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Obama Knows Best, Part 2: "Too Often we are Using These Tests to Punish Students or Schools."
By Anthony Cody on April 3, 2011 11:43 AM
Last Monday, President Obama went off script at a town hall meeting, and in response to a question from student Luis Zelaya, offered us a vision for education. In 338 words, he made it clear that current Department of Education policy is way out of line with what he knows is best for his own daughters, and for students across the nation.
After I expressed this view in my blog Monday night, Justin Hamilton, a press secretary for Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, wrote to me and requested that I correct my post, providing me with his official interpretation of what the President meant to say. I then sent him four questions. He has answered three of them, and in this post I offer my thoughts on his response to my second question.
Here is the question I asked on Wednesday, followed by the answer provided by the Department of Education:
Question 2: President Obama said:
Too often what we've been doing is using these tests to punish students or to, in some cases, punish schools. And so what we've said is let's find a test that everybody agrees makes sense; let's apply it in a less pressured-packed atmosphere; let's figure out whether we have to do it every year or whether we can do it maybe every several years; and let's make sure that that's not the only way we're judging whether a school is doing well.
The Department of Education's Blueprint for a new NCLB calls for the continuation of the practice of labeling schools as failures, although it will impose this crushing status on only the bottom 5% of our schools. If punishing schools has not worked - as the President acknowledges in this remark, (and was not shown to work in Chicago under then CEO Arne Duncan) why is it being continued for any schools at all?
Press Secretary Justin Hamilton's response:
The biggest problem with AYP is that it gives schools the same label, whether they're missing their targets by a little or a lot. Under NCLB, chronically low-performing schools are already identified as being schools in need of reconstitution. However, NCLB provided almost no resources for improving schools that, by any measure, are chronically low-performing or have persistent achievement gaps. Interventions in these schools typically have involved little more than cosmetic change. By contrast, the administration has invested $4 billion to support the transformation of the lowest-achieving schools and required more meaningful interventions in schools with persistent achievement gaps.
It is not "punishing" a school that has does a poor job, year after year, and sometimes for decades, to support dramatic change in that school. Children get only one chance at an education. To fail to forcefully intervene in a school that cheats children out of the opportunity to receive a quality education punishes children. As Secretary Duncan has said, for far too long, adults, educators, and leaders have passively observed educational failure in these schools with a complacency that is deeply disturbing. States and districts have largely tinkered in chronically low-achieving schools--many of which serve low-income minority students--instead of treating them as educational emergencies. Secretary Duncan does not support maintaining the status quo in these schools or continued tinkering.
For a moment I thought he was talking about the United States action in Libya, instead of our neighborhood schools. In both cases, the Federal Government has decided "forceful intervention" is the only solution. . The "meaningful interventions" to which Mr. Hamilton refers are the four very limited alternatives "chronically underperforming" schools have been offered:
Turnaround: Fire the principal and at least half the staff.
Restart: Close the school and reopen as a charter.
Closure: Simply close the school and ship students elsewhere.
Transformation: Fire the principal and engage in extensive restructuring.
Unfortunately we have seen the results of "forceful intervention" in our nation's impoverished schools. At Fremont High School in Los Angeles, where the administration ran roughshod over teachers and students, to Central Falls High in Rhode Island.
Dana Goldstein visited Central Falls High and, a year after the controversy, offers us a window on the aftermath of this sort of forceful intervention, which was officially endorsed at the time by Secretary Duncan. Here is what she reports from her conversations with teachers there:
Despite their clear pleasure in working with the students, [teachers] Kulla and Cherko said teacher morale throughout the building remains low, in part because of last year's termination crisis and the resulting high-turnover among staff, and in part because student discipline remains a major problem.
"The kids, when they're here, need to know this is a place of learning," Kulla said. "Right now they don't." Cherko added that the layoff crisis was interpreted by many students as a sign that their teachers were incompetent. "I'm not sure they realize how nationally-driven what happened last year was," he said. "They say, 'The teachers got fired because they're bad at their jobs.'"
There are multiple problems with the Department of Education's strategy here.
Problem One. The process to determine which schools are "chronically underperforming" relies primarily on test score data - these same tests that the President asserts we should not be teaching to. How can we continue to make such high stakes decisions using such flawed sources of data? Won't this continue to force the poorest schools to focus on test preparation to avoid this undesirable status?
Problem Two: Communities are systematically disempowered by these forceful interventions, which disrupt or destroy local schools. As was reported in Education Week recently, urban activists from around the country are beginning to take notice and organize around this issue.
Problem Three: The accountability system ignores external factors that affect student performance, such as levels of poverty, homelessness, hunger and violence, each of which have huge impacts on student achievement. Under this policy, it is the teachers and administrators alone at these schools who are held accountable. This narrow focus only provides us with scapegoats, rather than long-term solutions.
Problem Four: The schools targeted for these interventions are all afflicted by poverty, and mostly attended by students of color. These students already experience a high degree of disruption in their lives due to their economic circumstances and the often violent environments in which they live. Subjecting them to disruptive "forceful interventions" is a very bad idea. Labeling their schools failures, and stigmatizing the teachers and administrators who work with them is a poor way to foster respect for learning. As was revealed by research on school closures in Chicago, this does not yield improved outcomes for students.
We need to move away from the test-and-punish regime that is the hallmark of No Child Left Behind. President Obama is correct when he suggests that we need to move away from the high-stakes attached to standardized tests. For struggling schools, we need strategies that build on their strengths, and provide support in the least disruptive and most constructive manner possible. Congresswoman Judy Chu offered such an approach last summer, and the Forum of Educational Accountability has likewise offered a comprehensive alternative based on strengthening schools.
Once again, I believe it is Department of Education policy that is out of step with President Obama. We are organizing the Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action, with a march and rally on July 30th in Washington, DC, in order to suggest that our schools be guided by President Obama's vision, as expressed in his honest statement Monday. Please join us.
What do you think? Is the Department of Education carrying out President Obama's vision? Or are they still using high-stakes tests to punish schools?
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August 2, 2019 - 10:19 AM
Government is supporting a new 10-bed hospice in Cape Breton with annual operating funding, Premier Stephen McNeil announced today, Aug. 2.
Government will provide about $1.75 million in annual operating costs.
"We are committed to providing appropriate end-of-life care for Nova Scotians, whether that is at home, in hospital or in a hospice," said Premier McNeil. "This new hospice will be a point of pride for the people of industrial Cape Breton and we are pleased to be a part of it."
The Hospice Palliative Care Society of Cape Breton County fund-raising campaign for the construction of the hospice is $2 million away from its $5.2 million goal. Membertou is providing the site for the hospice through a low-cost, long-term lease.
The planned hospice residence will provide comfortable rooms in a home-like environment for people in the final stages of life who do not require the acute medical care provided in hospital. The 14,000 square foot residence will also support family needs including inviting space for music and other therapies, volunteer support, clinician offices, space for family cultural events, shared dining space, a serenity garden and operational and administrative locations.
"The society has long believed in the incredible impact a hospice residence can and will have for the Cape Breton community," said Patricia Jackson, co-chair of the Hospice Palliative Care Society of Cape Breton County. "Clearly we are delighted with today's announcement and will work with all to open the doors and welcome patients and families by early 2021."
Once built, it will be the third hospice in Nova Scotia. One in Kentville is under construction and a Halifax hospice opened in April.
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Premier McNeil says government is pleased to support the much-needed hospice in industrial Cape Breton.
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UK universities are now home to 4,000 Irish PhD students, which is approximately three quarters the total number of PhD students at Irish universities, according to the Conference of Heads of Irish Universities (CHIU).
It is well known that many young Irish researchers choose to attend UK universities because of the more generous grants available to them, but until now the exact number was not known. The true number emerged only last week at a grants conference in the UK attended by a CHIU official.
"We were shocked by the discovery," said Dr Conor O'Carroll, head of research at CHIU. "In one sense, there's nothing wrong with it: it's great that there loads of Irish people in the UK studying and probably in very good institutions and doing very well, but the question is: why are there so many? Surely we should be able to keep some of them for ourselves."
The figures quoted at the conference related to students who are currently registered for a PhD in the UK. Asians make up the biggest grouping of students. The US is next, with approximately 10,000 students studying in the UK. Ireland, with 4,000, ranks ahead of large European countries such as France and Germany.
O'Carroll said the CHIU now intends to explore the issue in greater depth and find out, for example, what percentage of Irish students actually did their undergraduate degrees in UK universities as well as apply for their PhD there.
Commenting on the revelations, Professor John Hughes, president of NUI Maynooth, said the number of students travelling to the UK to do their PhDs has been on the increase in recent years. "We lose quite a few of our postgraduates to the UK because they have a much better funding base for postgraduates. There's been a huge increase in stipends for PhD students in the UK over the last few years. They are now up to about £10,000 sterling, plus free fees. We're just not competing with that."
Hughes felt the trend had worrying implications for Ireland's science and technology sector. "As anyone working in science knows, PhD students are the lifeblood of a research group. If you don't have PhD students, you're finished."
Hughes blamed inadequate funding at Irish universities for the leakage of students to the UK. "If Queen's University puts an ad in the paper offering PhD students £10,000 sterling plus their fees paid, that makes us the poor relations quite frankly." A typical offer at a university in the Republic would be in the region of €4,000 to €6,000 plus a portion of fees paid, he said.
Hughes welcomed the recent OECD Review of Higher Education in Ireland, which recommends that the Government fund an increase in support for PhD students by putting more money into a bursary for students.
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Q: Checking if an optional paramater is specified in a function inside another function I have a function which has an optional parameter. Call this function func1 with optional argument a which is initially set to None
I want to use this function as an argument to another function call it func2.
Hence, I want a function like:
def func2(func1):
     If a is not None:
          .......

How would I achieve this?

A: If you are using func1's handler as an argument (which doesn't have arguments with parenthesis), you can't do this and need to define a as an argument for func2. Like this:
def func2(func1, a=None):
   ...

If you are using func1's return value, the argument's to func1 are lost when func2 is invoked and again the only solution I can think of is to define a as an argument for func2.

A: You can't check what parameter is passed to func1 using this -
def func2(func1):
     If a is not None:
          .......

In this, You are just passing the func1 to func2 as parameter. Nowhere has it been explicitly specified what parameter func1 will be using. So, You will have to decide what you are going to pass to func1 inside your func2 code.

Maybe you are looking for something like this -
def func2(func1,a=None):
     if a != None:       # When a non - None parameter is passed
          func1(a)
     else :
          # Something when a is none

Here, you can check what parameter is going to be passed to func1 since during the call to func2, you will have to specify either 1 or 2 arguments. a is set to None by default. If a 2nd parameter is not passed to func2, it means that no parameter for func1 has been given. This means func1 was meant to be called without a parameter ( or using the default set parameter value ).

Or maybe you are looking to do something like this -
def func1(a=None):
    func1.a = a
    print(a)

def func2(f):
     f(2)         # Called with a paramter, so f.a will not be None
     print(f.a)
     f()          # Called without a param, so f.a will be None
     print(f.a)

func2(func1)

Output :
2
2
None
None

Here, the function object will set the parameter passed to it as its object and then once it called, depending on what the value of func1.a is, you can get what was the value with which the function was called last time. You can modify the above snippet for what you asked in question as -
def func1(a=None):
    func1.a = a

def func2(f):
     if f.a is not None:
         print("Last call with paramter - " + str(f.a))
     else :
         print("Last Function call was made without a paramter")

func1()
func2(func1)

func1(2)
func2(func1)

Output :
Last Function call was made without a paramter
Last call with paramter - 2

Hope this helps !

A: I'm not sure if this is the best way to do it, but to achieve what you desire, you can take advantage of the fact that functions (since they are objects) can be assigned with attributes.
def func(a=None):
    func.a = a
    print(a)

def func_2(f):
    if f.a is not None:
        print(f.a)

Note that in order for this to work as you want, you would need to make sure that func was called before func_2
>>> func(1)
1
>>> func_2(func)
1

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Q: Función recursiva en C++ Estoy resolviendo un problema llamado superdígito, para más información aquí os dejo el enlace al problema, es un problema muy interesante que vale la pena leer además de que es muy importante para que sepan de qué estoy hablando. (https://www.hackerrank.com/challenges/recursive-digit-sum/problem)
El punto es que ya lo resolví, sin embargo sin hacer uso de la función recursiva, así que ahora estoy intentando resolverlo con recursividad, no sé mucho de C++ y se me está complicando, el problema viene cuando intento sumar todos los números de un vector es decir
v = {1,2,3,4} //Por ejemplo
La suma sería igual a 10
Esto lo quiero resolver con una función recursiva que se llama "sumalos" y recibe 1 parámetros, la longitud del vector, la primera vez funciona, yo le paso los números, imprimo el valor y me regresa la suma correcta, pero en la segunda vuelta del ciclo no me retorna el valor correcto, tal vez sea de mi otra funcion llamada "guardaDigitosDeVector", pero no estoy seguro, este es todo mi código:
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include<algorithm>
#include <string>

using namespace std;
    int p = 0, k = 0, v = 0, aux = 0;
    vector <int> n, suma;

    int sumalos(int n){
        if(n > 0){
            return suma[n] + sumalos(n-1);
        }
        else {
            suma.clear();
            return suma[0];

        }
    }

    guardaDigitosEnVector(int k){
        if(k>0){
            n.push_back(k%10);
            return guardaDigitosEnVector(k/=10);
        }
    }

    guardaDigitosEnVector2(int k){
        if(k>0){
            suma.push_back(k%10);
            return guardaDigitosEnVector2(k/=10);
        }else{
            return k;
        }
    }

int main(){

    cin>>p>>k;

    guardaDigitosEnVector(p);

    reverse(n.begin(), n.end());
    for(int i = 0;i<k;i++){
        for(int j = 0;j<n.size();j++){
            suma.push_back(n[j]);
        }
    }

///27:50

    while(suma.size() != 1){

        for(int i = 0;i<suma.size();i++){
            cout<<"Suma[i]: "<<suma[i]<<endl;
        }

        v = sumalos(suma.size());

        cout<<"Valor de v: "<<v<<endl;

        cout<<"Guarda digitos en vector: "<<guardaDigitosEnVector2(v)<<endl;

        cout<<"Longitud de suma: "<<suma.size()<<endl;
        cout<<"Se acaba el ciclo"<<endl;
    }

    ///cout<<suma[0];

    return 0;
}

A: El objetivo de una función recursiva es llamarse a si misma hasta una condición de parada. Aqui te muestro la función para calcular el superdigito de cualquier número usando recursividad:
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include<algorithm>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

int cifras(int numero)
{
    string num = std::to_string(numero);
    return num.length();
}

int superdigito(int numero)
{
    if(cifras(numero) == 1)
    {
        return numero;
    }
    else
    {
        int cifs = cifras(numero);
        int super = 0;
        for(int i = 0; i < cifs; i++)
        {
            super += numero % 10;
            numero /= 10;
        }
        return superdigito(super);
    }
}

int main()
{
    int numero = 0;

    while(true)
    {
        cout << "Introduzca un numero para calcular el superdigito, -1 para salir: ";
        cin >> numero;
        if(numero < 0)
            break;
        cout << endl << "El superdigito de: " << numero << " es: " << superdigito(numero) << endl;
    }
    return 0;
}


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Rain, rain, and more rain - and thundery showers could follow
A WEATHER warning is in place for Friday - with almost a month's worth of rain expected to lash parts of the UK today.
Forecasters have issued a yellow warning for between 8am and 10pm, with transport likely to be affected and flooding possible.
The warning covers Wales, the north west and south west of England, with high ground expected to see the worst weather.
"There is a quite heavy burst of rain coming across Ireland and Northern Ireland and it will move across Scotland, Wales and England," Met Office forecaster Marco Petagna said.
Rain is expected to fall throughout the day here and there could be thundery showers between 6pm and 9pm.
Mr Petagna said up to 80mm of rain is possible in some areas.
The average August rainfall in Wales is 107mm and the average for August in the South West is 90mm – meaning that almost a month's worth of rain could fall on Friday alone.
"August actually can be a fairly wet month," he said.
Strong winds are also expected, with 30mph-40mph gusts likely around exposed coasts and hills.
Heavy rain may coincide with peak travel times during the afternoon and early evening, leading to difficult driving conditions on major routes, the warning says.
Mr Petagna said places outside the warning area will not escape the rain on Friday.
"Much of England and Wales will see a fairly wet day," he said, adding that the whole of the UK will get rain at some point.
The forecaster said it will become brighter across Scotland and Northern Ireland on Friday afternoon and the weekend will bring sunshine and blustery showers, adding that things are looking more positive next week.
"Especially come mid-week, pressure's building a bit," he said.
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Spódnja Panónija je bila mejna grofija (marka), ki so jo po končanih vojnah z Avari Franki ustanovili na zahodnem delu Panonske nižine, med Donavo na vzhodu, Dravo in Muro na jugu, Rabo na zahodu in najverjetneje Blatnim jezerom na severu. Nastala je z upravno reformo vzhodnofrankovskega kralja Ludvika Nemškega leta 828 po pregonu Bolgarov s tega območja. Večinsko je bila poseljena s predniki Slovencev.

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Vzhodnofrankovski kralj Ludvik Nemški je Spodnjo Panonijo leta 840 podelil v fevd nekdanjemu nitrejskemu knezu slovanskega rodu Pribini, ki je pod pritiskom velikomoravskega kneza Mojmira zbežal k tedanjemu prefektu Vzhodne marke Ratbodu. Pri Blatnem jezeru je Pribina sezidal svojo prestolnico Blatenski kostel, ki jo je obdajalo močvirje. Kot frankovski vazal se je zelo izkazal: dobro je skrbel za utrjevanje vzhodne meje, opustošeno pokrajino je hitro koloniziral in krepil moč pokrajine. Tako je že v petih letih prejel fevd v trajno last (alod), postal pa je tudi mejni grof Spodnje Panonije. V svojo grofijo je naseljeval slovanske in bavarske priseljence. Tako med naseljenci in vladajočimi so kljub močni nemški kolonizaciji prevladovali Slovani, kar je omogočilo njihov kasnejši vzpon na tem območju. V verskih zadevah je Pribina podpiral salzburško nadškofijo. Pribina je padel leta 860 ali 861, boreč se na frankovski strani v boju z upornimi Velikomoravani, ki so se osvobajali frankovske nadvlade. Leta 862 ga je nasledil sin, kasnejši knez Kocelj.

Vladavina Koclja
Kocelj je v začetku svoje vladavine nadaljeval z očetovo politiko sodelovanja s Franki, tako v državnih kot v verskih zadevah. Z njim sta se srečala tudi misijonarja Ciril in Metod ter nanj napravila močan vtis.

Ko so Velikomoravani leta 869 začeli z uporom proti Frankom, je velikomoravskemu knezu Rastislavu zanj uspelo pridobiti tudi Koclja. Upor je uspel in ustanovljena je bila nova, samostojna slovanska država Spodnja Panonija, katere knez je postal Kocelj. Skupaj z Rastislavom in njegovim nečakom Svetopolkom so se zavzemali, da bi se Metod vrnil v te kraje kot škof. Papež jim je leta 869 ugodil, kasneje pa je na Kocljeve prošnje tudi ponovno ustanovil sirmijsko nadškofijo, katere sedež je bil v Kocljevi državi. Škof Metod je uvajal slovansko bogoslužje in sprva deloval predvsem v Panoniji, njen upravni okoliš pa je vključeval Spodnjo Panonijo in Velikomoravsko. To je pomenilo vrh za tedaj ponovno (prvič po napadih Obrov) trdno povezane Južne in Zahodne Slovane. Imeli so podporo Bizantincev (zagotavljal jim jo je Metod) in frankovsko koloniziranje območja je bilo zavrto. Najverjetneje je v Spodnji Panoniji nastal prvi slovanski zakonik Zakon sudni ljudem, katerega avtor je najbrž Metod.

Salzburška nadškofija je tako izgubljala vpliv nad temi državami, kar je njeno vodstvo seveda motilo, prav tako kot nemške fevdalce, ki so izgubili velik del ozemlja. Okrog leta 870 jim je uspelo odstraniti Rastislava in zapreti Metoda, vendar je nato na Velikomoravskem izbruhnil upor, ki je začasno preprečil napad na Koclja, tedaj nosilca pomembne vloge pri ohranjanju in podpiranju dela Metodovih učencev. Ko so leta 873 na zahtevo papeža Janeza VIII. Franki končno izpustili Metoda, ga je Kocelj kljub njihovim grožnjam ponovno sprejel. Že naslednjega leta so jih uresničili. Zasedli so Spodnjo Panonijo, pregnali Metoda, ki se je zatekel na Velikomoravsko, in odstranili Koclja, kar je seveda pomenilo konec samostojnosti. Po tem dogodku Kocelj izgine iz zgodovine. Ozemlje Spodnje Panonije je bilo že leta 876 skupaj z Zgornjo Panonijo, Karantanijo in področjem zgornjega Posavja vključeno v novo pomembno frankovsko politično tvorbo- Regnum Carantanum, ki ga je upravljal Arnulf Koroški.

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1. Union Firepower Marker
Union Firepower. . Steep terrain on both flanks of the Union line funneled the Confederate attackers into the face of 29 Union cannon lining this ridge. Six 12-pounder Napoleon guns of Company A, 5th U.S. Artillery, fired from near this spot. . . During the afternoon of July 1, this battery fired 1,392 rounds of shell and canister. Most devastating was the canister - - shotgun-like blasts of iron balls fired at short range. The Confederate infantry lines melted away under the barrage. No Southerners reached the guns. . This historical marker was erected by Richmond National Battlefield Park – National Park Service. It is in Glendale in Henrico County Virginia
Steep terrain on both flanks of the Union line funneled the Confederate attackers into the face of 29 Union cannon lining this ridge. Six 12-pounder Napoleon guns of Company A, 5th U.S. Artillery, fired from near this spot.
During the afternoon of July 1, this battery fired 1,392 rounds of shell and canister. Most devastating was the canister - - shotgun-like blasts of iron balls fired at short range. The Confederate infantry lines melted away under the barrage. No Southerners reached the guns.
Erected by Richmond National Battlefield Park – National Park Service.
Location. 37° 24.803′ N, 77° 15.023′ W. Marker is in Glendale, Virginia, in Henrico County. Marker is on Willis Church Road (Virginia Route 156), on the right when traveling south. Marker is in the Malvern Hill Battlefield Unit of Richmond National Battlefield Park. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Henrico VA 23231, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. A Splendid Field of Battle (within shouting distance of this marker); Malvern Hill (within shouting distance
of this marker); a different marker also named Malvern Hill (within shouting distance of this marker); Southern Valor vs. Union Firepower (within shouting distance of this marker); Seven Days Battles (about 400 feet away, measured in a direct line); The West House (about 400 feet away); "the grandest sean of all" (about 400 feet away); Battlefield of Malvern Hill (about 400 feet away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Glendale.
More about this marker. The bottom right of the marker features a photograph of Lieutenant Adelbert Ames who "commanded Company A. This medal of honor winner [would] later become a Union general and was the last of the Civil War generals to die, in 1933."
By Craig Swain, March 21, 2010
3. Marker between two 12-pdr Napoleons
4. Union Artillery on Malvern Hill
The marker can be seen in the photo behind the farthest cannon here on the crest of Malvern Hill.
5. Union Cannon
The view from the marker shows the approach taken by the charging Confederates during the Battle of Malvern Hill.
6. Richmond National Battlefield Park
Marker is in the Malvern Hill Battlefield Unit of Richmond National Battlefield Park.
More. Search the internet for Union Firepower.
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Of course, you want to be respected at work. But like trust, you have to earn it. It's important to be respected on the job in order to advance up the ladder, to work well with others, and to have your opinion and work taken seriously.
But it will take some effort on your part. Here are 8 tips on how to get more respect at work.


I enjoyed participating in AQ Research's recent conference on "The Future of Research", last December 5.
I finally had a chance to edit and post my notes on the panel on Research Pricing.
If research is really a discrete model, you could say that should have a fixed price.
But I believe research is actually really an advisory service, an interaction, part of a broader process—-part of the mosaic of ideas.
No money manager on the planet will say he has just one source for investing. Research should be priced in direct proportion to the value creation or value destruction.
By comparison, money management industry prices its service in proportion to its own value creation or value destruction. Unbundling and transparency are two separate concepts.
The idea that research pricing should be tied to volume or fixed is another concept.
I believe strongly that research should be tied to volume.
Paul Spillane: For us to be successful, we have to determine a fee. We are the only part of the finance business that provides product for free.
I don't want us to be paid based on our stock-picking performance. 1-2 fund managers, and a batch of hedge funds, have given us a price schedule: you bring in a company manager, I'll pay X. you provide an expert, I'll pay Y. you set up road show for me, I'll pay Z.
We're trying to ascertain value of what we provide. Our analysts only get paid if customers say, "Pay them". It's all client-directed.
Alonzo: Independents have always been transparent, but sell-side have dragged their feet in complying with menu pricing. Shalett: Trading commissions should be going down slowly.
There's no reason why they should be flat or rising. The wool is being pulled over the money management industry's eyes.
Marginal cost of executing /clearing a trade is close to zero, and Sanford Bernstein is not even a scale player in this business.
If you want to save money on research & trading, start there first! Spillane: If you're head of research at a bulge-bracket bank, you focus your effort on minimizing outliers, so no one can sue you.
You're not focused on creating alpha. Money management industry is afraid to say what they're paying for research. If a money manager says it's paying 2 cents for research someone can sue. But if you say you're spending it on execution, it's harder to complain about it.
Look at Jefferies settlement. Shalett: Broader public policy question: what does research provide?
Buy side says they're paying for liquidity, for there to be a dialogue. Trading cost curve has gone down 6 pct. annually since 1975, to 3.5 cents now.
The regulators want you to be democratic, give access to everyone.
Pricing mechanism should be scale neutral, to not overly advantage the largest money managers. Alonzo: Why do indies still get paid so much less than sell-side?
Spillane: Because we let them! We don't know what we should be charging. We don't have enough senior-level relationships. We don't know if we're being overpaid or underpaid.
You have to be willing to walk away from underpayment. Shalett: We don't put a formal price on our services. But we use the concept of fair share.
We use polls, Greenwich polls. We're paid 1/3 of what we should be paid, if you compare our ranking in polls with the total payments to research providers.
That hasn't changed in 13 years. The reason is that the sell-side has a lock on being systematically overpaid.
Spillane: Lisa, you have the power to change this. Just shut them off. Shalett: We'd shut them off if Thomson would implement the change to make it easier to shut people off.
(laughter) Questions: What would it take for you to get out of execution?
Shalett: It will only happen if we can be confident that we'll get paid 3x what we're paid now. In Europe, implementing CSAs as follows: 8 bps for execution, 7 bps for research, plus 2 bps for proprietary research when paying sell-sides. These sell-side firms are holding the indies' money for 90 days, paying no interest.
If there were a DTC, a Switzerland, for these commissions, I'd join it and exit trading. But I don't believe in what's being implemented today.
Alonzo: CSA gives firms freedom to use traditional payment mechanism. Is now the right time to push on pricing? Shalett: Depends partly on extent to which funds are generating substantial alpha.
Hedge funds are willing to pay unlimited amount for good research. Spillane: How do you get a return on capital that you can't measure? If someone could provide a utility function for research, big banks would sign up and then focus on prop trading.
We're entering dangerous part of cycle, because we've had good returns for several years.
This is first year in 10-15 yrs when more hedge funds closed than opened.
So it's a tough time to talk about pricing. Shalett: Big banks are generating 30% ROE.
They're good businesses. Mayhew: Will we see a more level approach between pricing of sell-side and indie research?
Spillane: We won't move to unbundling until we're forced to. We won't subject ourselves to the soft dollar pool, which is only 7-15% of giant pool of commissions ($14-$15B in US).
I don't want to be in the kiddie pool. Barry Hurewitz (Morgan Stanley): We have 500 analysts .
Average buy-side person with a $50M commission pool has 11 buy-side analyst. Lisa might have highest per-hour price on the Street, today.
I don't see why you can't just price your services explicitly; that's what we do. Shalett responds: From 75 to 2000 (decimalization), trading was a commodity, because market was very concentrated.
Most volume going thru NYSE specialists, whether it came from MS or GS, or it was OTC (fulfilled by market-maker). Post-2000, you had fragmentation of liquidity, which meant differential execution quality.
Trading has become a more differentiated product.
Capital commitment actually mattered. Now, pendulum is swinging back.
Technology is reconcentrating liquidity. Buy-side can trade directly with the market.
Vast majority of executions are commodities, or will be in next 2 years.
So prices should be going down. It doesn't make sense that prices go up.
CSAs favor some players over others. Macroeconomics don't stand up to scrutiny, and industrial behavior is being perverted as a result.
Spillane: Morgan Stanley can't price by the hour, because there are too many constraints.
Customers aren't willing to set a price.
There are way too many internal pressures calling your #1 ranked analyst to come to a meeting, go to a conference, etc., to say simply that he bills at $3000/hour.


Sheffield's Creative Industries Quarter may be a long way from Paris, but that hasn't stopped its newest venue taking inspiration from across the channel.
The first supper club at The Mowbray - which opened last month after a three year restoration of the former steel and iron merchants - will take place on August 18.
Called The Yorkshire Barbecue, it was inspired by a 'boho feast' at the former May Ray restaurant in Paris, owned by stars including Johnny Depp.
The summer feast aims to be a long lazy dinner that ends on the dance floor, and will include two courses, a drink and music from guest DJ Charlotte Gutu.
Dishes will feature ingredients sourced from Yorkshire - including fresh mackerel from Whitby, by way of JH Mann at Sharrowvale.
For more details and tickets priced £35 per person visit themowbray.co.uk.
Soul food, coffee, whisky and plant-based food are all getting their moment in the spotlight at a series of supper clubs.
The Broadfield pub on Abbeydale Road has its next event, focusing on food from New Orleans, on August 21.
It promises 'big flavours and 'bags of character' while the event on September 18 looks at coffees from 'Eldon Street to Ethiopia', which five courses featuring the beans.
Book a place via The Broadfield.
Latin inspired restaurant Revolution de Cuba is offering three tapas dishes for £10 as part of the new Dine & Discover initiative in Sheffield.
The project aims to help people discover 'hidden gems' and new places to eat in the city centre with a different offer each month.


As we head towards midyear exams (which will start on January 17), we will offer two late buses to students each Thursday for the remainder of the school year. The buses will pick students up at 3:30 and will drop students off at each of the elementary schools.
This is a great opportunity for students who need extra help or students who would like to workout in the fitness center to stay after school and then catch a ride to their neigborhood.


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For Kelly Corrigan, family is everything. At thirty-six, she had a marriage that worked, two funny, active kids, and a weekly newspaper column. But even as a thriving adult, Kelly still saw herself as the daughter of garrulous Irish-American charmer George Corrigan. She was living deep within what she calls the Middle Place--"that sliver of time when parenthood and childhood overlap"--comfortably wedged between her adult duties and her parents' care. But Kelly is abruptly shoved into coming-of-age when she finds a lump in her breast--and gets the diagnosis no one wants to hear. When George, too, learns that he has late-stage cancer, it is Kelly's turn to take care of the man who had always taken care of her--and to show us a woman who finally takes the leap and grows up.
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Myalgic encephalopathy/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a debilitating disease of unknown etiology, with hallmark symptoms including postexertional malaise and poor recovery. Metabolic dysfunction is a plausible contributing factor. We hypothesized that changes in serum amino acids may disclose specific defects in energy metabolism in ME/CFS. Analysis in 200 ME/CFS patients and 102 healthy individuals showed a specific reduction of amino acids that fuel oxidative metabolism via the TCA cycle, mainly in female ME/CFS patients. Serum 3-methylhistidine, a marker of endogenous protein catabolism, was significantly increased in male patients. The amino acid pattern suggested functional impairment of pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH), supported by increased mRNA expression of the inhibitory PDH kinases 1, 2, and 4; sirtuin 4; and PPARδ in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from both sexes. Myoblasts grown in presence of serum from patients with severe ME/CFS showed metabolic adaptations, including increased mitochondrial respiration and excessive lactate secretion. The amino acid changes could not be explained by symptom severity, disease duration, age, BMI, or physical activity level among patients. These findings are in agreement with the clinical disease presentation of ME/CFS, with inadequate ATP generation by oxidative phosphorylation and excessive lactate generation upon exertion.


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A jerky replica of a national monument: Meat Rushmore
Liala Helal June 12, 2014, 8:11 AM Jun 12, 2014
Meatheads tied to Minneapolis and Mankato, Minnesota, are displayed in New York City today.
Mayor Betsy Hodges has proclaimed June 12 Jack Link's Jerky Day in Minneapolis, coinciding with National Jerky Day. So did the mayor of Mankato, Eric Anderson. In celebration of the day, Jack Link's created Meat Rushmore: a 13-foot tall and 17-foot wide sculpture of Mount Rushmore, made of jerky meat.
Today, the 1,400 cubic foot will be displayed in New York City. It's made of three types of jerky meat.
In a video of the making of Meat Rushmore, the art director talks about the playful concept. "The big challenge with meat sculpting is that it hasn't been done before, so you can't possibly know what to expect," he said in the video.
The project manager added, "There's no sort of precedent for what that's supposed to look like. I've used a lot of different materials, but this is a first for me."
The making took 1,400 hours to put together, according to the video.
South Dakota, Iowa, and Wisconsin also declared June 12 Jack Link's Jerky Day.
Photos and musings of the sculpture are hitting social media:
Well, that's unexpected: What are they insinuating about our nation's first 130 years? #MeatRushmore #Jerks pic.twitter.com/mSSX0XDmd8
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Memorial bestowed its highest honour upon the Princess Royal, the colonel-in-chief of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, on April 23.
The daughter of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh received an honorary doctorate of laws degree in a special convocation on the St. John's campus.
After a performance by the MUN Chamber Choir and an oration by Memorial University orator Shane O'Dea, Her Royal Highness was conferred her degree and delivered an address to the assembled guests.
Linking the university's foundation as a "living and growing" memorial to those lost in the First World War and the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, the Princess Royal stated there is an "unbreakable bond" between the two.
Meanwhile, the Princess visited the Marine Institute on Saturday, April 24.
She visited the Marine Institute's Centre for Marine Simulation and experienced a realistic and immersive simulation exercise depicting the actions of a Second World War corvette escorting a convoy across the North Atlantic.
The simulation was created in association with the Canadian navy to celebrate the Canadian navy centennial. The Marine Institute has a long and distinguished partnership with the Canadian navy. Since 1992, the Marine Institute has graduated more than 800 navy cadets and houses the Canadian Forces Naval Engineering School (CFNES St. John's) on its campus.
Following the simulation, the Princess Royal met with Battle of the Atlantic veterans along with naval staff, students and Marine Institute employees.
Glenn Blackwood, executive director of the Marine Institute, said it was an honour to welcome the Princess just four short months after hosting HRH Prince of Wales, Prince Charles in November 2009.
The Princess Royal was visiting the province to present new colours to the 1st battalion of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment and to participate in a variety of other activities being co-ordinated by the regiment.
Memorial has had a long and distinguished association with the Royal Family, including the naming of the university's main library in honour of Queen Elizabeth II.
During a royal visit in 1964, the previous colonel-in-chief of the RNR and holder of the title Princess Royal, Princess Mary, was awarded an honorary degree by Memorial University.
The special convocation took place in the D. F. Cook Recital Hall, located in Memorial's School of Music, with a reception afterward.
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Precious Little
Madeleine George
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Madeleine George's Precious Little is an engaging and thought-provoking look at language.
The play's central character is 42-year-old linguist, Brodie, who—as a scientist—takes an informed and direct approach to the risks of pregnancy as a woman of advanced maternal age.
She has an almost businesslike dispassion towards the amniocentesis but finds herself unable to maintain this detachment when the chromosomal test reveals the baby may present with significant birth defects.
With this as the backdrop, the play examines language from many angles whilst also looking at mother-daughter relationships.
For all her skills as a linguist, Brodie is only human and, whilst she wants to hear it as it is from the doctors, she cannot tolerate the same un-cushioned delivery from her unsympathetic lover, a younger post-graduate student who helps Brodie with her research.
Brodie is studying an almost extinct Slavic tongue, methodically dissecting its characteristics, whilst for native speaker Cleva, whose speech she records, the experience of talking in the language of her childhood dredges up painful memories.
In parallel, at the local zoo, there is a gorilla that appears to construe some English words. Visitors to the enclosure can press buttons on a console to which the creature can respond.
The gorilla, a near extinct species, is presented as a stately beast and this exercise as coarse playing at communicating, relaying words without meaning or understanding—or care.
The true connection comes when Brodie sets aside spoken language and bonds with this most human of animals as she does with her unborn baby.
That the depiction of this affinity between Brodie and the gorilla is so persuasive is in large part due to the sensitive handling of the narrative by director Kate Bannister, never letting the comic elements of the work get in the way of the audience suspending belief.
Jack Studio artistic director, Bannister, has brought together a strong cast. Jenny Delisle's is a nuanced portrayal of Brodie, with Deborah Maclaren moving as Cleva and quietly noble as the ape, and Jessica Kinsey doing near verbal gymnastics as Zoogoers and in the supporting roles.
During scene changes, pacy, atmospheric music (sound design and composition by Julian Starr) hints at a growing urgency and the set (designed by Karl Swinyard) efficiently moves the setting between the clinical hospital, the zoo and Brodie's lab where the blackboard covered in monophthongs and diphthongs reminds us that there is so much more to language than meets the ear.
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Q: Wait for the end of a function before starting another one in JavaScript I'm just a beginner in JavaScript, and I would like to wait for the end of an action before executing the next one. I've already searched an answer to my problem on Google, but all I've found are the using of callbacks to string functions together. OK, but that is not what I need. I don't want to make a chain, I want to make an imbrication, like this :
function f1() {
    function f2() {
        function f3() {
            return result;
        }
    return result;
    }
return result;
}

So that, when I call console.log(f1), it prints the results which is calculated in f3(). Is there a simple way to do this ?
Thank you.
Sara.
EDIT: Well, I think I have to give a better example ! In concrete terms, I work on a web server with express and a a database with mongoose and mongodb. I have four types of path : path concerning jobs, groups, workers and users. When I get a page, I have to get the right list of elements in the database to display : if I go on the page /job, I get the list of existing jobs, if I go on the page /user, I get the list of existing users, etc. In the routing file, I call another file which will manage the connection to the database. Here are my codes :
In the file route.js :
var mongo = require('./mongo');
exports.list = function(req, res) {
    var data = mongo.read(req.params.type);//the type of element we are looking for (jobs, user...)
    res.render('liste', {
        table: data; //In the view, we get table.name, table.status, for each element of the table
    }
}

In my mongo.js :
exports.read = function(type) {
    var result;
    start(); //It's the function which start the database, create the schemas, etc...
    if(type == 'job')//4 conditions, in which we get the right model (in the var model) according to the page we're looking for
    model.find(function(err, data) {
        if(err) { ... }
        else {
            result = data;
        }
     }

     return result; //It return nothing, because it do this before doing the model.find(...)
}

I hope it is clearer.
EDIT (again...) : Thank you everybody for your answers and thank you Sagi Isha for giving me the solution :)

A: according to your node/express code: Node work asynchornocally, which means you need to pass callbacks to I/O operations,
i.e
var mongo = require('./mongo');
exports.list = function(req, res) {
  mongo.read(req.params.type, function(err, data){
    if (err) {return console.error(err)}
    res.render('liste', {table: data});
  });
}

and
exports.read = function(type, callback) {
  if(type == 'job') {
    model.find(callback);
  }
}

A: In your exemple you never call the functions f2 and f3
function f1() {
  function f2() {
      function f3() {
         return result;
      }
    return f3();
   }
 return f2();
}

A: You are looking for the Immediate function invocation :
check this code
function f1(){
 return
   (function(){
      return
        (function(){ return 1})()
   })()
};

console.log(f1());// prints 1

check this link for more info

A: We would really need to know what is being done within each function but but assuming you are processing the return value of each function in the next function you could do this:
function f1(){
   var inputValue = 1;
   var result = f2(inputValue);
   result = f3(result);
   return result;
}

function f2(input){

  <!-- Do some processing -->
  return result;

}

function f3(input){

 <!-- Do some processing -->
 return result;

}

A: It sounds like you are having asynchronous code - the functions do return before they yield their result to a callback function:
function async(callback) {
    // start heavy processing
    return undefined;
    // when processing is finished,
    // callback(result);
}

Examples are setTimeout, ajax, user events etc.
If you have such behaviour in your code, you will need to pass the nested f2/f3 as callbacks to them:
function f1(callback) {
    someAsync1(function f2(resultfromAsync1) {
        someAsync2(function f3(resultfromAsync2) {
            someAsync3(callback);
        });
    });
});

To call that and log the result, you will use
f1(function(resultfromAsync3) {
    console.log(resultfromAsync3);
});


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A-Listers host art mixer at Athenaeum on Aug. 29
Choose a cocktail and a song when the Athenaeum A-List presents "Member's Choice: Pick Your Poison," 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 29 at the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, 1008 Wall St.
Forty-six San Diego artists have works in the 22nd Annual Juried Exhibition at the Athenaeum, where their 51 diverse pieces coalesce from a muddled collection to a smooth cocktail of art. At this event, guests and members may vote for their favorite piece.
The competition will continue in the music room as dueling pianists battle on a pair of grand pianos. Rhythmic dissonance will melt into melodic harmony as they enliven their music with a battle of the keys.
The choices carry on at a pair of gourmet food trucks and a create-your-own vodka cocktail bar.
The A-List is a membership group for young professionals of generations X and Y who are interested in expanding their horizons in music and art. Founded in 2005, The A-List hosts six events a year at either the library in La Jolla or the Athenaeum's School of the Arts studio off-site in University Heights.
Each 21+ event features an art exhibition, music by a local band/artist, food and drinks, and a communal art project. Admission to the mixer is free for A-List members. Tickets are $12 for nonmembers at ljathenaeum.org/alist or (858) 454-5872.
Bittersweet 'The Motherf**ker with the Hat' opens at Cygnet Theatre
By Diana Saenger Cygnet Theatre in Old Town claims "The Motherfker with the Hat" by Stephen Adly Guirgis, is not only their last play of Season 11, but also their most hilarious and provocative.
When art reflect life, sometimes it hurts to watch
The question about why one goes to the movies — hoping for what?
The grace of goodwill
"I dreamt that my hair was kempt. Then I dreamt that my true love unkempt it."
Reflections of life at the 71-mark
"Lord, Let me know mine end and the number of my days." — Psalm 39 Around 2,000 years ago the Moche people built a society that incorporated the first real state structure in South America.


Below is an alphabetical list of homeschool support groups throughout Georgia. If you would like to add your group to our list, you will need to send us your information. To have your group information changed or removed, please contact us.
Atlanta Alternative Education Network (AAEN)is a not-for-profit cooperative support group of homeschoolers and other educators interested in exploring alternatives to public/private schools. AAEN is staffed entirely by volunteers. Members come primarily from the north Metro Atlanta area, although many members live inside the Perimeter, and some drive all the way from Stone Mountain and Peachtree City to participate in classes and parkday. The lifestyles, religious and philosophical beliefs, ethnic backgrounds, parenting and educational styles of our members vary considerably and we view that as a strength and an opportunity for growth.
The Atlanta Christian Home School Group is a Christian group focused on supporting local homeschool families through parent support, curriculm support, play groups, and field trip. Visit our Links and Files for free worksheets, curriculum helps, recipes, science projects, math helps and reading helps.
Catoosa Home Education Association (CHEA) is an organization of 100+ homeschool families. Membership includes families from Catoosa, Walker, Dade and Whitfield counties in Georgia as well as quite a number of families from Tennessee in the Chattanooga metro area. They offer group support to homeschool families in their geographic region through classes, field trips, family meetings, clubs, and friendships and monitor Georgia and Tennessee legislation that affects homeschoolers. CHEA is open to any homeschooling family who would like to be a part of their group, however CHEA is a Christian organization and decisions made for our group will be guided by Christian principles.
Central Georgia Christian Home Educators (CGCHE) is a support group for home educators within the central Georgia vicinity. They are comprised of volunteers striving to provide wholesome, Christian fellowship and activities for our children. They offer park days, field trips, monthly events, and more.
The Central Savannah River Area Home Education Association (CSRA HEA) provides resources to parents who home educate their children in the Augusta Georgia area. They have many members in both Georgia and South Carolina and welcome you whether you are new to homeschooling or an experienced homeschooler moving into the area.
Christian Homeschool Association of Regional Thomasville, Inc., (CHART) is a group of home school parents and students, committed to helping each other achieve excellence, both academically, socially and spiritually. They accept members from all backgrounds and faiths, however their group is Bible-based, incorporating Christian values, principles, and beliefs. CHART serves Thomasville and surrounding areas.
Circle of Friends: Support for Home Educators is a group of families that meet together for the express purpose of supporting each other and planning social and educational events for home educated families in Douglas County and the surrounding area. Circle of Friends schedules monthly field trips and has regular park days and Moms Night Outs. Members can also attend classes and group club meetings.
Communities of Home Educators for Christ (CHEC) is a support group for Georgia families who homeschool in Cobb, Paulding and surrounding counties. CHEC offers a variety of activities, fieldtrips, ideas, information, fellowship and support in your efforts to educate your child. We also act as a conduit for information about services available in our area to homeschoolers such as special classes, sports activities, etc.


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ARSENAL boss Arsene Wenger has been told to cough-up and pay what Borussia Dortmund want for striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
Arsenal have so far failed to agree a fee with Borussia Dortmund for Aubameyang.
Gunners representatives have been in Germany this week trying to finalise a deal for the Gabon international.
Dortmund admit they are willing to sell Aubameyang but only if their asking price is met.
Former Arsenal striker Paul Mariner believes the 28-year-old would be the perfect signing for the north London side.
And he has demanded Arsene Wenger to spend an extra few million because it is not his own money.
"Pay the money, pay the money, (they're) penny-pinching," Mariner said on ESPN FC.
"They're being just absolutely ridiculous, being completely Arsenal.
"The simple fact of the matter is this; the fans want to see this guy, I think most of European fans want to see Aubameyang in the Premier League.
"I think that the way that the Arsenal play, the thing with Aubameyang you can get balls over the top, he's tricky in his combination play.
"I think he's ideal for the Arsenal. So Mr Wenger, just pay another £5million, it's not your dough, just get the deal done.


The Science and Technology Committee yesterday announced the ideas from the 'My Science' Inquiry that will form the basis of new inquiries.
In November 2018 the Committee launched the 'My Science Inquiry' initiative, which invited the public to suggest potential inquiries for the Committee's future work programme.
The aim of the initiative was to provide an opportunity for the science and technology community and the general public to alert the Committee to topics deserving greater parliamentary scrutiny.
Ten of these submissions were shortlisted to deliver a five-minute public 'pitch' to the Committee earlier this year.
An inquiry into commercial genomics will be launched later this week.
The Committee then hopes to launch an inquiry into the impact of science funding policy on equality, diversity, inclusion and accessibility within the next twelve months; and two further proposals have been combined—food security, the environment and crop protection, and organisms obtained by gene editing techniques—into an inquiry into the role of science and technology in addressing challenges to food security and biodiversity. The aim is to also launch this inquiry within the next 12 months.
The Committee intends to pursue all of the other ideas pitched in a range of ways, including highlighting concerns and suggestions to Ministers. A summary of these plans can be found in the Report.
"We were really impressed by the high quality of all submissions received during this inquiry and the broad range of subjects covered. The Committee is very grateful to all members of the science and technology community, as well as the general public, who contributed ideas.
"It is vital that Parliament does not lose sight of the issues that matter most to the public. It is the role of Committees to ensure these areas are given the parliamentary scrutiny they deserve, and it was a real joy to listen to and read the various submissions we received.


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My Brazilian Friend Has Written a One-Minute Play
Altenir Silva, my friend from Brazil, had a one-minute play produced at the New Workshop Theatre, Brooklyn College, in June.
It is called "She Loves Pepsi and He Drinks Coca-Cola."
Needless to say, it is about relationships.
I told him it sounds like "Waiting for Godot," only with a redhead with a Russian accent.
Altenir has written for Brazilian television and has also written several movies, including the touching "Curitiba Zero Degree," about four men whose lives intersect in gritty corners of a large southern city.
The film has a hopeful message, rare anywhere.
The trailer for the film:
Our Man in Rio Describes the Musical Equator in the City
Altenir, Celia and Neo Silva Are Definitely Into the Olympics
(The Silva family lives in the Copacabana section of Rio. He is a writer....and a Yankee fan....and my friend. I asked Altenir to write something he was sensing about these Olympic Games, taking place all around them.)
"Yes, We Have Problems"
By Altenir Silva
Rio de Janeiro is a divided city in its complexities. There are two sides in Rio de Janeiro and we can put these terms in a musical context: the sadness of Bossa Nova and the happiness of the Samba.
The Rio of "Bossa Nova" is a movement musical that shows the soul of existence of the middle class on the ways of sadness. There's a poem by Vinicius de Moraes with a melody by Tom Jobim, "Tristeza Não Tem Fim; Felicidade Sim" (Sadness Doesn't End, Happiness Does) that shows the broken heart of Bossa Nova, formed by composers who lived in the South Zone of Rio, a rich region.
And there's a Rio of Samba, our African musical heritage, where the music is sung with joy about the heartaches and the cultural characteristics of the place.
Samba has its origin in the North Zone and the favelas, which are poor regions, but with a great vocation to be happy. There's a samba that is very meaningful by songwriter Zé Keti, "A Voz do Morro" (A Voice of the Hill) that says on its verses "I'm samba; I'm native from here, from Rio de Janeiro; I'm the one who brings joy to millions of Brazilian hearts". Even in different contexts, the Bossa Nova is a softer way of singing and playing Samba.
The Olympic Games in Rio are happening on this musical equator: for one side is the image of a city that is all right, but is sad because we know that this city is temporary - it finishes after the Olympics Games. This city is Bossa Nova.
There's a Rio of Samba, where the people know that this feast isn't made to them, but they are being happy because they believe that the glee is the matter of the soul. The life is difficult and the smile makes it bearable. The paradox is our essence: the Brazilian smiles to not cry.
All the world knows that there's a breakdown of the State of Rio de Janeiro and the City Hall as well. This real city is out of our media, but has been shown relatively in the international media.
Anyway, we have to take advantage of this unique moment in our city and sing the song of Braguinha & Alberto Ribeiro that was sung by Almirante: "Yes, We Have Bananas." Now the song is: "Yes, We Have Olympics Games," also.
Roger Cohen, who has lived and worked in Brazil, finds the positive side of Rio's hosting the Games:
www.nytimes.com/2016/08/16/opinion/brazils-uplifting-olympics.html?hpw&rref=opinion&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well
Works by Altenir Silva:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0993971/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
Links to the music Silva references:
A Felicidade - Tom & Vinícius:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtOLSXFf_MA
Yes, Nós Temos Bananas - Braguinha & Alberto Ribeiro:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou_N7ajW96I
A Voz do Morro - Ze Keti:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DHN0O3ObPA
Michael Powell's excellent column on the favelas:
www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/sports/olympics/rio-favelas-brazil-poor-price-too-high.html?_r=0
Waters of March -- Same Song, Two Hemispheres
It's early March. It's New York. It rained overnight and now it's getting windy. The baseball games are starting down south.
I found myself humming "Waters of March," sung by Susannah McCorkle, with her English lyrics:
"It's the promise of life/ It's the joy in your heart."
But wait: when Antonio Carlos Jobim wrote that song, in Portuguese, he was talking about March in Brazil, in the Southern Hemisphere.
I checked with my friend Altenir Silva, film-writer, who lives in Rio, not far from the Tom Jobim statue. Altenir said the Portuguese lyrics mean, "It's the rest of a bush in the morning light," and he added, "Yes, March is a rainy month in Brazil."
Turns out, Jobim was caught in a major rainstorm, in the interior, far from the beaches of Ipanema.
Apparently, McCorkle wrote the English version around 1993, giving it a northern take. She was a linguist, who sang in English, Portuguese and Italian, and a writer, published in magazines and working on a memoir when she committed suicide on May 19, 2001 at the age of 55. Her obituary was lovingly written by Leon Wieseltier in the June 4, 2001, edition of The New Yorker.
McCorkle's version of "Waters of March," with terrific guitar backup by Howard Alden, survives her, as recorded music does.
My friend Altenir followed up by sending me a version by Elis Regina, probably the most popular Brazilian pop singer when she died on Jan., 19, 1982, at 36, of an overdose.
This sadness from both hemispheres is diluted by the music they left behind, the music of water, the rush of life, the little things we see and hear and feel, the things we take for granted: -- "a stick, a stone." "É pau, é pedra."
McCorkle could have added a stanza about spring training. A bat, a ball, a glove, a cap.
The Kid From Ipanema and Tom Jobim -- Happy New Year
Antonio Carlos Jobim and Neo Silva/ Photo by Altenir Silva
On a warm day last May, Neo Silva was baptized in a glorious Italian church on Carmine Street in Greenwich Village, in the presence of his parents, Celia and Altenir.
Seven-plus months later, in summer in Rio, Neo encounters the new statue of Antonio Carlos Jobim near the beach in Ipanema.
No matter what hemisphere you are in, Feliz Ano Novo, with special thanks to Brazil for being the permanent heart and soul of Jogo Bonito, the beautiful game, and the source of Tom Jobim and La Garota de Ipanema.
Wanna feel warm?
Sure, I'm Going to Brazil – on my iPod
From the House of Jobim
I still have not made it to Brazil -- although following Brazilian fans around Barcelona in 1982 and watching Sócrates and Falcão on the field probably qualifies me. I describe that seminal moment in my book.
Most soccer fans would list Brazil as their first or second favorite team. Well, maybe not Argentines.
I did catch some Argentina fans enjoying Brazilians dancing and playing music in the parking lot in New Jersey two summers ago. But that was before a friendly.
If it's not the soccer, it's the music that makes people think we have been to Brazil.
I was exploring that theme during my interview with John Schaefer, who has been producing New Sounds and now Soundcheck on WNYC-FM in New York for many years. That lovely interview was played Tuesday, June 10, after 9 PM.
Schaefer asked me to pick three songs that represent my love for soccer. For two of them, please check out Schaefer's show or podcast. The third came directly from his show 13 years ago, when he played a "new sound" – a CD named Casa, featuring the trio, Morelenbaum2/Sakamoto, with a photo of Corcovado on the front.
You know how sometimes you hear a "new sound" and you wonder how life existed before that moment? I can trace a few albums or songs to that first ethereal experience.
Out of the ozone came Ryuichi Sakamoto, a Japanese activist-pianist, Jaques Morelenbaum, a Brazilian cellist, and Paula Morelenbaum (wife of Jaques), a singer. They recorded songs by Antonio Carlos Jobim in the house of Jobim – hence the Casa – and gave them a unique jazz/samba interpretation. I went out to Tower Records the next day and bought the CD. Been playing it ever since. The counter in my iTunes says it is my most-played album.
Omigosh, where to begin: melancholy songs of love, found and lost.
Fotografia, about a couple in a bar along the beach, ending with the Portuguese aquele beijo (that kiss) sung so insistently by Paula Morelenbaum, and then in English, with her delightful inflections.
Estrada Branca, about memories of a couple walking, walking, walking, and then her sighting the former lover "walking on my street." When I looked up the Portuguese, the last words of the song are "death wish." The American lyrics were quite a bit more upbeat. So it goes.
But the song I chose from Casa was Jobim's classic Samba do Avião, once recorded by Tony Bennett as "Song of the Jet," about flying home to Rio. It starts with Sakamoto's rhythmic piano, incorporates Jaques Morelenbaum's moody cello, and features Paula Morelenbaum's soaring voice. After touchdown, there is a long jazz riff about the energy of Rio.
In musical terms, we might as well all be Brazilians. For me, it goes back to the classic Getz/Gilberto in 1963, with Astrud Gilberto singing some of Jobim's songs, including The Girl From Ipanema. Then there was Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66. My pal Doug Logan got me hooked on Caetano Veloso doing Jobim, doing Michael Jackson. And some Brazilian friends have introduced me to Gal Costa, João Gilberto, and recently Ana Carolina e Seu Jorge. And on the classical end, the music of Villa-Lobos.
Almost forgot the writer-singer Susannah McCorkle, who sang in Portuguese, Italian and English, and totally owns the Jobim classic, "The Waters of March."
So, yes, I have been to Brazil. Will be watching – and writing about – the World Cup for this site for the next month plus, starting Thursday, from 3-6 PM, at Foley's on W. 33 St. in Manhattan, selling my book, watching Brazil-Croatia. The iPod goes with me, Brazil only a touch away.
Here is the link for the podcast of the interview:
https://www.wnyc.org/radio/#/ondemand/378545
Actually, Sepp Blatter Is a Mistake
There have never been protests like this before a World Cup
The man dithers and prattles. In any multinational corporation, he would have been long gone, not because of right and wrong but because he was bad for business, bad for image, bad for selling lethal cars or whatever the company was doing.
But Sepp Blatter, the head of FIFA, the world soccer body, goes on and on. Now he is threatening to run for another term, even before the World Cup takes place in Brazil under very dicey circumstances next month.
Blatter's latest foolishness was saying the other day that choosing Qatar for the 2022 World Cup was a "mistake." You make mistakes in life, he said, talking about awarding a World Cup to a nation without a football heritage but lots of oil money to grease FIFA delegates.
Some of the people who voted for Qatar have since been banned for improprieties. Yet Blatter insists the 2022 World Cup was not bought and sold. Just a "mistake." The executive voters did not notice that it gets hot in Qatar in summer.
Blatter's handlers have since chimed in, as they often must, to note that he never said Qatar would be replaced.
Blatter used to be known for merely sexist and inane comments. FIFA should hold the World Cup every year or two. Female players should wear tight uniforms. Now he is about to preside over the most political protests ever seen in a World Cup – and he has insured a scandalous World Cup in Qatar, a nation that allows mistreatment of migrant workers.
Fortunately, Andrew Jennings is still raking the muck.
Jeremy Schaap did a great report on the deaths of migrant workers, on ESPN a few days ago.
Dave Zirin of The Nation has been all over FIFA.
And Wright Thompson of ESPN has been in Brazil, producing prose and videos about a nation where a major swath of citizens has identified FIFA and futebol – and the government -- as a problem, not just a big quadrennial party.
Blatter has been found out. Yet he keeps talking – and getting re-elected. Speaking of mistakes.
Sepp Blatter, left. Soccer ball, right.
Happy Mardi Gras -- Photo From Rio
Celia, Neo and Altenir. Check out the hat.
Celia and Altenir Silva are introducing Neo to his first Carnival near their home in Rio.
Don't tell Altenir how the Knicks are doing.
The World Cup arrives in three months.
Boa Sorte Para o Brasil.
A Yankee Fan Roots in Rio
Photo courtesy of Altenir Silva
In the Copacabana section of Rio de Janeiro, Altenir Jose Silva imitates John Sterling.
Silva is a writer with television and movie credits in Brazil, and he also writes in English, including a recent play about F. Scott Fitzgerald.
He also pays around $70 a year to subscribe to a web site that streams Yankee games, direct from New York. He works on his English by shouting, "YANKEES WIN! Thuh-h-h-h-h Yankees! Win!"
(It's only fair. Some Americans imitate soccer goal calls by South Americans.)
Silva and I become email pals, and he is a frequent contributor to this site.
Recently, he visited New York for a screenplay course and he and his wife, Célia, took their last big trip before she delivers their first child, after years of marriage.
We met for the first time at Foley's, the Irish baseball pub on W. 33rd St. and he had already bought tickets to last Saturday's Yankee game. Altenir and Célia were glad to hear Curtis Granderson was back in the lineup after his injury; Altenir gave his version of John Sterling's rendition of "The Grandy-man can, oh the Grandy-man can."
From the nation of Pelé and Sócrates and Romario and Neymar, a man sings of Curtis Granderson.
The very nice publicity director of the Yankees, Jason Zillo, arranged for a greeting for Altenir and Célia on the message board before the home half of the third. I advised them to have their cameras ready.
They are great tourists. On their last night here, they caught Woody Allen's weekly appearance at the Café Carlyle with The Eddy Davis New Orleans Jazz Band. Now they are back home in Rio. Instead of imitating Tom Jobim or Caetano Veloso, Altenir warbles along with John Sterling.
Photo by Altenir Silva
At Least Brazil Has the Best Nicknames
What's in a name? Hulk, left, and the Brazilian star known as Michael Jackson, above, now a coordinator of women's football for her national federation.
There are millions of reasons to love Brazil – Sonia Braga, for sure, plus the throaty way Brazilians speak Portuguese, Brazilian music from Villa-Lobos to Tom Jobim, feijoada, Brazilian football fans, Brazilian football nicknames, and then good old joga bonito itself.
Being emotionally acknowledged as the best in the world, based on the record and the way Brazilians carry themselves on and around the field, is mostly a blessing, but this superior image can also be a burden.
Everybody wants to knock off Goliath, even a nimble and attractive one.
The Brazilians were a moving target again on Saturday as Mexico outwilled them, 2-1, in the gold medal match of the Olympic tournament. (At which point the Games ended for me, except for those highly entertaining clips of Usain Bolt. Time to get back to baseball and joga bonito of all nations.)
The Brazilians wanted this title badly, never having won the Olympic gold medal. The nation put together a squad that included three allowable over-23 players back in June and prepared hard for this tournament. But Mexico came into Wembley with the grim mission and skill that has often not traveled well from Azteca.
The only category Brazil won was nicknames, employing reserves known as Hulk (in English) and Pato (which means Duck in Portuguese.) That's what it said on the back of their classic yellow jerseys.
Those are the football names of Givanildo Vieira de Souza and Alexandre Rodrigues da Silva, opposites in physique but teammates in odd nicknames. Brazil has a long tradition of giving nicknames to its sporting heroes. (In the '80's, its star basketball gunners were Oscar and Hortencia, their given names.)
Brazil football had Pelé and Garrincha in the long-ago past, and when I started following in the early 80's it had Sócrates
(one of his many classical given names) and Falcão (I always assumed this wavy-haired bird of prey was named for the way he soared but in fact it was his last name.)
Then there was Alemão, the Portuguese word for German, who was called that because of his light hair and complexion and also for his efficient work at midfield, or so I was told.
And who can ever forget the mainstay of the emerging Brazilian women's teams of the 1990's – Mariléia dos Santos, who sported the name Michael Jackson on her jersey long enough to score a reported 1574 goals. I saw her play a few times and never saw her perform the moon walk – or score, for that matter; Brazil had better players – but now she is the coordinator for women's soccer in the Brazilian federation, having a far better middle age than her male namesake.
On Saturday, Hulk came on early in the disastrous final. British broadcaster Arlo White said it was pretty apparent why he got his name – the man's shoulders and chest swelled out his No. 12 jersey. (His father was said to be a fan of the television series, and the son wound up having large pecs.) The Hulkster was mostly ineffective until extra time when he scored a goal and nearly set up the tying goal.
Another sub was Pato, who does not waddle or quack, but does come from the town of Pato Branco, which means White Duck.
With their wonderful nicknames, the Brazilians now must prepare for the 2014 World Cup, when they will be hosts and once-and-future favorites as well as beloved symbols of the world's game. That's not a burden, is it?
Have I forgotten any epic Brazilian nicknames?
(NB: In my earlier version, I called Pato's home town Prato Branco, which would mean White Plate. He's from Pato Branco, of course. My fault. One of the flaws of Underwear Guys filing precious little essays untouched by human or even editor hands. GV)


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Arthur Ernest Looper
12 January 1892–28 December 1964 (Age 72)
Overton, Shelby, Tennessee, United States
The Life of Arthur Ernest
When Arthur Ernest Looper was born on 12 January 1892, in Overton, Shelby, Tennessee, United States, his father, Joseph Fremont Looper, was 26 and his mother, Laura Bell Floranda Vaughn, was 20. He married Lula Ethel Speck on 7 December 1912, in Overton, Shelby, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Overton, Tennessee, United States in 1935 and Civil District 1, Fentress, Tennessee, United States in 1940. He died on 28 December 1964, in Overton, Shelby, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Good Hope Cemetery, Livingston, Overton, Tennessee, United States.
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Lula Ethel Speck
Marriage: 7 December 1912
Clara Deane Looper
Capitola Looper
Joseph Fremont Looper
Laura Bell Floranda Vaughn
Roy Maurice Looper
Nora May Looper
Oran Coin Looper
Lee Ethel Looper
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1912 · The Girl Scouts
Like the Boy Scouts of America, The Girl Scouts is a youth organization for girls in the United States. Its purpose is to prepare girls to empower themselves and by acquiring practical skills.
Dutch: literally 'runner', an occupational name for a messenger or for someone who made excursions into the woods. In New Netherland the term Boschlooper was used to denote traders who went out (sometimes literally by running) into the woods to intercept Indians bringing furs to Fort Orange (now part of Albany, NY). The practice was forbidden because of the use of coercion to secure a deal, as happened especially when the trader was on horseback.
Loeper
Lopeman
Loper
Luper
Ernest Looper, "United States Census, 1920"
Earnest A Looper, "United States Census, 1940"


Learning to write and follow a pattern is an important part of early learning. The 'Follow the Dots' write and wipe boards and cards have been designed to challenge and stimulate your child while helping him or her to acquire good writing habits.
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