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21:18 Malpeyre19: lol normal amo but h112 big guns ( see tech tree ) and level 4 you level 3 ....and not heating because just using second by second ...try learn ....i play since 2013 and have more 40000 battles with an account NA and an account US ...do what u want but should learn that japanese plane arent the most fragile planes ..
21:28 Malpeyre19: sure try to shoot only 1 or 2 seconds ..stop half one and so on ..try ..
21:32 Malpeyre19: if u 're not sure create a ticket for " cheat " ...and see !
21:40 sonji*******: how did your wepoan not over heat?
21:53 Malpeyre19: if you try this way of firing in short bursts, you'll see that it's good advice..for the rest you're free to do what you want and have a good flight....story over, okay?
Nothing against this guys but .....I have nothing against this guy but I don't like this language and especially not this idea of cheating or not... we agree that these are jokes for simple-minded or what?
Good flight all and , in case of verbal aggression, keep your cool....and if it's an attack with a plane it's the game defend yourself or say goodbye! I don't like the living return after death.
Edited by Malpeyre19, 10 February 2019 - 10:14 PM.
speaking of chat bans... does 'hacker' or 'cheater' trigger the chat ban hammer?
please, somebody go call a bot a cheater and report back?
It does not. I got accused by scrub calling me "hacker", "cheater", "c*nt" for whole game still wasn't chatbanned.
Also it's so amusing when you get accused of using "damage mod" on server-based game.
But I guess when enough crybabies mass report me I'll get auto banned while "customer" service will take week to reply.
i would say ignore those remarks,you are obviously very gifted player.
1:18 Malpeyre19: lol normal amo but h112 big guns ( see tech tree ) and level 4 you level 3 ....and not heating because just using second by second ...try learn ....i play since 2013 and have more 40000 battles with an account NA and an account US ...do what u want but should learn that japanese plane arent the most fragile planes ..
LOL. OP, this guy is absolutely famous for claiming someone or other is cheating in a match. I have seen him do it in at least 8 to 10 matches.
It got so, that at the start of a match, I would announce that I was cheating when I saw him in the lineup. He PM'd me after one of our last matches and asked how come I was getting away with cheating. I guess he had been reporting me for unfair play. Anyway, I told him I had stock in the company so they let me be.
In the case of Sonji.. that seemed... excessive? That's a good word for it.
Also, weird side-question.. what constitutes "unfair play"? It's one of the things you can report someone for and it confuses me as a thing.
Thank you all for your testimonies.
Not fair! bad guy ..lol !
I always assumed unfair play referred to someone you think is cheating but I don't know for sure.
BTW, the last I heard from him, he was asking me for their stock identifier? is that the word to use? Symbol! That's it. Anyway off he went to get his own stock, apparently so he could get away with cheating, too. It still makes me giggle. You can't make this stuff up.
Funny thing is that He 112's 7.92mm guns has a 20 sec shooting time before overheat, if you alternate the 20mm which is 4 sec shooting time, you can make it seem like you are always shooting.
This is why when I used to play all the time, I used Fire Groups never used All Fire. So that I can release the guns that Overheat faster and still lay in with the MGs and then use the Cannons again when they have cool downed.
So here was something I posted a few years back about Hacking. Since I mod files in this game and know what can be done, but this is my stance on the 3 client side hacks that can be used but have downsides. Now got to remember the time I wrote this on the Aim Hack because we use to have lead indicators, there is none now but the idea still applies.
There are 3 types of hacks that can be done without actually touching the server, 2 of these would do a lot better by injecting themselves into the exe but many online gaming companies have ways to detect the injections.
1. Rate of Fire (RoF) hack, this can be done via software (AHK, AutoIt, AutoKey, etc) or hardware (any gaming mouse/keyboard that has on board memory to make macros). Unfortunately in WoWp RoF is actually controlled via the game and server so no matter how fast you can simulate a mouse click the bullets in WoWp will not shoot any faster then what the game allows.
2. ESP hack. This intercepts the positioning data from the server to your PC then you would use software to create an overlay on your screen to display an indicator of where both friendlies and enemies are located on your screen. Now this one is countered by WG because unless you are spotting or another player is spotting that enemy target then the server will not release the position data to that client's PC. So to even use this type of hack is useless because you will already see the target on your map or on screen when they are spotted.
3. Auto Aim/Headshot Hack, this can be done client side by taking the positioning data (that has been already release by the server in WG's games) and use other API data (relative speed, altitude, etc) to get a better shooting solution then what the lead indicator in game provides. The issue with this type of hack is that planes are always in constant motion, so for the hack to move your cursor to "aim" at the proper spot to get the best shot would cause the plane to change directions, thus ultimately causing the hacker to be more of a bot because it would have to take movement control. Where as with other FPS games you can still move your character and the hack only changes the camera mouse movement to put the crosshairs on target. Also there is a minor Auto Aim that is already built into the game (kinda like how consoles have in FPS games). Yes you could use a hack like this for Rockets but the issue with that is the Rockets do not have a set fuse timer. So this makes Rockets still random if it will actually do full damage.
Now other hacks usually will require a server data manipulation and this would require a lot more work to really make this any useful and WG would be able to detect this intrusion.
I and a couple friends during Closed Beta have manipulated client files to see what can and can not be done. Pretty much the conclusion came down is that we can modify a lot of the visual aspect of the client. For example, I manipulated a file that visually showed that my bullets were shooting to my right 90 degrees from the nose of the plane. Then I had another player fly to my right as I saw the bullet stream appear to be hitting his plane, but no damage was being registered. Then I had him fly in front of my plane, even though the bullet stream was not there the client still registered damage on the plane. This proves that the data for the actually registering if its a hit or not is all server sided.
Hacking, at least in this game, is a lot harder then other games because of the server sided confirmations that have to be done before the client will do it. That is also why latency plays a huge factor in this type of game.
That is my 2 cents on this matter.
Heck there was a time when be and another modder tweaked a xml file that visually made it look like your guns where shooting 90 degrees to the right. But it did no damage to a plane that was 90 degrees to my right. It would still damage the plane in the crosshairs even though there was no visual data to show it.
Edited by DrSinister, 10 February 2019 - 12:43 AM.
Yea, I figure at this point the most anyone is doing is probably running something to basically restore the lead indicator and leaving controls still on manual. An advantage cheat (in the current game environment), but not full on automation.
I work with most of the RU modders and so far I do not think anyone has come up with a lead indicator mod, well publicly at least. Even when there was the lead indicator in game, they had it based on the avg of both guns, then latter it was for the slowest RoF gun. So either way you still had to learn to know where to lead for each RoF guns to hit.
Edited by DrSinister, 10 February 2019 - 01:03 AM.
Took me 4 years to get sick of World of Tanks.. Half that for this game.
The rotten MM, lousy servers, Chat bans, lopsided games, blackscreen, no joystick support..
WE ALL NEED TO BOYCOTT THIS GAME.
Yea, I assumed it would still require skill to use even if someone has one/has come up with one. Make things slightly simpler in terms of gross targetting ranges, but fine tuning would still be up to you and so would plane control. I dunno if anyone has one and I don't want to know, lol!
Still, I agree 1000000% that this game is virtually unhackable without WG noticing it -real- quick because it would require server side intrusion.
Whew, I finally know I'm not an unintentional hacker.
It should still be a game! There's nothing to win but relaxation time!
Otherwise in France we made a petition to ask for a 1.9 mode or a dedicated server! We'll wait until we're a hundred and see what they think!
Edited by Malpeyre19, 10 February 2019 - 10:22 AM.


Every so many conferences you get out of the conference what you hope to get out of it, and that's certainly what happened in London this month.
iCAAD is an addiction and mental health centered conference where professionals worldwide come to London to talk of "stuff". "Stuff" like — why certain types of treatment work better than others, and why certain types of people respond better than others to treatment, etc. etc.
This year however, I found out what I respond to best: Generosity of others. And so what did I learn? To give back! It's that easy, and what a wonderful world this could be, if we all practiced it everyday. So, let's go on to it. What generous act can you tell me you gave back today, and how did it go? What did you learn about yourself? Want to learn more about yourself and your influences, then may I introduce you to OnSite.
OnSite is a center run by Miles Adox the guy in the center, and both Mark Fenwick (the therapist on the left) and myself on the right have used this short term (7-10-14 day) program successfully in getting in touch with our feelings and true selves, working through trauma in a very safe environment. Want to learn more, or find a different self-realization program for yourself? Let's connect! I look forward to it. Please see below! .
It's with pride that I've accepted the invitation to present this coming week in Den Hague at the Family in Global Transition 2018 conference. This is a conference I attended last year, and found many 'like kind': those like myself with true international connections to family, friends, like stye, and unique experiences. My talk with Steven DeMille Exec Director of Redcliff Ascent on Wilderness Treatment will certainly get everyone's attention. I am available on twitter @drpsych and @amerpsy to those who attend my presentation would like a FREE version of my ebook 10 Steps to Wilderness Therapy, on Apple iTunes! See you in Den Hague!
NATSAP Kennebunkport ME 2017: Be there or be lobster!
NATSAP Northeast Kennebunkport, Maine never ceases to enthuse, entertain, and attract the best in the adolescent and young adult behavioral health industry. It is a yearly event that many of consultants and professionals attend for the camaraderie if not the lobster festivities. Yes, to the left is a lobster of phenomenal proportion!
And yes, although it is an industry, it sincerely feels more like a group of friends that you would have over for dinner and talk about their kids, their families, their aspirations, their hobbies (like golf & skiing), along with extended focus on providing stellar mental health, physical, spiritual (12 steps) recovery options.
In fact, this picture to the left shows is close to the condo owned by Will and Beth Laughlin and home to baby Laughlin, and where we talked about Oliverian School in New Hampshire, along with raising family.
2017 NATSAP this year was fantastic. Many of the workshops directly spoke to me and how programs are evolving into more specific, narrow concentration of direction. And this is why I attend every year, to get the best information, see what staff is changed and what new programs are emerging.
What you want consultant to be is educated and informed of the changes within the industry. This is what you're hoping a consultant does on your behalf; travel to conferences, tour program, attend meet & greet sessions with new staff, give presentations on pertinent topics, participate in telephone and web presentations, etc., etc. Ask, does your consultant do that? We do.
For those of you who have followed my career as an international psychologist, you know my passion in treating 'at-risk' youth is directed often in separating behaviorally reactive youth from their 'known' setting, 'unplugging' to an outdoor setting in determining how much is due to external versus internally driven. Make sense? As a past school psychologist, I learned early on to ask the question, "do you see the same behavior at home as you do in school?", and visa versa ("do you see it at school as you see it at home").
Wilderness treatment or therapy is now often called outdoor behavioral therapy. Why? I suspect that the term 'wilderness' simply can cause parents to panic: "Well, what happens if he falls in the lake, or off a cliff, or eaten by an animal", or "What if he wanders off and gets lost, or runs away" etc. Rightfully so — in the past.
Today, OBH (Outdoor Behavioral Health) communicates the scientic and regulatory behavior expected by state licensing entities through scientific peer reviewed journals. In my case, OBH published a peer reviewed article written by Steven DeMille and myself on an international case we co-worked, if you will in providing a psychological evaluation, consultation, and wilderness program placement at RedCliff in Utah. Our full article entitled, "A Theoretically Anchored and Multi-Modal Treatment Approach in an Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare Program. It is available free for download https://goo.gl/Jj2WGR.
In the article, you can see how outdoor behavioral health is successful from that provided by other forms of treatment. True, the great outdoors is 'good for anyone', but it's not 'therapeutic' in and of itself and it would be silly to consider it as a form of psychological therapy for significant behavioral and emotional problems. Addiction, psychiatric conditions (high functioning autism, aspergers), mental health (depression, anxiety, PTSD / trauma) are often successfully treated in outdoor settings.
Thank you for your listening, and to all I say Happy Camping!


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'It's all personal': Wighton waiting for Chambers duel
Jack Wighton won't feel the need to wage a war of words with fiery Queensland centre Will Chambers despite insisting his State of Origin battle will be "personal" on Sunday night.
The Raiders star will occupy the spot usually manned by Latrell Mitchell, pitting him directly against his Indigenous All Stars teammate and noted niggler Chambers.
Personal: Jack Wighton. Credit:AAP
Blues coach Brad Fittler famously told Mitchell before last year's Origin series not to take the bait and "give him nothing", a tactic Wighton would do well to follow as the Blues seek to level the series at Perth's Optus Stadium.
But when asked whether he would zip his mouth when confronted with Chambers, Wighton said: "I know I just have to do my job. I'll just do what I do on the night.
"The whole game is personal. It's not just the one person you're playing, it's between the states as everyone knows. This is all personal."
Wighton and Chambers are not foreign to each other, with the pair combining for the Indigenous All Stars in the traditional pre-season fixture. And while they have lined up against each other at NRL level previously, they haven't met with the stakes so high as they will be for the second game of the series.
The whole game is personal. It's not just the one person you're playing, it's between the states as everyone knows. This is all personal
"I've played him in a couple of games, a few games actually," Wighton said. "He's a fast player, but I'm ready to take him on. Off the field he's a great fella, but that all goes out the window when we get on the field on Sunday night."
Mark Gasnier has popped into camp to help tutor Wighton and Tom Trbojevic, who has only limited experience playing in the centres. He will replace Josh Morris on a brand new right edge featuring Blake Ferguson.
Gasnier finished working with the Blues on Friday.
"I've learned a lot about what he found worked for him," Trbojevic said. "He's one of the best centres to play our game and he's got such a high footy IQ. He uses cues defensively where to be in as well as offence. He's been really helpful for me."
On Gasnier, Wighton said: "It's great. He just reassures you and he gives you confidence ticking all those boxes. He was one of the greats for NSW and Australia. His footy knowledge is second to none and it really shows when he talks to you.
"I've had a couple of training sessions now and it's all there. I'm excited. I'm just going to take it with both hands."
Trbojevic took all precautions and dived straight for the ice after the Blues finished their training session at Hale School on Friday. He's just two games back from injury, having missed eights weeks during his latest stint on the sidelines after he re-tore the muscle in round four.
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A terrifically interesting new anthology called Seeds of Change hits bookstores this summer, featuring original stories from nine scifi authors dealing with near-future scenarios where the world completely changes. Essentially, it's a political take on the idea of the singularity and it features two of my favorite smartypants authors, Tobias Buckell and Ken MacLeod. Edited by F&SF editor John Joseph Adams, Seeds of Change deals with everything from voting to U.S. oil companies in Africa. Contributor Blake Carlton describes the anthology as dealing with how "fiction can be a mode of social change."
According to Publisher's Weekly, the anthology features:
Near-future paradigm shifts in everything from race relations (in Ted Kosmatka's vivid and moving "N-Words," where cloned Neanderthals encounter violent hatred from Homo sapiens) to the morality of uploaded consciousness (in Blake Charlton's clumsy but charming "Endosymbiont"), with varying success. The hero of Jay Lake's "The Future by Degrees" invents an energy-saving thermal superconductor only to be pursued by corporations protecting their business, with predictable results. Pepper, the mercenary hero of Tobias S. Buckell's Crystal Rain, refuses to assassinate a dictator in the morally contrived "Resistance." Considerably more powerful is Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu's "Spider the Artist," which combines African folk tales and advanced robotics in a chilling story about a rising social conscience in the Nigerian oil fields.
I can't wait to dig into it!
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We are all familiar with Hollywood remaking Asian films, but sometimes it also happens the other way around. This is the case with the Bollywood smash hit Bang Bang, which is a remake of the 2010 Tom Cruise action-fest Knight and Day. One might wonder why of all the films that can be remade, this one was chosen, since it wasn't such a big hit and generally isn't seen as a great film. But when you have Bollywood mega star Hrithik Roshan in the lead role, and the biggest budget ever used for a Indian film at your disposal, it might turn out to become something quite spectacular.
Well, is it? The movie has its problems, but it can't be denied that it is a fun and quite spectacular ride from start to finish. The film's story ain't that special, and as Roshan said himself in many interviews promoting the film, it is a very simple story. If you have seen the original Hollywood film, the story is more or less the same with some elements changed but the plot takes some fun turns and it's nice how everything eventually comes together. The film takes its time to take up pace though, as the first 12 minutes are spent introducing the main villain (Danny Denzongpa) and it isn't until about 30 minutes in until we are introduced to the first real thrills.
So let's take a look at the bang bang part of the film: the action. Roshan has stated many times that this is the biggest action film he has done up to this point in his career. Roshan is the center of the film and it all ultimately revolves around him. And rightly so. He has the charm and experience to carry the film and with the body of a god is the ultimate action hero an action film longs for. What I also like is that he portrays the character totally different from how Tom Cruise did, which works nicely. The film has hand to hand combat, high speed chases, shoot outs, explosions: enough bang bang for everyone. Roshan is known for pushing himself to his limits, and has absolutely given his all in his latest adventure.
Most notably is an action scene with a flyboard at sea. Roshan is the first actor to use such a device on film and did all the stunts in the scene himself. In pure Jackie Chan fashion he injured himself very seriously by not wearing a helmet during the stunt and after hitting his head on the water surface a few times too many, he started to have painful headaches. Because of the constant impact with the water a blood clot had formed in his brain. He had emergency brain surgery to have it removed and went back to work after a short recovery period.
Next to Roshan we have Katrina Kaif, who had previously worked together with Roshan on 2011's Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara. Just like with many other Bollywood films, the female main star portrays a woman who has difficulty finding a man (even though they are always gorgeous, go figure). Bang Bang isn't any different in this aspect and a bit too much time is spent to this plot element. But then she meets Roshan's character accidentally during a date and we're off! Not just action wise, but also with the obligatory Bollywood dance sequences. In pure musical form and Bollywood fashion, Bang Bang also features quite a few "music video" moments. Some of them are very nice (like the Tu Meri song), but others really slow the story and the film down as they are the usual "girl likes boy" and "we like each other" songs. But ah well, it's a Bollywood film, so it's part of the experience. Next to this it all happens in beautiful and colourful locations, so enough eye candy to go around.
I am a person who enjoyed the original Knight and Day and found it to be a very entertaining film. Sure it was silly, but it was action-packed and just plain fun. The same can be said of its remake: it's all a bit silly but nonetheless very entertaining, and that's what the film ultimately aims to do. As previously mentioned, the story is sometimes slowed down by some of the music sequences and also has some moments that could have been dealt with in less detail, but Bang Bang definitely is an action-packed film that doesn't fail to entertain.


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Air India, the premier flight carrier of India is one of the most extensive flight service provider in India.
Air India celebrated World Environment Day highlighting the theme: "SWACHH BHARAT IS A SWASTH BHARAT", in sync with Hon'ble Prime Minister's vision for "Swachh Bharat – A Clean India".
Following the earthquake in Nepal, Air India announced fare reductions, waiver of cancellation and refund charges and operated additional flights to/from Kathmandu to fly out stranded people.
Introduction of a direct flight to connect Visakhapatnam to Port Blair.
Air India operated all women crew flights to celebrate the occasion of International Women's Day besides various events on the ground.
History repeated itself as the Delhi-Melbourne flight was operated by two of the same cockpit crew who had operated the world's first All Women Crew flight 30 years ago in 1985.
Doubles frequency on the Delhi-Surat-Delhi route from three flights a week to six flights a week.
Introduction of a daily direct service from Delhi-Vijayawada and back.
Digital brand engagement intiative through social media with Air India "Cheers for Champions", a special Google Plus Hangout, the very first of its kind by any airline in India – with cricket stars Harbhajan Singh, VVS Laxman, Anjum Chopra & Nikhil Chopra, all Air India employees.
Air India had the honour of being the first airline to start commercial operations from the recently opened Kazi Nazrul Islam Airport at Durgapur with a flight connecting Kolkata to Durgapur and back. The inaugural flight was operated by Alliance Air a wholly owned subsidiary of Air India.
New flight between Bengaluru and Puducherry with an ATR aircraft.
From April 3-9 and on 14th, Air India operated a total of 19 flights between Djibouti and Sana'a to bring out 3614 evacuees out of Sana'a. Air India evacuated more than 50 per cent of the total evacuees.
Introduction of flight to Delhi-Rajkot and back.
Air India launches Food Festival, with cricket as the theme for the menu during the World Cup from Feb.14 to March 29, 2015
Live second Google Hangout with Yuvraj Singh & Praveen Amre.
Air India operates five additional flights on the Delhi-Ahmedabad- Delhi sector to facilitate travel of participants attending the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas and Vibrant Gujarat conferences in Ahmedabad.


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import junit.framework.TestCase;

public class OldInheritableThreadLocalTest extends TestCase {

    public void test_Ljava_lang_InheritableThreadLocal()
            throws InterruptedException {
        final Object value = new Object();
        final Object inheritedValue = new Object();
        final ThreadLocal<Object> threadLocal
                = new InheritableThreadLocal<Object>() {
            @Override
            protected Object childValue(Object parentValue) {
                assertSame(value, parentValue);
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            }
        };
        threadLocal.set(value);
        final Object[] holder = new Object[1];
        Thread thread = new Thread() {
            public void run() {
                holder[0] = threadLocal.get();
            }
        };
        thread.start();
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        assertSame(inheritedValue, holder[0]);

        // Cleanup properly, so other tests are not affected.
        threadLocal.remove();
    }

    public void test_childValue() {
        InheritableThreadLocal<String> itl = new InheritableThreadLocal<String>() {
            @Override
            protected String initialValue() {
                return "initial";
            }
            @Override
            protected String childValue(String parentValue) {
                return "childValue";
            }
        };
        assertEquals("initial", itl.get());
    }

}

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Some of my earlier thoughts on education
Posted on January 26, 2018	by gcochran9
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36 Responses to Some of my earlier thoughts on education
ghazisiz says:
Everything you said 10 years ago made sense. Of course, what you said had no effect on the last decade of education policy. That's why all of us who made the same effort have dropped away. Education policy is in the hands of well-intentioned people lacking the curiosity that Samuel Johnson said was the sole sign of mental vitality. They just don't pay attention to what is happening. Honestly, the only sound policy option is a voucher system.
There's not much payoff for a voucher system.
It would work if you had smart parents dependent on schools. But smart parents make sure their kids have opportunities to learn. And dumb parents can't make good use of it. So you have a few in-betweens who help their kids a bit.
Wouldn't that depend on what pay-off you seek?
Zimriel says:
A voucher system would drain off the best students from "bad" (read: black) schools, and make those schools even more hopeless and unmanageable. They also would loose different-raced students onto other "good" schools, reducing the cohesion of their student bodies and leading to self-segregation and riots. Vouchers would probably not be used for religious schools (those will be Islamic in the cities) but they would absolutely be used for the Little Red Schoolhouse sort of secular Left indoctrination.
The one advantage I see in vouchers is that it might hurt the teachers' unions. But then I'm less sure that's the union I want hurt, especially if the teachers' job is made harder, as vouchers would.
"A voucher system would drain off the best students from "bad" … schools": well that would be outrageous because clearly such schools own those students.
Irate eye rater says:
They may well get the same quality of job done cheaper. Money isn't nothing.
ohwilleke says:
One key point that you allude to in slightest passing, but that can matter quite a bit because we can do something about it, is that while perhaps the middle 90% of schools don't have much of an impact on student outcomes, the schools in the bottom 5% are ruinous, and perhaps 5% of schools do consistently have significantly better than par outcomes although reproducing those successes is dreadfully hard. But, the ruinous schools are a thing.
For example, in Denver's worst high schools around the year 2000 or so, only about 10% of kids who has scored in the 98th percentile on an IQ test in elementary school graduated and attended college, and half of them needed remedial work upon entering college. A really bad school can destroy the potential of even an extremely promising child.
From what we know about how parents and students in school choice systems chose schools, we know that they aren't particularly expert at it. But, what any system of school choice, either among public schools, or with public and publicly-chartered schools, or with vouchers to attend private schools as well, does that makes a positive impact, is that parents and students are acute enough to avoid those schools in the harmful bottom 5% like the plague, causing those schools to see their enrollments plummet, which eventually makes the closure of those harmful schools inevitable. The main benefit of school choice systems of any kind is that they cause very bad schools which would otherwise remain open to close.
In this respect, school choice systems of some kind aren't all that different from the mechanism of capitalism generally. Contrary to the naive view of capitalism, top management in big businesses aren't particularly talented at maximizing profits or productivity (indeed, their edge relative to executives in mid-sized businesses has steadily declined over the last few decades). Honestly, the most successful large Soviet enterprises (e.g. big defense contractors) gave their capitalist counterparts a run for their money. But, what the private sectors of capitalist economies are good at, which communist economies and even the government owned sectors of capitalist economies that lack a strong choice component are not, is mercilessly shuttering businesses as soon as their performance is mediocre and long before they are in truly dire straights.
When this happens at the industrial level, it can be truly breathtaking to see. An intersection I drive home through every day had 3 Blockbusters out of four corners and there were hundreds of video rental stores of several brands in greater Denver about ten years ago. Last year, the very last video rental store (a specialty store focused on LGBT videos) in the entire city of Denver with more than 600,000 people, closed. The last general interest video rental store had closed the year before that. An entire sub-industry was completely purged from the economy over a span of about eight years.
In contrast, one of my older estate planning clients came from a family who made their livelihood maintaining a reserve of cavalry horses for the military in Pueblo, Colorado under a Department of Defense contract, for pretty much the entire duration of the Cold War, despite the fact that the last cavalry deployment in modern military history, made at a time when it was already obsolete, took place in World War I, more than thirty years before this contract was first inked, and that contract continued for another forty years.
Under No Child Left Behind. kids in low-scoring schools have the legal right to transfer to schools with higher scores. Some do. But, on average, their own scores do not improve when they do this.
"On the other hand, pupils who transferred to other schools under the NCLB choice provision did no better, on average, than they had in their previous schools, according to the study, which was released June 27." –
https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2007/06/28/43rand_web.h26.html
GAY_WEED_DAD_69 says:
I just re-read your "Size Matters" article from 2006. Your assurance that a caliphate would never conquer Iraq is darkly amusing in retrospect, especially since it happened partly because the US occupied the place, instead of being prevented by it. Reality managed to be even more clownish than anyone could have imagined.
Yudi says:
Excellent article. I'll have to look more at your print writings. I'll repost what I said earlier on this site about education:
"Basic literacy and numeracy are surely the most important things students learn, as well as some softening of manners and a vague knowledge of the world outside their narrow area or career domain. A key concept educated people understand is uniformitarianism–no, there are not dragons or men with faces on their chests in faraway lands. Furthermore, both the laws of physics and human psychology largely apply elsewhere. Shit happens, as opposed to being caused by witches or elfshot.
"Most likely, having a largely educated populace has caused us to forget how essential these basics are."
I work in the education system myself (in a private school, thank every listening deity) and I can also say that by far the most important things students learn are in the elementary years–teaching someone how to read and write is a considerably more worthwhile investment of time than going through the rules of comma usage for the umpteenth time.
another fred says:
"Basic literacy and numeracy are surely the most important things students learn, as well as some softening of manners and a vague knowledge of the world outside their narrow area or career domain."
I believe that acculturation to social norms are more important, and, in fact, literacy and numeracy are virtually impossible to teach without the discipline that acculturation provides (or used to). What is going on with a significant segment of the population is a sort of widely dispersed version of "Lord of The Flies". A spontaneous sui generis culture arising in the vacuum left by the abandonment of discipline.
It is, as Charles Murray has described in "Coming Apart", a bifurcation of the culture. Where parents provide acculturation discipline still has some meaning, but for those who are raising themselves the street rules.
Reminds me of Feynman's writings on highschool textbook selection.
Dmitry Anisimov says:
Damn. I hate PDFs. People invented web, html and then they make websites optimized for fixed resolution and insert PDF/flash.
I hate PDFs as much as the next guy, but this one's pretty nice.
You can resize it, you can copy and paste the text, the links work, it's not a cancerous 5mb blob of JPG compression, etc. PDF is probably the best format for weird and complicated magazine layouts, which don't always translate well to HTML pages.
Regular articles from you over on Unz would be fantastic.
dave chamberlin says:
If Cochran unknowingly died and went to hell he would be forced to read and argue with a never ending comment section over at Unz review for all eternity.
So I'm already there?
No, we can't admit you are in hell, it just has to become slowly more likely. It's well designed, fools from this place didn't make it.
New Hampshire and Vermont always congratulate themselves on their high test scores relative to the rest of the nation, for reasons identical to North Dakota's. No one likes it when I point out why.
The local high school scores better than it should, and after a conversation with the principal I think I know why. Getting ready for the testing days, the faculty divvies up the difficult students to teachers who they think have the best relationship with them. The stated plan is that this creates less distraction for the other students, but my guess is that they get more out of those lowest scores before they throw down their pencils and stop trying. There are lots more points to be gained among those than getting a few more for the kids at the 95th percentile. And it's a good overall societal lesson as well. Getting more buy in and work out of the most difficult helps society greatly. Finnish children are told that scoring well is a matter of national honor. That does provide some focus for those who might otherwise blow the whole thing off.
"No one likes it when I point out why." Propinquity to Canada? (See, I have learnt something from American blogs.)
I recall an acquaintance saying Bush would be a bad president because students in Texas performed poorly while he was governor.
I don't know about the 1990's, but around 2010 Texas students were among the top in the country if you separated the scores by race. I think Steve Sailer did a post on it. That is, Hispanic students in TX were slightly better than Hispanic students elsewhere, etc. Those things don't change quickly, so I'm betting that was similar under Bush, though he didn't have much to do with it. Governors are not big influences on education in the short term, and probably not in the long term, either.
States are allowed to exclude some kids from NAEP tests, usually kids with disabilities or ELL ( English language learners) On average, states exclude something like 2% of students due to disabilities. Texas excluded 6% in 2011: other large states exclude 1-3%. The fraction of ELL excluded was 1/14 for Illinois, 1/32 for California, 1/6 for Illinois, 1/9 for Florida, 1/11 nationally. 5/22 for Texas.
Texas lies.
You might also check out Rod Paige.
Offtopic: someone commented years ago in this blog: """Tasmanian aboriginals became extinct, and left no known mixed breed descendents. All tasmanian "descendents" with documented ancestry are descended from an aboriginal that was very clearly mainland type."""
Is this really so?
Probably not. Easy enough to check if anyone was allowed. I understand there are a few hundred people that claim Tasmanian ancestry.
I think the statement you're quoting is fantasy designed to assuage some asshole's feelings.
Colonial-era Hobart had a STD problem. The Contagious Diseases Act was passed in 1879 for that reason.
Also, earlier, when white (and, I assume, the occasional West-Indian black) sailors and sealers got at the Tasmanian women, they left them with infertility-causing diseases, not just STDs but also stuff like rubella and mumps. The Tasmanians couldn't even breed with their own after that.
Source – David Hunt, "True Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia Volume 2".
There may have been exceptions. But I set the burden on the genealogists and geneticists to prove that the people calling themselves Tasmanians today are in fact Tasmanians rather than neoTasmanians lately imported from the mainland.
When I was in Australia I saw a lot of boomerangs and so forth marketed as having been made by Aboriginals which included photographs of the maker, and most of them were blonde women.
HG Wells said that they were. Both in "War of the Worlds" and in his history of the world. Of course, he also said that Lenin was a great guy who had to break a few eggs but had nothing to do with the execution of the Romanov family. And that Stalin was not the pure man Lenin was, but his Five Year Plan was proceeding nicely anyways.
the curious thing about all of your standardized test data is … that practically all of it is from the 1940s on.
which is well after universal schooling had been instituted.
There are of course places that started universal education later, like the South: they had lots of old-fashioned illiteracy, according to the census. You can also check general knowledge of older people: they knew lots less than the rising generation in, say, 1960.
crew says:
How do you teach people to look at the meta-joke and understand that life-history theory says we are mostly a bundle of reflexes at that age?
http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3v1ly8/
Hmmm, maybe that link should have been:
http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3v1ly8
OK, third time lucky:
I'm not sure I want people to know these things. My willingness to cheap out education seems like a major competitive advantage I have on other chimps in terms of how many kids I'm willing to have, and that the extra money I will accumulate over my life will eventually give those kids major advantages themselves.
This claims that SAT-Verbal really did decline 1963-1979. It claims that the percentage of takers did not go up much in this period. Moreover, it claims that the absolute number of 700+ scores decline from 17k in 1972 to 10k in 1993.
On the other hand, it claims that SAT-V did not decline 1950-1963, despite massive expansion of takers, suggesting that ETS is cooking the books.


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Chairwoman Edmonson and Mayor Gimenez launch Group Violence Intervention Initiative to combat gun violence
Miami-Dade County Commission Chairwoman Audrey M. Edmonson, joined by Mayor Carlos Gimenez, Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava and community partners, launches the Group Violence Intervention Initiative. (Photos by Ryan Holloway / Miami-Dade County)
MIAMI-DADE – Miami-Dade County Commission Chairwoman Audrey M. Edmonson held a joint press conference with Mayor Carlos A. Gimenez to formally launch the Group Violence Intervention initiative to clamp down on senseless gun violence.
The $2 million initiative, which resulted from legislation sponsored by Chairwoman Edmonson, calls for the participation of a number of community organizations including the Circle of Brotherhood, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Community Youth Against Violence and the Urban Partnership. The program was designed by John Jay College in New York and has a national proven track record in reducing gun violence and deaths by getting the community involved in taking ownership of the problem and becoming part of the solution. It is based on the "Operation Ceasefire" program first utilized in Boston in the 1990s.
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One aspect of the program – enforcing an existing teen curfew – has already begun, with billboards announcing the curfew having gone up in several high-crime areas in Miami-Dade County. The curfew will apply to any unsupervised youth under 18 who are out on the street after 11 p.m. weeknights or after midnight on weekends.
Chairwoman Edmonson said the program came about as a result of lengthy discussions with community groups and others to develop a comprehensive approach to seriously address the problem of gun violence in Miami-Dade County.
"We realized that there was an immediate need for a different way to address this issue, and we did just that," Chairwoman Edmonson said.
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Martes 20 de septiembre, 2016
This year the United Nations celebrates its 71st anniversary, and world leaders are once again gathered in New York for the annual General Assembly meeting.
The UN continues to be controversial in many quarters given its mixed results over the years.
The Organization is not a monolith – given its size and complexity it means different things to different people.
After two years of service with the Organization as Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, I have come to see the United Nations as a three-legged stool. One leg represents the political organs, another the technical organs, and the third the administrative organs.
The major cause for criticism of the organization emanates from its political organs – the first leg. Member states usually place parochial national interests first, despite the commitment to serve all of humanity.
This leads to perceptions of stagnation in the face of significant human rights abuses and violence, and leads to the perception that the organization serves little purpose.
Indeed, the power of individual member states was underscored by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's assertion in early June that he had been forced to remove Saudi Arabia from a formal UN human rights report for gross violations of human rights. He said bluntly that Saudi Arabia had threatened to withdraw tens of millions of dollars in humanitarian aid were it not removed from the list of violators of children's rights. Bravo to Ban for calling the Saudis out.
Unfortunately, such pressure happens all the time and demonstrates that although Secretaries-General have tremendous responsibilities, their power to act is severely limited.
The second leg of the stool is comprised of the technical organs -- the specialized agencies. There is little doubt that the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) is essential to manage our congested skies. The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) helps millions of children worldwide, and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) works assiduously to reduce the suffering of ever-growing refugee populations escaping violence in their homelands.
The third leg of the stool is the General Secretariat headed by the Secretary-General. It implements the political decisions of the member states and manages such crucial activities as peacekeeping and emergency humanitarian assistance.
There is much criticism of the overbearing bureaucracy this Secretariat has become. Yet the Secretariat is the product of the member states that govern how it is run, how it is financed, how it is staffed, and what its priorities are.
As Ban himself said in an AP interview on September 13, "It's unrealistic to expect any Secretary-General "to be some almost almighty person because the world body's member states make decisions and the U.N. chief implements them — rather than implementing their own initiatives and policies.
"The U.N. could be far more efficient and effective if there were "some reasonable decision-making process" — not one that requires consensus on many issues before the General Assembly and statements by the Security Council, Ban said. This gives one country the power to block something all other nations agree on, or to water it down.
"Is it fair? Is it reasonable in the 21st century when you have 193 member states?"
It would appear that obtaining a consensus at the UN is akin to herding cats.
Yet despite this, Ban did succeed in getting all members to sign on to the Climate Change Treaty and the Sustainable Development Goals, two major legacy achievements for the outgoing Secretary-General.
This organizational trinity has the unenviable task of addressing the needs of humanity while respecting the mandates established by member states with all of their contradictions and national or ideological self-interests.
Despite these realities, one must realize that there is always a need for a venue where states can talk rather than fight. Indeed, if the United Nations didn't exist, it would have to be invented. A world with no space for dialogue and negotiation would be chaotic indeed.
This is the reality of the United Nations at seventy-one. We should not let the shortcomings of its political bodies drive us to ignore the benefits we all derive from its very existence.
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Already in the Middle Ages people in the Low Countries were familiar with strong drink, in particular with the use of distilled wine, or brandy. These distillates had a medicinal background and became widespread during the plague epidemics that ravaged Europe during the Middle Ages.
Herbs were added because of the alleged medicinal effect. It is not known when juniper flavored corn brandy was first called jenever. One of the explanations is that in 1650 Professor Franciscus de le Boë Sylvius, in an attempt to find a diuretic medicine, distilled a juniper drink that he called genièvre or genova.
Thanks to King-stadholder William III, who tried to promote trade from the Netherlands with tax measures during his English kingship, the drink under the name gin also became popular in England. English distillers tried to copy jenever, but did not have the correct recipe, after which it developed in that country into what we now call gin.
Raw materials & process
The basic raw materials of the classic jenever are barley, rye and maize. The barley is processed into malt in the distillery, which releases enzymes that convert starch into sugars. The malt is then mixed with water and the starchy ingredients corn and rye. The mixture thus obtained is then mixed with yeast. The malt enzymes convert starch into sugars; the yeast converts the sugars into alcohol. The alcohol-rich substance that is created in this way can now be distilled.
After the first distillation, the so-called rough wet (about 20%) is created. The residue that remains in the boiler after this distillation is called swill and is used as pig feed. Distillation of the raw liquor then yields only wet (approximately 30%). The result of the third distillation is called bestnat or malt wine (46.5%). The rest of the process does not take place in the roastery, but in the distillery.
The jenever gets its own character in the distillery. The distiller processes the malt wine supplied by the burner according to his own recipe. Re-distillation of the malt wine, for example, produces distilled malt wine (75%) and by carrying out the same distillation with the addition of juniper berries, geide jenever is created.
Such a process can also be done with other herbal mixtures. The various gins are created by mixing these products. If necessary, the jenever can mature for a few months in wooden barrels.
Young & old jenever
During the Second World War, hardly any grain was available for malt wine. The percentage of malt wine in jenever dropped drastically. Some drinkers lamented that; others don't. As a result, two drinks became popular in the Netherlands after the war: the young jenever, which was mainly based on neutral alcohol, and the jenever according to the pre-war recipe in which more malt wine was processed: old jenever.
Cornwine
Korenwijn has an alcohol percentage of 38 volume percent and is characterized by a much higher percentage of malt wine than is the case with old and young jenever. Korenwijn is distilled from various grains (barley, rye and maize). Often the corn wine is also aged for a while in an oak cask, to get a softer, more pronounced taste. Because of these characteristics, a good corn wine is not inferior to a malt whiskey ...


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Frozen pipes are many homeowner's nightmare. They can be tricky to handle, and if left untreated can result in pipes bursting. A burst pipe can do plenty of damage before it's contained. Follow these steps to handle frozen pipes on your own. If you think more than one pipe may be frozen or if you aren't sure where or if a pipe is, call a professional. There's a lot on the line if a pipe bursts.
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For Broward College Student, Study Abroad Experience in Spain Makes World of Difference
June 25, 2019 | More People
There was a time when Samuel Jordan thought he wasn't smart enough to finish high school, let alone pursue a college degree in a foreign country. But, that's where the Broward College student found himself this past spring, in Seville, Spain, the birthplace of flamenco dancing, interacting with locals, taking classes toward graduation and living a dream he once only dared to imagine.
"If you told me two or three years ago that I would be studying in Europe, I would have said, 'You are crazy,'" said Samuel, who was awarded the William E. Greene scholarship for a semester study through the International Education Institute at Broward College.
The scholarship covers the cost of airfare, housing, tuition, program fees and travel insurance for students who choose to study at one of Broward College's international centers in Ecuador, Peru or Spain.
Samuel, who is fascinated by world history, geography and geopolitics, said his choice was easy. As a journalism major at Broward College, he figured the four months in Europe would not only give him a chance to observe current events from a foreign perspective but improve his Spanish as well.
"I had never been outside the United States," said the 19-year-old, who, up until the trip, had lived with his mother, father and 11 siblings in Tamarac. "I had never even lived on my own, but I loved the challenge."
During his time in Seville, Samuel lived with a local family that spoke little English. He had no other choice but to adapt.
"When I got there, I knew next to nothing in Spanish," he said. "But I will never forget the look on my host mother's face when I could communicate with her comfortably in Spanish. She was full of pride and joy."
Eye-opening Adventure
When he wasn't taking in the European culture, Samuel took classes at the International College of Seville. His curriculum included courses in international business and international relations along with nine-credits of Spanish. On the weekends, he traveled to Scotland, England, France, Italy, Morocco, and Portugal.
"It was eye-opening," said Samuel. "Being from someplace else, people tended to look at me differently. But, when I said I was from the United States, their eyes lit up."
With each encounter, Jordan became more comfortable, and his maturity level grew. He made friends. And his love for learning deepened. Home-schooled from sixth- through 12th grade, he lacked motivation until some much-needed introspection gave him the push to complete his GED. He then enrolled at Broward College.
"I didn't have any friends until I met so many people at Broward College," said Samuel, who is finishing up a summer internship in San Francisco where he works in 3-D graphics and map design for Roblox, an online game-creation platform. "I really enjoy learning now."
In another few weeks, Samuel will be back in South Florida. He will bring a 3.9 grade-point average into the fall semester. When he completes his associate degree, he plans to transfer to a four-year university.
"I've missed my friends at Broward College," he said. "I can't wait to get back."
Broward College students interested in a life-changing learning experience can choose from 30 countries to study abroad. See how international education can open new horizons for you.
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Chelsea go crazy with Haaland
The blues prepare up to 175 million euros to face the operation. It would be the second most expensive signing in history after Neymar.
Chelsea are hell-bent on getting Erling Haaland this summer. From Borussia Dortmund the refusals for the Norwegian to leave have been repeating for months. Both Watzke, CEO of the yellow club, and Michael Zorc, sports director of the same, try to kill any attempt by the big clubs in public and quickly with clear negatives, but in the most exclusive neighborhood of London they want to show that nothing can resist them .
According to Bild, Roman Abramovich, owner of Chelsea, would have given the green light to release 175 million euros and put them, metaphorically, on the table to Borussia Dortmund in the form of an offer for Erling Haaland. Chelsea believes that this figure will be unavoidable for the yellows and, even if it is high, it would be the price to pay for anticipating the summer in which their departure from Westphalia is supposed to be scheduled.
Such an operation, yes, will involve exits. Roman Abramovich would have warned of the need to remove players to finance part of the acquisition of Haaland and the club would have placed on the market three who, at the time, enjoyed a certain role within the blues. Those chosen to leave are Hudson Odoi, who they believe they could get between 20 and 32 million euros, Tammy Abraham, who could get between 23 and 36 million and Hakim Ziyech, which would be their most interesting sale between 28 and 38 million euros. euros
Chelsea will resign two young people who less than two seasons ago had an important projection, more Hudson Odoi than Abraham, and also one of the supposed 'stars' who arrived last summer in the first great blue reform: Hakim Ziyech. The Moroccan has not found his place at Chelsea and went from more to less. It started out with Lampard, but lost the spot. With Tuchel, he did not do much better either and since February, from England there was already talk of a sung exit. If they sold everyone for the maximum indicated by Bild, Chelsea would draw up to 106 million to cover the arrival of Haaland.
A proven scorer
Chelsea have been European champions this season with goals widely distributed among their players. Werner, who has received much criticism for his level and lack of accuracy, finished as the top scorer with a somewhat low balance for his career: 12 goals in 52 games. Tammy Abraham, with 20 fewer games and less than half the minutes, scored the same number of goals and Giroud, with just 1,200 minutes on the green, was still a goal from the German.
The three are the only ones who have surpassed the ten with Mount and Havertz in nine or Jorginho with eight goals to keep up with them. With Haaland, Chelsea are looking for a contracted scorer who will give them a number of goals that will put them to fight for everything after a year where in the Premier they could only save the European classification and finished 19 points behind Manchester City.
This season, the first season that Haaland has played in full with Dortmund, the Norwegian has scored 41 goals in 41 games across all competitions, scoring an extremely difficult average of one goal per game plus a rate of one goal every 85.6 minutes. Some elite data among the elite that make Chelsea go with everything for him.
Haaland, break records
The Norwegian has been characterized in these early stages of his career by breaking precocious records especially in the Champions League, Haaland's fetish competition of which he even played the anthem to motivate himself before being one of its great protagonists.
In the event that Chelsea closed his signing, Haaland would become the second most expensive player in history with his 175 million surpassing Mbappé and the 145 million euros that he moved from Paris to Monaco for his signing in 2018, even if it was already loaned in 2017. The Frenchman would go on to occupy the bronze being the undisputed gold still for the more than 200 million that PSG paid to Barcelona for Neymar. Coutinho and his 135 would fall to fourth place and also Dembélé, who would go to fifth place.


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