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Q: Node.js Client-Server Game, Should server be running a loop? I got my first node.js demo working which allows multiple people to control a character on the same html canvas.  A character appears at the top left that you can use the arrow keys to walk around.
Since I am just sending input to the server and then relaying it out to all clients without doing anything else I ended up realizing that the clients get out of sync easily.
I did a lot of reading about synchronizing network games but there is something that is confusing me a bit.  From what I understand the game should be running on the server, and should be sending "snapshots" to the clients of the state of the game.
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'I would prefer to die on this soil than go back to Russia,' says the hunger striker at the ICE facility, one of many turned down for asylum as the Trump administration gets tougher on those fleeing persecution.
Over the past two years, the United States has made it more and more difficult for foreign nationals to attain asylum.
There are geopolitical consequences for this shift in policy. And there are personal consequences for those who come anyway, claiming that they are fleeing danger in their homelands. One such individual currently sits at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma — without food now for 50 days.
He is a man in his 30s from Buryatia, a Russian republic located in Siberia, just north of Mongolia, and known for its mountain ranges and punishing winters.
He arrived in the United States to seek asylum last December. He turned himself in at San Ysidro, a border crossing that sits between Tijuana and San Diego, only to land in the Tacoma detention center a few weeks later. He is refusing to eat in protest of his detention and possible deportation. If forced to return home, he fears he would lose his life.
Sitting behind glass in a gray sweatshirt underneath a dark blue prison shirt on Sunday, the detainee looked gaunt and pale. He asked to remain anonymous for fear of persecution and retaliation from the Russian government, though his act of defiance demands attention. He has been participating in a hunger strike for what was then 47 days — one of the longest hunger strikes in the recent history of the Tacoma detention center.
If he didn't look even worse for wear, it was because U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, had obtained a court order on Sept. 6 for involuntary hydration and medical treatment. ICE has pursued hydration and force-feeding orders in the past, but such orders can be under seal.
"The Court finds that there is sufficient cause to believe that without the requested medical testing and treatment" he is "in danger of irreparable injury, and possible death," according to the court order.
The order specifies that medical staff at the detention center have permission to administer fluids intravenously and to perform certain laboratory tests that check for vital signs.
"It is hereby further ordered that if [name redacted] continues to refuse the necessary medical treatment and monitoring, ICE and medical staff … may use soft medical restraints," reads the order signed by U.S. District Judge Benjamin H. Settle.
ICE contracts with GEO Group, the second-largest private prison provider in the country, to run the Tacoma facility. The center is no stranger to controversy. In 2017, for instance, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson sued the company for violating the state's minimum wage law, paying detainees $1 per day or, in some instances, with snacks and extra food, for labor.
According to inmates and Grace Meng, a senior researcher with Human Rights Watch, GEO guards have taken liberties with the forced hydration order and even retaliated against the Buryatia native, as well as others who were recently on a hunger strike to protest conditions at the detention center.
In an email, Meng said that after visiting the detainee with a Russian interpreter, she learned he had been denied access to the law library as well as television.
When he refused laboratory tests, such as urinalysis, "heavily armored people, with helmets and shields, came and surrounded him, and told him if he doesn't resume eating voluntarily, they will force-feed him through a tube." Meng said they then pointed to the court order as if it provided them with the authority to do so, despite the fact that the court order does not allow for force-feeding.
The Pierce County Medical Examiner confirmed Amar Mergensana died on Saturday, Nov. 24.
Amar Mergensana died 10 days after being moved from the Northwest Detention Center to a Tacoma hospital.
The chaos unfolding at the U.S. border is taking a mental toll on African nationals who have fled their own countries.
Through a Russian interpreter, he explained to a Crosscut reporter that back home, Russian skinheads had beaten and threatened him. As evidence of the injuries he had sustained, he pointed to his right hand where a finger appeared to be permanently dislocated. He also said he had been imprisoned for demonstrating for the independence of Buryatia, which has been under Russian rule since the 17th century.
The detainee said he knew he had been denied asylum, but that he had been completely bewildered by the process. On Sept. 12, he received what ICE and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security called a "warning for failure to depart" because of his lack of cooperation with officials and refusal to return home.
"They would give me forms to fill out. They would transfer me from place to place. I don't even know where. Court took place somewhere in Utah via video. … Everything is in English. I don't know English … For example, instructions on how to fill out [the forms]. I didn't even have a dictionary [at first]," he told Meng.
On Oct. 2, day 41 of the hunger strike for the Buryatia detainee, Human Rights Watch sent a letter to ICE to notify them of the concerns they had regarding the treatment of inmates participating in hunger strikes.
In addition, lawyers have argued that "ICE's policy on hunger strikes does not permit NWDC to place hunger-striking detainees in solitary confinement for engaging in hunger strikes." Yet, on Sept. 7, according to court documents, several hunger strikers were sentenced to 30 days in isolation. Detention officials explained they had put inmates in isolation because they were inciting others. The Buryatia native remains in medical isolation.
Contrary to the statement from ICE, the detainee said he would have not agreed to drink the fluids being administered if detention officials had not threatened him and presented him with a court order.
Eunice Hyunhye Cho, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington, said it is not uncommon for ICE and GEO Group to pass the buck to one another. She also said the case of the Buryatia inmate speaks to the overall difficulty of gaining asylum under the current administration.
In June, Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a ruling that makes it more difficult for victims of domestic and gang violence to gain asylum. And beginning this month, immigration judges will have to meet a quota of 700 cases completed a year. Judges could also get negative performance reviews if 15 percent of their decisions are overturned on appeal.
On Aug. 8, the National Association of Immigration Judges sent an official grievance to the Department of Justice over the changes.
But even before Sessions announced the changes, the chances of gaining asylum were low. In 2017, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, or TRAC, at Syracuse University, 30,179 asylum cases were decided by judges — the largest number of cases since 2005. More than half, however — 61.8 percent of applicants — were denied asylum status.
As for the Buryatia detainee's fate, Star Wang, a second-year medical resident at Swedish, said a prisoner on a hunger strike could last for months on liquid supplements, such as Pedialyte, an oral electrolyte solution, and Ensure, a nutritional shake.
Wang cautioned there are many factors that could influence just how long someone is able to survive, including the status of their health before they entered the facility, their mental health and whether they are kept in isolation.
"If he's just doing this on his own, then I think it's a lot more concerning," Wang said, while mentioning the first symptoms of starvation can include severe abdominal cramping, lightheadedness and a slow heart rate. The detainee might suffer from hair loss or muscle wasting next, not unlike those with a diagnosis of anorexia.
Asked if he had anything to add, he mentioned Lake Baikal, which is listed by UNESCO as a world heritage site. He said he was concerned about the pollution the Russian government had allowed to fester at the lake, putting over 3,600 plant and animal species at risk.
As his hunger strike continues, the detainee is slowly attracting attention and has accepted several visitors. Junga Subedar, a community lawyer for the Whatcom Civil Rights Project in Bellingham, visited the detention facility recently hoping to determine whether she could help represent him.
"The way they've been operating has been pretty reckless and not even following their own policies," Subedar said.
Like Meng, Subedar concluded that the Buryatia prisoner seemed resigned to his fate: "For him to go on a hunger strike this long," she said, "tells me he doesn't really have a choice."
Editor's note: A correction was made to clarify the National Association of Immigration Judges filed a formal grievance with the Department of Justice. A restricted court document was also previously described as sealed.


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Filled up screen, empty heads, lonely beds.
Morning routines – give me something new.
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We eat, but we're not starving.
About your job, your kids, your husband, your affair.
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Equip (Kevin Hein) Interview for Bandcamp – Full Transcript
January 8, 2017 ·	by Simon Chandler ·	in Music	· Leave a comment
1. I Dreamed of a Palace in the Sky is your first release as Equip, but I'm aware that you've been responsible for other records in the vaporwave genre (and beyond). Could you tell us a little bit about the musical trajectory you followed up until your debut as Equip?
I started making computer music around 2008, after falling in love with Burial's Untrue and all the future garage & leftfield bass music that came after it. I would read interviews with my favorite producers and most of them hadn't even been making music that long- which was inspiring for me to start. My first attempts at making electronic tunes were all pretty generic, lacked a cohesive sound- I would hear a great tune, & i'd write a rip-off track, then put it up on Soundcloud. This continued until I got a job at a record store and got inspired by new music I was discovering- lots of dream pop and krautrock. I wanted to make a digital shoegaze album, so I starting recording my guitar as the basis for compositions. I'd loop, chop, and resample the guitar recordings then add little rhythm box drums like the ones I'd heard on Harmonia records. I did 3 releases with this kind of droney chorused-out guitar sound when I got the urge to try more pop-based approach and learn actual songwriting. I've recorded a lot of stuff that I'll never release including plenty of instrumental Cocteau Twins knock-offs!
Summer of 2015, I was checking out all the great stuff on Dream Catalogue and getting heavily absorbed into Telepath's discography. I loved that the majority of the releases on the label were concept albums of some sort, which inspired me to throw out a lot of my old "production rules" and try out new ways of working. I started embracing presets, which was a big no-no for me before. I found I was working much faster and feeling more satisfied with my compositions.
2. How did the album come to be released on Dream Catalogue? Did you simply send a demo to the label?
My history with Dream Catalogue goes back to early 2015 when I stumbled upon 2814's "Birth Of A New Day." I obsessively listened to it- much like the experience I had with Untrue. I was jamming Birth Of A New Day on my bike commute to Chicago's loop almost daily. Riding out of downtown through snow to the soundtrack of 2814 is somewhat of an augmented reality experience. I reached out to Dream Catalogue, expressed my adoration, and asked if 2814 wanted to do a tape for my buddy Colin and I's tape label, BARO. HKE got back to me and said they were interested- this resulted in the excellent HKE/Telepath split which came out that fall. I've been in communication with HKE and Telepath since planning that release. Telepath's music was a big influence on the Equip project, so he was the first with whom I shared the finished album with. To my delight, he offered me a slot on the Catalogue!
3. It's written on the Dream Catalogue Bandcamp page that I Dreamed of a Palace is "an active tribute" to classic 8-bit and 16-bit role playing games. Are these games simply an inspiration for the album, or did you expressly want to create a soundtrack to an imaginary RPG?
I kinda pieced together the idea of making a soundtrack after I had been recording several little audio doodles. I was going for long walks on my lunch breaks and listening to RPG soundtracks. I wanted to make a long enough album split into 2 "discs" that could feasibly function to soundtrack a game. My good friend Kyle Landstra turned me onto an album- Kevin Braheny's "Secret Rooms"- which undoubtably influenced the sequencing. On that album, each track is a room, followed by a passage transitions to the next room. I love narrative-based music, something which tells a story- and wanted to make an experience like that.
4. Which games in particular were an inspiration to you in conceiving and producing the album? Also, what is it precisely about the soundtracks to these games that you like so much?
Chrono Trigger, Secret of Evermore, Secret of Mana, and the Final Fantasy series all informed the Equip project. The most impressive thing about those scores is how much emotion the composer can evoke with such limited hardware. It's amazing what can be accomplished with only 2 or 3 channels of audio. Those beautiful melodies combined with the simple tones are so deeply nostalgic and evocative for me, they bring you back to a place of childlike wonder. The piano, harp and bell tones in particular- they seem so transportive.
5. And just for the record, what is your favorite RPG (or video game) of all time, and why?
Oh man, that's such a heavy question- If I had to pick- i'd go with a non-RPG- Super Metroid! That game is so big and beautiful, and that childlike sense of discovery and wonder is ever present. I replay it every couple of years!
6. And since the album was inspired by game soundtracks, were you actually visualizing or imagining specific video-game situations or levels (e.g. boss battles) when composing particular tracks, or were you working more on an exclusively musical basis?
Yes, absolutely! Visualization played a huge part in crafting the music- I bought a laptop so I could compose outside of my bedroom for once.. I wrote tunes in various parks, woods, my roof, on a road trip, etc, just to get a diverse array of environmental inspiration to translate into game areas.
I wrote some battle themes, but none of them really developed into finished pieces or made the album. The closest is probably Druids- but it's up to the listener if that's a friendly encounter or not.
7. I can't say I notice any samples on the album, or at least none that appear to be from the few RPGs I've actually played (i.e. Final Fantasy VI through to IX). Were there any, or were you essentially composing your music from scratch?
As musical content goes everything is composed from scratch. There are a few tracks which started out based on a loop or clip, but I always compose on top and remove the original sample. I like to re-sample, re-pitch, and chop up my own recordings too- self sampling.
8. Now that the technology employed by video game composers has unsurprisingly evolved since the early and mid-nineties, do you find it a bit of a shame that there are few RPGs coming out today with distinctively 'video game-style' soundtracks?
Yes, I do! That's not to say there isn't any good newer music in RPGs- i'm always impressed by Hitoshi Sakimoto's work, and he frequently utilizes live orchestration. The sound of the 16 bit era was a product of it's hardware- the canvas was limited, so composers did what they could. Technology has moved on, the dawn of the CD led to uncompressed audio and full voice acting for video games. To most developers and fans, this was seen as a huge step up in quality.
I know there are a lot of current indie developers out there who are nostalgic for the 8 bit era, as evidenced by games like Shovel Knight & Undertale. It's great to see digital distribution, as well as companies like Limited Run Games offering a platform for newer games with retro graphics and music. It's so inspiring, and it would be a dream come true to work with a developer on scoring a game.
9. Following on from this question, would it be fair to say that your (and sometimes vaporwave's) focus on old-school computer games isn't simply about nostalgia, but is also a genuine attempt to revive an art that's been lost with the game industry's transition to Hollywood-level production values?
Interesting- I do like the idea of 16 bit game music being it's own art form. It's no different from modern soul artists like Charles Bradley or Lee Fields making "vintage soul" music.
As far as a revival, I think a lot of renewed interest in vintage games have a lot to do with vaporwave's age demographic. For me and an entire generation of people, video games were first exposure to electronic music. So many vapor projects use and abuse nostalgia as a central theme. What ends up getting pillaged are sounds that folks who experienced childhood in the late eighties and early nineties are familiar with, and now nostalgic for- FM synthesis, general MIDI, LinnDrum/Drumulator, gated reverb, etc.
10. I realise that the name "Equip" is once again a reference to RPGs, but could it be possible that you move to other game genres for future releases? Or would you be more interested in moving away from video games a little bit?
It's possible! I would love to explore non-RPG inspired music under the Equip handle- Maybe some Front Mission or Metal Gear Solid inspired music?
11. Also, do you have any other projects not under the Equip moniker in the pipeline at the moment? I've been informed that you may have released something for the Hard Vapour Resistance Front label.
After sending the Equip album off last fall, I did a bunch of one-off projects to blow off some steam and try out some other ideas. I do have releases on HVRF, Antifur, Ailanthus, & other random Bandcamps- but the anonymity of it is half the fun. See if you can guess!
I am excited about a collaborative project with my Canadian pal Ghosting. We've been chatting via SLSK and working on songs layer by layer for about a year now, on and off.. We've probably got an album's worth of material recorded, but it keeps changing, so I think we're going to scrap everything and start fresh in 2017.
12. Returning to I Dreamed of a Palace in the Sky, I get the feeling from some of the song titles — "Identity", "REFLECTIONS of the Self" — that the album is in some way themed around self-actualization or -realization. Is this at all accurate, or is the album about something else for you?
It's very interesting you pulled that from the titles. It makes me happy because I wanted to make "I Dreamed Of A Palace In The Sky" an ambiguous but personal experience. I almost put the word "ambiguous" in the title of the record, but it never sounded right. I'm a big David Lynch fan, and love how he leaves the meaning and plot of his films up for audience interpretation. For me, it would detract from the listening experience if I got into semiotics, or what I perceive the narrative of the album to be- it's your experience.
13. The album also features some beautifully transportive and ethereal songs, such as "Ascending s k y w a r d" and "D U N G E O N". Is your music meant to be transportive in the sense of imagining different or possible worlds, or could it also be regarded as being about our present world?
Thank you so much- I am grateful to hear you find the album to be transportive. I love listening to music that takes you somewhere- that 2814 album is a great example. Whether it be in a completely dark room, alone and immersed, or walking down a crowded city street with headphones on- it's your experience. To answer your question, it isn't meant to be listened to in any particular way. I'm happy if the music takes you to an imagined environment, or augments your real life experiences.
14. Finally, to complete the move away from video games, what else influences you as a musician? Are there any other artists or vaporwave producers in particular who've had a big impact on you?
Musically, I credit My Bloody Valentine, King Crimson, Eno, Tortoise, DJ Shadow, Cocteau Twins, Dr. Dre, Godflesh, Phil Colliins- the list could go on and on. As i've mentioned, Telepath's dream effects inspired a lot of the sound design, and HKE's work ethic and standard of excellence inspired me to complete the concept. Outside of that, I find inspiration in games, film, photos, friends, words, water, the sky, and of course, dreams.
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Although not a crystal (it is actually fossilized prehistoric tree resin) Amber is widely used in crystal healing because of its beautiful, sunny, uplifting energies. It has a strong connection with the Earth and is a powerful chakra cleanser. It has been worn to help relieve tension headaches and to relieve arthritis. In some Far Eastern countries it is referred to as the 'Tiger Stone'; the stone which carries the soul, and therefore energies of the tiger, promoting courage and strength. Although most often thought of as being golden, yellowy orange in colour, it can be found in a gorgeous creamy colour (sometimes referred to as Butterscotch Amber), deep reddish orange (Cognac Amber) green and also rarely, black.


Some years back, my first EQMM story appeared. Set in a NYC speakeasy, circa 1928, the story was followed by a series of others occurring in a small Long Island farming community in the early 1960s. At roughly the same time, I produced three novels set in present day Brooklyn, New York. I guess it was a form of literary schizophrenia; here today, yesterday tomorrow. Or something.
My latest publications in EQMM feature that present-day novel character, NYPD Detective Joe Rizzo. But something odd has begun to happen: A close reading of each story presents a vagueness of time frame. Hints abound—public telephones, for instance, enclosed in actual full booths and sitting on random street corners. I seem to subtly be crossing from present to past. My initial reaction to this realization was pragmatic. Crime detection today in our tech savvy world differs from the struggles of Holmes, Spade, or Wolfe. Security cameras, cell towers, DNA—the list goes on. So, I believed, my slipping back in time must be a creative tool, a writer's sleight of hand to facilitate moving the mystery along smoothly.
But—and it seems a rather significant "but"—that doesn't fully explain the fact that I've written two novels of late (unrepresented and thus unsold, I should add) both of which are set in the past: one in 1980 NYC, the other in the deep south of 1960. I began to wonder: Was my subconscious at work here? Was the present simply inconvenient from a creative point of view, or perhaps was something else going on? Something less comprehensible?
Suddenly I recalled a rainy afternoon nearly four years ago.
Sitting on the double recliner in my den watching, for the tenth time, an episode of Curious George. Cuddled beside me was my grandson Robert, a battered, metal, two-tone green toy pickup truck clutched in his hands, the very same truck I myself played with as a child on the linoleum-clad kitchen floor in a Brooklyn apartment, passing time as my mother prepared a meal, an activity which usually consumed, in my memory, most of her day.
Just as George began to bury a bunch of full-grown carrots in Chef Pisghetti's rooftop garden in an ill-conceived attempt to help the man with an emergency vegetable situation, Robert raised the metal truck to his mouth. He decided—because he was a three-year-old boy seeking illogical adventures—to lick it. I blanched.
Lead paint. The truck, always representative of a romanticized memory of an illogically happy childhood, suddenly morphed into a debilitating, perhaps deadly, weapon of antiquity. I over-reacted.
My grandson froze then turned his head to stare at me, his Windex-blue eyes carrying puzzlement and a hint of offense. No? they ask. Pardon? Are you actually shouting at me? This, Grandpop, is unacceptable.
We resolved the matter and returned to our individual realities—Robert mesmerized by George's antics, me silently imagining myself as The Man in the Yellow Hat. And why not? What could be better than living in a Utopian version of Manhattan Island, nestled in that wonderful apartment, driving a cool convertible to a pastoral country home. And not a single lead-paint peril in sight.
It then occurred to me that despite almost daily contact with that toy, more than a few occasions most certainly involving a lick or two, I have somehow survived. And surely Robert will, too. I relaxed a bit.
"This is my truck, Grandpop," Robert announced with authority.
"No, little buddy, actually, it's my truck," I say. Just as annual bouts of blistering sunburns, multiple daily doses of sugary soda, periodic passings of drifting radioactive nuclear test clouds, and the rolling death machines we knew as automobiles were once mine, not to mention the fascinating x-ray machine at the local shoe store I slid my feet into on a regular basis.
As Curious George proceeded to once again whip things into well-intentioned but unfortunate chaos, something else occurred to me.
What will my grandson be facing? Genetically engineered foods, climate change, terrorist lunatics, and despicable politicians posing as patriots? The list of such horrors, when contemplated, grows endless.
But sadder than the Baby Boomer blues? Crawling under our school desks where, ludicrously, we were told we'd find safety from falling Soviet atomic bombs; waking to reports of yet another assassination; watching once great cities burn against the cacophonic roar of war in Vietnam?
So—if in fact the present day has me a bit shaky in my boots and slipping my fiction to days gone by, perhaps a close examination of the good old days is advisable. Maybe my retreat to days past—conscious or not—is nothing more than idealized escapism just as it has probably always been whenever grandparents contemplate the futures of their grandchildren. Each generation lies beneath a unique shadow of its own leaden toys, irrational nationalistic or theological insanity, disease, hatred, stupidity.
But as I sat that day with young Robert before the flat-screen, the magic of Curious George's world beginning to lose its hold on me, I wondered. Why does it seem so different this time, so much harsher?
And I wonder still, am I simply facing reality or being overly pessimistic? After all, we're not enmeshed in a Civil War or crushed by a worldwide depression. We are not being assaulted by Nazis or ravished by polio or the plague.
It was much worse for our parents and grandparents, right? We can deal with our problems just as they did. Right?
I wonder exactly what I am trying to say. I guess I'm not sure. There is comfort in the past, I guess because—hey—we got through it. The present, exactly as the future, is unsure. A phone booth just seems so much safer than a smartphone. So I'll probably continue to write with each foot in a different era. What could it hurt?
And as to our current situation, we'll deal with it. Of course we will. Right?
Interesting piece, Lou. And I think every generation has its own things to get through. But hopefully we learn from our mistakes and forge ahead, even if it is two steps forward, one step back.
Beautifully written piece, Lou. I just got back from a week with my own grandsons and your thoughts here truly resonate. I definitely had it easier than my parents and grandparents, but I'm not quite sure that my children and their children will have it better than me. I'm looking forward to reading your story, as always.


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Птах-носоріг (Anthracoceros) — рід птахів родини птахів-носорогів (Bucerotidae). Представники роду мешкають у Південно-Східній Азії.

Класифікація
У роді описано 5 видів:
 Anthracoceros coronatus — птах-носоріг індійський
 Anthracoceros albirostris — птах-носоріг малабарський
 Anthracoceros malayanus — птах-носоріг чорний
 Anthracoceros marchei — птах-носоріг палаванський
 Anthracoceros montani — птах-носоріг сулуйський

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Птахи-носороги
Роди птахів

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It allows children to explore their environment with imagination and develop skills like resourcefulness, adaptiveness, creative thinking and the ability to productively and positively respond to boredom. Role-play and game-creation heightens their creative problem-solving abilities, and nurtures positive leadership and teamwork qualities.1 Can't think of what to do? Create a Boredom Box! Sit down with your kids to write down every play activity you can think of on little paper notes and put them in a box. Whenever you hear those two little words - point them to the boredom box for inspiration.
Let's be honest – with the ever-growing selection of food delivery apps, streaming services, and online games available at the touch of our fingertips - it's getting easier to find reasons to stay indoors! Research shows that the Great Outdoors is the optimal setting to support kids' healthy development - and not just for the fresh air!


Lee Bullen said the better side on the day won as Brentford came out 2-0 winners against Wednesday at Griffin Park.
Lasse Vibe opened the scoring for the Bees in the first half, before Florian Jozefzoon doubled the home side's lead late on.
Bullen said: "I have to say the better side won today.
"In the second half we were a lot more controlled than the first.
"Towards the end of the game I made some changes to try and go for it. We went three at the back and two up top to try and get the goal, but unfortunately Brentford's second came just as we were adjusting.
"I would rather lose with us having a go than just sitting back, so this is what we tried to do.
The Owls face Burton next at Hillsborough on New Year's Day and the Scot said it will be a battle against the Brewers.
He added: "The good thing about the Championship is there's always another game around the corner.
"We know what Burton are about, they are fighting for their lives.


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Why should you opt for a manual handbrake?
Research by CarGurus found just 37% of new cars on sale in the UK today come with a manually-operated handbrake. Only Dacia and Suzuki, have a standard handbrake on every model in their range with the majority of car makers only offering a handbrake on sports cars or the cheapest in their range, whereas most executive cars have electronic handbrakes. For car owners an electric handbrake is an added complication that could be expensive to repair.
The problem is that it is not a simple mechanical device, but it has sensors and solenoids, which will eventually fail. It has also been pointed out that the failure of the hydraulic and electrical system in your car would mean you would be stranded.
Last year Volkswagen set to issue an alert about the electronic handbrakes on more than 134,000 of its cars in the UK including the Golf, Touran, Tiguan and Passat models. They said that a possible fault could result in the auto hold function' not working. That means the parking brake should automatically go on when the brake pedal is pressed down once the car is stopped. Curing the issue involved a software update. That emphasises the importance of the recall system.
There are however several downsides to driving a car with an automatic handbrake. 'The hill hold' function which is supposed to help you concentrate on the clutch and accelerator at a junction, or the lights only holds for a few seconds.
Brake Pad and Disc Calculator
How to Check if a Garage Bill is Fair
Car Repairs, why do so many drivers ignore them
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The group's mission is to better understand an quantify the role of marine biogeochemistry in the climate system by developing and applying numerical models. The model zoo consists of global numerical models of the marine ecosystem in the euphotic zone, marine biogeochemistry of the deep ocean, the bioturbated sediments and models of tracer transport. The incorporation of these model components in the MPI Earth system model MPI-ESM forms another field of work for the group.


Jeff Apter knows a little something about AC/DC. In addition to ghostwriting bassist Mark Evan's memoir Dirty Deeds: My Life Inside and Outside of AC/DC and former manager Michael Browning's Dog Eat Dog: A Story of Survival, Struggle, and Triumph by the Man Who Put AC/DC on the World Stage, he also authored High Voltage: The Life of Angus Young, AC/DC's Last Man Standing. Perhaps it shouldn't be surprising that he has more to offer on the subject. AC/DC 1973-1980: The Bon Scott Years is 256 pages, stuffed with rare photographs and memorabilia, that traces this incomparable era of the band. Indeed, the band produced 6 albums in this 8-year stretch, including timeless cuts like "Dirty Deeds," "If You Want Blood," and "Whole Lotta Rosie," to name a few. Within these pages, the book starts with the band's very first gig and ends at the untimely death of Scott. What lies between is more than just a history of the band, but a summation of the essence of rock n' roll.
Following an introduction and a chapter on the bands early years, the book is comprised of a single chapter for each year from 1973 to 1980. Within each chapter, Apter marks the month (sometimes the exact date) of notable gigs, appearances, releases, and of course, the controversy the band generated at the time. Filled with quotes by members of the band, and those associated with them in one way or another, the book is less of a straight ahead run through a timeline, but almost an oral history of the era. It's one of the qualities that elevates the book above mere research. Another of these qualities is found in the rare photographs. These photos bring to life this era of the band, whether they are live shots or candid moments caught behind the scenes. Gig posters, album and single covers, and promo shots also add depth to the history as the reader follows the band from year to year. But, it's the stories that really make this book so great.
If you're not a fan who has read everything ever written about the band, this volume is chock full of fascinating stories and funny anecdotes. And even if you are a fan who has more than one AC/DC book on your shelf, doubtless there's some information here you haven't previously unearthed. But, this book shouldn't be pigeonholed into something strictly for AC/DC fans, rather it's a book that all those interested in the history of rock n' roll should read. Considering there hasn't been anything resembling a rock star in recent years, this era of AC/DC is a reminder of what being a rock star is all about: subverting the standards of music fans, journalists, and innocent bystanders, cutting against the grain of what society considers tasteful, and most importantly, creating music that is inherently exciting and reckless. What better example of this can be found than in the Bon Scott years?
This is a book every AC/DC fan will cherish. It's not a coffee table book, but you may as well leave it there as it begs to be revisited frequently.


Marketers are not the only ones controlling brand image anymore. Today, cyber savvy customers drive brand image. Offering flawless field service enhances customer delight and your company's brand image. ServiceMax's field service optimization software helps.
Do you want to boost your field service delivery? Think ServiceMax.


When I try to update any field of a project (but seems it aplies to whole or most of the system), it won't be updated in the database.
For Tasks, I got a bug when I register a Task Log and the task itself have not its percentual updated.
- Try to add a task log and after check the task percentual.
If it works on mysql 5.6.16 but fails on 5.6.20, then the issue is there. Do you have any sort of error logs or transaction logs that might be useful?
Yes. I have other PHP system run on MySQL 5.6.20 and It works flawless.
Ok, but there are some non-ANSI compatible query causing this issue.


The gritty streets of Kabukicho contrast with the majesty of Mosaic Street, where couples walk hand in hand under decorative lights. One cannot explore the area in its entirety on an empty stomach, so let's cover some of the best vegetarian/vegan restaurants you'll find on your journey.
These scenic paths stretch across Tokyo with lush and varied vegetation, for the most part, on either side of the path that passes a range of interesting sites. Some notable paths among many are the Chidorigafuchi, Kenzawa, Jiyugaoka, Tachiaigawa, and the Karasuyamagawa Green Roads.
From all outside appearances, Kosoan looks like it could just be a residential home. It's also a little tricky to know if you're in the right spot, save for a small wooden plaque with the business name and the word "entrance" with an arrow to guide your way. It's worth the effort to find it though, since once you follow that arrow you'll be transported to a spot of peace and tranquillity despite still being in the heart of the metropolis.
When it comes to attractions, we might think of museums, statues, zoos, theme parks, museums or galleries. As the largest city in Japan, Tokyo offers a lot of such attractions. However, it also has some less common types of places to visit that are actually no less interesting and impressive — bridges.
Virtual Reality is a relatively new concept, with many experimental titles still in the works by both large companies and independent developers. VR is the future of gaming, with hand devices and headsets to take you from just watching a screen to being fully immersed in the game's world.
Country Farm Tokyo German Village (東京ドイツ村 ) is a theme park located in Sodegaura, Chiba Prefecture. The concept of this park is "Enjoying Spending Time With Nature". The park is indeed surrounded by trees and flowers.


Last week stumbled upon some good music performed by Violette Wautier, she is born in Japan with Thai & French nationality. Here I would like to share something good with my readers. I found out about the artist through Heartbeat music video and slowly dive into her Pop music.
I just purchased her 2017 singles, "Goodbye", "Drive" and "Heartbeat" which made a good FLAC music collection. "Goodbye" and "Heartbeat" is in the Thai language. I purchased the 3 songs in Hi-Res FLAC format via Qobuz for 5,67 Euro (around RM26.51) which was quite reasonable and worth for the 16-bit CD quality, nothing to complain about.
Qobuz basically a French site and is quite strict, it doesn't let me purchase because I'm from Malaysia, well, eventually I still able to buy the songs using some methods.
"Goodbye" is an emotional and feeling 'blue' type of song, it's slow but the music and vocals blends in quite well. If you search online for 'Violette Wautier goodbye lyrics', you'll find out the meaning of the song.
The first time I listened to "Drive", I was like WOW! There's some international quality and it doesn't sound like Asian music at all. The official music video for "Drive" is more like a short movie music video.
Jangwajarak – จังหวะจะรัก in Thai translated as The Rhythm of Love, features electric guitar, drum beats and soft vocal by Violette Wautier herself. The singer was like smiling to you when you're listening to the song. Feeling good. ?
Violette Wautier was one of the contestants who sang 'Leaving On A Jetplane' in The Voice of Thailand in 2013 and singer for 'Heartbeat' film (not quite sure what film it was, doesn't matter), which is also a song for celebrating Central 70 Years.
Well, I'm still quite disappointed for not able to get Ink Waruntorn CD after some ding-dong private messaging with the online music store that sells the item and even the record label itself, (you see how serious I am, even asked the record label, lol *facepalm*) it's alright, let's see how it goes.
So, 'Goodbye' is a girl or guy song? I'm just enjoying good music, right? Yeah, right?
Recently I am quite addicted to Thai music, I will review and share more good music again if I find one.


14.02.10.00.htm 14.02.10.00. Title 14 INDEPENDENT AGENCIES Subtitle 02 BOARD OF ELECTIONS Chapter 10 Affidavits by Political Committees ― Repealed Administrative History Effective date: September 10, 1984 (11:18 Md. R. 1585)Chapter transferred to COMAR 33.13 effective October 16, 2000 (27:20 Md. R. 1844).


Month without victories; the best player turned to be goalkeeper Fabricio Agosto despite the team only picked one point and despite the Canarian goalie only made six games in three games.
With ten games remaining in the schedule, eight teams seem destined to fight for the permanence. Levante UD have the better calendar, while Depor have one of the worst rosters with only four remaining games at the Riazor.
In the middle of the comments regarding his renewal, Juan Dominguez has lost a spot at the starting lineup. The true is that his numbers weren't good before and neither in his previous seasons at the top flight.
Deportivo completed three trainings and one friendly game during the international break. Wilk was operated from his toe fracture, while Postiga returned to the training pitch. Salomão was ruled out for a month.
The players talked during the week of several issues, from the calculations to clinch the permanence in Primera División to the social fracture that has been affecting Deportivo.
Deportivo are the fourth team in la liga with more players used during the league season. Of the 29 players that passed through the first team on this season only Borja López and Diego Seoane are pending to debut.
Depor's captain is worried as he perceives that Depor are losing fluidity to compete in recent games and the veteran defender is also concern for the social fracture that's hitting the club.
Not too much conclusions from the friendly game played at Vista Alegre, Víctor Fernández tested two formations mixing starters and substitutes. Borja and Cardoso scored the goals.
Albert Lopo is now the second player in the history of Deportivo that has received more yellow cards; on this season the Catalan were shown ten yellows, and is missing the game with Getafe CF due to suspension.


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// Copyright (c) 2009-2010 Satoshi Nakamoto
// Copyright (c) 2009-2016 The Bitcoin Core developers
// Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
// file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.

#ifndef BITCOIN_POLICY_POLICY_H
#define BITCOIN_POLICY_POLICY_H

#include "consensus/consensus.h"
#include "feerate.h"
#include "script/interpreter.h"
#include "script/standard.h"

#include <string>

class CCoinsViewCache;
class CTxOut;

/** Default for -blockmaxsize, which controls the maximum size of block the mining code will create **/
static const unsigned int DEFAULT_BLOCK_MAX_SIZE = 2000000;
/** Default for -blockmintxfee, which sets the minimum feerate for a transaction in blocks created by mining code **/
static const unsigned int DEFAULT_BLOCK_MIN_TX_FEE = 1000;
/** The maximum size for transactions we're willing to relay/mine */
static const unsigned int MAX_STANDARD_TX_SIZE = 100000;
/** Maximum number of signature check operations in an IsStandard() P2SH script */
static const unsigned int MAX_P2SH_SIGOPS = 15;
/** The maximum number of sigops we're willing to relay/mine in a single tx */
static const unsigned int MAX_STANDARD_TX_SIGOPS = 4000;
/** Default for -maxmempool, maximum megabytes of mempool memory usage */
static const unsigned int DEFAULT_MAX_MEMPOOL_SIZE = 300;
/** Default for -incrementalrelayfee, which sets the minimum feerate increase for mempool limiting or BIP 125 replacement **/
static const unsigned int DEFAULT_INCREMENTAL_RELAY_FEE = 1000;
/** Min feerate for defining dust. Historically this has been based on the
 * minRelayTxFee, however changing the dust limit changes which transactions are
 * standard and should be done with care and ideally rarely. It makes sense to
 * only increase the dust limit after prior releases were already not creating
 * outputs below the new threshold */
static const unsigned int DUST_RELAY_TX_FEE = 3000;
/**
 * Standard script verification flags that standard transactions will comply
 * with. However scripts violating these flags may still be present in valid
 * blocks and we must accept those blocks.
 */
static const unsigned int STANDARD_SCRIPT_VERIFY_FLAGS = MANDATORY_SCRIPT_VERIFY_FLAGS |
                                                         SCRIPT_VERIFY_DERSIG |
                                                         SCRIPT_VERIFY_STRICTENC |
                                                         SCRIPT_VERIFY_MINIMALDATA |
                                                         SCRIPT_VERIFY_NULLDUMMY |
                                                         SCRIPT_VERIFY_DISCOURAGE_UPGRADABLE_NOPS |
                                                         SCRIPT_VERIFY_CLEANSTACK |
                                                         SCRIPT_VERIFY_NULLFAIL |
                                                         SCRIPT_VERIFY_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY |
                                                         SCRIPT_VERIFY_CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY |
                                                         SCRIPT_VERIFY_LOW_S;

/** For convenience, standard but not mandatory verify flags. */
static const unsigned int STANDARD_NOT_MANDATORY_VERIFY_FLAGS = STANDARD_SCRIPT_VERIFY_FLAGS & ~MANDATORY_SCRIPT_VERIFY_FLAGS;

/** Used as the flags parameter to sequence and nLocktime checks in non-consensus code. */
static const unsigned int STANDARD_LOCKTIME_VERIFY_FLAGS = LOCKTIME_VERIFY_SEQUENCE |
                                                           LOCKTIME_MEDIAN_TIME_PAST;

CAmount GetDustThreshold(const CTxOut& txout, const CFeeRate& dustRelayFee);

bool IsDust(const CTxOut& txout, const CFeeRate& dustRelayFee);

bool IsStandard(const CScript& scriptPubKey, txnouttype& whichType);
    /**
     * Check for standard transaction types
     * @return True if all outputs (scriptPubKeys) use only standard transaction forms
     */
bool IsStandardTx(const CTransaction& tx, std::string& reason);
    /**
     * Check for standard transaction types
     * @param[in] mapInputs    Map of previous transactions that have outputs we're spending
     * @return True if all inputs (scriptSigs) use only standard transaction forms
     */
bool AreInputsStandard(const CTransaction& tx, const CCoinsViewCache& mapInputs);

extern CFeeRate incrementalRelayFee;
extern CFeeRate dustRelayFee;
#endif // BITCOIN_POLICY_POLICY_H

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Tags: LT | Ecuador | Earthquake | The Latest
The Latest: Pope Offers Prayers for Quake Victims in Ecuador
Sunday, 17 April 2016 07:15 AM
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — The Latest on the earthquake in Ecuador. (all times local):
Pope Francis has offered prayers for the people of Ecuador affected by the violent earthquake overnight "that caused numerous victims and great damage."
Francis asked the faithful in St. Peter's Square on Sunday to pray for those suffering in the aftermath of the magnitude-7.8 earthquake, as well as those hit by a separate magnitude-7.3 tremor in Japan on Friday.
He says "may the help of God and of neighbors give them strength and support."
Authorities say the magnitude-7.8 earthquake that hit Ecuador's sparsely populated coast Saturday night has killed 77 people and injured over 570 others. Two powerful earthquakes in Japan last week killed 41 people.
Ecuador's earthquake is about six times stronger and has released more energy than the one in Japan a day before.
David Rothery, a professor of planetary geosciences at The Open University, northeast of London, says the total energy released by the magnitude-7.8 quake Saturday in Ecuador was "probably about 20 times greater" than the magnitude-7.0 quake in Japan on Friday.
Rothery told The Associated Press on Sunday that bigger quakes last longer, so both the strength of the shaking and the duration contribute to the total energy.
Rothery says the quake in Ecuador began deeper underground than the recent Japan quakes, which would have lessened the shaking on the ground. But the greater loss of life and greater damage in Ecuador can be attributed to the country's less stringent construction codes.
The scientist also says "there is no causal relationship between the earthquakes in Ecuador and Japan."
(This item corrects earlier report and headline to show the Ecuador quake was six times stronger than Japan's, not 20 times).
Authorities in Ecuador say landslides are making it difficult for emergency workers to reach the towns hardest hit by a magnitude-7.8 earthquake.
The quake was centered on a sparsely populated coastal area 170 kilometers (105 miles) northwest of Quito, the capital.
Ecuador's Public Works and Transport Ministry says 12 main roads have been closed. A landslide has shut down one road in Cotopaxi and a landslide warning has been issued for a road in Zamora Chinchipe.
The Home Ministry says five helicopters and over 80 buses are ferrying 4,000 police to the quake zone.
Vice President Jorge Glas also says electricity has been restored to four towns in the Manabi province and to parts of the cities of Portoviejo and Montecristi. He says the quake has killed 77 people and injured over 570.
The strong earthquake in Ecuador also was a topic at a major meeting of oil-producing countries in Qatar.
Kabalan Abisaab, Ecuador's ambassador to Qatar, spoke to journalists on the sidelines of the meeting in Doha He says "it's a big disaster. We are very worried about the situation."
The ambassador stressed his country was prepared for such disasters, though they still can cause massive destruction. He said Ecuadorean officials are working to help those affected. The Foreign Affairs ministry has opened a hotline for people living abroad seeking information on family members in the country.
Officials say the magnitude-7.8 quake, which struck Saturday night, has killed at least 77 people and injured over 570.
Ecuador's Risk Management agency says residents who evacuated coastal towns because of the risk of a tsunami after a magnitude-7.8 earthquake can return home now.
The quake was centered on a sparsely populated area of fishing ports and tourist beaches, 170 kilometers (105 miles) northwest of Quito, the capital. The country's vice president says at least 77 people have been reported killed by the quake, and over 570 injured.
Some 10,000 armed forces and hundreds of emergency workers and firefighters have been sent to the region after the quake flattened buildings and buckled highways. Several major highways have been closed.
Ecuador's Risk Management agency says 10,000 armed forces have now been deployed to help people in the coastal area stuck by a magnitude-7.8 earthquake.
The quake was centered on a sparsely populated area of fishing ports and tourist beaches, 170 kilometers (105 miles) northwest of Quito, the capital.
In addition, the agency says Sunday that 3,500 national police have been sent to the towns of Manabí, Esmeraldas and Guayas y Santa Elena, and 500 firefighters have been sent to Manabi and Pedernales. Five shelters have been set up for those evacuated from their homes.
Officials say the quake, which struck Saturday night, has killed at least 77 people and injured over 570.
Top officials say Ecuador is in a state of emergency and hundreds of rescue workers are rushing in after a magnitude-7.8 earthquake struck near its Pacific coast.
The Security Ministry says on its Twitter account that "every emergency protocol has been activated" and President Rafeal Correa says special quake rescue teams are coming in from Colombia and Mexico.
The Red Cross Ecuador says more than 1,200 volunteers are already working in rescue, evacuation and first aid operations.
Vice President Jorge Glas says mobile phone operators are allowing free text services in the hard-hit Manabi and Esmeraldas provinces, allowing people to better reach their loved ones or report emergency situations.
He says the Saturday quake has already killed 77 people and injured at least 578.
Ecuador's vice president says the toll in the country's devastating earthquake has risen to 77 dead and 578 injured.
Vice President Jorge Glas made the announcement early Sunday on the Security Ministry's Twitter account.
Glas and emergency rescue workers are pressing to reach the sparsely populated area of fishing ports and tourist beaches along the country's Pacific coast where the magnitude-7.8 quake struck after nightfall on Saturday.
President Rafael Correa has signed a decree declaring a national emergency and is rushing home from Rome.
The strongest earthquake to hit Ecuador in decades has flattened buildings and buckled highways along the country's Pacific coast, killing at least 41 people and causing damage in the capital and other major cities that were hundreds of miles (kilometers) away from the epicenter.
The death toll is expected to rise Sunday as rescuers reached the sparsely populated area of fishing ports and tourist beaches where the magnitude-7.8 quake was centered.
"We're trying to do the most we can but there's almost nothing we can do," said Gabriel Alcivar, mayor of Pedernales, a town of 40,000 near the quake's epicenter. He pleaded for authorities to send earth-moving machines and emergency rescue workers as dozens of buildings in the town were flattened, trapping residents among the rubble.
"This wasn't just a house that collapsed, it was an entire town," he said.
Vice President Jorge Glas said in a televised address late Saturday there were initial reports of 41 dead in the cities of Manta, Portoviejo and Guayaquil — all several hundred kilometers (miles) from where the quake struck shortly after nightfall Saturday.
President Rafael Correa signed a decree declaring a national emergency and was rushing home from Rome.
The quake was the strongest to hit Ecuador since 1979, Glas said.
The Latest on the earthquake in Ecuador. (all times local):5:55 a.m.Pope Francis has offered prayers for the people of Ecuador affected by the violent earthquake overnight "that caused numerous victims and great damage."Francis asked the faithful in St. Peter's Square on...
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It is reasonable to ask what good diversity does us. Diversity of expertise confers benefits that are obvious—you would not think of building a new car without engineers, designers and quality-control experts—but what about social diversity? What good comes from diversity of race, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation? Research has shown that social diversity in a group can cause discomfort, rougher interactions, a lack of trust, greater perceived interpersonal conflict, lower communication, less cohesion, more concern about disrespect, and other problems. So what is the upside?
Large data-set studies have an obvious limitation: they only show that diversity is correlated with better performance, not that it causes better performance. Research on racial diversity in small groups, however, makes it possible to draw some causal conclusions. Again, the findings are clear: for groups that value innovation and new ideas, diversity helps.
For this reason, diversity appears to lead to higher-quality scientific research. This year Richard Freeman, an economics professor at Harvard University and director of the Science and Engineering Workforce Project at the National Bureau of Economic Research, along with Wei Huang, a Harvard economics Ph.D. candidate, examined the ethnic identity of the authors of 1.5 million scientific papers written between 1985 and 2008 using Thomson Reuters's Web of Science, a comprehensive database of published research. They found that papers written by diverse groups receive more citations and have higher impact factors than papers written by people from the same ethnic group. Moreover, they found that stronger papers were associated with a greater number of author addresses; geographical diversity, and a larger number of references, is a reflection of more intellectual diversity.
Consider the following scenario: You are writing up a section of a paper for presentation at an upcoming conference. You are anticipating some disagreement and potential difficulty communicating because your collaborator is American and you are Chinese. Because of one social distinction, you may focus on other differences between yourself and that person, such as her or his culture, upbringing and experiences—differences that you would not expect from another Chinese collaborator. How do you prepare for the meeting? In all likelihood, you will work harder on explaining your rationale and anticipating alternatives than you would have otherwise.
This is how diversity works: by promoting hard work and creativity; by encouraging the consideration of alternatives even before any interpersonal interaction takes place. The pain associated with diversity can be thought of as the pain of exercise. You have to push yourself to grow your muscles. The pain, as the old saw goes, produces the gain. In just the same way, we need diversity—in teams, organizations and society as a whole—if we are to change, grow and innovate.
Katherine W. Phillips is Paul Calello Professor of Leadership and Ethics and senior vice dean at Columbia Business School.


A color-coded magnet board used for scheduling, a common sight in many schools.
School districts should embrace student-centered scheduling to ensure all students get the classes they want and need, a panel of experts said in a recent webinar.
As scheduling for the various members of a school district — from faculty to students to staff — gets more complex, it is critical for districts to create a strong district scheduling plan that will highlight team roles and responsibilities, be specific about milestones, establish benchmark rubrics and, most importantly, panelists said, put students first.
The webinar, hosted by edWeb.net and sponsored by scheduling software company Always be Learning, featured executives from the company — Amy Filsinger, head of school success, Mike Rettberg, professional services lead, and Chris Walsh, head of impact — who outlined the central role data plays in keeping up best practices.
"Your [student information system] is probably lying to you," Rettberg said, emphasizing that the system that schools lean on to organize operations and learning might not be providing school districts with the most up-to-date data.
Rettberg proposed a master schedule school data audit that provides opportunities to look at different types of data that could be hidden in those systems. He recommended scheduling teams to be trained in strategic thinking and given tools that will assist in the decision-making process by choosing data and process over traditional intuition.
Because scheduling can be a very isolating and siloed process, Rettberg also advised investing in building capacity and leveraging outside experts to ensure best practices.
You can almost be guaranteed to see a large magnet board with its color-coded magnets in most school buildings — but something is missing.
Walsh agreed, and said most master schedule processes are broken. Teachers are often scheduled first with students being the last factor in master scheduling.
Instead, districts need to come up with a new way of scheduling. By creating a scheduling strategy, being intentional about putting students at the center, adapting as needs change and building team capacity, districts and the administrators who run them can tackle master scheduling in a strategic way.
Master scheduling, Filsinger said, should not be a tactile activity delegated to school guidance counselors, but instead a strategic activity aligned with district goals involving instructional leaders and building principals.
District leaders must make it clear that programmatic initiatives need to come alive through the master schedule, she said. This scheduling point of view should focus on why it matters, how the master schedule can help and the resources needed to achieve district goals.
The district master schedule plan should audit and map district and school process as well as examine the quality of the data, the panelists said.
A realistic multi-year district scheduling plan should include producing accurate scheduling data, equitability of student/teacher course loads and increasing underrepresented student populations in advanced course.
In concert with the district information technology department, school districts should accelerate a district's ability to analyze data, standardize course codes and titles across the school and a core set of class attributes.
Amy Filsinger leads the School Success Team at Abl, which provides expert scheduling guidance to secondary schools around the country. Amy is an experienced educator fascinated by school redesigns aimed at eliminating the achievement gap. Prior to joining Abl, Amy was Principal of Rocketship Brilliant Minds — a public charter school in the San Francisco Bay Area. She also served as a teacher in the Teach For America Metro-DC Corps and was a teacher leader for Rocketship Education. Amy holds a degree in foreign service from Georgetown University and is an alumna of Relay GSE's National Principal Fellowship.


The Micrograph was a small, inexpensive, simple microscope made of stamped tin, sold in the USA from the late 1870s through the end of the 1880s (Figures 1-2). It has a single glass biconvex lens, mounted in a tube that can be adjusted in height for focusing. Its primary use was to view small photographs that were mounted on strips of glass, with ten pictures per slide (Figures 3-7). Although these were described as "microphotographs", the images were many times larger than the famed microphotographs made by J.B. Dancer and others (Figure 4). It is also possible to use the Micrograph to view other microscopic objects, with light reflected from the mirror illuminating transparent objects, and a cut-out in the side allowing light to shine on opaque objects.
Figure 1. An surviving Micrograph. It is a simple microscope, with a single lens mounted in the eyepiece. A mirror reflects light up for transparent objects (including the accompanying small photographs on glass slips), while a cutout allows top-lighting on opaque objects. Glass slides fit through a pair of slots under the eyepiece.
Micrographs were sold by mail-order from the maker and a number of novelty retailers. They were also offered by magazines such as The American Agriculturalist, provided as premiums to people who enrolled new magazine subscribers.
The inventor of the Micrograph, and probably its manufacturer throughout its production period, was Dwight Lyman Smith, of Waterbury, Connecticut. Some of the booklets that accompanied Micrographs stated that Smith was the instrument's "manufacturer and sole proprietor" (Figure 9). Additionally, he is the only private citizen known to have advertised sale of the Micrograph (Figure 10). During the time of its production, Smith was superintendent of the Waterbury Buckle Company. This town was renowned for its metalworking businesses, to such an extent that it was known as "The Brass City". Smith was awarded numerous patents for various buckle devices made from stamped sheet metal. He also patented and marketed a brass-plated tin compass/sundial in 1870 (Figure 14).
A brief biography of Smith was included in an 1889 book, The Town and City of Waterbury, Connecticut: "Dwight Lyman Smith, son of Lyman P. and Marilla Smith, was born in Waterbury, March 4, 1839. He was educated in the Waterbury schools. He worked at first for the Hotchkiss & Merriman company, when they manufactured suspender buckles. When the business was merged into that of the Waterbury Buckle company, in 1855, he was employed by the new concern, and has been connected with it, with short intermissions, ever since. He has been for the past twenty-eight years superintendent of the factory of the Buckle company. In 1862, Mr. Smith married Helen M., daughter of James Latta. They have two children living, Albert and Idella". Census records indicate that the Smiths lived quite well, consistently employing a domestic servant. Dwight Smith died on December 17, 1905, at the age of 66.
Figure 2. The Micrograph is rather small, the base being about 2 inches / 5 cm in diameter, and standing about 3 1/4 inches / 8 cm tall. They were made from cut and pressed tin sheet, with the various parts fastened together by tabs that fit through slots, then bent over. The eyepiece consists of a cylinder of tin with a biconvex glass lens mounted in a tin disc. Aside from cutting and stamping the metal, no particular skills would have been required to assemble a Micrograph. Except for the lens and the mirror, Smith could have easily produced all of the components at his Waterbury Buckle Company, or at one of the many other local metalworking businesses.
Figure 3. Three boxes of glass-mounted photographs for the Micrograph. The phrase "stereograph" on the center and right boxes is misleading, as it is impossible for the individual images to produce stereo views. The monocular Micrograph is incapable of stereo vision.
Figure 4. The glass-mounted photographs for the Micrograph are substantially larger than the true microphotographs of J.B. Dancer.
Figure 5. Eight surviving slides from the center box shown in Figure 3, numbers 1-100. The first two slides show the first twenty Presidents of the USA. The twentieth, James Garfield, was elected in 1880, and assassinated in late 1881, thereby dating this set to a narrow time range. Other sets are known that end with the nineteenth President, Rutherford B. Hayes (served 1877-1881), and the twenty-first President, Chester A. Arthur (served 1881-1885) (see Figures 8 and 9).
Figure 6. Nine and a half of the slides from the right-hand box shown in Figure 3, slides 101-200.
Figure 7. The ten slides from the left-hand box shown in Figure 3, slides 101-200. The style of the slides and the box indicate a different period of production that the slides shown in Figure 5 and 6.
Figure 8. A booklet that accompanied a Micrograph, describing its use, and listing the titles of the accompanying photographs. This booklet lists Presidents up to James Garfield, dating it to 1880-81. With a few exceptions, the titles correspond with images on the slides shown in Figures 5 and 6 (some obvious differences being the slide with images 131-140, which show pictures of men, whereas the list described scenery, and the woman in image 80 is surely not "the weary peasant boy". Contents evidently varied over time). The blank space on the back cover (top image, left side) was for printing the distributor's name and address.
Figure 9. The back page from another Micrograph booklet, printed with Dwight L. Smith's name and address..
Figure 10. Two advertisements from Dwight L. Smith. From "Scientific American" (left) and "The Youth's Companion" (right).
Figure 11. One of the microscopes advertised in A.H. Andrews & Co.'s 1881 "Illustrated Catalogue of School Merchandise". That company was based in Chicago.
Figure 12. A full-page advertisement for the Micrograph, from the New York-based World Manufacturing Company. That mail-order firm sold a wide variety of novelties and other items. The source of this advertisement is not known, but this list includes Presidents through Chester A. Arthur, and thus dates between 1881 and 1885.
Figure 13. An 1889 advertisement from "The American Agriculturalist", who offered the Micrograph as a premium to people who brought in new subscribers.
Figure 14. A "Magnetic Tide Keeper and Compass", patented in 1870 by Dwight L. Smith. It appears to be made of brass-plated tin. Adapted for nonprofit educational purposes from an internet auction site.
Figure 15. One of Smith's many patent applications, in this case, an 1887 suspender buckle made of stamped sheet metal and bent wire. Surprisingly, nobody seems to have patented the Micrograph.
Thank you to Joe Zeligs for sharing images and for constructive comments on this essay.


As the college football season rapidly approaches, Nike has decided to mark the occasion with the massive "Week Zero" collection.
The group consists of 13 colorways of the Nike Free TR 5.0 V6, each dressed in the regalia of Nike-affiliated schools across the country. The Oregon Ducks, Alabama Crimson Tide, Ohio State Buckeyes, Florida State Seminoles, and many more are represented.
This collection of college football Nike sneakers will release on Aug. 12 via Nike online, as well as at retailers like Champs, Eastbay and Lids.
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I put the perfect quarterback onto my NFL Week 5 DraftKings Team. Bears' QB Mitch Trubisky threw 6 TD passes, but it meant nothing at the end because none of the low salary players I added to my team stepped it up.
It's back to the drawing board for NFL Week 5. Of the 8 players on my DraftKings Classic Team, 3 play in the Falcons at Steelers game. I'm hoping for a shootout. If I get my wish, I might finally cash a DraftKings ticket this season.
Ryan's averaging close to 30 fantasy football points per game. He's thrown 10 TD passes to only 2 interceptions. More importantly, he's got a sweet match up this Sunday versus Pittsburgh's defense. The Steelers allow 304.8 passing yards per game, ranking the defense 29th in the NFL. Opponents average 29 points per game against Pittsburgh.
Even Baltimore's offense scored 26 points against the Steelers. Kansas City scored 42. I'm hoping that Matt Ryan has one of those games where he goes off. If he does, I should be in a decent position (hopefully!) to finally cash.
Gordon had an awesome game in the Bolts' 29-27 win over the San Francisco 49ers. He caught 7 of 10 targets for 55 yards and a TD while also rushing for 104 yards from 15 carries. Just like he's done throughout his NFL career, Gordon's provided huge fantasy points.
This week, the Chargers play the rival Oakland Raiders. The Raiders finally won their first game of the season in Week 4. It took overtime for the Raiders to do it. The Browns scored 42 points to again expose Oakland without linebacker Khalil Mack.
If Cleveland's able to score 42 points, the Chargers should score at least 30 to 35, right? How many of those touchdowns will Gordon III acquire? Plenty, is my guess. Gordon might be the single must add to any NFL DraftKings Classic Team in Week 5.
Jaguars' starting running back Leonard Fournette is out with an ankle injury. Although Yeldon will share backfield duties with Corey Grant, Yeldon's likely to get the most work. He's been a steady, good performer for the Jaguars even when Fournette's healthy. Yeldon't got RB1 skills that, hopefully, will show up with Fournette on the bench.
If the Jaguars commit to Yeldon, he could have a massive fantasy game against Kansas City's defense. The Chiefs have surrendered over 105 rushing yards, 1.5 touchdowns, and 96.3 receiving yards per week to the running back position. If Yeldon can get more carries than Grant, and more looks in the passing game, he should perform like an RB1 this Sunday.
Although Smith-Schuster's only scored a single TD this season, he does have 31 catches in 4 games. That equates to 7.75 catches a game. Not only that, but JuJu's amassed 416 receiving yards. Ben Roethlisberger targeted wide receiver Antonio Brown 11 times against the Baltimore Ravens. Big Ben also targeted Smitch-Schuster 11 times, though.
This game should be a shootout from the very beginning with Big Ben and Matt Ryan playing catch up at different points in the game. Don't expect much from the running backs because both defenses must commit to stopping the rush. JuJu's got a chance to have a huge game in Week 5.
Like every team that plays the Atlanta Falcons, the Steelers must try to stop Ryan's passes to the great Julio Jones. That should leave Calvin Ridley open, like it did in Week 4, to catch passes and run them into the end zone for touchdowns.
Ridley caught 4 of 6 targets for 54 yards and 2 touchdowns against the Cincinnati Bengals. Ridley should see up to 8 targets in NFL Week 5. If he can catch 6 of those targets, I think he scores at least a couple of touchdowns while racking up over 100 receiving yards. Hopefully, the Steelers will double Julio. If they do, Ridley could have an even bigger game, maybe, even 10 targets and up to 3 TDs.
Seattle faces the Rams' defense on Sunday and although on paper L.A. looks to have one of the better ones in the NFL, things have turned sour. L.A.'s secondary is a mess now that Aqib Talib is on IR and Marcus Peters is banged up. Peters, even if he plays at 100%, must cover Seattle's top wide receiver, Doug Baldwin. That should leave Lockett out there to run free once he catches a pass.
The real question is if quarterback Russell Wilson will have time to stop the Rams' pass rush. The Rams average 2 sacks per game, but they have yet to face a mobile quarterback like Wilson. If the Rams score, which they should, Wilson must keep pace. Hopefully, touchdown passes to Lockett is the way Russell keeps pace on Oct. 7.
The tight-end position looks like a throwaway for my NFL DraftKings Team because C.J. Uzomah has only 7 catches in 4 games for 74 yards. He's caught only 1 touchdown pass. I'm bullish on Uzomah to possibly have the best game of his career on Sunday, though.
DraftKings says that Cincinnati's opponent on Sunday, the Miami Dolphins, rank 17th against tight-ends. Bengals' top tight-end Tyler Eifert is on IR. Without Eifert, Andy Dalton should throw to both Uzomah and Kroft. My hope is that he leans more heavily on Uzomah then he does on Kroft.
The Raiders limited Lynch's participation at practice on Wednesday. Beast Mode's dealing with a shoulder issue. It doesn't appear to be a big deal because he dealt with the same shoulder issue last week before rushing for 157 yards versus a much better defense than what he faces this Sunday.
Raiders versus Chargers has turned into big time shootouts over the years. Lynch should be a part of that shootout. Finally, Oakland targeted Lynch in the passing game in Week 4. He caught 3 of 5 targets for 27 yards. Lynch could post Melvin Gordon III type fantasy numbers on Oct. 7.
Arizona's defense has stepped it up big time in the past couple of weeks. The Cardinals held Chicago to 16 points in a 14-16 loss in Week 3. The very next Sunday, Arizona held Seattle to 20 points in a 17-20 loss.
The Cardinals face a back-up quarterback in Sunday's game against San Francisco. I'm taking a shot, but I feel the Cards stop the 49ers' offense in Week 5.


WINDHOEK, 05 APR (NAMPA) - The Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) started displaying the provisional voters' register at designated places countrywide on Thursday in order for all stakeholders and the general public to inspect it.
It will be displayed until 15 April this year as proclaimed by the President and published in the Government Gazette No. 5440, Notice No. 50 and 51 of 01 April 2014.
The ECN's public relations officer, Vicky Hango explained in a media statement issued here on Saturday that the display of the provisional voters' register is the next step in the electoral process after the general registration of voters, which is specifically provided for in the electoral law in order to afford an opportunity to the stakeholders and the general public to inspect the provisional voters' register with a view toward correcting any mistakes made during the registration process.
She noted that the public display of the provisional voters' registers also serves a primary purpose, which is to afford the public an opportunity to object to the inclusion of names of persons who are not supposed to appear in the voters' registers.
Hango noted that the inspection of the provisional voters' register will take place at designated places in all constituencies and local authorities countrywide.
In addition to the designated display venues, the public may also view the provisional voters' registers at the ECN headquarters at Election House in Windhoek, she said, adding that the viewing will take place from 08h00 until 17h00 in all constituencies.
According to Hango, the display of the provisional voters' registers is a legal requirement in terms of the Namibian electoral law.
In accordance with Section 21 of the Electoral Act, 1992 (Act No. 24 of 1992), the ECN is obliged to prepare and display the provisional voters' register for inspection by the public and all the stakeholders.
She also called on all registered political parties and associations, as well as registered voters who wish to lodge objections in terms of the inclusion of names of persons in the registers, to do so in writing with the District Magistrates in their respective constituencies or local authorities as stipulated in Government Gazette No. 5440.
ECN officials have been appointed at all designated venues ready to guide voters and stakeholders during the inspection and display period.


We're all guilty of having beauty products in our stash that have been neglected or even ignored. I've recently discovered some old favourites that have found their way back into my daily make up routine.
Soleil Tan de Chanel has been one of them. I bought this last year and wasn't overly impressed with it at the time. It had been hyped up so much that I was expecting this wonder product to change my life when, in fact it was rather disappointing. One main reason why I didn't like it too much was I found it too light for my skin. I'm an avid fake tan wearer and when I have it on this doesn't show up at all on me. Now the cooler months are here and we're not quite into spring I haven't been tanning as much and found this to give a subtle sunkissed glow. I'm still not sure if its worth the £31 price tag but I'm enjoying using it.
As most of you know I LOVE eyebrows (I know a little weird!). I tend to mix up by brow products, I'm either using my illummi Eyebrow palette , Soap and Glory's Archery or Mac's charcoal brown, so I forgot about the product that started it all off for me. My unnatural obsession with brows started when I received the HD Brow Palette in a glossy box. The colours are perfect for me but what I really love is the angled brush that comes with it. Its much finer than my Mac 263 angled brush, I find it fills my brows in quickly and with more precision.
Bourjois cream blush in shade 2 "Healthy glow" has made a come back into my life. The sun has been shining on some odd days here in England so I've found I'm ditching the deep rich winter blushers and going for the coral colours that I was loving last year. I apply it with my Real Techniques Stippling Brush which I can't say I've used at all these last 4 months or so. I love how this blends in cream products, one dab into the blush then popped onto my cheeks and your good to go. Its so quick and easy. I don't really like to apply my foundation with it, the buffing brush is my brush of choice for that, but as for cream blushers, it's perfect!
Sheer covers concealer duo has once more seen the light of day. I forgot how damn creamy this concealer was, it can almost pass as a cream foundation. Its super easy to blend and gives fantastic coverage. I've been using this on good skin days and lazy days as my base product of choice. I just pop a bit on any imperfections, under my eyes, and boom, I'm done.
Have you discovered some old favourites recently?
I love brows too, we always have a running joke that it doesn't matter if anyone is late because I can't go anywhere without my eyebrows on!
OMG we are so similar. Bought the Escentric Molecule perfume on all the hype and it's sitting unloved, maybe used once! I am also obsessed with brows so we can be little weirdos together!!!


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Paula Judged As A Fake
. (antiMusic) John Rich of the multiplatinum country duo Big & Rich isn't cutting American Idol's Paula Abdul any slack after she made a major blunder last week on the show when she "judged" a performance before it happened. Rich will be a judge on Nashville Star when it makes the move to NBC in June, and he had some strong words for Abdul and Idol, calling their credibility into question.
Here are some quotes from an MSNBC report: "'American Idol' infuriates me as an artist," Rich said at an NBC press event for Nashville Star. "They're being fake about it. When you can't make a cognizant comment about someone's performance and you're commenting on something that happened the day before, why don't you just walk up onstage and slap them right across the face while you're at it? As an artist, I would just flip them the bird and walk off the stage. ... She wasn't even paying attention to what was going on."
"The reason their ratings are going into the toilet right now is because the American public cannot stand when it comes to reality," Rich said. "You can tell when somebody's comment was scripted. You can tell when they told an artist, 'Wear this, and sing that, and do that.' That's not the way it's going to work on this show," he said of "Nashville Star." - Read the MSNBC report
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