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Hyperlocal hustings – Southside
I’ve never organised a hustings before. But I may well do so again. This one was almost impromptu. As I have mentioned, I’m backing Gordon Murdie – and he’s not standing in my ward. So instead of voting for him, I’m managing his blog: Gordon Murdie. Southside/Newington hadn’t had a hustings at all: Steve Burgess, Gordon MacKenzie, and Cameron Rose, three out of the four incumbents, had been invited to speak at other non-local hustings. (And Rose had also subbed in for the Tory candidate for Leith Walk in the Spurtle hustings.)
This is by no means a formal, full, neutral report – I don’t take shorthand, there were two or three hyperlocal questions where neither question nor answer was fully comprehensible to someone from outside the area, and in all honesty, I took more detailed notes where the candidates’ answers interested me and rested my hand when the speaker wasn’t holding my interest. Politically, tribally, I’m pro-Labour and Scottish Green, anti-Tory, and (at least prior to the UK coalition) was prepared to consider voting LibDem and equally prepared to consider SNP, certainly in a council election. But in general I found at this hustings that my interest was held by the speaker rather than the party.
Place: The proprietor of the Braidburn Inn donated the use of his function suite and a few plates of sandwiches, very welcome since the hustings began at six. (I was last there for a Christmas Day lunch with family in the 1990s, but it’s the local pub/guest house for our chair and for Gordon Murdie. We could probably have fitted five dozen people into the room and it was small enough that microphones were not needed.)
Chair: Owen Dudley Edwards. He is a marvellous speaker and well-experienced in keeping a meeting pleasantly in order and keeping candidates to time. (One member of the audience said to me afterwards “He just radiates calm…”) Though I had to borrow an heirloom wristwatch off Gordon Murdie to let OWD keep time – I use my mobile phone for occasions like this, and Owen Dudley Edwards does not do digital technology.
Who Came And Who Didn’t: The hustings was organised on a week’s notice, on Tuesday 1st May, in order to give as much notice as possible while not using up a candidate’s time on the last night before election day. Proper hustings etiquette would have been to contact all candidates before fixing the date, but sheer pressure of time made that really impossible. All of the election leaflets available for this ward are listed at Liberal Sellout.
Margaret Lea, Liberal Party in Scotland, and William Black, Scottish Anti-Cuts Alliance, had neglected to provide contact details, and did not show.
Steve Burgess, Scottish Green, had excused himself quite reasonably on the grounds that his wife is having a baby, which is the sort of thing that takes clear priority over a hustings. I had told Owen Dudley Edwards this when we were chatting over coffee beforehand, and so in the Chair’s opening remarks, Steve Burgess and his wife were wished every happiness and good fortune in the birth of their child. (Audience, startled but pleased; “Hear! Hear!” and a round of applause. I think Steve had just picked up several votes for not being there, which is unusual at a hustings!)
Gordon MacKenzie, Liberal Democrat, had excused himself on the Monday night on the grounds that the invitation had come in too late and the hustings had not been organised by a local group and he had canvassing plans. (Audience: “Missed his tram, did he?“) According to Cameron Rose, MacKenzie was knocking on doors in Priestfield on Tuesday evening with Willie Rennie. GMc added “would have been a pleasure to debate the issues with you and the other candidates”. So there’s that.
Because Owen Dudley Edwards had set out the name cards in alphabetical order by surname, all of the absent candidates were to his right and all of the attending candidates to his left: he asked us not to draw any political meaning from that coincidence.
Gordon Murdie, Independent, standing for the first time. (GM) (Gordon MacKenzie, when referred to, will be GMc.) Spoke about how he’d been driven to standing because of his strong feelings about the statutory notice scandal and, of course, the trams. Jim Orr, Scottish National Party, also standing for the first time. (JO) I felt he was the weakest speaker of the four, the one least experienced and most nervous: I also found when looking back through my notes that I’d taken fewer notes when he was talking because he tended not to hold my interest.
Ian Perry, Labour, who has been on Edinburgh Council for 23 years. (IP) Good clear speaker: made the excellent point that about 65% of council decisions are non-contentious and that energy should be reserved for political fights on the contentious 35%. Said he wanted “a new kind of politics”, with more community involvement.
Cameron Rose, Conservative, who has been on Edinburgh Council for 5 years. (CR) Spoke for privatisation, claimed “one of the parties had got cold feet”, and repeated the tale that this would have saved £130,000. Has a blog.
Audience: About 20 people. Mostly over-fifties, some older, two or three younger. My impression was a very local group of people. The proprietor said afterwards he was sorry not to see more people, but I think 20 is quite a respectable number for a hustings in these council elections – I hear that Inverleith hustings only had 6 people plus the candidates themselves, which must have made it more like political speed dating than a hustings.
Owen Dudley Edwards told the audience they could direct their questions to one or more of the candidates specifically, but that all of the panel could give an answer if they wished: any non-directed question would go to the whole panel, and he would direct the order of replies.
Nobody’s replies are given verbatim unless enclosed in “inverted commas” to show direct speech. I was taking notes rather than transcribing. I apologise if anyone feels that I’ve given the sense of their remarks wrong, and will correct any errors if they’re made known to me.
Q1: Views of the candidates on fortnightly refuse collection.
CR: Want the most efficient method of refuse collection. Not averse to fortnightly.
IP: I now recycle so much that my standard green bin is half empty when the van comes. Recycling done at home means multiple vehicle visits. There has to be a cost-benefit analysis. We already have fortnightly collections for all sorts of things.
JO: We want more recycling. Mentioned a huge landfill site – less should go to landfill. Nobody wants unhygienic odours coming from bins. [Yes, he really did say “unhygienic odours”.]
GM: Asked the questioner: What isn’t suiting you? What are your concerns? (Q: I don’t want fortnightly.) Mentioned the new lockable bins for food collection, cited the small amount being collected using them. – It was noted this was a Scottish Government policy rather than a local policy.
IP: We have weekly collections for different things. The green bins, the brown bins, the recycle boxes. We need to schedule this – important not to have vehicles paying multiple visits.
JO: We’ll not push through any insanitary policies. Difficulty of balance – different requirements.
GM: Broad minds rather than fixed policies.
Q2: Balancing books is badly needed. How much budget is the council free to spend?
Both incumbent councillors said it was complicated and would not give figures.
CR: It’s not simple. Council tax is 24% of budget. There’s a capital amount from government.
IP: We should do budgeting together as a council. More efficient.
JO: Scope for further investment by working with the Scottish government.
GM: An interesting question. I think there must be figures. For example the council overpaid contractors £39 million. And £174 thousand spent on bottled water. And £600 thousand spent on a day out. (There were other figures. GM had evidently been doing homework.)
Q3: Are all departing councillors being given iPads?
OWD directed the question to the two incumbents, who both looked startled/amused the way you do when someone quotes an urban legend at you.
CR: No.
IP: No.
I think both then explained that the council had decided that the incoming councillors should get iPads – and that for the next four years, all agendas, minutes, briefings, instead of all the hundreds of thousands of bits of paper a councillor has to take to meetings, a councillor would be provided with electronic copies and expected to bring their iPad to meetings instead of a stack of print-outs. [Which, I say as a tech lover, struck me as a sensible and quite economic decision: saving paper, cost of printing, cost of disposal, cost of space, and hopefully, mean councillors can be kept better informed and better in touch – the iPad is acknowledged the best e-device for reading and sharing everything from emails to book-length PDFss. Plus, it could improve their vocabulary.]
Q4: Is Meadowbank Stadium going to be upgraded for the Commonwealth Games? As the Commonwealth Pool was upgraded for the Olympics?
[I regret to say that I got quite interested in CR‘s and IP‘s answers to this, and scribbled down the information they provided to the meeting without noting exactly which of them said it. They were both clearly well informed/interested and as a long-term member of Edinburgh Leisure it’s a topic I’m personally interested in.]
There are no plans to upgrade Meadowbank Stadium, the only Olympic events that will be held in Edinburgh are water events in the Commonwealth. Edinburgh Rugby has proposed an idea publicly that they might make use of Meadowbank Stadium and share in the costs, but they haven’t come forward to the Council with a proposal. Someone raised the issue of Leith Waterworld being closed down, and CR noted fairly that every swimming pool in Scotland requires a subsidy – he’d been in favour of knocking the Commonwealth Pool down and starting again.
JO: Mentioned possibility of investment from Cashback for Communities.
GM: The Commonwealth Games will use a pool specially built in Sunderland, at a cost of £1.5M, or what it cost Edinburgh Council to bring Deloittes in to investigate the statutory notices, and they won’t use the Commonwealth Pool for anything but diving because it’s not to standard.
Q5: Royal Mile is now like a new disneyland. What can the council do about that? GM: Cheap souvenir tat. People selling good-quality souvenirs can’t get a pitch, while people can sell a £1.99 kilt.
JO: Less concerned about the tat shops and more about the boozing – a little too much in Edinburgh.
IP: Not a fan of these shops, but need to be careful how we do it – the shops exist because of the free market.
CR: I always worry when I hear you defending the free market, Ian. Yes, the council does own quite a few properties on the Royal Mile. [Audience: Sixty!]
IP: I’m not trying to defend the tat. But it’s there because people buy it – wanting low-priced things to take home.
Q6: Edinburgh is not a safe city to cycle in – this year two cyclists have been killed. How can cycling be made safer?
[All four candidates present are cyclists – Jim Orr had gone to Pedal on Parliament, Cameron Rose mentioned he is a SPOKES member.]
GM: We should have proper segregated cycleways. Not cheap, but neither were the trams. You can’t just paint in a little white line and call it a cycleway. You see a cycleway running along the side of the road and then you see a parked car.
JO: We almost have to redesign the city. When restructuring pathways, make sure infrastructure is usable.
IP: Segregated cycleway is the way to go. How? Do you take away a lane for the cyclist? Don’t put motorist against cyclist. In the medieval city, it’s difficult to find a solution.
CR: Supports King’s Buildings to George Square cycleway. Mentioned Ratcliffe Terrace and structural segregation. Noted that while there are more deaths, the more cyclists on the roads, the lower the casualty rate.
Q7: Utilities should have to apply for a licence before digging up the roads, synchronise the roadworks. Now the roads are a shambles (mentioned several local examples).
IP: I agree with you. National legislation [was UK, now devolved, as JO pointed out] gives utilities and cable a right to dig up roads. We don’t have the ability to stop it, we didn’t have the ability even to get them to go back and fix substandard repairs where they’d failed to make good.
CR: Tory manifesto has nothing on roads.
GM: How is it that commonsense can’t prevail? There needs to be a proper permit system.
IP: You try to get the utility companies to tell you what their plans are, well in advance. We can put a hold on for up to 10 months, try to get roadworks synchronised. Obviously if there’s a gas mains fault, that’s an emergency.
CR: The administration needs to take a proper grip on it. I’d love to take a grip on it.
[I note here that both Ian Perry and Cameron Rose were clearly absolutely on the same exasperated page – Ian with nearly 20 years more experience – of the problem of utility and cable companies having the legal right to just dig up roads which are then the responsibility of the local authority to make good. It made sense of Ian’s comment at the start that 65% of council business is non-contentious.]
Q8: Three years of waiting for the parking system.
This was clearly a hyperlocal question – all four of the candidates joined in the discussion, and the audience were nodding along. GM had some detailed costing figures. I didn’t understand it – too much reference to local landmarks and locally-known problems, and I don’t even own a car and gave up taking notes. The two incumbents provided some information about the delays and the timeline.
I liked this point, though: IP: People want to park in front of their house but don’t want to buy a permit.
There was another hyperlocal question Q9 about right turns on West Mains Road – led by my experience on parking, I didn’t even try to take notes. I wish I did have shorthand – I might have understood the discussion when I read it back. Anyone know of a night class in journalistic notetaking skills and shorthand? Q10: Apathy about council elections. People are fed up with the big political parties – come down to a local level. How far do you dare to be different? What ‘blue sky’ thing would you do if you could?
IP: The council can’t do anything about the utilities. How would you say you’re free to be different? What’s a blue sky question? (Ian, as far as I remember, said the last question thoughtfully, as if he were considering his answer, and OWD gave him a moment and then directed the question on to CR.)
CR: I’m Conservative because it’s closest to my philosophy. I think I’ve influenced my party on cycling/ I am within the group of 11 Conservative councillors, and arguing within that group.
IP: We need a different type of politics – people are getting more apathetic. Proportional election coalitions are dishonest politics. We’ve got to turn that system upside down. Cross-party politics, we should work together for the 65%, fight for the 35%.
JO: Well, it’s a five-party system in Edinburgh, a two-party system in Glasgow. Gay marriage – is there really a driving need for same-sex couples to get married? Gay adoption, yes, civil partnership, yes, but gay marriage? What blue sky thing – land values tax, try to fix the problem of huge swathes of land owned by absentee landlords and people living in high-rise flats.
[This about gay marriage came out of nowhere – and also sank without any reaction. It’s not at all a council-level issue, in any case. If I’d been attending the hustings as voter rather than organiser I might have asked a follow-up question about it, but as it was: I just wondered if Jim Orr had assumed a room full of older people would naturally be against same-sex marriage and he’d get a few easy votes.]
GM: Quick comment that as an independent he has a different perspective of the “five main parties” – he may even have referred to them as an amoeba. Politicians do work hard. They have a difficult time – at a meeting I had with a Green candidate, she said they need candidates who can ask searching questions. There’s a dark area in the council that needs a searchlight shone on it. If the press got it right, all of the Labour candidates have signed agreements that they will follow the party line. We need a free political process – Edinburgh council needs a policy on nuclear weapons, on the pollution caused by nuclear weapons? [Audience: Pollution from nuclear power!] Nuclear power. Does that mean I can’t keep nuclear weapons in my garage?
CR: Three quick points?
OWD: *reproving look*
CR: Very quick! Ian, we’ll see you standing as an Independent soon. Gordon – I hope you get elected – *laughs* – I know, kiss of death! But I hope you get elected, – and I hope you don’t knock me out!
[There was a third point, but I can’t read my notes on it! It’s a good moment to say that I found myself most unexpectedly liking Cameron Rose more and more as the hustings wore on – he seemed personally very charming and quite sincere, and he clearly was aware that as a Tory, he represents still the least popular party in Scotland.]
Audience: I want to make an observation. Stop apathy. Politicians in between elections have to make themselves known to the electorate. Knock on the door now and again in between elections. We never see you except for a few weeks when we can’t turn round without tripping over you!
IP: *nodding* Well, it is difficult, in such a huge ward.
Q11: Wishing Gordon MacKenzie was here. But I want to ask a question about the trams, of the two incumbents. In hindsight, do you think it was a poor idea, and knowing what you know now, would you have voted for it?
IP: We need a proper rapid transit system. It was initially funded by the Scottish Executive, the initial proposal – all the parties agreed at the time to look at a rapid transit system, and this seemed to be more popular than a congestion charge. Then we lost control of the project in 2007. But Edinburgh is getting larger by 5000 people every year. (He talked some more with some enthusiasm about the real need for a better means of people moving around Edinburgh – against a sceptical series of noises from the audience, who clearly didn’t want to hear this.) Do I think the trams are a good thing? Yes. Have they been mismanaged? Yes. Will they be good for Edinburgh? Yes.
Q: Did everyone get to look at the figures?
CR: If I’d known what was going to happen I would have voted against it. The 11 of us in the Conservative group argued long and hard. One disagreed and abstained, and there was party discipline for that. But at the time I agreed – I voted for it.
[I have my own viws about the trams – and was sceptical about the planned route from the airport to Newhaven from the first, as far as I remember. And like pretty much everyone else in Edinburgh I’ve grown increasingly resentful of the tramworks and the disruption. But I have to say, I respected both Ian and Cameron for their answers here.]
IP: The more it went on, the more nervous people got. I thought the tram line should end at Haymarket.
JO: At what point did all of the parties in Edinburgh agree?
IP pointed out that Steve Cardownie had voted for the trams when Labour, and only became a critic after he switched to the SNP. [In 2005.] We voted to agree the business plan. [“Contract” – I think this was both CR and GM] Yes, the contract. All the parties agreed then.
GM: My job is to understand contracts and civil engineering. No one’s ever asked me anything in my life for an opinion poll. But as for engineering – Douglas Johnson, a friend of mine, a civil engineer – he wrote to the Scotsman in 2007 predicting it was going to be a mess and he underestimated it, he assumed they would complete the line. It’s not very clear.
Audience: Why not use a trolley bus? Use a wire on top? (Repeated question. A trolley bus would obviously have saved digging up the streets.) Tell me what for a tram and then we shut up!
IP: A tram is not a bus – carries three or four times the number of passengers. We need a mass transit system of some description. Edinburgh’s a growing city. Airport’s bringing in ten milion people.
(Some confusion here, as often when meetings in Edinburgh talk trams with councillors, but Ian and Cameron both stuck to the point that a mass transit system is needed for Edinburgh.)
GM: Trams, finance, council tax. Council tax is frozen. The statutory notices are building to be as expensive than the trams – could be £200M. And the cost of the trams is still underestimated – what about restoring the value of the properties on Leith Walk? Enough mistakes have been made. Council tax can’t stay frozen.
Q12: 20mph zones – why not in accident blackspots instead of all over the place in roads that have never had an accident?
CR: 20mph zones were presented as in the public interest. I was sceptical. But I did not oppose it as a pilot project.
JO: As a cyclist I favour it for safety.
IP: Well, the 20mph zones are mostly all near schools. Because there was a nasty accident, years ago, two children were killed. It’s 20mph because at 20, a child is likely to survive, but at 30, a child is not likely to survive. And people like the speed bumps. I’m unsure if drivers will really obey speed laws unless the bumps are there.
Q from Q6: I need to feel safe on the roads. Slowing traffic down a little bit in a residential area, and having a white line – makes me feel safer.
GM: So many factors – we could be here all night. Careful driving, digital signs noting car speed and saying 20 mph – thank you or 28 – please slow down.
OWD asks someone talking at the back to quiet down.
GM: It was my fault, I was boring you.
Q13: Minimum pricing on alcohol?
JO: Excellent policy – no more pocket-money pricing on alcohol.
IP: Agree on minimum pricing in principle – but not sure it’s going to work. Hope it does. I think we need to go a bit further.
GM: Control of people’s lives. Pricing – loaf of bread £1.40, 2 for £2. Why should I get a loaf of bread for a pound and it cost a bit more for someone who only needs to buy one? We can’t stop it. A lot more important stuff to be going on with.
CR: Hold people responsible for their own actions. I can say that a breach of the peace 30 years ago would not be regarded as a breach of the peace now. We should get back to drinking in pubs – social drinking.
With five minutes to the 8pm close, Owen Dudley Edwards asked the candidates to say a few final words.
IP: There should be more hustings. Huge wards – we need to get out more.
CR: Read my blog! I’m in touch with about 2000 people – I blog about local news. Vote for Gordon Murdie as second preference.
JO: Trams – hope they just go away somewhere. We need to deal with them.
GM: Thanks from the bottom of my heart. I’m a new boy on the block. You’re all good-hearted. Owen Dudley Edwards said a few words about each of the candidates – thanked them for answering questions all evening, and thanked the audience: then the proprietor of the Braidburn Inn for lending us the room and providing sandwiches: and thanked me for organising it – and said that Gordon MacKenzie was taking Rennies for indigestion, which finished the meeting on a laugh.
I hope the candidates can forgive me for this partial account of a hustings where I’m extremely appreciative that they all came along. Next time I organise one I will arrange to have someone as neutral recorder who can get every word down, and in better time to let the candidates check it for errors before it goes live. I really enjoyed it as an event in itself. Small room, small audience, Ian Perry and Cameron Rose clearly knew and respected each other, Gordon Murdie as an independent had no interest in partisan attacks, Jim Orr was enthusiastic, Owen Dudley Edwards a very excellent chair, all candidates quite sound on local and hyperlocal issues: I really think with no false modesty that this was quite an excellent hustings. The questions kept going for two hours, and in justice to Jim Orr, while I fear I found his contributions less interesting and so tended to take fewer notes of them, he came across as both enthusiastic and sincere … just not as interesting or as effective a speaker as the others. He seemed like a very nice guy, but I just don’t think I would have voted for him, while all the others gave me reason to feel they’d be good councillors – though naturally I’d never vote for a Tory, even one as charming as Cameron Rose, I agreed with Owen that he’d make a much more impressive face for his party than David Cameron.
Owen Dudley Edwards is the best Chair ever. I think all the rest of us would agree.
All of the other candidates had further campaigning work to do that evening, and were shortly enough on their way to do it. I stopped in at the Mosque Kitchen on my way home for a Southside curry and rice. Let’s do it again in four years.
And don’t forget to vote tomorrow.
Filed under Elections, Politics, Scottish Politics
Tagged as Cameron Rose, Conservatives, Edinburgh council elections, Gordon MacKenzie, Gordon Murdie, hustings, Ian Perry, Jim Orr, Labour, LibDems, Owen Dudley Edwards, Scottish Greens, Steve Burgess
6 responses to “Hyperlocal hustings – Southside”	Rainicorn	02/05/2012 at 11:28 pm	Thanks for this. My postal vote here in faraway Abroadland hasn’t arrived (making this the first ever election in which I’m elegible to vote, but fail to do so *sob*) but it’s still interesting to hear what’s happening in the home ward.
Reply	EdinburghEye	03/05/2012 at 6:42 am	making this the first ever election in which I’m elegible to vote, but fail to do so *sob*
Oh no! 😦
My postal vote here in faraway Abroadland hasn’t arrived Not to be too alarmist about it, but if it never arrives, do report its going missing to the Electoral Commission? They’re taking a strong interest in any postal votes “going missing”, because this is one means by which fraudulent votes can be used. but it’s still interesting to hear what’s happening in the home ward.
Reply	Kate	03/05/2012 at 9:20 am	Thanks for this. Interesting and helpful reading…and a bit of a laugh too!
Off to vote now!
Reply	EdinburghEye	03/05/2012 at 11:42 am	Thanks!
Reply	Amy	03/05/2012 at 3:25 pm	Thanks for this – I wasn’t free yesterday or I would have gone along so I was glad to read your report, even if it isn’t formal and neutral!
Reply	EdinburghEye	03/05/2012 at 4:13 pm	Thanks for that – appreciated.
I can write down every word in a meeting, if I’ve got a good pen (which I did), but I know from past experience I can only sustain that level of steady writing for an hour – after that my hand starts cramping up and I’ve just got to stop. Lacking anyone else to hand on the note-taking to, I decided better to have a partial report of the whole evening than a complete report on half of it!
(Jim Orr may disagree. But, well.)


Make more days ‘with’

Last week’s “A Day Without a Woman” truly bothered me, as did last month’s “A Day Without Immigrants,” but I could not place why.

As I pondered my new role as “The Grinch Who Stole ‘A Day Without,’” a realization was knocked loose: I take issue with one word: “without.”

For so many of our boardrooms and operating rooms, battalions and bylines, every day is a day without women. And immigrants. And people of color. And so many other groups who do not see their views or needs adequately represented anywhere.

More marches or days “without” already underrepresented people will not change anything. It is time to stop living without; let’s try a day with.

As a white suburban mom, I have too often retreated into my own opinions, my own experiences. I have heard from social media, colleagues and even strangers that I don’t understand the struggles of people who don’t look like me, and there’s nothing I can do to change that.

While the internet allows us to shut out opinions contradictory to our own, I couldn’t accept the fate of being trapped in my own perspective. So I shut up for a while and listened. I sought out authors and thinkers with experiences different from mine, like Zadie Smith, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Luvvie Ajayi.

Politically Re-Active and the Moth Radio Hour became my go-to podcasts, with each episode offering new takes. I carried $2 every other week to buy the latest Street Sense, at least half of which is written by homeless or formerly homeless people. My browser lagged under the weight of stories of surviving war and oppression from the Middle East to Middle America.

I acknowledged that I have already lived most of my life without a diverse set of voices, and I did not want to live that way anymore. My role is simply to listen, acknowledge and be aware of others, to remember and consider them when I make choices that will affect traditionally dismissed groups, to teach my daughter to do the same.

As a working woman, I call on board chairmen and executives: Dedicate more resources to recruitment and retention of diverse talent. Re-evaluate policies that affect women and families. Spend a day with your workers and listen to their stories. Invest more in their educational and social potential. It will pay you dividends.

As a subscriber, I call on our media: Responsibly diversify.

As a mother, I call on our schools: Reject any attempts to standardize a distilled narrative of history. Build curricula to allow diverse stories.

As a Christian, I call on our churches: Dispense with the politicization of the Gospel and remember that our duty to love one another is not bound by party, skin color, nor even lifestyle choices.

As a voter and a veteran, I call on elected officials: Seek dissenting opinions. It will make you a better representative “of the people.”

Most of all, I call on us all as citizens, as Americans, as humans: Let us recognize that when we exclude each other and ourselves, whether consciously or unconsciously, then we already live too many days “without.” Now is the time to live with.

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宏碁全球化布局
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中国内地PC市场是联想的大本营。曲晓东预测,宏碁通过收购发力内地市场,必然会遭到联想的强力反击。他建言宏碁制定一套与联想不一样的业务模式,这样才有机会在中国市场站稳脚跟。"如果业务与联想一样,机会不太多。"


《脱口秀大会3》又来了，记得这档节目，最初出来的时候就被贴上“不赚钱”的标签，后来却被李诞他们越做越好，现在到了第三季，新人更是层出不穷，比如里面的杨蒙恩，就是一位脱口秀奇才。
在节目中他带着“线下炸场王”的头衔出场，一般像一些真人秀节目里被夸得天花乱坠的人有时候出来的时候或许会让观众觉得，好像也没说得那么好嘛，可是杨蒙恩不一样，除了第一期的“遍地是大王，短暂又辉煌”之外，在最近的一期节目中他更是让观众赞不绝口，开始由于当时现场的局势已经变成他和张博洋“谁输谁走”的画面，于是他开口说的第一个段子是不知道张博洋会不会退赛，调侃了他一下，这也证明了他的临场发挥能力，李诞听了一个劲的鼓掌，估计他也是觉得临场的发挥很考验脱口秀演员的真是水平吧。后来他形象的在舞台上讽刺了那些有钱却爱装腔作势的人，更是拿当下社会中很多社会现象反应了人们对于钱的敏感程度。记得最后的一句，他说自己问故事里那两个装腔作势的情侣“你们这是回哪啊？”答曰“回到现实”，就是这样一句话，又把整个演出拉高了一个层次，点题又十分有深意，果不其然的他拿到了所有领笑员们的拍灯，再加上观众的投票将又将他送上了当期节目第一名。
可是这样一个让无数观众赞叹这个年轻小伙子有才华的段子，却只不过是杨蒙恩在吃喝玩乐的缝隙中写出来的，据说在参加节目前，大家都奋力拼命改稿子想段子，只有他是在上海扎扎实实的玩了一圈，让人羡慕不已，但最后他的段子却如此受欢迎。有人说这就是“天才”与普通人的区别，还有人说这是因为生活积累的问题。那么大家对杨蒙恩这位脱口秀演员又是怎么看的呢？


王展鹏认为，英国自从宣布脱欧后，特雷莎・梅政府的脱欧谈判立场长期模糊不清，脱欧本身也给英国政治和经济带来许多不确定性。梅政府从最开始的强硬脱欧立场，经过了不断调整后，演变成如今计划“准软脱欧”的方式与欧盟进行谈判。但政府中的疑欧派显然并不愿意改变原有立场。戴维斯和约翰逊的辞职也在情理之中。


Last night my duo The Innocent Bystanders performed for a third time at Lympne Castle in Kent. Its a truly spectacular 13th century Grade 1 listed building. It has incredible views across Romney Marshes, which apparently inspired Paul McCartney to record an album there in 1979 (I would have been just 1 at the time but some 34 years on, the beauty and inspiring surroundings are not lost on me!).

Our performance was a surprise for the bride which is quite unusual. Normally the bride will be the one very much in charge of booking a band/duo, but the chap who booked us wanted to surprise his new wife with a romantic gesture to sing the first dance - Always by Bon Jovi. This isn't a number we'd normally do, so we had to rehearse it beforehand especially for the booking. We set up in The Great Hall, and worked alongside the DJ who was very considerate and allowed us to set up in his normal area so we could clear our gear at the end of the booking when he took over to play music into the early hours of Wednesday morning.

As always, the staff at Lympne Castle were helpful and everything seemed to be run very smoothly. We're hoping to be booked back there again soon as its such a lovely venue to play! Thank you to Matthew and Rosie, we wish you both a very happy future together!

A few weeks ago I took delivery of my new Korg Krome 61 Keyboard. I was a little apprehensive before ordering as a couple of years ago I had ordered a Korg TR61 and the keys had very sharp edges. The thought of losing a finger half way through a glissando meant after a little soul searching I decided to return it! When the Krome arrived I was happy to find that whilst its not perfect the build quality was much better than the terrible TR!

Until now I had been using an old Korg N5 which was starting to struggle after 12 years of gigging around Kent and London. The pitch bend wheel had been knocked a few times which meant I had to carefully tune it up before each booking like a guitarist tunes a guitar! The aftertouch had also stopped working and the buttons all needed a hard press each time they were used which was problematic when I needed to change a sound quickly half way through a song. So this was a much needed upgrade!

My Criteria

There were a few things I had on my criteria whilst researching. Firstly, it needed to be a similar size and weight to the N5 (under 10kg) as I didn't want to be lugging around a huge keyboard to gigs along with my saxophones and PA system. Secondly, the piano, electric piano, strings and organ sounds had to be good. Lastly, the keybed and build quality had to be of a reasonable quality, feel nice to play and hold up to many more years on the road.

Korg Krome Build Quality

Korg N5 (left) and Krome (right)

My first impressions were very positive. The quality looked good, with nicer polymer plastics used and an aluminium fascia surrounding the top panel. The joystick (replacing the pitch bend wheel for real time modulation and pitch bend adjustments) felt nice and solid and is coated in a rubber feel plastic, which makes it feel more comfortable to use. Some might say it has a plain design but I quite like this understated look. I also have to mention the weight. At 7kg its fantastic for transporting to and from gigs and carrying up flights of stairs, especially if like me you have several instruments to transport and a PA system!

Unfortunately, the power button is not very solid. It feels slightly loose and moves about up and down, left and right by a millimetre or so in each direction. It has no "click" to indicate you have pushed it on or off which feels a bit disconcerting. I checked with Korg that this was normal and they said yes. My old N5 had a larger button that stayed in when the power was on, and stayed out when it was off - you know, like most power buttons!

The Krome uses an external power supply with a small DC power socket. It would be much nicer to have a standard IEC lead input but I guess they have to cut costs somewhere. The power brick is small and light, but the power socket where the adaptor plugs into the keyboard feels a little fragile and wobbles about in the socket. I imagine I will have to be very careful with it longer term as it feels much less sturdy than the one on my N5.

It always confuses me when manufacturers design and build a new product so well using nice quality materials and then they use a very flimsy power connector. I had the same problem with a Soundcraft Spirit FX8 mixing desk. The whole unit was made out of 1.5mm steel, it was built like a tank, but the power socket was very flimsy plastic! I'd love to meet the people in charge of making these decisions and ask them what they were thinking. I'd wager that they're not gigging musicians using the equipment day in and day out!

Krome Connections

On the back there's two stereo L/R unbalanced jack outputs, along with jacks inputs for damper, switch and pedal plus midi in/out connectors. There's also an SD card slot to import and save song data to and a B-type USB port so you can use the Krome editor to edit sounds on your computer, or use the Krome as a controller.

TouchView Screen

The large seven inch TouchView screen dominates the front panel. It seems to be resistive rather than capacitive but its still very responsive and easy to use, plus it has a generous 800 x 480 pixel resolution, so its easy on the eyes. Its very intuitive and everything seems to be in the right place. The default brightness setting was too high for me, especially for evening gigs so I turned it down from 10 to 3 and found that to be just right. You have to save this in Global settings for it to remember after you have turned it off, otherwise it reverts back to the default setting.

Krome Sounds

The sounds are light years ahead of my old N5. The N5's sounds totalled 12Mb, and the Krome has 4Gb (so 4096Mb)! Of course ROM isn't the only factor in creating beautiful sounds, but having that amount of freedom does mean that the Krome is able to have piano samples that are not looped, and can be sampled at 8 different velocities for each note. On my N5 the samples were looped, and one sample might cover up to 5 or 6 notes, the Krome has a sample for each note. 2.8Gb of the ROM is dedicated to the piano sounds, and you can hear some of this depth in the intro of the demo below:

The Fender Rhodes and Wurlitzer patches also sound great, and the same can be said for the strings and organ sounds. Each sound has a drum track, and this can be changed to different patterns and adjusted via the tempo knob on the right. Essentially this is like a built in drum machine, although there's no option for fills or ending as you might find on an arranger keyboard. Its a nice feature and I'm sure it will come in useful in live situations when we play songs acoustically without backing tracks. There is also an arpeggiator for each sound which would also be useful, especially for people who want to do sequencing.

Feel, Responsiveness & Playability

The Krome is available in 61, 73, and 88 key versions, all without aftertouch. The 88 version has a different keybed to the 61 & 73, so I can't comment on that. On the 61 key version the keys have metal underneath each one to give them some weight, so it seems quite promising, but they are acoustically quite noisy and a little creaky as they are pressed.

They do have some slightly sharp edges on the near side (although this is nowhere near as bad as on the horrible TR keybed). My N5 has much nicer keys, which are smooth and rounded. Plus they're quiet and feel more natural and responsive to play. The omission of aftertouch is missed too, since it is useful for adding modulation on organ and strings sounds without taking your left hand off the keyboard.The keybed is not a deal breaker for me, as the other features make this a great keyboard for the price, but I wish Korg would offer a keyboard with all the features of the Krome and retain its light weight whilst adding a high quality keybed with aftertouch. You might say, at this price point (£799) it is to be expected, but I still think its something that is surely very important to the majority of musicians especially as this is marketed as a professional keyboard.

Midi Files & Sequencing on the Krome

Within any patch you can press record and the system will ask you if you want to automatically set up the current sounds for recording in the sequencer. This is a really handy feature as it allows you to move all your combination data, program data and effects into the sequencer quickly without having to manually enter it. For me that's where the ease of use ended unfortunately. Although the sequencer on the Korg is ahead of those found in similar workstations, I still found it quite clunky and hard to get to grips with. This isn't a fault with the Krome as such; its more a limitation of trying to work with a 7" screen in a world where we have been spoilt by using computers with mouse, keyboard and 20"-27" screens for sequencing. If you've ever tried to edit a video on an iPad you'll know what I mean, its just not very easy to achieve!

Back when I first started learning to play the keyboard the Krome's sequencer would have been amazing. However, in 2013 it does seem to be a painfully slow experience. For example, changing a sound for a track on a midi file on a normal computer would involve a couple of mouse clicks. With the Krome you need to go to that track, go to Edit Track, then the Event Edit page, select the events you want to view and untick everything except "Program Changes" and then just as you find the event that you need to change you have to remember which patch you want to change it to as its done using the program number not the name! Nine times out of ten I would forget the number of the patch and have to come out and start all over again. You need to do this for each track of course so it gets old fast. Perhaps its just me, but I found it to be quite tedious and slow when you are used to working with modern computer based sequencer programs. That said, I didn't buy the keyboard for the sequencing, I bought it to play live, so its not really an issue for me.

Conclusion

I'm looking forward to using the Krome at upcoming gigs and not having to punch the buttons quite so hard as I have been getting used to with my ageing N5! The sounds are ultimately what make this keyboard a really impressive choice, so it will be good to see how I can best use them in the songs I play. A nice added bonus is that Korg are also offering a full 3 year warranty on all Krome models, so that's great news, especially if the power button/socket turns out to be an issue longer term. Although I have never had to test Korg's customer service, so how useful this will be remains to be seen.

I would like to thank Tom Osborne at Absolute Musicfor his help. Absolute Music are based in Bournemouth in the UK which is some way from me in Kent, but I have always had great service from them and nothing ever seems too much trouble. I'm hoping they open a shop nearby in Kent one day!


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Europe turns up heat on Google over privacy
by Mark Thompson @MarkThompsonCNN February 19, 2013: 8:20 AM ET
Regulators could act over Google's privacy policy by the summer
European Union authorities are preparing to take action against Google by the summer unless the company moves to allay concerns about privacy of user data.
French data protection watchdog CNIL, which led an inquiry last year into a new Google privacy policy, said the company had failed to respond adequately to EU concerns by a Feb. 18 deadline.
At issue: Google's efforts to combine data from multiple services.
Google introduced the new privacy policy in March 2012 -- replacing 60 privacy policies -- arguing the combination of data across services such as YouTube, Gmail, social network Google+ or its Android smart phone platform was designed to improve the user experience.
Critics say the primary purpose was to allow Google (GOOG) to sell online advertising more effectively, and that the bundling of data would threaten the privacy of individual users.
"In this context, the EU data protection authorities are committed to act and continue their investigations," CNIL said in a statement.
Related: Google's Schmidt selling $2.5 billion in stock
Last October, following the CNIL inquiry, data regulators from the European Union's 27 member states gave Google until Monday to adapt the policy.
They said the company should help users understand what happens to their personal information, give them more control over combining data from different services and avoid collecting excessive amounts.
A Google spokesperson said Tuesday: "Our privacy policy respects European law and allows us to create simpler, more effective services. We have engaged fully with the CNIL throughout this process, and we'll continue to do so going forward."
Is Schmidt selling Google at the top?
CNIL said the European working group would decide how to proceed at its next meeting on Feb. 26. CNIL fined Google 100,000 euros in 2011 for recording data from Wi-Fi networks while gathering images for its Street View service.
Google is still waiting for the outcome of a separate three year EU anti-trust probe into its search business, despite being cleared last month in a similar investigation by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
CNNMoney (London) First published February 19, 2013: 8:20 AM ET


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土壤水分快速测定仪是为快速检测土壤水分变化而设计开发的仪器。通过长期的种植经验发现，种植区对土壤水分进行合理的管理，不仅可以保证作物的正常生长，还可以在一定程度上提高作物的品质和产量。为了保证农产品的优势，人们开始使用现代农业技术仪器——土壤水分快速测量仪对农田土壤水分进行管理。
土壤水分快速测定仪是现代农业中常用的土壤水分管理仪器。该仪器由数据接收主机、土壤湿度传感器和管理云系统组成。工作时，只需将GPS土壤水分快速测量仪的土壤水分传感器部分插入种植层，即可快速完成土壤水分的测量和记录。土壤书费检测仪会自动记录并保存监测位置的GPS位置，并将土壤水分数据和时间信息保存在上位机中。通过管理云系统，可以对所记录的土壤水分数据进行分析比较，从而完成试验或指导灌溉工作。
土壤水分对植物的生长发育具有重要意义。我们知道，当植物缺水时，会导致植物的叶子枯萎发黄，减少光合作用。同时，由于植物根系不能吸收足够的水分和养分，干旱地区的作物要么矮小，要么生长缓慢，需要大量的植物渴死。当土壤含水量过高,它会占据的差距在土壤中,导致了土壤中空气含量的变化,以及植物根系不能完成呼吸,导致植物根系容易腐烂,最后导致弱点,住宿和死亡的作物。在现代农业种植过程中，为了避免因灌溉不当引起的植物病害和病害，人们经常使用土壤水分快速测定仪来管理和定位种植区土壤水分的变化。
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PIA09027: New Gully Deposit in a Crater in Terra Sirenum
Mission: Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Spacecraft: Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter
Instrument: Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) Product Size: 2260 x 1209 pixels (w x h) Produced By: Malin Space Science Systems Producer ID: MOC2-1618
Full-Res TIFF: PIA09027.tif (2.736 MB)
Full-Res JPEG: PIA09027.jpg (286 kB)
Original Caption Released with Image: Figure AAnnotated ImageFigure BAnnotated ImageNo AnnotationFigure CAnnotated ImageNo AnnotationFigure DAnnotated ImageHas liquid water flowed on Mars in this decade? In June 2000, we reported the discovery, using the Mars Global Surveyor's Mars Orbiter Camera, of very youthful-looking gullies found on slopes at middle and high latitudes on Mars. Since that time, tens of thousands of gullies have been imaged by all of the Mars orbiting spacecraft: Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Odyssey, Mars Express and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. During the years since the original June 2000 report, the Mars Global Surveyor's camera was used to test the hypothesis that the gullies may be so young that some of them could still be active today. The test was very simple: re-image gullies previously seen by the camera and see if anything has changed. In two cases, something changed. One of those cases is presented here. A gully on the wall of an unnamed crater in Terra Sirenum, at 36.6 degrees south, 161.8 degrees west, was initially imaged by the camera on Dec. 22, 2001 (Figure A, left). It showed nothing noteworthy at the location where a change would later be observed, but a group of nearby gullies exhibited an unusual patch of light-toned material. As part of our routine campaign to re-image gully sites using the camera, another image of this location was acquired on April 24, 2005. A new light-toned deposit had appeared in what was otherwise a nondescript gully (Figure A, right). This deposit was imaged again by the camera on Aug. 26, 2005, at a time when the sun angle and season were the same as in the original December 2001 image, to confirm that indeed the light-toned feature was something new, not just a trick of differing lighting conditions. In August 2005, the feature was still present. Figure A: This set of images shows a comparison of the gully site as it appeared on Dec. 22, 2001 (left), with a mosaic of two images acquired after the change occurred (the two images are from Aug. 26, 2005, and Sept. 25, 2005). Sunlight illuminates each scene from the northwest (top left). The 150-meter scale bar represents 164 yards. Figure B: This is a mosaic of images that cover the entire unnamed crater in Terra Sirenum. The location of the light-toned gully deposits, old and new, is indicated. This is a mosaic of images acquired by the camera in 2005 and 2006. The 500-meter scale bar equals approximately 547 yards. Figure C: This image shows an enlargement of a portion of another image from August 2005, showing details of the new, light-toned gully deposit. The new material covers the entire gully floor, from the point at which the gully emerged from beneath a mantled slope, down to the spot at which the channel meets the crater floor. At this break in slope, the gully material, as it was emplaced, spread out into five or six different fingers (this is called a "digitate" termination as in finger digits). The 75-meter scale bar represents a distance of about 82 yards. Figure D: To confirm that the new, light-toned gully deposit is not just a trick of changing illumination conditions as the sun rises to different levels in the sky each season, the Mars Orbiter Camera team repeatedly imaged this site throughout 2005 and 2006. Four examples are shown here, acquired in April 2005, August 2005, February 2006 and April 2006. The "i=" indicates solar-incidence angle, or the height of the sun in the local sky, relative to a case where the sun would be directly overhead (i=0 degrees). Thus, the higher the incidence angle, the lower the sun would appear in the sky to an observer on the ground. These images show that a material flowed down through a gully channel, once between December 2001 and April 2005. After the flow stopped, it left behind evidence -- the light-toned deposit. The deposit is thin enough that its thickness cannot be measured in the camera's 1.5-meters-per-pixel images. However, it does exhibit a digitate termination, suggesting that the material flowed in a fluid-like manner down the approximately 25 degree slope before splaying out into multiple small lobes at the point where the crater wall meets the crater floor and the slope suddenly drops to near zero. This deposit, and a similar one in a crater in the Centauri Montes, together suggests that the materials involved were low-volume debris flows containing a mixture of sediment and a liquid that had the physical properties of liquid water. In this case, we propose that the water came from below the surface, emerged somewhere beneath the mantle covering the original crater wall, and then ran down through a previously existing gully channel. No new gully was formed, but an old one was re-activated. The light tone of the new gully deposit, and that of the older, neighboring gullies, is intriguing. We cannot know from these images whether the light tone indicates that ice is still present in and on the surface of the deposit. Indeed, ice may not be likely: under present conditions on the surface of Mars, ice would be expected to have sublimed, or vaporized, away fairly shortly after the new deposit formed. However, the light-toned material could be frost that forms and re-forms frequently as trapped water-ice sublimes and "exhales" from within the deposit. Alternatively, the light-tone may result if the deposit consists of significantly finer grains (for example, fine silt) than the surrounding surfaces, or if the deposit's surface is covered with minerals such as salts formed as water evaporated from the material. Do these images prove that water has flowed on Mars? No, they cannot. However, they provide the first very tantalizing evidence that this may have occurred. While the surface environment on Mars is extremely dry, drier than the most arid deserts on Earth, liquid water from beneath the Martian surface may have come out of the ground and flowed across this little portion of the red planet in this decade. The Mars Global Surveyor mission is managed for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., a division of the California Institute of Technology, also in Pasadena. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, developed and operates the spacecraft. Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, Calif., built and operates the Mars Orbiter Camera.For more information about images from the Mars Orbiter Camera, see http://www.msss.com/mgs/moc/index.html.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems


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Couple of new things this weekend, most about the Onepeat.com drive.* A Note to Our Readers* An Open Letter to "Steve," the Onepeat site's founder* Why Yost is Opposed - A slightly different take than Benny's position* Hack Reporting - read about a Louisiana "newscast" interview with the mysterious "Steve" (must read for how not to report)* Snopes.com weighs in on the SC Song Girl photoUpdate: Check out the comments to this post between Yost and "Not Steve. We especially love how under the "Open Letter" post he claims he's not the guy who owns the site but in his first comment under this post, he says ESPN is about to do a story on Onepeat.com. Really? And how would he know this information if true? I guess we must have missed where they teased that upcoming story on SportsCenter tonight. Then in the next sentence he states that even the NY Times has asked for an interview. Really? Asked who? And again, how did he know this? Must've been front page news today. But, naturally, we all missed it."
ESPN is about to do a piece on http://www.onepeat.comWhen the billboard is erected, there are going to be tons of interviewed. Even the New York Times has asked for an interview once this is said and done.How's that for journalism!Who cares who's doing it?Obviously the people of Louisiana love this idea.
Who are you to speak for "the people of Louisiana?" This leads me to believe you're a UCLA fan. Oh, right, you're not Steve. Just some guy who checks our site 50x a day and leaves the Internet address.
The guys in the interview from Baton Rouge loved the idea. They definitely said the rst of LSU fans will love it. If you don't think LSU fans are behind this 100% go read some LSU message boards. You think "Steve" has time for an insignificant blog? He's busy raising money, giving interviews, and updating the site.
Yeah, I'm sure between Onepeat.com (there, I did it for you) and running a Fortune 500 company, Steve is swamped. LOL!Actually, I think the reason "Steve" is doing the whole thing is b/c he has too much time for things like this. I'm guessing Steve is in his mid 20s, still in the entry level job he got right out of college.After leaving Westwood. Am I wrong? Oh, wait. You wouldn't know. You're just some random guy.
P.S. Anon, please let me know when Steve007 is doing one of these interviews in which they actually use his name. I'd be interested to read it.
Woah... my name is "Steve"... I'm in my late 20's... still working a basic entry level job at a company I worked for out of college... left Los Angeles a year and a half ago...But I'm no OnePeat Steve...
Ok, I'm an LSU fan and I am absolutely sick of this whole One-Peat dilemma that has taken USC fans by storm. I got an email from my buddy in Colorado 2 weeks ago with the billboard and it had "Go Bruins" at the bottom. Classless. Then I get one saying "Geaux Tigers" at the bottom. Also classless. I don't care which fanbase started this, but it's ridiculous. I can understand why SC fans are upset, but guess what, the one-peat billboard is a scam. In fact, Mr. One-peat (whatever fan he is) has accomplished what he set out to do....that is to stir the emotions of many SC fans. My response: Don't let him. This guy is obviously trash and has nothing more important in his life, which is pathetic. I'm furious that LSU and the state of Louisiana is being dragged through the mud by fans on this site as well as fans on SC's board. But again, I can understand why. Here's a little reality for everyone out there. Each program has our bad apples. It is so unfortunate that this minority is all other fans see, for it is only these trash-talking bad fans that sign up on other's boards to do so. Meanwhile, all the respectable and classy LSU/UCLA/TEXAS/Whoever get a bad rap. I've emailed Mr. One-peat to ask him to stop this campaign, but I'm not naive enough to believe I will receive a response. I know what kind of a fan this guy is and at this point, I don't care. He is obviously an uneducated moron. If he is an LSU fan, then I will speak for the vast majority of us when I say we don't condone this or any anti-USC banter. Although USC and our fans may debate on who should have been crowned champion, we will never know because it should have been the two of us playing for the crystal ball. So please, before you demean our football program or make fun of us because we were raised in the south, realize that this is just as ignorant as Mr. One-peats ridiculous campaign. To TrojanRuss and any other USC fans, please take this back to your message boards. Like you all, I love my school and love my state and am for one, sick of the B.S. that has been started because of one idiot and a few who jump on his bandwagon, and not the vast vast majority of LSU's fan base.
Anon (obviously not same Anon above),Interesting that you first got that with "Go Bruins." Just another reason I believe a UCLA fan is trying to fan the flames behind all this.But I don't think the state of Louisiana is being dragged through the mud. But Mr. Onepeat is trying to make it sound like he is the voice of Loiusiana and speaks for the state which is so laughable. Like he's doing it "for the people."In my opinion, where this guy's crazy argument started to cross over and pull along other LSU fans who don't nec go along with the billboard idea (and so inflamed SC fans) is when he - and those LSU fans who agree - say that SC didn't win a National Title in '03. That is what riled Trojans up, I believe. And rightfully so. As I've said in the past, Trojan fans claiming a piece of the National title in '03 in NO WAY dimishishes what LSU did on the field that year. The Tigers also won A PIECE of the title. It just seemed some (again, as you correctly state, the vocal minority), stoked by Capt. Onepeat, kept poking their finger in the face of SC fans like one's little brother in the backseat of a crosscountry car ride. And they don't seem to want to stop until SC puts "We won nothing in '03" on all their msg boards which is insane.And you're also right in that he won't stop this due to your or anybody's plea. This is his proverbial 15 minutes and I think he intends to use it all up for this. Which wouldn't be so bad if he came clean about it and hid behind "doing it for the people of Louisiana" and other such BS.Again, LSU is a great school with fantastic football tradtion. I wish Michigan Stadium were half as loud as everyone says Death Valley is on a Saturday night. And nobody disputes they won a piece of the National Title in '03. Just like 99% of college football fans across America also believe SC earned a share that year as well. And when one moron tries to say otherwise and incite others to join in, that's where - like I think you're pointing out - the bad blood has come from regarding this topic.Thanks for your EXCELLENT comments. We appreciate them.
I'm fairly certain the 'Go Bruins' appeared several days after the first iteration of the site, once it was linked to by UCLA blog Bruins Nation (one of the first 'largeish' blogs to link to his site, I think -- and obviously a group emotionally conditioned to agree with the message).I went over there when it was linked on BN, and don't recall any sort of 'Go Bruins' or even 'Hook 'em Horns,' simply the 'Geaux Tigers.'Additionally, where is it written that you must be a fan of only one team? Perhaps he's a fan of both UCLA and LSU - it's not out of the realm of possibility (I know I was rooting for them to blow out Oklahoma to knock USC out of that AP #1 spot in 2003, I'll say that much =P). He's apparently living in Dallas, so the UT affiliation is unsurprising, and his first interview was with a Baton Rouge CBS affiliate which suggests he probably has connections in that region (even if he didn't go to school there, there are plenty of locals who have significant attachment to the team simply because of geographic proximity and a lack of other things to do).But the fact that a UMich fan seems to be taking such offense to the whole situation and defending a Trojan title with vigor... DID YOU GO TO USC? OMGWTF HJ00 R TROJIE IN DISGUYS! U R PEET CAROL!Just kidding, guys, but you can see how your whole "this must be a UCLA fan in disguise" could seem just a teensy bit 'conspiracy theory lover-esque.'(Though I will say, looking through some of the other old posts, my opinion is that your blog is very solid - and if you are connected with USC, that means I must now immolate myself and then create a billboard about USC bloggers):)---Underbruin
LOL, UB.First off, great comments. I see what you mean - the nature of the guy's campaign is going to create the ol' "enemy of my enemy is my friend" sort of alliances on this one.And actually, no SC alums/affils for any of us that run the site. In fact, as fans of Michigan, a team that regularly seems to get spanked whenever it goes up against SC, I don't think any of our staff are big Trojan fans. Brings up too many painful memories of Rose Bowls past.No, this dislike is strictly b/c something, in my opinion, smells fishy about this. The guy puts up 30 comments on our board - making sure to list the web address of Onepeat each time - yet claims he has nothing to do with the drive. Hell, Wangs, one of our members, doesn't post as much as this guy, lol.Furthermore, this insistence that SC won nothing in 2003 is flat wrong to most college football fans, whether they're SC fans or not. Debate and smack talk are what make the game great, but "Steve's" crusade seems almost weird.Finally, I obviously can't say for certain this is a Bruin connection to the site's founder. It's just a theory b/c "Steve" doesn't seem to want to share his school affiliation. And you'd think if he was an LSU alum, there would be nothing to hide. Hell, because it's, as he claims, what people in Louisiana want, you'd think he'd be shouting it from the rooftops. Why hide?Anyway, thanks for your comment.
As "hopefully" a rational LSU fan, your comment about USC being poked in the face via this proposed billboard stirred me to respond here.1. You and Wang are probably right - many of us are indeed uptight about this issue precisely because we had not won "The" NC in 45 years - which makes the achievement something quite special (I was around for the prior one in 1958 so I know how difficult it is - especially in a conference as balanced and difficult as the SEC.)2. By mutual agreement of the NCAA/Conferences there is only ONE NC-- "The BCS NC". LSU won "the" NC in 2003. The AP Poll in that year was only ONE component of the voting system used to determine the two best teams in the nation for the NC Game. Call it what you will but the AP poll of the media is not the NC. If this is the case then ANY national poll must be regarded as having legitimate NC crowning rights. And that would be patently ridiculous since the BCS was agreed to be the determining system for the NC.3. My own feeling is that any billboard rebuking the "three-peat" hype should be put up outside the HQ of ESPN, since ESPN was the root of all this media nonsense about the greatness of the "dynasty" of USC - a University that has INDEED had three great teams - but that has won only ONE national championship in the past three years. Of course USC fans also ran with this motto all the way to the last TD by Young -- as I am sure LSU or Michigan fans would have similarly done given the chance.4. What LSU fans object to is the intentionally misleading reporting by ABC/ESPN/media generally awarding USC the 2003 NC and omitting mention of LSU's ownership of the NC title for that year. I believe it was Goebbels who said if you take the media and broadcast a lie and keep repeating it that eventually the lie will be accepted as the truth - well this is happening nationwide due to the overbearing PR campaign by ABC/ESPN to promote USC into the NC game this year. I suspect that after this recent media love-in with USC that most people in the United States do indeed believe that USC won the 2003 NC game. Is that fair to LSU and the players and fans of same? Was Michigan in the NC game in 2003? I dont think so - and if Michigan wasn't then USC wasn't either.5.All the LSU nation wanted was a fair shake from ABC/ESPN. When the "reporting" of a re-peat and then a three-peat began many emails were sent to the media asking them to at least mention that the first year was an AP title and not the NC -- to no avail of course because from the beginning of the season the agenda had been set by ESPN to promote the three-peat distortion of the facts.6. All the LSU nation wants is a fair reporting of the truth - there is only one 2003 National Champion - LSU.7. Geaux Tigers in '06 -and good luck to the Wolverines.
I'm here to advocate that not only was there a split National Championship in 2003... but it was split 3, yes 3, ways!Thank you Berryman rankings for crowning Oklahoma as their #1 ranked team AFTER they were beat by LSU! The website does not lie (and it was found on the official NCAA website)... take a look for yourself.OU in '03 Baby!** as you will notice that the NCAA does not conduct a Division I-A championship in football... so BCS or not BCS winner, you technically can't claim being THE only national champ...
I'm an OU fan as well and I would have to agree with Tiger above. LSU won the BCS, beating us in 03'. I can understand the annoyance by LSU fans when ABC/ESPN went on this PR campaign promoting a 3-peat for USC. I'm sure that many fans around the nation were mislead to believe that LSU and OU didn't even play the championship game. I've met many LSU fans and in my experience are very good people. I just think Mr. One-peat is going about this all wrong. But reading what TIger wrote, I can understand where LSU fans are coming from. To run the 3-peat campaign for USC without any mention of LSU's share (and I rarely ever heard any mention) is not only misleading, but a slap in the face to these fans for what they have accomplished. Great posts from everyone here and I look forward to more from this site. Also though, I don't think LSU and Louisiana are being dragged through the mud by One-peat. Any fan with half a brain will understand that this only represents a very small fraction of a fan base (whatever fan base it really is).Boomer Sooner
Great stuff today, everybody. Agree or not (and I'm sorry, LSU fans, I think '03 was split), this is intelligent debate. However, I can see how Tiger fans would be pissed they're never mentioned as NC's in '03.
This sure beats the heck out of 'your team sucks.'look... ABC and ESPN are going to hype the heck out of anything that brings them money. Honestly, I was sick of the 'greatest team ever' nonsense that went with it. So i can understand the frustration.Unfortunately there is no official national championship. not even the BCS. The BCS was designed specifically to bring the number one and number two teams together. It is ALLOWED by the NCAA but is not run by the NCAA. Until the NCAA gets involved and either creates a playoff or takes control of the whole BCS thing, there will never be an 'official' national championship.
Beaker,Well said -- BCS is designed to pit #1 vs. #2. But it failed in 2003 when the #1 team - SC - was left out of the equation.
CapBuck
OhMy Goodness.I would so rather be talking about Michigan football that this bore of a story. This is a non-story. It was two years ago! Yes, LSU fans, I agree it was silly that the media hyped up the USC's chance to win a three-peat without a mention of the equally-credible LSU championship season. That media hype, however, does not change the fact that you won a championship. No one can change the facts of history, no one can take the NC away from LSU.By the same token, LSU cannot change the facts and declare themselves unanimous champions. You can come up with any argument you want, but the final fact of the matter is that college football lives and dies by an imperfect system based on regional, not national, championships. The system is better than it was before the BCS, but it is still imperfect. 2003 proved the flaws of the BCS. Just because the BCS came along does not change the fact that the AP has been awarding a national championship for decades. If all the conferences 'contracted' to a new player-of-the-year award, and promised to live by its results forever and ever cross their hearts blah lah dah, do you think the rest of the world would just stop listening to what the Downtown Athletic Club had to say about its little trophy?Good Lordy Yost, I'm a friggin Buckeyes fan and I'm beggin you...Can we PLEASE talk about Michigan football...Or at least something in the Big Ten?
LOL, Cap! And you got actual sound on that LOL on my end.Yeah, new topics starting this week (Tuesday, after the holiday).
TrojanRuss
tiger64, you wrote:2. By mutual agreement of the NCAA/Conferences there is only ONE NC-- "The BCS NC". LSU won "the" NC in 2003. The AP Poll in that year was only ONE component of the voting system used to determine the two best teams in the nation for the NC Game. Call it what you will but the AP poll of the media is not the NC. If this is the case then ANY national poll must be regarded as having legitimate NC crowning rights. And that would be patently ridiculous since the BCS was agreed to be the determining system for the NC.There is no such thing as the BCS NC. There is the AP national champion and the coaches poll national champion. The crystal ball is awarded to the winner of the coaches poll, which is why the coaches are contractually obligated to vote for the winner of the BCS championship game-- so ABC can televise the trophy ceremony immediately following the game.As far as the components of the poll THAT year that determined who played for the national championship, the components were immediately changed after the season to ensure that the #1 ranked team in both polls would not be left out of the championship game.Be that as it may, it doesn't change the fact that the Associated Press has been awarding a national champion since 1936 (14 years longer than the coaches poll has been awarding one), and they never agreed to automatically vote for the winner of the BCS title game like the coaches did, thus ensuring that there could be a shared national championship.Get over yourselves already. I can understand the jealousy of not wanting to share a championship when you win one so infrequently, but for you to deny that USC also won the championship in 2003 is just stupid and shows that your program is an also-ran (by the way, Alabama hasn't seemed to have had difficulty winning NCs in the tough SEC). You don't see Michigan or Nebraska fans trying to claim that the other didn't win the championship in 1997.And as for the media ignoring LSU's national championship, what the hell were they supposed to do? Everytime they said USC is going for a three-peat, were they supposed to interject that LSU also won a share of the title in 2003? For what? LSU winning in 2003 had nothing to do with this season, a season in which USC was on a great run, having won 34 games in a row. LSU? Not so much. But they were supposed to interject something about LSU every time they talked about USC? LIke I said, get over yourselves.
Actually, I think it's really funny how LSU fans are totally up in arms of their treatment by the media. I predicted after the 2004 championship that after 2005, nobody would remember LSU shared a title. Don't blame USC that LSU's not relevant in football anymore. They shot their half a century wad and somehow think that everybody's supposed to remember them, like the media is supposed to reel off every day the entire list of national champions every time they talk about USC because we don't want to lead anybody into believing that USC is the only national champion that has ever existed. I guess that's what happens when you have a nothing program that hasn't done a whole lot and doesn't expect to do a lot any time soon zealously and jealously guarding it's twice a centennial half championship. lSU should just be happy they have the half because had the coaches been able to vote for whom they thought was the best team, USC walks home with an undisputed national championship. So instead of being grateful that they won an NC in the courtroom (ABC's contract with the coaches to vote for the winner of the BCS), they try to say they won it on the field, when everybody but the dumb computers knew Oklahoma had no business being in the championship game after getting waxed by four touchdowns.
Easy guys, this is a Michigan site so let's please stop talking about this. For the USC guys though just posting, you've taken some unclassy cheap shots at lsu's program, conduct in accord with mr. one-peats actions. I haven't heard any lsu fan degrading your program (which they could noting that you had many years of less-than-stellar performances.) You're having a great run, so there's no need to "show your asses" here. It doesn't really matter though because the Big-10 is a superior conference to the Pac or Sec
Whoa there, Anon. Even though we are primarily a Michigan board, we welcome fans of all teams. That's why we post things on such a wide range of topics.
sorry, I didn't mean to come off as to angry, but one of my biggest pet peeves is for fans to degrade other's teams. Using their logic, a team's worth is measured in how many championship trophies you have won. Utterly ridiculous. Again, I didn't mean to come over as an ***, but going on a great run and winning 2 AP nat'l championships doesn't give anyone the right to bash another's program in the manner they have. In my humble opinion, they are beginning to mimic the attitudes of THE ohio state buckeyes. Rather annoying if you ask me.
USC Dynasty
I think what Russ is pointing out is that when you compare the two programs historically--USC and LSU--there IS no comparison. It's like comparing Michigan and Iowa. He merely points out that it is LSU fans who are continually degrading USC's program with this talk. Russ is just pointing out that LSU's program can't compare. It's historical fact.
WHAT????"By the same token, LSU cannot change the facts and declare themselves unanimous champions" UMMM the NCAA only recognizes ONE national champion, the BCS National Champion. Who is in the record books and who can show that they held the crystal ball in 2003? Not USC.USC and the media cannot change the fact that LSU was the only BCS National Champion. We will take our crystal ball while USC can take their AP trophy.
Wrong. The NCAA recognizes no national champion in football. Check your facts and get back to us.
Yost:Keep it up. A few comments about your theories:(1) As to the Bruin connection, note that the site brags about being in four papers, including the esteemed Daily Bruin. (2) As to the jokebook interview with WBRZ, note that the site brags that Richard Manship, President WBRZ and The Advocate (onepete says it's Baton Rouge's #1 paper (and they have a laughable story in that paper too)), offered to throw in the last $1k to reach $10k.(3) Most importantly, a friend posted and asked if/when/how the site received approval to use the names of USC/LSU/UT to solicit money or on billboards/flyers and when the BCS, ADT, Waterford and the AFCA approved the use of their intellectual property (the crystal football) to solicit money, put up billboards or sell merchandise (check our the site's SWAG section). The friend then asked if the site would have another fund raiser to pay for attorneys. He apparently was banned 3 minutes later and his posts are gone.It's going to be a long off season.
Anon,Thanks for the comments. Yeah, and check out the "story" in the Advocate (link on the site) which has the same President (according to Onepeat) as the TV station. It's just unreal to me that alleged newspapers and news programs don't want to know the first thing about some guy taking money from folks and what his underlying motives might be. Even if they are legit, you'd think somebody would at least ask the questions. This is truly bizarre.


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It’s official: In five years, the $10 bill will have a woman on it. Some feminists may argue that announcing the gender instead of a specific woman smacks of tokenism, but faces on currency are primarily about symbolism, and recognizing female contributions to American history with a face on a bill seems like a feminist statement in the best sense of the word. Which woman will get the nod?

The dead white men who currently appear on our money were all presidents of the U.S. (except for Alexander Hamilton and Benjamin Franklin, who were Founding Fathers). Obviously, there are no women who meet that criteria, and while there are plenty of distinguished female politicians, any political selection—especially from the past century—is sure to stoke controversy. For instance, when House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi suggested Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, America’s first female cabinet member and New Deal architect, conservative columnist Debra J. Saunders was quick to point out that Perkins was “an educated white political Democrat just like Pelosi.”

If holding high political office is not a requirement—and it certainly isn’t in many other countries, which put scientists, writers and artists on their money—one can reach into a far larger pool of candidates who have played a major role in U.S. history. (Though presumably USA Today’s nomination of Oprah Winfrey, Beyoncé and Betty White is tongue-in-cheek.)

Since the new $10 will mark the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, a suffragist leader would be a natural choice. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the movement’s matriarch, was not only a formidable activist but an impressive political thinker, as evidenced by her 1892 speech to the Senate Judiciary Committee, “Solitude of Self.” What’s more, her arguments, which grounded the fight for women’s rights in the American tradition of individualism and self-sovereignty, should make her an appealing figure not only for feminists but for conservatives of a more libertarian stripe. (As principal author of the 1848 Seneca Falls “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions,” modeled on the Declaration of Independence, Stanton is also a direct intellectual heir to the Founding Fathers.)

Others have suggested the great African-American abolitionists Harriet Tubman (the winner of the online poll conducted by a recent campaign to put a woman on the $20 bill) and Sojourner Truth. The poll also included Perkins, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, first African-American congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, and feminist Betty Friedan.

But there are also more provocative choices. From the 19th Century, there’s America’s first female presidential candidate, Victoria Woodhull, a revolutionary and charismatic figure. She was a suffragist, newspaper publisher, charismatic speaker who advocated for free love, and the first woman to found and run a Wall Street brokerage firm. (Unfortunately for libertarians, she also published the first English version of Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto.)

An even more unconventional choice in some ways would be 20th Century academic and diplomat Jeane Kirkpatrick, foreign policy advisor to Ronald Reagan, the first woman to serve as U.S. ambassador to the U.N., and author of the “Kirkpatrick Doctrine” which held that the U.S. should back anticommunist governments around the world. She was loathed by the left, which she accused of knee-jerk anti-Americanism, and she was, in turn, harshly criticized for advocating morally dicey alliances with authoritarian right-wing regimes. Be that as it may, she was a key player on the winning team in the Cold War.

But if you want truly radical, here’s a nomination from maverick libertarian Justin Raimondo—uber-individualist writer and self-made philosopher Ayn Rand. She was an immigrant, which adds to the diversity factor. She has a larger following than any other nominee so far, and while her laissez-faire philosophy has a limited appeal in pure form, she played a major role in pushing American discourse toward more pro-capitalist opinion. True, she disliked women’s liberation and believed that a real woman wants to be dominated (a view that led her to an odd critique of the idea of a woman president, apparently on the grounds that a female leader would have no man to look up to). But she led a life remarkable unconstrained by traditional roles.

Besides, Rand worshipped the dollar sign as the supreme symbol of free enterprise and market value—even wearing a dollar-sign pin as a badge of honor. Surely that should give her extra points in a contest for the face of the new $10. Me? I vote for Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the more venerable and less outrageous individualist.

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Jacqueline Reis TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
Published Sunday June 30, 2013 at 6:00 am
Updated Sunday June 30, 2013 at 11:50 am
Three years ago, Chandler Elementary Community and Union Hill schools were under the cloud of being in the first group of state-designated Level 4 schools, the lowest performing and least improving in the state. The principals were being replaced, and many staff members decided to work elsewhere.
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Children play on a playground, built by volunteers, at Union Hill School on June 18.
There is usually a lot of happiness at the end of a school year. Kids enjoy spree days, slide shows and Popsicles, staff are proud and ready for a break, and parents mark another notch in their child's development.That is how it was this year at Chandler Elementary Community and Union Hill schools. Three years ago, that wasn't the case. While kids were happy enough, the schools were under the cloud of being in the first group of state-designated Level 4 schools, the lowest performing and least improving in the state. The principals were being replaced, and many staff members decided to work elsewhere.The state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education gave Chandler Elementary, Union Hill and 33 other schools statewide three years to show “dramatic and sustainable improvement,” and those three years end this month. The verdict won't be in until the state publicizes the schools' spring Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System scores in September, but during the final weeks of school, both communities seemed upbeat.“I think the Level 4 was the best thing that could have happened to us,” said Heather A. Coughlin, a special education inclusion teacher at Union Hill.“The whole school has changed, the whole attitude, the idea of having higher expectations has changed. It's a more positive atmosphere,” she said. “Everybody is here to help everybody out, and everybody is here to help every single kid, no matter what you do.”Principal Marie D. Morse said her hiring decisions have been more about people's mindset than their experience. “You have to have that belief in your students' abilities and never give up on that,” Mrs. Morse said.How Mrs. Coughlin does her job has changed, too. She once worked with small groups of students in their classrooms or in spaces like closets, but she now uses the former art room to teach five to 10 kids for a half hour at a time. “They get more common core that way, but they also get special attention on something they might be having trouble with,” she said. It was a lot harder to do that in the middle of an active classroom, she said.At Chandler Elementary, first-grade teacher Carmelo Borges said he is more effective, too. He said Chandler Elementary now focuses more on effective teaching than following a store-bought program, uses leveled readers instead of anthologies and focuses its math instruction around specific skills, not a manual.“How you teach the skill is up to you,” he said. “It's based not on what you're doing, it's based on what the results are.”Teachers are also teaching one another more, through common planning time and through rounds, a practice taken from the medical profession in which teachers observe their peers and give constructive feedback.“I don't think what I was doing three years ago even comes close to what I'm doing right now,” Mr. Borges said. He has been teaching for 17 years, four of them at Chandler.Alice M. Ball, a parent, grandparent and crossing guard at Union Hill, hasn't noticed classroom changes so much as the change in atmosphere and student behavior. Miss Ball had been having trouble with the previous principal and wasn't surprised when the state labeled the school Level 4.“I said, 'This is going to change things,' and it did,” she said. Union Hill, like Chandler Elementary, has voluntary school uniforms. Miss Ball said the children are more respectful and the school has been more welcoming. “Every time you stepped in the building, you felt the love,” Miss Ball said. “You knew right then it was going to be good.”Students themselves were more tuned into physical changes.“We get to see more things from the technology and learn more about interesting things,” said Beverly S. Rosario, 11, who just graduated from Union Hill. “I think things are more organized. ... Outside the building, there used to be trash and garbage. Now there's, like, new plants.”There's also a new playground. “Now, it's like a little bit better,” said Robert J. Jackson, 12.When Beverly was asked what she would tell younger students about the school, she said, “I would say come here.”Both schools have grown. Chandler Elementary will rent space nearby at the Central Community Branch of the YMCA of Central Massachusetts starting next year. Union Hill has grown 45 percent in three years. At both schools, a larger percentage of students are staying through the school year, according to figures from last year.“The community's invested in us again. We're grateful that they trust us with this important job,” Mrs. Morse said.There have been other investments, too. Union Hill gained reinvigorated partnerships with Worcester Academy and others, a $50,000 donation from philanthropist Pat Lanza, a reconfigured front office and a library. Both schools have part-time librarians, which are rare in the district's elementary schools, and each has a lead teacher. Both have 30 minutes of common teacher planning time and a school day that is 90 minutes longer than typical. While Chandler Elementary had an extended day before, it was in a different form. Now, the school simply has longer academic blocks, Principal June E. Eressy said.Both schools also have summer professional development for their staff, and both have also had $400,000 to $500,000 each a year in federal school redesign grants to help pay for teachers' additional time. (Worcester, in fact, has allocated a larger percentage of its school redesign grants to teacher stipends than have other districts with Level 4 schools. Some of those districts spent up to a fifth of their dollars on consultants, while Worcester has only spent 5 percent on consultants.)The grants, which started a year after the Level 4 designation, will continue through next year, but what happens after that is up in the air. Meanwhile, a third Level 4 school, Burncoat Street Preparatory School, was added in November 2011.The main issue before the money runs out, however, is what the state decides about the city's first two Level 4 schools in the fall. For Mr. Borges, whether Chandler Elementary remains at Level 4 or moves up or down is less important than making sure what teachers are doing is effective. “I think that anyone at any level needs that little push toward realizing they're being complacent,” he said.Mrs. Morse echoed that. “The label to me isn't as important as the progress our kids make,” she said, and she believes they are learning more. Internal tests show that 72 percent of Union Hill students who will be third graders this fall are on grade level, the highest percentage she has seen.The students, teachers and principals have all put in the effort. “It's been like running a marathon at a sprint pace for three years,” Mrs. Morse said.“It's such hard work. People really have no idea,” Ms. Eressy said. The pressure of the Level 4 designation, the fact that 96 percent of her school's families are low-income, and the mobility of the students take their toll, she said.In addition, both Chandler Elementary and Union Hill have more students now who are not proficient in English than three years ago.Still, Ms. Eressy said, people often get the wrong idea about Chandler Elementary's community. The parents “love their kids just as much as you love your kids, and they really, sincerely want to make a better life for them. They just need somebody to help them,” she said.The schools have a lot on their plate. The 2012 MCAS scores showed that only about a third of Union Hill's students scored at grade level. At Chandler Elementary, only about a fifth of students did so. Still, that was better than in 2010.Although new test scores will be released this fall, they won't be the only measure by which each of the two schools will be judged. State officials will also look at whether the conditions are in place for continuous improvement and whether the district can sustain the schools' improvement.Marco C. Rodrigues, the district's chief academic officer, said he is confident that the schools are poised to move out of Level 4. The state requires an annual visit from an evaluator to both schools, and he said the contractor's report this year had a lot of good things to say. However, the report, by Beverly-based SchoolWorks, has not gone to the School Committee yet, and he declined to release it until district officials review it further.“In my opinion, three years is not ever enough to turn around a school,” Mr. Rodrigues said. “We are not where we want to be yet, but I think we have grown tremendously.”Contact Jacqueline Reis via email at jreis@telegram.com. Follow her on Twitter @JackieReisTG.


图说：《阿凡达：水之道》影迷盛典
今天，传奇大片《阿凡达：水之道》正式与全国观众见面。同日，IMAX在上海MOViE MOViE影城（前滩太古里店）举办《阿凡达：水之道》IMAX“不同凡响”影迷盛典，共度以电影为名的年终狂欢。导演詹姆斯卡梅隆、制片人乔恩兰道此次把和中国观众唯一的现场连线机会奉献给IMAX观众，以感谢他们13年以来不变的支持，也为正席卷全国IMAX影院的“蓝色风暴”再添一抹亮色。
《阿凡达》系列作为与IMAX有着深厚渊源的电影IP，第一部上映时就掀起全球范围的IMAX观影盛况，《阿凡达：水之道》更是卡梅隆导演潜心创作多年带来的续集之作，影迷和媒体人纷纷提前抵达，在影城精心设计的主题布置前合影留念。
图说：主创连线
与主创的连线互动无疑是最核心的环节，当詹姆斯卡梅隆、乔恩兰道在大银幕上出现，现场立即响起雷鸣般的掌声，影迷更“现学现卖”用纳美语致意问候。在随后播放的短片中，来自五湖四海的影迷对卡梅隆和《阿凡达：水之道》热切表达期待与祝福，最后更同声喊话，盛邀卡梅隆能再次来到中国，“我们等你”。来自上海的资深影迷“G僧东”不仅回顾了第一部《阿凡达》上映时上海和平影都的观影盛况，更在现场用教上海话的方式欢迎两位主创入乡随俗，当卡梅隆导演流利地用上海话说出《阿凡达：水之道》片名，现场的欢乐暖心氛围随即推至高潮。
在之后的提问环节中，詹姆斯卡梅隆和乔恩兰道深入分享了《阿凡达：水之道》与IMAX的故事。卡梅隆特别指出全世界近乎一半的IMAX银幕都在中国，令他倍感兴奋和更有创作动力，更对现场观众“表白”——“这部电影就是为了在大银幕观看的你们而创作的”。两位主创对IMAX 3D之于欣赏《阿凡达：水之道》的重要性也给予高度肯定：“IMAX 3D更真实、更宏大，能呈现更丰富的内容细节；银幕更高，可以更完整地展现水的深度。特别是从下往上看的时候，能更真切地感受到水世界的壮阔，这会是非常棒的体验！”卡梅隆和兰道发出盛情邀约：“希望中国影迷能享受IMAX 3D带来的绝妙视听享受，让自己尽情沉浸在波澜壮阔的潘多拉世界中！”
互动最后，两位大咖与观众发起隔空大合影，全场观众用手机和发光的蓝色手指灯在IMAX影厅中汇聚成蓝色的海洋，与影片故事背景巧妙呼应。就在这梦幻的背景中，詹姆斯卡梅隆、乔恩兰道与全场观众一起定格美好瞬间。


游戏里有哪些让你印象深刻的 NPC?山猫，合金装备
尤其是，《合金装备：食蛇者》里那个山猫
出场简直就是搞笑役
风骚的速射，风骚的台词，风骚的猫叫……
然后对主角拔枪射击的时候，卡壳了……
正片里一直对主角不离不弃，一副命中宿敌+基友的标准扮相，对bb的执着令the boss和big mama都自愧不如。
然后，游戏结束了。
山猫，在最后的一段录音里，揭露了自己就是三重间谍，戈尔金上校，the boss,snake,pla间谍eva都在亚当的算计之内
和正片的反差相当大，可又让人感叹一句：这才是那个山猫嘛。


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独计翁姑亦既抱孙，曾未一觌新妇，揆之情理，亦属缺然。岁后阿姑窀穸，当往临穴，一尽妇职。过此以往，则
‘龙宫’无恙，不少把握之期；‘福海’长生，或有往还之路。伏惟珍重，不尽欲言。”
家里，公公婆婆抱上了孙子，见到了隔辈人。这在那个社会来说，这是一件大事。现在也是一样，父母都想着孩子赶紧结婚生孩子。
龙女说：可你父母只见到了孙子，没见到儿媳儿，这也有点不合常理，我觉得挺对不起你的。等一年以后，婆婆去世，我会亲自去她的坟前，一尽我的孝道。
神仙能预知未来，前面就预知了马龙媒的老婆走了，现在又预知了婆婆的死期。
龙女说：两个孩子，女孩儿龙宫没事，以后还能见面，儿子福海是个长寿的人，将来还能来往。
你自己好好保重身体，我想说的话很多，怎么也说不完啊。就到这儿吧。
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生反覆省书揽涕。两儿抱颈曰：
“归休乎！”生益恸，抚之曰：“儿知家在何许？”儿亟啼，呕哑言归。生望海水茫茫，极天无际；雾鬟人渺，烟波路穷。抱儿返棹，怅然遂归。
这就是龙女给马龙媒带的这封信的内容。诉说了三年的离别之情，看得马龙媒一把鼻涕，一把眼泪的，一边哭一边看，反复看了多少遍。
一直到两个孩子搂着他说：爸爸，咱回家吧。马龙媒这才想起来身边还有孩子，就问孩子：你知道咱家在什么地方吗？
孩子哪知道啊，就知道哭，马龙媒望着一望无际的大海，看不见龙女的影子，心里好不伤情。
哭了一阵，也找不到去龙宫的道路，只能抱着孩子，开着自己的小船返回家中。
再伤心也得回家啊，家里还有爸妈呢，也得让爸妈看看孙子啊，不管发生什么事，日子还是要过的。
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生知母寿不永，周身物悉为预具，墓中植松槚百余。逾岁，媪果亡。灵舆至殡宫，有女子缞绖临穴。众方惊顾，忽而风激雷轰，继以急雨，转瞬间已失所在。松柏新植多枯，至是皆活。
马龙媒回到家，把事都安排完了，就慢慢地准备母亲的后事。龙女说了，妈就还活一年就完啦，提前准备。
买好了墓地，在墓地边上种了一百棵松树。过了一年，果然，他妈死了。出殡，发丧，把棺材抬到坟地，老远就看见一个女的在坟前那等着。
大家都很惊讶，估计主要是害怕，一个不认识的女人，看不清模样，穿一身白，站在坟前，这是闹鬼了。
大家正惊讶呢，忽然天色大变，刮大风，天上开始打雷，马上大雨倾盆而下。大家正蒙呢，一瞬间，再看那女的，没了。再看种的那一百多棵树，全活了。
估计除了马龙媒知道那女的是龙女，其它人都以为见鬼了，一会儿看见一会儿又看不见的。
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福海稍长，辄思其母，忽自投入海，数日始还。龙宫以女子不得往，时掩户泣。一日，昼瞑，龙女忽入，止之曰：
“儿自成家，哭泣何为？”乃赐八尺珊瑚一树，龙脑香一帖，明珠百颗，八宝嵌金合一双，为作嫁资。生闻之，突入，执手啜泣。俄顷，疾雷破屋，女已无矣。
福海稍微长大一点的时候，每天都想自己的妈，有一天，福海忽然就投海了。过了几天又回来了。
女儿龙宫因为是女的，就没这项技能，时常就关上门，自己哭。可能那边也重男轻女，男的就能随便来往，女的就不行。当初在海市的时候，也是三世子能出来玩。
可男的能出来，这三世子怎么从那以后，一直也没再来找马龙媒玩呢？这小舅子可真不咋地。
这一天，白天睡觉，龙女忽然就来了，进来跟龙宫说：你都快结婚了，没事哭什么啊。
说着开始往外拿东西，一颗八尺的珊瑚树，一帖龙脑香，一百颗明珠，一双八宝嵌金盒。说这是你的嫁妆。
给的还真不少，这么懂事的丈母娘，真不多见，也不知道在哪认领，要有这样的丈母娘，我也去，倒插门都行。
这正跟女儿说着话，马龙媒知道这消息，赶紧跑过来，进来激动得也没说话，光拉着龙女的手哭。
这没出息的劲儿，结果光哭，一会儿时间到了，一个炸雷，龙女又消失不见了。这激动真耽误事。
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异史氏曰：
“花面逢迎，世情如鬼。嗜痂之癖，举世一辙。小惭小好，大惭大好，。若公然带须眉以游都市，其不骇而走者盖几希矣。彼陵阳痴子，将抱连城玉向何处哭也？呜呼！显荣富贵，当于蜃楼海市中求之耳！”
蒲松龄说：装出一副好的面孔，来迎合世俗的一些事情，这样做，跟鬼是一样的。要是长时间这样，就会形成癖好，就不好了。
小的惭愧说成小好，大的惭愧说成大好，这样就不对了。
如果都以自己的本来面目去世上，到处都说实话，而不吓得人们四散奔逃，这样的人应该很少了。
否则，当初的卞和，抱着和氏壁又去哪里哭呢。
所以说，飞黄腾达，荣华富贵，还是要去海市蜃楼的虚幻世界中去找啊。
故事完了，最后蒲松龄的评语说了几句反话，看来自古就是这样，这个和现实生活是一样一样的。
记得小时候上学，老师教我们，不要说谎，说谎不是好孩子。可现在再看，网络上，广播里，到处都是虚假的宣传，广告，已经习惯得让人麻木了。
每天出门，都是换成假笑脸在生活着，只有到了半夜，自己一个人的时候，才会做回自己。
真的要是到哪都说实话，估计很多行业都没法做了。卖衣服的一百块一件，要是告诉你一件赚你九十五，你肯定心里骂奸商。
网络上到处都是高息的贷款，宣传的时候说得好着呢，等借到手就满不是那么回事了。
骚扰短信每天都能收到，诈骗电话每天都在接，上当的人每天都有，可被骗走的钱，一般都是追不回来。
电视购物，电台里的广告，到处都是卖假货的，可也这么堂而皇之地播出，人们又能怎么样呢？
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《抗战之英雄至尊》是连载于百度小说的军事类网络小说,作者是湖城散人。
# 作品简介
有一位英雄潜伏到日本天皇身边,并和同志们一道,为人类正义事业取得最终辉煌胜利作出了巨大历史贡献; 有一位英雄于狼窝中取敌酋首脑如探囊取物; 有一位英雄为掩护战友而慷慨赴死; 有一位英雄为不出卖同志受尽凌辱折磨; 有一位英雄历经周折奔赴光明; 有一位英雄…… 他们都是至尊中英雄,英雄中至尊! (绝对的正能量!不一样的精彩!)