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VANCOUVER - Teachers were walking picket lines in the early-morning drizzle Tuesday as parents scrambled to make child care arrangements on what should have been the first day of the 2014-2015 school year.
B.C. Teachers' Federation President Jim Iker joined some of the striking teachers at Britannia Elementary, calling on the government to abandon a demand the BCTF says would give the government an "escape clause" from any future court decision on class size and composition.
Students in Vancouver and Victoria took part in rallies to protest the ongoing delays to their education, with a protest Tuesday afternoon at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Talks between the BCTF and the government broke down over the weekend, with veteran mediator Vince Ready pulling out of the talks, saying the two sides are too far apart.
With little sign of movement in negotiations, districts throughout the Lower Mainland warned parents to prepare for a weeks-long strike.
Parents made alternate plans for child care, which included taking days off work, day camps and cooperative arrangements with neighbours.
About 600 educators and their supporters congregated for a protest rally outside the legislature in Victoria, turning its front lawn into what they mockingly referred to as "Christy's classroom," referring to Premier Christy Clark.
Victoria-area teacher Ray Stewart, who brought his three young children to the protest, said the conflict has taken a toll on his health.
"I feel pretty terrible. I'm losing sleep," said Stewart. "It just hurts inside that I can't get to the kids. I can't do what I want to do properly."
In Clark's West Kelowna riding, dozens of parents and their children gathered outside the premier's office to vent their frustration about the strike.
Sarah Neukomm, who helped organize the rally, said both teachers and the government's bargainers need to make concessions so children can get back in class.
Neukomm said the government needed to stop its rhetoric about the unaffordable demands from teachers.
Iker said the teachers' No. 1 priority is getting a guaranteed funding to improve class size, class composition and increasing the number of specialist teachers. Wages and the term of the contract are within distance, in his view.
"We don't want to be out on the line. We would rather be in our schools today," Iker told reporters outside Britannia. "(But) for us to relieve all pressure on government, that's not going to get us a deal."
Queena Zeng anticipated her final year of high school would be fairly stressful, packed with SAT cram sessions and the nerve-racking wait for university acceptance letters.
"Personally, my friends, we feel neglected. We're just here on the sidewalks waiting for something to happen," said Zeng, 17, who should be attending Grade 12 at Steveston-London Secondary School in Richmond.
"Nobody knows the answer and it's tough. People do want to go back to school."
Meanwhile Tuesday, police throughout Metro Vancouver cautioned drivers that school zones remain in effect and it was back to school as usual for private- and independent-school students.
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Recent timeline of the dispute:
June 2013 - A two-year contract for B.C.'s teachers expires.
Sept. 2013 - Teachers start their bid in B.C. Supreme Court to have their contract provisions regarding class-size limits and staffing ratios restored to 2002 levels.
Jan. 2014 - Teachers win court case. Justice Susan Griffin finds the government twice passed unconstitutional legislation aimed at stripping teachers of bargaining rights. Griffin finds the province did not negotiate in good faith during 2012 bargaining, and even tried to provoke a strike.
Feb. 2014 - Province appeals decision, with Peter Fassbender saying it would cost government $1 billion. Government received temporary stay of ruling. Fassbender later emails teachers directly, attempting to explain the government's side.
March 2014 - teachers vote 89 per cent in favour of a strike. Initial government offer was for seven per cent increase over six years, followed by raises tied to inflation for a total of ten years. Teachers wanted 13.5 per cent increase over three years.
May 2014 - Government meets teachers' plan for rotating strikes with wage cuts and a partial lockout.
June 2014 - Teachers lower their wage demands to eight per cent over five years, government offer remains at seven per cent over six. Class size and composition continue to be sticky point in negotiations.
June 10, 2014 - The BCTF says its strike pay fund is running dry. Teachers nevertheless vote 86 per cent in favour of a full-scale strike.
June 17, 2014 - schools close on account of dispute.
June 20, 2014 - Both sides agree to mediation with help from Vince Ready, who initially declines the charge.
July 2, 2014 - Mediator and B.C. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Kelleher cannot bring the two sides together.
July 16, 2014 - Finance Minister Mike de Jong unveils budget surplus then says there is no plan by government to pass back-to-work legislation before start of school year.
July 31, 2014 - province announces $40 a day contingency plan for parents of young schoolchildren should the strike continue past Sept. 2.
Aug. 8, 2014 - the two sides come together for the first time since schools shut down in June. Both sides call for further negotiations over the next few weeks.
Aug. 27, 2014 - Fassbender calls for a two-week "stand down" from strike action once mediation begins.
Aug. 28, 2014 - Ready meets with Fassbender, Jim Iker, the president of the BCTF, and James Cameron, the chief negotiator of the BCPSEA.
Aug. 30, 2014 - Ready walks away from the table with both sides too far apart for mediation.
Sept. 2, 2014 - Scheduled start of the 2014/15 school year.
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Hes a gobshite, but not sure what to make of this comment?If it's true I hope it doesn't cause a rift, had enough of them.https://twitter.com/Joey7Barton/status/924714884817965062
I don't see the point in having a striker to make it stick when he can't score goals anyway.At least Niasse has a knack of scoring terrible goals
That performance from Niasse today showed why Koeman was so keen to ship him out and showed what pretty much everyone thought of him before Koeman came in. He didnt deserve the treatment he got but he is a poor player no way near the standard of a player we should be using.I know he has got a few goals but you cant have a player in the team that has no idea himself what to do in a lot of situations. The shot he had where spannered it wide, the position he was in you have to curl for the top corner he strikes with a technique that sends it away from goal. The cross down in the corner, you are facing away from goal at a tough angle hitting as hard as you can like you are shooting isnt going to do anything other go behind straight away. He did a few of them for Hull cant understand what goes through the head at that point. And that touch when rooney played him in, not even close to be able to get near the ball to do anything with it.DCL is very minimal goal threat and really shouldnt be starting for us but there are no options. Niasse certainly starting games and absolutely on his own is just not possible in my opinion. Touch awful, no awareness and I'd be amazed if the players arent hesitant about giving the ball to him.It is very desperate times that DCL is a regular starter for him and that Niasse is the next option as I dont think either are as good as Enner Valencia and he got ridiculed last season because he wasnt very good either.
Joey Barton slams Everton manager David Unsworthhttp://dailym.ai/2zYFRSbCan someone just do this gobshite.
Ive never really rated Mirallas up top, always thought that option was a non-starter but due to our appauling options and the fact he doesnt offer much from the wing he might be something of a goal threat up top. Not a target, but maybe a through ball from Rooney to Lennon would be up his street. I just dont think this DCL approach can keep going, aside from the game against Man City its so non-effective.Our attacking options must be the worst in the league. Or very close to it. I was even starting to wonder if there are any free agents out there, its that bad.Maybe with Barkley back soon we can do away with Rooney in midfield and have him up top with another.
Niasse was terrible today. He contributed a lot more than DCL though. Least he got himself in positions to fuck it up. The striker situation is beyond laughable. There's been plenty that have moved that would have signed for us that are infinitely better than niasse and DCL. Not players we would have been originally excited by but players who'd at least allow us to field a competent 11
Whenever I've watched a PL game this season I look and think would all the strikers on the pitch get in our team. When I can't find many arguments against Sam Vokes and Benik Afobe getting in our team you know we are in serious trouble in that position!!
Niasse is a turd of a player and Lewin is like having a 14year old playing up front his movement is none and he is bullied all game his hold up play is shite and I don't give a fuck how old he is,he Is dire.
Didnt Sigurdsson spend some time up front for Swansea, might be worth consideration?
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The Bulls fly-half, rated behind the temperamental Ruan Pienaar by the Springbok selectors, drank in the cheers of the crowd at Kings Park after his 31-point haul crushed the All Blacks and broke the Tri-Nations scoring record in the process.
Steyn was assured, precise and ruthless. In short, he was everything that the increasingly ragged All Blacks were not.
Some of the blame must lay at the feet of coach Graham Henry. His blind faith in hooker Andrew Hore is becoming a folly. Hore's first throw went awry in Durban to the surprise of…well, Graham Henry apparently. Last season Hore was a standout as the All Blacks secured the Tri-Nations crown, but he should never have started. His throwing against Australia two weeks ago and last weekend against the Springboks showed a lack of cohesion with line-out caller Isaac Ross, and a maddening lack of confidence. Things snowball.
He got the Shepherd's crook, along with scrum-half Jimmy Cowan, after only three minutes of the second half following his latest skewed throw. This, a far more humiliating exit, should have happened behind the scenes this week.
The rest of the blame lies with the senior players. Richie McCaw, a giant of the game, has been roundly outplayed by Heinrich Brussow in their two Tests. The Crusaders man is not match fit after a long injury, and has not been able to count on any real help. Rodney So'oialo, so long McCaw's back-up, has been off-form since returning and a younger, yet commanding, option in Kieran Read may be considered for future games.
The All Blacks committed the cardinal sin of throwing away possession when they were struggling to come by it. Their set-piece was in ruins, yet wingers Joe Rokocoko and Sitiveni Sivivatu were hurling the ball around inside their own 22 at any available opportunity. Their loose play led to a rash of penalties, eight of which were dispatched by Steyn.
Behind McCaw there is the feeling that the half-back pairing of Cowan and Stephen Donald could be replaced at any time. Cowan didn't enjoy his best game and despite the admirable fighting spirit of Donald, Henry and his coaching staff would have heard the sound of Dan Carter lacing up his boots to play for Canterbury this morning all the way from their team hotel.
Carter, not match-fit by any stretch, might provide the calming hand that the All Blacks require. The Springboks are a team that make contrasts work. Behind the ferocious, powerful pack is the always assured Fourie du Preez, today there was Steyn and in midfield there is the experienced pairing of Jean de Villiers and Jaque Fourie. The calm behind the storm, so to speak.
Carter could be the man to rein in the helter-skelter All Blacks, although his kicking arsenal isn't much use if the ball never comes back from the lineout. In terms of his handling, he showed last season on the All Blacks' Grand Slam tour that he could send Ma'a Nonu into gaps that many would have barely noticed.
He's the complete package, but not a miracle worker, however. He isn't responsible for the set-piece, he can't stop the forwards being outfought at the breakdown and won't provide a much-needed ball-carrying platform. The All Blacks now have two weeks off, and there's plenty of work to do.
From a Springbok perspective, they entertain the Wallabies in Cape Town next weekend. The fact that the All Blacks outmuscled the Australians in the tournament opener bodes well for their fired-up pack, but the men in gold will be all too aware of the need for discipline and more discipline with Steyn standing at No.10.
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Mixing business with pleasure is not uncommon practice in the field of archaeology, as most archaeologists will tell you that they love their jobs. Sometimes, however, an opportunity will present itself so serendipitously that it can hardly be called "work" at all. Such was the case for me on a recent family vacation to Europe, where I came face to face with an important archaeological collection at the British Museum in London.
In June 2013, I accepted my first "real" job out of graduate school as Curator of Collections for the Marco Island Historical Society (MIHS) in Marco Island, Florida. I had finished my M.A. in Museum Studies at the University of Florida (UF) just six months prior, and in the meantime had been teaching an undergraduate anthropology course at UF while working as a Curatorial Assistant in the Anthropology Division at the Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH). My first assignment for the MIHS would be to develop a permanent exhibit on the prehistory of Marco Island for installation in the Marco Island Historical Museum. Needless to say, I had a lot to learn about Marco Island, not to mention life as a museum curator.
For those who are unfamiliar with Marco Island, it's as picturesque as it sounds. The largest of Florida's Ten Thousand Islands, Marco's natural crescent beach and fertile waters make it a hotspot for retirees, vacationers, and fisher folk alike. However, many visitors don't realize that Marco is also home to one of the most famous archaeological sites ever discovered in North America.
In 1895, a retired British military officer named Charles Durnford was tarpon fishing in the area when he was informed of an unusual find in the muck of Key Marco (now Marco Island). Not wanting to miss out on the action, he quickly set sail for Marco to perform his own excavation. It was not long before he too uncovered incredibly well-preserved artifacts made of wood, gourd, and cordage, materials that often do not survive in archaeological sites. Knowing the potential significance of these rare items, Durnford took them all the way to Philadelphia in hopes of conferring with his friend at the University of Pennsylvania, where by chance he encountered Frank Hamilton Cushing. Cushing, a famous anthropologist from the Smithsonian Institution, confirmed the importance of the finds and was duly inspired to make his own visit to Marco. What Cushing found in his subsequent visits (1895 and 1896) is the stuff of legend, an archaeological site so spectacular that it has yet to be replicated in more than 115 years of archaeology in Southwest Florida. Among the finds were painted wooden masks, finely woven nets, fishing floats made of wood and gourd, and beautifully carved wooden figureheads, some of the finest examples of prehistoric Native American art ever discovered. The most famous of these is the "Key Marco cat," now housed in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C. The cat is so well-known that it's been featured on a United States postage stamp (see picture)! For archaeologists and archaeology enthusiasts, the Key Marco site serves as one of best known examples of a "wet site," where biological materials not ordinarily preserved can add greater context to our understanding of prehistoric cultures.
While Durnford's cavalier removal of artifacts from Key Marco would be frowned upon today (i.e., illegal), he had the foresight to not only write up his findings in The American Naturalist (1895), but also to donate the objects to the esteemed British Museum in his home country. The fifteen objects remain there to this day, one of which (a wooden tray) has been on permanent exhibit since 1999 as a representative piece of "the Americas."
As fate would have it, my family had organized a trip to Europe months in advance of my hiring at Marco Island. Not wanting to miss out on a rare opportunity to spend "quality time" with my parents and two sisters (not to mention our first ever family vacation overseas), I informed the MIHS of our plans and they generously allowed me to go ahead with them. The British Museum was already on our itinerary, but with my new interest in the Durnford Collection, I put in a last-minute request to see the objects themselves. Given the short notice and my relative inexperience in the field, I was doubtful that such a request could be honored, but I figured "why not ask?" Perhaps I shouldn't have been surprised when the good folks at the British Museum quickly replied with an enthusiastic "yes," as I've come to realize that people in the museum field often bend over backwards to help a colleague. So it came to pass that on July 4th, a date on which I normally would be celebrating my home country's independence from Great Britain, I stood inside the British Museum's Ethnographic Collection Storage building by the grace of several wonderful and accommodating staff members, thanking my lucky stars (and stripes) to be in Great Britain. It was there that I came face to face with the Durnford Collection, an experience I am unlikely to forget.
The objects themselves are relatively unremarkable, at least when compared to Cushing's finds of 1896. The collection consists of several shell tools, some potsherds, a few wooden float pegs, some highly deteriorated netting and cordage, and several other fragmented wooden artifacts. What struck me almost immediately, however, was that these were the very artifacts that Cushing looked at in 1895, probably in a setting similar to this one (with these same artifacts strewn across a table in a non-descript room), and inspired him to take his now famous expedition to Marco Island. Not only were these fifteen objects an inspiration to Cushing, they basically set off the more than 100 years of stellar archaeology conducted in Southwest Florida since him. As a student and practitioner of both museology and archaeology, everything finally made sense in a way that sitting in a classroom never could. I had gone from the person who preserved artifacts to the person artifacts were preserved for, if only for a few fleeting hours. All those years of wondering "who will ever look at all this stuff?" seemed to wash away and my confidence in my career choice reinvigorated. Given the age of the objects (ca. 500-1500 A.D.), the fact that they had been in collections storage for nearly 117 years, and the understanding that conservation techniques were not what they are now, their condition was remarkably good. For someone who had worked with archaeological materials from Southwest Florida for the better part of five years, the thought that someday, long after I'm gone, someone will be looking at an object or collection of objects that I helped curate and be equally excited and inspired seemed to make it all worth it.
The point of this article, however, is not to boast about my travels or associate myself with a renowned institution like the British Museum; people visit their collections all the time. The point, rather, is to share the inspiration I felt as a professional who can sometimes take for granted the amazing things I get to work with on a daily basis. At this point in my career I am more "museum professional" than "archaeologist," so I'm obliged to advocate for the role that museums play in preserving artifacts that archaeologists uncover. Without museums, objects like those in the Durnford Collection wouldn't be around for new generations of hungry eyes to feast upon. What's more, there will almost certainly be new technologies and methods of analysis for museum collections in the future, much the way that radiocarbon dating didn't exist in 1895. This makes the role of the museum all the more important in archaeology, allowing professionals and amateurs alike the opportunity to interpret and re-interpret the meaning of material culture for centuries to come. As I now try to incorporate what I've learned from the British Museum into the exhibit on Marco Island, I encourage you to think about what artifact or collection of artifacts has inspired you. While it's all just "stuff," so often it's the inspiration for anything from a simple idea or personal revelation to a life's work. Little did the makers of the artifacts discovered by Durnford know that hundreds of years later, their creations would be written about in books and inspiring people from a new locale halfway around the world. So, if you find yourself lacking that personal connection to an artifact (or archaeology in general), I implore you to visit your local museum. Heck, don't just visit it, ask for a tour of the collections. After all, museum people get excited when other people get excited about museums, so as I said before, "why not ask?"; the worst they'll do is say "no," but the best they'll do is change your life!


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International League edges PCL in All-Star Game
RENO, Nev. -- Propelled by a flurry of early runs against Astros prospect Jarred Cosart, the International League defeated the Pacific Coast League, 4-3, in the Triple-A All-Star Game at Aces Ballpark on Wednesday night.
Indianapolis Indians catcher Tony Sanchez rifled a three-run, opposite-field home run that just cleared the right-field wall in the second inning, putting the International League ahead, 4-2 -- a lead that held the rest of the game. Sanchez, who appeared in two games with the Pirates earlier this season, was drafted fourth overall in the 2009 First-Year Player Draft.
"I can't believe it," said Sanchez, who won Top Star honors. "Coming into a game like this, with all the talent, you just don't want to mess it up. You don't expect to get a hit like that."
Cosart, who carried a no-hitter into the seventh inning against the Rays on Friday in his Major League debut, allowed four runs in 1 2/3 innings while walking two and striking out one on Wednesday.
"You kind of expect [strong pitching]," Sanchez said. "You don't expect Cosart to give up those runs in the second inning. The next seven innings were stereotypical of an All-Star Game."
The PCL bullpen did not allow a run the remainder of the game. Highlighted by Cardinals prospect Michael Wacha -- who made three starts earlier this season for St. Louis -- the bullpen allowed just two hits in the final 7 1/3 innings and retired the last 13 batters it faced.
"Lately, I've been focusing on getting the ball down in the zone," said Wacha, who added that it was previously not a priority in his outings.
Similarly, the IL benefited from an effective bullpen after Louisville Bats starter Greg Reynolds, who earned the win, allowed two of the PCL's three runs in the first inning. After the PCL's first three batters reached on singles, two scored before Reynolds settled down to retire the side. The PCL mustered just four hits and one run in the final eight innings.
"They did a great job," said IL manager Dave Miley, who skippers Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. "We were joking in the dugout saying, 'Oh boy" [after the flurry of runs in the first two innings].
"I'm only going by my experience of the Triple-A All-Star Game. [High-scoring games] is how I remember it going down."
Chris Bootcheck of Scranton/Wilkes/Barre was the lone IL reliever to go longer than an inning. He allowed just one baserunner in two innings.
"Bootcheck was the one guy who could give us more than one inning," said Miley, who added that he wanted to use the reliever in the right spot and not stretch the bullpen too thin.
Reds prospect Billy Hamilton wowed fans from the opening at-bat of the contest. He beat out an infield single on a routine ground ball to PCL shortstop Chris Owings. The next pitch, he stole second base with his blazing speed. Hamilton scored two plays later on a groundout by Chris Colabello.
Hamilton's speed is no secret, but his glove also impressed Wednesday. The PCL had runners on first and third with two outs when Hamilton made a diving catch in center field to end the threat in the fourth inning.
Overall, it was a clean effort from both bullpens and defenses.
"That's what you get when you put together an All-Star roster," Sanchez said.
With the victory, the International League improved to 9-7 all-time against the PCL in All-Star Games. Played in front of 10,135 fans at Aces Ballpark in its fifth year of existence, the game featured six of Major League Baseball's top 100 prospects, according to MLB.com.
"I had a blast," said Miley of his first time in Reno. "It was great. They've done a terrific job."


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Report released by Senate Office of Oversight and Outcomes
A new report released Monday blasts the state of California for allowing unscreened sex offenders -- and questionable drug counselors -- to treat addicts.
At least 23 sex offenders, most of them rapists and child molesters, became registered drug counselors in the past eight years.
A new report, released Monday by the Senate Office of Oversight and Outcomes, found that California is one of only two large states that make no attempt to screen drug and alcohol counselors.
"They don't do any criminal background checks," said John Hill, the author of the study. "They don't ask the counselors to report on their criminal histories. And as a result, people with serious criminal backgrounds can become counselors pretty easily -- including 23 registered sex offenders."
There are only seven organizations in California that register and certify counselors.
According to the report, one of the sex offenders was registered with the Breining Institute in Sacramento to work as a drug counselor. A year later, he pleaded guilty to felony drug possession.
Another counselor who registered with Breining, the report said, was arrested for driving under the influence and pleaded no contest to a reduced charge of reckless driving.
KCRA 3 found only a locked door at Breining's counseling office on Cottage Way in Sacramento, even though a sign in the window indicated it should be open on Mondays.
But the report raises overarching questions about a lack of oversight for drug and alcohol counseling in California.
"We found counselors who were revoked as drug and alcohol counselors who kept working," Hill told KCRA 3.
Breining Institite sent KCRA 3 an email response late Monday afternoon.
It said, "Breining Institute has been an advocate of criminal background checks for alcohol and drug counselors, as well as the maintenance of a centralized database for many years, and has been a principle supporter of several attempts to enact these changes through California legislation which have, so far far been rejected."
The report by the Senate Office of Oversight and Outcomes recommends the legislature put the state in charge of credentialing drug and alcohol counselors.


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When it comes to the human body, it doesn't get much more important than the skull! Its main purpose is housing a person's brain and structures of the face, but it's a major injury-protector, too. Teach your kid a bit about this necessary bony structure, with a fill-in-the-blank skull diagram.
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Forget the euro debt crisis; relief might be one ground stroke away, as investors looked for an ace opportunity in a Wimbledon debt racket.
Bad tennis puns aside, the action over the weekend wasn't only on Centre Court. A bizarre 'bond mania' was also the talk of the All-England two-week tourney, in part fueled by a desire for tickets.
The club's 375 members of course get tickets, and the rest are distributed through a lottery system, with demand far outstripping supply.
But what to do if you're not one of the chosen few? Buy their bonds, as each includes a coveted ticket.
The bonds, which according to The Wall Street Journal's Brett Arends have been sold since the 1920s, are used to pay for maintenance and upkeep, as well as larger projects like the recently added retractable roof (the loveably awkward 'sun dance,' traditionally performed by line judges and umpires, will be missed).
Sounds like a win-win, except that the bonds actually pay a negative return. However, while tickets issued to club members and distributed via the lottery are non-transferable, not so for tickets that accompany the bonds' purchase, hence the opportunity for a big payoff. What's more, the potential run-up in ticket prices has driven up the price of the underlying bonds, which Arends notes have recently sold for $66,000 after being issued for $43,000 two years ago: "It's one of the biggest and most bizarre bond manias in the world."
As long as the ravens remain at the Tower, we'll always have England, so little concern about the opportunity to at least use the tickets, but these are strange times indeed. If only the Chicago Cubs could be so clever.


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LITTLE ROCK — The state Board of Education voted unanimously Thursday to return the Dollarway School District to local control after two years of state control.
LITTLE ROCK — The state Board of Education voted unanimously Thursday to return the Dollarway School District to local control after two years of state control.
The board voted to take over the district in June 2012 after it failed to meet accreditation standards for two consecutive years. The superintendent and school board were removed at that time, and state Education Commissioner Tom Kimbrell appointed former Pine Bluff School District Superintendent Frank Anthony as superintendent.
Bobby Acklin, former assistant superintendent of the North Little Rock School District, replaced Anthony last July.
The 1,313-student Dollarway district has met all accreditation standards for the past two years, John Hoy of the state Department of Education told the state board Thursday.
The district was on probation in the 2010-11 school year because of a teacher who taught out of the teacher's area of licensure and in the 2011-12 school year because of irregularities with students' transcripts.
Acklin told the board Thursday that "all of our transcripts are in order."
"There are still challenges," he said. "There probably always will be challenges of keeping good teachers. We seem to be able to get good teachers, but because of our pay structure we are unable to keep them."
Acklin said the high school is in academic distress, but test scores have improved in some areas. He also said that for the first time in seven years, enrollment is not declining.
"Our financial situation is not good, but we're stable," he said.
Acklin also said he hoped that a locally elected school board would let him stay on as superintendent.
"My goal is to retire there," he said.
Board member Diane Zook said she was concerned about allowing the district to elect a local school board only to have the state possibly step in and remove it because of academic distress.
Kimbrell said it is only Dollarway High School, not the entire district, that is in academic distress, and that different options are available to address distressed schools. He also said that since the district had resolved the issues the prompted a state takeover, the state may not have authority to continue controlling it.
"We're not real sure that after two years we really have much legal ground to continue to operate that school district, particularly since we've got a community that really wants to try to prove themselves," he said.
The board also heard appeals Thursday from six school districts that were placed on probation by the Education Department for violating accreditation standards by not teaching all of the 38 courses that districts are required to teach.
The superintendents of the Arkadelphia, Lavaca and Malvern school districts told the board they each used an Advanced Placement course to satisfy a course requirement but failed to notify the department of the substitution. The board granted their appeals.
Cross County Superintendent Carolyn Wilson told the board that "a coding error" caused the district to appear not to be offering all of the required courses. The board granted the appeal.
Drew Central Superintendent Billy Williams said the district was faulted for not meeting its foreign language requirements, but he said the error was corrected in the second semester of the school year. The board denied the appeal.
Wynne Superintendent Carl Easley said the district was faulted for using an AP calculus course to satisfy a course requirement without notifying the department and for failing to meet its math requirements, an error he said the district corrected in the second semester. The board denied the appeal.


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June was, appropriately enough, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month. And while it was the 34th such celebration in New York City commemorating the Stonewall Riots against police harassment in 1969, the community has arguably never had more to celebrate.
On June 26, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Texas "homosexual conduct" law was unconstitutional and overturned the court's 1986 Bowers decision that gave the states the rights to ban consensual adult sexual activity. Earlier in the month, the Ontario high court ruled-effective immediately-that same-sex couples were entitled to marry. The Canadian government decided not to appeal the decision and proposed legislation to equalize marriage rights across the nation.
While these two enormous lesbian and gay rights advances were national and international in scope, they were both connected to advocates who live here in New York. And while New York has made some strides of its own in the 34 years since Stonewall, the sweeping nature of these advances hold the very real prospect of completing the long struggle of gay people toward legal equality here.
The lead attorney in for the plaintiffs in the United States Supreme Court case, Lawrence and Garner v. Texas, was Ruth Harlow of the New York-based Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund. Lambda and the American Civil Liberties Union had chipped away at many state sodomy statutes over the years, including helping to overturn New York's sodomy law in 1980, but those decisions were based on state constitutions, leaving 13 states with sodomy laws, most in the deep South.
It was Kevin Cathcart, the longtime executive director of Lambda, who decided that it was time to bring suit in federal court to challenge the Texas law in an effort to overturn the 1986 Bowers v. Hardwick decision, a 5-4 opinion that held that gay claims to privacy in sexual relations were "facetious, at best." Winning would mean invalidating all the remaining sodomy laws and establishing a foundation in federal law to equal rights for gay people.
Cathcart's judgment paid off in spades with Justice Anthony Kennedy's sweeping decision that we saw announced across the cover of the New York Times the next day in a rare banner headline. (The more conservative New York Post tried to bury the story on page 26.) Professor Arthur Leonard of New York Law School called it "a Magna Carta for gay Americans," in the Gay City News.
Of course, not everyone was thrilled with the decision. Religious conservatives nationwide were said to be "white hot" with fury over the court's move. But local religious conservatives were not nearly so outspoken. Even the New York-based Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, which often speaks out against gay rights measures that it feels will infringe on Catholic rights, did not quibble with decriminalizing private consensual sexual behavior. But their president, William Donahue, told the Daily News, "What happens between two consenting adults behind closed doors is their own business. But it would be a mistake for [gays] to hyperventilate about their next victory."
Justice Antonin Scalia did come close to hyperventilation about the court's majority opinion. In an angry dissent, joined by Chief Justice Rehnquist and Justice Clarence Thomas, he said, "What justification could there possibly be for denying the benefits of marriage to homosexual couples exercising the 'liberty projected by the constitution'?"
Which brings us to the revolution in the Canadian marriage laws. Ontario, and soon the whole nation if Prime Minister Jean Chrétien has his way, is the first place that American same-sex couples can go to get legally married. Holland, which equalized the marriage laws in 2000, and Belgium which just did this past month, have residency requirements. Some gay Americans have already gone just across the border to marry. A forum was scheduled July 2 at 7 PM at New York's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center (208 West 13th Street in Manhattan) to guide New Yorkers in the Canadian process.
New York gay couples have been trying to get the City Clerk to issue them marriage licenses since the early 1970s when the Gay Activists Alliance would stage sit-ins at the Marriage Bureau. But the issue did not accelerate in the world's consciousness until 1996 when New York's Evan Wolfson, then an attorney for Lambda Legal, won the right for two Hawaiian gay couples to marry. That lower court victory was eventually stopped by a referendum in Hawaii, but it led to the Congress enacting the Defense of Marriage Act to ban federal recognition of same-sex marriages and gave the states the right to ban recognition of legal same-sex marriages performed in other states. Thirty-seven states have done so, though no state has recognized same sex marriages. (Vermont has come closest with a civil union law that gives Vermont gay couples the rights of married couples. Eight-five percent of those joined under the law in Vermont are from out of state. They return to their states having to fight for the legitimacy of their relationships.)
New York State is one of thirteen states that has not enacted a ban on the recognition of same-sex marriages. While the state does not have a gender-specific marriage law, the Department of Health interpreted it to limit marriage to a man and a woman. But since New York and every other state have always recognized those married in Canada, it is an open question as to how same-sex couples married in Canada will fare here. There is legislation pending in Albany that would open marriage to gay couples and another bill that would close it.
New York has a legal tradition of recognizing the marriages of couples from elsewhere who were married in a way that New York itself does not perform, such as common law marriages. In a case involving St. Vincent's Hospital in New York, a state judge has allowed a man who had obtained a civil union in Vermont the right to sue over the alleged wrongful death of his spouse (the word used in the Vermont law).
Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has yet to weigh in on how same-sex couples married in Canada should be regarded legally in New York. These couples will be in a bind until the legal issues are resolved. They may incur liability if they represent themselves as married and if they don't. A period of mess and uncertainly is ahead of them, including the fact that they can only divorce if they live in Canada for a year (unless a New York court chooses to dissolve their marriages.)
New York City enacted a law last year recognizing domestic partnerships, civil unions, and same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions, but that has been interpreted to mean that these couples do not have to register as domestic partners here in the city to get the benefits of domestic partnership.
The Supreme Court's ruling in the Texas case, acknowledging the "liberty" rights of gay people, that has given heart to same-sex marriage advocates, even though the majority made clear that it wasn't opening marriage to gay couples. Alan Van Capelle, director of the Empire State Pride Agenda, the New York gay lobby group, told me for Gay City News that the decision "changes the entire landscape in New York. It refocuses us on the marriage issue" which he said "isn't about 'if' but about 'when.'" Only one week before in the wake of the Canada developments, Van Capelle was hedging about the viability of same-sex marriage in New York. But more aggressive groups like Marriage Equality/New York have been pushing it for five years now.
Attorney Evan Wolfson now heads a national group called Freedom to Marry, based in New York, which is aiding state organizations fighting for equal marriage rights. The breakthrough in the United States may come as early as this month in neighboring Massachusetts where gay plaintiffs await the ruling of the state's high court. And a similar New Jersey case, being argued by Lambda, is going through the legal preliminaries there.
While the marriage issue is unresolved in New York, the state did get rid of one of the last vestiges of anti-gay language in its laws last month by dropping the terms "sodomy" and "deviant sexual intercourse" in its rape laws. These terms were not just deemed to be archaic and anti-gay, but stigmatizing for the rape survivor.
And all is not finished in New York City by any means as far as gay advocates are concerned. Speaker Gifford Miller held a press conference in late June to call upon the mayor and governor to get the quasi independent state/city authorities to provide the same kind of domestic partner benefits that are afforded to other city and state employees.
Andy Humm is a former member of the City Commission on Human Rights. He is co-host of the weekly "Gay USA" on Manhattan Neighborhood Network (34 on Time-Warner; 107 on RCN) on Thursdays at 11 PM.


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Rich has been off on holidays this week and we have taken advantage of that to take some long bike rides.
We went on Monday, and boy did we pick a hard trail! There were a lot of sharp inclines, the trail was up and down so much we had to ride our brakes a lot, and we totaled an incline of over 220 feet! Add to that the fact that due to other obligations and such, we hadn't been out in a couple of weeks... let's just say we were plenty worn out when we finally dragged our sorry behinds back to the car (we often drive to a park so we can start at a certain point in a bike trail and explore from there).
Today we went in the morning and we were feeling in much better shape than the other day! lol
We went along the south Platte River and tried out some new pathways there- it is a whole labyrinth of trails. It was sunny but cooler than it has been, a perfect day for riding. We had a glorious time!
The first photo shows the kind of stunning scenery that we ride alongside on this trail. The second photo shows the deck of the place we stopped for lunch; there is actually a little trail built from the bike trail to the Platte Canyon Grill- and they have excellent hamburgers! There were many bikers from the trail there for lunch, it was very cool.


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Data Show More Children Are Growing Up Poor. Now What?
Stark increases in child poverty and other important indicators serve as colossal warning signs that this country needs to think about how a generation of children will be prepared to succeed in life.
On Wednesday, The Annie E. Casey Foundation released its annual KIDS COUNT study, a compilation of child well-being data. And the news isn't good. Despite some positive trends since 2000–including decreasing infant mortality and child and teen death rates, decreasing teen birth rates, fewer high-school drop-outs–other indicators of child well being raise concerns about how the nation's young children are faring.The report analyzed Census data that showed one in five children under 18 lives in poverty. For children under age six, the poverty rate is one in four . Coupled with increasing poverty, KIDS COUNT shows that the Great Recession has had profound effects on the lives of our children:
* 11 percent of children-nearly 8 million children-live with at least one unemployed parent.
* 31 percent of children live in families where no parent has full-time, year-round employment
* 10 percent of children live in single-parent families, and
* 4 percent of children have been affected by the foreclosure crisis.
These are not benign data points. We know from research that children living in poverty are less likely to be successful in school. And the longer a child lives in poverty, the worse their adult outcomes, including employment and earnings. Parental unemployment and single-parent composition are both related household economic instability. It's clear that the recession took its greatest toll on the most vulnerable-those without assets and wealth to fall back on when they lost jobs or lost homes.The question now is what do we do with this data? Will Congress make policy choices that support the unemployed, create jobs and maintain a critical safety net for struggling families? Or will Congress choose to deal with the deficit crisis by requiring the most vulnerable families to continue to shoulder the burden of our economic situation and reduce critical supports for low-income families.
If we do not make policy choices that change the current course, 20 percent of our children will be ill-prepared for school, for careers and for life. That deficit crisis will be more challenging to overcome than our current one.


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From Ubuntu Terminal screen (Applications > Accessories > Terminal), type:
taufanlubis@toshiba:~$ sudo apt-get install foobillard
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Suggested packages:
ttf-larabie-deco ttf-larabie-straight
The following NEW packages will be installed:
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 995kB of archives.
After unpacking 1466kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe foobillard 3.0a-2ubuntu3 [995kB]
Fetched 995kB in 18s (53.2kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package foobillard.
(Reading database … 125585 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking foobillard (from …/foobillard_3.0a-2ubuntu3_i386.deb) …
Setting up foobillard (3.0a-2ubuntu3) …
How to play?
Open Applications > Games > Abuse
Move your Mouse + hold Mouse Left Button for shooting position. You can use ArrowLEFT or ArrowRIGHT too.
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Can solar produce long-lasting jobs?
Climbing to the top of the observation tower above the Agua Caliente Solar Project takes some nerve. Wind gusts up to 35 miles per hour challenge white-knuckle grips on the railing; the grated steel landings shudder underfoot. At three stories, the tower is just high enough to set off alarms in the acrophobic brain. It is not, however, tall enough to take in how much the developer, First Solar, has altered the landscape. "From here, you can only see where we have glass," says Project Manager Tony Puchta, noting the solar modules already positioned on the ground. "But out there -- see that ridge?" He points to a distant rise on the horizon that on its north side disappears into the desert floor. "Right before it ends, that's the far corner of the project," he says. "It's a little over three miles away."
Three-and-a-half miles, actually. When it's finished in 2014, Agua Caliente, near Dateland in Yuma County, Ariz., will occupy 2,400 acres to produce 290 megawatts that will power roughly 225,000 California homes. If an energy source's footprint were all that mattered, solar, at eight to 10 acres per megawatt, would be inferior to just about every other means of generation, including coal (three acres per megawatt) and nuclear (one-half acre per megawatt).
But Agua Caliente is entirely contained within retired agricultural land, and unlike the previous cotton and alfalfa fields, it will use no water at all -- First Solar's panels don't even need washing. And most residents of Dateland back it. When First Solar Vice President Jim Woodruff showed up two years ago for an initial hearing, a storm knocked out power at the school where he'd planned to speak. Residents volunteered labor and trucks, and moved Woodruff's staff, gear and nearly 100 local participants to a gymnasium 35 miles away. The hearing began two hours late but was filled with enthusiastic supporters, Woodruff remembers.
The reason is simple: Solar plants need manpower, and jobs here are scarce. Yuma County's unemployment rate is close to 24 percent -- more than twice the state's average. At the peak of construction, First Solar employed more than 1,600 at Agua Caliente, 600 of whom lived within a 100-mile radius. For a few months last fall, workers drove in posts and installed racking systems; electricians wired underground fiber optics and cables that connect modules with power conversion stations. Surveyors worked to maintain razor-straight rows.
The plant, which put its first 100 megawatts on the grid in April, has since decreased to a labor force of about 500, mostly in construction and management. In 2014, when First Solar hands the keys to NRG Solar, the New Jersey-based company that will manage the plant, only 16 workers will be needed to keep things running.
But Agua Caliente is expected to contribute hundreds of millions of dollars to local and state treasuries in the form of property taxes over the next 25 years or more. And 1,600 jobs are better than nothing, even if they're ephemeral. At the end of 2011, nearly 5,000 Arizonans had jobs in the solar industry, putting the state third behind California and Colorado. Some of those jobs have nothing to do with big solar; they involve installing panels on rooftops. Arizona requires that 30 percent of its renewable energy mix come from nearby sources, so those rooftop jobs might last. But the plant-construction jobs that came in a flurry last year will not.
Gary Dirks, director of the LightWorks solar-technologies initiative at Arizona State University, agrees that the industry is probably not the place to look for improvement in the long-term jobs forecast. "One of the attractions of solar energy is that it just sits there and does what it does," he says. "It doesn't take a lot of maintenance." Then again, neither did the cotton fields. The agricultural operations that survive Arizona's deepening drought have become increasingly mechanized, and at best offer only low-wage seasonal jobs, many of which are gone, never to return. As Dirks points out, "Those jobs turned out to be temporary, too."


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Yusmeiro Petit, of whom you've never heard, ensured his continued obscurity by missing out on a perfect game when on the final out he allowed a hit to the Diamondbacks' Eric Chavez on a 3-2 count.
Petit, making only his third start in the majors this season, pitched one of the most dominating performances seen in the majors this decade; he struck out seven on 95 pitches, and you will probably forget who he is tomorrow.
If he'd managed to strike out Chavez with two outs in the ninth, he'd have become immortal and joined Matt Cain on the list of Giants hurlers to throw perfectos. He didn't, though, and will return to the obscurity that has marked his unrenowned, mostly minor-league career.
His longest tenure in the majors came in 2009, when he went 3-10 with a 5.82 ERA for those same Diamondbacks.


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Sorry, we've been on a mini-vacation of some sort here due mostly to an incredible NFL lull right now. Thanks to several readers for pointing this Kevin Greene news out. Read here from Tom Silverstein for more. Curious that we now will have 2 coaches for the linebackers. Soon, Mason Crosby will have a kicking foot coach and a plant foot coach. Jokes aside, I don't mind bringing in a guy like Kevin Greene. He was a fiery player and I'm hopeful he can help light a fire under some of the players to raise our overall level of intensity.
The biggest question, however, may be: will Greene sport a spectacular mullet as a coach too?


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You've heard of the split-window '67 Corvette Sting Ray coupe, haven't you?
Paul Comeau has. "Since I've been in his hobby for 35 years, everybody always talks about 'This car that my father's brother's best friend's uncle's son had when he was killed in Vietnam,'" he says.
Comeau is owner and proprietor of The Corvette Shop in Montgomery, New York, and the split-window '67 became a challenge to the shop's crew, including Cher Marse (interior and trim specialist), Chris Hummel (body specialist), and Comeau himself. "We decided to build the car that everybody always talks about," he says of the project that resulted in the Deepwater Blue midyear seen here.
As is the case with many Corvette projects, he didn't start with an intact car. Rather, he began with a '63 coupe rear clip that was almost spliced onto a '65 Sting Ray. According to Comeau, a drag racer who'd bought the '65 new drove it for about 9,000 miles, then decided he wanted to make it into a split-window. He cut that car in half but died before completing the conversion. (It remains in two pieces to this day.)
Fast forward to when Comeau came across the long-abandoned project. Not only was the 1965 Sting Ray in pieces, but there wasn't enough of the '63 to build a complete car. What to do?
How about building the Corvette that, as Comeau mentioned above, was "the one everybody talked about"? And, while at it, why not make it like an FSO (Factory Shop Order) car, with anything and everything possible going on it, regardless of whether it was on the Corvette's—or any GM product's—options list?
That meant a GM Performance Parts ZZ4 small-block V-8, backed by a Muncie M-21 close-ratio four-speed gearbox and a 3.36-geared Positraction, for openers. Other chassis features that went on included stock '67 power disc brakes, a modified stock C2 suspension system with a single composite rear leaf spring and gas shocks all around, and a set of Kumho-shod American Racing five-spokes at each corner.
What else? Plenty, says Comeau. "It has more options on it than most people's new cars. It has air conditioning, a 500-watt sound system, back-up camera, touch-screen navigation, power steering, power brakes, power windows, and power seats."
It also has two features at opposite ends of the quietness spectrum. One is a massive blanket of DynoMat thermal/sound insulation—three boxes worth, Comeau notes—and the other is a pair of electronic exhaust dumps. "That's for when you want to block out the Harley next to you," he adds.
Once complete, Comeau had a Sting Ray that combined the classic exterior styling cues of the first and last midyears with all the features Zora Arkus-Duntov wanted to put on the Corvette—and more. He also had one that was quite a driver. "The thing's a joy to drive," he says. "I have an '08 Z06, and this thing's more fun to drive!" He adds, "It doesn't drive like an old car. At 80 miles an hour, you can drive it with one hand on the wheel."
And all this was done without an LS-series engine, or C5-or-later chassis hardware. Comeau says he avoided the later-model hardware for a reason. "Every one of these tube-chassis cars with late-model suspension that I've driven lost something [when] the new hardware went onto the old frame. They ride bad, and they really don't handle all that good."
As for the powerplant, Comeau says, "This engine makes more power than an LS1, and—like an old car—you can fix it by the side of the road with a screwdriver, a hammer, and Vise Grips."
One more reason why he does modified C2 Corvettes this way: cost. "You could price the car $50,000 less by building it this way, [as opposed to] a full-tube-chassis car," says Comeau. "There are a lot more people with $75,000 in their pocket than there are people with $150,000 in their pocket. I usually sell them as fast as I can build them."
By the time you read this, the split-window '67 will likely have a new home. But before then, Comeau took it to a cruise night near his shop. "A guy came up to me there and asked me, 'Is that one of those '67 split-windows? My friend said they made those cars.' I agreed with him and said, 'Yep, that's one of them.'
"I kid you not."
I have an '08 Z06, and this thing's more fun to drive!
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|1967 Chevy Corvette String Ray Coupe
|GM Performance Parts ZZ4 cast iron with four-bolt mains
|350 ci
|GMPP ZZ4 cast aluminum
|GMPP ZZ4 hydraulic roller
|GMPP ZZ4 hypereutectic aluminum
|Compression Ratio
|GMPP ZZ4 forged steel
|Edelbrock Performer RPM cast-aluminum
|Holley 670-cfm Street Avenger four-barrel
|CRT Performance HEI electronic
|Exhaust System
|McJacks "shorty" headers, custom side pipes with electric cut-outs
|Muncie M-21 close-ratio four-speed manual
|Stock Positraction with 3.36 gears
|Stock C2 with Delco gas shocks (front), modified C2 with composite monoleaf spring and Delco gas shocks (rear)
|Restored RPO J50 power discs
|American Racing 2005; 17x7 (front), 17x8 (rear)
|Kumho Ecsta; 225/55R17 (front), 255/50R17 (rear)
|Current Mileage
|2,100 since completion


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Archive of 2011
Revealed: The Thatcherite plan to abandon Liverpool
The Thatcher government briefly considered leaving Liverpool to a period of "managed decline", according to confidential government documents released today.
'Counsel of despair': Miliband offers gloomy new year's message
Ed Miliband has called for "profound change" in Britain to stop the slide into "despair", in a decidedly gloomy new year's message.
Labour shadow minister warns of Tory 'trap'
Labour under Ed Miliband is falling into a Conservative electoral "trap", an opposition frontbencher has warned.
NHS 'let down by weak politicians'
NHS reforms risk distracting health service workers as they struggle to keep their head above water, the head of the NHS Confederation has warned.
'Fanboy' Cameron gets his own iPad app
David Cameron is set to have his own personalised iPad app designed for him, collating government statistics and a live news feed.
New Ofsted boss backs school commissioners
The schools watchdog's new head has called for the introduction of apolitical local education chiefs.
'Big society' benefits from forgotten bank accounts
Money taken from inactive bank accounts is being used by the government to pay for 'big society' projects.
PM's popularity maintained after euro-veto
Conservative party members hold David Cameron in higher esteem than ever after his decision to veto fiscal consolidation plan in Brussels.
New year's resolution? Cameron launches war on alcohol
Drinkers looking to cut down on their intake in the new year will receive some help from the government, after reports emerged of a 'big bang' plan to tackle alcohol consumption in England and Wales.
Wales faces gloomy 2012 outlook
Welsh first minister Carwyn Jones has warned of a "tough" 2012 in his Christmas message.
Council forces Santa to take 'elf and safety course
Santa Claus's Christmas preparations have been disrupted after he was compelled to take a health and safety course by a concerned local council.
Scotland may be handed referendum power
Whitehall officials could give Scotland the power to run its own independence referendum, it has been reported.
Huhne attacks Cameron's EU politics
Britain's interests would have been better defended had David Cameron not decided to leave the centre-right European People's party (EPP) grouping, Chris Huhne has claimed.
Nazi party Tory faces French criminal investigation
The Tory MP who attended a Nazi-themed party at an Alpine ski resort could face jail after French authorities launched a criminal investigation.
Two Met officers dismissed for excessive force
Two Met police officers have been dismissed and another two given written warnings after a complaint of excessive force was upheld.
Govt shamed over solar incentives after high court defeat
MPs have poured scorn on the government's "clumsy" handling of their incentives for solar energy installations, one day after the high court ruled ministers' approach unlawful.
A ray of sunshine at Christmas? UK growth revised up
There was a minor but unexpected bit of good news this morning, as UK economic growth was revised up to 0.6%.
UK breakup risk poses 'enormous challenge'
Britain's future as a united country will be one of the "enormous challenges" faced in the coming years, the outgoing head of the civil service has warned.
John Terry charged with racial abuse
The captain of the England football team will be charged with racially abusing an opponent, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) confirmed today.
Cameron urged to 'prepare ground' for euro collapse
Contingency plans for the collapse of the euro should be talked about more openly to "soften the blow" to the British public, a leading eurosceptic has said.
Phone-hacking 'bog standard' at Mirror
Former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan's phone-hacking denials have been challenged by an ex-journalist at the tabloid.
Lukewarm Cable slaps down 'whingeing' City
Britain will have to negotiate with the EU over a range of rules threatening the City in spite of David Cameron's veto, Vince Cable has warned.
Overnight, the Falklands dispute comes alive
There were intense diplomatic scenes overnight, after a Latin American deal froze a host of British ships from using their national ports in response to the UK's continued ownership of the Falkland Islands.
Default 'yes' for planning proposals under pressure
Contingency plans for the collapse of the euro should be talked about more openly to "soften the blow" to the British public, a leading eurosceptic has said.
'New atmosphere' in public sector pensions talks brings deal closer
The coalition is coming close to claiming outright victory over trade unions after the bare bones of an agreement were reached in marathon talks yesterday.


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The three selectmen, Tom Gray, Bob Srnec and Bob Bridges, were in attendance. Also present, Larry Brown, Les Elder, Nancy Johnson, Bob Naeger, Gail Pennell and Michelle Beauchamp.
The board members acknowledged the passing of Dorothy Provencher, and Laurel Brock. Condolences to their families.
The Milton Mills Library Trustees met with the board to discuss repairs to the library building. There were questions regarding ownership of the building and the board agreed to look into the matter.
There was discussion regarding the use of town vehicles. Selectman Bridges stated he was tired of seeing a cruiser taken approximately 60 miles each way for personal transportation, misuse of town vehicles needs to stop and vehicles should not be taken out of state without the knowledge and permission of the board of selectmen. Selectman Srnec stressed that he did not want to see the command vehicle left at a residence while the driver is at their other job with no access to keys. If the driver is not working in town, then the vehicle needs to be on site (in town) for use by other employees within the department.
VFW Post 8393 will host a program for the oberseranve of Veterans Day, Sunday, November 11 at Veterans Park beginning at 1 pm.
The town office will be closed Monday November 12 in observance of Veterans Day and November 22 and 23 for Thanksgiving Break.
The Friends of the Milton Mills Library are taking orders for wreaths, the deadline for orders is November 14. The prices range from $13 through $25, a decorated Kissing Ball is $28 and 10 yards of garland is $38. Orders to be picked up at Susann Foster Brown Studio on December 1 & 2 from 10 am until 4 pm. For more information 652-4306.
Community Action reports that applications for fuel/electrical assistance are being accepted as well as applications for the holiday program. The holiday program is to help provide food baskets, children's books, winter hats and gloves for children. You must provide 30 days of income for all households members. If self employed you will need your 2010 taxes along with Schedule C. Rental form filled out or lease. Social Security numbers for all household members. If you have been receiving assistance from your local town welfare you need to being proof. Holiday food baskets will be distributed from the Milton Head Start Center. For more information regarding the Holiday Program call Janette Plaisted, community project coordinator, at 603-516-8146.
Misuse of town vehicles discussed by selectmen
The three selectmen, Tom Gray, Bob Srnec and Bob Bridges, were in attendance. Also present, Larry Brown, Les Elder, Nancy Johnson, Bob Naeger, Gail Pennell and Michelle Beauchamp.


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Advanced alien civilizations could be out there, but currently we are searching for the wrong signs of life. Richard Carrigan of Fermilab contends that we should try looking for the telltale signs of massive star engines.
In his recent paper "Starry Messages: Searching for Signatures of Interstellar Archaeology," Carrigan - who is a physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory outside of Chicago - suggests that listening for radio signals ala SETI may not yield the close encounters we're looking for. He proposes that skywatchers search for possible industrial and refuse products from spacefaring civilizations. This means inspecting the night sky for light and nuclear pollutants as well as massive solar engines known as Dyson spheres:
The Dyson sphere conjecture speculates that a planet could be purposely broken up to form a heat absorbing shield around a star to provide more useful energy. One fanciful model of a Dyson sphere would be a star enclosed in a shroud of solar-cell calculator chips.
How would we notice a Dyson sphere? Well, for starters, they're pretty damn big.
The mass of a Jupiter-scale Dyson sphere would be 2*10^27 kg. Earth's biomass is in the 10^15 kg range. The largest ocean liner is 1.5*10^8 kg while the immobile Great Wall of China is on the order of 10^12 kg and took 2500 years to build. The International Space Station weighs 2*10^5 kg so that it is a factor of ten billion trillion smaller than a Jupiter-class Dyson sphere. In short, a Dyson sphere is a large object!
Even though the sphere would collect a star's light, there's a chance we could still gauge the infrared light. Here is Carrigan's original paper. New Scientist has a nifty breakdown of Carrigan's ET-finding methods.


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Keep your dog safe by following City laws and properly using collars, and training aids
Collar size
Minneapolis Animal Care & Control handles a lot of cases where an owner gets a new puppy and keeps the animal outside. Either because the person doesn't interact frequently with the growing dog or because of common neglect, the collar becomes too tight and begins to cut into the dog's neck. Each year, MACC officers must remove animals from homes when a dog's collar has become embedded in its neck and must be surgically removed. Not only is the dog taken away, but the owner is subject to an investigation and criminal charges of neglect.
The solution
Please test your pet's collar periodically and prevent this form of abuse. You should be able to slip two fingers easily under the collar of the dog. Some pet owners have pets with thick necks and keep the collar snug so it doesn't slip off. If this is the case, a harness should be used instead of a collar. A harness secures your dog's body instead of its head, so a thick neck isn't an issue.
Choke chains vs. collars
Some people keep their pet in a choke chain instead of a collar. Choke chains and other training aids are only to be used when you are actively training the animal.
A pet that is left alone wearing a choke chain is in real danger of choking to death. If a dog becomes entangled or catches the collar on something, its overriding instinct is to pull away. This will tighten a choke chain and can make the dog choke itself. In some cases, the dog will lose consciousness and stop pulling, allowing the chain to relax and the dog to catch its breath and survive. Unfortunately, we often see dogs that have died from jumping over an obstacle or catching the choke chain or pinch collar. These animals struggle until they suffocate and die.
The solution
Use a collar or a harness instead when leaving the dog tied up outside. Only use a choke chain or a training collar when you are holding on to the end of the leash. (Even when you are training a dog, consider a pull collar such as a "Gentle Leader." These collars are extremely effective and they are humane.)
Leaving Your Dog Outside
Remember that dogs are social animals and need companionship. Using ropes, chains or any form of a tether and leaving a dog alone outside can make for an unsociable or destructive dog.
It is also against City Ordinance to leave a dog tethered outside when no one is home. Tethers also must not be over five (5) pounds in weight and must be at least three (3) times the length of the dog as well as allow the dog to reach proper shelter from the elements.
Dogs can only be tethered on the private, residential property of their owner; they cannot be tethered outside a business or public space for any amount of time. Dogs tethered on their owner's property cannot be able to reach public property such as sidewalks, or alleys.
The solution
If you need to put your dog outside, please make sure you understand the ordinance section below and other laws such as State Statute 343.40 Doghouses, which specifies the requirements for a doghouse and 343.29 Exposure of Animals, which requires protection for an animal from weather that could threaten its health.
Please contact Minneapolis Animal Care & Control at 311 or (612) 673-3000 if you need any help or guidance in clarifying the rules and regulations about pets.
Last updated Dec 13, 2018


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