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"Daily Reason #5" Why Marty Turek Should NOT be Re-elected to the D181 BOE
#5: In our opinion, Mr. Turek showed a lack of fiduciary duty and disregard of D181 taxpayers, when he voted (on 5/29/14) to approve multi-year contracts for 6 administrators that had effective dates of 5/30/14 (during the 2013-2014 school year). See 6/4/14 Post. As we explained in that post, the beginning date of the multi-year contracts was May 30, 2014, just one day after they were approved and overlapped with those administrators' 2013-2014 contracts approved on 3/18/13. Benaitis, for example, was given a multi-year contract that had a term of 3 years and 1 month, with an end date of 6/30/17. Click to open 5/29/14 agenda item with links to each contract. In our opinion, by approving multi-year contracts that overlapped with existing contracts, Mr. Turek (and the BOE majority) circumvented the intent of the Illinois Pension Reform Act for existing staff, negatively Impacting D181 taxpayers. How?
Under the Illinois pension reform act, pensionable salary is capped at $110,000 OR the highest salary specified at the end of an administrator's contract in effect on May 31, 2014. By starting the new multi-year contracts prior to 5/31, the administrators' pensionable salary will be based on the highest salary specified in the last year of each of their contracts. By entering into multi-year contracts with a start date of 5/30/14, rather than 7/1/14, the administrators avoided having their pensionable salaries be their lower 2013-2014 salaries, as would otherwise have been required under the pension reform law. Instead, their pensions will be based upon their highest salary contracted during the term of the contract. This will directly impact D181 and all Illinois taxpayers whose taxpayer dollars fund the pensions. This will cost everyone more money to fund the existing administrators' pensions in direct contravention of the intent of Illinois legislators whose intent was to "stop the bleeding" by capping pensionable salaries. Is this really what our taxpayers want?
(Note: On 11/21/14, an Illinois court struck down the pension reform act. It is unclear at this time what impact the ruling will have, if any, on the existing administrators' pensionable salary calculation when they eventually retire. However, when Mr. Turek voted on the overlapping contracts, the negative impact to the taxpayers was clear and he approved them anyway.) (Click to open Chicago Suntimes article.)
Running List of the Daily Reasons:
Reason #1: Four years ago the Hinsdale Caucus got it right when they did not endorse Mr. Turek.
Reason #2: As the board president for the last 2 years, Mr. Turek's job has been to preside over the board meetings, however, his actual authority during said meetings is no greater than the other six board members. (Board Policy 2:110.) Rather than facilitate discussions during the meetings, listen to and take his fellow board members' opinions on issues into consideration, he has attacked them and tried to shut them down. Case in point, suggesting during the 12/9/13 board meeting that well respected Board Member Brendan Heneghan was going down a "rat hole" when he suggested there should be a curriculum committee similar to the finance committee. Less than one year later, a curriculum committee called the Learning Committee has been formed. We guess Mr. Turek got it wrong when he called Mr. Heneghan out.
Reason #3: Mr. Turek failed to oppose Dr. White's promotion of Kurt Schneider into the position of SOLE Assistant Superintendent of Learning, on July 8, 2014 (or at any meeting since then). (Link to 7/8/14 Superintendent's report.) Schneider is now responsible for both the curriculum and special education departments. In our opinion, D181's curriculum chaos is the direct result of the lack of true leadership in the Department of Learning and Mr. Turek's support of poor leadership decisions evidences his inability to act in the best interests of D181's students. We would be remiss in failing to point out that one reason Mr. Turek failed to publicly oppose Dr. White's critical organizational change in the Learning Department was because he did not even attend the 7/8/14 board meeting, the only board meeting scheduled last July.
Reason #4: During his tenure on the BOE, Mr. Turek approved Dawn Benaitis' promotion from principal of Monroe School to Director of Curriculum, Assessment and Instruction in the Department of Learning. He also approved her raises. As we previously reported, in less than three years (from 2012-2013 to the 2014-2015 school year), Benaitis' base salary increased 18.8% from $109,660 to $130,250. Further, despite community concerns regarding Ms. Benaitis, on May 29, 2014, Turek voted to approve a multi-year contract for her. (Sources: 3/18/13 Consent Agenda, 5/6/13 Consent Agenda, 3/24/14 Personnel consent agenda, Benaitis Multi-year contract) In our 6/4/14 Post we raised serious concerns about the multi-year contracts, including Benaitis', that Turek voted to approve on 5/29/14. More on that tomorrow......Until then, in our opinion, Mr. Turek's votes to approve outrageous raises and promotions for Benaitis are further examples of poor leadership decisions that establish Turek's inability to act in the best interests of D181's students.
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I was looking at Board Docs, and one of the things under Executive Session is "Litigation." What is this? Under FOIA, there's a FOIA request from a law firm regarding the employment & termination of Bruce Richards. He was the Director of Technology for the district for the 2007-2008 school year, if I remember correctly. Is he suing for wrongful termination? If so, why 6 or 7 years after the fact?
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(100457) 1996 TJ3 es un asteroide perteneciente al cinturón de asteroides, descubierto el 7 de octubre de 1996 por Paul G. Comba desde el Observatorio de Prescott, Arizona, Estados Unidos.

Designación y nombre
Designado provisionalmente como 1996 TJ3.

Características orbitales
1996 TJ3 está situado a una distancia media del Sol de 3,050 ua, pudiendo alejarse hasta 3,341 ua y acercarse hasta 2,758 ua. Su excentricidad es 0,095 y la inclinación orbital 1,602 grados. Emplea 1945 días en completar una órbita alrededor del Sol.

Características físicas
La magnitud absoluta de 1996 TJ3 es 15,3. Tiene 5,266 km de diámetro y su albedo se estima en 0,053.

Véase también
 Lista de asteroides del (100401) al (100500)
 Cuerpo menor del sistema solar

Referencias

Asteroides del cinturón principal
Objetos astronómicos descubiertos por Paul G. Comba
Objetos astronómicos descubiertos desde el Observatorio de Prescott
Objetos astronómicos descubiertos en 1996
Wikiproyecto:Asteroides/Artículos de asteroides

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Q: Android: Sending app updates to remote clients without wiping their data Interesting technical problem here; I have done a little bit of digging and haven't been able to find someone in a comparable situation.
I'm working on an app project for researchers at a couple different universities, and the app needs a couple updates to fix a bug they are having, but they don't want to lose any of the data they have already accumulated with the app (its a SQLite database that's storing results); problem is the only way for me to install updates without wiping the app data is in person; when I try to export a signed APK, put it on my tablet, and tried to install it, it prompted me to just install the update without wiping the app, but after saying yes and allowing it to install it just says "app is not installed". I can only update the app successfully if I have my tablet connected up to my computer and run the app from within android studio.
The app has been using the same key store file, which I thought meant there wouldn't be any problems relating to different keys.
I've verified that the proper permissions are set; obviously, I could just uninstall the app and install it with the new apk, but that defeats the purpose.
My first question is, does anyone know how someone could update (not reinstall!) an app they have using an apk file recieved from an email, without wiping any of the data on that tablet?
I don't have any experience with the app store but from what I know about the app store my app wouldn't pass their qualifications so I can't use that as a platform to deploy updates to my user. Does anyone have any insights on this?
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Director Terence Jeyaretnam, started Netbalance in 2006 and over the last eight years has created an organisation with international reach, with offices across Australia and London. Excited by the move, Jeyaretnam explained that "it will present both our clients and our staff with significant opportunities especially as we look to expand into new markets and broaden the range of services, projects and initiatives we can offer".
EY expects to fully integrate Netbalance into its Australian Assurance Practice, which will see all of Netbalance's staff become part of the EY Climate Change & Sustainability Services team by the end of September. Mathew Nelson, EY's Australian Climate Change & Sustainability Leader says that this acquisition will "further strengthen EY's ability to service our clients across all areas of sustainability and climate change, particularly social, supply chain, energy and sustainability advisory services". It will also see EY's team grow to over 90 people, making it the leading sustainability advisory services practice in the country. Staff will be relocated from across Australia to offices in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney, however the Netbalance Foundation will remain intact, as will ECO-Buy; a sustainable procurement advisory NFP acquired by Netbalance in December 2012.
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NCAA Men's Golf National Championship Notes
May 29, 2012 Pacific Palisades, Calif. RSS
Ian McConnell will be one of five Flames who will looking looking to help Liberty capture its first-ever NCAA Division I team national championship.
2012 NCAA Men's Golf National Championship Notes
No. 14 seed Liberty will join 29 other regional qualifying teams at the 2012 NCAA Men's Golf National Championship, May 29 – June 3, at the Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, Calif. The event will open up with 54 holes of stroke play during the first three days of competition, narrowing the field down to the Top 8. The final eight programs will face each other in three additional rounds of match play, ultimately leading to a new national champion crowned on June 3.
NCAA National Newcomers
No. 14 seed Liberty is making its first-ever appearance at the NCAA Men's Golf National Championship this year at the Riviera Country Club. The Flames have qualified for four NCAA Regionals in program history, earning at-large bids in 2003 and 2006, and automatic berths in 2011 and 2012 after capturing the Big South Men's Golf Championship title.
Liberty's NCAA Regional History:
2003 (At-Large) – NCAA East Regional – T24th out of 27 teams (312?307?311?930/66?over par)
2006 (At-Large) – NCAA East Regional – 22nd out of 27 teams (310?303?304?917/53?over par)
2011 (Automatic Bid) – NCAA Arizona Regional – 10th out of 14 teams (280?292?288?860/eight?over par)
2012 (Automatic Bid) – NCAA Greensboro Regional – 1st out of 14 teams (283-293-292-868/four-over par)
Defending Champions
Liberty successfully defended its first-ever Big South title in April, as the Flames won the 2012 Big South Men's Golf Championship in record fashion. The Flames carded a 20-under par 844 (280-275-289) at The Patriot Golf Club in Ninety Six, S.C., April 16-18, 2012. In 2011, Liberty claimed the program's first-ever Big South title at the same course, with an eight-under par 856 (290-277-289), winning by 31 strokes over Gardner-Webb to post the conference's second-largest margin of victory at a championship event.
First of their Kind
Liberty became the first program in Big South Conference history to capture an NCAA Regional title when the Flames fended off Florida to win the NCAA Greensboro Regional by three strokes, May 17-19. Coastal Carolina is the only other school in Big South history to advance to the NCAA Men's Golf National Championship, accomplishing the feat in 2005, 2006 and 2007. The Chanticleer's best finish was in 2007, when Coastal Carolina finished in fifth place in Williamsburg, Va., and was led by five-time PGA Tour winner Dustin Johnson.
Well Represented
No. 14 seed Liberty is not the only Big South representative at the 2012 NCAA Men's Golf Championship at the Riviera Country Club. Campbell's Vaita Guillaume, SMU's Matt Schovee and Liberty's Robert Karlsson finished the NCAA Greensboro tied for first place individually, each carding a three-under par 213. Guillaume was able to defeat Schovee on the first playoff hole, sending this year's Big South Golfer of the Year to Pacific Palisades, Calif., to join Liberty at the national championship event to compete as an individual.
Nine is Nice
Liberty enters the 2012 NCAA Men's Golf National Championship having led the last nine consecutive rounds of golf the team has competed in, leading to three straight team titles. The Flames were the wire-to-wire winners at the River Landing Intercollegiate (April 6-7), Big South Men's Golf Championship (April 16-18) and the NCAA Greensboro Regional (May 17-19). The Flames have played their last nine rounds of golf at a combined 34-under par.
Liberty's Last Three Tournaments:
River Landing Intercollegiate (River Landing GC/Wallace, N.C.) – 283-285-278-846 (-18)
Big South Men's Golf Championship (The Patriot GC/Ninety Six., S.C.) – 280-275-289-844 (-20)
NCAA Greensboro Regional (Grandover Resort/Greensboro, N.C.) – 283-293-292-868 (+4)
Underclassmen Upside
Four of the five players on head coach Jeff Thomas' starting five list for the 2012 NCAA Men's Golf Championship will be underclassmen, including three sophomores (Chase Marinell, Niklas Lindstrom and Ian McConnell) and one freshman (Mathieu Fenasse). Liberty's upperclassmen on its starting five list is senior Robert Karlsson.
International Flavor
Five players on Liberty's 12-man team roster hail from outside the United States, including three players who will be among Liberty's starting five at the 2012 NCAA Men's Golf National Championship. Liberty has two players from Sweden (Robert Karlsson, Niklas Lindstrom) and one player from France (Mathieu Fenasse), South Korea (David Jeh) and Australia (Bobin Kang).
National Level Success
Success on the national level is no stranger for student-athletes from Liberty, as the athletics program has produced six individual national champions (track & field) and a Sweet 16 women's basketball program (2005).
NCAA Division I Individual National Champions (Track & Field)
Sam Chelanga
• 2009 NCAA Men's Cross Country national champion
• 2010 NCAA Outdoor 10K national champion
• 2011 NCAA Outdoor 5K national champion
Heather Sagan – 2002
• 2002 NCAA Indoor 1 mile national champion
Josh McDougal
• 2005 Sweet 16 – NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament
• Upset No. 4 Penn State and No. 5 DePaul to advance to the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament Sweet 16 round
Head Coach Jeff Thomas – By the Numbers
(Liberty, '95)
Years on Staff at Liberty: 10 years
Years at Head Coach: 8 years
Team Tournament Victories: 9
Individual Medalist Victories: 14
Big South Coach of the Year: 2 (2010 and 2011)
Big South Team Titles: 2 (2011 and 2012)
Big South All-Conference Members: 13
Big South Golfers of the Year: 2 (Robert Karlsson: 2010, 2011)
Big South Freshman of the Year: 3 (Robert Karlsson, 2009, Max McKay, 2010, Chase Marinell, 2011)
Big South Championship Medalist: 3 (Robert Karlsson, 2010 and 2012, Preston Dembowiak, 2011)
NCAA Regional Appearances as Head Coach: 3 (2006, 2011, 2012)
NCAA National Championship Appearances as Head Coach: 1 (2012)
Va. State Golf Coaches Assoc. Coach of the Year: 1 (2011)
GCAA Dave Williams Award Finalist: 1 (2011)
GCAA/Srixon All-America Scholars: 5
Starting Five Flames Facts
Robert Karlsson (Sr./Kalmar, Sweden)
Average: 71.5 (Season), 72.0 (Career)
• Two-Time Big South Golfer of the Year (2010, 2011)
• Two-Time Big South Championship Medalist (2010, 2012)
• Four-Time Big South All-Conference (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012)
• 2009 Big South Freshman of the Year
• Rankings: Golfweek – No. 25, Golfstat –No. 33
• World Amateur Golf Ranking: No. 18
• Two-time member of the European Palmer Cup team (2011, 2012)
• Has finished Top 10 in 31 out of 45 career events (27 Top 5 finishes)
• Has finished Top 10 in 10 out of 12 events during the 2011-12 season (8 Top 5 finishes)
• Has finished in first place his last two events (Big South Men's Golf Championship and NCAA Greensboro Regional)
• Has played his last nine rounds of golf at a combined 19-under par, including six rounds below 70 and seven out of nine rounds below par
• Has posted 12 sub-70 rounds this season (out of 34 total rounds)
• Four time NCAA Regional participant (2009 and 2010 as an at-large invitation, 2011 and 2012 with Liberty's team automatic berth)
Chase Marinell (So./Fort Myers, Fla.)
• Rankings: Golfweek – No. 213, Golfstat –No. 203
• 2012 Big South All-Conference
• Third on the team with a 73.8 stroke average in 2011-12
• Has finished Top 10 in five out of 11 events during the 2011-12 season (1 Top 5 finish)
• Has played his last nine rounds of golf a combined six-under par, including four sub-par rounds
• Finished under-par in three tournaments in 2011-12
• Posted eight rounds at par or better in 2011-12
• Helped Liberty clinch its second Big South title in a row with a fifth-place finish (four-under par 212)
• Finished tied for seventh at the NCAA Greensboro with a one-over par 217
Ian McConnell (So./Riverview, Fla.)
• Rankings: Golfweek – No. 243, Golfstat –No. NA
• Ranks fourth on the team with a 73.9 stroke average this season
• Posted a pair of Top 10 finishes in 2011-12
• Posted 10 rounds at par or better in 2011-12
• One of two players to play in all 12 team events in 2011-12
• Has played five of his last nine rounds of golf at par or better
Niklas Lindstrom (So./Kalmar, Sweden)
• Ranks second on the team with a 73.1 stroke average
• Has four Top 10 finishes in 2011-12 (3 Top 5 finishes)
• Captured his first collegiate title with a five-under par 139 at the Trojan Fall Classis on Oct. 10-11
• Played 12 rounds at par or better in 2011-12
• Has played his last nine rounds of golf a combined seven-under par
• Posted second-place finish at the River Landing Intercollegiate with a season-best seven-under par 209
• Finished tied for sixth at the Big South Men's Golf Championship with a three-under par 213
Mathieu Fenasse (Fr./Lias, France)
• Ranks fifth on the team with a 74.2 stroke average in 2011-12
• Recorded a pair of Top 10 finishes as a freshman (1 Top 5 finish)
• Played eight rounds at par or better in 2011-12, including a final round even par 72 to close out the NCAA Greensboro Regional
• Low 54-hole score of the year was an even par 216 at the River Landing Intercollegiate
• Posted 33 pars during the first 36 holes of the Big South Men's Golf Championship
Flames Golf Social


Hey everybody; time for another week-in-recap from the seven days past in the NHL and the hockey world at large.
A producer at Pittsburgh television station FSN Pittsburgh has been suspended indefinitely for allegedly holding back a conclusive goal-scoring tape from NHL head offices during the dispute of the goal in question. Almost immediately after play resumed, the replay was played on television, sparking an instant response from the TV station. There isn't much of a commentary one can put on this; if he knowingly held back the conclusive replay, he damaged the integrity of the game, and one "small" instance is far and away one too many. But it only makes one of two more disturbing on-ice/off-ice moments of controversy this week in the NHL which, taken together, paint a slightly more troubling picture, as entirely unrelated as the two incidents are. Story link.
Alex Burrows, the late-blooming dynamite Vancouver Canucks winger, was fined for alleging that referee Stephane Auger specifically and explicitly targeted Burrows for retribution following a controversial call in a game in December. One of the many pundits I listened to about this (whoever it was, I can't exactly remember, but I'm sure the sentiment was shared more than once) had it right: that in the eyes of Colin Campbell, it's Auger's word vs. Burrows, and Campbell came down on the side of the referee, fining Burrows $2500 and declaring his comments "detrimental" to the integrity of the game. $2500 is chump change (on that note, it would be nice if the NHL cranked its fine scale up for all infractions past the 1950s-sized rate it apparently uses), but what's interesting to note about this is how fellow players reacted. Most of the players I heard said something along the lines of words spoken on the ice stay on the ice, and that Burrows should just put his head down and get on with it, as there's referee biases everywhere. Story link.
Brian Burke: Bold, Bloody, Beleaguered and…Benevolent?
Brian Burke, GM of the beleaguered Maple Leafs, has unequivocally stated his support behind coach Ron Wilson. Despite the Maple Leafs' tumble down the standings following a late-2009 push towards mediocrity, Burke doesn't blame the coach for the mess the team is, blaming the players as a collective for lack of effort and concentration. Despite a complete overhaul of the roster over the last few years — something it's still in the middle of doing — the hallmark of the Maple Leafs over the past decade and a half has been flashes of brilliance surrounded by game after game of lackluster effort, uninspired play and fluctuating concentration. Much like Burke, I don't feel the problem is inherent in the Burke/Wilson tandem, it's in the fact that this team lacks any kind of identity. Burke's efforts to keep the team competitive while it rebuilds, while noble, can only really work if the team was pretty decent in the recent past (see: Philadelphia, Anaheim, etc of recent years). In the Leafs' case, they were terrible, and the roster deserved to be eviscerated. Instead, the players are stuck skating in circles, unsure of their future and uncertain of their role. Story link.
Leave it to the New York Islanders to periodically rescue the careers of Doug Weight and Bill Guerin, attach themselves at the hip to chronic ER patient Rick DiPietro and put their weight behind the Chris Simons of the world. Beyond these shining examples of well-intentioned-if-occasionally-misguided benevolence comes the case of Robbie Schremp, a sharp talent with a flip-flopping 'tude. Tossed to the wolves in Edmonton before waiting (presumably) patiently on the bench of New York, now that Schremp finally has a regular chance at the NHL, he seems to be taking advantage of it. Don't look now, but he's scoring shootout winners, eight points in six games and generally playing like he belongs. Bless. Story link.


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