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What Is a Put?
A put is an options contract that gives the owner the right, but not the obligation, to sell a certain amount of the underlying asset, at a set price within a specific time. The buyer of a put option believes that the underlying stock will drop below the exercise price before the expiration date. The exercise price is the price that the underlying asset must reach for the put option contract to hold value.
The Basics of Put Options
Puts are traded on various underlying assets, which can include stocks, currencies, commodities, and indexes. The buyer of a put option may sell, or exercise, the underlying asset at a specified strike price.
The value of a put option appreciates as the price of the underlying stock depreciates relative to the strike price. On the flip side, the value of a put option decreases as the underlying stock increases. A put option's value also decreases as its expiration date approaches.
The possible payoff for a holder of a put is illustrated in the following diagram:
What is a Put?
Key Takeaways
- A put gives the owner the right, but not the obligation, to sell the underlying stock at a set price within a specified time.
- A put option's value goes up as the underlying stock price depreciates; the put option's value goes down as the underlying stock appreciates.
- When an investor purchases a put, she expects the underlying stock to decline in price.
Reviewing Puts and Calls
Derivatives are financial instruments that derive value from price movements in their underlying assets, which can be a commodity such as gold or stock. Derivatives are largely used as insurance products to hedge against the risk that a particular event may occur. The two main types of derivatives used for stocks are put and call options.
A call option gives the holder the right, but not the obligation, to buy a stock at a certain price in the future. When an investor buys a call, she expects the value of the underlying asset to go up.
A put option gives the holder the right, but not the obligation, to sell a stock at a certain price in the future. When an investor purchases a put, she expects the underlying asset to decline in price; she may sell the option and gain a profit. An investor can also write a put option for another investor to buy, in which case, she would not expect the stock's price to drop below the exercise price.
Example—How Does a Put Option Work?
An investor purchases one put option contract on ABC company for $100. Each option contract covers 100 shares. The exercise price of the shares is $10, and the current ABC share price is $12. This put option contract has given the investor the right, but not the obligation, to sell 100 shares of ABC at $10.
If ABC shares drop to $8, the investor's put option is in the money (ITM)—which means that the strike price is below the market price of the underlying asset—and she can close her option position by selling the contract on the open market.
On the other hand, she can purchase 100 shares of ABC at the existing market price of $8, and then exercise her contract to sell the shares for $10. Disregarding commissions, the profit for this position is $200, or 100 x ($10 - $8). Remember that the investor paid a $100 premium for the put option, giving her the right to sell her shares at the exercise price. Factoring in this initial cost, her total profit is $200 - $100 = $100.
As another way of working a put option as a hedge, if the investor in the previous example already owns 100 shares of ABC company, that position would be called a married put and could serve as a hedge against a decline in the share price.


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My boys are currently suffering head colds, and while fruit normally disappears into their little mouths faster than you can cut it up, it can be hard enough to get some vitamins into them when they need them most. I usually turn them into smoothies together with a natural yoghurt fill it into a boy approved cup add a reusable straw and voila: even little boys will drink a purple vitamin booster when they aren't feeling so well!
I use a lot of blackberries at the moment as it is blackberry season here. They grow wild literally everywhere in our neighbourhood and even keep popping up in our garden. If you want to use them raw and you have foraged them outside of your garden, make sure to stay a good meter above the ground when picking blackberries, if you live in an area with Echinococcus multilocularis. I would also pick them higher of the ground if it is the local doggy walk highway. I won't go into further detail on that one...
Blackberries (like all edible berries around here) are high in Vitamin C and have a decent amount of other vitamins and minerals, too.
To make this purple blackberry banana smoothie, you need a jug, that has ml measurements.
Fill it to the 50ml mark with oat flakes (the porridge type)
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The Samsung Galaxy S4 'developer edition' is real, folks! Google has just announced the Galaxy S4 with stock Android 4.2 Jelly Bean and none of that TouchWiz wizardry. Pure Android, just as so many people like it.
The Galaxy S4 with stock Android will land on the Google Play store on June 26th for an off contract price of $649.
The S4 with stock Android will support 4G LTE and you'd be able to use it on the U.S. GSM carriers like AT&T and T-Mobile. It will have 16GB of internal storage, come with a fully unlocked bootloader and you won't need to wait for system updates from carriers. Freedom, a lot of us wished for it, and now we have it!
Google announces new APIs for improved user location tracking
The Google I/O conference has just kicked off, and one of the first announcements made at the event was that of three new APIs – three great tools to help developers make better apps. In particular, the APIs aid in determining the location of the user in a number of clever ways.
The first of these tools is a location provider that takes advantage of all of the device's sensors. The result is a more precise location obtained in a shorter time. At the same time, the software has been optimized to suck as little battery as possible – down to less than 1% per hour of usage.
The second API is called Geofencing and lets developers implement "borders" within their software. Actions then can be triggered within the software whenever the user physically crosses one of these borders.
Last but not least we have an API for activity recognition. Simply put, the software is capable of determining whether the user is walking, driving, or riding a bike.
Google unveils Android Studio: new smart IntelliJ-based IDE
Google said its I/O conference will be hugely focused on developers and one of the best news for coders is a brand new Android Studio, an integrated development environment (IDE) by Google that is based on the IntelliJ platform.
It comes with a deep semantic understanding of Android, and with internationalization (i18n) built in the IDE so you don't have to hardcode i18n options but instead just refer to pre-built objects. It also comes with an absolutely brilliant layout editor showing you how your code looks on different form factors and screen sizes.
Android Studio comes with live code updates and even font changes are visible immediately. This – Google teases – is just scratching the surface.
"We have big plans for Android Studio — we plan to integrate more and more services." Android Studio is definitely a big step forward for Google developers and shows that Google is not content with having that talk about Apple developers making more money than Android devs. That's one smart step toward changing that.
Google announces Google Play Games Services with cross-platform gaming
We had heard that Google was working on a platform called Google Play Games, and the official announcement has been made. The platform comes in the form of a number of new APIs under the heading of Google Play Games Services, and it will offer all of the features that we came to expect based on various APK teardowns, but the real surprise is that Google is releasing the APIs for iOS and the web as well for true cross-platform gaming.
Google unveils new unified 'Hangouts' messaging service for iOS, Android
Google's I/O keynote is still ongoing, and the company just unveiled a major new service: Hangouts. Originally rumored to be called 'Babel,' Hangouts is a cross-platform messaging system that will take the place of Google Talk, Google+ Messenger, Google+ Hangout video chat, and pretty much everything else.
It's basically a messaging app, in the same vein as WhatsApp or Kik, offering synchronized chat across virtually all of your devices. Google has mixed in a lot of its own personal flavor though, building in the ability for users to go back through their chat history, delete messages, and even grab files from past conversations…
Continuing with the differences, the Hangout app presents users with a list of recent text conversations, rather than a contact list. Each conversation gets its own name, and is stored in the cloud, allowing users to message others even if they're not connected. This also allows for seamless syncing between multiple devices.
TechCrunch has more on the service:
"Presence, or knowing when friends are available to chat, is a big focus. You can see when friends are on Hangouts, if they're currently typing, and if they've seen your messages [also known as read receipts]. Using Google+ Circles, you can select specific friends or a whole group to start a chat with.
Hangouts takes care to deliver your messages to whichever web interface or mobile app your friends are using. If you're offline, Hangouts will store your messages until you return. Unlike Google Talk, it won't send you an email every time you get a message while offline."
And all of this focus on 'presence' pays off, as Hangouts is constantly aware of what platform you're using to chat. This way, you won't have to worry about receiving duplicate notifications on different platforms. The idea here is that you can start and stop conversations smoothly regardless of if you're on desktop, Android or iOS.


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I've been going through a lot of my old tournament footage recently, in order to create GIFs of various parts of the text. In the process, I stumbled across a moment where the camera angle and my position lined up perfectly in a way that reconstructed one of the images from the guards section in Vadi.
This got me wondering: could I reconstruct the whole section using nothing but screen shots taken from tournament footage? The short answer was yes! I'm particularly pleased because at no point in any of this was I intentionally posing to create an image; all of these spontaneously appeared in tournament. While not all of the images line up quite as perfectly as the first one, I think the fact that I could produce this relatively easily helps show how tournament fencing can be a perfectly natural complement to a historical, reconstructed martial art.
The link below will take you to the resulting document. For best effect I suggest you look at it in presentation mode. If you're interested in producing something similar, I go through the method below.
Slides of Reconstructed Guard section
Making this was actually surprisingly easy. If you wanted to make your own, it doesn't require any specialist skills or software, just plenty of footage and some patience.
The images used in the slide deck are taken from a wide range of fights; the 13 images come from 9 different matches. The hardest barrier to getting good images was having the camera angle line up. I'm lucky in that I have a fair amount of footage from different events (around 150 fights). Maybe 30 of these had any chance of producing a suitable image. Thankfully, you can rule out unsuitable footage very quickly, only watching the ones that might be suitable.
Even then, it might not result in any or many usable images. Common issues I had were:
- Guards were used while facing the wrong direction for the shot
- Camera angle was wrong (head on, from a high angle)
- Some guards were more frequently used than others
- Guards sometines used transiently for less than a second
- Body parts obstructed by judges or off camera
- Circling matches constantly changing the angle
- Variable lighting and image quality
- Minor differences in detail between idealised guards and ones in use.
I had a higher threshold for how perfectly the images needed to match the originals for guards that I use more commonly.
Once I had the images, I used the windows inbuilt image editor to crop the photo, and then used its image enhance filter and changed the contrast to make details clearer. This was particularly essential on the lower quality images. Without it, the black clothing we use in HEMA can obscure details, although some images were fine.
After that, I copied them in to PowerPoint. This has a great feature for removing background in images. You need to give it a little help in deciding what to keep and what to ditch, but it's a very simple process. Sadly it is consistently bad at distinguishing sword blades and quillons, which is why those look a little rough.
I then resized the images so that all the fighters were roughly the same size, and positioned them to be at the same point on the page. This gives a really interesting effect as you scroll through and allows you to really see the transitions between guards in some cases.
Finally, I added the text portions from my favourite translation.
All in all, the hardest and most time consuming part is getting the images. The image prep and compilation took about an hour – and with this, consider that I've never done this before, so really not much time at all.
I would absolutely love to see more of these, from Vadi or other systems. If you make anything similar please let me know!


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Ben Affleck is Not going away anytime soon as Batman and Justice League 2 is Happening
WCD Times – The upcoming The Batman movie directed by Matt Reeves, Yet to cast the New Batman Actor, The movie will be Prequel to Ben Affleck's Batman, his younger version of Ben Affleck as Ben Affleck Batman in his 40s. Ben Affleck has two more movie contracts to show up in DC movies. The New untitled Batman movie will have more villains than any other Batman called Rogues Gallary, In an interview with Hollywood Reporter Matt Reeves said, Casting will begin shortly, and Movie will have multiple Villains, he also said, the movie will relate Present past and Future of Batman. And the movie will have more Batman, doing detective works more often than before movies. Basically, Batman is called the Detective.
Excited for #TheBatman in Summer 2021 and to see @MattReevesLA vision come to life. https://t.co/GNgyJroMIO— Ben Affleck (@BenAffleck) January 31, 2019
Matt Reeves also said the movie would release some were in Summer or Spring of 2021. As of now Except shazam there no movie will come this year for DC universe movie. Wonder Woman 1984 have been moved out and Aquaman is flourishing in Box Office. While in an Interview Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins said, Justice League sequel is going to Happen along with the solo movie of Aquaman 2, Wonder Woman 3 and Flash movie to form the Justice League 2 movie.


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Plympton-Wyoming residents are facing rising water and sewer rates over the next couple of years.
Town council recently approved a water and sewer budget with a 5.2 per cent increase in rates. That means about $44 more per year for people in Wyoming and $77 per year more for ratepayers in Plympton.
But town staff and the chair of the water committee are warning the increase should have been much higher to maintain services without draining the capital reserves.
David Fielding, the director of public works, says an asset management study done several years ago didn't look closely at the needs of the water and sewer budgets. It forecasted stable water rates. With the province forcing municipalities for fund water plants through water rates alone, it is becoming more difficult to hold the line.
Fielding says the 2015 water and sewer budget takes money out of reserves for every single capital project. "Eventually were going to run out and you'll struggle with double digit increases," he says.
Councilor Ron Schenk, chair of the water committee, agrees. He wanted to raise rates 18 per cent this year to deal with the problems. That would have meant a $101 increase this year to Wyoming ratepayers and $165 in Plympton.
"Water may get expensive – some people may not be able to afford water," he told councilors recently. "But we may need a line in our budget that's a charity fund…You can't let the whole water system go because a few people need help."
But some councilors balked at the idea. "Not acceptable just not acceptable," says Councilor Bob Woolvett. "There is no way we can justify it – that just looks at bad management.
"We can't spring these kind of increases on people were worse than the provincial government," he says.
Councilor Ben Dekker suggested a 10 per cent increase this year and next telling taxpayers "that's the cost of servicing you."
But Schenk and Fielding say the large increases may continue. "This is not a one-year deal; this could be a multiple year deal," says Fielding.
Mayor Lonny Napper suggested – and the majority of council agreed – the town hold to the 5.2 per cent increase this year and see if a new contract to run both the water and sewage plant will save money before raising rates dramatically.


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Can Attribution Pick Out the Unnecessary Ad?
Based on the MarketShare Brief When is Advertising Unnecessary? - Attribution and Customer Intent
If a customer clicked on an ad and converted, was the ad a success? Not necessarily.
Often, customers will click on an ad as a convenient route to a conversion they would have made regardless—whether that route is a display ad that brought them to a bookmarked landing page, or a coupon link for a product they did not need to be convinced to buy.
For marketers looking to evaluate marketing effectiveness, these "convenient routes" pose serious attribution challenges. This is because it can be difficult to identify which customers followed a path to conversion because of an ad was effective, and which used an ad as a quick path toward a purchase they had planned to make all along.
As a result, marketers can easily give credit to undeserving ads, while ignoring the ads and other factors that genuinely move the needle. According to a MarketShare analysis, that attribution challenge can mean over-crediting marketing channels by as much as 20%, and under-attributing sales influences by over 10%.
If our goal is to identify individuals' paths as a precursor to multi-stage modelling, our next question must be: are there analytics approaches that allow us to reach this goal?
First- and last-click- attribution both fail the test. Last click attribution gives complete credit to the immediate preceding touch before conversion. First Click attribution, a "close cousin" of last click, gives all credit to the first touch along the conversion chain—partially under the premise that the first measured interaction between the consumer and the brand "kicked off" the path to conversion. Because first and last click alike measure a single point in time—the moment of the click or other first interaction—they cannot be used to be build a "historical profile" of the customer. As such, they are not good candidates for predicting or controlling for customer intent.
Another option is matched pairs. Essentially a large test and control study, matched pairs finds sets that are identical except for one attribute, and compares outcomes both with and without that attribute. For instance, to understand the impact of targeted display, matched pairs attribution might look at conversion rates for consumers who have been exposed to all media including targeted display, as compared to the conversion rate of those who have not been exposed to targeted display but who have been exposed to all other media. According to this approach, the difference in conversion rates between the groups should reveal the effectiveness of targeted display.
What complicates this approach is that, in the wild, neatly comparing test and control groups can be prohibitively complicated. In the example above, for instance, we can't fairly compare customers who are exposed to targeted display with customers who are not, because retargeted customers already come from a group of individuals who were likely to convert. For a true apples-to-apples comparison, we need to find not just individuals who were not exposed to targeted display, but individuals who would be just as likely to express interest as the retargeted customers had, under similar circumstances. That means, in practice, being able to accurately predict which types of consumers are likely to take very specific actions—such as searching and clicking on a sponsored link—and only using those customers in the "control" group. Accurately predicting with this level of granularity is extremely difficult, to say the least.
Further complicating matters, test and control approaches depend vitally on large sample sizes in both test and control groups. Limiting observations to large groups also limits the granularity of insights marketers can obtain. This poses a serious challenge when we're attempting to predict individual-level behavior.
A final option is discrete choice models. Discrete choice models ask which attributes predict a given action, as well as how changes in those attributes might bring an action closer. This information might include path data, such as prior interactions with the brand's advertising and website. It also could include segmentation data like demographics and psychographics. In other words, discrete choice models ask "who" the customer is, what actions they've taken in the past, and how these may work as predictors of an imminent conversion.
That level of understanding of the individual makes discrete choice modelling particularly useful for evaluating a consumer's pre-existing intent to buy. Combining this with a multi-stage modelling approach allows for a comprehensive treatment of customers' predispositions to act and revealed intentions based on past behavior.
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Promoting respectable labor relations for immigrants working in the São Paulo fashion supply chain
An estimated 10 to 100 thousand laborers work in sweatshops in Brazil that employ manual laborers in slave-like conditions. The vast majority are Bolivian immigrants based in São Paulo. With the increasingly shorter life cycles of fashion collections and the need to deliver products faster and faster, retailers have begun to contract smaller businesses. At the end of the supply chain are the small sweatshops belonging to undocumented immigrants who have no knowledge of the local language and end up working under abusive conditions.
Aliança Empreendedora assists businesses, civil society organizations and local governments to develop inclusive business models and projects that support low-revenue, small businesses. The Aliança aims to generate new business and work opportunities, in turn promoting inclusion and socioeconomic development.
With support from BrazilFoundation, Aliança Empreendedora plans to:
-Support immigrants in management and entrepreneurialism by applying Aliança's methodology for small business development;
-Advocate for immigrants in partnership with COETRAE / SP (the São Paulo State Commission for the Erradication of Slave Labour)
-95 direct beneficiaries: shopowners, entrepreneurs, and immigrants
-3300 immigrants benefited indirectly
"More often than not, the business owner is a Bolivian immigrant who saved up his money, purchased the sewing equipment, and brought his relatives to Brazil to work in these conditions." -Aliança Empreendedora team


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This is a 2010 article from the Journal of Professional Nursing. The abstract for the article is noted below. Although significant numbers of foreign nurses are currently employed in the United States, little research about nursing professionalism exists for this population. The study assessed the levels of professionalism and examined factors associated with professionalism among Korean American registered nurses (RNs). Hall's Professionalism Inventory (HPI) scale was used for this correlational descriptive study. Data were collected, using a mailing survey, with a convenience sample of Korean American RNs living in the United States (n = 221). Current position in nursing, current employment status, work setting, total years of nursing experience, total years of nursing experience in the... Show More
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Building the Right Environment to Support AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning
A new report from researchers at Frost & Sullivan finds that enterprise tablet adoption is increasing. According to the firm, 47 percent of companies supply tablets to their workers, but that number will likely increase to 56 percent by 2016.
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Heart's Desire
Friday Feb 14, 2020
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Albuquerque, NM 87104
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'Life is a game, you live so you play. Follow your dreams and win what your happy heart desires.' - Roel van Sleeuwen
Ghostwolf presents Heart's Desire: An examination of our passions and what makes us tick. Light refreshments. Reception: February 7 from 5 to 8 pm. Show runs through February 29. Daily gallery hours: 11 am to 6 pm.


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Shapes were first produced in Victoria, Australia in the 1950s by Arnotts. The reason for the name 'Shapes' is because of the different shapes of the different flavours.
They were originally shaped in the same shape as a potato chip, however there was a lot of waste of dough in this process, and manufacturing them en-masse was difficult because they were hard to cut consistently.
If you're wondering where Tasmania went to on these shapes, see here 'Where's tasmania on the new shapes?


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What is the use of interface constants?
The constant interface pattern is a poor use of interfaces. That a class uses some constants internally is an implementation detail. Implementing a constant interface causes this implementation detail to leak into the class's exported API. It is of no consequence to the users of a class that the class implements a constant interface. In fact, it may even confuse them. Worse, it represents a commitment: if in a future release the class is modified so that it no longer needs to use the constants, it still must implement the interface to ensure binary compatibility. If a nonfinal class implements a constant interface, all of its subclasses will have their namespaces polluted by the constants in the interface.
There are several constant interfaces in the java platform libraries, such as
java.io.ObjectStreamConstants. These interfaces should be regarded as anomalies and should not be emulated.
To avoid some pitfalls of the constant interface (because you can't prevent people from implementing it), a proper class with a private constructor should be preferred
public final class Constants { private Constants() { // restrict instantiation } public static final double PI = 3.14159; public static final double PLANCK_CONSTANT = 6.62606896e-34; }
And to access the constants without having to fully qualify them (i.e. without having to prefix them with the class name)
import static Constants.PLANCK_CONSTANT; import static Constants.PI; public class Calculations { public double getReducedPlanckConstant() { return PLANCK_CONSTANT / (2 * PI); } }


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The Story of Gucci
If you're not familiar with this quote, it belongs to Aldo Gucci, the son of Guccio Gucci, the founder of The Fashion House of Gucci.
A name that is now synonymous with Italian luxury worldwide, the Gucci brand is actually rooted in humble beginnings. Inspired by the luggage of elegant upper class guests at the Savoy in London, a young Guccio returned to his birthplace of Florence and founded the House of Gucci in 1920. Starting out as a small family business, Gucci established his reputation with high-quality leather goods, crafted by the finest craftsmen in a city famous for them, putting a special emphasis on the product's finishing.
In the coming years the company expanded to other cities in Italy and eventually, across the globe. In 1953, the first Gucci store opened in New York City, helping establish the company as a leader in fashion and making "Made in Italy" a staple of quality . During that time Aldo Gucci took over as chairman and the House of Gucci became a universally accepted status symbol following Roberto Rossellini's 1954 film "Viaggio in Italia" (Journey to Italy), where Ingrid Bergman had a Gucci bamboo handbag on her arm.
The company expanded its production line and began crafting more and more accessories during the 1960s and 70s, including eyewear. Gucci quickly became a must-need accessory for movie stars, who eagerly posed with the brand's clothing, accessories and footwear and adorned the world's most prestigious magazine covers. Gucci products became among the most copied in the world, famous for their distinctive lines and the Gucci double-G logo.
A trend setter for high-fashion in the second half of the 20th century, Gucci remains an inspiration and an influence on lifestyle, with a sophisticated blend of contemporary and romantic, representing the pinnacle of Italian craftsmanship, material quality and attention to detail. Gucci glasses are no exception, crafted with the same standards and attention to aesthetic that have accompanied Gucci throughout the years.
GlassesUSA.com is proud to present it's growing collection of Gucci frames, ranging a variety of styles and colors that continue a tradition in eyewear fashion excellence.
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The Flavors by The House of Lucky Cigar line is made up of Dominican fillers grown from Cuban-seed, draped in an Indonesian wrapper. The enticing flavors make this flavored smoke a great change of pace. The taste is smooth, mild and mellow, with a pleasant aroma. Available in boxes of 24, size 5x42, in flavors such as Cherry, Creme Brulee, Honey, Mojito Rum, Vanilla, Mellow Mellow, Chocolate, Mango, Pina Colada, Mocha Latte, Strawberry and Sex on the Beach.
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another gallery closing
101up: "We at the 101up Gallery are keeping this story in mind and hope you will too. The 101up Gallery will be closing its doors after The Tenth Show. The opening of this last show will mark our one year anniversary. We will end this chapter of the 101up saga with ten shows in thirteen months. We (Mark Sengbusch and Greg Frederick) have decided that we need to get back in the studio and work on our own art. This was a tough call involving the inevitable compromise between curator and artist. Like the DJ who decides he needs to produce his own records, or the
director who needs to act, the choice becomes clear."
The show will feature the private collection of 101up. (my name is on the list but I question the piece that they say they have of mine?)


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A script to log what my GPS tells me
By Bob Mesibov, published 17/01/2017 in Tutorials
I carry a Garmin Etrex 10 when I go bug-collecting. It's a handheld GPS receiver without many frills, and I only use it to record the latitude and longitude of each of my collecting sites as a waypoint.
At the start of a field trip I delete all previous waypoints. When I do this, the trip's waypoints are then serially numbered from 001 and stored in the Etrex 10 in a file with a name like Waypoints_14-NOV-16.gpx.
When I get home, I connect the Etrex 10 to my computer with a micro-USB/USB cable, mount GARMIN (/media/bob/GARMIN) and navigate to the Garmin/GPX/ folder to find the trip's GPX file. I copy that file to the clipboard (actually, just the file path) by choosing Copy on the right-click menu in my file manager. I then use a keyboard shortcut to launch my gpslogger script, which is explained in this article. The trip's waypoints are automatically appended to a GPS log file in my preferred format (see below) and a notification appears on my desktop, like this:
Horizontal fibs
An example of the waypoint GPX file I've copied looks like this:
and each waypoint is marked up like this:
The bits I want from that string are latitude (lat), longitude (lon), date/time (time) and waypoint serial number (name). The last two are correct. The latitude and longitude are wild exaggerations.
I say that because the decimal degree locations are given to 6 significant figures. Anywhere on Earth, 0.000001 of a degree of latitude is about 110 mm, and 0.000001 of a degree of longitude is about 80 mm at 42 degrees south. Does my Etrex 10 really know its location to the nearest 110 mm, or ±55 mm in latitude?
No, of course not. Garmin says their Etrex receivers are typically accurate to within 10 metres. "Typical" rarely applies in my case, since I'm usually working in forest on hilly country, without a clear view of the sky. If I let the Etrex 10 listen to the GPS satellites for a couple of minutes, I can often get an accuracy declaration for a waypoint of less than 10 m. But even 5 m accuracy is a long way from 0.000001 degree accuracy.
Then there's the matter of precision. A GPS reading is just one estimate of a location. A better estimate would be the average of several readings at the same spot. How many? Garmin says about waypoint averaging: For best results, collect four to eight samples for the waypoint, waiting at least 90 minutes between samples (Garmin Etrex 10 Quick Start Manual).
OK, so lat="-41.810292" lon="147.761722" is dodgy and those figures need to be rounded off. Garmin rounds them off on the screen of the Etrex 10 to 0.00001 of a degree, but that's still too many significant figures. A more realistic rounding off is to 0.0001 of a degree, which in my latitudes here in Tasmania is roughly ±5.5 m in the N/S direction and ±4 m in the E/W direction. That's the rounding off done by the gpslogger script, as shown below.
Vertical porkies
GPS elevations are even dodgier. In the sample waypoint above, the elevation ("ele") was calculated by the Etrex 10 to be 254.520554 metres. That would get rounded off on-screen to the nearest metre, and users might think that 255 was an OK estimate of elevation above sea level for that waypoint.
Not so. A rule of thumb is that GPS vertical uncertainty is 1.5 times GPS horizontal uncertainty. If I only know the horizontal location ±10 m, I only know the vertical location ±15 m, not
±0.5 m. But that's irrelevant, because GPS elevation isn't elevation above sea level. It's elevation above a mathematical model of the Earth's surface called an "ellipsoid". The difference between GPS elevation and elevation above sea level can be tens of metres.
So I ignore the elevation in the GPX file. To get elevations above sea level for my sites in Tasmania, I plug the latitude and longitude for each waypoint into the Tasmanian government's excellent online mapper, LISTmap, and read the approximate elevation off a digital topographic map with 10 m contour lines, to the nearest 10 m.
Processing the waypoint data
The script (shown below in full) uses xclip to grab the GPX filepath from the clipboard. The file is catted and sent first to tr to put the whole file on a single line. The file actually is on a single line in the GPX, but I like to make sure.
The next command in the pipeline is an AWK one. A simplified version of this first AWK command works by breaking the one-line GPX file into separate records. The input record separator RS is set to the string "<wpt", and the output record separator ORS to a newline. The result is shown below; I've double-spaced it with sed to emphasise the separate lines:
In the full version of the first AWK command, this result is then filtered to select just the lines with the string "lat", in this case the last 3 lines. I then define field separators on each line with the FS variable, using a number of strings separated by the OR operator "|". This breaks up each "lat" line into fields as shown:
I print the fields I want in the order I want, then separate them with a tab as defined by the output field separator variable, OFS:
Adjusting the waypoint data
Now for the rounding of latitudes and longitudes, and as described in an earlier Linux Rain article, that's not so easy! For clarity I pass the lat/lons through 2 separate, fairly ugly AWK commands to do the rounding I like. Note that the first rounding command accounts for the fact that the latitude is negative. The rounded result is saved as a temp file:
The last adjustment is to convert the UTC date/time in the GPX file to local date/time. I do this on the last column of the 4-column table with the date command and its -f option, which allows date to do the converting line by line. The converted date/time column is rejoined to the "name" and rounded latitude and longitude columns with paste:
Finishing up
The set of waypoints from the field trip is appended to my GPS log file, and a desktop notification created to tell me how many waypoints were appended. To get that number I compare the number of lines in the GPS log before and after the appending.
And here's the full script:
before=$(wc -l < ~/Millipedes/Sites/gpslog)
cat $(xclip -selection clipboard -o) | tr -d '\n' \
| awk -v RS='<wpt' -v ORS="\n" -v FS='"|<time>|</time>|<name>|</name>' -v OFS="\t" \
'/lat/ {print $8,$2,$4,$6}' \
| awk -F"\t" '{if (substr($2,0,8)%2) printf("%s\t%.4f\t%s\t%s\n",$1,$2-0.00001,$3,$4); \
else printf("%s\t%.4f\t%s\t%s\n",$1,$2,$3,$4)}' \
| awk -F"\t" '{if (substr($3,0,8)%2) printf("%s\t%s\t%.4f\t%s\n",$1,$2,$3+0.00001,$4); \
else printf("%s\t%s\t%.4f\t%s\n",$1,$2,$3,$4)}' > /tmp/gpx
paste <(cut -f1-3 /tmp/gpx) <(date +"%A, %d %b %Y, %H:%M" -f <(cut -f4 /tmp/gpx)) \
>> ~/Millipedes/Sites/gpslog
after=$(wc -l < ~/Millipedes/Sites/gpslog)
notify-send "$adds waypoints added to GPS log file"
rm /tmp/gpx


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I must be defective because I put 3 layers if this on my arms and felt a slight tingle/itching sensation. Granted they say contact them for instructions regarding body application but I figured it couldn't be THAT difficult or that much different from the facial instructions. I applied the tca Monday … It's only Wednesday but my arms are just dry. I don't really think anything is going to happen and I'm kind of annoyed -_-.
I have not used this peel before although I have used a 70% Glycolic peel. Thought I would try this one. From the reviews I read this peel seems to be much stronger that the Glycolic so I went with the 15% to start with, to see how my skin reacted to it. I have used it once. I left the peel on for about a two minutes. It did not 'frost' but I did not add more, I just neutralized it at that point and washed it off. It felt as if I had a very slight sunburn. Now, the third day, there are areas , especially around the mouth area, are turning leathery, and just barely beginning to peel. This is nothing that would keep me indoors away from others as it is not very noticeable. I am 61, but many think I am in my 40″s and I am still amazed at that as I was a sun worshipper and thought I had to have a tan to look good from my teens to 40's! I have never had a face lift but have had face fillers in the past. I have never had botox. When I am not smiling there are no wrinkles around my eyes at all. It must be genetic. I had not used a peel for awhile and I noticed my jowl area was beginning to sag some. I can already feel a tightening of the area and am hoping it lasts after I peel. I believe with any new product it is important not to overdo and to go slowly at first. As I see the outcome of this peel, I will know how far I can go next time. I will probably graduate to the stronger solutions in time. I am also using a Derm Roller with it at the same time so don't now how that affects the outcome but I hope it improves it. This company seems to have a fine product. They were also kind enough to send a sample of their glycolic acid which I used to exfoliate my lips! Thanks! It works so great for that . I just leave it on for about 30 seconds and it takes off all the dry skin but does not irritate my lips afterward. Anyway, I am happy at this point as it appears my reaction is a subtle one and that is what I wanted. I will add updates later on.A NOTE: Most all my friends have had complete face lifts, having all of it done at once beginning at the age of 40 . Some looked better on than others. All were done by different Dr's so that could have something to do with it. The thing I noticed, except for one person, was that they did not look the same afterwards, they did not look like 'themselves'. I decided after watching all them go through this and the results of it, that I would never have a face lift and, if anything, I might do small procedures targeting one area at a time, as needed. I haven't done that yet though. Not ruling it out, but right now, I doubt I will even do that. There are so many things a woman can do now to improve the looks of her face. Fillers are wonderful , if not overdone, but must be done by a Dr. in most cases, and are expensive. A friend had laser resurfacing with her face lift and her skin never looked quite right after that. It had an unnatural look to it and had some blotches. The chemical face peels really do improve the skin and wrinkles and cause more collagen production. No topical creams can do what they do and they they improve the looks of the facial skin so much. When used carefully they can be done at home for hundreds to thousand of dollars less than a Dr. will charge. So, why not try it? It isn't difficult. Just follow directions, go slowly and don't overdo it. This is something we can do for a fraction of the cost of those expensive creams, etc, that will make a difference.Although there are some exceptions, most of the things we buy in jars do nothing to permanently improve the looks of our skin. OK, off my soap box! Seriously, If you have never tried a peel before and/or are tired of paying a Dr. to do it, try it yourself! Research! Read the Amazon reviews carefully, as they have a wealth of information in them, choose your product, read the instructions and have everything ready before you begin and then go slowly. You don't have to go the full time, the first time. See how your skin reacts first and get it use to the process. All the best to you!
Awesome peel, really works
I decided to purchase this peel after noticing my skin was turning uneven and dull once I hit 30. I was also starting to notice fine lines creeping up around my eyes. I've tried the lower concentration department store peels in the past and I find they don't do much and are a waste of money.First let me say that this strength of peel is not for the faint of heart. It hurts like heck, so if you've never done a chemical peel before you might want to start with a lighter one. I put the first layer on and noticed some frosting on my cheeks, forehead and chin. I was able to leave it on the full five minutes, and then did one more layer on the areas that didn't frost. The second layer made tears run down my face and I could barely leave it on for a minute before I had to wash it off. The first 2-3 days my skin felt tight and leathery. I used a vitamin E oil to keep it moist and stayed completely out of the sun. Days 4-6 the skin started peeling much like a sunburn would. I had to go back to work, so I made sure to use a good sunscreen and I had to put foundation on my face to make it look somewhat presentable. My makeup looked like a caked on mask, but there wasn't much I could do about it.Now that pretty much all the skin is peeled off I notice a significant reduction in pores, unevenness, dullness and fine lines. There is a slight reduction in dark spots, but I read it can take three peels to achieve a full effect so I'm not too worried about it.The only con is the downtime. You have to keep in mind your skin is going to look like crap before it looks better, so plan accordingly. I wouldn't recommend doing this peel right before a major event or anywhere you need to look good.All in all, extremely high quality product for a good price that actually produces results.


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Parents, unless you start making a lot of noise, it will continue getting worse.
Because of the high stakes attached to the FSA, the tests are shrouded in secrecy and security out of all proportion to their actual value. Therefore, most teachers in Florida don't voice their opinions about testing or the effects and consequences of testing in public.
So when a teacher is able to reflect on their own life – as a child, a student, and as a teacher – and share their insights into education as it is today, everyone should pay close attention. It's always special when we hear from teachers, former teachers, and retired teachers, who support our work.
Yesterday was a special day.
Jesse George Shoemaker is a retired teacher from Polk County, who shared his letter to President and Mrs. Trump, US Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Gov. Ron Desantis, Rep Melony Bell, Sen.Kelli Stargel, the Polk County School Board, and to the parents and teachers in The Opt Out Florida Network:
This document has been sent to the following people. I am trying to tell my story about the sad shape of our US educational system. Please help me tell my story. Please copy and share as you wish.
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C. 20202
The Capitol
400 S. Monroe St.
Tallahassee, FL 32399-0001
I taught middle school science and agriculture in Polk County, FL for three weeks shy of eight years and was named the Teacher Of The Year (TOY) once. The last three weeks of my eighth year, I could not force my self to go back into the classroom. I could not sleep. I had constant, out of school, panic attacks. I had PTSD.
In 1968 and 1969 I was an active duty US Marine. I never had a panic attack in the Corps, but I did while teaching. There is something horribly wrong with that fact, horribly wrong with US education. I hope my story will help the enormity of that fact leap into your consciousness and into your actions to improve education.
When I was a child, I had a fever of 107 degrees F that fried parts of my brain. My first name is Jesse. I learned to spell that in the first grade. The first day of second grade I was asked to spell my first name. I wrote Jsees. I was so not-with-it. I did not hear the 'e' at the end when pronouncing Jesse. I got so mad I went home and insisted everyone call me by my middle name, George. I would not answer to Jesse at school or anywhere else.
I was in the hospital often during the third grade, due to horrible stomach pain. That year, our hometown pharmacist gave me the wrong medicine and almost killed me. The correct medicine made me sleep through most of third grade. I failed third grade. As far as I knew I was the only kid that failed in that school that year. I was an eight-year-old failure, and I knew it. I knew I was stupid. I knew I was the dumbest kid in my class. I knew I was the dumbest kid in that school.
It did not matter that there was a reason why I failed. Facts may be different from how a child perceives reality. My reality was that I was stupid.
I hated school. I hated teachers. I hated books. I had serious Dyslexia although no one knew what that was back then. I guess they either thought I was stupid, or I simply did not want to read. The teacher gave Mom a "Dick and Jane" reader. Each night after supper, Mom asked me to read. I couldn't read. She would ask and ask until I cried, and she would give up. As if school was not torture enough, I could expect more torment after supper.
In my head I was alone in a world full of people that were against me. At a picnic in the woods, I went for a walk and came upon a house and garage. The garage had a sign that said Penny Arcade. I ran back and told everyone. We all walked to the arcade. Only, it said 'Park Yar Carcass' (P—y arca–). The instant I saw the sign the second time I saw what it really said. Everyone laughed at me and walked back to the picnic. I sat down in the leaves and decided talking was little more than an opportunity to prove my stupidity. So, I stopped talking to everyone except my dog, Ada, a Basset Hound. We took long walks in the woods, sat on a log or stump, and I repeatedly asked Ada, "Why do they make me go to school?" I would hug Ada and cry. I hated all of life, except for Ada. Looking back now, I wonder if Ada saved my life. Dad had given me a lifesaving jewel in Ada.
I thought I was all alone in the world, but now I realize my father knew I needed a friend and something to be good at. He began raising Bassets and became my Little League coach. Ours was the best team in the area. We almost never lost. I was a good third baseman, and I hit home runs.
I was voted the most popular senior in high school. Not bad for a dumb kid. Being an athlete and the class clown was preferable to being the dumb kid.
I was in my 50s when I realized what Dad had done for me. Sadly, he was gone by then.
Sports became my life. I started on my high school basketball team. We were a small rural school, but our senior year we won nineteen games and lost only four. I earned eight varsity letters in high school. My basketball coach and art teacher pushed me through high school. Since I knew I was stupid but was good at physical things, I was on my way to Marine Corps boot camp at Parris Island the Monday after my last high school class. I hated school so much I did not go on my class trip or to commencement. I was out of there. I knew I would never go to school ever again. In the Corps I learned I was good at learning by doing.
After the Corps, I kept wondering what I would do for the rest of my life. I began to wonder if I could get through college. I asked my high school English teacher if she thought I should try. She said, "If I were you, I wouldn't even try." Today she says she would never have said that to me, but that is what I remember. At the time, that was what my reality was and still is today.
I worked four jobs; painting houses, selling fire alarms, working in a factory, and working at a lumber mill. There was no fun in that life. I decided to give college a try. I did not want to look back when I was 50 years old and wonder what I could have become if I tried going to college. I started at a major university in the AA Agriculture curriculum. I earned a 4.0 my first term and switched to a B.S. degree in Agronomy. Between high school and college my brain began to heal itself, I guess. I taught myself to read in college – albeit very slowly.
The first day of remedial college English, the professor put magazine pictures on a desk and asked us to write about what we saw. I picked a picture of a US Marine recruit on the rifle range. I wrote about the sand fleas and no-see-ums, the heat, my boots constantly being so wet with sweat I had bleeding athletes' foot, Drill Instructors cussing us and beating one guy to a pulp, and the fear of not qualifying: every Marine must be a rifleman.
The professor graded the papers and handed them out. She gave me mine last and told the class that I had no sense of romance. She said I did not even mention the smell of the gunpowder. I stood up, left class, walked to my room, and began packing to leave college and go home. How could I learn from overly romantic professors who knew less than I knew?
Some of my classmates knew I was a Marine. They raked the teacher over the coals. One student ran to my room and said the professor wanted me to come back. She apologized. Later, in a business writing class I wrote that, "I will contact the manager." The professor was so old he scolded me that I should never use the word 'contact' because that is what the pilot says before the airplane propeller is turned – World War I lingo.
Every aspect of my college education was a nightmare. In an International Marketing course, the professor thought it would be a good idea to barter with Russia, trading agricultural supplies for crops. He had no idea that DuPont traded agricultural chemicals for potatoes and lost their shirt because the Russians harvested green potatoes that basically turned to liquid in shipment. It is a good idea, but if you have no experience you can lose everything. He did not have enough experience to caution his students.
I did learn that education without experience is not worth much. That is precisely one of the things that is wrong with our system of education. There are too many highly placed educators, who have been out of the classroom for so long, that they have lost or forgotten their experience; or maybe they are concentrating on following insane rules rather than using the knowledge they have gained from their experience. Then there are the decision-making lawyers and politicians who have no teaching education or experience.
All my education was worse than pulling teeth. I absolutely hated it. I constantly looked for ways to escape. I convinced my high school Principal I should drop English and Math and replace them with home study Electronic and Photography courses, which I never sent for. A teacher falsified the grades because he knew I was smart enough to work in one of the factories in town. I convinced my college Dean to give me 16 credits for the education I had in the Corps and take a three-month business internship, that I was not qualified for. As it turned out, that internship was responsible for a twenty-year-long career I had with a huge multinational corporation.
In my thirties, I learned I have a very high IQ. I was always able to sort through a problem and find an answer, but my learning did not follow the standard path. Cookie cutter education would have dumped me into a pit of depression.
After college, I worked for multinational corporations for thirty years. I earned a six-figure salary for more than a decade. I had one boss who learned I could sort through difficult, multilayered situations rapidly and suggest successful solutions. He sent me everywhere to fix problems.
I have lived in or worked in five foreign countries and in every state, except Alaska. I have lived a wonderfully exciting and rewarding life. If they had had standardized tests back then, I would never have graduated from high school. It wasn't always pretty, but I did it my way. I could never have done it formal education's way. I simply could not take tests successfully. I could not stand to be told what was important to know. I graduated college with a 3.2 GPA. I was a scientist. Under a regime of standardized tests, I would have been a cutoff saw operator all my life.
After retirement, I taught middle school. I had a student that could not sit in a desk for more than a few minutes. Then he would go crazy. He stood up and screamed. I related to that kid. He was me years earlier. I sent him to the garbage to dump my trashcans. I always had something physical for him to do.
That child had no business in regular school, but his grade level would not allow him to attend a vocational school. He was a sixteen-year-old middle schooler. He should have been sent to vocational school, but 'they' could not see what he needed. He quit school, is a laborer, has an apartment, a car and a girlfriend. He is happy. He is doing it his way. I wonder what he may have become in a less standardized educational environment. Yet, people miles away from the classroom think they know what is best for every student.
He is proof that 'No Child Left Behind' and many of the educational initiatives since have failed miserably. They certainly failed him. These initiatives and Standardized Tests fail the students that need help the most. Our educational system is ludicrous.
Stop this standardized testing nonsense. Stop the age-inappropriate testing. It is horrendous to send elementary children, shaking and crying, to school to take tests that prove very little: test after test after test. Are we purposely trying to make children hate school, hate learning? Try to imagine the reality we are putting into the minds of these children. I'll bet their reality is far different than we think it is. Get rid of these stupid roadblocks to a worthwhile education.
My wife, Judy Ed,D. was testing a elementary child with special education needs recently. The child looked at her and said, "I'm going to fail this year, ain't I?" That child had taken many progress monitoring tests. He learned to see himself failing before he takes the state standardized test. He is fluently bilingual (Spanish and English) but has such a severe learning disability, that he can barely read. For him, testing is sheer torture and this otherwise great kid knows he is "stupid." Stop this ignorance.
We no longer teach math facts. An elementary student spends so much time putting marks on paper to calculate 9×9, they have difficulty finishing the test. And what sense does it make to educate in a way that makes it impossible for many parents to help their children do homework. When a student must read a passage to answer a math question, are we testing reading or math? I could continue with these samples of stupidity for paragraphs.
I am sorry to say that I do not believe our educational system will improve. The system is run by politicians, lawyers, and education EdDs or PhDs who have not been in the classroom for years or ever. You teachers and parents can change it if you mobilize, but change will not happen if you continue your current path of action: doing very little. I fear education will continue to get more ridiculous.
Entirely too much of what 'they' want a teacher to do will not significantly benefit the student. You highly placed professional educators should stop telling teachers what to do and show them how to do it. The reason there is so little modeling is that many cannot do what they ask teachers to do.
If I had the power, I would require every school administrator, school board member, every state and federal DOE boss, every lawyer who has anything to do with education, and every politician to spend thirty days straight in an 'F' middle school classroom, with no special privileges. ALL of this nonsense would stop immediately.
There is immense value in knowing the student. The best thing teachers bring into the classroom is not their education. It is their empathy, their love, and their humanity. The best phrase I learned in teacher school was, "Give the student what (s)he needs." If a middle school teacher had the same students in sixth, seventh, and eighth grade (called looping), their relationship with students would become deeper and deeper and the education better and better.
When we switched from elementary – junior high – high school to elementary – middle school – high school, sixth grade became middle school. Any middle school teacher with an elementary teaching certificate cannot teach seventh and eighth grade. Therefore; many middle school teachers cannot loop with their students, forcing those teachers to start from scratch, developing relationships with their students every year – how wasteful!
It should not take a Theoretical Physics professor to see and fix this problem. Whatever could be lost from an elementary teacher teaching seventh and eighth grade would be more than made up by the deeper relationship with students. Or (idea of the century) revamp teacher college education to include what would be necessary to make middle school looping possible for all middle school teachers.
Maybe education administrators are so focused on following the rules they cannot see the trees for the forest. Now we are faced with so much test insanity, that potential teachers cannot pass the test to become teachers. What does that mean? Have our universities become so inept they can no longer teach the basics or are the test creators completely inept?
When my mother (a third-grade teacher) passed, a woman on the other end of the continent wrote on the Funeral Home web page, "I knew I was loved every day in third grade. I was safe, and I learned how to love watching Mrs. Shoemaker." 'I can only imagine' what would have been in that little girl's mind and heart if she could have had Mom for three years (although I do understand looping in elementary school may be much more difficult).
First the humanity, then the education. The educational system has stripped teachers of their God-given gifts; the prerequisite stuff that enables the education to work. Just imagine how that little girl's education was catapulted by Mom's love. Third grade became a heartfelt, lifelong memory for that lady.
Mom was so frustrated with teaching she became a member of the school board. She was never able to make a significant difference in the educational system.
Parents, unless you start making a lot of noise, it will continue getting worse. Between the US Department of Education, your state Department of Education, your school district administration, and your school's administration there are so many levels of people, how do you possibly fight it? Get enough parents and teachers together, making enough noise, and it will change quickly. You have the power, use it.
My favorite quote is,
"For of all the sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these: It might have been!" (John Greenleaf Whittier)
I have never allowed the system to determine my path. I refuse to live an 'it might have been life'. There are many students who score low on tests, who have a grand and glorious path that is correct for them. Stop making them feel stupid with these incessant tests. We should encourage and expand their dreams, not squash them. We place huge roadblocks in front of too many students. Those road blocks are dream killers. Stop it!
It is time for parents and teachers to stand up and say,
"No more! Stop this insanity. Bring back the humanity."
Start giving our students life-fulfilling dreams. It is sad that we test the dreams out of too many students; rather, we should lead them to their dreams. Maybe you can't force a horse to drink, but you can lead a student to their dreams.
An educator must be like my father. First get to know the students and learn what they need. My father quit high school to enlist in the Army during World War II. He was a common man, but he was the finest educator and modeler I've ever known. He took my path's journey with me. If he would have repeatedly tested me along the way, he would not have helped me.
He showed me how to catch a ground ball, hit a baseball by keeping my eye on the ball and watch it hit the bat, how to shoot a jump shot, how to head a soccer ball. He taught me how to shoot a rifle. I qualified on the Parris Island rifle range the first day of live fire. That evening I was one of the few who did not get beaten severely. That night I thanked God for Dad. He was always there, using the gifts God gave him – showing me how. Stop the insanity. Bring back the humanity.
A teacher's greatest gifts are God-given. Stop stripping teachers of their gifts.
Get involved at the following web site: https://theoptoutfloridanetwork.wordpress.com/
Jesse George Shoemaker
I find this reply to my letter extremely condescending, cold and without feeling for the many children who are traumatized by these standardized tests. It is legalistic and without humanity. No wonder groups such a 'Opt Out' have formed and are growing rapidly.
"You can certainly imagine the diversity of students enrolled in the state's public schools;" –
(I was a teacher for 8 years for crying out loud. Patronizing? Did they read my letter or simply pour "ignore" all over it? It does not seem as if any attention was paid to this stakeholder.)
"to appropriately measure students' and teachers' hard work can be difficult with such a vast spectrum of experiences and backgrounds. Standardized tests help with that very important goal. While no single assessment can ever be fully representative of a student's capabilities, (What about 3rd grade ELA, 10th grade ELA (English Language Arts) and Algebra 1?) the Florida Legislature has determined that they are an essential part of meeting Florida's high standards for its students."
It does not seem that the Florida DOE listens to teacher and parent stakeholders. I think the proof of that is the fact that groups such as 'Opt Out' exist.
I hope that parent and teacher voices echo loudly throughout this state and force the Governor, the Legislature and the Florida DOE to listen and bring humanity back to education.
A teacher's greatest gifts are God-given.
Stop stripping teachers of their gifts.
Bring key decisions back to the classroom.
Stop this insanity. Bring back the humanity.
Parents and teachers stand tall and be heard!


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Ronnie Franklin, who rode Spectacular Bid to victory in the 1979 Kentucky Derby and Preakness before their Triple Crown try was derailed in the Belmont, died on Thursday in Baltimore. He was 58.
The cause was lung cancer, said his nephew, Walter Cullum, who was also a jockey.
Franklin was 19 when he guided Spectacular Bid to victory as a 3-5 favorite in the Kentucky Derby. After winning the Preakness by five and a half lengths, Franklin's bid to capture the Triple Crown ended in the Belmont Stakes, when Spectacular Bid finished third.
In the mile-and-a-half race, Spectacular Bid chased a speedy long shot early in the race and tired in the stretch. Franklin was blamed for the loss by the horse's trainer, who also said the colt had stepped on a safety pin in his stall before the race. But the track's chief veterinarian, Dr. Manuel Gilman, asserted: "All I can tell you is what I saw. The horse went out for the race all right and he came back all right."
"I lacked experience," Franklin said years later. "I shipped him out of the gate, I should not have done that. Consequently, we were too close to the pace and then I took it up too early. I got him beat."
A week after the race, Franklin was charged with possession of cocaine after an arrest in the parking lot of Disneyland. He struggled with substance abuse in the ensuing years, and was repeatedly denied licenses from state commissions because of his problems.
He never rode Spectacular Bid again, having been replaced by Bill Shoemaker, the Hall of Fame jockey who guided the colt to a dominant 4-year-old season.
Franklin rode 1,403 winners in 9,242 starts from 1978-92, and had purse earnings of more than $14 million. He won the Eclipse Award as the nation's outstanding apprentice jockey.
The Belmont was a crushing defeat, but Mr. Cullum said Franklin labeled his time riding Spectacular Bid as "the highlight" of his career.
Mr. Cullum said Franklin was working with horses in California when he was told he had cancer in March 2017. Franklin returned to Baltimore, his hometown, to receive treatment.
Mr. Cullum was 5 years old when Franklin rode Spectacular Bid, and his uncle's success inspired the young boy to follow in his footsteps. Mr. Cullum had more than 4,000 mounts before retiring in 2010.
Born on Dec. 20, 1959, in Baltimore, Franklin grew up the youngest of six children in the hardscrabble area of Dundalk in Maryland. He dropped out of high school at 16 and headed for the local racetrack looking for work.
Franklin met a trainer, Bud Delp, who hired him as a stablehand, and Franklin began learning the racing business. Mr. Delp became a father figure to Franklin, taking him in to live with his family.
Mr. Delp sent Franklin to a training center in Middleburg, Va., where he developed a rapport with the young Spectacular Bid. The horse won seven of nine races and was named the nation's champion 2-year-old before his Triple Crown campaign.
Survivors include Franklin's mother, Marian; a brother, Tony; and four sisters, Sharon Wallace, Carolyn Franklin, Barbara Kaminkow and Nancy Fram.


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Cheng's at 27 @ Yong Siak Street
I have a bad habit, the nearer the dining establishment is to me, the lower the chance of me patronizing. Works like a strange law of its own and ironically I travel far and wide for food sometimes. Cheng's at 27 had been at the back of my mind "to try" for a reasonably long enough time until a particular take away that blew my tastebuds off - perhaps a tad exaggerating but I fell so in love with their hainanese pork chops, I figured something must be so right that gets them full house occupancy on weekends.
Picture, picture on the wall...what would you like to eat?
I definitely had my eye on the impossibly cute takeaway box!
Prawn Roll ($15)
I love homemade prawn rolls, these fried till crisp ones had a batter than reminded me of the pork chop somehow. Very tasty and great with a dap of sticky sweet sauce.
Sliced Fish with Ginger ($15)
Memory must have failed me because the original intent was for the crispy pork with garlic. These sliced fish filets were reminiscent of the beehoon we also had.
Stir Fried Long Beans
Incredibly small portions of vegetables though this had wok hei and plenty of flavour.
Salted Vegetable Duck Soup ($15)
A light yet delicious sour vegetable duck soup - a like or dislike it situation here.
Crispy Pork Chop ($15)
Honestly, to date the only hainanese pork chop that got my vote despite its less than perfect execution through the years has been Chin Chin's for that all too familiar ketchup sauce, frozen peas and potato wedges accompanying the heavily battered pork chops. $5 does buy me memories and a plate of hainanese pork chops.
Here comes Cheng's at double the price for takeaway and quadruple that satisfaction. An almost prawn paste like batter that coats each meaty slice and that crazy delicious coconut-based potato curry gravy that sends the tongue on a wild dance. Yes, it is delicious and twice it was as satisfying. Portions are larger for communal dining so prices match too.
Stir Fried Hokkien Seafood Beehoon ($20)
Though classified as a portion for two, with all that we ordered this was more than sufficient for five. The slightly soggy beehoon worked for me with chockfuls of seafood and pork embedded within, I liked the flavours entwined in each bite. Next to canned pork knuckle beehoon, I say this is a super close competitor!
Gula Melaka Chiffon Slice ($5)
I have to admit to balking at the price tag, at $5 a slice or $40 for a full cake this was hinging on exorbitant. The organic coconut oil could have upped the stakes for this delightfully light pillowy soft local treat, perhaps slices work for me but not the whole cake. A tad hard to swallow, still.
Kaya Toast ($2.30)
Keen to check their $5 bottled kayas out, the closest sampling I had was their available at brunch only kaya toast - they kindly relented depending on how crazy the dinner crowds can be. Sandwiching between two ordinary cream crackers, the slab of uber fragrant light green creamy kaya and butter was a tad too sweet for me. Easily replicated with possibly two packets of cream crackers even, I may very well just get the jar for that economies of scale.
Suzuki Coffee ($3)
Thumbs up for this kopi peng, the caffeine addict says. Yet, prices are not too friendly.
Cheng's after refurbishment has gone more upmarket - while I have not tried them prior, I am enjoying this new facelift with a slight grouse on their pricing scheme for the non-savouries. Also, note that prices are not mentioned on the menu. Delicious hainanese fare that can be on the pricier end.
Cheng's at 27
27 Yong Siak Road


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Posted by John Cherry/Cherryville Farms on February 09, 2000 at 01:09:15:
In Reply to: Re: Getting screwed posted by Rick on February 08, 2000 at 17:01:58:
I have heard the stories about these type of problems
in the past. But for you to paint all vendors and shows
with such a such a broad brush is not fair by any means,
For years we have participated in the expos put on by The
East Texas Herp Society here in Houston and the ones run
by Texas Reptile Expos. Ther I have seen breeders such as
Dave and Tracy Barker, Frank Retes, Don Soderburg and
many others that I consider some of the preeminent breeders
in the Nation.
Yes I have been burned at times by buying from folks I didn't
know, usually it was cheaper to buy from unknowns that I had no
recourse against if I did have a problem. And usually when I
did make that buy I got good animals, but sometimes I did
have problems with some of them.
I think you might consider the following, before you write off the
1. A lot of times animals become stressed by going to the show and/or
being shipped. They may go off feed or experience othe problems.
2. In the case of a problem it is how it is dealt with by the breeder
that you should be critical of, not that there was a problem to start with.
Evidently at least in the beginning the animals looked good enough for you
to spend your hard earned cash on.
3. Some species just don't do well when subjected to shows, shipping etc.
That is the reason each year we breed a few rubber boas, but I refuse to sell
them to the general public, I can't tell you the times that one of my beautiful
fat, feeding & healthy baby rubbers went home with someone and three months later it was dead.
Was it the fault of the new owner giving improper husbandry or my fault. Well since I have started
only giving them to friends and hand deliverying them to those friends, we have had few problems.
4. There are a lot of good large and small breeders in this hobby, most are reputable. But your best
defense is to have a critical eye and then to be sure and have a way to contact any person you buy from.
5. Because we are dealing with live animals, there are always going to be problems. It is your responsibility and
the owner of any animal to be prepared to recognize and deal with any one of a number of problems. Non - feeding is
just one of them.I can't tell you times I have taken someones non=feeding emaciated animal, changed a few simple things
and got the animal going again. Am I any better than most breeders, proballly not. I just am able through 30+ years experience
able to make the right choices for an animal more often than not.
6. Most of the time you get exactly what you pay for, it seems that everytime I have tried to save money by buying from someone with cheap
prices I ended up screwing myself. A perfect example is several years ago, I wanted some childrens pythons bad. Dave and Tracy Barker had them for
300.00 ea., I found a local breeder and bought some for 200.00 ea. I fought them for two years and eventually was able to get them going well. In
the mean time I paid Daves price a year later. As it ended up all four pairs of childrens ended up breeding for the first time at exactly the same time.
What happened, Daves animals were well started and the others were not. So I got exactly what I paid for. I have since tried to remember that lesson.
It has saved me a lot of heartache and work.
Just some food for thought and my two cents worth.
John Cherry
Cherryville Farms


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If you ever wonder why the Florida Legislature often has had to go into costly extra sessions because it can't get its work done during the regular session, it's because of time wasted on needless legislation. This year's crop includes HB 257.
That's the bill sponsored by Trey Traviesa, R-Tampa, that would require any woman seeking an abortion to have an ultrasound procedure, and to view the results before being allowed to terminate the pregnancy. Not only is this an invasion of privacy and an attempt to make a legal right more difficult, the woman would have to pay for the scan, which can cost a few hundred dollars.
Florida law already requires that women seeking abortions have the ultrasounds in the second and third trimesters. HB 257 would require the procedure for all abortions.
It's not as if this bill has a great chance to pass. It doesn't. But it gives red-meat conservatives something to crow about during an election year. This isn't about abortion. It's about blatant government interference, and grandstanding.
Not only is this bill insulting to women who are already going through trauma, it is a time-consuming distraction the state can ill afford. Kind of like the so-called Academic Freedom Act, which will get the Legislature in the business of debating evolution. That bill also has no guarantee of passing, but it appeases the ultra-right base, so that's good enough for our legislators during an election year.
Now well past the halfway point of the session, the Legislature still has complex budget issues to get through - issues that will affect every Floridian. And yet you can be sure that this ultrasound bill will take up plenty of time with heated debate.
It is not the job of the Florida Legislature to make a legal procedure more difficult and more costly for a woman who is already going through a difficult time. And it shouldn't be the Legislature's job to get distracted from the business its members were elected to handle.
BOTTOM LINE: Bill is time-consuming and an insulting distraction.