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Attendance: Absences
Students are expected to be at school all day, every day. The primary responsibility for attendance rests with the parents. Attendance is necessary for the students to be prepared for the next grade level. The following procedures must be followed in the event of an absence:
Excused Absence: On days students are absent, a parent or guardian must call the school office at (909) 654-3191 by 8:30 a.m. A dated, written excuse from the parent or guardian must be presented to the teacher upon return of the student. For any absence of three consecutive days or more a physician's note may be requested upon the student's return.
Medical/Dental Absence: Students are legally credited for attendance when time is spent in
medical and dental appointments. Verification of such appointments is required from the medical or dental office. A written note from the parent is to be presented to the office through the teacher for the release from school for dental or other appointments. Except in cases of necessity, all doctor and dental appointments should be scheduled for non-school hours. Should a student become ill, the parents will be notified and requested to pick up their child. Students who need to leave early must be signed out in the school office by the parent or guardian.
Pre-Arranged Absence: All foreseen absences are to be cleared through the school office prior to the absence.
Makeup Work: In cases of short absence, due to illness, accident, quarantine, or attendance at the funeral services of a member of the student's family, the school staff should assist the student to make up the schoolwork missed. If an illness or accident is such that a long-term absence is indicated and verified by a doctor, the local public school district should be contacted for home tutoring services.
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Excessive Tardies: The parent of any student tardy over the five allowed each trimester will be required to help with lunch yard supervision or pay $10.00 per excessive tardy. Billing for excessive tardies will be at the end of each trimester. The student, at the teacher's discretion, will be required to provide service to the school in addition to the parent billing. During the third trimester, if a student reaches their sixth tardy, fees and service will immediately apply. Habitual tardiness can result in expulsion according to Diocesan guidelines. (See Suspension/Expulsion –Diocesan Policy #5206.1, which can be obtained through the school office.)
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'The Apartment': A Poignant Commentary on Virtuous Romance
In Classic Film Throwback Series, Featured, Reviews, Sam Hendrian by Samuel Hendrian December 5, 2018
This article is part of our Classic Film Throwback series
"Some people take, some people get took. And they know they're getting took and there's nothing they can do about it." These piercing words said by Fran Kubelik to C.C. "Bud" Baxter in 1960's The Apartment summarize the film's rather bleak outlook on the modern business world, but they also convey its inspiring exhortation to love, not use, one another. Directed by Billy Wilder and winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture, it offers movingly truthful insights on what it takes for a virtuous romance to blossom.
When the film opens, Bud is a good-hearted but sycophantic businessman working his way up in a large New York City company by lending his apartment to executives with extramarital lovers. He knows deep down that this is not the most moral thing to do, but he is lonely and does not have much to look forward to other than a good paycheck, so he ignores any qualms of conscience and continues to do it.
Bud is quite smitten with Fran Kubelik, an elevator operator at the building where he works. While Fran thinks Bud is a nice guy, she does not seem too interested in him and ultimately stands him up after he asks her on a date to see The Music Man. He soon learns that the married head of the company, Mr. Sheldrake, is having an affair with Fran. When he sees how emotionally-damaging this affair has been for her, Bud starts to realize that aiding his bosses in their adulterous pursuits has some seriously negative consequences.
Late on Christmas Eve, Bud enters his apartment to find Fran lying on his bed after overdosing on sleeping pills. She had come there earlier with Mr. Sheldrake, but she was severely hurt by his insincerity and became overwhelmed by a suicidal urge after he left. Terrified, Bud immediately calls upon Dr. Dreyfuss, a wise and feisty medic who lives in the room next door, and they are able to save her before it is too late.
While Fran is thankfully alive after her potentially-deadly overdose, she will still need some time to rest and recover, so Bud lets her stay in his apartment and does his best to take care of her. As they play gin rummy and gradually grow more comfortable with each other, Fran opens up to Bud about her tendencies towards depression and her knack for falling in love with the wrong sort of men. "Why can't I ever fall in love with someone nice like you?" she ponders sadly. Bud matter-of-factly replies, "Well, that's the way it crumbles. Cookie-wise."
Bud has always been attracted to Fran, but he begins to care for her on a deeper level as she bares her soul and expresses a restless longing for genuine love. He himself is terribly lonely and also longs to be in a sincerely loving relationship. We have watched him sit outside in the cold while he waits for one of his bosses to finish up a tryst in his own apartment, trying to ignore the qualms that are bubbling in his conscience. Now that he has come to know a woman on a raw, truly human level, he is captivated by the beautiful traits of virtuous romance and realizes that he must stop aiding men in their adulterous pursuits.
While Fran starts to show signs of reciprocating Bud's love for her, she still returns to Mr. Sheldrake after fully recovering, which greatly saddens Bud. Fearing for Fran's emotional health and vowing to never again be an adultery-enabling sycophant, Bud heroically denies Mr. Sheldrake any further access to his apartment and quits his job, refusing to work any longer for such morally bankrupt men. Hopeful of perhaps finding a woman in another town whom he can love and be loved by, he decides to pack up his belongings and start over someplace else.
Meanwhile, Fran goes out to dinner on New Year's Eve with Mr. Sheldrake, who is now in the process of getting a divorce from his wife. She knows that this relationship is terribly unhealthy and damaging, but she feels so lost that she just cannot summon the courage to end it. However, when Mr. Sheldrake informs her that they can no longer easily retire to an apartment after dinner because Bud refused to give him the key, she suddenly smiles and realizes that her lifelong dream of genuine love is only a few blocks away.
Literally running out on Mr. Sheldrake, Fran races to Bud's apartment and asks if she can come in. Ecstatic to see her, Bud invites her to sit down and make herself comfortable. Wishing to finish the game of gin rummy that they started while she was recovering on Christmas, Fran grabs a deck of cards before sitting down. After inquiring about the state of her relationship with Mr. Sheldrake, Bud finally musters up the nerve to say, "I love you, Miss Kubelik." Fran does not immediately respond, so he continues, "Did you hear what I said, Miss Kubelik? I absolutely adore you." She then hands him the deck of cards with a beaming smile on her face and says, "Shut up and deal."
While it may have gained a reputation over the years as an edgy romantic comedy about adultery from the end of the Production Code era, The Apartment is really an honorable film with a message that echoes Pope John Paul II's Theology of the Body. When romance is detached from faithful commitment and an earnest respect for both the body and soul, it is ultimately destructive. Fran learns this truth the hard way, and Bud witnesses the horrible effects of it.
On the other hand, when romance is rooted in loyalty and self-sacrifice, it blossoms into something beautiful and transcendent. After looking into each other's lost souls on Christmas Day through the simple act of listening, Fran and Bud feel a subtle stirring to be devoted companions for the rest of their lives. While the film does not end with their marriage, we can safely guess that their budding relationship will lead there soon. Whether or not we are pursuing romance in our lives, we can all share Fran and Bud's joy in discovering the endless possibilities of self-giving love.
Sam Hendrian is a student at John Paul the Great Catholic University (Class of 2019) pursuing a double emphasis in Screenwriting and Directing.


If you have little garden with table setting this hanging firefly glass lanterns will be perfect for decoration. You will need some fabric, scissors, jars, tape, battery-operated tea lights and you can see the process of making it here.
Warm summer nights on the balcony or in your garden will be more romantic with this candle light, colorful mason jars. All you need is colorful paper, glue and mason jars, as many as you wish. The process of the making is shown here; it's very easy and all you need is will to do it.
These beautiful pastel lanterns can be a great addition to your home and you only need to recycle old tin cans, which is awesome. You will need the items listed here, where you can also see the process of making. You can paint them any color you like, either way they are super cute.
They are simple, yet decorative and useful, this firefly mason jar lights are easy to make and great to keep anywhere you need, in your house or in your garden. Very nice and romantic, is there someone who does not like firefly lights? This is how you can make them.
This Mason Jar Moroccan Lanterns are very beautiful and offers a different kind of culture vibe. This is how you can make them, follow the instructions step by step and you'll end up with this beautiful exotic lantern.


The Oakland Athletics baseball team (also known as the A's) relocated their spring training facility from Phoenix Municipal Stadium (aka Phoenix Muni) to Hohokam Stadium in 2015. Hohokam Stadium had been the Chicago Cubs spring training park since 1979 (though reconstructed in 1996) until they moved to the brand new Sloan Park in 2014.
Major renovations were done in 2014 prior to the A's taking residence. No longer is it a dark crowded venue but one that is bright and wide open. Renovations included a new video scoreboard, new player locker rooms and an expanded weight room, party decks with shade down the left and right field lines, and a new coat of Oakland A's green paint.
The Athletics brought over some of the grand history of their team from Phoenix Muni but some of it is missed in Hohokam and still resides at Phoenix Muni, e.g., historic events etched into the concourse floor.
It is a fine venue in which to watch some spring training games so if headed to Arizona in March be sure to take a visit to this stadium.
Plenty of food and drinks are available at Hohokam at comparable prices to other spring training venues; they even may be a bit lower in price than some of the other venues.
Lots of vendors stroll the stands selling water, beer, peanuts, lemonade, cracker jacks, etc. with prices as follows: peanuts $4.50, water $4.50, domestic beers $8.25, craft premiums $10.
All concessions are beyond the seating area or near the picnic decks down the baselines (the craft beer stand on the third base side has the best selection (in my opinion) including New Belgium IPA and Fat Tire).
Ike's Sandwiches, a bay area staple, has a cart at Hohokam offering a variety of their sandwiches to A's fans and visiting guests.
Hungry Hill Sausages provides delicious bratwurst, Italian, or Polish for $9 (cash only). Other stands include an Island Noodles, Kettle Corn, Spinato's pizzeria, and Dickey's barbeque. And, of course, traditional stadium fare of burgers, hot dogs, nachos, and the like are available. Spinato's has a delicious apple/pecan salad.
Some stands are cash only so come prepared with more than a credit/debit card. Hohokam Stadium is a Pepsi venue.
Outside food is permitted as long as it is single serving sizes and coolers are soft sided.
There's nothing better than sitting in the warm (not hot) sun on a Feb/Mar afternoon watching the boys of summer getting ready for the season. It's relaxing, entertaining, and it just feels right after a long winter. Hohokam Stadium fills this craving perfectly.
Seating consists of two levels with a small walkway between the two, some suites, and lawn seating is abundant beyond the left and right outfields. Infield seats are comfortable with average legroom and cup holders. Terrace reserved seats (second level beyond the dugouts) are metal bleachers with backs. The A's home side is on the first baseline.
As part of the renovations in 2014, two impressive covered picnic decks were constructed down the first and third baselines; anyone can visit and they have food and drink vendors, picnic tables, and some games.
Dual bullpens (one just up and behind the other) are in right field. A resplendent new scoreboard was added during the renovations and sits on the left field berm.
Stompers Kid Zone is beyond the batter's eye in center field so that may be a nice place to stroll if the young ones are getting restless, though the playing field is not visible from there.
Starting lineups are posted inside Gate D and they are called nice and slow but music is played over the lineup announcement so it is hard to hear. Music is also played when announcing player and pitcher changes (which happens a lot in spring training); other than those important messages, for the most part the announcements are hearable and understandable.
Sign up for any promotions just inside Gate D. Gates open two hours before the first scheduled pitch.
Hohokam Stadium resides in a residential neighborhood and there's not much in the immediate vicinity to eat before or after the game. Tailgating is allowed so bring the party atmosphere to the parking lot.
The Draft Sports Grill (about five miles from the ballpark) is a sports bar that is very popular because of their great food and their spiked milkshakes. For Mexican food and margaritas, Casa Ramos (about four miles from the ballpark) seems to be a very popular destination.
No hotels are within walking distance of Hohokam Stadium, however, there are plenty along Main St just two to three miles away with the closest (and most expensive), the Phoenix Marriott Mesa. Others a little more affordable are less than a mile from the Marriott.
Within 4 – 12 miles of the stadium are four other spring training venues so be sure to include those as well if doing a spring training stadium tour.
I love Oakland A's fans. One must admire them as they follow their team through thick and thin even with their current ownership issues. An average of 7,000 or so fans have come out to Hohokam Stadium to watch the A's the last two seasons.
The fans are engaged, respectful, energizing, easy to talk with and very knowledgeable of their team and the game. They are helpful when asking questions about the play at hand and/or Athletics information.
Attending an Athletics game is worth it regardless of the venue in which the team is playing because of the fabulous fans.
The staff (and I consider them fans) at the spring training games are exceedingly friendly and helpful.
The ballpark is located in a neighborhood and roads getting there are only two or four lanes so traffic getting in and out can be slow. The best bet is get there early and stay late to avoid traffic headaches. Fire up that tailgate and enjoy the afternoon. Parking is $5 with most spots on a grass field.
I did not notice any public transportation choices however Uber and taxis are available to and from the park with drop off and pick up on N Center St behind home plate.
The closest airport is Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport (about 12 miles distance); a smaller regional airport, Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, may be another pick if arriving via Allegiant or WestJet Airlines (both servicing smaller destinations).
The standard bag check occurs at the entrances and it is painless. If bringing luggage (and no car) do call in advance to see how the organization can manage storing over-sized items.
One can walk the entire concourse around the diamond but can't see the field from behind center field.
Bathrooms are quite functional with minimal or no lines.
A plethora of wheelchair seating areas are available on the concourse between the first and the second seating levels.
Ticket prices run from $10 (lawn seating) to $35 (first few rows of the infield behind home plate and the dugouts). Almost any seat is fine. Fans in the field level third baseline seats (sections 116 – 224) may find themselves turning their heads a bit to see the video scoreboard.
Souvenir programs are $5 and include the rosters. Parking is $5. Concession prices are what is expected though bringing in outside food can help reduce expenses.
Watching the Athletics players embrace the start of a new season in a remarkably updated spring training venue is well worth a fans' entertainment and/or travel dollars spent.
The party decks/picnic areas down the baselines deserve extra mention as they brighten up the seating area.
The staff at Hohokam Stadium are tremendously helpful, pleasant, and easy to converse with. They make visitors feel right at home.
Bringing over the Athletics history from Phoenix Muni (as much as they could) deserves additional recognition.
If you're an A's fan, a baseball fan, an Arizona spring training destination fan, or a snowbird, visiting Hohokam Stadium should be on the list for Feb/Mar activities. Watching a game here fulfills the need for watching the boys of summer getting ready for the season and away from dreary, cold northern territories of the US and Canada. Fans from all nations and teams are welcome here.


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Q: Unable to get hudson to parse JUnit test output XML EDIT: This issue has been fixed by google in gtest 1.4.0; see the original bug report for more information.
I've recently switched to gtest for my C++ testing framework, and one great feature of it which I am presently unable to use is the ability to generate JUnit-style XML test reports, which could then be read in by our hudson build server.
The XML output generated by the gtest test suite all looks legit:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<testsuite tests="370" failures="0" disabled="0" errors="0" time="45.61" name="AllTests">
    <testsuite name="application" tests="7" failures="0" disabled="0" errors="0" time="8.953">
        <testcase name="zero_tasks_on_bootup" status="run" time="0" classname="application" />
...etc.
    </testsuite>
</testsuite>

I've also tried adding a JUnitReport task to my ant build script, which works fine, and generates XML like so:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<testsuite tests="370" failures="0" disabled="0" errors="0" time="45.61" name="AllTests">
    <testsuite name="application" tests="7" failures="0" disabled="0" errors="0" time="8.953">
        <testcase name="zero_tasks_on_bootup" status="run" time="0" classname="application" />
    ...etc.
    </testsuite>
 </testsuite>

The problem is, whenever I tell ant to publish the JUnit test results, and then point it to either the raw test result XML, or the compiled result generated in the ant JUnitReport task, hudson always complains about finding no test results there.
I'm not a java guy, so I can't tell what's going on here, and I can't find an example of how the JUnit XML ought to look like.  Can someone help to point me in the right direction?

A: Here's how I do it:
    <target name="junit" depends="compile-tests" description="run all unit tests">
      <mkdir dir="${reports}"/>
      <junit haltonfailure="false">
         <jvmarg value="-Xms128m"/>
         <jvmarg value="-Xmx128m"/>
         <classpath>
            <path refid="project.classpath"/>
         </classpath>
         <formatter type="xml"/>
         <batchtest fork="yes" todir="${reports}">
            <fileset dir="${test}/classes">
                <include name="**/*Test*.class"/>
            </fileset>
         </batchtest>
      </junit>
  </target>

  <target name="generate-reports" depends="junit" description="create JUnit test HTML reports">
      <mkdir dir="${reports}"/>
      <junitreport todir="${reports}">
          <fileset dir="${reports}">
              <include name="TEST-*.xml"/>
          </fileset>
          <report format="frames" todir="${reports}"/>
      </junitreport>
  </target>

A: Edit: Google test has fixed this issue, which is included in the gtest 1.4.0 release.  See the original bug report for more info.
Bah!  I've finally found the cause of this problem -- it's because gtest produces one giant XML file for all test results, and hudson expects one XML test report per class.  I've written a perl script as a workaround for this issue.  To use it, you would make a target in your ant xml script which looks something like this:
<target name="runtests">
  <exec executable="wherever/${ant.project.name}Test" failonerror="false" dir="tests">
    <arg value="--gtest_output=xml:${build.dir}\reports\${ant.project.name}.xml"/>
  </exec>
  <!-- Workaround for broken gtest output -->
  <mkdir dir="${build.dir}/reports/output"/>
  <exec executable="perl" failonerror="false" dir="tests">
  <arg value="gtest-hudson.pl"/>
    <arg value="${build.dir}/reports/${ant.project.name}.xml"/>
    <arg value="${build.dir}/reports/output"/>
  </exec>
</target>

For some reason, gtest also doesn't like the wrong style of slashes being passed to it from ant, so I made my exec for windows only, as my hudson is running on a windows server.  Change to '/' for unix, obviously.
I've also filed an issue for this on the gtest page, and also one on hudson's issue tracker, so hopefully one of the two teams will pick up on the issue, as I don't have enough time to jump in and make a patch myself.... though if this doesn't get fixed in the near future, I might just have to. ;)

A: I'm almost certain that this is not a problem parsing the XML but rather a problem finding the XML files.  If you are using a relative path in the Hudson config, make sure you are clear which directory it is relative to (I seem to remember it being non-obvious under certain circumstances).
As for examples of what the JUnit XML files are supposed to look like, good luck with that.  It's not precisely specified anywhere.  Different tools have differing dialects.  That said, Hudson does a good job of recognising all of them.  I believe it was the developers of JUnitReport who first introduced the XML format, so if you're using that, that's about as canonical as you are going to get.

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Betsy DeVos: Religion and profit in the war on public education—Part 1
Nancy Hanover
This is the first in a two-part series on the political background and role of Betsy DeVos, who has been nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to lead the Department of Education.
Betsy DeVos, nominated by Donald Trump to the cabinet-level position of Secretary of the Department of Education, will be the first in the agency's more than 35-year history who has neither attended public schools nor sent her own children to them.
The billionaire DeVos family, without a doubt, inhabits a world a million miles away from the overstuffed classrooms, lack of credentialed teachers and crumbling state of American public schools. But Betsy DeVos and husband Dick, eldest scion of the pyramid sales dynasty Amway Corporation, represent something different. They have made the destruction of public education an ideological crusade.
Her advocacy of social choice, DeVos has stated, is aimed at displacing public schools from the center of communities, so that the Church can resume its rightful role. These candid comments were captured during an audiotape of "The Gathering," an annual conference of some of the country's wealthiest Christians, cited in Politico.
The outlook is in keeping with both DeVos' Christian Reform Church background and Calvin College training. It is not only a repudiation of the Constitutional separation of church and state, but an explicit opposition to the Enlightenment concept of universal, high quality and secular education, an ideal which animated the American Revolution and decades of struggles, including the civil rights movement.
Donald Trump's first choice for Secretary of Education was reportedly Jerry Falwell, Jr. the head of Liberty University, a bastion of right-wing evangelicalism. Falwell and his father, founder of the Moral Majority, were infamous for their theocratic views opposing the separation of church and state, vicious homophobia, anti-Semitism and general bigotry.
But if DeVos has been less flamboyant than the Falwells, she and her family have been more effective politically. In the service of a social and philosophical counterrevolution, the DeVos clan has bankrolled a right-wing political machine over 30 years, both in Michigan and nationally, complemented by a lavishly-funded public relations juggernaut.
Arne Duncan's "ground zero" in education reform
Pro-charter Obama Education Secretary Arne Duncan approvingly called Detroit "ground zero" in "education reform," largely as a result of the political spadework of the DeVos family, which is based in Michigan.
It is impossible to outline the vast extent of the DeVos' war against public education within a brief article, but it should be borne in mind that the following are just a few of her largest initiatives.
DeVos worked with former Michigan Governor John Engler to craft the state's first law authorizing charter schools in 1993. In 2000, the DeVos family spent $5.6 million on a ballot initiative to amend the state constitution and create a voucher system, which was trounced by voters.
Since that time, the political action committee attached to the DeVos-controlled Great Lakes Education Project has been instrumental in pushing through legislation to expand the number of charter schools in Michigan (they have doubled in number since 2000) and exempt them from most regulation.
It is estimated, according to Mother Jones, that the DeVoses have donated "more than $44 million to the state party, GOP legislative committees, and Republican candidates since 1997." Michigan now boasts the greatest proportion of charter schools run by a for-profit management organization of any state, 80 percent. Moreover, over half of Detroit students attend charter schools, the second highest percentage of any major school district. Two separate year-long studies of charter schools revealed that more than a billion dollars in Michigan has been spent with almost no oversight, including the funding of "ghost schools" that never opened.
Epitomizing the destructive approach of the DeVoses to public schools was their concerted campaign to dissolve the nearly 175-year-old Detroit Public School system last year, which also met with approval from the Obama administration. The couple funneled an average of $25,000 a day to GOP lawmakers, spending a total of $1.45 million over two months, to ensure that the final deal would include no local oversight over charter schools. The new entity, the Detroit Community Public Schools, currently educating about 45,000 Detroit students, is underfunded and charter-friendly. It will allow uncertified teachers into the classrooms.
This broadside against public education in Detroit—which once had one of the best public school systems in the country—sparked months-long protests by teachers in defiance of both their union and the Obama administration. Backroom deals by the American Federation of Teachers sabotaged the actions of teachers and enabled the passage of the dissolution of the district.
In a coup de grace, DeVos-supported legislators pressed for legislation to strip striking teachers of their certification. The legislature included a new mechanism to impose strict new fines and the possibility of termination for teachers protesting the attack on public education. This was followed up with a recent measure, passed by the state House, stipulating up to $10,000 a day in fines for "illegal" mass picketing, in a blatant violation of the First Amendment.
At the same time, the DeVoses have steadily ramped up their war on education nationally over decades. They established a political action committee, All Children Matter (ACM) in 2003 with fellow billionaire John Walton (son of Walmart founder Sam Walton) and the Koch brothers, to better fund privatization drives. Following legal challenges for the violation of campaign reporting laws in Ohio, the lobbying group reformulated itself as the American Federation for Children (AFC), and continued to be funded by the DeVoses.
In 2011, Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker, a DeVos ally, attempted to slash billions from teachers and other public workers' benefits as well as eliminate their collective bargaining rights. Tens of thousands of workers and young people staged protests in response, and the DeVoses intervened. They provided a massive cash infusion to the embattled governor through AFC in order to oppose his attempted recall. Since that time, AFC has spent at least $4.5 million on independent expenditures and issue ads in Wisconsin. (It should be noted that they would not have been successful were it not for the decision of the major Madison-area unions to implement the cuts, so long as dues checkoffs were maintained).
AFC aggressively promotes a national school privatization agenda via its financial sponsorship of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a powerful corporate "bill mill" which promotes right-wing policy throughout the US. Thousands of state legislators are members of ALEC. Their projects include school "choice," tax changes to subsidize private schools, "parent trigger" bills and anti-tenure lobbying. Other right-wing causes championed by the well-funded council include "stand your ground" gun laws, anti-immigration measures, voter identification rules and opposition to environmental regulation.
Betsy DeVos continues to lobby for vouchers through the AFC, is currently working with the Michigan Freedom Fund to destroy the Michigan public workers' pension system, and provided substantial resources to the successful campaign to make Michigan a "right-to-work" state. The DeVoses have played leading roles in a litany of pro-privatization organizations: Children First America, Advocates for School Choice, the American Education Reform Council, the Education Freedom Fund, Choices for Children, Jeb Bush's Foundation for Excellence in Education (specializing in online charters) and the Great Lakes Education Project (GLEP).
The Acton Institute and the Anti-Revolutionary Party
In the hot-house circles of ultra-wealthy Dutch Christian Reform Church members in Western Michigan, there were two preeminent families, both sharing similar worldviews. The first were the DeVoses, whose wealth stemmed from the wildly profitable pyramid scheme Amway founded by Rich DeVos, Sr. The second were the Princes, relatives of billionaire car parts manufacturer Edgar Prince. Betsy DeVos is the daughter of Edgar Prince and she married Dick, the son of Rich DeVos, Sr.
Under the banner of "free enterprise," the DeVoses developed a specific political/business/social ideology (titled the "American way," shortened to Amway by Rich DeVos). Their business model combined neo-Calvinist religious obscurantism and bigotry with hucksterism, crass exploitation, borderline or criminal tax-dodging, and the promotion of militarism.
At its core, this philosophy is Christian nationalist, anti-democratic and utterly hostile to the concepts of social and democratic rights. As the WSWS noted, for example, Betsy DeVos is a major financial backer and leader of the Acton Institute, which rejects the right to education and embraces child labor, indicating its benefits would be more widespread if only compulsory education were "abolished."
The Acton Institute is based heavily on the life and writings of theologian and politician Andrew Kuyper, the "father of Dutch neo-Calvinism," acknowledged by DeVos as a major ideological influence, according to the Washington Post. Kuyper founded the Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) of the Netherlands in 1879 specifically to oppose the influence of the French Revolution and humanism. Its central practical aim was state funding for religious schools.
The ARP opposed "popular sovereignty" and sought to create an independent Protestant society with its own schools, papers and hospitals.
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Q: HighChart Tooltip Position can be changed? I am new to highcharts. The Highchart by default displays the tooltip inside the chart itself. Is this possible to display the tooltip outside the chart and in the same position as it used to display inside.Any help?

A: You can define your own div and then use tooltip formatter to display info inside it.
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/Lqq9D/
tooltip: {
        formatter:function(){
            $('#tooltip').html('Point Y: '+this.y);
        }
    },

A: Yes you can change it using Tooltip.positioner, here is the link to the API: http://api.highcharts.com/highcharts#tooltip

A: Default tooltip and custom tooltip at the same time
Above is an example where you can show both the default tooltip and your own custom tooltip. Credit goes to @Ricardo Lohmann as he showed how to create custom tooltip in the following post:

Highchart - tooltip for legends

// first of all we've to build a group to put the elements
this.SVGElements = this.chartVar.renderer.g().attr({'zIndex': 11}).add();

// build tooltip text
var textContainer = this.chartVar.renderer.text(text, coord[0], coord[1])
                .attr({
                    'zIndex': 10
                })
                .add(this.SVGElements);

// get text 'box'
var box = textContainer.getBBox();

// build  tooltip square according to the text location, then place the container behind the text
this.chartVar.renderer.rect(box.x - 5, box.y - 5, box.width + 10, box.height + 10, 5)
                .attr({
                    'stroke-width': 2,            // border width
                    'stroke': '#a8a8a8',        // border color
                    'zIndex': 9,
                    'fill': 'white',            // background color
                    'fill-opacity': 0.85,        // background opacity
                    'isShadow': true
                })
                .add(this.SVGElements);

A: tooltip: {
              positioner: function () {
                    return { x: 45, y: 60 };
                }
            }

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Q: jQuery star rating system with partial stars I need your advice, google is not helping me out on that one. I need a star rating system for my website BUT it should be capable of displaying an initial value with decimals (2.75 -> displaying 3/4 of a star) and the input should only allow integers. I found no script that combines both features. Do you have any idea?
The best would be a ready-made jquery plugin.
Kind regards,
Quentin

A: As you wish:
http://www.fyneworks.com/jquery/star-rating/
Seems to be capable of doing such things.

A: Thanks for your answers. However, RateIt was the only one that could show me a preset float value in a partial star and rate with a full star:
<div class="rateit" data-rateit-value="2.76" data-rateit-step="1" data-rateit-resetable="false" >

A: This might help you. A list of the top 10 rating plugins for jquery and this one in particular for you fractions.

A: This one worked for me. Maybe you should give a look cdn.webdeveloperswall.com/demo/css-star-rating/

A: Use this best star rating plugin..i used it with no issues.
Raty


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About ISAAC
ISAAC, the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood, was formed in 1991 to facilitate research into asthma, allergic rhinitis and eczema by promoting a standardised methodology able to be used in diverse locations around the world.
ISAAC developed from a merging of two multinational collaborative projects each investigating variations in childhood asthma at the population level. These were an initiative from Auckland, New Zealand to conduct an international comparative study of asthma severity, and an initiative from Bochum, Germany to conduct an international study to monitor time trends and determinants of the prevalence of asthma and allergies in children.
ISAAC is a unique project investigating variations in the prevalence of these conditions at the population level and their potential causes. ISAAC, with its three phases to date, has attracted massive worldwide interest and unprecedented large-scale participation, and has become the largest worldwide collaborative research project ever undertaken in children resulting in a Guinness World Record. In its 21 years, the ISAAC programme has involved 306 centres in 105 countries with nearly 2 million children.
ISAAC has been the subject of positive editorial comment in the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, the leading voice of respiratory disease in developing countries, for its unique role in fostering research and critical thinking1. They state "ISAAC is a model that should be followed by all those of us who are committed to improving public health in low-income countries." ISAAC uses a simple framework which enables standard measures and comparisons across geographic, cultural and linguistic boundaries which means it can be carried out relatively inexpensively, making it particularly suitable for use in developing countries and allowing "truly global participation". This inclusive and encouraging approach has resulted in ISAAC becoming the largest study of its kind2. As stated by the Commission on Health Research for Development, '. . .for the world's most vulnerable people, the benefits of research offer a potential for change that has gone largely untapped'. Such research is essential to improve public health globally and equitably. A major barrier to achieving this is a lack of confidence of health care workers to involve themselves in research. ISAAC has addressed this obstacle and produced a body of knowledge that informs policy. The World Allergy Organization has reported that "studies such as ISAAC are a major step toward overcoming barriers to the worldwide diagnosis and treatment of asthma"3.
ISAAC has established worldwide networks with organizations concerned with health in developing countries such as The International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IUATLD) and the World Health Organisation (WHO). ISAAC findings are cited by any organization involved in monitoring and preventing chronic respiratory diseases (CRD's) and are used to inform global health initiatives which include WHO, and its NGO the Global Alliance against Chronic Respiratory Diseases (GARD). ISAAC publications are included in the 'GARD Basket', a package of information, offered to countries by WHO to assist policy decisions relating to CRD's4. ISAAC collaborators have published more than 500 articles in over 100 journals including the Lancet, the British Medical Journal, the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Thorax and the European Respiratory Journal.
The ISAAC research programme has comprised three phases
3. Pawankar R, Baena-Cagnani CE, Bousquet J, et al. State of World Allergy Report 2008: Allergy and Chronic Respiratory Diseases. World Allergy Organisation Journal. 2008(Supplement 1):s4-s17.
4. World Health Organisation. Global Alliance against chronic respiratory diseases (GARD) basket: a package of information, surveillance tools and guidelines, to be offered as a service to countries. Geneva: World Health Organisation; 2008
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Germany's rescue drone will not fly in the Mediterranean
Unmanned systems could help to rescue shipwrecked boats in the Mediterranean. However, a new German sea rescue drone is only to be used in the North Sea and Baltic Sea.
Under the name "LARUS", the German Government develops drones for the rescue of ships in distress. The abbreviation of the drone stands for "Situation support during sea rescue operations by unmanned aeronautical systems". The system is financed from civil security research funds, for which the Federal Ministry of Education and Research is paying 2.8 million euros.
Several German manufacturers of optical sensors and communications technology, including Deutsche Telekom, are involved in the development under the direction of the Technical University of Dortmund. Because the drone is to be used for sea rescue in Germany, the German Shipwreck Rescue Association and the Federal Maritime Police Inspectorate based in Warnemünde are also on board of the project.
The "LARUS" has a wingspan of almost four meters and is based on the unmanned aircraft of a Bremen-based company. On the manufacturer's website, the take-off weight is stated to be 30 kilograms, the drone can carry a payload of around 5 kilograms and remain in the air for three hours. It is not intended to patrol German waters permanently, but to ascend when an emergency call comes in. The drone will then be able to contact the emergency services independently and transmit precise situation information to the rescue units. The position of the shipwrecked is indicated by the "LARUS" with a laser marker. In this way, the ship can be found even in poor visibility conditions or with night vision devices.
The search and rescue is automated as much as possible. The drones use an autopilot system and orbit over the rescue area. According to the project description, the "LARUS" is to be integrated into civil airspace. This would mean that the drone would be granted the appropriate approval. Such a certification would be unique in Germany and should enable the "LARUS" to be used in other areas as well. The Ministry of Research names offshore facilities as well as disaster control.
With the capabilities for sea rescue, the "LARUS" would also be needed in the Mediterranean. There, the German Navy participated in the military mission EUNAVFOR MED, which was originally set up to combat the "smuggling" of human beings. The frigates involved were repeatedly ordered to rescue refugee boats by the responsible sea emergency control centres in Italy and Malta.
The Italian headquarters of the EU mission, however, decided in spring to withdraw all the ships and instead to extend air surveillance. Meanwhile, the Italian military regularly uses large Predator drones for this purpose.
Frontex has also been monitoring the Mediterranean with long-range drones since last autumn. The German Federal Police is participating in this operation "Themis" with 14 officers, but currently not with ships or aircraft. The German sea rescue drone, in which the Federal Police is also involved, is not to fly in the Mediterranean. The German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked Persons intends to use it only in the North and Baltic Seas.
Image: German rescue drone "LARUS" (all rights reserved DGzRS/Michael Rauhe).
Autor Matthias MonroyVeröffentlicht am 10/07/2019 03/01/2020 Schlagwörter Bundespolizei, Deutsche Telekom, Drones, EUNAVFOR MED, Frontex, German Shipwreck Rescue Association, Hanseatic Aviation Solutions, LARUS, Mediterranean, Ministry of Research and Education, Navy, Predator, S360Mk.II, Unmanned Systems
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