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The former "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel" star, who played the vampire Spike, is engaged, according to E! Online.
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The site reported that James, who will return to TV in this fall's "Hawaii Five-O" following his recent stint in "Caprica," will wed longtime girlfriend Patricia Rahman, 24, in the fall.
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15. JJ DOOM – Key To The Kuffs
The latest DOOM collaboration project features producer Jneiro Jarel creating an ever-changing sample-heavy soundscape that's a fitting backdrop for DOOM's brand of intricate wordplay and surreal humour.
Essential Tracks: Guv'nor, Rhymin Slang, Wash Your Hands
14. Richard Hawley – Standing At The Sky's Edge
Hawley changes up his style from retro-50s crooner to wall-of-sound heavy rocker, managing to make every track on this short album an epic, elemental storm of noise.
Essential Tracks: Standing At The Sky's Edge, Leave Your Body Behind You
13. Future Of The Left – The Plot Against Common Sense
Still furious, still filthy, still brilliantly funny, still face-meltingly loud – we need Future of the Left more than ever, and they don't disappoint.
Essential Tracks: Failed Olympic Bid, I Am The Least of Your Problems, Notes On Achieving Orbit
12. Smoke DZA – Rugby Thompson
DZA enlists some top-notch production from Harry Fraud and hits the expansive, cinematic beats hard, contrasting ice-cold aggression with luxuriant smoothness.
Essential Tracks: Ashtray, Kenny Powers, Rivermonts
11. Action Bronson – Blue Chips
To be honest, Bronsolino's other mixtape released this year, the Alchemist-produced Rare Chandeliers, could also be in this position. But I've had most of the year to listen to this one, and Party Supplies' heavy-on-the-funk-samples production is appropriately scuzzy backing for Bronson's down-and-dirty rhyming about crime, food and women.
Essential Tracks: Steve Wynn, Expensive Pens, 103 and Roosy
10. Santigold – Master Of My Make Believe
Pop music in 2012 looks a lot more like Santigold than it did in 2008 when she released her debut album. But while she may be less of an outlier than before, she's still mixing styles to great effect. Master takes elements of hip-hop, orchestral pop, electro and more, making them into propulsive dancealong numbers or melancholic ballads. Genre-hopping doesn't usually look this easy, or this fun.
Essential Tracks: Go!, Disparate Youth, The Keepers
9. Nas – Life Is Good
Nas as elder statesman – comfortable without being lazy, unafraid to try, digging into his past without being self-indulgent. It's the best he's been in years.
Essential Tracks: A Queens Story, Accident Murders, Back When
8. P.O.S. – We Don't Even Live Here
The Doomtree crew member delivers another dose of polemical rap and hard-hitting beats, sounding like a war report from a lost generation.
Essential Tracks: Fuck Your Stuff, How We Land, They Can't Come, All Of It
7. Bob Mould – Silver Age
Mould deploys heavy riffs and his often-overlooked gift for a hooky chorus to mine a string of pop-punk gems.
Essential Tracks: Star Machine, The Descent, Angels Rearrange
6. Killer Mike – R.A.P. Music
El-P and Killer Mike were always going to be an uncompromising pairing, and this album fulfills that promise. El's bone-rattling crunchy beats give the album its shape, and offer a perfect fit for Mike's Southern drawl. The lyrics are righteously angry and fiercely intelligent. It's a perfect representation of the best that rap can be.
Essential Tracks: Big Beast, Reagan, Butane (Champion's Anthem)
5. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city
Anointed as Compton's next great hope, Kendrick Lamar does a lot of playful self-mythologising on his major label debut (not least on the Dr Dre-featuring closing track). After a string of excellent mixtapes and features, good kid feels like something he's been building towards for a while; an atmospheric concept album about his younger self struggling with temptation. Lamar excels at complex rhyming and crystal-clear storytelling, and the moody, downbeat production mirrors the album's journey through introspection, depression, darkness and recovery.
Essential Tracks: Sherane (Master Splinter's Daughter), Money Trees, good kid, Swimming Pools (Drank)
4. Silversun Pickups – Neck Of The Woods
Like a soundtrack for an unrealised film, ominous and abstract post-rock guitar patterns build to shattering crescendos.
Essential Tracks: Busy Bees, Simmer, The Pit, Dots And Dashes
3. El-P – Cancer 4 Cure
As our world gradually turns full sci-fi dystopia (Drones Over BKLYN, anyone?) El-P seems more and more in step with the times. The production is a warzone where every electronic sound is broken apart and hastily repaired, as the lyrics plumb depths of self-loathing and paranoia. It's dark music for dark times; in other words, essential.
Essential Tracks: The Full Retard, Oh Hail No, For My Upstairs Neighbour (Mums the Word)
2. Ab-Soul – Control System
It's been a good year for the Black Hippy crew, and Ab-Soul in particular outclassed the competition. His latest album is a stack of back-to-back classics, with a stable of producers responsible for jittery Dre-influenced beats that never let the listener get comfortable. Soul's lyrics range from conspiracy theorising to sharp dissections of gender relations. The album closes out on The Book of Soul, a masterful, moving story of personal tragedy.
Essential Tracks: Track Two, Double Standards, Lust Demons, ILLuminate, The Book Of Soul
1. Aesop Rock – Skelethon
Trickily verbose wordplay and darkly witty lyrics stand out against beats that stutter and glitch like malfunctioning machines or corrupt digital artifacts. Every line is so densely packed with meaning that it takes a series of listens to decipher. It feels like a coded transmission, or a Rosetta Stone that will give up all its secrets with only a little more digging. It's an album to get lost in, a soundtrack for feeling lost and trapped inside your own head. In terms of depth and staying power, it's an epic achievement.
Essential Tracks: Leisureforce, Zero Dark Thirty, Cycles To Gehenna, Crows 1, Racing Stripes


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|Gil Fronsdal is the co-teacher for the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California; he has been teaching since 1990. He has practiced Zen and Vipassana in the U.S. and Asia since 1975. He was a Theravada monk in Burma in 1985, and in 1989 began training with Jack Kornfield to be a Vipassana teacher. Gil teaches at Spirit Rock Meditation Center where he is part of its Teachers Council. Gil was ordained as a Soto Zen priest at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1982, and in 1995 received Dharma Transmission from Mel Weitsman, the abbot of the Berkeley Zen Center. He currently serves on the SF Zen Center Elders' Council. In 2011 he founded IMC's Insight Retreat Center. Gil has an undergraduate degree in agriculture from U.C. Davis where he was active in promoting the field of sustainable farming. In 1998 he received a PhD in Religious Studies from Stanford University studying the earliest developments of the bodhisattva ideal. He is the author of The Issue at Hand, essays on mindfulness practice; A Monastery Within; a book on the five hindrances called Unhindered; and the translator of The Dhammapada, published by Shambhala Publications.You may listen to Gil's talks on Audio Dharma.
|Andrea Fella is the co-teacher at IMC. She has been practicing Insight Meditation since 1996, and, under Gil Fronsdal's guidance, began teaching meditation classes in 2003. She is particularly drawn to intensive retreat practice, and has done a number of long retreats, both in the United States and in Burma. During one long practice period in Burma, she ordained as a nun with Sayadaw U Janaka. Andrea is especially drawn to the wisdom teachings of the Buddha. Her teachings emphasize clarity and practicality. Andrea is a member of the Spirit Rock Teachers Council, and teaches residential retreats for IMC and other retreat centers around the country.You may listen to Andrea's talks on Audio Dharma.
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|Terry Lesser – Yoga for MeditationTerry teaches Yoga for Meditation. She has been teaching classes and retreats at the Insight Meditation Center since 1995. She began practicing yoga in 1984, and has been a student of Vipassana meditation since 1992. Trained in Iyengar style yoga, she also teaches at the California Yoga Center in Palo Alto. Her teaching is gentle, supportive, and sensitive to individual abilities.
|Ines Freedman – Online Meditation CourseInes first became interested in meditation through her yoga practice in 1970. She has been practicing Buddhist meditation since 1985, with Gil Fronsdal being her primary teacher. She is a member of the IMC Chaplaincy Council and is past Managing Director of IMC. She directs and teaches IMC's Online Meditation Courses. She has experience with long meditation retreats including extended self-retreats, and has a special interest in working with meditation practices for those with chronic pain. She currently serves as Managing Director for the Insight Retreat Center.She is a retired chiropractor.You may listen to Ines's talks on Audio Dharma.
|Berget Jelane – San Jose SanghaBerget has been a student of the Dharma since 1986. She is a graduate of the SRMC Community Dharma Leaders Program and the Sati Center Chaplaincy Training. Recently, she was ordained by Gil as a lay Buddhist minister. As a psychotherapist, she uses mindfulness and other Buddhist principles in her work with people.You may listen to Berget's talks on Audio Dharma.


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This is just a guess, but you may want to look at the DiffMerge options.
Under File Window -> Rulesets, create a new Ruleset for Xcode or .m files, assuming one does not already exist.
On the new Ruleset properties, enter the name, and file extensions (separated by spaces). For Character Encodings, see if you can find one that properly displays the encoding of your file.
Save the Ruleset, and retry a diff to see if the output is displayed correctly.
Note, there is a 'Default' Ruleset as well, so if most of your files are using the same code page, you can change the character encodings for those too.
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Thanks, I edited Ruleset C/C++/C# and added m extension there. Than I changed encoding to UTF-8 and had to change font too (default Courier does not have Russian chars, the comments were shown with another one).
Now it works, thanks.
Maybe for the future you could change this Ruleset to use utf? Western European encoding supports only English.
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Thank you for feedback. I'm glad that solved the problem.
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Stretched canvas prints look beautiful with or without frames.
Pixels is one of the largest, most-respected giclee printing companies in the world with over 40 years of experience producing museum-quality prints. All of our prints are produced on state-of-the-art, professional-grade Epson printers. We use acid-free papers and canvases with archival inks to guarantee that your prints last a lifetime without fading or loss of color.
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- Since 2005, and over 800 entries, the orginal purpose of this BLOG has never changed. I consider it to be a personal letter from me to my extended family of fans, supporters, and friends. I ALWAYS encourage your emails, comments, suggestions, and questions. Be Blessed! ~Percy


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The Job Window is currently looking for an entry level individual with a customer service background for their full time Retail Customer Service Associate position. For this position, our client has found that candidates who have worked in retail, restaurant, hospitality or customer service industries excel as they have the people skills to provide the "personal touch" that the company is known for. This company specializes in areas of customer renewal, customer retention and customer acquisition.
This firm is the leader in the marketing industry and specializes in tailoring retail customer service to the character of the client and company culture. Representing the largest home improvement companies in North America, it is a priority for our client to provide the best customer service with high professionalism and to maintain and build quality relationships. This Retail Customer Service position is full-time and involves in-person interaction with customers.
This firm's niche has been their ability to act as the liaison between major clients and their customers. Through their unique, relationship-oriented approach, they have been able to provide clients tremendous results and an increased market share.
This firm prides themselves on their competitive, but extremely friendly and family-oriented work environment. Their culture promotes constant personal and professional growth, based on principles of respect, trust and challenge. They are now striving to train the most capable and skilled individuals to help acquire new clients, grow into new markets and develop new campaigns. They provide full training and career advancement in this globally expanding industry.
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There is plenty of curiosity about what the city of Mankato and Minnesota State will do if and when they remodel the Verizon Wireless Center. For sure, they could take a few cues from what Bemidji's done with the Sanford Center. Here are a few low-quality photos taken Friday and Saturday night:
|A video/replay scoreboard hangs over center ice.
|A view from the press box, which is also suite level.
|The club room/bar overlooks one end of the rink.
|The student section is surrounds the glass at one end of the ice.
|A view from one of the arena suites.
|A concourse wall with interactive video screens.
|The in-arena store where you can get BSU gear.
|The doors to the Beavers' locker room.
|The hallway to the BSU coaches' offices.
|The walls are adorned with pictures of NHL players and All-Americans.
|BSU's weight room, as seen from outside the arena.
|The hall from the bench to the BSU locker room.
|Another shot of that hall.
|Team photos outside the Beavers locker room.
|One of a few walls of fame in the BSU area. NHL guys, All-Americans, etc.
|The $8 prime rib sandwich available in the concourse.


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I am trying to write a SOP for how to PAT test the equipment at work and have a few questions. We are basically a laboratory and offices so have telephones, faxes heaters etc. but also large freezers and small/large laboratory equipment.
Can someone tell me the frequency of when different items should be tested? I think we were going to say large items visually once a year and full test if ever moved. Computers visually once a year but am not sure for may small appliances in lab e.g. pipettes, microfuges.
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Calling up the main menu for radio mode
You will see the main menu for the chosen mode
together with the station buttons. If there are
already stations stored on the station buttons, the
names or frequencies of these stations are
If the station tuned to is broadcasting RDS signals
(RDS = Radio Data System) in FM mode, you will
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To find out more, please refer to the sections "Switching RBDS on and off" on page 25 and "Switching RDS radio text on and off" on page 25.
Tuning to stations
You have the following options for tuning to a station:
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Tuning to stations using the station buttons
To be able to tune to a station using the station buttons, there must already be a station stored on a station button. To find out more, please refer to the section "Storing stations on station buttons in the preset memories" on page 23.
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The Freezer Down Below
A century after the first successful expedition to the South Pole, Antarctica remains the most aloof and inhospitable continent
Over Christmas, a British scientific team had to give up its mission to drill beneath an ancient Antarctic lake, searching for minute forms of life. The researchers were done in by equipment failures and lack of fuel.
When it comes to human existence on the frozen continent, everything always hangs by a thread. A hundred years ago, what was then the world's most famous race had just run its murderous course in Antarctica. Roald Amundsen, the first man to reach the South Pole, had returned to civilization and was giving lectures...


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I would like to share a press release by a Finnish company Veen Waters, who are doing some great challenger marketing in the category of bottled waters. Competing with the giants such as Evian, San Pellegrino, Coca-cola, Voss and others, Veen is outperforming in true quality of water, design, corporate citizenship, sustainability, creativity and being different.
They've done design awards, top fashion cooperation and exclusive channel deals. Now they get into art and charity.
Read on and check out a video interview with artish Kaj Stenvall.
Finland's best known contemporary artist Kaj Stenvall is now the new VEEN Art – artist. Stenvall's quirkily named "VEEN Art – Better than a cookie!" painting on VEEN bottles world premiers at Harrods in Knightsbridge, London. The painting is a contribution to the VEEN Art charity collection and is made available for consumers on the numbered special edition VEEN bottles at Harrods and in poster form at the VEEN and Stenvall websites.
All funds to charity
The charity VEEN bottles are sold exclusively at Harrods and all funds raised will be donated for London's Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in the autumn of 2009. "This is a great opportunity for us to bring joy to so many children, doing what we do best," says Kaj Stenvall.
What is VEEN Art?
VEEN Art is a concept featuring famous artists and designers bringing VEEN Water into their creations. The artist has full artistic integrity to complete the work. "We want to raise talk with artists to create awareness and money for good causes," says Tomi Grönfors, MD of VEEN Waters Finland Oy.
"Better than a cookie!" by Kaj Stenvall
The painting features a duck familiar from Stenvall's earlier works. Water is playing the leading role and is featured in three forms: in a glass, in the sea and in tears. The tears are there out of pure joy and enjoyment of sipping VEEN. It is hard to say whether the duck is laughing or crying for the water being so smooth.
Kaj Stenvall first came to attention of the Finnish art scene about ten years ago when he began to paint a very familiar-looking duck in a variety of settings. Stenvall asserts that this character has been developed by himself, even while acknowledging its similarity to the most famous duck in the world. The scenes in his pictures are from the world at large and his duck often appears in absurd, if recognizably generic, settings. There really is nothing in his paintings that one can put their finger on to connect them to any particular corner of the world, especially not to Finland, except perhaps a specific intensity of angst and foreboding.


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Artist's description:
One of the final pieces from a popular collection of work exploring the idea of stripping an image down to its absolute essentials. Simple marks and lines which achieve a balance between abstraction and representation.
Watercolour and ink on 200gsm high quality pure white card stock. Signed on the back.
All set to be framed in a standard, readily available A4 frame (30 x 21cm) or mounted in a larger frame.
Capable of creating dynamic and engaging images with just a few brush strokes, Becca Alaway has earned her place as one of Artfinder's best selling artists.
Materials used:
Ink and watercolor on 200gsm paper
Two cats on a bed 3021B (2016)
Watercolor by Becca Alaway
- Watercolor on Paper
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 11.81 x 8.27 x 0.08 in (unframed) / 11.81 x 8.27 in (actual image size)
- Signed on the back
- Style: Impressionistic
- Subject: Animals and birds
This artwork is sold by Becca Alaway from United Kingdom


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fun little guys; thank you
So great to see this little guy fishing then scurrying home to eat it. Thank you for sharing nature with us all.
Precious otters!
Fish on Friday and every other day of the week.
The otter made me smile, thank you.
Nature's changing seasons in detail….with a bonus of the otter!
The melting ice was great by itself and the sweet otter was frosting on the cake!
This is among my favorites (which are many). I HAD to press the replay button several times. The very sight of the otter makes me smile and smile some more. Thanks!
Excellent!! ❤
Thank you
Thank you Jim- these always make my day!
Ho! Ho! At first I thought you were visiting Alaska, Mr Brandenburg. I thought that was an awfully small fish for a seal to catch
Wow – this was great! Love it!
Love this!
It takes a lover of nature, willing to be uncomfortable to live in it, to know this spot, this timing,this gift to grateful thousands who won't walk in the same steps but do relish this view….thank you, Jim.
Moves like a silky slinky!! Beautiful~
thank you for sharing your world with us
Thank you!
magnifique ……tres beau
Adam Rhoades
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Thanks Jim, that's nature at it's best! It's so much fun to watch otters.
My first Spirit Animal!…long before I understood what it meant to have one! I was 8 or 9 when I read «An Otter's Story» by Emil E. Liers, and I knew I must be of the Otter Clan! This was the first book that had a profound effect on me…planting a seed of love of the natural world that has informed—and even saved—my life…all my life. Tonight, decades later, in looking this book up to see if it's still in print, I learn that Liers was a Minnesota naturalist!!!…and my heart is welling up! I became a Minnesotan almost forty years ago…and have most enjoyed my intimate encounters with Otter whilst camping UpNorth! Suddenly there is a new Old Connection with my first Spirit Animal! Was it Otter Clan that called me North!?
With deepest gratitude for my parents and first grade teacher who taught me to read; my Great Aunt and my Dad who taught me to love it; for Emil E. Liers and the Otters that told him their story; and for Jim Brandenberg who, every day, rekindles my sense of Oneness with the beauty I have seen, and the beauty he has shown me.
This is my third Season following Nature365, and I'm astounded how many of these daily communions with nature come round to me now each day like an Old Friend. First thing in the morning is like a swift kiss at the door…and then, come evening, I can sit in the quite of the moment and be more deeply embraced.
Thank you, Jim.
Thank you Marby, what kind words you shared about what the otter means to you. I often don't see comments and rarely respond because I don't do a lot of FB interaction but yours was pointed out to me. In an interview by Audubon magazine I was once asked if I could be an animal which would it be? Most people would think it would be the wolf, but I chose the otter for many reasons. Of all the animals I've observed they appear to exist and flow in their environment with such a naturalness and ease that they seem to enjoy life and play more than other animals. Animal behaviorists say the most intelligent animals need more play. I made this short movie sequence of the otter next to my home by the BWCAW on Uncle Judds Creek. It didn't know I was there as they are quite shy and difficult to film because they are unfortunately trapped in this area. I also read a book about otters many years ago called "Ring of Bright Water." It also had a big effect on me. A movie was also made of the true story that was set on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. Maybe you know of this story. I hope you have a wonderful and nature filled Spring! Jim
Thanks for making me smile everyday!
The fluid movement of otters is amazing to watch, and the sounds of the water are like nothing else I know–so rhythmic and melodic.
Great shot! I love otters! Thanks for sharing!
Just love otters
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The School is one of the leading UK and international centres for Politics, International Relations, International Development, Sociology and European Studies. In the School of Government we offer much more than a degree. As a student here, whether undergraduate or postgraduate, you have the opportunity to take part in a wide range of events, with some or all of the costs paid for by the School. Course details Course details: Fees and funding | Entry requirements | How to apply | Academic staff research interests. IDD research students explore a wide variety of topics in international development and public management. We offer two types of research degree: MPhil and PhD. 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Wake County school board opposes elimination of teacher tenure
In front of a crowd of more than 100 cheering teachers, the Wake County school board unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday opposing the state's plan to offer pay raises to top teachers in return for their giving up tenure rights.
School board members charged that the new contracts – part of a law passed by the legislature to eliminate tenure in four years – would hurt teachers' morale, inhibit their spirit of collaboration and would not fairly pay enough teachers for their hard work. But the school board stopped short of either filing suit against the law or preparing an affidavit in support of the N.C. Association of Educators' lawsuit seeking to overturn the law.
Instead, board members voted to meet with legislators and Gov. Pat McCrory to urge the law's repeal.
"This is more than just words," school board member Jim Martin said before the vote. "We will take this document to our Wake County delegation, to the governor, because this needs to be more than just words. We need action. We need to repeal that law."
School board Chairwoman Christine Kushner said the board wanted first to see how the meetings went with state leaders before considering other options. She said the board hasn't taken pursuing legal action off the table.
By the start of the meeting, teachers wearing red filled the board room. Some speakers accused legislators of trying to corporatize education with concepts such as merit pay.
"We don't need 25 percent contracts," said Heather Shipley, a teacher at Pleasant Union Elementary School in North Raleigh. "We need support and collaboration, not shallow rewards and competition."
The Durham school board will meet Wednesday to decide whether to join a lawsuit that the Guilford County school board plans to file against the new contracts and the elimination of tenure.
Wake joins a growing number of school boards that have opposed the changes that the state made this year to the way teachers are employed. Wake joins 12 school districts, including Durham, that had already passed resolutions opposing the contracts. Another 12 districts are working on resolutions, according to the N.C. Association of Educators.
Since 1971, North Carolina teachers who made it beyond a four-year probationary period earned "career status," more commonly referred to as tenure. Though the designation did not equate to a lifetime job guarantee, it did come with certain job protections, including the right to a hearing in the event of dismissal.
The Republican-led state legislature passed a budget last year that eliminates tenure in 2018. Meanwhile, school districts will offer the top 25 percent of teachers four-year contracts with escalating $500-a-year raises for each of the next four years to relinquish their status.
Legislative leaders argued that tenure protected bad teachers, citing the low numbers of teachers fired annually statewide. But education leaders counter that the dismissals don't count teachers who resign after being counseled to do so.
Legislative leaders also say that the new contracts will reward good teachers with more pay.
Before the meeting, Kushner sent a mass email to the district's teachers informing them of the pending vote. She invited teachers to watch the board meeting online and to comment via Twitter.
The school district's Twitter account gave a running account of the comments being made by board members and speakers opposing the new contracts.
Educators speak out
Speaker Marcia Timmel presented a petition she said showed that 98 percent of her fellow teachers at North Garner Middle School would refuse to sign the contracts.
"We stand united in support of the work you're doing to protect public education," she told the board.
Sandy Pirolli, the principal of Barwell Road Elementary School in Raleigh, said it would be "courageous" to pass the resolution. She said the loss of many teachers at her school has resulted in a very young staff, containing 53 percent beginning teachers.
"In the past year, I'm very weary and I'm very saddened and, yes, we are in crisis in the state of North Carolina," Pirolli said. "I'm losing teachers right and left, and I'm literally watching the program that we built fall apart."
The crowd was so large and there were so many speakers that the presentation of Superintendent Jim Merrill's budget proposal for the 2014-15 fiscal year was postponed to March 18.
State Senate leader Phil Berger has called the new contracts a continuation of efforts that already are in place in districts to reward teachers for their performance. He has cited Wake's use of performance pay for teachers at five schools under the federally funded Renaissance Schools program.
In a news conference before the board meeting, Kushner said no decision has been made as to whether to continue offering the performance pay when the federal funding runs out this school year. She said that performance pay works for simple tasks but not for complex tasks such as teaching.
"For complex long-term tasks like teaching, performance pay has not proven to be effective," Kushner said. "In fact, it's proven to be counterproductive."
Terry Stoops, director of education studies for the John Locke Foundation, disagreed. He noted that the Obama administration has supported merit pay programs for teachers.
"Most professions incorporate financial incentives into their compensation plans," Stoops said in an interview. "As one of our most important professions, teaching should be no different."


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A signaling pathway required for plants to grow to their normal size appears to have an unexpected dual purpose of keeping the plants from wallpapering themselves with too many densely clustered stomata.
"It's surprising that size and stomata patterning — both key to plants being able to survive on dry land — are using the same signaling components," says Jessica McAbee, a University of Washington research associate in biology. She's one co-author of a report in the July 8 issue of Science about work with Arabidopsis, a weed-like member of the crucifer family for which scientists already have a genomic map.
Stomata are microscopic pores on the surface of plants that open to allow plants to take in carbon dioxide from the air for photosynthesis. They close when there is the danger that the plant tissue may lose too much moisture.
"Specialized cells open and close the stomata, much like opening and closing a mouth," says Keiko Torii, UW assistant professor of biology. Stomata too close together can't operate effectively.
Understanding the mechanisms that control stomata patterning offers insights into such questions as how plants evolved to protect themselves when they moved from water to land, Torii says. Even atmospheric scientists are interested in such basic plant biology, given the enormous amount of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide taken up by the Earth's plants.
Scientists already believed that part of the signaling pathway for stomata production included the receptor-like protein Too Many Mouths, so called because when absent the plant makes too many stomata, or mouths.
Scientists were searching for a single stomata gene that had to be working in concert with Too Many Mouths to get an efficient distribution of stomata, Torii says. No one was considering that more than one gene could be involved, much less three, or that the genes could be serving other purposes, she says.
The UW team of four female scientists serendipitously discovered what appears to be part of the pathway that tempers the production of stomata while studying a trio of genes that code for signaling receptors required for normal plant height.
The scientists were working on a basic understanding of plant growth as part of U.S. Department of Energy and Japanese Science and Technology Agency-funded work about growing plant material, or biomass, suitable for producing fuel. By mutating all three genes — essentially putting them all out of action — the researchers got dwarf plants an inch high instead of the normal 1½ feet.
Surprisingly the plants also were so densely covered with stomata that most stomata were touching each other.
These genes appear to have roles at two points in the production of stomata. First, they inhibit undifferentiated cells — those unspecialized cells that have yet to turn into specific cell types — from making too many stomata and then they repress the development of two
guard cells that open and close the stomata pore.
Co-authors of the Science paper besides Torii and McAbee are lead author Elena Shpak, former research associate at the UW and starting this fall as an assistant professor at California State University, Fullerton, and Lynn Pillitteri, a UW research associate in biology.
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Imagine taking your child to her first day of kindergarten and finding out that there won't be a teacher for the class of 30 children until October. Imagine being a working family with two young children barely getting from paycheck to paycheck and getting told that your local school district is cutting back to a four-day school week. Or you're a parent of an adolescent boy whose principal joy from attending school is sports or music and the school board decides that you have to start paying for those programs out of your own pocket. Or you're a high school student hoping to attend college but your dreams are dashed when the foreign language and Advance Placement classes you need to qualify for higher ed are suddenly cut from your school.
These are not isolated incidents. All across the U.S., teachers are getting laid off by the thousands, class sizes are being enlarged, school calendars are being shortened, and highly popular academic programs that engage and challenge young learners are being cut. And if you doubt that this is truly a disaster for these communities, then ask the kids.
If you want to get a full scope of the education cutbacks slamming the nation's schools, just go to this report from the Center on Budget Policy and Priorities and keep your pinky on scroll. What you'll see are page after page of cuts to education being enacted in over 40 states and the District of Columbia. In Minnesota 9,400 students are having their college tuition grants cut . . . in Arizona, preschool is being eliminated for 4,328 children, and parents who want more than a half-day of kindergarten are going to have to pay for it . . . Hawaii is shortening the school year by 17 days. The carnage goes on and on.
Public schools everywhere are being hit by a perfect storm of drop-offs in state revenues and shortages of municipal funds stemming from declining home values and widespread joblessness. Although the federal government helped partially stave off this calamity by funding 266,000 education jobs in the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund from in the Recovery Act of 2009, most of those funds are gone and any remaining can't be "banked" for programs and teaching positions in the 2011-12 school year.
Faced with a national disaster of such proportion, the customary response from the populace is to turn to our national leadership in Washington, DC. But if recent events are accurate indicators, the thought leadership on education inside the Beltway is preoccupied with nonsense.
Case in point, earlier this week President Obama appeared at a DC-metro area public school to proclaim his commitment to funding education. He also called for changes in the federal regulations that would make current No Child Left Behind mandates more flexible and less punitive, and he made another plug for his Race to the Top competitive grant program that rewards states for tracking student test scores, encouraging growth of charter schools, and paying teachers on the basis of their abilities to increase scores on high-stakes standardized tests.
The Republican reply to this declaration was an uninspired ho-hum and a rousing commitment to "take the time to get this right."
What this amounts to is the captain and the first mate arguing about the shape of the rudder while the ship is about to slide over the falls.
Some can argue that the Federal government doesn't really steer the boat of education policy because it has historically provided only a high single digit percentage of education funding. But that ignores how states have become increasingly more dependent on federal aid for schools.
The problem with education policy in DC doesn't stem from a lack of bipartisanship. As teacher and edu-blogger Anthony Cody explains, "partisanship" is totally beside the point because "both Democrats and Republicans are pushing terrible ideas."
On the uptown side of Pennsylvania Avenue, you have the opinion espoused by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan that schools have to adapt to a "new normal" and get with a dop-down mandate to "cut in order to invest." This "cut in order to invest" rhetoric is opposed on the other end of Pennsylvania Ave. by the "cut in order to co-opt" crowd of Republicans who want to slash public education spending and co-opt public funding into private hands and business with gimmicks like school vouchers.
The problem with the "cut in order to invest" platform is that it supports by implication that the wave of cuts swamping our schools is both justified and necessary (it isn't – more about that later). And it far too quickly dismisses things that mean a great deal to parents and school children – like class size, which Duncan recently called it a "sacred cow" – as unreasonable luxuries.
Furthermore, on the investment side, what the Obama administration is pushing is about as attractive as a hedge-fund heavily into home mortgage derivatives. The prospects just don't look very good. Take the idea of paying teachers more for increasing test scores, commonly called "merit pay." Just as Obama and Co. were re-emphasizing their belief in this approach, yet another study came out indicating that school districts that have tried this approach have found that it just doesn't work. Furthermore, those states that insist on taking up merit pay have no idea how to pay for it.
In fact, if you want a poster person of "cut and invest" reform failures, look no further than Detroit public schools. Investments in charter schools and other measures have been a colossal failure. While cutbacks and other austerity measures have set off "a vicious cycle undermining even good schools."
Concerning the "cut in order to co-opt" approach to education policy, this argument is based on two specious ideas that cutting public schools is both justified and necessary. Cuts to public schools, we are told, is justified because "America's system of public education is broken." As proof the "cut-to-co-opters" love to point to international comparisons that show that U.S. schools don't measure up to other countries. But this analysis ignores two important inconvenient truths:
1. "In raw numbers, the United States produces many more high-achieving students than any other OECD nation [Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development]. In both reading and math, the U.S. produces more high achievers than France, Germany, and the United Kingdom combined." And "proportionally, Asian American students are the best readers in the world, and white Americans are bested only by Finns and New Zealanders."
2. Of all the OECD countries participating in these international tests, the U.S. has, far and away, the highest percentage of students living in poverty. Once poverty is factored into the analysis, American students score near the top. In fact, students in schools with less than 10% of students on free and reduced lunch scored "higher than the overall average of any OECD country" on reading tests. Those in schools with 10% to 25% of students qualifying for free and reduced lunch lagged behind only Korea and Finland. countries.
Second, we are told by the "cut in order to co-opt" crowd cutting public schools is necessary because of a current "budget crisis" afflicting most states. This argument maintains that long term problems with bond indebtedness, pension obligations, and retiree health insurance require these drastic cuts in immediate, short term obligations. But this narrative also has little basis in fact. Again, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities explains:
A spate of recent articles regarding the fiscal situation of states and localities have lumped together their current fiscal problems, stemming largely from the recession, with longer-term issues relating to debt, pension obligations, and retiree health costs, to create the mistaken impression that drastic and immediate measures are needed to avoid an imminent fiscal meltdown.
The large operating deficits that most states are projecting for the 2012 fiscal year, which they have to close before the fiscal year begins (on July 1 in most states), are caused largely by the weak economy . . . . While these deficits have caused severe problems and states and localities are struggling to maintain needed services, this is a cyclical problem that ultimately will ease as the economy recovers.
Unlike the projected operating deficits for fiscal year 2012, which require near-term solutions to meet states' and localities' balanced-budget requirements, longer-term issues related to bond indebtedness, pension obligations, and retiree health insurance . . can be addressed over the next several decades. It is not appropriate to add these longer-term costs to projected operating deficits. Nor should the size and implications of these longer-term costs be exaggerated, as some recent discussions have done. Such mistakes can lead to inappropriate policy prescriptions.
While the Republicans push these two false notions that cutting public schools is both justified and necessary, they work in parallel to make sure more public funds are siphoned off into privatizing ventures like vouchers and charter schools that place government money outside the scope and control of democratic processes. For instance, in the above example from Arizona in which cuts were being made to early childhood and kindergarten education, the purpose was to, in part, direct those funds to expanding charter schools. In fact, many Republicans have declared that their goal is to turn all public schools into charters.
So this argument between "cut in order to invest" and "cut in order to co-opt" amounts to little more than sheer pabulum.The cuts being proposed by all sides in the debate are extraordinarily harmful to poor kids and local economies, while so-called policy "solutions" are generally not based on any factual evidence of what works.
Of course, there is a need to address structural problems with some American schools – problems that can't be addressed by shoveling more piles of cash on them. Many schools are in terrible shape and need strong interventions. But what the education policy leadership in DC is concerned with is worse than unhelpful, it's a diversion from the matter at hand.
What would be far more effective in the short term is for our elected representatives to actually represent the perspectives of people who are most affected by the financial crisis hitting American schools, namely: classroom teachers, school administrators, parents, and school kids. If they would just turn away from the Beltway chatter and listen to the voices of people on the ground who have the most at stake, what they would hear are urgent calls to "stop the cuts" and put more money into the things that have direct and immediate impact on what matters most in the everyday lives of schools and children.


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1. In the Tools - Options - Folder Windows - Folder Filters is an area where you can filter out certain file extensions.
2. We don't have the sort ability, but I've added a feature request for that functionality now.
3. I thought we had that. I'm still looking into it.
4. In the Tools - Options - Folder Windows change the Window Font.
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Great! Thanks Beth. I am on a Windows machine most of the time.
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Nappa Cabbage Recipes
Scrambled Tofu and Kimchi
Using the kimchi from yesterday's post, I made a dish today for true vegetarians and vegans like my Aunt Elise. She is a monk from Vietnam who's currently visiting us, and one of her favorite meals is mock scrambled eggs with kimchi. The mock scrambled eggs are actually scrambled boiled tofu. Today, I made mine with turmeric and green onions.
The fluffiness of the tofu complements the salty flavor of the kimchi well. Lulu's New Year's resolution has been to exercise and live a healthier life. He's enrolled at the gym and has been going regularly. My way of supporting his effort is by making quick, healthy meals and snacks that are tasty and good for him.
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How to Make Kimchi
Kimchi is a Korean pickled dish made of vegetables. It's absolutely delicious and goes with almost every meal. Aunt Elise, maman's sister visiting from Vietnam, taught me how to make a simple version of kimchi. It doesn't have the red color traditionally associated with kimchi, but there are actually several varieties, like this one, that have little or no red chili. What can I say, I'm kind of a wimp when it comes to spicy food.
We only used Napa cabbage, very simple seasoning and a good bit patience. It takes a few days for the cabbage to ferment, and then it's ready to enjoy.
You usually eat kimchi as a condiment with another dish, and my favorite "partner" is Cơm Gà Siu Siu. It's boiled chicken in a caramelized-onion broth. Serve the pieces of chicken with jasmine rice (cooked in the same chicken broth as well, I'll post the recipe soon), nước mắm (fish sauce in Vietnamese) and kimchi on the side. Lulu, on the other hand, just likes eating it by itself. However you decide to use it, homemade kimchi is definitely worth the effort.
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Date: 5 September 2011, 9.30am-5.30pm
Place: Council Room, King's College London
In recent years, scholars have begun to develop and employ new technologies and computer-based methods for palaeographic research. The aim of the symposium is to present developments in the field, explore the limits of digital and computational-based approaches, and share methodologies across projects which overlap or complement each other.
Call for Papers
Papers of 20 minutes in length were invited on any relevant aspect of digital methods and resources for palaeography and manuscript studies. Possible topics could have included:
- Project reports and/or demonstrations
- Palaeographical method; 'Digital' and 'Analogue' palaeography
- Quantitative and qualitative approaches
- 'Scientific' methods, 'objectivity' and the role of evidence in manuscript studies
- Visualisation of manuscript evidence and data
- Interface design and querying of palaeographical material
To propose a paper, please send a brief abstract (250 words max) to digipal [at] kcl.ac.uk. The deadline for receipt of submissions was 8th May 2011.
- 9:30-10:00: Coffee and registration
- 10:00–11:00: Introduction, followed by
- Plenary Lecture: Elaine Treharne (Florida State University), A Site for Sore Eyes: Digital, Visual and Haptic Manuscript Studies
- 11:00–11:20: Coffee Break
- 11:20–12:30: Session 1. Chair: Orietta da Rold (University of Leicester)
- Peter Stokes (King's College London): DigiPal in Theory
- Stewart Brookes (King's College London): DigiPal in Practice
- Erik Kwakkel (Leiden University): The Digital Eye of the Paleographer: Using Databases to Identify Scribes and Date their Handwriting
- 12:30-13:30: Lunch (provided for all registered participants)
- 13:30–15:00: Session 2. Chair: Ségolène Tarte (University of Oxford)
- Wim Van Mierlo (University of London): How to Work with Modern Manuscripts in a Digital Environment — Some Desiderata
- John McEwan and Elizabeth New (Aberystwyth University): The Seals in Medieval Wales Project: Towards a New Standard in Digital Sigillography
- Ben Outhwaite and Huw Jones (Cambridge University Library): Navigating Cambridge's Digital Library: the Cairo Genizah and Beyond
- 15:00–15:20: Coffee Break
- 15:20–16:50: Session 3. Chair: Malte Rehbein (Universität Würzburg)
- Franck Le Bourgeois (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon): Overview of Image Analysis Technologies
- James Brusuelas (University of Oxford) and John Wallin (Middle Tennessee State University): The Papyrologist in the Shell
- Els De Paermentier (Ghent University): Diplomata Belgica: Towards a More Creative and Comparative Palaeographical Research on Medieval Charters
- 16:50–17:00: Short Break
- 17:00–17:30: Panel Discussion with Michelle Brown (University of London), Donald Scragg (University of Manchester) and Marc Smith (École Nationale des Chartes), chaired by Clare Lees (King's College London)
There was no formal evening event, but an informal dinner was held in a local restaurant.


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Malfunction kills veteran skydiver in Brazoria County
Austin man dies in Brazoria County when parachute's brake line snaps
An experienced skydiver died Saturday in Brazoria County after a parachute malfunction caused him to lose control.
Miguel "Woody" Carrasco, 36, is the eighth death at Skydive Spaceland. The United States Parachute Association reports 19 skydivers died out of 3.1 million jumps last year.
Carrasco, who has about a decade of experience, was practicing with a group of 16 jumpers on the 20-way meet, an in-air performing routine planned for a friendly competition the next weekend, said Lee McMillian, the company's attorney, a longtime skydiver and friend of Carrasco.
About 3:30 p.m., the group neared the end of its fourth run that day and separated in the air.
McMillian said Carrasco opened his main chute, but one of two brake lines broke. The lines, used to steer and control descent speeds, are common wear points that McMillian said many skydivers check before every jump.
After losing the brake line, he said, Carrasco entered a downward spiral and eventually jettisoned the main chute. No one knows why he did not open his reserve chute.
The Brazoria County Sheriff's Office, which is investigating the incident, said McMillian's description matched what they learned from witnesses.
"We don't know how much altitude he had left to pull the reserve," McMillian said. "Reserve can open pretty quickly. It can open in a second and half."
In a news release, General Manager Jason Hyder noted Carrasco "was not equipped with optional emergency devices that would have activated his reserve parachute automatically."
Hyder later told the Houston Chronicle that Carrasco, like many experienced jumpers, operates his own parachute and holds a license to inspect it.
Improved each time
Carrasco, originally from El Paso, lived in Austin with his wife and daughter, working as an IBM engineer.
McMillian said Carrasco quickly made friends in the tight-knit group of Texas jumpers because he handled criticism well and always smiled, qualities that also made people like having him on their teams, even if he was not the strongest jumper.
"It just made him someone wonderful to jump with," McMillian said. "People who jump out of airplanes are typically Type-A personalities and have huge egos. He's a guy that if you told him he did something wrong and should do it different next time, he'd say OK and would. He improved on every jump he went on."
For regular skydivers like Carrasco and McMillian, that can be hundreds of jumps a year.
Serious competition teams might do as many as 10 jumps in a single day, meeting for a couple of long weekends for months before an event. That's on top of time practicing maneuvers in vertical wind tunnels.
A 2012 post on the company's Facebook page included a video filmed by Carrasco as 24 jumpers completed a maneuver that included nine hangers, pilots who "stand up" while attached to the belly down group.
Carrasco yells and cheers as the routine is completed.
McMillian said Carrasco was a regular at many of the state's friendly competitions and competed on a four-way team in the National Skydiving League's annual championships.
"It is one of the reasons it's such a sad occurrence," McMillian said of Carrasco not opening his reserve chute. "It's just a Skydiving 101 thing."
This is not the first time a skydiver has died at Skydive Spaceland, Texas' biggest skydiving company with roots connected to state competitions founded in the 1970s.
Suit in 2008 death
Carrasco's is the eighth fatality since the company opened in 1998. According to the company, seven of the deceased jumpers were experienced and the eighth was a 2008 accident involving a student on his ninth jump, his sixth not in tandem with an instructor.
The family of Rex Williams, 59 from Tacoma, Wash., filed an injury lawsuit in 2008 arguing the instructor should have intervened to save Williams, but the day after opening arguments in 2012, the case was settled on undisclosed terms.
Skydive Spaceland stood by its safety record, noting it had trained more than 100,000 students, and under the circumstances the instructor had done everything right. It was the student's responsibility to open his chute, officials said.
An accident in 2007 at the Skydive Spaceland facility killed employee Scott Bell, 35, when his parachute malfunctioned. Another two divers died in 2011, when Scott James, 27, of Houston, and Arthur Bill, 63, of Spring, collided and tangled their parachutes.
Other divers perished attempting trick landing maneuvers called "canopy swoops." In swooping competitions, pilots steer through obstacles near the ground or skim along water before landing.
The company is one of nine drop zones in Texas affiliated with the United States Parachute Association, which sets standards for safety and training.
McMillian defended the company's history and the sport at-large.
"It's really fun," he said. "It's terrifying. But terrifying is not always bad."
He said certified skydivers must be responsible for their own gear and actions.
Sometimes, he said, equipment just doesn't work as planned.
Source: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Malfunction-kills-veteran-skydiver-in-Brazoria-4604074.php?t=ce8190eea7


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Ok guys the whole secret of my tilt, that how looks like from inside. That bayonet seen on pictures i used from my older tilt diyTs v2.0, but instead of a this you can easily use the any lens adapter like the pka-eos, m42-nikon F ect. of course that is depending on the camera you are using.
Important information: using the full frame 50mm lens for diy tilt you have to be really careful because the rear lens when tilted is close, very close to the mirror in the camera, that why you have to measure depth from the mirror to the lens mount. Keep that measure in your mind all the time when you work on that lens.
I do not give any dimensional(mesures) because the every diy tilt-shift design is different and depends on the main lens used (for that project i use fujinon 50mm f1.9). Of course shower head is not necessarily also you can use something else on the similar shape like a small bowl ect..
Remeber that inside edge of bayonet must be well polished and perfectly round and smooth that are bowl(shower head) had no resistance to movements (tilting). The whole is held by rubber glove and exactly one of her fingers tightened on the lens.
To change the aperture i just screw out the lens from housing.
Keep your work clean to safe the dust from camera.
I am not responsible for any damage of the camera or the health of people trying to modify the lens using my guidelines.
good luck
Many thanks to my beloved for understanding and strength all the time, I love you baby.
ps.sorry guys for my bad english


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When it comes to FIFA's ongoing commitments and year-round work, the various FIFA World Cups are just the tip of the iceberg.
Behind the scenes, FIFA takes an active role in helping develop football throughout the world, implementing programmes to benefit the beautiful game in all its forms, from youth football to women's football, futsal and beach soccer.
To highlight the importance of this role, FIFA.com will be conducting regular interviews with some of football's biggest names currently involved in development work.
To begin this new series in style, FIFA.com met up with former France midfielder Olivier Dacourt. Capped 21 times by Les Bleus, Dacourt lit up the French league before enjoying spells abroad with prestigious clubs including Leeds United, Roma and Inter Milan.
Two years after calling time on his career, he is now busy with a number of new pursuits, including a publishing house and art gallery, but he remains actively involved in the world of football.
Ambitious, generous and above all lucid on the subject of his own future, he opened up to FIFA.com about his career, his new interests, his thoughts on football today and its scope for development.
FIFA.com: How did your career as a footballer begin? How were you first discovered?
*Olivier Dacourt: *Football has been a passion for me since a very young age. I started out in my local neighbourhood of Aulnay-sous-Bois, a suburb to the north of Paris. At the age of 13, and two years ahead of schedule, I was selected for a scouting camp organised by Saint-Etienne and Strasbourg. I chose Strasbourg so that I could join their youth academy. It was a very difficult period as it was the first time I'd left Paris, and to cope with the challenge I often thought about my neighbourhood. That had been a school of life for me, an important time. It was a source of strength for me throughout my success. Education and respect are a passport for life and that's what I try to teach my children.
*What are your thoughts on the state of football development, which FIFA is heavily invested in? How important is it in today's game? *
Football development is absolutely key, and FIFA's activities in this area are essential. From youth football to the professional game, FIFA's financial, technical and material support are proving vital to improving disciplines like futsal, beach soccer and women's football, as well as raising the standards of everyone involved, particularly referees and coaches. That support is also contributing to the progress of football in emerging nations, most notably through the development of infrastructure and the organisation of courses.
When I was younger, football was a way to forget my troubles, to meet up with friends and play together for hours, almost like a family.
Speaking of women's football, do you know who won the most recent FIFA Women's World Cup™?
Japan! (laughs) I followed the Women's World Cup a little bit. The level the women play at is impressive sometimes. The matches are attractive to watch, the play is committed, spectacular and focused on attack, and standards are rising across the board. Women's football has a bright future and its increasing popularity is essential. You only have to look at the France team and the excitement that built up around the squad during the World Cup – it's undeniable. France's women's team enjoys a whole new status now. The image projected by Les Bleues chimed perfectly with what the public were looking for. People appreciate the way they play, but also the team's attitude and joie de vivre, as well as the values they promote.
Lots of former professionals have turned to beach soccer. Is it a discipline you have any experience of?
No, unfortunately I haven't had the chance. I have a little more time now, though. It's a discipline that's experiencing great success and getting media exposure, while attracting big crowds to the most beautiful beaches in the world. It's a sport that's accessible, cheap to play and almost free of restrictions. I also know that it's becoming more professional and that Brazil, who've won the World Cup several times, have serious rivals out there such as Portugal, France and Russia.
Similarly to beach soccer, futsal is looking to spread its development across every continent. What are your thoughts on this growing discipline?
Unlike beach soccer, I play futsal from time to time, especially with my children, who love it. It's a demanding and technical sport, based on quick passing and movement. It's no surprise that Brazil and Spain are both excellent in this discipline. For example, Spain's traditional style of play takes a lot of inspiration from futsal, as we saw in the last World Cup. For quite a few years now, France have favoured players who are physical and strong in the tackle. Things have changed with the advent of futsal, which is unanimously popular with youngsters. Futsal halls are always full in winter and I see that everywhere. Futsal should be integrated more into football schools because it complements football perfectly in terms of developing responsiveness: demonstrating the importance of positioning, speed and technique in football. Futsal is an excellent way of starting out in football as it teaches youngsters the basics of the game right from the start, and it does so in any country in the world.
How has football changed since you first started your career?
Overall, football remains the same. It doesn't change much over time. However, it has got quicker and the players are perhaps now more complete. One of the major differences I've noticed concerns the physical aspect. In my day, especially in the early 1990s, the challenges were a lot rougher. Developments on the refereeing side have struck me too and they've coincided with the changes in how the game is played. Debates about whether or not to introduce video replays get aired every weekend. Football has taken on a whole new dimension with the arrival of huge amounts of capital, and there has been colossal investment.
The matches are attractive to watch, the play is committed, spectacular and focused on attack, and standards are rising across the board.
What are the biggest differences between the professional football world that everyone sees on television and the amateur leagues where you no doubt started out?
Everything happens quicker. The main difference is the approach to the game. When I was younger, football was a way to forget my troubles, to meet up with friends and play together for hours, almost like a family. There are far more constraints in the professional world. Obviously, the stakes aren't the same. Pressure is everywhere, especially at the big clubs where you're expected to get a result in every single game. Some players are nonetheless able to put the professional context out of their minds and play a simple and stylish kind of football with maximum results. I'm thinking above all of Lionel Messi, who looks like he's in a playground or his own back garden whenever he walks onto a football pitch. That's so impressive and it leaves me speechless. Still, whoever you're playing with, be it an international star or someone else, the joy of scoring a goal beats everything. It's the Holy Grail and that will never change.
Have you considered a role in grassroots development? How could you see yourself getting involved?
I'm currently enrolled at the Centre for the Law and Economics of Sport (CDES) in Limoges, where I'm taking a diploma to become a general manager of a sports club. It's a way of keeping myself in the milieu and getting involved in football development – not at grassroots level but higher up, by gaining the management skills needed for a club, league or federation. After that, I'll be directly or indirectly involved with youth football and training youngsters from the youngest ages. A lot of former players are now hoping to get involved in football. For example, Zinedine Zidane and Eric Carriere are in the same year as me.