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Posted: June 15, 2011 07:01 am
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Developers Needed
phpCOIN was originally developed by Mike Lansberry to run his own web hosting business and released to the public under pressure from friends and interested users. Mike found the burden of running support and development to be too intrusive on his time, and the rights to the code and operations were transferred to Stephen Kitching (cantex) who subsequently set up a limited company in Canada called COINSoft Technologies Inc. to administrate the project and attract investors.
Over the next 5 years, as a major shareholder in COINSoft Technologies Inc., Technology Services RPVW S.L. (a British owned limited company based in Spain) invested many thousands of hours in development, research and support into the phpCOIN v1 project, and into the phpCOIN v2 commercial project, which was under development, and as a result, a 6 figure (Euros) debt was accumulated owing to Technology Services RPVW S.L.
Following the sad and unexpected death of Stephen Kitching from cancer, the directors and shareholders of the Canadian company attempted to replace him as the project developer without success. The decision was made to close down the Canadian company but the debt to Technology Services RPVW S.L. remained and the asset value of COINSoft Technologies Inc. could not come anywhere close to covering this debt.
In order to salvage something from the disaster, Technology Services RPVW S.L. agreed to accept the rights to the phpCOIN projects in lieu of payment but, unfortunately, no-one in Canada was able to find or make available the development code for the phpCOIN v2 project.
Over the past year, Technology Services RPVW S.L. has done everything possible to maintain the availability of the phpCOIN v1 project and its support to the public. Increasing workloads and limited developer resources have proved to be too much of a strain, and unfortunately, we have had to suspend the project for the time being.
It is a sad reflection on the state of the phpCOIN community (with the exception of a couple of users) that no-one who promised their support and help with the project actually made good on their commitments.
The Future
Frankly, the future of the phpCOIN project looks somewhat bleak at the time of writing. Unless a suitable lead developer steps up to the plate to collaborate with us and undertake the forward development of the project and co-ordinate coder contributions, we do not see any immediate way of getting the project back on-track. The disappointing fact is that the road-map and feature set to turn phpCOIN into a truly world class project has existed for some time, but the lack of developer contributions and community support has effectively paralysed the project.
So what can we do, and what's in it for you?
We have a number of options at this time. We could just abandon the project which would be a criminal shame. We could sell the whole project on to a third party (assuming their offer was acceptable). Or we could collaborate with someone willing and suitable to take over the position of lead developer for the project.
Given that the project is open source and distributed free, we are not willing at this time to employ anyone to fill this position, but any developer that took this on would be fully accredited with their work, and would receive all the support and resources that Technology Services RPVW S.L. can offer. There also exists opportunities for developers and contributors to the project to offer officially accredited enterprise commercial support, and thus create a revenue stream for themselves.
An alternative might be to stop trying to re-invent the wheel, and re-code phpCOIN as a (commercial?) 'drop in' module for existing, established, shopping cart(s) or content management system(s).
A lead developer should have extensive knowledge of PHP coding and preferably have some experience in shopping cart / financial software (for international distribution), and be willing to contribute a significant amount of time to the project over several years to ensure some sort of continuity. As previously stated, a road-map already exists with what we consider to be the way forward to make the phpCOIN project a world class shopping cart/invoicing application which can be used by web hosting companies or for any other e-commerce application. Nothing is set in stone and any developer input and ideas would would be appraised on their respective merits.
We do require that any applicant for the position of lead developer should be absolutely fluent in English (preferably a native English speaker) and also be available and willing to communicate by telephone. If you are interested in taking on this project, please phone us or eMail us using the details below.Tel:+34 971518362 Fax: +34 971518368 eMail: email@example.com
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--- Help will be given to install/configure/use phpCOIN, but not programming help to modify phpCOIN operations. If you are competent enough to make programming changes, you should be competent enough to read the source code and figure things out :)


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RIT hosts its first all-female hackathon
RIT hosts its first all-female hackathon, WIC Hacks, to encourage women in STEM programs
At last year's inaugural International Women's Hackathon, more than 600 young women from universities in seven countries came together to program computing solutions. Rochester Institute of Technology will join the global challenge this year, and will include participants from its Henrietta as well as the university's international campuses in Kosovo, Croatia and Dubai.
RIT's Women in Computing student organization will host WIC Hacks, the campus' first all-women's hackathon, on Saturday, April 26. It takes place from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. in RIT's Student Innovation Hall. The event is free and open to female college students and junior and senior girls in high school. Registration for individuals or teams can be done online.
At hackathons, teams of programmers work together to create unique solutions to problems, incorporating mobile apps, websites and games, for example. The international hackathon was sponsored for the first time last year by Microsoft Research Group and is open to young women in computer science, engineering and information technology. Veronica Wharton, a first-year student in the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, took the reins in organizing RIT's onsite event and participated on a student panel with Microsoft's planning team to update the materials and resources for this year's project.
"I volunteered thinking this would be a great opportunity for RIT. I'm excited that RIT will be able to participate," said Wharton. "This is also an opportunity to encourage young women to continue pursuing STEM or even to consider something they hadn't considered before."
Wharton and the Women in Computing organization are opening the event to young women of all computing-skill levels from RIT and other regional colleges as well as juniors and seniors in area high schools.
WIC Hacks is a way to support young women who are interested in STEM fields and provide a safe, encouraging environment in which young women can develop the confidence they will need to thrive in a competitive tech industry, Wharton added.
"I was thrilled when Veronica approached me about helping to host such a wonderful event for female students," said Jeanne Casares, RIT's chief information officer. "As professional women in IT, my staff and I are always looking for opportunities to help mentor future women in technology. Engaging and participative events like this often provide the spark that illuminates STEM opportunities."
Mentors will also be available and will include faculty and staff from RIT, including Casares, who was Digital Rochester's 2010 IT Women of the year, and Lana Verschage, director of RIT's Women in Computing, based in the Golisano College.
"My expectations have gotten bigger and bigger because I've interacted with so many people around the university and each one has been very excited about this event, excited that this is happening," said Wharton, who is the 2013 recipient of the National Center for Women and Information Technology Awards for Aspirations in Computing. The Lexington, Mass., resident received the award given to young women in high school for their computer and information technology aptitude, leadership ability, academics and plans for post-secondary education.
For more information, contact the Women in Computing organization at firstname.lastname@example.com
Note: Members of RIT's International Hackathon planning team are: Catherine Ramirez, Dhivya Govindarajan, Samantha Schwarz, Jen Lamere, Jessica Sorrell, Jodie Miu, Kayla Davis, Maggie Hewitt, Katherine Whitlock, Becca Dudley, Sara Shaffer and Victoria Wong-Jew.
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Re: CTRL+C to exit visual mode
Hi Jon,
Today I downloaded the trial version of ViEmu, and I think this is the best 'app' I installed since a long time. As a 'hardcore' vim user I really appriciate the plugin, this is a gift from heaven.
I've not yet explorer the whole plugin, but most of the functions I use seem to work (%s / %g / folding (zr e.t.c) / [dwBxvypP]) e.t.c.
There is one 'feature' however, that I'm missing, or can't seem to find. To exit visual mode I use CTRL+C, but that doesn't seem to work in ViEmu. I allready removed the shortcut from Tools>Options>Keyboard, so CTRL+C doesn't copy anything to the clipboard anymore, but it still won't exit visual mode. I've tried to map it (:map <C-C> <ESC>), which works in VIM, but doesn't in ViEmu.
I allready searched the docs/forums/google/ but can't find an answer. Is it possible to exit Visual Mode by pressing CTRL+C? That would be really cool.
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Discovery Channel says so. You can believe it. I heard it chomped a whale in half in one bite and is sinking fishing vessels. 60 feet long, 100 tons, teeth 7 inches long.....sighted off the coast of south africa but with indications that it is pelagic and migratory, there's every chance it could show up in the red triangle due to resurgence of pinniped populations.
I love shark week. I've already pretty much od'd on the shark attack stories though. My favorite one is the researcher that was demonstrating in front of a camera crew that sharks don't react to humans as food as long as you remain calm. While that may be directionally true for some shark species, unfortunately he was demonstrating this by wading waist deep through a school of bull sharks. Bad idea. The footage showing the remains of his shredded calf from one good bite is GNARLY.
Everybody should watch shark week. Educational.
Megaladons are real and coming to your neighborhood. Really. It was on the Discovery Channel so it must be true.


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By Leticia Salazar Fonseca, CFCA social worker in Costa Rica
|Leticia delivering mail to children in Desamparados
My name is Leticia, and I have been serving CFCA for more than eight years. It is early in the morning, and I get up thanking our Lord for another day of life. I put my life in His merciful hands as I prepare a cup of coffee.
To be part of the CFCA team has been an immense blessing for me. We feel that what we do is not just a job: it is a mission in our life. I get ready to visit communities in the morning and to distribute benefits in the afternoon. Today we will visit the communities of Desamparados, Los Alpes and La Managuita.
Los Alpes
In our home visits, we offer hope and dignity to all our sponsored families. This is why, early in the morning, we arrive at the community of Los Alpes. With the help of the mothers, we prepared breakfast for a little over 100 sponsored children and, while we do that, they all are talking about the trip to the water park they enjoyed last week. They had the opportunity to share with their friends and to enjoy the pools, horse rides, trails, etc. We had 12 buses full of smiling angels who waved at anybody who would look at them. To get out of their violent and aggressive communities and to be able to enjoy a healthy environment has a great meaning and value for them.
While we were with the children, we were notified that one of our sponsored elderly, Jose, had lost his home and belongings in a fire. Apparently robbers broke into his house the night before, while he slept at his relativesí, and decided to burn it to erase any evidence. We went to visit Jose and found him sadly looking through the rubble of his house and remembering his 50 years of marriage.
Last year, Joseís wife passed away, and this has him very depressed, ìI lost little things and memories that one saves,î Jose said with tears in his eyes. ìGod loves me; he did not let me die in this fire. No matter what happens, we must trust Him, because better things will come.î
Jose lost eight guitars he handmade. ìThe material things burned down but the formula to make my guitars cannot be taken away, it is saved in my memory,î Jose told us. Amidst the pain, it is incredible to see the solidarity of the sponsored families in the area who were already trying to find clothing and goods to help Jose. CFCA is already finding ways to support him, too.
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To obtain your UPS tracking number, you can email us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Please call the brewery at 608-527-5850 if you have any questions or need to cancel an online order.


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Is it pouring on the Upper East Side but dry in SoHo? And will the rain stop by the time you make it downtown? Consult the app to get precise forecasts down to the very street you live on. That way you're prepared for the weather, leaving that slicker at home if you don't need it, and not getting caught in a downpour unprepared. [TechCrunch]
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On one hand, perhaps baseball's worst bullpen has been improved. The Mets blew 29 save opportunities last season, but the additions of Francisco Rodriguez and JJ Putz has to close the one-game gap on the Phillies assuming all else is equal.
That's the strongest positive.
Another positive is the time Daniel Murphy spent last season in the majors and the addition of Tim Redding improves the fifth spot in the rotation. The overall depth of the bullpen is better.
The rest isn't so much glaring negatives as they are questions. Yes, if there's no improvement from Luis Castillo, that becomes a glaring negative.
The following Q and A gives a thumbnail perspective of the other hand.
Q: How's Johan Santana's knee?
A: Nothing negative to report, but we'll know when he he gets on the mound.
Q: How's John Maine's shoulder?
A: Reports are surgery went well and he should be ready for spring training. But, we really won't know until he starts throwing.
Q: Is Mike Pelfrey ready to continue his progress?
A: Sometimes, after a large jump in innings, a pitcher hits a growth wall. We'll have to see. You can't just pencil him in for 200 innings and 18 wins. It's not that simple.
Q: Who is the real Carlos Delgado?
A: Can anyone say for certain it will be the second half Delgado or the first half Delgado?
Q: How healthy is Ryan Church?
A: The Mets say he's fine, but will be pick up where he left off before the concussion?
Q: How productive will the Murphy-Tatis platoon in left be?
A: The Mets will take what they got last year, but nobody is making any promises.
Add it up, if the Mets produce the same as they did last year, the bullpen improvement should pick up a game on the Phillies. Then again, we don't know if the Phillies won't be any better. However, there's no guarantee the Mets will get the same production, or if it will be better or worse.
Given all this, with the start of spring training less than two weeks out, what's your confidence level?


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Fanny Kaplan
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin
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This is a guest post by Zoetica Ebb, a Moscow-born, LA-based artist, writer, photographer and style technician. Follow her on Twitter @zoetica.
Read Part I of Ghosts of the Moscow Kremlin.
Fanny Kaplan lived her turbulent life in the early 20th century. A young Jewish anarchist in Kiev, she partially lost her sight at the age of twenty, during preparations for a terrorist action, when explosives accidentally detonated. Arrested while trying to flee the scene, she was sentenced to death. Because Fanny was under twenty-one, she was sent to a labor camp instead, where she spent most of her time in ill physical and mental health, eventually losing her vision entirely.
When the Revolution of 1917 came, she was released. Free again, Fanny underwent a series of treatments and her vision partially returned. She joined an anti-Marxist socialist party and, one year later, was arrested for the attempted assassination of Lenin, who was shot three times at a large-scale meeting. In a considerably shady turn of events, she was captured by the militia holding a gun and saying, "I did my duty."
Considering Fanny's impaired vision -at this time she could only make out shadowy shapes- and the fact that the well-aimed bullets weren't extracted from Lenin to be checked for a match to her pistol, this confession was dubious (also see: Lee Harvey Oswald). Nonetheless, since she wouldn't name any accomplices, Fanny Kaplan was executed at the Kremlin without a trial or an investigation three days later. She was shot and stuffed in a barrel, which was then set ablaze, leaving no room for confusion in least in one aspect of her story, making her a perfect candidate for eternal unrest.
A pale, trembling Fanny with uncombed hair and a gun is sometimes seen inside one of the Kremlin towers to this day.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin remains an iconic figure in Russian history, though national reverence and enthusiasm have waned since the fall of Communism. As someone who grew up during Communism's final decade, I still find Lenin difficult to write about, since the shiny dogma we were taught in school and the details surfacing over the past twenty years are at considerable odds. Even so, his accomplishments are many and his work ethic alone is awe-inspiring, even if all of his ideals and doings were not.
He was the erudite revolutionary who fought the Great Civil War, helped overthrow the last tzar and built an entirely new government, transforming Russia into a Soviet State with a socialist economic system. He worked sixteen-hour days until his death, wrote entire books without the help of a stenographer, all the while managing to maintain communication with friends and allies. His pamphlets, reforms, and long, impassioned speeches before huge crowds made him into a national hero. Despite being a slight man with unremarkable looks, the propaganda spun by Lenin's eventual successor, Joseph Stalin, inflated his newly broad-shouldered and strong-jawed image to near-leviathan proportions. After decades of his trademark hostile intolerance toward faith, which dubbed religion "a mass opiate to be eradicated", Lenin became god. Stalin continued to cultivate this personality cult to legitimize himself during and well after Lenin's lifetime.
Before he eventually worked himself to death in 1924, Lenin fell gravely ill, and, partially paralyzed, was ordered rest at his summer house outside of Moscow. Shortly before his end, a Kremlin security chief saw what appeared to be Lenin walking briskly through the corridor up to his former apartment on the premises. Confused by Lenin's lack of cane and entourage, the chief made a call – only to confirm that Lenin was at the summer house, resting as prescribed. Numerous similar eyewitness accounts followed, in direct opposition with the anti-spiritual doctrine of the times. The matter was quickly covered up with a false story of Lenin visiting Moscow one last time.
After his death three weeks later, Lenin's body was embalmed and displayed in the Kremlin Mausoleum, per Stalin's orders, where it lies to this day, accumulating layers of mortician's wax with each passing year. Lenin's baths and maintenance are no longer funded by the government, but continue thanks to public donations. It's been speculated that it's this unnatural process that keeps Lenin's troubled spirit trapped within his Kremlin apartment, which has been locked and sealed for decades. Sounds of restless pacing, shuffling paper and creaking furniture are heard by guards late into the night.
Read the rest of Ghosts of the Moscow Kremlin (Part II) after the jump…


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Loonie will return to parity by end of 2014: CIBC
Brighter days are ahead for the Canadian dollar, which has been under pressure recently amid continued weakness in the global economy, says CIBC World Markets.
A new report from the bank says the loonie should stay within a couple of cents of current levels for the rest of the year, then rebound to parity with the U.S. greenback by the end of 2014.
"As we expected, the Canadian dollar has been a casualty of disappointing global growth this year, moving even earlier than we forecast to our target of five cents weaker than parity," says CIBC chief economist Avery Shenfeld, who co-authored the report.
"While normal volatility will no doubt see days with the Canadian dollar a cent or two weaker than today's levels, we view the bout of Canadian dollar softness this year as an opportunity to buy it ahead of a likely appreciation in 2014."
Other forecasters have predicted the value of the loonie will continue to decrease and fall like the Australian dollar which moved from $1.06 (U.S.) in mid-January to 0.91 cents today.
TD Bank predicted in May that the Canadian dollar could hit as low as 90 cents (U.S.) by the end of the year and early 2014.
It said the currency will be hurt by Canada's weaker economic performance than the United States and lower commodity prices, which are expected to remain weak because of slower-than-anticipated growth in China.
Shenfeld expects the Canadian dollar's appreciation next year will be driven by a more favourable external environment, particularly growing strength in the U.S. economy.
CIBC has forecast that growth in the U.S. will increase to 3.3 per cent next year from 1.8 per cent in 2013, largely on further improvement in homebuilding and a "lower drag from fiscal policy."
"The Canadian dollar should be a beneficiary of better U.S. and global growth next year," Shenfeld said, adding that he doesn't expect the Federal Reserve will completely stop its policy of buying Treasury bonds, known as quantitative easing, until the U.S. economy is strong enough.
The bank expects crude oil will average $98 per barrel next year, helped by improving global growth, even if Mideast politics settle down a bit.
Some currency traders view the Australian and Canadian dollars as twins, but Shenfeld said the slide of the Australian dollar doesn't foretell the loonie's fate.
"Analogies to the Australian dollar's steeper setback are overdone, as the currencies are more like distant cousins than twins in terms of the economic fundamentals," he wrote.
CIBC said Canada's exports are much more varied than Australia, whose top six exports are all commodities and resources, which account for around three-quarters of all outbound shipments. Canada's resources make up less than half of exports and manufactured products like automobiles and parts still have a major role.
Australia is also more dependent on exports of iron ore to China, where economic growth has been disappointing.
The lower dollar is bad news for Canadian snowbirds planning to vacation in the sunny south next winter, or anyone hoping to buy property in the United States. It is also a handicap for the professional sports franchises in Canada that must pay their players in U.S. dollars.
But overall, economists believe a weaker currency is a net benefit for the economy, especially given that about 75 per cent of Canadian exports are sold in the U.S. market. As well, a low-flying loonie will help lure American tourists and help Canadian retailers hurt by cross-border shoppers.
The Bank of Canada is counting on growth in exports to sustain growth given that consumers are tapped out and heavily in debt. A lower dollar would be a boost to exporters by making Canadian products more competitive south of the border.
The central bank is expected to start raising interest rates before its counterpart in the United States, which should help the Canadian currency stabilize and rebound somewhat closer to parity.


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Fred and Clara marry and there comes to their home the little boy they have dreamed of and whom they determine to call Little Boy Blue. The marriage has estranged Fred's uncle, but he comes to spend Christmas with them. Their hopes of a full reconciliation are dashed when he objects so strenuously to Little Boy Blue, but things happen that wring the heartstrings and through Little Boy Blue a tru
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Every year, a panel of judges selects the best designs across the world in topics ranging from furniture to fashion before picking an overall design of the year. Past winners include Shepard Fairey's Obama poster, a foldable plug and last year's winner the Olympic Torch.
This year's nominees are as diverse as ever - from an electric car to an ergonomic chair. London is once again well represented, including the Shard, the revamped and divisive Exhibition Road, and the Olympic cauldron - which has to be considered one of the favourites.
There are plenty of other eye-catching nominees this year with architecture being a particularly strong field, from the futuristic looking Galaxy Soho building in Beijing to the Dutch Book Mountain library. As always technological advancements abound from the pragmatic German travelcard on your smartphone to the purely aesthetic LEDs mimicking a flickering candle.
There are plenty of game-changing inventions on display as well such as the non-stick ketchup bottle to the first 3D printer designed for the consumer.
However, the real heroes of this exhibition are those inventions that can really make a difference in the developing world such as the Little Sun solar powered lamp that will allow children to read at night and the bicycle operated shredder designed to break down electrical wiring thus negating the need for extraction by burning - a process that emits toxic fumes.
Our favourite has to be an anti-diarrhoea kit where the inventors have recognised that setting up a distribution network is a challenge yet Coca-Cola already has such a network in place in developing countries. By designing a kit that can slot between crates of bottles they can 'hijack' these deliveries to spread much needed medicines and prevent thousands of deaths.
This exhibition is chock full of designs that will astonish and amaze, and choosing a winner from such a strong shortlist won't be easy.
Designs of the Year is on at the Design Museum, 28 Shad Thames, SE1 2YD until 7 July. Tickets are £12 for adults, concessions available.


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GReen IN Chestnut Hill (aka GRinCH) is adding a Book FreeCycle and a Shoe Recycle to this year's Eco Alley at the Garden Fest!
Back by popular demand, the Book FreeCycle was a tremendous success last year. About 1,500 books were donated by residents and then taken for free on Eco Alley by anyone interested. And throngs of people were interested!
This year we are adding a Shoe Box Recycle fundraiser. ShoeBox Recycling collects gently used shoes for reuse. These shoes are 'worn, but definitely not worn out.' The company works hard to give your shoes a new life by:
• Providing affordable shoes to those in need
• Creating micro-enterprises for individuals throughout the world, thus fueling local economies here and abroad
• Keeping them out of the landfills, creating a cleaner, greener planet
Books and shoes can be dropped off at the W. Highland Avenue branch of Valley Green Bank on May 1- 3, from 8 a.m.-6 p.m., and on May 4, from 9 a.m.- 1 p.m.
Then stop by Eco Alley, the Green Branch of the Garden Fest on W. Highland Avenue, this Sunday May 5 to help yourself to interesting books for free.


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If every state adopted all five components of the toughest young driver licensing laws in the nation, more than 500 lives could be saved and more than 9,500 collisions could be prevented each year, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI) estimate. Some states could halve or more than halve their rate of fatal crashes among 15-17 year-olds if they adopted the strongest graduated driver licensing (GDL) provisions.
Institute researchers collaborated with HLDI analysts to develop an online calculator to show individual states the safety gains they could achieve by adopting some or all of the most beneficial GDL provisions in effect today. The five key GDL components are permit age, practice driving hours, license age, and night driving and passenger restrictions.
The current best practices are a minimum intermediate license age of 17 (New Jersey), a minimum permit age of 16 (Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Kentucky, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Rhode Island), at least 65 supervised practice hours (Pennsylvania) and, during the intermediate stage, a night driving restriction starting at 8 p.m. (Idaho and in South Carolina during daylight saving time) and a ban on all teen passengers (15 states and D.C.).
Fatal crashes per 100,000 peoplePassenger vehicle drivers by age, 1996-2010
Institute and HLDI research has shown that states with the strongest laws enjoy the biggest reductions in fatal crashes and collisions reported to insurers among teen drivers, compared with states with weak laws (see Status Report special issue: teenage drivers, May 7, 2009, and "Licensing teenagers later reduces their crashes," Sept. 9, 2008).
"Even the best states can do better," says Anne McCartt, Institute senior vice president for research. "There's room for improvement across the board, and states could see immediate reductions in fatal crashes and collision claims as soon as the beefed-up provisions are in force."
Graduated licensing enables new teen drivers to gradually build up driving experience as they mature and develop on-the-road skills. The system has three stages: a supervised learner's period, an intermediate license (after passing a road test) that limits driving in high-risk situations except under supervision, and a license with full privileges. Teens with learner permits should get lots of supervised driving practice, and once they have intermediate licenses they should be subject to limits on night driving and teen passengers. The longer the restrictions last the better.
In the mid-1990s, states began adopting elements of graduated licensing (see "Race on among states: More states require teens to graduate to unrestricted licenses," Aug. 10, 1996). By December 2000, all but nine states had GDL laws. Since there is no nationwide GDL system, the laws vary.
To recognize states with the best laws, the Institute began rating them in 2000 from good to poor. Initially, only six states and the District of Columbia earned good ratings, and nine were poor (see "Graduated licensing laws," Dec. 20, 2000). By May of 2011, 36 states and D.C. rated good, seven rated fair and seven were marginal. No states earned poor ratings. In recent years, legislators have been slow to toughen graduated licensing laws, particularly when it comes to raising the age for a permit or license. During the 2010-12 legislative sessions, for example, nine states strengthened elements of their young driver laws, compared with 20 states during 2007-09 sessions.
The ratings initially encouraged states to adopt three-phase graduated licensing systems. The ratings, however, didn't show legislators how any state — even ones with already-strong laws — could boost the benefits of graduated licensing by targeting specific components, such as night restrictions, for improvement. The Institute now knows more about what works and what doesn't when it comes to keeping young drivers safe. Based on more than a decade of data, researchers are able to estimate the effects of changing individual provisions of GDL.
As a result, the Institute has decided to stop grading state GDL laws and switch to a calculator system designed to outline opportunities for improvement in every state. In addition to the best-practice scenario, the calculator shows the estimated fatal crash and collision claims reductions that a given state can achieve with any combination of specific law changes.
"States don't have to adopt the toughest laws in the nation to realize safety gains. Strengthening one or two components pays off. To maximize all of the benefits of graduated licensing, however, we would encourage lawmakers to consider the strongest provisions," McCartt says.
Iowa and South Dakota are examples of states that could sharply lower fatal crash and collision claim rates among teen drivers. Both states allow 14 year-olds to obtain learner permits. Iowa makes drivers wait until they're 16 to get a license, but South Dakota allows teens to get a license three months after their 14th birthday. The state has the youngest license age in the nation.
"That's too risky," McCartt says. "The younger teens are when they get their licenses, the higher their crash rate."
If South Dakota raised its license age to 17, the benefit would be an estimated 32 percent reduction in fatal crash rates among 15-17-year-old drivers and a 13 percent reduction in collision claims among 16-17-year-old drivers. Raising the license age to 15½ could reduce fatal crashes by an estimated 16 percent and collision claims by 6 percent.
A crucial provision of any graduated licensing system is a night driving restriction. South Dakota's starts at 10 p.m., but Iowa's doesn't begin until 12:30 a.m. Moving Iowa's restriction to 8 p.m. would reduce teens' fatal crashes 10 percent.
Neither state bars beginners from transporting other teens, a practice that increases crash risk. If both states adopted such a policy, they each could realize a 21 percent drop in fatal crashes among 15-17-year-old drivers and a 5 percent decline in collision claim rates among 16-17-year-old drivers. A one-teen-passenger limit would reduce teens' fatal crash rates 7 percent in either state.
If Iowa adopted the strongest provisions across the board, the state could see a 55 percent reduction in teens' fatal crash rates. South Dakota's estimated safety gains are even bigger — a 63 percent reduction in fatal crashes and a 37 percent drop in collision claims.
Percent reduction in teenagers' crash ratesby graduated licensing component
Connecticut comes closest to the current best-practices system. The state makes teens wait until age 16 for a permit and restricts all teen passengers during the intermediate license stage. If Connecticut also adopted the best provisions for practice hours, license age and night driving, it could realize a 17 percent reduction in fatal crashes and a 13 percent reduction in collision claims among teen drivers.
New York is another state with a strong GDL program. It has a permit age of 16, a license age of 16½, a night driving restriction beginning at 9 p.m., a one-teen-passenger limit and a 50-hour supervised-practice-driving requirement. Adopting the toughest provisions would reduce fatal crashes among 15-17-year-old drivers by 24 percent and collision claims among 16-17-year-old drivers by 7 percent.
"We encourage states to sharpen the core elements of their teen driver laws, particularly restrictions on night driving and young passengers," McCartt says. "Raising the licensing age would help in many states, but we realize that this isn't always a politically popular option."
The calculator grew out of the Institute's and HLDI's 2009 evaluation of the effects of various provisions of teen licensing laws on fatal crashes and collision claims for teen drivers. In this analysis, fatal crashes are the rate of 15-17-year-old passenger vehicle drivers involved in fatal crashes per 100,000 teens. Collision claims are the frequency of collision claims per 100 insured vehicle years for 16-17-year-old drivers (an insured vehicle year is one vehicle insured for one year, two insured for six months each, etc.). Collision coverage insures against damage to the policyholder's vehicle. The findings indicate strong benefits of restricting when teens are allowed to drive and how many young passengers may ride along. Raising the license and permit age also reduces teens' fatal crashes. The calculator estimates reflect the relative importance of each provision and reductions states have seen as a result of GDL. Longer learner permit holding periods, a criterion under the prior rating system, don't show independent benefits in the analysis.
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Our ONLINE CALCULATOR shows states how to reduce rates of fatal crashes and collision claims among teenage drivers by adopting some or all of the best GDL provisions in force today.
PERMIT AGE | One way states can reduce teen crashes and deaths is to raise the minimum permit age. The older teens are when they get their permits, the lower their crash risk. Iowa allows 14 year-olds to get learner permits. Raising the age to 16 would help save lives.
PRACTICE HOURS | Most states require a minimum number of supervised practice hours before learners can progress to an intermediate license. Requiring more practice reduces the number of collision claims filed for novice drivers. New Jersey doesn't have a practice driving requirement.
LICENSE AGE | The older teens are when they become eligible for a license, the fewer fatal crashes there are. South Dakota licenses at 14 years 3 months. Raising the age to 17 would reduce fatal crash rates among young drivers by 32 percent and insurance collision claims by 13 percent.
NIGHT DRIVING | Most states restrict teens in the intermediate stage of licensure from driving without adult supervision at night. Starting times vary. Restrictions work best if they begin at 10 p.m. or earlier. Alaska's doesn't start until 1 a.m.
PASSENGERS | When novice drivers travel with other teens in their car, fatal crash risk increases. Most states limit passengers for unsupervised intermediate-stage drivers. North Dakota doesn't restrict teen passengers. The state could sharply reduce fatal crashes by prohibiting all teens.
OVERALL | The safety payoff of adopting all the best provisions is huge for states such as South Dakota, which has lots of room to improve.
Best GDL provisions by state,May 2012
Permit age of 16
65 practice hours
Licensing age of 17
8 p.m. night driving restriction
No teenage passengers
Even the best states can do better. There's room for improvement across the board, and states could see immediate reductions in fatal crashes as soon as the tougher provisions are in force.
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WORCESTER, Mass. – Holy Cross' athletic teams continue to rank among the best in the nation in graduation rates, according to the latest Graduation Success Rate Report which has been released by the NCAA. The Crusaders' overall Graduation Success Rate of 97 percent for all student-athletes tied for the 17th best mark in the country out of 351 Division I schools. This marks the 10th straight year in which Holy Cross has posted a Graduation Success Rate of at least 97 percent.
"The entire Holy Cross community takes great pride in the exceptional work our scholar-athletes put into their academic efforts," said Holy Cross director of athletics Nathan Pine. "It is remarkable to once again see Holy Cross recognized among the top 20 nationally by the NCAA for their outstanding work in the classroom."
Holy Cross was one of four Patriot League institutions to rank in the top 20 in the nation in Graduation Success Rate, along with Colgate (98 percent), Loyola (98 percent) and Lafayette (97 percent). Only four other schools from New England earned top 20 rankings, in Harvard (99 percent), Brown (98 percent), Dartmouth (98 percent) and Yale (98 percent).
Sixteen of Holy Cross' athletic teams achieved a perfect 100 percent graduation rate. The Crusader programs to post perfect graduation rates were men's basketball, women's basketball, women's cross country, field hockey, women's lacrosse, women's rowing, men's soccer, women's soccer, softball, men's swimming and diving, women's swimming and diving, men's tennis, women's tennis, women's indoor track and field, women's outdoor track and field and volleyball.
The data used to calculate the Graduation Success Rate is from the four-class aggregate of entering classes from 2006 through 2009, for which the NCAA has compiled sport-by-sport figures. The average Graduation Success Rate for all NCAA Division I sports stood at 86 percent.
To view the complete NCAA report on Holy Cross' Graduation Success Rates, click here.
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Whether you are arranging a private business lunch, a romantic dinner or a family celebration, our chefs are dedicated to delivering authentic Italian dishes prepared with only the finest and freshest ingredients. Our menu offers a selection of homemade pastas, pizza, meats and daily specials to please every palate. Warm and attentive staff accommodate your needs while you enjoy the melodies from the grand piano in a relaxed atmosphere. The selection of fine wines, grappas and cognacs will compliment an unsurpassed culinary experience.


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This year is the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Baines Johnson�s War on Poverty, and there has been lots of discussion of whether it worked or didn�t. It didn�t, at least as regards its advertised purpose of reducing poverty. But it didn�t do anything to worsen it, either. That�s President Obama�s record.
The pain has been terrible, as you can find by asking about black teens and discovering their unemployment rate is up to a horrifying 38 percent. That�s one fact mentioned by Arthur C. Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute, in something he wrote for National Review Online. Other facts: Food stamp use has increased 50 percent to 48 million people, and Social Security disability has been rising by a million a year.
It�s the worst recovery since World War II, and yes, I know, President Obama has an explanation for all evil in the universe: George W. Bush. Some of his defenders add that, geez, this was a really bad recession, Obama was up against a recalcitrant Congress, recoveries are complicated and give the guy a break.
I�d say along with other critics to take some of that list into consideration and then agree that Obama has been a major factor through his fiscal recklessness, his total incompetence as a negotiator and a constantly divisive rhetoric that has rendered trust and compromise feathers in a hurricane.
Even now he continues to miss the point, as in conveying in press leaks about the 2015 budget that he�s giving up on the idea of restructuring Social Security. Fixing that program and other entitlements is crucial for dealing with a bloated debt. The Washington Post reports, however, that Obama figures the era of austerity is over. I�d say listen to Charles Blahous about this so-called austerity.
A trustee for Social Security and Medicare, Blahous observes that the four biggest deficits in close to seven decades, along with three years of record spending in that stretch, occurred during Obama�s first term. He notes that projections are that we will get more excess like that in the 2020s, thanks in part to what Obamacare is going to cost us.
Because the deficits have come down lately, many have joined Obama in yawning about the debt. Don�t, says the bipartisan Congressional Budget Office, which has noted it will be a towering threat during the next decade, lowering wages, vastly complicating budget management and maybe going �boom� in a new fiscal crisis that would leave darned few of us alone.
Part of Obama�s answer is to take away an additional half-million jobs. That would be the possible cost of the minimum wage hike he wants, according to the CBO, which also points out that a third of the increased wages would go to families with total incomes three times higher than the poverty level. Yes, many of the worst off would be helped, but not a ton. They would go from poor to not quite as poor.
We also get this income inequality talk that is little more than gouging some who made it big for the sake of applause and more taxes. To be sure, the administration is up to some decent things, such as trying to fix a malfunctioning Head Start pre-K program launched as part of the War on Poverty, though further expansion of such programs should likely be left to states and localities that have often done a much better job.
The main thing in fixing poverty is a tough thing, say experts at both conservative and liberal think tanks. It is prompting cultural change that keeps fathers around to help mothers and keeps teens from dropping out of school. I think dramatic White House leadership on such fronts could help a lot more than beating up one group in order to make another group grin.
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COSTA MESA — Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 is a memorable one for Carl St.Clair. He first saw it played on a 1948 black-and-white Westinghouse television.
The orchestra: the Boston Symphony. The conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
Some years later, things came musically full circle. Again, the piece was Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5.
The orchestra: the Boston Symphony. The conductor: Carl St.Clair.
St.Clair, who's approaching his 22nd season as music director of the Pacific Symphony, recalled the anecdote at a conference Monday morning before about 175 attendees in the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall. He and other symphony officials previewed the Costa Mesa-based orchestra's 2011-12 classical season.
But of the many notes to be played, St.Clair said that Tchaikovsky symphony scheduled for Jan. 12-14, 2012, will be among his most personal. It was the piece he — a young musician from a farm in small-town Hochheim, Texas — ended his four-year tenure with as Boston's assistant conductor.
"This piece has such a deep place in my heart," he said. "Because that TV show basically showed me the next 20 years of my life … to bring this to you, with all of this history that the musicians and I have with the work, is going to be very, very special."
Also special is the Pacific Symphony's "Symphonic Voices" — an effort to fill the gap of performing local opera after the county's only major company, Opera Pacific, closed in 2008 due to financial difficulties.
"You deserve to hear [opera]," St.Clair said. "This is a rich repertoire. This is incredibly emotionally packed music that talks about life and everyday situations — the same ones you deal with … we're going to do what we can to reignite, rejuvenate opera as part of our life."
The three-year initiative begins with a "semi-staged," three-night production led by A. Scott Parry of Puccini's "La Bohéme" on April 19-21, 2012. Also scheduled are kid-friendly performances of Englebert Humperdinck's "Hansel and Gretel" opera, high-definition broadcasts of New York City's Metropolitan Opera and outings to major opera houses.
With the ongoing 2010-11 season dubbed the "Year of the Piano," the symphony is calling the 2011-12 season the "Year of the Violin," with the Sept. 22-24 gala opening-night performances featuring Mendelssohn's iconic "Violin Concerto in E Minor." The guest soloist will be Sarah Chang, the Korean American virtuoso, for the shows that herald in the Pacific Symphony's 33rd anniversary.
Also notable is the Feb. 23-25 performances of Tchaikovsky's "Violin Concerto in D Major" by Israeli violin soloist Vadim Gluzman — on the same violin used in the concerto's 1881 premiere.
"That's the violin that Tchaikovsky actually heard," said Pacific Symphony President John Forsyte.
St.Clair even provided what may be a sneak peak as to how the symphony may take part of the concerto quite swiftly.
"When Vadim and I played together this concerto in Europe two seasons ago, I never had to accompany the last movement so fast," St.Clair said. "I said, 'Wow.' And he goes, 'Oh, I'm sorry. The instrument only knows one way to play this concerto!'"
The Pacific Symphony will also be performing the ninth — and final — symphonies of Mahler, Schubert and Beethoven. St.Clair said the orchestra will examine how the symphonies, composed during their respective composer's last years, could have been inspired by the "shadow of death."
St. Clair and the orchestra will highlight how Schubert finished his ninth before his death, how Beethoven could not even hear his ninth because he was completely deaf by that point, and how Mahler died of fatal heart disease before his ninth's premiere.
The Pacific Symphony will perform the works of living composers as well, and continue its tradition of premiering new pieces. St.Clair will lead the symphony in a new piece by Michael Daugherty on Feb. 23-25, 2012 — the same nights as the Tchaikovsky violin concerto performances. St.Clair he wanted the Daugherty piece to feature only organ, winds, brass and percussion so it could be widely played after the premiere.
"Because then, I know every … high school, collegiate or conservatory wind ensemble that has an organ in the neighborhood can perform this piece," St.Clair said.
Other works by USC music professor Frank Ticheli, film composer James Newton Howard and Thai composer Narong Prangcharoen are scheduled for the upcoming season.
The season's guest conductors include Giancarlo Guerrero, of the Nashville Symphony, and Michael Stern, of the Kansas City Symphony.
In addition, the Pacific Symphony's annual American Composers Festival — founded in 2000 — will recognize "Nowruz," the traditional Persian New Year. A highlight of the event from March 22-24, 2012, will be the world premiere of "Peace Oratorio," by Richard Danielpour, a New Yorker of Jewish and Persian ancestry.
For more information, including concert dates and scheduled programs, visit PacificSymphony.org or call (714) 755-5799.


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AuGres cancels appreciation dinner
AuGRES — It's been a longstanding tradition for the city of AuGres to honor its volunteers who participate in the operation of the city, but for 2009, the AuGres Appreciation Dinner is cancelled.
City Manager Pat Killingbeck said the annual dinner has been held for about 45 years and cost about $2,000 annually.
"For this year, because of the economy, we've decided not to hold it," Killingbeck said. "We've just been cutting back in light of things that are happening in our economy. … We've been eliminating some non-essential items and we will continue to do so.
"As a municipality, we only have two sources of income – property tax and revenue sharing," she continued. "And both of those are down."
According to Killingbeck, the only board or commission that receives any sort of compensation throughout the year in AuGres is city council. Its members receive $30 per meeting.
Boards that attended past Appreciation Dinners included the city's planning commission and zoning board of appeals, Killingbeck said, adding other city operations, such as the AuGres-Sims Police Department, were also invited.
The dinner was cancelled at the city council meeting on Nov. 3.
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Once again our small town hit. I am sorry to hear this was canceled. Maybe if the city taxes wern't so over inflated businesses could afford to pay them and not be shut down- Resulting in $0 tax revenue! Not to mention the money misused in the AuGres city park. I'm sure you could find at least $2,000 there. As an ex-AuGres business owner I know.
This dinner was for volunteers as I understand it. I am to belive the city planning commission and zoning board of appeals were actually volunteers and received absolutely no compensation for determining policy in AuGres. That is definitely a first. They were not appointed by the manager of the city or the city council? Then any number of people could walk iinto city hall and be on one of these boards. I was glad to see the police department is paid but was invited to this dinner anyway. Another nail in the coffin of AuGres.


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The Western Wayne Track Foundation welcomed more than 170 youngsters to the Sharkey Rosetti Memorial Complex Wednesday evening for an elementary meet.
More than 170 young athletes assembled in Varden on a picture-perfect evening to compete in the inaugural Elementary Track &?Field Meet.
This event was organized and run by volunteers from the Western Wayne Track Foundation.
"I'm so pleased with how well everything went," Wildcats coach told TWI?Sports. "It was very gratifying to see our parents, alumni and current varsity athletes working with the kids."
Coach Collins went on to say that he hopes this is just the first meet in what will become a long-running Western Wayne tradition.
"This is a great way to introduce youngsters to track," he said. "I?hope that someday we'll see some of them on the high school team."
This meet was made possible, in large part, by a $500 Community Foundation grant from the Wayne County Sports Hall of Fame.
On the Track
The first event of the day was the 75M hurdles, which began with first, second and third graders.
Family, friends and fans cheered from the bleachers as their favorite little athlete raced down the track and leapt over the specially-designed hurdles.
Just a few minutes after these first few heats, winners were announced and all of the participants headed to the dais for awards.
Connor Hilling finished first, covering the grueling 75M course in :17.52. Kole Fries earned a silver medal, stopping the clock at :17.96. Luke Janiszewski brought home the bronze, crossing the line in :20.71.
Rounding out the front seven were: Joey Taraschuk (:21.21), Matthew Bryant (:21.25), Ethan Grodack (:23.31), Christian Krasniak (:23.43).
These youngsters received a warm ovation from the crowd. Each group of winners that followed also had a chance to pose for photos on the podium.
Other events offered at the meet included, softball throw, sprints, high jump, standing long jump and even an introductory level javelin toss.


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Only two school districts in the Sauk Valley met federal No Child Left Behind standards, even though benchmarks were frozen at last year's level, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
And more than 40 schools, including every high school in the area, failed to make adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward those goals.
"Are our schools failing? No," Dixon Superintendent Michael Juenger said. "Did we meet the requirements of students meeting or exceeding scores on a test? No, we did not. But we own that score. And we have work to do."
The Illinois State Board of Education last week made public its annual report cards for schools and districts in the state. The news, although grim, is not surprising.
Several local districts are on a federal watch list for repeatedly not making AYP. That list includes Sterling Public Schools, which has missed the mark for a fifth consecutive year.
"I'm not surprised, but I'm not disappointed at all," Sterling Superintendent Tad Everett said. "I believe it is vitally important to be held accountable for student learning, I just completely disagree with the tool the government uses to assess that accountability."
Many school officials say AYP soon might not matter: Illinois, along with many other states, has sought a waiver of No Child Left Behind requirements, and its petition remains under review with the U.S. Department of Education, according to the state board.
"We're confident this is the last year we'll be talking about data compiled under the classification of AYP," said Mary Fergus of the Illinois State Board of Education. "[The No Child Left Behind law] is outdated ... and it doesn't really reflect what's going on in our schools; it's not a good measure of student progress."
Illinois, in the meantime, has asked for and received a freeze of annual measurable objectives at last year's levels, which means AYP calculations for the 2011-12 school year are based on 2010-11 standards, according to the state board. Schools this year were expected to show 85 percent of students meeting or exceeding standards, just like last year.
"Are we suddenly not doing a good job, or can we just not keep up with the ridiculous number that No Child Left Behind is putting forward?" Rock Falls Elementary Superintendent Dan Arickx said. "We're still doing a good job; we're still improving. We're just not improving fast enough."
Schools can miss making AYP based solely on the performance of one subgroup, even if the school overall meets benchmarks.
This is the third consecutive year that every high school in the area fell short of AYP. And this year, more elementary and middle schools have joined the list, which includes Rock Falls Elementary School District, which has missed the mark for a second straight year.
All three schools in the district made AYP in math, but the full district did not because students with disabilities, who are identified as not able to work at grade level, fell short of the standards, Arickx said.
All three schools failed to make AYP in reading, but about three in four students met or exceeded expectations, Arickx said.
"We were pretty close," he said, "but we still missed the mark."
In Sterling, Lincoln Elementary School, the highest-performing school in the district, failed to make AYP because students with disabilities missed the mark in math, Everett said.
"It has been a [state] Spotlight school 2 of the last 3 years. It is formerly a Blue Ribbon school," he said. "It has received national and state awards, and I have one report that says Lincoln is not making AYP.
"Is AYP a true assessment of whether a school is successful or not? Absolutely not."
Local districts and schools likely will find themselves failing again next year, as the state is raising the standards that elementary and middle school students must meet or exceed on the state test, thus making it more difficult for them to make AYP, even if benchmarks remain frozen at current levels.
"They are making it harder for students to meet or exceed [performance] standards," Arickx said. "They are basically saying what may have been good enough in the past isn't going to be good enough anymore. It's going to be much harder to make AYP. There's no question about it."
The state board of education is not raising the bar so districts and schools fail, Fergus said, but to bridge an achievement gap between elementary and middle school students and high school students.
"Right now, we have 81 percent of elementary students meeting or exceeding standards, but only 51 percent of high school students," she said. "We know there is a disconnect, and we know that has to be rectified. ... It's not going to be easy.
"We know scores are going to drop off next year, but it's an important step. It's something we have to do to get a better gauge of where students are and prepare them for high school and beyond."
Illinois expects to receive a waiver from No Child Left Behind requirements. Instead of following those benchmarks, the state would implement its own evaluation plan, which the state board outlined in its petition, that aims to measure student progress over time, rather than on one test on one day, Fergus said.
Educators have roundly criticized the federal law for labeling schools as failing even if students make progress and for relying too heavily on standardized tests to determine that progress. But some local officials say the law has made them accountable.
"I would never shy away from being held accountable," Juenger said. "We have to roll up our sleeves and figure out how we can do better."
Only two local school districts made adequate yearly progress this year, while 20 fell short, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
Who passed? Who failed?
--Ashton-Franklin Center
--Bureau Valley
--East Coloma
--River Bend
--Riverdale Elementary
--Rochelle Township High School
--Rock Falls Elementary
--Rock Falls Township High School
--West Carroll
Schools that missed the mark
Forty-two schools did not make adequate yearly progress, according to the Illinois State Board of Education. They are:
--Amboy High School
--Ashton-Franklin Center High School
--Ashton-Franklin Center Middle School
--Bureau Valley Elementary School
--Bureau Valley High School
--Bureau Valley South middle school
--Central Elementary School, Rochelle
--David L. Rahn Junior High School
--Dillon Elementary School
--Dixon High School
--East Coloma Elementary School
--Eastland High School
--Eastland Middle School
--Erie High School
--Franklin Elementary School, Sterling
--Fulton Elementary School
--Fulton High School
--Jefferson Elementary School, Dixon
--Lincoln Elementary School, Dixon
--Lincoln Elementary School, Rochelle
--Lincoln Elementary School, Sterling
--May Elementary School, Rochelle
--Merrill Elementary School (Rock Falls)
--Milledgeville Elementary School
--Milledgeville High School
--Morrison High School
--Oregon Elementary
--Oregon High School
--Polo High School
--Prophetstown High School
--Reagan Middle School
--Riverdale Elementary
--Rochelle High School
--Rochelle Middle School
--Rock Falls High School
--Rock Falls Middle School
--Southside Elementary School
--Sterling High School
--Washington Elementary School, Sterling
--West Carroll High School
--West Carroll Middle School
--West Carroll Primary School
Report cards
Report cards
Annual report cards for Illinois schools are available at www.isbe.state.il.us under the "Illinois Schools" tab.
Annual report cards for Illinois schools are available at www.isbe.state.il.us under the "Illinois Schools" tab.


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Installation instructions
Install fish from the official repositories.
To verify that it has been installed you can run:
$ less /etc/shells
If you wanted to make Fish your default shell run:
$ chsh -s /usr/bin/fish
Pacman and Fish
Context-aware completions for pacman and makepkg are built into Fish, since the policy of the Fish development is to include all the existent completions in the upstream tarball. The memory management is clever enough to avoid any negative impact on resources.
In arch, there are a lot of shell scripts written for Bash, and these have not been translated to Fish. It is advisable not to set Fish as your default shell because of this. The best option is to open your terminal emulator (gnome-terminal, konsole, sakura, etc...) with a command line option that executes Fish. For most terminals this is the -e switch, so for example, to open gnome-terminal using Fish, change your shortcut to use:
gnome-terminal -e fish
With LilyTerm and other light terminal emulators that don't support setting the shell it would look like this:
SHELL=/usr/bin/fish lilyterm
Another option is to set Fish as the default shell for the terminal in the terminal's configuration or for a terminal profile if your terminal emulator has a profiles feature. This is contrast to changing the default shell for the user which would cause the above mentioned problem.
To set Fish as the shell started in tmux, put this into your
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Not setting Fish as system wide default allows the arch scripts to run on startup, ensure the environment variables are set correctly, and generally reduces the issues associated with using a non-Bash compatible terminal like Fish.
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Note that you will need to manually add various other environment variables, such as $MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH. It is a huge amount of work to get a seamless experience with Fish as your default shell.
Configuration Suggestions
If you would like Fish to display the branch and dirty status when you are in a git directory, you can add the following to your
# Fish git prompt set __fish_git_prompt_showdirtystate 'yes' set __fish_git_prompt_showstashstate 'yes' set __fish_git_prompt_showupstream 'yes' set __fish_git_prompt_color_branch yellow # Status Chars set __fish_git_prompt_char_dirtystate '⚡' set __fish_git_prompt_char_stagedstate '→' set __fish_git_prompt_char_stashstate '↩' set __fish_git_prompt_char_upstream_ahead '↑' set __fish_git_prompt_char_upstream_behind '↓' function fish_prompt set last_status $status set_color $fish_color_cwd printf '%s' (prompt_pwd) set_color normal printf '%s ' (__fish_git_prompt) set_color normal end
If su starts with Bash (because Bash is the default shell), define a function in Fish:
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Current state of Fish development
The original developer, Axel Liljencrantz has abandoned the project. The rest of his team slowly took over and transferred the codebase to gitorius.
So far several bug fixes are available from the git repository. Also, there is an AUR package for the git master branch, which is considered stable for everyday use: fish-gitAUR.
On May 30, 2012 ridiculous_fish has announced a new fork of Fish which has been adopted as mainstream later, and development is now relocated to github. The AUR package fish-shell-gitAUR follows the head branch of that, while the Fish package in the [community] repository provides latest stable milestones as announced on the webpage.
Upstream git head already contains full completions for archlinux-specific commands like pacman, pacman-key, makepkg, cower, pbget, pacmatic.
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Jeep 4.7L V8 Engine PerformancePosted in How To: Engine on October 1, 2012
We have been beefing up our '01 WJ Grand Cherokee Laredo in the pages of Jp by adding suspension lift and bigger tires, a winch and bumper, and swapping T-cases and driveshafts. Despite all of this, we have not yet spent any significant time trying to get the 4.7L V-8 engine to make more power. Well, it's about time isn't it? The fact is that the ol' WJ is pretty powerful, and while we have contemplated re-gearing the axles to pick up what little power and mileage the larger tires have sapped, it has not been one of our priorities…yet. Despite this we do believe that there is no such thing as too much power, and to that end we finally decided it might be time to see what a few simple mods could do for the Grand's gasoline-burning mill. To show the results rather than just feel them, we got in touch with our pals over at Airaid Filter Company. Airaid graciously offered up not only a few goodies to help the Grand make power and torque (via one of its intake systems and throttle body spacers), but also some time testing parts on their all-wheel Mustang dyno. We also got to test out a spankin' new TrailDash Jeep Tuner from Superchips to see what kind of horsepower and torque we could make with the 4.7L V-8. We made more power and significantly more torque lower in the rpm range. We also discovered a few more benefits with the installation of these parts. To see extra photos of the parts and a video of the WJ at speed on the dyno check out jpmagazine.com/wj_performance_extras.
Cost vs. Benefit
Making power and torque is generally pretty expensive and difficult. Our experience with making more power in our WJ was not too expensive, but at just over $1,000, not necessarily cheap either. We will benefit in many ways from our upgrades, not only in the gain in power. The Jeep does seem to be getting slightly better mileage since the upgrades despite our giddy I've-got-more-power lead foot. This should be much better when we get time to really try the Economy Tune and Economy Mileage Coach of the TrailDash. Also, keeping an eye on transmission temperature (as an example) could help save us a large chunk of change in a vehicle such as this that is sometimes used for towing and could overheat the tranny.
|Airaid Intake System with SynthaMax filter (PN 311-148)
|Airaid PowerAid Throttle Body Spacer (PN 310-515)
|Airaid Pre-Filter (PN 799-440)
|Superchips TrailDash (PN TKTK 438753)
Dyno Run Results
The chart above shows the results of our three different set-ups.
Purple = Stock
Blue = Poweraid throttle body spacer, Airaid Intake System
Red = Poweraid throttle body spacer, Airaid Intake System, Superchips TrialDash with 87-octane performance tune.
Overall, we made 40 lb-ft of torque between 3,000-3,400 rpm and about 8 hp at about 4,200 rpm. That's the kind of grunt that the ol' butt dyno can really feel and the added power along with the improved shift points makes on-road driving much more enjoyable—all on 87-octane gas. Wow, 40 lb-ft! That's a really solid improvement for a gas engine. Makes you wonder what would happen if we were not too cheap to spring for the high-test fuel.


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TerraS needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 62 designs submitted by 11 freelance designers.
Your Best Fit
Your Best Fit is a personal training company that is going to be rolling out a National Franchise program to offer trainers a Gym under which they will be educated to a higher level, expected to train at this level, and will provide a network of other trainers who act as referrals.
This logo should be directed at multiple markets:
1. Trainers who may want to be a part of this franchise
2. Gyms who may want their trainers to be associated or run by this franchise
3. CUSTOMERS - the people who use Athletic Trainers to improve their health
Their Name & Slogan should both appear:
Your Best Fit
Life...Only Better
We would like the colors blue/green or blue/yellow or blue/orange but these are not a must!
The logo should appear well on a white background but also work well if we need to reverse one of the colors to print well on shirts (trainers don't like wearing white shirts - so if the logo has blue in it, the shirt may be blue and the logo in that section would be white)
The logo should be gender neutral.
Feel free to play off of letters (YBF) and to make the logo with either the tag line or the company name in mind.
Should not have anything to do with a tape measure or yoga/stretching.
Attached are some of the designs that I liked.
Please do NOT feel stuck in these designs...they are not right, that is why we are here!
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