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EDITOR'S NOTE: Metro Nashville Education Association President Erick Huth wrote this commentary in response to Liz Garrigan's Broad Logic column that appeared in the Monday, June 8 edition.
Liz Garrigan's commentary confirms performance-based pay and charter schools are emotional issues soaked with ideology. There can be no doubt that Garrigan and I see the world through a much different set of lenses.
Garrigan, whose style is laced with caustic, often humorless prose, has made a career of attacking those with whom she disagrees. I believe freedom of the press comes with a responsibility to be honest and fair. However, Garrigan's most recent attack against me was not only absurd but intentionally untruthful.
Garrigan somehow read into my recent commentary in The Tennessean that I was categorically against performance pay. While the Metropolitan Nashville Education Association remains open to the idea, everyone must acknowledge there are challenges to implementing performance pay, which must be addressed by policymakers and teachers alike. To argue that any performance pay plan thrown together to satisfy political pressures will necessarily produce results or reward intended performance is naïve.
Contrary to Garrigan's assertions, the MNEA has engaged in performance pay plans for teachers in Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools. For the better part of a decade, we have had an agreement with the Board of Education to provide a supplement to teachers who become certified by the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards.
MNEA and the Board agree NBPTS certification is proof of one's merit as an educator and, therefore, we reward those who achieve the certification. I personally believe our supplements for NBPTS certification are consistent with the "Knowledge and Skills Based Pay" concept advanced by the Consortium for Policy Research in Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Our NBPTS compensation is pure "merit" pay based on measured performance.
MNEA also has agreed to a plan to provide incentives for teachers to move into positions generally considered hard to staff. Those who transfer to Napier, Shwab, McKissack Ninth Grade Academy, Wharton or John Early schools will receive a 5 percent supplement next year. Certain other teachers will receive a bonus for transferring to high priority schools next year as many did last year.
Also, MNEA and MNPS have partnered with Vanderbilt University in a study on performance pay for middle school mathematics teachers. The National Center on Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt is conducting the research under a grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The 2008-2009 school year was the third year of the study, and throughout the project teachers have received annual incentives for performance in mathematics as high as $15,000 in one year.
MNEA is not absolutely opposed to performance pay. What we are opposed to is performance pay for political or ideological reasons. In fact, we are open to continued discussions about effective uses of performance incentives.
As for charter schools, they have their place in our society and some are successful. However, all charter schools are not more successful than other public schools. Current educational research supports my position that charter schools are no more successful than other public schools. Therefore, Garrigan's argument rests solely on anecdotal information, hearsay and ideology.
Those who must reduce their ideological views to name-calling and fiction clearly have a weak argument. Garrigan's repeated attacks on my character, the character of my immediate predecessor, and the MNEA prove to me she has malicious intent. I can accept that Garrigan does not like me or my organization, but her words reveal an inner hatred that is hard for me to understand.
I believe my views of charter schools and performance pay have some legitimacy because I base them in part on peer-reviewed educational research. I will acknowledge ideology plays a role in my opinions but my views are not wrong or evil because they happen not to resemble Garrigan's.
... but my views are not wrong or evil because they happen not to resemble Garrigan's.
No, they are wrong and evil regardless of what Garrigan thinks. You are a union leader - who really cares what your opinions are or what motivates them? You're trying to get the highest pay for teachers regardless of performance. Your agenda hurts good teachers and poor children. Throwing hissy fits at people like Garrigan does not change the reality that you oppose expanded choice for poor kids. Liz Garrigan displays no inner hatred. What you sensed was total disgust. Feeling disgust for people who thwart genuine reform is understandable.
The biggest problem with performance pay that I've witnessed up close: a teacher (and yes, even a student teacher) can "train" her students to perform well on those standardized tests, the child will have very little "true application" of the material outside the classroom. These facts are pointed out during the student teaching phase of most Secondary Ed majors in colleges today. As the head of the Sam Houston Math Dept said to me, "I don't want a Dog and Pony Show. I want a kid who can solve real life problems using the skills that we can provide him."
The standardized tests should measure the knowlege imparted to the student. A good test would test the skill of the student in applying that knowlege. On a very simplistict level, the student should memorized the multiplication table before being asked to determine 10% profit on little Suzie's lemonade stand.
MNEA is a joke. Just go to their website and see how poorly it's done. Their leadership is lacking. They don't care about the schools or kids. They care about getting raises and keeping poor perfoming teachers in place so they can pay their membership dues.
I'm always amazed at those in educational higharchy that use the phrase and fuss about "teaching to the test" to complain about testing.
Most of us parents just want them to teach rather than bitch about their pay and working conditions, training days, and benefits. Just get busy and teach something. To the test, logical thinking, right now it's nothing by many to these "tenured" 9 month no accountability loafers.
That's why many new energetic teachers either change occupations or go to another school system. God bless the good ones that hang in there and do a good job in spite of all.


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Attorney Richard Hasbrook, left, with Henry County Commissioner Steve Baden at his arraignment today.
NAPOLEON - Henry County Commissioner Steven A. Baden, who is to be arraigned this morning in Toledo Municipal Court on a charge of attempted abduction of a 14-year-old girl in South Toledo, did not attend yesterday's commissioners' meetings, saying in a statement his presence might be a distraction to the discussion of a proposed sales tax.
Mr. Baden, 39, of Hamler, Ohio, where he is a former mayor, was led out of the commissioner's office in handcuffs Wednesday morning and spent that afternoon and early evening in the Lucas County jail.
He originally was to be arraigned yesterday, but his appearance was delayed. His car remained in the Henry County sheriff's impound lot.
"There is absolutely nothing in Mr. Baden's prior history or background that would suggest the truth of these assertions, and he has no prior record of any kind," Mr. Baden's attorneys, Richard Karcher and Richard Hasbrook, said in a release.
"As has been repeatedly demonstrated in these types of cases, a rush to judgment often proves unwise, and it would be a disservice to reach speculative conclusions until a comprehensive investigation is concluded," they continued.
Mr. Baden had a statement delivered to the commissioner's office, via his pastor's wife, which Richard Bennett, president of the commissioners, read at yesterday's meeting before a public hearing on a proposed sales tax.
It said: "Commissioner Baden was informed [Wednesday] morning of certain allegations concerning events of Jan. 31 in Toledo.
"He immediately and voluntarily provided law enforcement all pertinent information and continues to cooperate fully. Steve has expressed confidence in the process that will permit a comprehensive investigation of this matter.
"Steven Baden has been a longtime public servant and understands the varied and important matters confronting the citizens of Henry County. While he is committed to assist public dialogue of all ramifications of the 0.5 percent sales tax, the commissioner believes his attendance [yesterday] morning may distract from legitimate discussion of the issue.
"Although he will not be participating in today's hearing, please be reminded that an additional session regarding the sales tax is scheduled for Monday.
"Commissioner Baden extends his appreciation to the many community members who have expressed their continued confidence in his integrity and leadership. Along with the unwavering support of his entire family, Steve recognizes that his many blessings will see him through this chapter and respectfully requests your patience as the legal process moves forward. Thank you."
President Bennett said he and Vice President Rita Franz would function on the premise that Mr. Baden is innocent until proven guilty.
"I told Commissioner Baden that I appreciated and respected him as a commissioner. That I would stand with him as a brother through this ordeal and would stand with him through the love of Christ for him," Mr. Bennett said. "He acknowledged and appreciated my words and said he could say nothing further."
Henry County Sheriff John Nye said that until Mr. Baden's car - a red Mustang - is released by Toledo police or the courts, it will remain in his impound lot as evidence and possible forfeiture if it was used in the commission of a crime.
He declined to say whether any evidence was found inside the car.
Mr. Baden is accused of following a girl in his car in South Toledo and then calling, "Come here little girl," before chasing her for a short distance on foot, during which time she ran "in fear of her life," according to a warrant for his arrest.
A Toledo police news release states that Mr. Baden attempted to grab the girl.
He was released from the Lucas County jail on a $2,500 bond and ordered to have no contact with the girl. The charge against him is a fourth-degree felony. If found guilty, he could be sentenced to a maximum of 18 months in prison and a $5,000 fine, but the Lucas County Prosecutor's Office said fourth-degree felony convictions typically result in probation rather than prison.
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Fiji Time: 5:28 AM on Monday 26 February
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Rashneel Kumar
Monday, May 26, 2014
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Fiji U20 defender Antonio Tuivuna (5) focuses on the ball against New Caledonia in their Oceania Football Confederation U20 Championship clash at the ANZ Stadium last night. Fiji won 2-0.
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TOO good.
The Vodafone Fiji under-20 players turned boys into men when a fiery second-half display helped the side beat New Caledonia 2-0 in their second Oceania Football Confederation U20 Championship match at the ANZ Stadium in Suva last night.
The national side looked much better than they did in the 4-0 win over American Samoa and played a structured attacking football under foggy conditions in Laucala Bay.
Coach Ravinesh Kumar made two changes to his starting line-up bringing in goalkeeper Misiwani Nairube (Shaneel Naidu) and midfielder Nickel Chand (Setareki Hughes).
Those changes worked out well for Kumar as his 3-5-2 attacking formation finally found its footing and worked like a well-oiled machine powered by an effective midfield play.
New Caledonia, which lost its earlier match to Vanuatu (0-1), needed to win against Fiji to remain in contention but took time to settle in the match.
The Jale Dreloa-skippered Fiji was on its toes from the opening whistle and relentlessly pressured the opponent's goalmouth but lacked the firepower to score the goals.
The visitors started causing havoc for the Fijian defence midway in the second spell and had some good chances but Nairube stood tall between the sticks and helped Fiji keep New Caledonia scoreless at the break.
Another series of attacks from the hosts at the start of the second spell paid off when striker Saula Waqa's header inside the box found Samuela Nabenia unmarked, who slammed in the left footer, to give Fiji the 1-0 lead in the 47th minute.
The initial cross came from another Ba man Praneel Naidu, who had an excellent game yesterday and was worthy of the man-of-the-match award.
Frustration started to creep in the New Caledonian defence and despite some crafty work from midfielder Mickael Partodikromo, who had a stint with English club Sheffield United, they failed to penetrate the Fijian defence.
Fiji doubled the advantage in the 65th minute when Antonio Tuivuna scored from the spot kick after Waqa was brought down in the box.
Tuivuna, who leads the goal scorers list on two goals with Nabenia, stepped up and boldly placed it on the left of the diving New Caledonia stopper Yoran Waima to seal the 2-0 win.
Fiji introduced Nadi's Mataiasi Toma (Dreloa) and Labasa's Ashnil Raju (Waqa) later in the second spell and they did well to maintain the momentum set by the team.
Coach Kumar said they talked about their tactical play at the breather and players responded well in the second spell.
"There are four things — win bad and win good and lose bad and lose good. Last game was win bad, today (yesterday) was win good," he said.
New Caledonia assistant coach Matthew Delcroix said they had the opportunities but failed to take their chances.
The win has strengthened Fiji's lead on six points and placed them in a commanding place for the historic FIFA U20 World Cup qualification.
PNG after a disappointing 1-1 draw with American Samoa is placed second on four points followed by Vanuatu on third with four points as well after the nil-draw with Solomon Islands yesterday.
Fiji will play PNG at 2.30pm tomorrow.
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Tower Falls is in Yellowstone National Park, a few miles south of the Tower Junction. There is a parking area (and a general store). An overlook is a mere 100 yards from the parking area. There is a trail to the base of the falls. Unfortunately, when I was there the trail was partly closed due to a wash out, and the base of the falls were not reachable. Apparently the trail was still in 2006, and may be closed permanently.
In 1981 my father took two of my brothers and me to Yellowstone. Back then the trail to the base of the falls was open, and we made our way to the base of the falls. A picture my father took is included below. Back then the trail to the falls sure seemed long.
This is another waterfall that apparently loses a lot of its power as the summer progresses. I have seen pictures where the flow was much greater than the flow I witnessed.
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Yellowstone is full of waterfalls. The Upper Falls and Lower Falls are the grandest, and easily seen from several viewpoints.
Many of the others are roadside falls, such as Firehole Falls, Gibbon Falls, Kepler Cascades, Lewis Falls, Moose Falls, Rustic Falls, and Undine Falls. Others, such as Mystic Falls require a hike of a few miles, and there are many more wild and remote waterfalls.
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There are many different visually impaired disability scholarships available today to help people with furthering their education. Differing disability scholarships are available to people with every level of impairment so that no one is left behind. These scholarships for visually impaired are relatively easy to obtain because it's just a matter of filling out the necessary paperwork. The main requirement is that a person is visually impaired or blind to begin with. If that is the case, then it's a solid paperwork response to the desired scholarship that will land the disabilities scholarship.
Scholarships for the visually disabled can greatly help financially with college, or completing vocational school for certificates. Once a degree or certificate is acquired, the quality of life for any given disabled person is greatly increased. No longer are those with disabilities bound to very specific lives. People with blindness or other visual impairment can now enjoy the same fields of study as any other traditional student with the help of visually impaired scholarships.
Various organizations offer scholarships for the visually impaired to help meet these goals. It is vital that you seek out these opportunities before you try to pay for college on your own. Every little bit helps take the burden of financing school off your shoulders, so make sure to seek out as many disabilities scholarships as you can.
Many scholarships can be attained before you ever enter college, but others must be applied for after you have been in attendance. Make a list of what you intend on applying for and when you can do so as early on in your planning stage as you can. Being organized will help you reach your educational goals. Many scholarships, such as the ones offered through the American Federation for the Blind, require that you follow strict guidelines for their application. Usually some sort of essay is needed when you apply. The topic of this essay may vary, but in this case, the essay needs to include past and current achievements as well as your educational goals and why you want to attain them. You will probably also need to include some kind of recommendation, usually in the form of letters.
For all visually impaired scholarships, proof of blindness must accompany the application. The only exception to this rule is if the disability scholarship is awarded to people who can see, but want to work with blind people in one capacity or another. Many scholarships for disabled students of this nature are awarded each year to those who want to work in the fields of vision therapy and research. If the blind scholarship requires the proof of blindness, you should make sure to keep it short and to the point. The American Federation for the Blind requests that this proof be sent to them on a single, recently signed page on optometrist, ophthalmologist, or state agency letterhead.
While some organizations accept applications throughout the year, such as the National Federation for the Blind, other organizations have a strict deadline by which you must apply. Keep in mind that these organizations are not going to remind you of things that you may have forgotten to include, so make sure that you have everything you need before you submit your application. It is vital to be organized and keep all of the important documentation together in a single file or folder. This will make it much easier to locate anything that you may need to submit to any visually impaired scholarship organization.
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On 01/05/2012 15:40, Kathleen Lamantia wrote:
I have heard several experienced presenters opine that a wide percentage of library staff need to be made familiar with FRBR principles, at a minimum the WEMI concepts. I am extremely hesitant to do this. I understand WEMI; I do not find it helpful in any way, and I don't think my staff or patrons will either.
I work in a public library. Our OPAC has icons which show material type (derived from Field 30 Mat Type in III). Patrons use these to select which format they desire.
Our staff uses the gmd field when they are assisting patrons in searching. We plan to continue to use this. 336, 337 and 338 may or may not be suppressed, we haven't decided yet.
I understand that RDA is related to the wider world, and that its mission is to make our data not only useful to our own patrons, but to enable searching of it by the entire online community. However, neither my staff nor my patrons are aware of this, and if I do not serve them effectively, my OPAC won't last long anyway.
So, my question is: Which staff members/departments do you believe should be taught FRBR/WEMI – and why?
I think everyone needs to have a profound understanding of the changes RDA mandates concerning abbreviations. As an added attraction, I would suggest that cataloging departments organize a lively debate concerning precisely why "cm" is considered a symbol and not an abbreviation. This debate could be based on the point-counterpoint method.
Just kidding…. 🙂
But to be serious, in a meeting with the staff, it will be important for everyone to have an idea of what changes they will see with RDA. These will be very small changes and will raise the inevitable question, "If this is all there is, why is this happening?" These questions could be highly pointed because the costs for implementation will probably mean that at least some of it will be coming out of the budgets of other departments. The only way that it makes any sense is to say: it is on the road to FRBR. And then *that* opens up the can of worms.
Once again, this is one of the unavoidable costs of refusing to come up with a valid business case. Every library will have to come up with one on their own, but somebody, sooner or later, has to come up with decent reasons other than visions of a wonderful new future.


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Pottery of Ancient Greece
Askos (Ancient Greek ἀσκός "tube"; plural: ἀσκοί - askoi) is the name given in modern terminology to a type of ancient Greek pottery vessel used to pour small quantities of liquids such as oil. It is recognisable from its flat shape and a spout at one or both ends that could also be used as a handle. They were usually painted decoratively like vases and were mainly used for storing oil and refilling oil lamps.


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#1,534 CorpBanca
- Market Cap As of May 2015
- $3.9 Billion
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- 1871
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- Chile
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- Fernando Tare
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- 3,724
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CorpBanca SA provides commercial and retail banking services to individual and corporate clients. It operates through the following segments: Large, Corporate and Real Estate Companies, Companies, Traditional and Private Banking, Lower Income Retail Banking, Treasury and International, and Non-banking Financial Services. Large, Corporate and Real Estate Companies segment offers commercial banking services to companies that belong to the major economic groups and specific industries, including real estate companies and financial institutions. The Companies segment provides a range of financial products, including leasing and factoring, to small and medium enterprises. Traditional and Private Banking segment offers checking accounts, consumer loans, credit cards and mortgage loans to middle and upper income segments. Lower Income Retail Banking segment provides consumer loans, credit cards and mortgage loans to the low-to-middle income segments. The Treasury and International segment includes activities such as financial management, funding, and liquidity, and the Non-Banking Financial Services segment offers insurance brokerage, financial advisory services, asset management and securities brokerage. The company was founded on August 7, 1871 and is headquartered in Las Condes, Chile. More »
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Mummified remains found in Dublin house by scrap metal hunter
John Byrne had been missing for four years
THE mummified body of a man who had been missing for more than four years was found in a derelict house by a scrap metal hunter, an inquest heard.
The body of John Byrne (42), a father of one from Ballygall Road West in Finglas, Dublin 11, was found crouched behind a chest of drawers at the house on the Royal Canal Bank in Phibsboro, Dublin 7, on July 23 last year.
He was reported missing in February 2009 after family members were unable to contact him. A lottery ticket found in his pocket indicated that Mr Byrne died in or around Valentine's Day that year.
Dublin Coroner's Court heard from his son Darren Feehan that the last time he saw him was February 7, 2009. They had a "regular conversation" and hugged when he left, he said. Mr Byrne was living between his sister's house and the DePaul Trust at the time. Mr Feehan said it was not unusual not hear from his father for two to three days but never longer than that. The family reported him missing after becoming concerned when nobody had heard from him for a week and his phone was powered off.
The body was found by Gary Hand, who had gone into the derelict house scavenging for copper. In his deposition read out in court he told gardaí that two kids showed him the house and as he searched it he thought he saw a haversack behind a chest of drawers. He "yanked" it out and discovered that it was a dead body collapsed forward.
"I saw the back of its skull as I lifted it upright. The two young fellas were terrified, as I was, and I left the derelict immediately," he said.
Mr Hand said that he was terrified by the experience so did not call the gardaí until the next day following a sleepless night.
The body was identified using dental records. The postmortem was carried out by deputy state pathologist Dr Michael Curtis, however, due to mummification a full autopsy was not possible and he was unable to establish a cause of death. Coroner Dr Brian Farrell told the family that Dr Curtis did not find any obvious signs of blunt force trauma. Gardaí confirmed that there are no suspicious circumstances surrounding the death.
Dr Farrell said that while there was no evidence of third party involvement, he did not have a cause of death so he was returning an open verdict.
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Sep 30, 2013 Faith Aquino Features, National 1
Two anti-nuclear protests within three days time were held in Japan's capital following the green light for Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) to have the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant go through safety tests to get approval for restart. Protesters gathered in front of the prime minister's office in central Tokyo, while another group of demonstrators aimed to educate the younger generation about the nuclear activities in the country.
The first protest was held in Nagatacho District on Friday. Participants demonstrated posters against the possible restart of reactors 6 and 7 of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in Niigata Prefecture. That is if both units pass the new safety standards of the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA). During the protest that echoed even at the prime minister's office and the National Diet Building, 66-year old Yukio Kurosu from Ibaraki Prefecture said that he "cannot accept that the economy is put ahead of the lives and safety of the general public."
The second protest in the country's capital held Sunday was staged in an unusual place for an anti-nuclear cause. The districts of Harajuku and Shibuya witnessed a parade of people different from usual. Known for being fashion districts in Tokyo, both became a stage of anti-nuclear claims. One slogan said, "We've got enough electric power." Another called out for "No nuke reactors on earthquake-prone islands." Both messages, among others, were held in display as protesters passed Marui City and other commercial establishments.
The anti-nuclear advocate group Metropolitan Coalition against Nukes staged both protests in Tokyo as a nuclear plant is feared to be reactivated, while the youth are believed to be oblivious of the actual situation of nuclear power in Japan. The group has been holding protests outside the prime minister's office every Friday since March 2012.
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"staged in an unusual place for an anti-nuclear cause"
Shibuya and Harajuku have been the site of MANY, MANY, MANY demonstrations – TwitNoNukes. No Nukes More Hearts. ASC. the protests against NIKE. to name a few.
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Alright, back to school, back to Funfest Missions. Here we go for another monthly event! This time around, we'll be collecting Pass Orbs to win a Hoopa egg! You will only need to collect 20 Pass Orbs by the end of the month to obtain a Hoopa egg. Pass Orbs are given out when Funfest Missions are completed! Missions consist of common things you do on Poliwager Adoptables, like interacting with Pokémon or buying items or finding berries! Simply join a mission, and work toward completing it as a group! When it is complete, a new mission will start shortly after.
Good luck!
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- You may only obtain one of the eggs that will be given out, per event.
- There will be as many of each event Pokémon given out as there are eligible participants.
- You will find the egg on the main Adopt page, not in your party right away, so keep searching until you find it.
- You will be the only one able to see your egg, so there's no rush in trying to get your egg before someone else.
- You do not need to be online when I run the script to release the Pokémon, you just must complete the above requirements.


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As the numbers of IPv4 addresses runs out, it is starting to look like companies which have a block number of them are sitting on a fortune.
The Canadian telco outfit Nortel filed for bankruptcy protection in 2009 and found that it was sitting on a block of 666,624 Ipv4 addresses.
Obviously anything involving the number 666 immediately attracted the interest of Microsoft which bought them for $7.5 million or $11.25 per IP address.
This was great news for Nortel's creditors who will get cash for an asset which no one had considered was important.
But as the number of Ipv4 addresses becomes tight, and no one seems to be moving to IP6 quickly enough, then the address value is likely to go up.
Our guess is that they will fast become a commodity with punters betting on their value on the stock exchange. That is unless someone can get the big telcos, government departments and web developers to rush to Ipv6 a bit faster.


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Whenever policy or rules change in education, the goal is always the same: improve student outcomes. Recently, Ministries of Education have identified a need to reduce the achievement gap between the struggling segment of the student population and those who succeed. Interventions have included structural changes, such as smaller class sizes and multiple curriculum pathways, and accountability measures, like the use of standardized testing.
Few of these efforts have addressed a key component – that of teacher practice. Yet, researchers have long known that outside of a student's own natural cognitive ability, teachers have the most dominant effect on achievement. More than parent economic status, the quality of school attended, or peer group influence. And for students whose successful learning truly is a challenge, good teaching is even more crucial.
Good teaching is not innate, nor does it come through experience; it is the result of good training. When expertise is measured against experience, well-trained teachers get better outcomes from their students than do teachers with many years of experience but little training. Teachers with many years of practice may have a better grasp of a curriculum's content, but it's the expertly trained teacher who is able to translate content into learning.
So, what do good teachers look like? They display a mix of personal traits and appropriate training. They are tenacious when it comes to helping struggling students. They are more likely to search out solutions and problem solve until they see marked improvement. As a result, they don't give up on struggling students. They don't accept student failure as an outcome measure. They appear to be more flexible in delivering the curriculum. They are able to contextualize the content to reflect the life experience of their students. They monitor their students' learning and give quick and appropriate feedback. All these qualities contribute to good teachers' sensitivity towards all their students and fluidity in instructing them.
This is quite a laundry list of necessary traits however, even these are not sufficient. Successful teachers also need to have expertise in core knowledge of the curriculum they deliver. This is especially important in areas of reading, writing, math, and language. They also need to use instructional practices that work and are evidence based. Finally, they need to have a good understanding of how all their students' develop and learn, especially those who are at risk because of special needs.
Producing expert teachers presents a challenge to the educational profession. Teacher development occurs in two ways. First, through initial training at university faculties of education. To date, this method of teacher development has not shown great promise, especially in identifying natural teachers and training them in evidence-based instruction.
The second method is through professional development (PD) once teachers are in practice. Historically, professional development has had poor results. It is often disconnected from the classroom experience and imposed on the teaching staff by external administration. There is little evidence that knowledge acquired through PD sessions translates into classroom practice.
Recently, the use of professional learning communities, in which teachers define and control their learning goals, has shown promise. These learning communities are school-specific and highly successful when they collaborate with partners who introduce evidence-based practices, and who help coach them through the implementation.
One example of such a training intervention was TeachADHD. The goal of this project was to bridge new research about ADHD in the field of neurosciences with classroom practice in the hopes of increasing the confidence of teachers and improving the learning outcomes for students with ADHD.
Specifically, the intent was to help teachers re-conceptualize ADHD as a neurodevelopmental disorder in which students have problems with executive control functions that manifest themselves as academic problems. This would give teachers a better understanding of the external behaviours/symptoms associated this group of students within a cognitive science construct.
As well, it would help teachers understand that ADHD is not a homogeneous disorder and therefore not managed through a single recipe of interventions. Rather, what is needed is a good understanding of student strengths and weakness, followed by appropriately matched teaching practices and accommodations.
Successfully implementing a new intervention is not an easy task. It involves changing human behavior. Most professionals are receptive to new information, but putting that information into practice is a challenge. Research has shown that access to information alone is not enough. This is why PD has often fallen short as a method to improve teaching.
But, when training includes in-classroom coaching, implementation rates go way up. The adage that information is only enhanced through use makes sense. The challenge for TeachADHD was to make this possible in a large and diverse school system.
In addition to all the comprehensive, up to date and evidence-based materials supplied to teachers, TeachADHD included a training program. Teacher participated three face-to-face workshops and two video conferences, and had email access to the workshop leaders. Training was spread throughout the school year, allowing for constant feedback from teachers. During workshops, teachers were grouped according to grade taught, rather than school, encouraging greater exchange of specific classroom ideas and practices.
Perhaps not surprisingly, results showed some strikingly positive changes. Classes were described as well managed, lessons were well organized, and teacher instructional practices appeared clear and coherent. Measures for student behavior and learning showed more engagement, including for those students who had been identified by teachers as at-risk. Finally, teachers expressed more confidence in their instructional decisions and perceived student performance for their most inattentive students to have improved.
The same positive data was not seen in classes taught by teachers who did not receive the training.
The experience of implementing the TeachADHD program shows that teachers are able to develop expert skills when given the necessary tools. But, information alone is not enough. Ongoing support and coaching is essential. It builds up confidence, allowing teachers to review and adjust their teaching strategies according to student needs.And, most importantly, it has a positive impact on student academic performance.
Peter Chaban is a teacher researcher, head of the School Liaison Team, Community Health Systems Resource Group at the Hospital for Sick Children, and learning disabilities representative for the Ontario Minister's Advisory Council on Special Education.
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I would really love to work at an English Boarding school during my Gap Year in 2011, but I don't know who offers such programs. Does anyone know any schools or companies that offer these sorts of programs that I could contact?
i was thinking of doing the same thing! but its so hard to know exactly where to start, i have been looking around the net a fair bit and there are some schools who do accept gap students but its hard to know exactly how to approach them, im a little scared but i think it would be such a great trip, however i was planning on only doing one whole semester, so around 4 months rather than a year, i think it might be even harder to find a school who would accpet just one semester and not two. If you find out any information i would love to know!
I really want to do this too! I had a friend who did it this year and she said she just googled a whole lot of boarding schools and then sent them emails until she found one that accepted her. I am thinking of doing the four months thing as well as I want to travel to other places in my Gap Year aswell.
Hi, I know there are a large number of schools out there, but I know for definates that Royal Hospital School in Suffolk take on gappies.
Best bet is to chose a part of the country to want to be living in, then google private/public (they are the same thing) boarding schools in ...
My school had a gap year program but they took them from the leaving sixth form to help them out with work/travel etc.
Good luck
My school does exactly this! Last year there must have been 10 or so gappies from OZ & NZ. Though, I think they are usually from the same schools. Have you asked your school for possible contacts?
Chrissy09, what school did you go to beacause that sounds amazing!! I'm currently on my Gap year in the UK from New Zealand, but I was put in a boarding school without any other Gappies and im real isolated!! I GET SO LONELY AND BORED!! Honestly, im such a social person! I know its April and schools accept gaps pretty much only in January, but I've been emailing round so many different schools, and cant find any other placement to go to. Would you be able to help with giving me details??
Thank you so much!!
im doing a gap year in 2010 to england too! My school organises the gap years through a program called 'lets live'. Through lets live they place you at a boarding school for a year at in the UK or Canada. iv'e chosen to go to england because I want to go in one of the top boarding schools for girls and i've also been there before and loved it.


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The current location has also built a solid list of drive-through window customers — where people can simply drive up to a widow on the side of the building, speak to a pharmacist, and drop off and pick up prescriptions – that the new store will feature a double lane drive through, according to company spokesman Michael DeAngelis.
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Does your child's anger and aggression leave you feeling frustrated and emotionally drained?
Dealing with aggression, anger, and non-compliance in children is one of the most challenging aspects of being a parent. Trying to calm down a raging child can be alarming, distressing and even downright scary!
However, child anger is one of the most frequently seen presentations by therapists working with children and adolescents in clinical practice.
Commonly reported behaviours in children include:
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- Verbal and physical aggression.
While these behaviours can be difficult to manage, it is important to remember that anger is a very normal human emotion.
Unfortunately, we often teach children that being angry is wrong or naughty and punish them for these feelings, when what we actually mean to say is that aggressive acts are not acceptable. Hitting, kicking and punching are never okay, but the underlying feelings of anger are not wrong, any more than feeling happy or sad are wrong.
Rather than blaming children for feeling angry, what is more constructive is to have open discussions with parents and children around anger, and to try to help children learn how to express their anger in more appropriate ways.
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There are a wide variety of treatment approaches which can be used to help your angry child, and different approaches may work better for different families. Some of the most effective methods include:
- Emotion Regulation Techniques – This involves children and parents identifying the situations and triggers that might cause anger, the early warning signs of rage (physical, emotional and cognitive), and the ways in which angry feelings might be reduced.
- Collaborative Problem Solving – This involves the child and the parent working together to constructively solve problems. Children are encouraged by parents to come up with solutions to conflicts – before they build up into aggressive outbursts. This is a great way of teaching negotiation and compromise to children, which are valuable life skills!
- Praise and Reward Systems – noticing positive behaviour (rather than always punishing bad behaviour) can go a long way in helping to improve conduct. No child enjoys being in trouble, and shifting focus can be helpful. Equally, using reward systems, like star charts can be beneficial (and don't have to be monetary based!)
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Posted on 04/14/2013 12:58:06 PM PDT by Cronos
The Polish media is angry over the portrayal of the country's World War II resistance fighters in a popular miniseries that aired recently in Germany. So angry, in fact, that a Polish weekly has put an image of Chancellor Merkel as a concentration camp prisoner on its cover and accused Germany of rewriting history.
Ever since it aired in Germany in March, the World War II miniseries has been lauded as a milestone in the country's ongoing process of atonement. Filmed by public broadcaster ZDF, "Our Mothers, Our Fathers" depicts the roles of ordinary Germans in the war, but without the moral judgement that has been applied so often in the past.
Germans loved it. But Poles? Not so much. Since the miniseries concluded, the Polish media has erupted with criticism, alleging that it not only painted Germans as victims, but falsely represented the roles of Polish resistance fighters in the Armia Krajowa (AK), or Home Army.
On Tuesday, their outrage came to a head when the conservative weekly news magazine Uwazam Rze published a cover story with an illustration of German Chancellor Angela Merkel as a concentration camp prisoner, under the headline, "Falsification of History: How the Germans Are Turning Themselves into Victims of the Second World War."
..The three-part series follows the lives of five young German friends through the war, including the Jewish character Viktor, who manages to break out of a train transporting him and others to a concentration camp. On the run, he finds shelter with resistance fighters in German-occupied Poland, but quickly gleans from their frequent anti-Semitic comments that he must hide his Jewish heritage to survive.
While there is evidence that Home Army units helped Poland's Jews, there are also disputed reports of anti-Semitic sentiments among them.
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
For those who don't know -- after WWII, Poland was physically pushed West -- it lost it's eastern territories (especially around Lwów) and was pushed to the Oder-Neisse line
One of the ways in which the Germans and their useful idiot friends are rewriting the history of WWII is by avoiding the word "German" and replacing it with the word "Nazi". It was Nazis this, Nazis that (you've seen it, here, among many other places), and never who those mythical Nazis were. In fact, not that many Germans, and certainly not all of Wehrmacht and SS were members of the National Socialist party. It wasn't the party which started the war, and it wasn't the party, political party, that committed war crimes. Shame that something so obvious has to be stated.
A continuation of the ongoing slanders perpetuated against Poland, applied in conjunction with what appears to be an apologetic or loose attempt at justification for the craven behavior of the German people in, and prior to, World War Two. This is utterly shameful in my view, considering — among many other important facts — that an enormous and vibrant Jewish population was famously welcomed and nurtured in Poland for over a thousand years. Incidentally, the Bielski Partisans were Polish Jews, responsible for almost 400 confirmed enemy kills.
That being said, such a magazine illustration, much less a cover illustration, is inappropriate and provocative. Not that I would recoil from provoking those historically abusive nation-states to the West, and to the East, of Poland. It just seems like bad form to publish such an illustration.
Polish anti-semitism is apparently a big secret.
Let me know if you need a translation from Polish: http://crownheights.info/jewish-news/38742/adl-anti-semitism-on-the-rise-in-america/
Polish weekly has put an image of Chancellor Merkel as a concentration camp prisoner on its coverAs opposed to Merkel being accurately depicted as a guard instead?
Angela Dorothea Merkel; born 17 July 1954.
Have to stay out of this one. Am 1/4 Polish and 1/4 Austrian.
I find it amazing that after 80 years feelings still run so hot...
Merkel as a concentration camp prisoner is pretty over the edge..
You ought to check out some of the "War Between The States" threads on FR sometime!
Worse then the "War between the States" is the war between the native americans. Crow , sioux ,arikira and the like
The difference is that the Germans were more effective than the Russians and also, the Russians are still linguistically similar in comparison to German.
Quite frankly, come visit Warsaw once -- I never realised why Poles separated history into "before the war" and "after the war" until I moved to wa-wa --> on every street corner you will find some memorial or the other that says "on this site in xx 1944, yy number of Poles were killed by the Germans"
I find it hard that they can forgive Germans for that...
in this case, I, unfortunately, agree with them -- the portrayal of AK as anti-semitic against the "good Germans" is highly provocative.
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Apparently women' *don't* have superior pain tolerance
I just read a news article saying that apparently women do not have superior pain tolerance to men. I felt a bit disappointed since the mystique of women for a while has always been their supposedly superior pain tolerance.
For years, researchers assumed that women have a higher pain threshold and are less sensitive to pain than men. After all, men don't have to pass a head the circumference of a large grapefruit through an opening that starts at the diameter of a Cheerio as women do to give birth.
But recent research has called into question the assumption that women have greater pain tolerance. Science is providing new insights into pain relief, anesthesia and, oddly enough, redheads.
Jeffrey Mogil, Ph.D., is professor of pain studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He explains that while not all studies have found sex differences, those which have all point in the same direction that contradicts conventional wisdom. "Females are more sensitive to pain, less tolerant and more able to discriminate different levels of pain than males," he says. This is true in studies of both humans and animals.
Women are also much more likely to suffer from chronic pain conditions than men. Researchers originally suspected that this was primarily due to the fact that they are more likely to seek medical care in general. But while women do indeed seek more care, they're also genuinely more likely to develop painful conditions like fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis and migraines. For example, 80 to 90 percent of people with fibromyalgia are women, according to the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.
Pregnancy actually is the exception to the rule. While pregnant, women do become progressively less sensitive to pain as they get closer to giving birth. Natural painkillers like endorphins are elevated during pregnancy and labor, helping fight pain.
Says Mogil, studies show "there is [pregnancy-related pain relief] in both rats and humans," but, he adds, very little research has been done on this in recent decades. He also notes that it's not very effective in humans, given the amount of pain that most women still suffer.
Qualitative differences
Scientists have discovered that women's experience of pain may be not only quantitatively different, but qualitatively as well. And here's where the redheads come in.
Anesthesiologists had long reported that redheads tended to need more anesthesia than others. But until 2002, no studies had been presented on the subject. Up until that point, it could have just been a clinical myth prompted by a few memorable anesthesia-resistant Gingers. However, when a research group in Louisville, Ky., studied the phenomenon, they found that redheads did indeed need larger doses of a common anestheticabout 20 percent higher, on averageto blunt the pain from electrical shock.
This finding turned out to only be part of the story.
In research conducted by Mogil's group on opioid medications, only redheaded women were different from others in the way these drugs relieved their pain. Plus they needed less opioid painkillers than brunettes or blondes. Male redheads were the same as everyone else.
Why would this be?
It turns out that processing pain involves a receptor which, when mutated, produces red hair and fair skin, among other changes. This receptorthe MC1r receptor was initially thought to occur only in the skin. However, it has now been found in the brain, and there, in women, it's part of the pathway that processes pain.
"In males, an NMDA receptor processes pain that can be modulated by opioids," says Mogil. "In females, there appear to be no NMDA receptors involved. Instead, women use the MC1r receptors." In redheads, that receptor is mutated, and this makes opioids work more efficiently for them.
In fact, Mogil says that opioids probably work better for women than men in generaland this may be due to the different pathways involved.
Overall, the research so far shows how complicated pain isthe genetics that underlie the effects of anesthesia (which kills pain by causing numbness or unconsciousness) are different from those that determine the effects of analgesia (which reduces or eliminates pain without numbness or unconsciousness).
These findings also mean that both genders need to be studied in pain research so that any differences can be discoveredand accounted for in treatment.
What does this mean if you're a redhead?
Natural redheads undergoing surgery should be sure that their physicians know that their hair is naturally that colorand people who dye their hair red may want to be sure their anesthesiologists are aware of this as well, so that anesthesia doses can be adjusted accordingly if needed.
When it comes to using opioids, carrot tops should be careful to start with the lowest effective dose. It's possible that increased sensitivity could mean that they are at higher risk for overdose, though this has not been proven.
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10/27/2008 9:39pm, #2
interesting, i did always wonder how much actual research there was into the "women have a higher pain tolerance" thing. ill remember this next time some fucking feminazi starts spouting about it
10/28/2008 8:09am, #3
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I thought we knew this already, but yeah, sick of that feminist bullshit line. Just because a woman has to go through a lot of pain doesn't mean she can take more pain. If someone shoots me, it doesn't make me better able to take pain....it just makes me hurt a lot.
I'm also sick of the "we have to give birth" line. No you don't. Just don't get pregnant, problem solved.
Interesting about redheads. Does this mean they're more or less pain tolerant? Or just that the level of medication they need differs? (i'd be especially interested to know because my mother is a redhead, so i've got some of the genes...my bears even goes ginger if it grows out too much)
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Damn I hear that **** all the time from my girlfriend! I'm going to show this to her pronto! I am going to enjoy shutting her up.
10/28/2008 11:29am, #5
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What do you say to a woman with two black eyes?
Nothing. You already told her twice.
Anytime I've been confronted with this argument by a woman, I usually just say, "yeah, but men have to go fight and die in wars to protect your freedom." Usually shuts them up.
10/28/2008 11:50am, #6
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Interesting that when feminists are fighting for "equal rights" and trying to break the glass ceiling, none of them ever argue about that?
Good old sexism alive and well....
10/28/2008 11:57am, #7
Some countries put women on the front lines. Israel, Canada and some European countries off the top of my head.
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10/28/2008 3:34pm, #9
the problem with a lot of feminists is they go over the equal rights line into the unequal rights in the other direction.
one thing that really gives me the shits is peple who go too far either way. I have a friend who constantly gives me **** because I don't open the door for my gf, or when we go shopping she carries stuff too, how i go halvesies when we go out. Last time I checked she wasn't crippled physically or mentally (well not so sure about that actually) and is quite capable of carrying shopping and opening doors, and paying for her own stuff. in fact she gets pissed if i pay for things for her because she considers it an insult, unless its a present or something.
10/28/2008 4:02pm, #10
She sounds like a keeper.


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Yummy Pastries
Makes One Cake/Serves 12
Twin Peaks Cherry Pie
Short-crust pastry
- 150 g (5 oz) cold butter
- 240 l (8 ½ oz) plain flour
- 30 g (1 ¼ oz) icing sugar
- 1 organic egg
- ½ tablespoon water
- 1 ½ litre (2 ½ pints) fresh cherries
- 85 g (2 1/3 oz) caster sugar
- 1 fresh vanilla pod
- Zest and juice from 1 lemon
- 2 tablespoons potato flour
- 1 organic egg
- 1 tablespoon milk
- 1 tablespoon demerara sugar
Short-crust pastry
- Put the butter, flour and icing sugar in a bowl and mix with your fingertips to make breadcrumbs.
- Add the eggs and the water and gently work the dough to bind the ingredients together. Do not knead.
- Cover with cling film and leave to rest in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 175°/350°/gas 4.
- Remove the stones from the cherries and put them in a heavy-bottomed saucepan together with the caster sugar, seeds from the vanilla pod and the entire pod and lemon zest. Bring to the boil.
- Mix the lemon juice with the potato flour and add it to the boiling cherries. Whip until it thickens. Leave to cool and remove the vanilla pod.
- Divide the shortcrust pastry in to parts, one a bit bigger than the other.
- Put the bigger part of pastry on a floured surface and roll out to a circle about 30 cm (12 in) across and 5 mm (0,2 in) thick.
- Supporting the pastry on your rolling pin, use it to line a 23 cm (9 in) loose-bottomed pie tin. Press the pastry gently against the bottom and sides of the tin, leaving the excess hanging over the edge.
- Fill the pastry case with the berry mixture.
- Roll out the smaller piece of pastry to a circle about 25 cm (10 in) across.
- Beat the egg with the milk and brush the edges of the pastry. Put the top crust on top of the pie.
- Pinch the pastry discs firmly together and trim away excess pastry hanging over the sides. Cut out pieces of crust in the shape of little leaves from the excess pastry and decorate the pie.
- Put the pie tin on a baking sheet, brush the entire top with the egg mixture and sprinkle with demerara sugar. Make slits (like sunbeams) in the top crust and bake in the lower part of the oven for about 35 minutes or until golden.


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Juventus director general Beppe Marotta explains why they didn't make an offer for Antonio Cassano. "We look at the professionalism of players."
The Bianconeri had repeatedly been linked with Cassano, so when he was put on the transfer market following his row with Sampdoria, they were expected to be first in line.
Instead it looks as if he will join Scudetto rivals Milan, as Juve pulled out of the bidding war.
"We are covered in that role and our plans are different to those of Milan," said Marotta.
"There are some clubs who on top of the technical gifts also look at the professionalism of players before making a buy.
"Every now and then Cassano has let himself go in unfortunate incidents, such as the one with President Riccardo Garrone that made it necessary for the club to intervene.
"In any case, I hope Cassano soon finds a club, as he is one of the best players in Italy, if not the world."
Juventus have hinted at January reinforcements for the injury-ravaged squad.
"If we should find a player in Cassano's situation, then we'd try to get him," continued Marotta on Sky Sport Italia.
"Obviously there are strong players out there, but in the transfer window we have to look at bargains and keep an eye on the economic aspect. We are lowering the average wages by signing players when they are still young."
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Mayor Mark Kruzan and News Director Stan Jastrzebski speak at length about the statewide and local implications of recent actions taken by the General Assembly.
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They attended Middle School and High School together. Always good friends. They went their separate ways when college came around. She at Auburn and he at Faulkner.
After college, they came back home to beautiful Tallahassee and started dating.
About six months after their first date, Jordan let Katie know that they were headed to Maclay Gardens to have family pictures taken with his family.
They arrived at the Garden and found themselves alone on the old brick pathway with a tunnel of grey moss above them. Jordan got on one knee and asked for her hand in marriage!
Their little saying…
"In High School, Jordan was too cool for her. In College, Katie was too cool for him. Back home, they were cool for each other."
Wedding and Reception: Southwood House
Wedding Coordinator: Cara Dollinger with Southwood House
Band: Deep Water
Bartender: On the Rocks
Florist: Missy Gunnels Flowers
Monogramming: Loli & the Bean
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Hair: Kimberly with Bella Hair Design
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The spot lies off the Eastern Express Highway between Mumbai and Thane, a road too busy for anyone to throw a second glance at the expanse of land alongside the service road. For the same reason, however, it should have been difficult for anyone to carry and dump a murder victim there. It was from here in Bhandup, on Mumbai's outskirts, that the police recovered the body of Esther Anuhya, 23, a techie hailing from Hyderabad and working in Mumbai. Nearly a week later, no clear picture has emerged about what had happened after her disappearance on January 5; the body was found on January 16. (IE Photo: Pradip Das)
Today, the lane leading to Thane bustles with traffic as usual. Even when a motorist stops occasionally, it is for a smoke or to talk on his cellphone, not to look at the expanse of land filled with rubble, sand and garbage, and now marked by a yellow police tape and the presence of two policemen. A slight incline formed by the rubble hides the spot where the body was found. (IE Photo: Pradip Das)
Esther, 23, working with an IT firm in Malad, Mumbai, left her Hyderabad home on January 4 after haviing spent Christmas and New Year with her family. She reached Mumbai's Lokmanya Tilak Terminus around 5.30 am on January 5, and was supposed to go to her hostel in Andheri. She never got there. (IE Photo: Pradip Das)
After trying to reach her for a day, her father approached Vijayawada railway police, who forwarded his missing persons complaint to the Kurla railway police, who in turn sent out a message to all police stations in Mumbai. (IE Photo: Pradip Das)
It was the stench of the body that led to its eventual discovery in Bhandup, which is nowhere on Esther's way to Andheri. A motorist called the police control room about the smell. When the police got there, they found it overpowering. "I still can't get the smell out of my head," said constable Dilip Mane of Kanjurmarg police station. (IE Photo: Pradip Das)
The level of decomposition made it impossible to detect how exactly she had been killed. There were injuries around the private parts, suggesting sexual assault, but the body had been burnt from the pelvis down. The spot still has evidence of the burning, the ground having turned black. (IE Photo: Pradip Das)
Esther's family, meanwhile, is trying to come to terms with its loss. "The police may catch the person responsible tomorrow morning, or they may catch him 15 days later. The fact that Esther is gone will not change," said her uncle Arun Kumar. "If the missing persons complaint had been taken seriously, maybe we would never have had to see this day." (IE Photo: Pradip Das)


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Click the download image, and then get the download free the chipset drivers, bios, firmware, video drivers, audio drivers, usb drivers, networking drivers, wifi drivers, together with other desktop hardware drivers, in addition to application updates regarding the Dell XPS/Dimension 400/9150 inside the desktop driver download page.
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ISS Astronaut Ron Garan on how his experience in orbit (which he calls the Orbital Perspective) changed his World View concerning many humanitarian issues concerning life on "Spaceship Earth" and how it caused him to create Fragile Oasis, an organization with the mission of helping to unify many existing "world change" efforts around the metaphor of operating a life-sustaining spaceship.
Garan describes the moment when, during a space walk, the Effect first hit him and how this evolved over time into Fragile Oasis. The Overview Institute has connected with Ron and will be working with Fragile Oasis to extend the World View change of the Overview Effect/Orbital Perspective as a unifying vision for a more humanitarian and sustainable world.
The Overview Effect Student Video
This brief Overview Effect-themed video clip was student produced for an aviation class in 2012. It features footage from the I.S.S. and music from Penguin Cafe Orchestra. The video contains striking night-side views of the Earth, seldom seen till recent releases of several astronaut-captured passes. These shots, unlike the more familiar day-side views show the extensive presence of human civilization.


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Anti-choice Republicans are chipping away at reproductive rights from all angles, particularly on the state level. Often, lawmakers advance several different abortion restrictions simultaneously — as is currently the case in Arkansas and North Dakota — and it can be difficult to unwrap the rhetoric to figure out exactly what all of those proposed measures would mean for the women in their state. Underneath all the euphemisms intended to disguise Republican affronts to women's health, here's what anti-abortion lawmakers really mean:
1. Fetal pain laws
Nebraska was the first state to pass a 20-week ban on abortion, relying on the medically disputed assumption that fetuses can feel pain after that point. Since then, seven other states have followed suit and passed similar types of restrictions — which came to be known as "fetal pain" laws. But don't be fooled. The idea that fetuses can feel pain at 20 weeks of pregnancy is junk science, even though the anti-abortion community continues to tout it as fact. In reality, fetal pain bans represent a dangerous step toward rolling back women's constitutional right to an abortion. Under Roe v. Wade, legal abortion is guaranteed until the point of viability, which generally occurs around 24 weeks of pregnancy — but 20-week bans move the goalposts, seeking to narrow the window when women may legally terminate a pregnancy. Two fetal pain laws are currently being blocked in court for overstepping Roe, but anti-abortion lawmakers keep pushing them anyway.
2. Heartbeat bans
Heartbeat bans go even further than fetal pain measures do, seeking to outlaw abortions as soon as a a fetal heartbeat can be detected — which can occur as early as six weeks, before many women even realize they're pregnant. Fetal heartbeat bills are clearly unconstitutional, since they would narrow women's window to access legal reproductive services by about 17 weeks. Nonetheless, heartbeat measures popped in states across the country at the beginning of this legislative session. And it's important to remember that this type of legislation would also necessitate an invasive, unnecessary transvaginal probe for women seeking abortions. Transvaginal ultrasounds are the only way for doctors to clearly detect a fetal heartbeat so early in a pregnancy.
3. Webcam abortions
When abortion advocates decry "webcam abortions," they're actually referring to the common medical practice of using video technology to allow doctors to consult with women remotely to prescribe the RU-486 abortion pill. Those type of remote abortion consultations help expand reproductive access for low-income women in rural areas, who often don't live near an abortion clinic and can't afford the transportation to travel to the closest one. Taking an abortion pill doesn't require the presence of a medical professional — even when women are able to consult with their doctors in person, they often go home to take the pill in privacy — and studies have shown that connecting women with their doctors via video technology is just as safe and effective as when women visit the doctor's office in person.
4. Crisis pregnancy centers
The anti-choice community often tries to push "crisis pregnancy centers" (CPCs) as a valid alternative to women's health clinics — in fact, when Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) defunded the Planned Parenthood affiliates in his state, he claimed that women could access the same services at CPCs. But that's not true. CPCs are simply fronts for the anti-abortion agenda, and they push misleading medical information and shame-based conservative propaganda to dissuade women from making their own decisions about their bodies. Rather than providing pregnant women with the full range of reproductive resources they may need, CPCs actually prey on vulnerable women and attempt to emotionally manipulate them.
5. "Informed consent" or "woman's right to know" measures
It seems like everyone would want to support a measure designed to ensure that women seeking abortions have the best, most accurate medical information about the procedure. But that's not really what's at the heart of these anti-choice initiatives. Abortion opponents want to enact every possible roadblock for women seeking abortions, including measures to attempt to shame them out of their decision to have the procedure — such as requiring women to look at the image of their ultrasound, requiring women to receive detailed information about fetuses' stages of development, or requiring doctors to hold a "counseling" session to ensure that women are making the decision based on their own free will. These types of barriers aren't in place to ensure patients' safety before other medical procedures, and that's because they're not really about protecting women. They're about trying to convince women to change their minds about what's best for their bodies, despite the fact that nearly 90 percent of women are already very confident about their decision to have an abortion when they first approach a doctor.
6. "TRAP" laws, or steps to make abortion clinics safer
Just like "informed consent" measures, laws to make sure that abortion clinics are up to code aren't actually concerned with women's safety. Instead, anti-abortion lawmakers push to over-regulate abortion providers as an indirect method of restricting women's access to reproductive services. Abortion is already an extremely safe procedure, and there's no need to hold abortion doctors to a higher standard than other medical professionals. When abortion opponents talk about making women's abortion care as safe and healthy as possible, they're really talking about driving abortion providers out of business by requiring them to make unnecessary, costly updates. Burdensome laws to force abortion clinics to shut their doors are advancing all over the country, including in states like Texas, Alabama, North Dakota, Indiana, and Mississippi. Women's health advocates refer to this type of legislation as the Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers, or TRAP.


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journal • sheepskin and coffee {2}
this year – much unlike what I might have felt before – I thought I would never be ready for autumn and winter. and after a brutal transition from sun and drinks at a café terrace to crisp-cold and latte in a blanket, I didn't tame the feeling.
luckily, the beautiful things that surround me might help.
things like seeing the first pumpkins at the farmers market, reading Paul's magazine, sitting on a cosy sheepskin, gazing at the trees lovely colour, eating breakfast for dinner, or drinking coffee in a warm place – to the sound of raindrops hitting the window – with a Murakami novel.
in the end, it all seems evident.
what are your favourite things about autumn that should make me love this season again?
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Hedge-fund regulation was seen at Davos as one of the most likely outcomes of the drive for global financial-market re-regulation in the wake of the global financial crisis (though as every hedge-fund manager at Davos told you, it wasn't their fault; they aren't bankers). Europe was also seen as more likely to put in such a regulatory framework than the U.S.
A big reason for that is the U.K.'s drive to ensure that London, and to a lesser extent Edinburgh, become the center of the regulated hedge-fund industry, drawing business away from elsewhere in Europe, off-shore jurisdictions and the U.S. Asset management, which includes hedge funds and private equity firms, is a $5 trillion-$6 trillion (assets) business in the U.K., accounting for a third of all European assets under management and generating an estimated $20 billion pounds in revenue for The City. Four-fifths of Europe's hedge-fund managers are reckoned to work out of the U.K.
This has led to a delicate dance between the London and Brussels to ensure that the E.U.'s proposed legislation on alternative investment funds wouldn't crimp the growth of the hedge-fund sector in the U.K. by being too extensive or restrictive. French and German regulators have never cared for hedge funds, believing they amplify financial-markets volatility and systematic risk. They are taking the opportunity to put their distaste into regulatory practice, with the Greek crisis giving them added encouragement, though there is little evidence that speculators exacerbated Greece's financial plight.
The U.K. has managed to water down the European Commission's original proposals, most significantly by killing off mandatory E.U.-wide caps on leverage; hedge funds would just have to report what leverage caps they were imposing on themselves. The U.K. is also seeking to get hedge-fund managers excluded from the pay caps Europe is imposing on bankers, another politically delicate dance to keep London globally competitive. At the same time it is arguing for globally compatible rules, which given the U.S.'s stance would tend towards lighter regulation. Hedge funds based outside the E.U. would have to comply with the new regulatory rules if they market to investors in the E.U., which the Americans argue is protectionist, providing London with a convenient specter of a trans-Atlantic trade war.
There is still more backroom work to be done, but seemingly not too much. E.U. finance ministers meeting in Brussels today were unable to reach final agreement on the new rules. But officials say that final consensus will be reached in the coming weeks with the European Parliament voting on the new rules later in the year. Europe will get (moderately) regulated hedge funds and London will get the business.