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by Thomas Moore - 04/09/21 4:37 PM ET
The head of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has called for Fox News host Tucker Carlson to be fired after a segment Thursday that referenced "replacement" theory.
"Tucker must go," the group's CEO Jonathan Greenblatt tweeted Friday.
The ADL head explained that the "Great Replacement" theory "is a white supremacist tenet that the white race is in danger by a rising tide of non-whites."
Greenblatt was referring to Carlson's appearance on "Fox News Primetime," when, talking to columnist Mark Steyn, the host offered a theory on why Democrats are pro-immigration.
"I know that the left and all the little gatekeepers on Twitter become literally hysterical if you use the term 'replacement,' if you suggest that the Democratic Party is trying to replace the current electorate," Carlson said. "But they become hysterical because that's what's happening actually. Let's just say it. That's true."
"I mean, everyone's making a racial issue out of it. Oh, the, you know, white replacement? No, no, this is a voting rights question," Carlson added later, saying changes to the population "dilute the political power" of current registered voters.
.@TuckerCarlson: "replacement theory" is a white supremacist tenet that the white race is in danger by a rising tide of non-whites.
It is antisemitic, racist and toxic. It has informed the ideology of mass shooters in El Paso, Christchurch and Pittsburgh.
Tucker must go. https://t.co/FSvgNfR1KO
— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) April 9, 2021
Fox News would not comment on Greenblatt's tweet or the similarities between what Carlson was saying and past white nationalist theories except to point to the host's comments that emphasized "this is a voting rights question."
In addition to Greenblatt's tweets, the ADL on Friday posted and emailed a letter to Suzanne Scott, the CEO of Fox News, regarding Carlson's comments.
"Carlson's full-on embrace of the white supremacist replacement theory on yesterday's show and his repeated allusions to racist themes in past segments are a bridge too far," the group wrote. "Given his long record of race-baiting, we believe it is time for Carlson to go."
The group said that it is the first time it has called for Carlson's ouster. The ADL said it has not yet received a reply from Fox News.
This is not the first time Carlson has come under fire for comments he's made on the network. In 2019, he drew extensive criticism for claiming the problem of white supremacy in the U.S. was a "hoax."
Last year, one of the writers for his show "Tucker Carlson Tonight" quit after news broke that he had been posting racist, bigoted remarks in an online forum using a pseudonym.
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Q: how to get stdout of subprocess in python when receving SIGUSR2 /SIGINT I have the following simple python script:
import os, subprocess,signal,sys
import time

out = None
sub = None

def handler(signum,frame):
    print("script.py: cached sig: %i " % signum)
    sys.stdout.flush()

    if sub is not None and not sub.poll():
        print("render.py: sent signal to prman pid: ", sub.pid)
        sys.stdout.flush()
        sub.send_signal(signal.SIGTERM)
        sub.wait() # deadlocks....????
        #os.kill(sub.pid, signal.SIGTERM)  # this works
        #os.waitpid(sub.pid,0)             # this works

    for i in range(0,5):
        time.sleep(0.1)
        print("script.py: cleanup %i" % i)
        sys.stdout.flush()

    sys.exit(128+signum)

signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, handler)
signal.signal(signal.SIGUSR2, handler)
signal.signal(signal.SIGTERM, handler)

sub = subprocess.Popen(["./doStuff.sh"], stderr = subprocess.STDOUT)
sub.wait()

print("finished script.py")

doStuff.sh
#!/bin/bash

function trap_with_arg() {
    func="$1" ; shift
    for sig ; do
        trap "$func $sig" "$sig"
    done
}

pid=False

function signalHandler() {

    trap - SIGINT SIGTERM

    echo "doStuff.sh chached sig: $1"
    echo "doStuff.sh cleanup: wait 10s"
    sleep 10s

    # kill ourself to signal calling process we exited on SIGINT
    kill -s SIGINT $$

}

trap_with_arg signalHandler SIGINT SIGTERM
trap "echo 'doStuff.sh ignore SIGUSR2'" SIGUSR2
# ignore SIGUSR2

echo "doStuff.sh : pid:  $$"
echo "doStuff.sh: some stub error" 1>&2
for i in {1..100}; do
    sleep 1s
    echo "doStuff.sh, rendering $i"
done

when I send the process launched in a terminal by
python3 scripts.py &
a signal with kill -USR2 -$!
the script catches the SIGINT, and waits forever in sub.wait(), a ps -uf shows the following:.
user   27515  0.0  0.0  29892  8952 pts/22   S    21:56   0:00  \_ python script.py
user   27520  0.0  0.0      0     0 pts/22   Z    21:56   0:00      \_ [doStuff.sh] <defunct>

Be aware that doStuff.sh properly handles SIGINT and quits.
I would also like to get the output of stdout  when the handler is called? How to do this properly?
Thanks a lot!

A: Your code can't get the child process' stdout because it doesn't redirect its standard streams while calling subprocess.Popen(). It is too late to do anything about it in the signal handler.
If you want to capture stdout then pass stdout=subprocess.PIPE and call .communicate() instead of .wait():
child = subprocess.Popen(command, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
output = child.communicate()[0]

There is a completely separate issue that the signal handler hangs on the .wait() call on Python 3 (Python 2 or os.waitpid() do not hang here but a wrong child's exit status is received instead). Here's a minimal code example to reproduce the issue:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import signal
import subprocess
import sys

def sighandler(*args):
    child.send_signal(signal.SIGINT)
    child.wait()  # It hangs on Python 3 due to child._waitpid_lock

signal.signal(signal.SIGUSR1, sighandler)
child = subprocess.Popen([sys.executable, 'child.py'])
sys.exit("From parent %d" % child.wait())  # return child's exit status

where child.py:
#!/usr/bin/env python
"""Called from parent.py"""
import sys
import time

try:
    while True:
        time.sleep(1)
except KeyboardInterrupt:  # handle SIGINT
    sys.exit('child exits on KeyboardInterrupt')

Example:
$ python3 parent.py &
$ kill -USR1 $!
child exits on KeyboardInterrupt
$ fg
... running    python3 parent.py

The example shows that the child has exited but the parent is still running. If you press Ctrl+C to interrupt it; the traceback shows that it hangs on with _self._waitpid_lock: statement inside the .wait() call. If self._waitpid_lock = threading.Lock() is replaced with self._waitpid_lock = threading.RLock() in subprocess.py then the effect is the same as using os.waitpid() -- it doesn't hang but the exit status is incorrect.
To avoid the issue, do not wait for child's status in the signal handler: call send_signal(), set a simple boolean flag and return from the hanlder instead. In the main code, check the flag after child.wait() (before print("finished script.py") in your code in the question), to see whether the signal has been received (if it is not clear from child.returncode). If the flag is set; call the appropriate cleanup code and exit.

A: You should look into subprocess.check_output
proc_output = subprocess.check_output(commands_list, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)

you can surround it in a try except and then:
except subprocess.CalledProcessError, error:
    create_log = u"Creation Failed with return code {return_code}\n{proc_output}".format(
        return_code=error.returncode, proc_output=error.output
    )

A: I can only wait for the process by using
  os.kill(sub.pid, signal.SIGINT)
  os.waitpid(sub.pid,0)

instead of
  sub.send_signal(signal.SIGINT)
  sub.wait() # blocks forever

This has something to do with process groups on UNIX, which I dont really understand: I think the process ./doStuff.sh does not receive the signal because childs in the same process groups do not receive the signal. (I am not sure if this is correct). Hopefully somebody might elaborate on this issue a bit more.
The output till the handler gets called is pushed to the stdout of the calling bash (console).

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The school has an Equal Opportunities Department which is managed by Mr K Haswell. It provides for students with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) in two ways:
Students with SEND who are attached to the mainstream school
The Equal Opportunities Department is responsible for students in the school with special educational needs who are not attached to the Inclusion Resource Base. This includes students who attend the school's Sixth Form. The school aims to be as inclusive as practically possible and this is reflected in the number of SEN students we have, the wide range of needs and the extensive provision available for students. The school has experience in dealing with students who have the following areas of need:
This includes not only students with speech, language and communication needs but also those with Autistic Spectrum Disorder.
This includes moderate learning difficulties and specific learning needs such as dyslexia, dyscalculia and dyspraxia.
Social, emotional and mental health issues
This includes social and emotional difficulties and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Sensory and/or physical needs
This includes hearing or visual impairments and cerebral palsy.
Many parents of students with Statements of Special Educational Needs or an Education, Health and Care Plan opt for them to attend the school even though a place is available for them at more specialised provision within the borough or they live out of the catchment area.
Students without a Statement of Special Educational Needs or an Education, Health and Care Plan whose parents have opted for a place at the school will follow the Local Authority's admission procedures. Their special educational needs will not prevent them from being admitted to the school.
The Inclusion Resource Base for Students with communication and interaction difficulties
The Inclusion Resource Base, which is funded by the Local Authority, is for 26 students with communication and interaction difficulties such as autistic spectrum disorder and/or speech and language difficulties. The admissions criteria for these students are that they have a Statement of Special Educational Needs or Education, Health and Care Plan and that they require a significant amount of support. Although attached to the resource base they will be taught in the mainstream school with support. They will have access to the facilities of the resource base, its specialist staff such as an occupational therapist and a speech and language therapist. They will engage in the activities of the school along with students who do not have special educational needs.
The following provision is available for students attached to the Inclusion Resource Base:
Use of child friendly pupil profiles and needs-based plans involving pupils, parents and staff in the formulation, review and implementation of these documents.
Differentiated curriculum and resources
Visual timetables
Areas of low distraction
Support/supervision at unstructured times of the day such as break and lunchtime.
Social skills programme/support including strategies to enhance self-esteem.
Small group targeted intervention programmes are delivered to pupils to improve skills in a variety of areas.
ICT is used to reduce barriers to learning where possible.
Strategies/programmes to support speech and language development.
Strategies to reduce anxiety/promote emotional wellbeing.
Support and advice is sought from outside agencies to ensure any barriers to success are fully identified and responded to.
Planning, assessment and review.
Access to teaching and learning for pupils with SEN is monitored through the school's self-evaluation process.
Teaching resources are routinely evaluated to ensure they are accessible to all pupils.
All school-related activities are evaluated in terms of their positive impact upon the learning success and inclusion of pupils with SEN.
Support staff are placed where needed throughout the school to ensure pupil progress, independence and value for money.
Fully qualified/trained SENCO who can provide advice and guidance to staff.
All staff have completed, and will continue to receive, ongoing training in relation to meeting pupils' needs within the classroom.
Participation in a phonics reading programme to develop reading accuracy.
Access to the Accelerated Reading Programme.
Regular small group help focusing on reading accuracy and comprehension.
Regular access to the Maths Whizz software for students in all year groups with numeracy difficulties.
Access to Local Authority one to one specialist teaching for help with literacy development.
Placement in a KS3 nurture group.
Support is offered to families and they are signposted to services/organisations which may offer support/advice where appropriate, via the Local Offer.
Please note that students with communication and interaction difficulties in the mainstream school will not have access to the Speech and Language Therapist attached to the Inclusion Resource Base. If required, they will be seen by the Department of Speech and Language at Stanhope Parade Health Centre, Gordon Street, South Shields, NE33 4P.
Further information can be obtained from:
Mr K Haswell,
Head of Equal Opportunities,
Harton Academy,
Lisle Road,
South Shields,
NE34 6DL.
Telephone: 0191 4274050, Extension 210
Email: KHaswell@hartonacademy.co.uk
Information on the Local Authority's Local Offer can be found at:
www.southtyneside.info/sendlocaloffer
Parents can also contact their local Special Educational Needs and Disability Information, Advice and Support Service for impartial information, advice and support in relation to their child's SEN and/or disability.
Telephone – 0191 4246345/0777 6997 405
Email – Gillian.harte@southtyneside.gov.uk
How we identify children and young students with SEND and assess their needs
Harton Academy will have due regard to the Special Educational Needs and Disability Code of Practice: 0 to 25, published in 2014, when carrying out its duties towards all pupils with special educational needs and ensure that parents are notified when SEN provision is being made for their child.
Definition of Special Educational Needs
A child has special educational needs if they have a learning difficulty or disability which calls for special educational provision to be made for him or her.
Children have a learning difficulty if they:
Have a significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of children of the same age; or :
Have a disability which prevents or hinders the child from making use of educational facilities of a kind generally provided for children of the same age in mainstream schools or mainstream post-16 institutions.
These students will be making less than expected progress given their age and individual circumstances which is characterised by the following:
Being significantly slower than that of their peers starting from the same baseline
Fails to match or better the student's previous level of progress
Fails to close the attainment gap between the student and their peers
Widens the attainment gap
Needing to make additional progress with wider development or social needs in order to make a successful transition to adult life.
Children must not be regarded as having a learning difficulty solely because the language or form of language of their home is different from the language in which they will be taught.
Special education provision means:
A pupil has SEND where the learning difficulty or disability calls for special educational provision
which is additional to, or otherwise different from, the educational provision made generally for children of the child's age in maintained schools, other than special schools, in the area.
Initial identification of children with SEND is as a result of consultation with primary schools, which is carried out by the SENCo towards the end of the term before admission. When invited, he will also attend the Annual Reviews of Year 5 or 6 students with Statements of Special Educational Needs who will be transferring to Harton. He collates all available information and disseminates this to staff along with any suggested strategies in the Year 7 SEND Index.
Before the end of the autumn half term year 7, children will have been given CAT tests, group reading and spelling tests. Along with SAT results and information from admission forms, this should help identify all children with special educational needs who have not been spotted already.
Students in other year groups who are not on the SEN Register but who are causing concern because they are making less than expected progress are referred by their subject teachers to their head of department who will give advice to the teacher about possible strategies to be used with the student. This information should be passed on to the SENCo by email. The student's parents and teachers should also be contacted. If the student continues to cause concern then the teacher should begin to complete an Assess, Plan, Do and Review form.
As well as standardised testing, all SEN students experiencing literacy difficulties should have their reading aloud and a sample of their writing analysed by their English teachers. This assessment should be considered when targets are negotiated with the student.
More sophisticated assessment using computer software such as the Lucid Assessment System for Schools 11 – 15 (LASS) will give a more detailed breakdown of the student's strengths and weaknesses, identify a preferred learning style and indicate whether or not the underlying cause of the student's problems is a specific learning difficulty.
The maths department carries out its own testing procedures to identify children with numeracy difficulties.
Students and their parents are canvassed about their needs.
The approach to teaching students with SEND
The academic needs of students are met within departments, where they have access to the expertise of subject specialists and support staff if required. All students have equal access to the full range of the curriculum and departments monitor the appropriateness for all. All students follow the same timetable pattern according to their age group. As most examination groups offer differentiated papers, students are guided towards the appropriate tier of entry. Differentiation is the responsibility of all departments. Schemes of work recognise the need to adapt work, materials and teaching styles accordingly.
Students with social emotional and behavioural difficulties remain the responsibility of all staff, although their needs will be provided for within the guidelines set out in the school's pastoral polices.
A Graduated Response
The following graduated response for dealing with the needs of students which is outlined in the SEND Code of Practice will be used:
Providing high quality and appropriately differentiated teaching;
Providing targeted provision which is focused on individual need and personal outcomes;
Involving of outside agencies.
The subject teacher or the Head of Year, in collaboration with the SENCo, will complete a process of assess, plan, do, review.
Students with SEND are given a Range of Need in line with Local Authority practice.
The subject teacher and/or the Head of Year, in collaboration with the SENCo, will decide on the action required to assist pupil progress as a result of previous assessments. The following provisions are available for students with SEND:
The following provision is available for students with communication and interaction difficulties attached to the mainstream school:
Support/supervision at unstructured times of the day.
Students with dyspraxia attending a daily developmental exercise programme.
Placement in small sets.
Applying for access arrangements such as extra time or readers.
Providing special equipment such as laptops or coloured overlays.
Placement in a Year 7 nurture group.
The following provision is available for students with cognition and learning difficulties attached to the mainstream school:
Differentiated curriculum and resources.
Provision to support access to the curriculum and to develop independent learning.
Small group targeted intervention programmes are delivered to pupils to improve skills in a variety of areas such as reading skills groups.
Behaviour and anti-bullying policies are evaluated on a regular basis with a focus on the impact upon pupils' with SEN.
The following provision is available for students with social, emotional and mental health issues attached to the mainstream school:
Harton Academy ensures that each student accesses a curriculum which is broad, balanced, relevant and differentiated to suit their individual needs. The school aims to encourage and challenge each student to achieve their full potential.
The school provides effective pastoral care for all of its pupils.
The behaviour policy recognises that amendments can be made in order to ensure that external or permanent exclusions are minimal.
Behaviour management routines are centred upon supporting all students, to make their own positive decisions, regarding behavioural choices.
Small group and individual directed programmes are delivered to students in order to develop social skills, personal behaviour management and emotional resilience.
Risk assessments are produced and action is taken to increase the safety and inclusion of all pupils in all activities.
Support staff are distributed where required, throughout the school, in order to facilitate student progress and independence.
Support and guidance is pursued from a multiplicity of outside agencies in an attempt to successfully remove barriers to pupils' learning.
Work placements, vocational courses and Vocational Action Plans (V.A.P.'s) are used to offer a distinct approach to the curriculum. This both encourages and supports pupils with social, emotional and behavioural needs.
Staff are assigned to designated areas at both lunch and break-times to support vulnerable pupils.
Access to information and support is available within school for the parents and carers of pupils with behavioural, emotional and social needs.
Harton Academy has a Learning Support Centre which is used to support the education of those pupils who exhibit challenging behaviour.
The school has a mentoring facility, which comprises of 'Buddy' pupils and trained staff, to support vulnerable students.
There is a nurture group available for Year 7 pupils.
The following provision is available for students with sensory and/or physical needs attached to the mainstream school:
Advice and guidance from the Local Authorities Sensory Impaired Service is sought and acted upon to ensure barriers to success are reduced or removed.
ICT is used to increase access to the curriculum.
Advice and guidance is sought and acted upon to respond to pupils who have significant medical needs.
Access to Medical Interventions.
Access to strategies/programmes to support Occupational Therapy/Physiotherapy.
Support with personal care if and when needed.
Staff receive training to ensure they understand the impact of a sensory need upon teaching and learning.
Staff understand and apply the medicine administration policy.
The SENCO completes any necessary training in order to offer advice and guidance to staff about the needs of pupils.
The school works hard to ensure that parents/carers are able to work in partnership with them to support their children.
All entrances to the school have ramps fitted to allow wheelchair access.
Placement in a small set of approximately 12 or 17 students.
The school has disabled toilets/facilities.
Request for Statutory Assessment
The school will make a request for a statutory assessment of a child's needs to the LA when, despite an individualised programme over a period of time, little or no progress is made. Requests for statutory assessments may also be made by the parent or by referral by another agency.
An Education, Health and Care Plan will normally be provided in situations where, after a statutory assessment, the LA considers that the child's needs are such that additional provision is required to that which the school is able to offer. The Plan issued will include details of targets set for the students.
Partnership with parents/carers and students with SEND
A family/person-centred approach will be used in the assessment, planning and review stages of provision for all students with SEND. A student passport will be produced for all students with SEN which is based not only on information provided by the school but also from the student and his or her parents.
Parents of children causing concern will be contacted and invited to attend a meeting with the SENCo, the school's specialist literacy teacher and appropriate subject teachers. A further meeting will be held with parents if it is decided that their son or daughter has a special educational need.
A questionnaire is sent to all parents of students with SEND to elicit their views about the special needs of their children and how best to meet them
Parents receive updated information about their child's needs, the provision made for them by the school and their progress every term. Again, parents can arrange to see the SENCo to discuss
Parents of Students with Statements of Special Educational Needs receive written invitations to Annual Reviews and copies of any reports produced before the meeting.
Parents are invited to attend parents' nights to discuss their children with staff and to Open Night to see the department in operation. They are encouraged to visit or telephone school at other times during the year.
Students are actively encouraged to contribute their views regarding their needs, how to best help them and the progress they have made. This information is made available to staff in a pupil passport which is produced by the department for all students with SEND. Passports can be found in the linked documents sections of the student's profile on the SIMs Management System.
Students are also encouraged to attend any review meetings held for them.
Arrangements for assessing and reviewing children and young people's progress towards outcomes. This should include the opportunities available to work with parents and young people as part of this assessment and review.
This process is built in to the Assess, Plan, Do and Review cycle and will be carried out by subject teachers in liaison with the Equal Opportunities department and will be carried out termly.
Annual Reviews are carried out for all students with Statements or EHC Plan. Parents are asked to attend these meetings and complete Parental questionnaires in preparation for these meetings. Students are also invited to attend and to complete similar questionnaires.
Members of the Equal Opportunities department have been trained to use a family/person-centred approach in reviews.
Arrangements for supporting students in moving between phases of education and in preparing for adulthood.
Moving from primary school to Harton
The SENCO will attend the Year 5/6 review meetings of any student for whom a placement at Harton is being considered.
We run a transition programme for Year 6 students who will be joining the school in September.
Some Year 7 students work with a transition mentor.
We have a nurture group for Year 7 students who are considered vulnerable because of their academic or social needs. They are taught by a specialist literacy and numeracy teacher and Year 7 subject teachers.
Leaving Harton at the end of Year 11
From Year 9 Students with SEND have access to Services for Young People and the school's Progression Manager who will give advice on appropriate course or training and ensure that they receive appropriate support at their next educational placement.
How adaptations are made to the curriculum and the learning environment of students with SEND.
All students with SEND will have access to a broad, balanced and differentiated curriculum, which is appropriate to their needs. For some students with a Statement or a Plan, modifications to the National Curriculum may be necessary with regard to the proportion of time spent on foundation subjects, programmes of study and methods of assessment. These modifications will be addressed at reviews.
For students with physical disabilities, outside agents such as physiotherapists or members of the Hearing Impairment Service are requested to carry out an audit of the school and to make recommendations on how to meet a student's individual needs which are then put into place. The LA's Hearing and Visually Impaired Services also monitor students in those categories termly and offer advice to improve provision even further. If necessary, we will apply to the Local Authority or Local Health Trust for funding for particular pieces of equipment. The school carries out risk assessments of all vulnerable students and, for some, sets up special arrangements such as Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans.
Some students who require intensive therapies or interventions will be withdrawn from lessons on a rolling basis so that they do not fall behind in any subjects or are permanently disapplied from a subject such as Modern Foreign Languages.
Facilities for Pupils with SEN
There are parking bays for disabled people in the school car park.
A pupil entrance is access via a flat concrete surface to enable easy access or wheelchair access.
There are lifts in the main builds which can be used by students if necessary.
There are accessible toilets sited around the school.
There is a toilet and a shower room in the Inclusion Resource Base.
Most classrooms are carpeted and fitted with blinds, where necessary, to reduce glare and improve acoustics.
Specialised equipment is accessed through relevant agencies, such as The Hearing Impaired Service.
All students have access to an occupational therapist.
The expertise and training of staff to support students with SEND, including how specialist expertise will be secured.
Staff in the department are well qualified and experienced.
The head of department has over 25 years' experience as a Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator
A specialist literacy teacher with the AMBA qualification assesses and diagnoses students with SPLD and supervises the implementation of literacy development programmes.
Well-established links with external agencies including Children and Young Peoples' Services, and Young People Services are in place to support learners.
The Local Authority's Hearing and Visually Impaired Services monitor pupils in those categories termly.
The school's educational psychologist is frequently in school to assess students, attend review meetings and talk to parents and Heads of Year about students causing concern.
Most of our learning support assistants and many of the teachers in the school have either Level 3 or Level 4 accreditation in Understanding and Supporting Individuals on the Autistic Spectrum.
Many of our LSAs have recently received Level 2 or 3 accreditation in ELKLAN Speech and Language Support for 11 to 16s.
The school has its own occupational therapist. One of the school's LSAs is currently undergoing training to become an Occupational Therapist's Assistant.
Evaluating the effectiveness of the provision made.
The Equal Opportunities department produces a departmental self-evaluation form which evaluates the key areas of pupil achievement, quality of teaching, quality of leadership, behaviour and safe-guarding and overall effectiveness of provision.
• A departmental improvement plan is produced annually.
• The department is reviewed every two years by members of the SLT and an external consultant. The most recent review was carried out in July 2014.
• By monitoring student progress using the following information:
– A scrutiny of work carried out once a term
– Shadowing of SEND students in lessons
– External examination results
– Improvement in reading ages, and other standardised test results
– Progress from key Stages 2 to 4
How students are enabled to engage in activities available with students in the school who do not have SEND.
Students with SEND are placed in mixed-ability form groups and usually stay with the same form tutor and Head of Year until the end of Year 11.
All students in the school follow externally accredited courses such as GCSE.
All students complete a week's work experience placement during Year 10 or 11.
SEND students are encouraged to go on trips in the UK and abroad.
Students with SEND can attend any lunchtime or after school club or sport.
All students are encouraged to attend the Year 11 Prom.
Support for improving emotional and social development
The school has a very effective pastoral system which supports students throughout their school day. Every pupil in the school is a member of a form class and will meet the form tutor every morning for a 20 minute tutorial. We have an experienced team of tutors who will develop the form tutor/pupil relationship over a period of five years. The tutor will be in a position to watch children develop and assist when needed. Each year group also has a Head of Year and an Assistant Head of Year. As for the tutor, they will be in the position to develop relationships over a long period of time and act to support when necessary. The teaching staff are assisted by a network of support staff, all available to work on a one to one basis when counselling is required. Staff also work very closely with parents and other professionals. Pupils at Harton are very well supported.
How the school involves other bodies, including health and social care bodies, LA support services and voluntary sector organisations, in meeting a student's SEN and supporting their families.
The school has well established links with many outside agencies who can be called upon for advice or intervention with our students. If it is deemed appropriate that they should become involved with a student or their family then they are invited to a review meeting. For some outside agencies to become involved such as sexual health workers or family support workers then an Early Help Assessment has to be carried out. Previously, these were called Swift and Easy Response forms and were part of the Common Assessment Framework.
Arrangements for handling complaints.
Any complaints regarding Special Educational Needs provision should, in the first instance, be made to the Equal Opportunities Co-ordinator. If a parent still feels that their complaint has not been dealt with satisfactorily, they should speak to the Head teacher. In the event of continued concern, the matter may be referred to the Chairman of the Governors or the LEA.
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Q: provider does not have permission to content when open intent camera I have a basic :app module. and there is the :camera module.
In the camera module, I open the native camera using intent.
MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE
but the camera doesn't work, as I get an error
UID 10388 does not have permission to content://com.example.android.provider/attachment_file/Android/media/com.example.android.dev/some_name.jpg [user 0]

here's mine provider AndroidManifest in app:
<provider
     android:name="androidx.core.content.FileProvider"
     android:authorities="${applicationId}.provider"
     android:exported="false"
     android:grantUriPermissions="true">
     <meta-data
         android:name="android.support.FILE_PROVIDER_PATHS"
         android:resource="@xml/file_path" />
 </provider>

if you change the android:authorities on "com.example.android.provider" then the camera works. But the app stops being installed on the phone due to other build variants installed

A: The Camera permission protected level is dangerous.
so you have to ask the user for this permission in runtime.
here you can see the permissions level such as camera permission:
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission#CAMERA
And look in the Android developer training site examples how exactly you ask this permissions. The all information is their:
https://developer.android.com/training/permissions/requesting
The code should look like that:
if (ContextCompat.checkSelfPermission(
        CONTEXT, Manifest.permission.REQUESTED_PERMISSION) ==
        PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED) {
    // You can use the API that requires the permission.
    performAction(...);
} else if (shouldShowRequestPermissionRationale(...)) {
    // In an educational UI, explain to the user why your app requires this
    // permission for a specific feature to behave as expected. In this UI,
    // include a "cancel" or "no thanks" button that allows the user to
    // continue using your app without granting the permission.
    showInContextUI(...);
} else {
    // You can directly ask for the permission.
    // The registered ActivityResultCallback gets the result of this request.
    requestPermissionLauncher.launch(
            Manifest.permission.REQUESTED_PERMISSION);
}


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Phillies offer $14 tickets to celebrate NFL Draft
Philadelphia Phillies mascot The Phillie Phanatic in action prior to a baseball game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the New York Mets, Wednesday, April 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Derik Hamilton)
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The Philadelphia Phillies are celebrating the NFL Draft coming to Philadelphia with a special ticket offer for Eagles fans.
With the Eagles having the 14th pick of the NFL Draft, the Phillies are offering $14 tickets for all fans wearing Eagles jerseys or gear.
The tickets are for the Phillies games against the Miami Marlins on Tuesday, April 25, Wednesday April 26, and Thursday, April 27.
Both Tuesday and Wednesday games have a 7:05 p.m. start.
The game on April 27th takes place at 1:05 p.m., which would give fans enough time to attend the Phillies game and then head to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway for the first night of the NFL Draft.
The $14 tickets are for seats in locations that are regularly priced $38 and under.
Fans wearing Eagles jerseys or gear can redeem this special ticket offer by purchasing their tickets at any Citizens Bank Park ticket window on these game days.
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MAGA mob was only 100 feet from office where Pence, his wife and his daughter were hiding when hero Capitol cop led rioters in the wrong direction - and the rabble missed the VP by just one minute
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'My sex tape scandal was the greatest thing that happened to me,' admits Rob Lowe
Updated: 17:24 EST, 29 April 2011
It may not have seemed it at the time, but Hollywood star Rob Lowe now insists his sex tape scandal was the 'greatest thing' to have happened to him.
Lowe was just 22 in 1989 when he was caught in a sex tape where it emerged that one of two girls he was with was underage at 16.
'Let me just say this - sometimes being a trailblazer is highly overrated,' Lowe quipped of what was the first celebrity sex tape.
Opening up: Rob Lowe appeared on Oprah Winfrey's show yesterday
Insisting he was convinced she was at least 21, asked when he realized she was only 16 he laughed: 'Ha! A little too late!'
But Lowe says that looking back he is now able to see that the nightmare ultimately lead to the beautiful life he now has - in part because it made him hit an all-time low he had to crawl back up from.
'It ends up being the greatest thing that ever happened to me,' he told Oprah Winfrey.
'Because what it ends up doing is accelerating my alcohol [addiction] to where I finally get sober. I have been able to have the rest of my life that I'm so blessed with, which is now 20 years of sobriety.'
Emotional: The star became tearful as he spoke about his love for his family
He says the most amazing moment as a 'news junky' was to see the evening news lead with a story 'about my foolish life' over the tape.
And he added: 'It's almost quaint to think about now, because now people do sex tapes to HELP their careers,' he said, joking about how stars now make them and then pretend to be 'shocked! shocked!'
Of going through rehab, Lowe says: 'The charade was over - now I would be forced into being who i really was, for better or for worse. I knew who I wasn't - I wasn't that guy.'
He then stressed: 'Oh my God I love rehab! I highly recommend it.'
Home sweet home: The actor opened the doors of his Santa Barbara residence to Oprah's cameras
Lowe admits that it is the biggest difference he has with his life-long best friend - Charlie Sheen.
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'You have to understand - Charlie, I've known him since I was 13. He is my homeboy.
'I love him. But he and I agree to disagree on sobriety. I'm like, 'Dude we have a chair for you, we're ready over here in the anonymous group that we go to that has saved my life'.
'He doesn't want anything to do with it.'
But even so, knowing Charlie so well, Lowe did not seem overly concerned for his friend's latest behavior.
'Honestly? It really is Charlie being Charlie, in an obviously more advanced, hopped-up version,' he said of Sheen's headline-grabbing behavior.
'He's always been an iconoclast and a true character full of charisma and wild, and this is - he's letting it all loose.
'He's like, 'You know what? I'm really going to go full throttle with what I've been keeping inside my whole life.' That's really where it's at.'
He recalled growing up with the Sheens.
'Everybody in their childhood has that family where you know you're going to be there on Christmas Eve,' he told Oprah.
'And on any given weekend, you're going to be maybe spending the night in the guest bedroom. That was the Sheens' house for me growing up.
Loving life: Rob with his two teenage sons John Owen and Matthew
'Emilio Charlie and I - and Martin - were like a true extended family. And Tom was bunking there,' he said of Tom Cruise, who had 'just moved from New Jersey and had nowhere to stay'.
'We were all competitive but really, really friendly.'
There was also someone growing up who had admits to having a huge crush on - Demi Moore.
'Who didn't?!' he said, getting tongue-tied when asked if they were serious. 'And talk about looking better than ever, right? She's an amazing woman.'
Surf's up: The star larks around in the sea with his son
Now, it seems clear that he has a crush on just woman - his wife of almost 20 years, Sheryl.
'I'm no genius, but I'm real smart in one area - I picked the right mate.
'Sheryl's my best friend and she's as sexy as hell.
'We're besties. We're always about how can we spend more time together, not less.'
Oprah, however, appears to have a crush on her interviewee - admitting Lowe's topless cover on Vanity Fair left her breathless, and excitedly telling her audience: 'May I just say I saw him naked in the green room. YES I SAW ROB LOWE NAKED!!'
Happy couple: Rob and his wife Sheryl have been married for almost 20 years
Admitting that he used to find it hard being taken seriously because he was 'so damn pretty', he insists he is not worried about losing his looks as he gets older.
'My issue isn't about physical aging, my issue is about wanting to remain vigorous and youthful in my spirit.
'Because I think there's a fork in the road where it becomes work - you have t work at staying young.
'You can give up, or fight-fight-fight-fight. I'm fighting.'
Rob Lowe: 'My sex tape scandal was the greatest thing that happened to me'
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election July 22, 2016
Linguists: Trump Uses a Lot of 'Words That Don't Carry Any Information'
By Jesse Singal
Photo: Bryan Thomas/Getty Images
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, it is safe to say, are very different candidates with very different speaking styles. So it shouldn't come as any surprise that when you analyze the contents of their speeches, some very different things pop out.
That's what Cara Giaimo and Sarah Laskow of Atlas Obscura found, at least. They took a bunch of Trump and Clinton speeches from the last year and dumped them into a program that pulled out the most common words and phrases; then they asked some linguists what they thought of the results.
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For both candidates, the top results are just normal, common phrases politicians use — "we're going," "we need to," and so on. But when you look at the whole list, which is embedded in the Atlas Obscura article, some other stuff stands out.
The most interesting finding reported by Giaimo and Laskow was probably that "[l]inguists told us that while Clinton's preferred words tend to be nouns that carry meaning, Trump's speeches have been filled with grammatically necessary 'words that don't carry any information.'" Specifically, among both candidates' most common words, "Clinton had all words that carried information: families, work, economy, together, American, women, workers, future, create, children. Trump had almost no words that carry information. Instead, the words that he was statistically more likely to use than Clinton were: going, are, they, I, you, it, they."
Intuitively, this makes some sense given the speaking styles of the two candidates: Clinton is a lot more restrained and frankly substantive; Trump is more off-the-cuff and discursive, and doesn't tend to go deep into policy.
For what it's worth, one of Giaimo and Laskow's sources was underwhelmed by the exercise:
When Dr. Peter Lawler, the Dana Professor of Government at Berry College, looks at these phrases, he doesn't see much to compare. "It's a sea of similarities," he says. In statements like "we're going to win," and "make America great again," he sees Trump emphasizing the country's civic identity, while phrases like "break down all the barriers" and "no matter what zip code they live in" show Clinton underscoring diversity. If there's a difference there, he says, "it's kind of a branding difference."
To him, these repeated phrases, as well as Melania's plagiarism, say more about the electorate than the candidates. "There is a certain sense in which all political rhetoric, and all rhetoric generally, is above words now," he says. "If we had minimal civic literacy, politicians, like great jazz artists, would sample things said by presidents and major works of literature and people would know it." Instead, he says, "everything has been reduced to focus-group approved phrases."
Well, maybe. But in the case of Trump, at least, it's hard to argue that his speeches, which have consistently outraged and shocked a large percentage of the country, are tightly constructed and "focus tested." Rather, he seems to be giving a pretty good glimpse of what's in his heart. It could be the truth is somewhere in the middle: Political speeches contain a lot of pablum, but also at least a whiff of the speaker's true self.
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Trump's Words Don't Say Much, According to Linguists


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Article: US oil companies and labor relations in Libya
8 July 2019 24 June 2019 ABLeave a comment
Elisabetta Bini, 2019, "From colony to oil producer: US oil companies and the reshaping of labor relations in Libya during the Cold War", Labor History 60/1, pp. 44-56.
This article analyzes the labor relations the US government and American oil companies introduced in Libya between the Suez Crisis of 1956 and the rise of Muammar Qaddafi's regime in 1969. It argues that labor policies played a crucial role in American Cold War efforts to place Libya in the Western bloc and assure access to its oil resources. Like in other contexts, the American government relied on anti-Communist trade unions, in particular the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), to oppose radical forms of labor organizing. Bini examines the ways in which Libyan oil workers resisted the forms of segregation and discrimination introduced in oil camps and company towns, by demanding the right to redefine labor relations through trade unions, and establishing ties with other trade unions in Egypt, Tunisia, and Algeria. This article shows that despite American efforts to repress Libyan trade unions, in the second half of the 1960s oil workers were a crucial force in redefining international oil politics. During the Six Day War of 1967, they constituted one of the main forces behind Libya's support of oil nationalism and set the stage for the emergence of Qaddafi's regime in 1969.
Book: Ali Dinar and the Sanusiya
24 June 2019 10 June 2019 ABLeave a comment
Jay Spaulding & Lidwien Kapteijns, An Islamic Alliance: 'Ali Dinar and the Sanusiya, 1906-1916 (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1994).
This volume is a contribution to the growing literature of documentary source publications from northeastern Africa. Its primary purpose is to help restore African voices to an historiography too often dominated by the perception of Europeans, and to allow authentically African definitions of historical experience to emerge. … The subject of this book is the defense, by devoutly Islamic leaders, of one of the last parts of the African continent to be overrun by the imperial European "Scramble for Africa" during the decade that culminated in the First World War, a region which extended south from the Mediterranean coast of Cyrenaica for more than two thousand miles to embrace parts of northern Chad, and the sultanate of Dār Fūr in the western portion of the modern Republic of Sudan. … These surviving pieces of diplomatic correspondence concentrate on the alliance between 'Alī Dīnār, prince of the sultanate of Dār Fūr in the western Sudan, and the leaders of the Sanusi brotherhood then based in southern Libya. In contrast to the European view of the alliance as ephemeral, the documents indicate a sincere, passionate attempt to join–despite immense physical difficulties–an ancient monarchist tradition to a more modern, trade-based sociopolitical organization. The first part of the study is an extended interpretive essay, organized chronologically, that attempts to place the documents themselves and the information they contain in a wider historical context. The second part presents the documents themselves.
Article: Motor Racing in Colonial Libya
5 June 2019 28 May 2019 ABLeave a comment
A special issue of the journal Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East is out with the theme "The Global Middle East in the Age of Speed". In it, an article on motor racing in colonial North Africa appears:
Jakob Krais, "Mastering the Wheel of Chance: Motor Racing in French Algeria and Italian Libya." Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 39 (1), 2019, pp. 143–158.
Abstract: During the 1920s and 1930s, French Algeria and Italian Libya witnessed spectacular motor-sports events: desert rallies as well as car races on closed circuits. Speed sports events, in this context, served three main purposes: they integrated or reconquered the colonial territory symbolically; they demonstrated the advancement and technological superiority of the conquerors vis-à-vis the "backward" indigenous population; and beyond that, they established the colonies as laboratories of modernity and experimentation grounds of progress. In this sense, this essay employs the Foucauldian term heterotopia to designate the sites of motor sports competitions in Libya and Algeria. The colonies now were even more modern than France or Italy itself, or, put differently, they served as showcases for a possible future. Motor sports were especially apt to serve the outlined purposes. Road races and new circuits constantly referred to colonial claims about the progress of infrastructure. "Automobilism" was perceived as the very epitome of modernity and progress, set to take over the colonies, which were imagined as a tabula rasa. Finally, mastery of a car at a "devilish speed" was metonymically extended to represent the taming of the wheel of contingency in an uncertain situation and staying in control of the colonies.
Book: Il V Battaglione Ascari in missione sul fronte libico (1912)
Massimo Zaccaria. 2012. Anch'io per la tua bandiera. Il V Battaglione Ascari in missione sul fronte libico (1912). Giorgio Pozza Editore, Ravenna.
This book traces the history of the first Eritrean "ascari" battalion employed by the Italians in their conquest of Libya in 1912. For the colonizing forces, this battalion served two purposes besides military: the Italians aimed to show in Libya and other colonies that there were "Muslim" forces on their side, and enabled them to show other European colonial powers that they had a successful "civilizing" mission.
The book is in Italian, but has been reviewed in English by Francesca Di Pasquale here.
Special Issue: Gender and transnational histories of Libya
27 January 2019 27 January 2019 ABLeave a comment
A special issue on the theme "Gender and transnational histories of Libya" has recently been published in The Journal of North African Studies, co-edited by Barbara Spadaro and Katrina Yeaw.
The introduction to the special issue is freely available online and is worth reading:
This series of articles focuses on Libya to investigate how individual and collective identities are imagined, experienced, and narrated in a mobile and interconnected world. Drawing from original and unexplored sources in seven different languages, our case studies illuminate subjects and circuits long neglected from historiography, and yet crucial for the understanding of the transnational and transcultural memory of Libya. Our critical engagement with ways in which histories of Libya have been materialised, colonised, regimented and forgotten reflects a wider shift across the academic discipline of History.
The contents include the following articles:
"Centre and periphery: variations in gendered space among Libyan Jews in the late Ottoman period" by Rachel Simon
"Finding women and gender in the sources: toward a historical anthropology of Ottoman Tripoli" by Nora Lafi
"Gender, violence and resistance under Italian rule in Cyrenaica, 1923–1934" by Katrina Yeaw
"Remembering the 'Italian' Jewish homes of Libya: gender and transcultural memory (1967–2013)" by Barbaro Spadaro
"Our star: Amazigh music and the production of intimacy in 2011 Libya" by Leila Tayeb
Article: Fascist Violence and the 'Ethnic Reconstruction' of Cyrenaica
21 December 2018 ABLeave a comment
Michael R. Ebner, "Fascist Violence and the 'Ethnic Reconstruction' of Cyrenaica (Libya), 1922–1934" in Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World, eds. Dwyer, Philip, Nettelbeck, Amanda, pp. 197-218 (Palgrave, 2017).
In the spring of 1931, Italian colonial authorities ordered the construction of a fence on the border between Libya and Egypt. By September, 270 kilometres of cement, chain-link fence, and barbwire stretched from the shores of the Mediterranean to the Oasis of Jaghbub. Italian authorities constructed the fence in order to deny Omar al-Mukhtar and his resistance fighters safe-havens and material support in neighbouring Egypt. Thus Cyrenaica, the eastern province of Libya, which was already completely separated from Tripolitania (Libya's western province) by the desert of Sirtica, had now been also cut off from Egypt to the east of the fence. The peoples of Cyrenaica, particularly those living on the fertile highlands of the Jebel Akhdar, were the major source of support for Omar al-Mukhtar's anti-colonial insurgency. The year before the fence went up, Italian authorities ordered the deportation and internment of between one-half and two-thirds of the civilian population of Cyrenaica—between 90,000 and 110,000 people
Book: The First World War from Tripoli to Addis Ababa (1911-1924)
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A new and entirely open-access collected volume on the African colonial role in the First World War, and one co-edited and co-published by African scholars:
Shiferaw Bekele, Uoldelul Chelati Dirar, Volterra, A., & Zaccaria, M. (Eds.), The First World War from Tripoli to Addis Ababa (1911-1924). Addis Abbaba: Centre français des études éthiopiennes, 2018.
For a long time now it has been common understanding that Africa played only a marginal role in the First World War. Its reduced theatre of operations appeared irrelevant to the strategic balance of the major powers. This volume is a contribution to the growing body of historical literature that explores the global and social history of the First World War. It questions the supposedly marginal role of Africa during the Great War with a special focus on Northeast Africa. In fact, between 1911 and 1924 a series of influential political and social upheavals took place in the vast expanse between Tripoli and Addis Ababa. The First World War was to profoundly change the local balance of power.
This volume consists of fifteen chapters divided into three sections. The essays examine the social, political and operational course of the war and assess its consequences in a region straddling Africa and the Middle East. The relationship between local events and global processes is explored, together with the regional protagonists and their agency. Contrary to the myth still prevailing, the First World War did have both immediate and long-term effects on the region. This book highlights some of the significant aspects associated with it.
The entire book is fascinating and opens up new areas of research tying into dynamics of which Libya was ultimately a part. The specific essays concerning Libya are:
Andrea Ungari, "Why did the Italians go to Libya?"
Alessandro Volterra, Askaris and the Great War. Colonial Troops Recruited in Libya for the War but Never Sent to the Austrian Front
Silvia Bruzzi, Claiming Islamic Authenticity. The Ḫatmīya Sufi order confronting WWI
Gabriele Montalbano, The Italian community of Tunisia: From Libyan Colonial Ambitions to the First World War


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The North Carolina Employment and Training Association had its beginnings in early 1967. Several directors of Neighborhood Youth corps (NYC) programs in the state attended a national meeting in March of that year in St. Louis for the purpose of learning how to operate in-school, out-of-school, and summer youth programs. At that meeting, the new Manpower Development and Training act was introduced and discussed.
During the fall of 1967, ten NYC directors met at the Sir Walter Raleigh Hotel in Raleigh and organized the Neighborhood Youth Corps Directors Association, which existed until 1970. By then, the needs of NYC staff in general had become so numerous that the directors voted to include the staff in their organizations' meetings and to change its name to the Neighborhood Youth Corps Association. The Association continued its evolution and again, in 1975, changed its name to the North Carolina Association of Manpower Programs in recognition of the expanding needs presented by the increasing number of manpower programs statewide.
By 1977, the operation of manpower programs extended beyond the realm of Community Action Agencies, where it had begun in the late 1960s. The decision was made to bring all manpower programs under the umbrella of a single organization, so the name was changed yet again to reflect the current range of program and agencies involved in the manpower development effort. The resulting North Carolina Employment Association added to its nucleus of community-based organizations a whole new complement of agencies.
In 1973, Congress failed to reauthorize the Manpower Development and Training act in favor of the Comprehensive Employment and Training act (CETA). By 1981, CETA was surrounded by criticism and controversy, and its negative image led to a substantial decline in the Association's membership. Only through the Board of Directors' efforts was the life of the organization sustained.
Congress allowed CETA authorization to expire and replaced it with the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) in 1982. Through continued dedication of program operators and state policy makers, new life was breathed into the state's employment and training initiative. All along, the North Carolina Employment and Training Association persevered in providing staff development and training opportunities for its membership.
From the early days, when round-table discussion was the primary order of meetings, the Association steadily refined its offerings into the current multi-day conference format with structured workshops and renowned presenters and speakers. Today, the Association maintains a Board comprised of a diverse group of professionals representing all levels and aspects of workforce development in North Carolina. Under their conscientious direction, the Association has a long-term commitment to "making a difference" by continuing to ensure the availability of quality, affordable and accessible staff development and training opportunities for its membership


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Senate majority leader, Senator Mitch McConnel, (R-KY), pointed out that the Obama Administration will have doubled the national debt in 5 years and will triple it in 10 years.
the non-partisan accounting arm of Congress.
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS BEING DRIVEN INTO BANKRUPTCY!
Our Credit Rating Has Already Been Reduced!
and later tell you that I have accomplished my goal.
I am even fatter now!
and so, therefore, I have met my goal.
Congress is not really talking about reducing the debt.
No, when they say they are making a reduction in the spending growth.
than they had planned to spend.
When I was an Industrial Manager, and was a Division Manager, the Plant desperately needed to build 8,000 tires a day. For over a year, pressure in the extreme was brought on all management but the 8,000-tires-a-day remained far out of reach. Starting in January, I started to refute this or that reason why the daily goal was not attained, assuring the Plant Manager that if he would let me replace the two individuals who were the Manager of Truck Tire Production and Manager of Passenger Tire Production, making me the Manager of Tire Production, I'd immediately build his 8,000 tires. In April, he informed me the change would be made in August.
Won't go into the details, but without any additional funds or equipment, I built the 8,000 tires immediately like I said I would, then built 10,000 tires a day, then built 12,000 tires a day. In the following February I missed 3 days work for a massive hernia operation, (Yes, 3 days and 7 inches of stitches later I was back at my desk, walking gingerly). While I was in the hospital the tire builders, sending me flowers, informed me that they had built 12,246 tires that day, AN ALL TIME RECORD, and I should just stay in the hospital, they didn't really need me. They all built "One more for the Gipper!"
WITH WHOM THE COMPANY HAD BEEN FIGHTING FOR YEARS!
The company could not handle this over production. I elimated the 18 "stand by" builders, the 4 trainers for builder turnover, one of the four shifts and, with only three shifts, consistently built 10,000 tires-a-day for the next 8 years until the plant, along with 41 other North American tire plants, was closed.
$57,000 for a deck of cards!
Big or small, I simply took care of business.
The 2012 elections will be here before we know it, just like August rolled around when I replaced two men who couldn't get the job done. FOLKS, LET'S REPLACE ALL, YES ALL, OF THOSE WHO CANNOT GET THE JOB DONE. We must stop stealing from the Social Security system, borrowing from China and acting like a Norfolk prostitute on a Navy payday.


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Longreads + Open Thread
Progress, Kishi, Permission, Allocation, Nuclear, YouTube, Disruption
Byrne Hobart
Eric Gilliam at FreakTakes looks at the world of Gerard Holton on when ideas get easier to find. One amazing chart from the piece shows progress—in this case, in particle accelerators—as exponential overall growth caused by stacking S-curves. That's heartening because it means that we can still achieve progress in broad fields when individual techniques are getting played out, but it's also daunting, because it means that consistent growth is actually the result of finding novel things to work on, rather than perfecting existing techniques. (Via Marginal Revolution.)
Lars Erik Schönander at Palladium has a piece on Kishi Nobusuke, a pivotally-important but now obscure Japanese politician who a) committed serious atrocities in the 30s and 40s, and b) set up the modern Japanese political system after the war. Kishi is worth understanding because he straddles so many different eras. He was technically part of the old aristocracy, but cemented the nominally democratic system that has mostly controlled Japanese politics ever since. He was an early practitioner of the state-driven industrialization that propelled East Asian economic growth, but a look at his earliest practices and influences shows that it was affected, not just by protectionist theory from 19th century Prussia, but by Stalinist thinking as well. The general rule in history is that everything has older precedents than you think, which often means that fairly benign trends share a nearest common ancestor with much darker ones.
Milan Cvitkovic has a list of things you're allowed to do. This is a great resource: a long list of ways you can marginally improve your life at a trivial cost in either money or social awkwardness.
Bridgewater Associates has a nice piece on how to build a beta portfolio—i.e. one that isn't trying to make market calls, but to get general exposure to different return streams—in times of high inflation. For a long time, the answer to this has been "own stocks, but own bonds, too," and Bridgewater certainly benefited from the long bull market in bonds. Bonds and stocks have had an inverse correlation over the last two decades, and it's tempting to treat that as a law of nature—but it's really a feature of low inflation. When inflation isn't a problem, slower growth leads immediately to rate cuts, and that's good for bonds. But at times of higher and more variable inflation, those rate cuts aren't so automatic. Bridgewater suggests a larger allocation to commodities. It's hard to estimate the size of the commodities market, and it would be very interesting indeed if it turned out that commodities couldn't absorb the inflows from a few percentage points of the world's institutional portfolios moving from stocks and bonds to oil and copper futures.
Brian Potter of Construction Physics asks why nuclear power plants have gotten so expensive. It's a piece very much in the spirit of State Capacity Libertarianism: there are regulatory factors that drove higher prices and longer construction times, and that compounded by reducing the amount of expertise the nuclear industry could generate. If plants take twelve years to build instead of five, it takes a lot longer for people to get experienced at building them. And these high costs reduce the marginal cost of customization, which naturally kills cost curves. Now we're at a point where relaxing regulations on nuclear power is less exciting because costs are still so high, but doing that in combination with funding more of them over a long period might start moving the cost curve in the right direction.
Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination: Available in September, this book is a history of YouTube from its beginnings as a dating site to its present ubiquity. This book was a major resource for this piece ($). YouTube's success was partly due to a few big decisions—ranking by view time, video recommendations, dynamic ad load—and lots of incremental tweaks. Now it's big enough that the problems the business faces have shifted from technology and business to politics and culture, both of which are much less amenable to scaling.
Drop in any links or comments of interest to Diff readers.
What makes a company or business undisruptable? Some institutions have a crazy amount of staying power, like Disney, Harvard, and Goldman Sachs—they've been at the top of their category for long enough that you can't attribute it to any one leader, and the nature of each business has changed. Is there something that differentiates institutions that stay at the top of their category for long periods, or is it a "Matthew Effect" where they're able to hire the best people?
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The Raw Milk Saga: Max Kane risks prison by refusing to disclose who sells and who buys that "controlled substance"
From Before It's News:
http://beforeitsnews.com/news/36/724/Max_Kane_Risks_
Prison_for_Refusing_to_Tell_Who_Sells_and_Who_Buys_Raw_Milk.html
Here's an excerpt from the "before it's news.com" edition of the Max Kane raw milk saga:
Max Kane has been under considerable legal pressure to reveal the names of suppliers and customers involved in his "Belle's Lunchbox" raw milk buying group in Wisconsin. Max Kane has been charged with nothing. There is no case being prosecuted against him or anyone else for anything, not even for selling or buying raw milk. Yet, he has been ordered by the state of Wisconsin to inform on his friends. They want him to name people who sell or buy raw milk. He has refused, and for that, he's been under threat of prison.
Wisconsin's Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection (DATCP) is in thrall to the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA), is not pursuing Kane for any crime, though they have been trying to turn him into a criminal. He's obviously guilty, of course—guilty of drinking raw milk and advocating it. Worse, though, he's guilty of refusing to give the names of people he knows who also drink raw milk, not to mention the farmers who have the temerity to sell it to them.
In Wisconsin, it's perfectly legal for farmers to sell directly to consumers in Wisconsin. More and more have been doing just that, and for good reason. People want raw milk. Like Max Kane, they've found that it's health-promoting. The powers-that-be don't like that. So, they're going after small family dairies and activists like Max. If Max gives in, they're apparently planning to go after ordinary people who are guilty of buying a contraband substance: milk in its natural, unpasteurized, state.
How Max Came to Raw Milk Activism
Max was a very sick man suffering from Crohn's disease, a condition causing abdominal pain, cramping, diarrhea and serious weight loss. In his words, he was "wasting away". Modern medicine could do nothing for him. Like a miracle, Max found raw milk. By the simple act of drinking it, he has returned to health…."
Article: The Raw Milk Controversy: http://www.litalee.com/shopexd.asp?id=190
Labels: Crohn's and raw milk, Max Kane risking prison, raw milk politics
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Notes: Chad's Ray of light
Posted: 1:40 a.m.
JohnsonChad Johnson, stung by in-house criticism from the coaching staff during the offseason, admitted Thursday "I feel like I'm all alone" when he begins his seventh season Monday night against the Ravens.
Not really. His mentor and friend, Baltimore middle linebacker Ray Lewis, is with him and is even giving him advice that Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis gave Lewis as a rookie a dozen seasons ago.
"It's happened to me all my life," Johnson said after Thursday's practice. "They said I came from nothing. They said I was too dumb to stay in school. They said I was too small to play football. It's kind of like what I've been hearing here."
Johnson, the NFL's defending yardage champion, has heard about his failure to block and his inconsistent catching. But it's the whispers about his inability in the last two seasons to come up with a big game down the stretch that has him riled up.
"That's what I'm looking to do; just looking to destroy this year. Helping us to get better," Johnson said. "I understand what (the coaches) were doing. They pushed the right buttons. But they pushed me over the edge. I'm already an overachiever. To say those things to me, it's on."
Ray Lewis is also pushing those same buttons with the advice he's been giving Johnson this year.
"Great leaders pull their team along with them. I need you to understand that," Lewis recounted for the Cincinnati media Thursday. "You have to know how to control your fury so it doesn't show on everybody and everybody has an opinion about it.'''
Lewis, one of Johnson's endless University of Miami buddies, has emphasized what Marvin Lewis has been emphasizing to him.
" 'Chad, you have the greatest talent ever, don't get me wrong,' '' Ray Lewis said. "'But a lot of times, your temper goes on the opposite side. And it's not wrong that it goes that way, but it's just the manner that it does it.
"Chad has all the intangibles to be a great player. Everybody loves his intangibles. Everybody loves him. But the bottom line is there are a lot of things Chad does that he doesn't need to do in public because the public sometimes won't understand what a true competitor is saying from the inside out."
Asked when he realized the great ones carry teams, Ray Lewis had to look only as far as the Bengals head coach and his first defensive coordinator.
"Marvin Lewis can answer that better than I can," Ray said. "It was almost the first day I walked in. Pepper (Johnson) was released and (Marvin) called me in and said, `Great leaders lead their team. No matter how young you are, go lead your team.' ... I never looked back."
Ray Lewis' leadership has reached almost mythical proportions since he willed the Ravens to a Super Bowl title seven years ago. His head coach, Brian Billick, calls him not only a first-ballot Hall of Famer, but says he's an anchor in the mold of great quarterbacks like Brett Favre, Dan Marino and Troy Aikman.
"To be able to start with that every year. To know you're beginning with that is a gift," Billick said. "Ray is very much the same way and very much in the same stature in my opinion. To be able to start defensively with that guy every year and whatever you change in profile, whatever you add, but to know you begin with that type of consistency, that type of level of play ... that's a luxury. That's a blessing."
For his part, Johnson says he's been listening.
"Not a chip on my shoulder," Johnson said. "Two chips."
PerryT.J. & TAB: If the Ravens do what they always do, Tab Perry is going to have a chance to make a couple of big plays in his debut as the Bengals third wide receiver in place of Chris Henry.
Defensive coordinator Rex Ryan has been known to double team both starting wide receivers Chad Johnson and T.J. Houshmandzadeh. And while Henry caught only two balls against the Ravens last season, one was a 71-yarder. He had more success as a rookie in 2005, when he caught six balls and had two touchdowns in the two games.
"When you lose Chris and that big-play ability, you've got to have somebody that is going to step up and try to at least do what he does or better," Perry said. "When I get the ball, I'm going to try and make something happen. There's going to be a lot of one-on-one opportunities, and when I get the chance, I've got to take advantage."
The absence of Houshmandzadeh (knee) the past two practices is a concern because he's really the guy that has gone off against Baltimore. Last year he had Cincinnati's lone touchdown in the 13-7 win, 40 of his 106 yards coming off a flea flicker. And he had his career game in '04 in Carson Palmer's Coming Out with 171 yards. Throw in a 147-yard game against the Ravens in '05, and the Bengals are more than hoping that the indications are right and it looks like he'll play.
"When they do double me and Chad, (Henry) the majority of the time will play well," Houshmandzadeh said. "Or if we start running the ball, you can't do that. Then they take the double off me and still double Chad and then I kill them. Then they have to play straight up."
With Perry catching just five balls in preseason (and none longer than 12 yards) and coming off a season he played just two games because of a hip injury, there is some concern. Houshmandzadeh heard some of the same stuff when he replaced the injured Peter Warrick in 2004 coming off an injury-plagued 2003 when he had no catches.
"See what he does with the opportunity," Houshmandzadeh said. "The more reps he gets in a game, the comfort level increases and the better he'll play."
Palmer, naturally, talked up Perry at his news conference Thursday. And, really, what receiver hasn't produced playing with him?
"He just doesn't quit," Palmer said of Perry. "He understands that he has so much to learn in such a small amount of time and he doesn't back down from it. He's like a sponge. He wants more and more information. Every time he runs a route he comes back and it's 'How did I do?' 'What can I do better?' 'What did I do wrong?'
"You want a guy that wants to learn and wants to know how to do his job best. But then when the guy has all of the athletic talent and physical talent in the world, that's a great combination. I couldn't be happier with the speed and athleticism he has out there but he's also a smart kid out there that wants to know it all."
For his part, Perry is convinced he's primed.
"I really don't think I've lost anything from last year," he said.
LewisMARV SPEAK: The Bengals are 19-13 at home under Lewis and he says they have to play better at PBS for a cushion so they can control their own destiny.
The Bengals were 1-1 in the preseason when he coached from the press box with his rehabbing ankle, but he'll be back on the sidelines Monday night looking across at his old team. He may be gone, but the Ravens defense is still No. 1 in the NFL under Rex Ryan, his defensive line coach in Baltimore.
"He's lining them all up. They're like little ants running around. Rex has worked very hard," Lewis said.
The Lewis-Ravens connection has become quite familiar in these parts.
"With Baltimore you kind of feel that they just won the Super Bowl, even though that was in 2000," Palmer said. "I don't know if that's because Marvin came from there and he always talks about Baltimore and his guys and you get sick of hearing about all of that, but it just seems like they just won the Super Bowl. They're ex-Super Bowl champs and you want to knock them off. I don't know what it is. It's not a rivalry game, but we all love playing against these guys."