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Botnets: Size Isn't Everything, Says New Report
Botnets boomed in 2010, says report
European Agency Warns of Botnet Dangers
Fighting botnets: Malware has 'exploded,' says security manager
European researchers say botnet-size estimates are often exaggerated and do little to assess the real scope of the threat
By Joan Goodchild and Senior Editor
Freelance writer, CSO | PT
Published figures estimating the size and scope of botnets are often inaccurate and do not reflect the threat these compromised networks pose to security, according to research released this week by ENISA, the European Network and Information Security Agency.
The study on botnets, which are networks of ordinary computers controlled by cybercriminals, and the threats they pose, looks at the reliability of botnet size estimates and says the total annual global economic loss attributed to malicious software activities is estimated at more than US$ 10 billion.
See also: Smartphone botnets: Report predicts mobile devices will be part of DDOS attacks
"A shift in the motivation for the creation of malicious software has led to a financially-oriented underground economy of criminals acting in cyberspace," the report states.
MORE ON THE BOTNET WAR
What a botnet looks like
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Report: Rustock still top dog among spam botnets
With botnets everywhere, DDoS attacks get cheaper
Among the many activities botnet's are responsible for, sending out spam and taking part in denial-of-service attacks are some of the more well-known. The report's authors say existing approaches to measuring the size of botnets are often wildly off-base because there is a high incentive for exaggeration.
"Media attention, publicity and interest in receiving financial support are strongly correlated with the level of threat published," the report states. "Over the last few years, the term 'threat level' has been almost exclusively associated with the size of botnets. Well-known reported figures for botnet sizes that caught major media attention ranged from around 7-9 million bots for Conficker, over 13 million bots associated with Mariposa and up to 30 million infected machines in the Bredolab botnet. As big numbers imply big threats, therefore high attention, there is a significant incentive for overestimation."
"The botnet numbers define the political agenda and they determine 100's of millions of Euros of security investments — we should understand what is behind them," says Dr. Giles Hogben, the report's editor. Hogben also said the size of a botnet is only one way to factor the threat it poses.
"Size is not everything — the number of infected machines alone is an inappropriate measure of the threat," said Hogben.
Researchers suggest several tactics to mitigate the threat of botnets, including incentives for Internet Service Providers for detection efforts, and improvements in botnet identification, monitoring and malware analysis.
Joan Goodchild, former editor in chief of CSO, is a veteran editor and writer with 20+ years experience. She has a Master's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and received an Edward R. Murrow award for investigative journalism.


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In Which Side Are You On?, Palme d'Or winner Ken Loach documented the experiences of the miners who led the last great strike of the British mining industry in 1984.
The documentary was censored by the television channel that commissioned it at the time, but now you can watch it online on Guidedoc. In this article we take a look at this iconic film.
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Before being televised, Which Side Are You On? won an award at the Berlin Film Festival, which put pressure on Channel 4, which was forced to broadcast the film after the television channel had commissioned and banned Loach's documentary on the strike.
Loach was already known for dramas focused on working-class characters, but the network never thought that for this work the British filmmaker would be so transparently biased with one of the sides in conflict.
In Which Side Are you On? Loach makes an observational documentary and films what happens before his eyes in the meetings of the miners who carry out the strike, paying special attention to the poetics of the movement, which becomes the main narrative thread of the film.
In this way, Loach documents the poems and songs composed and performed by the miners and members of the unions, artistic expressions that try to motivate the struggle and to rescue a legacy that dates back more than one hundred years of union activity in the mining industry.
The cameras of Loach and his collaborators are positioned almost integrating themselves on the same side with the group of miners who freely and without strife discuss the demand for better working conditions and denounce the police brutality against the movement.
The film is named after a popular song composed by activist Florence Reece in 1931, who dedicated it to the historical struggle of British miners.
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UFO INCIDENT INDIANA
On August 9, 2002, persons in Butler County, Ohio and Franklin County, Indiana reported a UFO in the evening skies. The object was seen from several vantage points across state lines and was a police concern for an extended duration. In the days to follow, an investigation of the incident was launched by Donnie Blessing, Southern Ohio section director for M.U.F.O.N., and researcher Kenny Young.When investigating such occurrences, it is routine to analyze police 9-1-1 tapes when available. While officials at the Butler County, Ohio dispatch agency were swift and professional in getting the police tapes from their agency to UFO researchers, a communications director at the neighboring Franklin County 9-1-1 office advised researcher Donnie Blessing that they would not release their 9-1-1 data without a 'court order.' Knowing that all such 9-1-1 material is 'public record,' UFO researchers again approached the Franklin County 9-1-1 Center with a written request and after a 6-month delay, the tapes would finally be released.
UFO Confusion near Oxford, Ohio (Butler County) Around 11:00 p.m. I received a voice-message telephone call from someone reporting a UFO over the Oxford airport. The caller left a phone number that did not work as I tried to redial. The call sounded credible, and the man said he had received the information from a Ham radio operator.
I then called the Miami University Police Dispatch office at 513-529-2222 with hopes of getting more information. When the dispatcher answered the phone, I point-blank asked: «what had happened over the airport tonight?» at which point the dispatcher said: «Oh, I think that was a helicopter.»
Intrigued, I then went on to ask for some details about the event. He said that the Oxford police department took the first reports from people who thought they saw a UFO. He said the airport is unmanned and there is no radar or air traffic control tower at the airport, which is a fairly small runway. He felt that the object was identified as a helicopter by a police officer. He then recommended that I call the Oxford police department.
I then called the Oxford Police Department at 513-524-5240 and an Officer Blevins said that their department had been advised of the event by the Butler County Sheriff's department. Citizen calls reporting a UFO were received by the Butler County dispatch before 10:00 p.m. on Friday evening. While the Oxford police dispatcher was unaware of any sighting over the Oxford airport, she did advise of an object that was seen to the west, over the city of Franklin. She said that a Franklin police officer had identified the object as a helicopter.
A third phone call was placed to the Butler County Sheriff Department at 513-785-1300. The dispatcher handling the call, Officer Metzger, was not fully aware of the event but said it had been explained as «Possibly a star cluster.» Coming on for the 3rd shift duty, she was not aware of the witness descriptions or the nature of the calls.
The Franklin police department was contacted at 937-746-2882 and the dispatcher taking the call was surprised when I had asked about UFO sightings in the area and she said: «not through our police department.» The call was then handled by a second officer at the Franklin City Police Department who also knew nothing of any such reports. I informed that Butler County had said calls began around 10:00 p.m. and that the object was seen over Franklin. The officer said she knew nothing of such a report. I also said the suspected object was possibly identified as a helicopter by a Franklin officer and she said that there was no Franklin officer involved in any such sighting, further saying that she had been on duty all night and 'would have known about it.'I then called the Warren County police dispatch headquarters at 513-420-4289 and the officer taking the call, identifying himself as Jason, said that he had not heard of any UFO sighting reports and their office had not taken any incoming calls of such.
Another phone call was placed to the Miamisburgh police headquarters at 937-866-3344, and they also were unaware of any UFO sighting reports.
Four Sources
Four separate sources advise of reported UFO activity near Oxford, Ohio :1) an informant leaving a telephone message whose return phone number does not work,
2). The Miami University Police Dispatch Office confirms reports of suspected UFO seen near airport and adds that it was identified as 'helicopter' and
3) Oxford Police Department confirms of notification by Butler County Dispatch due to citizen complaints of UFO seen over Franklin and4) Butler County confirms citizen complaints of UFO sighting around 10:00 p.m. but suggests the reports are due to a 'star cluster.'
This is a most curious episode. Exact details of what was reported are still not available. Conflicting information is present in that officers at Miami University police dispatch presumed that «an» object was explained as a helicopter by a Franklin police officer while neither the Franklin police department nor the Butler County or Warren County sheriff headquarters can shed any light on 1). reports of a UFO, 2). helicopter identification claim or 3) Franklin police officer.
More puzzling is that Oxford police headquarters directly advised that a UFO was reported over the city of Franklin while Franklin police officers deny any knowledge of such reports.
This general area is around 25-miles southwest of Wright Patterson Air Force Base.
Filed; August 10, 2002
KENNY YOUNG
UFO Research
http://home.fuse.net/ufo
Butler County UFO claimant
: This afternoon I spoke with Mrs. Stephenson (named changed, on-file), a resident of Wayne Madison Road near Trenton, Ohio. Mrs. Stephenson reported a UFO sighting to the Butler County Sheriff's Department on Friday evening, August 9, 2002. Her telephone number was listed on that police report. Mrs. Stephenson spoke freely of the occurrence and said that around dusk on Friday evening, she observed a star-like object to the west of her residence. She estimated the object was localized over the vicinity of Oxford, Ohio and also said this object was visible on 3 consecutive evenings previous to her call to the Butler County Sheriff's Office.She informed that her residence on Wayne Madison Road, near Route 73, is situated on a hill and affords her a good view of the western sky, and that in her 11-years of living at this location, she has never seen anything like this previously.
«It was an unusual object,» she said, «very bright and changing colors from red to green.»
Mrs. Stephenson said she thought it would be best to report the object to the Butler County Sheriff's Department, and contacted them at their non-emergency telephone number. According to a CAD Operations Report released to researcher Donnie Blessing by the Butler County Sheriff's Office, Mrs. Stephenson placed the call at 9:30 p.m. on Friday, August 9. The officer arrived on the scene at 9:43 p.m.
«The officer was taken back by this object,» she said, «he had no explanation for it.
«He had no idea what this was, and said that even though he doesn't believe in UFOs, it may have been an alien.»
Mrs. Stephenson said both she and the officer observed the object through her binoculars (hand-held). She said the object appeared like an 'umbrella of light' that she compared to the spread of exploding fireworks receding downward, changing colors from red to green.
Mrs. Stephenson said the object was still visible as the officer left at 9:55 p.m. (according to the CAD operations report).
«When my husband arrived home from work around 10:15 p.m., the object was barely visible and much lower on the horizon,» she said.
Before his departure, the officer recommended that Mrs. Stephenson report the sighting to a radio station. She did so around 10:30 p.m., calling a local Middletown, Ohio area radio station. But to the best of her knowledge, the call was not particularly productive in any way. The following evening, Mrs. Stephenson told her neighbors (5-acres away) about the sighting, but they were unaware of the occurrence.
When asked if there were any particular flight characteristics that would rule out this object being a star, Mrs. Stephenson said: «I don't know. It could have been a star.»
Although Mrs. Stephenson says that she has not seen anything quite like this in the 11-years of residing on Wayne Madison Road, she does report an interesting event taking place in May of '93. She said that she went to her window to see why dogs were barking furiously outside her home and saw a large area of light illuminating the ground near the dogs. This was described as a soft, diffused area of light that seemed to have been caused by a beam shone from above. She could see the beam through the air but could not discern its source in the sky (Note: the time-frame of this sighting was during a spate of UFO activity reported near Trenton, Monroe, Waynesville and Lebanon, Ohio. Most notable during the activity reported during the spring of '93 was the UFO Incident at the Lebanon Correctional Institute happening on April 8, 1993).
Investigator Comments
It is my suspicion was simply observing a routine star or planet.It should be firmly noted that Mrs. Stephenson could not describe any flight characteristic incompatible with the track of a routine star or planet in the western sky as it descended low to the horizon. Further, hand-held binocular observation of celestial objects often results in misperception due to autokinetic optical issues.
The Butler County officer responding to the call may have also been flummoxed by the star and binocular observation.
What makes this report terribly curious is the activity reported around 10:10 p.m. in Oxford, Ohio mere moments after Mrs. Stephenson reported her sighting, and also in the very same direction she viewed the alleged object. Compounding this situation further still is additional activity also taking place in that same direction near Brookville Lake in which a Department of Natural Resources employee advised of 'havoc' taking place at a campground in which a silent, low flying object came directly overhead at treetop elevation.
According to this witness, the object was comprised of 3-red non-strobing lights in a triangular formation and no larger than 12-feet in diameter.Filed; August 10, 2002
Subject; Interview with Franklin County (Indiana) EMT officer regarding incident of Aug. 9, 2002
This evening I reached Thomas (name changed, on-file), a volunteer Emergency Service Technician with the Franklin County Emergency Medical Service Unit 2 at 15 West 5th Street in Brookville, Indiana (765-647-1265). Thomas spoke freely regarding the unusual event from Friday, August 9, but requested his name not be released in any report.
Thomas, also a security guard for Dept. of Natural resources, was on nightly patrol of the Brookville Lake campground when he heard notification over his police radio that Butler Cty., Ohio police units were informing of a low flying unidentified flying object (UFO) near the Bath, IN vicinity (a small town west of the campground near the state line, situated east of Brookville Lake).
«I was standing outside so I began looking for what they were reporting,» he said, «when I then observed an object due west from my vantage point.»
The emergency technician with the Franklin County volunteer agency said that the object flew right over his head at an extremely low elevation, yet he heard absolutely no noise. He described the object as comprised of red lights situated in a triangle formation, spaced about 6-feet apart.
«This was like nothing I've ever seen,» Thomas said, «it was all red lights, no strobes,
«I looked up to see the object, it flew right over my head,» the witness informed, «and it was completely undetectable by ear.»
Thomas said the object was so low that it had barely missed powerlines and was flying at treetop level. When pressed further on this, Thomas said the object flew at an estimated 25-feet above the height of a standard telephone pole and 'barely missing' treetops.
The witness said that there was no visible moon during the event and no backlit skies to see by. When asked more about the objects appearance, he explained that the solid red lights were not extremely bright and probably would not be seen if at a higher elevation and positioned one in the front and two in the rear. He could ascertain no physical structure to the object.
«I don't believe it was very large,» he said, «and if I had to estimate its length by the light spacing, I wouldn't say this object was no more than 12-feet long.»
He then went on to remark about the silent operation of the object.
«I absolutely didn't hear a thing,» he said, «I'm honestly not sure what it was. After some time when it got some distance away I could hear some kind of noise but it's hard to describe.»
«When it was off in the distance I could almost hear something that sounded like a rotor strut that pounded the air, but this was not heard when it was right overhead.»
He feels positive that the distant thumping noise was from the object.
The object apparently undertook a course change over the lake and headed off in a southwest direction.
«Whatever this object was, it generated havoc throughout the campground,» said the officer. «People were coming to the gate asking what it was.»When asked if there were any animal reaction to the object, he said that all kinds of dogs were around the area but they did not behave unusual during the episode.
Thomas said the staff in the area had been 'on edge' due to a helicopter crash around three weeks earlier Thomas acknowledges that he is the source for the 'helicopter' speculation.
«As far as a a helicopter explanation was concerned, that was an assumption made by me because I was the only emergency personnel to see this,» he said. not confident that this was a helicopter «But I'm honestly not sure what it was, I would not put any money on this being a helicopter.»
He said that he would not surprised if there were other reports on this object. He was aware of reports generated near the Oxford airport, which is directly due east of the campground. «Our dispatch was calling for an officer to investigate area for low flying unidentified flying object,» he said, «and I think it was called in from Butler County, Ohio.»
When told that another police agency offered the possibility that this was a star cluster, he said: «this absolutely represented nothing of a star cluster.»
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Born November 24, 1937; married. Education: Ohio University in Athens, B.A. Hobbies and other interests: Reading, cooking.
Home—Andover, MA. Office—Charlesbridge Publishing, 85 Main St., Watertown, MA 02472.
Editor and writer. Charlesbridge Publishing, Watertown, MA, staff member, 1981—; writer. Former foreign-language teacher in Toledo, OH, and Hackensack, NJ; Holt, Rinehart & Winston Publishers, New York, NY, former foreign-language consultant; Houghton Mifflin (publisher), Boston, MA, former vice president.
Hail to the Chief: The American Presidency, illustrated by Alan Witschonke, Charlesbridge Publishing (Watertown, MA), 2000.
This Is America: The American Spirit in Places and People, illustrated by Christine Joy Pratt, Charlesbridge Publishing (Watertown, MA), 2005.
Ox, House, Stick: The History of Our Alphabet, illustrated by Anne Smith, Charlesbridge Publishing (Watertown, MA), 2007.
Don Robb worked for more than twenty years in the publishing industry before he began writing his own books for children. He is affiliated with Massachusetts-based Charlesbridge Publishing as both an author and a member of the company's staff. Robb's books include the nonfiction titles Hail to the Chief: The American Presidency, This Is America: The American Spirit in Places and People, and Ox, House, Stick: The History of Our Alphabet.
Hail to the Chief, featuring artwork by Alan Witschonke, is an elementary-grade picture book useful for teaching youngsters about America's best-known presidents. This Is America, illustrated by Christine Joy Pratt, explores famous people and places that have made the United States the country it is today. In her School Library Journal review of This Is America, Susan Lissim dubbed Robb's book "an appealing way to explore U.S. history and democracy."
With its intriguing title, Ox, House, Stick introduces elementary-grade readers to the history of the modern alphabet, beginning with the earliest pictograms and following the evolution forward in time to the Roman letters used today. Robb explains both why and how writing began and evolved over time, including the changing shape of letters and the need for punctuation. "This quality work fills a significant gap in children's information literature," concluded Jayne Damron in a review of the book for School Library Journal. In Horn Book, Joanna Rudge Long described Ox, House, Stick as "an excellent first resource" that is "skillfully organized to … inspire interest," while in Booklist Gillian Engberg deemed it "a fascinating look at the Roman alphabet." In a review of Robb's book for Kirkus Reviews, a contributor praised Ox, House, Stick as a "pleasingly informative offering."
Biographical and Critical Sources
Booklist, August, 2007, Gillian Engberg, review of Ox, House, Stick: The History of Our Alphabet, p. 72.
Horn Book, November-December, 2007, Joanna Rudge Long, review of Ox, House, Stick, p. 698.
Kirkus Reviews, June 15, 2007, review of Ox, House, Stick.
School Library Journal, March, 2001, Margaret C. Howell, review of Hail to the Chief: The American Presidency, p. 242; May, 2005, Susan Lissim, review of This Is America: The American Spirit in Places and People, p. 114; August, 2007, Jayne Damron, review of Ox, House, Stick, p. 138.
Charlesbridge Publishing Web site,http://www.charlesbridge.com/ (November 4, 2008), "Don Robb."
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The fact that the CPJ issued the report at all underscores how hostile official policy has been to journalists. While the CPJ has reported on press freedoms in countries around the world since the early 1980s, this is its first investigation focused on the United States. Leonard Downie Jr., former executive editor of The Washington Post, wrote the report, with input from several dozen Washington journalists, media advocates and former government officials.
Downie told The Nation he was most surprised by the unanimity of those reporters about the ways the administration has made their jobs more difficult. The level of specificity the many journalists were able to provide convinced him that the problems were pervasive and exceptional. "The Obama administration's aggressive war on leaks and its determined efforts to control information that the news media needs to hold the government accountable for its actions are without equal since the Nixon administration," he said at a press conference this morning.
Among the most egregious actions cited in the report for having a chilling effect on the press are the prosecution of eight government employees or contractors under the 1917 Espionage Act, more than twice as many as all previous administrations combined; the restriction of normal reporter-source relationships by aggressively pursuing leaks, using secret subpoenas and by implementing a program requiring federal employees to monitor one another for signs of unauthorized disclosures; hostility to press inquiries and reluctance to release information; and the use of the administration's own internally created media to bypass the press.
The report does acknowledge several efforts to improve transparency. On his first day in office, Obama directed agencies to expedite Freedom of Information Act requests and to publish more information online and in December 2009 he directed officials not to classify materials if they doubted that they should be secret. Obama signed the Whistle Blower Enhancement Protection Act last November, which was intended to protect federal employees from retaliation, including workers in the intelligence community. He has given far more interviews to news media than Clinton or Bush in their first term.
But the CPJ report characterizes many of these voluntary actions as serving the administration's own publicity needs, rather than the public interest. Think of the White House's insistence during the 2012 campaign that all quotes be vetted before publication. Purported attempts to lift the veil have been "part of a strategy, honed during Obama's presidential campaign, to use the Internet to dispense to the public large amounts of favorable information and images generated by his administration, while limiting its exposure to probing by the press," the report says.
The administration deftly wields social media, Internet videos and government sites, like "IC on the Record," a forum for the intelligence community to post statements and declassified documents that launched after the Snowden revelations about NSA spying. Reporters quoted in the report say official photos and videos are used not to supplement outside press coverage but to replace it. Official media of events the press is not invited to or informed about create the illusion of openness, but the line between free information and propaganda blurs when there are no other lenses in the room.
What could have been real steps toward reform ultimately proved less than robust. The whistleblower protections Obama signed were undercut by an appellate court decision that left employees in positions deemed "sensitive" to national security unable to appeal personnel decisions by their agencies, meaning they cannot challenge retaliatory terminations. This year, Obama asked Congress to resume work on national shield legislation to protect reporters from criminal prosecution if they refuse to reveal their sources under court order, but he has also demanded the law include a national security loophole that may leave out the journalists most in need of protection.
The report lays out various policies meant to deter whistleblowers and freeze communications between the press and government sources (other than PR personnel). They include personnel rules requiring employees to report misconduct internally before going to Congress and the Insider Threat Program, under which employees at most federal agencies are expected to watch and report on their coworkers for indications of wrongdoing. Such programs may discourage the disclosure not only of serious abuses of power but also of internal waste, fraud or misconduct.
The revelations about the scope of the NSA's surveillance programs raise other questions about press freedom. While there are no known instances of the NSA's spying on reporters, Downie said that knowledge of the metadata collection program, particularly on the heels of the subpoena of journalists' records in leak investigations, made reporters more fearful that their activities are being monitored.


How have some Chicago schools improved student reading performance? Leadership is essential -- leadership and 13 practical strategies to nurture concrete, measurable gains in reading! This week, Education World tells what principals and teachers do in some of Chicago's most successful schools and how they do it!
"If primary teachers don't know phonics, I simply won't hire them!" said Anthony Jelinek, principal of Chicago's Hibbard Elementary School. The Chicago Schools Academic Accountability Council designated Hibbard one of the city's "most improved schools."
Thirty-nine of about 490 Chicago elementary schools (including pre-K through 4, pre-K through 8, and middle school) earned "most improved" commendations because of students' superior performance in reading and math on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS). All are urban schools whose students face the kinds of challenges, such as poverty and English as a second language, that can often hinder student achievement. These schools have beaten the odds, though, and helped students do well according to objective performance measures.
The report "Leave No Child Behind: An Examination of Chicago's Most Improved Schools and the Leadership Strategies Behind Them" is the result of a two-year study by the Academic Accountability Council. Principals in the participating schools used 13 common strategies that showed dramatic improvements in reading. Those strategies include a zealous commitment to a focused reading program, teacher accountability and support, creative investment in student learning, and increased time on task.
"Students can learn, regardless of their racial or ethnic background or their family income, in schools that use 13 key strategies," said an announcement of the report's release. "Researchers found that principals and teachers in these most-improved schools used certain common strategies and engaged in similar activities." The first strategy cited in the report is "Create a consistent reading program."
"We emphasize phonics in the primary grades because that addresses the specific needs of our student population," principal Jelinek told Education World. "More than 50 percent of our students have English as a second language. We have students who speak Spanish, Cambodian, Arabic, four dialects from India, Vietnamese, and many other languages."
"Our school isn't located in Cherubsville, Suburbia," said Jelinek, whose school encompasses kindergarten through eighth grade. "We use a basal series because it more directly addresses comprehension and word attack skills, which is what our students need. The whole-language approach tends to presuppose a sophisticated ability with language that many of our students just don't have when they begin here."
According to Jelinek, a basal series provides students with needed continuity of instruction from one grade level to another, enables students to gauge their own progress, and allows teachers and administrators to measure students' reading progress. Jelinek also thinks the support basal series workbooks offer is of critical importance in developing students' skills.
In Hibbard's classes, students read both fiction and nonfiction. "This year, our drive is to enhance students' vocabulary, not just with lists but also with using the new words," Jelinek explained. "We introduce and have students use new terms from social studies and science. We also focus on the diverse meanings of one word. To students who use English as a second language, words with several different meanings are particularly confusing. For example, we might look at the word train. To one person, a train is a choo-choo. Someone else might use the word as in 'training' someone for a job. The word can also mean the train on a wedding dress.
"No one approach to reading and language works for everybody," Jelinek affirmed. "What's important is to know your student population and tailor your reading program to fit it."
Dr. Rollie O. Jones, principal at Kellman Corporate Community School, said schools must be "consistent and organized for success. Our resource teacher and grade-level teams work together to align curriculum."
A coordinated curriculum is vital because it enables teachers to plan lessons incoming students will have the skills to learn. With vertical and horizontal coherence in the curriculum, teachers also know what next year's teachers will expect from their students.
"We have a vision, a mission to provide a coordinated curriculum," Dr. Jones told Education World. "We have a cross-section of teachers, some young, some seasoned, some in-between, but they all must buy into our vision. I look for teachers who will make that commitment to a coordinated curriculum and become part of our 'family' here in the school."
Among the strategies Kellman, a pre-K through 8 school, uses is an extensive mentoring and tutoring program. "We have mentors come into the school once a week, successful adults to act as role models for our students," Dr. Jones said. "Some young men, college graduates, are rappers, some have the earring in the ear, but they are all fine young people. Our students can relate to them and learn from them."
Kellman also attracts student tutors from an area high school and from DePaul University. The tutors spend time at the school once a week. They use reading and math materials teachers provide to help students develop specific skills.
"Our mentoring and tutorial programs accomplish several goals," Dr. Jones explained. "They provide interaction with our community, showing students sources that enter the school from the outside, and they enable students to develop more acceptable behaviors and get one-on-one instruction in reading and math."
The 13 strategies identified as essential to progress in the 39 schools cited as most improved follow, along with recommendations on how to implement them.
Implement a coherent reading program at every level.
Emphasize phonics and decoding in early grades.
Read aloud to students at all levels.
Maintain a literature-based approach, balancing fictional and nonfictional materials.
Focus on fluency and comprehension.
Teach reading across the curriculum -- for example, how to read science.
Use writing for a variety of purposes across the curriculum.
Use daily oral language exercises (DOL) to teach grammar.
Develop vocabulary through planned experiences and projects.
Create a culture of achievement by setting high expectations.
Set clear performance expectations for students.
Set clear, broadly understood performance expectations for staff.
Focus on results, not inputs, for evaluation and development processes.
Implement a curriculum with vertical and horizontal coherence.
Align school curriculum to local and state standards and assessments.
Facilitate inter- and intra-grade communication.
Serve as a resource for staff.
Recruit and retain superior staff.
Establish a mutually supportive environment and team philosophy.
Encourage joint planning and problem solving.
Expect professionals to share ideas and resources.
Create a culture that encourages learning, thinking, reflection, and self-analysis.
Create an environment in which the staff is respected and everyone is expected to contribute.
Counsel out or remove staff members who do not buy into the philosophy of the school or meet expectations.
Have principals and peers hold teachers accountable for student achievement.
Use student performance data as part of the evaluation process.
Expect teachers to gain skills in areas where student performance is weak.
Monitor Both Students and Teachers: What is measured gets accomplished!
Collect, read, and comment on teachers' lesson plans on a weekly basis.
Collect a writing sample each week from children in each class.
Constantly monitor and use a variety of formal and informal methods.
Use student data for instructional decision making.
Meet regularly with teachers and grade-level teams to review student progress and solve problems.
Make parents official partners in the process.
Be visible and visit classrooms regularly.
Place high value on early detection and remediation of student learning problems.
Implement an individualized learning plan for every student performing below grade level.
Begin assessment and monitoring in kindergarten.
Make sure no child falls through the cracks.
Support teachers to ensure success.
Designate a point person to coordinate instruction and support staff improvement.
Use coaching and mentoring as support processes.
Implement a mentoring/induction process for new staff.
Give teachers time and opportunity to refine and improve skills.
Tie professional development to school priorities and staff needs.
Value and use teacher expertise.
Plan high-level professional development topics: reading and writing strategies, curriculum alignment, standards and assessment, technology, and data-driven instructional decision making.
Set the expectation that staff members share what they learn and provide enough time for them to do so.
Ensure Philosophical Consistency: Schools that improve have a common vision and mission and are philosophically consistent.
Hire principals who exemplify the vision and philosophy of the school and "walk their talk."
Match staff philosophy, attitudes, knowledge, and skills to school needs.
Work to ensure an across the board "buy-in."
Hire teachers who support the school's mission, vision, and philosophy.
Counsel out or remove staff members who are not a good match for the school!
Invest resources beyond per-pupil allocations to enhance student achievement.
Monitor results carefully; fine tune budget when investments do not yield results.
Instill a Love of Learning Through Reading: Everyone is a learner! Everyone is a reader!
Help students learn to love reading so they will love learning!
Make sure everyone in the school is a learner and a reader!
Value learning and make it fun!
Expect everyone in the school community to work together; do not compartmentalize.
Create a culture of achievement that depends on everyone's contribution.
Develop and implement "robust" communication strategies between and among staff, families, and the community.
Increase Time on Task: Be creative and find more time for learning!
Increase reading time during the school day and make good use of time.
Provide smaller class sizes or tutors to give extra time-on-task during the school day.
Provide opportunities before and after school to increase learning time.
Increase the school day for all students by using discretionary resources.
Increase the school year by using discretionary resources.
"It is our hope that the "baker's dozen" strategies we have identified will become a blueprint for every school looking toward greater achievement," explained Dr. Karen Carlson, executive director of the Academic Accountability Council and primary author of the study.
"The most successful elementary schools ensure that all students have a reading-enriched curriculum, beginning in the first grade, where there is a strong emphasis on phonetics," said Carlson, who is a former Chicago Public Schools principal. "This is complemented by consistent monitoring to ensure that no child falls through the cracks."
"Leadership...specifically, the principal's leadership is what we are seeing here," said Leon Jackson, chairman of the Academic Accountability Council, in reference to how schools implement the 13 strategies. "In each of the schools that are improving, we see a successful management team that is goal-oriented, well-organized, well-supported and, most important, well-led. These are principals and schools from whom all can learn."
"Simple Things You Can Do to Help All Children Read Well..."


The credit card is the property of the Boulder Junction Public Library and will be issued on an account under the name of the Boulder Junction Public Library.
The library director will be the only person authorized to use the credit card and will be responsible for the credit card's protection and custody. The library director shall immediately notify the appropriate financial institution and the library board if the credit card is lost or stolen. The credit card is to be surrendered to the board president immediately upon termination or resignation from the director's position.
2. To cover pre-approved accommodations and travel expenses for conference and workshop attendance on behalf of the Boulder Junction Public Library.
During the "presentation of bills" at the monthly board meeting, the library director shall provide actual documentation of each transaction detailing the date of purchase, merchant name, goods/services purchased and the cost. The board treasurer shall review the monthly credit card statement and immediately report inaccuracies to the board, if any. Arrangements should be made with the financial institution to have the monthly statement generated/mailed in a timely manner to allow for discussion and resolution at the board meeting early the following month.
Under no circumstances are personal purchases and/or cash advances permitted on the credit card. Additionally, the credit card shall not be used to make payments on invoices or statements owed by the library.
Any library employee using a library credit card in violation of this policy shall be subject to disciplinary action, including loss of use privileges, suspension or termination as may be deemed appropriate by a majority of the library board. Additionally, the library employee shall reimburse any unauthorized purchases to the library board by personal check or salary deduction within sixty days of unauthorized purchases.
The Library Board of Trustees shall have authority to revoke the use of any credit card issued, and, upon such revocation order being delivered to the financial institution issuing the credit card, shall not be liable for any costs.


Our goal is to offer guidance and help build a tight-knit team dedicated to the success of the artist. We offer worldwide digital distribution to all of the top download & streaming services with no submission fees. Our income is sales-based with negotiable rates based on the individual artists needs. As the artist's career matures the agreement can be re-negotiated to better suit the artist's status. We also offer in house merchandising services with a full service print shop that does both screen printing as well as high resolution digital prints.


Step 1 of 8 – Inventory all your hardware and software.
Step 2 of 8 – Define Your Tolerance for Downtime and Data Loss.
It's important to have plans for your entire staff, from Owners & C-level executives all the way down – including personnel from necessary vendors. You need to make sure that each one understands the process, and what's expected of them. Protocols for a disaster recovery (DR) plan must include who and how to contact the appropriate individuals on the DR team, and in what order, to get systems up and running as soon as possible. It is critical to have a list of the DR personnel with the details of their position, responsibilities [and emergency contact information]. This gets everyone back on their feet quicker.
It's also a good idea to have a succession plan in place with trained back-up employees in case a key staff member is on vacation or in a situation where they cannot fulfill their responsibilities.
Step 4 of 8 – Create a Communication Plan.


The structures and forms that I have designed have been constructed by people representing not only dwellings but structures that are primary to their identity and existence as individuals and as a community. My previous work of a year ago is not as separate as it may seem from what I am pursuing currently. Formal aspects of design, construction, interior/exterior environment, as well as space continue on in my latest structures. Above all, I have consistently maintained a satisfy sense of scale and simplicity of overall form allowing the viewer the freedom to seek out individual as well as universal meaning in my constructions.
The work I have done in communities before graduate school till the most recent project involving local high school art students are examples of my passion for using my art ability to communicate and work with people who come from backgrounds differ from mine. Through the common dialogue of art, I am able to bring individuals together as a group to create a statement about where they came from, where they are now and where they want to go in the future. I have worked with people (predominately youth) from different cultural and social backgrounds than myself which impacts my art and the lives of everyone involved.
I define space by creating physical structures that we have all had experiences with to some degree. Some of these primary structures include the schoolhouse, the home, the church and the community center. When a dwelling is peared down to its most simple form all of these institutional spaces offer a sense of shelter and a level of activity. A hundred or more years ago the schoolhouse for many communities served a multi-dimensional purpose: school during the days; town meetings and social gatherings at night; and on weekends the space provided a place for church services and recreational opportunities. The notion of an old schoolhouse can serve the easy function of being nostalgic, but for my work the schoolhouse is a point of departure for discussing the ever changing dynamics of community and how these institutions have evolved into their own within rural and urban settings. Other images and icons of each of these institutions make an appearance in these spaces such as suspended chairs that not only invoke a sense of play but on a deeper level focus on ones own stability and balance as it relates to issues of home life, education or finding religious faith.
The act of physically erecting and constructing these primary structures becomes as important if not more important than the final form. The act of raising barns and houses brought communities together to help out an individual or a family. The performance allowed a dialogue to open up between all members of the community. People naturally assumed a variety of roles during the raising. Individuals for a brief period of time were understood in terms of the task at hand and no longer identified by their usual lot in life.
I have a strong drive concerning mentorship of youth and I am interested in how these primary structures are a part of the lives of adolescent youth. With which do they identify the most with? and why? Teenager years are about finding ones own identity. In the adolescent struggle to abstract a sense of the Self, association and identification is arrived at through the physical spaces they are the most and least comfortable.
Scale is one of the most carefully considered formal aspects of my work. I am determined to accomplish a range of scale. These primary structures have a scale of "doll house size" proportions to demonstrate how a child imitates life through the intermediary of smaller adult likeness (dolls). The second scale is a "tree house size" scale in which the older child no longer uses a doll to imitate life but they become the imitators and the role players. Thirdly a life size scale references our development into adolescents and adulthood where we are no longer the imitators but the true life participants.
My piece entitled Structure, Shelter, Space is built out of 120 lbs. of cotton rope. The structure is suspended two and a half feet about the gymnasium floor....it is to echo a community center structure...the building that this piece is in was built in 1943 and has a large history of having a multi-use purpose...including as a place movies were shown, and sporting events (basketball and a boxing ring). Open bar and social gatherings on weekends would leave the lingering smell of stall beer in the air as the space was used for various religious church services on Sunday mornings. The debris that was in the room was place inside my piece at one time and placed around the structure at another time....the community center serviced a population of ammunitions workers that were to work at the ammunitions facility built near the end of WW II which sits directly across the county highway. The town was once named Badgerville. The structure is approximately 23 feet long 13 feet wide and nearly 18 feet tall....a basketball court is articulated on the inside by the white rope...the entire piece is suspended off of 10 cables fastened to the walls.


American Legion Post and Auxiliary Unit 501 have an opportunity to pickup extra funds to continue our support to Veteran's programs. We will be doing a Meat Raffle at Tully's II Food & Spirits, 6401 Monona Drive, Monona, WI, on April 13th, 3:00-5:00 p.m.
Volunteers need to be present at 2:30 p.m. to set up. Raffle starts at 3:00 pm and should plan to be done around 5:30 p.m.
Dates that American Legion Post 501 will be there - every other Saturday starting September 15, 2018 thru May 2019.
Next event to be held April 27, 2019.


The Coin Laundry Association's Legislative Committee, chaired by Michael Finkelstein, has kept an open line of communication with contacts at the U.S. Mint to monitor progress on a number of issues of interest to CLA members. The latest reports indicate there is little momentum behind making any changes to the composition to the U.S. quarter. There also has been no progress on policy related to the minting of the dollar coin. However, the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing is expected to take action on the redesign of the $10 bill in 2018.
Although spring 2016 was one of the busiest on record with regard to the number of states entertaining the possibility of removing sales tax exemptions (including those for self-service laundry), the second half of the year has remained very quiet on that front.
However, the Coin Laundry Association anticipates a fresh slew of states pursuing the wholesale removal of the sales tax exemption during the post-election spring 2017 legislative sessions. Among the states in play during 2016 have been: Pennsylvania, Illinois, California, Louisiana, North Carolina, Kentucky, Connecticut, Missouri, Indiana, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Arizona and Alabama.
Mayor Rahm Emmanuel introduced a proposal to initiate a 30% tax on water for the city of Chicago earlier this year. As a result, Illinois Coin Laundry Association President Paul Hansen and the ILCLA mounted a significant opposition to this proposal. These efforts included letters to the major newspapers serving the Chicago area; appearances by Mr. Hansen on multiple television and radio outlets; petitions and postcards circulated among laundromat customers and their aldermen; live testimony at city council meetings and more.
The Coin Laundry Association staff assisted in disseminating information on this issue – designing in-store collateral for display in Chicago laundromats and helping to develop a Chicago Tribune editorial that advocated on behalf of the tax exemption for self-service laundries.
Ultimately, the city council passed this tax by a significant margin; however, discussions have continued regarding a possible exemption – or at least possibly applying a senior citizen discount, which would cut the tax by 50%. Currently, the ILCLA is raising money to support the engagement of a lobbyist to secure the reduced tax rate for self-service laundries in Chicago.
The New York City council passed the CLEAN Act this fall, which placed a number of new requirements on those seeking to secure or renew business licenses for commercial laundries and cleaners.
The Coin Laundry Association staff coordinated with the Textile Rental Service Association's legislative team to monitor progress with the new law. Ultimately, the CLEAN Act didn't place any new requirements on self-service laundries beyond what had already been required for a laundromat license.
Several years after successfully lobbying for the sales tax exemption for self-service laundries, the Washington State Coin Laundry Association had to respond to a renewed threat to the exemption in 2016. The state's legislature tasked its joint legislative committee with reviewing hundreds of sales tax exemptions to verify that each exemption was still justified.
Despite this being planned as a multi-year project, the review of the sales tax exemption for self-service laundry came up during the task force's first session. With a great effort by WSCLA President Craig Wells, the local association was able to successfully make the case that laundries ought to retain their exemption. The initial committee report includes a recommendation to leave the laundry exemption intact. It is expected that the state legislature will follow this recommendation.
Protecting the sales tax exemption for self-service laundries has been the Coin Laundry Association's top legislative advocacy priority for decades. Although the industry has faced few significant legislative or regulatory challenges over the years, sales tax remains an issue of great concern to all segments of the business.
The CLA and its affiliates have a successful track record for both reversing existing sales tax statutes and protecting existing exemptions from negative legislative action. Take action now and help spearhead a grassroots effort by donating today to stop laundry tax. Together, we can keep the laundry industry fair and profitable for all. Donate today to help stop laundry tax. Click here to learn more about the Stop Laundry Tax mission. Your donation can make a difference.


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Q: How to get asterisk value from BASH input Following is the input from command line:
bash script.sh "input*" ";" "21" "yyyy-MM-dd"

and in my current directory i have two input files:

*

*input1.txt

*input2.txt

While i want to get value 'input*' from input '$1' i got 'input1.txt input2.txt' as input.
Is there any way to get value 'input*' from '$1'?

A: you can use "$1" where 1 is the number of first input parameter
#!/bin/bash

echo "$1"

but you have to pass the input*.txt like this input\*.txt
output
[shell] ➤ ./test7.sh input\*.txt
input*.txt

Regards
Claudio


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The 4WD International Harvester 'Trucktor' Is Real, And Yes, You Can Buy It
It's got 36 forward and 16 reverse speeds, not to mention hydraulics and a reversible PTO.
byCaleb Jacobs| UPDATED Dec 8, 2020 9:33 AM
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It's managed to stay out of the limelight for years, but a treasure like the International Harvester "Trucktor" could never really be forgotten. If you're an Ohio local who wanders through the capital city of Columbus on occasion, you might've seen it in the flesh. If you were a subscriber to Farm Show magazine some 30 years ago, you probably saw it in print. Nonetheless, you'll soon see it online as the wrong-but-right sort of hybrid is up for sale.
The details on this rare beast are a little scarce, but from the outside, the formula is clear. It has a 1974 IH 1210 D-Series cab mounted toward the front with a tractor rear-end. Exactly what kind of tractor underpins the machine is unclear, though the Farm Show article from 1990 claims it to be a Minneapolis Moline 302; others, however, say it's purebred with Farmall construction. It's painted red, and it looks as harmonious as a mated truck and tractor can.
One thing's for sure: It's a four-wheel-drive. The IH is said to have four transmissions altogether—two for the truck portion and two for the tractor—though it's usually driven by the front wheels alone. According to the truck's builder Darrell Foster, he typically cruised with the tractor rear-end in neutral and the truck in "4WD," which effectively engages the front wheels only. This allows it to cruise at speeds up to 40 miles per hour, which is pretty impressive.
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Foster told Farm Show it's "at least equal to a 100-hp tractor," and it still sports the usual implement fare like a three-point hitch, hydraulics, and reversible power take-off (PTO). You can imagine, then, how complicated the interior is with all of those levers, plus the controls for four transmissions. In all, the Trucktor has 36 forward and 16 reverse speeds—good luck figuring that out in a pinch.
The IH pickup was said to be damaged from a rollover crash, so Foster decided to use it for the project. He cut the frame directly in front of the truck's rear axle, then he split the tractor ahead of its transmission. A custom driveshaft was fabbed up to join the two halves, and Foster lifted the truck by eight inches so the transmissions would line up.
"If I could do it over I'd use a 1 1/2-ton truck with a higher frame so I wouldn't have to raise the pickup," Foster said way back when to the ag publication. He still used it like a normal tractor, pulling wagons, raking hay, spreading manure and more.
Screengrab of Farm Show clipping
The '74 IH "Trucktor" at an event in the late '00s., Courtesy of Jonathon Jacukowicz
Jonathon Jacukowicz, a local who saw the contraption plenty of times at Ohio shows, mentioned that he actually drove the rig about a decade ago. According to him, "It drove exactly as [sic] you'd think a half truck half tractor would. It bounced and sways and was a total handful to keep straight. It was amazing." His re-telling of the story also peeled back a few layers, mentioning that it's powered by an SV-series gas V8 manufactured by International. The engine then turns the truck's four-speed transmission, which turns the transfer case and then the tractor's pair of transmissions. It's all complex, to say the least, and if someone has a proper idea of how it all operates, feel free to shoot me an email.
It's currently listed in London, Ohio for the seemingly fair price of $6,000. It's anyone's guess whether or not the truck still runs, and the for-sale ad's description is painfully vague. Still, those IH gas V8s are nearly unkillable so even if it needs a tune-up, you could be driving a Trucktor of your own very soon. Just make sure you put it to work like Foster did.
Got a tip about this wonderfully red IH Trucktor? Email the author: caleb@thedrive.com
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