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THE 15-STAR CONFEDERATE BATTLE FLAG OF GENERAL LLOYD TILGHMAN, WHO LED THE 3RD KENTUCKY INFANTRY, COMPANY D, CAPTURED AND IMPRISONED AT FORT WARREN IN BOSTON HARBOR, RELEASED IN EXCHANGE FOR UNION GENERAL JOHN REYNOLDS; DEFEATED GRANT AT COFFEYVILLE, KANSAS; KILLED IN ACTION IN VICKSBURG CAMPAIGN AT THE BATTLE OF CHAMPION HILL WHEN STRUCK IN THE CHEST BY A CANNONBALL; THE MOST BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE I HAVE EVER SEEN ACROSS ALL SOUTHERN CROSS FORMAT BATTLE FLAGS & ONE OF JUST FOUR KNOWN IN THIS RARE S
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Frame Size (H x L): Approx. 49" x 51"
Flag Size (H x L): 37" x 39"
Of all the types of early American flags, Confederate battle flags in the Army of Northern Virginia / Southern Cross format have become the most desirable artifacts. Their collective value is driven by a combination of their limited window of production, age, interest in Civil War-period relics, and a keen dose of Southern patriotism. Across surviving examples there are many varieties. As with most antiques, the best are the most unusual, the most beautiful, and the most historic.
Because the homemade, personal battle flag of Confederate General Lloyd Tilghman scores high in all of these aspects, it falls among the best of those that have been carefully stewarded into the 21st century by caring hands. The flag survives as one of very few homemade battle flags belonging to Confederate Generals. This makes it particularly extraordinary and it is a wonder that the flag survives in private hands. The count of 15 stars makes it especially rare.
Most documented flags in this format contain 13 stars, recognizing the 11 states that officially seceded by way of popular vote, followed by ratification in the respective state governments, plus Missouri and Kentucky, which were accepted by Confederate President Jefferson Davis despite divided views among its populous and less official achievement of secession. A less significant number of such flags contain 12 stars, excluding Kentucky, which was the last of the list to be added.
Only three other Confederate battle flag exist with 15 stars in the Southern Cross style. One such example is the flag of Georgia's Fowler Guard, 42nd Infantry, Co. D, which I was privileged to have previously owned. The remaining two include the flag of the 50th Tennessee Infantry, held by the Tennessee State Museum, and a recently discovered flag of the 7th Texas Infantry.
The count of 15 stars incorporates all of the Slave States, adding the Border States of Maryland and Delaware to the 13 others represented on most flags. Two Confederate 1st National pattern flags are known with 15 stars. None are known in the 2nd or 3rd National varieties (the latter of which effectively wasn't produced at all because it was adopted just 36 days before the war's end). Only one of the above is documented in a text on the subject. A sketch of the 1st National pattern flag carried by the 26th Tennessee Volunteers appears in "The Battle Flag of the Confederate Army of Tennessee" by Howard Michael Madaus and Robert Needham (Milwaukee Public Museum, 1976), p. 129.
The stunning, hand-sewn flag of General Tilghman is made entirely of silk, constructed with great care, and can easily be placed among the very best that I have seen in terms of visual presentation. Chief among its design elements are the blue satin, picot-edged ribbon used to create St. Andrew's Cross (on the obverse side) and the extraordinary, hand-knotted, lattice-work fringe. Handed down though the Tilghman family, it survives in especially fine condition for a silk flag of the period. The colors are especially rich and the stitchery is unusual, executed in a style that has both a decorative and utilitarian element, which is unusual in flag-making.
Lloyd Tilghman was born near Claiborne, Maryland in 1816 and to a family of long military and patriotic tradition. He was a 7th generation Marylander, descending from one of the state's earliest settlers. He was the great-grandson of Judge Matthew Tilghman (1718-1790), who was at the forefront of political revolution in the state.
Matthew Tilghman was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 1751 and served until the colony became a state. He became Speaker of the House from 1773-75 and from 1774-76 he effectively led the Revolution in Maryland as Chairman of the Committee of Safety and head of the Maryland delegation to the Continental Congress. He also served as President of the Annapolis Convention and headed the committee that drafted the "Charter of Rights and Plan of Government" that was Maryland's first constitution. When the new state government was formed in 1776, Matthew Tilghman was elected to the state Senate, serving until 1783, including the last three of those as Senate President.
Lloyd Tilghman was an Army officer and engineer trained at West Point (Class of 1836). He worked as chief engineer for many railroads and in-between saw service in the Mexican War. His work eventually led him to Paducah, Kentucky, where he became an official resident of the state in 1852. He became an officer in the Kentucky State Guard in 1860 and quickly rose to Commander of the Western Division. When the war broke out in 1861, his decision to join the Northern or Southern cause was thought to have likely been a difficult one, but when Union forces invaded Kentucky against the will of its people to remain neutral, his mind was made up by his witness to the event and Tilghman took command of the 3rd Kentucky Infantry, Company D, on July 5th. On October 18th ha was promoted to Brigadier General.
Tilghman was tasked with the refurbishing and reinforcement of Forts Henry and Donelson, which he worked skillfully and diligently to defend. He was impeded by thousands of ill-equip men, at least 2,000 of which remained unarmed when Union forces attacked. He was subsequently captured at Fort Henry (Feb. 6, 1862) before being imprisoned at Fort Warren in Boston Harbor for a period of six months. On August 15th, 1862, he was exchanged for Union General John Reynolds.
Tilghman was given command of the men exchanged during his release. He went on to successfully defeat general Grant's forces at Coffeyville on December 5th, but it was Grant's Army that would bring his life to an end nine months later. On May 16th, 1863, he was killed in action during the Vicksburg Campaign at the Battle of Champion Hill, when he was struck in the chest by a cannon ball.
Today Tilghman's former home in Paducah serves as a Civil War museum, the local high school bears his name, and there are monuments with his likeness at both Paducah and on the Vicksburg Battlefield. The Vicksburg statue displays the General in a particularly robust posture, standing before his horse, back slightly arched and with both arms raised vigilantly skyward, drawn sword in one hand and reins in the other. A book entitled "Lloyd Tilghman, Confederate General in the Western Theater", by Brian Bush, was published by Acclaim Press (Morley, MO) in 2006 and accompanies the flag.
Other important documents include a notarized letter that briefly explains provenance, signed by Richard Tilghman, a direct descendent and namesake of the original Tilghman that settled Maryland in 1660. Also included is a full report and textile analysis by Fonda Thomsen, widely thought to be the leading authority in antique flags from a textile identification perspective.
In summary, the stunningly beautiful presentation that results from the silk fabrics and fringe of this unusual flag, enhance its already strong desirability among the few known to have belonged to Confederate Army Generals. The fact that there are only four known Southern Cross battle flags with 15 stars is of great significance and enhances both its Maryland and Kentucky relationships. The fact that Maryland is included makes perfect sense in light of Tilghman family history and lends an interesting opportunity for a person interested in Civil War, Confederate objects related to that state. This is an especially interesting feature because so few Maryland-relationship flags survive of any kind. And the fact that Tilghman was so grandly killed at such a memorable battle completes the package. All-in-all, the result is one of the best Confederate flags that a Civil War collector might acquire.
Construction: The red ground is made of silk sateen. The blue cross on the obverse side is made of blue satin ribbon with a decorative edge, while on the obverse is made of appliqued lengths of another variety of blue silk. The stars are made of ribbed white silk and double-appliqued (applied to both sides). Silk is seldom ever used in the making of appliqued stars and its presence here is especially interesting. Both the stars and the fabric used to applique the blue cross to the reverse were affixed with a looping blanket stitch. On the obverse a backstitch technique, unusual in flag-making, was employed to affix the blue ribbon. A length of woolen tape used to reinforce the hoist is the only fabric that is not silk. Three pairs of silk ties were used to affix the flag to a staff, only one of which remains. The knotted silk fringe is one of the most elaborate that I have ever encountered on an early flag. All of the thread used in the construction is silk, save that used to apply the pairs of ties along the hoist, which is 2/2 ply, S-twist cotton.
Mounting: Price of the flag includes conservation and framing in one of our best moldings.
Condition: The flag is intact as originally constructed save one repair in the top corner of the hoist end. There is minor dye bleed of the red into the white silk and the fringe. There is minor splitting with associated loss. Two of the pairs of silk ties are largely absent. Many of my clients prefer early flags to show their age and history of use. The flag is in an excellent state of presentation for a silk Confederate Battle Flag of this period and it's rarity and desirability well warrants such minor condition issues.
State/Affiliation: Kentucky
War Association: 1861-1865 Civil War


Cheng & Tsui's Readings in Korean Culture Series offers supplemental readings for students with different levels of Korean language proficiency. Each volume in the series offers fifteen to twenty essays that include background information, pre-reading questions, essays in Korean, core vocabulary lists, comprehension questions, vocabulary exercises, word lists, and composition questions. The Readings in Korean Culture Series is an ideal resource to help learners improve their linguistic proficiency and deepen their understanding of Korean culture and narrative traditions and conventions.


The Middle way (Umay Lam) bike rally for Tibet began from Bylakuppe and successfully concluded in Dharamshala.The rally was organized by the Bylakuppe chapter of People's Movement for Middle way.
Tibetan Women's Association's President Mrs.Dolma Yangchen and General Secreatary Ms.Tsering Choezom warmly welcomed Mr.Rinzin Dorjee, Director of Bylakuppe chapter of People's Movement for Middle way and the other participants. Despite the variations of ideological paths in our society they bravely faced the difficulties and succeeded in promoting Middle Way Approach (Umay Lam).


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Q: exists() Always Returning False In Android Application Using Kotlin I am trying to remove all files from a directory before downloading a new file to the same location. I am trying to run a check to see if the file exists before I execute a delete. Even though I know the file exists, it always seems to come back as false.
Here is the code that downloads the file:
    val url = "www.fileurl.com"
    val filename = "trainingvideos.zip";

    val request = DownloadManager.Request(Uri.parse(url))
    request.setAllowedNetworkTypes(DownloadManager.Request.NETWORK_WIFI or DownloadManager.Request.NETWORK_MOBILE)
    request.setTitle("Download")
    request.setDescription("The file is downloading...")

    request.allowScanningByMediaScanner()
    request.setNotificationVisibility(DownloadManager.Request.VISIBILITY_VISIBLE_NOTIFY_COMPLETED)
    request.setDestinationInExternalFilesDir(applicationContext, "TrainingVideos", filename)

    val manager = getSystemService(Context.DOWNLOAD_SERVICE) as DownloadManager

    manager.enqueue(request)

Which downloads the file to "Local/Internal storage/Android/data/com.example.mypackage/files/TrainingVideos".
Before the download I want to check to see if the file exists. I have tried setting the path a few different ways and I suspect that's where I may be going wrong, no matter what I do exists() always comes back false:
    val directory = "Internal storage/Android/data/com.example.mypackage/files/TrainingVideos/trainingvideos.zip"

    var directoryToDelete = File(directory)

    var exists = directoryToDelete.exists()

    if ( exists ) {

        directoryToDelete.deleteRecursively()
    }

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Hallux limitus, an arthritic condition of the hallux, or big toe, involves stiffness in the joint at the base of the big toe. Abnormal alignment of the first metatarsal bone is usually the cause of the condition that restricts motion. Injury, overuse, and genetics are other reasons for the development of hallux limitus.
Symptoms include sudden sharp pain, or the gradual development of discomfort and pain over time, as well as swelling and inflammation that are aggravated by pressure from footwear. Hallux limitus can lead to wider spread joint problems, such as hallux rigidus, as well as calluses, bone spurs on top of the joint, and diabetic foot ulcers, if left untreated. Hallux limitus can be treated with orthotic inserts to stabilize and support the area, ice, rest, over-the-counter anti-inflammatory medications (ask your doctor first), and cortisone injections at the site.
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WASHINGTON, D.C., USA, - February 26th, 2015 - London Heathrow and Star Alliance have won the World's Airport of the Year at Air Transport World's (ATW) 41st Annual Airline Industry Achievement Awards, honoured jointly for their collaborative work on the new Terminal 2 at Heathrow. The accolade was presented to Andy Garner Director Airline Business Development, London Heathrow, and Mark Schwab, Star Alliance CEO, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. last night (25 February).
"London Heathrow Airport truly stood out for its exceptional project in the redesign of Terminal 2 and its demonstration of what can be achieved when airports and airlines work together. Heathrow and Star Alliance have produced a marvellous facility that is a win, win for its passengers in every respect," ATW Editor-in-Chief Karen Walker said.
The award is one of the first bestowed on the new Terminal 2 | the Queen's Terminal which opened on June 4th, 2014. The purpose-built, state of the art facility was jointly conceived by Heathrow Airport, Star Alliance and its member carriers with the aim of establishing a true seamless hub at one of the world's premier international airports. The building was designed by Spanish Architect Luis Vidal to be simple and intuitive, with a bright and airy atmosphere. The 2.5 billion GBP investment is part of an overall upgrade to Heathrow Airport, which has cost a total of 11 billion GBP over the last five years.
Mark Schwab commented: "In June last year we rang in a new era for our customers, member carriers and employees at London Heathrow. Feedback we have received so far confirms that we offer our customers a superior travel experience, are creating new business opportunities for our member carriers and providing an improved working environment for employees. It is great to see our joint efforts culminate in receiving the prestigious Air Transport World Airport of the Year Award; the first time ever that this award is being given jointly to an airport and an airline alliance."
Andy Garner said: "We are absolutely delighted to win this coveted award. This is a very valuable accolade within the airline industry and our success is the result of a strong collaboration with over 180 organisations, particularly Star Alliance, to deliver such a complex project. Our passengers are pleased with the result - our airport service quality scores show that if Terminal 2 was an airport in its own right we would have the best customer service scores in Europe. We couldn't be more proud of what we have achieved so far and this award is a step towards fulfilling our ambition to become one of the best airports in the World."
Being able to operate from a single terminal at Heathrow ensures that Star Alliance member carriers can offer their more than 12 million passengers using the airport on an annual basis a vastly improved travel experience, including shorter connecting times. The latest technology is used throughout the terminal to give passengers control of their journey. The check-in area has been specially designed for speed and efficiency. Airlines are grouped in zones, while a row of 81 common use self-service kiosks can be used by any passenger to check in and/or print a bag tag before handing their luggage to an agent at the fast bag drop. Full-service traditional check-in desks are provided for the use of First Class, Business Class and Star Alliance Gold passengers. This passenger group also has a Gold Track option to speed them through the security checks.
Eight out of 12 gates at the T2B satellite allow self-boarding, meaning passengers simply pass through a mechanical barrier to board their flight.
Three airline lounges are currently available for premium passengers, including those with Star Alliance Gold status. These are located in the main terminal building and the satellite, so eligible passengers can relax close to their gate. A fourth lounge is due to open in the coming months.
The terminal also houses some of the best in British retail, including John Lewis, Cath Kidston and Mulberry.
The Star Alliance airlines serving Heathrow are Aegean Airlines, Air Canada, Air China, Air India*, Air New Zealand, ANA, Asiana Airlines, Austrian, Avianca, Brussels Airlines, Croatia Airlines, EGYPTAIR, Ethiopian Airlines, EVA Air, LOT Polish Airlines, Lufthansa, Scandinavian Airlines, Singapore Airlines, South African Airways, SWISS, TAP Portugal, Turkish Airlines, THAI, and United.
Together they operate over 121 flights per day to 47 destinations in 26 countries. Each of these flights acts as a gateway to the full Alliance network of more than 18,500 daily flights to 1,321 airports in 193 countries.
The Star Alliance network was established in 1997 as the first truly global airline alliance to offer worldwide reach, recognition and seamless service to the international traveller. Its acceptance by the market has been recognized by numerous awards, including the Air Transport World Market Leadership Award and Best Airline Alliance by both Business Traveller Magazine and Skytrax. The member airlines are: Adria Airways, Aegean Airlines, Air Canada, Air China, Air India, Air New Zealand, ANA, Asiana Airlines, Austrian, Avianca, Brussels Airlines, Copa Airlines, Croatia Airlines, EGYPTAIR, Ethiopian Airlines, EVA Air, LOT Polish Airlines, Lufthansa, Scandinavian Airlines, Shenzhen Airlines, Singapore Airlines, South African Airways, SWISS, TAP Portugal, Turkish Airlines, THAI and United. The integration of Avianca Brasil is currently in progress. Overall, the Star Alliance network currently offers more than 18,500 daily flights to 1,321 destinations in 193 countries.


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Buffalo Sabres 2021 NHL schedule: How to watch, stream, listen to every game this season
Buffalo Sabres center Jack Eichel skates with the puck against the Arizona Coyotes during the second period of an NHL hockey game Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020, in Glendale, Ariz.Ross D. Franklin | The Associated Press
The NHL is back, and the Buffalo Sabres kick off a shortened, 56-game season in a newly-formed East Division on Thursday, January 14 2021 with a home game against the Washington Capitals.
Most Sabres games are available in market on the regional sports networks MSG or MSG Plus, which are available to stream on fuboTV and AT&T TV. You can verify local MSG broadcasts here. Full TV schedule below.
Two Sabres games will be picked up by NBC, while an additional five games will air on the NBC Sports Network this season. These games can also be streamed on Hulu + Live TV and YouTube TV, but if you want to catch more games, those services mostly miss out.
» New York Islanders 2021 NHL schedule
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Additional Sabres games are also available on the NHL Network, available on fuboTV, Sling, AT&T TV.
Many Sabres away games air on a variety of regional sports networks, and viewing on TV or on streaming services may be restricted by region. A select few are still available on MSG, however.
Schedules are prone to change in yet another Covid-19 afflicted season, but as of the start of the season, this is the 56-game Buffalo Sabres schedule:
1/14 vs. Washington, 7:00 p.m. on MSG (fuboTV, AT&T TV)
1/18 @ Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m. on NBCSN (fuboTV, AT&T TV, Hulu + Live TV, YouTube TV)
1/19 @ Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m. on MSG+, NBCSP (fuboTV, AT&T TV)
1/22 @ Washington, 7:00 p.m. on MSG+ NSW+ (fuboTV, AT&T TV)
1/24 @ Washington, 7:00 p.m. on NSWA (Check broadcast)
1/26 vs. NY Rangers, 7:00 p.m. on MSG (fuboTV, AT&T TV)
1/30 vs. New Jersey, 1:00 p.m. on NHL Network (fuboTV, Sling, AT&T TV)
2/2 @ NY Islanders, 6:00 p.m. on NBCSN (fuboTV, AT&T TV, Hulu + Live TV, YouTube TV)
2/4 @ NY Islanders, 7:00 p.m. on MSG (fuboTV, AT&T TV)
2/6 @ Boston, 7:30 p.m. on MSG (fuboTV, AT&T TV)
2/8 @ Boston, 7:00 p.m. on NBCSN (fuboTV, AT&T TV, Hulu + Live TV, YouTube TV)
2/11 vs. Washington, 7:00 p.m. on R360 (Check broadcast)
2/15 vs. NY Islanders, 7:00 p.m. on NBCSN (fuboTV, AT&T TV, Hulu + Live TV, YouTube TV)
2/16 vs. NY Islanders, 7:00 p.m. on MSG (fuboTV, AT&T TV)
2/20 @ New Jersey, 12:30 p.m. on NHL Network (fuboTV, Sling, AT&T TV)
2/22 @ New Jersy, 7:00 p.m. on MSG (fuboTV, AT&T TV)
2/26 vs. Philadelphia, 7:00 p.m. on MSG (fuboTV, AT&T TV)
3/2 @ NY Rangers, 7:00 p.m. on MSG (fuboTV, AT&T TV)
3/7 @ NY Islanders, 12:00 p.m. on NBC (fuboTV, AT&T TV, Hulu + Live TV, YouTube TV)
3/9 @ Philadelphia, 7:00 p.m. on NBCSP (Check broadcast)
3/11 vs. Pittsburgh, 7:00 p.m. on R360 (Check broadcast)
3/13 vs. Pittsburgh, 7:00 p.m. on MSG (fuboTV, AT&T TV)
3/16 @ New Jersey, 7:00 p.m. on MSG (fuboTV, AT&T TV)
3/18 vs. Boston, 7:00 p.m. on R360 (Check broadcast)
3/20 vs. Boston, 1:00 p.m. on MSG (fuboTV, AT&T TV)
3/22 @ NY Rangers, 7:00 p.m. on MSG (fuboTV, AT&T TV)
3/24 @ Pittsburgh, 8:00 p.m. on NBCSN (fuboTV, AT&T TV, Hulu + Live TV, YouTube TV)
3/27 @ Pittsburgh, 1:00 p.m. on MSG (fuboTV, AT&T TV)
4/1 vs. NY Rangers, 7:00 p.m. on MSG (fuboTV, AT&T TV)
4/6 @ New Jersey, 7:00 p.m. on MSG (fuboTV, AT&T TV)
4/8 vs. New Jersey, 7:00 p.m. on MSG (fuboTV, AT&T TV)
4/11 @ Philadelphia, 2:00 p.m. on TVA (Check broadcast)
4/17 vs. Pittsburgh, 3:00 p.m. on NBC (fuboTV, AT&T TV, Hulu + Live TV, YouTube TV)
4/29 @ Boston, 7:00 p.m. on R360 (Check broadcast)
5/1 @ Boston, 1:00 p.m. on SN1 (Check broadcast)
5/3 vs. NY Islanders, 7:00 p.m. on MSG (fuboTV, AT&T TV)
5/6 @ Pittsburgh, 7:00 p.m. on R360 (Check broadcast)
5/8 @ Pittsburgh, 7:00 p.m. on MSG (fuboTV, AT&T TV)
Here's where you can listen to the Buffalo Sabres games on the radio:
BUFFALO, NY - WGR 550 AM (Flagship)
ROCHESTER, NY - WCMF 96.5 FM
ROCHESTER, NY - WROC 950 AM (when not in conflict with Rochester Americans)
OLEAN, NY - WQRS 98.3 FM Olean/Salamanca.
BATAVIA, NY - WBTA 1490 AM
RUSSEL, PA - WQFX 103.1 FM (Jamestown NY, Warren PA)
DUNKIRK, NY - WDOE 1410 AM
ELMIRA, NY - WWLZ 820 AM
WATERTOWN, NY - WOTT 94.1 FM
OGDENSBURG, NY - WQTK 92.7 FM
On Sirius XM, games are on Channel 219 when available.
The service is available in several pricing structures. The cheapest option is the family package at $64.99 and includes 120 channels, 250 hours of DVR space and can be used on three screens at once.
The fubo Elite package is $79.99 per month, and offers more than 170 channels, including Showtime channels, extra sports channels and extra news and entertainment channels.


There are many types of hardwood floors available. Solid hardwood is generally what most people imagine. Actually, there are other options to consider. With these options there are also many varieties of species. This guide will help start you on the process of considering the options. Your Portland Hardwood Flooring specialist will help you choose based upon your space and lifestyle.
The first thing you will want to consider is, engineered or solid hardwood flooring. Both options add value to your home and come in a variety of species, stains and styles. Engineered hardwood flooring has three layers. The top and bottom layers are 100% solid wood, while the middle consists of 5-7 layers of plywood. This style of flooring is very stable and less likely to expand due to moisture and temperature. This option typically does not allow you to sand and refinish, but is more versatile.
Solid hardwood is 100% wood. They are timeless, durable and reliable. You will want to consider the environment, and avoid areas with high moisture. This type of flooring allows you to sand and refinish multiple times. You have many more design options with this choice.
Engineered flooring is usually the cheaper option. Solid hardwood, however is defiantly worth the investment. Learn more here, about Engineered vs Solid Hardwood Flooring.
If you decide to go with solid hardwood flooring, you need to decide on prefinished or unfinished. Prefinished simply means that the wood comes finished from the factory. With unfinished hardwood flooring, your installer will finish the wood after instillation. Prefinished allows you to avoid the fumes and reduces instillation time, however it does come with it's disadvantages. They can vary in height, have beveled edges that catch dirt, and future repair is limited or expensive. Unifinished flooring means your floors will have a flawless and smooth look. Your Portland Hardwood instillation specialist can discuss with you low dust & fume eco-friendly options. Learn more here, about Prefinished vs Unfinished Hardwood Flooring.
Many homeowners look to install hard, durable flooring in the home. There are many species of hardwood flooring. One way to gauge a wood's hardness is using the Janka Scale. The Janka Scale helps us to divide them into two categories, 'soft' and 'hard'. Soft wood can be more susceptible to dents, dings and imperfections. Many homeowners fall in love with the rustic-charm and low-cost of softwoods. Hardwoods are beautiful and provide considerable value to your home. Homeowners agree that the price is well worth the investment. Learn more here, about Hardwood Flooring Hardness.
Your Portland Hardwood Flooring specialist can help you understand all options available. Call or email today, consultation and advice is free!


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Texas Tech picks Potts as starting QB
LUBBOCK, Texas(AP) Tommy Tuberville has made his pick to run Texas Tech's high-flying offense in the season opener.
Taylor Potts will start over Stephen Sheffield against SMU on Sept. 5 after the two performed "about the same" through the first two weeks of practice. The decision hinged on which senior can execute what Tuberville wants out of the offense and Potts got the nod after the team's second scrimmage over the weekend.
"We just felt like Taylor had a better grasp in terms of consistency," Tuberville said. "I mean, this wasn't rocket science."
How do Potts and Sheffield feel about the decision? Their takes are off limits to the media for now: Tuberville did not let either one answer questions Monday.
"It was a very hard decision," Tuberville said. "Obviously, I feel bad for Stephen because he worked just as hard as anybody. But again that's part of competition. He's got the ability and the right now to go out and prove as we go along that he is the best."
Sheffield will get plenty of snaps in practice, only not with the first team. Teammates know that like last year he'll be ready. He took over after Potts got a concussion in a win over New Mexico and led the Red Raiders to victories over Kansas State and at Nebraska.
"I'm sure he's disappointed but at the same time getting on the field is as quick as one play," said running back Baron Batch. "And everybody knows that. That's why you have to come out and still prepare like you're the starter."
Sheffield and Potts each had surgery in March. Sheffield, who threw for 1,219 yards and 14 touchdowns in six games in last season, needed to repair to the same bone in his left foot that he injured in October at Nebraska.
Potts, who threw for 3,440 yards and 22 touchdowns in 11 games last season, needed surgery to fix an injury between his index finger and middle finger he got hitting a helmet while throwing.
Potts has made strides, Batch said.
"I think he's just playing football," he said. "I think a big thing that kind of got him in trouble was he just thought too much. I think he's just going out and having fun and playing, and that's really the biggest difference.
Potts was booed by home fans during a 52-30 loss to Texas A&M last season. That experience, Batch said, matured him.
"He went through a lot last year, a lot of things that a lot of players didn't have to go through," Batch said. "He was booed off the field, no one wanted to see him in there and he never complained one time. Going through all that has made him that much of a better player and a quarterback."
Tuberville said he's got options with Sheffield, a fan favorite last season who is mobile outside the pocket.
He's got as much confidence in Sheffield, he said, as Potts.
"I wouldn't have any qualms of going in the first game and just flip-flopping and putting Stephen in there, but I want the players to know that Taylor is the guy that we're going to put out there," Tuberville said. "Did we make the right decision? I think we did, just in terms of what we're doing right now."
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Q: Installing Node.js latest version I was having trouble in updating my npm. I updated my node from v6 to v10. And was wondering what version of npm is installed with the version of v10? or does it remain same ? because in my case it was still showing same old version of npm which is 3.3.12, could not able to update it to 6.5.0. there was some constant error coming which was really annoying every time. So i tried to uninstall node and install it again and again. But it is not working. for people to know i am using windows 7.
The error that i get when i try to update npm using command :
npm install --global --production npm-windows-upgrade

Error: Cannot find module 'internal/util/types'

and when i run : npm-windows-upgrade --npm-version latest ,
 i get the error to reinstall node as there was error in installing npm upgrade. Please suggest me what to do

A: Update node version:
Use n module from npm in order to upgrade node
sudo npm cache clean -f sudo npm install -g n sudo n stable

To upgrade to latest version (and not current stable) version, you can use
sudo n latest

You will be found latest version for both npm and node

A: How about npm rebuild it? Hopefully, it would help you. If not working, reinstalling node and clearing npm cache could be fixed probably.


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2-я лёгкая стрелковая бригада, 2-я лёгко-стрелковая бригада — стрелковое формирование (соединение) РККА ВС Союза ССР в Великой Отечественной войне.

История
Бригада сформирована в сентябре 1941 года из 9-го стрелкового полка (был сформирован в городе Петрозаводск в июле 1941 года) и 10-го запасного полка НКВД (был сформирован в городе Петрозаводск в июле 1941 года), маршевого пополнения АрхВО в составе Карельского фронта, в Петрозаводске.

В составе действующей армии с 25 сентября по 16 декабря 1941 года.

Вела бои на южных подступах к Петрозаводску в районе Ужесельга, после оставления Петрозаводска 30 сентября 1941 года севернее его, на рубеже реки Шуя, в декабре 1941 года ведёт бои за Медвежьегорск в составе Медвежьегорской оперативной группы.

16 декабря 1941 года расформирована в связи с потерями, остатки личного состава переданы в 71-ю стрелковую дивизию и 313-ю стрелковую дивизию.

Наименование
 Полное действительное наименование — 2-я лёгкая стрелковая бригада.
 Сокращённое действительное наименование — 2 лсбр;
 Полное условное наименование — Полевая почта № ?????.

Состав
 управление;
 9-й стрелковый полк;
 10-й запасной стрелковый полк НКВД;

В составе

Примечания

Ссылки
 I. Управления стрелковых бригад, Перечень № 7 управлений бригад всех родов войск, входивших в состав действующей армии во время Великой Отечественной войны 1941—1945 годов.
 Перечень № 7 управлений бригад всех родов войск, входивших в состав действующей армии во время Великой Отечественной войны 1941—1945

Воинские части и формирования, созданные в 1941 году
Воинские части и формирования, расформированные в 1942 году

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The restaurant's stable transformed elegant dining room features a lavish Oriental spread alongside a wide selection of fine oriental cold and hot mezze, a signature center stage live chargrill for all of our mouthwatering chargrilled meats, and a selection of local inspired dishes. We also serve delectable grilled and salt baked fresh seafood, fresh bread, and signature clay roasted dishes. Our pastry chefs also prepare a selection of tempting desserts, boasting our one-of-a-kind live knafeh, prepared table side by our skilled chefs. Oriental and local cuisine, authentic flavors, artisan food, art, music and culture; all find their home within the ancient walls of Kan Zamaan.


A key member of TradeMark East Africa's (TMEA's) Senior Management Team, the Senior Director, Trade Environment is responsible for ensuring programme quality and delivery of TMEA's Outcome 1b, Trade Environment related to "reducing barriers to trade''.
In particular, s/he will ensure that TMEA's objectives, and associated strategic impacts, outcomes and outputs, are achieved around: improving the standards regime, implementing a Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) programme; improving trade processes and systems, including Information and Communications Technology (ICT); and improving the trade regulatory environment including reduction of Non-Tariff Barriers (NTBs).
The job holder will ensure alignment of trade environment goals to TMEA's strategy, and the linkages between interventions in trade policy and facilitation, standards and SPS, Continental and regional integration policies, and ICT are mainstreamed in all aspects of TMEA's work and clearly linked to organisational objectives at both national and regional levels.
Oversee the development and delivery of a large, complex portfolio across the region to improve East Africa's trade environment.
Leadership and other Management Teams.
Demonstrate commitment to the inclusive establishment, implementation, assessment and continuous improvement of TMEA management systems and policies.
Actively engage with the senior leadership and management colleagues and contribute to strategic decision making and problem solving.
Responsible for reporting on trade environment programming delivery including coordinating high quality and timely quarterly and annual reports of programme and financial performance.
Contribute to TMEA-wide Annual and donor reports, in line with the monitoring and evaluation framework; and Facilitate discussion, information sharing and agreement on the achievement of strategic objectives and targets.
Ensure close coordination and foster strong integration with the other outcome delivery, and country based teams.
Any other related responsibilities that may be assigned by the CEO from time to time.
Undergraduate or Masters' degree preferably in Economics, Development Studies, International Trade, Planning, Finance, Management or other related fields.
Trade Policy or International Trade qualifications are a distinct advantage.
Undergraduate degree holders will have at least 15 years' working experience, including seven years of leadership and management experience.
Postgraduate degree holders will require at least 13 years' experience including seven years of relevant leadership and management experience.
A minimum of 10 years' experience in leading the development and delivery of trade improvement initiatives and trade-related capacity development programmes to enhance the capacities of developing countries in trade policy development, formulation and implementation of trade reforms, regional integration, and support to national governments.
Significant work experience with Regional Economic Communities preferably in East or Southern Africa, or in an international multicultural environment.
Experience in working with private sector and civil society to deliver trade capacity support and to support trade related advocacy.
Proven intellectual and strategic thinking skills with strong problem solving and analytical skills.
Excellent leadership and management skills with sound decision-making and judgement.
Developed experience of mentoring staff at a senior level.
Good understanding of trade policy context and regional integration in Eastern and Southern Africa.
Good understanding of the dynamics affecting trade policy at national, regional and global multilateral levels, as well as excellent understanding of the multilateral trading systems and their implications on regional integration.
Significant knowledge of the trade and development needs of developing countries, and a good understanding of trade policy, trade facilitation, infrastructure and transport/logistics.


(FTTH) network in Zimbabwe. The aim is to provide homes and businesses with a fastest broadband with unlimited data packages. It The company announced today the latest expansion of its" has already placed fibre rings around Victoria Falls to provide multiple routes of redundancy.
Small and medium sized businesses are able to serve customers in a global market. It enables SMEs to exploit modern business tools to increase efficiency. It will benefit business and individuals trading worldwide without limits with cloud-based services, OTT services online backups, and video conferencing.
Laying of fiber to homes and businesses has begun in town. The Fibroniks service will be offered by ZOL Zimbabwe. ZOL is part of The Liquid Telecom Group. Fibroniks is already available in the capital Harare.
Up to now broadband services in Victoria Falls have been via ADSL links, WiMAX and cellular services such as CDMA and 3G/EDGE. These services offer speeds of no more than 512kbps. Fibroniks provides people of Victoria Falls with the fastest broadband offered in the continent today.
Fibroniks service enables people to participate in and benefit from digital revolution. Utilize Unlimited data packages with speeds of up to 100Mbps. This means customers can access whatever they want, anytime, with a guaranteed fixed monthly price. With speeds equal – and indeed exceed – those available in the developed world.
Fibroniks means people can use multiple devices at the same time with no buffering or delay for home users. Access enhanced home entertainment like video on demand decoders, smart TV and with connection to home security systems. It comes with a voice services and free on-net calls.
Victoria Falls is home to many small businesses that includes; restaurants, hotels and lodges, sightseeing, car hire and tax services to serve tourists as well as the many business conferences hosted in this town with a population of 35,000 people.
Victoria Falls this week host the annual Innovation Africa Digital summit which has attracted delegates from across Africa. Liquid Telecom is providing in addition extensive broadband connectivity for the summit. It will enable delegates to access high-speed broadband at 150Mbps with a dedicated link full duplex.
Liquid Telecom Group has launched its FTTH service in Zambia, where it is directly being sold to end-users through ISPs. CEC Liquid Telecom is authorized Resellers. It hopes now to launch FTTH in Nairobi-Kenya, Kigali-Rwanda and to others neighboring countries in the near future.
Liquid Telecom Multi-award-winning has built Africa's largest single fibre network. This network runs from the north of Uganda to Cape Town spanning over 18,000km across borders. It covers Africa's fastest-growing economies. Liquid Telecom brags no such fixed network has existed before.


Eight years ago, Santiago Meza admitted to carrying out horrible acts on behalf of drug cartels. The authorities still haven't sentenced him, but on the land in Tijuana where he "worked," the evidence continues to pile up.
This article originally appeared on VICE Mexico. Leer en Español.
Eight years have passed since the day Mexican authorities detained a man named Santiago Meza López. At that time, President Felipe Calderón's administration began referring to Meza as El Pozolero ("The Stewmaker"), a reference to the fact that he was believed to have dissolved some 300 people in caustic soda.
In a press release distributed by the Attorney General's office on January 25, 2009, Meza López was portrayed as one of the most ruthless drug traffickers in the game, and the official description of him suggested he'd be subjected to a severe sentence. Almost a decade later, the reality is quite different.
Information obtained by VICE News en Español via the Federation of Judicial Power —which is in charge of imposing sentences in Mexico—revealed that to date, Meza López still hasn't been formally sentenced, despite admitting to these horrible acts and being convicted of crimes.
For now, he remains incarcerated in the Almoloya de Juárez prison in the State of Mexico, where he finished a primary school education and learned how to write.
As can be read in his file, around mid-2015, a formal prison sentence was handed down due to Meza López's involvement in organized crime and illegal deprivation of freedom. But his defense attorney has managed to lodge various stays that have been accepted by judges, pushing back the official date for sentencing.
Nevertheless, in the northern part of the country—the farthest point from the capital—lies the border city of Tijuana, where human remains keep being dug out of the earth, presumably those that were dissolved by Meza López.
They appear every time it rains, every time the wind moves the soil, every time a group of family members of the disappeared shows up with a pick axe and a shovel to look for the remains of their children, fathers, and grandsons.
According to Fernando Ocegueda, president of the association United for the Disappeared (Unidos por los Desaparecidos, in Spanish), 16,500 liters of organic matter have been extracted thus far.
The most recent excavations were conducted between the months of August and October of this year, on the land where Meza López dismembered and dissolved in acid the bodies of people who were kidnapped by the Arellano Félix and Sinaloa Cartels, the groups that historically controlled drug trafficking in that city.
The most important excavation to date, which occurred in an area known as "The Chicken Coop," took place several weeks ago in a house just outside city limits. The event came eight years from the day that Meza López was detained, opening a new door for families of Mexico's disappeared. Authorities had informed families that DNA could not be extracted from the organic remains, but in mid-August, Fernando Ocegueda and other family members discovered new graves in the Chicken Coop, extracting 250 kilos of bones and bone fragments.
The story of the Chicken Coop begins around 1996, when Meza López worked for the Arellano Félix Cartel, taking care of horses and doing masonry work.
Efraín Pérez and Jorge Aureliano Félix 'El Macumba', the heads of the organization, invited him to see an "experiment." They poured liters of water and other substances into a drum and asked Santiago Meza López to drop in a leg of beef. They told him he should let it sit for two hours. "Move it, and the meat dissolved," Meza López recalled himself.
"It was probably about six months later that they called me again and Efraín told me that now they were going to experiment with human flesh. 'I'm going to send some guys to train with you.' In other words, [so] that they learn the job," Meza López recounted in a statement to authorities.
The first body was dissolved one night in 1996, in a drum with 200 liters of water. They undressed him, put him inside, turned on the gas burner, and left it there all night.
"It left the water thick with foam," Lopez said. "We put the barrels in the pick-up and took them to throw them [away] in the canyon. It was still dark when we threw them in. Three months later, I did it again."
"I told them I didn't want to do it anymore," Lopez added in his statement.
Years passed and Santiago Meza López stuck with the job, and did teach the method to others; in his statement, he explained that, in one of the locations, which may or may not have been the Chicken Coop, he installed drainage where the dissolved human remains were dumped.
"It was the devil to move them (the human remains) because they weighed a lot. After everything was cleaned up, we stored the barrels. We also washed the drain with hot water because the remains stuck to the pipes," he recalled.
Meza López said he worked in the Chicken Coop itself for just a year and a half, and that, on some occasions, military forces showed up, but never discovered anything. He said the Cartel brought more than 70 bodies to that site to dissolve them in the caustic soda.
He described the Chicken Coop as a very rural place that "was along the free highway to Tecate (a neighboring city of Tijuana), I don't know in what kilometer; a path went up past the front of a gas station and led to a brick wall. We called it the Chicken Coop because they raised chickens there."
VICE News en Español was at the most recent excavation at the Chicken Coop. Here's what we saw.


Will Mute Investment Banking Hurt BofA (BAC) Q1 Earnings?
Performance of investment banking, one of the primary sources of revenues for Bank of America BAC, is expected to be muted in first-quarter 2019. So, this will likely have an adverse impact on the bank's results, slated on Apr 16.
Investment banking income basically comprises underwriting revenues (equity and debt) and advisory fees (generated from M&A deals and IPOs). So, let's check how these are likely to have performed in the to-be-reported quarter.
Prolonged government shutdown at the beginning of the quarter and fears of economic slowdown weighed on companies' plans to raise capital by issuing shares. Thus, BofA's equity underwriting fees are expected to be weak.
Further, higher interest rates are likely to have slowed down companies' involvement in debt issuance activities. Nonetheless, the Fed's dovish stance on future rate hikes must have led to a slight increase in debt issuances during the quarter. Thus, debt underwriting fees (accounting for roughly 40% of total investment banking fees for BofA) might provide some support to the bank's revenues.
Now coming to advisory fees, it is also not expected to be a great support to BofA's top line. While dealmakers across the globe were active during the first quarter, global deal value and volume witnessed a fall due to higher borrowing costs and several geopolitical concerns.
Further, given the government shutdown and geopolitical ambiguity, IPO activities slowed down despite decent equity market performance during the quarter. So, these factors will have a slight adverse impact on BofA's advisory fees. However, with the company being one of the leading players in this space, this will likely provide it some leverage.
Notably for BofA, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for earnings of 65 cents reflects a 4.8% increase on a year-over-year basis. Also, the consensus estimate for sales of $23.2 billion indicates a marginal rise of 0.5%.
Click here to know about the other factors that are likely to influence BofA's overall results.
Amid a tough operating environment, soft investment banking performance is expected to have a marginal adverse impact BofA's revenues. Along with this, dismal trading performance remains a concern. Nonetheless, decent loan growth and higher interest rates will aid this Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) stock's revenues.
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TUI buys Hotelbeds business to sell extra activities to holidaymakers
The TUI logo is displayed on a computer screen in London, Britain, October 17, 2017. Picture taken on October 17, 2017. REUTERS/Hannah McKay
FRANKFURT/BERLIN (Reuters) - Europe's largest tourism group TUI (TUIT.L) has expanded its business offering excursions and activities to holidaymakers by buying part of Spanish hotel room specialist Hotelbeds Group, aiming to take advantage of a growing market.
TUI, which is buying the business for 110 million euros (96.33 million pounds) in cash, had sold Hotelbeds in 2016 for 1.2 billion euros, but CEO Fritz Joussen said on Wednesday it was impossible at that time to separate out the destination services business and that TUI had bought it back for a better price.
The deal will allow TUI to expand in the destination services market, which is estimated at around 140 billion euros and which is growing at a rate of around 7 percent a year, TUI said.
The destination services acquisition comes as TUI tries to provide more personalised products to customers throughout their holiday, such as such as airline seat upgrades, specific hotel rooms and then a choice of activities, once they reach their destination.
Joussen said TUI wanted to take advantage of the time between when a customer books a trip and when they actually go on holiday, typically around four months, in order to sell them additional activities, such as guided tours or Segway tours, at their holiday destination.
"That's a period where we can virtually exclusively offer these customers such services," Joussen told journalists.
Joussen said that with up to 350,000 "micro-suppliers", the market was highly fragmented, and TUI hoped to work more closely with them.
"They won't find better access to the market than us," he said.
Reporting by Maria Sheahan and Victoria Bryan. Editing by Jane Merriman


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There were about 30-40 parents in attendance at the meeting along with a plethora of staff; Dr. Goodloe-Johnson (who came about 7 p.m.), Dr. Enfield, all the NE principals, Bernardo Ruiz of Family Engagement and Directors Maier, Carr and Martin-Morris.
A couple of heads up for anyone attending the other meetings. One, for some reason they had the sign-in sheets in the auditorium instead of when you head in. So look for those if the building you are in is using an auditorium. Also, they had two tables at Eckstein and different handouts at each so check if you want to make sure you get everything. Two, get those questions ready because they took any and all questions.
I was surprised to see a table of Starbucks coffee, bottled water and granola bars for the audience. It's a nicety but I thought we were a poor district. I asked Dr. Enfield and she said she didn't know what budget this came out of. Apparently I hit a nerve because Dr. Goodloe-Johnson later said the district didn't pay for it. (Alliance for Ed gave SPS a food budget? Who knows?)
It took awhile to get started as there were introductions to all the principals, some of the staff and the Board members. The meeting was introduced as the "Superintendent kicking off her public engagement plan." We were told that Job #1 for the Executive Directors is to support principals as instructional leaders. Also, parents, if you have a concern, you must go to your teacher first, then the principal and THEN the Executive Director. This was pretty much the extent of explaining the new regional system which I thought a little odd.
The Superintendent seemed quite relaxed. She told us a fairly long story about her daughter wanting to pick her own kindergarten teacher and being told she couldn't but that her daughter was happy in the end. She said Maya was filled with joy and that she wanted every parent to be "filled with joy" with their child's teacher. She emphasized that she wanted parents as partners in the district.
She had ended her remarks saying something about an excellent classroom so I was the first question of the night, "What is an excellent classroom?" Her reply was that it means teachers are supported as professional and so they can support students whether they are ELL, special ed, etc. and provide a way that provides access to standards and creating that ability to do so.
I had to laugh a little. Dr. Goodloe-Johnson always has so much to pack into a thought that somehow, sometimes the thought gets a little lost. Also, she suffers from my disease which is speaking too quickly.
movement of principals? Yes, there was a lot of movement but they couldn't anticipate all the moves, "life happens and people make choices". They hired 20 new to the district principals.
testing and the district's view? An odd question so she basically outlined what tests the students take.
question on quality teacher versus what we find out from testing, something of a "sanity check" on teacher performance? We expect students will grow and that it will be typical growth against standards. (I think I know what the parent was asking here but I don't think Dr. G-J wanted to answer. I think it was how do you measure all the qualities of a good teacher versus a test score.)
teacher contract and the supplemental levy? This was interesting because the parent said he knew virtually nothing about the levy which is not good for the district. Dr. Goodloe-Johnson had Peter Maier answer the question about the levy but he really bobbled it. He said the levy will "fill the gap by the cuts by the legislature." He explained that some of it would be for teacher raises, paying for collaboration time, career ladder stipends but he left out the $2.4M implementation cost. (The levy sheet says it will reduce the gaps and so there's this big question of whether we are restoring money that was cut or just partially filling hole and if so, which ones. The levy sheet says " ...we can't specify the services and programs at this time." Ah, so just give us a blank check.)
Then there was an interesting question about the music programs at Eckstein, Roosevelt and Hale. I want to do a separate thread on this but basically, the parents are worried that due to lack of students in the orchestra at Hale, they want to try to allow those students to go to Roosevelt at the end of the day to work with their orchestra. They also have a long-term plan to "grow" students so that all high schools can have an orchestra program (which needs a critical mass). Parents working out solutions; there's the partnership that Dr. G-J could embrace.
Coming middle school crowding in NE? Dr. G-J kind of danced around this one saying that in December, the district will be looking at issues that have arisen from the new NSAP. She didn't directly address this question but that's the time they will be addressing any and all issues. This parent did press on and Dr. G-J did mention the October 1 counts for each building.
Unhappy parent over the NSAP. This was a funny question only because this parent was obviously foreign-born and said she had come to this country for choice and now there isn't any in SPS. Dr. G-J did explain that the process had come over 3 years. Sherry said they did it, in part, to save transportation dollars.
Parent who is part of the less than 30 families left with two kids in two schools because of the NSAP. She had brought both her children and said that she couldn't move her oldest to the youngest new school because of the program at the older child's school. So she is homeschooling the younger one for this year. It was asked if the waitlist could be continued for these families? Basically Dr. G-J said no, that it ends on Sept. 30th.
Chris Jackins asked that the transportation savings be submitted in a report. Dr. G-J admitted that they were supposed to and it was late and "I'll be happy to check" which I'm hoping isn't a Don Kennedy "I'll get back to you."
Question about "standardized curriculum" and what about schools that have other things that work? I could tell the Superintendent was not happy because yes, she said, "We are not standardizing the curriculum. We are aligning it." She did mention that teachers can supplement and do creative things and that it doesn't change what alts do. My question would be about pacing guides and the district not paying for supplemental materials so how possible IS it for teachers to be creative?
We were told all the questions and answers were recorded and would be posted at the SPS website and this would happen for all the regional meetings.
Then we broke off into informal groups to ask the various staff questions. Dr. Goodloe-Johnson circulated the room. She even came up to me and asked if all my questions had been answered. I said yes but really, what else could I say that late in the day?
In summary, I was a little surprised that more wasn't explained about the benefits of the new regions to parents. However, this was a great time to have access to key staff including the Superintendent. I guess the jury is out on the Superintendent's new charm offensive but in the spirit of wanting to believe the best in people, I give her credit. (This doesn't mean that she and I are new BFFs or that I have changed my mind on her agenda but it does mean that she's a human being making an effort - albeit a lot late - to reach out.)
Labels: Eckstein, Executive Directors, Hale, NSAP, regional meetings, Roosevelt, superintendent
I had just typed up a summary and posted it on an earlier thread when Melissa opened this thread. I'll copy it here and delete it from the other thread (sorry for the redundancy-Melissa's is clearer, but mine may contain some additional useful detail.)
Good summary Chris. I was also struck by the way we were offered the choice of asking Qs in front of the group or breaking out into individual discussions. (The venue was not particularly great for mingling-it was held in the auditorium at Eckstein). The ratio of staff to parents was embarrassing (for parents).
MG-J was 25 minutes late, the point of her story about her kindergartener was that she wishes all families could count on having great teachers (my take away-wouldn't it be great if ALL schools could afford to do home visits with new kindergarteners!).
Question: Melissa asked her to define an excellent classroom. Answer MG-J talks really fast sometimes. I jotted down: teachers are supported as professionals so they can support students; so we provide what kids need; kids need ACCESS (her emphasis); teachers have flexibility creating support.
Question: Will there continue to be a lot of principal movement? Answer: (basically) life happens/things happen, we can't predict. (I believe she said they hired 20 new principals this year.)
Question: About testing, but unclear to me (he seemed to be saying that there has been a decreased emphasis on testing)--I didn't get the answer.
Question: (mine and too long) We seem to be defining good teachers as ones who raise test scores and then judging how good teachers are by how much they raise test scores, isn't that circular? Has SPS even done a study to see if the teachers principals and Ed Directors identified as poor preformers in the past actually had students who showed less growth on standardized tests? (as a sort of 'sanity check' to support her SERVE proposal). Answer (short) no. (long) there are lots of studies that show that good teachers are very important in raising achievement levels of students (cites the one about three years of bad teachers being equivalent to (?) a lobotomy or something, I forget.)
I'll be going to the Central meeting on Wednesday night.
I started writing down a list of questions to have ready, but they are nearly all about advanced learning. This may not be the right venue for them.
Question: About the levy-what's it for? Answer Peter Maier took this one. He says it's to fill the gap left by legislature's budget cuts. $48mill total over 3 years. I wrote: $19mill total for SEA contract stuff: raises, mentor teachers/master teachers/collaboration time; $6mill for books (HS science, K-5 music, HS LA, MS something) and the rest is for make up for what the legislature cut. There was also a handout, but I'm not going to retype that. (It lists $2.4 mill "to implement the teacher evaluation system (that is a subset of the $19mill Maier mentioned). That is the only part I see that they are pointing out is going to admin.)
Question Would SPS support collaboration between (e.g., RHS and Hale to build capacity (e.g. in music) during the SAP transition? Answer: Sounds like a good idea (music people broke out later and talked separately--sounds like they have had trouble getting support from Carrie(?) Campbell downtown?
Question What's the plan for M.S. overcrowding? Answer: Here I think MG-J was being deliberately obtuse--i.e., not wanting to say anything in particular--said the new capacity mngmnt policy means they will review every winter, but wouldn't say what remediations could be. (questioner tried to tie her down--maybe got a better answer in the break out?).
Complaint Compared NSAP to lack of choice in (I think) Eastern Block. Complained about lack of choice, this is supposed to be a democracy. SUpported my another parent who is homeschooling kindergartener cause can't get her into older kids school...Have they consdered extending waitlist. MG-J thinks not-will take feedback.
Question Timeline for report of transportation savings from the start time (etc) changes Answer: MG-J doesn't know, will followup on that.
Question (Chris Jackins I think?) What happened to report of impact on kids whose schools were closed? Answer: MG-J acknowledges report is overdue, will followup on that.
Question Standardization?Answer: They aren't standardizing-they are providing all children ACCESS to the same curriculum, teachers can supplement with whatever they want. Access doesn't change what alt schools can do.
That's what I got.
Thanks for going to this meeting, Melissa, and summarizing it for us here. And, thank you attending the next meeting, Charlie. Both of you ask important and critical questions, in part because both of you track issues more closely than most parents, and it is great to have your voices there. Very much appreciate you doing this.
They hired 20 new to the district principals.
In a district of 97 schools, doesnt that seem like a lot?
I understand that SEA has the interests in teachers in mind & the same for whatever the principal union is called, but could they get together to poll if teachers are encouraged/supported at all to move up to " administration" as it were, and if it is just that we did not have enough applicants within our district or is it that the Stanford admin, is CHOOSING to hire outside the district- for their own reasons?
I echo my appreciation for those who withstand these grueling meeting and report on them for readers- I don't think I could take that unless they replaced those bottles of water & granola bars with tequila shooters & chips.
I just thought of the question that I want to ask:
"The Board is developing a policy - or at least some guidance - around granting schools waivers from using the Board-adopted materials to experiment with other things - Singapore math, Saxon math, Marine Biology at Garfield, and the variety of LA classes at Roosevelt are common examples. A critical element of that guidance will be to monitor the effectiveness of the alternative materials and, if student performance falls below some benchmark, the revocation of the waiver. That seems sound, but it begs the question: What measures are we making of the effectiveness of the Board-adopted materials and will we replace them if student performance falls below some benchmark?"
By the way, I asked (Harium and John Miner) about the principal's contract (PASS) and they said that negotiations are ongoing, no timeline per se but that principals will continue to work under their old contract. Basically they said that they couldn't really do the PASS contract until the teachers' contract was settled.
So how come we can't all see the final ratified on both sides teachers contract? Hmmm.
Charlie: good "turn-about question. But the one I want to ask (and I am not sure I can articulate it well -- or whether I can defend the premises (based on what the District has said) is: Where alternative materials are being used (and in some cases have been used for many years) in schools with relatively high performance scores (either school wide or programmatic -- as in the case of elementary math WASL scores at Schmitz and North Beach), why is the District's position not to permit the continued use of what are evidently appropriate (if not actually highly desirable) alternative curricular materials?
Why is there not a presumption of curricular soundness in courses taught in schools where students do comparatively well on tests?
Unfortunately, in asking this question -- I am doing what I hate - and that is - exposing one problem while seeming to agree with the District on another (the use of rigid curricular alignment/standardization in schools where students are performing lower. I don't agree that this will be useful. And I think it will deliver a degraded educational experience to kids whom we would most like to reach with enriched, personalized education.
But still -- why not give "clearly working" materials a "pass?"
Melissa, a contract is up on the SEA website. It LOOKS like the 2010-2013 contract, but I didn't see signatures on it. It's 149 pages, with multiple appendices. It's dense with contract-ese.
But is it the "final, ratified" contract? I just don't know. I recall a few years ago that there was talk about whether significant changes were made after the vote...
When curricular alignment was first introduced, the staff was very clear to say that they would not disrupt successful programs. And then they did.
Charlie sez:
"That seems sound, but it begs the question: What measures are we making of the effectiveness of the Board-adopted materials and will we replace them if student performance falls below some benchmark?"
No it doesn't. It raises the question, it doesn't beg the question (which means "to assume the conclusion"; "begging the question" is a particular type of logical rhetorical fallacy.)
I know the proper use of the phrase is shot to hell, but I'm fighting a rear-guard action.
Other than that, however, it's a great question, Charlie.
"Parent who is part of the less than 30 families left with two kids in two schools because of the NSAP."
Don't forget that sibling grandfathering was only discussed and agreed to for this year's kindergarten class. So anyone with a larger age gap in children is out of luck. I suspect that there will be more split sibling issues in the next couple years.
One dad I met in my anti-levy campaign is in this position (child at VR, I think, and a couple more not yet in kindergarten age.
Luz Villasana said...
There is actually no sibling grandfathering this year, just priority in the wait list, and the promise of aggressive handling of wait lists. Priority for siblings is going to remain under the NSAP as well as the injustice of separating families.
Luz, thanks for the clarification. Do we have data that predicts how bad this issue will be in the next couple years?
I guess we are all waiting for the Oct 1st count.
Dorothy, Keep Our Kids together should have some numbers, which might not be accurate at this point in time, though. What is clear though, is that schools are packed, independent of the sibling issue.
klh said...
One of the topics Melissa wrote about was people who are trying to work on the music program difference(orchestra in particular) between Roosevelt and Hale. Are there any parents reading this blog who know more about this?
"What is clear though, is that schools are packed, independent of the sibling issue."
Of course if some schools are packed that means others are not packed.
Garfield is packed, RBHS is not.
Roosevelt is packed, Ingraham is not.
Bryant is packed, Jane Addams is not.
And so on....
Klh, I plan on doing a separate thread in the next couple of days on the music issue. I hope to get contact info so that more parents can join in this effort.
SE Mom said...
About the orchestra issue:
It would be great to get follow up about orchestra at other high schools also. We were told at a tour of Franklin that they would start offering orchestra this year. And at Sealth, we were told that they were going to hire another music teacher to be able to offer more string classes.
Did those classes materialize?
krod said...
Sibing issue at JSIS will be more next year. This year, JSIS offers 4 kinder classes, and they are completely full, and 5 families remain split, and we are of course one of them.
Funny thing is that I called enrollment center to find out the current K enrollment numbers at JSIS, and they wouldn't tell me.
Since we have only 8 days for waitlist being active, I wish someone would communicate a little bit better about this. We are so frustrated, and there is nothing we can do about it!!
Krod, do you know how are they handling the need to hire more Japanese and Spanish fluent teachers? Has that been a problem? Is there any discussion of just having the new classes be English only, or of cutting back the amount of day spent in immersion?
So sorry for you krod.
I'm sure we will be in your shoes come next year when the big sib wave hits the school
do you know how are they handling the need to hire more Japanese and Spanish fluent teachers? Has that been a problem? Is there any discussion of just having the new classes be English only, or of cutting back the amount of day spent in immersion?
They hired some teachers in the spring. As far as I know it has gone ok so far.
The surprisingly large first grade classes are still waiting to hear back from the district as to what the solution will be.
I strongly doubt it will be hire another immersion teacher. Splitting up the big first grade classes adds a new problematic dimension I hadn't known about before -- the classes have to have 28 kids at 4th grade to fund their teacher. So to split the 3 first grade classes into 4 classes of 25 is pretty much a non-starter.
This is why JSIS has always had very big Kindergarten classes. After 1st grade filling in holes when the occasional student leaves the school is hard, particularly in the Japanese classes.
I'll say it again 'cause it needs saying. It should not be a neighborhood school.
Sabine Mecking said...
@krod: I presume you have e-mailed Tracy Libros, Sherry Carr and other school board members. But have you also e-mailed the principal and BLT (who discusses school internal budgeting and planning with the principal) at JSIS regarding the remaining siblings on the wait list? My son is in one of the Spanish K classes, and as far as I can tell there are "only" 26 kids in his class. In the past, they have had 28 kids in the incoming K classes, and I really don't understand why they don't let the remaining siblings in at least now since that would be only 1 more child per class (and maybe 2 in one case).
It just seems ridiculous that it is ok for schools to be overcrowded because the enrollment office drew boundaries incorrectly (IMHO), but that they cannot fit in those few siblings still on the wait lists. For those families still split up, the impacts remain huge.
Bird: I am afraid that sibling waitlist for next year will be even bigger than this year since JSIS added extra Japanese K class (current 1st grade) last year before NSAP, and many of them come from out of attendance area.
Seattlemom: I heard one of the Japanese K class has 25 kids, and other has 26 kids. I don't know why they are waiting to let siblings in. I emailed principle, but he hasn't responded to me about enrollment numbers.
I don't understand why they can overcrowd classes with neighborhood kids, but not with siblings. It just seems crazy!!I guess SPS just doesn't understand because they are not in our shoes.
I appreciate your perspective, Bird, about JSIS and its neighborhood school status.
I wonder what you think SHOULD be the status of JSIS, and if it's changed to, say, an "option" school, how would non-option assignments work in the surrounding neighborhood? In other words, if it's NOT a neighborhood school, where do the local kids go? MacDonald? BF Day?
I have no axe to grind here; my kids are never going anywhere near JSIS (when we toured it, ten years ago, my 5-year-old son shook his head afterward and said, "too much like prison."). I just wonder how you think the program SHOULD plug into the city's school system.
Apologies if this constitutes hijacking the thread.
whittier07 said...
Same thing at Whittier in the NW ... K classrooms of 26 each with 2 siblings on the wait=list. Once a class is 26, would 1 more kid really be too much trouble? The district said that they would do everything the could to keep families together ... another broken promise.
Capacity-wise, I do think the surrounding schools could handle the extra kids -- at least in the near term. I believe the district was hoping for 100+ Kindergarteners at McDonald this year. They go something like 60. BF Day, I believe has a couple of Kindergarten classes and has been usually be well under capacity for the building. I can't find the spring enrollment data, however, so maybe when the Oct 1 numbers come out I'll be proved wrong on my assumptions. We'll see.
I'll admit that my knowledge of how the current option schools work in the district is relatively weak, as I don't have a kid in one of these schools. They still have geographic zones around them that give kids in that area preference over lottery, yes? If so, that geographic zone gives the district a bit of breathing space in the capacity management, soping up what additional extra capacity exists in the neighborhood, if any.
The district could have a plan that starts with a very large geographic zone and gradually shrinks it over the years. That seems preferential to me as it eases the school in to an option status and hopefully reduces the number of people whose immediate plans for their kids have been put out of joint by the conversion.
As to how the "option-ness" works I'll leave that others who know better than me. Should it be district-wide? The absence of other programs like it says yes, but I think the district would say no.
I am wondering who these 20 principals are, and where they came from, and what happened to the 20 principals they are replacing. How would I find out?
Kristin, it isn't easy to compile that sort of data. There are two ways to do it. One would be to make a list of every school and then record the principal for that school in each of the past three years.
Another method would be to review the District's news releases from the past couple years. The District usually issues a press release when a principal is changed.


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Fear of a Black Hat (1993)
Nina Blackburn Quotes in Fear of a Black Hat (1993)
Nina Blackburn Quotes:
Nina Blackburn: What, if any, is the difference between a ho and a bitch?
Tone Def: A ho fucks EVERYBODY.
Ice Cold: Right, but a bitch fucks everybody BUT YOU.
-- Nina Blackburn
Nina Blackburn: So, guys, what's the deal with the hats?
Ice Cold: That's what NWH is all about. We got a whole hat philosophy, you know what I'm saying? I mean, see, back in the days when there was slaves and stuff, they would work in the hot sun all day, you know, with the sun beating down them. Hatless. I mean, not even a babushka.
Tone Def: Word. Heads totally exposed to the sun.
Ice Cold: You know, so by the time they got back to the plantation from being in all the heat, they was too tired to rebel against their masters, right? So what we saying with Niggaz With Hats is, "Yo, we got some hats now, muh-fuckers."
Tasty Taste: And we ain't too tired to bust a cap in yo ass.
Ice Cold: Right, but see actually that shit was supposed to be NWH - Fear of a Black Hat, then subtitled "Don't Shoot Until You See the Whites."
Nina Blackburn: Of their eyes?
Ice Cold: Who's eyes?
Nina Blackburn: Don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes.
Ice Cold: Nah, don't shoot until you see the whites, period. That's it, end of story.
Guy Friesch: Take away the pornography; take away, you know, the, you know, women-bashing; take away the kill-whitey stuff. Take it all away, and you've got the kids next door, you really do.
Nina Blackburn: Next door to you?
Guy Friesch: Not me.
Tasty Taste: This is a bazooka, see? And you just pick this up like this. It's-it's-it's-it's kind of heavy. But I figured if I couldn't pick it up, I need to have it.
Nina Blackburn: Why would you need a bazooka?
Tasty Taste: Well, sometimes you gotta take out stuff like a bus or a building, or a *bunch* of muhfuckas.
Nina Blackburn: Do you worry that you have a lot of enemies, more than the average guy?
Tasty Taste: So what you tryin' to say? You tryin' to say that I'm, like, paranoid 'n stuff? Do I look like the kind of person that would be paranoid? I mean, when you rollin' with THIS, would *you* be paranoid?
Nina Blackburn: So, what's the deal with the hats?
Ice Cold: Shit, the hats're what NWH is all about. See, back in the day when there were slaves and stuff, we was forced to work in the hot sun all day, hatless. I mean, not even a babushka.
Ice Cold: So when the slaves got back from the fields, they was too tired to revolt against they masters. So what we're sayin' now is: Yo, we got some hats now, muh-fuckas.
Tasty Taste: And we ain't too tired to bust a cap in yo' ass.
Nina Blackburn: They say it's the quiet ones that you have to watch out for.
Tasty Taste: And, if you've noticed, I ain't said shit for a couple minutes now.
Nina Blackburn: So where are you guys from? Compton? The sewer?
Tone Def: Nah, that shit is for punks.
Ice Cold: Yeah, we don't like to say where we from.
Nina Blackburn: I thought all rappers like telling people where they're from.
Tone Def: That's like a muh-fucka saying he got a big dick and can fuck for hours.
Nina Blackburn: Are all these weapons registered with the state?
Tasty Taste: The state of siege, heh heh.
Ice Cold: I'll show you my new book I'm working on. "FYM" by Ice.
Nina Blackburn: "FYM?"
Ice Cold: Yeah. "Fuck Ya'll Motherfuckers."
Nina Blackburn: Are you planning a follow-up to this book?
Ice Cold: For certain, because I got a lot more to say. I think it's going to be called, "ASMD." "And Suck My Dick." I was going to call it "ASMBD," "And Suck My Black Dick." But I'm a cocoa-colored motherfucker so that wouldn't really work.
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The two turkeys on Trump's chopping block names are Peas and Carrots. It's important to note that Peas and Carrots are white turkeys. Trump didn't even consider pardoning one of the many disadvantaged, minority turkeys. It speaks volumes about this administration when minorities turkeys aren't even allowed into the White House. National hero Bernie Sanders wasn't wrong when he called Trump the most racist president of all time. There are few events in not just American history, but human history, that can compare to Trump's recent treatment of minority fowl.
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Nefza es una ciudad y comuna en la Gobernación de Béja, Túnez.

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 Lista de ciudades en Tunicia

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