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State law keeps officers' disciplinary history secret
In recent weeks, a Buffalo police officer was suspended for allegedly slapping around a defendant in handcuffs and then demanding an onlooker turn over cellphone video on the incident.
Two more officers were suspended without pay last week because they were present when a bar patron suffered serious brain injury at the bar where they were employed as security.
Police internal affairs investigators are investigating both cases.
But if internal discipline is ever meted out against those three officers, the public probably will never know. Nor will the public know if the department ever disciplined them in the past.
In short, the disciplinary history of any police officer in New York is cloaked in secrecy.
Unlike most other types of public employees, a record of disciplinary actions taken against a police officer cannot be unearthed by a request for records under the state's Freedom of Information Law.
Since the mid-1970s, New York Civil Right Law has kept confidential the records used "to evaluate performance toward continued employment or promotion" for police officers. The law has even been expanded over the years to protect corrections officers and professional firefighters.
Because of Civil Rights Law Section 50-a, only a court order or the employees themselves can unlock the records for public inspection.
"The result of Section 50-a is that those government employees who have the most power over our lives are the least accountable," said Robert J. Freeman, executive director of the New York Committee on Open Government.
Keeping the disciplinary records secret was intended to protect officers from being embarrassed or harassed when they testified in court about unrelated arrests. But Freeman said that is a hollow argument because judges control the courtroom, and a judge can tell a lawyer that such questions are out of bounds if they are in fact out of bounds.
Freeman contends that once an officer or corrections officer retires or resigns, their personnel records can become public because the employee is no longer eligible for "continued employment or promotion." Some appeals court judges have agreed with that argument in specific requests for records under the Freedom of Information Law.
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SMART Boards grab students' attention, help teachers bring lessons to life
May 23, 2010
Hayden — Sixth-grader Kenny Corriveau demonstrated Tuesday how Robin Bush's Hayden Middle School science class can dissect a frog without actually having to dissect a frog.
An image of a frog — its legs and arms spread wide as it would be before dissection — was displayed on the 4-foot-by-5-foot SMART Board screen. Kenny identified different parts of the frog by touching the screen with his fingers and moving them to the side.
The Hayden School District, through a matching grant from the Morgridge Family Foundation, bought three interactive SMART Boards this year. They serve as digital white boards and projectors, among other things.
Two were placed at the high school and one in Bush's class.
"It's more hands-on," Kenny explained. "We can do experiments here without having to go other places. The experiments come to us."
Bush said she uses her SMART Board every day for instruction, activities and even games, in addition to experiments. She can use the interactive software to teach or take a lesson or assignment from one of the many websites that offer them. Her class watches videos, as they did to see news coverage of the Haiti earthquake and volcanic eruptions in Iceland. Bush can demonstrate a science problem using the whiteboard or projector functions.
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Whatever she does, Bush said she can transition seamlessly to what's next without having to bring in an overhead projector, television or take the class to the computer lab. Simply put, the SMART Board has simplified things.
"It doesn't limit you," Bush said. "If you don't have money, resources or time, you can still do it. … To me, it brings the outside world into the classroom."
Technology emphasis
Hayden High School Principal Troy Zabel, a member of the district's technology committee, said buying SMART Boards is part of the district's plan to incorporate technology into the classroom.
Zabel said there's potential to harness the educational benefits of SMART Boards in every subject area, and the district's goal is to eventually place a SMART Board in every classroom.
Next year, Hayden will have nine more SMART Boards, paid for by a $15,400 grant from the Morgridge Family Foundation, $7,400 from the Education Fund Board, and about $7,000 from the district.
"The way we offer education to kids is evolving," he said. "Every year, we take a step further."
Hayden isn't the only Routt County school district using SMART Boards. Steamboat Springs has six and will get eight more next year. South Routt has two and plans to apply for grant funding to buy more in October.
South Routt Superintendent Scott Mader said the reason the district wants to improve its technology is simple. He said students will have to use different technologies when they get out of school, so why not incorporate them into the classroom.
Steamboat Springs Technology Director Tim Miles said his staff just completed a project to simplify and add specific district goals to the state's new broad, and vague, technology standards.
He said the district hasn't done well the past few years with technology. By breaking down the standards, Miles said the district will create technology committees at every school that will work with teachers to establish priorities. He said those priorities will help the district identify what teachers need to know to use new technological tools.
Steamboat Springs also uses gadgets such as iPods and interactive computer software. Ideally, Miles said integrating technology into the classroom shouldn't put a burden on teachers or make them work harder. Mader agreed.
"Teaching is going to be teaching," he said. "Those elements of instruction that are good, that are necessary, are always going to be there. (Technology) will only enhance that. If kids can touch it, if they can see it, if they can access it more quickly, all of those things are going to make teaching more effective."
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Hayden High School science teacher Dean Massey, who also has a SMART Board, said its greatest advantage is the participation it coaxes out of students.
Massey said it's too early to tell whether his students have earned better grades as a result of the SMART Board, but his students' attention and focus is noticeably better.
Bush, whose sixth-grade students sometimes can't sit still, also couldn't say whether her students performed better after using the SMART Board but said that it was conducive to engaging students.
"To me, when you have fun in learning, people pay more attention," sixth-grader Heather Ray said. "When you're just reading out of textbooks, people don't pay attention."
Bush said students, who in the past didn't want to participate, now often are engaged in lessons. She said the SMART Board has exceeded her expectations.
"Now that I have it, it would be hard to teach without it," Bush said.


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It's this time of the year when we are talking about trends for the new year and I think when it comes to cloud computing one trend that stands boldly above the rest is – Native Cloud Applications. So, what is a native cloud application? Let's take a look at what type of applications are currently running on the cloud… You don't have to look too hard to realize that these are exactly the same applications that have been developed for decade to run either locally or at traditional datacenter: * Scalability often means crude load balancing over multiple instances of the same application running on several images * Services provided by cloud providers are rarely used and not taken a full advantage of since they are not readily available during development that happens outside the cloud * Any work with or deployment on a specific cloud provider means a cloud lock-in that is only compounded by the fact that all current vendors require all-or-nothing approach when it comes to hosting your application Native Cloud Application overcome these shortcomings. Unlike current applications, the Native Cloud Applications have three distinct characteristics: 1. They are massively parallel, i.e. they are built so that they can scale on a much finer scale on cloud's on-demand distributed infrastructure – like ability to scale an individual method call in Java code, for example 2. They take full advantage of native services available in the cloud like S3 and SimpleDB from AWS 3. They are developed using a cross-cloud paradigm allowing you to seamlessly develop and run your application across multiple cloud providers utilizing one virtualized cloud spanning your workstation, local co-lo or datacenter and several external cloud providers To help develop and run Native Cloud Application a new breed of software middleware is required. GridGain Systems recently released GridGain 2.1 – Open Cloud Platform that has started on the road to create a productive runtime and development platform for Native Cloud Applications. Check out its features at http://www.gridgain.org
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Newtown shootings aftermath: Schools consider armed police on campus
Michael Strutt, superintendent of Butler, Penn., schools, took an extraordinary step last weekend to protect the district's 7,500 children: securing a court order letting him place armed retired state troopers in every school.
The measure will cost Butler, a community including steelworkers and farmers, about $200,000 a year, even as the school system has cut teachers and administrators.
After the Dec. 14 Newtown, Conn. school massacre, districts across the U.S. are revisiting the need for armed police. Few are taking steps as dramatic as Butler, though many are asking police to step up patrols or shifting existing officers to guard younger children.
"I could never forgive myself if something happened in our schools and I didn't take every measure I could to prevent it," Strutt said in a telephone interview.
Since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that killed 26 first-graders and adults, at least two dozen school districts or law enforcement agencies have asked the National Association of School Resource Officers, which represents school-based police, about heightening security.
Each officer on average will cost about $80,000 annually, including benefits and equipment, said Mo Canady, executive director of the group, based in Hoover, Ala.
"Communities will have to figure out what's important to them," Canady said in a telephone interview.
Wayne LaPierre, chief executive officer of the National Rifle Association, called Friday for Congress to fund armed guards in every school. The U.S. has about 99,000 public elementary, middle and high schools.
Chris Christie, the Republican governor of New Jersey, said he isn't sold on that idea.
"I don't necessarily think having armed guards outside of every classroom is the most conducive thing to a good educational environment," he said today in Newark. "We don't want to make this an armed camp."
In an e-mail Thursday, Daren Briscoe, a U.S. Education Department spokesman, called preventing such violence "a complex problem with no simple solution."
Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Vice President Joseph Biden, part of a group President Barack Obama convened to respond to the shooting, will evaluate "a wide array of ideas," said Briscoe, who declined to comment on whether the federal government would provide money for school security.
In 2009, the latest year available, 68 percent of schools had security guards or assigned police officers, up from 54 percent in 1999, according to an Education Department survey of students, 12- to 18-years old.
More than 90 percent of schools had locked or monitored doors during school hours, the government said. About 1 percent required students to pass through metal detectors.
Elementary schools are less likely than high schools or middle schools to have police on their grounds, principals, trade groups and safety experts said.
Schools in Atlanta; Los Angeles; Denver; Tampa, Fla.; Birmingham, Ala.; Kansas City, Miss.; Memphis, Tenn.; and Sacramento, Calif., have armed security such as police officers for at least some schools, according to a survey by the Council of the Great City Schools, a Washington-based group that represents the 67 largest systems. Not all districts responded.
The Los Angeles Unified School District, the country's second-biggest system, has armed police officers at high schools, as well as some middle schools, said spokeswoman Ellen Morgan. Many middle schools have unarmed school safety officers, as well.
Elementary schools don't have officers, and police are now stepping up patrols, Morgan said.
The New York City system, the nation's largest, has unarmed school-safety officers from the police department in every school, said Marge Feinberg, a spokeswoman.
The Butler Area School District, 30 miles north of Pittsburgh, spends about $500,000 a year on security, including metal detectors at each school.
For about 10 years, Butler has had two or three unarmed retired state troopers in each of its three high school and junior high schools. Its 11 elementary schools had security guards.
On Dec. 10, four days before the shooting, the school board voted to arm all the officers. Without the court order the transition could have taken months. The district now plans to redistribute the retired officers, so each elementary school has one.
Butler hasn't had a school shooting, Strutt said, and killings at U.S. schools are rare. In the 2009-2010 year, 17 children ages 5 to 18 died in homicides at school, traveling to or from campuses or at school events, according to the Education Department. That's about half the annual figure during much of the 1990s. In a population of more than 50 million students, the school-related death toll has been about 1 percent of all homicides for that age group.
"Children are safer in schools than in almost any other place, including for some, their own homes," according to a statement this week signed by nine violence-prevention researchers from U.S. universities and the American Institutes for Research, the Washington-based social-science research organization.
Rather than intensify school security, the U.S. should improve access to mental-health care, reduce exposure to violent media and control guns, the researchers said.
"We cannot and should not turn our schools into fortresses," they said.
Two previous killings, in particular, led to the current round of safety measures in public schools. At Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, two students in 1999 killed 12 classmates and a teacher. A decade earlier, at Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton, California, a gunman murdered five students.
At Sandy Hook school in Newtown, the heavily armed, 20-year-old gunman, Adam Lanza, forced his way in, authorities said. He shot through glass to enter, said Maryann Jacob, an assistant librarian. He also killed his mother at their home.
After Columbine, schools used police officers and counselors to identify internal threats from other students, said Francisco Negron, general counsel of the National School Boards Association in Alexandria, Va. Now, school boards across the country will focus on identifying ways to protect kids from external danger, he said.
Glock Pistol Boone County, Ky., shows the challenge districts face as they reassess security.
The district spends about $600,000 a year for nine school- based sheriff's deputies who protect 23 schools. An officer guards every high school and middle school -- though not each elementary school. Officers carry a Glock .40-caliber pistol, as well as a Taser.
The fast-growing suburban district of 20,000 students, near Cincinnati, added officers after averting a school shooting in 1994.
Then, a 17-year-old student shot to death his father, mother and two sisters at home and drove to school, holding a class hostage. An assistant principal talked the child out of the gun.
The district doesn't have the money to add officers to all its buildings, said Randy Poe, superintendent of Boone County Schools. For now, Boone is considering shifting more officers' time to elementary schools.
"It's a new day," Poe said. "You have to think differently here."


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LONDON - A pulsing heart of red lights shone from Sydney's Harbor Bridge early today as tens of thousands watched fireworks ushering in the new year. Revelers around the world began partying, visited places of worship and gathered with family to welcome 2006.
Celebrations were taking place amid tight security as such cities as Sydney and Paris feared repeats of recent ethnic riots and authorities were on guard against terror attacks.
Partygoers scrambled to get around London on Saturday night thanks to a New Year's Eve strike by subway workers, while French authorities worried a youthful tradition of burning cars could get out of hand just weeks after widespread urban riots.
In parts of Asia, the threat of terrorism loomed large, and a bombing at a market in Indonesia killed eight people and wounded 45.
But celebrations worldwide were generally jubilant, in contrast with last year when the devastation of the Indian Ocean tsunami led many countries and individuals to cancel festivities.
Hundreds of American soldiers in Iraq got a special show from "American Idol" singer Diana DeGarmo and other entertainers in Baghdad.
More than 2 million Brazilians were expected at jam Rio de Janeiro's famed Copacabana Beach for the largest fireworks extravaganza in the city's history. Officials planned to set off nearly 25 tons of fireworks.
London saw many subway workers walk out just hours before a huge open-air celebration in Trafalgar Square and other parties around the capital.
"I am not worried about the strike; I'm just going to take a cab or use the buses," said Matthew Lapalus, a 22-year-old Frenchman who came to London to celebrate New Year's Eve.
London Underground said it hoped workers not affiliated with the striking RMT union would keep much of the network running. By early evening, only about 30 of the Tube's 275 stations were closed as managers sought to keep some trains going.
In France, 25,000 police were on alert, fearing a repeat of arson attacks and rioting that swept the country for three weeks starting in late October.
"The orders I have given are very strict," said French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy. "When there are delinquent acts there will be arrests. Those guilty must be accountable for their acts."
The mood was more festive elsewhere.
Four months after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans residents prepared to ring in 2006 with fireworks and concerts.
"New Orleans is back open, so come on down and start visiting. That's the word to get out," said Brian Kern, an organizer of the festivities, which were paid for by businesses because the city's tax income was wiped out by the storm.
In Australia, revelers jostled for vantage points around Sydney's harbor to watch a spectacular fireworks show at midnight.
More than 1,700 police officers were on duty for the night and police helicopters and boats buzzed across the harbor - a huge presence aimed at preventing a repeat of racial violence that broke out in the city's suburbs earlier this month.
In Bangladesh, 5,000 security officers searched cars and patrolled the streets of the capital to thwart possible violence in the wake of a series of bombings blamed on Islamic extremists that have killed at least 26 people.
In Japan, police expected more than 14,000 people to climb the 12,387-foot, snowcapped Mount Fuji and other mountains before dawn to see the first sunrise of the new year.
In the Philippines, two people were reported killed by bullets fired during celebratory gunfire and two others died after eating a popular sparkler that looks like candy. Firing guns in the air is a traditional way for Filipinos to welcome the new year.
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On the last day of 2012…
We've finally reached the end of 2012. On both a personal level and for the baseball teams that I follow, it wasn't really a good year.
I've watched my father's health decline throughout the year. I don't usually get too personal on here, but my dad's the one who taught me about baseball and took me to my first games – I can't really talk about the game or look back on 2012 without thinking of him.
I didn't know Gary Carter, but his death was a loss for me and many other baseball fans as well as those who did know him personally. Carter was one of the rare few members of the 1986 Mets who tried to do admirable things off the baseball field as well as on it, and he will always be my favorite baseball player.
Moving from the sad to the frustrating, the New York Mets collapsed again after a strong start to the season in 2012. Only the disaster that was the Miami Marlins saved the Mets from finishing in last place in the National League East. The team's finances continue to be the most interesting story surrounding the Mets this off-season, and the biggest trade that Sandy Alderson made sent the Mets' second-best player to Canada for talented prospects who aren't likely to help before 2014 or later.
The Newark Bears muddled through another losing season, finishing the year 30 games under .500 and with the lowest attendance in the Can-Am League.
Yep, not really a banner year anywhere.
But even so, there were bright spots. For the Bears, Mike Ness had a magical afternoon on July 11th when he pitched a no-hitter against the eventual league champion team despite a defense that committed six errors behind him.
It took 50 seasons (and a missed call by an umpire), but the Mets finally got their own no-hitter on June 1st.
And if Johan Santana was amazing that night, R.A. Dickey was amazing all season long. Despite an offense that seemed to go days between scoring runs in the second half, Dickey became the Mets' first 20-game winner since Frank Viola and their first Cy Young Award winner since Dwight Gooden.
Dickey's one-hitter against the Baltimore Orioles on June 18th was the best baseball memory I've had at Citi Field. That night, he became the first pitcher in all of baseball to throw back-to-back one-hitters since Dave Stieb did it for the Toronto Blue Jays in 1988.
David Wright set new franchise records for RBIs and hits – I was in the ballpark when he set the RBI mark in April. During the off-season, he signed a contract extension that will likely allow him to retire as a Met, so we can watch him extend and set more franchise career records.
Jonathon Niese and Ruben Tejada took steps forward, and Matt Harvey made a positive impression once he was promoted from the minor leagues. And if Ike Davis's overall numbers for 2012 aren't especially pretty, he did finish strong after a terrible start.
And on a personal note again, I'm thankful for the friends I've made who I've gone to baseball games with, who have helped me with my autograph or baseball card collections, or who've just spent time talking baseball with me here, on Twitter or on Facebook.
There's a quote from a Doctor Who episode that seems like a perfect way to sum up 2012:
The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things…. The good things don't always soften the bad things, but vice-versa, the bad things don't necessarily spoil the good things and make them unimportant.
This year's almost gone, and next year promises another pile of good and bad things for us. Let's try to enjoy the good ones – such as those magical performances at the ballpark, or times spent watching the game with friends or family – and not let the bad ones spoil the rest.
What stood out for you in 2012? What are you looking forward to in 2013?
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Hi Paul, best wishes for a better 2013 for you and yours.
As far as sports, I'd say the highlight for me was the NJ Devils making it all the way to the Stanley Cup Finals, just down the street from the Bears' Riverfront Stadium. But, even the warm afterglow of that solid run was ruined for me by the still-ongoing NHL lockout.
Like you, I am a Mets and Newark Bears fan. You hit all the high and low points with those baseball teams. Santana had the first Met no-hitter, yes, but he became ineffective afterward and was shut down. Dickey wins the Cy Young, and is traded. Madoff's shadow lingers over CitiField.
Meanwhile, many Bears fans hold their collective breaths to see if the franchise will survive another season. The October gaffe with the bogus Justin Bieber concert at Riverfront Stadium—let's just say I kinda felt it was too good to be true and I wondered why Ms. Dronet did not see it as the fraud it was. (I have a 12 y.o. daughter–good thing I waited before mentioning anything to her).
On the autograph front, I thought Ike Davis, Tim Raines, Gary Gaetti (Sugarland) and CJ Nitkowski (Buffalo) were particularly nice and generous with their time signing autographs for me, to name just a few good guys. Looking forward to a better 2013!
Happy New Year to all!


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A's top Mariners to avoid sweep
Mark Ellis drove in three runs with a pair of doubles Wednesday, as the Oakland A's defeated the Seattle Mariners 5-1 at Safeco Field.
The A's won the series finale as -126 favorites, while the six runs went UNDER the posted over/under (7.5) set by sportsbooks.
Dallas Braden allowed four hits and one run in a complete-game victory for the A's.
Luke French suffered the loss for the Mariners, giving up seven hits and four runs over six innings.


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Trade, migration, and environment: a general equilibrium analysis, Chapter 2.3
Two major trends in the world economy are international migration and environmental degradation. The object of the paper is to analyze the connection between these two trends, which have generally been analyzed in isolation. Here we represent a world economy in which the exploitation of natural resources as well as the migration of labor have a global character. We discuss the welfare impact of migration and exploitation of natural resources and policies to address these issues. The main results of the paper are as follows. Migration is prompted by wage differentials as technology is different across countries. We show that migration from the South induces a decrease in the exploitation of the resource in the South. This increases the welfare of the South but can decrease that of the North. Migration can lead to higher prices ofresources in the North and in the South, setting up a process of induced technical change in the North and better terms of trade for the South, altogether a positive outcome. As is intuitively obvious, migration reduces the wage differential between North and South in a model where, contrary to Heckscher-Ohlin assumptions, technologies differ between countries. Finally, we show that it is possible that a tax on the use of the resource in the South induces an increase in its extraction rather than a decrease. Trade policies could have a positive impact on resource extraction, could reduce the wage gap and therefore decrease the economic incentive to the mobility of labour.
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Are you a serious import gamer or someone who's just interested in the overseas market? Then look no further: IGN's Now Playing in Japan is here! That's right, with each and every installment we'll be covering some of the hottest, most interesting products currently booming in the Land of the Rising Sun. Don't forget to check back often to see what's cooking next. And now, on with the show!
Namco's PS2 Project X
Monolith Soft, headed by company President, Hirohide Sugiura, a former lead game designer with Square, is currently working on a RPG for the PS2 that's currently titled Project X. This game is a huge project -- even the ad says this -- with Tetsuya Takahashi (producer of Square's Xenogears and team member of Tales of Destiny and Dragon Valor) acting as director and lead scenario writer of the undertaking.
An ad has been posted for programmers, motion, graphic and CG designers, and planner for the game, so it's quite a ways off still, but Project X could turn out to be one of the most highly anticipated games on the PlayStation. Check out the full story we posted yesterday by clicking here.
PS2 Soccer from Konami Kicks All Others
Konami's Jikkyou World Soccer 2000 (off the J. League/International Superstar Soccer series) will move football realism up from all other current soccer games. Float-throughs and quick turns, moves not in any other soccer title, are a part of the play. Soccer stat fanatics should know that the game features the actual names of the Japanese Olympic teams, but not of other countries. However, other countries' players have names that are similar to their real names and there is also a renaming feature that will allow you to name them yourself. 100 countries will be included in the game. Other new modes include the Success Mode (where players build a player, train him, and place him on a team), and a true Olympic Mode (reflecting the Sydney Summer Olympics). The PS2 will muscle this game with authentic body shapes, facial movement, and realistic hair and clothing, and on the sidelines will be cameramen, ball boys, coaches, and other figures not seen in lesser Soccer games.
Catch the Fireworks with FantaVision
That's actually the premise of the game -- an action-puzzle game where you try to catch firecrackers and make them explode. Gameplay seems somewhat like Missile Command, with combo action and colorful "Daisy chains". Special "Starmine" fireworks launch if you can spell out the word with combos, and these lead to special wild fireworks and big points. At the end of the game, you can watch your fireworks display in replay mode (with custom special "Matrix-like" effects in this mode). The PS2 horsepower renders individual fireworks in real time, with different patterns to each explosion.
American Arcade, The Only Place Left to Play Pinball
Fans of the dying Pinball tradition will love American Arcade, which will recreate popular pinball machines from the 60's-70's. Authentic pinball physics are the obvious draw, but the classic tables are a nostalgic treat for collectors. At first, you can only use two tables, but eventually, by playing the Challenge Mode, you can earn more than 10.
Prying More Info on Primal Image
As reported, covered, double-covered, and lusted over by IGN's Dave Zdyrko, Primal Image is a game where you "pose" these CG characters for photos. New shots of the girls have been shown, and new info has slipped in. In the "Memory Mode," you are free to move the camera about (angles and zoom) to get the best shot possible. Depending on the quality of your shot, you will be awarded "bits," which are the energy of these computer characters. With these bits, you can use them in the "Posing Mode." Here you can pose their arms, head, etc., and outfit and accessorize your models as well.
The game's three models are:
Yuki Terai: 17 years old. Likes jazz, the Internet, photography and walking. She's 5 foot 5, and her stats are 34/23/35.
Non: 17 years old. Her hobby is shopping. She's 5 foot 5, and her stats are 34/23/35. (same as Yuki)
Anna: 16 years old. Described as "a Tinkerbell", and she literally stands 6.5 inches tall. Her diminutive sizes are 3.3/2.2/3.3. Her hobby is dancing.
Get your import hotline number handy, because the chances of this game coming to the US are slimmer than little Anna here.


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Going retro again today (just like last Friday) and taking a look back at "Red-Only Switching" made me think of another similar feature that became a part of DB2 for z/OS at about the same time. Read on and I hope you enjoy.
Let's start this all out by going back to the very beginning, the CLOSE parameter on the ALTER/CREATE TABLESPACE and INDEX SQL (DDL) statements. CLOSE tells DB2 "what to do" when the page set is no longer in use (I'll use page set so I don't have to keep typing table space, table space part, or indexspace). Funny part is, even that simple statement can't be taken at face value sometimes. For example, I used to joke in one of my performance presentations, that if you specified CLOSE YES we didn't always close the page set and if you specified CLOSE NO we might close it anyway. The rest of today's post will describe what the above really means.
The SQL statement syntax variable CLOSE YES/NO (or what I'm going to call an option for now on) directs the action DB2 should take when the use count for the page set goes to 0 (zero). When a task touches the page set, the use count for that page set is incremented. When the task stops accessing the page set (for example at Bind's RELEASE DEALLOCATE or COMMIT), the use count is decremented.
If CLOSE YES has been specified, the page set is placed on an internal drain queue (remember this for later) for "potential" physical close. This is also sometimes referred to as logical close. Based on some values we'll look at in just a second, DB2 can eventually physically close the page set if necessary.
Why would DB2 even care? You have to keep in mind that DB2 is trying to do everything it can to keep the page set open. VSAM close and open processing can be expensive operations. DB2 would prefer not to go through close processing to just turn around and reopen the page set a few minutes, or even seconds, later. That just burns up unnecessary CPU cycles. However, every open page set comes with a real storage (memory) cost. If you're not concerned about CPU use, then keep in mind that having "too many" page sets open (and that's a phrase than means different things to different people) can increase restart times after a DB2 failure along with increasing the cost of taking a checkpoint (remember talking about checkpoints and open page sets in Fridays post – November 9, 2012 ). DB2 is constantly trying to balance page set open/close processing cost against memory use and elongated restart times.
To help accomplish that balancing act, way back in DB2 Version 2 Release 3, something referred to as deferred close (and once referred to as slow close) was implemented.
The trigger point for deferred close then (as it is now) is the value specified for DSMAX, the DSNZPARM keyword that limits the number of open page set allowed in DB2 for z/OS.
When the total number of opened page sets reaches 99% of the value of DSMAX, DB2 will attempt to physically close 3% or 300 page sets, which ever is smaller, of the page sets on the drain queue in least recently used order (remember the drain queue mentioned earlier that I told you to keep in the back of your mind). If there are not enough CLOSE YES page sets on the drain queue to the satisfy the 3% or 300 physical close value, DB2 will close the least recently used CLOSE NO page sets until the 3% or 300 is reached.
Hopefully, you now see where my little joke about the "DB2 may close a CLOSE NO page set and may not close a CLOSE YES page set" came from.
BTW, if it's critical that a page set remain open for performance reasons (trying to avoid going through VSAM open processing) it's still a good idea to specify CLOSE NO. There is a higher likelihood of that page set remaining open with CLOSE NO. Also, if a page is highly used, or continuously in use, CLOSE YES or CLOSE NO may not matter. Remember, if the use count doesn't go to 0 (zero) there is no attempt to close the page set. If the page set is in constant use, the use count is going to remain non-zero.
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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. April 13, 2009 — The Stanley Kaplan Program in American Foreign Policy at Williams College will host a Conference on New Scholarship in American Foreign Relations on Friday and Saturday, April 17 and 18, 2009. Many of the events are open to the public and will take place in Griffin Hall, room 3. They are free.
The conference is a collaboration between Williams College and H-Diplo, an online network of more 4,600 professors, teachers, and students interested in foreign relations and history.
The conference will open Friday evening with a private reception at which Robert Jervis, the Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Affairs at Columbia University, will deliver the keynote address. Jervis, a noted scholar on security policy, decision-making, theories of conflict and cooperation, and intelligence, is a widely published scholar. He is the former president of the American Political Science Association.
A series of roundtable discussions on Saturday are open to the public.
The first roundtable, from 9-10:30 a.m., features "Nexus: Strategic Communications and American Security in World War I" by author Jonathan Reed Winkler from Wright State University. Winkler studies United States foreign relations, strategic thought, modern military and naval history, and international history of the 19th and 20th centuries. The book blends diplomatic, military, technology, and business history to describe how U.S. officials engaged in global communications innovations during World War I while struggling to maintain U.S. security. The discussion, chaired by Williams Professor Mark Stoler, will include panelists John Milton Cooper from the University of Wisconsin, Ross Kennedy from Illinois State University, Alex Roland from Duke University, and Phyllis Soybel from the College of Lake County, Ill.
The next roundtable, 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m., will focus on "Inventing Vietnam: The United States and State Building, 1954-1968" by author James M. Carter of Drew University. Carter specializes in American foreign relations, the Vietnam War, the U.S. and East Asia, the Cold War, modernization theory, and nation building. His book explores the notion that the Vietnam War was a direct result of failed U.S. foreign policy and state-building efforts in the country that began long before the war itself. Williams Professor Jessica Chapman will chair the discussion, and panelists will include Scott Laderman of the University of Minnesota, Fredrik Logevall of Cornell University, Edward Miller of Dartmouth College, and Jessica Elkind of San Francisco State University.
The third roundtable, 1:45-3:15 p.m., will focus on "Occupational Hazards: Success and Failure in Military Occupation" by Georgetown University Professor David Edelstein. Edelstein is interested in international security issues and the dynamics of military intervention, especially withdrawal and exit strategies. The book examines why some military occupations succeed while others fail, in order to understand contemporary policy challenges. Chaired by Williams Professor Paul Macdonald, discussion panelists include David Ekbladh of Tufts University, Peter Liberman of the City University of New York, Greg Mitrovich of Columbia University, and Gideon Rose, managing editor of Foreign Affairs magazine, published by the Council on Foreign Relations.
The final roundtable discussion, from 3:30-5 p.m., will look at "World Out of Balance: International Relations and the Challenge of American Primacy" by authors Stephen G. Brooks and William C. Wohlforth of Dartmouth College. The book is a comprehensive analysis of the constraints of the United States' use of power in pursuit of its security interests. It argues that in a unipolar system where the U.S. is the dominant power, the generally accepted constraints on security policy featured in international relations theories do not apply. Panelists of the discussion, to be chaired by Williams Professor James McAllister, include Stacie Goddard of Wellesley College, Jeff Legro of the University of Virginia, Marc Lynch of George Washington University, and Randall Schweller of Ohio State University.
The Stanley Kaplan Program in American Foreign Policy is part of the Leadership Studies Program at Williams College. Through the generous contribution of a donor, this program enables students to pursue studies of the past, present and future of American leadership in world affairs. The program brings distinguished visiting professors in history and political science to Williams College, as well as sponsoring a variety of fellowship opportunities.
For building locations on the Williams campus, please consult the map outside the driveway entrance to the Security Office located in Hopkins Hall on Main Street (Rte. 2), next to the Thompson Memorial Chapel, or call the Office of Public Affairs (413) 597-4277. The map can also be found on the web at www.williams.edu/home/campusmap/
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Marvel is still teasing the heck out of the upcoming Avengers vs. X-Men events, by releasing the cover image to Uncanny X-Men #11 by Greg Land.
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As the Phoenix Force continues its bee-line towards Earth, Cyclops leads the X-Men into their toughest battle yet! Also, fans can't miss two mammoth titans, Colossus and Red Hulk, square off in a bare knuckle brawl across Utopia with an outcome that may sway the tide of the war! Can the X-Men keep the Avengers out of their nation?
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Notwithstanding a very strong economic performance over the past decade or so, Poland's per capita income is substantially lower in comparison with the United States and per capita income growth will be sharply slowing down over the coming decades under the scenario of gradual policy changes mostly because of population ageing.
Meeting of National Economic Research Organisations, OECD Headquarters, 21 June 2013
Investment in knowledge-based capital (KBC) – assets that lack physical embodiment, such as computerised information, innovative property and economic competencies – has been rising significantly. This has implications for innovation and productivity growth and requires new thinking on policy.
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Innovation-based growth, underpinned by investments in a broad range of knowledge-based capital (KBC), is central to raising long-term living standards.
Recent OECD research has utilised harmonised cross-country firm level data to explore the contribution of public policies to cross-country differences in productivity, innovation and resource allocation.
This paper uses panel regression techniques to assess the policy determinants of private sector innovative Activity – proxied by R&D expenditure and the number of new patents – across 19 OECD countries. The relationship between innovation indicators and multifactor productivity (MFP) growth is also examined with a particular focus on the role of public policies in influencing the returns to new knowledge.
Informality has important implications for productivity, economic growth, and the inequality of income. In recent years, the extent of informal employment has increased in many of Mexico's states, though highly heterogeneously.
Legal systems provide the basic institutions for firms and markets to operate. Their quality can have important consequences on the size distribution of firms, who rely on them for contract enforcement. This paper uses the variation in legal system quality across states in Mexico to examine the relationship between judicial quality and firm size.
Australia's productivity growth has decelerated markedly around the turn of the century. Part of the decline is probably temporary, but raising multifactor productivity is key to ensure that living standards continue to grow strongly, especially if the currently strong terms of trade weaken over time.
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It wasn't so long ago I pointed you to the results of an Association of American Educators (AAE) member survey to drive home the point that teacher opinion is far from monolithic. Well, the good folks at AAE have done it again, releasing a snapshot of members' perspectives on a number of school reform issues.
Not only do strong majorities back a variety of different school choice programs, but they also show themselves to be supportive of policies that would enhance their own professional options:
- 63% of those surveyed would prefer to negotiate their own contract so that they can negotiate a salary and benefits package that best suits their lifestyle.
- 87% would support a defined-contribution retirement plan for newly hired teachers. This system would function like the 401K-style plans typical for the private sector.
- 89% support an a la carte benefits plan where prospective hires could pick and choose salaries and benefits based on personal needs.
(A full listing of survey results is also available.)
AAE's strong reflection of their members' confident embrace of various education-related options shows up in their Colorado affiliate's public backing of National School Choice Week. Check out this recent interview with the Professional Association of Colorado Educators' Tim Farmer about bringing in teachers to a special event commemorating the national celebration.
Increasing in popularity, PACE is one of the membership options available to Colorado educators through the Independent Teachers website.
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"Love is Colder Than Death", commonly abbreviated LiTCD or LITCD, is an early German heavenly voices / neo-classical / neo-medieval band that was one of the corner stones to Hyperium Record's Heavenly Voices compliation series of the early 1990s. The bands music is characterized by its extensive use of both romantic and classical styled male and female vocals. Founded by Ralf Donis, Maik Hartung, Sven Mertens, and Susann Heinrich in 1990, the band members and music have changed slightly. The first few LITCD albums were released on the Hyperium record label in Europe and on the new Metropolis Records label in the United States.
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Prep report: Duluth East holds off Hermantown for soccer win
Domenick Bergeland, Connor Danielson and Billy Renier scored goals and Duluth East held off Hermantown 3-2 in a high school boys soccer game Tuesday at Hermantown.
Danielson's goal was his team-leading 14th of the season and helped the Greyhounds (7-3-2) extend their unbeaten streak to four games.
Hermantown (9-3), playing its fifth game in six days, lost for the third time in that span.
Proctor 6, Hibbing 2
Ian Ecklund's three goals and two assists keyed the visiting Rails' nonconference win.
Cloquet-Esko-Carlton 1, Grand Rapids 1
Derek Anderson's penalty kick in the 32nd minute evened the score and goalkeepers Jarad Weeks of the Lumberjacks and Brice Becker of the Thunderhawks kept it that way the rest of the nonconference game at Grand Rapids.
Ashland 3, Duluth Denfeld 2
Johnny Sechen's 78th-minute goal broke a 2-2 tie and gave the host Oredockers the Lake Superior Conference victory.
Duluth Marshall 5, Superior 1
John Fox and Thomas Welinski had two goals apiece to lead the Hilltoppers to the Lake Superior Conference victory in Superior.
Bryan Wines scored the lone goal for the Spartans.
Girls soccer
Duluth Denfeld 3, Two Harbors 1
The Hunters scored three goals in the first half and cruised to the nonconference victory at Public Schools Stadium.
Proctor 1, Hibbing 0
Maria Palen's 36th-minute goal was all the host Rails needed offensively, while Kassie Haedtke came up with a six-save shutout in the nonconference matchup.
Grand Rapids 3, Deer River 1
Jessa Sondergaard totaled 15 kills to lead the host Thunderhawks to the victory.
Mountain Iron-Buhl 3, Chisholm 2
Allie Knuti had 19 kills and six blocks to lead the Rangers to the five-set winner, while Jersey Oie added 42 set assists.
Brianna Zunich had 23 kills, six digs and three blocks to lead the Bluestreaks.
Two Harbors 3, Carlton 2
Kaley Peterson had 20 kills as the host Agates rallied from two sets down to win the Polar League match.


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I may or may not be posting this because I'm a huge fan of the HBO series 'Entourage.' After rumors surfaced thanks to Executive Producer Mark Wahlberg of hold outs due to money, the film finally has a release date, according to Deadline.com.
Mark your calenders for June 12th, 2015. All the stars are signed on to return to the big screen including Ari, Turtle, Vince, Drama and more. The movie is meant to extended the HBO series, but where will they pick things up?
Season 8 ended with Vince heading to Paris to marry his girlfriend, Ari quitting his job and E getting back with his pregnant girl Sloan. Warner Brothers confirmed the June 12th release date, baring any issues.


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Hello! My name is Robert Zhu and I am a developer on the CardSpace team. Today, I'd like to invite you on a brief tour of the CardSpace Control Panel Applet. The Control Panel Applet deals with the management of your Information Cards. From this component, you will be able to view, modify, and delete any Information Card in your possession. In addition to managing Cards, the Control Panel Applet also provides the ability to reset card history (card history keeps track of the Relying Parties at which specific Information Cards were used and what information was released).
To try it out, follow the steps below:
1- Install the CardSpace "Geneva" Beta
2- Install any card from the test site
3- Launch the CardSpace Control Panel Applet from the Control panel:
Control Panel -> User Accounts -> Windows CardSpace "Geneva"
Once you double-click on the Windows CardSpace "Geneva" icon, you should see the Management Interface (below):
The main page shows a complete collection of your Information Cards. To select an Information Card, click on it, and a blue highlight box should appear around your selection. Hold down CTRL while clicking to select multiple cards, or use CTRL+A to select all cards. Once you have made your selection, you can delete the specified cards by clicking the "Delete Card" link on the right. If you have just added a new Information Card to your collection, pressing 'F5' will refresh the list of cards.
As mentioned before, the Control Panel Applet provides the ability to reset all card history. To do this, click the "Delete all card history" link on the top left of the Management Interface. As mentioned in Oren's post regarding automatic submission of credentials (http://blogs.msdn.com/card/archive/2008/11/18/the-cardspace-geneva-selection-experience.aspx#9128068), CardSpace displays a matching card that has been previously used at the site on subsequent visits. This decision is made by inspecting the card history; thus, deleting the card history has the consequence of resetting all your previous Card/RP associations. Think of it like clearing your browser's page history.
In the future, we will be adding more features to the Management UI. Thanks for reading and your feedback is extremely valuable!
Robert Zhu,
Software Design Engineer
CardSpace "Geneva"


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Looks like there's going to be an FCIAC championship game after all.
In one of the most dramatic games -- and certainly finishes -- of the season, junior Nick Lombardo came down with the ball in the corner of the end zone despite triple coverage in the waning seconds on a 35-yard pass from Henry Baldwin as Darien pulled out a wild 26-20 victory over previously undefeated Trinity Catholic Saturday afternoon at Alumni Field.
"It was a wheel route an dI was just thinking 'go make a play' the entire time," Lombardo said. "We had a sense of urgency coming in, it was like let's go play spoiler. This is a big win fir us, and hopefully we can ride the momentum into the Turkey Bowl (against rival New Canaan)."
The Crusaders' first loss of 2012 leaves Staples and Greenwich -- both easy winners Saturday -- as the last of the league's unbeatens and on track for a Thanksgiving morning rematch for the FCIAC title.
For a while, it seemed as if the Crusaders (7-1) would continue their dream season.
Trinity Catholic took a 7-6 lead into the intermission, and later tied the game, 20-20, on a 3-yard run by senior Shaquan Howsie with 3:43 remaining.
Both teams were forced to punt on the muddy track in the final minutes, and the Crusaders caught a big break when junior Robert Tusch recovered a fumbled punt return on the Darien 27.
Trinity, however, would get no further against Darien's stout defense, and quarterback Danny O'Leary was sacked on fourth down by freshman Mark Evanchick.
That left the Blue Wave (5-3) with 66 yards to go, and under 30 seconds to do it.
Darien considered running out the clock and playing for overtime -- both teams had already gone past regulation this season -- but head coach Rob Trifone made a last-second decision to be aggressive and at least try to get into field goal range.
"I said let's take a shot," Trifone said. "We've had some injuries and I think we were better than a 4-3 team coming in, but one thing we've been working on is poise. These kids have come a long way. It was a great game, and just a tremendous catch by Nick."
Lombardo's touchdown was set up by a 31-yard pass from Baldwin to senior Peter Gesualdi, who also scored on a 5-yard run and added an interception on the day.
After Lombardo's score with 7.5 seconds left, the Crusaders would get two cracks at a Hail Mary, but it was to no avail.
There will now be a new script to the storybook season.
"Darien is a good team and defensively they played well," said Trinity Catholic coach Pete Stokes, who considered giving kicker John Benalcazar a shot at the poential game-winning field goal from 44 yards out before Evanchik's sack.
"That No. 54 (Matt D'Andrea), God bless him, he's a handful. This is a character builder for us, and like i told our players after the game, now we have to come together."
The Crusaders, currently No. 5 in the Class S playoff point rankings, got on the board first thanks to a 2-yard run by Howsie late in the first quarter.
But Howsie, arguably top back in the league, was bottled up to the tune of 26 yards on 20 carries by a swarming defense spearheaded by down linemen D'Andrea, Chris Hamernick and Benjamin Sickinger, and a linebacking corps led by Andrew Malley.
Darien took its first lead on a 7-yard run by junior Jay Harrison with 4:32 left in the third quarter, a touchdown that was set up by a partially blocked punt.
Trinity Catholic regained the advantage on the final play of the third quarter -- a 64-yard scoring pass from O'Leary to junior Neno Merritt, who had a big day with two interceptions on defense as well.
The Crusaders, who tried a fake punt in the first half, reached into their bag of tricks again and attempted an onside kick on the first play of the fourth quarter.
The ball didn't travel the full 10 yards, however, and five plays later, the Blue Wave took advantage when Baldiwn connected on a 10-yard pass to James Bennett, who made a falling catch in the corner of the end zone.
There would be plenty of more big plays to come.
"We emptied our bag (of tricks)," Stokes said, "It was a good round of golf. But in the end, they made two more plays than we did."


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I am planning to post up quick reviews when ever I see interesting Windows Store apps and thought I would start with one that I saw tweeted earlier today via Richard (@WinObs), thanks for the tip.
*****Disclaimer up front…"I am in no way connected to the developer, have no vested interest in the app (except being a happy customer/user) and am making no gain whatsoever by this posting, neither have I been asked to promote the app by anybody*****
So the first app I wanted to highlight is the World Time Clock by Reflected Sun.
As part of my role I work regularly with Microsoft folks all over the planet in places as far apart as Toronto, Mumbai and Sydney as well as of course Seattle, and all based from the UK. So it can be quite confusing at times to remember all the different time zones, work hours and daylight savings patterns in all those locations. World Time Clock looks like a great Windows Store app that shows me quickly what the current time is in each city right now, compared to my time in the UK, if it is day light as well as a very useful forward 24 hour view which should help immensely with planning calls.
The World Time Clock is available for £1.79 in the Windows Sore (GB pricing) and there is a free 7 day trial so check it out.
Thanks to Richard again for the tip.


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.- Along side of the millions of Jews, horrifically murdered in the Nazi concentration camps of World War II, were an often overlooked segment of victims--Catholic priests. This is the backdrop for a new film by German director, Volker Schlödorff, called 'The Ninth Day,' a special viewing of which was held in Denver last evening.
The Chez Artiste theater on Denver's south side was filled with supporters of Annunciation radio, who sponsored the premiere viewing. Also on hand for the event were Colorado Springs Bishop Michael Sheridan, concentration camp survivor Jack Goldman, one of the camp's U.S. liberators, Dick Bayless, and religious history expert Dr. Seth Ward.
The film, based on a true story and one of the latest from award-winning Schlödorff, depicts the struggle of one Catholic priest against the Nazi regime and conflicting suggestions of how best to protect the Church--and his own life.
Following his release from the death camp of Dachau, German priest Henri Kremer learns that the Nazis are giving him nine days to convince his staunch Bishop to cooperate with their plans--and muster support from the Vatican, or else be returned to Dachau.
The film also addresses the role of Pope Pius XII in World War II.
Dr. Ward, professor of religious history at the University of Wyoming, noted that the central question, which was touched upon in the film, was whether Pope Pius should have been more vocal, or did he literally save millions of lives by keeping relatively silent?
The film puts the question in even starker light, noting a bishop in the Netherlands who caused 40,000 to be sent to death camps because of a pastoral letter decrying Nazism.
At its heart, he added, "the movie was about struggles between choosing different goods; saving self, family, the Church…."
Ward, a Jew himself, praised the Catholic Church for it's work following the war.
He noted then Cardinal Ratzinger, who, in a homily just before becoming Pope Benedict XVI, "talked about the evils of totalitarianism and relativism."
"It was a very strong statement," he said, "about just this sort of thing."
He paralleled situations today with that of Europe in the 1930's and 40's, saying that "human totalitarian groups don't have the fear of God referred to in scripture…totalitarians don't fear God and imprison everybody."
Dachau survivor Goldman added that we must learn from our past, specifically referring to regions like Darfur, where "people are dying seemingly wantonly." He also noted the many atrocities he witnessed toward Catholics in addition to his fellow Jews in the camp, even noting "an entire French monastery who were brought in."
Mr. Bayless, one of the liberators of Dachau, noted that "more Catholic priests were put [there] than in any other camp…They didn't have to kill too many people in Dachau because they died too fast, [due to the horrific conditions]."
After the showing, Bishop Sheridan told CNA that he "enjoyed the film…if that's even an appropriate word."
"I thought it was a wonderful film", he said, "and appreciated its portrayal of human struggle."


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A COMMUNITY radio station in the heart of Southampton is celebrating a year of being on air.
Staff at 103.9 Voice FM blew out the candles on their first birthday cake after one year of the community project up and running on the airwaves.
During the last 12 months volunteers at the St Mary Street station have been coming in to the centre and representing the area where they live in the city.
Over the course of the last year the station has managed to build up an audience of more than 50,000 people.
The founding of the station was with the joint backing of Solent University, Southampton City College and Solent Skills Quest Branding itself as the "education station", Voice FM trains people of all ages in order to get them broadcasting on air.