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Renteria managing expectations in first year
New Cubs skipper expects team to improve in 2014 but will be patient
MESA, Ariz. -- After losing 197 games over the last two seasons, the Cubs wanted a new voice. Rick Renteria is now at the helm, and he's quick to admit that he's not reinventing the wheel in his first year as manager. What makes him different?
"Ricky has that quality of not only a great baseball mind, but he has passion, a passion for people," Padres manager Bud Black said of his former bench coach. "He's got a great sense of right and wrong, and he can be compassionate on one end and understand where firmness comes in on the other end. He's got high integrity, and I think players appreciate that."
If it sounds like the same characteristics a father should have, then you've got Renteria perfectly pegged. He has four children, and he opens this spring with 60-plus in his new family, the Cubs.
Chicago isn't projected to challenge for the top of the National League Central, which had three teams in the playoffs last season. Renteria, 52, knows that, and he still took the job, his first as a big league skipper. He says the same things every manager does heading into Spring Training -- they'll emphasize fundamentals, play the game right. Everything they do has a purpose in the goal to win as many games as they can.
"We know people look at us and think there's no chance anything can happen," Renteria said. "That's on everybody else, that's not on us."
Renteria will draw on what he's learned from Black, Jim Leyland, Dick Williams, Rene Lachemann and his Minor League manager, Johnny Lipon, who Renteria said was the most positive person he's ever played for. Black said one of Renteria's strengths is his ability to communicate with the players.
"I learned this from my managers, the importance of empowering your coaches and letting them do their thing and whatever they felt needed to be done in the context of our team," Black said. "I had a great deal of trust with Ricky to do what he needed to do, and there were a lot of times he'd come by and say, 'Hey, I'll take care of this, is that OK?' and I'd say 'Yeah.' He would come by and say, 'I needed to talk to so and so, and I did. Is that OK?'
"We were together for a length of time, so the trust was there," Black said. "My first year, he was our Triple-A manager and he was in big league camp, and we communicated. The next year, he came on the [big league] staff. We were together six seasons, and as each year went on, more trust was built. He's a guy who was extremely loyal to the Padres and to our players."
In the short time Cubs catcher Welington Castillo has been around his new manager, he's laughed a lot.
"He's really funny," Castillo said. "He's a guy who supports the players. I think that's all you need for a skipper and a coaching staff. They don't have to be good to you -- if they have to be a little aggressive to you, they have to be, because that's this kind of game. They're going to do something to wake you up. So far, he's been really good, like, 'Hey, I've got your back, enjoy the game, and play hard.'"
Is Renteria funny like "funny ha-ha" or "funny strange?"
"He supports you and he makes you comfortable," Castillo said, trying to explain. "When you go to the field, you play 100 percent. Have fun, that's all he said. Have fun and play hard, that's it."
Renteria doesn't ask the players to do anything he wouldn't do, and his resume is so extensive that there isn't anything he hasn't done. He was a first-round Draft pick in 1980 and didn't make his Major League debut until September '86 with the Pirates. Renteria spent 14 seasons in the Minor Leagues, including three in Mexico. He's been traded once, released three times. Renteria overcame a career-threatening broken jaw suffered in batting practice on the first day of the 1990 season, returned and was sidelined again when he was spiked in the eye. He nearly retired, but with the support of his family and faith, stuck with it and won a spot on the Marlins' big league roster out of Spring Training a year after playing for the Jalisco Charros, and became successful as a utility player.
Lachemann once quipped: "I'd like to see a movie about [Renteria's life]. I'd pay to go."
Screenwriters should wait to see if Renteria creates the perfect ending with the Cubs, who signed him to a three-year contract in hopes of getting the team to the playoffs eventually. The 2014 roster may not get preseason prognosticators excited, but excitement is building for 2016, when Javier Baez, Albert Almora, Kris Bryant and Jorge Soler could be in the big leagues. Renteria knows the pressures they're dealing with.
"That was the question that was first asked of me when I went to rookie ball, 'When do you expect to make it to the big leagues?'" Renteria said. "I didn't have that crystal ball, and even if I did, I would've missed the mark."
Renteria is one of the first at the Cubs complex, arriving before 5 a.m. so he can get his daily exercise routine done. It's part of his recovery from right hip replacement surgery in October.
His ability to speak Spanish has impressed the Latin players, but Renteria is trying to learn Japanese, too, and has been testing a new phrase each day with the media.
How much of an influence can a manager have?
"There's only so much he can do," Cubs pitcher Travis Wood said. "You can be positive and behind us as much as possible, but at the end of the day, it's on [the players] to take the initiative to grind out workouts and get better every single day we're out here."
But it's the manager who's in the spotlight and the one who has to answer to the media.
"He's a great motivator and he's going to be behind us 100 percent but at the end of the day, it's up to us," Wood said. "He's a very positive, upbeat guy and I think that's what we need here."
Does that mean it wasn't "upbeat" the last two seasons under Dale Sveum?
"It was [upbeat]," Wood said. "Dale was a very good manager and I liked him a lot, and it's unfortunate he had to leave, but Rick just brings a different aspect. A new face, a new guy always brings something different to the table, so we'll just see how it unfolds."
Losing at least two starting pitchers at the Trade Deadline as well as seeing other veterans dealt, then finishing fifth the last two seasons contributed to the mood in the Cubs' clubhouse as well.
"With two years of losing, it leaves a bad taste in everybody's mouth," Wood said. "We've got some guys trying to prove themselves again and some guys trying to keep proving themselves. I think it's going to be an exciting year."
Renteria will start one-on-one meetings with the players Tuesday. His first full workout day will be Wednesday when camp kicks up another notch.
"We really trust Ricky to connect with the players as human beings, to be on their side, to be consistent, to hold them to high standards and ultimately to get the most out of them," Cubs president of baseball operations Theo Epstein said. "He's a great baseball guy, a great communicator. He's fully invested in what we're doing here.
"He believes in young players, he believes he can win with young players," Epstein said. "We believe he's the right guy to create an environment that we need at the big league level to establish a winning culture and allow our young players to continue to develop and become championship players."
Any last-minute tips from Black?
"The only advice I've offered to Ricky is, 'You know this game, you've been around it your whole life -- be yourself,'" Black said. "'What you bring as a person is what is going to carry you to success in this game.'"


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Iomega and LaCie have both rolled out revamped external hard drives designed to feed your TV with music, movies and photos.
Iomega's ScreenPlay Pro HD packs in 1TB of media storage that'll hook up to your telly over HDMI, component- and composite-video connections. It supports resolutions of up to 1080i. Favoured formats include MP3; AAC; MPEG 4 in AVI, DivX and XViD; QuickTime; Matroska and MPEG 2 VOB.
Iomega's ScreenPlay Pro HD: networkable
The ScreenPlay Pro HD is networkable, with a 10/100Mb/s Ethernet port for wired connections. Iomega said it'll offer an optional Wi-Fi dongle that clips into the drive's USB 2.0 port.
LaCie's LaCinema Rugged is a more mobile offering that incorporates a 250GB, 320GB or 500GB drive and HDMI port. Like the Iomega, it also has digital and analogue audio out, along with composite-video support, but no networking capability.
LaCie's LaCinema: portable and Ogg friendly
Unlike Iomega, LaCie lists Ogg as one of its audio formats, but beyond that the two units support much the same set of file-types.
Iomega's ScreenPlay Pro HD 1TB is available now in the US for $300. Over here, it'll cost £185. A 500MB version for £145 will also be offered to Brits.
The LaCie LaCinema Rugged retails for £139 (250GB), £159 (320GB) and £219 (500GB).


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Ed. Department Focus on English-Learners Seen Waning
A diminished clearinghouse, a leaderless office, and a department reshuffling have advocates worried
As the number of English learners continues to grow faster than that of any other group in the nation's public schools, concerns are mounting that the distinctive needs of those students and the educators who work with them are receiving diminishing attention from the U.S. Department of Education.
Even as the federal government spends roughly $750 million a year to help educate a population that's grown to be one out of every 10 students, the department's office of English-language acquisition, or OELA, has seen its clout steadily shrink.
In mid-October, the office lost its director, Rosalinda B. Barrera, who was appointed in August 2010 and became the first permanent political appointee in that post since 2008. The department did not publicize her departure, and no one has been named to replace her.
Before Ms. Barrera stepped down, OELA decided not to renew a $2 million annual contract long held by George Washington University to manage the National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition, or NCELA. The office did not explain why it did not renew the contract, and early in the summer, it launched a new competition for the clearinghouse. In late September, OELA awarded the contract to LEED Management Consulting Inc., a year-old company in Silver Spring, Md.
But after complaints about the process, including the final selection, the Education Department is "re-evaluating" all the proposals.
It's unclear what work is currently being done on behalf of NCELA, which Congress created to serve as the go-to source of information for state and local administrators on research, instructional strategies, and data on English-learners.
And four years after then-U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings moved authority over nearly all Title III funds—the formula aid allocated to states and districts for English-language-acquisition programs—from OELA to the department's elementary and secondary education office, several state and local officials said in interviews that they get less technical assistance and support to help meet the needs of ELLs and adhere to the relevant federal rules.
"There is a great need and role for the clearinghouse and the resources it is supposed to provide, especially because there is so much turnover at the state and district level when it comes to administrators working on Title III and English-learner issues," said David J. Holbrook, the director of federal programs for the Wyoming education department and the president of the National Council of State Title III Directors.
"They are supposed to be a source for what works and what doesn't work for English-language learners," he said of NCELA. "But I think what is going on with NCELA is a symptom of a larger problem."
All this comes as a separate arm of the federal department, the office for civil rights, has ramped up scrutiny of the instructional services that states and districts are providing English-learners.
The department did not respond to specific criticisms, but a spokeswoman said it has "raised the bar on support and standards" for ELLs. "Whether through targeted, ongoing technical assistance, or new requirements to provide specialized professional development for [ELL] educators and college- and career-ready resources for [ELLs], our department is committed to continually providing smarter, better support to all [ELL] students," said spokeswoman Elizabeth Utrup in a statement.
Opportunities Ahead?
Raúl Gonzalez, the director of legislative affairs for the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic-advocacy group in Washington, said ELL issues have not been front and center in the Education Department in President Barack Obama's first term because officials have been focused on major initiatives such as the Race to the Top grant program and No Child Left Behind Act waivers.
He noted that it wasn't until President George W. Bush's second term that ELLs received more attention from the department, and he suggested that could be the case with President Obama.
"I think there's an opportunity in the second term to engage the department more intensely on English-learner issues," Mr. Gonzalez said.
Complaints about the department's lack of attention to English-learners are not new, especially since OELA lost most of its Title III authority. That restructuring—which left the office mainly responsible for NCELA and about $50 million in grants for professional development and programs for Native American and Alaska Native students—was opposed by several education groups. They worried that ELL issues would be lumped in with those of disadvantaged students covered under Title I of the NCLB law, the current version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
The Education Department's rationale was that combining oversight of both federal programs would provide better coordination for states and districts. Some educators and advocates thought the merging of the two programs—with the $14.5 billion Title I dwarfing Title III's $750 million in funding—could bring more prominence to ELLs.
But an ongoing concern among several state and local directors of ELL programs is that splitting responsibility for Title III weakened the office where much of the expertise on English-language acquisition resides and has put a strain on the Title III monitors, who some state officials have said are increasingly tasked with responsibilities outside the section of the law specific to ELLs.
Hispanic and civil rights advocacy groups have urged U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to return the oversight of Title III to OELA since he took office, and, more recently, they asked him to put OELA on the front lines of major policy and oversight activity that affects English-learners, including states' implementation of NCLB waivers.
In a September 2011 letter to Mr. Duncan about the waivers, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a coalition of 210 national groups, wrote that OELA should "play a greater role in monitoring and oversight of any waivers tied to Title III or Title I obligations that apply to ELL students. Underutilizing OELA and limiting the authority of the office is unacceptable."
And in a meeting with Mr. Duncan earlier this year, members of the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda, an association of national groups, told the secretary that the issues OELA is focused on "appear to not make the forefront of the department's decisions and rollouts," according to a copy of discussion points from the Jan. 24 meeting. The group asked Mr. Duncan to return the Title III monitors to OELA and to elevate the OELA director's position to be "part of the secretary's management and policy-development team."
As the influence of OELA waned, some say the clearinghouse became less useful.
"When I first moved from being a district director to a state Title III supervisor, NCELA was really useful for summarizing research relevant to teaching English-learners and for learning about instructional strategies, parent outreach, and other best practices," said Cathy M. Nelson, a Title III/ELL specialist for the Maryland education department since 2009.
Ms. Nelson said she noticed a drop-off in resources from NCELA after her first year, including the demise of an online forum where she and her peers could ask questions and seek advice from one another and from the NCELA team.
Statutory Origins
The national clearinghouse was created more than 40 years ago as the National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education. The name changed with the 11-year-old No Child Left Behind Act, which created Title III and sharpened the federal government's focus on holding schools accountable for ensuring that ELLs would become both proficient in English and learn academic content.
Under federal law, NCELA is supposed to "collect, analyze, synthesize, and disseminate information" about language instruction and research on English-learners through its website, written reports, face-to-face contact, and electronic media.
For most of its existence, NCELA has been managed by a team of researchers and consultants at the education school of George Washington University, in Washington.
Kathleen Leos, who was the director of OELA under the second President Bush from 2005 to 2007, said she worked closely with the NCELA team to convene regular national meetings for Title III directors and produce and share resources with them.
"NCELA was truly an extension of the workload in our office," Ms. Leos said. "We were dealing with a brand-new law and a shift to formula grants that required all new regulations, so we couldn't have done it without them."
But the relationship between OELA and NCELA has weakened in recent years, according to Judith Wilde, who was the director of NCELA from 2009 until last September.
Three years ago, at OELA's request, the clearinghouse held 15 webinars for ELL administrators on important topics, she said. The next year, there were roughly a dozen. The number dwindled to six in 2011, and in 2012, there have been just three, Ms. Wilde said. (A fourth webinar, on grant programs for Native American and Alaska Native students, was planned for Dec. 19.)The last major initiative NCELA worked closely on with OELA was a series of "national conversations" in 2011 that Ms. Barrera spearheaded in six states with large numbers of English-learners, Ms. Wilde said. At the conclusion of the events, OELA staff members took responsibility for writing a report for the field rather than assigning NCELA to do so, a task that would have been within the scope of its duties, Ms. Wilde said.
Late in 2011, OELA officials released a request for information that signaled to the team at George Washington that its contract would not continue. In June, the office released a formal request for potential contractors to submit proposals to manage the clearinghouse project.
The most notable change was the Education Department's specification that the potential prime contractors be small businesses with staff members who would account for at least half the labor called for in the contract.
Bidders Confused
From the outset, the competition sparked questions from potential bidders over the specifics of the project, including the precise size of a small business that would be considered eligible to compete.
One bidder, a Washington-based company called edCount, first protested the department's decision to consider proposals from two different categories of small business, a decision that the firm contended violated federal contracting law that says, in most cases, only a single category be considered, according to documents filed with the federal Small Business Administration. The SBA hearing officer agreed.
The Education Department conceded the mistake; clarified that only businesses with a three-year average revenue of less than $7 million would be considered; and extended the deadline for bids.
The SBA rejected an attempt by a larger business, Synergy Enterprises Inc., of Silver Spring, Md., to still be allowed to bid.
After those hiccups, the department announced in September that the contract had been awarded to LEED Management Consulting.
In a protest filed with the U.S. Government Accountability Office, edCount contended that LEED Management, as the primary contractor, had not demonstrated enough expertise on English-learners to run NCELA and would be too reliant on its subcontractors, including the widely respected Center for Applied Linguistics.
The GAO dismissed edCount's protest, but the Education Department wrote to the congressional watchdog agency, saying it would take "corrective action" and re-evaluate all the proposals for NCELA within 80 days, according to documents filed with the GAO.
Daren Briscoe, a spokesman for the Education Department, said he couldn't comment on the NCELA contract.
For Title III directors like Mr. Holbrook of Wyoming and Ms. Nelson of Maryland, meanwhile, finding other sources of technical assistance and advice has become necessary.
Ms. Nelson said she relies on World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment, a 31-state consortium that Maryland belongs to, for the latest information on best practices and important issues facing the field, such as recently updated English-language proficiency standards that link to the new common-core standards.
Mr. Holbrook, the president of the state Title III directors' group, said a meeting convened in October in Washington by his group provided vital information to the field, including updates from the U.S. Department of Justice and the Education Department's civil rights office, as well as briefings from congressional staff members.
Title III monitors from the office of elementary and secondary education also participated, he said.
"We, as an organization, are going to be pushing for more support," Mr. Holbrook said. "The success of these students is important."
Vol. 32, Issue 14, Pages 1, 21Published in Print: December 12, 2012, as Federal Attention on ELL Needs Seen to Wane
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Remembering PTC Media, a podcast website.stevejb68 on September 16, 2013 in Nostalgia, podcast, Promotion
I was contacted tonight on Facebook by a fellow Scouter from Illinois. Kevin Miller was wondering what is going on with PTC Media these days. For those of you new to this blog, PTC Media was a website featuring a collection of Scouting related podcasts, featuring shows about Cub Scouting and Boy Scouting. At its peak the site featured six podcasts, with another one or two short lived shows. I created two podcasts, the Melrose Scout Productions Podcast (MSPP), which was a video show, and Around The Scouting Campfire, an audio program hosted by myself and Buttons, the radical Boy Scout. I also co-hosted the Leaders Campfire with Cubmaster Chris. The site can be found at http://www.ptcmedia.net/ .
Unfortunately, the answer to Kevin's question was that not much is happening these days at the website. Many of the podcast hosts have moved on to other things, and some are not involved with the Scouting program any longer. Fortunately, Cubmaster Chris, the caretaker of the PTC Media, has decided to keep the site up and running so people can still listen to or watch the many podcast episodes created during the last eight years. Many of them hold information that is still relevant to today's Scouting program. I still post a new video to the Melrose Scout Productions Podcast occasionally.
Kevin really liked the podcasts and PTC Media. He liked them so well that he made one of the points of his Wood Badge ticket to hold a Podcast Awareness Day featuring the shows found at PTC Media. And boy, did he go all out. In 2010 he created audio cd's of the shows, over a 100 for each of the main shows, and had a banner created for his booth. (See in the picture above.) He also created business cards, srtickers, half sheets, and full sheets to promote the shows. I am sure his efforts gave a nice boost to our downloads, and it was great to see someone who really appreciated our time and effort into creating the shows.
After a short online chat with Kevin this evening it almost made me feel guilty about not creating more podcast episodes on a regular schedule. I do still have a few videos to finish editing and post to MSPP. I have even thought about doing another episode or two for Around The Scouting Campfire. My idea was to actually record a couple stories as I tell them to the Boy Scouts around a campfire some night. (I should have recorded last Saturday's Purple Gorilla story.) I just don't know if people would like to download them and listen to them, if it would be worth my time and effort.
Kevin has given me permission to use his photos for this blog post. What do you think about his podcast promotion? I think it is awesome.
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BOSTON — — "Maybe," said David Alejandro, a slim 15-year-old in a Red Sox T-shirt as he headed to Fenway Park Tuesday afternoon on a bus chartered especially for him. Sitting nearby were former teammates from the Roberto Clemente Little League in Hartford, chatting and laughing, enjoying a free trip to the game.
David used to pitch, play third base and act as the spirit booster for the team, the Indios de Mayaguez. The contact hitter batted .549 in his last season and dreamed about making it to the big leagues so he could buy his mother a huge home.
"I don't have that energy," David says now, when asked about playing baseball again.
Maybe he'll feel better next season?
The East Hartford boy shrugged a little. "I might play."
Earlier this year, David lay in a hospital bed with blisters covering his mouth and body, his 5-foot-5 frame whittled to 92 pounds. He had been diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma soon after Christmas and spent about five weeks at Connecticut Children's Medical Center in Hartford. Weeks of chemotherapy led to radiation treatment, which ended in July.
By then, the Roberto Clemente baseball season was underway in the city.
"I told David at opening day, 'We won't let you fall,'" Alexander Martinez, the league's president, said at a press conference outside the state Capitol earlier Tuesday.
Knowing David was a Boston Red Sox fan, people in the league thought a game at Fenway might lift his spirits. State Rep. Minnie Gonzalez, D-Hartford, a cancer survivor herself, got involved and reached out to Pat Ryan, owner of the Farmington firm Ryan Marketing, six weeks ago.
Ryan and Don DeVivo, president of the New Britain-based DATTCO bus company, agreed to spend $1,200 to buy enough tickets for David, his friends and chaperones. They also donated a bus for the trip and picked Tuesday — a night game against the Chicago White Sox — because David can't be in the sun without feeling sick.
"We're all neighbors," Ryan said. "And we had the wherewithal to help."
Jorge Morales, a state correction officer and the Indios' head coach, said David deserved a special day. Instead of practicing for a league championship game against the Bravos that will be played today, the team snacked on stadium hot dogs.
"In my worst days, that kid made me laugh," Morales said. "If I had to pick a clown on the team, that would be him. … I used to ask him, 'Why are you smiling so much?' He said, 'Hey, we're playing baseball.' You can't take that away from a kid."
David's smile is different now. Doctors tell him the cancer that affected his lungs, chest and throat is gone, but that it might come back. Coaches who knew him for years say he is more reserved.
"I can't remember that much. I can't eat that much," said David, now 112 pounds, as the bus pulled into a parking lot near Fenway. Around his wrist is a blue rubber bracelet with the message in Spanish, "I can do anything through Christ, who strengthens me." His grandmother gave it to him last week.
"When they told me I had cancer, I didn't feel surprised," David said. "Cancer doesn't have no age limit. … It can happen to anybody."
He was grateful for everyone's work to get him to Boston for the night, he said, but admitted "events are not as exciting" anymore.
Later, as David ate a hot dog before entering the stadium, Elizabeth Pagan looked on with pride and worry. "It makes me happy that he's out with his friends," Pagan said in Spanish. The teen, her youngest of three children and an incoming junior at East Hartford High School, "doesn't want to leave the house," she said. "His personality has changed."
Pagan, a single mother who had to leave her job as a factory worker to care for David, was diagnosed with lupus in the past month and said the news has hit him hard. He kept to his room for a week. Family told him he had to get the strength to survive so he could help care for her.
Which made Tuesday's trip important. David had been to a Red Sox game once, a few years ago, but this time the club's staff brought him down to field level, in front of the home dugout, to watch batting practice up close before the game. He held two baseballs in his hand for autographs.
After some minutes, coming straight toward him was Mike Lowell, the Red Sox third baseman and 2007 World Series most valuable player who beat testicular cancer a decade ago.
"Stay positive, man," Lowell told a smiling David. "It will work out, trust me. I got hit with the same news and it was a shock. … But stay positive."
BOSTON — — "Maybe," said David Alejandro, a slim 15-year-old in a Red Sox T-shirt as he headed to Fenway Park Tuesday afternoon on a bus chartered especially for him. Sitting nearby were former teammates from the Roberto Clemente Little League in Hartford, chatting and laughing, enjoying a free trip to the game.


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School administrators work hard to determine if it is safe for students to be transported to schools. The decision rests with the superintendent after consultation with key district personnel. The superintendent monitors reports from various sources to determine if students and staff can be transported safely. In addition, road conditions beyond West Windsor and Plainsboro must be evaluated as employees might have delays in getting to work.
There are numerous factors to weigh in making the decision to close schools or to have an early closing. First and foremost, the superintendent must consider the safety of students and staff. Questions to ask include, Can the buses deliver students to and from home? Can students safely wait outside for school buses? Have crews cleaned the roads sufficiently so staff can drive to school or back home? Secondly, the superintendent must make a final decision no later than 5:30 a.m. to close schools and by 10 a.m. in order to inform the staff and community about the unfolding events of the day.
In the very early hours of the morning, the director of Buildings and Grounds will contact local police and the directors of public works for West Windsor and Plainsboro Townships, study weather forecasts, and review conditions on district property. The Transportation coordinator communicates with bus contractors and key department employees. While they discuss the road situation, the superintendent reviews conditions across the region. The superintendent discusses the local conditions with the assistant superintendent for Finance and confers with area superintendents. With all this information, the superintendent makes a decision. Throughout the morning, the superintendent monitors road conditions and keeps principals advised of any changes to the daily schedule.
Thank you in advance for your patience and understanding. Each decision regarding school openings must be done on a case-by-case basis. The number one priority is safety.


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NEA applauds selection of Race to the Top winners
Department of Education sends clear message that collaboration of all stakeholders is key
WASHINGTON - March 29, 2010 -
The U.S. Department of Education today announced the first round of winners for the Race to the Top competitive grant program. The following statement can be attributed to National Education Association President Dennis Van Roekel:
"In announcing today's winners of the Race to the Top program, the Department of Education is sending a clear message that collaboration among all stakeholders is essential if we are serious about improving our schools. With this first round selection, the department also is signaling that states must have collaborative partnerships and comprehensive plans that demonstrate high standards if their applications will be considered viable in future phases of the Race to the Top program.
"Educators are key partners in any successful effort to turn around low-performing schools. You can't build a good plan that will yield long-lasting, sustainable results that are positive for students and their schools without having buy-in from all stakeholders. By selecting Delaware and Tennessee's proposals—two states that submitted highly collaborative and comprehensive plans—the administration did what was right for students.
"Unfortunately, the Race to the Top competition does not address the pressing needs of students in all states. For Delaware and Tennessee, it is only a stopgap effort for the sustained funding those states need. For the other 48 states that did not receive any funding, their financial situations are still just as bleak. The competition cannot comprehensively take on the looming problems of fiscal inequity among America's public schools or systemically improve our nation's schools.
"America's students need more than a program that only rewards a few throughout the country, and that is why it is vital that the administration and Congress move forward to revamp and reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act."
More information on NEA's position on reauthorization of ESEA can be found online at www.nea.org/esea. Follow us on twitter at www.twitter.com/NEAMedia.
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Meeting Notes 2011 03 29
HOWTO moderate a meeting[edit]
Anyone can moderate the meeting, though it helps a great deal if you have been to meetings before.
- Say "Five minutes to meeting!". This will give you time to read these instructions.
- Get someone to grab the membership binder. It is kept near the shrine, which is currently on the south wall, between the electronics and sewing areas.
- Get someone to take notes. Point the shocked and bemused note-taker to the sub-instructions below these instructions.
- (Optional) Get someone to put this wiki page up on the projector.
- Skim read through the Agenda below that to get a feel for what a meeting will looks like.
- People may have added Discussion Items to this page, or they may raise them during the meeting. If they emerge during the meeting, suggest that they be discussed _in_ the Discussion Item section, rather than derail other sections of the meeting. Discussion for these can be open-ended, but you should aim to wrap up the meeting within an hour. It can be handy to explicitly summarise what people intend to do as a result of the discussion. There is no requirement on you, Noisebridge the organization, or anyone else to do anything as a result of a discussion item.
- If there are Consensus Items, ensure that they were raised in meeting last week (the membership needs a week's warning for consensus items). Your main job in consensus is to listen to what everyone is saying, make sure everyone gets a chance to say something, and then -- if the debate is beginning to go round in circles or settle -- propose a Position that everyone seems to agree on. If people disagree with the Position, they will wrangle some more, or someone else will propose a Position. If no-one disagrees with the Position, say "So do we consense on $POSITION?". If no one objects, ask the note-taker to record the Position. If things are getting nowhere and we're all getting bored and antsy, identify the people objecting, and ask them to discuss the problem with the proposers of Consensus Item outside the meeting, and return next week with a compromise solution.
- Shout "Meeting starts now!" now, and start reading (out loud) through the Agenda!
- When you are done, consult with the note-taker, and make sure they know what they have to do to finish their job -- especially updating the wiki, and mailing nb-discuss, and the treasurer with new membership details.
- Put back the membership binder by the Shrine.
- Bathe in the glow of the respect of your fellow Noisebridgers.
HOWTO note-take a meeting[edit]
- Your moderator should give you five minutes to read these instructions. If they don't, say "Woah there cowboy, I need to know what I'm doing. Five minutes, por favor!". Use exactly those words.
- This page should have a URL like "https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2010_12_28", with today's year, month and date in it. If doesn't, copy [Meeting Notes Template] to a wiki page with that kind of URL. If you don't know how to copy wiki pages, say, "Can someone help me with the Noisebridge Wiki?", and get them to create a page with that kind of URL, and then show you how to copy this page to it and edit it.
- Edit this page. Add notes under each category -- you can delete any placeholder explanatory text as you go.
- Save the wiki page when you're done (no-one expects you to finish as the meeting is finished; it usually takes a half-hour or so after the meeting to get everything in order). Try to hyperlink stuff that should be linked. You can delete all this patronising instructional crap. Here's [Meeting_Notes_2010_12_28 an example] of a finally edited meeting.
- Create a page for next week's meeting, by copying over Meeting Notes Template to an URL with next week's date in it (see step 1). If anybody proposed Consensus Items for next week, write them in here, and add them to the Current Consensus Items.
- If there were any consensus items decided at your meeting, add them to Consensus Items History, and take them out of the Current Consensus Items.
- Go to the front page meetings notice and edit the page that so that the Prev and Next meetings now point to this meeting notes, and the new meeting notes you just created respectively'. (If that link is broken, it's a section half-way down the [front page]
- Important! Send a final copy of the notes to noisebridge-discuss, and email firstname.lastname@example.com the details of any new members (you can get all the details from the membership binder, which may now be hidden over by the shrine.)
- Chill out, have a cocktail with a friendly robot, continue to rock the world.
The 153rd Meeting of Noisebridge
Note-taker: R. Miloh Alexander
Moderator: Kelly
Introduction and Names[edit]
- What Noisebridge is about: "Noisebridge is a 501c3 nonprofit that provides a space for creation, collaboration, and learning about technology and creative projects. Noisebridge provides space, power tools, and infrastructure to help the public learn new skills and create cool things. Noisebridge continues to exist through and depends entirely on membership dues and donations. Our code of conduct is 'Be excellent to each other'."
- Round of introductions: What's your name, what do you do, and if you are new, how did you hear about Noisebridge? Start with the moderator and go left.
- A brief primer on consensus process: We agree and so should you! Only paid-up members can block consensus.
Financial Report[edit]
Funds in bank: $15,325.63
Membership Binder[edit]
- Read off any names from the binder for the past month.
- Anyone up for join this week should introduce themselves then leave the area in search of gifts (traditionally beer and a lime) for the rest of the group. The rest of the meeting should consense on whether they may join.
What's Going On at Noisebridge[edit]
One short sentence about each of the following:
For locations at Noisebridge, see a map of the 2169 location of Noisebridge.
- Tastebridge cooking class - (Monday, ~5PM, NoiseKitchen)
- Circuit Hacking Mondays (Monday, 7PM, E Lab)
- iPhone OS developer weekly meetup -- (Monday, 6PM, A. Church) Meetups are becoming increasingly well attended, interested Noisebridge folks are encouraged to sign up at http://meetup.com/iphonedevsf , as that is where any important announcements and discussions take place. Contact Nickthedude with any questions.
- Pyclass - Mondays (Monday, 6:30PM, A. Turing) Working On Django now.
- django study group - Tuesdays 12:30 to 3 PM turing classroom (install, modify django)
- linux study group - Tuesdays 3 to 6 PM turing classroom (sys adm skills)
- Ruby_class (Tuesdays, 7.00pm, A. Church) - Covering databases for the next few weeks.
- Probability (Tuesdays, 7.30pm, A. Turing)
- Tastebridge culturing - (Wednesday, ~6PM, NoiseKitchen)
- Linux Discussion Group - Wednesdays, 6 to 8 PM, Turing classroom (talk, play with linux, meet up)
- GameDevelopment - (Wednesday, 7PM, E Lab/Main Hall]]
- SCoW craft group - (Wednesday, 7PM, SCoW area)
- Machine_Learning - (Wednesday, 7:30PM, A. Church)
- django study group - Fridays 12:30 to 3 PM turing classroom (install, modify django)
- linux study group - Fridays 3 to 6 PM turing classroom (sys adm skills)
- Spacebridge - (Sundays, Main Hall)
- Knots, Go, and Locks! - (Sunday afternoon, Main Hall)
- Second Saturdays are Noisebridge hackathon:
a casual monthly event dedicated to working on the space or relevant projects and building community. This is a great time to get feedback or help on any projects you have been considering that center around the space, culture, and infrastructure of Noisebridge. You can also help with existing projects and find out ways to get involved.
- Five Minutes of Fame every third Thursday.
- Bay Area Hackers Association - (Second Sunday, 2PM)
- KDE camp Party: KDE camp is being held at the Hotel Kabuki SF from April 3-4, and having a party at Noisebridge on the evening of Monday the 3rd of April. Miloh is coordinating between them and Noisebridge as sponsor.
Project Updates[edit]
(Anyone doing interesting projects is welcome to chip in here.)
Consensus items[edit]
(Add any new items for consensus to the Current Consensus Items page.)
Discussion Items[edit]
- Noisebridge T-shirts -- proposal to order 50 or 100 T-shirts (before Maker Faire 2011)? mitch
- Shelves -- discuss consensus on spending $270 in Noisebridge funds to get 3 new heavy shelves for Noisebridge. These shelves, along with reorganization work will allow for the hackshelves to be moved and completely separated from the member shelving area. Between 20 to 40 new spaces for member and projects would be produced. Cost is approx. ~$80.30 per shelf and ~$55.00 for 10 large plastic storage bins (~$5.50 each) or ~$295.90 total, tax included. Miloh 01:46, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
- Buildout costs -- discuss forming consensus on allocating $1150 from Noisebridge funds: Allocate $1150 of Noisebridge funds for electrical and lumber materials to be used to finish build out work at Noisebridge in April and May. These funds would go directly for the cost of materials needed to finish the SE corner facilities cabinet, to improve the electrical options for the Dark Room and finally to improve the safety of the Elvis Wu booth. Labor would be provided free. Estimate of costs: $1000 for electrical build out costs already under implementation (10-14 awg coppers, switches and boxes, conduit), $150 for new wood (assorted $3 2x4 supports and T&G OSB at $16/piece ). Miloh 01:46, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
- Shop costs -- discuss forming consensus on spending Noisebridge funds on a carpenter's HEPA air filtering bagged shop vacuum. The Noisebridge Fablab currently gets heavy use which affects the air quality throughout Noisebridge. A carpenter's Hepa vac w has 2 features which help offset the air quality issues: they can be set to switch on when dust producing equipment is running, and they use HEPA filters and bags, which improves exhaust air quality. Cost would probably be less than $600 but more than $300. The model recommended by John M. will be preferred, within this cost range. A more specific proposal detailing the exact model, cost, and benefits should be created. Miloh 01:46, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
End of Meeting[edit]
- PGP Key Signing could happen now, check the list to see who wants in on the action.
- Put back the membership binder by the Shrine.
- Save the meeting notes to the wiki.
- Send a copy of the meeting notes to the discussion list.
- Copy the Meeting Notes Template for next week's agenda and update the main wiki page's link to it.
- Enjoy a cocktail with your fellow hacker or robot.


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|Machiavelli as a poker mate
Machiavellianism has been considered in the literature as the symbol for manipulative strategies in social conduct. However, it has been rarely studied via behavioural experiments outside the laboratory, in more naturalistic settings. We report the first behavioural study (N=490) evaluating whether Machiavellian individuals, high Machs, deceive more than low Machs in online poker, where deception is ethically acceptable and strategically beneficial. Specifically, we evaluated Machiavellianism, bluffing patterns, and emotional sensitivity to getting "slow-played" ("stepping into a trap"). Bluffing was assessed by realistic poker tasks wherein participants made decisions to bluff or not, and sensitivity to slow-play by a self-report measure. We found that high Machs had higher average bluffsizes than low Machs (but not higher bluffing frequency) and were more distraught by getting slow-played. The Machiavellian sub-trait "desire for control" also positively predicted bluffing frequency. We show that online poker can be utilized to investigate the psychology of deception and Machiavellianism. The results also illustrate a conceptual link between unethical and ethical types of deception, as Machiavellianism is implicated in both.
|European Association of Psychology and Law (EAPL) Conference 2014 Summary
The European Association of Psychology and Law (EAPL) annually organises a conference to bring together researchers and practitioners operating in a forensic context. Combining different disciplines, such as psychology, criminology and law leads to a multidisciplinary conference with presentations on topics like detecting deception, false memories, presenting forensic evidence in court, investigative interviewing, risk assessment, offenders, victims and eyewitness identification (see program). This year's conference took place during the 24-27th of June 2014 in St. Petersburg and I (Sophie Van Der Zee) summarised a selection of talks given during this conference.
|We Will Make You Like Our Research: The Development of a Susceptibility-to-Persuasion Scale
Link to full text at ssrn: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2446971 Abstract: Social-psychological and other persuasive mechanisms across diverse contexts are well researched, yet in general the research focusses on the effectiveness of a specific persuasive technique. In the present paper, our specific interest lies in the development of a generalized modular psychometric tool that measures individual susceptibility to persuasion.
|Moral rationalization and the integration of situational factors and psychological processes in immoral behavior
Link to full text from the Author's site. Abstract. Moral rationalization is an individual's ability to reinterpret his or her immoral actions as, in fact, moral. It arises out of a conflict of motivations and a need to see the self as moral. This article presents a model of evil behavior demonstrating how situational factors that obscure moral relevance can interact with moral rationalization and lead to a violation of moral principles.
|Deception in Experiments: The Costs of an Alleged Method of Last Resort
Abstract: In psychology, deception is commonly used to increase experimental control. Yet, its use has provoked concerns that it raises participants' suspicions, prompts second-guessing of experimenters' true intentions, and ultimately distorts behavior and the control it is meant to achieve. These concerns can and have been subjected to empirical analysis. Our review of the evidence yielded two key results: First, there is evidence that participants who experienced deception firsthand are likely to become suspicious and that there are non-negligible differences between suspicious and reportedly na‹ve participants.


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His paintings are among the most adored in the world, and the story of his life and death is legendary: Vincent van Gogh was a troubled genius who killed himself. But while van Gogh was no doubt plagued by physical and mental illness, the authors of a new biography say their exhaustive forensic investigation suggests he may not have taken his own life. In this two-part piece, Morley Safer travels to France to retrace van Gogh's final steps - and explore the authors' detective work firsthand.
The following script is from "The Life and Death of Vincent van Gogh" which aired on Oct. 16, 2011.
Tonight we offer a rare visual treat: a look into the life and death of that troubled giant of a painter, Vincent van Gogh.
The bare outline of his life: unappreciated Dutch genius who in a fit of madness cut off his ear and later killed himself.
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Join Morley Safer for a virtual journey through the paintings of Vincent van Gogh
Now there's a new biography that challenges a crucial part of the van Gogh legend. A 10 year forensic investigation by two Pulitzer Prize-winning authors. If their detective work is right, it may well upend art history.
Their story rambles from van Gogh's birthplace in Holland to Paris, rural France, and to South Carolina. Much of our report is magnificently illustrated by the artist himself.
Here - outside the village of Auvers in the French countryside he loved, on the very edge of the wheat fields he painted so vividly - here, lies Vincent van Gogh. Alongside his devoted brother, Theo.
Morley Safer: No soaring memorials. It's just these simple headstones.
Steven Naifeh: Yeah, it couldn't be more moving knowing that Vincent spent most of his adult life wanting to be with Theo. And to have them spend eternity lying next to each other is seriously touching.
As we talked to co-author Steven Naifeh, a steady stream of pilgrims made their way through the fields to pay their respects at Vincent's grave. Tens of thousands of them come every year.
Naifeh: Japanese visitors actually bring the ashes of their ancestors to pour on the grave of the painter of "Starry Night." Russian visitors bring vodka to pour on the grave.
These South Koreans brought music -
[Visitor with iPhone: "On that starry, starry night you took your life..."]
Don Mclean's famous anthem to Vincent: an artist largely ignored in his lifetime, even ridiculed by the art establishment. Whose paintings are now valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars and command center stage at the great museums of the world.
Naifeh: The colors are beautiful and they're bright and they're cheerful. And if it's a bowl of flowers, it's an exuberant bowl of irises or roses. If it's a landscape, it's all the beauty of the natural world washing over you. You don't have to have a degree in art history to understand that message.
At the Musee d'Orsay in Paris - we talked of art and madness. Sitting by one of van Gogh's iconic self-portraits, painted in 1889 at Saint Paul, a clinic for the insane in Saint Remy, where he had himself committed for a year. Some other masterworks done at Saint Remy: irises. Cypresses. And "Starry Night."
Naifeh: Whether it's "Starry Night," with all that swirling sky, or the swirling brushstrokes in this painting, there are people who have said that this was a depiction of the craziness emanating from his mind. I don't think he's trying that at all. These beautiful, exquisitely colored blue brush strokes are really creating a pattern of unity and harmony and beauty.
Within the madness, there was genius.
Naifeh: Vincent was enormously proud that he painted this entire painting in less than an hour. About 45 minutes.
He worked so quickly that in nine years, he turned out more than a thousand paintings and another thousand drawings.
Naifeh: These are not just crazy works of art by a crazy painter. They are intentional masterpieces by somebody who knew exactly what they're doing.
For ten years, Steve Naifeh and his partner Greg Smith - who's recovering from cancer surgery - peered into every dark corner of Vincent van Gogh's life. He was laughed out of art school. Couldn't hold a job. And even tried being a minister, like his father, with disastrous results.
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