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Details emerge about man at center of Ala standoff
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Police and emergency personnel remain on site at the property of Jimmy Lee Sykes, a suspect accused of holding a 5-year-old boy hostage in an underground bunker on Saturday Feb. 2, 2013 in Midland City, Ala. Negotiators were still trying to persuade Jimmy Lee Dykes to surrender. Police have said they believe the Lee Dykes, a Vietnam-era veteran, fatally shot a school bus driver Tuesday, and then abducted the boy from the bus and disappeared into the home-made bunker. (AP Photo/al.com, Joe Songer)


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Avocado is a mild-flavored fruit that is native to Central America. It is a large fruit with a single seed. It has green skin and is usually egg-shaped, pear-shaped, or spherical. It is grown across the globe in tropical and Mediterranean climates. It is also called as alligator pear and as butter pear because it has oily (fatty) flesh. Avocados are available throughout the year. Mexico is the largest producer of avocado. It is highly rich in nutrients.
Publisher's analysts forecast the global avocado oil market to grow at a CAGR of 13.32% during the period 2017-2021.
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text: It's not too soon to reach out to our US Representatives in Washington and ask for their support. I have all their Washington phone numbers at my fingertips. Just let me know the name and I can provide you with their Washington phone number. Or feel free to email them through their websites. It would be most helpful if your Rep is one on the Transportation Committee. Let know if you need to know that information as well. I have them on a separate list - so easy to find. Again it's House Bill # HR 619THANKS for your help.


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Prism Education Series- Transgender Inclusion 101 at Eye Care Centre
Trans Inclusion 101- With Kelendria Nation & Nikki Zawadzki
In the session, we will focus on developing skills to welcome and support trans and gender diverse individuals in a variety of social service and healthcare settings. The goal of this session is to increase safety and access to services for trans and gender diverse individuals, in order to promote health and wellness.
Target audience: Nurses, physicians, social workers, counsellors, mental health and addiction workers, housing workers, outreach teams, shelter staff, etc. In addition, we strongly encourage managers, supervisors, directors and administrative/support staff to attend. Students and volunteers working in the health and social service field are also welcome.
*This session is free of charge, but registration is required. Please cancel your registration if you are unable to attend as we have a wait list.
Note to VCH and other health authority employees: Register through Learning Hub to have the workshop credited in your employee file - https://learninghub.phsa.ca/Courses/17406/transgender-inclusion-101
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-the difference between gender identity and sexual orientation
-language & key concepts relating to trans people
-what transition may involve & issues unique to trans individuals
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The ground is still rumbling from aftershocks of the June 23 UK referendum to exit the European Union (EU), leaving many more questions than answers. But an FTI Consulting survey conducted immediately after the Brexit vote makes one thing clear: global institutional investors are deeply concerned about the effects on the UK and EU.
FTI surveyed 100 institutional investors from around the world that are managing portfolios with a collected value of $8 trillion and found a majority believe that the UK and EU economies will be harmed as a result of the UK following through with Brexit. More than two-thirds (67 percent) expect Brexit will trigger a recession, while 98 percent foresee economic conditions worsening immediately. There was a glimmer of long-term optimism, however: 64 percent of respondents said economic conditions would on balance be better after 5 or more years.
When asked about the impact on specific EU countries, 71 percent of institutional investors believe France will be harmed (considered the most vulnerable) and closely followed by Germany with 64 percent. Although 40 percent expected Ireland to be harmed, the silver lining for them is that 18 percent actually thought they would benefit. Respondents believe the impact will be relatively contained to Western Europe—only 4 percent said North America will be harmed, while 7 percent mentioned Asia.
Given the unpredictability of the fallout, FTI's advice to concerned investors is to remain engaged, stay updated on the current state of play and to be nimble in adjusting to changing market forces.
Indeed, the institutional investors surveyed are being nimble. More than three-quarters (78 percent) have already realigned their investment portfolios while almost half (46 percent) have moved towards safeguarded investments. Another 46 percent are making moves to take advantage of volatility with 25 percent claiming to have benefitted from the moment.
Though the exact exit date is yet to be determined and even the question of whether the UK will actually leave the EU is still up the air, the threat of a Brexit will likely continue to rumble throughout Western Europe for some time. The infographic below, drawn from the FTI Consulting survey, provides a look at investors' thinking in 10 strategic areas related to Brexit.


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UK gossips are reporting that Geri Halliwell and Russell Brand are dating. According to the Sun, they got on really well at the Closing Ceremony at the Olympics -- so much that he dumped girlfriend (of a few weeks) Isabella Brewster to spend more time with Geri in London. The two have been seen walking around the city, holding hands, and her daughter appears to be comfortable with him too. Supposedly the two are "very serious" already.
Here are my assumptions, based only on what I'm reading in the papers:
Brand marries a performer. She's young. It doesn't work out. He then dates a woman who prefers the background, not a performer but an agent and much lower maintenance. Now though... he's with another performer. So... the man prefers his women dramatic? You could say he gets off on the ones who want the spotlight and the rush that comes with it. For our purposes then, I like it. There's a lot of explosive smutty potential in these two...to say nothing of how Katy Perry will deal.
Attached - Brand with the Spice Girls at the Closing Ceremony and Geri out at a meeting last week.


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Managing the network with Cfengine
Maintaining a Service
Suppose I want to use Cfengine to install and configure Apache httpd. In fact, I will even build httpd from source so the solution will be portable across many distributions and platforms. In a production environment, I would hesitate to have servers compile their own software. If I truly needed to build from source, I would most likely build a custom package and then distribute that. However, the use of cf-agent to build from source directly offers a nice (cross-platform) way to display some of the available features.
First, download the Apache source into the Cfengine repository [3].
Rather than configuring the client to download the source from the Internet, it is better to cache the source code locally, so you are not dependent on external resources. Just put the tarball in /srv/cf-serverd/inputs on PolicyServer (in a subdirectory for good organization), then let the update bundle take care of distributing it.
Create a new file to store all the httpd-related code – say, web_server.cf. This file needs to be added to inputs in promises.cf, and any bundles contained within it to bundlesequence. The first step is to create a bundle with some variables that can be re-used by other bundles. A bundle of type common can be consumed by any Cfengine component and need not be listed in bundlesequence. Each bundle has its own scope, and variables from a foreign bundle can be accessed with the interpolation form ${bundlename.variable}. So, the code in Listing 5 allows other bundles to make use of, for example, ${httpd.conf}, which will evaluate to the full path.
Listing 5
The common Bundle
Particular promises, such as commands, files, or reports, often have parameters that determine the nature of the promise. The appropriate key/value pairs follow the promise. For example, consider the following promise:
processes: any:: "cf-execd" restart_class => "start_cfexecd";
This promise has a parameter called restart_class that takes a string value for its right-hand side. (In this case, that string will become a defined class if no cf-execd processes are running.) Some parameters take external bodies for their right-hand side. The use of an external body allows multiple key/value pairs and further parameterization, which allows reuse. To make the concept concrete, consider the example that I will soon use to compile Apache. The following body, which takes one argument, allows me to run commands in a particular directory and without a shell:
body contain cd(dir) { useshell => "false"; chdir => "${dir}"; }
Such bodies can be stored in any Cfengine input file, but because they are often general and can be reused by many promises, it makes sense to keep them in their own file, which I will call library.cf. If you have not already done so, put this cd body in library.cf and add it to the bundlesequence in promises.cf. Remember, when changing such an external body later, you might be affecting numerous active promises, so it makes sense to treat them with the care afforded to any shared resource.
In Cfengine, a class is a boolean condition meant to represent some aspect of the system state, be that state an operating system or the time of day. Many classes are defined automatically by cf-agent, and you can define others from the return values of programs and by other means. Any promises following a class expression (strings ending with ::) are only enforced when the class is true. For example, read
bundle agent a { reports: linux:: "asdf"; }
as "print asdf if the class linux is defined." As it happens, cf-agent automatically defines the class linux on Linux nodes. The special class any has been used several times already; this class is always true. It is often used, even when not strictly necessary, to maintain correct indentation. By running cf-agent -pv (this will not execute policy code, so it is always safe), you can see all the automatically defined classes. On one of my test nodes, some of the automatically defined classes are: 64_bit, Friday, debian_4, and xen.
Apache Example
Listing 6 shows the bundle that will unpack, compile, and install Apache. On most systems, the special predefined variable sys.workdir will resolve to /var/cfengine, which essentially says: Test to see whether the software is installed by checking for a particular file (more precise heuristics could be devised); if not, build the program with the standard untar, configure, make, and make install procedure as usual.
Listing 6
Setting Up Apache
Many server applications come with configuration files that must be in place before a complete service is deployed. In this case, I will configure Apache to allow server-info and server-status requests. This requires editing two different configuration files. Cfengine 3 includes four types of promises that reside in special external edit_lines bundles – delete_lines, replace_patterns, field_edits, and insert_lines – and support additional parameters.
With these promises, you can set configuration variables, comment out key lines, and maintain configuration files. Before you can use edit_lines in a "files" promise, you need to create some edit_lines bundles. Think of these edit_lines bundles as custom-made editfiles functions; they are usually general enough to re-use over many components. Two that I will make use of are DeleteLinesContaining and ReplaceAll. If you are following the file organization I have been using so far, it makes sense to put these in the library.cf file with other shared bodies (Listing 7). As you can see, they have pretty much the same structure as other bundles, and they can be parameterized as well.
Listing 7
In addition, I need a way to define a class that, if I edit any files, lets me trigger a service restart later:
body classes DefineIfChanged(class) { promise_repaired => { "${class}" }; }
Once I have all these components in place, I can tell cf-agent to use them to edit the config files; in this case, I need to uncomment the httpd-info line in httpd.conf and remove the access control from httpd-info.conf (Listing 8).
Listing 8
If you need a way to keep an eye out for the web server process – to restart it if it is not running – create another bundle, or simply add the promises in Listing 9.
Listing 9
The code in Listing 9 wraps the process detection with a class so I am sure the web server is running on nodes that have a web server installed.
For even greater reliability, you might want to create a functional test – that is, a test that queries the service. In this case, you need to fetch some data from port 80 and make sure it is the data you expect.
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and machining; new free version for students also available now
GUANGZHOU, China — (BUSINESS WIRE) — February 27, 2012 — ZWSOFT, a leading supplier of 2D and 3D CAD/CAM solutions to the AEC and MCAD industries, today at its 2012 global partner conference officially released the English version of its ZW3D 2012 design software for computer-aided design and computer-aided machining.
At the same time, the company also announced its free ZW3D Student Edition and education community site for students and educators.
New Features & Improvements
- Enhanced User Interface offers all-new ribbon interface, right-click menus, customizable UI, faster display, and more. Simplified design processes provide customers with a way to customize the interface and so suit ZW3D to the way they work.
- Refined Modeling builds on upgraded direct editing, enhanced extrusions and revolves, smart ribs, and adds new functions for sheet metal design. Intuitive direct editing allows customers to select edges and surfaces directly, then drag them to edit.
- New Start-to-Part Process for Mold Design offers parting lines and faces, cores and cavities, mold bases, electrodes, and more. The brand-new mold design module gives customers the ability to semi-automate the design of molds directly from ZW3D models.
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Beginning today, students will be able to create, model, and edit great 3D design projects with ZW3D for free. The new ZW3D Student Edition provides all the CAD/CAM features from the Premium Edition, including advanced 3D modeling, mold design, and CNC machining.
To obtain free licenses of ZW3D Student Edition, students can go to the ZWSOFT Student Community website at www.zwsoft.com/en/student, and then register with a valid .edu email address.
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Starting at a price of just US$1,500, ZW3D 2012 is available in five editions to satisfy the differing needs of commercial users. For basic users, ZW3D Standard is meant for product design; ZW3D Professional adds mold design; ZW3D 2X Machining is for basic CAD and two-axis machine; ZW3D 3X Machining for three-axis machining, as well as for basic CAD; and ZW3D Premium is for all-in-one CAD/CAM modeling with 2-3X machining.
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Continental powerhouseWritten by William C. Vantuono, Editor-in-Chief
GWI expects to bring in 2013 revenue of $1.6 billion, not bad for a company that went public in 1996 with a mere $78 million in revenue, especially when one considers the 20% compound annual revenue growth through 2013. The personal injury frequency rate at the end of 2012 stood at an industry-best of 0.48 injuries per 200,000 hours worked, besting all Class I's (1.0) and all Class II and III roads (3.1). Since 2006, through November 2012, personal injuries are down 73%, grade crossing accidents are down 55%, and derailments have decreased 62%.
Timely acquisitions have been a key driver of GWI's phenomenal growth, and the 2012 RailAmerica transaction was the latest and greatest. It will double GWI's North American revenue stream to $1.3 billion, 80% of the worldwide total. In the bargain, GWI became the world's largest operator of Class II and III railroads and the only publicly traded one at that.
Of course, running such a far-flung enterprise doesn't come cheap. GWI revenues for 2012 were $875 million with a maintenance capital budget of $97 million, 11% of revenue (about 30% less than the current Class I capex run rate). And for 2013, with the RailAmerica properties now in-house, maintenance and project capex is slated to be in the $162 million range, about 10% of revenue.
But that's not the whole picture. The 2013 capex program also includes some $110 million of government grants, of which GWI must pay $20 million in grant-matching spend, something unique to the short line environment and which the Class I's don't see. These grants take many forms, from Maine's Industrial Freight Access Program and Pennsylvania's Rail Freight Assistance Program to federal TIGER grants. Finally, GWI expects to spend $73 million of capital associated with new business wins, primarily in Australia, where it will be used to support the growth of an iron ore customer.
The Genesee & Wyoming operation in North America is unique. For a railroad, it is highly decentralized. The nine Regional Senior Vice Presidents run their own shows for everything from business development, marketing, and customer support to track maintenance, locomotive fleet deployment, and operating plans. To see how it all fits with a capital plan that calls for new locomotives, upgraded track, and a payroll of 4,600, last month Railway Age called on CEO Jack Hellmann and Chief Operating Officer Dave Brown at Genesee & Wyoming world headquarters in Greenwich, Conn.
Railway Age: Jack, let's start out with a general description of GWI operations. You've mentioned before that Australia is the fastest-growing part of the company. Care to elaborate?
Jack Hellmann: We think of Australia as 20% of our business and the fastest-growing part of the company due to our shipments of commodities such as iron ore, copper, and manganese that are destined for Asia—China in particular. Australia used to be a third of our business; however, the RailAmerica transaction has caused the shift. The Australian properties have very different capital demands, principally because we have been making significant investments in equipment to support new mines and enhance the reliability of our intermodal service.
RA: What about track ownership? I've read that Australia has a unique open-access system where various entities own the track and train operators pay for operating rights.
JH: We've succeeded in Australia by owning most of the track we use, essentially having replicated the North American model. We've generally invested where we could own both above-rail and below-rail. We run on more than 2,000 route-miles where we own everything and are also able to operate over thousands of additional track-miles with an access fee. The backbone of our Australian track is the 1,400 mile Tarcoola-Darwin line that we bought out of the FreightLink bankruptcy in 2010. Add it all up and we're maintaining and capitalizing capacity expansions on some 2,200 route-miles of railroad.
RA: In the U.S., it costs maybe $5,000 a mile to keep 25-mph track up to FRA specs. Is there a similar analogy in Australia? How about slow orders and the various track gauges?
JH: Your $5,000 number is OK for light-density, short-haul, short-train moves, but Down Under we have a high concentration of large unit trains that move nonstop from origin to destination, making that number a bit light. As for gauges, yes, we have three, but the vast majority is standard gauge. Narrow gauge is limited to perhaps 300 miles of owned-track where we haul grain and gypsum, and we also operate over customer-owned narrow gauge track to several iron ore mines. Meanwhile, broad gauge is a rounding error and has become increasingly less important over our 16 years of doing business in Australia.
Dave Brown: We've also changed our track maintenance model. We had been doing inspections with our employees and then contracting-out track maintenance in Australia, but now we've brought our day-to-day maintenance work in-house. With the owned-track model, we believe it is safer and improves reliability and efficiency to do our own work. For large projects and capital maintenance, we contract with suppliers as needed.
RA: How does the traffic mix differ between Australia and North America?
DB: They are very different. In North America, we're predominantly a single-car shipment railroad where car ownership can be the customer, a leasing company, or a railroad, and mixed freights are the dominant model. Australia, on the other hand, is mainly the intermodal and unit train model with commodities concentrated in grain, metals and minerals plus intermodal.
RA: What about ownership of rolling stock—cars (or wagons as they're called in Australia) and locomotives?
JH: We see essentially three scenarios. For some customers, we own the entire trainset, locomotives and cars, and provide service under long-term contracts. For other customers—a start-up mine, for example—we may only own the locomotives while the customer provides the cars. And finally, we may have shorter-term customers where we may provide none of the equipment and simply offer track access. At the end of the day we're not in the car ownership business unless we want to be. Purpose-built cars are not fungible; locomotives are. So the extent to which we get into the car business it will be a function of the customer relationship, the commodity mix, the potential for a long-term income stream, and our being comfortable with the credit risk.
RA: Let's shift our attention to your operations in North America. (We'll omit Europe because it's a relatively limited switching operation in the Netherlands and Belgium where your capital exposure is relatively slight.) You now, with the addition of the former RailAmerica railroads, have 101 names in the U.S. and 7 in Canada. We've spoken often over the years about owned vs. leased power and now you find yourself with owned GWI units and leased RailAmerica units. How do you merge the combined fleets?
JH: We're continuing with our preference to own our power. For financial reasons and for operational reasons, Genesee & Wyoming roads rarely lease power. Overall, owing the units gives us more flexibility to change out power as service requirements change and also incentivizes maintenance of what we own for the long run. As a result, you should expect that we will buy out the leases of the RailAmerica units that fit our system fleet requirements and will turn back to the lessors those that don't.
DB: Thanks to our strong regional organization, our local managers have historically pretty much decided what locomotives they needed to do the job. Now, however, with twice as many railroad names, we have to be a lot more nimble in locomotive acquisitions and assignments. We've just hired our first system-wide Chief Mechanical Officer, Rich Regan, to help us sort out what we're getting from RailAmerica and how best to merge the two fleets.
Rich has found over the years that owned locomotives tend to receive "a little higher standard of maintenance" because of pride of ownership. In our business, locomotive reliability is vitally important—we can't afford to have extra resources sitting around "just in case." So, the great job our mechanical team does with locomotives is the key to service reliability precisely because we have an owned fleet we can count on. Best of all, shop crews take much greater ownership of their work when they have their own power. You'll note, for example, that all our locomotives are painted in orange and black with the line's initials worked into the corporate logo. I really believe a painted loco runs better because somebody cares.
RA: As you merge the two fleets, are you looking to standardize by loco type or manufacturer?
DB: Let me say right off that the SD40 is a great locomotive for most of our short lines. Now, you can't run six-axle power everywhere, so we will keep a basic fleet of four-axle locomotives as well. We have about 1,000 units, roughly a quarter of what each of the eastern Class I's have, to put things in perspective. We're essentially an EMD shop with many units upgraded to Dash-2 standards and some that have been repowered or rebuilt—and we have in our strategic plan to upgrade those that need it. We've also inherited some genset locomotives from RailAmerica's operations—such as in San Diego, Northern California, the San Joaquin Valley, and Dallas—though, like the rest of the industry, we're seeing mixed results from them because of reliability challenges.
As an aside, I ought to mention we're getting new GE power in Australia. Over the past couple of years, we've probably invested about $150 million split evenly EMD/GE, but in Australia that doesn't go very far. We call Australia "The Land of 2X"—everything costs twice as much. These new units are unique and run $4-$5 million per locomotive, partly because they have to be customized for lighter track loading and some were remanufactured for narrow-gauge operations.
RA: What about PTC?
JH: We don't have a large exposure because of where we operate. It's really a non-issue for freight-only operations where there is limited TIH exposure, for example. On those few lines where we have co-mingled traffic (Oregon, for instance), the passenger authority will fund the requisite PTC infrastructure to protect their trains. [Note: PTC could put some short lines out of business because of the magnitude of the expense. On non-microprocessor first-generation power, the cost of adding PTC can easily run more than the unit's scrap value—RHB.]
RA: So the power you're getting from RailAmerica will be sorted out according to need with additions and deletions as required. How about track condition?
DB: RailAmerica did a good job of maintaining track to the level required for the service. If 10 mph would do, that's what they did. We're the same way. And now that we're twice the size, we're adding a Corporate Chief Engineer, Scott Linn, to oversee track expenditures and capital programs and to coordinate them with the regions. As a result, each Regional Senior Vice President now has a corporate overseer for best practices—a consultant, if you will, who can spread the good ideas around, among and between individual railroads.
In our contiguous model, all our regions are comprised of lines that in a few cases physically connect but in most cases are reasonably nearby. This supports very nicely our desire to centralize purchasing. As you might expect, buying in bulk yields certain economies, so having one purchasing department—reporting to me—lets us leverage our 108 North American railroads' purchases to good advantage.
Track speed is key to all our infrastructure capital expenditures. For example, our $17 million Arizona Eastern project is raising track speed, resulting in a redesigned, improved, and more reliable service plan, in turn resulting in higher traffic levels as the improved service encourages our principal customer to put more business on the rails. It's a classic case study of how the short line industry has matured: better track, improved locomotive reliability, faster transit times, and lowered supply chain expense for the beneficial owners of what's in the cars.
Reliable infrastructure and locomotives give us the means to run to plan. Even on a short line, time is money and doing things the same way every day is crucial to the success of the organization. On-time is on-time, not on-time plus two hours because if that's your measure, trains will run to that. We're taking down the interval between interchange-on and interchange-off and have even developed our own report card to keep our connecting Class I's apprised of our progress.
Our regional managers have zeroed in on equipment rents. They know exactly what their car costs are and when cars have to be back at the interchange. Controlling car-days is crucial to short lines; one more day's car hire is a big deal. Good track, good power and running to plan save money as well. That's why we're putting this kind of money into our 2013 capital plan.
JH: Our track infrastructure has never been in better shape. We have strong cash flow from operations to fund our own program maintenance and capital programs. In addition, "external" funds such as government grants and the 45G short line tax credit give us the opportunity to accelerate track programs to the benefit of all our constituents.
RA: Our conversation would not be complete without a nod to your continuous record of successive safety improvements. How do you do it?
JH: Our number one priority each day is to ensure that our 4,600 employees are getting home safely to their families and loved ones. Our success has been based on a culture where all of our people know that we are completely committed to a zero-injury environment. Our people are intently focused on taking care of themselves and taking care of each other. The fact that we're planning to spend $345 million (including the previously mentioned government grants and the new Australian project) on gross capital investment this year also underscores our long-term commitment to our people, our railroads, and our customers.


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Tutoring Firms Hit Hard by NCLB Waivers
The private tutoring industry, which has flourished under the No Child Left Behind Act, has been hit hard by federal waivers that have eased key provisions of the law.
Those waivers, granted by the U.S. Department of Education to most states and a group of California districts, allow school systems to avoid the NCLB mandate that they use 20 percent of Title I funds for after-school tutoring and transportation for school choice to eligible students.
Many for-profit providers of the tutoring, known in the NCLB law as supplemental education services, have had to pursue new K-12 revenue streams, or even close their doors, as federal funding funneled through affected school districts is being reallocated for other purposes.
At its peak several years ago, tutoring services were provided by about 2,500 companies and other organizations that had received state approval to work with students, using money allocated to improve students' academic performance, according to Steve Pines, the president of the Education Industry Association, based in Vienna, Va.
Today, he estimates, the number of providers has dropped by 50 percent.
In its heyday, "SES was the rocket fuel that helped ignite a new wave of entrepreneurism," Mr. Pines said, noting that about half of the state-approved providers are businesses. Others are a mix of districts and community- and faith-based groups.
The earmarking of SES funding was "a very good thing for the industry, and the kids who before didn't have the benefit of those services," he said.
But when Title I dollars started to be freed up after the first waivers were granted in February 2012, SES providers ranging from large, publicly held companies to small "mom-and-pops" needed to adjust.
"The marketplace spoke. It said the strong and agile will survive, and others, unfortunately, have not," Mr. Pines said.
The latest bad news for the SES industry came Aug. 6, when eight school districts in California, representing an estimated 50,000 students eligible for tutoring, received a one-year NCLB waiver from the U.S. Department of Education. The districts, collaborating as the California Office to Reform Education, or CORE, now have the authority to decide how to spend up to $150 million in funding, some of which had been earmarked for supplemental education services.
As of Aug. 15, the Long Beach, Los Angeles, Oakland, Sacramento, and Sanger districts plan to discontinue paying providers for after-school tutoring programs, according to Hilary McLean, a spokeswoman for CORE.
Already, 40 states and the District of Columbia have received NCLB waivers. Maine, the most recent state, was granted its waiver last week. An Education Week analysis showed that very few states included supplemental education in their waiver plans.
In the Sacramento school system, where the waiver freed $3.1 million in funding from having to be spent on SES, Superintendent Jonathan P. Raymond said gaining that flexibility was "our hope and desire from day one." His complaints with the SES system: "A general sense of poor accountability for student outcomes, a lack of oversight, an inability to have any real role in the selection process [for providers], and no alignment with what our children are learning during the day."
Mr. Raymond plans to consult with educators, students, parents, and providers about how to boost student achievement. He does not rule out contracting with outside tutoring services. "But the rules of engagement will be different," he said. "We get to decide who we're going to work with, when we're going to work with them, and how."
The American Association of School Administrators wants Congress to reauthorize NCLB and has opposed waivers. But Noelle M. Ellerson, the assistant director of policy analysis and advocacy for the Alexandria, Va.-based organization, also said the waiver process is giving districts the flexibility to make spending decisions that best suit their needs. The association plans to closely monitor how the waivers influences' districts Title I spending decisions.
For many districts, "that 20 percent set-aside and mandate for SES is problematic," she said.
The SES bust unfolding across the country contrasts sharply with the boom that occurred after No Child Left Behind was signed into law in 2002. Funds available for the tutoring services grew 45 percent from 2001 to 2005, according to author Patricia Burch, who published those statistics in her 2009 book, Hidden Markets: The New Education Privatization. She said more recent statistics have not been compiled.
Market Adjustments
Providing SES is one of the interventions required when schools consistently fail to make adequate yearly progress under NCLB. The mandate is one of the prime drivers prompting states to seek the waivers, particularly since districts received no money to oversee providers' out-of-school practices.
The services can be delivered by a tutor, online, or in a blended approach that combines online and in-person instruction. A formula determines the annual amount a child in a given district can receive. For example, a student who is eligible to receive $1,800 worth of tutoring in a given year will get three times as many sessions from a provider charging $30 an hour than from a provider charging $90.
That difference is significant, because ongoing federally financed studies of SES in five large districts concluded that students, under optimum conditions, can show academic gains with about 40 hours of tutoring, according to research by principal investigator Carolyn Heinrich, a professor of public affairs and economics at the University of Texas at Austin, and Ms. Burch, a policy analyst and associate professor of education from the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles.
For the larger companies in the SES market, the waiver fallout will be "a blip," Ms. Burch predicted. She said they already have moved into other market segments based on the new common-core standards and digital forms of instruction. "They're not going to go away," she said.
But for smaller providers, transformation or cessation of business is already underway. "A lot of providers are just saying there's no money in this," Ms. Burch said.
A number of privately owned SES providers told Education Week that they've had to identify new streams of income, and change the kinds of services they provide.
Jim Popp, the president of Richmond, Va.-based University Instructors Inc., said SES came along well after he started his business as an after-school support program in 1994. The 139th-fastest-growing company on the Inc. 500 list in 2006, University Instructors' SES business grew to make up 40 percent of the company's revenues.
Then, Mr. Popp saw that the marketplace was becoming overcrowded, district leaders were expressing frustration with providers and regulations, and he decided it was a good time to find new ways to collaborate with school systems, instead of providing SES.
Today, Mr. Popp said, he has replaced all of University Instructors' SES revenues, as his company has become a "direct to schools" provider of interventions for students during the school day, professional development, after-school programs, and educational summer camps.
University Instructors is also in its second year of a contract with the state of Virginia to provide an online tool that helps manage educational consultants throughout the state. The company has also diversified to help online-content providers ensure that teachers are using the providers' programs correctly in schools.
While policymakers, and researchers like Ms. Heinrich and Ms. Burch evaluate the effectiveness of the SES providers that remain in the market, they also are looking for examples of what works.
Federally funded researchers, for instance, have found strengths, but also many shortcomings in how SES providers choose to deliver services in online and in-person environments, they noted.
In one large, urban system Ms. Heinrich and Ms. Burch studied, as many as 88 percent of eligible students were receiving SES solely through online tutoring, rather than in-person instruction. Other SES providers seemed to have little grasp of challenges they would face such as limited Internet access in out-of-school environments, they said.
Under NCLB, states and districts were expected to oversee SES providers, but received insufficient aid to do so. When problems arose, districts lacked funds and authority to respond.
"Districts couldn't do much to discipline the market," Ms. Burch said. "I hope we've learned from that."
Vol. 33, Issue 01, Pages 1, 14-15Published in Print: August 21, 2013, as Tutoring Firms Hit Hard Times In Waiver Era
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With an unexpected boost on the sidelines, John Tyler secured a 2-0 victory over Jacksonville in the Lions' final game before the start of district play on Tuesday at Trinity Mother Frances Rose Stadium.
Jose Valdez gave JT the lead off an assist from Gerardo Lopez 25 minutes into the game before goalie Daniel Montoya made a one-on-one stop to keep the Lions ahead.
Naid Pineda then fired in a shot from 25 yards out to up JT's lead to 2-0. Luis Melendez played in goal in the second half for the Lions to complete the shutout.
"Everyone had an outstanding game," JT coach Howard Story said. "Everybody stepped up, played well — especially our goalies."
Orlando Gregorio was on the sidelines cheering the Lions on to bring a boost to the team, Story said. Gregorio, who was a member of JT's 2011 sectional finalist squad, was recently paralyzed after being shot in late December at a park in Tyler. Story said it was his first public appearance since the incident.
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LONGVIEW — Robert E. Lee senior Lumi Kaba's goal rampage continued with the Red Raiders blanking Longview 2-0 Tuesday at Lobo Stadium.
Kaba struck twice in the second half, moving his season goal tally to 16 in 11 games.
The Red Raiders (2-0, 6 pts in District 12-5A) moved into first place in the league standings with defending district champion Longview (1-1, 3 pts) suffering its first district loss.
"It was kind of a slugfest in the first half with both teams playing sloppy," Lee coach Marty Germany said about the scoreless opening 40 minutes. "We had better possession in the second half."
With 26 minutes remaining in the game, Sergio Molina broke down the sideline and crossed into the box with Kaba needing only to redirect it into the net. Kaba did the honors all by himself with 11 minutes left, thrashing a free kick into the top corner.
"It's a good start for us, but then again, it's two games out of 12 (in district) that we have to play to get through this," Germany said. "But it's also good to be 2-0."
The Red Raiders are now 7-3-1 overall and keeper Henry Plancarte recorded his fourth consecutive clean sheet.
Cougars held to 0-0 draw
CARROLLTON — Neither Grace Community nor Carrollton Prince of Peace could break through in a 0-0 draw in TAPPS D-II District 2 action Tuesday.
The set back was the first for the Cougars (9-6-3, 6-0-1) in league play, though they remained unbeaten.
Grace outshot Prince of Peace 11-7, but the Eagles, defending Division III champions, held an advantage in corners (3-2) and shots on goal (4-3).
Marc Ritthaler made four saves in goal for the shutout for the Cougars, who take a week off before hosting Dallas Shelton at 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 12.
Latson scores 4 to propel Brook Hill
BULLARD — Behind four goals from Caleb Latson, Bullard Brook Hill twice rallied from a goal back to defeat Dallas Lutheran 4-2 on Tuesday.
The Guard (6-2, 3-0) stayed unbeaten in TAPPS D-III District 2 with the win, which included three assists from Gyouo Choi.
Brook Hill fell behind 1-0 and 2-1 but led 3-2 by halftime. The Guard will travel to play Irving The Highlands at 6 p.m. on Friday.


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I have worked in several large computer stores that have back to school specials for students and let me tell you that its all about revenue and scamming the customer. These large businesses want to extract as much money as possible from customers and are willing to go the distance in confusing students and their parents in order to make that extra profit. For example, I was told shamelessly straight to my face when buying a netbook that the company does not make a lot of money from the sale of a laptop and that I should purchase something else on top. This is why all associates are forced to upsell and skew the truth. These people tell you that you need a CD created in order for your computer to have a backup. This extra service is only $60. For extra $100 they will setup your computer to be "ready to use". This is a major scam because anyone can do this setup by themselves with only a few clicks of the mouse when they boot up their system for the first time. My wife was once told that she can get a recovery disc created by them for only $100, as the laptop she was purchasing did not come with one. When she asked if she could do it herself, she was told that it definitely wasn't possible, but that she can bring the laptop back later on and it can still be done. When she got home and booted the computer for the first time, it gave her an option to burn a recovery CD at the end. However, even if you do not buy into the "setup your computer" argument the associate will tell you that there are tons of viruses out there that will destroy your precious data and you will have to buy antivirus. But don't worry because its on special for just $80. Another tactic they like to use is to sell you extended warranty that is about $120 to $250. This enables you to bring the computer back to the place you bought it instead of shipping it to the manufacturer. Just a side note: Manufacturers have a great service and will replace your computer for free if its still in warranty and shipping is paid by them. I shipped several laptops back to various manufacturers and the service is very fast, professional and efficient. After pressuring you to hand over hundreds of dollars for a laptop or a netbook, they try to sell you optical drives, mice, cases and many other peripherals. Many times I have overheard associates lying to customers about what they need just to sell the extra package so that they can get a bonus/commission or just to get their manager of their backs. Even though associates in these large stores try to be polite and smile to your face, they are scamming you for hundreds of dollars out of your hard earned money just because you are unaware about what you really need. And if that fails, many stores increase the price of the product and try to sell you the whole "better value" package, without having the option to buy the computer without those unnecessary "upgrades". Therefore, this back to school season do some serious research about what you need and don't need and do not be pressured into buying additional things that you might regret later or realize that it was a waste of your money. Majority of these businesses are making huge profits on the ignorance of many individuals about technology and computers. A few good examples that you should think about might include: Do students really need the latest MacBook Pro for $2000 to type essays that can be done on a Netbook or a regular laptop? Do you need to pay additional $130 for Microsoft Office if Openoffice http://www.openoffice.org/ is free to use and download? Do you need firewall and Antivirus if you are smart about what files to open and follow some simple security rules? Or you can download AVG Free Anti-virus http://free.avg.com/ca-en/homepage or Avast for free http://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download and many universities provide you with anti-virus for free while you are their student. Do you need additional warranty for $200 if shipping to a manufacturer is free and easily set up online? How long do you expect your laptop to last you? Do you really need to pay hundreds of dollars for an extended warranty if your netbook cost $350 and it is cheaper to buy a new one than keep fixing an old one in 3 years? Try to see through manipulative associates in big computer stores that try to scam you for hundreds of dollars and make you think that you need every one of the things they offer or your computer will blow up. Play it smart and use the money you save for your books or tuition instead because those things are not getting any cheaper.... I prefer a software firewall on the computer too. ZoneAlarm. 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David's Music Jam is a friendly gathering of musicians and singers who meet to play and record songs. Join us for fellowship and network with local musicians during our live music jam sessions. We are currently rehearsing and recording tracks for an album of folk, pop, reggae and rock cover tunes. David's Music Jam founder, producer and recording engineer is David Spencer.
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- "Got Me a Woman" - Levon Helm
- "Heart of Gold" - Neil Young
- "House of the Rising Sun" (by The Animals)
- "I'm A Believer" (by Neil Diamond)
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- "Never on a Sunday" ("Ta Paidia tou Peiraia") by Manos Hatzidakis (1960)
- "One Day I Walk" - Bruce Cockburn
- "Put Your Hand in the Hand" by Gene MacLellan
- "Satellite of Love" by Lou Reed - key of G
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White House demands military prisons for Americans under NDAA
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The White House has asked the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals to place an emergency stay on a ruling made last week by a federal judge so that the president's power to indefinitely detain Americans without charge is reaffirmed immediately.
On Wednesday, September 12, US District Court Judge Katherine Forrest made permanent a temporary injunction she issued in May that bars the federal government from abiding by the indefinite detention provision in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, or NDAA. Judge Forrest ruled that a clause that gives the government the power to arrest US citizens suspected of maintaining alliances with terrorists and hold them without due process violated the Constitution and that the White House would be stripped of that ability immediately.
Only hours after Judge Forrest issued last week's ruling, the Obama administration threatened to appeal the decision, and on Monday morning they followed through.
At around 9 a.m. Monday, September 17, the White House filed an emergency stay in federal appeals court in an effort to have the Second Circuit strip away Judge Forrest's ruling from the week earlier.
"Almost immediately after Judge Forrest ruled, the Obama administration challenged the decision," writes Chris Hedges, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist that is listed as the lead plaintiff in the case. According to Hedges, the government called Judge Forrest's most recent ruling an "extraordinary injunction of worldwide scope," and Executive Branch attorneys worked into the weekend to find a way to file their stay.
"The Justice Department sent a letter to Forrest and the Second Circuit late Friday night informing them that at 9 a.m. Monday the Obama administration would ask the Second Circuit for an emergency stay that would lift Forrest's injunction," Hedges writes. "This would allow Obama to continue to operate with indefinite detention authority until a formal appeal was heard. The government's decision has triggered a constitutional showdown between the president and the judiciary."
Attorney Carl Mayer, a counsel for Hedges and his co-plaintiffs, confirmed to RT early Monday that the stay was in fact filed with the Second Circuit.
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So, a new find has ended up in a museum. Usually this is then studied by a specialist in the museum. But sometimes specialists like myself, who are also researching the same subject, are invited to look at these new finds and help make sense of them, and identify what they are. For those that weren't able to follow my Twitter feed this morning, I found this waiting for me at the BM at 10am…
My job then is start identifying the different objects in the hoard. Some things are obvious, or appear so. Such as a sword or an axe. Simple common sense tells us what the object is and what they were likely used for. Sort of like when we travel abroad to another country: we see a large moving coloured metal object with wheels and people inside, common sense tells us that in all likelihood it is a car and is used for transport, in much the same way as it would be back home. But sometimes, it's not that easy, such as in the case of this object from the new hoard…
But we'll come back to this later.
So, we think we know what some of our objects are. These axes from the hoard are a good example.
Even though there are a startingly diverse array of axes available to us today, they are similar enough to us for us to be able to identify them as an axe, a cutting tool, particularly for cutting wood. Indeed, from timbers that have survived and been recovered, many have been found with blade marks from just these types of objects. That gives us our general category of object. Then we have to figure out what 'type' each one is… here's where we play a game of snap.
So, we all know what a car is, whether home or abroad. But there are also brands of cars: Ford, Toyota, etc. An objects 'type' is sort of similar, telling us a lot about which region the object may have come from, in the same way that car brands often have regional or national associations.
We do this by looking at lots and lots of pictures of other objects, and trying to find ones that look the same: snap.
Often, specialist books or catelogues of these exist. So, I spent part of the morning looking through a book of axes looking for ones that look the same as the ones in the hoard. In the book, similar brands or types will already have been grouped together, and help discern the different meanings or significance that the types have.
The four axes from the hoard, in the photo way above, are of (L/R) 2 x Type Welby, a Type South-eastern and a Type Meldreth.
The last two are good examples of the differing significance of these types. Type South-eastern axes are found widely distributed in southern England but mainly in southeast England, hence the name. In this region they are often found in great numbers, in hoards that consist of nothing but other axes. They also occur in hoards that consist of mixtures of local and Continental material, as illustrated in the previous post. These hoards are often called Carp's-Tongue hoards, connected to part of a cultural or specialised group distributed across northwst and northern France and southeast England, sharing certain types of objects. As our hoard was found in Nottinghamshire, representing the very most northerly point of the distribution of this type, it's not surprising that there was only one. The other axe, of Type Meldreth axe, however, is found widely distributed throughout the whole of Britain. It seems to have no particular regional emphasis or association, and only ever occurs in small numbers. This is not surprising either. Unlike the rather ubiquitous and not particularly well made South-eastern axe, those of Type Meldreth were well cast and well finished and, with their multi-facetted design, were a bit of a Mercedes…


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Hudson talks about Latvia and the conditions imposed upon it by the IMF. Shocking revelation of how the IMF lends knowing that the country cannot pay… sound familiar? Countries would be smart to tell the IMF to pound sand, that's just me. Control via debt - get used to it fellow debt peon…
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Isshin-ryu Karate
Isshin-ryu Karate is the one heart method of empty hand fighting founded by Master Tatsuo Shimabuku. It is not a way to violence, but a way to avoid violence if possible and to handle it if not. The Isshin-ryu system combines the Shorin-ryu and Goju-ryu styles. Master Shimabuku (1906-1976) devoted approximately 57 years of his life to Karate. Upon the Master's death his son, Kichiro Shimabuku, became the 10th dan master of Isshin-ryu. He is the current head of the Isshin-ryu World Karate Association (IWKA).
Japanese martial arts are more straight line fighting styles than the circular techniques of their Chinese cousins. Commonly called karate by those of us in the West, Japanese arts range from empty hand martial systems to joint locking and throwing systems to styles devoted entirely to weapons' practice.
The art of karate (kara-te), which means empty hand, is commonly believed to have come to Japan from the island of Okinawa, where fighting with weapons was banned for many years. Ancient Okinawan traders visited
Province and brought back the martial techniques of
China's southern Shaolin temple. The Okinawans developed such an effective self-defense system that many Japanese masters wanted it as their own. It was brought to the Japanese mainland in 1922 and eventually became the best known Japanese martial art.
The Aikido mindset is to view a hostile person not as an enemy, but as someone in need of control and protection. The techniques of Aikido consist of throwing and grappling. Practice involves two people, with one person acting in the role of the attacker and the other performing the technique. Aikido includes both circular and linear movements and techniques usually conclude with the attacker(s) protecting themselves using one of several types of falling techniques.
Iaido is a modern, non-combative physical and mental discipline based on the proficient use of the traditional Japanese sword. Among the various Japanese martial arts, it is perhaps the most introspective. Iaido has no self-defense applications. Its exercises are mentally engaging and can be considered a form of meditation.
Kendo is Japanese fencing. It is the oldest and most popular among the widely practiced martial arts ways (Budo) in Japan. Training consists of single and paired drills and free practice.
Ninjutsu is a Japanese martial art. Practice often involves two people,
with one person receiving the technique while the other person performs
the technique. NINJUTSU features Taihenjutsu (rolling, falling,
conditioning, and agility exercises), Dakentaijutsu (striking techniques),
Jutaijutsu (throwing, grappling, and joint lock techniques), and Weapon
Techniques (sword, knife, stick, baton, cord, chain, throwing star, etc.)
Chanoyu, or the Japanese Tea Ceremony, is the ancient practice of serving tea according to the strict ritual that defines the manner in which tea is prepared and served. The main point in Chanoyu is the appreciation of beauty, simplicity and the spiritual tranquility that forms the essential principals of zen.
Sodo, or Japanese Calligraphy, from ancient times has been called "a picture of the heart". Black letters painted in ink are an expression of the painter's spirit and devotion to calligraphy which amounts to a meditation usually associated with the world of prayer.
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If you're looking for something fun and unusual to do this weekend, then perhaps you should head to the mountains and plan to attend the Annual Punkin' Chunkin' Festival being held in Brasstown, a "folksie" laid-back community nestled in the mountains of Western North Carolina.
Sponsored by the Clay County NC Chamber of Commerce, this two-day event will feature live music and entertainment, mountain craft vendors, food (of course), a Chili Cook-Off, an Anything Punkin' Bake-off and, needless to say, lots of chunkin' of the punkins!!!
So, exactly WHAT IS Punkin' Chunkin' you ask?? It started in 1986 when a group of men in a Delaware blacksmith shop began to argue about who could throw something the farthest. The challenge was on and the men began to create their machines. In November of that year the first Punkin' Chunkin' contest was held with three teams and limited spectators. The event grew and spread into other areas. The World Champion Punkin Chunkin Association (WCPCA) was formed and last year thousands of teams competed in sanctioned events across the continent. There's even an authorized book that details the History of Punkin Chunkin'.
What do you use to chunk a punkin??
Whatever contraption, similar to a trebuchet, you can dream up and build to catapult your punkin the longest distance and take home the coveted trophy.
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some of the contraptions are pretty outrageous.
This year's location on Settawig Road in Brasstown is VERY easy to find. So there's plenty to do and see while you're here. Give us a call or email us and we'll be happy to make recommendations for lodging or tell you about great places to eat.
Don't miss out on the fun this year - go Punkin' Chunkin'!
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Have I got a story for you. Earlier this month I paid a visit to two cities on the German/Polish border: Frankfurt on der Oder [German] and Slubice [Polish], separated by the River Oder. They used to be two sides of one German city, but Poland ended up with everything east of the river after WWII. The people who live in these cities don't have much personal history there: Frankfurt was evacuated during WWII and very few of the residents ever returned; meanwhile Poles were brought in from elsewhere to resettle Slubice when it became Polish territory. There is one bridge across the river between the two cities (see above). From the end of WWII until 2007 it was at times a controlled border crossing and at other times closed completely. But now that Poland has joined the European Union's border-free Schengen Zone, anyone can walk over the bridge without so much as a Simon says. The result: people who spent many years having nothing to do with one another (save perhaps a black market cigarette sale) are suddenly close neighbors. And although the two cities are starting to connect in small ways, traveling across the bridge is rarely a part of daily life. You can't take public transportation from one to the other, for example.
Enter Michael Kurzwelly. An artist who speaks both German and Polish, he moved to the area in 1998 and began staging public "interventions" to explore issues of identity along the border. Most of these interventions center around his vision of a united city, called Slubfurt, and with help from other residents he has set about convincing people that it really exists. At the invitation of Florence Maher, a fellow Fulbrighter studying border politics at Viadrina European University in Frankfurt, I took a tour of Slubfurt and talked to Kurzwelly about his work. (more…)


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Seven years after a poorly received second installment and six years since Renee Zellweger was in anything anyone cared about, Bridget Jones is coming back for thirds.
The rumors about another "Bridget Jones," which have come and gone for years, started heating up again earlier this year with word that "Bridesmaids" director Paul Feig was in talks to helm. Now they've finally been confirmed by EW.
Last year, before he was an Oscar-minted thespian, Colin Firth gave away pretty much the entirety of the film:
U.S. & World
"I can tell you that Bridget and Mark can't have children, I think that's the way it goes on," Firth told Access Hollywood. "So then she makes the huge mistake of going back to Daniel Cleaver [Hugh Grant's character] for long enough to get pregnant. And I think he dumps her, and she's left stranded, and guess who comes back to rescue her?"
Well it's good to hear that Bridget's learned from her past, pumped up her self-esteem and is continuing to make good choices. Well done, can't wait.
Firth appears to be open to the project, but they'd better wrap him up quick, 'cuz that guy's career has taken off since "Edge of Reason," and shows no signs of slowing down. He's about to be seen in the new "Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy" and next year will star in a new version of "Gambit." As for Zellweger and Hugh Grant, we imagine they can probably find time in their hectic schedules.


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I am asked yet again how to find one's lactate threshold heart rate (LTHR) by doing a 30-minute time trial. I really don't understand what seems to be so difficult about this. All that's required is running (or riding) as hard as you can possibly go for 30 minutes ALL BY YOURSELF. It must be solo. Doing this as a part of a race or with training partners will change the outcome. Your number will be too high. If you want to do it with others or as a part of a race then you need to make it 60 minutes duration instead of 30.
Once you've captured the data in your device download it to your software and find your average heart rate for the last 20 minutes. That's an approximation of your LTHR (also often referred to as anaerobic threshold or functional threshold heart rate). If you don't have software all you have to do is push the lap button 10 minutes into the test. That will then capture the last 20 minutes as a standalone "interval." Your average heart rate for that portion is close to your LTHR. Note that this DOES NOT mean that you go easy for 10 minutes and then turn it on with 20 minutes remaining. It's 30 minutes all out.
Do not watch your heart rate during the test. You're not trying to produce a given number. Do not be concerned with anything other than are you going as hard as you can go right now. If the answer is "yes" then you are doing the test right.
I don't understand why this seems to confuse people so much.
There… I feel better now. 🙂


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Switches always defaulting to "active"
Posted: Dec 9th '15, 03:27
In texturing my maps using vasara, I find that every time I apply a switch and set up its parameters, the next time I load the level it has reverted to being an active switch. There is a checkbox that says "initially active" or something like that, and I always leave it unchecked, and am using the inactive texture palette...but again, upon next load, the switch is always active. I mean, it isn't a game-breaking problem, but it does mean I have to turn the switch off and then back on to get it to activate anything. Which is clumsy and pretty stupid. Suggestions??
Hopefully I can upload my new map shortly and let y'all play through it.
Hopefully I can upload my new map shortly and let y'all play through it.


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Indians-Royals game rained out
Doubleheader set for Sunday
Just what the Kansas City Royals did not need was another off day.
The Royals and Cleveland Indians were rained out Friday night with the game postponed about 30 minutes before the scheduled first pitch. The game has been rescheduled for as a doubleheader Sunday, the first day-night doubleheader in Kauffman Stadium history.
The Royals have had six days off in the past 12 days. They had regular scheduled days off on April 15, 18 and Monday, games rained out Tuesday and Friday and a game postponed April 19 when they were in Boston, which was shut down for the manhunt for the marathon bombers.
While the Royals lead the American League Central with an 11-8 record, they have found it difficult to get into a regular rhythm.
"We're awfully tired," closer Greg Holland said and laughed after playing only two games in the past five days. "We've played six games in 10 day or something like that. We're ready to play some games especially when you're playing well you want to keep doing it. These rain outs are kind of smelly."
Holland has retired the side in his past four outings, striking out nine of 12 batters, but other relievers have seen scant work. Luke Hochevar has been limited to four appearances and 5 1/3 innings this season. Left-hander Bruce Chen pitched Sunday for the first time in 11 games and hasn't pitched since. When J.C. Gutierrez worked two hitless innings Wednesday at Detroit, it was his first appearance since April 12.
After a 4-3 trip to Atlanta, Boston and Detroit, the Royals returned home Friday for a 10-game homestand, but that was delayed a day.
"It was a long trip, but it was successful," Holland said.
Holland acknowledged sitting and waiting can wear out a player much as playing.
"A lot of guys know from past experiences they've got to stay active, go for a jog in the gym or do light lifting just to keep the body active," Holland said. "Because if you sit there all day in bed that's when I feel the worse and my back stiffens up. It's just kind of a process of being able to stay fresh and not too fresh."
The Indians, too, have had their share of rain outs. This was the second Indians' rainout in four games and their fourth this season. They also had an off-day Thursday and have played only once in the past three days.
One advantage of not playing is that it's less games that Michael Bourn will have to miss. He's been on the disabled list since April 17 - retroactive two days earlier, with a lacerated right index finger. He's eligible to come off the DL on Tuesday.
"Michael worked out at the ballpark and he'll hit in the cage," Indians manager Terry Francona said. "We're trying to get him back and we're going to go by how he's doing."
Bourn wasn't sure when he'd be ready as the stiches just came out on Thursday.
The Friday probable starters, Indians left-hander Scott Kazmir and Royals right-hander Ervin Santana will start Saturday. Indians right-hander Justin Masterson and Royals right-hander Jeremy Guthrie will start the first game Sunday. Neither club has announced the starter for the second game Sunday.


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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and set a new date for the Rapture. How about June 15, 2017? Seems as good a date as any other. LET'S GO!
TOO BIG TO FAIL – 9:00PM (HBO) HBO has again assembled a host of Oscar-pedigreed talent for their latest TV opus, this one based on Andrew Ross Sorkin's best-selling book about the 2008 financial collapse. William Hurt plays former Treasury secretary Hank Paulson, who so kindly gifted all your tax money to AIG to pay off his old friends at Goldman Sachs, which was totally a great idea! And Paul Giamatti plays current Fed chairman Ben Bernaisesauce, who depending on your opinion either staved off a horrible depression or sat idly by as the nation's banks robbed the government blind. Curtis Hanson is your director, and Curtis Hanson once directed "LA Confidential," so the odds of him turning this seemingly dry subject into something riveting are very, very high. ANTICIPATION: ANGER!
THE BACHELORETTE – 9:00PM (ABC) Step right up, men, and try to woo the lovely Ashley Hebert, who is your new Bachelorette handmaiden. Watch as 25 guys jump out of their limos this evening and try to make a good impression with the former "Bachelor" reject. Among the contestants tonight is a dude who sings to Ashley (GAH!), a dude who has Ashley talk to his mom on speakerphone (why?), and of course a dude who gets too drunk. They always toss one wino into the mix. ANTICIPATION: SWINGLES!
THE EVENT – 9:00PM (NBC) It's your season finale, as well as your series finale, because this show won't be back next fall. And while I think people may have had creative issues with "The Event," at least it had some measure of ambition. I'm not sure networks will ever bother to take a similar risk again. ANTICIPATION: SAD!
HOUSE – 8:00PM (FOX) I hate to be a prude, but should this show really be airing at 8PM? House spent last episode performing graphic surgery on himself in a bathtub (which was way cool, by the way). I'm consistently amazed at how little networks care about blood and gore and how much they care about swear words and nudity. Anyway, tonight's your finale, with Oscar nominee Shohreh Aghdashloo in the house as your guest seizure victim. ANTICIPATION: HIGH!
50 CENT: THE ORIGIN OF ME – 9:00PM (VH1) Trace the history of 50 Cent, from the Kennedy half-dollar all the way back to the buffalo half-farthing. Or wait, it's the rap guy. Sorry. ANTICIPATION: MONEY!
Monday Watch List: Hurt! Giamatti! Your Money Going Down The Toilet!
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The following pages are meant to provide an insight view on the development of YAM. So if you are YAM developer, and interested developer considering joining our team or if you just want to compile YAM yourself. You may be able to find valueable information here to do so.
Source code access
As an open-source development effort, YAM is using a source code versioning system. We use the subversion (SVN) versioning tool and the SVN respository facilities provided by the trac engine this web site is running on. All latest, but also source code of older versions (back to version 2.2) are stored in this repository and are available to all interested developers.
Our SVN repository can be accessed either as an anonymous user, or as a registered YAM developer. You require a subversion (SVN) client, if you don't already have one. SVN is available for AmigaOS compatible systems from AmiNET (http://aminet.net/package/dev/misc/subversion-1.1.4) and should also be available for most Unix operating systems, easily available on *BSD systems. In addition, there are also clients available for Win32 and MacOS.
The following instructions on how to access our repository should be the bare-bones needed to get you started with YAM and SVN; this is not a SVN tutorial. However, there exists a very good online tutorial at http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ and there are many HOWTOs available on the web as well.
Browsing our repository
Aside from the possibility to directly download/access the sources of YAM via a SVN client, you may browse the sources directly via the internal Browse Source facility provided by this website. By using the following link you may have a direct look at the current sources of YAM:
By using this link you will find 4 top-level directories, whereas the 'trunk' directory corresponds to the very latest source code of YAM. This directory is also used to build the nightly builds you may already know of.
Anonymous SVN access
You can obtain the very latest source code of YAM (from 'trunk') with the following command sequence:
svn checkout https://svn.yam.ch/svn/yam/trunk yam
This will checkout the sources from our 'trunk' to a local directory 'yam' on your hard disk.
As usual, it is not guaranteed in any way, that the 'trunk' version will work for you properly. The 'trunk' of a SVN repository is always meant to carry highly experimental code which is not meant to be used on normal productive systems. It may break your current installation and may destroy data stored on your harddisks. On the other hand, downgrading may cause the same effect. And, maybe you will have to update your configuration files and/or images files aswell, which are probably not directly available through SVN. Please be always aware of that when you want to compile YAM yourself.
Developer SVN access
If you are an official registered developer of the YAM project, you should also have write permissions to the SVN repository. Thus, you should be able to commit changes to it. For this, the above mentioned procedure is more or less the same, as you are also going to checkout the latest 'trunk' with the very same command:
svn checkout https://svn.yam.ch/svn/yam/trunk yam
However, for writing changes back to the repository, you have to use the 'commit' command of SVN.
cd <your 'yam' directory> svn commit
Similar to the above anonymous SVN description, the update of an already checked out version of the YAM sources can be update with:
cd <your 'yam' directory> svn update
SSL certificate warnings
As we don't have an explicit SSL certificate for the yam.ch domain the SVN server is running the same SSL certificate like the supplier of the server we are running these webpages on. So in case you try to checkout the YAM sources from our SVN repository via https you will receive a certificate warning similar to:
Error validating server certificate for 'https://svn.yam.ch:443': - The certificate is not issued by a trusted authority. Use the fingerprint to validate the certificate manually! - The certificate hostname does not match. Certificate information: - Hostname: *.light-speed.de - Valid: from Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:43:57 GMT until Tue, 24 Jun 2014 06:43:57 GMT - Issuer: MainServer (Karlsruhe), LightSpeed Communications GbR, Dresden, Sachsen, DE - Fingerprint: a2:6a:6c:ce:a6:1c:0b:a8:4c:e6:e6:63:19:74:0b:54:39:fa:8b:99 (R)eject, accept (t)emporarily or accept (p)ermanently?
However, if the Fingerprint in your warning is exactly the same like the above one you are safe to permanently accept that warning as this is a valid certificate which still allows to encrypt the data connection but is simply issued for a different domain.
If your SVN version doesn't show such a certificate warning please make sure you have the latest version available of it. In case you have AmigaOS3 or AmigaOS4 you can try the latest version on AmiNET (http://aminet.net/package/dev/misc/subversion-1.1.4).
Submit your change
There are several ways you can contribute to the YAM development. As the first steps you should:
1. Get the code. Install a nightly build and do an anonymous SVN checkout.
2. Find a bug to solve or a feature to implement. If you decide to implement a new feature, it might be worth discussing this in the developer mailing list mailing list first, to test water, get feedback from lead developers and see if anybody is already working on it, or if it fits at all into the general direction of the project.
3. Submit a patch. There are generally two ways to do a patch. You could make a copy of file you edit beforehand, and create a patch with:
diff -u file.c.orig file.c > file.c.patch
or do it with SVN:
svn diff -u file.c > file.c.patch
Submit your patch to the project's development mailing list. Please include your patch as a 'text/plain' attachment. Be prepared to be met with a critical analysis of your patch. In case your patch is refused, ask why and either correct your patch or constructively argue your point. In case you receive no feedback, try bumping the issue once after a day or three. If you still do not receive an answer, maybe your patch is not worthwhile. Keep it in case someone raises the issue in the list sometime in the future, but otherwise sleep on it.
And some general points to remember:
- Respect the project coding standards, otherwise your patches will not be committed. You can find the coding standards in the 'trunk' as STYLEGUIDE.
- Work within the current framework, that is use the available classes and mechanisms.
- Monitor the development mailing lists, the discussion forum, and those of the apps you work on.
Lastly, remember that, although you work on the project on your own goodwill, this does not grant you any specific privileges. The lead developers make the final call. Sometimes, they may make decisions that you may not agree with. Obviously, you are entitled to voice your opinion and argue your point, but stay civil, do not drag it out and respect their decisions.
That is pretty much it. One last thing: do not do it for an ego boost, do it for the love of coding. The unfortunate truth is that contributing to an open source project will most likely never get you the kind of fame Linus Torvalds and friends enjoy, nonetheless, as with any Open Source project, your contribution will be greatly appreciated by the community, especially in the still shrinking Amiga community.


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Okay, here's the scoop.
I have had my nose to the keyboard for weeks. Just writing, revising and polishing. I am easily recognizable by the bloodshot eyes and zombiefied expression that are my new "look"...oh yeah, and the mismatched socks. They're always a dead giveaway that I am full-out writing.
The good news? I'm happy with what's evolving.
The bad news? Um...none, really. Not unless you count dust bunnies the size of small kittens problematic. Me? I don't. I just give 'em a kick with a mismatched sock-covered foot and call it good.
What's going on with you?
Tuesday, June 05, 2012
Nose to the Keyboard
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