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Vallum 2.0
Today we announce the availability of Vallum 2.0.
Vallum 2.0 is a FREE upgrade for all Vallum 1.x users.
Vallum 2.0 introduces a lot of new features but its main focus has been improving usability and stability.
Trial version is now more friendly as it lets you save configurations and restore them at system boot. All Vallum features are available in trial mode with no exceptions. Trial version will display a popup message every four hours.
How to upgrade:
to upgrade from Vallum 1.3.1 please save your current configuration as custom preset then run Vallum 2.0 installer.
If you previously added Vallum 1.3.1 login items to some users (to start Vallum Agent at login) then you have to manually remove them as they are not needed any more. Default colors in Vallum 2.0 are a bit different from Vallum 1.3.1. To improve readability you can open Vallum 2.0 preferences -> Appearance and click "Default colors".
What's new:
- improved TCP and UDP filters, now the filter matches all processes and all TCP/UDP connections
- added a new layer of rules: global network rules
- simplified notification window
- step by step configuration assistant
- improved predefined strategies
- new GUI now displays all rules in the same window
- enable/disable the firewall directly from Vallum icon near the macOS clock
- added support for IPv6 subnets in rules
- pass/block subnets from notification alerts
- improved overall stability
- support for multiple users and fast user switching
- dropped support for OS X 10.9 Mavericks
- trial policy has changed, now all features are available in trial mode. The only trial limitation is a popup reminder every 4 hours.
- minor improvements such as confirmation dialogs, sort apps alphabetically, and such
- notification alerts appear always in the center of active screen.
- optional set of icons for increased readability or color blind users
- dark theme
- bug fixes
- improved documentation
System requirements:
Vallum 2.0 requires OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.11 El Capitan or macOS 10.12 Sierra
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Andy Burke necesitaba un nuevo diseño de botón o icono y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 116 diseños de 37 diseñadores freelance.
Whitemoon Dreams, Inc. is a small video game start-up located in sunny Pasadena, CA. We are currently working on a new engine and toolset for creating video games. Parts of this project will be open source and are an evolution of work from the Nocturnal Initiative, which is graciously sponsored by Insomniac Games, Inc.
The open source project we're working on is called 'Helium'. Helium is an editor for creating video game worlds. We need some help developing the icons and logo for Helium. That's where you come in...
Our target audience is diverse: video game developers from around the world. Initially, we're targeting western and Asian game developers. Our users are highly technical and artistic; they have an eye for advanced tools and our icon set needs to reflect that. At the same time, it must be usable and iconic. This isn't a small challenge, and we're looking for a designer who's capable of creating an icon set that will make our tools both attractive and usable.
The attached art request document outlines the needs of our project. We need roughly 100 icons and a logo. As such, we expect this to be a longer term (1-3 months) relationship with the designer that's chosen for the project.
The prize listed is for completing all the work outlined in the attached art request document! (see: 'Deliverables Checklist')
Designers should submit a small concept/sample for this project. The sample should consist of selections from the art request document:
- A project logo
- Verb Overlays: Create
- Status Overlays: Binary Data
- Core Icons: Open
- Revision Control Icons: Active
- Revision Control Status Overlays: CheckedOutBySomeoneElse
- Editor Icons:
- Entity
- BackfaceCulling
- RotateTool
This sample should be submitted as a single image on 99designs.com.
Based on the samples, we will choose a designer who best captures the direction we'd like to go as outlined in the attached art request document. We will then work with that designer to complete the project, communicating throughout the process to ensure we're on the same page. Upon project completion, we will release the prize to the designer.
Please read the attached art request document carefully! This is a large project and you should be comfortable with the licensing terms, the prize release criteria stated above, the ongoing nature of the project, etc.


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Investors see climate opportunity to make money, create jobs
UNITED NATIONS — In the language of the 450 large institutional investors meeting at a conference here Thursday, climate change is a risk to avoid and also an opportunity to make a good return on investments.
The investors, who control more than $20 trillion worldwide, are looking at climate change from a business perspective even as Washington steers clear of the issue. Clean energy investments worldwide grew 5 percent in 2011 over 2010, despite financial turmoil in Europe and a wobbly economy in the U.S., according to a report released at the conference.
"I think the key message is that the narrative is changing. The private sector is taking the lead in addressing climate change," said Mindy Lubber, the president of the investor and environmental coalition Ceres, one of the conference sponsors. "This is a premier issue that's being followed like a laser by the financial community."
Global clean-energy investments reached $260 billion in 2011, some five times more than the $50 billion in 2005, according to a Bloomberg New Energy Finance report. The analysis looks at renewable energy, energy efficiency technology and biofuels, but doesn't include natural gas or nuclear power in its assessment.
After trailing China for several years, the U.S. in 2011 moved up to the No. 1 country for attracting this investment, said Bloomberg analyst Ethan Zindler. Much of that success, however, derived from the Obama administration's stimulus spending, which largely ended by December.
Globally, solar attracted much more investment than any other source of renewable energy, Zindler said. But clean-energy stocks declined last year because of a large oversupply of photovoltaic modules and wind turbines. The excess supply meant that costs went down, particularly for solar, which was good for people who bought solar equipment. Zindler said that as prices continue to decline, it will become economic for people in more places to install solar even without subsidies.
Speakers at the conference all said they were investing for good financial returns, not for social reasons. But they also talked about how the two goals could mesh.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said in an interview that the union coalition started investing its pension funds, along with money from other investment partners, in energy efficiency and clean energy. The AFL-CIO has spent $1.2 billion in what Trumka called green spending for infrastructure projects such as water and sewage. The labor group also has invested $200 million in retrofits to make buildings more efficient.
"If you put your money, as a lot of banks have done, in fixed income, what do you get, a percent? This is a 6, 8, 10 percent return on these investments, and it creates jobs so you can create more money and have more investments," he said.
"Addressing climate risk is not a distraction from solving our economic problems," Trumka said in a speech.
"Addressing climate change means retooling our world," he said, adding that includes factories, homes, offices, hospitals and transportation systems. All must be modernized or replaced with "something cleaner, more efficient and less wasteful," he said.
But Trumka, a former coal miner and United Mine Workers president, whose father and grandfather also worked in mines, said the nation couldn't move away from coal immediately.
"In many places, and not just places coal is mined, there's a fear that the green economy will turn into another version of the radical inequality that haunts our economy," he said.
Janet Cowell, the treasurer of North Carolina, a state with a top-rated pension fund, said that when looking forward decades in evaluating investments, it's necessary to look at stress on water and other natural resources, and energy efficiency.
Pension funds have been more careful in looking at risks since the recession started in 2007, she said, and environmental risks are one type they consider.
Cowell also said the state fund has gotten double-digit returns in funds that invest in such things as energy efficiency.
Other speakers said that the world's growing population and declining natural resources created a large market for better use of energy.
"If your job is to grow faster for shareholders, this is a marketplace you can't ignore," said Mark Vachon, who directs GE ecomagination, General Electric Co.'s clean-tech program.
GE invested $5 billion in research and development in clean energy and efficiency technology, he said. In the program's first five years, it delivered $85 billion in revenue and grew twice as fast as the rest of GE's portfolio, Vachon said.
Timothy Wirth, a former U.S. senator from Colorado and president of the United Nations Foundation, a co-sponsor of the conference, said that clean energy was a top priority of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Ban convened an international group that will meet next week on how to bring electricity to the 1.3 billion people who don't have it, and double the world's use of renewable energy from 15 percent to 30 percent. The target for both goals is 2030.
Much of the new energy will come from coal, oil and nuclear power, but the program will try to promote the use of cleaner energy as much as possible, said U.N. Assistant Secretary-General Robert C. Orr.
Kenya, for example, with help from U.N. agencies and the World Bank, is scaling up solar, wind and geothermal power so quickly that it expects to produce all of its electricity from these renewable sources by 2020, Orr said.
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Sick Widdop lifts Dragons to vital win
A stricken Gareth Widdop climbed out of his sick bed to inspire St George-Illawarra to one of their best wins of the season on Sunday, a 28-12 triumph over Wests Tigers, to keep them in the hunt for the NRL finals.
Stricken by flu midweek and left unable to talk, Widdop blitzed the Tigers in the first half as the Dragons jumped out to a 22-0 lead before easing to the 16 point win, against a Wests side besieged by speculation over coach Mick Potter's future.
Much of the pre-game focus was on Benji Marshall's first game against his old club, but Widdop scored two first half tries, had a hand in two others, laid on the match-sealing try for Brett Morris in the 59th minute and kicked four from six goals in a commanding man-of-the-match effort.
Dragons coach Paul McGregor said it was a performance Widdop was working towards.
"Gareth had one of his better games in the last month," McGregor said.
"It was coming, you could tell in his approach and some of the things he spoke about at training. The way he attacked the game.
"We've got a few blokes sick next door too. The heat and the way the game was played took a little bit out of them and he's one of them. It's a credit to him to push through that and have that display as a senior player."
Widdop opened the scoring in the 20th minute after Morris broke the Dragons line and kicked ahead.
He laid on Gerard Beale's try five minutes later when Morris cleverly batted down the England pivot's kick and then claimed a double in the 30th minute when he chased down a Mitch Rein grubber after the Dragons hooker broke the Tigers line from dummy half.
Widdop was unable to talk to reporters post-game as Marshall paid tribute to his effort.
"Oh, he's sick man," he said.
"He couldn't even speak during the week. I did most of the talking, organisational-wise and he just really stood up today. They were putting an extra number in defence on my side and he just took the ball every time and capitalised."
Skipper Robbie Farah admitted the Tigers were distracted by pre-game reports Potter was to be axed at a board meeting on Sunday night.
"As a playing group we have tried to block it out but obviously it is pretty difficult," he said.
"We did our best to get on with the job and play footy
A statement released by the board said a decision on Potter's future would be deferred until the end of the season.
A Jason Nightingale try on the stroke of halftime lifted the visitors to a 22-0 lead.
The Tigers hit back after the break when Blake Austin dummied his way over in the 47th minute and Farah forced his way over from dummy half in the 51st minute.
A 59th minute Widdop penalty goal steadied the Dragons before Morris' match-winner, with a lovely long ball from Widdop creating space out wide.
The win lifts the Dragons to 22 points and 10th place on the NRL ladder, with nine wins and nine losses, one place above the Tigers - and with a slew of teams on 22 points, from North Queensland in seventh to Parramatta in 12th, for and against is becoming increasingly important with finals looming.
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On a recent morning, Ramón González, the principal of
At 10, González was finally about to sit down at his computer, when he was interrupted. A young teacher came into his office in tears, unable to figure out what was going on with an eighth grader who had just transferred to 223 from a public school in
Next, González was informed that the three free books that each of his school's students was entitled to — under a nonprofit program to promote literacy in poor communities — had never arrived. He needed to chase them down. (As it turned out, they wound up at the wrong school.) As he was doing so, he learned that a former teacher who had physically threatened him, members of his faculty and even some students, and whom González had spent years trying to remove from the classroom, was challenging his termination.
There was also the matter of the eye tests. For five straight days, González had been trying to get through to someone at an organization that does free vision tests at public schools and fits children with glasses on the spot. "I can guarantee you right now that at least 20 percent of our kids need glasses," he told me, after leaving yet another message on someone's voice mail to "please, please, please call me back." González, a light-skinned, baby-faced Latino, was sitting at a table in his office, his untouched tea and toast in front of him. Hanging on the bulletin board above him were the school's last three report cards from the city, straight A's, and an elaborately color-coded chart tracking all of his 486 students' test scores. "They're in their classrooms right now, staring at blackboards with no idea what they're looking at," he said. "You can have the best teachers, the best curriculum and the greatest after-school programs in the world, but if your kids can't see, what does it matter?"
González has been principal of M.S. 223, on 145th Street near Willis Avenue, since the school's creation in September 2003. One of the first schools opened by
Success stories like this in high-poverty neighborhoods are becoming more common in the era of
Late last year, as I was first getting to know González and M.S. 223, I spent some time with Klein during his final days on the job, joining him on a couple of his last school visits and talking to him about his tenure as chancellor.
Now that education reform has become an established national movement, backed by countless multimillionaires and endorsed by
During our conversations, Klein, a former lawyer, cloaked his revolutionary ideology in a technocrat's rhetoric, describing how he implemented "disruptive strategies" designed to transform the city's schools "from a provider-driven system to a consumer-driven one." What he meant was that he turned the city's school system upside down, opening hundreds of new schools and shutting down dozens of others. Individual schools were given control over their own budgets, hiring and curriculums. In exchange, they were expected to earn good grades on their report cards from the city — another Klein innovation — or risk closure.
Klein's successor,
At the center of Klein's vision was the notion that New York should not aspire to have a great school system but a system of great schools run by talented and empowered educators. To help reach this goal, Klein created an academy to train principals in the new skills the job would require and dispatched its graduates to the city's most difficult neighborhoods with a mandate for change and the authority and autonomy to try to effect it. "I think one of our core accomplishments is that we transformed the principal from an agent of the bureaucracy to the C.E.O. of his or her school," Klein told me.
I thought about this notion a lot over the course of the months I spent with González at 223. It's an incongruous metaphor to apply to someone whose office overlooks one of the largest, most dangerous housing projects in New York. Still, González has shown the kind of entrepreneurial thinking that, were he a C.E.O., would attract attention: he joined the board of the Randall's Island Sports Foundation in part to gain access to its playing fields, hired a part-time grant writer to raise money for the school, brought in a number of nonprofits to support the school's extracurricular activities and even rented out space in his building to underwrite 223's two-week summer-school program.
In certain respects, 223 is a monument to Klein's success: empower the right principals to run their own schools and watch them bloom. Thanks to Klein, González has been able to avoid having teachers foisted on him on the basis of seniority. He has been able to create his own curriculums, micromanage his students' days (within the narrow confines of the teachers' union contract, anyway) and spend his annual budget of $4 million on the personnel, programs and materials he deems most likely to help his kids.
And yet even as school reform made it possible for González to succeed, as the movement rolls inexorably forward, it also seems in many ways set up to make him fail. The grading system imposed by Klein that has bestowed three consecutive A's on González is based in part on how well 223 does on state tests. But the school's relative success on these tests and other measures also disqualifies him from additional state resources earmarked for failing schools. The ever-growing number of charter schools, often privately subsidized and rarely bound by union rules, that Klein unleashed on the city skims off the neighborhood's more ambitious, motivated families. And every year, as failing schools are shut down around González, a steady stream of children with poor intellectual habits and little family support continues to arrive at 223. González wouldn't want it any other way — he takes pride in his school's duty to educate all comers — but the endless flow of underperforming students drags down test scores, demoralizes teachers and makes the already daunting challenge of transforming 223 into a successful school, not just a relatively successful one, that much more difficult.
The school day at 223 begins at 7:50 a.m. This is 10 minutes before the
M.S. 223 is in the heart of School
Upon arrival at 223, students pass through a gantlet of smiling teachers. González requires that faculty members stand outside their doors at the start of the school day, part of his effort to set the school off from the grim streets surrounding it. "In our location, kids have to want to come to school," he says. "This is a very sick district. Tuberculosis,
There's another, no less compelling reason for this policy: posting teachers outside their classrooms helps maintain order in the hallways. It's one of a number of things, like moving students' lockers into their homerooms, that González has done to ensure that kids spend as little time as possible in the halls, where so much middle-school trouble invariably begins. (Chaotic hallways also tend to make for chaotic classrooms.)
Watching students pour into the school, some barely five feet tall, others over six feet, it can be hard to believe that all of 223's kids are within just a few years of one another. This is the nature of middle school, which straddles childhood and
It's hard to say definitively how successful González has been at controlling 223's halls. During the weeks I spent at the school, I never saw anything much more serious than one kid yanking another's backpack, but the wave of students crashing noisily toward their homerooms bore little resemblance to the silent, single-file lines you see in many charter schools.
Those schools have a distinct advantage over 223, though. Their families have already chosen to be at a charter and have often jumped through numerous hoops to get there. This makes it easier for charters to create their own cultures. They can define the length of their days, dictate exactly how children dress and enforce strict codes of conduct. Those students — scholars, in charter parlance — who fall out of line don't last.
Much of what González does involves creating a culture for 223 too, one that he essentially tricks children into embracing. Look closely at just about any aspect of 223, and you will invariably discover a hidden agenda. Students at 223 are required to wear white shirts and blue pants or skirts. González would like all of his boys to dress more formally, but rather than insisting that they wear ties, the custom at many charters, he has encouraged the school's athletes to do so in the hope that the trend would spread. Most charters extend the school day until 5 p.m., an easy way to maximize their influence over students. Traditional public schools, however, are permitted to require that children be in school for only about six hours each day, so González has had to find creative ways to keep kids in the building, for example, mandating that students attend math or English tutoring before participating in after-school sports, clubs and
Career Day was held at 223 on a Monday morning in late January. Participants, a professionally diverse crowd of about 25, mostly minorities, that included a fashion designer, a corporate lawyer and a parole officer, started assembling at around 9 o'clock in an overheated classroom. A few picked at an unappetizing buffet of cold eggs, dinner rolls and limp, greasy bacon. Most scrolled through their BlackBerrys and waited, with growing impatience, to be told where to go and what to do.
If they expected to deliver a perfunctory description of their jobs, answer a few questions and be done, González had other plans. At about 9:15 he strode into the room and got right to the point. "Some of these kids have never left the
González, who is Cuban and Puerto Rican, has a term for encounters between his students and adults with the potential to affect them: touches. As he describes it, it was a touch that changed the course of his own life when he was in middle school. González was raised in East Harlem by his mother, who supported seven children on welfare. A Puerto Rican stockbroker who volunteered at the Boys' Club where González spent most of his free time took an interest in him and encouraged him to take a test to qualify for a high-school scholarship. González aced the test and was accepted to Middlesex, a prep school outside
González's background is similar to that of many of his students, and he can personally relate to some of the obstacles that stand in the way of their academic achievement: as a boy, he would take a pillow into the bathtub and close the bathroom door, because it was the only quiet place to read in the apartment. But González had at least one thing going for him. While his father, a veteran who returned from the Vietnam War addicted to heroin, was in and out of jail for much of González's life and ultimately died of AIDS during his senior year at Cornell, he was self-educated and politically aware, a member of the Young Lords, the Puerto Rican equivalent of the Black Panthers. He recognized that his son was bright, and even if he wasn't a provider or a role model, he did have aspirations for his son. He wanted him to go to law school and become a neighborhood defense lawyer.
Instead, after graduating from college and moving back to his old neighborhood, González started working as a math teacher, biding his time and building his résumé until he would be considered qualified to run his own school.
The opportunity to start 223, which began with 150 students, all sixth graders, arose when he was 31. Things got off to an inauspicious start. González initially opened the school in another building with two other South Bronx middle schools, one of which was reserved exclusively for children with special needs. Special-needs students tend to be older and bigger than others at their grade level and often have behavioral issues, a mix that proved problematic for González's students. "My kids were getting their butts kicked," he says. After one such episode led to a
González still lives in East Harlem, a few blocks from where he grew up. Though his son, Laurencio, the oldest of three children, is in kindergarten at a private school on
One frigid night in December, I went with González to watch him give a presentation at a community-education council meeting at an elementary school in the South Bronx. González had recently introduced a literacy initiative at 223, asking all of his parents and children to drop whatever they are doing at 6 o'clock every Thursday night and spend the next two hours reading. As part of the campaign, 223 placed free-book bins in local bodegas, health clinics and Laundromats. Now González was hoping to expand Community Reading Night into a broader, districtwide event.
González was preceded by the school's holiday concert. The moment the performance ended, parents started heading for the door. By the time González rose to speak, the auditorium, nearly full when we arrived, was mostly empty. He had prepared a PowerPoint presentation, but had to abandon it because there was a cord missing. "This community is in crisis," he said. "The literacy test scores that we have in our community are 23 percent. That is a scary number. What that means is that 23 percent of our kids are on pace to graduate from high school and go to college. Go to college. That doesn't mean they're going to finish college. Twenty-three percent. We cannot sustain our community on 23 percent. We have to be reading with our children. That's the only way we're going to change this scary statistic."
Klein may see González as a chief executive, but González prefers to think of himself as a community activist. His vision for 223 is in some respects anachronistic in the era of school reform. Klein's animating belief, and surely what he will best be remembered for, is the notion that while low-income families may not be able to choose what neighborhood they live in, they should nonetheless be able to choose what school their children attend. It was toward that end that he brought more than 100 charter schools to New York — with at least 100 more still on the way — deliberately concentrating them in high-poverty areas like
Broadly speaking, the modus operandi of most charter schools, or at least those in impoverished neighborhoods, is to separate children from their presumably malignant environments. González objects to this in principle. "I don't want to be part of the history of taking talented kids out of the neighborhoods and telling them to move on," he says. More practically, he doesn't think it's a realistic objective, considering 223's population. "Most of our kids are never going to leave this area just for financial reasons; they can't afford to live anywhere else, they don't have the guidance, whatever. So how do we make those places better so that their kids aren't going through the same cycle?"
Given his and Klein's conflicting agendas, it's no surprise that González is critical of many of the policies of education reform. He has no problem with schools being held accountable for their performance, but he worries that the reform movement's infatuation with competition will undermine the broader goal of improving public education — that by grading schools against their peers you are encouraging them to hoard their successful innovations rather than to share them. He is concerned as well about the fact that the new principals being sent, disproportionately, into disadvantaged neighborhoods have little experience with or connection to the communities they're supposed to serve. And he is made uncomfortable by all of the educational experimentation, the endless stream of pilot programs, being implemented in neighborhoods like his. "I'm just afraid that our kids are being sacrificed while everyone is learning on the job," he says. "This is not some sort of urban experiment. These are kids' lives we're talking about."
González tries to visit classrooms at least three days a week to provide informal feedback to his less experienced instructors. On a recent morning, I joined him on his rounds, sitting in on a sixth-grade science class taught by a second-year teacher named Garrett Adler.
A common assumption inside the school-reform movement, one often repeated in the wake of America's sobering performance in the recent Program for International Student Assessment exam — the U.S. ranked 17th in reading and 23rd in science — is that our nation's public-school teachers tend not to be high achievers themselves. (By contrast, in
And yet when Adler came to 223 last year through the New York City Teaching Fellows program, which helps train and place aspiring teachers in the city's public-school system, he was at best a struggling teacher. He was incapable of controlling his classroom. Students shot rubber bands at one another, fooled around with dangerous lab equipment and ignored his repeated requests to quiet down. "I used to go into his classroom first thing in the morning scared of what I might see," González told me. "To be honest, at one point I was about ready to give him the hook." Instead, he devoted precious resources to teaching Adler how to teach, hiring a personal coach to attend his classes regularly and meet with him for 45 minutes a week.
There were 30 students in Adler's class, their desks divided into several clusters. The subject of the day was matter. Adler, a slight, anxious-looking 24-year-old with glasses and a beard, wore chinos and a button-down shirt and tie, per the unofficial dress code for male faculty members. (The U.F.T. contract prevents González from formally requiring that teachers wear ties.)
After a brief introductory movie starring an animated robot, Adler taught his students the "matter march," warning them in advance that it was "incredibly dorky" but that once they learned it, they would never forget the definition of "matter." Standing in front of his class, Adler proceeded to demonstrate the march — really more of a dance, with a spin and a clap and the words, chanted like a cheer: "Matter is anything that takes up space and has mass!"
Adler moved swiftly through the rest of the lesson, working hard not to lose his momentum. "Not right now," he said brusquely, his eyes fixed on his clipboard, to a student whose hand was raised. Over the years, González and his staff have developed a simple, rigid plan meant to help new teachers manage their classrooms and progress through lessons without getting derailed. Each 45-minute period is divided into five sections, or waves, as they're known. Adler facilitated his transitions with chants: "Work hard. Get smart. Woot! Woot!" The suggestion to do that came last year from his coach. "At first, I thought they were really cheesy; I felt like they weren't me," he told me later of the undignified sideshows he has come to deploy. "Now I feel like: You know what? They can be me."
After class, González had some criticisms. Among other things, Adler never made it to the final wave of the lesson, known as the share, when the class gathers in a circle to review and reinforce what it learned that day. ("Circle up to talk it out, to get it, get it, get it.") But González was pleased. The danger now is that like many young teachers, Adler will soon move on, and all that money González spent on his development will have been wasted. "Every time one of my teachers leaves, that's $200,000 walking out the door," he told me.
During his tenure, Klein often referred to the mission of improving our nation's public schools as "the civil rights battle of our time." Rhetoric like this helped the education-reform campaign blossom into a full-fledged movement. Young college graduates now go into blighted schools to teach in much the same way that an earlier generation went south to march. This has been a boon for González. Eight of his nine original faculty members were fresh from college via
But this dependence on young teachers brings its own challenges. "First-year teachers are pretty much useless," González says. "To me, the ideal teacher is a third-year Teach for America teacher." The problem, at least from where González sits, is that Teach for America requires only a two-year commitment. It entices the best applicants not only with the promise of changing lives in impoverished schools but also by presenting itself as a résumé-builder for elite institutions like Harvard Business School and McKinsey & Company. "I'm trying to build people who are going to stay, who want to work with our kids," González says. "This isn't where they're starting their careers; this is their life. We've had plenty of brilliant people here from organizations like Teach for America, and they lasted two years, because their hearts weren't in it. I can't afford that. That's hurtful to our kids."
Much as he has done with his student body, González has tried to create a particular culture among his faculty, relying equally on inspiration and incentive. Last year, to discourage teachers from taking advantage of a clause in the U.F.T. contract allowing them to miss 10 days of every school year, he gave everyone with a perfect attendance record a Flip video camera. (As usual, there was an ulterior motive: González wanted them to use the cameras to record themselves in the classroom.)
A few weeks after visiting Adler's class, I stopped by his classroom at the end of the day. The place was a mess. He had just finished a lab that involved making
Adler said he was enjoying his job — "I like being the science teacher, being that figure in these kids' lives" — especially when he considers his friends from Brown, many of whom are still stuck in a postcollege
Still, he isn't convinced that he's well suited to teaching, particularly at this level. He's not organized enough to keep students on task and, indirectly anyway, he echoed González's concern about fundamentally not being part of the 223 community. "I have a vocabulary that comes from always having gone to really high-level schools," he said. "I feel like I'm probably talking over half the class half the time." This, he feels, diminishes his already tenuous authority in the classroom: "Who am I, this 24-year-old white kid from the Upper West Side, to tell a bunch of kids from a very different background how they're supposed to behave and act?"
M.S. 223 holds its parent-association meetings on the first Saturday morning of every month. During the preceding week, parents receive a robocall reminder from the school, either in English or Spanish. Not that such calls ever make much of a difference. Parent engagement, a given at most charter schools and middle-class public schools, is an ongoing struggle at 223. Like a door-to-door salesman, González is not ashamed to use every method at his disposal to prod participation. Each parent meeting is bookended by free raffles to encourage people to show up and to stay. Just to be safe, no one leaves empty-handed: goodie bags at the door are filled with soap, shampoo and other beauty products.
On a clear, cold Saturday in January, about a dozen parents gathered inside 223's library, an oversize classroom lined with empty metal shelves, for the first parent-association meeting of the new year. Wanda Hill, the school's parent liaison, started by raffling off a $30 gift certificate to Payless shoes. Later came a
Sandwiched in between the raffles, in English with Spanish translation, was a presentation on gangs, as well as an update on the campaign to renovate the school's library. In closing, Hill reminded parents that anyone who made it to one of the district's monthly education meetings would be entitled to free clothes from
After the meeting, I introduced myself to the only English-speaking parent in attendance, Cheryl Thomas, the mother of a sixth grader named Terrell. Thomas told me that she moved her family to the Patterson Houses several years ago, when they had to go on public assistance after she quit her job to care for a daughter with
On my way out of 223, I saw Hill, a cheerful, plain-spoken woman, putting away unclaimed gift bags in a supply closet. She was clearly frustrated by the school's indifferent parents. "Even knowing that they're going to get two free bags of clothing from Dress Barn, we can't get one person — not one person — to come to a C.E.C." — Community Education Council — "meeting," she said, shaking her head. "At least we can say we're trying."
In a sense, the education-reform movement is out to demonstrate that the backgrounds of students' families don't need to be changed in order to improve schools. As reformers see it, those who cite economic circumstances as an explanation for failing schools are playing into the very "excuse-based culture" that Klein was trying to dismantle.
González has proved the reformers right, at least to an extent: his school is thriving without the benefit of consistently engaged, supportive parents. But as its English and math scores reveal, 223's success remains relative. It's also hard won. This should not come as a surprise. Studies dating to the 1960s have suggested that children's experiences inside the classroom are responsible for as little as 20 percent of their overall educational development. No less important is how they spend their evenings, their weekends, their vacations.
González sees this firsthand every September, when tests show that many of his returning students have dropped a full grade level in reading over the summer. He is trying to reverse this trend by bringing parents into their children's lives at 223 in any way he can, whether it's through sporting events (one byproduct of the school's large Dominican population is a great baseball team), plays, recitals or classroom celebrations. "We're trying to change a culture here," González says. "That's going to take time. That's going to take generations."
Eric Lincoln, M.S. 223's assistant principal, spends the first three weeks of every school year registering about 40 unplanned-for students who have just been assigned to the school by the Department of Education. This is typically a high-needs group. It includes children from failing schools who are entitled to transfer to 223 (or any other middle school in good standing) under the
Two weeks into the 2009-10 school year, Lincoln registered a seventh grader named Saquan Townsend. Saquan's family had been living in a project in East New York,
It didn't take Saquan long to develop a reputation as a kid who never did his homework, spoke disrespectfully to teachers and seemed unwilling to follow even the most basic instructions. He spoke in a deliberately provocative, high-pitched voice in the classroom — some of his teachers called it "the alien voice" — and raised his arms high up over his head in mock stretches to elicit laughter from classmates. Most of all, Saquan had a problem with absenteeism, missing more than 50 days over the course of the school year. "Honestly, I thought there was some sort of mental disability or something weird going on," says Emily Dodd, who had Saquan for seventh-grade science last year.
One Friday, Dodd, a 25-year-old graduate of Oberlin College, asked Saquan to stay late to catch up on some assignments he missed. Working with him one on one, she quickly discovered how wrong she had been. "I realized this kid is brilliant," she told me. "He's an intellectual. His ability to think critically, to reason critically is on a very high level."
Dodd started sending Saquan
Having gotten the "touch" he needed from Dodd, Saquan's attendance and behavior gradually improved. He also began participating in some of 223's after-school programs. He was one of three students to join a new running club and was cast in a lead role in the school's production of "
As recently as a few years ago, M.S. 223's bilingual-education program was the last place students or teachers wanted to be. Geared toward moving Spanish speakers into English-only classrooms as quickly as possible, it was known as a repository for slow learners. The perception became self-fulfilling, reinforced by the low expectations placed on students.
In an earlier era, González would have been hard pressed to change this situation, as the school would have been required to use the city's bilingual-education curriculum. But Klein's reforms gave González the freedom to try a different approach. In 2007, he asked a new teacher, Silvestre Arcos, to overhaul the program. Arcos mapped out a strategy to change virtually everything about bilingual education at 223, beginning with its primary aim. Rather than weaning children from their native tongues, the goal would be to develop and refine their Spanish skills as well as their English ones. Classes would be taught in both languages; the curriculum would include a course in which students hone their Spanish grammar and read Spanish literature.
The school's dual-language program, as it is known, is now the pride of 223, a magnet for strivers rather than a dumping ground for underperformers. This year, it was a finalist in a national bilingual-education competition run by the Spanish Embassy. Three hundred children applied for the 30 spots in next year's incoming sixth-grade class.
Evaluating teachers is an imperfect science, but by almost any measure Arcos is one of 223's finest. González basically has to rig the school's Classroom of the Month award, based on academic performance, behavior and class preparedness, to prevent Arcos from winning it every time.
A stout, goateed 33-year-old, Arcos grew up in South Texas. His father, a Mexican immigrant who worked as a gas-station mechanic, was a middle-school dropout, but Arcos excelled in school, winning a full scholarship to Cornell. He spent four years at a Kipp charter school in
Arcos's classroom has a deceptively relaxed air. He stands casually at the front of the room, his hands stuffed in the pockets of his khakis, allowing students to banter as they figure out answers to his questions. But he works relentlessly, particularly during the early part of the school year, to create and reinforce academic expectations, discipline and accountability. At the start of classes, Arcos praises students who seat themselves quietly and take out their work without being asked. When he hands back quizzes or other assignments, he singles out students who "met or exceeded expectations." Loud applause follows each name. All of his students, even the highest performers, are required to stay after school for tutoring.
I visited Arcos in his classroom one winter afternoon, the day after a huge snowstorm in New York. Even though the city's schools weren't closed, more than 50 percent of 223's students were absent. Arcos called all 12 of his 30 homeroom students who weren't there at the start of the day. Six of them came to school immediately. Arcos told me that he just received an e-mail from the United Federation of Teachers thanking its members for showing up at their jobs despite the storm. "I was like, You've got to be kidding; you're praising people for coming to work on a day when they're supposed to?" Arcos said. "I thought that was ridiculous."
As a public-school teacher, Arcos is required to be a member of the U.F.T., but he doesn't see eye to eye with the union on most issues. Among other things, he favors the public release of teacher-performance ratings, which the U.F.T. has been fighting aggressively to prevent. "What kind of message are you sending to families and communities if you're like, We don't want those evaluations to be made public?" he said. "Are you basically saying your teachers are doing a terrible job?"
Arcos told me that he has been impressed by the dedication of many of his colleagues at 223. Still, he misses the uniform standards of his Kipp school. "At Kipp, I wasn't worried that once my students left my math class and I sent them off to science or social studies or E.L.A. [English Language Arts] that they were going to fall apart, that the expectations weren't going to be there, academically, behaviorally, in terms of their intellectual habits," he said. "Two years ago, when my sixth-grade math students left for seventh-grade math, they totally fell apart. After all of the hard work we did, they went from the top of the school in their math-test scores to the bottom. I took it pretty hard." Earlier this year, Arcos was thinking about returning to a charter school, but he recently decided to stay, swayed by his commitment to the dual-language program and his faith in González's broader vision for the school.
Last summer, Saquan's family moved out of the shelter and into a small apartment in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Saquan wanted to remain at 223 for eighth grade, even though that would mean getting up at 5:45 and making it to the subway by 6:15 for the one-and-a-half-hour commute to the South Bronx. If he stayed for after-school activities, he would not return home until after 6. Because his mother works nights, they would barely see each other. She would not yet be home when he had to leave for school and would be asleep when he returned.
I first met Saquan at a gathering of the Principal's Book Club. It was a Monday afternoon in December, and he was one of a dozen students arrayed around the conference table that dominates González's office. Manuel Santos, González's hulking executive assistant, doled out half-slices of pizza, as González and the kids discussed "
Toward that end, González spends close to $200,000, or 5 percent, of his annual budget at
At 5-foot-3, Saquan is small for his grade, and his voice has not yet dropped, but his size 9 sneakers suggest a growth spurt in his near future. He is handsome, with smooth skin, a "faded" Afro that shoots straight up like a pencil eraser from his head, big, bright eyes and a sly smile. He poured himself a cup of orange soda and, slouching down low in his chair, said that he was annoyed by the book's main character, who obsesses endlessly over a boy without ever directly approaching him.
Several weeks later, I picked Saquan up at school and rode the subway home with him. He fiddled around with my
When we met, Saquan's mom, Tonya Henry, was operating on just a few hours of sleep. A tiny woman with dreadlocks and dark circles under her eyes, she had returned home that morning from her shift answering phones at a car-service company in
Saquan gingerly chewed his pancakes, cutting off pieces of turkey sausage to share with his mother. At one point, he told his mom with obvious pride that he'd been invited to join an after-school math program at 223 that could be applied toward his high-school credits. "You gonna do it?" his mom asked, disinterestedly. "Then do it." She went on to explain her less-than-enthusiastic response: "I try to let him make his own decisions. Sometimes he gets upset with me. He wants me to have more input than I want to. He'll ask my opinion, and he'll say, 'Mom, why can't you just give me an answer?' I'll say: 'Listen, I don't want to say this, and I don't want to say that. You've got to make up your own mind.' "
Saquan was one of 25 eighth graders at 223 who qualified for a prep course last summer for New York's specialized high-school test, used to determine admission to eight prestigious public high schools. (Run by Kaplan, the six-week course cost González $8,000.) But even after the prep course, he was at a severe disadvantage. Some of 223's students who take the test have been preparing since sixth grade, attending another twice-weekly class on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons that the city offers free to poor students.
The test was given in late October, and the results were released in mid-February. For the first time in 223's history, one of its students was accepted at Bronx Science. Another got in to Brooklyn Tech. Saquan didn't score high enough to be admitted anywhere, leaving him in the regular, citywide high-school application process.
Saquan is at grade level in reading and above grade level in math, which is nothing short of remarkable given everything he has been through. Still, his transcript is hardly impressive, and the city's high schools place a great deal of weight on attendance records. What's more, without Dodd's full-time attention, Saquan's academic performance has faltered this year. At the end of February, he was failing social studies, having not completed any of his class projects, and was barely passing English. All of this might be mitigated by a proactive parent, the kind of mother or father who diligently researches the city's high schools until they find the right fit and a sympathetic principal. This is the sort of sophisticated shopper that Klein's consumer-driven system, with its emphasis on choice, would seem to depend on. But parents like this are in short supply at 223.
It's hard to disagree with the reform movement's insistence that poverty, like ignorant or apathetic parents, should not be accepted as an excuse for failing schools. But watching Saquan, it's just as hard to ignore the reality that poverty is an immutable obstacle in the path of improving public education, one that can't simply be swept aside by the rhetoric of raised expectations. Is it really a surprise that a child whose family had been forced to move into a homeless shelter where he was sharing a bedroom with his mother and three brothers was having trouble getting himself to school and was acting out in class? Is it realistic to think that demanding more of him and his teachers is all that is required?
In late February, after hearing about Saquan's poor grades, Dodd sought him out to encourage him to end the year strong. Even though he was no longer in any of her classes, she volunteered to personally tutor him to make sure he finished with only B's or better. "Because he has never actually known what it feels like to get A's and B's, and because I know that he is capable of A's and B's, I want him to experience this before he gets to high school," Dodd wrote me in an e-mail in early March. "He's totally into it and believes he can pull it off." By way of incentive, she was going to offer to give him and his mom tickets to a Broadway show.
Days after the meeting, though, Saquan stopped coming to school. A couple of 223's administrators called his house, as did Dodd, but they were unable to reach him or his mother. When Dodd finally managed to speak with Saquan in mid-March, he told her that he decided to transfer to his neighborhood middle school in Brooklyn.
In February, 223 received an unexpected visit from a space planner for the city. To González, it seemed to be the equivalent of getting measured for his coffin. He figured that it could mean only one thing: a charter school was coming to his building.
González was furious. "You're impacting my community, and you're not even going to have a discussion with me?" he said. It also made no sense to him. "There are three, maybe four middle schools in our district with their heads above water," he told me. "How are you not closing one of the failing schools and putting the charter there? Or better yet, you have a couple hundred more kids who need to be educated? Fine. Send them to me. I'll take them. Now I have to fight with the D.O.E., and those are the guys who are supposed to be helping me."
Battles between incoming charter schools and reluctant public-school hosts have become a recurring motif on New York's education-reform landscape. The tension often carries over into the school year in the form of bickering over access to shared facilities like cafeterias and auditoriums.
To González, though, the arrival of a charter would represent more than just an inconvenience. Not only would he lose the extra space that he deliberately carved out for teacher training and student guidance, but he also feared that a charter school could jeopardize his plans to expand 223 into a high school, perhaps even a boarding school. The idea, which he enlisted a class of students at
When González first told me about the charter, I couldn't help sharing his outrage. It seemed a cruel joke, the most extreme example yet of him being punished for his success. From the city's perspective, however, González's building doesn't belong to him or even, really, to the city. It belongs to the students. An opportunity to use it to create another potentially successful school is not one that the city can afford to miss.
González did everything he could to have the charter placed elsewhere, arguing that, among other things, 223 had less unused space than several other middle schools in the district. (He also made it known to the D.O.E. that this article was in the works.) In late March, he received a reprieve. For at least another year, there would be no charter moving into 223's building.
The D.O.E. says that it was only considering a charter at 223 and that González's lobbying was largely irrelevant to its final decision. González says that his impression, from his interactions with the D.O.E., was that the charter had basically been a done deal. Either way, it was just another obstacle for González to overcome, along with developing and retaining young teachers, engaging parents and getting free eye tests for his students.
During one of our last conversations, González told me about a new eighth grader with a learning disability who recently turned up at 223. Already almost 16, the boy had earned the lowest possible score on both the reading and math portions of the state's standardized test. His mother had just moved to the neighborhood, and even though he was qualified to receive a host of free services connected to his disability that were not available at 223, she had heard good things about the school and waived her son's privileges so that he could attend it.
Hearing about the student and the challenges he would present, yet another hurdle in the endless row of them that make up the days at 223, made me exhausted. González, who would have a matter of weeks to somehow get the boy ready for high school, had a completely different reaction. "It's days like this that remind me why I get up in the morning," he said.
An article on Page 34 about Middle School 223 in the South Bronx and the reforms established by its principal, Ramón González, misidentifies the New York University graduate school from which Mr. Gonzalez enlisted a class to help M.S. 223 develop a plan for a local boarding school. It is the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, not the business school. The article also contains an outdated reference to Cathleen P. Black. On Thursday, after the article went to press, she resigned as schools chancellor of New York City.
An article on April 10 about Middle School 223 in the Bronx misstated the reasons the school does not qualify for some state financing earmarked for poorly performing schools. It does not meet some of New York State's criteria for failing schools and it is relatively successful on state tests and other measures. It is not because of the school's report card from New York City. The article also omitted an attribution for the increases in percentages of students at or above grade levels in math and English from 2006 to 2010. Those figures came from the New York City Department of Education, which did its own analysis of state testing data using 2010 proficiency levels for 2006 test scores. (Without that adjustment, the percentage of proficient learners in both math and English actually dropped from 2006 to 2010.)


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A new state law permitting dogs "one free bite" is more restrictive and creating more red tape for dog wardens, one county official says in criticizing the law which took effect May 22.
"In my opinion, this law was a mistake," Auglaize County Dog Warden Russ Bailey said. "There are some state officials who have predicted we will see a steady increase in pit bull attacks."
Since the new vicious dog legislation took effect May 22, six people in Auglaize County have been bitten by dogs. Of the six cases in the county since May 22, four have involved pit bulls or pit bull-mix breeds.
One of the recent cases in Auglaize County involved a 4-year-old who was bitten by a pit bull in Cridersville. The dog has been put down.
The new state law, supported by state Sen. Keith Faber, R-Celina, removed pit bulls from the vicious designation but established guidelines for all dogs.
Under the new legislation, dogs, including pit bulls, will no longer be tagged as "vicious" unless they attack, effectively establishing a "one free bite" rule.
If a dog attacks it will be held to a 10-day rule in which owners can appeal and have the dog returned. If the animal is returned, owners will have to obtain a second "vicious dog" license with further specifications on the pet. If a dog attacks, it will also have to be spayed or neutered.
There are also lower classifications for other dogs that show aggressive behavior, such as any dog approaching in an aggressive behavior but has not bitten can be determined a "dangerous dog."
Advocates of the legislation, including Faber, have reasoned that the new law bases problems on behavior rather than breed. Many scientific studies have stated pit bulls are much less likely to attack than many other breeds.
Humane Society of Auglaize County Director Sandra Harrison said she is in support of the new legislation.
"We feel the new legislation is more correct," Harrison said. "I don't think it is fair to label one breed of dog. There are many breeds of dog that bite. If they can label one breed without a dog performing a vicious act, would't that be like profiling? I think it is very much like profiling, and we shouldn't do that in this country."
The biggest sparks of the debate come from the likelihood of an attack and the amount of damage the pit bull can do if it does indeed attack. While a study by the American Canine Association indicated that only one in approximately 83,000 American pit bull terriers do indeed attack, supporters of legislation to control the animals argue 59 percent of fatal attacks in the United States between 2006 to 2008 were inflicted by pit bulls or pit bull mixed breeds.
Breed specific legislation has made obvious improvements in decreasing the amount of attacks by pit bulls. In Council Bluffs, Iowa, the city had 29 documented pit bull bites in 2004 and 19 in 2005.
After enacting a ban in 2005, the city saw the numbers decrease to seven in 2006 and two in 2007. They had no documented cases from 2008-2010.
Several other cities claimed significant decreases in pit bull bites after enacting pit bull laws, including Omaha, Neb., San Francisco, Springfield, Mo., and Reading, Pa.
St. Marys and Wapakoneta have breed-specific legislation. Buckland and Cridersville both are currently discussing the passing of legislation to restrict or ban specific breeds.
Waynesfield Police Chief Nathan Motter said he is considering making a proposal in the future at a Waynesfield Village Council meeting.
Bailey and Mercer County Dog Warden Tom Powell said safety tends to get lost in the argument when considering which animals attack more.
"I hated to see it done," Powell said, referring to the law change. "It wouldn't have made a difference in preventing this recent attack, but it shows there is a need for special guidelines."
Powell was referring to an attack in Celina when Douglas Thomas, 55, 214 Elm St., Celina, was attacked by a pit bull that had been a family pet for years.
The attack caused severe injuries to Thomas' left lower leg, right ring finger and left forearm. The injuries included puncture wounds and resulted severe skin and tissue removal which included an area of about 2 1/2 inches of his fibula being exposed.
Three pups belonging to the mother that attacked Thomas also became aggressive.
Powell said it is not as important to consider the likelihood of attack as it is to consider the possible damage.
"Most bites are not your larger dogs," Powell said. "They are usually smaller dogs, but in my experience it is the bigger dogs that do the most damage."
Advocates of the new law have also claimed that how dogs are raised are a larger contributing factor in an attack, but Bailey disagreed somewhat with the statement.
"There was one in Cridersville that was quarantined after a bite and the animal showed no signs of abuse," Bailey said. "Another one in Buckland that was quarantined showed no signs of abuse.
"I've handled dogs since 1982," he said. "I have completely changed my opinion in this matter based on what I have seen since I have been dog warden. The dogs in our area that have been involved have shown no signs of abuse."
Bailey said if a poodle, cocker spaniel, or other smaller breed of dog attacks, a person can fend off the attack. He said the same is not always possible with a pit bull.
"If that prey drive kicks in and a pit bull attacks, you are at its mercy until it decides to stop," Bailey said.
While Bailey and Powell have said they were not agreement with the new legislation, they said time would tell if the new legislation provides ample protection to the public.
The Auglaize County commissioners felt that the issue will again need to be revisited in the future.
"People are very passionate about this issue," Commissioner John Bergman said. "I think at some point this will be revisited again."
"I was very naive coming into this position on this subject," Commissioner Doug Spencer said. "I was very surprised of the law change. I have learned from first-hand accounts that there are more severe bites involved with some breeds."


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Texas Association of Realtors releases 2014 Texas Small Land Sales Report
AUSTIN - From vacation homes and ranchettes to investment properties and industrial interests, small land sales throughout Texas saw significant activity last year, according to the 2014 Texas Small Land Sales Report released today by the Texas Association of Realtors. The report summarizes data provided by the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University on trends in small land sales across the state and revealed that the economic strength driving other aspects of Texas real estate is also reflected in small land sales.
According to the report, 2013 featured 4,189 small land sales in Texas of a median tract size of 20 acres. As the first year of the report, year-over-year comparison data is not yet available. However, in comparing these figures to long-term trends, it's clear that individual buyers, investors and industry are driving an increase in sales for these types of properties.
Dan Hatfield, chairman of the Texas Association of Realtors, commented: "The same things driving demand for residential real estate - jobs and affordability - are driving small land sales in Texas. Texans are looking for vacation properties, industries are looking to support their operations and investors are looking for new development opportunities. Over the last decade, that has driven almost double the number of land purchases."
According to the report, individuals are showing more interest in small land sales for recreational uses, such as ranchettes for weekend getaways and land for hunting. Industries are purchasing tracts known for timber production as well as farmland with an abundance of silage. Small land sales were also driven by investors, who are seeking irrigated land for cash crops that are beginning to stabilize in price and in the fringe counties of major cities for community development.
Charles Gilliland, economist with the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University, spearheaded collection of the data and commented on the importance of looking at small land sales specifically, "We've long suspected that trends in land sales may differ between small and large tracts and the findings in this report confirm that. Few buyers possess the resources required to purchase large tracts while many more have the capital needed to buy smaller properties. This higher demand often results in small properties exchanging for a higher price per acre than larger neighboring tracts of comparable quality."
The report divides the state into seven regions and reports on trends in each. Due to the significant physical variations among these regions, the definitions of "small" and "large" have been determined on a per-region basis. Generally speaking, however, a sale is considered a small land sale if the purchase is less than 200 acres. The exception is Region Two, covering Far West Texas, in which 500 to 8,000 acres qualifies as a small land sale.
Among the regions, Region Seven (Central Texas) had the most land sales in 2013, with 1,392 parcels of small land sold, comprising 33 percent of the total volume in Texas. In addition, Region Five (Houston and surrounding areas) had the highest average price per acre in Texas at $9,195, while Region One (Panhandle) had the highest median tract size, at 81 acres.
About the Texas Small Land Sales Report
The Texas Small Land Sales Report covers trends in land sales across seven regions of Texas through a combination of small land sales data provided by the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University and insights from Texas Realtors with expertise in land sales in those areas. The Texas Association of Realtors distributes insights about the Texas housing market each month, including quarterly market statistics, trends among homebuyers and sellers, luxury home sales, international trends and more. To view the Texas Small Land Sales Report in its entirety, visit TexasRealEstate.com.
About the Texas Association of Realtors
With 90,000 members, the Texas Association of REALTORS® is a professional membership organization that represents all aspects of real estate in Texas. We advocate on behalf of Texas Realtors and private-property owners to keep homeownership affordable, protect private-property rights, and promote public policies that benefit homeowners. Visit TexasRealEstate.com to learn more.


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There are 73,935 voters registered and the Constituency Labour Party has 279 members - 0.38% of the electorate, bang in line with Labour's national membership (170k members out of 45m electors see this post for electoral stats)
There are eight all-wimmin candidates fighting for the votes of those 279 local members; the Bexley Times profiles them:
Now Georgia Gould, 22, a Masters student at the London School of Economics, will have to battle it out among seven other candidates.And no surprise they're fighting like ferrets in a sack, with today's selection election postponed because a ballot box at Labour's central HQ has been tampered with.
These include physiotherapist and trade union Unite officer Rachael Maskell, who is believed to be backed by Gordon Brown's former press secretary Charlie Whelan.
Ex-Bexley councillor Teresa Pearce is also on the list and was the first Chair of the Erith and Thamesmead Labour group when it was set up in 1994.
Plumstead councillor and language teacher Angela Cornforth is one of two Greenwich councillors in the race.
Her fellow councillor on the list Jagir Sekhon became the first Sikh female mayor in Britain when she became mayor of Greenwich in 2000.
Former Labour candidate for Orpington in 2005 and cancer campaigner Emily Bird is another Unite member in the running. She was born in Eltham and is a former pupil of Crown Woods School in Riefield Road.
She competes against Kensington and Chelsea councillor Marianne Alapini who was the Labour candidate for the Tory seat of Woking last year before withdrawing to run for Erith and Thamesmead. She is originally from Kenya and represents the Colville ward which is on the Notting Hill carnival route.
And former MP Melanie Johnson hopes to return to office after losing her Welwyn Hatfield seat four years ago which she held since 1997.
She was also a minister for six years in the treasury, health and industry departments, where she shaped new laws to take action against loan sharks.
Now if ever there was a better argument for open primaries than Erith and Thamesmead I've yet to find it. Both Newms and Dan Hannan have long advocated these, and in this constituency the process would give local voters the chance of picking a candidate who meant something to them. As Dan wrote:
The arguments for open primaries are, when you think about them, pretty obvious. They ensure that you have a candidate who is liked by a decent chunk of the constituency, not just by your activists. Those who participate in the selection process come to feel proprietorial about "their" candidate, and have a stake in his or her success: the Warrington South Conservative Association has 200 active new members as a direct result of the selection process. And, of course, the very fact of the primary generates an enormous amount of local media interest, thus giving the candidate a head-start.It really is time for reform.
Sunder Katwala over at Next Left agrees about open primaries - whatever next!


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Is anyone in the technology industry not working on a plan to disrupt the traditional cable model?
The latest entrant is Sony, which is apparently trying to figure out how to build a virtual cable network that is distributed through the Internet.
Andrew Wallenstein at Variety says Sony has been quietly working to reach deals with content companies. It sounds like it's not working out very well so far.
Sony would need to pay a lot of money for the content, and a lot of money for the infrastructure to deliver the content.
Sony is not a company like Apple, Microsoft, or even Intel. It has failed to deliver hit products for a while now and it's in serious trouble. Taking on a high-risk project like disrupting the cable industry doesn't make a lot of sense. Then again, we're not sure what Sony's good at anymore, so maybe it needs to throw a hail-mary and hope for the best.
Unlike Intel, which was exploring offering users channels on per-channel basis, Sony is only interested in delivering packages of content, much like how we already get cable. It's hard to see how Sony would be able to lower the price of cable for consumers, and thus hard to see how this thing wouldn't wind up dead on arrival.
And, while we're on the topic, as a consumer, you may have your fingers crossed that Sony or Intel or anyone is going to do something to blow up the traditional cable business. Here's why even if it happens, you'll be screwed.
The cable companies control the pipes. They deliver your TV and they deliver your Internet. If you stop paying for TV, they will just jack up your Internet bill. And so, any savings you might get from Sony would ultimately be wiped out.
If you really want to pray for the death of cable, then you need to pray for something like Google Fiber, which is a nicer version of the cable companies.
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Wes Welker signed his franchise tender with the New England Patriots, a source with knowledge of the situation said Tuesday, and will be guaranteed $9.515 million in base salary next season.
The four-time Pro Bowl wide receiver later confirmed the news on Twitter.
I signed my tender today. I love the game and I love my teammates! Hopefully doing the right thing gets the right results. #leapoffaith
- Wes Welker (@WesWelker) May 15, 2012
The signing comes one day after Welker, who wants a long-term deal, told WEEI Radio he had "$9.5 million reasons why I won't miss any regular-season games." The Patriots have organized team activities next week, but Welker isn't required to report to the team facility until a full-squad minicamp in mid-June.
Welker didn't participate in the Patriots' voluntary workout program last month.
"Through my body of work, through the past five years, I think what I've done -- I've earned a long-term deal," Welker told ESPNBoston.com in April. "It's what I am looking for and what I want. Hopefully that's the case, and hopefully we come to something where we can make that happen."
Welker, a nine-year NFL veteran, has played the last five seasons in New England. He caught 122 passes for 1,569 yards and nine touchdowns in 2011.
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Has anyone worked with VIIRS Day Night Band? I want to download few images to get a map of night scene of Central Europe (city lights etc). I use friendly interface at NOAA (http://www.class.ncdc.noaa.gov/saa/products/search?datatype_family=VIIRS) and I've downloaded few images already. The problem is that there was only one nice image and the rest of them were in 95% covered with value 0 (although they were taken in the same night!).
My questions are: Is there any way to preview VIIRS Day Night Band images before download? Does mosaic of night scene images for Europe already exist and is available for download? Do you have any other ideas where to find remotely sensed images of earth at night?
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Morrison Orchards necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 270 diseños de 47 diseñadores freelance.
"FlavourFruits" or "FlavourFruits Orchard" (open either depending which works best)
The Morrison family have been growing fresh fruit in Warkworth, NZ for 135 years.The 1st orchard was planted by Edward Morrison in 1875 which expanded over the years and in early 1900's the original Morrison orchard had one of the largest nurseries in the southern hemisphere. We were the first to export apples overseas from NZ (stuffed in barrels of wet sawdust) and through his close relationship with the then Governor of NZ, Sir George Grey, Edward Morrison discovered and developed with his son John the now well know NZ Grapefruit or as it was known then "Poorman's orange" or "Morrison's seedless grapefruit", unique for the fact it had no pips. (google Morrison's seedless Grapefruit to sift through some history files) For various reasons the original Morrison orchard is no longer producing but have been converted into dairy farms. The new family orchard that we are now running was planted in 1935 as a continuation of the family tradition and history, but on a different site while the old site was converted to farm land.
The newer orchard never reached its full potential due to the 2nd WW and is today still considerably smaller than the previous family orchard. There is however room & potential for expansion and development, which is in my mind for the next 5-10 years.
I am the 6th generation Morrison to continue the tradition of growing fresh, tree ripened fruit in NZ.
People want different things now, they shop differently, they are (generally) more convenience driven but yet will spend silly money for emotive things at farmers markets etc. Things like fruit & veges have been commoditised with more competition from supermarkets offering year round produce for many things, most often with inferior quality fruit, or worst, fruit that looks great but when you bite into it, has no flavour!!
We do not want to compete with Supermarket's commoditised produce. Our brand/logo needs to draw on the emotions people associate with the warm, juicy fresh fruit you used to buy before the days of mass temperature controlled storage. We sell our fruit direct at the orchard and differentiate ourselves based on our history of producing tree ripened fruit & fruit products (jam, sauce, pickles etc) and the fact we pick our fruit ripe every day. I can genuinely say that our fruit is the sweetest, juiciest, most flavour filled fruit I have ever eaten (and I have lived in 8 different countries so far)
I feel we, the Morrison family, have a unique offering, one that I am keen to portray in our branding and future development, embodied and carried forward in a uniquely recognisable logo/colour scheme.
Audience is everyone who likes fresh fruit that tastes good, this covers a massive demographic but all you designers should be able to relate to what I am saying :)
The logo will be used to catch attention, become universally recognised and associated with our tree ripened, juicy, flavoursome fruit that we grow and sell.
The logo will be used on our website (yet to be developed so another auction will be done for that later) as well as all produce packaging, marketing & sales documentation.
If it fits with the branding I quite like the name "My Mum's" for our range of jams, pickles and sauces.
This produce packaging would still have our FlavourFruits logo but in my mind this product range of "processed" fruit items would fall into "My Mum's" range. Bottled sauce, jars of jam, jars of pickles and in the future possibly a juce range. eg: My Mum's ...Plum Jam; My Mum's... Million Dollar Pickle; My Mum's ...Plum Sauce, My Mum's ...Fresh Orange Juice etc
I am very open to any concept you guys & girls come up with. I would like it to have a unique feel, draw people in with that emotive word "Flavour", be new but also have that feel of history, and if possible compliment the "My Mum's" product range for the jams etc.
I look forward to some creative designs. Following the logo I will also be looking to develop the website.
For further information or clarifications feel free to contact me at email@example.com
Best regards
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A short film about cycling made by students from Greenbank High School in Southport was premiered at a special event at Southport Art Centre on 15th July. A group of girls aged 12/14 from Greenbank High School spent three months producing a film called 'Pedal Power' – The Way Forward'.
The film shows how they have explored cycling and the role it can play in local people's lives. The video includes footage of Greenbank pupils, interviewing local councillors, Cycling Officers, teachers and the town's MP. It also explains cycling skills on the roads in and around Southport, bike maintenance, why cycling is healthy and much more . The girls met and interviewed a teacher and assistant head from Holland to see how many children cycle to school there and now have a link with the school, thanks to Andy from North City Learning Centre. The girls have started their own bike club called Pedal Power and Way Forward and have regular cycle sessions at lunchtime and after school. They encourage level 3 cycle training after school and also cycle rides as part of their bike club.
Greenbank High School is also taking the lead on the young people's cycle campaigns group in Southport. The group was set up by Greenbank to make sure young people's voices are heard in Sefton. Young people have a right to say what they think should happen, when adults are making decisions that affect them.


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Obviously this is a very general question, but who is THE most dominant sportsman/sportswoman/athlete at their sport of all time? There are many different sports so it's near impossible to single out one person who is better than everyone else overall, but we can surely name a few.
Don Bradman - Arguably (albeit I don't know anyone who would argue) the best player of all time. He ended his career with an average of 99.94, with the closest anyone has these days is around 57 or so. I honestly cannot see anyone ever having such a high average ever again playing as many games as Bradman did.
Michael Phelps - He entered 8 swimming events at the Beijing Olympics and won all 8 of them, convincingly. That is a pretty epic feat.
Roger Federer - I won't name every major tournament he has won, but I don't think it really needs explaining how consistently good this guy has been.
I'm sure there are others too. I don't know much about American sport, but obviously Michael Jordan was pretty good, as have been a few baseball players.


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