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LESTER BOWIE
All the Numbers
(Nessa)
The early recordings of the Art Ensemble of Chicago are somewhat tough nuts to crack. Their first salvos were released in semi-succession by then-Chicago-based Nessa Records under the nominal leadership of principal hornmen Lester Bowie (trumpet; Numbers 1 & 2) and Roscoe Mitchell (saxophones; Congliptious and Old/Quartet). Beyond stalwarts in bassist Malachi Favors and reedman Joseph Jarman, the group (billed early on as the Roscoe Mitchell Art Ensemble) early on included drummers Robert Crowder and Philip Wilson.
When Wilson departed the group in summer 1967 to tour with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, the Art Ensemble soldiered on first as a drummer-less trio and then as a quartet with the addition of reedman Joseph Jarman (it would be a few years before Don Moye joined as the group's regular percussionist). All the Numbers consists of several takes of the group improvisations and compositions that made up Lester Bowie's first LP, also the debut from the solidified AEC lineup, which would go to Paris in 1969. To produce the LP, takes were mildly edited and spliced; here, they're presented in unadulterated form across two discs, which also made up part of Nessa's Art Ensemble 1967/1968 boxed set from several years ago.
As the group's approach developed into a unified sound, the ensemble integrated the languages of R&B, bop, free improvisation, modern composition, and African musics into an often-theatrical whole. Early on, the seams between such focal points were much more obvious, present in a raw, go-for-broke aesthetic. The intensity of the individual and collective statements wrapped into All the Numbers is quite startling. Bowie's growling, sputtering drawl and cutting pre-bop brass tones, paired with Mitchell's feral, piercing alto make a striking combination. Of course, also ever present are the little instruments, providing orchestral nuance from the beginning – you didn't usually hear bells, tin cans and harmonicas in New York free jazz.
While the music is unbridled in its intensity and able to achieve extreme volume with minimal means, meditative passages of arresting detail conjure the most depth – a stately duo ballad for trumpet and bass midway through "Number 1" is augmented by twittering scrapes, vocal wails and bells. As Favors' strums pick up steam, Mitchell engages him with a brief, lyrical flute solo (actually recalling Nicole Mitchell), before resuming percussive clatter and yelps. Piquant, nearly saccharine alto tones dovetail with Bowie's long brass lines amid halting, wound pluck, Mitchell unraveling longer sounds into haranguing staccato collisions and serrated brays, obliterating pensiveness with garish violence. Favors' meaty, taut pizzicato is the primary rhythmic guide for this music, echoes of Jimmy Garrison and Gary Peacock in both his unwaveringness and dexterity, while he maintains a healthy swing and beautiful tone. The mishmash of dirge and Rip/Rig/Panic in the theme of "Number 2" might not be so carefully plotted without his bowed, metronomic sensitivity.
The quartet tracks – three versions of "Number 2" (which also gets the trio treatment) bring an only slightly thicker palette to the proceedings – Jarman's additional reeds and percussion are certainly crucial to an orchestration of contrasts and give the piece a little more flesh. There's an anarchic streak to his playing; Jarman's clarinet leaps from woody tension to volatility in a few short moments, sharply divergent from Mitchell's delicate breaths. Bowie and Mitchell surely have that same element of "dangerousness" in their playing, but it seems much more controlled and when, for example, Mitchell's phrasing becomes seemingly unbound, it's still within a clear phrase logic, developing from terse and often repeated statements into something broader than intervallic relationships. Jarman, on the other hand, provides nattering comment alongside crushed brass while Mitchell is crisply unhinged on the opening minutes of "Number 2 (Take 7)" before the threesome become inseparable, swirling wind against Favors' unyielding thrum. This latter twenty-minute take is closer to a group improvisation than the others, heave-ho rhythm and bent march-like rhythms engaged very loosely as Jarman, Bowie and Mitchell blast through its signposts in oblique reference.
All the Numbers provides a window into the earliest iterations of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, which entered its 43rd year of existence in 2010 despite the absence of Bowie, Favors (who passed in 1999 and 2004, respectively) and Jarman's now occasional participation. Great Black Music began with a small group of individuals seeking transcendence through, among other things, rebelliousness and wit. If this merger of contrasting expressions of a great tradition is not always rendered seamlessly, the music is completely honest and often startling, retaining uniqueness and prescience decades on. Chuck Nessa and his estimable label deserve kudos and more notice for keeping this music in circulation.
Nessa Records currently doesn't have a web presence, but CDs on the label are available in the US from the Jazz Loft, City Hall, and Squidco.
The Complete Recordings 1981/1983
(No Business)
There's a curious blip in the early discography of bassist/composer/multi-instrumentalist William Parker, one which at first might not register as a crucial document of Afro-Asian improvised music, much less a need-to-have avant-garde rarity. Commitment was the name of a cooperative group based in New York which began performing out in 1978 and ceased working together in 1984; it consisted of Parker, violinist Jason Kao Hwang, drummer Takeshi "Zen" Matsuura and reedman Will Connell, Jr. Recording one self-titled LP in 1980 that was released on Hwang's Flying Panda label, the group was a fixture in Lower Manhattan performance spaces like Verna Gillis' Soundscape, also performing at the Sound Unity Festival, Kool Jazz Festival, and in Europe. But like many jazz records released in the early 1980s underground, its status as a self-produced document rendered it unheard by all but the most serious devotees of the music. This two-disc set on Lithuanian free-jazz devotee label No Business includes the complete Commitment LP as well as a recording from the Moers Festival in Germany, and constitutes the group's only appearance in the digital realm.
The group initially came together via Hwang and Connell; as detailed in loft-jazz historian Ed Hazell's liner notes (he also did the booklet for the wonderful Muntu boxed set also on No Business), the pair met at one of the jam sessions held on Sunday afternoons at the Basement Workshop, an Asian-American cultural center whose mission was to broadly serve communities of artists to enable visibility for Asian-Americans. It's hard to quantify what exactly makes the music itself sound "Asian" though certainly Hwang's violin work approaches tonalities quite far from those in Western music, a narrow, high and piercing sound that reminds one – perhaps – of some Chinese string music. When plucked, there's an air of poise and the ears could hear zither or harp as well as violin. In improvised music, one is quite used to being able to parse certain African and European influences, even at the general level, while Chinese (Hwang's heritage), Japanese/Korean (Matsuura's), much less South and Southeast Asian influences, are harder to pinpoint. In some passages of Commitment's music, it is rather a distinct "otherness" that prevails – tones and combinations not seemingly relatable to anything one has heard in Afro-American or European-American free jazz.
Compositionally, Commitment runs the gamut from a decidedly measured pace to frenetic free-bop. The high, lonesome whine and the scales that Hwang improvises on in "Grassy Hills, the Sun" for example, end up quite far from the prevailing Leroy Jenkins model. That particular piece's spacious moving-through of thematic material, almost duet-like as Hwang, Parker and Connell occupy it at Moers, does have more than a twinge of AACM-music in it, specifically the early work of Anthony Braxton or Muhal Richard Abrams' "My Thoughts are My Future – Now and Forever." From the Moers set, Parker's composition "Whole Grain" is a free-bop tune of the highest order; a jaunty series of cycles for alto and violin across a snappy, swinging rhythm erupt into Connell's braying post-Ayler/post-Roscoe Mitchell worrying cells, needled by Matsuura's dry chatter and eloquently placed bombs. Hwang's solo is nothing short of astounding – ferocious ducking and diving, shrieks and hoe-downs paired with rusty honks and horsehair swirls. A Stuff Smith bounce edges in and Hwang doubles on a passage both strummed and bowed in a technical feat that serves expressive complexity. While traditional motifs are certainly part of this tune, its movement into spaces beyond that are nevertheless controlled marks a work of early maturity in Parker's writing/organizing canon.
Two of Connell's compositions open the original LP, "Mountain Song" and "The Web of Forces." The former espouses pensive delicacy, flute and arco strings winding through a lilting theme outlined by malleted cymbals and toms. Narrow fiddle sawing and centered abstraction parallel and buoy Connell's thin breaths on this brief, measured piece. Halting, chunky rhythm and bundled keen on the latter are a nod to composer-pianist Horace Tapscott, with whom Connell studied, though the quartet is quickly off to a run, heel-digging triple-stops leading into uncorked alto skronk, Matsuura's floating amalgam of Klook, Elvin and Max providing a cooking anchor to front-line freedom. The drummer also gives a grounded energy to the precarious swirl of bowed violin, bass and alto clarinet on Parker's unsettling tone poem "Famine." When the foursome stretch out, as on the two Hwang tunes that make up side two of the original album (including the aforementioned "Grassy Hills, the Sun") and especially on much of the Moers set, room to embrace spacious textures and concise energy is taken full advantage of.
Even at its sparsest, Commitment carries with it a foot-stomping energy, the push-pull of Parker and Matsuura a forward-moving presence even in Hwang's delicate, AACM-inspired processional themes. "No Name" is imbued ever so slightly with Braxton/Jenkins alto and violin pacing, while also seemingly a nod to the pathos-laden pairing of Ayler and Michel Sampson. The solo order follows lines of lead voice and rhythm, though concentrated subdivisions of meter offer supportive activity to the similarly coiled instant compositions of Connell and Hwang. While barely heard in their half-decade lifespan, this peerless ensemble is once again available for investigation. Those interested in the work of William Parker will especially enjoy this set, as not only does it provide early strong examples of his work, but the germinating seeds of pan-cultural influence on his later career are also quite visible.
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We critics are usually asked to pick a number of recordings, artists, labels and so forth to best exemplify both our preferences and our predictions for the year past/to come. In as much as a "best of" is kind of like the Nobel Peace Prize, one hopes it spurs on those who are doing well to continue doing their best at what THEY want to do (not what we critics might "like"), organize and share ideas ancient to the future. This year has also been heavy with losses – Bill Dixon, Marion Brown, Noah Howard and many others. Dixon's loss was, for me personally, the most profound, though strangely his passing in July seems like eons ago because so much has happened since that time. That is a good thing – action is the best way to honor the passing of those whom we love and respect.
So, in short, here are the new releases and reissues that have interested me the most (in alphabetical order because I don't play favorites). That's not to say that there aren't other awesome records that have been released or reissued since Thanksgiving 2009, but ten seems like a nice, round number. In fact, I'm still catching up on 2010 releases on Another Timbre, Clean Feed, Intakt, Kadima, No Business and Not Two, so stay tuned for more semi-belated reviews.
1. Joshua Abrams – Natural Information (Eremite)
2. Circulasione Totale Orchestra – Bandwidth (Rune Grammofon)
3. Bill Dixon/Aaron Siegel/Ben Hall – Weight/Counterweight (Broken Research)
4. Grex – Live at Home (SUA)
5. Mary Halvorson Quintet – Saturn Sings (Firehouse12)
6. Stephen Haynes – Parrhesia (Engine Studios)
7. No Mor Musik – No Mor Musik (ugExplode)
8. Cecil Taylor/Tony Oxley – Ailanthus/Altissima (bilateral dimensions of two root songs) (Triple Point)
9. David S. Ware – Saturnian (Aum Fidelity)
10. Katherine Young – Further Secret Origins (Porter)
REISSUES/UNEARTHED GEMS
1. Amalgam – Prayer for Peace (No Business)
2. John Carter/Bobby Bradford – Mosaic Select (Mosaic)
3. Alvin Curran – Solo Works: The '70s (New World)
4. Michael Gregory Jackson – Clarity (ESP-Disk)
5. Elodie Lauten – Piano Works Revisited (Unseen Worlds)
6. Jemeel Moondoc – The Muntu Recordings (No Business)
7. Paul Rutherford – Tetralogy (Emanem)
8. Wadada Leo Smith – Spirit Catcher (Nessa)
9. Soft Machine – Live at Henie Onstad Arts Centre 1971 (Reel Recordings)
10. Henry Threadgill – The Complete Novus and Columbia Recordings (Mosaic)
NOTHING IS MOST HONORABLE THAN...
1. Chicago Underground Duo - Boca Negra (Thrill Jockey)
2. Decoy - Spirit/The Deep (Bo'Weavil)
3. Harris Eisenstadt - Woodblock Prints (No Business)
4. Nick Hennies - Lineal (SRA)
5. Joe Morris & Nate Wooley - Tooth and Nail (Clean Feed)
6. Phill Musra - The Creator is So Far Out (Sagittarius A-Star)
7. Tatsuya Nakatani & Forbes Graham - Essences (Blaq Lghtn)
8. Jesse Stacken & Kirk Knuffke - Mockingbird (Steeplechase)
9. Jozef Van Wissem - Ex Patris (Important)
10. Nate Wooley - Trumpet/Amplifier (Smeraldina-Rima)
CONGRATULATIONS TO
Andrea and Ingebrigt
- CA, 12/10
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The CHA Board of Commissioners is a seven-member board appointed by the Charlotte City Council. This board consists of two members appointed directly by the Mayor and five appointed by other members of Council. At least one member must be a resident of assisted housing.
Commissioners serve staggered three-year terms and, as the governing body, set policies that govern the operations of CHA and chart the direction of current and future programs. This board ensures that we operate within the law and according to HUD regulations. New policies or acts of business requested by the CEO must first be approved or authorized through the Board of Commissioners before they are put into practice.
"Since 1993, CHA has increased affordable housing in the community from approximately 6,700 to over 11,000"
Lucy Brown is an excellent example of a dedicated and committed citizen. She has proven that success is a choice and her ongoing service to her community has enhanced the lives of numerous individuals on many different levels. Ms. Brown serves as president of the Sunridge Community Organization, member of the Board of Directors of the Resident Advisory Council and the Charlotte Housing Authority Resident Commissioner.
Shirley Fulton is perhaps the most recognizable figure in Mecklenburg County, having spent over 20 years in the court as Senior Resident Superior Court Judge, Resident Superior Court Judge, District Court Judge, and Assistant District Attorney. In 2006, Judge Fulton was recognized by "Super Lawyers" magazine, as a Charlotte Super Lawyer, a distinction earned by only 5% of the practicing lawyers in a given state or region.
A community leader widely admired for her ability to build bridges between hostile groups, Judge Fulton lead the revitalization of Wesley Heights community, an inner city neighborhood. She is the owner of The Wadsworth Estate in Wesley Heights where she continues to serve the community as the operator of a site for weddings, receptions, meetings and other special events. She currently chairs Charlotte School Board of Visitors and Board of Directors and is a Commissioner for Charlotte Housing Authority and a member of North Carolina State Bar Disciplinary Hearing Commission.
In 2010, Judge Fulton was honored with N C Governor's Order of the Long Leaf Pine and is currently featured in AT&T's 2014 Heritage Calendar Celebrating the N.C. African American Experience. She was selected to receive the North Carolina Supreme Court Justice's 2015 Professionalism Award.
Sheila Jones is the Vice President of Asset Risk Management for the Royal Bank of Canada's Tax Credit Equity Group. She has held several risk management positions with RBC including development risk management. Prior to joining RBCMs, Jones was the Chief Administrative Officer for the Charlotte Housing Authority. In her affordable housing career she has worked with mixed finance multifamily real estate projects funded with low income housing tax credit equity, HOME funds, community development block grants, tax exempt bond financing and a variety of subsidies provided by HUD. Before joining the affordable housing sector Ms. Jones worked in the manufacturing industry where she held several senior level positions in procurement and operations management. She has nearly twenty years of experience in team leadership and organizational development.
A native of Detroit, MI, she attended Michigan State University where she obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in Supply Chain Management. Ms. Jones later earned a Master of Business degree from Wake Forest University. Additionally, she has several industry certifications including Public Housing Asset Management Executive and Tax Credit Compliance.
Ms. Jones has served on the Board of Directors for the Charlotte Secondary School (Treasurer) and the Police Activities League (Finance Committee Chair). She is also the founder of the MACC Institute, a local non- profit organization.
In her spare time, Ms. Jones enjoys running, exercising and golf.
Leigh Ann Smith is a Senior Vice President and Community Development Equity Executive with Bank of America Merrill Lynch. She manages the bank's national origination platform for Low Income Housing Tax Credit investments through syndicator partners as well as its Historic and New Markets Tax Credits originations. Leigh Ann leads a team of equity originators responsible for structuring and closing tax credit equity investments in projects across the country.
Leigh Ann joined Bank of America in Charlotte in 1999 after two years with a community bank in New Orleans. Prior to moving to the equity side of the business, she worked as an underwriter in the bank's Community Development and Commercial Real Estate Lending groups.
Leigh Ann has a BBA with high honors from Emory University and an MBA from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. She serves on the Board of Directors for Crisis Assistance Ministries as well as CAHEC (a nonprofit regional tax credit equity syndicator), and she is a Guardian Ad Litem for children in foster care.
Ray McKinnon is a graduate of John Wesley University and serves as the pastor of South Tryon Community United Methodist Church in Charlotte, NC. Ray is married to V. Kelly McKinnon. Together they are the parents to four boys (Quinton, Alex, Malik, and Mikel), a cat (Baxter), and a dog (Sebbi). They live in North West Charlotte in the Sunset Oaks community. He moved to Charlotte in 2012 for a job at University City United Methodist Church. Ray is passionate about community advocacy—particularly surrounding affordable housing, criminal justice reform, and equity (racial, gender, sexuality). Realizing that the work of the Leading on Opportunity Council is generational work, Ray is committed to roll up his sleeves to see that the recommendations of the Opportunity Task Force are implemented.


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Lying Bastards.
Great Friends,
Fun traditions and fierce competition In the Chicagoland Area
An online resource for Diplomacy Strategies
using Sum of Squares Scoring
facts about us
#Season 14
Our Diplomacy league is the most active in North America. We average more than two league games per month in addition to Tournament play. We score all of our games using the Sum of Squares scoring system, and each player's best three scores count toward the season standings. We are known for our fierce competition, strong traditions, upstanding character and trustworthiness, and the propensity for Turkey to open to Armenia.
Brawl set
After 15 games with 41 players participating, the 2016 Bar Room Brawl Series is over. The top seven finishers will compete for the Brawl championship at the Red Lion on November 16, beginning at 6 p.m. The Brawlers are:
Brandon Fogel, 149.505 points, three games.
Christian Kline, 99.571 points, three games.
Jake Trotta, 97.726 points, three games.
Brian Shelden, 81.450 points, three games.
Jim O'Kelley, 79.898 points, three games.
David Spanos, 72.930 points, three games.
Matt Sundstrom, 71.600 points, three games.
The alternates are Geoff Serednesky (60.778 points in two games), Ali Adib (49.789 points in three games), and Zach Eddy (48.322 points in one game).
The complete final standings are here.
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Great work as always and thank you!
If anyone needs help with WHA rosters I'd be more than happy to assist. I have every team for each season built. These were projects that I've worked on but have not shared due to my minimal graphics skills.
All goaltenders in NHL 94 had their OFF. Awareness rated identical to their DEF. Awareness. Not sure what it was meant to represent as DEF. Awareness equals the goaltenders SV% from the 92-93 season.
Good Evening, Could someone please confirm how the ips patches to fix the broken images work? Do I just drop the file into the resources folder in TM? Sorry to bother with what I'm sure is an easy answer.. Nevermind - it's coming back to me now. Sorry.
Greetings, I'm working on a bunch of 90's Roms inspired by Slapshot & others. I'm just learning to use Tile Molester. Looking to add Player Cards to all the players on the rosters. I've read the great tutorials on the site numerious times but they still read like stero instructions to me. Just trying to understand the order that players are listed and where can I find them in Tile Molester to update. I'm using the original NHL 94 rom if this helps, not the 30 Team rom (yet) Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
My question would be on how they came up with Team and player ratings. What were they based on?
www.iihf.com has line combos & D pairs for the 2014 Olympics..
Hey guys - was wondering what you guys thought about player ratings in NHL 96. I think they are the most accurate in all the EA NHL Series (Sega) and have begun to use them as the basis for rating my 90s hockey roms. Interesting to note that NYR GM Neil Smith & PR Exec. John Rosasco did the player ratings.
This is very helpful.. Thank You.


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Enrollment relief coming soon
By David Morris
Enrollment fees for California Community Colleges statewide will be decreasing from $26 a unit to $20 starting Jan 1.
The bill, which will take effect on Jan 1, was collaboration among Democrats and Republicans.
The governor allocated $19.1 billion towards higher education according to a June 30 press release.
Here at RCC, both of those lines affect students in a positive way. The student fee directly affects the students, while equalization allows more money to be placed in the base funding that is allotted to RCC.
Equalization is bridging the gap between districts that received more base funding then other districts. It will not bring down the base funding of the other high end districts but rather put more money into the lower funded districts.
"My budget will pump $130 million of equalization funds into the community college system to even out the amount of spending for each student and wipe out inequities between rich and poor districts," said Gov. Schwarzenegger in a press release.
The Republicans had wanted to pass the Equalization bill among community colleges, and the Democrats wanted to reduce the student fees.
"For the last three years, including this one, RCC base funding increased by over $12 million, and that funding is repeated each year," said Lyn Greene, associate dean of governmental relations. Greene said that the amount that will be collected by the new equalization line is unknown, but Chancellor Rotella said that equalization is dedicated towards the new hiring of faculty.
According to Vice Chancellor of Student Services Linda Lacy RCCD does not collect the enrollment fee from students. It goes to the state government. The drop in the enrollment fee will not affect RCCD base funding.
Students were surprised by this turn of events; they firmly believed that it would go up again.
Cindy Pol, a fifth year student at RCC bore witness to the changes from $13 to $18 and then to the current $26.
"It made it hard to pay for everything," she said.
The rate change won't have any effect on the status of out-of-state and international students.
According to Lacy RCC is planning on advertising through various media outlets including radio, newspaper and movie theaters.
The job market directly affects enrollment at community colleges. When there is high demand for workers, and jobs are readily available, students are not as likely to attend college and vice versa, Lacy stated. However, the economy is now in a strong enough position to allow the state to enact measures which promote returning to school.
RCCD has not grown in the past year.
According to Lacy, RCCD is normally a high growth district.
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Is It Legal for Schools to Punish Students Over Walkouts?
by Colin Kalmbacher | 7:55 am, March 14th, 2018
Students across the country are preparing for a nationwide school walkout Wednesday morning to protest America's gun laws hoping for stricter policies, and to honor those lost in the recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida. While some schools are allowing students to participate, others have reacted to the burgeoning movement with threats of suspension and other penalties.
What follows is a capsule summary of the legal regime surrounding student walkouts and political speech as they relate to the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution–and what this means for would-be walkout participants.
To begin with, it's important to understand that both school speech and curriculum concerns vis-à-vis the First Amendment are one of the most heavily litigated areas of law in the United States–and this has been true for most of the 20th Century. Recent Supreme Court decisions related to school speech have been far from conclusive–with the latest landmark decision being the 5-4 Morse v. Frederick ruling that was only able to command a bare majority of justices. Such uneasy jurisprudence suggests student free speech rights are likely to be a dynamic and fraught legal issue for some time to come.
The basic and overarching principle at work is still very much intact though. This concept is commonly referred to as "the Tinker standard" and is based on the 7-2 ruling in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District.
Tinker concerned a group of students who wore black armbands to school in order to protest the Vietnam War. After learning of this plan, school administrators promised suspension for students who refused to remove such armbands. Three students wore their armbands to school and were disciplined. Then their parents sued.
The Supreme Court opinion, authored by Justice Abe Fortas, noted:
First Amendment rights, applied in light of the special characteristics of the school environment, are available to teachers and students. It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.
Never much of a body keen on free speech absolution, the Supreme Court left some room for regulating and suppressing student speech. To do such a thing, however, school administrators would have to show that the "forbidden conduct" would "materially and substantially interfere with the requirements of appropriate discipline in the operation of the school."
Subsequent Supreme Court developments have somewhat limited Tinker's authority on student speech rights. Bethel School District v. Fraser made it easier for schools to suppress speech viewed as sexually vulgar. Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier made it okay for schools to censor student newspapers. The aforementioned Morse v. Frederick ruling made it easier for schools to apply the Bethel framework–thereby seriously diluting Tinker's power–but again, the Morse decision may not be long for this world.
What does the overall legal framework described above portend for students planning to take part in nationwide walkouts during March and April? The answer is a bit complicated.
As Chip Gibbons, lead policy and legislative counsel for Defending Rights and Dissent ("DRAD") noted in a conversation with Law&Crime, minors being sanctioned for taking part in walkouts wouldn't "technically violate First Amendment jurisprudence," but stressed that DRAD officially "supports the students right to engage in protest and opposes attempts to punish them for it."
An official statement on student walkouts put out by DRAD on Wednesday reads, in part:
Unfortunately, some schools have opted to try to intimidate students into not protesting or retaliate against those that do. While some schools are merely treating students who walk out as having an unexcused absence, a Texas school district is reportedly threatening any student who walks out with a three day suspension–even if they have a note from a guardian approving of their absence. This is simply unacceptable.
The major takeaway here is that schools can almost certainly punish students for walking out of their classes–but not due to the content or message of their protests. In other words, schools, school districts and administrators can constitutionally punish students for being absent from class but not for the underlying expressive walkout itself. And, schools who do overreach on the issue are very likely to face opposition in the courts.
Punishing students for missing class is simply a regulation on student conduct–not on student speech. So, in a sense, the First Amendment isn't really implicated at all. Such an understanding isn't particularly controversial. In fact, this understanding of the law was the basis of the 2009 9th Circuit case of Corales v. Bennett.
Corales concerned a group of middle school students who walked out of their classes in order to participate in nationwide pro-immigrant protests in 2006. The students were severely disciplined and one of them committed suicide. The students' parents sued on various grounds, including a First Amendment claim.
The court ruled against that First Amendment claim–not on the merits–but dismissed the claim entirely, noting:
[T]he school was entitled to enforce the rule against truancy even when the students sought to leave for expressive purposes. In this context, the Plaintiffs' act of leaving campus was not a constitutionally-protected activity, and therefore, Plaintiffs do not satisfy the first prong of a First Amendment retaliation claim.
Therefore, the 9th Circuit's decision really only affirmed one long-standing and obvious concept: schools can punish students for being truant. So, any students who take part in walkouts could very likely see themselves subject to constitutionally-acceptable punishment.
But there is a very positive takeaway for potential student-activists currently planning walkouts: the principle of appropriate punishment under the circumstances. Basically, though schools can punish student absenteeism and truancy, such punishments cannot materially differ due to the underlying reason for a student's absence.
Peter Eliasberg, chief counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, put it this way:
That's the law–schools have the ability to punish students who are not attending class–and the motivation for it is irrelevant except to the extent that you can't have a harsher punishment for students who miss school to engage in a protest compared to students who miss class to hang out with their buddies.
In fact, in some states–like Washington–suspension is explicitly not an acceptable form of "corrective action" that can lawfully be employed against students for unexcused absences. An exhaustive survey of state laws on this particular issue is limited by space and time constraints. But–bottom line here: check state and local laws or ask a civil liberties attorney in your area about whether suspension would be considered a proportionate punishment for unexcused absences.
Of course, suspensions after the fact aren't likely the only obstacle student-activists will have to contend with as reactionaries become wise to the growing walkout plans and movement to upturn the nation's firearm laws.
It's entirely likely that many schools, school districts and administrators will attempt to place campuses on "lockdown" over the planned walkouts in order to crush the seeds of change before they grow. Such planned lockouts are also not likely implicated by a First Amendment analysis–but are likely to be in violation of local fire codes. If your school threatens or attempts to do such a thing simply over the prospect of unexcused absences en masse–immediately contact an attorney and the proper authorities.
Groups who are likely to have state-specific information or support for students include: state chapters of the ACLU, the Democratic Socialists of America Legal Working Group, and the National Lawyer's Guild.
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Q: Pandas: merge two dataframe of different sizes on one column My first dataframe (df1) looks like this:
      pvalue    trend               time
0   0.000065    0.000076    2019-03-18 04:00:04
1   0.000087    0.000098    2019-03-18 04:00:06
2   0.000000    0.000000    2019-03-18 04:00:22
3   0.000000    0.000087    2019-03-18 04:02:29
4   0.000000    0.000000    2019-03-18 04:03:04
5   0.000000    0.000023    2019-03-18 04:03:05
6   0.000000    0.000000    2019-03-18 04:03:18
7   0.000000    0.000067    2019-03-18 04:18:55
8   0.000000    0.000000    2019-03-18 04:18:56
9   0.000000    0.000000    2019-03-18 04:20:41

My second data (df2) looks like that:
                time      price
0   2019-03-18 04:00:00  0.00190633
1   2019-03-18 04:00:01  0.00190633
2   2019-03-18 04:00:02  0.00190633
3   2019-03-18 04:00:03  0.00190633
4   2019-03-18 04:00:04  0.00190633
5   2019-03-18 04:00:05  0.00190633
6   2019-03-18 04:00:06  0.00190800
7   2019-03-18 04:00:07  0.00190800
8   2019-03-18 04:00:08  0.00190800
9   2019-03-18 04:00:09  0.00190800

df2['time'] at each row, there is a change of one second. But on df1, there are some gaps between each df1['time'] of a few seconds... what I would like to have is the following:
                time      price     pvalue  trend
0   2019-03-18 04:00:00 0.00190633 0.000000 0.000000
1   2019-03-18 04:00:01 0.00190633 0.000000 0.000000
2   2019-03-18 04:00:02 0.00190633 0.000000 0.000000
3   2019-03-18 04:00:03 0.00190633 0.000000 0.000000
4   2019-03-18 04:00:04 0.00190633 0.000065 0.000076
5   2019-03-18 04:00:05 0.00190633 0.000000 0.000000
6   2019-03-18 04:00:06 0.00190800 0.000087 0.000098

So basically have all the seconds and when there is data at pvalue and trend in df1 put them in the new dataframe. What I tried is the following: df_all =df_pvalue_trade.merge(df_check,on='time',left_index=True) but I only have the rows of df1, not every seconds like in my example... any idea? thanks!
The result I have with the above tried code is the following:
pvalue  trend   time    mkt_result  price
6   0.000000    0.000000    2019-03-18 04:00:06 reject Ha := upward OR downward trend   0.00190800
21  0.000000    0.000000    2019-03-18 04:00:21 reject Ha := upward OR downward trend   0.00190800
22  0.000000    0.000000    2019-03-18 04:00:22 reject Ha := upward OR downward trend   0.00190800
149 0.000000    0.000000    2019-03-18 04:02:29 reject Ha := upward OR downward trend   0.00190594
184 0.000000    0.000000    2019-03-18 04:03:04 reject Ha := upward OR downward trend   0.00190594
185 0.000000    0.000000    2019-03-18 04:03:05 reject Ha := upward OR downward trend   0.00190594
198 0.000000    0.000000    2019-03-18 04:03:18 reject Ha := upward OR downward trend   0.00190594

Which is not what I want...

A: Use merge with DataFrame.fillna:
df = pd.merge(df2, df1, on='time', how='left').fillna(0)
print (df)
                 time     price    pvalue     trend
0 2019-03-18 04:00:00  0.001906  0.000000  0.000000
1 2019-03-18 04:00:01  0.001906  0.000000  0.000000
2 2019-03-18 04:00:02  0.001906  0.000000  0.000000
3 2019-03-18 04:00:03  0.001906  0.000000  0.000000
4 2019-03-18 04:00:04  0.001906  0.000065  0.000076
5 2019-03-18 04:00:05  0.001906  0.000000  0.000000
6 2019-03-18 04:00:06  0.001908  0.000087  0.000098
7 2019-03-18 04:00:07  0.001908  0.000000  0.000000
8 2019-03-18 04:00:08  0.001908  0.000000  0.000000
9 2019-03-18 04:00:09  0.001908  0.000000  0.000000

Also if need replace NaNs only columns from df1.columns which are different like df2.columns:
d = dict.fromkeys(df1.columns.difference(df2.columns), 0)
print (d)
{'pvalue': 0, 'trend': 0}

df = pd.merge(df2, df1, on='time', how='left').fillna(d)
print (df)
                 time     price    pvalue     trend
0 2019-03-18 04:00:00  0.001906  0.000000  0.000000
1 2019-03-18 04:00:01  0.001906  0.000000  0.000000
2 2019-03-18 04:00:02  0.001906  0.000000  0.000000
3 2019-03-18 04:00:03  0.001906  0.000000  0.000000
4 2019-03-18 04:00:04  0.001906  0.000065  0.000076
5 2019-03-18 04:00:05  0.001906  0.000000  0.000000
6 2019-03-18 04:00:06  0.001908  0.000087  0.000098
7 2019-03-18 04:00:07  0.001908  0.000000  0.000000
8 2019-03-18 04:00:08  0.001908  0.000000  0.000000
9 2019-03-18 04:00:09  0.001908  0.000000  0.000000

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Journalist Sarah Smarsh grew up in what she calls a working-poor family in south central Kansas. Her new memoir, Heartland, is out Tuesday. It's a look at Smarsh's childhood through the lens of the national politics and the forces of poverty.
KMUW's Beth Golay talked with Smarsh at our studios.
Beth Golay: This book is getting a lot of national attention and I'm reading it as somebody who grew up 10 miles away from you.
So did you have an audience in mind when you wrote it?
I always feel somehow inadequate as a writer that my honest answer is, "No." Because this seems to go against most writing advice particularly in more journalistic veins to, quote-unquote, "know your audience." [I] never had a particular audience in mind. My mission is always to sit down and write what feels true to me. The hope is that it will speak to all sorts of people. I do love and have a particular satisfaction about the fact that people who are from around these parts will recognize very tangible touchstones from their own childhoods and day-to-day lives that have maybe never been acknowledged in some sort of creative work that's being talked about at a broad level.
When you started writing this at 22 what prompted you to do so?
Let me go back even much earlier than that. If I'm completely honest, I knew that this book was my intention and my hope that it would exist was just kind of a ever present piece of my life back to, like, I don't know, age 8. So my Grandma Betty, who is a main character in the book, has memories of me saying to her, "Grandma, someday I'm going to write a book about you." I knew that she had led an incredibly wild and amazing and unusual life in some ways. Well, that's how I saw it then. That was relative to my friends who had more kind of traditional families. So I wanted to tell her story initially and I kept myself out of it. I wouldn't even use the first person. And then people who read it were like, "You know, this really finally comes to life when you give us a little hint of your own personal ownership of the story and the place." Later then, working as a journalist, I'm understanding how, OK, all these private stories that I understood were compelling just in a very personal way as a human being, now I see how all of these big forces at work in the country shaped those private stories, and that's very interesting to me as someone who is concerned about the social good. So I started then kind of folding in some of the bigger picture of the policies and laws and statistics and ideas at work on a national level that in many ways shaped the story of my family.
The subtitle mentions "working hard and being broke in the richest country on earth." When you grew up did you have an understanding that your family was working-poor?
Absolutely not. Even now ... it doesn't feel right to me to say, "I grew up poor." I understand that, you know, since I write about class I have an understanding of our national discourse and the way that these things are all relative. And yes, to most people who read this book, that would be an accurate assessment. But I can hear in the back of my mind my own family, you know, maybe raising an eyebrow at that like, "Really? You think that was poor? Because to us poor is like if you don't know where you're gonna sleep that night or where your next meal is going to come from."
There were a couple of, you know, the most precarious moments of my childhood that had an edge of that. Like, I changed schools a lot, and so sometimes there were just kind of glitches bureaucratically. In fifth grade, somehow my free lunch that I qualified for didn't make it into the system at my school and I was too embarrassed to telling the teachers and somehow no one noticed I didn't eat lunch for most of fifth grade. So that is a feature of our economic status, certainly, but it's not the same thing as not even being able to access food because of poverty. So that's a long way of saying no, I did not think of myself as poor.
To borrow the words of your grandfather, after writing this book, "ja learn anything?"
That's a question, as you know, my Grandpa Arnie himself would have asked and he asks that question several times in the book. I think now though I would say, yeah, I did learn something. It was really about the beauty of my family and the people who raised me who, when I was a very young woman I set out writing this book, I knew they were good people and I knew that they had mistakes and successes and loves and losses just like anyone else, but I didn't understand necessarily why they did the things that they did or made the decisions that they made. Writing a book about the effect of economic struggle on a family really humbled me to the extent to which our external circumstances can cause pain and strife under our own private roofs. And that led me to what I might even call forgiveness in some ways toward people I have always loved but might have also wrongly judged.
... all that's wrong with the world?
Basically. But do you have a hope for the book?
My hope is kind of twofold, and it's definitely at the very personal level rather than the political. One is that people whose stories might be somehow reflected or echoed in what I've written who have spent their lives, whose families have gone for generations without feeling seen or heard or validated, that they might read this book and recognize something of themselves or their own life experiences and feel like, "Somebody knows where I came from. Somebody understands what I went through."
So one would be a sense of perhaps validation for some readers and then the other side of that same coin would be a hope that people for whom this place and class and life and experience is utterly foreign might feel like their eyes have been opened to some extent to the deep truths and nuances and complexities of a place that is so often cast as a stereotype.
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2K Sports' NBA 2K18 needed to change the covers of their games to reflect the sudden trade of Kyrie from the Cavaliers to the Boston Celtics, which was completed on August 22nd. The problem, you ask? NBA 2K18 was slated for release less than a month later, on September 13th, essentially making the Kyrie Cavs cover a "misprint" of sorts, with 2K promising to get Kyrie in the correct jersey for future shipments.
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I haven't felt so sidelined in a long time. But, I'm paying as much attention as I can.
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And herein lies the problem...that we want to create a solution that will continue the lending process, and put a bandaid on the situation.
I agree. This video does sort of just get at the surface of why this is such a big problem, but it does explain it in much simpler terms than the MSM has.
What's confusing to me is that there's so many different opinions on what should be done to counter it that I can't make a decision on my own about which way is right. This Harvard economists says we should just let these companies go bankrupt and the market will fix things down the road. Link
This is all totally uncharted territory...and the fact that we're not trying a few different ways to fix this makes me anxious that it's all going to come crumbling down.
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In 2007 we elected to become more self-sufficient and installed a photovoltaic (PV) system that uses solar energy to produce electricity. We found a reputable local dealer experienced and qualified to install a complete working system. We selected a system, which connects to the utility network, known as the grid. According to New Mexico Public Utility regulations, the Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM) allows the excess power produced by our system, to run the meter backwards. In addition, PNM pays a conservation credit of $0.13 (2007 rate) per kilowatt- hour (kWh) for all electricity generated.
Generally systems are sized for the amount of electricity needed. To minimize overall cost, we determined the building's energy consumption. We found the fluorescent ballast lighting installed in 1985 was consuming more energy and generating more heat around the workspaces than modern lighting systems. An efficient system was installed, providing better quality light, half the number of fluorescent tubes and less heat produced resulting in reduced energy consumption.
The electric hot water heater was placed on a timer to heat water only at lunchtime, and an on-demand hot water heater is proposed as a future energy saving replacement.
We determined that the unvented attic space was a source of unwanted heat, and installed two economical wind-powered exhaust turbines, which lowers cooling costs.
The cost of a (PV) system increases as the capacity of energy production increases. Our choices for sizing were dictated by available roof area to place panels, size of invertors and controllers readily available, peak energy demand, and initial capital the Foundation was willing to invest.
We selected a system sized at 10 kilowatts (10kw), which means for each hour of optimum sunlight the panels can produce 10,000 watts. This is enough energy to illuminate 100 light bulbs of 100 watts each or in the case of our office, provide all of our electric needs. With an option of installing a smaller, less costly system, or purchasing a system that costs more but is capable of producing much more power, we chose the larger system. .
Does it pay for itself?
We are often asked about the economic benefits of the system. Without any incentives the system will pay for itself in about 20 years. This time is reduced to 10 years when Federal and State tax credits are factored in. Also, thanks to progressive thinking in New Mexico, there is no state sales tax on this equipment.
During the fall and spring when there is lower energy use, the net meter (the one PNM reads to calculate your monthly bill) turns backwards. When the refrigerated air or central heating system is operating the meter moves forward at a slow pace or just stops in a balanced position because energy produced equals energy consumed.
When asked about the economics I wonder why an alternative energy system is asked to pay for itself in dollars. When we built the original building we never asked "when will this pay for itself?" We knew we would pay for energy we consume and energy prices would always rise. Return on money spent can be measured by the feeling present every day when we arrive to a comfortable work environment that is producing its own electricity. The feeling of opening mail and receiving a check from our utility company can be compared to receiving a dividend from your investment in a "green" company, except in this case we see our investment. We are being paid directly to produce our own energy.
For the price of a new economy car, a property owner can install a system that will create some energy independence. For most people this action will provide a strong sense of contributing to the overall well being of the planet. Some will feel an urgency to act now to control their energy consumption or produce what they use. There are businesses ready to help you become an energy producer. For the Foundation the move to energy independence has been a rewarding experience.
Franklin E. Wilson is the founder and Director of the Foundation For Sustainable Living. He divides his time between Costa Rica in Central America and Albuquerque, New Mexico in the USA. He can be contacted at info@foundationforsustainabliving.org or 505-998-0301.


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Why You've Made A Costly Mistake By Ignoring Dark Social
What's Hiding There?
Personally, "dark social" conjures up imagery of a sketchy figure on the corner dealing Facebook Likes from under a trench coat. In actuality, it refers to something more benign, yet slightly mysterious (to the untrained eye, anyway)…
Imagine that the shadowy figure embodies the "anonymous" and "referrer" traffic in your analytics reports–that chunk of traffic that doesn't come from Facebook, Twitter, or any other of the major platforms; the shaded section that applies to 59% of all social sharing in North America.
Courtesy of Statista
It's data derived from the most basic form of sharing; that which occurs via messaging apps, texting and emails–and it's existed before any publicly-traded social media platform. It's there, quietly comprising a large part of the activity in and out of the social media sphere, yet is rarely treated with the same amount of attention as the popular platform metrics are.
Embrace The Dark Side…
Why? The numbers– they're huge! Dark social sharing is three times the size of Facebook sharing, worldwide. 80% of the time that a piece of Arts & Entertainment content was shared in North America alone, it was done so via dark social. This figure shrinks to 60% for news content and 59% for style and fashion, yet those still aren't percentages that any successful brand should ignore.
It may just provide the Cinderella story your next campaign has been looking for, so don't take the stats for granted. Dark social entails a more intimate type of sharing than publicly-shared content. Imagine how much more relevant your content is, when it's directly sent to someone from a friend one who already knows exactly what they seek. It's no surprise that in North America, 78% of career-related shares happened in a direct message of some sort. Who better to refer you to a position best-fitted to your personal skill level and experience, than a close friend or relative? There's a high level of trust embedded in peer-to-peer messaging that social sharing can not compete with yet.
Figures courtesy of Statista
Sure, large-platform sharing via Twitter and Facebook is still an important part of any strategy, but let's consider the success of messaging apps like WhatsApp, WeChat, Facebook Messenger, and Kik. Take a look at how well parody accounts like @itswillyferrell (a personal fave) do. The rise of secretive messaging apps like Whisper and temporarily-private Snapchat are good indicators, as well. Despite the mass appeal offered by the social media giants, there's still a huge market for anonymity and private messaging– and that's where much of dark social will happen in the near future.
How To Do It In The Dark
We've taken away the mysterious aspect of it, but one might still be wondering as to how one's next campaign can capitalize on the potential of dark social. Harnessing these powers is as simple as adjusting and adding to the ways in which you already distribute content…
One of the best ways to do so is to make sure you're able to track dark social by using shortened links, like the ones provided by Bit.ly, Ow.ly, and Po.st. Not only will you be able to get better tracking and analytics for individual links, but you'll be able to customize the url to fit your brand (studies show that branded shortlinks generate substantially more clickbacks). Some of these services also offer embedded widgets that provide deeper analytics, easier cross-platform sharing, and integration into programmatic advertising.
Get creative: use these tools in conjunction with a p2p messaging app for an activation campaign, for example. This would likely bode well for a customer service-intensive brand, where constant interaction is the norm and where a direct marketing campaign would thrive. It may benefit your campaign if some of the widgets embedded into your content were those of the popular messenger apps, as well. Who knows how many times someone has wanted to share your Bacon-tini recipe to Mom via Facebook Messenger– but didn't– merely out of inconvenience?
Of course, at the end of the day, it's up to your brand to respond in real-time and to capture the data necessary for possible remarketing. You wouldn't want to be left in the dark now, would you? (HA!)
Let us know what you think of the Dark Social by tweeting us @boltwebs
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