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The init file contains one or more Lisp expressions. Each of these
consists of a function name followed by arguments, all surrounded by
parentheses. For example,
(setq fill-column 60) calls the
setq to set the variable
(see Filling) to 60.
You can set any Lisp variable with
setq, but with certain
setq won't do what you probably want in the
.emacs file. Some variables automatically become buffer-local
when set with
setq; what you want in .emacs is to set
the default value, using
setq-default. Some customizable minor
mode variables do special things to enable the mode when you set them
with Customize, but ordinary
setq won't do that; to enable the
mode in your .emacs file, call the minor mode command. The
following section has examples of both of these methods.
The second argument to
setq is an expression for the new
value of the variable. This can be a constant, a variable, or a
function call expression. In .emacs, constants are used most
of the time. They can be:
In a string, you can include newlines and special characters literally. But often it is cleaner to use backslash sequences for them: '\n' for newline, '\b' for backspace, '\r' for carriage return, '\t' for tab, '\f' for formfeed (control-L), '\e' for escape, '\\' for a backslash, '\"' for a double-quote, or '\ooo' for the character whose octal code is ooo. Backslash and double-quote are the only characters for which backslash sequences are mandatory.
'\C-' can be used as a prefix for a control character, as in '\C-s' for ASCII control-S, and '\M-' can be used as a prefix for a Meta character, as in '\M-a' for <Meta>-A or '\M-\C-a' for <Ctrl>-<Meta>-A.
See Init Non-ASCII, for information about including
non-ASCII in your init file.
?\). Note that
strings and characters are not interchangeable in Lisp; some contexts
require one and some contexts require the other.
See Init Non-ASCII, for information about binding commands to
keys which send non-ASCII characters.
t stands for "true".
nil stands for "false".
') followed by the Lisp object you want.


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LED - Heat management
LEDs have a limited life, typically up to about 50,000 hours. An LED's life span is considered to be the point at which the output intensity drops below 70%, as shown in the following graph. Before this point is reached there will however be a gradual reduction in efficiency. In addition to producing light, LEDs also generate heat. This heat energy needs to be transmitted away from the active LED chip as the structure can be adversely affected by a sustained high temperature. Overheating the LEDs can cause total failure or accelerated ageing.
Good and efficient thermal management assists by reducing the heat build-up in and around the LEDs, thus significantly prolonging their life. However this requires more thermal transmitting material and development effort. Low-cost light designs often pay little or no attention to thermal management. The cost savings are achieved by reducing the raw materials used and also by simplifying the manufacturing process. Unfortunately this has a detrimental effect on the quality of the illumination product and has significant reliability implications especially if the lights are operated close to their maximum current rating.
The majority of LEDs used in vision applications are resin encapsulated single junction devices. The heat generated within the junction is conducted away via the resin and the metallic contacts. Therefore, the air surrounding the LEDs and the PCB to which they are attached heat up. By reducing the use of raw materials, the housing often becomes a purely structural shell, offering little or no physical contact with the LEDs which leads to very poor heat dissipation. By attempting to reduce the cost of the manufacturing process, important features, such as machined fins on the housing which increase the surface area, the addition of thermal bonding between the PCB and the housing, or the use of graded batches of diodes, are neglected.
Quality illumination products designed for machine vision applications are designed with thermal management in mind from the outset: By manufacturing the LED housings from solid aluminium, heat can be dissipated away from the LEDs. This can be further enhanced by the addition of a thermally conductive layer that allows direct conduction between the PCB and the housing. Fins can be machined onto the housing to increase the surface area, which allows greater heat transfer into the surrounding air. By using graded high quality diodes, the total efficiency of each LED making up the illuminator can be matched, ensuring a more consistent illumination and the reduction of hot LED components which stress the thermal management and cause early failure due to localised excessive heat generation.
Advanced thermal management techniques
There is a limit to the maximum amount of heat that can be transferred away from the LEDs using only passive techniques. For applications where the heat from an LED becomes a serious problem, other techniques are required. These active techniques are particularly applicable to high intensity line light illumination systems, and the following examples show the various methods that can be employed
The drawing shows a simple form of line light with no cooling. By changing the simple folded metal housing for an extruded aluminium design, the generated heat can more easily be transferred due to aluminium's good thermal transmission properties and its increased surface area.
Further improvements can be made to the design by mounting the unit on a substantial metal platform. In this case the LED array needs to heat up a large volume of metal before any damage is done to the LEDs or any reduction in the performance occurs. We can further improve the situation by adding fins to the metal extrusion which increases the surface area and hence the heat transfers into the surrounding air.
In situations where either the ambient temperature or the total amount of heat generated by the LEDs is very high, we can increase the total amount of heat transferred away from the unit by forcing the air over it. The addition of a fan also has the added advantage of removing any concentrations of hot still air (hot spots), which would otherwise cause increases in temperature.
There is a limit to the amount of heat that can be transferred away from the unit in a given time using air alone. Liquid coolants offer a more efficient method of heat transfer, as they provide better heat conduction than air. As is shown in the drawing, the coolant can be directed very close to the LEDs to maximize the energy transfer. This can be achieved using a self-contained pump which can also be situated some distance away from the light itself.
If necessary a refrigeration unit can be included into the coolant system. Using active cooling, care has to be taken that no condensing water is generated on the housing that would cause irreversible damage to the illuminator.

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Depp gets statue in Serbia
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) -- Hollywood heartthrob Johnny Depp was honored Wednesday with a life-size statue in Serbia.
The "Pirates of the Caribbean" star had a statue in his image unveiled to him by renowned Serbian director Emir Kusturica during an annual film festival -- called Kustendorf -- held in a mountain village in southwestern Serbia.
Depp met with Serbian President Boris Tadic upon his arrival on Tuesday. He was then flown by helicopter to the mountaintop village constructed by Kusturica for one of his movies.
Kusturica, a two-time Cannes Film Festival winner, said he plans to make a movie with Depp paying legendary Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa.
"Depp will be my guest for three days," Kusturica said. "He will lead several workshops for participants of the festival, drink wine, watch films and visit some locations where he will shoot a film about Pancho Villa."


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April 25, 2014
By Oren Dorell
The West has several things it can do short of military intervention to deter Russian President Vladimir Putin from taking unwanted action inUkraine, analysts said.
Anders Aslund of the Peterson Institute of International Economics in Washington said the international community can severely and quickly damage Russia's entire economic system if it has the will to do so.
"There must be such economic pain on Russia that Putin finds it difficult to manage," he said.
Among the measures? The United States and Europe could talk about cutting Russian financial institutions off from the Brussels-based Society for Worldwide Interbank Telecommunication (SWIFT) system.
Nations and international corporations use the system to transfer money, make and receive payments. Restricting it would cripple Russia's ability to do business, forcing it to make transactions with piles of cash or bartering, said Campbell Harvey, who teaches global finance at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.
Cutting Russia off from SWIFT would require convincing the Europeans to go along. The SWIFT cooperative cut off Iran, which hampered its ability to sell its main export, oil, contributing to severe economic hardship.
The cooperative agreed to stop doing business with Iran only under threat of sanctions from the U.S. Senate. Harvey said cutting off Russia would so devastate its people and European economies tied to Russia that it should be considered a "nuclear option."
"But you also want to start talking about it because it's a huge deterrent," he said.
•The United States and Europe can prohibit companies from doing business with individual Russian businesses or entire sectors of the Russian economy, but like other financial sanctions, that knife cuts both ways, Harvey said.
Only about 1% of U.S. exports go to Russia, but that number is much larger for some European countries, which do much more business with Russia. Countries such as Germany, whose exports comprise 52% of GDP, would suffer in a trade war, "however they're much closer to Russia also and they must be very nervous about what the next steps are," Harvey said.
•Europe, which imports 40% of its natural gas for electricity and heat from Russia, could reduce its Russian imports by restarting mothballed nuclear reactors (eight out of 17 in Germany alone) and increasing its imports of liquid natural gas from Africa, the Persian Gulf and the USA, said Ariel Cohen, an analyst at the Heritage Foundation.
Though that cannot be done quickly, Cohen said, talking about it could cause Russia to see "it would be devastating to the relationship between Russia and the West."
•The United States can greatly expand the sanctions and travel bans against violators of human rights and the architects of the invasion of Ukraine, Cohen said.
"These measures are on the books. The question is how enthusiastically we need to implement these measures," he said.
Cohen said the United States "is in a conundrum because we still expect Russian cooperation on Iran and Syria, and that's why we don't want to tick them off."
Trade and financial interdependence between Western Europe and Russia has increased greatly since the fall of the Soviet Union, to the point that most measures that would hurt Russia would also hurt Europe, Harvey said.
Less than a month after Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimea province, pro-Russia forces backed by gunmen in uniforms but no insignias took control of numerous government buildings last weekend in eastern Ukraine in much the same fashion as they did before the Crimea annexation.
The United States and European Union have imposed sanctions on a few dozen Russian and Ukrainian individuals because of the Crimea annexation. That caused $64 billion to leave the Russian economy in the first quarter of 2014, equal to 3% of Russia's gross domestic product, setting a pace that could reach a total of $150 billion this year, Aslund said.
"If the West tightens more, the outflow would be much worse," he said. The impact would be "less consumption, less investment and less GDP and less living standard. You get less of everything."
Russia's economy is highly vulnerable to Western pressure, Aslund said.
Its GDP is slightly less than 3% of global output, 6% of NATO's output. Its military expenditures are less than one-tenth of NATO's.
The ruble has fallen, and inflation has gone up, causing the Central Bank of Russia to raise interest rates by 150 points. Aggression in Ukraine and stricter Western sanctions "will hurt Russia's standard of living, which has been vital for Putin's popularity," Aslund said. "Perhaps there is a limit to how much economic damage Putin can tolerate."
Aslund called for near Iran-level sanctions but said Russia's oil sector, which provides 13% of the world's oil, should be left alone so as not to cause a global energy crisis. He dismissed worries that an economic war with Russia would send Europe into its third recession since the global financial crisis began in 2007.
"If there is a real war in Europe, there will be a far worse recession," Aslund said.


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Ed Comm King Faces Bi-partisan Grilling by Assemblymembers
The state's Education Commissioner, John King, faced a bi-partisan grilling by liberal and conservative Assemblymembers at a hearing on growing concerns over student privacy.
As part of the conversion to the national Common Core standards, school districts in New York are required to place more student records, transcripts, and even behavioral information like absences and suspensions in on line data bases. The data collection is in many cases run by a private vendor, not the local school or the state education department.
Many parents, teachers and school administrators are concerned that the data might not be secure, and they point to examples where the safeguards have been breached. They also worry that any transgressions young children might make could be improperly made public, and follow the child into adulthood.
Assembly Education Committee Chair Cathy Nolan, summed up the growing worry.
"The fear that everyone has is that you were a jerk when you were in high school, you do something stupid and you get suspended," Nolan said. "And now, five years later, you're going for a job, and Big Brother has found out that when you were a junior in high school you did something stupid. "
Commissioner John King says the data is encrypted, and violators would be punished, but King and other state education officials could not immediately say what the exact sanctions would be.
Assemblyman Danny O'Donnell used his own personal history as an example. He says when his mother got cancer when he was a child, and he and his brothers and sisters missed a lot of school. He asked Commissioner King, whether a family in a similar situation could opt out of having that data recorded into the Internet based system run by a private company, and just keep the information within the local school.
"If they then transfer that information to somebody else, they lose control of that information," O'Donnell said.
Commissioner King says there's really no practical way to allow that kind of an opt out.
"We all agree it's important for the school, the district, the state to have attendance data," King said. "So that's going to involve third party providers. The key is what are the security provisions in place."
The Assembly Education Committee wanted to ask the largest private company currently collecting data on students, known as Inbloom about how it protects the student's records, but Inbloom refused to testify. Assemblywoman Nolan says she hasn't ruled out a subpoena.
Assemblymembers Nolan and O'Donnell, both Democrats, are among the legislature's most liberal members. But Conservative leaning lawmakers are equally upset. Republican Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin asked Commissioner King about an incident in the Sachem School district on Long Island earlier this month, where student records were allegedly hacked by someone with access to the system.
"How is that student made whole if their data is breached?" McLaughlin asked. "Because once it's out there, it's out there."
Commissioner King answered that data was held at the local district, and not entered into a private company's system
Afterward, McLaughlin said he did not hear anything from Commissioner King that put him at ease. He says the roll out of the Common Core standards in general, which involve additional tests for students, has been "horrendous".
"They view this as a revolution in education," said McLaughlin, referring to the state education officials. "But the revolution that's occurring is that the parents in New York State are waking up to this nightmare, saying 'enough is enough".
Commissioner King, speaking to reporters afterward, admits the message about what the department believes are the benefits of using data collection companies like Inbloom, has not been getting out.
"What's clear is that there's a lot of misinformation about Inbloom, about the data system that the state has in general," King said.
King says Inbloom uses "state of the art" encryption and other precautions. But he says he's "open" to talking with the legislature about increasing penalties for security breaches.


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Hoar, Ebenezer Rockwood
Hoar, Ebenezer Rockwood, 1816–95, American lawyer, U.S. Attorney General (1869–70), b. Concord, Mass. While serving (1846) in the Massachusetts senate, he declared that he would rather be a
Conscience Whigthan a
Cotton Whig,thus originating an antislavery slogan. He was appointed U.S. Attorney General by President Grant, one of Grant's few good appointments. When Grant named him (1870) associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, the Senate, hostile to Hoar because he had insisted on filling new judgeships in the federal circuit courts with able rather than political appointees, refused to confirm the appointment. Grant, seeking Senate support for his project of annexing Santo Domingo, in June, 1870, abruptly requested Hoar's resignation as Attorney General. Later Hoar helped negotiate the Treaty of Washington that settled the Alabama claims, and in 1873–75 he served in Congress.
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Family sues school district after Pledge of Allegiance kneeling incident
A first-grader in Florida is getting an education on the Constitution and controversy.
In September, student Kaden McDowell knelt during the Pledge of Allegiance at Wiregrass Elementary School near Tampa, leading a teacher to punish him, according to a lawsuit that was recently filed.
The child's mother, Eugenia McDowell, said her son put his hand over his heart when he took a knee, WTVT reported.
A district spokeswoman previously said state law requires students to have a written request from a parent to be exempted from reciting the pledge, and even then, they still have to stand, WFTS reported in September.
But the lawsuit says the school's policies directly violated the boy's constitutional rights.
According to the suit, the boy's teacher ordered him to stand, and when he did not do so, the teacher verbally admonished Kaden in front of his classmates.
The suit was filed last week because of a six-month waiting period that's required.


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DETROIT (AP) — General Motors is advising Volt owners to return their electric cars to dealers for repairs that will lower the risk of battery fires.
The company hopes that, by adding steel to the plates protecting the batteries, it will ease worries about the car's safety. Three Volt batteries caught fire after government crash tests last year, prompting a federal investigation and sending GM engineers scrambling to find a fix.
Eligible for the free repairs, announced Thursday, are 8,000 Volts on U.S. roads and another 4,400 still for sale. The cars are covered by a "customer satisfaction program" run by GM, which is similar to a safety recall but allows the carmaker to avoid the bad publicity and federal monitoring that come with a recall.
GM and federal safety officials believe last year's fires were caused by coolant leaking from damaged plastic casing around the batteries after side-impact collisions. The coolant caused an electrical short, which sparked battery fires seven days to three weeks after the crashes. No owners have reported fires after crashes.
GM has a huge incentive to fix the problem and protect the Volt's image. Although the car isn't a big seller — it's fallen short of sales goals — it burnishes GM's image as a greener, more innovative carmaker.
The safety stumble could make it even harder for the Chevrolet Volt to compete with rival electric cars such as the Nissan Leaf. To contain the bad publicity after the fires, GM last year offered to buy back Volts from worried owners.
Adding the steel will spread the force of a crash over a larger area, says Mary Barra, GM's product development chief. Tests by GM and the government have shown that the repairs, to start in February, will prevent battery damage and coolant leaks.
"We have made the Volt even safer," says Mark Reuss, GM's North American president.
GM has done crash tests on four reinforced Volts and found that the fix worked. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration also has crash-tested a Volt with the added steel.
"The preliminary results of the crash test indicate the remedy proposed by General Motors today should address the issue," the federal safety agency says.
The agency will monitor the crashed car for another week as it continues its investigation.
NHTSA critics have accused the agency of going easy on GM because the government still owns 26.5 percent of the company's shares and the Obama administration has urged more sales of electric cars to end U.S. dependence on foreign oil.
GM nearly ran out of cash and needed a $49.5 billion government bailout to survive bankruptcy protection in 2009. The government took that stake in the company in exchange for the aid.
But Clarence Ditlow, executive director of the Center for Auto Safety, a watchdog group, says he sees no evidence of a government conspiracy, adding that NHTSA frequently lets automakers use safety campaigns when there should be recalls. He blames that on the agency having too few investigators to regulate such a large industry.
NHTSA spokeswoman Lynda Tran declined comment on the criticism.
NHTSA agreed to allow "safety campaigns" instead of recalls in the 1990s under pressure from the auto industry, Ditlow said. There is little difference between the two other than that NHTSA monitors recalls and makes sure more owners take their cars to dealers to have the repairs made, he says.
"Safety campaigns are a kinder, gentler form of a recall," he says. "It's trying to put a good name on a safety recall."
GM sold 7,671 Volts last year, falling short of its goal of 10,000. Its main competitor, Nissan's Leaf, sold 9,674. The Volt had its best month ever in December with 1,529 sales, but a GM executive conceded this week that the battery fires may have affected sales.
"There has been some uncertainty in the market," says Alan Batey, vice president of GM's Chevrolet division. "We do believe that uncertainty will go away."
News of the fix helped GM stock. Shares rose $1.02, or nearly 5 percent, to close at $22.17.
The Volt has a T-shaped, 400 pound (181 kilogram) battery pack that can power the car for about 35 miles (56 kilometers). After that, a small gasoline generator kicks in to run the electric motor. The car has a base price of about $40,000.
NHTSA began studying the Volt batteries after a test car caught fire last June. The fire broke out three weeks after a side-impact test.
At first, GM blamed NHTSA for the June fire, saying it should have drained the battery to prevent any fires after the test. But the company quickly retreated and said it never told NHTSA to drain the battery. GM executives also said there was no formal procedure in place to drain batteries after crashes involving owners.
NHTSA opened an investigation into the Volt's safety in November following that fire and two others that occurred after tests.
Now the company sends out a team to drain the batteries after being notified of a crash by its OnStar safety system.
Publicity about the fires touched off a massive effort by GM engineers to find the cause and fix the problems quickly. In December, GM CEO Dan Akerson said the company would buy back Volts from any owner who wasn't satisfied. Earlier, the company offered free loaner cars to Volt owners if they were concerned about safety.
So far, about 250 of the owners have asked for a loaner or a buyback.
Last month Akerson said GM wanted to fix the problem quickly to help its customers — and to help electric cars in general. "It's better to get it right now," he said.
Once parts for the repairs are available, GM plans to contact all Volt owners and advise them to set up an appointment for the work to be done. Reuss said the repairs should take two to three hours.
The company also will add steel in all North American Volts and European Opel Amperas produced in the future at a Detroit factory.


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Silver Circle is ideal for anyone really wanting to go beyond where they are at currently. Plus, the number of resources/training in Silver Circle is unmatched! He's been in the game for such a long time, and what is so great is that he always stays current and ahead of the game. I've already recommended his offerings to others.
Over the last three years SilverCircle has proved me encouragement, insight and advice.
This has resulted in a 500% increase in revenue. Even more valuable than the increase in revenue, is that I now have a real business, not just a job.
In the last two years of working with James my business has doubled, profits have increased by 4x and we've added almost $100,000 of annual recurring revenue.
Best of all I've been able to decrease the hours I spend working on the business by using some of James' strategies which have allowed me to spend time with my family, exercise and travel overseas.
I wish I had joined earlier.
James has completely changed my approach to business.
Before silver circle, I felt like I was hitting the same ceiling repeatedly and was becoming frustrated with my progress. One month in, I feel like that ceiling has been completely removed. The knowledge and support provided by James / SilverCircle is world class.
James gave me my life back.
He's been (and still is!) incredibly helpful setting up systems, processes and my team – and has helped me run my business at a much higher level. My business wouldn't be where it currently is without his input!
It took three personal referrals from satisfied clients over as many years before I felt ready to share my personal and business challenges with a trusted advisor.
Silver Circle has turned those challenges into assets thanks to James' Midas touch. Being the boss was a lonely business. Until now.
James has taught me the one thing that I could never do, and thats see myself for what I am… with his tutelage, I'm on my way to the first 7 Figure year.
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James Schramko is my coach, he has been absolutely brilliant.
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He one of the smartest dudes I know, and he is also one of the most caring people I know. He genuinely loves helping… I can tell he gets a kick out of seeing my progression and success. If you want to grow your business and your marketing wisdom James is the best I have seen. There has never been a better time to build an 8 figure business and he is the guy that can guide you. Do it now.
Only a couple weeks in to SC and it's already invaluable.
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My business would not be where it is today without the work we did together.
As coach when you look to employ a coach to coach you; you are looking for some one that will challenge your thinking and see the opportunity in your business you cannot. James is this guy.
Being able to have someone who can step back and show you the potential of our own business is invaluable. Add into that his ability to connect you with like-minded business owners and you can safely say James's program is the "Silver Circle". Over the past 12 months of working with James he has helped me to grow leads, re-define my offer, increase LTV of my customers and grow my network of strategic partners. I recommend Silver Circle to any business owner is ready to scale and accelerate the full potential in their business.
I have had many many years of conditioning that have made be believe that creating a successful business requires long hours and hard work.
Working with James in SilverCircle has helped me challenge that (and many other) deeply ingrained assumptions, and has resulted in a business that now feels easy to market and a life that is more fun! In addition to this, James has become an important advocate of my business, and an all round sounding board.
Silvercircle has helped me to build the skills to develop much stronger and honed onshore and offshore teams, launch 2 weekly podcast shows, build important internal systems that have driven real change in the business, and perhaps even more importantly has helped me to re-shape my life around more downtime, and exercise. Most importantly, James' insights have helped me find ways to achieve my goals with a new perspective.
I feel like I've grown up as a CEO now.
I have live events, I have books coming out, I've done online courses. And still being able to manage the family and be here for the kids too. Just very thankful for that. You've been very instrumental in my most recent successes related to a lot of these things that I've just mentioned as a result of your mentorship program.
I always get the simplest yet most powerful answers for the most pressing questions I have.
Working with James over the last few weeks I've had our best ever month from a revenue perspective, have hired 3 new staff, and have the confidence and support to scale my business.
James' experience, insider knowledge and know-how give him a unique 360 degree perspective of my business. He knows the leverage points to focus on that have the greatest positive effect, and is a steady, guiding hand. I've worked with many coaches before, and James is head and shoulders above the rest. I rely on his advice and opinion heavily when making pivotal decisions regarding my business.
James' experience in business truly shows.
He showed me how to focus on the most important aspects of the business to ensure longevity and consistent growth. James helped me put a partnership together and within 12 months we have built an 8 figure business."
We started working with James in December of 2018. In the year BEFORE working with James, our primary business grossed $354,000 – we've successfully doubled that by implementing the specific strategies he's given us during the last 18 months!
James is an amazing coach – he has no time for BS and gets to the root of the problem quickly, helping you to come to the most effective solution. He's also truly a champion of helping you to live your best life, whatever that means to you, keeping your goals (and his) of working less and making more in mind!


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Teachers reviewing their evaluation results
By now, New York teachers and principals should know whether they are considered "highly effective," "ineffective" or somewhere in between.
This week was the deadline for the state's nearly 700 school districts to complete state-mandated evaluations for the 2012-13 school year.
Teachers and principals received a grade of 0 to 100 based on a combination of state and local measures. Those scoring 91-100 were rated "highly effective" while teaches with scores from 75-90 earned an "effective" rating. Teachers and principals scoring 65-74 and labeled "developing" or less than 64 and deemed "ineffective" can expect an improvement plan spelling out new training and goals within the next week.
State officials have pushed the evaluations, part of a broader reform agenda, as a way to improve educators' effectiveness and in turn, boost student performance.
Districts have to report their results to the state Education Department by mid-October. Until then, it's unknown how many of the state's teachers fall within any category, a department spokesman said.
Parents can request their child's teacher's rating from their district. Otherwise, they'll remain private.
Webster Thomas High School teacher Gregory Ahlquist characterized the wait for the scores as producing more curiosity than anxiety among his peers. And he said the numbers aren't something teachers are sharing over coffee.
"My principal compared this number to our salary. Do teachers talk about their salaries? Sure, but rarely if ever do we go around advertising that number," the state's 2013 Teacher of the Year said.
Liverpool High School science teacher Jeff Peneston acknowledged he scored a 95 — but don't congratulate him. He isn't putting much weight in this first round of scores, saying the evaluation system, while well-intended, is hardly the objective measure of performance it is meant to be.
"People assume there is an equal yardstick being held up to all teachers. That could not be further from the truth," he said.
Although the state provided a template for the evaluations — 20 percent based on student growth on state assessments or a similar measure, 20 percent based on a local measure of student achievement or growth and 60 percent based on classroom observations and other input — each district negotiated with their teachers to customize the system.
"Even within any district, using the same rubric to try to evaluate a ninth-grade science teacher who teaches to a state test, as opposed to a special education teacher, as opposed to an art teacher, as opposed to an instrumental music teacher … that's a fool's errand," Peneston said.
The head of the state's largest teachers union criticized the state's decision to base the math and English assessments given to students in grades three through eight, the results of which factored into their teachers' scores, on newly adopted learning standards known as the Common Core. As expected, student scores dropped significantly.
"This year's performance data is, in effect, meaningless," New York State United Teachers President Richard Iannuzzi said. "It doesn't accurately measure student achievement or teacher effectiveness."
Education Commissioner John King has cautioned superintendents against relying too heavily on this year's standardized test results to measure teacher performance, saying they should be used as a new baseline for future tests.


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RESOLVED: Outbound calling issue February 11, 2020
ISSUE: Outbound calling fails from certain demos in ENVxx and LabXXX environments.
REASON: Calls with invalid/spoofed From values are being rejected by a new carrier.
A valid From number must be sent for each outbound call (via Breeze snap-in, ED workflow, AEP/POM, IX desktop, etc..). Calls with spoofed numbers may be blocked as anti-spoofing laws are beginning to be enforced.
A Valid number is one that is owned by the same CPaaS account that serves the SIP lines. Use your inbound DID for this, or any number owned by the common CPaaS account. This applies to all ENVxx and LabXXX environments.
FIX: A rule has been put into place for outbound calls in order to avoid triggering this blocking. This will mean the following:
1) Any outbound call with a proper +E.164 caller ID will get passed unchanged.
2) Any outbound with a bad caller ID will get its CLID changed to +1 929 256 0110 and will still work.
Note: "Proper +E.164" means the number must be "1" or "+1" followed by 10 digits and a number we own (i.e. Managed by the same carrier account that serves the environment). Best practice is to use the lead DID from the lab. Ask @vjheath if you require a larger number pool for use case development.
ACTION NEEDED: Please test your applications and let us know of any outbound calls that get "timeout" or "temporarily unavailable" or other unexplained errors to firstname.lastname@example.com. Calls should work with no changes now that the Fix has been applied. For future projects, you should observe best practice of supplying a valid From number, and retrofit existing applications if you wish to avoid sending a static / stuffed value as the From identity.
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Taft, Robert Alphonso
Taft, Robert Alphonso, 1889–1953, American politician, b. Cincinnati, Ohio; son of William Howard Taft. He practiced law in Ohio and served (1921–26, 1931–32) in the state legislature. Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1938, Taft quickly became the acknowledged leader of conservative Republicans. He attacked President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal for the expansion of federal power at the expense of state and local government and vigorously urged economy in government and restoration of balanced budgets. A leading advocate of isolationism before World War II, he later backed U.S. participation in the United Nations. In 1947 he helped write the Taft-Hartley Labor Act. After the war Taft again became the voice of the isolationists: he voted against ratification of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and changed his position on the United Nations. Taft was a supporter of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who condemned the Korean and China policies of the Truman administration. Known to friends and enemies alike as
Mr. Republican,Taft was a leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 1952 but lost to Dwight D. Eisenhower. After Eisenhower's election, Taft became Senate majority leader and a friend and influential adviser of Eisenhower in his first months as president. He acted as an important bridge between the Eastern and Midwestern factions of his party. Taft's Foreign Policy for Americans appeared in 1951.
See biography by J. T. Patterson (1972); study by R. Kirk and J. McClelland (1967).
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One of the most prized dishes in Chinese cuisine is called "The Monk Jumped Over the Wall." The name comes from the folk belief that the monk was unable to resist the aroma of this delicious dish and jumped the wall in search of it.
Reading Jo Piazza's If Nuns Ruled The World: Ten Sisters on a Mission, it is clear that these nuns, and others like them, have been drawn by people's needs, to jump the walls of patriarchy and prejudice.
And there's no putting them back behind those walls.
Just ask media maven, Sr. Maureen Fiedler: "After all, Jesus was a feminist, and we claim to follow him."
One nun, though, has accepted being put behind bars for literally breaking through the fences around the nuclear facility in Oak Ridge,Tennessee. Sr. Megan Rice is unfazed by clerical disapproval.
"I don't believe in excommunication," she says, "because I don't see the institutional Church as the real Church."
Jesus: An Equal Opportunity Employer
Pope Francis, who has inspired so much hope, sadly still speaks in stereotypes about the "feminine genius." "The reservation of the priesthood to males, as a sign of Christ the Spouse who gives himself in the Eucharist, is not a question open to discussion," he says. To which Sr. Maureen Fiedler says: "Jesus is an equal opportunity employer." Vatican II did say: "any type of social or cultural discrimination based on sex is to be overcome and eradicated as contrary to God's intent."
The Gospel comes alive in the community as the sisters find God in places of suffering. They are mending, always mending what Sr. Simone Campbell likes to call the "broken hearts" of those who live on the margins.
People welcome the support they receive from the sisters as they struggle to raise children, make informed choices about their reproductive health, and gain some control over their lives. For years, Sr. Donna Quinn accompanied frightened women to health clinics to shield them from jeering protestors. Today she lobbies for women's reproductive autonomy. Sr. Tesa Fitzgerald helps women who are in prison stay connected to their children while inside and tackle the myriad hurdles they face when they come out. Recidivism for the women in her "Hour Children" ministry: 3 percent versus 29 percent for women in New York.
The bishops call this work radical feminism.
Who is Isaiah speaking to when he says: "My thoughts are not your thoughts, and my ways are not your ways?"
Piazza documents Sr. Jeannine Grammick's pioneering LGBT ministry. Reaching out to LGBT Catholics, celebrating the Eucharist and walking with them in their struggles prompted so much clerical harassment that she chose to leave the School Sisters of Notre Dame and joined the Sisters of Loretto.
The obstructionism of men in high places does not faze Sr. Nora Nash either. As Director of Corporate Social Responsibility for the Sisters of St. Francis, Sr. Nora publicly challenged Lloyd Blankfein on the ugliness of Goldman executives making more in one day than most workers make in a year. "In a way worthy of the gospel of Christ," she charges right in, holding corporations accountable, introducing stockholder resolutions on wages, labor rights, child labor, predatory lending, fracking and more.
Transcending Limits
The conviction that the Divine is present everywhere is one that Sr. Madonna Buder embraces. This veteran of 366 marathons, 46 of them, Ironman events, insists, "There is no limit, no boundaries, to when and where you can commune with God."
But limits there certainly are in the underworld of human trafficking. It is a world "so wounded, violent and stripped of hope," that Sr. Joan Dawber shrank from it. Yet she has made providing safe houses for the victims of human trafficking her life's work because she feels the "spirit of the Lord" calling her to "let the oppressed go free."
Sr. Dianna Mae Ortiz herself survived rape and torture and rose above the horrors of her experience in Guatemala to establish the Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition (TASSC). She is haunted by her ordeal but she believes deeply that she was living the Gospel when she decided to stay on in Guatemala despite the death threats. Piazza reports her quietly saying that "on some level I took my place on what I refer to as a modern-day cross."
Fastened to the thread while piercing the cloth
In Sue Monk Kidd's The Invention of Wings, as the slave seamstress, Handful, contemplates the terrible risk of trying to escape from early 19th century Charleston, she draws on her mother's wisdom: "You got to figure out which end of the needle you're gon be, the one that's fastened to the thread or the end that pierces the cloth."
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Compliance and Safety offers Hoist Safety Training programs designed for anyone operating jib hoists or cranes. Because of the high risk of death that cranes possess, it is vital for any employees working with or around cranes to receive training. Our Hoist Safety train...
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News for New York Anime Festival 2009:
Soul Eater cast to appear at NYAFSupernatural Anime Series Receives English-Language Debut In NYC
Norwalk, CT, September 3, 2009: The New York Anime Festival (NYAF) today announced the main cast of FUNimation Entertainment's upcoming supernatural anime series Soul Eater -- Laura Bailey, Micah Solusod, Brittney Karbowski, Monica Rial, Todd Haberkorn, Jamie Marchi, and Cherami Leigh -- will appear together for the first time at this September's NYAF, and this cast appearance will serve as the pinnacle of a weekend of Soul Eater activities, including the English language premiere of the series. The cast along with Soul Eater Director Zach Bolton and Producer Masazumi Kato will join Yoshiyuki Tomino -- the Director of Mobile Suit Gundam -- and Yui Makino -- the voice of Sakura in Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle -- as guests at NYAF. Other than Soul Eater, NYAF premieres include Gurren Lagann: The Movie - Childhood's End, Cencoroll, and 20th Century Boys.
Soul Eater, based on a manga by Atsushi Ohkubo, follows Maka, Black Star, and Death The Kid, three students determined to turn their partners -- living weapons -- into powerful death scythes, weapons fit for Death himself. Charged with the task of collecting and devouring the tainted souls of ninety-nine humans and one witch, Maka and her fellow meisters strive to master their weapons as they face off against the bizarre and dangerous minions of the underworld. Laura Bailey stars as the voice of Maka, Micah Solusod portrays Soul, Brittney Karbowski plays Black Star, Monica Rial is Tsubaki, Todd Haberkorn voices Death The Kid, Jamie Marchi is Liz, and Cherami Leigh voices Patty.
Producer Masazumi Kato will be coming all the way from Japan, where he's been in charge of the overall promotion for Soul Eater, including advertisements, publicity, and DVDs.
"We're honored to partner with our friends at FUNimation to bring the main cast of Soul Eater to NYAF," New York Anime Festival Show Manager Lance Fensterman said. "Soul Eater will be one of the biggest titles of 2010, and we're excited to give it the launch it deserves in NYC!"
"The premiere of Soul Eater on a stage as big as New York City? Now, that's cool," Soul Eater ADR Director Zach Bolton said.
NYAF's Soul Eater activity schedule follows...
Yen Plus Giveaway
Be one of the first 200 fans to come by the FUNimation booth any day of the show to take home a free copy of the latest issue of Yen Press's Yen Plus magazine. Yen Press is the US publisher of the Soul Eater manga, and Soul Eater is serialized each month inside Yen Plus.
Friday - 1:00 PM - FUNimation Booth (303)
Saturday and Sunday - 10:00 AM - FUNimation Booth (303)
Cast Signing
Meet Laura Bailey (Maka), Micah Solusod (Soul), Brittney Karbowski (Black Star), Monica Rial (Tsubaki), Todd Haberkorn (Death The Kid), Jamie Marchi (Liz), Cherami Leigh (Patty), and Director Zach Bolton at a special signing at the FUNimation Booth!
Friday - 4:00 to 5:30 PM - FUNimation Booth (303)
Saturday - 3:30 to 5:00 PM - FUNimation Booth (303)
Chalk Mural
Eric Maruscak is an artist who specializes in massive murals drawn in chalk. He's appeared at New York Comic Con and other conventions around the country, and he's at NYAF this year creating a giant illustration of Maka, Black Star, and Death The Kid. Check out Eric's work throughout the show to see Soul Eater larger than life!
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday - All Day - Front of Exhibit Hall
Soul Eater Panel and Screening
Laura Bailey (Maka), Micah Solusod (Soul), Brittney Karbowski (Black Star), Monica Rial (Tsubaki), Todd Haberkorn (Death The Kid), Jamie Marchi (Liz), Cherami Leigh (Patty), and Director Zach Bolton along with Producer Masazumi Kato and representatives from both FUNimation and Yen Press present the first three episodes of FUNimation's Soul Eater! Be one of the first fans to see what'll be one of 2010's biggest shows, and get the inside scoop about what's ahead from the women and men at Soul Eater's center!
Saturday - 1:00 to 3:00 PM - ANA Theater (1A08 )
Soul Eater Cosplay Meet Up
Come by chalk artist Eric Maruscak's Soul Eater mural on Sunday at 1 PM for a Soul Eater group photo! FUNimation's asking all Soul Eater cosplayers to show up to get their pictures taken with Eric's completed work of art and the American cast of Soul Eater, and, then, stay tuned to funimation.com and newyorkanimefestival.com for the photo once the show's over!
Sunday - 1:00 PM - Front of Exhibit Hall
For Soul Eater cast bios or to purchase NYAF tickets, please visit the show's official site (www.nyanimefestival.com). For the latest announcements, please visit NYAF's official blog (www.mediumatlarge.net) or follow NYAF on Twitter (www.twitter.com/NY_Anime_Fest). For more on Soul Eater, visit the show's official site (www.funimation.com/souleater).
FUNimation® Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Navarre Corporation, is the leading company for home video sales of Japanese animation in the United States. FUNimation has a proven formula for launching and advancing brands, and manages a full spectrum of rights for most of its brands including broadcasting, licensing, production, internet, and home video sales and distribution. For more information about FUNimation Entertainment and its brands, visit www.funimation.com.
The New York Anime Festival takes place September 25-27, 2009 at the Jacob K. Javits Center in Midtown Manhattan and is organized by Reed Exhibitions, the creators of New York Comic Con. The New York Anime Festival showcases the best of anime pop culture, including the latest anime, manga, Japanese cinema, music, and games, and anime-influenced comics, animation, and films from around the world. The festival features exclusive and extensive screenings, a gala cosplay masquerade, sessions with the some of the biggest names in anime from Japan, Asia, and America, and explores the Japanese cultural experience with displays of both traditional and cutting-edge Japanese life. Further information can be found at newyorkanimefestival.com.
The Pop Culture Group at Reed Exhibitions owns and operates the New York Comic Con (NYCC), the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo (C2E2), and the New York Anime Festival (NYAF). New York Comic Con was launched in 2006 and quickly became a dominant presence in the pop culture world of public events. In 2009, 452 companies exhibited at NYCC for a total of 84,000 square feet of paid exhibit space, and it has been ranked by Crain's New York Business as the second-largest annual event in NYC. C2E2, which will debut April 16 – 18 at Chicago's McCormick Place Convention Center, is modeled after NYCC and will provide fans the opportunity to meet and greet their favorite writers, creators, and artists, as well as to see, hear and learn about the latest and greatest in comics, graphic novels, anime, manga, video games, toys, movies, and television. The Pop Culture Group also operates the recently-launched UFC Fan Expo in partnership with the UFC – the world's leading professional mixed martial arts organization – and it formed a strategic partnership with Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) in 2008 and will work closely with PAX on the launch of PAX East in Boston in 2010.


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Teachers at Work
A column about teaching
The Visual Thesaurus in Action in the Classroom
Teachers from across the country write us about how the Visual Thesaurus helps their students increase reading comprehension. Now a federally funded study is taking a closer look at the connection between the Visual Thesaurus and reading. Developed by researchers at the prestigious Education Development Center, Inc. in Boston, the study is following eighth grade students with learning disabilities who've been introduced to the Visual Thesaurus. Their findings show that the Visual Thesaurus can significantly help students struggling with reading comprehension.
The lead investigator, EDC Senior Director Dr. Judith Zorfass, emailed us about her observations:
"The students were excited and the teachers were delighted with the students' interest in heavy, concept-laden words and their meanings. They were surprised that many students, who previously were reticent about participating in class discussion, were able to select relevant word meanings from the Visual Thesaurus and use them appropriately in context."
When we received Judy's email, it inspired us to contact her to ask what practical lessons teachers can learn from her research. We spoke to Judy and her associate Alise Brann:
VT: Tell us about what you're doing in the classroom?
Alise: We've been working with two teachers who were "team-teaching" this class - a special education teacher and a social studies teacher for the content area. We used the social studies text (CD-Rom and print versions), the Visual Thesaurus and Smartboards. We looked up specific words that were really crucial to the students' understanding of the text. For example, there was a section about how Genghis Khan was a ruthless leader - so "ruthless" became a target vocabulary word.
VT: And you looked it up in the Visual Thesaurus and projected it on the smart board?
Alise: Right. The social studies teacher wrote down the sentence on chart paper so that the students had it in front of them. The teachers then modeled the process for the students. They said, "ruthless," what do we think this means? The students had some really great suggestions for the word. One student thought it meant "merciless;" another thought it meant "mean." While the students brainstormed, the social studies teacher wrote all of the ideas they suggested on the chart paper. Then we went to the Visual Thesaurus and checked out the words.
At first the kids were a little hesitant, but by the time we got to the end of the chapter they were calling out words and asking us to click on them in the Visual Thesaurus. They really got into it and also liked being able to hear the words pronounced. And they were very excited when they saw that some of the synonyms for "ruthless" were identical to the ones they had suggested. One of the words was "tigerish," which the students thought was hilarious. That led to a really nice discussion because the kids wanted to go further and expand on that word in the Visual Thesaurus.
Judy: I'd like to add a thought.
VT: Of course.
Judy: I want to note from Alise's anecdote that there were three good teaching strategies in operation in the classroom. The first was starting with the word in a context. The second was tapping into prior knowledge, which is talked about in the literature. And the third was the discussion and the sharing of ideas. The students became actively engaged with the word as they learned its meaning. That's what I distill from Alise's explanation.
VT: It sounds like visually representing a word like "tigerish" highlighted the third point you made.
Judy: You're right. The word play and investigation allowed the students to open up new doors to explore synonyms and antonyms. This inquiry process is an important aspect of language development - and an important part of what we're trying to do.
Alise: It was also great to have the special education teacher walk around the room and engage the students in dialogue about the vocabulary while the social studies teacher was modeling the lesson on the chart paper, which gave the students another visual representation to refer to. The students could see their suggestions and say, oh yeah, we thought of those ourselves. This goes back to what Judy just said about a process of inquiry, especially for these students, who are struggling with comprehension.
Judy: I think something to also consider is the sequence of prompting questions asked by the teachers. The teachers had to be familiar with two different areas: the content and the overarching goals of the social studies curriculum. The teachers also had to be very familiar with the students and their levels of cognitive understanding, language development and reading levels.
The exercise helped teachers understand how to reconcile the two areas. The Visual Thesaurus was almost like a bridge. The teachers worked with this tool to ask the right kinds of prompting questions to direct students to explore a certain word and then relate it back to the social studies lesson. This was a multi-dimensional exercise and the teacher was the essential player in helping to make those connections.
VT: Very interesting. From your experiences with this research project, what other advice can you give to teachers who want to use the Visual Thesaurus in the classroom?
Judy: I think teachers have to think carefully about modeling the learning process. In our case, they couldn't introduce the Visual Thesaurus to struggling middle school students and expect them to just make maximal use of it.
Teachers have to give students a process in their own mind about how to use the Visual Thesaurus, a set of steps to follow that gets them use it in a way that relates to what they're learning. That's different from just playing with the tool. We're talking about really building an understanding of key concepts.
Alise: The guiding questions that the social studies teacher created and the types of things that they discussed in the classroom kept the students thinking about why they were clicking on words, what did it mean, and how did they make sense of it. The teachers did a lot of modeling -thinking aloud to show how to go through the process.
Judy: I think it's important to add that we're working with the Visual Thesaurus to support reading comprehension, and there may be different processes and different ways of using it if you were to focus on writing skills.


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My photoshop skills are horrendous. You should see my splash screen. In fact, I'll post it when I get home from work. I immediately ran into a stupid little problem: how to remove the words "brood war" without it being obvious they were removed.omega20 wrote:You can use Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro. (I used the last one). There are many options within them, with which you'll be able to make your own loading screen (however the only thing I did was to modify one of SC's images). When you're finished, remember to save it as .pcx (I think it only work with this...)Dem0nS1ayer wrote: Yo omega, tell me how to make a loading screen.
Oh yeah, I also noticed you should always PASTE your new splash screen ONTO the original one or it doesn't show up. Must be something to do with the pallette (ooh the layman uses big words).


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