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Hull College offers Project Management Institute Exam Prep Course at the Georgia Cyber Center – Jagwire – Augusta
Hull College offers Project Management Institute Exam Prep Course at the Georgia Cyber Center – Jagwire – AugustaVSuvo03/12/2022 03/12/2022
Augusta University's Hull College of Business is now offering a Project Management Institute Exam Prep Course at the Georgia Cyber Center. Hull College of Business is an authorized training partner for the highly coveted Project Management Professional certification.
"We are thrilled to be selected as an authorized training partner of the Project Management Institute. This allows us to provide an in-person Project Management Professional preparation course for our local business community," said Rick Franza, PhD, dean of Augusta University's Hull College of Business.
"This program was launched through our relationships with the Georgia Cyber Center and the local government contractor community, whose employees need this certification for their companies to bid on Department of Defense and Department of Energy contracts. However, almost every company and industry in Augusta requires certified project managers to successfully compete in their markets. The in-person course meets the 35-hour required PMP training based on the new PMP exam content. The course also provides additional Agile training and assistance with the PMP application."
The instructor, Roger Duke, PMP, ACP and CSM, lecturer in the Hull College of Business, has more than 40 years of project management experience, is an Agile coach, has more than 10 years of PMP training experience and is an approved PMI training instructor. Duke received his PMI Project Management Professional credential in 2007, his Master of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from the University of South Carolina in 1979, and a Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, in 1977 from Auburn University.
"MOSAIC Technologies Group is a proud industry partner of the Hull College of Business at AU. We are extremely excited that AU is offering PMI Certified PMP Training and course content to the CSRA," said C. Priest Perry IV, director, NSA Georgia Operations, MOSAIC Technologies Group LLC. "We are pleased to announce that we have plans to send as many as 16 of our employees to this training by the end of Q1 2022. Opportunities like this continue to position MOSAIC Technologies Group to bid on contracts supporting cyber, intelligence, systems and software, readiness and mission and program support."
The course has limited availability and costs $1,495. Another prep course is scheduled for Feb. 1-24, 2022. Register here.
"This is a great way for Augusta University and the Hull College of Business to contribute to local workforce development beyond our normal degree programs," said Franza.
The PMP is the world's leading project management certification. Learn more about the PMP certification and the Project Management Institute.
Tim Rausch is a Communication Specialist in the Dean's Office at the Hull College of Business at Augusta University.
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The founder and gallery director at TARQ, Hena Kapadia is a design enthusiast and an avid reader.
I always have my Moleskine diary with me. It helps me keep my work and personal life organized.
That's hard to choose, but my favourite in 2016 was Spotlight.
I love the L'Eau d'Issey series by Issey Miyake.
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. This historical building and its collection have been preserved and displayed in the same way since 1903.
I would love to own any of Zarina Hashmi's art.
My portable charger. That's the other thing I always carry in my bag.
I'm very excited to read Sarnath Banerjee's All Quiet in Vikaspuri.
I wear an Hermès 'Clipper' watch.
I'm more of a beer drinker, and I love the Chimay brews from Belgium.


the manners or behavior of a coxcomb.
It may be doubted whether there is any more astounding monument of coxcombry in literature.
Pity that such talents should be coupled with such cowardice and coxcombry.
This is a bit of coxcombry which has no match in the simple, unaffected vanity of the Portuguese.
We give two or three specimens to confound at once this miserable piece of coxcombry and shuffling.
Here he formed an acquaintance which helped him much in the world of coxcombry.


Colne Valley heritage set for reprieve??
I thought Harrow was full of Chinese people?
Does it have a branch line to Luton as well then?
i haven�t seen the tv program. Did they mention there isn�t even a finalised track design yet.
the only thing hs2 will benefit London is the rag heads getting there 20 mins quicker. to visit there relatives.
I'm not sure that the properties bought were at a vastly inflated price.
So many good gigs and nights there.
They took my beloved Astoria with it.
I'm not sure that the properties bought were at a vastly inflated price. Compulsory Purchase Orders are just that, no choice, no haggling, this is what you get.
It's a massive white elephant, it will create jobs, how many will go to EU nationals?
There, I'm a dirty racist xenophobe.
No chance mate, too much has been invested already to stop it now.
I saw the initial site investigations going on in the colne valley five years ago and knew at the time that all the protesting would be in vane, too many backs being scratched and I really doubt the true costs will ever be revealed.
When projects of this size start you will not ever stop them, remember cross rail ? They decided they needed too sink a massive shaft just off the Tottenham Court Road, no planning permission, reviews or any sort of consultation they designed it and built it.
doubtful HS2 will be cancelled, should be IMHO, but doubt it.
Lots of investment planned up north on the back of it and HS3 is being mapped north east at present.
If it does get binned just think of the vast number of properties brought at over inflated prices and then being "sold" back to the market to recoup some cash.
It's not reams of dialogue but worth a read about the spin and BS those with vested interests gave.


The Carousel store or outlet store located in Baytown, Texas - San Jacinto Mall location, address: 16900 Garth Rd., Baytown, Texas - TX 77521. Find information about hours, locations, online information and users ratings and reviews. Save money on The Carousel and find store or outlet near me.
Driving directions and locations to store: The Carousel located in San Jacinto Mall: 16900 Garth Rd., Baytown, Texas - TX 77521.
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Remember the joyful experience of vintage shopping when you were younger? Before disposable fashion seeped into the recycled clothing stores, replacing the mohair sweaters and silk dresses with faded Glassons tunics and stretched Supre tops? Before you had to spend a flippin bomb to afford decent vintage or recycled designer? I just had that experience again at Go Jo Recycled Clothing Store in New Lynn, West Auckland.
The owner Jo Bratton is gorgeous, she truly loves and appreciates clothes. We got chatting about how people's relationship with clothing has slowly moved away from a culture of investing in those special, quality pieces that you would really sweat over the decision to buy and then love forever. "I get girls coming in here dropping bags of clothing off that haven't even had the tags taken off. The high from shopping these days comes from the purchase itself, rather than the quality of the garment".
Jo is a wealth of knowledge and makes you feel instantly at ease. She believes shopping for vintage challenges you to think about and develop your individual sense of style, as opposed to mindlessly consuming the fast fashion fads that major brands are handing us on a plate. Jo believes recycled clothing stores add interest and diversity to the mainstream retail market. She's all about encouraging people to explore their style in a fun, non-judgemental way.
There is absolutely no crap in the store to give you sad feelings, everything smells good and looks loved. The clothes are all in good condition, and seem to have a history and a story, and Jo loves it when people ask about the story. Jos beautiful dog Zoe seems to have a story too.
The first thing to greet you as you enter is a rack of great mum jeans - Levis and GAP - all for around the $20 mark. For wool lovers like me, you are absolutely spoilt for choice, there are handknitted garments, Italian wool from the seventies, New Zealand made mohair from the eighties, even surprisingly good quality Glassons jumpers from the nineties - "The nineties was actually still producing incredibly high quality garments, in New Zealand and around the world" Jo tells me.
Go Jo is a total mix of vintage through to contemporary designer. There are jumpsuits galore including an eighties coke binge beauty, beaded cardigans and LBDs from the sixties, woolen two-pieces, turbans, long line blazers, italian leather shoes (including a pair of Prada). There's fur (war-era, which along with hats were one of the few things that weren't ever rationed during the war Jo tells me). There are even wedding dresses from the sixties, seventies and eighties which have been lovingly created for brides of the past.
It's only a pair of Prada's for $50!
As I comment how impressed I am by the price considering the high quality and breadth of style spanning the decades, Jo tells me "I want this to be fun for people. If you're not getting a bargain in a shop like this, it's just not fun anymore". Amen to that sister.
You can check out Go Jo Recycled Clothing at 1/1 Riverbank Road, New Lynn in Auckland. She has a Facebook page where Jo and the beautiful staff are often modelling the clothes.


Kenefick Ranch - Blog - Happy February from all of us at Kenefick Ranch!
We have seen quite the flurry of activity in the last month on the property with California receiving a record setting amount of rain! The good news is that we managed to stay as dry as possible and even with all the flooding in the Valley, we received no damage on our property in Calistoga. We did have quite a bit of standing water in certain places in the vineyard, however this drained off fairly quickly and we saw no damage to the vines. The good news is that now all of our reservoirs are full so we will have plenty of water to irrigate for the whole year ahead.
After harvest, we seed every other row with a soil erosion mixture, which is a fast growing grass like rye, and the alternative rows are seeded with soil builders (legumes) to add nitrogen and potassium back into the soil. With all the rain, these soil additions are growing quite rapidly and we will soon mow them down and disk them into the soil. During this time of year, we are also checking all of our wind machines to make sure they are ready for frost protection.
Currently on the vineyard, we have just finished our pre-pruning and we are getting started on the actual pruning process. There are many reasons why we like to pre-prune our vines, but mainly it gives our crew the opportunity to clean up the vineyard and to make the pruning process a little easier. By pre-pruning, it also cuts down on the amount of time that the trimmed vine is exposed which, if exposed too long, could lead to disease getting into the vine. When our crew goes through to do the actual pruning, they are able to concentrate more on the small section of vine that is left to make sure they are making a proper cut.
The winery has seen a great January as well. Kenefick Ranch had the opportunity to welcome in the newest member to our family, Kristina King. Kristina came to us with an immense background in the Direct to Consumer market and will be overseeing our Wine Club as well as being the main point of contact in the office. Chris Kenefick made a long road trip into the Rockies to visit Sun Valley and Jackson Hole during a large snow storm in both locations. Although the trip went well and the wine was well received, Chris had to make sure he bundled up as he encountered temperatures that reached 16 degrees Fahrenheit. He sure was happy to make it back to warm California with all his fingers and toes!


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Toccata of Absolution
Artistic Nude Surrealist Ink Print from Mexico, "Toccata of Absolution"
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Presented by the Contemporary Graphics Studio, this limited-edition print by Mexican artist Meme adds a strange and sensual scene to your wall decor. A nude man plays a large horn, upon which a nude woman rests in a straddling posture. This creative and thought-provoking piece is created using a traditional printing technique where the image is first etched by hand into resin. It arrives in a mat board passe-partout.
Titled Toccata absolutoria in Spanish.
Mat: 30 cm W x 40 cm H
Mat: 11.75" W x 15.75" H
Print: 13 cm W x 17 cm H
Print: 5" W x 6.75" H
Arrives unframed
Mat included
Limited edition - each work features slight variations that make it unique
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"Many artists working at the same time in the same space result in an opportunity to share culture, art and knowledge of our medium."
"Mexico's Contemporary Graphics Studio is an independent workshop formed in 1996 near the city of Guadalajara. Its goal is to promote the works of different artists whose art converges on the same technique, with a high degree of precision in chalcographic engravings.
"At the beginning, it was a bit difficult to organize this project due to the kinds of demands in the art market. But as time went by, the workshop was able to transform itself into one of the best and best known in the area.
"In Mexico, engravings have become more popular thanks to countless artists who worked with this technique, such as Jose Guadalupe Posada, Leopoldo Mendez, Chavez Morado, Alfredo Salce and Francisco Toledo, among others, They have served as a base from which to influence many, many others in diverse artistic currents.
"We care a great deal about the technique but also about the printing. Each artist and each engraving is important. Alejandro Camacho, owner of the workshop, is in charge of organizing and of covering the requirements of the artists. His brother, Francisco Camacho, and Raul Maravilla are in charge of the printing. We use 100% cotton paper and offset inks for the technical part. Each artist has his or her own tools, such as polishers, metal tips, chisels and gouges. Acids and salts are also used that eat away certain parts of the engraving plates.
"In the case of the chalcographic prints, we use different kinds of metal — copper, aluminum, zinc and iron. For xylography, we use plywood, MDF and linoleum. In the case of the lithograph, we use calcareous stones and re-grained zinc sheets.
"Listed in the Contemporary Graphics Studio catalogue are works by Monica Orozco, Jose Manuel Navarro D. 'Meme,' Miguel Angel Martin del Campo, Ricardo Cruzaley, Roberto Vazquez, Laura Villalpando, Jose de Jesus Galindo, Nino Magaña, Oscar Basulto, Adriana del Rocio, Santiago Gandara, Hugo Noe Preciado, Marisa Boullosa, Martha Magdaleno, Diego Cerda and Georgina Arce. Many artists working at the same time in the same space result in an opportunity to share culture, art and knowledge of our medium."
Zapopan SaintSigned Black and White Modern Print of Mary from Mexico
Untitled (The Virgin)Signed Religious Print Depicting Mary from Mexico
GuadalupeFloral Signed Modern Print from Mexico
Agave BirdSigned Agave-Themed Surrealist Print from Mexico
"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples." ~ Mother Teresa

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Google Expands into Latin America With New Data Center in Chile
Google is expanding its infrastructure into South America. Today the search giant announced plans to build a $150 million data center in Quilicura, Chile. The facility will be Google's first data center in Latin America, and continues the international expansion of the network powering Google's growing empire of online products.
Rich Miller | Sep 06, 2012
Racks and racks of servers inside a Google data center. The company announced today that it will build its first data center in Latin America.
"Building this data center in Chile is an exciting step for us," Google said in a statement. "As Internet usage in Latin America grows, people are looking for information and entertainment, new business opportunities and better ways to connect with friends and family near and far. We're building this data center to make sure that our users across Latin America and the world have the fastest and most reliable access possible to all of Google's services."
Quilicura is a city of about 125,000 residents that is near Santiago. Google says it chose to build its data center in Chile because it offers a combination of reliable infrastructure, a skilled workforce and a "commitment to transparent and business friendly regulations." In choosing Chile, Google is bucking an industry trend in which data center operators have targeted Brazil as the beachhead for their expansions into the South American market.
Google didn't offer details on its plans for the facility, but said that it will be "built to the same high standards we use around the world." Construction is now beginning, and Google says it plans to start bringing the facility online by the end of 2013. In addition to creating construction jobs, the data center in Chile will employ up to 20 people in a variety of full-time and contractor roles, including computer technicians, engineers and catering and security staff.
The push into Latin America follows a vigorous expansion of Google's infrastructure into the Asia-Pacific region, where it is building new data centers in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. Earlier this year the company announced additional phases for its U.S. data centers in Iowa and Oklahoma. Last year Google said began construction of a new data center in Dublin, adding to European infrastructure that includes major facilities in Belgium and Finland.
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Metro Boston, Massachusetts, and the world for 20 years!
Joyful Voices has made a decision not to grow the choir's size any further than our current 60+ members and focus instead on developing the choir musically into the very best gospel choir we can be.
Joyful Voices hears from so many people who want to join the choir or attend a rehearsal to in order to experience the joy of singing gospel music with Donnell Patterson, and we feel that providing a way for as many as people as possible to sing gospel is an important part of the choir's mission.
To this end JVOI is undertaking the formation this fall of a new, open to all, monthly gospel sing!
Introducing "The First Monday Open Gospel Sing!!
Want to sing some great gospel??? EVERYONE is welcome at our new monthly gospel sings; no experience necessary. Just come and have fun learning marvelous gospel songs from the one and only Donnell Patterson.
April 1, 2019, at the First Parish of Watertown, 35 Church St. from 7:30-9:00PM.
There will be suggested $20 participation fee/donation per person per session.
The choir is saddened by the news that our long time friend and choir member, Dr. Richard Levy, passed away on December 25, 2018. Richard LOVED singing with the choir and was instrumental in helping grow the choir by inviting his "Friends of Richard Levy" to come sing with us. Richard and his "friends" have been with us for years and we all will miss Richard deeply.
Let the choir say "Amen".
Gospel music is both a powerful inspirational medium and a uniquely American art form. The choir's mission is to share their inspiring gospel music with others and, in doing so, promote the appreciation of gospel music through education about the history and development of the music.
Founded as a traveling choir, JVOI loves to travel and goes on singing tour most every summer. The choir has visited Italy (twice), France, Holland, Ireland, Brazil, Costa Rica, Argentina, Barcelona Spain and Germany!!
Joyful Voices of Inspiration frequently donates their services at civic and fund raising events in the Boston area.
Joyful Voices of Inspiration loves to perform! From church services, and fund raising concerts, gospel festivals and programs for the elderly or the infirmed, Joyful Voices is available for performances of many kinds.
To learn more about having Joyful Voices perform, please contact Mr. Norris Welch, Joyful Voices' Vice President of Operations, at (617) 361-9717 or e-mail us at info@joyfulvoices.org regarding fees and availability.
Joyful Voices are available to perform from late September to early July.


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Q: Converting MS Access to MS SQL Server and MS SQL Server to MySQL Background: I have been asked to develop a database to replace an existing 2002 MS Access database (for obvious reasons).  This company has been using this database since 2005 so it is extremely outdated and does not perform the necessary report generation or queries required for their current needs.  It also doesn't lend itself to very user friendly data entry or have all the necessary fields they desire.
The database is one gigantic table with about 130 fields. Every time even repeat customers use the business a new record is made.  The database has grown to well over 65,000 records in their current business dataset and over 100,000 records which have been "purged".  They use about 20 different reports and I see about 40 different queries (some no longer used).  I have limited database experience, however I have in the past developed several very functional MS Access databases with some pretty cool functionality and am familiar with VBA.  I truly don't have any experience with SQL, however I am confident enough to know with some tutorials, example code I can cut and paste, , and maybe a trip to Barnes and Nobles I can teach myself enough to accomplish the task.  I just know that MS Access doesn't quite foot the bill for their current needs (speed, size, concurrent updates, multiple connections, etc.).
I would like to automate this process as much as I can in order to provide some sort of product for use for them relatively quickly.  My question and idea is......if I can convert the old 2002 Access database to MS Sql Server Express, can I then convert the MS Sql Server Express database to the free open source MySql.  The cost of MS SQL Server with licensing could end up being rather hefty so I would like to possible leverage the free MySql.
The database will be primarily used on the local network.  Some users remote desktop in currently to access the data (I'd like to get them on VPNs in the future).  End state, I would like to create an application tailored to their specific needs and more modern and functional, potentially accessible from the web (they have a site and domain), and also potentially in the future a mobile application for easy access to the data.  I've looked at  App Development solutions and have found IronSpeed which seems very cool (any opinions?) My overall question is: Is the scenario I described above possible?  Will it support the future implementations I am looking to source/create?  Would it be too difficult to teach myself the basics needed to program MySql (My background it IT, however not databases).  I think this could be a good first large project to learn with.
Thank you for your time and reading.
If anyone has any suggestions/alternate solutions it would be greatly appreciated.

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With traditional speaker sales on the decline, speaker suppliers here at CES will get more aggressive in the ever-growing custom-installation market.
OnQ, Polk and PSB, for example, will expand their custom selections to fill price/performance gaps, Pioneer will reenter the in-wall speaker market, and Monitor will enter the market.
Some new models at the show, including new PSB and Polk models, are designed to sonically match freestanding speakers to improve the performance of a home theater system created out of a combination of architectural and freestanding speakers.
Other new models provide flexible placement options to meet potential aesthetic objections without compromising sound quality or imaging. Polk, for example, is including a boundary-compensation switch in new in-ceiling and in-wall models to permit flexible placement.
Clark Synthesis: The $599 AQ339 portable pool speaker floats on the water and transmits acoustic energy above and below the waterline. It measures 11 inches in diameter and 8 inches tall and connects to an amplification source via a 25-foot underwater cable. It floats into the market in February.
Definitive Technology: The company's first in-wall sub, based on technology derived from its SuperCube subs, was designed to deliver tight, high-impact bass response extending from 16Hz–200Hz without protruding from a standard-size wall. The retrofittable sub, the IWSub10/10, fits into a standard 4-inch-deep wall. A long-excursion active 10-inch driver is coupled to a pressure-driven 10-inch infrasonic radiator in a 14.2 by 19.6 by 3.8-inch sealed medite enclosure.
The accompanying outboard SubAmp 300 is a high-current 300+ watt amp capable of driving one or two of the subs. It features a volume control, fully adjustable phase control (0-180°), fully adjustable low-pass crossover control (40-150Hz), and left, right and LFE line level inputs. It also features built-in speaker-level high-pass crossover and a signal-sensing auto on/off circuit.
The amp and sub will be packaged separately, but the combined retails will be less than $1200. It ships in late spring.
Mission: The company is embedding a Thin Film Transistor (TFT) display behind a mirror, and using NXT's SurfaceSound flat-panel speaker technology to turn the mirror itself into a speaker. The result is ViSound, which can be used as a bathroom mirror in home or commercial applications or at hair-cutting stations in beauty salons.
The 4:3 TFT 163mm-diagonal screen provides a viewing angle of 110 degrees horizontal and 60 degrees vertical. The upper portion of the mirror does double-duty as a speaker.
Monitor Audio: The speaker company's first in-wall and in-ceiling speakers ship in February.
Marketed by Kevro of Pickering, Ontario, Monitor CP-series architectural speakers are fitted with rigid enclosures for consistent sound quality. The CP series consists of a good/better/best selection of Bronze, Silver and Gold speakers. In-walls range from $300 to $550 each, and the in-ceilings range from $250 to $500 each.
The Silver series in-ceiling models feature pivoting tweeter and extended frequency response to 30kHz. An additional high-frequency control offers a fine-tuning option to compensate for room acoustics.
OnQ: The Middletown, Pa., company will expand its architectural speaker lineup with the new OnQ Gold and Blue lines of in-wall and in-ceiling speakers.
Their drivers are efficient enough to take advantage of low-power distribution systems such as OnQ's A-Bus distributed-audio system.
The in-ceiling models feature dual-voice-coil drivers that accept a right and left amplifier output for use in small spaces where two speakers aren't feasible. The in-wall speakers feature a tweeter-level adjustment switch and half-inch IR knockout hole.
The budget-oriented Blue Line includes distributed-audio speakers designed for home-builder budgets. The Blue Line's home theater series features high-power handling capability for home theater-quality audio distribution.
The step-up Gold Line multiroom speakers can be used with distributed audio and home theater systems. They use advanced driver materials such as glass fiber and offer custom features that include pivoting 1-inch aluminum-dome tweeter and a three-position tweeter-level switch.
Pioneer: Three in-wall speakers will mark the company's reentry into the custom-speaker market. Details were unavailable.
PSB: An expanded selection of architectural speakers will be displayed along with its first enclosed speakers designed for concealed placement in an A/V cabinet.
To complement its 6-inch series of in-wall speakers, PSB will show higher performance 8-inch models. Two 8-inch coax models — the round in-ceiling CW180R and in-wall CW180S at a suggested $750 each — feature a tweeter that can be tilted 30 degrees left or right. The tweeter's SonicGuide assembly can be turned 90 degrees to provide constant directivity to the listening area. With the SonicGuide, tweeter response is said to be smooth at any angle, and reflections from the woofer are greatly reduced.
The $1,000-suggested CW383 uses an 8-inch woofer in a three-way design. Its midrange and tweeter assembly rotates so that the speaker can be mounted horizontally or vertically.
A fourth model, the $1,800 CWS8, is a dual 8-inch subwoofer that shares the same mounting frame and visually mates well with the CW383.
The company will also roll out in-wall and in-cabinet counterparts to its T8 Platinum Tower loudspeaker. The $4,500/pair CW800E is an in-wall speaker that comes with its own 3.75-inch-deep enclosure and "effectively captures most of the performance of the T8," PSB said.
A second Platinum spin-off is the $5,000/pair CHS80, essentially a T8 tower optimized physically and sonically for installation inside an A/V cabinet.


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How Sherkhan Met Naina Kaur, Became Obsessed With Her And Murdered Her
by Swati Goel Sharma - Jun 27, 2020 06:00 AM
Sherkhan Choudhary and Naina Kaur.
Swarajya hits the ground in Ghaziabad to ascertain the truth behind this one-sided murderous infatuation.
On reaching Tulsi Niketan residential area in Ghaziabad near the New Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border, I ask locals for directions to the house of Baldev Singh.
They don't know the name.
"Naina Kaur, who was murdered last week?" I ask again.
"Yes, a girl indeed got murdered. By a Mussalman boy. Why don't you ask the policeman sitting there? He is posted here for that case only," says a men's salon owner, pointing to a spot some 200 metres away.
The policeman agrees to take me to the girl's house, on the condition that he would be present throughout the conversation.
"We have orders from above," he says.
The house is a one-room tenement in a two-storey building. Each floor houses three families. Toilets are common.
"Try to finish your work soon. The building is rickety," the policeman says. "Yesterday, a chunk of the plaster came off the staircase."
Entrance to Naina's building
Naina's father Baldev Singh, her mother Neelam Kaur and aunt Balvant Kaur are sitting on the double-bed. I take one of the two plastic chairs near the bed. The policeman insists on standing at the door.
A corner of the room functions as a kitchen. The walls, the paint peeling off, have pictures of Guru Nanak and Hindu deities.
A small framed picture of Naina, who turned 19 in December, is hung on the wall, a string of yellow marigolds around it.
"Our daughter was beautiful. Very beautiful," Singh says.
"Her beauty eventually became her undoing. That motherf****r chased her like a mad dog from the moment he set his eyes on her," he says.
"6 December 2018," Neelam Kaur recalls the day.
It was Naina's birthday. The mother and the daughter were in the market to buy a cake when Neelam got hit by a vehicle. A boy, about the same age as Naina, immediately came to their rescue and helped bring a bleeding Neelam home. He helped dress up her wounds and stayed on till the situation in the Singh family became normal. He introduced himself as Sherkhan Choudhary, a resident of the nearby Sunder Nagri market which is about a kilometre away. He said he owned a garment showroom in the market.
A view of Tulsi Niketan residential colony
Sherkhan visited the family again after a few days to check on Neelam.
"For some reason, he called me mummyji instead of aunty. Initially we felt awkward, but as he began to frequent our house, we adjusted to it as we decided he was like a son we never had," says Neelam.
For several years after their marriage, the Singh couple did not have any children. They eventually adopted a girl from within the family. In the coming years, however, Neelam finally conceived and Naina was born.
The elder daughter married in 2017. About three weeks ago, the family fixed Naina's wedding too, with a Sikh boy from Indore who owns a restaurant. The date was finalised as 22 June.
For the wedding, Baldev, Neelam, Balvant and Naina were scheduled to take the Golden Temple Mail on the morning of 20 June from Delhi's Hazrat Nizamuddin to Madhya Pradesh's Nagda junction.
On the night of 17 June, Naina was murdered. Her mother witnessed it.
Around 8 pm that day, the three went to the local market to buy a new mobile number. On their return, the women stopped at a food cart, some hundred metres from the house.
Singh got annoyed at the unnecessary expense and told the women to come on their own even as he proceeded towards the house.
Neelam recalls, "We were waiting for the theli-wallah to pack our food. Just then, a man got off a scooter, wrapped his arm tightly around Naina's throat and dragged her inside a lane. He began to stab her manically. I struggled to get my daughter out of his grip, but only managed to tear his T-shirt and face mask," says Neelam.
"It was Sherkhan," she says. "He was wearing a full-sleeved pitch-black T-shirt and had a mask that almost fully covered his face except for the eyes."
Two men waited on the scooter while Sherkhan stabbed Naina. First on the throat, then on the waist. Sherkhan then hopped onto the scooter and the three fled, she says.
The lane in which Naina was dragged into, is a dingy one with trash all around. On either side are buildings housing several families. There is no resident in sight.
The lane into which Naina was dragged and stabbed
A tailor adjoining the lane excuses himself from any comment saying he was not at the shop that time, and he knows neither Naina nor Sherkhan.
He says if I must take pictures of the lane, his shop should not feature in them at all.
Naina was taken to the GTB hospital, but was declared 'brought dead'.
The Tila Mor police filed an FIR (number 212/2020) against Sherkhan and some unidentified men and booked them under IPC 302 (murder).
The next day, the police arrested three of Sherkhan's accomplices — Salman, Ashiq alias Asiz and Aamir Choudhary. Two of them allegedly rode Sherkhan to the spot while one helped him buy the knife and escape.
The police announced a bounty of Rs 20,000 on Sherkhan, and launched a search by involving the Crime Branch.
Sherkhan was eventually arrested on the intervening night of 21 and 22 June. The cops nabbed him when he was changing his location from Harsh Vihar to Panchsheel colony.
He was accompanied by his brother Imran and brother-in-law Rizwan. The police booked the relatives for giving shelter to the accused.
Sherkhan, after his arrest. The picture was posted by Ghaziabad police on Twitter
They also seized the weapon from Sherkhan, and have sent it to a forensic laboratory for matching the stain on it with the blood sample from Naina's body.
Keshav Kumar Mishra, circle officer (Sahibabad), told Swarajya that the weapon is a foldable knife, about one-foot long.
The police filed another FIR after recovery of the weapon — FIR number 220/2020, under the illegal arms' Act.
Baldev Singh says that seven-eight months ago, Naina revealed to him that Sherkhan had been harassing her for some time. Neelam says the revelation left the couple surprised.
"We did not expect this from the boy who called me mummyji. He was quite nice to us, even if a little too intrusive," she says.
Singh says Naina told him that Sherkhan, in fact, had been after her since the time he brought a bleeding Neelam home.
"We asked her why she had hidden it from us all along. She said she did not think it was serious enough," he says.
The couple learnt that Sherkhan had even enrolled himself in a course in the same college that Naina was pursuing her Bachelors in Arts from. Singh says he took her out of the college and instead got her enrolled in a nursing course.
Sherkhan, however, continued to stalk her.
"At one point, I went to Sherkhan's garments showroom and told his elder brother that it was his responsibility to see that the boy leaves my daughter alone. He told me — uncle, you should not worry, I will beat up my brother when he comes home in the evening," recalls Singh.
"I don't think that ever happened," he says.
The accused's family runs 'Palika fashions' in Sunder Nagar market. Sherkhan, who is something of a social media sensation in the market thanks to his four lakh followers on Tik Tok and thousands of followers on Facebook and Instagram, made a number of videos featuring and promoting the showroom.
He used the hashtag #palikagarments or #palikafashion in those videos.
Most of the 961 videos he had posted on his Tik Tok account (sherkhanchoudhary02) since 2018 are about his showroom, his love for workout, his fascination with Sanjay Dutt and Shah Rukh Khan, and virtues of being a namaazi and wearing the Islamic skull cap.
In his Tik Tok bio, he has described himself as 'zinda zeher' and 'killer boyz'.
Only one of these videos feature Naina.
In June 2019, he posted a lip-sync duet video with Naina featuring a song from the 1989 movie Ram Lakhan, in which actress Dimple Kapadia asks Jackie Shroff, who plays her boyfriend, if he has broached the subject of their marriage to his parents.
Baldev Singh says he was not aware of the video. He says he has never heard of the mobile app Tik Tok, and is just not clued in about "what young people do on their mobile phones".
"I use this Nokia handset that cannot even click pictures," he says as he looks tensed.
"Is that what the boy is telling the police? That the two were in a relationship?" Singh says, enraged.
"Naina to gaali bakti thi usse [Naina would curse Sherkhan]," he says.
Singh says Naina was a shy and quiet girl who always avoided escalating matters. He says he is sure that all that Naina felt towards Sherkhan was disgust.
"This boy from Indore who she was supposed to marry, Naina chose him herself from the Internet. The ones that deal with arranged marriages."
"Matrimonial websites?" I ask.
"Yes, exactly that. We don't know about those things. She did it all herself. She was least interested in Sherkhan. She wanted to get rid of him. In fact, this is precisely why she wanted to buy a new mobile number [on 17 June]. She told me, papa, I don't want to use my old number after marriage otherwise Sherkhan would continue to harass me," says Singh.
He says things had become ugly over the last two weeks after Sherkhan somehow found out about her arranged wedding.
"He came to our house one evening. He told me I should marry his daughter to him. I said what are you even talking about — I am a Punjabi, you are a Mussalman, there is no way it can work out," says Singh.
"I kicked him out of the house, and told him never to see my daughter again."
Sherkhan left the house, but from the next day onwards, he began to spend the entire afternoon sitting on a chair in a park right behind Naina's house, staring at their house. "We told Naina not to go out alone at all, at any time of the day," he says.
Singh says that while he thought Sherkhan was proving to be a nuisance, he never imagined that the boy would take such an extreme step.
"Naina never told us he threatened her on the phone. If I had any inkling of his plan, I would have killed him myself, there in the park itself," he says in anger.
Yet, says Singh, he made "a terrible mistake" that night when he returned to the house alone on 17 June.
"I was just annoyed, you know, that after spending 300 rupees on the SIM card, these women wanted to spend 30 rupees more on chilli potato."
"I wish I had not left," he says.
Neelam turns to her husband and says, "If you had not left, he would have probably attacked you too."
The policeman interrupts. "It's time to leave ma'am. This should be enough," he says. I request for some more time.
Singh shows a recent call received on his mobile phone. He says it's from the man Naina was supposed to marry.
"She had found such an excellent boy for herself, we can't even begin to tell you. He drove down to our house the very next day of the incident. Even his parents came with him. They wept with all of us. They helped with the funeral. The boy said, papaji, you are not alone. We are still one family," Baldev says amid sobs.
Neelam says that in her elder daughter's wedding, she had gifted whatever gold she had on her and there was nothing left for Naina. Yet, the groom's family never complained and, instead, assured them that they would bear all the expenses of the wedding, she says.
"Three days after the marriage was fixed, the boy called me and told me — papaji, all you have to do is catch the train and come here, I have booked the gurudwara for 72,000 rupees, and you don't have to stress at all," says Singh.
"We spent about 50,000 rupees on Naina's clothes and some preparations, including the train tickets. That's all."
The couple says he has been calling them every day since the incident.
"The boy is diamond. He would have kept my daughter happy," says Neelam.
A view of the lane inside which Naina was dragged from the other side of Tulsi Niketan
Naina's neighbours excuse out of commenting on the matter, saying they don't really know the family, or any family in neighbouring buildings for that matter.
"She was beautiful. She was a Sikh. She would hardly step out of the house. That's all we know," a woman, washing clothes at the house's entrance, says.
On the other side of the lane in which Naina was stabbed, is a confectionery shop.
The owner says he did not come to know about the murder as it happened on the other side of the lane and it was dark.
"Had he [Sherkhan] tried it in front of our shop, I would have caught him and buried him alive under this very spot," he says.
The shop owner says I can find Sherkhan's garments showroom near "Murga market" in Sunder Nagri. "I think it is closed, but you can try anyway," he says.
The showroom is not closed. It's open and there are customers. At the counter extending into the street, is a woman who I recognise as Sherkhan's mother from his various Tik Tok videos featuring her.
A view of Sherkhan's garments shop
In a video posted on 8 April, Sherkhan talks on the phone to a friend, with speaker on. Sherkhan asks the friend about the lockdown; the friend says he is doing fine, but has not been able to buy the cigarette that Sherkhan had asked for. The video then shows his mother threatening to hit Sherkhan with the kitchen ladle.
"Is it true what is being alleged about your son?" I begin.
"If everyone is saying it, it must be true," she says.
"Do you want to say anything?" I ask.
"He had given up food and water for two weeks. He wasn't speaking to anyone," she says.
On 13 June, Sherkhan had posted a video on Tik Tok where a hand is seen searching for the right key on a keyboard to place a ring on, before it settles on the letter 'N'. "Really my life," the post said, tagging Naina Kaur's Tik Tok account.
"Do you know about that video?" I ask.
Did he ever ask you to talk to Naina's parents for marriage?"
"No, he did not. He never mentioned the girl to me. Now I hear that he was practically running her household."
"Did you expect your son to…kill?"
"Who can foresee such things? It's between him and the police now. We have opened the showroom only today [25 June]," she says.
"Did he..like fall into bad company?"
"Oh, no. He was a five-time namaazi. He would even wake up for Fajr ki namaaz at dawn."
The woman says her name is Kehkasha. Her husband, who started the clothes business, died seven years ago.
She has five sons and three daughters. The family owns the building and lives on the first floor, above the showroom.
"I am from Rampur. I am from Pathan caste. My husband was from Rangad Rajput caste," she says, volunteering the information on her own.
The tallest building in the picture is of Sherkhan's family
A little girl joins the woman, and I recognise her as Sherkhan's niece from various Tik Tok videos.
"Maybe you can ask her to go away, as we are talking about…that?" I ask.
"It's fine. She knows what has happened. She does not understand it," says Kehkasha.
I decide to leave.
On the other side of the street, owner of a shop selling electrical appliances, which has an idol of Lord Ganesha at the entrance, says he has heard about Sherkhan's act.
"He used to make videos. Sometimes at his showroom, sometimes here in the street," he says and declines to comment on the matter any further.
Swati Goel Sharma is a senior editor at Swarajya. She tweets at @swati_gs.
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Edition: Leaside
Greenwood coach named area's best
Anthony Costa lauded for his excellence in helming teams in six different sports
June 30, 2011 May 4, 2017 Caitlin Orr Athlete of the Year, Central Region, coach, Greenwood
FRANCIS CRESCIA/TOWN CRIERKUDOS FOR THE COACH: Town Crier sports editor Brian Baker, right, presents the Central Region Coach of the Year award to Greenwood's Anthony Costa in recognition of his athletic leadership.
Greenwood Grizzlies coach Anthony Costa used to be the one getting trained.
A nationally ranked competitive swimmer from elementary school to university he's also played soccer throughout his life, Costa says he's inspired by the philosophy of a coach he learned from.
"I see sport as a way to challenge yourself and test yourself," he says. "For me it was certainly a way to put myself into stressful situations and learn how to deal with them."
His dedication had the Greenwood College School teacher recognized as the central region Coach of the Year at the Town Crier's Athlete of the Year Awards.
Costa has coached U16 soccer, U20 soccer, U16 hockey, junior and senior swimming, U16 and senior rugby, junior and senior tennis, and this year, Greenwood's first ever U20 baseball team.
In the six years he's taught at Greenwood, Costa has helped a number of students achieve their personal best in swimming and reach the OFSAA level of competition.
The soccer team has been to several playoff finals under his leadership. He also ran an inter-school exchange with a school in British Columbia.
Over the summer, Costa is travelling with a group of Greenwood students to Africa to build parts of a school to increase awareness about the importance of education.
"He is a true leader when it comes to coaching and instilling the love of the game in all of his athletes," said Heather Maxted, Greenwood's acting athletic director, in her nomination.
Costa says he enjoys the opportunity to work with students outside of the classroom, often finding he has a smile on "It's very rewarding," he said. "In phys-ed I truly feel like I'm teaching the whole person as opposed to just the mind."
That means imparting leadership and communication skills, he says, and it has an overall benefit for his students.
"In a life sense it's preparing kids with perseverance and resilience, ready and willing to take on those challenges that they think maybe are daunting," he said.
It's that wholesome approach that drew Costa to Greenwood in the first place.
"Over the last six years I have become someone I like being and that's attributed to the great people I get to work with," he said.
By: Caitlin Orr
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Neighbourhood: North Leaside
Tagged: Athlete of the Year • Central Region • coach • Greenwood
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Christian Bale Looks Back on His Time as Batman
By Gio Ramos on March 3, 2016 • ( Leave a comment )
Like Adam West, Michael Keaton, and Val Kilmer or George Clooney (take your pick), Christian Bale will be a Batman we remember for their time. Soon the whole world will embrace a new Batman (played by Ben Affleck), and whether he gets a warm welcoming or not remains to be seen.
Until that time we look at Bale as arguably giving the best portrayal of the Caped Crusader. The Dark Knight trilogy from Christopher Nolan remains one of the greatest trilogies in cinema history. Speaking with Yahoo Movies!, Bale had the opportunity to reflect on his time donning the cape and cowl. His response is somewhat surprising.
I didn't quite manage what I hoped I would throughout the trilogy. Chris [Nolan] did, but my own sense of self is like, 'I didn't quite nail it.'…Heath turned up, and just kind of completely ruined all my plans. Because I went, 'He's so much more interesting than me and what I'm doing.'
The first thing that comes to mind is how Bale completely changed his Batman voice. For me personally, I liked how he sounded in Batman Begins. However, in The Dark Knight he began speaking very roughly, like something was stuck in his throat. Anyways, I'm sure Bale regrets nothing about playing Batman. Sure there are probably a couple things he would've loved to go back and improve on, but that's natural in life.
As for Bale's thoughts on the new Batman, he didn't give us any clues. He did however express his feelings when first hearing that Warner Bros was introducing a new Batman given its only been five years since The Dark Knight Rises.
I've got to admit initially, even though I felt that it was the right time to stop, there was always a bit of me going, 'Oh go on… Let's do another.' So when I heard there was someone else doing it, there was a moment where I just stopped and stared into nothing for half an hour.
Christopher Nolan sort-of hinted at feeling the same way when Zack Snyder asked for his blessing. Both Nolan and Bale did phenomenal things with the Batman character, and we as fans gave them the impression that we didn't want anymore movies involving they character without them attached.
Even if Ben Affleck kills it as Batman, and becomes my favorite portrayal ever, I'll never forget those few years where I could not get enough of the masterpiece that is The Dark Knight. For our this current generation, Christian Bale as Batman will be like Tobey Maguire as Spider-Man or Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. Other actors will come in and do their version, and some will be great, but it'll never take the place we've set in our movie hearts for Bale as Batman.
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If you have been following our Daily Reports, you know that there have been some really tough discipline bills in both the House and Senate this session. The House (HB1543 and HB1536) and the Senate bills (SB995 and SB997) started out as identical. However, the Senate patron, Senator Stanley, has worked with the education communities to include some flexibility so that no school division has tied hands in the most egregious cases. Delegate Dickie Bell has not been as willing to listen to school boards, superintendents, principals, or teachers when we have asked for some flexibility. The bills have been messy, the debate has been contentious, and, frankly, the Virginia Education Association has really taken it on the chin over our efforts.
An important consideration in all of this is a real look at actual numbers. Reports from patrons and other legislators often include all suspensions, not just long-term. The most recent data from the VA DOE on long-term suspension numbers show that in 2014-15, a total of 4,156 students received a long-term suspension. There are over 1.2 million public school students in VA, so that number reflects less than two-tenths of one percent of all students. So 99.8% of students do not receive a long-term suspension. Does that mean the VEA is fine with that number? Absolutely not, but we need to keep in mind what is actually happening in our schools and how infrequently school divisions are resorting to this type of discipline action. Without question African-American students and students with disabilities are disproportionately represented in this number and we must take steps to support these students. VEA supports a laser focus on workable interventions to change that fact. There are tremendous programs that have shown they work. Virginia should fund these types of programs state-wide and make available training and support services for our professional staff to implement these programs.
Blaming long-term suspensions on poor classroom management skills, bad teaching, or "not wanting to teach those kids" as some legislators have done this session, is an unnecessary assault on the teaching profession. We should, instead, all be focused on real solutions, and school resources to make real change happen.
Yesterday on the floor of the House, Delegate Bell spoke an alternate fact. I will be 100% consistent in calling out any legislators that use alternate facts against our members. Delegate Bell spent time reprimanding legislators for listening to the Education Association on this bill. In an effort that seemed to be aimed at convincing these legislators that we had falsely represented our position, he said that the VEA "testified in committee that long-term suspensions were over used." That is absolutely not true. We talked about disproportionate suspensions and we talked about not enough resources, but we have always used the same number- fewer than 0.2% of Virginia's public school students received long-term suspensions in the last year we have data. Our position on this bill has been about keeping students safe, supporting local school divisions having some flexibility, and the need for resources to support student behaviors.
The VEA has communicated with legislators all session asking them to oppose any discipline bill that lacks some level of flexibility for the local school board. Yesterday Delegate Bell tried to make us seem as if we were talking out of both sides of our mouth. That is simply not the case.


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Where to buy the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 in the UK
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The RTX 3070 may not be as powerful as the 3080, but it's still more capable than the RTX 2080Ti, and it's cheap too.
Here's all you need to know about buying an RTX 3070 in the UK
By Lewis Painter, Senior Staff Writer | 30 Oct 2020
Nvidia unveiled the GeForce RTX 3000 Series at an event in early September, and it was a big one; not only does the flagship RTX 3080 offer significant gains in performance, but it was also revealed that the budget-friendly option, the RTX 3070, could outperform the ultra-high-end RTX 2080Ti from the previous generation.
Here's everything you need to know about where you can buy the Nvidia RTX 3070 in the UK. For those on the hunt for the entry-level GPU, we cover where to buy the Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti in the UK separately and, if you're unsure of which is best, take a look at which Nvidia GPU should I buy?.
When was the Nvidia RTX 3070 released?
The Nvidia RTX 3070 was originally set to be released on 15 October in the UK, but Nvidia announced that it would be delayed until 29 October following concerns after the lack of stock at the RTX 3080 launch.
After all, at £469, the RTX 3070 is cheaper than the £649 RTX 3080 and still more powerful than the RTX 2080Ti, so chances are it'll be even more in-demand than Nvidia's flagship and ultra-high-end 30 Series graphics cards.
Where can I buy the RTX 3070 in the UK?
Stock is incredibly scarce in the UK right now, with many UK retailers selling out of the various RTX 3070 models within minutes of the products being released, making it tough to get your hands on Nvidia's latest budget-focused graphics card.
To make things easier, we've rounded up all the places that offer the RTX 3070 in the UK in one place (although they may be out of stock right now):
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If you're looking for a complete PC upgrade featuring the RTX 3070, you're in luck. While the GPU itself is sold out, Box is currently offering a bunch of pre-built gaming PCs featuring Nvidia's latest GPU.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 30 Series release date, pricing, features and specs
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Evidence in Favor of School Choice Continues to Mount
Lindsey Burke	/ @lindseymburke / April 20, 2017 / Leave a comment
A new study shows that the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program had a statistically significant positive effect on reading outcomes for students two to four years into the program. (Photo: iStock Photos)
Lindsey Burke / @lindseymburke
Lindsey M. Burke researches and writes on federal and state education issues as the Will Skillman fellow in education policy at The Heritage Foundation. Read her research.
The evidence in favor of the positive benefits of school choice grew considerably stronger this month with the release of a new methodologically rigorous evaluation of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program.
The D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program is a school voucher program in Washington, D.C., set up by Congress, which provides students with scholarships to attend private schools of choice.
Kaitlin Anderson and Patrick Wolf released "Evaluating School Vouchers: Evidence from a Within-Study Comparison" in order to compare the performance of quasi-experimental methods to the "benchmark" outcomes from a prior experimental evaluation of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program that Wolf conducted from 2004 to 2009.
Anderson and Wolf re-examined the test score impacts found in the earlier random assignment evaluation. That earlier evaluation found that although reading scores increased, increases were not statistically significant, and could have been due to chance.
The analytic method Wolf and Anderson use in this new evaluation is different enough from Wolf's initial experimental evaluation that it qualifies as a second D.C. school choice experimental study.
In this updated evaluation, a reliable instrumental variables (IV) approach enabled the authors to account for the fact that some students in the control group (those who were awarded a scholarship but didn't use it) actually did end up going to private school, just not through the D.C. scholarship program. The IV technique also enabled them to account for the inverse problem—that of scholarship awardees being counted in the treatment group, even if they didn't use the scholarship.
Unlike in the prior evaluation, they were able to leverage the IV technique to demonstrate that the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program had a statistically significant positive effect on the reading outcomes of participating students two, three, and four years after beginning participation in the program, with the strongest gains accruing in the fourth year.
Although reading achievement was positive and significant, math effects remained null, consistent with previous findings.
This new study should now count as a new experimental evaluation of the effect of voucher use on student achievement, raising the tally of such evaluations from 15 to 16 in all.
Moreover, this new evaluation is particularly important because, as the authors explain, "the logical explanation for that result is that students who participated in the [Opportunity Scholarship Program] were even more disadvantaged than their demographics suggested, thus completely contradicting the 'cream-skimming' claims of school choice opponents."
For example, they find that students who apply for a voucher may be negatively selective on unobservable characteristics not captured in test scores, as it is possible that parents seek out school choice options when their children are struggling the most.
If true, this runs counter to the argument frequently made by school choice critics that choice programs "cream skim" the "best" students. They suggest that quasi-experimental methods that include both applicants and non-applicants likely undercount the positive impacts of choice as a result of this negative selection.
Conversely, however, quasi-experimental techniques may overestimate the impact of voucher use when the analysis is limited to applicants alone. In both cases, however, "the quasi-experimental estimates were wrong but in one case they were wrong low and in the other case they were wrong high."
>>> Read the full study here.
The ability to employ random assignment methods in education research is important, but rare. Random assignment requires oversubscription of a given program, which often then leads to a lottery.
A lottery—such as the one used when there are more applicants than available scholarships, as in the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program—allocates vouchers randomly to students who apply.
Researchers are then able to assess achievement and other outcomes of three sets of students: (1) those who applied for, received, and used the scholarship (the treatment group); (2) those who applied for, received, but didn't necessarily use the scholarship (voucher recipient group); and (3) those who applied for and did not receive a scholarship (control group).
Notably, observed differences between the treatment and control group account for motivation and selection bias, "as mere chance replaces parental motivation as the factor that determines whether a child gains access to school choice."
The causal impacts that can be inferred from experimental evaluations make them the gold standard of research—analogous to a double-blind trial in medical research—and are the "ideal counterfactual, representing what would have happened to the randomized treatment group (a.k.a. lottery winners) absent the intervention."
This new, important evaluation by Anderson and Wolf adds to a growing body of experimental evidence pointing squarely in favor of choice producing benefits for participants.
In all, today, there are now 16 experimental evaluations of school choice on academic achievement. Eleven find positive impacts, three find neutral or null effects, and two—both from uniquely prescriptive Louisiana—find negative effects.
The evidence on school choice is overwhelming in favor of its merits. This additional new rigorous evaluation should inform policy moving forward.


ARCADIA, Calif. (AP) — Triple Crown-winning jockey Victor Espinoza says doctors have cleared him to resume his Hall of Fame riding career.
Espinoza exercised two horses at Santa Anita on Sunday. He has been sidelined since breaking a vertebra in his neck and injuring his left shoulder and arm in a training accident at Del Mar in July.
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Brian Beach, Espinoza's agent, says after getting opinions from three doctors he expects Espinoza to return in mid-February.


Previous owner had a 75mm lift on the jeep I picked up. Decided to get some shorter rear springs for my JK and bring it back down to 40-45mm - engineering cert cost was more than new rims and tires combined. Isn't worth the trouble and will just make sure the underside of the jeep is armored up for any extra dragging.
Seems like every fifth pickup I see here has chunky tires and a lift - a good many of those are over the 2" limited by law and doubtful they're certified. Maybe because they're pretty mall crawlers they don't get the business? No judgment, to each their own.
Coming from the US I am just floored by the restrictions here. I get the angle they are coming from - safety for you and others on the road, but 50mm lift/track width/etc is just wild. 50mm isn't even a pinky finger! The Jeep is legal, but doesn't mean I have to be happy about it!
Interesting reading.Have been travelling out west and central Qld last 3 weeks in the WH and towing the Jayco Journey Outback and have seen numerous 4x4 vehicles with probably 2 inch lifts with everything but the kitchen sink on the racks.Plus a couple of slide on campers that were Like sky scrapers.Stability and high cg is a problem with these and overloaded racks.Also I was informed only yesterday that Qld was going to require van owners to have weighbridge certificates for both van and vehicle by 2020.Huge number of overweight units on the road.
Of course the diabolical state of Qld sealed roads would probably negate any Esc !, anyway!
The inconsistent application of the traffic laws are obvious..What ever is the current whim, is how they are often applied....I see so many rigs on the road, having just done 10,500km on my last outback trip, eg: road trains with 4 trailers and the rear swaying all over the road, vehicles obviously way above the GVM & GCM towing and then there is speed limits...100km/h (legal) on some of the worst dirt & narrow seal rough roads in the country (QLD) and then 80 or 90 on sealed roads capable of safely doing 180km/h (130km/h legal in the NT)..Most modern vehicles are safe at high speed (many drivers may not though)...Once there was campaign to outlaw bullbars (Harold Scrubby aka PCA) & now it is lifts and tyres (bureaucrats) and of course Quadra Lift air suspension can raise the vehicle to 2.6" above normal or about 4" above park so what happens if you are crawling along in OR2 at below the auto lowering speed limit and get pulled up??...FCA say the vehicle is stable at that height and speed. Maybe that Quadra Lift is what you buy now to circumvent the restricted (dubious) legal lift laws..Wonder if the police have all the standard height of the numerous 4WDs on the roads to determine if the vehicle is illegally lifted or is it subjective (guilty first and need to prove otherwise like all traffic infringement)..And then there is of course tyres not the same as the placard eg LT rated instead of P rates as on the placard - size etc..And on the inconsistancies go....And the differences between states..Legal in one and not in another...Is this a country or just a collection of states??..Yes there is a NCOP but states can & do vary to suit their own turf...Don't start me on bicycles and the laws there like legal to cross double lines if passing a bicycle otherwise a traffic infringement … Aren't double line there to say dangerous at anytime to pass??..See what I mean.
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This is really getting up our noses.
Faceless filth hiding behind public service privilege.
Anyway, draft proposals have been released by the TMR.
That's right, after they have already changed the VSB's.
Only now does the TMR begin to follow the democratic process.
from the vehicle manufacturer, which includes the VIN number"
So they are on to this as well but appears advice & warning so far.
I'd think that a grossly overloaded vehicle, van or combination would be more of a safety concern/risk than a lifted 4WD but that's what they are currently giving out infringement/defect notices.
From my travels there are more overloaded vehicle/vans on the roads than big lift 4WDs..Maybe the horse has bolted and there are too many caravanners out there and an all out blitz would severely dent the income of small outback towns who rely on them...Put them off the road and a lot of towns will certainly hurt...Lifted 4WDs probably won't have a similar economic effect but the Gov coffers would benefit just like QLD stands to make something like $540million from speeding fines alone this coming year...Is there a message in this??
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To me its the restriction to factory tyre size that is going to bite most of us.
Shorely a modern 4wd with 33" tyres is safer then a pre ESC with the same size tyres?
If this law stays then I can see older, less safe 4wd's being the choice of the enthusiast and ESC equipped 4wd's loosing resale value bar the factory specials like the Raptor or the 1500 Ram with their factory 33" rubber.
The Minister for Transport and Main Roads has today announced the approved amended LS9 and LS10 codes under the Queensland Code of Practice (QCOP), that includes updated rules governing lift requirements, the new codes come into effect from tomorrow 26 October 2018.
I have attached the final version of the LS9 and LS10 codes which details the requirements and now form part of the amended QCOP. I will also provide a quick summary of the major changes below.
Under the changes, the maximum lift height has increased from 125mm to 150mm with certification. Consistent with rules that apply in the National Code of Practice (NCOP), internal lift limits have also been set at 75mm suspension lift (an increase from the previous rules of 50mm), 25mm tyres and 50 body blocks for a total of 150mm. As has always been the case, TMR will continue to consider lifts above these limits on application directly to the department.
Vehicles with electronic stability control (ESC) can now also be lifted up to 75mm (50mm suspension + 25mm tyres) without certification. This is in line with rules that apply in New South Wales and Victoria, and exceed the requirements that apply in the NCOP. This means, regardless of whether a vehicle has ESC or not, the same rules apply for lifts up to 75mm.
I have also attached an updated version of the Vehicle Standards Instructions: Minor Modifications document which provides a brief outline of the rules specified in the QCOP. A simple Fact Sheet detailing the vehicle lift changes has also been prepared, this is designed as a quick guide for yourselves, but also customers of your businesses for those selling or fitting lift equipment/parts.
All documents will also be available on the TMR website from later today.
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Saulsberry says blacks not fooled by Dayton, McFarland
November 1, 2018 November 2, 2018 Free PressBreaking News
Rodney McFarland walking streets with Vickie Dayton hoping blacks ignore her Trump supporting ties, and give her another term representing the mostly black district on the school board.
Vickie Dayton is feeling the heat for the first time in her 30 year tenure on the Monroe City School Board; her district is now 60 percent black, but, by her own words, she has never reached out to blacks in her district for input.
Dayton, a Trump supporting Republican, is facing Rick Saulsberry, a black Democrat in her re-election bid.
How could Dayton ignore Blacks for so long? When she was elected the district was all white. However, over 30 years Blacks have moved into the district as whites moved out. It is now 60 percent black. She faced black opponents in the past, but easily defeated them because of the white, Republican, majority of the district.
In the era of Trump, blacks are coming out of the woodworks, opposing anything remotely associated with Donald Trump. Dayton is hoping that is not true and their Republican affiliation will not matter.
While Dayton has voted for many changes that helped black students, she says she has never sought input from or met with her growing black constituency for three decades. When she made major votes to shift white students from Cypress Point from Carroll to Neville High School or to approve principal appointees at schools in the district she says she did not consult with any of her black constituents.
In recent public forums, Dayton admitted that she has never sought input from her black constituents before making major decisions. Knowing that the words "Republican" and "Trump" work against her among Blacks she is knocking on doors in Black neighborhoods like Cypress Point with the help of fellow school board member Rodney McFarland.
Ironically, McFarland is a member of the Democratic Central Steering committee, committed to supporting Democratic candidates, opposing the Trump agenda.
"I think its strange that a member of the Democratic committee is out promoting a Trump era Republican. For 30 years Mrs. Dayton has ignored our people, but now that blacks are in the majority she is knocking on our doors. How hypocritical," said Saulsberry.
At forums, Dayton was criticized for pushing to remove federal anti-discrimination protections from the system. Without federal protections, Blacks would need to file new law suits to stop future discrimination by the school board. The federal law suit gave blacks a way to stop discriminatory practices. White residents wanted the protections removed.
McFarland made campaign promises to keep the protections, he even testified in court against their removal. Then to the surprise of the Black community, he led the school board to request that the protections be removed in a court action called achieving "Unitary Status."
For many in the Black community "Unitary Status" means freedom to discriminate without immediate court oversight.
It was a deemed a major "sellout" of the black community by Alumni groups, the NAACP, educators and parent organizations. In a surprising show of unity, not one black organization or leader approved the move.
McFarland was praised by white city school board members in January of this year for single-handedly helping them get rid of the protections. In the process, McFarland snubbed the NAACP and ignored over 1,000 letters and petitions from blacks that opposed the move.
Also at Forums Dayton said she voted to relocate MLK Middle School in a flood zone near Wossman because she thought it would facilitate better transition. Every resident of the community opposed the plan, but Dayton and McFarland voted for the relocation, even though the new construction would add to the flooding in that community.
Dayton said last year she voted to close Excellence Academy on the basis of a report that recommended that the board either work closely with the school for improvement or shut it down. She said she did not seek any input from the school, its parents or faculty. She said she didn't check to see if the report was accurate before voting on one day's notice to close the school.
McFarland also voted to close the school which put its 27 member faculty and staff out of work and displaced 200 families. He didn't conduct any community meetings or seek input from the community either.
Both McFarland and Dayton voted for efforts to build the Carroll Magnate building and the Wossman field house. However, the two of them also voted together on major moves that hurt the black community, without any input from their districts.
Saulsberry, a middle school teacher, is a businessman and educator. He says he will make hearing from the district a high priority. He said for three decades black residents of District 1 have been ignored with respect to school zones, curriculum, principal selections, and other matters.
He said the Trump era ideas of ignoring minorities needs to come to an end.
Saulsberry said it's time for a change.
Rick Saulsberry, Rodney McFarland, Vickie Dayton
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Disc Format: NTSC, Surround Sound, Widescreen
Studio: Sony Mod
There is something to be said about filmmaking that is bold, but choices also need to work for the audience. The Song of Names offers up a predictably emotional narrative which is not so much about the Holocaust as it is about the aftermath. While this is far from original, the decision to center the story on an extremely flawed character is a new addition to an otherwise obligatory tragic tale. This decision alone could have made for an interesting character study, but the film refuses to give insight into the most questionable decisions made by the characters, particularly the one at the center. Our protagonist is a round character, fully formed, but unfortunately he is not the center of the narrative, and simply the one attempting to understand the enigmatic character that is.