I'll summarize the link in the previous blog entry. While Weimer's GenProg relies on programmer-provided test cases, Furia at al's AutoFix uses programmer-provided assertions. The interesting insight behind AutoFix is that given assertions, one can generate random test cases automatically and use the assertions as so-called oracles, meaning that the assertions decide whether a test case fails or succeeds. So the programmer is relieved of writing unit tests, but must provide assertions instead (or in addition). The fascinating question is: Which way is better? Furia writes that assertions lead to better fault localization and more intelligible fixes; he also thinks that his method generates fixes at a fraction of GenProg's runtime because of reduced search space. So AutoFix might have an advantage, but the question is: What would programmers rather write: tests or assertions? My experience is that programmers don't write enough tests, but they hardly ever write assertions, even though programming languages such as Java and Eiffel provide syntax for them. If we forced them to write assertions then they are likely to write useless pre-conditions and post-conditions that echo the (potentially faulty) code. So which way should we go?


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Q: Best practices to handle large-scale binary classification I have a large training file (~2.4GB, ~31k rows). Each row contains around ~40k binary features, and the label is binary as well.
I tried to use default sklearn logistic regression (loading dataset with pandas), but it is too slow (6 hours and still continue).
What are some good practices to deal with this problem?
Thank you very much,

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Bakersfield, CA – The Renegade Women's Soccer team hosted Antelope Valley College in Memorial Stadium on Tuesday evening and came away with a tie, 0-0.
Both halves were strong defensive battles. In the 73rd minute the Renegades came close to netting a goal, but the Michelle Vargas shot hit the bottom part of the cross bar and was cleared by Antelope Valley.
"It was a hard fought tie," commented Coach Scott Dameron, "They are a good team and it was a good game tonight. Both teams had some great chances that I'm sure we're both going to talk about after the game. We've just got to keep working to find that finishing touch."
With the tie, the Renegades move to 9-4-2 on the season and 1-1-2 in WSC play. Up next, they head on the road to face Victor Valley this Friday, Oct. 26th at 4pm.


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Chad Lee Robinson
Born: July 08 1980 in Pierre South Dakota, USA
Resides: Pierre, South Dakota, USA
E-mail: jedirobinson (at) yahoo (dot) com
Website: https://dakotaku.wordpress.com/
Chad Lee Robinson first learned about haiku in 2002. Since then his haiku and related poetry have been published in over forty journals and in ten countries. He was the Plains & Mountains Regional Coordinator for the Haiku Society of America (2006-2011). More information may be found on his blog.
Awards and Other Honors: Some of Chad's awards and honors include: Winner, True Vine Press
Summer Chapbook Contest (2009); Winner, Snapshot Press eChapbook
Awards (2011); Winners and Runners-up, Snapshot Press Haiku Calendar
Competition (2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012); The Heron's Nest
Editor's Choice Award (September 2007 and March 2011); Runner-up,
The Heron's Nest Editor's Choice Award (2006, 2009, 2010); Special
Mention, The Heron's Nest Readers' Choice Awards (2005, 2006, 2007,
2010, 2011); Poem of the Year and Poet of the Year, The Heron's Nest
Readers' Choice Awards (2008); First Runner-up, Poem of the Year,
The Heron's Nest Readers' Choice Awards (2012); Runner-up,
Contemporary category, HaikuNow! International Haiku Contest (2010);
Commended, Innovative category, HaikuNow! International Haiku
Contest (2011); Pushcart Prize nomination from Modern Haiku (2011);
Modern Haiku Award for Best Senryu (2006); Recipient, The Touchstone
Awards for Individual Poems 2011 (The Haiku Foundation); Second
Runner-up, Poet of the Year, The Heron's Nest Readers' Choice Awards
(2007 and 2011); Third Runner-up, Poet of the Year, The Heron's Nest
Readers' Choice Awards (2012); Winner, 2014 Turtle Light Press Haiku Chapbook Competition for The Deep End of the Sky; Second Place, Haiku Society of America Merit Book Award (2016) for The Deep End of the Sky. Some of Chad's work has also been
featured in a number of anthologies, including: A New Resonance:
Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku Volume 4 (Red Moon
Press, 2005); Baseball Haiku: The Best Haiku Ever Written About
the Game (W.W. Norton, 2007); Montage: The Book (The
Haiku Foundation, 2010); Haiku 21 (Modern Haiku Press,
2011); Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years (W.W.
Norton, 2013); and several editions of the Red Moon Anthology best-of-year series.
Books Published: Pop Bottles (True Vine Press, 2009); Rope Marks (Snapshot
Press, 2012); The Deep End of the Sky (Turtle Light Press, 2015).
migrating geese-
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darken the garage
8 seconds . . .
the bull rider opens
a hand to the sky
prairie stream-
what I know about mountains
in these small stones
full moon-
all our sounds
are vowels
buffalo bones
a wind less than a whisper
in the summer grass
one of the wolves
shows its face
firelight
Credits: "migrating geese" - The Heron's Nest XIII:1 (2011); Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years (W.W. Norton, 2013); "prairie stream" - The Heron's Nest VII:3 (2005); "buffalo bones" - The Heron's Nest IX:3 (2007); Rope Marks (Snapshot Press, 2012); "8 seconds" - Mayfly 43 (2007); dust of summers: The Red Moon Anthology of English-language Haiku 2007 (Red Moon Press, 2008); Rope Marks (Snapshot Press, 2012); Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years (W.W. Norton, 2013); "full moon" - The Heron's Nest VIII:4 (2006); Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years (W.W. Norton, 2013); "one of the wolves" - South by Southeast XIX:3 (2012); Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years (W.W. Norton, 2013).
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Ex-Penn St. student discusses covering Sandusky scandal
LIZ DENNERLEIN
@LIZDENNERLEIN
Editor's note: Features reporter Liz Dennerlein of Westfield attended Penn State University from 2010 to 2014. Here are her recollections about covering the campus during the Jerry Sandusky scandal, the Joe Paterno controversy and the student riots.
I still vividly remember the morning the Jerry Sandusky sex-abuse scandal broke.
I woke up on Nov. 4, 2011, grabbed my phone and began to scroll through Twitter, like most college students do before they rise out of bed.
Usually, I check out my timeline to see what I missed while I was sleeping — a silly Buzzfeed article or a friend sending out an embarrassing drunk tweet.
But on this particular morning, I woke up to one of the biggest national news stories breaking on my campus. It was my sophomore year and my first year working for Penn State's student newspaper, the Daily Collegian, as an administrative reporter.
I remember reading through my timeline and learning that Penn State's former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was accused of sexually abusing eight young boys.
I immediately received a phone call from my editors, who wanted me to go around campus to see how students, alumni and faculty members were reacting.
The week the news broke, I found myself keeping a pair of running shoes in my bag at all times for when I needed to sprint to cover a riot, a spontaneous vigil, a board of trustees meeting or to cover local students gathering outside of Old Main — where Penn State's president works — to express their anger with university officials.
No one on staff slept much that week.
We all went to bed at 3 a.m. at the earliest only to wake up again at 8 a.m. I'm pretty sure my editors were too afraid to even close their eyes in this 24-hour news cycle world we were all facing.
We all were working tirelessly together in order to produce the best content.
I remember one evening when the board attempted to hold a secret meeting to discuss longtime football coach Joe Paterno and University President Graham Spanier's positions.
Every reporter was in a frenzy trying to figure out where the meeting would take place.
Reporters spread out, searching the entire campus for board members.
We staked out the Nittany Lion Inn, Old Main — and even checked out obscure classrooms on campus. We stumbled upon one trustee who simply ignored all of our questions.
Eventually, news broke that the meeting was taking place at the Penn Stater Hotel.
We sent a few reporters there, waiting for the press conference that would start after the meeting.
Meanwhile, I staked out in an apartment complex lobby on Beaver Avenue with another reporter, in case a decision was reached and students who were displeased decided to riot.
We anxiously waited for the decision, constantly refreshing our Twitter timelines, texting reporters at the conference to see if they received any updates.
Looking back, that night felt very eerie — sitting in the lobby of an apartment building, sheltered from the cold, waiting for the chaos to hit.
We were essentially waiting for board members to make a decision that would affect the entire campus, which would lead to a night that left many students and alumni feeling ashamed.
I remember telling my colleague that if they fire Paterno, someone is going to flip over a car.
I was half kidding, but unfortunately, later that night the scene played out.
Right after the news hit Twitter that Paterno was fired and Spanier dismissed, I ran outside to Beaver Avenue.
Minutes later, chants could be heard from students leaving their apartments, making their way to the streets.
"We Want Joe!"
"(Blank) the Trustees!"
What started out as a somewhat peaceful riot quickly intensified.
During the riot, students tore down light posts, started fires, flipped over a news van while police maced anyone on the streets.
It was a night when we learned how powerful and destructive a student body of 40,000 can be.
Later in the week, when the crazed atmosphere began to calm down, my editors asked that I stand outside Paterno's house the first game he would not be coaching the Nittany Lions after his termination.
It was Nov. 12, 2011, when Penn State played Nebraska.
Sure enough, right after the game, there stood a mob of fans awaiting Paterno, hoping to give him the send off they all felt he deserved.
I arrived at his modest home in the afternoon and waited until dark for Paterno to make an appearance.
Surrounding his house were national media outlets — cameras were being set up and anchors were practicing their lines while children and students with balloons, jerseys and letters of appreciation sat on the sidewalk of his lawn.
I interviewed everyone around me.
There were a mix of opinions among the crowd. Some agreed that Paterno's firing was the right move, but they disliked the way in which he was terminated (via phone call).
Others disagreed with the decision completely.
There were children who were 11 who grew up watching Penn State football, telling me Paterno was their role model. And there were alumni who felt like they grew up with the man.
I waited for about three hours in the cold and the crowd kept steadily increasing.
Fans started shouting "We Are Penn State!" the stadium chant and university slogan.
Finally, well into dark, a van pulled up with Paterno in the backseat.
His eyes looked weary, as if he aged tremendously the last week.
The van pulled right into the garage without Paterno coming out to acknowledge his fans.
Instead, his son, Jay Paterno, walked by, waving to those on the lawn, thanking them, grabbing a sign left for his father and bringing it inside.
The media quickly began encroaching on Paterno's driveway and lawn. A policeman asked that everyone take a step back and be mindful of trespassing. It was clear Paterno and his family's privacy was gone.
The week the news broke, I don't think I actually had time to truly reflect on the events that occurred on campus or the disarray of my college town, known as Happy Valley.
Instead, I and my fellow colleagues were too busy covering story after story, trying to keep up with the chaos erupting as new information continued to be revealed.
The following week, however, which I believe was right before a much-needed winter break, State College settled down.
The streets were quiet, and there was a somber feel as students walked to class, desperately wanting everything to return to normal.
For the first time, I finally realized how exhausted the scandal had been on everyone, including myself.
We were tired of receiving texts from friends at other universities, making light of sexual abuse with insensitive rape jokes, and we were tired of receiving that look of disgust when a non-Penn Stater found out you were a Nittany Lion.
I remember feeling a mix of heartbreak and anger when I came back to my car after having lunch with a friend in New Jersey, and found that someone ripped the PSU sticker off my car.
Even today, three years later, there's still tension at State College.
A recent poll conducted by Quinnipiac University showed that a majority of Pennsylvanians want the Joe Paterno statue restored.
I find Penn Staters to be divided on the matter. There are those who are delighted Paterno received his wins back, and those who think it sends a bad message.
There are those who think Paterno's innocent and those who are very skeptical.
I tend to find the individuals who don't view Paterno as a hero keep quiet simply because their voices get lost in the herd.
The events that occurred at Penn State still are and will always be a sensitive topic, but I think most people can agree that the tragic events that took place should never be forgotten.


In order to get a Georgia real estate license you will have to meet the requirements put forth by the Georgia Real Estate Commission. There are surprisingly few qualifications you will need to meet in order to obtain your Georgia real estate license. In fact, in about a month you could be poised and ready on the threshold of a new and lucrative career path.
The Georgia real estate market is primed and ready for take-off. Tax breaks and a buyers' market have created a renewed need for licensed real estate professionals to perform these transactions. With a minimal investment of time and money you can be ready to take on a new and promising career.
The basic pre-requisite to obtain a Georgia real state license is that you have a high school diploma. If you did not receive a diploma, you will need a passing score on the high school equivalency exam. Examinees must be at least 18 years of age to take the Georgia real estate license exam.
Georgia requires that potential examinees attend 75 hours of pre-licensing courses to take the real estate salesperson examination. In lieu of real estate courses from a Georgia Real Estate Commission approved online real estate school, Georgia will allow you to take your choice of 10 quarter hours or 6 semester hours at an accredited university offering courses in real estate. At the end of your course work the state of Georgia requires that you receive at least a 75% on the pre-licensing course final in order to be eligible to take the test. Once the educational process is successfully completed you can move on toward the licensing examination.
You will be asked to provide a criminal background check that is no more than 60 days old to the AMP testing site in order to be permitted to take your real estate license exam. Without the criminal history report there is no test allowed under any circumstances. Having minor infractions on the report are not necessarily grounds for disqualification unless it is uncovered after an attempt to conceal it.
The fee to take the exam is $91.00. There is also a small fee for the issuance of the original license. Once these fees are paid there are no additional licensing fees for the renewal period of four years. If after one year the licensing fee has not been paid, the exam will need to be retaken.
Testing is done at professional testing sites located around the state of Georgia. Once you have passed your real estate exam you will be able to print your Georgia real estate license online. Once you have a copy of your license you will be permitted to work in the Georgia housing market.
Having passed your exam and received your real estate license, there is post-licensing education that is required to keep your license active. A 25 hour salesperson post-licensing course approved by the Georgia Real Estate Commission must be completed within first year of the issuance of your real estate license. If you do not complete the required post-licensing classes your license will become invalid.
When you're ready to complete your Georgia real estate continuing education requirements, you can do that online at our sister school, McKissock Learning.


In July of 2007, a trip to Mt Hood's Crater Rock area in search of summer turns yielded a nice corn harvest, and also resulted in the below shot of Todd that landed on the home page of Telemark Tips….
In 2010, an early October storm dumped two and a half feet of fresh snow in the Oregon Cascades. Todd and I were able to take advantage by leaving super early in the morning to get in a dawn patrol at Hoodoo, which resulted in some of the best early season powder of my life. The lighting was really nice, and the trip resulted in a shot of me taken by Todd that landed on the front page of Splitboard.com and Turns-All-Year.
A June 2012 trip to the South Sister produced excellent corn snow and memories that I'll have with me forever. A shot I took of Todd on this trip making a nice tele-turn with Broken Top in the background landed on the homepage of Telemark Tips.
In May 2013, after submitting a few photos to the National Ski Patrol for a photo contest, I was surprised when I opened my mailbox and found the May issue of Ski Patrol Magazine with a photo I took of my friend Raleigh Taylor on the front cover. I was pretty stoked, and the photo ended up landing me a new Go Pro and backpack.


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'We are very grateful to the patients who have already taken part in the trial and to those who will participate in this next phase of RECOVERY. We would not be able to find the best treatments without their support and that of the thousands of hospital and research staff who are working with us.'
The open-label RECOVERY trial will assess the impact of adding REGN-COV2 to the usual standard-of-care on all-cause mortality 28 days after randomisation. Other endpoints include the impact on hospital stay and the need for ventilation. It is anticipated that at least 2,000 patients will be randomly allocated to receive REGN-COV2 plus usual standard-of-care, and results will be compared with at least 2,000 patients who receive standard-of-care on its own. Usual standard-of-care varies by local hospital.
The trial is being coordinated by researchers at the University of Oxford, which acts as the sponsor for the research, working with clinical teams at 176 hospital sites across the UK.
Deputy Chief Medical Officer Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, said, 'Funded by the UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), RECOVERY is globally recognised as the largest and the most successful COVID-19 platform trial to date. Today's news is another promising step in the search to find effective treatments, which will improve our ability to deal with this destructive virus, and a testament to the confidence that others around the world have in this brilliantly conceived and executed trial. We've had some crucial results from RECOVERY so far, including the life-saving treatment dexamethasone and, as importantly, confirmation that other drugs do not work.
'I look forward to seeing how REGN-COV2 performs in clinical trials, and I urge people to volunteer in this research which could ultimately save many lives.'
Professor Fiona Watt, Executive Chair of the Medical Research Council, said, 'With our support, the RECOVERY trial has previously found the most clinically effective treatment for Covid-19 so far, dexamethasone. The same UK-wide trial will now test a new treatment designed specifically to combat the virus that causes the disease. Monoclonal, or targeted, antibodies are already used to treat cancer and autoimmune diseases. The new trial will tell us whether antibodies that attacks the virus can be an effective treatment for Covid-19.'
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MR. DeMILLE, MEET MR. DISNEY
Home  Uncategorized  MR. DeMILLE, MEET MR. DISNEY
Uncategorized December 23, 2010
When I first became interested in old-time radio I didn't comprehend just how strong a connection existed between the empire of the air and the movie industry during the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. At first, Hollywood was wary of radio, just as it would be when television came along. Then the powers-that-be realized that radio wasn't the enemy: it was a potential ally, capable of promoting its stars and upcoming movies to an enormous audience.
Cecil B. DeMille confers with guest star Joan Crawford in this publicity shot for Lux Radio Theater. In truth, DeMille was merely playing the role of host, and never directed any actors on the show, but for appearance's sake, he "posed" as its director on the air and off.
It got to the point where Los Angeles supplanted Chicago, and to some degree New York, as the focal point of national broadcasting, because that's where—
—the movie stars were.
Lux Radio Theater started out as a New York show in 1934, but a short time later the sponsor, or advertising agency (which actually produced the show), succumbed to the lure of Hollywood and built the program into a mainstay of the airwaves that America tuned into every week for twenty years.
The original host of Lux was Cecil B. DeMille, and the show made him even more of a household name than he already was through his work in movies—just as television would do for Alfred Hitchcock in the 1950s and 60s. Every star in Hollywood, it seems, appeared on the show at one time or another, but one of its most prestigious guests was not an actor at all. It was Walt Disney, who appeared on the show several times, and then permitted Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to be adapted for broadcast in 1938. You can learn more about the Disney-Lux connection in a first-rate article that Greg Ehrbar has written for the D23 website, home base for the Disney fan club. You can read it HERE.
If he or I have piqued your interest and you want to learn more about old time radio, allow me to unabashedly plug my own book, The Great American Broadcast, which is available HERE.


Cut off the bottom core of the cabbage. Quarter the cabbage by slicing the cabbage in the middle and then slicing each half in two.
Using a sharp knife, thinly slice the cabbage quarters into slivers.
Thoroughly wash the prepared cabbage in a colander and drain.
Grate the onions in a small bowl.
Combine the onions and cabbage in a large mixing bowl.
Cut the head of the large end of the carrot. Starting at the large end, grate the carrots over the combined vegetables. Mix the vegetables together.
Combine the Miracle Whip, mayo, vinegar and seasoning in a separate bowl and blend.
Add the blended ingredients to the cabbage and vegetables; mix until thoroughly covered.
Before serving, lightly dust the cabbage with Paprika for a beautiful presentation.
Serve immediately or place in the refrigerator until use.


The ancient sources for Marcion were all compiled by Adolf Harnack in his Marcion: Das Evangelium vom fremden Gott, Texte und Untersuchungen 45, 2nd ed. Leipzig, 1924. Since Harnack died in 1940, all his work is out of copyright in Germany and the EU, and presumably in the US also, therefore.
Unfortunately this work is not online, as I found in a previous post. An English translation — Marcion: the gospel of the alien god — exists, but only covered Harnack's introduction and not the essential sources.
I obtained a library copy of the book at the weekend, and started to scan it. Unfortunately the copy that came to me was rather foxed: the paper was somewhat cheap, and brown blotches have come to disfigure it. I had intended to scan it in monochrome, at 400 dpi. But the foxing meant that such areas would only be black blotches in monochrome. Reluctantly, therefore, I did a colour scan at 300 dpi. The book itself is 724 pages, which makes a mighty PDF of some 200 Mb. Oh well.
I'm uploading the book to Archive.org. I'll add a link when it completes.
I will look at whether I can create a monochrome version, which would be smaller.
Keep up the good work, Roger.
Hey, Thank you Roger, I just downloaded it from Archive.
Woohoo! All the appendices. Great work!
That was precisely what I wanted it for. Harnack's opinions are one thing; but a list of all the raw data about Marcion and his cult is something REALLY useful.


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package org.apache.river.test.spec.javaspace.conformance;

import java.util.logging.Level;

// net.jini
import net.jini.core.lease.Lease;
import net.jini.core.transaction.Transaction;

// org.apache.river
import org.apache.river.qa.harness.TestException;
import org.apache.river.qa.harness.QAConfig;

/**
 * TransactionWriteLeaseFOREVERTest asserts that write with
 * Lease.FOREVER lease time within the non null transaction:
 * 1) Places a copy of an entry into the given JavaSpaces service,
 *    even if the same Entry object is used in more than one write.
 * 2) The Entry passed to the write is not affected by this operations.
 * 3) If a write returns without throwing an exception, that entry is
 *    committed to the space, possibly within a transaction.
 *
 * @author Mikhail A. Markov
 */
public class TransactionWriteLeaseFOREVERTest extends TransactionTest {

    /**
     * This method asserts that write with Lease.FOREVER
     * lease time within the non null transaction:
     * 1) Places a copy of an entry into the given JavaSpaces service,
     *    even if the same Entry object is used in more than one write.
     * 2) The Entry passed to the write is not affected by this operations.
     * 3) If a write returns without throwing an exception, that entry is
     *    committed to the space, possibly within a transaction.
     *
     *
Notes:
For more information see the JavaSpaces specification
     * section 2.3.

     */
    public void run() throws Exception {
        SimpleEntry sampleEntry1 = new SimpleEntry("TestEntry #1", 1);
        SimpleEntry sampleEntry2 = new SimpleEntry("TestEntry #2", 2);
        SimpleEntry origEntry1;
        SimpleEntry origEntry2;
        SimpleEntry result;
        Transaction txn;

        // first check that space is empty
        if (!checkSpace(space)) {
            throw new TestException(
                    "Space is not empty in the beginning.");
        }

        // init original entries for comparing
        origEntry1 = (SimpleEntry) sampleEntry1.clone();
        origEntry2 = (SimpleEntry) sampleEntry2.clone();

        // create the non null transaction
        txn = getTransaction();

        /*
         * write 1-st entry within the transaction
         * with Lease.FOREVER lease time
         */
        space.write(sampleEntry1, txn, Lease.FOREVER);

        // check that original entry has not been changed
        if (!origEntry1.equals(sampleEntry1)) {
            throw new TestException(
                    "performed write operation with Lease.FOREVER"
                    + " lease time within the non null"
                    + " transaction has changed entry object: "
                    + " original entry " + origEntry1
                    + " has been changed by " + sampleEntry1);
        }

        /*
         * check that written entry is available
         * in the space within the transaction
         */
        result = (SimpleEntry) space.read(sampleEntry1, txn, checkTime);

        if (result == null) {
            throw new TestException(
                    "performed write operation with Lease.FOREVER"
                    + " lease time within the non null transaction of "
                    + sampleEntry1
                    + ", written entry is not available in the space.");
        }
        logDebugText("Write within the non null transaction of "
                + sampleEntry1
                + " with Lease.FOREVER lease time works as expected.");

        /*
         * write 2-nd entry within the transaction
         * with Lease.FOREVER lease time
         */
        space.write(sampleEntry2, txn, Lease.FOREVER);

        // check that original entry has not been changed
        if (!origEntry2.equals(sampleEntry2)) {
            throw new TestException(
                    "performed write operation with Lease.FOREVER"
                    + " lease time within the non null"
                    + " transaction has changed entry object: "
                    + " original entry " + origEntry2
                    + " has been changed by " + sampleEntry2);
        }

        /*
         * check that written entry is available
         * in the space within the transaction
         */
        result = (SimpleEntry) space.read(sampleEntry2, txn, checkTime);

        if (result == null) {
            throw new TestException(
                    "performed write operation with Lease.FOREVER"
                    + " lease time within the non null transaction of "
                    + sampleEntry2
                    + ", written entry is not available in the space.");
        }
        logDebugText("Write within the non null transaction of "
                + sampleEntry2
                + " with Lease.FOREVER lease time works as expected.");

        /*
         * write 1-st entry with Lease.FOREVER lease time
         * within the transaction again
         */
        space.write(sampleEntry1, txn, Lease.FOREVER);

        // check that original entry has not been changed
        if (!origEntry1.equals(sampleEntry1)) {
            throw new TestException(
                    "performed 2-nd write operation of the same entry with"
                    + " Lease.FOREVER lease time within the non null"
                    + " transaction has changed entry object:"
                    + " original entry " + origEntry1
                    + " has been changed by " + sampleEntry1);
        }

        /*
         * check that written entries are available
         * in the space within the transaction
         */
        result = (SimpleEntry) space.take(sampleEntry1, txn, checkTime);

        if (result == null) {
            throw new TestException(
                    "performed 2-nd write operation with Lease.FOREVER"
                    + " lease time within the non null"
                    + " transaction for the same " + sampleEntry1
                    + ", 1st written entry is not available in the space.");
        }
        result = (SimpleEntry) space.take(sampleEntry1, txn, checkTime);

        if (result == null) {
            throw new TestException(
                    "performed 2-nd write operation with Lease.FOREVER"
                    + " lease time within the non null"
                    + " transaction for the same " + sampleEntry1
                    + ", 2nd written entry is not available in the space.");
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Themes: innocence, trust, romance, corruption, murder, wealth, family, justice
ISBN:9781459810952, 510467KB
After the orphanage she lives in is destroyed by fire, Betty, an innocent and trusting teen, takes a job as a maid in Kingston, Ontario. Welcomed into the household of the wealthy Remington clan, Betty makes friends with the staff at the house and soon discovers that her mother had also been a maid there—and that her father is in a nearby jail, convicted of murdering her mother. When she meets her father, she is taken aback by his claims of innocence, and she decides to try to uncover the truth about her mother's murder and her father's conviction. A friendly young policeman assists her in her investigation (and shows an interest in Betty that is more romantic than professional). But all is not well in the Remington household, and someone doesn't want Betty to learn the truth.
VOYA, Teen Reviewer
"An action-filled book featuring a young woman and her struggle to fit into her new but complicated life. Full of suspense and romance, Elizabeth Anne, known as Betty Shirley at the orphanage, returns to her previously unknown homeland and household to find that things are not what they seem. Secrets are revealed and searches are made, but Lizzy knows how to follow her heart."
"This volume delivers some tense moments as Lizzy makes her way through the local web of lies."


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The only way Milliennials might engage Washington is if they first radically change it.
For a least a decade, experts have struggled to understand why civic-minded Millennials are rejecting public service and politics. Beyond the why, I wanted to understand what it means: What happens to U.S. politics over the next two or three decades if the best and bright of the next generation abandon Washington? So I talked to them -- at elite public high schools in suburban Washington and Boston, at Harvard University's Kennedy School for Government, and on Capitol Hill. In all, I conducted more than 80 interviews with Millennials as well as pollsters, demographers, and generational experts. They brought me to my fourth conclusion: What Millennials have in store for the political system is revolutionary. Maybe worse.
You've heard the knocks against Millennials. They're narcissistic, coddled, and lazy, not to mention spoiled. But there's more to their story. The largest and most diverse generation in U.S. history is goal-orientated, respects authority and follows rules. Millennials are less ideological than their Baby Boom parents and far more tolerant. In addition to famously supporting gay rights, polls show they are less prone to cast negative moral judgments on interracial marriages, single women raising children, unmarried couples living together and mothers of young children working outside the home. While their parents and grandparents preferred to work alone, young Americans are team-oriented and seek collaboration. Wired to the world, they are more likely than past generations to see the globe's problems as their own. Millennials are eager to serve the greater community through technologies, paradoxically, that empower the individual.


A High Court sitting in Asaba, Delta State has sentenced a four-man armed syndicate that has been terrorizing Asaba and its environs, specialized in robbing and snatching exotic cars as well as kidnapping their victims.
The court presided over by Honourable Justice Flora Ngozi Azinge (Mrs.) while delivering the court's verdict on Thursday that lasted for several hours in a criminal case between the State and five defendants, Uche Vincent Uzondu (M), Emeka Amukali (M), Paul Egwom (M), Festus Oghali (m), and David Mario (m) in a 9-count charge bothering on conspiracy to commit felony to wit; kidnapping, armed robbery and wounding with intent, found four out of the five defendants guilty of all the 9 count charge and were accordingly sentenced to death by hanging on the count of armed robbery.
While disbelieving the evidence of the defendants, the court further held that from their confessional statements, they conspired and worked together in synergy to perpetrate their nefarious criminal activities, adding that their denials that they do not know each other was a blatant lie and an after thought.
In the particulars of offence filed by The Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice through the Director of Public Prosecutions against the defendants, the Court was told that Uche Vincent, Paul Egwom, Emeka Amukali who was on bail before the court verdict and David Mario, on or about the 3rd day of December, 2014, at Asaba, within the Asaba judicial division, robbed one Ilechie Michael Nnaemeke of his Lexus RX 350 SUV with registration no BDG 203 DA, two mobile phones and other valuables while armed with a gun and also wounded him with intent as he was shot in the leg when he raised alarm during the scuffle that ensued.


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201.103 Magic and Witchcraft15 credits
A multidisciplinary study of magic and witchcraft in selected societies in different time periods.
201.112 Greek History15 credits
This course provides a survey of Greek History from the Bronze Age to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC.
201.113 Greek Mythology15 credits
A study of the nature and uses of Greek mythology in ancient Greek literature and art.
201.114 The Roman Republic: Kings, Consuls and Conquest15 credits
This course provides an introduction to Roman History, from its beginnings to the battle of Actium in 31 BC.
201.115 Introductory Latin15 credits
An introduction to the grammar and translation of Latin. No prior knowledge of Latin assumed.
201.117 Greek and Roman Warfare15 credits
An introduction to warfare in antiquity, in its social and political contexts, with an examination of weapons, tactics, strategy, famous battles and generals.
201.201 The Pursuit of Happiness in the Classical World15 credits
This course explores views of happiness in the ancient Greek and Roman world from Homer to Marcus Aurelius.
201.211 Love and Sexuality in Ancient Greece15 credits
This course offers a systematic study of ancient Greek attitudes and practices relating to love and sexuality as reflected in history, literature, art, and philosophy, and against the background of the family and society at large.
201.212 Intermediate Latin15 credits
A development of reading proficiency in classical Latin by increasing core vocabulary key grammatical concepts and translation.
201.216 The Trojan War15 credits
A comparative examination of the Trojan War in Greek and Roman literature.
201.218 Greek and Roman Religion15 credits
A study of the religion of the Greeks and Romans, approached through both literary and archaeological sources. The course focuses on cult practices and their impacts on the societies of the time.
201.219 Greek Art and Society15 credits
A survey of techniques, developments and achievements in Greek architecture, sculpture, wall- and vase-painting, set in their archaeological and social contexts. The period covered is from the Bronze Age through to Late Classical times.
201.220 Roman Art and Society15 credits
A survey of techniques, developments and achievements in Hellenistic and Roman architecture, painting, mosaics, and sculpture, set in their archaeological and social contexts. The period covered is from the Hellenistic Age through the Republic down to the Late Empire.
201.230 Ancient Multiculturalism: Egypt, Greece and Rome15 credits
An introduction to cultural exchange between ancient Egyptian and Greco-Roman civilization over the thousand years of classical antiquity, focusing on interactions in literature, art, religion, philosophy, economy, and politics.
201.313 Greek Tragedy, Then and Now15 credits
This course examines ancient Greek tragedy in translation. It looks at the transformation of myth into tragedy in the fifth century BCE and reflect on why these classical dramas remain popular today.
201.314 Imperial Rome15 credits
A study of the first 200 years of Roman imperial rule, from the time of Augustus to the death of Marcus Aurelius.
201.316 Leaders and Leadership in the Classical World15 credits
The Classical world provides an ideal context in which to study leadership, both from the point of view of the leaders themselves and from that of those they led. Topics covered will range from the kingship of Alexander to the autocracy of Caligula, the rule of the Greek tyrants to the shared and briefly-held powers of the Roman consuls.
A detailed survey of techniques, developments and achievements in Greek architecture, sculpture, wall- and vase-painting, set in their archaeological and social contexts. The period covered is from the Bronze Age through to Late Classical times.
A detailed survey of techniques, developments and achievements in Hellenistic and Roman architecture, painting, mosaics and sculpture, set in their archaeological and social contexts. The period covered is from the Hellenistic Age through the Republic down to the Late Empire.


Transcending the Culturescape — Patricia Flores, M.S.
I'm reading a great book right now called The Code of the Extraordinary Mind and I love how the author Vishen Lakhiani begins with the idea of taking a good critical look at the culture you grew up with and are surrounded by today. So much unhappiness, stagnation and dissatisfaction comes from accepting the notion "that's just how things are," without questioning the culture that has surrounded you.
From "The Code of the Extraordinary Mind"
Following along with popular cultural ideals feels safe, but this sense of safety comes at great cost. So many of us make choices based on a voice inside our heads that uses the word "should." The result of this is that we make choices not for our own growth and happiness but to appear a certain way to others. We spend money on superficial things like cars or clothing to make us look great on the outside while on the inside we're suffering. We study at the school we are supposed to, work at the job we are supposed to, marry who we are supposed to and plan to enjoy our lives after we retire. Along the way, we find ourselves stuck somewhere and think, how did I get here? This is the sort of stagnation passively riding along with our culture leads to, and why we have quarter-life and mid-life crises as a result.
From "The Code of the Extraordinary Mind."
It's scary to go against the grain, to find yourself, to pursue your dreams. We naturally feel fear in the face of change. But just on the other side of that seemingly terrifying leap is a new life. You can be in control of your life. You can choose your own reality, gain mental strength, and experience peace, happiness and fulfillment every day. And over time as you grow, when you're in one of those scary dips, you will trust that growth is on the horizon and the fear will fade away.
The purpose of life is to grow and to connect with others. From the day we are born we begin learning and connecting, as we learn to drink our mother's milk and look into her eyes. For me the counseling relationship is a metaphor for living, as I provide a human connection to my clients and stand beside them in their quest for growth. When the graph line of your life is flat I can help you find insight to kickstart it upward, and if you're in one of the valleys I can support you through to the other side.


I spent the final part of my research preparing the experiments explained in the second post. The results of our shape similarity experiments in post 1 could not be depended on as luminance values for stimuli and display were poorly calibrated. In response, we purchased and utilized tools to calibrate the display monitor and the luminance of the stimuli for our emotional priming experiments. I ran through the first two behavioral experiments and preliminary results seem to support our hypotheses. Trials with repeat priming are faster than those with no priming across each SOA and within each context. We will begin running our experiments in the coming weeks as SONA opens up.
For the latter portion of my research period, I have begun work on a new study to be conducted in the fall. The study is comprised of six experiments that I am programming, test running, and analyzing before testing on subjects in the fall. The experiments are programmed and run using Neurobehavioral System's Presentation software. Upon become proficient using the software, I programmed the six experiments and below is an outline of the various conditions and constraints of that programming.
I spent the initial part of my research analyzing data collected in the spring. Data was collected from 25 participants aged 18-22 years who signed up through SONA and were given credit towards an introductory psychology class as compensation. All subjects were tested for color blindness and found to have normal color vision. As mentioned in the abstract and background information, the study examined how shape similarity between a target and a salient distractor and the distance between the two affect visual selective attention using a target-decoy search task.


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1959: Cho Pong-am, Presidential runner-up	1904: Heinrich, a Herero
1997: Norio Nagayama, spree killer and author
August 1st, 2009 Headsman
On this date in 1997, the wait was over for a writer who had spent his entire adult life awaiting the noose.
Norio Nagayama witnessed another (eventually executed) murderer's Tokyo shooting spree in 1965, and three years later popped four people (two security guards and two cabbies) himself. The killing spree shocked Japan.
Only 19 at the time, which made him a juvenile by Japanese law, Nagayama was sentenced, unsentenced, re-sentenced. Twenty-eight years he spent from his arrest until his execution, not necessarily an atypical span for Japan.
It's what Nagayama did with those years that makes him so remarkable: entering the criminal justice system from an impoverished background, Nagayama became a literary figure and a prominent public spokesman for social justice. He's still commemorated years after his death.
Nagayama is credited with nine works, the first (Tears of Ignorance) about the poverty he blamed for his murders; the last (Hana) published posthumously from his manuscripts; he donated proceeds to victims' families and poor children, especially in Peru. In fact, all these years dead, he's still raising money for children.
Some books by Norio Nagayama
(all in untranslated Japanese)
Nagayama's death was triggered, at last, by apprehension of a 14-year-old for a sensational crime barely a month prior to this date; in hanging Nagayama, the government aimed "to foster support for legislation that would 'get tougher' on juvenile offenders. Indeed, in 2000 Japan's Juvenile Law was revised to make it easier to transfer minors to adult court."
Nagayama was hanged in Tokyo with another murderer, Hideki Kanda; a husband-wife convict couple were executed the same day in Sapporo.
1938: Mikhail Viktorov, Soviet naval commander - 2018
1766: James Annin and James M'Kinzy - 2017
1595: Gabriel de Espinosa, the confectioner of Madrigal - 2016
1831: John Bell, age 14 - 2015
1548: Seraphin d'Argences - 2014
1556: Joan Waste, in Windmill Pit - 2013
1924: Felix McMullen, bank robber - 2012
1946: Andrei Vlasov, turncoat Soviet general - 2011
Feast Day of the Holy Maccabees - 2010
1917: Frank Little of the IWW lynched - 2008
1915: Joe Hill
2007: Not Sina Paymard, saved by a flute
1943: 186 prisoners at Plotzensee Prison
1959: Genzo Kurita, serial killer
1956: Wilbert Coffin
1739: Dick Turpin, outlaw legend
1871: The Paris Commune falls
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Sixth graders from Terman Middle School meet with their instructor at the beginning of the day during a weeklong residential field-science program run by NatureBridge.
Dense fog is slow to abate on this recent morning, as more than 200 6th graders scatter into small groups on the site of an old military camp in California's Marin Headlands outside San Francisco. They are a mix of moods—eager, hesitant, hyperactive, and sleepy—as they begin their first full day at NatureBridge, a residential environmental field-science program in partnership with the National Park Service.
The program, in its 40th year, has served close to 1 million children from all over the country at four national parks on the West Coast: Yosemite, Olympic, Golden Gate, and the Santa Monica Mountains. This coming spring, the program will expand to the East Coast, with the help of a $4 million grant from Google Inc., to set up camp in the Prince William National Park, about 40 minutes outside the nation's capital.
NatureBridge's continued efforts to engage children in science at some of the country's most beautiful sites comes alongside a national push to improve the quality of STEM—or science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—instruction, in light of U.S. students' lackluster test performance compared with many of their international peers'. In the most recent round of the federal Race to the Top competition, for instance, the seven finalist states are required to highlight how the plans submitted in their original proposals will improve and enhance the quality of STEM education in their schools.
The increased attention to STEM has focused in part on how to improve student interest in learning about these subjects and pursuing careers in the fields later on. Hands-on learning experiences, like those NatureBridge and the National Park Service use, are seen by some as one solution. Yet in a time of tight resources and high-stakes testing in education, such programs also face a challenge in vying for funding and proving their legitimacy.
Terman Middle School 6th graders Nicole Nemychenkov, left, and Andy Pan examine insects found in pond water at NatureBridge in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. For more than 40 years, NatureBridge has instructed students in field science and environmental education in Yosemite, Olympic, Golden Gate, and Santa Monica Mountains national parks.
"To improve environmental literacy and attract more kids to explore STEM careers, we as a society need to shift attitudes and expand the knowledge of young people through broader and more engaging programs that teach kids about key issues," said NatureBridge Executive Vice President Jason Morris. "This work is never going to be scaled by NatureBridge alone offering environmental education programs in all places. But we can demonstrate the viability of these types of programs and ensure we maintain cutting-edge and relevant programs that embrace and evolve with the changes in the field."
A group of 16 of the 6th graders breaks off with NatureBridge instructor Pete Demyanovich, who will guide them through the week. Each campus, while geographically distinct, follows NatureBridge's core education framework for inquiry-based science: developing students' sense of environmental awareness, connections to the natural world, and stewardship for the places they live in.
But each session, for each school, is different, tailored to the age, the grade, and the goals of the particular school.
For Terman Middle School, a public school in Palo Alto, Calif., the goal this week is not merely to improve students' understanding of earth science, but also to develop and build a more cohesive 6th grade in the 660-student school. Prior to arrival at NatureBridge, teachers spent hours setting up small groups that transverse social circles, socioeconomic classes, and ethnic boundaries. Throughout the day, activities focus on connecting these students with one another, many who had not met prior to this week.
After a few rounds of icebreakers and a lesson on plate tectonics, Mr. Demyanovich's group creates interactive skits to illustrate the scientific principles just learned. Later, the students figure out how to cross an imaginary pool of lava in a team-building activity. At lunchtime, they sit in a circle to make sandwiches, ensuring "no trace" of trash, or even crumbs, is left behind. In the afternoon, group members pair off to collect water samples and organisms from a nearby pond for a lab activity later in the day.
According to Mr. Demyanovich, a former classroom teacher, one of the features that sets the program apart from classroom learning is that the children are engaged and learning science without being aware they're learning. Even the "quiet kids" come out of their shells and participate, he said, the classroom hierarchies and politics erased.
Hands-on science education is fundamental to improving "geo-literacy," or understanding the connections between actions and impact in the ecosystem, said Daniel Edelson, the vice president of education for the National Geographic Society, which has helped support NatureBridge through evaluation, advice, and funding through its foundation. Students have to learn through real experiences, he said, not just textbook learning.
Students write about their observations in field journals after viewing insects under microscopes during an afternoon in the lab on the NatureBridge campus in Sausalito.
"In creating schools that are optimized for academic learning, we've created environments that interfere with learning about the natural world," said Mr. Edelson, who was also a member of the education advisory council that helped NatureBridge devise its core education framework. "We need to create opportunities for students to learn about the environment through firsthand experiences. This means getting them out of school buildings in order to observe and experience the natural world."
As interest in STEM education rises nationally, there seems to be a particular focus on science. Efforts are under way to develop common standards in the subject. (All but four states have already adopted the common-core state standards in mathematics .) But there's not only heightening attention to science learning itself, but to instruction that builds students' understanding of the connections between science and the environment.
The U.S. Department of Education this fall announced it would recognize exemplary schools that actively promote environmentally friendly practices and encourage students' environmental literacy through the new Green Ribbon Schools program. A group of environmental education experts also plans to release a framework next year to guide assessments of students' environmental literacy, and by 2015, the Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA, will even include an optional exam on the subject.
The National Park Service and its partner providers may be leaders in promoting that literacy. A memorandum of understanding is currently in the works between the Education Department and the U.S. Department of the Interior, which manages the National Park Service, to collaborate on education goals around teacher development and STEM, among other subjects, using outdoor classrooms and spaces.
That comes on the heels of the Park Service's release of a five-year strategic plan, which will guide the agency to its 100-year anniversary in 2016 and into the next century. The plan relies on no additional public funding, but instead, focuses on improving services and program quality and refocusing target audiences.
A major component of the plan is to expand education programs for a quarter of America's schoolchildren through real and virtual field trips, teacher professional development, and more partnerships with organizations like NatureBridge to provide programs at their 394 parks or similar sites. Park Service leaders hope to supply free transportation to nearly 100,000 students annually and leverage digital learning and social media as a way to reach more children.
That means children in New York City, for example, could use Skype to virtually explore the kelp forests in Southern California's Channel Islands or see the ins and outs of a historic Nebraska homestead, said Julia Washburn, the Park Service's associate director for interpretation and education. Lesson plans for teachers to use in conjunction with parks and historic sites, large and small, are also being expanded for the Park Service's website. The aim is to provide access to the parks for students who may not be able to participate in programs like NatureBridge because of limited access to locations or funding.
Andrea Garcia-Milla, a 6th grader at Terman Middle School, brings back a water sample from a pond during a week at NatureBridge in Sausalito, Calif. The National Park Service is expanding its education programming.
"The benefits of multiday, residential, outdoor education programs are very well documented and well embraced, but they are expensive to provide and require a lot of resources," Ms. Washburn said. "This means they are typically a deeper experience for fewer kids. Shorter single-day, field-trip experiences are less expensive, and can serve more students, but their impact, while still beneficial, isn't as great."
Late in the afternoon, students take their pond samples to the microscope lab to look for and identify insects, which they sketch in their NatureBridge field journals. For a number of students, it's their first time using microscopes. A typical science class back at school, a few casually mention, is reading assigned paragraphs out of a textbook.
Despite the growing attention to STEM, in many places, the quality of science instruction has been found lacking.
A recent report from WestEd, a San Francisco-based research organization, found that 40 percent of California elementary teachers surveyed said they devote 60 minutes a week or less to science. The quality of science instruction in most schools was subpar, the report found, mainly because of poor instructional materials, ill-equipped teachers, and a lack of assessments—factors attributed in part to budgetary pressures and deemed to be common nationwide.
Given today's fiscal realities, justifying the importance of programs like NatureBridge could get more difficult. The Park Service, for one, faced its first federal cuts in years and may have to reduce programs in the future. NatureBridge, which operates as a nonprofit, currently provides funding to more than a third of participants. Many schools do their own fundraising to pay for the program, including Terman Middle, which raised $6,000 through the local PTA to pay for the students' attendance.
Although participation hasn't declined, demand for assistance has heightened, according to NatureBridge. Private grants, thus far, have enabled the program to meet the need. The program has also continued to make a greater effort to reach out to students from underprivileged and diverse backgrounds to expose them to national parks and field science.
For students who live in highly urban areas, and whose families are not able or inclined to visit these types of spaces, it can be challenging to make hands-on environmental science experiences relevant, educators say.
"The question is: How do you take an education experience that may seem far removed and help make connections with everyday life? How can we better ensure the environment is not separated from day-to-day life and make an impact on environmental literacy and stewardship in the short and long term? " said Nicole Ardoin, an assistant professor of environmental education and social ecology at Stanford University.
A team of Stanford researchers led by Ms. Ardoin hopes to uncover those answers. Last month, the Moore Foundation, based in Palo Alto, awarded grants to both NatureBridge and her team to perform a comprehensive multiyear evaluation of NatureBridge's field-science efforts and to develop measurements to assess environmental literacy and stewardship outcomes of programs like it. They hope the research will reveal some of the nonacademic impacts of those types of experiences, she said, as well as build on ongoing evaluations of the program by Stanford and others that assess the impacts of inquiry-based science and long-term effects on teachers and students.
For some, the NatureBridge experence resonates long after the program. Alumni Virginia Delgado participated in the program as a 6th grader, later served as a high school counselor, and now, as a college student, is pursuing a degree in environmental studies with plans to work one day in environmental law. She said she hopes to work to ensure that all children, regardless of background, have access to experiences like NatureBridge.
Or take Chris Raisbeck, who attended the Yosemite program as a high school student, brought his students to the campuses as a teacher, and now serves as NatureBridge's field-science operations manager. He said the program he first visited more than 30 years ago has maintained the core education mission that drew him to it as a 16-year-old and persuaded him to come back to work for it as an adult.
For these Terman Middle School students, right now they're only thinking about the moment. The sun comes out less than an hour before dusk. The adjacent beach, enshrouded in fog for most of the day, is suddenly visible. Last night, students ventured to the shore to watch a special type of plankton glow in the dark. Tomorrow, Mr. Demyanovich's group heads on a hike to scope out local bird life and make connections to the insects they found today.
"It's really important this experience is not a bubble," Mr. Demyanovich said. "We focus on thematic teaching, teaching that unites the day. We are all educators [at NatureBridge] and are upping the bar to be thought of as a school. We're not just a place to take a field trip to."
"Experts Develop Framework to Evaluate Environmental Literacy," (Curriculum Matters Blog) December 2, 2011.
"Environmental Literacy Making a Splash," October 12, 2011.
"Plans Unveiled for Federal 'Green Ribbon Schools' Program," (Curriculum Matters Blog) September 30, 2011.
"A National First: Maryland Students Must Be 'Green' to Graduate," (Curriculum Matters Blog) June 21, 2011.
"Environmental Issues Inspire Children to Dig Into Science," April 6, 2011.


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        <Param name="CmdEnabled" value="true" descr="Команды ТУ разрешены" />
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While you were distracted, the Prince of Light was inching up the New Hampshire polls.
Many years from now, when we look back on this primary race, what we will remember from the month of January won't be that time Sarah Palin endorsed Donald Trump, or that time Trump needled Ted Cruz for being born in Canada, or that time Trump was praised for his godly ways by one of the country's leading Evangelicals, but that quiet moment in mid-January when John Kasich revealed himself to be the "Prince of Light and Hope," who had been called upon by destiny to defeat the "Prince of Darkness" and all the "disciples of Darkness." It was barely remarked upon at the time, but we all know that the moment the fate of the world turns is often a humble one, little more than one person speaking up to say he does not know the way.
This is all to say that Kasich nabbed some big New Hampshire endorsements last night and is now at 12 percent in the state, according to RealClearPolitics average of the polls, holding a small lead over the other establishment candidates. Kasichmentum!


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Q: Wordpress - style.css classes are not being applied I have really strange problem. Yesterday on my localhost (I am using XAMPP) everything was good and I finished my website for client. Today when I want to show him my work, everything looks different. I discovered, that many classes from style.css are not being applied. It seems like wordpress is loading old version of style.css, BUT when I am modyfing some properties of basic classes from template I can see changes. Please help me, what should I do? I have never had that kind of a problem. I tried cleaning cache, updating wordpress, but nothing happened.
Screenshot with sources
Example of a problem (class is not applied) - it is just one example. Many my classes are now not being applied.
My class:
@media (min-width: 1000px){
.statek{
background-image:url("http://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/grafika-maska-gradient-01.jpg") ;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
-webkit-background-size: cover;
background-size:cover;
height:1570px;
max-width:100%;
 }
}


Anyone using any of these phpBB SEO extensions?
I am just worried that it might not work with future phpBB releases.
What do you guys suggest although I know the admins in here don't like this topic.
I always caution anyone about using any modifications/extension that cannot be backed out of easily and any SEO mod using URL rewriting falls into that category. These mods have come and gone going back to phpBB2, some compatible and some not. If you can't find something compatible you end up having to maintain it yourself or making extensive edits to existing mod.
Until there is native support with phpBB I wouldn't touch it with ten foot pole because there is no guarantee of backwards compatibility.
And you think one day there will be native support from phpBB?
Vanilla phpBB doesn't need it.
I highly doubt they have any remaining phpBB code.
Most of them should work for the most part going back to 3.0.0 or could be used as guide with some modifications. The biggest issue is knowing where everything is at you need modify and most of that code probably hasn't changed much if at all.


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