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I can’t help but get emotional when I think about my early days in the movie business. I started off playing extras in movies and worked my way up in the industry.

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“It’s a place where we can be comfortable having conversations that never could take place otherwise,” said Sen. Doug Thomas, R-Somerset, a firewood dealer.  “It gives our industry a chance to mingle with policymakers and get to know each other better. I think we all have a better understanding of important issues as information flows in both directions. I know I learned a lot and count it as time well spent.”

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“I look forward to this annual event,” said Rep. Terry Hayes, D-Buckfield. “It’s great to reconnect with members we’ve met on the woods tours and get an update on how things are going in the industry.”

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“What a great event,” Meadows emailed later. “Thanks very much for including me. It was wonderful to catch up with so many council members.”

The reception also gave Rep. Stacey Guerin, R-Glenburn, who chairs the Legislative Memorial Scholarship Fund, an opportunity to ask MFPC members to contribute to items for the annual auction. Hundreds of items are donated, many of them made in Maine. The fund makes it possible for 16 students, one from each county in Maine, to receive as much as a $1000 award.

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For Sen. Andre Cushing, who owns a home construction company, it’s heartening to see legislators learn more about what matters to Maine’s forest products industry.

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The reception also is valuable to MFPC, its members and all who are involved with Maine’s forest economy, Strauch said.

“These events are important,’ Strauch said, “because they let legislators and members of the administration see the people that the organization represents. Thanks to those who attended and members of the Board of Directors who hosted the event. As always a great job by Office Manager Sue McCarthy in taking care of the details!”

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This Is The Earth

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Next week, I’ll have just one or two posts and hope that my readers have a very happy Thanksgiving.

Library is great resource for the history of your building

For $1,000 a month, an UWS apartment — uh, room or closet — can be yours!

Yesterday’s buyers in tax-abated buildings come to grips with tomorrow’s escalating costs

More folks moved to the city last year than left it for the first time in decades

A Times columnist tries out Airbnb in the city

City’s wealthy suburbs among nation’s hardest hit by foreclosures

Condos in unbuilt UES development boom as in times gone by

Pre-foreclosure filings in October down 20% from September and 39% from one year earlier

Brooklyn is friendliest borough to (wo)man’s best friend

What is the definition of ‘market value’

Nemo and Mickey join Department of Housing Preservation and Development

WestSideRag posts funny, cutting rant about broker babble

Unemployment rate ticks up, concerning at least one economist

He sees rich people for this Sun Valley listing

Fashion designer Continue reading

The Big Apple: Citywide stats improve. . . a bit

VOWs prove useful to buyers searching for new homes

Brokerage firms are getting into the digital game themselves, creating a “virtual office Web site” or VOW.

These are sites operated by brokers that enable clients to search for most of the available properties in a particular market, not just the firm’s exclusive listings, according to the New York Times.

While brokers have mixed feelings about whether these sites are worth the investment, the emergence of the VOW is yet another sign that once tightly guarded listing information has finally been set free in New York.

Dollar value of citywide sales climbs from Q1 to Q2 as seasons change, but sales activity slips 4 percent below one year earlier

The total dollar value of New York City’s residential sales transactions jumped 13 percent in the second quarter of 2011 to Continue reading

The Big Apple: CPW sale turns tidy profit. More!

She who hesitates hardly is lost

Mildred Furiya bought her townhouse in Brooklyn for $16,000 in 1966 with a cash gift from her father. Now she plans to list the dwelling for approximately $1.895 million.

A sale at that price would represent an 11,744 percent increase over 45 years — or an annual return of about 11 percent, says the New York Times.

Numbers cruncher says he’s bullish on Manhattan

Manhattan just doesn’t behave like the rest of the country Continue reading

2-BR Mitchell-Lama co-ops on UWS to be sold

The city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) is once again advertising a lottery for New York State residents to be placed on a waiting list for a two-bedroom apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.

The co-op’s purchase price is only $26,376 with carrying charges of $357 to $688, depending on the number of dependents. Continue reading

The Big Apple: Prices, sales slip in 1st quarter

Weakness emerges in Manhattan market during first quarter

Reports issued today showed price declines as much as 23 percent from the same time last year, according to the New York Times.

One of the reports, prepared by the Miller Samuel appraisal firm, had the median sale price down by 9.9 percent to $782,071. According to that document, a new index of sales that have yet to close recorded a 7.1 percent increase over the same time last year, suggesting an upswing in the current quarter.

Explanations for the dip included the artificial bump caused last year by the federal homebuyer tax credit and a boost this year in the sales of co-ops, which are generally less expensive than condos, as the result of a crimp in condo inventory.

As Noah Rosenblatt, a blogger, broker and data provider, points out on UrbanDigs.com, the figures on which the reports are based are flawed because of the way they are gathered.

Says he: “. . . you MUST understand that you are seeing an incomplete report with a ton of Q1 sales not yet publicly released! Especially March, whose sales will continue roll in over the course of the next 4-8 weeks. . .”

Price of studios suggests it’s a good time to buy one

The studio market has gone soft again–just as it did in the last recession, says the New York Times.

Prices have dipped to 2005 levels, making it possible to find studios in Manhattan in the $200,000s–lots of them. And they don’t all face a brick wall or involve a lengthy hike to the subway.

The average price for studios dropped to $404,326 in 2010 from a high of $500,479 in 2008.

A recent search of Manhattan listings on the Times real estate site and on Streeteasy.com found close to 200 studios available for $300,000 or less. An article about studios in The Times in 2009, before the market had bottomed out, found only a handful of studios in that price range.

The Times provides Continue reading

Can you imagine a 2-BR Brooklyn co-op for $19,000?

The city has just announced the lottery to be placed on waiting lists for one-and two-bedroom Mitchell-Lama co-ops in the FortGreene/Clinton Hill part of Brooklyn.

One-bedroom units run $13,599-$16,757 and two-bedroom apartments, $18,985.  Monthly carrying charges are no more than $620 for the small units and $722 for the bigger ones.

As is the practice of the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, however, there is no clue either in the ad or on the department’s Web site just which buildings will be available.  And unfortunately, I do not know the neighborhood well enough to guess.

If you qualify for Mitchell-Lama income limits and Continue reading

Here’s your chance to buy a cheap 2-BR UWS co-op

A Mitchell-Lama building somewhere in Manhattan.

“Chance” is the operative word in the headline.

That’s because the city’s has announced the establishment of a new lottery for the purchase of Mitchell-Lama co-ops in Manhattan for a virtual song.

According to an ad in the Times, “waiting lists are being opened” for Upper West Side apartments ranging in size from studio to two-bedroom.  As is the practice of the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, however, there is no clue either in the ad or on the department’s Web site just which buildings will be available.

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Reds Meadow Road, All Local Roads Now Open

Wendilyn Grasseschi
Times Reporter

Reds Meadow Road and all of the rest of the high elevation roads near and into Mammoth are now open, according to local land manager officials.

The opening of the road, like all of the Mammoth area high elevation roads, has been seriously slowed by a deep snowpack and a very cold, wet spring that has not allowed the big snowpack to melt as much as it normally would during the month of June.

The result is that there is still several feet of snow on many hiking trails above 9,500 feet.

Deanna Dulen, the superintendent of the monument, noted, however, that not all campgrounds in Reds Meadow Valley are open yet.

"Due to operational challenges associated with winter storm impacts, Devils Postpile National Monument will not reopen its 20-site campground in 2019 (near the Ranger Station)," she said.

There are five U.S. Forest Service campgrounds in the immediate area that can accommodate several hundred campers a night, she said.

She said the decision to close the popular, 20-site National Park campground located right next to the river and repurpose it for other uses was based on several reasons.

One, the monument has limited day-use facilities that do not meet the demands of the 150,000 annual visitors, she said. "The existing day-use area is congested and cramped, due to the campground and parking occupying much of the usable space. This continued closure will provide greater access and a higher quality recreation experience for day-use visitors along the riverfront for fishing and picnicking. Visitors of all abilities will have access to the river and more opportunities to enjoy the natural sights and sounds of the area without the more strenuous hiking required by the monument’s other destinations," she said.

Two, in addition, extensive parking congestion occurs in the monument after Labor Day when the mandatory shuttle operations cease and, at times, visitors are turned away due to lack of parking, she said. Often, the current parking capacity of 65 spaces cannot accommodate fall shoulder season visitors, when, on average, 300-500 cars arrive daily. By using the campsites for overflow parking in 2019, many more vehicles can park and fewer vehicles will be turned away.

"With visitors finding new ways to enjoy this riverfront area during recent closures, the benefits of permanently converting the campground to a day-use area have become more apparent," she said. "The monument is interested to hear whether you think the 20-unit campground is the best use of this space or if it should be reimagined for day-use activities. Comment cards are available at the ranger station."


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Logotipo 350 Aniversario

Coinciding with the  Year of Consecrated Life promoted  by Pope Francisco and the 5th Centenary of the Birth of St. Teresa de Jesus de Avila, the coming May 24, 2015 we will celebrate the 350th  Anniversary of the birth for heaven (Dies Natalis) of Sister Maria de Jesus de Agreda.

How it happened…

              “On May 24, 1665, Sunday of Pentecost, at the same Third hour in which the Divine Spirit came over the Apostles, and the nuns used to sing in the chorus room the “Veni Creator Spiritus” hymn; invoking herself (Sister Maria de Jesus) the coming of the Celestial Spirit, with low and devoted voice, and after repeating come, come, come, peaceful and slowly exhaled her soul  plenty  of merits and virtues, after a very painful illness, caused by a fever and aposteme in the chest that suffered patiently during eleven years. Just then she was sixty-three years old, forty six years as nun and thirty six years as Abbes.

Her memory lasts in the time

Immediately after her death, many manifestations of devotion began not only in the Village of Agreda but also in other places of Spain and of the world. The publishing of her writings, principally The Mystical City of God, help to promote her beatification cause, introduced by the Franciscan Order few years after her death. Her canonization process was interrupted because of doctrinal problems in her writing that have been solved today by different studies performed, it only waits an impulse by the Postulation to take to happy end her beatification cause.

Opening of the 350th Anniversary

Past November 24, 2014, began the celebrations of the 350th Anniversary of her Dies Natalis with an emotive Eucharist celebrated by Fr. Alberto Blanco one of the Parish Pastors of Agreda.

At that time the “Sister Maria de Jesus Working Group” made the opening presentation of the event that has the following aims:

  1. To help up the Beatification Cause.
  2. To make evident that Sister Maria de Jesus is topical nowadays as well as her thinking.
  3. To promote the figure of Sister Maria de Jesus in all her facets.
  4. To propose her as a model of evangelizer.
  5. To bring together the efforts of all the groups who are working for her Beatification Cause around the world.

Several activities are programmed during this year such as:  A special edition of the Magazine of Soria, some conferences, concerts, and the presentation of a musical theater among other events.

In the city of Rome it is organizing an International meeting of Mariology entitled: “Maria de Agreda and the Mystical City of God: historical context and Essential features of her thought, prepared by The Pontifical International Mariana Academy (PAMI). It will take place at the Pontifical Antonianum University, on October 29 – 30, 2015.

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New Medical Cannabis Laws Take Effect Today In Virginia

Virginia can now look forward to a greater range of products

Three new laws intended to expand patient access to and the therapeutic value of Virginia’s medical cannabis program take effect July 1, 2019.

“Patient access is critical to the success of Virginia’s medical cannabis program,” said Jenn Michelle Pedini, NORML’s development director and executive director of Virginia NORML. “These bills help ensure that all patients are able to obtain and use the necessary therapeutic doses of their cannabis medicines regardless of location or physical ability.”

Virginia medical cannabis patients can now look forward to a greater range of products available in full therapeutic strengths thanks to Senator Dunnavant’s SB1557. Previously, Virginia’s five licensed medical cannabis providers, called pharmaceutical processors, would have been limited to dispensing only oils when they open their doors later this year. Now, patients can expect to see products typical of compounding pharmacies, like capsules, topicals, lozenges, lollipops, and suppositories, with an allowance of up to 10 milligrams of THC each.

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NaPoWriMo 2017, Day 20: A Poem Using Terms from a Particular Sport

Designed for Use in Congested Areas

The WIFFLE (R) perforated plastic ball

is thrown like a baseball
and will curve very easily

different grips and releases
no need to throw the ball hard

designed for use in congested areas
the ball will not travel far

when solidly hit

ball chasing and base running
have been eliminated

an ordinary broom handle can be used

imaginary runners

From a prompt at, using information from the WIFFLE company website. The whole time I wrote this, I was sort of memory-smelling a WIFFLE ball and feeling a sadness that may be nostalgia or may be a remnant of dismal times playing with one of these because there wasn’t much else to do — like at your grandparents’ house (or at mine, anyway).

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Offshore and Ocean Technology with Offshore Materials Engineering MSc/PgDip/PgCert

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The Offshore and Ocean Technology with Offshore Materials Engineering MSc course develops professional engineers with specialist knowledge of the selection, behaviour and maintenance of a wide variety of complex materials used offshore. This knowledge is crucial to the success of the industry, particularly with the growth in novel materials for the renewable energy sector. Our graduates can expect to be in demand globally as specialist structural and materials engineers, in oil and gas, and renewable energy applications.

This programme is suitable for engineering and science graduates keen to pursue careers within the offshore sector; or graduates currently working in the offshore and ocean-related industries keen to extend their qualifications; or individuals with other qualifications who possess considerable relevant experience.

Programme Structure
The course comprises eight one-week assessed modules, a group project, and an individual thesis project. Students undertaking the Postgraduate Diploma (PgDip) complete the eight modules and the group project. Postgraduate Certificate (PgCert) students are required to complete six of the eight modules. Part-time studies start throughout the year.

The group project is an applied multidisciplinary, team-based activity. It provides students with the opportunity to take responsibility for a consultancy-type project while working under academic supervision. Students select the individual project in consultation with the Course Director. The individual project provides students with the opportunity to demonstrate their ability to carry out independent research, think and work in an original way, contribute to knowledge, and overcome genuine problems in the offshore industry.

Core Modules Elective Modules
Materials in the Offshore Environment Offshore Renewable Energy - Technology
Safety Risk and Reliability Offshore Subsea Oil and Gas Exploitation
Offshore Inspection Finite Element Analysis and Materials Modelling
Failure of Materials and Structures Offshore pipeline design and installation
Corrosion in the Offshore Environment Reliability engineering and asset risk management
Technology and Project Management Energy Policy, Carbon Markets and Futures

Contact Information: Enquiries Office (web form)

The highlighted icons, represent the fields of education (in compliance with ISCED Classification) engaged during this course/programme.

0713 - Offshore and renewable energy", "0715 - Machinery and operators", "0732 - Near- and offshore constructions

Venue: Cranfield University
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Tuition fees 2015/16 MSc PgDip PgCert
full-time part-time full-time part-time full-time part-time
UK/EU student £9.000 £1.500 £7.200 £1.500 £3.600 £1.500
Overseas student £17.500 £17.500 £14.000  £14.000 £7.000 £7.000

Part-time study fees: the annual registration fee is quoted above. An additional fee of £1.300 per module is also payable.

Degree Requirements
A first or second class UK Honours degree (or equivalent) in a related science or engineering discipline. Other recognised professional qualifications or several years relevant industrial experience may be accepted as equivalent; subject to approval by the Course Director. Applicants who do not fulfil the standard entry requirements can apply for the Pre-Masters programme, successful completion of which will qualify them for entry to this course for a second year of study.

English language
If you are an international student you will need to provide evidence that you have achieved a satisfactory test result in an English qualification. The minimum standard expected from a number of accepted courses are as follows:

  • IELTS: 6.5
  • TOEFL: 92*
  • Pearson PTE Academic: 65
  • Cambridge English Scale: 180
  • Cambridge English: Advanced - C | Proficiency - C

Application Procedure:

Apply for the programme Offshore and Ocean Technology using the online application form. UK students are normally expected to attend an interview and financial support is best discussed at that time. Overseas and EU students may be interviewed by telephone.

Application deadline: although there are no set application deadlines, applicants are recommend to apply as early as possible to secure a place. This is particularly important if you also want to apply for on-campus accommodation or need to apply for a visa to study in the UK, as these activities will take additional time after your course offer has been made.

Grant Opportunities:

Funding opportunities exist, including industrial sponsorship, School bursaries and a number of general external schemes. For the majority of part-time students sponsorship is organised by their employers. Applicants are recommend to discuss this with their company in the first instance. More information is available here.

To help students in finding and securing appropriate funding we have created a funding finder where you can search for suitable sources of funding by filtering the results to suit your needs. Visit the funding finder.

The MSc course is accredited by the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST) for CEng, CMarTech and MIMarEST. In addition, the MSc has been approved by the Energy Institute (EI) for membership, and as meeting the Engineering Council UK’s further learning requirements for Chartered Engineer registration under UK-SPEC.

Academic level: Master

Taught modules 40%, group project 20% (dissertation for part-time students), individual project 40%.

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Every business faces cybersecurity challenges, no matter the industry or size. Use the steps in this infographic to proactively protect your customers, employees and intellectual property – and by extension your business’ reputation and success: →

Businesses are quickly deploying all kinds of technology. Different kinds of technologies
come with different risks and strategies to protect them. This checklist is designed to help
you identify the technology in your business you need to protect. In addition, there are
some basic security tips, considerations and links to resources that can help you learn more

The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team out of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has several resources available to businesses aligned to the five Cybersecurity Framework Function Areas: Identify; Protect; Detect; Respond; and Recover.

Some resources and programs align to more than one Function Area. These are updated as additional resources — from DHS, other Federal agencies, and the private sector — are identified:

Visit one of the links at StaySafeOnline to check your devices for known viruses and spyware and see if your device is vulnerable to cyber attacks:

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) works with experts from industry, government, and academia to address businesses’ most pressing cybersecurity problems with practical, standards-based solutions using commercially available technologies.

The Handbook is intended to be a guide to assist U.S. manufacturers who supply products within supply chains for the DOD and who must ensure adequate security by implementing NIST SP 800-171 as part of the process for ensuring compliance with DFARS clause 252.204-7012, “Safeguarding Covered Defense information and Cyber Incident Reporting,” available at


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Advent Prayer

Here is a prayer I have prepared for Advent Sunday tomorrow…

It is Advent Sunday – we start the Christian year again
With Advent is the invitation to deeper engagement
What has been said before will be said again,
but with two significant differences:
firstly, the world is not as it was before
– it is better and it is worse, that is the nature of the world;
and secondly, we haven’t been who we are before
– we are always at the edge of growing,
and deepening our engagement with the dynamics of God’s grace at work in us…

so we pray

As the late spring winds blow
and test the hold that the new leaves have on the branches,
so God we invite your spirit-presence into our lives
and the lives of those about us.

God we do not seek you as a comfort-blanket under which we can hide,
no, we invite your turbulent love to sweep over us
and this land, and this world in need.

Stir us, enliven us, engage us,
that in this season of Advent
we will hear again, as if for the first time,
of your invitation to live the transformed life.

You come in Jesus Christ.
We come in response.

You call us to life in all its fullness.
But we confess that we almost always respond in our own way,
from our places of comfort and resistance, and consequently,
with lowered expectations of what your fullness can be.

Forgive us, we pray,
forgive us for the way that we so often hear your call
and so often have our hearts stirred,
but before too long we have resorted to our old habits
and given into our divided loyalties.

We invite your turbulent love to sweep over us.
We invite your Living Word to stop us in our tracks.
We invite your Spirit-presence into the corridors of our resistance
to blow away the dust and cobwebs of our fear-filled patterns of life,
that we might hear the call from the deep
and respond anew with vigour and passion,
to the story of you, O God, living among us full of grace and truth.

And this is God’s word to us… from 2 Corinthians 5:17
“… if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!”

This is what God pronounces for us.
This is the life that God creates in us.
This is the promise that comes to us today in Jesus Christ.
And God’s Spirit enables us to live into this new creation.

God, hear us as we hear your call
and respond in love as a forgiven and renewed people,
in Jesus’ name.  Amen.


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Rumor: TalkShoe Seeking $5 Million

TalkShoe may be seeking some venture capital, according to a source MG Seigler found over at VentureBeat today. According to the source, they're looking for about $5 million from Third Security in VC.

As MG mentioned, this is looking to be a cap off on a successful run for TalkShoe. The've recently launched new Facebook and iPhone applications, and are currently boasting around 47,000 calls last year and 7.5 million downloads.

Several tipsters also sent in news of the talks with investors, as was mentioned by Dave Nelson (the CEO of TalkShoe) on his podcast earlier today. Amidst the talk, he also dropped the information that around $10,000 has been paid out to TalkShoe hosts over the month of April and over $100,000 for the year of 2007.

Dave Nelson was unavailable for comment at the time of this writing.  As soon as we're able to reach him, we'll update you on what's going on.


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5 Charitable Gifts You Can Buy for the Price of an iPhone 5S

Apple fans lined up nationwide last Friday to get their hands on the new iPhone 5S and its more cost-effective cousin, the iPhone 5C.

But for $299 — the cost of a 32GB iPhone 5S with a two-year contract — you could also rack up some serious karma points by sponsoring an endangered species (or six!), planting a few hundred trees or donating life-saving medical supplies to a family in need.

If you find some extra cash lying around after your next trip to the Apple Store, here are five charitable ways to make your money really count.

What causes do you support? Let us know in the comments.

Infographic: Mashable, Bob Al-Greene

Image: Mashable, Nina Frazier


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How the touch-friendly Microsoft Office will look on Windows 10

Microsoft's new Powerpoint app optimized for Windows 10.
Microsoft's new Powerpoint app optimized for Windows 10.
Image: Microsoft

Microsoft showed off an all new suite of Office apps optimized for touch devices on Windows 10.

Microsoft's Joe Belfiore showed off preview versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps for Windows 10 on a Windows Phone.

All of the new Office apps will be free and automatically included in the Windows 10 build on phones.

The latest versions of the apps support the Office Ribbon, which allows users to quickly access the formatting menu at any time to help provide what Belfiore described as a "nearly no compromise experience" when using them on Windows Phone handsets.

The Office apps will also support wireless printing and mirrorcast so you can beam presentations to a display from your phone or tablet.

Belfiore also previewed the upcoming Outlook email and Calendar apps for Windows 10, which will be universal apps. The new Outlook will include support for gesture-based controls; left and right swipes allow you to delete or flag messages in you inbox, similar to the way gestures work in Mailbox and other email apps.

The new Office apps look different from the existing versions for Windows Phone handsets and small tablets; the new user experience is much closer to the current desktop apps.

Microsoft is offering the apps to users for free, which is not surprising. Since first unveiling its Office apps for iPad last year, the company has increasingly focused on making the Office suite free for mobile users.


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Delta passengers contend with check-in problems due to website malfunction

Image: Flickr, Aero Icarus

Passengers on Delta Air Lines Monday afternoon were unable to check in for their flights because of a malfunction with the airline's website, mobile app and airport kiosks.

Travelers from different parts of the country complained about the problem on Twitter. Delta spokesman Paul Skrbec did not have a number for passengers affected by the outage but said it was not system-wide. Employees were helping passengers at ticket counters and Skrbec described the problem at the kiosks as "intermittent." Passengers were also reporting long wait times of up to four hours on the phone.

The computer problems came on a day with massive flight delays and cancelations in New York and Boston due to a winter storm.

Delta canceled more than 200 of its mainline flights Monday and hundreds of others belonging to regional airlines flying under its name, according to tracking site FlightAware.

The company said that its computer problem had caused a "small number" of delayed departures.

A call to the airline's reservation center was met with a grim message: "We are currently experiencing technical difficulties which we are diligently working on."

"You may want to try your call again later."

Jill Andreu, of East Bank, West Virginia, was trying to book a work trip on but kept getting an error message.

"I fly Delta because I feel safe with them and feel their customer service is unparalleled," she said via email. "One would think technology upgrades would be another example of their first-rate service, but that often hasn't been the case."

Additional reporting by Mashable


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Softball Set For District Tournament Matchup vs Anne Arundel CC

Softball Set For District Tournament Matchup vs Anne Arundel CC

BROCKTON, Mass. ---- The Massasoit softball team will make the trek down to the Annapolis, Maryland area to face NJCAA Division III District H tournament-host Anne Arundel Community College (Arnold, Md.) on Saturday at 10 AM in a semifinal contest.

The winner of the four-team district tournament earns an automatic bid the NJCAA Division III National Tournament held in Rochester, Minn., from May 17-19. Massasoit's last trip to the NJCAA Nationals in softball came in 1991.

"We are so excited to have the opportunity to compete at districts with a chance to go to Nationals," third year head coach Jordan McDermott said. "The past few seasons have definitely had some challenging moments. However, I am very happy with how the girls have been able to respond to one another and how they have bonded with strong team chemistry.

"I couldn't be excited for these girls and the program. This weekend we are going to go into the tournament with the determination to succeed," McDermott said.

Massasoit will be competing in its first-ever NJCAA Division III District Tournament, thanks to claiming the Region 21 title by sweeping a four-game series against Northern Essex. It will mark the Warriors first trip to a district tournament since 2013, when Massasoit advanced as an NJCAA DII program.

The tournaments two semifinal matchups are single elimination, with the winners playing a best-of-three series, starting Saturday afternoon and concluding on Sunday.

The other semifinal matchup pins Region 20 runner up Butler County (PA) vs Suffolk County (NY), the Region 15 champion, on Saturday at 12 PM.

Tournament Schedule
District Semifinals – Saturday, May 5th
G1: R21 Massasoit (5-9) vs R20 Anne Arundel (11-20) – 10 AM
G2: R20 Butler County (5-2) vs R15 Suffolk County (15-12) – 12 PM
District Finals
G3: Game 1 Winner vs Game 2 Winner – 2PM (Best of 3)

District Finals – Day 2, Sunday, May 6th
Sunday, May 6th
G4: Game 1 Winner vs Game 2 Winner – 10 AM
G5: Game 1 Winner vs Game 2 Winner – 12 PM (If Necessary)

It has been a rollercoaster season for Massasoit during the 2018 campaign, highlighted by winning its first Region 21 title in five years.

Massasoit lost its first five games, then rung off a five-game win streak, before dropping the last four contests to conclude the regular season.

At the plate, the Warriors are hitting .307 as a team with five regulars hitting north of .300 and averaging better than seven runs per contest.

Leading the charge in the batter's box has been sophomore Courtney Foley of Holbrook. The versatile lefty, who sees time in both the infield and outfield, is hitting an eye-popping .516 for the season, to lead the team. Foley also tops the team in runs (16) and tied for the team-high with four extra-base hits.

Manning shortstop and hitting .410 is freshman Jazmyn Conrad. The slick fielding infielder is tied for the team-high in RBI (12) and extra-base hits (4) and has scored 12 runs on the season.

Fellow freshman Neive Doyle (Weymouth) has started all 14 games behind the dish for the Warriors. The backstop has hit .385 and knocked in 12 runs, having struck out only three times in 41 plate appearances.

In the circle, the duo of Mallory Fey (Plymouth) and Shelby Ross (Kingston) have eaten up most of the innings. Fey has made seven appearances and gone the distance in all six of her starts, posting a record of 4-2 on the year. She has worked a team-best 34 innings, fanning 28 to only eight walks.

Ross has also made seven appearances, posting six complete games in six starts, totaling 32.1 innings for the season.

Anne Arundel earned the chance to host the district tournament by capturing the Region 20 Tournament last weekend, sweeping a pair of games against runner up Butler County CC by scores of 14-0 and 11-0.

With a deceiving record of 11-20, the Riverhawks have played a majority of NJCAA Division II programs throughout the 2018 season and closed out the season on a high note, winning six of their last seven games.

Hitting .315 as a club, AACC boasts seven regulars hitting .305 or better for the season. Sophomore Jenna Weinstein tops the team with a .427 average and has scored a team-best 30 runs.

The power bat combo of Katherine Rosati and Kaitlyn Nutwell have combined for six homers, 22 extra-base hits and 59 RBI.

Nutwell has also been the team's primary pitcher, making 16 starts and appearing in 20 games overall. She has struck out 82 batters in 79.1 innings and pitched nine complete games on the year.


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Since when is experience a bad thing?

Issue February 2015 By Laurie R. Houle

The truth about teacher 'tenure' laws

In recent years, attacks have been mounting on so-called teacher tenure laws across the nation. The most high-profile challenge is Vergara v. California, in which a Los Angeles Superior Court judge struck down multiple provisions of the California Education Code, including its teacher tenure provisions.1 A similar lawsuit Wright v. State of New York was filed almost immediately in New York. Elsewhere, state legislatures have sought to repeal teacher tenure rights,2 substantially reduce tenure protections,3 extend the time required to acquire tenure, define performance criteria necessary for tenure, and amend dismissal procedures for tenured teachers. The purpose of this article is not to debate the merits of Vergara, which is on appeal, but to address widespread misconceptions that have been used to support legal, legislative and media attacks on tenure.

The term "tenure" does not appear in Massachusetts education law or in the laws of most other states; instead, states use terminology such as "fair dismissal," "professional status" or "continuing contract." In Massachusetts, a teacher is considered an "at-will" employee until successfully completing three consecutive years in the same public school district, at which point "professional teacher status" (PTS) is attained.4 During the "at-will" (i.e., probationary) period, the school employer has virtually unfettered discretion whether to renew the teacher's employment.

Despite widespread belief, acquiring tenure is not as simple as remaining employed for a predetermined number of years. Massachusetts laws and regulations impose stringent requirements ensuring that only qualified teachers earn this status. First, teachers must be licensed by the state. Licensure requirements include holding a bachelor's degree and passing a subject matter test appropriate to the teaching license sought for a preliminary license; further completing an educator preparation program to advance to an initial license; and finally, completing a teacher mentoring and induction program as well as additional coursework to advance to a professional license.5

Second, state law imposes a rigorous evaluation system for teachers.6 In 2011, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) amended its evaluation regulations in order to "promote student learning, growth and achievement by providing educators with feedback for improvement, enhanced opportunities for professional growth, and clear structures for accountability."7 The regulations establish standards and indicators of teaching effectiveness and require multiple assessments during the evaluation cycle, plus a four-tier system in which the teacher is rated exemplary, proficient, needs improvement or unsatisfactory.8 Therefore, before earning PTS, each teacher will have met strict licensing requirements and have been evaluated under a rigorous system for three years, during which the school district has broad discretion to end the teacher's employment.

It is a myth that earning tenure guarantees a job for life. It is equally untrue that it is impossible to dismiss a tenured teacher. Acquiring tenure simply means that a teacher is no longer "at-will" or probationary but has earned substantive and procedural rights related to dismissal. Substantively, a Massachusetts school district may dismiss a teacher with PTS for "inefficiency, incompetency, incapacity, conduct unbecoming a teacher, insubordination or failure on the part of the teacher to satisfy teacher performance standards developed pursuant to section thirty-eight of this chapter or other just cause."9 That is, a school district must have a legitimate reason for dismissal that is based on one or more of these wide-ranging reasons.

In addition, tenure provides for dismissal procedures. At minimum, such dismissal procedures must satisfy constitutional due process requirements. In Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill, the Supreme Court held that government employees who hold a property interest in their jobs cannot be deprived of that property interest without due process.10 First, there needs to be "an initial check against mistaken decisions."11 This may be as simple as providing notice of the reasons for dismissal and the opportunity to respond, thereby meeting the government's interest in being able to quickly remove an unsatisfactory employee.12 The informality of the predetermination procedure, however, rests in part on having post-determination procedures through which a more careful review and a full remedy can be obtained.13

Since the 1993 Education Reform Act, Massachusetts law has satisfied Loudermill with a streamlined PTS dismissal process.14 Prior to dismissal, a school district must issue a notice of intent to dismiss explaining the grounds for dismissal and providing an opportunity to present related information within 10 days. If the district thereafter decides to dismiss, the teacher can petition for arbitral review within 30 days, and the arbitrator's decision must issue within 30 days of the hearing.15 Once dismissed, a teacher has no practical reason to prolong an appeal.16 Both income and benefits are gone, and the ability to obtain alternate employment is greatly impaired by the teacher's own employment record and possibly licensure record.17

Tenure - or PTS - is therefore simply due process, a system of substantive and procedural fairness that legislatures build into dismissal processes. Why should teachers be able to earn such protections once they have successfully completed a three-year probationary period?18 Because it is in the public's interest. A probationary period gives a district ample discretion in selecting its staff and then tenure provides "stability, certainty and permanency of employment on the part of those who had shown by educational attainment and by probationary trial their fitness for the teaching profession."19 Public education benefits when "the part that malice, political or partisan trends, or caprice might play" in personnel decisions is minimized and such decisions instead are based on merit.20

Moreover, strengthened job security protects "the integrity and freedom of the educational process," and "a stable workforce fosters better educational opportunities."21 Teacher turnover has been shown to have a harmful effect on student achievement.22 And recent research shows that a typical teacher becomes more effective in terms of student achievement and more productive with experience; indeed, productivity in particular shows continued gains for about 12 years before leveling off at a higher plateau than at the start of the teaching career.23 Additionally, teacher experience has been shown to have a positive impact on students' "noncognitive capabilities," benefitting their economic and social outcomes along with their education. A teacher's level of experience affects students' absences, classroom behavior, time spent on homework and time spent reading.24

Furthermore, due process protections ensure that during difficult fiscal times, districts do not terminate or lay off their experienced (that is, higher paid) teachers in favor of less experienced (that is, less expensive) teachers. It also allows experienced teachers to advocate for their students and good educational practices as well as provide some protection against interference - whether by parents or administrators - in their professional judgment. Due process, in other words, doesn't protect bad teachers; it protects all teachers from arbitrary and capricious dismissal decisions.

Massachusetts teachers must pass rigorous requirements over three years to earn PTS. In doing so, they make a commitment to the students and the communities in which they teach. In return, the school districts make a commitment to them that they will be afforded due process rights. With this system in place, Massachusetts students outperform their peers across the nation.25 Any system can have outliers, like cases that seem to languish for long periods of time, and media coverage of the rare teacher accused of shocking misconduct that may incline some to rush to judgment that the "tenure" system is to blame. But as the saying goes, bad facts make bad law. Massachusetts should ignore the siren call of "reform" to fix that which is not broken.

  1. Vergara v. California, 2014 WL 6478415 (Cal.Super.) (holding that the California Education Code's provisions on teacher tenure, dismissal and layoff violate the state's constitution because they disproportionately affect poor and minority students) (order stayed pending appeal).
  2. Kansas, North Carolina, Ohio and Idaho repealed their respective teacher tenure laws entirely. The Ohio and Idaho repeals were overturned in 2012 by voter referendum; the Kansas and North Carolina repeals are being challenged in the courts. Florida and Indiana eliminated tenure for teachers hired after a certain date in 2011. Fla. Sta. ch. 1012.335(1)(A); Ind. Code 20-28-6-8.
  3. Michigan now protects tenured teachers only against "arbitrary and capricious" discharge. Mich. Comp. Laws 38.101. Louisiana grants tenure, although under very strict circumstances, and tenure is lost if a teacher receives a single evaluation labeling him or her "ineffective." La. Rev. Stat. Ann. 17:442 (2012). Tennessee extended the probationary period to five years and now revokes tenure automatically if a teacher receives two consecutive annual evaluations of "poor." Tenn. Code Ann. 49-5-503.
  4. G.L. c. 71, § 41. PTS is not automatically portable between school districts. If a probationary teacher leaves a district before acquiring PTS, the clock starts over and the teacher must teach three consecutive years in the new school district to attain PTS again. A superintendent has discretion to award PTS to a teacher after one year in the district or based on PTS acquisition elsewhere, but such discretion is rarely exercised.
  5. 603 CMR 7.09; see also
  6. G.L. c. 71, § 38.
  7. 603 CMR 35.00.
  8. 603 CMR 35.03, 35.06, 35.08.
  9. G.L. c. 71, § 42. "Just cause" as it appears in G.L. c. 71, § 42 does not have the same meaning that it does in traditional labor law. "Just cause" traditionally refers to a standard of review applied by arbitrators in determining whether an employer has established the basis for the dismissal and that dismissal is warranted. However, the Supreme Judicial Court recently held that "just cause" pursuant to G.L. c. 71, § 42 refers to a statutory basis for dismissing a teacher such as insubordination or incapacity; it does not connote the arbitral standard of review. See Zagaeski v. Sch. Comm. of Lexington, 469 Mass. 104, 116-17 (2014).
  10. 470 U.S. 532, 540 (1985). See also Bd. of Regents of State Coll. v. Roth, 408 U.S. 564, 576 (1972).
  11. Loudermill, 470 U.S. at 545.
  12. See id. at 545-46.
  13. See Mathews v. Eldridge, 424 U.S. 319, 331 (1976).
  14. The pre-dismissal procedure previously included a full-blown evidentiary hearing before the school committee and the post-dismissal appeal procedure involved de novo review in superior court. The process could be time-consuming and costly. In order to "depoliticize and streamline" the teacher dismissal process, the Legislature in 1993 amended the teacher dismissal procedures as set forth above. See Zagaeski, 469 Mass. at 113.
  15. G.L. c. 71, § 42.
  16. Massachusetts stands in contrast to New York City in terms of procedures, which provide for arbitral review prior to a final determination to dismiss. This led to teachers in NYC languishing in paid status (but not teaching) in what was referred to as the "rubber room" while waiting - sometimes for years - for a hearing. See Jennifer Medina, "Last Day of 'Rubber Rooms' for Teachers," The New York Times, June 28, 2010; Agreement between city of New York and United Federation of Teachers, There has never been such a system in Massachusetts. The only pre-dismissal right in the state is to a meeting with the decision-maker; a dismissed teacher is off the payroll pending appeal of the final decision.
  17. See Loudermill, 470 U.S. at 543. Additionally, a school administrator who has dismissed a teacher for certain enumerated grounds (e.g., gross misconduct or negligence in professional duties, willful violation of DESE regulations, dismissal for just cause), must report the dismissal and supporting reasons to DESE. See 603 CMR 7.15(8). DESE may initiate its own investigation, the outcome of which could affect a teacher's continued licensure and thus ability to teach. See id.
  18. The probationary period in Massachusetts sets it apart from the system at issue in California. California has a two-year probationary period, which the judge found was actually only about 18 months, given the timing in which decisions had to be made. Massachusetts' probationary period is truly three years as notice that a teacher's contract is not being renewed has to be made by June 15, almost the end of the school year. G.L. c. 71, § 41.
  19. Id.
  20. McSherry v. City of St. Paul, 277 N.W. 541, 544 (Minn. 1938).
  21. N. Georgeann Roye, Note, "High Hopes Hamstrung: How the 'Trial De Novo' for Termination of Tenured Teachers' Contracts Undermines School Reform in Oklahoma," 62 Okla. L. Rev. 527, 553 (Spring 2010), quoting 78 C.J.S. Schools and School Districts § 334 (2008).
  22. Matthew Ronfeldt, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb & James Wyckoff, "How Teacher Turnover Harms Student Achievement" 17 (Nat'l Bureau of Econ. Research, Working Paper No. 17176, 2011) ("turnover has a harmful effect on student achievement, even after controlling for different indicators of teacher quality, especially in lower-performing schools.") See also U.S. Dept' of Educ. Office for Civil Rights "Dear Colleague" letter at 4 (Oct. 1, 2014) (expressing concern that schools with the most at-risk students do not have the same access to strong teachers; i.e., those who are "qualified, experienced and accomplished").
  23. Helen F. Ladd & Lucy C. Sorensen, "Returns to Teacher Experience: Student Achievement and Motivation in Middle School" 14-15 (Nat'l Ctr. for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Educ. Research, Working Paper No. 112, March 2014).
  24. See id. at 19-23.
  25. See (Nat'l Assessment of Educational Progress Report 2013 (


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Philip Glass

Friday, April 9th, 2010 - 1:03 pm

Philip Glass, Executive Producer

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Philip Glass is a graduate of the University of Chicago and the Juilliard School. In the early 1960s, Glass spent two years of intensive study in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and while there, earned money by transcribing Ravi Shankar’s Indian music into Western notation. Upon his return to New York, he applied these Eastern techniques to his own music.

By 1974, Glass had a number of significant and innovative projects, creating a large collection of new music for his performing group, The Philip Glass Ensemble, and for the Mabou Mines Theater Company, which he co-founded. This period culminated in Music in Twelve Parts, followed by the landmark opera, Einstein on the Beach, created with Robert Wilson in 1976.

Since Einstein, Glass has expanded his repertoire to include music for opera, dance, theater, chamber ensemble, orchestra, and film. His score for Martin Scorsese’s Kundun received an Academy Award nomination while his score for Peter Weir’s The Truman Show won him a Golden Globe. His film score for Stephen Daldry’s The Hours received Golden Globe, Grammy, and Academy Award nominations, along with winning a BAFTA in Film Music from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

Original scores for the critically acclaimed films The Illusionist and Notes on a Scandal were released in 2006. Glass has received an Oscar nomination for his Notes score. In 2004 Glass premiered the new work Orion—a collaboration between Glass and six other international artists opening in Athens as part of the cultural celebration of the 2004 Olympics in Greece and his Piano Concerto No. 2 (After Lewis and Clark) with the Omaha Symphony Orchestra.

Glass’ latest symphonies, Symphony No. 7 and Symphony No. 8, premiered in 2005 with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC and Bruckner Orchester Linz at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, respectively. 2005 also saw the premiere of Waiting for the Barbarians, an opera based on the book by J.M. Coetzee. Glass’ orchestral tribute to Indian spiritual leader Sri Ramakrishna, The Passion of Ramakrishna, premiered in 2006 at Orange County Performing Arts Center.

Glass maintains a dense creative schedule, including a musical theatre collaboration with Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing and an opera about the end of the Civil War entitled Appomattox (to be premiered by the San Francisco Opera). The English National Opera, in conjunction with the Metropolitan Opera, will perform Glass’ Satyagraha at their respective homes in London and New York.

Glass continues to regularly tour with Philip on Film, performing live with his ensemble to a series of new short films as well as classics like Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi, La Belle et La Bête, and Dracula. He is also planning to embark on a short tour performing his solo piano works.

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Tala va Mes – Gold and Copper – Iranian Film – 2011

The Persian poets called love the “elixir” (iksir). The alchemists believed that there existed a material in the world which they called the “elixir” or “the philosopher’s stone” (kimiya) which could change one matter into another matter, and they searched after this for centuries.

The poets took over the use of this terminology and said that the real “elixir” which has the power of transformation is love, because it is love which can transmute a substance. Love, absolutely, is the “elixir” and has the properties of the philosopher’s stone, which changes one nature into another, and people also are different natures.

People are mines, like gold-mines and silver-mines.

It is love which makes the heart a heart, and if there is no love, there is no heart, just clay and water.

..Love makes the heavy and lazy nimble, cunning, and even makes the slow-witted astute..

..It is love which turns the miser into a benefactor, and an impatient and intolerant person into someone with endurance and tolerance..

[Excerpt from “The Elixir of Love” by Ayatollah Murtaza Mutahhari]

Iranian film by director Homayoun Assadian, where a young student of religious sciences must turn his knowledge about Islam into action, when his wife is diagnosed with  multiple sclerosis (MS).

Assadian mixes the daily life demands in the Tehran metropolis, with the deepest and most prioritary teachings of the Islamic religion, through the language of Hafez and Mowlavi (Rumi) poetry.

By love, bitternesses became sweet,

By love, pieces of copper became gold. (Rumi)


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The plan is to evaluate the following limit: $$\lim\limits_{x\rightarrow 0} \frac{\frac{x}{7} +\frac{11}{x^3}}{\frac{x^2}{2} -\frac{2}{x^3}}.$$

So firstly there's no need really to use l'hopitals rule since we can multiply top and bottom by $x^3$ and then 'sub in' for zero and the limit is well defined, and gives $-11/2$.

If however we want to apply l'hopitals rule can we? So if you keep applying it without question as to whether it's valid, you arrive at the same answer.

However examining the numerator and denominator, neither limit exists separately, which is usually required for l'hopitals rule, and for it to give an indeterminate form of 0/0, $\infty/\infty$ etc.

I was talking to someone who mentioned possibly considering the left and right hand limits separately, so $x\rightarrow 0^+$ and $x\rightarrow 0^-$, in which case the numerator and denominator do have well defined limits which give indeterminate forms. Is this a way to proceed?

  • $\begingroup$ Yes, this sounds like the best way to proceed. $\endgroup$ – Sinister Cutlass Nov 6 '15 at 0:25
  • $\begingroup$ In general, the best way to proceed is to not use L'Hospital. Taylor at order $1$ is equivalent, and it doesn't not have its drawbacks. $\endgroup$ – Bernard Nov 6 '15 at 0:34
  • $\begingroup$ this is a $\infty/\infty$ case, so in very general L'Hospital is applicable, although disadvantageously as you stated. $\endgroup$ – Michael Medvinsky Nov 6 '15 at 1:01
  • $\begingroup$ You can apply L'Hospital's rule repeatedly, but it will never provide an answer by itself. After three applications, both numerator and denominator will reduce to a single fraction that can be easily simplified to $-11/2$. But without that simplification, similar to the one you are foregoing at the start, applying L'Hospital's rule just takes you from one indeterminant form to another. The rule has never been guaranteed to be useful. $\endgroup$ – Paul Sinclair Nov 6 '15 at 2:59

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