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Scientists have shown that mutations in a gene already implicated in both sporadic and familial cases of Parkinson's disease cause damaging changes to the nuclear envelope and alterations in the nuclear architecture of neural stem cells. This damage leads directly to stem cell death, and prevents the brain from generating new neurons lost as Parkinson's disease progresses. The investigators, headed by a team at the Salk Institute, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing), say their findings identify the nucleus as a previously unknown organelle involved in Parkinson's disease pathology, and may help in the development of new diagnostics and potentially therapeutics.
Mutations in the kinase protein LRRK2 have already been linked with Parkinson's disease, and particularly a mutation known as G2019s, which leads to an increase in LRRK2 activity. What hasn't been understood, however, is the role that this change in LRRK2 activity plays in Parkinson's disease progression. To look into this further, the Salk Institute's Guang-Hui Liu, Ph.D., Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, Ph.D., and colleagues generated induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from fibroblasts taken from Parkinson's disease patients with the LRRK2 mutation, and then differentiated the iPSCs into neural stem cells.
They found that as the resulting ipsNSC-LRRK2 cells were repeatedly passaged, they began to develop nuclear aberrations, including deformed nuclear envelopes, and also exhibited epigenetic alterations that are normally associated with human neuronal aging. With progressive passages the cells also began to lose their ability to differentiate into neural cells. Conversely, treating the cells with an LRRK2 inhibitor resulted in reduced phosphorylation of LRRK2 downstream targets, stopped the cells from developing the damaging changes to their nuclear envelopes, and restored the cells' gene expression signature to that of wild-type stem-cell derived neural stem cells.
Importantly, when the team then went on to look at post-mortem brain samples from patients with the LRRK2 mutation, they found that a high proportion of cells in relevant brain regions displayed altered nuclear morphologies. Similarly, using targeted gene-editing technologies to correct the mutation in patient's nuclear stem cells effectively repaired the nuclear envelope disorganization, and improved the cells' survival and function.
They say their results indicate that dysfunctional neural stem cell pools, and/or the cells they give rise to, may contribute to the symptoms associated with Parkinson's disease in patients carrying the LRRK2 (G2019s) mutation. "This discovery helps explain how Parkinson's disease, which has been traditionally associated with loss of neurons that produce dopamine and subsequent motor impairment, could lead to locomotor dysfunction and other common non-motor manifestations, such as depression and anxiety," comments Dr. Belmonte, a professor in Salk's Gene Expression Laboratory. "It is the first time to our knowledge that human neural stem cells have been shown to be affected during Parkinson's pathology due to aberrant LRRK2 … "Due to the striking appearance in patient samples, nuclear deformation parameters could add to the pool of diagnostic features for Parkinson's disease."
Dr. Belmonte suggests the ability to correct or block the effects of the LRRK2 mutation in neural stem cells either through genetic or chemical means could also lead to new therapeutic opportunities for Parkinson's disease. "Current clinical trials explore the possibility of neural stem cell transplantation to compensate for dopamine deficits," he notes. "Our work provides the platform for similar trials by using patient-specific corrected cells."
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When do you need to convert your video from NTSC to PAL or vice versa?
The answer is simple: when you want people overseas to watch your video. It's not a secret that different countries use different analog television encoding standards. So, if you record your video in the United States using an NTSC camcorder, people in Europe will most likely be unable to watch it on their VCRs.
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Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) will hold town hall meetings in central and eastern Oregon next week, kicking off a nine day trip throughout the Second District with town hall meetings in eight counties, including Crook, Deschutes, Jefferson, Union, Wallowa, Jackson, Josephine, and Klamath counties.
"While the Congress and the country face difficult choices about reducing the debt and growing our economy, I'm also working on finding solutions for local problems here at home. Providing enough water and power for job creation, unleashing innovation in the technology sector, improving management of our federal forests, and taking care of those who wear or have worn our nation's uniform remain priorities for me," said Rep. Walden.
By Feb. 1, Rep. Walden will have held town hall meetings in 16 of the 20 counties in the Second District. Last year, Rep. Walden held 24 town hall meetings, at least one in each of the 20 counties.
Details on additional events, including the other town hall meetings, will be announced as they are finalized.
Thursday, January 24, 2013
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When: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Where: Prineville Senior Center, 180 NE Belknap Street, Prineville
What: Deschutes County Town Hall Meeting
When: 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Where: Bend Senior Center, 1600 SE Reed Market Road, Bend
Note: Rep. Walden will be joined by special guests state Sen. Tim Knopp and state Reps. Gene Whisnant and Jason Conger.
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What: Jefferson County Town Hall Meeting
When: 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Where: Madras Senior Center, 860 SW Madison, Madras
Town Halls in Redmond and South Deschutes County and Joining Congressman Walden in Bend
Senator Tim Knopp (R-Deschutes County) and Representative Gene Whisnant (R-Sunriver) were sworn in on January 14, 2013 at the Capitol. They were in Salem for a few days attending organizational events and are now spending some time in district meeting with citizens and community leaders to discuss the legislative session which begins on Monday, February 4th.
As part of their outreach programs, they will host Town Halls in Redmond and South Deschutes County. The Redmond Town Hall will be held Friday, January 25th at the Redmond Senior Center, 325 NW Dogwood (Next to the Redmond Fire Station), from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM.
The South Deschutes County Town Hall will be held Thursday, January 31st at the Sunriver Library, 56855 Venture Lane (in the Sunriver Business Park), from 9:00 AM to 11 AM.
Senator Knopp commented, "Town Halls are very important to legislators as we begin a session and allows us to communicate what we hope to achieve on their behalf."
The legislators will discuss the upcoming 2013 session sharing their goals and listen to citizen comments and suggestions.
"These Town Halls provide a great opportunity for us to receive the public's inputs and suggestions," Rep. Whisnant stated. "I hope we have overflow attendance."
Senator Knopp, Representatives Whisnant, and Representative Jason Conger (R-Bend) will join US Congressman Greg Walden as his guests for the Congressman's Town Hall on Thursday, January 24th at the Bend Senior Center from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM.


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A local police chief suspended for posting videos in which he fired borough-owned automatic weapons while shouting obscenities is mounting a write-in candidacy for sheriff.
Gilberton Chief Mark Kessler announced his candidacy for Schuylkill County sheriff via social media. He said on his Facebook page that he's running to break the "death grip of career politicians" on both sides of the aisle.
"This won't be easy," Kessler posted. "A write-in campaign is almost impossible, but we hope all true patriots will come assist and turn the tide of this thuggery machine that has been destroying our constitution for decades and decades."
Kessler's pro-gun videos have garnered hundreds of thousands of views online. They show him shouting about the Second Amendment and liberals while spraying machine-gun fire.
Borough council said Kessler didn't have the borough's permission to use the weapons and suspended him indefinitely.
Kessler's disciplinary hearing is scheduled for next week. He has said he expects to be fired.


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A 2-year-old girl in Canada was suspended from her day care for bringing a cheese sandwich to school.
The school in Ottawa has a strict "no outside food" policy," according to CBC News.
Randy Murray said he didn't know his daughter had food with her until it was too late.
"Faith must have snuck a cheese sandwich into her pocket, into her hand, and nobody saw it, and went into the classroom," Murray said. "And by the time she was two steps in, one of the teachers had saw it, handed it back to me, and the next thing I know, we're told we're suspended for three days."
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Elena Radionova is Russias skating wunderkind of the 2012-13 season. The 13-year-old dominated the Junior Grand Prix and capped it off with a clear victory at the Junior Grand Prix Final of Figure Skating earlier this month.
Elena Radionova is Russias skating wunderkind of the 2012-13 season. The 13-year-old dominated the Junior Grand Prix and capped it off with a clear victory at the Junior Grand Prix Final of Figure Skating earlier this month.
I would like to talk to Mao Asada, said Radionova. Indeed, Elena reminds me of young Asada. That wunderkind is gonna be huge someday, mark my words. Not many skaters impress me. She is one of the exceptions. Yes, her skating is childlike right now, but there is magic about her performance that makes me smile all the way through--so pleasant to watch.
She had some outstanding skills to make her special (e.g., mostly +3 for her LSp4) unlike Kaetlyn Osmond, who completed a lot of elements but none of them stood out (If you don't agree, check the GOEs of her SC).
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Will Elelna be able to participate in adult GP next season or the new age rule will start working already?
I think Radionova (I love that name, its easy to spell ....radio plus nova) is in a good place....in five years she will be 18 for that olympics and will have made it through the tough years, or not.
Radinova is not built like Liza or Adelina pre-puberty, neither of them were as narrow or long-legged as she is, if anything she's built like Shelepen was when she first competed on JGP, but maybe a couple inches shorter. If Shelepen was a couple inches shorter with her current body build, she'd have the ideal body for figure skating, so most likely that is what Radinova will end up being built like so I don't see her having issues.
I like what she says here:
"Radionova would also like to compete with the seniors next year.
To try at least, she said. I like to skate with them. You watch them and they are skating better and faster than you are, so you are drawn to them. You want to be like them or even better. My skating is still kids skating, everybody according to his age. I cant yet skate like them. I need to work more on my skating skills. I am still small and I need to grow a little and it will look different. The other girls grew up and they look different on the ice, so graceful. "
I love it that she wants to skate with the seniors BECAUSE they are better than her.
As for how she will grow and change and how that will affect her... Well, personally, I don't have the foggiest; will just have to wait and see...


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I was lost, and now I'm found. I couldn't get to my blog this morning and it was more than frustrating and phone calls and resolutions and here I am again. Maybe you didn't even notice. Well, good. Thankfully my personal chiropractor is on hand to work out the kinks and tension. I owe him like four Lego sets now.
It feels like a Tuesday. All day I kept thinking I forgot to put the garbage out. I feel like Monday drove a bit too fast and then slammed on the brakes, throwing its arm in front of me. The go-stop-go has me all edgy. We're almost through day one of spring break and everyone still has their limbs in tact. And scissors were involved.
Or maybe I'm all edgy because I'm riding the curb of the cliff a little too closely. Living on the edge is awesome
if you don't fall off.
But not living on the edge, planting your flag in the middle of the nowhere field, seems much farther from failure, doesn't it?
Right now I am so far from that field. I think Listen To Your Mother stuff has got me nervous, just the fact that it's looking like it's going to go so well but one inch away is something falling through or falling apart. So pretty much all day I have to distract my mind from thinking about that possibility. Why do success and failure have to be such tight neighbors?
And, we just decided to search for a (new) church home and if you've been around here for awhile this might be a surprise (it kind of still is to me.) Edge > fingernails gripped and hanging on> big fall.
Admitting all that just sucks because on one hand I can look brave, with so many exciting things ahead. And on the other hand, I am failing. Because I'm admitting that I'm scared, because I'm confessing something I had believed in before just isn't working or has the potential to not work out. I was wrong. Or maybe I just didn't know. Isn't that a good enough answer?


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LISBON - The 168th annual Columbiana County Fair begins the week of July 29 and new as well as old features will arrive in the county, said Tresa Unkefer, secretary of the Fair Board.
"There is such a tradition of events that have been going on since the beginning," she said. "The harness racing is one of the biggest."
Old photos from the 1800s hanging in the fair office show families gathered around the arena under the shade trees picnicking watching the races, she said.
Some past events will be returning such as the combine demolition derby, the truck and tractor pulls, and Zach Paxson will be returning this year for a concert in the Grandstand.
New events are also arriving such as magician and balloon artist Dennis Regling, "Arrival," a Journey tribute band, and the high school Strongman competition.
Also new will be a ticket booth at Gate A, donated by Salem Structures.
"The old ticket booth will be moving to Gate B," Unkefer said. "The whole front area in front of Gate A has been spruced up."
In addition to the new ticket booth, the "old government building" is being renovated and a new livestock sales office was donated.
The money for renovation and costs for upkeep come entirely from donations and money generated from ticket sales, Unkefer said.
"People in this community are so generous," she said. "I'm amazed at the amount of people who want to see it grow and be good for the next generation."
The fair is completely non-profit and all the money generated from sales goes to operating costs for general utilities such as electric and insurance, and Unkefer said it is a challenge to keep things going and have leftovers for extra needs like renovations and improvements.
"The fair board works all year either planning things or working to keep making the fair better," Unkefer said. "They volunteer their time for this."
She said the board volunteers their time to renovations and improvements to "get people to come out and enjoy it, and show our support for 4-H."
Another new feature will be the closing of Saltwell Road during fair week.
"The road is dangerous during the week of the fair and I'm glad [it's closing] for safety," Unkefer said. "Educating the public for an accurate traffic flow will be a continuing work in progress."


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Open source in company cultures and office environments
How does open source affect company culture?
An open source company is naturally a company that produces open source code for others to consume. But how does the notion of producing software code in the open affect company culture?
I believe that an organization cannot produce open source code if it is not generally open itself. By this I mean having culture of transparency and of openly sharing information and ideas. The same basic environment that is often found in open source development–a sense of open community, where everyone is welcome to share their opinions and ideas–is often present in open source companies as well.
But a company is different from an open source community in a key way: in every commercial entity, there is information that cannot or should not be shared with everyone. How does an organization hold a balance between being culturally open and maintaining the level of professional discretion required by its customers, its board of directors and others? How do employees know when to act open and when to keep closed?
During my eight-year tenure as CEO of MySQL, we believed that openness, both in our product and our company culture, would lead to greatness. As a result, there was a daily vibration around the topics of open and closed. For example, it was vital to keep information we received from customers confidential, but it was also important to make every new piece of the server code open. Knowing what should remain undisclosed and what could be openly shared was a skill that we wanted every employee to master. This kind of deliberation is less of a factor in a traditional corporate environment, in which the default environment is generally closed. At MySQL, each employee had to be empowered and enlightened to know when to be open and when not to.
Within this balancing act of open and closed, we followed a principle of being open as much as we could. That's a good and beautiful principle, but knowing exactly how to apply it requires fine-tuned judgment. As noted, we kept customer information and minutes from board meetings confidential. We did not share personal information such as salaries and performance evaluations. But we really tried to make everything else open: bug database, work lists, design documents, and so on. We also tried to keep business information open. We were open about our business model, our partners and our downloads. And we agreed that in our public communication, we should disclose as much information as possible.
Internally we tried to be open, too. We informed everyone of board resolutions. We discussed difficult strategic choices on company-wide conference calls and in broad management meetings. We encouraged everyone to have an opinion of everything. This radical openness did not come free of charge, however. MySQL AB was known as a company whose staff could debate topics endlessly. Some of our employees and managers were frustrated with the long decision-making cycles. Sometimes openness became the priority rather than a means to an end.
But in retrospect, it is difficult to regret the way we operated. Although the principle of openness may have at times taken a toll on our productivity, it also helped foster employees who were brilliant spokespersons for the company and brilliant decision makers on their own, all the while being amazingly passionate about their jobs and the mission of MySQL.
Today, three years after MySQL was acquired by Sun, I can still easily detect the MySQL spirit in my past colleagues when I meet them here and there. There is an assumption that information will be shared. There is a conviction that debate is useful. What we all know is that inclusiveness and openness of open source communities, when injected into a company culture, can create something special.
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We are born in this world with little to no assumptions on how things work. As we grow up, we learn what works and what doesn't work. When we do something, and it fails, we adjust our understanding.
You're saying the people that worked in MySQL kept their openness ideals despite that in the end MySQL had to sell itself to Sun in the end. I detect failure to learn.
Also, you probably know of WebKit. The top browser engine on all mobile platforms, and powering Chrome/Safari. It's open source, by Apple. Would you call their culture sharing and open? BTW, they heavily discuss things internally as well, but always ship on time.
So in brief. Don't redefine "open", and don't use "open" as an excuse of why your company doesn't exist. It looks bad.
Open IS about a lot more than source code. Look at the statistics of any open source company and you will see that most users don't ever actually access the open source code. For companies that launch Open Source offerings, most of their community users AND customers state that they work with Open Source companies because of the open culture of that company and that it is very different than non Open Source companies. The open source code is only perhaps 10% of the value.
On the topic of success, many people will define success for a company differently and may see selling to another company as either success or failure. A better definition of success is more visionary - what impact did the software/technology have in the world. This is measured by number of users, where it is used and installed. At 70,000 downloads a day and a very big part of the internet world using MySQL, MySQL is a great success and has made a real difference in the world. Totally irrespective of whether you liked the sale of the company.
It seems as though when you invest in people and enable them to be informed decision-makers then they can be strong stewards of your culture and your future. Why? Because you're trusting them to make decisions based on a framework or an understanding of why things are as they are and progress as they progress. The alternative yields a didactic, "say/do this not that," top-down approach that doesn't enable people to grow or understand an overall direction at the same rate. Completely unsustainable. The only thing that approach would be good for would be ensuring the need for more managers to "manage" people's decisions for them. LONG LIVE OPEN!
Openness is a means to an end, not the end in of itself. I like that thought.
Nice piece, thanks for sharing! -F2
Building anything - including empowered, aware employees - takes time. It's easy to define that time as wasted, but investing that time is what makes an open company great.
This helps explain why many companies use open source software yet few contribute back to the community. What are they worried about? While there are some business activities that should be protected, most are routine, predictable and commonplace.
Attitudes seem to be slowly changing but some firms like Apple and Oracle will never change (as long as their founders are around, anyway).
MySQL was a great place to work. Everyone was motivated to make the product and the company better. There was a spirit that flowed through everyone that constant drove them onward.
Dave: bingo. Everyone knew why they got up in the morning.
Generally this may be orthogonal to open source. It's near impossible to have a closed culture in this field but possible to be open in others.
Locally, open source as a model and culture was the cure for the particular problem MySQL was trying to (and did, I believe) solve.
Great article Marten.
The other interesting observation at MySQL is that all departments operated on an open basis. People knew what Marketing was up to, what Support was dealing with etc. Rather than it being corporate silos of information with people hoarding information and trying to control everything. Maybe big companies would be more effective if there was more openness internally...
Although the article didn't add by way of insight all was redeemed with this one line - "Although the principle of openness may have at times taken a toll on our productivity, it also helped foster employees who were brilliant spokespersons for the company and brilliant decision makers on their own, all the while being amazingly passionate about their jobs and the mission of MySQL."
A strong compass on transparency and openness builds trust. That's a vital and mostly overlooked ingredient in keeping teams, projects and products going.
One of the more mundane and practical things that will always stick with me from my time working with MySQL is the internal IRC server. Altough one would have to apply some common sense on picking the right time, channel, and topic, it literally enabled everyone to connect with everybody inside the company. This allowed me to have all kinds of discussions and gain lots of insights, with topics ranging from open source licences and businessmodels, to database server implementation. In addition it was a great and highly effective way to have meetings *and* keep notes.
kind regards,
I have only recently adopted the "open" way but I have been fortunate to brush shoulders with a handful of (ex)MySQL AB employees and wow do I feel like I joined the party moments too late. I would have loved some professional direction at MySQL AB. Those guys I am referring to were always passionate, informed and open with their expertise. I hope to give my colleagues and customers alike a good rendition of the MySQL manners I was exposed to.


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Building stronger public schools: problem solved?
60 Minutes did a segment on The Equity Project (TEP). TEP is a charter school that is publicly funded and privately run in New York City by founder and principal Zeke Vanderhoek. The goal of TEP is to prove that attracting the best teachers and holding them accountable for results is essential to a school's success. And guess what else—Vanderhoek also rewards these top-tier educators with salaries around $125,000 per year.
You should absolutely watch this:
CBSnews.com, 60 Minutes archive: Charter school's $125K experiment
Airdate: March 13, 2011
Below are a few reasons I find TEP's approach so very promising:
TRANSPARENCY. Teaching at TEP might not be the right fit for every educator, so acknowledging that with expectations delivered upfront is important. It ensures the teachers understand what they are signing up for, and that they are choosing to be committed to the challenge.
- ACCOUNTABILITY. At TEP, it's not okay to just be okay. Vanderhoek is willing to pay for the best teachers, but strings are attached. Each teacher is accountable for helping students intellectually grow from point a to point b—and their job depends on it.
- COLLABORATION. On top of accountability, there is a system in place for teachers to receive regular feedback. The teachers are required to hold peer critiques where they analyze teaching videos, gain feedback on teaching styles, and share techniques that did/did not work in their classroom. The teachers agree that this approach makes them better teachers.
- PASSION. The students are engaged and the teachers are invested. If you watched the video, you heard students say they appreciate the fact that the teachers stay on top of them to ensure they remain focused on their school work. They feel like the teachers truly care about their success. As for the teachers, not only are they enjoying their job, they trust Vanderhoek. They feel like they are becoming even better teachers with his guidance and this teamwork-focused approach.
What are your thoughts on this method of education? Will the approach at TEP put us closer to building stronger public schools?
Your thoughts and comments are what an open thread is all about. So, start sharing.
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I absolutely believe it will work. You instill a desire for learning in a student only once you've built trust. One teacher in the video said, "On a student, I will never give up." It's clear that the students get that, (one student said, "they [teachers] actually care") and so trust these teachers.
Firstly teachers are already held accountable for performance as are the respective leadership.
Secondly in public education the school is required to retain all students from the jurisdiction regardless of economic status or personal capability. Private schools often test students at the beginning of the year and drop those that are not where they want them to be. Additionally those with out enough money to pay for extra fees and materials are not enrolled at all.
Thirdly paying a teacher who has a degree and often a masters (spending at least $70,000 on education) $125,000 in a city where hotel bar tenders may $100,000 a year is not saying much at all. Not to mention the poor quality of benefits offered by public schools.
A few points - most states will NOT pay the per-pupil dollars given in NYC. If you brought those kind of dollars here to North Carolina, you'd get some darned good schools, too.
Second, charter schools contain low-income students with a motivated parent or grandparent. They have fewer special ed kids, fewer ESL kids, and can "counsel out" the kids who are causing problems. The usual problems of self-selecting samples apply.
Third, tenure is important. It doesn't protect teachers whose students aren't scoring well on the tests; there are already entire schools whose teachers get fired for that. Or in euphemistic terms, have to "reapply for their jobs." What it does protect is teachers from being dismissed without due process. It means that at a school without tenure, you can be fired because the principal wants to hire his friend's son as a teacher instead of you. Or because you gave a student from a prominent family a bad grade. Or any number of reasons, none of which you have any real recourse for.
Many of the other points mentioned are already being implemented in many public schools. There is a lot of teacher collaboration happening in what's called PLCs (professional learning communities) and the schools and teachers are held accountable for their scores ("high stakes" testing) to a detrimental degree.
A large study just came out last year that showed merit-based bonuses didn't affect the scores of students under teachers eligible for them--most teachers teach because they love it, and if they need to improve, they simply need good quality continuing education to do so. I do like the "coaching" part of this model, and that's something teachers have begged for years to get funding and time for--a true mentoring program.
The biggest problem that inner city schools face with teachers is the high turnover rate and the excess concentration of new and inexperienced teachers in those schools. We know from both teachers and studies that a teacher doesn't really hit his or her stride until about 3 or 4 years in, and the typical teacher in an inner city school has quit by then. If it's a Teach for America teacher, on average he's quit far before then.
So our neediest students aren't getting our best teachers, which is a problem TEP identifies. But the answer isn't bribing them with more money--most inner city schools already offer premiums for teaching within them. It's to stabilize classrooms, offer more teacher support, and give young/new teachers mentors in a meaningful way. And for many inner city schools, money is a big issue too.
I'll be impressed with the charter school that comes into a public school, meets the same requirements (for testing, free and reduced lunches, keeping problem students, providing special ed and English language classes, etc.) and retains the same students (no application process--just take the kids who are there and keep the same attrition rate or reduce it) and shows some real results.
This isn't happening anywhere that I've seen.
As far as I know this looks like a propaganda piece. The new administration is trying to get this high salaries in the government just as they are doing it with the Police and (maybe) other government employment. Not sure if this is part of the 'save or create' job plan from Obama. But is sure has to do a lot with the movie "Waiting on Superman" which you can look up on youtube for some clips.
From what I remember, the new head of public schooling had no academic background and her master plan was to get incompetent teachers out of their unions. How will she get them? By bribing them with this high salaries.
That way she will be able to get rid of excess teachers. At the end, she lost, but it seems this 60 min was part of the selling of the plan.
That said I am not sure what is this doing on a FLOSS project, it has nothing to do with open source.
I would be more interested into learning how is the OLPC-NY project is doing in Harlem.
in my opinion US needs to learn of Europe. We have really good schools and colleges which everybody can afford. The problem there is to segregate rich and poor people in differents schools...
I think that this program could work out. Our schools pay extra for good teachers and we have a decent education. Sure it ain't great but that probably has something to do with the fact that they spend more on technology then they do about providing necessary resources such as books and etc. Anyways what concerns me is that this principal basically said that there is nothing to make sure he is a good leader other then himself. If he is bad and is not a good enough leader then who is to replace him?
And as for the retirement program they were talking about, it's not that difficult to remove a teacher. Our school is removing a teacher who lets his students do just about whatever they want. I'm in that class and I honestly have to say I gave up on trying to learn in there when you may have 5 minutes out of 50 of actual learning, then he just sits down at his desk and everyone chills.


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Taking jabs at Angelina Jolie is nothing new for Chelsea Handler – and she's not apologizing for her latest controversial cracks about the actress and her family.
"I've been making fun of Angelina Jolie since she made out with her brother," Handler said on Monday's episode of Chelsea Lately after several outlets connected the timing of her remarks to her recent vacation with close pal Jennifer Aniston.
During a comedy show in Newark over the weekend, Handler – who spent Thanksgiving with Brad Pitt's ex-wife – called Jolie a "home wrecker," among other names and made racially insensitive jokes about adopted children Maddox, Pax, and Zahara.
On Chelsea Lately, Handler said that Jolie has been a popular target of hers for five years, leading a guest on her show to suggest she needs some new material.
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5 Movie Monsters Ripped from the Pages of History Books
#2. The Repentant Wendigo
First off, if you've never heard of the wendigo, it's North America's freakiest horror, "an owl-eyed monster with large claws, matted hair, a naked and emaciated body, and a heart made of solid ice."
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A wendigo is a hunger spirit whose hobbies are eatin' folk and possessin' other folk to eat more folk. If a wendigo chew-chew-chooses you, you will suffer terrible side effects, like a feeling of incurable frigidness, and also a bellyful of your own family. According to legend, the wendigo grows as fast as it eats so that it never knows anything but bottomless hunger.
In the winter of 1878-79, a Cree Indian named Swift Runner murdered and ate his entire family. It was noted as a "particularly cold, bitter winter" in Alberta that year. When Runner walked into the Catholic mission in St. Albert come spring to report his family dead of starvation, he forgot to clarify whose starvation killed them. Priests eventually figured it out, mostly since he looked like a guy who had spent the winter eating eight people. Adding to their suspicions was the way he straight up told them, "Guys, I am being tormented by a wendigo, which is a thing that eats people."
Faster than you can say "please pass the mother-in-law," police had him up on a hangin' rope. His last words were "I am the least of men and I do not merit even being called a man." Dang, Swift Runner, you did not even try to live up to that name.
The Boring Reality
You can learn a lot about a culture by what they fear. In a hunter-gatherer society like the Cree (and most Algonquin tribes), people share almost everything they have, and the worst type of person is an insatiably greedy ghoul.
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A nightmare the white man knows too well, my friends.
Plus: cannibals. Everyone hates those guys. "It's important to understand that cannibalism was repellent to the people," explained ethnohistorian Nathan Carlson in what was the least necessary explanation ever. Mix in the bone-cracking misery of a winter anywhere north of Delaware, and the wendigo is a perfectly logical scapegoat. Which is easier: to admit that you're the type of guy who starts gnawing on family when the fire goes out, or telling everybody you've been possessed by a monster that instantly absolves you of any responsibility?
#1. The Zombie Gardener
What's your worst fear? Dying of an incurable disease doctors can't diagnose? Watching your loved ones in pain? Being buried alive? How about waking up from a coma and losing years from your life?
Haitian Clairvius Narcisse suffered all of these horrors in 1962 when he went to the hospital because he was coughing up blood. He presented symptoms of fever, body aches, strange tingling sensations, and blue lips due to cyanosis (lack of oxygen). A couple of days later, he was dead ... ish.
Not so dead that he couldn't be dug up and forced to work on a sugar plantation for two years, at any rate.
"Zombie sugar plantation" is at least three kinds of harmful situation.
After being buried, Narcisse drifted in a timeless semi-conscious state. That's when a bokor (Voodoo priest) and a couple of henchmen exhumed him, bound him up, and whisked him away to the fantastical world of a sugar plantation, which is nowhere near as fun and candy-themed as it seems.
For the next two years, farming was Narcisse's job, and zombing was his hobby. And he was not alone. The bokor had a whole zombie work crew, which he fed one meal a day: a paste made of sweet potatoes, cane syrup, and zombie cucumber. Yes, it sounds ridiculous, but zombie cucumber is an effective narcotic: It once got British soldiers so high that they could see their house from Virginia.
Narcisse said the bokor took his soul, and with no will to resist, he only escaped when one of the zombies rebelled against the abuse and killed their captor with a hoe. Free of the curse, the zombies were able to wander off in search of more lucrative employment, and possibly brains.
The Boring Reality
Ethnobotanist E. Wade Davis studied the case, purchased some zombie powder from local bokors, and analyzed it. He determined that it was a mix of skin irritants and tetrodotoxin (pufferfish poison, like that episode of The Simpsons where Homer made a bucket list). The irritants chafe the skin, allowing the poison to enter a person's system in nonlethal doses and cause a state that is nearly indistinguishable from death. When the victims who survive the zombie powder are dug up a few days later, the psychological effects of their "death" and a continuing diet of strong hallucinogens convince them they've been zombified.
So ... holy crap. That one was actually true? All right, there you have it: Zombies are real, and pufferfish are the cause. Kids, make your own zombies at home for fun and profit.
If you're not quite horrified enough yet, take in 8 Prehistoric Creatures Ripped Directly from Your Nightmares and 6 Terrifying Creatures That Keep Going After They're Dead, or see Cracked's Field Guide to Real Monsters for much more.
Brendan is a humoriatrist and monster. May God forgive him, because humanity will not.


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During the past decade, single-use bioreactors have become widely accepted and often preferred in development and manufacturing processes. In particular, single-use vessels have proven perfectly suitable for the cultivation of low-oxygen-demanding cell types such as mammalian and insect cells.
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Control of pH and dissolved oxygen (DO) is critical in cell culture; use of traditional pH and DO probes, however, requires significant time and can introduce contaminants. The CelliGen BLU system features a novel noninvasive pH and DO port and sleeve design, enabling accurate readings without either probe coming in direct contact with the culture.
The DO sleeve allows gas to readily diffuse across a permeable membrane into the sleeve where it is sensed by the probe. This design has several advantages over the current methodology. It eliminates contamination risks, as there is no contact between the vessel interior and the DO sleeve space where the probe is inserted. Vessel setup time is reduced because the reusable DO probe does not have to be sterilized and re-polarized for each run—a procedure that ordinarily takes about 6–8 hours. It also allows a nonsterile probe to be used, as the sleeve is a barrier to any contaminants, eliminating autoclaving and thereby extending probe life.
The CelliGen BLU also uses a noninvasive, optical pH probe that doesn't need to be autoclaved (it is not a traditional gel-filled pH probe).
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Welcome to Channel 9 Zac, we hope you stick around... though I would ask that when you critisize something... you be specific
>Still not as easy to use,
So you've used one and said "my iPhone is easier?"
You base that on... what?
>or as many apps as an iPhone.
Given the iPhone has been on the market for... how long? Is that really a surprise?
>Nothing can ever pull me away from mine.
So it would be impossible for Apple to make a poor product at one point that could drive you into the arms of another, possibly better product?
I'm sorry to see that you are so emotionally attached to a brand that you cannot conceive of going without it.
>Good try by Microsoft, but Apple will just come out with something even better.
Time will tell... however if the iPad is any indication... that may not always be the case.


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And the tie goes to. . . Cornell
In a rare tie in the National Intercollegiate Dairy Judging Contest, the Cornell and Virginia Tech teams both racked up 2,485 points. This was the second-ever tie in the 91-year history of the contest. The first occurred in 1985 between UW-Madison and Cal Poly. Final reasons scores broke that tie with UW-Madison claiming victory.
When push came to shove, this year's tie also was broken on team reasons. Cornell University, with a score of 820, came out on top.
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All four members of the team, Kelly Lee (4th overall, 5th in reasons), Richard Hall III (5th overall, 13th in reasons), Tyler Reynolds (12th overall, 6th in reasons), and Matthew Sharpe (18th overall) received All-American accolades. The Cornell victory was a storybook ending to coach David Galton's judging career. Their combination of placings and ability to talk dairy cattle put Galton's team on top of the 21 other teams and 81 individuals who came to judge on the colored shavings. This is the 17th time Cornell has taken top contest honors and the ninth Cornell team Galton has coached to victory.
Tying Cornell overall, but 12 points behind in reasons, was Virginia Tech. The team placed fifth in reasons with a score of 808. All members of the Virginia Tech team, coached by Mike Barnes and Katharine Knowlton, were All-Americans. The team consisted of Carissa Doody (3rd overall, 8th in reasons), Jason Zimmerman (8th overall, 14th in reasons), Austin Schwartzbeck (9th overall, 24th in reasons) and Cody Pearson (25th overall).
Rounding out the top three was the Penn State team, coached by Dale Olver, with a score of 2,457. The team included Nathan Oleniacz (10th overall, 25th in reasons), Sara Bechtel (11th overall, 17th in reasons), Hannah Wentworth (15th overall), and Philip Bachman (7th in reasons).
Overall, the top five teams had 15 members in the top 25.
In a one-point win, Carissa Levash, UW-Madison, was the competition's high individual, averaging a 46.67. In second was Caitlin Durow, University of Minnesota, who also had the top reasons score of the contest averaging 47.5. Durow's first-place finish was not enough to lead Minnesota to the team reasons title. Michigan State received the high team reasons honor scoring four points over Minnesota.
Modesto Jr. College sweeps Post-Secondary honors
Jumping from last year's fifth-place finish into champion honors was the Modesto Jr. College team winning the Post-Secondary contest with a score of 2,175. Modesto Jr. College won the first contest in 1989; this is their ninth win in the 22-year competition. Pacing the team was Rocco Cunningham, the contest's high individual, who scored 735 points. He also won the reasons competition with a 44.75 average. Other team members included: Emilie Strand (4th overall, 3rd in reasons), Monica Soares (6th overall), and Natalie Sanders (9th in reasons). Modesto was the high team for the Ayrshire, Holstein, and Jersey breeds, as well as the high team for reasons.
The second-place team, by 44 points, was SUNY Morrisville with a score of 2,131, averaging 44.39 points through the contest. The team was comprised of Tyler Clark (2nd overall, 8th in reasons), Mike Laspada (10th overall), and Patrick Sweatman (11th overall). The Morrisville team was 3rd for reasons.
Third-place high team recognition went to SUNY Cobleskill #1, trailing Morrisville by 6 points. Lakeshore Technical College #1 was the high team in the practical contest with a score of 489.
New York talks its way to victory
It was New York's 10-point lead in the reasons competition that propelled them to a one-point win over Pennsylvania in the 90th annual National 4-H Contest. The New York 4-H team was coached by Douglas Waterman. This is the Empire state's sixth-ever victory.
The team included Andrew Reynolds (3rd overall, 13th in reasons), Emma Andrew (6th overall, 4th in reasons), Cassandra Sapp (18th overall, 2nd in reasons), and Meghan Vaill.
The second-place team from Pennsylvania, racking up 1,980 points, consisted of Michael Rush (5th overall, 11th in reasons), Amber Gabel (8th overall, 24th in reasons), Chad Horst (11th overall, 14th in reasons), and Jaylene Lesher.
The Wisconsin team of Austen Schmidt (2nd overall, 6th in reasons), Nicholas Schuster (4th overall, 3rd in reasons), Derrek Kamphuis (20th overall, 25th in reasons), and Mathew O'Leary came in third, four points out of first place.
Andrew Kern, from Minnesota, bested the 105 other participants to be named high individual with a score of 679. Katelyn Horning, Michigan, took top reasons honors with a score of 234.
Guernsey youth wins Merle Howard Award
An outstanding dairy judge, leader, and dairy cattle exhibitor, Karen Anderson won the 2011 Merle Howard Award. The daughter of David and Donna Anderson of Lester Prairie, Minn., Anderson is the eighth award recipient. The Merle Howard Award is presented to a top junior exhibitor at World Dairy Expo who demonstrates exemplary skills in fitting, showmanship, and overall passion for the dairy industry.
Anderson has an incredible judging record taking home not one, but three high individual honors at national dairy judging contests. In 2006, she placed first overall individual at Harrisburg, Pa. Anderson repeated that accomplishment by winning high individual at the National 4-H Dairy Cattle Judging Contest at World Dairy Expo. And last fall, she was high individual and won oral reasons in Louisville, Ky. A gifted leader, Anderson is a past president of the American Guernsey Association junior organization.
At World Dairy Expo, Anderson showed seven cows and heifers that placed in the top four in the junior breed show during the last four years. Of that group, all but one was homebred. In 2009, she captured Junior All American honors when her cow was named Reserve Grand Champion of the National Guernsey Junior Show at World Dairy Expo. At this year's show, Anderson's homebred fall yearling was named Reserve Junior Champion of the Junior Show.
For these and many other accomplishments, she was named the 2010 Outstanding National Guernsey Youth.
Wisconsin excels in youth showmanship
In the second year of a split Youth Showmanship and Youth Fitting contest, Wisconsin and Canada dominated, respectively. In all, 267 participants vied for top showman honors in three divisions. Cole Booth, Plymouth, Wis., topped the junior division. The intermediate division was won by Tori Evert, Brooklyn, Wis., and Janelle Remington, Juneau, Wis., won the senior division.
Lee Morey, 15, from Rochester, Alberta, Canada, was on top of his game Sunday, winning the Young Fitting competition which kicks off youth events during Expo week. The remaining individuals rounding out the top five were Wisconsin natives.


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PLUM BRANCH — Charles Jennings steps up on the covered front porch of what was Bracknell's general store.
He gestures toward one window, a second one, then a third, and finally points upstairs.
"This was the women's department. This was the men's. This was a supermarket, and upstairs was appliances." And just down the road sat a bustling cotton gin.
He waves one hand across an area in front of the empty store.
"This used to be thriving. People from all over the county came out here. I shopped there as a kid. It was like going to a Walmart."
That was in the 1950s and 1960s.
"Now, it's a ghost town," except for a post office and a couple of businesses, he says.
Farther south along State Highway 28 is Parksville, which except for its post office, also appears as a ghost town.
The remnants of a bygone economy reflect the tough reality facing McCormick County today and the 25 other rural counties of Forgotten South Carolina, counties left behind in recent decades as prosperity took off in much of the state's metropolitan and coastal areas.
For McCormick, the state's smallest county with barely 10,000 people, the barriers to prosperity are obvious:
The county lies 40 miles from the nearest interstate highway.
Not a single inch of four-lane highway touches the county.
The Sumter National Forest covers 93 percent of the county.
About two-thirds of the residents are retired.
The county's bleak economic picture came into clear focus as Gov. Nikki Haley has traveled the state in recent months touting her administration's success at bringing new industries and industrial expansions all across the state.
She boasts of some 254 projects with more than 35,400 projected jobs and nearly $9 billion in capital investment.
Haley says those jobs and industries have gone to 45 of the state's counties.
That leaves out just one — McCormick.
Turning bleak into bright
The first time Haley pointed out that only one county had not directly benefited from her "jobs, jobs, jobs" goal was earlier this year at a rural economies meeting in Aiken.
Charles Jennings, McCormick County Council chairman, sat among those in attendance.
He recalls that Haley didn't initially name the lone county. So he let everyone there know that he is from McCormick and that the county is looking for Haley to bring some jobs there. Jennings says Haley pointed to one of her Commerce Department officials and told him "you have to get to work."
That's exactly what's happened, Jennings and County Administrator Columbus Stephens say. They have met with Commerce officials a couple of times since then to map strategy and lay groundwork.
"She's serious about bringing some jobs here," Jennings says of Haley.
The county is one of the top performing counties in the state's Work Ready Communities effort to train workers to be job-ready for new industry. The county government also recognized that it might have shot itself in the foot during the previous year's budget when it cut off funds for a director of economic development in a cost-saving move.
Now, Council has returned enough money to hire a half-time development director. Stephens hopes to have that person on board soon.
In the meantime, Stephens says, the county has worked with the Milliken Company's local air bag textile plant to make available a huge part of its unused manufacturing building as a site-ready place for a new industry.
The county also is working to build a shell building to lure a new manufacturer.
McCormick County last experienced an economic boom in the 1850s when gold was mined where the town of McCormick now stands.
Visitors can still try their hand at panning for gold at the old mine, which the county's namesake, Cyrus McCormick, inventor of the mechanical reaper, purchased in 1969 in a futile effort to find another rich vein of gold.
A little makes a big difference
Shaaron Kohl, owner of the Red Rooster, an art and antiques emporium in downtown McCormick, said she believes part of the economic problem is that "some people in authority want to keep the county the way it is."
Mary Bleakley, a former head of the county's planning commission, nodded in agreement and said the county has laid the groundwork for improved development, including adopting countywide zoning. All that's missing, she says, is a concerted effort by county government to promote development with "vision and purpose" to allow for controlled growth that preserves the county's rural quality of life but takes advantage of its opportunities for boating, fishing, hunting, hiking and golf.
That's what Jennings and Stephens say they want too.
While they don't like the fact that McCormick is the only county in the state with no new industries under Haley's administration, the notoriety won Haley's attention and the focus of state economic recruiters.
The county's small population means that it wouldn't take many new jobs to make a big difference. The county's workforce numbers 3,357 with an unemployment rate of 11.6 percent, almost 50 percent higher than the state's. Still, that means just 389 people lack jobs.
Jennings and Stephens want to focus on enhancing and hopefully building existing business, which includes two textile manufacturers, an industry that has abandoned much of South Carolina. Both mills are shadows of what they once were but have stabilized from a job point of view, Jennings says.
The county's real bread and butter is retirement homes and outdoor recreation, both largely due to 40-mile-long J. Strom Thurmond Lake, which forms the county's border with Georgia.
The lake was created in 1954 when the Army Corps of Engineers dammed the Savannah River for flood control and hydroelectric power.
Thurmond and two newer upriver lakes, Russell and Hartwell, form what is called "The Freshwater Coast," and McCormick bills itself as the "Gem of the Freshwater Coast."
The 120-mile-long lake complex serves as a magnet for vacationers and retirees who don't want to go to Florida and like four mild seasons.
However, several recent years of dry weather had turned Thurmond Lake into a mud puddle, dropping as much as 15 feet off the lake's average depth of 37 feet. It was so bad not long ago that you could walk much of the way across it, Jennings says.
But heavy rains this year have left it overflowing, and Jennings and Stephens hope that its beauty once again will lure tourists and new residents. The two have particular hope for Savannah Lake Village, which bills itself as a "lakefront sporting community."
It already has some 1,200 vacation and retirement homes, and is designed to top out at 5,500, Jennings says.
Mary Bleakley and her husband Jim are among those lured to McCormick County by its outdoor recreation. They came from Michigan for golf years ago and retired to the county. "It's a great place with a lot of potential," Jim Bleakley says.
Not for down Main Street from the Red Rooster, Bob Weber operates the Pack Rat consignment and collectibles shop. He is a retiree who left Florida so his wife could be closer to family.
He's not surprised McCormick hasn't attracted new industry or jobs. "There's no money here" because many of the residents exist on government subsidy checks, he says. "My best days are the first and the last of the month."
The former public safety worker says the county's only hope is the lake.
"If the lake's down, everything is down."
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Downtown McCormick's Main Street sits next to an active CSX train track and has many different kinds of businesses. (Brad Nettles/postandcourier.com) 7/10/13×
An old clock stands on Main Street in McCormick to remind people that the town was founded in 1882 and to give them the time. (Brad Nettles/postandcourier.com) 7/10/13×
McCormick County Council Chairman Charles Jennings (Right) greets Louise Moten in front of a Main Street restaurant in downtown McCormick. This area of McCormick has many different businesses and restaurants.×
McCormick County Council Chairman Charles Jennings (Right) greets Louise Moten in front of a Main Street restaurant in downtown McCormick. This area of McCormick has many different businesses and restaurants. (Brad Nettles/postandcourier.com) 7/10/13×
McCormick County Council Chairman Charles Jennings greets Louise Moten in front of a Main Street restaurant in downtown McCormick. This area of McCormick has many different businesses and restaurants.×


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Secularism and the Limits of Community
Jeremy Waldron
New York University School of Law
December 9, 2010
NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 10-88
This paper addresses two issues: (1) the use of religious considerations in social and political argument; and (2) the validation of the claims of community against markets and other aspects of globalization. It argues that we should be very wary of the association of (1) with (2), and the use of (1) to reinforce (2). The claims of community in the modern world are often exclusionary (the word commonly associated with community is "gated") and hostile to the rights of the poor, the homeless, the outcast, and so on. The logic of community in the modern world is a logic that reinforces market exclusion and the disparagement of the claims of the poor. If religious considerations are to be used to uphold those claims and to mitigate exclusion, they need to be oriented directly to that task, and to be pursued in ways that by-pass the antithetical claims of community. Religious considerations are at their most powerful in politics - and are most usefully disconcerting - when they challenge the logic of community.
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On Aug. 30, 1972, she married Jay Lynch near Boulder. They moved to their land near Bayfield in 1976.
Besides gardening and raising dairy goats in her earlier years, Mrs. Lynch participated with family members as vendors at Renaissance fairs in Colorado, Arizona, Ohio, North Carolina and New Mexico.
�Harriet was always ready to help someone who was going through hard times,� her family said. �At large Thanksgiving and Christmas gatherings of this extended family, Harriet was known to give thanks for these dear ones and to ask the Creator, �Please help us to be good people.��
Many people who stayed with the Lynches at one time or another became longtime dear friends.
Mrs. Lynch is survived by her husband of 40 years, Jay Lynch of Bayfield; daughters Beth Vance of Bayfield and Lynn Percell of Missouri; sons Blake Armstrong of Bayfield and Xan Lynch of Denver; stepson Bryan Lynch of Virginia; six grandchildren; two stepgranddaughters; one great-granddaughter; and two stepgreat-grandchildren.
A graveside service was held Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012, on the family land southeast of Bayfield at 4588 County Road 523.
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