm sure they have every chance to qualify!
Technical Elements
(Element: BV+GOE=TOTAL)
1Finnstep Level 3: 6.00+0.00=6.00
2Finnstep Level 2: 5.00+0.07=5.07
STw4: 6.00+0.07=6.07
NtMiSt2: 5.00+0.29=5.29
RoLi4: 4.00+0.71=4.71
Technical Elements 27.14
Skating Skills [factor by x0.8] (Range of marks 5.25-7.00) >>> 5.93
Linking Footwork/Movement [factor by x0.7] (Range of marks 5.00-6.75) >>> 5.64
Performance [factor by x0.7] (Range of marks 5.50-7.00) >>> 6.00
Choreography [factor by x0.8] (Range of marks 5.25-6.50) >>> 5.79
Interpretation/Timing [factor by x1.0] (Range of marks 5.25-7.00) >>> 5.86
Presentation Score after factoring 23.38
Total Score for Short Dance 50.52
Rank after SD: 6th/22 couples
Rank after SD amongst skater looking for Olympic Qualification: 3rd/17 Couples
Podium Results after SD
1. Alexandra Paul/Mitchell Islam CAN 59.06
2. Madison Hubbell/Zachary Donohue USA 56.53
3. Ksenia Monko/Kirill Khaliavin
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Skaters in qualification position
1. Alisa Agafonova/Alper Ucar TUR 51.51 (4th)
2. Xintong Huang/Xun Zheng CHN 51.16 (5th)
3. Danielle O'brien/Gregory Merriman 50.52 (6th)
4. Cathy Reed/Chris Reed JPN 48.41 (8th)
5. Federica Testa/Lukas Csolley SVK 48.30 (9th)
Sara Hurtado/Adria Diaz ESP 46.68 (10th)
Ramona Elsener/Florian Roose SUI 46.27 (11th)
Henna Lindholm/Ossi Kanervo FIN 45.68 (12th)
Angelina Telegina/Otar Japaridze GEO 45.47 (13th)
*The nation of the couple in 7th place already have qualfied spots in Ice Dance
Current Status: IN GOOD CONTENTION TO QUALIFY
Video Link to their Short Dance below.
British Eurosport- Commentators Simon Reed & Nicky Slater
Day Two information
Tonight's action form Oberstdorf will see Brendan Kerry begin his quest to receive an Olympic spot for Australia- something that we haven't seen since Anthony Liu in Salt Lake City (That was ELEVEN years ago). There are 34 competitors, 28 of those are seeking one of the six remaining spots to Olympics.
The Men's Short Program begins at 4:30pm AEST.
Brendan will be skating in Group 5 (Second to last group) which is at about 8:00pm AEST.
In the evening (Early Saturday Morning for us) is the Ladies' Free Program starting at 1:55am AEST and the first of the three events we have our eyes on. Brooklee Han will be skating the Group 5 which will be at just before 6:00am Saturday Morning.
How well did you think team Australia performed today? How well do you think they will perform on day 2? Please have your say and comment below
ALSO, the International Skating Union (ISU) has provided a live feed to the event, which is a step in the right direction.
Below is a link to the ISU's Youtube Channel
The men's short program starts at 4:30pm AEST today.
Brendan will skate 24th out of 34 (second-last warmup group). He skates at approximately 8:05pm AEST.
Aussie ice dancers deliver
"In a blistering performance full of bounce and attack, Australian ice dancers Danielle OBrien and Greg Merriman delivered the performance of their careers so far in the Short Dance segment of the Winter Olympic Qualifying event in Germany this morning, scoring 50.52 points, leaving them in 6th place overall and more importantly third of the countries still to qualify for Sochi 2014..."
Article Written by Belinda Noonan for Burwood Scene
Published on September 27, 2013
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Evening Australians and Golden Skate Forumers!
Group 5 in the men's event are approaching! Feel the excitement
Brendan's turn now. The last skater had a great skate, fingers crossed he has one too!
Beautiful edge work- lots of speed
Wonderful on the Triple Lutz combo
Great on the triple axel- it's almost become his bread and butter jump
Good spins- difficult positions, fast rotations and nice to look at
Great on the step sequence- could use his upper body a tad more- more dynamic movement needed and should work on getting down into the knees.
The crowd love him
Well done!!
Hold on to your hats....67.97????? 67!!!!! Wow!
Brendan into 3rd overall, 1st non-qual skater with 1 group remaining!


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Open Source: Modernizing India's education system
Over the last few years, open source adoption has been growing within India's education system. Five years ago, the South Indian state of Kerala, pioneered open source in schools with its famous IT@Schools project, that now covers three million students from the 5th-10 standards, involves 200,000 teachers across 4071 schools. Since then, other Indian states like Karnataka, Gujarat, Assam, West Bengal and others have made open source a key part of their school education initiatives.
Many schools in India do not have proper premises, blackboards or toilets. In these circumstances, equipping schools with computers seems like a challenge, despite the fact that the Indian Government has decided to spend 6 percent of GDP on education. Proprietary software vendors offer deep discounts for schools and spend close to $20 million on "Train-The-Trainer" programs that enable school teachers to impart computer education to their students. Despite these blandishments, many governments find proprietary software an expensive way of computerizing their schools. For example, a study by the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, found that the Kerala government's usage of OSS saved it Rs 49 crore ($10.2 million).
The growing popularity of OSS in the Indian school system has thrown up its own set of challenges. Many school teachers and administrators are not aware of OSS for schools, while those who are willing to deploy OSS are held back by a lack of training materials and other infrastructure. To address these challenges, a group of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) came together in February to hold a workshop in Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan state in India. The core focus of the workshop titled, "Public Software for Social Sector--Principles and Practice," was how open source software (OSS) could help address the challenges of modernizing India's education system.
The workshop was hosted by Digantar, a Jaipur-based CSO that has been working in the education sector for the last 15 years. Digantar has been able to deliver results equivalent to the best schools, while operating on the budgets of government schools. For this reason, Digantar has attracted wide attention from educationists who are keen on replicating Digantar's success in other parts of India. While the principles of openness, collaboration and sharing that are part of the open source way attracted Digantar to OSS, it was hesitant in taking the first steps because it has no technical expertise in deploying OSS. This is where IT for Change and Knowledge Commons, two CSOs working on OSS in education stepped in, by providing the technical content and also helping Digantar with its plan of migrating from proprietary software to OSS. The workshop was supported by UNESCO; Digital Empowerment Foundation, which works in the complementary area of digital content; and the Linux Users Group, Jaipur, which helped in migrating Digantar's computers to open source. The unifying factor for all these diverse CSOs to work together is a shared belief that OSS is one of the best tools for modernizing the India education system.
The workshop had the following objectives:
1. Creating awareness about OSS amongst people who have not heard of it. This includes the social, political, economic and pedagogic imperatives of OSS and the dangers from proprietary software to society. Most people in the social sector use proprietary software since they have not heard of public software and this workshop aims to bring about awareness on its advantages as well as addressing challenges, both real and mythical in its adoption.
2. Addressing the perceptions/issues amongst people who are aware of OSS to help them commit in principle to OSS over proprietary software. This would cover both the principles (why OSS) as well as practical issues of adoption/migration (migration paths, options, case studies of migration, FAQs etc). This helps people/institutions to move from 'awareness' to 'commitment'. Given the compelling advantages of OSS, invariably awareness leads to commitment over time.
3. Helping people/institutions who are convinced about the imperative for public institutions to adopt OSS, to migrate to OSS. There would be technical support teams at the workshop, who would help migrate participants computers and notebooks to public software applications, wholly or partly.
The workshop was attended by around 25 people from educational institutions and government. This workshop is one of the first of a series of workshops being organized throughout India on OSS in education. The long-term vision for the CSOs organizing the workshop is the fact that public institutions like schools exist to promote the public good. In keeping with such basic principles, the technology choice of these institutions needs to clearly favor the collaborative, community-driven model of OSS over proprietary software.
As someone interested in seeing OSS become popular in education, I hope to see more such collaborations among CSOs in India. Given the vast geography and the huge student population of India, outreach is a major challenge. The only way to build a scalable outreach program is through sharing and replicating training materials, software and best practices among CSOs working on in the education sector. OSS and open content licenses like Creative Commons offer the best possible framework for such sharing. It is also important that CSOs like IT For Change and Knowledge Commons that have the technical capabilities work in partnership with CSOs like Digantar that have deep expertise and credibility within the education sector, to make OSS deployments in education successful. The Jaipur workshop hosted by Digantar was a great start, but, (to paraphrase the poet, Robert Frost), "there are miles to go before we sleep."
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Many CSOs are seen working on FOSS and some on education.
There are many different strands. Here there are two concerns; FOSS and Education. One can argue that the two are related, intertwined and hence must be seen together. The interests and domain knowledge among people are spread over a range from Pure FOSS, plain 'Open source', 'free software' to better ( access,excellence, expansion) education. A major constituency , i.e parents, particularly from the underprivileged, non-english , who could really benefit , are MILES away. The hardware vendors, whose interests could be , arguably, aligned with FOSS have been largely cornered by proprietary software vendors with better 'marketing' .
Is there a single CSO that can see the value of bringing together these different strands, coalesce the forces and present a good alternative in the media?
Hi Venky,
I have been working for GOI and have developed few web apps. i find it very difficult to explain the use of IT and web. The officials are reluctant and not ready to accept the new technology. We just say and see that we do have the technology in place but it's hardly been used.
Someone should really take some strict action and get IT actually implemented in all Sectors.
If done in Education it will be a boon.
Its nice to know that we have few people around who see future of open source in education space. If you have dived deep into schools curriculum, you will realise that the entire computer learning revolves around MS-Office and this is where Microsoft make huge money. I have been going around in schools for quite some time now and some of the schools have 500 PC running MS-Office. If the purpose of computer education is only making students computer literate, than why OSS community is not pushing Open-office in Microsoft/Linux platform which will not only help schools save lot of money but will also have teachers adopting platform easy.
Hello Rajeshwarji,
I completely agree... I would like to share a recent incident on this..
My father is at a managerial post in an educational organization and I was asked to provide IT consultancy to a School of their organization.
They had a requirement to set up a computer lab for the students Approx. 20 PC.
When I proposed them the configuration and required softwares the MS-Office cost went up to Just Rs.1.2 L which they refused to spend on... and then Open Office struct me and I had Installed it on every PC. They were Happy to hear about OSS Community and were very touch that student can learn without spending much...
Since then I decided that I will surely promote OSS community and it's initiative every way possible.
There is an urgent need to 'market' open source software in India.
There is a need for open source users to promote open source in their work and social environment.
Unfortunately, even our education system ties down the kids to proprietary softwares. CBSE, AICTE and other education regulators do not favor use of open source, and the syllabus prescribed by them is a proof of this.
Similarly, a large number of government tenders favor proprietary softwares.
And use of open source will save India hundreds of crores which we can use for better healthcare.
Educational system in kerala and literacy rate of Kerala are found to be more because,even in Board exam Moderation and C.E marks are given.Gradeing system is a curse for the Eduactional system in Kerala.It makes the student who got 100% and 90% equal as A+ holders.The contend of the book is very less and is full of questions.The Govt of kerala keep changing the Educational system......so The educational system in Keala is based on Quantity not on Quality .Kerala is Producing Literate illiterrates.Proper sex education is not given in kerala...
Student Teacher ratio shold be maintanined as15:1.Some students finf govt schools as a means of getting foood so they come to have mid day meal.
Projects like "Antae Maram" & "Antae Mannu" etc makes students away from studies...So the Educational system in kerala is a kind of failure
The education system of Kerala is much better than (overall) other states. Graduates and master degree holders from TN can't even speak English and communicate well. The IT@school project is a very successful project and much appreciated worldwide. If the education system is poor, how keralites can easily find job in major companies within India and overseas?
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This was it. I was going to bite it. Having picked up way too much speed on way too steep terrain, I was wobbling on one ski as my balance all but disintegrated.
Any second, I would feel that sudden sensation of doom, that jerking snap of the skis breaking away, and maybe even the whiplash thud of my head smacking the packed-down snow.
And I'm doing this for fun, right?
Suddenly, it's like that scene in "Star Wars." You know, where Luke is stressed about tagging the Death Star, and he hears the reassuring voice of Obi-Wan Kenobi telling him to use the force, blah, blah, blah.
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"Daaaviiiid, lean forward, and use the weight on your toooooeeees," the ghostly, somewhat obnoxious voice says in my mind. "Make a wiiiider plow, and stop putting your weight on your heeeeeels."
This is a sort of revelation moment for me on a lengthy green run at the Northstar-at-Tahoe resort, where I have chosen to begin my public odyssey of learning to ski. After hours of lessons, what I had really learned on Day 1 was that, for now at least, I couldn't trust my body and my internal gyroscopes to make the decisions for me.
Until these maneuvers began to feel more natural, I would need to stay haunted by the unnerving but meticulously accurate voice of Jim C.
I defy instinct, lean forward and turn my knees into the awkward position that lets me control my descent with the inside edges of the skis. It works. For the first time in my short skiing life, I have recovered from a wipeout that had seemed inevitable.
I smile and relax to enjoy the rest of the run. But Jim C. returns to my brain.
"Now stop hoooolding your poles so far baaaack ... you look like a geeeeeeeeeeek."
OK, so I don't own the slopes yet. But it was incredible to see just how much I could advance from complete incompetence to just mild incompetence after a single day on the mountain - not to mention the two hours of lessons.
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Over the course of the winter and spring, I hope to share the experiences of learning to ski while also motivating folks to get out and enjoy a pastime that can be intimidating for a lot of reasons - cost, difficulty, potential injury, that sick feeling of watching a 5-year-old deftly soar by, saying, "You OK, mister?"
In the coming months, I'll try to tackle each of these issues. One thing I can tell you right now, just throw a pole at the 5-year-old and yell, "Yeah, well let's see you order a Jack and Coke down at the lodge!"
I did a lot of research in preparing for Day 1. Well, OK, I called one guy.
Jim Scripps, veteran snowboarder and editor of our sister paper, the Sierra Sun in Truckee, told me that the Tahoe-Donner area is generally welcoming to beginners but that Northstar might be my best bet.
"It has a reputation for having a good ski school," Scripps said. "They all have pretty good ski schools, I'd say, because of the crowd they cater to. It's a lot of beginners from the Bay Area.
"Northstar has a rep for being a family-friendly resort, family-oriented. It has a lot of intermediate terrain."
Sure enough, the ski school was a worthwhile effort. It's not always a blast, but it begins to teach your muscles some of the key techniques that will keep you on your feet and off the gurney.
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You might be able to pull off a day on the slopes without any lessons - I managed it in Tahoe one day last May, but the results were not quite invigorating.
But the one move you won't likely master on your own is the "duck walk." You use this to climb moderate inclines, and the pros make it look like they're ice skating up a hill faster than you can say "lift ticket."
To climb, point your toes away from each other, so that the heels of your skis are almost touching. With each step forward, you dig the inside edge of the ski into the snow and push forward, stepping in with the other ski's inside edge.
It feels awkward and requires a lot of practice, but it can really pay off.
Trust me, if you don't take lessons, you won't practice this. You'll just enjoy going downhill and think "uphill's for chumps."
Then it won't be there for you when you need it. See those poles and skis you lost 20 yards back when you bailed? Have fun going to get them, ace.
Technique 2: The snow plow
There's nothing you'll use more than the plow when you're starting out. As a matter of fact, it's probably all you'll do on the way down even the greenest of green runs.
It's sort of the opposite of the duck walk. Point your toes in, making a V pointed downhill. The farther apart the backs of your skis are, the slower you'll go.
Once again, you have to focus on using the inside edge of the skis, not just pointing your toes at each other and sliding on the flat bottoms. Without the edges, you'll go too fast and look stupid. Huzzah!
You turn while plowing by putting weight on the big toe of the opposing foot. Want to go left? Put weight on the right foot. Once again, your body will not innately want to do this.
I could prattle off more stuff that neophytes like myself should know, but the moral is you need to take lessons yourself, or it'll take forever to build up your confidence.
Here are a few last-minute tips, though.
1. Just get out and do it. It's a short drive into the high Sierra, and the weather's mostly been cooperating. If you want to learn, do it now while the beginner terrain is open and the schools are active.
2. Take some friends and family. Like I said, it's intimidating to learn by yourself. Bring some other beginners and maybe even an advanced friend or two. I was joined Sunday by my wife and two coworkers, and I really think it helped to have other folks learning alongside me. And when they fall, you can laugh and point.
3. Don't wear jeans. I'll soon do a whole column for beginner ski gear, but I can already tell you that your top layer should be waterproof. For now, just borrow stuff from friends. Trust me, around here you know plenty of people with extra gear.
4. Take it easy. Don't push your limits early on. A friend of mine says you should do one less run than you think you can do. That's pretty good advice.
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A 97 Rock DJ now has been presented with two new bicycles to replace the one that was stolen Sunday evening while he was hosting a charity event in Lancaster.
Adam Miller Toys & Bicycles in Batavia, where Dave Jickster had purchased his original bike, presented him with an upgraded black Transeo 3.0 Tuesday evening. Jickster, who goes by the name DJ Jickster, said he was overwhelmed by the store's generosity.
"I like to shop local and the store has been around for 80 years and they are all such trustworthy people. I also love that bike model," said Jickster, an Attica resident.
Jickster, who is hosting the seventh annual "Operation: Rock Out Hunger" to benefit the Food Bank of Western New York, has been living in a 48-foot trailer in the parking lot of Quaker Steak & Lube on Transit Road in Lancaster. His original bike was stolen sometime Sunday evening.
Blue Cross & Blue Shield also donated a bike for Jickster to use for his daily exercise rides around the parking lot. The DJ said he plans to donate that one to a worthy child as a Christmas present.


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- 1 skein in Red Heart Super Saver Yarn in Raspberry (A)
- 1 skein in Red Heart Super Saver Yarn in Medium Purple (B)
- 1 skein in Red Heart Super Saver Yarn in Carrot (C)
- 1 skein in Red Heart Super Saver Yarn in Ranch Red (D)
- 5.5mm [US I-9] crochet hook
- Split-ring stitch markers
- Yarn needle
Gauge: 13 sts = 4"; 18 rows = 4". CHECK YOUR GAUGE. Use any size hook to obtain the gauge.
Directions are for women's size Small. Changes for Medium and Large are in parentheses. Finished Circumference: 20½ (22, 24)".
With B, ch 66 (72, 78); making sure ch is not twisted, join with a slip st to first ch to form a ring.
Rnd 1 (Right Side): Ch 1, sc in same ch as joining and in each ch around; join into back loop of first sc; turn – 66 (72, 78) sts.
Rnd 2: Ch 1, working in back loops only, sc in each st around; join; turn. Fasten off B.
Rnd 3: Attach A in same st as join, ch 1, working in back loops only, sc in each st around; join; turn.
Rnd 4: Working in back loops only, sc in each st around; join; turn. Fasten off.
Rnds 5-6: With C, repeat Rnds 3-4.
Rnds7-8: With D, repeat Rnds 3-4.
Rnds 9-10: With B, repeat Rnds 3-4, DO NOT FASTEN OFF.
Rnd 11: Ch 1, working through both loops, sc in each st around; join. DO NOT TURN. Fasten off.
Rnd 12: Attach D, ch 1, sc in each st around. DO NOT JOIN. Instead, pm to indicate first st of rnd, move marker up each rnd.
Rnds 13-25: Sc in each st around. Fasten off D at end of Rnd 25.
Rnd 26: Attach B, ch 1, sc in first 2 sts; insert hook in next st 3 rows down, pull up loop, yo, pull loop through both loops on hook – point made; * sc in next 2 sts; point in next st; repeat from * around; join; turn.
Rnd 27: Ch 1, sc in each st around; join; turn.
Rnds 28-29: Repeat Rnd 27. Fasten off at end of Rnd 29.
Rnd 30: Attach A, ch 1, sc in each st around; join; turn.
Rnds 31-32: Repeat Rnd 27. Fasten off at end of Rnd 32.
Rnds 33-35: With C, repeat Rnds 30-32.
Rnd 36: With D, repeat Rnd 30.
Rnds 37-40: Repeat Rnd 27. Fasten off at end of Rnd 40.
Rnds 41-44: With A, repeat Rnds 26-29.
Rnd 45: With B, repeat Rnd 30.
Rnds 46-48: Repeat Rnd 27. Fasten off at end of Rnd 48.
Rnds 49-51: With C, repeat Rnds 30-32.
- Rnds 52-55: With D, repeat Rnds 45-48.
Count 11 sts from join, pm in st, skip next 22 sts, pm in st, skip next 22 sts, pm. [Attach D in marked st, ch 1; fold hat with ch in corner; working through both layers, sc in first 11 sts; fasten off] 3 times.
Edging-Rnd 1: Fold bottom edge up, attach A in any free loop of Rnd 10, ch 1, working through free loops only, sc in each st around; join.
- Rnd 2: Ch 1, sc in each st around. Fasten off. Weave in ends.
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Really cute hat, but the directions do not match up with the picture at all. The directions call for 4 different color yarns; there are 5 in the picture. The edging round makes no sense whatsoever and does not match what the picture shows.
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@wynnie591 Thanks for the comment. I checked with the designer and there are indeed 4 different color yarns. The shadows in the image make it look like there are 5, but the pattern above is correct.
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Sequential Detection Applied to Line-Scan Gray Level Defect Imaging
Vihonen, Juho
Publication type: Doctoral dissertation
Issue date: 2009-08-31
Language: en
Belongs to: Tampereen teknillinen yliopisto. Julkaisu - Tampere University of Technology. Publication;826
Supervisor: Visa, Ari
Opponent: Röning, Juha; Toivanen, Pekka
University: Tampere University of Technology
Faculty: Faculty of Computing and Electrical Engineering
Department: Department of Signal Processing
The detection of abnormal changes in the nominal characteristics of industrial applications is a problem typically related to the safety of the technological process and the quality of production. Given a record of measurements, the best solution is often the quickest detection possible of the occurrence of disorder, with as few false alarms as possible. Particularly in signal processing the ability to detect efficiently small changes in possibly long samples of data is of crucial importance. At the present, sequential algorithms are not generally used in image processing, while some of them operate as standards, e.g. in sampling-based inspection of goods. Perhaps one of the reasons is that no proofs of optimality, particularly for the so-called cumulative sum procedure, were available until quite recently. By taking data sequentially, one can deal with problems which have no fixed-size solutions or which at least are computationally prohibitive. Dynamic programming is also often important with intrinsically sequential problems. Web inspection systems are utilized for electro-optical quality control in paper production lines. To be able to image the entire paper web accurately, such an inspection system may contain tens of cameras having built-in parallel processing for real-time detection and classification of defects and other surface flaws. The web inspection systems have no major difficulties in detecting large defects with high contrast. However, detection of physically small-sized defects having low contrast and unknown dynamics is far from easy under the strict constraints on the available processing time. At the expense of making sample size a random variable, the developed detector is shown to provide computationally inexpensive, yet effective performance in less simple cases that pose problems for current fixed sample size detectors. To meet the real-time requirements, we introduce extreme values as a valuable tool for reducing the data at hand. Even though both the sequential detection and dynamic programming are in some sense areas which are not very actively pursued today, the novel approach presented in this thesis will hopefully reawaken interest in these important fields.
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Should open source projects have copyright statements in their code?
Copyright statements proliferate inside open source code
I was looking at a source file for the OpenStack Ceilometer docs one day and noticed that there's a copyright statement at the top. Now, in no way do I want to pick on Nicholas. There are hundreds of such copyright statements in the OpenStack docs and code, and this is just the example I happened to be looking at.
(Note that my employer has its share of copyright statements in the OpenStack code. Pretty much every company participating in OpenStack does this. I think we need to stop.)
I sent a note to the OpenStack-docs list, and it has generated a thread of remarks. As I understand it, people are encouraged to put copyright statements in contributed source code and documentation, and add copyright lines to files that they modify.
I believe this to be a very bad thing to do for the following reasons:
- If I edit a file and it says at the top that the file is copyright BigCo, I am discouraged from editing that file, because of the implication that I'm treading on someone else's toes. Files should not have any indication that they are "owned" by any one person or company. (See this by Karl Fogel for more on "owning" code.) This actively discourages people jumping in and fixing stuff.
- If N people contribute to a file, are we supposed to have N copyright statements in the file? This doesn't scale over time. Imagine what these files will look like 10 years from now, and fix the problem now.
- Having author names in a file encourages people to contribute for the wrong reasons.
- Git keeps track of who contributed what changes. It's not necessary to have explicit copyright statements.
The first of those reasons is, to me, the most compelling. Anything that discourages contribution, particularly from beginners, should be eschewed as much as possible.
I have had people ask me, when encountering a copyright statement in source code, whether they have to ask that person's permission before submitting a patch. If we can avoid even one person asking this question, we've done a service to the project.
I also worry that companies that insist on copyright statements in their contributions understand neither copyright law nor Open Source. On the one hand, the audit trail in Git protects your record of contribution, and thus your copyright. On the other hand, if your copyright is that important to you, perhaps you shouldn't be contributing it to an Open Source project. It's anti-community to say to a project that they can have your contribution, but only as long as you get to assert that it's your personal property. Open Source is about community and collaboration. If the building is owned by the community, what do you gain by insisting that a particular brick is yours?
At the Apache Software Foundation, we had this debate a decade ago, and decided that author tags in source code were anti-community, and thus discouraged. To quote from the thread of comments at the time, and, in particular, to quote Sander Striker:
At the Apache Software foundation we discourage the use of author tags in source code. There are various reasons for this, apart from the legal ramifications. Collaborative development is about working on projects as a group and caring for the project as a group. Giving credit is good, and should be done, but in a way that does not allow for false attribution, even by implication. There is no clear line for when to add or remove an author tag. Do you add your name when you change a comment? When you put in a one-line fix? Do you remove other author tags when you refactor the code and it looks 95% different? What do you do about people who go about touching every file, changing just enough to make the virtual author tag quota, so that their name will be everywhere?
There are better ways to give credit, and our preference is to use those. From a technical standpoint author tags are unnecessary; if you wish to find out who wrote a particular piece of code, the version control system can be consulted to figure that out. Author tags also tend to get out of date. Do you really wish to be contacted in private about a piece of code you wrote five years ago and were glad to have forgotten?
This is a slightly different issue (author tags rather than copyright statements) but makes exactly the same point. Do I add a copyright statement when I correct grammar or spelling in a doc? How about when I add a paragraph or reorder sentences for greater clarity? At what point do I remove your copyright statement because I've changed so much of that file?
And then of course, you should consider the bigger question—why do you care? What are you trying to protect against? If you're trying to protect against your contribution being taken by the community and used for other purposes, perhaps contributing to an Apache-licensed code base isn't the smartest thing to do.
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Maybe an source control system keeps track of that - but I'm old skool. Each and every line that has changed in my sourcefiles foes into a change log: what has changed, who changed it and when. I find it invaluable when I'm scratching my head why certain code does what - and why. In that certain case, I do thing there is a value to "authorship". As you correctly state: there is a difference between authorship and copyright. As far as I'm concerned, every change in my project is mine - no matter who did it. If you want to have full authorship of a certain change, fork the project.
"Maybe an source control system keeps track of that - but I'm old skool. Each and every line that has changed in my sourcefiles foes into a change log: what has changed, who changed it and when."
That's not old skool, that's just *terrible*. SCMs exist so you don't have to do that stuff. Go check out a git codebase and run 'git blame' - you'll look like one of those animated GIFs people are always passing around...
No, that's not terrible, that's discipline. Something some programmers are completely lacking when you see what they enter into CVS, SVN or GIT because they assume that the SCM "will take care of that". Well, it doesn't - it only does when discipline is there. More so, a change log will stay with the source code all along (when it's not manually removed of course). Whether a GIT stays there in clear conjunction with the code remains to be seen. Do you also think that Doxygen automagically will create the proper documentation?
git will always know who checked in what. It is incapable of *not* knowing that.
"Why" requires you to write a good commit message, but that's the appropriate level of/for discipline. The business of tracking who changed what to what is not productive work, and if you can outsource it to a tool, you should.
Have you actually played with git for an afternoon? It really is pretty much the best thing since sliced bread.
What I really would want is to give git log as some argument a line number range additionally to a file path, and then it would show the history of this code block.
I can do "grep " and it does just that. Note the date and name of the developer take about 16 characters. That's rather a small savings for a SCM - and that's not why I use it. An SCM has vast other advantages than just "keeping the books".
You mean you want git log to have a shortcut to run git blame -L$start,$end -- $path? Can your manual changelog match the git blame feature of using a regex for $start/$end instead of a literal line number? How readily can you follow code that moved from one file to another, possibly multiple times between when it was first written and where it is now? Git blame does this automatically for full file renames, and can be asked to do it for more granular blocks by using -C and -M.
Open Source is not Public Domain. An Open Source application is copyrighted - or rather copylefted. If the copyright notice was removed the code would be Public Domain. Public Domain is nearly the opposite of Open Source [or copylefted] code. Anyone at anytime may without reference, deference, or even a nod take Public Domain code and incorporate it into a project of any kind proprietary or open source or otherwise. With a copylefted notice, such as the GPL, the author of the code is NOT giving the code to you to do with as you please. This is vary badly understood by many people...
Sorry, but this comment is almost completely false. Attribution of copyright ownership is absolutely not required for copyright to be valid on a work, unless you happen to be in a country that is not a signatory to the Berne Convention. It does not become public domain without the attribution, and it is wholly wrong to assume that an un attributed work is in the Public Domain.
Additionally, while it is correct to say that Open Source licensed files are not in the Public Domain, since Public Domain files have had their copyright waived (or expired), they are completely compatible with Open Source licensed works.
Understanding Public Domain is rather difficult (and write possibly not a valid option in many parts of the world due to Moral Rights), and it is for that reason that we have licenses like Creative Commons Zero.
You are not seeing the real meaning of a copyright comment. As Fossman said copyright is not about purely authorship is about protecting your code and be able to protect the freedom you are attaching to it.
The Software Freedom Law Center has a publication that talks about file-scope copyright statements v. centralized ones: http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2012/ManagingCopyrightInformati...
I think it is far more valuable to have per-file license attribution than per-file copyright owner(s) and date. Far too often, an effort to remove the former also removes (or prohibits) the latter, leaving everyone confused when that code migrates into other projects.
I fully agree with you.
This practice tends to go against collective code ownership described in XP rules ( http://www.jamesshore.com/Agile-Book/collective_code_ownership.html ).
Thank you for encouraging collaboration in open source.


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CHESTER - For the second time in as many months, the city of Chester and the Chester Volunteer Fire Department are teaming up to offer to buy Newell Memorial Field from the Hancock County school board.
Chester City Council voted Monday to authorize Mayor Ken Morris to take the offer and a check for $250,000 to Hancock County Schools Superintendent Suzan Smith this afternoon. Smith declined to comment about the offer.
"The only thing I'll say is this would have to be board approved," she said.
The board is scheduled to meet in special session at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday to discuss and possibly take action on the sale of the football stadium, which it declared surplus property in June. It is unclear whether the board will consider the city's offer on Wednesday.
The city's latest offer comes almost a month after its first offer, in which it said an anonymous donor would front the money - $250,000 - and the city would act as a "middle man." The city's initial offer included the fire department taking ownership of the property and reimbursing the donor.
This time, the fire department will write a check for $250,000 to the city, and the city will pay the school district. "The city is not going to be out a dime," Morris said.
City Solicitor April Raines said the city needs the money from the fire department for the offer to be valid. "I will not have anybody sign any contract until we have the cash in hand," she said.
Chester fire Chief John Hissam said that's no problem. "This is something we've been trying to do for two and a half months - from day one," he said. "We're still trying. It's as simple as that."
Hissam met briefly in executive session with Morris and city council members before the offer was announced. Council voted 4-0 to move forward with the offer. Councilman Brian Handley abstained because he is on the fire department.
The Chester Volunteer Fire Department has shown an interest in the 4.25-acre piece of property in Newell since July, when it offered to pay $150,000, then $300,000, to the school board. Smith rejected that offer because she said the law prohibits her from dealing with a non-governmental entity.
West Virginia law requires school district property to be disposed of at public auction unless it is sold to: the state or one of its political subdivisions for an "adequate consideration"; the federal government for a federal flood control project; or a private, non-profit organization for a "nominal consideration."
The school district no longer needs Newell Memorial Field, which it used for home football games for 61 years, now that it has a new multi-sports complex at Oak Glen High School.
The public auction went forward on Oct. 25, but there was only one bidder - the Chester Volunteer Fire Department, which bid $200,000 below the minimum bid set by the school board. Board members rejected the $50,000 bid on Oct. 29.
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The fire department is well-positioned financially to make such an offer to the school board. The department, registered as a charity under the name of the Chester Volunteer Firemen's Association, showed net assets for 2011 in the amount of $1.3 million, according to the Form 990 it must file annually with the Internal Revenue Service.
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Oops, shouldn't have mentioned Chan. Too late, eek. Well, I'll just say, it's a bit weird to say "He's consistent except for the triple axel" when the triple axel is part of consistency. It's almost like saying "Well, Jeremy Abott's Sochi individual SP/LP were really good except for the quad"--because the quad matters, like it should. Anyway, my comment wasn't meant to disparage Chan. Would you rather I say, "Haha, King Plushy went out there and killed it and Chan just fell apart that night!! " That would've been the more disingenuous (and insulting) comment, imo.
RE: Euros. I think Artur should've won the SP by a larger margin and Plush the LP by a smaller margin. (Yes, Artur had a 2-quad LP, but the popped jump was costly, and he was up against Plushenko's greatest technical skate under COP ever. There was no way he was winning the LP.) Ironic, Plush lost the darn Vancouver Olympics due to the exact same type of scoring (I still haven't gotten over it), so maybe the judges were trying to apologize to him. Except they conveniently forgot Artur wasn't Evan... or something. Who knows.
I admit I'm still happy Plush won, but the scores really should've been closer. It's true, I'm not an ardent Artur fan even though he's the most enjoyable of the young Russian skaters, so maybe I'm biased and everything I type means nothing. But honestly, I really, really don't think the Euros result was his downfall. He still won a silver medal, which is better many people (including Kovtun!) managed to do at his age.
I don't think Artur's so prone to despair that he'd collapse simply because he lost to Plushenko of all people. Didn't he have a string of injuries afterward too, plus the unknown problems Mishin alluded to? Honestly, I'd be even more worried about Artur if that one Euros result managed to start this entire downward spiral. He's going to face a lot worse in the future than one sorta-questionable loss against Plushenko. I refuse to believe that about Artur... because if it's really true, I don't know how he's gonna fare against "new golden boy" Kovtun. It's not true, I don't believe it...
Set PChan aside, now I am very very confusing, who will TAT chose to do her powerful politiking? I can't wait for the next season.
I bet it's still Kovtun since Gachinski hasn't gotten back to momentum yet (and no one knows when will). His nerves is still a big question. If Gachinski outskates Kovtun next season, then I have no doubt that TAT will dump Kovtun (or at least not do the politiking for him) in the following season.
But he looks happy and more confident in that video, and that's what I'm so happy about, because I've been dying to see him happy again for years.
The thing is, he's going to face a lot worse than Euros 2012 in the future. I mean, imagine how Denis Ten must've felt after 2013 Worlds. But Ten picked himself up and won an Olympic medal. I may not find Ten's skating very exciting, but I really respect how he kept it together.
Artur needs to become a tough competitor going forward. Next nationals for example, he could skate well and still lose to Kovtun because Kovtun is the favoured one right now. I don't believe (or rather, don't want to believe) the Euros result had a big impact on Artur, because if it did... well, he's going to deal with even worse results in the future. Perhaps it's wishful thinking, but I think the timing of his downfall was a coincidence.
There were already signs over the last season that his head was coming back together. All he needed then was the body to follow suit.
Well, bottom line: Regardless of what sparked the downfall, let's hope Artur gathers himself and makes a comeback. He is a good skater. I hope he can develop into a fierce competitor as well, because the challenges are only beginning.
@karne & Meoima - I'm sure that was purely inadvertent on sky_fly's part.