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When Jon Gordon steps onto the Universal lot Oct. 1 as the studio's co-prexy of production, he'll be the latest in a long line of Miramax alums to land a major studio job. He also may be the latest to experience serious culture shock.As the Weinstein brothers pack for their Sept. 30 exit from Miramax, those who trained under them are downright ubiquitous. Departing Miramax execs have landed top jobs at Paramount, Sony, DreamWorks — at virtually every studio except Disney. The majors clearly hope that by tapping into the diaspora, they'll capture some of the mini-major's energy and enterprising spirit. But the hard-charging Bob & Harvey school of business embodied a unique culture and protocol. The studio terrain is sharply different, and it's not clear whether longtime Miramax staffers are well prepared to navigate more bureaucratic terrain. Every studio hires a wide array of individuals, with their own strengths and demons. It's hard to generalize about any staff, but there are certain hallmarks of the Miramax Alumni Assn. They are used to quick answers, so they may have some difficulty adjusting to a corporate structure. They're used to a guerrilla negotiating style — which worked well at Miramax, but is not what the majors are used to. And they may have a tough time adjusting to frequent meetings and decisions by committee. Some Miramax alumni refer to themselves as members of a fictitious 12-step program they dub Mir-Anon. The Miramax grads are a tight-knit group. Groups like Skull & Bones and college dining clubs have their own set of secret rituals and hand signals. There's nothing secret about Mir-Anon. One evening last week at the Peninsula Hotel — which still counts Harvey Weinstein among its most frequent guests — Gordon was having drinks with fellow alums Rick Sands, Bob Osher, Andrew Gumpert, Ross Landsbaum and Matthew Hiltzik. The group shares the shorthand of people who've worked in the trenches together. But they feed Hollywood's paranoia that the grads will fan out, stay in touch and end up running the town, Miramax-style. Few companies have had greater success in placing its former employees in high-level Hollywood jobs. (One notable exception is HBO, which has fed a huge number of former execs to the film and TV biz.) The Miramax influx raises questions with broader implications: Will the merging of cultures result in better relations with filmmakers, and will the result be faster dealmaking? As they cope with these larger issues, all of them face adjustments at their new jobs. Harvey and Bob Weinstein exercised a remarkable measure of personal control over the mini-major, and ran the company on their own sometimes pugnacious terms. So the alumni will set out to prove that they trained to be leaders, not followers. They'll want to prove to their new bosses that they are hands-on execs who can work 18-hour days and deliver results, rather than glorified assistants who can't make decisions on their own. These questions are assuming greater urgency now that the Weinsteins' divorce from Disney has sent a further exodus of Miramax execs into the Hollywood job pool. While the pressure is great, the pay is greater. All of them got hefty pay boosts at the studios. Working for the Weinsteins can be seen as a medical internship: There's not much money there, but big paychecks will come down the road. Here's a sample of former Miramax staffers now dotting the studio landscape:
- At Paramount — a studio making big changes under new chairman Brad Grey (a onetime assistant himself to Harvey Weinstein) — former Dimension exec Brad Weston is co-head of production. He has added ex-Miramax staffer Michelle Raimo as his senior veep of production. (One former Miramax marketing head, Gerry Rich, is now Par's marketing chief; another, David Dinerstein, co-heads Par Classics.)
- At Universal, where Gordon is about to become co-prexy of production, Andrew Rona is joining the studio's genre arm Rogue, working under Focus' co-head David Linde, a Miramax Intl. vet, alongside two other Miramax grads, Focus marketing chief David Brooks and distribution topper Jack Foley.
- At Sony, Gumpert, a onetime Miramax biz affairs exec, is joining former co-prexy of production Osher, now Columbia's chief operating officer. Also new to the lot is 10-year Miramax vet Matt Brodlie, who went to Sony unit TriStar Pictures late last year.
- Sands and Mark Gill, once known as tandem prexies for Miramax, have gone to DreamWorks and Warner Independent Pictures, respectively. Former Miramax senior VP of production Jeremy Kramer is now at DreamWorks.
- Miramax acquisitions exec Arianna Bocco is heading an indie division at Gersh; marketing execs Amanda Lundberg and Cynthia Swartz are now partners at Leslee Dart's PR agency.
- Rick Schwartz — who began as Harvey's assistant and moved up to exec produce "Gangs of New York" and "The Aviator" as a senior VP of production — is in partnership with Initial Entertainment Group through his own Blueprint Prods.
- Hiltzik, the former Weinstein spinmeister, has become prexy-CEO of Freud Communications, a new U.S. affiliate of the U.K. praisery.


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"SuggEstiva 09"
Music and theatre in Venice and Mestre
The summer festival "SuggEstiva09" will start from Saturday 11th July and it will put together the appointments of "Venezia Suona", "Venezia JazzFestival", "Med(F)Est" and "Teatro in Campo". SuggEstiva09 is promoted by the municipal department of Cultural Production of Venice, in cooperation with the Casinò of Venice, and it will include a vast bill of musical, theatre and cultural events, that will last till next 8th August.
SuggEstiva 2009 will start on Saturday 11th July at 10.00 with the eleventh edition of "Venezia Suona", ideated and promoted by the group "Il Suono Improvviso". SuggEstiva will go on at the Corte dei Cordami on Giudecca isle with the appointments of "Med(F)Est", a festival of Mediterranean and East-European cultures, by Mediaculture. After that, there will be the musical nights of "Venezia Jazz Festival", with the concerts at Piazza Ferretto in Mestre, organized by Veneto Jazz. Finally it will be the turn of the performances of "Teatro in Campo", with the artistic direction of Pantakin Eventi.
"Venezia Suona" 2009 (9th edition):
11th July 2009 from 10:00 to 23:00
Campo Bella Vienna, Campo S. Barbaba, Corte dell'orso, Corte Morosini, Campiello del Remer, Pontile Canal Grande Hotel Continental
"Med(F)Est" - Venice, Corte dei Cordami:
Wednesday 15th July 2009 at 21.30 "Tantratribe"
Thursday 16th July 2009 at 21.30 "Ektar"
Friday 17th July 2009 at 21.30 "Daniele Sepe & Rote Jazz Fraction"
"Venezia JazzFestival" - Mestre, Piazza Ferretto:
Tuesday 21st luglio 2009 at 21.30 "Saba Quartet"
Monday 27th luglio 2009 at 21.30 "Kokani Orkestar"
Thursday 30th luglio 2009 at 21.30 "Klezroym"
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Monday 3rd, Tuesday 4th, Wednesday 5th August 2009 at 21.15
Campo Pisani (S. Stefano)
"Otello Tragicommedia dell'Arte"
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Thursday 6th August 2009 at 21.15
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production by Carlo Presotto, Ketti Grunchi
Saturday 8th August 2009 at 20.00
Giardino di SS. Cosma e Damiano
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A young Hull FC side started pre-season with a fine victory edging out a seasoned York City Knights 32-30 at the Huntingdon Stadium.
Teenage centre Ben Crooks scored a brace as well as four goals as the Black and Whites worked hard for the win.
A new look half back combination of Danny Nicklas and Jamie Ellis pulled the strings, with the latter crossing the whitewash on his debut and the former producing a stand out performance in front of first-team coach Peter Gentle.
Fellow youngsters James Cunningham and Dean Hadley were equally impressive as Lee Radford's men scored their first victory of 2012.
Former Hull FC players Chris Thorman, Paul King and Jordan Tansey all featured for York, registering on the score sheet, whilst more faces of FC past included forwards Jack Aldous and Alex Benson and former Foundation staff member James Haynes.
The Match
York started the game on the front foot, a fortunate ricochet handing them the ball in an attacking position straight from the kick-off. Fielding an experienced side, the hosts tested the Hull line on both flanks, forcing strong defence to keep them at bay and a clearing kick from Nicklas to relieve the pressure.
The young Hull half back, who missed most of last season with a serious leg injury, made a big impression in the opening 40 minutes for the Black and Whites, but it was former Knights winger Tom Lineham who opened the scoring inside the first 5 minutes with a length-of-the-field score.
Taking a quick tap on his own 20m line, Lineham charged through the York defence and cruised to the line, setting up a successful conversion for Crooks.
Nicklas then took centre stage once more, first his clever kick to the left corner catching out the full-back to give Jack Briscoe a simple score and then linking well with Ellis in the halves to create the space for Liam Cunningham to cross on the right edge, the centre showing good hands to catch a tricky final pass in blustery conditions.
Crooks added one conversion to his tally, but York stayed in touch thanks to a Haughey try that was sandwiched between the two Hull scores, and the Knights took the lead for the first time when former FC favourite Paul King and centre Matt Garside crashed over.
Former Hull scrum half Thorman converted all three scores to give his side an 18-16 lead at the break, although Hull did have a late Lineham effort chalked off for a foot in touch after a Nicklas 40/20 had given his side a good attacking position.
Hull began the second half much the stronger of the two sides, surging into a lead that would eventually be too great for the Championship side to overhaul.
First, Crooks claimed the first of his scores, taking a short pass to cross, before Ellis, last season's Championship Player of the Year and Young Player of the Year, collected his own kick to notch down underneath the posts.
One conversion from Crooks took the score to 26-18 in favour of the Black and Whites, and Hull stretched their advantage when the promising young centre doubled his try tally following great build-up work by fellow England Academy star James Cunningham.
Crooks' fourth goal of the evening gave his side a 32-18 lead mid-way into the second half and that was the way it stayed until a frantic final 10 minutes.
With Hull ringing the changes as Radford gave a run-out to all 26 members of his squad, Tansey crossed after backing up a Thorman break and James Haynes capitalised on a disorganised Hull defence to waltz over as the hooter sounded.
Thorman added both conversions, but a young Hull side held on for a deserved 32-30 victory to get 2012 up-and-running in the best possible fashion for the club.
Hull FC: Shaul, Lineham, L Cunningham, Crooks, Briscoe, Ellis, Nicklas, Bowden, Newton, Green, Kent, Hadley, Brown.
Subs: J Cunningham, Matthews, Gay, Crane, Platt, Starling, Kingdom, Jackson, Wilson, Penrose, Bell
Tries: Lineham, Briscoe, L Cunningham, Crooks (2), Ellis
Goals: Crooks (4/6)
York City Knights: Bush, Pryce, Ford, Garside, Haynes, Thorman, Tansey, Sullivan, Lee, King, Clarke, Haughey, Aldous.
Subs: Brining, Hemmings, Houston, Broughton, Benson, Smith, Hellewell
Tries: Haughey, King, Garside, Tansey, Haynes
Goals: Thorman (5/5)
Referee: S Ganson


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Shot mostly in a British strip club, EDM artist Calvin Harris' "Sweet Nothing" video, with its performance by Florence Welch as one of the club's unraveling performers, is supremely uncomfortable. In the clip, which was directed by Vincent Haycock (Spiritualized, MSTRKRFT), she and Harris are seen together in flashbacks, though the actual plotline itself is a bit unclear. There's women in underwear, Welch breaking down and some heated tempers. Not much is resolved by the end of the video, story-wise, but it's clear that all is not well.
Calvin Harris' new album, 18 Months, comes out October 29 via Fly Eye and Columbia Records.


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Franchise Index: Previous Season / Next Season
Record: 1-10-1, Finished 6th in NFL West Division
NFL Season Summary
Scored 193 points (16.1/g), 12th of 12 in the NFL.
Allowed 382 points (31.8/g), 12th.
Differential of -189 points (-15.8/g), 12th.
Expected W-L: 2.0-10.0.
Takeaway/Giveaway Differential -12 (-1.0/g), 10th.
Simple Rating System: Total -13.0, Offense: -5.5, Defense: -7.4, SoS: 2.8, versus averages of 0.0.
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Millsaps wins Supercross at Qualcomm Stadium
Davi Millsaps held off six-time San Diego winner Chad Reed for the first nine laps and Justin Barcia down the stretch Saturday night to score his second Monster Energy Supercross win in four year at Qualcomm Stadium.
Millsaps second victory of the season kept the Suzuki rider from Murrieta atop the season standings after six of 17 races.
Millsaps sped into the lead off the starting line and turned the holeshot into a 2 1/2-second lead after three laps.
But two-time series champion Reed had closed to with a bike length of Millsaps nearing the midpoint of the 20-lap feature when he fell after going to high on the berm of a turn.
Millsaps, 24, scored his fifth career win before a crowd of 55,361. Former series champion Ryan Dungey finished third and was followed by two-time series champion James Stewart, Reed and reigning series champion Ryan Villopoto.
Defending Western Regional 250cc champion Eli Tomac upset current points leader Ken Roczen of Germany to win the 15-lap semimain. The win was Tomac's second in three years in San Diego and his fourth in six races this season.
"Getting the hole shot and leading all 20 laps is unbelievable," said Millsaps. "I've never done that before. I didn't really think I had it at the start and the bike came alive."
Millsaps followed two straight second-place finishes with Saturday night's win to extend his season points lead to 19 over Dungey.
Stewart edged Millsaps in a battle of of Suzukis in the first 450cc heat of the night.
Millsaps, who won the rain-soaked 2010 race at Qualcomm Stadium, led the first three-quarters of the eight-lap heat before being passed by Stewart in the final turn of lap six.
"Davi's not leading the points for nothing," said Stewart, who has been riding since the season opener with a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee. "It felt good to get a win."
The second heat was red-flagged midway through the race after Jet Browne of Long Beach crashed and had to be removed from the course on a cart. Villopoto pulled away to an easy victory from a single-file restart. Barcia, who fell shortly after taking the holeshot, rallied to fifth after the re-start.
"It's all about the start here," said Villopoto. "The track is slick and fast. There's one line."
San Diego's Jimmy Anderson finished 10th in the second heat, missing the final transfer spot to the main event by one place. His chance of qualifying ended with a seventh-place finish in the last-chance qualifier.
In a sport once dominated by riders from San Diego County, no local rider made either main event.
Joshua Hill, who finished second to Millsaps here in 2010, won the last-chance qualifier to make the main event for the first time in 39 races.
In the 250cc main, Jason Anderson held the early lead but gave way to Tomac on the fourth lap. Tomac, from Cortez, Colo., finished three seconds ahead of Roczen to score his fourth win of the season. Anderson held onto third.
Despite finishing second, Roczen holds a 17-point lead over Tomac in the standings, who failed to finish one race.
El Cajon native Christian Craig, the son of former tour winner Michael Craig, won the hole shot in the second 250cc qualifying race, but finished third. He finished 13th in the title race.
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Heat One (8 laps): 1. James Stewart (Suzuki), 2. Davi Millsaps (S), 3. Trey Canard (Honda), 4. Ryan Dungey (KTM), 5. Matthew Lemoine (Kawasaki), 6. Broc Tickle (S), 7. Robert Kiniry (Yamaha), 8. P.J. Larsen (H), 9. Ben Lamay (Y).


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Drug Makers Hope to Avoid Bitter Pill in Final Legislation
After helping torpedo the Clinton health-care plan 15 years ago, the pharmaceutical industry has largely held its tongue this time.
The reason is it doesn't want to undermine an $80 billion deal with Democrats to help pay for an overhaul that could end up benefiting the industry.
But liberal Democrats now have stepped up their fire against that deal, which may force the industry to up its financial ante. One key factor is a last-minute push by liberals to eliminate a gap in Medicare drug coverage that forces some seniors to pay a significant portion of the cost of their drugs.
The health-care overhaul approved by the House would eliminate that gap, dubbed the doughnut hole, but the Senate bill set for a vote Thursday doesn't entirely cover it. Last week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada talked about closing the doughnut hole in the final version of the legislation, heightening pressure on drug makers to contribute more than the $80 billion in overhaul concessions.
Ken Johnson, a spokesman for the drug industry's trade group, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, said Wednesday that there hadn't been any discussions with the Senate or White House about redoing the original deal reached in June. He said that "$80 billion is a huge amount of money, and it's forcing our companies to make some very difficult decisions."
House Democrats also say they will push for coverage of the doughnut hole when a conference committee representing the two chambers meets to work out differences in their bills. "We're all going to insist it be filled," Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D., N.J.), chairman of the House health subcommittee, said in an interview. Mr. Pallone said that forcing drug companies to contribute more was just one option for financing the added prescription coverage.
Drug makers agreed as part of the $80 billion deal to sell drugs to Medicare beneficiaries in the doughnut hole at a 50% discount. Many Democrats have been trying to increase the drug industry's contribution to the cost of the overhaul, noting that its revenues are likely to climb as tens of millions of additional Americans gain health insurance.
"I'm not seeing much negative" for drug makers in the overhaul, said Les Funtleyder, an analyst at institutional trading firm Miller Tabak, who predicts the industry will make money off the overhaul.
For its part, the PhRMA trade group said it didn't expect the expansion of insurance coverage "to generate a material upside for our companies," because most of the uninsured expected to gain coverage in the overhaul are young and healthy. Another factor, the group said, was that many uninsured who have been paying for drugs out-of-pocket wouldn't have to pay as much when they get coverage, because of lower prices paid to drug makers by insurance plans or Medicaid, the state-federal health program for the poor.
"Our best estimate of the net impact of health reform on industry revenues is modest, ranging from a potential gain of 1% to a loss of 2%" of U.S. revenues, said PhRMA's Mr. Johnson. Last year, the industry's prescription sales in the U.S. were $291 billion, according to data provider IMS Health.
While downplaying the overhaul's benefits to the industry, drug makers have refrained from most public criticism during the debate. Drug makers were among the first health-care companies to strike a cost-containment deal with lawmakers and the White House, and PhRMA has even funded some advertisements in support of an overhaul.
That has been a marked change from the mid-1990s, when pharmaceutical executives led the opposition to President Bill Clinton's plan. Back then, drug makers funded the "Harry and Louise" ads credited with turning public opinion against the Clinton proposal.
This time, health legislation won't contain measures most feared by the industry, especially a provision allowing for importation of cheaper brand-name medicines from abroad. Another provision, the public option for government-run insurance coverage, also was dropped from the Senate bill and isn't considered likely to make any final version of health legislation. Drug companies had been concerned about a public option, fearing it would drive people away from private insurers and lead to drug-price controls. Pharmaceutical firms and policy makers deny the $80 billion deal contained any quid pro quo.
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A bum rap?
Teachers take the blame for public-school failings, but lockstep salary schedules hold good teachers down
On average, public-school teachers receive about 50 percent higher pay than teachers in private schools. Looking at that statistic alone, and keeping in mind the poor performance of many public schools, some attack "overpaid" public-school teachers. Three nuances should be kept in mind though.
First, instead of assuming that public-school teachers are overpaid, maybe we should ask whether private-school teachers are underpaid. Second, public-school teachers on average have more formal education and more teaching experience. Third, the overall pay statistic may be less important than the distribution: public schools typically are trapped in a bad system.
In 1997-98, taxpayers spent $326 billion on public education, roughly $1,200 for every man, woman and child in the United States. Almost 82 cents of every dollar wound up in the paycheck or the benefits package of a public-education employee, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Benefits aside, teacher salaries range from an average of $27,341 in South Dakota to $51,738 in Alaska. Fourteen states pay the average teacher more than $40,000 per year and another 14 pay $35,000 or more. But according to the Education Intelligence Agency, a California-based research firm, only two ways exist for teachers in 99 percent of public-school systems to get a raise: By earning graduate credits or waiting out the clock. Graduate credits, though, generally reward teachers for gaining expertise in popular teaching theories and methodologies rather than in field-specific subject matter. And longevity in government service is seldom an accurate predictor of quality.
Such single-salary structures are the product of three decades of union control. But while teacher pay has edged higher-in half of states it eclipses the average pay of all workers by between 30 and 53 percent-student achievement has slid into the basement. California, for example, has the second highest per-teacher spending rate in the nation-but only one in five 4th graders in the state scored at or above a proficient reading level on the 1998 National Assessment of Educational Progress. Eighth grade reading and writing scores were equally dismal. Once the world's valedictorians, American students now trail much of the developed world in mathematics and the sciences.
Meanwhile, teacher frustration grinds like sand in the gears of public education. "Many teachers feel beleaguered, embattled, that they're doing their very best," said former Florida high school teacher Tracey Bailey, now National Projects Director for the Association of American Educators. "Many spend more time with other people's kids than many parents spend with their own. And then teachers get slammed for low student performance, as though they should be the only people asking Johnny if he did his homework and asking him to prove it."
Mr. Bailey believes increased-but different-teacher compensation could right some of what's wrong academically with America's public schools. After a stellar performance during four years of teaching physics and space science at Satellite High School in Satellite Beach, Fla., the council of Chief State School Officers named him 1993-94 National Teacher of the Year. That same year, Mr. Bailey strongly considered leaving the profession.
"I had the applications for medical school sitting in my desk. I thought, 'I love teaching-it's great,'" Mr. Bailey explained. "But I'm going to raise a big family with five or six kids and I can't do it on this salary." When Mr. Bailey was named Teacher of the Year, his salary was $22,100 a year. The next year, despite being recognized as the best teacher in the country, the only raise he received was a union contract longevity hike of $100 a year-maybe six bucks a month after taxes. "Here I am being selected State Teacher of Year and I'm ready to leave the classroom because of a low salary. But it was a low salary unnaturally restricted by forces outside of my control."
Michael Podgursky said union-controlled, single-salary pay structures often force exceptional early-career teachers to look for more lucrative work, thus robbing future students of educators who, down the line, could offer both enthusiasm and experience. The system also suppresses differentials by teaching field, leading highly qualified math, special-education, and science teachers (like Mr. Bailey) to seek greener pastures.
Fewer than half of all U.S. teachers who teach math have a major or minor in math, and 28 percent of math teachers (and 18 percent of science teachers) lack state certification in their field, according to the National Teacher Recruitment Clearinghouse in Belmont, Mass. "If you had to design a compensation system to produce shortages," Mr. Podgursky said, "you'd do what public schools are doing."
Single-salary pay schedules also discourage teacher effort and performance. A dynamic, hardworking young teacher receives the same-or less-pay than a burned-out vet who's just going through the motions. Georgetown University graduate Kelly Amis knows what that's like. During two years of teaching in a rugged South Central Los Angeles elementary school, Ms. Amis said she saw other teachers who regularly arrived late, snoozed in class, and verbally abused students. The experience sapped her enthusiasm. Eventually, she quit and joined the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, a Washington, D.C. education policy group.
"There are lots of people who would teach if they had the right incentives," Ms. Amis told the Los Angeles Times last month. "I found teaching to be so frustrating and so disillusioning and really sad for so many of the kids I was dealing with and the families who felt hopeless."
Now, though, a sprinkling of districts and individual public schools are trying new incentives aimed at restoring hope. Schools in Denver and Douglas County, Colo., in 1999 launched "merit pay" programs that link teacher salary to student performance. In May 2000, the mammoth 44,000-student Cincinnati school implemented a similar plan. (Unions already are calling it a failure, but early measures showed immediate academic gains among students in some schools).
In May 2001, Iowa passed the first statewide performance-pay program, a sweeping initiative that offers educators a four-step ladder to top salaries. Included in the Iowa plan: increased starting pay and a two- to three-year mentoring program for new teachers; comprehensive performance reviews for new teachers; evaluations for all teachers at five-year intervals; and finally, a bonus plan-cash paid to employees at schools that show schoolwide improvement.
Iowa teachers' union president Jolene M. Franken immediately slammed the measure, saying it had "no sustained, stable supply of money" to keep it going-but a May 2001 Education Intelligence Agency (EIA) report revealed that Iowa might find ample funding if it downsized its education bureaucracy. As of 1998, fewer than half of state public education employees were teachers, and the state also employed one district-level administrator or official for every 40 classroom teachers. Meanwhile, Utah is able to manage 205 teachers with a single district-level employee; California gets by on one district-level worker for every 124 teachers.
In May, the Florida legislature approved a plan that awards an $850 bonus to every teacher who earns ratings of satisfactory or higher on this year's performance evaluation. The proposal is part of a $152 million plan to recruit and retain teachers as the state faces a shortfall of educators-160,000 of them-over the next decade. The plan allows districts to disburse signing bonuses to new teachers-a proposal by Gov. Jeb Bush-and awards extra pay to educators who agree to work in struggling schools where students are performing poorly on state tests. The first bonuses will hit teacher bank accounts in October.
With the education debate thundering at the top of the national agenda and well-meaning teachers caught in the eye of the storm, even small steps toward reform show the need for an overhaul of staff compensation priorities. "It's time we evaluated public education spending on what we are actually getting," said EIA president Mike Antonucci, "instead of what we hope we will be getting."


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If you are looking to secure a fancy registration number for your car, you just might have to wait a while. The Transport department has not issued any fancy numbers over the past five months as it is still in the process of working on an online system through which it can auction these numbers.
While a draft notification for this policy has been issued, the final notification will only be issued once the auctioning system is in place, Transport officials said.
The department has only been issuing these numbers to Supreme Court and High Court judges, Lok Sabha and Delhi Assembly Speaker and Union ministers and Delhi Cabinet ministers, among a few others who can book fancy numbers for free for up to two vehicles.
We have not issued any fancy registration numbers since August 15, 2012, except in the case where such numbers are supposed to be given for free MLAs, MPs etc. We have assigned the work of creating an online auctioning system for fancy numbers to National Informatics Centre and the agency is still working on the project, a Transport official said. Suggestions and objections on this policy have already been invited.
The system of auctioning is supposed to stop corruption in allotment of fancy registration numbers that ails the existing system.
People have been turning up at the Transport office and the Transport Ministers office also asking for fancy numbers since the process of issuing such numbers have been discontinued since August 2012. For most Delhiites, it is a very important status symbol and they are willing to pay any price for it. But we cannot issue any numbers until the auctioning process is in place, the official said.
The government will have to amend the Delhi Motor Vehicles Rule 1993 to insert a new Rule 34A, which will allow for the auction of such fancy registration numbers.
In July, Delhi government had cleared the auctioning of fancy numbers every fortnight. These numbers are supposed to be put in five categories with a base price decided for each category. Registration number 0001 will be the most expensive, with the minimum reserve price fixed at Rs 5 lakh.
Numbers 0002 to 0009 will be the second most expensive, with the auction starting from Rs 3 lakh. The third category will include numbers from 0010 to 0099; 0786, 1000, 1111, 7777 and 999, for which


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Narrated by the visionary founding member, Hell's Angel provides a fascinating all-access pass to the secret world of the notorious Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club. Sonny Barger recounts the birth of the original Oakland Hell's Angels and the four turbulent decades that followed. Hell's Angel also chronicles the way the HAMC revolutionized the look of the Harley-Davidson motorcycle and built what has become a worldwide bike-riding fraternity, a beacon for freedom-seekers the world over.
Never simply a story about motorcycles, colorful characters, and high-speed thrills, Hell's Angel is the ultimate outlaw's tale of loyalty and betrayal, subcultures and brotherhood, and the real price of freedom.
©2001 Sonny Barger Productions (P)2012 HarperCollins Publishers
"Good story..."
I hope that he leaves a manuscript to be read "only upon death" with some truths... I can appreciate that he would never rat on his brothers, but a whole lot of truth is left out...
"Take a look into the life ..."
It's a history lesson , an autobiography and an adventure. Ever wondered why they do what they do ? Then this is a great book for you !
"Like it or not the Hell's Angels are criminals"
I actually had more respect for Sonny Barger and the Hell's Angels before reading this book. The book is merely comprised of first hand recollections of the trials, tribulations and growing pains of a criminal organization which I fully expected before buying this book. What I didn't expect was Mr. Barger playing the wrongly accused innocent victim stance on most of the legal actions taken against the club in a supposed unjust legal environment. However, I continued reading the book with an open mind until the recollection of the infamous Rolling Stones free concert at Altamont Speedway, California. Barger actually attempted to justify the stabbing murder of Meredith Hunter at the hands of Hell's Angels members by placing the blame on the band and the venue instead of the hands of those with the knives. I would have had more respect for the man if he would have fessed up to the wrongdoings instead of pushing the blame off on others. In a nutshell, were it not for an amazing streak of luck and legal technicalities, Sonny Barger should be behind bars for life instead of whining about how he had been so unfairly pursued by authorities. Disappointing.
"Angels Forever!"
what a rad life and still going! Thank you for your contribution to history! Semper Fidellis
"Amazing story from an amazing leader"
Yes. It was great to get an insiders take on the notorious Hells Angels club and understand what they're really all about.
I liked Sonny's no BS approach to to living life his way and becoming the leader of the most famous motorcycle gang in the world. He is also funny and it is like having a beer with him and just letting him talk about the experience and colourful members of the gang! I also laughed at the part where all the members were riding to a rally when they went through a small town and some lady saw them all coming and frantically picked up her kids and ran into the house!
Excellent narration of sonnys words. It is if sonny himself is doing the talking!
Hells Angels demystified!
Brotherhood and Sammy Barger are two sides of the same coin!
"A must for any true biker"
An excellent book, from an amazing man. It gives the history of the Hells Angels like only Sonny himself could tell it. He doesn't just talk about the good times. He's also reflects on the bad times with a no bullshit approach. I have personally read it 3 times and highly recommend it to any true biker out there! I've read it 3 times and will probably read it another time in the near future
"fucking loved it"
fucking loved it was an amazing book I recommend to anyone who loves biker culture
"Good story"
The inside look of truth that can only be told by the HA is great. The pursuit of freedom, brotherhood and a love of riding is the something many can relate too. The narration was good not great just good but the story was outstanding.
"great story"
puts a lot in perspective. I enjoyed the stories he tells and getting to see a little inside the life he lives.
"good but was left wanting more"
This was a good book to listen to. The reader did a fine job capturing the tone of the story. There are multiple claims of originality that it would have helped Sonny's story if he were able to show proof of some of his claims. i would recommend the story to anyone who would like a quick view into the motorcycle gang lifestyle.
"Mundane and self obsessed diatribe."
No, definitely not. Not very entertaining, rather self indulgent book not really engaging and it drones on far too much. Wasted a good few hours listening to it, waiting for it to excite... And that didn't happen
More action and details
Robert duvall
Not many to choose from
I have always found The Hells Angels and the media circus that surrounds them fascinating so it was great to be able to get the true account straight from the mouth, and hear the other side of the story.
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|Dragon boys lose in Brush, take down Sedg. Co. at home
|Written by Kyle Arnoldy
HHS boys' basketball players have proven they can compete with every team they have faced this season as all five games have been decided by single digits. Holyoke again found themselves in a tight battle Tuesday, Dec. 17, falling to Brush 52-59 on the road and putting away Sedgwick County 65-56 at home Saturday, Dec. 21.
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Holyoke 52, Brush 59
In Tuesday's action, Holyoke moved the ball well offensively and knocked down open shots, but in the end, could not keep pace with Brush as the Dragons lost 52-59.
Logan Tharp and Tito Fierro each knocked down a pair of 3-point shots in the first quarter to fuel a 16-point quarter for the Dragons. Brush, who finished in third last year in 3A, knocked down nine 2-point shots in the quarter to take an 18-16 lead.
Tanner Smith helped keep Holyoke close in the second quarter, scoring all seven of his points in the eight-minute span. Brush added 10 points to their total for a 28-25 lead at half.
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The Navy League of the United States, Provence Council, welcomes you.
The Navy League is composed of numerous local organizations called "Councils" and has branches all over the world. The international Councils welcome Naval officers and sailors whose vessels are anchored in their area. These Councils provide help and hospitality and give these visitors the opportunity to meet local people through organized events.
Provence Council received its Charter in 1990. Our association covers the region from Toulon to Marseille and includes American members as well as members of other nationalities.
Over the past twenty years Provence Council has welcomed hundreds of visiting U.S. ships. Besides having the opportunity to meet and associate with Naval Officers and local members of the Navy League, membership benefits include a subscription to the monthly magazine "Sea Power", receipt of the annual "Sea Power Almanach", invitations to visit many of the ships which come to the area and invitations to numerous other activities which the Navy League may sponsor or be invited to.
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In addition to my Chiropractic Practice, I am a 6-time national champion powerlifter. I lift in a drug free/WADA (Olympic standards) tested organization. Therefore, the quality of the supplements that I take is critical. Athletes in our organization (USA Powerlifting) are very selective about the quality standards of products that they use, and I feel very positive about the quality of the NOW® and NOW® Sports brands. There are several cases every year of athletes that take a tainted supplement and it adversely affects the outcome of their drug test. I look forward to becoming even more competitive at the national and international level and NOW® will be a part of my achieving those goals. I have competed in the Arnold Classic in Columbus, Ohio as well as the FIBO Fitness Expo in Essen, Germany (largest fitness industry show in Europe) in addition to lifting in the national championships yearly. My best lifts are an 804 lb squat, a 529 lb bench press, and a 675 lb deadlift in the 242 lb class.
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All my friends seem to go down because they get stuck in the clipless pedals and stop moving--bad. Not to be outdone by them, I slid across some slippery mud with the bicycle still attached to my feet. When my body crashed down on the ground, my belly absorbed a good amount of shock, but protected my ribs very well. Let this be an example of where being fat is a good thing.
I still had nearly 10 miles to ride in the chilly wind before I could make it to the car. The deepest gash is about a centimeter deep and an inch long (you could see the white in there--it was gross).
These are shots of my arm. My knee was torn up pretty bad, as well, and my entire left side seems to be broken up portions of the same bruise.
So don't ride on slippery mud over pavement. It's like black ice for us southern Californians.


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The Global Financial Crisis is no excuse for businesses to cut back on their corporate and community responsibilities but instead a time to ensure these commitments retain budgeting priority, a major Australian hotel chain has advised.
George Bedwani, COO of Australian hotel chain Metro Hotels, said the company had a long history of supporting a wide range of not-for-profit and community organisations and was committed to continuing this support, especially in tough times.
Metro Hotels has recently linked several well-known charities to its online accommodation booking system, donating 5% of each customer's accommodation bill to their selected charity as a means of generating a stream of residual for the three popular not-for-profit organisations.
Called the One Community Program, the booking system links the Cancer Council, World Wildlife Fund and Save the Children with both the Metro Hotel chain and the thousands of its guests who book accommodation online at one of its properties each year.
"Too many businesses have taken the opportunity of the GFC to cut back on their corporate and community responsibilities at a time when these organisations need more support than ever," Mr Bedwani said.
"Metro Hotels is instead seeking new ways of engaging our customers in our corporate giving so they can also feel a part of supporting these important organizations and the work they do, especially when everyone is tightening their belts."
Mr Bedwani said the One Community Program was created to provide greater awareness of the organisations with which Metro Hotels had chosen to partner, as well as to provide an income stream for them. By linking the charities to the website booking program, customers booking accommodation at Metro Hotels can view details on each of the charities and select the one which most appeals to them at the time of booking. All website bookings still enable customers to receive the best rate available on the day and no booking fees apply.
For guests who want to learn more about the charities, a link to their websites is also provided, enabling people to make additional direct donations to each of the charities should they choose to do so.
In addition to the formal support provided to the three partner not-for-profit organisations listed, individual Metro Hotel apartments, hotels, inns and resorts around Australia continue to support local community organisations through the recent global financial downturn.
"Metro Hotels been part of the Australian community for more than 30 years and is proud to be Australia's oldest 100% owned and operated hotel chain," Mr Bedwani said. "We are here for the long term and consider it important that we lend a hand to those who help others so they can be here too."
Metro Hotels has apartments, hotels, inns and resorts in Sydney, Brisbane, Ipswich, Gladstone, Melbourne, Perth, Albany and Groote Island. To book accommodation at Metro Hotels, visit the website at www.metrohotels.com.au or call the toll free Central Reservations line on 1800 004 321.
Metro Hotels is the public face of Transmetro Corporation, an Australian owned public company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. The Group currently provides a national accommodation network of properties, with over 1000 rooms in key locations and major cities across Australia.


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A UC Davis study of 110 years of mountain lion attacks on people suggests the conventional wisdom of standing your ground may not always be the right course.
"Even though we found evidence that pumas will indeed chase, and capture, people who run, we also found that people who stand still are possibly more endangered," said the study's lead author, psychology professor Richard Coss, an expert on the evolution of predator-prey relationships.
"Immobility may be interpreted by the mountain lion as a sign that you are vulnerable prey, either because you are unaware of its presence, or because you are disabled and not capable of escaping."
Thus, running might be the smartest move, Coss concluded, if you are in a situation that allows you to run in a surefooted fashion with even strides — for example, on dry, flat ground rather than uneven, rocky terrain or deep snow.
Most state and federal wildlife agencies advise against running. The California Department of Fish and Game says on its Web site, in part: "Do not run from a lion. Running may stimulate a mountain lion's instinct to chase. Instead, stand and face the animal."
Coss said the new study reviewed personal accounts, news reports and wildlife agency reports of attacks by pumas on 185 people in the United States and Canada from 1890 to 2000. His goal was to identify what kinds of activities people were doing during a mountain lion attack and determine whether these activities predicted the severity of their injuries.
"An understanding of how large cats select humans as prey and the situations that promote the greatest likelihood of attack is an important component of wildlife management," he wrote.
Coss' co-authors: E. Lee Fitzhugh, a UC Cooperative Extension specialist; Sabine Schmid-Holmes, a UC Davis postdoctoral researcher; Marc Kenyon, a UC Davis undergraduate researcher; and Kathy Etling, a wildlife specialist and author of the 2004 book Cougar Attacks: Encounters of the Worst Kind.
The study, "The Effects of Human Age, Group Composition, and Behavior on the Likelihood of Being Injured by Attacking Pumas," is published in the latest issue (Volume 22, Issue 1) of the quarterly journal Anthrozoos: A Multidisciplinary Journal of the Interactions of People & Animals.


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Several hundred feet of power wire from an irrigation system was reported stolen over the weekend.
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On April 2, the LaGrange County Sheriff's Department received a call regarding an unknown person or persons trying to enter a residence on CR 550E.
The Shipshewana Event Center (formerly the Town Center) is getting a new sign.
Susan Hughes joined the Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) volunteer roster as she was sworn in by LaGrange County Superior Judge George Brown Wednesday morning.


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JAIPUR: BJP Chief Ministerial candidate Vasundhara Raje will chair the party's legislature party meeting here tomorrow, a party release said today.
Newly elected MLAs of the party will attend the meeting which is convened at 11am at the party office here.
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11/21/2012, Back in Panama
Some of you may remember that we sold our 1990 Jaguar XJS convertible and bought a Panga for about the same price. I guess it is appropriate as a Panga is what we use instead of a car here in the Bocas del Toro archipelago, but a 3 cylinder 50hp outboard is not quite the same as a 5.3 litre V-12 - and the outboard's 4 mpg makes even the Jag's mileage look good. Of course, 4 mpg is actually quite good for a boat, but it cannot match the Jag for acceleration. Any way, it made sense as we were not living in the US and did not need a car there.
Or did we? We plan on about 3 trips back to USA a year, for about a month each time. In the past we have been fortunate enough to borrow my brother's "extra" car. During good weather (the only time we plan to come North) he prefers to drive his Porsche and we could use his Focus. This summer, however, the Porsche was ill and Dave needed to use the Focus. To rent even an econo-car was nearly $1500! We DO need a car in the USA! For what we would pay in a year or two for rentals, we could buy a used car. Since we only plan on visiting in good weather, it could be a fun convertible. And whichever child agreed to keep the car for us when we weren't there could enjoy it as well. We searched about for used convertibles and test drove a variety of cars ranging from an old Mazda RX-7 to a Beemer to a newer Miata. Thinking more deeply about our needs, we realized that what we needed was not so much a sports car as a true Grand Touring machine - something that could take the two of us comfortably and enjoyably over many miles. It needed to be a convertible as we are both addicted to open air cruising, but it needed to be comfortable for longer trips. When we get in the car, it is rarely for less than 100 miles, often longer. It also needed to have room for enough luggage for the trip - something most sports cars are rather short on. In the end we kept coming back to our XJS - if only we hadn't sold it, it would be the perfect car. Extremely comfortable, more than adequate power (as the Brits are wont to say), and real luggage space.
So, we found another. This XJS is a 1992 white convertible. It still has the wonderful V-12, the luxurious Connolly leather seats, a power convertible top that actually seals well, and a huge trunk.
We used it this summer and left it with Curry upon returning to Panama. She enjoyed it a few times, but complained about the cost of gas for it. (If you have to ask what it gets for mileage.....)
Last month we returned to USA to visit family & friends and for both of us to have surgery. In about 4 weeks we put more than 1500 miles on the Jag. It truly was the perfect car. A joy to drive - plenty of acceleration, good handling, very comfortable, and plenty of room. Not to mention style. Everywhere we go, it turns heads and gets comments. The crowning touch came when we drove her to Portland before leaving. My friend, Jack, had offered that we could keep the Jag in the underground parking area at his office - perfect for the winter, so we loaded all our luggage for return to Panama plus luggage for our time in Portland and to leave in Boston with Lucas. In all we had 4 x 50# suitcases to check, two carry-ons, two back packs, and a carry-on to leave in Boston - plus the car cover for leaving the Jag in Portland. It all fit! And, of course, all that weight had absolutely no effect on performance or handling. That is what I call GRAND TOURING! I cannot imagine a better car for our needs.
06/25/2012, Discovery Bay, Bocas del Toro, Panama
One of the problems I needed to deal with as soon as we returned from our cruise was the problem of our panga. We told Bill & Paula Tucker to use our boat at least occasionally while we were gone. Bill reported that it felt like the prop was slipping. It was fine up to ~4000 rpm but then slipped and jerked and wouldn't go faster. No problem, I thought. I have a brand new prop sitting at home. I'll just swap it out and all is good. So, the other day, I did that. It only took a half hour or so and I was out testing it. Oops. I see what Bill meant about it slipping. The engine seemed fine, but the boat hesitated and jerked and wouldn't get up on a plane. New prop did not solve the problem. If the engine was OK (it certainly seemed to be) and the prop was OK (brand new), that left only the lower unit. That was likely to be a BIG problem ($$$). Reluctantly, I made an appointment with Frank, a local mechanic who has done real well by Bill fixing his outboard, and motored SLOWLY in to town. As Frank got in the boat, he remarked that the bottom was dirty. Well, it had been sitting for nearly 3 months and the bottom paint is obviously past its prime, but that was a little problem that I could deal with later. I was worried about the BIG problem, so we went for a test drive. Frank sat on the back and watched the motor and prop as I drove slowly and then attempted to accelerate. Once I had shown him my BIG problem, he said, "No problem. You got a dirty boat." What? He eventually got me to understand that there was so much growth on the bottom of the boat that when it tried to plane, the growth caused cavitation directly in front of the prop which was causing the slippage. For $40, he had a friend clean the boat inside as well as out and it now runs like a charm. BIG problem, little problem, NO problem! That's the way I like it.
06/10/2012, Discovery Bay, Bocas del Toro, Panama
This cruise was quite different from our previous in many ways. It was the first time we traveled with other boats. That in itself was quite an experience. It began with trying to decide WHEN to leave. The number of boats potentially traveling together was upwards of a half dozen and everyone had a different idea of what constituted the perfect (or even acceptable) weather window. We missed the first window as we were in David buying provisions and visiting with our friends Larry & Dottie Thompson. Silver Sea grabbed the window and had a nice trip North only to get pinned San Andres for several weeks unable to go anywhere or do anything. After that, there were a number of narrow windows that I might have taken, but others were reluctant. After about two weeks we were all getting antsy. A window appeared to be opening. Sunnyside Up took off early with a couple others. Salida and we waited another day to avoid traveling in rain and ended up having a good trip. We stayed with Salida all the way to Honduras and really enjoyed their company. We met up with and parted from a variety of other boats as we went. Silver Sea stayed with us from Providencia to Roatan. We really never had a night alone until one day on Guanaja when we switched anchorages and Albatross decided to stay put. Initially we agreed to plans that were not what we would have done (like skipping Vivarillos because of supposed weather that never came), but eventually we learned to share info and discuss decisions but make our own choice even if it meant splitting up. We usually got back together again anyway as we were all going the same way. That made the "buddy system" more enjoyable and less tyrannical. The buddy system certainly was important when Craig had his seizure! Not only were there several of us there to respond to the immediate emergency, but we were able to talk about it later and help them arrive at what I felt was a good decision to investigate further before continuing. We also traveled together for the overnight passage so they would not be alone if something else happened. In the past, we have always traveled alone and enjoyed it. I think another time we would like to achieve a better balance of time with other boats and time alone as we still cherish that, but we probably would have had it this time if other (see below) factors had not intervened. Weather seemed to play a bigger role in this trip. It is always an factor, but this time it really dictated changes that resulted in our missing places we wanted to visit and things we wanted to do. Weather can have impact in many ways: too much wind or waves, too little wind, threatening storms that may or may not develop, etc. We had all of it. We started off waiting nearly three weeks for the wind and waves to recede to an acceptable level. Then we waited another day to avoid rain, but ended up with too little wind and had to motor more than we wanted. The real problem was "threatened storms" including a possible hurricane. Traveling over in the San Blas the last couple years, we did not have to deal with such. We also had gone earlier in the season which was different. This was certainly a strange season for weather as well. We had gale force winds for nearly two weeks in February when the pilot charts show <5% chance of gale. It was the first time since the 1800's that we had two named tropical storms before June 1. What is going on? The other issue was Chris Parker's forecasts which seemed to be way too "chicken hearted." True, one would not want to get caught unaware, but when your weather guru gives such dire forecasts that you change plans and miss things unnecessarily, it is not so good. I have subsequently discovered Rob Lightbown of Crown Weather who seems much more realistic while still discussing potential storms. Provisioning and cash management were also different this year. In the past we have tried to provision for the entire trip except fruit & veggies that we pick up as we can. We have also traveled with a fairly large amount of cash on board even though that was quite uncomfortable. This time, we discovered that ATMs are everywhere and give you cash in the local currency without the issue of exchange. We returned with most of the money we left with. We also returned with a lot of our provisions – especially booze! Part of what was different was that we ate out or at least went to shore for happy hour quite a bit. This was partly due to traveling in company and partly that the areas we visited were more developed and had more opportunity to eat ashore. Equipment failures were also more of an issue this time – Deb wanted to call it "The Breakdown Cruise." Cruising has been called "boat repairs in paradise" and failures and repairs are, indeed, a fact of life. But this trip did seem excessive. The microwave died before we even left Bocas. We lived without it. The coffeemaker died near the end. I "repaired" (jury rigged) it to get us home. We had minor issues with our diesel – nothing unusual really – clogged fuel filter, broken fan belt, reluctant started solenoid, erroneous alarm, etc. They did not really impact the trip. The failure of the hookah, however, was a major setback. It was very lucky it happened in Roatan where we were able to get parts flown in easily and quickly. The failure of the outboard water pump also severely impacted the trip and that is my fault for not carrying a spare. We missed the Vivarillos and Hobbies (for the second time – the first due to "weather") because of it. The failure of the harness on the dinghy davit could have had disastrous results. Fortunately it happened during the day, I recognized it immediately, and we were able to repair it underway. Losing the kellet two years in a row was very aggravating. I'll make another, but I have no idea how I can attach it so it won't come off! The failure of the watermaker – also two years in a row – was even more aggravating and definitely shortened our trip. Had we had water, we might well have waited out the bad weather in Albuquerque Cays to enjoy that area again. I don't know what I am going to do about the watermaker. It is a very expensive item so replacing it with another brand is hard to consider, but the expense – and disruption - of yearly failure is intolerable. The final minor irritation failure was our Olympus underwater camera. The first one failed with snorkeling and was replaced under warranty. This one failed again, but is no longer covered. Oh well, it was sort of in the "too good to be true" category anyway. I think one way to avoid some of the failures is to spread them out. We need to take 2-3 day trips in the local area during the hurricane season - maybe even just going to our island and spending a couple days. This will give the failures a chance to happen while we are still at home and can deal with them more easily. So what next? We have talked of going to Cartegena and Cuba. Looking at the pilot charts (which were SO WRONG this year), November might actually be a good time to go. It is the height of rainy season here so good to get away and the winds are fairly calm across the Caribbean basin. The other option would be a "reef tour." There are several reef systems off the coast of Central America that all have potential for great diving and most offer at least reasonable protection from weather. They are all uninhabited except for occasional fishermen. Many of them are owned by Columbia which put us off in the past, but now seems like a plus as the Columbian Navy is quite aggressive about patrolling them and that makes us feel safer. Hey, we just got back. There is plenty of time to decide. Note that this will probably be the last blog post for a while as we will be at our home in Bocas and then traveling by air to the US to see family & friends.
06/10/2012, Discovery Bay, Bocas del Toro, Panama
Sunday, June 10. I apologize for not posting earlier. The weather was starting to turn nasty high winds, rain, and big seas - for at least several days. Although we would have been very safe in Albuquerque Cays, we could not have gone diving or really enjoyed our time there until the weather passed. The problem was, we only had limited water and no way to make or get more. So waiting for the weather to pass was really not an option. For that reason, we left early Friday morning. We had a great sail all Friday, reefed main most of the time making 7+ kts. Seas were big, 6-8' with some up to 12', but running away from them was fairly comfortable. By Saturday morning, when I would normally have posted Friday's blog, we were surrounded by storm cells with lightening everywhere. I had the computer and handheld GPS in the oven (it acts as a Faraday Cage to protect them in the event of a lightening strike) and did not dare use the SSB for fear of attracting a strike. By the time we were about 50 nm from Bocas, we lost most of our wind, but still had lots of rain and scattered lightening. We made it to our dock by 3:30 PM Saturday 180nm in about 30 hours, and average of nearly 6 kts, not bad. Paula & Bill Tucker, our neighbors at Discovery Bay, had dinner for us which was really great as we were beat from the long trip. It was strange sleeping in a bed that didn't move. In a few days I will post a summary of this year's voyage, but I wanted everyone to know that we were safe and home in Panama.
Your son & I started at BDT around the same time. Its been cool sharing observations about being the 'new guys' at a company where the average length of service of the managers is a decade.
Be well,
06/08/2012, Albuquerque Cays, Columbia
Thursday, June 7,We only had 30 nm to go today, so when we left was not important. By 8:30 we had had breakfast, checked in with the SW Caribbean net, and were ready to go. We raised sail before anchor and motorsailed out past the destroyer. The wind was lighter, only ~10 kts and when we shut off engines and unrolled gennie we were only making ~4.5 kts. Even 30 nm is a ways at that speed. Fortunately this was only wind shadow from the island. We were soon seeing 15-17 kts and making 6-7. Seas were moderate, 6-8'. There were a variety of rain clouds that gave us good wind, but we never got wet. When we were about 10 nm out from the entrance to Albuquerque Cays, I heard a snap and felt the boat lurch. Looking about, I saw dink hanging lower than he should. Did the clutch slip? I pulled it tighter and then realized that the bridle that went to both sides of the stern had frayed through and broken on one side. The other didn't look much better. It was where the control arm of the outboard rubbed on the line. Fortunately the bridle had a loop formed by a knot instead of just being continuous, so the port side was still holding for now. The waves were slapping up and hitting the underside of dink with each passage so I knew I had to do something NOW. I undid the stern lifelines and went down the steps until I could lean and catch a line through the eye bolt on the dinghy starboard stern and ran it up to the back lifeline which is 1 ss tubing. I then did the same for dink's port side knowing that line would not last long. With Deb's help I slowly recovered dink to his normal travel position. I had tied it with a clove hitch (my favorite knot) so I pulled a little slack and Deb took it up. It was heavy going as I usually have a 4:1 purchase to lift dink, but eventually we got dink out of the waves and in a safe position to travel. That was exciting! By noon we were approaching Albuquerque Cays and the wind and waves had dropped considerably. We dropped sail outside the lagoon and motored the 3+ nm into the lagoon, around all the obstructing reefs inside and eventually to our anchorage in 6' of water over pure white sand just off North Cay (where the military base is). It took 45 minutes to wind our way in, but we left breadcrumbs so going out should be easier, though I still wouldn't do it at night. An error of even 20' could put us on a reef that's only ½ a boat length. Total course turned out to be 26nm, time, 5 hours so we still averaged better than 5 kts even with our slow entry into the lagoon. After we were anchored, I went ashore with our papers, found the commandant, and was officially welcomed to the islands. He was very polite and friendly, as we had experienced last time. We can stay as long as we want. When I returned to the boat, we still had most of the afternoon left, so we loaded the hookah and went out to dive one of the mini atolls behind the boat. The center of the atoll is ~5-6' deep, there is a coral rim that breaks in places, but can be crossed by dink in several, and the wall on the outside drops to ~30'. Really a miniature of a coral atoll in every way. The structures of the coral were amazing with long arms reaching out in all directions. We started into the wind, of course, and worked our way 360*. Nice coral, lots of sponges and great fish even three large ocean triggers swimming together. We then swam the inside looking for conch. We only found two, but they were the biggest conch we have seen in ages. Sundowners and FRESH conch salad in the cockpit. And after dinner, the stars were brilliant as we lay in the tramp. That was a full day.


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Posted By Jim On 01/11/2013 @ 7:15 am In Your Take | 13 Comments
It's the new year and, given the results of the fiscal cliff negotiations, I thought this item from NPR's six policies economists love but people hate [3] was worth discussing. Here's the item:
End the tax deduction companies get for providing health-care to employees. Neither employees nor employers pay taxes on workplace health insurance benefits. That encourages fancier insurance coverage, driving up usage and, therefore, health costs overall. Eliminating the deduction will drive up costs for people with workplace healthcare, but makes the health-care market fairer.
The story goes that many years ago, when wages were fixed, employers started offering health benefits to their employees as a way to increase compensation without increasing actual pay. You pay a little but the employer pays much more but gets a deduction against revenue. The argument in favor of this policy is that it's important for people to know what they're getting (which was partially addressed in the health care reform law and now benefits are listed on your paystub, though you don't pay taxes on it) and that you start avoiding "Cadillac" coverage simply because businesses can write off the cost.
I agree with the first reason – it's important that people understand what they are getting. I don't think eliminating the deduction achieves this unless you start making people pay for it themselves. No one likes that.
As for the second, a business offers health insurance because it wants to. The deduction is nice and for corporations it's a big deduction, corporate tax rates are pretty high, but it's a matter of what management wants to do with the money. Pay it to shareholders or pay it to employees? If you want to take care of employees to the point of offering them healthcare, then you do it. If you'd rather pay shareholders (which is not any less noble), then do that.
During the fiscal cliff negotiations, there was talk that health care benefits should be taxed. Since it's considered compensation to the employee, why not tax it? I think that actually achieves the first reason (educating the employee on what they're getting) without having them take the full brunt of the cost of health care. It might educate people on just how expensive it is and how they might want to take advantage of the preventative services.
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As you may remember from a while back. I'm going through stuff and at the moment I'm going through old scrapbooks. I came across this article from 2001 when Claire Curneen won the Gold Medal for Craft at the Eisteddfod. I love her work. Particularly the St Sebastien pieces. There is a clear link between […]
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I hate photos of me, so I was delighted when I saw this one from our recent trip to Malmö. (I didn't know at the time, but it will be hosting the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest. For more malmo stuff click here) The cap is a baker boys hat from the Laird on Columbia Road, […]
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I asked on Twitter -- but would love to see the front-end style guide on Github if you can.
Thanks Steven, I have been working on a summary document with Brad and Peter which we are hoping to make available very soon.
Steven, we have posted a case study on the site under work http://www.i-kos.com/developing/case-study/2014-06-16/lush-style-guide-front-end-framework


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