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- "The sword of Gryffindor was made a thousand years ago by goblins, the magical world's most skilled metalworkers, and is therefore enchanted."
- —The description of this sword[src]
The Sword of Gryffindor[1] was a thousand-year-old, goblin-made sword owned by the famed wizard Godric Gryffindor, one of the four founders of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
The sword was later used in Albus Dumbledore's and Harry Potter's hunt for Horcruxes, as a tool of destruction against the Horcruxes, as means to make Lord Voldemort mortal again.
Early years
The sword was made to Gryffindor's specifications by Ragnuk the First, King of the Goblins. When it was finished, Ragnuk coveted it so much that he pretended Gryffindor had stolen it from him and sent minions to steal it back; however, Gryffindor bewitched the minions rather than killing them, and sent them back to Ragnuk to deliver the message that if Ragnuk ever tried to steal from Gryffindor again, the latter would unsheathe the sword against all the goblins.
The goblin king took the threat seriously and left Gryffindor in possession of his rightful property, but remained resentful until he died. This was the foundation for the false legend of Gryffindor's theft that persists, in some sections of the goblin community, to this day.
Affray in the Chamber of Secrets
In May of 1993, the sword materialised inside the old school Sorting Hat when Harry was inside the Chamber of Secrets. Harry then used the sword to kill Salazar Slytherin's Basilisk, which was hiding inside the bowels of the Chamber. This caused the sword to be imbued with basilisk venom (since goblin-made items only imbibe what makes them stronger) and hence gained the ability to destroy Horcruxes. After the events of that year, the sword resided in the Headmaster's office and was kept safe within a glass case.
Hunt for Horcruxes
- Rufus Scrimgeour: "Was it because Dumbledore believed that only the sword of Godric Gryffindor could defeat the Heir of Slytherin? Did he wish to give you that sword, Potter, because he believed, as do many, that you are the one destined to destroy He Who Must Not Be Named?"
- Harry Potter: "Interesting theory. Has anyone ever tried sticking a sword in Voldemort?"
- — Scrimgeour and the trio discussing the contents of Albus Dumbledore's will[src]
During the summer of 1996, Albus Dumbledore used the sword on the Gaunt family ring, which was one of Lord Voldemort's Horcruxes. The sword cracked the stone in the ring, destroying it as a Horcrux, but it still worked as the Resurrection Stone.
Before he died, Dumbledore entrusted the sword to Harry in his will. However, Rufus Scrimgeour claimed that the sword was not Dumbledore's to give away, and refused to give it to Harry. Dumbledore placed an identical copy of the sword in his office, because he knew that the Ministry of Magic would try to confiscate it, and hid the real sword in a hole in the wall behind his portrait. Sure enough, the sword on display in the Headmaster's office was later taken by Rufus Scrimgeour for examination.
When the sword was returned to the Headmaster's office, students Ginny Weasley, Neville Longbottom, and Luna Lovegood attempted to steal it for Harry. Following that incident, Severus Snape passed the counterfeit sword to Bellatrix Lestrange, who stored it in her Gringotts vault. Upon discovering where Harry and his friends were camping out, Dumbledore's portrait instructed Snape to give Harry the real sword without Harry knowing that it was Snape, in case Voldemort found out through Legilimency on Harry. Snape deposited the real sword in a frozen lake in the Forest of Dean and left a Patronus to guide Harry to the sword. When Harry tried to retrieve the sword, Salazar Slytherin's Locket closed around his neck and attempted to strangle him, sensing that its destruction was near. Ron Weasley came to Harry's rescue, retrieved the sword from the lake and used it to stab the locket, destroying the Horcrux.
Skirmish at Malfoy Manor
- "Out of the corners of his eyes Harry saw Bellatrix bearing down upon the werewolf, the sword of Gryffindor gripped tightly in her hand, her face waxen."
- —Bellatrix Lestrange holding the sword while in Malfoy Manor[src]
Later, Harry, Ron, and Hermione were captured by the Death Eaters and sent to Malfoy Manor. Harry and Ron were imprisoned in the cellar along with Luna Lovegood, Dean Thomas, Mr Ollivander and the goblin Griphook while Hermione was being tortured and interrogated by Bellatrix Lestrange. Bellatrix demanded to know where the trio came into the possession of the sword, thinking that they had broke into her vault for it. She summoned Griphook to verify the sword, and at Harry's request, Griphook lied and said that it was a fake.
Break-in of Gringotts Wizarding Bank
When Harry and the rest were saved by Dobby to Shell Cottage, Harry asked for Griphook's assistance to break into Bellatrix Lestrange's vault at Gringotts, as he suspected another Horcrux was hidden within it. Griphook, impressed by Harry's respectful treatment of the house elf, agreed to help on the grounds that he would be given the real sword as payment. Harry agreed reluctantly. When their break-in was discovered, Griphook seized the real sword and ran with it. But even after he took the real sword, the news of Harry, Ron and Hermione's break-in of Gringotts got to Voldemort, the Dark Lord fired Killing Curses at the Gringotts personnel and even Griphook himself. The sword vanished from Griphook's hand.
Battle of Hogwarts
- "The slash of the silver blade could not be heard over the roar of the oncoming crowd or the sounds of the clashing giants or of the stampeding centaurs, and yet it seemed to draw every eye."
- —Neville weilding the sword during the final battle[src]
In the Battle of Hogwarts, the sword reappeared in the Sorting Hat for Neville Longbottom and following Harry Potter's orders he used it to behead Nagini, Voldemort's snake and his last remaining Horcrux in a single stroke of the blade, rendering Voldemort a mortal man once more. The sword was last mentioned lying beside Neville in the Great Hall following the conclusion of the final battle and the end to the Second Wizarding War.
Physical appearance
- "Fashioned from pure silver, it is inset with rubies, the stone that represents Gryffindor in the hour-glasses that count the house points at Hogwarts. Godric Gryffindor's name is engraved just beneath the hilt"
- —A physical description of the sword[src]
Magical properties
The Sword of Gryffindor contains special properties that only goblin-made metalwork would possess, most notably the ability to take on the power of substances it touches - especially those that would make it stronger.
Behind the scenes
- Gryffindor's sword owes something to the legend of Excalibur, Arthur's sword, as it had to be drawn from a rock by the rightful king as only a rightful Gryffindor can hold Gryffindor's sword.
- The role of the sword in the Chamber of Secrets film is much the same as in the book; however in the PC, PS1 and PS2 versions of the video game based on the film, the sword has a long range attack; a ball of light (PC), lightning/a curving beam of light (PS2/Xbox and Gamecube) or basilisk venom which can be launched from the sword, though it in the case of the PS2, Xbox and Gamecube versions, the sword flies out of Harry's hands once the Basilisk is properly damaged with it (and the boss music will stop until the sword is picked up again but only for the latter two console versions).
- In the PS1 version, however, the instead sword repels the venom like how shiny metal or a mirror would repel a laser, and the player has to direct the shot onto the basilisk's fangs. It is only in the GBC version of Chamber of Secrets that the sword has a physical, non-magical attack used.
- The sword is featured in the hand of the goblin Griphook on the front cover of the UK version of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The sword is also featured on the front cover of the German version of the book.
- An illustration of the sword can also be seen being held by Dumbledore before Chapter Eighteen in the American version of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. In this image, the sword has a curved blade, like a scimitar, while in the film it is straight, like a knight's sword. On the American dust jacket of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry has a sword in his belt, and this sword has a cup-hilt which guards the fingers, unlike the cross-hilt sword of the movies and the Chapter Eighteen illustration.
- The sword was used twice in the series (by Harry Potter and Neville Longbottom) to kill snakes: Salazar Slytherin's Basilisk and Nagini, respectively. This may symbolise Godric Gryffindor's enmity with Salazar Slytherin, who was closely associated with serpents. This may also have been an homage to the courtly tales of heroes "slaying dragons with swords," (e.g. Saint George).
- It is interesting to note that the sword is the only one of the main relics of the Hogwarts Founders that is not a Horcrux but one of the few things that can destroy a Horcrux. Slytherin's Locket, Hufflepuff's Cup and Ravenclaw's Diadem are the other relics, but are also Horcruxes.
- In the series the sword's size changes often, on the cover of the seventh novel it looks more like a large dagger than sword, as mentioned above it appears like a scimitar in the American version illustrations. In the films the handle appears to have a one handed handle but when Neville wields it, its handle is relatively long and is more a hand and a half. In the PS2 version of the game, it is as short as a short sword, while the PS1, Xbox and Gamecube versions have its length and design akin to a normal broadsword. Some fans theorise that it was enchanted to adjust its size appropriately to the worthy wielder's size and style of combat, single or double-handed. This has yet to be confirmed or discredited.
- The sword is Matthew Lewis's favourite prop from the series.[3]
- Twice, the sword presented itself to a Gryffindor who doubted that they belonged. Harry Potter pulled the sword out of the Sorting Hat, when he was worrying that he should have been in Slytherin, and Neville Longbottom had an argument with the Sorting Hat; The hat wanted to put Neville in Gryffindor but Neville was scared and wanted to be put in Hufflepuff. Later, he pulled the sword out of the hat.
- The sword, along with the Sorting Hat, are the only remaining relics of the Hogwarts Founders, as the others were turned into Horcruxes by Voldemort and subsequently destroyed in an effort to defeat Voldemort. Both belonged to Godric Gryffindor.
- Ironically, though the sword is a Gryffindor relic, it is made of silver which is a Slytherin colour. However, this is likely out of necessity as a solid gold sword would be far too heavy to lift, let alone wield. In addition, gold is also a rather unsuitable metal for a sword: besides its weight being unruly for a weapon, it is also an incredibly soft metal with a very low melting point. Gold is so dense that a brick of it the size of a match box can be hammered down to cover an area the size of the average tennis court.
- Its composition of silver is fitting for a sword used to slay dark creatures and destroy dark objects as silver is often used in mythology as a metal that can kill monsters such as Vampires, Werewolves, and more.
- It is also fitting as a magical weapon as silver is an incredible conductor of electricity which, like magic, is a form of energy, making the comparison all the more fitting.
- In the film adaptation, the design of the Sword of Gryffindor has a blatant resemblance to one of the ceremonial swords of Napoleon Bonaparte. The only few differences would be the silver hilt, a label of Godric Gryffindor on the handle and the rubies on the pommel and the guard.[4][5]
- Interestingly, the sword's quality of imbibing only that which strengthens it corresponds with muggle philosopher Frederich Nieztche's famous quote, "That which does not kill me only makes me stronger." And this is very much the principle that the Sword of Gryffindor exemplifies.
- Ironically, it also has qualities mentioned by Snape during a lecture on the nature of the Dark Arts, that they are mutating, ever-changing, indestructible. Funny that a sword that was used to destroy the darkest and foulest of magical objects would in and of itself be similar in nature to the forces it was being used to fight against, much like the classic saying, "Fight fire with fire." And this fits the sword due to it being the legacy of Gryffindor, whose house corresponds with the element of fire.
- The sword's rubies and silver blade and possession of a man whose emblem is a lion and possesses red hair and lion-like features is reminiscent of the character Lion-O from the 80's cartoon series, Thundercats and the Sword of Omens. This, and also the fact that only the worthy are able to wield or summon each sword, and that they are used against an enemy with a serpent as their insignia and mottif, Voldemort and Mumm-Ra for Gryffinor students Harry Potter and Neville Longbottom, and Lion-O respectively.
Author's comments
"The question of why a wizard would need a sword, though often asked, is easily answered. In the days before the International Statute of Secrecy, when wizards mingled freely with Muggles, they would use swords to defend themselves just as often as wands. Indeed, it was considered unsporting to use a wand against a Muggle sword (which is not to say it was never done). Many gifted wizards were also accomplished duellists in the conventional sense, Gryffindor among them.
There have been many enchanted swords in folklore. The Sword of Nuadu, part of the four legendary treasures of Tuatha Dé Danann, was invincible when drawn. Gryffindor's sword owes something to the legend of Excalibur, the sword of King Arthur, which in some legends must be drawn from a stone by the rightful king. The idea of fitness to carry the sword is echoed in the sword of Gryffindor's return to worthy members of its true owner's house."
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game) (Appears on a Famous Wizard Card)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film) (Seen in deleted scene)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game) (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)[6]
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (video game)
- LEGO Harry Potter: Building the Magical World
- LEGO Harry Potter
- The Wizarding World of Harry Potter
- LEGO Harry Potter
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
- Harry Potter Trading Card Game
- Pottermore
- Harry Potter for Kinect
- Harry Potter: The Character Vault
- Harry Potter: The Creature Vault (mentioned only)
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Pottermore - Writing by J.K. Rowling: "The Sword of Gryffindor"
- ↑ Pottermore states that the sword was made "a thousand years ago"; as it is written from the perspective of Chamber of Secrets, it is written in 1992; subtract a thousand to get 992.
- ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3FP-nmkFL0&feature=relmfu
- ↑ http://collecthingblog.wordpress.com/2013/02/14/napoleon-ceremonial-swordtoledo-spain1809-by-martin-biennaisi-found-a-very-nice-replica/
- ↑ http://getasword.com/1531-thickbox_default/ceremonial-sword-of-napoleon-gold.jpg
- ↑ It is partially seen in glass case to the left of Dumbledore's portrait


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config api proprty explanation
As a part of using DirectJNgine, I have a js file that extends an Ext.FormPanel. Let's call the js file FormPanelExtension such that the declaration o the Object looks like:
FormPanelExtension = Ext.extend(Ext.FormPanel, { ... }
The file is supposed to call a backing Java service, called ProjectService, to retrieve one piece of information and put it in one textfield. I am writing this code based on how another former employee at my company wrote his FormPanelExtension. Inside his, he defined the initComponent property of FormPanelExtension as a function. One of the variable of the initComponent funtion is var config. A property of config is api. It looks like his version of api called some server-side methods, like this:
api: {
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I am having trouble understanding what the purpose of the api property of the config object is. Better yet, I am also trying to figure out what type of object is supposed to be represented in config. My guess is that these are ExtJS standards, but I am not too sure.
Thank you for the help.
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The 'api' specifies the Ext.direct.RemotingProvider methods to use when loading or submitting a form (instead of using the url in a standard request).
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What is best practice for WP with regard to using loop.php (loop-single.php, etc) versus looping inside the template file? Does it matter with regard to efficiency or ?
Depends on whether you would use that single-loop in more places. If you're only using it in one place and that will remain the case, do it within single.php, if you're going to be reusing it elsewhere, I'd highly suggest using a single-loop template part.
No, it's just a Q of organizing your theme files. It's template vs. template part. Later will do some searching inside your parent & child theme and then include your template part, but that doesn't do much perfomanze decrease.


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WEIRTON - The Weirton United Way is issuing a challenge to area retail businesses as it continues to raise money for the 2012 campaign.
The United Way currently is working on its 2012 campaign, with a goal of raising $280,000 for its 15 member agencies.
This week the United Way received a contribution from Gus Monezis, owner of Gus's Goodies, who hoped it would encourage other local businesses to donate to the organization.
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BEING CHALLENGED — The Weirton United Way is putting out a challenge to local retail businesses as its 2012 campaign continues. Gus's Goodies is among the local businesses contributing to the campaign. Taking part in a check presentation to the United Way are, from left, Executive Director Kristin Bowman Cross, campaign Vice Chair Don Gianni Jr., Gus's Goodies owner Gus Monezis and campaign Chair John Greco. - Craig Howell
"We're very fortunate to have Gus Monezis in our community," campaign Chair John Greco said, noting Monezis has a long record of giving back and helping out in Weirton.
Executive Director Kristin Bowman Cross thanked Monezis for his contribution to this year's campaign and encouraged others to follow his lead.
"He gives a boost to the retail division with his donation," she said.
The retail business division of the Weirton United Way's campaign includes local grocery stores, restaurants, beverage dealers, retail stores, furniture stores, jewelers, florists, pharmacies and automotive outlets, among others. Its goal for the campaign is $13,200.
The Weirton United Way provides support to 15 area agencies, including the American Red Cross - River Valley Chapter, Boys and Girls Club of Weirton, Girl Scouts Black Diamond Council, Boy Scouts of America, C.H.A.N.G.E. Inc., Community Bread Basket, Dunbar Recreation Center, Healthways, Hancock/Brooke/Ohio/Marshall Retired and Senior Volunteer Program, Hancock County Sheltered Workshop, Hancock County 4-H Foundation, Weirton Medical Center Foundation, Mary H. Weir Public Library, Salvation Army - Weirton Corps. and the Weirton Christian Center.


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I'm trying to roughly match my carbohydrate intake to my rate of glycogen depletion with the goal of replenishing without overdoing. Is there an established way to estimate how much glycogen an activity utilizes? In my case I am doing 1.5hr sessions of olympic weightlifting that are fairly intense but most sets are fairly low rep (ie 1 to 3). I've heard/read contradictory statements about this from basically very little to >200g.
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I was still a bit unsatisfied with the answers so far so spent a couple of hours doing research on this. I found a key review of glycogen usage in resistance training that has some useful numbers (Astorino, T., & Kravitz, L. (2000). Glycogen and resistance training. IDEA Personal Trainer, 11(7), 21-23.). The studies reviewed were typically small and narrow but it looks like they are all we have to extrapolate from in terms of weight training (there seem to be many more studies related to endurance training).
In one study 6 sets of leg extensions done at 70% of 1RM were found to reduce glycogen in the used muscles by 39%. In the other key study a 30 min workout consisting of 5 sets each of front squats, back squats, leg presses and leg extensions resulted in a 28% decrease in muscle glycogen (and also 30% decrease in intramuscular triglycerides).
Some additional Googling gives some estimates on typical glycogen storage in humans. These estimates seem to be all over the place but the general consensus is that glycogen stores in muscle mass total around 250-400g depending on the amount of training and muscle the individual has.
So for me, I'm going to guess I have 300g of stored muscle glycogen based on just a conservative look at this. Might be higher.
I'm going to justify using a higher glycogen rate of depletion than the 28% quoted due to the length of the workout (mine is 90mins, not the 30 used in the study).
On the other hand I suspect, because the training I do is focused on Olympic weightlifting, there are muscle groups that have much greater rates of depletion than others. The most heavily worked muscle groups like the quads and posterior chain are clearly the largest muscles overall but nonetheless some other significant muscles get very little work (like the chest).
For frame of reference, my training typically involves some warm-up, some lighter sets of compound lifts or complexes to work on technique (say 6-8 sets of 3-4 reps of 2 or 3 movements), some heavier sets (say 6-8 sets each near 90% of snatches and clean & jerks), some pulling from the floor movements (i.e. 4 sets of 3 reps of clean or snatch pulls or deadlifts or similar at 80-90% max) and then 30 mins of squats (typically 6-8 sets of 5-8 reps at 60 - 80%). I'd guess this heavily uses maybe 85% of my muscle groups with only the chest and biceps being really left out. I can assure you those do not account for much mass in my case.
So if I take 85% of the 300g of stores that leaves me with ~255g of glycogen in the active muscles. The assumption here is that the storage allocation is fairly constant across the different muscles. Thinking about it this is probably false - lifters with an Olympic focus probably have higher relative stores in the heavily trained muscles of the legs, but less in the muscles of chest for instance. There is no data I could find on this so we'll keep it simple and use our arbitrary number for this.
If I assume a total 35% depletion after a 1.5 hrs training session (and there are admittedly some big assumptions in this), and roughly 255g of active glycogen storage, that would give me a depletion of 89g of stored glycogen. If we widen the ranges a bit so that we are assuming a glycogen depletion rate of 28-39% and total glycogen stores in the 300-350g range (255-298g in worked muscles), we would have an estimated amount of glycogen burned of 71-116g.
This seems to fit pretty closely with my personal experience. I find myself wiped and useless for the next workout if I don't have at least a small amount of nice dense starchy forms of carbohydrate in the time between workouts. Particularly when I get to the squats. Spending most of my time eating relatively low-ish carb (typically less than 50-75g a day), I think adding a sweet potato (30-40g carbohydrate) or two in afterwards and/or in the next day will likely get me better replenished and ready to roll for the next session.
To answer your basic question, other than utilizing gas analysis to measure CO2 used along with blood and muscle sampling during exercise, there really is no way to tell how much glycogen is being used for a specific activity on a person to person basis. Additionally, your efficiency increases the more you do an exercise and the fitter you get.
However, I don't really think it should be that big a concern for you in regards to weightlifting performance. The average individual has enough glycogen to fuel 90ish minutes of continuous exercise, much longer if you are doing intermittent exercise (Such as the weightlifting).
The primary fuel for muscle contraction is ATP. In short burst, near maximal efforts (30 seconds or less), your replenishment is going to come from Phosphocreatine and anaerobic glycolysis. For longer efforts, aerobic glycolysis starts coming into play.
Refueling during your workout is kind of like doing situps to reduce belly fat. The body will replenish where it feels it needs to first, so there is no guarantee that what you are taking in is refueling the muscles that you are specifically using.
Eat a well balanced diet, spaced out for your specific workouts, have an energy bar handy if you feel just kind of "bleh" towards the end of a workout, but there isn't really any way to specifically tell how much glycogen was used during a workout session.
Burning Glycogen
Your body burns the most glycogen when you perform anaerobic exercises, such as sprinting, heavy weight lifting and other short bursts of intense exercise. Aerobic exercise also burns glycogen, although at lower percentages. For example, if you walk, jog or bicycle at 70 percent to 75 percent of your maximum heart rate, 50 percent to 65 percent of the calories you burn come from glycogen. The remainder come from stored fat.
Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/538311-what-exercises-burn-the-most-glycogen/#ixzz2HUw9kfZQ


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Is it everybody's experience that LaTeX documents compile much more slowly on Windows 7 than on Linux generally, all things being equal?
Is speed of compilation affected by the LaTeX editor I use, or Tex distribution?
System: Win 7 32/64-bit | Xubuntu 11.04 32-bit | Kubuntu 64-bit
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My question is basically what the title says. I am trying several software for GTD/todo/task management, focusing on syncing between laptops and cellphones. Although most of the software transfer data in encrypted channel, the actual data are stored in their company with a proprietary format readable by them. This is quite a security and safety issue. I am searching for a software that actually stores my data in a encrypted format with a key that only me, the user knows.
Is there an electronic task management software that stores encrypted data in the cloud for syncing with other devices?
if you are so concerned about encryption, I don't know any self hosted app that I can assure does this. Maybe you should host your data yourself (usually specialized hosting companies are more careful with this matter). Or maybe just use Dropbox and encrypt the data yourself.
To set up this, you could use files and edit them with Orgmode via Emacs. It works with a mobile app for sync on android and iOS. It takes care of the encryption, you just need to configure it accordingly.
Have a look at this: http://orgmode.org/manual/Setting-up-the-staging-area.html#Setting-up-the-staging-area
I use dropbox and an app called BoxCryptor to create an encrypted folder on top of dropbox. I use it to store my passwords in a spreadsheet such that Dropbox can't see them. I also store an outline document there for use with Circus Ponies Notebook on my multiple Macs/iPhones. That's my secure solution. For To-Do management, I started using Things recently, and it works on it's own cloud, but it won't sync to a user-specified data file. So you could use my BoxCryptor setup for any tool that works with external data files.
Osmo has encryption, and you can sync its data folder across multiple devices using Dropbox, or Spideroak (encrypted by itself). This can be done for instance by having one data folder stored in dropbox, with symlinks to it set up in your home folder on all devices


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Five Decades of Arhoolie
Only a handful of American roots-music recording labels have lasted decades. And in the whole arena's welcome evolution—away from a pre-1960s emphasis on highbrow folkloric preservation and from a related preference for decorous music strikingly lacking in rhythm, wit and sex—no label has made more of a difference than Arhoolie Records of El Cerrito, Calif. The little Bay Area label established in 1960 would find, record and spotlight such working, stomping artists as Fred McDowell in the blues, Clifton Chenier in zydeco, BeauSoleil and the Doucet family in cajun, the Campbell Brothers in sacred steel, and Flaco Jiménez in Tex-Mex Tejano, while bringing to the fore older, legacy acts, live or from recorded archives, in the same muscular, zestful mode—the Maddox Brothers and Rose, the Hackberry Ramblers, Mainer's Mountaineers, Big Mama Thornton, Lightnin' Hopkins, Lydia Mendoza. The range and focus on underexplored musical flavors were groundbreaking.
Arhoolie (the word refers to shouting-out-loud field hollers), the child of Chris Strachwitz, a music-struck German émigré, celebrated its 50-plus years last February in a three-day celebration that featured concerts at San Francisco's Freight & Salvage. Those shows are now on "They All Played for Us," a lavish 4-CD set with a hardbound book of commentary and colorful photography, released by the label last month. Arhoolie veterans are joined by such admiring, label-influenced roots-music stars as Ry Cooder, Taj Mahal and Peter Rowan on some 70 exuberant tracks.
At 81, the amiable Mr. Strachwitz, whose family relocated to the U.S. West Coast in 1947, recalls falling first for early jazz when seeing the Louis Armstrong-Billie Holliday film "New Orleans" as a teenager, then hearing everything from hardcore hillbilly to "Harlem Matinee" and the Serbo-Croatian hour on Los Angeles-area radio.
"I think I was lucky to be there," he said in a recent phone interview, "because a lot of people from Louisiana and Texas came that way, black and hillbilly, and they brought powerful music with them. It's that powerful rhythm that I really love, and that first attracted me to black music; I didn't listen to the lyrics as much as to the power of the piano, guitar and drums." That interest set Mr. Strachwitz against much of the previous folklorist grain.
"I had no intention of any of this being something 'historic'; I just loved the idea of making records. I even tried to put out some singles in the early days, with Lightnin' Hopkins and Big Mama Thornton, but I was just never any good at it. My models were Bob Geddins, a black guy from Texas who had various little labels set up in Oakland—he had a pressing plant and he taught me where to put a microphone—and a Mr. Jaxyson, pronounced 'Jackson,' who had a little label, named for himself, also in Oakland. He put out the funkiest records I've ever heard, recording people right off the street in this junk-filled storefront there." Among contacts Mr. Strachowitz made in the Bay Area, after moving to Berkeley to study under the G.I. Bill, was blues researcher Mack McCormick; their joint explorations led to Arhoolie's early recordings of the massively influential blues-revival "songster" Mance Lipscomb, of Big Joe Williams, and of Hopkins and McDowell.
Ace guitarist, roots-music star and producer Ry Cooder's salute to Arhoolie on the new set is a perfectly balanced pairing of an intense turn on Woody Guthrie's "Vigilante Man" with Sam the Sham and the Pharaoh's anything-but-dark "Wooly Bully." Mr. Cooder was in junior high, circa 1960, tiring of the Richard Dyer Bennett-era folk records his parents favored, when he encountered a new Big Joe Williams record from Arhoolie in a downtown Los Angeles record shop. "They had a little record player at that store," he recalled in a separate interview. "I put Big Joe on and it was 'Sloppy Drunk,' and I just said, 'There; this is the thing!' It was very physical, very intense; this guy just stomped it down to the bricks. It was fabulous. And I started watching for Arhoolie Records."
Later, he would join Mr. Strachwitz on some Texas field-recording trips: "Chris set a tempo that was hard to keep up with. 'Get your orange juice,' he'd say, and then we would drive 500 miles to see some accordion player. This guy could move it dawn to dark; he wore me out. His dedication was tremendous, and his ear was flawless."
The anniversary shows were in support of Mr. Strachwitz's special joy, the nonprofit Arhoolie Foundation, which, backed by private donations and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts, disseminates and preserves the earthy, energetic roots music he loves. The foundation is supporting documentary films, photo projects and, most ambitiously, cataloging, digitizing and making searchable online Mr. Strachwitz's collection of some 17,000 Mexican-American and Mexican 78rpm records, at the University of California's Strachwitz Frontera Collection.
Mr. Cooder recalls a time in the 1970s that he heard some unidentified Mexican accordion music on his car radio, called Mr. Strachwitz to see what it could have been, then spent days poring over records in the Arhoolie archive until he found it: "Chris was standing there, saying: 'This is good; this is no good. You'll like this; you won't like that.' And it was always true; he always steers you to the best things."
Mr. Strachwitz simply notes: "I don't think I ever had a plan. . . . I was just catching this music because I loved it, and I thought maybe somebody else would also, people who didn't have the chance to be there when I was."
Mr. Mazor, based in Nashville, writes about country and roots music for the Journal.


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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) -- Four Topeka men were arrested while trying to sell copper wire that authorities suspect was stolen.
Deputies first responded to Mid-States Materials LLC, 2 North 1700 Road, Lecompton, just before 8:30 a.m. Monday (9/10). They were called there on a report of criminal damage and theft. Deputies said perpetrators entered the property and cut an estimated 1,000 feet of copper wiring between a generator and the plant, as well as wiring from the plant structure itself. Estimated damage and loss are believed to be approximately $30,000.
A Mid-States employee notified salvage yards in the Topeka area of the incident and warned that the perpetrators may be attempting to sell copper wiring stolen from the business. A salvage yard then notified the Topeka Police Department that four men were attempting to sell copper wire at Advantage Metals, 1628 NW Gordon.
Topeka Police Officers and Sheriff Deputies arrested four men at Advantage Metals in connection with the copper theft and criminal damage, after the four men attempted to sell the copper wiring.
John D. Smith, 31; Frankie Lee Graham Jr., 31; Tyler Andrew Bodenhamer, 19; and Shawn Michael William, 19, all of Topeka, were transported to the law enforcement center and interviewed by investigators, then booked into the Shawnee County Jail at 2:30 p.m.
Each of the men was booked in connection with one felony count of theft and criminal damage to property. Williams, Graham and Smith also were booked in connection with one misdemeanor count each of criminal trespassing.


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Inside the natural history museums of the world are billions of animal and plant specimens from birds, fish and beetles to flowers, mushrooms and grasses, all stacked, stored and preserved in jars and collection drawers.
The rich and diverse collections could be critical to understanding how the Earth's biodiversity is changing in the face of a growing human footprint — if only the information were easily accessible.
A new online project, brought to life with the help of a team from the University of Colorado Boulder, is using citizen scientists to help solve the problem. Notes from Nature, www.notesfromnature.org, allows anyone with a curiosity for natural history, a computer and a little time to transcribe the often hand-scrawled tags attached to each specimen, which typically record the date, time and place where the plant or animal was collected, among other details.
"You can look at maps of the globe and you can see spots where we just don't know anything about vertebrates, let alone insects or plants or mollusks," said Robert Guralnick, associate professor in the department of ecology and evolutionary biology and CU-Boulder's point person on the Notes from Nature project. "We can fill in the gaps with these kinds of data that come from those drawers."
The concept that underpins Notes from Nature grew out of a collaboration among the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, the Natural History Museum of London, the South Eastern Regional Network of Expertise and Collections, or SERNEC, and University of California Berkeley's Calbug project, an umbrella for the nine major insect collections housed in California.
The vision was crafted into a reality by data-visualization specialists from Vizzuality and by Zooniverse, a web portal that already hosts online citizen science projects that allow the average person to comb through cosmic data in search of far-off planets, transcribe old ship logs to glean historical climate records, or listen to audio clips of nighttime bat calls to help identify and track the flying mammals.
"Our projects help answer research questions that can only be solved by a significant amount of human attention — they require people, not computers," said Arfon Smith, director of citizen science at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago and the technical lead for Zooniverse. "People have responded in a way that is truly great. There is an appetite for contributing to something real."
When Notes from Nature launched in late April, cyber citizen scientists had access to two collections for transcription: insects from Calbug and plants from SERNEC. In the future, the project plans to add the London museum's bird ledgers and possibly other museum collections as they become available.
The University of Colorado Museum of Natural History's zoology records have largely been entered into a database already. However, major digitization efforts are currently underway in the museum's botanical, entomological and paleontological collections, work that is being supported through a nationally funded initiative to increase access to museum records.
Almost immediately after the website went live, hundreds of people started transcribing thousands of records, contributing a person-year's worth of work in just a handful of days. A month in, more than 2,100 people have completed more than 101,000 transcriptions.
Guralnick, who is the curator of invertebrate zoology at CU-Boulder's museum, is working to determine the cost-benefit tradeoff of crowdsourcing the transcription of museum collections as well as checking the quality of the resulting data and monitoring the time it takes to do the transcriptions online.
Guralnick has yet to crunch numbers, but the overwhelming initial enthusiasm from citizen scientists is promising. "We think, even in the first week, we've paid it off," he said. "That's really cool."


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Helping Grow Healthy Kids: ACHRI Delta Garden Study Named a FoodCorps Host Site as Part of 10-State Launch
High-caliber organizations with demonstrated experience implementing farm-to-school and school garden programs selected as inaugural host sites for 2011
LITTLE ROCK, AR. (Dec. 6, 2010) – FoodCorps, a new national AmeriCorps school garden and farm-to-school service program, has named the Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute (ACHRI) Delta Garden Study as one of 10 institutions it will collaborate with to launch the initiative in 2011. The ACHRI Delta Garden Study was chosen to participate from a pool of more than 100 applicants across the nation.
FoodCorps will serve vulnerable children, with goals of improving access to healthy, affordable food and training young leaders for careers in food and agriculture.
When FoodCorps fires up in 2011, it will create jobs for Arkansans working in rural communities where the ACHRI Delta Garden Study will organize school gardens, according to Judith Weber, PhD, RD, the Delta Garden Study's principal investigator. She also is director of the Childhood Obesity Prevention Research Team located in the Center for Applied Research and Evaluation (CARE) Section of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics.
"What's exciting is that our selection as a FoodCorps collaborator means new money and new jobs in childhood obesity prevention and farm-to-school initiatives for this state," Weber said. "We competed with big-name institutions for this program, and it shows that Arkansas is at the forefront of innovative child health and nutrition programs."
In the spirit of service for healthier kids, FoodCorps will put 82 members on the ground in 10 states to work 139,400 hours during the 2011-2012 school year. Utilizing the public service model of AmeriCorps, FoodCorps leverages federal funds to place young adults in high-need communities, with the mission of improving children's education about, and access to, healthy food.
As a host site, the ACHRI Delta Garden Study will supervise the FoodCorps service members in Arkansas, creating six new jobs in the central and Delta regions of the state in 2011, with the potential to grow more jobs in subsequent years.
ACHRI is currently conducting the pilot phase of the $2 million USDA-funded Delta Garden Study. A cooperative agreement between ACHRI and the USDA Agricultural Research Service's Delta Obesity Prevention Research Unit, the project will build one-acre gardens on the campuses of 10 Arkansas schools over the next three years. The study is designed to show how building new gardens — complete with greenhouses, budding crops and composting areas — can help adolescents cultivate green thumbs, log more physical activity, eat healthier and connect with their schools.
Arkansas Surgeon General, Joe Thompson, MD, congratulated the ACHRI Delta Garden Study for being selected to participate in the FoodCorps program. "Arkansas is at the epicenter of the national movement to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic," he said.
FoodCorps service members will build and tend school gardens, conduct nutrition education, and increase the quality of the food served in the lunchroom. FoodCorps also aims to grow the next generation of farmers and food systems professionals through hands-on experience.
Service members will receive training and support from the FoodCorps national office, yet daily work will be directed by high-impact organizations working in their home communities. In a competitive selection process, the FoodCorps planning team reviewed 108 host site proposals submitted from 39 states and the District of Columbia. The proposals requested a combined 512 service members and offered partnerships with 1,240 groups. The 10 selected host sites all have proven records of success in improving the quality of school food, capacity to grow with FoodCorps across their region and compelling community need that service members will readily address.
"These organizations all demonstrated a clear commitment to combating childhood obesity through hands-on farm-to-school and school garden programs," said Debra Eschmeyer, a FoodCorps founder. "Essentially a domestic Peace Corps, FoodCorps is now poised for a fruitful first year."
The 2011-2012 FoodCorps host sites include:
As a pioneer in applying the proven model of national service to the widening epidemic of childhood obesity, FoodCorps and the 10 chosen host sites are poised to improve the wellbeing of thousands of children in their first year and millions more over the next decade.
For more information on FoodCorps and how to participate in the program, visit
FoodCorps is a national AmeriCorps program that focuses on service in rural, urban, and suburban school food systems that have children challenged with high rates of obesity and limited access to healthy foods. Service members will build and tend school gardens, conduct hands-on nutrition education experiences, and facilitate Farm to School programming that brings high quality local food into public schools. The program will serve vulnerable children, improving access to healthy, affordable school meals, and train a cadre of leaders for careers in food and agriculture. FoodCorps, a New York based nonprofit organization, was developed with funding from AmeriCorps and the WK Kellogg Foundation, in partnership with Occidental College, the National Farm to School Network, Slow Food USA, The National Center for Appropriate Technology, and Wicked Delicate, as part of an open planning process that engaged thousands of stakeholders from around the country.
Arkansas Children's Hospital is the only pediatric medical center in Arkansas and one of the largest in the United States serving children. The campus spans 28 city blocks and houses 316 beds, a staff of approximately 500 physicians, 80 residents in pediatrics and pediatric specialties and more than 4,000 employees. The private, nonprofit healthcare facility boasts an internationally renowned reputation for medical breakthroughs and intensive treatments, unique surgical procedures and forward-thinking medical research - all dedicated to fulfilling our mission of enhancing, sustaining and restoring children's health and development. ACH recently ranked No. 85 on FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For®. For more information, visit
ACHRI provides a research environment on the ACH campus to meet the needs of the UAMS faculty. Research scientists at ACHRI conduct clinical, basic science, and health services research for the purpose of treating illnesses, preventing disease and improving the health of children everywhere.
UAMS is the state's only comprehensive academic health center, with colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Related Professions and Public Health; a graduate school; a 540,000-square-foot hospital; a statewide network of regional centers; and six institutes: the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, the Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute, the Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy, the Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, the Psychiatric Research Institute and the Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging. It is the state's only Level 1 trauma center. UAMS has 2,836 students and 761 medical residents. It is the state's largest public employer with more than 10,000 employees, including nearly 1,150 physicians who provide medical care to patients at UAMS, Arkansas Children's Hospital, the VA Medical Center and UAMS' Area Health Education Centers throughout the state. Visit


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TEMPLE (February 1, 2013)—Investigators have identified a juvenile suspect in a fire last month at Temple High School and have forwarded the case to the County Attorney's Office, authorities said Friday.
The fire broke at around 2 p.m. on Jan. 22 in a bathroom and led to an evacuation of the school.
School officials told investigators they had extinguished another fire in a bathroom earlier in the day.
Temple's fire marshal, police and the school district investigated jointly.


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A woman of pristine breeding, Lady Rosalind Devine is also an unrepentant meddler and snoop which is why her brother refuses to leave her to her own devices while on his wedding trip. But Rosalind will not make things easy for any unseen, unwanted nursemaidand vows to use her considerable wiles to expose her mystery guardian.
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I am trying to implement something similar to the share feature on Dropbox that allows you to send an invite to Facebook friends.
You will need to log in/ create an account and have a shared folder to see it.
The feature only ever shows one Facebook dialogue which is to give it's app permissions - I don't know how it even manages to send a private message - from the research I've done this isn't even possible, and secondally, I don't know how it manages to achieve it without using a Facebook dialogue - it uses it's own modal box.
So far I have managed to pull a list of Facebook friends into a jquery ui autocomplete but don't know how to now send the private message to the selected friend now that I have their id.
The only way I could think of how to do this was to send the user an email at firstname.lastname@example.com but don't know how you attach the image, description, link etc like you do to a normal wall/timeline post.
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Anyone ever trade vehicles with someone?
I have a car which I'm possibly going to trade for another vehicle. Since me an the other person are basically assessing the value of our items equally, and no money exchanges hands, I'm not sure what to do about the price on a Bill of Sale. Technically, it's $0. But, the state (NY, in this case) will want to tax us on this.
Would they just use a KBB value? Should we use a realistic value for each Bill of Sale and hope to get taxed off that? Anyone ever dont this, or have any insight? I'm not happy about paying taxes on what's an even trade, but I know I'll have to.. but would prefer paying the least possible without being fraudulent :-)
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I would just ask the NY DMV, myself. In other places I've lived, there's provision for just this situation, and I don't see why they wouldn't also have some written procedure. You are neither gaining nor losing in this, no real profit accrues to either of you, and I suspect that there may be no sales tax due at all (but IANAL).
@shrdlu: I'd certainly ask them. But, this may actually happen tomorrow when they DMV is closed :-) I'd also not totally trust them, since my experience is that gov't agencies have their own best interests in mind, not mine. They want to make money, I want to save money :-) But, there doesn't seem to be any "trade" paperwork, or checkbox on anything I'm finding. Only that you can gift it, if it's a relative.
The NY DMV has this form http://dmv.ny.gov/forms/dtf802.pdf on the website. It seems to allow for trades.
I am in PA and there is a similar form here when a vehicle is sold/gifted for less than the market value. Years ago if you filled out the form, you did not pay tax here but I have no recent knowledge in PA or any at all for NY.
You might just want to make a up a reasonable $ amount in your favor of course and submit that if a value is required.
What I don't understand is why the government should get any money for tax on a used car as they already received it during the original purchase, seems like double dipping to me.
What if you just "sold" your car to him for $1.00, and he "sold" his car to you for $1.00?
@smallbigtall: Then they may go to the KBB, figuring we're just trying to get around paying any taxes.
@eeekdageek: That's what I'm thinking. Just put something reasonable as the value.
@pattiq: DTF-802 has a spot to say what the value of the traded item is. It looks like one for value of item you're trading and one for the item you're trading for. But, those values would have to match a bill of sale value, I'm sure.
It's the government. They want your money.
I mean, their money.
There are two legal transactions involved here. You to him, he to you.
Sales tax, etc is involved in each of both transactions.
If you don't tell the DMV droid you're buying a POS fixer upper, and you smarmily say the car is only worth a dollar, she has to auto charge you low blue book.
BTW, this is what killed the barter system and actual swap meets in Kalifornia.
We used to have craigslist kinda things, where you could post "I have a "X" and I want a "Y"; and sometimes someone with a "Z" could get in the middle and everybody would be happy.
Aholes invaded the "free" ones, so then came the paid access "clubs.
Well, the rat wingers weren't happy. "Unfair competition!" they said.
They then wanted access to all transactions, to charge each "client" with sales taxes, fees, fines, and "operating a business without a license" charges.
Nothing but crickets then.
A few fought, but you can't afford to win here.
I happen to live in NY state, and received a vehicle a while ago as a gift. I listed it as such on the form and paid no taxes. It had a KBB around $6k, don't know if it would be different if the value was listed higher.
@lparsons42: My assumption is a gift from a family member is viewed differently than a couple of people trading. But, I could be wrong. But, good to know you didn't have to pay any.
Obviously YMMV (pun intended) but I just asked my wife this question because she spent 15 years of hell working for the Arkansas DMV. According to her, in AR there would be no sales tax to pay if you each filled out a Bill of Sale for $0 dollars. The Bill of Sale is the document that AR uses to charge sales tax. Good luck!
Thanks for the comments folks. I'll see what happens today when the guy comes over, and if the trade happens.. what happens with the DMV :-)


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12 Jul 2011 7:20 AM #1
Ext 4 Twin Trigger?
Does anybody have an example of a twin trigger component using EXT JS 4?
I'm working on upgrading an existing application from EXT JS 3.x and have been trying to figure this out by extending a combo box and using the thread: http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthre...rm.ComboBoxAdd, but I'm fairly new to EXT JS and am not really sure what I need.
Any help would be very welcome.
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Did you ever get the twin trigger field to work in EXT 4?
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Trigger with 2 buttons
You can use simple Ext.form.field.Trigger and it's derived classes (e.g. comboboxes). Here is an example of trigger with 2 button:
Ext.define('MyTrigger',{ extend: 'Ext.form.field.Trigger', trigger1Cls: 'x-form-form-trigger', trigger2Cls: 'x-form-lookup-trigger', onTrigger1Click: function(){ //handler of first trigger button click }, onTrigger2Click: function(){ //handler of second trigger button click } });


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I try to solve this question but I don't know how.
given $ a_0 = \frac12 $ and for each $n\geq 1$: $$ |a_n-a_{n-1}| < \frac{1}{2^{n+1}} $$
show that $\{a_n\}$ converges and the limit is $a$ such that $0<a<1$
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I showed by cauchy that $ |a_m-a_n| < |a_m-a_{m-1}+a_{m+1}-...+a_{n+1}-a_n| < \frac{1}{2^{m+1}} + \frac{1}{2^{m}}+...+\frac{1}{2^{n+2}}$
by the sum of Geometric series, $q=2, a_1=\frac{1}{2^{m+1}}$ then $s_n=\frac{1}{2^{m+1}}[\frac{2^{m-n}-1}{2-1}]$, so $$\frac{1}{2^{m+1}} + \frac{1}{2^{m}}+...+\frac{1}{2^{n+2}} = \frac{1}{2^{m+1}}[\frac{2^{m-n}-1}{2-1}] = \frac{1}{2^{n+1}}-\frac{1}{2^{m+1}}\leq\frac{1}{2^{n+1}}$$
now, it converges!
Can someone help me please to show that the limit is $a$ with $0<a<1$?
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No Recess as Punishment?
Q: As a teacher, I believe that recess privileges give children a needed break and a chance to interact socially. But I support the use of "staying in at recess" for behavioral problems. I know that some teachers use this to teach responsibility for forgetting a paper from home, forgetting a parent's signature, etc. Can you think of alternative ideas for teaching responsibility, or is "no recess" the most effective?
A: For a child with behavior problems, going outside for recess is especially important. The fresh air and time away from the classroom often helps her focus in the classroom. However, restricting the student by having her stand by the building or stay by the side of the teacher on duty is a good option for punishment, because it gives her a time-out to reflect on her bad behavior and the ensuing consequences.
If the child's problem is forgetting papers at home or failing to get a parent's signature on something, then you could have her write a letter to her parents and ask for help remembering things and getting organized. If forgetting things is a recurring problem and poor work habits are the issue, you could make a schedule with the student. The schedule could include details on where to put completed homework, where the backpack goes each night, and any other helpful information.
Our job as teachers is not to punish children, but rather to help them be successful. Sometimes, we have to go to extraordinary measures to help them learn life skills like organization, but it's worth it if they become responsible adults.
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After teaching in California for nearly ten years, Barbara Callaghan moved to New Hampshire in 1985 and became a principal. After 10 years as a principal, she returned to teaching, her first love and true vocation.


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The 5 Most Shockingly Insane Modern Dictators
#2. Kim Il Sung -- Eternal President of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
If you ever wondered how North Korea's Kim Jong Il got so crazy, wonder no more. With a father like Kim Il Sung, it is a wonder that Jong Il is not in a straitjacket and commanding a roomful of troll dolls to be his army.
Via The Kremlin
We blame his friends.
Kim Il Sung was the first president of North Korea after World War II, in 1945. His appointment by the Soviets demonstrated exactly how little they cared about the Koreans, because Kim wasn't very Korean at all (he had only eight years of formal schooling, and all of it in China -- he spoke so little Korean that he had to be coached during his first speech). The Soviets didn't realize he was nuts until he started the Korean War, which accomplished nothing beyond destroying half the country. And then, the man went truly apeshit.
He told his people that during WWII, he had taken part in more than 100,000 battles over 15 years. That computes to roughly 20 battles a day. Oh, and WWII lasted only six years. Do we even need to mention that in reality he hardly saw any combat in WWII? He also said that he could turn sand into rice and cross rivers on leaves, believing himself to be some sort of Korean Jesus.
If Jesus had cannons.
Kim then made 20 different "Kim Il Sung Badges" for people to wear, so that different classes could wear different badges. He had someone write a "Song of General Kim Il Sung." The first two bars were used as intervals in Korean radio and television, and in 2005, the Korean space program blasted that song into space, giving warning to aliens about the terribly contagious stupidity we have on Earth. In other words, he came up with the North Korean tradition of making propaganda a priority above food, education and sanity.But don't worry, he got what was coming to him ...
What happened to him?
Oh, wait. Kim died a fat and happy man in 1994.
Kim circa 1946.
Kim after he died.
A 10-day mourning period ensued, and hundreds of thousands of brainwashed Koreans came from all over the country to cry dramatically at the body. Thousands committed suicide, as obviously, there was no more reason to live.
In 1998, Kim Jong Il posthumously made his father the Eternal President of the Republic. Clearly, he could never fill those shoes.
#1. Mao Zedong -- Chairman of the Communist Party of China
Mao Zedong became leader of the People's Republic of China when it was founded in 1949. We previously explained how he was responsible for one of the most disastrous policies in world history, the "Great Leap Forward." Basically, it entailed pulling all of his people off of farming to have them try to mill steel in their backyards instead. (Note: You cannot make steel in your back yard.) Millions starved.
That is, unfortunately, the tip of the Mao Zedong crazy iceberg.
We know the people in this image are mostly madmen, but check out that dude with the crazy long goatee. What a straight-up badass.
In the wake of that disaster, Mao's power was considerably shaken, so much so that two of his underlings, Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping, were able to wrest power from him. This, of course, infuriated Mao, who promptly began another disastrous campaign: the Cultural Revolution, which literally was a war against smart people.
Under the pretext that bourgeois elements were permeating a classless society, Mao banished his political opponents, such as Liu and Deng, to the countryside. Soon, however, Mao's definition of political opponents stretched to encompass "anyone who is smart." Universities were closed down, and professors and students were sent to the countryside to be "re-educated" through labor. The word "intellectual" became an insult. The only genius was declared to be Mao himself (people were taught to repeat the phrase, "Chairman Mao is a genius, everything the Chairman says is greatly true; one of the Chairman's words will override the meaning of ten thousand of ours.")
"Also, his image absolutely will not end up littering the floors of vintage shops worldwide."
And then there was Lei Feng. He was a completely unremarkable soldier who died in an unremarkable fashion after getting hit by a telephone pole. But Mao arbitrarily decided to declare him the nation's greatest hero. Various staged photos supposedly depicted him doing good deeds, and stories of his heroics were inserted into textbooks in every school. A diary belonging to him was "found," and it contained nothing but flowery praises for Mao.
Doves and submachine guns. China gets it.
Then Mao recruited high school students to his cause, calling them the Red Guards. Mao tasked these teenagers with correcting the bourgeois elements in society and effectively gave them a legal blank check to do it by whatever means they chose. This went exactly how you'd expect -- they started ransacking people's houses and beating them if they were found to own anything even remotely Western, such as ties.
As he got older, Mao started worrying about his own mortality and subscribing to the Taoist belief that having sex with virgins lengthens one's lifespan. Young girls were brought from all over the country to help him on this monumental task. Mao often had fivesomes or sixsomes and watched nude underwater ballet shows.
Even Enver Hoxha bows to Mao's monumental crazy.
He still died in 1976. We have to be honest, we're kind of surprised that didn't work.
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After I have upgrade to ubuntu 12.04, two days ago, I can't enter. After enter my login the screen shows a message: The system chrashed, one apps actual or former have failed. an then the screen gets in black. Help me, please. Thank you.
A lot of people have the same problem.
You will need to delete the compiz and compiz-1 directories in your home .config directory and re-boot. The files will be re-created when you log on.
If you can't get a terminal session on your upgraded system, boot a live CD with Ubuntu and delete the compiz directories on your hard disk; then remove the CD and boot from the hard disk.