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Kurk's folly: Complicating school choice bill
Introduction to Communications with Citizens
This is the first of many blogs to keep you, the citizen informed. To be a State Representative is a great honor
and responsibility and I execute that office as if you are looking over my shoulder every minute. We may not agree on every issue but I pledge to give careful consideration on every vote or process that I am involved. I follow the Republican platform in most cases; limited government, pro business; pro liberty for citizens and sworn to uphold both NH State and Federal Constitutions. I will post articles, links and excerpts of writings of others that I feel are pertinent to the argument. I will be brief for today and will be busy in constructing more of this website. Much information may be gleened from the website http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us.
Thank you for being an involved citizen,
In Support of Speaker Bill O'Brien
In the spring of 2010, I was quite concerned at the state of affairs of the State of New Hampshire. I have never been a citizen of anywhere else, but lived in other places in the military and this made my love for New Hampshire even greater.
I was looking for a way to help, to get involved because once in the military, you find a new and deep respect for God, State and Country. There are many of those Veterans(WWII, Korea, Vietnam, the Middleast) in the NH Legislature this and is a reunion of sorts of a great brotherhood.
I filed the paperwork to run for Representative of Strafford District 3. Many cautioned me that this was a daunting task, due to the large(covers six towns) size of the district. I believe Lou & Carol Vita invited me to the House Republican Alliance(HRA) meeting in Concord. Now remember, I professed coming from the "undeclared", the largest "party" in New Hampshire at 41%. , Bill O'Brien, Bob Mead and Pam Tucker tri-chairman of the HRA were open, respectful and a great resource of ideas that dovetailed perfectly with the goal and aspirations in my heart. Seminars, training sessions and many tools, which I found tremendously valuable even to a dubious eye.
I found that facts in the media were quite disturbing(who would have knew) and looking for sources that I could trust to be accurate.
Bill O'Brien led me to the Josiah Bartlett seminars with Charlie Arlinghaus presenting. The Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy is a nonpartisan, well respected by many, think tank and present the numbers and facts good or bad.
I, As a young candidate looking for answers, Representative O'Brien personally answered many of my rookie questions and made me feel quite welcome in what could be a very hostile environment. Seminars were many and seasoned Republican i.e. Fran Wendlebow, Phyllis Wood, Dan Itse and Governor John Sununu gave insights in getting elected.
The daunting task of running for office were made easier and organizational skills I could relate to from my military background.
The election happened(WOW) and I find myself among some of the most talented and sincere, independent people I have ever known. I was impressed by the professionalism of the Statehouse staff in the handling of some in the neighborhood of a thousand bills. Some bills are filed at the direction of now Speaker O'Brien because they are Republican platform issues and the previous summer were dissected at public summits with citizens and different groups that may have had an input.
Complaints, as recently as yesterday, by Jack Chambers in Foster's Letter to the editor, wrote that, and I paraphrase, we were basically like sheep and did not proofread the bills and voted at the behest of Speaker O'Brien. Sometimes it can get confusing when a bill is being presented for a vote. The Committee recommendation is the object of the vote. If the majority vote in Committee was to kill the bill, the motion on the House floor could be to vote for inexpedient to legislate(ITL or kill the bill, which is a yes vote). In Representative Hall there are guides for voting, but by no means a requirement by leadership to vote a certain way. Remember, we have agreed to a platform previously as core values and our direction we as a group want to lead the State.
I can tell you there is much discussion of bills; at the public hearing of the committee when a bill is brought forth, the bill is posted on the NH General Court website, the bill is discussed in executive session in public to check on different aspects of the bill and informally by the representatives among themselves. We also confer with the Senate with great talents like Senator Jim Forsythe and other dedicated Senators. A great process.
On an issue that leadership may feel there will be a close vote, a whipping procedure may be implemented. This is a process where a committeeman or floor leader will ask a representative how he/she will vote and calculates the number of people present when percentages of votes are necessary. If the votes by representatives is preconceived and directed by the Speaker or leadership why would you whip the delegation? Of the many issues that come before the House I have been only encouraged once to vote a certain way. The speaker spent a considerable amount of time with me to understand the bill and its ramifications. That is what good leadership does and each representative must represent his/her own citizens first.
These are the goals and means to the goals of a good legislator. One must be attentive and vigilant, and listen to the arguments. Many vote of committee have been overturned by great margins this session, which further is an example of due diligence.
Yes the 162nd legislature has done a masterful job under the leadership of one Speaker "Bill" O'Brien!
Veto Overrides 14 September 2011
Today, 14 September 2011, a legislative session is being called to possibly override several bills that the Governor has vetoed.
SB 88 the right to legally defend oneself where ever a person has a legal right to be. In my opinion, this is a constitutional right and no one should challenge the fundamental right to defend oneself. I was personally denied that right in Vietnam and suffer for that denial to this day. The following article was posted in the Granite Grok. The article cuts to the chase in this violent world. A citizen has the right to defend oneself , but must be responsible for his/her actions. Even in a heated battle in war, you must know your target and are responsible for the bullet's destruction. You will be held accountable.
The Article:
Posted on Granite Grok courtesy of Tim Condon,
Carrying a Gun Is an Act of Civilization (in all meanings)
"The Gun Is Civilization" By Maj. L. Caudill, USMC (Ret)
Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that's it.
In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.
When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force.
The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gang banger, and a single guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender.
There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force equations. These are the people who think that we'd be more civilized if all guns were removed from society, because a firearm makes it easier for a [armed] mugger to do his job. That, of course, is only true if the mugger's potential victims are mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat - it has no validity when most of a mugger's potential marks are armed.
People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many, and that's the exact opposite of a civilized society. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly.
Then there's the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser.
People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don't constitute lethal force watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works solely in favor of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker. If both are armed, the field is level.
The gun is the only weapon that's as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weight lifter. It simply wouldn't work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn't both lethal and easily employable.
When I carry a gun, I don't do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I'm looking to be left alone. The gun at my side means that I cannot be forced, only persuaded. I don't carry it because I'm afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn't limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force. It removes force from the equation... And that's why carrying a gun is a civilized act.
SB57 Pay day
When this bill was voted for in the house, I voted against it. The interest on a loan could have been over 400% and is usury of the borrower in my opinion.
Constitution Carry and Defend
Representative Joe Pitre
Good News SB 88 OVERRIDDEN 251-111
New Hampshire citizens in 60 days, on 13 November 2011 will have the right to defend themselves with deadly force anywhere they have a legal right to be. No longer will innocent people have to run in ear. Citizens should use great care and responsibility .
$26 Million Surplus?
INTERESTING NEWS TODAY: Governor Lynch takes credit for sound fiscal management creating a $26 million surplus ending 30 June 2011. What he does not take credit for is the $895 million dollar deficit or a net deficit of $869 million. Governor Lynch with the Democrat budget of $11.5 billion (selling State property etc., which never happened) has made for interesting reading and tremendous pain to State citizens. Remember, the Governor did not veto the $10.2 billion 2012/13 budget. The Republican led House of Representatives and the great work of the Finance Committee has placed the New Hampshire financial books on a sound footing.
This is only the beginning of giving confidence to businesses to expand operations and create meaningful jobs. Business Profits Taxes, Business Enterprise Taxes, Property Taxes and the high cost of energy (electricity and heating) must be lowered to make New Hampshire the State to site new operations.
The State Retirement System has been also been put on solid financial, sustainable footing. Those in the system will have a retirement system they can count on. The contribution will be higher, but will be their money unlike the Social Security ponsi scheme, where the moving target is difficult to understand.
Democracy needs good stewards who do their homework and trust but verify the numbers that are stated from Concord and Washington. We are in difficult times and must keep on a solid course of prosperity, which takes financial discipline. Your voices were heard loud and clear November 2010. Thank you for that trust!
Why parents should reject IB
Jane Aitken
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Why parents should reject IBPosted by Contributor EducationViews.orgon October 17, 2011in Commentaries|2 Comments Jane Aitken - UNESCO says that the International Baccalaureate curriculum promotes "human rights, social justice, sustainable development, population, health, environmental, and immigration concerns."But are parents being told about this political agenda?Missing from the presentation on IB on the MVRSD's website (http://fc.mvsd.k12.nh.us/ibpresentation) is the fact that taxpayers would be supporting the agenda of UNESCO. In fact, there's a lot missing from both the website, and from last Wednesday's article on the subject in the Concord Monitor. (http://www.concordmonitor.com/article/20090506/FRONTPAGE/905060341) Allow me to clue you in on the rest of the story…The International Baccalaureate Organization is one of many education "industry" groups of consultants and reformers. The industry recognizes our extreme desire to improve education and competes for the large amounts of taxpayer money we put toward that cause in NH. Promoters from the IBO (www.ibo.org) a Switzerland-based group in partnership with UNESCO (www.unesco.org) use words such as "rigorous," "prestigious" and "competitive" to sell the purported eliteness of it's program. This self-laudatory language is suggestive of academic success, even when no track record exists to support such a claim.After a school is authorized by IBO to use IB program(s) and pays the "annual fee," it can be accepted as an "IB World School." IBO charges for using their "programs" (curriculum, teacher training, instructional methods, assessments done outside the USA, coordinator, etc.) in our schools in the U.S.A., which are then referred to as their schools.The 2008-09 Diploma Program "annual fee" has increased from $8,850 to $9,150 per school the 2009 school year. (The annual fee for 2011 is now $10,200.)The various individual "per candidate" costs (covering registration with IB, per subject fees, exam registration fee, per exams costs, etc.) have also risen. Schools are also required to have an IB Coordinator. What is even more concerning than the extra inflated cost is that the school and its teachers must all adopt the IBO's "mission."In New Hampshire, the bulk of our local property tax bill goes to support public education and it's assumed that we have some "local control". If the MVRSD already employs the most qualified staff they can find, why would they need to buy a program that is run from another country to provide "rigor"? Tests are sent to any number of places abroad to be graded by the IBO. How does a student appeal a grade and how is this local control?The presentation states that it will rely heavily on inquiry-based learning and constructivism, two methodologies that are proven failures at the elementary and high school level. University of Virginia professor Robert Tai and Harvard University researcher Philip Sadler have done a study which appeared recently in The International Journal of Science Education. It states that inquiry-based learning is not the ideal way for all high school students to prepare for college science."The findings suggest that students with lower levels of high school mathematics attainment had greater success in college science when they reported more teacher-structured laboratory experiences in high school," Tai and Sadler report in their study, "Same Science for All? Interactive Association of Structure in Learning Activities and Academic Attainment Background on College Science Performance in the U.S.A."From my personal experience as a teacher, these "fad" methods also seem to hurt the less able children, the most. Is that what MVRSD wants? [See Structure More Effective In High School Science Classes, Study Reveals (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326114415.htm)In the presentation, it also states: "We want to develop the whole child and create lifelong learners with cultural awareness and the ability to compete in an increasingly competitive economy." But what does all that actually mean? Are parents able to translate this language into anything meaningful or is this just edu-speak intended to sound high-minded while clouding the agenda? The presentation lists a lot of educational skills that should already be implemented by any school. It also talks about giving students a "global perspective" but doesn't explain exactly what that means either. How can the district maintain control of the curriculum when it is required to adhere to the principles, policies, and mission of a group that administers their program from Geneva, Switzerland?Schools, once they have committed to IB, are bound by IBO's "rules" and ideological mission. The contract between the IBO and IB schools is bound by the Geneva (World) Court.In Bedford, the IB Diploma Program was implemented quietly. Most parents didn't know, but should be able to request a copy of the contract with the IBO. Parents in that town still have questions about its broad ideology. (See letters below) And so should the parents of MVRSD."We're living on a planet that is becoming exhausted," said George Walker, IB's former director-general. "The program remains committed to changing children's values so they think globally, rather than in parochial national terms from their own country's viewpoint." Many parents might be surprised to find that the goal of American education was anything other than imparting knowledge, skills and strengthening the principles of citizenship put forth in the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Furthermore they probably didn't know that supporting those ideals was considered "parochial."TOK, short for "Theory of Knowledge," is a philosophy course that proposes to challenge what kids know or think they know. Apparently this title came from a phrase that originated with Immanuel Kant and generally means "sowing the seeds of doubt." [See: http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/en/russell1.htm]It is urged that parents and school board members do more independent research on this program, specifically its values-based mission, its methodologies, overall philosophy and the rest of its stated mission, which is to promote the UN's Millennium Development Goals (redistributionist), and create acceptance for "global citizenship" and "global governance" under the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The UDHR does not protect rights as innate, as our own Bill of Rights does, but states instead that the rights and freedoms enumerated therein "may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations." In other words, their premise is, what government gives, government takes away.Our Constitution has been violated in many ways, but I didn't realize we'd ditched it in favor of the UN's vision of "global governance". While some may think it's perfectly acceptable to float the idea that national sovereignty is outdated, many might object. It definitely appears as an attempt to change attitudes about our current form of government.IB is not the only program that promotes ideologies. In general, much American post-modern curricula replaces the teaching of historical facts with the teaching of attitudes and values about multiculturalism and world-mindedness. A review of science, and even math texts, reveals that sustainable development, environmental protection and social justice generally dominate.Taxpayers should learn more before giving IB their stamp of approval. The IBO does not release materials for free, so it's hard to get copies of tests. But I have, and that is what prompted me to discover the political agenda embedded in the IBO's mission.Please visit www.ibo.org and www.unesco.org (and click on the Education tab) to see what this is about, in their own words.It's time that public education finds its direction from the bottom up — the school board should be listening to the parents and taxpayers, and not be snookered into doing what some highly-paid consultants, "reformers", and snake-oil salesmen have told them.IB is a Waste of Taxpayer Moneyhttp://www.cabinet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/NS/20090320/BEDFORD05/303209982/-1/bedford05Program Hostile to Some Religious Valueshttp://www.cabinet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/NS/20090320/BEDFORD05/903209927/-1/bedford05It's all about activism… UN-style
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOhS6viEg4wJane Aitken, teacher of 35 years and lives in Bedford, New Hampshire
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October 17, 2011 at 6:20 PMOUTSTANDING. Finally this political indoctrination program is being exposed. You wonder why we have Communists marching on Wall Street?? Look no further than the fact we've indoctrinated students in Marxist ideology instead of EDUCATING THEM.
Look at IB's own sources for information and you will find they resource plenty of Marxists .Replyend #comment-3904
October 17, 2011 at 6:44 PMExcellent article! Keep sharing the truth about this outrageously expensive scam of a program posing as "rigorous" education!Replyend #comment-3905
The State of our Country
There is much contemplation over the state of our economy and the overall well being of the citizens in this state and country. The link below gives clear insight at the direction the welfare of this country. Any comments will be greatly appreciated.
Strafford 3
http://www.stansberryresearch.com/pub/reports/201112PSI_issue.html?mid=5708338
Armed Citizen Strikes Back
Joe Pitre
Armed citizen defends herself and family from Harm in Oklahoma!
JUSTIFIABLE USE OF A WEAPON
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/01/04/teen-mom-shoots-kills-intruder-with-11-dispatcher-on-phone/?mid=56
World Money Chrisis on the Horizon?
Another Bubble (here)
If you think this world is not in trouble, visit the above link. Politicians are asleep at the switch and a smorgasbord of free taxpayer sweat and toil is being exploited. Nancy Pelosi's brother has raked in millions. Call the action what you will. The world currency is on the verge of collapse. Are you ready? You have lost control of your government. Look at the executive orders and despicable legislation that has passed recently. You may be literally in for the fight of your life.
Thank you Strafford 3 on to Strafford 2
Candidate Update- filing period ended 15 June 2012
The list of all candidates can be found (here). Farmington has two state representatives (Strafford District 2) and are now in Senate District 6 with Farmington, Rochester, New Durham, Alton, Barnstead and Gilmanton. This will benefit Farmington tremendously because Rochester is more of our social and economic center. Our previous district spanned to Conway and limited our representative span of control. I lobbied long and hard for the changes and many said this could not be done.
The accomplishments of the Republican Party are many and will post them soon, as well as my voting record keeping the New Hampshire Advantage. I am a strong supporter of less government, pro business (for good jobs) and freedom to work and play in our fine state. I have served on the House Education Committee and fought for parental control of their children, which is the most local control and tried to limit the bureaucracy that plagues or state. The reduction of the runaway Democrat budget without smoke and mirrors should make New Hampshire citizens proud. I look forward to serving the people of New Hampshire. It has been a great honor and I thank you Strafford 3: Barrington, Farmington, Middleton, Middleton, New Durham and Strafford.
Pres Obama- Is this a fair assessment of his performance?
This is an article attributed to the Washington Post but was published in The American Thinker, 18 Aug 2011 according to Factcheck and Snopes. You make the call!
This is unbelievable!!! Is it possible that some of the liberal media is FINALLY seeing things as they are, and more importantly, want the people in this country to see it as well?? I can't really believe what I read (coming from the Washington Post) but there it is. This hits the nail right smack on the head. Raise the flags - there is hope for all of us. Send this to everyone.
But, what in the world took them and the rest of the media so long to discover this ?
As I'm sure you know, the Washington Post Newspaper has always had a reputation for being extremely liberal, so the fact that their Editor saw fit to print the following article about Obama in their newspaper makes this a truly amazing event and a news story in and of itself. Finally, the truth about our radical President's agenda is starting to trickle through the 'protective walls' built by our liberal media.
Matt Patterson (columnist for the Washington Post, New York Post, San Francisco Examiner)
Government & Society
Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, the result of a baffling breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle Ages. How, they will wonder, did a man so devoid of professional accomplishment beguile so many into thinking he could manage the world's largest economy, direct the world's most powerful military, execute the world's most consequential job? Imagine a future historian examining Obama's pre-presidential life: ushered into and through the Ivy League despite unremarkable grades and test scores along the way; a cushy non-job as a "community organizer"; a brief career as a state legislator devoid of legislative achievement (and in fact nearly devoid of his attention, so often did he vote "present") ; and finally an unaccomplished single term in the United States Senate, the entirety of which was devoted to his presidential ambitions. He left no academic legacy in academia, authored no signature legislation as a legislator. And then there is the matter of his troubling associations: the white-hating, America-loathing preacher who for decades served as Obama's "spiritual mentor"; a real-life, actual terrorist who served as Obama's colleague and political sponsor. It is easy to imagine a future historian looking at it all and asking: how on Earth was such a man elected president? Not content to wait for history, the incomparable Norman Podhoretz addressed the question recently in the Wall Street Journal: To be sure, no white candidate who had close associations with an outspoken hater of America like Jeremiah Wright and an unrepentant terrorist like Bill Ayers, would have lasted
a single day. But because Mr. Obama was black, and therefore entitled in the eyes of liberaldom to have hung out with protesters against various American injustices, even if they were a bit extreme, he was given a pass. Let that sink in: Obama was given a pass - held to a lower standard - because of the color of his skin. Podhoretz continues: And in any case, what did such ancient history matter when he was also so articulate and elegant and (as he himself had said) "non-threatening," all of which gave him a fighting chance to become the first black president and thereby to lay the curse of racism to rest? Podhoretz puts his finger, I think, on the animating pulse of the Obama phenomenon -affirmative action. Not in the legal sense, of course. But certainly in the motivating sentiment behind all affirmative action laws and regulations, which are designed primarily to make white people, and especially white liberals, feel good about themselves. Unfortunately, minorities often suffer so that whites can pat themselves on the back. Liberals routinely admit minorities to schools for which they are not qualified, yet take no responsibility for the inevitable poor performance and high drop-out rates which follow. Liberals don't care if these minority students fail; liberals aren't around to witness the emotional devastation and deflated self esteem resulting from the racist policy that is affirmative action. Yes, racist. Holding someone to a separate standard merely because of the color of his skin - that's affirmative action in a nutshell, and if that isn't racism, then nothing is. And that is what America did to Obama. True, Obama himself was never troubled by his lack of achievements, but why would he be? As many have noted, Obama was told he was good enough for Columbia despite undistinguished grades at Occidental; he was told he was good enough for the US Senate despite a mediocre record in Illinois; he was told he was good enough to be president despite no record at all in the Senate. All his life, every step of the way, Obama was told he was good enough for the next step, in spite of ample evidence to the contrary. What could this breed if not the sort of empty narcissism on display every time Obama speaks? In 2008, many who agreed that he lacked executive qualifications nonetheless raved about Obama's oratory skills, intellect, and cool character. Those people - conservatives included - ought now to be deeply embarrassed. The man thinks and speaks in the hoariest of cliches, and that's when he has his teleprompter in front of him; when the prompter is absent he can barely think or speak at all. Not one original idea has ever issued from his mouth – it's all warmed-over Marxism of the kind that has failed over and over again for 100 years. And what about his character? Obama is constantly blaming anything and everything else for his troubles. Bush did it; it was bad luck; I inherited this mess. It is embarrassing to see a president so willing to advertise his own powerlessness, so comfortable with his own incompetence. But really, what were we to expect? The man has never been responsible for anything, so how do we expect him to act responsibly?
In short: our president is a small and small-minded man, with neither the temperament nor the intellect to handle his job.
When you understand that, and only when you understand that, will the current erosion of liberty and prosperity make sense. It could not have gone otherwise with such a man in the Oval Office.
Every American Needs to Watch This Video
A Great Video Every American Needs to Watch(warning language)(here)
Obama Throws Granny Over theCliff
Must Read fact of Obamacare (here)
Remember: Ex Congresswoman Carol Shea Porter voted for this bill because Speaker Pelosi said Pass it so you can read the bill!
Carol Shea Porter said she voted with Pelosi 100% of the time because Pelosi was right 100% of the time. What happened to representing New Hampshire Congressional District 1 voters, which is the solemn pledge she gave us?
Dangerous Actions
Ask New Hampshire Democrats…Will You Let Obama Seize our Guns?
by Steve MacDonald 14 SEP 2012
President Obama, who promised to pursue gun control under the radar, has fulfilled that promise.
Obama has expanded civil-forfeiture rules making it permissible for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) to seize weapons from citizens without the hassle of due process.
This effectively gives Attorney General Eric Holder, of Fast and Furious fame, extended power over guns and gun-related property.
The rules were broadened under the guise of giving the ATF authority "to seize and administratively forfeit property involved in controlled substance abuses." And if that doesn't strike you as extreme on first glance, consider the fact that this expansion of civil-forfeiture allows the ATF to fore go almost all "due process" in making their seizures — in effect, placing the burden of proof on the citizen instead of federal agents.
It is not a law enacted by congress. Even if it were, the state has the right to nullify or refuse enforcement within its sovereign borders. So ask every Democrat you see… "Do you support President Obama's effort to seize guns (or any property) without due process?" "What legislation or action would you take to preserve the rights of New Hampshire Citizens from this unconstitutional executive overreach?"
New Hampshire Democrats…"Will You Let Obama Seize our Guns
Commentary by Joe Pitre
It is ironic that the Marines at the Libya compound were not allowed ammunition to defend and protect the lives and property within. I found the same problem on 4 Dec 1966 at Tan Son Nhut, (Saigon Airfield) Vietnam where we were overrun by many Viet Cong as young as twelve. (story here) The Air policeman at post Delta 11(less than 100 feet from my position)had difficulty loading his M-60 once he received permission and proceeded to use a cigarette lighter to see to load the weapon. Airman Curie was later awarded the Silver Star for his actions. Although mechanics were trained (myself at Fort Jackson, SC), we were not allowed weapons to defend ourselves and help security police defend our positions. The Viet Cong were within feet of our position and I feel today that my natural right to protect myself as well as a constitutional right was abrogated. We have turned into a dictatorship, when our constitutions are cast aside and a President makes his own rules of governing as he sees fit. On 20 January 2009 Obama took a solemn oath to defend the United States Constitution and in many cases has undermined it's intent. The voters of this country need to send a message at the ballot box on 6 November 2012 and proclaim this as unacceptable behavior. I gave a solemn oath to abide by and defend the constitutions so help me God!
Common Core/ Smarter Balance
Michelle Levell
Student Privacy at Risk
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New Hampshire is one of 24 states that is participating in the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium as part of our 2010 Race to the Top grant application. By making this agreement, the NH Department of Education is exposing our children's private data to greater risk without adequate privacy protections.The Cooperative Agreement is a legal contract between the US Department of Education (US DOE), the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC), and the State of Washington which serves as the fiscal agent, representing all states using the Smarter Balanced Assessment, including New Hampshire. This document is available at a US DOE website.The New Hampshire Department of Education mandates that all public schools, including charters, will "fully implement the Smarter Balanced Assessment by spring 2015," and has been piloting the assessment in several schools across the state as of winter 2013. This is per the NH DOE's FAQ.This universal assessment requirement places all public school students' private information at risk and allows the US DOE, the SBAC, and third-party organizations to access our children's information. There are several references to student data in the agreement. On page three, item #5 of the agreement refers to "student-level (individual) data." This is repeated on page 11 in items #3 and #5b. Nothing in the agreement says the data is aggregated. This must be emphasized. There is absolutely nothing in this legal contract that indicates that student information is aggregated before providing access to the federal government, its agencies, the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, or other third-parties. This is made clear on page 10 in item #6 where it states that participants in the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium are required to "provide timely and complete access to any and all data collected at the state level to the Department of Education, its designated program monitors, technical assistance providers, or research partners, and to the General Accountability Office." This is a broad list of agencies and non-government organizations that are empowered to access our children's information. Even if New Hampshire isn't giving data to the federal government, this Cooperative Agreement authorizes access to whatever data they want, whenever they want it. Further, note that absolutely nothing in this document allows for parental consent prior to the release of student information.Buried in the footnotes on page 11, the agreement states everything must comply with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) as well as state and local privacy policies. Unfortunately, the protections provided in FERPA have been severely eroded in recent years, allowing student information to be shared with third-party corporations, not just educational institutions, and not only for academic purposes.In 2008 changes were made to FERPA rules that expanded "school officials" to include "contractors, consultants, volunteers, and other parties to whom an educational agency or institution has outsourced institutional services or functions it would otherwise use employees to perform."In 2011 other key terms were redefined. "Educational programs" were those programs only focused on "improving academic outcomes." However, now these programs also include those related to "bullying prevention, cyber-security education, and substance abuse and violence prevention" even if the program is not administered by an education agency or institution. The other critical term that changed is "authorized representatives." It was previously limited to entities over which educational authorities had "direct control, such as an employee or a contractor with the authority for the purposes of auditing or evaluating federally supported education programs" then limited to the US Comptroller General, the Secretary of Education, and state educational authorities. Now "authorized personnel" may include any individual or entity that educational authorities select as an authorized representative. In other words, just about anyone can have access to student data.There are additional risks to student privacy. Computer experts widely agree that it is impossible to anonymize data; it can be reconstructed with almost 90% accuracy with as few as three data points. This makes the NH DOE's use of theUnique Pupil Identifier (UPI) completely worthless as a protection of our students' privacy. In 2010 the NH legislature passed SB 503 creating the Unique Pupil Identifier in hopes of protecting student privacy. As this state-wide database continues to expand, it cannot protect New Hampshire students' information. It can readily be accessed with the reduced FERPA protections and can be hacked by nefarious individuals. Further, given that the information amassed on students now includes over 400 data points, this should be very alarming.The risk to our students' private information is not just hypothetical, but reality. In a recent interview, Mr. Richard Innes of the Bluegrass Institute discussed 1999 research by Mr. Lauress Wise that sought to explain a sharp gain in Kentucky's National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores. Mr. Wise used NAEP information to piece together individual student's identity and corresponding scores with a 86% positive match using only seven student data points.There was a more recent hack of private student information this past November. Long Island, NY students' private information was hijacked and posted to a public forum faster than the moderator could shut it down. The leak included students' health information, disciplinary records, and academic grades. Sadly, this is not an isolated situation. Instances of student database breaches andmisuse of database access are becoming more commonplace.Also, it is inaccurate to state that the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium does not have access to individual student information. The SBAC is given each student's assessments to score and would therefore possess each child's raw data.So what can a parent do to protect their student's privacy?In early 2012 the legislature enacted HB 542 (2011), the parental opt-out law. Although the NH DOE insists it is not applicable, many believe it may be appropriately applied to these assessments. HB 542 allows parents to opt-out their student from controversial material in the classroom, at their own expense, and work with their child's school to use an alternative that accomplishes the same learning objective. It is written into local school district policies as Policy IGE.Parents should be able to use alternative tests, such as the California Achievement Test (CAT-5 or CAT-6), the Iowa Test of Basic Skills, the Stanford Test, or other established standardized tests. These exams have been used for decades across the country. Many are easy and inexpensive to administer, and accomplish the same function as a year-end assessment. The NH DOE has accepted these for years from homeschoolers, so a parent has a very valid argument to suggest these as an alternative. A thorough list of tests and providers is available at a NH homeschool website.Superintendents, school boards, and parents may not fully realize the risk that the Cooperative Agreement and Smarter Balanced Assessment pose to our students' privacy. Please share this with your administrators and ask them what they are doing to ensure your child's information is safe. And if you are not satisfied, opt your child out of the SBA and insist on an alternative.
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Israel Ohana: Response Given to Citizens at Start of the Riots Was Unsuitable
Ohana: Response Given to Citizens at Start of the Riots Was Unsuitable
By Yoni Weiss
Wednesday, May 26, 2021 at 8:17 am | ט"ו סיון תשפ"א
YERUSHALAYIM -
Israeli police seen on the streets of Lod, where shuls and cars were torched and Jewish shops were damaged when Arab residents rioted in the city, May 12. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
Minister of Public Security Amir Ohana (Likud) replied on Wednesday in the Knesset Plenum to a parliamentary question by MK Betzalel Smotrich (Religious Zionism) on forming a commission of inquiry to examine the police's conduct during the recent Arab riots.
Ohana described the actions taken within "Operation Law and Order," which began at the beginning of the week. Ohana said: "These intensive and powerful actions significantly improved the response provided to the citizens — which I unequivocally agree was unsuitable at the start of the riots — and significantly improved the personal security of the residents of the mixed cities. It has not ended, based on the understanding that even if the flames are not burning with the same scale and intensity, the embers are still glowing, and there is need for a thick blanket — in terms of personnel, equipment, technology, intelligence and also responsiveness by the justice system to remand requests and severe punishments in the cases that come before it — in order to smother the fire and lower the flames. That is one of the goals of Operation Law and Order, in which the police are currently engaged. That is also the goal of the governmental emergency plan that I am currently formulating, and which I hope to present in the next government meeting.
"There is very significant activity — not only now in Operation Law and Order, also beforehand, but all the more so in this operation — because we saw a live demonstration of what we said all the time, that these weapons would not only serve for criminal purposes, but would also serve for nationalist crimes. We saw that some of the Arab citizens of Israel turned these weapons against Jews, against police officers, against civilians."
In the course of his reply, Ohana expressed disapproval of statements made by Smotrich against Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai, and said that he had criticized the latter's statement about "serving as a buffer between the quarreling sides."
Ohana said, "They tried to set five batei knesset on fire in Lod but no one set fire to a mosque; they lynched Jewish citizens and shot Jewish citizens."
MK Ibtisam Mara'ana (Labor) accused Ohana of incitement, saying that an Arab citizen had been murdered in Lod, to which Ohana replied, "They're defending themselves, and that's a good thing."
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Features 21 June 2014 ilabs 0
train5 travel46 weekend119 wolsztyn1
Synonymous with trains, the Insider discovers the steamy side to Wolsztyn…
The steam engine belches steam and coal dust. Big, clunking wheels grate on metal rails as we hurtle towards our top speed of 90 km/hr. Every ten minutes the engineer, Marek, bends forward and holds an ear towards the furnace, a huge expanse of coals that sucks in oxygen and spews out intense heat. Steam hisses from cracks in the cast iron, oil leaks from bolts – there are no gauges or signals here. Marek listens to the coals to know when it's time.
"Fire," he commands his assistant, Stan, an American who has paid money to clumsily shovel huge spadefuls of coal into the hole every time he is ordered. The giant gates to the furnace clang shut. Marek adjusts a fist-sized bolt with a wench. Sooty smoke descends on us all. The noise is intense. I'm wedged about a foot from the fire-breathing beast, in a cramped, hellishly hot cabin. And I've rarely had so much fun.
"It might not be better than sex – but it lasts longer," is Howard's favorite quote from the visitor's book. Howard runs the 'Wolsztyn Experience', an organization that offers the world's only opportunity to help drive a real live steam train – an experience I've now officially chalked off. It's almost entirely due to Howard that this – the world's last remaining commuter service pulled by steam – still exists. And entirely due to luck that it happens to be in Poland.
"When I arrived here in 1997, Wolsztyn was the last depot in the world running steam trains on regular services," tells Howard, a Brit by origin. "We decided we'd stick around to try and see in the new century. If we could make it to 2000 with steam trains still running, we thought that would be pretty good."
Eleven years later, both the trains and Howard – who received an MBE in 2006 for 'services to UK-Polish relations' – are still here. Along with 20,000 visitors each year who turn up to help drive the monsters. And while steam trains still ply various tourist routes around the world, Wolsztyn is the only place where they still run regular scheduled services. And the only place you can actually get on the 'footplate' ie. the driver's seat. "You can go to a zoo to see a lion, or you can go to Africa. We're in Africa," Howard says, explaining to me why this attracts steam buffs from across the globe.
Lyle from Sydney, Australia, is one such devotee. "At home you can go back and forth on a track 1.5 km long. It's a bit like getting a car, and then just driving it round a car park," he claims. He's on his sixth trip here and shows no signs of tiring of it. For Stan from Boston, who was in the cabin with me, it's his fourth visit. "In the US, they'd arrest me for this. You can do it there at 5 km/hr. But you can't get this experience anywhere else," he says. The last time he brought his adult son along. "The kids grow up, they don't have time for you. But he badgered me to do this together."Howard's most frequent visitor has been more than 80 times. Clearly, there is something about the experience that touches people deep inside. "It's the closest a machine comes to being alive," Howard suggests. "They're temperamental, to drive them well is a skill and to see the Polish engineers do it – that's really something."
I've seen firsthand how much skill and physical effort it takes to keep these engines going. Engineers have been known to hang out of the engines in temperatures of minus 10 – at 90 km/hr – to keep the train on schedule. And while they may be relics of an earlier era, they also show us that sometimes, the old ways are the best. "When the first heavy snows fell last winter, the 5.10 diesel service eventually arrived at 6.05 – the next day. The only two trains to arrive on time were the steam locos," Howard boasts.
I ask another of the drivers, Janek, what it is about the trains that people love. "How should I know? I'm fed up with them," grunts the 40 year veteran. Howard laughs when I relay this, countering by telling me about the retired engineer who still turns up at the shed every day to help fix the trains and chat to his old mates. And the one who said, "it's terrible, being at home with my wife all day. If I'd known I would have faked the medical and kept driving." The story that sticks, though, is of the engineer who doesn't come to the annual steam train parade. He can't face seeing the trains and not being the driver. "It's hard, dirty, physical work. But it's a way of life," Howard summarizes.
Seeing these men at work is like watching a craftsman at his art. An art, sadly, that's dying. Lyle sums up the problem with one question: "If you were 20, would you want to do this job? When you could get the same money working in a supermarket?" I wonder if time might finally be running out for Wolsztyn's steam trains. As Lyle notes, "people here have always had steam trains. They don't see what's so interesting about them. They won't understand until they've been gone for 10 years that they've lost something really special." Yet, I'm reminded that 10 years ago Howard never imagined he'd still be here. "And even Poles are starting to take photos now," he points out.
There's a local Steam Train Museum where Wolsztyn's trains will always be preserved, whatever happens. I didn't visit it, though. When you're in Africa, why go to the zoo?
For more info check The Wolsztyn Experience: www.thewolsztynexperience.org


Serial-entrepreneur Andrés Martínez of iUrban nearly missed a job interview when his phone battery started to run out while he was following directions to the office location. It was the eureka moment when he saw the incredible business potential of installing mobile charging stations inside redundant phone booths scattered across the city.
Today, iUrban e-charging stations can be found in phone booths, lamp posts, metros, and other public facilities. Backed by the City Council of Málaga and the Andalusian board of commerce, the company has expanded outside the national borders into neighboring Andorra, Romania and even across the ocean into Mexico.
Many eco-friendly startups like iUrban have been launched in Spain, with founders taking advantage of national incentives that encourage the creation of innovative recycling models, as part of the pan-European drive to support the circular economy. A circular economy is "an economy that reuses and recycles resources to keep them in play for as long as possible", according to the MacMillan dictionary. Circular economy initiatives have the potential to grow exponentially across diverse industries. In 2015, the EU launched the Horizon 2020 program which backs startups with the necessary funding and government support to implement innovative and more sustainable models. The Spanish ecosystem is expected to generate approximately 52,000 jobs through such initiatives, according to Eurobarometer.
The Minister of Agriculture, Food and the Environment has recently launched the ISSOP seal in Spain to identify companies that have adopted, or are implementing, sustainable and circular models in their businesses. Various Spanish regions have also started their own action plans. Madrid has created Madrid7R Circular Economy to promote the "7Rs Strategy": redesign, reduce, reutilize, recycle, repair, renew and retrieve products and materials within our ecosystems.
The Waste Agency of Catalonia has started to subsidize businesses that embrace a circular model and eco-friendly materials. Approximately 217 technology centers are now conducting research and offering innovative environmental solutions to businesses. In 2015, Catalonia's circular economies generated over €4 billion in turnover, or 2% of GDP, by focusing mainly on the recovery and reuse of waste, manufacturing of secondary raw materials, renewable energies and the rationalization of water consumption.


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Q: Select single item from database with Spring Hibernate Sessionfactory This is in my DAO:
public List<Weather> getCurrentWeather() {
    return sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().createQuery("from Weather").list();
}

This gets all of the elements from table Weather. But lets say I wanna do something like this(I want only one element from table Weather):
public Weather getCurrentWeather() {
    return sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().createQuery("from Weather where id = 1").list(); // here should be something else than list()
}

I know there should not be list() in the end, but what must I write there, to get only one object?

A: If you have an id, you just use get:
public Weather getCurrentWeather() {
    return sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().get(Weather.class, 1);
}

If you do need to do a query, yeah you'll have to grab the top of the result set, or you can use uniqueResult() on the query.

A: Is there something wrong with getting a list? :)  Even if you know there is only 1 hibernate cannot assume that.  Getting a list is safer anyway!
public Weather getCurrentWeather() {
    List<Weather> list = sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().createQuery("from Weather where id = 1").list(); // here should be something else than list()
    return (list.isEmpty() ? null : list.get(0));
}

A: You need to use the Criteria API as below:
    List<LeaveManagement> leaveManagements =      session.createCriteria(LeaveManagement.class)
            .add( Restrictions.isNull("approvedTimeStamp") )
            .uniqueResult();

    If you want to write a hql query you can write as:

    String hql = "from LeaveManagement where approvedTimeStamp is null";
         Query query = session.createQuery(hql);
        LeaveManagement results = (LeaveManagement) query.uniqueResult();

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package org.dkpro.statistics.agreement.coding;

import java.math.BigDecimal;
import java.math.MathContext;
import java.util.Map;

/**
 *

 *
Conger, A.J.: Integration and generalization of kappas for multiple raters. Psychological
 * Bulletin 88(2):322-328, 1980.

 *
Davies, M. & Fleiss, J.L.: Measuring agreement for multinomial data. Biometrics
 * 38(4):1047–1051, 1982.

 *
Hubert, L.: Kappa revisited. Psychological Bulletin 84(2):289-297, 1977.

 *

 *
 * @author Christian M. Meyer
 */
// TODO: Check Popping (1983) and Heuvelmans and Sanders (1993).
public class HubertKappaAgreement
    extends CodingAgreementMeasure
{

    /**
     * Initializes the instance for the given annotation study. The study should never be null.
     */
    public HubertKappaAgreement(final ICodingAnnotationStudy study)
    {
        super(study);
        warnIfMissingValues();
    }

    /**
     * Calculates the expected inter-rater agreement that assumes the same distribution for all
     * raters and annotations.
     *
     * @throws NullPointerException
     *             if the annotation study is null.
     * @throws ArithmeticException
     *             if there are no items in the annotation study.
     */
    @Override
    public double calculateExpectedAgreement()
    {
        Map<Object, int[]> annotationsPerCategory = CodingAnnotationStudy
                .countAnnotationsPerCategory(study);
        BigDecimal result = BigDecimal.ZERO;
        for (Object category : study.getCategories()) {
            int[] annotationCounts = annotationsPerCategory.get(category);
            for (int m = 0; m < study.getRaterCount(); m++) {
                for (int n = m + 1; n < study.getRaterCount(); n++) {
                    result = result.add(new BigDecimal(annotationCounts[m])
                            .multiply(new BigDecimal(annotationCounts[n])));
                }
            }
        }
        result = result.multiply(new BigDecimal(2));
        result = result.divide(
                new BigDecimal(study.getRaterCount())
                        .multiply(new BigDecimal(study.getRaterCount() - 1))
                        .multiply(new BigDecimal(study.getItemCount()).pow(2)),
                MathContext.DECIMAL128);
        return result.doubleValue();
    }

}

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The ABC's of the Corcoran Artist Files: the D's
Alexandra Reigle
In the series called "The ABCs of the Corcoran Artist Files" the American Art and Portrait Gallery (AA/PG) Library will explore artists through the materials from the recent Corcoran Vertical File Collection donation by featuring artists whose surnames begin with that letter. This time we are looking at the artists whose last names that start with D.
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The ABC's of the Corcoran Artist Files: the C's
Minna Citron working on her TVA Mural for the Post Office in Newport, Tennessee
In the series called "The ABCs of the Corcoran Artist Files" the American Art and Portrait Gallery (AA/PG) Library will explore a letter of the alphabet using materials from the recent Corcoran Vertical File collection by featuring artists whose surnames begin with that letter. The letter "C" does not disappoint, and we have some great materials to share.
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The ABC's of the Corcoran Artist Files: the B's
Gerrit Beneker poster meant to drum up support amongst industrial workers during World War I
With the recent donation of the Corcoran Artist Vertical File Collection, the American Art and Portrait Gallery (AA/PG) Library has started an ongoing series that provides a sneak peek into the integration of new Corcoran materials into the AA/PG Art and Artists Files collection called the "ABCs of the Corcoran Artist Vertical File Collection". Every couple of weeks the AA/PG Library will explore a letter of the alphabet, featuring artists whose surnames begin with that letter in a display in the library. Currently on show are the B's of the Corcoran collection which contained a particularly colorful amount of new materials.
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Corcoran Students Visit Hirshhorn Museum to Study Library's Artists' Books
Kerry McAleer-Keeler with her Art and the Book Program class from Corcoran examining some Artists' Books
This post was written by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden's Head Librarian Anna Brooke.
Six students from the Corcoran College of Art + Design, Art and the Book Program, visited the Hirshhorn Museum on Friday November 8. Accompanied by Assistant Professor and book maker, Kerry McAleer-Keeler, and Pat Reid, Technical Services Associate for the Corcoran Library, the students examined 23 artists' books from the Hirshhorn Museum Library's collection which were on display in the board room.
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After looking at our 4K performance data with our RX 580 and GTX 1060 graphics cards, we know that Ultra quality shadows have a considerable performance impact on PC, making it a setting of choice when it comes to settings to sacrifice on the altar of higher framerates. In this case, we turned the game's shadow quality down to medium, delivering respectable levels of shadow quality while also offering a much lower GPU workload.
To add onto this, we also disabled the game's depth of field settings, as this can help free up memory bandwidth, though this also adds some extra sharpness to distant details, a feature that may be preferred by some players. All other settings within the game remain untouched.
Below you can see two 1080p screenshots comparing our custom graphical settings with Crash Bandicoot's Ultra/Maximum settings, where the only quality difference is a lowering of shadow quality from Ultra to medium and a removal of Depth of Field.
While the lowering of shadow quality from Ultra to medium is noticeable when looking at static screenshots, the difference is almost impossible to spot while the game is in motion. When you are running through a level, do you focus your attention on shadows? No, you focus on the challenges ahead, making the lowered graphical quality more than worth it for the sake of 60FPS framerates.
In our demanding test case, we managed to achieve a 2x improvement in minimum framerates on out R9 380 graphic card, delivering a significant boost in overall playability. A portion of this boost is due to a decrease in VRAM requirements, as the game can max out the 2GB frame buffer on both of these graphics cards, making the game VRAM limited on 2GB graphics cards at Ultra settings.


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Entry Fee: We have set an entry price at just £285 (less than £3 per player, per week for a team of 10) A deposit of £100 is required to guarantee your teams place.
Game Times: 19:00 and 19:40. Each team will play refereed, scheduled games against different teams in their division each week, plus possible friendlies which we will organise on the night.
We have limited spots available for teams this season so would advise you to get entered as soon as you are able to.
Please spread this info to your friends, family, colleagues and networks. We are all looking forward to seeing you down at the fields this year.
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European planemaker Airbus Group SE has forged a technology partnership with Oracle Team USA as this championship sailing squad prepares to defend its title in the 2017 competition for America's Cup – which is the oldest international sporting trophy of the modern era (born in 1851), and one of the most difficult to win.
As Official Innovation Partner of Oracle Team USA, Airbus is sharing the know-how of its experts in areas such as aerodynamics, instrumentation, simulation, composites, structures, hydraulics and data analysis; while simultaneously benefiting from the innovative approach of a world leader in sailing.
By taking on a project of this magnitude that combines extreme technology and sports, Airbus is stretching its competencies and further boosting the company's agility.
And since there are so many similarities between the America's Cup yacht and Airbus' modern jetliners, each of the two partners benefit from an excellent platform on which to learn and grow.
For more than 160 years, the America's Cup competition has shown that, while necessary, funding is not the primary factor in winning. This is why a much higher priority is put on design technology and engineering, which are two areas at which Airbus excels.


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Aflac's Chief Accounting Officer Mentors the Next Generation of Leaders
June Howard joined Aflac in 2009 as vice president of financial services. She was promoted to senior vice president the following year and again to chief accounting officer just a few months later.
A valued member of the Aflac team, Howard is responsible for financial reporting and control, accounting policy, investment accounting, corporate tax, and budgeting. She's made a tremendous impact on Aflac's accounting practice.
One of her most successful initiatives was the global implementation of a new general ledger. As part of this, she led a joint United States-Japan team and created a program called "All Aflac." It's strategically designed to bring more synchronicity to the company's global business practice. The project was completed within budget in record time.
Prior to Aflac, June worked at ING and her biggest career leap to date came from a promotion to head up its financial reporting area. Her team tripled in size and she had much success in managing the larger group. "I learned that delegation was the key to my success," Howard said.
She's an advocate for women's professional development. As part of her initiatives, she hosts the Finance Women's Lunch, an informal meeting that encourages Aflac's female staff in Japan to pursue career goals. She's also actively involved with programs such as Aflac's Bold Moves, Girls Inc., Women's Tea, and the Global Women's Leadership Conference in Tokyo. Her key objective is to create opportunities to mentor and pass the baton to the next generation of leaders. "It's my responsibility to be a role model for the next group of women," she said.
Howard believes the most important quality a woman leader should have is authenticity and that a positive attitude is essential. She lives by the golden rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."


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In not so nerdy speak – an API is what lets one system talk to another system. APIs usually give access to data and existing features available in the app you are connecting to. For example – with GoToWebinar's API, I can write a program that will take contact data from Infusionsoft and register that person for a given webinar. The program would send the person's contact information and the webinar info to GoToWebinar and tell GoToWebinar to register the person. When GoToWebinar is done registering the person, they send back that person's registration information. That's a real life programming example – let's take it out of the nerdery and see what an API would look like in real life.
Let's say that Jordão (on the left) only speaks Portuguese and Monique (on the right) only speaks French. Jordão really wants to talk to Monique, but she can't understand him because she doesn't speak Portuguese – and he can't understand her because he doesn't speak French. They need a translator in order to communicate. The translator can understand what Jordão says in Portuguese and can tell Monique the same thing in French.
In this case the translator would be like the program from the GoToWebinar example. That program speaks both Infusionsoft and GoToWebinar and can facilitate the translation between the two programs.
So – there you have it. A very basic explanation of what an API is. I'll be doing a couple more posts about how to use APIs (mostly Infusionsoft's API) and I'll even give some real life examples (and code) that anyone can use to extend the power of Infusionsoft.
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Way to go with leading and sharing, Jordan. Game on!
Thanks Gareth. I've got more on tap. Let me know if there's stuff you want me to write about.
Keep it coming. I appreciate this, even if it was a recap of a conversation we had literally last week.
Thanks, Jordan, is there a source of common Infusionsoft APIs available to save every user from having to reinvent the wheel each time?
The best place to look is in the developer center (developers.infusionsoft.com) there are also a few things I've found on GitHub.
Thanks for the post. I really like your way of describing . We normally use third party apps like plusthis, zapier for gotowebinar and inusionsoft integration.


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Q: MacPorts duplicated software I just found out I got about 500 MB out of just one package (Qt 4) being duplicated on MacPorts. Or at least I think so. I couldn't find any hardlinks in there, and I'm wondering if I can safely delete the /opt/local/var/macports/software/qt4-mac/. I'll probably just do it and see what happens, but this whole thing also got me wondering about MacPorts...
Why did that package got duplicated in the first place? How should I manage other packages in it? I've got a lot of software in there, and I don't recall having installed that many. And why on old nabble were both guys talking about hardlinks?

A: For the way MacPorts works, it might be that different packages are compiled against different versions of qt4-mac. Later during other upgrades, some inactive packages are still there after everything has been recompiled against later versions.
Trust macports a little bit before deleting anything on your own below /opt/local
Try to see if you have an inactive version of qt4-mac installed
port list inactive
I usually clean the inactive ports to make sure that there is no garbage left out:
port uninstall inactive
... also a good global clean
port -d clean all --all
In the case of qt4-mac be careful if you are compiling with the docs, that along could be 1GB


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COKE AND PEPSI ABANDON THE PLASTICS LOBBY
31July19
Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, two major sellers of plastic bottles, have made sweeping sustainability commitments. Now they are stepping away from a plastics lobbying group.
Both soft drink companies are trying to increase the amount of recycled plastic they use in bottles. They want to improve recycling infrastructure and ensure their packages are recyclable.
But the Plastics Industry Association has encouraged states to make plastic bans illegal. Participation in the group could tarnish Coca-Cola and Pepsi's images as companies working to find solutions to plastic pollution.
The association took positions that "were not fully consistent with our commitments and goals," Coca-Cola said in a statement last week, noting that it withdrew from the group earlier this year. Pepsi said it had joined the association to learn about innovation as it works to "achieve a circular economy for plastics."
"We do not participate in the policy advocacy work of the association or its subsidiaries, and our membership will conclude at the end of this year," Pepsi said.
Coke and Pepsi "made the wrong choice" by being a part of the lobbying organization, said Dianna Cohen, CEO of the nonprofit Plastic Pollution Coalition. The optics of membership, she added, "are really bad."
Cutting ties with the Plastic Industry Association is a sign that "companies understand that they cannot publicly say they want to end plastic pollution, while financially supporting an association that lobbies for our continued reliance on throwaway plastics," said Greenpeace USA Oceans Campaign Director John Hocevar in a statement.
The move may help reassure some customers. But as people grow more worried about the negative impacts of plastic pollution on the environment as well as on animal and human health, companies like Pepsi and Coke will have to go even further to find a solution.
Tackling plastic pollution
Coca-Cola (KO) produced 3.3 million tons of plastic in 2017, it disclosed in recent report by the Ellen MacArthur foundation. PepsiCo (PEP) did not disclose how much plastic it sells.
Both companies are trying to figure out ways to reduce their use of virgin plastics and increase recycling. They're also exploring alternatives to plastics, like aluminum, that are easier to recycle.
PepsiCo announced recently that its Aquafina-brand water will be sold in aluminum cans at US fast food and restaurant chains as soon as next year. The company is testing out a broader rollout to retail stores.
"Tackling plastic waste is one of my top priorities and I take this challenge personally," PepsiCo CEO Ramon Laguarta said at the time. "We are doing our part to address the issue head on by reducing, recycling and reinventing our packaging." Pepsi has committed to using only recyclable, compostable or biodegradable packaging by 2025, and it's pledged to make new plastic bottles using 25% recycled material.
Plus, Coca-Cola last year launched a World Without Waste initiative that encompasses its recycling goals, which include collecting and recycling the equivalent of every bottle or can it sells by 2030. The company has also committed to making its bottles and cans out of at least 50% recycled material in the next 11 years.
Still, sticking to those goals will likely be difficult, especially because recycling is struggling. Organizations like the World Wildlife Fund are helping companies try to achieve them.
The companies are also exploring refill stations that eliminate single-use packaging altogether. Pepsi is selling a high-tech water cooler that lets customers fill up their own bottles with flavored or unflavored, still or carbonated water in varying temperatures. Coca-Cola has launched a similar product for Dasani on college campuses.
Leaving the lobby
Those initiatives made membership in the plastics trade group problematic, at least from a PR standpoint. The Plastics Industry Association is not only a lobbying group. Some of its initiatives, like helping recycling, may overlap with those of Coke and Pepsi.
"Our members work together to align their efforts to put recycling and sustainability at the forefront of their businesses," said Patty Long, interim president and CEO of the Plastics Industry Association, in a statement. Activists started pressuring Coke, Pepsi, and other companies to leave the group last year.
The shareholder activist group As You Sow and Walden Asset Management called attention last year to corporate involvement with the Plastic Industry Association, and wrote letters to the CEOs of Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, among others.
This year, Greenpeace also drew a line between the Plastic Industry Association and anti-plastic ban laws. The plastics association said Greenpeace is responsible for companies' withdrawal from the group. "We are aware that several prominent brands that are members of the association have been targeted by a persistent Greenpeace activist campaign to pressure them to leave our association," Long said, calling the efforts "unfortunate."
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▶ If you build it, they will run: Tiny Maupin looks to build world-class track
Monday, July 20th 2020
The rural community of Maupin has a project that has captured the imagination of former Nike executives, elite athletes and the entire town.
The project: Transform a sorry looking high school track that's the wrong shape, size and surface and turn it into a world-class facility, that draws world-class athletes, and do it all in a town with a population of 430 residents.
And they want to do it in time for the 2021 Track and Field World Championships set for Eugene.
Thousands of elite athletes will flock to the event and will be here ahead of the meet to train.
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Also worth noting the Oregon National Guard will be in Maupin next month to begin the project.
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In June 2017, Parties to Case 002/02 returned to the Trial Chamber, six months after the end of evidentiary hearings, to hear closing statements from all sides in this second and final trial against Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan; two surviving senior leaders of Democratic Kampuchea (DK). Over the course of two weeks, each Party presented their final oral arguments, summarizing the main points contained in the lengthy written briefs they each filed on 2 May 2017. This report summarizes the two weeks of closing arguments of the Office of the Co-Prosecutors (OCP), Lead Co-Lawyers for Civil Parties (LCLCP), and Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan Defense Teams, who together covered a range of legal and procedural issues and cited testimony from among the 185 persons who appeared throughout the case. Many of these arguments were strengthened or in some way influenced by the recently released Supreme Court Chamber (SCC) Appeal Judgment in Case 002/01, which clarified some of Case 002's persistent legal issues. This report begins with a summary of the four major legal arguments made by Parties over the course of the hearings and which underpin their subsequent arguments related to specific alleged crimes. These are: the temporal, geographical and historical context of the period in question, the reference to topics outside of the scope of Case 002/02, disputes over the probative value of certain evidence and the individual criminal responsibility of the two Accused. After establishing these main arguments, this report then presents a summary of Parties' cases concerning the alleged crimes: those at worksites and cooperatives; security centers and internal purges; treatment of targeted groups; and the regulation of marriage. Finally, the report covers the Civil Parties' request for reparations and the final statement of the Accused, Khieu Samphan. Nuon Chea declined to make a final statement and his lawyer labeled the proceedings "a show trial." At the conclusion of the statements, Trial Chamber President Nil Nonn announced the judges would retire to prepare their judgment, which is currently expected toward the middle of 2018.


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The Ravens are a bit conflicted whenever the topic of drafting a cornerback is broached.
On one hand, the team's front office and coaching staff is content with its current corps: starters Chris McAlister and Samari Rolle, nickel back Corey Ivy and reserves Evan Oglesby, Ronnie Prude, Derrick Martin and David Pittman.
On the other hand, this year's crop of cornerbacks is considered deep, with as many as seven players labeled as potential first-round picks Saturday. That's why Eric DeCosta found himself arguing both sides after the team's draft luncheon Tuesday.
"We love our stable of corners that we got this past year. We're very high on those guys," said DeCosta, Ravens director of college scouting. "Again, it just comes down to the best player available. How does the best player available compare to a guy like David Pittman or Ronnie Prude or Derrick Martin? We'll just look at that, and if we think there's a guy who can come in and beat those guys out very quickly and possibly beat out Corey Ivy as that nickel, then we would consider it."
On the surface, the Ravens would appear to be set at cornerback. McAlister earned his third Pro Bowl appearance last season.
Rolle started all 16 games at the opposite corner, and Ivy demonstrated his toughness in returning to the field after suffering a kidney tear early in the season.
But Rolle was beaten on a couple of long passes during the season, and Ivy, 5 feet 9, is the smallest cornerback on the roster.
But defensive coordinator Rex Ryan isn't losing any sleep about that.
"We feel good about our young guys," he said last month. "We just try to get the best player you can get."
Though prospects such as Michigan's Leon Hall and Pittsburgh's Darrelle Revis are expected to be gone long before the Ravens use the 29th overall pick Saturday, there are several players who have caught the team's interest.
Arkansas' Chris Houston is considered the best man-to-man cornerback in the draft, holding Southern California's Dwayne Jarrett, LSU's Dwayne Bowe and Tennessee's Robert Meachem to a combined 14 catches for 168 yards and a touchdown last fall.
The only question about Houston, who posted the top marks among cornerbacks in the 40-yard dash (4.32 seconds) and bench press (27 repetitions of 225 pounds) at the NFL scouting combine, is a lack of familiarity with zone coverage.
Texas' Aaron Ross - winner of the Thorpe Award, which recognizes the best defensive back in the country - is widely regarded as a tough tackler with big-play ability. He had 10 take-aways and has been praised for a solid character and work ethic.
Like Ross, Fresno State's Marcus McCauley has the kind of height (6-1) to challenge the league's taller players, and his long arms have helped him jam receivers at the line. But some have speculated his lackluster senior year could drop him to the second round.
If the Ravens wait until the second round to use the 61st overall pick on a cornerback, players such as Nevada-Las Vegas' Eric Wright, Maryland's Josh Wilson, Tennessee's Jonathan Wade and Syracuse's Tanard Jackson could be available.
"There are some good corners this year," DeCosta said. "[Former Green Bay Packers general manager] Ron Wolf, I've heard him say this - anytime you can draft a good corner, you should draft him. We've spent a lot of time on these guys. ... There [are] some talented guys, and if one of those guys is there, we know how they play, and we're on the clock, I think we'd turn the card in."


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Q: SSD temp with conky I have a problem with conky.
I installed hddtemp and my ssd is shown like this:
/dev/sda: Crucial_CT120M500SSD1: 39°C

now in conky I wrote:
${alignr 10}${color}SSD M500 Crucial 120GB Temp ${color1}${hddtemp /dev/sda}ºC

But desktop shows N/A°C.
How can I fix it?
Regards

A: If you don't want to have hddtemp running in daemon mode all the time, you could also run hddtemp as an external command instead. However, hddtemp needs to be run as root:
$ hddtemp /dev/sda
/dev/sda: open: Permission denied
$ sudo hddtemp /dev/sda
/dev/sda: ST3500418AS: 35°C

So, you will first need to give your user permission to run the command. Run visudo and add this line to the sudoers file (change linofex to your actual username):
linofex  ALL=NOPASSWD:/usr/sbin/hddtemp

That should let you run sudo hddtemp without needing to enter a password.
Now, replace the line from your conkyrc file with:
${alignr 10}${color}SSD M500 Crucial 120GB Temp ${color1}${exec sudo hddtemp /dev/sda | awk '{print $NF}'}

A: You need to first start hddtemp as a background daemon with the commmand:
 hddtemp -d /dev/sda

${hddtemp ...} is a conky built-in object. It connects to 127.0.0.1:7634
by default to get the disk temperatures. You therefore need to start, independently, the hddtemp daemon which listens on this port and replies with
the information.
An alternative is to use ${exec hddtemp /dev/sda} which runs hddtemp
on each window update, and does not need a daemon.

If you just want the temperature, pipe the output into awk to
get the next-to-last field (in my case) ie $(NF-1), or the last field
$NF in your case:
${exec hddtemp /dev/sda|awk '{print $NF}'}

A: Another solution is to permit hddtemp with:
sudo chmod +s /usr/sbin/hddtemp

Then (based on your example), in your conkyrc file the item will become:
${execi 1 hddtemp /dev/sda|sed 's%/dev/sda: %%' }

This will give you just Crucial_CT120M500SSD1: 39°C.