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Before I introduce my latest project, I would like to give a heartfelt thanks to Anne and all of the talented creative guides over at A Vintage Journey for choosing my tag as their "It's All About Him" Challenge winner. That was such a special project to honor my dad and remember those who have sacrificed their lives in military service. I loved that tag and was so glad to have a chance to share a little bit about my dad with you. It brought tears to my eyes when I saw that you all liked it too!
Ok ... now on to my latest project. While I have been laid up in bed recovering from surgery, I've spent a lot of time watching home and garden television programs. I love shows that repurpose vintage items and use them in home decor. One of my favorite decoration ideas was using old metal (usually tin or copper) ceiling tiles for wall art. The embossed metal tiles have intricate designs and often are painted. If these tiles have been laying around for awhile, you can see the the metal peaking through where the paint has worn off. Sometime they are pretty distressed and have accompanying rust or corrosion.
I wanted to create a scrapbook album cover that looks like one of these vintage ceiling tiles. It was the perfect project for Nikki's "Use Every Stamp in a Set" Challenge over at A Vintage Journey. One of the first Tim Holtz stamp sets that I bought (and still one of my favorites) was the Floral Tattoo Stamp Set. Although I have used individual stamps from this set at various times, I had never used them all on a single project. These stamps create images that already seem to have such texture to them. I was really excited about playing with them and seeing what kind of arrangements I could make for my faux embossed metal tile.
I had a 12 x 12 chipboard album in my craft stash. I started by giving the front cover a good coat of gesso. After that dried, I painted it with copper acrylic paint. Then came a coat of Antique Linen Distress Paint. Now here is the fun part. I started designing my cover by using my Tim Holtz Floral Tattoo stamps. I used some 12 x 12 white paper and stamped various designs on it with black ink until I had a design I liked. I then recreated that design on the cover with Pirate Gold embossing powder (alas ... no copper embossing powder!). I used Distress Embossing Ink for the stamping. After the entire cover design was stamped and embossed, I painted the cover with another coat of Antique Linen Distress Paint.
After everything dried, I pulled out the sand paper. I sanded the embossed areas to uncover those wonderful floral tattoo stamped images. I really distressed the album cover edges and even distressed all the way down through the top layer of the chipboard to create the "rusted holes" (actually ... copper doesn't really rust ... it "corrodes") in my faux ceiling tile. Next I took some Walnut Stain Distress Ink to rub into the distressed areas. I grabbed some Martha Stewart verdigris jewelry enamel glaze and wiped over some areas of the cover to give it that patina-like finish in places. Finally to bring out the stamped design a little more, I rubbed Walnut Stain Distress Paint into the nooks and crannies of the embossed images. Here are a few close-up pics:
I have just about used all of my energy for the afternoon. Thanks for dropping by. I hope to visit your blogs soon and catch up on all of your creative endeavors. Wishing you all happy crafting!! -- Mary Elizabeth


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Update, 19 January 2016: In response to some criticisms from friends, I regret that some of what I posted here was triggering for quite a few people. I did not think through what it's like for people who have been abused to see other people publicly rhapsodising over their abuser's good qualities, as I did in this article, and as many others have done elsewhere. The points that some people (friends, if you're reading this and want to be credited please let me know) highlighted to me are:
- Lori Lightning's agency/consent/enjoyment to her encounter is not mutually exclusive with her grooming and coercion
- This woman is probably not the only underage woman Bowie had sex with; in the climate surrounding his death, it would be very difficult for women who are not okay with his treatment of them to come out. He also contributed to a culture where this sort of behaviour was/is broadly acceptable, and while I've heard that in later life he decried it in other members of his band, it still doesn't redeem what he did. There are plenty of other people who decried this who DIDN'T ever have sex with children; give them massive platforms instead.
- Wanda Nichols, an adult woman, accused Bowie of rape in 1987. It must have been enormously hard to go up against a star of his stature; there are no motives for doing so except wanting justice (if you're going to say money then I think you're ignorant of how difficult, traumatic and largely unsuccessful it is to publicly make a rape accusation against anyone). Bowie was cleared by the courts (proving my point before) but this means nothing; as lawyer and twitter queen @moscaddie said: "reasonable doubt is a very important concept, FOR JURORS. in the courtroom of twitter, ur office, or ur wee heart & mind, BELIEVE SURVIVORS"
- Bowie's glaring whiteness protects him from proper condemnation of his behaviour. This article by a gender/queer Latinx person covers this to some degree. Although the article's discussion of an anti-carceral state is on-point, I don't think survivors should have to practice compassion if they don't want to. Survivors don't owe people like Bowie shit.
This is a long way of saying that I'm sorry for being less vehement than I should've been earlier. I will be deleting any comments that imply that what Bowie did was not so bad or that it was the 70s and this sort of thing was de rigeur back then. The only reason it is a minute fraction less de rigeur now is because people stood up and opposed it; we have to keep doing that now.
CW: discussion of child sexuality, childhood physical and sexual abuse
In the wake of David Bowie's death, there has been a fair amount of internet discussion about the fact that he had sex with groupie Lori Lightning when she was 13 and he was around 26. Much of the internet has quite understandably been quick to frame this as sexual assault, and Bowie as an abuser. Certainly it is statutory rape, and there are a whole host of ways in which it is possible to say that what Bowie did was wrong. But to tell Lori Lightning that her that age at the time means that she didn't consent, even though everything she says indicates she did, is exactly the sort of gaslighting that abusers do. This demonstrates the problem with messages about how "kids can't consent"; while it acknowledges that free and informed consent to certain acts from children is highly unlikely, it denies the agency of children in ways that are harmful when it comes to children's non-sexual life. This kind of message is used to justify things like hitting your child because they don't know what's good for them, and gives license to not listen to children because they have not been acknowledged as fully-formed human beings. It also shows that Western culture has no frameworks to deal with child sexuality; where to acknowledge that child sexuality exists is seen as giving carte blanche for adults—particularly men—to do what they like with children.
This is a terrible dichotomy indeed. Terrible in that it is thoroughly unnecessary; it is possible to believe that 13-yr-old people can consent to sex AND say that adults should absolutely not be having sex with them. The power differential between adults and children is too great; not merely isolated to sex, but in how adults are set up to have total control over children's lives and wellbeing. In some ways this power differential is necessary, as children do not always have the physical or mental capacity to make healthy decisions for themselves. Power can be and is often exercised for good, but there is a persistent risk and reality that adults will not always use their power solely to benefit the children in their care. It is clear that Lightning consented to and enjoyed her encounter, and in her case that's all there is to it. In some cases the pleasure of fucking is not merely sexual pleasure from the act but from what it signifies; the euphoria of being wanted by a man of Bowie's talent and stature must have been intoxicating, and nothing she has said publicly indicates that she regrets the encounter. But Bowie took a phenomenal risk with her wellbeing; committing sexual acts with people that age often causes lifelong trauma and PTSD. Consent is not the only metric to assess whether a sexual encounter has been exploitative or not. Sometimes the exploitation in sexual encounters comes from forces outside of the encounter itself; a significant age gap being one example, the inability of many women to enjoy sex because of patriarchal body issues being another. Rebecca Traister writes:
Contemporary feminism's shortcomings may lie in not its overradicalization but rather its underradicalization. Because, outside of sexual assault, there is little critique of sex. Young feminists have adopted an exuberant, raunchy, confident, righteously unapologetic, slut-walking ideology that sees sex — as long as it's consensual — as an expression of feminist liberation. The result is a neatly halved sexual universe, in which there is either assault or there is sex positivity. Which means a vast expanse of bad sex — joyless, exploitative encounters that reflect a persistently sexist culture and can be hard to acknowledge without sounding prudish — has gone largely uninterrogated, leaving some young women wondering why they feel so fucked by fucking.
Having to hold Bowie's many wonderful qualities in mind with the fact that he was willing to have sex with a 13-yr-old girl speaks to the dissociative nature of being a woman and engaging with music made by men. To love and admire men like this while knowing that they're willing to risk massively fucking with your wellbeing; often, in cases like Gary Glitter, that they don't care when they have massively fucked with your wellbeing as long as they don't have to hear about it. To love Led Zeppelin and Nick Cave like anyone else and to stretch yourself to try fit into the protagonist's position, yet be aware in the background of your mind how much this music hates you or sees you as nothing. Realising why "have you heard about the Midnight Rambler" was spraypainted across a wall in a dark part of Brooklyn, Wellington; left up for years even while the council removed tagging that looked less white. To know that these men will not find beauty in the strong, complex, challenging, intelligent nature of adult womanhood, but prefer us at an age where we are more likely to be compliant and naïve, more likely to reflect men at twice their natural size rather than demand mutual reflection. This aspect of Bowie's character, simultaneously predatory and pathetic, is what disgusts me regardless of Lightning's feelings herself; that at my age he was more interested in ego flattery from 13-yr-old girls than healthy adult relationships with women. A woman quoted by Shulamith Firestone said that "no man can love a girl the way a girl loves a man". Indeed, we tend to love our men for what they are, not what they do for us; masculinity operates in the reverse.
As a friend pointed out, none of these post-mortem exposés were made of Lemmy, who not only did the same thing as Bowie but bragged about it in his song Jailbait. This is because of the particular nature of Bowie as an icon; he inspired and helped a lot of queer people and misfits carve out a place for themselves in the world. Bowie is the kind of star who saved people's lives, who let them know that their weirdnesses were okay and that they were not alone. I loved Bowie for his musical complexity; you can listen to his back catalogue for hours and not get bored because it is so varied and interesting. It is perhaps unfair on men like Lemmy that we do not hold them to higher standards, but we think we know how to react to that straightforward sort of misogyny. The discussion over Bowie represents the struggle of finding out bad things about people we love and not knowing quite how to react. As Aoife wrote at freethoughtblogs: "I'm supposed to call him a monster because of this, and stop feeling sad about his death. I can't do that. I can call him someone who did a monstrous thing, though." The exercise of power isn't all or nothing. Living in patriarchy involves moments of absolute horror with a lot of boredom the rest of the time, and is often mixed in with pleasure in strange and perturbing ways. It doesn't need to be traumatic to be wrong; I can detail the ways in which men hate me without feeling much emotion, but it's still a boring and annoying thing to deal with. The demand that women feel constantly outraged or upset about patriarchy is a liberalism that sees outrage as praxis in itself; sometimes we need to conserve our energy so that we can throw bricks when the time comes. Besides, we want to love talented, interesting, witty, beautiful men like Bowie; it is profoundly sad when they make it more difficult for us.
This isn't much of an obituary. But despite Bowie's flaws, I'm sad that he's gone; this is the kind of person whose death would feel surprising and wrong even if he had lived to be a hundred, as he had an aura of immortality about him. I am grateful for the ways in which he made my friends' lives easier, for being able to shout along to Life On Mars with my best friend, for what he did for queers, and for the way he made bad teeth look endearing. In this rather lovely radio clip Scott Walker, a brilliant musician and one of Bowie's major influences, called him up on his birthday to thank Bowie for everything he'd done and for his "generosity of spirit when it comes to other artists" which he'd been a beneficiary from himself. I'll close with this clip of the sweet and awkward young Bowie being interviewed by Russel Harty in 1973, who asks "Do you indulge in any form of worship?" to which Bowie pauses and then replies "Life. I love life very much indeed."

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How big?
While not denigrating the immense good done by the NHS in emergency situations, one wonders why £330 million were spent on management consultants in 2009, a sum almost as great as that spent on combined lung cancer and skin cancer treatment and research.
There are certainly great savings to be made in this unwieldy service.
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Being a management consultant (good grief, where did that "title" come from?) is like owning your own mint. And for what? Well, okay, for 330 million pounds Sterling, that's for what, but what did they do to earn that kind of money?ReplyDelete
One really has to wonder, because certainly they don't do anything useful. They didn't research or treat cancer. They didn't carry passengers back and forth across anywhere, never mind anywhere as large as India.
They consulted with NHS management personnel, probably managers who themselves make more money than researchers or doctors. They gave the managers something to do with their time, which might (perhaps) have been better spent managing.
Given that the NHS is, as you say, and as I have often read elsewhere, unwieldy, and given that great savings can be made, when will those savings amount to the 330 million it cost to have consultants tell them how to make the savings?
Isn't it rather like a dog chasing its tail?
That's the thing about humungous government systems. It becomes too expensive because of mismanagement and trying to keep everybody on the same page.ReplyDelete
'A dog chasing its own tail' is just about right and does no credit to the hardworking medical staff.ReplyDelete
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It's been 50 years since I read my first comic book about what life would be like a half-decade in the future. I remember it well; by now we would all be living in futuristic, domed cities and commuting to work in our winged cars. Whatever happened to that future? Where are all our monorails, and accident-free automobiles that drive themselves to the launch pad from which we will depart for our weekend homes on the moon? Where is that dome? Why am I still shoveling snow? Why is my hatchback stuck in a drift? Where is my self-driving aero-wagon? About the only things predicted that came true were Dick Tracy's two-way wrist radio and that cash became a thing of the past � mainly because no one has any.
What happened to the house of the future that was going to clean itself and mow its own lawn? What happened to the kitchen of the future? Sure, we've got microwaves, but stand in front of your microwave and say "Oven, make beef stroganoff for four," and see what happens. You'll be standing there a long time, my friend. Why are we still taking showers and doing laundry instead of passing through our personal electrostatic showers, which would remove the day's dirt and grime from our bodies and clothes without benefit of soap or water? What happened to the clothes that would automatically become warmer or cooler depending on the temperature? What happened to the rocket planes that were going take us from New York to Los Angeles in two hours? I'd settle for a rocket cab that could get me to the airport in two hours.
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When I first visited Provence, I had no idea the Rhone appelation stretched down so far south. I had assumed that the Cotes de Provence region would hold my midday quaffers at local restaurants and I would be subject to miles upon miles of flabby whites and lolly-water rosés at the local Leclerc. To my glee, however, upon study of the map, I found some little towns and regions named similarly to words I recalled reading off bottles of spicy youthful reds in my own spicy youth while working at a forward-thinking Australian bottleshop of the 1990s (most Australians back then shunned any vin un-Antipodean). Gigondas, Vaqueras, Ventoux and the big daddy, Chateauneuf du Pape.
Southern Rhone encompases quite a large area starting just south of Montelimar, and stretching over parts of Gard and through the Costieres de Nimes, across the Luberon, and almost down to Aix en Provence. While the northern Rhone wines, particularly appelations like Condrieu, Hermitage and Cote Rȏtie are synonymous with high quality, unaffordable and unapproachable-until-aged wines, the Southern Rhone has been known to produce approachable and berry-fueled reds, and voluptuous and fragrant whites that find their way into 4 euro carafes in tables with brown paper tablecloths, and 6 euro bottles at the local hypermarket. There are many great ones, and just as much mediocrity, but there are three subregions that I find always herald good taste – Chateauneuf du Pape, Lirac and Tavel.
The three regions can be visited in a day by car if you're a master on the spittoon – or a week on a wonky bike, stopping at tiny campgrounds and auberges along the undulations. They rest on either side of Le Rhone just north of Avignon, a South-westerly diagonal line that works its way first through some very fine reds, then some incredibly flavoursome white, and finishing with some palate cleansing and serious dry rosé . I know, it sounds like I'm sending you in the wrong order, but after years of wine tasting in massive quantity, I can assure you, don't leave the big reds till last – your teeth will buckle under the pressure, and all you will taste are the phenols.
Chateauneuf du Pape is the most famous of my top three. The wines made are over 90% red, and rosé production is not permitted by appelation control. The land is gently hilly, and heavily stoned. So prolific are these large creamy-red stones in fact, that you may be inclined to think they have been brought in by the vintners – but it is in fact natural. They have the perfect trait of holding the heat of the hot summer rhone sun, then retaining it through the night, protecting the ripening grapes from cold and frost, all the way through until the Autumn harvest. It's one of the warmest areas in France, but cooled by a dry wind that barrels through the valley like an army, giving the reds that lovely hot/cool climate tendency to be both rich and fruit-driven whilst retaining acid, and only very rarely showing baked fruit characters.
Chateauneuf reds are primarily Grenache, with added Syrah (Aussies call this Shiraz), Mouvedre (Malbec) and Cincault as common additives to achieve balance. They range from spicy and raspberry-laden through chocolate and coffee, and towards blackberry and tar depending on the vintage, the winemaking and the blend. Our visit with the lovely and helpful Caroline Clapier at Chateau La Nerthe showed us all three styles in three vintages – 2008, 2009 and 2006 respectively. The whites were equally impressive, and must never be overlooked when visiting the region. They are both fiercely aromatic and medium bodied – a pleasure to get away from the thinness that usually accompanies fragrance. They are usually a blend of Grenache Blanc, Clairette, Roussanne and Bourbelanc – each has its part to play – the Grenache blanc the soft base, Clairette similar – neutral, and when picked early can deliver welcome acid and lively lemon flavours. Bourbelanc, the late-ripener can pick up extra fragrance and spice and provide a strong backbone. Roussanne, holds the most individual character, and provides the aromatics that I love so much.
Expect to pay anything from about 20 Euros upwards for a decent example of white and 25 for red at cellar door. You will get something fairly knee-wobbling at around 50 to 60 euros. In addition to the spectacular Chateau la Nerthe, with its baby roman arch and fairytale grove of Plane trees, visit Clos St Jean for a touch of finesse, Cave du Verger in town, for its cool cave and collection of many wines from the region, Domaine de Pegau for its history and organic approach.
Next, we move to Lirac. The geography is fairly similar to Chateauneuf du Pape, if slightly flatter, and lower down. The reds and the whites are both excellent, and ready to drink fairly quickly after release. Better still, it's rare that you'll pay over 14 euros for a bottle. It's a small area and wineries are more difficult to find. But don't be put off – it's the kind of place you're likely to stumble upon one of the Rhone's best kept secrets, drink up some apricot-hinted Lirac gold, some rosé that tastes like roses, and then, when you want to go back for more, you find that you can no longer find it. Anywhere.
I like to call the Lirac white 'poor man's Condrieu' – it's usually a similar blend to the Chateauneuf whites, but often with added Viognier, giving it that furry richness that only that grape variety can posess. The reds are warm and soft, less complex than their neighbour's gutsy ones, but possibly more drinkable. Again, the grape varieties are similar, but with less oak and higher yields, a little gentler. Not perfect, but still more than worthwhile.
Lirac is one of the best bets on a Provincial winelist. They are inexpensive (never pay more than about 40 euros per bottle – they are usually about 20-25), crowd pleasing, and sometimes spectacular – the whites in particular. Many of the wineries in neighbouring regions will also have Liracs avaialble for tasting, so look out for them in Chateauneuf and Tavel. Within the region, seek out the stunning Chateau de Clary, and the tiny Tour des Chenes.
Almost overlapping Lirac, you will find Tavel. As you traverse its gently swaying plains, you will continue to see signe "Roi des rosés, Rosé des rois" – the king of rosé and the rosé of kings, and it is. It is the only appelation in France to produce only rosés, but never fear if you don't like the colour pink – most of the vignerons also have land elsewhere, and the degustation will also usually involve at least Lirac and Cotes du Rhone wines.
The rosés from Tavel are usually deeper in colour than other rosés of France, and also completely different in taste and texture. The flavours are more complex than either Loire or Provence rosés, ranging from raspberry and pomegranate through to almonds, minerals and spice. They are also much drier, and braced with steely acidity that gives the term "lolly-water" a little rock around, whilst not entirely pushing it off its pedestal. Tavel winemakers will tell you that it's also possible to age the wine for up to ten years. This, I'm not prepared to test – I adore it when it's glowing like redcurrant jelly and jumping out of the glass with vivacity.
The king of the kings, so to speak is Mordoree, which can be found in the centre of the township. They aslo make a sterling Lirac rouge. Look for Aqueria, just out of town on the Route Roquemaure – and ensure that you also buy some of their Lirac blanc. Then go to Montezargues, where you can also get an eyeful of ancient architecture and a little olive oil.
All the above recommendations are linked. Many cellar doors are open every day in summer (with the obligatory closing over lunch), and can be spontaneously visited. It is worthwhile visiting the office de tourism in each town, as they can provide you with a map of wineries, otherwise just look out for signposts – the bigger labels are usually indicated. You will often find co-operatives in town also, where many labels can be tried in one sitting.
Please use the spittoon, even if you are not driving. This leaves you able to have a glass of wine with your meal when all the wineries are closed, and also ensures that you don't appear a drunken lout. There is quite a lot of wine to be tasted – and you will usually get poured 30ml per wine – that's a whole glass of wine at each cellar door if there are 5 on tasting. Trust me, a little dribble down the chin is nothing compared to wobbling into a wine rack and causing a meltdown.


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Let's get to know our writing strengths! "The Road Back to You" author Ian Cron helps us see how the Enneagram personality assessment can help us better take advantage of our strengths, help us understand our built-in weaknesses, and even help us pick an editor. We'll see how knowing our personality type and being self aware can be invaluable as a writer. You'll definitely see yourself - and others you know - and you may end up deciding to cut both of you some slack! :)
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So you've been writing for awhile but you feel like you're not really growing an audience, like nobody really cares. Should you change what you write about? And what would you change to? How can you get to where you write about something you're deeply interested in AND that deeply resonates with your reader? Changing and pivoting is human. Learning what works is part of the natural process. So let's learn to pivot together.
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You'd never guess it's controversial but it is. Once a month in the Hope*Writers Facebook group a friendly debate pops up about the best way to let readers know you've written a new blog post. What do you do when the guru's say one thing and your gut says another? What is a guru anyway? Plus, before you decide how to use email, there's a bigger question to answer. Let's talk about that question, and about what's best for you and your readers.
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It seems that my jumping the gun on the release date (at the AQC) has sped things up somewhat on the official release date..... You Sew, Girl! - Le book - is OUT!!!
(And yes... my hippy-haired-fairy-girl is in it!).
It has been spotted - indeed, PURCHASED - in bookshops across the country (at least, across the state of Victoria, as far as I know). I even chanced upon it myself today, while on a mission to buy The Wonky Donkey.
So, it's now in MY shop! Woohoo! You can now order* your own signed copy!!
*At the risk of sounding like a pushy sales-person, I thought I'd let you know that within Australia, it costs as much to send 3 copies as it does to send 1... or you can add a few bits and bobs to the parcel. You might like to get more bang for your postage buck and do a group order...? Internationally, you'll find a better postage rate through ABC Books, although I won't be able to sign it.
Ok... back to my knitting and Lindt Easter bunnies..... Happy Easter, folks! (And by the way... I can highly recommend The Wonky Donkey!)


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Alexandria, Va. (June 11, 2014) - Collaboration between mayors and school boards—not mayoral takeovers—can lead to better school governance and student achievement, according to a new report by the Center for Public Education (CPE) at the National School Boards Association (NSBA).
"Toward Collaboration, Not A Coup: What the research says about mayoral involvement in urban schools," explores the intersects between effective school boards and involved mayors. In its review of existing research on mayoral control, the report categorizes the various existing forms of mayoral involvement, examines benefits and challenges for school districts, then argues for effective relationships between school boards and mayors.
Through secondary analysis, CPE found that mayoral takeovers are "a rare, and largely urban phenomenon," and out of more than 13,000 school districts in the U.S., only about 20 have come under formal mayoral control in the last 20 years. Researchers have been unable to determine conclusively whether the mayoral governance model actually improves academics and student achievement.
The report also found that mayors can provide great benefits to public schools in other ways, especially by enabling better integration and coordination of services for children and families.
"What this research suggests is that while the interest of mayors in public schools can bring benefits to public education, a mayoral takeover risks disengaging community interests and disregards the governance responsibility of elected school board leaders," said Thomas J. Gentzel, NSBA's Executive Director.
The report recommends several steps for mayors and school boards to work collaboratively to improve student achievement, including:
- Formal and informal processes for coordination between the mayor's office, school boards and superintendent;
- Clearly defined areas of responsibility for the school board, mayor's office, and other agencies that are involved;
- Media coverage and community outreach to increase voter participation in school board elections; and
- Professional development for school boards and other leadership teams.
"Nothing indicates that students would necessarily benefit if public schools were run by mayors," said CPE Director Patte Barth. "But takeovers come with a high risk of disenfranchising parents and other community members. A better approach for districts would be the collaborative involvement of mayors, school leaders and the communities they serve."
Editor's Note: NSBA and its member state associations represent the interests of all districts and their school boards, whether elected by the public or appointed by mayors.
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SYRACUSE — There's no confirmation yet from Clear Channel, but signs point toward a possible FM simulcast for news/talker WSYR in the near future. One national radio industry website says it found registrations for five — count 'em, five — new internet domain names that suggest that WSYR could be moving to the FM dial, displacing one of the cluster's music stations.
That national website is radioinsight.com — famous for its "Net Gnomes" who somehow manage to spot new radio staton domain registrations well before the domains are officially advertised to the public. Among the domain registrations they've caught:
- http://106WSYR.com
- http://NewsRadio106WSYR.com
- http://NewsRadio1069.com
- http://NewsRadio1069WSYR.com
- http://NewsTalk1069.com
CNYRadio.com ran WHOIS searches on all five domains. They were all registered through GoDaddy on December 16. The registrant is listed as "Domains By Proxy," a company that specializes in allowing people to register domains without revealing their true identity. By contrast, the WHOIS record for the station's current primary web address — 570wsyr.com — is registered by "Clear Channel Identity, Inc.," of San Antonio, Texas.
That leads us to wonder — were these domains really registered by Clear Channel? Or is this a hoax being orchestrated by someone who has a little too much extra time and money on their hands?
On the one hand, domain registration is relatively inexpensive — several companies make it possible to register domains for less than $10 a year. On the other hand, it's possible an "authorized" employee was tasked to grab the domains before "word got out" and someone else could register the addresses. Transferring ownership of the domains back to Clear Channel wouldn't be a complicated process.
CNYRadio.com contacted Syracuse operations manager Rich Lauber late Monday afternoon for comment — but his voicemail greeting said he's out of the office until Wednesday.
While we're waiting for a response, we point out four factors that could support the move:
- WSYR is already on the FM dial, as WPHR-HD2. A great first step, but you need an HD Radio receiver (which listeners seem to be slow to adopt) and in your editor's attempts to tune in, the HD-2 signal doesn't reach as far as the original AM signal or WPHR's analog signal.
- It could be an order from corporate: Clear Channel's Albany cluster did something similar a few months ago — alternative rocker Channel 103.1 (WHRL) was tossed to provide a simulcast of dominant news/talker WGY.
- WPHR's transmitter moved from Auburn to Solvay last year, in an effort to improve the signal's coverage within the City of Syracuse.
- WSYR has relatively new competition in terms of other stations putting talk-on-FM in the market. Citadel launched 105.9 The Big Talker (WXTL) around the same time Galaxy took over the Syracuse market's ESPN Radio affiliation, putting 24/7 sports on FM translators in Syracuse and Oswego.
In today's edition of NorthEast Radio Watch, Scott Fybush recalls the fact that Clear Channel faced plenty of criticism from listeners in 2009, when the cluster temporarily replaced urban-formatted Power 106.9 (WPHR) with "Young Country 106.9." In one case, a law professor from Syracuse University wrote a scathing commentary which was published by the Syracuse Post-Standard. It's not clear if the country format was intended to be permanent or just a weekend stunt to steal thunder away from the launch of another country station — but Power 106.9 returned a few days later, sounding just the same, as if nothing ever happened.
As far as the return of the WSYR-FM call letters to Syracuse: it's possible. The call letters that once graced the 94.5 frequency are now in use at "Star 94.7" in Gifford, Florida. The station is owned by the Aloha Stations Trust, which was created by Clear Channel as a "holding tank" for stations which Clear Channel was ordered to divest in order to gain regulatory approval for the radio giant's 2008 privatization. That means it should be relatively easy to bring WSYR-FM back to Syracuse, once new call letters are found (perhaps WPHR?) for the Florida station.


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Handle(TDataStd_Name) has a wrong ID() in OCCT 7.2.0
The condition at line 10 of the annexed c++ code:
10: if(nameAtt->ID().IsSame(TDataStd_Name::GetID()))
evaluates to true if the code is built with OCC 6.9.1
while it evaluates to false if the code is built with OCC 7.2.0
The second result is wrong and because of that the following function (which is defined in TDF/TDF_Label.cxx):
void TDF_Label::AddAttribute (const Handle(TDF_Attribute)& anAttribute,
const Standard_Boolean append/* = Standard_False*/) const
does not work in OCCT 7.2.0 when a Handle(TDataStd_Name) is passed to the first argument
I have the same behaviour
I have the same behaviour here. Isn't the problem that the empty constructor of TDataStd_Name doesn't initialize the member fields correctly?
Since OCCT 7.1.0 same type
Since OCCT 7.1.0 same type attributes may have different GUIDs. Because of this the attribute constructor does not initialize GUID. See a chapter "Support of several attributes of one type at the same label" in Release Notes.
So, before AddAttribute you should call
Anyway, the standard way to create and attach attribute to a label is to use "Set" method of the attribute. It works well on any version of OCCT.
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I'm looking for some helpful input on, basically where i should start. The problem is I don't have a small selection of things I would like to learn because well if I could I would like to learn it all. I'm intrigued by a lot of things within the tech world but I get discourage easily because I cant seem to figure out where to start or what I need to start with. I was hoping to get pointed in somewhat of a direction.
Some of the things that intrigue me most is hearing stories of people hacking into networks, websites, creating viruses, etc. etc.(basically anything that's deemed illegal for the most part.) webpage/app design, creating programs, etc, etc.... This sparks me to want to learn how "hackers" manage to accomplish these things. Not that i have any intentions on doing such things but i would like to know how its done and understand it or a majority of it.
So i have ideas of what i need to learn but not sure what i should start off with first. I assume a few obvious things to learn would be a computer language, Linux, anonymity, networks and so fourth..... but I start to get lost and discourage when digging deeper into matters.
Things like network security, data encryption, app/web creation and design, languages, servers, how the internet works (like packet and protocol wise) how to access serves/networks. I look at all this stuff and there is a lot to it and i realize a lot of people specify generally in one field or a select couple but i would like to learn about it all in significant detail for the most part and then the things i need to know more of or want to know more of i can guess you would say specialize in. (theoretically speaking)
I was hoping maybe someone could point in me a direction as to what to learn first. (i know Linux is a must)
or if there was any kind of like ladder sequence to help guide me. Maybe you have links to useful information that could help me.. anything would be greatly appreciated...
I'm not looking for someone to hold my hand or explain the subject matter to me.
Just looking to a helpful push in a good general direction to learn these things and links to useful information, or suggested books that would be worth time and money to read.
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