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Review by Jenny Bristol, Common Sense Education | Updated August 2019
UltraKey Online for Schools
Highly customizable but tired typing curriculum lacks depth
Subjects & skills
Character & SEL
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Price: Free to try, Paid There's a one-month free trial. School subscriptions range from $3.99 per seat per year (for 25 to 99 students) to $1.99 per seat per year (for 1,000 or more students) and include unlimited administrator accounts.
Platforms: Website
Pros: Open-ended customization of lessons; integration of stretches and correct posture; overall philosophy of typing as communication.
Cons: Lessons are very short and lack instant feedback; interface is busy and looks and feels outdated; it may take a while for teachers to set up their classes.
Bottom Line: The program has exemplary customization options, but for in-depth lessons and an appealing experience, schools and families may want to look elsewhere.
How Can I Teach with This Tool?
Is It Good for Learning?
Teachers can use UltraKey Online for Schools for one class, one school, or a whole district. It's a viable option for schools in North America, the UK, and Australia/New Zealand, as spellings, keyboard layouts, and content can be geared toward any of those geographic areas. There's a dizzying array of customizable options for teacher and administrator accounts, as well as student and class settings, so everything can be customized down to the individual level, including the typing interface, appearance of hands, the ability to use Backspace, how much practice is required, and whether students can access the Game Zone. Teachers, administrators, and managers have access to their own typing curriculum, so they can improve their skills along with the students, if desired.
The dashboard includes setting up students and classes (and schools for the multischool subscription); managing administrator accounts and roles; running reports; assigning assessments, skill checks, and typing tests to students; and editing or adding custom content. Teachers will want to familiarize themselves with the interface and existing content before assigning anything to their students, and the lengthy admin guide is a handy reference. The options in the dashboard are stellar, but the pieces are a bit spread out; the arrangement could be tightened up considerably.
Teachers may want to watch each section's introductory video with their class, and then set students free to work at their own pace through the lessons and skill checks, though students may need some direction as to how to go about covering all the material. Options for reading instructions out loud or turning on captioning expand the audience for this program. The free typing option can be used to integrate other classroom lessons into the typing curriculum; anything typed in the free typing area can be copied to the clipboard and pasted into other programs. As students progress, teachers can present them with certificates when they hit certain milestones. Lessons and practice can also be assigned for completion at home, with students logging in the same way they do at school.
UltraKey Online for Schools is a typing curriculum that has subscription options from the family level up to a whole school district. The curriculum begins by helping students set a goal, either manually or through assessment. Then it moves on to seated posture and finger placement, and typing instruction begins with individual letters on the home row. The lessons start out slowly and build on what students have learned, going through the letters a few at a time and ending with numbers and symbols, and then words and paragraphs. Each section begins with an introductory video that has optional voice-over and captioning.
The curriculum includes body stretches to do periodically to keep healthy, instruction on correct posture, a set of lessons and skill checks, and an open typing forum. There's also a Game Zone, which includes word-based games that have students apply what they've learned in a new context.
Though the lessons are extremely short and it doesn't offer as much premade material as many of the other typing programs that are available (and with an interface reminiscent of decades past), UltraKey Online is quite customizable, from the student interface and options to the skill checks and assessments. Reports can be run by student, class, school, and district.
UltraKey Online has different subscription levels, including Family, Single-School, and Multi-School. The Family subscription allows for different numbers of learners; the Single-School subscription allows for one school with multiple classes, teachers, and students; and the Multi-School subscription allows for multiple schools with accompanying school managers. Though the features in the back-end dashboard differ slightly, the curriculum itself is the same.
Since teachers can customize content and settings for each class or individual student, UltraKey Online for Schools can be used for teaching groups of students with a variety of skill levels. Students or teachers can set the typing speed and accuracy goals, or students can take an assessment that will set a reasonable goal for them. Then students can work through the very short base lessons and other material at their own pace, starting with individual letters and working up to typing paragraphs for several minutes. Students do receive feedback on their typing, but, depending on which area of the site they're on, they'll only receive a star value, a pass/fail, or slightly more detailed error markings after they've finished typing. It doesn't give much feedback as you type, nor does it provide easy-to-read feedback, tips for improving, or a list of problem keys.
The skill checks have students reading what they need to type at the top, and actually doing the typing at the bottom, which may make it more difficult for some students to keep their place. The curriculum does emphasize being thoughtful as you type, especially in the Game Zone, where students apply what they've learned with more real-life typing.
UltraKey Online for Schools has a philosophy of approaching typing as a method of communication rather than just putting together a series of steps, but, other than doing the lessons in order, there isn't a clear flow for how students are to progress through the overall material. The skill checks, Game Zone games, and free typing give extra practice and reinforcement for skills from the lessons, but students who aren't self-directed may be unsure how to work through it all.
If you're looking to customize almost every aspect of your typing program, UltraKey Online might be a good choice, but it's lacking in modern style and a well-organized interface. The design, graphics, and voice-overs have an institutional feel rather than one of warmth or friendliness. Navigating the interface isn't intuitive for students or teachers, and the buttons to click don't always show up quickly, leaving students to wonder what they're supposed to do next. The content, customizations, and option to add personalized content mean this curriculum could do the job with a lot of effort, but it would also benefit from a complete makeover in terms of organization and audiovisual style.
Engagement Is the product stimulating, entertaining, and engrossing? Will kids want to return?
The unsophisticated style of the interface won't pull students in on its own, but students who can look past the institutional feel should be able to learn to type with this program.
Pedagogy Is learning content seamlessly baked-in, and do kids build conceptual understanding? Is the product adaptable and empowering? Will skills transfer?
Very short lessons include the traditional incremental steps of learning to touch-type, plus skill checks, free typing, and games that connect typing with higher-level communication. Student feedback is minimal, however.
Support Does the product take into account learners of varying abilities, skill levels, and learning styles? Does it address both struggling and advanced students?
The site includes integrated help and lengthy, detailed guides for reference. Additional assistance is available from the UltraKey publishers. Students would benefit from more extensive feedback and improvement data.
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With guidance and support from adults, use technology to produce and publish writing (using keyboarding skills) as well as to interact and collaborate with others.
With some guidance and support from adults, use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of one page in a single sitting.
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Aromas of boysenberry, cassis, plum with a hint of vanilla, nutmeg.
Seamless silky tannins with a long finish; Flavors of dark fruit - boysenberry with cocoa accents.
The pinnacle wine for Terlato Vineyards, EPISODE stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the very best Bordeaux blends in the world. The Terlato family makes this boutique Bordeaux blend of classic varietals from the best Napa Valley fruit. The 2010 vintage stands out as one of Napa Valley's top vintages. A late bud break and cool summer allowed for a long, slow ripening season and beautiful balance of acidity, ripeness and complexity.
Flavors of dark fruit with cocoa accents. This wine is mouth-filling and robust with seamless, silky tannins with a long finish.
The pinnacle wine for Terlato Vineyards, EPISODE stands shoulder to shoulder with the very best Bordeaux Blends in the world. The Terlato family makes this boutique Bordeaux blend of classic varietals from the best Napa Valley fruit. The 2010 vintage stands out as one of Napa Valley's top vintages. A late bud break and cool summer allowed for a long, slow ripening, which offers a beautiful balance of acidity, ripeness and complexity.
Intense aromas of boysenberry, blueberry and cassis with a hint of vanilla, nutmeg and caramel.
Beautiful flavor intensity, with rich layers of black fruits and dark chocolate. This wine is mouth filling and robust, with silky tannins further enhancing the wine's complex expression. Great structure and depth.


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Adam Carolla Has Never Been Funny
Adam Carolla has never been funny.
The managing editor of Breitbart news:
Either Men Are Funnier Than Women, or Rolling Stone Is Sexist
by Alexander Marlow
What follows is a gotcha of leftistbrainsploding proportions...
Last week, Rolling Stone published their "50 Funniest People Now" list and featured only 12 women out of 52 comics.
I have a number of problems with the article, not limited to but including the fact that a) For a publication that considers itself edgy, the only surprise in the list is that they shoehorned 52 names into a "Top 50" list, b) They audaciously claim Tina Fey's 2008 Sarah Palin sketches were not "mean-spirited," and c) They leave world's most downloaded podcaster, comedian Adam Carolla, off the list entirely. I would bet big money that Carolla is ommitted purely because he doesn't resemble RS's politically correct world view. Still, according to Rolling Stone, the Podcast King and bestselling author is not as funny as Charles Barkley or Joan Rivers.
A) Don't pretend you give a shit about edginess.
B) The Sarah Palin battle is over. She won. She has your money.
C) Adam Carolla has never been funny. Charles Barkley and Joan Rivers are funnier than Adam Carolla.
D) "Ommitted" Mr. Managing Editor?
Yet, the most newsworthy item is the breakdown of 40 men to 12 women on the list.
In June of last year, Carolla was ripped unmercifully in countless media outlets for saying in an interview with the New York Post that "dudes are funnier than chicks." He clarified that he didn't mean that all "dudes" are funnier than all "chicks," but that a greater percentage of men are funny:
The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks
When it comes to comedy, of course there's Sarah Silverman, Tina Fey, Kathy Griffin — super-funny chicks. But if you're playing the odds? No.
If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV.
But this was the headline of the Post article: "The man's man Macho laughman Adam Carolla says Tom Cruise is from outer space and women just aren't funny." Of course, Carolla never said women "aren't funny," he said they're not as funny as men.
Predictably, the media attempted to brand him as a sexist.
Now let's return to the Rolling Stone article, where they list over three times as many men as women in their list of top comedians right now. The only reasonable conclusion to draw from it is that Rolling Stone considers men funnier, and yet, when Carolla said this, he was tarred and feathered.
So which is it, are men funnier than women or is Rolling Stone sexist?
Let's continue with the list theme.
~) Maybe the list IS sexist!
!) Maybe Rolling Stone IS sexist! Go go feminist hero!
@) Maybe you give zero shits either way.
#) Rolling Stone ≠ The Media.
=) One list does not mean that now and forever X is true, however much you think snow disproves global warming.
$) Captain Crunch is really good.
%) There might be reasons beyond comedy why a woman might not want to have co-workers like Adam Carolla.
^) Curse the liberal New York Post for distorting the words of Adam Carolla.
&) Adam Carolla should be used to being ripped unmercifully because he is not funny.
*) As of today Adam Carolla is off TV.
Posted by Substance McGravitas at 12:11 PM 25 comments
Aw Shucks
Gomer Pyle gets married:
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) -
Jim Nabors, the Hawaii resident well known for his starring role in the 1960s television sitcom "Gomer Pyle, USMC," married his longtime male partner early this month, he told Hawaii News Now Tuesday.
Nabors, 82, said he married his companion of 38 years, Stan Cadwallader, who's 64, in Seattle on Jan. 15.
Posted by Substance McGravitas at 12:25 PM 7 comments
Quick! I Need a Truckload of Onions!
Foodie nightmares commence:
About 27 tonnes of caramelised brown goat cheese - a delicacy known as Brunost - caught light as it was being driven through the Brattli Tunnel at Tysfjord, northern Norway, last week.
The fire raged for five days and smouldering toxic gases were slowing the recovery operation, officials said.
Bastard Bait
If he doesn't have it already the BBBB will soon be enslaved by this:
Posted by Substance McGravitas at 1:49 PM 5 comments
Theme and Variation
Imənna just be bad and steal this whole goddamned post:
A Feast of Pure Reason
By Fred Schwarz
January 28, 2013 3:17 P.M.
This morning's New York Times says The New Republic is "the journalism equivalent of high-fiber pasta." Like much of what I read in the Times, that's a little too Zen for me, but it got me thinking about what sort of food National Review might correspond to. Here are some possibilities:
A nice big bowl of Lucky Charms. Start with the plain beige cereal part: That represents writers like Ramesh and VDH, whose stuff is tasty and filled with vitamins, establishing a solid base. The marshmallow bits are guys like Lileks and Rob Long, who add color and variety and a bit of crunchiness. And the milk is Rich and the editorial staff, who provide context and hold everything together, hopefully without making it too soggy. Or, returning to the pasta theme...
Farfalle with prosciutto and green peas. Farfalle because of all the conservatives who wear bow ties; prosciutto because with its rich, aged flavor, created using methods that have been passed down for centuries, it represents the accumulated wisdom of the ages; and peas because they go so well with prosciutto.
A peanut-butter sandwich. Because NR's editors have been quite partial to them over the years.
Chop suey. Back in the mid-20th century, when every Chinese restaurant still had chop suey on the menu, the standard joke about Chinese food was that an hour after eating it, you were hungry again. The same principle applies to the Corner, which keeps its readers coming back to get the latest updates.
Yorkshire pudding. In recognition of the deep and longstanding British influence on NR — though, if you're borrowing from the Brits, better ideas than food, right?
Don't know what we'd have for dessert, except maybe a dobostorte with only three layers — because seven would be wasteful (it's Austrian, after all).
It stands on its own, but I suppose I have to add something for form's sake:
Organic peanut butter and marshmallow creme on soft white bread at Star Provisions, Atlanta
The childhood favorite--peanut butter and marshmallow fluff--gets an all-around upgrade at Anne Quatrano's gourmet-to-go café. They bake a light, pillowy white bread--"the base for any good sandwich is fresh bread," says chef de cuisine Gary Fincer--and make the silky fluff in-house from egg whites and sugar, like a meringue. The peanut butter comes from Big Spoon Roasters, an artisan nut-butter company in North Carolina, which Fincer prefers for its rustic taste. "It's not homogenized, so the oil separates to the top and you have to stir it back in. We like it because it's just really peanutty--there are no additives or sugar, and it's not too processed. It's a grown-up peanut butter," he says. Once assembled, the sandwich is griddled on the flattop, so the finished product is buttery and crisp on the outside and sweet and creamy within.
Star Provision's Fluffernutter
Marshmallow Fluff:
1 cup egg whites
1 1/2 cup plus 1 cup glucose
Whisk egg white with 1 1/2 cup glucose and vanilla on low speed using a whisk attachment. In a saucepan, add sugar, 1 cup water, and 1 cup glucose. Cook until temperature reaches 240 degrees, then add to the egg whites while mixing constantly, until it is fluffy, silky, and smooth.
1.76 ounces milk
15.9 ounces water
1.76 ounces fresh yeast
2.45 ounces soft butter
1/2 ounce kosher salt
3.5 ounces sugar
2.2 pounds flour
Place the egg, milk, water, yeast, and soft butter in the mixing bowl. Add salt, sugar, and flour. Mix on low until the dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl and is smooth and soft, not sticky. Let rest for 90 minutes. Portion at 1 1/2 pounds for a large pullman. Shape, cover with plastic, and let rise until doubled. Bake in convection oven at 325 degrees for 30 minutes. Cool on cooling rack.
Assembly: Toast bread lightly, smear with marshmallow fluff and Big Spoon Roasters peanut butter, and season with salt.
Since it seems HTML Mencken is on a posting jag I suppose I should add more links to Fred Schwarz's text in tribute.
Steveston
Posted by Substance McGravitas at 6:48 PM 16 comments
Labels: Photos, ЗОРБ
Danwei:
About 20 km outside Beijing, tourists sitting in tour buses from Beijing north-eastwards towards the Badaling section of the Great Wall can spot the remains of an eerie shell of a castle some distance from the expressway. With concrete spires sticking out above dusty corn fields, the castle remains as a relic of the grandiose ideas of men who've long since passed through the grinding mill of elite politics, corruption and prison in China. All around Beijing, architectural artefacts of previous decades remain, many decayed and going to ruin.
This article is a tour through some of the more spectacular wastelands of contemporary Beijing, places that will surely be developed into something entirely different at some point in the future, when the interest groups that control the land and construction finally make a deal they can live with.
The Intersection Between Video and Painting
The VAG Ian Wallace exhibition is astoundingly boring, but apparently he was on about the "intersection of painting and photography" which I don't really believe applies to putting a big photograph near a rectangle of colour. But what do I know.
The obvious problem there, labourwise, is that you have to do two things: take the photo and paint the painting. Video, however, will do your paint-swipes for you if your subject is in motion or you have a sufficiently palsied hand.
Voila! A pulse to wipe the slate clean at intervals offset to the loop of the video and you have as many paintings as frames in the loop, which, if you let this run in Quartz Composer or as a screensaver, is about 1865 possible paintings (one of which might be good!) and thus close to two million equivalent words, making me a prolific writer in the bargain. Take that, Wallace!
Sound by robots because they work cheap.
Labels: Cheap Animation, Deaf Composers
That Ain't Right
WHAT THE F UPDATE:
I suppose I am allowed to draw no conclusions from French contribution to METAL Fairyland:
Practical Politics
More stuff from old Smithsonian feeds:
The executioners of the Ottoman Empire were never noted for their mercy; just ask the teenage Sultan Osman II, who in May 1622 suffered an excruciating death by "compression of the testicles"–as contemporary chronicles put it–at the hands of an assassin known as Pehlivan the Oil Wrestler. There was reason for this ruthlessness, however; for much of its history (the most successful bit, in fact), the Ottoman dynasty flourished—ruling over modern Turkey, the Balkans and most of North Africa and the Middle East—thanks in part to the staggering violence it meted out to the highest and mightiest members of society.
Seen from this perspective, it might be argued that the Ottomans' decline set in early in the 17th century, precisely at the point when they abandoned the policy of ritually murdering a significant proportion of the royal family whenever a sultan died, and substituted the Western notion of simply giving the job to the first-born son instead. Before then, Ottoman succession had been governed by the "law of fratricide" drawn up by Mehmed II in the middle of the 15th century. Under the terms of this remarkable piece of legislation, whichever member of the ruling dynasty succeeded in seizing the throne on the death of the old sultan was not merely permitted, but enjoined, to murder all his brothers (together with any inconvenient uncles and cousins) in order to reduce the risk of subsequent rebellion and civil war. Although it was not invariably applied, Mehmed's law resulted in the deaths of at least 80 members of the House of Osman over a period of 150 years. These victims included all 19 siblings of Sultan Mehmed III—some of whom were still infants at the breast, but all of whom were strangled with silk handkerchiefs immediately after their brother's accession in 1595.
For most of the bostancıs' victims, the sentence was carried out immediately after the serving of the fatal sherbet by a group of five muscular young janissaries, members of the sultan's elite infantry. For a grand vizier, however, there was still a chance: as soon as the death sentence was passed, the condemned man would be allowed to run as fast as he was able the 300 yards or so from the palace, through the gardens, and down to the Fish Market Gate on the southern side of the palace complex, overlooking the Bosphorus, which was the appointed place of execution. [...]
If the deposed vizier reached the Fish Market Gate before the head gardener, his sentence was commuted to mere banishment. But if the condemned man found the bostanci basha waiting for him at the gate, he was summarily executed and his body hurled into the sea.
Running from office.
Background Noise
Hey Townhall! Dance! DANCE! DO THAT CRAZY BIGOT DANCE!
But wait, what's that?
That's right crackers, you've gone far enough and it's gun-confiscatin' time.
Being Helpful
Jay Nordlinger:
The AP reported — though "reported" is not the word — "HAWKISH NETANYAHU LIKELY TO BE RE-ELECTED." The wire service continued, "Israelis, who head to the polls Tuesday, no longer seem to believe that peace with the Palestinians is possible."
I have two comments on the AP's spin: First, they have called Netanyahu "hawkish," and that he is. But I wonder whether they would refer to a dovish leader as "dovish."
Wonder no more!
Second, it may be that Israelis voting for Netanyahu are realistic: realistic about what it takes to make peace, keep peace, and ensure national survival. Maybe they think that Netanyahu stands between them and annihilation by Iran. Maybe they think that he is the one to look out for Israeli interests when there is a hostile, or semi-hostile, in the Oval Office. Maybe they think that true peace with the Palestinians can be forged only on a realistic basis, not on wishful thinking.
I recommend removal of that last clause.
The Real World is Complicated
Posted by Substance McGravitas at 10:35 AM 2 comments
Labels: Cheap Animation
Anchor and Moon
Posted by Substance McGravitas at 8:25 AM 4 comments
The Golden Age of Barbarity
Charles C.W. Cooke:
In 1975, New York state had over 80 school districts with rifle teams. In 1984, that had dropped to 65. By 1999 there were just 26. The state's annual riflery championship was shut down in 1986 for lack of demand. This, sadly, is a familiar story across the country. The clubs are fading from memory, too. A Chicago Tribune report from 2007 notes the astonishment of a Wisconsin mother who discovered that her children's school had a range on site. "I was surprised, because I never would have suspected to have something like that in my child's school," she told the Tribune. The district's superintendent admitted that it was now a rarity, confessing that he "often gets raised eyebrows" if he mentions the range to other educators. The astonished mother raised her eyebrows — and then led a fight to have the range closed. "Guns and school don't mix," she averred. "If you have guns in school, that does away with the whole zero-tolerance policy."
But how wise is that "zero-tolerance policy"? Until 1989, there were only a few school shootings in which more than two victims were killed. This was despite widespread ownership of — and familiarity with — weapons and an absence of "gun-free zones." As George Mason University economist Walter E. Williams has observed, for most of American history "private transfers of guns to juveniles were unrestricted. Often a youngster's 12th or 14th birthday present was a shiny new .22-caliber rifle, given to him by his father." This was a right of passage, conventional and uncontroversial across the country. "Gee, Dad . . . A Winchester!" read one particularly famous ad. "In Virginia," Williams writes, "rural areas had a long tradition of high-school students going hunting in the morning before school, and sometimes storing their guns in the trunk of their cars during the school day, parked on the school grounds." Many of these guns they could buy at almost any hardware store or gas station — or even by mail order. The 1968 Gun Control Act, supported happily by major gun manufacturers who wished to push out their competition, put a stop to this.
Obviously Newtown would have gone completely differently if the first-grade students had been packing.
Bus Project
More Smithsonian Filler
Kids of the 70s draw the future.
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A fan with a thrilling name writes to John Ransom:
Moonbat Exterminator wrote: JR, your assertion that computing a single number for the average temperature of the planet is mathematically impossible is incorrect. It would in fact be a simple, straightforward calculation. In statistics, it's called the mean of sampling means. The weakness of such a statistic is that the enormous variability in the data far exceeds the variability in that number. Even the 90 % confidence interval would be much larger than the variations in that average, making it useless from a practical standpoint.
Dear Moon,
I think we are talking about two different things, but your post actually proves my point.
I live in Colorado where temperatures can vary quite a bit from place to place, even covering only short distances.
I drove about 5 miles yesterday and experienced a temperature difference of about 7 degrees Fahrenheit. And that's not because of huge altitude differences.
Unless you can account for those differences everywhere, and map them according to the area occupied for each temperature, which you can't possibly do, there is no real average temperature for the planet. Not one that has any real significance.
The larger point, which I think we both agree on, is that for purposes of global warming, no actual "average" temperature has been calculated that's meaningful in the debate.
Even if you DO account for every area, you then have to account for HALF that area. So let's imagine we do that. BUT THEN! Yes, my friends, you have to account for half of that area as well.
And this is why John Ransom knows that trying to order a steak cooked the way you like it is impossible.
Teller:
I'm all for helping science. But after I share what I know, my neuroscientist friends thank me by showing me eye-tracking and MRI equipment, and promising that someday such machinery will help make me a better magician.
I have my doubts. Neuroscientists are novices at deception. Magicians have done controlled testing in human perception for thousands of years.
I remember an experiment I did at the age of 11. My test subjects were Cub Scouts. My hypothesis (that nobody would see me sneak a fishbowl under a shawl) proved false and the Scouts pelted me with hard candy. If I could have avoided those welts by visiting an MRI lab, I surely would have.
But magic's not easy to pick apart with machines, because it's not really about the mechanics of your senses. Magic's about understanding—and then manipulating—how viewers digest the sensory information.
I think you'll see what I mean if I teach you a few principles magicians employ when they want to alter your perceptions.
Fritz Pfister Doctor Snitch
Thank you for a lot of fun, sir.
Doctor Snitch* our game is done, sir.
*Fritz Pfister Doctor Snitch is not in fact a doctor but might ably fill the part of snitch.
China's Ten Ugliest Statues
7. "Old man" in Guilin, Guangxi province (244,174 votes)
"Old man" in Guilin
So moving on to the male sexual organ, this particular piece in Guilin (桂林) in Guangxi (广西) province is a real piece of work. Showing two fully naked women carrying a man with his legs pulled up and his member in full view at about head height, the statue has an plaque with the explanation that the woman on the left signifies a wife and the one on the right a daughter-in-law. The intended moral message here is supposed to be harmonious relations between family members, peaceful co-existence and mutual respect. For its sheer and unadulterated farce, this one would probably get my vote as the worst of the lot.
Also from that article, fucking pigs.
Crosseyed and Brainless
Jonah Goldberg:
It took time. In an age when conservative books make millions, it's hard to imagine how difficult it once was to get a right-of-center book published. Henry L. Regnery, the founder of the publishing house that bears his name, started his venture to break the wall of groupthink censorship surrounding the publishing industry. With a few exceptions, Regnery was the only game in town for decades.
That's hardly the case anymore. While there's a higher bar for conservative authors at mainstream publishers (which remain overwhelmingly liberal), profit tends to trump ideology.
And publishing is a lagging indicator. In cable news, think tanks, talk radio, and, of course, the Internet, conservatives have at least rough parity with, and often superiority to, liberals. It's only in the legacy institutions — newspapers, the broadcast networks, and most especially academia and Hollywood — that conservatism is still largely frozen out. Nonetheless, conservatism is a mass-market enterprise these days, for good and for ill.
The good is obvious. The ill is less understood. For starters, the movement has an unhealthy share of hucksters eager to make money from stirring rage, paranoia, and an ill-defined sense of betrayal with little concern for the real political success that can come only with persuading the unconverted.
What We Talk About When We Talk About MOV
The Museum of Vancouver has a Tobias Wong show:
There are many ways to extract money from rich people, I guess, and if you get to mock them in a pretty way while doing it you have a career.
Other things:
Posted by Substance McGravitas at 9:44 AM 13 comments
Cal Thomas:
If laws were enough to deter criminal behavior prisons would be empty.
The latest effort to "control" guns in America is as likely to deter someone intent on breaking the law as outlawing lust would affect one's libido. What's in a heart can't be controlled by restricting what's in a hand.
It's also pretty hard to control what's in someone's stomach.
On the other hand if James Woods didn't have a gun to stick in his guts in the first place fictional characters would be alive now.
Breitbart News:
A socially conservative group wants the state of Utah to stop supporting the Sundance Film Festival, citing its "obscene" films in its 2013 lineup.
The Sutherland Institute called out Sundance-approved films like "Lovelace," a biopic of porn actress Linda Lovelace, as proof the festival doesn't reflect Utah residents' values.
"For the sake of public decency and encouraging a free, moral society, the state of Utah should end its 'complex relationship' with the Sundance Film Festival," [The Sutherland Institute's Derek] Monson writes, concluding, "Some things are more important than money."
Somehow some information was left out of the report. PDF here.
Red Light States: Who Buys Online Adult Entertainment?
In My Confusion
From the AGO:
Yeah, that's what I'm up to.
Of the Grange Prize artists I liked Emmanuelle Léonard most.
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What I expected:
In a blow to the movement's supporters, the U.S. Treasury announced Saturday that it would not mint a $1 trillion platinum coin in order to ensure the nation's creditworthiness should Congress fail to raise the debt ceiling.
"Neither the Treasury Department nor the Federal Reserve believes that the law can or should be used to facilitate the production of platinum coins for the purpose of avoiding an increase in the debt limit," said Treasury spokesman Anthony Coley in a statement obtained by TPM.
Acknowledging that money is just a tool means you have to explain why money is so poorly distributed. You could mint the trillion and pay it into Social Security and it would be fine. Or pay off mortgages. Or make food stamps. Or subsidize day-care.
It doesn't serve the existing order to prove that the river of money flowing to the assholes is just a game and not divine recognition of worthiness.
The Pie is Higher Now
My copy of The Theory of the Leisure Class has an introduction written in 1953.
C. Wright Mills:
The spleen of [Thorstein] Veblen is due to the assumption, in his own words, that "the accumulation of wealth at the upper end of the pecuniary scale implies privation at the lower end of the scale." He tended always to assume that the pie was of a certain size, and that the wealthy class withdraws from the lower classes "as much as it may of the means of sustenance, and so reducing their consumption, and consequently their available energy, to such a point as to make them incapable of the effort required for the learning and adoption of new habits of thought." Again, the moral edge of the phrase, "conspicuous consumption" lies in the fact that it tends "to leave but a scanty subsistence minimum ... to absorb any surplus energy which may be available after the pure physical necessities of life ..." All this, strangely enough, was a sort of survival in Veblen's thought of classic economic conceptions of scarcity, and betrays a lack of confidence in technological abundance which we cannot now accept in the simple terms in which Veblen left it.
Veblen, thinking of the immigrant masses of his time and of the enormously unequal distribution of income and wealth, did not leave enough scope for the economic pie to expand - and what has happened, especially since the second World War, has meant that the majority of the U.S. population can consume conspicuously. In face, in the absence of "lower classes on a scanty subsistence," the term "conspicuous consumption" becomes a somewhat flat description of higher standards of living because the invidious element is lacking. Of course the aesthetics of Veblen's case remain applicable.
Later Mills notes that Veblen's conception of the shamefulness of labour is belied by the fact that many in the upper class are industrious as anyone else in running about and doing things. That humans enjoy being busy is obvious enough, so the leisure class is not quite that (although labour-by-choice is different from mopping up a bathroom). It may have been difficult to imagine in those Fabulous Fifties, though, that some in the not-quite-leisure classes would be so intent on depriving others of that higher pie. It is not enough to have pleasure, others must have misery.
RAGE-AT-THE-POOR UPDATE!
And here comes Michelle Malkin:
From New York to New Mexico and across the dependent plains, welfare recipients are getting sauced on the public dime. Drunk, besotted, bombed. But while politicians pay lip service to cutting government waste, fraud and abuse, they're doing very little in practice to stop the EBT party excesses. Where's the compassion for taxpayers?
You see the signs everywhere: "We accept EBT." Fast-food restaurants do. Clothing retailers do. Auto repair shops, liquor stores and even sushi joints are joining the club. "EBT" stands for the federal government's electronic benefits transfer card, which is intended to provide poor people with food stamps and cash assistance for basic necessities. The two separate programs were combined into one ATM-like card designed to reduce the "stigma" attached to Nanny State dependency, and -- voila! -- an entirely new method of mooching was born.
Excuse-makers for the welfare-takers emphasize that both eligibility fraud and EBT card trafficking fraud are minuscule. But a bottle here, a case there, a pole dance here, a lap dance there, and soon it all starts to add up. With food stamp rolls exploding under both Republican and Democratic administrations while enforcement resources shrink nationwide, EBT has taken on a whole new meaning: Exploitation of Broke Taxpayers. Shame.
I guess if there ain't drinking there's still fighting and fucking, so the sacrifice must be made. Michelle Malkin is, unlike those welfare recipients, broke.
Just an FYI
Wiley is posting things again.
As noted here and elsewhere, the ЗОРБ menace must end.
A thrill-seeker died when the giant inflatable Zorb ball he was riding in with a pal plunged over a cliff.
Married dad-of-two Denis Burakov, 27, broke his neck and spine after the sphere veered off course and began rolling down a mountain.
There's more of this to come.
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When Life Gives You Propaganda, Make Propagandade
Ezra Dulis:
Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" is not only a great film but the greatest display of liberalism in movie theaters this past year.
To those whose blood is boiling or eyes are rolling, I don't use that word to refer to the political left in modern politics. Their use of that word was always illegitimate, and their ownership of it has expired.
Liberalism is exactly what its name suggests: a belief that men and women should be free—and therefore equal. And that is a far more fundamental belief than any racial or political one. The film isn't political at all, though its undertones bring to mind gun control, an issue made salient by a recent national tragedy—and its only coherent reading is that when access to guns is unrestricted, tyranny cannot survive.
The film isn't political at all, but it's the greatest display of liberalism conservative principles in movie theatres this past year, and gun control sure is bad, otherwise how would Django have set the slaves free?
"Django" is about liberalism and tyranny, and the era of American slavery was a perfect illustration of it. There was no law from the government directly limiting the freedom of slaves; it was on a human level—one man telling another, "I own you," and that becoming the established social order.*
And at this point Django shoots Ezra Dulis.
*One may gather from this that unrestricted free markets are bad.
Sufferings of the Heart
Kathryn Jean Lopez interviews another nutty person in an interview entitled God, Man, Sex:
LOPEZ: What do you mean when you say "art is the language of the heart"?
WEST: There are longings of the heart, sufferings of the heart, cries of the heart that need expression. That's what art is — whether it be music or dance or poetry or sculpture or painting or storytelling or moviemaking or architecture. The more we are in touch with what goes on in our hearts, the more we become the true artists we are meant to be as human beings.
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Not Like the Others
I am back in Vancouver, somehow, and this is the rest of the holiday film roundup; more scheduled posts like this one may follow.
Argo is good, a ridiculous spy story that manages to be gripping and compelling without too many explosions. There's a lot of attention to detail that made me wonder where it was filmed: stock and re-creation worked really well. Shit cars from the 70s, the decayed Hollywood sign, hideous moustaches and icky suits...it all worked, and there was a smidge more redemption in it than seemed possible at the outset. There's the standard Hollywood manipulation to be sure, but almost all of it felt close and small and somehow plausible. Science fiction saves lives! Note to Ben: get rid of this lion for the DVD release.
A Late Quartet has Christopher Walken playing a plausibly kind individual with deep feelings for a now-dead wife. Remarkable. The gist of it is that his medical problems set off a chain of responses in the quartet, with various betrayals and measurings of worth leading up to what Walken wants to be his last performance. The quartet's actors all perform well (although the string skillz need work and is Philip Seymour Hoffman a regular jogger?) and the film is good if a little neat at the ending. Presumably I am meant to think that achieving a decent performance of Beethoven's Opus 131 String Quartet in C-sharp minor is worth dedication amounting to insanity; at the end I wondered more about whether the music should be played if it produces people like that (apart from Walken's character, who is, OMG, a swell guy somehow). The worst bit of performance was by Imogen Poots, whose name I really wanted to type, but she gets a plum in the form of a speech blasting someone that I really wanted to hear. Also too it may be worth dedication amounting to insanity to live well in Manhattan.
And back home I took The Lovely Daughter to Rise of the Guardians, which was nowhere near as bad as I expected (though not really worth seeking out in the absence of children) and fairly lovingly animated. Very pretty, good character motion, better than Wreck-It Ralph for sure, and the comedy was not entirely based on whether or not you can get a pop-culture reference. The Lovely Daughter informs me that Ratoncito Pérez made an appearance.
Via The Smithsonian:
When Madame Restell began her practice, New York State law regarding abortion reflected contemporary folk wisdom, which held that a fetus wasn't technically alive until "quickening"—the moment when the mother felt it first move inside the womb, usually around the fourth month. An abortion before quickening was legal, but an abortion after quickening was considered to be second-degree manslaughter. Restell tried to determine how far along a patient was in her pregnancy before offering her services; if she intervened too late, she risked a $100 fine and one year in prison.
She had her first major brush with the law in 1840, when a 21-year-old woman named Maria Purdy lay on her deathbed, suffering from tuberculosis. She told her husband she wished to make a confession: While pregnant the previous year, she decided she didn't want to give birth again; they had a ten-month-old child and she couldn't handle another so soon. She had visited Restell's office on Greenwich Street and joined several women waiting in the front parlor. When her turn came, Restell listened to her story and gave her a small vial of yellow medicine in exchange for a dollar.
Purdy took one dose that night and two the next day but then stopped, suddenly worried about the potential consequences. A doctor analyzed the medicine and concluded it contained oil of tansy and spirits of turpentine and advised her to never take it again. She returned to Restell, who told her that for $20 an operation could be performed without pain or inconvenience. Purdy had no cash, and instead offered a pawn ticket for a gold watch chain and a stack of rings, which Restell accepted. She led Purdy behind a curtain to a darkened room, where a strange man—not Restell's husband—placed his hands on her abdomen and declared she was only three months along (if Purdy was past the first trimester, she didn't correct him). She had the surgery, and was convinced that her present illness was a result. After hearing her deathbed confession her husband went to the police, who arrested Restell and charged her with "administering to Purdy certain noxious medicine… [and]… procuring her a miscarriage by the use of instruments, the same not being necessary to preserve her life."
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Of Possible Interest
Some pre-xmas hype:
That photography is an unreliable witness is certainly not a revelation. How many images have you yourself radically altered in the interest of aesthetics, humor, or plain old deception?
You might, however, find it revelatory to learn that photography has been prevarication-prone nearly from day one of its existence. Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop is a fascinating book, and an associated traveling exhibit, in which the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Mia Fineman presents what may be the first scholarly survey of the history of photographic manipulation prior to digital photography. Fineman traces the history of manipulation from the medium's earliest days* up to the 1990s, when the computer began taking over the medium.
I Had the Venison
Richmond Station prepares Bambi properly.
Sorry, ate in a crazy frenzy and did not photograph the dish.
What You Can Pay the Locals To Do
The future of tourism?
Despite improvements in telepresence, most virtual "traveling" amounts to little more than staring at a screen and listening to headphones. In an effort to provide a more immersive sensory experience, the Ikei Laboratory at the Tokyo Metropolitan University Graduate School of System Design is developing what it calls "virtual body technology." Unveiled at the Digital Contents Expo 2012 in Tokyo last October, the system claims to use all five senses to provide a virtual experience akin to inhabiting another person's body.
I wonder if the rental price of someone larger and stronger will be higher. Will we be able to pay someone to go punch someone else out? And of course Rule 34.
The Orbs Advance
Are they some form of gastropod?
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Kyle Rittenhouse's National Campaign for Right-Wing Martyrdom
With murder acquittal in hand, he's touring conservative media to reinvent himself as a victim of the culture war.
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In Kyle Rittenhouse's first interview following being acquitted of all charges after killing two and seriously wounding another during last summer's unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, he insisted that he had been fundamentally and intentionally misunderstood by the media. Speaking to Tucker Carlson last week, Rittenhouse signaled allyship with the Black Lives Matter movement and insisted those alleged to have looted and committed violent acts in Kenosha were "opportunists, taking advantage of the BLM movement."
It was an unexpected declaration, to say the least, given Rittenhouse's stature within the conservative media ecosystem. Naturally, it was widely disseminated in both print and broadcast media. Less appreciated was the way his statement fitted neatly into the larger narrative on the right about Rittenhouse. His ongoing media tour—he has met with Donald Trump and Charlie Kirk in recent days—tells you everything you need to know. Rittenhouse is not making sincere claims of solidarity with anti–police brutality activists or racial justice advocates. He's manufacturing his own quasi-martyrdom, as someone who has been badly mistreated by the cultural forces of the left.
Rittenhouse's insistence that he was a stealth Black Lives Matter supporter was a carefully constructed statement. As Vox's Jamil Smith noted, coming from white liberals, such claims often signal solidarity. But "for conservatives or people playing to that audience's sympathies, doing so is often a move to seek cover from charges of racism. The resurgence of extremist, white supremacist violence, and intimidation during the last several years has been, in their view, an act of self-defense." Rittenhouse, in his version, just wanted to do what was right. Two people are dead and another was wounded because he was forced into a dangerous situation by people who didn't.
It all tucks neatly into the right's larger narrative about Rittenhouse: That he was not only a victim but collateral damage in the culture war. He did the right thing and was mercilessly punished by the woke mob and the Democratic Party; held in a cell he likened to a "a one-star hotel" for petty political reasons. (The January 6 rioters have voiced similarly sudden opinions of the carceral state in recent weeks.) He has also attempted to reframe his travails, arguing that he was caught up in a political firestorm not of his own making. "How polarized it became is absolutely sickening: right or left, people using me for a cause that should never have been used as a cause," he told Carlson.
"What a sweet boy," Carlson said of Rittenhouse. It was a claim taken up across the right-wing media ecosystem during his trial: Here was a good kid, a young man who had gone to Kenosha to clean up graffiti and try to keep the peace, being tried for obviously fraudulent reasons. Rittenhouse, meanwhile, insisted that the experience had opened his eyes to "prosecutorial misconduct"—a strange admission from someone who worships law enforcement.
Rittenhouse is nevertheless revealing that what he's after isn't justice—rather, he's seeking to invert the existing argument about racial justice in America. In his version, it's white conservatives like him—law-and-order-abiding regular folks who just may, from time to time, carry high-powered assault rifles into public spaces and occasionally use them—who are the justice system's actual victims. People should really be out marching for Kyle Rittenhouse, not victims of police brutality.
Rittenhouse's choice of friendly interlocutors has been revealing. Carlson is a master of these types of inversions, in which those who advocate against racism are the real racists; those fighting for equal rights really want to privilege certain groups over others; in social justice–obsessed America, it's white people who should be most afraid. Rittenhouse making the rounds from Carlson to Kirk to Trump speaks volumes about the role he hopes to play in American political culture for the next several years, if not longer: as a regular political and cultural commentator, someone trotted out every time a cop kills an unarmed person of color or a vigilante "keeps the peace" by gunning down a protester.
It would be a shock if Rittenhouse doesn't get a prime-time speaking slot at the 2024 Republican National Convention or appear by the side of some congressman or other—or perhaps Trump himself—during next year's midterm elections. In Kirk and Carlson, Rittenhouse has firmly allied himself with two important players in the new right. He is, to a large extent, the future of right-wing media: a guy who literally killed two people but whose actions have been whitewashed to further his portrayal as victim and martyr—even though the only consequence he has faced is the three months he spent in prison awaiting trial.
Rittenhouse may continue to try to complicate his own self-portrait, posing as some sort of sincere believer in multiracial democracy. But the wider narrative on the right holds simply that he was not only justified but right to kill two and wound a third during the unrest in Kenosha—and that he never should have been tried for doing so. The larger case being made both by Rittenhouse and his boosters on the right is that this type of vigilantism is a heroic necessity in today's America and that others should take similar actions and run similar dodges and weaves from the same playbook. His victory lap is an outrage—and a grim portent of things to come.
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Here is the interview with Latin America-Caribbean region finalists: chef Maria José Jordan and fashion designer Paula Cademartori.
Lots of things, but nothing specific. I don't think I have figured out my style yet. I'd say anything that's aesthetically appealing - maybe not always in a pretty way - can influence me. I'm inspired by things like a song or a music genre, maybe even a feeling or a memory.
Textures are more important than colours. A dish might have only two components, but you have to vary the texture. If you add something crunchy, chewy, creamy or smooth you can bring it to a whole new level. Colours are also very important, because food goes in through the eyes. It has to look good.
... I love to combine together colors and textures to create unusual and contrasting combinations I would define "unique". Color, especially, conveys our mood and state of mind, a particular period or phase of our life. And with my creations I want to convey something beautiful, something that makesyou happy every time you wear it.
My creative process or style is a mix of Ghetto/Street, with a bit of Punk. The 'I don't really care about your opinion' aspect of both styles suits my personality the best. The presentation of the dessert that I'm making for the competition is more Art Nouveau than anything else.
I have always strived to create unique, refined, exclusive pieces, pervaded by a classic spirit that, revisited with a modern appeal, defines the timeless style of accessories destined to become iconic. Smart sensuousness, structure and contemporary refinement are the key features of my aesthetic and creative philosophy; a unique perspective in which design becomes a primary tool of expression, emotion and timeless elegance.
I work with produce from the Amazon, so I get to handle fruit that most people won't ever get a chance to see or try in their whole life. It's always exciting. When it comes to tradition, I always keep in mind my roots, but at the same time I also want room for creativity.
My Brazilian roots deeply influence my life, besides my creative vision... I love mixing together the most unusual colors. For me, this is synonymous with life and cheerfulness and it reminds me of the liveliness of my homeland.
Either a bowl of rice with a perfectly cooked sunny-side-up egg on top and a glass of passion fruit juice, or a few pieces of Toro sushi and a pint of Hefeweizen.
Fresh fruit, muesli and yogurt. I just love it!
A black dress and a pair of blood red Dr. Martens.
A lovely cup of ice-cream with lots of colorful fresh flavors or fizzy and 'explosive' candy.
I would never eat a cat, because I have one as a pet. Does that count as an ingredient?
Surely white cowboy boots. Not very feminine.
Have an espresso and delicious gelato, most likely pistachio.
Do not miss Piazzetta del Carmine and the little alleys in Brera. It's the only way to take a break from the hectic pace of Milan and enter a "magical" town. It's nice to get lost amid the understated luxury of old shops and artistic treasures like the church of San Marco. The arty area par excellence!
During the challenge itself, I expect not to get nervous and have fun. Just enjoy it. After that, hopefully it will make my short term plan (dream) of getting a job in Europe a bit easier. I am very excited to have such an opportunity. The foods egment through this point of view is something new to me, I am electrified just thinking I will take part in this project, I have to say I find it really stimulating and it gives me the chance to feel closer to my homeland again!


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A person is guilty of placing a false bomb or hazardous substance in a sports stadium or arena, mass transportation facility or enclosed shopping mall when he or she places, or causes to be placed, in a sports stadium or arena, mass transportation facility or enclosed shopping mall, in which it is likely that persons are present, any device or object that by its design, construction, content or characteristics appears to be or to contain a bomb, destructive device, explosive or hazardous substance, but is, in fact, an inoperative facsimile or imitation of such a bomb, destructive device, explosive or hazardous substance and which he or she knows, intends or reasonably believes will appear to be a bomb, destructive device, explosive or hazardous substance under circumstances in which it is likely to cause public alarm or inconvenience. For purposes of this section, "sports stadium or arena, mass transportation facility or enclosed shopping mall" shall have its natural meaning.
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Y.Uma Meheswar Reddy,a student of this Vidyalaya secured second place in Art Competition Organized by United Nations Environment Programme in the year 2001.
24 students were selected for SGFI khabadi, Hand Ball,Table Tennis since 2002.Fifty-three students were selected for Nationals in Khabadi , HandBall and TT.
Beeram Ravi Chandra, an Ex-Student of this institution was awarded 'Young Scientist' in 2006 at Asian Scientist Conference for his research on Malaria under Malaria Research Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Bio-Technology Aruna Asaf Alimars New Delhi.
Master R.V.Pavan Kumar Secured First Prize in 23rd state level Essay Writing Competition organised by AP Government in 2007.
45 cadets have been trained successfully for NCC 'C' Certificate from 2008-2011.
Master I.Pavan Kumar S/O Sri I. Sreedhar Reddy was a student of class XII -2008, who has secured a seat in Post Graduation at Delhi School of Economics , a most prestigious institution of our Country. Dr. Manmohan Singh , Prime Minister of India and Dr. Amarthyasen , a Nobel Laureate are the Honorary Faculty Members of this college.
Kumari Krishna Bhavana of class X stood first in National Science Exhibition held at Haryana in Social Science during the year 2009-10.Master Siva Rama Krishna of Class XII stood first in physics in National Science Exhibition.
Our Vidyalaya stood in Second position in the National Green Schools Award during 2009-10. The award was received from Hon'ble Smt.Shiela Dixit, the Chief Minister of Delhi.
In connection with the 5 th centenary celebrations of SriKrishna deveraya, our students staged " Bhuvana Vijayam " for which a Reputed Cultural Organisation during the year 2010. NTR Kalaparishad honoured the participants with a cash prize Rs.10000/- and citations.
Monthly News Letter has been initiated in the Vidyalaya since 2010 promoting the Creative Skills of students.
Kum. M.Krishna Kumari of class XI has been selected for 16 days tour Japan sponsored by the Japan East Asia Network of Exchange for Students and Youth Programme (JENSESYS PROGRAMME-2011).It's a unique and rare opportunity to have a wide exposure to various cultures and traditions. Indeed, it adds a feather to the cap of our Vidyalaya.
National Green award was accorded for First place to JNV Ongole in the year 2011.
Kum.N.Sucharitha got First place in General Knowledge Test held by United Schools Organization in 2011.
Five Guides participated in 16th National Jumbore held at Hyderabad in 2011.
JNV,Ongole stood as the pace setting institutions in the district by extending its resources with the Neighbouring Schools and Organizing Awareness Campaigns and Education, Environment And Health.
It is a matter of pride to mention that scores of Alumni have been rendering their services in various fields all over the country and abroad.
Our Vidyalaya organizes Guest Lectures, counseling sessions and Awareness Campaigns on various occasions by inviting eminent personalities to bring about the holistic development of Vidyalaya Students.


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Athens News Agency: Daily News Bulletin in English, 02-11-04
Athens News Agency: Daily News Bulletin in English Directory - Previous Article - Next Article
From: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>
[01] Greece will not give Turkey pretext to cause problems for Cyprus' EU entry
[02] Papantoniou addresses seminar in Rhodeson Mediterranean dimension of ESDP
[03] Cypriot interior minister on Cyprus' EU accession course, elections in Turkey
[04] Beglitis comments on newspaper report on name of rocky islet
[05] President Stephanopoulos back in Athens following S. Africa visit
[06] Synaspismos' Constantopoulos again rules out cooperation with PASOK
[07] ND deputies sharply criticize gov�t tourism policy
[08] Bank accounts of alleged 'N17' terrorist Giotopoulos' companion unfrozen
[09] 23 illegals arrested on rocky islet off Lesvos
[10] 2 drivers arrested at Patra port for migrant smuggling
[11] Denktash to remain in New York for another ten days
Athens, 04/11/2002 (ANA)
Defense Minister Yiannos Papantoniou on Saturday termed as unacceptable ''the continuing Turkish provocation in the Aegean.''
Speaking from Rhodes where earlier in the day he opened a seminar entitled ''Mediterranean Dimension of the European Security and Defense Policy'', Papantoniou reiterated that ''Greece reacts with calm and firmness'' to the infringements of the Athens Flight Information Region (FIR) and to the violations of the country's national air space by Turkish warplanes, because ''we do not want to give any pretext to the neighbor to cause problems in Cyprus' EU accession course.''
He said ''we are firm and remain firm, but we are also ready for every eventuality,'' adding that ''for this reason the Greek Armed Forces are on an exceptionally high level of alert.''
Papantoniou also clarified that the issue of Cyprus' EU accession was completely separate to that of the European Army issue.
The sessions of a seminar on the Mediterranean dimension of the European Presidency of the European Union, officially began on Saturday on the Dodecanese island of Rhodes.
Taking part are representatives from the 15 EU member-states, Egypt, Israel, Cyprus, Malta, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority, Turkey and Tunisia.
The seminar, entitled ''Mediterranean Dimension of the European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) was opened by Greek Defense Minister Yiannos Papantoniou.
The purpose of the seminar is to process support for joint training programs, military cooperation initiatives and the institutionalization of such seminars to ensure their continuation and further development of the Mediterranean Dimension of the Common European Foreign and Defense Policy.
Designed to promote dialogue between the EU and the Mediterranean countries, the Mediterranean Dimension was launched in May 2002 as a Spanish EU Presidency initiative and is being continued by Greece which undertook the EU Presidency of the ESDP on July 1.
Referring to Greece's presidency of the ESDP, Papantoniou said in his opening speech that ''we started with a broad spectrum of objectives and priorities and in a relatively short period of time we managed to achieve remarkable progress in the shaping of a common European action framework.''
He noted that ''this presidency is being held under conditions particularly decisive for the future of the European Union,'' stressing that ''this increases both our responsibilities for the effective confrontation of the problems, and those of the European Union itself which must assume its proportional share for the consolidation of international peace and security.''
He added that ''our basic priority is to secure the operational capability of the European Union, in accordance with the General Military Objective of Helsinki, for humanitarian and peace missions, known as Petersburg missions.''
Greeting the participants of the seminar on Friday, Papantoniou said ''it gives me great pleasure to welcome you in Rhodes on the occasion of the Seminar organized by the Hellenic Presidency on the Mediterranean Dimension of the European Security and Defense Policy.
''This initiative is part of a number of important issues that the Hellenic Presidency has wished to promote, in order to enhance the operability and efficiency of the European Security and Defense Policy. To this end, my colleagues and I have reached agreement on several decisive issues for the future of the security and defense aspects of the European Union, at the Informal Meeting of the Ministers of Defense of the European Union. The acceleration of the European Capabilities Action Plan (ECAP) process, in order to have specific results by March 1st, 2003, coupled with the creation of a forum of experts to provide procurement solutions, constitute a major development and a great challenge.
The defense minister noted, however, that ''none of the above is achievable unless we demonstrate the appropriate political will. This is a prerequisite for any future development in the frame-work of the European Union, as far as its internal proceedings as well as its relations with third countries are concerned.''
Visiting Cypriot Interior Minister Andreas Panayiotou on Saturday referred to Cyprus' EU accession course and to Sunday's elections in Turkey, expressing the hope that ''a government will be elected which at long last will discuss seriously with us for the solution of the (Cyprus) problem.''
Speaking from Hania, Crete, Panayiotou said he was anticipating that at the EU summit in Copenhagen on December 14 ''the great decision will be taken for the accession of Cyprus, along with the other nine (candidate) countries, to the European Union.''
Asked by reporters what the Cypriot government hoped from the elections in Turkey, the interior minister said ''we hope that a government will be elected which at long last will discuss seriously with us for the solution of the problem, because as you know, up to now the stance of Turkey is unfortunately completely negative, it even refuses recommendations, proposals by the United Nations.''
The Cypriot interior minister added that ''we hope that through tomorrow's elections, a government will be elected which will lead Turkey towards Europe and simultaneously at the negotiating table for the Cyprus issue to be solved, in accordance with the United Nations decisions, the Security Council resolutions but also on the basis of the European acquis communautaire and the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights."
Foreign Ministry spokesman Panos Beglitis, referring to an article in the Sunday edition of ''Ethnos'' newspaper entitled ''A Greek rocky islet has suddenly become Turkish'', said on Sunday evening that no such issue was ever raised at the foreign ministry.
According to the newspaper, ''the rocky islet Tsouka, which was handed over by the Italians to Greece at the end of WWII, has come to appear with a Turkish name in the Greek maps.''
Beglitis said the contents of the newspaper's article is being looked into ''with the necessary responsibility which is required, in cooperation with the services of the jointly responsible ministries, in order for there to be a complete and clear answer.''
As an initial reaction, the spokesman said, ''I would like to note that in order for the issue referred in the report be placed in the proper historical basis and for any misinterpretations to be avoided, never at least in the last years or from anyone has such an issue ever been brought up at the foreign ministry and its competent services.''
According to the newspaper, the rocky island Tsouka, (near the Dodecanese island of Kalymnos) ''initially appeared in the maps with its Greek name and within the Greek sea borders. Despite the accession of the rocky islet to the administrative division of the Dodecanese, in the Map of the Greek sea borders which was planned on the basis of the Treaty of Lausanne, the Italian-Turkish agreements of 1932, the Paris Peace Treaty and Greek law 518/1948, in other words the entire institutional framework governing the status quo in the Aegean, it henceforth appears with the Turkish name 'Topan' within the Turkish territorial waters.''
President of the Republic Kostis Stephanopoulos returned to Athens on Saturday morning via Johannesburg, the last leg of his five-day official visit to South Africa.
Stephanopoulos held talks with his South African counterpart Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki in Cape Town on bilateral (mainly economic) issues and on international affairs.
While in Cape Town, he also addressed an economic forum of Greek and South African businesspersons, which aimed at further improving trade exchanges between the two countries, and met with members of the Greek community.
Speaking at a gathering of Greeks in Johannesburg on Friday night, he reiterated the pride which Greece has for the Greek community abroad, noted the progress which has been made in Greece where he said democracy is stable, and stressed that he was departing with a good impression of South Africa.
Coalition of the Left and Progress (Synaspismos) leader Nikos Constantopoulos on Sunday said his party�s recent showing in the local government elections has �bothered many, especially PASOK�.
Constantopoulos made the comments at the end of Synaspismos� central committee meeting in Athens, which focused on the last elections and the party�s line in the coming period.
�This concern is depicted with chorus-like deliberations regarding possible cooperation (between PASOK and Synaspismos) ... as well as panicky speculation,� he charged, while pointing to what he claimed were PASOK-generated �leaks� cited in various papers on Sunday pointing to such �cooperation�.
Constantopoulos also stressed, in no uncertain terms, that his party is not interested in any possibility of pre-election cooperation with ruling PASOK, underlining that �if PASOK is afraid of the next elections because it knows very well that the Greek people are dissatisfied with government�s policy then that�s PASOK�s problem.�
In a differing light, Development Minister and top PASOK cadre Akis Tsohatzopoulos was quoted in the Sunday edition of the �Kathimerini� newspaper as saying that the era of �one-party governments has come to a close�. He also said that a more proportional election system is on the horizon, one that �correctly will be implemented� in the period following the next elections.
Conversely, another top PASOK cadre, Culture Minister Evangelos Venizelos, said �changes to the election law are not, for the hour, a topic of discussion�.
Two of the main opposition New Democracy�s (ND) top deputies for tourism policy on Sunday sharply criticized the government for what they called a lack of any strategic planning and goals vis-a-vis the sector � one of the biggest sources of revenue for the east Mediterranean country.
Speaking after a tour of the 18th annual �Philoxenia� tourism sector exhibition in Thessaloniki over the weekend, MPs George Salagoudis and Anastasios Liaskos also questioned recent figures unveiled by the Bank of Greece, which reportedly show an increase in tourism-related revenue for 2002. Both deputies said the collection and interpretation of relevant statistics was flawed.
�Today�s protracted crisis in the tourism sector is the result of a long-term lack of any specific government policy for the sector � the government was totally unprepared to meet the special demands of the current season that developed after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist strikes in the United States,� the deputies said.
Both men also charged that the government�s stance has caused a constant decrease in the quality and competitiveness of Greece�s tourism product, as well as a lack of coordination to develop alternative forms of tourism or even to penetrate new markets.
By decision of the Council of Appellate Judges, the four bank accounts of 48-year-old French national Marie-Therese Peynaud which were frozen since the summer when her companion, ''November 17'' terrorist group suspect Alexandros Giotopoulos was under police surveillance, have been unfrozen.
The Council of Appellate Judges in a ruling deemed that the sums in her accounts were justified from her employment and did not derive from illegal activities by Giotopolos.
Giotopoulos, the alleged leader of the N17 urban guerrilla group, is in jail along with 17 other suspects pending trial.
Twenty-three illegal immigrants were spotted and detained on a deserted islet off the large eastern Aegean island of Lesvos early Sunday morning.
According to reports, the Third World migrants � 16 women, six men and one child � were ferried onto Greek territory from the opposite Asia Minor coast Saturday afternoon by a trio of unidentified Turks.
Authorities said the illegal immigrants, who hail from Eritrea, Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia and Sri Lanka, reported that they began their journey 13 days ago in Djibouti -- on the horn of Africa -- before being unloaded near the Aivali coastal region in western Turkey the same day for a short trip across to the uninhabited Barbalia islet.
A coast guard investigation is pending.
Two local men were arrested for attempted migrant smuggling at the port of Patra, western Greece, on Saturday afternoon after four Kurds were discovered in their truck.
The lorry was headed to Italy aboard a Greek-flagged ferryboat when coast guard officers arrested the would-be migrants.
The suspects were identified as Socrates Xanthopoulos, 34, and Alexandros Tzoumas, 48. Both men, along with the four illegals, are due to face a local prosecutor.
UNITED NATIONS 04/11/2002 (CNA)
Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash will remain in New York for at least ten days more, as his health does not permit him to make the transatlantic trip back to Cyprus.
Denktash, who recently underwent open-heart surgery, went to the Presbyterian Clinic of New York on Friday for a checkup. His doctors found there was still fluid in his lungs, which did not enable them to remove the two tubes inserted after the second operation the Turkish Cypriot leader underwent a few days ago to drain excess fluid.
The Turkish Cypriot leader's senior advisor, Ergun Olgun, told CNA that the doctors believe Denktash is better than he was when he was admitted to hospital.
Olgun said ''the doctors have found no complications at all at this point'' and that ''they have suggested that he goes back to the hospital next Friday, so that the doctors make a final decision on removing the drain'', that is ''something like ten days from today''.
He added that Denktash is expected to resume his duties after eight weeks.
Asked if he intended to stay in New York, Olgun said he has a meeting early this week with the UN Secretary General's Special Adviser on Cyprus Alvaro de Soto and that ''on the basis of our discussions we will decide on the functioning of the committees and the possibility is that, depending on our discussions, I will pursue on the conclusions of that discussion''.
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Q: how to use crosswalk project in eclipse plugin i am facing much difficulty using crosswalk project with eclipse , is there any plugin for eclipse .
gone through their documentation which seems too complicated:
https://crosswalk-project.org/documentation/getting_started/windows_host_setup.html#Install-Ant
has anyone idea how to integrate and use it with eclipse
anyway i found one plugin for eclipse at :
https://github.com/crosswalk-project/crosswalk-developer-tools-eclipse-plugin
i followed below link:
https://github.com/crosswalk-project/crosswalk-developer-tools-eclipse-plugin
to create cross walk hello world project fro android .
now it creates blank project
facedetection
--index.html
--manifest.json

there are no java file and other .
how can i run this project ??.

A: If you have Eclipse and Android SDK already, you can install Crosswalk-Eclipse-plugin into your Eclipse. It supports to create an empty Crosswalk Application and to package it. More details refer to the link.

A: The project is a HTML5 applications. You just need to edit these two files. Please refer to https://crosswalk-project.org/documentation/getting_started/build_an_application.html.
After you edit your code. You can generate the android apk as follow:
Export Crosswalk Application
1.In Eclipse menu: Select "File->Export"
2.Select "Crosswalk/Export Crosswalk App" then click next
3.Input the required information then click "Finish" button

The you can install the apk to your device.

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Franco Mondini-Ruiz (born 1961) is an American artist who lives and works in San Antonio, Texas and New York, New York. He is of Mexican and Italian descent. According to art critic Roberta Smith, his work "questions notions of preciousness and art-market exclusivity while delivering a fizzy visual pleasure". Mondini-Ruiz takes a variety of approaches to creating art, working in  installation, performance, painting, sculpture, and short stories.

He was a 2004 Artist-in-Residence at the McColl Center for Visual Art in Charlotte, NC.

Infinito Botanica
One of Mondini-Ruiz's earliest major projects was his "Infinito Botanica," an installation that references the Mexican botánicas common in his hometown of San Antonio, Texas. In the mid-90s Mondini-Ruiz purchased a botánica on South Flores street in San Antonio that had been in operation since the 1930s. He used this space to create a hybrid installation / store, which he considered "part of a social and figurative sculpture that mixed traditional botánica fare with his own sculpture and installations, as well as with the contemporary work of local cutting-edge and outsider artists, locally made craft, folk art, cultural artifacts and junk." Mondini-Ruiz has created different site-specific versions of this project at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (1999), the Whitney Biennial (2000), and the Kemper Art Museum in St Louis (2001).

Piñatas
Mondini-Ruiz has also created a series of piñata versions of famous works of modern and contemporary art. These piñatas have been exhibited at the Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art in collaboration with the Newark Museum. The exhibition, titled "Mexican Museum of Modern Art" included piñata versions of works by Donald Judd, Piet Mondrian, Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, and many other modern and contemporary artists. A version of this series was also shown at Artpace in San Antonio, this time under the title "Modern Piñatas".

High Pink
In 2005, Distributed Art Publishers published Franco Mondini-Ruiz's book "High Pink: Tex-Mex Fairy Tales." The book includes short stories from South Texas and photographs of Mondini-Ruiz's artwork.

References

Further reading
Review of Quattrocento by Roberta Smith in New York Times
 Edward Leffingwell, Review of Quattrocento, Art in America
Review of 2000 Whitney Biennial by Katy Seigel in Art Forum
Review of Que Purdy by Catherine D. Anspon in Art Lies
Interview by Cary Cordova for Smithsonian Archives
Art at Our Doorstep: San Antonio Writers and Artists featuring Franco Mondini-Ruiz. Edited by Nan Cuba and Riley Robinson (Trinity University Press, 2008).

External links
Franco Mondini-Ruiz official website

20th-century American painters
American male painters
21st-century American painters
American artists of Mexican descent
Living people
1961 births
St. Mary's University, Texas alumni
People from San Antonio
Painters from New York City
American people of Italian descent
20th-century American sculptors
20th-century American male artists
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What is a responsible agent? How will you, as an absentee Breckenridge property owner, resolve issues such as noise, garbage and parking for your property caused by unruly guests at 2 AM to avoid having your business license revoked?
These are the questions owners are asking themselves after the Breckenridge Town Council passed a new BOLT ordinance affecting short term rentals operators on online platforms like Airbnb, VRBO, HomeAway and more.
The skyrocketing popularity of Airbnb in Breckenridge has provided major economic benefit for the town, but has also brought in it's fair share of complaints to local residents. Issues like noise late in the night, parking off property in prohibited areas and garbage in yards/on streets are just a few of the issues that the local residents of Breckenridge have to deal with.
It's one thing to recognize the issue, but another to understand where it stems from. The town council determined that these issues are caused not by Airbnb or other short term rental platforms themselves, but by careless owners and unreliable property management companies who do not communicate the laws and rules effectively.
Set up a 24/7 hotline for neighbors to report any issues caused by unruly short term renters.
Required that short-term rental operators assign a "responsible agent", rental agent or a local agent to resolve issues within one hour via the hotline.
With this, Breckenridge continues to add to it's already growing restrictions for Short Term Rentals by requiring the collection of a "town public accommodation tax" from guests. Airbnb, VRBO and Homeaway do not remit this tax on the behalf of its hosts. This means hosts are responsible for collecting the local accommodation tax and remitting it to Breckenridge which can be a hassle.
As restrictions grow in this beautiful mountain town, owners must adapt and find effective solutions. Saavy homeowners seeking to save valuable time and headaches may turn to a reliable professional property management company that offers responsible agent services, while others may decide to bite bullet and deal with issues themselves. Either way, keeping within the confines of the law is better safe than sorry, no matter how inconvenient it is.


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Both the UTSA Wind Ensemble and the UTSA Symphonic Band are two ensembles that require students to audition. These ensembles are comprised of both music and non-music majors. Audition dates and times will be updated per audition. Auditions take place at the start of each fall and spring semester. Band placements are determined by the audition results, in addition to/following consultation with studio teachers and ensemble directors.
The Department also offers a third option for students. The UTSA University Band is a non audition ensemble comprised mainly of non-music majors. It performs a standard three concert schedule each semester here at UTSA and offers students an enjoyable and fun musical outlet. All ensembles serve as hourly credits and serve towards the students cumulative GPA.
Wind/percussion players who are interested in ORCHESTRA notate this on their audition form. The audition is the same for all ensembles. Orchestra participation is highly selective and is determined by audition results, in addition to/following consultation with studio teachers and ensemble directors. Personnel needs fluctuate depending on repertoire requirements.
Auditions will consist of selected excerpts provided by all UTSA applied faculty. This music is available for download on this website at the bottom of this page. Scales and sight reading will be a part of the audition process as well.The link to audition sign-ups is directly below the excerpt downloads for each instrument. REMEMBER TO SIGN-UP FOR AN AUDITION SLOT ONLINE!
All auditions will be blind and evaluated by UTSA faculty.
INTERESTED IN ORCHESTRA? Seats are limited and are offered based on this audition and consultation with UTSA faculty. Participation in the UTSA Orchestra is optional; both music majors AND non-majors are eligible. You indicate interest for orchestra on your audition form prior to your audition.