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D.C.: Time for Fundamental Changes in Charter Sector
September 30, 2021 //
Valerie Strauss posted an important essay on her blog "The Answer Sheet" by Steve Bumbaugh, a former member of the D.C. Public Charter School Board from 2015 until early this year. Bumbaugh graduated from Yale University and Stanford School of Business. His parents were ministers.
Let's travel back to September 2017. I was in Southeast Washington, D.C., scheduled to tour a school in an hour. I remember visiting 25 years ago when it was part of the D.C. public school system. That school was closed in 2009 — one of dozens closed in the last 15 years — and now several charter schools occupy the campus.
At the time of this visit, I was a member of board of the D.C. Public Charter School Board (PCSB), having started my tenure in 2015 and serving until early this year. In that capacity, I visited dozens of D.C.-based charter schools. Sometimes, I left those visits saddened, even defeated.
This was one of those times.
Over several decades of work at the intersection of education and poverty, I have learned that much of a school's character can be divined through its start-of-the-day ritual. So on that day in 2017, I arrived early and sat in my car, far enough away that no one seemed to notice me, but near enough so that I could observe the comings and goings. Several young Black women arrived at school with their children who look to be 5 or 6 years old. They were greeted by staff members, and I observed them having what appeared to be tense conversations with the women. Some of these women left with their children in tow. Others handed their children over to staff members and departed.
When I entered the school for my scheduled visit, I was greeted by one of the founders, a 30-something man with energy and charm. He was joined by the school's board chair, a distinguished senior partner from one of D.C.'s blue-chip law firms. They took me on a tour of several classrooms. I noticed that the leadership of the school was entirely White as were many of the teachers. All of the students were African American, most from families that struggle financially.
For the most part, the school looked like most other "no excuses" charter schools in the nation's capital, dotting low-income African American neighborhoods, and in other places across the country.
These schools start with the belief that there is no good reason for the huge academic gaps between privileged and poor minority students — and that strict discipline, obedience, uniform teaching methods and other policies could erase the gaps. A feature of many of these schools, and one evident on this site visit, are lines painted on the hallway floors. Students are expected to walk on these lines as they move from classroom to classroom. Any deviation is likely to result in punishment. The only other places I had seen this before was at correctional facilities.
I entered a preschool classroom where students were gathered in a semi-circle on a rug. Like curious 4-year-olds everywhere, the students turned their heads to scrutinize us. Many smiled widely and some even waved. The teacher snapped at the children, demanding their attention. I was startled by her aggression. They were, after all, 4-year old children engaging in age-appropriate behavior.
That evening I called a staff person from this school who I've known for several years. I asked her to translate the scenes I witnessed outside the school. The conversation went something like this:
–"Those scholars probably had uniform violations. The staff persons were probably telling the moms to go home to have the kids change."
–"I didn't notice that they were wearing anything different from the other children."
–"Well, they may have had the wrong color shoes. Or maybe they had the correct color shirt, but it didn't have the school's insignia on it."
–"They have to go back home for that?"
–"Unless they want to spend the day in a behavior support room."
Incredulous, I pressed my friend for details. I discovered that children as young as 3 years old could spend an entire day in seclusion, away from their classmates, if they were wearing the wrong color shoes. I am dumbstruck. Is this even legal?
This sort of interaction between students and staff was not uncommon in no-excuses charter schools I visited over the years.
Occasionally I did visit schools that combine academic rigor and kindness with student bodies that are mostly Black and low-income. But those schools were the exception. I've seen schools where children are taught to track the teachers with their eyes, move their mouths in a specific way, and engage in other humiliating rituals that have little educational value.
I visited a school that suspended 40 percent of its 5-year-old children who had been diagnosed with disabilities. At some schools, when children are sick, their parents were forced to produce a doctor's note because school leaders believed the parents were lying. But some of these parents were uninsured and there weren't — and still aren't — many doctors in their neighborhoods. Obtaining a doctor's note required them to take their children onto packed public buses so they could go to public health clinics or emergency rooms.
Schools that still do this are telling these parents that they are not trusted. And while children in these schools are taught computational math and textual analysis, they also learn that they are congenitally profane.
Charter schools arose a generation ago in Washington, D.C. when the city was poor and in the grips of a decade-long homicide epidemic. I was part of a group of 20-somethings frustrated with the lack of progress in the city's long-troubled public school system. We had been creating programs for the D.C. Public Schools system that dramatically outpaced the district's regular academic outcomes, and we wanted to turn these programs into actual schools.
We talked about forging solutions with parents and students, working to retain every single student, exhorting patience about building the infrastructure from which improved academic outcomes would spring.
But little of this vision was attractive to an emerging cadre of funders and policymakers who placed huge bets on charter schools. They submitted to a vision, not based on a shred of evidence, that Black and Brown children would thrive if they were taught "character" and "grit." The way to do this, apparently, was to create an assembly-line model of instruction with rigid rules. Children who could not abide by these rules were "counseled out" to return to traditional public schools. Now about one-third of D.C. charter schools are in the no-excuses category, enrolling at least half of the charter student population. (Some of these schools say they are changing, but I haven't seen real evidence of that.)…
The D.C. Public Charter School Board was created in 1996, at a time when homicide rates in the District were so high the city was dubbed the "murder capital." It is no wonder the D.C. Public Charter School Board jumped on the "no-excuses" bandwagon.
What have we gained from this system? As of 2018-19 — the latest data available on the website of the charter school board website — only 8.5 percent of Black high school students (about 80 percent of the student population) in charter schools were deemed proficient in math and 21 percent in English Language Arts, according to scores on the standardized PARCC exam.
There are some charter schools that are doing amazing work, but the system itself is ineffective. The vast majority of our students are not remotely ready for the rigors of college coursework.
After untold millions of dollars of investment and the creation of scores of schools — there were 128 operating this year — it is time for us to admit that this experiment is not working as it should.
So what must be done?
The District must rethink its charter schools, and more specifically, charter schools must be integrated. "Chocolate City" has been replaced by a city where upper-income White residents and a more diverse spectrum of Black residents exist in equal numbers.
One of the few scalable policies that dramatically improved academic outcomes for Black students was the integration of American public schools in the 1970s and '80s. The Performance Management Framework that ranks the quality of each charter school should ensure that schools reflect the demographics of the city as it is today, particularly given that charter schools are not constrained by neighborhood boundaries that enforce segregation in traditional public schools…
"Separate and equal" should not stand in one of the most liberal cities in the United States.
In addition to recommending the racial integration of charter schools, Bumbaugh proposes that low-income parents of charter schools students be added to the D.C. Public Charter School Board.
Moreover power needs to be distributed more evenly. At first glance, the concentration of institutional power is not evident at the Public Charter School Board.
Most of the board members, including the current executive director, are Black or Latino. A closer look — and I am including myself in this observation — reveals that we are not remotely similar to most of the families with children attending D.C. public charter schools. Fully 80 percent of these families are African Americans who qualify for free and reduced lunch, which is not the same as at risk, but which is generally seen as a proxy for school poverty.
The people who are on the charter school board are highly educated professionals. Since I began serving on the panel — which has seven rotating volunteers, all appointed by the D.C. mayor — there have been 10 sitting members, half of whom attended Yale, Stanford or Harvard universities, or some combination of the three. We are well-versed in the contours of institutional power and know how to operate inside of its rarely articulated but clearly delineated boundaries. We've been rewarded for decoding these rules and abiding by them, which is precisely why we are selected for these coveted roles. We provide cover through optical diversity.
But if we really want to embrace equity, it's time to rethink the make-up of the Public Charter School Board. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser will have a unique opportunity to reshape this board over the coming year as five of its seven members will be termed out.
We need a board with members who reflect the communities served by D.C. charter sector. As cities move away from elected school boards to mayoral appointments, it's critical that the voices that used to represent low-income communities continue to be present.
In the District, 80 percent of families attending charters are eligible for free and reduced lunch, but the charter school board has not in its 25-year history appointed a single board member who lives in poverty. Why not adjust the PCSB's contours to reflect the communities in which these schools are located instead of incessantly asking poor Black people to acclimate?
Imagine that: Charter schools authorized by those most affected by them.
Categories Accountability, Charter Schools, Discipline, District of Columbia, Education Industry
Peter Greene: In Case You Missed Michelle Rhee…You Can Join the Zoom
Peter Greene wonders if you have missed Michelle Rhee, once the Wonder Woman of the edreform biz, but recently absent from the national scene. After her meteoric rise to national prominence, when she was selected to be chancellor of the District of Columbia public schools after two years of TFA teaching, she was a colossus: on the cover of TIME as a miracle worker, featured in the documentary "Waiting for Superman," frequently interviewed on national TV. Her tenure in D.C. was controversial and stormy: she fired teachers and principals and made bold claims about test scores. When Adrian Fenty, the mayor who appointed her, was defeated, she left and started an organization called StudentsFirst, which she said would raise $1 billion and recruit one million members. she never reached either goal, but she traveled the country advocating for charters and vouchers and against teachers' unions. She allied with Jeb Bush and other school choice advocates. as her star faded, she disappeared from public view.
Peter Greene says she is making a return public appearance at a Sacramento State University event on September27, where she is the keynote speaker. You can watch on Zoom.
Categories California, Charter Schools, Corporate Reformers, Disruption, District of Columbia, Education Industry, Rhee, Michelle, Teacher Evaluations, Vouchers
Valerie Jablow: D.C. Has Lost a Great Education Leader, Elizabeth Davis
April 6, 2021 //
Valerie Jablow is a parent advocate in the District of Columbia. Here she remembers Elizabeth Davis, the president of the Washington Teachers Union, who died tragically in an automobile accident on Easter evening. She was part of the new wave of teacher unionism, which is social justice unionism, a commitment not just to the benefits of teachers but to the well-being of students and to their opportunity to have a well-resourced and equitable education.
Teaching for Change posted this beautiful tribute to Liz Davis and her amazing life in DC. It is both a very welcome personal history–and the story of our DC schools.
Indeed, Liz Davis's work as the head of the Washington Teachers' Union has lived larger in my life as a DCPS parent than that of all other DC education leaders I have known put together—and touched the lives of hundreds of thousands of other DC residents. Just since the start of 2021, my email inbox has broadly distributed messages from Liz about needed action on nearly every current pressing matter in DC education, including the research practice partnership, DCPS re-opening, PARCC testing, a survey about teacher computers, re-examining school governance, and school librarians being excessed.
Our mayor may be in control of our schools—but no mayor, and no other elected or appointed leader in DC, has ever been in command of DC education advocacy and justice like Liz Davis. Her tenacity in the face of injustice has been both balm and shield for everyone who has battled for better schools in DC.
Yet always, always, behind everything I ever knew she did or said was that quiet, unflagging belief in a better, more equitable future, which seems to be the legacy of every great teacher. When I chose to sue DC over the chancellor selection panel excluding teachers, parents, and students and had only a few plaintiffs, Liz Davis simply put me in touch with a teacher who agreed to be a plaintiff. Then, without a word otherwise, Liz had the WTU submit an amicus brief. That document was indeed a friend (per the Latin word amicus) in what was for me, a DCPS parent, a notably unfriendly proceeding.
It is hard for me to believe that someone who was so alive is gone–and so suddenly.
The last email I got from Liz was a letter to the chancellor about IMPACT, DCPS's teacher review process. Fittingly, it came on April Fool's Day.
Her last phone call to me was Easter morning, when she left a voicemail about a special education committee meeting this week she thought I might want to know about–and then noted what she thought were two important posts from this blog regarding IMPACT (here and here).
How lucky have we been to have known Liz Davis–and what a great teacher we have lost.
Categories District of Columbia, Equity, Justice, Teachers and Teaching, Unions
Brookings Study: How D.C. School Choice Intensifies Segregation
The Brookings Institution published a study of the D.C. school system, which is almost evenly divided between public schools and charter schools. It was written by three scholars: Vanessa Williamson, Brookings Institution; Jackson Gode, Brookings Institution; and Hao Sun, Gallaudet University. The title of their study is "We All Want What's Best for Our Kids." Their findings are based on close reading of an online parent forum called "DC Urban Moms," where school choice is an important topic.
What they found is not surprising. Choice intensifies and facilitates racial and socioeconomic segregation. This is the same phenomenon that has been documented in choice programs everywhere. The most advantaged parents master the system and get their children into what is perceived as the "best schools." The "best schools" are those that have the most advantaged students.
The study begins:
Public education in the District includes a system of traditional public schools and a system of public 8
charter schools; in 2018–19, these schools served over 90,000 students at 182 schools. The city is highly diverse, as is the incoming school-age population. Among children under five, 48 percent are Black, 27 percent are white non-Hispanic, and 17 percent are Hispanic.9 54 percent of the city's public school students are in traditional (DCPS) public schools, while 46 percent are in public charter schools (DCPCS). All students have the right to attend their local public school, or they can enter a lottery for a seat at another traditional public school or public charter school.10
In practice, parents' school choices are limited. Housing in Washington is strongly segregated by race and class, with popular schools generally located in expensive or rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods.11 Housing prices in the District are high and rising, and affordable housing is in exceptionally short supply.12 The District's school system does not provide regular school bus transportation; children can ride public transit to school for free, but commutes can be long, and it is often impractical for working parents to accompany young children to a school that is far from home.13 Most students attend a school in their own wards, with students in poorer parts of the city facing longer commutes.14
In making decisions about where to send their children to school, parents (and especially more privileged parents) are key contributors to school segregation and inequality.
Even for parents willing or able to enroll their children far from home, there remain fewer options than might first appear. The most popular traditional public schools rarely have spaces available to students who live beyond the school's catchment area. Popular charter schools often have waitlists of hundreds of students.15 Moreover, researching the schools available via the lottery requires time and resources; school lottery waitlists are dominated by families that are more socioeconomically privileged.16
In making decisions about where to send their children to school, parents (and especially more privileged parents) are key contributors to school segregation and inequality. As the District of Columbia Auditor's office has stated, "there is a pattern of District families moving away from schools with more students considered at-risk17 to schools with fewer students considered at-risk. These moves are facilitated by the robust choice model in DC."18
Categories Charter Schools, District of Columbia, Parents, School Choice, Segregation
Richard P. Phelps Looks Back on D.C. Reform, Part 2
Richard P. Phelps was hired by D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee to oversee testing, which was a crucial element in her plans to "reform" the district and raise test scores. During his time there, outsiders raised questions about whether there was widespread cheating on tests.
Phelps addresses those questions in this post.
He begins:
Ten years ago, I worked as the director of assessments for DCPS. For temporal context, I arrived after the first of the infamous test cheating scandals and left just before the incident that spawned a second. Indeed, I filled a new position created to both manage test security and design an expanded testing program. I departed shortly after Vincent Gray, who opposed an expanded testing program, defeated Adrian Fenty in the September 2010 DC mayoral primary. My tenure coincided with Michelle Rhee's last nine months as chancellor.
The recurring test cheating scandals of the Rhee-Henderson years may seem extraordinary but, in fairness, DCPS was more likely than the average U.S. school district to be caught because it received a much higher degree of scrutiny. Given how tests are typically administered in this country, the incidence of cheating is likely far greater than news accounts suggest, for several reasons:
–in most cases, those who administer tests—schoolteachers and administrators—have an interest in their results;
–test security protocols are numerous and complicated yet, nonetheless, the responsibility of non-expert ordinary school personnel, guaranteeing their inconsistent application across schools and over time;
–after-the-fact statistical analyses are not legal proof—the odds of a certain amount of wrong-to-right erasures in a single classroom on a paper-and-pencil test being coincidental may be a thousand to one, but one-in-a-thousand is still legally plausible; and
–after-the-fact investigations based on interviews are time-consuming, scattershot, and uneven.
Still, there were measures that the Rhee-Henderson administrations could have adopted to substantially reduce the incidence of cheating, but they chose none that might have been effective. Rather, they dug in their heels, insisted that only a few schools had issues, which they thoroughly resolved, and repeatedly denied any systematic problem.
Phelps' articles were originally published at the Nonpartisan Education Review. They were reposted on Valerie Jablow's blog.
Categories Accountability, Cheating, District of Columbia, Education Reform, Rhee, Michelle, Standardized Testing, Teacher Evaluations
Richard P. Phelps: The D.C. Reform Hoax, Part 1
Richard P. Phelps recounts his experiences as the director of assessment for Michelle Rhee, chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools. Phelps was expected to expand the notorious IMPACT testing program, meant to evaluate teachers. Phelps visited hundreds of administrators and teachers and asked their advice about how to make the program better. They gave him good ideas, and he passed them on to top staff as recommendations. The professionals' advice was rejected by two top reformers.
Phelps' article was posted on the blog of D.C. activist Valerie Jablow. She acknowledged its origin in this editor's note:
[Ed. Note: In part 1 of this series, semi-retired educator Richard P. Phelps provided a first-hand account of what went down in DCPS as ed reformers in the early days of mayoral control pushed standardized tests; teacher evaluations based on those tests; and harsh school penalties. This second part looks at the cheating scandals that arose in the wake of such abusive practices. Such accounts are all the more important now that the DC auditor has just released a bombshell report of poor stewardship of DC's education data. Both articles appeared in Nonpartisan Education Review in September 2020 and are reprinted here with permission. For this part, the author gratefully acknowledges the fact-checking assistance of retired DCPS teacher Erich Martel and DC school budget expert Mary Levy.]
Phelps came to realize that the "reformers" really didn't care about improving education or helping children. They were padding their resumes, building their career prospects in the lavishly funded reform world.
Phelps writes:
Alas, much of the activity labelled "reform" was just for show, and for padding resumes. Numerous central office managers would later work for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Numerous others would work for entities supported by the Gates or aligned foundations, or in jurisdictions such as Louisiana, where ed reformers held political power. Most would be well paid.
Their genuine accomplishments, or lack thereof, while at DCPS seemed to matter little. What mattered was the appearance of accomplishment and, above all, loyalty to the group. That loyalty required going along to get along: complicity in maintaining the façade of success while withholding any public criticism of or disagreement with other in-group members.
Unfortunately, in the United States what is commonly showcased as education reform is neither a civic enterprise nor a popular movement. Neither parents, the public, nor school-level educators have any direct influence. Rather, at the national level, U.S. education reform is an elite, private club—a small group of tightly connected politicos and academics—a mutual admiration society dedicated to the career advancement, political influence, and financial benefit of its members, supported by a gaggle of wealthy foundations (e.g., Gates, Walton, Broad, Wallace, Hewlett, Smith-Richardson).
Despite their failures, the elites who led DCPS moved on to remunerative positions. The game goes on. And it's not "for the children."
Categories Accountability, Corporate Reform, District of Columbia, Education Industry, Hoax, Lies, Standardized Testing, Teacher Evaluations
Why the District of Columbia Should Gain Statehood
January 26, 2021 //
Chris Myers Asch grew up in D.C. His mother still lives there. He now lives in Maine and he urges his senators in Maine to support statehood for D.C. In this column, published in the Maine Press Herald, he explains why the District should gain statehood and why the residents of the District should have the right to vote. Asch teaches at Colby College and is the author of Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capitol.
My mom is an amazing American. The only child of a Census Bureau statistician and a Jewish social scientist (who fled her native Germany because of the Nazis), she was born and raised in the nation's capital. She had two children while attending medical school and another (me!) in Laos, where she practiced medicine as my father served in Vietnam. She worked in pediatrics and later in a drug clinic, then spent the last 15 years of her career caring for veterans at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. She has lived an extraordinary life of service.
But she can't vote.
My mom and over 700,000 American citizens – 32,000 of whom are veterans – have no voting representatives or senators in Congress because they happen to live in Washington, D.C. That's right. The people who reside in the capital of the world's foremost democracy do not actually get to participate fully in that democracy. They can vote for president, but in Congress all they have are a "Non-Voting Delegate" and a "Shadow Senator," neither of whom has full voting rights...
The power to create new states rests entirely with Congress. Last summer, with support from Reps. Chellie Pingree and Jared Golden, the House of Representatives voted 232-180 to turn D.C. into a state, the first D.C. statehood bill ever to pass a house of Congress. The bill is scheduled to be introduced in the Senate on Friday, and we need both Sens. Angus King and Susan Collins to get on board as well.
Some critics say D.C. is too small too have statehood, but it has a larger population than Maine or Wyoming. Furthermore, the people of D.C. pay more taxes than the people of 22 states.
It is time. The District of Columbia should become a state, with representation in Congress.
Categories Democracy, District of Columbia
Three Heroic D.C. Police Officers Describe the Insurrection
This link will take you to interviews conducted by ABC's WJLA in the District of Columbia.
Three police officers and the chief of the D.C. Metropolitan Police describe what happened on January 6.
One of them was dragged out of one of the Capitol entrances and beaten with his own baton.
Another was crushed inside a door and nearly had an eye gouged out.
They describe a mob that was bent on mayhem and destruction. They describe a mob that wanted blood.
What you will hear is the voices of men and a woman sworn to uphold the law and to protect the Constitution.
They risked their lives for us.
Categories Accountability, Courage, Democracy, District of Columbia
Now Here Is a Balanced Discussion of Teachers Unions!
The Harvard Program on Education Policy and Governance is led by Professor Paul Peterson, an advocate for school choice. It would not be off the mark to say that PEPG exists to promote the DeVos agenda. Soon after she was confirmed, PEPG invited her to speak, and her speech was disrupted by Harvard students not affiliated with PEPG. Peterson has been the mentor for a generation of pro-school choice academics, including Jay Greene (University of Arkansas, Department of Education Reform), Patrick Wolf (same, also served as "independent evaluator" of Milwaukee and DC voucher prigrams), and Martin West (Harvard Graduate School of Education). Peterson recently appeared at the White House to support Trump's call to reopen schools and co-wrote an oped with Dr. Scott Atlas (both are senior fellows at the rightwing Hoover Institution). Dr. Atlas supports Trump's views that mask-wearing should not be mandatory, that children and adolescents don't get the virus, th ast schools should reopen without delay, and that lockdowns are unnecessary. In many articles about Dr. Atlas, Peterson is his reliable defender.
The event today asks whether teachers unions can be part of the solution. Michelle Rhee and George Parker. Parker was head of the Washington Teachers Union when Rhee was chancellor. When he stepped down, he went to work for Rhee. He now works for a charter school lobbying group. More than 90% of charters are non-union.
Fall 2020 Colloquium Series: Can Teachers Unions Be Part of the Solution?
The PEPG Colloquium series continues Thursday, Sept. 24, with "Can Teachers Unions Be Part of the Solution?," a talk by Michelle Rhee, Founder and CEO, StudentsFirst, former Chancellor for District of Columbia Public Schools, and George Parker, Senior Advisor, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, former President, District of Columbia Teachers Union.
Thursday, Sept. 24
12-1:15 p.m.
Register to attend the Zoom webinar
Categories Accountability, Charter Schools, District of Columbia, Education Industry, Privatization, Rhee, Michelle, Teachers, Unions, Vouchers
Richard Phelps Reviews Michelle Rhee's Reforms, Part 2
Richard Phelps was in charge of assessment in the last year of the reign of Michelle Rhee as superintendent of the District of Columbia Public Schools. In this post, he describes how difficult and time-consuming it is to identify test cheating and how little the D.C. leadership cared about making the effort. Phelps was supposed to monitor test security and expand testing.
The recurring test cheating scandals of the Rhee-Henderson years may seem extraordinary but, in fairness, DCPS was more likely than the average US school district to be caught because it received a much higher degree of scrutiny. Given how tests are typically administered in this country, the incidence of cheating is likely far greater than news accounts suggest, for several reasons:
· in most cases, those who administer tests—schoolteachers and administrators—have an interest in their results;
· test security protocols are numerous and complicated yet, nonetheless, the responsibility of non-expert ordinary school personnel, guaranteeing their inconsistent application across schools and over time;
· after-the-fact statistical analyses are not legal proof—the odds of a certain amount of wrong-to-right erasures in a single classroom on a paper-and-pencil test being coincidental may be a thousand to one, but one-in-a-thousand is still legally plausible; and
· after-the-fact investigations based on interviews are time-consuming, scattershot, and uneven.
He punctures Rhee's claim that the test security agency Caveon never found evidence of "systematic cheating."
Caveon, however, had not looked for "systematic" cheating. All they did was interview a few people at several schools where the statistical anomalies were more extraordinary than at others. As none of those individuals would admit to knowingly cheating, Caveon branded all their excuses as "plausible" explanations. That's it; that is all that Caveon did. But, Caveon's statement that they found no evidence of "widespread" cheating—despite not having looked for it—would be frequently invoked by DCPS leaders over the next several years.
Categories Accountability, Cheating, District of Columbia, Education Reform, Rhee, Michelle, Standardized Testing


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Oceanside Grandmothers to Grandmothers
in solidarity with African grandmothers, turning the tide of AIDS in Africa
History of our Group
GROUP ORGANIZATION and COMMUNICATION
MEMBERSHIP and DIRECTORY
JOB BOARD: help wanted
Oceanside Grandmothers come from the east coast of Vancouver Island, BC, Canada, from the region that includes Parksville, Qualicum Beach and several other seaside communities between Nanaimo to the south and Courtenay to the north. Currently, approximately 145 women aged 45 to 90 are part of our local group.
Our structure is clear but flexible to enable our personal engagements to mesh with the other commitments of our lives. Outside of meeting time, we are active within committees that create or plan projects, and in the numerous events that raise awareness and funds.
We work cooperatively and cheerfully. We are conscious of the seriousness of our purpose in giving support to our African counterparts, but we work with a smile. We enjoy creating products to sell, running events for the Oceanside region, and having fun together.
Anyone interested in joining our group is welcome to attend our meetings. We meet six times a year (January, April, June, September, October, and November, on the third Tuesday of each of these months) in the hall of Knox United Church. Dates are listed in the side bar at the top of the Welcome page. If you have questions, see Contact us.
See also: The History of Our Group
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Davis Love III was officially named as the US Ryder Cup captain at a PGA of America press conference last night, with vice-captain Tom Lehman and Phil Mickelson among those endorsing the man who will lead the team at Hazeltine in 2016.
Love, 50, was the choice of an 11-man task force – including himself – as the USA look to end a run of eight defeats in the last ten matches, coming closest to breaking that when he was denied by the 'Miracle at Medinah' in his first stint as captain in 2012.
Six of the 11 task force members were present at the press conference, co-chairs Derek Sprague and Pete Bevacqua, Love, Lehman, Mickelson and Rickie Fowler, with 2006 Ryder Cup captain Lehman delighted to be named as one of four vice-captains.
He said: "Davis was a great captain and will continue to be a great captain with this 2016 team. I'm so excited to be a part of this team and be part of the process of building a team that has a chance to succeed in 2016.
Mickelson, who was scathing in his criticism of Tom Watson's captaincy at Gleneagles in 2014, had reportedly wanted Fred Couples as captain, but said Davis Love leading would be good for Team USA's long-term future.
He said: "He felt like he was taking somebody's spot. He felt like it wasn't his place to do that.
"But you want to have somebody that can look back on past things that have been done well and things that could be improved upon. Davis, in 2012, did a lot of great things right and he did some things that he would like to do differently, so he has something to work from.
Going forward, Mickelson is part of a newly formed, six-man Ryder Cup committee, along with Sprague, Bevacqua, Paul Levy, Love and Tiger Woods, with the latter sharing his thoughts in a statement.
He said: "I want to congratulate Davis on his selection. I have great respect for him as a person, player and captain.
In some other changes, a new points system has been developed and the timing of the captain's picks has altered, which seems to have gone down well with Jordan Spieth, who made is Ryder Cup debut last year.
Last week's news about Davis Love's expected captaincy came as a surprise to most, with three-time Presidents Cup winner Couples and 2008 Ryder Cup winning captain Paul Azinger thought to be more clear contenders for the role.
But Couples, who is good friends with Davis Love, said there were no hard feelings about the 1997 US PGA champion becoming captain.
Speaking to GolfChannel at the Northern Trust Open at Riviera CC last weekend, Couples said: "If it wasn't Davis, I might have a different attitude towards this. But he's been my friend for 30 years and I'm very happy for him.
Davis Love will go head-to-head at Hazeltine in 2016 with good friend and fellow one-time major winner Darren Clarke, who was named European Ryder Cup captain last week.
Now we've officially got our two captains, who do you think will lift the 2016 Ryder Cup at Hazeltine? Leave your thoughts in the 'Comments' section below.


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Q: Linux Shared Object Library Linkage I have a library I want to use. I don't have the source code for it but it contains a function I'd like to use. It is a normal x86-64 shared object with some JNI code in it and nothing that special. My problem is now that the library references to libm.so. What now happens is quite strange and I did not expect it. When I try to run it, it tells me that libm.so has an invalid ELF-header, what makes sense because libm.so is just a reference file to libm.so.6 which is the actual library file.
Now my question is how to correct that? I'm really surprised that the operating system doesn't handle that correctly since every program will reference to libm.so and not libm.so.6 since it should be at least somewhat version independent.
EDIT: I did an strace and libm.so seems to be just the tip of the iceberg... My library is referencing to many common standard libraries of linux. And since I'm executing it in the JRE it only searches in the directory of the JRE and that's completely wrong of course. And since the library is taken from an Android App the original makefile probably had paths for the libraries that don't make sense either... have to do some more analysis for this question to be solved.

A: The import should be libm.so.6. Importing libm.so should only be done while compiling. The resulting ELF should import the former.
This is called an ABI version. It is meant to make sure that if you linked with a library at a certain version, that you only get actual imports that are compatible with the version you linked with. There are somewhat complicated rules as to when that number changes (see soname for more details).
Sadly, you have not asked any actual question. This does not explain why your import failed. If the ELF header is wrong, then you are probably looking for it (more precisely, sending ld.so to look for it) at the wrong place.
I would run my code with strace to see what files are actually opened. Then, run file on it see that the platforms match (maybe a 64 bit executable is trying to open a 32 bit library or vice versa).

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Az ideiglenes címer olyan, melyet a viselője átmenetileg használ addig az időig, amíg a végleges címerről döntés születik. Ezért egyfajta szükségcímernek is nevezhető, mert nem gondos tervezéssel hozzák létre, hanem az azonnali használatbavétel szándékával. Ennek ellenére heraldikailag helyes címer, ha hozzáértő személyek alkotják meg, a címertani szabályok betartásával, de a végleges címer megalkotásakor utólag esetleg több változtatást is végre kell hajtani rajta, hogy megfelejen a címerművészet és címerelmélet elveinek, azaz a jó ízlésnek és a szabályos szerkesztési módnak, valamint a címerviselő és -adományozó szándékainak.

Például az 1871-ben Versailles-ban kikiáltott Német Császárság egy füst alatt ("über Nacht") fogadta el ideiglenes államcímerét is, melyet az első birodalmi címernek tekintenek.

Ideiglenes címernek tartható az is, amelyet annak kérvényezője számára a kancellárián megterveztek, majd különféle okokból nem hagyták jóvá (változtattak az eredeti terven, a kérvényező nem fizette ki, kiesett az adományozó kegyeiből, az adományozó megváltoztatta a szándékát, más hivatal is beleszólt a címeradományozásba stb.) vagy mást adományoztak a kedvezményezettnek, mint ami az eredeti tervben szerepelt. A megtervezett de ki nem adott címerek nem hivatalos, hanem örökké csak ideiglenes címerek maradtak. A cseh levéltárakban például számos ilyen, az egyes települések számára elkészített címerterv található meg, melyet sohasem adtak ki és így nem váltak hivatalossá.

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Americans Loeb and Vickery To Face Off In Final
TEMPLETON, Calif. (Sept. 30, 2017) – Jamie Loeb and Taylor Townsend left the best for last on Saturday in the first semifinal of the inaugural Central Coast Pro Tennis Open as the two young Americans battled it out for a spot in the finals on a picture-perfect day at the $60,000 USTA Women's Pro Circuit event at the Templeton Tennis Ranch.
Loeb, who was 1-1 head-to-head against Townsend in 2017 heading into the match, captured the win in dramatic fashion as the 22-year-old former NCAA singles champion from the University of North Carolina outlasted the No. 5 seeded 21-year-old Townsend in a three-hour match, 6-4, 6-7 (7), 7-6 (8).
The last two tiebreak sets were all-action and left the enthusiastic Templeton tennis fans rooting for more.
"I don't know how long that match was, but Taylor and I have played some great ones," Loeb told the supportive crowd after the match. "She's a great player and I knew I would have to be at my top level to beat her. It was close, but I'm so fortunate to get the win and move onto the final."
After taking the first set, Loeb fell down 1-5 in the second before storming back only to come up short in a tight and exciting tiebreaker, 7-6 (9-7). In the deciding set, Loeb had lapses on her serve, but stuck with her game plan to finally pull out the clincher in yet another tiebreaker, 10-8.
Loeb has won seven USTA Pro Circuit singles titles and six doubles titles. Her last $60,000 level win came in Australia back in January.
Loeb's opponent in the final will be fellow 22-year-old American Sachia Vickery, who came back to upset top-seeded Viktorija Golubic of Switzerland, 4-6, 7-6 (3), 6-3. Vickery not only came back after losing the first set, but battled back from down 1-3 in the third set to beat Golubic, who she also took out in three sets in a Quebec City event recently, again winning in three sets after dropping the first.
Jamie Loeb
"Today's tennis was Pro Circuit at its best," said Ralph Goehring tournament director and owner of the Templeton Tennis Ranch. "We saw pure athleticism and strategy and gritty determination. This was a great day for Central Coast tennis."
In the doubles final to follow the singles on Sunday, the Swiss team of Golubic and Amra Sadikovic will take on former USC teammates Kaitlyn Christian and Giuliana Olmos.
The cost to attend the Saturday semifinals and the Sunday finals is $10. Children 12 and under are free.
Saturday's Seminal Singles Results
Sachia Vickery, U.S. (4), def. Viktorija Golubic, Switzerland (1), 4-6, 7-6 (3), 6-3
Jamie Loeb, U.S. (8), def. Taylor Townsend, U.S. (5), 6-4, 6-7 (7), 7-6 (8)
Sunday's Schedule starting at 1 p.m.
Sachia Vickery, U.S. (4), vs. Jamie Loeb, U.S. (8)
Followed by Doubles Final:
Viktorija Golubic, Switzerland-Amra Sadikovic, Switzerland (1) vs. Kaitlyn Christian, U.S.-Giuliana Olmos, Mexico (4)
About the USTA Pro Circuit
With approximately 100 tournaments hosted annually throughout the country and prize money ranging from $10,000 to $100,000, the USTA Pro Circuit is the pathway to the US Open and tour-level competition for aspiring tennis players and a frequent battleground for established professionals. The USTA launched its Pro Circuit 38 years ago to provide players with the opportunity to gain professional ranking points, and it has since grown to become the largest developmental tennis circuit in the world, offering nearly $3.5 million in prize money. Last year, more than 1,000 men and women from more than 70 countries competed in cities nationwide. John Isner, Maria Sharapova, Caroline Wozniacki, Sam Querrey, Sloane Stephens, Kei Nishikori, Victoria Azarenka and Andy Murray are among today's top stars who began their careers on the USTA Pro Circuit.
About Templeton Tennis Ranch
Set amid a tranquil wooded property, Templeton Tennis Ranch's stunning clubhouse, versatile fitness center, infrared sauna and state-of-the-art tennis(6) and pickleball(4) courts are renowned in San Luis Obispo County. Come see why visitors and locals alike enjoy the Central Coast's beautiful wooded family fitness hub, Ohana Hale Café, wellness and event centers. Templeton Tennis Ranch is located at 345 Championship Lane in Templeton off the Main Street Exit on the west side of Highway 101. For more information, call (805) 434-9605, or visitwww.ttrtennis.com.
Tournament Press Contact: Steve Pratt, 310.408.4555, stevep@bzapr.com
Central Coast Pro Tennis Open
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Heat water and salt in a vessel. When it boils, put the rice flour and make a hole in the centre. Close the vessel tightly with a lid, simmer the flame and keep it for 1 minute. Open the lid and with the tip of a spoon mix the flour. Remove the vessel from fire and allow the content to cool. Knead it to a fine dough without adding water. Take small balls from the dough and roll each of it into thin, round shapes by spreading rice flour over the balls.
Heat a thick bottom flat pan. Cook the pattiri by turning both side till done. Don't use any oil while cooking.
Grate the coconut. Add some water and take thick milk from it. Soak the pattiri in this milk just before serving.
› I will try to make it as it is a simple procedure.


Genetic diversity and population structure were studied in 155 chickpea ( Cicer arietinum L.) entries using 33 polymorphic microsatellite (SSR) markers. Molecular analysis of variance showed variations of 73% within and 27% among populations. Introduced genotypes exhibited highest polymorphism (70.27%) than the landraces (36-57%). Collections from Shewa, Harerge, W. Gojam and S. Gonder regions also showed higher polymorphism (50-57%) than the rest of the local accessions (36-45%). Analyses of pairwise population Nei genetic distance and PhiPT coefficients, expected heterozygosity (He) and unbiased expected heterozygosity (UHe), Shannon's information index (I) and percent polymorphism (% P) showed existence of high genetic variation between geographical regions. Accessions from adjoining geographical regions mostly showed more genetic similarities than those from origins far isolated apart. This could be associated with the ease and likelihood of inter-regional gene flow and seed movement particularly during times of drought. The 155 entries were grouped into five clusters following analysis of population structure. The first cluster (C) constituted accessions from Arsi; the second (C) from Gojam and Gonder; the third (C) from Harerge and E. and N. Shewa; and the fourth (C) from W. Shewa, Tigray, and Wello regions. The fifth cluster (C) was entirely consisted of improved genotypes. Improved genotypes of both Kabuli and Desi types distinctly fell into cluster five (C) regardless of their difference in seed types. The result has firmly established that introduction of genetic materials from exotic sources has broadened the genetic base of the national chickpea breeding program. Further implications of the findings as regards to chickpea germplasm management and its utilization in breeding program are also discussed.
Reports on the commercial planting of Sierra, a kabuli-type chickpea served at salad bars and used in ethnic dishes. Taste of the chickpea; Nutritional content of the chickpea; Creation of Sierra from Dwelley and chickpea germplasm.


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Oh, no! Another 4-hour flight to nowhere
Hawaiian Air flight 43 took off from San Jose, and returned 4 hours later (Image: Flight Aware)
Last month we reported on a United flight that took off from SFO bound for Hawaii, but due to a mechanical issue, circled off the California coast for four hours before returning to SFO. That post ended up being one of the most popular posts this year on the TravelSkills.com blog.
Well guess what? It happened again on Tuesday, March 7. This time it was Hawaiian Air flight 43 from San Jose International to Honolulu on a Boeing 767.
Instead of getting to Honolulu, passengers had to return to San Jose. (Photo: Chris McGinnis)
The flight was ready to go, but an onboard generator broke down requiring repairs, according to a CBSBayArea report. That delayed take off for two hours.
Once the B767 took off pointed toward paradise, the generator malfunctioned again, which meant returning to San Jose.
However, a big 767 loaded down with the fuel necessary for the 2,500 mile flight to Honolulu is not able to safely land. In order to reduce fuel weight, the pilot had to circle off the coast for three hours to burn off fuel.
Turns out that like the United flight to nowhere, this Boeing 767-300 is unable to dump fuel to lighten up quickly for a safe landing. The only way to lose that weight is to circle a safe distance from the airport until enough fuel has burned off.
But unlike the United flight to nowhere, Hawaiian was unable bring in another plane to re-accommodate passengers. CBS reports that passengers had to re-book flights for the following day.
Here's Hawaiian Airlines' statement on the incident: HA43, scheduled to depart SJC at 9:10 a.m. local time, was delayed until 11:21 a.m. due to a part replacement. En route to Honolulu, the captain received notification of a mechanical issue and elected to return to San Jose. The aircraft landed safely at 2:52 p.m. local time and after inspection by maintenance the flight was later cancelled. There were 241 passengers and 11 crew. All passengers were re-protected on other flights and airlines.
Yuck. And increasingly common, or so it sounds!
NOTE: Last time we posted about this, lot of readers wondered why the airline didn't just fly the plane to Hawaii if they were going to circle for four hours anyway. The reason is that airlines don't want to fly a faulty aircraft thousands of miles out over the ocean. Instead, pilots circle within a few hundred miles of the airport so they can land if they have to. Here's an image of how far the flight is to Hawaii… and how close the plane stayed to SJC.
Don't miss our report on United's flight to nowhere last month!
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Filed Under: Airlines, Airports Tagged With: Boeing 767, Flight 43, fuel dumping, Hawaiian Airlines, Honolulu, San Jose
United's 4-hour flight to nowhere
United flight 1111 from San Francisco to Lihue, Kauai on Tuesday, Feb 7: a four hour loopdy loop (Image: FlightAware)
On Tuesday morning at 9 a.m., United flight 1111 took off from San Francisco International with a likely load of gleeful passengers bound for paradise.
Then something happened and the flight had to return to San Francisco…. after circling over the Pacific Ocean for four hours, arriving at about 1 pm.
I was not on this flight, but have been able to piece together what happened.
UA1111 departed on time at around 9 a.m. bound for Lihue, Kauai, but experienced a maintenance issue shortly after take off which required a return to SFO.
To make it to Kauai safely (2,540 miles away), a Boeing 757 is loaded down with a LOT of very heavy fuel. It's so heavy in fact, that the plane cannot land with that much fuel onboard.
Don't miss: First look inside United's newest jet: The Boeing 777-300ER [PHOTOS]
United flight 1111 preparing for take off to Lihue- I took this flight last summer ! (Chris McGinnis)
In many cases like this, the pilots would quickly jettison the fuel at a high altitude. Once the fuel is offloaded, the plane could return and land. (Jettisoned fuel disperses into the atmosphere and does not come raining down to earth. See: Fuel Dumping)
However, a Boeing 757 is not able to dump fuel, according to my aviation geek buddies with whom I had a Twitter chat about this.
So… this meant that pilots had to fly the plane in circles for four hours off the coast to burn off fuel and lighten up before returning to SFO for a safe landing at 1 pm.
I can only imagine the groans from passengers when the pilot had to inform them that they'd be flying around for four hours, landing back in rainy SFO instead of sunny Kauai. In Kauai, there were undoubtedly people to meet, cars to rent, meetings to attend and hotel rooms reserved. These folks were ready to get their toes in the sand, no doubt!
View of Hanalei Bay from a room at the St Regis Princeville in Kauai (Chris McGinnis)
I contacted United to find out how this all played out, and it sounds like the airline did a good job recovering from this mishap. A spokesperson told TravelSkills that when the plane landed back at SFO, United offered passengers drink and meal vouchers. Another plane was called into service to re-accommodate passengers, and took off at 4:30 pm and arrived in Lihue 6 hours later at about 9 p.m.
UPDATE: A lot of readers are wondering why United didn't just fly the plane to Hawaii if they were going to circle for a few hours. The reason is that United did not want to fly a faulty aircraft thousands of miles out over the ocean. Instead, pilots circled within a few hundred miles of SFO so they could land if they had to. Here's an image of how far the flight is to Hawaii… and how close the plane stayed to SFO.
Mid point to Hawaii is 1,250 miles from the nearest airport– no place to be flying a faulty plane! (Image: FlightAware)
Phew! Has this ever happened to you? What's the worst or most painful delay or cancellation you've had to deal with? Please leave your comments below.
Filed Under: Airlines, Airports Tagged With: 757, Cancellation, delay, fuel, fuel dumping, Kauai, Lihue, SFO, UA 1111, United


11th Annual iPhone Photography award winners announced.
Let's face it, iPhones changed the world. Smartphones are now an integral part of our daily life. Many people don't even own a computer anymore and do all their work, web surfing and photo taking on their phone.
The iPhone also changed the way we see the world. People are so focused on posting images to social media that they need a fast way to take, edit and publish photos that they shoot. Images literally need to be able to be uploaded mere seconds after they're taken in some cases. iPhones can do that as they've all got decent sensors and have powerful software to make up for the small lenses.
The iPhone Photography Awards (IPPAWARDS) first recognized the need to well, recognize photos that were taken with this remarkable device 11 years ago. They understood that the iPhone is more than just a phone, it's camera has merit. It's a direct connection to people and what they see in any given moment. The iPhone has barely been around for 11 years, so, to recognize that it's a game-changing camera that is changing how we see the world way back when the iPhone was in its infancy is really impressive. These cameras are not flukes and the images are only getting better and better each year.
"The iPhone Photography Awards (IPPAWARDS) is proud to announce the winners of the 11th Annual Awards. This year's winners were selected from thousands of entries submitted by iPhone photographers from over 140 countries around the world.
The 1st, 2nd and 3rd places in 18 categories were awarded to photographers who represented many countries around the world including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Ecuador, Finland, France, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Myanmar, Oman, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Syria, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Kingdom and the United States."
Head on over to the IPPAWARDS site to see the grand prize winner, top 3 overall and so many more great images shot on an iPhone.


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Q: Java File API copy files across network I've wrote some code to manipulate files with Java File and commons FileUtils API. It works fine if the files in local but not work always right if the files in anther machine.
Can I use those File APIs across networks?


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Q: Why isn't my Google OAuth 2.0 Working? I've been working on a small script to grab YouTube channel data and my Google OAuth 2.0 isn't working.
$validate = "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth?client_id=242340718758-65veqhhdjfl21qc2klkfhbcb19rre8li.apps.googleusercontent.com&redirect_uri=http://conor1998.web44.net/php/oauth.php&scope=https://www.googleapis.com/auth/yt-analytics.readonly&response_type=code&access_type=offline";

echo "Login with Google for advanced analytics";

if(isset($_GET['code'])) {
    // try to get an access token
    $code = $_GET['code'];
    $url = 'https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token?code='.$code.'&client_id=242340718758-65veqhhdjfl21qc2klkfhbcb19rre8li.apps.googleusercontent.com&client_secret={secret}&redirect_uri=http://conor1998.web44.net/php/oauth.php&grant_type=authorization_code';
    $url = urlencode($url);
    header('Location: $url');
}

$response = file_get_contents($url);
$response = json_decode($response);

$channel_data = file_get_contents('https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/analytics/v1/reports?ids=channel==mine&start-date=2014-08-01&end-date=2014-09-01&metrics=views&key=AIzaSyDTxvTLWXStUrhzgCDptVUG4dGBCpyL9MY?alt=json');
$channel_data = json_decode($channel_data, true);

echo "
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var_dump($channel_data);
echo "
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I have no idea why it doesn't work. I feel it's mainly due to my goal of trying to get the authentication token for the user so i can grab their YouTube data. Any help would be appreciated

A: The code you receive from the auth website is not the access token! You have to exchange it for refresh and access tokens (see #4).
You have to perform a POST request to https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token in order to get your tokens. It is not working via GET (as you can see when clicking the link).


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Avondale: 'Breakdown' led to 12-day delay in abduction alert
Officials in Avondale Estates today said a "breakdown in communication" led to a 12-day delay in alerting residents to an attempted child abduction in broad daylight.
Parents reported June 17 that a woman driving a Honda Element had stopped about 3 p.m. the day before and tried to cajole their 12-year-old daughter into getting into her car. The girl, who was walking home from the DeKalb County community's swimming pool, was alarmed and walked instead to the front door of the nearest home.
Word of the abduction attempt circulated among some parents in the neighborhood, but police issued no official word on the incident until June 29. Normally, as a matter of routine, the city sends out notices about attempted car break-ins and burglaries within 24 hours.
At one point, before an official announcement, a city official suggested to one resident that the delay was a result of concern for the child.
City Manager Clai Brown (right) said today that the abduction was reported to officers on the next shift after the report came in, but no one told Police Chief Gary Broden. The city has completed retraining on procedures for passing on crime reports to residents, Brown said.
Here is the complete text of Brown's statement, as well as a link to a report on the incident Friday by WSB-TV.
MESSAGE FROM CITY HALL
As part of our process of continuous improvement, the purpose of this email is to share with you the action we have taken regarding the attempted child abduction which occurred on June 16th.
A key issue identified in our assessment was the delay between the time the incident was reported to the police and the time the Crime Alert email was sent to residents. While the information was immediately passed on to the oncoming shift during roll call, it was not immediately passed on to the Chief of Police. This was a break down in communication. As you know our City Crime Alerts are sent out immediately after information is passed on. To address this issue, additional training on the procedure for reporting incidents and notifying residents has been completed.
I want to personally assure you that public safety is our top priority. Our police officers are dedicated to assisting you and work hard to provide the level of public safety that you deserve. Keeping you informed and part of that process makes our City a safer place to live.
R. Clai Brown


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Classes implementing functionality for flask-oauthlib using Redis as the backing store.

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Deion Sanders declares all lives matter in response to recent shootings and growing racial tensions
Culture/Politics
Prior to the most recent string of shootings and violent acts, the country was already in a bad place. Events like the San Bernardino, California attack and the recent shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida have left politics charged and people emotional. Once upon a time, the natural response to tragedies was to come together and help each other. In the world of polarizing politics, fast social media, and global mainstream media, it's easier to resort to hate and division as opposed to unity.
Some respond to acts like those in California or Florida by denouncing Muslims for the acts of radicals, others call for greater gun control. In response to a recent string of shootings of innocent human beings, we are no longer divided just along political lines, but racial ones as well. There are competing sentiments among people who largely agree that no innocent people at all should die.
Do black lives matter? What about white lives? How about all lives?
Legendary athlete and football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders weighed in by noting that all lives do matter:
While it's easy to say something that sounds nice, there is more that has to be done. Society needs to be able to move on from these incidents by coming together. Racial violence and cop hatred benefits no one. No one should be oppressed for the color of their skin and not all cops should be judged on the actions of the few. We are all individuals who should be judged on our own merits.
Sanders makes this observation when he calls on everyone to come together and move forward:
In our fast paced and highly polarized society, it's easy to spit fire and throw accusations, but this best foot forward sometimes is our front one. Sanders' again notes that how things are will make things worse if allowed to continue, in noting the best path forward is love:
This is true. The politics of division, whether it be a political divide or racial one, helps nobody and only allows for hatred to grow stronger.
Deion Sanders sums up his series of tweets on the recent shootings, including that in Dallas, by again pointing out what the message coming from everyone should be:
In America, we're all different. We live in a diverse society. But the consequences of actions have implications that affect us all, especially in a society that is more connected than ever before thanks to technology. The response to tragedies is faster and while that has its benefits, it also allows for allegations and speculation to grow faster than the news can clarify the problem. This leads to strained relations, hurt feelings and in worst case scenarios, racism and murder.
Deion Sanders played baseball and he played football. He was great enough at what he did to make into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. But even off the field, he's shown that his morality and intellect can match the athleticism. The message all of America should carry is the same as his: "All lives matter."
Chris Dixon is a liberty activist and writer from Maine. In addition to being Managing Editor for the Liberty Conservative, he also writes the Bangor Daily News blog "Undercover Porcupine" and for sports website Cleatgeeks.
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Jack and White return to the music scene with the release of their second EP Winter. Jack Matranga and Brooke White are doing things a little differently than most people these days. Instead of recording a new full length album every year or two, they have decided to release a new set of songs in EP format every 4-5 months. With the release of their first EP Gemini EP, only five months removed, the duo returns with four new tracks. The EP comes out at all major retailers on January 31st, but iTunes has it available for the first week at the low price of $2.99.
The EP was recorded in Brooke's Arizona home and produced, recorded, and mixed by the duo themselves. It opens up with "Night After Night" which features lead vocals from both White and Matranga. It is the first song to feature Matranga in the lead vocal role and he does a good job. The song has a nice catchy vibe and sticks to the late sixties, early seventies feel they had in their first EP.
Following up is "Bright Side of Bad News" which again features dual lead vocals. Their voices blend well together making a very pleasant listening experience. The guitars have a great seventies feel to it that have become the signature sound of Jack and White. It's a shorter song, but a very enjoyable song.
Brooke White takes over the lead vocal duties again for the song "XYZ". The mix on the song is very interesting as the drum track is very light in the mix and on the right side only for the first two minutes of the song before going full. It gives the song a neat effect when listening in stereo or through headphones. "XYZ" is a strong song with a very Fleetwood Mac feel.
The EP closes out with a very pretty song called "Voices." This song is easily my favorite of the album. Its soft, swee,t and just reverberates through your entire being as you listen to it.
If you buy the EP on iTunes, it comes with a live acoustic version of "Telephone Games" recorded in Brooke's house last fall. A fantastic job was done by these two on this version, and I actually like it better than the album version from Gemini EP.
What I really like about this album is not just the vibe of the music as mentioned earlier, but the use and placement of the OOOOs and AHHHHs in the album. Most of the songs have them and it just shows that sometimes a good melody doesn't need words behind it to make a powerful impact. Jack and White's music would have fit in so nicely with the era of Fleetwood Mac, Creadance Clearwater Revival, Joni Mitchel, and others of that time so well. It is nice to hear people bring that style back and do it well. White and Matranga have a knack for writing beautiful melodies and solid lyrics as well. If you are a fan of the music from the late sixties and early seventies, you will enjoy this album a lot. If you were a fan of Brooke White from her Idol days, you will be happy with what she has done since joining up with Jack Mantranga. I think if you were to drop $2.99 for this on iTunes you will not be disappointed at all, but get it now as it is only $2.99 the first week. Even still, the album is a good 15:05 of music that is worth a listen and many replays.


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The Natives Are Getting Restless
Connor Brooke Last updated: May 4, 2013
If you ask 10 marketers for a definition of "native advertising," you are likely to get 10 different answers. While the concept is as old as advertising itself, what's old is new again online and it seems everyone is rushing to redefine what it means to be native. As the river of venture capital dollars increasingly flows toward this buzzy new category, marketing platforms of all shapes and sizes are reaching out hoping to claim their seat on the raft. In many ways, the weeding-out process has already begun, and we're seeing the offerings that facilitate real reader engagement rise to the top. Still, it's worth looking at what makes them successful, and, ultimately, what it really takes to be native.
Our friends at Solve Media wrote a thoughtful white paper on this topic, and I've combined some of their thinking with my own ideas in order to come up with a holistic definition of native advertising. Here are the five criteria any true native ad should meet:
Non interruptive — Doesn't interrupt the user flow and fits seamlessly into the experience
In Stream and Contextual — Complements, rather than competes with, the content around it
Preserves Trust — Engenders trust by delivering value as opposed to employing deceptive marketing tricks
Maintains Brand Integrity — Takes the long view to craft and communicate a brand's story authentically
Adds Value — Supplements the experience by either entertaining, informing or engaging
The reality is that very few online marketing platforms — including many that stake a claim to being native — pass even the first test of the gauntlet by delivering a message without interrupting the user. Dan Greenberg of Sharethrough has written frequently as one of the leading proponents of native advertising. He alludes to "strategies built upon twin pillars of content and choice versus banners and interruption," citing Sponsored Stories on Facebook and Promoted Tweets on Twitter as innovative in this regard. I disagree. The sponsored stories that appear in my Facebook News Feed usually don't qualify as content, are rarely useful and frequently interrupt.
Promoted tweets aren't much better — almost always promotional, thick with branding and rarely appearing as if they belong in my stream. And neither product offers "choice," a key ingredient in establishing trust. Sponsored stories cannot be hidden like other stories that appear in the News Feed, and nothing can be edited out of your Twitter stream. Neither platform offers much choice, and in Facebook's case, there's less choice than users are otherwise accustomed to having.
When considering all five criteria, it turns out that content as a medium for delivering a brand's message may be the only pure-play way to achieve them all. Good content doesn't interrupt. In fact, it does the opposite, drawing you into a plot. It delivers value through entertainment, education, or some combination of both. Working our way down the list into the more nuanced characteristics, content can organically appear in places where it feels natural to discover. By entertaining or educating the reader and avoiding being overly promotional, it's easy to engender reader trust. And it's a natural way to tell a story.
There are several platforms innovating around delivering native advertising through content today, but they vary in purity based on the above criteria:
The Atlantic produces some of the highest quality content of any publisher in business today. While they received their fair share of criticism for the Church of Scientology debacle, they have an enormous opportunity if they can retain their high standard of quality across their sponsored stories. This will be their challenge.
Combining branded sponsorship with viral content as well as anyone, BuzzFeed is setting a new standard for content marketing. Context of sponsorships and brand adjacency questions may pose longer-term challenges.
Forbes' Brand Voices is innovative and shows enormous potential as a content marketing platform for brands to communicate directly with customers. Worth mentioning, their use of frequent homepage takeovers and uninitiated pre-rolls feels disingenuous with native aspirations.
Aiming to build a native ad network, Sharethrough is setting a super high standard for ad quality, and it shows. The line between content and advertising can be easily blurred, though, and both interruptive-ness and context are open questions with their offering.
While Solve Media's captcha replacements are a big improvement from the status quo and an attractive opportunity for brands, prompting a user to engage in a type-in exercise is almost always interruptive from any activity in which they were previously engaged.
Outbrain drives discovery of article and video content through personalized recommendations that appear in the footer of online article pages. Maintaining quality has been a challenge as marketers have tried to use it as a platform to distribute spammy content.
Committing to native is a tricky business, and there are more than a few traps and temptations lurking around the bend. Several content recommendation "imitators" have arrived on the scene over the past year, perhaps underestimating the importance of efficient targeting and high quality content to engender the reader trust that differentiates these offerings. Without that trust, these lookalikes will eventually revert to the least common denominator and become just another ad network, albeit one disguised as content.
"The natives are getting restless" are words originally uttered by Dr. Moreau in the 1933 sci-fi horror film, "The Island of Lost Souls." However, the "natives" in question weren't natives at all, but rather the human/animal hybrid results of Dr. Moreau's experiments. Similarly, most online advertising platforms claiming inclusion in the native family today aren't native at all, bearing only one or two elements of the full scope, therefore being hybrid experiments. Those platforms that do meet the full standard are in prime position to capture mindshare by delivering authentic experiences and offering brands new and unique ways to reach their audiences.
This article was originally published April 19, 2013 on All Things D.
This article was written for Business 2 Community by Connor Brooke.
Author: Connor Brooke
Connor is a Scottish financial expert, specialising in wealth management and equity investing. Based in Glasgow, Connor writes full-time for a wide selection of financial websites, whilst also providing startup consulting to small businesses. Holding a Bachelor's degree in Finance, and a Master's degree in Investment Fund Management, Connor has …
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Q: Show address bar on.net WebBrowser I'm 99% sure there was a way to show an address bar (and also a status bar with a loading progress bar) in .net's WebBrowser control, instead of writing one myself. I think it was something with the underlying control, not a very "official" way. I just can't remember how I did it.

A: The example code on the MSDN docs page discusses how to add an address bar for use with the WebBrowser control.
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Mata gets national award for contribution towards sanitation
October 02, 2018 11:07 pm | Updated 11:07 pm IST - KOLLAM
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, on Tuesday presented Mata Amritanandamayi Devi with an award for the largest contribution to the Swacch Bharat Kosh. The award was handed over during the Mahatma Gandhi International Sanitation Convention held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan Cultural Centre in Delhi. The Mata had contributed ₹100 crore to build toilets for the poor living along the banks of the Ganges.
Talking about Amritanandamayi Math's dedicated service, Mr. Modi said: "I especially offer my pranams to respected Amma because ever since we started this work, Amma has taken this campaign very proactively on her own shoulders. Inspired by various great people and humanitarian leaders like Amma, this campaign has gained immense strength and has transformed from a campaign into a mass movement."
The Prime Minister also thanked Amma for travelling to Delhi for the event, adding, "In this event marking the beginning of the 150th birth-anniversary celebrations of Bapuji, it is a matter of great joy that Amma was able to find the time to come here in person, adding glory and prestige to this entire function." A video about Amma and her ashram's cleanliness projects was played during the convention.
In addition to the Prime Minister and UN General Secretary, the event was attended by Uma Bharti, Minister for Drinking Water and Sanitation; Sushama Swaraj, Minister for External Affairs; Ramesh Jigajinagi, Union Minister of State for Drinking Water and Sanitation; Manoj Sinha, Minister of Communication and Minister of State for Railways; and Hardeep Singh Puri, Union Minister of State with Independent Charge in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.


This conference was co-organized by CGCC and the UN Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force's Working Group on Countering the Use of the Internet for Terrorist Purposes and hosted by Naif Arab University for Security Science. The conference brought together more than 120 policymakers, experts, and practitioners drawn from national governments, international organizations, civil society, the private sector, and academia who have experience or policy interest in designing and disseminating counternarratives on the Internet.
Just as the Internet may influence people toward violent behavior, so too can it promote a counter to the extremist narrative. To this end, experts shared their analyses of the problems and opportunities presented by the Internet and other media in building and delivering effective counternarratives, with a view to developing national and international initiatives that can challenge the claims of legitimacy, relevance, and credibility by extremist groups.


KWTX reported from the Associated Press that a man from Central Texas has been sentenced for a 2017 robbery that took place in New Mexico.
The robbery took place at a convenience store in San Miguel County, and Lane Michael Reed, 24 of Killeen plead guilty to charges of carjacking, armed robbery, and firearms charges.
Reed was sentenced to 25 years in prison, when the sentencing happened in Albuquerque on Wednesday.
Reed said during his plea hearing, that he got away with $242 in the stickup, pointed guns at the store cashier, and also demanded that the owner of the store give him their keys in order to take their truck.
After the robbery occurred, Reed took authorities on a chase going speeds upwards to 140 miles per hour, and fired gunshots at the authorities who were pursuing him during the chase.


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Society of Intensive Medicine considers that the fifth wave of COVID-19 has already begun
Society of Intensive Medicine considers that the fifth wave of COVID-19 has already begun.
This morning, the Minister of Health, Kelly Portalatino He made an unexpected visit to the Hipólito Unanue Hospital in the El Agustino district, where he took the opportunity to testify about a possible fifth wave of COVID-19 infections in Peru.
The head of the Minsa estimated that this new wave of cases would be occurring slightly approximately in the fortnight of decembermeanwhile, if an exponential increase is reported, it would escalate to a moderate to severe level in the months of March and April 2023.
It should be noted that the increase in cases of COVID-19 has been reported for a few weeks. In Loreto and Moquegua the increase has been registered since October. However, for some specialists the so-called fifth wave has already begun, as pointed out by the President of the Peruvian Society of Intensive Medicine, Carlos Lescano Alvain interview with RPP News.
"The number of cases has increased. The percentage of positivity has exceeded 5%, we are already at the beginning of the fifth wave ", he asserted.
Along these lines, he estimated that this increase in infections would last between one and two months, taking as evidence the fourth wave that was registered in the first months of 2022. "Due to the speed of increase in infections, we are talking about the start of the fifth wave at the end of October ", he pointed out.
Low hospitalizations
The president of the Peruvian Society of Intensive Medicine stressed that despite the increase in positive cases of the coronavirus, this panorama is not the same in the cases of patients who require hospitalization and added that people who are entering the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is due to other reasons.
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"In hospitalizations the increase is still very small. In intensive care they are practically isolated cases. We have patients who test positive for COVID, but they are in the ICU for another reason," she expressed.
No increase in hospitalizations is reported.
This Wednesday in the session of the Council of Ministers, The Minsa will propose that the use of masks become mandatory again in spaces where there are crowds of people. This is due to the Christmas season, which concentrates a large number of people in shopping centers.
"We encourage people to wear a mask in crowded places, we don't want older adults with risk factors to die. I call on older adults with asthma, with obstructive lung diseases, with hypertension, to continue the third and fourth doses to prevent covid-19," said Minister Portalatino.
Minsa will propose that the use of masks once again be mandatory in spaces where there are crowds of people.
For her part, the regional manager of Health of La Libertad, Kerstyn Morote He expressed his support for the Minsa proposal to evaluate that the use of masks is once again mandatory in some spaces.
In this regard, Lescano Alva expressed his agreement with this initiative and added that not wearing masks in crowded places represents a risk since the disease spreads more easily and he stressed that it is not only the responsibility of the authorities but also falls on the people.
"Those who are vulnerable people should not expose themselves or be exposed by the family environment to contagion. In other words, they should not go to places where biosecurity measures are not in place to reduce contagion as much as possible and the family that lives with them should not be an element that brings the virus home and exposes vulnerable people," he asserted. .
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Akshay Kumar Biography, Life Story, Career, and Facts
Akshay Kumar is a dashing and handsome hunk of the Bollywood film industry. He was born on 7 September 1967 in Amritsar, India. His real name is Rajiv Hariom Bhatia. He learned martial arts and worked as a chef in Hong Kong before emerging as an actor. He tied the knot with famous actress Twinkle Khanna and the couple was blessed with a son named Aarav. He is often referred to as Bruce Lee of India for his proficiency in martial arts.
It was at the request of his friends that Akshay decided to try his god luck in the acting arena. After successfully completing several modeling projects, he finally got an offer from film director Raj Sippy to appear in his film titled Saugandh, which did not earn well at the Indian box office. It was an exciting film by Abbas Mastan titled 'Khiladi', which made him an overnight superstar. He has only acted in action and thriller films like Ellan, Main Khiladi Tu Anari, Sabase Bada Khiladi, Khiladiyo Ka Khiladi and Mohra. Akshay Kumar has also appeared in many romantic films like Dhadakan, Andaaz and Yeh Dillagi. He has acted in many films such as Khiladi such as Mr. and Mrs. Khiladi, Khiladi Ke Khiladi and International Khiladi.
Akshay Kumar's comic appearance in the film Mr. and Mrs. Khiladi was not so well appreciated. However he eventually established his flair and confirmed that he could appear in romantic films, action films or even comedy films with the same level of spontaneity. In 2000, the film Hera Pheri was released which became a megahit. Akshay later became a major choice of film directors in comedy films like Mujhse Shadi Karogi, Awara Pagal Deewana, Phir Hera Pheri and Garam Masala. Her courageous roles in films like Vakth: The Race Against Time, Bewafa, Ek Rishta were appreciated by the audience. His upcoming release "Namaste London" did well at the Indian box office. Akshay Kumar also won several awards, including the Filmfare Award for Best Villain in Stranger, Filmfare Award for Best Comedian in Garam Masala, IIFA Award for Best Villain in Stranger and IIFA Award for Best Comedian in Mujhse Shadi Karogi.
Personal Information of Akshay Kumar
Nickname: Akki, Raju, Mac and Khiladi Kumar
Full Name: Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia
Profession: Actor, Producer
Age: 52 years old (in 2020)
Birthplace: Amritsar, Punjab, India
Height 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m)
Weight 80 kg (176 lbs)
Chest 42 Inches
Waist 34 Inches
Bodytype Athletic
Biceps 16 Inches
Qualification College Drop-out
School Don Bosco High School, Mirik, Darjeeling
College Guru Nanak Khalsa College (King's Circle)Mumbai
Father Late Hari Om Bhatia
Mother Aruna Bhatia
Brother(s) Not Known
Sister(s) Alka Bhatia
Wife/Girlfriend Twinkle Khanna (Actress, 2001-present)
Children Two
Son(s) Aarav Kumar
Daughter(s) Nitara Kumar
Ex Girlfriends:
Pooja Batra (Actress)
Raveena Tandon (Actress)
Shilpa Shetty (Actress)
Hobbies Collecting posters of old Bollywood movies, cooking, martial arts, playing volleyball and cricket
Actor Amitabh Bachchan, Kamal Haasan, Salman Khan, Ranveer Singh
Actress Sridevi
Food Thai green chicken curry, miso soup, sushi, sashimi, chocolate fudge
Destination Mauritius, Goa, Canada
Akshay Kumar Career
Profession Actor, Producer
Debut Movie Saugandh (1991)
Salary 25 Crores/film (INR) approx
Net Worth USD $150 million approx.
Looking forward to doing what we do best! Time we get back to work! #Bellbottom to go on floors next month @vashubhagnani @vaaniofficial @humasqureshi @LaraDutta @ranjit_tiwari @jackkybhagnani @honeybhagnani @monishaadvani @madhubhojwani @nikkhiladvani @EmmayEntertain @poojafilms pic.twitter.com/QmqTLFtnG3
— Akshay Kumar (@akshaykumar) July 6, 2020
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Facts About Akshay Kumar!
Is Akshay Kumar addicted to smoking?: No
Akshay Kumar is an alcoholic?: No
He is from a Punjabi family and grew up in Old Delhi, though later, he moved to Koliwara in Mumbai city.
In his childhood, he was highly attracted to martial arts and started his martial arts training in the 8th.
Akshay Kumar also worked as a chef in a restaurant called Metro Guest House and earned his first salary for the purpose of living with ₹ 1,500.
After settling in Mumbai, he also worked as a peon for a travel agency. He later taught martial arts to individuals.
Once he settled in Mumbai, his own portfolio shoot took place at what is now his own Juhu bungalow.
In the film titled Aaj, he portrayed his 17-second debut as a karate coach.
Akshay Kumar's name was Rajiv Bhatia, but he changed Akshay before entering Bollywood and was born in Amritsar, India to Hariom Bhatia and Aruna Bhatia.
Akshay lived and grew up in Delhi's Chandni Chowk and later moved to Mumbai where he lived in Koliwara, a Punjabi dominated area.
Akshay received his schooling from Don Bosco School and enrolled in Guru Nanak Khalsa College, Mumbai for higher education, but dropped out after a year and moved to Bangkok to learn martial arts.
Akshay worked as an assistant to photographer Jayesh Sheth for 18 months without paying to shoot his first portfolio. He also acted as a background dancer in various films.
Akshay Kumar is known for his discipline, in fact, he wakes up at 5 am and most of his interviews are scheduled at 6 am.
Michael Jackson's. After beating This Is It, Akshay Kumar starrer boss entered the Guinness Book of World Records for the biggest poster.
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