Edyta Stepien is a Chicago based creative and artist working in the fields of video installation and motion design.
Edyta Stepien is an artist and creative working in the fields of video installation and motion design. Her passion for art and design has led to creating innovative video installations and experiential design projects for more than a decade.
Edyta has delivered installations and commercial motion design projects for the Chicago History Museum, Chicago Architecture Foundation, The Art Institute of Chicago and many more. Edyta was the creative director behind a spellbinding video wall installation for the Renaissance Chicago Downtown Hotel redesign. She has also brought her creative talent to projects for Harpo Studios, VSA Partners, Zero One Projects, Outsider and Towers Productions.
Edyta's collaborations with artists, dancers and musicians combine with a multi-faceted artistic background that has included roles as artist, designer, animator and creative director. This diversity of experiences makes her uniquely suited to take projects from concept development to completion. She is able to guide her team through the production process and is equally comfortable getting her hands dirty building, creating and making.
Since 2009, she has been a resident artist at the Chicago Art Department, a non-profit organization dedicated to cultivating new voices, ideas and practices in contemporary art. Since 2012, she has been the creative director and motion designer developing work in support of the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Initiative.


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We Still Need Career and Technical Education
Tana Black 2018-11-2
From Forbes:
Rep. Thompson and Rep Krishnamoorthi showcase Pennsylvania CTE program.
The American economy added 134,000 jobs in September, according to the US Department of Commerce. The unemployment rate sits at 3.7% – the lowest since 1969. On the other hand, earlier this week Verizon announced 44,000 layoffs to its global workforce, including a significant portion in the United States, and the outsourcing of 2,500-5,000 jobs to external contractors.
This is the American story in 2018. Rapid growth and incredible bull markets juxtaposed with deep-seated fear among the middle and working classes about job security, wage growth, and our economic future.
In this election year, there has been some discussion about income inequality and economic opportunity – but not nearly enough. Politicians from both parties understand that creating economic opportunity for all requires a long-term strategy that is complicated and difficult to execute. It also requires the alignment of resources, agendas and values among leaders, funders and policy makers.
In August, the United States Congress did part of their job. Under the leadership of Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) and Glenn Thompson (R-PA) in the House of Representatives, and Senators Robert Casey (D-PA) and Mike Enzi (R-WY) in the Senate, the Congress passed a bipartisan overhaul of the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act. President Trump has previously identified career and technical education as key to restoring rural competitiveness in America.
I recently spoke with Rep. Krishnamoorthi to congratulate him on this achievement. The Congressman, who represents suburban Chicago, has labored for nearly 1.5 years to make this legislation a reality. In an era of unprecedented partisanship, Representative Krishnamoorthi and his colleagues were able to pass legislation through both chambers and keep the support of the President and US Secretary of Education Betsy Devos. It passed five unanimous votes in the US House of Representatives and may be the only bipartisan legislation of its kind in 2018. It's a tremendous accomplishment for all four sponsors and their supporters.
Representative Krishnamoorthi emphasized that this is part of a multi-year transformation of our career and technical training programs. The first step was to simply reauthorize this important legislation that authorizes and funds our career and training education programs. These programs are often the first option for young people who do not attend college, for mid-career American workers who need additional training or have been laid-off and need to transition to a new industry. While its true that our unemployment rate is low, its also true that several million jobs remain unfilled in the United States because of a lack of qualified applicants. This legislation is part of the solution to that problem.
Representative Krishnamoorthi is committed to working on this problem in the next session of Congress if he can. He has been thinking about the impact of innovation, technology and the global economy on the American worker, and how it will be important to mobilize partners in the public, private and non-profit sectors to improve CTE programs and to think about CTE more strategically as a national security challenge facing the United States.
Innovation and rapidly scaling startups are having a profound effect on job training in America. Innovation is moving too fast for traditional career training programs to address. The job category of data scientist barely existed a decade ago, and yet today, in the age of analytics, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, data scientist has become one of the biggest categories of job growth.


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SEMA eNews Vol. 20, No. 28, July 13, 2017
Young Gun Neuenschwander Joins 2017 SEMA Battle of the Builders Competition
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By Juan Torres
Jacob Neuenschwander will compete in the 2017 SEMA Battle of the Builders after winning the Young Guns category at the 4-Wheel Jamboree Nationals in Lima, Ohio, May 19–21.
Neuenschwander was awarded a spot at the 2017 SEMA Show, October 31–November 3, for his '04 Dodge Ram pickup, which will now go head-to-head against hundreds of vehicles from some of the top builders in the world at the exclusive event.
Jacob Neuenschwander, 22, will travel to Las Vegas in a few months to compete in one of the industry's most prestigious vehicle build competitions—the 2017 SEMA Battle of the Builders—after winning the Young Guns category at the 4-Wheel Jamboree Nationals in Lima, Ohio, May 19–21.
For his Young Guns victory, Neuenschwander was awarded a spot at the 2017 SEMA Show, October 31–November 3, for his '04 Dodge Ram pickup, which will now go head-to-head against hundreds of vehicles from some of the world's top builders in the exclusive competition.
"It's so awesome to win the SEMA Battle of the Builders Young Guns title. It's a dream come true to be able to display my truck at the SEMA Show," said Neuenschwander, who was also awarded an all-expense-paid trip for two and transportation for his truck to the Show. "It's unreal. It will continue to seem like a dream until I finally get to the SEMA Show and it hits me that I'm actually there."
Neuenschwander had been trying for years to have his truck displayed at the trade-only SEMA Show, so he's excited to finally be a part of the elite group of builders at the Show.
"The SEMA Show is the best of the best, and it's a lifetime opportunity to meet a lot of people and companies in the industry," he said. "Being at the SEMA Show is like I've finally reached the end goal of this truck build."
Battle of the Builders participants get a chance to participate in the SEMA Cruise during SEMA Ignited and possibly be featured in the Battle of the Builders TV special, which makes it possible for consumers to connect with manufacturers and see the great new products and trends that debut at the trade-only SEMA Show.
In an effort to support young builders and recognize them as the future of the industry, SEMA created the Young Guns regional program this year and partnered with car shows to highlight builders 27 years old or younger, six of whom will be sent to the 2017 SEMA Show.
"We partnered with AutoCon, Bonnier and Goodguys due to the excellence of their shows and to recognize and encourage participation of young builders from around the country," said SEMA Vice President of Marketing, PR and Communications Ira Gabriel. "The youth are essential to our industry. There are many amazing and talented younger enthusiasts and vehicle builders who can look to the SEMA Show and Battle of the Builders and get excited about our industry."
Neuenschwander, who painted and airbrushed every part of the truck, and built the 1,000hp engine with help from his friends, is looking forward to seeing all of the other amazing builds at the 2017 SEMA Show.
"I can't wait to see everyone's builds and be a part of the group," he said. "I want to keep the truck the same so that when I'm 50 or 60 years old, I can look back at it and relive this great experience."
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Every year I see dumb comments and jokes about the Lanterne Rouge of the Tour de France and "the race" for the honor. I don't like that type of demeaning ridicule, personally (at least not at the guys who are doing massive amounts of work for relatively little pay and attention), and they're one of the reasons I started this blog.
Before anyone jokes about 2011 Tour de France Lanterne Rouge Fabio Sabatini of Liquigas - let's recognize the magnitude of his accomplishment. Over a span of 3 weeks, he was racing for 90 hours, 10 minutes, and 5 seconds at an average speed of 23.63 mph. Over the Pyrenees and Alps.
166 fellow professional cyclists were with him along the way and took up to 3 hours, 57 minutes, and 43 seconds less time to pedal exactly the same course - a difference of only 4.39%.
And 32 of the pro cyclists who started the race 3 weeks ago were unable to finish it at all (16.1% attrition).
Bravo, Fabio. Carry your Lanterne with pride.
Props and respect to Fabio! Thanks for pointing out that finishing in *any* place in the Tour is no mean feat…and that the difference between Cadel and Fabio is not that much.
Anyone who has ever raced, at even the lowest level, knows how much time, effort and dedication it takes, to even reach a point of fitness where you could consider racing, let alone finishing. I think the way you have chosen to honor the Lanterne Rouge is great. There is certainly no dishonor in finishing the Tour with that designation.


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Jean de Montmirail (or Monte-Mirabili), Baron de Montmirail, O.S.B. Cist. (1165 – 29 September 1217), was a French nobleman who became a Cistercian monk. He is venerated as a beatus in the Catholic Church.

Life
John was the son of André de Montmirail, Lord of Montmirail and Ferté-Gaucher, and Hildiarde d'Oisy, daughter of Simon d'Oisy, Castellan of Cambrai. He was given a religious upbringing by his mother, and was well educated. He became the first Lord of Condé.

While young, he embraced a military career and was presented at the Royal Court, as constable of France, where he formed a lasting friendship with Philip Augustus (who later became King Philip II of France); he became, not only the friend and favorite of the King, but also later his advisor. On one occasion, John was even said to have saved Philip's life. The dissipations of court life led him to neglect the training of his youth; even his marriage with Helvide de Dampierre, sister of Guy II of Dampierre, failed to effect a change. King Philip II later decorated him with the title of Baron.

In his thirtieth year he met Jobert, Prior of St-Etienne de Montmirail, and experienced a conversion. He built a hospital for the sick of all kinds, but the objects of his predilection were the lepers, and those hopelessly afflicted. He wore a hair-shirt, frequently passing entire nights in prayer. After a while, he entered the Cistercian monastery of Longpont, after having distributed among the poor all his possessions not needed by his wife and family. He was abused for his decision by his former friends. Even members of his own family disapproved of his abandonment of honour and wealth for poverty and subjection.

He died at Longpont on 29 September 1217.

Veneration
Miracles were said to be wrought at his tomb, and attracted pilgrims. By the 1230s, John was being venerated as a miracle-working saint. Pope Leo XIII granted a special office in his honour for the diocese of Soissons. He was beatified in 1891. His feast is celebrated on 29 September.

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Catholic Encyclopedia article

1165 births
1217 deaths
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Many of the most common disputes that arise between building designers and their clients could be avoided, or managed in a much less damaging way, with a contract that clearly outlines the scope of works and requirements of both parties.
Often, disputes stem from misunderstandings about the exact scope of work that is being performed or delivered, and when key things are meant to happen. Ensuring that your client understands upfront exactly what is included in your quote or scope of works is one thing, but it's equally important for your own business to ensure that this is accurately reflected in the contractual documents that both parties sign.
A solid contract that you both understand and use to your advantage will be a great help, even in the face of the most difficult and demanding client. Contracts aren't necessarily the most enthralling documents to read and review, but they are crucial to your business. Ensuring that you have the right one, and that it covers everything in the way that you need, is a relatively simple way of keeping your business on the right track.
The type or form of contract that you use may be informed by the particular work that you are doing for each client, or the registration that you hold. It is important that you are familiar with the contracts that you use and are aware of what they require of you. In addition to outlining your own responsibilities, understanding its terms will enable you to keep on top of what you can contractually require from your client at various points. It's surprising how many large, costly and time consuming disputes stem from an initial misunderstanding of one party's contractual responsibility. If at least you are familiar with your documents, you can prevent disputes getting out of control early on.
A cost outline – what is payable, and when? Are there billing triggers that need to be highlighted?
Fees – what are you going to charge, and how is this to be calculated?
Client and designer obligations – do you require the client to provide you with input or to make selections or determinations? The rights and obligations should be fair, appropriate, reasonably able to be met, and clearly explained.
Termination clauses – are there triggers for termination?
What about by mutual agreement?
Always ensure that everything you have discussed with the client is reflected in the contract that you have in place. If things have been agreed or discussed verbally, unless they are reduced to writing, it becomes very difficult to prove or rely on them in the event of a dispute.
Also, as far as possible, reduce or resolve any ambiguities in the scope of works and specifications. The less ambiguous and 'to be determined', the less room for misinterpretation, time and cost blow outs, and a breakdown in relations between the parties.
Whenever there are any changes or variations, either to the scope of work, timelines, or even minor amendments to specifications, make sure these are documented and confirmed in writing. There may be additional legislative requirements to comply with (for example, if you are covered by the Domestic Building Contracts Act), but it is best practice to ensure that all changes are documented. When there are numerous iterations and version of documents, and emails or text messages going back and forth making changes, it can be extremely difficult to keep on top of the exact agreement and scope of works as it changes. It is also dangerous to assume that everybody has the same understanding of where things are at, when lots of changes are made.
Many disputes and disagreements could be avoided by checking the terms of the contract before acting or communicating with the other party. If you are uncertain as to your obligations, or whether you have the right to act in a particular way, it is much better to seek advice early. Often contracts and relationships can be salvaged if you step back and consider your position, or have a lawyer or other adviser assist you to do this. It is not uncommon for a designer, architect or other professional to inadvertently prejudice their own position by acting too soon or too definitively, for example to terminate a contract. If you would like any assistance to review your existing documents, draft a custom agreement, or provide any other assistance or insight, please don't hesitate to contact us for a free initial consultation.
Jessica Kerr is Director of Clifton-Hill-based law firm Sinclair + May, a Corporate Member of BDAV. They were announced as Boutique Law Firm of the Year Finalist 2018 in Lawyers Weekly Australian Law Awards.


During the last five years the demand for ring pull closures has increased dramatically. Today´s beverage industry is looking for new ways to attract consumers, like those who appreciate the RingCrown´s contemporary appeal.
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RingCrown closures are used for sealing glass and PET bottles with a crown cork mouth, for beer, alco pops, energy drinks, juices and soft drinks. RingCrown - the ring pull cap - are used primarily in European countries; the main markets are in the German-speaking regions and Eastern Europe. Most of our customers are beer producers; in Germany alone more than 40 breweries have discovered the advantages of using RingCrown - the ring pull cap - from Finland.
The new production line will be operating at full capacity in early 2004. In the meantime the range of customers already includes a large number of internationally renowned breweries such as Jever, Diebels, Interbrew, Brau Union, Bacardi and Tuborg.


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import org.bricket.web.BricketTileConfig;

import brix.BrixNodeModel;
import brix.jcr.wrapper.BrixNode;

/**
 * @author Ingo Renner
 * @author Henning Teek
 */
public class AquireRoleConfig extends BricketTileConfig {

    private static final String PROP_DATA_URL = "AquireRole.url";
    private static final String PROP_DATA_LABEL = "AquireRole.label";
    private static final String PROP_DATA_ROLE = "AquireRole.role";

    private String url = "";
    private String label = "";
    private String role = "";
    private BrixNodeModel brixNodeModel;

    @Override
    public void load(BrixNode node) {
        setUrl(load(node, PROP_DATA_URL, url));
        setLabel(load(node, PROP_DATA_LABEL, label));
        setRole(load(node, PROP_DATA_ROLE, role));

        setBrixNodeModel(load(node, PROP_DATA_URL, url, brixNodeModel));
    }

    @Override
    public void save(BrixNode node) {
        save(node, PROP_DATA_URL, url);
        save(node, PROP_DATA_LABEL, label);
        save(node, PROP_DATA_ROLE, role);
    }

    public BrixNodeModel getBrixNodeModel() {
        return brixNodeModel;
    }

    public void setBrixNodeModel(BrixNodeModel brixNodeModel) {
        this.brixNodeModel = brixNodeModel;
    }

    public String getUrl() {
        return url;
    }

    public void setUrl(String url) {
        this.url = url;
    }

    public String getLabel() {
        return label;
    }

    public void setLabel(String label) {
        this.label = label;
    }

    public String getRole() {
        return role;
    }

    public void setRole(String role) {
        this.role = role;
    }
}

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Active reconnaissance, information gathering and OSINT built in a portable web application. D0xk1t is an open-source, self-hosted and easy to use OSINT and active reconnaissance web application for penetration testers.
Since D0xk1t is self-hosted, it does not work immediately out-of-box. It is recommended that you use a virtualenvcontainer due to the sheer number of dependencies that can run into conflict with your Python configuration.
Lucky for you, there are two ways to build D0xk1t. The quick 'n easy way, and the manual way.
GOOGLEMAPS_API_KEY denotes the Google Maps API Key. This is essential for the GeoIP module. You can obtain it here and change the variable accordingly.
SECRET_KEY is the private key utilized by WTForm's CSRF protection feature. If deployed, change it to your liking.
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 L'initiative populaire du  « Négociations d'adhésion à l'UE: que le peuple décide! ».
 L'initiative populaire du  « Pour l'interdiction d'exporter du matériel de guerre ».
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 Le référendum facultatif sur l'arrêté fédéral du  sur le financement de l'assurance-chômage.
 L'initiative populaire du  « Jeunesse sans drogue ».

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Centre for Aging Better urges government to build on an 8% increase in the Disabled Facilities Grant.
Government is being urged to build on an 8% increase in the Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) to help councils deliver home adaptations.
The centre for Aging Better says that though the increase is welcome, there's more to do to support older people and people with a disability to live at home safely and independently.
Government has confirmed the national Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) budget will increase by 8% to £505m, announced as part of the 2019/20 Policy framework for the Better Care Fund.
The DFG is used to deliver home adaptations and other alterations, so people can stay living in their chosen homes.
"It's very welcome that the Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) will be increased by 8%, but it's about more than capital funding," said Dr Rachael Docking, senior programme manager (homes), Centre for Ageing Better.
"The DFG provides vital support, but many local areas simply don't have the capacity and resources to deliver home adaptations quickly, leaving vulnerable people at risk," she said.
Now, the Centre for Aging Better is urging government to go further by raising revenue funding available to help councils deliver home adaptation – including administrators and contractor – allowing DFG money to be used on both major alterations and minor adaptations.
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Funding for the DFG in 2019-20 will be £505m paid to councils via a section 31 grant.
The DFG capital grant must be spent in accordance with an approved joint Better Care Fund (BCF) plan.
In two-tier areas, decisions around the use of the DFG funding need to be made with the direct involvement of both tiers working jointly to support integration ambitions.
The government is committed to the concept of person-centred integrated care, with health, social care, housing and other public services working together over provision.
Since 2015, the government's aims around integration have been targeted by the BCF.
These aims are intended to provide a context in which the NHS and councils can work together as equal partners.
The plans produced are owned by Health and Wellbeing Boards, representing a single, local plan for the integration of health and social care in all parts of the country.
In every year of its operation, most local areas have agreed that the BCF has improved joint working and had a positive impact on integration.
Government papers show that in 2017-18, 93% of local areas agreed that delivery of the BCF had improved joint working between health and social care in their locality, while 91% agreed that delivery of BCF plans had a positive impact on the integration of health and social care.
Additionally, since its inception, local areas are said to have voluntarily pooled at least £1.5bn above the minimum required, in each year, with approximately £2.1bn planned in voluntary pooled funding in 2018-19.
Over 2019-20, the BCF in 2019-20 will retain the same National Conditions as in 2017-19, with areas required to set out how the National Conditions will be met in jointly agreed BCF Plans signed off by Health and Wellbeing Boards.
Government will continue to require NHS England to put in place arrangements for CCGs to pool a mandated minimum amount of funding and that councils continue to pool grant sums from the improved BCF, DFG and Winter Pressures funding.


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The printer's manufacturer cannot void the warranty on your printer simply because you use a refilled or remanufactured printer cartridge that is produced by someone other than the printer manufacturer. This prohibition spans the use of compatible cartridges, and remanufactured cartridges.
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Empirical Legal Scholarship, Empirical Legal Scholars, and the Quality of Legal Education: A Response to Professor Bainbridge
Josh Wright — 1 March 2011
Professor Bainbridge isn't fond of empirical legal scholarship; more significantly, he asserts that law professors trained to pursue it fundamentally undercut the purposes of legal academia. (His judgment on legal academics which moonlight as amateur statisticians remains to be seen.) Professor Bainbridge has for some time criticized empirical legal scholarship – but now he targets legal scholars themselves. Stated another way, Professor Bainbridge claims that empirical legal scholars depress the quality of legal education by fusing an underdeveloped corpus of legal knowledge to a second-rate grasp of an extra-legal discipline. The provocative claims in Professor Bainbridge's recent National Journal article do not end there. Professor Bainbridge swipes:
A lot of the people I see who are empiricists, often with doctorates in the social sciences, aren't very good lawyers," he said. "I've read numerous papers that just got the law wrong. The problem is that we're hiring people with Ph.D.s in other fields, but their law credentials are middling at best. Someone who is a brilliant economist wants to be in a economics department, so we get second-rate lawyers who are second-rate in their academic field.
In an update to his post, Professor Bainbridge further clarifies his objections:
What I object to is (1) pseudo-social science being done by legal academics untrained in the relevant discipline, (2) hiring people to teach law with because they ran enough linear regressions to get to the point of being ABD in some social science but not to the point of actually being able to get hired in their home discipline, and/or (3) hiring people who are really good at their home social discipline but have mediocre legal credentials/skills. Both of the latter categories tend to produce lousy legal scholarship and make awful classroom teachers.
Trained empiricists may consider themselves on notice. I should start by noting that I agree with many of the criticisms of empirical legal scholarship as a field. While I've written here (and here) before about some problems in empirical legal scholarship, I reject however, the claim advanced by Brian Leiter and Professor Bainbridge that empirical legal scholars generate lower quality scholarship than their counterparts on average. I have neither seen firsthand nor can conceive of any compelling inference to suspect it is true. On the contrary, one might reasonably suspect that significant learning in the two separate fields are complements in the production function – be it in teaching or scholarship – and that this complementary relationship, even accepting Professor Bainbridge's dismal premise, might lead to higher, rather than lower, quality on average.
Yet this does not precisely respond to Professor Bainbridge's central claim: that Ph.D. holders perform poorly relative to conventionally trained and credentialed academic peers. Before forming a reply, I note the lack of evidence that Professor Bainbridge's claimed metric – traditional legal credentials – actually suffers in the relevant population. Neither the Professor nor anyone else, so far as I know, offers any such evidence; I will not be the first to do so here. Of course, the medium of blogging encourages these sorts of rapid responses, so I won't belabor this point. The underlying hypothesis, however, is testable; and, to be reasonable, there is at least some intuitive sense to the notion that Ph.D. holders should have less prestigious traditional legal credentials, opportunity costs being what they are. There must be some tradeoffs at the margin. Yet "middling at best" implies, to put it gently, that interdisciplinary folks simply lack the time or mettle to figure out "the law."
At a very minimum, Professor Bainbridge argues that the tradeoff between pursuing a Ph.D. and earning traditional legal credentials is so significant that what trained interdisciplinary scholars lose in "legal credentialing" necessarily impacts their ability to understand, to write about, and to teach the law. What is the explanatory narrative Professor Bainbridge offers? A talented candidate missing out on being an EIC at a law review? Turning down a clerkship? Even assuming this to be true, which I don't, is it impossible – or even implausible – that the skills learned while earning the Ph.D. provide some offsetting benefits that in turn improve legal analysis? Perhaps not – especially considering Professor Bainbridge's presumption that if an interdisciplinary scholar was talented at the essence of their "home discipline" that they would instead opt into that branch of academia. We'll save that for a bit later in the post: let it suffice to say that I am not convinced.
First and most directly, are legal scholars with Ph.D.s really, on average, lower quality lawyers? This requires we start with an examination of first principles. Why would an economist go to a law school instead of an economics department? One possible explanation – which Professor Bainbridge unqualifiedly endorses – is that the cross-disciplinary student opted-out of their own discipline. This is plausible. I offer two more with more salutary implications: (1) a first-order trend in economics over the past 20 years has been to reward more abstract and mathematically formal theoretical work and to abandon, in large part, policy-relevant law and economics; (2) law schools pay more. Ceteris paribus, one would imagine the implications for the latter are positive, if clear at all – after all, one can envision that law schools are paying for a slightly higher quality of academic. Let us even presume this is a marginal difference. As to the former, the important question is not the relative performance of economists and empiricists in law schools versus those in their home discipline – these scholars are largely interested in entirely different classes of questions, and as such, the substitution that Professor Bainbridge envisions is actually a false one. The correct counterfactual appears to be the performance of interdisciplinary scholars in law schools versus their pureblooded doctrinal brethren. One might also propose the performance of Ph.D.-holding interdisciplinary scholars who are making the tradeoffs Bainbridge specifies (i.e. Ph.D. instead of clerkship or EIC of law review) versus those doing empirical work "without a license."
Second, Bainbridge is clear about his desired comparison. In an earlier post, he describes with some nostalgia the days of a world where law professors felt neither desire nor compulsion to pursue a Ph.D.:
If we were still trying to hire folks because they were EIC of a top law review, head of their law school class, had a good clerkship, and some experience in a top law firm doing real law, I'd be more confident of our ability to teach people to think like lawyers instead of teaching them to think like mediocre statisticians, sociologists, philosophers, economists, or what have you.
I hate – alright, I somewhat hate – to beg a provocative question, but isn't this inherently an empirical question itself? There are a number of law schools that have wholeheartedly embraced the interdisciplinary ethic; there are more still that either have rejected it or remain indifferent to it. Further, we see variation over time. My suspicion is that neither comparison would reveal a meaningful difference in performance; of course, I have a bias – I teach at George Mason, Henry Manne's law school, where integrating economics and quantitative skills into legal scholarship has been part of educational mission for some time. Moreover, there is some evidence I'm quite familiar with suggesting that judges trained in economics perform better in antitrust cases. More generally, however, I find the idea that significant training in economics (or another social science) undermines legal education and legal performance unlikely. Is there such a surfeit of economic understanding and a dearth of legal knowledge that training lawyers to at least grasp economic questions inherently corrupts the legal enterprise? I would think that ingraining newfound lawyers – pure lawyers, not cross-disciplinary types – with an understanding of incentives and tradeoffs at a higher than the hand-waving that sometimes passes for economic analysis in legal scholarship would itself prove virtuous. As any law student will (gratefully) tell you, we don't teach differential calculus – but does Professor Bainbridge mean to imply (or state) that a deeper understanding of property rights and the demand curves will undermine legal education? The universe of legal scholarship that could be reasonably improved with even a first measure of economic understanding is broad.
This presents another implicit question that Professor Bainbridge's claim requires one confront: the relevant measure of "performance" for a legal scholar. Is it published scholarship? Teaching? Some amalgamation of the two? Professor Bainbridge's criticisms are couched in terms of teaching – that Ph.D.-holders are more likely to be "awful" teachers, and that they thereby disserve future law students. This leads to recurring mediocrity in Professor Bainbridge's eyes as the interdisciplinarians teach law students to think like "mediocre statisticians, sociologists, philosophers, economists, or what have you." Interdisciplinarians not only teach bad law (on account of the Ph.D./clerkship tradeoff), but fundamentally misapply basic principles of their relevant discipline as taught to budding lawyers. One supposes that interdisciplinarian demand curves slope upward.
This brings Bainbridge's past thoughts on empirical legal scholarship to mind. My continued response is – predictably – a desire for some quantum of proof. Absent such, what grounds exist for such intense protest? Economic theory can speak to this conundrum. Antitrust economics provides an old – and accurate – canard: if a rival complains about a firm's business practices, the practice is probably good for consumers. My instincts lead me to believe something akin to this dynamic is in play. To be clear, I have no doubt that there are poor empirical studies, and that there is poor empirical legal scholarship – but this would not be the first time an incumbent complained about the business practices of an upstart rival.
Finally, Professor Bainbridge's post – and this discussion more broadly – seems to lack a sense of the relevant magnitudes. Professor Bainbridge entitles his first post "How do we teach them to think like lawyers when we're only hiring Ph.D.s?" Only? Really? Admittedly, the fraction of law professors with Ph.D.s is increasing; nonetheless, I imagine that as a total percentage – or even when compared to law professors with prestigious clerkships, one of Professor Bainbridge's proffered substitutes – it remains vanishingly small. The trend towards doctoral candidates occurs largely in the top tier of law schools. At last count, there were something around 200 in the country. I suspect that whether that fraction increases further will largely on the performance of interdisciplinary scholars both in legal scholarship and in educating new lawyers. This is a debate that will have to be determined, ironically enough, on empirical grounds. Allow me to close with an empirical observation. If the relevant comparison or counterfactual here appears to be hiring "folks because they were EIC of a top law review, head of their law school class, had a good clerkship, and some experience in a top law firm doing real law" how would that work out in the classroom? One bulwark of that era was a steadfast commitment to the Socratic Method: a legacy that Professor Leiter has described as "the scandal of American legal education" and of which Professor Bainbridge has rejected in favor of a lecturing style, observing that "the Socratic Method does not really teach one to think like a lawyer." It appears that we agree that the "good old days" of legal education were ripe for improvement on all sorts of margins – we just disagree on the proper prescription. Fair enough.
I have no doubt that there are good and bad legal interdisciplinary legal scholars, just as there are good and bad law professors of the traditional variety; I suspect classroom performance is similar. I fully agree with Professor Bainbridge that "a much more vigorous debate about the place of empirical legal studies in the legal academy" is warranted. If we are going to be rigorous about the debate concerning the relationship between interdisciplinary training and quality of legal education, however, let us extend that rigor to confounding factors, to thinking hard about proposed causation, and to extrapolating seriously on the relevant counterfactuals.
If only there were some set of skills a legal scholar might acquire in order to carry out such an analysis…
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The name Jamie Saintclaire refers to a series of novels written by James Douglas. It is also the name of the primary protagonist of the series.
It might surprise some people to learn that the Jamie Saintclaire series is the work of Douglas Jackson. Jackson is best known for his series of historical novels. In fact, he has become quite renowned as a juggernaut in the historical fiction genre.
As such, it comes as a shock for readers to realize that Jackson has actually written a series of novels in the thriller genre. The Jamie Saintclaire series revolves around an art recovery expert by the names of Jamie Saintclaire.
Jamie is living a relatively simple life until he comes across his grandfather's lost diary. What he finds challenges everything Jamie thought he knew about the old man. Rather than just another Anglican clergyman, Jamie learns that his grandfather was a decorated war hero. This revelation is further compounded by a hidden secret in the journal that sets Jamie on a journey that will see him traverse Europe in search of Germany's lost past.
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It doesn't take Jamie Saintclaire long to get drawn into the mix, primarily because certain nefarious parties want to use the artifact in question for unsavory purposes. The result is an adventurous undertaking that finds Jamie taking on international assassins, renowned spies and the like in an effort to save lives.
The Jamie Saintclaire series clearly manifests James Douglas' love for and understanding of history as he delves into Egyptian, Roman and Nazi lore.
The Saintclaire books have been complimented for being well-written and thoroughly enjoyable. Despite the depth of history they work with, James Douglas' series never feels too heavy or bogged down by lengthy explanations.
Rather, James succeeds in maintaining a rapid pace and a smooth flow of events.
James Douglas is a pseudonym for Douglas Jackson. A Scottish author, Douglas was born in 1956. A student of Jedburgh Grammar School, Douglas spent three decades working as a journalist for both local and national newspapers.
It wasn't until 2009 that Douglas finally decided to retire to write full-time. Douglas always knew that he loved history. He was especially enamored by Roman History. Though, he only decided to write when another friend and author pushed him to put his talents to good use.
Douglas was initially reluctant to undertake the activity, mostly because he didn't know what he could possibly write about. He was also convinced that whatever he wrote would probably be too dull to appeal to readers.
But then, the authors remembered his love for history and decided that looking at Roman history through the eyes of a fictional character might be fun. Readers have since come to know Douglas as a renowned author of historical fictional, which is why they might be shocked to learn that Douglas is also working hard to be the next Dan Brown.
Interestingly enough, Douglas did not initially intend to write thrillers. The author pitched a historical novel to his editor, and while it was well received, Douglas was asked if he had ever thought of writing a thriller in the same vein as Dan Brown. Douglas wasn't interested and said as much.
Douglas isn't shy about admitting that money was responsible for eventually changing his mind. He knew that the only way he would meet his financial needs was if he wrote and got two books published every year.
It eventually made sense for Douglas to throw a thriller into the mix in order to improve his financial prospects. James Douglas hasn't regretted the decision. He is still working with history, only he is telling stories set in the modern day.
James Douglas appreciates the fact that the Jamie Saintclaire series doesn't require nearly as much research as the author's Roman titles.
Art recovery expert Jamie Saintclair is about to discover a secret, one that will lead back to a Nazi Expedition of Tibet in the late 1930s and the work of Heinrich Himmler in Germany back in the early 1940s.
Finding his grandfather's lost diary barely piqued Jamie's interest. He thought he knew the old man as well as anyone else. He didn't expect the gentle clergyman to hold any secrets. Then Jamie discovered that his grandfather was actually a decorated World War II hero and that his diary was hiding a piece of Nazi Symbolism with far reaching consequences.
The first book in the Jamie Saintclaire series is an impressive undertaking, playing with elements of the occult, archeology and the Second World War in order to deliver a breathtaking tale of adventure and intrigue.
There are even components of an international spy thriller.
Jamie is written as an ordinary human being who happens to know a thing or two about art and history. When he finds his grandfather's journal, he is thrust into a journey involving a legendary Sunstone and neo-Nazis.
Jamie acts as a grounding force. He isn't the most intelligent human being in the world, and neither does the threat of danger suddenly force him to reveal hidden physical abilities. Jamie is just a guy, and his vulnerabilities give the novel added stakes.
A Boston Detective reaches out to Jamie Saintclaire, certain that he might be able to help solve a crime. As an art recovery expert, Jamie's understanding of Nazi units makes him invaluable. Jamie's probing leads to a theft that took place in an Isis temple two thousand years ago but which is having repercussions at the present.
Jamie must get to the bottom of the situation before more victims begin to pile up.
The second book in the Jamie Saintclaire series revolves around the crown of Isis which was believed to grant its wearer eternal life. The crown was stolen centuries ago only to appear during World War II. It was stolen again and its disappearance is causing murder in the present day.


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Q: Binary BCH code with given distance and rate I am trying to construct a binary cyclic code of length $257$ with rate strictly greater than $\frac{1}{2}$ and distance $18$ or more.
I read about general BCH codes and implemented it.
The multiplicative order of $2$ modulo $257$ is $16$. So, I realize $\text{GF}(2^{16})$ as $\text{GF}(2)[t]/(t^{16}+t^5+t^3+t^2+1)$. I choose a $257$-primitive root of unity in $\text{GF}(2^{16})$. It is $\alpha=t^7+t^6+t^2+1$. Denote the $\text{LCM}$ of the minimal polynomials of $\alpha^{74},\dotsc,\alpha^{74+18-2}$ by $g(x)$. Then $\text{deg}(g(x))=128$.
So, the cyclic code of length $257$ generated by $g(x)$ has rate $\frac{129}{257}>\frac{1}{2}$ and distance at least $18$.

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*Did I follow the steps of constructing a BCH code correctly?

*Are my calculations correct? (I used Sage, but I am very new to it and may have bugs).

*Given a generating polynomial, is there an efficient algorithm to check if the cyclic code it generates has at least a given distance? That would be handy for sanity-checks.

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*Yes. Those exponents fall into eight disticnt cyclotomic cosets modulo $257$, so the degree of the l.c.m. of their minimal polynomials is, indeed, $8\cdot 16=128$.

*That primitive polynomial was a surprise to me. I usually use (as does MATLAB) $x^{16}+x^{12}+x^3+x+1.$ Of course, there are several primitive polynomials to choose from, but I had assumed that to be simplest (lexicographically first among polynomials of weight 5 or something like that). Anyway, I checked with Mathematica that it is, indeed, a primitive polynomial. Sage is wiser! Also the element you mentioned is, indeed, a primitive root of unity of order $257$.

*The short answer is "No!" It is known that the question, whether a code with a given generator matrix (here generator polynomial) has a word of weight below a given a bound is in one of those nasty classes in the NP-hierarchy. So if you figure out how to do this in general, you will become famous. The same problem restricted to the class of cyclic codes is easier, but I am not aware of an algorithmic ways of verifying the minimum distance. Some algorithms for checking that the BCH-bound is exceeded exist. For example, the parameter set used in the construction may fit the Hartmann-Tseng bound. I recall having once reviewed a paper, where the authors introduced an algorithm for proving other similar improvements to the BCH-bound. They were more efficient than brute force, but not guaranteed to give the true minimum distance.

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Boris Johnson could be UK's last PM, warns Gordon Brown
By Tom Eden, PA Scotland
PA Ready News UK 18 July 2019
The former Labour leader said the risks of 'Boris and Brexit' are leaving the union 'hanging by a thread'.
Boris Johnson will be the last prime minister of the UK unless there are moves to protect the union which is "hanging by a thread", Gordon Brown has warned.
The former prime minister predicted the combination of "Boris and Brexit" will be at the heart of the SNP's independence campaign, which he said could see the 300-year-old union "bite the dust".
Mr Brown called for a "positive, patriotic and progressive" case for Scotland's role in the UK, contrasting it with "Boris Johnson's history of casual hostility and the shrill and economically suicidal separatist obsessions of the SNP".
Arguing Scottish independence would be an "even worse financial catastrophe" for Scotland's economy, communities and citizens than a no-deal Brexit, Mr Brown claimed £50 billion of Scottish trade and up to a million jobs would be at risk from leaving the UK.
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The former Labour leader said the SNP's plans for independence and a new currency would leave "no real alternative to a hard border" between England and an independent Scotland.
Writing in the Scottish Daily Mail, the former Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath MP also attacked the "anti-European Conservative extremism" of the Tory leadership contest and said it is seen as anti-Scottish.
The next few months will be vital for protecting the union, Mr Brown said, calling for an alternative to the "Punch and Judy SNP vs Conservative show" that he fears is putting the union at risk.
He said: "People in Scotland deserve better than more decades riven by seemingly endless divisions and conflict.
"There is a better way forward than having to limit our choice to these two extremes.
"Not only do we need to ensure that the destructive policies of the Scottish Government and the official Scottish opposition are fully exposed, we need to set out anew the positive, patriotic and progressive case for our Scottish Parliament and our role in the UK."
Criticising the response to statistics revealing there were 1,187 drug-related deaths in Scotland last year, Mr Brown wrote: "Nothing illustrates the sterility of this head-to-head confrontation than when in the wake of news of Scotland having the worst and most deadly drugs problem in Europe, SNP and Conservatives simply blamed each other.
"There should have been a call for joint action to end a crisis that is needlessly destroying thousands of lives."
Mr Brown also announced the creation of a new think tank, Our Scottish Futures, saying: "It will show how Scotland can stand tall in the world without standing apart from our nearest neighbours and it will demonstrate why Scotland is at its best leading in the UK, not leaving it."
A spokeswoman for the SNP said: "The prospect of a Boris Johnson-led Brexit Britain illustrates exactly why Scotland needs independence.
"People in Scotland don't think Labour can stand up to the Tories – and the increasingly irrelevant interventions by Gordon Brown are doing nothing to change that."
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Trump White House won't issue summer economic forecast…See No Bad news?
May 28, 2020 By jamesb
No need to remind people , eh?
But expect President Trump to get up and say things ARE getting better?
Don't worry Donald….
Plenty of the experts aren't gonna duck on the economy you aren't doing a damn thin about…
And we American's will see things EVERY DAY….
The White House won't make its usual economic forecast when a review of federal spending is released this summer, two senior administration officials confirmed to POLITICO on Thursday.
Those economic projections — which administrations have typically published each summer since the 1970s — would surely reflect the steep downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic, including cratering growth and unemployment levels unseen since the Great Depression. The grim outlook on the economy, which is not required by law, would come just a few months before voters decide whether to reelect President Donald Trump.
Administration officials said the data is too volatile to produce reliable projections and that federal agencies responsible for the numbers are overwhelmed with the implementation of federal legislation passed in response to the pandemic, including the $2 trillion CARES Act cleared by Congress in March.
The data is "extremely fluid and would produce a less instructive forecast," one senior official told POLITICO.
"It is foolish to demand such a forecast simply because that is business as usual, particularly when that forecast may mislead the public," the official said.
Another senior administration official said the White House is still on track to release updated economic projections in October, just weeks before Election Day.
The decision to skip the economic projections, which was first reported by The Washington Post, breaks precedent but not federal law, because there is no requirement that the projections be included in what's called a "mid-session review" published in the summer, following the release of the federal budget request earlier in the year.
The review typically provides an update on the request, economic forecasts, federal spending and more. The numbers are produced by the so-called "troika," or the leaders of the Treasury Department, the Office of Management and Budget and the White House Council of Economic Advisers.
The economic volatility produced by the pandemic hasn't stopped other agencies, like the Congressional Budget Office, from releasing updated forecasts….
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Visions of Government Reform in 2040: Networked Government
In the IBM Center's new book, Government For The Future: Reflection and Vision for Tomorrow' Leaders, part two of the book looks twenty years ahead offering perspectives on the future. This contribution is the next in a multi-part series, Networked Government: Managing Data, Knowledge, and Services, by Lori Gordon.
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From Patchwork to Network: Serving the Whole Veteran
Over 4.7 million Americans served in the military during that war, with about 2.8 million serving overseas. Today, the U.S. has been at war for 17 years in the wake of attacks on 9/11, with 3.5 million Americans having served in post-9/11 conflicts.
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Government Reform over the Past 20 Years - Part 5, Becoming Collaborative
Submitted by rgordon on Thu, 11/08/2018 - 10:23
In the IBM Center's new book, Government For The Future: Reflection and Vision for Tomorrow' Leaders, we have identified six major trends that have driven government management reforms. This is the fourth in a six-part series where we highlight each trend; part two summarizes the evolution of performance management in U.S.
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You're the New Governor! Now What?
A new IBM Center report, Off to a Running State Capital Start: A Transition Guide for New Governors and Their Teams, is hot off the press to provide some guide posts. Written by veteran state government journalists Katherine Barrett and Richard Greene, it is a succinct summary of years of their experience.
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A Tale of Two Cities: How Different Performance Management Systems Use Citizen Feedback (Part 2)
How the City of Hangzhou Assesses Agency Performance and Gathers Citizen Feedback
While the oversight of New York City's performance system is run out of the Mayor's office, in Hangzhou, an independent commission assesses agency performance and gathers extensive citizen feedback. This is a leading-edge approach in China. Most other Chinese cities operate more like New York City, with their performance management system and oversight being managed by a bureau within the city's government, with more of a focus on compliance and less on problem-solving.
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There's been a decades-long movement in the U.S. to increase citizens' involvement in government, and for government services to be more citizen-centric. As a result, we expect to see such initiatives in cities across the U.S., but what about in China? Interestingly, there is a real commitment in some cities in China to listen, and respond, to their citizens.
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Government Reform over the Past 20 Years - Part 2, Managing Performance
In the IBM Center's new book, Government For The Future: Reflection and Vision for Tomorrow' Leaders, we have identified six major trends that have driven government management reforms. This is the second in a six-part series where we highlight each trend; part two summarizes the evolution of performance management in U.S.
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Government for the Future: Reflection and Vision for Tomorrow's Leaders
Submitted by rgordon on Fri, 10/12/2018 - 11:31
At any given moment in time, governments in the United States and around the globe carry out key missions in service of their citizens, learn from and engage with partners in other sectors, and act as cost-effective stewards of public resources. The countless positive daily actions of government leaders go largely unrecognized amidst a constant focus on the highly visible but far smaller set of challenges and problems faced by the public sector.
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New CityView Poll Shows Black Residents Continue to Cite Worse Treatment Based on Race
Residents of all races more concerned about public safety than police misconduct in both Louisville and Oklahoma City
Twenty months after the killing of Breonna Taylor, Black and white residents of the city of Louisville, Ky. have widely contrasting views of police and racial equity, according to the latest Suffolk University/USA TODAY CityView poll.
Taylor was killed in her apartment by police during a botched March 2020 raid. Asked how the fatal shooting influenced their opinion of policing and racial justice in Louisville, 61% of Black residents said they had less faith in the police after the killing, while just over 40% percent of white and Hispanic residents said the incident had caused them to lose faith in the police force.
The CityView poll shows that 60% of Black Louisville residents feel they are treated differently than residents of other races, while poll respondents of other races were far less likely to report different treatment.
At the same time, most Black residents of Louisville (62%) said they do not support "defund the police" movements and 36% of Black residents (and 61% of white respondents) said the local protests that followed the Taylor killing "hurt the community."
The latest in the Suffolk University/USA TODAY CityView poll series examined opinions on race and policing among residents of Louisville and Oklahoma City, Okla., in a series of phone interviews conducted in mid-November. Throughout 2021, the CityView series has examined public sentiment in several major American cities, including Milwaukee, Detroit and Los Angeles.
Black Oklahoma City residents were only slightly less likely (57%) to report a perception of different treatment based on race than the Black residents of Louisville were, but in both cities there was division on race in assessing police tactics.
Sixty-two percent of Black Louisville residents said the police used force when it wasn't necessary, while only 38% of whites did. In Oklahoma City, 51% of Black residents said police used force when it wasn't necessary, while only 29% of residents of other races did.
Residents in both cities said they were worried more about rising crime than police misconduct.
In Louisville, residents were more than twice as likely to cite public safety, not police reform, as the biggest issue facing the city. In Oklahoma City, police reform ranked last on a list of nine community concerns.
A comparison of these views may give insight into why police reforms have proven elusive even in the wake of last year's nationwide protests after George Floyd's murder in Minneapolis.
"I believe that localized research, exemplified in the Suffolk/USA TODAY CityView project, is underutilized as a tool to help understand and solve race-related issues in the United States," said David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center. "Responses from residents in these cities are essential to shedding light on real problems and how they can be solved."
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Hi, everyone. While I was off slinging 632 GB down from space (harder than you'd think), the WCHA has played half of its season! Jimmy. I'm hoping to catch up here now that 2018 is upon us. We'll see.
Above are the 2017-18 BELOW rankings after Week 10 of WCHA conference play (70 of 140 games played).
As you'd expect, BELOW at the halfway mark pretty well mirrors the league standings. BELOW still likes Bemidji State, probably because the Beavers have played just 12 games (as have Alaska-Anchorage) while Michigan Tech has played 18 (most in the league; all others have played 14).
Speaking of Tech, they're the stunning team of the season, free-falling from 1st in BELOW at the start of the season to eighth now due to the second-best league offense (Minnesota State is tops in GF) going unsupported by the second-worst defense (Lake Superior is last in GA). Where's the beef, indeed.
Supplanting the Huskies in the standard top-three is Northern Michigan, which has excelled under first-year coach Grant Potulny. The Wildcats have truly been an excellent team this season.
If you're new, here's a decent guide to BELOW. Note that teams were reverted towards the mean at the start of the season because of the nature of college hockey player turnover.
I'll be back later this week (hopefully).
Above are the 2016-17 BELOW rankings after Week 12 of WCHA conference play (105 of 140 games played).
Michigan Tech (5-2, including an ENG) defeated Alabama-Huntsville. Tech moves to BELOW 1738, Huntsville drops to 1359.
Bowling Green (3-2, OT) defeated Ferris State.
Minnesota State (4-2) defeated Lake Superior.
Bemidji State has clinched home ice in the playoffs with the Lake Superior loss. If Ferris State takes any points from the Falcons tonight, the Beavers will have third clinched.
Michigan Tech has clinched a playoff berth, as none of Alabama-Huntsville, Alaska-Anchorage nor Northern Michigan can pace the Huskies. The Huskies can finish no worse than 7th, and if the results tonight are like last night's, the Huskies will finish no worse than fifth.
Bowling Green leads Ferris State 2-0-0-1 in the A tiebreaker between the two teams. If the Falcons pick up any points tonight, they win at A in a tie with the Bulldogs.
The same is true of Minnesota State and Lake Superior — if the Mavs pick up any points, they win any (improbable) tiebreakers.
Michigan Tech has won the A tiebreaker over Alabama-Huntsville, though this scenario has no relevance.
Some folks have asked for Saturday predictions, but I ran into script-writing problems. Maybe for next week.
Only one 2016-17 WCHA series has had a wider starting BELOW differential than Tech-Huntsville (369): Bemidji State at Alaska-Anchorage (387). As you'll remember, the Seawolves won that first game by two goals. In fact, UAA has been involved in all five of the 300+ point differential games this season, and they won three of them, two against MTU.
That said, UAH has been dreadful at home this season (1-0-1-8 in league play), and they've lost six straight games. As an alumnus, I can tell you that the natives are getting restless. The Chargers desperately need a win this weekend just to keep out of the WCHA cellar, and as you can see, ABOVE expects the worst.
If you're curious, ABOVE expects two blowouts 13.99% of the time, all% by Tech. The Huskies can only pick up 12 BELOW points this week because of the wide differential. The teams would swap 60 points if the nearly-impossible happens and the Chargers sweep.
Above are the 2016-17 BELOW rankings after Week 12 of WCHA conference play (102 of 140 games played).
With the weekend's results, Bemidji State has 52 league points. Alaska (51), Ferris State (50), Alabama-Huntsville (47), Alaska-Anchorage (43), and Northern Michigan (43) cannot match the Beavers' total, which means that they can finish no worse than fifth.
Lake Superior can max out at 52 points. If they're tied, each team ends up with 16 regulation conference wins, but six Bemidji losses puts them with 10, and there they lose the C tiebreaker (LSSU his nine losses to date).
Bemidji is off this weekend, but all they need is for Minnesota State to pick up one point this weekend at home against Lake Superior. It would also work for Ferris State to beat Bowling Green once to limit their maximum.
All three series this weekend — Michigan Tech at Alabama-Huntsville, Bowling Green at Ferris State, and Lake Superior at Minnesota State — finish out A tiebreakers. Six more are decided in Weeks 18, 19, and 20, with the league's rivalry weekend finishing off the final five. It'll be two more weeks before we know the result of the high-profile three-way tiebreaker, BSU-MSU-MTU.
RBELOW is the average of the opponents' BELOW ratings for the rest of the season, as they stand today.
ExpWin% here is the expected winning percentage based on that team's BELOW and their opponents'.
Est. Pts. is an extrapolation of the EW%, the number of games left, and the current total.
Bemidji has the lead, but Tech has the easier schedule.
Hopefully I'll have time this week to knock out a to-completion script. Working one job while training for another is wearing me out.
BELOW accounts for momentum in the sense that a great run (see Bemidji State's climb to the top) gets you a high rating but a drop-off does the same (see Bemidji State's drop of the past few weeks, or Michigan Tech's similar drooping).
At the turn of the year, the gap in BELOW between the two was 1732-1589. It's quite narrower now. This prediction feels somewhat Tech heavy, but not too much. It would be easy to overreact to Tech's struggles with Alaska-Anchorage and overvalue the Mavericks' efforts against Alabama-Huntsville and Bowling Green, but I'm not sure that this is all that out of line.


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Maria Matos: The Power of Advocacy, Investments in Early Learning
Category: Early Childhood Education, News
Guest blog by Maria Matos, president and CEO of the Latin American Community Center
There are three traits that the Hispanic community has in common: our faith in God, our dedication to family, and the notion that we as a people are extremely patriotic to our country.
Faith is what inspired my dad to move our family from Camden, New Jersey to Wilmington in 1964. It was this faith and service to community that inspired him to open the first Spanish language Pentecostal church in Delaware. My dad was not only motivated by his faith and community service but also made sure that he instilled these traits to me and my siblings.
Today, the Hispanic community is surging—in Wilmington and throughout Delaware. This is why at the Latin American Community Center, where I serve as president and CEO, we strive to support our community in a variety of ways—from family immigration services, short- and long-term case management, financial literacy education, substance abuse prevention, and more. But perhaps our most critical work happens at our early development center (EDC).
This did not happen overnight, strategic early investments set us on the right direction. The Rodel Foundation's relationship with the philanthropic Social Venture Partners shined a light on the LACC and the work we were doing here. With Rodel's help, we were able to secure critical funding, which we used to attract top talent and made not only environmental changes—but we transformed the EDC into a top-quality, inner-city preschool provider. Today we offer children and their families a comprehensive program that meets the highest academic standards and prepares children from six-weeks to five years old to meet developmental goals for their age group. As a program that serves primarily low-income, minority families who reside in urban communities, we provide quality, affordable and neighborhood-based early educational programming.
We went from babysitting to performing above and beyond the line of a typical preschool which includes the Creative Curriculum, Expeditionary Learning framework and Dual Language. Today, thanks to those early investments, we are flourishing. We are a proud Five-Star program serving more than 131 children. We have four-year-olds undertaking case studies in our Expeditionary Learning Program and early childhood educators with advanced degrees.
Our EDC program offers a safe, secure and enriching environment that allows for physical, socio-emotional, cognitive and language development. Each year, more than 90 percent of our pre-K students demonstrate kindergarten readiness based on developmental indicators and data collected using the Teaching Strategies GOLD assessment system. In addition to an educational makeover, we embraced Nemours Health and Prevention's '5-2-1- Almost None' formula for a healthy life style. We added five more fruits and vegetables to our students' diets, no screen time, one hour or more of physical activity, and eliminated all sugary foods and drinks. I consider our center to be one of Wilmington's best-kept secrets.
We recognize Rodel as an educational advocacy partner. Rodel has been relentless in obtaining results in high-quality early learning opportunities and assessments, the development of the Stars Quality Rating Program, Delaware Readiness Teams, and tiered reimbursement. Today, I am proud to serve on Rodel's Advisory Council.
To me, advocacy is wanting for others what you would want for your own children or family. It sounds simple enough, but the power of advocacy has transformed early childhood learning in Delaware, just as it has at the LACC. Our collective voices have reached the top offices of our state, where Governor Markell included $22 million in his budget last year for early education and is proposing $11.3 million in state funds to sustain early childhood education growth and quality in Delaware.
That's the power of advocacy and the importance of investing in our very youngest Delawareans. You can also become an advocate for early learning. I urge you to find ways to get involved at your neighborhood early learning center, to contact your legislator and voice your support for the governor's budget request. Gov. Jack Markell proposed his annual fiscal state budget—and of the $4.1 billion in total, about $11.3 million was requested to further early childhood education in Delaware. Those funds would go to support, among other things, initiatives like the Delaware Readiness Teams, the Delaware Stars Program, and tiered reimbursement, which provides ongoing technical assistance and grants to early learning programs and professionals to help them increase their qualifications and quality standards.
Early education is the key—I will vouch for that until the end of my days. And I continue to have faith that if you start early enough, you can make a world of difference.
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