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I'm with Edvard and Deozaan. I REALLY like Brave.
Deozaan:
-kyrathaba (June 08, 2018, 07:30 AM)
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Whoa there! I wouldn't say I REALLY like Brave. I like the idea(s) behind it, but I don't feel it is well enough developed yet to fully make the switch. I primarily use Vivaldi on my PC these days. But I do use Brave as my primary browser on Android.
And I get the feeling that Edvard isn't too impressed with Brave, either:
I've been using Brave for a while now, as it is VERY fast and does adblocking very well. I agree it has some glitches that I'd rather not deal with.
Well, after putting it all on one page, I think I'm done. Vivaldi is looking better lately...-Edvard (February 12, 2018, 12:55 PM)
Edvard:
...-Deozaan (June 08, 2018, 01:42 PM)
Heh, after all that and I'm still using Brave as my main browser. Little things get fixed here and there, let's see what works now:
- Can't edit the default page shortcuts. There are 'x's to delete them, but it doesn't do anything. You click it, and a dialog comes up that says "Thumbnail removed" but it's still there. Some discussion on the Brave forum about it, and it's apparently on the list as something that needs to be fixed.-Edvard (February 12, 2018, 12:55 PM)
Those have been replaced by "Top Sites" tiles. Still not as useful as say, Opera or Vivaldi's bookmark tiles on the new tab page, but at least you can remove them now. The dialog when you remove is sort of clunky. You hit the 'X' on the tile, the tile goes away, then Brave tells you it has been deleted, but you can Undo, Remove All, or X to dismiss the notification. It's a little jarring because it's a departure from the standard "Are you sure you want to delete that" dialog, but eh...
- No 'History' item in the settings dialogs (that I could find, anyway). I have to enter "about:history" in the address bar.
- Embedded YouTube videos can't be full-screened. The video enlarges but the window stays the same size. Very curious.
- Sometimes (maybe once or twice a week) it "loses" CSS; I hit the 'back' button and suddenly I'm in 1994 with no font colors.
All these have been fixed as far as I can tell. At least I haven't had the "missing CSS" thing happen for awhile now.
- Sometimes I can't input text anywhere; the address bar, forum posting, information form filling, nothing. I have to restart the browser.
This still happens from time to time, but it may be my Desktop Environment (running Xfce on Debian 'Testing'), because I've noticed it happening with other windows every now and then, but not even half as many times as with Brave. I figured out all it takes is Minimizing and Restoring the window instead of restarting the browser. Maybe it's time to try out a new DE...
Well, after putting it all on one page, I think I'm done. Vivaldi is looking better lately...
I still use Vivaldi occasionally, but it's still just as gawd-awful slow to start up as the first time I tried it. Just for giggles, I tried timing all the browsers I have installed. Firefox is the slowest to start at ~16 seconds from click to full window showing. Vivaldi is half that; 8 seconds. Chromium takes ~6 seconds, and Brave is ~2 seconds.
So all in all, I am happier with Brave, and it's still the main browser on my phone. My wife and I have very old and cheap smartphones, and all the browsers we tried would crash on half the sites because of it. Brave never crashes on our phones. Ever. *slow clap*
Brave has really come a long way since its early days, it's sufficient (if elegant and understated). Vivaldi is a better fit for me, but that's me.
I kind of roll my eyes at their creator payment system, I don't think it'll go anywhere but it's a nice idea.
As someone who works in digital marketing/advertising, I'm torn between the appeal of anonymity and just having everything out there so I can observe the marketing/remarking. One thing that's really interesting to me is that the comfort that comes from running a browser that claims first class tracker blocking really creates a false reassurance. The good it serves is shutting down some truly bad-agents -- but it hardly slows down the really big agents. First-party data is still being tracked, that data is still being shared with big data brokers, and then being-reshared with other really big agents.
You can still search for a place in Liberia on Google, land on Air BNB, be served ads for Liberia BNBs on Facebook and then served ads elsewhere for the same content... Truly hiding requires a ton of inconvenience - VPN, kill cookies... ya'll know the drill.
Anyway, I've been running a little experiment lately, running Chrome/Vivaldi/Brave in tandem and recording my web experience.
Sorry for rambling. All I really wanted to say was first time I tried Brave, it was terrible. It's pretty good, now. I'd take it over Safari, IE or Firefox and it has potential to compete with vivaldi for casual browsing. As a developer, Chrome/Vivaldi are necessary.
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U.S. Attorney's Office Hosts Conference Addressing "Hate Speech" in K-12 Schools with Hate Group SPLC
By Pamela Geller , 02 November, 2017
The U.S. Attorney's Office is partnering with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). It shouldn't be partnering with that vicious leftist hate group, it should be investigating it.
Southern Poverty Law Center: 'Our Aim in Life Is to Destroy These Groups, Completely'
I am proud to be a member of the coalition and a signatory on this letter.
On Wednesday, 47 leaders of conservative nonprofits sent an open letter to the media warning against using the notorious "hate map" put out by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The leaders denounced any news organization that would cite the SPLC's list of "extremists" and "hate groups" as if it carried moral authority. "The SPLC is an attack dog of the political left" and should be treated as such, the leaders wrote.
"To associate public interest law firms and think tanks with neo-Nazis and the KKK is unconscionable, and represents the height of irresponsible journalism," the leaders declared. "All reputable news organizations should immediately stop using the SPLC's descriptions of individuals and organizations based on its obvious political prejudices." (PJM)
The letter addressed "Members of the Media" and strongly warned against the SPLC. The leaders characterized the organization as "a discredited, left-wing, political activist organization that seeks to silence its political opponents with a 'hate group' label of its own invention and application that is not only false and defamatory, but that also endangers the lives of those targeted with it."
"U.S. Attorney's Office Hosts Conference Addressing Hate Speech in K-12 Schools," U.S. Department of Justice, October 24, 2017 (thanks to Nancy):
BOSTON – The U.S. Attorney's Office hosted a conference yesterday aimed at bringing together educators, school administrators, advocates, and community members to learn and share ideas about preventing and effectively responding to hate speech in K-12 schools in Massachusetts.
"Preventing and responding to hate speech in our schools is essential to ensuring equal educational opportunities for youth in Massachusetts," said Acting U.S. Attorney William D. Weinreb. "All young people have a right to learn in a safe and welcoming environment that fosters respect for diversity and nurtures healthy development."
The full day conference, "Hate Speech in K-12 Schools: Prevention and Response," was organized by Weinreb's Civil Rights Unit and held at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester. The conference brought together a diverse audience of over 200 educators, school resource officers, school administrators, advocates, and community members from across Massachusetts for a series of panels and plenary sessions about addressing hate speech in Massachusetts schools.
Keynote speaker Maureen Costello, the Director of Teaching Tolerance at the Southern Poverty Law Center, spoke about the importance of addressing bias in schools. "Thanks to media coverage of hate speech incidents and the use of modern technology to bully or harass, we are more aware than ever of what vulnerable children face in school, and we have a profound responsibility to ensure that our schools are inclusive and free from bias," she said. According to keynote speaker Steve Wessler, a Human Rights Educator & Advocate, "The impact [of hate speech] on students includes damage to their physical and mental health as well as to their ability to succeed in school. Additionally, degrading language can escalate from words to violence when no one speaks up for civility and respect."
The sessions covered a variety of topics including how to address the needs of vulnerable populations who are disproportionately victimized by hate speech and how to prevent hate speech and harassment online and through social media. One panel shared best practices in prevention programs and how to create and maintain positive and welcoming school environments. A panel of legal experts also discussed the legal obligations of schools with respect to harassment and hate speech, including First Amendment protections that apply to students in schools, and when hate speech becomes a hate crime.
The Civil Rights Unit of the U.S. Attorney's Office was established in 2015 with the mission of enhancing federal civil rights enforcement. For more information on the Office's civil rights efforts, please visit www.justice.gov/usao-ma/civil-rights.
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by Marcus K. Dowling
Dinosaur Victrola, listenin' to Buck Owens
Doo, doo, doo, lookin' out my back door
When listening to rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival's 1970-released, top-five Billboard Hot 100 hit "Lookin' Out My Backdoor," the mention of listening to country icon Buck Owens on an antiquated record plater — as accompanied by a shotgunning drum rhythm and honky-tonk style guitar playing — creates a vibe and feel that timelessly introduces exactly who and what the El Cerrito, California-based rock quartet are and are attempting to embody musically.
Making pop music that mirrors the legacy that Buck Owens — especially in the years between 1963-1968 — created in country music is smart. The country hitmaker innovated a sound and style that has not weathered against the stand of time but also has withstood country music's persistent desire to adapt to musical evolution.
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The idea that Creedence Clearwater Revival's lead singer John Fogerty — a Berkeley, California-based country music fanatic born to parents with roots in Iowa and Montana — would listen to a Texas-born vocalist whose love of Deep Southern rock and roll favored by Oklahoma and Arkansas migrants to southern California proves just how broadly the sweep of the style of music that drove Buck Owens' appeal through his nearly half-century-long career ultimately was.
Owens himself came to define country music's "Bakersfield Sound" as a musically-inclined multi-instrumentalist and 16-year-old high school dropout touring America's western half as a radio host and session player adept at guitar, mandolin, horns, and drums. By 1963, he, alongside his friend — and fiddle player — Don Rich, bass player Doyle Holly, pedal steel player Tom Brumley, and drummer Willie Cantu formed Buck Owens and The Buckaroos. After the release of the eventual chart-topping single "Act Naturally" in 1963, the fortunes of Buck, his Buckaroos, Bakersfield-made country music, and the public perception of what country music sounded like and could aesthetically embody radically evolved.
In a 1989 NPR interview, Owens described country music made by midwestern Americans who relocated by dreams of oil wealth to Bakersfield as "a mix of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys and Little Richard." Wills' bluesy swing blended with the freewheeling rhythms of soulful, Pentecostal gospel-inspired rock created what Owens called "a big beat," that when combined with "the driving sounds of the drums and the guitars," created a pop-exciting, dancefloor-aimed sound with universal appeal.
Between 1963-1968, Buck Owens released 12 number-one Billboard Country chart albums and 15 number-one singles. That lot included the previously mentioned "Act Naturally"'s follow-up, "Love's Gonna Live Here Again." The single that followed his breakout success achieved Billboard Country chart-topping status too, but wouldn't relinquish the number one spot for four months, an act finally challenged by Taylor Swift's 2012-released single "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"'s nine-week run on top of the charts which ended in January 2013. Fascinatingly enough, by Independence Day weekend of that year, Florida Georgia Line's Nelly duet "Cruise" finally surpassed "Love's Gonna Live Here"'s long-standing Billboard Hot Country Songs chart achievement with a 17th week on top of the countdown.
There's something ultimately quite fascinating about country music's four-decade progression from Appalachian traditionalism to Bakersfield countrypolitanism getting pushed — after nearly a half-century — by electronic heavy production, acoustic guitars, banjos, and hip-hop blended with countrified grooves that speaks to the longevity of Owens' style and the Bakersfield Sound's appeal.
As well, consider the idea that, from 1969 to 1986, Owens co-hosted — alongside fellow country vocalist Roy Clark — the popular CBS television variety show Hee Haw. The idea that the sound and style of country music that Owens innovated grew so popular that it needed to be paired alongside the country-traditional and folkier Nashville stylings of Roy Clark is significant. As country erred in every direction from outlaw rock to disco, soul, and rhinestone pop, Owens' style represented the sound responsible for the genre being immortalized in the mainstream, on television, literally forever (Hee Haw is currently available on Circle TV).
In 1974, original Buckaroos member Don Rich was killed in a freak motorcycle accident. It was at this moment that, in the midst of a career resurgence spurred by artists like Dwight Yoakam revisiting Owens' Bakersfield stylings to great acclaim (Yoakam's Owens duet "Streets Of Bakersfield" was a Billboard Hot Country chart number-one single), Owens noted in an early 90s era interview, "I think my music life ended when [Don Rich] died. Oh yeah, I carried on, and I existed, but the real joy and love, the real lightning and thunder are gone forever."
Owens himself passed on in 2006, at the age 0f 76. He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Moreover, he was ranked No. 12 in CMT's 40 Greatest Men of Country Music poll in 2003. CMT also ranked the Buckaroos No. 2 in the network's 20 Greatest Bands listing in 2005. Insofar as what allowed him — and ultimately his style of country music — to maintain relevancy for so long, his quote in a 2003 CMT.com interview speaks to the one deceptively simple and wholly country notion that defined his stylings:
"[I've] presented the music in the same fashion all my life. Let me tell you what it is, it's very simple — 'It don't mean a thang if it ain't got that twang.' I live for twang."
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Containing both PVP and PVE elements, each match tasks bounty hunters, either solo or in teams of two, to track down the boss target by collecting clues throughout the 16 locations on the map. During this trek, players will gain gold by dispatching the hordes of PVE enemies, all the while using audio cues to engage or avoid fellow hunters. Upon killing the boss and picking up the bounty, the focus changes to reaching one of the exit points on the map while any remaining players try to kill you and take the bounty for themselves.
Between matches players will spend gold earned by killing enemies to recruit additional bounty hunters and purchase new equipment. You will also use any experience gained to rank up your Bloodline, gaining new traits, gear, and access to higher tier hunters. Death is permanent, with players losing their hunter and any equipment they carry, but your bloodline is persistent, giving any unlocked perks to any bounty hunter on your account.
Expected to be in early access for at least a year, players can expect additional content as the Crytek team continues work on the game. You can follow their progress on Twitter and Facebook, and check out the official site for more information.


In August 2015 Uganda's Ministry of Health (MOH) adopted the WHO recommendation to provide tetanus vaccination to all men seeking safe male circumcision (SMC). According to MOH, "All SMC clients will be required to get the first tetanus vaccination shot 28 days before SMC and a second at circumcision."
In support of Ministry of Health's policy guideline , USAID/CHC in partnership with the Ministry and SMC services partners carried out consultation meetings with stakeholders countrywide, to find out the perspectives of health workers, circumcised men, women and uncircumcised men on the inclusion of tetanus vaccine as part of the safe male circumcision (SMC) package. The findings were used to develop a communication plan, messages and materials which were shared with implementing partners at a meeting held on October 23rd, 2015.
The key materials for inclusion of tetanus vaccine as part of the SMC package include: a factsheet for Safe Male Circumcision mobilizers to help discussions with communities; an invitation card for men to get circumcised, to be used when returning for the second tetanus shot as well; and a frequently asked questions (FQA) tool on tetanus vaccination.


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Home USA Kylie Jenner gives birth to daughter
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Reality TV star Kylie Jenner has announced she has given birth to a girl following months of rumours surrounding her pregnancy.
The youngest Keeping Up With The Kardashians sister finally revealed the details about her pregnancy on social media on Sunday.
The 20-year-old announced she and boyfriend Travis Scott welcomed a "beautiful and healthy" daughter on 1 February.
Jenner apologised to fans for "keeping you in the dark" and said she kept the pregnancy private because she needed to "prepare for this role of a lifetime in the most positive, stress free, and healthy way I knew how".
She said: "There was no gotcha moment, no big paid reveal I had planned.
"I knew my baby would feel every stress and every emotion so I chose to do it this way for my little life and our happiness."
The star has been in the spotlight since she was nine-years-old as part of the Jenner-Kardashian family on reality TV show Keeping Up With The Kardashians.
She said pregnancy had been the most "beautiful, empowering and life changing experience" of her life and she is "actually going to miss it".
Jenner also shared an eight-minute video giving fans a peek into the last nine months, from the time she found out she was expecting until the baby's birth.
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During her pregnancy there were several rumours which she chose not to address, only posting pictures on social media where her stomach could not be seen.
Her sister Kim Kardashian welcomed a baby girl named Chicago, via a surrogate in January, and her sister Khloe Kardashian is due to give birth in two months.
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Madison Project: 'Illegal Invasion,' 'Anti-Family Agenda' Make Conservatives 'Strangers In Our Own Country'
By Miranda Blue | July 8, 2014 4:45 pm
The Madison Project, the Tea Party group backed by Sen. Ted Cruz that's pushing far-right challengers in Republican congressional races, marked the Fourth of July this year by lamenting that the "illegal invasion," the "anti-family agenda," Social Security, and the rest of the social safety net make them "feel like strangers in our own country."
Sadly, many of us are spending this 4th of July wondering if our Founders would recognize that republic – that beacon of freedom built upon a strong civil society and ordered liberty. So many ordinary Americans feel our republic is long lost to a foreign socialist utopia centrally managed by an elitist oligarchy in the form of two corrupt political parties.
This small minority of radicals has completely vitiated our most fundamental characteristic as a republic – our sovereign borders. We are now languishing from the flood of over 100,000 illegal immigrants teaming over our southern border, adding to the millions of illegals already here. At stake is nothing less than the preservation of our civil society, sovereignty, and solvency as a nation and as a stable economy. They drain our resources, health care, education, and criminal justice system.
We feel like strangers in our own country.
Even without the illegal invasion, our republic is hanging on by a thread.
Almost every American is involuntarily subservient to the federal government for his or her retirement security and healthcare. Over 46 million people, and one-in-four children, rely upon government for food stamps. Under the new Obamacare mandates, an estimated 79 million Americans will be enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP. This culture of dependency, an anathema to our spirit of independence, has saddled us with over $1 million in debt and unfunded obligations for every American taxpayer.
Meanwhile, ordered liberty in a constitutional republic needs a strong civil society and strong families in order to thrive, much like fish in water. Yet, the cultural degeneration, promulgated and encouraged by this small societal elite, has permeated every aspect of American life – to the extent that those of us who adhere to traditional family values are now ostracized and castigated. We have reached the point where we need a group of unelected judges to grant us small morsels of religious liberty from their high benches in Washington. The small minority who push this invidious anti-family agenda now seek to eradicate the very existence of gender to the degree that private individuals and businesses are now being forces to accommodate bizarre and licentious practices.
The "Republican" Party was supposed to serve as the bulwark against attempts to supplant our republican form of government, yet they have become part and parcel of the problem. Decades' worth of treachery directed towards the party faithful from its leadership has finally culminated with the Mississippi election last week. A long-serving Republican, with the blessing of the entire party establishment, engaged in fraud and race-baiting to repudiate his own party base and steal the election.
We are now living through the worst consequences of elective despotism that James Madison warned about in Federalist 48. Indeed we are strangers in our own country and in our own party.
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In der Liste der Bodendenkmale in Falkenberg (Mark) sind alle Bodendenkmale der brandenburgischen Gemeinde Falkenberg (Mark) und ihrer Ortsteile aufgelistet. Grundlage ist die Veröffentlichung der Landesdenkmalliste mit dem Stand vom 31. Dezember 2020.
Die Baudenkmale sind in der Liste der Baudenkmale in Falkenberg (Mark) aufgeführt.

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Russian grocery retail chain Dixy has posted a 1H 2011 net profit of 555 million roubles under IFRS excluded Viktoria Group figures.
The bottom line is up 340% year on year to 555 million roubles, while EBITDA grew 39.4% year on year to 2.5 billion roubles, on a 21.8% increase in sales to 37.4 billion roubles from 30.7 billion roubles in 1H 2011.
The 1H 2011 net result includes 2Q 2011 net profit of 390 million roubles, supported by 48.5% year on year increase in EBITDA to 1.5 billion roubles, on the back of 23.3% increase in sales revenue to 19.4 billion roubles.
The company attributed the results to an improved pricing and flexible front margin management, as well as a positive effect of the efforts aimed at decreasing cost of sales and focus on operational costs management with sales per square meter of selling space on the combined Company level increased by 11% over the same period last year. During the first half of 2011, Dixy Group LFL sales grew by 7.8%.
"The acquisition of Victoria retail chain in July 2011 has significantly strengthened the DIXY Group's competitive positions in the two key regional markets: Russia's Central and Northwestern Federal Districts and allowed to gain access to new regional markets in Kaliningrad and Tula regions. Due to a significant increase of scale in the trade operations, DIXY Group will be able to significantly improve purchasing terms and to realize the existing potential with regard to optimization of logistics and transportation costs at the united Company," the statement reads.


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Андрей Денисович Дроботов (род. 08 марта 1928) — бригадир проходчиков горных выработок шахты «Беринговская» № 2 треста «Северовостокуголь», Герой Социалистического Труда (звание присвоено 30 марта 1971 года).

В 1947 г. окончил ФЗУ в г. Шахты Ростовской области, работал по полученной специальности — проходчиком горных выработок.

В 1951 г.приехал на Чукотку, на шахту «Капитальная». В 1953 г. назначен бригадиром проходчиков горных выработок строящейся шахты «Беринговская»№ 2, где и работал до выхода на пенсию.

Указом Президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 30.03.1971 «за выдающиеся успехи в выполнении заданий пятилетнего плана, достижение высоких технико-экономических показателей» присвоено звание Героя Социалистического Труда.

Избирался депутатом областного Советов депутатов трудящихся.

После выхода на пенсию (1975) жил в Краснодаре.

Награжден орденом Трудового Красного Знамени (29.06.1966), медалями, нагрудными знаками. Обладатель звания «Лучший проходчик Магаданской области».

Литература
 Магаданцы - Герои Социалистического Труда : [очерки / под общ. ред. Ф. Н. Ловягина]. - Магадан : Магад. кн. изд-во, 1972. - 234, [5] с. : ил., фот.
 Благов В. Шахтерская доблесть // Советская Чукотка.-1971.-10 апр.-С.3 : фот.;
 Дроботов Андрей Денисович // Блокнот агитатора [Магадан].-1971. — № 8. — С. 1-3 ;
 Юдина М. Золотая звезда героя // Советская Чукотка. — 1971.-30 апр.-С. 1 ;
 Азарников В. Глубокая высота // Магаданцы — Герои Социалистического Труда…- С. 162—167 : портр.
 http://hunterpress.ru/upload/pdf/Hero_Kolyma_Chukotka_2016.pdf
 Дроботов Андрей Денисович : Герой Соц. Труда // Герои Отечества. Колыма и Чукотка : Герои Совет. Союза, Герои России и полные кавалеры ордена Славы ; Герои Социалист. Труда и полные кавалеры ордена Трудовой Славы : биобиблиогр. справ. / Магад. обл. универс. науч. б-ка им. А. С. Пушкина; [сост. И. М. Морякова; редкол.: О. А. Толоконцева (отв. ред.), С. П. Ефимов, С. И. Симонова]. — Магадан, 2015. — С. 86
 Шахтеры — гвардия труда : [история угол. пром-сти Магадан. обл. с 1960-х гг. до наших дней, геолог. изысканий угол. месторождений : стат. данные] / А. Навасардов // Магаданская правда. — 2014. — 10 окт. — С. 19 : фот.

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Free Credit report, OfficeMax tied to data fraud investigation
OfficeMax tied to data fraud investigation
OfficeMax is the Northern California retailer at the heart of a major data-security breach affecting as many as 200,000 Consumers, banking and law-enforcement sources confirmed Monday.
They also said investigators are exploring the possibility that the Russian mob or another Eastern European crime syndicate is responsible for accessing U.S. Consumers' debit-card numbers and selling counterfeit cards on the black market worldwide.
Bill Bonner, an OfficeMax spokesman, said that to the best of his knowledge, no security breach had occurred at any of the Illinois company's Northern California outlets.
"I just can't say that happened," he said.
Still, Bonner declined to comment on whether OfficeMax is cooperating with the FBI and Secret Service on their investigation into the debit-card theft.
"I can't make any comment on any law-enforcement investigations," he said, adding that "we're trying to be responsible and not create any kind of panic."
Four well-placed sources in the banking industry said it's possible that OfficeMax can't yet say with certainty that a breach occurred because it often takes investigators time to piece together a hacker's electronic trail. But they said there's no doubt that OfficeMax has made its computer system available to federal authorities for their investigation.
Numerous banks have replaced customers' debit cards in recent weeks, including Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Washington Mutual. An executive at one leading bank told me he spoke with senior officials at OfficeMax shortly after news of the security breach broke in this column last week.
It appears that a hacker penetrated the computer network of an OfficeMax outlet in Sacramento last fall, sources said. They said the hacker may have gained access to account information for as many as 200,000 customers, potentially downloading people's names, debit-card numbers and secret codes used to validate transactions.
In September 2004, a senior FBI official, Steven Martinez, testified before Congress that the bureau's Internet Crime Complaint Center, or IC3, had noticed an increasing number of cyber crimes involving Eastern Europeans. "The FBI, through the IC3, has observed a continuing increase in both volume and potential impact of cyber crime with significant international elements," he said.
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Who Chooses the Child's Religion?
In a New Jersey Divorce, Who Chooses the Child's Religion?
Should the children be raised to practice a particular faith or religion?
If yes, how active should the children be in that religion?
Should the children attend religious education? If so, what if that interferes with the parenting schedule? For example, in a divorce case where the wife is of Jewish faith and the husband is of Catholic Faith, if the parents agree to raise the child Catholic should the mother be required to take the children to CCD classes during her parenting time?
Should the parents agree to split the costs for religious education? For instance, in the above example should the mother be required to help pay for her children's holy communion luncheon or confirmation dinner?
How often should the children attend religious ceremonies? For instance, should a parent be required to attend church/synagogue/etc., with the children even if they are not of the same faith?
If the parents agree on raising a child in a specific faith, to what extent do they agree or not regarding parochial/private school in that religion versus public school?
In New Jersey most parties have joint legal custody when they divorce. This means that both parents are supposed to have a say in determining important issues of education, religion, health, and the like regarding their children. This can present a unique challenge when a stalemate arises between the parties.
For instance, in the above example the Wife in the hypothetical is of Jewish faith and the Husband of Catholic faith. Perhaps the parties have a newborn at the time they divorce–or they have not yet agreed upon the proper faith/religion in which to raise the child. Now that they are divorcing, this may become an important issue for them. Perhaps the Husband is convinced it is in the child's best interests to be raised in the Catholic faith–like the Husband. And perhaps the Wife is equally convinced it is in the child's best interest that the child be raised in the Jewish faith–like the Wife. Assuming the parties cannot work out this issue, it would come before a court at the time of trial? But how would the Court react?
The answer is that there are few issues Court's abhor deciding more than religion. First Amendment (and other constitutional) issues are at play, judges are loath to make any decision (as it may appear they are preferring one religion to another); and moreover courts recognize that for any type of plan to work it will likely require buy-in by both parents. This is an issue that courts may "punt" entirely.
For instance–the children shall be raised in both faiths. Or: the Court takes no position on this issue. If the parties have a parenting coordinator then perhaps they can assist in such an issue (and mediation may help), but if not, what can be done?
How religious (or not) each party is?
Prior to the divorce have certain steps been taken to raise the child (or children) in any specific faith?
Have other children of the relationship already been baptized/etc., or otherwise been raised in a specific faith?
To what extent is both parties acting in good faith raising such issues?
To what extent will the parenting plan allow for the children to be raised in their specific faith. For instance, if there is a language component to a specific religion/faith, how will the parenting schedule allow the children to learn same to meet their religious requirements?
It will ultimately be very much up to the parties in such circumstances to put aside any animosity they may have toward their ex-spouse (or soon to be ex-spouse) and to cooperate in the best interests of the children to make such determinations.
To the extent that courts will interfere, they will utilize the nebulous "best interests" standard to assist in making any determination. But as noted above, courts are generally unable or unwilling to take affirmative steps regarding ultimate decisions regarding such delicate matters.
If you are confronting this issue then you will need to work with your ex to act in the child(ren's) best interests to reach a determination on how to proceed and which language and requirements to include (or not) in a Marital Settlement Agreement (a/k/a divorce agreement).


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Western Pennsylvania » Ridge and Valley » Somerset County » Gray
Lu Donnelly et al., "Gray", [, Pennsylvania], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/essays/PA-01-0003-0007-0002.
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Buildings of Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania, Lu Donnelly, H. David Brumble IV, and Franklin Toker. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010, 391-392.
Gray, formerly known as Biesecker in honor of original landholder Frederick Biesecker, was laid out in 1913. Developed by the Consolidation Coal Company, the town is filled with small, two-story houses built from three or four patterns, each surrounded by an expanse of lawn. When the company decided to paint all the houses a uniform gray, the village's name was changed to its current appellation. The rhythm of the nearly identical houses of Gray's six long blocks is interrupted by three different buildings. The John Biesecker house (c. 1860; 538 Beam Church Road) was built for a descendant of the original landholder. It is a frame version of the brick houses that many prosperous farmers in the area built between 1850 and 1870. Typical of the type, the Biesecker house has a central hall and integral double-decker porch, chimneys at the interior gable ends, and transoms and sidelights at the main entrance. The second exception is a long, single-story house with deep eaves that dates from the 1950s in the northwest quadrant of the village. Finally, a one-story, nine-bay frame Community Building (c. 1900; 474 Beam Church Road) has a hipped roof and a small pedimented porch at the entrance. It was apparently built as the local schoolhouse.


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EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Sen. Marsha Blackburn is 'restoring sanity' to campus free speech
Blackburn, who has introduced a campus free speech resolution in the U.S. senate, spoke on a variety of topics, from Confucius Institutes to mandatory student fees.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) spoke with Campus Reform recently about the state of free speech on college campuses.
Cabot Phillips | Senior Editor, Daily Wire
Tuesday, June 18, 2019 5:00 AM
Earlier in June, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R- Tenn.) took to the Senate floor to rally support for the Campus Free Speech Resolution of 2019, a measure she co-sponsored with ten other senators from around the country.
Calling it "a first step in restoring sanity to free speech for American college students," Blackburn challenged students to welcome outside opinions and called out universities that haven't done enough to foster an environment conducive to the free exchange of ideas.
Campus Reform's Cabot Phillips sat down with Blackburn in her Washington, D.C. office to get more details on the resolution and hear her thoughts on the state of free speech on college campuses today.
[RELATED: (EXCLUSIVE VIDEO) Ted Cruz: Senate to investigate Yale Law]
"We want our institutions of higher learning to be an area where people can hear different points of view. We don't think it's appropriate to have a litmus test to say 'only if you agree with the liberal view or the approach from the left, can you be considered worthy to participate in this conversation,'" she said, while explaining the need for free speech on campus.
Sen. Blackburn went on, saying "imagine how you would feel if you were on a college campus and you were not encouraged to be inquisitive and learn… you were discouraged from hearing other opinions."
When asked why this was an issue that was so important to her, Blackburn noted, "I always feel my conservative viewpoints and principles have been strengthened by reading works from our founders… and challenging myself."
"I will periodically read something with which I know I'm going to disagree. But I'm going to defend that person's right to express themselves," she added.
[RELATED: Cruz: Defund colleges that don't support free speech]
Touching on recent Campus Reform stories centered around mandatory student fees helping to fund abortions, Blackburn likened it to taxpayer funding, saying, "I don't think taxpayer funds should be used to fund abortion."
"The [student] fees should go to cover specifically what the student is going to need. It shouldn't be just a slush fund that can end up being used for whatever is not included in the base budget of the university," she added.
In closing, Blackburn offered a message to conservative students on campuses around the country.
"Be encouraged. Be grateful that you are not someone who falls in line with the liberal dictate of the day. That you know who you are and what you stand for. And don't ever let anyone tell you to sit down and shut up."
Follow the author of this article on Twitter: @Cabot_Phillips
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Cabot Phillips is a Senior Editor at The Daily Wire. Most recently, Phillips served as the Editor-in-Chief of Campus Reform. Prior to his work there, he was the Digital Grassroots Director for Marco Rubio's presidential campaign. Phillips is also a YouTube partner, creating and starring in numerous videos which have amassed over 450 million views on varying online platforms. Both Newsmax and Red Alert Politics have named Phillips to the...


If you tuned in last night with the other 10's of millions of Game Of Thrones fans across the world, then you got to witness the new intro or opening credits for the final season. This season only focuses on 2 major areas of the world of ice and fire, Winterfell & Kings Landing, so they had to get a little more creative. From flying through a demolished East Watch to diving into the crypts of winterfell & eventually landing inside the red keep, it was truly a fun and amazing 2 minute build up to the new episode.


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Baha'i group at Intel contributes to faith-friendly workplace
By Lindsey Lugsch-Tehle
Two years ago the Baha'i Employee Resource Group (ERG) at Intel Corporation was exploring ways to establish its voice as a contributor to meaningful conversations within Intel, the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer. Since that time much has transpired.
Intel won 2nd place at the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation Employee Resouce Group Conference.
Intel's Cross Faith and Beliefs ERG Alliance formed in November 2019, consisting of seven ERG groups: Atheist/Agnostic, Baha'i, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, and Sikh. This Alliance spearheads various belief-based activities including interfaith devotionals, an MLK Day commemoration and the National Day of Prayer program at Intel.
May Mowzoon, a Baha'i in Chandler, Arizona, and organizer of the Baha'i ERG, sees the contributions of the Alliance as noteworthy. "The Alliance brings many voices to the table; we explore ways in which to highlight each other's belief systems for the entire company," Mowzoon says. As a Baha'i, who recognizes fundamental truths in many religions, she says, "I have something to gain from learning from everyone."
Intel employee May Mouzoon.
Mowzoon's openness to learning from and alongside others has positioned her and the Baha'i ERG to contribute to the Alliance and Intel in significant ways. The Alliance is seen as a "safe place to ask questions and learn from each other," she says, adding that its presence "helps support inclusion and diversity at our workplace." Mowzoon says that Intel's new CEO, Patrick Gelsinger, wrote that the Alliance is a valuable asset to the company, highlighting that within Intel "diversity now includes religious diversity."
Mowzoon sees the ERG and the Alliance as resources for the company. "Intel is better positioned to be able to understand the cultures and customs of its clients and its employees," she says.
According to Mowzoon, many people in the corporate world feel uncomfortable bringing their full selves into the workplace. She says the Baha'i ERG's most meaningful contribution is encouraging others, including some Baha'is, to feel more comfortable expressing their beliefs at work. She says that some have shared with her that they see how open she is in her faith and that they feel inclined to practice their own as a result.
The Baha'i ERG has a total of 20 members and 64 people who have interacted with their group to find out about their activities, beliefs, and practices. When people attend devotionals or other programs, Mowzoon says, "some listen with curiosity and move on while others ask for a prayer session together knowing we both are religious and it's OK for them to pray the way they want when we meet."
Mowzoon is a part of a taskforce of the Alliance that put together an Interfaith Panel for the entire company in June. She was tasked with creating questions for panelists, like:
How does your belief shape the way you approach truth and transparency at Intel?
What does your belief say about excellence in your efforts?
How does your belief affect how you treat others at work?
Using a scale called the Corporate Religious Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (REDI) Index, the Religious Freedom and Business Foundation named Intel, along with Texas Instruments, as the most faith-and-belief friendly corporate workplaces among the 200 largest companies in America.
Mowzoon says, "this is exciting because after the announcement the Baha'is were actually asked to participate in revamping the criteria REDI uses to make such decisions."
Mowzoon hopes to see other companies follow Intel's lead, and she urges other Baha'is to look into forming Baha'i groups within their workplace. "So many companies are open to religious groups, she says and offers her support.
If you would like more information about how to form a religious group within your company, you can reach out to Mowzoon via email.
Video project sheds light on story of early African American Baha'i woman
Musical production provides racial healing venue for cast and audiences
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Directed by: Simon McQuoid
Premise: Based on the videogame. Pugilists from around the globe are enlisted to defend the Earth in a life or death fighting tournament.
What Works: Films adapted from videogames don't have a very good history. Assassin's Creed and Doom and Max Payne were notoriously bad. The 2021 version of Mortal Kombat is not a bad picture. It is competently made, generally makes sense, and tells a coherent story while working in references to the game. Mortal Kombat was previously adapted into a 1995 feature film and this is a distinctly different picture. The earlier Mortal Kombat movie was a PG-13 affair whereas the new version is rated R for gory violence. The new film also tells a distinct story and possesses a very different style and so 2021's Mortal Kombat is distinguished enough to stand on its own without feeling redundant with the 1995 picture. Among the bright spots of this new version is Josh Lawson's performance as Kano. Lawson is very funny and his comic timing is impeccable.
What Doesn't: The 1995 version of Mortal Kombat was not a very good movie but at least it was fun in a campy sort of way. The 2021 Mortal Kombat film doesn't feel like much of anything. Aside from Josh Lawson's Kano, the rest of the characters in Mortal Kombat are bland and uninteresting. Each fighter has a distinct look and a unique superpower but they don't have any personality. Virtually everyone talks in the same melodramatic cadence that is supposed to sound dramatic but just comes across monotonous and pretentious. They aren't people with quirks and dimensionality nor do they have goals or desires. This is another fantasy movie in which we're told the fate of the world hangs in the balance but the film never creates meaningful stakes. There's little sense of drama even in the fights. The story works in a conflict between a mortal MMA fighter (Lewis Tan) and the villainous Subzero (Joe Taslim) but this conflict doesn't come to a satisfying or meaningful conclusion. That's partly due to the filmmaker's approach to the material. At its essence, Mortal Kombat is a sports franchise. The central conceit of Mortal Kombat is that it is a fighting tournament. That's not really true of this movie. There's no structure or rules. A lot of the movie is just random fights and the bouts aren't organized in a way that builds drama.
Bottom Line: Mortal Kombat is just an average fighting movie. It's competently executed but there's nothing memorable about it nor is it much fun.
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Soterix Medical Announces FDA 510(k) Clearance for IontoDC™ System
The FDA cleared IontoDC™ device is intended to use direct current to introduce ions of soluble salts or other drugs into the body. The IontoDC™ device provides 10, 20, 30, or 40 minutes of Direct Current with an intensity of 1, 1.5, 1.75, or 2 mA. (Photo: Business Wire)
May 22, 2017 12:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Soterix Medical Inc., the technology leader in non-invasive electrotherapy devices, announced today it has received a 510(k) clearance from U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) for its IontoDC™ device intended to use a direct current to introduce ions of soluble salts or other drugs into the body.
"This clearance represents a significant milestone for our organization as we can now offer the IontoDC™ system to the medical community in the U.S.," said Mr. Renato Moratore, VP Regulatory Affairs of Soterix Medical. "The IontoDC™ was designed for ease-of-use including simple controls and clear status displays."
Dr. Abhishek Datta, CTO of Soterix Medical commented that, "The FDA clearance of this system builds on the reputation of Soterix Medical in providing equipment engineered to the highest medical device standards. The IontoDC™ technology is proven to provide exceptionally reliable and consistent performance."
With the FDA clearance of the IontoDC™, Soterix Medical Inc. is announcing the addition of two Field Clinical Specialists to provide support to clinical centers including on-site product training, reimbursement, and customer needs.
The FDA cleared IontoDC™ device provides 10, 20, 30, or 40 minutes of Direct Current with an intensity of 1, 1.5, 1.75, or 2 mA. It includes current and resistance meters, automatic ramp up and down, and comes with an anode and cathode cable.
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MinnPost's education reporting is made possible by a grant from the Bush Foundation.
Early-ed advocates hope to expand scholarships, end per-child cap
By Beth Hawkins | 01/14/2014
Never mind the long list of groups eyeing the state's projected $1.1 budget surplus, advocates are betting they can make the case that full funding for early-childhood education scholarships for needy families should top the list.
Rep. Ryan Winkler
Rep. Ryan Winkler, DFL-Golden Valley, has already introduced legislation proposing to increase the amount of scholarship money available from $20 million to $150 million a year by 2017. The bill would also replace a controversial $5,000-a-year cap on scholarships with a system to award funds according to the average cost of care based on geographic location.
The changes would represent a dramatic step toward ensuring that all 3- and 4-year-olds from low-income families have access to high-quality early education — something researchers are convinced can stop the achievement gap from opening in the first place.
But it would eat up all or most of the $300 million to $400 million of the surplus that would be left over after school and airport shifts are paid back and Gov. Mark Dayton's business-to-business and middle-class tax cuts are accounted for.
Every year half of Minnesota's entering kindergarteners aren't considered ready. Many will lag further and further behind, costing the state an estimated $860 million a year in avoidable criminal-justice, special-education and social-welfare and health-care expenditures.
Now only money for 9% of those eligible
Right now there is enough money for 4,000 scholarships a year, addressing the needs of about 9 percent of eligible children. The bigger pool would provide scholarships to three-fourths of those eligible, or 20,000 a year, the voluntary participation rate scholars who have researched programs in other states expect.
Making the cap more flexible would reduce the risk that recipients, already the children with the least stability in their lives, will have to drop out of programs that provide consistency.
"The research is very clear that the kids at the greatest risk of falling behind are the kids that benefit the most," said Winkler. "This would provide stability for the kids whose families are the most unstable."
Fully funding the program also would drive quality in underserved regions of the state as child-care facilities accelerate the pace at which they invest in the quality elements needed to serve families with scholarships.
"You have a $2 billion private sector in child care" in Minnesota, Winkler added. "You can use that [scholarship] money as leverage to raise standards. Once you've done that, every child benefits."
MinneMinds, a statewide coalition of more than 70 organizations and advocates that have pursued a system for steering state tuition grants for disadvantaged children to high-quality programs, applauded the bill's introduction.
'Hopeful and optimistic'
"The advocates are as fired up as they've ever been," said Frank Forsberg, chair of MinneMinds and of the Greater Twin Cities United Way. "I'm hopeful and optimistic we can keep the lawmakers engaged. Last year was such a big investment year."
A separate measure introduced Monday by St. Paul DFL Rep. Erin Murphy would extend universal pre-K to all Minnesota 4-year-olds. Under the bill, those not covered by scholarships could attend programs operated by local school districts.
It's too early for the Minnesota Department of Education to have positions on 2014 legislation, said agency Chief of Staff Charlene Briner. "It's not unexpected that people want to leverage our momentum," she said.
As broad as support for expanding access to quality pre-K programming has become in recent years, the scholarship program has had a surprisingly tough trajectory. A decade ago after the administration of then-Gov. Tim Pawlenty slashed state day-care subsidies for poor families, he and other GOP leaders told children's advocates they needed to prove early ed was worth the investment of public funds.
Bolstered by then-unprecedented research by economists Art Rolnick and Rob Grunewald showing a return to the economy of up to $16 for each tax dollar invested, advocates won over the business and philanthropic communities.
A broad coalition of organizations, the Minnesota Early Learning Foundation spent $20 million in private funds between 2006 and 2011 first researching how to identify and quantify high-quality early ed and then piloting a system for steering fragile families toward the best programs.
The resulting ratings system, Parent Aware for School Readiness, enjoyed bipartisan support at the start of the 2011 legislative session. After the bill died a backroom death partway through the session, Gov. Mark Dayton used rulemaking authority to expand the pilot, which was already established in state law.
Last session, $40 million for biennium
In the following, equally deadlocked session, he persuaded the Legislature to appropriate $3 million a year — a pittance, but also a placeholder for a meaningful funding stream. Last year lawmakers came up with $40 million, spread over the biennium.
Late in the session, however, the Minnesota Department of Education weighed in, arguing that the scholarships, which were to have averaged $6,000 a year per child, should be capped at $5,000. Education Commissioner Brenda Cassellius' reasoning: To stretch the money to aid more kids.
Poverty rates are almost identical in the metro area and Greater Minnesota, but not every region had programs that could demonstrate the quality required to enroll Parent Aware recipients. Because the system's designers wanted the scholarships to serve as a carrot, they extended eligibility for partial scholarships to programs that were working toward becoming highly rated.
The scholarships are set up so that once one child has secured one, siblings automatically receive funds, too. Children of teen mothers are also automatically granted scholarships.
"Once you start making those accommodations you start eating into the pool," said Briner. "The number of kids you can impact becomes substantially fewer."
But because $5,000 comes nowhere near the cost of preschool in many places, MinneMinds' leaders had lobbied for scholarships tied to the average cost of care in each region. The gains kids make in the programs don't make up for what's lost if their funding runs out partway through the year, they argued.
At the same time, some school districts and the state's largest teachers union, Education Minnesota, joined some state officials in arguing that it was tough to justify giving more state money to a private child-care facility than the approximately $5,800 in baseline state tuition dollars that follows each K-12 student.
As Parent Aware dollars began flowing last fall, the regional agencies that help families secure both qualifying programs and scholarships began talking about "layering" early-ed assistance. Ideally families that qualify would also be enrolled in the remnants of the Child Care Assistance Program, the state Department of Human Services' badly oversubscribed subsidy program.
A senior policy analyst at Think Small, which is administering the program in the metro area and the Arrowhead region, Kat Kempe said her agency has about 1,000 scholarships to hand out. The organization received 1,200 applications in November, the first month the grants were available. To date, it has received more than 2,500.
"Any conversation about changing the policy needs to lead with investment," said MDE's Briner. "If you just lift the cap without increasing the investment you're going to end up taking scholarships away from folks."
Winkler, for one, thinks chances are good his colleagues will support doing both: "There's strong support in the House for removing the cap and strong support in the Legislature for adding more money."
Lois Beckel: a model of high expectations and quality in early ed
Her high expectations informed the shape of what we have today: a formal system to ensure that new state scholarship dollars are directed at effective programs.
The big upside of the governor's pre-K scholarships
By Rep. Ryan Winkler | 03/18/2013
First, we need to target scholarships to low-income kids, where the need is greatest. We also need to link scholarships to the Parent Aware Ratings.
Beth Hawkins
Beth Hawkins covered education and other public-policy topics for MinnPost from its launch in 2007 to October of 2015, when she left to write for Education Post, a nonprofit based in Chicago.
Submitted by Dennis Tester on 01/14/2014 - 09:42 am.
This is clearly
a direct payment to the teachers union. I don't oppose Rep. Winkler for giving thanks to those who placed him in his legislative seat but he should use his own money for such things.
Anonymous	Submitted by Anonymous on 01/14/2014 - 10:10 am.
Why all the fighting about a "$1.1 budget surplus" ??
Submitted by John Bracken on 01/14/2014 - 11:26 am.
Middle class always loses
The well to do pay a lot of taxes and they pay retail for everything. The middle class pays some taxes, gets few hand outs, and often can't afford what some "poor" people get for free. Many poor receive a lot, pay nothing, and still wake up each day with an open hand looking for more. As JFK said, "Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what your country can do for you." What, he didn't say that. Well times have changed. Gimme, gimme, gimme.
Submitted by Ray Schoch on 01/15/2014 - 07:26 am.
There's plenty of research to show that the dollars spent on early childhood education provide more educational leverage than dollars spent on any other age group. Those looking for efficient use of taxpayer dollars need look no further than early childhood ed. The parallel to medicine seems a worthwhile one in this case: Just as prevention is more cost-efficient (not to mention healthier) than treatment for most medical conditions, it seems to me better to mitigate or prevent an achievement gap from even beginning than to try to remedy a condition that already exists.
My own experience was that it was *much* more difficult and time-consuming to reach, and teach, high school students who were reading at the 5th or 6th grade level than their fellow-students who were reading at grade level or better. The time I spent with kids whose vocabulary and reading skills were several years behind where they needed to be was time I could not spend with other kids whose skills were where they should have been. There are only so many hours and opportunities in a school day.
As is often the case, Mr. Tester provides no evidence to support his curious assertion, and Mr. Bracken's whining is similarly fact-free.
Rob Levine, however, is right on target. It's hard to believe there would be any arguments over a dollar and ten cents, so I'm going to guess that the word "billion" should have appeared after "$1.1" and before "budget surplus."
…an error that would have been corrected instantly if Beth Hawkins even checked in to the comments EVER


Magnolia Housing Projects have long been demolished, a light post still stands at the corner where youth like Vockah Redu (Javocca Davis) gathered to rap and create beats. The light post marks one of the birthplaces of Bounce music, a genre of rap specific to New Orleans that has invigorated crowds throughout the South. Vockah Redu and the Cru animate the stage with their dynamic revival of dance, music, and art from the street corner to the club. More than your typical hip-hop act, this theatrical performance sets the stage for a sweaty hands down booty up good time, transforming any party, bar, or dance floor in your neighborhood.
al Cru formed in 1997, currently the Cru is composed of Shortee Whop (Glendell Weir) and Taveion Rodeo (Donte Brown). The Cru dominates the stage with electrifying choreography, costumery, skits, and superb street style.