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Sculpture does still bear something of the burden of its commemorative and didactic origins. It's too literal, too direct, too steeped in religious ceremony and too complex for a historically amnesiac culture. We prefer the multicolored distractions of illusionism on flat surfaces, flickering in a movie theater or digitized on our laptops and smartphones, or painted on canvas. The marketplace ratifies our myopia, making headlines for megamillion-dollar sales of old master and Impressionist pictures but rarely for premodern sculptures.Is this true? I would think that the sculpture we love is precisely that which retains a connection to "primitive" cultures and religious tradition. Even when that stuff is kind of bad, we may feel some emotion worth experiencing. It's all that bad modern sculpture, especially the stuff that clutters our path in the real world that makes us leery of the 3D concoctions of artists. At least paintings stick to the wall.
... Barnett Newman, the Abstract Expressionist painter, notoriously derided [sculpture] as objects we bump into when backing up to look at a painting.Nowadays, we may not care about looking at the painting either. We have our own goals and destinations, and the paintings stay humbly out of the way, to be looked at if we choose, but the bold efforts of the sculptors rudely occupy our space. The problem with sculpture is not that people today reject the aura of old cults and religions, it's that we are so over the boring, outsized egos of modern artists.
(This rejection of the ego of the modern sculptor was exemplified for all time by the "Tilted Arc" that enraged New Yorkers — what? were they not sophisticated?! — back in the 1980s.)


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Blu-ray's hold on the plastic video disc market is slipping—the opposite of what everyone expected once HD DVD bowed out of the competition. Blu-ray's market share fell to eight percent during the week ending on September 14, according to the latest data from Nielsen VideoScan, with regular old DVD making up the other 92 percent. And with the US economy now on even shakier ground than usual, Blu-ray's chunk of the market looks likely to stay low for some time.
The numbers show that Blu-ray's market share dropped 13.39 percent from the previous week, and that DVD's numbers actually went up by 0.15 percent. Netflix CEO Barry McCarthy recently told Home Media Magazine that he didn't expect Blu-ray to have much of an impact on the company's DVD business in 2008 at all. Citing high player prices, he said that only a fraction of Netflix subscribers currently rent Blu-ray disks.
"It may grow after the holiday selling season, if sales are slow and prices are cut more aggressively," McCarthy said.
It doesn't take a mathematician to note that eight percent is quite a bit lower than the 50 percent market share Sony wanted by the end of the year, at least according to Sony President Ryoji Chubachi this past April. Even though one or two Blu-ray players have finally dropped below the $200 price point—check Amazon for Sony's BDP-S300—they're just not being snapped up like some expected. Blu-ray's slowdown is a quite a change from earlier this year, when Blu-ray was seen as outpacing DVD.
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To get a sense of how families are coping with the stresses of raising children in tough times, The Vancouver Sun spoke with several Metro Vancouver parents with children under the age of five.
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Michael Tudorie, who came to Canada as a stowaway on a ship in 1989, for example, said his parents had a lower standard of living in Romania, yet they were happier with what they had.
"They had the mentality that as long as you're healthy with your family around you and have a positive attitude, then nothing else matters, you just go day by day," said Tudorie, now a 43-year-old real-estate salesman with Dexter Associates in Yaletown and the father of a four-year-old son.
Tudorie was just 19 when he left Romania to start anew in Canada with just $30 in his pocket. He entered Canada as a refugee and is now a Canadian citizen.
The journey hasn't always been easy.
By the time Tudorie left university, where he studied marketing and communications, he had $28,000 in student debt, despite working full-time while attending school.
He met his future wife, Luba, in Vancouver in 2000. An assistant store manager, she's immigrated to Canada at about the same time from Slovakia.
"People think that if they have more, they will be happier," Tudorie said, "even though it could be the opposite."
Angie Chan, the mother of Isla, 3, and Duncan, 1, said she has high hopes for her children — but those hopes are tempered.
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"Because of the last five years of economic downturn, our living standards feel a lot more uncertain," Chan said. "There seems to always be the looming possibility that jobs and homes will be lost; and there is always a question for me as to whether we are saving enough for ourselves and our children.
"I think, generally, our parents saw a world of opportunities, if not for themselves, then at least for their children. But we regularly hear stories of livelihoods undermined locally and around the world."
Lena Jerabek, 35, and her husband James Merinuk, 38, have two children: Jonah, 3, and Lucie, 1. They hope their kids will be able to get as much post-secondary education as they did.
"We also hope that they will find work that they truly enjoy, that is meaningful to them, and that they will pursue that above pursuing money for the sake of money," Jerabek said. "I don't need for them to be rich by conventional standards, but I do hope for them to be happy and comfortable."
But getting there is a challenge for young families, facing a rapid increase in the cost of living — from gas prices to insurance to housing — while wages haven't kept pace.
That's why, for now, Lukas Tudorie is an only child. "We want to have another child one day, but if we can afford it may be another thing," Tudorie said.
Nonetheless, Tudorie is hopeful that Lukas will have an even better standard of living than he and Luba have.
They plan to send Lukas to a French immersion kindergarten at a public elementary school, but they've also considered private schools — the preference of many of the parents of young children he meets.
"By the time he is in Grade 3 or 4, I will see how the public school is going," Tudorie said, adding he's concerned about the high ratio of students per teacher in the public school system.
Right now, Lukas wants to be a bus driver, a chef or a race car driver when he grows up but, Tudorie says, "he's just a kid" and will probably change his mind many times.
The most important thing for Tudorie is that Lukas is happy with the career he ultimately chooses.
"I just let him explore the things he likes; the things he leans toward," Tudorie said. "It has to come from within."
The high cost of housing is also a concern for many young families and a worry for their children.
"Many families need to have both parents working, but then the cost of daycare for young children is so high that often it doesn't make sense," Jerabek said. "I also fear that they might not ever be able to afford a home in the Lower Mainland, if that's what they ultimately want."
Jerabek recently started a home-based business in New Westminster — Beesafe Solutions, which sells emergency kits — so she could spend more time with her kids. Her husband is a district sales manager for Ecolab Canada, which provides water, hygiene and energy technologies and services.
"We are sacrificing financially in the short term as my business grows, but already we feel like this is the far better choice for our family and that we all have more time together," Jerabek said.
Tudorie says he doesn't worry about the economy and tries to stay positive.
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Shelton knows a few things about what good TV exposure can do for a country singer's career. Two years ago, he was in the same place Bryan is this year, co-hosting the show with Reba McEntire. Three weeks later, Shelton appeared as a coach on The Voice, and his career took off.
Bryan replaces McEntire, who spent 14 years as a host of the ACMs. He'll also debut his new single, Crash My Party, during the telecast. He says he's been looking to Shelton for advice on preparing for his hosting duties.
"Blake told me that the opening is what you've got to do 90 percent of your prepping for, getting your ducks in a row for that," he says. "After that, all you're doing is introducing other people to introduce awards. And drinking. And running out to a strip joint during breaks."
In all seriousness, there is a learning curve for hosting an awards show, Shelton says, but "if you can get over your nerves, it's a cakewalk." That's easier said than done, of course, especially when the script calls for wisecracks at the expense of friends and fellow artists likely to be encountered later.
"I did a joke last year about Taylor Swift's 'shocked' face (when she wins)," Shelton says. "I watch that back now, and I can see my microphone shaking, because I was thinking, 'Well, this'll be the end.' You make fun of Taylor, you can pretty much pack it in."
Shelton and Bryan will compete with each other in the male vocalist category, which Shelton won in 2012. They're also up for entertainer of the year, along with reigning titleholder Taylor Swift, Jason Aldean and Shelton's wife, Miranda Lambert.
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Original antique Victorian gold filled or rolled gold, (I'm not sure) Masonic locket neck pendant. Fine jewelry work with engraved work and enamel Masonic emblem. Inside with interesting clips in my opinion used to hide secret passwords or scrolls. There is an old photo I will include that came out of it. There are no markings, But when I put a magnet to it, it does not stick at all. The locket in excellent original condition with no dents or dings...
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Collectible Orange county choppers beer stein 2005 New York motorcycle large souvenir stein In excellent pre-owned condition. This would be a cool addition to your bar collection. Measurements approximate: 6 7/8
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Nice pair of vintage salt and pepper shakers. These are ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR ( OES) shakers. Hand painted; made by Lefton China. Accented with gold. Each shaker measures 2 3/4" in height x 2" at the base. Stoppers are needed. Both are in very nice vintage condition with no damages or repairs.
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PEORIA, Ariz. -- San Diego Padres shortstop Everth Cabrera says he was "a little surprised" and "disappointed" by a report that his name was listed in the records of a now-closed Florida clinic at the center of a Major League Baseball investigation into banned performance-enhancing drugs.
ESPN reported Tuesday that Cabrera was on a list as having received performance-enhancing drugs, although the network said the documents are not proof he used or received them.
Cabrera declined specific comment on Biogenesis of America, the closed anti-aging clinic in Coral Gables, Fla. He did not say whether he had taken, purchased or received performance-enhancing drugs.
"I'm going to fully cooperate with Major League Baseball," Cabrera said, "but I can't say anything about that right now."
Cabrera, who led the NL with 44 stolen bases last season, said he spoke with Padres manager Bud Black twice Wednesday about the issue, the final time with general manager Josh Byrnes present.
Black, who has a strong relationship with Cabrera, didn't sound overly concerned about the situation.
"We're satisfied by what we heard," Black said. "We believe this will resolve itself in a positive way."
While he wouldn't divulge details, Black said his conversation with Cabrera convinced him all will be well.
"It's something that, for a moment, might be a distraction," Black said. "There is some disappointment that some of our guys are mentioned in the press, but I think, in the long run, everything will work itself out."
Cabrera has not tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs. But he could be subject to a 50-game suspension if MLB finds evidence he possessed banned substances or participated in their sale or distribution. Players also can be suspended for a conviction for use or possession of PEDs.
ESPN said a document it obtained listed $1,500 next to Cabrera's name with a date of March, which the network said was presumably last year.
Padres relief pitcher Fautino De Los Santos, claimed off waivers from Milwaukee on Feb. 6, was listed for $700 in March, ESPN said.
Black spoke briefly with De Los Santos but did not reveal the content of that discussion.
Padres catcher Yasmani Grandal will miss the first 50 games of the season following a positive test for testosterone in November. Grandal apologized at the time and again last weekend.
"We don't ever want to be associated with PEDs; the rules are easy to follow, and the policies are clear," Byrnes said. "But at this particular time, we don't want to assume anything about Everth. With Yasmani, there was a positive test. This is a different set of circumstances."
Cabrera hit .246 with 49 runs last year, including a .281 average in September.
"I'm sorry about the situation" caused to the Padres, he said.
Grandal's left middle finger passed important tests this week, when the Padres catcher hit for the first time since fall. The finger was inflamed on Wednesday morning but didn't have residual pain from two batting-practice sessions this week, when he hit from both sides of the plate. ... RHP Freddy Garcia is to start Sunday's exhibition against Seattle. Garcia, who signed a minor league deal with the Padres, will pitch two innings. Rotation prospect Casey Kelly will pitch after that. Sean O'Sullivan will start Friday and Tyson Ross will start Saturday. ... The team conducted a rain-shortened workout Wednesday morning.


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Wal-Mart Nixed Paying Bangladesh Suppliers to Fight Fire
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At a meeting convened in 2011 to boost safety at Bangladesh garment factories, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) made a call: paying suppliers more to help them upgrade their manufacturing facilities was too costly.Bangladeshi people identify the bodies of their relatives who died in a fire at a garment factory in the Savar neighborhood in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday Nov. 25, 2012. Polash Khan/AP Photo
Details of the meeting have emerged after a fire at a Bangladesh factory that made clothes for Wal-Mart and Sears Holdings Corp. killed more than 100 people last month. The blaze has renewed pressure on companies to improve working conditions in Bangladesh, where more than 700 garment workers have died since 2005, according to the International Labor Rights Forum, a Washington-based advocacy group.
At the April 2011 meeting in Dhaka, the Bangladesh capital, retailers discussed a contractually enforceable memorandum that would require them to pay Bangladesh factories prices high enough to cover costs of safety improvements. Sridevi Kalavakolanu, a Wal-Mart director of ethical sourcing, told attendees the company wouldn't share the cost, according to Ineke Zeldenrust, international coordinator for the Clean Clothes Campaign, who attended the gathering. Kalavakolanu and her counterpart at Gap reiterated their position in a report folded into the meeting minutes, obtained by Bloomberg News.


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Amid all the talk of the proposed teacher evaluation system, one major effect is not being discussed -- the exponential increase in standardized tests that these evaluations demand.
The proposed system requires one-fifth of every teacher's evaluation to be based on a standardized test. Thus, instead of having standardized tests in reading, writing, math in grades 3-8 and 10, and science in grades 5, 8 and 10, our children will now endure standardized tests in every grade and every subject, from kindergarten art to high school gym.
Is this the direction in which we, parents, want our schools to go? With the standardized tests we have now, our children's education is being narrowed. All over this state, art, music, social studies and foreign language courses are being squeezed out to prep for CMTs and CAPTs.
Not only is our curriculum being narrowed, but so is the way our children learn. They are being trained how to give canned answers to prepackaged questions, rather than learning how to think for themselves. Both teachers and students are increasingly suffering through mind-numbing scripted lessons.
Students, especially those in the neediest districts, are being denied the opportunity for a rich and varied education because of the pressure put upon districts to increase test scores in just a few subjects. Imagine what will happen when high-stakes tests are implemented in every subject. Instead of a piece of clay or a paintbrush, a 6-year-old will now be handed a worksheet. Far-fetched? It is already happening in Colorado.
This is not what I want for my children.
It makes me wonder what policy makers want from public schools. Part of the push for more tests stems from the new Common Core Standards -- touted as the answer to our achievement failures. Yet countries with national standards fare no better in educational achievement than those without. Every state has consistent standards, but achievement varies widely. And the Common Core Standards themselves have been found to be in the "mediocre" range when compared to existing state standards across the country.
If new standards will do nothing to improve learning, why were they pushed so aggressively? The comments of Joanne Weiss, chief of staff to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, are telling. She wrote in the Harvard Business Review that the Common Core "radically alters the market ... Previously, these markets operated on a state-by-state basis, and often on a district-by-district basis. But the adoption of common standards and shared assessments means that education entrepreneurs will enjoy national markets where the best products can be taken to scale."
Our children as a market for the testing and textbook industry.
How far we have strayed from the true purpose of public education. In 1820, Thomas Jefferson declared, "I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion by education."
Education is the key to good citizenship. The skills needed to be a responsible citizen are not those measured from a writing prompt or scantron. Students must be able to do things like analyze events in history and their impact today, discern the connections between disease and health policy, and collaborate with each other and their teachers.
Good citizenship is sorely needed in our nation today.
In 2008, the U.S. began its slide in the "competitiveness" index of the World Economic Forum, from No. 1 to its current No. 5 position. Not surprisingly, the WEF attributed this decline not to how eighth-graders did in math, but rather to our macroeconomic policies, and to the political intransigence that is preventing change.
Similarly, the officials rebuked by Connecticut's Supreme Court last week for illegally taking over Bridgeport's Board of Education had superior language skills, contending that the law requiring training of board members did not really mean "require." Their failure was in placing politics above the public good.
How can we ensure that the next generation can fix the problems we are leaving them? Our children need to be exposed to a wide variety of subjects, writing, teaching styles and personalities in order to make their own way in school and in life. Students and teachers in Connecticut have so many different life experiences and perspectives. This diversity is the key to tolerance and to innovation. However, if we insist on homogenizing our children's thinking, preparing them only for success on tests, we will indeed maintain the status quo that is stifling the progress of our society.
Wendy Lecker is a former president of the Stamford Parent Teacher Council and was staff attorney at the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, plaintiffs in a school funding lawsuit in New York.


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His colleagues claim that animator Henry Selick sports a "rock and roll meets Da Vinci temperament." This is an apt description for the director of the cult classic, The Nightmare Before Christmas, as well as James and the Giant Peach and the underrated Brendan Fraser feature, Monkeybone. The filmmaker's current work, an adaptation of the Neil Gaiman novella Coraline, proves to be his most ambitious undertaking. Tapping into fairy tale fears of parental abandonment, the book has a large following that is eagerly awaiting the film version of it.
While Gaiman's story remains intact, Selick's vision is obvious throughout, having created a kaleidoscopic world of delightful creatures and sights as well as personifications of our most primal terrors, all rendered through the magic of stop motion animation. When Selick was in Chicago recently to discuss the arduous process of making Coraline, I couldn't resist asking him the meaning of a cryptic message ("For those in the know: Jerkwad.") at the end of the film's credits.
Chuck Koplinski: I realize I am not one of those in the know, but can you tell me what "Jerkwad" means?
Henry Selick (laughing): In the movie, Coraline is very angry when Wybie shows up to get that doll back and she's chasing him, throwing her boots at him. I didn't know what an insult that could be until the incident with President Bush having shoes thrown at him during his visit to Iraq. In Middle Eastern countries they'll think Coraline is really angry! I just put words together to express her anger and came up with "jerkwad." The people who put together Coraline.com were looking for a word they could use as a clue for an online contest, so there you have it, marketing breeds crass inspiration once more.
CK: There are so many different forms of animation at your disposal today. Why do
you opt for the stop motion variety? What is it about this process that appeals
to you as far as how you express yourself through your work?
Henry Selick: I've dabbled in live action films, 2D drawings and I worked at Disney during the first years of my career doing traditional animation, and stop motion is simply the one I like most. It has similarities to live action in that it's all real stuff — real sets, real lights, real characters, except on a real movie you have one large army devoted to one set at a time. Instead, we divide and conquer and use many small groups working on different sets at the same time. I like the methodology of this and the culture of it. I like to manipulate something manually and then shoot the single frames. It is so gratifying when you see it all come to life when you play it back. At certain points, you want the film to be over but then you see these test shots and finished shots and you see the miracle of what this process produces. So, I just like everything about it.
CK: So how long did Coraline take?
Henry Selick: It took 20 months to shoot. We started with a very small group working on two small sets with a couple of characters. Eventually, we had 30 animators all working on their own separate sets, which is double the number I have ever worked with before. So, it was under two years to shoot but there was a very challenging year and a half prior to that with pre-production and two months of post-production. Now that doesn't include the years when I first met Neil (the author of Coraline, Neil Gaiman) and the many drafts of the screenplay we hashed out.
CK: You've really made the story your own. The basic plot of the book is there, but you
have just taken the story and run with it by fleshing out supporting characters
and making the alternate world so inviting. It seems so nice, I'd have a hard time leaving!
Henry Selick: The way I sold myself as the screenwriter to Neil and our producer was that the book reads like a movie already. There's really not that much for me to do, or so I believed naively at the time. But over the course of working on it, the story takes on a life of its own and I got good suggestions as well on how to structure it, such as making the other world gradually more appealing so it comes off as a slow seduction of Coraline. I ended up making the mistake of over-collaborating with Neil, checking in with him too many times, and in the end, the draft that resulted did not feel like a movie. So, at that point, I told him that I had to go off and do my own thing until I come out the other side. I felt as though I had to set it in America instead of England, though it still has English characters. I felt I had to set it in a town known for its Shakespeare festivals and then it started to turn into a movie. Neil was fantastic with all of this and I would talk to him sporadically, only when I had a large amount of work to show him. He was an incredible supporter of the changes and the life the movie took on.
CK: While the film is mostly stop motion, there are certain computer effects as
well, mostly with reflections and ethereal things like mist. How are these two
methods combined?
Henry Selick: We put together a list of the various sorts of natural effects we would need, like fire, rain, mist and we went to an outside effects house to see what it would cost to do them on computer. We got the bid on the work and it was so astronomical that we decided to build our own in-house computer team. But wherever possible we did things the old-fashioned way, meaning in camera shots or shooting them as separate elements and combining them. I wanted the film to be very atmospheric with wind and clouds moving and rain hitting windows and elements like that and almost all of them were done in camera. We literally attached wires to trees and moved them so you are bringing the whole set to life at times.
Computers are used to clean up the animation. You'll notice that the expressions of the characters are very natural and the computer animation helps that seem effortless. For the foggy ground we shot the characters stuck in a lot of cotton. The computer manipulates that so it appears to be flowing and moving. Obviously, the ghost girls were computer-generated but it all flows together. In the end, it's all about using whatever is at your disposal from all these different worlds of animation to create the world Coraline deserves.


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Robert Bobb has spent the past two years closing dozens of schools and firing principals in an effort to fix the failing Detroit Public Schools. Yet, he still hasn't solved the problem for which he was hired — erasing a legacy budget deficit that now stands at $327 million.
Now, in his final months as the state-appointed emergency financial manager, Bobb is proposing several headline-grabbing ideas — including a radical plan to shut down so many buildings that some high schools could see more than 60 students per class — in an attempt to wipe out the red ink.
The state Board of Education wants the budget gap closed sooner than later. Despite reworking vendor contracts to save money, shutting down old, high-maintenance buildings, weeding out numerous cases of fraud and theft, and keeping dozens of teaching and other district jobs unfilled, the deficit hasn't gone away. With Bobb's contract ending in June, he's floating extreme measures to get the job done.
"There are so many competing interests within the Detroit Public Schools, you kind of have to throw a lot of different stuff against the wall to see what sticks," says Michael Van Beek, director of education policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a free-market think tank in Midland, Mich.
Bobb's latest proposal, announced about a week ago, calls for placing 41 academically poor schools and the 16,000 students attending them in the hands of charter operators.
"Rather than simply closing schools, this plan seeks to transform DPS into one of the nation's premier urban school districts by recruiting some of the best, proven school operators to serve Detroit's children and remake schools that have been failing them for years," Bobb has said of the charter proposal.
Another model seeks to take revenue and pay off the district's outstanding debt while doing away with the existing school system. A new district with new contracts and staffing levels would be built from the ground up. Existing schools would be moved into the new system.
Bobb also has proposed asking the state to continue current funding levels, despite a drop in enrollment, while it chips away at the accumulated deficit over time. But this seems unlikely as Republican Gov. Rick Snyder already is planning cuts to per-pupil funding in his proposed state budget.
None are guaranteed to work and most would draw opposition from the teachers' union and parents who don't want to see schools closed and teacher contracts thrown out in favor of charter school operators hiring non-union educators to work in their buildings.
But all are preferred to Bobb's initial deficit elimination plan that called for closing 70 of Detroit's 172 schools and increasing the maximum high school class size to 62. Though that plan was approved in February by state education officials who wanted to see a proposal that would eliminate the deficit quickly, even Bobb says it goes too far.
"He had no choice but to get us down to zero by the 2014 fiscal year," said district spokesman Steve Wasko. It "is not the plan we want, nor is it good for DPS or its students."
Bobb was appointed by then-Gov. Jennifer Granholm in March 2009 to turnaround the cash-strapped district. He hired an inspector general to look into complaints of financial wrongdoing and within two months was investigating about 50 cases of theft and fraud. Audits of school records revealed some administrators made or received inappropriate personal loans.
Along with the school closings, contracts of more than 30 principals were not renewed. Less money also is flowing out of the district as Bobb cut millions of dollars in spending from the budget.
But as enrollment drops, less money to pay the bills is coming in. And while seeking answers to the district's financial turmoil, Bobb also is fighting other battles.
"He has a school board that has taken him to court — and won; a recalcitrant teachers union that promises to file grievances. Then he has people within Detroit neighborhoods who don't want to see schools shuttered," Van Beek said.
Bobb was given more ammunition when Snyder recently signed a bill that gives broad new powers and tools to financial managers to restructure school districts and communities headed toward insolvency. Under the law, financial managers will be able to toss union contracts to help balance the books, strip power from local elected officials or — in extreme cases — dissolve a town or school district.
It's unclear how Bobb will use that going forward. For now, he continues to push the charter school plan which is the one receiving the most support in the city at the moment — even from the school board. Under Bobb's proposal, Detroit Schools would sponsor the charters and seek out groups to operate them. The district would lease the buildings for an estimated $21 million and receive 3 percent of whatever funding each charter gets from the state.
Operating costs are expected to drop by up to $99 million. The district would save about $22 million by not having to secure the closed buildings.
But the teacher's union has been fighting Bobb's efforts to close schools over the past two years and is "adamantly opposed" to adding more charters in Detroit while losing district-run buildings, Detroit Federation of Teachers president Keith Johnson says.
Charter schools, even those authorized by the district, are not required to hire displaced Detroit Public Schools teachers or hire teachers under the union contract.
The district's track record with charter schools has not been smooth. It has closed two since it began authorizing academies in 1998, according to Wasko.
The Michigan Institute for Construction Trades and Technology was closed in 2002 for among other things failing to abide by and meet its educational goals and meeting generally accepted public sector accounting principles. The New Horizon Academy was also shut down in 2000 for the same reasons.
Bertha Marsh, who has five grandchildren in Detroit schools, says while most people don't want change, the problems with the schools leave them no choice.
"The district knows it has to do something. Mr. Bobb has seen how the finances are doing, and he sees it's impossible to make it financially stable unless they do something drastic. It can't be the same old same old," she said.


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By 1974 the cars being sold were a lot different than the fire breathing "Super Cars" being sold in the late 60s. As is evidenced by this vintage road test, although Car and Track did it's best to change with the times, it was never quite the same. This is fairly apparent throughout this 1974 Oldsmobile Omega S road test. As host Bud Lindemann points out, the S in the Omega's name signifies sport options and a higher price tag.
The days of four wheel drifting around the test track were also a distant memory by this point. The most impressive statistic Lindemann can summon about the optional 350 V8 in the Omega is the fact it has a 4 barrel carburetor. During straight line acceleration testing Lindemann quipped "the third time off the line I think there was actually a squeal of rubber, which is rather rare today with all the clean air plumbing". It was the clean air plumbing that could be blamed for the Omega's dismal 18.1 second quarter mile time.
Perhaps most interesting about this vintage road test is how the Omega is classified. According to the host "The Omega, Like Buick's Apollo, we call a 'Mini-mediate', meaning that the size falls somewhere between a mini and an intermediate." Although the Omega is not a huge car, mini is not the word you would use to describe a modern car of similar proportions.
Although it couldn't compare to the cars of a few years earlier performance wise, for 1974 the Omega wasn't bad. Even if the Omega is "a re-run" Lindemann points out "Compared to most of the 1974 models, it's got a little wallop". Ultimately the host gives a hesitant endorsement pointing out "If you've been bitten by the small car bug, but claustrophobia is still a factor you might try this one on for size"


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14ToeSide,14ToeSide wrote:The Dyno does not pull like a truck. The FL pulled like a truck. Again, I may not have had it set correctly. However, the designer said it DOES have a fair amount of bar pressure.
Pulling like a Truck to me means its trying to take u downwind. The Dyno does not do that.
If I were u, I would try the Fly before u decide.
I have flown the 14M trigger (smaller brother to the Lady) and felt it had MORE Raw power then the 17 FL. MAY be one of the Best 14Ms I have ever flown. U want fast turning: take the 14 out.
Interesting your comments because I was thinking that maybe a 17 M would be to much kite for my weight, 160 lbs. I understand that a 17 M no matter how fast can be it still a 17 M and can't be as fast as a 12M................
So for riders below 175 lbs may be a 14M or a 15M with a great low end can work on the 8-10 knots with a TT?
I had a 14 M lithium 2012 and the high end was really low for my weight, at 16 knots I was overpower and need to switch to my 10 M. But the 2012 lithium 14M don't have the low end of 7 to 8 knots that Airush wind range table says for the 2013 14 M lithium with a TT. I can't run my TT below 10 knots with the lithium 14M so I end selling the Lithium 14M.
I would like to hear comments on how you compare the low end, bar pressure and speed of the Blade Trigger 14 M, the Naish Fly 15M or any other 14M or 15M............


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PRINCE Raden Putra and Dewi Limaran were husband and wife. They lived in a palace. Prince Raden Putra's father was the king of the kingdom.
One day, Dewi Limaran was walking around in the palace garden. Suddenly she saw a snail. It was ugly and disgusting. "Yuck!" said Dewi Limaran and then she threw it away into a river. She did not know that the snail was actually an old and powerful witch. She could transform herself into anything. The witch was angry to Dewi Limaran. The witch put a spell on her and changed her into a golden snail. The witch then threw it away into the river.
The golden snail was drifting away in the river and got caught into a net. An old woman was fishing and used her net to catch some fish. She was surprised to see a golden snail in her net. She took it and brought it home. When the old woman woke up in the morning, she was surprised that the house was in the good condition. The floor was mopped. And she also had food on the table. She was thinking very hard. "Who did this to me? The person is very kind." It happened again and again every morning.
> The old woman was very curious. One night she decided to stay up late. She was peeping from her room to know who cooked for her. Then, she could not believe what she saw. The golden snail she caught in the river turned into a beautiful woman. The old woman approached her. "Who are you, young girl?" "I am Dewi Limaran, Ma'am. A witch cursed me. I can change back as a human only at night," explained Dewi Limaran. "The spell can be broken if I hear the melody from the holy gamelan," continued Dewi Limaran. The old woman then rushed to the palace. She talked to Prince Raden Putra about her wife. Prince Raden Putra was so happy. He had been looking for his wife everywhere.
, finally gods granted his wish. He immediately brought the holy gamelan to the old woman's house. He played it beautifully. And then amazingly the golden snail turned into the beautiful Dewi Limaran. The couple was so happy that they could be together again. They also thanked the old woman for her kindness. As a return, they asked her to stay in the palace.


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What is Dbus?
"D-BUS is an interprocess communication (IPC) system, providing a simple yet powerful mechanism allowing applications to talk to one another, communicate information and request services. D-BUS was designed from scratch to fulfill the needs of a modern Linux system. D-BUS' initial goal is to be a replacement for CORBA and DCOP, the remote object systems used in GNOME and KDE, respectively. Ideally, D-BUS can become a unified and agnostic IPC mechanism used by both desktops, satisfying their needs and ushering in new features." (Article on Dbus)
Installing Dbus
To emerge sys-apps/dbus, run the following command:
root # emerge dbus
and to start dbus, use following:
root # rc-update add dbus default * service dbus added to runlevel default root # rc * Starting dbus ...


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Denver — Oh, you know one is going to drop in Thursday night's VP Debate. A gaffe. Don't know who, don't know when, but it will come. And for the campaigns — watching from their sequestered areas — there is nothing they can do until the debate is over except spin it wildly on social media.
When we were in Denver last week for the Prez debate, we asked former Bill Clinton campaign/and later White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers about what spinmeisters do when their candidate gaffes. In the Gaffe Zone, nobody can hear you scream.
Here, courtesy of the San Francisco Chronicle/SFGate.com's Shaky Hand Productions is DeeDee's clinic on Gaffe 101: