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My review of Masoud Khalkhali's Basic noncommutative geometry just appeared in the Mathematical Intelligencer. You can read it at the link below
My review of Masoud Khalkhali's Basic noncommutative geometry just appeared in the Mathematical Intelligencer. You can read it at the link below
So I signed the contract last week for "Winding Around", my book based on the course I taught in the MASS geometry/topology track last year. It will appear in the American Mathematical Society's Student Mathematical Library series, and the manuscript is due to be delivered to them on April 1st – I leave it to you whether or not you think this is an auspicious day! The book centers around the notion of "winding number" (hence "Winding Around") and uses that as a peg on which to hang a variety of topics in geometry, topology and analysis — finishing up, in the final chapter, with the Bott periodicity theorem considered as one possible high-dimensional generalization of the winding number notion.
The intended audience is an undergraduate one (there was skepticism from some of the AMS readers about this, but I told them the MASS students made it through okay!) and the tone is, I hope, entertaining and discursive. As I say in the introduction, "Winding around is a description of the book's methodology as well as of its subject-matter."
After a busy day giving final exams in the MASS program it was nice to learn today that my paper with Paul Siegel about sheaves of C*-algebras has appeared in the Journal of K-Theory. The link for the published version is
This paper arose from some discussions when Paul was writing his thesis. We were talking about the "lifting and controlling" arguments for Paschke duals that are used in the construction of various forms of operator-algebraic assembly maps (an early example is the one that appears in my paper with Nigel on the coarse Baum-Connes conjecture, which asserts that the quotient \( D^*(X)/C^*(X) \) of the "controlled" pseudolocal by the "controlled" locally compact operators does not depend on the assumed "control"). At some point in these discussions I casually remarked that, "of course", what is really going on is that the Paschke dual is a sheaf. Some time later I realized that what I had said was, in fact, true. There aren't any new results here but I hope that there is some conceptual clarification. (There is an interesting spectral sequence that I'll try to write about another time, though.)
This paper, http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.6100, has been accepted by the Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society. I just sent off the copyright transfer form this evening, so everything is now set, I hope.
The paper is mostly paying an expository debt. In my CBMS lecture notes I said that if one has the Dirac operator on a complete spin manifold \(M\), and if there is some subset \(N\subseteq M\) such that \(D\) has uniformly positive scalar curvature outside \(N\), then the index of \(D\) belongs to the K-theory of the ideal \(I_N \triangleleft C^*(M) \) associated to the subset \(N\). A very special case of this is the observation of Gromov-Lawson that \(D\) is Fredholm if we have uniformly positive scalar curvature outside a compact set. There are of course analogous results using thepositivity of the Weitzenbock curvature term for other generalized Dirac operators.
Until now, I had not written up the proof of this assertion, but I felt last year that it was (past) time to do so. This paper contains the proof and also that of the associated general form of the Gromov-Lawson relative index theorem which also appears in my CBMS notes. The latter proof uses some results from my paper with Paul Siegel on sheaf theory and Pashcke duality.
The submission to PEMS is in honor of a very pleasant sabbatical spent in Edinburgh in fall 2004.
Following up on my post a few days back about Dranishnikov's talk… After the talk, Sasha asked me if I knew a reference where some "standard" facts about the real version of the coarse Baum-Connes conjecture were stated (as, for example, that the real coarse index of the Dirac operator vanishes for positive scalar curvature manifolds, or that the complex form of the coarse Baum-Connes conjecture implies the real form.
I was sure that these "well known to experts" results must be written down somewhere. Maybe they are, but I couldn't find a clean reference. So I thought it might be helpful to put together a little note summarizing some of these standard facts. I've now posted this on the arXiv and it is available here. If you need the real version of CBC for something, this might be useful.
Originally, Nigel and I were going to cover the real version of everything in Analytic K-Homology. But at some point we got fed up with Clifford algebras and retreated to the complex world. I think that was the only way to get the book finished, but it has left a few loose ends!


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Your Take: Government Shutdown and Essential Jobs
As a government shutdown looms, we're asking listeners who they might hold accountable, and you've got a lot to say on the subject. After the announcement that even after a shutdown, some "essential" public jobs would remain, we've also been asking about how one defines essential jobs. When you think about your own job, do you think you're "essential"? Why or why not?
Laurie Arora had this to say on Facebook:
One of my jobs is MOM. Definitely essential. And never a day off.
Robert James Finn also commented on Facebook, saying:
I work in a Nursing Home. Even though I am on the "support staff," I think I am part of a team and as essential to the day to day harmonious workings of the Home as much as the other departments. Any interruptions to your Nation's federal bureaucracy may mean widespread and localized problems for all citizens.

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D.C. Theater Gears up for the Holidays
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
No kidding, folks. Looking ahead just a little bit, you might want to brace yourself for Scrooges and Nutcrackers, coming up sooner than you think. We give thanks, and god bless us everyone.
Just to start you off, "A Christmas Carol" returns like clockwork to the Ford's Theatre, beginning Nov. 18 and running through Dec. 31. This is the production adapted by Michael Wilson and starring acclaimed Washington actor Edward Gero, who can go from Shakespeare to Mamet to Scrooge in a heartbeat. Michael Baron directs. Click here for more information
At the Olney Theater, Dickens and Scrooge will also be on hand with "A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas," performed by Paul Morella and adapted from Dickens' original novella and reading tour. Dec. 13 through Jan. 1. Click here for more information and to buy tickets
Meanwhile, among many Nutcrackers for the season, you can count on the Washington Ballet and Septime Webre's version to return to the Warner Theater for a nearly month-long run, Dec. 1 through 24, while the Kennedy Center will have the American Ballet Theatre's version Dec. 8 through 11.
A Couple of Guys Named Othello and Othello and Iago and Iago
These days, we're seeing two versions of Shakespeare's classic tragedy about Othello, the great Moor general in Renaissance Venice, the passion of his life Desdemona, and Iago, perhaps the most despised villain in Shakespeare outside of Richard III. You can see what you can do with style and silence at the Synetic Theatre's production now in the midst of a three-way run at its Crystal City space, or take in a more classic, wordier, sound-and-fury version at the Folger Theatre, directed by Robert Richmond, which has already been extended through Dec. 4.
Seriously, Folks
There's serious drama afoot all over the region, beginning with a production of Arthur Miller's "After the Fall,"his most revealing, autobiographical play about a playwright named Quentin and his tragic, glamorous wife Maggie (hello Miss Monroe). Jose Carrasquillo directs this rarely performed play, Mitchell Hebert stars as Quentin, and Gabriella Fernandez-Coffey is Maggie through Nov. 27.
At Arena Stage, history plays a big part in both Amy Freed's "You, Nero" and Bill Cain's "Equvicocation." The latter concerns Shakespeare, the infamous Gunpowder Plot and the relationship between artists and kings. It comes from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Cain's play will run Nov. 18 through Jan. 1 with the cast of the original Oregon Shakespeare Festival production.
"You, Nero" is part of Arena's American Voices New Play Institute, with Freed continuing to work on a play which first opened at South Coast Rep and Berkeley Rep in 2009. It makes its D.C. debut Nov. 25 and runs through Jan. 1. Danny Scheie stars as Nero, an emperor who may have been the first emperor-as-public-celebrity.
For one night only, you'll have a chance to see one of the landmark plays of the 1980s and the tragedy of AIDs when Forum Theatre will stage a benefit performance of "The Normal Heart" by Larry Kramer, with an all-star cast of area actors including Holly Twyford, Mitchell Hebert, Will Gartshore, J. Fred Schiffman, Rick Hammerly, Michael Tolaydo and others at the Round House Theatre's Silver Spring stage, where Forum is in residence on Nov. 7 at 7:30 p.m.
Kevin Converses with Michael and Broadway Does Shakespeare
Star of the stage and screen Kevin Kline ("Sophie's Choice") will join Shakespeare Theatre Company Artistic Director Michael Kahn for the second installment in the Classic Conversations series at Sidney Harman Hall Nov. 28.
Speaking of the Shakespeare Theatre Company, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary, the run will be short but the occasion sounds terrific, with a concert-style staging of "The Boys from Syracuse" with a book by David Ives ("The Heir Apparent") hooked up to Rodgers and Hart's classic score. "The Boys" is of course a Broadway musical version of "The Comedy of Errors" which features two sets of twins unaware of each other, the kids from Ephesus. Nov. 4 through 6.


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Sculptor Kapoor brings new stone works to old Istanbul
By Ayla Jean Yackley
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - For his first major show in Turkey, famed Indian-born British sculptor Anish Kapoor brought huge works that have never before been exhibited to a gallery that ripped down walls to accommodate him.
Massive slabs of rough-hewn slate, polished Iranian onyx and rough sandstone, weighing a combined 121 metric tons, dominate the galleries at Istanbul's Sakip Sabanci Museum.
"More than half of this work hasn't been shown before, perhaps because they needed time to gestate," Kapoor told Reuters. "It takes time to allow the language a full voice."
The exhibition, which has attracted almost 100,000 visitors since it opened in September, has been extended into February.
It includes voluptuous abstract pieces carved from Italian marble like "Tongue" (1998), "Mollis" (2000) and "Grace" (2004) that are tributes to human anatomy.
The limestone "Dragon" (1992) was made about the same time as Kapoor's untitled 1991 Turner prize work and features the same rich blue pigment.
Since then, the London-based artist has become a fixture of art in the public sphere, with a host of commissions across the globe, including this year's sensational "Ark Nova," a purple, mobile, inflatable concert hall for tsunami-hit Japan.
"All of the orthodoxies of how art is made and how it should operate are less meaningful than they have been," the Mumbai-born artist said at a press preview. "It is possible to dive into the so-called traditional and find new space." Continued...


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Roger Donaldson
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Saginaw Grant
Diane Ladd
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While it would at first not seem like it, this picture really is a road movie. It takes a good 90 minutes for Hopkins' character to even make it to his desired destination, but within that time period, the movie does an excellent job of making you completely attached to this interestingly oddball human being. It was also rather captivating to watch the character find ways to overcome the many problems that he encountered on his trip. This movie is all about the journey, although the destination is just as amazing. By the time the big finale took place, I was so engrossed in the production that not even Jessica Alba's naked body could take my eyes off the screen (and in the unlikely case that that might actually happen, I'd just like to thank God for peripheral vision).
Anthony Hopkins is this movie - without him, it just wouldn't be the same. His character is mischievous, fun, endearing, amusing and, well, all sorts of other great characteristics. Watching him travel from his cozy little hometown in New Zealand to this strange and unfamiliar world - America (and in particular, Hollywood) - was very compelling, and at times a little disheartening (as when he gets conned out of money by a seemingly nice "flower lady"). I cared for this person, and wanted to see him succeed. And to say he did succeed is obvious (they don't make "true story" movies so you can see the person fail), but that didn't stop me from being on the edge of my seat with excitement when the risk of defeat was present. When the credits rolled, I had a big, stupid grin on my face, and with a "feel-good" movie, that's all I really ask for.
Audio Commentary (with writer-director Roger Donaldson): A great audio track which explores various aspects of the production, and even more interestingly, Burt Munro himself. You can really sense Donaldson's investment into this movie, and I liked that a lot. Check it out.
Making of The World's Fastest Indian (45:23): This lengthy making-of featurette gives insight on everything from the movie's real-life story to the director's 25-year struggle to get the film made. Definitely worth watching.
Burt Munro: Offerings to the God of Speed (27:28): An extremely interesting extra that shows the real-life Burt Munro, as well as his friends and family. This mini-documentary compliments the movie perfectly - make sure not to miss it.
Southland: Burt's Hometown of Invercargill (2:55): A neat extra that, truthfully, is nothing more than an advertisement for the cozy little town from New Zealand that was shown in the film.
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When yoga teacher Jenn and her gay friend Matt find themselves thirtysomething, single and childless, they decide to parent a baby together. But trouble arises when they discover they have differing ideas about the method of the child's conception.
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Dairy Australia is offering farmers the chance to update your skills in managing herd fertility, mastitis and farm business management from the comfort of your own homes, via a series of live online webinars.
Topics presented at the recent InCalf and Countdown 2020 farmer workshops held around Australia last autumn are now being offered online.
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So I found a clip from this TV show where the show intentionally tries to scare the devil out of some unsuspecting victim.
(This is a bit graphic)
I was thinking about how badly this could go if one of us were to be the one being tricked. What if this specific scenario plays out just a little bit different, and this barber pauses long enough in between bringing the razor to the man's throat and slitting it for us (the unsuspecting scaredy cat) to draw, analyze the scenario, and possibly fire. With a razor to the neck we have every justifiable right to fire. If it were me and I was thinking the situation was real I would still give verbal commands after drawing which would give the barber time to confess the real situation. Just my two cents as I was watching and thinking how badly it could have gone if the victim were carrying.


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Komori Corp. Named Global Supplier for Landa Sheetfed
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—Landa Corp. and Komori Corp. have now formalized their long-term strategic alliance by entering into multi-faceted agreements in which Komori will be the global supplier for all sheetfed Landa Nanographic printing press platforms. Landa will also provide Komori with Nanographic printing technology and Landa NanoInk colorants for incorporation into Komori branded Nanographic printing presses.
Since drupa, Landa engineers have been evaluating proposals from the industry's leading press vendors, both European and Asian, for supply of sheetfed platforms for Landa Nanographic printing presses. In making its assessment, Landa says it took into account "caliber of engineering, robustness of design, automation, reliability and cost-effectiveness. The vendor's culture of innovation, technical resources, commercial success and financial stability were also important criteria."
Landa Corp. felt that Komori is "in a class of its own and the clear partner of choice for Landa." The conclusion prompted Landa to place orders with Komori for sheetfed platforms for its S10 Nanographic printing presses, which will start to be delivered to customers in Q4 of 2014.
Following a lengthy technology diligence period, during which Komori scientists and engineers studied, evaluated and tested Landa Nanographic printing technology, Komori Corp. concluded that Nanography has the potential to deliver on its promise of matching the quality and speed of offset printing at the lowest cost per page in the digital printing industry. Komori therefore formalized its license agreement with Landa, cementing the long-term strategic alliance between the companies.
Landa Founder, Chairman and CEO Benny Landa said, "Since we first started our collaboration with Komori, we have been deeply impressed by the company, its people and its culture. Komori is an outstanding partner for Landa, bringing an extremely high caliber of engineering expertise, second-to-none quality and performance, together with a fervent commitment and willingness to invest in the future."
In an interview with Printing Impressions, Landa noted that Komori's financial position was among a number of factors that tilted in its favor.
"We absolutely have to have a vendor that we know has the financial strength to support us long-term, and whose business is doing well, because we are wholly dependent on the vendor for our machines," he said. "That's a significant factor. We are unlikely to have additional sheetfed vendors in addition to Komori."
With 12 months to go before the first machine is delivered, Landa is confident the press will perform as advertised.
"We have the tail of that quality curve going up every day," he added. "We are confident we will reach that perfection we promised customers in time for our first beta machines."


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You can't . You can make a profile and add your information and what services you would like to provide. After that if Envato contacts you, you can start working..
@Anps sure, but we can only hope that clients will eventually see things differently..
It's the same old story and yes this will ruin the marketplace. Trend of multi bloated themes will continue to rise. After some time it will become a standard, it's actually happening already. After some time there will be no difference between a normal theme and bloated because they all will be bloated, and then you'll figure out, wait I have to spend 6+ months of development to make a bloated theme and then I have the sales which I had before with a simple but unique normal theme. This is already happening and many authors are already going for alternatives…
it's been discussed for long time now and nothing is going to change about it. The only question is who will be still here when the boat starts to sink.
We got that email too. Would be nice to hear official answer is this email real, although I don't think it's spam..
You can put your files on dropbox or some similar service for free and then post the link
No, if you want to convert some theme into other platform you need to ask permission of the original author. So I believe they already have a permission.
I think it's from photodune or similar stock site, so it's not free – you have to buy a proper licence to use it. You can find that type of images on both of those sites..
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@Kops I think both derived inspiration from the same source. And I think it's okay to feel inspired when you bring your own interpretation to the table. We're designers, but that doesn't mean we can't be inspired by others designs and products. I for one love the simplicity in Apple's products. Rosa is not an original design, if you know what I mean. Take a look at Dribbble profile of Mike | Creative Mints and if you will search for a project on 21 March 2014, you'll see what I mean
Just left you some comments. I think it's a bit too minimal and it needs some unique touches to stand out…


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The School-Closing Vote
11:16 p.m. | Updated After about an hour of discussion, the Panel for Educational Policy voted Thursday night to close 18 city schools and remove the middle school grades from 5 more.
As expected, the panelists, most of whom were appointed by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, voted to approve all the school closing recommendations. The representatives for Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx and Brooklyn voted against most of the closing proposals.
The representative for Staten Island voted with the mayor's block, except for the proposal to close P.S. 14, the first school to be recommended for closing in her borough.
The raucous evening ended as many had anticipated, but unlike in past years the crowd was vastly diminished and the vote came hours earlier than expected.
The panel approved the opening of 16 new schools to replace those that will now start to be gradually phased out, as well as grade expansions for four schools.
Schools Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott planned to hold a news conference later Thursday night. SchoolBook will be there and will pick up the report on the meeting Friday morning.
Note: This last blog entry was updated to correct the vote of the Staten Island representative.
9:54 p.m. | Updated The Panel for Educational Policy debated the wisdom of closing three major career and technical high schools in the Bronx.
Shael Polakow-Suransky, the Department of Education's chief academic officer, and the schools chancellor, Dennis M. Walcott, conceded that career and technical schools do give students more options after graduation. But, they said, too few students make it to graduation.
Mr. Polakow-Suransky noted that Samuel Gompers had 600 freshmen four years ago. Now it has only 116 seniors, and it's not clear how many of those 116 came in as freshmen.
"I worked in the Bronx for several years," Mr. Polakow-Suransky said. "Ten years ago there were about 25 high schools; today there are over 100 high schools in the Bronx. The graduation rate has gone up over 10 points over those years. That's thousands of kids who have options who didn't before. We're only halfway."
He said the Education Department's plan is to open 12 new career and technical schools in the next two years. The school that will replace Washington Irving High School in Manhattan will be a careers school, teaching students software design.
9:41 p.m. | Updated Earlier Thursday night, the president of the United Federation of Teachers, Michael Mulgrew, explained why the union had called off its alternative hearing at nearby P.S. 20.
Mr. Mulgrew said a group of people, including "at least two dozen" elected officials, were marching to the school, but were told by police to march on the sidewalk. They didn't want to, he said, so they did an about-face and went into the Panel for Educational Policy hearing.
"We were going to march to an alternate site, then some of us were going to come back here," he said. "We were marching to the alternate site and the police said you have to march on the sidewalk. We said we're not marching on the sidewalk. So we marched down the street and made a right turn into Brooklyn Tech."
Some members of the crowd had criticized the union for its alternative plan.
"Fight and stay don't walk away," Alexi Shalom, a student at the City University of New York, had chanted outside Brooklyn Technical High School before the meeting began. He said both of his parents are high school teachers.
"I understand the symbolism of having an alternate meeting," he said, "but the only way to stop the vote is to speak up at this meeting."
Inside Brooklyn Tech later, Mr. Mulgrew said, "We're more than happy to be here."
9:41 p.m. | Updated It's very unusual for principals to publicly defend their schools in front of the press and the panel, but Steven Cobb, the principal of Aspire Preparatory Middle School, felt he had to.
Instead of sending his parents and students and teachers, he went to the Panel for Educational Policy meeting himself Thursday night to ask the panel to recognize the work the school is doing and give it another choice.
"We hit a rough patch in the road," he said, describing the school's performance last year, when the school received an F on its progress report and less than a third of its students met the proficiency bar on the state English exam. The school opened in 2006 to replace M.S. 135, a school that was closing.
"We do believe that we should be afforded another chance," he said. "I was heartened yesterday when I heard there were schools that came off the list, and I hope you will add Aspire Preparatory."
9:39 p.m. | Updated Panel for Educational Policy members reconvened and began discussing the proposals. The representative from the Bronx expressed concerns about phasing out three high schools -- Grace Dodge, Jane Addams and Samuel Gompers -- which would leave the Bronx with far fewer career and technical education programs
9:18 p.m. | Updated Could it be? After little more than three hours of testimony -- as well as chaos and frustration for many -- the Panel for Educational Policy seemed close to a vote on whether to close 23 failing schools.
The public comment period ended, and the panel members were taking a break. They were expected to reconvene, engage in a panel discussion, then vote. Stay tuned.
9:05 p.m. | Updated Eleanor Pettway's voice trembled as she stepped up to take her turn at the microphone at around 8 p.m.
Ms. Pettway, a mother who lives in Brooklyn, clutched two color copies of photographs showing her son Michael's swollen, bruised face. "A picture's worth a thousand words; here's two thousand words," she said. "He was transferred from Kappa VII, where they blackened his eyes. To the point where he did not want to go to his school."
Now, she said, he's thriving at the Academy of Business and Community Development in Brooklyn, with boys that she said he is blessed to consider his brothers. "Since he's been at an all boys school he hasn't had a black eye, he hasn't been bullied," she said.
But in a painful twist, the city had decided Wednesday to spare KAPPA VII, formally known as Knowledge and Power Preparatory Academy VII in Brooklyn, and close the Academy of Business and Community Development, known as ABCD.
"He was a safety transfer," she said, adding that her son was sent to ABCD in October. "If that was the case and they knew were going to close the school, why would they transfer my son there?"
8:52 p.m. | Updated Could the Panel for Educational Policy meeting to vote on closing 23 public schools wrap up earlier than in the wee hours of Friday morning? Perhaps. Three hours into the meeting, the crowd had greatly thinned.
Some parents and students gave up on trying to speak. Some of the teachers left to board buses that the United Federation of Teachers had provided to get them to and from the school. And the Occupy the Department of Education group had shrunk.
For the most part, the people who addressed the panel spoke up in opposition to the school closings, but a small number of parents urged the city to open new and better schools.
There was some confusion over how many people had signed up to speak. Some reports said more than 100, others said fewer.
8:46 p.m. | Updated Volunteers from Brooklyn Tech seemed to be expecting a long night, because they set up another snack table in the lobby. They were selling bottles of water, candy bars, cookies and chips.
A parent, Cynthia Yahia, escaped to the lobby to get away from the noise of the meeting. She has a son in kindergarten at P.S. 9 in Brooklyn, which is not in danger of closing, but she said she wanted to support the schools on the chopping block.
She said she was happy about the large turnout. "When the NAACP walked in -- oh, it just warms my heart to see that."
The New York NAACP estimated that about 200 members from 14 branches showed up to the meeting.
She said she hopes protesters will keep the PEP from voting tonight.
"It has to be public, and they can't do it without us -- in theory," she said.
A grandmother, Anyta Brown, has three grandchildren in the city schools. She said she is very involved in education issues, because she wants her grandchildren to have more educational opportunities than what she had.
"I'm here to fight on their behalf," said Ms. Brown. "How would you say it? I want a private education for free."
7:47 p.m. | Updated Rumors that the police were planning to move in and make arrests started to thin out the crowd in the auditorium of Brooklyn Technical High School shortly after 8 p.m. Thursday night. Other members of the audience also started to leave, perhaps in frustration over the confusion and discouraged about their chances of swaying the Panel for Educational Policy's decision about closing the 23 schools.
Unlike last year, very few students spoke.
At times, it was as though several meetings were going on at once, all of them confused and cacophonous, with sound spilling over from one group to the next.
The Occupy the D.O.E. members debated whether they should stay or they should go.
"How do you feel -
"How do you feel -
"About walking out?"
"About walking out?"
The question ping ponged through the center of the auditorium, where a man stood on a chair leading a mic check.
Some chanted "march, march" but momentum never gathered.
"I don't think we should march we should stay, and we need to show them that we need them to support us, said Alba Lamar, who teaches third grade at P.S. 11 in Clinton Hill. She had come to show solidarity with other schools.
Despite the jumble of messages, she said the "13 puppets up there" were getting the main point of the protest.
Soon the crowd took up another chant. "Education is a right, fight, fight, fight."
Out in the hallway outside the auditorium, some people were fighting to get into the room.
"You can't stop us we're coming in!" they shouted.
Maria Jimenez, an English teacher at Washington Irving High School, joined in the chanting.
Ms. Jimenez said that the decision to close Washington Irving was about just one thing. "We're near Union Square. We're in a rich area. Our students are 50 percent black, 50 percent Hispanic. It's not about anything but getting us out."
Andrew Decker, a social studies teacher, said that he was disappointed that the United Federation of Teachers had plans for an alternative hearing. "The fight is in here," he said.
Washington Irving, Mr. Decker added, "has been categorized as having a culture of failure." But one of the greatest things about the school, he said, is that there is no testing to filter out students who wish to attend. "We've got kids from everywhere, the Heights, the Lower East Side, Staten Island. We've got all of New York City, all the problems, all the successes, all the beauty, all the ugliness."
He said that by advocating for small schools, the mayor was sending out a clear message to big schools and their students: "You don't count." And to other schools, Mr. Decker said the message was also clear: "Give us the data that we want."
The federal School Improvement Grant that the school received three years ago was used on test scores and consultants, he said. Ms. Jimenez added that some of these consultants had no experience with teaching in urban environments.
Christopher Ahearn, an English teacher at the school, said he went to witness the spectacle.
"The mayor has used a myopic focus on data to disperse the students who need the most help," he said. "It's like the credit default swaps. Spread out the problems over a larger number of schools, and they'll seem not to exist any more."
7:30 p.m. | Updated The chanting of the crowd at the Panel for Educational Policy meeting on school closings by members of the Occupy Wall Street-related group, Occupy the D.O.E., continued, but so did the hearing. The group was loud and their "people's mic" routine made hearing difficult, but speakers lined up at the microphones and made their appeals to save their schools.
While people in the orchestra seats chanted, "How do you spell racist? D-O-E," Alisha Carthy and her 11-year-old son Anthonie were sitting in the balcony trying to listen. Anthonie is a 6th grader at the Middle School for the Arts, a school she specifically chose because Anthonie likes to draw.
"It's loud, I can't hear who's speaking, and I can't see either," she said. "I came here to support the school. I like the school; I don't want it to close."
"I just wanted him to have the opportunities I didn't have. I went to District 18 schools from elementary to high school," she said, adding that she purposely sent her son to a school outside of the district. "I thought this was his chance to break out," she said.
7:12 p.m. | Updated The effort to prevent people from speaking at the Panel for Educational Policy meeting at Brooklyn Technical High School Thursday night continued.
Noah Gotbaum, a member of the community education council in District 3 and a schools activist, took the microphone and declared, "I will be the last person to use this PEP mic."
Mr. Gotbaum instructed the crowd to use "the people's mic." That signaled a plan to have the crowd repeat loudly what speakers said.
"Mic check!" he yelled.
"Mic check," the crowd shouted back.
"We're going to do 'This Little School of Mine,'" he said, as he led the auditorium in a song.
The next speaker took the main mic, though he started by calling out, "Mic check!"
Earlier a Brooklyn parent, Kathleen Kernison, said she was a supporter of charters, and was booed when she voiced support for closing failing schools.
The auditorium can hold 2,500 people and with empty seats scattered about, it appears there were about 1,800 people there.
But only about 100 people signed up to speak -- fewer than in previous years -- not including elected officials, and it appears that the intention of many in the crowd is not to speak themselves but to loudly repeat what others have to say.
7:04 p.m. | Updated The auditorium at Brooklyn Technical High School was filled, but one hour into the Panel for Educational Policy meeting Thursday night the chanting from protesters had effectively prevented anyone from speaking.
The United Federation of Teachers, after being criticized by some protesters for its decision to hold an alternative meeting, abandoned that plan. Instead, the teachers, as well as all the students and parents they were going to bus to P.S. 20, filed into what had been a relatively empty balcony. The room is now as full as it was last year.
Up in the balcony, a group held a banner that read "William E. Grady," a high school that is not on the list to be closed, but could be closed and reopened if the mayor and union do not reach an agreement on a new teacher evaluation system for 33 schools in need of improvement.
The tug of war for attention between the Occupy the D.O.E. people and the people who came to the panel meeting to speak out against the closings continued as the meeting entered its second hour.
6:53 p.m. | Updated "Shame, shame!" was the cry when the PEP showed a PowerPoint slide titled "Graduation rates at new schools are higher than the high schools they replaced."
Sue, a senior at Robeson High School, which the panel voted to close last year, joined the jeering. She didn't want to give her full name and said she was very upset because she strongly disagreed that small schools are better.
The crowd continued to chant loudly, drowning out the panel
"Use the people's mic!"
"We are the 99 percent"
"We know the panel is going to do what the mayor wants," said John Yanno, a teacher at the Secondary School for Law in Brooklyn, explaining the strategy to shout down the panel. He wore a T-shirt that said Occupy the DOE. He said the group was trying to give teachers and parents confidence. "We need to build a movement."
"They're not going to listen to us anyway, said Peter Rugh, 27. He says he has friends who are teachers.
"We're trying to have the mayor listen to us," said Roz Panepenti, a retired teacher. "This is not about kids."
6:41 p.m. | Updated The meeting of the Panel for Educational Policy got off to a slow start Thursday night as the large crowds that filled the auditorium of Brooklyn Technical High School chanted loudly, drowning out an attempt by the Education Department counsel, Michael Best, to read the agenda.
After booing the chancellor, Dennis M. Walcott, as he walked across the auditorium stage, the crowd began chanting loudly. "We are standing up. We are speaking out." Their efforts were having the intended effect: most of the television cameras were trained on the crowd, not the stage where the panel members sit.
"This is now our meeting," the crowd chanted.
Compared to last year, when students and parents filled this auditorium with cries of "Cathie Black is whack," the room is thoroughly dominated by the Occupy the Department of Education group, an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Around the room, Occupy members held signs with the name of each school the Education Department intends to close, along with an associated number. For example: "P.S. 298 Dr. Betty Shabazz, #25."
Participants said the plan is for people to speak on behalf of each school and be amplified by the system of repetition they call "the people's mic."
A member of Occupy the Department of Education, Rosie Frascella, a teacher at a Brooklyn high school, said the teachers union should not have turned its back on the Panel for Educational Policy meeting, although she agreed with the union president, Michael Mulgrew that the public hearing is a "puppet show."
"Why aren't there any parents, teachers, or students on this panel?" she said. "We think those are the people who should be voting."
But she said it is important to maintain a presence at this meeting, and complained the union had diverted buses full of teachers and students to P.S. 20. "I think it's important to be here," she said.
In fact, the United Federation of Teachers, which had said it would hold an alternative meeting at a nearby school, Public School 20, seemed to have changed its mind. A spokesman for the teachers union said they would stay at Brooklyn Tech, at least for now. The union members headed into the auditorium.
5:59 p.m. | Updated Protesters converged outside Brooklyn Technical High School Thursday night as the mayoral-controlled Panel for Educational Policy prepared to meet to decide on the fates of 23 public schools.
Members of the United Federation of Teachers gathered on DeKalb Avenue, while Occupy Wall Street protesters clustered on the other side. There appeared to be fewer students than in years past.
Someone projected the words "Fix Our Schools" and "Welcome to the People's PEP" onto Brooklyn Tech's facade.
The teachers' union president, Michael Mulgrew, held an impromptu news conference.
"The entire city is sick and tired of the way the schools are being treated," he said, then chanted, "Enough is enough." Mr. Mulgrew said the city's Department of Education has been failing for a decade -- the length of time that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has had control of the schools.
Mr. Mulgrew said the teachers' union will boycott the PEP meeting and instead move its members and supporters to nearby Public School 20. There, he said, the schools that are slated to be closed or shrunk will truly be able to tell their side of the story.
Various politicians, including city Comptroller John C. Liu, City Councilman Charles Barron, former Comptroller Bill Thompson, State Senator John Sampson and Councilwoman Letitia James are in the crowd.
"The D.O.E. is out of control," Mr. Liu said. "They think progress is closing schools. They need to rethink their overall policy by reinvesting."
Joshua Sol Lewis, a teacher at Lyons Community School in Brooklyn, said he wanted to be at the meeting, even though his school has not been recommended for closing. But, he said, some of the schools being closed "have evaluations barely lower than ours. We can be next."
In what has become an annual spectacle, a city board will meet Thursday night to vote on the closing of a number of public schools for poor performance, an event that in the past has drawn hundreds of protesters and vigorous union opposition.
The Panel for Educational Policy, a board that replaced the city's Board of Education, is controlled by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who appoints a majority of its 13 members. In the history of the panel, it has never voted to reject a school closing proposal, a fact that has fueled deep resentment from advocacy groups and the city's teachers' union, who claim the panel is effectively a rubber stamp of the mayor's policies.
On Thursday, at a meeting at Brooklyn Technical High School in Fort Greene, the panel will weigh the fate of 23 schools. City education officials have proposed to close or phase-out 18 of them, and 5 others could have their middle school grades eliminated. The city has also asked the panel to approve the location of 16 new schools that will take the place of those that are closed, as well as the expansion of 4 schools.
In an act of political theater, the teachers' union is holding its own meeting at a nearby public school, where it has invited parents, teachers, and students from the schools that might close to voice opposition to the city's proposals. Union officials are calling the meeting the "People's PEP," and have rented out the auditorium of Public School 20 Clinton Hill, an elementary school a few blocks from Brooklyn Technical High School.
Public school teachers and members of Occupy Wall Street are also expected to protest at the meeting.
"There are important proposals up for discussion tonight, and my hope is that we will have a respectful process where people can be heard," the schools chancellor, Dennis M. Walcott, said in a statement. "But if all the U.F.T. wants to do is bus in Occupy Wall Street to disrupt public meetings -- which provides absolutely no benefit to students -- then we will just have to work around that. We are prepared to move forward even if there are disruptions."
Officials announced on Wednesday that they would grant a reprieve to two schools that were on the list to be closed. Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing Arts in Manhattan, which runs from grades 6 through 12, will keep its middle school grades and get a new principal. And Knowledge and Power Preparatory Academy VII in Brooklyn will remain open under its current principal, who arrived in the fall.
"While these two schools continue to struggle, what we learned is that they are also poised to quickly improve," Mr. Walcott said in a statement.
Since the mayor was granted control of the system in 2002, the city has closed 117 schools, many of them large high schools, and opened numerous small schools in their place. A recent study financed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and conducted by MDRC, a nonprofit education research group based in Manhattan, found that students attending small public high schools in the city were more likely to graduate than their counterparts at larger schools.
On Thursday, the panel will decide whether to close four large high schools: Samuel Gompers Career and Technical Education High School, Grace Dodge Career and Technical Education High School and Jane Addams High School for Academic Careers, all in the Bronx, and Washington Irving High School in Manhattan. Last year, 48 percent of seniors at Washington Irving graduated, compared with 35 percent at Grace Dodge. But the schools scheduled to be closed this year also include many that were opened by the Bloomberg administration, some of them to replace failing schools. In 2008, the Education Department opened the General D. Chappie James Elementary School of Science in Brooklyn to replace a closing school. Now, it too is likely to shut down.
Critics of the mayor's education policies have pointed to cases of relatively new schools closing as evidence that the Bloomberg administration is not interested in helping schools turn themselves around. The city has said it provides resources to failing schools but will move to close any schools that are underperforming if there is little chance the school will improve.
On Wednesday, the city received a report from the city's Independent Budget Office suggesting that high schools on the closing list enroll a higher percentage of poor students and those with disabilities or who do not speak English than do high schools throughout the city.
The report also claimed that the schools the city plans to close have more students who arrive already performing below their grade level.
City officials disputed the data and said the Independent Budget Office should have given them more time to respond. In a letter to the budget office's director, Ronnie Lowenstein, the Department of Education counsel, Michael Best, wrote that there were "significant mistakes in the data analysis."
Once the panel votes to close the schools, as history suggests it will, most of them will remain open for several more years, but will not accept new students. As older students graduate and move on, the schools will shrink, losing funding and staff until they finally close.
Only one of the schools, the Academy of Business and Community Development, an all-boys secondary school that opened in 2005, will be shut down at the end of this school year.
Hiten Samtani, Yasmeen Khan and Chris Palmer contributed reporting.


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The case made in The Jack Kirby Trigger continues to ripple through the comics community. As expected, the California District Court decision to deny the Kirby Estate a trial is eliciting not only industry-wide indignation, but also gutter level fandom bickering between Stan Lee and Jack Kirby camps. Here are some highlights:
- Stephen R. Bissette has written two sequels to Honoring a Fallen King. Good reading in Part 2 and then also Part 3. He is meticulously dissecting the history and details of the creative process relative to Marvel, particularly regarding the Lee/Kirby collaborations. He's also bringing outside sources and comparisons that reflect on this process relative to the court decision. From the momentum on his site, it seems he has a lot more on his mind and is determined to keep the debate on the front lines, at least in the periphery he reaches with his web site, which can be quite extensive given the volatility of talk in the comics community. His analysis is expressive of a fighting spirit that needs to become an epidemic. Part 2 delivers a condemnation of Stan Lee's deposition testimony that continues to agitate many fans and professionals alike:
* If bile is being cast at Stan Lee, it's because he hasn't risen to the behavior of his heroic characters.
Look, I like Stan (I met him once during my second visit to the Marvel offices in 1977; he smiled at me and was very kind and supportive in about two minutes).
The worst I've said (I think; correct me if I'm wrong) is he "damned" himself with his deposition testimony. I stand by that perception and statement.
I have great respect for Stan, what he did, what he wrote, what he built, but his deposition is shameful.
- Heidi MacDonald's coverage of Stephen's first article at The Beat spurred a spirited but demonstrably civil debate in reader comments. Writer Kurt Busiek peppered the discussion with well researched analysis, as he's prone to deliver, of the case history. We've straddled opposite sides of creator/publisher issues in the past, but it's no small satisfaction to see Kurt's position and sharp review applied in this way to the case. John Morrow, one of two witnesses, along with Mark Evanier, whose deposition testimony was stricken from the record in the proceedings, also makes an appearance in the comments thread, in support of Kurt's effort.
- Michael Dean provides a little more perspective on the court documents at The Comics Journal. His summation becomes a reminder of how the intent of the 1976 copyright law has become near-castrated by Marvel and other entertainment media proponents:
Under pressure from entertainment companies, however, Congress has repeatedly extended the maximum limits of copyright terms, thereby adding value to intellectual property that it didn't have at the time creators like Siegel and Kirby were turning their brainstorms over to publishers in exchange for modest pay checks. The Copyright Act of 1976 was meant to redress that to a degree, by giving the original authors a chance to benefit from the extended copyright terms. Arguably, the same principle ought to apply, whether you created something and then sold it as Siegel and Shuster did or simply accepted payment for your creative labors page by page as Kirby did.
- Arlen Schumer joined a heated debate on Bleeding Cool Forums, posting The Auteur Theory of Comics, based on French cinema culture, wherein he stands in defense of the Kirby Estate by comparing an artist in the visual comics medium to a director in film. Such an analogy, Schumer states, would entitle Kirby with co-creation of the Marvel Universe that he contributed to. Arlen will be presenting his thesis during a panel at New York Comic Con, this Oct 13-16, as a visual presentation, followed by a panel discussion on the Kirby ruling, conducted by moderator Peter Coogan, Director of The Institute for Comics Studies and the Comics Studies Conference, and Rand Hoppe, Director of the online Jack Kirby Museum. A must event to attend for Kirby lovers at NYCC this year.
- The Bleeding Cool Forum discussing Stephen Bisette's first article and the Kirby/Marvel decision has mushroomed to a burgeoning 55 page thread with more than 650 posts as of this writing. I've been active in a lot of it and I can safely say it's one of the more entertaining forays into discussing a legal battle that exists anywhere. It is also perhaps a more concise reflection of the spirit in fandom right now regarding the case. Though it may be winding down, it is a good read for tapping the pulse of fandom, which also carries quite a number of gems in single and multiple post exchanges.
Aside from trying to understand the legal issue of the 1976 copyright law addressing Work for Hire and reclamation of intellectual property rights by creators, upon which the Kirby/Marvel decision hinged, fandom appears to be locked in a sometimes furious battle of camps, each backing either the Lee or Kirby significance to Marvel, at the expense of the other. Indeed, many Kirby supporters are suggesting a sort of betrayal by Marvel, and de facto by Stan Lee, of the moral justice ideal, after which their superhero mythology is fashioned. It is not a small issue at all, which was also voiced by Tom Spurgeon in his report on Stephen Bissette's first article calling for a boycott of Marvel.
I do know that we live in a world where lottery winners will sometimes give money to the people that did nothing other than print their tickets, where fans will give money to someone if they express a need and do so based on the fact they benefited not to the tune of billions of dollars and enduring wealth for generations of their families but based on a satisfying artistic experience or series of them, where people routinely share their good fortune with others without a court telling them to do so — and all without trafficking in some heroic ideal as their stock in trade. None of this makes sense. It needs to matter more than it does.
In support of Stan Lee, and as part of an effort to diminish from Kirby's significance to Marvel, it's been said that it was Lee himself who invented the title King Kirby as part of a branding gimmick that helped make Marvel a more attractive House of Ideas, and sell more comic books. It's been further said that if Stan had not done so, no one would be calling Kirby a king today.
If it wasn't for the cynicism in this charge, trying to further injure Kirby's historical role at Marvel as crucial to its effective rise in the medium, then we might reflect on this historical tidbit with a certain musing, in that it is basically true as a launch pad for the nickname. However, the attempt to paint a distorted picture of the Lee/Kirby team, as if Kirby owes the perception of being king of comics art to Lee, well, that's a very argumentative extrapolation that wouldn't necessarily endure a test of simple logic.
For better or worse, the nicknames Stan Lee gave to creators were based on catchy rhymes, or complimentary sounds, with their names. Thus Kirby was dubbed 'King', while Stan, in ironic humility, settled for being merely 'The Man'. That's how it also was, for example, with 'Jazzy' John Romita, 'Gentleman' Gene Colan and 'Nefarious' Neal Adams. Even going by this result, it may be possible to conjecture that a 'King' could owe his kingship to 'The Man' who made him king. But such an allegorical reach also places a responsibility on a king to live up to his title in order for it to become embraced by the reading public. Indeed, such was the case with similar titles given to Elvis Presley or Michael Jackson, as examples, who would not have been remembered as such had they not risen to the occasion. Likewise, as far as most other such names Stan gave back in the days, few of them would have stuck if the creators could not live up to them. And it is ultimately one thing to try to live up to being 'jazzy', 'gentlemanly' or 'nefarious', but it's an entirely different story to live up to and earn the title of being a King.
If Jack Kirby did not meet the expectations of professionals and fans with his work, as some have tried to suggest, then no one would remember him as a king today. More so, the title might become a source for scorn to the creator instead of reverence, if their work fell evidently short of the expectations that come with it.
This is clearly not a legal argument and is only raised in face of some rather disingenuous attempts to rewrite comics history and trivialize Jack Kirby's role within it. Anyone suggesting that Kirby's output after his collaborations with Stan, did not live up to his work at Marvel, which is an argumentative position in itself, well, it then becomes necessary to remind that the quality of Stan's output also fell after the Lee/Kirby era. There is simply no way to make a reasonable case for Stan being the master writer without whom Kirby could not have risen to the heights he did. The very opposite of such a possibility, it would seem, is more likely.
At the heart of the litigation to reclaim the rights to Marvel properties by the Kirby Estate is an issue of a moral injustice and personal humiliation that Marvel, aided by Stan Lee, tried to inflict on Jack Kirby because he dared ask that their promises to reward him, should his work help the company succeed, be fulfilled. It is painfully human and humane to understand the combative mode Kirby entered into during his latter years, which ultimately brought upon him the bitterness of betrayal that caused him to lash out in all directions. It's a natural reaction for someone who trusted the people he worked with, and reacted with resentful emotion upon having that trust become so horrendously shattered. It becomes a much more understood reaction when seen in light of how Marvel tried to destroy Jack Kirby morally and in spirit, by attempting to turn him into the villain, when he was in effect their victim.
It thus seems ludicrous to make any claims about Stan lee's creative superiority to Jack Kirby in light of this sad history that Stan himself has lent a hand to the attempted revision thereof.
Stan Lee's shared responsibility in the travesty rendered to the co-creator he's most identified with, screams into the comics community these days and demands that moral justice be served between them. It may be that Stan Lee's memory fails him in these later years, as some are saying. Or it may be that Stan Lee's moral fiber is not made of the stuff that's needed to make things right again between these two dearly beloved founders of the modern Superhero.
In either case, the result strengthens claims by Kirby historians who say it was the King himself who led the definition of the stories, plots and characterizations of the Marvel universe, and that Stan Lee's part in it was, in essence, the more trivial. For how are we to believe that the wonderful mind who gave us all of this fabulous mythology is the same Stan Lee who tramples the notions of moral justice and responsibility that the stories themselves exude? And all seemingly for his exclusive benefit, while towing the company line, at the expense of the artist who most contributed to his own success?
A King who earns his title will always be a king in the eyes of the people. But The Man who first gave him the title and then betrayed him, will not be favorably remembered by the same people who've come to love and honor the king.
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I'm been asked to organise a reunion for a group of us who trained as nurses in the 1970s. We now live all over the UK, and some abroad, so where should we meet? And what makes for a successful reunion? Could it turn into an expensive nightmare?
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I've found that the Youth Hostels Association (YHA) is brilliant. It has a lot of very interesting houses and buildings available. Out of season, you can hire the entire building for a weekend. People can come and go as they wish, and you can cook easily and cheaply - all the equipment is there. Sort out food requirements and everyone brings their own drinks. Make sure everyone who comes is ready to pitch in.
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I went to a boarding school reunion organised by one of our number. It was brilliant because she made no assumptions. We met in a pub in the town we all knew from school. People bought their own drinks, lunch was available but optional and there were no hang-ups about timings. She provided a short email list of contacts for accommodation so we could chose what we could afford without awkward debate. The Saturday evening had been left "unprogrammed" but, during the lunch session, a large group of us decided to regroup for supper in a local Indian (again choice and respect for individuals who might have anxieties). It did not cost a lot, but we all felt it was appropriate, considerate and memorable - therefore successful. Since then, a number of friendships have flourished and others left alone but everyone had choices. The purpose is the people, not the cost.
Deborah Richards, Tregony, Cornwall
A simple plan
The best place to meet is somewhere near where you all trained - and nothing elaborate or expensive is needed. Something like a buffet meal one evening, and just enjoy each others' company - being there is all that matters. Sixteen years ago there was a reunion to coincide with a major anniversary at the secondary school I attended. Our year found it such a success that regular repeats have been made every few years - the next one will be the sixth meeting. The simplicity of the occasions, meeting up with good friends from long ago, and their partners, has been exhilarating.
John Haigh, Brighton, E. Sussex
Don't go it alone
I organised a reunion 39 years after we qualified. Amazingly, we had no difficulty in recognising each other, even after all that time. What about trying to meet where you trained? There might be accommodation there too. Try to keep the arrangements flexible. Wear badges with your maiden name, if married. Use your professional organisation or journal to trace those you have lost contact with. Make a map showing where people live - some may be near neighbours. And afterwards circulate a list to all attenders with their contact information, if they agree. Lastly, accept any offer of help. Sorting addresses, accommodation and finances is a lot for one person. And be prepared for a request for another reunion!
Jean Austen, Norfolk, who wins this week's £25 National Book Token
No outlay necessary
I've organised three reunions in recent years. The last didn't involve any outlay of money. About six months earlier I asked a hotel in Cheltenham if they were likely to have room in their bar on a Saturday afternoon in May and they said there were no weddings booked on the day suggested, so it would be fine. I then contacted all those people who might be interested in coming and asked them to turn up at the hotel bar and arrange their own accommodation. Everyone paid for their own meal. Forty ex-pupils and their partners reminisced into the wee small hours. They had come from as far as Australia and Canada, and Cheltenham seemed to be an easy place for everyone to get to as it has excellent rail links to Birmingham and London.
Sue Perry, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Back to school
Structuring a day with plenty of opportunities for catching up with each other and reminiscing on your shared experiences works well. Give plenty of notice about your proposed reunion, send reminders and ask people to spread the word to fellow nurses with whom they still may be in touch. Use social networking sites to get in contact with those who may have fallen off the radar. In terms of where to host the reunion, why not ask the hospital where you trained if you can base the reunion there and perhaps have a tour of the site? Former pupils are both amazed by how much has changed to the school buildings and also by how much they recognise of old.
Susie Schofield, by email
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Your Poker Mental Health: Avoiding Steaming (Tilt)November 24, 2014 - 11:22pm
By: Ashley Adams
I meet a lot of people away from the poker table who are not serious poker players. They often want to be – but just aren't. They are often familiar with the game, want to get better, but have never seriously considered the skills involved. The conversation often gets around to my decades of poker playing experience and what two or three things I think make someone a good poker player.
It's an interesting question for the serious player (which I surmise you are if you're reading this article on poker). What are the most important skills we good players develop – that the losing player doesn't have?
Saving Money on Your Poker VacationJuly 22, 2014 - 10:21am
by Ashley Adams
I go to Las Vegas at least once a year – and have learned how to minimize my overhead while out there. Less money for expenses translates into more money for tournaments.. Here's how I save.
Let's look at the four major cost components of a typical poker vacation:
1. Airfare
2. Hotel
3. Ground Transportation (taxi, buses, rental cars)
4. Meals
Airfare – Save $150
I live in Boston, Massachusetts. My travel costs may be different from those of you who live elsewhere. Even so, I think the process of saving money is the same, regardless of your place of departure.
Many of my friends have frequent flyer cards and use one airline exclusively. I don't do that. I use a consolidator, an internet service that scans all airlines for the lowest fare. Recently, I noticed a disparity of $150 between the most expensive seat and the cheapest seat on a round trip flight from Boston to Las Vegas. The best site for this, in my opinion, is Fly.com. It looks at all of the consolidators and finds the cheapest seat. It also shows you the cheapest days to fly, allowing you to further cut your costs by leaving a day or two earlier or later to qualify for the lowest fare.
2. Hotel – Save between $420 and $1,940
First of all, you should decide what kind of a place you want. Maybe you want to stay only in a first class place – five stars all the way. Fine. I just checked the rates through the site of a well-regarded 5 star hotel on the strip in Las Vegas. Their least expensive room was $2,050 for five nights including a Saturday night. I then went to my favorite internet site, Trivago.com – and booked the exact same room for $1,630 – for a savings of $420. But maybe you're a little more flexible than I was – and are willing to stay in another 5-star hotel – just not that particular one. Using Trivago again, I found another popular, well known place, in roughly the same strip location, for only $750 for five nights including Saturday night – for a savings of $1,250. Same quality, roughly the same location – and over $1,000 less!
Of course if you're willing to go down slightly in quality you can save even more. I found a well-known three-star hotel, near the northern end of the Strip for just $210 for those same five nights – for a savings of $1,840. Believe it or not, if you want, you can do even better than that in Las Vegas. I typically stay in a clean two-star place for $110 for those five nights – for a savings of $1,940. If you are a serious poker player like I am, you're spending nearly all your waking hours in a poker room anyway. You're just using your room for sleep. Who really cares how fancy the pillows and drapes are? So why pay top price?
3. Ground Transportation: Save $225
Many people take cabs wherever they go in Las Vegas. That can get expensive. With a $3.30 initial charge, $2.60 a mile plus $.60 a minute "Waiting time" plus $3 or so to use your credit card – a typical ride from casino to casino or casino to restaurant typically runs no less than $20 a pop including tip. Do that three or four times a day, five days in a row and you've out at least $300 to get around in Las Vegas.
Instead, consider renting a car. If you go through Hotwire.com, my favorite site for rental cards, you won't know what rental car company you have, but I really don't care about anything but the rate. Recently, I paid just $75 a week (including all taxes and fees) for an economy car –$225 less than using cabs.
4. Meals: Save $300 -- maybe
You can get a room with a kitchenette and cook many of your own meals – saving the cost of going out to eat. Groceries are a lot cheaper than restaurant meals to be sure. I used to do that. I saved a few hundred dollars. But I found that it often wasn't worth it, since I so enjoy the experience of eating out while in Las Vegas.
Total Savings:
All tolled, depending on the choices you make you could save from $795 up to $2,615 for your five-day vacation, airfare included. With the money you save you could afford at least the entry into the Aria's recently announced $565 tournament with a $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool. Not too shabby! For my money, saving the money is worth the slightly extra effort.
For information about finding poker games while on vacation or traveling, check out my other article on PokerStrategy.com.
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California Poker Adventure: Part 7May 16, 2014 - 9:21am
by Ashley Adams
My poker-playing buddy Andrei and I were nearing the final quadrant of this circular poker playing tour we had been on for five days. We had flown from Boston to San Francisco on a Saturday, driven east and north to Chico, then south through Sacramento, Stockton, and the Napa Valley, before heading west through Livermore and Tracy to San Jose. We played poker all the way, in about 23 rooms.
Once in San Jose, our first port of call there was the Bay 101 Casino. It is a huge, modern, grand poker palace – along the lines of the Commerce in Los Angeles. The room is divided into two halves, with a large lobby and enormously high ceilings. On the left are a myriad of "California Games" like baccarat, blackjack, pai gow tiles, and 3-card poker. I watched these games briefly – but moved quickly over to the poker side.
California Poker Adventure: Part 6May 15, 2014 - 9:37am
by Ashley Adams
In my last installment of this seven-part series, my friend Andrei and I were playing our way through Stockton on a 25-room poker trip in Central California. We left the two gritty rooms there and headed south to Casino Real (1355 North Main St., Manteca, 209-239-1455). This seven-table room struck me as being a blend of a modern casino poker room and a traditional local California card room. There's tableside food and beverage service as well as a reasonably priced player's menu, with $6-$8 sandwiches and $8 Asian dishes like pho. They spread $1/1/2 and $1/1/3 no limit, $3/6 limit hold'em, and $4/8 Omaha with a ½ kill. There was a prop in the Omaha game I played in – but other than he, the action was good and the quality of my opponents was, at best, tight and predictable. After an hour, I moved over from Omaha to $1/1/3 no limit. I managed to lose a large contested pot with a full house but ended up winning money when I was awarded $100 by the poker room thanks to a neat little bad beat promotion they had going. Sweet! The other distinguishing feature of the room is Ernie's, the high-end gourmet restaurant located on the premises. I didn't have time to sample the menu, but everyone I met in the poker room raved about it.
California Poker Scene – Part 5May 13, 2014 - 10:17am
by Ashley Adams
This is the fifth installment of my chronicling of a visit to 25 poker rooms in Central California. Frankly, by this stage of the journey I was getting tired and sick -- having come down with shingles.
Following a relatively quick stop at an emergency room to treat my painful virus, my friend Andrei and I visited the poker room/bowling alley/bar/restaurant known as Folsom Lake Bowl (511 East Bidwell Street, Folsom, 916-983-4411). The poker there is played in a separate five-table card room behind the restaurant. They typically have a morning game of $1-$3 no limit that starts by 11:00 AM, with a $40 bonus for players after they have completed three hours of live play. A later game begins at roughly 4:00 PM. They run a house-funded regular $10,000 freeroll tournament for the forty players with the most hours of qualifying play. There's a bad beat promotion as well, funded out of the $4 + $1 maximum rake. They have a nice little Saturday night $30 tourney with a $1,000 guarantee. The poker room had just taken over the kitchen when I visited – and they were in the process of developing a poker player's menu. If I lived closer I'd return to try it out.
We left the FLB and drove south to the Lodi Casino, (1800 S. Cherokee Lane Lodi, 209-334-9777). It's located right on route 99, a 15 minute walk from a surprisingly nice Motel 6. It has seven poker tables. I enjoyed playing in a great, lively, $1-$3 no limit game. My buddy played some $4/8 with a half kill – and enjoyed his session as well. To help promote the room they have $3K, $10K and $50K freerolls, as well as comps of $2 an hour for live play. There's a kitchen with a full menu. I sampled the $1 tacos. They were perfect as a snack. Later, I had the inexpensive prime rib dinner. It was outstanding.
California Poker Scene, Part 4May 6, 2014 - 9:40am
My friend Andrei and I were on day three of my poker adventure in northern California, having visited 11 rooms that I've already reported on [Editor's Note: Read part 1, 2, and 3].
The next poker room we visited was Rancho's Club Casino (10499B Folsom Blvd Rancho Cordova, CA 916-361- 9186). I really enjoyed this little room where I had the privilege of playing with and really getting to know the rooms owner, Reuben Marquez. We sat together at a $4/$8 with a half kill game of Omaha hi-lo. But this game was very special—perhaps unique—in that it was played with a 9 qualifier for low rather than the standard 8. The game was populated by six recreational players, and two extremely tight players: a house shill (someone who plays with house money) and Reuben himself. I only played for about 90 minutes, but managed to win about $100. That wasn't the most memorable part of the experience. Instead, I learned from Reuben how to play a house game he invented: double hand Marquez. It combines the best of pai gow, baccarat, and blackjack and has just been approved as a legitimate California game. I shan't explain it except to say that it's relatively easy to learn, has a modest house advantage of about 3% or so, and seems fun to play (if you can find gambling games with a house advantage to be fun). The room is officially open from 8:30 AM until 3:00 AM, but considering there was just one short game going when I was there at 5:30 PM on a Tuesday night, I'd call before driving over.
by Ashley Adams
We left Rancho's Club at about 7:00 PM and shortly thereafter arrived at the nearby Cordova Casino (2801 Prospect Park Drive Rancho Cordova 916-293-7470). This is a busier and larger poker room than Rancho's Club, with about six tables in action when we were there. I played in a $1/$3 no limit hold'em game that allowed an under-the-gun straddle of up to ten times the big blind. Their rake was a reasonable $4 a hand (with another $1 for the many promotions they offered). They also had a low limit hold'em game that my friend Andrei played in. This seemed to be the hangout of the more serious poker players in town. I managed to win one fairly large pot with some trickery—something that wouldn't have been possible if the players had been looser or less observant. There's a nice $120 in chips for $100 buy-in promotion that visitors should take advantage of. The eight players at my table rated the food as better than average.
California Poker Scene, Part 3April 21, 2014 - 10:17am
by Ashley Adams
It was Super Bowl Sunday morning, day two of my California poker odyssey. I've reported on my earlier visits to the California Grand, Casino Royale, the Limelight, Capitol Casino, and Cache Creek. Sunday I drove from Sacramento up through Colusa and Oroville to Chico and then back south again to Marysville. I played in four more rooms: Colusa Casino, 99 Casino (formerly Angie's Place), Feather Falls Casino, and Casino Marysville.
The Colusa Casino (3770 Highway 45, Colusa, 530.458.8844) is a full service resort casino with a modest poker area on the casino floor typically running just $3/$6 limit hold'em. They rarely get no-limit, but they do have a fantastic mixed game on Wednesday evening. In it they spread Crazy Pineapple, Irish Hold'em, and Superflop. I had never heard of the last two games, and describe them to you here—perhaps for the first time in print!
Irish Hold'em is a variation of hold'em. Instead of getting two cards, you get four. You discard two before the flop. The rest is the same. Superflop is dealt the same as hold'em, but there are only two additional rounds of betting, both at the higher tier. The flop and turn are done together—with four cards being exposed initially. There's a round of betting. And then there is a one-card river, making the board the same as a regular hold'em board. Watch for them soon at a card room near you—or travel to Colusa on Wednesday at 3PM to play them.
California Poker Scene, Part 2April 4, 2014 - 10:09am
by Ashley Adams
I left off the first part of this article after finishing play at the Casino Royale poker room in the beautiful Red Lion Hotel in Sacramento. Though my friend Andrei was tired out by our cross country flight and subsequent poker jaunt, I was still energized. So before retiring I headed out on Saturday night to the two other rooms in Sacramento, The Capitol Casino, and the Limelight Bar and Cafe Card Room.
The Capitol Casino (411 N. 16th Street, Sacramento, 916-446- 0700) is the dominant card room in the area. Open 24/7, there are ten poker tables and many "California Games". The food is outstanding. They have Asian dishes, diner fare, and elaborate desserts that literally sit on shelves surrounding many of the areas of play. It was weird looking, but so tempting that I went back the following day just to eat breakfast (and had a great omelet and perfectly prepared coffee).
The room has the biggest action in the area. I played in the $2/$5 game that rocked and rolled. (They sometimes have $5/$10 no limit I was told—but it wasn't going on the Saturday night I was there). Seventy percent of the hands were 3-bet or 4-bet pre-flop. I don't recall if there was a cap on the buy-in, but at my table there were three players sitting with well over $1K. While the level of play was not of the very highest level—that you'll find at some of the very large poker rooms like Commerce, Aria, Bellagio, Borgata, or Foxwoods -- this was better than a collection of local rocks and recreational players. I didn't sit in or observe their other games, but there were $1/$2 no limits going as well as a few $4/8, $6/12 limit and even a $4/$8 Omaha8 with a half kill. They offer a wide variety of tournaments as well.
California Poker Scene, Part 1March 5, 2014 - 11:37am
by Ashley Adams
What's the poker capitol of the world? For my money, the honors have to go to the entire state of California. This state's rich poker legacy goes back to the 1930s, a time when gambling was banned everywhere in the United States, but in Nevada. But in California, poker clubs were legal and thrived in those municipalities that allowed them (if only for draw poker games).
Poker continues to thrive in California today, with 104 rooms listed on www.pokeratlas.com. Having played in just about all of the poker rooms in Southern California, I decided to explore the vast sea of poker rooms in the northern and central part of the state. My buddy Andrei (a limit hold'em specialist) and I managed to hit about 25 of them on this five day trip. In this and my next few articles, I will tell you, at least briefly, about the rooms we visited—as well as a few of the highlights and lowlights of our excursion.
We flew into San Francisco and immediately rented a car and left the Bay Area. We could have played in the four rooms that ring San Francisco: The Oaks in Emeryville, Artichoke Joe's in San Bruno, Palace Poker in Hayward, and Lucky Chances in Colma. All are fine rooms, worthy of at least a visit. But I had played in each of them in the past and decided that we would spend our limited time in rooms to the east that I had yet to visit. So off we were for points east.


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January saw a gathering of hundreds of NGN experts in Geneva for the first NGN-GSI (global
standards initiative) event. Good progress was reported in several key areas
particularly in the important area of functional architecture and requirements
for resource and admission control functions (RACF) in NGNs. The Recommendation
covering RACF is said to be stable and is expected to be consented at the July
GSI event.
The January event comprised three full Study Group
meetings (11, 13 and 19). Experts from
various other Study Groups were in attendance for this first meeting of the GSI
following its launch in November, 2005.
Study Group 13, the lead for NGN work, alone saw over 250
contributions, many a result of the work of the Focus Group on NGN. SG 13 saw
three new Recommendations consented, see separate stories (Y.1731, Y.1452, Y.1453).
Group 11 reported that 50 contributions were received and launched work on
an NGN Protocol Set. According to SG documents ITU-T NGN-Protocol Set 1 will
define protocols for the support of:
� Network to Network Interface (NNI) session control;
� User to network Interface (UNI) session control;
� Resource Control Interfaces;
� Network Attachment Interfaces.
Protocol Set 1 is targeted for
completion by the end of 2006.
The chair of Study Group 19 reported good progress in the
area of FMC (fixed-mobile convergence).
It is expected that many other of the outputs of the Focus
Group on NGN will be consented at this July meeting. Among them will be a
Recommendation dealing with performance, management and measurement, another
key area in NGN. See the work programmes for the various Study Groups involved
in NGN for a full list.
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Some years ago I had a 4 5/8" Ruger Blackhawk in .45 Colt converted to a Bisley, complete with a color case-hardened frame. Done with my Bisley experiments, I decided to reconvert it.
Monday I escaped to my workshop and removed all the Bisley parts and re-installed the Blackhawk parts, including the aluminum grip frame. But I have a steel grip frame coming in from Brownell's. Its oversized and in the white, but I've already talked to Memphis gunsmith Keith Warner about that. Soon as huntin' season quietens down the rush, I'll take it to him for the work.
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The theme of the luncheon is "Successful internal recycling programs can be yours." The speakers include Sharon Wester of Swiss Re America Holding Group and Brandon Hearn, environmental officer for the Johnson County Department of Health and Environment.
By learning these practices to help build a successful recycling program, recyclers can discover there is much more needed to do to create success, Matt Riggs, recycling outreach coordinator for MARC, said.
"A good program is more than just putting out a bin and hoping people use it." Riggs said. He said they have to learn how logistics, planning and outreach come together to shape a successful recycling program for businesses and residents alike.
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The famous 1925 Norse-American medals are the work of James Earle Fraser of Buffalo nickel fame. As a youngster I remember the first time I ever looked into a dealer's case and saw a 1925 Norse-American medal. It was large, octagonal, and had a really neat and appealing Viking design. Back in the 1960s the medals were not overly expensive, but another coin, probably a Liberty Seated dime, must have caught my attention that day and the Norse-American medal was forgotten.
A Great Numismatic Tradition
For many years our Americana Sales, held in New York City, have set the pace for collectors, dealers, museum curators and others seeking quality coins from colonial issues onward. As we welcome you to this year's event, we invite you to join us at the Stack's Bowers Galleries auction venue on the second floor of the Directors Guild of America building, located at 110 West 57th Street, diagonally opposite our long-time gallery at 123 West 57th.
Did you know the Stack's Bowers Galleries February Americana Showcase Auction featuring The Stephen Winthrop Collection is now online? Visit StacksBowers.com and click on Browse Auctions to view the entire sale and enter presale bids. The Stephen Winthrop Collection kicks off Session Three. The proceeds from this collection will be donated to the Stephen VanR. Winthrop ALS Fund at Harvard University. If you wish to make a gift directly to Stephen Winthrop's fund, click here for more information.
For many years, our Americana Sales conducted in New York City have attracted collectors, dealers, museum curators and others seeking quality coins, medals and tokens, from colonial issues onward. There is still time for you to be a part of it! The February Americana Sale will take place February 5-6, 2015, and the deadline for consignments is December 5, 2014.
Whenever great U.S. coin rarities are discussed, talk eventually turns to the 1802 half dime, one of the greatest silver rarities of all. As early as 1863 this little half dime has been recognized for the rarity it is. In 1863 the Lilliendahl specimen was sold by Harold P. Newlin for $340, a lordly sum in the Civil War era, and a price that was 6,800 times face value! That specimen was one of just three known at the time. As a comparison, we note a 1794 dollar, one of the finest known at the time of its sale in 1863, realized just $285.
A Great Numismatic Tradition
Welcome to this year's event! For many years, our Americana Sale conducted in New York City has set the pace for collectors, dealers, museum curators and others seeking quality coins, medals and tokens, from colonial issues onward. As customary, the venue will be at our office gallery on West 57th Street in the heart of the Art District on Wednesday, February 5, and will resume Thursday, February 6, at the Le Parker Méridien. Both venues are a short walk from Fifth Avenue, Times Square, Central Park, and other attractions and are only a few steps from Carnegie Hall. Come early, bring your family, and enjoy!