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Divisive Politics Are Harming Schools, District Leaders Say
By Denisa R. Superville — January 26, 2023 8 min read
Leading a school district—especially in the suburbs—has become a bruising political battle for some education leaders and the discord is detrimental to schools, a new report concludes.
Political fights over critical race theory, LGBTQ rights, and COVID policies are disrupting K-12 education and increasing the time educators are spending on responding to public-records requests seeking information about so-called "culture war" issues, according to a survey of school district leaders released Thursday.
And those tensions may be putting some educators in danger. About a third of district leaders who answered the survey last year said that they have educators working in their school systems who had gotten either verbal or written threats about hot-button issues since the 2021-22 school year started.
The fights appear to break out far more often in suburban school districts that serve larger numbers of white and affluent students. School systems located in cities, where the local politics lean in a different direction from their states', were the exception.
"Those types of actions may be more prevalent in more-advantaged districts because more-advantaged community members are more likely to use their voice and have the sense of efficacy to call their school board members," said Ashley Jochim, the lead author of the report, "Navigating Political Tensions Over Schooling: Findings From the Fall 2022 American School District Panel Survey," released on Thursday.
"It just relates to higher levels of agency and efficacy among more-resourced community members."
But an urban superintendent in a Democratic stronghold also told researchers that his district avoided local backlash because "identity politics or culture war issues" did not animate the community.
The nationally representative panel of school district and charter network leaders was polled last year as national debates over these topics dominated an election cycle and elevated public education as a major electoral issue in a way it hasn't been for more than a decade.
While K-12 has always had political tensions—whether it's over the Common Core State Standards or charter school expansion—the current debates take on a different flavor, Jochim said.
"One is that the partisan character of the debate has changed over time," Jochim said. "There have always been conflicts, in some ways, about schools, in some contexts more than others. But that conflict has had an increasingly partisan or ideological flavor in the last few years. And, in part, as a function of that, it's also drawn in more state and national actors into political conflicts that are happening locally."
State level legislation and interest groups are also driving some of the increased attention and partisanship, Jochim said.
Division in suburban districts
Overall, 51 percent of the district leaders in the survey agreed or strongly agreed that discord over either critical race theory, issues related to the rights of lesbian, gay, transgender, and queer students, as well as COVID, is affecting their ability to educate students.
Fifty-six percent of leaders in school systems serving a majority of white students said that political tensions over one of those issues was disrupting schooling, compared to 37 percent of those in systems where the majority of students were students of color.
And 45 percent of district leaders said that they'd received more open record requests than previous years beginning at the start of the 2021-22 school year.
And even as school districts have removed most COVID mitigation strategies nearly three years into the pandemic, it continues to be divisive issue, even if less potent. Thirty-five percent of district leaders in the survey said COVID polarization was affecting education last fall, compared to nearly three-quarters in the fall of 2021.
But as discord over COVID declined, however, concerns about LGBTQ issues and critical race theory started to rise. By the fall of 2022, 46 percent of district leaders said that political polarization around LGBTQ issues was affecting education. Forty-one percent said concern about critical race theory was impacting schooling.
The report theorized that this timeline coincided with actions in state houses across the country related to those issues.
Verbal and written threats against educators were higher in suburban districts, where 43 percent of district leaders said educators had gotten threats. They were also more common in more-affluent districts, where 41 percent of district leaders reported their educators receiving threats over those divisive topics.
Threats were also more likely in districts serving white-majority students than in those where students of color made up the majority, 35 percent versus 17 percent.
About 25 percent of district leaders in conservative-leaning, or red states, said they had received threats about the divisive topic, less than those in more liberal, or blue states, and more politically mixed, or purple states.
Suburban districts were also more likely to receive requests to remove books from the library or curriculum and to opt out students from classes. They were also more likely to have formal complaints related to how they taught or conducted training on controversial topics lodged against them, according to the report.
Some district leaders reported that they were also making adjustments to quell the tension.
While a majority said they were not making instructional changes in response to the tension, 32 percent said they had modified, paused or made changes to one or more subject areas. The most-commonly affected subjects were social-emotional learning, health and sex education, and mental health services. But while some of the changes were minor—like changing the terms that the districts used—others were more significant. They included striking some controversial topics from the curriculum and avoiding discussions of elections entirely and of gender identity in the lower grades.
Social studies, U.S. History, and civics education—though the subjects of intense national debates—were less likely to be changed or modified, according to the report.
Responding to tension
Forty-six percent of district leaders said they took steps they thought successfully addressed the tensions. Some created new procedures for teachers to follow in response to parents who wanted to opt their child out of a class. Others told researchers that they had held one-on-one meetings with parents to combat misinformation and quell controversies.
"Sadly, none of this is surprising," said Susan Enfield, the superintendent of Washoe County schools in Reno, Nev., who was superintendent in Highline Public Schools in Burien, Wash., at the start of the pandemic. "I wish we would just start standing up and saying, "No, this is not OK. It's not OK."
Enfield said that it's becoming exhausting for district leaders, but the tension can also affect the quality of children's education in the long-term. (Enfield is the chair of the board of trustees for Education Week.)
"It's absolutely exhausting—this work is hard enough, without taking on that extra burden of figuring out what you can and can't say," Enfield said. "I think it raises questions around, at some point, are we moving away from factual instruction, especially around historical and societal issues? Are things being diluted to such a point where students aren't really engaging in a factual way around the history, the historical issues, and current issues that we should all be grappling with?"
Rico Munn, the former superintendent of Aurora Public Schools, in Aurora, Colo., said the report's findings were not surprising to him, though they did not reflect his personal experience. He stepped down as superintendent in December.
But he said he knew colleagues who had been doxxed, whose homes had been picketed, and who had received threats. Some had also had to battle their own school boards. Others left the job, he said.
But Munn also said that not all of the discord can be attributed to clear-cut liberal and conservative disagreements. In some cases, it's a genuine issue of trust.
As superintendent in Aurora, he disagreed with the school board and the teachers' union about when and how to return to in-person schooling. He stressed that it was not about politics, but people's own sense of what was safe to do.
"People didn't feel like they knew whom to trust and who to listen to," he said. "That caused people to retreat to different sources to get a sense of truth. That caused great fear and division."
But the debates and divisions make "everything more difficult."
"It distracts educators from their core work, of taking care of and educating students," he said.
One way that district leaders can push back against political tensions is to focus on building good relationships with their communities.
"The key is that you have to be in continual and close connection with your community," Munn said, "because if your community doesn't know who you are and fundamentally have a level of trust in you, then you can't navigate these challenges."
The report recommends, among other things, more research to understand whether some of the strategies that district leaders have used are effective at insulating educators and other front-line staff from the fallout from political tension, training for school board members to mitigate the disruption that can be caused by school board members focused on a single issue, and training for district leaders—both in preparation programs and in professional development—to help them manage political challenges.
The report—from the Center on Reinventing Public Education, The American School District Panel, assembled by RAND Education, and Arizona State University—is based on surveys of 300 district and leaders of charter management organizations conducted between October and December last year. It also drew on 22 interviews with seven superintendents between January 2021 and November last year.
Assistant Editor, Education Week
Denisa R. Superville is an assistant editor at Education Week who focuses on principals and school leadership.
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If safe to do so pick up the plastic waste and put it in the nearest bin– this will stop that plastic finding its way into our oceans.
Hope to see lots of tweets and recycled plastic waste!
This half term's Richard Avenue Radio sees Year 1 defending Durham Castle, how the school celebrated Fairtrade Fortnight and World Book Day, and why RAPS did something funny for money. Happy listening!
Year 4 visited the Madam Mayor today to discuss the issues that are affecting our local area. The children were invited to the Council Chambers where they put discussed their problems with Madam Mayor and local councilors. The children were invited to help design an artwork project which will take place behind the school next year.
In this half term's installment of Richard Avenue Radio we bring you the latest from our school including dinosaurs, pirates and e-safety! We also have an interview with Catherine the school Councillor. Happy listening!
Year 4 went on a visit to the National Glass Centre and St Peter's Church as part of their Art and RE work. The children are looking at Aspects of Sunderland in their art lessons so they walked to the Glass Centre to take in the sights and give them inspiration for their glass painting. The visit to St Peter's Church allowed the children to look at the beautiful stained glass windows as well as seeing the part of the church that is still standing from Anglo-Saxon times over 1600 years ago.


The 2018 Toowoomba Biennial Emerging Artist Award & Exhibition is an acquisitive biennial art award and exhibition that showcases the work of emerging artists from south east Queensland who are engaged in a contemporary art practice. The south east Queensland area is home to a diverse group of artists who are exploring new modes of practice, examining historical and cultural material, interrogating existing paradigms and viewing the world from a variety of perspectives. This exhibition brings together and celebrates artists in the region who have developed a clear area of interest in their art practice and body of work.
Since the year 2000 the Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery has facilitated this designated project to support the creative talents of the next generation of artists.
Artists' works selected for the exhibition are eligible for acquisition and awarded works from the exhibition will be included in the 2019 Crates on Wheels tour. Crates on Wheels is a Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery biennial touring initiative, connecting emerging artists from south east Queensland with students in the Toowoomba region through educational outcomes.
Toowoomba Regional Council proudly sponsors up to $15,000 for acquisitions.
Join us for the official Opening & Awards Ceremony on Sunday 9 September 2018 @ 1.30pm.
This is a free event and all are welcome. RSVP to the Gallery by Wednesday 5 September 2018.
Exhibition on display 1 September – 28 October 2018.


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Q: electron-updater: Can not find module 'debug' I am developing Desktop App(windows/mac) using Electronjs. I was trying to implement auto-update feature using electron-updater since I am using electron-builder for the building.
I am able to generate .exe file for my app but when trying to install, it's throwing an error: "Can not find module 'debug'". Please find attached screenshot.
Without electron-updater implementation, my app is running fine. When I am importing autoUpdator in my index.js, started getting that error. I am using autoUpdator as below:
const {autoUpdater} = require("electron-updater");
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*"electron": "^3.0.6"

*"electron-builder": "^20.38.4"

I followed below links:
Electron builder Auto Update
electron builder using local server
I am new to the Electron js actively looking for your support.
As asked please find my build configuration below:
"build": {
    "appId": "com.****.*****",
    "productName": "********",
    "directories": {
      "output": "build"
    },
    "publish": [
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        "url": "http://127.0.0.1:4080/"
      }
    ],
    "nsis": {
      "oneClick": false,
      "perMachine": true,
      "allowElevation": true,
      "allowToChangeInstallationDirectory": true,
      "deleteAppDataOnUninstall": true,
      "createDesktopShortcut": true
    },
    "win": {
      "target": "nsis"
    },
    "files": [
      "!**/.vscode",
      "!**/build",
      "!**/config",
      "!**/assets/data",
      "!**/src"
    ],
    "extraResources": [
      {
        "from": "src/assets/data",
        "to": "dist/assets/data",
        "filter": "database*"
      }
    ]
  },

A: The line "!**/src" in your exclude list is the culprit.

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*Many node modules will have "src" folders which have to be packaged/bundled along with your application source code.

*If you observe "debug" module folder under "node_modules" it has a "src" folder which has been excluded by above rule.

Suggestion: If you have your apps source folder as "src", rename it to something else like "source" (which is in your control), but ensure you don't exclude "src" folders of node_modules (renaming these is not in your control as it could break the module's integrity and they get overwritten on fresh npm install also)

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Isanthrene venezuelana är en fjärilsart som beskrevs av Max Wilhelm Karl Draudt 1915. Isanthrene venezuelana ingår i släktet Isanthrene och familjen björnspinnare. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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(9641) Demazière, désignation internationale (9641) Demaziere, est un astéroïde de la ceinture principale.

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(9641) Demaziere est un astéroïde de la ceinture principale. Il fut découvert le  à La Silla par Eric Walter Elst. Il présente une orbite caractérisée par un demi-grand axe de 2,45 UA, une excentricité de 0,13 et une inclinaison de 4,8° par rapport à l'écliptique.

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Specialising in timber construction and representing one of the world's top designers, Arch McTainsh, a former student at Westlawn School of Yacht Design, Connecticut, USA, has established himself as a designer of distinctive wide bodied planning launches with the attributes of an easily driven, sea kindly hull. Powerboats incorporating classic style and elegance with luxuriously appointed, spacious interiors.
Nautic's most successful design has been the Nautic 1560 Commercial, the design Rick Pollock chose for his new charter vessel MV Pursuit. Stock plans are available for this design and many others. Nautic specialise in custom, one-off designs; design ability not restricted to any type, style or size of vessel. Boatbuilder enquiries welcome to manufacture Nautic designs on a one-off or production basis.
The latest on the drawing board are the Nautic 70ft, 98ft and 100ft Long Range Sportfishers.
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We set up Smart Air is a social enterprise and registered as a B-Corp to change the way people breathe clean air. Smart Air creates simple, no-nonsense clean air tools, and uses open-data knowledge to empower people to make the smart choice when breathing air. Smart Air now operates in 5 countries, ships its purifiers to over 50 countries, and has provided its open-data knowledge to more than 2 million people across the world.
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International Journal on Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology, Vol. 9 (2019) No. 2, pages: 455-460, DOI:10.18517/ijaseit.9.2.2408
Combustion Performance of Biomass Composite Briquette from Rice Husk and Banana Residue
Munira Mohamed Nazari, Chin Pooi San, Nor Amira Atan
Utilization of agro-waste material in producing biomass briquette has been actively explored due to its huge potential as an alternative option to current energy resources. Also, the development of biomass briquette also solved agricultural waste disposal issues. Biomass briquette is widely utilized for domestic and industrial purposes such as cooking, heating, and electricity generation. This study was conducted to assess the combustion performance of the biomass composite briquette, which was produced by combining two agro-waste materials, which are rice husk and banana residue. The composite briquette was densified at a constant and controlled temperature as well as pressure by varying the particle size and ratio of the raw materials. The particle size used were 300 μm, 150 μm and 75 μm and then these particles were blended in the various components of rice husk and banana residue in percentage composition of 100:0, 80:20 and 60:40, respectively. The combustion performances of composite briquette ware assessed by evaluating their burning rate, calorific value, volatile matter, ash content and fixed carbon content. Results showed the composition of rice husk and banana residue of 60:40 with the particle size of 150 μm were found as the optimal combination since it owned moderate density, ash and fixed carbon content, and volatile matter. Furthermore, the combustion performance results of these briquette mixtures generate the calorific value up to 16396 J/g and could retain for at least 14 minutes after the flame was gradually put out by itself that indicated it has potential to be applied as solid fuel.
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Gopinathpur is a census town in Purbasthali I CD Block in Kalna subdivision of Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Geography

Location
Gopinathpur is located at . It has an average elevation of .

Gopinathpur is located between the Bhagirathi, Ajay and Damodar rivers. Temperatures in this region varies from  in winter to  in summer.

Urbanisation
87.00% of the population of Kalna subdivision live in the rural areas. Only 13.00% of the population live in the urban areas. The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the subdivision. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.

Demographics
As per the 2011 Census of India Gopinathpur had a total population of 4,688, of which 2,498 (53%) were males and 2,190 (47%) were females. Population below 6 years was 398. The total number of literates in Gopinathpur was 3,616 (84.29% of the population over 6 years).

 India census, Gopinathpur had a population of 4,983. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Gopinathpur has an average literacy rate of 68%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 74%, and female literacy is 62%. In Gopinathpur, 12% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Infrastructure
As per the District Census Handbook 2011, Gopinathpur covered an area of . It had  of roads. Amongst the medical facilities, the nearest nursing home was  away and the nearest veterinary hospital was  away.  It had 2 medicine shops. Amongst the educational facilities it had was 2 primary schools. The nearest higher secondary school was at Paruldanga  away.

Transport
Gopinathpur is on State Highway 6. Samudragarh railway station is located nearby.

Education
Gopinathpur has two primary schools.

References

Cities and towns in Purba Bardhaman district


TibetD Reader is software made specifically for Tibetan studies. Read about it at the PKTC Web-site where you will discover that it is one of a suite of software products made specifically for dealing with Tibetan script. You will find out how you can make a Tibetan digital library using it and how you can stock the library with useful reference works and texts.
TibetD Reader was expensive to produce. However, Lama Tony Duff made it completely free as part of his vision of providing essential Tibetan reference works and important Tibetan Buddhist texts for the use of students of the language in general and for translators in particular. Lama Tony has been a strong supporter of the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha for his whole life; this is one of his many offerings towards the preservation and flourishing of the Buddha's dharma.
Note that TibetD Reader is Windows software. However, it can easily be installed and used on Macintosh OSX computers using emulator software such as Crossover, Parallels, VMWare, and so on.


Molinaro is a more well-known figure in New York and the Republican Party's flagbearer for the next four years, potentially setting him up to run in 2022.
ALBANY -- Ask Marc Molinaro about his political future, and he will ask for some time.
"I got a baby coming. Can I at least get past that?" he responded Thursday afternoon. His wife, Corinne Adams, is due in two weeks.
Molinaro, the Dutchess County executive, ran a spirited race against Gov. Andrew Cuomo, but was easily defeated Tuesday amid strong turnout across New York in a state with twice as many Democrats as Republicans.
Molinaro, 43, returns to his day job, though, as a more well-known figure in New York and as the Republican Party's flag bearer for the next four years, potentially setting him up to run for the post again in 2022.
First he has to decide whether to seek a third term next year as county executive.
Molinaro wouldn't say what his next political move would be, but he stressed he will remain a prominent voice in New York.
"I intend to remain exceptionally active in trying to ensure this state focuses on the real issues facing real people. And I'll do that in a collaborative and sometimes not-so-collaborative way," he told the USA Today Network's Albany Bureau.
He added, "The best part of what I experienced was I was welcomed into communities, businesses and individuals' lives, and I owe it to them to keep speaking on their behalf."
Cuomo got 1.3 million more votes in New York City than his little-known Republican challenger and that pretty well ended Molinaro's chances of an upset — even though he narrowly beat Cuomo in the rest of the state.
Molinaro tried to make the race about corruption in state government under Cuomo's watch or the troubles of the New York City subway system or failing upstate economic-development projects.
But none of those issues resonated enough for Molinaro to come close to winning, in part because Democrats came out in large numbers to vote in the midterm elections.
That led to a big year for Democrats in New York. The party picked up three congressional seats and won control of the state Senate for the first time in a decade.
Cuomo won 59 percent to 37 percent — a bigger margin than Cuomo won by in 2014 against then-Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino.
"It's just obviously a seismic turnout in the city, ignoring, in many ways, local issues," Molinaro explained. "Voting based on national concerns resulted in what was not only higher turnout, but higher partisan voting."
Molinaro, though, didn't express any bitterness this week. In his concession speech Tuesday, he talked about bringing New Yorkers together and ending the partisan divide.
Contrast his speech with Cuomo's victory address: The Democratic governor didn't even mention Molinaro's name and spent most of his time railing against Trump.
Molinaro said he called Cuomo on Tuesday night to congratulate him, and he didn't take issue with Cuomo not even recognizing Molinaro for running.
"I'm not that person," Molinaro said.
"I've looked at what other people have said or done after they lose an election. That's not me. It's not frustrating. It's a reality in 2018 that I had hoped to bridge. We didn't bridge it. I get it."
Molinaro struggled with fundraising, which he contended during the campaign was in part due to Cuomo's campaign scaring off potential donors.
His campaign spent about $1.3 million, while Cuomo spent more than $30 million in the general election and his September primary win against actress Cynthia Nixon.
Cuomo, even Molinaro admitted, effectively turned the race into a referendum on Trump, even though Molinaro has sought to portray himself as a moderate Republican.
Cuomo's ads said Molinaro is anti-abortion and a Trump "mini-me." Molinaro is pro-life but said he wouldn't infringe on abortion rights if he were elected; he said he didn't vote for Trump in 2016.
The two had just one debate, a hastily organized Manhattan event that aired on a Tuesday night and focused little on upstate.
"I don't know what it sets him up for down the road, but I think he ran a very, very credible race," state Conservative Party chairman Mike Long said of Molinaro.
"If he would have had the finances, I think Andrew Cuomo could have been in trouble. But he didn't have the finances."
State GOP Chairman Ed Cox praised Molinaro's campaign, pointing to his extensive travel across the state and a series of dense policy papers he put out on everything from fixing the subways to improving services for the developmentally disabled.
About 3.8 million voters cast a ballot in the New York governor's race in 2014. This year, about 5.7 million voted.
"That's a huge difference and in a Democratic state, that means a lot more Democrats than Republicans," Cox said.
Molinaro was first elected to office at age 18 as a trustee in his hometown of Tivoli and became mayor a year later, so politics has been with him his whole adult life.
He didn't suggest any signs of slowing down. He was first elected county executive in 2011.
If anything, he said the election made it clear he needs to continue to speak out.
Molinaro got 2.1 million votes, after all. That's more than Cuomo received when he won a second term in 2014, he points out.
Molinaro also won won 47 of the state's 62 counties.
"Nearly 2.2 million people will have voted for me, trusted me and will want me to continue to speak for them," Molinaro said.
"And I am going to do that. I want to use the encouragement I got during this election to continue to speak for people who often feel overlooked, and they have a right to feel that way."


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Carol Pagaduan-Araullo | Carnage Waiting to Happen
Bulatlat Contributors November 28, 2009 Ampatuan, Esmael Mangudadatu, Maguindanao
By CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO
Streetwise / Business World
Posted by Bulatlat.com
It was a carnage waiting to happen. In the wild, wild province of Maguindanao, ruled since 2001 by the Ampatuan clan, long-time political allies of de facto President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, the Nov. 23 massacre of 57 people and counting, could be chalked up as another grizzly case of wanton violence between two warring political clans. Yet the brutality, the brazenness, and the crass utilization of a monopoly of political power to carry out this hideous mass murder continues to shock and draw universal condemnation.
The victims include the wife and two pregnant women relatives of Vice-Mayor Esmael Mangudadatu, a slew of journalists from outside the province (who presumably could muster the courage and the independence to cover the event), two intrepid human rights lawyers and even several motorists who trailed the convoy as it set out for Shariff Aguak to file the vice mayor's certificate of candidacy. The obvious intent of the brains behind the murders was to prevent the filing from taking place but with what overkill!
Only people who are in authority and are confident they are above the law could have engineered a massacre in broad daylight such as this. The accusing finger points unwaveringly in the direction of the Ampatuans who have been the uncontested overlords in Maguindanao since Mrs. Arroyo took power.
The circumstantial evidence is compelling; i.e. the public and private threats against the vice mayor from the incumbent governor; the reported call of Genalyn Mangudadatu, the vice mayor's wife, that Datu Andal Ampatuan Jr., son of Governor Ampatuan, led the more than 100 armed men that waylaid them; the refusal of the Philippine National Polcie (PNP) and Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) commanders in the province to provide security for the convoy; the sighting of local police plus paramilitary forces among the killing horde; the backhoe traced to the provincial government that was used in excavating the hole in which some of the victims and their vehicles were buried; and the complete lack of action or even any credible statement from the responsible local government officials – all members of the Ampatuan clan – regarding the horrible crimes that took place within their jurisdiction, or more precisely, their feudal fiefdom .
And it is precisely because the prime suspects involve members of this well-armed warlord clan holding sway in Maguindanao, a province that has been key to Mrs. Arroyo's and administration candidates' tainted victories in past elections, that government is proceeding ever so slowly and cautiously in its response, despite pronouncements that it will undertake "immediate and relentless pursuit" of the perpetrators of the massacre.
First, a "crisis committee" led by Presidential Adviser Jesus Dureza is dispatched to appeal to the Ampatuans and the Mangudadatus to cooperate in the investigation. Hot pursuit should have been the immediate action of police and military authorities but they instead preoccupy themselves with preventing "a breakdown in law and order" in anticipation of retaliation by the aggrieved members of the Mangudadatu clan.
A "state of emergency" is declared in Maguindanao but the implicated local government officials are not administratively suspended to prevent them from using their positions to obstruct the investigation, destroy evidence or shield suspects. They are not even being called by the police for questioning. The PNP spokesperson could only say lamely that they could not declare much less arrest anyone as a suspect without a written complaint from the aggrieved parties.
All of a sudden, government is ever so wary about violating the due process rights of the implicated Ampatuans. Warrantless arrests, Dureza assured, will not be resorted to even in a "state of emergency". Former Justice Secretary and now Presidential Adviser on Legal Affairs, Raul Gonzalez, he who has been quick to call for the arrest of Leftist parliamentarians on flimsy charges of "conspiracy to commit rebellion", cautions against acting hastily against the Ampatuans in the absence of so-called solid evidence.
Mrs. Arroyo, while declaring a "national day of mourning" for the victims conspicuously does not condole with any of their bereaved relatives as is her wont but goes to her home province instead to inaugurate a highway. Strange behavior if not for the fact that she likely still hasn't figured a way out of her latest dilemma: how is she to control the massive political fallout with one of her closest allies doing the unthinkable, while not doing anything to provoke the Ampatuans into spilling the beans on the massive cheating that has been taking place in Maguindanao, should she appear to be favoring the Mangudadatus in any fashion.
Executive Secretary Ermita sheepishly states that the government does not control everything that happens "on the ground" to excuse itself from doing anything to prevent the carnage. However, except for the Arroyo regime which is still very much in denial, almost all commentary and statements issued by various groups so far say that the conditions for the massacre had been laid by the Arroyo regime's own policies and actuations.


I visited Calverley almost by accident on the way back from Shipley. The memorial is situated in Victoria Park, a fine stretch of open park land. A great place. I can only belive that the name plates are new. There is very little staining coming from them. I actually quite like the green staining from the bronze. I can see why many would not.
These are the pictures. The memorial is No 21869 at the National Archive of War Memorials.
"God proved them and found them worthy for himself"
From the lower end of the park - to the left of the gates as you enter.
You don't meet many triplet buggies on your travels!
Sorry got a bit artistic here!
fine old millstone grit houses.
The park from quite close to the entrance.
This is a fine expanse of parkland.


MK Dons fans will be hoping for the Manager of the Month curse to strike after Tranmere Rovers boss Micky Mellon picked up the prize for March.
Dons play Tranmere tomorrow (Saturday), with Mellon winning the gong having led his side to four wins and a draw last month, with an 11-1 goal-difference.
The Rovers boss beat Tisdale, Lincoln manager Danny Cowley and Port Vale chief John Askey to the League 2 award, while Forest Green Rovers midfielder Reese Brown was named League 2 Player of the Month.
Tisdale said: "They've had a fantastic two months, a really incredible run of performances and results. He deserves it. It's nice to be nominated, shows we're in a good run of form. But it's really about the game on Saturday, but well done to Micky and his team- they've done really well."
MK Dons and Tranmere Rovers are no strangers to vital matches against each other down the years. In one of Dons' most infamous matches back in 2005, a Gareth Edds winner in the 84th minute ensured all three points against Rovers, while managing to avoid relegation to League 2 on the final day of the season.
The teams were regular opponents between 2004 and 2014, with Dons picking up 10 wins and Tranmere five, and just a single draw in 16 meetings.
However, with Rovers' descent into the National League, the sides had not met prior to this season since February 2014, playing out a 1-1 draw at Stadium MK last September.
Following their promotion last season, Micky Mellon's side have taken to life very well in League 2, and are still in with a chance of snagging one of the automatic promotion spots, with just one defeat in their last 11.
They will begin the day in fifth place, four points adrift of Dons in second.


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Q: Displaying an Excel sheet on a webpage using JSP/Servlets? I wanted to write a program where an Excel sheet is imported onto a webpage. Also the look and feel of the webpage should be the same as that of the Excel sheet. The whole excel sheet should be displayed on the webpage.
Is there any package for Java where we can import the Excel sheet and print its data and its sheet onto the webpage?

A: You might try ZK Spreadsheet. Google for it. The site wouldn't let me post the URL.

A: I've used POI in the past for reading and writing MS Excel docs it worked pretty well: http://poi.apache.org/
So you would need to write some code to upload the file, parse it with POI, then you could output it with this: http://www.activewidgets.com/grid/

A: I asked a friend and he told me he used that and it worked nice, had it here on my favorites.
About the displaying: Well, that pretty much depends on the layout/design you want, but I guess you can just show it using tables, that's what they are designed for.

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I removed the link as I noticed it was an outdated API and it also wasn't what you really wanted. Though the link pointed in another question here --> http://poi.apache.org/ seems really nice for what you want

A: Apache POI is the right thing here as long as reading the spreadsheet is concerned. We have used it in the past to read/write Excel documents. Of course there are some shortcomings where complex Excel documents are concerned.
Regarding display of the Excel document, do you want any sort of interaction with the sheet on the webpage. If not, you can convert the excel sheet to PDF/HTML and display the same. You can use the OpenOffice API's for achieving this conversion.
Edit : Just checked out ZKSpreadsheet too ... Cool


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Movie Hangover
The Morning after the Film Before
By moviehangover1989 November 18, 2017 November 19, 2017
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Starring: Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Jason Mamoa
Director: Zack Snyder
Synopsis: The death of Superman has left the Earth vulnerable. Sensing an imminent threat Batman (Affleck) and Wonder Woman (Gadot) team up to recruit other super powered individuals. However the arrival of intergalactic villain Steppenwolf proves tougher than they could possibly imagine. They'll need to overcome their differences and work together to defeat this CGI monstrosity.
This was supposed to change everything!! The ultimate team-up event that would recoup the fledgling DC film universe, and right a severely leaning ship. Man of Steel was a solid effective start, its connection to a larger world subtle and fleeting. Alas soon after we got the po-faced overcooked Batman V Superman, a film that didn't seem to realise that just seeing these two face off is epic enough without the need for 2 and a half hours of surrounding nonsense. Suicide Squad fared even worse, a film with severe personality issues and the sort of choppy plotting that weakened any flashes of life. Fortunately Wonder Woman swooped in to save the day. A charismatic hero, evocative setting and firm grasp of its self before a final act collapsed into CGI noise and listless villainy. It was all on Justice League to finally grasp something salvageable, something worth all the disappointments over the years. It is a shame to report then that the film represents the nadir of this clumsy dull 'shared universe', and one that it will be hard to come back from.
Events were surely not helped earlier this year when director Zack Snyder (whom has been integral to the look and feel of this universe so far) announced he was to be no longer a part of the production. A terrible family tragedy insisting on him to nobly and respectfully step away. Into the mix came geek boy wunderkind Joss Whedon, who was already rewriting the script, to finish the film and steer it through some costly reshoots. A talent with ensemble casts (the fact he steered two Avengers films to over $2 billion clearly was not overlooked by WB) and working under time constraints Whedon seemed ideal to sculpt it into something lighter. Oddly though it has left the film in a weird limbo, an awkward mix of Snyder's loud macho operatics and Whedon's character focused wisecracking. You can quite clearly see the moments in which the dialogue has been beefed up with his trademark snark, even so it feels lacking. This can most likely be explained away in that Whedon has had to write for characters he does not understand or indeed believe in. The slapdash, make-it-up-as-we-go style of the DCEU to date has left its characters confused and inconsistent.
Take the opening scene, a surprisingly calm moment in which Superman is sweetly quizzed by a bunch of kids at a rescue scene. Immediately it establishes the hope and moralistic naivety of Superman but when you compare it with what we have seen before; a violent rage filled man who would sooner destroy a city than try to make a peaceful resolution, it doesn't quite fly! After this point we get the usual establishing scenes of all our heroes. Batman is hunting down Parademons in Gotham City whilst Wonder Woman is facing off against poorly defined terrorists. Then we finally get to meet our new faces, teased in previous films, but here in the flesh. Of the three Ezra Miller is by far the best as The Flash. A barely contained ball of social insecurities, whip smart one-liners and manic energy. There is a glint in Miller's eye that brings the only real enjoyment into the movie, and a brief delve into his tragic past with his father (a welcome Billy Crudup) has more emotion in it than the entirety of the main plot. Ray Fisher has a gentle voice and tries hard as the ill defined Cyborg (seriously what is he-a flying robot who can look at any CCTV footage in the world and do a Google Search real fast) but barely registers with any sense of self or dramatic reasoning. Then there is Jason Mamoa's Aquaman, a risky proposition (the guy speaks to fish), but Mamoa graces him with a formidable physique, an impatient bloodlust and a healthy dollop of "so psyched I'm here" playfulness. However he is given little to do, powers that make no sense and the clunkiest exposition possible.
In fact the film is pretty much all exposition. Justice League never seems to want to show you how these characters are feeling or their motivations, it would rather they told you for themselves. At least the three newbies get some solid characterisation. The returning heroes make no sense when aligned with their previous outings. Wonder Woman still seems to be unwilling to be the hero she desired to be, but that was after the tragic loss she faced in WW1, well over 100 years ago, surely she's got over it by now! Batman fares even worse, the brooding angry bruiser replaced by a noble driven desire to unify everyone I presume because he watched Superman sacrifice himself in BvS. It certainly doesn't help that Affleck looks utterly bored here, regurgitating his lines with a total disregard for actual feeling. It is hard to touch on Superman without delving into hard spoilers (yes he does return as evidenced by Henry Cavill out on the promo trail) but suffice to say his return moment is so utterly stupid and airless I spent most of my time trying to catch glimpses of the poor CGI job they did removing his moustache. He then proceeds to become a wisecracking jolly fellow, despite having never shown that tendency before.
All this talk and I haven't even touched on the all important catastrophic event that unites the team. This is predominately down to the fact that said event is so crushingly thin, with its central villain nothing more than weightless CGI, spouting generic lines about planet dominance and worship. Ciarian Hinds voices Steppenwolf with all the gravity of someone reading the classifieds over the supermarket tannoy. It is time to call a moratorium on comic book baddies attempting to cover the world in some mystical destruction surrounded by mindless minions. Despite my immense anticipation for Avengers: Infinity War I am concerned about its central villain also being an all CGI creation. Justice League has such a drastic lack of dramatic stakes it is laughable. At no point do we sense the planet is under imminent threat. No outside source even remarks on the appearance of this new superhero League. WB have turned their DC universe into permanent damage control. Man of Steel's much maligned final destruction becomes BvS main story catalyst, the moaned about sombre nature of BvS elicits tacked on Whedon lightness, overly long running times leads to Justice League's speedy 119 min run time. No sense of personality is to be found, it's always just retconning to please incessant fan complaints. Marvel may have adapted their tools at times in face of criticism but they always have a clear identity and distinguishable separation from one another.
In fact I wanted to avoid all mention of Marvel altogether. I wanted to judge this film on its own merits and not be beholden to what others have done. Yet Justice League so desperately wants to stand alongside its comic book counterparts that it is hard to not compare. Many beats hit the same marks as the MCUs big team up debut, especially the tense fractious inter-team dynamics. Justice League attempts to have similar moments of the team falling out but they land with all the sense of a drunk reading the weather report. Marvel spent years and ounces of creative collaboration to reach their collision of heroes, Justice League never earns that moment. The introductions of these characters should be iconic but most just see them staring out the window (Cyborg) or standing in a bar (Aquaman). It is nothing less than frustrating. In many ways it is more than possible to introduce a large ensemble without the need for individual back stories, the X-Men movies nailed that with aplomb, but with no distinctive characterisation you're left with nothing to grab onto.
Are there any saving graces, you may be asking? A few. As mentioned The Flash is a huge highlight, giving hope that his standalone may have potential. Likewise Aquaman is a fun presence, Mamoa's lassiez-faire attitude cutting through the inherent silliness of his character. The film whips through at a heck of a pace, and the banter at times does reach the required level of audience pleasing joviality. Gal Gadot, of course, is still the best thing about this universe. Fierce, decent and incapable of cynicism (despite the films best efforts to make her so) whilst also being the most enjoyable to watch in battle. The less said about the way Snyder has treated her fellow Amazonians the better, but let's just say the inspiring femininity Patty Jenkins brought to WW has been replaced with horny teenage framing.
Justice League is just too dull to be classed as anything other than a failure. Action sequences are messy, incoherent and coated in excessive (and may I add poor) CGI. Danny Elfman's score uses elements of the 90s Bat theme, the animated Justice League theme and Hans Zimmer's elemental Wonder Woman theme, to surprisingly boring effect. Much can be said about the score's retro callbacks being very representative of the films confused identity. Logic is almost wholly absent, events seemingly happening for one of two reasons; one, they look cool or two, the plot needs it to happen no matter how nonsensical it may be. I'm completely and utterly staggered that a huge franchise film with so much riding on it could be so haphazardly put together. I'm positive that good intentions lie somewhere amongst all this but it becomes harder to believe that when you see such staggeringly atrocious shots such as the nigh on 2 min scene of Amy Adams with her back to the camera making coffee. The slogan of Justice League's marketing campaign is "All In," on the evidence of the film itself I'd say "All Over" better suffices.
(Oh and stick around for the end credits scene which is arguably better than the entirety of the film, promising as it does a far more interesting future).
Verdict: The natural charisma of its cast and a few moments of witty banter notwithstanding, Justice League is a travesty. Stitched together with nary a sense of logic, drama or personality. The ship has well and truly capsized.
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EducationLocal NewsTaxes & SpendingNorthwest ISD Proposes Nearly $1 Billion in Bond Packages
Residents of Northwest ISD are being asked to approve a $986 million bond package and a property tax increase in November.
Kim RobertsOctober 14, 2020
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Austin, TX, October 14, 2020 — Voters who live in Northwest Independent School District (ISD) are being asked to approve several bond packages totaling $986,000,000.
Northwest ISD encompasses 234 square miles and serves students from several small communities in North Texas, including Justin, Haslet, and Trophy Club and portions of other larger communities including Fort Worth, Keller, and Flower Mound.
The bond package is broken down into four proposals, which were recommended by a long-range planning committee and approved for election by the school board.
A state law — Senate Bill 30 — that took effect on September 1, 2019 requires that the school district "list out each specific purpose for which bonds are being approved. These bonds proposals must be printed on the ballot as separate propositions, allowing each issue up for voter approval to be considered individually. The ballot must also list the rate of any tax that will be increased or imposed should that proposition gain voter approval."
Voters will be asked to vote on the following proposals on November 3.
Proposal A: The largest of the proposals totaling $937,702,000 would fund the construction of seven new schools, expansions and remodeling of present schools, and land acquisition.
Proposal B: Designed to build and improve recreational facilities like tennis courts and baseball fields in the school district at a total cost of $23,573,000.
Proposal C: Funds the renovation of the school district's stadiums including replacing the turf and roof. This bond proposal is for $8,840,000.
Proposal D: Requests $16,485,000 for technology upgrades within the district. The district currently issues laptops to teachers and Chromebooks to students in grades 6 through 12.
Proposal E: Asks voters to approve a property tax rate increase. The current rate in Northwest ISD is $1.42 per $100 valuation but would be increased to $1.4663.
The current tax rate is higher than neighboring Keller ISD and Fort Worth ISD, but lower than the $1.518 rate in Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD.
Bringing an additional $21 million into the district, the increase comes in the maintenance and operations portion of the tax rate that is used for staff salaries, student programs, and operating costs.
For the average home in Northwest ISD valued at approximately $324,000, the annual tax bill would increase by $11.54.
The district's previous tax rate was impacted by the legislature's compression of property taxes passed during the last legislative session. The legislature spent $5 billion to "buy down" school district maintenance and operation rates across the state.
Northwest ISD is a rapidly growing district and predicts a yearly growth rate of about four percent, which will bring over 6,000 new students into the district in the next five years.
A $399 million bond package was passed by the district's voters in 2017.
Northwest ISD did not reply to a request for information by the time of publication.
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in our message series "Distinctly Us" we want to take a deep dive into the core of who we are as expressed in the values of Stonehouse Church.
We want to answer the question: What makes us Stonehouse?
These matters are in formation among us now as much as they are aspirations before us for our future. God has already, he is currently, and he will continue to place in us a heart that beats for him and for others. This is the unmistakable formation of a people who follow Christ.


It's a short drive to Newcastle and the castle borders 'Reiver country', the lawless land between Scotland and England where feuding families ruled the roost for centuries.
The hotel is old-school without being stuffy. At Langley, they think 'hipster' is something a reiver keeps his dagger in. For example, you don't have to have a drink in the grand drawing room before dinner – but they sort of like it if you do.
The USP: Allows you to indulge your fantasies of being king or queen of the castle.
Langley Castle, Northumberland. Double rooms from £290 B&B. Those in the grounds from £99 B&B. Visit langleycastle.co.uk for more information.


SYDNEY (Reuters) - The Japanese yen hovered near a six-week high on Monday while Asian shares are expected to start lower as risk assets fell out of favor on growing worries about an impending U.S. recession, sending global bond yields plunging.
In response, 10-year treasury yields slipped below the three-month rate for the first time since 2007. Historically, an inverted yield curve - where long-term rates fall below short-term - has signaled an upcoming recession.
"We have re-run our preferred yield curve recession models, which now suggest a 30-35 percent chance of a U.S. recession occurring over the next 10‑18 months," said Tapas Strickland, markets strategist at National Australia Bank.


It is easy to accidentally close a tab in Mozilla Firefox; and, depending on your startup settings, Firefox may not automatically restore all the websites you last visited if you accidentally close the entire web browser window. But Firefox fortunately includes a functionality that allows you to reopen the last closed tab at any point (an "Undo Close Tab" command), reopen select closed tabs, or even reopen all tabs you closed in this session (the time since you launched Firefox) - let's get started.
Before we go any further, note that this functionality does not work across sessions: in other words, Firefox will keep track of the closed tabs listing since you last launched Firefox, not before that. So, let's say that you accidentally closed a tab you didn't mean to (for example by clicking on your mouse wheel while above a tab).
As soon as you do, Mozilla Firefox reopens the last tab you closed; if you closed multiple tabs since you last launched Firefox, you will be able to run that command as many times as you closed tabs! Try it: right-click again on any open tab, and see if you see the Undo Close Tab command visible inside the context menu.
Firefox Tip: If you have configure the Firefox web browser to automatically reload all websites you had opened the last time you used your web browser, this setting comes with a nice side effect, and allows you to "Undo Close Tab" even if you have exited Firefox in the meantime. Again, this is not guaranteed to work, since it depends on which startup settings you have customized for yourself.
Mozilla Firefox also includes a special command that allows you to reopen all closed tabs in just a few clicks.
If you want to see individually the list of tabs Firefox remembers you closed, just click on the "History" menu, and go to "Recently Closed Tabs".
That submenu includes the web page titles and icons of websites you closed, all as clickable menu items. Just click on any of them, and Firefox will reopen that particular tab, without affecting your currently opened tabs or other closed tabs.
To reopen all tabs you have closed, just click on "Restore All Tabs" inside that same submenu! Mozilla Firefox will reopen all these tabs, which may take a while depending on the number of closed tabs you had, and the speed of your internet connection.
And this is all it takes to reopen an individual closed tab, either the last one you closed, or another from the list of Recently Closed Tabs, and how you can reopen all closed tabs in Firefox with a couple of clicks!


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Almost 60% of people with a disability age 25 and older had a high school education or less in 2013
Each October, National Disability Employment Awareness Month raises awareness of disability employment issues. In 1945, Congress declared the first week in October "National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week." In 1962, the word "physically" was removed to acknowledge all disabilities. In 1988, the observance was expanded to a month and name changed to what it is today. This edition of TED looks at educational attainment and employment among people with a disability.
In 2013, almost 60 percent of people age 25 and older with a disability had a high school diploma or less education. Among people without a disability, 61 percent had attained come college or had earned a college degree.
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Percent distribution of people age 25 and older with or without a disability, 2013 annual averages
Persons with a disability
Persons with no disability
Less than a high school diploma
High school graduates, no college(1)
Some college or associate degree
Bachelor's degree and higher(2)
(1) Includes persons with a high school diploma or equivalent
(2) Includes persons with a bachelor's, master's, professional, and doctoral degree
The proportion of people with a disability in 2013 who did not graduate from high school, about 22 percent, was more than twice that of people without a disability.
In 2013, labor force participation rates were higher among people with greater educational attainment regardless of disability status. People with a disability had lower labor force participation rates at all levels of educational attainment than did people with no disability.
Labor force participation rate of people with or without a disability, age 25 and older, by educational attainment, 2013 annual averages
The labor force participation rate of people with a disability in 2013 was lowest for those with less than a high school diploma (9.3 percent), compared with 56.6 percent of those without a disability. The labor force participation rate among people with a disability was highest for those who held a bachelor's degree and higher (30.5 percent), compared with 78.7 percent for those without a disability.
These data are from the Current Population Survey program. To learn more, see "Persons with a Disability: Labor Force Characteristics — 2013" (HTML) (PDF), news release USDL-14-1076. The Current Population Survey does not include people in the military or those in institutions.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Almost 60% of people with a disability age 25 and older had a high school education or less in 2013 on the Internet at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2014/ted_20141010.htm (visited January 22, 2020).
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(04-27-2018, 09:26 AM)racheampong80 Wrote: I've now been able to successfully dump the scatter firmware with miracle box..
"NO MTK65xx ANDROID FILE, EXIT"
i tried to untick "auto decry" but its still the same error.. Can u help out here pls??
Where will i get it to download???
I've searched everywhere but can't get one..
(04-27-2018, 03:57 PM)racheampong80 Wrote: And even for the rooting, i dont have the root recovery for my hot 5 build.
Followed guide but my scatter is from miracle box so sp tool can't recognize it.. Is there a way i can use miracle box to flash the patched boot.img from magicdisk??
Rename patched_boot.img to boot.bin and copy preloader.bin, boot.bin(patched) and scatter file then follow the guide @ https://forum.hovatek.com/thread-14106.html to flash with miracle.
Do u have any other method concerned with tweaking build.prop ??
the thing is even if after factory reset i install a single app, it still gets killed automatically in background..so i guess the stock rom is bugged..


Every four hours, a child between the ages of five and 14 dies of cancer in Mexico. High rates of cancer, the leading cause of death for children, disproportionately affect rural areas where access to healthcare services and transportation are limited, and many families lack knowledge of how to recognize symptoms.
With more than 40 percent of Mexico's population living in poverty, defined as less than $50 US dollars per month in rural regions, survival rates remain low. Chiapas, a state located in the southern part of Mexico, has the highest rate of poverty at 76.2 percent, and consequently, experiences one of the greatest cancer burdens.
One organization dedicated to assisting children affected by cancer is Casa de la Amistad (CDLA). CDLA provides extensive social services (transportation, lodging, meals, counseling and continuation schooling) with a mission to provide a chance at life for children in Mexico with limited resources and minimal access to cancer treatment. By working with hospitals across the country, CDLA receives referrals when there is a pediatric patient in need of their services. CDLA currently collaborates with 29 hospitals across 17 states and as of Feb. 2016 has assisted over 8,300 children affected by cancer in low-income families.
Direct Relief is privileged to support the critical services Casa de la Amistad provides to families each year.
In partnership with CDLA and the AbbVie Foundation, Direct Relief is improving access to care by focusing on increasing treatment adherence by providing underserved patients with meals, lodging and transportation support. The ability to target and prevent treatment abandonment and failure for compliance has greatly contributed to decreasing the prevalence of pediatric cancer mortality.
Click above to explore the story map, which examines pediatric cancer in Mexico.
This collaborative program assesses patients' needs and administers funds that enable children and their families to access ancillary and emotional support services. The financial assistance largely covers transportation, meals and nutrition and other non-medical needs such as familial support and education. While familial support contributes to easier transitions and increased treatment compliance, educational services ensure that children don't fall behind in school while receiving treatment far away from home.
As the only institution in Mexico offering comprehensive support to low-income children free of charge, CDLA plays a vital role in the fight against cancer. The unwavering support provided by CDLA staff and volunteers ensures that children not only receive a timely diagnosis but also proper attention and appropriate treatment.
In partnership with Direct Relief and a grant from the AbbVie Foundation, CDLA has served over 300 children with cancer in Mexico. While many children were previously placed on a wait list before receiving care, there are currently no patients in line for treatment. Ongoing efforts to reach out to even more children in need will continue.
Direct Relief remains dedicated to CDLA's vision to lead in pediatric cancer prevention and treatment in low-resource settings.
In addition to CDLA, Direct Relief has supported the work of 13 partners located in Mexico in 2016, providing more than 154,000 pounds of needed medical aid with a value that exceeds $23 million.


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A look at the pre-lottery draft order through the weekend. I typically use the Tankathon lottery simulator to determine the order, but wanted to give you an opportunity to see the order as determined by the current standings. The lottery is May 14, and the teams that finish with the three worst records all have an equal chance to win.
Check out all of our mock drafts right here.


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The future of companion animal welfare is more than just sheltering and enforcement. Learn how to make community outreach and pet owner support programming part of your organization. Discover how reaching out to underserved areas and building positive relationships with pet owners can improve your work and increase access to pet resources for everyone. We'll share ideas and techniques on how to be strategic in your outreach, focus on the areas with the least access to services and engage the community in a positive and effective way. Whether you are an open admission or private shelter or tasked with animal control/services, this workshop applies and will help ensure you serve the community comprehensively.
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ABC is een album van The Jackson 5 uit 1970, uitgebracht op het platenlabel Motown. Het is een van de populairste Jackson 5 albums en verkocht meer dan 5,7 miljoen keer. Het album stond op één in de Billboard 200 en beide singles, ABC en The Love You Save, waren nummer 1-hits in de Billboard Pop 100.

In 2001 is het album opnieuw uitgegeven, op één cd samen met het album Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5.

Tracklist
 The Love You Save (3:02)
 One More Chance (2:59)
 ABC (2:57)
 2-4-6-8 (2:57)
 (Come 'Round Here) I'm The One You Need (2:43)
 Don't Know Why I Love You (3:49)
 Never Had A Dream Come True (3:00)
 True Love Can Be Beautiful (3:27)
 La-La (Means I Love You) (3:30)
 I'll Bet You (3:18)
 I Found That Girl (3:00)
 The Young Folks (2:51)

Muziekalbum uit 1970


Deans of admission at more than 140 colleges and universities released a letter Monday committing themselves to principles designed to reduce "excessive achievement pressure" in admissions and promote ethical character among parents and students.
The letter was in the works for over a year, but its release lands as the country is buzzing about a massive college-admission scandal that ensnared 33 parents, and a circle of other adults, including college coaches, in a scheme that allegedly used lies and bribery to get children of privilege into elite colleges.
In their letter, officials who oversee admissions and enrollment management at a range of public and private institutions, including some of the most selective in the country, and some of those caught up in the bribery scandal, say they want to "clear up misconceptions" about what they value in students and ease the pressure that's come to characterize the admissions process "in certain communities." A report accompanying the letter makes clear that they're referring to middle- and upper-income communities.
The signatories lay out a commitment to evaluate each applicant holistically, taking particular care not to let students' family wealth, social connections give them an advantage. On the flip side, students whose schools offer few advanced courses "will not be penalized" in the admissions process, the letter says.
Students who don't have a long list of extracurricular involvements won't be at a disadvantage in admission either. "We view meaningful engagement in two or three to be sufficient," the letter says. The deans also encourage students to include in their applications the responsibilities they carry for helping to support their family. Such commitments are "highly valued," the letter says.
The signatories also signalled that they want students to stop choosing activities that will look impressive—like service projects in foreign countries—and instead focus on participating in projects that are meaningful for them, and that serve people in their own communities.
The dean's letter grew out of an ongoing project called "Making Caring Common," which called on colleges and high schools to refocus their priorities on good character and serving others. That project, led by the Harvard Graduate School of Education, outlined those ideals in a 2016 report, "Turning the Tide."
In a bid to reduce the pressure of college admissions, promote ethical character among students, and expand admissions access for traditionally underserved students, that report called on colleges to consider taking steps such as making admissions tests optional, and discouraging students from stacking up Advanced Placement courses to impress admissions officers. It asked colleges to place greater emphasis on service to family and community.
A followup report, released with the deans' letter on Monday, reiterates themes in the original report. In light of the bribery scandal, its call on parents to be ethical and reduce pressure on their children resonates particularly strongly.
"Many parents ... fail to be ethical role models during the admissions process by allowing teens to mislead on applications, letting their own voice intrude in application essays, hiring expensive tutors and coaches without any sense of equity or fairness, treating their teen's peers simply as competitors for college spots, and failing to nurture in their teen any sense of gratitude for the privilege of attending a four-year college," the report said.
"College admissions may well be a test for parents, but it's not a test of status or even achievement—it's a test of character."
The "Making Caring Common" initiative has gotten most of its attention for working to reshape the college admissions process. But it's working with 189 middle and high schools as well, on a range of projects aimed at building caring, ethical community members. Some schools are teaching students how to hold civil discussions on controversial topics. Others are working on cultivating supportive school climates, or focusing on helping disadvantaged students learn about, and apply to, college.
Set ethical expectations with families.
Create opportunities for authentic student service and contributions to others.
Focus students on daily acts of character and provide evidence of character in applications.
Guide students in reporting their substantial family contributions and challenges.
Focus students on a wide range of colleges.
Create limits on advanced courses and discourage students from overloading on extracurricular activities.
It also offers seven guidelines for parents as they see their children through adolescence and into the college-planning process.
Keep the focus on your teen.
Use the admissions process as an opportunity for ethical education.
Help your teen contribute to others in meaningful ways.
Advocate for elevating ethical character and reducing achievement-related distress.


Baldwin Park officials agreed Monday to give one company a monopoly on transporting cannabis within its borders, a move that other marijuana manufacturers and cultivators applying to set up in the city said would jeopardize their businesses.
The City Council voted 3-0 to award Rukli, Inc. an exclusive distribution permit and issue permits for cannabis cultivation and manufacturing to four other applicants during a special meeting. Mayor Pro Tem Ricardo Pacheco and Councilwoman Susan Rubio were absent.
"I supported a distributor who will offer Baldwin Park residents prevailing wage, healthcare and pension benefits, while creating opportunity for 15 new businesses to thrive," Mayor Manuel Lozano said in an emailed statement.
Last week, the council awarded permits to 10 other applicants, including five businesses that had planned to self-distribute their products outside of the city, according to City Attorney Robert Tafoya.
Baldwin Park's ordinance allows the commercial cultivation, manufacturing and distribution — but not sale — of medical and recreational marijuana in the city's industrial and commercial zones. The ordinance currently allows the issuance of up to 15 permits for manufacturing, cultivation and distribution.
Tafoya said the city will renegotiate development agreements with the five applicants originally approved for distribution to only allow them to manufacture and cultivate cannabis. Permits will be issued once the agreements are finalized and compliance with the city's cannabis ordinance is verified.
"Rukli is the only one that gets to distribute in Baldwin Park," the city attorney said after the special meeting.
The shift to allow just one permit holder to distribute cannabis means the city will lose out on $1.1 million in mitigation fees in 2018 from the five other businesses who had already agreed to pay two fees — one for cultivation and manufacturing and another for distribution — according to Tafoya.
The CEO of one of those five businesses said the change could be catastrophic — Jefferson Liou of Cloud Control, Inc. said his company will face increased costs to transport cannabis from its farms in Northern California to its Baldwin Park factory, and may have to fire some employees as a result.
Before the council's decision on Monday, Liou said his company had already signed an agreement with Baldwin Park that that included distribution. Tafoya said the mayor had not signed that agreement yet.
"We're being asked to resign and revise the agreements," Liou said.
Sergio Torres, CEO of Medical Grade Farms BP, which had also been approved to self-distribute last week, told the council on Monday that not allowing businesses to transport their own cannabis was unfair.
Hezekiah Allen, executive director of the California Growers Association, said Baldwin Park's decision could make it difficult for manufacturers and cultivators to get up and running, even though the city is ahead of the curve in adopting regulations for cannabis.
Businesses are required to obtain local permits before applying for state licenses, which will be issued for the first time starting Jan. 1.
"The distributor will be dependent on the success of manufacturers and cultivators, and vice versa," Garcia said.
Baca said she felt the company, which plans to develop its business on a property in the 14800 block of Ramona Boulevard, came in with the right combination of experience and benefits to the community.
"I felt that in doing my research and looking at everything I felt that they were the right fit," Baca said by phone Tuesday.
Rubio, who disagreed with the decision her colleagues made, said in a statement that allowing additional distributors would have garnered more benefits for the city.
"(Residents) lost $6 million of revenue in the next five years that had already been negotiated, agreed on by five other companies and voted for by the council, which would have brought more city programs, police officers, jobs for our residents and much more," she said.
Rukli's application and business plans were not available to the public Monday. City officials have said all applications were exempt from disclosure due to ongoing negotiations with the applicants.
The company filed articles of incorporation with the California Secretary of State's office in August. Another document filed with the state in October listed Sharone Bershatski as its CEO.
Campaign finance records show Bershatski donated $10,000 to Baldwin Park Police Chief Michael Taylor's campaign for the West Valley Water District's Board of Directors in September.
Bershatski, who is listed as having an address in Encino in the campaign finance report and documents filed with the state, did not respond to multiple phone calls.
The water district serves the cities of Bloomington, Colton, Fontana and Rialto, as well as unincorporated areas in San Bernardino and Jurupa Valley. The district is more than 60 miles away from Encino.
Taylor, who reviewed cannabis permit applicants' security plans and background checks, said he didn't know Bershatski or any of the other applicants.
Baca said Tuesday she didn't know about Bershatski's contribution to Taylor's campaign, but added that it didn't surprise her.
"People do goofy things during campaigns," she said.