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I have been playing with the idea of using my ski gear for summer time camping and leaving the my sleeping bag at home. Do any of you just wear down pants and jacket in a bivy and leave the sleeping bag at home?
No. A down jacket and pants will likely not be as warm as as a sleeping bag (extremities are not as well insulated), and they will not be as light as a summer bag. Since I don't generally need that warm of clothing on a summer trip, it would be weight inefficient to use that system.
> Do any of you just wear down pants and jacket in a bivyNope. First my sleep systems are lighter than the clothing I would use to be comfortable in the same conditions. Assuming the same materials in clothing/bag, the bag will be lighter: (1) it has a better ratio of shell -vs- insulation (2) bag has less surface area to insulate.In cooler conditions I will combine clothing with a quilt... but never just clothing. Clothing that is warm enough to sleep in is at least 2x as warm as what I would want for any other purpose.--Mark
I've used it sort of but only in weird situations most are unlikely to encounter.If you're doing a race or event with wide temp variations...say roughly 85F to 25F...a synthetic top and bottom will allow you to keep moving through almost all weather and still get some sleep inside a bivy. It's not really lighter than a bag, just might keep you moving more.I take a bag and synth vest for almost all trips instead but once and a while the pants/jacket combo might be better.
I had a bear steal my pack one night and slept out in my friend's warm clothes. It sucked.
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Orchid to chip in on dune restoration on beaches
ORCHID — Dune restoration along Orchid beaches got a shot in the arm Thursday when the Orchid Town Board voted to cover about 30 percent of the cost of 20,000 cubic yards of new sand.
Up to $138,604 in dune restoration costs will be paid by the town out of reserve funds originally earmarked for the building of a new town hall. The remainder of the $462,000 will come from beachfront homeowners, condominium owners and the Orchid Island Golf & Beach Club.
The beach and dunes lost about 10 to 12 feet of sand in Hurricane Sandy, according to Orchid Mayor Hal Ofstie. The damage was defined by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection as "Condition IV, Major Dune Erosion," and includes most of the sand put on the beach by the county in 2012.
On Oct. 26, the hurricane grazed Florida's Atlantic coast, causing widespread erosion and destruction of dune crossovers, beaches and boardwalks. The state Department of Environmental Protection on Oct. 31 issued an emergency order allowing municipalities to repair such damage without state permits.
"It appears that neither the county, state nor FEMA will provide any funding to replace the sand lost, or to provide any other protective measures for Orchid beaches in 2013," said Ofstie. "The dunes appear to be vulnerable should a hurricane or similar event occur this year. While the county has the responsibility for the beaches on an ongoing basis, for this year at a minimum, any repair effort would be Orchid's effort."
The Town Board took action on dune restoration after their attorney, Anthony Garganese, advised Thursday that it would be legal as long as there was a "municipal purpose" for the expenditure.
"Declaring dune preservation would serve as a municipal purpose," said Garganese. "There is currently a declaration of emergency and the expenditures would be authorized."
Council member Bud Oatway asked Garganese what specific public purpose would be served by the expenditure since the town has no assets other than streetlights, and all of the property where the dunes are located are private lands.
"I'm having trouble getting my hands around what the public purpose is," said Oatway.
After the hurricanes of 2004, homeowners along Orchid's beaches had to pay for dune restoration without any help from the town. Orchid resident Joe Lawyer said he thought it was "appalling" that homeowners paid to protect an asset of the entire community.
"There was a lot of resentment built up over time," said Lawyer. "We felt very abandoned in 2004."
But other residents questioned why the town would make an investment in sand when it was going to be washed away in the next storm, and suggested that a better use of funds would be for an artificial reef offshore.
"It's going to be thrown away," said resident Sue Joyce. "What happens in six months if the county decides to put reefs out there?"
Ofstie said it would be optimistic to think that reefs would be coming any time soon, even though the county is exploring that option.
"They're just not ready yet," Ofstie said.
Now that the town has agreed to fund a portion of the dune restoration, the project can move forward under a county permit which already was pulled by the Orchid Golf & Beach Club. Work is expected to be completed by the end of February.
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7. LeBRON JAMES
The man who may or may not have dubbed himself "The Chosen One" in his sophomore year of high school is perhaps the new-age definition of swag. His swag has evolved into a refined, ruthless, killer-type of glint in his eye. When he started out in the league, though, his swag was brash and unrefined. The powder, which still remains, was flamboyant and somewhat controversial. Dancing on the sidelines, joking around, and dominating on the court. Whatever he did, though, there was always room for more. His turning point was his Decision, a move made with his principal interests at heart. It was a move that could've been handled differently, yes, but it turned out to be the right one. It took King James a few years to learn that, though, as "not one, not two, not three…" turned into all-black uniforms, a blank stare, and a championship.
The new LeBron is a little colder to the touch, but just as hot on the court. It's the reason why when people say "Swag is for kids, class is for men" I shake my head. Everyone can have swag, but there is such a thing as a man's swag. That's what LeBron James has come to possess in his continued tenure as best basketball player on Earth.


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Board of Directors
Candice Aaron
Joseph C. Aragona
J. Dennis Cavner
Julian Day
Harold P. Freeman, M.D.
Jeffery C. Garvey
David Johnson, M.D.
Amelie G. Ramirez, Dr. P.H.
Jeremiah Robins
Blaine P. Rollins
Lawrence Shulman, M.D.
Cindy L. Sweeting, CFA
E. Lee Walker
Candice Aaron
Dallas, TX
Candice Aaron is currently the Chief Compliance Officer for GE Capital Equipment and Commercial Distribution Finance, working out of GE's Dallas office. In 2009, she left her law firm partnership, where she led the firm's corporate governance and litigation practice, to join GE Capital. Aaron graduated from the University of Michigan and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
She has been involved with LIVESTRONG since 2008 when she was the founding Vice Chairperson of the LIVESTRONG Young Leader's Council. In addition, along with her husband, Brent, Aaron is a member of the LIVESTRONG President's Circle. An eight-year cancer survivor, Aaron has served on the LIVESTRONG Board of Directors since 2012 and is a member of the Board's Executive and Audit Committees.
Joseph C. Aragona
Vice Chair
Austin, TX
Joe Aragona is a founder and General Partner of Austin Ventures. AV has over $3 billion under management and is the most active venture and growth equity firm in Texas and among the most established in the nation. Since joining AV in 1982, Joe has focused on information technology and growth equity investing and has worked with software, communications, semiconductor and service companies. Prior to joining Austin Ventures, Joe earned both his MBA and bachelor's degree from Harvard University and worked in the Merchant Banking Group of the Bank of Boston and Chemical Bank
Joe was a member of the Board of Directors of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) from 1999 - 2006, chaired its Research Committee, and served as Chairman of the Board. Joe is also a member of the Board of Directors of Casa Montessori, an early childhood development center.
Dennis Cavner is a principal of Waxman Cavner Lawson, a financial services firm serving high net worth individuals. He has been actively involved with the Foundation since 1999, is a past Chairman of the Board. Dennis holds both business and law degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and serves on the Advisory Board of the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service of the LBJ School of Public Affairs at UT. He lives with his wife, Chris, in Austin, Texas.
Julian C. Day was elected chairman and chief executive officer of RadioShack Corporation on July 6, 2006 by the company's board of directors. Day has successfully served in senior leadership positions at several large publicly traded companies and has earned a reputation for successfully turning around companies that have experienced slow growth.
Day's retailing experience includes leadership positions at Kmart Holding Corporation (formerly the parent company of Kmart Corporation), where he was elected as president and chief operating officer in March 2002 and was promoted to chief executive officer in 2003. Day successfully took the company out of bankruptcy and led the company to substantially exceed its profit plans. Under his leadership, the company's value increased from $1.5 billion to $9 billion.
Prior to joining Kmart, he spent two years at Sears, first as chief financial officer and then as chief operating officer. As COO, he was a member of the Office of the Chief Executive and oversaw finance, logistics/supply chain, store operations, information technology and the company's business-to-business partnerships.
Before joining Sears, Day served as executive vice president and chief financial officer for Safeway, Inc., where he was responsible for financial, technology and real estate operations. While at Safeway, he strengthened the balance sheet and improved the company's credit rating, increased return on capital expenditures while tripling annual spending levels, and re-engineered the real estate development and construction process.
Day holds undergraduate and master's degrees from Oxford University and an MBA from the London Business School.
Harold P. Freeman, M.D.
New York, NY
Harold Freeman, M.D. is president and founder of the Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention in New York, New York. He is the past Senior Advisor to the director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and past Associate Director of the NCI, Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Freeman is also has been a professor of clinical surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, also in New York. For twenty five years (1974 - 1999), Dr. Freeman was director of surgery at Harlem Hospital in New York. Dr. Freeman served as chairman of the US President's Cancer Panel for an 11 year period under both President George H. W. Bush and President Bill Clinton. Dr. Freeman served as national president of the American Cancer Society from 1988-1989. He is the chief architect of the American Cancer Society's initiative on Cancer in the Poor and is a leading authority on the interrelationships between race, poverty, and cancer. The Society established the "Harold P. Freeman Award" in 1990 to recognize his work in this area. This award is presented annually by American Cancer Society divisions throughout the U.S. to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the fight against cancer in the poor. Dr. Freeman pioneered the "Patient Navigation Program" which addresses disparities in access to treatment, particularly among poor and uninsured people. This program is designed to assist medically underserved patients in navigating their way through a complex health system by overcoming barriers to timely diagnosis and treatment of cancer. The success of Dr. Freeman's "Patient Navigation Program" has led many other health care organizations to adopt similar initiatives. Based on this model the Patient Navigator and Chronic Disease Prevention Act was signed into law by President Bush in June 2005. As a graduate of Catholic University of America, Dr. Freeman received the Harris Award for "Outstanding Scholar, Gentleman, and Athlete and was later inducted into the Athlete's Hall of Fame of the University.
Jeffery C. Garvey
Chairman and Founding Chair
Austin, TX
Jeff Garvey is the founding and current chairman of the Board of Directors of the LIVESTRONG Foundation. Jeff is a pioneering venture capitalist, nationally recognized philanthropist and active contributor in the Austin community.
Jeff is the co-founder of Austin Ventures, one of the largest and most active venture capital firms in the U.S. From 1979-1999, he served as the firm's first investment professional and a general partner and leader of the company through its first six investment funds. Previously, from 1971-1979, Jeff held several senior lending and management positions at PNC Bank, in both Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
The organizations in which Jeff has served as board member, adviser or donor over the years include KLRU Public Television, The Center For Childhood Protection, The First Tee of Greater Austin, Helping Hand Home, Children's Medical Center Foundation, Ronald McDonald House Charities, Settlement Home for Children, The Association for Professional Fundraisers, Gladney Home For Adoption, West Austin Youth Association, St. Andrews Episcopal School, Deerfield Academy and St. Edward's University.
David Johnson, M.D.
Executive Committee Member
Dallas, TX
Dr. Johnson is the Donald W. Seldin Distinguished Chair in Internal Medicine and Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. He is a member of the ABIM Board of Directors and serves as the Chair of the ABIM Subspecialty Board for Medical Oncology. From 1983 until 2010 Dr. Johnson was a member of the faculty at the Vanderbilt University Medical School where he held the Cornelius A. Craig Chair of Medical & Surgical Oncology and served as the Director of the Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology and Deputy Director of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center.
Dr. Johnson's research interests involve the study of the biology of lung cancer and improving the treatment of this and other solid tumors. He played a key role in the development of the new targeted drugs bevacizumab (Avastin®) and erlotinib (Tarceva®) both of which are now FDA-approved for the treatment of lung cancer. He has authored over 330 peer reviewed articles, 40 book chapters and edited four oncology textbooks. In 2004-2005, Dr. Johnson served as President of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) during which time he helped advance ASCO's quality of care activity known as the Quality Oncology Practice Initiative (or QOPI®). QOPI® was subsequently adopted as a Practice Improvement Module for diplomates seeking to maintain their certification in medical oncology. He was instrumental in establishing ASCO's Cancer Survivorship Program. Dr. Johnson also has served on the Food and Drug Administration's Oncology Drug Advisory Committee, as chairman of the Thoracic Committee of the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group and on the Board of Directors of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN), the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) and the LIVESTRONG Foundation.
Dr. Johnson earned his medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia and obtained his medical oncology training at Vanderbilt University. He is board certified in internal medicine and medical oncology.
Amelie G. Ramirez, Dr. P.H.
San Antonio, TX
Amelie G. Ramirez, DrPH, is a Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, where she also is founding director of the Institute for Health Promotion Research (IHPR). She also is the Dielmann Chair in Health Disparities Research and Community Outreach and the Max and Minnie Tomerlin Voelcker Endowed Chair in Cancer Healthcare Disparities and Outreach at the Cancer Therapy & Research Center (CTRC) at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. She also is Co-Associate Director of the Cancer Prevention and Population Science program at the CTRC. Over the past 25 years, Dr. Ramirez has directed many research programs focused on human and organizational communication to reduce chronic disease and cancer health disparities affecting Hispanics/Latinos and other populations. In 2007, Dr. Ramirez was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies and was named a Professor of Survivorship by Susan G. Komen For the Cure. She chairs the CDC's Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection and Control Advisory Committee and Komen's National Hispanic/Latino Advisory Council, and is a member of Komen's Scientific Advisory Board, Avon Foundation Breast Cancer Crusade Scientific Advisory Board, the LIVESTRONG Foundation's Board of Directors and the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Translating Genomic Based Research for Health.
Jeremiah Robins
San Diego, CA & Shanghai, China
Mr. Jeremiah Robins is Chairman & CEO of Great Pond Management Company, LLC – a US based Private Equity firm specializing in the acquisition of controlling positions in, and the redevelopment of, underperforming middle market manufacturing companies. Founded in 1979, GPMC has successfully invested across a broad industrial spectrum including enterprises in the Brass, Iron, Steel, Specialty Chemical, HVAC, Semiconductor Packaging, Coated and Specialty Optics and Medical Device markets. Mr. Robins & GPMC began operating in mainland China in early 1990 and the firm has had a continuing presence in the PRC since that time. At present, GPMC maintains a spectrum of investments each with their own very significant presence in China. These include Rotation Dynamics Corporation, a manufacturer of specialty materials for industrial applications, China Centric Associates, a consultancy specializing in US-China transactions, and PharmaLegacy, a provider of in-vivo laboratory services for the Pharmaceutical industry. A US citizen, Mr. Robins divides his time equally between the USA and China and maintains a home and office in each country.
Blaine P. Rollins
Denver, CO
Blaine Rollins is a testicular cancer survivor since 1998. He is managing director, senior portfolio manager and member of the Investment Committee at 361 Capital and is responsible for manager due-diligence, investment research, portfolio construction, hedging and trading strategies.
Prior to joining 361 Capital, Mr. Rollins was an independent investor from July 2006 to February 2011. Previously, he served as Executive Vice President at Janus Capital Corporation and portfolio manager of the Janus Fund, Janus Balanced Fund, Janus Equity Income Fund, Janus Aspen Growth Portfolio, Janus Advisor Large Cap Growth Fund, and the Janus Triton Fund. He began his career as a financial analyst at AMG Guaranty Trust (formerly Asset Management Group).
A frequent industry speaker, Mr. Rollins earned a Bachelor's degree in Finance from the University of Colorado, and he is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Lawrence Shulman, M.D.
Boston, MA
Lawrence N. Shulman, M.D., is Chief of Staff, Senior Vice-President for Medical Affairs, and Chief, Division of General Oncology, Department of Medical Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI). He is a specialist in the treatment of breast cancer and focuses on the development of new therapies for these patients.
Dr. Shulman has served as one of the component leaders through the DFCI strategic planning initiative. He is Director of the Department of Regional Strategy and Development, and oversees DFCI ambulatory oncology units at several regional sites in the Northeast. He is also physician leader for the development of clinical information systems for DFCI.
He is a member of the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons, and Chair of their Quality Integration Committee. He is the former Chair of the American Society of Clinical Oncology's (ASCO) Quality of Care Committee and a former member of ASCO's Health Information Technology Workgroup.
Shulman is the Director for the Center for Global Cancer Medicine at DFCI, and works closely with Partners In Health, where he is Senior Advisor in Oncology and a member of their Board, helping to lead the development of structured cancer programs for their resource-limited healthcare sites in Rwanda, Malawi and Haiti. He is a member of ASCO's Global Oncology Leadership Task Force. Shulman is also the Co-Chair of a Taskforce to re-define the World Health Organization's Essential Medicines List for Cancer.
Cindy L. Sweeting, CFA
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Cindy Sweeting is the president of Templeton Investment Counsel, LLC and the director of portfolio management for the Templeton Global Equity Group (TGEG) for Franklin Templeton Investments. Sweeting has lead portfolio manager responsibility for the TIF-Foreign Equity Series and portfolio management responsibility for institutional separate account relationships. She also oversees the institutional segment of TGEG's global investment management business.
Sweeting previously served as TGEG's director of research, president of Templeton Global Advisors Limited and lead portfolio manager for Templeton Growth Fund and Templeton Growth (Euro) Fund. Prior to joining Templeton in 1997, Sweeting was the senior vice president of investments with McDermott International Investments. She entered the financial services industry in 1983.
Sweeting holds a B.S. in business administration with a concentration in finance, summa cum laude, from Georgetown University. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Charterholder.
Raised in Three Rivers, Texas, Lee Walker graduated from Texas A&M University with a Bachelor's of Science in Physics (class of 1963) graduating Phi Kappa Phi (top academic 10% of his class), receiving NASA and National Science Foundation (NSF) funding for his post graduate work in nuclear physics (theoretical cosmic ray research). He was named Honorable Mention All Southwest Conference Basketball Team his senior year. Lee received his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1967. He served as the President of Dell Computer Corporation through its formative years. After leaving Dell in 1990 for health reasons, Lee was asked to teach at the University of Texas at Austin. The success of his "Elements of Entrepreneurship" and "Not for Profit Excellence" courses in the Graduate School Business Management Department earned him best teaching award three times. Lee teaches a Presidential Signature Course entitled "Pathways to Civic Engagement & "Civic Viewpoints" in the Plan II Honors Program where he is a Senior Research Fellow. The Austin Chamber of Commerce recognized Lee as their 1998 Austinite of the Year. In 2000 Lee was a founder of Envision Central Texas. In 2004, Lee received the Texas Nature Conservancy Lifetime Achievement award. In 2006 Lee and his wife Jennifer Vickers received the AFP's Outstanding Philanthropists of the year. In 2005 the LIVESTRONG Foundation created The E. Lee Walker Imagination Award, an annual grant up to $500,000 to researchers in cancer survivorship. Lee lives in Austin with his wife Jennifer and their two daughters, Gabriella and Giulia. In addition, Lee has two older daughters, Amanda and Suzanna Walker and grandchildren Sam & Jasmine, who also reside in Austin.


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Bracing for Reform: A Newark School Prepares to Reinvent Itself, Again
Erskine Glover has interviewed for his job as principal of Quitman Street Community School three times in the past two years—undergoing a total of 15 hours of questioning. With his latest rehiring a few weeks ago, he was given authority to decide which of his teachers will return for another year with him.
Glover believes weeding out subpar instruction is the single most important action he can take to lift Quitman, out of the academic doldrums of New Jersey's public schools. But the anxiety for staff waiting to find out by Friday if they are coming back only adds to the challenges and distractions in the waning days of this academic year.
Quitman, a school of 493 pre-kindergartners through eighth-graders in Newark's high-crime, high-poverty Central Ward, has become a symbol of Superintendent Cami Anderson's new push to turn around the city's struggling schools by closing down the worst of them and replacing staff at others. That's why Anderson has re-interviewed Glover so extensively.
At the same time, the school has become a target of a new statewide reform effort that calls for selective staff replacement, a strategy the Obama administration is prescribing for the lowest-performing schools around the country.
"We can't ignore history. This has been a low-performing school, and we have done something wrong collectively in order to get to this point," Glover said. "That makes all of us held accountable … So if it means reorganizing the staff, that's what it means."
Erskine Glover, Principal of the Quitman Street Community School in Newark, New Jersey (Stephen Nessen/WNYC).
Glover's leadership will be subject to a lot of scrutiny in the coming year. Anderson, the superintendent, is looking for dramatic gains at Quitman and seven other so-called renewal schools that will be absorbing students from six schools she's shutting down.
"Incremental growth is just not going to get us where we need to go without losing a generation of kids," Anderson said.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie wants results from the 258 schools he's targeted for extra state help; Quitman is one of 75 in the group labeled "priority." Quitman is also one of seven schools in the Newark Global Village School Zone, modeled after the Harlem Children's Zone in New York City, which links education and social services.
Rebecca Mays, a prekindergarten teacher who is retiring this year, estimates she's seen a dozen principals since her arrival at Quitman in 1987. Every two years, it seems, there's been a new curriculum. Mays can't help but wonder how this time will be different, but she is glad Glover will be returning.
"Things aren't going to change overnight," Mays said. "You have to give people a chance to tell if something works."
The prospect of turning around the school has Glover, 42, cautiously optimistic. As a boy growing up in Rochester, N.Y., he saw anything less than an A in school as unacceptable. On the basketball court, he could practice longer, stronger, harder to boost his chances of victory. Before coming to work in public education in Newark, Glover didn't know losing, and he doesn't like losing.
Yet here he is leading a school that time and again has been labeled a loser, and no matter how many hours he works and how prepared he is, some things have been beyond his ability to change. Now he's getting to make changes—with more discretion over his budget, as well as over staffing—but he's still waiting for answers to critical questions, especially about whether he can hire from outside the district.
"I'm excited," he said, "if I'm going to be able to really be the leader that I know I can be."
A History of Failure
Speaking at a conference table in what he's turned into the school's war room for data analysis, Glover said a minimum of 85 percent of students being "excellent learners" would mean success to him.
"It does not mean we pass [state tests] and we're proficient," Glover said. "That's a very low bar for me."
Yet last year, Quitman's highest pass rate on the annual New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge, known as NJ ASK, was 49 percent in fifth-grade math. Its lowest was in fifth-grade language arts, 13.7 percent.
Those figures compare with an 81 percent pass-rate statewide in fifth-grade math, and 61 percent in fifth-grade language arts.
A third of Quitman students or fewer demonstrated proficiency in eight of 12 tested areas. Scores weren't even reported in seventh-grade language arts, where the teacher was on leave almost the entire year.
In Glover's view, an intangible institutional complacency among staff is at the heart of Quitman's troubles, a focus on ritual compliance rather than student outcomes.
Have students been working? Yes. Learning? Not necessarily.
Teachers interviewed said they're doing the best they can with children who arrive with major academic deficits in one of the poorest neighborhoods in one of America's poorest big cities. (Graphics by: Hechinger Report)
As Glover makes decisions about who stays and who goes, he has had to ask tough questions of them.
"Education is no longer about, 'I have a job, I'm at a school and I'll stay there 25 years,'" he said. "It's really about, 'Am I the best fit for the location I'm in?' "
(Stephen Nessen/WNYC)
Pressure to Keep Engagement
One May afternoon on Quitman's stuffy third floor, a dozen seventh-grade boys in royal blue polo shirts and khaki pants trickle into their English class over a 15-minute period, alternately slamming the door behind them and leaving again to use the bathroom.
(Glover has divided the middle grades into single-gender classes, dubbed "kings" and "queens.")
One boy comes in playfully hitting another; the teacher kicks them out. The students are finishing opinion essays on school dress codes, "I Am" poems and color poems.
(A boy's musings on green: Collard greens on a plate / String beans that I never ate / Spinach that I'll never take / Green soda going down your throat.)
The teacher, who is also getting ready to retire after a quarter-century there, says it's hard to keep students' attention at the end of the day, especially with lunch at 10:30 a.m.
One boy puts his head down on his desk, proclaiming himself finished. Another complains to the teacher: "I already did this, but I didn't give it to you."
A boy in the back row walks over to a bookshelf, picks up an autobiography by the puppeteer behind the Muppet Elmo, returns to his desk and starts reading. Another boy who isn't doing anything begins to tease him.
One in the front of the room is singing.
Another in the middle who has been trying to work complains about all the door-slamming. He puts down his pen and goes to talk to a friend working on a computer at the back of the room.
The screen shuffles between a grammar assignment ("Which sentence uses correct capitalization?") and NBA standings.
At 2:05 p.m., the boys charge swiftly out the door, passing a desk where a stack of "I Am" essays from the last class is sitting.
On top is this one: I am tall and smart / … I worry sometimes I won't make it / … I understand life is hard / I say man is wrong about everything / I dream (of) becoming BIG / I try to do good at all times / I hope life doesn't end / I am tall and smart.
(Stephen Nessen/WNYC)
Not Everything Needs Changing
In evaluating a historically low-performing school, it's easy to assume that everything needs changing. At Quitman, that would be a faulty assumption. Its immaculate building was constructed in 1963, which is practically new by Newark public school standards, even if the absence of air conditioning does present breathing difficulties for students with asthma.
Haydee Gonzalez, a tiny graying woman who teaches Spanish, took it upon herself a few years back to paint every last inch of hallway, and proved herself a remarkable artist. A palate of magenta, orange, turquoise, yellow, purple and other bright hues provides the backdrop for the walls, which Gonzalez then brought to life with Disney and Dr. Seuss characters and illustrated nursery rhymes in the preschool wing.
A medical clinic is on the premises, the PTA is small but growing and very active and students can choose among several extracurricular offerings, including an in-school television news network.
New townhouses from Newark's redevelopment efforts line the streets surrounding the school.
"Before you wouldn't be able to walk across the street from Quitman," said Stephanie Ruff, the school's parent liaison and a native of the neighborhood.
Quitman does still draw from some of Newark's toughest housing projects, where Ruff and the school social worker have been known to pound on doors at 9 p.m. to track down parents. Every day they round up kids out of uniform and drag them home to get changed.
Quitman has high attendance rates, and major disciplinary incidents are rare. Many urban public schools face a lot of teacher turnover, but not this one.
Glover, a married African-American man at a school where 92 percent of students are African American and 93 percent qualify as low-income said he tries to set an example, starting with his style of dress. At 6-foot-3, he wears flashy suits that typically involve a matching bowtie and vest or handkerchief, with his long dreadlocks pulled back.
"For my students, I need them to see that being a well-groomed man, being a well-groomed individual, doesn't mean you have sold out, doesn't mean that you're not in tune with the urban trends," he said.
Glover sets a standard for staff in punctuality, accessibility and professional development.
Despite what are often 13-hour days at school, he is enrolled in a doctoral program at Teachers College, Columbia University, in New York City, at work on a dissertation about the use of technology in math instruction for African-American males. On Tuesday nights, he teaches early childhood education as an adjunct instructor at Kean University in Union, N.J.
He doesn't see many of his teachers working as hard as he does.
"They have the baggage and the teaching styles of a Newark Public Schools teacher," he said. "And what does that mean? You're under a union; you can get off at 3:05. You operate as if, 'Well, I'm still gonna get my contract once I get tenure, so if my students don't do well…' "
Newark Teachers Union President Joseph Del Grosso said the principal is responsible when that type of mentality arises.
"The principal is supposed to be the leader of the building and should create a certain morale," he said. "People don't have any reservation about blaming the teacher … When teachers fail, the principal failed."
A Personal Motivation
Glover, who rose through the ranks of public education from a teacher's aide and substitute, was once a union rep himself. As one of only two college graduates in his entire extended family, his motivation is deeply personal.
His own son and daughter attend more successful public schools in North Brunswick where they don't have any trouble with the basic-skills tests that bedevil the children at Quitman.
Passion for his students' welfare has carried Glover through his three job interviews and some rocky terrain during his first two years at Quitman.
The first interview was in 2010 with Clifford Janey, who named Glover principal in one of his final acts before his ouster as Newark's superintendent.
Replacing Janey, Anderson promptly placed Quitman on a potential closure list. Parents and community members mobilized—but over survival rather than academic support—and some staff worried more about their jobs than the quality of their school. In giving Quitman another chance, Anderson re-interviewed and rehired Glover.
This year, Quitman is caught in a battle between the Newark Teachers Union and the district over impending staff changes. Tenured teachers are legally entitled to a position somewhere in the district and can still collect their salaries if the district doesn't place them.
A bill in the state legislature would allow the district to eventually dismiss those who aren't placed, but even if it passes, many technicalities are at play, and the union is poised for a showdown.
"The tenured teacher has a right to a position under the law, and we will enforce that part of the law," said Del Grosso, the union president. He said decisions are being made "based on whether a principal likes you or dislikes you."
As principal of a renewal school, Glover had to re-interview for his job yet again this spring. He and the other renewal school principals got only four weeks to assemble their staffs after their own hiring or rehiring on May 17.
Although Glover will be held personally accountable for the school's performance each year, Anderson said she expects it to take time for him to assemble a dream team.
"Over the course of the next couple years, I think he will have the authority and time and empowerment to get the team he needs," she said. "I don't think it is either reasonable or achievable to think that can be done in four weeks."
The district will evaluate its budget and resources after Friday, the deadline for principals to extend offers to current Newark teachers. Glover worries about the prospect of having to fill openings with teachers who weren't placed elsewhere rather than hiring from the outside.
"I'm really fearful," he said, "if we have to bring back disgruntled staff members."
Students receive free books at a catered luncheon for third-graders to promote summer reading at Quitman (Stephen Nessen/WNYC).
The Importance of Working Hard
If Erskine Glover could rule his world, he would freeze all his middle-school students at their current grade level until he could instill in them a sense of urgency and responsibility for their work.
Even more than any academic deficits, work ethic is the critical component Glover sees lacking in students who have grown up with a string of long-term substitutes and a history of low expectations.
Of Quitman's 47 eighth-graders, Glover estimates that only seven are truly prepared for high school, and another 28 could be with the right summer school program. Many read on grade level, most don't skip school and only one or two have significant behavioral issues, he said.
But they have yet to learn the importance of working hard. Glover said he hates social promotion, but is unable to require more than a handful of students in each grade to repeat the year without getting bogged down in legal challenges that would only derail his efforts.
Glover convenes the entire school in its combined cafeteria-auditorium each day at 8:25 a.m. to set his expectations for both students and staff. On the morning of May 10, he asks for an update on a reading competition where the boy and the girl in each grade who read the most books that month will win a "monetary award" (a Barnes & Noble gift card).
"How many students so far this month [among] eighth-grade girls have read five books, this month?" he says into a microphone. "Stand up. I want to see who's in the lead."
A few girls stand.
"All right, come up to the front." He goes through each grade.
"Sixth-grade girls … This month, not the whole year. I'm only on the month of May. Fifth grade, who's your highest reader?"
By third grade, 15 students are standing in the front. "And second?"
A few dozen little ones run up.
"So," Glover says, "I'm gonna honestly say that I don't believe you, and you have to prove it to me."
He calls up the school librarian, responsible for overseeing the project, and reminds her of the poster-size chart he requested to track the competition publicly. He asks for the highest number of books students have read so far. Only the second-graders have documented reading more than five books in the first 10 days of May.
Among younger children, Glover's aim is to train parents to demand academic excellence. The issue isn't that they aren't involved, he said, "but I think that parents look at safety first: 'Is the school safe? Will my child have a good teacher in front of them who protects the child's safety and well being?' And we sometimes forego—parents, and then teachers sometimes fall into this—the educational aspect."
Last month, after children's author Mary Pope Osborne donated copies of her 28-book Magic Tree House series to every third-grader in Newark, Glover threw a catered luncheon for third-grade parents to promote summer reading. It was held in the "cafetorium," where staff and students built a giant tree house out of cardboard and construction paper.
Olivia Benders, a hairdresser, appreciated the efforts on behalf of her son.
"The last principal wasn't as excited for the kids," she said.
Her older child transferred from Quitman to a charter school a few years ago, but she'll be bringing him back next year.
Lawrence Polen, a dad sitting two tables over with his third-grade boy, said he's noticed a big cultural improvement at Quitman in recent years.
"Back when my other son was going here, it was more a streetwise school, [with] trouble bullying," he said. "Now they don't tolerate that here."
His other son also attends a charter now, North Star Academy. Asked how the two schools compare, Polen seemed taken aback, as if it were a silly question.
"North Star is a tough school," he said. "It's more of a challenge."
The luncheon came on the same day as a newspaper article announcing Glover's reappointment as principal, and he used his time at the podium to address the issue.
"This is the third time in two years that I've had to reapply for the principalship of Quitman Street School, so there are many people who say it's destined for me to stay here," he said. "I don't know if they think I'm not competent, capable—I don't know. But what I believe is that there's a reason I'm here. I believe that if given two more years, this school will be one of those schools that people are knocking on the doors to get into."
Privately, Glover cites another factor he'll use to gauge his success. The reforms need to outlast him. He lists off organizations with success ingrained into their cultures regardless of who's in charge: IBM, Manchester United. It bothers him deeply that urban public schools in high-poverty neighborhoods don't have that.
"If Erskine Glover leaves in 2-1/2 years and he's off to sitting on an island in Barbados and comes back five years later, will he still be excited about what he sees?" he asked. "If not, Erskine Glover failed."
The Hechinger Report and NJ Public Radio have joined with NJ Spotlight to share Quitman's story over the next year, dispatching a team of reporters to cover its daily trials and triumphs and the lessons it provides for schools and communities nationwide.
Sara Neufeld is a Brooklyn-based writer who has spent the past 12 years covering and working in public education. She reported about schools for The Baltimore Sun and San Jose Mercury News and contributed to the new book The Achievable Dream: College Board Lessons on Creating Great Schools.


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We just completed our second Statewide Erie Canal Distance Learning Project. This year we started with 28 classrooms and completed the project with 23 classrooms across New York State.
The gist of the project was to have 2 distance learning interactions with classrooms. The first interaction was created and facilitated by M1B and used as an instructional interaction and called "Mystery through History".
We had four suspects from the early 1800's represented by video interactions that played "live". Students interacted with the suspects and came up with reasoning on who was guilty.
Teacher reaction to this was very positive and students were engaged. We were able to hear post-interaction comments from students and it was great to hear them talk about what they learned and to ask questions to extend their learning.
The next interaction was directed by classroom created projects that were aligned with an Essential Question the classroom created. These projects varied and were video, powerpoint presentations, game shows, debates, illustrated poems, etc. They were creative truly illustrated student comprehension of the topic.
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New Dronefare Medal Placed Above Bronze Star, Purple Heart
March 5, 2013 - 12:46 pm
House members are taking issue with a new Defense Department medal's prominence in the hierarchy of military awards.
The Pentagon announced last month the creation of a new medal to adapt to a new era of technological warfare — and reward drone operators for well-placed strikes.
The Distinguished Warfare Medal will be awarded to service members whose extraordinary achievements, regardless of their distance to the traditional combat theater, deserve distinct department-wide recognition.
"I have seen first-hand how modern tools like remotely piloted platforms and cyber systems have changed the way wars can be fought," said former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta at the time. "We should also have the ability to honor extraordinary actions that make a true difference in combat operations, even if those actions are physically removed from the fight."
But House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel Chairman Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) and 48 other lawmakers asked new Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to reconsider the DoD decision to place it above the Bronze Star and Purple Heart in the order of precedence.
Several Democrats signed the letter, including Iraq War combat veteran and double amputee Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.).
"We are supportive of recognizing and rewarding such extraordinary service but in the absence of the service member exposing him or herself to imminent mortal danger, we cannot support the DWM taking precedence above the Bronze Star and Purple Heart," the lawmakers wrote.
"The current order of precedence for the DWM is a disservice to Purple Heart recipients who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our Country or were wounded while serving in combat. The imminent danger area requirement of the Bronze Star historically means that a service member has been deployed overseas for a military operation involving conflict with an opposing armed force," they continued.
The lawmakers asked Hagel to "lower the precedence of the DWM to an appropriate level below the Bronze Star and Purple Heart."
Wilson said the precedence of the new medal "does a disservice to our service members and veterans who have severed overseas in hostile and austere conditions."
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OKC Thunder: Toughest game of series ends with Rockets extending series
Francisco Garcia, who started in place of an injured Jeremy Lin, buried three of six from long range in the first 12 minutes, while Chandler Parsons made both of his attempts.
Matching the Rockets' shot-making wasn't the problem for the Thunder. Taking care of the basketball was. Oklahoma City coughed up the ball eight times in the first quarter, leading to 12 Rockets points. It ruined the Thunder's ability to gain any rhythm and offset an 8-for-15 shooting quarter.
But the Thunder took control in the second quarter, outscoring the Rockets 36-24 and leading by as many as 13 in the period. OKC used a 12-0 run to turn a 34-31 deficit into a nine-point lead. Durant and Martin scored all 12 point for the Thunder, with Durant dumping in seven during the spurt. The Thunder went on to lead 58-45 with 1:13 remaining in the half.
The Rockets, though, closed the half on an 8-2 run, stealing momentum and constructing enough confidence going into the locker room to come out and challenge the Thunder in the second half. Nothing built Houston's spirit quite like Delfino's strip on Durant as he brought the ball up and ensuing 3-pointer that capped the run.
Surprisingly, Houston did it in spite Harden's struggles. The Rockets' franchise player missed shots, turned it over and was a total non-factor. He contributed just six points in the half and turned it over seven times. Jackson, starting his second career game, had two more points in the first half. Derek Fisher, meanwhile, supplied a much-needed spark by scoring nine first-half points, making all three of his 3-point tries.
When the third quarter began, that 8-2 run quickly ballooned into an 18-2 run as the Rockets scored the first 10 points of the third period. They later assembled a 17-4 run to snap a 73-all tie and take a 90-77 lead, their largest of the night. Five Rockets scored during the stretch, as Houston didn't have a single empty possession in that three-minute window. The Thunder, over that same span, turned it over three times.
But thanks to a 7-1 run in the final two minutes, the Thunder closed to within 91-84 entering the fourth quarter.
Houston led by as many as eight in the final period.
The Thunder now returns home continuing its search for answers as to how the offense can continue to keep up with the Rockets without Westbrook.
"It's definitely going to continue to develop … We just have to keep evolving," Brooks said. "You don't prepare for (the loss of Westbrook), but when it happens you adjust and you move on. We're still a good team. We're definitely going to be a little different team, but we still have good players that can compete at a high level and that are driven and want to push the team forward."


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This article describes the Defrag.exe command line utility that is included with Windows XP. The Defrag.exe command line utility is specifically designed for scripting and for use by system administrators. To defragment a volume using Windows, follow these steps:
(https://support.microsoft.com/kb/314848/EN-US/ )How to Defragment Your Disk Drive Volumes in Windows XP
The Defrag.exe command line utility locates and consolidates fragmented boot files, data files, and folders on local volumes.
When you are saving files, the file is not necessarily saved as an entire file or folder in a contiguous space. The files are saved in the first available space on a volume. After a large portion of the volume has been used for file and folder storage, most of the new files are saved in pieces across the volume. When you delete files or folders, the empty spaces left behind fill in randomly as you store new ones.
You can find the Defrag utility, Defrag.exe, in the %SystemRoot%\System32 folder. You can defragment disk volumes formatted as FAT, FAT32, and NTFS. Defrag also works with Dynamic as well as Basic Disks.
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The provincial government has banned hunting caribou from the George River herd for the next five years in attempt to revive the decimated herd. Some Innu disagree and caribou expert meanwhile says more should be done than just ban hunting. What's the right course of action? Guest host Adam Walsh breaks it all down with New Democrat George Murphy, PC Steve Kent and Liberal Randy Edmunds.


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Mere hours after hundreds of people lined up on a red carpet for the noon Thursday opening of the H and M clothing store at The Collection at RiverPark, the Oxnard development also got its newest restaurant. But as by-invite training sessions go, the unveiling of the Settebello Pizzeria Napoletana chain started by former USC quarterback Brad Otton was a much more quiet, if no less fashionable, affair.
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Lawsuit filed against special purpose tax in Franklin County
CARNESVILLE, GA. - A Lavonia man is suing Franklin County, contending that the next special purpose local option sales tax is illegal.
That tax, which will raise about $18 million, dollars, is set to take effect in March. It was approved by voters last week.
Jerry Mattox is the director of the regional chapter of Freedom Works and lives in Lavonia.
His lawsuit was filed Friday in Franklin County Superior Court against the county and county commission Chairman Sam Elrod. Mattox, a paralegal who is representing himself, says in the suit that neither the county nor the five municipalities specifically listed the projects they intend to use the tax revenue for.
He says it is not specific enough to say the money will be used for road and sewer improvements, water line expansions, recreation and public safety. A list of projects for the next special purpose tax is available on the Franklin County website: http://www.franklincountyga.com/modules/news/.
Mattox takes issue with the five municipalities that would receive $200,000 each for "fire." He says the county's volunteer fire departments are ineligible for the money "as they are not owned or operated by the cities."
However, according to Section 48-8-110 of the Georgia Code - Revenue and Taxation, volunteer fire departments are eligible to receive special purpose tax money as a level-two, countywide project.
The code says fire protection, whether paid or volunteer, may receive funds through the county or municipality in which the department exists, along with other entities such as law enforcement, waste-water treatment, electric or gas utilities.
Mattox also says in his suit that the money allocated to the Franklin County Industrial Building Authority is illegal.
County attorney Bubba Samuels said the Industrial Building Authority is a government entity.
"They are absolutely a government entity. It was created by local legislation. It's a body politic created by the legislature of Georgia. It's not a private entity," Samuels said.
Mattox is asking the Superior Court to declare the tax "void and illegal."
He is also asking for a court hearing and to be awarded all costs of bringing the lawsuit.
As for the county's response, Samuels said Monday, "We're evaluating the claims contained in the lawsuit and will respond accordingly."
So far, no court date to hear the suit has been set.
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Review: 'The Americans' - 'Mutually Assured Destruction': Love will find a way
A review of tonight's "The Americans" coming up just as soon as my thing is Ecclesiastical...
"If you start to think of your marriage as real, it doesn't work." -Granny
"Mutually Assured Destruction" is far from a bad episode of "The Americans," but it feels like one that will be better appreciated as part of the whole season rather than as a standalone hour airing in the week between "Duty and Honor" and whatever's coming next week.
Part of that is because Phillip and Elizabeth's assignment of the week was one of their less interesting ones so far. The amount of confusion back in the mother country that necessitated the assignment is an important part of the larger picture, but their specific pursuit of the assassin felt a bit by-the-numbers.(*)
(*) Also, I'm curious how many other people initially mistook the prostitute at the hotel bar for Elizabeth in one of her wigs. She's not a dead ringer for Keri Russell, but there's a superficial physical resemblance, and a greater vocal one, such that I started to get confused in later scenes why Elizabeth was acting like she hadn't met their target yet. Once the hooker reappeared, it became clearer what was going on (and I then rewound to check the earlier scene again, where it was clear this was a different character), but I spent a couple of scenes being puzzled. Was I alone in this?
But the other part is that the ups and downs of the fake Jennings marriage are starting to blur together a bit. I believe that a relationship this artificial and fraught would get very complicated, and would have the partners waxing and waning in how they felt about it. But I think I would prefer there to be some level of equilibrium for a few episodes at a time, even if things abruptly change after that. I feel like I'm going to be exhausted on the state of the couple by the time we hit the end of this season, let alone if the show runs for years to come.
The Stan/Nina arc has been a more linear progression, and was the most satisfying part of "Mutually Assured Destruction." Their first encounter at the safe house was a pretty brutal guilt trip on Stan, who likes to think of himself as the good guy, yet has Nina telling him to think of how he'll feel looking at her dead one day, and later insisting, "I do everything for you; I'm trying my best." Noah Emmerich's reaction to the latter line, and the realization of just how fake and twisted this relationship is — as false in its own way as what the couple who live across the street from Stan has — was perfect. We're apparently meant to take Nina at face value — as an operative in over her head and trying her best not to drown — but it's hard to imagine John-Boy giving the order to exfiltrate her anytime soon.
Nina's stuck with Stan, but are Elizabeth and Phillip stuck together? Phillip raises an interesting point at the episode's end about the changing social mores of 1981 versus when they first arrived in America. If anything, the two of them separating would only strengthen their cover in that environment, assuming neither of them tried to start up a relationship with a civilian.
Would the series go to that well this early in the run? If so, I hope it's something that takes for a while.
Some other thoughts:
* The episode's pre-credits scenes had a much lighter tone than anything the show has done previously, almost like it was the USA (the cable channel, not the country) version of the concept. It was there to set up the tension later in the episode by showing us just what Phillip and Elizabeth had to lose now that they seemed happy and it was quite a change from how they usually operate. (A friend asked me last week whether we'd ever seen Elizabeth smile when she wasn't wearing a wig.)
* As William Safire noted back in 2006, "It is what it is" is a phrase that dates back at least to 1949, and probably quite a bit further. Still, it feels contemporary enough that it was a bit jarring to hear Elizabeth use it to discuss the state of their marriage.
* Chris finally gets more to do, as we find out that he's the lousy ex-boyfriend Martha had been telling "Clark" about earlier. Whether he's following her now out of romantic concerns or professional ones, seems like it'll only be a matter of time before he gets a good look at Phillip-as-Clark, which will end well for no one.
* As the headline alludes to, the song Martha plays for Clark to put them in the mood is Pablo Cruise's "Love Will Find a Way." Meanwhile, the episode closes with The Cure's "Siamese Twins," which was on an album ("Pornography") that didn't come out until 1982. Given that it's not played as source music that a character is listening to, I'll allow it. (Like how "Mad Men" played a yet-to-be-released Dylan song at the end of season 1.)
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Business and Industry Today is excited to announce that sQuidcard Ltd has won our Company of the Month Award! sQuidcard has been chosen as the recipient for this award for reasons including its impressive growth and its innovative, state-of-the-art cashless ePayment system that has been incredibly well received by schools, colleges, universities and campus environments across the nation. Payments are made using contactless smart cards or biometric identification, allowing a safer, smarter transaction. sQuidcard is the new way to pay, it represents a new type of cash: smart cash. With the 10 millionth cashless transaction quickly approaching, sQuidcard has taken the world by storm.
Established in 2005, sQuidcard is based in Thames Ditton, Surrey, just south-west of London; but also has a UK presence in Bolton and Scotland; as well as Kenya, where sQuidcard is working with banks and Universities to deliver revolutionary eMoney services. With a brand headline that states, "sQuid's the new quid", its easy to see why sQuidcard has quickly become the business that everyone is talking about. The sQuidcard system is a safer, more reliable and convenient alternative to carrying cash in educational facilities and allows parents to track their child's spending in a quick and easy manner. With the added bonuses of saving school administrator's time an reducing hassle associated with cash handling, sQuidcard will also provide management with detailed reports and visibility of all transactions on their campus. Use it to pay for those must have everyday items, whether its a bacon butty, magazine or your morning coffee, the sQuidcard saves time spent searching desperately in your purse or wallet for the right amount of change.
It's not a credit or debit card, and it will never get your into debt. Whatever your age, from 6 to 106, the sQuidcard is the eay to use contactless way to pay. You don't even need a bank account to take part! Just hold your sQuidcard near the sQuid reader and in a couple of seconds, you will see 4 green lights and hear a beep and the process is over, it couldn't be easier!
Offering a low cost pre-payment system to numerous market sectors including; schools, councils, transit, authorities, caterers, retail and loyalty, sQuidcard enables the lowest cost transactions in retails, digital and virtual commerce – bypassing often expensive bank and credit card networks. Featuring its own FSA-compliant eMoney platform with bank-grade security, sQuidcard is able to offer an utterly unique, and most importantly safe, eMoney system – the money is held securely and parents are able to protect their account balance if a card is lost or even stolen. Register your details online and top up the money on your sQuidcard account – all it takes is a click of a button. For extra usability, you can even check your balance and view your transaction history.
In addition to the current services offered by sQuidcard, it has recently launched online preordering and ticketing; this will be shortly followed by expansion into mobile payments and NFC.


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Show was at a venue called "The Church of Boston". Pretty much a bar with a stage. Great little venue for a thrash show. Ended up hanging out with the dudes from Black Mass, Lich King, and Havok. Got a guitar pick from each guitarist in Havok and got a picture with David (singer/guitarist). Awesome show.
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2. Hell Bent for Leather (Judas Priest cover)
3. Death In The Flesh
4. Sons of Cronos
5. Mountain of Skulls
6. Infernal Worship
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2. Ed-209
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4. Axe Cop
5. Combat Mosh
6. We Came to Conquer
1. Covering Fire
2. Point of No Return
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4. Scumbag In Disguise
5. Under the Gun
6. I Am The State
7. From the Cradle to the Grave
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Ralph Lauren video of Evan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVGYUlp9Law
Father's Illness Provides Lysacek More Resolve: http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports...mpics/3291453/
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Danger on Europe's Dinner Plate
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