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The Olympic Theater is listed in the 1914/1915 edition of American Motion Picture Directory. The address is given as Genesee Street.
A 3 manual Wurlitizer theater pipe organ, Opus 563 was shipped to this theater on July 29, 1922. The Olympic Theater was operated by the Universal Pictures chain by 1927. It was closed by 1929 and was immediately demolished. What happened to the organ is unknown.
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This theater was located at 12 Broadway, present site of the Rand Building. Originally a
church, it was remodeled in 1901 to become the Lafayette Burlesque. In 1914, a $35,000
remodeling made it the Olympic Theater. Vaudeville and some movies were shown, until
1922, when a movies only policy began. The Olympic was very close to all the new movie
palaces that were opening on Main St, and probably couldn't compete. It was purchased
in mid 1920s and was immediately torn down. It was replaced by the Rand Building,
Buffalo's tallest structure, at that time.
Some sites with information about the Rand Building state: "…built on the site of the 1903 Olympic Theatre." The Rand was built in 1929, replacing the Olympic and the Park Hop German Restaurant (on the corner of Broadway & Washington). Was the Olympic a "remodeled" church (as commented above) or was it a new structure? The building to the left of the Olympic is the Buffalo German Insurance Company. It was 81 years old when it was demolished in 1957 for the current Tishman Building. The Tishman was completed in 1959.
I have two post cards showing the Olympic Theatre. One (c. 1919-20) shows the Olympic with a large horizontal sign, atop the roof, which states: CONTINUOUS VAUDEVILLE. Behind this sign is a water tank. On top of the canopy, is a sign which says: THE MILLION DOLLAR MYSTERY / 5 BIG TIME ACTS / MATINEES XXXX SEATS 10 CENTS (XXXX is not readable). The other card (post marked 1923) shows the new Lafayette Theatre and building and the Olympic. In this view, there are two billboard ads over top of the CONTINUOUS VAUDEVILLE sign. This photo is badly doctored and tinted.
First, a CORRECTION to my January 15/10:25 comment: The name of the restaurant next to the Olympic is called the Park Hof, not Hop. This post card can be seen at:
http://wnyheritagepress.org—on the home page, click on "PICTORIALS"/then under "DOWNTOWN BUFFALO", click on "14 Lafayette Square-Rand Building". The postcard shows the Olympic, the New Lyric and a partial look at a theater on the site of the future Lafayette Theatre and Building (at Washington & Broadway).
This web site is great. It has a lot of great shots of old Buffalo and the surrounding area.
There are a lot of great photos, on the WNY Heritage site, that show what was on the property before (and after) the Olympic Theatre existed. There is some contradictory information and the term "remodel" is used a few times to describe a change to the building. The photos seem to show a new structure replacing a former. If the building had been "remodelled", it was drastically changed. I guess further research would confirm either. From the photo captions and text on the site, I have pieced together a history of the Olympic Theatre. It is similar to the above "arl"/2008 comment, with a little more info and direction to the various photos. If you're interested, read on…
In the 1830's, the property was used as a lumberyard. From 1833, a number of churches were established, but failed, on the site. In 1845, a new church named the Park Church Society was successful and was later renamed the Lafayette Street Presbyterian Church. A fire destroyed this church in 1850 and was rebuilt. This structure existed until 1862, when it was demolished and a new church was built. The congregation moved in 1896 and the building was sold. It was remodelled into the Lafayette Theatre, with Burlesque as its attraction. This theater operated from 1901-1913, when the owners moved to the new Gayety Theatre. In 1914, the new owners remodelled the building for movies and vaudeville. As of 1922, only movies were presented. In 1924, the Marine Trust Company purchased the Olympic and, shortly after, demolished it (along with the Park Hof Restaurant) and built the Rand Building. The Rand opened in 1929 and still exists.
A bit about the Hof…a private residence existed on the site (a part of the former lumberyard) until 1908, when it was torn down and the Park Hof Restaurant was built. Later, the Park Hof became the Lafayette National Bank, for a brief time, which was taken over by the Marine Trust Company. Eventually, the Marine purchased the Olympic and demolished both for the Rand Building.
Photos of the Olympic Theatre (an its former incarnations) can be seen here: wnyheritagepress.org— go to the home page and click on "PICTORIALS"/then under "DOWNTOWN BUFFALO", click on "10 Lafayette Square" (1/Lafayette St. Church—2/Lafayette Theatre. Click on "14 Lafayette Square" (3/Lafayette St. Church—4/Lafayette Theatre, c.1905—5/Olympic, c.—1915—6/Olympic, c.1920 post card. 7/Olympic, c.1918—above and at link/April 21, 2008 (Direct links or addresses do not work.)
THE MILLION DOLLAR MYSTERY mentioned in my Jan. 15/11:15 comment, may be a Tanhouser serial. In June of 1914, the Tanhouser Syndicate Film Corporation released its first episode of "The Million Dollar Mystery", a 23-episode cliffhanger serial. An advertising slide and text on the serial can be seen at: www.starts-thursday.com / scroll down and on the right there is a list of "Featured Slides" / select "Million…". The showing at the Olympic may have been current, so the card/photo may date back to 1914/15. This card can be seen at the Western New York Heritage site (see Jan. 18 comment).
More Olympic Theatre photos at wnyheritagepress.org/under "DOWNTOWN BUFFALO"/click on "Washington & Broadway – 1920-Present"/see a photo showing the Olympic and the Lafayette Theatre. Click on "Lafayette Square – then & now"/click on view 2/see a postcard of Lafayette Square showing the Lafayette Theatre (pre-Olympic) and the Lyric Theatre on the corner.
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Especially since former Raiders quarterback Rich Gannon already has said regarding a Gruden return to the Raiders, "I don't think it's outside the realm of possibilities."
Jason La Canfora of CBS Sports reports that Raiders owner Mark Davis engaged last year in "protracted talks" to try to land Gruden in late 2012.
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In this article, I will describe the implementation of an efficient Aho-Corasick algorithm for pattern matching. In simple words, this algorithm can be used for searching a text for specified keywords. The following code is useful when you have a set of keywords and you want to find all occurrences of a keywords in the text or check if any of the keywords is present in the text. You should use this algorithm especially if you have a large number of keywords that don't change often, because in this case, it is much more efficient than other algorithms that can be simply implemented using the .NET class library.
In this section, I'll try to describe the concept of this algorithm. For more information and for a more exact explanation, please take a look at the links at the end of this article. The algorithm consists of two parts. The first part is the building of the tree from keywords you want to search for, and the second part is searching the text for the keywords using the previously built tree (state machine). Searching for a keyword is very efficient, because it only moves through the states in the state machine. If a character is matching, it follows goto function otherwise it follows fail function.
In the first phase of the tree building, keywords are added to the tree. In my implementation, I use the class StringSearch.TreeNode, which represents one letter. The root node is used only as a place holder and contains links to other letters. Links created in this first step represents the goto function, which returns the next state when a character is matching.
During the second phase, the fail and output functions are found. The fail function is used when a character is not matching and the output function returns the found keywords for each reached state. For example, in the text "SHIS", the failure function is used to exit from the "SHE" branch to "HIS" branch after the first two characters (because the third character is not matching). During the second phase, the BFS (breadth first search) algorithm is used for traversing through all the nodes. Functions are calculated in this order, because the fail function of the specified node is calculated using the fail function of the parent node.
Building of the keyword tree (figure 1 - after the first step, figure 2 - tree with the fail function)
As I already mentioned, searching only means traversing the previously built keyword tree (state machine). To demonstrate how this algorithm works, let's look at the commented method which returns all the matches of the specified keywords:
// Searches passed text and returns all occurrences of any keyword
// Returns array containing positions of found keywords
public StringSearchResult[] FindAll(string text)
ArrayList ret=new ArrayList(); // List containing results
TreeNode ptr=_root; // Current node (state)
int index=0; // Index in text
// Loop through characters
// Find next state (if no transition exists, fail function is used)
// walks through tree until transition is found or root is reached
TreeNode trans=null;
if (ptr==_root) break;
if (trans==null) ptr=ptr.Failure;
if (trans!=null) ptr=trans;
// Add results from node to output array and move to next character
foreach(string found in ptr.Results)
ret.Add(new StringSearchResult(index-found.Length+1,found));
// Convert results to array
return (StringSearchResult[])ret.ToArray(typeof(StringSearchResult));
Complexity of the first part is not so important, because it is executed only once. Complexity of the second part is O(m+z) where m is the length of the text and z is the number of found keywords (in simple words, it is very fast and it's speed doesn't drop quickly for longer texts or many keywords).
To show how efficient this algorithm is, I created a test application which compares this algorithm with two other simple methods that can be used for this purpose. The first algorithm uses the String.IndexOf method to search the text for all the keywords, and the second algorithm uses regular expressions - for example, for keywords he, she, and his, it creates a regular expression (he|she|his). The following graphs show the results of tests for two texts of different sizes. The number of used keywords is displayed on the X axis and the time of search is displayed on the Y axis.
The interesting thing is that for less than 70 keywords, it is better to use a simple method using String.IndexOf. Regular expressions are almost always slower than other algorithms. I also tried compiling the test under both .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0 to see the difference. Although my measuring method may not be very precise, it looks like .NET 2.0 is a bit faster (about 5-10%), and the method with regular expressions gives much better results (about 60% faster).
Two charts comparing the speed of the three described algorithms - Aho-Corasick (green), IndexOf (blue), and Regex (yellow)
I decided to implement this algorithm when I had to ban some words in a community web page (vulgarisms etc.). This is a typical use case because searching should be really fast, but blocked keywords don't change often (and the creation of the keyword tree can be slower).
The search algorithm is implemented in a file StringSearch.cs. I created the interface that represents any search algorithm (so it is easy to replace it with another implementation). This interface is called IStringSearchAlgorithm, and it contains a property Keywords (gets or sets keywords to search for) and methods for searching. The method FindAll returns all the keywords in the passed text, and FindFirst returns the first match. Matches are represented by the StringSearchResult structure that contains the found keyword and its position in the text. The last method is ContainsAny, which returns true when the passed text contains a keyword. The class that implements the Aho-Corasick algorithm is called StringSearch.
The following example shows how to load keywords from a database and create a SearchAlgorithm instance:
// Initialize DB connection
SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(connectionString);
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("SELECT BlockedWord" +
" FROM BlockedWords",conn);
// Read list of banned words
ArrayList listWords = new ArrayList();
using(SqlDataReader reader =
string[] arrayWords = (string[])listWords.ToArray(typeof(string));
// Create search algorithm instance
IStringSearchAlgorithm searchAlg = new StringSearch();
searchAlg.Keywords = arrayWords;
You can also use the StringSearch constructor which takes an array of keywords as parameter.
Searching the passed text for keywords is even easier. The following sample shows how to write all the matches to the console output:
// Find all matching keywords
StringSearchResult[] results=searchAlg.FindAll(textToSearch);
// Write all results
foreach(StringSearchResult r in results)
Console.WriteLine("Keyword='{0}', Index={1}", r.Keyword, r.Index);
This implementation of the Aho-Corasick search algorithm is very efficient if you want to find a large number of keywords in a text of any length, but if you want to search only for a few keywords, it is better to use a simple method like String.IndexOf. The code can be compiled in both .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0 without any modifications. If you want to learn more about this algorithm, take a look at the link in the next section, it was very useful for me during the implementation of the algorithm and explains the theory behind this algorithm.
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Krematorium II (3)
The first view is of the rear of the women's camp, BIb. Scrolling right is a sewage treatment cistern. Scroll further to the right, this is what remains of Krematorium II as the SS blew it and the underground gas chamber up as the Russian Army approached; in an obvious and futile attempt to hide their crimes. Scrolling further right, you can see a portion of the Memorial. Scroll still further to barely make out the ruins of Krematorium III on the other side of the ramp. Moving on you can see the barbed wire fence posts of the ramp.
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Obama keeps new oil and gas taxes in his final 2010 federal budget
US President Barack H. Obama released his final fiscal 2010 federal budget. It included $31.5 billion of new oil and gas taxes over nine years which were part of his original request to Congress.
US President Barack H. Obama released his final fiscal 2010 federal budget on May 7. It included $31.5 billion of new oil and gas taxes over nine years which were part of the original request he submitted to Congress in February.
Collections would begin in fiscal 2011. The White House projects that through 2019, revenue would total $13.3 billion from denying oil and gas companies the tax deduction available to other US manufacturers, $8.3 billion from repealing the percentage depletion allowance, and $5.3 billion from placing an excise tax on new Gulf of Mexico production.
Another $3.3 billion would come from repealing expensing of intangible drilling costs, $1.2 billion from increasing independent producers' geophysical and geological amortization period to seven from five years, $62 million from repealing the tertiary injectants deduction, and $49 million from repealing the passive loss exception for interests in oil and gas properties.
It also repeals the enhanced oil recovery credit and marginal oil and gas well tax credit. OMB did not list revenues from either of these actions, probably because of price thresholds.
The budget also reinstates superfund taxes, which the White House Office of Management and Budget projects would raise $6.7 billion from 2011 through 2019. It establishes fees on non-producing federal leases (the so-called "use it or lose it" concept) and reinstates permit fees which the 2005 Energy Policy Act prohibited at the US Department of the Interior. OMB projects $574 million of revenue in the 2011-19 period from the first action and $171 million from the second.
A lobbyist said that only the tax on new Gulf of Mexico production remains in play. "Everything else looks final," he told OGJ Washington Pulse.
'Punishes gas production'
The new taxes and other provisions in the budget will make it more difficult to develop domestic energy, Independent Petroleum Association of America President Barry Russell said. "This budget does not recognize that in order to decrease our reliance on foreign oil, we need to increase our own American supplies of natural gas and oil. It also punishes American gas production, which could play a lead role in climate change discussions as our abundant, affordable clean-burning energy source," he maintained.
"From repealing existing tax provisions that encourage American production to new excise taxes on offshore production to new user fees that will go to pay for an already complex and costly permit process, this budget takes our natural resources and puts them further out of reach," Russell said.
Natural Gas Supply Association President R. Skip Horvath said that Obama's budget was bad news for American consumers and worse news for American jobs. "People don't appreciate how big the gas industry is in this country. Four million Americans depend on domestic gas for their livelihoods, both those who work directly in the industry as well as those in second jobs, such as steel and concrete, and retailing," he said.
He said that it was too soon to say definitively how many jobs would be lost, "but just a 10% decrease in direct natural gas jobs could wipe out the beneficial effects of a doubling of wind and solar jobs.
'Basic misunderstanding'
"Tax policies directly impact the decisions that are made regarding drilling, especially for smaller companies. More importantly, over 80% of the gas in the US is actually produced in this country. We are troubled that this administration has such a basic misunderstanding of how domestic gas markets will be impacted," said Horvath.
Marc Smith, executive director of the Independent Petroleum Association of Mountain States in Denver, found the White House's assertion in its budget that the oil and gas industry has tax loopholes absurd.
"The president's budget repeals the expensing of intangible drilling costs (IDCs), which are costs similar to those that all other manufacturing and production industries can expense. Without IDCs, the domestic gas industry would further contract and capital which otherwise would be reinvested in American energy would be reduced by 30-50%," he said on May 7.
"These tax increases will render many natural gas projects in the Rocky Mountain region uneconomic at today's prices, and will have the perverse effect of destroying thousands of green jobs that already exist in the natural gas industry," Smith warned.
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Actress Nicolette Sheridan opened up about the fight she had with "Desperate Housewives" creator Marc Cherry in court on Thursday, insisting the altercation eventually led to her firing.
Sheridan was testifying in Los Angeles Superior Court as part of a trial over her wrongful termination lawsuit against Cherry and ABC executives.
She told the court the writer struck her on the set in 2008 after she asked him to write her character a funny exit line for a scene.
The actress recalled, "He got agitated and annoyed and didn't respond."
When she approached him again later, she claims Cherry led her away from cast and crew and hit her with his right hand "upside the head."
The shocked actress testified she screamed, "You hit me in the head! That is not OK." Cherry later apologized when visiting Sheridan in her trailer.
She testified, "He said, 'I am on bended knee begging your forgiveness …' He wrapped his arms around me and apologized again."
Sheridan said she returned to work because she "wasn't going to let everybody else down".
She later raised the issue with producers of the show and claims that led to her dismissal. The case continues.
Sheridan portrayed Edie Britt on the show from 2004 to 2009.


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Nonprofit governance focuses primarily on the fiduciary responsibility that a board of directors has with respect to the exercise of authority over the explicit public trust that is understood to exist between the mission of an organization and those whom the organization serves. Washington Youth Soccer and each of our member organizations may have started as soccer organizations but we have thrived because we are nonprofits that have demonstrated to our community that we are here to serve a vital need – we believe in the game of soccer as a vehicle to create better people through the physical, mental, and emotional development that is fostered through our sport and our supporters.
As a nonprofit organization, Washington Youth Soccer believes that good governance is founded upon bylaws that are shaped by nonprofit best practices while addressing the needs of our membership. The Washington Youth Soccer Board of Directors is proposing amendments to the bylaws of WA Youth Soccer. The proposed amendments were published to the membership via email on Wednesday, April 13, 2016, for a minimum thirty-day comment period by the Council (Member Associations, District Commissioners, and the WA Youth Soccer Board of Directors) to conclude on May 13, 2016, with a vote by the Board of Directors on the final proposed amendments to occur at the May 13, 2016, board meeting. For those proposed amendments to Articles 5 and 6, Council approval is required to complete the amendment process; the Council will vote on these amendments at the Annual General Meeting on May 14, 2016.
Below is a redline version of the bylaws along with a "clean" final copy of the bylaws with all proposed amendments incorporated; additionally, the Memorandum – Proposed WA Youth Soccer Bylaws Amendments 4.13.2016 summarizes what changes are proposed, the background on why the Board feels these amendments will lead to a stronger youth soccer program for the state of Washington, and what these changes would mean for Member Associations.
The WA Youth Soccer Board and Staff welcome any questions or comments that Council members may have about these proposals.
The Membership Advisory Committee (MAC) is a standing governance committee whose purpose is to help Member Associations maintain their legal membership status in Washington Youth Soccer. The MAC is an advisory committee to the Washington Youth Soccer Board of Directors (BOD). The MAC was established by the bylaws amendments that were approved on April 4, 2012; the committee description document, approved by the Board of Directors at their meeting on May 18, 2012, can be found in the Governing Documents category of Forms & Downloads.
The WA Youth Soccer Council (comprised of Member Association Representatives, the WA Youth Soccer Board of Directors and District Commissioners) votes to approve candidates for positions on the Membership Advisory Committee. The committee is still in need of representatives from District 2 (2), District 3 (2), District 4 (2), Region 5 (2), District 6 (2), and District 7 (1). Current members include:
District 1:
Phil Herold, President, Seattle Youth Soccer Association
Ellen Hawks, Treasurer, District 1
District 3:
If you would like to submit a nomination for your District, please contact the District 3 Commissioner
District 4:
If you would like to submit a nomination for your District, please contact CEO Terry Fisher
Region 5:
District 6 :
Tom MacDougall, Vice President, District 6 Board of Directors (interim)
Tina Varey, Treasurer, Pullman Youth Soccer Association, Secretary, District 6 Board of Directors (interim)
District 7:
Sandra Milliman, Grays Harbor Foothills Youth Soccer Association 1st Alternate
At Large:
Jan Phillips, Former District 1 Commissioner and WA Youth Soccer Board Member
WA Youth Soccer Board of Directors:
Greg Rogers
Patrick Madden
Now Accepting Additional Nominations
We are still accepting nominations for the interim committee. District Commissioners shall submit two (2) recommendations from their District as candidates for the interim MAC. If you would like to submit a nomination for your District, please contact your District Commissioner and include candidates' names, contact information, and a short resume.
To view all Washington Youth Soccer governing documents, including the draft documents from the bylaws amendments process that began in April 2014, view the governing documents resources below. The documents have been updated as the board and the membership have progressed through this process; therefore, the documents published are still posted in order to maintain a historical record of this process and may not be reflective of the current document drafts.


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NCLB Update
NAEP Expansion
Good Start, Grow Smart
Privacy Guidance
Digest of Education Statistics
ED Pubs Redesign
Quote to Note
Upcoming Events
NCLB Update
On March 18, in Minnesota, Secretary Spellings announced a pilot program whereby up to 10 states may differentiate between underperforming schools in need of dramatic interventions and those that are closer to meeting the goals of No Child Left Behind. The law currently treats all schools in improvement alike. "Differentiated accountability" will allow officials to vary the intensity and type of interventions to match the academic reasons that led to a school's identification. And, in states with a large percentage of schools identified, it will allow officials to target interventions and resources to the schools most in need of reform. However, as the Secretary noted, "This is not one-sided flexibility." Indeed, to be eligible for the pilot, states must meet four eligibility criteria:
- The state's standards and assessment system must be fully approved (as administered in the 2007-08 school year).
- The state must have no significant monitoring findings related to provisions of No Child Left Behind. (The agency will also take into consideration major monitoring findings related to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.)
- The state must have an approved highly qualified teacher plan.
- The state must provide timely and transparent Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) data to the public. (States that have more than one non-approved occurrence of late AYP in the past two years are ineligible.)
Also, the models proposed by states must meet 10 core principles, organized in four categories:
- Accountability. The state must maintain its current practice for determining AYP and identifying schools as in need of improvement.
- Differentiation. The state must clearly define its process for categorizing and differentiating among schools.
- Interventions. The state must clearly define its system of interventions.
- Restructuring. The state must clearly define the interventions for its lowest-performing schools.
In addition, the agency will give priority to the following:
- states that have at least 20% of their Title I schools identified as in need of improvement in the 2007-08 school year and that demonstrate a challenge in providing intensive, meaningful reform to all sites;
- states that propose to take comprehensive and significant interventionssuch as those used in the restructuring phasefor the lowest-performing schools earlier in the improvement timeline; and
- states that propose an innovative model of differentiation as well as system of interventions.
States that wish to apply and meet the requirements above must submit their proposals by May 2. The review process will resemble the process used for the growth model pilot program, with proposals that meet the eligibility criteria reviewed by a panel of external experts. The Secretary will approve state models prior to the start of the 2008-09 school year, so that they may be implemented based on results from assessments administered in 2007-08. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2008/03/03182008.html.
Winding down their national tour of states to discuss critical issues in K-12 education, the Secretary also visited Kentucky (3/19) and Virginia (3/26), and Deputy Secretary Ray Simon visited Indiana (3/25) and Maryland (3/26). Between them, they have visited 25 states.
Meanwhile, the Department awarded $11 million in grants to 39 states to enable them to pay part or all of the fees for Advanced Placement (AP) or International Baccalaureate (IB) tests for low-income students. The program aims to encourage low-income students to take AP or IB tests and obtain college credit, reducing the time and cost required to complete a postsecondary degree. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2008/03/03172008a.html.
NAEP Expansion
The National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB), which sets policy for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), has tentatively approved plans for 11 states to take part in a new, twelfth-grade version of NAEP in reading and math. (A separate NAEP, the long-term trend, is now given to 17-year-olds, but it only produces a nationwide snapshot of data.) The test would likely be given in 2009. NAGB also approved adding seven big city school districts to the special NAEP for urban school systems. Eleven districts took part in the most recent Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA). Both of these actions became possible after an $11 million increase for NAEP and NAGB in last year's budget. For more information, please go to http://www.nagb.org/.
Note: Results from the NAEP writing assessment in eighth- and twelfth-grades will be released on April 3, at 10:00 a.m. ET. For more information, please go to http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/.
Good Start, Grow Smart
The next "Education News Parents Can Use" broadcast (April 15, 8:00-9:00 ET) will highlight how No Child Left Behindthrough such targeted initiatives as Early Reading Firstsupports the teaching of young children. It will also showcase a number of other strategic administration initiativesincluding "Good Start, Grow Smart" and Head Startdesigned to improve early childhood education and ensure children feel confident and ready to learn the first day they step into a classroom. Research proves that what children learn before coming to school is vital to their long-term success; as most parents can attest, the first five years of a child's life is a time of tremendous physical, emotional, and social growth. When children are exposed to an environment rich in language and literacy interactions and full of opportunities to listen to and use language, they can begin to acquire the building blocks for learning how to read. By contrast, children who enter school without these skills run a significant risk of starting behind and staying behind. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/edtv/. (You can watch archived webcasts at http://www.connectlive.com/events/ednews/.)
Privacy Guidance
On March 24, the Department proposed new regulations to clarify when colleges and universities may release confidential student information and reassure top officials that they will not face penalties for reporting concerns about mentally ill students to appropriate authorities in an emergency. Key adjustments to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) include: (1) when there is an "articulable and significant threat" to the health or safety of a student or others, private information may be shared with proper parties, such as the student's parents, and (2) if there is a "rational basis" for the school's decision to share sensitive material from a student's file, the Department will not "substitute its judgment" about the decision. In reality, FERPA has always had an exception for health and safety emergencies, but colleges and universities have been wary of invoking it. Comments on these and other proposed changes to FERPA must be received by May 8. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/
Note: The Department is committed to assisting colleges and universities in furnishing students a safe environment in which to learn and keeping students, parents, and employees informed about security. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/admins/lead/safety/campus.html.
Digest of Education Statistics
The "Digest of Education Statistics, 2007," from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), is the 43rd in a series of publications initiated in 1962. Its primary purpose is to provide a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of American educationfrom pre-kindergarten through graduate schooldrawn from government and private sources, but especially from surveys and other activities directed by NCES. The digest contains data on the number of schools, students, and teachers, as well as statistics on educational attainment, finances, libraries, technology, and international comparisons. Details on population trends, education attitudes, labor force characteristics, and federal funding supplies background for evaluating the education data. For more information, please go to http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d07/.
ED Pubs Redesign
The Department's Education Publications (ED PUBS) web site has undergone an extensive redesign, seeking to ease the search for publications and present a more visually appealing look. Among other changes, the site now spotlights particularly newsworthy items (such as information about new releases), lists "hot topic" items by current events and initiatives, and separates publications available in Spanish. For more information, please go to http://edpubs.ed.gov/.
Quote to Note
"Thanks to No Child Left Behind, we have collected a wealth of information about where schools are falling short, where student needs are not being met, and where more rigor is needed. We've built an appetite for change, and we've done a good job of framing the problem. The next step is to use this knowledge to customize our efforts to improve.... Going forward, I will continue to partner with those who embrace accountability. And, in situations where policies favor the needs of adults over the needs of students, I will continue to side with the kids."
|Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings (3/18/08),
announcing a "differentiated accountability" pilot
Upcoming Events
The Department's Emergency Response and Crisis Management (ERCM) Technical Assistance Center is offering representatives from schools and school districts 1.5 day training sessions on emergency management. SessionsApril 10-11 in New Orleans and June 4-5 in San Franciscowill focus on the phases of crisis planning: (1) mitigation/prevention, (2) preparedness, (3) response, and (4) recovery. For more information, please go to http://rems.ed.gov/index.cfm?event=trainings.
New Faith-Based and Community Initiative conferences are scheduled for New Orleans (5/29-30), Washington, D.C. (6/26-27), Sacramento (8/5), and Dallas (8/29). The conferences are free, but pre-registration is required. For more information, please go to http://www.fbci.gov/.
Over the next two weeks, the Department will be exhibiting at the National Association of Elementary School Principals' Annual Convention in Nashville (April 4-8) and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City (April 9-12). If you are attending either of these events, please stop by the Department's booth.
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this was the canadian pulp & paper stand at the 67 expo held in montreal
forests affect man and his world profoundly. paper, for which the forests produce raw material, is the principal tool man uses to record his thoughts. this is the theme of the canadian pulp and paper pavilion on ile notre-dame – in which the tallest trees are as high as an eight story building.
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For today's IT executive, the job has never been more difficult. The solution? Mastering a new set on capabilities focused on areas that are generally not part of traditional IT governance.
Is enterprise IT spinning out of control? It would be an exaggeration to say so. But it's certainly true that the days are long gone when a central IT department was able to control all aspects of its company's systems, applications, platforms and devices.
Indeed, the locus for decision making about business applications is shifting inexorably to line executives. That can be a good thing from the standpoint of speed to market and becoming more agile in responding to opportunities. But from the standpoint of traditional IT governance, it's a bit overwhelming.
Ensuring compatibility and integration and avoiding redundancy are now harder than ever. And it becomes difficult even to identify and manage IT spending. Requests and IT capabilities are now buried in different budgets all over the organization, not in a central IT budget.
As a result, IT executives are having a harder time than ever delivering on their traditional charge: maximizing the return on technology investment and controlling spending, while providing the global enterprise with a coherent, integrated IT architecture and management structure and also securing the company's (as well as its customers') data.


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Royals' bats bring noise too late against A's
KANSAS CITY -- Left-hander Tommy Milone found a way to quiet what had been a rowdy bunch of Kansas City batters. For eight innings, that is.
But not for nine. The Royals launched an ambitious comeback in the ninth inning that electrified the 35,518 fans at Kauffman Stadium, but they finally yielded to the Oakland Athletics, 6-3, on Friday night. All three KC runs came in the last inning, which ended with the potential tying run at the plate.View Full Game Coverage
KANSAS CITY -- Left-hander Tommy Milone found a way to quiet what had been a rowdy bunch of Kansas City batters. For eight innings, that is.
But not for nine. The Royals launched an ambitious comeback in the ninth inning that electrified the 35,518 fans at Kauffman Stadium, but they finally yielded to the Oakland Athletics, 6-3, on Friday night. All three KC runs came in the last inning, which ended with the potential tying run at the plate.View Full Game Coverage
"We tried to get it back, but it was a little late," said Royals catcher Salvador Perez.
Still, the rousing comeback stirred up a nearly filled stadium. More than 10,000 fans bought their tickets on game day, swarming to the ballpark on a gorgeous holiday weekend evening that featured postgame fireworks.
Nothing was popping against Milone for the first eight innings, however, for a Royals offense that had averaged 5.6 runs in their previous 10 games, winning six of them. Heck, they'd just scored 21 runs in three games against Cleveland.
But Milone had them shut out on two hits over the first eight innings.
"It didn't even look like he broke a sweat," said A's manager Bob Melvin.
Milone retired the first 11 batters before red-hot Eric Hosmer, stretching his hitting streak to seven games, singled to center in the fourth. The Royals didn't have another baserunner until the sixth, when David Lough singled up the middle with two outs. Neither hit yielded tangible results.
"He was throwing it shoebox," Royals designated hitter Billy Butler said. "He was hitting every spot and had a great cutter. He was going in and out and doing whatever he wanted to do."
"Lot of heaters," teammate Jarrod Dyson said. "He commanded the zone pretty good, I don't even think he had a walk. He ain't got no blow-it-by-you fastball, but he got the job done."
Milone also had a perplexing changeup that he used effectively on right-handed hitters.
"He had one of the best changeups I've seen," Butler said.
The Royals reverted to their recently rambunctious ways, though, in the ninth inning and managed to get Milone out of the game. Lough lined a one-out double and Alcides Escobar ended the shutout with a double down the right-field line. Hosmer singled to drive in Escobar and when Butler also singled, Milone's outing was over.
"I wish I could go back and pitch that ninth inning again," Milone said. "I felt good, in control the whole game."
The Oakland lefty threw just 87 pitches in the first eight innings. The Royals just came out swinging in their last chance.
"He's going for the complete game and he's trying to get ahead, trying to keep that pitch count down so he can get that," Hosmer said. "So, we came out pretty aggressive and strung some hits together."
The A's brought in closer Grant Balfour and Perez greeted him with an RBI single up the middle, the Royals' fifth straight hit. But Lorenzo Cain bounced into a forceout and Mike Moustakas grounded out to end the comeback and the game.
"We just came out a little short," Hosmer said.
Royals right-hander Wade Davis, who left his command of pitches at home last Saturday during a visit to Minnesota, was much more in control of things against Oakland. Against the Twins, Davis ran through an unimaginable 53 pitches in the first inning alone and departed in the second inning without an out. So to compile one official inning, he threw 69 pitches. If that wasn't an all-time high, it was amongst 'em.
This time around, Davis was downright tidy. He got through the first inning in 10 pitches and the second inning in seven pitches and no one reached base. But the A's picked up one run in the third inning and two more in the fifth.
However, there was a point in Davis' favor. He didn't throw his 69th pitch until the end of the fifth. He worked seven innings, giving up three runs on six hits and one walk. Davis' eight strikeouts matched his season high.
"I've been pretty antsy wanting to get back out there and do a little better, and get things going in the right direction," Davis said.
As it developed, the issue was decided when the A's three runs in the ninth against reliever J.C. Gutierrez doubled their lead to 6-0. Singles by Brandon Moss and John Jaso bracketed an out before right fielder Cain missed Josh Reddick's hard line drive for a run-scoring error.
"It just kind of tailed away from me. It had a lot of top spin on it and I just flat-out missed it," Cain said. "I have to make that play. I've made it a hundred times, but it was the difference in the ballgame."
Royals manager Ned Yost noted that Cain was intent on throwing out the runner breaking from third base after the catch.
"Ball was hit hard, he's charging, the ball's sinking, he's trying to catch it and hold that run," Yost said. "I think he just tried to do it too quick."
The error also left two runners in scoring position and, after Gutierrez got the second out, he gave up a two-run single to Coco Crisp.
"I didn't have my best stuff. My location was a little up," Gutierrez said.
But the Cain miscue hurt.
"If we make the play in right field, Guty might get away with only giving up one run," Yost said.
And then, perhaps, the Royals' ninth-inning charge might have had a different result.
"We're not going to go down quietly, you know," Hosmer said. "It's definitely a good sign putting up some runs late like that."


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Paint your cakes and cupcakes with outstanding, bespoke designs using this Jasmine White Edible Paint by Squire's Kitchen and Natasha Collins.
These professional paints are ready to use straight from the pot and will give you a streak-free, smooth finish unlike any other edible paint currently available.
Squire's Kitchen have worked alongside renowned cake artist Natasha Collins and author to create a range of edible paints, specifically designed for those that love to hand paint bespoke designs onto their cakes, cupcakes and cookies.
The paint is also great for painting models, toppers and sugar flowers where a professional finish is particularly important.
The paints come in a wide range of colours and you can mix the paints to get the exact colour that you require.
The edible paints can be used on a variety of different mediums including sugarpaste/fondant, modelling paste, flower paste, marzipan and many more.
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During the last 35 years a lot of conservatives have come to mistrust science.
Studying data from the General Social Survey, researchers have found that trust in science among self-identified conservatives declined by more than 25 percent between the years of 1974 to 2010.
In their analysis, reported in the journal American Sociological Review but not yet available online, the researchers found no decline in trust in science among self-identified liberals or moderates. Interestingly, the study also found the declining trust in science among conservatives was not attributable to less educated conservatives, but rather to rising distrust among better educated conservatives.
Why might this be occurring? The lead author of the study, Gordon Gauchat, offered a couple of explanations for the trend:
- A perception of universities and their academics as bastions of liberal culture
- During the 1950s and 1960s the scientific community was focused on matters that coalesced with national defense, such as nuclear weapons and the space race
- Today the scientific community's focus has shifted from physics to biology (evolution, stem cells) and environmental issues (climate change)
- Science is increasingly seen as siding with regulation, especially as their work is cited by government agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency
The result of this trend has been made plain during the Republican nomination process, in which it has been untenable for any of the main candidates (Jon Huntsman aside) to hold views in line with the scientific community on issues such as climate change.
Scientists may shrug their shoulders at these findings, but woe to the community if a conservative minded President finds his way into the White House, and needs to cut the budget.


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The Right Hairstyle for Your Face Shape
One of the most important factors of hairstyle suitability is face shape analysis.
Why is this so important? Simply put, if the wrong hairstyle is created for the wrong face shape, the result is a disaster. In fact, even if a well executed, well cut hairstyle is performed on the wrong face shape, the result is still a disaster. Why again you ask? Because hairstyles are predominately about shape and geometry. It's all about putting the perfect frame around a person's face to balance and bring perspective to the overall shape.
The shape must:
Minimize non pleasing attributes.
Promote and compliment positive ones.
Once this important objective is achieved, then bringing the hairstyle to life with texture and colors should follow.
A good hairstylist will just know instinctively what shape will or won't suit you. It is also very important and handy for you to understand face shape suitability as well as it will help you to understand what does and does not work for you and why. It will also help you to communicate better with your stylist and to keep them somewhat honest.
There is a general rule that applies to face shape balancing and it is that you should try to achieve an oval shape, which is the most perfect and pleasing shape to the human eye. To do this, long faces need shortening, just as wide faces need lengthening. It's quite simple really!


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Feb. 5, 2006
Ithaca, NY - The Bulldogs competed Sunday in the first day of Ivy League competition, falling to UPenn, Harvard, and Columbia. Despite the losses, the Bulldogs had much to be proud of.
"It was our hardest meet of the year," captain Isadora Botwinick said. "They weren't going our way today."
The Bulldogs lost their first match of the day to Penn, falling 21-6 to the Quakers. The foil squad had the best showing with a 6-3 loss. Diana Schawlowski went 3-0. In epee, Anne Nguyen earned Yale's only victory, defeating Jackie Schramm.
In sabre, Carly Guss went 2-1, contributing the Bulldogs' only two victories in that weapon.
In this first match, captain Isadora Botwinick acknowledged that the team was not at its highest energy level.
"We weren't really energized and were not quite focused on what we were doing," Botwinick said.
Report by Lauren Wiznia '09, Yale Sports Publicity


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Footage from a Ford factory of assembly line workers making Model T cars.
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Footage from a Ford factory of assembly line workers making Model T cars.
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Many early 20th century hackers found the Ford Model T a perfect platform on which to build all manner of different mobile machines.
Among the 800 vintage automobiles brought by collectors were ones that had been converted to snowmobiles, racing coups and tow trucks. That was only a glimmer of the many innovative changes made by Model T owners, for uses Henry Ford never had in mind. They transformed the cars into tractors, pickup trucks, paddy wagons, mobile lumber mills and power plants for milling grain. An itinerant preacher converted his into a four-wheeled chapel.
Check out the slideshow for several examples, including the goat sidecar.
September sales of SUVs were down sharply from last year. "Sales of F-Series pickup trucks plunged 30 percent. Sales of Ford's large SUVs, including the Ford Explorer and Expedition and the Lincoln Navigator, sank by more than 55 percent each. At GM, overall sales of trucks, minivans and SUVs dropped 30 percent." Most blame the $1/gal difference in gas prices from a year ago, but auto execs blame poor inventory after summer sales. Perhaps everyone went to the movies instead of car shopping.


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The Johan Kugelberg and Jon Savage curated exhibit Someday All The Adults Will Die: Punk Graphics 1971-1984, which will open at the Hayward Gallery Project Space in the Southbank Centre over in London, England this week (tomorrow, Thursday September 13, with an opening party and the official public opening Friday ) and run through November 4th 2012, is an exhibition that offers a comprehensive overview of punk graphic design, highlighting imagery before, during and after the punk years, drawing upon previously unseen public and private archives and collections and illuminated by examples of homemade cassettes, fanzines, posters, handbills, records and clothing from the UK and USA. And from what I have previewed it is heavy on the punk flyers which, from this high tech age perspective, are so charmingly primitive.
Highlights of the exhibit, which offers free admission to everyone, include original artworks from such folks as Jamie Reid, Gee Vaucher, Linder Sterling, Penny Rimbaud, Gary Panter, and John Holmstrom along with numerous anonymous artists. Note that if, like most folks Stateside, with no plans of traveling to the UK over the next few weeks and catching this art exhibit, worry not as Kugelberg and Savage are also simultaneously putting out a corresponding book titled Punk: An Aesthetic (above - published by Rizzoli) that will include many (plus some additional) imagery from the exhibit. To give you a flavor of it all, below I have included a sample selection of several of these wonderful images (a lot of flyers) that capture the simple yet striking punk & post-punk graphic design. More info here.


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Owners of BMW Group vehicles in New Zealand are advised that biodiesel blends of a ratio of 'B20' are now available in New Zealand however, these fuels are considered 'unsuitable' for use in BMW Group vehicles.
BMW Group New Zealand advises its customers that the use of biodiesel in any BMW Group vehicle (BMW, MINI and Rolls Royce) is acceptable only to a maximum blend ratio of 'B7' and the usage of 'B20' blended biodiesel is not recommended.
While BMW Group New Zealand commends any initiative to reduce vehicle emissions, it advises its customers to avoid the usage of biodiesel blended to a ratio higher than B7 as this may cause engine damage. Any such damage would fall outside the manufacturer's warranty and is therefore the liability of the owner of that vehicle.
Any questions regarding biodiesel, and its compatibility with BMW Group vehicles, should be directed to your nearest authorised BMW Dealership.


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Microsoft Silverlight is a programmable web browser plugin that enables features such as animation, vector graphics and audio-video playback so you can experience rich Internet applications.
Silverlight offers a flexible programming model that supports AJAX, VB, C#, Python, and Ruby, and integrates with existing Web applications.
It supports fast, cost-effective delivery of high-quality video to all major browsers running on the Mac OS or Windows.
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I might have turkey, but I'm not sure.
– Jacob Reinke, kindergarten
We eat turkey. Mom cooks the turkey 'cause I might get hurt 'cause it's hot.
– Angelica Fuller, kindergarten
We eat turkey. You kill it first and take all the fur off. Make sure there's no fur. Then you cook it for 49 minutes and take it out of the oven and put it on a big plate and set it on the table and then people sit at the table and we usually wait for our grandma and grandpa before we eat. When we're all done, we go outside and play games.
– Kortney Hintz, kindergarten
I would have a turkey, deer meat, potatoes, corn, stuffing, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, and cranberry juice. I would stuff the turkey with bubble gum. I like fried turkey.
– Carter Nofziger, kindergarten
We eat turkey. It has stuffing and stuff inside.
– Dyannie Thompson, kindergarten
We have turkey. My dad cooks it for 30 minutes in the oven. He makes stuffing, too.
– Trey Nieman, kindergarten
I would have a turkey, mashed potatoes, rolls, lemon pie and orange pop. No stuffing for the turkey. I would like fried turkey.
– Brayden Ruger, third grade
I want chicken, turkey, tatoes, carrots, cupcakes and cookies.
To cook a turkey, you put it in the oven, put salt on it and cook it for six minutes.
– Jalen Yatzek, kindergarten
We have turkey, apple pie and pumpkin pie. I help make turkey and pies. We put the turkey in a pan in the oven for 15 minutes. We cut the apples, put them in a pan, wait and then cook it for 15 minutes.
– Addie Decker, kindergarten
Turkey, pumpkin pie and apple pie. I help make pumpkin pie. My favorite is pumpkin pie.
– Skye Molitierno, kindergarten
We have turkey and mashed potatoes and gravy. My dad cooks the turkey. He takes the bag off and the wrapping off and puts it in the oven.
– Caden Holt, kindergarten
I would like turkey, corn, cottage cheese, macaroni and milk. Stuff the turkey with bread.
To cook a turkey, you take it out of the wrapper and then you pick out all the guts and then you stuff some bread in and then you cook it and then put it on for 101 for 15 minutes. And then you pick it out of the oven and then you eat it.
– Libby Rorick, kindergarten
We have turkey. It cooks for five hours.
– Jasmine Wagner, kindergarten
I would like turkey, baked corn and apple pie. I would stuff the turkey with candy. I like it baked.
– Tanner Wagner, kindergarten
I want a big turkey with stuffing, cranberry jam, my mom's homemade strawberry jam, a whole bunch of pies, mashed potatoes, corn pudding like Liz makes, and juice and pop and water.
[How do you cook a turkey?] You would have to ask Riley Williams.
– Walker Whitehouse
We have turkey, corn, potatoes and beef jerky. My grandma and papa cook the turkey. I help put it on the tray to put on the table.
– Kaden Hutchinson, kindergarten
We have turkey, ham, cupcakes, green beans and cookies. You cook the turkey for 13 minutes in the oven.
– Tiana Sharp, kindergarten
I would have turkey and mashed potatoes. I don't want any stuffing and I like baked turkey.
– Jaryd White, fourth grade
We eat turkeys. I love turkeys. We also eat chicken, green beans and corn. Daddy makes the turkey. I help put on the sugar, cinnamon and lemon to make it lemon turkey. It takes eight minutes in the oven. We make apple pie after the turkey. You get lots of apples with your tractor and then bake the apple pie.
– Raven Hadsell, kindergarten
We eat turkey and pie. My mom makes the turkey. I put the juice on for my momma and I put the rub on. It cooks 30 seconds in the oven. We eat apple pie, too. I put it in the shell and put whipped cream on it.
– Alex Skelton, kindergarten
We have turkey, pumpkin pie and salad. My daddy cooks the turkey. He helps me put it in the oven for a short time. Mommy makes the salad and I get the bowl out.
– Grace Ryan, kindergarten
Maybe we'll have some chicken or turkey and maybe green beans. My grandma cooks the turkey.
– Sierra Rowley, kindergarten
We eat turkey, mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie. My mom cooks the turkey.
– Carolyn Gould, kindergarten
We have turkey, grapes and oranges. My dad cooks the turkey. He puts it in the oven for two minutes and he salts it. Pumpkin pie is my favorite.
– James Stevens, kindergarten
We're having turkey and mashed potatoes and gravy. I would like some green bean casserole and maybe some stuffing and definitely some pumpkin pie.
If you're going out hunting for a turkey and it's dead, you can pluck the feathers, then chop the head off and do some other stuff that I don't actually know.
I think you have to cook it about 24 minutes. You have to have the oven about 24°, but I'm not really for sure.
– Azaan Jarrell