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I hope you had a wonderful Easter! We spent a lot of time outdoors discovering castle ruins, hunting for eggs, and finding new places to eat. I also started a DIY project from h*?!. Seriously. Remember the free kitchen table set I came across? Well, I decided to start painting it this weekend. I thought I found the right kind of paint and supplies but the Japanese painting supplies here are WAY different. Three days later, 3 trips to the store, and I still haven't finished painting… (I'm sure it help if I could at least read the label!!) More about that later. In the meantime, I took a break from painting to make some fun pompom garland with my daughter for her room.
This is super easy to do and is a fun way to dress up a kid's space.
Pompoms (I bought little ones from the dollar store)
Embroidery thread
Scissors and needle
To make the garland, just thread your needle and string on pompoms. If you want them to stay in place (do at least the ends!), loop the thread around a second time.
I thought the garland would dress up the government issued bed like this.
After I added the bedding I realized they would be better placed higher on the wall.
One corner of the room is officially finished (for now!). You can find the plans for the entire room here.
Back to painting!

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It is the last day of the Winter Blogger Book Fair. Thank you for checking it out. In parting, I'd like to conclude with some fun character quotes from BBF participants.
If any of these pique your interest, please follow the Blogger Book Fair link. There is a directory by author, genre, and title. Take your pick! ;) Many thanks to Kayla Curry for organizing this event!
"I suppose I should be glad your eyes looked at the ring on the night stand and not the dagger on the dresser," ~ Tom Walker from Obsidian by Kayla Curry
"You talk too much."
"Maybe you talk too little."
"You're going to live forever. Pace yourself." ~ Lucas and Zee from Wynne Channing's What Kills Me
"We are part of that myth, the fairy tales come to life, so to speak...I think, essentially, we're human. Just a little bit...more." ~ Caleb Foster from T.M. Franklin's MORE
"Soul weavers," the voice chuckled, now closer to Basil. "Can't live with them and can't die without them." ~ The Devourer by Angela Brown
"Aye, who says ye cannae polish a turd?" ~ Emily Ferguson from SJ Byrne's My Butterfly
"But more importantly, know I love you more than I can say with simple words. Poets have attempted for centuries to find the perfect combination, and I don't imagine I shall have more luck than they." ~ Seth Fortner from Lissa Bryan's Ghostwriter
"I think you're wrong," she said. "I don't think humans were supposed to die out during the Infection. And I think those of us who survived have a duty to protect the next generation. We're starting over, Justin. We're rebuilding the world. And this time, we're going to make it even better." ~ Carly Daniels from Lissa Bryan's The End of All Things
"Halli, everything you just said are the classic traits of Holy Paladins, from a certain point of view. They don't get involved in conflicts, but rather keep those that are involved alive from a distance. They don't get directly involved in confrontations and arguments. They think things through and come up with solutions that will work for everyone. In essence, they keep the peace in the groups they're involved in. From a distance, this can make them seem quiet and shy, but anyone who knows them knows it is their quiet ways that keeps this peace."~ Queen Laurali from Andrea Buginsky's The Chosen
"It's time to forget everything you know about the history of your country. 'Cause it's all wrong." ~ Scott St. Martin from Beck Sherman's Revamp
"Just because he's naked, doesn't mean he's not dangerous." ~ Raine McCord from Jami Gray's Shadow's Soul: Book 2 of the Kyn Kronicles
"Really if I slit your throat tonight and dumped you on the side of the road, I'd be doing you a fucking favor. At least you'd make it on television one last time." ~ George Hull from Will Millar's Infernal Machines
"Yes or no? You either kill someone or you don't. There's no 'sort of' about it." ~ Zara Itani from Jade Kerrion's Perfect Weapon
"Cole, you've been holding out on us. Are all the girls at that school this gorgeous?" ~ Elan from Allison Blanchard's Forget Me Not
"Ten to one the coffee cup she came back with was filled with Jim or Johnny and not a fine French roast." ~ Detective Kate Springer from Kelly Miller's Dead Like Me
"Well, you know what I always say about humans. It's impossible to tell them apart." ~ Ray in Vaempires: Zombie Rising
"Well, you know what I always say about humans. It's impossible to tell them apart." ~ Ray in Vaempires: Zombie Rising
"May your dreams be silent." ~ Clayden Kiel from Kyra Dune's Shadow Born (Time Of Shadows #1)
"Do not tempt fate! You will not find true love or happiness before the End of the World. I am sorry, but this is how it must be." ~ Yinglong from D.H. Aire's short story Family Dragon in Flights of Fantasy, Volume 1
"Do not tempt fate! You will not find true love or happiness before the End of the World. I am sorry, but this is how it must be." ~ Yinglong from D.H. Aire's short story Family Dragon in Flights of Fantasy, Volume 1
"No, I think she means hug. It's zombie lingo. I've read online that zombies can be affectionate, but hugging one often leads to, well, having your brains eaten." ~ Shiloh Ravenwolf from MOONLIGHT MAYHEM (Book 2) of the Spellbound series by Sherry Soule
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H.R.4398 - National Forest Insect and Disease Emergency Act of 2009111th Congress (2009-2010)
|Rep. Salazar, John T. [D-CO-3] (Introduced 12/16/2009)
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National Forest Insect and Disease Emergency Act of 2009 - Designates certain areas of National Forest System land in the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming as insect and disease emergency areas. Allows the designation of an area of System land as an additional insect and disease emergency area if the land: (1) is located in an affected state; and (2) is subject to an insect and disease infestation emergency. Excludes certain lands from inclusion in an insect and disease emergency area.
Sets forth requirements for the duration of insect and disease emergency areas designated under this Act.
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary), in implementing the emergency forest restoration program, to make payments to owners of nonindustrial private forest land to carry out emergency measures in response to an insect and disease infestation emergency under this Act.
Authorizes the: (1) Secretary to offer to enter into any contracts or other agreements with the state of Colorado to perform watershed restoration and protection services on System land in the state when similar and complementary restoration and protection services are being carried out on adjacent state or private land; and (2) Secretary of the Interior to carry out such activities on public land located in Colorado.
Extends permanently the authority under which the Forest Service may enter into such contracts with private persons and entities to perform services to achieve land management goals for the national forests that meet local and rural communities' needs. Bars the Forest Service from obligating funds to cover the costs of canceling Forest Service multiyear stewardship end result contracts until the date on which they are canceled.


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Organisers River Street Events are expecting 100 exhibitors, alongside a great line up of talent including John Torode, Michel Roux Jnr and Paul Hollywood, free demonstrations, Yo! Sushi master classes, family fun and live music, all set within the stunning grounds of Hampton Court Palace.
New speciality producers at the show, which is hosted in partnership with Historic Royal Palaces, include raw, organic, handmade chocolate from Pana Chocolate; Borough Markets Jumi Cheese; speciality coffee from Alfie Coffee Roasters; gin from Warner Edwards Distillery and fresh cocktails from the Deco Noir Vintage Bar.
New hot food exhibitors include Lamito selling free range Argentine beef, Two Sun Tacos Mexican street food and Simmons Creperie Traditional Crepe and Galette Bar.
The market stalls will be laid out in the formal gardens of the palace where guests can browse, sample and shop from independent producers and brands, while chef demonstrations will take place in the palace grounds in the Summer Kitchen Theatre, which will seat over 300 people.
Liz Young, Head of Events at Historic Royal Palaces, says: "We are delighted to host the third BBC Good Food Festival in the grounds of Hampton Court Palace over the August Bank Holiday weekend. The show perfectly reflects the history of food and celebration at the palace – in Tudor times the grounds at the front of the palace housed breweries and bakehouses, while in 1850 there was also a market garden where produce was sold to local residents.
"Tickets to the BBC Good Food Festival include entry into Hampton Court Palace so guests can explore and uncover its incredible history. Not only this, but income raised from commercial activities including private and corporate events, is reinvested in conservation, public access and education activities, so as well as supporting the show guests will play their part in ensuring the palace is well maintained and open for all to enjoy."
Laura Biggs, Managing Director of River Street Events, adds: "We are delighted to host the third BBC Good Food Festival at Hampton Court Palace. This year the selection of producers and entertainment makes for a perfect family day out in a spectacular setting."


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Tanzania's mining revenues are touted as a key way to reduce reliance on foreign aid and pull people out of poverty, but experts argue companies are swindling the government out of at least $248 million a year.
The East African nation topped the worst of a list of nations across the continent examined by the watchdog group Global Financial Integrity (GFI), with nearly $19 billion (14 billion euros) in illicit flows over the past decade, the equivalent to over seven percent of the country's total government revenue.
"There's a narrative in the development community that there's something wrong with developing countries, because we keep pumping money in, and they're not developing as quickly as we'd like them to," said GFI economist Brian LeBlanc.
"The reality is that we're draining money out, and we're doing it at an increasing rate."
The Washington-based GFI's examination of trade mis-invoicing reveals stark figures.
Mis-invoicing occurs when businesses deliberately lie about the value of the goods they're importing or exporting. There are a lot of illegal reasons to do this, including tax evasion and money laundering.
Globally, trade mis-invoicing is a $424 billion a year problem, and makes up about 80 percent of all the money that flows out of developing countries illegally, GFI said.
Numbers like this, when compared to aid, mean there's far more money draining out of Africa than going in.
Much attention has been given to transfer pricing, when multinational companies employ accounting tricks to shift profits into countries where they'll pay less tax.
Trade mis-invoicing is different. It involves tangible goods that are shipped across borders, and the activity is therefore a lot easier to spot.
- 'Critical' resources lost -The researchers simply looked at the value of goods sent to or received from developed countries -- where customs officials tend to be more rigorous -- and compared it to the values declared in developing countries.
In Tanzania, the report discovered that, rather than undervaluing imports, corporations were overvaluing them.
In the case of fuel imports, overvaluing allows companies exempt from paying fuel taxes -- such as mining companies -- to reduce on paper the profits they will be taxed on, with GFI calculating as much as $248 million a year in revenue was lost.
In total, at least $8 billion was illegally drained out of the Tanzanian economy over just 10 years, said LeBlanc.
"These critical resources could have helped to create more jobs, to fund greater access to social services to improve the lives of average Tanzanians, and to improve infrastructure that is vital to additional economic development," he said.
But it wasn't all money going out. The report identified nearly 11 billion in export over-invoicing, which may be a sign of money-laundering and payments for illicit goods.
The port of Dar es Salaam is a major hub for the illegal export of wildlife products like rhino horn and ivory, as well as drugs and gold.
Stronger and more specific laws can help tackle the problem, the report added.
They also suggest that customs officials have access to up-to-date pricing data, to allow them to flag questionable exports and imports.
"Every international organisation in the world is basically telling them promote exports and trade facilitation, and then we come along and say that perhaps these things have unintended consequences that need to be addressed," said LeBlanc.
"For years and years this problem has been known by the World Bank and IMF, but it's been viewed as an intrinsic problem with the African countries, not looking at the other side of the equation -- the overall financial system, which is a system largely created by Western nations," he added. "It's a much larger, more intricate problem."
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How do we cope with the innate uncertainty of life?
People tend to get stressed out by day to day uncertainty, I know I do. Not knowing what is going to happen in the next hour, or next day is something that I find difficult.
What am I teaching next? Where am I supposed to be at 4.30? How do I get to the hairdresser's? Are you coming over or not?
A study, used as an explanation for the shocking statistic that the average life-expectancy for a teacher post-retirement, [assuming they have taught for their whole career] is 9 months, showed that rats exhibit higher levels of stress when faced with uncertainty than with greater effort.
The rats were split into two groups, and measured for stress levels when running on a treadmill. In the first group, the rats ran quickly, but for a set length of time every day. They, I think, were also played a tone at regular period so they learned how much longer they had to run.
The second group ran less quickly, but for different lengths of time every day, and without a beep to tell them how much longer they had to go.
The study showed a higher level of stress in the rats that ran slower but never knew how long they'd have to run for.
So why, therefore, do we find it so difficult to cope with day-to-day uncertainty but have no problem with the knowledge that we have no idea how long we have to live, or what will happen next?
Anything could happen tomorrow - something terrible, like a terrorist attack, or a death in the family, or your husband or wife leaving you. Something amazing could happen: you could win the lottery, have an epiphany, inherit a fortune. No-one knows, but we're ok with it.
Why? Do we just not think about it unless we absolutely have to? If we all walked around, fully aware of the uncertainty of life would we live the same?
We tend to assume that everything will be the same tomorrow - the sun will rise, we'll live another day and everything will work out in the end. Is that optimism, or denial?
I promise I'm not being all depressive, but it's not something I've truly considered in any deep sense before.
What do you think?
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I have had contact with Choral Singers of Marin for many years. They provide wonderful music to our community. All ages get to sing with them and they get to perform their music to so many different areas of our community. At events, at retirement homes, at concerts, to local business, during the holidays and more. I have seen so many people smile and feel good by listening to the choral singers from small children to adults.
My daughter participated in Singers Marin last fall. She loves to sing, but lacked confidence. After the season, not only did she improve her vocal skills, but she built her confidence in every aspect of her life. I highly recommend this organization, and fully endorse them.
This group has been providing wonderful music in Marin County since 1987. There are both adult and youth groups, and in addition to providing great musical training and a wonderful sense of camaraderie to the singers, the groups perform over 40 concerts each year for the elderly of the county. Jan Pedersen-Schiff, the Artistic Director and Founder, is a gifted singer and conductor and has trained a generation of singers (young and old). There are groups for all ages from about 5 up to adults. I also sing with the adult women's group and can say that it is one of the friendliest, most welcoming groups of people I have ever had the pleasure to sing with.


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Now, Now
Though much older than their appearance allows, the trio of tiny midwest kids donning tight jeans and awkward posture can often be found in the local Taco Bell hiding in the corner from the snide remarks of teasing high schoolers. However Now, Now has consistently proven themselves to listeners of their music since their first EP releases in 2007 and 2008. Their 2008 debut full-length 'Cars' received much hype and review from outlets like FADER, AOL Music, SPIN, gaining them tours in the US, two Europe tours (one with Paramore) and a worldwide fan base. With a live set up consisting of three, all equally tiny and equally awkward, the band entertains audiences not just with their humorous heights but with their cognitive arrangements consisting of keyboards, bells, jingles, and audio effects, while still hammering out a guitar-and-drum based structure. With the recent break from their record label and the release of the 'Neighbors EP' (produced, engineered and recorded by themselves in their basement) the band saw even more growth spending time on the road throughout 2011 and gaining press notoriety with the EP from such outlets as FILTER, Alternative Press, SPIN, AOL Music, Yahoo Music and more. The band has recently spent some time in Vancouver recording a new record with producer Howard Redekopp (Tegan & Sara, An Horse, New Pornographers) to be released in the near future.
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MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ General Audiences ] Being a creation directed by Bobby Barbacioru, this movie in English (subtitles) was presented in 2016. This film, a creation of Luca Bercovici, Bobby Barbacioru and Eric Bercovici, was developed in Romania. You can watch The Last Partisan online on TV cable or theaters with original audio in English at different dates. This film premiered in theaters in 2016.
Rating: 5 by 10 users./
Runtime: 100 minutes
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100-minute film (full movie) directed by Bobby Barbacioru.
The original audio of The Last Partisan has dialogues in Dolby Digital, it was produced in Romania.
It premiered in cinemas or television in 2016.
Screenplay written by Luca Bercovici, Bobby Barbacioru and Eric Bercovici.
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Cristina Barbacioru, Constantin Petcu, Peter Dobson, Luca Bercovici, Bobby Barbacioru, Christian Whitehead and Stephen Chandler Whitehead.
This film was produced and / or financed by Luna Films.
Without commercial breaks, the full movie The Last Partisan has a duration of 100 minutes; the official trailer can be watched in streaming on the Internet. You can watch this full movie free in EnglishDolby Digital in movie TV channels, renting the DVD or with VoD services (Video On Demand player, Hulu) and PPV (Pay Per View, Netflix).
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Sir Alex Ferguson has confirmed Boro are keen on signing Alan Smith.Sir Alex Ferguson has confirmed Middlesbrough are keen on signing striker Alan Smith.
Smith is thought to be mulling over his options at Manchester United as he goes in search of regular first-team football next season.
With competition for places at Old Trafford likely to be fierce, Smith could find himself well down the pecking order.
Gareth Southgate has stepped up his bid to sign the former Leeds man and is offering him the chance of playing regularly in the Premier League.
Ferguson hinted recently that Smith may be allowed to leave United if a club comes in for him and that has reignited Boro's interest.
Southgate has requested permission to speak to Smith with a view of thrashing out a deal for the England international.
Meanwhile, United youngsters Giuseppe Rossi and Gerard Pique will not be leaving United this summer, according to Ferguson.
Rossi and Pique had spells on loan at Parma and Real Zaragoza respectively and both clubs wanted to sign the players permanently.
"The lads going away proved themselves," Ferguson told the club's official website. "Giuseppe scored nine goals in 16 matches for Parma and the consensus is that he kept them up. Everyone says that.
"Gerard played 24 games for Zaragoza and did exceptionally well. We got all the videos of the players and watched what they did in training. They will certainly come back.
"Hopefully now we have a strong enough pool of players. That's one of the reasons I was keen to get the young lads who were away on loan last year back at the club.
"They will develop better with us. They may play more regularly away on loan, but training with us and being part of the squad brings them on immeasurably."


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Seismological Research Letters
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Shear‐wave splitting analysis is commonly used to infer deep anisotropic structure. For simple cases, obtained delay times and fast‐axis orientations are averaged from reliable results to define anisotropy beneath recording seismic stations. However, splitting parameters show systematic variations with back azimuth in the presence of complex anisotropy and cannot be represented by average time delay and fast‐axis orientation. Previous researchers had identified anisotropic complexities at different tectonic settings and applied various approaches to model them. Most commonly, such complexities are modeled using multiple anisotropic layers with priori constraints from geologic data. In this study, a graphical user interface called M‐Split is developed to easily process and model multilayered anisotropy with capabilities to properly address the inherited nonuniqueness. M‐Split program runs user‐defined grid searches through the model parameter space for two‐layered anisotropy using formulation of Silver and Savage (1994) and creates sensitivity contour plots to locate the local maxima and analyze all possible models with parameter trade‐offs. To minimize model ambiguity and identify the robust model parameters, various misfit calculation procedures are also developed and embedded in M‐Split and can be used depending on the quality of the observations and their back azimuthal coverage. M‐Split is an open‐source program and can be extended by users for additional capabilities or for other applications.
Shear‐wave splitting analysis of teleseismic data is widely used to image the anisotropy in the Earth's interior. Splitting observations are used to infer crust and mantle fabric beneath recording stations related to past and current deformations. Normally, shear‐wave splitting analyses are performed under the assumption of a simple model composed of just one horizontal layer with a horizontal axis of symmetry. But in some complex cases, the splitting parameters show strong back‐azimuthal dependency. There are three different interpretations for variation of splitting parameters with respect to back azimuth: (1) two‐layered horizontal anisotropy (Savage and Silver, 1993; Silver and Savage, 1994) or three or more anisotropic layers (e.g., Yang et al., 2014) can generate back‐azimuthal dependencies with 90° of periodicity, (2) laterally varying anisotropy (Alsina and Snieder, 1995), and (3) inclined symmetry axis in the lithosphere (Babuška et al., 1984, 1993; Plomerová et al., 1996; Šílený and Plomerová, 1996).
Through time, numerous codes are developed to model splitting observations using simple one‐layered anisotropy. Three techniques are commonly used to estimate the splitting parameters (i.e., fast polarization direction and delay time). These techniques are minimum energy (SC; Silver and Chan, 1991), rotation correlation (RC; Bowman and Ando, 1987), and eigenvalue (EU; Silver and Chan, 1991). Recently, Wüstefeld et al. (2007) developed the SplitLab program to implement all three techniques along with a workflow setup to identify null measurement. An interactive forward‐modeling tool that has preliminary insight about the two‐layered anisotropy is also set in the SplitLab program. Unfortunately, this tool has neither proper grid search nor sensitivity analysis capabilities and thus is not commonly used. Until now, forward codes were developed and used in individual cases and there was no comprehensive tool covering all those methods and also offering tools to analyze multilayered anisotropy. We introduce our user friendly graphical program M‐Split that uses the same forward formulas introduced by Silver and Savage (1994) and enhanced misfit calculation algorithms for different observation conditions and limitations. Analysis of complex anisotropy suffers from the presence of high level of nonuniqueness in the forward problem; hence, in this program a sensitivity analysis tool is also included to find all possible solutions in model space by plotting all local extremums.
M‐Split performs a grid search over the model parameter space that contains in this case fast polarization directions and delay times of two horizontal layers. It is also worth to mention that in grid‐search procedure; there is a trade‐off between the accuracy of the final output model and processing time. If a very fine grid search is carried out, the number of models that will be tested and therefore the time of the calculations will be highly increased but the final result will be more accurate. After performing the grid search, formulas introduced by Silver and Savage (1994) are used to calculate the theoretical splitting parameters for each set of model parameters. Finally, the theoretical/calculated splitting parameters are compared with the observations and the model with the most resemblance to the observations is extracted. To compare the observations with calculated parameters, a misfit function calculated from residuals similar to Fontaine et al. (2007) is utilized, and the model with the smallest residual is extracted as the best‐fitting solution.
To test two horizontal layered anisotropy assumptions properly, the same procedure, including the grid search, is also performed for one‐layered models. This enabled us to assess how much better a two‐layered model fits the observations compared with the one‐layered simple model, and it is quantified by calculating the coefficient of determination R2 (Walker et al., 2004) and the (Walker et al., 2005). In M‐Split, various misfit calculation algorithms are developed and utilized which, depending on the quality and back‐azimuthal coverage of the observations, can be used for better results. The first algorithm is the unweighted method that gives the same weight to all observations. In other words, all observations will have the same effect in the misfit calculation and therefore have the same role in the final model extraction. If there is no measurement representing the observation quality or if the calculated errors are not reliable, this method will be appropriate. As shown in equation (1), in misfit calculation, both phi and dt segments are normalized by the corresponding mean value of all observations: (1)in which , , δtobs,i and δtcalc,i are ith observed and calculated fast polarization direction and observed and calculated delay times, respectively, and and meanδt are mathematical mean values of fast polarization directions and delay times for all observations, respectively.
Second algorithm is the weighted method that gives weights according to measurement errors so that observations with small errors will have greater effect in the misfit calculation and therefore in the extracted final model. This method is proper for the observations that have solitary points with small errors that are a critical part of the model diagram and therefore it is important that these points have more effect on the final calculated model (equation 2). According to the equation, each part is normalized by its own error. The errors are half of the difference of minimum and maximum values of that parameter (i.e., −errPhiXX and +errPhiXX and −errdtXX and +errdtXX, in which XX stands for the method used for splitting parameter estimation) for that observation; in other words, they are the average of differences between a given value from its minimum and maximum (see equation 2): (2)in which , , δtobs,i and δtcalc,i are ith observed and calculated fast polarization direction and observed and calculated delay times, respectively. and Eδt,i are errors on fast polarization direction and delay time for ith observation.
Finally, the third method is a Band‐Fit method that is developed to reduce the effect of individual observations with small errors that dominate the final model. This method is proper for the input with the individual observations that have negative effect on the extracted model. As declared in equation (3), a difference function has been defined so that if the difference between observed and calculated values is smaller than the error range, the difference function will be set to zero; otherwise, it will be the difference between the difference function and error function: (3)in which , , δtobs,i and δtcalc,i are ith observed and calculated fast polarization direction and observed and calculated delay times, respectively. and Eδt,i are errors on fast polarization direction and delay time for ith observation. and meanδt are mean values of fast polarization direction and delay time for all observations, respectively.
There are also two additional options to reduce the effects of possible back‐azimuthal errors. Normally, there is no back‐azimuthal correction, but considering the possibility of back‐azimuthal error contained in observations, using tolerance on back azimuth can lead to better solutions. Also, if number of observations in one back‐azimuthal range compared with others is too high, then back‐azimuthal normalization can improve the final result.
In addition, the residual calculation algorithm proposed by Kaviani et al. (2013) is also included in the program. Unlike others, this algorithm is based on calculation of the penalty function and provides an alternative approach for misfit assessment. It is worthwhile to note that implementing such a variety into M‐Split gives us the opportunity to compare results from various algorithms, especially in the sensitivity analysis stage.
The M‐Split workflow is shown in Figure 1. It can be seen that this program is composed of three major steps: data preparation, grid search, and sensitivity analysis. In this program, there are a few points that should be considered. First, the main assumption is that input data have 90° of back‐azimuthal periodicity; hence, this program plots the data in mod 90 form. Therefore, all back azimuths are initially converted to mod 90. Second, applied grid search and misfit calculations for simple anisotropy with a one‐layered model are exactly the same as two‐layered models. Thus, quantitative comparison of best‐fitting model misfits for one‐ and two‐layered models aids users to decide about the number of anisotropic layers that should be used.
Data Conversion
As shown in Figure 2a, the start window of the program consists of two options: with and without data conversion. If data conversion is needed, then the conversion window will open (Fig. 2b). Input of this program is compatible with the output of SplitLab, which is in tab‐delimited text format. M‐Split generates two sets of data formatted for different types of algorithms that the user may use within the program. The program is adapted for three different shear‐wave splitting analysis techniques, which are SC method (Silver and Chan, 1991), RC method (Bowman and Ando, 1987), and eigenvector method (Silver and Chan, 1991), and hence any of these methods can be used to generate the input files.
As mentioned before, the null observations can be detected using SplitLab and can be included in the analysis in M‐Split without weighting because the large error ranges given for null observations will lead to minimal weights in weighted and band‐fit approaches, causing null data to have no effect on the final model. Therefore, the input of weighted and band‐fit algorithms are arranged so that they cannot contain the null observations. It is also important to note that including null observations might lead to systematic error and deviate the final result from true model parameters. As an example, in the RC method, null observations are always 45° off from the correct direction (Wüstefeld and Bokelmann, 2006); thus, including null data will lead to wrong solutions. On the other hand, if SC (Silver and Chan, 1991) method is selected, null directions are expected to be parallel or perpendicular to fast polarization direction, so ones that are perpendicular will still contaminate the input data. In this respect, including null observations in the analyses is not recommended by the authors, but is not taken out entirely from the program for testing purposes. Therefore, including null data should be done with caution.
Grid Search
Having data prepared in proper format, the next step is the comprehensive grid search to identify the best‐fitting model. As shown in Figure 3, the inversion window consists of four steps. The first step is the data quality selection where users will decide the quality of the observations to be used in the misfit calculation and model extraction. It must be noted that in most of the cases, the number of good quality data for a reliable estimation is not enough, therefore using the fair quality observations will be necessary.
The next step is back‐azimuthal correction options. Users can add a tolerance to the back azimuth so that program will calculate the misfit for the back‐azimuth range that can be defined as back azimuth plus–minus the tolerance with the increments of step size. Then, the minimum of the calculated misfits for the selected tolerance range will be considered as the misfit. It is necessary to mention that adding tolerance will drastically increase the process time because instead of a single point, misfit will be calculated for a vector. As another option in this part, back‐azimuthal normalization can also be selected. Using this option, the observations will be divided into nine clusters of 10° of back‐azimuthal range and each cluster will be normalized by the number of observations in that cluster. During adjustment of grid‐search parameters, the maximum and minimum values and their increments of the splitting parameters for both layers will be set. Like the tolerance, if increments are set to a small value, the processing time will increase because of the increase in number of the models that should be tested.
The final step is the misfit calculation selection, where users can choose from one of the formerly mentioned methods to be used as the misfit calculation formula. The advantage of this program is that all models with corresponding calculated parameters (i.e., misfit, R2, etc.) will be written into a text file for future use. All models with positive R2 values will be written in another text file to use as an input file for the sensitivity analysis program. The final model will be displayed on the results displaying screen (Fig. 4). In some cases, two‐layered anisotropy parameters resulting from different algorithms can be very different but their resultant splitting can be very similar. Therefore, to visualize and compare the competing models, a model plotting console that plots splitting parameters of multiple models along with the observations is established (Fig. 5).
Sensitivity Analysis
Nonuniqueness of the resultant models is common in such grid‐search applications involving multiple variables. In many cases, the quantified misfits between sets of models can be very close, outlining the inherited nonuniqueness in identification of complex anisotropy and vitality of sensitivity analysis. To handle this issue, a sensitivity analysis program has been developed (Fig. 6). For this purpose, the program uses all models with positive R2 values and generates contour plots to identify present local maxima (or minima) in the model parameters space for various misfit functions. The best‐fitting model parameters associated with each local maximum are also plotted with their standard deviations. Eventually, if misfits calculated for multiple local maxima are similar, the data can be represented equally well with multiple models and thus other independent data from geology, geodesy, tectonics, etc., is needed to choose among these models.
To evaluate the program, formulas for apparent splitting parameters introduced by Silver and Savage (1994) are used to generate a discrete synthetic data corresponding to defined model parameters. The dominant frequency of 0.1 Hz is used during the data generation phase and also in real and synthetic data tests. Consequently, 40 points are randomly selected and used as synthetic observations to test the program. In the first step, the synthetic data are used without noise and all three algorithms recovered the parameters correctly. In the second step, Gaussian white noise is included to the synthetic data. At this stage, three signal‐to‐noise ratios are used (i.e., 5, 10, and 20). The error bonds for synthetic data are assigned by multiplying the differences between noiseless and noisy data with 0.5, 1, and 1.5, which produced nine different synthetic data sets to test the program.
During synthetic tests using the unweighted method with high noise rates or low signal‐to‐noise ratios (i.e., 5 and 10), the recovered model showed noticeable deviations from input model (Table 1; Fig. 7). In contrast, both band‐fit and weighted methods performed well even for noisy data (Table 1; Fig. 5b) and in most cases led to the correct model.
During the final step of the testing process, splitting measurements made for station BKS by Bonnin et al. (2010) are used. This data set is ideal for this purpose because it has a good back‐azimuthal coverage and had already been studied for complex anisotropy. Grid searches conducted using weighted and band‐fit approaches led to results similar to Bonnin et al. (2010). The used data display highly variable error bonds, which are ignored in the unweighted approach, causing noticeable deviations from the published model. In this respect, unweighting is not optimal for high‐quality data sets, including well‐defined error bonds.
In this data set, penalty function algorithm also selected a best‐fitting model different than the minimum misfit, R2, and R2 adjusted, which are intrinsically linked (Fig. 8). During sensitivity analysis, contour plots of both given in Figure 9 reveal that for all parameters there are two model clusters characterized by equally low misfits. The first cluster corresponds to model parameters given in Bonnin et al. (2010) and the second cluster is the one picked by penalty function. The misfit distribution within model parameter space is nearly identical, indicating that the data can be reproduced by both models. At this stage, nonuniqueness may be avoided only by incorporating data from independent sources such as assuming known plate motion to be parallel/subparallel to the upper layer fast‐axis direction.
We presented a program that analyzes shear‐wave splitting observations to find the best‐fitting multilayered anisotropy. M‐Split can perform data preparation, model fitting, and sensitivity analysis for given data input. The program's interface provides a user‐friendly environment that automatically performs the calculations and produces visual outputs. To reduce the model ambiguity and test robustness, multiple misfit calculation procedures are embedded to the program and each has been subjected to rigorous testing. After successful tests conducted on both synthetic and real data, the reliability of the designed software is established. M‐Split runs on MATLAB platform (see Data and Resources) independent of operating system and successfully tested on Windows‐ and Linux‐based computers.
All data used in this article came from published sources listed in the References. The source codes of the program can be obtained from www.m-split-code.com (last accessed May 2017). All programs and functions in this software pack are developed using MATLAB software (https://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab.html?s_tid=hp_products_matlab, last accessed May 2017). To accomplish this, a commercial version of this program (R2014a) is used.
The authors thank Mickael Bonnin for providing the data that are used in the tests and validation process. The authors are also grateful to Eric Sandvol, Jonathan Robert Delph, Katrina Burch, and Colton Lynn for their helpful comments. This research was funded by NSF Award #1109762 the Central Anatolian Tectonic (CD‐CAT) project.


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Just as she did with the first installment, Vidya Balan arrived for the trailer launch of her upcoming film in character. Only, this time, it was the handbag-toting Durga Rani Singh, the protagonist of Kahaani 2, accompanied by the police. Also present at the trailer launch, held at a suburban multiplex in Mumbai, were director Sujoy Ghosh, and producer Jayantilal Gada and his sons. Here's what happened at the event:
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I drank five cups of coffee to drown your memory
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Charge Against Dukes Is Dismissed
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
A judge yesterday dismissed a domestic violence case against Washington Nationals outfielder Elijah Dukes when the woman who filed the complaint failed to appear in a Tampa court. Dukes's attorney also released documents that he intended to submit in the case, accusing the woman of having knowledge regarding the theft of Dukes's property, including his car.
Dukes, acquired by the Nationals in a Dec. 3 trade with the Tampa Bay Rays, had been the subject of a protection order sought by Amanda E. Reese, 23, of Tampa. Reese, who already had a temporary injunction, was seeking protection for a year. Because Reese did not show up, Hillsborough County Judge Raul C. Palomino Jr. dismissed the case, court records show.
Dukes, whose long history of legal and personal problems has overshadowed his baseball career, was prepared to challenge the allegations against him, according to attorney Grady C. Irvin Jr.
"The young lady who made the allegation, those allegations were going to be tested," Irvin said in a telephone interview. "We were going to challenge them."
In a petition filed Dec. 10, Reese, who said she dated Dukes from August to October, claimed Dukes sent her threatening text messages, once in October and again in November. Irvin, though, said Dukes had entrusted Reese to watch his home and car while he traveled to the Dominican Republic, where he played winter baseball.
"When he became suspicious of this person and the company that she kept, she asked him to leave his property," Irvin said.
Reese did not return a message left on her cellphone seeking comment yesterday.
Irvin said Dukes believes Reese played a role in the theft and damage of Dukes's Lexus, as well as in the theft of what Irvin described as Christmas presents for one of Dukes's daughters, which occurred while he was playing winter ball in October and November.
In a copy of a motion Irvin said he intended to submit in court, Irvin charged that Reese "has knowledge of the theft of [Dukes's] automobile, the extensive damage done to the automobile, the theft of Christmas gifts [Dukes] had stored in his home for his little girl, and the recent unauthorized entry of persons into [Dukes's] home while [Dukes] was in the Dominican Republic engage [sic] in winter baseball."
"This is someone he entrusted with his home," Irvin said. "We thought about having the authorities look into it, but the only reason he hasn't done that is because he's trying to stay out of the media. He got his car back, and he can get a new car or get it fixed. It's only money. He's trying to turn his life around."
Dukes has a lengthy history of legal problems, including charges of assault, dating from his teenage years. He has also been named in several paternity suits and admitted to regularly smoking marijuana. Last spring, his bitter divorce played out in public when his estranged wife shared threatening messages from Dukes with the St. Petersburg Times. Dukes was dropped from the Rays' roster in June.
The Nationals acquired Dukes in exchange for a Class A pitcher because of his enormous physical potential and, as Nationals President Stan Kasten and General Manager Jim Bowden said at the time, because they believed they could help the 23-year-old alter the course of his troubled life.


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Team Magma/Aqua have broken into the sealed Seafloor Cavern, where the super-ancient legendary pokémon of Hoenn was sealed.
Be Prepared
In the Seafloor Cavern, you will need to use Strength and Rock Smash, as well as Surf and Dive, to go all the way through the cavern. Make sure to bring pokémon who know those moves.
Explore the Cavern
Once you enter the cavern, go into the light that is shining down, and press A to go to the surface.
In the entrance of the cavern, you will see the submarine that Team Magma/Aqua modified in order to enter the cavern. In this room, use your Dowsing Machine in the southeast corner of the cave to find a hidden Heart Scale.
Go north to the next room. Go north, then east, and use Rock Smash on the rock that is blocking your path. Then go east and use Strength on the boulder to push it east into the hole.
To the northwest, you can battle a Grunt. Go up the northeast stairs and then go southeast. There is another Grunt you can battle. Go south from that Grunt and go through the exit there.
There is a Grunt running around to the right of the entrance to this room. After you go past that Grunt, go south and use Strength to push the boulder south into the hole. From there, go southeast and through the exit.
Go south and jump down the ledge. There is a Grunt to the south that you can battle. Go east and jump down one of the ledges, and use the Dowsing Machine in the southeast area to find a hidden Escape Rope.
Go through the door in the middle of this room.
Use Strength to push the boulder north. Then go to the northwest corner of this room and use the exit there.
You will be back in the first room. Go north and down the stairs, and go past the Grunt. Then use Strength to push the boulder down, giving yourself a shortcut. After that, go north and through the door.
Go west and use Strength to push the boulder to the left until it falls into the hole.
If you want to open up all areas of this room, go northeast from the boulder that you just pushed and go up through the passageway in the middle of the room. Go to the left and push the boulder to the left until it is up against the small rock.
After that, go north through the narrow passage and push the boulder up. Then go east, then south, and use Rock Smash on the small rock to the right of the boulder.
Go around to the left side of this boulder and push it to the right until it falls into the hole. After that, push the boulder below it into the hole.
Then use the northwest exit of the room where you pushed the boulders around.
Use Surf and go northeast, into the currents that are going northward. When you stop, go west into the next set of currents. You will end up near the northeast corner of the room. Go through the northeast exit.
Go up the stairs and push the boulder to the east. Then use the southeast exit of this room.
Use Surf and go to the right side of the water. Enter the currents that are pushing downward. From there, go to the right or down. You will end up in front of a small island where you can get TM55 Scald. Go to the north side of the island and Surf north into the currents that are pushing northward. You should end up near the northwest part of the room. Go through the northwest exit.
Go north through this room. You have to battle the Grunt. After that, push the boulder south into the hole to give yourself a shortcut. Then go north through the exit.
In this room, push the two southern boulders into the holes that are next to them. Then push the southeastern boulder to the east, and push the southwestern boulder east twice. Go north through the middle of the room and go to the left, then push the boulder down. From there, you can push the northwest boulder north into the hole. Go north from there to reach the exit of this room.
Follow the path through the next room and TM26 Earthquake before you go down to the next room.
Battle the Team Magma/Aqua Leader
In the next room, go north. After a cut scene, you will have to battle the leader of Team Magma/Aqua.
In Omega Ruby, you will have to battle Maxie. He has a level 41 Weezing, a level 41 Crobat, a level 41 Mightyena, and a level 43 Camerupt that he will Mega Evolve into Mega Camerupt.
In Alpha Sapphire, you will battle Archie. He has a level 41 Muk, a level 41 Crobat, a level 41 Mightyena, and a level 43 Sharpedo that he will Mega Evolve into Mega Sharpedo.
After the Battle
After you beat the leader, watch the cut scene. When you go outside, you will find (in Omega Ruby) that the sunlight has turned extremely harsh, or (in Alpha Sapphire) that there is a constant downpour of rain. The leader of the opposing team will tell you to go to the Cave of Origin in Sootopolis City, and Steven will arrive and tell you to go there as well.
To go to Sootopolis City, go north to Route 127, then go northwest to Route 126.


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If you have been wondering why so many FM'ers have been lucky enough to find snowy owls near home this winter, this Yahoo! article might be of interest. There is also a longer one in the NY Times at
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - Bird enthusiasts are reporting rising numbers of snowy owls from the Arctic winging into the lower 48 states this winter in a mass southern migration that a leading owl researcher called "unbelievable."
Thousands of the snow-white birds, which stand 2 feet tall with 5-foot wingspans, have been spotted from coast to coast, feeding in farmlands in Idaho, roosting on rooftops in Montana, gliding over golf courses in Missouri and soaring over shorelines in Massachusetts.
A certain number of the iconic owls fly south from their Arctic breeding grounds each winter but rarely do so many venture so far away even amid large-scale, periodic southern migrations known as irruptions.
"What we're seeing now -- it's unbelievable," said Denver Holt, head of the Owl Research Institute in Montana.
"This is the most significant wildlife event in decades," added Holt, who has studied snowy owls in their Arctic tundra ecosystem for two decades.
Holt and other owl experts say the phenomenon is likely linked to lemmings, a rodent that accounts for 90 percent of the diet of snowy owls during breeding months that stretch from May into September. The largely nocturnal birds also prey on a host of other animals, from voles to geese.
An especially plentiful supply of lemmings last season likely led to a population boom among owls that resulted in each breeding pair hatching as many as seven offspring. That compares to a typical clutch size of no more than two, Holt said.
Greater competition this year for food in the Far North by the booming bird population may have then driven mostly younger, male owls much farther south than normal.
Research on the animals is scarce because of the remoteness and extreme conditions of the terrain the owls occupy, including northern Russia and Scandinavia, he said.
The surge in snowy owl sightings has brought birders flocking from Texas, Arizona and Utah to the Northern Rockies and Pacific Northwest, pouring tourist dollars into local economies and crowding parks and wildlife areas. The irruption has triggered widespread public fascination that appears to span ages and interests.
"For the last couple months, every other visitor asks if we've seen a snowy owl today," said Frances Tanaka, a volunteer for the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge northeast of Olympia, Washington.
But accounts of emaciated owls at some sites -- including a food-starved bird that dropped dead in a farmer's field in Wisconsin -- suggest the migration has a darker side. And Holt said an owl that landed at an airport in Hawaii in November was shot and killed to avoid collisions with planes.
He said snowy owl populations are believed to be in an overall decline, possibly because a changing climate has lessened the abundance of vegetation like grasses that lemmings rely on.
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Thanks for the info, I hope they come this way...
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Why do New York's poor schools have lower-rated teachers?
ALBANY—The first year of New York's controversial, state-mandated teacher evaluation system shows a trend that is unsurprising to education experts: Teachers with the highest ratings tend to be in the more affluent school districts, while teachers with low ratings are more likely to be in poor districts.
A statewide analysis by Capital found that 64 percent of teachers in wealthy districts earned the highest rating of "highly effective," compared to 38 percent of teachers in poor districts. And while only 1 percent of teachers in the wealthy districts were rated "ineffective" or "developing," that number is 12 percent for poor districts.
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The results will provide grist for special interest groups on opposing sides of controversial education issues. Pro-charter school education groups that advocated for the evaluation system, along with the Common Core standards, argue the results reflect labor-market realities: Affluent school districts can be more selective, and stronger teachers prefer to instruct students with fewer challenges in schools with more resources.
Teachers' unions have argued that standardized test scores, which the evaluations are partially based on, are an unreliable measure of educators' performance. The unions claim the results are proof that teachers of disadvantaged students are penalized under the rating system.
Each side plans to use the results to push for regulatory or legislative changes: The pro-evaluation groups are lobbying for financial incentives that would encourage the best teachers to work in struggling schools. Unions, which typically reject merit-based pay, argue that increasing funding to the education system as a whole will help teachers combat the effects of poverty and improve performance in poor schools.
"There are two truths, which in some sense, work at cross-purposes," said John Ewing, a mathematician and researcher who now leads New York City's Math For America program. "First, I think it's generally known that high-needs schools often have a lot of inexperienced teachers and teachers who are, in fact, developing in their own way. If you are really an accomplished teacher, then very often, you end up at a school that's a better environment."
But Ewing also cautioned against placing too much significance on evaluations based on test scores.
"While [the test score calculations] claim to be able to measure the quality of teachers, regardless of the students that they have, in fact, in study after study, it's shown that that's not true," he said. "When you're teaching students that are struggling themselves, your ... score is gong to be lower."
In late August, the Education Department released the district-by-district evaluation results for 2012-13, the first year during which nearly every school district began rating teachers. (New York City is a notable exception; the state's largest school district first began evaluating teachers under the new system during the 2013-14 school year after the United Federation of Teachers and the Bloomberg Administration could not agree on evaluation guidelines.)
Teachers are rated on a scale of "ineffective," "developing," "effective" and "highly effective." Two consecutive "ineffective" ratings could be grounds for termination.
The evaluations are split into three components, with 60 percent based on classroom observations, 20 percent on student performance on local tests and 20 percent on state tests.
In order to contextualize data with information about schools' resources, the state designates districts as low-needs, average-needs or high-needs. There are three categories of high-needs or poor districts: large cities, which, in this case, includes Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Yonkers, or the "Big Four;" urban-suburban; and rural. The designations differentiate between the districts' geographic settings because the challenges faced by poor children in large cities are different than the ones faced by children in small cities, suburbs and rural areas.
But teachers in any type of high-needs district have lower ratings, on average, than those in low-needs districts, according to a Capital analysis of the data. While 64 percent of teachers in low-needs, or wealthy, districts were rated "highly effective," the analysis found, only 43 percent of teachers in urban-suburban high-needs districts achieved that score. That number was 41 percent for rural high-needs districts. Most strikingly, only 22 percent of teachers in the "Big Four" districts were "highly effective."
At low-needs districts, so few teachers were rated "ineffective" that the number works out to be statistically zero. About 1 percent were rated "developing."
In rural high-needs districts, about 6 percent were "ineffective" or "developing." About 10 percent of teachers in urban-suburban high-needs districts were in the lowest two categories. And at the "Big Four" districts, nearly 30 percent of teachers were rated less than "effective."
For a specific example, take Rochester and its wealthy Monroe County suburb, Pittsford. Only 2 percent of the urban district's teachers were rated "highly effective," while the suburb had 62 percent "highly effective" teachers. A smaller city, Schenectady, had 39 percent "highly effective" teachers, while its wealthy suburb, Niskayuna, had 61 percent "highly effective" teachers.
Downstate, high-needs district Mount Vernon had 19 percent "ineffective" teachers and 33 percent "developing" teachers, and only 12 percent of its teachers were "highly effective." Nearby, a low-needs district, Pelham, had only 2 percent "ineffective" or "developing" teachers, and 79 percent of its teachers were "highly effective."
The results are similar in a comparison of teachers' performance on only the portion of the evaluation that measures students' growth on state exams. On that portion, 6 percent of teachers in low-needs districts were "ineffective" or "developing," compared to 21 percent in high-needs districts. The wealthier school districts had 94 percent "effective" or "highly effective" teachers, compared to 79 percent at poor districts.
Educational research has long shown that more experienced teachers are more likely to work in low-needs schools, even before there were evaluations and other data-driven ways to measure teacher quality, said James Wyckoff, director of the Center for Educational Policy at the University of Virginia, who has previously conducted research in New York.
"Many teachers prefer teaching kids who have higher attendance, who are ready to learn, who come to school with fewer distractions," he said.
Guaranteeing all students access to strong teachers is a priority of education officials on the federal and state level, education commissioner John King told Capital during a recent interview.
"Students in high-needs schools are more likely to get teacher turnover in their buildings; students in high-needs schools are more likely to have teachers who are absent more often," King said. "So, yes, we do worry about equity."
He said salary differentials are a factor in some parts of the state, where suburban districts offer higher pay than nearby urban or rural districts. Working conditions are also a factor in teachers' decisions, he said.
Similar to the pro-charter groups, King argued for financial incentives that encourage strong teachers into high-needs classrooms.
"Are there ways that you might incentivize teachers who have worked in a school that's getting really great progress for high-needs kids to go to a school that's struggling, even for a year or two, to help mentor and coach the teachers in that building?" King said. "We'll use the information that we have now for the first time to inform our work."
The pro-charter groups also plan to use the evaluation results to push for such policies.
"We have more information than ever to verify that there is this inequitable distribution of teachers, and I think there are all sorts of policies you can put into place to change this," said Jenny Sedlis, executive director of StudentsFirstNY, a pro-charter group. "You could have a differentiated pay structure that incentivizes great teachers to remain in or move to high-needs districts."
Craig Johnson, a former state senator who is now board chair for New York's chapter of Democrats for Education Reform, said teachers' unions have long stood in the way of such policies.
"The road blocks are your traditional special interests that are involved in education, i.e., teachers' unions and their grassroots supporters, who say, 'give us more money, and everything will be better,'" Johnson said.
Denouncing the union's position that the evaluations, not the low-rated teachers, are flawed, Johnson said: "It's almost as if they are blaming the kids for the failures of the teachers."
Matt Smith, a spokesman for New York State United Teachers, a powerful statewide union, did argue for more money in a general sense, opposing the targeted financial incentives described by King and pro-charter groups.
"Why not use that pot of money [to] help all the students, rather than just targeting a select few teachers [who are] only teaching in certain classrooms?" he said. "Why not come up with policies that are aimed at benefiting school districts as a whole?"
Governor Andrew Cuomo has increased education funding in recent years, but districts are still grappling with deficits, soaring pension and health care costs and the state's property-tax cap. Historically, the Legislature has not fully funded the state's Foundation Aid Formula, which designates aid levels based on need, among other factors. Districts have also lost funds to the Gap Elimination Adjustment, a formula that has distributed cuts to schools in order to close state budget deficits.
That said, New York spends more per-pupil on education than any other state. Including local, state and federal monies, education costs total about $60 billion annually.
While consistently pushing for more money, traditional public education advocates also condemn the distribution of aid, which they argue further disadvantages poor schools.
"As we have said all along, and [the evaluations results] show some proof, that the problem that's confronting education in our state has more to do with poverty than anything else," Smith said.
The union gets at the alternative explanation for the trend shown in the evaluation results: Teachers at high-needs districts receive lower ratings because their students perform worse on standardized tests than those at low-needs schools. The performance gaps, they argue, persist not because poor students have bad teachers, but because of the tremendous challenges they face: many of them have limited English proficiency or disabilities; they have fewer resources at home and at school; they come to school less prepared than their peers; and their parents are sometimes less involved in their education.
NYSUT filed lawsuits on behalf of the Rochester and Syracuse local teachers' unions, alleging that the evaluation system doesn't adequately account for poverty.
King defended the evaluation system, arguing that the state-growth portion, which is based on standardized test scores, controls for such factors. Teachers whose students are in poverty or who don't speak English are compared to other teachers with similar students to see which classrooms are making the most progress.
"We have schools in the state with very large percentages of students in poverty and very strong academic outcomes," King said. "And we have schools that have large percentages of affluent students, and their academic outcomes are not as good as other schools that have affluent students. So there is a range of student performance at every level of student income."
Ewing argues that the models are statistically unstable and don't reflect reality.
"When you are teaching struggling students who are struggling because they have historically had bad performance, or because they have no parental support or they're in a school that doesn't have many resources, your ... scores are going to be lower than other teachers'," he said.
Alternatively, advocates of using test scores to evaluate teachers argue that it is a more reliable measure of performance than observations, which are conducted by teachers' superiors or colleagues and are therefore subjective.
Sedlis said she supports the evaluation system as a whole but argued that it could be improved, because the subjectivity of the local aspects distorts the results. The basis of her argument is that the vast majority of teachers in the state were rated "effective" or higher, while only a third of students are passing state-administered math and English exams.
"There are many measures of a teacher, and when New York enacted these teacher evaluations, it was a really strong step in the right direction, but what we saw on the evaluations is that the portion based on student growth [on state tests] is really the most reliable portion that allows us to see any kind of differentiation between teachers," she said.
But Ewing said objective measures aren't necessarily accurate.
"We could evaluate teachers on the average height of students in their class, and that would be very objective, but just because something is objective doesn't mean that it reflects reality," Ewing said.
Defenders of test-based evaluations often say that subjective peer observations offer an artificial boost to otherwise low-performing teachers' scores. But observations and other local measures can also have a negative effect on teachers' ratings.
King pointed out that, in some districts, the local portions had a greater negative impact on teachers' ratings than the test scores. In Syracuse for example, 42 percent of teachers were "effective" and 23 percent were "highly effective" based on only the test-score component. But on the local test component, no teachers were "highly effective," and only 21 percent were "effective."
Further, Wyckoff said research has shown that observations also introduce bias against teachers in high-needs districts.
"For example, if you're teaching in a class where students are disruptive—if you spend more time doing classroom management, you spend less time doing other things that improve kids' learning," he said. "So it may appear to be that you are a less effective teacher because the class is not well behaved."
Some aspects of students' behavior might be beyond teachers' control, he said, offering the example of hunger. If a student didn't eat breakfast, he might act out, and that type of behavioral problem would affect teachers in high-needs school disproportionately.
"The teacher ultimately has to manage the classroom, but some classrooms are just more easily managed as a result of the kids," he said.


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Pie King, Inc. has determine that when x pecan pies are made daily, the average cost per pie is given by C(x)= 0.001x^2-0.14x+12.20(a) what is the average cost per pie if 30 pies are made daily?(b) how many pies should be made daily in order to minimize the average cost per pie? please show all work
C(x)= 0.001x^2-0.14x+12.20
C(x) is a parabola opening upward. The minimum is at its vertex.
In this form the vertex is at x=70 and C(70)=7.3
If you insist on calculus dC/dx=.002x-.14, which equals 0 at x=70
and d2C/dx2=.002>0 so the point is a minimum.


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Toilets & Accessories That Will Make you Feel Very Flush
We all have at least 1 in our homes; the humble 'throne' has been upgraded over the decades and is now given pride of place in our lives; but how much would you pay to have one of these luxury loos, or lavish toilet accessories in your home?
Elite Choice
This solid 24 carat gold toilet was worth over 60 million yen, that's the equivalent of over £350,000 when it was made. With the price of gold at record highs I wonder what it would be worth now…more to the point would you dare to ever use it?
Most Expensive
A throne of thrones the 'Dogobert' wooden toilet throne by Herbeau cost a cool $14,123 USD, but that does include the candlestick and ashtray!
Named 'The Rock Star' this 24carat gold plated loo brush has to be the world's most expensive toilet accessory. Apparently it's selling really well at a modest $575
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Resembling the Apple logo this toilet is a must-have for anyone who loves the company and/or their products. Price unknown.
Hip Hop and co-founder of Cash Money Recors, Bryan Williams has been showing off his gold plated toilet on Instagram. The luxury loo is reported to have a solid gold seat cover and estimated to have cost over $1m USD.
The Richest
The Kohler Numi toilet, with a touch screen interface and a bidet incorporated cost around $6,500 USD. It may not be glitzy but for high flying executives using it would all be in a days work.
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Designed for residential use this toilet is made entirely from hygienic stainless steel. Price unknown
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Don't like looking at a toilet? That's not a problem with this $11,000 USD Bench Toilet. It has a dual function of a table, (not that I'd want to sit down to eat at it!) when it's not being used for its primary function.
Home Tone
This luxury gold gilded toilet, called Moscow, cost a mere 250,000 Euro. It comes complete with digital controls and plasma mirrors; why you'd need mirrors is anyone's guess!
Home Tone
Isis used to be considered the world's most expensive toilet, Studded with Swarovski crystals it's available with a co-ordinating basin and there's plans to include a slipper bath to the ensemble too. Cost? $75,000 USD
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If you don't fancy gold or gold plated you can have a porcelain loo chromed any colour you want, including bronze. One thing they all have in common is the Swarovski studded push button flush. Price unknown.
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If you want to own a unique toilet that's just a little ostentatious you can opt for this glitzy loo for 129,000 (USD)
The ultimate toilet paper? Well I'm not sure just how efficient it would be for the intended purpose, but if you've got enough money to quite literally flush down the toilet you can have this 22carat gold toilet paper delivered to your home personally, complete with a complementary bottle of champagne. The cost of such extravagance? $1,300,000 USD per roll.