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Gaming firms tussle with states over gambling laws in India
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Abhijit Ahaskar	17 Nov, 2021
The Odisha High Court, on November 16, has issued notice to the State of Odisha seeking a response to a petition that challenges the constitutional validity of the Odisha Prevention of Gambling Act, 1955, reported LiveLaw. The case is the newest in a line of battles gaming firms in India are fighting against various states.
The Odisha Prevention of Gambling Act, 1955 prohibits gaming for money or other stakes by which a person intentionally exposes cash and faces the risk of loss by chance. The petition was filed by online gaming company Tic Tok Skill Games Pvt. Ltd, which operates social gaming platform WinZO Games.
In its petition, Tic Tok Skill Games Pvt Ltd argued that the Act "is violative of Article 14 (of the Act) as it defies the concept of reasonableness and non-arbitrariness."
Real money gaming platforms have seen massive growth in terms of user base and revenue, especially after the pandemic-induced shift to remote work and learning.
Paytm First Games reported a 200% growth in user base and a four-fold increase in gameplays in the first half of 2020. Likewise, WinZO saw a 30% jump in traffic and a 3-fold increase in gameplays immediately after lockdown, according to data shared by both companies last year.
Gaming firms vs States
But at the same time, real money gaming has received backlash from lawmakers in several Indian states, who feel these platforms promote gambling and may lead to addiction. This was also triggered by some instances of suicide due to financial losses incurred on online gaming platforms.
These gaming platforms are currently banned in the states of Odisha, Gujarat, Telangana and Karnataka. Gambling is a state subject in India, so states do have the power to regulate gambling as they see fit.
Some of these blanket bans have been challenged successfully by real money gaming platforms in courts. For instance, in August 2021, Madras High Court struck down the Tamil Nadu Gaming and Police Laws (Amendment) Act of 2021, which banned online betting games including rummy and poker. The petition was filed by a group of firms that included Junglee Games India Private Ltd) and the All India Gaming Federation (AIGF). The Tamil Nadu government moved the Supreme Court against this judgement on November 16.
In September, the Kerala high court also decided to quash an amendment in Section 14A of the Kerala Gaming Act, 1960, which sought to ban online rummy in Kerala.
The court was hearing petitions by Junglee Games India Pvt. Ltd, Play Games 24x7 Pvt. Ltd, Head Digital Works Pvt. Ltd, and Gameskraft Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Even as these judgments came out, in September, Karnataka also passed legislation that makes all forms of gambling, including online gambling, a cognizable and non-bailable offense.
At the time, the AIGF called the new rules highly regressive in nature, and a huge setback to Karnataka's reputation as a technology hub.
Real money gaming platforms have reiterated that the games they offer enable and test participants' skills. The distinction between skill gaming and gambling has been a subject of contention over the years.
For instance, in the case of R.M.D. Chamarbaugwala versus Union of India (1957), the Supreme court said games, where a certain level of skill is involved, cannot be labeled as gambling.
In the State of Andhra Pradesh versus K. Satyanarayana (1968), the Apex Court ruled that rummy involved considerable skill and cannot be called the game of chance.
Similarly in K.R. Lakshmanan versus the State of Tamil Nadu (1996), the apex court ruled that horse racing was a game of skill.
In 2015, the apex court in response to another petition held the previous judgments and called online rummy a game of skill.
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So you see I am not always in front of the screen with a mouse and a keyboard to "create" something, I would like to share with you my ongoing project: a scarf for my daughter. It's been years, probably a decade since I do any knitting and it took me a bit to remember again, but it is as relaxing and addictive as I remember it to be!
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require 'rails_helper'

RSpec.feature 'Site main menu' do
  let(:main_menu) { '.main-menu' }
  let(:footer_main_menu) { '.footer-main-menu' }

  context 'with main menu' do
    let(:test_page) { FactoryBot.create(:page, name: 'Test Page', site: site) }

    before do
      home_page.insert_at(1)
      test_page.insert_at(1)
    end

    scenario 'navigating to page via main menu' do
      visit '/home'

      within main_menu do
        expect(page).to have_link 'Home', href: '/home'
        expect(page).to have_selector 'a.cms-page-link-home'
        expect(page).to have_link 'Test Page', href: '/test_page'
        expect(page).to have_selector 'a.cms-page-link-test_page'

        click_link 'Test Page'
      end

      expect(page).to have_current_path '/test_page'
    end
  end

  scenario 'no main menu' do
    site.update! main_menu_in_footer: true
    visit '/home'

    expect(page).not_to have_selector main_menu
    expect(page).not_to have_selector footer_main_menu
  end
end

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I have a new swimming buddy, and for future reference, when an 18 year old asks me if she can swim with me I should probably say no. She's either going to get me into shape or kill me – it's a toss up right now.
C, who is in my 4-H club and until recently took care of Rosie for me, saw that I had a Y swimming schedule and asked if she could come too since she has a membership. I asked her if she was going to embarrass me by knowing how to swim. She demonstrated a flailing stroke that resembled mine so I said she could come.
Lap swimming ends at 8:30 AM. I thought that would be a deal breaker. I've seen her stagger out to the barn to feed her horses breakfast at noon. But she wanted to go at 7:30 AM. At 6:30 this morning when the alarm went off I called her every bad name I knew. In 7 minutes when it went off again I made up some new ones but I got to the pool on time.
No C. She's not very prompt and sometimes doesn't show up at all so I wasn't shocked. I swam for a while until I looked up at 7:50 and there she was. She said that she would do whatever I was doing. So we would do freestyle down and backstroke back. As she pulled ahead of me with a beautiful stroke I knew she had lied about knowing how to swim. There have been swimming lessons in her past.
I tried to teach her that the proper way to swim at the Y was to give yourself a good rest at each end of the pool. But she would be looking at me for all the world like a puppy who wants you to throw the ball again so I was cutting my rests short. She suggested a race once but I nipped that right in the bud.
Then she borrowed some goggles and started giggling while swimming. That started me giggling and almost drowning. I asked at the end of that lap what was so funny and she said that she was watching me swim underwater. Girl must die. Then she pushed me on the next backstroke. She's lucky I didn't drown. Who's gonna sign all her 4-H papers when I'm dead? I assigned her a penalty lap for roughhousing which is clearly not allowed according to the big signs with the rules. Besides, I needed the extra rest while she swam her penalty.
There was a guy there today with a snorkel and I decided that's what I really need so I don't have to worry about how to breathe at all.
I left after being in the pool for 40 minutes and actually swimming for many of those minutes. I told her she had to keep swimming to make up for the 20 minutes I swam before she showed up. We are going to do it again on Monday. This could definately be the death of me.
I stumbled on this while looking for a swimmer's snorkel. I wanted to see if I was going to be the first freak in the world to actually use one and finally make the joke pay off for the people so heavily invested in setting this one up.
I'm going to go through with the snorkel – keep an eye out for me on the news "Some guy finally falls for the snorkel up the middle gag".
My gym buddy is ten years younger than me. Lovely, caring girl who tries to be considerate, but she's ten years younger than me.
1. Is s/he in the same general health as I? I don't want to work out with someone who is in fanstastic shape because I can't keep up with them. And that frustrates me.
2. Will they're face get all red and blothy? I don't want to work out with someone who *looks* better than I do when sweating.
3. Can they be on the Stairmaster for 2 minutes straight, no break? Forget it, I don't want to work out with someone who can exercise and breathe at the same time.


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Q: memcache avoid sql bursts I wan to know if there is a better way to handle "sql bursts" when using memcache.
let me explain with an example
object = memcache.get('some_key')
if object is None:
   #multiple request will cause a bursts of sqls
   object = Object() #this trigger some sql
   memcache.set('some_key',oject,60)

so a way I found to avoid sql bursts
object = memcache.get('some_key');
if(object is None or object.expire + rand(0,120) > now())
       #this not guarantees sql burst, but it will reduce them
       object = Object() #this trigger some sql
       object.expire = now() + 300
       memcache.set('some_key',object,60)

second option don't guarantees to avoid sql bursts and also I don't like to add expire to my object.

A: There's a few options mentioned on the memcache wiki.

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Medical Management Still Bests Intracranial Stenting
Pauline Anderson
The superiority of aggressive medical management over similar treatment plus stenting in patients with a stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) resulting from stenosis of a major intracranial artery has now been extended to up to 4 years.
"We found, sort of unexpectedly, that the medical event rate in the medical management group remained incredibly low, almost half the rate that we had projected based on some very good prospective trials we had done in the past," said lead author, Colin P. Derdeyn, MD, director, Stroke and Cerebrovascular Center, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, and professor, radiology, neurology, and neurosurgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri. "We expected a 2-year risk of stroke in the medical group in the high 20s, and it ended up being about 14%."
The new, longer-term results of the Stenting and Aggressive Medical Management for Preventing Recurrent Stroke in Intracranial Stenosis (SAMMPRIS) trial were published online October 26 in the Lancet. Results were presented the same day at joint meetings of the 6th International Conference on Intracranial Atherosclerosis and the 6th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology in Houston.
SAMMPRIS Trial
The multicenter SAMPRISS trial began in 2008 with enrollment of patients aged 30 to 80 years who had nondisabling stroke or TIA within 30 days that was attributable to 70% to 99% atherosclerotic stenosis of a major intracranial artery. These patients were randomly allocated to either an aggressive medical management group or a stenting group.
Medical management included dual-antiplatelet therapy (clopidogrel for 90 days, aspirin for the entire follow-up), risk factor management that primarily targeted systolic blood pressure and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and lifestyle modification.
The stenting group received the same aggressive management in addition to percutaneous transluminal angioplasty and intracranial stenting with the Gateway-Wingspan stent system (Stryker Neurovascular). The Wingspan was approved in 2005 under the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) Humanitarian Device Exemption program, based on earlier smaller studies.
The primary endpoint was stroke or death within 30 days after enrollment or after either a revascularization procedure for the qualifying lesion during follow-up or a stroke in the territory of the qualifying artery beyond 30 days.
In April 2011, enrollment was halted early on the recommendation of the trial's independent data and safety monitoring board because of concerns about increased rate of stroke and death in the stenting group and a lower than expected stroke rate in the medical therapy group.
Early results, published online September 7, 2011, in the New England Journal of Medicine, and reported by Medscape Medical News at that time, showed that at 30 days, the rate of stroke or death was significantly higher (P = .002) with intracranial stenting (14.7%) compared with that seen with aggressive medical management alone (5.8%).
Beyond 30 days, nonfatal stroke in the same territory as the qualifying artery occurred in 13 patients in each group, but at 1 year, rates of the primary endpoint events remained significantly higher in the stented group (20.0% vs 12.2% with medical management; P = .009).
At the time the trial was stopped, less than half the 451 patients had been followed-up for longer than 1 year. Now, with follow-up extended for between 2 and 4 years, researchers have released longer-term results for the 227 patients in the medical group and 224 patients in the stenting group.
The new analysis found that the occurrence of primary endpoint events in the medical group compared with the stenting group were 14.1% vs 20.6% at year 2 (P = .07) and 14.9% vs 23.9% at year 3 (P = .0193)
The researchers performed a number of sensitivity analyses to generate data for patients withdrawing or becoming lost to follow-up. None of these analyses resulted in the probability of a primary endpoint being less common in the stenting group than in the medical group.
As for secondary endpoints, the researchers found that the rates of any stroke (P = .0468) and any major hemorrhage (P = .0009) were statistically significantly lower in the medical group than in the stenting group.
"This aggressive medical management regime apparently has a very profound, very dramatic impact," Dr. Derdeyn commented to Medscape Medical News. "Even if we cut the complication rate to about a third of what it was, stenting still would not have been superior because the medical management was so good."
The dual-antiplatelet aspect of the regime likely played an important role in these positive results with medical management, as did risk factor management, according to Dr. Derdeyn. "Dual anti-platelets are probably responsible for the dramatic reduction we see in the first month, but the statins also probably have some impact in the first month. The blood pressure control, the [low-density lipoprotein] control, and probably lifestyle management, along with the statins, have a really profound impact beyond the first 30 days."
Fragile Arteries
Although intervention in the carotid and heart has had very positive results, "angioplasty and stenting in the head is a lot more high risk than anywhere else because the arteries are really fragile," explained Dr. Derdeyn. "There are little microscopic branches that come off the artery right where the plaque is, and just opening it up with angioplasty can cause stroke."
Complications of bleeding in the brain make stenting in this area that much more complex, added Dr. Derdeyn.
In August 2012, the early SAMMPRIS results led the FDA to alter the criteria for using the Wingspan stent. The new guidelines include restricting use of this stent to patients with at least a 70% blockage who have had 2 previous strokes while receiving aggressive medical management.
The researchers now have "a ton of data to pore through," said Dr. Derdeyn. Among the next steps might be addressing the questions of which patients do worse on medical management and whether angioplasty without stenting might be of some benefit.
It is also important to identify high-risk patients who may still benefit from stenting. This would be a rare group but could include patients who continue to have symptoms despite taking dual-antiplatelet therapy and having their blood pressure and cholesterol brought under control, said Dr. Derdeyn.
"But anything we do next we have to make sure it's in a high-risk group; it's not going to be ethical to take the same type of people who came into the SAMPRISS trial and test therapies on them because we know that the stroke rates are so low with medical therapy."
As well, the researchers plan to look more closely at the role lifestyle management played in the SAMPRISS trial. They expect to present some updated results at a stroke meeting early next year, said Dr. Derdeyn.
"No Longer First-Line Treatment"
In an accompanying commentary, Peter M. Rothwell, MD, PhD, from the Department of Neurology, University of Oxford, and Hugh S. Markus, professor, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, said the new results show that the data and safety monitoring board "seems to have been correct in stopping recruitment" of the SAMMPRIS trial.
They note that the investigators rebutted criticisms of the trial that include the inexperience of the interventionists, the sole use of the Wingspan stent, preclusion of primary angioplasty without stenting, and the high proportion of trial subjects with perforator transient ischemic attacks and strokes.
Although the need for stenting will continue in individual cases, especially after recurrent events on maximum medical treatment, stenting "can no longer be regarded as a first-line treatment for intracranial stenosis," said the commentators.
New approaches to intracranial stenting should now be explored only within the context of randomized controlled trials, they write.
"The value of stenting over and above intensive medical treatment in recently symptomatic vertebral artery stenosis remains uncertain," the commentators point out. "There were few patients with intracranial vertebral stenosis in SAMMPRIS, and none with extracranial stenosis, for which the procedural risks seem to be low."
Ongoing randomized trials of vertebral artery stenting, including the Vertebral Artery Ischemia Stenting Trial (VIST), on which Dr. Rothwell and Dr. Markus are co-chief investigators, should therefore continue, they said.
They also note the low 3-year risk for stroke on intensive medical management alone in the trial and write that this "suggests that the benefits of intensive medical treatment are maintained in the longer term."
Design Issues?
Asked to comment on these new developments, Alex Abou-Chebl, MD, professor, neurology, and director, neurointerventional services, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Kentucky, said that from the beginning, he took issue with the design of the trial and had refused to participate in it.
One of the main issues for Dr. Abou-Chebl was inappropriate patient selection, which he said could have biased the trial toward better outcomes in the medical group. "In my practice, I only put stents in patients who have hemodynamic significant lesions that are assessed by physiologic studies, like [single-photon emission computed tomography] scans or profusion imaging, but that wasn't mandatory in the SAMMPRIS trial, so I think they took patients who were going to do well with medical therapy."
Another of Dr. Abou-Chebl's concerns was operator inexperience. "To be in SAMMPRIS, you didn't even have to have used that stent before; all you had to have done is employ a similar stent in people with aneurysms," he said. "Well, that's a different disease."
Although the investigators were well intentioned, Dr. Abou-Chebl said, the trial took place "before the procedure was ready for prime time in a sense."
He also expressed concern about the time lag between the qualifying event and randomization into the trial, which could have resulted in reducing the risk of having another event. The "ideal" patients to be enrolled into a trial like SAMMPRIS, he said, are the ones who have frequent events "over and over again," not the ones who are stable and had only a single event.
"Most of those in SAMMPRIS hadn't failed medical therapy; most of us would not have treated those patients with a stent," said Dr. Abou-Chebl.
Although not a perfect stent, the Wingspan is safe and should not be "written off," he said. "The problem with an across-the-board statement that this procedure should not be done is that there are real people who are having strokes every day who would benefit from this treatment; they just were not studied in this trial."
Dr. Abou-Chebl also responded to the FDA's tightening of criteria for using the Wingspan stent to those having had 2 strokes instead of 1. "So you need to lose even more brain before we will treat you. That doesn't make any sense," he said.
The study was funded by a research grant from the US Public Health Service National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and by Clinical and Translational Science Awards from the National Institutes of Health to the Medical University of South Carolina, the University of Florida, the University of Cincinnati, and the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Derdeyn has associations with companies that manufacture medical devices for the treatment of cerebrovascular disease in general, although none directly involved in this study: WL Gore and Associates (scientific advisory board and consultant), Microvention (Angiographic Core Laboratory for clinical trial), Penumbra (Data and Safety Monitoring Board member for clinical trial), and Pulse Therapeutics (chair, scientific advisory board). Dr. Abou-Chebl is a local principal investigator for the Vitesse Intracranial Stent Study for Ischemic Therapy (VISSIT) trial and is on the speaker's bureau at BMS/Sanofi.
Lancet. Published online October 26, 2013. Article abstract, Commentary extract
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Pauline Anderson is a freelance writer for Medscape.
Disclosure: Pauline Anderson has disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
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Grover Washington Jr: Smooth Operator!
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(Paris, November 1989) Freshly returned from a period that saw me livin' in the UK for a few months, I recieved a call from the head of edition of one of the magazines I was writing for. The latter offering me to have a phone conversation with Grover Washington Jr.. Thus coincinding with the release of his 'Time Out Of Mind' album.
No need telling you how excited I was at the perspective of getting to know more about the artist. A man responsible for incredible pieces of music. Such as the mid-70's classics 'Mister Magic' and 'Knucklehead' from his Jazz/Funk period. But also the memorable 'Just The Two Of Us' which, along with singer Bill Withers, saw him settin' up the path for a new generation of artists. From Kenny G to Najee. But also George Howard, Gerald Albright then Walter Beasley. Both makin' themselves a name in the Smooth Jazz territories…
Let's get back to the beginning if you don't mind. And what brought you to music…
"Well, my mom' was singing in choir at the church. Meanwhwile my dad was a saxophonist and had a collection of old Jazz gramophone records. So music was like everywhere at home.
I would come to listen to great Jazz artists and bandleaders like Benny Goodman. Then, noticing my interest, my dad offered me a sax when I got about 8. I eventually practised it before going to clubs years after to watch Blues musicians in Buffalo, NY where I was livin' at the time.
I've been lucky to meet Billy Cobham by the time I was doin' my military obligations. Luckily enough he introduced me to many musicians in the NY area. Then I relocated to Philadelphia, PA in 1967. There, I contributed to the recording of Leon Spencer's two first albums ('Louisiana' and 'Sneak Preview!'). Which is how I got to work with Idris Muhammad, Melvin Sparks, Buddy Caldwell and Virgil Jones…"
You then came to record your debut album ,'Inner City Blues'. With its opening track being a rendition of Marvin Gaye's classic of the likes. And its fourth cut a cover version of Billy Withers's 'Ain't No Sunshine'…
"Man, it sort of came by accident. Hank Crawford was unable to make a recording date with Kudu's label head Creed Taylor. So I took his place. And the rest is, as we say, history…"
When many artists would tend to feel safe, sticking to the same environment, you seem to have constantly tried to redefine yourself. When looking for instance at the differences between your mid-70's Jazz/Funk period and the beginning of the 80's where you seemed like taken into smoother vibes…
"I suppose this is just a natural process that sees each of us evolving and therefore movin' on along with time. This is how you get to feed that thing we call creation as a matter of fact. Most likely depending on what cames to touch you thoughout the circumstances of your existence. And eventually meetings with other people you happen to have. Meetings are just like essential. Coz' they have the potential to get you into something new. It's just like feeding each other.
I always keep an ear open. And if a song doesn't get me into it from the very beginning, then I'll pass on it…"
Which brings us to the sultry 'Sacred Kind Of Love' featuring the late Phyllis Hyman…
"I gotta admit that speakin' of music which involves a singer, this is more of my wife's prerogative. Christine would listen to the song and come to me with suggestions. It's like instinctual. As if she had a sixth sense to find the voice that's needed. She thought Phyllis would be the perfect match for this. Isn't that cool?"
But also the Steely Dan written 'Time Out of My Mind'. Sounding like at the crossroad between B.B. King's 'Happy Birthday Blues' and Weather Report's 'Birdland'…
"I never thought of it that way. But now you say so, I can eventually see where you're comin' from. It's more a reflecting tune, I would say, related to the idea of day dreamin'…"
How do you react facing that ongoing process of formatted music production and radio airing…
"Speaking of music, I guess I can say I've been surrounded by people who've remained open enough to let me do my thing. And therefore embrace different kinds of vibes. That said, I would tend to think that sales don't necessarily reflect the quality of an album at the end. In other words, just the fact that an album doesn't sell million copies doesn't mean it's a poor quality one.
Besides, once you've released your music, you're left with so many things out of you control. Such as the time it's gonna be played on a radio station. The nature of its rotation and whatsoever. Being programmed in the middle of the night doesn't help the way it would at a peak time such as when people are chilling at home or on their way to work… And I'm not even talking about this competition thing which has seen most of the radios like playing the same thing at the same time!"
A fact that could eventually apply to more and more artists and DJ's…
"I've always made sure to keep my own identity alive. And I don't think competition should be used to sort of divide the actors of the scene and their audiences the way it does on occasions. It has shown how counterproductive this is!"
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Major roadwork resumes this weekend
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(WXIA) -- Last weekend, drivers got a bit of a reprieve when several major road projects were postponed. But all that work will resume this weekend.
Some of the problem areas include Interstate 20 in Rockdale and Newton counties, and I-285 in Cobb County.
As always, all roadwork is weather permitting. Rain could halt or postpone projects.
Weekend drivers should use caution and look for crews in these areas:
* One right southbound lane of I-75 will be closed four miles before Cass White Road from 9 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday for concrete slab removal and bridge raising.
* One left northbound lane of I-75 will be closed four miles after Cass White Road from 9 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday for concrete slab removal and bridge raising.
* Two right northbound lanes of I-285 will be closed between South Cobb Drive and Paces Ferry Road from 9 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday for concrete slab replacement and repair.
* Two left northbound lanes and one left southbound lane of I-285 will be closed between I-75 and Northside Drive from 9 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday for sign structure work.
* One right northbound lane of Ga. 400 will be closed between Sidney Marcus Boulevard and Lenox Road from 9 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday for underground cable work.
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* One left northbound lane of I-285 will be closed in sequential two-mile increments between I-75 and Chamblee Tucker Road from 9 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday for sign structure work.
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* The exit and entrance ramps to Almon Road in Covington will be closed all weekend.
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New York's Reserve Army of Unemployed Teachers
Nick Gillespie | 5.5.2009 6:51 AM
Brian Doherty details below how hard it is to fire teachers in the generally awful Los Angeles Unified School District.
Over at The New Republic, Seyward Darby chronicles how hard it is to fire New York City teachers who don't have any sort of permanent posting. They are the Absent Teacher Reserve (ATR) and they don't need no stinkin' classrooms:
They end up there after being displaced by school closings, program cuts, or voluntary transfers. Technically, they work as classroom substitutes, but, when they don't have temporary assignments, they spend their days in school offices, cafeterias, and break rooms. And they are not required to seek full-time positions. "Teach one year, get [displaced], never apply for another job, but, as long as you work as a sub at full salary, you can get tenure at the end of that," says Tim Daly, president of The New Teacher Project (TNTP), a New York-based education advocacy organization that monitors the reserve closely. And some ATR teachers, it seems, are content to stay right where they are. "I'm happy now," one such teacher told TNTP researchers. "I don't have to prep, I don't have to grade tests, I don't have my own class. I don't really have to do anything."
Over the last three years, the city has shelled out almost $200 million to compensate ATR teachers. This school year alone, in the midst of a recession, TNTP has projected the reserve will cost about $75 million. "I could use those [millions] to spend on early childhood education or to fund retention strategies to get our greatest teachers to stay," an official at the city's Department of Education (DOE) says.
The punchline? "The ATR is part of what was supposed to be an effort to free New York from the stranglehold its powerful teachers' union, the United Federation of Teachers."
Read "How to Fire an Incompetent Teacher," Reason's 2006 "epic spelunk" through New York City's godawful employment bureaucracy by John Stossel and Terry Colon.
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Let's talk about risk. No. Stop. Don't go there. Not the song by Salt N Pepper. Focus. Stay with me. Okay?
The second most dangerous risk you can ever take is to break into the headquarters of the CIA, steal the codes to the nukes with an aim of selling them to the highest bidder... prefarably one from the middle east or, better yet, eastern europe. (Russia, ahem)
"Surely, that should be number one. No?" You must be wondering."Okay, how about this?" Stepping on an Italian's shoes? No. Stepping on a blackman's brand new white Air Force Nikeys? No. Showing up at a Ku Klux Clan meeting and playing Martin Luther King's 'I Have A Dream' speech? No. Parking a gas guzzling SUV monster in front of Green Peace offices? No. Wrong. All those do not count I'm afraid. The number one spot: spilling a Glaswegean's pint. As I personally witnessed what happens to the perpetrator, and I gotta tell you, it ain't pretty.
So why is it that we human beings are drawn to risk like vegetarians are to pork chops? Simple. We are hard wired to take risk. Can you imagine if the first people on earth weren't risk takers to wonder what lay beyond their caves? "I wonder what's in the next valley?" The risks of going to find out were immense, but obviously they went ahead or we'd all still be living in Ethiopia. More recently, what caused Christopher Columbus to sail across the Atlantic, or Neil Armstrong to fly to the moon? Why do people bungee jump? Well, it's simple: we like risk.
Deep at the root of the human brain is the limbic sysytem, a sort of slug-like sticky thing that controls our instincts. That section manufactures and drops something called dopamine into our heads everytime we do something dangerous. And it's this dopamine that gives us the thrill, the rush which takes us to a state of euphoria. It's when you feel most alive.
It's also what cocaine does to the brain everytime it's inhaled. Certain properties of it fool the brain that it's in danger and causes dopamine to be released. That's why people become so addicted, why it's so moreish. The sense of feeling invincible. It's what you feel when you get on a rollercoaster ride. It's gut-wrenchingly scary, but you wanna go again and again. Dopamine is why.
So then, it's this search for risk that drove me to take this shot IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD as the lights were turning green...!!!
Man, what a rush! Blame it on the dopamine.
So tell me. Amidst all the honking and the kind of language that would be frowned upon in a convent, was it worth the risk though?
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The Photodiarist said...
You are funny! And crazy for taking this in the middle of the road. But with great risk comes great reward . . . as in great photo.
Biana said...
The photo is worth it David!! A successful risk! :D
Nadine2point0 said...
Firstly, I am so not naturally drawn to porkchops. Ick.
Finally, you're crazy dopamine saturated idea to stand in traffic for this photo payed off. Awesome.
Connie Staccato said...
I think the woman on the back is falling in love with you...
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You are so funny and yes it was worth the risk and abuse. Well done David great shot. Xxxx
Finally, you have a crazy idea dopamine, saturated stand in traffic to this picture was worth it. The impressive..
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I remember the day well, I was a nervous wreck but I was ready to tell my truth.
I'm a lesbian. I'm a gay woman. I'm a girl, and I like girls.
The blood rushing through my body felt thick, heavy, and as if there was not enough to go around. My palms were sweaty, I was, quite frankly, freaking out.
Coming out to my family was a big deal. These are the people closest to me, the ones who loved me the most, and while I knew I was lucky enough to have a liberal mother who has gay and lesbian friends, it was a terrifying thought.
When I told my mum, when I finally had the courage to utter those words, her reaction was… not much. She had pretty much guessed anyway, and as I said — she had LGB friends and family, she didn't care. That's great and all, and don't get me wrong — I will never take for granted how lucky I am to have an extremely liberal, non-judgemental and understanding family — however, it wasn't enough. I felt, deflated. Coming out what such a big deal in my head, it wasn't that much wanted an argument, a debate or even a shocked reaction. I just wanted, something. I wanted my mum to be proud of me, of my coming to terms with myself and accepting who I am — aware of the judgement and hatred that would await me in the world.
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Fast forward 12 years, I told my mum how I felt about her reaction, or lack thereof. She was saddened, and wished she had given me more, as she hadn't realised how big of a thing it was for me at 16.
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Let me tell you the extended version of my coming out story.
I came out to a "friend" in school, in confidence, who went and told everyone else. The bullying I was already experiencing only increased.
I came out on national television. I was met with apprehension, tears and "it's just not right" comments, from who was effectively my co-star. I was also met with hundreds of kind comments from internet strangers, passers-by who recognised me, and radio hosts (Scott Mills is a pretty big deal in the radio world here in the UK, hearing him sing my praises at the age of 17 was amazing).
I came out to my colleagues in one of my first paid jobs, my manager went on to treat me like the outcast I felt like, going as far as telling one of my early girlfriends she couldn't wait in the restaurant for me to finish work — while her husband stood metres away from the tills.
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I came out to the (male) stranger in the gay bar who decided to hit on me. He was shocked, told me I didn't "look like a lesbian", and was frankly flabbergasted that I was not interested in him. He told me I hadn't found the right man yet. He went on to hit on my friend… still in the gay bar.
I came out to all of my colleagues over the years, indirectly of course. I gradually learnt to not make a fuss. If I ever wanted a world were being gay and feeling the need to come out to the people we meet, I needed to start with my own surroundings — if I didn't make a thing of it, hopefully they wouldn't. I've been met with a reaction similar to that of my mother's — not much of one. And that is what made me realise, that's okay. That's good. That makes me feel like less of a minority, and more normal.
Of course, all LGBTQ folk are normal — but we can be made to feel the opposite by the reactions of others when we come out to them, whether directly or indirectly. Learning to not give a damn about the reaction I get from slipping my girlfriend into the conversation with a new colleague is one of the greatest lessons I have learnt in my coming out journey. And one I hope that I will become the norm for LGBT people in generations to come.
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Q: How do you tell mathematica that a function F[x] is real valued? I am wondering how to tell Mathematica that a function, say F[x], is a real-valued function so that, e.g., the Conjugate command will pass through it:
Conjugate[E^(-i k x)F[x]] = E^(i k x)F[x]

I tried to make a huge calculation using the Conjugate command, but without setting the arbitrary function F[x] as a real-valued function, the result is completely messy.

A: Use assumptions:
Assuming[Element[F[_], Reals],
  Conjugate[E^(-I k x) F[x]] // FullSimplify]

(*    E^(I Conjugate[k] Conjugate[x]) F[x]    *)

With several real-valued symbols:
Assuming[Element[F[_] | F'[_], Reals],
  Conjugate[E^(-I k x) F[x] F'[x]] // FullSimplify]

(*    E^(I Conjugate[k] Conjugate[x]) F[x] F'[x]   *)

If we mention all symbols in this list of reals, then we recover the @BobHanlon's ComplexExpand solution:
Assuming[Element[F[_] | F'[_] | k | x, Reals],
  Conjugate[E^(-I k x) F[x] F'[x]] // FullSimplify]

(*    E^(I k x) F[x] F'[x]    *)

A: I'm surprised, as Bob's answer works as you wish

However, if you don't want to use FullSimplify, you may redefine Conjugate[]
Unprotect[Conjugate]
Conjugate[f[x_]] := f[x]
Conjugate[Derivative[n_][f][x]] := Derivative[n][f][x]
Protect[Conjugate]

and then
Conjugate[Exp[I x] h[x] f'[x] f[x]]

gives
E^(-I Conjugate[x]) Conjugate[h[x]] f[x] Derivative[1][f][x]


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Discussion in 'General Mac Discussion' started by DeadlyBreakfast, Sep 3, 2002.
Ok...I'd love to switch but there is one thing I would like to know if someone has any experience in this area I would greatly appreciate your input.
Virtual PC is my question....specifically VB6 and VB.net in that environment. Has anyone ever had any experience using either and if you have on which OS in VPC.
I have to give credit where credit is due. Seeing OSX really caught my eye and has had me buying / reading eveything I can get my hands on about Apple and this is the only burning question I have. I really love the "flow" of the OS. It appeals in a way that no Windows version ever has. I've skinned XP in a futile attempt to simulate and stimulate but it just doesn't do it for me.
Other then that the only other reason I would even keep my PC is for Ultima Online.......but thats another story.
In case no one here can answer your question I'd hate for you to not switch so I'd recommend going to www.connectix.com who makes VPC and checking their doc on various OS's. I would venture to say everything should work as if on a PC and from the majority, W2K Pro is the fastest windows OS on VPC so I'd recommend getting that if you don't have a current copy.
I'm a recent switcher. I have Virtual PC (VPC) on a 550 TiBook, and I had also tried installing VB 6.0 on VPC. Sorry to tell you this, but it didn't work as it would crash in the final stages of the installation. I tried it 3 times before I finally gave up. All the files would write to the hard drive, but it would crash when I tried to start it. I can't speak for VB.Net as I had not tried installing it on VPC.
You can build applications for both the Mac and PC, and you can import VB projects from the PC. It's won a ton of awards and has earned a lot of raves. Disclosure: I don't work for REALbasic, but I just bought a copy a few weeks ago and I love it.
Re: Looking to switch..question first..
If you are asking if it works, then the answer is yes. I've had very few things fail to run under VirtualPC.
But speed can be an issue. It is, of course, a emulation environment and because of this, things can run significantly slower. But I've personally had some pretty good results with VPC. The things I use in the Windows world run pretty well under it. Everything I need to use is useable. And I'm running only a 400 MHz G4.
However there are occasionally small lags that can be a little frustrating. Its similar to working in a VMware environment on Windows, if you've ever tried that. And I've seen other people complain pretty loudly about speed.
I think you'd be happy with it. And small lags in an emulation environment is no reason not to switch to a Mac .
Re: Re: Looking to switch..question first..
What have you managed to run under VPC? When you say "slow" it means crawling? or simply slower than my Mac?
It depends on your Cpu speed, but it is still super slow compared to just having a winbox!!
REALbasic is a lot like VB and Borland's C++ Builder, JBuilder, and Delphi. It's certainly a quick way to get an application running.
As far as running Windows with Virtual PC, I checked the speed of my virtual Win98SE machine last night with the DirectX diagnostics (dxdiag) and found that my dual 800 had been reduced to a Pentium MMX machine running at about 533 MHz. I had a few things like folding@home running a the time so maybe it would be faster without those. I may try again.
It's not unbearable, just slow, especially after using a 2 GHz machine.
I went to my local authorized Mac Reseller the other day, and I was totally shocked by what I saw. This store was recently bought out by another authorized Mac Reseller, and the new owners forced the store to begin using a windows based software for sales. I was appalled when the store owner told me that they were forced to put virtual PC on all their store Macs so they could run this new software. Can you believe that?!? A company devoted to selling Macs that only uses sales programs for windows!!! Sounds like they really care about Macintosh software.
There are 3 app developers at my company and our exclusive development environment for the Windows side of things is VB 6.0 under Win2k on VPC under OS X. All are using TiBook 800's with 512MB RAM running OS X 10.1.5.
Before going exclusively this way, we were using iMacs for Mac/UNIX development and PIII 600s running Win2k for Windows development. Regarding speed, the VB IDE is a wee bit slower under VPC, but not something you really notice. The main thing in this environment is we have half the systems to maintain and it is amazingly stable. Plus - if Interdev takes down Windows, you are rebooted in about 10 seconds. It rocks.
Our Windows development is generally desktop apps. A couple of people mentioned RealBasic. If you are not doing desktop apps that connect to a local database, RB is a really good way to go. You can compile for Windows no problem and it is really nice because there is a single .exe file for the distribution (excluding data and control files). If you need to tie into Access though, stick with VB - the RB database APIs are not there yet.
Can't comment on VB for .net. We're not doing anything with that.


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The Trouble with Naipaul
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Shahidha Bari examines the life and work of controversial Booker Prize winner Sir VS Naipaul. Is his legacy compromised by his self-confessed violence towards women and views on race?
Shahidha Bari, professor at the University of the Arts London, asks if we should stop reading controversial writer Sir VS Naipaul. Is his legacy compromised by his confessions of violence towards women and his controversial views on race?
Sir VS Naipaul, who died in 2018, is arguably one of the most important British writers of the 20th century. Part of a vanguard of postcolonial authors who wrote about the new world being created in the wake of the British Empire, Naipaul's work was applauded across the globe. He won the Booker Prize for his novel, In a Free State, as well as in 2001 the Nobel Prize for Literature for his body of work as a whole, including his non-fiction publications documenting his various travels through Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America.
Bari meets those who claim Naipaul's views, today, are difficult to accept - steeped in a colonial mindset that has little resonance in the 21st century. And she talks to others who feel that Naipaul's outspoken views are an essential part of the package and that he still belongs in the canon of great literature.
In Trinidad, Bari learns of the abuse Naipaul suffered as a child and how it affected his relationship with the country of his birth and his work.
Naipaul was the author of more than 40 books and wrote fiction and non-fiction with equal success. His best-known works are the novels A House for Mr Biswas, A Bend in the River and In a Free State.
Wed 27 Nov 2019 03:00
Naipaul has "no tact at all politically!"
Presenter Shahidha Bari
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Interviewed Guest Andre Bagoo
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Interviewed Guest Sara Collins
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'T2' gives 'Trainspotting' the sequel it deserves
Ann Hornaday The Washington Post
"Trainspotting" became an unlikely cultural touchstone when it was released in 1996. What should have been a downbeat, depressing story about a bunch of Scottish heroin addicts somehow became a spirited if cynical portrait of Thatcher-era Britain. And the movie was a stylistic triumph, introducing director Danny Boyle's nervy, bold, often witty visual sense to a generation already primed for that approach by Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction."
As exhilarating as "Trainspotting" was as a piece of directorial derring-do, it was the characters — brought to life in John Hodge's crackerjack adaptation of Irvine Welsh's 1993 novel — that made the film an instant classic. Led by Ewan McGregor's Mark Renton, a junkie whose unsuccessful attempts to get clean formed the Sisyphean spine of the narrative, Welsh's bleary band of ne'er-do-wells were alternately charismatic, heart-rending, fascinating and repulsive.
According to Boyle, he'd always wanted to do a sequel to "Trainspotting," which ended with Renton making off with more than his share of the ill-gotten gains of a drug deal. The problem was that, 10 years later, his ensemble of actors looked too young and healthy to play hard-bitten middle-aged former and practicing drug addicts convincingly.
Even 21 years later, McGregor and his co-stars still look improbably hale and hearty in "T2 Trainspotting," a follow-up that captures the brio and brotherly angst and affection of its predecessor, if not its clarion sense of urgency. Having gotten sober (and married) in the Netherlands, Renton returns to Scotland, where he renews his ties with Simon, aka Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), Spud (Ewen Bremner) and, in one of the movie's most amusingly choreographed sequences, the hotheaded Begbie (Robert Carlyle).
Like all reunions, this one is fraught with unresolved tensions and past grievances, as well as soul-crushing guilt. True to "Trainspotting's" core ethic, it's also subject to a lot of self-conscious analysis about 21st-century dislocation and the dangers of nostalgia, which at one point a character compares to being "a tourist in your own past."
Although "Trainspotting" was his breakout film, Boyle has gone on to prove his bona fides with such hits as "Slumdog Millionaire" and the opening ceremony of the London Summer Olympics. Fluent, adroit and alert, he's skillful to the point of being virtually incapable of making a bad film.
"T2" bristles with his signature flourishes — an early scene features funny on-screen titles to help translate Begbie's haggis-thick Scottish burr — as well as quick nods to the original film, whose signature scenes (Renton's manic grin through the windshield of a car that's almost killed him; the Worst Toilet in Scotland) are recapitulated with playful reverence. Once again, Hodge has written a clever script full of quicksilver references and timely jokes that cast a jaundiced eye on pre-Brexit Britain, technology, rampant consumerism and the "great wave of gentrification (that) has yet to engulf us," as Simon says, referring to the lonely bar he manages while embroiling his Bulgarian girlfriend, Veronika (Anjela Nedyalkova), in sexual blackmail schemes.
Shot with verve and sensitivity by Anthony Dod Mantle, "T2" is spiked with lots of flashbacks to the boys' youth — often by way of lyrically scratchy home movies — that begin to make even their most sordid exploits ring with artisanal authenticity. The challenge here, as in the first film, is not to flinch from their depravity, but to humanize them enough that viewers still manage to care.
That's far easier where Spud is concerned — Bremner infuses him with gawky, long-limbed vulnerability. It's less effective when it comes to Simon and Begbie, whose nastiness can't be erased by occasional erudition or grim slapstick humor.
As ever, McGregor makes for a sympathetic protagonist and reasonably trustworthy guide through a world most filmgoers never hope to see up close. The question is whether even "Trainspotting's" most rabid admirers will feel compelled to take another trippy journey to the other side.
Its virtuosity, wit, fleet performances and cool self-awareness notwithstanding, "T2" doesn't feel like a necessary film as much as a respectful and respectable exercise in fan service. It's "Beauty and the Beast" for filmdom's edgier other half. They're getting a terrific movie in the bargain, even if the stakes feel exponentially lower this time around.
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"T2 Trainspotting"
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller
Rating: R for drug use, pervasive crude language, strong sexual content, graphic nudity and some violence
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South Africans are renowned for being resilient and not usually deterred from their travel plans. However, in a world where no destination can be considered safe and the security profile of a destination can change unexpectedly, it helps to know what's covered when you're travelling.
Do you know who to call when the airline you booked goes out of business? Do you know what to do if disaster strikes? Are you prepared for the cost of an emergency evacuation or even a doctor's visit overseas?
Travel insurance is certainly not a nice-to-have travel purchase, it is essential, says the Association of Southern African Travel Agents (ASATA), but do you know what it covers?
Remember the disruptions caused by Mount Agung volcano in Bali recently? Or the hurricanes that have shaken the US?
Although your travel insurance won't cover you if you want to cancel your trip, you would be covered if the airline needs to ground flights or if your accommodation has been damaged to an 'uninhabitable' extent as a result of weather conditions.
Most travel insurance companies, depending on their terms, will reimburse you the non-refundable portions of travel and/or accommodation arrangements, as well as any reasonable additional travel and accommodation expenses.
If your international holiday is cancelled as a result of bankruptcy of the airline, hotel, ferry, Train Operator, Coach Operator, Car Hire or event Theme Parks you booked, your travel insurance should cover any losses.
It's crucial that you do your homework though because your insurance will not cover you if there was a public warning 14 days before the purchase of your policy that the airline, hotel or other travel supplier would go out of business.
Unfortunately, travel agents, tour organisers, or booking agents might not be covered by your travel insurance. You should also know that if the airline or hotel forms part of a package tour booked, there might be no cover. So make sure you read the fine print ahead of time so you know what is covered and what not.
Members of ASATA comply with a code of conduct, constitution and charter which is aimed at safeguarding the interests of the travelling public. Remember, if you find a deal that sounds simply too good to be true, it more than likely is.
3. Strikes at the order of the day….
Mango, SAA and even SA Airlink… it seems airline workers are keen to share their discontent with the South African traveller lately. But, are you covered if your plans are disrupted by the airline workers' strike action?
If you cannot get to your destination or you can't get home from your trip as a result of the strike, your travel insurance will likely cover you. If you accrue financial losses as a result, those losses will be reimbursed by your travel insurance provider when you make a claim.
Not all travel insurance plans include coverage for airport strikes. In fact, it's may be listed specifically as an exclusion, so you must verify the plan before you can count on having coverage for strikes that disrupt your travel plans!
Be sure that you purchase your travel insurance before the strike is announced! You simply can't buy your travel insurance plan and expect to have coverage for striking airport workers after the strike is announced - that's like trying to get homeowner's insurance when your house is already on fire!
You've booked your holidays and have all your documentation in order for your visa – including enough money in your bank account – and still your visa gets denied. What now?
Your travel insurance will reimburse you for the non-refundable portions of your holiday if your visa has been denied. They will unfortunately not pay for your visa application costs, nor will they pay if you haven't provided all the required documents for your visa application to be successful, or if you applied late.
As South Africans, we are determined travellers who will go to great lengths to reach our destination and we are not perturbed by challenges that may get in our way but in the ever-changing conditions around the world, we can never be sure of what will happen.Travel insurance is not just a casual purchase but an essential part of travelling - here are four advantages and must-know points on travel insurance.


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Alcohol and I began our relationship when I was 13 years old.
My friend's mom and her boyfriend bought us beer on a Friday night took us to a "real" haunted house that same evening. It was an adrenaline rush like I had never experienced. That night stuck with me for months. I was convinced the alcohol had enhanced everything and I wanted to feel that rush again.
My high school and college days consisted of me binge drinking on weekends. I was the wittiest friend, an expert on every subject and I was definitely the best dancer. The LIES alcohol tells us.
After college I settled down, got married and had three beautiful boys within five years. I did not drink while I was pregnant and when they were young. After they went off to school and found their own lives, I was lost.
Wine became my best friend. I was lonely and bored and wine made me feel warm and wanted. It was a way to fit in with every group. Everyone was doing it. All moms need a stress reliever, after all. My one glass of wine at dinner quickly morphed into 2 to 3 glasses a night. Sometimes I would drink a whole bottle but always got deathly sick afterwards.
My health was starting to fail. I was often too sick and tired to get out of bed. I'd never remember what my boys told me the night before. I was puffy and swollen and looked 10 years older than I was.
I didn't hit rock bottom per se. I just happened to listen to Elizabeth Vargas book, "Between Breaths," when I was on vacation. It was life changing for me as it made me take a long hard look at my own drinking.
I decided right then and there that the minute I got home I was going to stop drinking.
I wasn't comfortable attending local meetings. I decided to immerse myself in online groups— "Women for Sobriety" saved me. I also joined a couple of Facebook groups for women in recovery. I immersed myself in recovery podcasts, books and blogs and I took specific steps to change my habits.
I finally went public on my own Facebook page about a couple of months ago and the support was overwhelming. I am almost 8 months sober. I know with 100% certainty I will never take another drink. I am now confident enough to join AA or attend meetings if I feel I need to. I continue to fill my cup up with positive self-talk and I stay connected to the online feeds. They will always be my lifeline.


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Texas teacher details how distrust and legal hoops have destroyed her classroom library
This goes so far beyond just banning specific titles.
Image by Wokingham Libraries from Pixabay
Stringent new requirements for classroom libraries have teachers up in arms.
Few things are more integral to a child's future successes than developing the skill and habit of reading. Study after study has shown that reading, even for pleasure, helps kids develop critical thinking skills, improve their vocabulary, increase their ability to understand others and more. Reading can even helps kids do better in math.
Because reading is such a vital learning tool, one would think caring parents would want schools to support kids reading however they can. That support might look like full, rich school libraries and classrooms full of books that kids can choose from when they have some downtime.
But a push for extreme censorship, fueled by politicians who see an opportunity to garner support through fear, has put teachers with large classroom libraries into impossible positions.
In a Facebook post that's been shared more than 19,000 times, an elementary school teacher in Texas has detailed how her state's new regulations on books in the classroom have made it virtually impossible to offer students the class library she's been building for more than a decade. Emily Clay shared a photo of several shelves filled with bins of books.
"Here is my classroom library," she wrote. "This is over 1,600 books chosen for my elementary students. This is over a decade and thousands of dollars and countless donations of collecting. This is my students' favorite place to go in my classroom. This is where I go when I have a reluctant reader to find something just right to spark their interest.
"According to the state of Texas, this is dangerous. This is a place where children may be indoctrinated or exposed to inappropriate content. This is just one more area where teachers cannot be trusted as educational experts. This is a battleground."
Clay shared that every teacher in her district now has to go through a tedious process that starts with entering the title, author and year published for every single book in their classroom into a spreadsheet. "Then we have to go through a painstaking process to vet each and every book---even if we've read them, even if we grew up reading them---to make sure that 'real experts' have determined that the book content is appropriate for the age level we teach, and also enter that data," she wrote.
This summer, Clay scanned all of her classroom books into her own library system—a process that only required a barcode scan of each book. That alone took six hours, she said. There's no way she could process each book and enter the details into a spreadsheet the way the policy requires within any reasonable amount of time. Even if each book took just three minutes to process, it would take 80 hours to enter her entire 1,600-book library. No teacher has even a fraction of that amount of time. And they are supposed to have this process completed by November.
"So what am I going to do?" she wrote. "I already don't have on-contract time to do all the things we are required to do. What I'm going to do is box up every one of these books and put them away. And these shelves will be bare. I won't be the only one putting away all of my books. Classrooms across Texas will be bare of libraries because of this.
"I ugly-cried this morning. One of my favorite things about my job is getting emails from parents telling me how enthusiastically their child is now reading at home.
"How are kids going to learn to love to read if they can't hold books in their hands? Putting barriers between kids and books is one of the worst things I can think of."
Roadblocking classroom reading material is especially harmful to low-income students, who may have few, if any, books at home to read.
As Clay points out in her post, kids already have access to all of the things parents are afraid they might see in a book right at their fingertips with smartphones, tablets and computers. Books aren't the enemy here.
"Sure, there are some vigilant parents who make sure their children are never exposed to anything they don't want them to see," Clay wrote. "And while these parents could have chosen to take their kids to the public libraries themselves and choose books they deem appropriate, instead they chose to raise up their voices against teachers like me and decide that everyone's child should be restricted; every child should have to live up to whatever standards they have chosen for their own children. They've made it clear they think we're all in this profession to tarnish and brainwash their children. This TINY minority of people are the ones who are making things like this happen. And just like with everything else in our under-funded, under-respected, over-worked, under-paid, under-staffed industry, we're probably all going to roll over and take it."
But Clay also shared that more teachers will quit because of this kind of micromanagement. She's right. People often think that teachers quit because they are underpaid, but often it's the lack of respect for teachers as professionals and the top-down decisions that make teaching effectively difficult or impossible that push teachers away from their chosen career.
But Clay's final words really get to the heart of why these hoops teachers are being asked to jump through are so problematic.
"I LOVE my students," she wrote. "I would NEVER put anything in my classroom library that I thought might expose them to something inappropriate or too mature. I know I can get parent volunteers to come in and donate their time to help me catalog my extensive collection. But what I'm really mourning is the absolute lack of trust in highly-trained educators who have poured their souls into this profession and the children of people who believe we're indoctrinating them."
This goes so far beyond raising concerns about or even banning some specific titles. What this says is: We don't trust teachers. We think you're trying to harm kids with your cute little classroom library so we're going to make it as hard as possible to even have one. If there are concerns over specific books? Fine, raise them. All reasonable people would agree that certain material is not appropriate for children at all and has no place in the classroom. Some books might fall into a subjective gray area and be up for debate, and that's fine. Those are healthy debates to have.
But parents are taking issue with books that aren't sexually explicit but simply include characters who have two same-sex parents or characters who are transgender—those books are simply reflective of the world kids live in. If parents are taking issue with books that give deference to the perspectives of people harmed by racism, that is also reflective of the world they live in. If parents are really that concerned, they can send kids to school with their own personal books to read from home and inform the teacher that they aren't allowed to use the class library. Or they can choose to homeschool.
Just stop punishing teachers for crimes they haven't committed and making their jobs far harder than they already are. They don't deserve it, and it's ultimately doing more harm than good to kids who benefit from access to classroom libraries.
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John Kuhn is one of my fav Packers. My sons and I would always watch the Packers and would yell along with those in the stadium, "KUUUUUUUUUUHN".
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After attending her father's funeral, former Mossad agent Rachel Goldschmitt empties her bank account and disappears. But when she makes a cryptic phone call to her former handler, Ehud, the Mossad sends him to track her down. Finding no leads, he must retrace her career as a spy to figure out why she abandoned Mossad before she can do any damage to Israel. But he soon discovers that after living under cover for so long, an agent's assumed identity and her real one can blur, catching loyalty, love, and truth between them. In the midst of a high-risk, high-stakes investigation, Ehud begins to question whether he ever knew his agent at all.
Biographical Note Yiftach Reicher Atir was born in 1949 on Kibbutz Shoval, in the south of Israel. As a young commando officer, he participated in Operation Entebbe and other military and intelligence operations before retirement with the rank of Brigadier General (Intelligence). The English Teacher is his third novel.


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