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Age: 25
FoodtoEat overhauls online ordering. The website features 350 restaurants in New York and 40 food trucks—the first service of its kind to align with street vendors. Patrons can jump the line when they arrive to pick up orders, and, unlike competitors like Grubhub and Seamless, which charge restaurants up to 15 percent of the total order, FoodtoEat charges a flat 10 cents.
"Restaurants are a very high-risk business," Sharma says. "If a restaurant doesn't survive within its first year, they usually just shut down. And we've had that happen with two or three of our restaurants. Our pricing model is helping them to be able to sustain their business."
In the summer of 2008, FoodtoEat was a far-flung possibility. Sharma had just graduated from Stony Brook University in New York and was preparing to take a job at a consulting firm in Washington, D.C., while studying for the LSAT. But papers she'd written on restaurant operations swirled in her head, and, living in Long Island, she was inundated with food trucks everywhere she walked.
"I kept thinking, what can I do, what kind of combination of a business can I run?" she says.
In late 2010, she hired a firm in Delhi, India, to design FoodtoEat. While technicians worked out the digital design, Sharma set out to get food trucks on board.
"It was a battle," she says. "They were like, 'No, I don't want to work with you because I don't trust you. Are you going to take my money from me?' But slowly we were able to prove ourselves to them."
FoodtoEat beta-launched in June 2011, and Sharma is now eyeing expansion into Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and the West Coast.
As for her abandoned law degree? "I should probably do something part-time," she says. "Maybe a JD/MBA."
Franchisee / Mooyah
Age: 27
Tired of the corporate world of sports marketing, McGuire left to pursue his lifelong dream of starting his own business in June 2011.
McGuire and business partner, Frank Sciuto, opened their Mooyah franchise in the small town of Burleson, Texas, to avoid the over-saturated "better burger market" of Fort Worth.
Originally, McGuire had no plan of opening a franchise.
"I didn't even have any intention of entering the foodservice industry," McGuire says. "However, now I can't imagine what it would have been like during those first months to not be able to pick up the phone and call [Mooyah corporate] after a rough day."
McGuire has succeeded by being persistent.He apprenticed at a local Mooyah store for free to learn the ins and outs of the company. He then was unrelenting when getting funding for his franchise.
"We had to meet with nine banks before we could convince one to work with us," he says.
With the business up and running, he is still bound by the strict guidelines of a start-up. Using diligent social media and word-of-mouth marketing, he saves money on advertising while working toward his lofty goal of $19,500 in transactions per week.
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The Maryland State Archives has an incomplete index to colonial muster and payroll records for the period 1732 to 1772, as well as various records and indexes for the later wars and military units. Muster and payrolls of colonial Maryland militia are included in Murtie June Clark's Colonial Soldiers of the South, 1732'1774 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983). Also helpful is Henry C. Peden, Jr., Colonial Maryland Soldiers and Sailors, 1634'1734 (Westminster, Md.: Willow Bend Books, 2001). The National Archives'Mid-Atlantic Region has microfilms of the Revolutionary War military service (with index) and pension records (arranged alphabetically), the index to War of 1812 and Spanish-American War service records, and name indexes to Union and Confederate soldiers in the Civil War. Lists of Revolutionary War muster rolls were published in volume 18 of Archives of Maryland (1900; reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1972). Helpful for Revolutionary research are Raymond B. Clark, Jr., Maryland Revolutionary Records: How to Find Them & Interpret Them (St. Michaels, Md.: the author, 1976); S. Eugene Clements and F. Edward Wright, Maryland Militia in the Revolutionary War (Westminster, Md.: Family Line Publications, 1987); and Harry Wright Newman, comp., Maryland Revolutionary Records: Data Obtained from 3,050 Pension Claims and Bounty Land Applications (1938; reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987). Much manuscript material is located through An Inventory of Maryland State Papers, Volume I, The Era of the American Revolution, 1775'1789, edited by Edward C. Papenfuse and others (Annapolis, Md.: Hall of Records Commission, 1977). For Marylanders on the other side, see Richard Arthur Overfield's The Loyalists of Maryland During the American Revolution, thesis, University of Maryland (Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1968), and M. Christopher New, Maryland Loyalists in the American Revolution (Centerville, Md.: Tidewater, 1996).
For the nineteenth century, helpful published references include William M. Marine, The British Invasion of Maryland, 1812'1815 (1913; reprint, Hatboro, Pa.: Tradition Press, 1965; and Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1977); F. Edward Wright, Maryland Militia, War of 1812, 7 vols. (Silver Spring: Family Line Publications, 1979'85); Thomas Huntsberry, Western Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia Militia in Defense of Maryland, 1805 to 1815 (Baltimore: the author, 1983); L. Allison Wilmer and others, History and Roster of Maryland Volunteers, War of 1861'5, 2 vols. (1898; reprint, Westminster, Md.: Family Line Publications, 1987); William W. Goldsborough, The Maryland Line in the Confederate Army 1861'1865, 2d ed. (1900; reprint with index, Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1972); and Daniel P. Hartzler, Marylanders in the Confederacy (Silver Spring: Family Lines Publications, 1986).
World War I participants from Maryland are found in a list compiled by the Maryland War Records Commission (Baltimore, 1933). The War Records Division of the Maryland Historical Society compiled five volumes of Maryland in World War II, Register of Service Personnel (1965). Some military history is available at the State of Maryland Military Department, Room B14, Fifth Regiment Armory, 219 29th Division St., Baltimore, MD 21201-2288.
At Ancestry.com, subscribers can access Maryland Military Men, 1917-18 which provides the names of men who served in the army, navy, and marines during World War I.
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Jordan Danks will get a chance to show his stuff in big-league camp this spring, but he doesn't have much of a chance of making the big-league roster. Williams said Danks, the younger brother of John Danks, still needs to play every day and the current OF spots are set with [Juan] Pierre, Alexis Rios and Carlos Quentin. As for [Brent] Morel, Williams thinks he could still be useful playing four times a week with the big-league team, which seems to suggest a Morel/Teahen 3B platoon, at least at the start of the season.
As for Quentin, Guillen boldly predicted that the high-intensity run producer will have a season like he did in 2008 when he was an MVP candidate before a late-season hand injury. Perhaps it was Guillen's way of saying that Quentin will be expected to deliver up to his potential, something he will only be able to do by staying healthy.
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WEDNESDAY, Dec. 11, 2013 (HealthDay News) -- Probiotics -- friendly bacteria found in supplements and some yogurts -- don't prevent childhood asthma, but they may provide other health benefits, according to a new study.
Researchers in Canada found that taking probiotics during pregnancy or giving probiotics to infants during the first year of life does not reduce the prevalence of asthma.
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Concerns over hot weather and its impact on milk production come at a time when dairy demand is increasing.
Now that the June milk production is behind us, the industry is already looking ahead to the July report and what impact the weather has had on production. U.S. milk output in June was up a surprising 1.5% from last year, exceeding projections. During the first half of the year, only two months showed lower milk production compared to the previous year, which is incredible considering the high prices paid for feed and the resulting heavy culling.
Now that USDA has reduced the information on the monthly production reports to only milk production, we have no idea of cow numbers in comparison to previous months and previous years. This makes milk production more difficult to estimate from month to month.
Of the top 23 states, there were only two states showing milk production declines in June compared to June 2012. These were Missouri, -4.2% and California, -0.8%. Even states that have been in severe drought continued to post production gains. Milk production for the second quarter was 0.9% higher than the same period last year.
Reports have been circulating as to the impact hot weather has had this month. Some estimates were indicating milk production declines of as much as 15% in California during the hot spell and varying estimates coming from other areas of the country recently. The perception is that this has significantly impacted the milk production curve and will be difficult for cows to recover from.
This heightened concern over tight milk supply at a time when demand is increasing. In about a month, schools will be reopening again for the year, requiring increased volume of fluid milk for students. Rather than just assuming overall milk production has fallen enough to tighten supply creating shortages, one has to look back at July milk production from last year. Milk production increased 0.7% compared to July 2011. Weather last summer was hot and dry in many areas during the month of July, yet production was able to improve. June milk production in 2012 increased 0.9% over 2011. We need to remember that we are always comparing the same months from year to year.
So the question that needs to be asked is: Were cows and milk production affected greater this year than last year? The market seems to think so as cash cheese buyers stepped in to purchase supply more aggressively this past week. Caution needs to be exercised as perceptions many times can push markets either higher or lower than fundamentals can support. A case in point was the increase in prices based on the concerns over drought in New Zealand and Australia earlier this year.
Current fundamentals can support cheese prices at present levels, but can they support prices much higher considering our current supply? The potential for lower corn prices due to projections for a large crop and large ending stocks could translate over into strong milk production. But crops are not yet in the bin and there are five months yet before the end of the year. A lot can happen during that time.
Obviously, the growth of cheese and butter inventory will have an impact on the extent of price potential with the greater impact being overall demand. Demand should increase steadily over the next few months as schools reopen and retailers and packing firms look ahead to the holidays.
One can never predict where prices will end up, but an educated assessment needs to be made, and then steps taken in order protect profitable prices when they are available. Marketing strategies can be implements that allow for a variation in price as well as the potential for capturing a higher price if the market provides.
Upcoming reports:
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- June Livestock Slaughter on July 25
- Agricultural Prices report on July 31
- July Federal Order Class price on July 31
- Dairy Products report on August 1
- Global Dairy Trade auction on August 6
Robin Schmahl is a commodity broker and owner of AgDairy LLC, a full-service commodity brokerage firm located in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. He can be reached at 877-256-3253 or through their website at www.agdairy.com.
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As we continue to study the Whistler Economic Initiative (EPI) report, it clearly shows that Whistler is a very significant economy. With over $1B in annual expenditures and $1.3B in GDP, Whistler is a meaningful part of British Columbia's overall economy. Whistler's economy, not surprisingly, is driven by what the Whistler EPI report refers to as "Destinational Visitors." These visitors… [read more]
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The next release of the ISAF World Sailing Rankings will be on 2 May 2012 and will include the Semaine Olympique Française in Hyeres, France.
World Ranking Leaders - 11 April 2012
Men's One Person Dinghy (Heavyweight) - Finn
Ed Wright (GBR)
Women's One Person Dinghy - Laser Radial
Evi Van Acker (BEL)
Men's One Person Dinghy - Laser
Tom Slingsby (AUS)
Men's Two Person Dinghy - 470
Mathew Belcher and Malcolm Page (AUS)
Women's Two Person Dinghy - 470
Ai Kondo and Wakako Tabata (JPN)
Men's Skiff - 49er
Nico Delle - Karth and Nikolaus Resch (AUT)
Men's Keelboat - Star
Robert Scheidt and Bruno Prada (BRA)
Men's Windsurfer - RS:X
Piotr Myszka (POL)
Women's Windsurfer - RS:X
Blanca Manchon (ESP)
Visit the ISAF World Sailing Rankings homepage at www.sailing.org/rankings for more on the latest Ranking release and dates for all Ranking releases.
Events Included
For more details on the new events included and events not included in this Ranking release please click on the link below.
Click here for more on Events Included in this Ranking release
The full ISAF World Sailing Ranking lists, results from all ISAF Graded events, lists of Graded events throughout the year, Ranking release dates and the method of calculation for the Rankings can be found on the ISAF website at www.sailing.org/rankings
ISAF World Sailing Rankings - www.sailing.org/rankings


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The new experimental version of mk-defsystem is MK:DEFSYSTEM 4.x (MK4). It is completely CLOS based and backward compatible with 3.x.
The sourceforge link to mk-defsystem is https://sourceforge.net/projects/clocc/
The CVS modules in the CLOCC are
- defsystem-3.x and
- defsystem-4.x
If you have patches to make mk-defsystem more usable, please submit them to the CLOCC mailing lists or to one of the CLOCC maintainers.
Note that the latest version of MK3 already includes the code shown below.
Did you know? You can also load foreign files with defsystem. For example, to define that C components are compiled by calling out to "make" and loaded using the foreign loader, try something like this example (originally from db-sockets):
(defparameter *make-program* "make") (defun c-make-file (filename &rest args &key output-file error-file) ;; make foo.o (declare (ignore args error-file)) (make::run-unix-program *make-program* (list output-file))) (make:define-language :c :compiler #'c-make-file :loader #+:lucid #'load-foreign-files #+cmu #'alien::load-foreign #+sbcl #'sb-alien::load-foreign #+:allegro #'load #-(or :cmu :sbcl :lucid :allegro) #'load :source-extension "c" :binary-extension "o")
then you define the relevant component like this:
(:file "get_h_errno.c" :language :c :source-extension "c" :binary-extension "o")
Are there any documents for mk-defsystem out there? How does one add a path to its search path?
Chapter 4 of http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/ai-repository/ai/lang/lisp/code/tools/mkantdoc.tgz
I have done a mild update to the defsystem.html that appears in
clocc/src/defsystem-3.3i/docs/. I have submitted the changes, but don't believe they have been incorporated. You can find the documents here. I'll try to add some of the material discussed on this page, as time permits.
The CLOCC version of mk-defsystem has some TeX/DVI/PS documentation. As to the specific question, the magical variable you're looking to push things onto is mk:*central-registry*.
Just to clarify: the CLOCC documentation is limited and needs to be updated. As per the specific question, both MK3 and MK4 now have a new function
(mk:add-registry-location <i>pathname</i>)which does the PUSH in a more meaningful way.
Henrik Motakef's Fight the System explains how to use and load libraries with mk-defsystem.


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Diseñadores de todas las partes del mundo están proponiendo diseños creativos a influxent en la categoría de diseño logotipo - custom.
We are looking for an extremely hip/modern looking logo for our company that will be eye-catching to the snow, skate & surf culture and college students.
influx entertainment
Desired Color Scheme:
Black & Electric Blue color scheme
Desired Style:
Hip/Modern logo & symbol that targets surf, skate & snow culture. Something that stands out to college lifestyle in particular
Accepted File Formats:
jpg, psd, vector, etc
** Please note the price has been upped to $300 + Bonus! **
Our company name is: influx entertainment
We are looking for a really hip/modern/unique logo that is eye-catching to the snow, skate & surf culture in particular. We are a marketing company based out of Colorado, catering to the young adult crowd. We bring together companies and their target audience through promotional events. These events normally take place at top bars and venues in the area, and are seen as an event that cannot be missed.
We require that you create some sort of unique symbol for our company to go along with the logo. We were thinking about creating some sort of symbol based around the "i" since our company is influx entertainment. Please do different variations of the logo on a black background & white background. We are trying to shoot for an electric blue color scheme.
Some ideas to think about are the definition of influx: an arrival or entry of large numbers of people & an inflow of water into a lake river or sea
The symbol should take into account the extreme culture that we are marketing to. Especially working out of Boulder, Colorado, we need something that is hip and very unique -- attracting surf, skate and the snow culture. A symbol that can work with the idea of an influx of people gather for a common purpose.
Maybe that can give you some cool ideas.
The added $145 will be towards the business card designs, and site template. Make sure the header includes the logo and make sure the rest of the main page's font compliments the logo. If you are just submitting an entry for the logo, winner will receive $155 accordingly.
ALSO, We need this image to be able to blown up as big as we want -- we will be making fairly large banners with our logo on it. We will also use the logo on other various large surfaces.
We are looking to have a decision made within one weeks time -- preferably within the next 3 days or so! Good luck to all!
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Hello everyone. So glad Heather trusted me with her blog while she is on vacation. She gave me carte blanche to write about anything I want! Brave girl :)
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Guest Post | Taking a dip (Barbara from Hodge Podge)
Hello everyone. So glad Heather trusted me with her blog while she is on vacation. She gave me carte blanche to write about anything I want! Brave girl :)
11 comments:
- Linda said...
Can't say I have dipped anything yet.
Hmmm love the baskets.
- August 8, 2012 at 8:02 PM
- Unknown said...
I love this trend.. could I commit to painting legs of furniture? Maybe not but I love those baskets!
- August 8, 2012 at 9:54 PM
I love the idea of leaving the legs wooden and then being able to one day paint them to match if I no longer like the look!
- August 8, 2012 at 10:27 PM
- Tiffany Leigh said...
Dipped furniture legs are so cute! I think they would be especially perfect in a kids room because, like you pointed out Barbara, they are so fun and whimsical!
- August 8, 2012 at 10:40 PM
- Unknown said...
I'd heard of the dipped furniture trend (which I am so going to try after seeing these fabulous examples) but I must be living under a rock because I haven't seen the dipped clothing trend! Now this is something I need in my life ASAP!
- August 9, 2012 at 6:12 AM
- Tim said...
I was just thinking about dipping the legs of a vintage chair into minty green the other day! Great inspirational ideas here Heather! Thanks for having Barb on a fun and super on trend topic!
- August 9, 2012 at 8:05 AM
- Adding the finishing touch said...
Wow I love this! Great idea!
- August 9, 2012 at 8:13 PM
- Carol@TheDesignPages said...
Love it! The curtains are especially appealing.
- August 14, 2012 at 12:05 PM
- Barbara Matson said...
Thanks for having me Heather - it was fun to find other dipped finds to share!
- August 15, 2012 at 8:42 PM
- Unknown said...
Anything Barbara does is a winner! Love gold dipped legs on things lately.
- August 15, 2012 at 9:59 PM
- Samantha said...
Ooo, gold dipped. So pretty.
I have been dipping a number of fabric things using Tulip One Step tie dye, which is a little easier than regular dye.
- August 16, 2012 at 8:24 AM


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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Open bugs in Rockbox
Open bugs in Rockbox
From: <tracker_at_rockbox.org>
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:00:03 +0200
Flyspray contains 266 open bugs:
1 days old: Cabbiev3 doesn't show progress bar and album art in current build
1 days old: No backdrop in FM Screen
4 days old: Rbutil fails to autodetect, Mac.
5 days old: themes not working ok
5 days old: In manual is missing section about "Running Time"
7 days old: iPod Radio Remote - (FM Radio and Button issues)
8 days old: %if() tag not in the manual
9 days old: Base skin: Problem with Touchscreen areas under a menu list
9 days old: Add original firmware instructions to automatic installation section of manual.
9 days old: %x() image "drawn below" %pb() in the same viewport doesn't show up
9 days old: Theme Editor doesn't render Vf/Vb correctly
9 days old: Recording causes player to lock up completely
12 days old: new bar tag features not in manual
13 days old: some m4a files won't play
17 days old: Manual doesn't tell you where to put album art for targets with pictureflow but no AA on WPS
17 days old: Sansa e200v2 progressbar lags when backlight activated
25 days old: Pictureflow and manuals don't agree on key settings.
26 days old: backlight fade in and fade out times missing from config file options
30 days old: Using player while charging
30 days old: Sansa Clip v2 FLAC playback skips regularly
32 days old: ipodpatcher sometimes fails when attempting to write rockbox to OSOS on ipodnano2g
33 days old: Rockbox Utility fails to create voice file for the current build.
34 days old: playback of atrac3_rm files sometimes fails on h300.
36 days old: bookmark on stop doesn't work on sleep timeout
40 days old: Bookmarks from tagcache don't work
40 days old: A-B Repeat cannot set marks on Sansa c250
45 days old: Fast Forward makes Musepack (SV8) "data abort"
49 days old: Ipod nano 2G full freeze, message "*PANIC* Stkov nand", in plugins folder
51 days old: Volume needs to be turned down on FM radio when voice is reading items associated with FM radio.
51 days old: ONDA VX777 volume in FM-Radio
55 days old: AMSv2: power down fails sometimes when wake-up alarm timer set
58 days old: WPS is not loaded if the .wps file is not in the WPS directory
60 days old: Sansa Fuze V2 USB connection kills the player
66 days old: Nano 2G: *PANIC* stkov nand crash
67 days old: Display in FMS screen didn't update correctly
71 days old: .mod files - metadata in incorrect fields
71 days old: Resume on iPod Mini starts in same position in following file
73 days old: Rockbox fm reception is bad compared to original firmware
74 days old: 11khz, 22khz do not work on iPod Nano2G
76 days old: the wps_time_countup member of sruct wps_state is neverer written, only read.
78 days old: No digital audio playback.
79 days old: PictureFlow runs jerkily while playing music on Nano2G after the recent feature addition
81 days old: Wrong playlist order after moving tracks to position right before current
83 days old: Auto-Change Directory crashes hardwarecodec players
87 days old: INSERT via HOTKEY returns to WPS (inconsistent!)
88 days old: last Arabic character in a line appears as the first for some cases
88 days old: bidi orientation
88 days old: After selecting a theme with a custom FMS, there is no way to turn the custom FMS off
88 days old: Volume is turned up to the maximum when the battery level gets very low
100 days old: PictureFlow doesn't respect "Show album title" setting on file.
101 days old: stop playing when switch hold to off on SA9200
102 days old: PictureFlow segfault when showing tracklist or playing - fixed.
106 days old: iPod FM Radio Remote
115 days old: Simulator - long power press fails to power-off device
119 days old: Skipping and stuttering in low bitrate .WMA files
121 days old: Sansa e200V2 simulator ALT+F4 fails
126 days old: not able to move in DOOM!
131 days old: CF Moded iPod mini2G fail spinup disk
134 days old: Rocboy isn't playable for Rom that have a size of more than 1m
140 days old: FLAC with CUEsheet playback issues (reopening of FS#7354)
144 days old: A theme can confuse the playback system
149 days old: sansa fuze v1 scroller doesn't obey 'first button press enables backlight only'
151 days old: H120 not start original IRiver Firmware with LCD Remote holding Rec + Play
154 days old: Elements from playback screen bleed into USB charge screen
157 days old: music pause on buffer refill - FS#10919 not completely solved
158 days old: Improve detection of MTP devices
162 days old: Flac decoding of large/high quality file fails
162 days old: "*PANIC* Stkov main" in (Text)Viewer
162 days old: "*PANIC* Stkov main" in Text Editor
165 days old: playlist viewer in wps causes problems on startup
168 days old: Screendump crashes Nano 2G
171 days old: Data abort on unplugging charging cable
173 days old: WAV problem with new Rockbox build & video iPod 60/80GB
188 days old: Gigabeat F halts occassionally when resume or USB plugged in
191 days old: Brickmania: Game doesn't load well
191 days old: rockbox doesn't employ software charge monitoring on 3G
194 days old: ipod 3G doesn't automatically enter disk-mode for usb connection
198 days old: block on the last top line grows with lines removal in the bottom
200 days old: Viewers icons applied incorrectly
200 days old: Click when pausing/resuming with fade/max precut settings on
204 days old: c200 v1 LCD doesn't turn on when changing Backlight setting from Off to On
208 days old: Rockboy Nano2g sound
209 days old: rbutilqt won't compile on OS X Snow Leopard due to lack of ppc support in some libraries
214 days old: Stereo Click
215 days old: Playback stuck after selection of broken/non-playable audio file
219 days old: Can�t open any .txt files which larger than 1M!
226 days old: Manual incorrectly claims that the sleep timer and wake-up alarm are mutually exclusive
231 days old: Can't load Rockbox on Cowon D2 from SD
233 days old: Changed default codepage is applied only afterl reboot
234 days old: iPod Nano 2G USB Issues
244 days old: Low battery makes it forget everything.
246 days old: no track will play after playing a deleted, semi-buffered track
247 days old: Unable to mount as mass storage device under Ubuntu
250 days old: Directory listing slow
257 days old: Crash when powering on with USB connected
257 days old: Manual: Code duplication
259 days old: Font get loaded fragmented.
265 days old: iPod Mini firmware often starts with alarm set and shuffle play enabled after using Rockbox
273 days old: Simulator returns distorted PCM data
275 days old: Sansa E200 won't correctly connect mass storage with HID enabled
277 days old: Rockbox will get stuck in the main menu if disconnected from the car adapter
280 days old: backdrops can make plugins unusable
284 days old: Choppy playback when pitch turned down.
285 days old: Some problems about the clickwheel and USB connection
288 days old: ROLO issues on ARM v4/v5 targets
296 days old: Rockboy Scrollwheel sensitivity
306 days old: Battery leakage after one-time usage of USB until restart
309 days old: Tag DB Never Builds
311 days old: Audio player selection is not visible while window is out of focus
312 days old: Rbutil will not autodetect e200v2 in win7
313 days old: Peakmeter on ipod 5g using too much CPU (replacing FS#10527)
314 days old: Database Initialization locks up with SD card
315 days old: Mp3encoder encodes short, squeaky files.
322 days old: Rockbox panic: I1E+Level6
325 days old: Hitting new button as old button is released doesn't release old button
333 days old: Remote hangs
338 days old: Deleting files in USB mode can confuse resume playback/bookmark functionality.
355 days old: Aliasing when playing MIDI files on iPod 5G
360 days old: ipod 5g with "big disk" doesn't hdd spin-up after hdd spin-down
1 years 9 days old: Wrong value used when changing scroll bar width
1 years 16 days old: Player gets stuck begause of incorrect battery status
1 years 24 days old: Freeze During Ogg Playback When Rewinding from Very End of Track
1 years 27 days old: Doom Gets a Data Abort Error
1 years 27 days old: Changing system language stops playback
1 years 27 days old: flac_seek may fail after 10 frame_sync attempts
1 years 30 days old: Vorbis decoder glitches
1 years 41 days old: Audio adapters through the bottom connector cause system freeze in 3.3 on 5G iPod
1 years 43 days old: Build failure the uisimulator using MinGW.
1 years 48 days old: MR-100 requires reset if the hold switch is engaged after turn-on but before rockboot loads
1 years 48 days old: Wrong sort when title has a number
1 years 48 days old: iriver H10 freezes up with scroll pad stuck up and back light flashing then shuts off
1 years 55 days old: FM Radio Tuner quality compared to OF
1 years 59 days old: volume controls broken in FM radio mode
1 years 60 days old: Recording: After 3 mins - "Warning 000001" - then "Disk full" - Recording not saved (5 GB free)
1 years 65 days old: Tagnavi conditionals
1 years 66 days old: Setting Recording directory copies and renames the directory
1 years 67 days old: Chessbox playing errors and crashing
1 years 73 days old: bad voicing in the chinese language
1 years 76 days old: bugs with pitch screen
1 years 76 days old: Wavview refuses to open a wav
1 years 77 days old: ipod doesn't show connecting to PC
1 years 94 days old: HID input not working for me on ipod nano
1 years 94 days old: ovarlay loader for Lua is made while lua.ovl is not made.
1 years 94 days old: Rockbox not handling MP3s with large ID3 frames
1 years 107 days old: Acessibility issues in rbutil
1 years 125 days old: Cannot charge iPod from Rockbox on low battery
1 years 126 days old: wierd behaviour when changing folder name while plaing music in it
1 years 127 days old: LCD sleep can theoretically happen after the backlight turns on again
1 years 131 days old: License of firmware/export/usb_ch9.h is unclear
1 years 140 days old: Directory skip hangs iaudio x5
1 years 141 days old: iPod sometimes needs menu + select reset to turn on
1 years 141 days old: Clicking noise on Gigabeat S only when battery is fully charged and DC is connected
1 years 144 days old: Sometimes keys do not work after exiting plugins
1 years 147 days old: Scrolling doesn't pause at the top or bottom of a list on 2nd Gen iPod
1 years 148 days old: Pop noise via headphones when starting up
1 years 149 days old: crash in text editor
1 years 154 days old: album art fails to display
1 years 159 days old: fast changing time indicators when pausing with fading on
1 years 160 days old: database_changelog corrupted/wrecked
1 years 163 days old: latest nat sort fix still sorts wrong
1 years 164 days old: wma decoder cannot work when the bitrate of audio file is 20kbps
1 years 167 days old: v1 tag not read if v2 tag present regardless of content
1 years 181 days old: H10 5G MTP bootloader can't be built from configure
1 years 182 days old: USB connection not made when action_userabort() is used
1 years 183 days old: iAudio X5L remote erratic starting with build from 20090211
1 years 184 days old: Ipod Accessory bug reports
1 years 185 days old: fade on pause/playback in plugins is ignored
1 years 186 days old: "First Keypress Enables Backlight Only" broken on 5G and probably other clickweel iPods
1 years 192 days old: keyclick doesn't work when playback is paused
1 years 195 days old: iAudio M3 does not charge *ever* using Rockbox
1 years 205 days old: Release scripts are broken on many machines (/tools/release/*.pl)
1 years 206 days old: When cutting and pasting, overwriting doesn't work
1 years 208 days old: Playback is borked after attempting (and failing) to play a certain file.
1 years 209 days old: settings not saved when disk is not spinning
1 years 216 days old: RB sometimes forgets where it is in a playlist and that shuffle is on
1 years 221 days old: RockBOX freezes on X5L when changing between songs while RockBOX is accessing HDD.
1 years 223 days old: No header info in the .Scrobbler log
1 years 223 days old: m4a metadata read or stored incorrectly
1 years 226 days old: Manual installion section of Rockbox Manual refers to outdated error message
1 years 227 days old: log-today doesn't load in Google Chrome
1 years 227 days old: browsing through playlist interrupts playback
1 years 228 days old: Broken wav file playback
1 years 229 days old: Single Mode Bootloader fails reboot on updated Gigabeat S.
1 years 229 days old: WMA Decoder - Problematic Files with example
1 years 229 days old: Premature and multiple storage_sleep() in buffering.c
1 years 233 days old: "Beep" sounds very distorted and fuzzy.
1 years 235 days old: Sleep timer causing premature shutdown (3.0 and 3.1), codec failure (3.1)
1 years 239 days old: Car Adapter Mode isnt working anymore
1 years 243 days old: Playback skips and hangs badly on iPod Video 80GB on start up
1 years 250 days old: Resumes incorrect file after deletion from directory
1 years 251 days old: button queue should be cleared after some splashes
1 years 257 days old: Sound sometimes doesn't work on mr100 if booted without headphones plugged in
1 years 263 days old: no display visible on 2nd generation ipod
1 years 275 days old: SNES player missing tracks on certain SPCs
1 years 279 days old: rockbox.ipod not found
1 years 286 days old: PLAY and STOP buttons should be universal (where possible)
1 years 288 days old: Voice disappear when stopping playback.
1 years 303 days old: Idle Poweroff doesn't exactly poweroff X5
1 years 310 days old: Freeze when playing multi-track OGG files
1 years 310 days old: severe screen corruption on H300
1 years 327 days old: Bad meta-data cause momentary freeze when playing
1 years 330 days old: Crash when creating a bookmark
1 years 333 days old: Playback from cuesheet not scrobbled
1 years 336 days old: FM tuner reception fades over time
1 years 339 days old: Rockbox (and bootloader) mistakes battery for USB.
1 years 352 days old: playback engine gets confused by multiple simultaneous button presses
1 years 352 days old: jittering(?) when leaving "lcd mode" without changes
1 years 360 days old: JPEG Viewer on iPod
2 years 7 days old: resume for m4a isn't consistent
2 years 9 days old: BBC dowload ID3v2.3 tags not read reliably
2 years 11 days old: Rockbox hardlocks while recording
2 years 17 days old: r18234 - core + plugins shouldnt be calling opendir() directly...
2 years 39 days old: The number of characters included in the Sazanami-Mincho-Regular font are few.
2 years 39 days old: WMA Decoder - Problematic Files (Gaps/Skipping) - Example included
2 years 46 days old: Switching APE tracks no longer works on H120
2 years 47 days old: flac decoder doesn't handle truncated files nicely
2 years 49 days old: RBUtil reports a successful install on the e200R when it hasn't
2 years 59 days old: Freeze in Database
2 years 85 days old: Threads hanging if force track switching near buffer emptyness
2 years 86 days old: iRiver H340 skips when battery low
2 years 89 days old: AC3 playback does not work for single ripped songs
2 years 99 days old: AC3 Playback on iRiver H140
2 years 128 days old: m4a playback bugs
2 years 129 days old: compilation error due to GNU core utils BLOCK_SIZE value (and suggested fix)
2 years 139 days old: Equalizer is adding high noises
2 years 152 days old: Broken Manuals are Poorly Handled
2 years 152 days old: Extra button press required to continue browsing menus
2 years 156 days old: Freeze/Long duration when auto-creating bookmark if there's no free disk space left
2 years 173 days old: ALAC converted from dbPowerAmp is not recognized (RB r16536)
2 years 180 days old: MP4/AAC Playback problems
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Let's hope the new bill A.B. 390 passes but knowing California they will just bring in another bill to fleece citizens another way.
For the sake of Californians, I'm glad that idiotic bill may be repealed. I'm not against people being fined for EXCESSIVE exhaust noise (and I've received a couple in the past), but a noise violation definitely does not justify a $1,000 fine. More importantly, the noise ordinance is based on a specific testing procedure and instruments that the officer cannot accurately replicate in the field (SAE test procedure J1169 - May 1998), so how can the officer make an accurate determination on the legality of the exhaust based on sound alone?
FYI, it wasn't a $1000 fine off the bat. It is a progressive fine, starts about $215 and if you keep getting them they could bump it up to the maximum $1000 fine.
BUT I agree, hope they get rid of this bull$#@!, arbitrary law.


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Associated Press Tries To DRM The News
from the good-luck-with-that deptDRM has failed in almost every instance it's been tried. Not only does it fail to actually prevent copying, it tends to piss off legitimate users and limit value rather than enhance it. And yet... people keep trying. But, honestly, I can't think of anything as pointless as the latest move from the Associated Press which appears to be an attempt to DRM the news. That's not what they call it, but that's what it sounds like:
The Associated Press Board of Directors today directed The Associated Press to create a news registry that will tag and track all AP content online to assure compliance with terms of use. The system will register key identifying information about each piece of content that AP distributes as well as the terms of use of that content, and employ a built-in beacon to notify AP about how the content is used....Hopefully I haven't "violated" that rule by quoting the section above. It really does sound like the mythical dreams of DRM that the software industry discussed two decades ago and the music industry discussed a decade ago. Neither one worked -- and both of those were (theoretically) a lot more "protectable" than news. Honestly, it's difficult to think of anything quite this useless:
The registry will employ a microformat for news developed by AP and which was endorsed two weeks ago by the Media Standards Trust, a London-based nonprofit research and development organization that has called on news organizations to adopt consistent news formats for online content. The microformat will essentially encapsulate AP and member content in an informational "wrapper" that includes a digital permissions framework that lets publishers specify how their content is to be used online and which also supplies the critical information needed to track and monitor its usage.
- It won't work. It physically can't work. News is news. You can't put any real DRM on it, because it's so easy to copy text and remove any sort of "registry" tags.
- It removes value. Nothing in this move increases the value of the AP's content to anyone. It does the opposite. It significantly limits the value, and for those who actually want to help promote the content, it now gives you extra incentives not to do so.
- It's a waste of AP resources. At a time when the AP should be focusing on looking for ways to add value to create a better business model, it's now about to throw away money, time and staff on putting together a DRM for news that doesn't work? Talk about screwed up priorities.
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Octodad: Dadliest Catch is the sequel to the splash hit, Octodad! This time, our cephaloprotagonist has gotten himself in a bind between his wife's mounting mistrust, and a disastrous trip to the local aquarium! Are you dad enough to control the titular octopus father as he strives to hide his nautical nature from his family while keeping his tangled tentacles intact?


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1. Do women and men have to be performing identical jobs for the EPA to apply?
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2. Do the two individuals have to be working in the same place?
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3. If I'm being paid less than someone of the opposite sex who is doing the same job as me at the same location, does that mean that my employer is violating the EPA?
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If you believe that your employer has violated the EPA, you can either file a charge with the EEOC or you can file a lawsuit in court. Under the EPA, you are generally required to file your lawsuit within two years of when you received the discriminatory pay. You should be aware that filing a charge with the EEOC does not extend your two-year time frame for filing an EPA lawsuit.
5. Do other laws also prohibit pay discrimination?
Yes, all of the laws enforced by the EEOC prohibit pay discrimination. Pay discrimination based on sex is also prohibited by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VII prohibits discrimination in compensation and other terms and conditions of employment, so it is broader than the EPA. Title VII also prohibits discrimination in compensation or other aspects of employment based on race, color, religion, or national origin. The Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act prohibit discrimination in compensation or other aspects of employment based on age (40 or over), disability, or genetic information.
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Photographer's Note
The iconic yellow cabs in kolkata.
the photo was taken infront of howrah railway station. these cabs are waiting for their passengers to be booked from "pre-paid taxi booth".
Taken with sony ericsson mobile phone.Not sure about the quality...
Thank you
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Software: PhotoScape
Exposure Time: 1/800 sec
F-Stop: f/2.8
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Date Taken: 2013-11-26 07:37
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serp2000 (47063) 2013-12-09 6:02
Hi, Mrityunjoy,
Clever choice of the point of view, excellent diagonal composition, good colors management! Fine depth of field! TFS!
Wanda1 (15142) 2013-12-09 6:12
Hi Mrityunjoy,
I like the diagonal created from corner to corner of these photogenic yellow cabs which fill the frame. Nice angle of view to capture the row and perspective looking along.
switch2ayan (169) 2013-12-09 6:25
Hi Mritu,
Your choice of angel is beautiful. Must say, the queue on the Tail is most attractive. Very beautifully framed.
lousat (123077) 2013-12-09 8:55
Very nice choice of point of view to create this neverending yellow diagonal,interesting daily life pic with excellent quality,showing us the confusion on the streets of this city.Have a nice day and thanks,LUCIANO
Hansaphotos (11047) 2013-12-09 9:21
Hello Mrityunjoy
An appealing and eye-catching shot of these yellow cabs. Great composition with the cars running in a diagonal across the frame. Very nice work! Thanks.
Have a nice week.
Best regards, Erling
A long perspective of yellow cabs leading the eye on the blue sari, a very good POV to have the front light and the dark blue band. i would have cropped the top to remove the UCO BANK advert, distracting the view (mine!)
aleXundar (1256) 2013-12-09 22:32
Hello Mrityunjoy,
A nice view of the Taxi-Stand. Beautiful saturated colors and a very good angular perspective.
You have wisely included just a glimpse of the iconic Howrah Bridge, to indicate the location. Very good shot.
Subhogen (4067) 2013-12-09 23:10
Hello Mrityunjoy,
Great composition to catch these yellow cabs in the taxi stand. They produce a nice symmetry to your photo. Nice colors and a good POV as well. I like the inclusion of the Howrah bridge in the BG. Nice shot and thanks for sharing.
subhendu_bagchi (26091) 2013-12-10 3:02
perfect framing dear, like the use of diagonal. Excellent perspective created by those yellow cabs. Great depth and sharpness. Ami holud pakhi dekhbo bhablam, tar bodole holud gari? Bhalo chhobi. Tfs.
abmdsudi (83475) 2013-12-17 21:32
Namaste Mrityunjoy
A vibrant shot with the prominent stationary taxis dominate the whole street scape from corner to corner, a standout shot with fantastic detail and fabulous viewpoint with much interest all round while the stunning yellow & black steal the show glueing concentration of focus so firmly there. I love too, how the lines converge so smoothly stretching the depth all the way......
Delightful photo work, Congrats
Best regards
SimoAle (646) 2014-01-04 0:28
Ciao Mrityunjoy,
questo scatto è tagliato molto bene, con la prospettiva in profondità dei taxi, belli i colori con questo giallo che è padrone della scena.
Buon week end e soprattutto buon anno!
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- Genre: Places
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2013-11-26
- Categories: Daily Life, Transportation
- Camera: Canon Power Shot A470
- Exposure: f/2.8, 1/800 seconds
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Calling it a "national security matter," the Pentagon says that 71% of Americans aged 17 to 24 would fail to qualify for military service owing to physical, behavioral, or educational shortcomings. Obesity is a big part of the problem, but it's hardly the whole story.
Obesity is the single biggest reason for being turned away. But other obstacles exist — some reasonable and some not — which are contributing to the excessively high rejection rate.
Many young men and women are deemed ineligible because they lack a high-school diploma, they have felony convictions, or they're on prescription-drugs for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
"The quality of people willing to serve has been declining rapidly," noted Gen. Batschelet in a Wall Street Journal article.
But many others are being turned away for rather trivial cosmetic reasons, such as large-scale tattoos and ear gauges in earlobes. In the case of 19-year-old Brittany Crippen, she was rejected for having a tattoo of a fish on the back of her neck. Recruiters told her to come back when she had it removed — an expensive (and even personal) proposition for some.
The WSJ reports:
Obesity, the single biggest reason for disqualifying new recruits, and other obstacles, such as poor educational attainment, led 90 retired military leaders in 2009 to form Mission: Readiness, a nonprofit aimed at raising awareness and seeking solutions. The group has lobbied state and federal officials to improve nutrition in schools and expand access to early education.
"We're trying to make decision makers see this is a national-security matter—and they need to prioritize it," said retired Major Gen. Allen Youngman. In the past, he said, "a drill sergeant could literally run the weight off a soldier as part of the regular training program," but now, "we have young people showing up at the recruiter's office who want to serve but are 50 or more pounds overweight."
About a quarter of high-school graduates also can't pass the Armed Forces Qualification Test, which measures math and reading skills, Gen. Youngman said. "They aren't educationally qualified to join the military in any capacity, not just the high-tech jobs," he said.
U.S. Army First Sgt. James Sawyer, who heads recruiting across a swath of Los Angeles County, said tattoos have become the most common cosmetic reason that applicants are disqualified. The Army already banned tattoos on the face, neck and fingers, but according to regulations in effect May 1, soldiers also can't have more than a total of four visible tattoos below the elbows and knees, and tattoos must be relatively small. The goal of the tattoo rules is to maintain a professional-looking Army, Sgt. Sawyer said. He added that "the average person in California has a tattoo."
Given the emphasis on having a "professional looking army," and considering that a mere 1% of American youths are both eligible and inclined to have a conversation with the military about joining, it seems obvious that the Pentagon needs to chill out.
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We're not exactly shocked to read that "police say they suspect speed and alcohol were contributing factors in the crash" with this bit of what appears to be staggeringly stupid hoonery.
The incident took place Sunday morning in Parklea, a suburb of Sydney, Australia, and the good news is that nobody in the house was injured when the "late model Commodore sedan" got out of control, hit a light pole, jumped a dirt mound, and flew about 90 meters through the air to land on the roof of a nearby house. The driver and passenger of the Commodore ended up in the hospital, where they're reportedely in stable condition with non-life-threatening injuries. We're sure they're answering a lot of very pointed questions posed by members of Sydney's law enforcement community right about now. Thanks to Alf, In Pog Form for the tip!
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Guys, I am off to the Turin Book Fair tonight. The focus is on India and I am so looking forward to one particular session in which Kiran Desai and I will be in conversation with readers and the media. My last book , 'Superstar India...." will be launched at the Fair in its Italian edition. Wish me luck!! The volcanic ash has spared Turin so far. Chances are my flight won't be cancelled. Sorry.... no laptop. So, blogging may not happen. Bear with me for a few days.... lots of masala on my return.
My Bombay Times column....
This is the deliciously loony season for Bollywood blockbusters of every conceivable hue – call it mid-summer madness, but the box office is going crazy with the most idiotic movies raking it in. After I survived 'Housefull' , I asked myself if I was ready for more lunacy. I was! If I possibly could have, I would have made it to the first day, first show of 'Badmaash Company'. But my daughters decided to save it as my Mother's Day treat. They asked me sweetly what I wanted to do by way of a fun celebration, and it took me under ten seconds to tell them nothing would please me more than to watch ' Badmaash…' And that's when they looked at me a little strangely. They'd been planning a chic girlie brunch…. perhaps a soothing spa treatment, or something equally posh. Forget it, I answered jauntily, let's go watch a full on Bollywood masala film. Nothing serious, nothing arty, nothing pretentious . Just the real thing with absurd situations, fabulously choreographed 'item' numbers, hot bods performing impossible stunts , lots of catchy remix tracks, an OTT storyline, implausible plot developments, politically incorrect gags that offend various interest groups, cheap humour, sexually 'out there' innuendos, out of the world locations, garish styling, and most importantly – no logic. I'd define that as a perfect formula for stress busting – better than any hot stone , deep tissue massage. Nothing gets me to unwind as wonderfully as a tacky Bollywood film! You can call it a case of full blown Bollywooditis. I am hopelessly hooked and may require rehab. But not just yet.
The two other movies on my 'must see' list are 'Ravaan' and 'Rajneeti' , even though both remain strictly outside the realm of rubbishy yet compulsively watchable films. This has to do with the star cast, the respective premises and the hugely talented directors helming both projects. Let's call them 'quality Bollywood products', not necessarily designed for mass consumption. Going by the slick promos, both movies promise a lot, but since our audiences remain frustratingly unpredictable ( just like our voters ) God knows how they'll fare at the box office. The magic Bollywood 'formula' everyone talks about, has not been bottled so far. Had that been so, every second dhoom dhadaka film would have scored at the box office. Nobody has cracked this elusive formula – nobody can. But as the annual movie jamboree rolls out its red carpet at Cannes, it is important for India to assert itself on its own terms. I happened to run into the Hinduja brothers at a wonderful dinner hosted at the Raj Bhavan by our Governor. They are Cannes veterans who are known to throw lavish parties. We got talking as to why Bollywood has still to make its presence felt at this mecca of moviedom, where film makers from across the world gather to cut deals, hustle, flog their latest films, net work, schmooze, party. One of the Hindujas mentioned our lack of co-ordination and mainly the absence of clout. We are not taken seriously enough, which is a sad comment given the size of our film industry. We also do not present a cohesive, coherent picture of Brand Bollywood, nor do we have the foresight to hire the top P.R. people to advise us. Because of this, we lag behind much smaller countries like Taiwan, Iran, Hong Kong or Korea. It is time to stop being apologetic about our films. Bollywood will soon be recognized as a legitimate genre – like those old spaghetti westerns from Italy or the perennial kung fu films from Hong Kong. The world must accept us on our own terms – we make the best masala movies on earth. That is our brand equity. Why dilute it? The day a 'Housefull' receives international recognition and outgrosses a Hollywood romcom ( come on….. what was 'The Bounty Hunter' if not a Bollywood film in English?), we will know that we have truly arrived.
How I loved Hema Malini's candid admission in her open letter on Mother's Day to her daughter Esha, that all she wanted for her was to have a man in her life! " Find the right guy," urged Hema. How disarming and genuine that sounded compared to all the gyaan given by other celeb moms to their celeb daughters!


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More than 100 teachers and staff at two D.C. public schools will have to reapply for their jobs.
School system officials on Monday told teachers and staff at Cardozo High School and Patterson Elementary that they will be reconstituted for the next school year.
The process is a tool under the federal No Child Left Behind law to turn around low-performing schools. Both have struggled with low test scores.
In a statement, Chancellor Kaya Henderson says officials determined both schools need a fresh start. Teachers tell The Washington Post they were blindsided.
They say trying to improve test scores by replacing staff is simplistic and ignores the schools' serious challenges. Cardozo was reconstituted with a staff shakeup in 2008. Since then, test scores have improved only marginally.


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