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Governors: Geography is Destiny - Part I
Jennifer Duffy
It is a rare cycle in which both parties step back the morning after the election, survey the landscape of the same set of races, and walk away happy with the results.
When it comes to Governors races, Democrats are happy to add to their numbers. They started the cycle with 16 seats and are emerging from Election Day with 23 seats. Democratic strategists note that Democratic Governors now represent 52 percent of the nation's population. Republicans had significant exposure to losses this cycle as they had to defend 26 of the 33 seats they held. In their view, the potential existed for them to sustain double-digit casualties (and some Democrats gladly touted this possible outcome), and they managed to keep their losses to a manageable number; they currently hold 26 seats. Moreover, they continue to hold on to critical battlegrounds in Florida, Iowa, and Ohio. The outcome of the GOP-held seat in Georgia remains uncertain at this writing. What is most striking is how the most competitive races essentially broke along red and blue lines. Competitive races in purple or swing states tended to break slightly more toward Democrats than Republicans. In other words, the overall political environment that favored Democrats had more of an impact in purplish states than it did in red states.
Of the 36 gubernatorial contests on the ballot, Democrats only had to defend nine seats, seven of which were in solidly blue states. Republicans didn't have strong nominees in the two Democratic-held seats in swing states — the open seat in Colorado and Gov. Tom Wolf in Pennsylvania — making it that much easier for the party to retain them. Democrats did not lose a single seat this cycle. The closest they came was the open seat in Connecticut where Democratic businessman Ned Lamont eked out a victory over GOP businessman Bob Stefanowski by 1.7 percent with 95 percent of the vote reporting at this writing. Democrats other vulnerable seat was in Oregon where Gov. Kate Brown was seeking a full four-year term. She defeated Republican state Rep. Knute Buehler, 49 percent to 45 percent.
Democrats easily held the two seats in the Lean Democratic column. In Colorado, Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Polis took 52 percent for GOP state Treasurer Walker Stapleton who has 45 percent with 85 percent of the vote reporting. Finally, Republicans hoped to make the contest in Rhode Island one of the most competitive of the cycle, but were hobbled by a weak candidate in Cranston Mayor Alan Fung. It helped that there was an independent candidate running as well. In the end, Democratic Gov. Gina Raimondo took 53 percent to 37 percent for Fung and four percent for independent Joe Trillo. In 2014, Raimondo was elected in a multi-candidate field with 41 percent, making her 53-percent victory look like something close to a mandate.
The brightest spot for Republicans came in Alaska where former state Sen. Mike Dunleavy won the seat with 45 percent, defeating former Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Begich who took 38 percent. Independent Gov. Bill Walker, who suspended his re-election effort two weeks before voters went to the polls, took just 2 percent, well below the 10 percent to 20 percent that both parties though he might get. The surprise was Libertarian nominee Billy Toien, who took 16 percent.
The battlefield in gubernatorial contests was really among the 26 Republican-held seats that were on the ballot. It was a given relatively early in the cycle that the three of the four GOP incumbents in blue states — Larry Hogan in Maryland, Charlie Baker in Massachusetts, and Phil Scott in Vermont — wouldn't have much trouble winning re-election. The fourth — Gov. Bruce Rainer of Illinois — didn't have much of a path to victory. In fact, the seat was in the Likely Democratic column, and Democratic entrepreneur J.B. Pritzker won the race with 54 percent to 39 percent for Rainer; two third-party candidates split the remaining 7 percent.
Democrats prevailed in other blue states held by Republicans, prevailing easily in Maine, Michigan and New Mexico, all open seats, while winning seats in the more purple states of Nevada and Wisconsin. Democrats are pleased with their gains, but perhaps a bit more so in defeating GOP Gov. Scott Walker in Wisconsin. This was their third attempt to defeat him in eight years. Democratic state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers took 50 percent to 48 percent for Walker.
Democrats did claim one red state by winning the open seat in Kansas. Democratic state Sen. Laura Kelly took 48 percent to 43 percent for GOP Secretary of State Kris Kobach and seven percent for independent businessman Greg Orman. This contest had everything to do with former GOP Gov. Sam Brownback and the long-term negative effects the deep tax cuts he implemented had on the state's budget, particularly education. The already controversial Kobach embraced Brownback, which cost him an unusually high percentage of Republican voters.
Republicans held on to the seat in Iowa where Gov. Kim Reynolds won a full four-year term, defeating businessman Fred Hubbell, 50 percent to 47 percent. They also held their open seats in Florida, Ohio, Oklahoma and South Dakota, all races that were well within the margin of error going into Election Day.
The blue wave packed more of a punch when it hit New Hampshire, but GOP Gov. Chris Sununu survived the current, winning re-election with 53 percent to 46 percent for Democrat Molly Kelly. The race was in the Lean Republican column.
The race in Georgia is the only one that isn't settled yet. Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp finished with 50.3 percent of the vote to 48.7 percent for former Democrat state House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams. In this case, the decimal points are important. To avoid a run-off, a candidate needs to get 50 percent of the vote, plus one. Thus, Kemp barely cleared the bar; with 100 percent of precincts reporting, he leads Abrams by 63,225 votes. But, it is the fact that Kemp is hovering around the 50-percent mark that has Abrams committed to making sure all the votes in this race are counted. And, even making sure that happens is controversial since as Secretary of State, Kemp supervises elections. GOP strategists who have extensive experience in Georgia say that Kemp's lead will hold, thus avoiding a December 4 run-off. This may be true, but the path to determining that will be contentious.
At the end of the day, Republicans continue to hold a majority of Governors' offices at either 26 or 27, but Democrats made significant progress in leveling the playing field.
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Generating green heat now means the generation of even more industry jobs and expertise, says Chris Beedel, Certification Director ECA Certification Ltd.
The energy debate has this week taken an important generational step change with the unveiling of the £860m Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) capital investment plan.
During the 1960s the Government spoke of the White Heat of Technology while the current administration yesterday unveiled its Green Heat 'revolution'.
ELECSA, which last year launched its own Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS), sees the RHI as an important evolution in the debate which has energised the industry in recent years. We have witnessed the building blocks of a renewable energy strategy with the introduction of FITs which have already created tens of thousands of jobs.
According to the Government's own press statement this long-awaited news from Chris Huhne is further good news for our contractors as it not only provides £4.5 billion stimulus for a new market in renewable heat but also supports the existing 150,000 jobs in the heating industry while at the same time reducing emissions by 44 million tonnes – the equivalent of carbon emitted by 20 new gas power stations – between October this year and 2020.
The financial incentive has the potential to drive green uptake and confidence in the market and this in turn will empower contractors to accelerate their plans to expand their business offerings as well as weaning the UK off its dependence upon fossil fuels.
However, there is a word of caution. Although the RHI will support businesses, contractors need to make sure they are getting the right information about the technology and training to make this happen in their own organisations.
ELECSA has spent the last year touring the UK on its renewable energy road show. We have spoken to thousands of contractors at trade shows, many of who have had the light bulb moment of expanding their business to encompass renewables, but have been bombarded with both confusing and, in some cases, incorrect information on the strategic investments they need to be making.
Contractors need to harness the new technology but they need to get the right advice and talk to independent Certification bodies such as ELECSA to ensure they are making all the right decisions for their business.


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The time bomb
Since the end of the cold war, the United Nations has logged more than 800 incidents in which radioactive material has gone missing, often from poorly guarded sites. Who is taking it - and should we be worried? Julian Borger investigates.
CIA used Swiss to thwart foreign nuclear programs: report
WASHINGTON (AFP) — The US Central Intelligence Agency recruited a family of Swiss engineers to help it thwart the Libyan and Iranian nuclear programs as well as an underground supply network of Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan, The New York Times reported on its website late Sunday.
The newspaper said the operation involved Friedrich Tinner and his two sons, who have been accused in Switzerland of dealing with rogue nations seeking nuclear equipment and expertise.
Uranium mining, nuclear power and 'ethical' investment
A recent Corporate Watch Australia survey reveals that many so-called ethical investment funds invest in uranium mining.
The number has risen significantly in recent years. Some fund managers justify investment in uranium with questionable arguments about nuclear power and climate change, but the primary reason for the shift is probably BHP Billiton's entry into the uranium industry with its 2005 acquisition of WMC Resources, which owns the Olympic Dam uranium mine in South Australia.
Engineers to remain in jail over nuclear probe
The two Swiss engineers, Urs and Marco Tinner, suspected of involvement in an international nuclear smuggling network have been refused bail.
The Swiss Federal Court upheld a ruling by the Criminal Court earlier this year which ordered the Tinners to remain in custody pending the outcome of an investigation.
US, Armenia to upgrade Armenian capabilities against nuclear smuggling
The United States and Armenia have agreed to cooperate against the smuggling of nuclear and radioactive materials.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian signed the agreement in what is called a "joint action plan" that makes the cooperation activities official.
France signs Algeria nuclear deal
France and Algeria have signed an agreement on civil nuclear co-operation during a visit to Algiers by the French Prime Minister, Francois Fillon.
Mr Fillon described the agreement as a sign of a "transformation" in the countries' ties.
Relations were very bad for years after the Algerian war of independence forced France to abandon its treasured colony.
Disgraced atomic scientist disowns confession
For four years Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb, has lived in the shadows, confined to his Islamabad home since a tearful televised confession in which he admitted selling nuclear technology to Iran, North Korea and Libya. But yesterday the 76-year-old scientist returned to the spotlight with a bold new twist: that he had not meant a word of his earlier admission.
Papers on nuclear smuggling ring shredded
The government ordered the destruction of documents on an alleged international nuclear smuggling network involving three Swiss engineers, it has been confirmed.
The head of a parliamentary control committee said the material was shredded last November.
Is nuclear power the answer to the energy crisis? Ian Sample explains how it works - and how we get the awful side-effects of bombs and waste.
Bulgaria, U.S. sign agreement on nuclear non-proliferation assistance
SOFIA, March 25 (Xinhua) -- Bulgaria and the United States have signed an intergovernmental agreement on assistance in nuclear non-proliferation, the local Bulgarian news agency reported Tuesday.


Alex has founded six businesses all in different industries, covering produce wholesaling, hospitality supplies, event promotions, gift hampers, a bicycle brand and a tourism company.
Alex runs the University of Sydney's campus wide entrepreneurship program, Genesis. In it's eleventh year, Genesis has helped more than 1000 entrepreneurs and supports students, staff and alumnus develop and validate business, whilst contributing $50,000 worth of seed funding annually.
Alex teaches a range of courses at the University of Sydney including Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Future of Business, Social Entrepreneurship and Global Business. He holds a Bachelor of Managerial Accounting from the University of Western Australia and a Master of Educational Psychology from the University of Sydney.
Alex is passionate about teaching the skillset of an entrepreneur to prepare people for the ever-changing Australian economic environment.


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ZenKimchi in New York, part 5: Ultimate Food Nerd Time
by ZenKimchi | Sep 24, 2010 | Featured, Food Stories | 0 comments
From September 18th to September 25th, I have been in New York. The reason was to give a presentation on Buddhist Temple Cuisine on the 20th. I'm posting my personal diary accounts of all the food and peeps. I hope you enjoy.
NOTE: I'm holding off on the Tuesday post, Eating Through Queens, because it will be a guest post on World's Fare.
Surprised that I got over my hangover quickly. But I was still frazzled from Monday. Wendy IM'ed me and asked if I wanted to join her at the Union Square Market. At the same time, Jonathan was saying he could get me a press pass for Star Chefs that afternoon. My original plans were just lunch at 11 Madison Park and the ZenKimchi meet up in Koreatown that night. So I really packed it in that day.
Greatly enjoyed the market. All the vegetables made me envious. Just look at those heirloom tomatoes!
And emu eggs!
I badly needed coffee, so we went to a Starbucks. The guy at the table next to us needed it more. He passed out at his table, and stuff fell on the floor. I was worried he'd knock the table over. Good candidate for Blackout Korea, if we were in Korea.
I was intimidated about going to 11 Madison Park, as I'm usually intimidated by fine dining. And also being a single diner. I took the train a few blocks up and found the restaurant. I showed up 10 minutes early and walked through the revolving door.
"Hello, Mr. McPherson."
Man, it's true! The new version of this restaurant knows who you are when you walk in the door. They quickly made me feel welcome, and I settled down to enjoy an epic two-hour experience. I'll dedicate an entire post to this meal later. I'm still in awe of it.
The table next to me was a Korean woman taking her elderly mother out for a Chuseok meal. When they got up to leave, I wished them a happy Chuseok.
By the time I finished, I was running late for Star Chefs. I wanted to see a lecture by bartender Junior "Liquid Chef" Merino. I got up to 66th and Park, but I couldn't find a pay phone to call Jonathan to get me inside. It was then that I ran into Veronica, who was able to get me in without a press pass.
I couldn't believe where I was!
For someone like me, this was the ultimate fanboy event. Celebrity chef sightings everywhere. Ooh, there's Wylie DuFresne. Rick Moonen was MC for the main stage, and we watched the Voltaggio Bros. make a dish they called "Tongue 'n' Cheek." Bryan got it finished okay, but Michael was being greatly ambitious, and equipment broke down on him. He was going to make cotton candy with smoke inside it, but the cotton candy machine didn't work. I think it flustered him a bit because he had forgotten some of his components and added them after he had presented his dish. It still looked a lot of fun.
My big thing there was the cheese. CHEESE! We miss this so much in Korea. And they had some stanky ass cave aged cheddar and a blue cheese where the mold was so strong it had texture.
I found Jonathan, and he took me over to introduce me to Junior Merino. I tried some mezcal. I couldn't handle hard spirits because of my previous night's recovery. I met Junior's wife back on the show floor. Jonathan was going to introduce me to the man himself, Dale DeGroff, but we ran out of time. We left as chefs were enraptured by a speech on pastry by Ferran Adria's brother Albert.
Jonathan and I shared a cab. He was trying to get across the river to the gala, and I was going to the Empire State Building–Koreatown–for the ZenKimchi Meet Up. We got stuck in traffic because the UN delegates were in session, and there was added security. I just hopped out of the cab a few blocks away and found our meeting place, Seoul Garden.
When I got there, my body crashed. I really couldn't think straight. But I was so happy that people showed up. There were Megan from Bento Zen, my old pal Regina, Elaine Tin Nyo from the artist's project in Anyang two years ago, Robyn Lee from Serious Eats and her friend visiting from Europe, Marcus, Bohae, and Zach showed up later.
I was drinking cokes to try to get my body back up, but it wasn't working. Thankfully, everyone was hitting it off well, and they were enjoying the food. I just couldn't eat anything more than a few bites of Kongbiji and Budae Jjigae.
It started raining a bit when we left, and we decided to go to a cafe to get some caffeine in Joe. I actually started falling asleep on the table. But after the latte I was getting back to normal. But again, I was so happy that everyone who didn't know each other got connected. It's a wonderful group. Some of them I knew in Korea, and I miss them terribly. Others I had known online for a while and was glad to meet them. I just wish I was my normal annoying awake self.
We caught a train back south, and Elaine walked me home. She used to live in Soho, and her boyfriend currently lives here.
Again, I crashed as soon as I got home.
ZenKimchi in New York
Wendy's Rooftop
The Presentation
Feasting through Queens
Ultimate Food Nerd Time
The Culinary Institute
The Big Finish


I gave up reading books other than the Bible for Lent this year.
Most people laugh when they hear me say this and usually joke about how they should have given up not reading or something…But most people who know me know that at any given time, I'm in the middle of reading about 10 different books. Books that vary in topics from church ministry, theology, spiritual formation, racial reconciliation, culture, etc.
At first I thought about giving up Chick-fil-a (which I would still benefit from probably), but this year I wanted to give up something that would actually create more space for me to listen and reflect. As I was sitting on my couch on Ash Wednesday morning, I knew exactly what I would need to give up to create that space.
Lately, my daily morning rhythm has become reading the Bible for 10-15 minutes, and then spending about at least another hour between 4 other books. Any free moment I have anywhere, I pull out a book (I always carry at least one with me and have a good stack of back-ups in my trunk). Before bed, I try to read a few more pages. A good couple of hours on my day off are reserved for reading.
Aside from all of the time I'm actually reading, I spend any empty brain space throughout the day processing what I read, how it connects to my life and the other books I'm reading, what I'm going to do about what I read, how it's going to affect my life, who I should recommend that one book to…you get the point.
Reading isn't a bad thing, I know that. And most of the books I'm reading are about God and/or the Bible anyway. But the first few weeks of Lent have made me realize how much of my value I have put in my knowledge. Without even really noticing it, I have wrapped up a good part of my value as a human being in my ability to consistently be growing in knowledge and diversifying my perspective.
Again, growing in knowledge and diversifying perspective are not necessarily bad things. But they become dangerous when I recognize that that's where I've been misplacing my value…In knowing what to say about "hot topic" conversations. In having a well-rounded understanding of different sides of an argument. In having something to "offer" in regards to an issue. In the ability to give insight.
I have also been very much in my head with the Lord lately. Him and I are currently in the middle of working through a lot of things (i.e. his reputation in the Old Testament, where he's at with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, racism, sexism, economic disparity…it's a really long list). I have been spending a disproportionate amount of time asking Him about these things and listening to everything other (educated) people are saying. I have been spending waaaayyy more time listening to other voices. One more time—that's not necessarily a bad thing. There are many, many people who are way more educated and experienced than I am that have been wrestling with similar things (and for a lot longer).
The issue is not their voices, it's how little time I have spent listening to the Lord on these things lately.
It's crazy how much brain space has been freed up in the last few weeks of not reading other books. Now, I wish I could say that I suddenly have so many great revelations to share from the Lord, but that's not exactly true.
What I have become increasingly aware of is, if I don't open myself up to knowing the Lord in different ways, I am missing out. We have access to the entire being of God, his whole character. In my 23 years of life, I have not even come close to knowing him in his entirety.
I've come to know him in many different ways— loving father, peaceful Jesus, redeemer and reconciler, truth, liberator, just to name a few. But I don't have to stop there.
My professors in college used to use this example of Moses pretty often. One day, Moses met God in the form of a burning bush. What if he would have spent the rest of his life coming back to that same bush, waiting for the Lord to show up in the same way that he had yesterday, the day before, last month, 3 years ago? He would have missed out on everything else that the Lord did as he led him back to Egypt and though the desert!
But there is so much more of the Lord that I'm missing if I don't open myself up to knowing him differently.
And that being said, I have to be open to him not meeting any of my expectations. But if he is who he says he is, it's worth it.
And so may you make space for the Lord as he meets you. May you meet him with an openness to mystery. May the mystery draw you deeper. May the depth of his being fill your empty spaces. May the empty, confusing, painful spaces draw you in.


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Q: Build static boost library 1.63 I want to compile a program where I need to build boost library with static linkage, since in Visual Studio 2017 Community I get the following linker error:
LINK : fatal error LNK1104: File "libboost_filesystem-vc140-mt-gd-1_63.lib" could not be opened.

I compiled that already long ago with a different VS version, where it worked.
So, I tried to compile boost 1.63 as discribed on their page. In the VS command prompt, I adopted the arguments from this answer (but just b2 without arguments doesn't work either):
bootstrap
b2 -j8 toolset=msvc-14.1 address-model=32 architecture=x86 link=static threading=multi runtime-link=shared --build-type=complete stage

After the call to b2 I get the following error message in the command window:
C:/Program Files/boost_1_63_0/tools/build/src/tools\msvc.jam:834: in generate-se
tup-cmd
*** argument error
* rule maybe-rewrite-setup ( toolset : setup-script : setup-options : version :
rewrite-setup ? )
* called with: ( msvc :  :  : default :  )
* missing argument setup-script
C:/Program Files/boost_1_63_0/tools/build/src/tools\msvc.jam:746:see definition
of rule 'maybe-rewrite-setup' being called
C:/Program Files/boost_1_63_0/tools/build/src/tools\msvc.jam:1076: in configure-
really
C:/Program Files/boost_1_63_0/tools/build/src/tools\msvc.jam:201: in configure
C:/Program Files/boost_1_63_0/tools/build/src/tools\msvc.jam:153: in msvc.init
C:/Program Files/boost_1_63_0/tools/build/src/build\toolset.jam:43: in toolset.u
sing
C:/Program Files/boost_1_63_0/tools/build/src/build\project.jam:1052: in using
project-config.jam:3: in modules.load
C:/Program Files/boost_1_63_0/tools/build/src\build-system.jam:249: in load-conf
ig
C:/Program Files/boost_1_63_0/tools/build/src\build-system.jam:412: in load-conf
iguration-files
C:/Program Files/boost_1_63_0/tools/build/src\build-system.jam:524: in load
C:\Program Files\boost_1_63_0\tools\build\src/kernel\modules.jam:295: in import
C:\Program Files\boost_1_63_0\tools\build\src/kernel/bootstrap.jam:139: in boost
-build
C:\Program Files\boost_1_63_0\boost-build.jam:17: in module scope

Question: What is the problem here? How can I build the required libs?

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Q: Want to update a value in multi nested array I want to update a value in the nested array. This value changed in all child and sub-child like in the tree view when we select the parent then all its children are selected automatically.

I want to update "Ischecked" value to "Yes" for all nested array

A: Go to the specific index, map the arrays and res-assign the values. Say at index 6:
array[6].children = array[6].children.map(child => ({...child, isChecked: 'Yes'}))

If they're multiple arrays, you can do a for...loop or map on the main array too:
  arrays.map(arr => { // You can use a for...loop here
    array.children = array[6].children.map(child => ({...child, isChecked: 'Yes'}))
    return arr;
  })


Nobody was able to muster up a 24-hand last weekend, so the CHICKEN POT grows to $10.
And the first person to get a CRIB FLUSH and/or a RAGGEDY ANN will get to claim the $5 prize.
NOTE: The date below is correct, but the YEAR (2007) is incorrect.
Well, first of all, please welcome KAREN KEIL to the group! Karen stopped in today and played in her very first cribbage tournament. And she actually did pretty well...coming in THIRD PLACE!
WELCOME KAREN! I hope you'll drop in again real soon!
After experiencing a fairly long dry spell, Jim Ranstrom has obviously turned things around as he won himself yet another tournament. CONGRATULATION JIM!
Second place went to someone we haven't seen in several weeks. JAY WILLIAMSON took time out on a very nice Saturday afternoon to join in the fun. WAY TO GO JAY!
Nobody could come up with a Raggedy Ann or a Crib Flush today, so we will have two extra $5 specialty pots next week.
That was NOT the case with the 24-hands though. That elusive CHICKEN flew the coup on more than one occasion today. Julia Bick was the first one to score a 24-hand and grab the chicken. That put a $5 bill in her pocket. But that rascal Steve Wennstrom stole the chicken from Julia midway through the day and he had hopes of keeping it to claim $5 for the LAST 24-hand of the day, but that sly Arlyn Teed found a way to snag that chicken right out of Steve's hand and she hung onto it for the remainder of the day.
CONGRATULATIONS to all of our participants today!
If it's Saturday at 1, it's CRIBBAGE at the Eagles!
It appears that THE CHICKEN won the POPULAR vote in yesterday's CRIBBAGE CAUCUS.
Steve Wennstrom scored the 1st 24-hand of the day and grabbed the chicken.
It was UNANIMOUS that we ALL wanted to hold that chicken at the end of the day, but Steve wouldn't let loose of it. He even stole it from himself when he scored a SECOND 24-hand!
The Cribbage Caucus process was quite interesting to observe. The room wasn't overly crowded with eight registered participants. We sat down one-on-one to discuss the strength's of our favorite candidate, making convincing cases using pairs, and runs and 15s. Each candidate attempted to come up with at least 121 excellent points to convince his opponent that HE or SHE was the best person to advance to the next level.
By the end of the day, it came down to two final candidates vieing for the nomination.
Jim Ranstrom and Mike Sudduth were tied at seven games a piece, but it was Arlyn Teed's early argument in support of Jim, when she gave him THREE game points, that tipped the final selection over to JIM RANSTROM. CONGRATULATIONS JIM!
WELCOME to Harley Miedema. Harley has been playing with us for quite a while, but yesteday he made it "official" and joined as an ACC and GRASSROOTS member. Harley gave folks a run for their money yesteday, finishing in 4th place! Harley missed earning GrassRoots points yesterday by just ONE point when Ray Mielbrecht left Harley in the stink hole late in the afternoon.
And although Julia Bick had a tough day yesterday, with only one win, she managed to hang onto her top standing in total GrassRoots points to-date.
For those of you unable to attend yesterday's Cribbage Caucus, you won't have to wait another year to experience that same excitement.
If it's Saturday at 1 pm, it's CRIBBAGE at the Eagles!
CONGRATULATIONS to Steve Wennstrom for taking 1st Place today.
And Julia Bick came in 2nd place!!
Arlyn holds the 2nd place slot in overall ratings points!
Arlyn also went home with the CHICKEN POT today.
She scored the first and last (and ONLY) 24 hand today!
If it's Saturday at 1 pm, it's CRIBBAGE at the Vashon Eagles.


There are a lot of reasons to hate a job: annoying co-workers; bad working conditions; long hours for too little pay; the stress level; and more.
But one of the worst things -- arguably the worst -- is having a bad boss.
When you don't feel seen, appreciated, or listened to by your direct manager, it can have a dramatic impact on not only your work performance, but also your sense of self-esteem. Over time, you can begin to feel anxious, worthless, and demoralized.
The business terrain is one that changes much faster than most -- basically because the way business is done evolves based on cultural changes, changes in technology and even generational changes. It is safe to say that at all times, at least one of these things is changing.
We are in the era of giving back and social impact. Businesses should face this, and stop using the fact that they are not yet big businesses as an excuse for boycotting charitable involvements or social responsibility. Businesses that do this are missing out on the great benefits hidden on the other side of socially responsible companies.
Intrepid entrepreneurs find a way to make their own success before they have the money. One way they do this is by acting as if they already have it, or the success that comes with it. While this idea sounds like fake it till you make it, it is actually rooted in fundamental concepts about consumption, perception, and scaling.
As an entrepreneur and an angel investor, I get really excited about the future of personal finance.
As new technologies develop, from cryptocurrencies to virtual wallets, I see advantages for businesses. I also see opportunities for everyday Americans and our families to make--and keep--more of our own money.
In meetings with financial technology startups, I am seeing so many incredible new developments on the horizon. Any innovation that improves how we live, shop, and pay sets off alarm bells--of the good kind--in my friendly neighborhood Certified Financial Planner brain.
I spend a lot of time asking employees about how leaders can be more effective communicators. Just yesterday, in fact, I moderated a focus group with employees at a fast-growing consumer products company.
The people in the group provided the same feedback I hear time and time again: Leaders are pretty good at sharing information, but they are lousy listeners.
1.You have been out of school for less than a year.
2.Your job has not changed at all.
3.You have not made your company any more money.
Landing a coveted spot on Shark Tank is an entrepreneurs dream. They get the opportunity to pitch their business on national television in front of millions of viewers and several rich and prominent investors.
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Вилхе́лмюс (Вим) Гера́рдюс Ре́йсберген (; 18 января 1952, Лейден, Нидерланды) — нидерландский футболист и футбольный тренер. Выступал на позиции защитника.

Карьера

Клубная

В сборной
В сборной Нидерландов Вим Рейсберген дебютировал 5 июня 1974 года в товарищеском матче со сборной Румынии, завершившимся со счётом 0:0. В том же году Рейсберген в составе сборной принял участие в чемпионате мира 1974 года, на котором сыграл во всех семи матчах и завоевал серебряные медали. В 1976 году Рейсберген принял участие в чемпионате Европы 1976 года на котором завоевал бронзовые медали. В 1978 году Рейсберген второй раз в составе сборной принял участие в чемпионате мира, на котором сыграл в трёх матчах группового этапа и вновь завоевал серебряные медали. Причём последний матч со сборной Шотландии, завершившийся поражением голландцев со счётом 2:3 стал для Рейсбергена последним в составе национальной сборной.

Итого: 28 матчей / 1 гол; 17 побед, 6 ничьих, 5 поражений.

Достижения

Командные
  Сборная Нидерландов
 Серебряный призёр чемпионата мира (2): 1974, 1978
 Бронзовый призёр чемпионата Европы: 1976

  «Фейеноорд»
 Чемпион Нидерландов: 1973/74
 Серебряный призёр чемпионата Нидерландов (4): 1971/72, 1972/73, 1974/75, 1975/76
 Обладатель Кубка УЕФА: 1973/74

  «Нью-Йорк Космос»
 Чемпион NASL (2): 1980, 1982
 Серебряный призёр чемпионата NASL: 1981

  «Утрехт»
 Обладатель Кубка Нидерландов: 1985

Тренерские
  «Волендам»
 Финалист Кубка Нидерландов: 1995

  «Универсидад Католика»
 Серебряный призёр чемпионата Чили (2): 1999, 2001

Примечания

Ссылки

 Профиль игрока на worldfootball.net
 Статистика матчей за сборную Нидерландов на сайте voetbalstats.nl
 Статистика на сайте vi.nl

Футболисты Нидерландов
Игроки сборной Нидерландов по футболу
Игроки ФК ПЕК Зволле
Игроки ФК «Фейеноорд»
Игроки ФК «Бастия»
Игроки ФК «Нью-Йорк Космос» (1970—1985)
Игроки ФК «Хелмонд Спорт»
Игроки ФК «Утрехт»
Футбольные тренеры Нидерландов
Тренеры ФК «Роденбюрг»
Тренеры ФК ДВС
Тренеры ФК «Волендам»
Тренеры ФК НАК Бреда
Тренеры ФК «Гронинген»
Тренеры ФК «Универсидад Католика»
Тренеры ФК «Аль-Иттифак»
Тренеры сборной Тринидада и Тобаго по футболу
Тренеры ФК «Макасар»
Тренеры сборной Индонезии по футболу
Тренеры сборной Соломоновых островов по футболу

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By David Ruenzel — March 01, 2001 25 min read
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Gatto's central message is that families should shake off their public school dependencies and take charge of their own educations.
Thanks to an old hip injury, John Taylor Gatto, age 65, walks with a slight limp. But, in many ways, he is still a big presence. Big is an adjective former students use to describe Gatto, who quit his profession—and explained his reasons for doing so in the Wall Street Journal—almost immediately after winning the New York State Teacher of the Year Award in 1991. And big is what I think as I watch him walk across a stage in a Boston auditorium to address an audience consisting largely of defectors from the public school system. (The event is part of the Growing Without Schooling magazine speaker series.) With closely cropped white hair, a round face, and a thick neck, Gatto looks like a retired football tackle who spent years in the trenches. This befits a man who hails from Monongahela, the same western Pennsylvania town as Joe Montana, and who devotes his Sundays to watching NFL football.
Always provocative, Gatto begins his talk this October evening by projecting on a screen a picture of a goofy-looking boy. Standing before a table cluttered with cereal, soups, and other packaged goods, the boy pulls absent-mindedly on his ears. The image, Gatto says, represents the typical American teenager; his emotional and intellectual growth have been stunted by video games, sitcoms, and American schools, which he calls "government reservations."
"Does organized schooling have anything to do with an increase in childishness?" he asks, his megaphone of a voice booming. He soon answers his own question: "This is the thesis that I'll be pursuing tonight—that enormous numbers of American children have been dumbed down and made morally incomplete. . . . School extends childhood far beyond natural bounds."
It used to be, Gatto asserts, that American children flowered into adulthood at a very young age. He quotes de Tocqueville who, after visiting the United States in 1839, noted that "in America there is, strictly speaking, no adolescence. At the close of boyhood the man appears." But now, Gatto continues, "childhood has been artificially extended into the 20s and beyond. No one finds that picture"—he gestures to the slide of the boy—"out of the norm. American teenage boys are goofy, daffy; they put funny things into their ears, and we all assume this is natural."
Just how and why schools have stifled students, and corrupted many well-intentioned teachers in the process, are subjects Gatto has diligently addressed over the past 10 years in speeches, essays, and four books, including two that were just published: A Different Kind of Teacher, a collection of previously published writings; and The Underground History of American Education. Gatto is hoping the history book, which is as hefty as the Manhattan phone directory, will serve as the basis for a film project he's planning with a former student. They envision a three-part, six-hour documentary series exploring everything from the role of big business in forging factory-style schools to the alternative and homeschooling movements.
Author and lecturer John Gatto.
—Donal Holway
Gatto's books and ideas, like the man himself, are the source of both exaltation and exasperation. To many members of the burgeoning homeschooling movement, which is approximately 1.3 million strong, he is an icon; his mailbox is regularly stuffed with speaking requests and fan letters. He has delivered hundreds of lectures at colleges and alternative-education conferences across the country. And in recent years, he's addressed educators and homeschoolers in foreign countries, including Singapore, China, England, and Italy. During a trip to Japan, educators asked him, much to his amusement, if there was a way to set up a homeschooling system. What they didn't realize is that Gatto sees homeschooling as a way out of a system.
Pat Farenga, editor of Growing Without Schooling magazine, which is published by the John Holt Associates, told me that among alternative educators Gatto is widely regarded as a hero. "What John did for homeschoolers was to give them the imprimatur that it's OK for them to do this," he said. "A lot of them felt a nagging doubt about pulling their kids from public school. And then along comes this award-winning public school teacher who not only tells them that it's OK but that it should be done."
It used to be, Gatto asserts, that American children flowered into adulthood at a very young age. 'Does organized schooling have anything to do with an increase in childishness?' he asks.
But Gatto's uncompromising views and combative nature sometimes annoy even those who agree with much of what he has to say. Farenga, an old friend, regrets that Gatto has portrayed the public school system as an evil empire; homeschoolers can work with public schools, Farenga said, and his daughter, who's enrolled in a Spanish class at her local school, is a good example.
Other school reformers assert that Gatto simply goes too far in his damnation of the system. Tony Wagner, a former teacher who is now co-director of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, said that, while Gatto has accurately diagnosed many public school ills, he's overlooked the fact that many schools have successfully reinvented themselves. "He doesn't give us any alternatives, either," Wagner, author of How Schools Change: Lessons From Three Communities, added. "He talks about homeschooling, but that's simply not a realistic alternative for everyone."
After the lecture, Gatto, wearing a tie and a navy blue suit, signs copies of his books at a table in the back of the auditorium. Several ponytailed teenage boys, who say they left public schools to educate themselves, gather around. They strike me as the kind of independent-minded young people Gatto claims once sprouted regularly from American soil. One boy tells Gatto that he and his friends recently marched to the house of Alfie Kohn, a prominent critic of "drill and kill," to challenge Kohn's support of public schools. Another expresses anger over the standards- and-testing movement.
But then the conversation takes a turn. After one teenager smugly proclaims that overpopulation is threatening world civilization, Gatto looks incredulous for a moment and, then, making eye contact with the boy, says, "Now, why would you say something like that?" The boy looks stunned; it's as if no one has ever challenged him before. "People like to congregate where other people are," Gatto continues. "That's why there are millions of people in Manhattan. I've been across China, and I tell you, it's mostly a lot of empty space, though everyone says it's overpopulated. So I really wonder if you've thought about the assertion you're making."
The teenager stammers a bit, then goes silent. Like me, he's probably wondering why Gatto is being so antagonistic. But, as I discover later, the key to understanding the man is to look beyond his books and speeches. As thought- provoking and inspiring as they are, they don't, as Wagner pointed out, demonstrate how to improve education. For that, you have to look at Gatto's teaching career.
But, first, it helps to consider his way of thinking. Gatto's central message— the one that runs throughout the books and speeches—is that families should shake off their public school dependencies and take charge of their own educations. And homeschooling, he argues, is not the only option. He also likes the idea of small schools created by communities. Some, located in homes, might teach cooking and sewing as well as reading and writing. Others, housed in storefronts, could call on local tradespeople to help students build their own schools.
Gatto agrees with the idea that "it takes a village to raise a child," though not one dependent upon social programs, government projects, and, of course, public schools. His village is a genuine cluster of brick-and-mortar neighborhoods populated by people who look after and teach each other, even if some bicker along the way. In Underground History, he writes: "When we want better families, better neighbors, better friends, and better schools we shall turn our backs on national and global systems, on expert experts and specialist specialists and begin to make our own schools one by one, far from the reach of systems."
Late in his career, Gatto allowed his students to pursue projects outside of school. A colleague says he was like a shepherd who lets his young flock go wherever it pleases.
What's the foundation of Gatto's thinking? During the Boston speech, he told his audience that, early in the 19th century, the spread of industrialization demanded that people become full-time factory workers; thus "the new utopian world of forced schooling" was created. The goal, Gatto said, was to instill obedience in future workers, to "convince people that they want what the machines want most."
As it turns out, those doing the convincing—unwittingly or not—were teachers. And they continue to do it, as far as Gatto is concerned. In Dumbing Us Down—his first book, published 10 years ago—is a chapter titled "The Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher," a reprint of his New York State Teacher of the Year acceptance speech. Gatto writes that, among the lessons "universally taught" in schools are: confusion ("Everything I teach is out of context"); indifference ("When the bell rings I insist that they drop whatever it is we have been doing and move on to the next station"); and emotional dependency ("By stars and red checks, smiles and frowns, prizes, honors, and disgraces, I teach kids to surrender their will to the predestinated chain of command").
One of the reasons Gatto thinks he escaped these pitfalls is that he lived the kind of life he'd like others to experience. He grew up in a working-class river town 25 miles south of Pittsburgh, where his grandfather was a printer, his father a cookie salesman, and his mother a self-educated woman he describes as "resourceful, imaginative, generally optimistic." Gatto roamed the town freely, learning from everyone he met. His best teachers, he recalls, were "the high-rolling car dealer," "the druggist wiser than the doctor," "the psychological haberdasher," and "the fun-loving mayor."
As educational as his hometown was, nowhere in his writings does Gatto suggest that he knew he'd grow up to be a teacher. So, on the day after his speech, I ask him how he came to spend 30 years teaching in a public school system for which he has expressed such deep contempt.
This is not our first meeting. The night before, we went to a Boston pub where we drank Guinness and talked football and education into the early morning hours. Prior to the speech, Gatto had driven all the way from New York City, where he and his wife, Janet, live half of the year. (The other half is spent in their farmhouse in upstate New York.)
Gatto's uncompromising views and combative nature sometimes annoy even those who agree with much of what he has to say.
So, by all rights, he should be exhausted. But Gatto looks fresh in his crisp, white shirt and pressed tan pants and jacket. As the interview begins, he pulls his chair 15 feet away from me. He likes to deliberate on a question, to mull it over before answering, he explains, and the physical distance helps him do that.
"It baffles me, too, why I stayed so long in teaching," he says, finally. "Look, I was between advertising jobs—that's what it amounted to. I was bored out of my gourd in advertising and thought I'd step out for a couple years."
In the late '50s, Gatto was a young New York City copywriter scripting commercials for shaving cream, washing down steaks with icy martinis, and occasionally heading upstate to skeet shoot with clients. He enjoyed his life of luxurious dissolution for a year or two but soon came to despise advertising as a great waste of human intelligence. So in the spring of 1960, he "borrowed" the teaching license of a roommate, who'd concluded, after one day on the job, that no sane person could be a teacher. Gatto went to Harlem, where he knew the desperate need for substitute teachers would spare him any embarrassing questions about his qualifications until he got a license of his own, which he received that summer.
He soon began to run into what he terms "violently bizarre scenarios, where if you did something slightly out of the routine you'd be called on the carpet by outraged people." Once, after Gatto had spent a period teaching a class how to tell time in Spanish, an assistant principal told him he'd screwed up a month's worth of lesson plans. In another incident, he came across a 3rd grader who was able to read the Victorian-era works of Daniel Webster, yet she'd been assigned to a remedial reading class. Gatto went to the principal, who scolded him in patronizing tones. "Mr. Gatto, you're very naïve," the principal said. "Children memorize stories, and they only seem able to read."
Surreal as his early experiences were, something about teaching captivated Gatto. So, in 1963, he got a full-time job teaching 8th grade English at Intermediate School 44 on New York's tony Upper West Side, just two blocks from his home. "I was intrigued," he recalls. "When the door closed, I had godlike sovereignty. The classroom was my laboratory. I decided to test how far and how fast I could push the kids. Thirty years later, I had still not found the edge of the envelope. There's no limit. I had presumptive evidence that human genius is abundant."
Convinced that kids could handle even the most challenging material, Gatto decided in 1965 to teach a lesson on Herman Melville's classic, Moby-Dick. He had only pretended to read the novel while an undergraduate at Cornell, skimming the Cliffs Notes so that he could pass the test. But now he would read it along with his students, unraveling sentences like thread from a spool. "The experience was a revelation," he recalls. "Within 60 days, simply by using seminar techniques from Ivy League colleges, my discipline problems just about vanished as students engaged with the material."
Before launching into Moby-Dick, Gatto had established a kind of esprit de corps by telling his students that they were about to read a book usually reserved for what were considered the finest minds and most elite social classes. Nevertheless, he was certain that they could handle it, fresh as they might be, as he put it, from Dick and Jane.
"We first worked on periodic sentences," Gatto recalls. "I told them that we're used to having the subject and verb at the beginning of the sentence, but that Melville puts the important stuff at the end. I explained that this is how the Romans wrote because they thought it was the best way to make subtle points of mind. Rather than giving up, believing that only the most elite kids can do this, they simply had to hold in mind that key clauses come at the end. The minute you give kids the keys to unlock something difficult—in this case a classic text—they can enter the terrain of someone else's mind."
In essence, Gatto was telling his students that, by mastering the material, they could demonstrate that they, in fact, have "the finest minds." This co-optive tactic has been used by many outstanding teachers, including Jaime Escalante, who told his students from the barrios of Los Angeles that they had ganas (desire, want) and could therefore master calculus. But, like Escalante, Gatto was not just employing a rhetorical tactic; he also had a deep faith in his students' abilities to achieve at extraordinary levels.
"Essentially, I treated kids at 13 like fully grown human beings," Gatto recalls. "I discovered that 12- and 13-year-olds could handle complex abstractions to the same extent my mind could. It got to the point where I was so excited I couldn't sleep. I was dying to get into school so that I could find out what the goddamn kids were going to teach me next."
But why, I ask, did students respond so emphatically to his teaching and not the teaching of others? What was so unusual about his approach?
"It's a question of responding to this young human life as if it's of equal importance to yours," he says without hesitation. "If you do that, kids will teach you all kinds of things because they're not trapped in all these conventional patterns that you're trapped in as an older person. The kids' reflections were important to unlocking parts of myself that were conditioned. Even at 65, I still run into these conditioned places in myself—I didn't see what was there."
One of Gatto's former students is Roland Legiardi-Laura, the filmmaker who is helping his mentor put together a documentary on education. Gatto considers Legiardi-Laura an embodiment of the self-made American. An orphan by the age of 16, he went on to manage the Nuyorican Poet's Café into prominence, renovate a former 19th-century boys' home in the East Village, and make two documentary films. Azul, his movie about the Nicaraguan passion for poetry, won several awards.
"The important thing about John is that he felt joy when he learned something from you," Legiardi-Laura told me. "He grew excited if you had an idea of value that he hadn't thought of before. He never condescended to us, and he always treated us as equals."
Why did students respond so emphatically to his teaching and not the teaching of others? What was so unusual about his approach?
Legiardi-Laura was an 8th grader 35 years ago, but he still remembers Gatto's class in detail. Aside from Moby-Dick, the students read 10 other books and produced book reports that were so comprehensive that he admits to recycling some of them in high school. The students also memorized soliloquies from Hamlet, tackled individual projects (Legiardi-Laura's was on the Warsaw Ghetto), and analyzed several newspapers so they could see how stories were spun from one paper to the next.
"John was demanding of us but never nasty or bitter," he recalled. "Even the laggards worked in his class."
Speaking in a similar vein, other former students used many of the same adjectives to describe Gatto: passionate, intense, energetic, different, and kind among them. Wendy Ziegler, an artist in Petaluma, California, provided perhaps the most original characterization: "There was a spiritual as well as an intellectual side to John, so that it was like being around a prime mover."
While Gatto was never a conventional teacher, he did in the early years of his career make up tests, give spot quizzes, and assign grades. Even then, though, his approach was not typical. Janet Griffin, who now lives in upstate New York, said that Gatto graded papers like no one else. "If you wrote a paper that had just one brilliant point, you'd get an A plus plus plus. This was just because you saw a gem, discovered something new," she explained. "You see, what always counted with John is that you broke through somewhere. So he'd find something that came out of your brain, your soul, and grade you on that."
Nevertheless, A pluses were not handed out liberally. Hannah Lamb, who was in Gatto's English class during the 1983-84 school year, said that he gave her quite a few F's. Yet somehow, she added, "he affected me more than any other teacher. I'm certain a lot of it had to do with his expectation that we, even as middle school students, would be able to function competently in the adult world."
I asked Lamb what kind of career she ended up having.
"I'm a 5th grade teacher in New York City," she said, "though I know I'm not as effective as John was. I wish I had his kind of forceful personality."
If Gatto had spent his entire career at School 44 he might have been considered a gifted teacher but not necessarily a great one; after all, the students were mostly upper-middle-class Manhattanites. But, after more than 15 years, he left the school, in part because his wife was then on the local school board, and he didn't want anyone suggesting he might use her position to get "a sweet teaching deal."
So, in 1981, Gatto moved on to Lincoln Academy (now Horizons Middle School), then considered a dumping ground for kids with behavior problems. But a year or two later, the school began attracting "good" kids from stable families whom Gatto didn't consider much of a challenge. After trying another middle school for a while, he took a job teaching 8th graders at Booker T. Washington Junior High in Spanish Harlem.
The school was predominantly African American and Hispanic, with more than half the students coming from families at or near the poverty level. It was at Booker T. Washington that Gatto became a celebrity, winning the New York City Teacher of the Year Award in 1990 and the New York City and New York State Teacher of the Year awards in 1991. Over the years, he'd infuriated many school administrators with his criticisms of the system, but his accomplishments—which were sometimes covered by the press—could not be denied. Some of his students at Booker T. Washington, for example, were finalists and winners in major essay competitions sponsored by the school district. Others made their marks in the "real world" by doing things such as founding a flea market, launching a letter-writing campaign to fund the building of the John Lennon Strawberry Fields Memorial in Central Park, and starting a food co-op.
Asked if teaching mostly poor, at-risk kids offered special challenges—and perhaps raised the level of his game—Gatto demurs, saying that, as he had in the past, he treated the kids at Booker T. Washington "like fully grown human beings." He admits, however, that this wasn't always his tack.
Early in his career, Gatto says, he was delivering a lecture on Calvinistic predestination—the belief that a select group of people are elected at birth to be saved—when an African American student fell asleep and slipped to the floor. "I kicked at the soles of his feet, like a cop waking a tramp," he recalls. "I was angry about his inattention. The kid fights back, but not with his fists. He says: 'I learned all this stuff in the 3rd grade. How the ladies who sew and clean houses were meant to do this. How your genes and chromosomes determine everything, and you can't escape.' This kid had written in his head a Ph.D. thesis that could be turned into a book."
A few uninterested parties aside, many of Gatto's students worshiped their teacher, who, trying to dispel any myths, told me at the beginning of our interview, "I have no intention of being turned into a guru." But a former colleague who taught with Gatto on and off for 15 years, told me, "John was very much the Pied Piper." His students literally followed him down corridors, peppering him with questions. In short, they considered him their fearless leader. But having young people look to him for validation amounted to a cardinal violation of Gatto's principles.
So he made "anti-guruhood a conscious teaching, its examination part of my curriculum," he tells me. Beginning in the late '70s, he established—first at School 44 and later at Lincoln Academy—an experimental school within a school. At Lincoln, more than 50 students participated by doing independent projects, with Gatto serving as guide.
'The important thing about John is that he felt joy when he learned something from you.'
Roland Legiardi-Laura
Filmmaker, former student
By way of example, he explains how he handled any student who was so good at impersonating teachers, the kid would have his classmates in stitches. "I'd go up to him," Gatto recalls, "and he'd probably say, 'I'm sorry, I won't do it anymore.' And I would answer: 'No, no, you're good at it. There must be 500 actor studios in New York, and I can get you hooked up with one of them. But I'll expect you to write something about it, to produce something of value to other people.' When that's the negotiation, you bat close to one thousand. You have nothing to lose."
By fudging attendance records and encouraging students to exit quickly and quietly, Gatto also allowed his kids to venture outside of school, where many were involved in community service. Others polled New Yorkers on various subjects, interned with everyone from dressmakers to newspaper editors, and visited museums. One girl slipped past a security guard at the New Yorker magazine in an attempt to query William Shawn, the legendary and reclusive editor. She got the interview.
During his final years of teaching, Gatto stepped outside of tradition altogether. Jamaal Wilson, one of his students in 1991, wrote an article that year for Children's Express Quarterly. Reprinted in A Different Kind of Teacher, it recounts a typical week for a Gatto class: one day each for independent study and apprenticeships; another day for community service, which had each student "helping others, not being a parasite," Wilson writes; and the remaining two days for class, during which students "practiced dialectics, which is thinking where you automatically assume that anything an authority tells you is dead wrong."
There's no question that Gatto bent, and sometimes broke, the rules—a subject he refuses to discuss in detail. But in his writings, he refers to himself as a saboteur, a role he believes a teacher must play to be effective in public schools.
At least one former colleague at School 44, a retired math teacher and old poker buddy named Danny Kotok, does not agree. Speaking from his home in Florida, Kotok, who taught for 31 years, said he had great respect for Gatto and his teaching abilities. "If I were principal, I would have had him at the top of the staff, as my premier English teacher," he added. But he didn't share Gatto's hostility toward the public school system.
"John would operate outside of the lines, and if he didn't like something the administrators had done, he would let them know," Kotok said. "But I had the attitude that if I did my job as well as I could, I could work through my frustrations with all the nonsense. I wasn't going to get all worked up about it, because you had about as much of a chance of succeeding as getting the Arabs and Jews to love each other."
Kotok also questioned the freedom Gatto gave his students. "John let the kids do pretty much what they wanted, and they soon realized that it was pretty much a matter of what they could get away with," he said. "I'm pretty sure he allowed the kids to do some things they shouldn't have done. He was the shepherd letting the flock go wherever it pleases."
As my interview with Gatto winds down, I suggest that public education couldn't be hopeless if he was able to positively influence so many students. He says, however, that he was one of only a few iconoclasts working inside a system that would never tolerate more than a handful of such teachers. It's a system that has been devoted, since its inception, to managing, not educating, and it's therefore incapable of change, he adds.
So, does Gatto have alternatives to offer? Eliminate forced schooling and a thousand flowers will bloom is the gist of his argument. There could then be schools in homes, businesses, churches-almost anything would be possible. And the poor, whose condition has, in part, been perpetuated by compulsory attendance in terrible schools, would finally be free to pursue alternatives of their own making. Gatto says: "Poor people are mostly poor, particularly poor in spirit, because the policy classes"—his trope for ruling classes—"and the cops and schoolteachers who do its bidding keep them poor. The system that pays for our schools could not survive without the poor, the desperate."
Diane Ravitch, who served as assistant secretary of education during the George H.W. Bush administration, agrees that American education, to some degree, practices social engineering—indeed, her recent book, Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms, argues this point. "But 80 percent of American children will always be in public schools," she told me. "It makes no more sense to do away with them than police departments; there are plenty of people who do not want to make their own arrangements for public safety and schools. I foresee a K-12 system that is a lot like the higher-ed landscape—an attractive mixture of private and public options."
'John imagines this world in which people will, through voluntary associations, create their own schools."
Deborah Meier,
Mission Hill,
Charter School,
One of the few public school educators Gatto holds in high esteem is Deborah Meier, founder of the Central Park East School in Harlem and currently director of the Mission Hill Charter School in Boston. Gatto taught one of her children in the late '60s, and being an activist parent at the time, she served on a number of school-related committees with him. I asked Meier what she thought of Gatto's idea to break up the public school system. Before answering, she praised him as a "gifted teacher, unpredictable and exciting." She also said many of his criticisms of public schools were incisive. But she believes that eliminating the system would have dire consequences that Gatto perhaps hasn't considered.
"John imagines this world in which people will, through voluntary associations, create their own schools," she said. "And he's right in some ways. The closer institutions are to the people, the more 'mom and pop' they are, the better. But I think these institutions should primarily be public, not private. I disagree with John in that I believe, in the absence of public schools, privately managed institutions will take over that are primarily interested in profit and even less accountable than public schools. Whereas John sees powerful community-based schools, I see a chain of Wal-Martlike schools."
Gatto disagrees. After his speech before the John Holt Associates, when he was talking to some of the homeschooling teenagers, one said he respected Gatto but wanted to take issue with his call for an end to compulsory schooling. If every kid were allowed to drop out of school, he said, most would spend their time just hanging out, playing computer games.
"No!" Gatto bellowed. "Kids wouldn't do that. The kids you're talking about are like those who built America, and they will reinvent themselves if given the chance. Yes, there would be a period of chaos, during which people would be searching for alternatives, but in the end, it would all work out."
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Pyrko, Igor and Eden, Colin and Dörfler, Viktor and Stierand, Marc (2017) Facilitating communities of practice with causal mapping workshops. In: IFKAD 2017, 2017-06-07 - 2017-06-09, GSOM - St. Petersburg University.
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package org.sxxp.xpath1.parser.expression

import org.sxxp.xpath1.parser.path.LocationPath
import org.sxxp.xpath1.parser.types._
import org.sxxp.xpath1.parser.QName
import org.sxxp.xpath1.parser.function._
import org.sxxp.xpath1.parser.types.XBoolean
import org.sxxp.xpath1.parser.types.XNumber
import org.sxxp.xpath1.parser.types.XString
import org.sxxp.xpath1.parser.types.XNodeSeq
import org.sxxp.xpath1.parser.Predicate
import org.sxxp.xpath1.exp.XPathContext
import org.sxxp.xpath1.parser.axis.{NodeWithAncestors, DescendantOrSelfAxis}

trait Expression {
  def evaluate(node: NodeWithAncestors, context: XPathContext): XObject = ???
}

case class OrExpression(left: Expression, right: Expression) extends Expression {
  override def evaluate(node: NodeWithAncestors, context: XPathContext) =
    XBoolean(left.evaluate(node, context).asXBoolean.value || right.evaluate(node, context).asXBoolean.value)
}

case class AndExpression(left: Expression, right: Expression) extends Expression {
  override def evaluate(node: NodeWithAncestors, context: XPathContext) =
    XBoolean(left.evaluate(node, context).asXBoolean.value && right.evaluate(node, context).asXBoolean.value)
}

case class EqExpression(left: Expression, right: Expression) extends Expression {
  override def evaluate(node: NodeWithAncestors, context: XPathContext) =
    XBoolean(XObjectComparator.isEqual(left.evaluate(node, context), right.evaluate(node, context)))
}

case class NeqExpression(left: Expression, right: Expression) extends Expression

case class LtExpression(left: Expression, right: Expression) extends Expression

case class GtExpression(left: Expression, right: Expression) extends Expression

case class LtEExpression(left: Expression, right: Expression) extends Expression

case class GtEExpression(left: Expression, right: Expression) extends Expression

case class SumExpression(left: Expression, right: Expression) extends Expression {
  override def evaluate(node: NodeWithAncestors, context: XPathContext) =
    XNumber(left.evaluate(node, context).asXNumber.value + right.evaluate(node, context).asXNumber.value)
}

case class SubtractExpression(left: Expression, right: Expression) extends Expression {
  override def evaluate(node: NodeWithAncestors, context: XPathContext) =
    XNumber(left.evaluate(node, context).asXNumber.value - right.evaluate(node, context).asXNumber.value)
}

case class MultiplyExpression(left: Expression, right: Expression) extends Expression {
  override def evaluate(node: NodeWithAncestors, context: XPathContext) =
    XNumber(left.evaluate(node, context).asXNumber.value * right.evaluate(node, context).asXNumber.value)
}

case class DivExpression(left: Expression, right: Expression) extends Expression {
  override def evaluate(node: NodeWithAncestors, context: XPathContext) =
    XNumber(left.evaluate(node, context).asXNumber.value / right.evaluate(node, context).asXNumber.value)
}

case class ModExpression(left: Expression, right: Expression) extends Expression {
  override def evaluate(node: NodeWithAncestors, context: XPathContext) =
    XNumber(left.evaluate(node, context).asXNumber.value % right.evaluate(node, context).asXNumber.value)
}

case class MinusExpression(exp: Expression) extends Expression {
  override def evaluate(node: NodeWithAncestors, context: XPathContext) =
    XNumber(-exp.evaluate(node, context).asXNumber.value)
}

case class UnionExpression(left: Expression, right: Expression) extends Expression {
  override def evaluate(node: NodeWithAncestors, context: XPathContext) = {
    // TODO check what about reverse order
    val leftNodeSeq = left.evaluate(node, context).asXNodeSeq
    val rightNodeSeq = right.evaluate(node, context).asXNodeSeq
    XNodeSeq((leftNodeSeq.value ++ rightNodeSeq.value).sorted)
  }

}

case class LiteralExpression(value: String) extends Expression {
  override def evaluate(node: NodeWithAncestors, context: XPathContext): XObject = XString(value)
}

case class NumberExpression(value: Double) extends Expression {
  override def evaluate(node: NodeWithAncestors, context: XPathContext): XObject = XNumber(value)
}

case class FilterExpression(expr: Expression, predicate: Predicate) extends Expression {
  override def evaluate(node: NodeWithAncestors, context: XPathContext): XObject = {
    // TODO verify efficiency
    XNodeSeq(expr.evaluate(node, context).asXNodeSeq.value.zipWithIndex.filter {
      case (n, index) =>
        predicate.evaluate(n, index + 1, context)
    }.map(_._1))
  }
}

case class PathExpression(expr: Expression, path: LocationPath) extends Expression {
  override def evaluate(node: NodeWithAncestors, context: XPathContext) = {
    val nodeSeq = expr.evaluate(node, context).asXNodeSeq.value
    XNodeSeq(nodeSeq.flatMap(n => path.select(n, context)))
  }
}

case class AbbreviatedPathExpression(expr: Expression, path: LocationPath) extends Expression {
  override def evaluate(node: NodeWithAncestors, context: XPathContext) = {
    val nodeSeq = expr.evaluate(node, context).asXNodeSeq.value
    val descendants = nodeSeq.flatMap(n => DescendantOrSelfAxis(n))
    XNodeSeq(descendants.flatMap(n => path.select(n, context)))
  }
}

case class FunctionCallExpression(functionName: QName, arguments: List[Expression]) extends Expression {

  override def evaluate(node: NodeWithAncestors, context: XPathContext) = {

    def assertArity(arity: Int) =
      if (arity != arguments.length)
        throw new IllegalArgumentException(s"Function ${functionName.getFullName}() expects $arity argument(s), found ${arguments.length}!")

    def invokeFunction0(f: ParameterlessFunction) = {
      assertArity(0)
      f.apply()
    }

    def invokeFunction1(f: UnaryFunction) = {
      assertArity(1)
      f(arguments.head.evaluate(node, context))
    }

    functionName match {
      case NumberFunction.QNAME => invokeFunction1(NumberFunction)
      case BooleanFunction.QNAME => invokeFunction1(BooleanFunction)
      case StringFunction.QNAME => invokeFunction1(StringFunction)
      case TrueFunction.QNAME => invokeFunction0(TrueFunction)
      case FalseFunction.QNAME => invokeFunction0(FalseFunction)
      case _ => throw new IllegalStateException(s"Unknown function ${functionName.getFullName}()!")
    }
  }
}

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SC Rejects Plea To Add Northeast's History, Geography In School Syllabus
Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud observed that children should be taught as little as possible since it is information overload now and they should not be burdened with more lessons.
Supreme Court of India (SC) | Image: ANI
2 Dec, 2022, 3:46 pm
The Supreme Court (SC) on Friday declined to entertain a plea seeking to make changes to the school curriculum by including chapters on the geography and history of Northeast India, saying that the issue falls within the domain of the education policy.
"Including chapters in history, geography is pertaining to (the education) policy and I believe teach children as little as possible since it is all information overload now and every ill in the society does not merit court intervention," the CJI said.
The SC was hearing a plea filed by a practising advocate, Jyoti Zongluju, who also requested changes in the law to curb racial discrimination.
The SC bench, which also comprised Justice PS Narasimha' said it could not issue a direction to a law-making authority.
It said such issues fall within the domain of the Executive and the Parliament and the court cannot pass any orders.
"And regarding videos on YouTube on racial discrimination, police is the appropriate authority to look into it," the bench said, disposing of the plea.
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Geno Smith, Matt Ryan among candidates for summer headlines
Published: May 28, 2013 at 07:52 AM
Memorial Day marked the unofficial start of summer. The unofficial start of the fall? Sept. 5, 2013, when the Denver Broncos host the reigning Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens. With the first game exactly 100 days away, there's still plenty of time for notable developments to occur. What's one thing you expect will go down before the 2013 season officially kicks off?
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Geno Smith will grab the Jets' job by Opening Day
I expect the New York Jets to open the season with Geno Smith as the starting quarterback -- not that this will strike anyone as a surprise, based on Mark Sanchez's performance over the past two seasons. Still, putting a rookie in the starting role is certainly a gamble for a coach who is reportedly on the hot seat.
However, Rex Ryan doesn't have much of a choice, due to the lack of confidence his locker room seems to have in the incumbent starter. Sanchez seems to simply lack the leadership skills and swagger to guide the Jets out of the doldrums and back into postseason contention. Most importantly, he lacks the game to help the Jets contend with the elite teams in the AFC. That alone should lead Ryan to tap the former West Virginia standout as the starter, despite the questions about his readiness to play.
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Matt Ryan's on the verge of getting PAID by the Falcons
Every year brings a few more player suspensions, and this year won't be any different. I'm also expecting a couple of players to sustain critical injuries in the preseason. There is no way to predict these things; teams just have to adjust to them.
Additionally, I expect to see the signing of one more big quarterback contract. With extensions already done for Joe Flacco and Aaron Rodgers, logic says that Matt Ryan -- who is entering the last year of his contract -- will be next.
The time is now for both sides to finish the deal, but there is more pressure on the Atlanta Falcons to get it done. Even if Ryan were to get hurt, Atlanta would have to franchise him at the very least, if not continue efforts to lock him up with a long-term deal.
Gregg Rosenthal NFL.com
Geno Smith will send Mark Sanchez to the bench
I expect Geno Smith to be named the starting quarterback of the New York Jets. His skill set is superior to that of Mark Sanchez. And at this point, Sanchez's experience seems to be a negative, rather than a positive; he just has too many bad habits and memories to get rid of.
Cutting Sanchez seemingly would make this a simpler process, but nothing in New York is simple. So I expect Sanchez to go into the season as an $8 million backup.
Adam Rank NFL.com
Peyton Manning will be prematurely crowned -- again
The media will once again give Peyton Manning the Lombardi Trophy before the season starts. It's as much of a fall tradition as the changing of the leaves and the rolling out of another bad NBC sitcom. And yet, every year it seems like Peyton's season ends pretty much the same way "Animal Practice" ended on NBC. Well, perhaps 14 seasons isn't enough of a sample size to truly gauge Peyton's playoff savvy.
The excuse-makers always bring up his weapons and constantly stress that this is a team game, but the excuses are out the window this year. With Wes Welker in the mix, it's time for Manning to put a stamp on his career.
Jason Smith NFL.com
Jets will stir up the tabloids with three notable moves
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Second, if the Jets get an inkling that the legal process isn't going to go their way with Mike Goodson, they'll release him and sign Ahmad Bradshaw. While Bradshaw doesn't have the West Coast offense skills that coordinator Marty Mornhinweg was hoping to get out of Goodson, the veteran back provides a safety net if something doesn't go right with Chris Ivory. There aren't many landing spots where Bradshaw can count on getting playing time, so he'll come cheap.
Finally, all of this will look like a warm-up act when the Jets waive Mark Sanchez. We spent a lot of time on his three-pick day during organized team activities, but his ultimate fate has nothing to do with how he plays. As long as Geno Smith continues to improve and play well, he'll open the season as the Jets' starter, and Sanchez will be let go during the summer. You don't get bashed by your head coach after Day 2 of OTAs unless the writing is on the wall. But he won't be out of work long. After the Jets let him go, the drama will really get going. He'll land in either Jacksonville or Cleveland as a backup/potential starter down the road.
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Q: consul query all service nodes in one request https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/http/catalog.html

/v1/catalog/services: Lists the nodes in a given service

I have lot of services, have to query consul for the nodes for each of them .. THUS This is called multiple times

/v1/catalog/service/ : Nodes for the service

need a http api to get all the services in just one requests , something like

/v1/catalog/servicesNodes : Nodes for each service

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 "service1":[{Node":"2e6c1dbe173f","Address":"172.17.42.1",
             "ServiceID":"aa:80", "ServiceName":"aaww",...},{}],
 "service2":[{Node":"2e6c1dbe173ee","Address":"172.17.42.1",
             "ServiceID":"aaqq:80", "ServiceName":"aaqqww",...},{}],

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LILACS RACHMANINOFF PDF
Rachmaninov was married to Nathalie Satin in April and wrote this set largely to help pay for their honeymoon, which lasted until August. In June, Rachmaninov wrote to his friend Nikita Morozov, "these songs were written in a hurry and are quite unfinished and unbeautiful. It would be nice to get done with all this dirty work by the July 1st so I can get to work on something new. The earliest recording of the song appears to have been made about by Russian bass-baritone Dmitri Smirnoff, with a young Gerald Moore presiding as accompanist. Around , Rachmaninov began to receive bouquets of lilacs at his performances from an anonymous admirer. The lilacs arrived, like clockwork, to every concert or recital Rachmaninov gave, no matter where he was appearing in the world, through
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Rachmaninov was married to Nathalie Satin in April and wrote this set largely to help pay for their honeymoon, which lasted until August. In June, Rachmaninov wrote to his friend Nikita Morozov, "these songs were written in a hurry and are quite unfinished and unbeautiful.
It would be nice to get done with all this dirty work by the July 1st so I can get to work on something new. The earliest recording of the song appears to have been made about by Russian bass-baritone Dmitri Smirnoff, with a young Gerald Moore presiding as accompanist. Around , Rachmaninov began to receive bouquets of lilacs at his performances from an anonymous admirer. The lilacs arrived, like clockwork, to every concert or recital Rachmaninov gave, no matter where he was appearing in the world, through That year, Madame Felka Rousseau of Russia identified herself to Rachmaninov as the mysterious donor of the lilacs.
Rachmaninov explained that as long as the current political situation remained as it was in Russia, it was unlikely that he would be able to return at all. Soon after that, the lilacs stopped coming. Rachmaninov made the arrangement around and often used it as an encore piece.
He recorded it three times, the first such recordings being made for Victor in , the second as an Ampico piano roll sometime in the s, and the last time at his final recording session held at the RCA studio in Hollywood on February 6, Appears On.
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Or maybe you will trust them, again, that they won't do it?
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Q: Sum of elements in a subset
How many subsets of $\{0,1,\ldots,9\}$ have the property that there are at least two elements and the sum of the two largest elements is $13$? (For example, $\{1,4,9\}$ is such a subset.)

I'm having a hard time to figure out the ways to attack this problem ... casework would take too long, and complementary counting seems just as much.

A: Let $a<b =13-a$ be largest elements in the set.
If $b=9$ then $a=4$ so we can choose any subset of $\{0,1,2,3\}$ so we have $2^4=16$ subsets.
If $b=8$ then $a=5$ so we can choose any subset of $\{0,1,2,3,4\}$ so we have $2^5=32$ subsets.
If $b=7$ then $a=6$ so we can choose any subset of $\{0,1,2,3,4,5\}$ so we have $2^6=64$ subsets.
So we have $16+32+64 =112$ sets.