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I can't deal with the suspense toon!
I can't deal with the suspense toon!
Damn! everyone raised my hopes that Yan Keiffer would be in contention.
Well done to the winners
2nd July
Roger Federer Leaves Rochdale after not agreeing to a new contact. His Agent reveals he is in talks with Birmingham
Costel Brabarius is in Talks with Swansea after they had a bid of £725K Accepted
July 3
Aston Villa have a bid accepted of £275k for Des Schicksal Signs for Villa 10th July then loaned to Ipswich
4th July
Derby and Cardiff Make an offer to Roger Federer Chose Cardiff
6th July
Nico Ecke signs for Barnsley for £190K
August 1st
Sunderland make a bid of £850K for Omar Holtz Signs for Sunderland
11th August
Wolves have a bid of £750k accepted for Alex D'Ecker Joins Doncaster on Loan
13th August
Swansea bid £130k for Albert Steiner Rejects Swansea
But Signs for West Brom for £110kand loaned to Cardiff
14th August
West Brom make offer of £130K for Yann Ibrahimovic Signs for Wolves
31st August
West Brom make an offer of 60k for David Ginsberg REJECTED Signs new deal for Bury
31st August
Luc De Bonde-Arnaud Joins Peterborough for £120k
31st August
in the biggest shock so far for our young luxembourgers Jan Brosius Joins Roma for £650k
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Jan Brosius and Cristian Reynaldo
Yes!!! Brabarius with player of the year! I hope the move to Swansea is completed, would be a great career move.
Hope I can make an impact at sunderland
Cool, staying at Bury, hopefully will get more playing time and stay healthy.
Increased rep, CA & PA but not really much interest shown in Muller, not a bad thing I guess should get more first team opportunities at Walsall
Going to Barnsley. Intresting move. Let's see how things turn out there. I hope that the development goes well and Nico will get change for first team apperances too.
I'll be surprised if anyone comes in for Gossard.
Season 2
It is time and the new season is here and there were no short of 11 young Luxembourg transferred to different clubs. lets have a looks and see how well they have played over the past 3 Months
Premier League
League 1
League 2
Serie A
Benjamin Gossard Played 1 game for Notts county and getting assist he mainly plays in the U18 Squad
Han San Geni playing well for Exeter played 8 games and produced 3 assists and Avg rating of 6.72
Des Schicksa not having the best of times at Ipswich started 1 game came on as sub 3 times hasnt scored a goal and AvR 6.53.
Andre Muller Played 4 1goal 1 assist 2MoM AvR 7.40 been playing well but would off needed to have played more to be in contention for Luxembourger of the Quarter but his performances have been attracting the attention of Blackburn Rovers
Omar Holtz since moving to Sunderland he has mainly been in the u18s but he did made his Debut in a Cup game
David Ginsberg Played 8 games 0 assists AvR 6.50 but 7 of them were sub appearances
Jan Brosius Plays for the Roma U20 squad
Yann Diederich Currently plays for L.Orient U18s but came on as sub in a cup game
Yannick Schleck Made his 1st team Debut for Man City in a Cup game
Louis de Crevecoeur So far he has made 1 cup appearance and scored 1 goal he also made his international debut on the 8.9.2012
Jaques Le Roy played 7 2 Assists AvR 6.80 but he is currently out injured for 6 weeks with a broken arm
Roger Federer Played 4 AvR 7.00 not bad for Roger at his new club who are in the next division up hopefully he will get more chances to play for Cardiff
Cristiano Reynaldo Played 9 scored 3 AvR 6.80 this is a lot better from Cristiano already equaled last years goal tally
Yan Kieffer missed 3 months due to injury
Jan Handelen not getting any game time at all for 1st team but is playing regularly for u18s
Costel Brabarius has not started for Swansea but he is playing well for the youth team
Guillame Antoine missed 5 weeks of start of season so is just getting match fit ahe has made 1 sub appearance
Antonio Karim Played 11 1 goal 1 assist AvR 7.03
Jean Benoît Guillaume d'Aviano playing well for Sheff Wed played 10 Conceded 10 2 CS AvR 6.80
Heinrich Boneburger Playing well so far in Npower Championship played 11 AvR 6.54
Maximus Scheltzer Was looking like a contender for Luxembourger of the Quarter his stats were P6A3MoM1 AvR7.37 until injury struck he broke his foot and is now out for 4 months
Adelbert Steiner Playing well for Cardiff P5 AvR 7.03
Luc De Bonde-Arnaud Played 10 1MoM AvR 6.93 also came 3rd in young player of the month in August
Nico Ecke P 11 A1 AvR 6.87
Alex D'Ecker P 11 G1 A2 AvR 6.92
Marc Scutto getting more game time since his comrade got injured P 14 AvR 6.43
Yann Ibrahimovic Playing for Wolves U18s
Luxembourger of the Quarter Award is Nico Ecke
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I wouldn't envy Albert Steiner's reception at Swansea next time he plays there.
What division are Peterborough in? I'm not sure whether a move up a league is good for Luc De Bonde-Arnaud.
Wow! City actually gave Schleck his debut in a cup game. I'm impressed!
How did Yann diedrich get from Leyton Orient to Stevenage? What was the transfer fee?
so Nurrka here are your choices
I will also load up your Scout Report
1. Add 5 points to their CA
2. Add 5 points to their PA
3. Add 3 attribute points (1 per category, chosen at random if category chosen is already at 20)
4. Add 15 to reputation (increasing the chance of a big club move)
OR, if you would prefer, you may want to damage your fellow players in your quest for individual glory (e.g. if you are the second-choice national keeper), and choose to
5. Take 5 CA points from a fellow Luxembourger
6. Take 5 PA points from a fellow Luxembourger
7. Take 3 attribute points from a fellow Luxembourger (chosen at random)
Last edited by toonbalmy87; 12-06-2012 at 10:41.
wow. missed the first 3 months with injury, hope he is back soon!
I'm pleasantly surprised by Luc De Bonde-Arnaud. He seems to be coping with the step up quite well, even if he is playing for a struggling Peterborough side.
Happy with how Andre Muller is playing, just need more games! Would rather stay at Walsall than Blackburn Rovers lol
Seems sunderland dont need me yet
Hoping that biding my time at Swansea's youth team will end up being worth it.
Wow! Luxembourger of the month prize! And wow 11 games on nPower Championship. That is almost as much as last season on level lower!
Nico should have potential to become even better player so:
2. Add 5 points to their PA
Not going well for Scutto, but hey, some first team action is nice I guess. Sorry about your foot Maximus.
Gossard can't even get on the pitch for the U21s. Pretty much sums up his career so far.
Cristiano Reynaldo has improved so i'm happy about that, but he's got a long way to go before he can even think about winning an award
At least Boneburger finally got picked up by the U21s and got to play a little.
Man not even broken into the starting 11 for U21s dude needs to get better lol
January Transfer Update
8th January Andre Muller joins QPR for £180k
8th January Louis De Crevecour joins Sunderland for £400k
17th January Benjamin Gossard Joins West Ham for £475k
17th January Albert Steiners loan finished at Cardiff at the start of January but he has now been loaned to Charlton
25th January Maximus Scheltzer joins Wolves for £450k
30th January Yann Kieffer joins Bolton for £70k
31st January David Ginsberg leaves England for Italy joining Empoli for £110k
Last edited by toonbalmy87; 12-06-2012 at 16:44.
really? Bolton? Just means the odd U21 and cup game instead of being a star in a League 2 team
I will get the next update up by tonight or late on tonight haha
QPR... owell they should have better coaches n youth facilities so should develop... wont get much game time though :[
I'm hoping Cristiano Reynaldo stays where he is and gets better
Empoli should be a great place for David, he is definitely an Italian styled Volante being a much stronger defensive rather than offensive player for that position. This is a place that will really respect David's skills. Are they still in Serie B, because if that is the place it should be a great home for him.
Omar getting a few games for under 21 doing okay I guess. I guess it hard being the coaches son
Im glad no one has swooped for Antonio Karim, the more games he plays the better.
Well I doubt Brosius will play the most games this season, still a move to a big team will certainly help his progress
Lets take a look at our young Luxembourgers and see how they are all doing at there current clubs
Premier League
League 1
League 2
Serie A
Benjamin Gossard played 3 more games for Notts County before leaving for West Ham with AvR 6.63 and he has already made his league debut for West Ham
Han San Geni Got his first international cap but has been injured for the past 2 months
Des Schicksal disappointingly didn't score for Ipswich while he was on loan there played 11 games for them. Made his first appearance for Villa in a cup game and is currently wanted by Charlton for a loan deal
Andre Muller left Walsall but he played 15 games 6 of which were cup games this is how he finished P15 A3 MoM3 AvR 7.15 . Brentford and Sheff Utd want him on loan
Omar Holtz has played 4 games so far for Sunderland 3 of them cup games and 1 was a league game against Noriwch he has also been named as a sub a few times aswell so he is starting to crack the 1st team P4 AvR 6.54
David Ginsberg before he moved to Empoli he was a 1st team member of Burys squad he P17 AvR 6.59 he will be looking to carry that on at Empoli
Jan Brosius is the sub goalie for AS Roma
Yann Diederich is not playing for L.Orient so far he has P4 G2 AvR6.97 joining Cesena on a free transfer in July U18s stats P20 G10 A2 MoM3
Yannick Schleck plays in Man Citys U18s P27 G6 A7 MoM3
Louis de Crevecoeur didnt have a good time at MK Dons P6 G1 AvR 6.01
Jaques Le Roy playing well so far this season P14 G A2 MoM AvR6.71
Roger Federer is starting show why he won the first LOTQ P12 G2 AvR6.97
Cristiano Reynaldo has been injured for 3 months still has 3 weeks left on the table
Yan Kieffer Yeovil season stats P10 G1 A3 MoM2 AvR 7.09 before he left for Bolton
Jan Handelen playing well considering he is in a newly promoted team in the championship P10 G3 AvR6.77 needs more goals in the U18s though P27 G7 A3
Guillame Antoine hasnt played alot of football at any level this season 1 game in league 1 and 4 games at U18 with 1 goal has missed 10 weeks of the season due to injurys though
Antonio Karim has been playing really well this season for Colchester and is one of the front runners for the LOTQ P27 G2 A7 MoM2 AvR 7.08 made his international Debut on the 21.11.2012
Jean Benoît Guillaume d'Aviano having a better year than last year and is number 1 thanks to Weaver breaking his Ankle and is out for 2-3 months. P30 C33 CS5 AvR6.77
Heinrich Boneburger Play ok needs to get more assists . P22 AvR6.50
Maximus Scheltzer still recovering from his broken foot he has been out for 4 months
Adelbert Steiner Cardiff Stats P9 1MoM AvR 7.10 . Is playing even better for Charlton but it is early on in his loan for them P3 1MoM AvR 7.97
Luc De Bonde-Arnaud playing really well for a poor team and is 1st team choice P21 A1 MoM3 AvR7.08
Nico Ecke playing well in the Championship P22 A2 1MoM AvR 6.89
Alex D'Ecker having a good season for Doncaster P24 G1 A4 AvR6.98
Marc Scutto needs to be more consistent if he is to win a LOTQ P27 1MoM AvR6.63 is wanted by Millwall and Wolves will he be joining up with his old friend Maximus
Yann Ibrahimovic Been playing for the U18s P17 G2 A5 MoM1 AvR 7.09
Costel Brabarius hasnt had the best of starts for swansea but they haventy exactly got a good defense P 3 C8 AvR 6.70
Luxembourger of the Quarter Award is a Double winner this time i couldn't split them both Antonio Karim & Luc De Bonde-Arnaud
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Struggle to get into Notts County team -> Make debut in Premiership in same season
Have to say stats for Walsall are looking good, liking the fact that iv just gone to QPR n they r looking to send me out on loan. Will hopefully get more first team football from somewhere
Come on Omar just a little more
Hmm, my player's sitting in the U18s...
Can't help but feel if Kieffer didn't get his transfer he could have been up for LOTQ.
Premier league table is also down
seems to be doing pretty solidly and a secure position in the u21s. Just a little more and the player of the quarter awards will be rolling in...
Yann diedrich is doing alright... a goal every 2nd game for the u18 and the first team, just need to get a longer run, MAYBE Cesena will give him the chance next season :-D
Toon .... yoou missed Costel Brabarius
Really depressing that Cristiano Reynaldo has been injured Well done to the double winners of the award!
Well, good to see Jan Handelen getting some first team time in the Championship. That's his most promising update yet.
See how Louis de Crevecoeur does in Sunderland.
prebenelkjaerlarsen & mshort22 choose from
Karim Bonde
1. Add 5 points to their CA
2. Add 5 points to their PA
3. Add 3 attribute points (1 per category, chosen at random if category chosen is already at 20)
4. Add 15 to reputation (increasing the chance of a big club move)
OR, if you would prefer, you may want to damage your fellow players in your quest for individual glory (e.g. if you are the second-choice national keeper), and choose to
5. Take 5 CA points from a fellow Luxembourger
6. Take 5 PA points from a fellow Luxembourger
7. Take 3 attribute points from a fellow Luxembourger (chosen at random)
Last edited by toonbalmy87; 13-06-2012 at 16:26.
Great sign-up toon, really well done! Roger federer is doing alright so far hopefully he can get another LOTQ
Not doing to well at Swansea
Can I add 5 to Luc De Bonde-Arnaud's CA please?
i have the end of season update ready should i load it up
i was also meant to put this in the opening post you all can have 1 ppm
i will also load up everyones genie scout report with this end of season post
I want omar holtz to try killer balls
Benjamin Gossard rarely runs with the ball.
comes deep to get ball.. for Yann diedrich pls :-) thx toon :-)
Last edited by Jaded; 14-06-2012 at 09:40.
Nico has been training ppm and he should be availbe to: Curl balls
Jacques Le Roy can have 'runs with ball often'
Marc Scutto marks opponents tightly.
Luc De Bonde-Arnaud plays short simple balls.
I'm really enjoying this and desperate to read about the next quarter each time.
I'll wait for the scout reports to choose my ppm for Yannick Schleck. In fact I'd want to wait to see my profile before but that doesn't look like it's happening any time soon
Sorry for lack of activity been on holiday! Big Adelbert doing good, glad to see he got second place in the end of year awards!
guillame antoine - Places shots. can he have this ppm please
End of Season
Well here we are again at the end of the season this year flown by.We have had some incredible displays by some of our young Luxembourger's and some well poor performances . And one thing is for sure there will be a New Luxembourg Player of the Year.
Premier League
League 1
League 2
Serie A
Costel Barbarius didn't have a good year at all even in the Reserves he didn't play well. maybe it had to do with winning the LPOTYA the immense pressure it put on him to perform. Next year he will be looking to improve
Benjamin Gossard well he didn't really play much at all signed for west ham then went out on loan to Hull here he didn't play a single game will not be happy with that.
Han San Geni had a good year with Exeter missed 7 months this season but still managed to to play 20 games here are his stats from the season P20 A6 MoM1 AvR6.84
Des Schicksal didn't score many goals this season for any clubs went on loan to Huddersfield P10 G1 A1 AvR6.52 he needs to start scoring goals if he wants to be picked for De Roude Léiw and Aston Villa
Andre Muller was having a good season at Walsall then he moved to QPR who then loaned him out to Ipswich where he played really well P13 G1 A8 MoM1 AvR7.42
Omar Holtz Joined Sunderland and he stayed there and he played in there cup games and came on as sub in the league once P4 G A1 MoM AvR 6.63
David Ginsberg was having a good season at Bury but he then moved to Empoli where he didn't play a single game for them which is really disappointing
Jan Brosius played 3 games for Roma this season P3 C3 CS2 AvR 6.40
Yann Diederich was mainly used as a sub by L.Orient in total he came on as sub 14 time P14 G5 A MoM AvR6.85
Yannick Schleck Played for the u18s this season and he also made 1 start for the 1st team with a rating of 5.90 here are his u18 stats P42 G6 A10 MoM3 AvR7.13 he also won the u18 cup and he captains the u18s
Louis de Crevecoeur well he moved to Sunderland and in February he went on loan to Ipswich where he only played 1 game 1 goal Rating of 6.80
Jaques Le Roy had a good season this year and at the end he got called for his first international game P29 G A4 MoM AvR6.73
Roger Federer finally getting back to his best P17G2AvR6.85
Cristiano Reynaldo never really recovered from his injury and didn't get back into the first team squad instead he played in the reserves P26 G9 A1 MoM1 AvR6.90 but is wanted by Sampdoria and QPR
Yan Kieffer also went on loan to Ipswich P4 G A1 MoM AvR 6.93
Jan Handelen mainly played for the u18s but he did play some games P13 G4 A MoM AvR6.69 u18 stats P43 G14 A4 MoM4 AvR 6.76
Guillame Antoine didn't play much for either team played for games for both full and u18 squad think he needs to leave Huddersfield
Antonio Karim had a great season but missed 10 weeks nearer to the end of the season P32 G2 A7 MoM3 AvR7.03 is in contention to LPOTY
Jean Benoît Guillaume d'Aviano has had a brilliant season for Sheff Wed and is in contention to LPOTY P48 C49 CS11 MoM1 AvR6.94
Heinrich Boneburger played well for Tranmere but would of liked to have achieved more going forward P40 G A MoM AvR 6.50
Luc De Bonde-Arnaud another player that shined in the Championship and also in the running for LPoTY P34 G A2 MoM3 AvR7.03
Nico Ecke had a great season in the Championship P36 G A3 MoM2 AvR6.86
Alex D'Ecker had a great season for Doncaster P37 G1 A9 MoM AvR7.00
Marc Scutto has played well for chesterfield and improved over the season P44 G A1 MoM1 AvR6.79
Yann Ibrahimovic looks like he will be a hell of a DM could even be a quality CB if he gets trained there here are his u18s stats P31 G4 A9 MoM2 AvR7.20
Maximus Scheltzer played in the u18s P6 G2 A1 MoM AvR7.72
Al Steiner had a good year at Charlton P17 G A1 MoM3 AvR 7.47 is also in contention for LPOTY
Young Player of the Month
Luxembourger of the Quarter Award is Jean Benoît Guillaume d'Aviano
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Great season from big Al!
Meh... Single first team appearance for City and only managed a 5.90! At least he is 7.00+ for U18 squad and already won a cup as well, gets his motivation going!
Woohoo, Gossard is unloved.
Considering he was playing for a team that were in relegation trouble I think Luc de Bonde-Arnaud did pretty well. Whatever happens now I would love him to keep playing first team football.
Horrible season with the swans . What was I thinking.
So annndy (Jean Benoît Guillaume d'Aviano) you chose from
1. Add 5 points to their CA
2. Add 5 points to their PA
3. Add 3 attribute points (1 per category, chosen at random if category chosen is already at 20)
4. Add 15 to reputation (increasing the chance of a big club move)
OR, if you would prefer, you may want to damage your fellow players in your quest for individual glory (e.g. if you are the second-choice national keeper), and choose to
5. Take 5 CA points from a fellow Luxembourger
6. Take 5 PA points from a fellow Luxembourger
7. Take 3 attribute points from a fellow Luxembourger (chosen at random)
i still need yours aswell mshort22
Happy with my progress, now playing in the championship n had 13 games almost getting an assist a game with a rationg of 7.42... still cant win luxembourger of the quarter though :/ hopefully will keep it up and challenge for luxembourger of the year since my form for Walsall was good first ha;f of the season n now improved my form in a harder division
Cristiano Reynaldo has done rubbish, I think he's ready for Luxembourger of the year award
I reckon Yann diedrich has done a great job! 5 goals in 14 sub appeareances.... turn those sub apps and goals to 90 min its prob a goal a game.. need first team games to compete for the awards though! Out of interest what is his minutes per goal stat for the season Toon?
Omar Holtz needs games at sunderland
Can I add 5 to PA please
Ipswich now have a small contingency of loaned Luxembourgians! Pity they aren't playing the best of the bunch!
sorry its late but can have the add 5 points to the CA?
Hello all and welcome to The Grand Ducal Palace we are gathered here today for the second Annual Luxembourg player of the year award ceremony.
Round up from around Europe
European Champions League:
In a result no-one can quite believe, Man City beat Barcelona 1-0 in the Champions League final
Europa League:
Juventus beat Arsenal 2-1
Premier League:Manchester City won the league
FA Cup: Arsenal
League Cup: Wigan
Liga BBVA:Real Madrid
Copa Del Rey:Real Madrid
Serie A:
Winners:AC Milan
Italian Cup Winner: Udinese
Well here we are at the Special award we have every year Highest Transfer Value :
And the Winner is: Yannick Schleck at £1.3 Million
His Prize is +3 CA and +1 hidden attribute off his choosing and his choices are between Consistency , Dirtiness , Imp Matches , Versatility
[FONT=Georgia][SIZE=3]Now, ladies and gentlemen, we consult with top football analyst Dr. Opta Prozone to list how our boys have progressed (or regressed) in the past twelve months. The stats below do not reflect any extra points awarded this evening."
Luxembourg Third Place is :
Nico Ecke & Alex D'Ecker I just looked back through it and i couldn't split either of them so i have to award to both of them both have been great form this year
Luxembourg Second Place :
Luxembourg Player of The Year:
---------------------------------------------- you can still name the final two places
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Yeah! At least the City transfer allowed me to get an award And boy do they keep winning stuff! I'd like to have Consistency +1 please toon.
Nico Ecke had a great season in the Championship P36 G A3 MoM2 AvR6.86
Great stats over there. Even 2 MOMs this season - a great achievment for left defender.
There are plenty of well doing players who could win Luxembourger of the year award. Last time there were possibility to quess top two - with prize.
In case you like to do it again here is my pick: (3rd Nico Ecke) 2nd Yann Diederich 1st Alex D'Ecker
I genuinely can't work out who it will be with such a wide open contest. Like a lot of people I'm crossing my fingers.
Agreed, it's wide open this year! Can't wait!


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For completeness, if you haven't tried it yet, see if you can rotate the socket/bolt at all by hand to tighten it back in some. Now that you've broken the bolt open it may move by hand.
If not, the socket wall should be able to hold up to some moderate clamping force so I would try a set of vice grips or other locking pliers if you have those available.
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Hi everyone,
I just hacked together a Find / Replace dialog based on Robert's helpful example code. With minimal effort it should be portable and usable on its own, so feel free to adapt it for your own code.
https://code.google.com/p/simbrain/sour ... ialog.java
It has a dependency on a ScriptEditor class but that can be easily removed. It also relies on a utility class called LabelledItemPanel that does not have any dependencies of its own so you can just pull that out and use it. Or those two lines can just be replaced with Swing code.
I'm not a professional developer so feedback and fixes welcome. ... I guess one thing I just noticed is that it's misnamed as a dialog class since it's a panel. Too lazy to change that now.... Cheers.
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Money & schools, Catholic & otherwise
Andrew Sullivan flags this piece from Mike Dwyer, headlined "My Complicated Relationship with Catholic Education." It's not about what's taught or what isn't, or about how best to instill in children values and traditions given insufficient weight in a secular culture. Instead it's about what many education stories seem to be about these days: Money, the divide between the educational haves and have-nots, and the emergence of a separate class of students whose parents can afford annual tuitions approaching or exceeding $20,000 per year.
The once erroneous perception that a Catholic education was only for the well-off has now become a reality. What does this mean for a faith with deep roots in the middle class? Whereas parochial schools were the norm for most Catholic children a half-century ago, will there be a day when American Catholics become sharply divided among the haves and have-nots, with a private education being the wedge? I don't know what the future holds for us, but right now is a time of great change for Catholic education and it remains to be seen how things will play out.
Raising two children in New York City has presented no shortage of challenges when it comes to selecting how they should be schooled; cost was a significant factor but so was belief and commitment to public education, and we were lucky enough to have landed in a district that was just beginning to see big improvement when my older child entered kindergarten. Over the years we've made (and continue to make) significant contributions, almost entirely in time volunteered; but these days, more and more fellow parents make significant contributions in treasure, and the effect is being felt in ways that do not always comport with my sense of what public education is supposed to mean. The calving off of some public schools into de facto private collectives funded by wealthy parent-teacher associations is to me a particularly troubling trend in public education.
Friends and fellow parishioners have made other, and understandable, choices in terms of educating their children – some selecting Catholic schools and others opting for well-known prestigious non-Catholic private schools, with prices topping $30,000 a year in some cases (and even higher in others). I can't challenge their decisions; they've done what they feel is best in their situations, and having gone through it myself I'm aware of the difficulty of it, the weighing of variables and the sacrifices required. But it can make for interesting conversation around the dinner table. In trying to impart to our kids a sense of being attuned to the needs and differences of others, of the importance of the lived and experienced over the purchased and "consumed," the topic of their friends' schooling sometimes comes up. Education – public, Catholic, non-Catholic-private – as an economic marker is something that even they are becoming aware of.
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I haven't been to a Catholic school but I wonder if the education can be so much better than in pyblic schools - I had a friend who worked at a Catholic school and not only was he paid less than he would have been at a public school but they required less of him in qualifications ... only a BA and no credential. And surely children aren't blank slates whose whole characters can be formed simply by what school they attend.
In France Catholic schools are relatively inexpensive because mort of them are under contract with the state, and thus receive a per-child subsidy that covers the equivalent of the per-child subsidy given in public schools. In exchange, Catholic schools must abide by their side of the contract: follow the national public school curriculum; accept children without discriminating according to their religion (thus being Catholic makes it no more likely that a child will be accepted in the school); leave the students in freedom of religion, i.e. they cannot be required to do the sign of the cross or to go to a beginning-of-the-year Mass, for example.
The state thus subsidizes private education for at most 20% of the overall student population in France.
Then what do the parents' fees cover, and in what ways are those schools different from public schools? Well, the student-teacher ratio is slightly better than in public schools, there are some additional extra-curricular activities, and there is one hour per week of (optional) catechism. In addition, there are crosses on the classroom walls, there is a chapel with occasional (optional) prayers and Masses, a priest sometimes comes at lunch time and is available for (optional of course) confession, and there may be some (optional) school outings to religious sites. Their reputation varies from school to school, but they are typically more structured, with more discipline than in public school.
And the result of those contracts is that Catholic schools are very affordable.
Dominic, both you and Mike Dwyer have this exactly right. There is a class divide between those who can afford a Catholic education and those (now a clear majority) who can't. I can't. Most of the middle class can't. I was able to afford it (barely) when I had fewer kids in school. Now that they're all in school - I can't. So my kids go to public schools K-12. And I have a pretty good job, and my wife does, too. Parents who attended Catholic schools themselves but now are sending their own kids to public schools because it's what they can afford, sounds like a good topic for your Catholic-parents-raising-the-kids series.
I have two children in Catholic parochial school. I would be considerd moderate-income. The Catholic school tuition is less than half what daycare would have cost for two at once, and also less than owning, maintaining and using our car (a luxury when one lives in the city).
For me, it's money well spent. If things were tighter, I would give up the car before I gave up the Catholic school.
Dwyer says,
For decades parochial education was subsidized by a large supply of clergy. When most of your staff has taken a vow of poverty it certainly keeps overhead down. As the number of clergy began to dwindle in size during the 1980s, tuition rates began to creep upwards.
Subsidized by CLERGY? No. It was subsidized by hard-working Catholics who donated money to the parishes and by hard-working and unpaid nuns. Nuns are not part of the clergy. They are part of the laity.
Clergymen did not take vows of poverty. In a typical parish, eight or nine or more nuns lived in a crowded house, while three or four priests lived in a big house. The nuns ate canned spinach (donated in the annual food drive), while the priests ate prime rib and drank whisky. The nuns had no cars, but the priests had good cars. The nuns spent their summers taking college courses. No air conditioning. Serge habits. The priests went on vacations.
And the "number of clergy" (and two-thirds of the unpaid women religious who taught in the schools) "began to dwindle" in the 1960s, not "during the 1980s". By then, it was over.
We con't need Catholic schools. We need Catholic parishes.
Amen to that. And an apprenticeship for disciples.
The neglect of the Catholic primary education system was one of Andrew Greeley's harshest criticisms of US bishops. I think he was right.
I would be interested in more information about these $20K tuition Catholic schools vis-a-vis the kinds of scholarship programs that they have to incorporate the children whose parents cannot afford anywhere near $20k a year. Without a substantial scholarship program, I think these schools calling themselves "Catcholic" should be ashamed of themselves.
I went through 8 years of "sister school" in a rural upper Midwest parish. The school was totally funded by that parish of farmers, blue collar workers and small business owners. AND, of course, the virtually free labor of 8 women who had the tenacity to turn borderline savages into reasonably well educated children (alas, no science labs) who, in many cases, went on to college and university. Those who didn't matriculate were nonetheless well versed in the ability to read, write and perform the essential arithmetical functions that allowed them to get on with their lives.
I attended 8 years of Catholic grammar school. It was clearly the best part of my 18 years of schooling.
While I am only tangentially associated with parochial schools these days, I highly doubt anyone would be turned away for lack of money. The NY archdiocese has a number of programs which provide scholarships and it is supporting under-enrolled schools. I'd highly encourage anyone who isnt sending their children to a catholic school because of a financial to speak up. Financial support is a fixable issue.
The real issue is that parents have made other considerations, like a commitment to public schooling, more important than sending their child to a parochial school. If the bodies were there, the schools would be open.


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Being as I'm not really familiar with the YJ's I thought I'd hit up the wisdom of some fellow square headlighters.
What are his best options for a small lift, AAL?, longer shackles?, full packs?
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How Mobile Technology Is Changing the Way We Dine Out
Touch screens are becoming as integral to the restaurant experience as knives and forks
OVER THE MANY years I made my living as a restaurant critic, I dined out 5,123 times, not counting the office cafeteria and numerous airport eateries that I described as "fast food served slowly." Whenever people learn about my immoderate profession, they invariably ask, "How did you choose where to go?" My strategy was quite simple, at least in the unplugged 1980s: I asked around. Then came the World Wide Web, with its breathtaking search capabilities and lightning interactivity. This spawned all sorts of restaurant voting sites, as well as a nationwide upsurge of self-anointed restaurant reviewers sounding off around the clock, issuing so many contradictory opinions that they can be more confusing than constructive.
The past decade has seen many tech innovations when it comes to dining out, but no truly life-altering advancements—until now. Mobile technology is revolutionizing the way diners interact with restaurants, for better and worse. While new apps are expanding, accelerating and streamlining the dining experience, the ubiquity of smartphones can eclipse some of the very reasons we eat out: relaxation, discovery, camaraderie and a fleeting escape from our machine-driven lives. In certain respects, mobile devices are also tipping the balance of power from restaurants to consumers—from "Take it or leave it" to "Do what we want, or 1,232 friends will hear about it right now." To be sure, before long, smartphones will do everything short of plucking a mint at the coat check.
'Bypassing the human in this way seems akin to buying World Series tickets and then watching the game on the jumbotron.'
With mobile technology you can search endless options, cross-referenced every which way. All of the larger dining sites—Zagat, Yelp, Urbanspoon and Citysearch among them—have taken the mobile leap. As a result, dining decisions can be increasingly spontaneous, impulsive, collaborative and easy to change at the last minute. I have discussed this trend with restaurateurs where I live, in New York's Hudson Valley, and not all are sanguine about it. They are concerned that this freewheeling new approach could exacerbate every restaurateur's bête noire: no-shows. As it is, on any weekend evening, a typical fine-dining establishment might expect 25% or more of their reserved customers to blow them off, without even bothering to call and cancel. (This is why restaurants overbook.) Then again, reserving electronically can increase accountability. The online reservation service OpenTable, which has more than 28,000 member restaurants and seats more than 12 million diners a month, sends hand-slapping emails to no-shows, and deactivates users after four personal fouls in a year. Perhaps the biggest change in the mobile world is the way in which diners make their decisions. Not only do they search on the run, but they also digitally collaborate with friends in the process—cuisine by consensus.
If you haven't noticed, a lot more restaurants, particularly the hip and crowded, are not accepting reservations. There are two main reasons: It projects that something irresistibly exciting is going on, and tables turn faster, which boosts income. Previously, had you entered a Pamplona-like scene and been quoted a wait time of between an hour and infinity, you would have had two options: Stand around sipping overpriced cocktails, or just stand around. Now mobile apps like NoWait and Diner Connection allow you to check in at the front desk, leave your phone number, then linger wherever you like. The restaurant sends automated text messages updating your status, and guests can communicate with the restaurant in real time. So, if you are, say, having a jovial time of it at a nearby pub, you can push back the booking (or cancel it).
In some locations, chains like Applebee's and Chili's are betting on customers' preference for the convenience and relative anonymity of the touch screen; digital tablets at tables allow one to order food and drinks without so much as consulting the waiter. Maybe it's me, but bypassing the human in this way seems akin to buying World Series tickets and then watching the game on the jumbotron. This timesaving technology is being adopted primarily by casual or chain restaurants, where diners seldom need servers to expound on the laminated menu; it's unlikely we'll see this mode of ordering anytime soon in upscale institutions. "It doesn't work in my situation," declared Kevin Boehm, co-owner of the Chicago-based Boka Restaurant Group, which includes such luxe venues as Balena and GT Fish & Oyster. "When you lose the experience of ordering with somebody who can give you an intelligent answer, you lose, well, hospitality." The place where mobile ordering is gaining ground the fastest is in the carryout and delivery trade, with services like GrubHub and Seamless.
It's at the conclusion of the dining experience that the touch screen is likely to become a more common sight at a wide range of establishments in the next few years. Apps that allow customers to tally and pay their tabs electronically eliminate the process of having a server present the bill, walk away, return for the credit card and then ring it up in the back. Programs like Tabbedout and Cover are competing not only for the casual trade but also for upscale restaurants in situations where time is a concern (think business lunches). OpenTable is testing a mobile payment program in San Francisco with hopes of rolling it out by the end of the year.
Some apps advertise that they can automatically divvy up the check for groups of diners, avoiding the annoying back-and-forth over who had the extra margarita; most offer nifty ways to calculate tips. The question of what percentage is an appropriate reward for servers whose role might soon be redefined as "dish fetchers" is one that, as far as I am aware, no app has yet promised to tackle.
As someone who has happily nibbled his way around the globe, toting the kind of pad that needs no charging, it's easy to dismiss this mobile craze as the height of overkill—like roaring a Maserati to the corner deli. Truth is, back in those lower-tech days, I'd have loved to have had that tip calculator, and the ability to instantly check a waiter's math skills. And who needs lingering in the foyer?
You may not learn the waiter's name and hometown, but he's not going anywhere. Ultimately, no amount of technology will alter the immutable reality: that dining out is, above all, about fun. And what's not fun will sink like a dropped soufflé—something you can watch right at your table, on YouTube.
Mobilize Your Meal
Smartphone apps that aim to enhance your dining experience
Pick a Restaurant
Out on the town but unsure where to eat? Thousands of smartphone-wielding citizen reviewers are here to help. The ubiquitous Yelp (free, iOS and Android), which has been around for almost a decade, has the greatest breadth of options and quantity of reviews. Specialized restaurant-only review apps, in particular Urbanspoon (free, iOS and Android), can offer more nuanced guidance for the discerning diner. Along with each restaurant's menu, Urbanspoon includes reviews from users, newspapers and blogs. Devoted users of Foursquare (free, iOS and Android) are beginning to see customized real-time recommendations pop up on their phone: If you're walking through Little Italy, Foursquare can tell you, based on your past check-ins and other Foursquare users' tips, not only which pasta place is worth trying but what you should order once inside. The new pop-up feature is available on all Android devices now and is being rolled out on iOS platforms.
Make a Booking
OpenTable (free, iOS and Android) is still the go-to app for making a reservation, either far in advance or on a whim. The app tells you when the restaurants nearest you (or in any specified location) have openings and lets you book with a few taps of a finger. If toggling between apps tires you out, you can also access OpenTable's reservation system directly through the Yelp and Facebook FB -0.85 % mobile apps. Beyond offering reviews and tips (like which nearby places have outdoor patios), OpenTable can help you get into an impossible-to-book restaurant at the last minute. "It never hurts to check the day before at the most popular restaurants in case a reservation falls through," said Jocelyn Mangan, OpenTable's vice president of consumer product management. "We send reminders 24 hours in advance, and that tends to be when cancellations happen."
If you still can't get a table at that hot restaurant—or if said restaurant is so hot it doesn't take reservations—you may just have to show up. But thanks to new services like WaitAway and BuzzTable that are available to restaurants, you no longer have to stand shoved against a crowded bar with a germy buzzer sticking out of your handbag. Instead, you just give your phone number to the host, wander wherever you'd like and you'll get a text message when your table is ready. The NoWait app (free, iOS only), set to launch nationwide in January, takes this convenience one step further, putting the power in diners' hands: You don't even have to leave your home to get in line. Browse the app for average wait times in your area, choose where you'd like to dine and breeze into the restaurant right when your table is ready.
Order In
Phoning in a food-delivery order is just so 2011. These days, if you want takeout or delivery fast, just launch an app. Since your credit-card information is saved within the app, you can summon a different cuisine to your door every day of the week without the hassle of fishing out your wallet. Even better: These services come at no cost to the diner and make their money by taking a percentage (usually around 10%) off the order directly from the restaurant.
The mobile takeout-ordering market is booming. GrubHub and Seamless (both free, iOS and Android)—which merged earlier this year but are, for the moment, keeping their brand identities distinct—have a network of more than 25,000 restaurants all over the U.S., spread across more than 500 cities and 350 college campuses, with an average of 130,000 orders processed a day. Eat24 (free, iOS and Android), another online food-delivery behemoth, works with roughly the same number of restaurants and processes "tens of thousands of orders" every day, said its CMO, Amir Eisenstein. Eat24's recent partnership with Yelp—which enables Yelp addicts to place their orders directly through their preferred interface—has made ordering food online even easier.
Pay Your Bill
The bother of waiting around for a check, or struggling to figure out how much everyone owes, is a thing of the past. With mobile-payment apps, you can now pay your dinner bill (or, even more conveniently, bar tab) and calculate tip, all from your smartphone. Tabbedout (free, iOS and Android) currently works in 5,000 restaurants in major markets all over the country, while the newer app Cover (free, iOS) is NYC-only for the moment. OpenTable will also be rolling out a mobile-payment feature in San Francisco later this year.
Find a Happy Hour
Wherever you are, there's probably a $5 martini within spitting distance. Happy hour apps like DrinkOwl (free, iOS and Android) and Happy Hour Finder (free, iOS and Android) can steer you to the most happening bars and most alluring drink specials around the country.
Follow Your Diet
HealthyOut (free, iOS and Android) makes it easy to stick to your diet without getting stuck in your house. Whether you're practicing vegetarianism, trying to cut down on sodium or following a diet trend (Paleo, South Beach, even the China Study), just tap in your "dietary desires" and the app will present you with a list of approved dishes at restaurants in your vicinity. Diners with serious gluten allergies should also consider Find Me Gluten Free (free, iOS and Android), which provides crowd-sourced tips on the best gluten-free restaurants and dishes in any given area: which places have a dedicated toaster for their gluten-free bagels; which ones have a special on-request menu. As with all apps that rely on user input, Find Me Gluten Free will become even more useful as more and more customers add their pointers.
Share Your Meal
Foodspotting (free, iOS and Android) is the ultimate social-media app for the food-obsessed. Devoted foodies take and post pictures of favorite dishes, which other users then mark as "wanted," "tried" or "loved." Tastemade (free, iOS; Android coming soon) takes this food-ogling artistry to the next level, with user-generated video restaurant reviews. Tastemade makes it easy (and fun) for even total filmmaking tyros to shoot and edit glossy one-minute video capsules on their phones.
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Hi everybody,
I recently got interested in Game Theory but I don't know where should I start. Can anyone recommend any references and textbooks? And what are the prerequisites of Game Thoery?
Thanks in advance.
Hi everybody,
I recently got interested in Game Theory but I don't know where should I start. Can anyone recommend any references and textbooks? And what are the prerequisites of Game Thoery?
Thanks in advance.
"A course in game theory" by Martin J. Osborne and Ariel Rubinstein is probably the standard more mathematical starting point. A more concise, more modern, and slightly CS-leaning text is "Essentials of Game Theory -- A Concise, Multidisciplinary Introduction" by Kevin Leyton-Brown and Yoav Shoham.
I asked this same question about a year ago, so I'm very slightly ahead of you. Here's what I know:
As you probably know, there are two major branches for game theory. There's (for lack of a better term) "economics" game theory dealing with real world situations, economics, politics and the like. I know next to nothing about that. However, I do know a decent amount about combinatorial game theory, which is a little bit more ground in mathematics, and deals with two player games such as Go, Chess, Nim, or Tic-Tac-Toe.
The best introductory text is going to be Conway's Winning Ways, any of the volumes 1-4. These are the books to read to get into any other subset of combinatorial games, in my opinion.
My personal specialization thus far is generalizations of Tic-Tac-Toe called achievement games, which you can read about (along with much more) in Tic-Tac-Toe Theory.
However, if you want to go even further in these studies, you are a little bit out of luck. What's very exciting to me about combinatorial game theory is that it's pretty much a brand new field of mathematics, and right now the best techniques we have to study it are educated guessing/brute-forcing and a little bit of discrete mathematics. Although it's disenchanting sometimes, this also means that there is potentially a world of possible links and connections to other branches of math that we don't know about, and is just out there waiting to be discovered.
There is a new (well, the English translation is) book that treats both noncooperative and cooperative (but not combinatorial) game theory on a high level, is extremely well written, mathematically rigorous and fairly comprehensive: Game Theory by Michael Maschler, Eilon Solan, and Shmuel Zamir. For someone who knows some undergraduate real analysis and linear algebra, the book should be self contained (with a few exceptions, where reference literature is recommended in the book). The book doesn't contain everything (there is very little on refinements), but it contains enough to get one near the frontier of research fast.
G. Owen, GAME THEORY
background is basic linear algebra I believe
I've found Tom Ferguson's text to be a good introduction. His Linear Programming (pdf) text is a useful supplement. Both are freely available from his website.
The Wikipedia article on Game theory is a general introduction to the field. In it I found an a link for Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. Also here are lecture notes from a graduate level course.
One area that's really fascinating from a game theory angle is algorithmic game theory, and there's an excellent book out on this topic. While this focuses more on the computational aspects of game theory, it's extremely relevant to a ton of work on the internet and e-commerce, and weaves together game theory, economics and theoretical computer science in a fascinating manner.
The book is: Algorithmic Game Theory
I recently had to write a report about this and one of my main sources was http://www.math.ucla.edu/~tom/Game_Theory/comb.pdf I found it to be fairly comprehensive and it included some practice exercises


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Coup de Foudre, limited edition from the Spring 2013 collection, on counters now:
And here is an example to show you what I mean when I say they look magical on the eyes. Swatched on the hand, Les Ombres Turandot looks unbelievably warm and even a bit muddy, like it would be impossible for someone with my skin tone to pull off. But see how positively flattering and glowy it is in this look I did? (Not to toot my own horn, but I really love this look on myself and always get compliments when I wear it!)


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And do they also get mad if you accept an answer that has fewer upvotes than the others?
What is meta?
- Any Stack Exchange user can ask a question
- The community provides support, votes on ideas, and reports bugs
- Your voice helps shape the way Stack Exchange operates
I have no problem admitting to be a little grumpy if I have written a larger explanation with links and examples, and some other poster slaps a sloppy post on the stack and gets upvoted and wins.
But I actually think that the element of competition is healthy for the drive of the community. For the same reason that people treat reputation points as highscore points.
The only thing to conclude is that I hope people read through all their answer before accepting. The third down might not have that many +1s, but it might not only be correct, but also much better explained.
Neither of those things are, in my experience, any more likely to make someone mad than anything else. Generally, if someone is actually going to get mad about this, the truth is that they're really just mad that you didn't accept their answer. That's about all there is to it. They try to come up with justifications about why their answer is "better", but those are all secondary to the ultimate anger-inducing moment, that you chose someone else instead of them. (This happens outside of Stack Overflow as well.)
Of course, all of this is silly. Accepting an answer is a privilege reserved solely for the person who asked the question. It is how they indicate which answer helped them the most. It doesn't (necessarily) indicate the best, most correct or most complete answer to the question, just the one that you found the most helpful. It's logical that such a question will have many, if not all, of the above characteristics, but it is not mandatory.
Don't let anyone give you a hard time about which answer you choose to accept. If they think another answer is better, then they can upvote it. If they think the answer you accepted is bad or misleading, then they can downvote it. That's what votes are designed for: to let the community voice their opinion about the relative quality of answers. This is a complete separate system from acceptance by design.
If their answer is truly better, then it should receive more upvotes from the community and they'll gain plenty of reputation to compensate them for their time, energy, and effort, regardless of whether they are awarded the bonus entailed in having their answer accepted. If not, well then I smell something fishy...
And remember that if none of the answers were helpful to you, then you don't have to accept an answer at all! Although it's worth pointing out that in the majority of cases where this happens, it's because your question needs to be improved, either by adding more details or by clarifying what particular types of answers that you're looking for.
You should accept the answer that helped you the most. In many cases, that is going to be the most comprehensive answer. Succinctness does not negate comprehensive, the actual length of the answer seems rather incidental if quality is not an issue.
Just remember that by accepting an answer, you are leaving a marker to anyone else that experiences the same problem and finds your question after searching. Ideally, that person would find an answer that:
Still, it is entirely up to you to decide which answer should be accepted, provided that it actually helped you. Don't get bullied into accepting an answer that really did not solve your problem. Additionally, don't get bullied into accepting answers on previous questions if you've yet to receive an acceptable answer.
Nice question.
They don't get really mad, but there is definitely an element of envy/jealousy sometimes. This often result in targeting the accepting and accepted user.
However those should also understand that an OP may not be as knowledgeable as them and having that much patience as them. Preciseness of an answer is more important than length. It holds true in real life also.
On the other hand OP should also understand that lengthy answering people would have spent some quality amount of time. At least OP should perform a gratitude with putting a
People get bent out of shape over all kinds of silly things. Whether it makes sense to most people for them to do so is another matter!
The most important thing is that the accepted answer is entirely at the discretion of the asker to select which answer was most useful to him or her. No one else can judge exactly why a given answer was more or less beneficial. Sometimes a shorter answer is clearer to the asker. Sometime an answer with less votes better solves the asker's specific problem but the most upvoted answer solves the more general problem.
The only time that I think that external parties can criticize an asker for selecting an answer is for selecting an answer too quickly. I swear that some asker's do not even read all the answers! It might sound crazy but the standard advice is to wait a full twenty-four hours before accepting an answer to allow time for answers to trickle in.
Even so, if the asker wants to accept the the first answer supplied, without reading the other answers, and as soon as the system allows the accepted answer check mark to be checked, that is entirely up to the asker. That is their right by virtue of having asked the question. And yes, that might make some people mad!
Perhaps a better question would be: "Is it considered bad etiquette to accept shorter answers?"
Sometimes brevity is the soul of wit. Just because an answer is long does not necessarily make it the best one. Some answers are a wealth of very useful information, but do not address the original question directly. I don't think you need to worry too much about accepting a shorter answer as long as it is the most helpful answer to you.
A few other points to keep in mind:
"Do people sometimes get mad ... ?"
You can replace the elipses with anything and this will still be true.
The best way to find out is by using a test case. Accept this answer and then see if any of iammilind, Rick Sladkey, Cody Gray, or Tim Post♦ get mad ;P


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Well I made a plugin that uses
template_redirect for the custom post type
squeezepages and it works all fine and dandy, but I copied the exact same code, put it in a new plugin, activated it (with a few minor adjustments, for example I changed the custom post type to
newpages and the
template_redirect is taking the template from a different source) and suddenly it doesn't work?
I can have both plugins active at the same time, the squeeze pages work, the new pages don't. It puzzles me so much. I even disabled the squeeze pages plugin and it still doesn't work. I've tried all combinations (there's only a couple) and still nothing. It seems like it's not working for NO reason. I've been staring at the same code for 2 hours and I'm not able to figure it out.
Here's the code for my custom post types:
add_action( 'init', 'ifp_create_post_type' );
function ifp_create_post_type() {
register_post_type( 'newpages',
'labels' => array(
'name' => __( 'New Pages' ),
'singular_name' => __( 'New Page' )
'public' => true,
'menu_position' => 5,
'rewrite' => true,
'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'newpage', 'with_front' => FALSE),
'supports' => array('title', 'editor', 'excerpt', 'trackbacks', 'custom-fields', 'comments', 'revisions', 'thumbnail', 'author', 'page-attributes')
And my
function ifp_default_template() {
if(get_post_type() == 'newpages') : global $wp_query, $post, $posts;
include(PLUGINDIR . '/newpage/themes/default.php');
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Alabama's Contentious Education Bill In Limbo As Courts Review Cases
A week after a sweeping and controversial education bill was adopted by the Alabama Legislature, the measure is on hold, with a circuit judge and the state's supreme court reviewing separate lawsuits filed over it. Democrats say Republicans broke the rules when they inserted school choice language into a bill that was originally meant to give school districts flexibility in meeting standards.
After the school bill was sent to a committee, it emerged three times as long, leading many to believe the legislation had been written long in advance. Its provisions include tax credits for parents who move their children from struggling schools to other public schools, or to private schools.
As we reported earlier this week, Montgomery County Circuit Judge Charles Price ordered that the bill not be delivered to Gov. Robert Bentley Tuesday, hours before he intended to sign it into law. That resulted from a lawsuit filed by the Alabama Education Association, which accuses Republicans of breaking the state's Open Meetings laws.
In response, Republican legislators appealed to the Alabama Supreme Court. And on Thursday, they requested that the high court expedite its review. Judge Price is due to deliver his final ruling on the case next Friday, March 15.
The bill's passage last week was marked by emotional and angry exchanges in the Legislature. This week, Democratic lawmakers showed their frustration, as Don Dailey, co-host of Alabama Public Television's Capitol Journal, tells WBHM's Andrew Yeager.
The Democrats did that by putting the brakes on the Legislature, Dailey says, "having bills read in their entirety and being a lot more deliberative and slow in the process — things that they say they were denied last Thursday, when the Alabama Accountability Act was quickly amended and passed."
The bill is also being reviewed by the Alabama Department of Education, which this week said it had found nine distinct areas of concern in the measure, from an inconsistent definition of a "failing school" to outdated testing criteria. Several of the agency's points revolve around money, from new transportation costs and federal funding issues to "a yet-to-be-determined negative impact" on the state's Education Trust Fund.
After the bill was substantially revised in committee, State Superintendent Thomas Bice withdrew his support for the measure.
Today, Speaker of the House Mike Hubbard acknowledged that the bill needs to be revised — but he also said he is worried about sending the education act is sent back to the Legislature.
"There are some things obviously that need to be changed," Hubbard tells AL.com. "We just have to make sure that if he does send it over here that the votes are here."
Bentley could make the revisions himself, in the form of executive amendments, AL.com reports, adding that the changes would still require lawmakers' approval.
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By Dwight Bain, Nationally Certified Counselor
Monster storms like Hurricanes, Tsunamis, Earthquakes, Tornadoes, Floods, Blizzards, Forest Fires and Mud Slides destroy more than communities- they destroy emotional security and stability in the lives of everyone impacted by these critical incidents, especially children. Equipping counselors with response techniques is essential so they can make a positive difference during the rebuilding process. Here are some key elements to know in serving children who have been emotionally traumatized by natural disasters.
How are children affected?
It depends on the age of the child. The younger the child, the more they look to their parents for emotional security and strength. If a parent is "shell-shocked" or psychologically "numb" and not able to manage their own emotions or responsibilities; the child feels even more pressure and becomes more confused and stressed. Remember, it's normal to be overwhelmed by a major natural disaster, which is why it's so important for caregivers to take care of themselves in order to effectively take care of children through the months of recovery and rebuilding after the storm.
Focus on the needs of Younger children by noticing what they are saying, drawing or doing to determine if they are feeling stressed from the storm. (Very small children may display developmentally inappropriate or delayed behavior which may require medical or psychiatric intervention).
School age kids need to talk, draw or take positive action, (like kids who didn't lose their homes hosting a lemonade stand to raise money for kids just like them who lost everything during the disaster). If you give them something to do to help, they can take positive action and sort through their emotions immediately.
High school age kids may try to act "cool", yet are often more scared about the changes and losses than any other group. They may need to experience a bit more "reality" at times to open up their ability to talk about what is happening around them. If the situation is stable enough, older teens can help in neighborhood clean up, which connects them to others in the important task of rebuilding after the storm. Another approach is to see if they are willing to talk with peers, siblings or family members, to build confidence in expressing their stressful emotions to others.
Be alert for dramatic changes in behavior, such as a 'happy-go-lucky' child before the storm who now continually watches world disasters on the news. Focus on any dramatic shifts in personality. Watch for major changes in sleep, dietary or appetite patterns, school performance, peer relations and so on. If you see major changes, seek professional assessment with a pediatrician, child behavioral specialist or psychologist.(See a full list of warning signs at www.StormStress.com).
What are some ways to help kids talk about storm stress?
Reach out to children on whichever level is most likely to connect. Talking, writing, drawing, even making up a song or puppet show about the impact of the disaster will lighten someone's emotional pain by watching or talking about their experience. Some families use newspapers as a discussion starter, since talking about any crisis event can help kids gain confidence to move from the panic of survival to move toward building strength after the storm.
Are there "hidden media dangers" that make storm stress worse?
Media overexposure is dangerous to kids, so avoid this by limiting TV news updates. Children or adults have experienced media overexposure when they show a depressed mood; or by going "numb" to normal emotions associated with stressful events, (e.g. no compassion or inappropriate laughter). Carefully sort through media outlets-like TV, Internet, radio or newspapers, to screen out stressful or inappropriate content that would be depressing to a child. Set boundaries during the rebuilding process to protect them from additional stress in media, since it is important to protect the safety of their home and minds by managing media exposure.
Watching catastrophic problems in other parts of the world causes more stress in an already stressful situation because you don't have the power to control the very sad stories caused by these disasters. That's why it is wise to move from negatives to positives images during highly publicized disasters like Hurricane Katrina.Parents should sit down and discuss the impact of media and create limits on any stressful images that might further stress their children. Some families without electricity discovered that not having the distractions of Internet, cable television or loud music playing in their homes allowed them to reconnect as a family on many levels. Openly discuss these issues so that home becomes a more positive place with more energy to mange the stress from this disaster without making things harder from the hidden stress of media overexposure.
Is it okay to talk about what happened to our family with others?
Silence is not golden in a critical incident, it's dangerous. One of the best things to help yourself as well as others is to tell your story. Talk about where you were when the storm hit. Use this same technique to help kids talk about how they made it through the natural disaster, then add the powerful element of sensory recall by asking about what the storm sounded like, smelled like, looked like, felt like or even tasted like! Listening to the stories of others who survived brings emotional recovery faster.
This is important for everyone involved, kids, grandparents, Mom, dads, employees, employers, firefighters, police officers, nurses, teachers, students and on and on. Everyone has a story about how they survived the killer storm and telling it helps them heal while giving others a chance to connect to family, neighbors and coworkers in a powerful way. Also, ask others, including pastors, or people helpers like counselors and nurses since many times these professionals are so busy reaching out to meet the needs of others, they neglect to take time to deal with the storm stress in their own life.
It's normal to be tired, worn out and stressed after a natural disaster however it's not okay to ignore caring for your own needs as a counselor. Anyone impacted by natural disasters may need to change their schedules for a while in order to take care of their own mental health.Helping kids is important, however if your caregiver tank is empty, let someone else help until your strength comes back. That's best for you and those you care about since it prevents the psychological burnout caused by Storm Stress.
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KILLEEN (January 14, 2012)—Fort Hood soldier Austin Sampson, 25, and two others were shot on Jan. 2 in the parking lot of a Star Mart convenient store on Old FM 440 in Killeen.
Sampson died two days later and now his family is wondering how he survived two deployments to Iraq, only to die in an act of violence at home.
Investigators later arrested, Terry Scott, 17, who was charged in the shooting, but they have not released a motive.
"Austin would give you the shirt off his back without question," his stepmother, Allison Harper, said.
"His heart was bigger than Texas."
Sampson went straight from high school into the military.
He served two tours in the combat zone in Iraq.
"I was so proud of him that he went over there and did two tours and made it back home safely and some tragic thing happened," his father, James Carter, said.
"To me, it's like they don't appreciate life and took it away for whatever reason."
Sampson's family admits he had trouble finding his way.
"Austin unfortunately was a follower, not a leader," Harper said.
But this still doesn't help them understand why he was a target.
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"I don't know if they told Austin, 'Oh, we're just going to run to the store to get beer or chips or cigarettes,' or Austin just jumped in and was just along for the ride," Harper said.
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I consider GTD to be an all or nothing system, i.e. either you fully engage in the system or you don't. I have found that using bits and pieces of it doesn't really work. But, I've been reading about Pomodoro lately. Can it be used in bits and pieces? Are there advantages to diving in and fully embracing it? Some of its steps, like the logs and marking interruptions, seem hokey and I'm not certain they seem all that useful.
Yes. You will likely get more out of using in completely. However I can think of two ways where part would be useful:
1) Just using the timer. I do this when I'm working on a project home to remind myself to take regular breaks. I find this makes me focused longer.
2) Just using it for certain activities, but not all day.
It has a minimum which you need to adopt (i.e. the atomic timer), but it's definitely not all or nothing.
I find that logging interruptions and predicting pomodoros do help greatly and work perfectly with the system, but they're optional. In fact, I get more productivity by those, rather than the timer itself, because my work doesn't always go well with the timer.


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Liverpool Football Club is one of the most popular English football clubs around, and for good reason. Dating back to 1892, Liverpool Football Club has had a rather successful history that includes 18 league titles, 7 League Cups and 7 FA cups. The success of Liverpool has also carried over to the European continent as well where the club has won 3 UEFA Cups, 3 UEFA Super Cups and five European cups, making Liverpool, in the opinion of P2P4U net, the most successful English club to compete in Europe.
Since its inception in 1892 Liverpool F.C. has continuously played at the same home ground, known as Anfield. Although Anfield was originally home to Everton Football Club, Liverpool took over the stadium in 1892 when Everton moved to their new home in Goodison Park. In its current state, Anfield has a maximum capacity of just over 45,000 fans, which is P2P4U estimates is just above the league average.
Although Liverpool is most widely known for their winning way there are a few dark spots in the history of the club, and not just on the field. In 1985 a group of opposing fans that came out to watch football at Heysel Stadium were killed when a mob of Liverpool fans caused a wall to collapse. A similar tragedy occurred only a few years later in 1989 when close to 100 Liverpool fans were killed after being crushed against a fence at Hillsborough stadium.
Unlike most English football teams Liverpool only has one nickname that is used by fans, and that is "The Reds." This nickname comes from the home colors of Liverpool which have been red for most of the clubs history. The Liverpool crest is also primarily red though it also features white and blue as well. Those that watch football at Anfield can easily point out Liverpool players because their all red kits.
Since they are based in Liverpool, England the main rivals of the Liverpool Football Club are obviously going to be clubs that reside in the same city, such as Everton F.C. Contest between Liverpool and Everton are known as the Merseyside Derby, a match that routinely sells out with fans coming from all over to watch the two clubs go at it. Although not based in the city of Liverpool, Manchester United is also considered to be a rival of Liverpool and because both clubs are based in North West England the contests between these two is often called the North West Derby. The matches between these two clubs are a favorite of P2P4U because the competition is always so fierce.
P2P4U net has also calculated that Liverpool is one of the most popular football clubs in the world. Along with its many championships and cups Liverpool can also boast of the highest average attendance in all of Europe. Fans of Liverpool often call one another kopites in homage to the fans that sit on the Kop in Anfield during Liverpool home matches. The clubs anthem is recognized by most fans to be "You'll Never Walk Alone," which has been a fan favorite to sing at Anfield since the 1960s.
The all-time leading scorer for Liverpool is Ian Rush, who managed to score 346 goals while with the team between 1980 and 1996. Second on the all-time list is Roger Hunt with 286 goals in 492 appearances with the club. Hunt also has the record for most league goals with the team, which stands at 249. P2P4U net notes that while Rush may have scored the most goals with the team, over one hundred of his goals came in competitions that took place outside of The League, such as the FA cup, which places him slightly behind Roger Hunt with only 229 League goals.
The current manager of Liverpool Football Club is Kenny Dalglish, who was hired in 2011 to manage the team following a less than promising campaign by former manager Roy Hodgson. Dalglish was originally hired to manage the team back in 1985 following the Heysel Stadium Disaster but resigned from the club in 1991 even though he had been quite successful. While with the club Dalglish managed to win the manager of the year award no less than three times, quite an impressive feat in the eyes of P2P4U.Tags: liverpool fc, liverpool p2p4u, liverpool p2p4u net, p2p4u, p2p4u net
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Charlie and Sherry (Wedman) Wiseman of Latham are happy to announce the birth of their son, Braxton Thomas Wiseman, on Tuesday, March 19, 2013.
Braxton was born at Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital and weighed six pounds, 15.8 ounces and measured 20 inches long. He was welcomed home by older sibling Kooper, 2.
Maternal grandparents are Tom and Vicky Wedman. Great-grandparents are Dorothy Wedman and Denelda Avers.
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Vegan Hacker is a really fun vegan (no meat, milk, dairy, eggs, etc) food hacking event that happens on the last Thursday of every month. The goal is to get together and "veganize" a traditionally non-vegan food group. Previous Vegan Hacker events have made twinkies, corn dogs, COOKIES, fondue, burgers, and more! Everyone is welcome to participate. Contact us if you have questions, comments, or an idea for a hack!
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Let $\Lambda$ denote Connes's cyclic category. It is an extension of the simplex category $\Delta$ (of nonempty finite linearly ordered sets) obtained by adding an automorphism of order $n+1$ to the object $\textbf{n}$.
Question: Suppose $X: \Lambda^{op} \to Top$ is a cyclic space. What is a description of the homotopy colimit of this functor?
Just to put this in a bit of context, if $Y: \Delta^{op} \to Top$ is a simplicial space then it has a geometric realisation $|Y|$. One can also take the homotopy colimit of $Y$, and under some reasonable hypotheses there will be an equivalence $\mathrm{hocolim}_{\Delta^{op}} Y \simeq |Y|$.
There is an inclusion $\Delta \to \Lambda$, so a cyclic space $X$ can be considered as a simplicial space and one can thus make a geometric realisation $|X|$. This space is supposed to have a circle action. I suppose my question should be:
How is the hocolim of $X$ over $\Delta^{op}$ related to the hocolim of $X$ over $\Lambda^{op}$.


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