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Hive Tarsus is Scintilla's second largest population center and is the seat of the planet's trade and commerce. It maintains an aggressive independence from Hive Sibellus, though it relies on the export produce of Sibellus's manufactories. Hive Tarsus is in the center of Scintilla's least hospitable desert, baking in the relentless sun and battered by sandstorms. The hive's construction is based around a foundation of immense vertical bars, between which stretch the great conglomerations of buildings that make up the body of the hive. As a result, Hive Tarsus is more vertical than horizontal, with more middle hivers climbing to work than walking.
Tarsian SocietyEdit
Hive Tarsus's unusual structure and hostile location mean that darkness and cold are valued commodities and, as such, very unusually for a hive city, the richest areas are those on the bottom of the hive instead of at the top. Hive Tarsus's nobility enjoy the shade afforded by having a whole city strung in a dizzying web above them, while they are far enough from the merciless sun to live in cool comfort. The very wealthiest live in pitch-black subterranean mansions where inhabitants and visitors carry dim lanterns to see by, while the air is cooled to sub-zero temperatures that require everyone to wear lavish furs.
The nobility here demonstrate their superiority by controlling their environment at immense cost, even to the extent of making their handsome estates as dangerous to the ill-prepared as the worst summer droughts. Hive scum that stray too close to the base of the city are often found frozen to death, caught out by the dramatic drops in temperature the closer they get to the wealthiest districts. The closer to the surface of Hive Tarsus, the poorer and more dangerous the hive becomes. Middle hivers labor in sweltering workshops bathed in the heat filtering down from the sun, plagued by sunbeams that sweep through the hive during the day and burn exposed skin.
The outermost layers (known as the Hiveskin) are hellish; it is almost too hot to breathe and hivers are bathed in sunlight so potent it can make those caught in it blacken and shrivel up in a few minutes. Layers of hovels cling to the top and sides of the hive, too flimsy to completely block out the deadly sun or the frequent lethal sandstorms. Worst of all, the heat is relentless, easily hot enough to kill those not adapted to it. The hiveskinners scrabble like scarabs across the outermost layers to avoid the worst of the sun as it moves overhead during the day. They are a sunburned, sand-scarred lot who survive by hunting the hardy fauna that dwells here including dangerous Scaldbats and mildly poisonous Fingerburner Beetles. Many wear improvised, iridescent armour suits to reflect the sun, so that they themselves resemble human-sized beetles.
In the burning upper reaches of Hive Tarsus, a species known as Scoldbats are hunted with a special variation of the "Slayer" pump shotgun produced by Fane Westinkrup in Gunmetal City. Known in the local cant as the "Bonefinger", it is crafted from heat-resistant ceramics and scrimshaw to compensate for the fact that a standard weapon might warp and fail in the extreme conditions.
Trade Within Hive TarsusEdit
Hive Tarsus manufactures very little. Instead, its middle hive is dominated by the Goldenhand, a vast complex of trading halls and auction houses held like a great golden nugget in the heart of Tarsus's city-web. The Goldenhand houses a massive, infinitely complex financial market where commodities are bought and sold at a dizzying rate, and enormous amounts of money and goods change hands hourly. Traders representing both planetary and sector-wide houses buy, sell and try to swindle each other. The Goldenhand never shuts and is constantly thronged with people yelling out offers and curses in a complicated trader's code called Goldentongue.
Most traders are accompanied by armed bodyguards, since the application of violence or even assassination are recognized tactics for gaining the upper hand. Activity in the Goldenhand is extremely intense, with few who work there lasting very long before they are burned out. Many is the man who has lost a fortune for his noble patrons in the Goldenhand and chosen to walk to certain death into the desert to do penance for his failures. Activity in the Goldenhand is regulated by two bodies. The first is the Goldenhand's own staff of auction masters and functionaries; dressed in browns and brass, their faces painted deep gold, they look appropriately enough like a part of the Goldenhand itself.
The second group is the Administratum. The adepts of the Administratum's Goldenhand Consular Taskforce (under the leadership of the energetic and surprisingly good-humored Consul Sevavin) forms the largest concentration of adepts on Scintilla and probably in the whole Calixis Sector. They are a familiar sight in their stark grey uniforms, contrasting with the outlandish fashions of the various noble traders, and are never jostled or threatened as they go about their business. The adepts are considered above the violence that flourishes between the other traders, partly because they represent the interests of the Holy Emperor, but mainly because they have the very best protection in the form of veteran soldiers from the death world of Mortressa. The adepts' purpose in the Goldenhand is to ensure that the tithes handed over to the Administratum from the hives of Scintilla do not consist of inferior goods with inflated values, and to maintain awareness of all the major deals going on among the planet's noble houses.
Another important player is House Krin, one of the great sector-wide noble houses, which revels in its reputation as "Drusus's bankers" and can arrange banking and massive loans to anyone confident that they can pay up when the time comes. The adepts of the Administratum are based in a building of gold and glass suspended over the Goldenhand's largest trading hall, while House Krin's household troops protect the family's complex of vaults and safe rooms just beneath the Goldenhand. Hive Tarsus's trade dominance is due to the fact that the planet's orbital docks are geostationary above the hive. It is said that Tarsus is the "lungs and stomach" of Scintilla. Vast wharfs and warehousing/handling vaults dominate the middle hive, pulsing with the import and export of goods. There are said to be chambers the size of cathedrals in the dense heart of Hive Tarsus, packed with crated goods never claimed or shifted.
Protectorate BarracksEdit
Hive Tarsus's proximity to the orbital docks means that it is also the home of the planet's military units. Scintilla's planetary defense force, the Army of the Scintillan Protectorate, is based at Hive Tarsus. It draws its troops from across the planet and there is considerable rivalry between regiments. The regiments raised from Gunmetal City's ruffians consider themselves to be superior and they are mostly justified in this, with the Gunmetal regiments being the equal of the Imperial Guard. The Gunmetallicus 41st, in particular, is a prestigious elite formation whose troops are used to escort VIPs and perform dangerous missions in the wastelands between the hives.
When the Imperium needs new Imperial Guard regiments raised for conflicts close to the Calixis Sector, Scintilla's tithe is often raised to include a draft of manpower for the Imperial Guard. This draft is mostly taken from the Army of the Scintillan Protectorate, with some Imperial Guard also being raised from the ultra-violent gangers of Gunmetal City's notorious Infernis. Since the Scintillan troops often cut their teeth battling the Infernis gangs, care must be taken to keep the resulting Imperial Guard regiments apart. The Army of the Scintillan Protectorate, while answering to Hax in his role as planetary governor, is effectively sponsored by the noble families who contribute their household troops to tours in the army, and most of its officer class is drawn from the younger sons and daughters of noble houses. Warrior brotherhoods, secret societies often born of loyalties to a particular noble house, are common in the army, with the most prestigious having fraternal meeting houses in the spire of Hive Tarsus.
Notable LocationsEdit
Power GroupsEdit
- House Krin - Maintains a sizeable body of agents in the Goldenhand
- The Great Chantries of Tarsus - Based out of Tarsus around the Cathedral of Illumination
- Navis Nobilite - The major houses have holdings in Hive Tarsus and Hive Sibellus
- House Verence - This noble house has significant holdings in Hive Tarsus and Gunmetal City
- The Menagerie - On occasion, the Pandaemonium Carnival has appeared in Hive Tarsus
Unique EquipmentEdit
Tarsus-Pattern Suppression Shield
Suppression shields are common equipment for the Adeptus Arbites, though such is their effectiveness that a host of other organizations and individuals use them as well. The suppression shield is both a bulwark and a weapon, a heavy slab of ceramite large enough for the wielder to take cover behind. Each has a built-in arc-lumin at the top, and a powerful shock-plate in the shield's center. If the wielder strikes with the shield, he can discharge the shock-plate on impact, delivering a powerful electrical blow.
Suppression shields have the Recharge quality, since the shock-plate takes time to build to dangerous levels. It can still be used as a weapon while it is recharging, however, but during those rounds it loses the Shocking quality and gains the Primitive quality. A suppression shield requires one hand to use, and provides +4 APs to that arm and the torso of the wielder. Tarsus-pattern suppression shields are also designed with lock-grips on the upper corners. These allow a character to fire one basic class weapon with one hand without penalty.
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Severe crush injuries caused by forklift truck
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have launched an investigation after a female employee died at a Bristol based wholesalers.
Annie Brennan was working at the Booker Cash and Carry warehouse in Avonmouth when the incident on the 12th December occurred.
Ms Brennan who was in her 40's became trapped under a forklift truck, the force of which caused severe crush injuries. Paramedics worked under the forklift to treat Ms Brennan, and firefighters used blocks and airbags to raise the truck.
Ms Brennan was airlifted to Frenchay Hospital but died from her injuries shortly after arrival.
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Research scientists have spent decades in an attempt to understand the complexities of climate change and its impact on diverse ecosystems. The most recent study has found that global warming now impacts not just seasonal variations, but natures' very timing — an aspect crucial to the environment at its very core.
Scientists in a study at the National Academy of Sciences have observed the worsening problem of timing from a global standpoint. There are many examples to sustain this.
For instance, one of the most noticeable changes in the timing pattern has been found at at Washington state's Lake Washington. For the first time in 25 years, plant plankton are blooming 34 days earlier than the zooplankton eat them, thus effecting the bottom-most level of the food chain.
The study's lead author, Heather Kharouba, an ecologist at the University of Ottawa, was unable to find a statistically significant link between temperature and changes in how species sync together. However, Kharouba said her observations were "consistent with climate change."
The study also reveals that these changes in timing are significantly greater than before the 1980s.
Indeed, the impact of global warming is being felt the world over, including in Australia. The world's largest coral system off the Australian coast is under a similar threat. In 2016, the marine heatwave led to extreme bleaching of the corals and resultant die-offs within two years has taken-out half of the Great Barrier Reef.
"If we fail to curb climate change, and global temperatures rise far above 2 °C [since the start of the Industrial Revolution], we will lose the benefits [corals] provide to hundreds of millions of people," said coral reef expert Terry Hughes, professor at Australia's James Cook University.
There are also recent reports of the North Pole reeling under soaring temperatures. The Arctic Sea ice is reportedly at its lowest recorded levels since 2013, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).
According to NSIDC, "The decline of the Arctic sea ice cover has myriad effects, from changes in climate and weather patterns to impacts on the plants and animals dependent on the ice, and to the indigenous human communities that rely on them."
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Role based UI with DukeScript
It's a very common requirement to show or hide elements in a UI based on the users roles. Depending on the view technology this can be quite a challenge. The most convenient way to do this, is by declaratively marking the sections. With DukeScript it's pretty simple. You can bind the visibility of an element to some property in the view model.
The problem is, that you need to introduce a lot of properties in your viewmodel. It would be much better, if you could simply add roles to a global user object and use this to control visibility:

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The user object can live in our root context and we can check if this user has the required roles:
@Model(className = "SecurityManager", targetId = "", properties = {
@Property(name = "user", type = User.class)})
public final class SecurityBinding {
@Model(className = "User",
properties = {
@Property(name = "name", type = String.class),
@Property(name = "roles", type = String.class, array = true),
@Property(name = "availableRoles", type = String.class, array = true)},
targetId = "")
public static class Uservmd {}
Now we need to create the "authorize"-binding. The tricky part is, that this needs to work in any binding context. If we bind several viewmodels to different parts of the page, each of them has their own root context. So we cannot rely on a common $root.
In this example I'm using document.getElementById("security-manager") to get hold of an element in the relevant root context. I get the User object from it and subscribe to changes in the users roles:
@JavaScriptBody(args = {}, body = "ko.bindingHandlers.authorize = {\n"
+ " init: function(element, valueAccessor, allBindings, viewModel, bindingContext) {\n"
+ " var value = ko.unwrap(valueAccessor());\n"
+ " var user = ko.contextFor(document.getElementById('security-manager')).$root.user();\n"
+ " var roles = user.roles;\n"
+ " if (roles().indexOf(value)==-1){\n"
+ " element.style.visibility='hidden';\n"
+ " } else { element.style.visibility='visible'; }"
+ " roles.subscribe(function(changes) {\n"
+ " console.log('change in roles checking for role '+value); "
+ " if (roles().indexOf(value)==-1){\n"
+ " element.style.visibility='hidden';\n"
+ " } else { element.style.visibility='visible'; }"
+ " });\n"
+ " },\n"
+ "};")
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If the user has the right role, I show the element, otherwise it will be hidden. A pretty simple way to control access in a fine-grained way.
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Severe weather delays Dolphins-Giants preseason game
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) The threat of severe weather has delayed the start of Friday night's preseason game between the Miami Dolphins and the New York Giants at MetLife Stadium.
Less than 20 minutes before the scheduled 7 p.m. start, stadium officials made an announcement, telling fans to leave their seats and to seek cover with the bad weather approaching.
The teams had already left the field before the announcement. The seats and the field were empty with less than five minutes to kickoff. A light rain was falling.
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Shaking up the traditional banking sector
Payr is a fast-growing Norwegian Fintech startup set to shake up the traditional banking sector. They recently raised a pre-seed round of 400 000 Euros to launch their app, set to happen in only a few weeks! Meet Marketing Manager Yvonne Edseth in Bergen on Tuesday!
#WHYWE scale
Payr`s big advantage is that we are able to build a product that gives independent and actionable advice in a market dominated by low trust, low competition and slow rate of innovation.
We have first-mover advantage, short time-to-market, extremely scalable business model, and a rapid growth and scale strategy. Our licenses from the Financial Authorities, clearing bank and KYC/AML partners, are easily passportable across EU, reducing time and cost to go to new markets. We have built the first version of Payr as a springboard to have perfect timing and scale to take full advantage of PSD2 and other imminent European regulatory changes. These forces are forcing banks, card issuers and other financial parties to lower their costs and open up data access. This gives us a head start that is ample for Payr to be one of the winners in a "post PSD2 world".
#WHYWE have gotten investors
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We saw this opportunity early, and are well-prepared for when the regulation officially takes effect in 2018. Being an early mover allows us to focus on building a strong brand and good customer relations, as well as building a product stepwise that customers actually desire. Our current investors are tech-savvy analysts and entrepreneurs; they have seen the same opportunity as us and believe in our concept, timing and team.
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Payr is a fast mover in a slowly changing market, with a strong team with years of experience in building and scaling companies. We also have a dedicated and strong Board of Directors with relevant experience from Mastercard, Nordea, mCash, Telecom and the legal field. With three designers on the team, we`ve also had focus on creating a great user experience from day one. Last but not least we have secured strong partnerships with some of the leading providers in the banking industry, among these Nets, Swedbank, BankID and eFaktura, and we have crossed the regulatory minefield and secured EU-wide operations approval.
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Our founding team has a total of 6 exits, so we have walked the entrepreneurial path before, and know a lot of what is to be expected. We also believe that a diverse team is a winning team, and we have an almost 50/50 balance of men and women, with team members from both Norway, Latvia and Poland.
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First and foremost to meet investors and media, and to connect with the Norwegian startup ecosystem. Doing it the Norwegian way with extreme sports and extreme dinner is a bonus!
And in the end, best tip: If we have to choose only one thing, it would be to not be too scared to share information about your concept and plans when talking to other startups and investors. Unless your idea is very unique, it`s not all about the concept, but rather execution, timing, scaling, your team and your traction. Don't waste time in meetings where you give too little information, because people can´t help or trust you if you don't share anything. Bonus tip: Pay(r) it forward as much as you can!


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2015 Kia Sedona Provides First-Class Lounge Seats, More Room
Kia's new, first-class lounge seats might just be the way to make a minivan more appealing.
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The Mini Cooper Hardtop has oodles of personality, go-kart handling and now, of all things, four doors and a big, color-changing "mood ring" on the dashboard.
Taller, Narrower European-Style Vans Arriving in US
A touch of the Old World has come to American cities in the form of European-style vans that look like skinny, tall breadboxes.
New Lexus Compact SUV Starts at Under $36K, Aimed at Young
Finally, there's a Lexus sport utility vehicle that's priced under $40,000. The new-for-2015 Lexus NX is a compact crossover SUV, so it provides a car-like ride and is smaller than Lexus' top-selling RX 350 mid-size SUV.
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Although I usually purchase my veggie seeds/plants from local nurseries, there's a couple that have caught my attention on the web this past week. I've just placed my order and am eagerly awaiting delivery.
Firstly, we have Aubergines, something I've never grown before. I've chosen a compact variety which I intend to grow in large tubs in the greenhouse.
'A very decorative baby-fruited Aubergine. Ophelia produces an abundance of beautiful, glossy, dark purple fruits of just 50-60g each. Compact and perfectly suited to the greenhouse or growing on a sunny patio.'
Ophelia – Aubergine
I've been musing over trying out Potato grow kits for a while now and think they would make for an ideal experiment this year. Each kit contains x3 Potato Gro-Sacks, x15 Potato tubers and fertiliser.
I've decided to go for a couple of 'Taster' packs which consist of first earlies, second earlies/salad & main crop.
Here's the varieties I'll be growing –
Swift 'The extra-early' first early with a delicate new potato taste. Gives high yields of oval white skinned Potatoes.'
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Maris Peer – 'Remarkable purple scented flowers and superb flavour. The perfect Patio Potato.'
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What's so special about a Blackwing?
Blackwing pencils were originally introduced in the 1930s and built a cult following thanks to their buttery smooth graphite and the award-winning creatives who used them. Looney Tunes creator Chuck Jones and Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck counted themselves among its devotees, along with countless other writers, artists and musicians. In the 1990s, Blackwing pencils fell victim to cost cutting measures and were discontinued, but not forgotten. In fact, fans started spending as much as $40 per pencil to seize the unused stock.
In 2010, we revived Blackwing pencils using Genuine Incense-cedar from the forests of California and Oregon, and smooth Japanese graphite. In the years since, Blackwing has grown from a single pencil into a culture. It's a culture that encourages and empowers creativity in all forms, especially in our nation's schools. In fact, a percentage of every Blackwing product sold benefits music and arts education at the K-12 level.
OK, but what makes a Blackwing different from the yellow pencils I used in school?
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How can I become a retailer?
If you want to find out more about becoming a Blackwing retailer, just fill out the retailer inquiry form and we'll be in touch!
Where can I buy Blackwing products?
Blackwing tools are available online at Pencils.com and at hundreds of retailers around the world.
What is the difference between the three Blackwing models?
Blackwing – Soft. Dark lines. Excellent shading ability.
Blackwing 602 – Firm. Lighter graphite. Great for notes, lists, and outlining
Pearl – Balanced. Graphite is a blend of that found in BW and 602. Firm point, dark graphite. Versatile.
What wood are Blackwings made out of?
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Why do you use Japanese graphite?
Japanese graphite is darker and smoother than other graphites thanks to the unique combination of graphite, wax and clay. Plus, our relationship with our graphite manufacturer means we can get our graphites formulated to our exact specifications.
How do you replace a Blackwing eraser?
Remove the handy eraser clip from the pencil, replace or extend the eraser and then return the clip to its nest.
What does "602" stand for?
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The BOT and UFF bargaining teams met on June 14 to continue negotiation of the Salaries article. The unresolved categories are Performance Increases, Departmental Merit Increases, Deans' Merit Increases, Market Equity Increases, Administrative Discretionary Increases, and the UFF's proposed Administrative Commensurate Compensation Increases. (The teams are not proposing changes to Promotion Increases or to Sustained Performance Increases.)
The session began with a BOT presentation purportedly showing that funding for faculty salaries is limited by legislatively-imposed criteria and that FSU faculty are already well-compensated compared to other public institutions. As a result of these restrictions and comparisons, the BOT team explained that their goals and priorities are not faculty compensation but instead are hiring, student retention and graduation, student support, and graduate student funding. The BOT concluded that FSU salaries were "competitive" and that they were "comfortable with faculty salaries."


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2019 Chrysler 300 Release Date And Price
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Experience Points: The Challenge Is The Achievement
Lately I've been playing an indie game called Rogue Legacy, which is a rogue-like RPG platformer where you descend into the depths of a castle in pursuit of a great evil. In the game, you will die, that is its central mechanic, but you will be gifted with a choice of descendant with some genetic deficiencies. In other terms, your descendant may be a giant, suffer from irritable-bowl syndrome or have a severe case of colour-blindness. Some deficiencies provide advantages, whilst others are greater hindrances than beneficial in the long run. Essentially Rogue Legacy is a game founded on the principle of overcoming the challenge, and once you overcome one challenge you are faced with another. There are endless challenges to be dealt with. However, overcoming the slightest of challenges in Rogue Legacy proves to be most rewarding. The reward is steeped within the high difficulty and learning curve of the game, and coming to grips with the harshness of the game.
This is an old school game design philosophy, which has seen a resurgence in the last few years with a growth in prominence across rogue-like and Metroidvania style indie games, and the broader AAA game market most notably with games like Dark Souls. Difficult and punishing gameplay design can be rewarding, and when the fairness of the challenge is balanced then the reward is increasingly satisfactory. A game that doesn't feel as if its a burden upon the player's play-through is genuinely successful in this regard. No matter how rage-inducing the game may be, if the total experience is enjoyable in the long-run, enduring the initial growing pains and difficulty curve can be alleviated by inducing player enjoyment through reward and success mechanisms in-game. Alternatively, if the game is designed well enough, a feeling of euphoria may sweep over you as you become one with your inner gaming nirvana.
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I experienced this feeling of euphoria when playing through the tutorial of The Witcher 2. Some gamers take easily to the game's combat system and game design choices. Sadly I had been affected by the fettered simplification of contemporary RPG gameplay, from the likes of both Bioware and Bethesda, and found myself at a loss as the challenge was far more intense than I had perceived. I was genuinely confronted with a challenge in accustoming myself to Witcher 2's design and gameplay mechanics. Combat was one such element that I struggled with in my first attempt at the game. Most notably the terrifying tutorial which haunted my dreams with traumatic effect, until I satisfactorily faced the problem head on and dealt the final blow.
In The Witcher 2: Enhanced Edition, to be specific, you are asked whether you would like to partake in a tutorial level before starting the actual campaign. Being the dedicated gamer I am, I committed to going through the necessary steps as I was recommended to do so by many friends, who told me of the game's high learning curve. The tutorial starts off by introducing you to a couple of standard elements of the game. These include: meditation, alchemy which outlines the process of making potions, finding objectives in the world map and the controls for the basic movement of Geralt. All of which is highly appreciated.
Following this, you move to an arena where you are confronted with the basics of combat. This consists of how to use magical signs such as Aard, Igni, Yrden, Quen and Axii. Besides this, the tutorial also educates you in parrying enemy attacks, heavy and light attacks, how to use quick slot items in battle, target selection and much more. In summary, there is an overwhelming amount of information you're exposed to in short space of time. Understanding the instructions offered was not the problem at face value. No, my problem lay within the execution of combat manoeuvres, and this is where I dismally failed on my first few tries.
After going through all the steps set out in the tutorial, you are asked whether you want to test out your skill and determine the difficulty you should pursue in your play-through, or alternatively you can exit the tutorial. On my first few tries, I chose to take my chances and test out my abilities. I was knocked about in those first few tries and was taught a couple of handy lessons. Being told to play the game in Easy mode is devastating especially the first time when you see the message glaring back at you on the screen.
Yet there were two important things I learnt very quickly. Firstly that Quen, a magical sign which creates a protective shield for Geralt, is your friend and rolling to dodge enemy attacks should be continuous throughout a battle. The reality is that Witcher 2 is no mere hack-and-slash affair, nor is it a walk in the park. I took part in the challenge, and had to be tactical. Giving up and moving on to some other game, was out of the question. Even if this challenge was slight and small in scale, it was important for me to at least try my best. I placed traps all around the arena, before initiating the hordes of enemies to attack. I lured a couple of enemies into enchanted traps, threw daggers and bombs at them, and took out a few with a few quick slashes of my steel long sword. It was fun and when I came face-to-face with a Dwarven archer, he was easily taken down. But then suddenly, and without warning, a mage who had appeared quite quickly summoned a giant golem. Of course, I tried to take possession of the giant with the Axii sign, and was swiftly killed. A prompt appeared telling me to play the game in normal mode. I was relieved, no longer haunted by the taunt of having to play the game in easy mode.
I admit that although an RPG like The Witcher 2 may not come to me as naturally as others, the game does encourage you to overcome your own insecurities and welcome you with a challenge. In that moment, I was fulfilled. Challenging games are fulfilling. When a game asks of you dedication and you respond in kind, the rewards can be both satisfactory and enjoyable. In practice I now don't let difficulty dissuade me from trying out a game. By doing so, I was surprised by the experience contained within The Witcher 2. Ultimately, the lesson I learnt was that you can limit yourself severely by rejecting games based on a difficulty curve. However, you may lose out on some genuine gaming experiences, and that is quite sad.


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Day 23 - Diaper bag and what's inside.
I just use the change bag that came with my pram, although I have been tempted to buy a new one recently.
What's inside? Well what isn't inside? Everything but the kitchen sink it feels like, I can never get the thing to shut!
Well there is -
2 vests
2 babygrows
6 nappies
Packet of wetwipes
Small tub of sudocrem
Small tub of vaseline
Nappy bags
Travel change mat
My purse
My hairbrush
Writing out that list doesn't seem like much, so who knows why I can never get the thing to shut.
Day 23 - Nap time
Day 24 - Mom quote
Well I don't know any mum quotes really so don't have a favourite one to post.


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Ingredients for mutton
Mutton. 2 kg
Coriander seeds. 1 tablespoon
Cumin seeds. 2 teaspoon
Almonds. 16
Cardamom. 2
Cloves. 4
Mace a pinch
Coconut 2 tablespoon
Redchilli. 5
Ginger. 20 gms.
Garlic. 8 flmakes
Oil 1/2 cup
Bay leaves. 2
Cinnamon. 2 stick
Onions. 1/2 kg
Tomato. 1
Red chilli powder. 1 tablespoon
Curd 3/4 cup
Salt 4 teaspoon
How to make Mutton
1.In a pan,roast together coriander ,cumin seeds ,almonds, cardamom ,cloves, mace and coconut and grind to paste with whole chillies ,ginger and garlic ,add a little water in which chillies were soaked ,from time to time .
2.Heat oil cooker for about 2 minute. Add bay leaves ,cinnamon and green cardamom .Stir for a few second .Add onions and fry till onions are golden brown .Add ground paste ,tomato and chilli powder .Stir well.
3.Add 1 tablespoon curd Stir and fry until curd is well blended .Add the remaining curd in the same way ,a tablespoon at a time,till all curd is used. Fry till oil shows separately .Add meat and Salt .Fry till meat is lightly browned .Add water .Stir well.
4.Close cooker .Bring to full pressure on high heat .Reduce heat and cook for 10 minute.
5.Remove cooker from heat .Allow to cool naturally.
6.Open cooker .
Your mutton is ready to serve with roti or pulav..😊😊


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A dismal weekend patch wise and a slow start to the third week sees me surging into the lead. Well, OK, stumbling inadvertently to the front then....
Didn't think I'd get out on the patch at all today, but an opportune trip to the post office gave me the chance to take a detour around the far side of the patch to the lake on the way home. Nothing new... just a couple of cormorants and the ubiquitous teal. Out of luck I headed for home and nearly took out a female sprawk as it hurtled across the road after a song thrush. A dipper on the little stream added to the tally... both without having to get out of the car. Bonus!
That's 47 for the year... or more importantly 55.76%... nudging me in front for the first time. It's quite a nice place to be... guess I'd best savour it while it lasts, which inevitably won't be long.
Sprawk photo is from last year in the garden... but enough of a tenuous link with this post to use it I think.


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Hailing from Kandukuru of Prakasam district, Ashok comes from the ground up – he has seen harsh realities of people struggling while availing medical services. An MBBS from PESIMSR Kuppam, Ashok is a radiologist by profession. His motto to switch all the way to find an important entity like UniHealth has a deeper meaning and cause for the society.
UniHealth is all about offering services that are otherwise still not very accessible even in the modern day set ups – "We are trying for set up a platform that can be instantly utilized for all the medical emergencies such as ambulance services, ICU admission, blood bank information access, medical records and organ donation. UniHealth provides instant information on everything operating as SAAS (software as a service).
So what makes his app different? "It's all about speed and ease of access" he says. "Even today, people do not know where to rush during the times of medical emergency. For all you know, they may head to a nearest hospital and find that the ICU s are full, or blood banks do not have the type they are looking for."
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UniHealth was founded with a singular vision of service. Ashok Tallapaneni co founded the entity along with his friend Dr Ramanth Polu. The duo have worked on the prevailing issues for many months and launched UniHealth in May 2016.
The future plans are to develop a 'Doctor App' in the next 12 months. They also intend to develop a 'Police App' in another 6 months, depending on the willingness of the government to use the app.
"We have a long run dream of launching our services in other countries that face similar problems. Plan is to become a one stop medical entity in the next 15 years" Ashok says.
So what does this visionary doctor have for the budding startup rookies – "I feel I'm not in a position to give suggestions to my fellow start-ups but few things I learnt and understood as of now are 1. It is very tough journey and definitely not as easy as we initially think. 2. There is always something more to learn 3. Never give up. 4. Strong team or a very strong mindset is the most important requirement. 5. Spend wisely – avoid unnecessary expenditure as much as possible."
We wish Dr Ashok Tallapaneni all the very best with UNIHEALTH.


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20 Sep 2013
I love Autumn and Winter. I love my windows open and listening to the birds and my wind chimes. Not too sure how things will be for the rest of this year.
I had to clear out over 150 pieces of spam this morning. These folks need to get a life.
It's taking me a long time to start this. The words just aren't there and I'm not sure where to begin. Everything seems to be connected and it all spells doom for America.
A known mentally disturbed man on psychotropic drugs is able to gain access to the Navy yard through two check points with a sawed off shotgun. Am I reading all this correctly? Was he a contractor or IT person? Was that really his first day on the job? Why do the stories keep changing? How come no body knows anything?
A SWAT team was on the scene ready to defend those innocent people who were murdered. They were told to stand down! Stand down. Reminds me of Benghazi. Some body was in need of not only a body count but a high body count. I remember hearing the body counts during the Vietnam War. It was not a "police action". It was a war. Many thanks to those who served.
The Boston Police who were at the Boston Marathon bombings were at the Navy yard. How did they get their information to be there so quickly and why did they show up in the first place? Washington, D C doesn't have enough qualified police? Something is just not right.
Update at 11:25 a.m. ET. ATF Team At Scene:
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has about "20 specially trained, locally stationed special agents" at the scene, NPR's Carrie Johnson reports. She says it's the same team that was instrumental in capturing accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Another shiny object to talk about because…drum roll…we are going to war with Syria.
John Kerry's speech:
"United States secretary of state John Kerry has mocked the notion that Syrian rebels were responsible for last month's chemical weapons attack near Damascus.
He has called on all United Nations member nations to "stand up and speak out" on Syria's chemical weapons at the upcoming General Assembly.
Mr Kerry said the Security Council must be prepared to act in the wake of what he says was a definitive report into the chemical weapons attack.
"The world can decide whether it was used by the regime which has used chemical weapons before, or whether the opposition secretly went unnoticed into territory they don't control, to fire rockets that they don't have, containing Sarin that they don't possess, to kill their own people," he said.
"And that without even being noticed, they just dissembled it all and packed up, and got out of the centre of Damascus controlled by Assad. Please!" "
If anybody who knows the truth about anything is wanting to become a whistleblower, I suggest you do it loudly with lots of witnesses and publicity. Public attention seems to keep you from being killed by Mr Dick Tator. Don't say you are going to appear before whomever to say what you know on Monday. You will be found suicided on the Saturday before. Or you will be disappeared. You might even be labeled a terrorist or drug dealer or whatever. You just might even get droned.
Mr Dick Tator willingly funds Al qaeda by stealing American taxpayer monies for this. Oh, that can't be true because Al qaeda is the enemy. Funding them would be aiding and abetting which is TREASON.
Ireland gets it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SX58vqcEU0
Get through the first video of 23 seconds and then click on Illuminati Surprise, That's the one I want you to see.
Just a tidbit here. The Internet Tax Mandate is up again for another vote. May it fail.
What is going on with the police these days? http://autos.aol.com/article/cop-throws-family-to-ground-during-traffic-stop/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl4%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D378308
Where is the outcry from Mr Dick Tator, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Holder, Feinstein, Emanuel? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/20/chicago-park-shooting_n_3959062.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl26%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D378371
I couldn't go through all the photos of the school lunches as they were making me feel quite ill. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/18/the-sad-state-of-school-lunch-in-the-us-_n_3944016.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl28%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D378098
A little BS for the day:
"On July 11, 2013, the United States and Communist China agreed to restart negotiations on a bilateral investment treaty (BIT). "The two sides agreed to enter a more substantive stage of negotiation as soon as possible," said Chinese Minister of Commerce Gao Hucheng to reporters following the 5th round of the annual China-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue, on July 11. "China announced its intention to negotiate a high-standard bilateral investment treaty with us that will include all stages of investment and all sectors," said U.S. Secretary of Treasury Jacob Lew in his closing remarks.
According to China Daily, the state-owned Chinese newspaper, on July 13, "the US pledged to treat Chinese investment equally and fairly and to welcome investment from China, including that from State-owned enterprises." "
When have any trade agreements been fair and equal? My guess would be never.
I really enjoy Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas times. They are colorful and festive. What will this year be like?
Virtually no American military troops in the USA. Thousands of foreign troops here fully armed and trained under FEMA and DHS control on American soil. More ammo, weapons and supplies to be given to FEMA and DHS with the deadline of 1 Oct 2013. All training of foreign troops to be done with a deadline of 1 Oct 2013. Tons of emergency rations and water for FEMA and DHS to be delivered with a deadline of 1 Oct 2013. Mr Dick Tator out of country during part of October. Region III gets a drill of some sort by FEMA and DHS this October. Region III includes Delaware, Pennsylvania, Washington, D C, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland. FEMA included gas masks for that region's "hurricane" supplies. Can we just connect the dots now? This will not be a "drill". This is yet another false flag to see how much this regime can and will get away with. That's our October Surprise.
Our November Surprise is the "drill" of the USA, Canada and Mexico power grids going down 13-14 Nov 2013. But it will only last 48 hours. No, 72 hours. No, at last report up to a week IF the grid comes back up. Wait, wait, wait. FEMA says we should have seven days worth of food/water stored. No, no, no. DHS says that would make us "preppers" which makes us terrorists. Wow. More dots to connect.
I would truly enjoy a remake to the beginning of "King Ralph" but an American version and real. And let it be filmed in high def. And let us be able to slow it down and play it over and over again. Just the thought of it makes me smile.
May we all have a great day and many more for as long as possible.
God bless America.
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So-called promise scholarships shape dreams for students and encourage changes in educator beliefs about students.
This past summer, LeBron James was in the news for something that had nothing to do with basketball or his moves from Cleveland to Miami and back to Cleveland. In August 2015, the LeBron James Family Foundation and the University of Akron announced a partnership that could put as many as 2,300 Akron kids through college. As part of the foundation's I Promise program, scholarships covering tuition and general fees will be made available to students involved in programs sponsored by the James Family Foundation; the first potential recipients will graduate high school in 2021.
Promise scholarship programs such as the one developed by the basketball superstar or even the Scott's Tots program devised by the fictitious Michael Scott of television's "The Office" are a distinct type of college scholarship. Promise programs are place-based scholarships, generally tied to a city or school district, offering near-universal access to all living in the place. While promise programs share some characteristics with other scholarship programs, they're unique because they seek to change communities and schools.
The promise movement is in its infancy, born in November 2005, when Kalamazoo Public Schools superintendent Janice Brown announced that a group of anonymous philanthropists had essentially guaranteed college scholarships to all high school graduates in Kalamazoo going forward. Scholarships covered full tuition and fees at any of Michigan's 44 public community colleges and four-year universities. Scholarships are awarded to all Kalamazoo graduates, regardless of merit or need, with few strings attached. This unprecedented strategy was intended to revitalize the region and encourage families to remain in the Kalamazoo school system. The Kalamazoo Promise drew widespread media attention and caught the eye of many interested in community revitalization across the country, including civic leaders in the small, southern Arkansas town of El Dorado. Within two years, in January 2007, a similar promise program was born in El Dorado.
Underlying such promise programs is the belief that having access to a guaranteed college scholarship will encourage students to remain in school, encourage families to remain in a community, and change how educators work with students. Based on our analysis of student performance data in El Dorado since 2007, we learned that this promise program did improve student achievement throughout the system as early as elementary and middle school (Ash, 2015). Interviews with El Dorado teachers and school leaders also revealed that a genuine culture shift occurred in El Dorado after the Promise began.
According to Sylvia Thompson, director of the El Dorado Promise since the program's inception, more than 1,800 graduates of El Dorado High School have received the Promise Scholarship through fall 2015. Thus, starting in the fall semester of 2007, about 200 students in each El Dorado High School graduating class have benefited directly from the program. As of this writing, we are gathering and organizing college enrollment data from the National Student Clearinghouse to rigorously assess the extent to which the Promise program has improved college participation and completion rates for El Dorado students.
The Promise comes to El Dorado
In spring 2006, after reading about the Kalamazoo Promise, community business leaders in El Dorado met with Murphy Oil Corp. executives to propose starting a promise-like program in El Dorado. Murphy Oil, a Fortune 500 company, is headquartered in El Dorado and has a history of funding special programs in the school district. These civic leaders were persuasive, and, in December 2006, Murphy Oil's board of directors approved a $50 million gift to create the El Dorado Promise, a universal college scholarship program for El Dorado School District graduates.
Unlike traditional forms of financial aid, which typically have merit and/or financial need requirements, the El Dorado Promise scholarship is available to all students, provided they have been continuously enrolled in the district since at least 9th grade and graduate from El Dorado High School.
Similar to other promise programs, the El Dorado Promise was established not only to increase the number of college graduates from the area and improve the local education system but also to spur economic development. Like many communities in southern Arkansas, El Dorado, a city of about 20,000 people located a short distance north of the Louisiana border, has suffered population loss and the closing or relocation of many of its major employers in recent decades (Landrum, 2008). Murphy Oil representatives have said they hope the Promise will have a number of economic benefits for the company and the community, including increasing Murphy Oil's ability to recruit talent, attract business investment, and create better employment opportunities for returning college graduates (Landrum, 2008).
The El Dorado Promise scholarship can be applied toward tuition and mandatory fees for up to five years at any accredited two- or four-year college or university in the country, private or public. The maximum amount payable is the highest annual resident tuition and mandatory fees at an Arkansas public university, which was $7,889 for a student taking 30 credit hours per year in the 2014-15 school year. The El Dorado Promise can be used in combination with other forms of financial aid, including need-based aid such as the Pell Grant ($5,730/year maximum value for 2014-15) and merit-based scholarships such as the Arkansas Academic Challenge Scholarship or "lottery scholarship" ($2,000 to $5,000/year for 2014-15). The El Dorado Promise is considered a "first-dollar" scholarship; it can be used for any college expenses that appear on a student's college invoice, such as room, board, and textbooks. Depending on the institution a student attends and other forms of aid, combining the Promise with other forms of financial aid could pay the full cost of college attendance.
The amount of the scholarship depends on a student's length of enrollment in the school district. Students who have been continuously enrolled in El Dorado since kindergarten are eligible for 100% of the scholarship value; the amount decreases to 95% for students who initially enrolled in 1st through 3rd grades and then decreases by an additional 5% for initially enrolling in each subsequent grade level until 9th grade, when students are eligible for 65% of the scholarship value. Students who enroll in the district in 10th grade or later are not eligible for the Promise.
The Promise must be used to seek an associate or bachelor's degree; it cannot be used for technical certificates. To use the Promise, students must enroll in an accredited higher education institution in the semester immediately following high school graduation, unless they defer enrollment to join the military.
To keep the Promise scholarship, students must be enrolled in at least 12 credit hours per semester, maintain a 2.0 cumulative grade point average, earn at least 24 credits per academic year, and be making progress toward a bachelor's or associate degree.
What is the theory of change?
While promise programs are primarily intended to improve students' higher education outcomes, they're also expected to improve K-12 outcomes. The El Dorado Promise might be expected to produce better K-12 outcomes by motivating or influencing its key stakeholders in several ways:
- Students may become more motivated to prepare for college; they may enroll in more rigorous coursework or simply become more invested in school and exert more effort.
- Similarly, parents may be encouraged by the accessibility of college and choose to play an active role in ensuring that their children are prepared to take advantage of the postsecondary opportunities the Promise presents.
- School leaders in the El Dorado school district may start new programs to increase students' college-readiness.
- Teachers may work harder to reach students because the lost opportunity associated with academic failure will greatly increase.
Of course, the Promise is most likely to work through a combination of several possible changes.
Over the past couple of years, we have gathered a great deal of data to assess the extent to which the district has changed and how El Dorado students have benefited from the Promise, even before they cashed a single tuition check in college. We studied enrollment trends in El Dorado compared to similar districts before and after the Promise began and found a range of positive effects (Ash & Ritter, 2014). We also engaged in hours of discussions with nearly 20 teachers and school leaders and concluded that a culture change had taken place since the Promise began.
Enrollment increased. In the pre-Promise period (1990-91 to 2005-06), El Dorado lost about 10% of its population. From 2007-08 to 2011-12, El Dorado district enrollment experienced a 9% increase above its expected trend, while comparison district enrollment continued on the same downward trend and the surrounding Union County district enrollment dropped more than expected. The fact that enrollment in other county districts and similar comparison districts continued to fall while El Dorado School District enrollment increased indicates that the introduction of the El Dorado Promise positively affected district enrollment.
Student learning improved. Using the annual Arkansas Benchmark exams, we evaluated whether the achievement gains of El Dorado students were greater than would have been expected. We first matched each El Dorado student in grades 3 through 8 with a matched "twin" student in the same grade in another Arkansas district. Students in the same grade and with the same race, gender, and free-lunch eligibility status were matched by student test scores on the Arkansas Benchmark exam as of spring 2006. The result of this matching was a comparison group of students that, in fall 2006, was nearly identical to the group of El Dorado students in fall 2006. The next step was simply to analyze student scores from 2007 forward and determine whether the achievement of the El Dorado group outpaced that of the initially matched comparison group.
The results of this analysis are presented in great detail in Ash (2015). Overall, we found that El Dorado Promise students' test scores were roughly 6% to 8% of a standard deviation better than their matched peers each year in mathematics achievement. Moreover, these gains compounded over time for up to three years. Thus, for many of the students in the sample who were in elementary grades in 2007 and spent three or more years in El Dorado after the Promise was announced, the cumulative effect of the Promise was substantial. When we analyzed subgroups, we found that the effects of the Promise were greatest for the most academically able students, that is, students who scored in the top half of their class before the Promise was announced. Importantly, these gains did not come at the expense of traditionally underserved students, including economically disadvantaged students or African-American students. In fact, the program effects for students in these subgroups were as large as the overall program effects.
This finding makes sense: The promise of a college scholarship appeared to have the greatest effect on academically strong students (those who would be most likely to seek higher education), as well as positive, but not statistically significant, effects on students from traditionally underserved groups (who might not have considered higher education to be economically feasible).
In our view, this is great news. Of course, there is still much left to be learned about the effect of the El Dorado Promise program or promise programs in general. In the case of El Dorado, we will soon know more about the extent to which this program changed the pattern of college attendance and college success among Promise recipients. So far, we have evidence that the program resulted in test score gains for El Dorado students before 8th grade. The analyses described thus far, however, do not give us any insight as to how these positive changes occurred. Why would the promise of a college scholarship after grade 12, for example, influence student test scores in grades 6, 7, or 8?
Discussions of college permeate the district from kindergarten onward. Since the introduction of the Promise, school officials have engaged in a number of practices to expose students to college at a young age. That starts with a local bank giving kindergartners El Dorado Promise backpacks filled with information about college and the Promise scholarship. Since 2007, conversations about college and trips to college campuses have become commonplace for all students in the district, regardless of race or class. Since the Promise began, middle school students can take an elective course called College 101. As the name suggests, the course gives students introductory information on what college life is like and what it takes to get to college. The director of the El Dorado Promise coteaches a career course to 7th graders, in which she talks to students about college and how the Promise supports college attendance. The director revisits students in high school English classes to encourage college applications and requires each student to visit her in the Promise office. Finally, in April of senior year, El Dorado holds a very public Academic Signing Day, which all seniors attend in graduation robes and announce the college they will attend. The importance of this event is signified by the very prominent guests who have attended and spoken over the years: At the 2012 Academic Signing Day, former President Bill Clinton was the keynote speaker.
It seems obvious that everyone in town knows about the Promise and knows many people who attend college; El Dorado certainly has a college-going culture. According to El Dorado educators, these changes have had a genuine effect on students and their own educational aspirations. "It's been a total shift in mindset. Every kindergartner will tell you they're going to college. It's not pie in the sky anymore. It's reality," one teacher said.
Another educator said, "Even at the lower levels, we no longer say if you go to college. We say when you go to college."
Enhanced expectations for all students. Interviews with teachers and school leaders revealed that El Dorado educators redoubled their efforts to ensure that they held high expectations for all students since all El Dorado students now had the financial means to attend college. According to most of the interviewees, from the superintendent to the elementary teachers, we got the impression that district leaders were always willing, even before the Promise, to try new strategies to reach students. Nevertheless, the consensus from our participants was that teachers began to hold higher expectations and push students even harder after January 2007.
One teacher, who teaches pre-AP courses in middle school, described a compromise that she is no longer willing to make: "I am less likely to let that kid sit in the back and live in la-la land. Ten years ago, I might've done that. 'OK, you don't want to learn this; if I just let you zone out, you're not going to bother anyone else, OK, I'm gonna deal with everybody else.' [Since the Promise, I now say] 'No, it's not OK for you to do that. It's not OK for you to sit here and not attempt to do this work, because you've got somewhere to go from here.'"
Another teacher said this new mindset even affects how he deals with discipline. "I found, post-Promise, that I'm now less likely to let the discipline problems keep me from teaching. I'm a lot more inclined to get in touch with parents to address the issues."
Indeed, the compromises described here sound quite similar to the one made by Horace Smith in the classic education book Horace's Compromise by education reformer Ted Sizer. Since the Promise was announced, teachers across the district are less willing to make that compromise. Our interviewees said the administration began doing classroom walk-throughs to ensure that teachers are keeping all students engaged. Again, the teachers described to us an apparent culture shift. "The culture has changed. Those teachers [not attempting to reach all students] are being replaced. The culture here is we expect every student to be participating in class. The teacher's job is to reach every kid. If a kid's not engaged, our job is to make an attempt."
One teacher put it more succinctly: "When we first got the Promise, our job changed because all these kids have a chance to go to college."
Increased enrollment in advanced coursework for all students. One very tangible result of increased expectations by both students and teachers was the spike in enrollment in Advanced Placement (AP) and pre-AP courses across El Dorado. Since the Promise, teachers and administrators have felt a weighty responsibility to ensure that all students are prepared for college. One strategy for increasing college readiness is enrolling students in AP coursework. Nearly all interviewees — from the director of professional development to the teachers to the counselors — said AP classes are enrolling more students and a greater diversity of students.
Before the Promise, El Dorado had an AP program; in fact, the district had AP programs since the onset of such programs. However, many years ago, very few students were enrolled in AP courses, and those who were enrolled were nearly always affluent, white students. According to the district's director of professional development, before the Promise, fewer than 100 AP exams were taken each year. In 2013, El Dorado students took more than 600 AP exams, and she estimates that economically disadvantaged students took one-third of those exams. We heard stories of tables filled by black females at Saturday afternoon preparation sessions for AP calculus. The El Dorado AP teachers we met seemed especially proud that their classes were now reaching students across the socioeconomic spectrum. In referencing the changes since 2007, one AP teacher joked that "our AP program has gone from the country club to parks and rec."
AP courses had always been open to any students who applied, "but it wasn't advertised as open enrollment, and it wasn't encouraged," one teacher said. Since the Promise, El Dorado educators have made an intentional effort to encourage all types of students to enroll in AP courses and college prep courses. AP teachers encourage teachers in regular courses to move students into AP if they show potential. Teachers in feeder courses are now inclined to seek students who are successful and encourage them: "You need to think about being an AP kid."
These efforts aimed at expanding and diversifying the AP track are clearly in line with the post-Promise high expectations encouraged throughout the district. On the heels of the Promise, the educators in El Dorado were driven to step it up, in their words, because "we are trying to literally get all of the kids ready for college."
Michelle Miller-Adams has studied the Kalamazoo Promise since its beginnings in 2005 and is one of the nation's leading researchers on promise programs. In her 2009 book, The Power of a Promise, Miller-Adams writes that the Kalamazoo Promise "has been variously described as a scholarship program, an economic development strategy, a boon to the middle class and a gift to the poor" (p. 2). Promoters of promise programs are enthusiastic about the potential for such programs to improve the overall well-being of communities through various channels. Most directly, the promise should lead to greater participation in postsecondary schooling by reducing costs and red tape that accompanies most forms of financial aid. Along the way, supporters hope that promise programs can support K-12 schools and community development by retaining current residents and attracting new ones.
And finally, perhaps it is possible that the promise of a clear financial path to college, even for students in elementary and middle school, can improve academic opportunities and enhance expectations throughout a local school system. The experience of students and educators in El Dorado, Ark., suggests that such a promise indeed can nurture positive changes throughout a district.
Ash, J.W. (2015). A Promise kept in El Dorado? An evaluation of the impact of a universal, place-based college scholarship on K-12 achievement and high school graduation (Doctoral dissertation). Fayetteville AR: University of Arkansas (Order No. 3700408).
Ash, J.W. & Ritter, G.W. (2014). Early impacts of the El Dorado Promise on enrollment and achievement. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas. http://bit.ly/1MZzqPJ
Landrum, N.E. (2008). Murphy Oil and the El Dorado Promise: A case of strategic philanthropy. Journal of Business Inquiry, 7 (1), 79-85.
Miller-Adams, M. (2009). The power of a promise: Education and economic renewal in Kalamazoo. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
Originally published in the February 2016 Phi Delta Kappan 97 (5), 13-19. © 2016 Phi Delta Kappa International. All rights reserved.


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