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There have been a number of threads in this forum on the subject of assessment and I have no desire to repeat the contents of any of them. In fact they could probably be usefully merged and placed here.
Instead I encourage posters to read them and my summary of what I regard is good practice below.
I didnt come into teaching to assess I came into it to teach. At the start I even wondered whether marking work served any purpose at all. My role was rather to inspire and enthuse in the classroom and to scaffold the reading and learning of my students so they would go away and do the real learning on their own. In principle I still hold true to this ideal. Most real learning does take place outside the classroom. Our job is to inspire the little buggers to do it and also to direct them to the most appropriate learning resources to support them. (Incidentally this is one of the reasons I am so enthusiastic about the hypertext curriculum).
However as the shadows lengthen in ones career there does come a time when you have to mark something. After the first few hundred thousand essays and books I became of the view that marking only appeared pointless because of the way we do it (then it was marks out of 10 or the mystical A-E classification). It is important to let the students know what the grades they are given mean, and how to travel from one grade to another. In the context of the National Curriculum it seemed sensible to me to work within the framework laid down in law. Thus I use the Attainment Target as the basis of my assessment of work in key Stage 3. In the absence of any attempt by the DFES to write the Attainment Target in accessible English I duly translated it for student use thus. The first question I ask pupils when I observe classes in my department is what level are you on, followed by what does this mean?
I try always to make sure that assessment takes part after some meaningful historical enquiry. The logic here being that the skills we are trying to develop are skills of the historian and as such are best assessed in the context of the students doing some history. Not for me then paper and paper tests of the What can you see in the sources? Its a soldier TICK level 3 using sources! A bigger load of nonsense I could not conceive of and yet this sort of skill isolation and assessment which still seems very popular in some schools and in many textbooks.
Indeed the value of testing and examining at all would appear to be severely limited given that ultimately you can only assess memory by such a method. Memory of facts or memory of how to answer sources questions or reliability questions etc.
Key Stage 3 students in my classes have 3 major assignment a year through which I assess each strand of the AT at least twice each year. An example of a Year 8 one can be found here. These are major pieces of work and as such take a great deal of time and thought to mark. Students are taught through each section using a broad a range of methods as my small brain can come with, but at the end of the cycle pupils know that they have to present their work for assessment. I also find that I get a much better response setting extended homeworks of this nature than I do with the weekly grind of exercises and textbook activities.
Pupils also know they are going to receive detailed feedback, assessment levels and targets to move forward at the end of the process. Given the time consuming nature of this I do not expect my department or myself to do very much assessment or marking other than this. Books are checked for homework and comments written on them.
As a nation we are hung up on assessment to a large extent. We are rapidly approaching the time when there is no teaching time in any year group at all in term 3 as we will be too busy sitting and marking external tests. This I suppose is our choice however lets recognise it for what it is an exercise in managerial control of schools and teachers by government. Tests do not educate students, teachers do.
Finally I would encourage teachers to make sure their assessment does not impinge on the precious little time they have to teach.
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Air Supply, the soft rock duo whose ballads scored eight Top 10 hits in the 1980s, will fill the Samala Showroom with heartfelt lyrics and moving melodies when its North American tour reaches the Chumash Casino Resort at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21. Tickets for the show are $25, $35 and $45.
Best known for hits such as "Lost in Love," "All Out of Love" and "The One That You Love," Air Supply has sold millions of records and continues to perform more than 150 shows worldwide each year.
The group was formed by singer/songwriter Graham Russell and vocalist Russell Hitchcock when the pair met in Australia in the 1970s. Air Supply received its big break when famed record producer Clive Davis signed the group to Arista Records, and its first release with the company, "Lost in Love" ignited the U.S. music scene in 1980.
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"The One That You Love," the title track from Air Supply's follow-up album in 1981, became the group's first No. 1 hit in the U.S. pop chart. "Here I Am," "Sweet Dreams" and "Even the Nights Are Better" completed Air Supply's rare feat of posting seven consecutive of Top 5 hits.
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CHARLOTTE � The Carolina Panthers have recently begun a push for rookie linebacker Luke Kuechly to become the NFL�s 2012 defensive rookie of the year.
Kuechly�s effort in Sunday�s 17-6 win over the Oakland Raiders will do nothing to slow that down.
CHARLOTTE � The Carolina Panthers have recently begun a push for rookie linebacker Luke Kuechly to become the NFL�s 2012 defensive rookie of the year.
Kuechly�s effort in Sunday�s 17-6 win over the Oakland Raiders will do nothing to slow that down.
And Kuechly�s best came after the first personal foul penalty of his career.
With the Panthers leading 7-0 early in the second quarter, Kuechly was flagged for a personal foul for hitting a �defenseless receiver� when he tackled Oakland�s Darrius Heyward- Bey at the end of a 20-yard reception.
Replays showed Heyward- Bey looking at Kuechly as he made the shoulder to chest hit.
�They�re going to throw some flags and that�s football,� Kuechly said of the penalty, which moved Oakland into Carolina territory on what became the Raiders� first scoring drive of the game. �It�s frustrating because it�s 15 yards and it�s a penalty on you. I wanted to make up for it.�
Make up for it Kuechly did by making six of the next seven tackles in the drive.
Coach Ron Rivera and Kuechly�s teammates certainly felt the rookie was extra motivated after the penalty even if Kuechly said that wasn�t the case.
�His motor runs tremendously,� Rivera said of Kuechly . �All Luke needs is a little bit of spark and that was a little bit of spark. He is a tremendous football player; he really is. He is everything we thought he would be and more.�
Said quarterback Cam Newton: �The player that has stepped up the most in my opinion is Luke Kuechly . Luke has been around the ball and is playing at a high level like something I�ve never seen.�
Kuechly was credited with 13 tackles, including nine solo stops and a tackle for a loss. He also had a 25-yard interception return.
It gives him 151 stops for the season � or just behind the three top NFL rookie tackles leaders since 1991. San Francisco�s Patrick Willis is the record-holder with 174 in 2007, followed by Houston�s DeMeco Ryans with 156 in 2006 and Miami�s Zach Thomas with 154 in 1996. Ryans and Willis were back-to-back Associated Press defensive rookies of the year.
Newton�s penalty
Based on a strict interpretation of NFL rules, Newton could�ve and maybe should�ve been ejected when he bumped head referee Jerome Boger in the middle of the third quarter after he was hit by Oakland safety Tyvon Branch as he threw a pass to Brandon LaFell .
Boger announced Newton had been called for an unsportsmanlike penalty for �bumping an official.�
Replays clearly showed contact between Newton and Boger, though Boger said afterward �I misspoke when I said he bumped the official. What I was penalizing him for was disrespectfully addressing the official. There was some contact between he and I, but it wasn�t of a malicious nature.�
Newton opened his postgame news conference by saying he apologized to Boger .
�It was just in the heat of the moment,� Newton said. �I apologized again so the next time I see him, we�ll be on good terms.�
Raiders defensive tackle Tommy Kelly says the Raiders were gunning for Newton after the Panthers took out quarterback Carson Palmer.
Oakland got several shots in on Newton, including the one that prompted Carolina's second-year quarterback to bounce up from the ground and confront Boger .
Palmer left late in the first quarter when Panthers defensive end Greg Hardy slammed into him from behind as Palmer was setting up to throw. Officials penalized Hardy for leading with his helmet.
Matt Leinart replaced Palmer.
The Panthers inactives for Sunday�s game were quarterback Jimmy Clausen, wide receiver David Gettis, running back Jonathan Stewart, linebacker James Anderson, defensive tackle Sione Fua and offensive linemen Geoff Hangartner and Hayworth Hicks.
It means Stewart (ankle) and Anderson (back) have missed the last three games with injuries.
Smith�s numbers
With Sunday�s four-catch, 45-yard effort, Steve Smith has caught a pass in 90 consecutive games (a streak that dates to 2006) and continues to climb the NFL all-time rankings.
Smith has 769 career catches to rank 27th all-time in NFL history and 11,379 career yards receiving to rank 25th all-time in NFL history.
Break-even record
With victories over San Diego and Oakland in back-to-back weeks, the Carolina Panthers finish the season with a 2-2 record against the AFC West.
It marks the third time the Panthers have played the AFC West � they�ll meet AFC East teams next season � and gives them a 7-5 record in those contests since the NFL split teams in eight, four-team divisions in 2002.
The Panthers are 3-5 against the AFC East, 5-7 against the AFC North and AFC South.
Newton�s rushing
Before the last five games, having Newton as the team�s rushing leader usually meant a loss for the Panthers.
But with Newton leading Carolina in rushing on Sunday with 60 yards, the Panthers are 3-1 in the last four games he�s led the team in rushing (Philadelphia, Kansas City, Atlanta, Oakland) � and 4-7 overall in the past two seasons.
Home finale
Winning Sunday�s 2012 home finale means Carolina is now 72-72 all-time at Bank of America Stadium.
This year the team finished with a 3-5 home record, with wins in the opener (New Orleans) and in the final two contests (Atlanta, Oakland).
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Naming Fort Myers Beach their first home on U.S. soil since marrying in 2004, U.K.-born Ursula and Richard Cooper are quite the couple. They've been in the travel and entertainment business all their lives; those two passions have intertwined around this couple to create the perfect entrepreneurial endeavor a hands-on concierge travel company that takes guests on the "back-road/side" tours of which most jet-setters miss out.
Named URTravels, Ursula and Richard (well-known as Richie C., as in the local singing and dancing entertainer performing at the latest nightclubs and resorts) have always had a passion for travel. In fact, the duo has organized a large group of Richie C. friends and fans on an annual Richie C. cruise that sails around the Caribbean and beyond. Aside from the cruise, as Ursula hails from Cork, Ireland, and Richie C. from England, the two always enjoyed visiting their homeland annually.
"First, it started with a few friends and fans of Richard, asking if they can join us on our trip out to Ireland, and we said of course, please join us," Ursula explained. "Then, the next year, more friends and fans asked to join, and then more and more, and it became a big and fun excursion for a great group of people. We take care of all the plans and travel, taking them on a 'detour' trip to Ireland, Scotland and England these aren't cookie cutter trips? seeing things that are usually missed on standard tours. You're really meeting the characters of the country, and every night, there's music and dancing and song."
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Above, a travel group of URTravels, at the lakes of Killarney, Ireland, with Fort Myers Beach residents including Jim and Sue Herron and Nick and Linda Dundee, as well as many residents from Bayside Estates. Photo courtesy RICHARD COOPER.
In fact, the U.K. tours have become so popular, URTravels has expanded to two trips, and just added a very special Tuscan Valley, Italy tour, enjoying the sights, sounds and tastes of chocolate, olive oil and wine.
"Our first trip to Ireland this year is a very spiritual one Sept. 4 to 12 through Galway, Killarney, Kinsale and Dublin, and includes a visit to Our Lady of Knock shrine," Ursula said. "Anything our guests would like to see, we are here to take them. If they want to know the best place to purchase Waterford Crystal, hand-crafted crosses or anything else, we'll take them there. We're at their service 24 hours a day before and during the trip, to make sure you have the most memorable trip of your life. I'll have guests call at 3 a.m. asking for assistance to connect to their families overseas through Skype anything we can do, we'll do for them."
Everything but the airfare is included in the price of a ticket, from the luxury travel coaches, Irish-born-and-bred trip historians, admission to most of the attractions and five-star meals to the first-class lodging and 24-hour concierge assistance.
The cost for the first nine-day Irish excursion is $1,758 per person.
The second "Spring Fling" trip is a broad overview of the most famous sights of Ireland, traveling through Shannon, Killarney, Cork (the gourmet capital of the world) and Dublin, Sept. 12 to 20, seeing St Patrick's Cathedral, kissing the Blarney Stone and even an all-inclusive Medieval evening buffet in an authentic Irish castle. It also includes a tour trip to Cobh, the last stop for the Titanic before its unforgettable journey across the Atlantic.
"It's a beautiful museum. You feel like you are really back in time. They have such wonderful artifacts, with remnants/letters of people who wrote to their families before setting sail," Ursula said. "These trips are so meaningful, and also so fun. Really, it's whatever our guests want to see, and we're there 24/7 to make sure that happens."
The Spring Fling trip is $1,788 per person, again, airfare not included.
"We really take them full-circle on these trips. For those with ancestry in the U.K., we take them to see their past, see where their families came from. And then the Titanic museum. It really puts so much in perspective. It's a true journey," Ursula said. "And the nights always end with so much fun, folklore, singing and dancing. We know most of the hotel owners, so we can get better prices for our guests than many travel agencies."
Following their U.K. tours, Ursula and Richie C. are hosting an Italian tour through the Tuscan region, labeled the "Wine, Olive Oil and Chocolate Tour," Oct. 26 to Nov. 5, followed by a 16-day trans-Atlantic cruise back home, Nov. 5 to 21.
"Our guests wanted to go further, so we've created this lovely trip to Italy. You'll travel and taste the famous vineyards of the Tuscan valley, as well as see the amazing sights of this beautiful country, including Alba, Asti, Pisa, Lucca, Chianti, Pienza, Assisi, San Gimignano and Rome," Ursula said.
The nine-day Tuscan trip is $2,100. Ursula and Richard plan to offer a local complimentary Tuscan wine and cheese gathering to preview and pre-explore what the trip will feature. Call the duo for the official venue and date, 239-243-0792.
The 16-day trans-Atlantic cruise from Rome to Fort Lauderdale, starts at $1,029.
Last on the list of scheduled trips is the one that started it all: The Richie C. Cruise, an eight-day getaway through the Caribbean aboard the Royal Caribbean's "Independence of the Seas" Jan. 17 to 25.
Enjoy all the fun the Caribbean has to offer, as well as the singing and dancing entertainment for which Richie C. is so well known, plus souvenir gifts."
"We already have many guests from the beach booked, and there is still room for more," he said.
Tickets for the cruise start at $675. Be sure to visit URTravels.com for the complete lineup of all of these great trips abroad. For further information, call 239-243-0792 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
"We just love making our guests' longtime wishes come true," Ursula concluded. "Recently, a Fort Myers Beach woman's wish was to celebrate her 80th birthday in an Irish castle. We took her and her family out there and she saw everything she wanted to see all her life, and it was magnificent. These are memories that really last a lifetime!"


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The United States remains in the top spot, with 30 percent of global arms exports, the institute found. Russia was second with 26 percent.
Germany with 7 percent of the volume and France with 6 percent were ranked third and fourth, respectively.
China's rise in the rankings knocked the United Kingdom out of the top five.
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On 2013-10-03, the network went down. We spent 2 hours of troubleshooting the equipment, before we managed to get a patch going from the MonkeyBrains antennae to the WiFi. As of 17:02 2013-10-03, there is a lame D-Link router in between.
With the patch in place, and the WiFi being up regardless of whether or not any of the switches are online, I proposed we redo ALL the network infrastructure. Here's how I plan to do it.
Simply put, I want there to be 3 internal networks.
* Stallion/Minotaur * Computer Terminals for Laser Cutter/3D Printers * User Network
Network Information[edit]
This network will be what it says it's for. On this network, all essential equipment will be on this network.
Computer Terminals for Laser Cutter/3D Printers[edit]
All the dedicated terminals will be on this network, and possibly the classrooms
User Network[edit]
The user network will be anyone that connects to the WiFi, or plugs into the Ethernet.
The user network will be locked down, throttled, and filtered. hahahahahaha no Maybe not filtered or locked down, but throttled.
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Y) Locate antennae connection Y) Go up on the roof Y) Find the antennae Y) Follow the cord down into the space Y) Locate it's connection to the switch Y) Create temporary patch independent of switches for WiFi Y) Disconnect WiFI from switch Y) Disconnect Antennae from switch Y) Install a temporary firewall in front of the Antennae Y) Patch the Antennae through to the WiFi Y) Connect a LAN Port from the firewall to the switch(To keep Ethernet lines live) =) Equip Stallion2 =) Add Network Interfaces Y) Add to server rack *) Configure Stallion2 Y) Root it/Reimage *) Install/Configure *) DHCP *) DNS *) IP router *) Bandwidth throttler *) IPtables *) Squid3(?) *) Disconnect all networking except for patch *) Down with the switches!(As in turning them off, not tossing them out) *) Migrate all equipment to a single rack *) Either the one up top, or the one Pony is on *) Install a switch for ISP(s) *) Find a suitable switch *) Plug our ISP(s) into it *) Plug into Stallion2 *) Organize all Ethernet cables *) Sort by where they are going to *) Ziptie groups together *) Label *) Plug everything in *) Connect all the Ethernet cables *) Deploy Stallion2 *) Press the power button *) TaDa! *) Enjoy new and improved internet!


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PHOENIX (AP) Opponents pitch around Paul Goldschmidt at every opportunity.
The Miami Marlins had little choice Wednesday, and the All-Star first baseman made them pay.
Goldschmidt doubled in the last two of Arizona's three runs in the 10th inning, and the Diamondbacks rallied to beat Miami 4-3 to take two of three in the series.
Miami had taken a 3-1 lead in the 10th on Donovan Solano's two-run double off Brad Ziegler (4-1), who got the victory.
In a nine-pitch at-bat, Aaron Hill opened the Arizona 10th with a pinch-hit single off Steve Cishek. Ender Inciarte walked on four pitches, then David Peralta's RBI single cut the lead to 3-2.
On the next pitch, Goldschmidt hit one to the left-center gap for his major league-best 35th double and his fifth career walk-off hit.
''He's had to be real patient,'' Arizona manager Kirk Gibson said. ''He got up there in a situation where they had to throw to him, and he really stung it.''
Goldschmidt said he was just trying to get the tying run home from third.
''You've got a guy at third and nobody out, a chance to tie the game,'' he said. ''You just try to put the ball in play. You're trying to hit it hard, but I just tried to remind myself there's a lot of ways to score that guy. You try not to put too much pressure on yourself.''
Cishek (4-5) blew his third save in 23 opportunities.
''It just seems like the couple of times he's had struggles, it's just been up in the zone,'' Miami manager Mike Redmond said. ''He has to throw strikes. That's pretty much the key to any closer and today he just wasn't able to do that.''
Nathan Eovaldi blanked Arizona on two hits and nursed a 1-0 lead through seven innings before giving up a leadoff triple to Didi Gregorius in the eighth. Nick Ahmed singled on the next pitch for his first major league RBI to tie it 1-all.
It appeared Miami was headed for its second final-inning win in a row, after Marcell Ozuna's two-out, two-run homer in the ninth gave the Marlins a 2-1 victory Tuesday night.
Adeiny Hechavarria led off the 10th with a single off the glove of third baseman Martin Prado and advanced to second on Jeff Mathis' sacrifice bunt. Pinch-hitter Reed Johnson struck out before an intentional walk brought up Solano, who was recalled from Triple-A New Orleans on June 25.
Solano doubled to the left-field corner, bringing both runners home to make it 3-1 for Cishek, who earned the save Tuesday night.
''That's a tough one to swallow,'' Redmond said. ''We've had a few of those. We've got to lock that down.''
Arizona tied it in the eighth after right fielder Giancarlo Stanton made a diving attempt on Gregorius' sinking liner and the ball got past him, rolling to the fence.
Eovaldi left after Ahmed's tying hit, and pinch-hitter Cody Ross singled off reliever Mike Dunn. The runners advanced on Inciarte's sacrifice bunt, Goldschmidt was walked intentionally to load the bases and Miguel Montero ended the inning by bouncing out to second.
Eovaldi went seven innings plus two batters, allowing a run on four hits.
Josh Collmenter held Miami scoreless through five. But in the sixth, Christian Yelich and Solano singled with one out before Stanton hit a sacrifice fly to center.
Ozuna doubled to lead off the seventh, extending his hitting streak to 15 games. He was stranded, though, when Collmenter fanned Hechavarria and Mathis, and Eovaldi lined out softly to first.
Collmenter gave up one run and seven hits in seven innings, striking out six and walking one.
NOTES: Stanton was 0 for 11 in the series and is 3 for 24 through six games on the road trip. ... Mathis struck out three times, twice with runners in scoring position. ... Both teams have Thursday off. The Marlins wrap up their nine-game, cross-country trip with three games against the Mets in New York. Henderson Alvarez (6-3, 2.27 ERA) starts Friday's opener against Mets RHP Zack Wheeler (4-8, 4.07). ... Arizona plays a weekend series in San Francisco. The Diamondbacks' Mike Bolsinger (1-5, 5.13 ERA) faces Giants RHP Tim Lincecum (8-5, 3.91) in Friday night's opener.


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Tony Gaud has been entertaining people at clubs, theatres, colleges, corporate events, on screen and on the radio for over 20 years. A veteran comedian, Tony Gaud has worked with such acts as Tom Papa, Ron White, Ralphie May, Pablo Francisco, Sommore, Aries Spears and many others. In 2001 and 2002, he toured nationally with the legendary Jackie Mason. Tony was selected Best Up & Coming Comic in Tampa Bay (Creative Loafing's Best of the Bay Issue, 2003).
Tony has appeared on The Comedy Network in Yuk Yuk's Great Canadian Laugh Off (2007) and was named regional Finalist of Comedy Central's Open Mic Fight (2007). He has performed at the Tampa Bay Comedy Festival (2007); The Cleveland Comedy Festival(2010) Laughing Skull Comedy Fest prelims(2010) and has been seen in numerous commercials including: The Melting Pot, CBS Sportsline.com, Hungry Howie's, Baynews9, Reeve's Import Auto, Sonny's Real Pit BBQ. He was also a weekly guest co-host on 1010AM 'The Buzz' (2003-2004)
The working-class comedian invites you to share the triumphs and failures of an eternally sarcastic optimist. It's hard not to be drawn in to his misguided world once he gets your attention with his animated facial expressions and smooth delivery. It's reality-based comedy that inspires you to laugh at things you're not supposed to find funny. The show is considered suitable for college and corporate audiences ; is rated PG-13 or R, depending on the environment and the clients' request.
He's been seen at venues including the Improv, Funny Bone, Gotham at the Club TI, Players Theater
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Ask Tommy Lee Jones about his cantankerous performance as radical Republican Thaddeus Stevens in Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" and the veteran performer bristles. Perhaps mistaking the question for a personal comment, the Harvard-educated, Oscar-winning actor feigns ignorance: "Cantankerous? I don't know what the meaning of that word is!"
He paused, adding: "And I hear that word all the time."
If the "No Country for Old Men" star has been hearing the C-word more than usual lately, it's likely due to Jones' spirited portrayal of the fiery abolitionist congressman in the acclaimed biopic, which arrived in theaters earlier this month featuring Daniel Day-Lewis as America's 16th president.
Jones brings a lascerating intensity to Stevens — the power-brokering chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and a key figure in helping pass the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery — stealing nearly every scene in which he appears. And despite the actor's total disavowal of the awards season politicking process, Oscar whisperers have already begun to handicap Jones' shot at a supporting actor nomination.
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Xan Spencer necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
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New Delhi: The Delhi unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party said Monday it was gear up for the next phase of campaigning for the assembly polls due in November.
The party had put on hold all the major decisions till Sep 29 Vikas Rally, which was addressed by party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi.
"After the grand success of Vikas Rally on Sep 29, the party's assembly poll campaign would now move on to the assembly segment level. The BJP has identified five key issues to focus on in the coming days which are power, water, inflation, corruption and women's safety," said Delhi BJP chief Vijay Goel.
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To sum it all up, AB 284 will delay the foreclosure process. How? By increasing the requirements necessary for lenders to foreclose. In light of all the robo-signing and the increased investigations of 14 major lenders for foreclosure fraud, this Bill is meant to be one of the solutions to this ridiculous problem.
While this most likely will expose fraud and give homeowners the ability now to obtain information on who is holding their mortgage, increasing paperwork and having it recorded through the county clerk is simply going to create a huge back up in the system. With various budget cuts, it's unlikely that the clerk's office is going on a hiring frenzy to keep up with all the work.
The number of foreclosure filings for Clark County have already significantly dropped in the past month since the bill went into effect, literally from once were thousands of filings a month now down to hundreds.
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Adam Scott to Banish his Broomstick December 04 2012
Adam Scott and his Broomstick/ Getty Images Although any potential banning of anchored putters by the Royal & Ancient and USGA is unlikely to be enforced before 2016, Adam Scott is obviously keen to make the adjustment to sooner rather than later by banishing his Broomstick for a practice round with a conventional putter. Adam is practicing for the Emirates Australian Open at at The Lakes Golf Club in Sydney, coincidentally with Tom Watson who is in favor of the ban on the Broomstick. Tom said he endorses the ban with mixed emotions citing this reason; " I say that with mixed emotions, "This broomstick stroke is not a stroke of golf. That's not a stroke but it makes it easier to play. My son Michael, with a conventional putting stroke, he couldn't make it from two feet half the time, but he went to a belly putter and he makes everything. The game is fun to him now, so there lies the danger: Do we take the ability for people to have fun away? Do we go to two sets of rules, where some people can use long putters in certain competitions, but the PGA Tour maybe can't? So there's a dilemma there." It would seem that Tom is confused himself about what this rule change could do to golf generally. I have said previously that there is going to be trouble enforcing this rule at the local level. A player is going to call his opponent for anchoring, and the accused is going to reply, no I didn't. This can only bring discontent and bad feelings out on the course, and that is not a good or healthy scenario. Tom went on recount what Ernie Els said after his win at The Open; ""I thought Ernie Els said it perfectly after he won last year's Open championship, he was asked: 'Why did you go with the long putter Ernie?' and he said: 'I'm cheating like the rest of them are'. Ernie's a great player and he knows the difference between doing it the conventional way versus trying to do it with an anchored putter. The arc of your putter doesn't change as much. He knows that difference and he knows it's not right." The thing is every player has had the option to use the long putters if they wish, if it so much easier with a long putter, why haven't they all swapped over ? I say lets banish the ban and get on and play golf, everyone is welcome at our golf course, Paraparaumu Beach Golf Club. Make them welcome at your club, for the good of the game. But if you are considering a new putter check out the White Dragon Putter, it is set to become a feature of putting in the near future, for more information email email@example.com.


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ROFLcon: THE LOVE SONG OF AMBER LEE ETTINGER
By Mark A. Shiffrin
NEW YORK, 12 FEBRUARY 2009 - "I got a crush on Obama Girl." That says a lot about ROFLcon, celebrating its first anniversary by holding ROFLThing NYC, a conference on the Culture of the Internet, (as contrasted with this publication's diet of Culture discussed on the Internet). This conclave of geeks - featuring people who have developed Internet prominence for themselves or their creations, along with wannabes, will bes, and fellow travelers - came together in TriBeCa in a delightfully eccentric synergy on a Saturday afternoon so frigid that it must have left the poor coat check wondering why the fates conspired to force the participants to keep their coats on indoors.
There was Obama Girl, the lovely Amber Lee Ettinger, a former lingerie model who achieved great renown lip synching the song "I Got a Crush on Obama." It became quite a viral hit on YouTube, with millions of downloads, and has given substance to the website Barely Political, as well as a bit of a boost to President Obama in what has proved to be the most successful marketing campaign yet in the 21st Century.
On Amber, more to come, but first there is Ian Spector, Brown University senior, founder of a campy website with sophomoric humor (probably appropriately developed his sophomore year) addressing the mythology of Chuck Norris - the B actor with a lantern jaw and a martial arts facility - star of what has to be George Walker Bush's favorite TV show, Walker, Texas Ranger . Ian wrote a bestseller about Norris and is also a symbol of young Internet entrepreneurs on the make. He spoke at last year's first ROFLcon and networked at this conference, where he greeted me at the after party at a SoHo hookah bar where the traffic in tech ideas was thicker than the smoke. That's part of the ROFLcon ethos, the earnest and fun spirit of "Hey, kids! We have a barn! We can all sing and dance! Let's put on a show!" Everywhere an idea, a discussion, an air of anticipation that something new is about to come and an interest in being present at the creation.
There is Greg Marra, a student at Olin College in Massachusetts, the recently accredited specialized engineering college in the Cooper Union model. Greg might be typical of the atypical crowd at ROFLcon, the sort of student who chose to go to a new college you might never have heard because it had an idiosyncratic curriculum that appealed to his intellectual sense, someone who boasts of projects like an online video on robotics with over a million hits and a Google internship as an undergraduate. I suspect we will hear from him, too, because intelligence expressed with that kind of inner compass and the willingness to follow it is central to this geek world view.
We will hear from many of the people brought together through an enterprising recent graduate of Harvard, Tim Hwang, who works at Harvard's Berkman Center for the Internet and Society. He demonstrates the wit of Internet culture with this ROFLThing NYC, packing the first ROFLcon last year in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a conference in San Francisco last summer, and sallying forth this year in Manhattan as the pied piper of geek culture. He creates these events for himself and his fellow travelers and comes to them for the same reason they come - the Internet is to them what an Oldies radio format was to an earlier generation, "the music of your life," and his innovation is to put out the welcome mat online and let the family come home for a visit.
The people who converged here would tell each other that we - yes, I include myself in this crowd - all get it. In this circumstance, "get it" means understanding the power and techniques of the Internet and not being afraid to be somewhat wacky in how we use this new medium, knowing that there are others who will get it even if we may seem alone pinging into cyberspace.
When I saw the room listening rapt to the concluding talk by Vince Connaire, the inventor of the Comic Sans Font discussing his creation entering ubiquity courtesy of his former employer, Microsoft, I knew that this conference is of a kind that would not have been possible but for the Internet. It came to my attention by a posting on Thrillist, a daily e-mail for self-selected hep people (presuming it is hip to be hep) in New York. And the conference maxed out early. A full house of people who attend something like this because the Internet can bring together a critical mass of any subset of a free society, in this case the folks who rooted for and identified with the Nerds.
That means geeks converge and listen to discussions of such things as comic fonts, or the twittering life of Sockington the cat (doubtless you've heard of him if you are a cat fancier, a Twitter fiend, or someone who knows what will be the obscure cultural footnotes of our era, what will become the touchstones we remember like we do Saturday Night Live's now resurgent Mr. Bill circa 1980).
With the Internet, any group of any merit or lack of merit can self-select and self-define, good and bad, benign and malignant. None of us who crave community is ever alone anymore, even when before our screens in seeming privacy. In ROFLThing we see this geek community of those who love the Internet and the cool things (well, at least to those who think them cool) of this mouthpiece of pop culture - a love that is reborn with every posting by people with inexpensive virtual printing presses that disseminate whatever they wish to share with the rest of us in real time.
The proponents and creators of this pop culture are the people who see better living through technology the way some of their parents (grandparents?) once saw better living through chemistry. These are the people loosely coming together and coalescing to form the common culture of our age, as others once wrote dramas, or operas, or Broadway musicals that captured different moments as the popular culture of different eras.
Which brings me back to Obama Girl. The geeks used to be the smart kids who usually wore pocket protectors, browsed Radio Shack, and never got a wink from a girl like Amber, who would be a cheerleader off with the captain of the football team. High school is always unfair and part of us always dwells there.
Here, in this new era, Amber's cameraman came up to me and introduced us, asking to interview me (apparently looking for a straight man, but did I care?) as her Web career moves from the world of politics to the world of the Internet and technology. When I said that I'd love to have a picture with her for my Facebook page, she graciously offered her own camera and e-mailed it, something I consider of a piece with a photo I once saw in an antique store of a man standing with Dagmar, a now-obscure pop sensation from the early years of TV.
In the world of the Internet, Amber is also a geek, and she knows it. She is part of this culture, celebrating it and being celebrated by it. She wasn't radiating or receiving patronizing difference but consanguinity. And, at ROFLThing NYC, the geeks all came together, each to his or her role on self-defined terms proclaimed in the Internet's culture of acceptance.
Even the cheerleader loves the geeks and has become one. Beauty is simply her eccentricity in a community of eccentricities finding common purpose, maximizing every individual's moment of appearing on the Internet on their own individual terms, and matching them with those who will join in celebrating their moment.
I understand one might be ROFL that I can be serious about this. Too bad, because this is popular culture being created today by the young innovators of our time, both the vaunted and the vapid. In a real sense, they are just like precursors with Hair at the Public Theatre, the Beatles, or Andy Warhol in 1967, as well as lots of culture that withstands the test of time less well. Like that TV blonde of the Fifties you never heard of, Dagmar. LOL.
Mark A. Shiffrin is a lawyer who has been Deputy General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Education and Consumer Protection Commissioner of Connecticut. His articles and opinion editorials have appeared in The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, Washington Post, and Industry Standard.
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1,450 gallons of cooking oil collected locally in first year biodiesel program
TGIF is commonly known as an acronym for "Thank God It's Friday, but it might be taking on a new meaning, as it also represents the Turn Grease Into Fuel program.
The program encourages residents and businesses to recycle used cooking oil instead of dumping it down the drain, where it can damage septic or sewer systems. Fats, oils and grease (FOG) is a leading cause of clogs in municipal sewer systems.
In 2011 a total of 1,450 gallons of used cooking oil was diverted from the Warwick waste stream and converted into biodiesel fuel credits for needy families thanks to a program started by Westerly students in 2008 and expanded to Sherman School here last year. In addition, the grease is being collected at four Warwick fire stations.
At Sherman, the 700 gallons of grease collected earned $471 that helped pay for field trips throughout the year. Principal Michelle Paton said parent Gary Marsh is exceptionally dedicated to the cause and even visited the school during summer months to deposit grease in the receptacle located at the school.
This year, she and her staff distributed flyers to students yesterday to encourage families to keep up the good work. Wednesday morning marks the first drop off day of the new year.
Cassandra Lin, 13, a Westerly Middle School eighth grader who if part of the Westerly Innovations Network, (WIN) a student-led, non-profit community problem solving team, said the project began as a community service group that also sought to help the environment. At the time, she and four of her classmates and WIN members Vanessa Bertsch, John Perino, Taylor Fiore-Chettiar and Miles Temel were in fifth grade.
It all started when they were brainstorming ideas to figure out ways to help when WIN founder and director, Jason Lin, also Cassandra's father, journeyed with them to the Green Energy Solutions Expo of Rhode Island. There, they learned that cooking oil could be converted to biodiesel.
"We thought it was important because we already knew that biodiesel was an alternative energy source that could help stop global warming," said Cassandra.
They also learned about the Westerly Area Rest and Meals Shelter, (WARM) which was promoting the One Dollar Makes a Difference Campaign. The campaign encourages people to donate one dollar each week to go to a charity for emergency heating funds.
"It was a good idea but wasn't sustainable so we wanted to help the charities and that's how our project came together," Cassandra said. "We said, 'What if we can combine these ideas and make biodiesel from cooking oil and then give that back to people in our town that can't afford to heat their homes?'"
From there, the children partnered with the charities, as well as grease collection companies and biodiesel refiners. They also visited their Town Council and asked them to install waste receptacles so residents could recycle grease. So far, they've established eight receptacles in four cities and towns, including one in Westerly and South Kingstown, one on the Stonington/Mystic line, plus five in Warwick.
The children also have been asking restaurants to participate by donating their used grease. To date, 110 have signed up in the Westerly area alone.
They've also visited elementary schools in their proximity, made radio commercials, and passed out 5,300 flyers and 3,500 kitchen calendars to help raise awareness.
"Most people pour grease down the drain and that actually clogs the sewers," Cassandra said. "We figured cities and towns would save money because they wouldn't have to unclog the sewers."
Jason said they meet on a weekly basis to discuss the status of the project. He is thrilled they have some this far.
"Children have ideas that are really innovative and you just have to guide them in the right way," he said.
He is thankful to Warwick Mayor Scott Avedisian, as well as the Warwick Sewer Authority, and the Central Rhode Island Chamber of Commerce, that in November 2010,
joined WIN, along with Sherman. Together, they urged residents and businesses to get involved in the program.
"They are very supportive with getting the word out," Lin said.
After hearing about the program from Westerly Mayor Diana Avedesian, Scott Avedisian [no relation] got in touch with the children and they visited him at City Hall to tell him more. He was floored by their efforts and realized the benefits of implementing it in Warwick.
"In this economic time, it's nice to have a group of young people say, 'We're working on a logical way to help," he said. "It's a win all the way around."
After meeting with the students, he notified WSA executive Director Janine Burke. She said she became immediately interested, as she sees a lot of problems in the collection system with grease in residential areas. Often, she said, people don't realize the importance of keeping cooking oil out of drains because it congeals as it cools.
"It's only a matter of time before you get a blockage and we have to dig up the pipe," Burke said.
Like Avedisian, she thinks the students are "unbelievable." In fact, she plans to nominate them for the John H. Chafee Conservation Leadership Award awarded by the Environment Council of Rhode Island.
"These kids have renewed my hope for the future," said Burke. "You know how kids are-they get something stuck in their heads and I'm sure they were going home saying, 'Don't dump that grease down the drain.' They probably taught their teachers a thing or two as to why it's bad. I couldn't see any negatives at all."
Lauren Slocum, president and CEO of the Central Rhode Island Chamber of Commerce, agrees. She and her staff support the program and have been helping to endorse it, as they are working with a number of businesses to coordinate their participation.
She, like Avedisian and Burke, is amazed that students initiated it.
"It's exciting to see our youth take that type of leadership," said Slocum. "It wasn't just a project for them. They really wanted to implement it, make sure it was sustainable and that it would continue to grow. They've had two tabletops at our events to help promote their program. When people ask questions, they handle themselves remarkably well. You can feel the excitement in them."
Slocum also said it's exhilarating to think of the program's potential. Not only does it help the environment, sewer system, as well as families in need, it saves local companies and citizens money because a fee is otherwise charged for disposal.
"You have to pay to dispose of oil and now it's reused for good," Slocum said. "With all the cuts that have been made to programs, this is a great way donate to the community and reduce costs. Think what we can do if we can expand this program. It's so simple. "
In a press release, Avedisian said information about TGIF has been included in this year's recycling calendar, which is distributed free to all households.
"We know that TGIF has the potential to expand much further in Warwick [and] our goal for 2012 is to triple our collection rate over last year's totals," he said. "I think we simply need to get the word out about the program and get more people and businesses signed up. It is very easy to do and the benefits really pay off."
He also said that TGIF collected 745 gallons of grease from Marley's on the Beach and two fire stations last year. A total of $453.17 was then donated to the city's Department of Human Services, which administers an emergency heating assistance program in cooperation with WestBay Community Action.
Since the inception of the program in 2008, the program has been able to provide 14,400 gallons of BioHeat with an approximate value of more than $54,000.
Warwick residents and businesses can dispose of used oil at four local fire stations, including Station Four at 1501 West Shore Road; Station Five at 450 Cowesett Road; Station Six at 456 West Shore Road; and Station Eight at 1651 Post Road.
The WIN students have earned a number of national awards for the project in the past several years. Last June, they traveled to Sweden to represent the United States in an international competition sponsored by Volvo. Their TGIF program has also been featured on CNN and MTV United States and Europe. For more information about WIN, visit www.w-i-n.ws.


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New York's original Penn Station was an elegant Beaux Arts train shed with 150ft high ceilings and a majestic waiting room based on the Roman Baths of Caracalla. Sadly this erstwhile monument to transportation and civic pride was destroyed in 1968 and replaced with a lackluster facility that is little more than a dark labyrinthine catacomb.
Comparing the old and the new Penn Station, renowned Yale architectural historian Vincent Scully wrote: "One entered the city like a god; one scuttles in now like a rat." This feeling, shared by many New Yorkers, has led to movements for a new Penn Station. Recently the Municipal Arts Society (MAS) invited four of New York's top firms to re-envision the transit hub in what is being billed as the "Design Challenge for a New Penn Station and Madison Square Garden".
The four firms, SHoP, Santiago Calatrava, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and SOM will have until 29 May to complete the challenge at which time MAS will hold a public unveiling of the schemes at New York's Time Warner Center. The challenge is particularly timely as Madison Square Garden's (MSG) 50 year special permit to operate an arena on the site expired in December.
While MSG has applied to renew the permit in perpetuity, MAS is hoping to seize the opportunity to present a different future for the site noting that 'New York deserves a world class train station and a truly dynamic arena but if the City renews the permit in perpetuity New York City will have neither'.
MAS is working with the Regional Plan Association (RPA) to build a coalition, The Alliance for a New Penn Station, to advocate for the millions of people who use Penn Station and the economic potential of a new state of the art train station and arena.
Commenting on the unprecedented opportunity at hand to remake the station, NY Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman said: "The point isn't deciding which possible site is right now. It's knowing there are paths worth pursuing, and focusing the next decade on exploring them." More information on the Penn Station Design Challenge can be found at the MAS's web site at www.mas.org
Sharon McHugh
US Correspondent