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iPhone users who have jailbroken their phone have been able to compile
R for a while now since they have access to the command line via MobileTerminal. However, I just recently found out that a package is now up on Cydia to ease installation. So I fired up my iPhone 4 and installed
R on it just for fun using the instructions here.
I'll write out the complete steps for installing
R onto the iPhone here as they are actually quite simple:
1. Have a jailbroken iPhone and the Cydia package manager app installed
(instructions not provided here).
2. Install OpenSSH and MobileTerminal via Cydia
Note that if you are running iOS 4, the current version of MobileTerminal on Cydia does not work properly, you'll need to get an updated version from:
Copy the file to your iPhone via SFTP (or download it to your iPhone directly) and then install it via SSH using:
dpkg -i mobileterminal_364.3-12_iphoneos-arm.deb
3. Add a new repository to Cydia
In Cydia, go to Manage->Sources and Add the following repository:
4. Install R the Statistical Language
Use Search to find it, if you cannot, make sure your user level is either Hacker or Developer level under Manage->Settings because
R is a command-line program so it will not show up if you are at the User level. You can change your level back to User immediately afterwards.
5. Run
R from command line
Load up MobileTerminal and run
R by simply typing:
Other notes
- As it is based on command-line, plots are generated as files in the directory you start
Rin, as opposed to being displayed on screen.
- Packages need to be installed and updated with the
upgrade.packages()commands respectively
- I recommend portrait mode as the keyboard seems to take up less screen estate but that's just personal preference.
- I've only tried this on iPhone 4′s retina display and it is barely usable so perhaps older iPhones would struggle with the readability.
- As of the time of writing this post, the packaged
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R 2.10.1. If you need a newer version, you will have to wait for an updated package or compile from source.
Thanks to ech0chrome for the Cydia repository and the reference instructions.
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BALTIMORE–I arrived here today with the hope that the White Sox would derail the Orioles from their three-game winning streak under new manager Buck "Mr. Baseball" Showalter.
In the Beginning…Sox and Buehrle vs. Tribe and Westbrook
The long cold winter and six weeks of spring training are in the rear-view mirror. It's time to play for real. Let's hope the White Sox take the first step toward an AL Central title and a trip to the postseason.
Today's Opening Day lineups:
Asdrubal Cabrera, SS
Grady Sizemore, CF
Shin-Soo Choo, RF
Travis Hafner, DH
Jhonny Peralta, 3B
Matt LaPorta, 1B
Mark Grudzielanek, 2B
Lou Marson, C
Michael Brantley, LF
Jake Westbrook, P
Juan Pierre, LF
Gordon Beckham, 2B
Carlos Quentin, RF
Paul Konerko, 1B
Mark Kotsay, DH
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The industrial wiring code is not a good one to break.
Awwww sweetums, you are so special, Bless. You are confusing and intermingling your digitals.
Baen E-Books provide 'digital files' without 'Digital rights management'. Save them to a hard drive, back them up on a flash, read them on any software that can handle the file, heck even email them to yourself.
This thing, can't happen to them. Unless they start using "DRM" at that point, they lose me as a paying customer.
EFF releases NSA activities timeline:
So now is the US going to make a stop to the Guardian's credit card processing too? Or will we just nuke Britain?
What's the binary for yarr again?
I think there is some merit in the idea myself.
Genesis 22:10
And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
Genisis 4:8
And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him
Exodus 32:27
And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.
Deuteronomy 19:12
Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
Judges 9:54
Then he called hastily unto the young man his armourbearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, A woman slew him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died.
1Samuel 15:3
Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
Psalms 94:6
They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
1Kings 18:23
And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
Isaiah 11:4
But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
Jeremiah 15:3
And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
Ezekiel 9:6, 7
Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.
And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.
If that 'Photo' is proof of criminal intent, then about 3/4 of all van owners from 1968-1980 should have been locked up.
Look at the tax payments for the petroleum industry, compared to their federal subsidy.
"...Coined by the British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976)as a concept for discussion of evolutionary principles in explaining the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena. Examples of memes given in the book included melodies, catch-phrases, fashion and the technology of building arches."
Isn't this how religions start?
They better watch out, them guys at 127.0.0.1 are likely to cut ya!
Lawsuits are cool!
"Complain all you like, sometimes you just can't buff stupid."
-Zunshine Healz
Rad/Rad Defender
Being punished when actually guilty of something, rather than just being accused would be swell.
I am not saying however back massages are not good, they are.
IP Spoofing, visitors, wifi hacking, scumbag relatives on the network, poor ISP record keeping, MAC spoofing & other technical doowhippies (Yes, that is a accepted term) can all make IP's less than valid proof of GUILT.
Andrew Auernheimer, is keeping up his fight for a similarly 'dangerous' bit of hacking criminality of retyping the URL in his browser to access published information.
So I wonder what tasty things the FBI will be cooking up as they train terrorists so they can catch them at lunch?
BRB must go patent breaking DRM on 3D printing, because PIRATES!
So, who's getting arrested for perjury?
Maybe we should get someone's dead grandmother to file a takedown notice and see the legal system jump into action then?
Short term temp job, inquire within. PS-Very short.
I would like to know if they are still monitoring the government offices as well since this is the same NZ that had a MP talk about how wonderful
listening to a compilation made by a friend, a illegal compilation, to be sure, after passing their 3 strikes law.


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... perhaps the greatest single worry related to using NP-hardness to protect elections—a worry that applies to NP-hardness results not just about manipulation, but also about control and bribery. That worry is that NP-hardness is a worst-case theory, and it is in concept possible that NP-hard sets may be easily solved on many of their input instances even if P and NP differ.They go on to mention the theory of average-case complexity, but it seems not to have been applied in this context. Is it ever going to be worth using a highly-artificial voting system, just to ensure that a potential manipulator gets a problem that is hard in worst case, but may generally be easy in practice? Perhaps one should look at other sources of difficulty for the manipulator, such as uncertainty about the other voters' preferences.
Added 1.11.10: Another nice survey that Ariel Procaccia pointed me to, ("AI's War on Manipulation: Are We Winning?" by Piotr Faliszewski and Ariel D. Procaccia) — considers in more detail the problem of NP-hardness as just a worst-case problem for the manipulator, it reviews some work giving negative results, i.e. fundamental obstacles to the project of designing voting systems that are typically computationally resistant to manipulation.


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When President Obama stands on the west steps of the Capitol to deliver his second inaugural address on Monday morning, his back will be turned to Congress, a legislative body whose public approval has crashed to near single digits.
While Mr. Obama came to Washington promising to change it, he spent much of the latter half of his first term as president in a running series of bitter battles with congressional Republicans. That inability to find common cause – whoever is more to blame – led to the least productive Congress in modern American history.
But if the president is going to pass legislative fixes for weighty issues like immigration reform, changes to the nation's gun laws, and the nation's troubled fiscal situation, he's going to need to work with the body he spent much of his reelection campaign railing against.
Americans are feeling like a bit differently about their country this year than they were four years ago, Democratic pollster Peter Hart said recently, with lower expectations and a somber outlook for the next presidential term replacing the soaring ambitions of Inauguration Day 2009.
"If 2009 was all about hope," Mr. Hart said, "2013 is about the ability to cope."
Hart may very well be speaking about the president, too.
Coping for Obama could mean dealing with the reality of divided government by focusing on issues of common ground between the president and Republicans, such as immigration reform and energy policy. And when Republicans balk, the president can use the Senate and his immense political operation to deliver public pressure on House Republicans.
Coping with divided government likely won't be aided, as many pundits suggest, by a president who slaps more GOP backs or has more Republicans over to the White House for movies and cards. The president isn't likely to win fans for his legislative agenda by trying to pal around with rock-ribbed Republicans with fundamentally different views about the role of government in American life.
"The president has been criticized by many people for his inability or unwillingness to spend a lot of time stroking members of Congress," says Ross Baker, a congressional historian at Rutgers University who is writing a book on bipartisanship in the US Senate. "I think a lot of this is based upon the widely-accepted theory [that the] power of a presidency is the power to persuade – which is perfectly plausible, and it was certainly plausible in the 1950s.... The problem is, there are no persuadables" today.
But by focusing on issues of common ground with the GOP, Washington could generate some bipartisan successes in the next four years.
Immigration and Energy
For one, the president could team up with Republican moderates and much of the party's leadership on immigration reform.
"We believe that immigration reform is different in that it has a past, present, and future of bipartisan support," said Ali Noorani, executive director of the National Immigration Forum. "What we've seen over the last two years is conservatives, moderates, and liberals want this president and this Congress to act, and that's different from any other issue."
And the president could perhaps turn down the bellicosity on the Hill by working with some of his loudest critics (though risking the ire of environmentalists in his political base) in one area that the deeply-red right and the president could agree: energy policy.
"We were encouraged by President Obama's 2012 campaign comments supporting an all-of-the-above agenda on energy, and his statements outlining support for oil and natural gas," said Jack Gerard, president of the American Petroleum Institute, the oil and gas industry's powerful trade association, in his annual State of American Energy address in Washington earlier this month.
But Republicans rage about a disconnect between what the president and members of his administration say they favor and what Republicans say is foot-dragging in building the Keystone XL pipeline, exporting natural gas, or freeing up more offshore areas for energy exploration. If the president were to get behind any of these initiatives he'd likely have plenty of GOP support – but that remains a large "if."
"I think that [Obama's] credibility with environmentalists would certainly be damaged" by getting on board with many energy priorities, says Baker, "and since he doesn't have to run again, it would seem to me sort a coin toss if he would alienate a Democratic constituency to ingratiate himself with some people who probably wouldn't vote for him under any circumstances."
And then there's always the Democrats. In assessing the president's relationship with Congress, it's worth remembering that he's gotten great compliance among his Democratic allies to date.
In the House, particularly, Democrats have been a rock-solid voting bloc capable of providing the lion's share of votes to pass key legislation from a debt ceiling increase, the fiscal-cliff solving tax deal, or aid for areas affected by hurricane Sandy.
When the president has to overcome congressional Republicans more than compromise with them (as on his recent slate of gun violence prevention measures), Obama's former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel recently told reporters that the president has a great way to do this, too – pass bills in the Democrat-led Senate and then use the power of the bully pulpit to turn public pressure on the House GOP.
As Mr. Emanuel put it: "Put the burner up."
How much the GOP will respond – or need to respond – to such pressure is an open question. House Republicans have signaled that they are thinking through how to thrive in divided government, too. Numerous press reports from the GOP's annual policy gathering this week suggest that the often-rambunctious House GOP is considering a strategic shift toward "making progress" toward Republican aims, as House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R) of Wisconsin put it, instead of holding out for their maximum demands.
On Friday, for example, the GOP offered to back down from its previously steadfast demand for $1 in budget cuts for every $1 increase in the federal debt ceiling for a much less strident demand: that both sides of Capitol Hill be required to pass a budget or lawmakers would go without pay.
Whatever the balance of pressure and compromise, the president won't be able to avoid Congress in Term 2. After all, his first date after his inaugural address is a lunch, where else, but on Capitol Hill.


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I'm not feeling very well tonight and had visions of a fun writing session earlier today, but now I want to curl up and watch a movie.
Nellie has a little Valentine's birthday party tomorrow, so I had best finish this before the cupcake timer dings.
Wishing you all a weekend full of little happies.
Our happies:
Decorating our classroom Valentine box
The Blueberry Ceremony. She plucks and eats, plucks and eats.
Little Naughty sneaked in and stole the Fairy Garden dog
Mama finally got with the program and stepped up my job at home to reinforce the sight words
She is so hungry, hungry, hungry to learn. It's inspiring.
Nella just ran off with my phone, and I heard her push a bunch of numbers and someone said hello. She's babbling from the hallway, so this is my cue before international cell phone charges show up on our bill.
Find some ways to make people happy this weekend. You will, in turn, feel happy.


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Bieber chats to campaigner Malala
Justin Bieber showed his serious side as he spoke to teenage campaigner Malala Yousafzai.
The Canadian pop star shared a FaceTime photo on Instagram of him chatting to the 17-year-old Pakistani activist, who survived after being shot by the Taliban in October 2012.
"Just got to FaceTime with Malala Yousafzai. She has such an incredible story," he wrote.
"I can't wait to meet her in person and talk about how I can support her and the @malalafund. #love."
Justin followed up the post with a series of motivational quotes on Twitter, such as "Make a positive difference in the world" and "Smile."
But he couldn't resist sharing another selfie of his toned abs and tattooed body soon afterwards.
It comes after his hearing to determine whether the Believe singer will be tried on charges of driving under the influence and resisting arrest was postponed by the Miami-Dade County judge to August 13.
The 20-year-old singer was arrested on January 23 in Miami Beach after what police described as an illegal street race between Justin and a friend.
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Recent Braves picks fuel strong year
Pitchers Graham, Gilmartin lead Atlanta's group of All-Stars
By Jonathan Raymond / Special to MLB.com | October 3, 2012 6:31 AM
The Atlanta Braves have long had a reputation for running a tight ship throughout their Minor League system, and this year was a perfect example of that.
Braves affiliates earned three trips to the postseason with Danville going to the Appalachian League playoffs and Rome appearing in the South Atlantic League postseason, while Lynchburg captured the Mills Cup crown in the Carolina League.
Additionally, the team's 2011 Draft class made a big splash in its first full season, with four picks from last year earning Organization All-Star honors. "There's some special talent [in the 2011 class], so far we like what we've seen out of several of our kids," Atlanta assistant general manager and director of player development Bruce Manno said.
Braves Organization All-Stars
Catcher -- Christian Bethancourt, Mississippi (71 games): Bethancourt, the Braves' No. 2 prospect and MLB.com's No. 53 overall, earned his Organization All-Star spot with his defense, which is widely viewed as among the elite of anybody at any position in the Minors. The 21-year-old Panama native has arguably one of the best arms behind the plate throughout the Minor Leagues and hit .241 for Double-A Mississippi before going down with a fractured left hand in August.
"You can't forget about Bethancourt. He broke his hand, but he can catch and throw as good as anybody I've ever seen," Braves Minor League field director Dave Trembley said. "Reminds me of Jose Molina. The question with him is offensively, but I think he's going to come around and he's going to be a front-line receiver."
First baseman -- Ernesto Mejia, Gwinnett (133 games): Mejia made his Triple-A debut after spending all of last season in Mississippi -- where he hit .297 with 26 home runs -- and didn't miss a beat. The Venezuela native led the International League with 92 RBIs, hitting .296 with 24 homers and a .502 slugging percentage, the third-best mark on the circuit. That production led to the 26-year-old collecting Midseason and Postseason IL All-Star honors and taking home the IL Rookie of the Year Award as well.
"He put up big numbers," said Trembley. "He had a real big season in Gwinnett, and what he did to make himself a better player was bring his walks up and his strikeouts down. He's got some kind of power."
Second baseman -- Tommy La Stella, GCL Braves (five games), Lynchburg (85 games): La Stella, an eighth-rounder out of Coastal Carolina University in 2011, batted .328 and slugged .543 in his debut with Class A Rome that summer. He followed up nicely in 2012, hitting .299 with a .389 on-base percentage and a .466 slugging mark. He delivered six home runs and 56 RBIs while adding 13 steals and 22 doubles. The No. 19 Braves prospect's strong bat warranted his selection as a Carolina League Midseason All-Star.
"Tommy's tool is the bat," Trembley noted. "We're looking to improve him around the bag. I thought he made improvements on his pivot and his ability to turn to the double play this year. His bat's going to take him -- he uses the whole field."
Shortstop -- Nick Ahmed, Lynchburg (130 games): A second-round pick by the Braves out of the University of Connecticut last year, Ahmed was another recent Atlanta selection to enjoy a big season. The No. 10 Braves prospect led the Class A Advanced Carolina League with 40 steals and 84 runs scored, establishing himself as a future top-of-the-order threat. The 22-year-old hit .269 with a .337 OBP for the Hillcats while flashing strong gap power with 36 doubles. He was named to the Midseason and Postseason Carolina League All-Star squads. Ahmed will play for the Phoenix Desert Dogs in the Arizona Fall League.
"Ahmed had a real good year at Lynchburg and offensively really improved," Manno said. "He was able to steal bases, and his defense is that of a prototypical shortstop. He's a real gamer, steps up in big moments, as he did in the Championship Series. We're looking forward to next year and where [he] can go from there."
Third baseman -- Edward Salcedo, Lynchburg (130 games): A heralded international signing out of the Dominican Republic by Atlanta in 2010, Salcedo made the leap from Rome this year and proved to be one of the most important cogs in the Hillcats' Mills Cup run. His 17 homers tied for fifth in the league while he also flashed good speed, stealing 23 bags for the second year in a row. The Braves' No. 9 prospect hit .240 and slugged .412 with 61 RBIs this year as a relatively young player in the league, having turned 21 at the end of July.
Salcedo will be joining Ahmed on the Desert Dogs in the AFL.
"He's an offensive player, a very good baserunner with a strong arm," said Trembley. "I think Salcedo is one of our top offensive potential guys in the system. He has the potential to hit 25 home runs in the big leagues, 30 doubles, steal bases. He reminds me of a player I was managing in 1994 in Birmingham -- Carlos Lee. He's going to hit."
Jose Constanza, Gwinnett (88 games), Atlanta (36 games): The 29-year-old Dominican Republic native has established himself over the past two years as one of the first players the Braves call on when injuries strike in Atlanta. In 78 games in the Majors over the last two seasons, he's hit .284 with a .334 on-base percentage with 12 steals. This year, Constanza's league- and system-leading .314 average, along with his .380 OBP and 14 steals placed him on the IL Midseason All-Star team.
"Constanza's a catalyst. He's done a real nice job when he went to the big leagues," said Trembley. "He's a plus runner and he had a real nice year in Triple-A."
Todd Cunningham, Mississippi (120 games): Atlanta's No. 12 prospect took a real step forward in 2012, posting a .309 average -- good for third in the Southern League -- while also finishing in the top 10 on the circuit in on-base percentage (.364), stolen bases (24) and runs (77). The 2010 second-round Draft pick also showed a slick glove in center field, where Trembley believes he has a long-term future. The 23-year-old was a Southern League Midseason and Postseason All-Star.
"Cunningham can play all three [outfield positions], but center field is probably his best spot," Trembley said. "He's a switch hitter, decent baserunner with good speed and he was the Braves' Minor League Player of the Year. I think you'll see him at Triple-A next year."
Robby Hefflinger, Lynchburg (37 games), Rome (84 games): Hefflinger's calling card is his power production, which was in no short supply this year. The 22-year-old finished fourth in the system with 69 RBIs and tied for fifth with 16 home runs. He finished with a .267 average and slugged .456 while adding 29 doubles. The 2009 seventh-rounder finished with career highs across the board, and Trembley praised his power potential.
"He has light tower power," said Trembley. "He's 6-4, 220 pounds, and we need to do with him what we did with [Evan] Gattis, which is to push him along in the system. He had a solid second half with Rome, hit a lot of home runs and drove in some runs. But he can hit with power -- you don't have a lot of guys in your system that have that kind of power."
Utility -- Evan Gattis, GCL Braves (four games), Lynchburg (21 games), Mississippi (49 games): Gattis wasn't healthy for all of 2012, but when he was, he hit just about everything in sight. The 26-year-old batted .305 between the three levels with 18 home runs, 67 RBIs and a .607 slugging percentage. Despite missing some time, the slugger managed to finish third in the system in home runs and fifth in RBIs, earning him a second straight Organization All-Star nod after he hit .322 with 22 home runs in 88 games for Rome last season. Gattis will spend the offseason playing left field in the Venezuelan Winter League with Maracaibo, according to Trembley.
"We see him as a potential Major League bat, he's a power guy. The ball makes a bit different sound when he hits it," Trembley said. "Our thought is, looking down the road, we could use the power bat in the corner outfield, but he's also really improved his catching, his ability to throw. I think he'd be an interesting guy on a Major League club, especially in the National League. He can catch, play some first and now he's going to play left."
Right-handed pitcher -- J.R. Graham, Lynchburg (17 games), Mississippi (nine games): Graham, another 2011 selection, was taken by Atlanta in the fourth round last year. The 22-year-old went 9-1 with a 2.63 ERA for the Hillcats in the first half, putting him on the Carolina League Midseason All-Star team and earning a promotion to Double-A. He finished the year 12-2 overall with a 2.80 ERA. He struck out 110 and walked 34 in 148 innings. The organization's No. 5 prospect led the system in ERA and had the second-most wins.
"J.R. started the year in Lynchburg and went to Double-A, and his starts [for Mississippi] were good," said Manno. "Development-wise, he's where he should be and continues to get better each time out. [He is] a big part of our future."
Left-handed pitcher -- Sean Gilmartin, Mississippi (20 games), Gwinnett (seven games): Gilmartin was the team's first-round selection in 2011, going 28th overall out of Florida State University. He progressed quickly, making it to Triple-A by the end of July. The 22-year-old finished with a 3.84 ERA in 157 innings between the two levels, striking out 111 and walking 39. Atlanta's No. 4 prospect was named to the Southern League's Postseason All-Star team.
"Gilmartin has command of all his pitches," said Trembley. "I think you'll see him in the mix at the Major League level next year. He has tremendous work habits, very good poise. He's a [Tom] Glavine-type guy -- not a hard thrower but a great finesse pitcher."
Reliever -- Juan Jaime, Lynchburg (42 games): Jaime, a 25-year-old Dominican Republic native, has an electric arm, racking up 73 strikeouts with 33 walks in 51 1/3 innings this season after missing all of 2010 and 2011 due to Tommy John surgery. The Braves' No. 18 prospect recorded a 3.16 ERA for the Hillcats and finished second in the Carolina League with 18 saves (tops among Atlanta farmhands).
"Jaime got it up to 100 [mph] this year, and he's working on a breaking pitch," Trembley said. "If he develops his breaking ball, I think he has the chance to be a real solid setup or closer type. He's lost weight, gotten in shape, and as a guy who missed two years, his arm is fresh."
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Part 2: Profiles of Charter Schools Highlighted in Part I
Gateway High School
|School Profile: Selected Variables
|Year First Chartered and Authorizer
|1998, local district
|Grades and Enrollment
|9–12 and 440
|Student Ethnicity
|20% African-American
21% Asian American
23% Hispanic
32% white
|Special Education
|Free and Reduced-price Lunch
|Graduation Rate
|Annual Cost per Student
Source: School records data from 2005–06
A visitor to Gateway High School sees its credo bannered at the entrance, in the students' own words: "Step up. Do right. Dream big." The school's founding goal was to serve students who have all kinds of learning styles and prepare them for college. But over time, says Gateway's principal, the school's vision has expanded to embrace the idea that "difference helps us all be better," reflecting the recent shift in the racial and ethnic composition of the student body to more closely represent the city's diversity.
The Gateway community is united around a commitment to providing a high quality college preparatory education to a diverse group of students in a safe, supportive learning environment. That commitment is grounded in a belief that all students learn differently and that a well-trained faculty can help all kinds of learners achieve success.
Gateway High School was founded in 1998 by six moms and a dad who sat around a kitchen table discussing and planning a school where their children, each with learning challenges, could be successful. They wanted to create a school where such students would not slip through the cracks. Together they worked tirelessly to conceive of a different kind of learning environment that would enable their children to master college preparatory material.
After interviewing several candidates, the team hired Peter Thorp as the founding principal. The former headmaster of Cate School, an independent boarding school in Carpinteria, Southern California, fell in love with Gateway immediately and committed to making the founding families' dream a reality. The intent was to create a school inspired by the work of Mel Levine, the internationally known researcher in neurodevelopment and child learning. But when the planning team consulted with Levine, he expressed skepticism, asserting that the Gateway vision could not be implemented in a public school. Undeterred, the team moved forward with chartering, and a year later when Levine was invited back to be honored for his Schools Attuned work, he found himself pleasantly surprised, saying, "I never thought you could do this."
School Operations and Educational Program
Gateway offers its students, chosen by lottery, an award-winning, individualized college preparatory education. Its course of study aligns to the state curriculum frameworks and content standards, and the curriculum exceeds the requirements for eligibility for the University of California system. To graduate from Gateway, students must meet certain credit and course requirements and pass the California High School Exit Exam. The course requirements are: humanities—four years; mathematics—three years; sciences—three years; languages other than English—three years; arts—two years; psychology—one year; college preparation—two semesters; physical education—two years; Project Week*—one per year; and community service—25 hours per year. In addition to required academic courses, students are offered honors and AP work in every subject area, performing and visual arts opportunities, sports and clubs, community service, and access to cutting-edge technology.
The hallmark of Gateway's innovative instructional program is achieving academic excellence through personalized, student-centered learning, where success is measured one student at a time. The program combines rigorous academics with an approach that supports individual talents and strengths. The Gateway approach is to differentiate instruction and provide comprehensive academic, social, and behavioral supports to ensure each student's success. Class sizes are small, typically about one teacher for every 22 students. During freshman year each student creates a personal learning plan outlining his or her learning style, goals, and plans for high school and beyond.
Gateway's core features are differentiated instruction, project-based learning, caring relationships between adults and students, assurance that individual talents and needs are identified and supported, self-discovery, and the fostering of intellectual curiosity.
Cultivating trusting relations between teachers and students is intentionally built into the structure of the school. Each student is assigned an adviser, a teacher-mentor who meets with advisees twice weekly in a mixed-grade group of 12–15 students over the course of their high school years, advising them about academic, social, and developmental issues. These groups are organized into four smaller learning communities, or "houses," within the school, to facilitate community-building throughout the school; house mentors serve as conduits for communication to link the houses. Additionally, the mentors meet regularly with the Care Team, consisting of the vice principal, the Learning Center director, college counselor, and mental health counselor. Each week the school holds an all-school assembly as an additional forum to make announcements, to address schoolwide issues, for guest presenters and for students to perform, and to build connectedness to the schoolwide community. Advisers also have one-to-one time with each of their students once a month, minimally.
The climate at Gateway is safe, orderly, mission-driven and geared for every student to succeed. There is a full-time mental health counselor, college counselor, Learning Center director, and tutoring coordinator; there are two learning specialists, two resource service providers, and two paraprofessionals who provide in-class support; and there are many part-time tutors, special education specialists and advisers. Students report always having a teacher or other adults to go to, noting that at other schools they only received individual attention when they were somehow in trouble.
Gateway aims to have at least 25 percent of its student body be students with a diagnosed disability. Currently 18 percent of students require special education and another 7 percent are learning disabled, most with diagnoses such as dyslexia, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or Asperger Syndrome. Thirty-three percent of the entire student body qualify for free or reduced-price lunch and Title I services, which are designated for students from low-income families. Over the past three years, Gateway has seen the racial and ethnic composition of its student body diversify, the result of its strong reputation attracting a larger pool of prospective students and deliberate recruitment to underserved neighborhoods.
Assessment is well integrated into the Gateway instructional program. "I assess every minute of everyday," explains a math teacher, "and I think others do as well." Teachers constantly check for understanding and adjust instruction accordingly. Assessments can take many forms to correspond to the differentiated instructional practices and include artistic components, oral presentations, standard pencil-and-paper exams, writing assignments, short-term and long-term projects, portfolios, and daily work. Some assessments are customized for individual students, and some students require or prefer alternate kinds of environments for test-taking, such as that of the Learning Center. One teacher describes how his very high-performing science students were acing his tests, so he additionally required them to meet with him one-to-one to probe the content more deeply and to challenge the students' thinking and understanding.
Family Involvement and Partnerships
Gateway recently moved to a new permanent facility in the Western Addition neighborhood of San Francisco, sharing the building with a charter middle school. According to the principal, Sharon Olken, "Building partnerships and connections in our new community is an important objective for us as we integrate into our new neighborhood." In addition, the principal hopes over time to make stronger links with local universities for teacher professional development support, as well as with the charter middle school that shares its new building.
Parents' involvement and belief in the school's mission are integral to Gateway's success. The school has an active Gateway Parent Association that interfaces with the board and the school's leadership team, helping guide the direction of the school. Parents participate in monthly steering committee meetings, are members of the board and the strategic planning committee, and are invited to attend schoolwide and grade-level meetings.
Parents help in several critical ways, including recruiting students, tutoring in the after-school program, providing outreach to underserved student populations, chaperoning field trips and sports events, planning and attending celebrations and school events, fundraising, and participating in community work days. The move to a new facility required more than 3,500 hours of sweat equity from students and families to complete improvements at the site. Parents and students have 24-7 access to PowerSchool, an online system that facilitates communication between home and school about student progress, concerns, and assignments and keeps track of how and when families were contacted.
Governing for Accountability
A board and a site-based leadership team govern Gateway. The board is a group of volunteers who guide the school—financially, legally, programmatically—and help the school at the direction of the leadership team, teachers, parents, and students. The leadership team consists of the principal and vice principal; subject area department heads in mathematics, science, Spanish, and humanities; the college counselor; and the director of the Learning Center. "Strong governance is key to running a charter school," says a founding board member. And because of chartering, the board and leadership team can define the school based on a clear mission and vision, hire teachers and administrators consistent with the mission, be nimble programmatically in accomplishing the mission, and control the budget to align with the mission. "What makes the board run so well," comments a longtime member, is that board members "spend a lot of time at school and we hold to the mission."
For its part, the school's leadership team ensures the quality of the instructional program and supports teachers in improving instruction.
The school's authorizer is San Francisco Unified School District. The principal speaks highly of the district, and considers those at the district to have "good relations" with Gateway's staff. She reports that the district "does a good job at oversight." The district also houses a charter schools office, which serves as a communication link and liaison between Gateway and the district. Reauthorization of the charter will take place in 2009.
Gateway's overall graduation rate is 95 percent and it has an average daily student attendance rate of 96 percent. The school also boasts a college application rate of 100 percent. Last year's students accepted admissions to 67 different colleges and universities. For the class of 2005, 95 percent of students are attending college, 4 percent are working in jobs and 1 percent are in the military. Gateway students report a high level of satisfaction with their school. Some students credit the school for "saving" them. "At my old school," reflects one student, "I was screaming for attention." Gateway students report that they are consistently well supported by the teachers, that the curriculum is interesting, and that they experience a sense of community. Before coming to Gateway, one student remembers, "I had teachers tell me I was stupid, dumb, wouldn't amount to anything. Here it is okay to have learning differences. I'm comfortable being me because they don't let you fall, but if you do they pick you up."
In 2003 Gateway was selected as a California Distinguished School by the state board of education, and a year later it was ranked as one of the nation's top 56 schools by the Blue Ribbon Schools of Excellence Foundation. In 2005, an independent evaluation rated it as one of its district's 13 schools considered "models of success for achieving diversity and raising academic achievement for African-American and Latino students."
|Gateway: Evidence of Closing the Achievement Gap
In 2005, Gateway students scored 93 percent on English language arts and 85 percent on high school math proficiency, compared to San Francisco Unified School District's (SFUSD) respective scores of 66 percent and 72 percent.
SFUSD as a district did not make 2005 Academic Yearly Progress (AYP) due to subgroups of students (African-American and students with disabilities) not achieving proficiency targets in reading and math. In contrast, all Gateway students achieved 2005 AYP proficiency targets, even though 25 percent of them qualify for special education as compared to just 10 percent of the district's student population.
SFUSD's survey of the class of 2005 indicated that 76.6 percent of 2,756 seniors in the district planned to enter college or universities in the fall. In comparison, 95 percent of Gateway's 2005 graduates are attending college.
*Students select a week-long project to complete between winter exams and the start of the second semester.


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Opportunity Commission
Construction Company Refused Sabbath Accommodation for Seventh-Day Adventist Workers, Federal Agency Charged
RALEIGH, N.C. – A Goldsboro, N.C.-based construction company will pay $47,500 to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
The EEOC had charged that the T.A. Loving Company discriminated against Elvis Cifuentes Angel and two other individuals who worked for T.A. Loving Company as laborers when it fired them for refusing to work on their Sabbath. Cifuentes Angel and the other laborers are members of the Seventh-Day Adventist faith, which prohibits work on a member's Sabbath, which runs from sundown on Friday until sundown on Saturday.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employers from discriminating against employees and applicants because of their religion and requires employers to reasonably accommodate an employee's sincerely held religious beliefs unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on the employer.
In addition to the $47,500 in compensatory damages to be shared between Cifuentes Angel and the two other laborers, the three-year consent decree resolving the case (EEOC v. T.A. Loving Company, Case No. 5 :10-CV-00054 in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina) includes injunctions enjoining T.A. Loving from engaging in further religious discrimination; requires anti-discrimination training; the posting of a notice about the EEOC; and reporting by the company on individuals who have requested religious accommodations or reported religious discrimination to the EEOC for monitoring.
"Employers must respect employees' sincerely held religious beliefs and carefully consider requests made by employees based on those beliefs," said Lynette A. Barnes, regional attorney for the EEOC's Charlotte District Office. "This begins by employers educating supervisors and managers who are called upon to make decisions on employees' requests for religious accommodation. No person should be forced to choose between their religion and their job when the company can provide an accommodation without suffering an undue hardship."
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available at its website at www.eeoc.gov.


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We are an e-commerce website featuring beautiful silk flower arrangements and wreaths. We sell unique high-end arrangements that are hard to find online, allowing people to use the internet to decorate their homes with quality beautiful products.
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The European Commission has (finally) approved Broadband Delivery UK's application to act as a "national competence centre", enabling it to work with local authorities to ensure that urban and rural broadband investment projects are in keeping with European state aid and competition regulations:
""BDUK, as a national competence centre, will assist local granting authorities in designing and implementing successful broadband support measures in line with EU competition rules. The umbrella scheme will be a big step towards the achievement of the EU Digital Agenda targets and a strong impetus for growth in the UK" said Commission Vice President in charge of competition policy Joaquín Almunia. The UK notified plans to set up an umbrella scheme for implementing around 140 local broadband support projects without individual state aid notifications to the Commission. The Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) scheme aims to provide as many UK homes and businesses as possible with access to superfast broadband infrastructure in the so-called "final third" areas. These areas are typically low-density, rural areas, where commercial operators are unlikely to invest in high quality broadband networks. The total value of aid to be delivered by the scheme is estimated around GBP 1.5 billion (€1.8 billion)."DCMS press release here; coverage from the BBC here and Br0kenTeleph0n3 here. The final text of the decision (which isn't yet available) should make for interesting reading when it's released, if the previous notification in relation to Birmingham's broadband investment plans is anything to go by. Let's hope that this latest approval goes unchallenged though.


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CULTURE- FRIDAYS UPDATE Kings of Fridays: Local country boys changing tune?
Fridays After Five is probably the most high-profile gig in town, and King Wilkie mandolin player Reid Burgess is accordingly excited about the opportunity to take the stage at the Pavilion. It's not their first time, though. "We did it a few years ago, when it was in the same spot but without the multi-million dollar makeover," he says.
The humble grassy hillsides of Fridays past were forever transformed with the 2005 raising of the white wigwam, and King Wilkie has been undergoing some changes of its own to match. Started in 2003 by a handful of locals in their early twenties, the bluegrass sextet released their debut album the following year on Rebel Records, which is also home to the incomparable Ralph Stanley. Soon after, they were opening for banjo virtuoso Bela Fleck.
The follow-up disc comes out this June, and preliminary reports indicate that purists might have to go elsewhere. The band's website mentions stylistic links to Leonard Cohen and the Rolling Stones, and they made the album in Los Angeles with a producer who has previously worked for the Dixie Chicks, the reigning queens of twang-ridden crossover success. Their new label is also home to the Cowboy Junkies, if that tells you anything.
"It took a few steps away from the traditional bluegrass," says guitarist Ted Pitney. "We came to the realization that we love traditional bluegrass, but no matter how hard we tried, we'll never be Bill Monroe in 1946."
"It's kind of a departure for us artistically," agrees Burgess.
That statement is almost neutered from the outset by the fact that King Wilkie is a young band– that is, one without enough releases to have established a pattern– but whatever they come up with could still be interesting.
This is, after all, the only bluegrass group known to have promoted their shows by driving around town in a Volkswagen Beetle with a banner draped across the door and megaphones mounted on the roof. It was a clever publicity tactic, but the most telling feature was the fact that it was an original Beetle from the 1960's, not the revamped version introduced in 1998.
"We made a conscious decision to try to find a sound more indicative of who we are," says Pitney of the new album. If their sense of history remains intact, that shouldn't be a problem for anybody.
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"We came to the realization that we love traditional bluegrass, but no matter how hard we tried, we'll never be Bill Monroe in 1946."
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Global Grain Production at Record High Despite Extreme Climatic Events
New Worldwatch Institute report examines rising rates of global grain production and consumption
Washington, D.C.—Global grain production is expected to reach a record high of 2.4 billion tons in 2012, an increase of 1 percent from 2011 levels, according to new research conducted by the Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet project (www.worldwatch.org) for the Institute's Vital Signs Online service. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the production of grain for animal feed is growing the fastest—a 2.1 percent increase from 2011. Grain for direct human consumption grew 1.1 percent from 2011, write report authors Danielle Nierenberg and Katie Spoden.
In 2011, the amount of grain used for food totaled 571 million tons, with India consuming 89 million tons, China 87 million tons, and the United States 28 million tons, according to the International Grains Council. The world relies heavily on wheat, maize (corn), and rice for daily sustenance: of the 50,000 edible plants in the world, these three grains account for two-thirds of global food energy intake. Grains provide the majority of calories in diets worldwide, ranging from a 23 percent share in the United States to 60 percent in Asia and 62 percent in North Africa.
Maize production in the United States—the largest producer—was expected to reach a record 345 million tons in 2012; however, drought in the Great Plains has altered this estimate severely. Maize yields for the 2012–13 growing season are now expected to decrease 13 percent from 2011 production, for a total production of 274.3 million tons.
The reliance on grain crops for food security is threatened by more-extreme climatic events, especially droughts and floods. According to the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction, the World Food Programme, and Oxfam International, some 375 million people will be affected by climate change-related disasters by 2015. By 2050, the FAO notes, 10–20 percent more people will be subject to hunger based on the changing climate's effects on agriculture, and 24 million more children are expected to be malnourished—21 percent more than if there were no climate change.
"The relationship between food security, grain production, and climate change is especially important in 2012," said Nierenberg, a Worldwatch senior researcher and Nourishing the Planet project director. "The recent drought affecting the United States and the rest of the world show the need to reduce price volatility, move away from fossil fuel–based agriculture, and recognize the importance of women farmers to increase resilience to climate change."
The drought taking place in the Midwest and Great Plains of the United States is considered the country's worst in 50 years, coming close to matching the late-1930s Dust Bowl. The drought is expected to cost many billions of dollars and could top the list as one of the most expensive weather-related disasters in U.S. history. The global market will be most affected by this drought, as so much of the developing world relies on U.S. corn and soybean production. Food prices have already begun to increase due to lower yields, and price fluctuations will inevitably affect food security around the globe.
Further highlights from the report:
- The FAO expects global maize production to increase 4.1 percent from 2011, reaching an estimated 916 million tons in 2012.
- Global rice production achieved an all-time high of 480 million tons in 2011, a 2.6 percent increase from 2010.
- World wheat production is projected to drop to 675.1 million tons in 2012, down 3.6 percent from 2011, with the largest declines in feed and biofuel utilization.
- Since 1961, grain production has increased 269 percent and grain yield has increased 157 percent, while the grain harvest area has increased only 25 percent. This is due largely to the Green Revolution and the introduction of high-yielding grain varieties.
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Ask designers what their choice desktop operating system is, and almost everyone will point you to Apple's OSX. The ratio has been pretty one-sided when it comes to their mobile platform of choice as well, but things have been changing rapidly of late. Android, which started as the second choice for creatives around the world, has been gaining tremendous popularity over the last few years and that has reflected in the number of quality apps for designers available on the platform.
Whether you are a graphic designer, an architect or interior designer, the choice of apps on the Play Store is big enough to be confusing at times. What follows is my hand-picked list of some of the best Android apps for designers. It includes tools to help you create, manage your work and participate in design communities across the web.


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Twice-divorced singer Annie Lennox has branded men "a huge disappointment," insisting her life would have been "easier" if she was gay.
The singer divorced her first husband, Radha Raman, in 1985 after a year-long union, and her second marriage to record producer Uri Fruchtman collapsed in 2000 after 12 years.
Lennox, 55, is currently single and fears she may never find lasting love – and she's convinced she would have more chance of a happy ending if she was a lesbian.
She tells Britain's Saga magazine, "It's not like I think being gay could be an alternative, 'cos it isn't. I sometimes wish it would have been 'cos it would have made life easier…
"I wouldn't want to disallow the possibility of falling in love again, but I think that for 90, maybe even 95 percent, of women, men are a huge disappointment in relationship terms.
"(But) I'm not a man-hater, let me say that. I love men, love their company."


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TMZ Live: Whitney Houston's Death Tub Photo Reveals Beauty Secret
TMZ Live Whitney's Death Tub Photo Reveals Beauty Secret
(2:10) Breaking news right off the bat -- Rumor Willis' home was burglarized.
(3:30) The tub in which Whitney Houston died -- leads to the strangest segment about using olive oil as body lotion.
(14:13) Ryan Seacrest calls in -- you won't believe what Harvey accidentally texted him today ... thanks to a really awkward auto-correct.
(16:20) Ryan's wearing the craziest outfit tonight that involves ... wait on it ... a GONG.
(17:00) Did Seacrest really eat 145 chicken wings in one sitting?
(17:30) Celebrity chef Bobby Flay is on the phone -- he says more people cry on Valentine's Day than any other.
(33:00) Knicks superstar Jeremy Lin -- how many racist nicknames can one player have?
(47:30) All types of celebs rip Chris Brown -- wondering why a woman beater was given so much air time on the Grammys.
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A former Bolsover woman has been handed a community order with a curfew for wrongly claiming £16,268 of benefits.
Chesterfield magistrates' court heard how Lydia Handley was subject to an investigation by Bolsover District Council and the Department for Work and Pensions. They discovered Handley had falsely claimed income support, housing benefit and council tax benefit as a lone parent between August 27, 2011, and May 24, 2013, when her working partner and father of her child had been living with her.
Handley, 22, of Newbold Road, Chesterfield, pleaded guilty at Chesterfield magistrates' court on March 4 to falsely claiming benefits while at an address in Bolsover and two former addresses in Chesterfield. Handley appeared at court on March 6 for sentencing for dishonestly failing to declare a change in circumstances. She was given a community order with a curfew and must repay the money.


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Taiwan trip center of Roskam probe
The Office of Congressional Ethics is calling for a full investigation into a Oct. 2011 trip by Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.) and his wife to Taiwan, claiming the trip was improperly funded by the Taiwanese government.
The Roskams' daughter was also staying in Taiwan at that time, and OCE notes that the Roskams sought to include her as part of their itinerary for the trip.
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But the House Ethics Committee — which has final say over such matters — formally approved the trip before the Roskams even left for Taiwan.
And now the Illinois Republican is caught in a turf war between OCE — an independent watchdog agency — and the Ethics Committee, while his lawyers adamantly insist he followed all the applicable rules prior to and following the week-long trip.
"The record reflects that Rep. Roskam fully complied with all laws, rules, and procedures related to privately sponsored travel. The trip was vetted and approved by the House Ethics Committee, the body legally authorized to make determinations on Congressional conduct," said Stephanie Kittredge, Roskam's communications director, in a statement.
"The OCE is wrong to take issue with the involvement of the Government of Taiwan in planning and conducting the trip, a matter that is routine, allowed under the law, and was known to the House Ethics Committee as they thoroughly vetted and approved the trip."
The Ethics Committee announced on Friday that it needed another 45 days to evaluate the OCE request for a full probe into the Roskam case. No details were released by the secretive panel on why it was looking at Roskam, the chief deputy majority whip and a key House GOP leadership player.
But documents obtained by POLITICO show OCE began an investigation into his Taiwan trip in January. On May 31, the OCE board — despite full cooperation by Roskam, including an hour-plus interview by the congressman with OCE investigators — voted by a 6-0 margin to ask the Ethics Committee to proceed with a full investigation.
Roskam also took the unprecedented step of signing a waiver to allow OCE to request material from the Ethics Committee on why it approved the trip. The Ethics Committee, however, did not cooperate with the OCE review, according to OCE's report.
Under House ethics rules, members may not accept gifts from foreign governments except in very limited cases.
Ethics rules also states that any "private entity (or entities) that pays for officially-conducted travel organize and conduct the trip, rather than merely pay for a trip that is organized and conducted by another entity." This is to prevent front groups from being used for such travel, as happened during the Jack Abramoff scandal.
According to the OCE report on Roskam, the Illinois Republican's office was contacted in May 2011 by an official for the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office, which is Taiwan's "de facto" embassy in the United States.
The TECRO official, Gordon Yang, asked whether Roskam was interested in taking part in a congressional delegation traveling to the Asian nation in late June 2011. Under the Mutual Educations and Cultural Exchange Act, foreign governments are allowed to pay for such trips. However, a lawmaker cannot accept travel expenses for a spouse or family member.
According to the OCE report, a Roskam aide told Yang that the Illinois Republican wanted to take his wife to Taiwan with him. Since the Taiwanese government could not cover the cost of Elizabeth Roskam's expenses, a private sponsor for the trip needed to be found.
On July 19, 2o12, Yang sent Roskam's office an itinerary for the trip saying it would be sponsored by the Chinese Culture University, located in Taipei. Yang even said he would forward documents saying CCU was the sponsor that could be filed with the Ethics Committee. Yang provided a copy of an official invitation to Roskam from CCU as well, the OCE report states.
With CCU as the sponsor — and not the Taiwanese government — it could pay for the travel expenses of both Roskams. Documents later filed by Roskam stated the trip cost more than $24,000.


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Answers Needed: Airline Promotions & Quantified Impressions/
C'mon gang, let's help ourselves by helping out a filmmaker in need. Today's question (and opportunity) comes from Chris Munch:
"Can anyone suggest reference material or a sample proposal that illustrates how the advertising industry translates theatrical playdates, DVD sales and rentals, and digital downloads into numbers of impressions? Are there industry standards that quantify a DVD rental unit sold as x-number of impressions? I am trying to prepare a proposal for an airline to furnish promotional consideration in the form of travel vouchers, and need to present them with projections of what sort of exposure (in terms of thousands of impressions) my film will have once it is done. I'm sure that these models exist, but so far I have not been able to access them. Thanks in advance for any advice or assistance."
And although others have their faves, I think Chris' THE HOURS AND TIMES is one of the greats of 90's American Indie Cinema. We need to have Chris make more movies!


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Universal Pictures is moving forward with a new chapter in its lucrative Jason Bourne franchise.
Studio has hired scribe Tony Gilroy to pen a treatment for a fourth installment, which is tentatively titled "The Bourne Legacy." Gilroy, who wrote all three "Bourne" films, is also onboard to write a franchise bible — an unusual step but one that hints that the studio is looking for opportunities to possibly break out characters from the Bourne universe for spin-offs.
All indications are that Matt Damon will not reprise his role as Jason Bourne, having stated on record that he will not return unless director Paul Greengrass follows up helming the last two Bourne films with a new outing.
Frank Marshall and Pat Crowley are back to produce "Bourne Legacy" alongside Captivate Entertainment's Jeffrey Weiner and Ben Smith.
Though "The Bourne Legacy" is a book written by Eric Lustabader in Robert Ludlum's Bourne book series, the fourth film will not be based on this book.
Universal is aiming for 2012 release.


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PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif., Oct. 31 (UPI) -- A California DMV office gave a new driver's license to a man who disclosed on his renewal form a medical ailment that had rendered him legally blind.
Unlike Al Pacino in "Scent of a Woman," Mark Overland, 72, of Pacific Palisades doesn't plan to test his luck. But Overland, a lawyer who represented an elderly driver who plowed into a farmers' market killing 10 people in 2003, was disturbed enough by the DMV that he contacted the Los Angeles Times to tell his story.
He described an innocent enough encounter: He filled out the form honestly, identifying himself as having retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative illness that reduces peripheral vision. In Overland's case, he has lost 94 percent of his vision and can only see a small tunnel in front of him. Curious to see what would happen, he eschewed his usual white cane and enlisted his daughter as a guide. When called on, a clerk asked him to read an eye chart on the wall, which once he located it, Overland had no trouble reading.
DMV clerks are supposed to order a driving test for people with Overland's condition, but the clerk who processed his renewal never did so. A new license showed up in the mail two weeks later.
A department spokeswoman had no explanation for the under-sighted oversight.


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- Developers, Administrators, DevOps engineers, DBAs, Business Analysts and students.
- Executives and others who want an overview of the Neo4j technology.
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- An understanding of graph databases
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- Introduction to data modeling with Graph databases
- How to get started working with Neo4j
- Build confidence in building a graph enabled application
You don't need any previous experience with Neo4j, NOSQL databases or specific development languages
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This course helps build a good knowledge of graph databases. It also teaches the core functionality of the Neo4j graph database. With a mixture of theory and hands-on practice sessions, you will quickly learn how easy it is to work with a powerful graph database using Cypher as the query language
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You will need your own laptop. Please arrive early to quickly install the product and labs used in the class.
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… and It annoys me a little bit.
- If you've got a Mage, you use it.
- If you don't, I'm sure you've seen it used.
You tend to notice when your Mage population instantly expands.
Where there was one, there are now four or five (add a few more if you have some VooDoo Gnomes along for the ride).
Three or four of them throwing frostbolts like snowballs, the other slightly more intelligent one mixing it up with their flavor of the month spell of choice.
If you thought the Mage overpopulation was confusing, imagine how the mobs feel, whether lackeys or bosses they now don't know who to hit.
We are just a little vain
Mages love them for a variety of reasons, not the least being 4 or 5 naked Gnomes is always better than 1.
We get to do a bit of extra damage, and just for the record, if there is one thing Mages like doing it's damage.
Apart from the frostbolts getting thrown, the images adopt the Mage's threat, if only temporarily. This means the Mage can escalate their damage output to ridiculous levels, if only temporarily. Followed by Invisibility, the Mage is only limited by their damage potential.
Mobs hate these images, I think it's something akin to being woken up after a seriously heavy night on the booze by your ex-wife demanding your overdue alimony payments. You see more than one of the annoying buggers and you just want them to go away.
I have happily solo'd mobs before while they wail mindlessly on my mindless mirror images. Go on, hit that one while I fill you full of fire!
It doesn't matter whether they are smarter than the average mob, when it comes to face pummeling and fireballing, the mirror images always look like the right choice.
We are too Special!
Unless, well unless they are going to do something "special".
By special I don't mean anything unusual, although they are skills rarely seen applied by players in Northrend. I'm talking about CC (Crowd Control).
- Boss throws down an Ice Prison – it only has eyes for you.
- Mob has a web to wrap – it won't be your mirror images that are caught.
- Knock back & stun – the mob is knocking on your chest.
- Boss wants to wrap you in chains and tuck you in for a good fight's sleep – goodnight Mage.
My Problem may be yours as well
My problem with this is simple.
Normally when you bring out your carbon copies, it's because you are either in a little trouble, or you intend to ramp up the damage.
If you are in trouble, well you don't need the extra aggravation of CC.
If you are ramping up the damage you are going to use everything at your disposal… Ivy Veins, Combustion, Trinkets, Heroism… Everything… Now is the time you want a clear uninterrupted 20-30 seconds of button pushing frenzy.
But that rapidly degenerates into button pressing frustration when your screen is filled with…
You can't use that ability while sleeping
You can't use that ability while stunned
You can't use that ability while web wrapped
You "can't use that ability" while your mirror images do shite damage because somehow the mob saw through your clever illusion for just this one ability.
Invalid Target?
Now I am assuming there is just a minor oversight in the coding. They ensured that the damaging attacks got confused and were directed at the mirror images, but they missed the block of code with the non-damaging abilities.
Maybe they missed the bit of code where it says Invalid Target
Thus when selecting mobs to CC, the mirror images don't even enter the /random roll.
I would like this changed (please Blizzard, I don't ask for much, often… Mmmm well I haven't in a while anyway).
If you won't just simply misdirect the CC attack at the mirror image when the Mage is targeted, at least include them as valid choices of targets until the spell is cast.
Pick a Mage, any Mage.
I'm happy for you to CC them, I'm even happy to lose their threat buffer for the duration of the snare, but don't automatically puck me out of the crowd of Gnomes.
If the are invalid targets, let the mob discover that too late… Think of it as 100% resistance. After all I created some illusions specifically to fool you… You got fooled… More fool you, see you next cooldown!
There QQ complete.
I just hate it when I'm low on the meter because the mobs can't respect how truly awesome I am.
I am awesome you know…
If you don't believe me ask Jong.. he thinks I'm awesome and if Mr. AWESOME thinks I'm awesome… I must be awesome.
Epic Advice
Speaking of Epic Advice…
What? I wasn't?
Well I am now!
I took the Epic Advice of the Epic Blogger Matticus and went and checked out Epic Advice.
See I told you I was talking about Epic Advice
Anyway, go get some of your own, while contributing tons yourself, especially if you are a Mage or a Shaman, cause I care about you most.
Gnomer and Out!
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Imagine 2023, 10 years from now. Has IPBES fundamentally helped to achieve the global biodiversity targets 2020, engaged 100 fellow researchers from Africa, won the Nobel Prize and more? If so, where is the key today, at the beginning of the process, aimed to unlock enhanced science, conservation and policy links?
Watch this video to learn how stakeholder engagement lies at the heart of IPBES success. The video looks at the platform from a future perspective and showcases the achievements of Plafform 10 years from now, provided the meaningful help of its stakeholders has been enabled.
There, some of the participants of different types of stakeholders - such as science, NGOs or environmental administration - formulate their expectations and recommendations for an efficient stakeholder engagement in the work of IPBES. IUCN is sharing these hopes and has steadily called for strengthening the civil society involvement in IPBES.
This video was produced by the German Network-Forum for Biodiversity Research (NeFo) during the IPBES pan-European stakeholder consultation in July 2013, Leipzig, Germany. The meeting was jointly organized by NeFo and funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research and other national European biodiversity platforms.
About IPBES
The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) was established in 2012 as an independent intergovernmental body open to all member countries of the United Nations. The members are committed to building IPBES as the leading intergovernmental body for assessing the state of the planet's biodiversity, its ecosystems and the essential services they provide to society.
- List of Member nations (currently 113);
- Leadership (including Spencer Thomas, IUCN Regional Councillor for North America and the Caribbean);
- Experts (including Tamar Pataridze, IUCN Regional Councillor for Eastern Europe, North and Central Asia and a number of members of IUCN Commissions).


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Fire and Ice
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Mercedes of Desert Candy recently challenged herself to 20 days of 20 different ice cream flavours. You know I'm a sucker for ice cream so all of them looked amazing. A recipe for chocolate sorbet caught my eye for two reasons; the first being that it looked mouthwateringly good, the second being that at the end of the recipe she listed a few add ins that you could use for a change up. One of them was red pepper. A while ago I had a chili chocolate ice cream at an ice cream shop, (sacrilege! I know, but when they offer chili chocolate ice cream, I think it's acceptable) and ever since then I've wanted to recreate it. I decided this chocolate sorbet was the perfect opportunity to give it a whirl, or a churn so to speak. Instead of the ½ tsp of red pepper that Mercedes suggests, I used two small chili peppers, (that I received from the wonderful Jasmine of Confessions of a Cardamom Addict) which I seeded and finely diced. Check out Mercedes' post for other flavour options and just to see her 20 different ice creams flavours.
Chocolate Sorbet (from Desert Candy)
2 1/3 cups water
1 cup sugar
3/4 cup good quality cocoa powder
2 small chili peppers, seeded and finely diced
3 oz semisweet chocolate, finely chopped
1 T instant espresso powder (optional)
1 tsp vanilla extract
1. Place the cocoa powder and sugar in a saucepan. Slowly add the water in a stream, whisking until there are no lumps. Add in the diced chili pepper. Place the pan on the heat and bring the mixture to a boil, stirring constantly. When it has come to a full boil, lower the heat slightly and simmer for 5 minutes, stirring frequently.
2. Remove from the heat and immediately add the chopped chocolate and espresso powder. Stir with a whisk until the chocolate is melted and combined (you can also put the mixture into a blender and blitz). Add the vanilla, cover, and refrigerate until thoroughly chilled (at least 3 hours).
3. Give the mixture a good stir, then churn in your ice cream maker according to the manufacturer's directions. Store in the freezer.
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