Jeb Bush was born in Midland, Texas, on Feb. 11 , 1953. After arriving in Florida, he helped start a real estate development company that today is one of the largest, full-service commercial real estate companies in South Florida.
Mr. Bush was elected Florida's 43rd governor in 1998. He was re-elected in 2002, thus becoming the first Republican to be re-elected governor in the state's history. Since taking office, his priority has been to create a world-class education system by emphasizing high standards and increased accountability. To achieve this goal, he has provided a record four-year increase of $2.9 billion (26 percent increase) in K-12 funding.
Mr. Bush has also boosted the state's reserve funds while reducing the state's tax burden to its lowest level in a decade. He is determined to protect Florida's natural environment: he has made an historic $2-billion commitment to save Florida's Everglades.
Mr. Bush is married and has three children. The governor kindly agreed to an interview. We also wish to thank his staff for their cooperation and generosity in making the interview possible.
RF: Governor Bush, you have made education reform the centerpiece of your administration. What do you consider to be your administration's primary accomplishments?
Governor Bush: Our primary accomplishment is that we are seeing rising student achievement in our state. Florida is the only state to show significant gains in fourth grade reading on the biannual NAEP rest, commonly known as the nation's report card. These results mirror what we're seeing on the FCAT, which is our statewide assessment tool. We are proud of these results, but we are not satisfied with them. Too many of our third graders cannot read on grade level, and the achievement gap among minority students is still too large. Bur the scores are rising and the gap is closing, so we are encouraged that education policies built on high expectations are working.
A related accomplishment is that we have given parents and community leaders more information on the performance of both their schools and their students. Our new school report card provides a school's grade under Florida's A+ Plan for Education, along with information on which areas may need improvement under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. The report card also compares student performance to resources spent at each school, thus measuring return on investment.
Choices and competition enrich learning opportunities for all students.
This information is not merely instructive to policymakers and education leaders. Over the past five years, we have seen communities rally around low-performing schools and help rum them around, and none of it would have happened without the information the state now provides to assess progress.
Lastly, Florida leads the nation in promoting school choice. We have three scholarship programs in our stare, and we greatly support our charter schools and provide opportunities to parents who choose to home school their children. We believe that choices and competition enrich learning opportunities for all students in Florida.
RF: Florida's economy has recently rebounded following the recession of 2000-2001. Can you discuss your administration's economic strategy to stimulate job creation and attract domestic and international investment?
Governor Bush: Investment is the key to economic growth. We use state policy to encourage private investment in several ways. We have lowered state taxes by over $8 billion. We have streamlined regulation. We have forged stronger business ties with our key overseas trading partners, solidifying our state's position as the Gateway to the Americas.
Florida also funds economic incentive programs to encourage private investment, especially in key high-growth sectors of our economy. These include the life sciences, information technology, aviation and aerospace, homeland security/defense, and financial/professional services. Most dramatically, Florida has become a major participant in biotechnology research by securing the expansion of the Scripps Research Institute to our stare. Our most widely used incentive, the Qualified Target Industry Tax Refund, has helped induce more than 300 projects which have created over 74,000 high-wage jobs and secured $6.1 billion in private sector investment since the program's inception in 1995.
Investment is the key to economic growth.
RF: You established the Florida Office of Drug Control to address the problem of drug abuse in your state. Can you briefly describe the functions of the Office and discuss how successful it has been in stemming the flow and use of illegal narcotics?
Governor Bush: Prevention, treatment and law enforcement are the three pillars of our drug control strategy, and it is working. For example, ecstasy use among our youth is in decline, and youth smoking has dropped from 18.4 percent in 2000 to 11.5 percent in 2003. We are on pace to achieve our statewide five-year goal to reduce drug use by 50 percent by 2005. Our Office of Drug Control works under the auspices of my office to coordinate these efforts among the various federal, state and local partners who have made this success story happen.
Florida's Drug Court system is a perfect illustration of how law enforcement and treatment can be achieved simultaneously. Drug offenders under drug court supervision face very strong incentives to stay with the treatment program.


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Should Leaders be Held to a Higher Ethical Standard?
January 16, 2018 By eJP
By Rabbi Hayim Herring, Ph.D.
If individuals lead entities in the for-profit, nonprofit or governmental sectors, should they be held to a higher standard of ethical accountability? This perennial question is worth examining, especially when they lead powerful or influential entities that can have a direct positive or negative impact on our lives. For me, the answer is a clear, "Yes!" and there are others who have studied dimensions of leadership in some of these sectors who agree.
Jim Collins, a highly-respected leadership expert, implies that great leaders have an ethical compass. He explains in his book, Good to Great that a common trait of the rare individual who achieves "Level V Leadership," is the executive who blends personal humility with extreme professional focus on achieving a corporate vision. A Level V leader shares credit with others, accepts blame and responsibility for mistakes and surrounds himself or herself with people who are equally committed to making whatever they do better. But in that quest, they never lose sight of humility, which is another way of saying that their pursuit of excellence embraces the demand to treat team members with dignity.
Another leadership framework is "the triple bottom line" (TBL). The TBL, developed by business consultant Andrew W. Savitz, measures three dimensions of performance: people, planet and profits. In other words, unlike traditional reporting frameworks which focus only on profits and shareholder value, the TBL "captures the essence of sustainability by measuring the impact of an organization's activities on the world… Including both its profitability and shareholder values and its social, human and environmental capital" (Savitz, The Triple Bottom Line). While there is disagreement on how to calculate the TBL, it clearly includes ethical dimensions, because it strives to account for the impact on the environment and on improving people's lives through measures like job growth, personal income and the cost of underemployment in creating sustainable companies.
Leaders in government should also be expected to be ethical individuals. Yes, they must make complex choices in which moral values are sometimes in conflict with one another. For example, taking military action, which will cause the loss of life, but preserves the freedoms that we enjoy, or creating jobs that lift people out of poverty while also considering the potential impact of environmental destruction, can make the needle on one's inner ethical compass spin around opposite poles. But, having an ethical compass is a minimal requirement that we have the right to expect from officials whom we elect.
Whether in government, the for-profit and nonprofit sectors, and in the spiritual realm, leaders have flaws. They also have and need egos – that is what enables them to pursue greatness. But whether their egos are directed to their own aggrandizement or to grand ideas that benefit others is what distinguishes an unethical leader from an ethical leader. And amoral leaders, those who do not take ethical considerations into account, ultimately become immoral leaders because the benchmark of their success is concluding a deal at any and all costs.
Over the past couple of decades, we've seen some mutual convergence of ideas around leadership in the for-profit and nonprofit communities. One of those ideas is that morality matters both in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. For-profit leaders are being held to a higher standard-just look at what is happening with startups like Uber, or established corporations like Wells Fargo, that are now under fire for highly unethical business practices. And it's no accident that Facebook and other global social media giants and Apple, a company that dominates the smartphone and tablet industry, are facing criticism about their passive, hands-off approach to how people use their products.
Religious leaders rightfully come under fire for cloaking themselves with a mantle of morality while engaging in sexual and financial predatory practices. Simply because a person is a religious leader is no longer a guarantee that he or she possesses a moral compass. We feel a special outrage when individuals who are supposed to embody the highest ethical dimensions of human behavior fail themselves and hurt others.
And for those who are familiar with the Bible, Moses, one of the great spiritual leaders of all times, learns that there are no privileged moral dispensations – without exception. (Memo to religious leaders: don't forget daily Bible study, preferably with someone who has internalized relevant ethical teachings.) Despite his bravery in challenging the status quo by confronting Pharaoh, an act that continues to inspire moral leadership today, and Moses's 40 years of leadership in harsh desert conditions with a generation of unruly people, he is punished for disparagingly referring to them as a group of "rebels" (Numbers 20:10).
That punishment seems unduly harsh. Perhaps even more severe, his brother, Aaron, who at that moment is only standing silently by his side, is also disqualified as a leader. Though considered exceptionally humble, Moses's singularly arrogant rebuke invalidates his leadership and it his successor, Joshua, who will lead the people into the promised land. Here is an exceptionally high standard of morality at work: great leaders cannot ridicule their communities. They may demonstrate contrition and make restitution where possible, but because they are expected to embody high ideals, once they behave unethically in such a public manner, their actions communicate that ethics don't matter, a message that can potentially normalize unethical behavior throughout a community.
When you build yourself up by putting others down, you've lost your ability to lead. When you remain silent in the face of leaders who disparage others, you also forfeit the right to lead. And don't give up in thinking that's an impossible standard to which to hold leaders in any sector. Perfection from leaders? No- that's an impossible standard. But we can and should expect them to struggle to be moral, compassionate and respectful of every person. Argue robustly over principles and beliefs, engage in debate about what is most beneficial to community and country, but set a tone that attacks the merits of ideas, and not the quality of the people who espouse different points of view.
Rabbi Hayim Herring, Ph.D., is an author, consultant and nonprofit organizational futurist who holds a doctorate in Organization and Management. A "C-suite" leader, Hayim has worked with over 300 rabbis and congregations of all sizes and denominations throughout North America on issues including assessment, volunteer leadership development, strategic planning, organizational foresight and innovation. His most recent publications are Leading Congregations and Nonprofits in a Connected World: Platforms, People, and Purpose, with Dr. Terri Elton (2016) and, Tomorrow's Synagogue Today. Creating Vibrant Centers of Jewish Life (2012).
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Jordan Goodman says
Shalom Rabbi/Dr. Hayim,
You wrote: "And it's no accident that Facebook and other global social media giants and Apple, a company that dominates the smartphone and tablet industry, are facing criticism about their passive, hands-off approach to how people use their products."
Martin Buber once wrote "that it is the fate of every great idea that no sooner does it come upon the stage of history than it is accompanied by its caricature."
Tech is amoral. What INDIVIDUALS with their respective moral/ethical compasses choose to do with it determines its morality/ethicality and/or healthiness. Do you/we really want tech companies to restrict innovation when this is really about self control and parenting? You continued:
"Argue robustly over principles and beliefs, engage in debate about what is most beneficial to community and country, but set a tone that attacks the merits of ideas, and not the quality of the people who espouse different points of view."
This is becoming increasingly harder to do when extremists on both sides of the aisle are viewing points of view different from their own as not only wrong but evil.
Re our President and what he allegedly said and how it may relate to your post, below is a link to another well argued, and more inclusive point of view of this subject.
Biv'racha,
https://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2018/01/16/here-are-ten-thoughts-on-the-presidents-alleged-use-of-the-word-shole-in-describing-haiti-a-central-american-country-and-african-countries-n2434767

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My name is Jill Greenfield and I am a 6th grade science teacher in the Achievement First network. This year, we are in the process of updating our science curriculum network-wide to align to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), the new gold standard for K-12 science instruction. As part of this shift, we have chosen to use SEPUP for our instructional materials. I have used SEPUP materials to plan units and to teach daily lessons since August 2014.
SEPUP has been an excellent choice for our network because it aligns closely to the NGSS and provides for rigorous instruction. SEPUP units not only focus on the content and core ideas that are called for by the NGSS, but also give students opportunities to develop science and engineering skills. Students build independence in the lab as they build content knowledge. Since the bulk of the thinking and cognitive work is done by students, SEPUP activities are rigorous and result in a deep understanding and retention of the material.
The SEPUP materials themselves are easy for both new and experienced teachers to implement. The progression of the lessons and the activities are explained clearly and questions to ask as well as exemplar responses are included in the materials. The student materials are engaging and include a materials list, the procedure, if applicable, and almost always a segment of text, helping to push literacy in science classes. I have found that the process of planning lessons from SEPUP activities to be easy and streamlined. Additionally, the support from SEPUP facilitators that is available to teachers is excellent; they have done a great job helping me and my team of teachers understand the framing and progression of the unit and how each activity builds towards the big ideas in the unit. They have also given us a chance to see how to facilitate the activities by engaging in the activities with us; this experience prior to teaching the activities has been invaluable.
SEPUP units have been very enjoyable for me to teach and very engaging for students. Lessons focus on hands-on activities that students are enthusiastic about and that are also content-driven and facilitate important skill building such as group work. Each unit is also framed around a current topic or issue that is interesting and relevant to students. I have enjoyed teaching units that continually cycle back through the most important ideas; by building on these ideas over time, students develop a deeper understanding of the content and this also leads to many opportunities for cumulative review. SEPUP has been a great experience both for me and for my students.
I recommend SEPUP units without reservation to other NYC schools looking for excellent instructional materials.
A thank you email note was sent to Mrs. Teresa Null a 7th Grade Science Teacher and Science Department Chair at Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy from a former student. The email speaks to how experiencing science makes a difference in students lives.
You were my 7th grade science teacher in 2002. Because I was switching schools, I was only in your class first semester. But what a difference you made in one semester! I loved your cholera outbreak class activity. It planted the seed which grew into pursuing a career in public health. I'm now an epidemiologist in Colorado. Epidemiology is a field few have heard of. Because of you, I was fortunate enough to have learned about it at a young age. Thank you for being such an inspiring teacher and helping me find my path in life. I owe you an enormous amount of thanks.
Elena Cox, Ph.D. from Texas A&M University sent this email to Dr. Manos Chaniotakis, co-author of A Natural Approach to Chemisty.
The SEPUP Program is fabulous is a very engaging, hands-on curriculum with all activities included. The connection to real life problems piques students' curiosity immediately at the start of each unit. We no longer hear students say "Why are we learning this?" They know they are building background knowledge in order to solve the unit's issue. SEPUP is a wonderful investment!! All of my staff in middle school and the Biology teacher in the high school are thrilled!!!


"Run!" I yell to my friends. "We have to get out of here!" We sprint down one of the many hallways of the Opzone, frantically trying to find a way out. Then I see a door at the end of the corridor that leads outside. If we could just make it to that door then we can hide in the forest.
"Rammy! Can you barricade the hallway?" I shout. Rammy doesn't reply, but turns around while still running and raises his hands. Behind us, in between the SciProfs and our clan, appears a wall made out of scattered papers and files. Yep, that's right, Rammy can control paper, which is kind of cool but not very helpful. The paper wall does not stop the SciProfs. They keep chasing after us and shooting tranquilizer guns. Finally, we made it. We burst out the doors and sprinted into the forest. Safe, but not for long. I wish that we could just grab the crystal and live and free life.
As we made our way back to our hideout, we recounted on what had happened. "That was too close, guys. We almost got caught. Who knows what they'd do to us?" I said. But they were all too exhausted to reply. Here, let me introduce you to the clan. We are a bunch of kids taken away from our parents and given powers by a place called the Opzone, run by SciProfs (Science Professors). My name is Durn, I'm the oldest, 15 years old, and I can sense and control water, but only a little. Adge, the second oldest, 13 years, can make people have dreams of whatever she chooses. Rammy, aged 10, can control paper, like I told you before, and Maddy and Bud, Brothers and sister, aged 7 and 8, can communicate telepathically. And that's our clan. Basically, we do all we can to stay alive. However, we do have one objective. To find and steal the Zarkall crystal.
"Wake up guys! Come on!" I yell, and pull everyone out of their beds. "We have a big day ahead of us!" I say. "Today is the day we must steal that's crystal. You know the deal." The deal is, in fact, that we MUST have that crystal, otherwise we will die when we turn 16. That was the flaw when the Opzone gave us our powers. We need that crystal to survive. You see, when we were all at the Opzone, the crystal was in close proximity to us, so we were fine. But then they started treating us badly, hurting us, so we decided to break out and escape. Oh and guess what? I'm 15 and my birthday is in a month. That could turn into one month to live if we don't get that crystal.
I lay out a piece of A2 paper across the table. "So, guys, any ideas?" I say. "Well, we have the secret entrance that only we know about." Says Adge.
"Yes, we can use that, but it's a long way away from the crystal room." I say, putting a dot where our secret entrance is. "Durn?" says Maddy. "Yes?" I say.
"Adge made me have a bad dream." Says Maddy.
"Come on, Adge, don't do that." I say. Age suppressed a laugh but agreed. Adge can be like that sometimes. Cheeky, sneaky and a bit naughty. But that's just who she is. "Any other ideas?" I ask.
Bud starts to say something. "Well, one of us could create a distraction…" he says "while the others go to the crystal room." Says Maddy, finishing Bud's sentence.
"Yes, we could do that, but it's risky." I say.
"And I'll give the guards good dreams all good dreams so that they stay asleep." Says Adge.
"Okay, I think we have a pretty good plan. But we still need a plan for how to escape." I say.
"You can make a distraction somehow with your water abilities while I create a barricade in case the guards wake up." Says Rammy.
It was 12:00 when we arrived at the Opzone. It was nearly pitch black. Perfect! We crept round the back of the building to our secret entrance.
"Ok, I reckon Maddy should create the distraction for the patrol guards in case one comes down into our area, so that Bud can read her mind and report back to us." I say.
"On it." Says Maddy as she disappears down the corridor.
"Adge, can you make sure all the guards in the crystal room stay asleep?" I ask and Adge nods and closes her eyes, concentrating. When she's done, I motion to the group to start walking. We creep down the long corridors and eventually arrive at the crystal room. We open the door slowly, and creep inside. All of the guards are asleep, as we expected, but there is a ring of fire around the crystal. I'm wondering what to do when I get an idea.
"Guys, I've got this." I say in case they were about to try something. I close my eyes and concentrate as hard as I can. Slowly but surely, the coffee from all the guards coffee cups begins to rise up into a big swirling ball of coffee, which I release onto the fire. The fire goes out instantly. Rammy reaches out and grabs the jewel. About a second after he takes it, alarms go off. Of course! Of course they would have an alarm system!
As soon as we heard that alarm, we bolted.
"Maddy is waiting for us at the end of the corridor." Bud say, and he's right. We caught up with Maddy, and then turned a corner.
"Did I distract the guards good?" Asks Maddy.
"Guys, no time for chatter. We gotta bust outta this joint." Says Adge.
"Rammy, can you create another barricade at the guard's room?" I ask as we blot down yet another hallway. Rammy nods and concentrates for second, then comes back into focus. I look behind us. Crap, About 30 guards are rushing down the hallway… and they're armed. I look in front of us. Yes! This is the home stretch! The last corridor! If we can just make it to the doors… We reach the doors with bullets whizzing past us and burst out into the forest, but we don't stop running. We keep running for about five minutes until we're sure that we've lost them. Yes! We've escaped, and we have the crystal!
As we make our way back home, I look around at the clan. This has been the happiest they've been in years! No more getting chased by SciProfs, no more breaking in, no more running away. We finally have a free life. We have the crystal, so now all we need to worry about is putting as much distance between us and the Opzone.
I put on my killer clown mask that I was going to use for the talent show and crept up the stairs to our cabin. I ran up to our cabin and pressed my ear to the door to make sure my cabin mates were in there. They were. I slowly opened the door and turned off the lights so it was pitch black. Then, as Byron went to turn on the light, I silently ran up right next to Stav, and as soon as Byron turned on the light, I yelled "RAAAAAAAAH!" and gave him the scare of his life.
right down in the cave.
And this was no lie.
But I still could not keep calm.
I hate that fear of mine!
And It was quite a sight.
When everything went pitch black.
I couldn't see any crickets.
They gave me a scare.
I was sure to bawl.


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06/05/05 Garden Lane Accents launches its online storefront
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In 2005, start-up company, Garden Lane Accents (GLA) chose to broaden their customer base by developing a website. The secret to their planned strategy for success: leveraging Cyzap's business website program to develop and service new markets.
According to owners, Jerry and Linda Primm, Cyzap's technologies enables GLA to find new buyers for their growing inventory. GLA is no longer just a manufacturer of flower carts, wine carts, ornamental wheelbarrows and wooden planter boxes. They now deal in unique items for the garden, deck and home. With the discerning customer in mind, they stock items from all over the world. These products include but not limited to, bird and butterfly feeders, watering cans, brass garden signs and planter boxes.
Garden Lane Accents is committed to providing top quality products as their primary lines along with economical lines to obtain a wider customer base. According to owner Jerry Primm, "Cyzap has enabled us to create a website that is colorful, descriptive and content driven. We are able to modify product offerings on our own timeline without needing to be a computer techie. This allows us to do what we do best, concentrate on new product offerings and customer service. The site is user friendly for our customers to navigate and place orders".
Cyzap continues to provide "on the spot" technical assistance and response to questions and website enhancements. This allows Garden Lane Accents a proficient and seamless connection between customer base development and product sales.
02/20/05 Banquet Business Blissful - zapSite� Serves Up Simplicity
DCCentre's Home Page
An Omaha-based service business sought a simple way to instantly update website content, like an events calendar. Software innovator Cyzap reached into its portfolio - unveiling zapSite�.
With this tool, non-techie types can edit & publish content, organize and manage images, documents, and links. It's a time & money-saver for Pam Christianson, Chief Financial Officer, of the DC Centre , a banquet services & ballroom instruction facility.
03/04/03 Cyzap Client shown on Dateline
On February 25th Dateline posted a KEEP KIDS ALIVE DRIVE 25® yard sign on the screen as a preface to an in-depth story on speeding in residential neighborhoods. That, along with a link from the Dateline web site (Link 1, Link 2) to our client, Keep Kids Alive Drive 25®, that sent more visitors to the site in 24 hours than usually visit in a month or more.
Tom Everson, founder of Keep Kids Alive Drive 25®, reported that the organization added new contacts in over 70 communities, stretching from Florida to Alaska, from New Hampshire to California, from Texas to Minnesota. In short, from all over! Concern for speeding in residential neighborhoods is universal — from grandparents concerned about small children to parents who have been victimized themselves through the death of a child at the hands of speeding drivers.
10/15/02 Cyzap develops online appointment scheduling system for Omaha Police Department
Beginning Tuesday, October 15th, 2002 The Omaha Police Department will launch "On-Line Appointment Scheduling" on the Omaha Police Department Web Site. The goal of this initiative is to use staffing and tax dollars in a more effective and efficient manner.
Intended to provide faster service, this capability will allow people to go on-line to schedule appointments for certain business within the Omaha Police Department. Appointments may be made for handgun registrations, fingerprinting and taxi cab permits. Also, a person with an appointment will receive priority status over walk-ins at Omaha Police Headquarters.
"Because our on-line accident report system created by Cyzap was so successful, we decided to further expand the capabilities of our web site" states Lt. Jim Cisar, commander of the Omaha Police Customer Services Unit.
10/01/02 Investors Realty announces its new site developed by Cyzap
Investors Realty has helped its clients buy, sell, lease, manage, and invest in commercial real estate throughout the Omaha area since 1975. It wanted a website that would reflect all key aspects of the company with the same professionalism and integrity that was evident from its other marketing strategies. It put Cyzap to the challenge and the rest was history. Judge for yourself.
09/05/02 E-Commerce website for Beksal R.I.M. successfully completed
Beksal R.I.M., Inc. is a supplier of custom Reaction Injection Molded (R.I.M.) parts for the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) industry. It also has a line of hunting decoys and decorative decoy planters called "A Touch of Nature". Explore their site and browse the many different styles of decoys, decoy planters and floral arrangements.
The site uses Cyzap's design services and its zapCatalog and zapCart web applications.
07/13/02 Omaha Police Department successfully takes its first step towards E-Commerce
Cyzap helped Omaha Police Department (OPD) become an E-Commerce pioneer among all the police departments in the nation by allowing OPD's customers to request and pay for accident reports online.
Before the launch of this service, anyone wanting an accident report had to physically go to OPD's headquarters to pay for the report. Now, customers can easily request a report online, securely pay using a credit card, and receive their report via email, fax, or postal mail without ever leaving their office or home.
Cyzap worked closely with OPD's staff to analyze their requirements and completed the entire project within 30 days with the help of its versatile zapCart E-Commerce application.
07/30/01 Cyzap welcomes J.J. Palmtag Inc.
Cyzap is pleased to welcome J.J. Palmtag Inc. of Nebraska City, Nebraska as a new client. Cyzap completed a Network Security evaluation and deployed a Cisco Pix firewall solution to secure the client's corporate network from unauthorized access.
J.J. Palmtag will enhance its network security portfolio by deploying VPN servers that will allow co-workers and partner organizations to make secure connections to the corporate network via the Internet.
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Q: Was Kirk reduced in rank to Captain for Star Trek the motion picture or was he addressed as Captain as head of the ship? In Star Trek the motion Picture, it is established that Kirk is a rear admiral. However, he is addressed as Captain on the enterprise. Was this done because the heads of all vessels are traditionally addressed as captain?

A: In ST:The Motion Picture, Kirk's sleeve insignia was a broad stripe with a narrow stripe over it. That denotes a rear admiral in the US Navy. In the TV series, commodores wore the broad stripe on their sleeves and were flag officers.
He was temporarily reduced to captain in the movie and restored to flag rank afterward. He was permanently demoted to captain at the end of ST: The Voyage Home. Decker was reduced to commander and became the executive officer of the Enterprise.
In The Doomsday Machine, the commanding officer of the USS Constellation was Commodore Matt Decker which was unusual in that a flag officer was captain of a starship.
Until 1862, the US Navy had no flag ranks except for the honorary rank of commodore. Then Congress established the ranks of commodore and flag officer which was replaced by rear admiral. The rank of commodore was used from 1862 to 1899 when it was abolished. By the way, Dewey held the rank of commodore at the Battle of Manila Bay.
The rank of commodore was reestablished during World War ll as a temporary wartime rank in 1943. It was again reestablished in 1981 and was replaced by rear admiral (lower half) in 1985.

A: At the start of the movie, Kirk's rank insignia is a gold leaf, showing he's an Admiral.  When the Enterprise is underway, he's in a new uniform with the three strips on the sleeve cuff, a solid strip on the top and botton, with the middle strip interrupted.  This is the Starfleet insignia for the rank of Captain.
At that point former Captain Decker has two solid stripes on his uniform, showing the rank of Commander.  This is emphasized when Lt. Ilia first sees him and is puzzled and asks, "Commander Decker?"
So Kirk is a Captain by rank, as well as by title as the captain of the vessel.
It may or may not be worth noting that earlier, Decker has two stripes on his more formal uniform (I don't know if that was a dress uniform or not).  It's also possible the shoulder insignia might differ from the sleeve insignia.
In the book, written by Gene Roddenberry, there's also a few lines that weren't in the movie in the scene in Engineering where Kirk tells Decker he's relieved of command.  Kirk says:

 You'll stay aboard as executive officer . . . a temporary grade reduction to commander.

This verifies that, for whatever reason, Decker could not remain in the rank of captain, which would make sense if Kirk's rank was reduced to Captain as well for the mission.
(Remember, the script for this came from the two hour pilot for Star Trek: Phase II and the original intent was to justify reuniting the old crew members and start a 2nd five year mission, where Kirk would be the captain and Decker would be the X.O.  Even with a transfer to film, the idea of setting up another five year mission was still seeping through the final production of the movie.

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we bought a new camera card just in time for our trip south, which of course meant that i haven't touched the good camera in a week or so. still, life goes on. we had a great trip to the farm, dessert and fireworks with grandpa h on his birthday, and have generally been having a good time entertaining ourselves and trying to keep cool.
sam is now transitioning to "quiet time" rather than taking naps, and it's going semi-okay (by which i mean that mike found sam in the bathroom playing with the dental floss today when he went to get him after quiet time was over. this was not a sanctioned activity.) i think the whole business is a little tougher on me because any time sam is by himself i have visions of him banging his head against something and requiring medical attention. i want him to be quiet during quiet time, but when it gets too quiet, i wonder if he's knocked himself out and is lying in a pool of his own blood with a concussion or brains leaking out or something equally unpleasant.
in other news, the baby's room is now painted and in dire need of a good cleaning. the crib has not gone up yet, which is step one in trying to get her to decide to show up early (and by early i mean in four weeks or so and not two weeks late causing me to miss oglebay for nothing).
also, mike's phone has been on the fritz off and on for the last week or so. the day it appeared to die completely was the day i thought we had completed step two of the "early baby" plan. alas, since then mike has gotten a replacement battery, and the phone seems to be amongst the living again (so much for step two). however, mike has some travel planned for work in the next three weeks, so maybe that will be the trigger. if nothing else, we can depend on him going to oglebay as a way to coax out the little kickboxer.
lastly, i am making good progress on my attempts to eat my weight in melon over this summer. i am exceedingly glad that my weight is increasing if only because it means i can consume more. i figure if i'm going to look like i swallowed a melon, i ought to eat a boatload of it.


Well, if you don't, now would be a good time to link up to James Associates and download its new version of MacGPS Pro.
MacGPS Pro is the premier Macintosh program for communicating with a Garmin GPS receiver. It allows import of background maps from a wide variety of sources. Maps show the user's current location and velocity, GPS Waypoints, Track logs, and Routes.
GPS data can be graphically generated and edited for transfer to all Garmin GPS receivers. GPS data transferred from the receiver to the Macintosh can be examined in far greater detail than you could using the receiver alone.
Variations of the US$39.99 program run on any Mac OS from System 6.0.7 to OS X. While the program interfaces only with the Garmin line of GPS receivers, which use the 9-pin PC serial connection, the company's Web site sells adapters to connect the receiver to either USB or Mini DIN 8 interfaces.
James Associates also sells a handful of USGS maps to help guide outdoor enthusiasts traveling in some of the national parks in that country. The program is compatible with a variety of maps from a range of other sources, according to the company's product information.
Web designers and content managers will likely want to look over the newly released English-language version of WebEdition from Astarte New Media AG.
WebEdition is a groundbreaking, professional database-grounded web content management system based on PHP4 and MySQL. It runs on all hard/software platforms that support PHP4 and MySQL. WebEdition's capabilities are easily expandable through a variety of add-on modules. And WebEdition's sources are open, allowing the development of personal extensions and modules. 100% server based with no special client application necessary.
While the US$159 program is chiefly aimed at smaller design studios, there are licensing options to allow as many as 20 client domains to access to the studio's graphics server to independently update their sites and about a half-dozen modules to aid in such tasks as user management, scheduling, online store management and workflow control.
Fans of the shareware application A Better Finder Rename will be cheered to know Publicspace has completed the beta process for a new version of the file handling utility.
A Better Finder Rename is available from Publicspace's download page and carries a US$14.95 price tag.
Those who have downloaded Apple's new iCal application now have their very own corner of the net where they can find out how to make more effective use of this new piece of Jaguar joy and swap calendars to track a variety of different events.
iCal World was created to be THE destination on the Web where Macintosh users (and PC users too) can go and learn how to take full advantage of the power of Apple(R) Computer's revolutionary new iCal(R) application.
iCal World maintains a vast calendar library with hundreds of calendars in dozens of categories, all organized by US State, Canadian Province and Country for their international users.
iCal World offers free public and private calendar hosting that can be subscribed to, or viewed over the Internet in any Web browser, on any Macintosh or Windows computer.
iCal World will also offer secure hosting to groups wishing to share their calendar within their circle of users. To kick off the Web site, iCal World will be giving away a shiny new iPod to one lucky calendar contributor. Details on the drawing can be found on the Web site.
Virtix Inc. upgraded its Spectra iMovie effects package to Version 2.0. The upgrade features four new effects: Extreme Contrast, Bubbles, Cross-eyed and – this season's favorite – Snow.
Snow, one of our most requested effects, adds a wintry look to your scene. Extreme Contrast spreads an image evenly through the brightness spectrum, brightening a dark room, toning down an overexposed image and giving new life to washed-out scenes. Bubbles can be used for simulating an underwater scene or giving an interesting look to titles. Cross-eyed conveys the viewpoint of a person passing out or waking up.
Virtix Spectra contains 3 Color Correctors, 3 Advanced Black & White filters, Color Spot, Color Bleed, Color Filter, Color Offset, Enhanced Photo Negative, Extreme Black & White with Color, Extreme Color Blend, Moonlight, Phasing Colors, Phasing Light, Rotate Colors (RGB), Rotate Colors (RBG), Strobe Light, and Sunset.
The package costs US$24.99 and free upgrades are available to owners of the previous version. Further information on Spectra can be found on Virtix's product page.
If you're one of those people who is constantly wondering where their cursor went while mousing around the desktop in OS X, you may appreciate Eyeballs 2.3 from Stick Software.
Today, Stick Software released Version 2.3 of Eyeballs, a fun Mac OS X application that gives you a set of eyeballs in your menu bar or on your desktop. The eyes watch the cursor move around as you work. They get sleepy depending on how busy you're keeping the cursor, and they blink periodically. They are extremely configurable, in terms of the colors they use, their eyelid and pupil style, how sleepy they are and a bunch of other things.
Eyeballs is a US$10 shareware program which can be download from the developer's Web site.
Musicians who want to layer a couple of short samples into a rhythmic track might want to grab Minimal Music Plug (MMP) from the Polyfractus Web site.
MMP is an original multi-loop player. This free VST plugin allows the user to synchronize four sample loops (up to five seconds) and to control the drift between the loops. Inspired by Steve Reich, whose music work triggered a few musical patterns together and made them gradually move out of synch with each other, MMP creates effects from phasing to polyrhythmics.
The OS 9 plugin can be obtained from the macmusic.org site.
Griffin Technology put another feather in its audio cap after winning a Best of Show award from the organizers of the recently completed Macworld UK show. The PowerWave USB audio amplifier won one of the ten awards handed out by MacWorld UK.
The PowerWave was recognized by MacWorld UK Magazine as an extremely adaptable USB audio device capable of dozens of uses. The unit includes high-quality RCA stereo inputs and outputs, as well as providing real-time headphone monitoring and stereo microphone input for recording scenarios. The PowerWave's compact 20-watt amplifier adds further functionality by powering any set of un-powered speakers directly from the desktop. It also is the only non-Apple device capable of driving the popular Apple Pro Speakers.
The darling US$99 device will begin shipping in January of 2003.
While we weren't able to send our beloved little mole rat to jolly ole England (he balked at the travel arrangements our accounting department would allow), we thankfully can provide you dear readers with a fistful of snappies from the shindig, thanks to our gli amici molto buoni at MacCity, Italy's most widely-read Mac site.
Hey, it's getting positively international out there. Now, where's The Vapors when you really need a theme song?


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"Beware of this site.."
Am using friends account to post MY experiences.
Due to misleading statements on their Home Page that it was free to register and thinking that I saw that one could also message for free I joined (should also have on that home page, a disclaimer that one must be a PAID member to utilize it) I became alarmed that my birthday publicly displayed which as a victim of i.d. theft concerned me greatly (checking later I saw it was only the age that was displayed despite it making it seem the whole birthdate would be) and last but not least all the answers that I laboriously filled out were wrong on the final profile. Another reason I joined was there was a link from American Cycling Association which I felt was a reputable company. They later told me that they had no connection to the site and it was printed a long, long time ago and they never checked it out, but will remove it.
I used the contact us form on their site, got an error message, called their number which was a google voice one (this was from a link on their website which said customer support and led you to a site that was an LLC company of White Buffalo Ventures), and name on the google voice message, did not match the name of anyone on their staff which consists of only three people, wrote to everyone that I possibly could on their site asking them to delete my profile (I also found out that there WAS a charge not easy to find on the dating website) no response. When I called the same number the second time, the number had been disconnected and when I called from another phone wondering if they blocked my call, it was still disconnected.
The worse that can happen is that my profile would NOT be deleted (no worries because as an unpaid member it's virtually useless, can't contact anyone and vice versa) but since it IS paid, want to warn others who are PAID members that if they have a problem, they may not be able to contact anyone.
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"Unless you are an expert in programming phones. Stay away!"
The prices are great and I like their policy on data (they have caps but if you go over it's not biggie, they still give you unlimited data but at a slower speed till the next month, but the customer support is ONLY though chat (which is I guess better than just forums as some other companies are-really stay away from THOSE.)
When I wrote a long email asking for a supervisor to help. One of the problems with the chat, is I had a long paragraph detailing what I was encountering on my phone and the chat agent thought I was not responding (he couldn't see the floating dots?) so closed the chat so I was typing all for nothing. The supervisor said I should make the chats shorter, nonwithstanding that it's like hanging up on a call where when I worked in call centers was a something one could get fired for.
The phone, a Moto E6 Play was different from the one on Motorola site and did not have fingerprint lock as THIS company doesn't have it on their model, wifi didn't authenticate, CSA (2 of them) blamed me for wrong password, wasn't on THEIR end and on and on. They were nice enough, but after over four hours on the phone i can't access my wifi and I didn't get the extras of the phone I thought I would be getting and although I can send the phone back for a refund and get my money back with shipping and the accessories (I now can't use as I am returning the phone as they are unreturnable) I am out around $22!
Initially when I ordered before trying it I told a person whose income was so low, he didn't need to file taxes (should have lifeline) but pays $90 a month as he needs a lot of data about them as they had a referral program but he said that he wanted to buy a phone where he could go to the store and get help and ridiculed him for that and now I feel bad because the only help is chat and not only can it not be very helpful but hours are limited. He is right, a storefront IS a lot better than ordering ANY phone online, if you have difficulties in programming or getting the wrong phone you can deal with it more easily and inexpensively, it might be worth the extra money, having a person help you in person, seeing how you are doing it and correcting it if necessary!
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Vincenzo Cabianca ()  a fost un pictor italian din grupul .

Biografie

S-a născut la Verona în condiții modeste. Și-a început formarea artistică la Academia din Verona sub îndrumarea lui Giovanni Caliari, iar apoi a studiat la Academia de la Veneția între 1845 și 1847. Admirator al lui Giuseppe Mazzini, a devenit asociat cu mișcarea Tinerei Italii și a fost luat prizonier în timp ce participa la apărarea Bolognei în 1848. După eliberare, a locuit la Veneția din 1849 până în 1853.

În anii 1850, Cabianca a făcut cunoștință cu câțiva artiști, printre care , Cristiano Banti și , care frecventau Caffè Michelangiolo din Florența, care vor fi cunoscuți sub numele de . A devenit prieten cu Signorini și a călătorit cu acesta și cu Banti la Paris. Influența prietenului său l-a determinat pe Cabianca să se îndepărteze de picturile de gen și să se orienteze spre un realism mai îndrăzneț, începând cu 1858. La fel ca ceilalți Macchiaioli, a pictat peisaje , dar a fost mai reticent decât prietenii săi să renunțe subiectele istorice și literare.

Cabianca a pus accentul pe contraste puternice contraste de valori în picturile sale. Cecioni l-a descris drept "cel mai declarat, violent și dezinhibat macchiaiolo". , care i-a numit pe Macchiaioli "dușmani ai oricărui convenționalism și cercetători preciși ai efectelor", l-a descris pe Cabianca ca fiind interesat în principal de efectele luminii solare. Gottardo Garollo, în Dizionario Biografico, îl descrie pe Cabianca drept un pictor al "efectelor Soarelui".

Multe dintre picturile sale înfățișează călugărițe; un exemplu binecunoscut este Le monachine (Călugărițele; 1861–62, expoziție din Torino). Alte lucrări din anii 1860 includ La Mandriana și Il Porcile al sole (1860). Întorcându-se din călătoriile din Toscana și Paris în 1864, și-a stabilit domiciliul la Parma din 1864 până în 1868, apoi s-a mutat la Roma.

Printre alte lucrări ale sale se numără Il bagno fra gli scogli; Sant'Angelo all' Isola di Giudecca; Reminiscenze del mare; Gondola bruna; La neve in ; Le mura del convento și Sotto il portico dei barattieri a Venetia. La Napoli, în 1877, a expus Piccola via presso Perugia; La neve; Una casa ad Anacapri și Reminiscenze d'Amalfi. La Roma, în 1883, a expus Rocca di Papa; Il caligo a Venice; Sul far del giorno; La pace del Chiostro; și Una sera sulla laguna. De asemenea, a pictat în acuarele, printre care La neve a Venice, Il fait sa cour și Sulla marina di Viareggio.

Lucrările din ultimii ani ai lui Cabianca arată influența simboliștilor și a prerafaeliților. A murit la Roma la 21 martie 1902.

Printre colecțiile care dețin lucrări ale lui Vincenzo Cabianca se numără , Roma și Muzeul Brooklyn.

Picturi (selecție)

Referințe

Lecturi suplimentare
 Broude, Norma (1987). Macchiaioli: pictori italieni ai secolului al XIX-lea . New Haven și Londra: Yale University Press.
 Steinräber, E., & Matteucci, G. (1984). Macchiaioli: Pictori toscani ai luminii soarelui : 14 martie-20 aprilie 1984 . New York: Stair Sainty Matthiesen în asociere cu Matthiesen, Londra.OCLC 70337478

Legături externe
 Mai multe lucrări de Cabianca @ ArtNet

Nașteri în 1827
Nașteri pe 21 iunie
Decese în 1902
Decese pe 21 martie
Pictori italieni din secolul al XIX-lea
Pictori italieni din secolul al XX-lea
Pictori peisagiști italieni

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