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those involving unsafe behavior or dangerous situations. For example, it is fair to make sure she doesn’t walk alone at night, that she not drink alcohol or do drugs, and that she stay away from violent people. However, you might want to hold your tongue when it comes to her wardrobe choices, or how she decorates her room. And for some things, try to find a compromise. For example, if she really wants to go to a concert but you are concerned about her safety, buy an extra ticket for you and a friend, and tell her she can go to the concert, but that you will drive her there, attend with your friend in seats that are not too close to hers, and you will then meet her at a pre-designated spot to take her home.
Respect her privacy and establish boundaries. If she feels you trust and respect her, she will not fight you so much on every rule you have. And always try to keep communication with your teenager open. Make sure your teenager knows that he can talk to you about anything without judgment. If he is afraid he’ll get into trouble with you if he tells you something, he never will. Always be consistent with what you tell your teenager and always follow through on what you say. You and your teenager must have trust between you in order for your relationship to be on good terms. </s> The Truth About Philadelphia the DNC Won’t Tell
There will be thousands of protesters in Philadelphia. Tens of thousands. Maybe more. As someone who’s been a part of this movement early on: going to rallies, volunteering, donating, speaking with hundreds of supporters, attending the People’s Summit, I can tell you that it is made up of some from every corner the country.
 </s> After waking up at 5 am with the kind of acid reflux I haven't experienced since my bachelor days, you know, when I survived off of Passion Flakies and Frozen Meatloaf Stix , I popped a couple of Tums down the hatch.
Still...Never Again.
I have always wondered about the expired medicine. </s> Fashion is not just about getting dressed every day. Women like me use fashion and clothing to escape to their alter egos. Beyonce has her alter ego 'Sasha Fierce' and I have my alter ego the 'Blonde Styletto'. My alter ego can change from day to day, some days she's a bad bish like today and some days she's boho chic.
Ain't No Wifey Tank, H&M (Similar Item), Aldo Booties, Irene's Story Plaid Flannel
Love those pics! Super UNIQUE
:) </s> I hauthor Frances O'Roark Dowell regarding her newest book, Ten Miles Past Normal.
What were you trying to accomplish when you started writing Ten Miles Past Normal? What do you feel you’ve accomplished with the finished product?
With every book I write, I’m hoping to write something that readers will relate to and find themselves in. Ten Miles Past Normal is at heart a story about someone who wants to be like everyone else, but just can’t figure out how to do it
I’ve always wanted to live out in the country. But whenever I bring it up with my kids, they’re like, “No way!” They don’t want to move away from their friends. So I saw the comic possibilities of a farm girl feeling stranded in a way of life she’s just not that psyched about.
The problem is, we often have to sacrifice bits and pieces of ourselves to fit in. Some people are very willing to do this, if it means they get to be part of the group. Some people just won’t do it, and they’re the ones who spend high school on the outside. Some people—and Janie is like this, and I was, too—want to be normal and fit in, but they just can’t figure out how.
And then there are people like Monster in Ten Miles, who are accepted by everyone just by being themselves. There’s always one kid like this in every school. They’re kind of a miracle.
I start with a triggering idea—i.e. What if there was this girl who lived on a farm, but wished she lived in a subdivision like everyone else? Why is she unhappy with farm life? How’s it affecting her? Then I just start writing, and get my characters “talking” on the page. It’s a kind of freewriting that lets me explore. I try to come up with some backstory—what’s their family like, what’s their house like, who’s their best friend, that sort of thing—so I can start getting a sense of who they are and how they live.
What kind of research,


After celebrating Ginsburg’s legacy, the former president reasserted in a statement that Ginsburg requested that President Donald Trump not be the one to name her replacement.
Friday night that the precedent set by the Senate in 2016 was that voters elected a Republican majority in 2014 to check Obama’s power in his second term, denying him a third Supreme Court nomination.


s academic failure, and the UglyMan going around attacking everybody. More to the point, the chaos hinted at in Buffy and Willow's little exchange is present in abundance in Nightmares. From the blurb about active listening by the teacher and the ponderings about facing fear by The Master, one can surmise that this episode is about facing fears and being heard, rather than hiding. We all have to wake up sometime; we can't stay in a coma forever. Upon waking, we often discover that reality is not quite as bad as the nightmare world. Billy wakes and finds the Little League Coach, an ordinary guy, not a monsters, is the guilty one and is subsequently carted off to jail. Rather than continuing to run, Xander turns and cuts the scary clown down to size by punching him and taunting him. Hee! Ede, upbeat music plays, and Hank holds true to his promise to show up for Buffy. However, we'll see over the course of the series that the Scoobies have yet to truly conquer their fears. For Buffy and Giles particularly, all their fears come to pass, figuratively, if not literally: Buffy's dad does let her down, her academics do suffer because of her Slaying (though she always has the potential to excel), she does die at The Master's hands in Prophecy Girl, she finds herself buried alive and having to dig herself out of her own grave, and subsequently feeling like a vampire in season 6. Giles does suffer from doubts that he can fulfill his duty as Watcher, and over time, is less and less able to aid Buffy.
Final note: The logistics of the nightmares confuse me. I guess everyone remembered what happened but did the Sunnydale repression thing since Willow and Xander remember Buffy being a vampire. But did The Master actually walk free briefly, did Hank actually talk to Buffy, and did the punk's mom actually come to the school? If so, what did they think about what they were doing? If not, were their doubles walking around? Did everyone else really have to take Buffy's surpise test? Did Buffy actually turn into a vampire or not? If she did why was she good and still the Slayer? And how did she get from the cemetary to the hospital in broad daylight? And why did Buffy turn into a vampire when The Master didn't even bite her? If she didn't actually get turned then what exactly happened? Why did no one but Buffy think it was strange that Billy was wandering around the school? My brain hurts.]
Joyce shakes Buffy awake, telling her it's time to go to school. [Buffy again looks cute in braids; I guess it's supposed to be a thing that she generally wears braids when she goes to sleep, at least in the beginning. Sleeping on a crocheted pillow sounds uncomfortable though.] Buffy surprises Joyce by eagerly looking forward to the school day. [
School, by the lockers. Buffy and Willow talk about Joyce and Hank's divorce: Hank still lives in LA and visits occasionally, they were separated for a while, the divorce was finalized the year before. Willow mentions that her parents are non-communicative. Buffy hints that she feels that her being called to be the Slayer factored into her parents' divorce.
Classroom. Cordy is looking in her mirror compact and bitches to Xander and Wendell about blocking her light. Xander and Wendell snark about Cordy to Buffy and Willow. Xander asks about the homework and has to be reminded that it's "active listening" and he demonstrated it with the [female] teacher the day before. He does remember the tight sweater the teacher was wearing, though. [Heh. Xander: always thinking about sex.] Class begins and the teacher starts lecturing about active listening:
As the teach is talking, Buffy notices a little boy, who we later learn is Billy [who bears a striking resemblence to the Annointed One, but luckily manages to be more interesting], standing in the doorway of the classroom. When Wendell opens up his textbook, tarantulas come crawling out of it. Everyone screams and Billy apologizes.
Entrance of school. Joyce drives up to drop Buffy off. Buffy mentions that she's been having nightmares, but doesn't want to discuss it. She's also worried that Hank is not going to show up.
Outside, at the picnic benches. Wendell is sitting, very zoned out. The Scoobies ask him about what happened with the book and the spiders. Wendell corrects Xander, spiders are "not insects, they're arachnids!" Xander: "they're from the Middle East?" [Yes, stupid, but still, heh. Love Buffy's blase "Don't know" when Wendell accuses everyone of always mixing up arachnids and insects. Hee!] Cordy pops in to inform Buffy of the pending history test


you see someone driving down the road breaking the law and then suddenly a police officer appears?
On this day, we found ourselves the sixth car in a line of cars going about 45 miles per hour. We were at the rear of the pack, so I was going to have to wait for the cars in front of me to pass. And they apparently had little motivation to do that. Eventually, two cars turned off. Then one finally passed. Then another. I was now in prime position to pass.
“He got you,” my wife said.
About five seconds later, here came the blue lights.
I pulled off to the side of the road and could feel the laughter as the other car went by me (at 45 mph).
About two minutes later he came back to my car. “I’ve issued you a written warning. Have a good day, sir.”
No. YOU have a good day, sir. In fact, have a GREAT day, new best friend!
We headed on down the road, and then this thought occurred to me: I needed to find that car and let them know that they no longer got to delight in my comeuppance, because I just got a warning. To do that, I would have to drive probably 90, something that was not going to happen because (a) I shouldn’t be driving that fast and (b) my wife became the ultimate speed monitor in the car every time we hit 56 mph.
At one point, we had this exchange:
ME: So is it like I have a learner’s permit now and you’re the driving instructor?
ME: You and I have the exact same number of speeding tickets today: zero.
OUR SON: But you got a warning for speeding.
I never did find the slow car so that I could let them know about my warning victory, although I did monitor every gas station we passed, just in case. Granted, had I found the car stopped somewhere, I am pretty sure I would not have gone and said anything to them. For one thing, I don’t think my new driving instructor would have allowed. </s> KAUAI, HAWAII
“The Garden Isle” – The Kauai Travel Guide
South – Poipu & Koloa
Poipu is where most of the super resorts are located on the island. There are several breathtaking beaches and manicured hotels. It is worth visiting the Maha’Ulepu Trail, grabbing a drink at the Grand Hyatt afterwards. It is generally the area of the island that has the most sun, but beaches can have powerful crashing waves (Poipu – literally means crashing waves in Hawaiian)
West – Hanapepe, Waimea, Port Allen
Taking the Kalalau Trail which takes you into a beach about 2miles in. This is where many people turn around after enjoying the beach (the waves here are hazardous, so going in the water is not advised). This is a pleasant 4-mile hike and can get you back to Hanalei in time for a late lunch.
The fork that takes you south is the start of another trail 2 miles down to the Hanakapiai Fallrealize the Hanakapiai Falls is connected to the Kalalau Trail. I recommend the hike to the falls, but this is often very muddy, and you need to hop over or wander through the creek/river a couple of times. This trail to the falls is more difficult to navigate and takes longer to hike but does not have some of the steep inclines that are found on the first two miles of the Kalalau Trail. Then you can enjoy a swim in the waterfalls and make the return trip back. This is a total of 8 miles and will take most people the better part of the day to complete. Pack a lunch, bring your bathing suit and bring plenty of water. The hike to the waterfalls is well worth it!
I know what you’re thinking but do it. This book up fast and if you do it, make sure you do one with the helicopter doors off. A couple of tips: Make sure you don’t wear any loose items and bring something warm, even a hoodie under a windbreaker should be ok. Also, things happen fast, and the light changes quickly so if you are a photographer I would set your camera to auto – but if you are using an SLR make sure you limit your auto ISO to 800. Also if you are taking photographs, you will want to consider where you sit in the helicopter. The front is a three seater. There is a small seat next to the pilot and one next to the


ShakespeareS Social Themes In Taming Of The Screw Greg Graziani 03-05-01 English 283 sect. 08 McLaughlin Shakespeare's Social Themes in Taming of the Screw Shakespeare's Taming of the Screw is widely viewed as a comical play. But are the views and topics that are expressed really intended to be funny or are they more of a serious concern of Shakespeare's that women are mistreated? Throughout this paper I will try to explain that the perspective that Shakespeare is showing is one of concern over sexism and the treatment of women. To understand the sexism and its context is to understand when the play was written and the history of the social system at the time. The play was first presented in ...
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Turn Of The Screw A young gentleman named Miles died yesterday. There are many mysteries surrounding his death. His sole protector and guardian, the Governess of Bly, claims that supernatural forces overtook the child. After the autopsy, I found her accusations to be nonsense. The child died of a heart attack, out of fright. He was scared to the point of death by the Governess. Despite the fact it happened by accident, The Governess is solely responsible for the death of Miles. The Governess has gone insane. She keeps talking about a Miss Jessel and a Mister Quint. However, my records show that both have been dead for several years now. The Governess claims that Mister Quint took the soul of ...
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Archimedes Archimedes was born in 287 BC in Syracuse, a Greek seaport colony in Sicily. Archimedes father was Phidias. He was an astronomer; this is all we know about his father and we learn this from Archimedes work, The Sandreckoner. Archimedes was educated in Alexandria, Egypt. Archimedes friend, Heracleides, wrote a biography about him, but this work was lost. Some authors report that he visited Egypt and there invented a tool known as Archimedes' screw. This is a pump, still used today in parts of the world. It is likely that, when he was a young man, Archimedes studied with the followers of Euclid. Many of his ideas seem to correspond with the mathematics developed there. This speculat ...
Archimedes was a Greek mathematician and scientist. He was born in Syracuse, Sicily in the year 287 B.C. He was educated in Alexandria, Egypt. Due to the lack of information about Greek mathematics, many Greek mathematicians and their works are hardly known. Archimedes is the exception. Archimedes was very preoccupied with mathematics. For instance, he often forgot to eat and bathe because of his always wanted to solve problems. He found areas and volumes of spheres, cylinders and plain shapes. He showed that the volume of a sphere is two-thirds of the volume of the smallest cylinder that can contain the sphere. Archimedes was so proud of this concept that he requested that a cylinder enclos ...
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Fitbit’s activity trackers have a history of causing rashes and apparently, its latest revision isn’t exempt. With one recall already under its belt, the company’s solution to solve similar issues with its new Surge band is rather simple: take if off every now and again.
After consulting with their dermatologists, the spokesperson said it is likely that the users experiencing skin rashes are perhaps wearing the band too tightly at which time sweat, water or even soap could be getting trapped between the device and the skin. Too much pressure or friction against the skin could also be causing issues.
These issues should resolve quickly when users take a break from the device, usually within hours or days.
That’d be fine except for the fact that it would completely defeat the entire purpose of owning a Fitbit as it tracks your sleep, steps taken and all sorts of other information.
In other words, they’re no longer willing to foot the blame for these rare skin reactions. If you recall, the company recalled its Force band last year after nearly two percent of users reported skin rashes.
Skin irritation isn’t limited to the Fitbit, however, as wearers of competing devices have also reported issues.


The apartment has one bedroom and a sitting-room with cooking facilities.
Many students have a free overdraft facility .
Saalbach is the larger of the two, but both have excellent facilities to offer.
The island has 24 roomy bungalows scattered about the beachfront, each with a wide verandah and excellent facilities .
In practice these allocations reflected the scale of existing facilities and their resident populations.
All rural settlements in the areas were classified according to their size, existing facilities and the scope for further development.
The irony being, of course, that climbing on the new wall would be considerably safer than soloing on the existing facilities .
It is currently committed to a multi-million pound improvement programme involving new plant and upgrading existing facilities .
Measure O backers say the university-financed roadway improvements are necessary to improve traffic flow, including emergency trips to Stanford medical facilities .
Because she has mild heart disease, she may serve her whole sentence in the medical facility .
As a result, many women conceive at the time most convenient to their lives and seek satisfactory rather than ideal medical facilities .
All medical facilities have been heavily concentrated in the capital city.
County General had once been a flourishing medical facility , designed to serve the entire Santa Teresa community.
The estimates do not include the cost of dismantling nuclear weapons and military nuclear facilities .
Neither state offers women a separate-but-equal military educational facility .
The United States retained its extensive military facilities but agreed to remove its nuclear weapons from the island.
According to the Charlotte Observer, 92 professional sports teams have built or planned new facilities since 1985.
Work on the project will start shortly and the coearly next year.
The team will practice for the first time in its new downtown Oakland facility on Thursday afternoon.
Start-up of production from the new facility is expected in October.
Southeastern hospitals generally have higher credit ratings than those in other regions, because they have newer facilities and lower costs.
This has increased the demand for new facilities , but the supply of teams remains limited.
Deductions for capital investments in new equipment and facilities would be immediate, instead of spread out over time.
Existing nuclear storage facilities are either full to overflowing or close to it.
She added that the party would not approve .
Despite that, the experts said security at nuclear facilities there is weak and there are few controls at national borders.

The closure of some of Britain's nuclear facilities means the equipment isn't needed here any more.
It has reiterated demands for the closure of all ex-Soviet nuclear facilities .
Otherwise it will rob other facilities - or grants.
The sheltered housing is close to local amenities to allow residents easy access to shops and other facilities .
It was further recommended that Okinawa be retained and that whatever was needed by way of other facilities should be obtained in the Ryukyus.
The annual fee includes the subscription for student unions, athletic clubs, and other facilities .
Plans for the centre include two department stores, an open-air market, a 1,100-space car park and other stores and facilities .
Air traffic control and other facilities could be shared, Coun Mike Hughes, chairman of Warrington's planning committee, said.
Such families would therefore have no legitimate claim to nursery provisions and other facilities .
When combined with the other facilities in ARC/INFO, quite complex disaster management scenarios can be handled.
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All staterooms are outside with large picture windows and private bathroom facilities .
Single room with private facilities £3.50.
All bedrooms in the hotel are of a high standard with private facilities , television, telephone &038; minibar.
Rooms all have private facilities , and balconies with superb views.
All the bedrooms have private facilities and a balcony.
Single rooms have private facilities accessed via the balcony.
It has rooms with private facilities and balconies.
The losers were Liverpool citizens who continued to be denied access to a public facility .
Communities are overcrowded, with public facilities more often aimed at impersonal masses rather than stimulating intimate interaction.
Hotel Amenities Please refer to page 154 for a guide to the bedroom amenities and public facilities of the hotels featured here.
The public facilities authority raises capital by issuing taxable bonds to investors, whose money pays to renovate the stadium.
Miquel Tàpies points out that the Fundació's impressive library is actually Barcelona's only public specialist art facility of its kind.
The city government throbbed with nepotism, malfeasance and awesome abuse of public money and facilities .
The sports hall of a public sector facility is used more for aerobics classes than was the case ten years ago.
Typically, developers build new public facilities and incorporate their cost in the base price of their homes.
Middlesex sought to prevent urban development, w .
Collie recently returned with the opinion that the county can conduct a referendum in November for recreational facilities .
In its 10-year history, the London Marathon has made grants of almost £900,000 for recreational facilities in the capital.
Eckels said that baseball and football stadiums could be considered recreational facilities , therefore an election could be conducted in November.
With only very limited recreational facilities available on the camp, the gym is popular.
When completed, the center will be the largest recreational facility in Los Angeles, at more than 80,000 square feet.
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Out of 174 local authorities, 97 or over half had no residential care facilities for children and 24 had no arrangements at all.
They are housed in small community-based residential facilities .
A residential facility will remain at the Countess of Chester Hospital for people requiring in-patient treatment.
There are currently an estimated 45 day-centres in Flanders, many of which are linked to residential facilities .
Twenty-four track, residential facility just over an hour's drive from Dublin.
Unless Oxendown had certain special facilities , something not easily transferred ... He would like to take a look at Oxendown House.
It may be worth paying a bit extra for luxuries such as a personal service or a special lending facility .
Provisions for cyclists will therefore require bothspecial facilities for cyclists.
If you are taking small children, lots of operators now offer special creche facilities .
Develop special care facilitie and day centres.
It offers special education facilities for children who are maladjusted, usually those referred by the child guidance clinics.
IAre there any places you want to praise for their special facilities ?
Day care facilities for the mentally handicapped include what used to be known as adult training centres.
We re licensed as an acute care facility .
With this merger, there are concerns about what happens to the workers in these health care facilities .
Full day care facilities are available on request.
About 1 in 4 were in nursing and personal care facilities or offices and clinics of physicians.
Meanwhile, however, the lack of adequate community care facilities has led to a campaign to save the old mental hospitals.
There are no health care facilities . 7.
The Act requires childcare facilities to be registeredAnother frequent response is that additional, affordable childcare facilities are required.
The University Childcare Officer is also able to provide information about other childcare facilities in the local area.
Employers who do not offer career breaks and childcare facilities may find themselves passed over in favour of employers who do.
Women entering the workforce, poor childcare facilities , marrying too late, all are blamed.
We carried out a survey to determine how buyers of conference facilities selected venues.
Licensed bar, restaurant and café. Conference facilities for 60 persons.
Accessibility 144 points 2. Conference facilities 149 points 3.
The results were as follows: 1. Conference facilities 152 points 2.
With conference facilities to cater up to 300 people.
Of the local hotels 11 have conference facilities .
It will also provide additional conference facilities which have become so important to College income.
It is a two storey structure which contains conference facilities and computer facilities for the University as a whole.
The method of creating a bill is for the customer to arrange an acceptance credit facility with his bankers.
It follows also that it is not credit-broking merely to advertise credit facilities or even carry application forms.
Armco Inc. said it completed two new credit facilities totaling $ 170 million.
Buyers' abuse of their credit facilities .
Accordingly, such a hire-purchase agreement could not be called credit facilities .
Important Credit facilities should only be reinstated once you are reasonably sure there will be no more problems with getting paid.
The Boards also aimed to expand sales through the provision of hire and credit facilities .
Conclusions Hotel leisure facilities have been shown to be a worthwhile investment in that they can: 1.
Parks, moreover, can provide significant leisure facilities - and revenue - in their own right.
The club is a discount scheme to be operated in all the district council's leisure facilities from April.
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It is well provided with leisure facilities for sports and arts.
Fourthly, a successful terminal at Stratford would inevitably and inexorably encroach on the Lea Valley regional park and reduce leisure facilities .
Projects in the pipeline include office buildings, leisure facilities and a chain of hamburger bars.
The developers now need social facilities and infrastructure, such as schools, open space and leisure facilities to support their own schemes , en suite or private shower.
All rooms have colour TV/tea/coffee making facilities .
Rabo owns an independent facilities management firm, Facet, which will run the network should it win the bid.
Hanson has more than 20 years of military and civilian airport operations, maintenance, program and facilities management experience.
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Browne's definition of facilities management is the management, by a third party, offacilities management operator will confirm that jobs have been run according to the schedule in the Weekly Service Report.
Plus various elements of facilities management-particularly if it is outsourced-and lifetime construction services generally.
Income from facilities management grew 8.8% to £59.7m, making up 14.5% of the total.
While turnover from services increased by 36%, the fastest growing area was managed services, such as facilities management .
We also provide interest free overdraft facilities in the first year of study.
As the overdraft facility is used, however, two things begin to happen simultaneously.
The company had agreed an overdraft facility with the bank that by December 1986 had been raised to £40,000.
When the overdraft facility is fully used, the composition of assets will have changed.
Mr. Tucker agreed to allow an overdraft facility of £60,000 for one month.
You may want a permanent overdraft facility .
But remember that this change in the composition of assets came about because the borrower used his overdraft facility .
We can offer current accounts with overdraft facilities and deposit and loan accounts in any major international currency.
Merrydown has bumped up production facilities to cope with the expected demand.
But a major part of the work is the creation of production facilities to treble capacity to around 10,000 cars a year.
The business has made substantial progress in terms of integrating production facilities , warehousing and administration.
Britain even lagged behind the United States in the provision of industrial recreation facilities .
But they also use many city services, from the Community Center to Tucson parks and recreation facilities .
Most recreation facilities like swimming pools and sports halls are under their control.
They have begun to offer their customers choices-of schools, of recreation facilities , even of police services.
They can also help to make exercise opportunities available to their elderly clients by encouraging local recreation facilities to provide special classes.
Street improvements and improvements in park and recreation facilities were widespread among the neighborhoods phased in by the second-year stage.
Connolly likes the manager's size and research facilities , which help it to make better investment decisions.
After the war, the site became a physical rehabilitation center and research facility .
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The purpose-built research facilities can be booked on appointment by anyone wishing to carry out their own desk research.
A spokesman said the company also would add people at its research facility in Bridgewater.
Both departments involved in teaching this degree are actively engaged in palaeoenvironmental research and possess established research facilities .
The quality of teaching and research in the Faculty of Arts is underpinned by the excellent research facilities that are available.
It also requires a terminal storage facility .
It turned out he had forgotten to inspect my fertiliser storage facilities and was very apologetic about the oversight.
This has several advantages: fragile items will be spared the cumulative damage resulting from repeated handling and removal from storage facilities .

It has inadequate parking and only very limited toilet facilities .
The carrousel therefore contained the kitchen, dining, washing, and toilet facilities .
This was followed by Station facilities at Pant with its cafeteria, licensed restaurant shop and toilet facilities plus local workshops.
Public disabled toilet facilities are available at a wide variety of places within York.
Each unit has kitchen and toilet facilities , together with lighting, heating and three-compartment skirting trucking for maximum flexibility.
A system which allowed electronic unlocking of cells so that they could use shared toilet facilities seemed preferable to most.
Bullingdon will house 635 prisoners, many in single cells, all with toilet facilities , ending slopping-out.
As for toilet facilities , I have an earth closet so the lack of water does not affect that side of things.
We have heat treatment facilities here that nobody else can replicate.
But unless the city met the requirement, it would have to build a $ 135 million treatment facility .
The new treatment facilities should be commissioned in late 1993.
Simply repaying the bonds used to build the facility accounts for nearly 60 % of the cost of producing power there.
Ehat can adequately and safely maintain a specimen bank of etiologic agents and clinical specimens.
In fact, some day-care centers are purposely built adjacent to senior facilities to encourage the connection.
Some farms had in recent times improved their stock handling facilities and this had helped greatly.
Immediate priorities should include improving facilities to deal with infectious agents that require high level microbiological safety precautions. iii.
A Northallerton Town football player has been signed up to improve fitness facilities at Hambleton leisure centres.
Late in the nineteenth century some efforts were made to improve irrigation facilities in these areas, where.
It is now looking to raise a further £900,000 to improve facilities .
In addition to the afternoon's official programme, there were several extra events, all raising funds to improve facilities at the centre.
The clubs use the cash either to improve facilities or go on tour.
Most trains are steam hauled by one of the railway's extensive collection of tank engines and include full buffet car facilities .
Many shopping centres include car-parking facilities .
The company also has held talks with Apple Computer about a technology sponsorship that could include kiosks at the facility .
The Altivar 28 range, for example, includes communications facilities as standard, allowing remote configuration and control.
It would also make sense for Microsoft to include network mail facilities .
Entries include information on facilities such as disabled access and interpretation services.
The price of space in the building includes use of the facility .
A , said Witco spokesman Carl Soderlind.
Finally, some ISPs will also offer facilities to allow you to publish your own content on to the Internet.
If this service is not available press the council and local retailers to provide facilities for recycling.
Discussions between the school district and Austin Community College about sharing education and training facilities also got under way.
He is negotiating for both a summer training camp facility and a permanent office / practice facility.
Users are therefore encouraged to use the information available and if they need more help to use the Freephone facility .
Theduring work hours using government facilities .
Guests can use all Village facilities , the pool at the Castello and two reserved tennis courts.
There's a swimming pool and large sun terrace  Montanamar hotel opposite.
In particular these London-wide resources have been used to provide facilities for children with special needs in specialist day and boarding schools.
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The phone is equipped with a call-back facility .
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Staffing is one of the biggest hurdles ahead. There is already a teacher shortage in the state. Californiaand roughly 25,000 new teaching assistants as transitional kindergarten expands, experts say.
I wanted to know when and how to sign up for the lottery for your school. My daughter will be of age next 2023-2024 school year to start transitional kindergarten and would like to apply. We live in Tarzana. Thank you!
I have recently learned that some districts in the state have already extended the age for universal TK to all four year olds; however our district is stating that this is not the case and the cutoff is turning 4 by February. So is it up to the individual districts or led by a state choice?
Several districts are making TK/Kinder combo classes to save money, which makes it extremely difficult to teach TK the way is supposed to be taught. Are combo classes going to be allowed?
As a Preschool Teacher, my comment is that we along with our parents are the first learning foundation for most of the children that pass on to TK and Kindergarten and yet the rate of pay is such a vast difference. When will this be rectified so that we will be able to make a decent living and not be considered as low income?
Again, we are teaching social/emotional skills as well as the well-rounded child which prepares them for the next level of learning. I have been told many times by kindergarten teachers that they can usually tell when a child has had preschool because they have the necessary transitional skills to enter into the classroom. Why not improve upon the Universal Transitioning Skills we already have in Head Start!
I am a Head Start teacher. I would like to know what my options are in the changes to early childhood ( grants, credentials…) so that I may prepare myself to meet the opportunity of advancement in my profession and better serve the children in my class.
In Preschool the children have to be supervised in the bathroom, is that going to change?
There are some kids in this age group that are not independent bathroom users. Will they be allowed to be in TK?
Will ECE teachers with Teacher Permits and higher, be able to teach TK? Some do not have BA’s.
Some ECE teachers with permits do have BA’s, but not with an educational major. Will they be able to teach TK or will they have to get a multiple subject credential?
What is being put in place to get ECE teachers the needed K-5 credential?
Lauret: there is no research that early entry into traditional kindergarten better prepares learners for life long success. Traditional adult led learning environments may indoctrinate children into how to sit, how to raise their hands to go to the bathroom, how to memorize for the test, but it does not provide them with any long term cognitive advantages. That is why we continue to celebrate that Kindergarten be optional….the research is clear. We need to support the best quality day cars and ECE centers that we can, with care providers who are educated inn, not put little children into public schools designed for older children.


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Many people mistakenly believe New York City has lost residents and jobs to the suburbs between 1970 and 1990. While NYC's share of the regional population/jobs has shrank by about 6 percentage points, the number of people living or working in the city has increased by over 3%. Basically, growth in the suburbs has outpaced the city itself.
A decade by decade look at the city/suburban percentage change, though, produces a more tumultuous picture. Between 1970 and 1980, New York City lost 9% of its residents and 7% of its jobs, knocking down its regional share of each by over 5 percentage points. This atrophy was ameliorated during the 1980's by 11% growth, but that expansion was not enough to regain its share of the region's jobs or population.
From 1980 to 1990, both the city and suburbs had residential and employment growth around 12%, except for NYC's suburbs in New York State, where employment increased by 20%.
The one constant amongst both decades is the location of strongest workplace growth, the suburban portions of NYS, where growth was over 20% each decade. Total expansion from 1970 to 1990 in this subregion was 45%.
Canges from 1970 to 1980
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Billie Eilish: The World's A Little Blurry director R.J. Cutler opens up to E!
Directed by R.J. Cutler, the doc follows Billie Eilish as she navigates life at just 17, balancing the pressures of a hectic touring schedule with the typical teenage concerns of lackluster boyfriends and driver's license exams, all whilenow anything about Britney Spears outside of admiring her work. But, I do know a lot about Billie and I know that she has a tremendous support system and infrastructure," Cutler told E!News just hours before the film's Feb. 25 premiere. "I mean, her mom says it outright—it's not implied or suggested or hinted at in the film, it's a subject of the film. The fact that Billie's parents are with her all the time, that she is surrounded by family all the time, in large part to help give her the tools and the resources to avoid pitfalls that are common to young people when they become a successful and as famous as she's become so quickly and so early in her life and career."
That said, there are still moments in the film that point to the sometimes suffocating trappings of fame. There's the aforementioned meet-and-greet seemingly full of older men, the reasoning being they have connections to the record label or radio stations that play her music. Eilish, furious with her team and her mother for allowing it to happen, later likens the experience to having been "thrown to the wolves."
"I think it's complicated," Cutler said when asked if he got any sense that it was all beginning to take its toll on Eilish. "I mean, the fame is a byproduct of her success. Her success is a wonderful thing. It creates a lot of opportunities. It creates a power and access to things that she didn't have before. It allows her to perform in front of bigger and bigger audiences. I mean, there's so much that that comes along with it. It confirms her place in the culture, but it's complicated. There are burdens that come along with it that are not insignificant and you see those burdens as well. So you see the full 360 degrees of being as famous as Billie Eilish becomes, as suddenly as she becomes."
"My goal was to tell the truth and the full truth, and to tell a complete portrait of who this young woman is and the experiences that she went through in this year," Cutler said. "So it wasn't difficult to include the more challenging material because it's truthful to who she was. My goal was to see her as clearly as possible."
"She is the only one who makes decisions," he said when asked about her agency over her career. "She's the decision maker, she's the boss. In fact, the only thing I ever saw her not be the boss of was this film, [of] which she gave me final cut. She trusted me and she supported me. She recognized that I was there making a work of art out of her life, and my filmmaking that was happening while her life was happening. But in every other aspect of her business or life, Billie's the boss. She has surrounded herself with very talented, wise adults who recognize that. As one of them once said to me, she's right about everything. It doesn't mean they don't advise her sometimes if they don't think she's right, but when she makes a decision, they support her."


The district administration of Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir in collaboration with JK Khadi and Village Industries Board organised a workshop on beekeeping under a skill development programme for SCs and STs in the district. Muzaffar Abdul Nasir Allaqaband,Kashmir Division said, "The KVIB has been designated a nodal agency for skill development of the SC/ST community so that they can be motivated to can earn their livelihood." A trainer at the workshop, Shahnawaz Ahmad said, "A six-day workshop has been organised to train the SC/ST community. This workshop includes theoretical classes and exposure visit." The board has selected 25 youths from the SCs/STs community. They will be trained in beekeeping so thatstart their own business ventures in the beekeeping sector.


51 October 30, A New Assessment of Computers in the Classroom The Vanishing World-Machine (Steve Talbott) Habits of the Technological Mind #2 DEPARTMENTS Announcements and Resources Elephants. It is part of an attempt on my part to capture, in a slightly more disciplined and systematic way (so far as the scope of a mere newsletter allows) some of the basic issues over which Kevin Kelly and I wrangled in our dialogue concerning mechanisms and organisms. (See NF #133, 136, and 139.) The upshot of the current essay is that mechanistic explanations cannot even explain machines, let alone the natural world. But, as I also point out, the argument here connects with a whole rang On another note: Some subscribers are no longer receiving NetFuture because their spam blockers are either rejecting its "illicit" content, or rejecting all mail from the St. Johns University listserver that distributes the newsletter. (The listserver is strictly administered and includes only bona fide publications. But since it handles many lists, some institution-level blockers decide that it is producing a suspiciously large amount of email.) Also, when I send out NetFuture, I receive back more and more automated requests from spam blockers inviting me to go to some website or other and verify that NetFuture is a legitimate publication. I never respond to these requests. Apart from the impracticality of the situation (imagine hundreds or thousands of subscribers employing such blockers) I regard the requests themselves as spam. "Please come on over to my website and click on a button or two" sure sounds like spam to me. It's a good illustration of a point I frequently make: the attempt to automate solutions to human problems all too easily contributes to a worsening of the problems, which may have arisen in the first place from the automation of formerly personal transactiA New Assessment of Computers in the Classbstantial book, just released, may help to alter the tenor of the public discussion about computers in the classroom. It's called Flickering Mindsd. Written by National Magazine Award winner, Todd Oppenheimer, the book is sober, well-researched, thorough, and marked by as much undeniable good sense as you are likely to find in any book about education today. I hope to have more to say about the book in the future. Meanwhile, here are some of Oppenheimer's conclusions: ** Computer technology will not go away. The challenge for schools is to reject fads and use the tools sensibly. Generalizing: "technology is used too intensely in the younger grades and not intensely enough -- in the proper areas -- in the upper grades". The failure in the upper grades is that students are given no deep understanding of the technology, but instead are allowed to occupy themselves with the "hot programs of the moment". ** The computer fad has temporarily blinded us to a central truth that has been evident for thousands of years: the crucial process in education is not a technological one but a human one. In the words of the Forbes editor, Stephen Kindel, "the best schools will eventually recognize a fact that's been apparent since Plato sat on Socrates' knee: Education depends on the intimate contact between a good teacher -- part performer, part dictator, part cajoler -- and an inquiring student". In the end, Kindel added, "". ** "The computer industry [Oppenheimer writes] has managed to survive on such a plethora of hype, habituating all of us to accept such a string of unfulfilled promises that we've long since lost the ability to see what new inventions really can and cannot do. Schools as a result have become industry's research-and-development labs as well as its dumping ground -- while asking very little in return. ** We are self-deluded if we delight in how computers enable students to "take over" their own education. "The students aren't taking over in most of these classrooms. The computer is". It's hard for some observers to recognize that "downloading a captivating live software applet from a NASA site, which some web designer has loaded with a few earnest questions to satisfy somebody's grant requirements, does not a satisfactory lesson make. Nor does simply writing a paper about this material, based on some extra Internet 'research'". As Ken Komoski, the director of an educational-products watchdog group puts it, when a boy turns in a paper " ** One study after another has shown that "whenever tutoring is matched against some competing pedagogy, including technology, tutoring wins handily". In one "gold-standard" study, tutored students were found to  ** "With only a few exceptions, computer technology has become one more feature on an already crowded landscape of high-stimulus consumer items -- TV, video games, pop music, action films, high-caffeine coffee shops on every urban corner, the list goes on and on. The primary function of that topography is to keep people buying; a side effect is that it keeps people perpetually hyped up and distracted from activities that might be more soothing and reflective. We have become, in a sense, a society of masochists. We bemoan youngsters' turning to violence while pouring millions into making suffering human beings the stuff of their entertainment. We criticize them for their poor self-discipline and short attention spans; then our commercial enterprises do everything possible to crowd and fragment their minds still further". ** For all the publicity value of the slogan, "leave no child behind", the policies associated with the slogan oddly ignore the libraries of insight now available to educators about what makes children excel. "One would think that the nation's policy makers, armed with this information, could come up with something better than a lengthier sheet of multiple-choice questions, millions of new test essays, and a corps of evaluators who don't have the skill, or the time, to do their job". Or, I would add, the  ** Finally, our most inspiring moments in school almost always turn out to have revolved around great teachers -- a fact educators have recognized since the beginning of formal education -- "yet in some bizarre act of cultural sadomasochism, we continually pretend it isn't true. We let teachers twist in the breeze seemingly forever. for their trouble -- far less, proportionately  Related articles: -----------------VANISHING WORLD-MACHINE Habits of the Technological Mind #2 Steve Talbott (stevet@oreilly.com) During the Renaissance and scientific revolution -- so the conventional  For inquirers such as Alberti, Columbus, Da Vinci, Gilbert, Galileo, and Newton it was as if a veil had fallen away. Instead of seeking wisdom in a spiritual realm or in appeals to authority or in the complex mazes of medieval ratiocination, the great figures at the dawn of the modern era chose to look at the world for themselves and record its testimony. It was an exhilarating time, when the world stood fresh and open before them, ripe for discovery. And they quickly discovered that certain questions could be answered in a satisfyingly precise, demonstrable, and incontestable way. They lost interest iturned their attention to the pin itself as a physical phenomenon available for investigation. There is some truth in this rather-too-neat view of the past -- a truth that makes the central fact of our own era all the more astonishing: as scientific inquirers, we have shown ourselves increasingly content to disregard the world around us. Judging from the dominant, well-funded scientific and technical ventures, we much prefer to navigate our own arcane labyrinths of abstract ratiocination, whether they consist of the infinitely refined logic we impress upon silicon, or the physicist's esoteric classificational systems for subatomic particles, or the universe-spanning equations of the cosmologists. It's true that we no longer askbut we are certainly entranced with the question, "How much data can we store on the head of a pin?" And our trance is only deepened when the answer turns out to be: "a hell of a lot". What many haven't realized yet is how easily our preoccupation with the invisible constructions on that pinhead blind us to the world we or The alluring data, fully as much as any dancing angel, distracts us from more mundane realities. We have, as a result, been learning to ignore as vulgar or profane the "crude" content of our senses. This content may be useful for occasional poetic excursions, but it is only a base temptation for the properly ascetic student of science, who moves within a more rarefied, mathematical atmosphere. "It must be admitted", remarked the British historian of consciousness, Owen Barfield, that the matter dealt with by the established sciences is coming to be composed less and less of actual observations, more and more of such things as pointer-readings on dials, the same pointer-readings arranged by electronic computers, inferences from inferences, higher mathematical formulae and other recondite abstractions. Yet modern science began with a turning away from abstract cerebration to objective observation! (1963) It is not that we lack all interest in the material world, but only that our interest is of a peculiar, one-sided sort. Surrounded by the remarkable physical machinery bequeathed to us by science, we are more concerned with manipulating the world than with seeing it profoundly. In fact, the distinction between seeing and manipulating scarcely even registers within science any longer. Philosopher Daniel Dennett tells us that the proper discipline of biology" (1995, p. 228). It may seem counterintuitive at first, but I will argue that our preoccupation with workable mechanisms, far from contradicting our preference for abstract cerebration, is itself a primary symptom of our flight into abstraction and our refusal to seeour failure to interest ourselves in seeing and understanding the observable world (as opposed to manipulating it like so much gadgetry) is as fateful for our knowledge enterprises today as th One consequence of our failure is that we have felt justified in substituting sadly inadequate mechanistic models for the world we no longer bother to observe. On Making a Game of Life ------------------------ There is a computer program called the Game of Life. The program divides your computer screen into a fine-meshed rectangular grid, wherein each tiny cell can be either bright or dark, on or off, "alive" or "dead". The idea is to start with an initial configuration of bright or live cells and then, with each tick of the clock, see how the configuration changes as these simple rules are applied: ** If exactly two of a cell's eight immediate neighbors are alive at the clock tick ending one interval, the cell will remain in its current state (alive or dead) during the next interval. ** If exactly three of a cell's immediate neighbors are alive, the cell . ** And in all other cases -- that is, if less than two or more than three of the neighbors are alive -- the cell will be dead during the next interval. You can, then (as the usual advice goes) think of a cell as dying from loneliness if too few of its neighbors are alive, and dying from over- crowding if too many of them are alive. What intrigues many researchers is the fact that, given well-selected initial configurations, fascinating patterns are produced as the program unfolds. Some of these patterns remain stable or even reproduce themselves endlessly. Investigations of such "behavior" have led to the new discipline known as "artificial life". Referring to the Game of Life and the three-part rule governing its performance, Dennett has remarked that "the entire physics of the Life world is captured in that single, unexceptioned law". As a result, in the Life world "our powers of prediction are perfect: there is no [statistical] noise, no uncertainty, no probability less than one". The Life world "perfectly instantiates the determinism made famous by LaPlace: if we are given the state description of this world at an instant, we observers can perfectly predict the future instants by the simple a These are startlingly errant statementday. The three-part rule, after all, is hardly a law of physics. It is an algorithm -- roughly, a program or precise recipe -- and its deterministic, LaPlacian perfection holds true only so long as we remain within the perfectly abstract realm of the algorithm's crystalline logical structure. Try to embody this structure in any particular stuff of the world, and its perfection suddenly vanishes. For example, if you install it in a running computer, you can be absolutely sure that the algorithm will fail at some point, if not because of spilled coffee or a power failure or an operating system glitch, then because of normal wear and tear on the computer over time. Contrary to Dennett's claim, you will find in every physical implementation of this algorithm that there is noise, no certainty, and no probability equal to one. Dennett's comments about the Game of Life illustrate how the world can disappear behind a grid of abstractions. He is so transfixed by the logical perfection of the algorithm that he loses sight of the distinction between it and the real stuff that happens to embody it. With scarcely a thought he shifts in imagination from disembodied rules to physics -- a move made easy by the fact that his physics is essentially a mere reification of the rules. This carries huge implications. If, as he tells us, biology is engineering, and if the devices we engineer are nothing in essence but their algorithms, then real dogs, rocks, trees, and ation. While it is not the topic of this essay, the enveloping and thickening fog of abstraction is evident on every hand. Look, for example, at almost any branch of the public discourse and you will find that its subjects -- the elderly, the sick, victims of war, soldiers, political leaders, terrorists, corporate CEOs, wilderness areas, oil wells, fetuses, doctors, voters -- appear only as generalized debating tokens torn loose from complex, full-fleshed reality. Their assigned place in an established logic of discourse is almost all that matters. The public discussion then bec The Externality of Machine Algorithms ------------------------------------- We can, I believe, learn a great deal about certain tendencies of science and society by looking more deeply into this symptomatic disappearance of the material world into abstraction -- a disappearance that will seem as strange to our successors as medieval attempts to understand motion by ruminating over Aristotelian texts now seem to us. It will help, in understanding these tendencies, to grasp as clearly as possible the relation between an algorithm, such as the one embodied in the Game of Life program, and the machine executing it. And the first thing to say is that the algorithm really is there -- in the machine (so long as it is working properly) and therefore in the world. Which is to say: we can articulate the parts of a machine so that, when viewed at an appropriate level of abstraction, they "obey" and manifest the rules of the Game of Life. But it is crucial to see the external and nonessential nature of these rules. Yes, they are embodied in the machine -- but only in a rather high-level and abstract sense. The rules are not intrinsic to the machine. That is, they are not necessary laws of the copper, silicon, plastic, and other materials. To see the rules we almost have to blind ourselves to the particular character of these materials -- materials that could, in fact, be very different without altering the logic of arrangement we are interested in. In other words, the determining idea of the machine as a humanly designed artifact is something we impose upon it "from the outside"; there is nothing inherent in copper, silicon, and plastic that dictates or urges or even suggests their assembly into a computer. We had to have the idea, and we had to bring it to bear upon the materials through their proper arrangement. The functional idea of the computer abides in this  This external relation between the material machine and the logic of the idea imposed upon it explains a double disconnection. On the one hand, the logic fails to characterize fully the material entity it is associated with. We can construct computers out of vastly different materials and still see exactly the same rule-following when they execute the Game of Life. The game's algorithm leaves its embodiment radically undefined (or "underdetermined"). But just as differently constructed physical machines can, at a certain level of abstraction, follow the same rules, so, too, the same machine can be made to follow different rules. This is obvious enough in the case of a computer, which can execute entirely different software algorithms. But it remains true more generally: when a new context arises, an existing piece of technology may become a tool for a previously unforeseen function -- as when, trivially, the handle of a screwdriver is used to hammer in a tack, or when a typewriter's alphanumeric keyboard serves to construct graphic images rather than text. The underlying artifact remains . So we see that machines of completely different materials and configuration can serve the same function, and a machine of given materials and configuration can serve different functions. The functional idea, then -- whether it is a computer algorithm or the cleaning procedure of a washing machine -- is by no means equivalent to a full understanding of the machine as a part of the material world. The parts of the machine present us with a physical reality we are able to employ in a mechanical construction, but our employment of them does not explain the physical  There is some irony in all this. To recognize a governing idea externally imposed upon the parts of a machine through the manner of their arrangement is to grant an irreducibly human and subjective element in every machine as a machine. As Michael Polanyi remarked many years ago, a knowledge of physics and chemistry can never tell us what a machine is (1962, pp. 328-35). For such an understanding we have to know (among other things) something about the human context in which it will operate, the human purposes it was designed to serve, and the particular functional idea that guided the builders in coordinating the machine's physical principles. So while mechanistic thinkers profess a great fondness for objectivity, which they interpret to mean "freedom from human influence", their predilection for machine-based explanations marries them to human- centered, designer-centered modes of thought. In fact, for all their . The world, after all, is not a humanly designed machine. Whatever material principles we summon to account for the phenomena we observe, they will fail in the accounting if they go no deeper than the mechanistic . already suggested, one indication of our tendency to ignore the observable world lies in the force of our temptation, following Dennett, to separate the machine's algorithm from the machine itself and then allow the former to overshadow the latter. The temptation is no small matter, given the overwhelming commitment to machine-like explanations within mainstream science. For a mechanistic science, the machine's reduction to .? Th. But to leave the matter there -- and nearly all those who share Arthur's sentiment about the mathematical essence of things do leave the matter there -- is to reveal a blind spot at least as gaping as any irrational lacuna in the thought of our ancestors. After all, mathematics in its purely formal exactness tells us nothing at all about the material wld. And we can establish this problematic relation -- we can have more than our pure mathematics in mental isolation -- only by understanding the non-mathematical terms of the relation. Mathematics alone cannot tell us what the mathematics is being applied to. This is already evident with simple, quantitative statements. It's one thing to say "5" and quite another to say "5 pounds of force" or "5 pounds of mass". In the latter case, while we may take comfort from the conciseness of "5", we're now also up against the conceptual darkness of "force" and "matter". The number, however exact, can illuminate the material world only to the degree we know what we mean by "force" and "matter" -- terms that have vexed every scientist who ever dared to think about them. What physicist Richard Feynman said about energy is true of many other fundamental scientific concepts as well: "we have no knowledge of wha). To ignore the darkness in key terms of our science -- to claim that mathematics gives us the essence of things when we can't even say what the things are and we have no non-mathematical language adequate to them -- is to be no less in the grip of nonsense than were those medieval thinkers who were content to explain the character of gold by appealing to an occult quality of "goldness". Mathematics, as a self-contained, "essence- yielding" discipline, offers a pseudo-explanation no more helpful than the occult quality. It does no more good for us merely to assume we know what the mathematics is being applied to than it did for our predecessors to assume they knew what goldness was. An elementary point, you might think. But the scientist and engineer have shown a powerful tendency to conceive their desired mechanisms through an ever more disciplined focus upon mathematics, algorithm, and software, blithely inattentive to the character of the world the experimental apparatus is coercing into algorithmic "obedience". It is true (and a remarkable accomplishment) that, unlike our medieval forerunners, we have perfected a method for obtaining workable devices. In fact, many such as Daniel Dennett ("biology is engineering") would more or less collapse our entire project of understanding into a single-minded pursuit of workable devices. But in doing so they increasingly attend, in their anthropocentric way, only to the sort of clean, mathematical structure they temporarily manage to impose upon these devices at a high level of abstraction. That is, they are interested in seeing only machines, and in seeing machines only as manageable abstractions. Accordingly, the device itself, as physical phenomenon, recedes from view while the immaterial logic we have associated with it consumes our attention. In our quest for understanding we have become obsessed with the equivalent of angelic hosts bearing data in a timeless algorithmic dance, and whether the dance proceeds on the head of a pin or along silicon pathways or within the deeply worn logical grooves of our own minds hardly matters. The dancers are, from our preferred point of view, pure and chaste, insubstantial, uncontaminated by gross matter. They give us a kind of otherworldly "physics", as Dennett claimed, free of noise and uncertainty. The only way for us to break the hypnotic spell of our own abstract cerebrations is to open our senses again so as to re-experience the world we have been fleeing, much as our ancestors of several centuries ago broke the medieval spell and looked out at a new world. But just as it took those earlier pioneers centuries to understand what breaking free really meant -- medieval thought habits persisted even in Newton -- so, too, it may require a long time for us to escape the trance of mechanistic thought and begin to recognize the living qualities of the substances we have lns. Looking Ahead ------------- It is time to pause and ask where these prefatory remarks might lead us in examining mechanistic science and its technological foundations. I offer here a bare statement of several theses as a kind of prospectus for future articles in this series. First, as we have begun to see, the resort to mathematical formalism, whether it is a formalism of equations, rules, logic, or algorithms, is inadequate even to explain a machine. The explanatory logic -- conceived by us and imposed upon the machine -- relates to our purposes and operations, and, as a genuine lawfulness, remains in a sense external to the actual substance of the machine. If our science is a science of such formalisms governing a world-machine, then it cannot give us any full understanding of this world-machine. Second, nothing in the natural world -- including inanimate nature -- is machinelike if by "machine" we refer to the human artifacts we usually call by this name. The governing idea of a machine is imposed upon it by a designer through a proper arrangement of parts; the idea is not intrinsic to the parts, not demanded by them, not the necessary expression of their existence. Nature, on the other hand, has no designer -- at least not one of this external sort. We cannot think of laws on one side and a substance obeying or "instantiating" the laws on the other. Rather, the laws belong to the substance itself as an expression of its essential character. The lawfulness of a machine is in part a cultural artifact; the lawfulness of the physical world is through and through the intrinsic expression of its own being. And we can understand this being only to the degree we penetrate and illuminate the more or less opaque terms of our science -- "force", "mass", "energy", and all the rest. Third, the immanent mathematical lawfulness we do discover in the natural world is never the law or the explanation of whatever transpires in the world. It is merely an implicit aspect of the substantive (but largely ignored) phenomenal reality tha, some worldly process, that exhibits the given mathematical character. The relation between the mathematical character and the reality in which it is found is the relation between syntax and semantics. We see this same relation between the formal grammar and the meaning of our speech. The grammar is an implicit lawfulness. But, given the grammatical structure alone, we cannot know the meaningful content of the speech. The structure is abstracted from this content, leaving behind much of what matters most. This, I believe, is a crucial point, deserving a great deal of elaboration (which I will in the near future try to provide). Fourth (and finally), many readers will by now be yelling at me in their minds: "You fool! Pay attention to different levels of description!" What they are getting at is something like this: Of course rules such as those defining the Game of Life are inadequate to provide a complete explanation of the machine executing them. The rules describe the machine only at a high level of abstraction. But we can also provide descriptions of the same sort at progressively lower levels of abstraction, until finally we have described the fundamental particles constituting the machine. All these descriptions togetherhe machine, and also about the world. But this appeal to descriptive levels fails utterly to bridge the gap between mechanistic explanations and an adequate explication of the world's lawfulness. The problem is that the shortcomings of the mechanistic style of explanation follow you all the way down. If, when you finally arrive at the particles, you try to describe them as if they were little machines -- if, that is, you remain faithful to your mechanistic convictions -- then your rules, algorithms, mathematics, and logic explain no more about these particles than the Game of Life does about the concrete machine it is running on. But now you are at the supposedly fundamental level of understanding, so the limitations here a. If you want a true understanding of the world's order, the crucial gap you have to leap is not the gap between levels of description. Rather, it is the distance between unembodied mathematical, logical, and algorithmic formalisms on the one hand, and the full content of the world these formalisms are abstracted from on the other. Highlighting this gap will be one of my primary aims in forthcoming essays. Summarizing, then: ** Me ** The world is not in any case a machine. ** A mathematical regularity, or syntax, is implicit in the world's phenomena and can be said to explain the world no less and no more than the grammatical syntax of a speech explains the content of the speech. ** If, when appealing to a hierarchy of descriptive levels, we remain committed to mechanistic explanation, then the limitations of such y. Those of you acquainted with the philosophy of science will recognize in these statements implications of the most radical sort, even though so far I have done little more than offer brief justification for the first thesis of the four. In the end we will find ourselves confronting, among other things, an entirely new (or, rather, very old and forgotten) style of explanation based on form. We will also see the necessity for reversing the far-reaching decision within science to ignore qualities. This decision, if not reversed, must lead ultimately to the disappearance of the world, which is not there apart from its qualities -- and therefore it will lead also to the annihilation of the science that began with such promise as a resolve to r Related articles: -----------------  "Are Machines Living Things?" by Kevin Kelly and Steve Talbott in NF #133: "What Are the Right Questions?" by Kevin Kelly and Steve Talbott in NF #136: "Disconnect?" by Kevin Kelly and Steve Talbott in NF #139: Bibliography ------------ Barfield, Owen (1963). "Introduction" in Rudolf Steiner, Tension B 10-11. Cochrane, Peter (undated).. D vol. 1. Reading MA: Addison-Wesley. Polanyi, MichaelRubin, Charles T. (2003). "Artificial Intelligence and Human Nature", T. Simon & SchusterElephants --------- A second booklet is now available in the Nature Institute Perspectives series. Written by my colleague, Craig Holdrege, it is called The Flexible Giant: Seeing the Elephant Whole. This is another in his remarkable series of "whole-organism studies". You can obtain the attractive, 65-page booklet by sending $10 (which includes postage and handling) to The Nature Institute, 20 May Hill Road, Ghent NY 12075. Or send us your credit card information by mail or fax (518-672-4270). Or transmit your payment through PayPal: Holdrege's study is directly relevant to much I have written in NetFuture, for this reason: it represents one researcher's approach to a qualitative science, and the need for such a science (as an alternative to mechanistic explanations) is what my own writing is all about. The first book in the Perspective series, entitled Extraordinary Lives: Disability and Destiny in a Technological Age (drawn from NetFuture), coThis issue of NetFuture:.


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Like, because it's Apple? What?
Don't bite the apple, Adam!
more description in your questions please...I too am confused about the stigma. Like because it's just a big iPod touch?
I'd seen the MadTV sketch before, but I wasn't aware that there was a similar stigma about the product...
I had thought about it like that, but I wasn't going to buy it anyway. If I were planning on buying it, that certainly wouldn't stop me.
I never even made the connection until just now. If product name misinterpretation is such a big deal, why do so many people buy Hummers?
i dont care about stigma when i buy anything.
I guess I wasn't immature enough to get the joke immediately. No, I don't think any Apple product could have a problem selling because of something so trifling and insignificant. Men enjoy gadgets and will continue to buy them regardless.
I think in their case it helps..."Yeah, I'll take one...wait, what the hell do I need keys for?"
I have seen the comericals, and never once thought of it that way. And I know a guy who is buying one.


On behalf of the Class of 2016, I’d like to welcome all esteemed faculty, friends, and family to the 122nd graduation ceremony of Palo Alto High School. Well class, we started from the bottom, and now the whole team is here, ready to graduate high school. Today is the day to celebrate our journey and accomplishments as individuals and as a class. It seems like it was just yesterday that we experienced our freshman orientation, first football game, first spirit week, and even the first streak week. Through our four year journey together, we have grown both physically and mentally. Our class has undeniably been one of the most successful graduating classes to walk through Palo Alto High School. This year, our athletic department has had 11 college athlete recruits, and has won many notable titles. Our various student organizations and clubs have flourished, and proudly represented our school, winning countless awards over the last four years. However, our years at Palo Alto High School were no walk in the park. Each and every one of us has experienced our fair share of disappointments and obstacles that we’ve had to overcome. Through our years toge is resilient. We survived the streak week ban, mandatory tutorial check-ins, and no food in the library rules. But in all seriousness, our grade has risen above the obstacles, and has become one united class, win together, lose together, classmates. The fact that we stand here decorated with awards, accomplishments and knowledge is just a te Graduates, you have all grown to be powerful and intellectual individuals who are destined for greatness. Street poet and philosopher Drake once said, “Look at where I landed, You would think I planned it, I’m just doing me, You could never understand it,”but being a part of the class,life the best you can. After all, it is the journey that often teaches you about your destination. As we move forward from our days at Paly, I ask that you live life the way you want to, do what makes you proud, because “you only live once”. Graduates, strive to be the best version of yourself and remain fearless because you are viking. Right now, I’d like to take the time to give thanks to our amazing teachers, warm guidance department, my family, and most importantly, all of you in caps and gowns. In the words of one well-known hip-hop producer,“We da best.” Congratulations to the brave, the bold, and the beautiful class of 2016, let’s get it, let’s go.


Walter E. Bernd III and Jane B. Bernd to Thomas A. Socash-Kutza and Anne-Marie Scali, 99 Parkwood Road, $599,000
Charles D. and Dorothy M. Collison to Brian C. Clark, 478 Towne House Road, $730,000
John C. and Casey Caine to Nickell Properties LLC, 44 Sherman Court, $559,000
LID LLC to John F. and Jill Lawson, 96 Smedley Road, $410,000
Bernadette A. Boyle, trustee of the Boyle Family Living Trust, to Anthony J. Coughlin, 174 Southport Woods Drive, Unit 7-G-2 and Garage G-5-39, $289,000
Lisa Giordano-Eckert to Rrasana Srinivasan and Bhairavi Krishnan, 36 Lindbergh St., $635,000
Kathryn L. O'Halloran to Svea K. Vocke and Uwe Schreiner, 103 Taunton Road, $531,150
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Congratulations to all who are on these lists, and welcome to the EC, new people! </s> About
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Falling Creek was the site of the oldest blast furnace in the New World..
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Much smaller version of Waxy O'Connors - hence the name. Less theme park and more of a pub than its big sister, it still can get pretty crowded. Decent Guinness, but that's about it.
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Being a Mother of a 15 soon to be 16 yr old daughter myself! I confronted him about his age & her's.The only reason he went after her was ,"I'm desperate for love & me & her started talking.Age doesn't matter-we're in love!"
Damn pederast! Wait, I think....yeah, I think thats wrong.
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Panthers: As expected, QB Cam Newton and the rest of Carolina's starters will play three quarters Thursday night against Cincinnati. The Panthers are game-planning for the Bengals as if this is a regular season game.
WR Steve Smith said he plans to play against Cincinnati. Smith hasn't played in the first two exhibition games due to a finger injury.
Meanwhile, QB Cam Newton continues to bone up on the playbook.
Bengals: Coach Marvin Lewis said he expects the same number of reps for the first-team offense versus Carolina, as has been the case during the first two games when they played the entire first half.
Dalton refuses to use the weather as an excuse for his mediocre play or the team's two losses. "We cannot make the weather an excuse," he said. "Both teams had to play in (the rain). We just were not quick to start off."
Thing to remember: The 61-10 margin of defeat (34-3 at Detroit, 27-7 at the Jets) through two preseason games is the worst in Cincinnati's team history. The previous


Vallejo-based Pace Solano has settled charges it violated the ADA when it withdrew an employment offer after discovering the applicant’s disability. Pace Solano provides services for Solano County citizens with developmental disabilities.
A pre-employment examination revealed partial paralysis in the applicant’s left arm. Even though she had successfully completed all employment tests and the company’s occupational health provider cleared her to work, the company still refused to hire her.


Though it’s not a legal holiday anywhere in the U.S., St. Patrick’s Day is a festive celebration of Irish and Irish American culture that’s been observ On Tuesday, March 17 expect to see the traditional color of green splashed across greater Los Angeles as bars and restaurants offer Irish music, food, and of course plenty of Guinness and Irish whiskey. Read on for St. Patrick’s Day events in Los Angeles, and as always please remember to celebrate responsibly.
All of the following events are 21 and over and take place on March 17 unless otherwise noted.
The annual Casey's St. Patrick's Day Festival will be taking place this year at Imperial Western Beer Co. at Union Station (800 N. Alameda St, Los Angeles 90012). From 11am to midnight,, and DJ sets. Pregame at Casey's Irish Pub (613 S. Grand Ave, Los Angeles 90017) or Imperial Western - both bars will open their doors at 6am for an all-day celebration. $15 cover starting at 2pm with access to both locations available for purchase at the entrance.
Comam-11:30pm every 15 minutes.
Get to and from the festival safely with RideYellow. Use promo code CASEYS20 for $15 off your first ride.
Golden Road Brewing is bringing the luck o' the Irish to two locations: the historic Grand Central Market and The Pub at Golden Road. Go green with Golden Road and enjoy St. Patrick’s Day specials from Friday, March 13 to Tuesday, March 17. The celebration includes a special glassware deal - $10 for a fill and a limited edition pint glass to take home. Live music by Whiskey Sunday from 7-9pm at The Pub on March 14 and 1-3pm at GCM on March 15.
On St. Patrick’s Day, Arts District Brewing (828 Traction Ave, Los Angeles 90013) is bringing back the Riverdance Irish Red and McCasey Dry Irish Stout, as well as featuring Jameson Caskmates boilermaker specials. Doors open at 3pm, no cover.
Out of an abundance of caution, Angel City Brewery will be closing its tap room for a week beginning on Friday, March 13..
Opened in 1922, the Tam O’Shanter (2980 Los Feliz Blvd, Los Angeles 90039) is known as the oldest restaurant in L.A. that’
Out of an abundance of caution, Flogging Molly’s annual St. Patrick’s Day Festival at the Hollywood Palladium has been cancelled.
Want to get an early start on St. Patrick's Day? "Make it so!" The sci-fi themed Scum & Villainy Cantina (6377 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles 90028) is celebrating the 2nd annual Sir Patrick's Day in honor of Sir Patrick Stewart on Saturday, March 14.
Two speciality cocktails, Iced Tea: Earl Grey and Telepathic Punch.
Build your perfect X-Men team with the mutated version of Connect 4. If you win, collect a Sir Patrick inspired prize.
No cover, RSVP at Eventbrite.
After closing its Sunset Boulevard location in 2014, The Cat & Fiddle Pub & Restaurant (742 N Highland Ave, Hollywood 90038).
Located on Fairfax Avenue a half-mile south of The Original Farmers Market, Molly Malone’s Irish Pub (575 S Fairfax Ave, Los Angeles 90036) has been owned by the same Irish family since 1970, a year after it first opened. The walls are covered by more than 70 paintings done by noted Irish portrait painter Neal Boyle, and the shelves are lined with books. But there’s one thing you won’t find at Molly’s, not even on St. Patrick’s Day: green beer.
This year marks the 50th St. Patrick's Day for Molly Malone's - the epic all-day celebration will include a reunion of 6 Foot Nurse at 10pm, Hounds of Belfast (4:30-6:30pm), and much more.
The Original Farmers Market (6333 W 3rd St, Los Angeles 90036) celebrates St. Patrick's Day with authentic Irish food, green beer, and traditional Irish folk music all day long! Glen the Bagpiper will be strolling the Market from noon to 3 p.m. Live performances include Celtic Camerata on the East Patio (11:30am - 1:30pm) and The Regulars on the West Patio from 6-8pm.
The Market's first eatery, Magee's will be serving their famous corned beef, cabbage and potato plate all day long.North Hollywood's landmark Idle Hour is going Irish for five days starting on Friday, March 13. Following Governor Newsom's Executive Order, capacity will be limited to 150 people at all times - below the recommended 250 guests.
For the first time in Idle Hour history...GUINNESS!
"POT OF GOLD" - A leprechaun friend will be visiting Idle Hour throughout the event, and he’s generously agreed to scatter some gold coins for Idlers to find. Find a coin, and you’ll get access to the Bulldog’s Pot of Gold - aka free Jameson gear.
The acclaimed Brentwood restaurant, Tavern (11648 San Vicente Blvd, Los Angeles 90049) presents Chef Suzanne Goin’s Irish-inspired dishes for the annual St. Patrick’s Day celebration.
The food and drink specials are available at lunch from 11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. and dinner from 5:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Happy hour is from 3:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. and drinks are available all day.
Sonny McClean’s Irish Pub & Restaurant is home away from home for Boston sports fans in Los Angeles. Named for owner Jim Conners’ grandfather, Sonny McClean’s features live music, karaoke, a darts room and pool table. To go with the extensive beer list with 40 taps, Sonny McLean's features a full bar and a menu of pub grub, traditional New England and Irish favorites, made with a California touch.


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Andrew Sullivan: (00:19) days, I can see. "another week" is just a way of saying "we won't ship"
Andrew Sullivan: (00:19) @Jordoazumi Okutani(ASO): (00:24) The Board going forward is going to quite likely insist upon clear rationale accompanying GAC advice, and furthermore is far more likely to engage collaboratively with the community impacted by GAC advice before taking any action. Under thesecircumstances, the specific threshold chosenoutcomes of the GAC advice in the future.
Brett Schaefer: (00:25) Becky, objection is not the only issue with exercising EC powers. There is also a threshold (in four instances, 4 supporting) which could require unanimity in the SOACs to exercise those powers abesnt the GA.
jorge cancio (GAC Switzerland): (00:27) dear all, I don't think a subgroup will bring us closer to agreement than what is being discussed in this call. why not close the issue today?
Greg Shatan [GNSO - IPC]: (00:29) I agree as well.
Mathieu Weill, ccNSO, co-chair: (00:37) Thanks Andrew !
Jordan Carter (.nz, WP1 rptr): (00:40) Pedro: precisely. That's the Unique bit.
Sabine Meyer (GAC - Germany): (00:41) sorry for that, ghost "enter"
Mark Carvell GAC - UK Govt: (00:41) Thanks - good way forward with target date.
Izumi Okutani(ASO): (00:43) I completely agree with Andrew and reasuraing to have clarity by the CCWG Co-Chairs that tihs will not affect the timelines. I wanted to suggest to at least test the waters among the participants about the options on the table, so we have more clarity about a way forward on Rec11 (not a poll or a vote). It's not very clear to me what are the directions we are seeing as possible agreable way forward.
Jonathan Robinson: (00:45) @mATHIEU. tHANKS. i THINK YOU COVERED IT WELL.
Jordan Carter (.nz, WP1 rptr): (00:45) CWG Budget stuff seems to be good.
jorge cancio (GAC Switzerland): (00:45) and if there is no decision coming out of the voting?
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This natural specimen is still embedded in the rock matrix it was found in. There has been no polishing done to it. The Orthoceras itself measures approx. 1 7/8″ long.
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* An array-implemented stack, with utility functions!
#ifndef _UTILS_STACK_H_
#define _UTILS_STACK_H_
/* Type definition: */
} cc_stack_t;
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 * @param capacity the initial capacity.
 * @return a pointer to the created stack, residing in the heap.
cc_stack_t* cc_create_stack(uint32_t capacity);
 * Frees the memory allocated for a given pointer to a stack.
 * @param stack the stack to free.
void cc_free_stack(cc_stack_t* pointer);
 * Checks if the stack is full.
 * @param stack the stack you wish to check.
 * @return a boolean indicating whether it's full.
bool cc_is_full_stack(cc_stack_t* stack);
 * @return a boolean indicating whether it's empty.
bool cc_is_empty_stack(cc_stack_t* stack);
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void* cc_pop_stack(cc_stack_t* stack);
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void* cc_peek_stack(cc_stack_t* stack);
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#define INIT_BUFSIZE 1024
static char* my_getcmd(void);
	char *buf = my_getcmd();
static char* my_getcmd(void) {
	char *buf, *tmp;
	buf = malloc(size);
		if (getcwd(buf, size)) { return buf; }
		if (errno != ERANGE) { break; }
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		tmp = realloc(buf, size);
		if (!tmp) { break; }
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#include "../../includes/task.h"
#include "../../includes/payload_io.h"
static void init_task_trm(citadel_task_data_t *data, citadel_task_data_t *previous)
    data->in_realm = false;
    data->ticket_head = NULL;
    data->granted_pty = false;
    data->pid = 1;  // This is the default, signifying next hook to see it should set it. 0 is error.
    get_random_bytes(data->identifier, sizeof(data->identifier));
        // Generate forked process' credentials.
        data->in_realm = previous->in_realm;
        data->granted_pty = previous->granted_pty;
        // TODO do we want this? Auto propagation of identifiers and tickets to children might be bad.
        // data->ticket_head = NULL;
        // previous->ticket_head = previous->ticket_head;;
        // data->tagged = false; //previous->tagged;
        // if (previous->tagged) memcpy(data->identifier, previous->identifier, _CITADEL_IDENTIFIER_LENGTH);
        // mutex_destroy(&previous->lock);
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int trm_cred_alloc_blank(struct cred *cred, gfp_t gfp)
	init_task_trm(citadel_cred(cred), NULL);
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    // if (system_ready()) {
    //     printkc("cred_prepare called from PID %d\n", current->pid);
    init_task_trm(citadel_cred(new), citadel_cred(old));
// TODO cred_transfer
int trm_task_) {
int trm_task_kill(struct task_struct *p, struct kernel_siginfo *info, int sig, const struct cred *cred) {
    citadel_task_data_t *task_data = citadel_cred(cred);
    if (task_data && task_data->in_realm) {
        printkc("Tainted process, PID %d, being killed (sig: %d)\n", p->pid, sig);
void trm_task_free(struct task_struct *task) {
    // printkc("PID %d freed.\n", task->pid);
    // Remove entries from the ticket cache.
void trm_cred_free(struct cred *cred) {
    if (task_data && task_data->ticket_head) printkc("Need to free tickets for PID %d\n", task_data->pid);
    // Free tickets held by the task.