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DISPERSALS are invariably treasure troves for breeders and the one offered by the estate of Edward Evans at Keeneland in 2011 was no different.
Evans had bred numerous talented horses at his Spring Hill Farm in Virginia, among them American Horse of the Year Saint Liam, four-time Grade 1 winner Quality Road and Irish champion Minstrella. Many of his families were the product of thoughtful cultivation over time and it stood to reason that the complete dispersal of his stock would attract many of the bloodstock world's big hitters.
In all, the dispersal – 51 yearlings and 174 mares, weanlings and horses of racing age – realised close to $48 million when offered through Lane's End Farm at the 2011 Keeneland September and November Sales. And it didn't take long for the rewards to roll in.
Barronstown Stud, for example, went to $360,000 for More Hennessy in foal to Quality Road; the resulting foal was Prix Morny runner-up Hootenanny.
Significantly more expensive was Grade 1 winner Christmas Kid, who was knocked down to Aisling Duignan for $4.2 million. Coolmore later sent her to Galileo, to whom she foaled Leopardstown 2,000 Guineas Trial winner Black Sea.
The biggest player, however, was Benjamin Leon of Besilu Stables, then a rapidly emerging force in the American market who outlaid $11.4 million for six lots. They included Saint Liam's then 18-year-old dam Quiet Dance, who cost $800,000, and two of her daughters in Listed winner Quiet Giant, a daughter of Giant's Causeway who cost $3 million, and her Medaglia d'Oro weanling, who cost $2.6 million.
It was a bold investment to make but as anticipated, it significantly enhanced Leon's fledgling programme; the Medaglia d'Oro weanling developed into the Grade 1-placed Miss Besilu while Quiet Giant gifted Besilu with the brilliant Gun Runner.
Gun Runner, the first foal out of Quiet Giant, burst on to the Classic scene last spring at Fair Grounds when taking the Risen Star Stakes and Louisiana Derby. He wasn't disgraced in third behind Nyquist in the Kentucky Derby, then bounced back to take the Matt Winn Stakes and after creditable placed efforts in the Travers Stakes and Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile, landed that coveted Grade 1 win in the Clark Handicap at Churchill Downs.
Last year, however, the Candy Ride colt took it to another level for Steve Asmussen, reeling off straight Grade 1 wide-margin victories in the Stephen Foster Handicap, Whitney Stakes, Woodward Stakes and Breeders' Cup Classic. Unsurprisingly, he was at short odds to sign off his career with victory in the Pegasus World Cup and he didn't disappoint, bounding clear of West Coast for a clear cut success. A stud career at Three Chimneys Farm, where he promises to be popular at $70,000, now beckons.
Gun Runner ended 2017 as America's Horse of the Year, thereby becoming the second horse within the immediate generations of his family to gain such a title following Saint Liam, a half-brother to Gun Runner's dam Quiet Giant.
Like Gun Runner, Evans' homebred was a highly tried three-year-old who thrived as an older horse. In Saint Liam's case, it wasn't until a five-year-old that he hit full stride, with the son of Saint Ballado pulling off a major quartet of victories in the Donn Handicap, Stephen Foster Handicap, Woodward Stakes and Breeders' Cup Classic.
Saint Liam was retired to Lane's End Farm following that victory but sadly survived only one season. He left behind 98 foals but one of them was champion Havre De Grace while he has already left some mark through his daughters as the Graded stakes winners Sharp Azteca and Ahh Chocolate testify.
Saint Liam was the best of five stakes horses out of Quiet Dance, herself a Listed winner at Pimlico. The aforementioned Grade 1-placed Miss Besilu was high-class on her day as were Congressionalhonor, winner of the 2004 Grade 3 Bay Meadows Derby, and the 2011 Busanda Stakes winner Dance Quietly. Another winning daughter, Quiet Now, is the dam of last year's Grade 2 San Clemente Handicap runner-up Lull while the unraced Beatem Buster bred 2011 Grade 1 Mother Goose Stakes winner Buster's Ready, now a member of the Wertheimers broodmare band.
Evans had bought into this family back in the early 1970's with the purchase of Gun Runner's fourth dam Flight Dancer at Tattersalls. A Misty Flight granddaughter of multiple Grade 1 winner Gallorette and a half-sister to 1967 Irish St Leger runner-up Dancing Moss, Flight Dancer had run third in the 1970 Queen Mary Stakes and duly became an important mare for Evans as the dam of his champion Irish two-year-old Minstrella and Grade 2 winner Misty Gallore.
Minstrella's championship two-year-old season in 1986 comprised wins in the Heinz 57 Phoenix, Moyglare Stud and Cheveley Park Stakes, the latter of which she was awarded at the controversial expense of Forest Flower.
Both Minstrella and Misty Gallore – the granddam of successful sire Silver Ghost – became influential mares in their own right but neither can quite match the influence of Flight Dancer's final filly, Misty Dancer. The daughter of Lyphard failed to trouble the judge in three starts but more than made up for it at stud, primarily as the dam of Quiet Dance and granddam of Grade 1 winner Rolling Fog.
Thus, Gun Runner has quite the foundation to support him at stud. It also doesn't hurt that he is a son of the Argentinean-bred Candy Ride – a modern day Forli of sorts whose 12 Grade 1 winners also include successful young sire Twirling Candy – and out of a Giant's Causeway mare; indeed Candy Ride has long fared well with Storm Cat line mares, as fellow Grade 1 winners Capt Candyman Can, Evita Argentina, Shared Belief and Sidney's Candy illustrate.
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Q: How to take userid or email input and validate in servlet My question is simple. In some websites it is seen one can enter the site providing his/her email-id or userid and password(i.e already registered with the site). Now in MVC structure we use servlet as DECISION CONTROLLER. So after taking the input in servlet, we can compare them with userid or email-id column of user table. So to take input we can write in servlet:
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After taking the input what should be the way to check ,if the given input is email-id or userid? Should we compare the String input with  each value of both the userid and emailid column of user table? If that is the only way the program quality will be very low and security can be exploited.

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British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn got himself into trouble on Wednesday for apparently muttering "stupid woman" at Prime Minister Theresa May during a heated exchange in parliament over her delaying tactics on Brexit.
The Labour Party leader could be seen appearing to mouth the words in response to May making a joke about his failure to demand a no-confidence vote against her government after he had accused her of leading the country "into a national crisis".
Conservative MPs shouted "disgraceful" when the allegations were first raised after the angry exchanges, and May herself was asked what she thought of the supposed comment.
"I think that everybody in this House, particularly in this 100th year of women getting the vote, should be encouraging women to come into this chamber and to stand in this chamber and should therefore use appropriate language in this chamber when they are referring to female members," she said.
Several Conservative MPs said the alleged comment was a reflection of abusive language faced by many female politicians and a culture of bullying in parliament that has become a focus for concern in recent months.
Parliament speaker John Bercow said he did not see the incident himself but, if true, the allegation meant that Corbyn would have to apologise in front of parliament.
"It is incumbent upon all members of this House to operate in accordance with its best conversion... If a member has failed to do so that member has a duty to apologise," he said.
Bercow, who has himself been accusing of bullying and using abusive language, said he would also look at video evidence and seek professional advice on the alleged incident.

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Oz bill to recognise foreign gay marriage fails
AAP 20 June 2013
Efforts to change Australia's marriage laws to recognise gay couples who tie the knot overseas have been shot down in parliament.
The Australian Greens had moved a private bill to amend the Marriage Act, so that same-sex marriages validly entered into in foreign countries were recognised under Australian law.
But on Thursday the bill was defeated 44 votes to 28 in the Senate.
…DLP senator John Madigan not only voiced his opposition to the bill, but said he'd be calling for a referendum to recognise marriage as just a union between a man and a woman.
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05/18/2014 - College PREP - St. Louis, MO Kara is a talented SS with a balanced skill set. Defensively, she makes accurate throws, fields using sure glovework and moves well laterally. Working on fielding the ball out in front with softer hands and quicker more fluid footwork will help to improve range and efficiency. Overall, Kara has a confident approach to playing defense. As a hitter, she uses a square set up with short stride and keeps her balance centered before aggressively producing hard contact to all hitting fields. She has natural power and will benefit implementing a consistent stride and load and an explosive lower half to improve power, ultimately allowing her to access the entire field effectively. Overall, Kara has a good frame for the position and solid athletic ability to help aid in her continued development as a player.


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class OutputHelperTest extends TestCase
{

	/**
	 * Container helper
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	 * @var OutputHelper
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	protected $outputHelper;

	protected function setUp()
	{
		parent::setUp();

		$this->outputHelper = new OutputHelper();
	}

	/**
	 * @dataProvider formatArrayWithoutColorDataProvider
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	public function testFormatArrayWithoutColor($items_per_row, $result)
	{
		$this->assertEquals($result, $this->outputHelper->formatArray(array('a', 'b', 'c'), $items_per_row));
	}

	public function formatArrayWithoutColorDataProvider()
	{
		return array(
			array(1, 'a,' . PHP_EOL . 'b,' . PHP_EOL . 'c'),
			array(2, 'a, b,' . PHP_EOL . 'c'),
			array(3, 'a, b, c'),
		);
	}

	/**
	 * @dataProvider formatArrayWithColorDataProvider
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	public function testFormatArrayWithColor($items_per_row, $result)
	{
		$this->assertEquals($result, $this->outputHelper->formatArray(array('a', 'b', 'c'), $items_per_row, 'red'));
	}

	public function formatArrayWithColorDataProvider()
	{
		return array(
			array(1, '<fg=red>a</>,' . PHP_EOL . '<fg=red>b</>,' . PHP_EOL . '<fg=red>c</>'),
			array(2, '<fg=red>a</>, <fg=red>b</>,' . PHP_EOL . '<fg=red>c</>'),
			array(3, '<fg=red>a</>, <fg=red>b</>, <fg=red>c</>'),
		);
	}

	public function testGetName()
	{
		$this->assertEquals('output', $this->outputHelper->getName());
	}

}

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Grammys drop 'Urban' from R&B category amongst new rules that 'reflect the current state of the music industry.'
The Recording Academy has made a number of major changes to several of its Grammy Awards rules and guidelines in an effort, according to a press release, "to reflect its ongoing commitment to evolve with the musical landscape".
In addition, in order to make the nominating process and rules "more transparent and fair", the event's Rules & Guidelines are now publicly available for the first time.
Among the changes are updates to the Best New Artist category, Latin, R&B and Rap Fields, Nominations Review Committees, and more.
Most notably, the Grammy Awards' 'Best Urban Contemporary Album' category has been renamed 'Best Progressive R&B Album' in order to "appropriately categorize and describe this subgenre".
"This change includes a more accurate definition to describe the merit or characteristics of music compositions or performances themselves within the genre of R&B," state the amended guidelines.
The Recording Academy says that the Best Progressive R&B Album category "is intended to highlight albums that include the more progressive elements of R&B and may include samples and elements of hip-hop, rap, dance, and electronic music," but that "it may also incorporate production elements found in pop, euro-pop, country, rock, folk, and alternative".
The removal of the term 'Urban' in this category follows Republic Records' recent announcement that it has officially scrapped the term from its own company lexicon.
It also follows the news yesterday that a raft of senior music execs in the UK have called for the removal of the word 'urban' at major UK music companies, in addition to anti-racism training for staff.
Speaking to Variety, Recording Academy Chair & Interim President/CEO Harvey Mason Jr. said that the decision to drop the term, and to make all the other changes, were made in May.
The amended rules can be seen below and the Grammy Awards' rulebook can be found here.
Best Urban Contemporary Album Category — Renamed and Redefined
Best Urban Contemporary Album has been renamed Best Progressive R&B Album to appropriately categorize and describe this subgenre. This change includes a more accurate definition to describe the merit or characteristics of music compositions or performances themselves within the genre of R&B.
Best Progressive R&B Album
This category is intended to highlight albums that include the more progressive elements of R&B and may include samples and elements of hip-hop, rap, dance, and electronic music. It may also incorporate production elements found in pop, euro-pop, country, rock, folk, and alternative.
Best Rap/Sung Performance Category — Renamed and Redefined
Best Rap/Sung Performance has been renamed Best Melodic Rap Performance to represent the inclusivity of the growing hybrid performance trends within the rap genre. The expanded category is defined as follows:
Best Melodic Rap Performance
This category is intended to recognize solo and collaborative performances containing elements of rap and melody over modern production. This performance requires a strong and clear presence of melody combined with rap cadence, and is inclusive of dialects, lyrics or performance elements from non-rap genres including R&B, rock, country, electronic or more. The production may include traditional elements of rap or elements characteristic of the aforementioned non-rap genres.
Latin Field: Placement of Latin Urban Recordings — Reclassify
Latin Pop Album has been renamed Best Latin Pop Or Urban Album and Latin Rock, Urban Or Alternative Album has been renamed Best Latin Rock Or Alternative Album to migrate the genres of Latin urban and represent the current state and prominent representation in the Latin urban genres.
Best Latin Pop Or Urban Album
This category is intended to recognize excellence in Latin pop or urban music recordings that utilize a stylistic intention, song structure, lyrical content, and/or musical presentation to create a sensibility that reflects the broad spectrum of Latin pop music style and culture. The category includes recordings from balladeers and commercial Latin music and is not limited to any one region.
Best Latin Rock Or Alterative Album
This category is intended to highlight Latin rock or alternative music recordings that utilize a stylistic intention, song structure, lyrical content and/or musical presentation to create a sensibility that reflects the broad spectrum of the Latin music style and culture.
Best New Artist — Eligibility
There is no longer a specified maximum number of releases prohibiting artists from entering the Best New Artist category. As such, the screening committees will be charged with determining whether the artist had attained a breakthrough or prominence prior to the eligibility year. Such a determination would result in disqualification.
Harvey Mason Jr., Chair & Interim President/CEO of the Recording Academy, said: "I'm excited to announce our latest changes, as we're constantly evaluating our Awards process and evolving it to ensure the Grammy Awards are inclusive and reflect the current state of the music industry,"
"The Academy accepts proposals for rule changes from members of the music community throughout the year that are carefully reviewed and, if accepted, ultimately ratified at our annual Board meeting, a process that we are proud to have continued in this challenging year."
"We're constantly evaluating our Awards process and evolving it to ensure the GRAMMY Awards are inclusive and reflect the current state of the music industry,"
Harvey Mason Jr., the Recording Academy
Bill Freimuth, Chief Awards Officer at the Recording Academy, added: "As a peer-driven and peer-voted award, members of the music community are directly involved in the growth and preservation of the Grammys process.
"Each year we receive a number of rule change proposals from artists, producers and songwriters asking us to reevaluate our process to better reflect the current state of the music industry and how it's evolved over the past 12 months."Music Business Worldwide
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Евансвілл () — переписна місцевість (CDP) в США, в окрузі Юкон-Коюкук штату Аляска. Населення — 15 осіб (2010).

Географія
Евансвілл розташований за координатами  (66.932973, -151.368929).  За даними Бюро перепису населення США в 2010 році переписна місцевість мала площу 59,41 км², з яких 58,90 км² — суходіл та 0,50 км² — водойми.

Демографія

Згідно з переписом 2010 року, у переписній місцевості мешкало 15 осіб у 12 домогосподарствах у складі 2 родин. Густота населення становила 0 осіб/км².  Було 25 помешкань (0/км²).

Расовий склад населення:

До двох чи більше рас належало 0,0 %. Частка іспаномовних становила 0,0 % від усіх жителів.

За віковим діапазоном населення розподілялося таким чином: 6,7 % — особи молодші 18 років, 80,0 % — особи у віці 18—64 років, 13,3 % — особи у віці 65 років та старші. Медіана віку мешканця становила 51,3 року. На 100 осіб жіночої статі у переписній місцевості припадало 150,0 чоловіків;  на 100 жінок у віці від 18 років та старших — 180,0 чоловіків також старших 18 років.

Цивільне працевлаштоване населення становило 7 осіб. Основні галузі зайнятості: публічна адміністрація — 71,4 %, мистецтво, розваги та відпочинок — 28,6 %.

Джерела

Переписні місцевості Аляски
Населені пункти зони перепису населення Юкон-Коюкук (Аляска)

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Los Angeles Chargers offensive Mount Rushmore
San Diego runningback LaDainian Tomlinson in action as the San Diego Chargers defeated the Oakland Raiders by a score of 27 to 0 at McAfee Coliseum, Oakland, California, September 11, 2006. (Photo by Robert B. Stanton/NFLPhotoLibrary)
Philip Rivers
The only way to close this list is to put one of the most beloved players in team history. He's also one of the best.
The team's current leader, Philip Rivers, is as passionate about the organization and turning it into a winner as anyone ever has been and for that, it makes it easy to root for him. At 37 years old, he's still going strong and trying with every fiber in his being to get his team to the top.
The No. 4 overall pick of the 2004 draft, Rivers would never have even played for the team if Eli Manning didn't refuse to go there. That's something that has worked out for Chargers fans, even if Manning was fortunate enough to win a couple of Super Bowls with the New York Giants.
At this stage in his career, Rivers is a better player than Manning and has a chance to claim that elusive Lombardi Trophy yet.
Rivers is the franchise's all-time leader in just about every passing category including passing yardage and passing touchdowns. That's saying something, considering her hs blown the great numbers put up by Fouts out of the water.
His 374 career touchdown passes rank sixth in NFL history and his 54,656 career passing yards are good for eighth.
Related Story. 30 Greatest Chargers of all-time
Though Dan Marino will win most arguments as the best player to never win a Super Bowl, Rivers absolutely belongs in that discussion.
And as far as a discussion about a Chargers Mount Rushmore goes, he's a lock to be on that list.


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Bethlehem, PA USA (March 22, 2016) ABEC, Inc. today announced that they have been awarded a complete process equipment set for Biogen's new next-generation manufacturing facility in Luterbach, Switzerland. ABEC is providing an integrated equipment solution including engineering, 3-D design, manufacturing, installation, and site testing. Work has been ongoing since mid-2015 and the first equipment is ready for testing.
ABEC's long history with Biogen began in the early 1990s with the supply of Biogen's first production bioreactors. Since then, ABEC has provided Biogen with a variety of bioprocess equipment and services, including bioreactor process modeling, purification systems, and some of the industry's first 15,000L bioreactors. For this project, ABEC will provide cell culture bioreactors, prep and hold systems, filtration and chromatography systems, and Clean-in-Place (CIP) systems. Significant integration and testing of the equipment will occur at ABEC's manufacturing facilities in order to minimize installation and start-up time, and risk at the site.


This Berkshire Eagle editorial, "Williams Steps Up," on the NARH gift from the College deserves comment.
Williams College has demonstrated exemplary generosity by contributing $1 million to the $12 million campaign now under way to renovate North Adams Regional Hospital. The college is no doubt acting in its own self-interest to an extent. A modern hospital is an essential component of a thriving, progressive North County community, and in order to attract high caliber faculty and students, up-to-date health care facilities are a compelling feature.
This just isn't true. Prospective students have no idea whether the local hospital is the best or worst in Massachusetts (although most are smart enough to know that it is unlikely to be the best). How often did you think about hospital quality when you were 17?
Prospective faculty members are, by and large, so happy to have a tenure-track position at a decent school that hospital quality is the last thing on their minds.
But in a larger scale of things, Williams has recognized, as have other traditionally insular institutions of higher learning, that its fortunes are closely tied to the condition of its extended neighborhood. In so doing, the college has become a model of community leadership for others, especially in the corporate community, to emulate.
Who you calling "insular," Berkshire Eagle? And, as long as we are looking for "leadership," I wonder how much the Eagle has contributed to NARH?
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Iranian ICT Minister Mahmoud Vaezi who is in Geneva for a specialized meeting of the International Telecommunication Union, held talks with his Indian counterpart Manoj Sinha on Thursday.
During the meeting, the two sides noted the many commonalities and potential and actual capacities for ICT cooperation between the two countries, and reached an agreement to expand cooperation in various fields based on existing MoUs signed between them.
The two ministers also conferred on developing cooperation in technology, exchange of experience for rural communications, activating agreements, forming a joint working group and cooperation in international organizations.
The two sides further stressed resolve for sharing experiences on communications infrastructure development policies, joint stamp issues, facilitation of cooperation between the two countries' private sectors and offering a capacity of Iran's bandwidth transit to India.
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On July 27, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) announced that he had reached a deal with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to pledge his support for a $700 billion spending bill, which is supposed to bring in $725 billion in new revenue to the federal government and reduce the deficit by $292 billion annually.
But a look inside the text of the bill reveals a series of policies that will likely serve only to further increase consumer prices, suppress wages, expand the scope of federal audits, decrease the value of retirement portfolios, reduce medical innovation, and further escalate already high energy prices.
The bill, dubbed the Inflation Reduction Act, was the product of a year of harried negotiations, compromises, and disappointments for Democrats as they tried to pass the much larger $1.75 trillion Build Back Better (BBB) Act.
Ultimately, Manchin killed the BBB bill in December 2021 when he said he would unilaterally refuse to vote for it over continuing concerns about rising inflation.
Despite standing strong for months on his declaration that BBB was "dead," the Inflation Reduction Act revived many of the Democrats' key priorities from BBB: new taxes on corporations, expansion of the IRS, prescription drug pricing policies, and wide-reaching climate policies.
Manchin's main demand in supporting any reconciliation bill—which under Senate rules is immune from the filibuster and thus can be passed along party lines—was that it reduce inflation and work toward getting the national debt under control.
Lower-Income People Will Still Pay More
A key claim for Democrats in both the BBB and the Inflation Reduction Act has been an emphasis that the bill will not raise taxes on households making less than $400,000 per year.
Technically, the Inflation Reduction Act's tax code changes include no alterations to individual income taxes for earners at any income level. Rather, the only "new" taxes in the bill target corporations and stock market investors, as well as other taxes intended to enforce Democrats' prescription drug pricing policy.
The most substantial new tax in the bill would impose a 15 percent minimum tax on corporations that bring in more than $1 billion in revenue annually.
Far from hurting only billionaires and megacorporations, these taxes will have an economy-wide effect, said Preston Brashers, a senior tax policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation, in an interview with The Epoch Times. Middle class Americans will be left to absorb the blow through lower wages and higher prices, he said.
"A brand can't pay a tax," Brashers said. "Technically, legally, the corporations are the ones paying taxes, but ultimately that has to be paid by people, one way or the other. It's not like Jeff Bezos—if you tax Amazon—that this is coming out of Jeff Bezos's pocket."
Brashers said the extra money would be coming out of everyone's pocket that's involved in the operation, whether it's a worker, a consumer who buys the products, or an investor with stocks or a 401(K).
"What they're doing is they're applying general taxes across the whole economy, and so everyone's going to be caught up in it," he said.
Retirement Accounts Reduced in Real Value
In addition to potentially increasing prices and decreasing wages through the new corporate minimum tax, Democrats' bill would also target some stock sales—thus lowering the value of retirement portfolios like 401(k)s, IRAs, and pension plans.
Any retirement account with a value largely based in stock market shares will see its real value decline, as the bill would impose a new one percent excise tax on every corporate stock buyback.
In contrast to most stock sales, which take place between individuals on the open market, corporate buyback sales involve a corporation itself using cash to buy shares of its own stock back from investors, a practice which is often crucial to increasing the value of retirement portfolios.
Thus, though the nominal value of retirement portfolios will not decline, common corporate buyback stock sales will return less liquid cash to account holders.
Generally, in such sales investors benefit more than the company. But the new excise tax could dissuade corporations from continuing the practice, meaning slower growth for retirement accounts.
About 58 percent of Americans, rich and poor alike, have at least some stake in the stock market, according to a Gallup poll. More than 60 million American workers have a 401(k) retirement portfolio, in addition to about 14.83 million Americans with education savings accounts, according to the Education Data Initiative.
According to data from the nonpartisan Tax Foundation, retirement accounts make up the largest portion—approximately 37 percent—of the approximately $22.8 trillion in U.S. stocks.
The new excise tax would make no distinction between a $2 million portfolio and a $300,000 portfolio, meaning Americans at every income level will be affected by the tax.
Aside from the effect that these new taxes will have on the real value of Americans' retirement portfolios, they could also decrease U.S. financial competitiveness with China, where such rules are not in place.
'Army' of 87,000 New IRS Agents
One of the biggest federal winners from new funding in the bill is the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which stands to gain $80 billion—about six times its current budget—in new funding to hire what GOP critics have described as an "army" of new IRS agents.
Put into context, the ballooning of the IRS to hire 87,000 more tax agents would make the personnel list of the IRS longer than the Pentagon, the State Department, the FBI, and the Border Patrol.
Broken down, the roughly $80 billion appropriation to the IRS will go toward "necessary expenses for tax enforcement activities … to determine and collect owed taxes, to provide legal and litigation support, to conduct criminal investigations (including investigative technology), to provide digital asset monitoring and compliance activities, to enforce criminal statutes related to violations of internal revenue laws and other financial crimes … and to provide other services."
The effort to expand the IRS is not popular with Republicans, who have generally opposed such efforts in the past.
"Democrats are scheming to double the size of the IRS by hiring an army of 87,000 new agents to spy on Americans," wrote House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) in an Aug. 4 tweet.
Inside the text of the tax and IRS sections of the bill, Democrats repeat their claim that the legislation will have no effect on the tax rate of households making less than $400,000.
"Nothing in this subsection is intended to increase taxes on any taxpayer with a taxable income below $400,000," the bill reads.
During an Aug. 9 White House press conference, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre doubled down on this claim, saying that the expansion of the IRS includes no new audits on people making less than $400,000.
While this claim is technically true—the bill does not order new audits at any income level—neither does the bill explicitly prohibit audits on people or small businesses making less than $400,000 per year. Thus, the IRS—as it always has—will have substantially unilateral authority over whom it audits.
In the same interview, Brashers explained how, contrary to Democrats' claims, small businesses—including those making less than the $400,000 figure—will likely be hardest hit by the massive IRS expansion.
"If you look at the [dispersion] of audits right now, there's a lot of audits that happen on the lower end," he said. "Especially on the business side: if you're a small business, a sole proprietor—if you're running your own books—a lot of times the IRS looks at that as a prime target because you don't have the accountants that are keeping everything buttoned down necessarily."
"If you're a sole proprietor and you're keeping your own books … it's probably just going to be harder for you to keep up with the convoluted tax code," he said. "So, if anything, more of that weight is probably going to hit small businesses."
Health Care Provisions Would Hinder Innovation
A key component of the bill for progressives has been its alteration of prescription drug pricing policy.
The bill allows Medicare to negotiate prices with drug companies, an option long available to private insurers. Republicans prohibited Medicare from doing this about 20 years ago.
The difference it that private insurers' negotiations are based on voluntary agreements between both parties. Pharmaceutical companies will have no choice under the legislation but to negotiate with the federal government upon the receipt of an offer from the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
However, the bill makes very clear what will happen to companies that refuse to negotiate or to accept the price controls dictated by the HHS secretary: a massive 95 percent excise tax, designed more to enforce compliance than to raise revenue.
In a 2019 letter to Democrats, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) warned that requiring drug companies to negotiate on the government's terms would substantially hamper medical innovation (pdf).
The CBO has suggested in its analysis of the current bill that as many as 50 percent fewer new drugs could come to market as a consequence of the bill's health care provisions (pdf).
At the same time, the stated goal of the policy change—and of the bill as a whole—would only scantly be served by the Medicare changes.
The CBO estimated in its 2019 letter that the proposed changes "would reduce federal direct spending for Medicare by $345 billion over the 2023–2029 period." This estimate comes out to annual spending reductions of only about $57.5 billion.
The worst case scenario, the CBO has warned, would be that pharmaceutical companies would simply pull out of the U.S. market entirely if they refused to accept the price controls, meaning that Americans would have access to fewer life-saving drugs.
Climate Taxes Will Increase Energy Costs
At a time when Americans are already reeling from a massive increase in the price of energy, particularly gasoline, the Inflation Reduction Act would impose a litany of new taxes on several of the most common types of energy in accordance with Democrats' climate policy ambitions.
Specifically, Democrats in support of the bill have cited various analyses suggesting that these policies would cause a net reduction in U.S. emissions of about 40 percent over the 2005 levels.
To achieve this goal, the bill would furnish major tax incentives to individuals and corporate entities that switch to renewable energy sources and more efficient appliances, but would also impose an array of taxes on fossil fuel energy sources.
First on the list of fossil fuel targets in the Inflation Reduction Act is a tax on methane, which is commonly used to heat homes during the winter. The CBO estimates in its analysis of the bill that this tax would raise about $6.5 billion in revenue—a negligible sum for the federal government, which spends more than that every single day.
But the effect on methane companies and on natural gas consumers would be far more pronounced.
In a letter to Congress advising against the tax, the American Gas Association (AGA) warned that consumers could see double-digit price increases as a result of the tax (pdf).
"New fees or taxes on energy companies will raise costs for customers, creating a burden that will fall most heavily on lower-income Americans," the AGA wrote. "These major new costs most likely will result in higher bills for natural gas customers, including families, small businesses, and power generators.
"In one scenario, we estimate that such a fee could result in the average customer seeing an approximate increase of 17 percent in their natural gas bill, or over $100 per year for the average American family. We also estimate that the proposal could put more than 100,000 American jobs at risk."
But methane is not the only fossil fuel targeted by the bill: crude oil and imported petroleum products would also see a new 16.4 cents-per-barrel tax.
For American consumers who have struggled to absorb the blow of increasing gas prices over the past year, this tax might only worsen the situation, and could cause a further hike in fuel prices.
As with the methane tax, the effect on federal revenue would come out to a negligible $12 billion, according to estimates by the Joint Committee on Taxation (pdf).
Finally, the bill would more than double the excise tax rate on coal—meaning that Manchin's West Virginia constituents, who rely on coal for about 90 percent of their energy, would be among the hardest hit by the change.
Specifically, the bill would raise the tax rate on subsurface mining of coal from its previous level of $0.50 per ton to $1.10 per ton, and would increase the tax rate on surface mining from $0.25 per ton to $0.55 per ton.
Taken together, these provisions could spell out across-the-board energy price hikes for all Americans, particularly during the transition period to other forms of energy incentivized by the bill.
What's Next for the Bill
After a hurried push through the Senate, Democrats in the upper chamber approved the bill in a 51–50 vote on Aug. 7.
In the past, Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and Manchin, the two swing-voting members of the Democratic caucus in the upper chamber, have been the largest threat to the passage of any overly ambitious reconciliation bill from their party. As soon as the agreement was unveiled by Manchin and Schumer, Manchin vowed his support for the legislation, leaving a question mark only on Sinema.
Despite some hopes among critics that Sinema would hold out against the bill, denying it the 50 votes needed to activate Harris' tie-breaking vote, her office announced late in the evening on Aug. 4 that Sinema had decided to back the bill.
The original draft of the bill would have closed the "carried interest loophole," a tax code workaround that allows money managers to pay a lower tax rate than normal on profitable investments. This proposal, which was part of the original BBB plan, would have brought in another $14 billion in revenue, Democrats said.
As part of committing her support for the bill, Sinema demanded that this provision be removed, despite Manchin's expressed demands that the provision remain in the bill. Democrat negotiators acceded to Sinema's request, paving a way forward for the bill.
"We have agreed to remove the carried interest tax provision, protect advanced manufacturing, and boost our clean energy economy in the Senate's budget reconciliation legislation," Sinema said.
The last thing needed for the quick passage of the bill through the Senate was the approval of the Senate parliamentarian, a nonpartisan referee in the upper chamber whose go-ahead is necessary for reconciliation bills, After striking out a few minor provisions, Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough gave the green light for the package as a whole, opening the way to its eventual passage on Aug. 7.
Now, it will head to the House for final approval.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has expressed support for the bill, and it is likely that the House will take up and pass the bill following its passage in the Senate.
Biden, likewise, is likely to sign it upon its approval by both chambers of Congress.
Joseph Lord is a congressional reporter for The Epoch Times.
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One would think that after 25 squares, it would be enough for a blanket, but my squares are small, so I have will have to knit 5-10 more depending on how large I want the blanket.
So here we start year 2018 with another square to add to the large pile building up.
This time I took inspiration from the photos of Florence Cathedral in Christmas light. Lately, I have a new-found appreciation for the fair-isle techniques and I am trying to be less true to the actual photo while still at the same time make it recognisable from where I took the inspiration. Each time I think the results are turning out rather well.
I hope one day with this blanket to have knit so many various motives that I find one or two which I want to repeat in a sweater or another large work. This present one can definitely compete in that race!
Newer PostPavilion of marbled folks!


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With over 400 years of exciting (and sometimes tragic) history, St. Augustine is an incredible destination for history buffs as well as ghost hunters. One of the most iconic sites in town that is said to be haunted is the St. Augustine lighthouse. Featured on national television shows and news articles, this famous attraction has brought dozens of visitors to the Nation's Oldest City to discover its many secrets. Learn about the legends surrounding this spooky spot, as well as how you can experience the haunted St. Augustine lighthouse for yourself! If you'd like to find out some more of our favorite museums, historic sites, and other fascinating places to visit, access our free Vacation Guide! It's never been easier to plan your trip to St. Augustine.
During the day, visitors go to the St. Augustine Lighthouse and Maritime Museum to explore the grounds as well as the towers. Aside from the lighthouse itself, the grounds also feature the 1876 Keepers' House and nature trails! The museum offers a Behind the Scenes Tour multiple times a day, which details St. Augustine lighthouse facts as well as the history of boatbuilding, and shipwreck archeology.
For an up-close look, book the Exclusive Lens Room Tour, which showcases the impressive original 1874 Fresnel lens. It's not available for the general public to view, so this is an extraordinary opportunity! The Sunset Moonrise Tour is another fantastic option. Once a month, guests can watch the sunset and the moon rise from the lighthouse tower. This special is often sold out for months in advance, and it's no wonder why. You'll get to see the greatest show put on by Mother Nature while enjoying complimentary champagne and hors-d'oeuvre.
While visiting the lighthouse during the day might be fun for history buffs, visitors interested in the paranormal will want to take the Dark of the Moon Tour. During this guided tour, you'll get the inside scoop on all of the mysteries and history of the St. Augustine Lighthouse. If you'd rather conduct your own paranormal investigation, you can skip the tour and have three hours of exploration time. Guests who book this option can rent EMF meters from the museums or (if you're a serious ghost-hunter) you can bring your personal equipment. You'll want to book this special way in advance, as spaces are limited and it books up fast!
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Q: as3 if else, min max value I want a user to fill in a number ranging between 1-350 in a text field (INPUTFIELD).
Through an XML I want to return a string in another text field (OUTPUTFIELD).
I got 99% of it working, but after a user fills in a number 0 or higher than 350, I want to return a message in the OUTPUTFIELD.
I do not get this to work and I get the message:
TypeError: Error #2007: Parameter text must be non-null.
    at flash.text::TextField/set text()
    at MethodInfo-2()

My code is as follows:
this.stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, keyDownHandler);
function keyDownHandler(event : KeyboardEvent):void {
    if (event.keyCode == Keyboard.ENTER) {
        if (inputField.text > "0") {
               outputField.text = xmlData.prefix_list.country[Number(inputField.text)];
               outputField.setTextFormat(myTextFormat);
        } else {
               if (inputField.text > "350") {
                   outputField.text = "DOES NOT EXIST";
                   outputField.setTextFormat(myTextFormat);
               }
        }
    }
}

I tried numerous options in the "if" conditional, for example just a few like:
if (inputField.text > "0" || inputField.text < "350")
if (inputField.text >= 0 && inputField.text =< 350)
if (inputField.text >= "0" && inputField.text =< "350")

Same goes for the "else" conditional.
} else {
    if (inputField.text > "350") {

Maybe some one can point me in the right direction.

A: if (int(inputField.text) > 0 && int(inputField.text) < 350)    {
  outputField.text = xmlData.prefix_list.country[Number(inputField.text)];
  outputField.setTextFormat(myTextFormat);
} else {
  outputField.text = "DOES NOT EXIST";
  outputField.setTextFormat(myTextFormat);
}

You have to convert value to int if you are working with integers.
It's easy to convert between types in AS3. Here is tutorial how to convert String to Number http://www.trainingtutorials101.com/2011/01/actionscript-3-convert-strings-to.html


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Former Hudson Valley substitute teacher charged with rape of student in Bronx: police
Jonathan Pol, 28, was charged with rape on Wednesday at 3:50 p.m. by the New York Police Department.
Former Hudson Valley substitute teacher charged with rape of student in Bronx: police Jonathan Pol, 28, was charged with rape on Wednesday at 3:50 p.m. by the New York Police Department. Check out this story on poughkeepsiejournal.com: https://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/news/local/2019/05/30/former-hudson-valley-substitute-teacher-charged-rape-bronx-police/1287563001/
Katelyn Cordero, Poughkeepsie Journal Published 2:52 p.m. ET May 30, 2019 | Updated 6:00 p.m. ET May 30, 2019
Some local school districts are notifying parents that a former substitute teacher has been accused of raping a 13-year-old female student at a Bronx middle school.
However, the districts that have commented on the employment of Jonathan Pol have said there were no reported complaints about the teacher during his time there.
Pol, 28, was charged with rape on Wednesday at 3:50 p.m. by the New York Police Department. Police said he was at a hospital as of Thursday morning.
Pol worked as a substitute at the Arlington, Pawling, Dover and Webutuck districts, their superintendents confirmed to the Journal Thursday, for stretches between 2015 and 2017.
"No one wants to hear about those allegations, but safety is important," said Dover Superintendent Mike Tierney. "We follow the proper safety procedures with all employees."
A letter was sent home to students in the Arlington and Pawling school districts concerning the former substitute teacher.
"The district is shocked by the news reported regarding Mr. Pol. In the period of time that Mr. Pol worked as a substitute teacher in the school district he never exhibited any behaviors to suggest that he was capable of the acts that he is alleged to have engaged in while employed as a teacher in the Bronx," said Pawling Superintendent William Ward.
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Why are our badgers 'Badgered to Death'?
Lesley Docksey
| 23rd August 2016
Front cover of 'Badgered to Death' by Dominic Dyer (exerpt), published by Canbury Press.
With today's news that badger culling will continue in Gloucester, Somerset and Dorset, and take place in three other counties, writes LESLEY DOCKSEY, there could be no more opportune moment for Dominic Dyer's new book 'Badgered to Death' to appear - expertly exposing the total absence of scientific evidence that badgers transmit bovine TB to cattle.
The government always stated the badger cull would be a farmer-led policy largely paid for by farmers. They lied; it's a largely publicly funded policy that is spiralling out of control on cost grounds despite being a scientific failure.
"Political factors will ultimately overrule scientific ones when a government takes a decision in a contentious field." Nature, 2007
Dyer is the Chief Executive of the Badger Trust charity. Everyone who has joined in anti-badger-cull marches and rallies across the country will be familiar with the man leading from the front - whose passionate speeches in defence of one of our most iconic wild animals have constantly condemned the lack of science behind the killing.
Dyer's first encounter with a badger was on the Isle of Wight. Years later, to his amazement, he saw one happily living in London suburbs. This badger helped his decision to leave a well-paid career and take up full-time work for wildlife conservation.
But why did he become such a champion for the badger?
"Over a period of time I became increasingly angry about the demonisation of the badger. I remember attending many farm industry events during my time in the food and plant science industries where farmers would regularly talk of the need to kill the animal, even discussing how to gas them. And I disliked the way the science and animal welfare concerns were dismissed in a mad rush to kill these animals."
Being the CEO of the Badger Trust has given him many opportunities to study badgers, and as he says, "The more you get to see them in the wild the more enchanting they become. It does not take long to become hooked as a badger watcher."
One also, of course, becomes more aware of the lack of science behind badger culling, and it is this devastating lack that Badgered to Death addresses.
Considering how long and complicated the history of badgers and bovine TB is, this could have been a dense and difficult undertaking. But this is not a book filled with references to learned papers and obtuse scientific arguments. Dyer simply and clearly describes the political process by which the badger became the scapegoat for the bovine tuberculosis in England's cattle.
From the moment the first bovine TB-infected badger was discovered in 1971, no other cause for this disease in cattle has been properly or adequately addressed.
Scientists were saying it was very difficult for badgers to spread TB to cattle
He describes in some detail the experiment carried out by the Central Veterinary Laboratories in 1975, attempting to prove how badgers can give cattle TB. Under very controlled and artificial circumstances it took months for infectious badgers to pass the TB onto calves, even though both badgers and calves were sharing a small and highly restricted living space.
There have been no other such attempts, and later research has since demonstrated that badgers avoid cattle, and that cattle avoid areas where badger might urinate or defecate. There is no science, no evidence, to prove how badgers are supposed to pass TB to cattle.
The Randomised Badger Culling Trials are explored in depth, yet even here Dyer shows how the science gives way to politics. Despite the conclusion that culling badgers could make "no meaningful difference" to controlling TB in cattle, the results were, said the head of the RBCT Lord Krebs, "cherry picked" and skewed in order to justify a cull.
The President of the Royal Society Lord May went further and said the government were "transmuting evidence-based policy into policy-based evidence."
Only politically did the badger cull make any sense
Dyer's documentation of the political process underlying Prime Minister David Cameron's decision - and yes, it was his decision - to implement the culls is thorough, detailed and depressing in the government's refusal to accept the lack of science. As Dyer explains, Cameron's acceptance was all on the side of receiving rural votes in exchange for a cull.
Of all the strands that created the cull - the politicians, Defra, the NFU and Countryside Alliance, the farmers, scientists, vets, landowners and the hunting community about whom he writes, the clarity diplomatically masking the anger - which of those does Dyer think bears the most responsibility for the culls taking place?
"I think the Veterinary industry is most to blame. For a profession that puts scientific knowledge and animal welfare at the heart of what it stands for, the continued support for the hugely cruel ineffective badger cull is unforgivable in my mind."
But apart from Cameron, who else could have stopped this useless brutal policy? It was, he felt ...
" ... the BVA which should have called for a stop to the cull when its Ethics Committee decided free shooting was cruel and ineffective. If they had made it clear that they would no longer support any culling using free shooting the policy would have collapsed on cost grounds."
He is also scathing of some of the big 'green' NGOs such as Friends of the Earth and WWF that did not get engaged or mobilise their thousands of members to add to the political pressure on Cameron's government.
Yet, at the same time, there are many vets and farmers who are against culling. Asked whether he thought farmers had been let down by Defra and the NFU, Dyer replied:
"Yes, many farmers contact me regularly to say they feel let down by the NFU; they know the TB testing systems are not fit for purpose, they are angry about not getting free access to gamma interferon testing and the delays in introducing a TB cattle vaccine.
"And they know the badger cull is being used as a political football whilst many of them struggle to stay in business."
Short term economics and politics trumped the protection of nature
Asked to expand on that, he explained: "Science will always be manipulated by politicians to support their priorities. Money on the other hand is always a deciding factor in the success or failure of a policy.
"The government always stated the badger cull would be a farmer-led policy largely paid for by farmers. They lied; it's a largely publicly funded policy that is spiralling out of control on cost grounds despite being a scientific failure."
The book's conclusion is that the culls will be stopped, not by science or validity, but by cost. Yet Dyer remains optimistic: "Despite all the incompetence, negligence and deceit, it's the caring compassionate British public who have made a stand for wildlife that gives me the most hope for the future."
His book pays tribute to the 'Badger Army', those many individuals from all walks of life who turned out to protest and importantly, once culling started, to protect the badgers out in the field.
Those people will be patrolling the countryside, day and night, in every area where badger killing is taking place this autumn. While determined to protect their badgers, many also want to see the government help and support farmers to beat the TB in their cattle - but with proper cattle-based measures, not by senselessly killing wildlife.
Badgered to Death is for them because it tells them just why they must keep fighting the culls. It will convince any reader how very wrong and ineffective the culls will prove to be.
And it should be read by all those battling against government policies that put money ahead of science and the environment. Our natural world is too important to be over-ridden in this way.
Lesley Docksey is a freelance writer who writes for The Ecologist and other media on the badger cull and other environmental topics, and on political issues for UK and international websites.
The book: Badgered to Death is by Dominic Dyer and published by Canbury Press.
Putting the 'con' into consultation and the 'fiction' into science: England's badger cull
We know the outcome of Defra's latest 'public consultation' on killing badgers long before the results have even been analysed, writes Lesley Docksey. Environment secretary Andrea Leadsom has already promised farmers to extend the cull 'even further' - although it brings no proven benefits. Welcome to the new world of 'alternative facts' that's driving UK government policy.
England's £100m badger cull extensions condemned
England is about to extend its badger cull policy to five new areas of the country, proving that only that science is a dead letter to May's conservative government as it was to Cameron's. While bovine TB infections in cattle rise in the existing cull areas, Wales has just achieved a cull-free 14% reduction.
Carry on Culling - the fiasco continues
'We need to look at the best scientific evidence' on badgers and bovine TB, says Environment Secretary Liz Truss. But as Lesley Docksey writes, the 'best scientific evidence' appears to mean only that which supports the cull - and there's precious little of it!
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Rural policing is overstretched and under-resoursed, and the countryside's wildlife could be suffering as a result. LESLEY DOCKSEY reports
Cumbria's Bovine TB problem - hidden for years but now in the news
Slowly the incidence of bTB in Cumbria has increased without any real outcry from the agricultural lobby. Why then, at the beginning of this month (August), has all of this information suddenly become news asks LESLEY DOCKSEY
Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist by Paul Kingsnorth
| 3rd July 2017
LESLEY DOCKSEY reviews Paul Kingsnorth's book, Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist


This has got to be one of the most trippiest things I have seen in awhile. The expression on most of the faces pretty much captures my facial expression while watching this. I still have no idea how some of the poses were done.


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Dr. Kristina Hudson Named Executive Director of Secondary Education
The Fayetteville Board of Education voted unanimously this evening to approve Dr. Kristina Hudson as the Executive Director of Secondary Education effective July 1, 2019.
Dr. Hudson has served as an assistant principal at Ramay Junior High since 2017. Hudson came to Fayetteville Public Schools from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where she served as a teaching assistant for Louisiana State University and as the Director of School Accountability for the Southern University Laboratory School. Prior to that time, Hudson spent seven years as an instructional specialist/teacher of instructional support for Capitol Middle School.
"Dr. Hudson has been an invaluable member of our leadership team," said Superintendent Dr. John L Colbert. "She will be an asset as a leader of our secondary schools. I look forward to seeing her impact on our students and staff members."
Reporting to Dr. Steven Weber, Associate Superintendent for Teaching and Learning, Dr. Hudson will support, supervise, and evaluate junior high and high school principals. She will provide leadership to the district's program directors as well as the curriculum design, review, and implementation cycle. "Dr. Hudson has a record of supporting teachers, students, and families. Her background as an instructional coach, administrator, and leader will support continuous improvement in Fayetteville Public Schools," said Dr. Weber.
"As a military family, it's been so wonderful to become part of such a special community," said Dr. Hudson. "Working in Fayetteville Public Schools has been a great privilege and blessing, and I look forward to continuing this work."
Dr. Hudson received her Doctorate of Philosophy in Educational Leadership degree from Louisiana State University. She also holds both master's and bachelor's degrees in history from Louisiana State University. Dr. Hudson taught for nine years in the East Baton Rouge Parish School System.


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Wendy Dodds diversified from being a junior international swimmer and an orienteer as a student, taking up mountain running in 1972 when she did her first Mountain Marathon.
Over the years she has run regularly over the fells with numerous age-group English and British championship wins, though favouring long races. She won her age group category in the first 5 years of the Run Further Trail race series, in 2006 was third FV50 in the UTMB, in 2015 was first FV50 in UTMR
In parallel with her running she has been a Sports Physician for over 35 years working with many sports, being a Team GB doctor at 4 Olympic Games and a volunteer one at London 2012. She has been an expedition doctor on treks to several peaks in Africa and was CMO on the 2013 Everest Marathon. In retirement she has been able to be a full time athlete (!) allowing her to reproduce times from 20 years ago when training was limited by professional commitments.
Wendy first 'teamed up' with Sarah Rowell in 1991 to break the women's record at the Haworth Hobble, previously held by 2 Olympic marathon runners (Angie Payne and Veronique Marot), with their time still being very respectable 25 years later. More recently they have formed a consistently successful Mountain Marathon partnership and written Trail and Mountain Running.
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The Top 5 - High School Movies
Only joking! Did you really think I would have High School Musical in this list!!?? Get'cha head in the game!
The High School film genre has long been a tried and tested formula for great cinema from teen angst and heartbreak to comedies and improbable adventure. Many leading men and women rose to fame or indeed faded away following a breakthrough performance in a High School genre film. Here I kick off our Top 5 series with our Top 5 High School Movies of All Time. Class is in session.
5 Can't Hardly Wait (1998)
Before American Pie blew up and changed the way we look at Apple Pie forever there was another teen comedy of note released just a year earlier. While this largely remains unknown to the masses I would argue that this is a far better film than the credited birthplace of "MILF". The cast list reads like a who's who from Before they were famous. Jennifer Love Hewitt (Party of Five, I Know What You Did Last Summer), Jason Segel (How I Met Your Mother), Seth Green (Austin Powers), Donald Faison (Scrubs), Jerry O' Connel (Jerry Maguire), Melissa Joan Hart (Sabrina, The Teenage Witch) and a whole host of others. This is set on the last day of school set over one day and has more laugh out loud moments that the entire American Pie franchise put together. It is also the inspiration for the name of this blog. Go see it immediately.
4 The Breakfast Club (1985)
This film is the first in the list by THE director of the 1980's John Hughes (Weird Science, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Uncle Buck). He pretty much wrote at least one film that was your favourite film growing up. Don't belive me? Go on IMDB right now and look it up, oh he got you with Home Alone did he? Good to have you back. This film is set during a Saturday all day detention with five students who are totally different on the surface but soon realise are a lot alike. Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez (Charlie Sheen's bro), Ally Sheedy (War Games) and Judd Nelson are names you should all know. Teen angst and social acceptance has rarely been better portrayed than in this film. It is quite simply an acting masterclass. Go rewatch it, it's just as good as you remember.
3 Dead Poet's Society (1989)
The late Robin Williams is known to each person for a certain special film, be it you and your parents loving Good Morning Vietnam, Mrs Doubtfire or Good Will Hunting. He has too many outstanding films to mention in one post. In this film you have a film so moving it is rare to hear it hasn't brought physical tears to its viewers. An inspirational yet unconvential teacher in Robin Williams inspires the students of a traditional all boys boarding school to take risks and follow their own path. The avenue for the kids to stand up for themselves is unusual, an underground poetry club, however it is as powerful as anything you are likely to see.
2 Superbad (2007)
This film is one of the funniest films of any genre and any decade no questions asked. It spawned the successful film careers of Jonah Hill (The Wolf of Wall Street), Michael Cera (Arrested Development), Seth Rogen (who wrote this as well), and Emma Stone (Crazy, Stupid, Love) and stars a host of other household names. We once again see the vehicle for this story set across one day in the three stars final year in high school. The film centres around three geeky teenagers who long to be a part of the cool crowd and to realise their daytime fantasies with the girls in their class. I would challenge anyone to find a flaw in this film from the awesome soundtrack to the perfectly paced screenplay.
And at Number One....
1 Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
For me there could be no other film to better emody the high school movie genre than a yound Matthew Broderick faking a sick day off school to have one of the best days ever lived. Written and directed by John Hughes and featuring the best ever version of the classic Beatles song Twist & Shout sung on a parade milk float in a busy downtown Chicago. From the genius schemes to avoid school and his spying headmaster to the stunning 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder the kids conveniently borrow for the day, this film has it all. It also spawned one of the most quoted film lines of all time, "Bueller, Bueller, Bueller...".
Back to the Future, yes this film is incredible but for me it fits in the time travel genre not the high schoool one.
Menace II Society over Boyz N the Hood I would also argue is a hugely underrated film that deserves a revist. Weird Science and The Outsiders were also two of my favourites growing up.


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The government is claiming that new figures showing a huge drop in recorded crime is further vindication of its economic policies. "Austerity hasn't just delivered an economic recovery but is also producing tangible social benefits," crowed Chancellor 'Gorgeous' George Osborne, addressing a meeting of the Streatham Young Conservatives. "Despite the naysayers and woolly liberals decrying our cuts in public spending, claiming that they would result in chaos, deprivation and rising crime levels, the opposite has happened: by slashing expenditure on police and taking officers off of the streets, we've achieved a real reduction in offending rates!" According to the multi-millionaire Tory, the key to his success in reducing crime lies in his party's recognition of the fact that policing isn't the answer to fighting crime, but rather that it causes crime. "Everyone's known for years now that the police have been inflating the crime statistics for years by committing fake crimes so as to justify their existence and inflated pay packets," he told his baying audience. "But nobody has been brave enough to admit it, instead clinging to the outdated view that more police gives us greater security – only we've had the courage to challenge this received wisdom!"
He later qualified his comments, following criticism from several Chief Constables, stating that he didn't believe that police officers were necessarily committing major crimes to inflate their statistics, just minor offences. "Obviously, the Chancellor isn't saying that they are out there committing murders and sex offences," a Treasury spokesperson told the press. "But everyone knows that they're always out there stealing people's phones and iPods – especially from black people under the guise of 'stop and search' -not to mention a fair bit of vandalism and housebreaking." However, Tory backbencher Sir Reginald Herne-Boakes is more forthright on the subject, claiming that it is common knowledge that the police are regularly committing major crimes. "Look, it is no coincidence that under the last Labour government we had record numbers of officers on the beat at the same time as rising gun crime, violent crimes and sex offences," he told the Daily Norks. "They aren't even subtle about committing these crimes – just look at that fellow in Tottenham they gunned down a couple of years ago – not only did it boost the murders and gun crime statistics, but it also triggered those riots which put crime figures up across the board! All so that the blighters could justify more money and officers! I'm telling you, policing is the biggest racket in Britain today! I just thank God that Osborne has seen through it!"
Not everyone is convinced of Osborne's claims. "This is clearly a case of British criminals underperforming, rather than being a result of the government's discredited economic policies." his Labour counterpart, Ed Balls, declared in the Commons. "Like so many of our industries, crime is suffering from a lack of investment, affecting opportunities for new criminal activity, thanks to this government's disastrous economic policies." According to the Shadow Chancellor the failure of Britain's banks to lend money, despite massive injections of public money since the financial crash, lies at the root of the problem. "If the banks are hoarding money in their central vaults instead of lending it, then there will be no cash for blaggers to rob at local branches," he claimed. "Bank robbery has traditionally been the cornerstone of British crime, without regular blaggings to finance other criminal endeavours, is it any wonder that crime rates are down?"
Others believe that the problem lies in the so-called 'gentrification' of crime in the UK. "It's all about multi-million pound financial frauds these days, rather than good old fashioned blaggings," wheezes seventy eight year old ex-East End villain and former EastEnders actor Charlie Prodd. "The fact is that these days a working class bloke like me just wouldn't be able to get on the crime 'ladder'." The one-time enforcer and wheel man for a number of East End 'firms' in the sixties believes that with 'entry-level' crime now being mainly fraud or web-based, such opportunities to start a life of crime are being monopolised by the educated and middle classes. "Gone are the days when you could start off with a few street muggings – there's literally no money in it these days with people carrying less cash on them," opines Prodd, who played loveable local flasher Harry Tibbs in the popular BBC soap between 1999 and 2001. "Crime has become the preserve of the privileged few who can use their connections to get top jobs in banks and the like, where they can rake off millions at no personal risk. I mean, these public school educated city types can rip us off for billions with their dodgy financial schemes, rig the Libor rate and force small businesses into liquidation so as to seize their assets and all that happens is they get a bonus, but if some working class kid steals a bottle of water during a riot, they get six months inside."
The government has responded by claiming that it is already addressing the problem of underperforming criminals, which it believes is an entirely separate issue from the latest fall in recorded crime. "Unlike the last Labour government – of which Mr Balls was a member – our response isn't to import huge numbers of foreign criminals from Eastern Europe," a spokesperson told the press. "Instead, the coalition government is working on introducing whole new kinds of criminality – the real problem here is that criminals haven't kept up with changes in modern crime and remain stuck in the essentially Victorian criminal mindset of 'old' crimes like robbery, murder and larceny. We need to completely modernise our crime!" To this end, the spokesperson pointed out, Welfare and Pensions Secretary Ian Duncan Smith was busy creating whole new areas of criminal activity. "Being poor, claiming benefits, even just having a spare room – these are just some of the innovative new forms of criminality he's already introduced," the spokesperson enthused. "Those are just the start – believe me, he's got many more up his sleeve!"
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R.A. Dickey Wins the Cy Young: Mets Ultimate Fan Shaft Is on the Way | Village Voice
R.A. Dickey Wins the Cy Young: Mets Ultimate Fan Shaft Is on the Way
by Allen Barra
R. A. Dickey becomes the first Mets pitcher in 22 years to win more than 20 games and the first since Dwight Gooden in 1985 to win the Cy Young. The only question on this memorable day, which is being asked in the New York Times, the Daily News, everywhere is "But will he be traded?"
A couple of weeks ago this looked like a transparent ploy by the Mets to get Dickey's salary down in negotiations for his new contract, which runs out at the end of next season. But then, Dickey stepped forward and announced that he would be willing to take less money than he could get on the open market as a free agent in order to stay with the Mets.
This has smoked out General Manager Sandy Alderson and the Mets front
office. Instead of coming out and saying, "This is great. Finally, for
the first time in a generation we're going to have a Cy Young winner
starting Opening Day this year," the Mets gave a bland statement through
Alderson, who called the award "a fitting recognition for a remarkable
season."
Hey, Sandy, don't get too excited.
People might think you really appreciate the fact that this guy
pitched his heart out, playing all season with a torn abdominal muscle,
winning 20 games and very nearly making the team look respectable. The
funny thing is that in the end, after all postseason controversy and
debating, the Cy Young decision wasn't even close. Dickey won 27 of the
32 first-place votes. The number two finisher, Clayton Kershaw of the
Dodgers, and Number 3, Gio Gonzalez of the Nationals, couldn't have put a
dent in Dickey's lead if they had pooled their vote.
And one more clue that the Wilpons are going to deal Dickey – it
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regarding Johan Santana. Something like "Santana is in great shape, and
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Dwight Gooden's been working out and that Tom Seaver is thinking of
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in 2016, but not his 2015 return or his 2013 return of any earlier returns?
In the interests of transparency, which has always been so important to him, here are the amounts.
Looks kind of obvious in context, of course.
"I know what I think. "
Could be, but none of those amounts indicate spectacular wealth.
Nothing special. He just thought you would like to see it.
BORING.... just like Bernie said his tax returns would be. But, hey, let's bash him anyway, right?!
Certainly can't argue policy or consistency of positions.
Boring, unless you look at pages 6, 8, and 9 of 2016, for example. What's up with them?
His wife was working. So what. They went from two incomes to one. But do go on.
No, she quit the college job in October 2011.
She didn't work in 2012, 2013, or 2015 either. But do go on.
Yes, it musta been that tax deduction for his used tighty-whities that put him over the top!!
It is not about 2014; it is about 2016 - $1,062,626!
I think you have it, it happens to be the year with the lowest reported income of them all.
1. Looks kind of obvious in context, of course.
The thing I don't get is that his supporters wouldn't care. I just don't think that the masses were going to bail on him because he made some money from book deals. Could he really have thought otherwise?
I suppose he could have - there's the carefully-crafted persona to keep up, of course - but it just seems so silly...and a source of unnecessary drama.
2. "I know what I think. "
Well I don't read minds. What do you think?
I think he released the smallest return and I bet he is touchy about his newfound wealth.
4. Could be, but none of those amounts indicate spectacular wealth.
Good money, yes; but not vast riches in amounts that might embarrass a "socialist." So it's kind of puzzling.
I think it may be an embarrassment to him.
3. Nothing special. He just thought you would like to see it.
All of us Democrats are laughing at the "tempest in a tea pot" imaginary scandal of the returns.The Republicans and conservatives must be so disappointed that they were unremarkable. Just like Bernie said.
10 years of returns are out. Time to move on.
9. Ehhhh not so much.
11. BORING.... just like Bernie said his tax returns would be. But, hey, let's bash him anyway, right?!
13. Certainly can't argue policy or consistency of positions.
actually a smart strategy of you can't win on substantive issues.
24. Boring, unless you look at pages 6, 8, and 9 of 2016, for example. What's up with them?
14. Lol. Wut? Versus $240k?
You need to use the sarcasm tag.
17. His wife was working. So what. They went from two incomes to one. But do go on.
18. No, she quit the college job in October 2011.
And that also leads to an interesting question. When did she report her $200K severance payment?
22. She didn't work in 2012, 2013, or 2015 either. But do go on.
12. Yes, it musta been that tax deduction for his used tighty-whities that put him over the top!!
19. It is not about 2014; it is about 2016 - $1,062,626!
21. I think you have it, it happens to be the year with the lowest reported income of them all.
(don't remember where, unfortunately) that until Bernie wrote his best-seller, he and Jane "only" made a couple hundred thousand a year, mostly his Senate salary.
I'm sure that was true a long time ago, but not after she was appointed President at the college, where she was pulling in about $150K a year. Her income helped put them at around $300K, not $200K. So they were in the top 3% of households at that point.
What's so special about all those other returns that made him choose to release only that year?
Could be nothing. If it's nothing, why not release the returns and prove it's nothing?