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Depending on the moon phase, the time and the time of the year, planets, stars and objects of deep space will be observed with the support of a telescope, laser and tablet. During the evening, you can take photographs to capture images of unforgettable objects. In addition, a tablet is available to learn how to use applications that allow us to recognize celestial bodies, so that you can repeat the experience at home, with your device.
7.45 PM / 9.00 PM (traditional dinner: tuna steak, stewed goat, stewed chicken with tatoko (traditional dish of the island of Santiago), xerém (cornmeal polenta), salad and sweet potato fries, green banana and cassava. banana cake, pudding and a typical dessert). Drinks not included.


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Q: Should I put a threading class in or out of a class method I am creating a class, several methods of which use threading.
To use threading I often create a sub class of threading. Thread which I should create at top level like this:
class mainclass(object):

    def __init__(self, ):
        pass

    def method_a(self, ):
        print('method_a start')
        tlist = list(range(10))
        ps = [subthread(tlist) for i in range(4)]
        for p in ps:
            p.start()
        for p in ps:
            p.join()
        print('method_a finish', tlist)

class subthread(threading.Thread):

    def __init__(self, alist):
        threading.Thread.__init__(self)
        self.alist = alist

    def run(self, ):
        while self.alist:
            t = self.alist.pop(0)
            print(self.getName(), t)
            sleep(1)

Or into the method using it like this:
class mainclass(object):

    def __init__(self, ):
        pass

    def method_a(self, ):
        class subthread(threading.Thread):

            def __init__(self, alist):
                threading.Thread.__init__(self)
                self.alist = alist

            def run(self, ):
                while self.alist:
                    t = self.alist.pop(0)
                    print(self.getName(), t)
                    sleep(1)

        print('method_a start')
        tlist = list(range(10))
        ps = [subthread(tlist) for i in range(4)]
        for p in ps:
            p.start()
        for p in ps:
            p.join()
        print('method_a finish', tlist)

As I know, if I use the second, the class method may be very long,
and it seems that jedi.vim cannot work well.
If I use the first, for every class-method I have to create a top level class with a different name I only use in one place.
So which should I use?

A: You don't really need to create a class. If all it does is run a method, you can pass the method directly to the Thread class through the target parameter:
class Main(object):

    def run(self, alist, thread_id):
        while alist:
            t = alist.pop(0)
            print(thread_id, t)
            sleep(1)

    def method_a(self):
        print('method_a start')
        tlist = list(range(10))
        ps = [Thread(target=self.run, args=(tlist, i)) for i in range(4)]
        for p in ps:
            p.start()
        for p in ps:
            p.join()
        print('method_a finish')

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Q: cuda : Is shared memory always helpful? When I read the programming guide, I got the feeling that shared memory will always improve the performance, but it seems not.
I have two functions:
const int Ntimes=1;

__global__ void testgl(float *A, float *C, int numElements){

    int ti = threadIdx.x;
    int b0 = blockDim.x*blockIdx.x;

    if (b0+ti < numElements){
        for(int i=0;i<Ntimes;i++){
            A[b0+ti]=A[b0+ti]*A[b0+ti]*10-2*A[b0+ti]+1;
        }
        C[b0+ti] = A[b0+ti]*A[b0+ti];
    }
}

__global__ void testsh(float *A, float *C, int numElements){

    int ti = threadIdx.x;
    int b0 = blockDim.x*blockIdx.x;

    __shared__ float a[1024];

    if (b0+ti < numElements){
        a[ti]=A[b0+ti];
    }

    __syncthreads();

    if (b0+ti < numElements){
        for(int i=0;i<Ntimes;i++){
            a[ti]=a[ti]*a[ti]*10-2*a[ti]+1;
        }
        C[b0+ti] = a[ti]*a[ti];
    }
}

int main(void){

    int numElements = 500000;
    size_t size = numElements * sizeof(float);

    // Allocate the host input
    float *h_A = (float *)malloc(size);
    float *h_B = (float *)malloc(size);

    // Allocate the host output
    float *h_C = (float *)malloc(size);
    float *h_D = (float *)malloc(size);

    // Initialize the host input
    for (int i = 0; i < numElements; i++){
        h_A[i] = rand()/(float)RAND_MAX;
        h_B[i] = h_A[i];
    }

    // Allocate the device input
    float *d_A = NULL; cudaMalloc((void **)&d_A, size);
    float *d_B = NULL; cudaMalloc((void **)&d_B, size);
    float *d_C = NULL; cudaMalloc((void **)&d_C, size);
    float *d_D = NULL; cudaMalloc((void **)&d_D, size);

    //Copy to Device
    cudaMemcpy(d_A, h_A, size, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
    cudaMemcpy(d_B, h_B, size, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);

    // Launch the Vector Add CUDA Kernel
    int threadsPerBlock = 1024;
    int blocksPerGrid =(numElements + threadsPerBlock - 1) / threadsPerBlock;

    testgl<<<blocksPerGrid, threadsPerBlock>>>(d_A, d_C, numElements);

    testsh<<<blocksPerGrid, threadsPerBlock>>>(d_B, d_D, numElements);

    // Copy the device resultto the host
    cudaMemcpy(h_C, d_C, size, cudaMemcpyDeviceToHost);
    cudaMemcpy(h_D, d_D, size, cudaMemcpyDeviceToHost);

    // Free device global memory
    cudaFree(d_A);
    cudaFree(d_B);
    cudaFree(d_C);
    cudaFree(d_D);

    // Free host memory
    free(h_A);
    free(h_B);
    free(h_C);
    free(h_D);

    // Reset the device and exit
    cudaDeviceReset();

    return 0;
}

If Ntimes is set to be 1, testgl costs 49us, and testsh costs 97us.
If Ntimes is set to be 100, testgl costs 9.7ms, and testsh costs 8.9ms.
I do not know why it's more than 100 times longer.
So it seems the shared memory helps only when we want to do a lot of things in device, is that right?
The card used here is GTX680.
Thanks in advance.

A: shared memory will always improve the performance
Thats not true. It depends on the algorithm. If you have a perfectly coalesced memory access in the kernel and you are accessing the global memory just once it may not help. But if you are implementing suppose a matrix multiplication where you need the partial sums to be held then it will be useful.
It will be also helpful if you are accessing the same memory location more than once in the kernel it will help in this case since the shared memory latency is 100 times less than the global memory because its on-chip memory.
When you analyse that the kernel is bandwidth limited then its a good place to think if there is a scope of using the shared memory and increase the performance. Its also better strategy to check the occupancy calculator to check if the usage of shared memory is going to affect the occupancy.
shared memory helps only when we want to do a lot of things in device ?
Partial Yes. Shared memory helps when we want to do a lot of things in device.
In your case in the above kernel, as you are accessing the global memory more than once in the kernel it should help. It will be helpful if you can provide the complete reproducer to analyze the code. Also it will be helpful to know the card details you are running on.


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Sports News » Baseball News » Adam Wainwright may need Tommy John surgery and miss 2011 season: St Louis Cardinals officials
Adam Wainwright may need Tommy John surgery and miss 2011 season: St Louis Cardinals officials
St Louis Cardinals officials announced on Wednesday that Adam Wainwright was expected to need Tommy John surgery, increasing the speculations about the elimination of the right-handed starting pitcher from the 2011 season.
A news agency alleged that Jonny Gomes of the Cincinnati Reds, a Major League Baseball team, was rejoicing on the probable elimination of his rival Wanwright. But when approached, Gomes denied the news agency report late Wednesday night.
"To clear up everything, I came up with Wainwright. I know Wainwright. I think he is one of the top-notch pitchers in the National League and baseball. Outside of different uniforms that we wear and different cities we play in, playing in the Major Leagues, we are all brothers. There is a brotherhood there. There is one thing you would never wish upon any other player and that is an injury," Gomes said.
Looking at the record of Wanwright against the Reds, the Chicago Cubs and other NL teams' experts believed that losing Wainwright would be huge blow to Cardinals. The 29-year-old has won 20 games and is a runner-up for the National League Cy Young Award. He had 2.42 ERA in 33 starts and 230 1/3 innings in 2010.
Many players think that Cardinals are like a motor which is losing its balance in the NL. Bill Hall of the Houston Astros said he could not deny Wanwright's abilities and their effects on other teams.
"Obviously, he's a big piece to that puzzle, and I feel like without him they're definitely going to have a little tougher time competing in the division with how strong the division has gotten over the last couple of months. Milwaukee's gotten way strong with their additions and this team has gotten strong, and the Cubs got stronger. It is going to be a tough division," Hall said.
He maintained that the NL was a tougher division than American League as he spent 2010 in the AL and experienced the strength of both the divisions. He remarked that it would be even tougher for Cardinals to make their way through the division win.
On the other side, Cardinals General manager La Russa refused to accept that Wanwright's injury was related to soreness, instead, he considered it a minor elbow issue. Toronto's Shaun Marcum could feel the same like Adam since he missed 2009 because of the same surgery.
Furthermore, the Milwaukee Brewers were prepared to put a strong start with their line-up having star players like Ryan Braun, Rickie Weeks, Corey Hart and Zack Greinke. Ryan Braun was of the view that though Wanwright's plight was not good but they were looking to perform until April, 2011 and beyond.
However, the future will reveal how much Adam's injury affects the Cardinals.
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Sydney's landmark Lands and Education buildings on Bridge Street – known as "The Sandstones" – are one step closer to being transformed into a world-class hotel, featuring grandly proportioned suites and rooms, retail, dining, gardens and rooftop lounges.
The NSW Government today announced the next stage of a $300 million plan to revitalise the historic buildings, with Singapore-based Pontiac Land Group lodging its Development Application (DA) for the planned transformation.
Minister for Finance, Services and Property Dominic Perrottet said the heritage redevelopment would allow locals and visitors to enjoy the history and heritage of the Sandstones for the first time since they were built in the late 1800s.
The designs unveiled by Pontiac Land Group show ground-level retail and dining and a rooftop salon in the Lands building, to be open to the public. More than 250 hotel rooms and suites are included in the plans for the two buildings.
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Pontiac has extensive experience in the adaptive re-use of heritage buildings, including the flagship Capella Hotel in Singapore. The Sandstones are subject to strict heritage protections, and the development will need to comply with Conservation Management Plans, endorsed by the NSW Heritage Council.
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This recipe makes 2 large serves.
Place the bonito stock, water, miring and soy into a small saucepan and bring to the boil. Then set aside.
Because you are using Silken Tofu you will need to be gentle with it.
Pat the Tofu dry with towel.
Cut the tofu into cubes, I use fairly large cubes and cut each 200g packet of Tofu into 4.
Immediately gently fry each cube on each side in the hot coconut oil until slightly golden.
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Dan Heldridge
Dan is a Placer County resident and has led a career in community development that includes micro-finance, business finance, affordable housing, and development work in emerging markets.
At Morgan Stanley, Dan was Executive Director in Community Development Finance, where the motto was "Let's use the power of the capital markets to do good." He worked on transaction structuring and management of a $3 billion portfolio of community development loans and investments, including affordable housing construction and preservation, SBA lending, CDFI lending, tax equity, and private equity investing. Partnering with Ford Foundation, he established the Impact Developers Fund to make equity investments in minority-owned affordable housing developers.
Dan also worked at the San Francisco-based nonprofit Low Income Investment Fund as Director of Lending Operations, where focus was on affordable housing, charter school, and childcare finance. He is a former board and loan committee member of Community Housing Capital, a former credit committee member of Neighborhood Trust, and former board member of International Cinema Education. Dan graduated from San Francisco State, he holds an MBA from the University of Hull (UK), and he studied in Columbia University's MS in Sustainability Management program. Dan speaks Spanish.
Dave Cook, Board Chair
Cook Development Consulting Services, LLC
Dave has enjoyed a successful 40-year career in the residential real estate development industry. After receiving a BA at the University of California, Davis, Mr. Cook focused his career on real estate sales, management, and development. Throughout his career, he held numerous positions including, Project Manager, Director of Land Acquisition, Director of Sales and Marketing, Division President, and Principal. In 2006 he co-founded the RCH Group, a land development consulting firm, and in 2017 formed Cook Development Consulting Services, providing a variety of entitlement and land development services including project management, land and infrastructure planning, project approvals, advocacy, and community outreach. Mr. Cook has dedicated many years of community service as a member of the North State Building Industry Association, and as Board Chair for Sutter Roseville Medical Center Foundation, and President of the Blue Line Arts board of directors.
Jim Bayless, Vice Chair
Summit Development, Sr. VP Development & Acquisitions
Jim has over 30 years of production homebuilding management experience. Jim earned an MBA from UC Berkeley, then focused his career on new home construction and development for communities throughout Northern California. After serving as a division manager for two large homebuilders, he established a local production homebuilding company and served as its President for 12 years. Jim recently joined Summit Development as the Sr. VP of Land Development and Acquisitions, after serving as the Land Acquisition Manager for Woodside Homes for 10 years.
He has served as Chair of the North State Building Industry Association, as a board member and Treasurer of Valley Vision, and was a founding director of HomeAid Sacramento.
Holly Tiche, Secretary
Placer Ranch, Inc., President
Holly serves as President of Placer Ranch, Inc. in Rocklin, California, and oversees a 2,220-acre mixed use development in Placer County owned by philanthropist Eli Broad. A graduate of Sacramento State in Business Administration, Ms. Tiche began her employment with Broad in 1988 with Stanford Ranch, a successful master-planned community, and served as their Vice President/Controller. Ms. Tiche has overseen Broad's real estate holdings in the Sacramento Metropolitan Area since 1996. Ms. Tiche currently serves on the boards of The Foundation at Sacramento State, the Sierra College Foundation and Housing Trust Placer. She has previously served on the Board of Trustees for William Jessup University, Blue Line Arts, Lighthouse Resource Center, and is the Past President of the Sierra College Foundation. She has chaired numerous capital campaigns and fundraising events in the region for local non-profit causes and higher education.
Gabe Brown, Treasurer
Bank of the West, Vice President Community Development
Gabe has more than 15 years of experience in affordable housing and financing and is currently the Vice President of the Community Development Group at Bank of the West. Mr. Brown's role has been critical to overseeing the bank's affordable construction financing loans, as well as its tax credit equity investments in opportunity zones. Additionally, he is responsible for the administration of Bank of the West's FHLB SF AHP program and the disbursement of grant funds for various affordable housing developments. Mr. Brown serves on the loan committee for California Community Reinvestment Corporation, where the organization approves permanent financing for affordable housing projects throughout California.
Bruce Inman, Board Member
Inman Law Group, LLP
Bruce is a founding partner of the Inman Law Group, LLP, based in Sacramento, California. Mr. Inman's law practice focuses on creating common interest developments and advising community associations. He has assisted clients in creating hundreds of developments, including master planned communities, attached, detached, mixed-use, and commercial planned development and has extensive experience creating a variety of residential and commercial condominium projects. Mr. Inman is the past chair of the California Building Industry Association/Department of Real Estate Council, and a former board member of a regional chapter of the Community Associations Institute. Mr. Inman is a regular featured speaker for the California North Chapter of the Community Associations Institute regarding community association legal issues. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Mary's College of California, Teaching Credential from California State University Stanislaus, and Juris Doctorate from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law.
Patrick McHone, Board Member
River City Bank, EVP, Chief Credit Officer
Patrick McHone has more than 35 years of experience in commercial banking and holds a BS in Business Administration from Menlo College. In 2007, Mr. McHone joined the team at River City Bank and since 2008 has been its Chief Credit Officer. River City Bank is headquartered in Sacramento, and serves customers in Sacramento, the San Francisco Bay Area and Southern California. Mr. McHone has helped to shape River City Bank into a premier business bank, with assets of $3.2 Billion. Prior to his role at River City Bank, Mr. McHone held a senior management position with Mechanics Bank for 17 years and was responsible for establishing Mechanic's commercial and retail banking presence in the Sacramento region.
Joe Pitzner, Board Member
BSB Design, Project Manager
Joe has more than 20 years of housing design experience, and his work with for-profit builders around the country, including numerous projects in California, Nevada, and Utah, he has developed an intimate working knowledge of how effective, collaborative design processes result in construction efficiencies that impact the entire project cycle, through to the end user. Mr. Pitzner believes applying those same strategies to the non-profit sector offers an incredible opportunity. As a firm, BSB Design encourages leaders to develop an innovation mindset, and Joe continuously seeks new, interesting design solutions that push the envelope for residential housing across the spectrum of his project work.
Jim Ray, Board Member
MacKay and Somps, President
Jim recently retired as President of MacKay and Somps Civil Engineers, starting with the firm when he began his career in their San Jose office in 1976. Mr. Ray graduated from Stanford University with a BS in Civil Engineering and is a registered Civil Engineer in California and Nevada. In 1984, he was appointed Operations Manager for the Sacramento region. He grew the office from a staff of six to over 60 people and in 2006, was elected President of the corporation. He has received recognition from North State Building Industry Association for his contributions, including Associate of the Year in 1998, Volunteer of the Millennium in 2000, and recipient of the 2020 Chairman's Award for his years of dedication to our industry, including involvement in many of the largest residential developments in the areas, as well as his leadership on various land use and policy issues. Mr. Ray has also served on the Board of Directors and as local chapter president for the Consulting Engineers and Land Surveyors of California.
Robyn van Ekelenburg, Board Member
Robyn van Ekelenburg joins the Housing Trust Placer Board because of her long standing commitment to creating affordable housing. Robyn has worked in community development for over twenty-years, beginning her career in new home construction and dedicating the last 15 years to developing affordable homeownership programs. She has partnered with developers across the state to help create successful homeownership programs with an emphasis on project management, layered financing, risk analysis, homebuyer education and home sales.
Robyn has administered tens of millions in local, State and Federal housing programs on behalf of local non-profit organizations. She supports a number of organizations in their fund development and program management activities, with an emphasis on creating affordability and sustainability. Robyn works with organizations and developers to provide technical support for affordable homeownership projects and policy initiatives.
Patricia M. Márquez, Director
After graduating from UC Davis, Patricia spent twenty years in the commercial banking industry in the Sacramento area, primarily serving as a C&I lender at several local banks. Over the years, she accumulated a portfolio representing businesses throughout the region with a specialty in construction companies. In 2002 she left banking for a career in nonprofit management, securing the role as executive director of the Sutter Roseville Medical Center Foundation where she spent fourteen years raising funds for various programs and services found on the Sutter Roseville Campus with the help of a volunteer board of directors. After leaving Sutter, Patricia spent four years as an adviser to several area nonprofits.
Patricia currently lives in Granite Bay with her husband Richard and she enjoys golf, quilting, cooking, and just about anything outdoors.
Michelle Coleman, Board Member
Michelle is CEO of Coleman Coaching and Consulting, specializing in nonprofit consulting in the areas of leadership, organizational development, fund development, and community engagement.
She worked at LOEL Foundation, a private nonprofit that provides affordable housing, nutritious lunches and a number of services for seniors in Central California. She served as Executive Director of Parkinson Association of Northern California, which is dedicated to enhancing the lives of people with Parkinson's, their families, and caregivers. She planned and implemented their Annual Educational Conference with 860 attendees and forged partnerships with key sponsors. She was also Executive Director of Stand Up Placer, where she realigned their strategy and organization. She also retired debt by recruiting matching fund donors and improved the company's fiscal management, resulting in four consecutive years of perfect compliance audits.
Earlier in her career, Michelle was Associate Director of WEAVE, Inc. in Sacramento, which promotes healthy relationships and supports survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence. She was instrumental in stabilizing the agency after the exit of an iconic executive director with 20 years of service. She was also Senior Program Manager for Safe & Sound in Milwaukee, where she authored a $650k grant and worked to reduce juvenile crime statistics and recidivism by 20%.
Michelle holds a BA in Psychology from University of Wisconsin, and she is a Certified Fundraising Executive.
Deana Ellis, Board Member
Deana is Vice President of Land Resources at Cresleigh Homes. She is responsible for all site acquisition, project entitlements and land development for Cresleigh Homes in Northern California. A key member of the land development team, Deana has extensive experience in mixed use development, master plan communities, project entitlements at the Federal, State and local level, as well as experience in often challenging infill projects.
Prior to joining Cresleigh, Deana worked in commercial real estate development for Albertsons, developing new store locations, remodels and acquisitions in California, the Pacific Northwest and the southern United States. Deana has significant experience in development of mixed projects in California including involvement in a number of complicated projects while at Albertsons, such as the 32nd and Clement and Fulton and Masonic projects in San Francisco, which are large urban mixed-use projects with full grocery stores and accompanying residential uses.
Deana is devoted to, and has a strong advocacy and track record for, urban and infill development that revitalizes communities with a focus on pedestrian, transit and bike centered communities. Deana, a graduate of Boise State University, serves on the Policy and Planning board of the Sacramento chapter of the Urban Land Institute and is a board member of the North State Building Industry Association where she utilizes her experience and enthusiasm to press for thoughtful discussion and policy adoption that promotes the principle of mixed use, compact development to revitalize the Sacramento region.
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Hello! My name is Julia and welcome to my blog.
I am a twenty something Vermonter living in the great, big city of Chicago. I moved here for college, married a born-and-bred Chicagoan a few years later and, for the time being anyway, I'm here to stay. Monday through Friday, I hide my Elvis tattoo under appropriate work attire for my job in non-profit development. On the weekends, I love exploring the city with my camera, my husband, Eric, and our two little pugs, Rupert & Lola. We go to museums, parks, and hunt for comics. When it's rainy, too cold, or we're just feeling lazy, we like to stay in and nerd out to Doctor Who or whatever other show we're binge watching that week. Have a question or wanna work together? Feel free to contact me at listsnpictures@gmail.com.
I love exploring cemeteries (and Chicago has some great ones).
No matter how many years I spend here in Chicago, I will always consider myself a Vermonter at heart.
I'm a textbook INFJ. Give me some Billie Holiday, a good book, and peppermint tea and I'll be happy for hours.
When I was little, while other kids my age listened to Backstreet Boys and the like, I was jammin' to Elvis, Roy Orbison and The Beatles. I'm grateful my parents never relinquished control of the radio.
And I used to want to study sharks for a living. Despite living in a landlocked state with a pretty real fear of deep water.
Dear Julia: I knew from the first I would like your site. Don't take to heart my comment about making lists. But I, too, am INFJ. And thus we shall have much in common, much to share, and much to keep in. I do love your lists! send me an email for more lists. Did you see my lists of favorite movies? See? I have had some great lists, too.
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Kenneth Chenault, chairman and CEO of American Express, didn't have a typical start in the business world. He studied law, not business, and he used to stereotype business people as "stuffy," he admitted to a Cornell audience April 3.
But despite his unusual background, Chenault rose through the ranks at American Express, first working in strategic planning and eventually reaching the top post in 2001. In a candid interview with USA Today reporter David Lieberman, Chenault shared thoughts on success, leadership and business strategies with a capacity audience in Statler Auditorium during the USA Today CEO Forum, hosted jointly by the Johnson School and the School of Hotel Administration.
"Integrity is critical," Chenault said on the topic of strong leadership. "If you're asking people to ... take some risk, they have to have a level of trust."
Those themes cropped up several times during the interview with Lieberman, whose report of the event will run in the Money section of USA Today.
Chenault described American Express' evolution from a company that issued charge cards and travelers' checks to relatively affluent consumers to one that offers a wide range of products for a more diverse consumer base. Lieberman pointed out that American Express cards can now be used at Burger King and Costco.
Chenault said he is constantly stressing innovation and challenging the status quo. As successful as American Express was in the 1980s and early 1990s, he said, the company lacked innovation during that time, becoming complacent in its role as a provider of charge cards and travel and entertainment services.
"They thought they were in a groove of success, and that became a rut," he said.
Lieberman also asked if Chenault felt that executive salaries, in some cases, have "gotten out of hand."
Chenault admitted that they had to an extent, but that it is not an "overriding issue."
"I think what is important, rather than just the level of pay, is what is the alignment and what are the drivers for that compensation?" he said. For example, American Express, he said, believes in motivated employees, so the company evaluates progress, in part, using an employee satisfaction survey. That survey, Chenault noted, carries about 25 percent of the weight in his own progress evaluation.
Lieberman also broached such hot-button topics as the economy and a possible recession, the weak U.S. dollar, consumer group criticism of the gift card industry and consumer credit card debt -- which some estimate to be approaching a record $1 trillion in the United States alone.
"Can consumers continue to pile on this debt? Is it reaching a breaking point?" Lieberman asked. Chenault replied that "by no means should anyone be complacent about the credit environment."
He said his company provides an array of products to balance its risk profile and that they've tried to target high-spending, highly rated customers.
The entire interview with Chenault is available on CornellCast: http://www.cornell.edu/video.


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To help You make an informed decision, I will take an in-depth look at one of the top places to purchase WordPress themes and plugins: MyThemeShop. As well as analyzing MyThemeShop in general, I'll also be looking at its most important features, reviewing some of its best products and sharing tips to prospective buyers.
Using a Name like MyThemeShop, you would think the answer would be clear cut. In reality, MyThemeShop occupies a middle ground between a WordPress theme store and also a WordPress'club'. Because of its pricing policy, more leans .
This is Because although all its goods (MyThemeShop develops themes and plugins) are readily available to buy individually, it also has a membership option that gives users total access to its entire product range.
As we've Touched a number of occasions during this article, MyThemeShop offers quality, 24/7 service for its customers. So that users can learn from common issues, it takes place primarily in its own support forum.
There's a Dedicated section for plugins and topics, plus parting between free and premium products. Simply post your issue about the forum and one of the MyThemeShop-employed support staff will respond to your query usually .
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Another Bonus: every theme comes with a narrated movie tutorial, plus MyThemeShop offers round-the-clock support to assist you out of any tight spots you might experience (more on this later).
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When You've discovered a theme you like the look of, you could click through to the motif's product page. Here, you'll be able to read more about this theme's main attributes, and you'll get an notion of this subject's popularity — each theme involves a community rating out of five.
As you'd Expect from one of the top theme sellers round, every theme comes with its own demo.
Before You buy a theme, I recommend spending a few minutes researching this demo. You'll be able to sample the motif's designs, try out different customisation choices, and find an overall idea of how the theme looks and plays.
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You can Look for plugins in precisely the exact same manner as topics because plugins vary in terms of their capabilities, the plugin pages are the most important areas to search for whatever information you are after.
Each Plugin has a long list of this plugin's attributes, providing you with a clear indication of what it could (or can not ) do. You will also observe an individual evaluation, and there is a presentation for each plugin so you can see each one in action.
Because There are fewer plugins compared to themes, let's run down the top three MyThemeShop WordPress plugins. I supply a brief summary of what each plugin can perform.
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Q: Get features onclick ArcGIS JavaScript API I am new to JavaScript and to JavaScript APIs as well,
I am trying to get all the attributes of a feature that is clicked on the webmap, and I don't want to use the default pop up so I disabled it, and wrote the function below. I get the geometry, but I want the actual feature.
How can I do this?
Here is the current code I have which always returns 0 features when I do the query based on the geometry or mappoint.
 view.on("click", async function(event){
        view.hitTest(event).then(
            async function(response){
            for(let j=0;j<=response.results.length-1;j++){
                var graphic = response.results[j].graphic;

                let featureLayer=graphic.layer;
                let lyrType  =featureLayer.operationalLayerType;
                if(lyrType!='ArcGISFeatureLayer')
                    continue;
                var query = featureLayer.createQuery();
                query.geometry = graphic.geometry; // I also tried event.mapPoint
                query.outFields= ["*"];
                query.spatialRelationship = "intersects";
                let rr= await featureLayer.queryFeatures(query);
                let numberOfSelectedFeatures=rr.features.length;  // this is 0, unless i remove the query then it gets every feature in the layer
                }

        });
    });

A: I don't understand why you use functions async way, but there is an example in the documentation.
HitTest sample

view.on("pointer-down", eventHandler);
function eventHandler(event) {
  view.hitTest(event).then(function (response) {
    if (response.results.length) {
      const graphic = response.results[0].graphic;
      const attributes = graphic.attributes;
      console.log(attributes);
    }
  });
}

If FeatureLayer' features have attributes and you want to get all attributes, you should define outFields property as ["*"].
const layer = new FeatureLayer({
  // URL to the service
  url: "url,
  outFields: ["*"]
});

OR
featureLayer.outFields = ["*"];


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Business Biographies and Memoirs: 6 Manuscripts
Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Jack Ma, Richard Branson
By: JR MacGregor
Narrated by: Kevin Kollins
The Biography Collection: Benjamin Franklin, Nikola Tesla, Henry Ford, J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Thomas Edison
By: Steven Bowen
This audiobook includes biographies on the following men: Benjamin Franklin, Nikola Tesla, Henry Ford, J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Thomas Edison.
Billionaire Businessmen Biographies: 2 books in 1! (Vol. 2): Warren Buffett: The Life, Lessons & Rules for Success and Jeff Bezos: The Life, Lessons & Rules for Success
By: Influential Individuals
Narrated by: David Margittai
The 'Billionaire Businessmen Biographies' is two books in one: 'Warren Buffett, The Life, Lessons and Rules for Success' and 'Jeff Bezos, The Life, Lessons and Rules for Success'. Drawing from the secrets from these world-class businessmen, it reflects on their lives, lessons, and ventures to identify their key success strategies so you can apply them too.
Be successful in life!
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Jeff Bezos: The Life, Lessons & Rules for Success
Examining the life of Jeff Bezos from his humble beginnings in Albuquerque to the present day, as CEO of Amazon, this book talks about the inspirations and influences that made Jeff Bezos the man he is today. Be inspired as you learn about some of the principles that have guided Jeff Bezos to success.
If you want to dive into a book and be wow'd!
By Louise Heuer on 01-08-19
The Founding Fathers: Biographies of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin
By: Shane Costello
Narrated by: Kevin Theis
This audiobook includes biographies on the following men: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin. The Founding Fathers of the United States led the American Revolution against the Kingdom of Great Britain. Most were descendants of colonists settled in the Thirteen Colonies in North America.
The Founding Fathers
By Jason Begly on 12-12-18
Autobiography Collection: Henry Ford, Nikola Tesla, and Benjamin Franklin
By: Henry Ford, Nikola Tesla, Benjamin Franklin
Narrated by: Jonathan Waters
This autobiography collection contains My Life and Work: The Autobiography of Henry Ford, My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla, and The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.
Excellent collection
By nervy on 04-19-19
Jeff Bezos: The Force Behind the Brand - Insight and Analysis into the Life and Accomplishments of the Richest Man on the Planet
Billionaire Visionaries, Book 1
This audiobook is about the underlying events in the life of Jeff Bezos and the ways in which it influenced his life, the way he responded to them, and in the way he used them to his advantage. The story of Bezos traces a path through his life as a youth, looks at his action and his achievements, and deciphers the existence of his greatest achievement - Amazon - in a way that is reflective of his character, his intellect, and his upbringing.
Pretty good audiobook.
By Jonathan Marshall on 07-21-18
Grinding It Out
The Making of McDonald's
By: Ray Kroc, Robert Anderson
Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
Few entrepreneurs can claim to have radically changed the way we live, and Ray Kroc is one of them. His revolutions in food-service automation, franchising, shared national training, and advertising have earned him a place beside the men and women who have founded not only businesses, but entire empires. But even more interesting than Ray Kroc the business man is Ray Kroc the man. Not your typical self-made tycoon, Kroc was 52 years old when he opened his first franchise.
great book annoying narration
Speeches by Great Business Leaders
By: SpeechWorks
Narrated by: Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, and others
Hear Steve Jobs introduce the iPhone, Lee Iacocca hold forth on the topic of Japanese trade, Warren Buffett's thoughts on the financial future of America's youth, and Jack Welch at his final management meeting as CEO of General Electric. These are just four of the 14 speeches in this amazing collection.
How about some chapter titles?
By ted loos on 02-04-17
The House That Jack Ma Built
By: Duncan Clark
Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
In just a decade and a half, Jack Ma, a man from modest beginnings who started out as an English teacher, founded Alibaba and built it into one of the world's largest companies, an e-commerce empire on which hundreds of millions of Chinese consumers depend. Alibaba's $25 billion IPO in 2014 was the largest global IPO ever. A Rockefeller of his age who is courted by CEOs and presidents around the world, Jack is an icon for China's booming private sector.
Strange: Best part of story happens "off-screen"
By Tristan on 09-02-16
Jack Ma: A Lesson in Trust, Honor, and Shared Prosperity: Reinventing the Motivations of Commerce - Insight and Analysis Into the Life of Asia's Richest Man (Billionaire Visionaries)
Jack Ma is the quintessential simpleton who has a big heart and wants everyone to share in prosperity. He comes from humble beginnings, had trouble getting to school, had trouble finding a job, but did everything right despite the forces that were arrayed against his intentions. We all have that life where we feel the world just doesn't value what we have to offer. Jack certainly felt that way, but eventually he found his stride. Today he sits at the top of a global behemoth that boasts sales of $1 billion in the first five minutes of its annual sales event.
This book is a scam
The New Autobiography
By: Richard Branson
In Finding My Virginity, Sir Richard Branson shares the secrets that have seen his family business grow from a student magazine into a global brand, his dreams of private citizens flying to space develop from a childhood fantasy to the brink of reality, and his focus shift from battling bigger rivals to changing business for good.
More than a story of money.
By randell carlson on 05-31-18
Rocket Billionaires
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race
By: Tim Fernholz
Narrated by: Erin Moon
For the larger-than-life personalities now staking their fortunes on the development of rocket ships, the new race to explore space could be a dead end, a lucrative opportunity - or the key to humanity's salvation. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos take center stage in this fast-paced narrative as they attempt to disrupt the space economy, feed their own egos, and maybe even save the world.
Interesting book; hard to listen to
By K. Thai on 04-12-18
The Philosophy of Success: Lessons from Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffett
By: Christopher Grove
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Interesting overview
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Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
By: Ashlee Vance
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
In the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley's most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs - a real-life Tony Stark - and a fascinating exploration of the renewal of American invention and its new makers.
The best of competence porn
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Narrated by: Curtis Wright
Do you seek entrepreneurial success but don't know how to develop a winning mindset? Are you facing failure and do not know what to do? Or are you somehow "stuck" in life and cannot find the road to your personal and business growth? This audiobook presents the ten golden mindset rules of entrepreneurial success and financial wealth employed by some of the world's wealthiest entrepreneurs. It contains the vital teachings, essential beliefs, habits, and visions that allowed them to turn their initial failures into undisputed success and meet financial wealth.
Excellent book
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6 Business Biographies
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By: Patrick Evans
Narrated by: Michael A. Harding
Have you ever wondered what separates a successful entrepreneur from an unsuccessful one? Many people have asked this exact same question over and over again. Unlike feel-good nonsense, we brought together a package of applicable information you can implement immediately. By applying the lessons of this audiobook, your business and personal life will be better off.
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My Father's Business
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By: Cal Turner Jr., Rob Simbeck
Narrated by: Cal Turner Jr.
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The Everything Store
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By: Brad Stone
Narrated by: Pete Larkin
Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To do so, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and secrecy that's never been cracked. Until now.
Loved the honesty!
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In this bundle, we take a deep dive into the lives, successes, and failures of some of the most successful (and wealthiest) men on the planet.
What makes them different? What is it about them that makes them super-achievers? You will discover all of that and more.
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How does Elon Musk go from working in the fires of a toxic furnace to leading the charge in space travel?
How did Steve Jobs create and lead what would later become the world's first trillion company?
Did Bill Gates (the richest man on Earth for nearly two decades) really steal technology?
How did Jack Ma, who was denied a job working at Kentucky Fried Chicken (and was the only one of 24 applicants not to get hired), start the company that would later set the record for the largest IPO in the history of the New York Stock Exchange?
We will even show you how Richard Branson might not be as rich as people think. He is, in fact, richer.
All of these questions are answered. All of these myths are debunked, or truths verified.
Don't wait any longer! Download now to discover more about some of the most successful businessmen and world-changing innovators this world has ever seen.
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good but repetitive
this book could be a lot shorter if they edited out the opening and closing to each story. it's worth a listen 1x, but I probably wouldn't listen again.
Wyatt johnson
Don't waste your time!
There was very little valuable information in this book. Most if it is the author's opinions, and the guy that narrates it makes it sound like an infomercial.
Derivative, superficial, and self-involved
This is one of the vaguest, most self involved and derivative books I have read. The book almost spends more time covering the author's own perceptions and memories of the events initiated by the book's purported biographical subjects than on the subject themselves. Yes, there are some good biographical elements which were probably paraphrased from better biographies written by others, but the book continually refers to itself and discusses "the purpose of this book" and "this book" and "what I've been trying to say with this book" at numerous intervals, and claims to "cut through the hyperbole" and "provide critical analysis". It does none of this, but it does provide a superficially opinionated take on the lives of its subjects in a way that is annoying, pseudo-professorial, and difficult to read. I wish I could get a refund.
Rawlson Lawrence
Amazing, Inspiring Biographies of Brilliant men.
Amazing, Inspiring Biographies of Brilliant men. The narrator's voice kept dipping in and out as if his head was turning to and from the mic. Even so, I highly recommend this book. Really makes one marvel at the depth of the people the stories are about. As well, shows the common and uncommon threads that we can use to propel ourselves in our own arenas.
Over inflated and one sided.
These people are made out to be pefect or almost god like. They are not superheroes. I would have like a more relistic version to make them seem more human with all our faults.
Larboni Cakery
High on promise, Low in delivery
The book has a very attractive title, with a lot of promise, but as soon as you start to listen, telling sooner you realize that the author has filled the pages with his opinions rather than just plain facts about the lives of the these great men. He should have spent time with each of them first before putting pen to paper.
Robert Barbosa
JR MacGregor 's biography of Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Jack Ma, Richard Branson is easily one of the best books I've listen this year. They are a transformative figure in our time. Mr. MacGregor's writing his exceptional. This biography listening like a well crafted book. OUTSTANDING LISTENING.
Betty Rivera
By now this book has been reviewed a million times. You like those man or you don't, but you can't help admire themself, This is one of the best biographers working today. Listen the book already.
Kay Donnelly
Great Business Biographies
I have not listen any other books about Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Jack Ma, Richard Branson.Their life and their work, but this book was a "must listen" in my opinion. After listening this book, I had a soft spot in my heart for those genius mans.
Betty Ellis
One of the very best of all time
One of the best biographies of all time. JR MacGrego has done a superb job. The author demonstrates mastery over all aspects of Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Jack Ma, Richard Branson life.
bbzona
Very interesting biographies with several views that open our mind to understand why they are as they are.
In some cases a too descriptive which makes que listening boring.
Extremely torturous
There is nothing new in this book. Very repetitive with no actual content. Disliked the style of narration. Urge others not to waste their money or credit on this.
SamC
Good collection of biographies but poor recording
The biographies were interesting and inspiring (although some of the information may not be totally relevant). The recording was of very poor quality (like muffled voice) and very hard to listen to, especially when outdoors.
Such a disappointment
Only listened to the Jeff Bezos piece. Very poor writing, very poor narration and even poor recording quality. The author seems only to have a few things to say about Bezos and so chooses to say each thing 100 times to pad out the book. Such hard work and so little return from the investment of time. I'll not be investing any more!
Life changing experience
Great story and very interesting to learn about these amazing business leaders. I will recommend this book to anyone still looking for a breakthrough in life.
amazon-user
really bad
Sound quality is bad and the content even worse...A lot of empty words repeating over and over again the same thing with little or no actual information...Among the worst "biography" books ever
Very good luck at these Business Moguls
An insightful and inspiring look inside the lives and roads to success of these business titans
Sophia Griffin
The world is as we dream it.
If you like business biographies and memoirs.You will like this book. It is the story of those man who are really grate. It is the story about perception and truth into their inner most parts.
Cameron O'Neill
Fascinating to listen
Interesting listen about fascinating 6 Manuscripts who change the business. This book gives me a lotes of info and gave me a good understanding about this people.
Eve Dale
Inspiring and humanizing
I didn't voluntarily start listening this book, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. I found many ideas from this book. 6 Manuscripts of business.


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In 1973, the Vincent Astor Foundation funded New York City to initiate programs for gifted students in 40 Manhattan and Brooklyn schools. In 1983, after I was elected to the Community School Board in Brooklyn's District 15, I learned that our district had developed Astor program gifted tracks—one class to each grade—in three elementary schools. These gifted programs began in kindergarten, with entry based on early childhood aptitude tests administered to pre-kindergarten applicants. An administrator who helped start our district's gifted program told me that, in his view, the Astor program was designed to keep the middle class in the city's public school system.
I soon realized that middle class meant white students and their parents. In 1983 District 15's 20,000 student population was predominantly Latinx and White, with smaller segments of Black and Asian. Yet enrollment in the district's three gifted programs was overwhelmingly White. Although the district's zoned elementary schools enrolled their students from contiguous neighborhoods, the three gifted programs recruited students from the entire district. Thus, the gifted program's students were bussed from their home neighborhoods to the three elementary schools housing the gifted tracks. Essentially our district's gifted programs represented an early version of choice at the elementary school level.
The first issue I faced as a new school board member was a series of alleged abuses of the gifted program's entry testing. Our district's psychologists administered the required tests, but parents could opt for private testing if they chose to pay the fee. When the district discovered anomalies in the scores of some of the students privately tested, the school board decided that all testing for gifted program entry would be conducted by the district's own psychologists.
Soon after the new testing policy was implemented, the district learned that parents were having their children pre-tested and prepped by private psychologists, often using the same tests we were administering. Though board members agreed that such practices violated the program's entry criteria—selection based on demonstrated aptitude rather than prior preparation—we were stumped about how to prevent these practices.
Worse, the entry testing abuses masked a deeper problem, the validity of the testing itself. Since the inception of the Astor program, early childhood experts had challenged the validity not only of the entry tests, but the reliability of any assessment of four-year-olds developed to determine the nature and extent of their giftedness.
Our testing instruments, critics argued, were not only age-inappropriate but also inevitably structured by cultural bias and familial advantage. What we were actually assessing, our detractors claimed, was young children's level of familiarity with the reigning cultural milieu in which test-makers and applicants alike were immersed.
Although child prodigies had long established an enviable educational legacy—consider the young Mozart or the young Thelonius Monk—the nature of their giftedness varied enormously. Some child prodigies demonstrated highly developed verbal and memory skills; others showed striking facility with numbers and calculation. While some evinced highly refined art, music and other aesthetic abilities, still others showed very advanced kinesthetic skills. Skeptics argued that because our district tested only a narrow range of primarily verbal skills, we were privileging a sliver of the broad range of capacities associated with giftedness.
These objections, combined with the roiling tensions generated by an overwhelmingly White group of children bussed to and sequestered into separate tracks in predominantly Black and Latinx elementary schools, led our school board to propose a revision of our entry policy. Rather than starting the gifted program in kindergarten and testing four-year-olds in the prior year, we suggested beginning the gifted program in first grade. Rather than testing, we proposed entry criteria based on observation of kindergarten students by our district's kindergarten teachers, who would nominate student applicants based on their demonstrated capacities. Our new entry proposal also called for the development of a more multifaceted definition of giftedness.
The school board disseminated our proposal district-wide, scheduled a special board meeting to discuss it, and invited the entire district parent community. The resulting attendees were almost entirely White "gifted parents," as they referred to themselves. These parents uniformly denounced our proposed policies as destructive of gifted students' needs. Heated arguments dismissed entry selection based on kindergarten teacher judgment as hopelessly subjective, as opposed to the supposedly objective scientific evidence our testing instruments provided. First grade entry was criticized as far too late to begin the task of shaping students' giftedness, and worse, would require many students to endure the privations of locally zoned kindergartens for an entire year. Those board members identified as advocates for the new policy, myself included, were attacked as social engineers driven by misplaced egalitarianism, and blind to the necessity to separate and separately provide for the educational needs of gifted children.
The few parents of color in attendance tried to argue for a program more inclusive of the racial/ethnic and cultural diversity of the district, but they were angrily shouted down. "We won't let you gut our gifted program," one parent shouted. "We created it, we fought for it, and we're never going back to our neighborhood school."
After that rancorous meeting, several school board members reconsidered their support for the new entry policy, and it was voted down at a subsequent board meeting. That episode was the first time I considered how much more effectively our district might meet the educational needs of its majority Black and Latinx students if we could focus on developing all our students' capacities, rather than expending so much energy and resources on building enclaves for supposedly gifted White students.
Other NYC districts offering gifted programs encountered similar tensions, and some actually exacerbated them. A 1996 study by the New York City chapter of ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), using paired racial teams patterned after a fair housing testing method, found that several community school districts offering gifted programs provided false information to prevent Black and Latinx parents from applying to the programs for their children, while facilitating applications from White parents. A second ACORN study found that several overwhelmingly white gifted programs steered students into the school system's highly selective and predominantly White strata of sought-after middle and high schools.
Much has changed in NYC schools' efforts to meet the needs of gifted students across the past few decades. Most community school districts currently offer gifted programs within almost 90 district-run elementary schools. The school system also provides five K-8 grade comprehensive gifted and talented schools. Programs in district schools prioritize district residents, but the citywide gifted schools enroll students without regard to where they reside.
Yet gifted program entry is still governed by testing. Entry tests include a non-verbal pattern completion, shape recognition and spatial visualization assessment, and a verbal reasoning and comprehension exam. Applicants to district programs must achieve a combined score of 90% on the two entry tests, and applicants to citywide programs must score at least 97% on those same tests to be eligible to apply.
Though both assessments have been reviewed for reliability and absence of bias, they still assess only a limited range of the skills, aptitudes and capacities that comprise the panoply of giftedness. Though both the district and citywide programs are consistently labeled as gifted and talented (G&T), no dimensions of aesthetic, artistic, interpretive, and kinesthetic abilities are assessed.
Moreover, the five citywide G&T schools and the almost 90 district-level G&T programs are overwhelmingly White. According to a Chalkbeat posting by Christina Veiga on June 1, 2018, the G&T programs are estimated to be at least 70 percent White and Asian. The four districts with no G&T programs, two in the Bronx and two in Brooklyn, are among the school system's poorest and most hyper-segregated districts.
In 10 of the city's 32 districts, in 2018, only a few students scored in the 97th percentile or above on the G&T test, the level necessary for citywide program application. Pass rates vary widely—45 percent of all test-takers in Manhattan's District 2 qualified for a city or district program, but only 9 percent of those in the Bronx's District 12 did. In the early 1980's, District 15's G&T program was overwhelmingly White, as were most of local school districts' gifted programs.
But in the interim decades, district G&T programs have seen a sharp increase in Asian student populations. Asian student enrollment in the city's highly selective high schools, and particularly in its test-driven school sector, has also accelerated. Though Asian-American students comprise 16% of the city's public school population, nearly 75% of Stuyvesant students, 66 % percent of Bronx Science students, and 60% of Brooklyn Tech students are of Asian descent. Though more than 70% of the city's public school students are Black and Latino, those students comprise less than 11 percent of all the students in the specialized test-entry high schools.
Perhaps the most problematic result of both citywide and school-level G&T programs is their pipeline effect. The 90 district-level programs feed into a small sub-set of selective middle schools, most of them majority White and Asian, which feed into a small subset of selective high schools, both the specialized schools (eight selective high schools that use the Specialized High School Admissions Test, or SHSAT, for admission) and a larger tier of highly selective high schools. Both the specialized schools and the larger selective high school tier are predominantly White and Asian.
Deputy Chancellor Josh Wallack, speaking at a District 2 community meeting in November, 2018, about New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to revise the testing criteria for the school system's specialized high schools, indicated that more than 50% of the students admitted to those schools come from only 4% of the system's middle schools. An analysis by the New School's Center for New York City Affairs found that half of all top-scoring students on state tests came from just 45 middle schools, while 60 percent of students at the specialized high schools came from those same 45 schools.
So what started in the early 1970s as a modest effort to provide gifted education has become a highly selective citywide stream that recruits predominantly White and Asian students into separate classes beginning in kindergarten in almost 100 gifted programs and schools throughout the city. The graduates of those elementary school gifted programs move into highly selective, predominantly White and Asian middle schools, which funnel their students into the city's top tier, highly selective predominantly White and Asian high schools, which ultimately send many of their graduates to the nation's top colleges.
Meanwhile, the great majority of the city's Black and Latinx students attend elementary, middle, and high schools that are severely under-resourced and under-subscribed, from which their students graduate, if they graduate, into precarious employment in the city's service sectors. Those relatively few graduates headed to higher education often enroll in CUNY colleges where too many spend their federal and state opportunity grants, and their college careers, mired in remedial courses.
The cost of this systemic exercise in separate and unequal education is not trivial. According to the NYC Department of Education (DOE), the average city teacher salary was $73,362 in 2018. Assuming ten teachers in each of the 90 gifted programs (one teacher to each K-5 grade, three subject-area specialists in Science, Social Studies, and Art or Music, and one program coordinator), teacher costs alone might approach $70 million. Add $5 million per school for the five citywide gifted program schools and the cost of this separate and segregated stream approaches $100 million.
But the costs of the school system's tier of selective high schools beyond the eight specialized test-driven schools is much higher. The top twenty-five city high schools that graduate more than 90% of their students enroll predominantly White and Asian students. At approximately $25 million per high school, the cost of this privileged and hyper-segregated selective high school tier probably approaches $1 billion annually.
By the time city students reach high school, this race-based resource and opportunity disparity has structured, and far too often limited, not only their academic capacities but also what they'll accomplish in the future. Research has shown that students attending financially stable high schools are more likely to access Advanced Placement and college preparation courses, and to have acquired the skills to succeed in those courses.
Add in increased access to SAT and ACT prep courses, private tutors, and the ability (and time) to pursue expensive extracurricular activities, and the already sizeable gap between wealthy students and their less economically advantaged peers grows even wider. This disparity affects not only who goes to college but also the types of schools students from different backgrounds attend.
A 2015 analysis from the Brookings Institution found that Black students were just 4 percent of those enrolled at top-tier U.S. colleges, but 26 percent of students at the bottom tier of colleges. A 2017 New York Times analysis found that even with race-conscious admissions policies in place, Black and Hispanic students are actually less represented at America's top colleges now than they were 35 years ago.
If we want the currently hyper-segregated New York City school system to significantly reduce, if not tear down, this race-based opportunity barrier and effectively educate the 70% of our school system's Black and Latino students, what should we do?
Continuing to spend perhaps a billion dollars on a segregated stream of gifted and selective programs primarily serving White and Asian students, from kindergarten through high school, will not disrupt our failure to effectively serve the majority of the school system's students. But do we know what constitutes effective education for those students?
We now have increasingly effective data-driven analyses designed to identify all our students' academic, socio-emotional, and economic needs. We still struggle, however, to deploy an equitable diversity of interventions and supports to effectively meet those needs.
I have been much influenced by the studies of effective education provided to Black students in the segregated post-bellum south, embedded in the pioneering research of James Anderson, Vanessa Siddle Walker, and other historians. In Their Highest Potential, in The Lost Education of Horace Tate, and in numerous other articles, Siddle Walker excavates and documents the commitment of Black principals and teachers in pre-Brown era rural southern segregated schools to challenge poor Black students to reach their intellectual and academic potential.
Walker's work demonstrates how Black principals and teachers struggled to effectively serve their students in schools resource-starved by white supremacist school boards. Black rural communities, already unfairly taxed to support grossly inadequate roads, water and sewer lines and other public provisions, endured double taxation to build and heat often makeshift schools and provide the basic textbooks and supplies for their students.
Paid meager salaries and often lodging in the homes of the communities they served, educators in those schools fervently believed they were preparing the future leaders of the race, and that their effective education would lead to eventual Black liberation. Walker documents how principals and teachers combined high academic standards and rigorously challenging classrooms with an unrelenting focus on loving and nurturing their students while relentlessly preparing them to develop and hone their academic capacities.
Those schools are long gone—the perhaps unintended victims, along with their Black administrators and teachers, of the integration of southern schools. Currently, in most U.S. school systems, not just in the south, the vast majority of our administrator and teacher cohorts are White. How might we mount a national effort to inspire, recruit, support, train, certify and tenure a huge cohort of teachers of color as committed to helping students of color reach their highest academic potentials as the protagonists in Siddle Walker's histories were?
Norm Fruchter is a senior consultant for the NYU Metro Center. He can be reached by email at: norm.fruchter@nyu.edu.
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