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Postby bawduniak » Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:06 pm

what are the options for hardware for the masthead on a wooden mast for my glen-l 14? i built a solid douglas fir mast with a groove routed for a boltrope on my mainsail. what do i put at the top of the mast for the main halyard to run over?

I read about mortising out a space for a sheave that the halyard travels over, but i forsee many problems with this....the halyard coming off the sheave when there is slack, etc. how should i secure the main halyard at the base of the mast?

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I'd use either the sheeve at the masthead you described with a simple stainless strip bent over the opening to keep the halyard in place. Secure it with a screw on each side or a block hooked to the mast with a padeye. Another option is to have the sheeve inset into the mast but the top of the mast still solid. Any of the 3 will work. I use the padeye and block on my 12' sailboat with a solid wood mast.

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Postby PapaDon » Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:33 am

Steve, I have some questions about your SOLID WOOD mast. What wood did you use? Are we talking 18' for a Glenn-L 12? Round, oval, or rectangular? Dimensions? And most important, what the heck does that weigh? Thanks
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Postby Steve Miller » Thu Feb 08, 2007 12:04 pm

My mast is 16' solid sitka spuce. The butt is 2.5" and it is is a bit less than 2" at the top. The mast is round. Laminated from 2 pieces using epoxy. Aproximately 2x4's full length.

Not sure what it weighs but I can easily step it myself. The boat is a Swifty 12 not a Glen-L. A bigger issue than weight is simply handling the length. Sort of a balance thing.

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Jim Furyk Jim Furyk shares the third round lead of the US Open with Graeme McDowell at 1-under, two ahead of Fredrik Jacobson of Sweden (Photo: Anthony Powter)

Tiger Woods started the day tied for the lead, at one under par, with David Toms and Jim Furyk.

By the third round’s end, Woods was tied for 14th, five strokes behind Furyk and McDowell, the 2010 champion, who posted a two-under 68 for a 54-hole total of one under.

Furyk is ranked second in driving accuracy percentages hitting the short grass an impressive 72% of the time. McDowell might not be overlong off the tee at 257 metres, yet makes up for it with hitting over 73% of fairways to be the most accurate driver on tour.

With Olympics swaggering dog-leg fairways and challenging greens McDowell arguably is the better putter of the two and this should serve the Norther Irishman well as he goes in pursuit of his second US Open title after winning the championship in 2010 at Pebble Beach.

“Yeah, you know, obviously delighted with my effort today,” said McDowell.

“It’s a tough course. You’ve really got to execute shots well. You’ve got to keep the ball on the correct side of the pin. And you’ve got to play well.”

Graeme McDowell Graeme McDowell walks on the first green during the third round at the 2012 U.S. Open (Copyright USGA/Steve Gibbons – Courtesy of www.usga.org)

According to McDowell the championship remains right open with a number of players capable of securing the trophy.

“I look at the leader board, and I see Tiger’s name, but I see other great names there, as well, Lee Westwood and David Toms and guys who know how to get the job done.”

“I think 4 over is about as far back as you can look. It’s fairly crowded. I think someone will go and shoot 69 or 70 tomorrow and get the job done.”

Furyk was in the same state of mind regard his chances of claiming a second US Open title after winning in 2003.

“Graeme and I are tied for the lead, but there’s a bunch of people piled up and close to it,” said Furyk.

“Obviously, I like being up front in the position I’m in. The golf course will take its effect on a bunch of people. It is the guys that go out there and deal with the conditions and the situations the best and find a way to get through those difficult holes with par and limit their bogeys will have an opportunity to win the last few holes.

Tiger Woods Tiger Woods plays his tee shot on the 10th hole during the third round at the 2012 U.S. Open (Copyright USGA/Jed Jacobsohn – Courtesy of www.usga.org)

Seventeen players, including Woods, are within five strokes of the lead.

What Woods has to do is stay patient.

“It’s not like where you have to go out there and shoot 62 and 63,” said the fourteen time major winner.

“This is a US Open. You just need to hang around. First you need to get off to a good start. Get through the first six. Because anything can happen at the last three holes.”

John Senden is the best of the Australians at 3-over-par an in a tie for eighth position followed by Adam Scott at 6-over-par and in a tie for 27th position.

Alistair Presnell fired a third round 5-over-par 75 to slip back into a tie for 47th position at 9-over-par after opening well at these championships with rounds of 70-74.

Rod Pampling and Jason day round out the Australians well back in the field at 11-over and 12-over respectively.

The 2012 US Open seems destined for a Monday playoff, like the ones that capped the 1955 and ’66 Opens at Olympic. It sets the stage for a fantastic finish in a championship which remains wide open.

Lee Westwood and Ernie Ells are lurking dangerously and certainly should not be discounted.

Westwood has six top-three finishes in his last 10 starts in majors. Two of those came in the US Open — in 2008 he finished a stroke out of the playoff between Woods and Rocco Mediate, and last year, when he finished 10 shots behind Rory McIlroy.

Els, who won this championship in 1994 at Oakmont Country Club and in 1997 at Congressional Country Club, wasn’t thinking about winning after the first five holes, three of which he bogeyed, yet his fortunes changed as his round evolved.

The Big Easy finished with three birdies and an eagle in his last 12 holes to shoot 68. The eagle came on the 17th hole, when he chipped in from far below the hole right of the green.

“I’m in a much better mood now than I was on the sixth tee,” Els said.

“To come back and play the last 12 holes in 5 under is quite amazing, and obviously the shot on 17 is what dreams are made of, a shot like that in a US Open.”


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Season is officially underway, and it's shaping up to be another stellar year. We had a little spell of warm weather at the beginning of the week, but the rain has arrived and the fish are steadily coming in.  Guests are typically hooking into 3-8 Kings a day with Chum and Sea Run Dolly Varden mixed in between. Pinks have started showing up lately as well, and as it is an even number year we expect the river to be flooded with them by the end of July. Grayling fishing has been good to great, with the braids and tributaries providing good numbers and size to match. Rainbows are still hanging around the lower river and have been crushing streamers after a long winter. Sockeye fishing, well, long story short, it's lights out. If you're looking to fill a freezer, now is the time.

Kings have been averaging around 15 pounds, but towards the end of this week we've been seeing the 20-30lb fish entering the system. A few 30lb+ fish have been hooked with a couple landed, so we are looking forward to this next week with great anticipation. In addition, we recently spoke with the team running the Weir this season and they are reporting record numbers of Kings passing through. That is outstanding news, considering last season was the largest run in 4 years!  Unlike some rivers in Alaska where the King runs have been receding, ours is running strong as ever.  All in all the fishing has been good and the weather has been moderate. Can't wait to see what this next week brings!

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Why amangal for Mangalam?

October 23 2013

The corporate world is shocked because of the way the CBI has filed an FIR against Kumar mangalam Birla in the Coalgate matter. And in a way, a few voices against the Congress are raising their voices. Its first effect is being seen on the election donations; the corporate world is spending money for the BJP with both hands, but is clenching its fists tight when it comes to the Congress. Kumarmangalam Birla has 35 per cent shares in a media company. Kumarmangalam’s son has come back from New York armed with a media management degree and his aim is to become a media baron. Keeping his son’s wishes in mind. Kumarmangalam was about to give him 51 per cent shares of this media company so that he could control the company. For a while now, this media group’s three channels and a multi-language news magazine has been taking an anti-government and anti-Congress stance. Once in a while, the news anchors would directly attack the Congress crown-prince Rahul Gandhi, too, and this was just not going down well with the Congress. Sources reveal that several warning were issued to Kumarmangalam from the Congress so that his channel mends its ways, but Kumarmangalam washed his hands off the affair saying he did not control the media group at present. Thus, the Congress and the UPA government started to feel that Kumar, too, has an anti-Congress and pro-Modi take and a political strategy was drawn to teach him a lesson. Setting Kumarmangalam as an example, the Congress wants to pass on the message to another top industrialist who has a big share in several media groups that he get over his Modi love while there’s still time, or he could face the same fate as Kumarmangalam.

  1. Vikram Iyengar Says:

    Stupid theory.

    KM Birla’s children’s ages are: Ananyashree, 18, Aryaman Vikram, 14, and Advaitesha, 9.

    Right wing idiots should do basic level verification before posting and believing inane conspiracy theories. You guys are so easy to fool, and you people want your God to rule the country next year. God help the nation

  2. Vikram Iyengar Says:

    In case right-wingers don’t understand the gist of my earlier comment (given some obvious deficiencies in gray matter): Birla’s son is 14. I guess in the conspiracy obsessed right-wing mind, 14 year olds can also become media barons and control the strings of some of India’s largest media houses.

    But then again, does it matter. All you guys need is some vague, slanderous allegation against Madam & Prince, and your gullbile readers and followers will start posting on FB and retweeting. As someone once said: A lie needs to be repeated a number of times, until it becomes the accepted truth. This behaviour is fitting of Goebbels. Fitting given the similarities between Goebbel’s boss (Hitler, my stupid right wing fellow citizens), and your big boss – Mr. Adolphendra Moditler.

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A few years back, a friend invited me to an iftar night out - essentially, grabbing iftar at a halal-friendly eatery (in this case, the wonderfully satisfying Burger 7 where I had not one but TWO burgers to break my fast).  Conversation got around to what and where we're finding Eid clothes.  I generally look for Pakistani clothes, which either my mom or me will find at the 11th hour, but I embrace anyone who wears American clothes to celebrate - because being American is part of our identity, in addition to any ethnic or other cultural practices we have.

Back to clothes...Yasmin is looking for a sleeved evening gown, and was willing to put down up to $150 for a nice gown for Eid.  She wears hijab and prefered not to have to jerry rig any gown to be modest, but will do it if needed.  Additionally, she stated she's looking for more "muted" colors, but you guys know me - I live for sequins and embellishments.

A long-sleeved gown in the summer months can be tough, but I put together a few to get Eid clothes shopping kicked off. It's no DKNY Ramadan Capsule Collection, but these might be slightly more Eidee-friendly. Click on the images below to be taken to the retailer!

**Disclaimer: Sizes and stock are limited AND some of these may need to be more modestified than others for Eid.**
1) Laundry by Shelli Segal: $53.99 // 2) House of Fraser Jersey Maxi: $54 // 3) Laundry by Shelli Segal Lace Floral Gown $108

1) BCBGMaxazria Long-Sleeve Meredith Gown: $134 // 2) Twelfth Streeth by Cynthia Vincent: $274 // 3) Eliza J Portrait Collar 3/4 Sleeves: $194

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The moon, now more than half full, remains in the house of Leo for a third day on the fourth of May. While Leos like to be leaders, they also tend to be very loyal, especially to people that they have known for a long time. Natives of all signs should consider working together with trusted friends and colleagues to accomplish tasks today.

Aries today horoscope 4 MayAries Daily Horoscope for Today 4 May 2017:
Natives of Aries tend to run into trouble on their projects because they refuse to let others help them, believing that they have the best possible vision and ability to complete the task. Natives of this sign should think carefully about whether they have any colleagues that they don't trust enough to bring onto the project, for the project's own sake.

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Taureans typically like to work alone so that they can work in their own way. While Taureans do tend to be very dependable and productive people, natives of this sign should give more thought to working with partners or in a team when possible, as they tend to carry more than their fair share when working alone.

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Natives of Gemini often know the people around them very well, and so tend to be in a good position to accurately pick the best people to work with them. Natives of Gemini do tend to get along with people, which also makes them great team players, even when they aren't carrying as much weight.

Cancer today horoscope 4 MayCancer Daily Horoscope for Today 4 May 2017:
Cancerians sometimes have difficulty working closely with other people, finding it uncomfortable on a social level. Natives of this sign do, however, like to finish their work and responsibilities on time, and so should consider taking on a partner to help bear the burden whenever possible.

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Leos typically want to be leaders of their teams, but may want to consider flattening their management structures. Working in teams where everyone has equal say often helps the Leo to gain credibility and respect from co-workers, which can make things easier for them in the future.

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Children of Pisces typically get along well enough with others on a personal level, but should try to keep up on the business while working as a team. Natives of this sign tend to be excellent communicators, but often have difficulty staying focused and managing time, which can make things difficult when working with others.

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Harrisburg, the Pennsylvania capital that continues to face financial struggles, is finally auctioning off millions of dollars worth of memorabilia that at one point was slated to be included in a city-sponsored museum.

The items for auction -- which include a pistol given to Wyatt Earp, a warrant for Jesse James' arrest, and a knife owned by Wild Bill Hickok -- were purchased with public dollars as part of a plan to create a Wild West museum that would, in theory, have drawn tourists to Harrisburg and revitalized the area's economy at a time when the city was struggling.

As Governing's John Buntin wrote in a 2010 article that outlined Harrisburg's path to fiscal insolvency:

By 2005, (then-Mayor Stephen Reed) had become the capital’s indispensable man, the Richard Daley of Harrisburg. But the arbitrary nature of his reign was put on display when Reed used Harrisburg Authority money to purchase items for a rather exotic economic development initiative: a Wild West museum that would include a replica of Tombstone, Ariz., on the day of the famous shootout at the OK Corral. Unbeknownst to the public, Reed had spent more than $7 million purchasing such items as the gates of the OK Corral and gambler Doc Holliday’s dentist chair for the museum, using funds provided by the Harrisburg Authority.

That plan was ultimately abandoned. The museum never materialized, and the city -- in the midst of a financial crisis -- was stuck with thousands of collectibles like antique advertisements, firearms and maps worth millions of dollars.

This week, New York-based Guernsey’s Auction Co. will auction those 8,000 items, after they spent last week on display to the public for inspection.

The Patriot-News reports that the estimated $2 million in sales the auction is expected to generate will be used to help support the city's financial recovery plan. Together, the city, school district and utilities and parking authorities, have a combined debt of more than $1 billion. In 2011, the city filed for bankruptcy -- a federal judge rejected it -- but Harrisburg is still under tight state supervision.

Still, even with the auction, the city will take a hit on the Wild West endeavor. The newspaper reports that this week's sale, along with the $1.7 million generated by prior auctions in 2007 and 2008, would mean the city ends up with $3.9 million for objects that it spent at least $8 million acquiring. Many have noted that the former mayor had a reputation for overpaying, and the authenticity of some of the objects being auctioned off has been questioned by many, including by the auctioneer who ran the 2007 sale and ultimately returned many of the collectibles.

Bidders who can't make it to Harrisburg this week can view the catalog and make offers via two online services, LiveAuctioneers or proxibid (full disclosure: the author of this article, a native Texan, may be eyeing some items from the Lone Star state.)

The good news for bidders: many of the items are dirt cheap. If $2,000 for a cane Doc Holliday supposedly left in a boarding house seems steep, you can always get a canteen of unknown origin for $20. It might not be clear what role it played -- if any -- in the history of the West. But it's guaranteed to be part of one of the most colorful chapters in the history of Harrisburg


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The Democratization of Power and the Electric Utility of the Future

Our one-way, hub-and-spoke model for delivering electricity dates back to the days of Thomas Edison. But disruptive technologies are enabling a new model that will transform utilities as we know them.
by | September 23, 2013

Monopolies, like monarchies, have inherent flaws, not the least of which is that the vast majority of people prefer to have a say about how they run their lives. Simply put, we prefer choices.

The idea that it was natural for utilities to be monopolies was first described by John Stewart Mill for delivery of gas and water in London circa 1848. His thesis was that for the public good the quality of the product and the continuity of delivery trumped a more competitive model.

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In the United States today, investor- or consumer-owned utilities have exclusive control of electricity service to their customers. About 75 percent of the U.S. population is served by investor-owned utilities and the remaining 25 percent by consumer-owned utilities, most of which are either municipal utilities or nonprofit cooperatives.

Whether by a private or a public entity, most electricity service is delivered from a central source out to individual homes and business, a hub-and-spoke model with power flowing only in one direction. This is a model virtually unchanged since the nation's first central power plant, Thomas Edison's Pearl Street Station, started generating electricity on Sept. 4, 1882, to power 400 lamps for 85 customers in New York City.

But now this model is changing in a very big way under the disruptive influence of emerging technologies that allow home and business owners to be operators of their own power plants, generating electricity from the sun or wind. This capability, coupled with computer technology to facilitate the localized transmission and use of power -- collectively known as microgrids -- will change the nature of monopoly utilities as we know them. Power will be flowing in many directions simultaneously, enabled by modernization of the nation's electricity grid.

Not surprisingly, the electric utilities are viewing this transformation with no small measure of alarm. Their trade organization, the Edison Electric Institute, has warned members that they are being put "in the same position as airlines and the telecommunications industry in the late 1970s."

How will this transformation take place? To be sure, there are huge administrative and technical issues to be dealt with. Beyond those issues, however, forward-looking leaders in both the private and the public sectors are imagining and developing new energy models where communities are more in control of their energy futures, gaining new capabilities for eliminating waste and improving system resiliency, supplies and price transparency.

One organization taking on this challenge is the Perfect Power Institute (PPI). Its objective, as its name suggests, is a "perfect" electric-power system -- one that never fails the consumer. A recent PPI white paper, "Investing in Grid Modernization: the Business Case for Empowering Consumers, Communities and Utilities," lays out a framework and process for improving the system that engages all stakeholders.

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What will the utility of the future look like? PPI Director John Kelly's vision is tied to two fundamentals. "We won't lose the monopoly on the transmission and distribution side," he says, but "the real innovation will be in allowing the customer full access to a competitive generation market while transforming the distribution system to be capable of handling local generation."

Case studies from communities such as Chattanooga, Tenn., Leesburg, Fla., and Naperville, Ill., detail new approaches that are yielding dramatic improvements in reliability and reduced costs. These provide hard evidence that the technology has evolved to the point where this new model is economical.

How do we expand these projects to communities across the country? Government leaders, working with utilities, will need to devise new policies, new guidelines and new business models for the utilities, aiming to help them navigate this transition.

These models should encourage customers to generate their own power and allow them to pay only for grid services they need. Pricing that supports the technology-enabled ability to "bring your own power" and "control your own demand" is likely to receive broad acceptance from customers. Choice will be king.


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What makes the Medicaid expansion work is the enhanced federal funding. To recap: the federal government will cover 100 percent of the costs from 2014 to 2016. That match will gradually decrease to 90 percent by the end of the decade, but is supposed to stay there indefinitely. Estimates place the costs to the federal government at $800 billion or more in the next 10 years; state are expected to spend as little as $8 billion combined. It is, in short, a very good deal.

So good, in fact, that Republican governors who have been vocal opponents of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are now coming around to begrudgingly accept the expansion. But when they do so, they’re sending an implicit warning to the Obama administration and future administrations: reduce the federal funding, and we’ll back out.

Think of it as a ‘trigger’ to pull out of the deal. Sometimes, the language is opaque: Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval said that “if there is any sign of change… at the federal level, it may alter my support for the expansion.” Other times, it’s much more direct: Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer included a provision in her proposed budget that would automatically repeal the expansion if the federal match dropped below 80 percent in later years.

“I won’t allow Obamacare to become a bait-and-switch,” she said in her State of the State address.

Why the bravado? The reasons are likely twofold. First, as Governing has reported, there is a very real fear among states and Medicaid offices that the program, including expansion funding, could be cut as part of any federal deficit reduction deal. And second, a conventional wisdom has grown that once a state accepts the expansion, it won’t be able to drop it in the future for both practical and political reasons. The optics of cutting off health insurance for millions of low-income Americans are never going to be pretty, no matter what might have happened in Washington.

“It's a signal. In part, it is a political message: ‘We're going to do this, but if you screw it up, it's on you. We're telling you right now: If you do this, we're out," says Matt Salo, executive director of the National Association of Medicaid Directors (NAMD). “On another level, given how hard it could be to back up the battleship, if you build it into the statute, from the political perspective, then the statute says we have to do it. It's more of a glide path.”

The White House has done everything it can to reassure states that they don’t have to include those kinds of caveats. The enhancing federal funding isn’t going anywhere, they say. Administration officials recently said publicly for the first time that Medicaid was off the table in the coming round of deficit reduction talks. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebilius has pledged repeatedly, using Brewer’s precise language, that the expansion won’t become a “bait-and-switch” for states. Even if the federal funding is reduced, administration officials have said that states would be allowed to drop out of the expansion if they wanted.

But there are only so many assurances the feds can give. To state the most obvious issue: this administration is only going to be in power through the third year of the expansion. Those attractive cost estimates that go through the next decade, usually 2022? They don’t take into account that the country could have had two different administrations in the White House by then, administrations without the same attachment to the ACA that the Obama White House has.

“It’s reassuring. It’s saying the right things. It’s putting states in a better place to make decisions. But is it a guarantee? Absolutely not,” Salo says. “These are static deals. There’s always a risk in what a future Congress or a future administration could do. Who knows what the future holds?”

But some think all this posturing on both sides is unnecessary. If the federal government needs to cut Medicaid funding to get the national deficit under control, they eventually will. Recent federal projections estimate the program will be costing the country more than $950 billion by 2021, nearly as much as Medicare. Some would argue that’s a lot of fat to cut—and it’s easy to imagine a future Republican administration or a Republican Congress trying to undermine a program that’s a big piece of Obama’s signature legislative achievement.

But it wouldn’t be easy for the feds to renege on their promise for enhanced expansion funding specifically. Though HHS has some leeway in how Medicaid is administered, the 90-10 match is written into the federal code as part of the ACA. The only way to change that would be an act of Congress, a difficult proposition in most political environments. So states that include these triggers in accepting the expansion might be overestimating how easy it would be for the feds to change course.

“There is some skepticism at the state level, but I think some of that is a misunderstanding about how the law is written and what the federal commitment is,” says Robin Rudowitz, associate director of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. “Congress would need to pass a law to reduce the federal funding.”

On the other side, despite that conventional wisdom that states would have political difficulties abandoning the expansion, states have proven themselves capable of making hard decisions with the program. The last few years, as Medicaid has eaten up more and more of state budgets, have resulted in hefty cuts to benefits, cost-sharing shifts and even attempts to reduce eligibility, though the ACA explicitly forbade states from doing so.

So the rationale that states won’t accept the Medicaid expansion and its generous federal funding because they wouldn’t be able to walk it back later is “nonsense,” said Gail Wilensky, former health care adviser to President George H.W. Bush, at a rural health policy conference in Washington, D.C., on Monday. That means the warnings that red states are sending as they accept the expansion might be more than just bluster.

“States have shown us all too often that when their budgets are squeezed, they are capable of narrowing Medicaid,” Wilensky said. “States have shown a willingness and an ability to do it. To me, that is not a very compelling reason for why states won't take advantage of the expansion now.”


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Pregnant, Then Fired: Chicago Schools Settle Discrimination Lawsuit

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By Juan Perez Jr.

Chicago Public Schools will pay $280,000 in damages and back pay as part of an agreement to settle a discrimination lawsuit brought against the district by the federal government last year.

The Chicago Board of Education approved the outlines of a tentative agreement with the government in November after a long period of negotiations. The Justice Department has declined to respond to the Chicago Tribune's questions about the suit and eventual settlement.

The government alleged last year that pregnant teachers at a Northwest Side elementary school received lowered performance ratings and were targeted for firing by their principal. The civil rights lawsuit alleged that from 2009 to at least 2012, Scammon Elementary School Principal Mary Weaver took actions to oust eight teachers who became pregnant or returned to work after their pregnancies.

Weaver subjected pregnant teachers "to disparate treatment with regard to performance evaluation ratings" and other matters, and "there existed a regular, purposeful, and less-favorable treatment of teachers because of their sex (pregnancies)," according to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago.

Weaver was not named as a defendant in the lawsuit, which sought monetary damages for affected teachers and new district policies to prevent discrimination.

The Chicago Board of Education must also send the government quarterly reports identifying "every complaint of discrimination or harassment related to pregnancy, and every related complaint of retaliation" made by a school employee, as part of the broad agreement filed in court Wednesday. As part of the agreement, the district does not admit to any wrongdoing.

"Chicago Public Schools is fully committed to promoting inclusive work environments free of discrimination or mistreatment," CPS spokeswoman Emily Bittner said in a statement. "We are taking steps to bolster training and policy awareness to ensure every school and office in CPS is a welcoming environment."

The district said it would conduct "training sessions" for district supervisors and review and update its nondiscrimination policy.

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Antioch, Calif., City Officials Invest in Website to Push Positive Image

The move is part of a larger effort to shape the city’s narrative.

by Aaron Davis, East Bay Times / October 19, 2017

(TNS) -- ANTIOCH — Frustrated at the city’s negative image, city officials and staff have been quietly working on a marketing campaign that will promote positive news while reducing negative news.

While the efforts aren’t new, the campaign to push a positive image of the city has taken a creative turn recently.

One of the city’s new efforts — — came up suddenly in late July as a destination for “community news and events,” specifically promoting positive news about the city of Antioch.

“We are a big city and most of the news media are attracted to negative news, but we know there are way more positive stories coming out of Antioch than negative,” said Lizeht Zepeda, program manager for the Economic Development Department.

The marketing campaign is an early effort by the city to control the city’s narrative and will soon be followed by a $100,000 proposal for a public relations firm to rebrand the city.

The $5,000 purchase order assigned to the project was never made public, due to a 2014 administrative memo that increased the amount of money city staff could spend without a an open bidding process.

Adding to the obscurity of publicly available information was that the website was registered to a company that is used to keep the website’s owners identities private. The site has a .com address, rather than a .gov, which would indicate it is a government-owned website.

A public records act request returned most of the publicly available information, and after an additional, in-person request, the city made documents such as the purchase order public.

Zepeda said the vendor the city contracted with, Nancy Mai Cagadoc of Brentwood-based Dualhare Inc., purchased the domain name and was planning on transferring it to the city. Cagadoc did not return calls seeking an interview for this article.

Councilman Lamar Thorpe was surprised to hear that the website was commissioned by the city of Antioch, saying it “was news” to him, but supported the effort as an improved “community newsletter.”

The trend toward local governments becoming their own news publishers has increased in recent years as the number of journalists employed around the country continues to dramatically drop.

Andrew Seaman, ethics chairman for the Society of Professional Journalists labeled the content “propaganda” in an interview with the San Diego Union-Tribune over San Diego’s positive news website.

Zepeda said that the inspiration for the website came about after the city received several unsolicited proposals for media relations.

On April 6, the city received its first unsolicited proposal, which came from the Burkholder Media Group, a local company owned by Oakley resident Mike Burkholder, who is also the author and publisher of

“I think that all governments can do a better job of putting out their information in a format that is easier for people to find,” Burkholder said. “I don’t think it should be 100-percent one way or another (positive or negative information). I think it should be real information that is useful to anybody.”

The offer wouldn’t be Burkholder’s first proposal to a local government agency: In February, Burkholder proposed a similar arrangement to the Antioch Unified School District for $53,900 a year. Burkholder’s media relations company, Mike & Mike Media, has also done work for the Antioch Police Activities League and photography work for current police chief Tammany Brooks.

After meeting with Burkholder, Zepeda said they received two more unsolicited proposals after which Zepeda recommended Dualhare for the work, she said.

City officials did not vote and were not briefed on the website, Zepeda said, and had only found out about it at the end of September when the public records act request was returned to the East Bay Times.

Councilwoman Lori Ogorchock referred many questions to city manager Ron Bernal, who has not responded to requests for comment, but said that Cagadoc had “done some social media work” for her in the past and likes the “positive content,” Cagadoc was creating.

Mayor Sean Wright compared the city’s efforts to cleaning up a house before a visitor comes over by “putting the best foot forward.”

As part of the city’s push toward a positive image, Wright said that City Council members agreed to remove crime narratives from the city manager’s weekly reports after the 2016 election.

“We’re not yelling, ‘here’s the bad information,’ we’re just doing what the other cities are doing,” Wright said. “Antioch would like to be more positive. It doesn’t mean there aren’t things we need to work on and fix, but if we want our home values to go up and we want the view to change, we need to focus on the positives.”

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Project Loon has brought Internet connectivity to how many people in Puerto Rico?

Answer: More than 100,000.

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Google headquarters on Jan. 24, 2016, in Mountain View, Calif. (Kristoffer Tripplaar/Sipa USA/TNS) TNS

Last month, the Federal Communications Commission granted an experimental license to Alphabet, parent company of Google, to launch a network of LTE-enabled balloons over Puerto Rico in an attempt to bring Internet service to the island in the wake of Hurricane Maria.

Now several weeks into deployment, Project Loon has provided basic Internet service to more than 100,000 Puerto Ricans. AT&T and T-Mobile partnered with Project Loon for this effort, allowing the Loon balloons to send LTE signals to their cell sites on the ground. From there, LTE-enabled devices are able to connect to the Internet. It’s not the same as standard cell service, but it’s enough to provide a basic connection to the outside world.


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Canvas gallery wall

Do you know what happens sometimes when a regular blogger does a design-related post?

You get to see something that COULD look really beautiful, except you get to see it in cell-phone pictures.

I would apologize profusely for that, except that you've found yourself on a blog titled GRASS STAINS, not Nesting Place or The Inspired Room. So you get what you get and you don't pitch a fit, as they say.

At any rate, I have a huge wall above our sectional sofa in the den, and I (long ago) decided that I wanted to do a canvas gallery wall on it. I chose to do nine 12x12 canvases, which I had printed at Costco, and I finally got around to hanging them up ... after I'd had them sitting in a stack on my hearth for about four months. (Again, GRASS STAINS.)

They help balance out the fireplace and large mantel that are to the left of the sofa, and they make me smile every time I look at them.

I chose one recent photo of each of the kids to enlarge, and one that was several years old (or, in Amelia's case, just about a year old). As they get older, I plan to have more made and either swap out some of the ones on this wall, or simply add three on each side of this set to have a total of 15 instead of nine ... one day.

The wall and couch are both so large that I think they could support 15, but who knows ... by then, I may have moved on to a totally new idea.

For now, though, I'm absolutely thrilled with the way this turned out!

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In preparation for next week's Fourth of July, I've been asking some folks around town just what "freedom" means to them. "Freedom" is a word that gets thrown about quite a lot these days. We talk about the freedoms we enjoy in this nation. Those of us in Madison are reminded of four particular freedoms each time we drive by the Four Freedoms Park and see the beautiful, marble monument that has become a symbol of our city.

But what does all this "freedom" talk really mean? Lately, we have seen instances where public officials have been accosted in public, refused service in restaurants, publicly harassed while out with families and other instances that have bordered on outright assault. Predictably, there have been those who have defended this behavior, saying, in effect, "That guy on the other side started it, so it's okay to say and do anything we want." I'm reminded of the saying, "Your right to swing your fist stops at my chin."

I am all in favor of everyone's right to protest and even complain when things aren't going the way they should. I have even been known to bellyache on occasion about different topics. Just ask any of the nice people with whom I work. I'm not always the sweet, gentle, "happy go lucky" guy that many of you have hopefully come to know and love. But I would never be rude to anyone, merely because they have a differing viewpoint than I. Anyone is free to disagree with me. I wouldn't be mean or rude to them just because they are wrong.

I strongly feel that along with the freedom to disagree comes an even greater responsibility to disagree in a proper manner. To me, being rude, using vulgar language and promoting violence is not what I would consider the proper manner.

A lot of really good people sacrificed a lot so that we can have the freedom to disagree. I would say to those who would use that freedom to behave poorly and rudely, "Please don't cheapen the sacrifices of a lot of brave folks with your foolishness!" Of course, anyone is free to disagree with me if you like, but please don't yell at me while I'm enjoying a chicken salad sandwich at Norris Cafe.

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Dental implants are posts made of titanium, surgically positioned into the bone beneath the gum. An abutment is screwed into the implant to support a crown or denture. A permanent replacement, dental implant look and respond like a natural tooth.

What are the advantages?

  1. Improve your smile and restore your confidence. Dental Implants look natural and are hard wearing;
  2. Eat hard food again. Dental Implants can withstand greater bite pressure than traditional dentures;
  3. Prevent bone loss in the jaw, which may compromise your adjacent natural teeth;
  4. Long lasting. These restorations never decay and with good maintenance, are designed to last a lifetime unlike bridges or dentures;
  5. Are more comfortable than dentures;
  6. Are fixed and do not need to be taken in and out.

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All-On-4 is a procedure that refers to replacing a whole row of teeth with four or more implants. The implants are tilted at an angle to allow for a full-arch denture to then be secured. This procedure can be used for both the upper and lower jaws.

All-On-4 is the most effective procedure and allows for simple hygiene and maintenance over time.

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Are We, like King Claudius, already Damned?

One of my first blog posts on this blog was a reaction to Daniel Markham’s rant on “Agile Ruined my Life“. Now Bob Marshall tells us that Agile Coaching is evil.

But are we like King Claudius damned if we merely do the acts without a good and honest heart:

[Rising] My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Will Fake Agile, or what other clever label can be found for it by Julian Holmes, be any less efficient than the real thing? Or is the most important thing that we follow safe and proven agile practices as documented by many and proven by research.

About Greger Wikstrand

Greger Wikstrand, Ph.D. M.Sc. is a TOGAF 9 certified enterprise architect with an interest in e-heatlh, m-health and all things agile as well as processes, methods and tools. Greger Wikstrand works as a consultant at Capgemini where he alternates between enterprise agile coaching, problem solving and designing large scale e-health services ...

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Git clone returning a “Repository not found” error on a private repo

I ran into this problem today where I was trying to clone a repo that I owned.

When I got the “Repository not found” I Googled it to find the following answers:

  • Your account doesn’t have access (it did)
  • Typo (nope, I copied and pasted)
  • The repo doesn’t exist (nope, see the second bullet)

I was dumbfounded. I was about to contact Github support when I saw an update in an article where someone had the same problem.

Under the repo address there is an option for HTTPS. It turns out when you are using a private repo you may need to grab the HTTPS address instead of the GIT one.

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Sityu Animal Benches have added a planter and a statue to compliment their greyhound benches. They donate 10% of the value of the sale of these greyhound related items to the Greyhound Trust. When ordering please quote Trust 10. For Prices / Ordering please visit their website


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Introducing Legacy4ALZ, A Time to Remember!

Improving the lives of local families affected by Alzheimer's/Dementia by increasing awareness, delivering effective programs/services, providing compassionate support, and advocating for quality care and a cure.

Alzheimer’s Greater Los Angeles is the only local, full-service, dementia focused non-profit with 36 years experience and five locations including Los Angles, East LA, the Inland Empire, San Fernando Valley, and Santa Clarity Valley.  100% of all support stays local in the communities we serve, allowing us to provide FREE programs and services to individuals and families.

Additionally, we continue to advocate on behalf of increased funding for reserach and resources at a national elvel.  Today our commitment to Greater Los Angeles remains stronger than ever and we hope your commitment to us remains strong as well.

It has been written that Memories are a Blessing.  When a loved one has Alzheimer’s or other dementias, they slowly lose their memories.  But family and friends still remember ... and the Legacy4ALZ society provides us a way to honor families and loved ones.  Legacy4ALZ society gifts live on forever.

Join us by making a simple bequest, creating a charitable trust, purchasing a charitable gift annuity or contributing a property through a life estate to guarantee a stream of income for yourselves, and for future generations.

When you join our Legacy Society you will receive a special certificate acknowledging your gift, as well as exclusive invitations to special programs and events.

Consider these questions:

  1. Have you considered creative ways to give that involve your estate plan?
  2. Did you know you could consolidate all your regular donations for the next 5 years and take the entire tax deduction this year?
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If any of these topics are of interest to you, or you have further questions, please contact Gary Cohn at or (323) 930-6201 or Sarah Jennings at or (323) 930-6204. Gary and Sarah will be happy to connect you with a team member that can discuss your needs.

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Our Board of Directors, staff, and volunteers are excited to direct 100% of our time, energy, and resources to local care, support, research, and expanding our advocacy efforts to include a local presence as well.

Our dedicated staff are here when people need us most… just like we’ve been for 35 years… serving Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and Riverside Counties.

ALZGLA is a leader developing and implementing innovative, quality based programs and services; and we look forward to expanding further as the need increases in the communities we reach. We also continue to partner with Alzheimer's organizations across the country to ensure consistency of care and easy access to resources.

We have been blessed by the support of so many friends, donors, and clients. Regardless of how someone has been involved, they’ve played an integral role in our success… and we are forever grateful.

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Qualcomm, NVIDIA and Broadcom to produce 64-bit CPUs

Chip vendors like Qualcomm, Nvidia and Broadcom will be ready to sell their 64-bit quad core CPUs by the first half of 2014. A quote from sources states:

"The planned 64-bit quad-core smartphone chips are expected to debut at CES 2014 at earliest"

MediaTek have orders for a 8-core CPUs, as we saw in this article, by many China-based smartphone vendors but other smartphone brands have their concern about those kinds of chips. They are seeing bigger competition in the face of the 64-bit A7 chip in the iPhone 5s. The sources also added that:

"To cope with demand from smartphone vendors, Qualcomm, Nvidia and Broadcom reportedly have revamped their product roadmaps for 2014, aiming to release 64-bit smartphone solutions in the first half of 2014"

MediaTek may delay the launch of its 64-bit CPUs to the second half of 2014.

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DUBAI: There should be a mechanism for assigning balanced responsibility among AI designers, producers and users, experts at the second session of the Dar Al Khaleej Conference on Saturday agreed.

Chairman of the Private Law Department at United Arab Emirates University, Dr. Emad Abdel Rahim Dahiyat, presented a paper on the “Legislative and Legal Framework for Artificial Intelligence Institutions in the UAE.”

He said, “We are in an environment where programming companies are designing software capable of reading and analysing documents, forecasting disputes and proposing legal settlements.”

Apart from Artificial Intelligence’s humanitarian uses like in medicine and education, he explained, it is being assimilated into the military field such as in military equipment and electronic warfare.

In his paper, he discussed challenges in AI-based agreements, regarding who to be held liable, and the current local and global legislative system and shortages to be tackled in order to activate AI in the UAE.

“Today we have AI programmes that make decisions without direct human intervention. What if a self-driving car causes unpredictable or unpreventable damage? Who should be legally accountable?

“What if AI breaches intellectual property rights or destroys a given website? In such scenarios, is it the user, programmer, distributer, service provider or website manager to blame for the loss?

“What if the losses and financial implications caused by the smart programme are greater than could be handled by the user?” he asked and cited examples of fatal accidents caused by smart cars.

“To make matters worse, the failure of smart programmes or robots is not always attributed to negligence or programming and development mistakes, but to factors such as viruses and breakdowns.”

He stressed that it is irrational to hold users or programming companies solely responsible as it will drive either parties to refrain from using or developing such programmes.  “Thus it is necessary to review legislations pertaining to information technology in a realistic manner that harmonises with the type of programme and its role and balances interests of concerned parties.”

He said the current legislative systems regard electronic programmes as mere conduits and attribute most of the liabilities to the users. “They fall short of realising that current programmes can act independently,” he said.

Intellectuals agreed there should be a special law on AI provided that concerned parties seek the help of computer scientists in drafting it and that the user should not be held accountable for a programme’s unpredictable actions.

The session’s chairman Dr. Abdullah Abdul Jabbar Al Majid, Assistant Undersecretary for Support Services, Ministry of Justice hailed Al Khaleej Study Centre under Dar Al Khaleej for Press Printing and Publishing.

“The centre plays a paramount role in organising annual conferences that shed light on contemporary challenges and solutions, in this regard comes today’s conference within the 4th industrial revolution.”

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