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Tom Geismar is a founding partner of Chermayeff & Geismar and widely considered a pioneer of American graphic design. During the past four decades he has designed more than a hundred corporate identity programs. His designs for Xerox, Chase Manhattan Bank, Best Products, Gemini Consulting, PBS, Univision, Rockefeller Center and, most notably, Mobil Oil have received worldwide acclaim. Tom has also had major responsibility for many of the firm's exhibition designs and world's fair pavilions. His projects include such major tourist attractions as the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, the Statue of Liberty Museum, the Truman Presidential Library, and the redesigned Star-Spangled Banner exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. He has received all the major awards in the field, including one of the first Presidential Design Awards for helping to establish a national system of standardized transportation symbols. Tom Geismar concurrently attended the Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown, he received a master's degree in graphic design from Yale University, School of Art and Architecture.
Sagi Haviv is a partner and designer at Chermayeff & Geismar. Among his numerous projects for the firm are the logo designs and identity systems for the Library of Congress, National Parks of New York Harbor, Radio Free Europe, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the fashion brand Armani Exchange. Sagi designed the award-winning animation "Logomotion," a ten-minute tribute to the firm's famous trademarks that was not only the first animated trademark sequence of such scope, but also introduced a new approach to showcasing a firm's portfolio. Sagi's other motion graphics work includes the opening sequence for the Emmy Award winning PBS documentary series Carrier. Sagi joined Chermayeff & Geismar in 2003 after graduating from The Cooper Union School of Art in New York City.
Sheila Levrant de Bretteville is a graphic designer, author, and professor. She received a B.A. in art history from Barnard College an M.F.A. from Yale in 1964, and honorary doctorate degrees from California College of Arts and Crafts and Moore College of Art. Sheila was designated "Design Legend" by the American Institute of Graphic Arts in 2006 and a "Grandmaster' by the Art Directors Club in 2009.
Sheila's work in books, posters, magazines, and newspapers and fine press editions are in the special collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Centre Pompidou in Paris and in a number of university and public libraries. Her numerous publications on art and culture include special issues of Arts in Society, the Aspen Times, Everywoman, The Photographs of Dorothy Norman and The Motown Album, as well as permanent public installations.
Sheila worked as designer for Chanticleer Press in New York, Yale University Press in New Haven and Olivetti Publicita in Milan before opening "The Sheila Studio" in 1970. In 1971, at the California Institute of the Arts, she created the first women's design program and, in 1973, founded the Woman's Building and its Women's Graphic Center in Los Angeles. In 1981, she initiated and chaired the Department of Communication Design at Otis/Parsons. Ms. de Bretteville joined the Yale faculty in 1990 as the first tenured woman in the Yale University School of Art where she currently teaches as Caroline M. Street Professor of Graphic Design.
Clement Mok is a designer, digital pioneer, software publisher/developer, author, and design patent holder. Mok, a former creative director at Apple, founded multiple successful design-related businesses - Studio Archetype, CMCD and NetObjects. In the late 90's, he was the Chief Creative Officer of Sapient, an e-service consulting company. In the early 2000's he was the president of AIGA, the country's largest professional design organization. Currently, he consults for Fortune 500 companies on a variety of design planning and user experience related projects. He also heads up a subscription-based royalty-free stock image business -- Visual Symbols -- and consults for Sapient on developing new design service offerings.
He has consulted for clients like Adobe, American Express, Apple, Hallmark, IBM, Mayo Clinic, Microsoft, Nintendo, QVC, Sony, United Airlines, UPS and Wells Fargo Bank. An advocate of design and technology practices, Mok's been recognized by numerous professional organizations and publications with hundreds of awards and citations. His designs have been exhibited in museums and galleries in Europe and Asia.
He has been published internationally and has received hundreds of awards from professional organizations and publications including I.D. which named him among 1994's 40 most influential designers and Chief Executive Magazine which named him 1998's Tech 100 CEOs. He also serves on the advisory boards of numerous technology companies, colleges and non-profit organizations.
Lance Wyman is the principal of Lance Wyman, Ltd., the New York graphic design office established in 1979. He is a specialist in branding/wayfinding systems for public environments and is credited with helping to define of environmental graphics. His graphic system for the Mexico '68 Olympic games is cited as "...one of the most successful in the evolution of visual identification."* His early landmarks also include branding/wayfinding systems for the Mexico City Metro, the Washington Mall, the National Zoo, and the Minnesota Zoo which was selected by Time Magazine as one of the best ten designs of 1981. He is currently working on a branding/wayfinding system for the State of New Jersey and his autobiography.
Lance has received awards from the American Institute of Graphic Arts, Society for Environmental Graphic Design, Art Directors Club of N York, and the Milan Triennial. His work has been published in numerous publications including the New York Times, Life, and Time.
His work has been exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art and the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York, the Center of Industrial Design at the Louvre in Paris, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, and the Poster Museum of Warsaw.
He is a Fellow of the Society for Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD), and was founding President of the SEGD Education Foundation. He co-conducted the first Interdisciplinary Environmental Design Seminar at the University of Cincinnati in 1990 and is teaching at Parsons School of Design in New York since 1973. He lectures and conducts design workshops internationally.*A History of Graphic Design, by Philip B. Meggs, published by Van Nostrand Company
Scott Stowell is the proprietor of Open, an independent, New York-based design studio that works across a range of media, including identity systems, print design, motion graphics, and web design. Many of Open's projects integrate design solutions that encompass more than one of these categories. Stowell has garnered acclaim for translating the ideas of a diverse set of clients into engaging campaigns that speak to a wide audience. Recent Open projects include identity systems for Bravo, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Planet Green, and WNYC Radio; the editorial design of Good magazine; short films for Jazz at Lincoln Center; and architectural signage for the Yale University Art Gallery.
Open's work has received awards from and/or been published by the American Institute of Architects, the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), the Art Directors Club, the Broadcast Designers Association, Communication Arts, Eye, Grafik, I.D., +81, Print, ReBrand, the Society of Environmental Graphic Designers, the Society of Publication Designers, Step Inside Design, and the Tokyo Typedirectors Club, among others.
Before starting Open, Scott was the art director of Colors Magazine in Rome and a senior designer at M&Co. New York. Before that, he received a BFA in graphic design from Rhode Island School of Design. A former vice president of AIGA/NY, Scott teaches at Yale and the School of Visual Arts. In 2008, the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum named Scott the winner of the National Design Award for Communication Design.
Hjalti Karlsson was born and raised in Reykjavik, Iceland. Hjalti graduated from Parsons School of Design, New York. He freelanced for various Manhattan design studios before working at Sagmeister, Inc., New York, from 1996 to 2000.
Jan Wilker grew up in Ulm, Germany. Prior to graduating from the State Academy of Art and Design Stuttgart, where he studied from 1996 to 2001 communication design under Prof. Manfred Kroeplien, he ran his own little studio in Ulm. He moved to New York in 2000.
Karlsson and Wilker started their Manhattan studio, karlssonwilker, in 2000. The two of them (plus one intern) work on all sorts of projects for an eclectic mix of cultural and commercial clients, from local non-profits to global corporations. Tellmewhy, a book about their first two years in business, was published by Princeton Architectural Press (NY) in 2003. Their work appeared in major national and international design publications, and they have won multiple awards. The two of them frequently lecture and give workshops on design on all continents (except Antarctica). Hjalti taught at the School of Visual Arts, NY. Jan teaches at Parsons School of Design, and he co-founded SahreVictoreWilker, the annual international summer design workshop, held at the ADC in New York.
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Back at the office: 'Workaholics' Season 3 photos
As Ders, Adam, and Blake head back to the office, Comedy Central has released all new photos of the guys to gear up for the third season of "Workaholics." The gang's new adventures will include taking a business trip while tripping, attempting to throw the best summer kick-off party ever, and cheating on Karl, their dealer. "Workaholics" premieres at 9:30 p.m. May 29 following the summer premiere of "Tosh.0." Curt Wagner, RedEye's Show Patrol
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Posted on 08/12/2004 6:32:18 PM PDT by wagglebee
NEW PALTZ - A group opposed to same-sex marriage is raising money for a roadside billboard that will proclaim homosexuality is not an innate characteristic but a lifestyle that can be left behind.
The billboard, to be placed on the south side of state Route 299 in New Paltz, will feature a black-and-white photograph of Stephen Bennett, who says he was a homosexual before a religious conversion enabled him to become straight. His wife and two children also are in the photo, which carries the caption, "Wonderful husband. Loving father. Former homosexual. Jesus Christ changes lives."
The billboard is part of the New York Christian Coalition's "Truthful Witness Campaign," which has, since April, picketed the ongoing same-sex weddings at the LeFevre House Bed and Breakfast on Southside Avenue in New Paltz.
Campaign director Diane Garrison said the group is putting up the billboard as part of a new push to promote "traditional" marriage in response to events in New Paltz.
"The whole idea is to raise a billboard ministry (in New Paltz) specializing in reparative therapy," said the Rev. Bill Banuchi, executive director of the New York Christian Coalition. Reparative therapy is a controversial form of treatment aimed at changing a person's sexual orientation from homosexual to heterosexual.
"We want to let people know that there is another way," Banuchi said, "that there is hope for people who want to get their lives straight in that sense."
Bennett runs Huntington, Conn.-based Stephen Bennett Ministries, which counsels gays and their loved ones who wish to leave the gay life. Bennett said that the billboard is offered free of charge to groups like the Christian Coalition.
Bennett said attempts to place the billboard along a road in Albany were rebuffed by a Louisiana-based advertising company because of its content. Garrison, however, said two companies she approached with the idea, Clear Channel and Highway Displays Inc., said they would display the billboard as long as it was not obscene or offensive.
Garrison said the Truthful Witness Campaign was reaching out to area churches for money and support the effort. Last month, at the Faith Assembly of God church in Poughkeepsie, the group organized the airing of a simulcast by the conservative Family Research Council on the importance of maintaining traditional marriage.
The campaign also plans to send an open letter to area pastors seeking support. And in the future, Garrison hopes to arrange a personal appearance by Bennett in the area.
Homosexuality "is an unnatural, unhealthy lifestyle," said Garrison, who likened homosexuality to drug and alcohol addiction. "We don't believe in hatred or gay bashing, but we don't believe homosexuality is right, and we will stand up for that."
The American Psychiatric Association dropped homosexuality from a roster of mental disorders in 1973 under pressure from the nascent gay rights movement, and most mainstream mental health experts today regard efforts to change sexual orientation as ineffective and sometimes harmful to the patient's emotional well-being.
James Fallarino, spokesman for the New Paltz Equality Initiative, which has organized more than 100 same-sex weddings in New Paltz, said he supports the Christian Coalition's right to advertise its message but doubts the billboard will have much impact.
"All people have a right to profess their beliefs, just as we do," Fallarino said. "But I don't think it's going to change anybody's mind. I think they're wasting their money."
I agree.
"Such WERE some of you..." - Paul the Apostle
So the big question is whether there is any perversion the APA will not endorse.
Faithful devotion to your husband or wife.
SEE??! There is your problem right there! You simply cannot be an unbeliever in homosexuality and at the same time claim to be "unhateful" or "non-gay bashing", for the buggerers will accuse you of both.
The f@gs of ancient Sodom tried to rape ARCHANGELS. If they didn't spare them..they won't spare you.
The American Psychiatric Association dropped homosexuality from a roster of mental disorders in 1973 under pressure from the nascent gay rights movement, and most mainstream mental health experts today regard efforts to change sexual orientation as ineffective and sometimes harmful to the patient's emotional well-being.Dr. Robert L. Spitzer -- an acknowledged advocate of the APA's move to declassify same-sex attraction as a mental disorder -- is on record as saying that reparative therapy can be effective and is not intrinsically harmful to the patient's emotional well-being.
Spitzer Study Just Published: Evidence Found for Effectiveness of Reorientation Therapy:
The results of a study conducted by Dr. Robert L. Spitzer have just been published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, Vol. 32, No. 5, October 2003, pp. 403-417.
Spitzer's findings challenge the widely-held assumption that a homosexual orientation is "who one is" -- an intrinsic part of a person's identity that can never be changed.
The study has attracted particularly attention because its author, a prominent psychiatrist, is viewed as a historic champion of gay activism. Spitzer played a pivotal role in 1973 in removing homosexuality from the psychiatric manual of mental disorders.
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Is reorientation therapy harmful? For the participants in our study, Spitzer notes, there was no evidence of harm.
Christians do not believe homosexuality is right and we will stand up for that. It is not the Christians that are hate mongers and bigots. To say we dont believe in homosexuality does not make us haters. The only hate being spread is from the gays. Those are the ones you see standing in the streets using vulgar and nasty language and calling heterosexuals names.
Anyone who doesn't think that faith in Jesus Christ can't accomplish anything just don't have faith.
"Wonderful husband. Loving father. Former homosexual. Jesus Christ changes lives."
There is no problem in this world too great for God to handle. Homosexuality is an abhorrent lifestyle CHOICE - a choice that can be overcome with faith.
HATE CRIME! (Not).
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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – Coker College men's soccer coach Paul Leese announced his resignation today after five years with the college. Leese has accepted the head coaching position at The University of Texas-Pan American, where he will become the new men's soccer coach of a program that will begin competition in 2015.
"I am excited about the opportunity at UTPA and the challenge of building a soccer program from the ground up," said Leese. "It is also with great sadness that I leave Coker as I have enjoyed the best five years of my professional and personal life. As a head coach, I won my first-ever conference championship here at Coker, had my first-ever NCAA tournament appearance, and had my first-ever graduating senior class. My wife and I have loved living in Hartsville and were fortunate to have our two sons born here. It will be tough saying goodbye to so many good friends, but Coker will always have a special place in my heart.
"I am tremendously grateful to President Wyatt and Dr. Griffin for their unwavering support during the last five years; the success achieved by the men's soccer team would not have been possible without them. I am extremely proud of every student-athlete that I have coached at Coker, and they all know how grateful I am for their dedication and commitment. I will be a keen follower of Coker's continued growth and I am certain the men's soccer program will enjoy further success with Dr. Griffin leading Coker athletics."
Leese arrived at Coker in 2009 and turned the program into a Division II powerhouse. Throughout his five years, Leese consistently had the Cobras ranked within the Southeast region and, at times, nationally. He leaves Coker with a record of 58-24-12.
"I would like to personally thank Paul for his dedication and service to Coker over the past five years," said Vice President for Athletics and Facilities Lynn Griffin. "Paul took our men's soccer program to unprecedented heights, and we are forever grateful for his accomplishments here. We wish him well as he moves to the next phase of his career."
Leese led Coker to a Conference Carolinas tournament championship his first year – a first for the program – and posted the first winning season for the program in 20 years. The highest achievement the team earned under Leese was its first bid to the NCAA tournament, hosting the second round in 2012.
Coker won four total conference titles (two regular-season, two tournament) in Conference Carolinas under Leese before the school joined the South Atlantic Conference in 2013. Leese's squad went 9-5-3 overall with a 6-4-1 mark in the SAC this past season.
During his tenure, Leese coached two All-Americans, an academic All-American, two conference players of the year, two conference scholar-athletes of the year and a conference defensive player of the year. He had 24 players named all-conference, 17 all-region and two all-district during his five seasons. The 2012 team earned an academic award from the NSCAA, recognizing a team GPA of over 3.0. In addition, Leese was the Conference Carolinas coach of the year twice, in 2011 and 2012.
Leese coached Daniel Jackson, who, in January, became the first men's soccer player to be drafted in program history. Jackson was selected in the fourth round (70th overall) by Real Salt Lake in the 2014 Major League Soccer SuperDraft.
James Sweeney, who was part of Leese's first recruiting class at Coker, became arguably the best men's soccer player in program history. Sweeney, a goalkeeper, won the Murphy Osborne Award in 2012, an award given by Conference Carolinas each year to the top senior in any sport. He was the first student-athlete from Coker to receive the award since 1995. Along with the Murphy Osborne Award, Sweeney was an All-American, scholar All-American, conference defensive player of the year and scholar-athlete of the year, and was featured in a segment of NCAA On Campus.
Prior to joining Coker, Leese was an assistant coach at Coastal Carolina University from 2006-09. Before that he was an assistant coach at Furman University from 2003-06.
Originally from Liverpool, England, Leese holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from Furman and an MBA from Elon University. Leese played collegiate soccer at Furman, where he was part of a team that went 21-2-1 and reached the NCAA quarterfinals.
Leese will be moving with his wife, Janeane, and two sons, Aiden (2) and Keiran (11 months).
A national search for a head men's soccer coach will begin immediately. Interested applicants can click here to submit a resume.
Coker College readies undergraduates for personal and professional success through a distinctive four-year program that emphasizes a practical application of the liberal arts as well as hands-on and discussion-based learning within and beyond the classroom. Coker is ranked among the "Best Colleges" in the South by U.S. News & World Report as well as The Princeton Review. Located in Hartsville, S.C., Coker is within two hours of the cultural, financial and recreational resources of Charlotte, Columbia, Charleston and Myrtle Beach.


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I've just read yet another "objective" dissection of lisp's faults. Here are my responses to the non-issues that turn up time and time again:
The syntax/parentheses.
This is lisp's main strength. It's only a problem if you're expecting lisp to be like, well, something that isn't lisp. If you want syntax, pick a language that has it. But if you can cope without the overhead of memorising dozens of arbitrary rules to distract from writing code, and can manage your agoraphobia when confronted with total flexibility, keep learning. You may just figure out why, after almost fifty years, nobody's bothered to make a serious effort to hamstring the language with something it doesn't need. (I know there's at least one package that adds syntax, but how heavily is it actually used?)
Here it is again, in shorter form: with lisp, you're not wasting mental effort jumping through the hoops of something that produces an AST; you're directly manipulating the AST itself. Lisp source code is fundamentally different from C code, because you're working at a different level.
There are too many choices.
Oh, you poor darling! Having to actually evaluate different options, and choose among them! Having the freedom to select the implementation whose tradeoffs suit you best!
Gosh, that'd rule out Java, C and C++ as well, then.
It doesn't cater to beginners.
This one bugs me even more than whimperings about the parentheses. Heavens to Betsy, how could we possibly allow the inequity of a language that doesn't have a short learning curve?! How grossly unfair, how incredibly mean, to revel in a full-strength language that doesn't hobble itself for sake of the inexperienced! Won't somebody think of the children?
Ferpitysake, people, grow up! If you want a language to learn programming with, it's not like yer menu's exactly sparse: python, perl (if you must), ruby, even shell are right there. Lisp is a language for grown-ups. It's like Unix: they both assume that you know what you're doing, that you want the power, and that you can handle it. If you want a language that stunts itself to protect you, Java and VB are right over there. No, it's not as easy to learn lisp as it is to learn, say, Python - but having climbed that hump, I can tell you that I'm very glad it's there. I'm not glad it's there because it keeps people out, but because it keeps the power in.
The standard hasn't changed for ages.
It's not stagnant - it's mature. Just like the bolt-on syntax, nobody's found sufficient motivation to put in the time and effort to produce a new standard. Variants have come and gone (Dylan, Arc and Goo) but the politics-not-art that is Common Lisp is still the main branch because we still like working with it. As Paul Graham asked, what theory fits these data?
<my favourite feature> isn't part of the core language.
Fine. Throw yer tantrum. Now take another look at the language: if you don't actually need network I/O (web libraries, whatever), you don't need to add the overhead to the runtime. But if you've actually bothered to learn the language, you'd have understood that once you've loaded the library, it is part of the language with which you're working. Batteries? We have entire power stations! And the funny thing is that when the need for a new library arises, that new library is often pretty quick in appearing.
The weirdest part about this is that often the same people who complain about library X not being present, also complain that they want a small core to the language. The source-code to the core can be covered by the average hand; is that small enough? All the rest of CL is the included set of batteries!
Now, understand that I'm not claiming the language is faultless. I'm just sick of hearing repeated complaints about things that aren't actually problems, from people who want lisp to be just like their favourite language, so that they don't have to go to all the work of learning something new.
Maybe lisp isn't for mere mortals. I've certainly met plenty of people who just can't handle non-trivial degrees of abstraction, so maybe it's simply that your brain needs to be *this* evolved to get onto the ride. If so, so what? You can pillory me for being arrogant, but I'm blessed with a mind that can handle a full-power language; should I be denied that tool just because some people aren't able to get their heads around it? If that's the case, we'd best close down the F1 Grand Prix, because Joe Sixpack will never be able to drive at Michael Schumacher's level.
Then again, maybe I should start trolling in the F# forums, complain loudly that it isn't lisp, and look surprised when it goes down badly...


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Talethia Harris sometimes has to intervene at Cromwell Elementary School to have a talk with those whose performance is not showing progress in academic achievement. And the intervention has to be the right mix of compassion and firmness.
Dr. Carla Holloway, left, an instructional leadership director for Shelby County Schools, works with principals at 13 schools in southeast Memphis, including Cromwell Elementary principal Talethia Harris, right, on running a school and maintaining student achievement growth.
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Harris is the principal of Cromwell, and her intervention is with teachers at the school, a process that is just as aggressive as the intervention teachers in the Shelby County Schools system undertake with students who fall behind or seem to lose momentum.
"My goal was to be a teacher, and I think as a principal you still are a teacher," said Harris, who began her fourth year as Cromwell's principal this school year. "The principal title is nice. But at the end of the day, we're still teachers. We're still educators. We are not teachers in a classroom. We're teaching adults. My role is a leader of learning."
And just as teachers have Harris' counsel, Harris has an adviser and counselor as well: Dr. Carla Holloway, instructional leadership director for a group of 13 schools in the southeast region of the school system.
Holloway is a veteran educator with direct experience in elementary schools over her 26 years at the school level. She was a principal at Hawkins Mill and Hollywood Elementary schools and an assistant principal at Sea Isle Elementary School before that, which was also her last assignment as a teacher.
Holloway travels among the schools, observing classrooms and counseling principals at visits that last two to three hours and are more frequent at schools with more students who are not performing at grade level. Those at the highest level may get one visit a semester and more autonomy compared to the six to eight visits at Cromwell during each nine-week period.
It is considered a level one school under terms of the instructional leadership development program.
"It is an effort to identify effective instructional leadership practices – how effective are our administrators," Holloway said.
Her work for the old Memphis City Schools system included developing criteria to measure teacher effectiveness and strengthening the existing ways that school leaders, including principals, are evaluated. That process went countywide when the two public school systems merged this school year.
What Holloway observes in a classroom and her thoughts on what she sees are shared with Harris, who then acts on the suggestions from Holloway.
"If we see consistently with the weekly exams that the teachers are not using high-yield strategies, then there has to be intervention with the teacher," Holloway said. "We can't just say, 'I taught it.' This is about teaching and learning. You may have taught it, but they didn't learn it. So now what? Those are the tough conversations."
And the ability to have those tough conversations is what Holloway counsels Harris on, as well as leadership details like the chart in the school's data room that lists where students rank in terms of their performance.
After a faculty meeting where Holloway watched Harris interact with her teachers, Holloway's advice included putting Post-it notes for students who are just on the verge of moving up in one of the four areas of proficiency on the border between the two standards. She can also make sure missed connections between principals and the regional office or the school system's central office are made – a phone call returned or an email answered.
The school's data room is where each student's progress is tracked, with Holloway checking to make sure Harris is up on how to align results across different evaluations and tests of student progress during the school year, from state achievement tests to Discovery tests to weekly assessments.
"Data rooms have been around for years and years. And they were colorful and pretty. But if you don't do anything with it, it's just a data room," Holloway said. "And so the new push is to do data profiling. Memphis City (Schools) has always been data-rich but implementation-poor."
Improving implementation means getting into a teacher's habits.
"Most of the time we teach to our dominant teaching style," Holloway said. "If I'm a lecturer, I'm going to lecture. But you can't lecture the second grade. You have to understand that they have learning styles. … You have to be able to switch that teaching style and make it fit the learning style."
Harris went through the "New Leaders for New Schools" development program for those who want to be principals. She began as a substitute teacher in 2003. Last school year, she had 480 students at Cromwell; last week, there were 615, growth she attributed to a set of attendance zone changes in the general area.
"I am up for challenges. I think this is my personal character," Harris said. "We're at a point where we've had some success. But most recently we had a little regression for a variety of reasons. … It's not personal. It's about student achievement."
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John McDonnell has graciously shared with readers of the Victorian Web his website with the electronic text, including scanned images, of the anonymous London Characters and the Humourous Side of London Life. With Upwards of 70 Illustrations apparently by a "Mr. Jones," which the London firm Stanley Rivers & Co. published in 1871. Brackets indicate explanatory material, such as interpretations of contemporary slang, by Mr. McDonnell. [Decorated initial "A" by Thackeray from Vanity Fair — George P. Landow.]
he consideration of the Bill is likely to occupy a great many days. Meanwhile let us look into another committee-room. Here the scene is very similar to that presented in the adjacent apartment. At first sight you would say that there were the same walls and windows, the same horseshoe table, the same committee, the same clerk, and the same shorthand writer. I cannot say the same counsel, for there are no counsel at all. The subject of investigation is connected with the registration of voters, amd the witnesses are examined by the members of the committee themselves. Glancing again at the latter, you observe that they consist of prominent political men, including several Cabinet Ministers, the latter of whom are remarkably reticent, and seem bent upon acquiring information for their own purposes, as they doubtless are. The proceedings are very dull, and do not repay the uininterested listener, who is unlikely to make a long stay. In another room a railway Bill is undergoing investigation. It is an auxiliary to the Metropolitan line, and a great map of the route is affixed to the wall. We come next to an apartment where several little bottles of water are engaging the attention of the committee, and several scientific gentlemen are explaining the results of their investigation into the quality of the more or less pure liquid. But there is nothing very interesting in all this, and a proposal to descend once more into Westminster Hall will probably meet with approbation.
All the Courts are sitting, and the proceedings in each must concern a great number of persons. But there is one court -- the one whose entrance is the farthest from Palace Yard, and the nearest, therefore, to the steps we are now descending -- which seems to have a peculiar interest for the public. There is a large crowd outside, the members of which are evidently incredulous of the policeman's assurance that there is no room for them within. But they can scarcely fail to concede the fact when they see the concourse which pours forth when the doors are presently opened; for it is now the middle of the day, and the Court has adjourned for refreshment.
In either body the idlers are predominent. Scores upon scores of these seem to spend their days down at Westminster, with no apparent object but to obtain gratuitous entertainment of a dramatic character. In this object, however, they must be frequently disappointed; for, although many cases in court may be "as good as a play," a great deal depends upon what play they are as good as. They may be a great deal better than some plays, and yet not be amusing. But I suspect that many of these mysterious people, who patiently sit out the long hours when everybody else wishes to get away, have a stronger inducement than mere amusement. Some are so mouldy in appearance, and so abject in their manners, that they must surely come for shelter and something like society. It is a distraction, I suppose, for these unhappy men to concern themselves about other people's business rather than their own. I say men, but there are some women among them, and their case is still more anomalous. They come in couples, never alone, as the men always do, and instead of being abject in their manners, take up a tone of smart cynicism when commenting upon the proceedings to one another. To judge from their remarks, which I have overheard from time to time, I suspect these ladies to be under the fixed and unchangeable belief that her Majesty's judges are a set of old villains who have themselves been guilty of most of the delinquencies upon which they sit in judgment, and that the counsel -- less wicked than the judges only because they are younger -- are all habitual liars, and hate truth as another person, to whom their fair critics frequently compare them, is said to hate holy water. Further, I believe the said fair critics to entertain the impression that no poor man or woman can possibly obtain justice in a court of law.
This class of persons -- men and women -- form, as I have said, the majority of those who emerge from the court, which court, it may be here mentioned, is no other than the Court for the trial of Matrimonial Causes, otherwise known as the Divorce Court. But many of those concerned in the proceedings also come forth, and either go off to lunch or distribute themselves in groups about the Hall. A case of unusual interest is to be taken presently, and the parties appear to be all present. That well-built gentleman with the objectionably curled whiskers and the somewhat simpering smile, who is dressed with such scrupulous care and regard for conventional authenticity, I take at once to be the co-respondent. What nonsense it is to judge people by appearances. The only co-respondent present (and he belongs to another case), I afterwards find to be that ugly, brutal-looking man with a black beard, whose countenance, sufficient to convict him elsewhere, ought to be his best defence in the Divorce Court -- and would be, probably, were the Court a less experienced tribunal. The gentleman with the curled whiskers walks off with a lady, and promenades with her up and down the Hall. The fact I find to be that he is the lady's solicitor [legal adviser], who is giving her some parting words of advice previous to her appearance in the box; for the lady, it seems, is the petitioner, not the respondent, and will be the first witness called. She is a charming creature, the petitioner: gushing to a fault; with fair, fluffy, and fashionable hair, and no bonnet to speak of, as regards its size, though the accessory is calculated in every other respect to inspire admiring remark. Her costume -- well, it is one of those complete dresses which are especially called "costumes" by milliners. Altogether her array is admirably calculated to encourage her natural gifts and graces; and it would be difficult to conceive a more perfect object of sympathy -- except that she shows no sign of having been ill-treated. Her husband, I am informed, is not to be seen in the Hall. He is probably in court. But some of his witnesses are there; for the monster, it seems, intends to defend the case. The witnesses pointed out to me are a couple of women -- one said to be a cook, while the face of the other says "charwoman" as plainly as countenance can speak. These two worthies are sitting together upon the steps of the court discussing some sandwiches which they had brought with them in a basket, and enlivening their collation by frequent appeals to a flat bottle containing a white liquid which, other things being equal, might be mistaken for water. The naked eye, indeed, might make the mistake, but the naked nose never; besides, they take it in measured doses from a wine-glass, which is a mark of attention that people seldom pay to liquid in its virgin condition. The fair creatures seem to be greatly entertained by their conversation, which has partly reference to the particulars of the case just concluded, and partly to their expectations of the case about to commence. They are not long in anxiety concerning the latter; for the judge is now found to have taken his seat, and there is a general rush into the court. We get foremost places -- never mind how -- and are able both to hear and see.
The petitioner's counsel, like her solicitor, is a "ladies' lawyer" -- a Q.C. [Queen's Counsel], and a highly successful man in his profession. He tempers firmness with the utmost suavity, and his appearance generally is greatly in his favour. He is none of your slovenly barristers who wear slatternly robes, crumpled bands, and wigs that have not been dressed for years. His appointments are all neat and compact, like himself generally, and he even carries his regard for the Graces so far as to wear gloves, unlike most men at the bar, who fancy, I suppose, that clients and attorneys think them unbusiness-like. He states the petitioner's case with all the eloquence of which he is master; and such a course of insult and injury as he narrates one could scarcely suppose to be exercised towards so fair a victim except by a monster in human form. Not, however, that such is the appearance of the respondent, who is now pointed out to us, sitting at the solicitor's table. He looks a mere boy; a little dissipated, perhaps, in appearance, but more foolish than anything else. I believe his mental condition to be induced, not by insanity, as some of his friends have tried to make out, but a strong determination of blackguardism to the head. Looking at the petitioner, one cannot help hoping that he will prove the M. in H. F. which he is represented to be.
The petitioner is called upon in due course for her evidence. There are some ladylike delays, as there always are in such cases. First, the usher tells her that she must remove her right glove, as preliminary to holding "the book." What a pity that she was not apprised of this necessity a quarter of an hour before! Gloves that fit like gloves are not got off in a hurry; so there is a little delay, not made less by the confusion of the wearer, who is evidently conscious that the eyes of Europe are upon her. Then the judge tells her that she must lift her veil. He has a notion that the short spotted piece of net which the lady wears stretched across her face can be thrown over her head on the shortest notice. Nothing of the kind. She has to unpin it, and take it bodily off. "So very provoking," as she afterwards remarks; "before the whole Court, too!" I am bound to say that she looks far more injured without her veil than with it; for a pretty little spotted thing which throws up the delicacy of the complexion is not so well calculated to inspire pity as it ought to be. The good impression which she has already created is confirmed by the manner in which she gives her evidence -- somewhat reluctantly, and with the sympathizing assistance of the junior counsel, but consistently and to the purpose. She is not unagitated, as you may suppose, and at one point in her statement drops the glove which has been withdrawn. This is picked up at once by the taxing-master of the court, who retains it during the remainder of her examination, and then hands it back with a chivalrous air, such as would not have been expected from so prosaic an official.
At last, after having been thoroughly stared out of countenance by everybody in court for twenty minutes or so, and made the subject of sotto voce [in an undertone] commentary of an improving kind on every side, the petitioner resumes her place in front of her counsel, her first care being to reattach the spotted veil, which she does with the aid of a young person of most exemplary appearance, looking like a governess with a grievance, by whom she is accompanied. The glove she resumes at her leisure.
Some evidence follows in support of her case, which seems as strong a one as could well be. But the respondent has a case also, and his, too, is not without support. The cook and the charwoman, inspired by their lunch, compromise themselves so completely that they are told one after the other to stand down; but the evidence of a gentleman who follows them is decidedly damaging to the petitioner. He makes some unexpected statements, indeed, which the other side shows no signs of meeting. When the time comes, however, when he is open to cross-examination, the junior counsel for the petitioner, who has never held a brief before, makes, from the freshness of his inexperience, a suggestion to his senior, to which the senior, after some hesitation, accedes. The witness, it should be here stated, bears a name not unknown as a novelist, but the fact has not yet appeared before the Court.
Ignoring loftily the allegations made by the witness, the junior proceeds in this fashion with his cross-examination:
Counsel. "I believe, sir, that among your other avocations you are a writer for the press?"
Witness. "I am."
C. "You are a writer of fiction, I believe?"
W. "Yes, I write novels."
C. "You write from your imagination, I think; you invent what you put into your books?"
W. "I certainly do not take my writings from other people."
C. "And what you write is not true?"
W. "I do not pretend it to be so."
C. "Oh! you do not pretend it to be so. So everything you write is simply lies; there is not a word of truth in any of your works?"
W. "They are written from the imagination."
C. "Do not prevaricate, sir; remember, you are upon your oath. Have you been writing truth, or have you been writing lies?"
W. "Well, lies, since you will have it so."
C. "Very well, sir. And for how long have you been writing nothing but lies?"
W. "I must really appeal to his lordship, whether I am to be subjected -- -- "
Judge. "You had better answer the counsel, sir."
C. "I repeat, for how many years have you been writing nothing but lies?"
W. "Well, since you will have it so -- about twelve years."
C. "Very well, sir; it would have been much better to have told us so candidly at first. And you have a mother, I think, who also writes lies?"
W. "I have a mother who used to write novels."
C. "This is very sad -- that I cannot induce you to be definite in your terms. For how many years did your mother write lies?"
W. "She wrote for about twenty years."
C. "And during that time never wrote a word of truth?"
W. "I suppose not, in the sense you mean."
C. "That will do, sir. You have been writing nothing but lies for the last twelve years, and your mother wrote nothing but lies for twenty years before. I need not question you as to your statements concerning my clients, as the court and the jury must have formed their own opinion upon that subject. You may now stand down, sir."
The witness's testimony is thus triumphantly shaken -- a fact of which the leader does not fail to make use in his reply. The judge tells the jury that they need not trouble themselves about the facts elicited in cross-examination; but the jury are evidently impressed with the lying propensities of the witness, and return a verdict for the petitioner without leaving the box.
A friend tells me that my memory is misleading me, and that the case to which I refer was not tried in the Divorce Court. It may be so; but it is nevertheless true that, even in such a well-conducted tribunal as that of Lord Penzance, a pretty petitioner excites more interest than an ugly one, and a bold line of cross-examination will sometimes materially assist a case.
We turn next into another court, where nothing less interesting than a breach of promise of marriage case is being tried.
The experience of most persons, I fancy, would tend to the conclusion that the offences which lead to actions of this nature are continually being committed in all classes of society, and that the occasional cases which we hear of in the courts are but a small proportion of the number. It is seldom, indeed, that we find an instance in which both of the parties belong to the upper ranks; for it is only under very exceptional circumstances that persons of high social status would voluntarily submit to the exposure involved. As a general rule, the plaintiff or the defendant, or, it may be, both the one and the other, are of eccentric character, whose courtship has been removed from the ordinary conditions which procede matrimony. There are usually discrepancies as to age, or station, or money, or good sense, or good looks; and the revelations to which the proceedings lead frequently bring before us the strangest pictures of life. Here, for instance, is one as developed in evidence to-day. The plaintiff and defendant stand in the same relation to one another as the plaintiff and defendant in the case of "Bardell v. Pickwick" -- that is to say, Mrs. Brown let lodgings, and Mr. Jones lived in them -- otherwise there is not much resemblance between the two cases. Mrs. Brown was a widow with two children. She enjoyed a combination of personal characteristics which, as her counsel reminded the court, might, upon Royal authority, be considered attractions; that is to say, she was "fair, fat, and forty," though it seems that she did not, in the opinion of those who saw her in court, look anything like the age which was considered so charming by his late Majesty George the Fourth. Mr. Jones, described by the plaintiff's counsel to be about fifty-five, but "guessed" by one of the witnesses to be nearly twenty years older, is evidently, from his appearance an aged man, is paralysed besides, and has been so for some years, though one of the witnesses says that "he sometimes got better." He is, however, capable of enjoying life in his own way, which way seems to be by no means disassociated with amusements out of doors. Thus it appears that he has been in the habit of accompanying Mrs. [Brown], her two children, and his particular friend Mr. Robinson, a retired builder, to music-halls and similar places of recreation; and not only Mr. Robinson, but the cabman who drove them about, is stated to have been aware of the understanding between him and the fair -- not to say fat and forty -- widow. Mr. Robinson's view of the matter was that Mr. [Jones], by proposing such an alliance, was "going to make an old fool of himself;" but it is to be feared that Mr. Robinson's opinion was not quite disinterested, for he admitted that he lived not only with, but "upon" the defendant [Mr. Jones], in whose premises he must have been rather at home than otherwise; for, according to his own comprehensive account, he slept there, he breakfasted there, he dined there, he supped there, and he "grogged" [got drunk] there. The force of living with a man, one would think, could no farther go. In return for this slight accommodation he was in the habit of giving defendant such little assistance as his infirmities might require; and the idea of being displaced by such an intrusion as a wife, seems to have been peculiarly distasteful to him. For the defendant [Mr. Jones], it should be observed, was a rich man for his station in life, and did not care who knew it, for he had cards announcing that he was "a widower and gentleman," and was so "described in the books of the Bank of England," and further, that he had an office where he lent money. He told his friends that he had nearly five thousand pounds in the Bank, and that he would settle four thousand of it upon the plaintiff [Mrs. Brown]. The cabman, who, in consequence of being regularly employed to drive the party about on their pleasures, seems to have been quite on intimate terms, deposed that the defendant spoke about the lady "in a jocular way," the jocularity consisting, as he explained, somewhat to the surprise of the judge, in saying that she was a very nice woman, and that he intended to marry her. The cabman, too, was able to tell that he had driven Mr. Jones to Doctors' Commons, and saw him get a marriage-licence, and present it to Mrs. Brown. Nay, more, he certified that the defendant had given a material guarantee of his honourable intentions in a manner, I fancy, hitherto unknown to courtship, having ordered a brass plate with his own name to be placed upon her door, and adorned the portal with a touching mark of his affection in the form of a new knocker. It might be said that "he who adorned her had left but the name," and that, notwithstanding the knocker, he did not care a rap about her. But such things are difficult to conceive; and the evidence discloses every appearance of the fact, that if ever man meant seriously towards a lady, that man was Mr. Jones.
But he failed in his troth after all. We are proverbially told that one power proposes, and another disposes; but Mr. Jones did both. He had proposed to Mrs. Brown, and then felt disposed not to have her. Hence the present action. The defence, as frequently happens in breach-pf-promise cases, is that the defendant was not worth having; and he certainly presents a helpless and generally abject appearance in court. But appearances of the kind are not always implicitly relied upon by judges and experienced juries. A wealthy farmer, under similar circumstances, has been known to present himself before the tribunal in the guise of a farm labourer, in a smockfrock, with haybands round his legs, a pitchfork in his hand, and presenting generally, in his language and deportment, a picture of Cymon before he fell in love with Iphigenia. Such stooping to conquer is usually appreciated by spectators, and there is evidently a suspicion in the present case that Mr. Jones's miserable make-up has been overdone. Both Mr. Robinson and the cabman distinctly state that he was a very different person during his courtship -- looked well fed, was well dressed, wore jewellery, and took care of himself generally. So his counsel's appeal cannot, evidently, be sustained upon the grounds urged; and the judge directing that the question is simply one of damages, the jury assess them at a good round sum -- evidently beyond the expectations of the lady's counsel, who, in the absence of any allegation of damaged affections, had not anticipated that a business-like view of her loss of position would have produced so much. But the element of hazard enters considerably into the finding of juries, as we all know.
The next case is of a commonplace character, and there is nothing to note except a couple of stories then and there told to me, of a similar number of counsel present. One is a tall man, who looks principally keen, but has a great turn for humour, and will make any case in which he is engaged amusing. He has a large practice now, but a very few years ago he had none at all, and was glad to hold any brief with which his more fortunate friends might entrust him. One of these was a very eminent member of the bar, who happened one day to have a particularly bad case, which, scandal has it, he felt particularly inclined to shirk. It was a bill case of a very disgraceful kind, and the client was on the wrong side; so, under the plea of business elsewhere, he handed over his brief to the faithful junior, and sought refuge in another court. Half an hour afterwards he was in Westminster Hall, taking his ease in legal meditation fancy free, when the faithful junior was seen rushing out of court with his gown torn nearly off his shoulders, his hands rather more behind than before, and his wig scarcely asserting a connection with the wearer's head.
"Well, how have you got on?" asked the great man, smiling, and declining to notice the other's confusion.
"Got on!" was the agitated answer; "the bill is impounded, the witnesses are ordered not to leave the court, the attorney is to be struck off the rolls, and I -- I have with difficulty escaped!"
What a charming thing it is to be a great man at the bar -- so that you can leave embarrassing cases of the kind to faithful juniors!
The other member of the bar to whom I have alluded is a very severe-looking person, who enjoys a great deal of what is said to have been Lord Thurlow's privilege -- that of looking a great deal wiser than any man ever was. Did I say that I heard only one story connected with him? I should have said two. One is to this effect. When a young man -- he has learned a great deal since then, I have no doubt -- he held the office of judge in a small colony. He was the sole occupant of the bench, so he carried everything his own way. One day a member of the legal bar disputed his ruling upon a certain point, and appealed to printed authority in support of his position. The judge's account of the incident, as given by himself, is said to be this:
"Would you believe it -- one of my own bar had the impertinence to tell me that he was right and that I was wrong, and he appealed to a law book to support him -- his own book, and the only one in the colony."
"And what did you do?" was the natural question.
"What did I do?" was the indignant answer; "there was only one thing to do; I borrowed the book from him, and lost it, so that we shall hear no more scandal of that kind."
A prisoner brought before him on a charge of theft pleaded "guilty." The judge explained to him that he was not obliged to take this course, but might have the benefit of a trial; so the prisoner pleaded "not guilty." The jury acquitted him; upon which the judge, addressing the accused, said, in his most severe manner --
"Prisoner at the bar, you have confessed yourself a thief, and the jury have found you a liar -- begone from my sight."
We are now in another court, where an unusual scene is presented to a stranger. He has surely come into a convent! There are nuns on all sides of him, varied by a few priests! At a second glance, however, he is assured of the fact. He has not come into a convent, but a convent has come into court. There is a nun in the witness-box -- a mother or a sister, which is it? Some of the mothers are as young as some of the sisters. She is certainly younger than most of the nuns present, has a comely face and figure, and the clearest of complexions. She gives her evidence -- which has reference to a late member of the community who has been expelled, and the legality of whose expulsion is being tried by the court -- with an artless innocence which interests all present. She is the best witness that the defendants have had on their behalf -- for some members of the order were not more engaging in appearance than nuns need be, and cannot be considered to have given their evidence without a strong feeling against the plaintiff. This same plaintiff, who sits in front of the counsel, with her face towards the bench, has been the main object of public attention for a fortnight past, and her case promises to engage the court for days still to come. She is closely veiled, and the curious public have not been able to see her face since she gave her evidence in the box. She talks sometimes to an old gentleman and a young lady who sit on either side of her -- the latter understood to be her sister -- but otherwise shows little signs of animation. The sister, by the way, is of the period, periody, and her elaborate coiffure, bonnet, and robes, contrast strangely with the muffled figure, in deep black, of the ex-nun. The latter made out a strong case in the beginning, but it has weakened considerably by the character of the defence; and the revelation of convent life, made on the one side or the other, have at least not been so alarming as they were expected to be by the public. Still the impression upon the minds of those who have watched the proceedings is that the girl has been harshly treated, and it is generally expected that she will get a verdict, with tolerably substantial damages. And here it may be mentioned -- as I am not adhering to unity as to time, and have not confined myself to any one day "down at Westminster," that the end justified the anticipations, as far as the court was concerned. How far the case can be considered concluded remains to be seen.
At four o'clock the committees close their proceedings, the Speaker of the House of Commons being announced in the different rooms as "at prayers;" and the Hall is once more full of the moving life from upstairs. Some of the courts, too, have risen, and are pouring forth their quota to the crowd. There is a large assembly of the public, moreover, in the Hall, waiting to see the members go into the House; and there is a great deal of cheering and counter-demonstration as certain statesmen are recognised. For a great question, of a constitutional character, is before the legislature, and popular feeling runs strongly on both sides. In a short time the last court will have closed, and all engaged therein will have disappeared, except those of the lawyers who are members of the House. These have a laborious time of it, and must perhaps attend in their places for two or three hours before they can get away to dine, either in the House or elsewhere. So those of the public who choose to remain must transfer their interest to a new direction.
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A CVS repository holds the current files, and every contributor keeps their own local copy, named working folder. One can add his modifications to the CVS main repository (a process called "committing") and/or update his own copy to reflect recent changes made by other contributors. This article will show you how to manage your CVS repository using Cervisia, a easy to use CVS front end.
The main repository can be set to hold your own project, if you wish to use the nice revision control features of CVS. It is easy to set up a local repository, and you will gain the ability to:
- Easily revert to a previous version
- Track problematic changes
- Avoid accidental loss of information
- Experiment with your work while maintaining a more conservative version
- Easily view (and review) the changes done by others
But you will get the most from CVS when the majority of the documents or files are saved as text files, because many of the CVS features are related with manipulating text. It is not surprising that version control systems are very popular with programmers and web developers, who work constanlty with text files.
The version control paradigm is very useful for non programmers, since we all do collaborative work at our jobs, in the universities, schools, etc... and complex personal projects can also benefit from its features. But text files saved in binary format (for example, OpenOffice.org and Koffice files are compressed) are unfortunately handled as binary files. Even when using text documents like .html, .rtf and xml, the format information (html tags, etc) restrict the user's ability to read the raw source of the document, and therefore the raw changes (differences) that CVS outputs.
In an ideal world, the users would have the option to view the content, and not raw information for text and binary files for every CVS feature. But to reach this goal, the applications should be CVS aware, or in other words, able to parse the files and differences in a sensible way. As you can imagine, depending on the file type and application, this feature is not easy to implement. Let's not drift too much here, discussing these issues is out of scope of this guide.
The objective of this guide is not to cover all CVS functions and commands, but to quickly inform the user how to perform the most common tasks. For instance, you shouldn't have to memorize cvs command line arguments to help with documentations to an open source project, to download the sources of a program you want or to create and use a repository to enable collaboration features inside your company.
Cervisia is a version control system front-end. It aims to support CVS and other version control system programs in a unified interface. Currently, it offers several features, like conflict resolution, differences and history viewer, status for the working folder files, and support for the most used CVS functions. You can get Cervisia installing the kdesdk package (and the cvs package) using your distribution tools. The version of Cervisia used for this article is the 2.1 version, released with KDE 3.2.
When you are dealing with a CVS repository, the most common actions are:
- checkout: copies the repository data creating a local working folder.
- update: fetches the latest changes from the repository to your working folder.
- difference: creates a file containing the differences between your working folder and the main repository.
- add: tells cvs to add the specified file(s) or folder(s) (that already exist on your working folder) to the main repository on the next commit command.
- remove: tells cvs to remove the specified file(s) or folder(s) from the main repository on the next commit command.
- commit: apply to the main repository the modifications, additions and removals from the working folder.
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The problems abroad do not matter.
To me, they are meaningless chatter.
And why should I care about drought
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The future for us appears sunny.
It's good to get rid of the ice:
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And just as the weather gets nicer
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And corn that's delicious and sweet.
You know we have plenty of rivers.
I'm truly a man who delivers.
They're cash cows, as everyone knows,
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And damn all the press and petitions,
And critics of auto emissions.
The trees in our country ain't tall;
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Roosevelt Franklin is an alternative rap group that took their name from the Sesame Street character Roosevelt Franklin. The group, consisting of former Company Flow producer Mr. Len and MC Kemani Rogers, released their debut LP Something's Gotta Give on Smack Records in 2003.
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1. Re: Memory Requirements for MXFHarm Millaard Jun 28, 2012 1:47 AM (in response to flbreen)
There is a significant performance difference between 12 GB and more memory. However, why do you go to 20 GB and not to 24 GB on your X58 mobo?
If you add only 2 x 4GB sticks, it can not run in triple channel mode, but if you get a tripack, 3 x 4GB, it will run in triple channel mode. That is assuming you currently have the first bank filled with 3 x 4GB sticks and add a tripack to give you 24 GB. Otherwise you end up with 3 x 2GB plus 3 x 4GB = 18 GB.
2. Re: Memory Requirements for MXFflbreen Jun 28, 2012 10:45 AM (in response to Harm Millaard)
My current system is 2GBx6.
This is what I just ordered from Crucial Technology.
It was recommended on thier website.
BLS4KIT4G3D1609DS1S00 16GB kit (4GBx4), Ballistix 240-pin DIMM Upgrade for a ASUS P6T SE System
I just ordered 4GBx2 to make my total 4GBx6.
Thanks for saving me a lot of trouble.
3. Re: Memory Requirements for MXFBill Engeler Jul 4, 2012 5:11 AM (in response to flbreen)
There is a problem with MXF files and CS5 that no amount of memory will solve. It is exactly the problem you indicate, where all the memory gets consumed over time. It was solved for 5.5, but never fixed for 5. You need to either update to 5.5 or 6, or convert the files to another format. I used Cineform, but there are other alternatives.
4. Re: Memory Requirements for MXFflbreen Jul 4, 2012 8:10 AM (in response to Bill Engeler)
I have been doing pretty well editing MXF files on my PC with Pr CS5.03 and 12GB.
The problem occurs when I edit to MFX tracks on top of each other.
I can FF but it gets jerky and stops and when I try to change the audio gain on one of the tracks Pr blows up and goes away.
I guess there are other ways to to blow up Pr running MFX files but I work carefully and save often.
The problem with memory occurs when I try to use the Dynamic Link in Encore to bring in MFX sequences in Pr.
It worked sometimes with my memory usage running up to 11.9GB out of 12GB.
Other times Encore get an error and stops.
I am assuming that if I have 24GB of memory that process will work better.
In the mean time I am Exporting SD MP4 files from Pr to be used in Encore to produce SD DVDs.
When I have less work to do I will install the new memory and see if that helps.
I would like to update to Pr CS5.5 but I heard that since I have the suite of Adobe applications I must update the suite rather than just Pr.
I am planning to upgrade my hardware and suite next year and I am reluctant to put more money in my old (2 years) PC.
5. Re: Memory Requirements for MXFflbreen Aug 5, 2012 9:55 AM (in response to Harm Millaard)
I just got around to installing the 6 x 4gb new sticks in my PC that had been 6 x 2gb.
Instead of seeing 24gb in my system I found:
24.0GB installed (16.0GB usable)
Can I do something about this?
Mobo: ASUS P6T SE LGA
New RAM: BLS2KIT4G3D1609DS1S00 8GB Kit (4GBx2), Ballistix 240-pin DIMM Upgrade for a ASUS P6T SE System
6. Re: Memory Requirements for MXFJohn T Smith Aug 5, 2012 10:03 AM (in response to flbreen)1 person found this helpful
You need Win7 64bit PRO (or Ultimate) to use more than 16Gig of Ram... do you have Pro?
7. Re: Memory Requirements for MXFflbreen Aug 5, 2012 11:12 AM (in response to John T Smith)
I have W7 Home premium.
I tried to build my first Blue-ray HD with this systen and the memory usage went right up to 15.7 GB.
I guess I will need to upgrade.
8. Re: Memory Requirements for MXFflbreen Aug 5, 2012 11:20 AM (in response to John T Smith)
I found that I can upgrade W7 Professional for $65.
Do you think if I install that upgrade I will get the whole 24GB usable?
Thanks very much for the info.
9. Re: Memory Requirements for MXFJohn T Smith Aug 5, 2012 11:23 AM (in response to flbreen)
You should, since one of the selling points of Pro is ram over 16Gig
I have never installed one Windows over the top of another, so have NO idea how successful that will be
10. Re: Memory Requirements for MXFflbreen Aug 5, 2012 12:59 PM (in response to John T Smith)
One last question - When I ran my Encore Bly-ray project using Dynamic Link it quickly went up to 15.4 of the 16 GB that I can use. I assume that W7 backs off of from the 16GB available as it did when I had only 12GB available. When I have the 24GB will the project use that memory and run faster?
This is a user comment from Amazon.com on the upgrade from Home Premium to Pro:
It turns out that Windows 7 Home Premium already contains Windows 7 Professional; it is simply not enabled. When you buy this upgrade you are getting an upgrade key. No disk, just a key sticker and very brief instructions. Key it in pursuant to the laughably simple instructions and within minutes you will be running Windows 7 Professional. One caveat: apparently you cannot upgrade from Windows 7 32 to Windows 7 64 bit. This will affect very few users as I do not believe that hardly any computers are shipping with 32 bit Windows 7. Nor should they. Windows 7 64 bit is very compatible with existing 32 bit software, and in the future we can expect lots of 64 bit software and we all want to be ready for it.
11. Re: Memory Requirements for MXFJohn T Smith Aug 5, 2012 4:53 PM (in response to flbreen)
Sorry, I do not do BluRay, so have no idea what going from 16 to 24gig will do
Interesting that all you do is enter an upgrade key, and you do not have to do an install
12. Re: Memory Requirements for MXFanat_usa Aug 8, 2012 4:26 PM (in response to flbreen)
i am in same pants! i also have x58 system. i use MSI x58m intel i7 950 3.07ghz......... in order to use more ram u need 64 bit OS but not sure if win 7 home or pro make a difference (i have pro). untill last week i had just 6GB ram - 1gbx6. and i had ram problems from day 1. in order to make my system stable i had to lower it to 800 mhz. i always thought my mother board had problems, but then, after i read that forum i found out that Micron core may have compability issues! and wow my ram was Crucial and its uses Micron. infact the company i bought parts from - exchanged me the monther board and video card 2 times, they also chanched the rab once, but seems like the issue was that it was same brand. Last week i finally decided to upgrade my ram, so i got - CORSAIR 4 GB DDR3-1600 - PC3-12800 - CL9 Vengeance x 3 - works like charm !
also got the new evga gtx 580 3gb card, instead of my old radeon hd 4890 1gb
unfourtunatly i dont use the premier yet - i bought it a year ago cs5.5 prodact premium, but never got a chance to learn it yet, already downloaded a few learning premier vids...
Anyway, my 1st update was GPU and later ram...... so i d like to tell that i use Corel video studio and mainly edit avchd files. I can tell that i got improovment after getting a new gpu - in program its self there was no huge improvment , but its for sure much easier to run with a mouse around a time line .... less respond waiting time, and also was easier to go backwards that with my previous gpu was almost impossible - terribly slow! but still it was not perfect. But after the RAM upgreade its all works just fine. AVCHD is not a problem anymore....
also before the major upgrade i can tell that my processor was busy around 90%-100% all the time....even during the time line work, but now its just 50-70%........and cooler makes less noise now!
13. Re: Memory Requirements for MXFflbreen Aug 10, 2012 4:30 PM (in response to Bill Engeler)
I finally read your note carefully. Encore will not process MXF files directly. I have to use Dynamic Link.


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Liverpool Bands Storm New BBC3 Comedy Series!
"Massive" is a new comedy series on BB3, focusing on two friends from Manchester who decide to set up a record label. The series is a must-see for any music fan, and feature two Liverpool acts!
Massive is a new comedy series on BBC Three starring Ralf Little (Two Pints Of Lager, The Royle Family), Carl Rice (Scallywagga) and Johnny Vegas (Ideal, Benidorm).
Danny (Ralf Little) and Seamus (Carl Rice) bonded over Oasis in '94 and have been best mates ever since. Both Manchester born-and-bred, both mid-twenties and both temping in dead-end jobs, they're united by one all-consuming passion: music. Inspired by the city's local heroes – Tony Wilson, Joy Division, The Happy Mondays – the lads wile away the dreary office hours dreaming of their own record label.
The two friends set up a record label called Shady Records and sign a 'girl band' (two girls formerly from Superb'uns cake shop). According to BBC3, "Massive combines Ralf Little and Johnny Vegas with a terrific supporting cast and Damian Lanigan's vivid scripts about rock'n'roll lifestyles on a Primark budget. It's shaping up to be a unique comedy treat for this autumn on BBC3"
And we are pleased to inform that two bands from Liverpool were invited to join in and play fictional bands on the show! Liverpool premier experimental/weird pioneers a.P.A.t.T (view myspace page) appear as The Lamps, a band who perform in masks and write songs about Jeremy Paxman!
On the other hand, Peter & The Wolf (view myspace page) appear as part of unassuming indie kids The Pott Shrigleys, who have been lurking in the depths of the Pennines secretly honing their craft. The band plays host to the wonderfully amiable Ron, foppish Clovis, arty Amy and a whole host of killer tunes. Do they have what it takes to restore Shady Records faith in music and take them to stratospheric new heights?
Massive, Sundays on BBC3.


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Toronto-based Uniworld Travel & Tours and Israel-based Ophir Tours are offering two kosher cruises this fall aboard the six-star Crystal Serenity. Both cruises feature the cuisine of international kosher chef Malcolm Green under the supervision of Rabbi Stewart Weiss who will host both cruises with his wife. A discount of between 8 and 13 per cent is offered for travellers on both cruises.
The Lisbon-Barcelona cruise takes in Lisbon, Madeira, Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands, Lanzarote, Agadir Morocco, Cadiz-Seville, Valencia and Barcelona, Spain. Travel dates are Nov. 28 to Dec 9. Fares (per person in a double cabin) come in six categories ranging from $5,085 for a window to $10,074 for a penthouse suite. Port charges and taxes extra.
The Barcelona-to-Miami cruise departs Barcelona on Dec. 9 and ends in Miami on Friday Dec. 21. Ports of call include Barcelona, Tenerife in the Canary Islands, St Maarten in the French West Indies, and Miami. The six categories of fares range from $4,835 for a window to $9,254 for a penthouse suite. Port charges and taxes extra.
For details or reservations, please contact David Freudmann at Uniworld, 416-493-3322, ext. 356, or [email protected]
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Museum of Jewish Heritage: Continuing exhibitions in this Lower Manhattan museum include Emma Lazarus, Poet of Exiles, presented in conjunction with the 125th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty on which Lazarus's famous poem was inscribed; Filming the Camps, From Hollywood to Nuremberg, an examination of how American film directors such as John Ford, George Stevens and Samuel Fuller filmed the war and the liberation of Nazi concentration camps; and Let My People Go, illuminating the movement to free the Jews of Soviet Russia from 1967 to 1989. 36 Battery Place, New York. www.mjhnyc.org
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Canada Travel Notes
• Beyond Pop, an exhibition of the works of American pop artist Tom Wesselmann, is on view at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts until Oct. 7.
• Van Gogh: Up Close, a major Canadian exhibition of work by the renowned Dutch artist, takes a fresh look at his genius by exploring his representation of nature and his novel use of the close-up view. At the National Gallery, Ottawa, until Sept. 3. www.gallery.ca/vangogh
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Israel Travel Notes
• The Jerusalem Development Authority has launched a new website offering travel deals, events and information highlighting tourism to Jerusalem. Available in English and Hebrew, the website employs Google street views and high-definition videos to provide a virtual tour of Jerusalem's many historical holy sites and modern attractions. The website is at www. iTravelJerusalem.com. A similar site for Tel Aviv may be found at www.visit-tlv.com
•The Jerusalem Opera Festival features classic and interactive opera performances at the Sultan's Pool, including Puccini's La Boheme (Sept. 6); Pretty Woman Meets the Fifth Element, a multi-media operatic performance (Sept. 10); and a cantoral performance featuring world-renowned vocalists. www. jerusalem-culture.com
• An annual Chamber Music Festival brings together classical musicians from around the world for various performances at the historic Jerusalem YMCA, Aug. 31 to Sept. 14.
• A major new performing arts centre and music and dance conservatory is under construction in Ashkelon in southern Israel. The 48,000-square-foot building, designed by French architect Maneulle Gautrand in collaboration with Israeli architect Batya Swirk Malul, will resemble a stack of boxes with a perforated metallic covering, and will offer sweeping views of Ashkelon.
• More than 83,000 international travellers arrived in Israel in June for the kick-off of Madonna's 2012 world tour in Tel Aviv as well as for the Masada Opera Festival. Other international artists to perform in Israel this summer and fall include Guns N' Roses, Chris Cornell, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Lenny Kravitz.
• For information about travel to Israel, please visit www.goisrael.com
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Archeological Discoveries: Here is a summary of a few recent archeological discoveries from Israel, where ancient history is often revealed whenever a shovel is placed into the ground.
• A hoard of ancient gold and silver jewelry believed to be from the year 1100 BCE was recently excavated at Tel Megiddo in the Jezreel Valley in northern Israel. The collection is thought to have originated in Egypt and was part of the remains of a private home.
• A trove of ancient artifacts dating back to the time of King David was unearthed recently in Khirbet Qeiyafa near Jerusalem. Items include pottery, stone and metal tools, and art and religious objects. According to researchers from Hebrew University, this is the first-ever discovery of shrines from the time of the early Israelite kings.
• A 2,700-year-old clay seal or bulla, inscribed with the seal of Bethlehem, was discovered during excavations in Jerusalem's City of David. The First Temple Period artifact is believed to have been used to stamp tax shipments and is the oldest of its kind bearing the word "Bethlehem."
• Ancient jewelry and remains from a First Temple Period building were uncovered in the Jerusalem Archeological City near the Western Wall. Items include a seal made of semi-precious stone and engraved with the name Matanyahu.
• An excavation in Kiryat Gat in southern Israel has yielded a spectacular hoard of gold and silver jewelry and coins, believed to have been hidden during the Bar Kokhba Revolt in 132 CE. The excavation also exposed room of a building from the Roman and Byzantine periods.
• Remains of a 1,600-year-old Byzantine bathhouse were found during an excavation by the Israel Antiquities Authority near Moshav Tarum, outside of Jerusalem. The bathhouse is believed to have been part of an inn along an ancient road through the southeastern Ayalon Valley, or part of a wealthy country estate.


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Middlesex Warehouse Investors L.P. has begun the first phase of Crossroads Commerce Center in Middlesex, Pa. The development partnership received approval in early August to build a 300,000 sq. ft. warehouse on 37 acres at Crossroads Commerce Center. A 201,600 sq. ft. building also will be built.
The spec development is slated for delivery in January 2001. Cushman & Wakefield of Pennsylvania will lease Crossroads Business Center, which is in near Harrisburg.
Middlesex Warehouse Investors is a joint venture between New York-based Equilibrium Equities Inc. and Hanover, Pa.-based Conewago Enterprises Inc.
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Health is the level of functional and metabolic efficiency of a living organism. In humans it is the ability of individuals or communities to adapt and self-manage when facing physical, mental, psychological and social changes with environment.[1] The World Health Organization (WHO) defined health in its broader sense in its 1948 constitution as "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."[2][3] This definition has been subject to controversy, in particular as lacking operational value, the ambiguity in developing cohesive health strategies, and because of the problem created by use of the word "complete".[4][5][6] Other definitions have been proposed, among which a recent definition that correlates health and personal satisfaction.[7] [8] Classification systems such as the WHO Family of International Classifications, including the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) and the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), are commonly used to define and measure the components of health.
Important to establish to types of health; physical and mental health. Mental health refers to a persons psychological well-being and how they feel. Physical health has many different components such as physical activity, nutrition and diet and sleep/rest. [9]Physical health can have a major impact on mental health and vice versa.


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A scene alternating between analog and digital, with a large blank sheet of paper and a robot that draws and writes tweets posted by the public, grasping the new Moleskine pens. All around are chairs, tables and books to leaf through, an open space for reading, studying and exploring. Also on exhibit is a selection of notebooks from the Detour archives, works by international designers such as Tord Boontje, Fernando and Humberto Campana, Julia Lohmann, Nicholas Gwenael and Patricia Urquiola. Designed by Giulio Iacchetti, Scriba is part of Interni Mutant Architecture & Design, a major exhibition event at Fuorisalone.
Moleskine is participating in Milan Design Week with many other exhibits and events, including Open Days, a studio open to the public where the new Writing, Travelling and Reading collections will be presented.


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