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When a Pittsburgh girl, 6, crashed her mom's car while trying to drive across town to visit her father, no one was injured, say Pittsburgh police.
Police haven't released the name of the girl or her mother, who was reportedly still sleeping when the child took the her car keys about 9 a.m. Sunday. Police Sgt. Jerry Parker tells reporters the little girl is tall for her age, but adds: "How she knew how to operate a car, your guess is as good as mine."
She hit two parked vehicles, pushing one of them into a third, before hitting a utility pole, but police haven't said if anyone will face charges.
On the other side of the country, South Dakota lawmakers are seeking to protect young drivers with a package of recommendations that would ban beginning drivers from using cellphones behind the wheel and make other changes aimed at reducing teen traffic fatalities and serious injuries.
South Dakota is one of only a few states that allow 14-year-olds to begin driving with learners' permits, a tradition based on the need for teenagers to drive on farms, said state Sen. Craig Tieszen (R) of Rapid City, the chairman of the Teen Driving Task Force. Many states require young drivers to be 15 or older to get learners' permits.
The South Dakota Senate Transportation Committee voted 7-1 to approve a measure that would prohibit all beginning drivers from using cellphones or other electronic devices until they can get an unrestricted driver's license at age 16. At least 30 states and the District of Columbia have already banned the use of all cellphones by novice drivers.
In 10 states and the District of Columbia, all drivers are prohibited from using hand-held cellphones while driving. The South Dakota legislature has repeatedly rejected measures to ban cellphone use or texting by all drivers, but members of the committee said it's time to take phones out of the hands of beginning drivers.
The committee also recommended that those with learners' permits should have to wait longer before driving unaccompanied. Another measure would set up a coordinated drivers' education system with statewide standards for course content, instruction, testing and certification of instructors.
The proposals, which now go to the full state senate, were recommended by a Teen Driving Task Force that was set up two years ago by the legislature.
Young drivers should not use cellphones because they are inexperienced and can have trouble dealing with distractions, said Tieszen, who chaired the task force. "Although some 14-year-olds are capable of taking on the complex task of driving, many are not," he added
The task force reported that South Dakota has a high rate of fatal crashes among young drivers, and young South Dakota drivers are more likely to have accidents than older drivers.
For example, motor vehicle crashes account for 44 percent of all deaths among South Dakota residents ages 14-17, but crashes are responsible for only 39 percent of deaths among that age group nationally. The state Public Safety Department reports that 16- and 17-year-old drivers represented just 2.7 percent of all South Dakota drivers in 2011, but accounted for 5.9 percent of crashes involving deaths or injuries.
Courtney Denett, a Rapid City high school student, urged the committee to pass the measure, saying a driver's eyes are off the road for at least five seconds while texting or otherwise dealing with a phone.
"If they're new drivers, I don't think they should be focused on electronics in the car, but on the road itself and the people driving around them," Denett said.
But Sen. David Omdahl, R-Sioux Falls, said young drivers could become even more distracted if they hold their phones below window level so police cannot see what they are doing. Law officers would have difficulty enforcing a ban on cellphones, but parents could forbid their children from using phones while driving, he said.
"You're looking at government to do your dirty work, so to speak. I don't like that," Omdahl said.
South Dakota law allows instruction permits to be issued at age 14, the youngest age in the nation for driving while accompanied by an adult. Those young drivers can graduate to restricted permits that allow them to drive alone in the daytime after six months, or just 90 days if they have completed a drivers' education course.
The committee approved a bill that would require beginning drivers to keep those instruction permits for a year before moving to restricted permits that allow them to drive alone. Those who complete drivers' education courses could move to restricted permits after nine months.
The measures recommended by the task force would still allow young drivers to get unrestricted licenses at 16 if they pass a written test and a driving test.
Committee members said they particularly like the measure requiring state officials to set up a coordinated drivers' education system that would make those courses consistent statewide. Such courses now are organized differently from community to community, they said.
Another measure approved by the committee would limit the number of unrelated minors who could be passengers in a car driven by a teen with a restricted permit. Those limits would be eased for trips to school or school events.


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BENNINGTON — County firefighters won three of the 10 major statewide awards handed out at the Vermont State Firefighters Association's annual convention, which was hosted by the Bennington Fire Department on Aug. 17, 18 and 19.
Two were members of the Bristol Fire Department.
Justin Jackman was named the Emergency Maintenance Technician of the Year.
Cadet Will Elwell earned the distinction of Junior Firefighter of the Year.
BRANDON — There has been a surprise changing of the guard at the Lake Dunmore Hose Company in Brandon, as Eric Mallory was elected Brandon fire chief, replacing longtime Chief Bob Kilpeck.
The vote took place at the fire department's April 25 bi-annual meeting. Mallory was nominated from the floor and voted in by the majority.
"I'm flattered by it, and I'll give it my best," Mallory said.
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Mayor Coleen J. Seng today invited families to kick-off summer Saturday June 10 with a new fun and free event at Holmes Lake Park called Waterfest. From 5 to 8 p.m participants can fish, canoe and fly kites. Waterfest also will feature:
"Waterfest is being held to celebrate the completion of Holmes Lake and the surrounding park," said Mayor Seng. "This will a great opportunity for families to have fun while also learning about the lake and what we can do to keep our streams and lakes clean and healthy."
City Parks and Recreation Director Lynn Johnson said Holmes Lake is a good example of how pollution impacts our water resources. The 110-acre Holmes Lake reservoir was built in 1962 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for flood control and recreation. The Lincoln Parks and Recreation Department manages the lake and the surrounding park. More than 40 years of development and upstream agricultural use deposited excessive amounts of sediment in the lake that reduced the lake's depth, water quality and fishing conditions.
The City partnered with the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality, the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, the Nebraska Environmental Trust Fund and others to complete a two-year $5.6 million renovation. Nearly 321,000 cubic yards of sediment were removed from the lake bottom. About 2.4 miles of shoreline were stabilized with rock and native plants, and 10 acres of wetlands were created. Six new rock jetties were installed to provide fishing access and protect shorelines.
The project extended the recreational life span of the lake by more than 100 years. A Watershed Advisory Committee, formed in 2001, is working to reduce the threat of future pollution at Holmes Lake through public education, wetland enhancement and drainage improvement efforts.
Holmes Lake re-opened last fall with a 2.3-mile hiker/biker trail loop, two new pedestrian bridges and ten new benches. The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission restocked the lake with sport fish species that include largemouth bass, blue gill and channel catfish. A handicapped-accessible wooden pier was installed for fishing. The Holmes Lake Sailing Club assisted with the installation of new boat launch facilities along South Shoreline Drive. The renovation also included lighting improvements throughout the park and the expansion of parking lots at the Holmes Golf Course and Rickman's Dog Run.
Waterfest is being presented by the City of Lincoln, The Groundwater Foundation, the Lower Platte South Natural Resources District, the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality and the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. Sponsors include Grohs, Keller & Associates, a financial advisory practice of Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.; Olsson Associates; Pepsi, Russ's Markets and KFRX Radio.
More information about Waterfest is available on the City Web site, lincoln.ne.gov (keyword: waterfest).


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Children enjoy castles and gardens for a while, but the best time is had at the theme parks. Hastings in East Sussex has Smugglers Adventure that promises family fun in St. Clements Caves. The caves are part natural and part man-made and take visitors into the heart of Hastings West Hill. The tours educate and entertain in the underground world.[Read More...]


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Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón is the Oscar-winning director who made the 2013 outer space thriller Gravity (starring Sandra Bullock). Raised in Mexico City, he was a film student who jumped into the trade before finishing school. During the 1980s, he worked his way up in film and television productions; his first film, made in 1991, caught the attention of Hollywood, and he got a leg up from director Sidney Pollack in the cable TV series Fallen Angels (1993). Cuarón then got critical acclaim for directing the 1995 film A Little Princess, but it was his 2001 movie Y Tu Mamá Tambien that brought him international fame. The movie won several awards and the screenplay brought an Oscar nomination for Cuarón and his co-writer and brother, Carlos. It also led to Cuarón getting the big-shot job of directing Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004, based on the novel by J.K. Rowling). An outsider whose cinematic skills have made him a Hollywood player, he's also the Oscar-nominated writer of Children of Men (2006, starring Clive Owen) and the producer of the Oscar-winning film Pan's Labyrinth (2006). His film Gravity won a total of 7 Oscars in 2014; he won Oscars for editing and directing.


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On Wednesday about 4:00 pm, Waterloo Police responded to a report of a man in a vehicle at Poplar and Whittier Ave. The report indicated the vehicle was running and had not moved for a couple of hours. Responding officers located the vehicle and found the lone occupant was deceased. No information is being released on the deceased pending notification of family. An investigation has been initiated to determine the cause of death and no further details are being released at this time.
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It's ice time on Causeway Street. The Bull Gang can pack away the parquet after the Celtics and Knicks play Game 4 on Sunday. You don't need Red on Roundball to tell you that this series is not coming back to Boston next week.
Draftmaster/sartorial savant Bill Belichick has a catch-all phrase for those rare occasions when the Patriots submit a terrible performance. The Hoodie will stand at the podium and mumble, "That's not what we were looking for.''
This is a polite explanation for what unfolded at the Garden on Friday. Fans came out to see the Celtics shake down the thunder from the banner-festooned rafters. Instead, they got another terrible performance from the Green Team. The Celtics were humbled by the Knicks, 90-76, and now face a potential season-ending Game 4. Two years after thumping their chests and sweeping the Knicks, the broom is on the other size-16 Nike.
Not what we were looking for.
"I thought we wanted to play well,'' said Doc Rivers. "We didn't. Overall, our effort was there. I thought we did lose our spirit early on. We missed two layups to start the game. I thought we lost our spirit for one stretch in the second quarter. That hurts.''
"We just have to take it one game at a time,'' said Jeff Green. "They haven't won it yet.''
He did not sound as convincing as Kevin Millar before Game 4 of the ALCS in 2004.
Many times we have talked about the end of this Celtic era and here we are again. Is this the end for Kevin Garnett? Will Danny Ainge be motivated to trade Paul Pierce or Rajon Rondo? Is it time to blow it up? We didn't think the Celtics were going to win the championship with a Rondo-less team this spring, but we didn't expect they'd go down like this.
You have to score points to win basketball games.
The Celtics don't score points. They had second halves of 25 and 23 points, respectively, in the first two games in New York and last night scored 31 in the first half. Ouch. They are averaging 75 points per game in the series.
It started off as an emotional night. The Celtics hadn't played at home in 16 days — almost a week before the Marathon bombings. The Green Team canceled its final regular-season home game, which had been scheduled for a day after the explosions.
During Friday night's national anthem, the Celtics featured a Marathon slide presentation on the big videoboard. After the anthem, several members of the Celtics organization, including Rondo and Ainge, visited with one of the partners in the Celtics ownership group, who had family members injured when the bombs exploded on Boylston Street. It was another demonstration of how small our town became in the midst of this global event. Everyone, it seemed, was touched by the tragedy. More than any other date on the Celtic schedule, this was a night to recognize Heroes Among Us. NBA commissioner David Stern was one of the 18,624 witnesses.
The Celtics did a fine job honoring police, first responders, medical personnel, and all others who've helped our city get through its crisis. Unfortunately, the men in basketball uniforms were not up to the task. The Celtics simply don't have enough good players. Who are we kidding? They have now lost 14 of their last 19 games and have precisely one victory over a team with a winning record in the last seven weeks. The Celtics don't have a point guard and Avery Bradley is being exposed. The Knicks are better. By a lot.
The Celts were hoping Garnett would return to the Garden and lead them to victory. In his Celtics career, Garnett is famous for coming back from a road playoff loss with a turnaround game. Going into Friday night, the Celtics were 13-0 when coming home from a playoff loss with Garnett in the lineup. In those 13 games, KG averaged 24 points and 10 rebounds.
Garnett was able to snatch 17 rebounds in 34 minutes.
"I just thought he played so hard,'' said Rivers.
Still, Garnett made only 5 of 13 shots.
Neither team shot 40 percent in the first quarter which ended with the Knicks leading, 23-18. Carmelo Anthony (he didn't look overrated in this one) made 2 of 7 shots in the first 12 minutes and had his usual zero assists, but the Celtics made only 14 of their first 40 shots and trailed, 47-31, at halftime. Fans booed them when they came off the floor at intermission.
"We got so frustrated with our offense, we let up defensively,'' said Rivers.
It only got worse. Anthony (26 points on 12-for-25 shooting, no assists) was Michael Jordan and Larry Bird in the third and fourth quarters as the Knicks shot to a 21-point lead. He was the true Fab Melo. Every time the Knicks needed a basket, Anthony scored.
The Celtics shot 40 percent for the game. They committed 17 turnovers. They are down 3-0.
"We lost our spirit and they made every shot,'' said Rivers. "I didn't think we were [mentally tough] tonight. I thought we lost our trust a little bit on both ends.''
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December 2011, Hiroshima, Japan. Green Legacy Hiroshima is an initiative started in 2011 by UNITAR and ANT-Hiroshima, to spread worldwide the seeds - and the peace message - of trees that survived the atomic bombing. Recently, Nassrine Azimi, one of the co-founders of "Green Legacy Hiroshima" and former director of the UNITAR Hiroshima office was interviewed about her hopes and vision for this global campaign by the Chugoku Shimbun (website in Japanese), and featured in the Hiroshima Peace Media Center.
The feature article "Green Legacy Hiroshima: Effort gets underway" is available in English and in Japanese (被爆樹木の種 世界へ「緑の遺産ヒロシマ」本格始動).
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That is Mr. Darcy knocking over his bowl to request a refill...
I believe the previous owners had this kitchen done early-90's. It is not terrible, but not very light and it is missing the utilitarian feel that I like kitchens to have.
At some point in the near (1-2 years) future, we plan to add an addition onto the house that will triple the size of the kitchen and include a cozy hearth room. For the meantime, we planned a DIY (budget-friendly!) remodel to freshen up the space.
DIY Backsplash and Open Shelving Update :
-Remove Upper Cabinets from the Left side ($0)
-Add Pine Wainscoting Back Splash ($60)
-Add Open Shelving ($100)
Total Cost = $160.00
Other Projects (we've already completed, and will be sharing this week...) :
-Counter Tops
-Light Fixtures
-New Appliances
-Revive Wood Floor
I'll be posting the rest of the "Progress" and "After" photos throughout the day and over the next couple of days... so, stay tuned!
Here is the Before of the Upper Cabinets.
And the After. Much lighter and brighter, right?
Now all of the tile has been removed. Ick.
Here, my Dad and Mike install the solid wood paneling that goes from the counter top to the ceiling.
They used construction adhesive on the back and finish nails to secure it.
Voila. There is a part of me that wanted to keep the rustic, raw knotty pine. Someday I'll have cozy cabin and I'll do the entire thing in this paneling!
Installing paneling was a great option because :
#1 - We didn't have to repair the walls from the tile or cabinets.
#2 - It was only $60 worth of paneling.
#3 - The project to this point took my Dad and Mike about 4 hours.
#4 - It gave the entire room a "fresh and new" feel for $60 in 4 hours.
Before priming and painting, I filled all of the holes with wood filler...
Then sanded. Doesn't my manicure look lovely?
I painted it to match our trim : Benjamin Moore Navajo White in Satin
Here is the "After" photo of the paneling with the shelves installed. I didn't take photos of the shelving installation... because... well, they went up so fast, I painted them and then they were finished before I knew it! Sorry.
We got the birds beak brackets from Home Depot for about $10 each. The shelves themselves are 1x12x8 pine boards with 1 x 2 1/2 trim pieces on the perimeter. Mike secured 3 of 4 of the brackets into studs so the shelves are very sturdy.
I still haven't decided on an official display of my things on the shelves, but I'm working on it - probably an entire post in itself.
As you can see, we also replaced the light fixtures - source links here : http://jennysteffens.blogspot.com/2012/09/house-tour-work-in-progress-progressing.html
Next up, the counter tops!
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Advanced Linux Server Troubleshooting (part 2)
All about /proc, and how to debug PythonYou know the basics of how to find out what an errant process is doing. But what do you do when the basics aren't enough?
You know the basics of how to find out what an errant process is doing -- or if not, you may want to review Troubleshooting part I first.
Getting info without gdb or strace: /proc
Even if you don't have any system tools installed, you can get a lot of the same information from the /proc filesystem.
Suppose you have a process that seems frozen and you want to know why. Get its process ID with ps and grep:
$ ps au | grep getstuff akkana 9997 0.3 0.1 8444 4920 pts/2 S+ 20:12 0:00 python /home/akkana/bin/getstuff.py
Armed with the process ID, cd /proc/processID and poke around.
$ cd /proc/9997 $ ls attr/ cpuset io mountinfo pagemap smaps task/ auxv cwd@ latency mounts personality stack wchan cgroup environ limits mountstats root@ stat clear_refs exe@ loginuid net/ sched statm cmdline fd/ maps oom_adj schedstat status coredump_filter fdinfo/ mem oom_score sessionid syscall
There's all sorts of useful information there. For instance, status tells you the current state of the process. environ gives you the environment variables the process is using, like ps aueww -- not useful in this case, but you may need it some day.
ls -l fd will show you all the files the process has open and where they live on the file system. It also tells you about other file-like objects like network sockets.
The net directory is full of arcane information mostly of use to networking gurus, but even the rest of us can sometimes glean useful information:
$ cat net/sockstat sockets: used 49 TCP: inuse 3 orphan 0 tw 0 alloc 4 mem 2 UDP: inuse 2 mem 2 UDPLITE: inuse 0 RAW: inuse 0 FRAG: inuse 0 memory 0 $ cat net/wireless Inter-| sta-| Quality | Discarded packets | Missed | WE face | tus | link level noise | nwid crypt frag retry misc | beacon | 22 mlan0: 0001 0 197 188 0 0 9342130 506582 1258102 0
Hmm, lots of retries. That doesn't look good! Might point to a problem.
But in our current predicament, head straight to stack to get a current stack trace, similar to the information gdb might give you:
$ cat stack [
] sk_wait_data+0xaa/0xc0 [ ] tcp_recvmsg+0x4e9/0xbe0 [ ] sock_common_recvmsg+0x48/0x60 [ ] sock_recvmsg+0xf5/0x120 [ ] sys_recvfrom+0xbd/0x150 [ ] sys_recv+0x3b/0x40 [ ] sys_socketcall+0x1a2/0x280 [ ] syscall_call+0x7/0xb [ ] 0xffffffff
Sadly, in this case, the culprit is a Python script. All the stack trace shows me is that I'm in Python -- not where in the Python script. What then?
Dumping the stack from Python
If the problem is in a Python script you control, it's easy to modify the your script to let you request a full stack trace at any time. The key is to set up a signal handler on the user-defined signal SIGUSR1.
Python makes this easy. The signal module lets you trap signals, and the traceback module will give you a Python stack trace. Add this anywhere in your script:
import traceback, signal # Print a current stack trace: def dumpstack(signum, frame): print "Caught SIGUSR1: dumping stack!\n" print '\n'.join([ a + ' ' + str(b) + ': ' + d \ for (a, b, c, d) in traceback.extract_stack() ]) # Call dumpstack whenever we receive SIGUSR1: signal.signal(signal.SIGUSR1, dumpstack)
Using print assumes the program is running from somewhere where you'll see the output. If this is a system daemon, you may prefer to write the stack to a log file or some other predictable place.
Once you've built in signal handling, use kill to send the USR1 signal to your process ID:
$ kill -USR1 9997
The program prints:
Caught SIGUSR1: dumping stack! /home/akkana/bin/getstuff.py 14: response = urllib2.urlopen("http://example.com/testcgi/") /usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py 126: return _opener.open(url, data, timeout) /usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py 391: response = self._open(req, data) /usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py 409: '_open', req) /usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py 369: result = func(*args) /usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py 1161: return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req) /usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py 1134: r = h.getresponse() /usr/lib/python2.6/httplib.py 986: response.begin() /usr/lib/python2.6/httplib.py 391: version, status, reason = self._read_status() /usr/lib/python2.6/httplib.py 349: line = self.fp.readline() /usr/lib/python2.6/socket.py 397: data = recv(1) /home/akkana/bin/getstuff.py 9: for (a, b, c, d) in traceback.extract_stack() ]) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/akkana/bin/getstuff.py", line 14, in
response = urllib2.urlopen("http://example.com/testcgi/") File "/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 126, in urlopen return _opener.open(url, data, timeout) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 391, in open response = self._open(req, data) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 409, in _open '_open', req) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 369, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 1161, in http_open return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 1136, in do_open raise URLError(err) urllib2.URLError:
Voil�! Now I know exactly where the program is failing: it's in Python's urllib2.urlopen, called from line 14 of my Python script. If I need to set a different timeout, or otherwise guard against a process that never returns, I know where to put the code.
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Sending the signal interrupted what the program was doing, reading from the network, and made that call return an error. It doesn't necessarily kill the program -- but your program may exit if you don't handle exceptions.
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Our schools are central to the mission of building knowledge societies. Yet, we don't know enough about how teachers and schools are being influenced by the social forces around them. Organizing schools, creating systems of accountability, and focusing on results that matter for parents involve actions outside the school system.
Education reform is often thwarted by forces that affect policy design, finance and implementation. These political economy issues are often acknowledged, but rarely systematically addressed in research or policy dialogue.
To try to make sense of what we know, the U.K. government recently conducted a review of essential research on education reform along five key themes:
Roles and responsibilities: Who are the key stakeholders in the education sector? What are the interests and incentives faced by different players?
Rent-seeking and patronage politics: How significant is the extent of "rent-seeking" – when stakeholders lobby in order to gain political favor – and patronage politics in the education sector, and what is the impact on education reform and school outcomes?
Decision-making and the process of influence: Who are the participants in the decision-making process? What are the direct and indirect mechanisms available to different power groups to exercise their power?
Implementation issues: To what extent are policy reforms implemented and what are the factors that facilitate and impede implementation?
Driving forces: What political and economic conditions drive or inhibit education reform, both in its formulation and implementation?
The review's findings included the following:
- Among all stakeholder groups, teachers and their organizations have great political power because of their ability to influence electoral outcomes. By advocating for higher salaries not tied to performance, lobbying against decentralized school management, and protecting inefficient and shirking teachers from dismissal, some teacher unions cause educational inefficiency, though others are milder and work constructively to improve the welfare of teachers. By contrast, parents do not have a collective voice on educational matters, since they are not organized. Government and international agencies are recognized as the other major stakeholders in the education sector.
- Rent-seeking and patronage politics are rife in education systems in developing countries. The politics of patronage suggest that it is more convenient to expand educational coverage by, say, building more schools or hiring more teachers, than to fix existing inefficiencies within the system. Some literature suggests that union membership and political connections could be associated with reduced student achievement.
- A variety of groups influence the educational decision-making process and educational change. The literature concludes that the supposed benefits of decentralization are not equitably distributed; in poor rural areas, the local elite captures most of the space for participation in school affairs. On a global scale, international donor agencies and education institutions are exerting more influence on education decision-making in many developing countries.
- Reform failures are often due to low capacity, poor administration, inadequate delivery, lack of information, and leakages of funds. Political economy constraints, lack of political will and vested interests of politicians are contributing factors. Evidence also suggests that participatory programs such as community-managed schools often fail, in some cases due to unequal power relations between poor, rural community members and relatively well-paid teachers.
- Political will is a key force in driving educational change. Democracy is also consistently associated with a shift in spending from tertiary to primary education. However, the effect of additional spending on educational outcomes is dependent on the type of democratic institutions, such as elected parliaments, in place.
- There are positive cases of reform. They mostly occur when the system is expanding and more jobs are being created. The enrollment expansions of the 1970s and 1980s, especially in Latin America but also other developing regions, are good examples. Focusing on institutional reforms to improve the quality of education is more difficult, and we know relatively less about this than other areas. There are many stories about policy successes, but not a lot on failures.
To support the World Bank's partners in effecting positive change, we need to better understand the countries we work in, including their history of reform, stakeholders, and local evidence.
We need to know more about how institutions support and repress real reform. We need to know more about how to empower parents and the poor to affect real educational change that will promote equitable access to quality education. We need to know more about how to analyze education reform from a participatory, multidisciplinary, yet rigorous manner.
In short, we need a program of research on the political economy of education reform.
What else do we need to study, and how can we do it effectively? Let me know in the comments section below.
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A very interesting input on
A very interesting input on educational reform. Accountability, improving results and advancing the quality of the education system is critical for countries to succeed. You have pointed out the major obstacles to education reform. I am of the view that educational reform is compromised by a tendency to obtain "quick wins". Education stakeholders and political forces are often under immense pressure to produce results. Particularly in developing contexts there are no quick fix solutions to education. The basics must be entrenched in the system to ensure that there are sustained and long term gains. Good teacher education, excellent intergovernmental oo-operation, accountability mechanisms and sophisticated advocacy is required. What is often missing is the emphasis on the collective good. Many year ago we spoke about the collective good and sociologists of education did a remarkable job of pointing this out. Rampant individualism and vested interests instead of the collective good has resulted in a very superficial education environment. Until we develop a better grasp of the political economy of reform and understand its long term implications for a society, very little progress will be achieved. Thanks for initiating discussion on this important topic
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This is a timely discussion,
This is a timely topic, as it addresses two key issues in education reform: accountability at the school level, and the political power of teacher's unions. Taking into account the political economy of reform can help us deal with these two issues and reduce the gap between between policy intent and policy implementation. Recent evidence from Kenya in the use of report cards designed in collaboration with parents, and the use of contract teachers, have helped improved student outcomes and reinforce accountability, reducing the gap between policy design and policy implementation at the school level. In both cases the role of parents was reinforced at the school level and their leverage increased. In the case of teacher's union it is clear that they can block education reform by using coalitions with politicians to seek benefits that eventually go against education quality. Recent evidence form Honduras show how the coalition between teacher unions and key legislators have blocked any attempts at reform. In contrast, the recent moves by the Mexican Government to reduce the power of unions in order to foster increased learning is a hopeful sign that the power of unions can be harnessed in the direction of policy implementation. Great post
Thank you for your comment.
Thank you for your comment. I agree that information disclosure and parental participation create more transparency and balance the negotiations between key stakeholders. Going forward, we need to better document the experiences and to find ways of conducting more rigorous research on the political economy of education in order to inform the dialogue.
Thank you,
Interesting article, great
Interesting article, great read. I agree, an examination of power dynamics and their impact on education is essential for long-term educational outcomes. As you highlighted material resource constraints are a drag on educational attainment, but as evidenced in the article we must also look at how political power can hinder, or benefit the education system.
Thank you Arjune. I like the
Thank you Arjune. I like the way you put it: power dynamics and political power. These are certainly issues that need to be considered when examining education reform. Too often they are not.
Educational reforms can only
Educational reforms can only be achieve when their is good governance, once this is achieved the reforms will definitely take place.
Thank you Bee. Governance
Thank you Bee. Governance issues were once not spoken about in development circles. Times have changed. But it is not enough to talk about them, but to understand how they influence reforms and what we can do to change the situation. That is, how can research help inform how to get good reforms implemented.


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Exhibition of the Art of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark
On 28th January 2012 Copenhagen's Museum of modern Art - ARKEN - opens the doors to the exhibition THE ESSENCE OF COLOUR – The Art of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark. This is the biggest exhibition hitherto of the Queen's art, where the public can follow her artistic development over the past 35 years. Over 130 acrylic paintings, water-colours and découpages are presented – including a series of brand new works that have never before been shown to the public.
"The exhibition offers unique insight into the artist Margrethe II. We meet an open, vulnerable, searching human being who is able to convert her reflections on the fundamental existential conditions of human life into simple, lucid art," says the director of ARKEN, Christian Gether, of The Essence of Colour.
In 1969 the Danish Queen read Tolkien's epic fantasy, which inspired among other things the series of water-colours Landscapes for Lost Legends. Since then, nature has been a central theme in the Queen's art. "It is not only charming, it is also vast and frightening – and most fascinating of all when it is vast and frightening," explains the Queen in conversation with Christian Gether about her sombre, depopulated landscapes. This is a mythical universe where the intensity, depth and atmosphere of the subject are created by colours. At the same time the tones in the Queen's water-colours and paintings express emotions beyond the reach of words. The Queen herself says to Christian Gether: "For me it is always the colour, first and foremost."
Humour as an artistic ploy
The Queen's works reflect a special relationship with history and the present. This is most clearly seen in the découpages; incredible compositions of cuttings from art periodicals and art sale catalogues, teeming with references to the history of style and architectural details that create a setting for a burlesque sense of humour. The découpages have been used among other ways as scenery in the filming of The Snow Queen and The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen, where they have evoked a fascinating, highly distinctive pictorial universe.
Traces of lived life
In her most recent works the Queen moves from the large landscapes to small natural fragments and 'zooms in' on individual elements such as rocks, carcases and bones. The bone series is brand new and has never been exhibited before. The urge to paint bones came irresistibly, just as the urge to paint stones and carcases was something inherent that simply had to come to expression through the brush. The bone pictures are not 'true to life' and the Queen describes them as "large, strange pictures of imaginary bones on a yellow ground." There is something latently eerie about them, and reflections on mortality inevitably spring to mind. There are both humour and seriousness in these raw Vanitas symbols with forms so organic that you feel like reaching out and touching them.
As a viewer one can simply enjoy the insight into the artistic universe that the Queen has so generously chosen to share with the public.
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[CONTENT WARNING: Contains discussion about suicide, mental illness and addiction that may be triggering to survivors. (Also profanity.)]
It's embarrassing to write honestly about my response to the death of Robin Williams because it was utterly selfish.
When we mentally ill find out that one of us was taken, we feel sad, yes – but mostly we feel afraid. Monday night I was going about my business and all was well-ish and then I read the news and suddenly fell still and silent with fear. I felt shamed– like the universe had caught me red-handed with too much peace in my grubby little hands. Like I was getting too free and healthy and big for my britches and so I needed to be put in my place.
Dear Glennon- Look what happened tonight. That's right. Don't you go getting too comfortable there, sweetheart. Love, Your Asshole Brain.
I felt like I needed to slink, cower, tiptoe around my home because the monster was still out there – prowling, picking us off, one by one. And so I needed, really, just to be as tiny as possible and not draw any attention to myself. And so that's what I did until that awful remembering set in like a slinky, foggy cartoon ghost. It tapped me on the inside and said– but the monster's not out there, honey – it's in here. It's in here with you. It IS you." Where do you hide when the deadly monster is inside of you?
There is nowhere to hide from yourself. Except, of course, inside of death. People who get that – GET THAT and so that is why you'll never hear a fellow addict saying wide-eyed: "how could he do that?" And why you only hear non-addicts saying:" My God, I can't even IMAGINE." Because addicts can. We can imagine.
Well, yes- I guess a person without a monster living inside of them would not be able to imagine the need to hide from one. But we do. And so we'd never suggest that an addict died of a lack of courage or love any faster than we'd suggest a diabetic died of a lack of courage or love. We don't say much at all in the wake of it all- we're just quiet and we hang our head in reverence for our brother or sister's suffering and we hold our hat in our hand and clench our fists in solidarity and we wonder who's next.
But of course I said none of this to Craig Monday night. I just stared at a few pictures of Robin Williams thinking: Of course. It's always the smiling, laughing ones, dancing so hard to convince the world and themselves that all is well. Making it all better with nothing but the sheer force of our wish that it was better. And I just pointed at an article and Craig said, "Oh, SHIT" and then we closed the computer to make dinner for the kids.
And then later, we were on the couch watching all the ridiculous "news" shows that were interviewing every mental health expert on the planet and every human who once caught a glimpse of Robin Williams on a sidewalk, and Craig looked at me sideways and said, "That's not going to be you, you know." And I didn't look at him at all, I just stayed in my roly-poly ball in the corner of our couch and I said, "Oh, I know. I know that."
Because what else are we going to tell them? The truth? Which is: How the hell can you know that? How do you know that's not going to be me? How am I going to fare better than Robin Williams did? Because I have so many more resources? Because I'm so much more talented, smart, wise than he??? Because I have access to better information, treatment, drugs? Because there will be more light shined on me? On what is this optimistic prediction based?
We don't know who lives or dies from this disease. We don't know. We can't know. This monster is relentless and arbitrary and ever-present and so even in the best of times, when we're on top of the world and laughing and dancing and flying – we laugh and sing and dance with the realization that we are doing these things with a ticking time bomb lodged permanently inside of us. Tick, tick, tick.
"That's not going to be you, honey." But it already IS me, honey.
To my fellow Bad Ass Survivors: Take your goddamn meds and don't listen to anybody who tries to shame you out of them. They just don't know- because they don't have to know. They are two-legged men calling prostheses a crutch. They will not be there in the dark with you. They won't. You can choose to ignore their reckless voices now or the monster's voice later. Bite the freaking bullet and swallow the damn pills. I think of my medicine like I do my faith- if I find out one day that it's all bullshit- oh, well. It made me happy and helped me love life and my people better.
If you are in the dark right now- if you are in the clutches of the monster today: Call someone for help (1-800-273-TALK (8255)). Tell them the truth. TELL YOURSELF THE TRUTH. This is the lie the monster tells us: THERE IS NO HOPE. IT WILL NEVER GET BETTER. IT IS PITCH BLACK DARK AND IT WILL NEVER BE LIGHT AGAIN.
Here is the truth we yell back at the monster: LIAR!!! THERE IS HOPE. IT WILL GET BETTER. IT IS NOT PITCH BLACK NOW. THERE IS LIGHT AND THAT LIGHT IS THE KNOWLEDGE THAT IF I WAIT WELL, YOU WILL TIRE AND MOVE ON. I CAN WAIT YOU OUT BECAUSE YOU ARE SCARIER BUT I AM STRONGER.
Not dying is sometimes just a matter of waiting the monster out.
We are here. We are still here.
We've gotta stay in the light. The only thing the dark cannot overcome is the freaking light. STAY OUT.
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File System Layout Like MS-DOS and most operating systems, Unix uses a set of subdirectories for organization. To help keep some logical order, many system directories exist, each with a name that implies what is held there. Knowing the layout of a Unix system helps navigate the system, find the required binaries, etc. For the most part, these directories will remain fairly consistant among all flavors of unix. Directories like /bin, /etc/, and /sbin are guaranteed to be found on all flavors. If not, the admin messed up something during install or some new company has a wierd idea of what unix is ;) /bin (binaries) - essential system binaries ls, cp, mv, chmod, cat, kill, gzip, and more /sbin (system binaries) - system binaries, daemons, and administrative programs. fsck, mount, umount, adduser, shutdown, route, and more /dev (devices) - device files represent physical and logical devices on a unix system. Having files that represents physical devices allows for more flexible manipulation and easier notation. (the following designations are mostly found on linux unless otherwise specified.) Examples of input/output devices on Linux. crw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 14, 4 Jul 18 1994 /dev/audio lrwxrwxrwx 1 root hide 4 Oct 29 1998 /dev/mouse -> cua0 Examples of different drive devices on linux. hda1 designated an IDE drive, fd1 a floppy, and sda a SCSI drive. brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 1 May 14 1996 /dev/fd1 brw-r----- 1 root disk 3, 1 Apr 27 1995 /dev/hda1 brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 0 Apr 29 1995 /dev/sda Examples of different drive devices on NetBSD. brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 0 Jul 31 17:03 /dev/sd0a brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 1 Aug 1 13:41 /dev/sd0b brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 0 Jul 31 17:03 /dev/wd0a brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 1 Jul 31 17:03 /dev/wd0b Examples of different drive devices on Solaris. brw-r----- 1 root sys 32, 14 Aug 4 11:51 ../../devices/iommu@f,e0000000/sbus@f,e0001000/espdma@f,400000/esp@f,800000/sd@1,0:g (ugly eh? :) Examples of virtual consoles (consoles at the physical machine) crw--w--w- 1 root root 4, 1 Aug 2 11:16 /dev/tty1 crw--w--w- 1 root root 4, 2 Jul 31 15:40 /dev/tty2 Examples of pseudo terminals. If you access the machine remotely, you are allocated a pseudo terminal. crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 2, 177 Aug 4 20:18 /dev/ptya1 crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 2, 197 May 20 1996 /dev/ptyb5 Examples of serial ports on a Linux system. These correspond with COM1, COM2 etc in MSDOS. crw-rw---- 1 root 14 5, 65 Jul 17 1994 /dev/cua1 crw-rw---- 1 root tty 4, 64 Jul 17 1994 /dev/ttyS0 Examples of printers under Linux. crw-rw---- 1 root daemon 6, 1 Apr 27 1995 /dev/lp1 crw-rw---- 1 root daemon 6, 2 Apr 27 1995 /dev/lp2 "devnull" is a virtual device for 'nothing'. Anything sent to this device will disappear. This often good for redirecting error output, or anything else you don't want to see. crw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 1, 3 Jul 17 1994 /dev/null Devices are a funny thing. As time progresses, their use and importance will become more and more clear. /etc Contains many system configuration files. /etc/passwd - essential user information including user name, user id, group id, home directory, and shell /etc/shadow - encrypted password, account expiration information /etc/group - user/group information 'rc' files - system startup/shutdown scripts /etc/security/ - some unix flavors use this to store files relating to system security /home (home directories) - where users store their files and do daily activity from. for the average user, this will be the most important directory they use /lib (libraries) - shared library images. Many programs rely on these. Libraries have common routines that can be used by many programs. Instead of creating new libraries for every single application, they share these. Unix library files are akin to Windows .dll files. /proc (processes) - 'proc' is a virtual file system. Files here are stored in memory, not on the drive. A user or admin can get information on programs running through the proc files. /tmp (temporary) - Many programs (and users) utilize this directory for writing files while running and remove them when done. Users with a quota (or limit on their disk space) can access this space for temporary storage. Beware! Admins like to delete stuff here when running low on diskspace. On some systems, this directory is completely erased during bootup. /var (various) - mostly system subdirectories that used to reside in the /usr directory but have since been broken out to here. /var/adm - linked to /var/log in linux, 'adm' notation is used in other flavors of unix. /var/log - system logs that record user and system activity. Logs keep track of connections to the system, daemon activity, file transfers, mail, and more. /var/spool - spool dir contains incoming mail, outgoing mail, cron jobs, and more. /var/man - various manual pages on system binaries /usr (user) - Contains a wide variety of subdirectories full of user and administrative tools /usr/X11R6 - The X-Windows subdirectory - all X-Win programs and config files /usr/sbin - much like /sbin, a bulk of system admin programs are located here /usr/bin - much like /bin, this contains the bulk of the unix programs not found in other places /usr/etc - more configuration files for system utilities and programs /usr/include - 'include' files for the C compiler - primarily used for system programmers /usr/lib - more shared libraries for system applications /usr/man - more manual pages for system tools /usr/local - files not essential to the system or users, but often the home of many extra utilities that give the system a lot of its functionality. Programs like 'ssh' and 'pgp' are typically installed here by default. Since writing this, Demonika has kindly pointed out that "man hier" will give a similiar (and more thorough) list of the file system hierarchy.
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Ever wish you could see working dogs doing actual work? Wish someone would put on a clinic specifically designed for livestock producers? Need help figuring out how to accomplish chores easier with less stress using your stockdog?
Is there a skill or two you have not been able to teach your dog? Wonder how to get him/her to the next level? Wonder how to start with a young dog and have an idea of what comes next? Thinking about a stockdog, not sure if they would be a good fit for your operation>>>>
Here is your opportunity ...
I have designed a clinic to do just those things. The three days will be packed with demonstrations of dogs helping with everyday chore. You will see the pieces they do well and where they could improve. We will take dogs of different levels of training demonstrating the 'training process'. We will break down all the demonstrations pointing out -so you can see -when a dog is right or wrong. Seeing slicing flanks and ways to help the dog give and feel sheep, learning to get pace, how to get stock out of corners and why dogs have trouble there....and anything else we can do - look backs, gather large pastures, load trailers, push off gates or feed bunks....
My goal - Practical Application
Along with the demonstrations and discussion there will be opportunity to work with Jack Knox on skill building or actually accomplishing chores - will depend on you and your dogs skill set which will be best.
Follow up help is available as well through video and discussion.
A SARE grant will cover a majority of the cost making this an affordable learning opportunity.
Cost will be 70.00 a day and includes lunch for a working slot, 30 a day to audit includes lunch
(Normal cost for a three day clinc runs 350-475 total for the 3 days)
training will be on sheep
DATES - NOV 14, 15, 16 (mid week Tues - Thur)
April 6, 7, 8 tentative spring dates (Fri - Sun)
I will schedule another workshop for later in 2018
LOCATION - southeastern Indiana - Switzerland County
There will be a limited number of working slots so if you have a dog that you want help with sign up for a working slot.
any questions please let me know
Let your friends know of this opportunity


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OK, boys and girls. You've marveled over the 24-carat gold-plated HTC One — now it's time for you to win one of your own. Yes, we're teaming up with Goldgenie to bring this one-of-a-kind Android smartphone (valued at $2,403/£1895) to one lucky Android Central reader. Here's what Goldgenie founder and CEO Laban Roomes had to say when his company announced the gold phone last week:
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IJf Blokker is a Dutch percussionist and TV showmaster, who became especially known for his role of Barend Servet in the 'Fred Haché Show' in the early 1970s. An avid fan of the comic 'Gijsje Goochem' (by Jac. Grosman), he tried his hand at comics as well, creating 'Bakken aan de Bar' with texts by his TV-show colleague Harry Touw for Nieuwe Revu in 1978.
Blokker kept drawing comics in the following decades. He draws the comic strip 'Piraat Platzac' that appears in Willemsoordjournaal in Den Helder four times a year. He makes a weekly cartoon, called 'Joep', for Proost.
In 2007, Blokker was asked to design a new label for a special collector's beer for the Belgian brewery Achouffe. He was the first Dutch artist to have this honourable duty.
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From Single Malt to Socratesby Steve Charles • October 3, 2006 Share:
Philosophy Professor Mark Brouwer's calling is conversation, whether he's talking with students at a party or reception following a guest speaker, sitting at the round table in the Scarlet Inn, or moderating a faculty discussion during his Brownbag lunch sessions for the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts.
"As I begin to understand my role as a man, I see that what I want to do with my life is to help people have conversations and ask themselves important questions," Brouwer says.
And he's good at it.
In a culture where email, instant messaging, and web-surfing are supplanting face-to-face conversation as the rapid pace of life trumps the time taken for reflection, his is a rare vocation. How he came to that calling is even more surprising.
BROUWER GREW UP IN FAIRFIELD, IOWA—a typical Midwestern small college town, if you call a small college owned by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi typical. The town's Parsons College became Maharishi International University, and a mecca for transcendental meditation, in 1973.
"In Fairfield, we had townies and meditators—we called them gurus," Brouwer recalls. "I considered them the oppressed minority in the town. I felt the Fairfielders didn't give them a chance."
He's since reconsidered.
"Now I realize that these people practically colonized this small town with no respect for existing traditions or those who lived there," Brouwer says. "They came in thinking, We're going to give you all the benefits of California and New York; we're going to civilize you."
That's just what Brouwer was looking for.
"I didn't realize we had a civilization of our own," Brouwer laughs. "I assumed civilization was on the coasts, that we were lost in the hinterlands."
He left those hinterlands for San Francisco after graduating from Grinnell College with a major in philosophy. Classes on wine tasting eventually paid off with a job at the Cannery Wine Cellar on Fisherman's Wharf, and Brouwer soaked up the wine business like a sponge. The store also had the largest collection of single malt scotch in the United States; the apprentice took that on as his "field of research."
"These were the early days of the single malt explosion," Brouwer says, recalling a 1993 issue of the Wine Spectator in which he was interviewed as an expert. It was a lucrative field, but not his calling.
"I loved learning new things, but it was more of a game for me."
So Brouwer studied poetics and linguistics at the New College of California while continuing to work his wine job. He hadn't found his vocation at the Wine Cellar, but he found something even more important.
"Ann was a French exchange student working at the Wine Cellar." Brouwer smiles as he remembers meeting he woman he would eventually marry. "We became friends slowly over time, but she had to return to France. Nine months later, I gave a note to a friend who was going to France to visit her."
Thus began a four-month flurry of letters.
"We still have them." Brouwer says. "Through this correspondence, we fell in love."
After Ann joined Brouwer at his brother's wedding on New Year's Eve of 1996 and the two spent the following week together, Brouwer was convinced; he packed up his books and music and moved to France. It was a seemingly impulsive decision that had been a long time coming.
Brouwer immersed himself in his new country. Three months after his move, he proposed to Ann, in French. The couple was married in an 11th century chapel in the French countryside, and the groom gave a welcoming speech to the more than 100 guests in his newly acquired language.
The whirlwind of events had clarified his desire to attend graduate school in philosophy, but he now had a family to help provide for. With few other choices, he went to work in an iron foundry.
"I was a barber of iron," Brouwer explains. "My job was to shave off the edges using a grinder. "This place was something out of the 19th century—an open-air building where we were freezing. People would take coal from the foundry and light it in barrels for warmth, so there was this billowing black smoke throughout the building. My job was to replace people as they got injured, which was frequently. Two people had died there two years earlier—we had an emergency meeting every week."
The philosopher's iron barbering career lasted three months. In 1998, the couple moved to Pittsburgh, where Mark had been accepted as a graduate student at Duquesne University. In 2001, he chose ancient philosophy, the realm of Plato and Socrates, as his field of specialization. His son was born the same year.
"That's when my role as a father and my role as a teacher began to coalesce," Brouwer says. "I began to see the connections between an Ancient Greek worldview and my own life—even my respect for my own father deepened."
Mark and Anne's daughter was born in 2003, two days before the Brouwers arrived at Wabash.
PROFESSOR BROUWER HAS BECOME A FAVORITE with many Wabash students—particularly with those still searching for their own vocation. Brouwer listens carefully. He encourages ("I like that phrase," he'll say, or "I hadn't thought of that.") He's one of those teachers whose manner invites you to think as you converse; you find yourself considering questions you hadn't thought of, and sounding smarter than you thought you were.
"Education is giving people the tools and the desire to aspire to grow," Brouwer says, recalling conversations his grandmother, who is one of his mentors. " I can see that this is what members of my family have been doing for generations. In some respects, what you happen to teach is almost by the by."
So enamored with Wabash that he turned down a tenure-track position elsewhere for another visiting appointment here, Brouwer's stay at Wabash may end in two years. But he talks like a man who has come home—as a teacher, and as a Midwesterner who treasures a sense of place, a community, and how one's career, family, and community can be intertwined.
He believes that the twists and turns of his life have all contributed to his vocation as philosopher and teacher, though he's not sure how all of them fit.
Those students he speaks with, especially those who find themselves still searching for their vocation on Commencement Day, could probably tell him.
I don't know what Brouwer says to these guys. Maybe it's enough that he just listens. And tells them to keep asking questions, taking risks for learning or for love, and looking for truth and embracing it. That yearning for home is part of being a man; that they can find it, and that it's worth the wait.
Mark Brouwer is living proof of that.
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From Power Plucking
This example features slapped harmonics (notated as "S.H." between staves), whereby you fret select strings (in this case, strings 2–4), and then use your index finger to quickly "slap" across them at a higher point on the neck (e.g., twelfth, seventh, or fifth frets), stimulating harmonics. Since this figure's harmonics are all based on open strings, you need to slap your index finger parallel to the indicated frets to sound a harmonic on all three strings simultaneously. But make sure you don't hit the strings so hard that you physically fret the notes, like you would when using a tapping technique.
This approach is in the style of the late fingerstyle great Michael Hedges and the legion of pluckers he inspired. Use an open-hand strum on each open G–C/G move, plucking with your hand positioned over the neck, near harmonic "slap points," to ease the transition between techniques.
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On February 2 2011, the first iPad-only newspaper was launched. The Daily was hailed as a potentially industry-saving blend of traditional journalism and contemporary technology, incorporating multimedia content with hard-hitting articles. It was rumored for a while, delayed several times, and finally launched with Apple's blessing at a large event held in New York's Guggenheim Museum.
Published once a day, updates could be pushed through so the content remained up to date. It had fancy graphics, videos, audio, and interactive elements, plus a certain degree of social interaction. If it was launched today, it would be given that "disruptive" tag so many commentators adore.
Except it's not launching today, it's being closed, as News Corp. has announced it will cease publication of The Daily on December 15. Rupert Murdoch said in a statement "From its launch, The Daily was a bold experiment in digital publishing and an amazing vehicle for innovation. Unfortunately, our experience was that we could not find a large enough audience quickly enough to convince us the business model was sustainable in the long-term."
The closure of The Daily probably won't come as a complete shock, as a report published recently by the New York Observer claimed Murdoch was seriously contemplating the iPad newspaper's future, and its fate would be decided once the U.S. elections had been completed. A sad end then, to a publication that a former reporter called "a really cool, hip product," a viewpoint shared by him, Rupert Murdoch, but few others.
Exciting plans
The Daily had far from humble beginnings. Murdoch was supposedly inspired to create the digital newspaper after a survey revealed readers were spending more time using their iPad than browsing the Internet. A Guardian article from 2010 says he saw a prediction there would be 40 million iPads in use by the end of 2011, spurring him on to capture the attention of this new, exciting market with a newspaper for the digital age. The sales figure turned out to be on the conservative side, with sources suggesting Apple had sold more than 55 million iPad tablets by the end of 2011.
In his editorial, Murdoch said of The Daily, "New times demand new journalism, so we built The Daily completely from scratch on the most innovative device to come about in my time, the iPad. The magic of great newspapers, and great blogs, lies in their serendipity and surprise, and the touch of a good editor. We're going to bring that magic to The Daily, to inform people, to make them think, to help them engage in the great issues of the day."
According to Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs, he and Rupert Murdoch were friends, and the pair worked together to come up with the design. Murdoch's plan was to make The Daily a pithier version of the USA Today, and in a well-worn anecdote, told an executive inquiring about who it would be aimed at, simply said "everybody."
Early promise
It's widely accepted that The Daily cost $30 million to develop and $500,000 per week to operate. At launch, The Daily was offered with a free trial, which was extended due to problems with getting Apple's new iOS subscription model up and running, and technical problems with the app. In May 2011 News Corp's President, Chase Carey, said The Daily had already lost $10 million thanks to a delay in it becoming a pay app.
The Daily was priced at $1 per week, or $40 for a year. Carey also revealed it had amassed 800,000 downloads between February and May 2011. In October 2011, The Daily's publisher told AdAge it had about 80,000 subscribers, and the conversion from readers enjoying the two-week trial to eventually paying for the newspaper was 15 percent.
This early promise didn't pan out though. Fast forward to the beginning of 2012 and The New York Times claims The Daily had 100,000 subscribers and, at the time, was on target to only break even after five years. This was a long way off from the 500,000 subscribers Murdoch said it would take to make The Daily a viable business.
The Daily diversifies as News Corp splits
Initially restricted to iPads in the USA, The Daily was launched in the UK in September 2011, but this was a token effort as the content was still focused on the U.S.; much of it had no bearing on reader's lives. In January 2012, The Daily branched out onto the Android platform, and a deal was struck with Verizon which saw the newspaper pre-installed on all Galaxy Tab 7.7 tablets sold through the network. It has subsequently been released on the iPhone and the Amazon Kindle Fire.
Then came the layoffs. In July 2012, 50 members of staff, mostly from the sports and editorial team, left the company. At the same time, News Corp. was going through changes of its own. It was announced that the company would split in two, with its publishing arm becoming a separate entity to its film and media business. At this point The Daily was supposedly "put on watch," and its situation was set to be "reassessed after the November 6 election." The future of Murdoch's pet project looked murky, as the split would inevitably bring with it potentially calamitous, for The Daily at least, accounting changes.
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Money was of course, at the center of The Daily's death. At the beginning of 2012, a study of the top 100 grossing publications for the iPad found The Daily was pulling in around $70,000 per day, which placed it at the very top of the tree. If we look at Distimo's charts today we find The Daily has slipped down to third place in the U.S. top grossing app list and number 32 in the popularity chart. To prove how utterly irrelevant The Daily is in the UK, it sits at position 267.
It wasn't only money that sealed The Daily's fate, but social media, as well. Back when The Daily was released, the iPad was still relatively new on the digital publishing scene. Apps such as Flipboard and Pulse News Reader were still in their infancy, and fellow newspapers and magazines were trying to find ways to avoid paying Apple's commission by creating HTML5 apps outside of the App Store. Today they're almost all a part of the Store, having realized they were fighting a losing battle, and the social news scene has exploded. Many people use Twitter or Facebook to get the latest news. Google, Yahoo, and even pretentious teenagers produce free news aggregation apps. Even the mighty Huffington Post has made its iPad app free because nobody was paying to read it. Most of the successful apps work because they link to news on the Web. The Daily had next to no Web element.
The Daily was an experiment, a news factory in digital form. From the very beginning, it was at risk of being replaced by a robotic workforce. Its way of working – from its single collection of daily stories to its ignorance regarding the importance of deep linking on the Web – and its print newspaper sensibility appeared quaint once everyone else began using social media or free, well-designed news aggregation apps to keep up to date. By not adapting to current news consumption trends, and not allowing other online news sources, blogs, and websites to link to its content, it was an online dinosaur, despite its flashy modern exterior. News Corp's split may have seen the funding dry up, but The Daily did a good job of preparing its retirement home long before that.


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San Francisco's Colin Kaepernick is going to be a big-time NFL quarterback. That must make the guys in San Quentin happy.
Approximately 98.7 percent of the inmates at California's state prison have tattoos. I don't know that as fact, but I've watched enough "Lockup" to know it's close to accurate.
I'm also pretty sure less than 1.3 percent of NFL quarterbacks have tattoos. There's a reason for that.
NFL quarterback is the ultimate position of influence and responsibility. He is the CEO of a high-profile organization, and you don't want your CEO to look like he just got paroled.
Now along comes Kaepernick. Since taking over for Alex Smith two games ago, he has convinced everybody in the Bay area that he's the second coming of Steve Young.
Smith is coming back from a concussion, ushering in the attendant QB controversy. But he is looking like Wally Pipp and Kaepernick is Lou Gehrig. All I can do is look in the mirror and sigh.
Forgive me, but I suffer from tattoo-ism. I sport no ink, and I don't want any. I know that attitude qualifies me for an AARP card, and I've tried to get with it.
I realize tattoos are ways to pay homage to your religion, children and motorcycle gang. I'm cool with LeBron James looking like an Etch A Sketch.
I still cringe when I go to the gym and see middle-aged women with barbed wire circling their biceps. They have bigger arms than I, so I never make fun. But I can't shake the notion that a person's body is a temple, and you don't cover temples in graffiti.
For dinosaurs like me, NFL quarterbacks were our little Dutch boys. The original hero stuck his finger in the dyke to save Holland. Pro QBs were the last line of defense against the raging sea of ink. When our kids said they wanted a tattoo, we could always point to the Manning brothers.
My guess is Archie would have made Peyton throw an extra 1,000 passes before dinner if he'd come home with a tattoo. The old man knew QBs are different.
Did Sammy Baugh, Johnny Unitas, Doug Williams or Joe Montana have arms covered in ink? Do Tom Brady, Drew Brees or Aaron Rodgers? The world will end when Tim Tebow shows up a tattoo parlor.
It's not just a white thing, I hope. When the Panthers interviewed Cam Newton, owner Jerry Richardson popped the question.
"Do you have any tattoos?" he asked.
"No, sir," Newton said. "I don't have any."
"We want to keep it that way," Richardson said.
He was OK with body art on other players, including the human canvas that is Jeremy Shockey. But Newton would be the face, arms and legs of the franchise. The boss didn't want them covered in ink lines.
"Let's keep it that way," he told Newton.
I realize not all NFL quarterbacks are pristine. Ben Roethlisberger has a "COURAGE" tattoo on the right side of his upper body. Smith has one honoring his Serbian heritage. They can't be seen when the players put on their uniforms.
Then there are Michael Vick and Terrelle Pryor. Neither exactly fit the CEO image, unless your CEO has done a stretch in Leavenworth or has gotten Ohio State on probation over free tattoos.
That's what makes Kaepernick a threat to the stereotype. By all accounts, he's polite, hard working, humble and has never been to prison. He sounds more like a Tebow who can throw.
Not to get too far ahead of ourselves here, but it's not hard to envision him leading the 49ers into the playoffs. If not this season, in the years to come.
His ink-covered arms will one day raise the Vince Lombardi Trophy. Imagine the impact that could have.
For one thing, Jerry Richardson would clutch his chest in horror. At the next Pro Bowl, you might spot Peyton by the pool with a Papa John's logo on his ankle.
Sigh again.
I still think tattoo removal is going to be huge industry in the coming years. But for now, I might as well accept that Holland is probably doomed.
If you can't draw the tattoo line at NFL quarterback, you can't draw them anywhere.
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We just got our hands on the new HTC 8X Windows Phone from AT&T and it makes a nice first impression. Launched today with the Nokia Lumia 920 and 820, we are hearing supplies are limited for the new HTC Windows Phone.
This was the only 8X my local AT&T Store received and I was told more are due tomorrow and Monday. You also have the option to order the 8X online over at AT&T's website.
As far as the phone itself is concerned, the 8X is an impressive Windows Phone. It measures 5.21 x 2.61 x .39 inches and weighs 4.6 ounces. The 8X feels comfortable in the hand with its rounded back and compared to the Lumia 920 it feels narrower but not shorter. While I'm not a big fan of the purple theme, the screen has a bit of pop to it (in a nice sort of way) and is nicely responsive to the touch. The matte finish feels smooth in the hand and I really like the flush buttons that give the 8X a low profile.
Overall, the HTC 8X makes a very nice first impression. From build quality to design HTC has produced an impressive Windows Phone in the 8X. We'll take the 8X out for a test drive and get a full review on the site shortly along with other posts to give everyone a better feel for the 8X.
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OAKLAND — The Raiders opened Sunday's game with a big bang. First scrimmage play. Here came quarterback Terrelle Pryor. There went quarterback Terrelle Pryor.
"Obviously, we got off to a fast start," coach Dennis Allen said of the 93-yard touchdown run.
But then the real work started.
And most of the heavy lifting in the 21-18 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers was done by the Raiders defense.
That is no misprint. Pryor, a first-year starter at quarterback, is brilliant but inconsistent. He produced just 35 yards of offense in Sunday's second half. So it is incumbent upon the Raiders defense that was justifiably maligned a year ago to be extremely non-maligned this year.
Against the Steelers, it was non-maligned just enough.
"I think the feeling with us," said safety Charles Woodson, "is that if the offense gets us 21 points, we should win the game."
This mantra, in a slightly different form, has indeed been preached by fiery defensive coordinator Jason Tarver since summer training camp. Tarver set the mission: He wanted the Raiders defense to allow 17 points or less per game. That should be good enough to produce a victory.
Sunday, the Raiders missed their target by one. Yet Tarver's basic concept remains correct. The Raiders now own a 3-4 won-lost record. They've allowed an average of 14.7 points in the victories and 26.5 points in the defeats.
"I think we're a good defense," Woodson said. "We still have a lot of room for improvement."
Quite properly, he didn't want to get too giddy about Sunday's result. But it was no small thing, what the Raiders defense accomplished — even against a struggling Steelers team.
How about allowing just 35 rushing yards? How about picking off quarterback Ben Roethlisberger twice? And sacking him five times?
"That's a big deal," said Raiders linebacker Sio Moore of the sacks, two of which he accomplished. "And that's a big guy. When you think Ben's down, he's not down. You have to hold on for dear life a little bit."
Exactly. A year ago, the Raiders also defeated the Steelers here at O.co Coliseum. But with Carson Palmer playing quarterback for the home team, it was a 34-31 shootout game in which Roethlisberger completed 36 of 49 passes for 384 yards and four touchdowns. He was sacked only once.
For the Raiders to win Sunday, that couldn't happen again. And it didn't. Roethlisberger completed 29 of 45 for 275 yards but threw for only one touchdown — and had those two interceptions. In a nutshell, that is the true difference between the Raiders of 2012 and 2013. You might want to file that away for future reference.
How are they doing it? Some of it is personnel. Some of it is preparation. Most of it is execution.
The Raiders' decision last offseason to ditch some of the older and more cynical defenders has been well documented. They've been replaced by better-attitude guys. But it still comes down to the details that lead to big plays.
Want examples? It comes down to the way cornerback Michael Jenkins positioned himself perfectly to get his fourth-quarter interception. It comes down to the way Woodson remembered his video study and blew up an attempted Steelers screen pass by reading his keys and tackling Le'Veon Bell for a 2-yard loss. All of it mattered in a game where the Steelers made a late push but couldn't get over the hump.
"We are better in the secondary," Allen said after Sunday's game. "We do a better job of covering. We do a better job of keeping the ball in front of us. Those guys are doing a nice job of understanding what we're trying to ask them to do. It's allowed us to do some different things from a defensive standpoint. We can get a little more aggressive."
Allen also is not totally shocked that this is happening. As an NFL defensive assistant coach for 10 years, it was profoundly disappointing to him when the 2012 Raiders defense did such a good imitation of Jell-O pudding, at one point giving up 135 total points in three consecutive games.
In 2013, Allen wasn't certain that the younger and less heralded players the Raiders signed would be awesome every week. But he was certain they would try to be.
"I knew we had pros that wanted to come to work every day, that were going to be unselfish," Allen said. "I knew we didn't have a lot of big names. We probably wouldn't do very good in Hollywood. But I knew they were football players."
Sunday's performance definitely raised hopes for better things to come, especially with four losing teams as the next four games on the schedule. But fair warning: The Raiders were also 3-4 after seven games a year ago and proceeded to lose their next six games on the way to a 4-12 finish.
"We've still got to learn to finish better," Allen said. "When you get that type of lead, you've got to have that killer instinct."
Still, there was joy in the Raiders locker room late Sunday afternoon, always a welcome noise. There was also a defense that can do some heavy lifting, a welcome new feature.
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what cld be the problem and the possible solution..
iam feeling very uneasy with it..help me out soon
Try right-clicking on the link and pasting it into a browser to make sure it's a valid url. Or you could just open up notepad - start, run, notepad, enter - and paste the contents of the link there to look at. Let us know what you find. It may be the webserver or invalid links.
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I did the same thing with IE on pupose to weed out unwanted ad & tracking sites. Your problem could be your host file, zonealarm, or even objects disabled through the registry with something like spybot.
Speaking of IE (which blows, get Opera at: http://www.opera.com), I believe the latest version of IE is IE6. So go download that, and install all of IE's patches with WindowsUpdate.
If it is still being a pain in the ass, do let us know.
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I did the same thing with IE on pupose to weed out unwanted ad & tracking sites. Your problem could be your host file...
i dont think the hosts file would cause this. it would just resolve the address in the link to 127.0.0.1 or 0.0.0.0 and youd just get a page not found error. it would still appear on the web page as a valid link.
i do the same my_wan. I've attached mine, maybe you could add a few of these to your hosts file.
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