VDOE cites Franklin division for several standard violations
Published 11:01 am Monday, September 16, 2013
FRANKLIN—The Virginia Department of Education has cited the Franklin City School District with six violations of standards of quality.
These violations included failure to develop and implement programs of prevention, intervention or remediation for students who fail to achieve a passing Standards of Learning score; employing personnel who are not licensed in relevant subject areas; and failure to implement a plan to make achievement for students who are educationally at risk a division-wide priority.
“We knew once the schools went into warning, we knew that an academic review was something they would do,” Superintendent Dr. Michelle Belle said.
She said she did not think of the review as a bad thing.
“We need assistance to correct some of the challenges in the division,” Belle said.
The superintendent and School Board Chair Edna King received a document dated June 27 from the Virginia Department of Education.
“As stated in my previous correspondence, Section 22.1-253.13:3 of the Code of Virginia, Standards of Quality (SOQ), requires local school boards to maintain Fully Accredited schools and to take the corrective actions for schools that are not Fully Accredited,” Dr. Patricia I. Wright, superintendent of public instruction, wrote in the June 27 letter. “Franklin City Public Schools has three schools rated Accredited with Warning. As demonstrated by the findings and recommendations indicated in the attached reports, the review revealed evidence that the failure of the schools within the division to achieve accreditation status is related to division-level failure to implement the SOQ… .”
VDOE spokesperson Charles Pyle said the responsibility to meet these standards as part of Virginia law belongs to the local school board, which ultimately is responsible for holding a superintendent accountable.
Belle said that the code was a huge, generic document.
“This is a thing that will help us, and I am worried that people will twist it,” she said. “It is a diagnosis of the school division.
“The problems started way before I got here. But we’ve got to get to the bottom of it. We can’t run from it.”
When Belle took over as superintendent in March 2009, S.P. Morton Elementary School and Franklin High School were fully accredited, while J.P. King was accredited with warning in math, history and science, though the school was in its review year and was fully accredited the next year. Schools retain the warning label for an additional year, even if it received a passing grade.
From fall 2009 to spring 2012, all of the schools were fully accredited, though there were declines in Standards of Learning scores every year in math and English for each school. In 2012-2013 all of the schools went into warning, and based on recently released SOL scores where Franklin schools fell in 22 of 32 categories from the previous year, it is anticipated that they will all be in warning again in 2013-2014. VDOE will release official results Friday, Sept. 20.
While there may be a history of some problems in the district, Pyle said past problems have no bearing on this review being done, but rather it is based on the current failings in regards to the Standards of Learning scores.
“Dr. Wright is not in the habit of bringing up matters that have already been addressed,” he said. “I think this letter is as straightforward as it can be. In the code, it says ‘Each local school board shall maintain schools that are fully accredited.’ That’s not in the past.”
In the letter, Wright also wrote that she would use assessment data to make a decision regarding her “recommendation to the Virginia Board of Education to request that Franklin City Public Schools enter into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Virginia Board of Education and undergo a division-level academic review… .”
Pyle said a Memorandum of Understanding is an agreement where a local school board agrees on a schedule of goals to be completed from year to year, and has a menu of actions that must take place to accomplish its goals.
Belle said this June 27 report was the focus of her administrator retreat of late July.
King said that this report was the frame of the Aug. 5 School Board Retreat. However, one school board member, Dawna Walton of Ward 6, said that she had not been made aware of this document. Nancy Godwin of Ward 2, stated that she could not confirm or deny whether these documents had been reviewed. Johnetta Nichols of Ward 3 declined to comment because her mother was ill and she was on her way to Norfolk. The other school board members could not be reached for comment despite repeated attempts.
When confronted with some members not having heard of or immediately recalling the document, King said she would prefer to not say who was at the meeting and declined to comment any further. She also said she would not comment on the document itself for personnel reasons.
Minutes from the Aug. 5 retreat were not available, though there was a school board meeting on Aug. 15. A central office record keeper confirmed that all school board members were at the retreat.
Belle said to be fair to the new school board members, it was the first school board retreat.
“It is an overwhelming day,” she said, also confirming that they were all at the meeting.
To obtain the documents, The Tidewater News filed a Freedom of Information Act request with VDOE and received them on Aug. 28. The newspaper also received other documents relating to this report on Sept. 5.
The item is a follow-up to a November academic review, which was sent to the division in January.
In the follow-up review, several problems still persisted.
At S.P. Morton Elementary School, the school improvement plan had not been updated to reflect grouping practices or to address the use of differentiated strategies, while at J.P. King Middle School, the improvement plan had not been revised to adequately address the academic review essential actions.
At Franklin High School, however, the essential actions had been incorporated.
Dr. Shannon Smith, director of instruction, said the factor of this was the time when they were looking into it, in that the principals at the schools were new to the district in this last academic year.
“That’s no longer a concern,” Smith said. “Once they received technical assistance, they got a handle on it.
“The principals were new. They have all returned, and we are expecting a stronger year,” she said. “I think we will be OK. We appreciate the guidance by the academic review. We used that to make some decisions and move the school division forward.”
It was found that central office instructional leaders did not conduct observations, and stated that they had been discouraged from spending time in the schools, according to the June 27 report.
“We’ve been there more than ever,” Belle said of late. “It is a new day, with a new set of board members, and they have different expectations for us.”
Four of the seven-person board remains the same.
Data tracking, remediation and intervention were also amongst the citations, and Smith said they are improving this.
She said there are people charged with monitoring student programs, enrichment and remediation. Central office leaders will be reviewing data with the principals, who will report on discipline, academics and attendance.
The middle school also has a turnaround partner, EdisonLearning, which is helping with monitoring and other plans. Some of EdisonLearning’s information has been spread to the elementary school to help with vertical alignment.
The data tracking system will also be a part of teacher evaluation, said Gail Wade, director of human resources.
Placing students in tiers is another aspect of planning for at-risk students, with Tier 2 students needing support and Tier 3 students struggling significantly.
“The data will determine where the kids are,” Smith said. “And it is flexible from one month to another, so that we can provide the necessary intervention for our students.”
In the Jan. 17 original review, one teacher at S.P. Morton Elementary was teaching a subject matter that he or she was not endorsed to teach.
At J.P. King Middle School, two teachers were teaching in areas where they were not endorsed to teach.
At the high school, one teacher was teaching a subject she was not endorsed to teach.
“That’s not a true statement,” Belle said of employing teachers not licensed. “Anyone who is not licensed fully is at least provisionally licensed.
“We may have had a few licensed teachers who were teaching out of their area, for whatever reason, but that has been addressed.”
According to the report, however, one teacher was cited for having a license that had expired June 20, 2011, though this teacher was let go in January. Four administrators also lacked endorsements for administration and supervision as of January 2013, including Dr. Debbie Harris Rollins, principal of S.P. Morton Elementary, who did not have a valid Virginia license. Rollins had come from North Carolina to start the 2012-2013 school year. She waited until January to apply for her license. All of the administrators have since received these endorsements, including Rollins.
Belle said she knows that the school district is not where it needs to be, and that this academic review has been used to help the schools improve.
“We know we are not where we want to be, and we know where we need to go,” she said. “We are moving forward.”


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The Banshee is a creature from Irish folklore who heralds the death of a family member by screaming and wailing into the night. They were often described as short and small creatures fairy-like and standing no more than a few feet tall. Admittedly, I have no idea what a beast that wails and mourns has to do with a gun like the CMMG Banshee. The only thing they seem to have in common is that the Banshee is also small, and it’s loud. Regardless, it’s a damn cool name to describe this short and light AR-15 based PCC. The Banshee line is quite extensive and complete with various calibers and magazine patterns. We got our grubby mitts on the latest model, the Banshee Mk17.
The Mk17 variant of CMMG’s Banshee has embraced the SIG P320 9mm magazines. The P320’s adoption by the United States military and its continued success on the police and civilian market ensures that it’s sticking around. It makes sense that PCCs would start adopting it as a magazine platform. The P320 magazines come in various factory capacities, including the 21 round X series model.
Radial Delayed Goodness
The Banshee Mk17 uses CMMG’s patented radial delayed blowback action. Most PCCs go with a standard blowback action that’s functional, but kinda messy. Traditional blowback guns are primitive and require heavy bolts, or heavy springs and often generate more recoil than any 9mm ever should. The radial delayed system uses an AR-15 style bolt with specially design bolt lugs that lock into the chamber.
When the weapon fires, the bolt is forced to rotate and unlock before cycling. Pressure has time to drop in the gun and this eliminates the need for heavy bolts, buffers, or buffer springs. The result is an enjoyable shooter.
The Banshee Mk17 – Ergonomics
CMMG is a smart company that makes some fascinating weapons, and they are known for pushing the AR platform forwards. The Banshee is no different. CMMG has built the gun to be as ergonomic as possible. The Mk17 includes one of the best AR-9 style magazine releases on the market. The magazine release is specifically designed for the challenges that the P320 magazine presented to CMMG.
They installed a magazine release that engages the P320 magazine and pushes the release far enough rearward to allow the shooter to drop the magazine with their trigger finger. The magazine release requires very little pressure and makes swapping magazines quite efficient.
The Banshee Mk17 also features an ambidextrous safety made by CMMG. They also installed their overtly massive and ambidextrous CMMG charging handle. It’s wide enough that you can blade the charging handle with either hand, and the lightweight buffer, bolt, and spring give you very little resistance.
The Banshee is also equipped with a Magpul pistol grip, an ambidextrous sling point, and the CMMG RipBrace. The RipBrace is an exciting design that enables a shooter to instantly deploy the brace from its shortest position to the preset position you’ve chosen. Installing a small screw allows you to select one of five positions for instant deployment. All you need to do is grip the brace and give it a yank, and its deployed.
Wailing with the Banshee Mk17
Range time with this gun can be quite addictive. The radial delayed system does an excellent job of reducing recoil and makes the Banshee a superbly comfortable gun to operate. Compared to a standard blowback gun, the Banshee Mk17 is a real soft shooter. I shot the Banshee Mk17 side by side with a CZ Scorpion pistol, and the difference is immediately apparent.
The Banshee Mk17 weighs a mere 4 pounds and 10 ounces. It’s super light and trims pounds off compared to standard blowback guns. This lightweight design makes the Mk17 easy to handle when swapping shoulders, changing positions, or firing one-handed. The lightweight design combined with the A+ ergonomics makes operating the weapon a breeze. I never realized how the weight of a gun could affect how fast I could do things like reloading.
A lighter gun doesn’t dip when I release my support hand to retrieve a new magazine, and I appreciate that. When it comes to shooting the lighter and shorter the gun is, the easier it is to transition targets. Moving from big man-sized targets to teeny-tiny steel gongs is intuitive, and you won’t find yourself overshooting the smaller targets.
Instead of just wasting ammo when I review a gun, I do like to run drills. I can get some training out of it and learn something, plus it gives me a better idea of how the gun handles. I ran a Mozambique, or failure drill, with the Mk17 against a timer at 15 yards and got my fastest time ever with a rifle. My time was a 1.23 failure drill from the low ready. I’m typically in the 1.5s with a well-aimed headshot.
I also ran Sage Dynamic’s Eleanor drill, which is a challenging drill created by Sage Dynamics. It uses a free printable target and mixes speed and accuracy with a relatively short par time. It took a few tries, but I did pass it with the first magazine.
I found the Banshee to be super accurate, but also easy to control. Control over the gun often leads to better times and smoother transitions. Both of these drills require precise shots against a clock and target transitions. Control plays a significant role in succeeding with these drills.
The Banshee Mk17 shoots straight, and within 50 yards, you can rule an area. When combined with the gun’s low recoil, it’s effortless to place multiple shots on small targets at various ranges. On man-sized targets, you can dominate with nothing more than a red dot. Two-inch groups at 50 yards aren’t hard with a hasty prone position.
Reliability is also not an issue. Ammo selection is not what it typically is, so I can’t dial in a lot of the crappy, cruddy steel cased stuff I love to test reliability with. I didn’t clean or lube the gun within the 600 rounds I’ve put downrange so far, and the gun doesn’t seem to mind. I also used various JHPs to great success.
The Banshee Mk17 comes with a single X series 21 round P320 magazine. The desire to go bigger is always present with gun guys, and I wanted to see if the new ETS 30 round P320 magazines would work. Unfortunately, they don’t seem to fit into the lower receiver, and the magazine will not lock in place. It seems like you need to stick to the P320 stock magazines, but the good news is you find some at GunMag Warehouse.
Series and Specs
The Banshee guns come in a few different lines that CMMG calls Series. This example is the premium grade 300 series with the titanium cerakote. The 100 and 200 series have less robust features with lower price tags. Keep that in mind when shopping for a Banshee.
Banshee Mk17 Specs
Overall Length – 18.9 inches
Barrel Length – 5 inches
Weight – 4 lbs 10 oz
Caliber – 9mm
Capacity – 21
MSRP – 1549.95
The Banshee and Me
This is an awesome gun. It’s light, handy, low recoiling, and is perfect for home defense. This short gun with its threaded barrel is just begging for a suppressor. The Mk17 is reliable, ergonomic, and feature-filled. CMMG produced an impressive AR pistol, and the delayed radial design is genius. Check out the Banshee Mk17 at CMMG and when you need a few extra magazines, check them out at GunMag Warehouse.


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On Thursday April 11th, 2019, the new regional platform of the Alpine network ALPARC CENTR’ALPS was officially founded in Balderschwang, Nagelfluhkette Nature Park (DE). Directly linked by contract to the ALPARC network, the new platform has an association status based on German law.
The creation of a regional platform is based on the decisions of ALPARC’s last three General Assemblies, who decided to put in place a decentralized structure of ALPARC to guarantee concrete work on the ground, a closer proximity towards the managers of the protected areas and local initiatives. ALPARC CENTR’ALPS shares the same objectives and working axes of its “mother organization” and represents a concrete possibility for smaller protected areas and local managers of biodiversity and natural sites to join the network. Thanks to ALPARC CENTR’ALPS there will be an opportunity to gain access to more of the EU’s funding for the central region.
The 10 founding members include protected areas from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Swiss Park Network, the Federation of the Austrian Nature Park and the interactive natural museum Inatura located in Dornbin, Germany. The presidency of ALPARC CENTR’ALPS is assured by Peter Oggier, the current president of ALPARC and director of the Nature Park Pfyn-Finges.
To insure a regional presence of the Alpine network with regional contact points and to guarantee the proximity to the protected areas, ALPARC is planning to create a second regional platform in the south-eastern Alps (East of Italy or Slovenia). This will strengthen the network’s activities.
List of the 10 founding members of the ALPARC CENTR'ALPS:
- ASTERS Conservatoire d'espaces Naturels De Haute-Savoie (France)
- Biosphere Park “Nature Park Nagelfluhkette (Austria)
- Inatura - Erlebnis Naturschau Dornbirn (Austria)
- Nationalpark Berchtesgaden (Germany)
- Nationalpark Kalkalpen (Austria)
- Naturpark Nagelfluhkette (Germany)
- Naturpark Pfyn Finges (Switzerland)
- Schweizerischer Nationalpark (Switzerland)
- Swiss Parks Network (Switzerland)
- Verband der Naturparke Österreichs - VNÖ (Austria)

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Birthdays: Abigail Adams, Alexander Borodin, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Gen. George Patton, Pat O’Brien, Kurt Vonnegut, Rene Clair, Carlos Fuentes, Jonathan Winters, Stubby Kay, Demi Moore is 56, Leonardo di Caprio is 44
1925- Louis “Sachmo” Armstrong did the first recordings of his band the Hot Five. These records lift him from a local talent in Chicago and New Orleans to international stardom.
According to close friends Sachmo was a lifelong marijuana smoker. He called Pot his “antidote to racism”. Gives new meaning to the song “Laughing Louie”.
1932- The Girls Scouts first offered freshly baked cookies for sale. The proceeds went to purchase camping gear. In 1936, the Girls Scouts signed a contract with Keebler to bake and package the cookies.
1937- Animation production wrapped on Disney’s first feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.
1938- GOD BLESS AMERICA- Irving Berlin's song God Bless America sung for the first time by chanteuse Kate Smith. Berlin had written the song in 1918 for a Broadway show Yip,Yap, Yaphank, but it didn’t fit in. So he threw it in a file cabinet and forgot about it. Twenty years later, he revived the song as a peace hymn faced with the growing threat of Hitler. This day at an Armistice Day radio concert it was sung by Kate Smith. It became a huge hit. Every few years there is a call to make it the national anthem.
1938- The first day of shooting on the film 'The Wizard of Oz". Judy Garland met 125 little people hired to be the Munchkins. Judy's energy was fading under the heavy work schedule so L.B. Mayer ordered her put on Benzadrine (speed) every morning and Valium pills to sleep. June Alysson, another young MGM actress at the time said: "The studio nurse would give it to you and tell you it was vitamins." Judy Garland became a heavy drug addict and died of an overdose in 1969 at 47 years old.
1940- The Birth of the Jeep. The army introduces its first General Purpose vehicle-G.P. or Jeep, a name coinciding with a character in E.C. Segar's Popeye cartoons.
1954- Tolkein’s second book of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, first published.
1978- The renovated Hollywood Sign is unveiled. The second O was paid for by rock star Alice Cooper in memory of his idol, Groucho Marx.
1980- 'Heaven's Gate" Michael Cimino's $44 million dollar flop opened. Cimino originally said he could do the film for $8 million. Critic Pauline Kael said: "It's the kind of movie you want to deface. You want to draw mustaches all over it."

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I'm a bad DIYer, so go easy on me! I will try to explain in the best terms I can, so hopefully it is understood.
I've bought some Twinslot shelves from B&Q and went to fit them this evening. Whilst drilling the holes for the rawlplugs, I noticed the drill was going through incredibly easily. I poked a skewer through the hole to see why, and it turns out there is roughly a 10cm gap between the plasterboard and the brick wall behind.
Can someone tell me what options I have here? I thought I could maybe get someone to knock down the plasterboard and put a new one up closer to the brick, but the wall has an electric outlet, so I'm assuming the 10cm gap is to accommodate this.
Any help/advice is much appreciated. The wife really wants the shelves for the utility room :)


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The Spokesman Review in Spokane carried a great story about how nearly impossible it is to feed a family a balanced, healthy diet on a tight budget. The article quotes the Children’s Alliance’s very own food policy expert, Linda Stone, and highlighted the expansion of food stamp eligibility that will go into effect on October 1st. The expansion, which was a big victory in the 2008 legislative session, will open up food stamps to 23,000 more families.

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THE localisation of Council Tax support means change for most of rural England's low income households, finds Brian Wilson.
CERTAIN key components can be identified as underpinning strategies for rural economic change and innovation, finds Brian Wilson.
MORE communities need to understand the Community Rights before they will use them, writes Brian Wilson.
LOCAL food sales are strong generators of jobs, among other benefits, according to research reviewed by Brian Wilson.
ILLEGAL money lending is a problem across the country - including in rural communities.
A FLURRY of deprivation statistics once again struggles to measure rural needs adequately, says Brian Wilson.
THERE are lesson to be learnt from the independent examiner's report on the draft Upper Eden Neighbourhood Plan, writes Brian Wilson.
NEW research suggests that the type of housing available in rural areas is what most explains its lack of affordability, finds Brian Wilson.
RURAL communities need capacity-building support if they are all to meet the challenge of austerity, writes Brian Wilson.
DEMAND for mobile access to broadband will continue to grow rapidly in rural areas, writes Brian Wilson.
NEW guidance aimed at local authorities assuming public health responsibilities is helpful, but it needs a rural dimension, argues Brian Wilson.
ARE there any issues coming out of welfare reform for those in rural housing? Stuart Davies finds out.


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In the aftermath of our report "the spinning top is still in the heads" (BR from 19. July), ingo lehmann, chairman of the SPD city council faction, has now issued the following statement:
"The SPD city council faction has repeatedly and over many years campaigned for the realization of a traffic circle in mittelau. However, our proposals were regularly rejected by the CSU/WGK majority in the kulmbach city council.
Even if the traffic lights have been improved, the traffic situation at this neuralgic point is still completely unsatisfactory. It is therefore not surprising that many people in kulmbach are still discussing this issue.
For us as SPD city council faction it is still incomprehensible why the city council majority of the oberburg mayor has always blocked the realization of a traffic circle in mittelau. Hopefully the majority of the kulmbach city council will still move, so that the traffic situation in the mittelau will finally be relieved effectively.


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For a lot of, bitcoin has develop into a staple funding, nevertheless it’s by no means a good suggestion for somebody to only leap into a wholly new buying and selling area with out having applicable data to again up their maneuvers, and sadly, that is precisely what’s occurring. Many new bitcoin buyers are affected by FOMO or worry of lacking out, and Adam Traidman – CEO and co-founder of crypto pockets BRD – needs that people were a little more keen to analysis crypto earlier than leaping in headfirst.
Adam Traidman: Be taught Earlier than You Make investments
In a latest interview, Traidman talks about what he needs folks knew and understood earlier than merely getting into the crypto area. For one factor, volatility is a significant situation for bitcoin and different massive altcoins. He feedback that the trade is wrought with whales, or people that wish to buy and promote massive portions of digital belongings.
Traidman mentions that folks must be very understanding of this, and that not absolutely comprehending the unstable nature of bitcoin and crypto goes to result in critical issues down the road. He additionally says that you just can not merely leap into promoting all of your belongings the second you see bitcoin (or another main cryptocurrency) drop in value. He feedback:
[When bitcoin broke] $50,000, a bunch of recent folks purchased in, and you then had savvy whales who took their winnings and induced a pullback, after which some spooked buyers bought, and the whales purchased again in [at a lower price]. Remember that in case you put in X sum of money, there will likely be a time once you open your pockets and are down 30 p.c. There may also be a time once you’re up two instances.
He additionally says that it’s essential to not get grasping. This can be a massive situation that will get in the way in which of a lot of folks behaving rationally whereas investing in crypto. He says no person can interact in critical bitcoin or crypto investing until they’ve a stable plan that they attempt to observe. With out buying and selling targets, one isn’t more likely to obtain success within the digital asset area. He mentions:
When you have got a state of affairs the place your cash is up two or 3 times, you’ll suppose that it was too simple. Follow your weapons and don’t be grasping. In case your aim is 2 instances the expansion, and also you hit that, promote it and be grateful that you just hit your quantity.
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Lastly, he feedback that there will likely be days the place you need to attempt to put your cash to the aspect and overlook about it. Taking a look at it day-after-day is simply going to result in stress and nervousness. He states:
If you happen to have a look at it day-after-day, it may be nerve wracking. We crypto loopy folks try this, however I don’t suppose it’s the correct transfer for the common informal investor.

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|Author(s):||Adele P. Peskin; Joe Chalfoun; John T. Elliott; Karen Kafadar;|
|Title:||Estimating the Number of Manually Segmented Cellular Objects Required to Evaluate the Accuracy of a Segmentation Algorithm|
|Published:||September 22, 2013|
|Abstract:||We propose a new strategy for estimating the number of cellular objects that should be manually segmented for evaluating the segmentation accuracy of an algorithm. The strategy uses geometric and edge quality measurements that are directly related to segmentation outcomes and do not require highly accurate segmentation. Sample sizes are determined from standard deviations of cell feature measurements calculated from the entire image set rather than a small sample of that set. We estimate the confidence level that a sample size represents the whole population as well as an error associated with a particular sample of cell images. The use of this strategy may reduce the effort and time required for generating a reference data set for evaluating segmentation algorithm performance with images of biological cells. We demonstrate the usefulness of this methodology on a large and diverse data set for which reference data is available. We show that other techniques give rise to inconsistent results because the standard deviation of the data for the whole population is unknown, while our technique involves calculations that give consistently accurate sample sizes.|
|Proceedings:||Proceedings of ACM BCB 2013|
|Dates:||September 22-25, 2013|
|Keywords:||feature extraction,sample size,segmentation|

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Thirty textile companies across the USA, China, Taiwan and Europe have signed up to a programme that sources responsibly-produced cotton.
Cotton Leads is committed to improving farm production practices, environmental stewardship and “the dissemination of best practices information broadly throughout the world's cotton producing countries”.
By signing up to the scheme, the brands will only use cotton sourced responsibly through Cotton Leads. Its cotton accounts for roughly 17 per cent of global production. Cotton Leads, which was launched just over two months ago, is a joint initiative by the Australian and US cotton industries.
Among the well-known companies that have become members of the Cotton Leads initiative are: Fruit of the Loom, Central Textiles, Tuscarora Yarns, Mount Vernon Mills, and the Esquel Group.
American brand Fruit of the Loom was one of the first companies to sign up to the scheme. Tony Pelaski, the brand's chief operating officer, said: “Fruit of the Loom continues to strive for the highest level of corporate responsibility in our supply chain. As a member of Cotton Leads, we are assuring consumers of our commitment to sustainability and traceability in the cotton we use in our products.”


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Joker wants Batman to kill him. If Batman kills Joker, he would be going against everything he stands for. it will also ruin Batman's reputation as a hero. That's what Joker wants; to ruin Batman's reputation and make him go insane. Green Goblin tried to force Spider-Man into doing the same thing.
" @Crom-Cruach: That was the point of his design. Deadpool's look was molded from the simplistic look of Spiderman. Being generic was what they were going for. As for Grifter, his mask only hints at DP because of the color. The open top, ripped bottom, and more circular black around the eyes is too off. Change the color scheme, and you wouldn't see the resemblance anymore. "
Even if they change the color scheme, there would still be a resemblance because they have similar tactics and personality.


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Lisa's Airplane Trip (Hardcover)
Alfred A. Knopf, 9780375811142, 32pp.
Publication Date: March 13, 2001
Lisa's Airplane Trip is one of two titles launching the Misadventures of Gaspard and Lisa series. Lisa experiences for the first time in her life what it is like to travel on an airplane when she flies by herself to meet her uncle in the United States. The meal, movie, and other passengers provide endless amusement for Lisa--until an unfortunate accident with her orange juice. Fortunately, a very nice flight attendant makes everything better with a quick wash in the bathroom, followed by a special trip to the cockpit.
About the Author
Praise For Lisa's Airplane Trip…
"The simple words and expressive, bright acrylic paintings tell the stories from the child's viewpoint in a way that's fresh and funny... Each book is a delight and celebrates the brave young voyager who discovers a huge world."


Small parts get lost. Springs go flying sometimes. It happens. Fortunately, we have those parts in stock and aren't going to make you buy a whole new kit to replace one small piece.
- Forward Assist Steel Coil Roll Pin for AR Platform Rifles and Pistols
Previous SKU: GZP-FA-ROLL-PIN


text: The term involution has been used to characterize economic development and state formation in eighteenth- through twentieth-century China; more recently, it has seen unprecedented popularity in Chinese-language social media as a representation of the lived experience of individuals in the contemporary era. In each of these cases, the trope of involution implies a judgment on the productivity of labor and resources invested and is often tied to discourses of “Chinese uniqueness.” In Sinological circles as in social media, however, the dynamics that involution claims to represent are better explained through Malthusian approaches to the problem of population increase and Marxist understandings of the relationship between capital and labor: the dynamics in question are not unique to China but typical of broader movements in the world system. I argue nonetheless that the rhetoric of involution deserves closer investigation, and focus particular attention on involution's origins in the field of aesthetics and the rise of involutionary parallelism in the Ming-Qing examination essay. It is here that the dynamics of cultural capital that dominate in the Ming and Qing anticipate the effects of surveillance capital in the twenty-first century. When a so-called eight-legged essay folds back into its own prose both literally and figuratively, can we simply dismiss the complex interiority that results? Or does it speak as well to our contemporary anxieties about individual identity in the age of algorithms?

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They adorn our Christmas trees and illuminate our auto headlamps. Now, LED (light-emitting diode) lights are making their way to the dairy barn.
David and Amy Petersen, owners of Majestic Manor Dairy, a 120-cow registered Holstein enterprise near Davenport, Iowa, became interested in LED lighting for their farm in 2009. “We were in the process of remodeling our kitchen and found for the first time high-quality, bright, white LEDs for the under-cabinet lighting,” explains David Petersen. Always a conservation-minded producer, Petersen began researching the availability of LED lamps to replace the less-efficient fluorescent lamps in his parlor and freestall barn. It was a process that took almost four years.
“I could find 4-foot LED lamps, but we needed 8-footers, and I did not want to incur the additional labor and expense of replacing the fixtures along with the bulbs,” he says. The breakthrough in his search came last summer, when he was touring a cottage cheese plant in Carbondale, Ill., and noticed the facility used 8-foot LED lamps.
An inquiry led him to Zeus LED, Inc., a Carbondale-based start-up owned by David Wilson. An electrical engineer by training, Wilson became interested in LED technology in college and started the company in 2009. He holds several patents and works directly with a manufacturing facility in China to produce LED lamps according to his specifications while following Underwriters Laboratory (UL) standards.
The switch to LED
After thoroughly quizzing Wilson, Petersen was convinced that he had found a reputable supplier and purchased 70 LED lamps to equip a total of 35 fluorescent fixtures in his free-stall barn and parlor. In the parlor, they replaced T-2 linear fluorescent bulbs, while in the free-stall barn, they replaced T-12 high-output (cold-start) fluorescents. The parlor light fixtures called for pin-style connectors. The freestall barn needed wedge-style connectors. Wilson was able to supply both.
Petersen’s local electrician replaced the bulbs, a process that was a simple as changing the light bulbs and unhooking the fluorescent ballast in each fixture. The task took about 15 minutes per fixture, and Petersen couldn’t be happier with the results.
“The light is very clear and bright, and it has more of a ‘spotlight’ effect versus the ‘floodlight’ effect of the fluorescents,” he says. Wilson explains that fluorescent bulbs emit light from 360 degrees, and it is directed down from the fixtures. LED lights, on the other hand, emit 120 degrees of light and send it straight out, which results in more direct lighting while drawing less power. Beams of LED-generated light also can be angled to specifically illuminate select areas, such as walkways and feed alleys.


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As is typical, not much in the way of progress because it’s another short project. I guess the coffee mug holder inspired me to finally build a better storage solution for my tool holders.
I like it. Clever use of material to make the angled shelves. Your title said lathe and I assumed wood lathe and seeing only the first pic, I was a bit confused. Makes way more sense for metal lathe tools!

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Hip Hop Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: K'niep Tang on February 14, 2018, 09:34:40 AM
Mozzy, Sjava and Reason - Seasons
Pity it wasn't the South African Reason but the song is my favourite so far on the album. Sjava did best.
Mona Lisa - Lil Wayne


With Apple, Samsung and Uber among the 57 companies that are trialling AVs in California and elsewhere, the question of who will control access to the vast amounts of data they generate is of growing urgency
The autonomous vehicles now being piloted around the world have been described as “smartphones on wheels” because of the vast amounts of data they collect about their users and the vehicles and people they share the road with.
In fact, Apple and Samsung are among the 57 companies that by last month had permits to test autonomous vehicles (AVs) on California’s roads. In Europe, Nissan has been testing its vehicles in London, and BMW has built a centre of excellence for autonomous driving near Munich. In China, e-commerce giant Alibaba is one of the latest tech companies to start testing self-driving cars.
We may be some years away from truly autonomous vehicles, but privacy issues are already with us. Advertisers and tech companies would like to get their hands on the data generated by today’s connected cars, and BMW revealed it had turned down requests to share its data as far back as 2015.
The data already being generated by vehicles could be valuable to governments, insurers and the police, as well as companies
In 2014 a senior Ford executive, Jim Farley, made comments at an electronics convention revealing that the company knew whether owners of its cars had broken speeding laws,...


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PREVIEWSPillars of Eternity Preview
For Obsidian's crowdfunded love letter to Infinity Engine games like Icewind Dale and Baldur's Gate, I was impressed by its willingness to pull back the curtain and let me see the machinery behind it.
Yesterday, while cleaning up my media center, I found my copy of Ratchet & Clank: Into The Nexus, which I bought sometime before Christmas last year. I had been pretty excited about this game pre-release, what with it being the first "traditional", albeit shorter than usual,...
Make a little witch and design her outfit in the dressing room. When you finish, get ready to set off on an adventure as your character flies away on her broomstick to a peaceful world inhabited by fantasy characters. The more you play, the more rewards and gifts you'll receive. You’ll also earn more items of clothing to dress your little witches in!


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He also discussed secretly recording Trump to reveal the chaos of the White House.
Fifty-eight organizations called on the University of Michigan to sanction professors who implement academic boycotts of Israel.
AMSTERDAM An unopened letter that was mailed to the home of Anne Frank while she and her family were in hiding fetched more than $11,000.
A prominent Madrid-based lobby group for Israel: “There is a real possibility that Israel will decide to recognize Catalonia as a state.”
“If Kosovo were recognized by Israel, I would place the Kosovo embassy in Jerusalem,” the president said.
WASHINGTON Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is one of six world leaders who will have bilateral meetings with President Donald Trump
A New Jersey township has agreed to repeal an ordinance prohibiting the construction of an eruv, that state officials said discriminated against
The rock fell “in the atrium where women waiting for neilah — the final prayer of Yom Kippur,” the statement read.
Hundreds of Palestinian demonstrators rioted along the Gaza border, throwing firebombs and rocks at IDF soldiers.
Police shot and killed a Palestinian man as he attempted to stab a Jewish man on his way to the Western Wall on Yom Kippur.

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After winning the Midwest Christian College Conference regular season outright by going 5-0 in conference play, the Barclay College Bears entered the MCCC Soccer Tournament last weekend as the #1 seed, and not only lived up to the expectations, but surpassed them when they were crowned champions Saturday afternoon in Florissant, MO. It was the Bears first MCCC tournament championship since the 1999 season.
In order to win the tournament, the Bears defeated host college #8 St. Louis Christian College, #4 Ozark Christian College (Joplin, MO) and #2 Manhattan Christian College (Manhattan, KS). Last Thursday they easily dispatched St. Louis 7-0 to set up semi-final match with Ozark Christian on Friday afternoon. Earlier in the season, the Bears defeated the Ambassadors 2-1 in Haviland. This time the Bears defeated Ozark 3-0 to set up a final with #2 Manhattan Christian. The Thunder were eager for a rematch with the Bears after suffering a 3-0 loss in Haviland back on Sept. 4th and with both teams ranked in the National Christian College Athletic Association top 10 for most of the season, it looked to be an epic final. The Bears, however, were once again up for the challenge as they finished off Manhattan 2-0 to win their first tournament championship in 15 years.
The Bears improved to 13-1 overall on the season, with their lone loss to NCAA Division II Newman College (Wichita, KS). Next up for the Bears is the NCCAA Division II Southwest Region Tournament. The four team tournament will be hosted in Haviland, KS on Friday, October 31st and the championship will be played at 3:00 PM CST on Saturday, November 1st. The two semi-final match-ups are #3 Dallas Christian College (Dallas, TX) verse #2 Ozark Christian College at 4:00 PM and then #4 Hillsdale Free Will Baptist College (Moore, OK) verse #1 Barclay College at 6:00 PM.


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As Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman reports, the Nashville Predators have claimed Luca Sbisa from waivers. He will join fellow Swiss defensemen Roman Josi (the Preds' captain) as well as Yannick Weber (on a PTO).
Signed to a new contract in October, Sbisa was placed on waivers by the Winnipeg Jets yesterday to either send him to the AHL or be part of their so-called "taxi squad".
The Predators will be the 30-year-old's seventh NHL-team. Prior to the Preds and the Jets, he has already suited up for Philadelphia, Anaheim, Vancouver, Vegas and the New York Islanders.


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Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Comes to Nintendo Switch This Summer
It’s already available on every eighth generation console out there, but now WayForward has announced that their hit platformer Shantae: Half-Genie Hero is coming to Switch too! Yep, the game is coming to the system this summer, with HD rumble support.
Here’s their tweet confirming the news:
Shantae: Half-Genie Hero is coming to Nintendo Switch this summer! Feel the beat with all new HD Rumble! Full details coming soon!! pic.twitter.com/WNTSGxYiSg
— WayForward (@WayForward) 11 May 2017
And that’s good news for anyone who missed out on the Wii U. Why? Because Shantae Half-Genie Hero is a really fantastic 2D platformer that many more people should get to experience. So yeah, by having it come to the Switch, Nintendo fans who didn’t buy a Wii U won’t be missing out on the game.
There also might be a few new things too, given the comments about ‘more details coming soon’. Not sure exactly what they could add, but it’d be good news none the less. Maybe Amiibo support could be a possibility?
Ah well, doesn’t matter. It’s a great game, it’s now coming to Nintendo Switch and it’ll be available this summer. So hey, what do you think? Are you excited for this game on Switch?


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Northern California Falun Gong Practitioners Gathered for Two Days to Condemn China's Show Trial of Charles Li (Photos)
(Clearwisodm.net) During the Jiang regime's show trial of innocent Dafa practitioner Charles Li, Northern Californian Falun Gong practitioners gathered for two days in front of the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco and California's capitol in Sacramento, respectively, to condemn the show trial.
At 4:30 p.m. on March 20, 2003, San Francisco Dafa practitioners gathered in front of the Chinese consulate and sent forth righteous thoughts to protest the persecution of Charles Li.
At 12 p.m. on March 21, 2003, the practitioners gathered in Sacramento, the capital of California, and held a press conference in front of the state capitol. During the conference, practitioners pointed out, "During the last three years, there have been more than 600 confirmed cases of practitioners tortured to death by the police. Hundreds of thousands of practitioners have been illegally sentenced to prison or labour camp and brutally tortured. Jiang's regime has never followed the law to deal with Dafa practitioners. Instead, the regime manipulates the law by setting up new rules or trampling laws at will to persecute the practitioners."
A practitioner said, "It is the Jiang regime that should be tried, not Charles Li. Today, the regime shamelessly holds a show trial of this innocent Dafa practitioner, Charles Li. We condemn such an absurd show trial and the nearly four-year long brutal persecution."
In the conference, a representative of Amnesty International delivered a speech to condemn the Jiang regime's persecution of the Chinese people, especially Falun Gong practitioners by torture and other inhumane means.
In the conference, letters were read from the Vice Mayor of Sacramento, Congressman Tom Lantos (D-CA) and Congresswoman Anna Eshoo (D-CA) calling for the immediate release of Dr. Charles Li.
It was bright with sunshine in Sacramento during the day. Officials, staff and visitors passed by the press conference venue. There were also many students led by teachers to visit the capitol. Dafa practitioners took this opportunity to clarify the truth to them and collect signatures. Many were indignant after learning of Charles Li's arrest and inquired how to help.
Before and after the press conference, the practitioners also visited almost all of the offices of state assembly members to explain the facts to the members of the assembly and their staff.


Whenever fans try and analyze the Jets’ unprecedented spending spree this offseason, comments are made in reference to the possibility of the 2010 season being uncapped. Our Front Office threw caution to the wind and locked up huge contracts in a few players whose potential for greatness is more valuable than the possibility that we’ll regret the numbers. But these are players who had a professional body of work in the NFL that can be analyzed before a decision was made. These are players that we know can play in this league. The NFL Draft doesn’t inspire that kind of confidence, and their potential contracts terrify me. There’s too much money being thrown around for a working class citizen like myself to truly admire.
You’ve got teams that own Top 10 picks and are absolutely terrified with what they’re going to have pay these players who don’t even have a locker yet. In the last week, I’ve read reports about Miami’s negotiations with 2008′s #1 overall pick, Michigan OT, Jake Long, who’s going to want 2007′s #1 overall pick, LSU QB, Jamarcus Russell type money. Neither has played a significant down in the NFL yet, and they’re being awarded contracts with more than $20 million in guarantees! That’s ridiculous!
If a team is picking in the Top 10 the assumption is that they’ve already got enough problems as is! Having to worry about saving room to pay a 21 year old kid a super star contract is unjustified, logically and financially. I can’t complain about the dollars getting thrown around in Free Agency too much, because if teams are willing to overpay then it’s not the players fault for wanting to capitalize. We all agree that DeAngelo Hall likely didn’t deserve a 7-year/$70M contract, just as Nate Clements didn’t deserve the money San Francisco gave him. Hopefully, we won’t learn the hard way with Calvin Pace and Damien Woody.
But what’s the problem we faced as Jets’ fans this offseason after the dust settled? Our veterans no longer felt appreciated. Players saw that the wallet was open and wondered when their turn was. Fortunately, we’ve since locked up Kerry Rhodes for the next five years, and Laveraneus Coles is guaranteed to be a soldier for us for two more years. But such problems can be avoided.
So here is what I propose:
Pay these players in accordance to their tenure, skill, value and availablity. The league has a veteran minimum, and now it’s time to create a veteran maximum that can only be achieved if you are truly the face of the franchise. It’s time to create a rookie contract maximum, so that way teams don’t invest millions into a player that history has taught us can likely be out of the league within four years. There are in-depth scouting reports all over the internet that I’m sure general managers and coaches have access to that can assist them in determining the value of an athlete. I know some player contracts already come laced with performance-based incentives, so that’s a step in the right direction. When players perform above and beyond the men around them, they should be rewarded accordingly. But locking up millions in guarantees for a player we hope can perform will only lead fans into a deeper depression.
My job has a maximum salary that I can reach within my current pay grade after a certain number of years, where I can receive percentage accelerations in accordance to my performance. Is it unreasonable to ask for such a system to be implemented into the NFL? It shouldn’t be a team’s responsibility to give a player more money than he can spend so that he doesn’t go broke. How many commercials have we seen Peyton Manning in? It’s clear that when an athlete begins to transcend the game, and rise above the sport that the endorsements come pouring in. If their NFL salaries won’t buy them that new Lamborghini, then maybe their exclusive Gatorade and Nike deals will.
I’m not suggesting that these players be made middle class, because I know the toll this game can take on a man’s body will last forever. So when their playing days are done, I’d like to know that they can afford proper medical attention for all of the inevitable aches and pains. But it’s time to remove dollar signs from the focus. And maybe, just maybe, we’ll find a few more players that give it their all because they love the game, and not for that ridiculous contract.


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Still Missing isn’t just bad. It’s offensively bad. It’s a weird combination of twist-laden thriller, misery porn, and ultra-specific rape-survival tale. All these elements might work together—though they’d make the skin crawl—but the tone debuting novelist Chevy Stevens adopts to tell the story is unrelentingly chirpy. Whether her point-of-view character is avoiding having sex with the man who abducted her, talking with a girlfriend, or confronting a family member about long-buried secrets, she sounds like the heroine of a Jennifer Weiner-style chick-lit novel. There’s such a disconnect between tone and subject matter that the whole novel, which has landed on a handful of “best thrillers of the summer” lists, feels profoundly misjudged.
Stevens’ protagonist is formerly happy, now troubled realtor Annie O’Sullivan (whose name should really be adopted by a chain of faux-Irish pubs designed to lure in tourists in high-traffic areas). Annie was kidnapped from an open house one day, then escaped a year later. Back in the real world, she’s finally decided to tell all aspects of her story to a therapist (portrayed entirely as an off-page character, in one of Stevens’ few genuinely good decisions). The book unfolds as a series of missives she delivers to her therapist, who thankfully never questions her on just why she talks like the first-person narrator of a novel.
Annie takes her therapist through her year up in the mountains, a year full of unrelenting cruelty, endless rape, and constant, nail-biting terror. Stevens is never content to simply let bad things be bad: She keeps introducing new plot devices for Annie’s kidnapper to hideously yet predictably fuck over. Annie loses absolutely everything she cares about—and a few things she didn’t even know she cared about—while up on the mountain, and the book vacillates between seemingly exulting in her misery, and writing it off with chirpy jokes. In addition, the rapes are ridiculously detailed for some reason, even as Stevens is nowhere near proficient enough to write them as bleakly as they might deserve.
All of this might be vaguely palatable if it more or less ended there. Stevens isn’t a particularly talented writer or master of tone, but she’s good at pacing revelations, and the book does move with the thrill of the very best page-turners. When Annie comes down off the mountain, Stevens is more in her element, examining, with a refreshing sense of ambiguity, how her relationships changed after a year away, and slowly building a friendship between Annie and the cop who’s running lead on her investigation.
But Annie keeps fearing that there’s more going on behind her disappearance, and Stevens keeps dropping hints that she’s correct. Once she comes home halfway through the novel, it’s a long wait for the other shoe to drop, which it does via one of the most ludicrous, hideous twists in the history of bad twists. Stevens turns a bunch of characters who are already cliché stereotypes into mere pieces on a big game board, and she reduces many of her most interesting relationships to a big, manipulative waltz only she knows the steps to. The twist isn’t just completely unbelievable, it undercuts whatever power the ghastly rape-and-murder portions of the novel built up. Still Missing is a failure on every level, but what makes bile rise in the throat is just how glibly it treats its characters.


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Too hot for a lobster? The imagination leaps to boiling water, followed by lots of melted butter.
But the water temperatures that are killing off far more lobsters than make it into a cooking pot are of a much lower order.
Where: South of Cape Cod, catches dropped from more than 20 million pounds in 1997 to less than 5 million last year.
Why: Trophic shift, a drastic environment change that's forcing lobsters to move away.
What to do: Regulators are considering shutting down the lobster industry Buzzards Bay southward for 5 years.
In what could be the first major economic blow to local fisheries pinned on global warming, regulators are contemplating shutting down the lobster industry from Buzzards Bay to Long Island Sound for five years due to a drastic population drop brought on by temperature changes of just a few degrees in inshore waters.
Lobstermen south of Cape Cod have seen their catches nosedive for the past decade, from more than 20 million pounds in 1997 to less than 5 million last year. In the past, overfishing, water pollution, pesticides and an outbreak of shell disease were blamed for the failure of the fishery.
But tough fishing regulations have done nothing to reverse the trend, and some scientists now believe water temperature may be the primary obstacle to recovery.
"(The lobster decline) is a combination of factors that are all related back to changes in water temperature," said Robert Glenn, a senior marine fisheries biologist with the state Division of Marine Fisheries. Glenn is also in charge of the Coastal Lobster Investigations arm of the fisheries division and is on the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission's technical committee for lobsters.
It's called trophic shift — when the environment changes so dramatically that the least tolerant resident species move out, and ones more adapted to live under those new conditions move in. As the ocean warms, even small increments mean big changes especially for cold-water species like lobster that are at the southern limit of their range in the waters off the Cape, said Michael Fogarty, the chief of the ecosystem assessment program at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center in Woods Hole.
Fogarty was one of many scientists who worked on a 2007 report by the Union of Concerned Scientists that predicted that signature species like lobster would disappear from the waters south of the Cape as one of the many impacts of global warming.
He pointed to research now under way at the fisheries science center that tracked three dozen marine species and found that two-thirds of them had shifted north due to warming water temperatures.
The future doesn't promise any relief.
"We'll definitely see ups and downs (in average water temperatures) related to other factors," said Fogarty. "But the projections are that the overall trend will still be up."
Despite drastic new regulations that ended overfishing, there has been no evidence of a turnaround in Southern New England lobster stocks. In fact, indicators of abundance, like the numbers of juvenile lobsters that become legal-sized each year, have been worsening. Last year, the Atlantic States commission's tech committee, a confab of lobster scientists, began looking for answers.
What surprised them, said Glenn, was the complete lack of lobsters in many inshore areas where they used to be caught. That included little to no evidence of egg-bearing females or the tiny lobsters that settle on the bottom after they mature from free-floating larvae.
The marine fisheries' own lobster surveys showed that, in Buzzards Bay, for instance, many lobsters were found in locations all over the bay by research cruises in 1999. Over the next decade, researchers caught few, if any lobsters in the bay. In a trend mirrored up and down the southern New England coastline, lobsters were found congregating in the deeper, cooler waters of Vineyard Sound.
It appeared that the whole population had moved west to get away from what had become an intolerable heat in the bay.
That was understandable because a lobster's whole life, from reproduction and growth to health and mortality, is influenced by temperature. They grow faster and become sexually mature sooner in warmer water. Still, they prefer temperatures between 53 and 64 degrees, can detect a change of less than 2 degrees and will avoid areas with constant temperatures over 66 degrees.
Glenn said the expansion in the number of days with high water temperatures is probably a bigger factor than the temperature rise itself. While lobsters can tolerate the occasional warm day, prolonged exposure to water over 68 degrees wreaks havoc on their respiratory and immune systems and leads to outbreaks of shell disease and other lobster diseases.
Long-term recorded water temperatures from Long Island to Cape Cod show a steady upward trend over the past 20 years in not only water temperature, but in the number of days over 68 degrees. In temperature studies from New York to Buzzards Bay, the pattern is strikingly similar. At the Millstone Power Station in Waterford, Conn., recorded water temperatures since 1976 showed that the number of days over the 68 degree mark dramatically increased after 1999. There were just five days over 68 degrees in 1998. In 1999 that rose to 55, then 75 the next year. Over the decade most years registered between 65 and 75 days over 68 degrees. A similar trend was noted in Buzzards Bay. At the same time, Glenn noticed, commercial landings started a long steep slide that continues even today.
"When you map it out, in 1999 there were strong temperature anomalies, and at the same time commercial landings and all the different trawl survey indices of abundance decrease, then that is a remarkable coincidence," said Glenn.
To the north, on Georges Bank, and continuing up into Maine, lobster populations remain relatively robust. Although temperature increases have been noted in Boston and in Maine, the water is so much colder north of Nantucket Sound that it would take a huge increase in the average temperature, of 15 degrees or more, to reach levels that lobsters can't tolerate, said Glenn.
In fact, the modest temperature increases that have been seen in the Gulf of Maine, might help to explain the remarkable population boom experienced by Maine lobster stocks, said Glenn. Faster growth and sexual maturity can help to replace those lobsters that are caught each year. That may also have been behind the lobster boom south of the Cape from 1989 to 1999. But as the temperature increase moved past the point where it was tolerable for lobsters, those populations and landings crashed.
"Because those higher temperatures are being seen for longer periods of time, that is breaking that threshold barrier where lobsters will survive," said Toni Kerns, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission's fishing management plan coordinator for lobsters.
Those who can, leave, said Kerns. When they abandon these inshore areas, they often congregate in cooler depressions in the ocean bottom, which make them easier to catch for fishermen, and expose them to other dangers like poor oxygen supply and precious little habitat to support the refugees crowding in. Compounding the problem is the fact that lobsters caught in these deeper waters tend to be females.
When female lobsters release their eggs, and the larvae hatch, they float and drift with wind-driven surface currents. Buzzards Bay, for instance, is buffeted by predominant southwest winds in the spring and summer that keep the larvae within the bay. When lobsters abandoned Buzzards Bay for Vineyard Sound, they released their eggs and larvae into a current that heads southeast toward offshore waters.
Using specialized technology, Glenn found the larvae could be swept away as far south as Long Island. When the larvae matured enough to resemble tiny lobsters and drop out of the current onto the bottom, they are in offshore waters that offer little protection from predators.
It is a pattern noted all along the coast, and scientists believe these tiny lobsters are less likely to survive there than in shallow inshore areas like Buzzards Bay. In recent years, researchers have seen fewer and fewer lobsters reaching sexual maturity and attaining the size where they can legally be caught.
In 2003, 2004 and 2009 only one lobster out of 60 sampling stations across Buzzards Bay was found that had reached legal size in those years. In 2008, not a single "new recruit" was found.
"They're gone out there, and that's the end of them," said Bill Adler, the executive director of the Massachusetts Lobstermen's Association. "Those are the lobsters of tomorrow and they are gone."
Not everyone agrees that water temperature increases are the primary reason for the lobster decline south of the Cape. Glenn knows that more research needs to be done to nail down some of the conclusions reached by the technical committee. He is hearing skepticism coming from fishermen as he goes to public hearings explaining the lobster tech team's findings and their recommendation for a five-year ban.
While Adler buys into the logic of the research, he thinks it is just one of a suite of adverse impacts on lobsters south of Cape Cod. Widespread spraying to kill off mosquitoes may be harming lobster larvae floating on surface waters, and the treated open ocean discharge from wastewater treatment plants may also do damage to habitat, larvae and young lobsters. He argued against a total ban, saying fishermen are catching too few lobsters to make a real difference, and that the loss of jobs, shoreside infrastructure, and other economic impacts is too big a gamble to take on an uncertain outcome.
"That's what really worries everyone. You put everyone out of business and in distress and you're not even sure it's going to work," said Adler.


text: The purpose of this study was to investigate and compare the participation motives of male and female older adults for sport activities. The subjects were 241 persons (121 men and 120 women ranged from 60 to 89 years old, M = 66.16, SD = 6.66) who were selected from 5 districts of Tehran by relative portion method. Data were collected using demographic questionnaire and participation motivation questionnaire for older adults (PMQOA). The descriptive statistics, Friedman test and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used to describe variables and to test the research hypotheses. Results indicated significant differences in the priority of different factors of participation motives (X2 = 556.4, P=0.00); and fitness motive was the most important reason for sport participation in older adults. There were significant differences between men and women in “medical” and “reputation” factors (P<0.05) and women reported these factors as more important for their participation in sport activities when compared with men. In addition, the results indicated significant differences among age groups in “social”, “challenge – benefit” and “involvement” factors (P<0.05), and 60-69-year-old group rated these motivation factors higher than 70-year-old and older group. There were significant differences among different educational levels in “reputation”, “medical” and “involvement” factors (P<0.05). The homemakers also placed greater emphasis on “medical” factor when compared with military subjects. The findings of this study can be useful to develop exercise interventions for older adults which could increase exercise participation.

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Spencer breaks down KU visit
Riley Spencer is no stranger to the University of Kansas football program. The 6-foot-6, 254-pound offensive tackle from Hesston (KS) High School attended several games in Lawrence last season. Spencer was back in Lawrence on Saturday and spoke to Jayhawk Slant about his visit and KU's regular season opener against Florida International.
Spencer, the No. 8 ranked player in the state of Kansas, had a memorable experience on Saturday night for a number of reasons. The Jayhawks defeated Florida International, 40-10, to open up the regular season.
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From snorkeling and sandcastle building on sun-soaked beaches to exploring aquariums and fishponds, there are seemingly endless ways to connect with the family in the Hawaiian Islands.More
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Remote work is a growing trend in the business world, especially with the advancement of technology and the internet. Many businesses are now offering their employees the option to work from home or other remote locations. Remote work has many benefits, including increased productivity, reduced overhead costs, and better work-life balance. However, it also has its drawbacks, such as lack of social interaction, communication challenges, difficulty in managing teams, and security risks. On the other hand, office work offers social interaction, easier communication, and better team management, but it can be expensive and reduce work-life balance. In this blog post, we will explore the pros and cons of remote work and office work, and help you decide which option is best for your business and employees.
Pros of Remote Work
1. Increased Productivity
Remote workers are often more productive than office workers. They have fewer distractions and can work in a comfortable environment that suits their needs. This leads to increased productivity and better results. Remote workers can also work during their most productive hours, which can lead to better quality work.
2. Reduced Overhead Costs
Remote work can save businesses a lot of money. By allowing employees to work from home, businesses can reduce their overhead costs such as rent, utilities, and office supplies. This can lead to significant cost savings, especially for small businesses.
3. Better Work-Life Balance
Remote work allows employees to have a better work-life balance. They can work from home and spend more time with their families, pursue hobbies, and take care of personal responsibilities. This can lead to happier and more satisfied employees, which can translate to better work performance.
4. Access to a Larger Talent Pool
Remote work allows businesses to access a larger talent pool. They can hire employees from anywhere in the world, which can lead to better talent and increased diversity in the workplace. This can also lead to cost savings, as businesses can hire employees in areas with lower living costs.
Cons of Remote Work
1. Lack of Social Interaction
Remote workers often miss out on social interaction with their colleagues. This can lead to feelings of isolation and loneliness, which can affect their mental health and productivity. Remote workers may also miss out on networking opportunities and career advancement opportunities.
2. Communication Challenges
Remote work can create communication challenges, especially if the team is spread out across different time zones. This can lead to misunderstandings and delays in projects. Remote workers may also feel disconnected from their team and may not receive timely feedback or support.
3. Difficulty in Managing Teams
Managing remote teams can be challenging. It requires a different approach to management, and managers need to be skilled in communicating and collaborating with remote workers. Remote workers may also feel disconnected from their team and may not receive the same level of support as office workers.
4. Security Risks
Remote work can create security risks for businesses. Employees may use unsecured networks or devices, which can lead to data breaches and other security issues. Remote workers may also be more vulnerable to phishing scams and other cyber threats.
Pros of Office Work
1. Social Interaction
Office work allows for more social interaction with colleagues. This can lead to better relationships and a more cohesive team. Office workers may also benefit from networking opportunities and career advancement opportunities.
2. Easier Communication
Communication is easier in an office environment. Colleagues can have face-to-face conversations and collaborate on projects in real-time. This can lead to better collaboration and faster decision-making.
3. Better Team Management
Managing teams in an office environment is easier. Managers can monitor their team’s progress and provide feedback in real-time. This can lead to better performance and faster project completion.
4. Reduced Security Risks
Office work can reduce security risks. Businesses can control their network and devices, which can prevent data breaches and other security issues. Office workers may also be less vulnerable to phishing scams and other cyber threats.
Cons of Office Work
Commuting to work can be time-consuming and stressful. It can also be expensive, especially if employees have to pay for parking or public transportation. Commuting can also lead to fatigue and decreased productivity.
2. Reduced Flexibility
Office work offers less flexibility than remote work. Employees have to work in a specific location and adhere to a set schedule. This can make it difficult for employees to take care of personal responsibilities or pursue hobbies.
3. Increased Overhead Costs
Office work can be expensive for businesses. They have to pay for rent, utilities, and office supplies, which can add up quickly. This can be a significant cost for small businesses and startups.
4. Reduced Work-Life Balance
Office work can make it difficult for employees to balance their work and personal lives. They may have less time to spend with their families or pursue hobbies. This can lead to burnout and decreased job satisfaction.
Both remote work and office work have their pros and cons. It’s important for businesses to weigh these factors and decide which option is best for their employees and their bottom line. Remote work offers increased productivity, reduced overhead costs, and better work-life balance, but it can also create communication challenges and security risks. Office work offers social interaction, easier communication, and better team management, but it can be expensive and reduce work-life balance. Ultimately, the decision between remote work and office work will depend on the unique needs of your business and employees. Businesses should consider their budget, company culture, and the nature of their work when deciding which option is best.


Leveraging CRM Automation revitalizing business capabilities over the past few years to achieve the utmost filtration in marketing and sales funnels to channel and retain their customers.
More information, communication, and production technologies have helped marketers come closer to their customers. AI provides businesses with a deep understanding of the sales cycle, correlates their marketing strategies, and spends to attain results. A recent study by Forbes Insights and Quantcast found that integrating their CRM automation software with AI-enabled marketers increases their sales by 52%, increases their customer retention by 51%, and success at new product launches by 49%.
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Many businesses embed AI at the core to automate existing software to send personalized content, provide enhanced customer support, and perform predictive analytics for customer insights. While AI helps in improving customer segmentation, it also empowers companies with augmented and virtual reality, facial recognition, visual search, etc. And enhances the personalized channel experiences. For instance, marketers are using AI to automate interactions on social media and other sales channels to gain more value than competitors.
Implementing AI will enable your CRM automation software to mitigate repetitive tasks and human errors to enhance speed. While the reasons for implementing AI-powered CRM automation are manifold, let’s look at some of them:
1. Effective Data Management
With vast data pools on customer tastes, preferences, demographics and geographics, purchase history, etc, it becomes a laborious task to harness such data volumes and extract actionable insights to strategize marketing and sales campaigns. With AI, it becomes a seamless task to conceive, plan, create, implement, track, analyze, and review all the marketing campaigns at one location. Automating CRM brings all data channels to one point for effective and seamless management.
2. Virtual Customer Assistance
Customer service automation enhances the capabilities of a business and provides more help to greatly reduce the manual required for supporting the customers. Upgrading customers interaction systems with Chabot powered by AI, customer self-service (by upgrading to a FAQ page or a knowledge base), Integrating automated responses API, and case routing when a customer creates a new ticket are most effective when used in contact with humans, rather than a sole replacement.
3. Optimized Data Analytics
With the changing tastes and preferences of customers, new data keeps generating. Machine Learning models predict these dynamic changes by analyzing historical data and provide real-time data intelligence and predictions on supply chain logistics, demand, and supply management, product recommendations, customer engagement, etc.
4. New Application Development
With the advent state of the art technologies, there are numerous ways to handle customer interaction and support channels, and turn them into opportunities for future growth. Being Artificial intelligence and CRM integration perfect solutions, a business can build and develop tailor-made applications to identify user needs and behavior. Hence it’s beneficial in the sales and marketing sector. Integration AI along with data analysis applications provides results development team can use that for building various applications to boost conversion rates and also assure customer satisfaction.
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With vast data pools on customer tastes, preferences, demographics and geographics, purchase history, etc, it becomes a difficult task to harness such data volumes and extract actionable insights to strategize marketing campaigns. With AI, it becomes a seamless task to conceive, plan, create, implement, track, analyze, and review all the marketing campaigns at one location.
With the advancement in data sets, integration, and machine learning capabilities, there are favorable opportunities for the technology to get advanced. Almost all technology vendors are planning AI with all possible technology implementations to cover and automate business niches. And leveraging AI capabilities can accurately predict customer needs, optimize marketing strategies, act as a virtual assistant, and can transform businesses to think beyond cloud solutions for effective AI-powered CRM.
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Since those first post-Second World War ejections, many tens of thousands of lives have been saved by increasingly sophisticated escape systems. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. When Jo Lancaster, the first British pilot to eject in an emergency, triggered his ejection seat in 1949, it took thirty seconds before he was safely away from the aircraft and under his parachute. Most works of popular narrative non-fiction could be written by anyone with a small amount of talent, as well as enough time, energy, commitment and a decent library.
We see how the technology was adapted when the prospect of crashing in North Vietnam was sometimes preferable to ejecting and risking capture; what happens to the body when it is catapulted from an aircraft under great force; how an ejectee can be rescued from enemy territory. He has taken the time to let the reader know that he has taken that ride, but hasn't fallen into the trap of the book being about him. Nichol tells the story of the brave men who risked their lives testing those early devices, and interviewed the first British pilot to eject back in 1949, when ejection, from pulling the handle to being under the parachute, took thirty seconds. I especially liked the way several airmen’s and navigator’s stories were interwoven through the book as it progressed.For me , the amount of technical information was just about right and it was great reading about one of our leading edge companies that develops fabulous products that are sold at home and abroad. He has served around the world from the Nevada Desert to the Middle East and Norway to the Falkland Islands. The events in war, about the way the Vietnam pilots were treated for instance was beaten only by the dreadful, dreadful injuries that they used to receive as a result of ejecting. On active duty during the first Gulf War in 1991, his Tornado bomber was shot down during a mission over Iraq.
It was only after Baker died in 1942 during the test flight of a prototype fighter plane that Martin turned his thoughts to designing an ejection seat. As the author has had to be diplomatic in some areas, feelings run deep and memories are long, the book has a feel of 'now it can be told' just not completely. Nichol is perhaps at his best in his account of the early work of the Martin-Baker Aircraft Company, the pioneering British manufacturer of ejection seats, whose products – as of the date of publication – have saved 7,681 lives. is fuelled by dramatic, deeply moving and previously unheard first-hand accounts by ejectees and their families. Come down the travelators, exit Sainsbury's, turn right and follow the pedestrianised walkway to Crown Walk and turn right - and Coles will be right in front of you.
Captured, tortured and held as a prisoner of war, John was paraded on television, provoking worldwide condemnation and leaving one of the most enduring images of the conflict.
If I had a any criticism at all, it would be that the people who maintain these seats day in day out get short shrift- this is all about the occupants. In 1928, he moved to Denham in Buckinghamshire, where he hung a sign on the front of an old linoleum factory, “Martin’s Aircraft Works”.Captured and tortured, he was paraded on television provoking worldwide condemnation and leaving one of the enduring images of the conflict. He has written for The Times, The Mail on Sunday and The Observer and is a widely quoted commentator on military affairs.