That term could also be applied to the Knicks' outlook against the Heat now that the dysfunctional franchise, according to sources, does not expect Stoudemire to return to the series, which the Knicks trail 2-0.
The Knicks Tuesday night officially declared Stoudemire out for Game 3 tomorrow and doubtful for Sunday's Game 4. The Knicks stated he will be "reassessed" after Game 4 if the series is still on, but sources said it's a big long shot for him to return this series.
Stoudemire has three years left on his $100 million contract, and the Knicks likely will look into trading him, which may be difficult because the contract is uninsured.
Stoudemire delivered a punch in frustration at the glass panel of a fire extinguisher in the hallway leading to the locker room moments after Monday night's 104-94 loss at AmericanAirlines Arena.
The cut became so gory because he delivered the punch while walking briskly without stopping. The momentum caused the glass to rip apart the side of Stoudemire's hand.
The size of the laceration prompted surgery as Stoudemire's season is closing out in the same disastrous fashion it did in the first-round sweep by the Celtics last April, when he pulled a back muscle doing a trick dunk in warmups before Game 2. He got a pass then. Not now. Stoudemire is 0-6 in the playoffs as a Knick.
Thursday at the Garden, the Knicks will be without three of their five starters — Stoudemire, Jeremy Lin and Iman Shumpert, who will have left knee surgery Wednesday. It likely means Carmelo Anthony will move to power forward, where he excelled down the stretch as Stoudemire missed time because of a bulging disk in his back. The Knicks were 14-5 when Stoudemire didn't play.
The Knicks are not expected to fine or suspend Stoudemire for his self-inflicted wound, but owner James Dolan was in attendance and this can't sit well.
Stoudemire's attack on the fire extinguisher was a build-up from months of turmoil, including the tragic death of his brother in early February.
One source said the punch was linked more to his intense dislike of the Heat and Chris Bosh than jealousy over Carmelo Anthony, who has taken over his role as the Knicks' go-to guy.
Heat president Pat Riley decided to sign Bosh over Stoudemire in the summer of 2010. Riley was leaning toward Stoudemire, but Dwyane Wade wanted his buddy Bosh. Stoudemire has an apartment in Miami and was raised in the Orlando area.
Stoudemire was competent in Game 2, shooting 6-for-9 for 18 points and seven rebounds, but it was a quiet 18 and 7. Taking just nine shots is not uncommon for Stoudemire since Anthony arrived. Anthony did not play well in the fourth quarter. Bosh outperformed Stoudemire with 21 points.
The confidant said the death of Stoudemire's older brother, Hazell, continues to weigh on him. Stoudemire said last week the year has been "crazy'' and this season should have an "asterisk mark'' on it.
Stoudemire was home in Florida for a week after Hazell's death in a car crash in the early morning after the Super Bowl. Then came the flare-up of a bulging disk that cost him 13 straight late-season games.
Stoudemire revealed he spent 10 hours a day on rehab after re-injuring his back against the Pistons on March 24, all the while hearing Anthony's Knicks were better without him. Uncharacteristically, Stoudemire declined all interview requests during his absence.
That joy has turned to sadness.


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Q: filter dataframe by value counts been trying this for a while but not getting anywhere.
Please consider the DF below.
    Id  YearBuilt  SalePrice Neighborhood
    1       2003     208500      CollgCr
    2       1976     181500      Veenker
    3       2001     223500      CollgCr
    4       1915     140000      Crawfor
    5       2000     250000      NoRidge
    6       1993     143000      Mitchel
    7       2004     307000      Somerst
    8       1973     200000       NWAmes
    9       1931     129900      OldTown
    10       1939     118000      BrkSide
    11       1965     129500       Sawyer
    12       2005     345000      NridgHt
    13       1962     144000       Sawyer
    14       2006     279500      CollgCr
    15       1960     157000        NAmes
    16       1929     132000      BrkSide
    17       1970     149000        NAmes

I want to group the data into neighborhoods and if the count of neighborhood is less than say 10, it should be put into a group other. I have seen other answers but been unable to interpret them. I have tried
house_df['newColumn'] = house_df['Neighborhood'].mask(house_df['Neighborhood'].count < 50, 'other')

also tried
house_df.groupby['Neighborhood'].filter(lambda x: x.count < 10)

but this doesnt work. also tried to groupby neighborhood and apply a filter but no go. please help.
This is an example of what I am looking to achieve
 Id  YearBuilt  SalePrice Neighborhood newColumn
1       2003     208500      CollgCr   Collgcr
2       1976     181500      Veenker    other
3       2001     223500      CollgCr    CollgCr
4       1915     140000      Crawfor    other
5       2000     250000      NoRidge    NoRidge
6       1993     143000      Mitchel    Mitchel
7       2004     307000      Somerst    other
8       1973     200000       NWAmes    NWAmes

A: use value_counts to count the neighborhoods and map with a lambda to produce an appropriate grouping.
vc = df.Neighborhood.value_counts()

df = df.assign(
    newColumn=df.Neighborhood.map(
        lambda x: x if vc.at[x] > 1 else 'other'
    )
)

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When your children are of school-going age it should make a big difference to child-care costs. You may have previously paid for full-time care with a childminder or crèche and now a big chunk of the day will be spent at school where they will be having tonnes of fun and learning at the same time.
For many families, childcare is still an issue though. If, for example, your child finishes school at 1.40pm but you work until 5 pm you will need a childcare option to cover those hours in between.
An after-school program either at the child's school or from an independent source can help with this though.
There are many local childcare centres who have developed plans and programs to collect children from school and transport them to their premises until you pick them up in the evening time.
You might be wondering what exactly your children will be doing during these hours? Will they complete their homework and enjoy some food at the after school? Will they do extracurricular activities or spend any time outdoors?
Here is what we've found to be the case for a lot of centres.
We should probably start by saying that many of these "after-school" programs actually begin before school. For working parents, it may be a necessity to drop the kids off somewhere an hour before the school day even begins.
Those who have the option of flexi-time or job sharing may find that a later start means a later finish and that can cause more childcare complications as it tends to fall later than the centre can cater for.
Every childcare organisation will have their own unique way of doing things. In some cases, the morning part of the procedure may involve a breakfast club. Children may have the option of a cold or warm breakfast and a little play before the school day actually begins.
This can take a huge amount of pressure off parents who have to leave at a particularly early hour. Knowing that breakfast is covered is a huge bonus. In some cases, the breakfast club happens on-site at the school and simply involves ushering the children to their appropriate classrooms or lines in the yard.
In private centres, it will involve a bus or car that transports the children to the local school in time for the regular start.
An after-school program is something that many children look forward to for a number of reasons. This time is looked upon as a fun time with their peers. A less formal experience. In the majority of cases, the after-school program will have designated homework time.
Your children will be encouraged and helped with homework tasks and this is another huge benefit for parents. It means that by the time you've picked them up in the evening you know that box is ticked. For the majority of parents, it is really difficult to do it all as you attempt to balance daily work and home life.
In the majority of after-school centres, the option for dinner will always be there. The centre will take information about your child's preferences and any allergies and they will try to cater for all children to the best of their ability.
This is another benefit for working parents who might only have to worry about a quick snack for the kids in the evening time. If your after-school arrangement is for just an hour or two it may be an after-school snack rather than a meal.
Prices can really vary from place to place. Some private child-minders offer before and after school services but, in many cases, this is a private and unregulated agreement. In some cases, it involves more flexibility and smaller groups of children which appeals more to some parents.
In a crèche or as part of the school's after-school program there may be some differences. One popular crèche we looked at charges €30 per week for just the breakfast club. That hour is spent having breakfast and some kind of morning activity before the school day begins.
That same crèche quotes a fee of €130 per week for children who avail of the morning and after-school program which can mean that for many parents childcare is still coming in somewhere between €500 and €700 per month for their school going child.


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Q: Object recognition from photo in Xamarin Forms I am currently looking to add a functionality where the user takes a photo (which has already been implemented) and then have it analyzed where either the landscape or the object is identified.
I came across Microsoft Cognitive Services (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin/using-object-detection-from-inside-your-xamarin-app/) that works fine!
The only issue now that i've implemented this library is that i am limited in the way that i have to manually write in the things i want identified in the picture.
My question now is if there is a SDK or library out there that does what im looking for? So lets say the user takes a photo of an apple, beer or a chocolate bar then i want those tags returned to me after the photo has been analyzed.


WARSI needs numerous motivation from multi stakeholders for its program implementation. Thus, WARSI is documenting each finding as lesson learned in books, bulletin, leaflets, etc. Moreover, this program aims to have public awareness on the importance of the sustainable and equitable natural resource management and conservation for the community's prosperity.
a.	Developing KKI WARSI's database system through its IT and GIS development.
b.	Promoting WARSI and community's finding on forest management through various mass media.
c.	Establishing multi stakeholders' network to support the sustainable and equitable forest resources for local community's prosperity.


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require 'rails_helper'

describe User, type: :model do

  before :each do
    @user = FactoryGirl.create :user
    @old_subscribe_jobs_updated_at = @user.reload.subscribe_jobs_updated_at
  end

  context 'touches subscribe jobs' do

    it 'when a job state is created' do
      job_state = FactoryGirl.build :subscribe_job_state, user_id: @user.id
      @user.subscribe_job_states << job_state
      expect(@user.reload.subscribe_jobs_updated_at).not_to eq @old_subscribe_jobs_updated_at
    end

    it 'when a job state is destroyed' do
      job_state = FactoryGirl.build :subscribe_job_state, user_id: @user.id
      @user.subscribe_job_states << job_state
      @old_subscribe_jobs_updated_at = @user.reload.subscribe_jobs_updated_at

      job_state.destroy
      expect(@user.reload.subscribe_jobs_updated_at).not_to eq @old_subscribe_jobs_updated_at
    end

    it 'when a job state is updated' do
      job_state = FactoryGirl.build :subscribe_job_state, user_id: @user.id
      @user.subscribe_job_states << job_state
      @old_subscribe_jobs_updated_at = @user.reload.subscribe_jobs_updated_at

      job_state.update state: SubscribeJobState::ERROR
      expect(@user.reload.subscribe_jobs_updated_at).not_to eq @old_subscribe_jobs_updated_at
    end
  end
end

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Making up just 5% of the world's population, the US consumes 30% of the world's resources and creates 30% of the world's waste. We have so much stuff that finding a place to put it is big business; the self-storage industry is booming. Today, it is physically possible for every American to stand at the same time under the canopy of self-storage roofing in the US. It's no surprise, then, that Marie Kondo, author of best-selling book "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up," has started a de-cluttering craze.
On her Netflix show, Kondo teaches clients to make their homes more livable through her special organizing process. The result is large piles of garbage bags filled with clothing, home furnishings, and other items that no longer "spark joy" for their owners. Read on for tips to break free of clutter, sustainably!
The true solution to too much stuff, of course, is to consume less, buy better, and care for what we already have—this makes it easier to maintain a comfortable home, and helps the planet too! Next time you put your stuff on the curb, consider that for every garbage can placed out for collection, the equivalent of 71 garbage cans' worth of waste is created in mining, agriculture and other industrial processes to convert raw materials into finished products and packaging.
1: Clear it out. To achieve the highest use for unwanted items, choose to swap or donate what's usable. For items such as electronics, household chemicals, and personal documents, check out local resources and special events to recycle or safely dispose. Need a little extra help getting started? Check out How to Declutter Your Home Fast: A Checklist for the Messy.
2: Get organized.When you've successfully pared down, reorder your home for daily life.Good organization keeps you from buying things you don't need or already own, and can create a happier, less stressful living environment.Check out 10 Ways to Unclutter Your Life.
3: Change habits.To remain clutter free, slow the flow of new things into your home. Prevent future waste buy buying wisely—choose high quality items you truly need and intend to use. Try out zero waste practices like repairing what you already own and love, (see Fixers Collective, Mend It Mondays, Fix It Fridays) and buying bulk and package-free groceries. Spend less time shopping and managing stuff, and more time on non-commercial activities like enjoying culture, spending time in nature, and volunteering.
Want to stay on top of NYC zero waste news and resources? Subscribe to our monthly NYC Recycling Updates!
Read more about Caught Up in Kondo? Don't Spark Joy in Landfills!


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Жак Лежандр (, род. 2 декабря 1941, Париж) — французский политик, бывший сенатор и депутат Национального собрания Франции от департамента Нор, член партии Республиканцы.

Биография

Родился 2 декабря 1941 г. в Париже. Трижды, в 1973, 1978 и 1986 годах избирался депутатом Национального собрания от 18-го округа департамента Нор. 29 марта 1977 года сдал мандат депутата, войдя в правительство Раймона Барра в качестве государственного секретаря министерства труда. С 2 апреля 1978 года по 13 мая 1981 года занимал пост государственного секретаря по вопросам профессионального обучения.

В сентябре 1992 и сентябре 2001 года Жак Лежандр избирался в Сенат Франции. На выборах сенаторов 2011 года возглавил собственный список и был в третий раз избран в Сенат. В выборах в Сенат 2017 года не участвовал.

Занимаемые выборные должности

11.03.1973 — 29.03.1977 — депутат Национального собрания от 18-го округа департамента Нор <br/ >
29.03.1977 —  31.03.1978 — государственный секретарь министерства труда в правительстве Раймона Барра<br/ >
02.04.1978 —  13.05.1981 —  государственный секретарь по вопросам профессионального обучения в правительстве Раймона Барра<br/ >
1977 —  1992 —  мэр города Камбре <br/ >
16.03.1986 — 14.05.1988 — депутат Национального собрания от 18-го округа департамента Нор <br/ >
22.03.1992 — 15.03.1998 — член Регионального совета Нор-Па-де-Кале<br/ >
с 1992 —  член муниципального совета города Камбре <br/ >
27.09.1992 — 01.10.2017 — сенатор от департамента Нор <br/ >
2008  — 2011  — президент комиссии Сената по вопросам культуры, образования и коммуникаций

См. также
 Регион О-де-Франс
 Региональный совет Нор-Па-де-Кале
 Сенаторы от департамента Нор

Ссылки
 Профиль на сайте Сената Франции

Политики Франции
Сенаторы Франции
Члены Союза за народное движение
Члены партии «Республиканцы»

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Q: How do I deserialize a JSON array using Newtonsoft.Json [
   {
      "receiver_tax_id":"1002",
      "total":"6949,15",
      "receiver_company_name":"Das Company",
      "receiver_email":"info@another.com",
      "status":0
   },
   {
      "receiver_tax_id":"1001",
      "total":"39222,49",
      "receiver_company_name":"SAD company",
      "receiver_email":"info@mail.com",
      "status":1
   }
]

Hi, this is my Json data, but I can't deserialize it.
I want to check only "status" value. (first object "status" 0, second object "status" 1).
Example definition:
public class Example
{
    [JsonProperty("receiver_tax_id")]
    public string receiver_tax_id { get; set; }
    [JsonProperty("total")]
    public string total { get; set; }
    [JsonProperty("receiver_company_name")]
    public string receiver_company_name { get; set; }
    [JsonProperty("receiver_email")]
    public string receiver_email { get; set; }
    [JsonProperty("status")]
    public int status { get; set; }
}

Deserialization code:
var des = (Example)JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(responseString, typeof(Example));
Console.WriteLine(des.status[0].ToString());

A: Try this code:
public class Receiver
{
   public string receiver_tax_id { get; set;}
   public string total { get; set;}
   public string receiver_company_name { get; set;}
   public int status { get; set;}
}

And deserialize looks like follows:
var result = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<Receiver>>(responseString);
var status = result[0].status;

A: If you only care about checking status you can use the dynamic type of .NET (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd264741.aspx)
dynamic deserialized = JObject.Parse(responseString);
int status1 = deserialized[0].status;
int status2 = deserialized[1].status;
//
// do whatever

This way you don't even need the Example class.

A: From your code and JSON sampels it seems the problem is you're actually deserializing a List<Example> rather than a single Example.
I would do two things:

*

*Make your class follow .NET naming conventions, as you already prefixed them with the proper JsonProperty attributes:
public class Example
{
    [JsonProperty("receiver_tax_id")]
    public string ReceiverTaxId { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("total")]
    public string Total { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("receiver_company_name")]
    public string ReceiverCompanyName { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("receiver_email")]
    public string ReceiverEmail { get; set; }

    [JsonProperty("status")]
    public int Status{ get; set; }
}

*Deserialize a List<Example> using the generic JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<T> overload instead of the non-generic version you're currently using:
var des = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<Example>>(responseString);
Console.WriteLine(des[0].Status);

A: You're trying to deserialize an array into an Example object. Try doing it to a List instead:
var des = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(responseString, typeof(List<Example>)) as List<Example>;


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Goldendoodles
Mini & Micro Bernedoodles
DOODLE FAQs
Why Doodles?
Hybrid Vigor
F1, F1b or F2?
Multi-Gens?
Why Test?
Hurricane Creek Doodles
Bernedoodles &
Most of the structures in the human body are composed of protein. The same is true of a dog's body. Moreover, the processes that support life, are regulated by enzymes and hormones, which are themselves specialized proteins. It is no wonder therefore, that the type, location and timing of protein production determines the health, color, size and breed of a dog. Protein production is carried out according to the instructions found in the dog's DNA. DNA is a long chain of nucleic acids that carry the instructions for where, when and how to create all the proteins that make up the muscle, bone, nerves, pigment, etc of a dog's body. It is perhaps easiest to visualize a sentence composed of three letter words. Each three letter word codes for one of the amino acids, the building blocks of protein. A sentence of many three letter words codes for enough different amino acids to create an entire protein. That sentence is comparable to a gene. Each gene contains the information to produce one protein. The genes connect to each other to form a chromosome. Each puppy gets half of its chromosomes from its mother and half from its father. The DNA in those chromosomes is the blueprint for the making of your dog.
Unfortunately, DNA is a molecule that can be injured or miscopied. An injury or miscopying is like writing a nonsensical sentence. If miscopied, a sentence makes no sense, or a gene makes the wrong protein or a malformed protein. A malformed protein cannot perform the function for which it was originally designed, and the puppy with the malformed protein will not be as healthy as a puppy without that mutation. In some cases, it may develop eye disease, bleeding disorders or even cancer. But remember, a puppy gets DNA from both parents. He inherits not single chromosomes, but pairs of chromosomes: one set comes from the egg and one set comes from the sperm. If one chromosome has genes that do not code correctly for making a needed protein, but the second chromosome does make the needed protein, the damage to the puppy can be minimized. Many dog conditions require two mistaken copies of a gene to actually have symptoms of a disease. As long as one gene is correctly making copies of the correct protein, the dog can frequently live a normal, healthy life. These diseases are "recessive." . Obviously, dogs from different backgrounds, with different "bad genes" in their family of origin are less likely to give the same bad gene or chromosome to their offspring.
Pure bred dogs come from a long history of breeding similar dogs to each other, which is why some dog diseases/conditions occur more frequently in one breed than in another. When two totally unrelated dogs are bred together, as is the case when two separate breeds are bred together, there is "Genetic diversity," meaning they have different gens, including different "bad genes." When these two entirely different breeds, as cocker and poodle or golden retriever and poodle, are bred together, the offspring they produce are referred to as the F1 generation. The puppies in the F1 generation will have greater genetic diversity than later generations because the background of their parents is the most different. This difference in back ground between the parent dogs is responsible for what is known as hybrid vigor, and the greatest hybrid vigor is in this F1 generation. While there are decided advantages of breeding a puppy from that litter back to a poodle, the first F1 litter will always have the most dependable hybrid vigor, though not necessarily the most consistent non shedding coat.
In the case of goldendoodles, but really in the case of any doodle, the parents are known to have a certain frequency of some genetically recessive diseases. If a disease is "recessive," that means two "bad genes" are needed in order to show symptoms of the disorder. If both parents appear healthy, that is, do not have the disease/disorder, it might be assumed that their progeny will not have the disorder. However, if both parents "carry" the "bad gene," but just one copy, they will appear completely normal and still have the ability to produce progeny that get two "bad" genes, one from each parent, and have symptoms of the disease/disorder. There are numerous diseases caused by recessive genes in the golden retriever breed. There are different diseases caused by recessive genes in the standard poodle breed. Because many of those genetically influenced diseases are not mutually present in the two breeds, crossing a poodle with a golden retriever is less likely to result in the occurrence of two "bad genes" and one of those diseases than when a poodle is bred to a poodle or a golden retriever bred to a golden retriever. The same exact principle holds true for bernedoodles, englishdoodles and labradoodles, making all hybrids healthier than their respective pure bred parents.
Multi-Gens

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September 4, 2004: Jim Edmonds hits his 300th career home run
Hours after becoming the third player in Cardinals history to hit his 300th career home run wearing the birds on the bat, Jim Edmonds returned to the clubhouse at Busch Stadium and discovered a voicemail from a man who had become synonymous with home run milestones – Mark McGwire. "He said, 'Congratulations, you only need …
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March 23, 2000: Cardinals trade Kent Bottenfield and Adam Kennedy for Jim Edmonds
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After three years of trade rumors, Angels general manager Bill Stoneman emphatically announced that he had no intention of trading Jim Edmonds. Four days later, on March 23, 2000, Edmonds became a St. Louis Cardinal in a deal that sent pitcher Kent Bottenfield and second base prospect Adam Kennedy to the Angels. "When we heard …
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February 18, 2011: Jim Edmonds retires
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At age 40, Jim Edmonds hoped to tack one more year on the end of a major-league career that had spanned 17 seasons and more than 2,000 games. Unfortunately, just two weeks after Jim Edmonds signed a minor league contract to return to the Cardinals, a lingering Achilles injury forced him to announce his retirement. …
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July 20, 2004: Albert Pujols goes 5-for-5 with three home runs in Cardinals' comeback
Even before Chicago Cubs left-hander Glendon Rusch threw the game's first pitch to St. Louis Cardinals leadoff batter Tony Womack, tensions were high in Wrigley Field. The previous night, the fireworks started when Jim Edmonds hit a two-run home run off Chicago's Carlos Zambrano. The fiery Cubs right-hander felt that Edmonds spent too long admiring …
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Hi i need to enable Authentication on users on using SMTP using port 25. At the moment if i use an SMTP tool from my netowok i can send emails to any user from any user. How can i restrict this So no one can send emails using SMTP tool.How i can restrict and allow some particular users or ip address.
at the moment Any one can use SMTP tool to send emails from within the network, How to prevent it.


With the increased focus on computational thinking (CT) in education, it is important to investigate the affordances that CT may offer to support teaching and learning. This paper outlines five affordances of CT that may support elementary mathematics education, whose conceptualization was refined in a year-long study involving eight Grades 3-4 teachers and their students. In this research project, teachers collaborated with the author to design integrated math/CT activities for curriculum topics they would soon teach and to implement the activities in their classrooms. The five affordances (agency, access, abstraction, automation and audience) are discussed with references to classroom activities, student work artefacts, and student and teacher comments.
Gadanidis, G. (2017). Five Affordances of Computational Thinking to support Elementary Mathematics Education. Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 36 (2), 143-151. Waynesville, NC USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved April 19, 2019 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/174346/.
Berg, B.L. (2004). Qualitative research methods for the social sciences. New York: Pearson Publishers.
Gadanidis, G. (2017). Five straight A's for coding+ math. Math+ Code Zine 2(3).
Gadanidis, G., Borba, M., Hughes, J. & Lacerda, H. (2016). Designing aesthetic experiences for young mathematician: a model for mathematics education reform. International Journal of Mathematics Education Research 6(2), 225-244.
Wing, J. (2011). Research notebook: Computational thinking—What and why? The Link Magazine, Spring. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. Re-trieved from http://link.cs.cmu.edu/article.php?a=600 Yin, R. (1994). Case study research: Design and methods (2nd ed.). Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publishing.


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The Legacy of an Influential Yet Often Forgotten Study
By Kathleen Kennedy Manzo
Boxes of tarnished trophies and other long-forgotten memorabilia symbolizing East High School's earliest sports triumphs lie in storage, replaced in school display cases by the honors bestowed on more recent generations. Even fewer traces of the Denver school's academic legacy endure.
No plaques identify it as one of 30 schools and school districts initially selected for the historic experiment in high school curriculum that came to be known as the Eight-Year Study. And today's administrators, teachers, and students are virtually unaware of the national reputation for innovation that their school earned some six decades ago.
But there is some evidence, however scant, that the study begun in 1932, and ending in 1940, has had a lasting impact on East and other high schools throughout the country. The project allowed participating schools and districts to depart from the college-preparatory curriculum that dominated secondary education and to design courses and programs that better related to the lives of individual students.
The 1,600-student school still maintains a "school-within-a-school," with a special program for at-risk students, a concept that took root there in the 1930s when a portion of the student body participated in the study. Cooperative learning and curricula that are more relevant to students' lives are also mainstays.
But when the Commission on the Relation of School and College released its five-volume report on the study in 1942, it's title hailed the experiment as an "Adventure in American Education."
The details of the study reveal what a daring endeavor it was.
Appointed by the Progressive Education Association, the commission set out to prove that the conventional high school curriculum, and the fear that diverging from it would limit students' options for higher education, squelched innovation in most secondary schools.
The 26-member commission believed that the curriculum no longer served the needs of the nation's high school population, which had exploded from 1 million to 10 million in the first three decades of the 20th century. The high school, the commission concluded, could provide more relevant schooling for the five out of six students who did not go on to college, while giving the one student who did a stronger foundation on which to build.
And so, after two years of planning, and with a guarantee from hundreds of colleges that students could gain admission without the requisite coursework, the schools and districts selected for the study "set out upon their eight-year journey of exploration and trailblazing," Wilford M. Aikin, who directed the study, wrote in Volume 1 of the report, The Story of the Eight-Year Study.
Frightened by Freedom
Even with the newfound freedom, a bold departure from tradition was difficult for many of the schools. As one participating principal put it: "My teachers and I do not know what to do with this freedom. It challenges and frightens us. I fear that we have come to love our chains."
One school--Pelham Manor in New York City--dropped out of the experiment because of its commitment to another major study. Some schools opted for only subtle changes in the content of courses.
Others, though, took greater advantage of the flexibility their involvement in the study allowed and pushed at all the boundaries that had defined education for decades.
At Bronxville High School, in New York's Westchester County, students abandoned traditional subjects to explore broad themes, as some schools do today. Instead of the conventional chemistry course, students studied "the physical environment and ... some aspects of the nature of matter, of the changes in matter, chemical and physical, and of the nature of the various energies."
Students at the private Lincoln School at Teachers College, Columbia University, applied the problems of Greek civilization to modern American life when they "spent eight to 10 weeks being Greeks."
"The students lived, worked, and thought as Spartans, Athenians, Corinthians, Syracusans, Thebans, and Milesians," the report says. An early example of a multidisciplinary program, the course combined language and literature, art, music, civics, history, economics, mathematics, and science.
Seniors at Radnor High School in Wayne, Pa.--for whom employment, not college, was the next likely step--tested the job market, spending two weeks at a time working in various businesses and industries.
In school, they studied labor unions, collective bargaining, Social Security, housing, uses of leisure time, and becoming an informed consumer.
And in all of Denver's five public high schools, the study gave momentum to the curriculum reforms there that had begun in the late 1920s. As part of the Progressive Education Association study, some boys and girls would spend only two hours a day with their teachers discussing various units of study encompassed in the districtwide core curriculum.
The remainder of the time was for independent exploration, with the overall goal being "a continuous attack upon the problems which are persistent in the lives of adolescents as members of a democratic society."
Nationally, the schools in the study were both public and private, rural and urban, and served the children of the working class as well as the well-to-do. The directions they took were equally varied, but they had in common some of the progressive ideals that began influencing schools earlier in the century.
Most schools broke away from the strictures of the traditional classroom and school day. Teachers changed the way they taught, relying less on lectures and textbooks and more on informal exchanges with and among students.
Students who had been used to sitting straight and still in their desks, eyes focused on the teacher, were now free to roam the classroom, to sit in groups, or to work by themselves. They were encouraged to move beyond the memorization of material to develop reflective thinking and skill in problem-solving.
By most accounts, the initiative was a success. The nearly 1,500 students who participated in the program performed slightly better in college than a comparison group of students who had been exposed to a traditional high school curriculum.
The study was evidence, in the eyes of the progressives, that a lockstep sequence of courses was not the only way to prepare young adults for college or life.
Those skeptical of the results claimed the experiment was skewed because the youths selected to participate were primarily high-achieving students.
'Never Fully Appreciated'
The Eight-Year Study has been called both the most influential curriculum study in American history and the most forgotten.
The first volume of the commission's report was released in the spring of 1942, just months after the United States entered World War II. The war turned schools' attention away from innovation.
"We went to war, and that was the end of that story because no one cared about public education when there was a war going on," says Jon Snyder, the director of teacher education at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a senior researcher for the National Commission on Teaching & America's Future.
But the study was not a total loss. Almost a decade later, representatives of half the participating schools and districts gathered for a post-mortem. While they lamented problems they had encountered implementing and maintaining changes, most agreed the effort had been worthwhile.
"In many ways, it's a study that has never been fully appreciated, and it doesn't get the scholarly attention it deserves," says Frank B. Murray, a professor of education at the University of Delaware. "Yet, it is a gold mine of anecdotes and details of how these 30 high schools reformed themselves."
While the details of the curricular overhaul had faded years later--many of the schools reported they had returned to a traditional curriculum within a few years of the study's end--they left an impression on many of the schools. That was especially true of private institutions, such as the John Burroughs School in St. Louis, that had always been committed to a progressive approach.
Pride in Participating
In Denver, East High School's reputation for innovation carried at least into the 1970s, recalls Robert L. Colwell, who was the principal from 1960 until he retired in 1974.
"I remember the pride of having been a part of the Eight-Year Study and recognized as one of the big progressive schools in the country," Colwell says.
Aiming to maintain that reputation, Colwell started a Senior Seminar program for 100 students selected to reflect the makeup of the East High enrollment. Some spent the length of the six-week course living in a hogan with local Navajo families to study American Indian culture. Other students were paired with state legislators to learn about politics.
Modern-day reform efforts are also steeped in the ideals that fueled the Eight-Year Study, some scholars say, but they are linked only indirectly.
"In education, things have a tendency to come back around again," says Victor L. Dupuis, a professor emeritus of education at Pennsylvania State University. "Things like independent study, guided education, the effective-schools movement are all the old ideas coming back, but the people who are doing them are not likely to know about the Eight-Year Study."
PHOTO: The Lincoln School at Teachers College, Columbia University, was one of 30 schools and districts that were allowed to diverge from the traditional curriculum as part of the Eight-Year Study. Once in college, the participating students were found to perform slightly better than a comparison group of more conventionally educated peers.
—Milbank Library, Teachers College, Columbia University
PHOTO: David Peters teaches a recent Advanced Placement class in European history at Denver's East High School. Few at the school are aware of its role in a pioneering curriculum study in the 1930s.
Vol. 18, Issue 36, Pages 32-33
Published in Print: May 19, 1999, as The Legacy of an Influential Yet Often Forgotten Study


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This Day in Labor History: September 10, 1897
On September 10, 1897, Luzerne County sheriff deputies slaughtered 19 unarmed coal miners striking outside of Hazleton, Pennsylvania. The strikers, primarily German, Polish, Lithuanian, and Slovak immigrants, were fighting for decent wages and working conditions in the one of the most brutal industries in the nation. The Lattimer Massacre was a touchstone event in the history of the United Mine Workers of America, who used it to organize workers across the region.
The 1890s saw a rise in immigration from Germany and eastern Europe; thousands of those migrants came to the coal mines of eastern Pennsylvania. They were recruited there by coal companies as strikebreakers and because of that, the English, Welsh, and Scottish miners that previously dominated the industry hated them as scabs. Conditions in the coal miners were abysmal, with mine collapses and death shockingly common, a situation akin to modern Chinese mines. Making things worse was the Panic of 1893 and following depression that lasted for five years. The terrible poverty and desperation that resulted from these events led to some of the most dramatic events in American labor history, including the Pullman Strike, Coxey's Army, and the rise of the Populists as a serious challenge to the 2-party system. Mine owners slashed wages during the depression for those who could get work at all. Typical company town conditions existed as well, with miners forced to rent from company-owned homes at high prices, forced to see company doctors, forced to shop at company stores, etc.
In 1897, the miners went on strike. The Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Company laid off workers, raised fees for homes and doctors, forced longer hours on those who still worked, and tolerated a decline in working conditions. Work became more dangerous and more profitable for capitalists. The strike was lead by drivers, mostly teenagers who ran teams of mules to carry the coal out of the mines. The company consolidated its mule stables, forcing the drivers to travel farther on their own time to get their animals. In response, the drivers struck on August 14. When the new mine superintendent, a man named Gomer Jones, found out the mule drivers were striking, he grabbed a crowbar and whacked the first striker he saw in the head. The striker fought back and a general scuffle ensued. This helped lead the rest of the workers out on strike. With overall employment declining, workers saw little to lose by walking off the job together rather than get fired separately. By August 16, 2000 workers were on strike and most joined the United Mine Workers of America, a union trying to establish itself in the coal fields. This was a big deal because the Slavs had avoided the UMWA after being vilified by the unionized Anglo-Saxon miners. But the terrible conditions began to break down the ethnic divides in the anthracite fields.
The first strike ended on August 23 when the companies agreed to give miners the option to live in their own houses and see a doctor of their choosing, as well as grant a wage increase of about 10 cents. A second strike a few days later at nearby mines made the pay raise more universal in the region.
Or so the workers thought. In fact, when the owners announced the new pay rates on September 1, only a few workers saw a raise. On September 3, the workers went on strike again, with 3000 walking out. By September 8, somewhere between 5000 and 10,000 miners were on strike. The miners developed new demands, including a pay raise of 15 cents per employee, the ability to select their own doctor, the right to get paid for work even if the machines they workers were out of order (commonly Gilded Age workers were not paid if the company was not running for any reason; employers never could understand why workers wouldn't "see reason" over this issue), and the freedom not have to buy from the company store.
Strikers near Lattimer, PA
The coal companies' private police force, the Coal and Iron Police, were overwhelmed by these numbers and the owners created a posse of English and Irish residents, including many ex-miners. On September 8, about 300-400 miners, largely Slavs and Germans, marched to a mine in the town of Lattimer to support miners who had just joined the UMWA. Expanding the strike to Lattimer would be a huge victory for the miners because it would go a long way to shut down the entire the area and force the companies to grant workers' demands. The mine owners knew this too. Luzerne County police, led by Sheriff James Martin, were openly heard bragging about how many miners they would kill. When the miners reached Lattimer, the police confronted them and ordered them to disperse. When they refused, the police opened fire, killing 19 and wounding about 40. All had been shot in the back.
The immediate aftermath led to infuriated miners who destroyed the home of the Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Company mine superintendent and the Pennsylvania National Guard called in to restore order. Unrest continued until September 20. Local response was pro-miners. The Hazleton Daily Standard published this poem on September 17:
"If the courts of justice shield you
And your freedom you should gain,
Remember that your brows are marked
With the burning brand of Cain.
Oh, noble, noble, deputies
We always will remember
Your bloody work at Lattimer
On the 10th day of September."
Philadelphia Inquirer depiction of the shooting, September 12, 1897
The state actually bothered to try Martin and his 73 deputies but despite the evidence of shooting workers in the back, they all claimed the marchers refused to disperse and were acquitted.
The Lattimer Massacre was a hugely important event in the history of the UMWA. First, standing up for the workers led to membership rising to 10,000, the largest in the union's history. Second, it ended the widely held belief by both Anglo-Saxon miners and company owners that the Slavic workers were docile and would never join the union. The UMWA built off this event and in 1900, with an improved economy after the depression ended in 1898, won significant wage increases. UMWA president John Mitchell became, along with AFL head Samuel Gompers, the most important labor leader in the country.
The massacre was mostly forgotten about in the larger national consciousness, but finally, in 1972, a monument was erected at the site, which I visited in January.
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Posted by Randy Boldt | Oct 5, 2022
Prime Minister Trudeau has "trademarked" the line "diversity is our strength," but his idea of diversity seems to be related to only skin colour, costumes (for which he is fond), and food. It definitely does not include more fundamental elements found in a diversity of languages or thought.
Canada is targeting 400,000 immigrants per year. Some people are advocating for even more to offset our declining fertility rate of fewer than 1.5 children per woman. The overwhelming majority of these immigrants will not speak English or French as their first language. Instead, they bring a variety of languages to our country: Tagalog, Hindi, Chinese, Punjabi, Farsi, German and Spanish.
As noted in a recent Stats Canada publication, the use of French at home, even in Quebec, is declining, while other languages have surpassed it in all other provinces. The languages most often spoken in Manitoba are English, Tagalog, Punjabi, and German, with French in fifth spot. Given the current immigration trends, French will soon be surpassed by Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, and Urdu.
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Canadians who have visited Australia, New Zealand, the U.S. or the United Kingdom may have noticed that, in these countries, government services are often provided in other languages even though English is their official language. None of these countries take in as many immigrants as Canada, yet all offer official services in languages other than English.
This begs a very important question: How can we be a cultural mosaic if there are virtually no services provided to our immigrant population in anything but English and French?
As the French language becomes less important in the lives of Canadians, the federal government seems to be doubling down in trying to ensure that most federal civil servants can communicate in French. The government increasingly focuses on hiring civil servants able to communicate in French, staff promotions are often based on the ability to speak French, and bonuses are paid to French Language speakers. The federal government insists that, as a country, Canadians must do better in speaking and communicating in French even though, over the last 30 years, fewer and fewer Canadians speak French.
Globally, only about one per cent of the world population speaks French as a first language, slightly less than those who speak Korean or Turkish.
The time has arrived for the Canadian government and Canadians, in general, to recognize that there is nothing sacred about the declining use of French. It is also time to recognize that, because of our immigration, the Canadian language policy needs to adapt. Canada does not need to abandon French. We just need to recognize that our language policy should reflect who we are. A major step in doing this is to offer government services in other languages, perhaps in the top three languages found in a region.
In my international travels as a government bureaucrat, I visited many embassies and was surprised that almost every Canadian Embassy and Consulate was filled with French-speaking diplomats. In most embassies, the diplomatic offices were short of Canadians who could speak the local language. This means that Korean or Arabic Canadians were not employed as diplomats. Instead, the embassies needed to rely on local staff to fill positions that should be reserved for Canadians due to confidentiality and security issues.
Canada needs to adopt a policy to recruit and train diplomatic personnel who can speak, read, and write in other languages (such as the U.S. and the UK). As well, Canada should consider delivering services in other languages. For example, if a local population has more than four per cent of people whose first language is not English, the federal government should consider providing services in that language.
These two policies would open opportunities for our immigrant populations and would do more than provide lip service to our aspirations to be a multicultural country.
A federal political party that promises to offer services in other languages would likely gain the support of our growing immigrant populations. It is time for us to think the unthinkable and provide services in other languages – truly embracing true diversity.
Randy Boldt is a senior fellow at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.
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Q: SQL - JOIN only newest log entry for id I'm currently writing a calendar application which supports switching statusses for days.
The First Table I got is currently like this:
days:
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|1  |1024   |2021-01-01|0     |
|1  |1025   |2021-01-02|0     |
|1  |1026   |2021-02-24|0     |
and so on...

Everytime a Super User (a user above the user, in this example with user id 0) accepts a day, the status column gets changed and gets an entry into the table log, which after a while could look like this:
log:
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|day_id|status|changed_by|timestamp |
|1024  |1     |0         |1619510887|
|1024  |3     |0         |1629510187|
|1024  |2     |0         |1619593687|
|1025  |1     |0         |1619510887|
|1025  |2     |0         |1629510187|
|1026  |2     |0         |1619593687|
and so on...

Now I'd like to select a day by the days.uid and join it with the newest entry from the log table.
How can I do this in the best way?

A: Try this:
SELECT * FROM days d
JOIN (SELECT * FROM log WHERE d.day_id=? ORDER BY timestamp DESC LIMIT 1) l
    ON l.day_id = d.day_id
WHERE d.uid=? AND d.day_id=?


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Founded in 1962, the Harvard Chan-NIEHS Center for Environmental Health is the oldest of 20 core research centers across the country supported by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). As the recipient of only the second grant awarded by the National Institutes of Health, it has the distinction of having NIH grant number ES-000002.
Over the past five-plus decades, the Center has supported research in the Department of Environmental Health's focus areas of air pollution, metals, and organic chemicals. The Center helped support, for example, the landmark Six Cities Study, led by former Center Director Douglas Dockery, which found a strong link between air pollution and mortality risk and helped pave the way for strengthened U.S. regulations on fine particulate matter in the air.
Center investigators, led among others by Howard Hu in the past and now Marc Weisskopf, have been pioneers in the non-invasive measurement of lead in bone and other tissues using X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) and the use of that approach to examine the connection between lead exposure and outcomes like cardiovascular disease and cognitive function. Other Center researchers have conducted studies that have looked at mercury in the environment. Elsie Sunderland, for example, found that hydroelectric plants in Canada that require the flooding of land can trigger increased levels of methylmercury, a neurotoxin, in the water, which then works its way into the food chain.
Center funding has helped develop the careers of young investigators by providing pilot grants for innovative research as well as assistance with writing grants and building professional networks. In the past decade, the Center has given out 100 pilot project grants, and those have led to 33 new NIEHS grants for individual researchers and more than 150 publications. In the last 5 years, 14 Center-supported researchers received career development awards from the National Institutes of Health, and 27 were appointed as faculty members at other institutions.
Other examples of Center-supported work include:
Lindsay Jaacks's work on the association between exposures to organic pollutants, such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and organochlorine pesticides, and diabetes in developing countries;
Tamarra James-Todd's research on how hormone-disrupting chemicals might affect mothers' heart and metabolic health during pregnancy and contribute to disease later in life;
Maitreyi Mazumdar's research on whether prenatal exposure to arsenic may increase risk of infant neural tube defects;
Wanda Phipatanakul's examination of the effectiveness of air cleaning in schools in reducing the prevalence and severity of asthma;
Catherine Racowsky's collaboration with Russ Hauser, chair of the Department of Environmental Health and director of its organic chemicals research core, to study the impact of bisphenol A (BPA) on human egg quality.
1962 – Harvard-NIEHS Center founded under the leadership of Dr. James Whittenberger. The Center is the recipient of only the second grant awarded by the National Institutes of Health, earning the distinction of having NIH grant number ES-000002.
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1982 – Dr. John B. Little becomes Center Director.
1998 – Dr. Joseph D. Brain becomes Center Director.
(1999) Center Directors James Whittenberger, John Little and Joe Brain.
2008 – Dr. Douglas Dockery becomes Center Director.
2019 – Dr. Marc Weisskopf becomes Center Director.
(2019) Center Directors Doug Dockery and Marc Weisskopf
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Military Situation In Area Of Afrin On January 31, 2017 (Syria Map Update) 5.3333333333333 out of 5 based on 9 ratings. 9 user reviews.
This map provides a general look at the military situation in the Syrian area of Afrin on January 31. The Turkish Armed Forces and its proxies from the Free Syrian Army have achieved limited gains against Kurdish YPG/YPJ forces north, nortwest and northeast of the city of Afrin.
One wonders why there are no real attacks on Tell Rifaat?
It is the one attack that could result in reaching Idlib. Until that is done, reinforcements and resupply can reach Afrin (Assad willing of course).
On the other hand, that whole region is heavily fortified and TFSA had very heavy lossess the last time they tried and the region has been even more fortified over the last year.
This invasion can go in all directions but whatever the course it will follow, the material and immaterial (loss of life) damage to people, their possessions, lives is horrendous and the hatred of kurds towards turkey and turks has grown.
The only small hope one can have is that Erdogan will come to his senses, which is very unlikely.
As all peoples will have to pay the price for rthis, one can only hope that someday he will have to pay a price too.
Simple Assad would counter with SAA and allies ,Russia bad plan also opens up TFSA region in an counter attack.
Why are the kurds not attacking from the east ?


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One of the principal points of contention between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists was the lack of an enumeration of basic civil rights in the Constitution. Many Federalists argued, as in Federalist No. 84, that the people surrendered no rights in adopting the Constitution. In several states, however, the ratification debate in some states hinged on the adoption of a bill of rights. The solution was known as the Massachusetts Compromise, in which four states ratified the Constitution but at the same time sent recommendations for amendments to the Congress.
James Madison introduced 12 amendments to the First Congress in 1789. Ten of these would go on to become what we now consider to be the Bill of Rights. One was never passed, while another dealing with Congressional salaries was not ratified until 1992, when it became the 27th Amendment. Based on the Virginia Declaration of Rights, the English Bill of Rights, the writings of the Enlightenment, and the rights defined in the Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights contains rights that many today consider to be fundamental to America.
The First Amendment provides that Congress make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting its free exercise. It protects freedom of speech, the press, assembly, and the right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
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The Fourth Amendment protects citizens from unreasonable search and seizure. The government may not conduct any searches without a warrant, and such warrants must be issued by a judge and based on probable cause.
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History — W.A. Soefker & Son, Inc.
When Walter (Dutch) A. Soefker Sr. and Walter (Bud) A. Soefker Jr. started W.A. Soefker and Son, Inc. in 1943, neither could have predicted the growth that the company would experience over the next 70+ years. At the beginning, as the president of the Plumbers Local and a member of the Memphis Police Department, Walter (Dutch) A. Soefker Sr. balanced his love for playing semi-pro baseball with building a business. Walter (Bud) A. Soefker Jr. was a local Golden Gloves Boxer and brought that same passion for hitting the mark to his business strategy. Both men started from scratch to create a company that would become one of the most trusted names in heating and cooling in the Mid-South.
Now, Walter (Buddy) A. Soefker III and Brett Alan Soefker, third- and fourth-generation family members, are continuing the legacy of W.A. Soefker and Son, Inc. and carrying the company into a new era of Green energy.


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After Long Battle, All-Female HBCU Bennett College Loses Accreditation
By Dave DeWitt & Associated Press • Feb 22, 2019
The crowd in the Annie Merner Pfieffer Chapel sing Bennett College's "Preference Song" on Feb. 4 as they celebrate raising $8.2 million in their Stand With Bennett campaign. The school lost its accreditation on Feb. 22.
Credit Naomi Prioleau / WUNC
Bennett College has lost its accreditation after the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools denied the school's appeal.
The accrediting agency cited a lack of financial resources and a lack of a stable base of support to ensure the school's educational mission. Bennett College is an all-female, historically black college founded in Greensboro in 1873.
Without accreditation, Bennett College can not participate in federal programs, like student financial aid. Other schools that lost accreditation closed or were significantly diminished.
Bennett College says it raised more than $9 million since mid-December as part of a "Stand With Bennett" Campaign. Nearby High Point University President Nido Qubein announced earlier this month that his school would donate $1 million to Bennett. The fundraising effort was not enough to change the accrediting agency's decision.
It is unclear what Bennett's administration will do next. It is possible the school could seek accreditation elsewhere, or file a legal challenge. School leaders have said previously that they will sue the agency. In previous instances, the commission has responded to lawsuits by agreeing to extend accreditation to let the legal process develop.
Bennett College Raises $8.2M, Exceeding Campaign Goal
By Naomi Prioleau • Feb 4, 2019
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Cheers and screams erupted from inside the Annie Merner Pfieffer Chapel on Bennett College's campus after President Phyllis Worthy Dawkins announced Monday that the school raised $8.2 million in its "Stand with Bennett" fundraising campaign.
Bennett College In Atlanta For Accreditation Appeal Hearing
By Naomi Prioleau • Feb 18, 2019
Bennett College officials are appearing before a panel in Atlanta today in hopes the school can regain its accreditation.
Bennett officials hope the result of their fundraising campaign is enough to convince their accrediting agency to keep the school open.


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Camp IOU sits in the heart of Eastern Montana in the historical town of Ingomar, population 9, where folks gather from miles around to sit and confab at the Jersey Lilly. Camp IOU owners Hart Broesel and Linda Lou Crosby brought their horses and donkeys to the Eastern Plains, where they are having new adventures and developing new episodes of Camp IOU "Tall Tails" based on the original Inyokern Horse Hotel radio show that appeared on the web in 2009.
Hart is right at home in Eastern Montana. He was a stunt rider in the series "The Virginian" (among others) where he got the chance to work under the direction of Sam Peckinpaw. Broesel has also delivered some of his stories at cowboy poetry gatherings in California. His photographs have been featured in juried art shows, and are also featured in the Camp IOU 2010 Calendar "Bred to Buck", which is just about sold out. Hart and Linda Lou also enjoy some great wagon train rides throughout the Eastern Montana plains.
Hanging out at Camp IOU include some Rick Littleton Steens Mountain Kiger horses. Spirit from the animated "Stallion of the Cimmarons" was modeled on a Kiger initially owned and raised by Rick Littleton. Broesel became fascinated by the breed in the early 2000's and is the owner of "Kiger's Fancy," "Kiger's Golden Nuggett" and "Kiger's Little Doc" who are key characters featured on the "Tall Tails" radio show. The horses have taken their spots in the town pasture.
Cowboy poet Owen Badgett, an Ingomar resident, and his pal cowman Morris Ware, said they will be breaking Little Doc to drive a cart this summer. So Linda Lou better get busy putting Linseed Oil on the cart she and Hart got at a Forsyth auction last year. Also, it needs a seat. But first things first. Owen Badgett is the main character in a documentary that Linda Lou produced and was released in 2009, called "The Gypsy Cowman"…a Vanishing Breed". It is a story of Badgett and the ranchers of Eastern Montana. Owen was born and raised in Eastern Montana and worked and lived at Ralston Camp for 14 years. Ralston Camp is a cow camp which initially was owned by the Newmans of the NNN Tanch. Then it was bought by the Montgomery Ranch, and Owen came with it. Owen lived without electricity or running water at Ralston Camp, but never lacked good times, good books, or good friends. "The Gypsy Cowman" premiered at the Lone Pine Film Festival in 2009 and also Miles City Montana in 2009, and has been reviewed by Rick Huff at cowboypoetry.com. Find out more at our General Store.
Camp IOU (Ingomar Outdoors Unlimited) also has a mammoth Jack, Raisin' Cane, who puts his two sense into the Camp IOU Radio show. Look for co-owner Linda Lou Crosby's columns on donkey adventures, called "The Donkey Whisperer", in the Western Mule Magazine.
And look for Linda Lou's new documentary…..will keep you folks posted as we go.


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Q: Angularjs ControllerAs replacement for $watchCollection I have been in the processing of refactoring my angularjs app to use controllerAs and wanted to see if I could get rid of all $scope.$watch functions.  I have managed this by defining properties with getters and setters and that has worked great.  Where I am stuck is a replacement for $watchCollection.  As an example I have a directive with a property defined called "params".  this is an object with child properties.  Before I could use $scope.$watch('params',function(){...},true) or use $watchCollection.  Now the setter does not get called since the actual object is not being set when a child parameter is changed.  Below is the solution I have come up with but am hoping there is something better.  Also, I know I can still use $watch and $watchCollection if I need to.  Just seeing if there is a way to avoid it. The params property is dynamic so will not know the child properties in advance.
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Students, faculty and staff gave their ideas and opinions at open town hall meeting.
Last updated March 18th, 2018.
Over the next five to seven years Mount Allison will undergo the extensive process of updating and renovating its library.
The library revitalization project will include quality of life improvements like more power outlets, new lighting and asbestos removal, as well as large-scale changes to the library's appearance and organization.
The absolute earliest stage of this process involves collecting ideas and suggestions from Mt. A students, faculty and staff. Two town hall meetings were held to discuss how the library is currently used and how it might be used in the future.
"Architects these days – we don't come in as experts and say 'This is what you should do,' " said Stephen Teeple of Teeple Architects, one of two architects present at the meeting. "We're not here to tell anyone what to do. We're going to talk about opportunities to make sure everybody realizes that there is a large scope of possibility for this project. The existing library has a lot of good things going on in it, and those can be made much more potent and powerful and beautiful, we think. We're here to understand what people desire, what people want to see this library evolve into." Stephen Outerbridge, an architect from EXP, was also present.
The presenters also provided some examples of other recently renovated university libraries and learning centres, like the Ryerson Student Learning Centre and the Musashino Art University Museum and Library.
Suggestions at the meeting on March 6 ranged from improvements for library staff workspaces to better natural lighting to the addition of a specifically Indigenous space developed in consultation with Indigenous students and faculty.
Increasing accessibility in the library was a main concern for many. Lower shelves and more widely spaced stacks, accessible washrooms, and a more central, up-to-date, functional elevator were popular ideas.
Sustainability going forward also came up. "I don't know if you're familiar with the Divest movement, but the idea among students and the community is that this has to be a green, sustainable building," said librarian Jenny Scurlock, speaking from the audience. "And [sustainability] can't just be a theme, it has to be a core principle." She suggested the use of solar panels and geothermal energy for the library, and its detachment from fossil fuels.
Other attendees brought up the idea of areas featuring different collections or archival materials that might be hidden from view otherwise.
A number of people posed the idea of creating a space for art in the library.
Both audience members and the presenting architects were interested in creating spaces for a variety of purposes and study habits. Teaching classrooms, peer tutoring space and offices for teaching assistants were put on the table.
"From my perspective a big part of it is striking a balance between study space and social space, which I think the library we have now does reasonably well. I do like the flow of walking into the library and you have tables and people are chattering and whatever and you can find people you know and talk to them a little bit before you go about your daily business," said one student in attendance.
Overseeing the project is the Libraries 2025 Vision Committee. Co-chaired by Provost Jeff Ollerhead and VP international and student affairs Kim Meade, the committee includes one librarian, one library staff member and university librarian Marc Truitt, as well as five other members from various university constituencies.
The committee is currently aiming to complete the library revitalization project by 2025, the 150th anniversary of Grace Annie Lockhart's graduation from Mt. A.
Beyond the recent town halls, Ollerhead said there would be more opportunities for the public to engage with the process in the future. He encouraged students and faculty to continue participating, and to encourage their friends and colleagues to do so as well.
The next step of the process will involve attracting donors to fund the project, but this is tied into community interest and participation. "We need some idea that we can raise some money, but we need some really good ideas that we can raise money for," said Ollerhead.


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Sex in a time of technology
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In the case of community theater in Portland, subtlety has become a lost art. Well, that is a bit of a generalization, but it is certainly the case for Third Eye's latest endeavor of Dylan Hillerman's Grand Guignol (pronounced Grahn Geen-yol).
In the case of community theater in Portland, subtlety has become a lost art. Well, that is a bit of a generalization, but it is certainly the case for Third Eye's latest endeavor of Dylan Hillerman's Grand Guignol (pronounced Grahn Geen-yol). A play comprised of four original one-acts, it falls heavily on the recent fad of ironic graphic gore and sex, and falls flat in terms of entertainment.
Taking a cue from the macabre theater of France during the turn of the 20th century, Grand Guignol does nothing to foster an appreciation for the silly, overtly violent and sexual nature of the pieces that made it a must-see in the past.
The four one-acts are composed of ridiculous plots, such as one devoted to a couple finding out that their online lovers are actually their parents at an anonymous swingers gathering, anchored with lame death and sex jokes and gratuitous use of the word "fuck." I am all for using the word "fuck" in theater, especially during violent and sexual scenes, but its use, most of the time, is completely unnecessary in Grand Guignol.
When the stories of the four plays, roughly half an hour each, aren't going into cranky New Yorker mode, most of them don't explain enough to let the imagination really take hold. Such is the case for the last piece, entitled "Silicone Death Cult," which just went too far as it tried to make as many weird connections to humanity's use of technology through the rape of an online whore and a man that works with robots (or at least I think that was the idea).
The best of the quartet was "Under My Skin." Despite its lack of plump plot points, it has the best payoff with a zombie-like fellow ripping the head off another guy. Of course, it is at the very end of the production, which may be the only thing that is true to form to the performance type's predecessor—in that Ira Kortum (who incidentally is also the writer of the piece) knows enough to leave the one truly satisfyingly sanguine moment till the very end of the production.
The acting, for the most part, doesn't help the shoddy writing. A few notable performances include the work of Jeff Gardner as a horny married man and murderer, and Tana Miller as Master of Ceremonies. As talented as she is, and as fitting the part is (Miller is also a burlesque dancer), there are some very simple things that could have given Miller's performance more impact, such as putting a spotlight on her while leaving the rest of the stage and the audience in the dark. Lighting has always been less than ideal for the Back Door Theater, but Miller's turns into torturing stage hands and cackling incessantly would be far more entertaining if the scene was set for all eyes on her.
Dylan Hillerman's Grand Guignol does not do its original creator justice. From the meandering dialogue to the elementary acting, it falls short of its own grand expectations to arouse, disgust and amuse.
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