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Krylon UV Archival Varnish offers the highest UV protection available in a protective coating. Its non-yellowing formula protects against fading, dirt, moisture, and discoloration in artworks created using acrylic, oil, and watercolor paints, as well as oil pastels and colored pencils. UV Archival Varnish is removable for conservation purposes.
Although the varnish dries to touch in 10–15 minutes under normal conditions, wait two hours before handling artwork to avoid fingerprints. The manufacturer recommends the following finishes, based on the medium. Follow the manufacturer's general recommendations for the level of finish, or enhance a work of art by choosing a higher or lower level of finish as desired:
Krylon's Gallery Series Artist Sprays and Clear Coatings are sure to become the artist's choice for protecting, preserving, and beautifying works of art.
All Gallery Series products include a powerful combination of Hindered Amine Light Stabilizer (HALS) and an exclusive UV Absorber (UVA) for maximum protection from ultraviolet light, and advanced protection against smudging, smearing, fading, yellowing, cracking, moisture damage, and more.
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Gallery Series Artist Sprays are available in a variety of formulations to ensure compatibility not only with artists' materials and techniques, but also with their overall vision. Use Gallery Series products during the creative process to provide a final, invisible layer of protection — or to further enhance artworks with several sheen options, including matte, gloss, semi-gloss, and satin. Like all Krylon products, Gallery Series sprays are easy to apply and they dry quickly.
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Krylon spray for Paintings
By Pepper
from Santa Cruz, CA
Comments about Krylon Gallery Series Artist Sprays and Clear Coatings:
Used to seal surface of ink and crayon on multi-media paintings.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Great spray varnish
By Donna
from AZ
Love this spray varnish. UV protection.
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Love the look, hate the smell
By DTinHawaii
from Keaau, HI
I usually use Liquitex varnish on my acrylic paintings (LOVE it), but recently bought some liquid acrylics for fine-line work. I found that the Liquitex, when applied with a brush, completely smeared the liquid acrylic. (Black lines on white! Aaaaa!) I had just bought this Krylon UV Archival and thought I'd try on a piece I hadn't yet varnished. Did a test first, natch, and no smears and the varnish went on nice and even with no overspray like I've gotten with other products! I'm 4 out of 5 stars happy.The thing I am NOT happy about is that it is pretty smelly - like using spray paint. Good thing I did the project outside! I have asthma and this is why I hadn't used spray varnish. Sure enough, it's too much for me without wearing a respirator. With a respirator, no smell at all while spraying. It is now 2 days later and it still has a bit of a smell in the room I'm keeping it in, so I hope it calms down by an art event in 4 days. I used the gloss and the piece came out nice and shiny like I like.
(3 of 3 customers found this review helpful)
very pleased with results
By mountain top painter
from mountains of pennsylvania
i work in a combination of watercolor and tempera paint.. was very concerned about the disastrous reviews I read but wanted a good UV protection. MOST IMPORTANT THING is to keep the humidity in your work area as low as possible.. i run dehumidifiers to get humidity below 50%.. if the humidity is too high, you may get cloudiness or poor results.. KEEP THE HUMIDITY VERY LOW AND YOU SHOULD GET GOOD RESULTS...
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By monkey business
from Santa Fe, NM
Krylon Gallery Series Archival Varnish in Satin is by the best varnish I have ever used. It glides on with no spray ring. It dries fast and leaves a professional finish on all types of painting surfaces that I work with be it oil or acrylic. I'll never change brands and thankfully Blick carries it. Thank you Blick!!!!
(8 of 8 customers found this review helpful)
Fix to Fading Problem reported by Others
By Watercolor Guy
from San Jose, CA
Many reviewers have commented on how this varnish causes their watercolors to fade or discolor. I have had the same experience, but I have found a quick and easy solution that restores your damaged paintings.I spoke with a Krylon chemist, and they suggested that this problem could occur if atmospheric conditions create uneven drying to the varnished surface. Once the varnish has had 24 hours to dry, simply lightly recoat the affected/faded areas of your painting (or the entire painting if necessary). You will see that the colors resaturate to their original beauty, and when the coat of varnish dries, they retain their saturation. I'm not clear on the chemistry behind this, but it really works! This issue happens to me on about 25% of the paintings I spray, and I have saved every one by simply following this simple recoating step.I only give the product 4 stars, because it is frustrating that it has this issue with watercolor paints. But otherwise it is easy to use.Just make sure that even after you clear the nozzle by inverting the can and spraying till air comes out, that you remove the spray button and drop it in a jar of mineral spirits until you next need it, otherwise the nozzle WILL clog after a few uses, regardless if you "clear" it between uses according to manufacturer instructions.
Just do a TEST STRIP
By Always covered in Charcoal
from Los Angeles, CA
Im working in heavy heavy charcoals, and a week before a portrait is going in an artshow, I bought a new brand of fixative. Who knew this would be a disaster right?I of course having used a ton of other fixatives was a moron and didnt use a test strip. Sprayed the piece and in the graphite shaded areas, it disappeared mostly, but on the pure carbon charcoal beautiful blacks, it came out spotty white everywhere. WHAT A HEART ATTACK. I told myself it would probably dissapear when it dries, but it didnt... I guess some people have success with this brand, just do a test strip for the love of all that is holy. I'm going to have a ton of fun getting this piece show ready now...
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Merchant response: We are very sorry to hear that your piece was damaged by the fixative. As a rule, we recommend testing fixatives and varnishes on a scrap piece before spraying your final work. Not only does this protect your piece from potential damage, but it allows you to familiarize yourself with the product's properties. Please let us know anytime you receive a product that is defective, or does not perform as expected, we are happy to help you with a return or exchange.
First time user (Matte)
By Hazel
from Milwaukee, WI
I selected "average" on the required questions to compare this product's quality and price with competitive products, since I haven't compared it to competitive offerings. This is my first attempt to use a spray varnish. To date, all of my other art pieces were learning attempts, so I finished with any ordinary acrylic medium. Now that I'm attempting to create something more marketable in the art community, I'm checking out proper products. As far as spray action, this product applied smoothly in light mist back and forth actions. I applied it to a photo transfer on claybord, which provided enough tooth that I could add pastel/chalk colors over the transfer. I then sprayed the product again, which caused some of the pastel colors to remain intact while others faded away. I'm not sure if the fading was a result of applying a spray liquid over pastel or because I didn't first use a fixative. I'll be trying a fixative next. But, the product did give a matte finish for this application, slightly grainy/toothy to the touch. It's been at least 6 hours since I sprayed my art in the garage, and the piece still has a chemical smell. Hopefully that fades with time, but I wish it would fade faster.
Worked great
By georgegrl
from Maine
Easy to apply, did the job.
(4 of 4 customers found this review helpful)
Ruined my painting
By Jenna
from Saint Paul, MN
Initially went into buy the Golden matte varnish but was out of stock and the Krylon matte was available and was a little cheaper. The spray worked fine but it left a white haze all over my watercolor on aquaboard painting and now it's ruined. I'm so bummed because the painting was going to a friend. I'm returning for the Golden.
Merchant response: We are sorry to hear that this product did work as expected. We recommend testing any spray varnish on a scrap piece prior to applying on finished work. We hope that the replacement product will better meet your needs.
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Trailing just 13-6 with less than a minute left to halftime, Kentucky quarterback Mike Hartline dumped the ball to Derrick Locke, who was stripped and fumbled. Bama's Courtney Upshaw scooped up the loose ball and rambled 45 yards for a touchdown that ballooned the Tide lead to 20-6. UK never recovered.
Last weekend South Carolina quarterback Stephen Garcia made just one mistake - an ill-advised first-quarter throw over the middle that was intercepted. He paid dearly for it, though, as Mark Barron returned the pick 77 yards to give Bama a quick 7-0 lead it never relinquished.
The Tide ranks No. 1 nationally in pass efficiency defense, so throwing the ball against Bama is a losing proposition. Consider how poorly SEC quarterbacks have fared against Bama this fall:
- Arkansas's Ryan Mallett 12-35, 160 yards, 1 TD, 1 interception
- Kentucky's Hartline 17-31, 168 yards, 1 TD, 3 interceptions
- Ole Miss' Jevan Snead 11-34, 140 yards, 0 TD, 4 interceptions
- South Carolina's Garcia 20-46, 214 yards, 0 TD, 1 interception
Those four QBs combined to complete just 41.1 percent of their passes vs. the Tide with 2 touchdowns and 9 interceptions.
Given all of the above, you figure Tennessee will try to run the ball every down Saturday in Tuscaloosa. There's a problem with that strategy, though. Bama allows a paltry 63.29 rushing yards per game, ranking third nationally in that category.
Like it or not, Tennessee will have to throw the ball occasionally to loosen up the Tide's run defense. When the Vols go to the air, however, they'd better pick their spots carefully and throw the ball accurately.
After admitting that "you've got to find ways" to open up Bama's stingy rushing defense, Tennessee head coach Lane Kiffin added: "Does that mean you take chances at times? Sure, but you've got to take calculated risks.
"Other teams have hung with 'em for a little bit, then they screw it up because they take some chances and all of a sudden here goes one of their great players with an interception return for a touchdown and now the game's out of hand."
Saturday's game will test Tennessee's ground attack and its passing attack. Most of all it will test Tennessee's patience. The Vols must be content to mount methodical, time-consuming drives against a Bama defense that surrenders precious few sizable gains.
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Im new to the subaru WRX and im suprised there no truck release on the remote key chain... why?
This is a discussion on why isnt there a trunk release on the WRX remote? within the New Member Hangout forums, part of the Community - Meet other Enthusiasts category; Im new to the subaru WRX and im suprised there no truck release on the remote key chain... why?...
Im new to the subaru WRX and im suprised there no truck release on the remote key chain... why?
The trunk release is mechanical, there's no solenoid to trigger with the remote. It's just not that kind of party.
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dunno, but it sure would be nice if we did have one of those buttons.
Didn't know this was the case with the sedans (I have a wagon). The wagon is cool because you just hit the unlock button twice (to unlock all doors) and the hatch is unlocked as well. It has a handle and opens right up... A small advantage for the wagon??
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its just unlocked though, it doesn't pop open a little for you. NO ADVANTAGE!Originally Posted by boxerwagon
who the F*@K cares about a trunk release button. If you wanted something teh ghey like that then you should have gotten a maxima or an older lexus or something teh lame like that.Originally Posted by valuepac
I want a trunk release button. The Legacy's have them, so why not teh Imprezas?
Nissan and Toyota don't have AWD/Turbo (excluding the Celica Turbo from early 90's)
If people really want the truck release button they can have it added with aftermaket alarms for an extra few $$$
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cause if you have a *truck* in your suby you're going to need more than a button to get it out! try using a wrecker! j/kOriginally Posted by valuepac
trunk releases are pretty handy sometimes I agree
Careful now. My "teh gay" Legacy has a trunk release button. Oh...and did I mention it's a bit faster than a stock WRX? And soon faster than a stock STi? And yeah...not to long from now a bit faster than a stage 4 WRX. So hey....maybe it is "teh gay", or even "teh lame", so what does that make slower cars?Originally Posted by wrxaddicted
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Can I use cat treats as training treats for my dog, since they taste better and are cheaper than dry meat treats?
- We feed high-quality dog food.
- Just need a moderately-priced treat for at-home training, dry and easy to keep around.
- Can't find tiny dog treats like Charley Bears easily.
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Cat treats are made for cats, so Really there is a chance they would not be very good for a dog to have. Cats needs are very different then dogs and can be harmful to a dog. Getting one once in awhile may not hurt them, so you may be fine there, but it is best to stay with dog treats. I use the nutro crunchy treats. They are soft enough a small dog would be able to eat them.
Tiara answered on 1/26/12. Helpful? / 0
We always use cat food for training treats in all my obedience classes. Almost all dogs LOVE them, they are a perfect size and they are very easy to carry around with you.
Used as treats there is NOTHING different enough between cat food and dog food to harm your dog (or your cat, if you use dog food for treats.) When using treats you are not feeding your dog, you are giving little pieces to mark behaviors you desire. It is unlikely that your dog will eat enough cat food to ever mess with its normal diet. In fact, using liver or some other really rich treat is MORE likely to cause dietary issues that dry cat food.
Good luck with your training!!
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You can use cat treats but I recommend feeding dog treats. Cat treats won't hurt your dog (I've fed my dogs cat treats before and my vet feeds dogs cat treats).
Treats I recommend feeding -
Solid Gold Tiny Tots
Solid Gold Lamb Jerky
Solid Gold La Lamb Treats
Solid Gold Petzyme Tripe
SoJos Dog Treats
Kona's Chips
Wet Noses Organic Dog Treats
Pure Bites
Charlee Bear
Newman's Own Dog Treats
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Plato Organic Treats
Oliver Bentley's Barking Bakery
Member 930032 answered on 2/11/12. Helpful? / 0
There are some foods that cats like that are bad for dogs. The best treats I would recommend are homade treats. And this recipie is pretty much dry meat so here it is.
You will need: Boneless and skinless chicken
Prehat the oven to 200 degrees F
1. Cut off all the fat from the chicken. Cut the chicken into small strips (the size you want the treats to be).
2. Lay the strips on aluminum foil on a pan and bake it in the oven for 2-4 hours. (The strips don't have to be spread out because they just shrink).
3.Check the chicken at 2 hours. They are hard, thin, and dry when finished.
Your dog and maybe even you will enjoy them!
Here's a link to a webste with all kinds of dog treat recipes!
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I was reading a news story today about a Finnish woman – in coma for five years – who finally headed back home to Finland, still in a coma.
While stories of people in coma on the news is not uncommon, what shocked me the most were the series of archived articles related to the main story.
I went through all of them to discover that this woman, who had a stroke while shopping in 2004, has been abandoned by her husband and her family, and has been taken care of at the hospital's expense for five years.
First off kudos to the hospital for treating a patient like any hospital should.
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This married woman was abandoned by her husband and her family! Several Finnish people in the UAE have tried contacting the embassy but the woman was also abandoned by her government.
The news made it to Finland a couple of months ago where people shared more than what's on their mind. The woman was finally taken back to her country where she was (while in coma) reunited with her (obviously) not too happy husband.
How could someone just abandon their wife, mother, daughter, heck… citizen!
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"Rejex" is a compilation of tracks that didn't make it to Joey Bada$$' debut mixtape "1999". Knowing that, that shit is all the more impressive ! A couple of tracks were recorded when he was 15 years old ("little rachel", "indubitable", and "silent knight"). By chance, he ended up releasing them here. Amazing beats and a real emcee flow. Fucking promising. DOWNLOAD LINK.


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Cando2 is Candoco's youth dance performance company for disabled and non-disabled dancers aged 13-25. Cando2 provides young dancers with an opportunity to create high quality work with Candoco Artists and guest choreographers and perform at venues and festivals across the UK.
Cando2 performing with Trinity Laban Youth at U.Dance 2015 in Plymouth
Previous performances have included Commonwealth Youth Dance Festival at Tramway in Glasgow, ReFresh at The Place, Co-Motion at Trinity Laban, U.Dance London at Southbank Centre and Yael Flexer's Anniversary Sharings at The Place studios. In December 2014, Cando2 opened Candoco Dance Company's double bill Playing Another at the Queen Elizabeth Hall for the first time.
Watch videos on our Cando2 YouTube playlist to find out more. Or read about Cando2's involvement in Fresh (2012), Jam Free Tour (2011) and U.Dance (2012).
Candoco Dance Company works in partnership with The Place to support Cando2.


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Oct 6 2010
YEMEN: More horror stories about child brides
Reem al Numeri is 14-years-old and recently divorced. She was 11 when she says her father forced her to marry a cousin more than twice her age.
CNN Reem says she has been stigmatized by her divorce and now lives the life of an outcast. Without a husband or father to support her, she cannot attend school.
Her story has echoes of Nujood Ali — the Yemeni girl whose story sparked an international outrage that many thought would force change in the country. But a bill to outlaw child marriages got blocked and the practice continues. On Saturday, Yemen's parliament will look again at child marriage.
Reem's desperate pleas to stay a child fell on deaf ears as her father forced her to marry a 32-year-old cousin. "He said you need to go into the room where the judge is and tell him you agree to the marriage," Reem said. "I said I won't go in there – he took out his dagger and said he'd cut me in half if I didn't go in there and agree."


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Boniere Bakery, once on Park Avenue in Alameda, has reopened on Grand Avenue in Oakland. moto classifies their baked goods as "conventional Euro-American sweet stuff." Ruth Lafler says their products are like typical American supermarket bakery treats "without all the additives, HFCS, trans fats, etc."
A few hounds fondly remember Boniere's malasadas—Portuguese doughnuts traditionally prepared before Lent—and their traditional cake doughnuts. Unfortunately, the small size of the new bakery prevents them from firing up the deep-fat fryer to produce doughnuts. Too bad.
Boniere Bakery [East Bay]
3249 Grand Avenue, Oakland
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America by reason of the rapid development of criminological
research in this country since the organization of the Institute.
Criminology draws upon many independent branches of science,
such as Psychology, Anthropology, Neurology, Medicine,
Education, Sociology, and Law. These sciences contribute to our
understanding of the nature of the delinquent and to our knowledge
of those conditions in home, occupation, school, prison, etc., which
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approve and cherish.
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special interest.
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of the problems of delinquency, the State control of which
commands as great expenditure of human toil and treasure as does
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SAVANNAH - On Wednesday at noon in the Eckburg Auditorium, Savannah Technical College will efresh its Web site for the public.
South Effingham High School's business classes took field trips on April 8 and April 15 to tour Citizen's Bank in Springfield. Students attending the field trip are currently enrolled in business essentials, workplace readiness and accounting classes.
The Effingham County Board of Education got a clarification on its dress code last Thursday.
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Recently, Effingham Christian School seventh and eighth graders had the privilege of visiting Washington, D. C.
On March 4, South Effingham Middle School hosted its first Math and Science Family Fun night.
FCCLA students compete at region STAR events
Effingham County hosted 11 counties for this year's Southeast District 4-H Cloverleaf District Project Achievement. More than 600 people were in attendance.
More than 700 students traveled to Athens to compete in the 60th Annual Georgia Science and Engineering Fair. Among those competing were three of Effingham's own students: Bryce Blewett (ECMS), Tierney Hagan (ECMS), and Chris Mitchell (SEMS).
Several South Effingham High School students earned top spots in Georgia's recent National French Contest. French teacher Valerie Granzow announced that several scored in the top 10 percent in the state.
Every year, students across the state take the CRCT to see how much they have learned throughout the year and to report for the No Child Left Behind Act how well schools are educating students.
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The South Effingham Middle School FFA Poultry Evaluation Team recently competed in the Area FFA Poultry Evaluation Career Development Event held in Dodge County.
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EDITOR'S NOTE: This short review originally ran in Education Gadfly Weekly on July 23, 2014. Here we present the original review with an added Ohio perspective.
This new report from the University of Arkansas compares the productivity of public charter schools and district schools, both in terms of cost effectiveness and return on investment (ROI). For the cost-effectiveness analysis, the authors consider how many test-score points students gain on the 2010–11 NAEP for each $1,000 invested; to measure ROI, the authors used, among other data, student-achievement results from CREDO's national charter school study (that matched students via a "virtual twin" methodology). The key finding: For every $1,000 invested, charter students across the United States earned a weighted average of an additional seventeen points in math and sixteen additional points in reading on NAEP, compared to traditional district students, controlling for student characteristics such as poverty and special-education status. This translates into charters nationwide being 40 percent more cost effective. Meanwhile, Buckeye State charters are less cost effective than national charters, though still more so than their district counterparts within the state. Ohio charters averaged nine additional NAEP points in both reading and math per $1,000 in funding relative to comparable districts. The researchers...
EDITOR'S NOTE: This blog post was first published on the United States Chamber of Commerce's website on Wednesday, July 23, 2014, and is reprinted here by permission of the author.
Ohio has had statewide learning standards in mathematics and English Language Arts in the past, but these standards were not rigorous and not aligned with the demands of college and the workplace. The outcome was low academic expectations which resulted in too many students not being college ready, and a short supply of graduates with the basic abilities needed for success in the workplace, including critical thinking and problem solving skills.
The dismal statistics below underscore to a significant extent the reality of the "quality of education" in Ohio:
The Hispanic population in the United States continues to grow, with Hispanics making up nearly 17 percent of the total population. This population is young (33 percent is of school age) and is changing the demographics of schools in many states, Ohio among them. From 2000–10, the Hispanic population in Ohio grew to approximately 350,000 individuals, representing 3 percent of the state's total population. That's obviously smaller than in, say, Texas, but the number is rising.
Unfortunately, Hispanic students in Ohio schools are struggling. On the Ohio Achievement Assessment (OAA), administered in May 2013, Hispanic children scored lower than the state average in both reading and mathematics at every grade level tested. Similarly, on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in 2013, Hispanic students in Ohio scored, on average, seventeen points lower than their white peers in fourth-grade reading and fifteen points lower in fourth-grade math. Further, only 66 percent of Hispanic students in Ohio graduate from high school, compared to 80 percent for all students. These results indicate that the achievement gap remains wide...
Inter-district open enrollment often flies under the radar in discussions about school choice. It may be that way because it has been around so long (established in 1989 and operating in its current form since 1998); perhaps because it is not universally available or because many of the most-desirable districts do not allow open enrollment; or perhaps because it is choice "within the family" (that is, the traditional district family). Despite its usual low-profile, two recent newspaper stories shined light on the topic of open enrollment, showing a disconnect between those administering this unsung school choice program and those who actually use it.
From a district's point of view, open enrollment can easily devolve into "just business" – dollars in and dollars out to be accounted for year after year. Just check out this story from Hancock County in Northwest Ohio. Net financial "winners"—those districts that have more open-enrollee students coming in than leaving—seem to be fine with the system, as might be expected. But net financial "losers" are objecting more strenuously as the losses go on. Their objections, however, often have very little to do with why students are attending a school outside of their "home" district. In...
Earlier this year, two articles published in the Columbus Dispatch claimed that students using vouchers to attend private schools in Ohio perform worse than their peers attending public schools. The focus of the March 8 article and the subsequent March 16 editorial was on extending the third grade reading guarantee to students using vouchers (a measure eventually signed into law). In an effort to bolster this argument, the article referenced data suggesting that 36 percent of third-grade voucher students would be retained compared to only 34 percent of public school students. Other articles in the Cincinnati Enquirer and the Canton Repository made similar comparisons that negatively portrayed the performance of students using an EdChoice Scholarship. However, Test Comparison Summary data released this week by the Ohio Department of Education shows a very different picture of how voucher students are performing. The key is using the right comparison group.
The data used in the articles referenced above incorrectly grouped the results of all public school students in the state, including many affluent public schools, and then compared their results with those of voucher students. However, these scholarships are not available to all students. Students...
On this week's podcast: A lunch fight, a School Choice Ohio lawsuit, the DOE's My Brother's Keeper initiative, and Amber reviews NCTQ's Roll Call report.
The National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) released an alarming new report today on teacher absenteeism in America's urban public schools. While teacher absences were unacceptably high across most of the school districts that NCTQ analyzed, Cleveland and Columbus public schools earned the unhappy distinction of having the most teacher absences of them all. NCTQ's analysts used district-level data from 2012-13 to calculate the number of teacher absences in forty of the nation's largest urban school systems. The results were, on the whole, woeful: teachers across these districts were absent, on average, eleven days during the school year. (The length of a school year is roughly 180 days.) NCTQ's analysis excludes days missed due to major illness or maternity leave, and did include days missed for professional development.
Teacher absenteeism borders on a crisis in Cleveland and Columbus. Cleveland's teachers missed an average of sixteen days while in Columbus, teachers missed fifteen days—good for the highest and second-highest absentee rates in this study. Meanwhile, in Cincinnati—the only other Ohio district that NCTQ analyzed for this study—teachers missed an average of twelve days of school. (In a separate study, NCTQ found that Dayton's teachers were absent nearly fifteen days.)...
Cleveland's teachers union is in a fit over the district's increased utilization of Teach For America (TFA) to fill teaching positions. Instead of griping, the labor union should think instead of the larger human-resource crisis the district faces. The district has a myriad of human-resource struggles and, as we'll see, one of them is its aging workforce.
The backstory, in brief, is the following. For Fall 2014, the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) has approved the hiring of forty new TFA teachers. This more than doubles the nineteen TFA corps members that the district hired for the 2013-14 school year. TFA is a highly regarded organization that recruits and trains talented young people to teach in high-need schools across the nation.
But, as the Cleveland Plain-Dealer reported recently, the teachers union doesn't seem to be on board—and that's too bad. In light of its opposition, here's a fact the union should chew on.
In 2012-13, CMSD had the highest percentage of teachers with more than ten years of experience of all districts in Ohio. Indeed, 89 percent of its teaching force had more than ten years of experience.[1] As a reference point, the...
I joined the Twittersphere yesterday for a forum on blended learning moderated by Matt Miller, superintendent of Mentor School District in Northeast Ohio. (Find the tweets at #ohblendchat.) The conversation engaged, by my estimation, fifty or so educators who in 140 characters or less discussed what "blended learning" is, how they're implementing it, what benefits they're seeing, and what some of the barriers and misconceptions are.
The forum was a great opportunity to learn how blended learning is playing out in the field. From the chat, I came away with three takeaways:
1.) There is increasing definition around what blended learning is and is not. First, what it is not: putting students in front of a computer and expecting them to learn. Nor does blended learning slavishly conform to a single method of instruction (e.g., lecture, online, project-based). What is blended learning, then? A few of the key phrases used to define blended learning included personalized learning, a combination of instructional deliveries, collaborative learning, and even controlled chaos.
2.) Teachers say their feedback on students' work is swifter and their engagement with all students increases in a blended-learning environment compared to conventional ones. Several educators...
Last week, the Ohio Senate passed House Bill 487, also known as the Education Mid Biennium Review (MBR) with overwhelming support (by a vote of twenty-seven to five). The MBR contains a wide variety of education-policy changes, including some modifications that affect Ohio's academic content standards and assessments.
Ohio's current learning standards, adopted in 2010 by the State Board of Education, include standards for students in grades K–12 in English language arts, math, science, and social studies. When the standards were adopted four years ago, there was public input but little fanfare or controversy. That changed about a year ago, when critics began focusing on the math and English language arts standards, a.k.a. the Common Core State Standards (CCSS).
As opposition to the CCSS heated up all over the country (the standards were adopted by forty-five states), the focal point in Ohio was House Bill 237, which proposed repealing CCSS completely. The bill, sponsored by Representative Andy Thompson, received two hearings in the House Education Committee, with the last hearing in November 2013 drawing more than 500 people to the Statehouse.
The Senate's changes in the MBR address some of the chief concerns raised at the November bill hearing. The key proposed changes are described below.
It's too early to tell which of these changes will become law as the MBR still has to go to conference committee to allow the House and Senate to work out their differences. However, with these changes, the Ohio Senate appears to have effectively threaded the needle. It has reasserted Ohio's commitment both to high-quality standards designed to prepare our students for success after high school and to rigorous assessments aligned to those standards. Meanwhile, the Senate has rightly listened to the reasonable concerns of parents and teachers across the state. Hopefully, educators around the state can breathe a little easier knowing that the standards they've been working hard to implement over the past four years won't be changed in the final hour.
Like the Cleveland Browns on a Sunday afternoon, the Ohio General Assembly is fumbling about with the state's value-added system. One month ago, I described two bizarre provisions related to value-added (VAM) that the House tucked into the state's mid-biennium budget bill (House Bill 487). The Senate has since struck down one of the House's bad provisions—and kudos for that—but, regrettably, has blundered on the second one.
To recap briefly, the House proposals would have (1) excluded certain students from schools' value-added computations and (2) changed the computation of value-added estimates—the state's measure of a school's impact on student growth—from a three-year to a one-year calculation.
I argued then that the House's student-exclusion provision would water-down accountability, and that reverting to the one-year estimates would increase the uncertainty around schools' value-added results.
The Senate has struck down the House's exclusion provision. Good. But it has failed to rectify the matter of the one-versus-three-year computation. In fact, it has made things worse.
Here's the Senate's amendment:
In determining the value-added progress dimension score, the department shall use either up to three years of value-added data as available or value-added data from the most recent school year available, whichever results in a higher score for the district or building.
Now, under the Senate proposal, schools would receive a rating based on whichever VAM estimate is higher—either the one-year or the three-year computation. (Naturally, schools that just recently opened would not have three years of data; hence, the "as available" and "up to" clauses.)
Huh? How is this rational accountability? The Senate seems to have fallen into the Oprah zone: "you get an A, you get an A, everybody gets an A!"
I exaggerate, of course. Not everyone would get an A, based on the "higher score" policy. But let's consider what happens to school ratings, under the three scenarios in play—the one-year value-added computation (House), the three-year computation (current policy), and the higher score of the two scores (Senate).
Chart 1 compares the letter-grade distribution under the one-year versus three-year (i.e., multi-year) estimates. As you can see, the three-year scores push schools toward the margins (As and Fs), while at the same time, diminishes the number of schools in the middle (Cs). This is to be expected, given what we know about the greater imprecision of the one-year value-added estimates. Greater imprecision tends to push schools toward the middle of the distribution, sans clear evidence to suggest they've had a significant impact, either positively (A) or negatively (F). In short, when the data are "noisier"—as they are under the one-year estimates—we're more likely to wind up with more schools in the mushy middle.[1]
Chart 1: Clearer view of value-added impact under multi-year scores: Multi-year scores push schools toward the margins (A or F); One-year scores push schools toward the middle (C)
Source: Ohio Department of Education. For 2012-13, multi-year VAM scores are available publicly; the author thanks the department for making schools' one-year VAM scores accessible at his request. (One-year VAMs, school by school, are available here.) Notes: The one-year A-F ratings are simulated, based on schools' one-year VAM scores for 2012-13. (The "cut points" for the ratings are here.) The multi-year A-F ratings for 2012-13 are actual letter grades, based on schools' VAM scores (up to three years) from SY 2011, 2012, 2013. Chart displays the school-level (district and charter) distribution of letter grades (n = 2,558).
Now, let's look at the Senate's "higher-score" proposal—the real whopper of them all. Consider chart 2 which also includes the higher of the two value-added scores (the green bar). What you'll notice is that the number of As would likely increase under the proposal, so that virtually half the schools in the state would receive an A. On the other end of the spectrum, the number of Fs would be cut in half, so that just one-in-ten of the schools in the state would receive an F.
Chart 2: Roughly half of schools would get A under "higher score" provision
Are half the schools in Ohio making significant—meaningfully significant—gains for their students? And are just one-in-ten schools failing to move the achievement needle in a significant way? Let's get real.
As I've maintained, current policy—the three-year computation—is the best course for policymakers. It gives us the clearest look at a school's impact, both good and bad, on student performance. The finagling of value-added isn't just an academic exercise, either—it has considerable implications for the state's automatic charter school closure law, voucher eligibility, academic distress commissions, and a number of other accountability policies. Can Ohio's policymakers rectify this value-added mess? As with the Browns' playoff chances, here's hoping!
[1] Of course, not all schools in the C range are there because of imprecision—some schools may have had a clear, statistically insignificant impact on learning gains.
Last week, School Choice Ohio sued two Ohio school districts for their failure to comply with a public-records request. The organization is seeking directory information for students eligible for the EdChoice Scholarship Program from the Cincinnati and Springfield Public Schools. Actions to enforce public-records requests are rarely exciting, but the outcome of SCO's effort could have important ramifications for tens of thousands of students and their families across the state.
Despite being a national leader in providing private-school choice options to students—Ohio has five separate voucher programs—there isn't an established mechanism for informing families eligible for the EdChoice Scholarship program (Ohio's largest voucher initiative) about their eligibility. The law doesn't require school districts or the Ohio Department of Education to perform this vital function.
Enter School Choice Ohio (SCO), a Columbus-based nonprofit organization, which has worked tirelessly since the beginning of the EdChoice program to conduct outreach to families across the Buckeye State who are eligible to send their child to a private school via a voucher. SCO typically sends postcards and makes phone calls letting families know that their children may be eligible, giving them a toll-free number to call for an information packet and answering any questions families may have about eligibility and the private-school options in their area.
This is critical work, as the EdChoice Scholarship is designed to provide students in Ohio's very lowest-performing schools the option to attend a private school.
To conduct this outreach, SCO makes a public-records request for directory information to superintendents of school districts whose students are eligible for the EdChoice Scholarship. "Directory information" can encompass a number of district-chosen parameters but typically includes a student's name, address, phone number, grade level, and school-building assignment. It is the kind of information you might find in a student directory handed out to families along with a student handbook at the start of each school year.
The statutory language clearly states that if directory information is collected and distributed at all, it is a public record that can be requested by a nonprofit as long as it isn't "for use in a profit-making plan or activity." In other words, as long as it's for a nonprofit exactly like SCO.
How do we know all this? We both worked at SCO for many years, making these public-records requests and helping interested families contacted via directory information.
In the main, districts grudgingly but professionally complied with public-records requests for directory information. One perennial resistor to SCO's public records requests was Cincinnati City Schools. Every year they would send back a letter through their lawyer saying, in essence, "We know we're supposed to collect directory information, but we don't so we can't give it to you."
That means thousands of Cincinnati families every year whose children were eligible for a scholarship to a private school of their choice stayed put in their bottom-of-the-heap school simply because they didn't know another option existed.
Springfield, meanwhile, has collected directory information of the type SCO requests, and they have provided it to SCO in the past. However, as the Springfield News-Sun notes, the board passed a policy change in 2013 which redefined "directory information" to remove anything that would identify a student and so they could not comply with SCO's latest request.
Unfazed by its own policy constraints, the district continued releasing identifiable directory information to what it calls its "partners" after the policy change. When asked about the legal action last week, Springfield Superintendent David Estrop said, "We are trying to protect our own students from false and inaccurate information." The characterization of SCO's work aside, such ad hoc provision of data is not allowed under Ohio's public-records law. Hence, SCO's legal action.
We commend SCO for taking this bold and much-needed action. The EdChoice Scholarship program provides opportunities to some of Ohio's most disadvantaged students who, through no fault of their own, have been assigned to a school that is not, under the state's criteria, effectively educating its students. To deny these students and their parents information about their private-school options strikes us as a particularly low blow. If SCO isn't successful, we'd urge the legislature to say enough is enough and to step in and require either school districts or (preferably) ODE to notify these families of their eligibility. After all, in Ohio, when your local school isn't performing well, you have a choice. You deserve to know about it.
A great deal of hand-wringing has occurred in recent years concerning the United States' poor academic performance relative to other nations. The anxiety is no doubt justified, as students from countries like South Korea, Japan, and Hong Kong are beating the pants off American pupils on international exams. It's not just the East Asian countries: even the Swiss, Canucks, and Aussies are cleaning our clocks. But what about Ohio's students? How does its achievement look in comparison to other industrialized nations? Like most states, not well, according to this new PEPG/Education Next study. To determine how states rank compared to the rest of the world, researchers link 2012 PISA results—international exams administered in thirty-four OECD countries including the U.S.—and state-level NAEP results for eighth graders in 2011. The researchers discovered that Ohio's students fall well short of the world's highest performers. When examining math results, Ohio's proficiency rate (39 percent) falls 15 to 25 percentage points below the highest-achieving nations. (Korea, the worldwide leader in math, was at 65 percent proficiency; Japan was at 59 percent; Massachusetts, the U.S. leader, was at 51 percent). In fact, Ohio's proficiency rate places us somewhere between Norway's and Portugal's achievement rates in this grade and subject. Moreover, Ohio's weak international performance isn't just a matter of our students having lower family resources relative to other nations. For example, among students whose parents had a high level of education, Ohio's math proficiency rate (50 percent) still fell twenty points below the international leaders' math proficiency rates (Korea, at 73 percent; Poland, at 71 percent). Ohio's alarmingly mediocre achievement relative to the rest of the world only reinforces our need to raise educational standards so that students—from all family backgrounds—can compete with their international peers.
SOURCE: Eric A. Hanushek, Paul E. Peterson, and Ludger Woessmann, Not just the problem of other people's children: U.S. student performance in global perspective (Program on Education Policy and Governance and Education Next, May 2014).


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Oops! Our Mistakes Become Your Savings
If you've been shopping with us for a while, you might know by now that while we carry socks from a multitude of different suppliers, we also have a few house brands that are made just a little bit dreamier than regular socks. These brands are Dream Stockings and Dreamer Socks, while gift cards and non-sock accessories such as garters and gloves are part of our third and eponymous brand: Sock Dreams!
This week we're proud to announce the addition of yet another house line: Oops! Socks in the Oops! line are the same great socks that you recognize from Dream Stockings and Dreamer Socks, only these batches were made with some slight flaws! We don't like wasting things (especially socks), so we've decided to sell these since their flaws have no effect on their structural integrity – we do feel that they merit a discount, however!
Oops! O Basics have just a bit of extra texture!
Some of these socks are only flawed in terms of sizing, but because they all have their own errors going on, we do recommend that you read their product information carefully – we want to provide you with savings, not unpleasant surprises!
Currently the line consists of four products, which will likely become a rotating selection as we sell out of flawed batches and get others in. Available now are Oops! Extraordinary Wool Socks, Extraordinary Thigh Highs, O Basics, and Extraordinary Stripes, some of which are perfectly normal except that they were supposed to be Extraordinarily Longer! As the selection is changed out, you'll be able to find it in the Sale Section, or by simply typing "Oops!" into the search field!
Here at Sock Dreams we believe that even accidents can be happy, and in that spirit we hope that you will enjoy these variations on our dreamiest socks!
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im sorry - i think ive died and gone to heaven!!!! ive been dreaming of this forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i thought maybe it was only in shop that oopsies were available ... so happy i get to collect these now!!!!!!!!↓
@raubynn, We're glad that the Oops! styles not only turned our frowns upside down but made a dream of yours come true! Get 'em while you can, it looks like folks are digging our mistakes.↓
yeah darn :( i missed the wools!!! got busy at work and had a long drive home in the snow storm and didnt get to check back in until now to order and ZAP! gone ~~ ill be quicker next time!!!↓
@raubynn, Oh no! Stupid snow, it was actually keeping you from warm socks! Better hunting next time, you'll catch your socky prey for sure!↓
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Breathing difficulties are one of the most common health problems encountered by premature babies. Fortunately, due to advancements in medicine and technology, most premature babies will achieve full health with the assistance of varying levels of breathing support in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).

Causes of Breathing Difficulties in Preemies:

Because their lungs don't have the chance to reach full maturity in the womb, premature babies may be born with breathing problems caused by one or more of the following:

An immature respiratory system

 Respiratory Distress Syndrome, due to a lack of surfactant in the lungs, a substance that allows the muscles of the lung to expand and contract smoothly. When a woman is in premature labor, medication can be given before delivery to speed up production of surfactant and help prevent RDS. Surfactant can be given to the baby after birth, as well, if needed. Although most premature babies who lack surfactant will require a breathing machine, or ventilator, for a while, the use of surfactant has greatly decreased the amount of time they spend on the ventilator.

 Bronchopulmonary dysplasia, a chronic lung disease more common in preemies, especially those who weigh less than 1,000 grams (2.2 pounds) at birth

 Apnea, prolonged pauses in breathing that may cause the heart rate to decrease, usually caused by immaturity in the area of the brain that controls the drive to breathe

Fortunately, neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) are staffed and equipped to provide the breathing assistance and monitoring premature babies need until they are able to breathe optimally on their own. Breathing assistance provided in the NICU can be one of the most important treatments a premature baby receives.

Types of Breathing Support in the NICU

Many different types of respiratory support are available in the NIUC, depending on the level of help a baby needs. These include:

 Nasal Cannula: One of the least invasive forms of respiratory support, a nasal cannula is a thin plastic tube that delivers oxygen directly into the nostrils. With a nasal cannula, the baby breathes on his or her own, but needs additional airflow to keep the lungs open or additional oxygen to maintain good oxygen saturations.

 CPAP: Continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, is a type of respiratory support that blows a constant airflow into a baby's lungs through a mask or via a nasal cannula in order to help keep the lungs inflated. The air pressure is higher than with a nasal cannula, but the baby is still breathing on his or her own.

 Mechanical Ventilation: A baby who is very premature or weak may need the assistance of a ventilator, which can help the lungs do the work of breathing. A ventilator provides a mixture of air and oxygen into the baby through a tube in his or her windpipe, and then draws it out. This replicates a natural pattern of breathing. With most ventilators, a baby can still take his or her own breaths, but the ventilator will greatly assist.


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Emmaus Track team raises money to fight cancer
A few years ago the Emmaus Track and Field teams hosted an event.
They shaved their heads and the heads of others and raised money to fight childhood cancer.
Their Shave for the Brave event exceeded even their expectations.
Today, they held their third event, and just like the last two times they've done it, they had a huge turnout and raised a lot of money.
Emmaus teamed up with the Angel 34 Foundation and St. Baldrick's and just like the last two times they've held the event, they are overwhelmed with the support and turnout from athletes and students alike.Shave for the Brave at Emmaus High School


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Consolidated Heating has been placed for immediate collections/litigation. They have stolen my clients services with out paying. This company has incurred a debt with a cleaning company, Janitorial services. This debtor company refuses to pay for servies, they refuse to respond, and the secrtary is rude, will not transfer calls to the owner Keith Hartley or the accounting gal, Tammi .
They screen all incomming calls, and either party are never in the office, They will n ot returen a call, or even respond to emails. This is a major DEBTOR. We wanted to warn other companies of this theft of services, They will rip you off.
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Red Alert & Shields Up!
This is a discussion on Casing my house? within the Off Topic & Humor Discussion forums, part of the The Back Porch category; We just got fresh snow last night. Today I went out to the store and I just got home, and noticed two sets of footprints ...
We just got fresh snow last night. Today I went out to the store and I just got home, and noticed two sets of footprints all the way around my house. If it was just one set, I wouldn't have thought anything of it. It's around the time of month the electric company reads the meter. But he usually stops in the road and walks straight in and out, he doesn't walk the entire perimeter of the house. Plus, the footprints didn't stop at the utility access area.
With the recent history of my doorbell ringing at 1am and banging outside near the garage after midnight, I'm even more suspicious.
Red Alert & Shields Up!
You have to make the shot when fire is smoking, people are screaming, dogs are barking, kids are crying and sirens are coming.
Randy Cain.
Ego will kill you. Leave it at home.
Signed: Me!
You're not being paranoid. Trust your instincts! Keep your eyes & ears open, God bless!
"Praise the Lord & pass the ammunition"
Call the electric company and see if there was a trainee on the rounds or something. If they ask why, I probably wouldn't say anything about footprints. I'd say I saw two people near the house and wanted to know who they were.
I'm with Miggy...but chances are its kids messing around, but I'd rather be cautious.
"Just blame Sixto"
I reserve the right to make fun, point and laugh etc.
Good thing there was snow out! Someone's watching your back...
Most victims don't pay attention to warnings. Pay attention to the warning and the feeling in your gut. We have instincts to help keep us safe, use them. Call the local police so they can keep an eye on your area. They may be able to catch who ever it is before any serious harm is done. I have a similar situation going on now with my stepson. We go to court on Thursday and if things go the way they should he'll be moving to the local jail. He used my credit cards and check card fraudulently and wiped out my bank account before we could stop him. Since I filed police reports in November, my truck has been vandalized and our TV cable and telephone line was cut. The locals have reports on this as well.
keep the radar up and running. be safe.
(SHERIFF BUFORD T. JUSTICE) "what the hell is
the world coming too"


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The word baptism in its origins is Greek and means
"immersion" and "bath." Immersion in water is a sign of death and
emersion out of the water means new life. To bathe in water is also to
undergo cleansing. Saint Paul sums up this truth when he says, "You were
buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him
through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead" (Col
The origin and foundation of Christian Baptism is Jesus.
Before starting his public ministry, Jesus submitted himself to the
baptism given by John the Baptist. The waters did not purify him; he
cleansed the waters. "He comes to sanctify the Jordan for our sake . . .
to begin a new creation through the Spirit and water" (St. Gregory
Nazianzen, Liturgy of the Hours, I, 634).
Jesus' immersion in the water is a sign for all human beings of the
need to die to themselves to do God's will. Jesus did not need to be
baptized because he was totally faithful to the will of his Father and
free from sin. However, he wanted to show his solidarity with human
beings in order to reconcile them to the Father.
By commanding his disciples to baptize all nations, he established
the means by which people would die to sin—Original and actual—and begin
to live a new life with God.
Baptisms are held on the 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month at 12:00 noon. To arrange for a Baptism and a preparation class, please contact the parish office: (860) 561-4235.
Dear Lord,
Watch over these children. Send your blessing on them so that they might grow in Christian maturity. Bless the parents, families, friends, and all who nourish these children. Help them to grow in your grace. We give thanks for the gift of these unique and tiny children who reminds us of your incredible love.
In Jesus' name we pray. Amen
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T.U.S.K. America
Help us stand up to utility monopolies to ensure solar energy
remains strong in America. Click here to get involved!
The Issue
Monopoly utilities want to extinguish the independent rooftop solar market in America to protect their socialist control of how we get our electricity. They have engaged in class warfare and tried to sabotage net metering, a billing method that gives individual homeowners fair credit for power produced on their own rooftops. They would like to deny us Americans energy choice and maintain their monopoly status.
Why did TUSK form?
TUSK formed to create a united front through which we can tell utilities that solar is right for conservatives and right for America. We want energy choice and independence, and solar provides that. The utilities are trying to hold onto their monopoly and continue to make you buy centralized power. Solar is the American way and the conservative way, and we're here to protect that.
What states is TUSK active in?
TUSK started in 2013 to tell APS that solar won't be killed in Arizona. Now we are active across the country – view the TUSK USA map here – view the TUSK USA map here. Check out each state's page for more information on what we've done in each location.
Why are the utilities trying to eliminate solar?
Utilities think that solar and net metering, the fair policy that allows solar customers to be credited at full retail value, is a threat to their monopoly business model. They want to prevent customers from having choice and force them to keep buying dirty, expensive power.
What has TUSK done to preserve solar?
TUSK works to emphasize your voice and show state regulators and legislators that solar matters to the people. Do you want to get involved? Check out each of the states' pages or sign up on our mailing list.


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We would love to hear your feedback and any suggestions you may have for our new VWVortex store.
Let us know if there is a color option you would like added or a particular merchandise item you would like to see in the store. Have you had a chance to buy an item from our store? Then we want to hear what you think about the merchandise you bought.
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It's the return of the red label at Bentley, fitting because the car that wears the scarlet B is powered by the same thoroughbred 4.0 TFSI biturbo V8 that powers the new Audi S8, S7 and S6. Bentley revealed the Continetnal GT V8 this week at the 2012 North American International Auto Show and we've shot this first collection of photos live from Detroit's Cobo
We've just uploaded a comprehensive collection of photos from the 2012 North American International Auto Show. The mix includes the Audi Q3 Vail design study, the new updated Audi RS 5, S4, A4 allroad, A8 3.0 TFSI, A3 e-tron, R8 GT Spyder and more.
See them all via THIS LINK.
Audi of America is as serious as a heart attack when it comes to social media. We'd published ahead of last weeks North American International Auto Show in Detroit that we'd be joining other online bloggers from Speed:Sport:Life and Quattroworld.com as well as Audi's own social media team in helping to cover the Detroit Auto Show from an Audi perspective.
The auto show season kicks off officially on Monday with the first press day at the North American International Auto Show. The NAIAS is the biggest auto show in North America and as such Audi always shows up in force. Of course there will


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Reverse Engineering Of The Nk Boolean Network And Its Extension — Fuzzy Logic Network
In this paper, we first propose a reverse engineering solution to decode the NK Boolean dynamic network given the input and output of the system. This theory utilizes basis functions and dynamic matrices, through which the network's evolutionary behavior can be simulated in a rigorous mathematical manner. Then, a general network model, fuzzy logic network (FLN), is presented as the extension of the Boolean network. This novel network model assigns variable values in a continuous domain, and it can accommodate internal conflicts among variables. In addition, the FLN uses fuzzy logical functions instead of Boolean logical functions, which enables it to model highly non-linear relationships and periodicity. Using the approach of annealed approximations, we proved important theorems concerning the dynamic property of the FLN. Combined with the Zipf's law, the criteria of applying FLN to the modeling of gene regulatory networks were achieved.
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Embarcadero Technologies is best known for its software development tools and database, even if the company also offers solutions for system modeling. With a new integrated development environment (IDE), the company hoping to capture the mobile market and ease the burden of application developers with a cross operating system platform.
The cross-platform IDE called Appmethod allows developers to use the same code to develop applications, which once compiled, will run on iOS, Android and workstations running Windows or Mac OS.
With the new IDE by Embarcadero Technologies, developers no longer need to prepare their apps for each operating system. Appmethod will allow them to create applications compatible with multiple platforms. With the first version of Appmethod, developers will be able to write and maintain a single code base for iOS systems, Android, Mac OS and Windows (desktop version). This first version uses the Object Pascal programming language. But an update, scheduled for June, will add the C+ + language.
Changes the approach to building applications
Appmethod greatly simplifies and accelerates the development of various devices, allowing developers to create applications for all the most popular platforms on the basis of a single code. This is critical for companies and independent developers in terms of efficient use of resources. Developers can create applications to 5 or 20 times faster than other tools on the market for development, dramatically reducing the overall cost of development.
A developer can compile the source code for different platforms while still having the ability to customize each program with the look-and-feel of the platform. For example, if a programmer wants to use a feature in an OS and not in others, she may call the native API of the OS directly from the Pascal programming language.
Connectors for Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 and Informix databases
The pack includes connectors for databases including Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2 and Informix. It also includes more than 100 user interface controls (such as buttons, list views, tab management and others). To facilitate the exchange of data between applications and external sources, Appmethod recognizes SOAP (Simple Object Access) protocols, REST (Representational State Transfer), JSON (JavaScript Object Notation), App42 Kinvey services and Parse API.
Embarcadero also provides a set of middleware services that can be used in conjunction with applications built with Appmethod. Enterprise Mobility as a Service that provides caching, management of in-memory data, and analysis functions.
Embarcadero Technologies is not the first to try to sell a tool for cross-platform development targeting mobile environments. Xamarin and SAP already offer a plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio and Oracle, an extension of the cross-development framework for application development.
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10 Questions with Alex Skolnick
You don't often hear KISS and Miles Davis mentioned in the same conversation, unless it's Alex Skolnick doing the talking.
The former lead guitarist for the late-'80s metal band, Testament, Skolnick took a musical detour in the 1990s after becoming enthralled with the music of Davis and other jazz legends. Skolnick immersed himself in the study of the music, earning a BFA in jazz performance from New School University.
Skolnick presently performs in a variety of improvisational outfits, including The Alex Skolnick Trio and the Skol Patrol. In 2002, The Alex Skolnick Trio released the acclaimed Goodbye to Romance: Standards for a New Generation; the album re-interpreted arena-rock classics by The Scorpions, Ozzy Osbourne, and others-in jazz and swing fashion. Skolnick has also toured with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra and composed music for Electronic Arts, MTV, and even the Westminster Dog Show.
Before a recent show with The Alex Skolnick Trio, Skolnick sat down with Guitar.com for a round of Ten Questions:
Guitar.com: What's your first guitar-related memory?
Alex Skolnick: I think it was seeing KISS on TV. It wasn't necessarily the guitar itself as [the fact that] they looked like superheroes to me.
Guitar.com: What was the best thing about playing hard rock/metal music?
Skolnick: It forced me to develop technique and presence. I think that stage presence translates to any type of music, so, even though what I'm playing now is very different [from his metal days with Testament], I think that the initial experience of having to be onstage and having to be confident was very helpful. Also, heavy metal requires a lot of guitar techniques. [In the 1980s], it was acceptable to play guitar solos that were developed. Playing metal at that time and being influenced by great metal players such as Randy Rhoads, [Eddie] Van Halen, and Michael Schenker [UFO, Scorpions] did wonders for my technique.
Guitar.com: What was the worst thing about playing metal?
Skolnick: The worst thing was the lack of dynamics, the lack of expression [in the music]. The music was great for what it was, but it just wasn't about dynamics and expression.
Guitar.com: What's the best way for a rock or metal guitarist who's curious about jazz to get into playing the music?
Skolnick: The first thing to do is accept the fact that it's going to be like starting over. Also, you need to hear a lot of live music. Live is the way to learn the music-it's inspiring and not the same as listening to albums. Also, [it's important to] start simple. Don't try to do the most complicated arrangements. Don't try to be as proficient as you are with rock or metal. Learn the earlier versions from the jazz repertoire. For example, listen to Django Reinhardt playing "All The Things You Are" instead of John Scofield or Pat Metheny doing it.
Guitar.com: Is it possible to learn to improvise or do you just have to have a knack for it?
Skolnick: You can definitely learn, but it takes a loooong time. It [also] depends on the level that you're improvising at. [Keep in mind that] you're improvising all the time when you speak-your spoken words are like improvisation. It's just a matter of working music to the point where you're comfortable enough that musical phrases are like words. I think a lot more people can learn to do [improvisation] than think they can.
Guitar.com: Is there a preferred gear setup for jazz?
Skolnick: Everybody should develop their own setup, sound, and gear, but you can start with a basic jazz setup, like the Heritage guitar that I play [Heritage H575 hollow-body], which is similar to a classic Gibson ES-175. For me at least, it was important to play a hollow-body instrument because it supports the style better. Now, jazz can be played on a solid-body, but it's much more challenging, I think. For me, I had to get as far away from the solid-body as I could. I also suggest an amplifier that supports the sound. A good one is the basic Polytone amp. I wouldn't use that for my Trio, as it's not a very original sound, but, when you're just starting out, it can work very well...
There really isn't stock jazz gear as there is in rock. In rock, you have the Marshall setup-Van Halen, Angus Young, and Jimi Hendrix all used Marshalls-in jazz, there really isn't that kind of overlap. Like, George Benson plays with a completely different setup than Pat Metheny, who plays with a completely different setup than Pat Martino. So, if you're just starting out, a nice, decent hollow-body and an amp-Fender or Polytone-[will do].
Guitar.com: Do you use a lot of effects?
Skolnick: For the [Alex Skolnick] Trio, yeah. I'm using a lot of effects, probably more pedals than I've ever used, including a Jim Dunlop volume pedal, a Prescription Electronics Experience pedal, an ADA Flange, a Lexicon JamMan for loops, an Eventide harmonizer for delay, and a Tube Screamer for light distortion.
Guitar.com: What's the first word that comes to your mind when I say "jazz"?
Skolnick: Swing
Guitar.com: Miles Davis?
Skolnick: Innovation
Guitar.com: Testament?
Skolnick: Heavy.
Guitar.com: KISS?
Skolnick: Makeup [laughs].
Guitar.com: What was it like playing with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra?
Skolnick: It was a lot of fun. The Trans-Siberian Orchestra is a great show. It was nice to play in front of really large audiences again. The fans are very dedicated-we were playing for between 5,000 and 10,000 people a night. There's a lot of lead guitar, too. It's not what I would want to do all the time because it's not improvised, but I enjoy it and I hope to keep doing it.
Guitar.com: Have you heard from any of the original artists about your interpretations of their music on Goodbye to Romance?
Skolnick: Not yet, but I'm waiting. Ozzy [Osbourne] has a copy, but I haven't heard from him-I know he's very busy-but his guitar player Zakk Wylde chose [the album] as his "Pick of the Month" in the November issue of Guitar World, which was really exciting. Also, David Krebs [former manager of Aerosmith and The Scorpions, who now manages the Trans-Siberian Orchestra] has been very supportive of it and thinks what we're doing is great. Hopefully, we'll get it to the original artists. We're very curious to know what they think.
Guitar.com: What kind of folks would you encourage to come to your show?
Skolnick: Any jazz fan and rock fan. So far, we've had people at our shows who are serious jazz listeners and who don't listen to much else. We've also had rock fans that have never gone to a jazz venue before and experienced sitting at a table and just listening. For a lot of these people, it's a new experience, and to share that experience is a real gift.