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At Hailsham Community College we are a growing all through school. Currently this includes pre-school, reception, year 1, secondary and sixth form. We aim to be inclusive by working towards an ethos of quality first teaching. Our mission is to inspire a passion for learning that will form the foundations for successful futures. With learners who believe they can achieve the very best they can and aspire to secure pathways to higher education or employment; developing as well-rounded individuals who are positive ambassadors for the college.
The Children and Families Act 2014 says that all maintained schools must publish a SEN Information Report every year. The report explains how our school meets the needs of children with SEN. In the report we explain how we meet our duties towards learners with SEN and disabilities. This report is written alongside our SEN Policy and is also the information we provide to the East Sussex local offer which shows the support that is available for children and young people with SEN and disabilities in East Sussex www.eastsussex.gov.uk/localoffer
This report is reviewed annually and will involve consultation with parents and young people, largely through the annual review process. If you wish to give us your views about the report, please contact the school office on 01323 841468.
Who can I contact for further information?
Applications for admission to HCC for new Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP) learners should go via the Assessment and Planning Officer at East Sussex County Council.
General admissions enquiries, including those for students with identified SEN but without an EHCP should be made as normal to the school/college office. These applications will be considered in the same way as applications from learners without any SEN.
• school admissions policy
• school admissions – East Sussex.gov.uk
• Contact Information for Families for admissions advice 0345 60 80 192
If your child is already at HCC, you should talk to the child's teacher/mentor in the first instance. This may then lead to discussions with their Pastoral Support Assistant, Head of House and/or SENCo.
There is a clear procedure for investigating a special educational need which includes historical information, observation, gathering evidence and data from teaching staff and information from parents/carers.
SENCo, LAC Lead & Acting Assistant Principal Mrs Carol Maxwell
SENCo Assistant Miss Teresa Wright
Hub Lead TA Mrs Gail Albertella
ASD Lead Miss Carole Gorman
ASD Lead TA Mrs Rachel Ali
SEN specialist teacher Mrs Kirsten Jones
Head of primary Mr Tom Redman
Early Years Lead primary Mrs Lisa Miller
SEND link Governor Mrs Sue Weiner
The SENCo, ASD lead and SENCo Assistant are responsible for managing and co-ordinating the support for learners with SEN, including those who have EHCP's. In addition, they are responsible for providing professional guidance to school/college staff, working closely with parents/carers and other services that provide for learners.
Which children does the school/college provide for?
We are a growing all through school. Currently this includes pre-school, reception, year 1, secondary and sixth form.
The SEND code of practice 2014 is at the centre of our inclusive ethos. Learners on our SEN register are designated as "facility", EHCP, and/or SEN support.
The term "facility" refers to a learner being allocated a place in the secondary's specialist provision for students diagnosed on the Autistic Spectrum. The "facility" can only take learners where the local authority has named the school in the EHCP. Consultations for placement requests for the "facility" are received via the Assessment and Planning Officer at East Sussex County Council.
Learners with an EHCP and/or SEN support receive school based additional support and/or provision depending on their individual needs. This designation is allocated by the SENCo and ASD lead.
The school/college has learners with a wide range of needs and diagnosis to include:
Communication and interaction difficulties
Speech and language difficulties
Difficulties with cognition
Social Emotional and Mental Health issues
Physical disabilities and impairments
Medical/hereditary conditions
How will the school/college aim to meet the needs of children with SEND?
We aim to be an inclusive school/college by working towards an ethos of quality first teaching. We are committed to meeting the needs of all our learners with or without SEN and continually work to remove barriers to learning. All learners are valued, given a sense of worth and helped to develop confidence in their abilities and strengths, throughout the full range of their school/college experience. Teaching and learning is of a high standard and our mission is to enable all learners to access a broad and balanced curriculum, to foster independent learning and to develop lifelong skills. We believe that learners achieve and learn best when they feel safe, healthy, confident and happy. Therefore, self-esteem and personal fulfilment are key factors in success.
For learners who need extra support, work is differentiated by teachers (adapted to individual learning needs), with advice and support from the Learning Hub and ASD facility. The Learning Hub and facility staff are trained to meet the needs of learners within the mainstream classroom and oversee the provision for learners identified as having a SEN. Some learners receive additional to, and different from, provision in order to aid academic progress.
The provision for students with SEN is based on an assess, plan, do, review model.
House leaders and specialist support staff work with teachers to assess and plan provision that is built from a range of baseline assessments or professional advice. Provision is reviewed at various points to monitor progress and assess where outcomes have been met. Further provision is then designed based on this assessment and reviewed. Parents/carers and learners are involved in the assess, plan, do, review model and in setting and reviewing outcomes alongside school/college staff.
If a child is looked after by the local authority they will have a Care Plan including a Personal Education Plan (PEP) and Health plan if applicable. We will co-ordinate these plans with any SEN support plan and will involve parents/carers where applicable including foster carers or social workers in discussions.
How does the school/college identify learner's special educational needs?
We aim to identify learner's special educational needs (SEN) as early as possible, so that the child achieves the best possible outcomes. A learner has SEN where their learning difficulty or disability calls for special educational provision. That is provision which is different from or additional to that normally available to learners of the same age. Learners may have one or more broad areas of special educational need:
Communication and interaction – including speech and language difficulties and autism.
Cognition and learning – including developmental delay and specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia and dyspraxia.
Social, emotional and mental health difficulties – including difficulties with behaviour, attention deficit hyperactive disorder, an attachment disorder or anxiety.
Sensory and/or physical needs – including visual and hearing impairment, dyspraxia, cerebral palsy and other physical disabilities or medical conditions which affect a child's learning.
We use a number of indicators and methods to identify SEN across the school/college from when a learner starts at the school/college and throughout their learning experience;
Analysis of information, including entry profiles, early years, primary assessments, SAT's, CAT's, reading ages, speech and language link screening and student assessments.
Primary reception staff complete home visits and discuss every child's needs with their early years setting.
Secondary staff visit feeder primary schools
Sixth form staff complete learner interviews
SENCo will discuss with feeder schools/colleges
Information is shared with teaching and non-teaching staff
Students with an EHCP often benefit from an enhanced transition package to support familiarity with key school/college staff.
Information regarding students with SEND is shared with staff to inform planning and future provision
Parental concerns and experience
Tracking individual student progress over time. Any concerns will be passed to the relevant House Leader or SENCo
Communication with feeder nurseries/schools/colleges on transfer
Information from other services including specialist assessment and professional advice
The student's own views
Monitoring of attendance and behaviour points
Regular meetings between key members of staff
Learners whose first language is not English needs to be considered carefully to ensure any difficulties are not related solely to limitations in English. We work closely with the English as an Additional Language Service (EALS) to look carefully at all aspects of a learner's performance to identify if any concerns with progress are due to their command of English or potential SEN or disability.
Persistent disruptive or withdrawn behaviours do not necessarily mean that a child or young person has SEN. The SENCo works closely with the Assistant Principal for learning culture and Aspire team to discuss any concerns.
How does the school teach and support learners with SEN?
The school/college aims to provide quality first teaching in the classroom and there is an expectation that the needs of SEN students will be met by their class teacher through targeted planning and intervention. Teachers receive training and advice on meeting the needs of students provided by the Learning Hub/ASD staff through the SENCo and specialist teachers. The quality of teaching is evaluated regularly through staff appraisal and quality assurance activities when lessons are observed, and feedback is given.
Some students with SEN will require additional interventions for example in literacy, numeracy and social communication skills. These sessions will be provided by the specialist SEN staff using the assess, plan, do and review model. Interventions are regularly evaluated for impact through SEN department meetings and reviews with parents/carers and learners.
How will the curriculum and learning environment be matched to the child's needs?
We aim to provide an inclusive broad and balanced curriculum which is accessible to all learners, with quality first teaching at the forefront. We set high expectations for all. All teaching and support staff are provided with a range of information to support them to achieve this, for example:
Individual pupil passports designed with learners
Being provided with visual resources
Specialist SEN staff supporting alongside teaching staff
Learners with SEN have a full curriculum offer delivered alongside their peers. Teachers are expected to ensure that work is delivered at a level which can be accessed by learners of all abilities. Consideration is given to class groupings, seating plans. In addition, some teaching groups are set according to ability.
Learners who are not making the expected progress are identified through teacher assessment. We will look at the child's level of achievement and see what support they need to make good progress and reach their potential. Depending on the areas of need, provision could include:
Small group literacy, numeracy or social skills
Computer based literacy interventions
Champions hour – to support home learning
Exam/revision skills
Speed up (handwriting support)
Additional adult support in lessons via a Teaching Assistant
Learners with social, emotional and mental health needs can be supported with the following support:
Emotional Literacy Support 1-1 sessions
Chill room access
Referrals to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS)
Signposting to external support providers for example IRock
Referrals to our mental health practitioners
Referrals to early keyworker support
Referrals to East Sussex school health service
Pastoral Support Assistants assigned to each house
We will talk with children and parents/carers as part of the SEN support model of assess, plan, do and review. Further information about the curriculum for each year group is available on our website.
How are parents and carers involved in reviewing children's progress and planning support?
The college is committed to working in partnership with parents/carers to ensure high quality provision. Parents/carers will receive academic reports which identifies the progress learners are making. The SENCo, ASD lead and Learning Hub department review these reports and use them to inform decisions about provision. In addition, there are regular parents evenings where parents/carers have an opportunity to speak to subject/class teachers and support staff if required.
Learners with an EHCP will have an annual review meeting led by the SENCo and ASD lead. At this meeting reports from class/subject teachers will be discussed in consultation with parents/carers.
Learners with an Additional Needs Plan (ANP) are reviewed by their House Leader and where appropriate SENCo. This happens three times a year in consultation with parents/carers.
The focus for review meetings is centred around support in order to help learners reach their agreed outcomes. Reviews will have a focus on the progress towards these outcomes. Learners are involved in reviewing the information given to teachers about them annually, including completing an individual "pupil passport" explaining which strategies support them to learn. In addition, the SEN department regularly carries out pupil voice to gather the views of young people.
How does the school prepare and support children to transfer to a new school/college or the next stage of education and life?
All students receive careers guidance through a number of methods, including the PSHE curriculum, careers fayre and mentor sessions. In addition, learners are able to access our careers lead, Mrs Jennie Cole for small group work or 1-1 support.
Students with an Education Health Care Plan will be able to discuss their careers options in their annual review meetings from year 9 onwards. In these meetings, staff, learners and parents work collaboratively to set and review outcomes which will support the learner in preparing for adulthood.
Students transitioning from a new school/college are carefully supported and prepared for their transition to primary, secondary, sixth form or beyond. Class teachers at primary will visit all reception aged learners at home to discuss any support that may be needed. In addition, the SENCo and assistant visit all primary feeder schools to gather as much information as possible to support the process. The Head of Sixth Form will meet with each learner to discuss any support required and liaise with the SENCo if needed.
What training do school staff have?
When we plan support for a child, we think about the knowledge and skills their teachers and support staff will need. If necessary, we plan training for the staff member or arrange an INSET training day.
The SENCo has achieved level 7 National Award in Special Educational Needs and Disability. In addition, the SENCo is also a deputy safeguarding lead and holds a mental health foundation certificate and person-centred counselling certificate.
The Assistant SENCo holds a Higher-Level Teaching Assistant qualification (HLTA) and is qualified to assess students for examination access arrangements.
Our SEN specialist teacher holds a post graduate certificate in dyslexia and has British Dyslexia approved teacher status.
Our ASD lead holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Autism (children) and Qualified Teacher Status.
All teaching assistants receive training in a wide range of areas related to SEND which include: Dyslexia, speech and language difficulties, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Autistic Spectrum Condition (ASC/ASD), dealing with distressed behaviour and mental health difficulties.
In addition to this there are regular briefings and meetings regarding strategies for current students and reviews of their progress. Continued whole school training is provided through staff INSET days.
How does the school measure how well it teaches and supports children with SEND?
The college's SEND provision is evaluated through the College Improvement Plan, Teaching and Learning action plan, Vulnerable Learners action plan and Achievement action plan. The College Improvement Plan is evaluated every year and action plans are reviewed at a minimum of three times a year. This also considers feedback collated and evaluated from surveys to parents/carers, coffee mornings/afternoons as well as informal monitoring of teaching and learning.
In addition, termly evaluation of the deployment of support staff and interventions for students with SEND happen, at Learning Hub departmental meetings. This includes analysis of progress and attitude to learning data.
The progress of SEND students is reviewed and monitored by the college assessment procedure in the same way as non-SEND students. Students with SEND also fall under the college's Achievement For All strategy which provides additional monitoring and intervention to those students in identified vulnerable groups. The Learning Hub department along with the primary team undertake progress reviews of learners on the SEND register via departmental meetings following data capture points throughout the year.
How accessible is the school and how does the school arrange equipment or facilities children need?
Both the primary and secondary site is accessible to wheelchair users and to those with mobility difficulties via lifts and specially fitted ramps. In addition, we can adjust lesson timetables in the secondary site to ensure suitable classrooms for specialist subjects, such as ICT and food technology.
The secondary site is currently undergoing building works to expand. The new development is due to be completed in April 2022, will include a specialist suite of rooms on the ground floor for the Learning Hub department, including a disabled toilet. There are additional disabled toilets situated around the college site.
For learners who require additional equipment due to their SEND, the College will seek the advice of other professionals and arrange funding for any specialist equipment required on an individual case by case basis.
Please see our Disability and Equality policy for further details.
How are children included in activities with other children, including school trips?
Through careful planning and reasonable adjustments, learners with SEND engage in the activities of the college together with those who do not have SEND and are encouraged to participate fully in the life of the college and in any wider community activity.
We work with parents and learners to listen to their views, feelings and wishes to ensure learners with SEND engage fully in the life of the college and in any wider community activity.
What support is there for children's overall well-being and their emotional, mental and social development?
The College believes, learners achieve and learn best when they feel safe, healthy, confident and happy. Therefore, self-esteem and personal fulfilment are key factors in success. As a college we have a strong focus on student's well-being and emotional, mental and social development. Our PHSE curriculum incorporates health and wellbeing as a core theme in the primary school as well as our secondary which is linked to the PHSE association recommendations. In addition, as a college we are working with Andrew Wright and Action your Potential. Activities and discussions are incorporated into mentor sessions, assemblies and provide a whole school topic each term. Information is also shared in the wider community where regular seminars are held to support parents/carers.
As a College we provide a range of support interventions for learners which are evaluated through the Assess, Plan, Do, Review model. Interventions include:
Emotional Literacy Support Assistants
Talkabout for teenagers
Pastoral Support Assistants
Mental Health Practitioners
Access your Potential
The college has a well-established pastoral system. Learners have their mentor as their first point of contact. Mentors liaise with Pastoral Support Assistants, Head of Houses, Designated Safeguarding Leads and/or senior staff over pastoral issues if required. For learners with SEN the Learning Hub and ASD facility are an additional point of contact and open during breaks and lunch for learners who find the main college difficult to manage at busy times.
The college may work with other services to support learners, e.g. School Health Service, Education Psychologists, Behaviour and Attendance Service (ESBAS), Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), Early Help services etc.
Further information can be found on our website in relation to policies on behaviour and anti-bullying, safeguarding and supporting students with medical conditions.
What specialist services does the school use to support children and their families?
Staff in the Learning Hub and ASD facility liaise with a number of outside agencies in order to support in-school provision. These include the following:
School Health Service
Education Psychologist Service
Behaviour and Attendance Service (ESBAS)
Early Help Keyworkers
Communication Learning & Autism Support Service (CLASS)
Single Point of Advice (SPoA)
Mental Health Practitioner Service
Speech and Language therapists
Sensory Needs Service
Teaching and Learning Provision
Virtual School for Looked After Children
The College welcomes the input and expertise of other professionals and outside agencies and makes every effort to engage in and facilitate collaborative working.
Where can I get further information, advice and support?
East Sussex County Council SEND – Local Offer
Special needs and disability – Local Offer – East Sussex County Council
The College works closely with the Local Authority to support learners with additional needs. East Sussex's local offer, explaining what is available on a local authority bases, can be found using the link above.
In addition, you can contact any of the following at the College.
ASD Lead TA Miss Ellie Cavalier
What do I do if I am not happy or if I want to complain?
If you wish to raise a concern regarding the SEND provision for your child, we would encourage you to contact the relevant House Leader for secondary or class teacher for your child. Most matters can be resolved at this stage. In some cases, or if a satisfactory conclusion cannot be reached this may be escalated to the college SENCo for secondary or Head of primary for primary concerns.
For further information on how to make a formal complaint please see our complaints policy


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In the article, Null says there are a number of reasons IoT security is lacking, but a major reason is because companies that aren't in the networking business are now adding IoT into their devices without considering the impact on security. He also says that developers are operating on a low-cost business model with slim margins, and have overlooked or ignored basic security principles.
"When they have addressed security at all, they have tended to use lightweight technology that minimizes complexity and maximizes convenience for the end user," Null said in the article.
The convenience vs. security argument is a valid one, but in today's environment where data breaches are occurring so regularly, security can no longer be overlooked.
Things will get worse before they get better, but Null and the industry experts featured in the article say the silver lining is that many feel this may pave the way to the inevitable government regulation that's ultimately needed to turn things around.
The Secure Technology Alliance's Internet of Things Security Council aims to help the industry address these challenges by developing best practices and providing educational resources on implementing secure IoT architectures using embedded security and privacy. Learn more about their efforts, see their latest resources, or learn how to get involved in the council here: https://www.securetechalliance.org/activities-councils-internet-of-things-security/.
To read Null's full article, visit https://techbeacon.com/state-iot-security-trusted-connected-devices-still-work-progress.


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Mercedes-Benz GLE verdict
01 May 2020 by Keith WR Jones
Should you buy a Mercedes-Benz GLE?
The Mercedes-Benz GLE is an accomplished luxury SUV that gives little away to its biggest rivals - the Volvo XC90 and BMW X5 - or in-house E-Class Saloon equivalent. It doesn't have the outright wafty comfort and composure of the E-Class on the move, yet its cabin is more up-to-date and showcases a bigger wow factor, while the ability to carry seven (just) and even do a spot of off-roading while you're at it isn't to be sniffed at.
If you're after the cheapest GLE on offer then the only choice is the base 300 d model with five seats. If you're likely to use the car around town a lot of the time and have room to up the budget, it could be worth reaching for the 350 de plug-in. It's also restricted to just five seats, but the opportunity to drive over 60 miles without the engine starting could save a huge amount of money, if you use it correctly.
The plug-in hybrid will still be well suited to those that do a blend of city and motorway driving as the diesel-PHEV arrangement is more efficient than a petrol one when the battery runs out, while the GLE 350 d isn't significantly more expensive than the 300 d or 350 de, yet offers a far superior overall package than the entry diesel - we found the 300 d a little underpowered, and it'll be more noticeable with a full load and passengers.
Aside from the more powerful, smoother engine, you'll also get seven seats (an expensive option on the 300 d) and the excellent air suspension as standard, not to mention the opportunity to purchase the Off-Road package (also not available on the 300 d).
For performance fans, the AMG 53 could be very tempting, while waiting for the outrageous 63 will be worth it for some. That said, if you're a driving enthusiast, the BMW X5 is more involving to drive than the GLE, but also manages to offer a more comfortable ride when you're not feeling sporty. And if carrying people is a priority, a Land Rover Discovery's taller body offers more headroom throughout its cabin.
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Multiple Functions - User friendly app interface. RGB light strip can color up your house with 16 million choices, adjust cool or warm color temperature for work or leisure, highlight your party with 15 built-in dynamic modes or set timer to turn off when you leave home for work.
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Simple voice command by Alexa/Google Home, user friendly cellphone management, handy remote control, out of the three methods you can always find the most suitable combination to bring magic to your house lighting.
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The Alexandria Confectionary & Chocolate Company ( , known as Corona), established under the name of the Royal Chocolate Works of Egypt  in 1919 by Tommy Christou, is the oldest confectionery and chocolate company in the Egyptian market.

After the 1952 coup d'état, the company became a public sector company in 1963 through the process of nationalization by which the revolution's government took over almost all of the private companies and personally owned assets. In 2000, the company was privatized again when it was sold to Samcrete Egypt.

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Who has not had their picture taken in a photo booth at an event or party? Photo booths are wildly popular right now, and it is no wonder. They are a great way to break the ice and get your guests to interact and have fun, plus the photos are a meaningful and easy party gift. The hardest part about creating a photo booth is finding an original backdrop that works with your event theme. BAM! Tape™ masking tape to the rescue! Seriously. Using masking tape, you can create a unique background for any type of photo booth theme. Since it Spring here in Idaho, I decided to create a flower backdrop. This backdrop is simple and elegant. Perfect for a birthday party, wedding or anniversary. We set ours up for a Woodland Fairy theme.
It is important to determine both the height and width boundaries of your photo booth. Otherwise, your backdrop may not fit properly in your photos.
What type of camera will you be using? Where will the photographer be standing? Set up the camera and determine the area of the Photo Booth. Use tape to "draw" the booth on the wall. Remember to choose a location that has good lighting.
I purchased about 10 stems of fake flowers at the dollar store.
Using wire cutters, carefully cut the large stems into smaller stems with at least one flower on each stem. I got 2-3 cut pieces from each large stem.
Be sure to leave enough of a stem so that you have room for tape.
Since I want to use the photo booth for more than a couple of hours, I used artificial flowers instead of fresh. Wilted flowers make for a sad photo booth! Also, some flowers have dye in them that can rub off on the wall.
I randomly taped the flowers on the wall within the photo booth boundary. I used purple BAM! Tape™. Choose a tape color that coordinates with your flowers.
Take a test picture to be sure that your backdrop is within the photo frame.
Remove the tape that is marking your photo booth.
To help your guests, you may want to use tape on the floor to mark a box that they should stand in so that they don't end up outside of the photo frame.
Wasn't that easy? The beauty of the Flower Photo Booth is its simplicity and versatility. Choose flower colors and types that match your event theme. You can go with team or school colors. You can make your backdrop masculine or feminine, playful or elegant. Let your imagination and creativity lead you with this fun, easy, and budget friendly project.
Once your event is over, the backdrop is easily removed from the wall, and if you used BAM! Tape™, you will have no sticky residue to clean up.


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The inclined plate is arranged underneath a bin and is agitated to vibrate in longitudinal direction. This causes the material to flow. It is conveyed via a polished plate to the edge, where the materials falls in a curtain-like fashion. An even distribution is obtianed by minimizing the falling height between scattering plate and downstream surface.
The IFE electromagnetic drive and scattering plate form a vibrating system consisting of two masses. The excitation of the vibration is made by the pumping force of the magnet being connected to the mains via an IFE control unit. The amplitude of the vibration can be controlled infinitely variable while in operation.
These electromagnetic drives are manufactured for robustness and are dust- and splashproof due to the total enclosed design.
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An email from Carl:
MY RR Story
I think it was 92, I was attending Northern Illinois University where "if your not Greek, your a geek" and I refused to pledge. I was riding for BADD & Co. and I told them that next year I wanted to get paid, $200-500 a month. They stopped taking my phone calls. Okay fine. I told my mom and dad that I wanted to start my own frame company. Every sponsor I ever had (excluding BADD) I had to have a custom made bike because they were all too short. My long legs were cramped. My dad said to look into it, so I called Shag at Cyclecraft. We talked prices and that was it, I never even looked at another mfg. company. I had ridden their bikes before and I knew they were good. Or, good enough. Shortly after that conversation, I called Barry McManus and in these exact words
"Hey man, if I start a company, and I make you a pro model, would you ride for me?" Luckily for me he said yes. His only question was, "What are you going to call it? You'd better put your name on it." I didn't think I was cool enough to have my name on it, but he and Steve Buddendeck recommended it. Steve and Hal Brindley of 2B made my RR design, and made my jerseys. I've always been a fan of geometry, and measurements, so I knew long before I started RR what I wanted/needed in a frame size wise. I sat down and drew a primitave diagram of my first RR. 21.5" top tube, 12" bb, 16.25" chain stays, 74 degree heat tube. One thing I NEVER knew though was the seat tube angle, so for the first prototype I guessed, 71. Two weeks later the first one showed up at my apartment at school. I had it out of the box for 30 seconds before I realized what I had done wrong. I guess that's why they call them prototypes. I built it anyway and went to race in Memphis. Superclass, two thirds on the weekend. Went home, called Shag, told him to ramp up the seat tube to 73. Another sample comes two weeks later, perfect, and LONG! The Fresh 40 had been born.
(I have forgotten how much there is to tell)
That spring, my college education took a back seat, and my real world education took center stage. I left school to concentrate on RR and racing.
Barry's bike shows up some time in the spring, I drive it over to his house in Ft. Wayne (Columbia street) We break down his old bike and build up his Rap 42 (42 inch wheelbase), the entire bike went together seamlessly, and as soon as it was rideable he jumps on it, no brakes. I see him take off and bust into a sprint and I kept thinking, "PLEASE STAY TOGETHER!" I knew he liked it when he rode to the top of his street, turned around, gave it a few hard cranks and pulled into a manual, a high speed manual, and held it around the corner of his street. 100 yard manual maybe, maybe longer. I sh@t my pants.
So skipping to the next model, the Puppy. I rode at this spot that was 1/2 mile from my house in Park Forest called Monee Trails. I had ridden there since I was 11. That place helped me a ton become a better rider, all throughout my career. Well, there were TONS of kids there, on a good day we'd have 20 riders, most racers, because back then, the trails were more racy, and not today's trails. Well they all had these sub-par bikes, and I hated that they wanted to be better, but their bikes were holding them back. They were all riding bikes that were too big and it would have taken them years to grow into it. So I figured I'd make a bike for them. A bunch of little dudes who rode with me inspired me to make a bike, and I'm so thankful for them. I could have called it anything, but The Puppy seemed to fit for all of them. I can't remember how I thought of the top tube length or the chain stays, but I wanted the rest of the angles and bb height to be consistent with the Fresh 40 and the Rap 42 so in the event they grew up and still raced, they could move on to a bike that was essentially the same.
At this time I was having all of my frames shipped to my parent's house where I would inventory them, sticker them, and drive them over to the local UPS location where I would ship them out. I became very good friends with the UPS guy who would deliver my bikes, I forgot his name, but he was a great guy. I had stacks and stacks of frames in my garage. When one model would get down to 5-10 I'd place another order. All of the money the company made I put back in. Either ordering more frames, sticker sets, t-shirts, ads anything that I felt would help the business. So you know, I never had any experience with running a business. My parents were in the stock market and the legal field, so they didn't either. I was winging it the entire time. Common sense was what I was using when deciding what to do next. I had a lot of phone conversations with Steve and McManus too.
I had a good relationship with the shops I sold to, and instead of waiting for them to call, I was on the phone a lot, trying to keep the interest up. It took a while for me to realize that the gap between The Puppy and the Fresh 40 was a big gap. I needed a model to fill in, and that's where the Formula came in. Again, same angles with the lengths adjusted. So now I had a line that would handle a wide range of riders, for a long time. The phone meeting I had with Steve regarding the name of the frame went something like this.
Steve: "What are you going to call it?"
CR: "I'm not sure, I haven't thought of it."
S: "Got any ideas?"
C: "It's got to be something funny so people rememer it."
S: "Okay, what do you think?"
C: "No idea. I'm getting the dictionary, and what ever name I open to, that's what we are calling it."
S: laughing "Okay."
C: after opening the book and pointing to a random page; "Steve, the new bike is going to be called "The Refrigerator"
We laughed for a long time after that, a very long time! The name came out of F1. First it was F1, then Formula 1, then it became the Formula, because in the end, it was that same formula that made up all of my bikes. 4130, gimmick free, same feel throughout the line.
So, outside of British Racing Green and Red, I felt that Black or White were great racing colors. It had nothing to do with my heritage. At first, I wanted to only do white frames, like the Model T Ford. You can have any color as long as it's black. Chrome would have been good, but it was hard to get. Plus, too many colors meant problems with stocking them, and making people wait for the correct color to come in.
Phat forks. The skinny forks that came with my frame were exactly that, skinny. I wanted a beefier look, and something with bit more strength. I called the Essers in Florida, and they made them for me. I didn't offer them with the frame, I offered them as an upgrade. I never got into any other parts, but towards the end (before it went over to System Cycle Supply) I wanted to do parts. Seat post clamps, stems, bars (although I used Slam Bars and I liked them so much, I couldn't see making a bar that could be better).
So I ran it out of my parent's house for a few years, McManus and I doing a bunch of clinics in the Midwest and hitting all of the NBL races. My office was my bedroom. The desk with my computer an all of my office supplies was next to my bed. I remember the phone waking me up at 3am a bunch of times, only to have some kids stutter and stammer into the phone then hang up. I guess I should have let my answering machine pick it up. Over the years the team ranged from Whitey, Colgrove, Josh Henry, Vaghun Stout, Nathan Fons (my last rider) but it was McManus and I who traveled together the most. Those were some of the best, if not the best years of my career. Very carefree, relaxed and fun. It was before bmx became a job for me.
I knew my business intelligence could only take RR so far, and I felt that using a full fledged distribution company would help RR move to the next level. It would also free up some of my time to focus more time on racing. I noticed that each time I went to a race and did well (me and McM) I would have more sales on Monday (win on Sunday, sell on Monday). This is where System Cycle Supply came in. I spoke with Billy at DK and I gave him a history of RR. Knowing his father, since he sponsored me for so many years with DK stems, I trusted them and felt it would be a good move. The whole plan was for me to be the racer, and spokesperson, and SCS to handle the sales. It was understood that when I retired, I'd move to Ohio to run RR in their office. So they bought my stock, data base and the name. The bikes stopped being made my Cyclecraft and started being made my Kastan. That's where the square chain stays came in. I wanted to set them apart from the CC bikes, and the change in chain stays was it. The dropouts were thicker as well. I forgot who Alan Foster was riding for, but when he told me that his sponsor was going to make bikes with a Euro bb, I jumped on it. I believe RR was the second company to make a pro size frame with a Euro bb. I recall someone saying it was a joke and I was stupid. The whole industry must be stupid now. I was hesitant to change to the Ahead set though. I don't know why, but I wasn't sure that was the way to go. I was set in my ways with that old stem. I ran a very short stem with the long frame. The longer your stem, it changes the way the bike handles, it steers different. I realized that with the bigger diameter, it would make my bike bigger with a longer stem, so I had to shorten my frame. It went from 21.5 to an even 21. That was a huge change. The bike was easier to ride, and a bit lighter. By the time we got to SCS, the Rap 42 wasn't selling much anymore. The big dudes who bought my frame, were still on them, and after they upgraded to the Kastan model, that was it. They never broke so they stayed on them. So I was down to 3 models, the Supermodel (changed from the Fresh 40 since the wheelbase wasn't 40" anymore), the Formula, and the Puppy. The bikes were being powdercoated now, and I included Red and Blue. Red is my favorite color, and I only rode one red one the entire time. Blue was the last color I rode.
The bikes were great, but the availability was messed up. Manufacturing delays really hurt my sales. I was constantly being told the bikes would be in, but 2 months later, still no bikes. It was bad having to change the arrival date to my customers. It was definitely more efficient when it was in my parent's garage. There are times that I wish I had kept it myself, but in the long run it was the right decision...I think.
We were at a race one weekend, and I hadn't had bikes in for quite some time, and I heard that SCS had been laying people off. I KNEW that was the end. I called Billy that Monday and asked him what was going on and where this left RR "We're not going to be able to do it anymore. You can have the name and do anything you want with it, but we are unable to do it."
Can you imagine how I felt? Probably not. RR meant so much to me. I was floored. I didn't feel that I could run it by myself anymore, and I didn't want to put out an inferior product. At the bike show that year, Billy pulled me aside and told me we could get the bikes made in Taiwan and keep it going. I told him no. At that time I didn't think Taiwan was making a quality product, and again, I didn't want to disappoint any of my customers, past, current or future so I declined that offer. I declined it in less than 30 seconds. I ended up getting the prototype that they made and giving it to my brother-in-law. The seat stays were so flimsy, his brakes wouldn't work. They flexed too much. (at least I was told it was a prototype)
My last race was in Lake Perris, CA. I went out in a consi main. After that lap, I took my own little victory lap on the track. I wanted to take one lap by myself. I had started the company by myself, and that was my little way of saying goodbye to something that mean the world to me, and it still does. After that I went over to Neal Wood, we hugged told each other how much fun it had been traveling together and that was it. McManus had long retired, or slowed down his racing to run his store, Steve was busy handling the Marketing duties at DK, Hal was doing anything he wanted, Colegrove is a father, Whitey is here, and the rest of my team,well, I don't know where they ended up.
Well, I think that pretty much covers it. I left out a lot of stuff, a lot of details. To include them all would require a TON of writing, and probably my own page on Vintage. If anyone has ANY questions that I didn't cover, just ask and I'll answer. Thanks for listening, and helping me remember some of the best times of my life.
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Last year I wrote about an innovative plan by Seth A. Piccirillo, community development director for the struggling City of Niagara Falls, to lure some of the best and brightest college graduates in the country by offering to pay their student loans if they became city residents and participated in the city's revitalization for, at minimum, a period of two years. The highest priority was to be given to those who bought a home and actively engaged with the community. The hope was that these "urban pioneers" would start new businesses and provide the spark needed to get Niagara Falls growing again.
I was intrigued by this positive and unusual incentive project when I first heard about it, but its implementation has not measured up to expectations. The plan called for selection of an initial group of twenty candidates but, in April 2013, only the first five successful candidates were announced, including an artist from Buffalo which, if you drive south along Route 190, is less than twenty miles away from Niagara Falls. A second person will move to the city from Lockport, NY (where she grew up, only twenty miles to the east of Niagara Falls) to pursue a masters degree in Canadian studies in a program run jointly by the University of Buffalo and Brock University in Ontario, Canada. This is all well and good but, by dividing one's time between Buffalo and Brock, how much time will be left for revitalizing Niagara Falls as an actively-engaged, job-creating urban pioneer? Neither candidate seems likely to bring a unique vision or a new sense of purpose to the city.
Niagara Falls, which boasted a New Bedford-size population of about 100,000 in 1950, is now officially the home of only 50,106 residents, and is desperate to stay above the 50,000 population mark – the cutoff point for community development block grant entitlement funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Even if twenty new residents are attracted by the student loan program, there are about 600 city-owned vacant lots in Niagara Falls. The city is currently trying to attract owner-neighbors to purchase them, with deals as low as $500.
The loss of HUD money would be devastating for Niagara Falls. Unfortunately, there are plenty of other ways for the city to lose access to its needed funds. The city budget relies on $7 million paid annually from the Seneca Nation's casino gaming revenues. Currently the city is owed a total of $60 million, which has not been paid due to a dispute between the Seneca Nation and the state over the degree of exclusivity that Indian casinos should enjoy. The crisis has led to Moody's dropping the city's credit rating twice in the past five months, from A2 to Baa1, and then to Baa3. Borrowing to fund essential services (never mind innovative programs) will now cost much more.
Pages on Brownfields and walkability are now live.
On May 9, we'll announce winners of our photo contest at 6p at New Bedford's Celtic Coffee House. After the event, you'll see many of these great images bringing our topics to life.
Stay tuned for new data on open space and recreation, the next page to be released.
Bob Golder is wrapping up interviews with English-speaking HOPE VI residents, and UMass Dartmouth Foreign Language Department faculty member Sandra Rivera is gearing up to begin conducting a handful of interviews in Spanish.
We have two focus groups lined up for May: one on health and wellness needs, and the other on early childhood education and care.
We're in the process of penning a piece on civic infrastructure for the UMass Donahue Institute's journal, Mass Benchmarks.
The next brief to be released will be on nonprofits in Fall River and New Bedford.
Our final event is on Thursday, May 9. It will feature keynote speaker Catherine Tumber (author of Small, Gritty, and Green.) She will be speaking at New Bedford's Celtic Coffee House at 6p.
We're in the midst of seeking funding to help offset the costs of conducting this project.
We already have three high school students lined up as summer interns, and we may even host interns through UMass Dartmouth's Upward Bound program!
The Urban Initiative recently completed a logic model to reflect the theory of this program, which is that LifeWork will translate to improved education, employment, and financial outcomes for its participants.
Selecting appropriate participants is critical to the success of this program, so the UI helped project partners develop a rubric with which to score applicants across measures like education, housing, transportation, and health to ensure that these factors won't inhibit a woman's ability to succeed.
The Urban Initiative and the Center for Policy Analysis have been asked by area health providers and advocacy groups to developed a web-based resource for sharing and accessing public health data for the SouthCoast. The site will likely borrow some features from SCUIP, and it will also offer an array of resources that will be aimed at helping build the capacity of SouthCoast organizations.


Business and success are interrelated - one can't happen without the other. But when you add offshore to this combination, it becomes a truly winning formula for business success. We hope that the following articles will help you "inch" closer to your desired success.
Security and privacy of online transactions are more important to consumers than loyalty programmes, according to recent survey of British consumers. One of the key findings of this survey is that the majority of customers have at one time or another experienced problems with their online transactions. Find out the other key findings in this survey.
Millionaire business people exhibit certain charateristics that are not much different from not-so successful people. So, what are they? Learn the nine charateristics that business people have in common that create millionaire mindset. If you keep these principles in your mind, you will increase your chance of reaching the wealthy status.
Panama is not a tailored offshore haven, but it's full of intrigue and mystery. It's a country which was founded and reached the point where it is now, all for business reasons (international trade – the canal) and for its friendly treatment of foreign capital and income. Well known author on the subject, Mr Peter Macfarlane gives the details.
So, what makes millionaires different from everyone else? Author Colleen Kettenhofen lists seven important strategies learned from self-made millionaires about achieving personal and professional success in life that anyone can use. These are especially important for sales people, managers, business owners and other professionals.
If you are doing business internationally, knowing how to build wealth, protect your assets and personaly privacy are some of the most fundamental concepts essential for anyone's success.


Three flawless sapphires are set on this heavy steel belt, shining almost too faintly to notice.
These belts are valued by incarnates and other meldshapers, because they can temporarily supercharge one or more of your soulmelds or other essentia receptacles (see Magic of Incarnum for details on incarnum). An essentia belt has 9 charges, which are renewed each day at dawn. Spending 1 or more charges maximizes the essentia investment in one or more of your soulmelds or other essentia receptacles (as chosen by you when you activate it) for 1 round. Effectively, the belt temporarily adds essentia to the affected receptacles (soulmelds, incarnum feats, magic items, and so on) until it reaches its maximum. While this ability is in effect, you can't reallocate essentia from the affected receptacle.
1 charge: Maximizes essentia investment in one receptacle.
2 charges: Maximizes essentia investmentn two receptacles.
3 charges: Maximizes essentia investment in three receptacles.
Prerequisites: Craft Wondrous Item, essentia pool, meldshaper.


Activating the blur plugin in Compiz results in an immediate X hang if /apps/compiz/plugins/blur/screen0/options/alpha_blur_match is set to "normal".
Terminating the compiz process does not help, and after Xorg is killed I get a message about the hardware being wedged.
Is it a hang, or just absurdly slow?  Also, are you sure that the X Server is loading your new mesa?  We shouldn't be hitting software fallbacks for that path since 3e0164aabb48a99fce58964cad99fd3978ee84f6.  INTEL_DEBUG=fall output (which goes to the console, I think, not the server log) would be useful if you're sure it's the new code being run.
Does the gearbox demo work?
I think it's a real hang, and not merely being unusably slow. I left it sitting for several minutes, and nothing on the screen (such as the clock) was redrawn. CPU usage remained low. Using focus_blur in compiz works fine, and is quite fast.
I do think the new Mesa is being used, I build and install it using debian packages, so there should be a very slim chance of anything old hanging around.
I get no debug messages when compiz is run with INTEL_DEBUG=fall.
Also, something seems to go bad when I try to reboot after the hang, it never works and I must hit the reset switch, so I guess the kernel is involved too.
Needed to run the X Server (which is actually executing the driver code), not compiz, with that env var.  Other than being spectacularly slow, the only thing I can think of is that compiz was hanging the chip and it was only showing up as being stuck waiting on the object now.
The hang doesn't happen immediately, only when a transparent window appears. I guess I didn't notice this before as I usually have a transparent terminal visible.
Even if it is spectacularly slow, I left it sitting for half an hour, and the screen is never updated, so it's unusable in any case.
Using mesa commit 2305642b2e8edcebdc727f1181f7dbfcc78e8028 the blur plugin no longer hangs X.


Create Deposit note from Sales Order.
To add deposit note from Sales Order, open the Sales Order, click Invoice > select Create Deposit note.
Enter the amount for the Sales order and save, this will go to Credit Note.
Then convert the Sales Order to Invoice, you will be able to allocate the Invoice balance using Credit Deposit. Click Use Credit Deposit for this Invoice and pay, done!


Vizio leapt into the PC market during CES 2012 with a range of good-looking hardware, promising price tags that would put its competitors to shame. The company didn't provide much more information during the show, but said it planned to start sales in May.
Here we are then, just outside that target, and Vizio has launched its own collection of laptops, desktops and ultrabooks. Except it doesn't call them ultrabooks, but "Thin + Lights" instead, making them sound like French cigarettes. All come with third generation Intel processors, or Ivy Bridge as they're known, Microsoft Windows 7, and feature minimalist, stylish designs reminiscent of Apple's Mac range.
Let's look at the Thin + Light models first. There are two, the CT14 and CT15, and the numbers refer to the respective, approximate screen sizes. The CT14 has a 14-inch screen with a 1600 x 900 pixel resolution, either an Intel Core i3 or i5 processor, 4GB of RAM and a 128GB or 256GB SSD.
The CT15 has a 15.6-inch screen with a 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution, but is otherwise identical. The aluminum body on both models has a maximum depth of 0.66-inches/16mm, which is almost identical to the MacBook Air. The prices start at $898.
This is the same price as the CN15 laptop, which also shares the 15.6-inch, HD screen from the CT15, but with a choice of either a Core i3, i5 or quad-core i7 chip, 4GB or 8GB of RAM and a 500GB, 1TB or 1TB with a 32GB SSD storage option.
Finally, we've got the All-in-One desktop models, of which there are two — the CA24 with a 24-inch display and the CA27 with a screen measuring 27-inches.
Both have 1920 x 1080 HD resolutions, and come with a choice of Ivy Bridge dual-core or quad-core processors, Nvidia graphics cards and the same hard drive combinations as the CN15 laptop.
The 24-inch All-in-One starts, like the others, at $898, but the 27-inch model raises the baseline to $1098. The packages include a remote control with a small touchpanel, a separate subwoofer, a keyboard and a standalone, wireless touchpad.
Vizio will be selling its computers in a variety of different ways, including through "mini-stores" that will be taken to festivals and public events, through retail outlets such as Walmart and Amazon, and on its own website. All are up for pre-order there, with an estimated delivery date of July 9.


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DBHS ranks Top 80 in California
After a shift in ranking standards, DBHS loses its spot in the top 400 public high schools in the nation.
Vera Wang, Staff Writer|May 22, 2019
The 2019 Best High School Rankings results, released April 30 by the U.S. News and World Report, showed Diamond Bar High School ranking 542nd in the nation, dropping in ranking in the last few years, from 277th in 2017 and 375th in 2018. But part of the reason for the decline may be the greater number of schools being ranked.
The online magazine revised its previous ranking methodology and utilized the new regimen for the first time this year, which U.S. claims improved on multiple aspects of its evaluation, improving the accuracy of its results and helping users better understand the basis of the system.
Expanding its area coverage by more than seven times, U.S. News classified more than 17,245 schools out of the 23,000 they reviewed, compared to the 2,700 schools it ranked last year.
Introducing a mass of new schools to the already existing bracket drastically shifted many of the previously established rankings.
Among California schools, DBHS ranked 76th, while Walnut High School followed, placing 99th in the state and 704th nationally. Nearby Troy High School ranked 35th in state and 278th in the country.
Amidst the numerous schools ranked, Whitney High School was ranked 1st in the state, followed by Oxford Academy, Dr. J.T. Owens Gilroy Early College Academy, Pacific Collegiate Charter, and many more.
On June 12, U.S. News announced the first-ever metropolitan area rankings in Phase 2. DBHS ranked 26th in Los Angeles.
Previously, schools were deemed ineligible if they did not meet the minimum requirements for state assessments or graduation rates, which caused more than half the schools originally gathered to be eliminated from consideration.
The high schools were also measured on AP and IB exam participation and performance, therefore prompting the expulsion of schools that do not offer such programs or lack sufficient numbers of participants, even if the schools excel in the other aspects of the inspection.
In past years, U.S. News received numerous complaints on the lack of clarity in its labyrinthine filtering process. The U.S. News utilized a new system that aggregates a school's overall score, or the percentile a school ranked nationally.
There are six elements to gauging a school's overall score including college readiness, college curriculum breadth, math and reading proficiency, math and reading performance, underserved student performance and graduation rate.
Making up the largest percentage in the weight of the general score, college readiness and curriculum breadth is defined as the proportion of a school's seniors who took and passed AP or IB exams.
Meanwhile, math and reading proficiency relate to the students' state assessment scores in math and reading, while the math and reading performance is based on the total assessment of scores compared to the predicted demographics, according to the magazine.
Furthermore, underserved student performance pertains to the learning outcomes of students of African American or Latino ethnicity, as well as low-income students.
U.S. News evaluated the performance of these participants along with the performance of the non-underserved students.
Finally, another factor is graduation rate, which is the measure of the portion of students who graduated after receiving four years of education at a school.
Additional information was added to this story after it was first published.


Here are some more Gypsy images for you - and I think I'll start posting Mother's Day images tomorrow in case you are working on a project for Mom. Have a wonderful weekend - I am off to do some creative playing!
Just a quick post this evening --- the rest of the week is crazy work-wise and I am on the road during the days for the next two days so I am going to try to make it an early evening.
But here are some gypsy images for you... I still have plenty more to post, and hope you can use them!
It's full of luscious eye candy. The European cut velvets are utterly gorgeous. She uses them to upholster furniture or as sumptuous table coverings. You get a sense of having stepped back in time, and yet her decor retains a modern sensibility. You can also check out her book on Amazon.com: A Bit of Velvet and a Dash of Lace. Better go catch some zzz's - see you tomorrow!
Jenni's project kit this month included a Top Ten Board Kit from Seven Gypsies and I loved using the book to make Gypsy themed book of my own. For more reasons than one. I am a bit of a history buff and having read in the past about how the Gypsy "Roma" peoples have long had a history of persecution and misunderstanding, it's something I have always wanted to do - to celebrate Gypsy culture. My book celebrates the penchant Gypsies have for finding treasure old and new and creating art. It celebrates the adventurous Gypsy spirit. I will probably add some handwritten quotes or journaling as well - haven't had a chance to do that yet.
Gotta love gypsies. Can't wait to see the gypsy fortuneteller inside the crystal ball in the Haunted Mansion ride at Disney. I recall many gypsy halloween costumes pieced together by my mom with old fringey scarves, bangles and spangles and wide belts. Those were the days when halloween costumes were about resourcefulness and creativity, instead of running to Target as I do! Hope you encounter a resourceful gypsy or two this halloween. Trick or treat is tonight here for us - have a safe and happy halloween!
Doesn't she just have so much mystique behind her eyes? Her expression is wistful and yet so soulful! She's truly an autumnal face, even though she is portrayed in pastels. Just had to share her with you (click on the photo to enlarge, right click to save and print) to create your own project with her lovely visage. Enjoy!
And if you missed yesterday's post -- don't forget to leave a comment - there will be a drawing for halloween goodies at the end of the week!


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Q: Highchart long dataLabels and style width If we had long dataLabel in a pie chart and we set the style width to 100px (in order to don't have a mini pie) some dataLabel just disappear, e.g. see the value Others1.
How to solve this?
http://jsfiddle.net/htwh3rdh/4/
$(function () {
    $('#container').highcharts({
        chart: {
            plotBackgroundColor: null,
            plotBorderWidth: null,
            plotShadow: false
        },
        title: {
            text: 'Browser market shares at a specific website, 2014'
        },
        tooltip: {
            pointFormat: '{series.name}: {point.percentage:.1f}%'
        },
        plotOptions: {
            pie: {
                allowPointSelect: true,
                cursor: 'pointer',
                dataLabels: {
                    enabled: true,
                    format: '{point.name}: {point.percentage:.1f} %',
                    style: {
                        width: '100px',
                    },
                }
            }
        },
        series: [{
            type: 'pie',
            name: 'Browser share',
            data: [
                ['Firefox',   45.0],
                ['IE',       40],
                ['Safari veryveryveryvery long label',    8.5],
                ['Opera veryveryveryvery long label',     6.2],
                ['Others veryveryveryvery long label',   0.7],
                ['Safari1 veryveryveryvery long label',    2.5],
                ['Opera1 veryveryveryvery long label',     3.2],
                ['Others1 veryveryveryvery long label',   0.6]
            ]
        }]
    });
});

A: In these cases (in my experience) (with long names and small graphics) would be better to use a pie chart with a legend of this type. In this way you don't have problems with the display of names.
JSFIDDLE
$(function () {

    $(document).ready(function () {

        // Build the chart
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by Alien UFO Sightings June 9, 2015
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Kongka La is the low ridge pass in the Himalayas. It is in the disputed India-China border area in Ladakh. In the map the red zone is the disputed area still under Chinese control in the Aksai Chin area. The Chinese held northeastern part is known as Aksai Chin and Indian South West is known as Ladakh. This was where Indian and Chinese army fought major war in 1962. The area is one of the least accessed area in the world and by agreement the two countries do not patrol that part of the border. According to many tourists, Buddhist monks and the local people of Ladakh, Indian Army and Chinese Military maintain the line of control. But there is something much more serious happening in this area.
According to the few locals people on the Indian and Chinese side, this is where the UFOs are seen coming out of the ground. According to many, the UFO underground bases are in this region and both the Indian and Chinese Government know this very well.
Recently, some Hindu pilgrims on their way to Mount Kailash from the Western pass, came across strange lights in the sky. The local guides while in the Chinese territory told them that this was nothing new and is a normal phenomenon from Kongka Pass area the tensed border between India and China. This strange lighted triangular silent crafts show up from underground and moves almost vertically up. Some of the adventurous pilgrims wanted to look into the site. They were first turned by the Chinese guard posts as they were refused entry from the Chinese side and then when they tried to approach the site from Indian side, the Indian border patrol also turned them down in spite of their permit to travel between the two countries.
The pilgrims at that stage started quizzing the Indian border petrol personnel. According to them, the security personnel told them that they are ordered not to allow any one near the area of interest and it is true that strange objects come out from under the ground with amplified and modulated lights. India's Special Forces and possible visit the area by intelligence agencies.
The locals start laughing in that area when they are asked about these UFO sightings. According to them the extra-terrestrial presence is well known and is in deep into the ground. They believe neither the Indian or Chinese Governments want to expose the fact for some reason. When they bring up thus matter to local Governments, they are told to keep quiet. This is the region where the Euresian plate and the Indian plate have created convergent plate boundaries. Convergent plate boundaries are formed where one plate dives under another. Thus this is one of the very few areas in the world where the depth of the crust twice as much as in other places. The opposite is found in hot spots like Yellow Stone National Park in America where the earth's crust in thin.
The double thick earth crust allows the creation of underground bases deep into the tectonic plates.
Kongka La has beautiful rocks and granites. For some strange reasons neither Chinese nor Indian authorities ever excavate, dig or mine holes in this area. The area is pristine and untouched.
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Recently, both India and China have moved forward to solve all border disputes and start the Sino-Indian relations all over again. The Aksai Chin area is still disputed. But interesting while negotiations both the Governments are indifferent on this area. India and China as shown in the accompanying maps have huge border along the Himalayas and they are negotiating on all these regions. Though India claims that Aksai Chin is part of India, the common belief in the Government, it is not a show stopper. On the other hand, Chinese after winning Aksai Chin from India in 1962 war, built a strategic military highway. Now they are using an alternate highway no to bother with the area in Kongka La.
Recently in the local school, young children of the area entered into a drawing contest. More than half of the drawings had to do with strange objects in the sky and some coming out of the mountains. Many of them even know what and when to look for.
Many UFO researchers believe that there are hidden UFO bases under the ocean and deep under the ground. Kongka La is experiencing some strange phenomenon and suspicious objects coming out of the inaccessible huge mountains (Himalayas) and both the Governments refuse to come out and say what these are.
The other alternative is that it is an underground strategic Air Force base of some one. Then why will either country allow the base on the official no man's land in the highly sensitive disputed border areas? Why is this region continuously reporting UFO sightings from various kinds of people?
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The Dropas
Is it possible that aliens landed in China a long time ago following their spaceship's crash, and settled there? Scientists and archaeologists studied tombs, remains, strange objects, ethnologists spoke to their descent, a linguist translated their writings, but… as incredible as it sounds, no recent investigation has been made since. The story just served as a plot for an X-Files episode.
One of the strangest stories dealing with ancient visitors began in 1938 when archaeologist Chi Pu Tei discovered regularly aligned rows of graves in the Baian Kara Ula mountains near the Sino-Tibetan border. Beneath cave drawings of beings wearing helmets along with depictions of the stars, sun and moon, small frail skeletons with unusually large skulls were found. Chi Pu Tei theorized that the skeletons belonged to an extinct species of mountain ape and that the drawings were left in the caves by human tribes. Since the graves were in systematic rows, his theory was laughed at and forgotten until 1962, when stone plates found among the graves were translated by Professor Tsum Um Nui of the Academy of Prehistoric Research in Beijing.
Shortly after World War II, a Polish professor named Lolladoff showed one of the 'stone disks' to British scientist Dr. Karyl Robin-Evans, who helped bring the story to the western world. Lolladoff claimed to have bought the disk in Mussorie in Northern India and that it was supposed to be from a mysterious people called the "Dzopa" (or "Dropa") who had used it for religious rituals.
Robin-Evans would follow the trail of the Dropa to its origins, and was able to take a rare photograph of the Dropa leaders in 1947. His visit with the Dalai Lama was legendary, and provided a wealth of information on the reclusive, unique tribe of people.
The translation told an eerie story of a group of beings that crash-landed on the third planet of this star system about twelve thousand years ago. Unable to repair their craft, this group attempted to make friends with the mountain tribes but were hunted down and killed due to their non-human features. Since this account was not compatible with the Western world-view, it too was dismissed.
In 1938 high in the mountains of BayanKara-Ula, on the borders of China and Tibet a team of archaeologists were conducting a very detailed routine survey of a series of interlocking caves.
Their interests had been excited by the discovery of lines of neatly arranged graves which contained the skeletons of what must have been a race of human beings. They appeared to have spindly bodies and large overdeveloped heads. At first it had been thought that the caves had been the home of a hitherto unknown species of ape. But as the species seemed to bury its dead they eliminated an ape race.
While studying the skeletons one of the members of the team stumbled on a large round stone disc half buried in the dust on the floor of the cave. The disc looked like an Stone Age record. There was a hole in the center of and a fine spiral groove that is a continuous spiraling line of closely written characters.
No one understood the meanings of the message. The disc was labeled and filed away among other finds in the area. For 20 years many experts in Peking tried to translate the disc. Finally Dr. Tsum Um Nui broke the code and started to decipher the "speaking grooves". The Peking academy of Pre-History forbade him to publish his findings.
In 1965, 716 more grooved stone discs were uncovered in the same caves. They told the story of a "space probe" by the inhabitants of another planet who came to the Baya-Kara-Ula mountain range. They had crash landed. Their peaceful intentions had been misinterpreted. Many of them had been hunted down and killed by members of the Han tribe, who lived in the neighboring caves.
They referred to themselves as the Dropas. They said they came down from the clouds in their space craft. It crashed landed in remote and inaccessible mountains. There was no way to build a new ship. Legend in the area spoke of small gaunt yellow faced men who came from the clouds long ago. The men had huge bulging heads and puny bodies. They were so ugly they were hunted down and killed. This description is similar to the bodies found in the caves.
On the walls of the caves archaeologists found crude pictures of the rising Sun, the Moon, unidentifiable stars and the earth all joined together by lines of pea-sized dots. The cave drawings have been dated around 12,000 years ago.
The cave area is still inhabited by 2 semi-troglodyte tribes known as the Hans and the Dropas. These tribes are odd looking in appearance. They are frail and stunted in growth averaging only about 5 feet in height. They are neither typically Chinese nor Tibetan.
In Russia several of the rock were tested. The discs were found to contain large amounts of cobalt and other metallic substances. When placed on a special turntable they vibrated or hummed in an unusual rhythm as thought an electric charge was passing through them. It is as if they formed some part of an electrical circuit.
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