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The Alaska Department of Education & Early Development has put forth new standards for math and English language arts that are expected to be implemented starting in 2016.
The department is holding a series of webinars on the changes. The first webinar was held Monday afternoon. It gave an overview of why and how the education standards could change. The proposal is up for public comment until May 12. The department will have a webinar on Wednesday for proposed changes in English language arts, and another on Thursday specifically for mathematics. To find out more about the sessions or to sign up, see www.eed.state.ak.us/calendar/home.cfm.
Monday's session was led by EED Assessment Administrator Janet Valentour.
What the proposed standards will do is completely replace the current Grade Level Expectations (GLEs), she said.
"The last time the state reviewed or revised the standards was in 2004," Valentour said. "... It did not raise the standards, but further refined them."
Valentour said the department and education stakeholders (educators, universities, business representatives, etc., in Alaska) reviewed Alaska's standards, comparing them to the Common Core Standards (see www.corestandards.org for more on those standards).
Valentour said it was clear it's time for Alaska to update its standards for several reasons. Those include issues like Alaska's standards only encompassing kindergarten through 10th grade; the rigor of what's expected is falling behind the national norm as other states are ramping up; and the current standards are 6 years old, too broad and are a "blueprint for assessment."
She said the reason Alaska needs to revise education expectations is because it can't afford to leave the standards as-is when other states are implementing much stronger programs, and because the entire country is undergoing a "dramatic shift" in better preparing students.
Another realization for the need to change came from the National Assessment of Academic Progress, a test Alaska students typically take in fourth and eighth grades in reading and math. The result? In 2011, 46 states or jurisdictions scored above Alaska's fourth-grade students in reading, one was below (District of Columbia), four were on par. For eighth-grade students in reading, the average score for Alaska was lower than 33 states or jurisdictions, above eight, on par with 10. In mathematics, the average Alaska score for fourth-graders ranked lower than 33 states or jurisdictions, above six, on par with 12. For eighth grade, the average was lower than 22 states, higher than 16, on par with 13.
The new proposal takes what they learned from the GLEs and what worked, but also puts an emphasis on fixing issues commonly reported out of Alaska graduates — lack of work readiness, college readiness, education related to real world applications and rigorous content. the proposal also called for a more specific outline of expectations for teachers.
According to the department, "many of Alaska's high school graduates who enter bachelor's degree programs at the University of Alaska need remedial courses in English and/or mathematics. Those students are more likely to drop out of college. Employers also say high school graduates are not fully prepared for the workplace."
The Juneau School District has found that out as well, as was presented last year when the district moved to raise its graduation requirements.
"The proposed standards do not tell teachers how to teach, nor do they attempt to override the unique qualities of each student and classroom," Valentour said. "They simply establish a strong foundation of knowledge and skills all students need for success after graduation. It is up to schools and teachers to decide how to put the standards into practice and incorporate other state standards, including the Cultural Standards."
Valentour said the goal with the new regulations is to not only create a higher standard, but still allow for flexibility for Alaska's uniqueness.
All Alaska students will be tested via the new assessments and standards beginning in 2016. Valentour said this gives districts three years to switch over.
A participant in the webinar from Sitka expressed concern over the aggressive timeline of the new standards.
"Alaska is fortunate to have three years," she said. "Many states have only had one year. ... I'm suggesting that three years to move across the timeline is giving us the opportunity to be very thoughtful. It is an aggressive timeline, I agree."
Valentour said there will be a transition plan for the school districts, however that can't be approved until the new regulations are finalized. She said tools also will be provided to districts and the Curriculum and Alignment Institute can assist districts with aligning their curriculums. Valentour said all of that depends upon how a district chooses to transition.
For more information on the standards, or how to submit public comment to the Alaska Board of Education, see www.eed.state.ak.us/tls/assessment/2012AKStandards.html.


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GLEN ELLYN – Neighbors of the proposed Chidester-Elm-Lenox-Linden project near Lake Ellyn Park say it is up to the village to prove why it is necessary to widen roadways and add sidewalks in the area, since many of them do not foresee considerable benefits from these changes.
"The benefit of making park traffic flow more easy and faster does not outweigh the long-losing increases and risks to this property, including increased safety issues, loss of green space, damage to trees, increased flooding and expense," resident Carolyn Oesterle said.
The village's Capital Improvements Commission recommended that Lenox Road be widened from 25 to 28 feet in various areas and that sidewalk be added to the east side of Lenox Road between Hawthorne Boulevard and Essex Road and the south side of Linden Street between Main Street and Lenox Road.
Plans for Lenox Road and Linden Street have been in development since last year, and the commission finalized its recommendation for those streets in April, but project approval by the Glen Ellyn Village Board of Trustees was delayed due to various design and timing issues.
Chidester Avenue and Elm Street recently were added to the project as well, although those street designs are not yet complete.
The proposed Lenox-Linden improvements were brought before the Glen Ellyn Village Board of Trustees for discussion for the first time at a workshop Sept. 16.
Overall, residents at the workshop said they didn't see why widening Lenox Road was necessary because the street doesn't see a lot of traffic or incidents caused by the width of the road.
The purpose of the widening from the Capital Improvements Commission's perspective would be to increase the ease of two-way travel along Lenox Road when cars are parked near Lake Ellyn Park, according to village records.
But Oesterle said it's a good thing cars need to show down to pass each other.
Neighbors also shared concerns about the proposed sidewalks' effect on current green space and trees, flooding and safety, since the sidewalks would be installed against the curb as much as possible.
"I think increasing the non-permeable areas aggravates the existing flooding problem that you're trying to remediate," resident Eleanor Saliamonas said.
Capital Improvements Commission members Craig Pryde and Al Thelen said they wanted to place sidewalk near Lake Ellyn Park so that visitors have somewhere to walk when they're getting in and out of their cars.
Because two trustees, Tim Elliot and Robert Friedberg, were absent from the workshop and this was the first time the project had been presented to board members, trustees were not prepared to provide staff with specific directions for the project plans.
Village President Alex Demos proposed continuing discussions at the board's next workshop, which is scheduled for Oct. 21.
Pending Village Board approval of the project, construction on Lenox Road and Linden Street would begin after July 4, 2014, due to the roads' proximity to Lake Ellyn Park and its Fourth of July festivities.


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Sriracha for sure.I really like horseradish, but sriracha goes with, like, everything.I now use it in place of salsa when I'm having Mexican style food at home.
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All of this Wife Day talk makes my increasingly not-so-distant future look grim and terrifying.
The Blockhams in "WIFE DAY"
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So this thing called Wife Day... been there.
On Thursday the boys will get ready for more gameday action. And we'll probably explore the phenomenon known as the Purduestache.
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It need not. With no game to watch, my wife took me out for steak.
I found it refreshing to be able to just get up and leave the couch during the MSU-Ohio game to do something else. Took the wife and boys out to Art Prize in GR, though admittedly I still was checking my phone for scoring updates.
Now everyone's going to start using it....
And where do you shop for clothes with free cookies? I'm doing it wrong.
Love this comic strip
Very funny. Yes please include more villians.
Pam reacted to that coupon exactly like my wife would have.
My wife spends more on groupon deals then I do on anything. "But its a groupon"
Her: "Look, I saved money!!"
Me: "No, you spent money."
Every day is Wife Day
Except for college football saturdays
This one is just begging for dicks.
You may just get an email warning you about making comments such as these.
I tremble in fear.
Mine came directly from Brain! It's not your run of the mill auto-email that you get when one of your comments get deleted. (I get those on a regular basis)
More seriously - huh?
I thought Seth endorsed more dicks?
(that didn't come out right)
I was kindly asked to stop bringing up the aforementioned parody comic. I will oblige.
In an MGoFrat or something...but do they even talk to each other?
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DON'T MODERATE: References or discussion about it on the board, or the creator's handle unless he breaks other board rules.
Personally I think it's funny and free speech etc. Would rather the creator link to the original every time.
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Never heard of Wife Day until this site started to bring it up. So naturally I did nothing.
not have some sort of Ohio State summa cum laude degree on the wall or at least one of those buckeye necklaces?
My wife not so much, but my mom would always pull the whole, "guess how much I saved" thing. Yeah, mom, great job saving $100, but you had to spend $500 to get it!


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'Missed Connection: Saw you at SDCC this year. I was Wonder Woman, you were Green Lantern. Come close so I can put my magic lasso around you.' Meet up with the people behind the masks.
So i wanted to know *though its kind of depressing not seeing many cosplayers here* what cosplays youve worn and/or still have*
for me ive gone through
inuyasha, vizard ichigo, Sora *valor form* and currently working on some Hakumen armor from blazblue
I'm a Legendary GI member.
NPC #7 from from Ocarina of Time.
I've always wanted to do Gordon Freeman, but I don't have the desire to put in the effort.
I'd do Stormtrooper if it didn't cost so much to get a good costume.
I say go for it. Get that fire of desire to do it under you feet and go for it.
I've done Asuma Sarutobi, Kisame Hoshigaki, and Kiba Inazuka from Naruto. Kisuke Urahara from Bleach and Monkey D. Luffy from One Piece. I would like to do a Nightwing costume but I need to get in better shape first.
yea same here. im working out and i see great results so far.
Squall (FF8)
Kiba (Naruto Shippuden)
Thief (FF1: Dawn of Souls)
Zegram Ghart (Rogue Galaxy)
Van Fanel (Vision of Escaflowne)
Wrath (Fullmetal Alchemist)
Planning on 8th Squad Capt. Kyouraku (Bleach)
"Destiny shall draw the lightningDown from heaven, roll it's thunderFar across the sea to where I waitUpon the Shore of Wonder onThe day the sky is Opened andThe tree is torn asunder."-Epitaph of Cygna Threadbare
I have cosplayed:
Utena: Revolutionary Girl Utena
Jo: Burst Angel
Tamaki: Ouran High School Host Club
I'm currently working on:
Shin: Nana
Adult Nina: Breath of Fire 3
oh nice ones nalani.
tyvm :3
Roxas Twilight town, Pit, Dark Pit, Adult Link Oot, Child Link Oot, Shiek, and Sasuke Uchida. The last one was kinda random huh?
Lara Croft, would like to try Mesane from witchblade, Diva and Saya(Blood+)..
"Sometimes to understand your present you have to go back to your past." Lara Croft
They're mostly Anime, but:
Demona - Gargoyles
Sailor Galaxia - Sailor Moon Stars
Kikyo - Inu Yasha
Makoto - Love Hina
Guu - Hare & Guu
Yue - Avatar the Last Airbender
Tifa - FF7
Cruella DeVille
And too many more that I want to do!
I've done quite a bit. Most recently I cosplayed Alice from Madness Returns. in the past I've done Litchi from Blazblue, Yoko from Gurren Lagann, Edward from Fullmetal Alchemist, etc.
Ive done alot of Bioshock cosplays:) and zombies.


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WASHINGTON -- The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits surged 24,000 to a seasonally adjusted 329,000 last week, though the gain likely reflected temporary layoffs in the week before Easter.
The Labor Department said Thursday that the four-week average of applications, a less volatile number, rose 4,750 to 316,750. The four-week average fell two weeks ago to its lowest level since October 2007, two months before the recession began.
Applications can be volatile around Easter, because many school systems temporarily lay off bus drivers, cafeteria workers and other employees during spring break. Some of those workers file for unemployment benefits. Because the timing of Easter shifts each year, it can be difficult for the government to seasonally adjust for the holiday. Last year, Easter fell on March 30, this year on April 20.
Despite the volatility, applications for unemployment benefits have generally been declining in recent months, a hopeful sign for the job market. Three weeks ago, they fell to 301,000, the lowest level in nearly seven years.
A year ago, they stood at 343,000. Because applications are a proxy for layoffs, the low level is a sign that employers expect consumer demand to continue and are holding onto their workers.
In the meantime, hiring has picked up. Employers added 192,000 jobs in March, according to a separate government report. That followed gains of 197,000 in February. The unemployment rate has declined in recent months but remains a still-high 6.7 percent.
Winter storms in January and December shut down factories, kept shoppers away from stores and depressed home buying. That reduced hiring and overall economic growth. Employers added just 129,000 jobs in January and only 84,000 in December.
More jobs and higher incomes will be needed to spur healthier overall economic growth. For now, economists think the bad weather contributed to weak growth of 1 percent to 1.5 percent at an annual rate in the January-March quarter. But with the weather improving, most analysts expect growth to rebound to an annual rate of nearly 3 percent in the April-June quarter.


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Abstract: The Mosaics of Zeugma on the Euphrates: visual culture on the Roman frontier
In the summer of 2000, as the city of Zeugma was about to be partially submerged under the waters of the new Turkish dam across the upper Euphrates, archaeologists from various nations worked hard to reveal all that they could about the areas of the city that were fated to disappear. The most spectacular of the finds, and certainly those which attracted the greatest media attention, were the magnificent mosaics which adorned the houses of the city's elite, mosaics often of very high quality, and decorated with a wide range of figured scenes. My talk looks at those mosaics in their context, replacing them where possible in their original architectural settings, and considers them as evidence for the wider culture of the individuals who commissioned, made, and looked at them. How were these mosaics used in the overall decoration of the house? What sort of subject matter was favoured, and why was it chosen? And what can we tell from the mosaics about the interests and preoccupations of the owners of the houses, and the messages that they wished to convey to their guests? Zeugma was a frontier city, Greek in origin, but undoubtedly of very mixed population; yet the mosaics reveal a cultural atmosphere that seems remarkably homogeneous, clearly deliberately cultivated by their proprietors as an assertion of identity.
Short bibliography and/or website on lecture topic (for lay reader):
M. Önal, Zeugma Mosaics: a corpus, Istanbul 2009, A Turizm Yayinlari (Excellent photographs, limited text)
www.zeugmaarchproject.com – report on recent excavations
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Very colorful, even tho I don't like any of the things hanging.ReplyDelete
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Thanks Carol.
Barbara - I must admit they aren't exactly my favorite foods either (although I do like yellow squash).
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Flexible static resources for web applications.
Project description
Fanstatic is a smart static resource publisher for Python. For more information on what it's about and how to use it, see: http://fanstatic.org
0.14a (2012-10-07)
Removed the dependency on Paste, replaced with webob.static.
The publisher no longer sends out etags, which seems like a good idea. The Yahoo best practices for speeding up web sites say:
If you're not taking advantage of the flexible validation model that ETags provide, it's better to just remove the ETag altogether.
Updated package setup to be compatible with running python setup.py test.
Added tox setup for testing across python versions.
0.13.3 (2012-09-12)
- No longer use WebOb's wsgify decorator in both the injector and delegator middlewares, as it has issues handling parent application WSGI response (https://github.com/Pylons/webob/issues/74).
0.13.2 (2012-08-23)
- Fixed issue #78: "fanstatic.checksum.md5 is not guaranteed", thanks to takanao ENDOH.
0.13.1 (2012-08-16)
- Fixed bug where mode resources created by string 'shortcut' didn't inherit the renderer, bundling, dependency parameters.
0.13 (2012-08-15)
- DummyNeededResources did not takes the slots argument.
- Resource.need() did not process the slots argument, despite the argument being documented.
- Added slots argument to Group.need().
0.12 (2012-08-05)
- Documentation fix in code samples, thanks to Toby Dacre.
- Fix issue #74, minified .js not served in bottom unless force_bottom, thanks to Toby Dacre.
- Cherry picked pull request #1 "support-wsgi-apps-not-mounted-at-/", thanks to Éric Lemoine.
- Add print css renderer.
0.11.4 (2012-01-14)
There was another bug with ordering resources when multiple libraries were involved. This time the way library_nr was calculated was changed so that it wouldn't happen anymore.
The intent of library_nr was to have it always be 1 higher than the maximum library_nr of any libraries this library is based on.
In practice this wouldn't always happen, because each resource had its own library_nr. In some circumstances the resources in libraries depending on other libraries would consistently get a library_nr too low, as each resource they were based on had a library_nr that was too low as well, even though another resource could exist in that library with a higher library_nr. This could cause the library_nr of all resources in a library to be too low.
This is now fixed to moving library_nr to the place it should've maintained on in the first place: the library itself. It is calculated now once per library, just before the resources are sorted for the first time during the application's run. Since by the time resources need to be sorted all resources are known, the library_nr can be calculated correctly.
0.11.3 (2011-11-11)
- There was a bug with ordering resources when multiple libraries are involved: https://bitbucket.org/fanstatic/fanstatic/issue/67/ordering-of-resources-when-multiple
0.11.2 (2011-05-19)
- Update the docs for readthedocs.org.
0.11.1 (2011-04-13)
- Consolidate the resources (find rollups) before applying the mode.
0.11 (2011-04-11)
- Add bundling support: bundles are collections of Resources that can be served in one HTTP request. Bundle URLs are constructed by the fanstatic injector and served by the fanstatic publisher.
- Remove eager_superseder arguments from Resource, as this was not used.
- Abstracted features of Resource, Group, Bundle into base classes Renderable and Dependable.
- Improved sorting of resources for inclusion on web page. This is to prepare for bundling support. Ordering is now more consistent, no matter in which order resources are .needed(). As long as you marked dependencies right this shouldn't break applications; if your resources are included in the wrong order now, fix resource dependencies.
- base_url is not required anymore (as in the past); improve base_url management API so that integration packages like zope.fanstatic have a more explicit way to manage this information.
- Resources check whether the file they refer to exists or not. If the file doesn't exist you get an UnknownResourceError.
- Renamed UnknownResourceExtension exception to UnknownResourceExtensionError. The old exception name is still available for backwards compatibility.
- Use mtime instead of md5 for determining speeds up version computation during development. The hashing method is still available for people who don't trust their filesystem using the versioning_use_md5 parameter.
0.10.1 (2011-02-06)
- Fixed issue #49.
0.10 (2011-01-19)
- Renamed hashing to versioning. Use the version of the python package as the version identifier for a Library, unless the package is installed in development mode. If a Library has no version or is in development, use the hash of the Library's directory contents as version identifier.
- Consolidated the Resource modes into debug and minified.
- The injector component only sets up the NeededResources if the request method is GET or POST.
- The devmode parameter has been renamed to recompute_hashes in order to more aptly reflect its behavior. When recompute_hashes is True, hashes are recomputed for every request - this is the default behavior.
0.9b (2011-01-06)
Fanstatic is a fundamental rewrite of hurry.resource. As such, Fanstatic breaks compatibility with hurry.resource. Here's a list of essential changes since version 0.10 of hurry.resource:
- Fundamental API cleanups and changes.
- Fanstatic no longer depends on ZTK packages, and provides several 'pure' WSGI components. This allows for greater re-use in different WSGI-based frameworks.
- zope.fanstatic (a rewrite of hurry.zoperesource) provides the integration of Fanstatic with the ZTK.
- Fanstatic adds a WSGI component for serving resources, offloading it from the application framework.
- Fanstatic adds 'infinite' caching functionality by computing a unique URL for every version of a resource.
- Fanstatic uses py.test for test discovery and execution.
- A lot of effort has been put into documenting Fanstatic.
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It is not often that cooler heads prevail at meetings of the Lafourche Parish Council.
But Tuesday night offered a good departure from the norm.
It is not often that cooler heads prevail at meetings of the Lafourche Parish Council.
But Tuesday night offered a good departure from the norm.
Three councilmen had sponsored a resolution requesting that Parish President Charlotte resign because of a recent finding by the state Ethics Board that Randolph had violated state law by renting her camp in Grand Isle to BP during the 2010 oil spill.
While the ethics problem and its fallout are serious matters that are deserving of public concern, they do not require that Randolph step down from her office.
And the entire scandal has nothing technically to do with the Parish Council, which has no legal authority to remove the parish president.
While the members of the council — like all members of the public — have every right to express their views about Randolph's ethics difficulties, the proposed resolution served no purpose other than seeking to publicly embarrass Randolph.
Fortunately, one of the three who sponsored the resolution, Councilman Jerry Lafont, withdrew his support, and the resolution died Tuesday night.
That action, though, did not take place until three other councilmen — John Arnold, Mike Delatte and Joe Fertitta — left the meeting in protest because the absurd resolution was even being debated.
Not only would the resolution be just another public-relations black eye for a parish that has seen enough public embarrassment, it is also premature. Randolph is seeking a rehearing before the Ethics Board, so the ruling and Randolph's $60,000 fine are not yet even final.
But Daniel Lorraine, the driving force behind the resolution, insinuated that the issue is far from over.
"I'm thinking it will come back up," Lorraine said at the meeting, dismissing those who spoke against the resolution. "Those are just die-hard Randolph supporters who don't know better."
Actually, there are a lot of good reasons unrelated to defending the parish president for the council to just let this matter die rather than needlessly keeping it in the public's eye.
The council has — or should have — much more important things to do than waste time on a meaningless resolution meant only to embarrass a fellow public official.
Let's hope his colleagues talk Lorraine out of pressing this any further.
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By Tiernan Ray
Shares of digital imaging technology maker Ambarella (AMBA) are up 23 cents, or 3%, at $7.93 after the stock this morning got four thumbs up from the underwriters of its October 10th initial public offering.
Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Needham & Co. and Stifel Nicolaus all came out with the equivalent of Buy ratings, or strong Buy, with the analysts cheering the company's development of system-on-chip semiconductor designs that incorporate several video processing functions.
The stock came public at $6, below what had been a $9 to $11 expected range at the time. Ambarella made $9.8 million in net income last year on $97 million in revenue, and racked up $7.8 million on $54 million in revenue for the first six months of this year, according to its S1 filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission.
Deutsche Bank's Ross Seymore, starting coverage with a Buy rating and a $10 price target, writes that Ambarella is "a leader in video content creation" and that it is "focused on niche and fast-growing sub-segments such as IP security camera, automotive cameras and sports cameras) and Broadcasting Infrastructure."
For example, the company gets about a fifth of its sales from the "sports camera" market, 15% from camcorders' and 10% from Internet-enabled security cameras, which are taking over as analog-based security cameras are "phased out."
Seymore describes some aspects of the chip for the consumer market:
A5 solution is the ideal for mainstream hybrid DV/DSC cameras. The SoC integrates an image sensor capable of processing 240 MP/sec, a video codec capable of full HD of 1080p30 and an ARM-based 528MHz processor. The on- board image pipeline contains many enhanced noise reduction and image enhancement filters as well as an innovative electronic image stabilization (EIS) implementation to compensate for camera shake. A7 solution integrates image sensor pipeline capable of processing 500 MP/Sec (equivalent to 8MP@60 frames per second), video codec (a 1920x1080p60 or 4M@30p H.264) and 528 MHz ARM based processor […] iOne smart solution brings advanced full HD camera and multimedia capabilities to Android platforms. iOne also enables streaming from cloud- based system, which are trending nowadays. The iOne SoC's multi-stream encoding capability supports live video streaming, WiFi upload of video clips to popular websites such as YouTube and full HD tele-presence applications.
Seymore is modeling $118 million in revenue for this year at $118 million, with EPS of 59 cents.
Needham & Co.'s Quinn Bolton starts coverage with a Strong Buy rating and a $12 price target, writing that the company has an impressive pedigree:
Ambarella has assembled one of the premier design teams in the industry with deep experience developing video processing and multi-core SoC solutions. The core management team has worked together for over 15 years and two- thirds of Ambarella's design team has multi-gigahertz, superscalar CPU design experience. Ambarella's solutions combine proprietary algorithms, custom DSPs, hardwired accelerators, firmware and software development kits in a complete system solution.
Bolton likes the fact that Ambarella's applications appear to be beyond the threat of immediate cannibalization by smartphone cameras:
Ambarella's solutions target a wide variety of video processing applications that face little threat of cannibalization from video enabled smartphones in our opinion. In many of its core segments such as camcorders, sports cameras, HD automotive aftermarket cameras and broadcast infrastructure equipment, Ambarella is the established market share leader. Among these core market segments, the fastest growth segment is sports/action cameras. Product shipments, such as those from market leader GoPro (N/R), are expected to grow from 2.7MM units in 2011 to 15.0MM units in 2015 according to Ambarella management. We believe GoPro currently accounts for approximately 70% of the sports/action camera market. Importantly, all of GoPro's sports cameras are currently based on Ambarella's SoC solutions.
Bolton is estimating $116 million in revenue this year and 78 cents EPS.


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2010 Mustang Week At Myrtle Beach, South Carolina - Web Exclusive!
For the Full Story see the January 2011 issue of 5.0 Mustang & Super Fords Magazine
With five days, several events, and thousands of Mustangs to cover, Editor Turner shot a ridiculous amount of photos. We tried as best we could to fit them in the magazine, the powers that be just wouldn't give us any more pages. So, we're posting several more here on the website for your ogling pleasure!


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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) - A former Humane Society worker is facing charges of animal neglect and second-degree animal cruelty after animal control officers found over a dozen mistreated pets inside his trailer.
Police searched the home of David Peace last Thursday after neighbors complained about the care he was providing for his pets.
Officers found over a dozen animals - many with health problems - and piles of animal waste inside the home. Peace is a former assistant director for the Bowling Green-Warren County Humane Society.
The animals - including nine dogs and several cats - suffered from mange, eye problems, dehydration and other issues. One of the cats had to be euthanized due to severe dehydration.
Officers reported a large pile of animal waste and what Warren County Sheriff's Sgt. Tim Meyer called "a molotov cocktail of urine and cat litter."
The windows of the trailer were open but covered in chicken wire. The temperature inside the trailer was over 100 degrees during the search.
Peace had not been home in several days, police said. The recovered animals were being held in quarantine cages with the humane society.
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Apple and Juniper results overshadowed by SEC
Warnings and postponements
The shadow of an SEC probe into irregular share allocations by public companies loomed over both Apple Computer and Juniper Networks Wednesday, as they reported their latest financial results.
Juniper delayed reporting a second quarter profit and filing its 10-K after an internal investigation found discrepancies between share awards and their recorded allocation dates.
The company expects to incur additional non-cash charges for the allocations, but is not yet able to determine what that amount will be. Additionally, Juniper said it was not in a position to say whether it would be forced to re-state earnings.
The network infrastructure provider said it would not file its second-quarter report until after the completion of the full investigation. During its scheduled conference call with Wall St analysts, Juniper said it was not yet able to determine when irregular share options had been awarded.
Over to Apple, who has found irregular stock option grants were made between 1997 and 2001. While Apple said the irregularities identified are unlikely to force an adjustment of its results, this could change pending the discovery of additional irregularities. An independent counsel has been hired by Apple's outside directors to investigate allocations.
"If additional irregularities are identified by the independent investigation, a material adjustment to the financial information could be required," Apple warned.
The statement came as Apple announced third-quarter net income jumped 48 per cent while revenue increased 24 per cent, and the company projected fourth quarter revenue to come in between $4.5bn and $4.6bn.®
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Physician Assistant Students Win Challenge Bowl
March 29, 2012
COLUMBUS, Ohio — For the second year in a row, students in the University of Mount Union's Physician Assistant Studies Program placed first in the Ohio Association of Physician Assistant's (OAPA) Challenge Bowl, an academic challenge game held during OAPA's third annual student conference in Columbus.
"As one of its outreach efforts to future physician assistants, the OAPA holds a state conference specifically for students to give them a way to understand the workings of the association and to give them real-life educational resources to help them," said Sharon Luke, director of the Physician Assistant Studies Program and chair of the Department of Physician Assistant Studies at Mount Union.
According to Luke, 52 Mount Union students attended the conference, which features seminars on topics related to the physician assistant profession. During the Challenge Bowl, teams of students are asked medically relevant questions.
This year's team members included second year students Kaili Gehring of Mineral Ridge and Carla Rose of Uniontown and first year student Liza Strawn of Homeworth. Team coach was Erica DiFrangia, assistant professor and clinical coordinator of physician assistant studies. The team competed against five other colleges and universities and the team will receive a trophy to display on campus for one year.
In May, the Mount Union team will participate in a national bowl in Toronto, Canada. Alternate Jessica Spirl-Hooper of Belleville, Mich. will participate on the team as well.
"I try not to put too much emphasis on the Challenge Bowl as a win or loss situation — I try to make sure that it's fun and that students have a good time and realize how much they know," Luke said. "It's a real honor to have won the Bowl for the second consecutive year because the competition was excellent. It's good to see how many bright students from all over the State of Ohio are headed into the physician assistant profession."
Additionally, each year the OAPA awards scholarships to one student from each physician assistant studies program in the state. This year's scholarship winner was second year student Hayley Griswold of Akron, a 2009 graduate of Mount Union.
The Physician Assistant Studies Program at Mount Union is the University's first master's level program in nearly a century. The program, which began in May of 2009, offers a curriculum rich in biomedical and clinical preparatory sciences and develops the medical decision-making and problem-solving skills that may be applied to patient situations encountered in clinical practice. The role of a physician assistant in medical practice is to be a caring, compassionate medical provider and advocate for the patient and to spend more time with the patient than the physician can in providing patient education. Physician assistants work to assist the physician in providing quality care, and are credited with often being able to spend more time with the patient than the physician can in providing patient education. Students within the program will earn a Master of Science degree after successful completion of 27 months of coursework and clinicals. For more information on the program at Mount Union, visit www.mountunion.edu/pa.


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A lot has changed in the world of politics since Positech first suffered the mental anguish of programming Democracy 2. We have had a global credit crunch and financial crisis, the occupy movement, the Arab spring, and mobile phones have got slightly smaller, then larger again.
Despite sharing the basic GUI design of earlier games in the series, Democracy 3 is being built on a complete ground-up re-engineering of the custom-built neural network engine used to power the complex simulation beneath the hood of the game. Improvements will be equal parts graphical and simulation based, with greater freedom to use both private/free market solutions to problems as well as more accurate simulation of financial markets, voter cynicism and much more.
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131: Fans
Title text: It's not going to break the fan, bouncing a rubber ball off the wall isn't going to dent it, and the roof can hold me just fine. You LIED!
This comic is probably best recognized when you have (young) kids that still explore everything expensive you have in your household. And while they are not breaking the CD-tray off the DVD-player, putting gum in your shoes or flushing your mobile phone through the toilet, you always consider the possibility that they might. So you come up with various reasons along the lines of "You will break it, and pay for it" if they so much as touch these items. This can be frustrating to children, who feel they don't have the freedom to explore.
In the comic, Cueball lets go of these frustrations as he finally owns his own place. He buys an oscillating fan, and grabs its head, therefore locking the mechanism that rotates it. As it is safeguarded by a release stub, it will make a clicking sound. So, Cueball comes to the conclusion that his mother's constant yelling as he was near the fan wasn't necessary in the first place. Which, in turn, explains the title text.
- [Cueball holding fan in place]
- <<click click>>
- Narrator: Best thing about having my own apartment: Holding fans in place so they twitch helplessly and make that clicking sound without my mom yelling at me.
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Pedestrians wait at a crosswalk, then start across the street.
Here comes an SUV right through the intersection anyway. Back up, fella, he's not stopping.
That's a red light, jackass, one pedestrian yells.
Jackass stops and barks back, something unintelligible but decidedly uncivil.
There's the quick OK-now-what holding of the breath, and jackass drives off. Yeah, that's why I didn't say anything, says another pedestrian. Not worth it.
I was one of the non-screaming non-fatalities in this little moment of modern life at 12th and Oak in Kansas City earlier this week, and it strikes me this has become the way of things. It happens every day in every city.
Let me be clear. I do not get my news or world view from paranoid radio. I do not yield to the shallow and lazy idea that the world is going to hell in a handbasket, or at least no faster than it was 100 or 500 years ago.
I have no hard data. I have my own eyes and ears. It just seems that the tension in the air – the economy, the boss, the ex, Congress, aliens, who knows? – has hardened into a straight-up to-hell-with-you attitude that is nowhere more evident than on the streets.
The extreme examples stick out. One guy swung around me on the left, on an onramp, to swerve back to the right and make a right-hand turn into the wrong lane. Left on red is a classic. And twice this has happened to me recently: I get a left arrow – meaning it's my turn only right now – and here comes a car, through a red light, straight into my path. Those did-that-just-happen moments seem to be proliferating.
But it's daily stuff that's more worrisome. It's the one aggressive driver in 20 who tailgates and weaves across lanes where there are not safe distances between cars, the driver who thinks Noland Road during rush hour can be handled like I-70 in western Kansas.
Look, this isn't Chicago, the East Coast or, ye gods, most of California. Kansas City has crazy sprawl for a metro area of its size, but you can get around. If you're running so late that red lights don't apply to you, that's on you. Leave the house on time, get going and, as traffic dictates, wait your turn.
I can't escape the sense that that's the problem. People – a certain number of people – just don't want to wait their turn. That's part of being civil, part of being a grownup, part of being reasonable. When is the last time some jackass got called out for it and responded with a contrite "sorry, my bad" instead of the usual entitled hostility?
Driving is largely anonymous. Kind acts – letting a driver cut in, taking our turns escaping the stadium – are appreciated, maybe with a wave, but soon forgotten.
The door is open to more rude acts because you're surrounded by strangers you'll be shed of in two minutes, if that. There is seldom any reckoning for the tailgating, the blaring horn, or the extended finger. Those are the drivers who let others know what they really think and who they really are.
But there is a cost. Their driving endangers others. Spewing their anger, instead of exercising restraint, diminishes our community.


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Morse, Samuel Finley Breese
Samuel Finley Breese Morse, 1791–1872, American inventor and artist, b. Charlestown, Mass., grad. Yale, 1810. He studied painting in England under Washington Allston and achieved some success. He returned to the United States in 1815, took up portrait painting, and gained a considerable reputation in this field. Associated with the Hudson River school, he also executed a number of landscapes and, less successfully, various historical works. A founder (1825) of the National Academy of Design, he spent the years from 1829 to 1832 in further European study and upon his return became a professor of fine arts at New York Univ. An outspoken opponent of Catholic immigration to the United States, he was an unsuccessful Nativist candidate for mayor of New York City in 1836.
Morse's interest in electricity, aroused in his college days, was further stimulated by the lectures of James F. Dana in 1827 and later by contacts with university faculty. Learning in 1832 of Ampère's idea for the electric telegraph, Morse worked for the next 12 years, with the aid of the chemist Leonard Gale, physicist Joseph Henry, and machinist Alfred Vail to perfect his own version of the instrument. So many phases of the telegraph, however, had already been anticipated by other inventors, especially in Great Britain, Germany, and France, that Morse's originality as the inventor of telegraphy has been questioned; even the Morse code did not differ greatly from earlier codes, including the semaphore. In any case, in 1844 Morse demonstrated to Congress the practicability of his instrument by transmitting the famous message "What hath God wrought" over a wire from Washington to Baltimore. Morse subsequently was compelled to defend his invention in court, although by then he commanded the acclaim of the world. He later experimented with submarine cable telegraphy. Both Morse and John Draper were instrumental in introducing the daguerreotype in the United States.
See his letters and journals, ed. by E. L. Morse (1914, repr. 1973); biographies by C. Mabee (1943, repr. 1969), P. Staiti (1989), and K. Silverman (2003).


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Warriors sensation Lance Hohaia is set to ensure his future at the club with an enticing new contract. The Huntly teenager who starred in the New Zealand Warriors stunning victory in Newcastle last Friday should soon sign a new multi-year deal with the Auckland-based franchise.
The Warriors have an option on Hohaia already for next season which coach Daniel Anderson said would protect the club from prospective raiders from across the Tasman who continue to be impressed by the National Rugby League rookie.
But Hohaia is set to negotiate a deal with Warriors chief executive Mick Watson that will establish his new standing as one of the club's most treasured possessions.
Anderson said Hohaia had always been looked upon as a promising talent.
"It's just the rapid development that's probably taken people by surprise," Anderson said. "We had high hopes for him but didn't expect him to develop so quickly."
Injuries to skippers Monty Betham and Stacey Jones meant Hohaia has been asked to fill a pivotal role in the Warriors' push for the playoffs as a playmaker at either halfback or standoff.
The 19-year-old Junior Kiwi has revelled in the added responsibility, culminating in his match-winning performance in the Warriors' 34-12 win over the Newcastle Knights in round 10.
Anderson said Hohaia was "very confident in his own ability" and had plenty of pluses to his game.
"He's got a good step, a nice fend, passes well and is a good runner.
"We'll work on his defence, his tactical kicking, which is quite weak but improving nicely, and his decisions on passing the football."


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ACLU and EFF Endorse Weaker USA Freedom Act Passed By Committee 107
Despite these significant changes the amended bill has been endorsed by the ACLU and the EFF as a first step and the most promising path towards reigning in government surveillance. The two organizations called for further Congressional measures to tighten control of surveillance authorities including an explicit definition of the term 'selector,' a reduction in the number of hops from 2 to 1 under most circumstances and the closing the loophole that allows searches of Americans' data inadvertently collected thru Section 702.
The bill now proceeds to the House Intelligence Committee, who has advanced its competing bill, the FISA Transparency and Modernization Act (HR 4291). The committee will mark up both bills on the same day, beginning at 10am Thursday, behind closed doors."


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LAS VEGAS, NV -- (Marketwire) -- 01/06/13 --
WHAT: Cloud-based 3D printing, desktop virtual reality, music that makes you work better, and the next generation of watersafe phone treatments. Those are just a few of the highlights of the more than two dozen companies announcing and demonstrating their newest innovations before the CES showfloor opens.
WHEN: Sunday, January 6 from 7 to 10 p.m.
WHERE: Cili Restaurant, Bali Hai Golf Course and Country Club, 5160 Las Vegas Blvd. S., Las Vegas, NV 89119. Buses will shuttle media from CES activities taking place at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center (Shark Reef Aquarium entrance parking lot) to Cili beginning at 6:30 pm and will continue shuttles every fifteen minutes through 10:30 pm.
ABOUT: Great food, premium wine and beer, and the elegant golf course setting of Cili set the perfect backdrop to peruse cutting-edge technologies at a leisurely pace. Among the companies presenting will be:
- Atlas Powered LLC., Los Angeles (mobile time management and collaboration platform)
- CHNL, Santa Monica (social content browser)
- ClubCreate, New York (personal online studio and cloud-based remixing platform)
- focus@will, Los Angeles (electronic productivity music platform)
- Kraftwurx, Houston (cloud-based 3D printing)
- Launch.it, New York (online pressroom and brand engagement services)
- Leonar3do, Budapest (world's first desktop virtual reality)
- Liquipel, Santa Ana (watersafe coatings for mobile devices -- with three major new announcements)
- MediaPass, Los Angeles (cloud-based content monetization and subscription management)
- Netmax Communications (personal Internet privacy cloud)
- parWinr, Honolulu (video gamification)
- SimulTV, Virginia (social TV platform)
- SnapCuts, Los Angeles (social video)
- Sysomos, Toronto (social media monitoring platform)
- Rednote, Boston (musical expression text messaging)
- TourWrist (mobile 360-degree panorama creator)
- USelfDirect, Las Vegas (online self-directed investment portal)
- Voxeet, San Francisco (high-definition audio conferencing)
- Walls 360, Las Vegas (on-demand wall graphics)
- Zephyr Games, New York (interactive mobile gaming)
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A political advocacy group has spent more than $300,000 to air television commercials touting immigration reform legislation. The ads, which began airing last week, feature an up-and-coming senator stressing the need for the bill.
The organization paying for that message is not a liberal outfit seeking electoral advantage by adding Hispanics to the voting rolls.
It's the American Action Network, which aims to "create, encourage and promote center-right policies based on the principles of freedom, limited government, American exceptionalism, and strong national security."
And the senator starring in those spots is not a Democrat kowtowing to a special-interest group.
He's Florida Republican Marco Rubio, one of the bipartisan "Gang of Eight" (including South Carolina's Lindsey Graham), which has crafted a comprehensive proposal that grants some illegal immigrants a "pathway to citizenship" — but only after meeting stringent standards.
As Sen. Rubio puts it in the commercial:
"They're going to have to wait 13 years. They're going to have to pay fines. They're going to have to learn English. They're going to have to work. They're going to have to wait at the back of the line."
Yet some particularly hardheaded conservatives have condemned this bill as "amnesty" — just as they unfairly branded our senior senator "Lindsey Grahmnesty" when he dared to support similar immigration reform initiatives backed by Republican President George W. Bush during his second term.
Such demonization of conservatives seeking reasonable common ground on this issue persists — and threatens to scuttle the chances of immigration reform finally passing this year.
Sen. Rubio disputes a new Heritage Foundation report warning that the bill would impose high costs. He argues that the bill would pay for itself by creating millions of new taxpayers and other economic benefits.
And in an op-ed he wrote for The Wall Street Journal last week, Sen. Rubio offered this reassurance: "For those who have suggested that the border security triggers outlined in the Senate bill aren't strong enough, we now have a chance to strengthen them."
Of course, the border should be firmly verified as secure before we open the citizenship pathway to what is estimated to be at least 11 million illegal immigrants already in the U.S.
But the immigration-policy status quo obviously isn't working. That's why so many states, including this one, have enacted their own immigration laws.
Ultimately, though, illegal immigration is a national problem that demands a federal solution. And the immigration reform legislation from the Gang of Eight can provide a balanced answer to this challenge.
It also can serve the vital purpose of giving the authorities a better handle on who gets into the U.S. — and who is already here.
On April 21, six days after two terrorist bombs killed three people and injured more than 260 at the Boston Marathon, Sen. Graham pointed out on CNN's "State of the Union":
"What happened in Boston and international terrorism, I think, should urge us to act quicker, not slower, when it comes to getting the 11 million identified. I think now is the time to bring all the 11 million out of the shadows and find out who they are. Most of them are here to work, but we may find some terrorists in our midst who have been hiding in the shadows."
Shining light on those shadows is a practical, overdue concept that conservatives should support.


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Sunday, June 4, 2000
Savor the Flavors of Summer Reading
Most parents are familiar with the library's summer reading program for kids but are surprised to find that there is also a program for adults as well as book groups for teens. Whether you are traveling or staying at home and trying to keep cool there are lots of wonderful books at your public library waiting to entertain and educate you. Today I am highlighting some of the titles which are suggested reading for Evansville-Vanderburgh Public Library's Adult Reading Program which is sponsored by the Public Library Friends. To complete the program you must read five library books in four different categories by July 29th. For all the details visit your nearest EVPL library. Our theme this year is Savor the Flavors and when you sign up you will receive a coupon for a giant cookie, then when you complete the program you will be entered in a drawing for some delicious prizes from Great Harvest Bread Company. To be eligible you must read five library books in the four categories mentioned below. If you live elsewhere in the Tri-State area, contact your local library to see what incentives they are offering summer readers.
Popular Fiction
Sullivan's Island by Dorothea Benton Frank.
Fans of Anne Rivers Siddons will enjoy this story of family love and turmoil which is set in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Susan Hayes is a feisty Southern heroine who must face her uncertain past in order to come to grips with her unfaithful husband and sullen teenage daughter and move into the future. Set in the steamy, stormy landscape of South Carolina, Sullivan's Island has been a recent New York Times Bestseller. Other titles suggested for this category are: The Mermaids Singing by Lisa Carey, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King, Milk in My Coffee by Jerome Dickey and On Mystic Lake by Kristin Hannah.
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden.
Journalist Bowden gives readers a detailed account of the military operation in Mogadishu that left 18 American soldiers dead and many more wounded in 1993. It was a foreign-policy disaster for the Clinton administration which led to the resignation Les Aspin, Secretary of Defense and a total troop withdrawal from Somalia. Elite Delta Force troops were supposed to capture two deputies of a Somali warlord, but quickly found themselves trapped without their helicopters in a hostile African city, supposed peacekeepers in a situation close to anarchy. This book has been hailed by critics as a modern military classic which reads like a novel. Some other suggested titles in this category are: Life Strategies by Phillip McGraw, The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean, Playing for Keeps by David Halberstam, and The Climb by Anatoli Boukreev.
Mysteries and Thrillers
Blind Descent by Nevada Barr.
The sixth mystery starring park ranger Anna Pigeon, finds our heroine fighting claustrophobia to rescue a fellow ranger injured in Carlsbad Caverns. Deftly plotted with plenty of action and wonderful descriptions of caves. Barr is a great story teller and her writing style is masterly. If you haven't met Anna Pigeon yet, you will want to make her acquaintance this summer. Other suggested titles in this category include: Ice Reich by William Dietrich, Ride with the Devil by Daniel Woodrell, Blanche on the Lam by Barbara Neely and The Emperor's General by James H. Webb.
Classics and Literary Fiction
The Music Lesson by Katharine Weber.
Art expert Patricia Dolan, divorcee and grieving mother is alone with a stolen Vermeer painting in a remote Irish cottage. The story of how she got to this place is a rich tapestry of tales; about her father, a Boston policeman; the loss of her only daughter; and her Irish cousin who becomes her lover. If you like psychological thrillers that are well crafted this should fill the bill nicely. Other suggested titles in this Literary category are: Amsterdam by Ian McEwan, Cider House Rules by John Irving, Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur S. Golden and The Way I Found Her by Rose Tremain.
Sandy Schultheis is a librarian with the Evansville-Vanderburgh Public Library. The opinions expressed in this column are personal and do not reflect policies or official recommendations of EVPL.


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"The Spree is common among Reapers not only for its rogue-like style, but also for its surprising flexibility. Mobile, yet offering tremendous stability, it is ideal for assignments which require venturing alone outside of friendly territory. When challenged by the ever changing battlefield, Spree pilots are known to overcome, endure, and excel. Even when swathed in dirt and dust it is highly functional, so some pilots claim that cleaning their Spree would wipe away years of hard earned "natural camouflage". But we all know that's just an excuse. "Clean? Whaddaya mean, this baby IS clean!" - Deadeye Bill Buser"
Straight from Prosk R&D comes the Reaper, a light mech equipped for midrange sniping or close-quarters precision. It comes armed with brand new weapons, an exclusive ability not found on any other mech, and a new item provided as standard equipment.
The Reaper will be made available on January 24, 2013 as part of the Reaper Update available in the Garage.
EditPrimary weapon: AM-SAR
The new AM-SAR is a potent anti-materiel weapon. This rapid-fire, single-shot rifle combines high accuracy with speedy reload times. Successive shots will decrease your accuracy, but recovery time is very quick.
EditAlternate Primary Weapon: Hawkins-RPR
Nicknamed "The Ripper", the Hawkins-RPR fuses together two sawed-off cannons that are highly-modified to produce rapid fire, close-range carnage. The Ripper is brand new and only available on the Reaper as a free level four unlock.
EditSecondary Weapon: KE-Sabot
The KE-Sabot is a new midrange sniper rifle with zoom optics. Press the middle mouse button to zoom in on your enemies from afar. Zoom increases damage as well as precision. Though it shares the name with the Sharpshooter's secondary weapon, there is no information as to how the differ
EditPrestige Weapon: Slug Rifle
The Slug Rifle, retrofitted from the Sharpshooter, is highly-accurate at long range, and makes a great complement to the KE-Sabot for pure sniping missions. It is available on the Reaper as a level 25 unlock.
EditPrecision Overdrive
Precision Overdrive greatly increases your accuracy for a short period of time. Use Precision Overdrive in combination with the zoom ability on the KE-Sabot rifle for a sizable accuracy boost while sniping. Zoom will increase precision and damage on all of your weapons, so find a safe spot and snipe away.
EditOffensive Item
The Detonator comes standard on the Reaper, giving this light sniper a little extra oomph from afar or even when caught out in the open. Deploy this slow-moving explosive charge and it will fly straight and true until detonated. Simply press the firing mechanism again to detonate and deal damage in a massive radius.
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Doesn't look like anything of substance to me. Just rampant speculation on the part of the author IMO.
Not that I don't want the Reds to get the ASG, but I think every franchise should have a turn and IIRC there are some that have NEVER had it yet.
Marlins & Rays have never hosted it. The Nats haven't (although they did as the Expos). The Dodgers haven't had one since 1980.
Dodgers, Nats, A's and the Marlins and Rays should have first dibs before the Reds if all things are fair.
from least recent to most recent
New York Mets, 1964 (scheduled to host in 2013)
Los Angeles Dodgers, 1980
Washington Nationals, 1982 (as Montreal Expos the last All-Star Game held in Washington, DC was in 1969, hosted by the present-day Texas Rangers franchise)
Minnesota Twins, 1985 (scheduled to host in 2014)
Oakland Athletics, 1987
Cincinnati Reds, 1988 (bidding for 2015)
Chicago Cubs, 1990
Toronto Blue Jays, 1991
San Diego Padres, 1992
Miami Marlins, never (franchise started in 1993; was scheduled to host in 2000, but moved to Atlanta; bidding for 2015)
Baltimore Orioles, 1993
Texas Rangers, 1995
Philadelphia Phillies, 1996
Cleveland Indians, 1997
Tampa Bay Rays, never (franchise started in 1998)
Colorado Rockies, 1998
Boston Red Sox, 1999
Atlanta Braves, 2000
Seattle Mariners, 2001
Milwaukee Brewers, 2002
Chicago White Sox, 2003
Houston Astros, 2004
Detroit Tigers, 2005
Pittsburgh Pirates, 2006
San Francisco Giants, 2007
New York Yankees, 2008
St. Louis Cardinals, 2009
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, 1989 (as California Angels), 2010
Arizona Diamondbacks, 2011
Kansas City Royals, 2012
If Cincinnati can't get an All-Star game, I'd like to see them put in the winning bid for the next few World Series.
Agreed that the Dodgers and Nats probably have dibs over the Reds. But they're really the only two, I think. Both Florida teams have baggage, and the A's play in a craphole and are basically just waiting out the clock till they're allowed to move (at which point, they'll get a shiny new stadium and an ASG, but not till then).
Combine how long it's been since Cincinnati hosted an ASG with the fact that GABP is one of the few current stadiums in all of MLB to have NEVER hosted/be-scheduled-to-host an ASG (and it's now 10 years old), and I really can't see how you can justify not getting one of the next three NL slots... a quick glance, and isn't it just the two Florida teams, Petco, the Nats, new Yankee Stadium, and GABP that haven't ever hosted and aren't scheduled to host in the next 2 years? And it's not like either Florida team should be under consideration, nor the Yanks (since Old Yankee Stadium just had it)...
Fay's now reporting it as a done deal, announcement on Wednesday:
The Midsummer Classic will return to Cincinnati in 2015, baseball sources confirmed.
Commissioner Bud Selig will be in town Wednesday to announce the newest Major League Baseball Urban Youth Academy. The academy will be built in Cincinnati, the first one in the Midwest.
Selig is expected to announce the All-Star Game at that time.
The Reds had no comment on matter Monday night. CEO Bob Castellini said on Opening Day that the All-Star Game was coming to Cincinnati, but he would not say the specific year.
The All-Star Game has become a much bigger deal than it was even in 1988. The Home Run Derby on the eve of the game sells out each year. The Fanfest is a massive undertaking.
It will be the first All-Star Game at GABP. The Reds last hosted in 1988 at Riverfront Stadium. Cincinnati also hosted in 1938 and 1953 Crosley Field and in 1970 at Riverfront.
The All-Star Game has become a much bigger deal than it was even in 1988. The Home Run Derby on the eve of the game sells out each year. The Fanfest is a massive undertaking.
"The commissioner has talked about it before, it's gone from asking cities to host to everyone wanting to host," MLB media relations Patrick Courtney said earlier last week. "It's become such a big deal with the five or six events."
MLB has been alternating the game between National League and American League cities. This year's game will be at Citi Field, the home of the New York Mets. Next year's game will at Target Field, home of the Minnesota Twins.
The Reds have pushed for an All-Star Game since Bob Castellini took over ownership of the club. Castellini said on Opening Day 2012 that an All-Star Game was coming to Cincinnati, but he wouldn't say when.
The 1988 game -- won 2-1 by the American League -- was not particularly memorable.
The 1970 game was. The NL won 5-4 in 12 innings. The winning run scored when Pete Rose plowed Ray Fosse at the plate. The throw easily beat Rose, but the ball came loose as Rose collided with Fosse.
The game was played at Riverfront Stadium, just two weeks after the park opened. Because of the concerns about the park being ready, commissioner Bowie Kuhn did not guarantee that Cincinnati would host until June 1.
The NL won in 1938 and 1953 as well. The 1953 game is noteworthy in that Satchel Paige played in it as a 46-year-old, the oldest All-Star in history.
Very cool! This is going to be AWESOME!
I'm taking off the whole month. Just to be safe.
I have a love-hate relationship with Albert Pujols. Mostly hate.
It's a great event. I didn't make it to the game here in KC this year -- no tickets to be had -- but I went to the Futures Game, and it was fantastic.
They do ask for volunteers to help out, which a friend of mine did. He said it was a lot of fun, and he got to do a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff at the ballpark leading up to the game, including be the stand-in for one of the players on the field during rehearsals.
"I prefer books and movies where the conflict isn't of the extreme cannibal apocalypse variety I guess." Redsfaithful
How exciting!! This is beyond cool and I am SO volunteering to help out for this event at GABP! I would love to attend some of the events too including Futures game, the actual game, and maybe the Celebrity softball game (which is always a hoot to watch and I think it would be fun to see those guys in person). It's not every year that your home ballpark hosts an event like this so I definitely want to take it all in. I loved being part of the Civil Rights game the last time it was here so I am totally geeked out about being part of this event. Fantastic news!
"I tried to play golf, but I found out I wasn't very good." -Joey Votto on his offseason hobby search
An MLB.com reporter asked what one thing Votto couldnt do. I cant skate or play hockey, Votto said. Well, I can skate ... but I cant stop.
Freakin finally! Great news.
"I never argue with people who say baseball is boring, because baseball is boring. And then, suddenly, it isn't. And that's what makes it great." - Joe Posnanski
I went to the one in Cleveland in '97. One of the best times Ive had at a ballpark. I remember Sandy Alomar Jr. hitting the game winning HR and McGwire hitting the scoreboard out in LF in batting practice. Having events like these really helps the city be put on a national stage. Congrats Cincinnati. Also, the HR Derby will be amazing. Can you imagine how many bombs will be hit. I cant wait!
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"Losing feels worse than winning feels good." -Vin Scully
Great news about the 2015 All Star game.
"Hey...Dad. Wanna Have A Catch?" Kevin Costner in "Field Of Dreams."
Cool. Glad I was wrong. Might be an excuse for a road-trip. :O)
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CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. — Junior Chris England baffled the Boston College hitters for six innings, allowing a solitary run, and two Dartmouth relievers closed out a 2-1 victory over the host Eagles at Pellagrini Diamond at Shea Field. Sophomore Joe Purritano provided the only Big Green runs of the day with a two-out, two-run double in the first to help Dartmouth (6-16) end a three-game slide.
Boston College, which entered the game with a team batting average of .224, dropped to 10-21 on the season as it was held to two runs or less for the 19th time in 31 games this year.
England (1-0) continued his mastery over the Eagles, having beaten them as a freshman in the only other start of his career. He surrendered a mere four hits and walked four over his 81-pitch outing. Thirteen of the 18 outs came on groundballs, with another erased on a double play and another caught stealing. The Eagles never put more than two runners on base in any inning against the right-hander from Boynton Beach, Fla.
Head coach Bob Whalen called upon junior left-hander Adam Frank to start the seventh on the mound, and he continued to keep Boston College in check. Frank yielded only a two-out single in the seventh, then began the eighth by issuing a four-pitch walk. But after jumping ahead of the next hitter with two strikes, induced a double play to squelch any rally.
In the ninth, freshman Chris Burkholder got the opportunity to record his first collegiate save. Joe Cronin led off with a single, and when Tom Bourdon squared to bunt the runner into scoring position, the pitch got away from Burkholder and hit Bourdon to put the winning run on base.
After a successful sacrifice put the two runners in scoring position, Whalen decided to draw the infield in an attempt to cut off the tying run. The strategy worked when Burkholder induced a grounder directly to shortstop Matt Parisi, who threw home to gun down Cronin trying to score. Up to the plate stepped Nate Colucci, who already had two of the Eagles' six hits on the afternoon. Colucci tried to catch the Dartmouth defense by surprise by bunting for a hit, but the ball went right back to Burkholder, whose high throw was corralled by first baseman Dustin Selzer, who applied the tag to end the game.
The three Big Green pitchers did not strike out a single batter, relying on the flawless defense behind them.
Dartmouth rapped out 11 hits against three Boston College hurlers, but it was the first three that brought home their only runs. Junior Thomas Roulis and senior Jeff Keller stroked one-out singles, and after a fly to left, Purritano sliced a two-run double down the left-field line to bring home both runners for a 2-0 lead.
The only Boston College run crossed the plate in the fourth when Cronin hit a single with one down and Bourdon hit an RBI double to right.
Eagle right-hander Mike King (1-1) suffered the loss for giving up the two runs on seven hits over five frames without a walk and one strikeout.
Roulis finished the game with three hits including a double to lead the Big Green, and junior Nick Lombardi went 2-for-4.
Dartmouth returns home to take on Holy Cross (10-17) at Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park on Wednesday afternoon at 3 p.m. Boston College heads across town to play at Harvard as part of the Beanpot Tournament. First pitch is slated for 3 p.m.


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Director of Opera Kasper Holten spoke to BBC Radio 3's In Tune yesterday about the upcoming 2013/14 Season.
Kasper spoke to presenter Sean Rafferty about a Season filled with star power including Jonas Kaufmann in Manon Lescaut, Simon Rattle conducting Dialogues des Carmélites, Joyce DiDonato in Maria Stuarda, and Anna Netrebko, Bryn Terfel, Simon Keenlyside and Joseph Calleja in Faust.
'We have a good mix this Season. The Company is in a good state to take on challenges, to really go to the extremes of where opera can be,' said Kasper of the range of works to be staged during 2013/14.
On his transition two years ago from the Royal Danish Opera to Covent Garden, Kasper said 'It's like switching from managing FC Copenhagen to running Manchester United. The Royal Opera is incredible because it's a company where all the big stars of the world want to perform; because of its history and tradition and because of the people we can attract it's a really special place to work.'
Speaking of the production he himself will direct, Kasper said: 'The challenge of Don Giovanni that it's an incredible piece but it evokes the fantasy for all of us – who is this incredible seducer? Don Giovanni needs to be a comedy and a tragedy at once.'
On the appeal of the character of anti-hero Don Giovanni, Kasper said that the opera is 'About a man who more than anything is hurting himself. It's something we recognize, this restlessness where enough is never enough – we want more, more, more and this never allows us to truly enjoy where we are. It's something that modern people recognize.'
Kasper also spoke of the challenges of the Season's two epic productions - Les Vêpres siciliennes and Parsifal - dropping hints as to the staging of the former. He discussed exciting new works, both in the ROH's Linbury Studio Theatre and at Shakespeare's Globe, and his thoughts on cast cancellations and the importance of opera in cinemas.
Maltese tenor Joseph Calleja was also a guest on the programme.
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Load Balancers Are Dead: Time to Focus on
Application Delivery
2 February 2009
Mark Fabbi
Gartner RAS Core Research Note G00164098
When looking at feature requirements in front of and between server tiers, too many organizations think only about load balancing. However, the era of load balancing is long past, and organizations will be better served to focus their attention on improving the delivery of applications.
This research shifts the attention from basic load-balancing features to application delivery features to aid in the deployment and delivery of applications. Networking organizations are missing significant opportunities to increase application performance and user experience by ignoring this fundamental market shift.
Key Findings
- Enterprises are still focused on load balancing.
- There is little cooperation between networking and application teams on a holistic approach for application deployment.
- Properly deployed application delivery controllers can improve application performance and security, increase the efficiency of data center infrastructure, and assist the deployment of the virtualized data center.
- Network architects must shift attention and resources away from Layer 3 packet delivery networks and basic load balancing to application delivery networks.
- Enterprises must start building specialized expertise around application delivery
What you need to Know
IT organizations that shift to application delivery will improve internal application performance that will noticeably improve business processes and productivity for key applications. For external-facing applications, end-user experience and satisfaction will improve, positively affecting the ease of doing business with supply chain partners and customers. Despite application delivery technologies being well proved, they have not yet reached a level of deployment that reflects their value to the enterprise, and too many clients do not have the right business and technology requirements on their radar.
What's the Issue?
Many organizations are missing out on big opportunities to improve the performance of internal processes and external service interactions by not understanding application delivery technologies. This is very obvious when considering the types of client inquiries we receive on a regular basis.
In the majority of cases, clients phrase their questions to ask specifically about load balancing. In some cases, they are replacing aged server load balancers (SLBs), purchased before the advent of the advanced features now available in leading application delivery controllers (ADCs).
In other cases, we get calls about application performance challenges, and, after exploring the current infrastructure, we find that these clients have modern, advanced ADCs already installed, but they haven't turned on any of the advanced features and are using new equipment, such as circa 1998 SLBs. In both cases, there is a striking lack of understanding of what ADCs can and should bring to the enterprise infrastructure.
Organizations that still think of this critically important position in the data center as one that only requires load balancing are missing out on years of valuable innovation and are not taking advantage of the growing list of services that are available to increase application performance and security and to play an active role in the increasing vitalization and automation of server resources. Modern ADCs are the only devices in the data center capable of providing a real-time, pan-application view of application data flows and resource requirements. This insight will continue to drive innovation of new capabilities for distributed and vitalized applications.
Why Did This Happen?
The "blame" for this misunderstanding can be distributed in many ways, though it is largely history that is at fault. SLBs were created to better solve the networking problem of how to distribute requests across a group of servers responsible for delivering a specific Web application. Initially, this was done with simple round-robin DNS, but because of the limitations of this approach, function-specific load-balancing appliances appeared on the market to examine inbound application requests and to map these requests dynamically to available servers.
Because this was a networking function, the responsibility landed solely in network operations and, while there were always smaller innovative players, the bulk of the early market ended up in the hands of networking vendors (largely Cisco, Nortel and Foundry [now part of Brocade]). So, a decade ago, the situation basically consisted of networking vendors selling network solutions to network staff. However, innovation continued, and the ADC market became one of the most innovative areas of enterprise networking over the past decade.
Initially, this innovation focused on the inbound problem — such as the dynamic recognition of server load or failure and session persistence to ensure that online "shopping carts" weren't lost. Soon, the market started to evolve to look at other problems, such as application and server efficiency. The best example would be the adoption of SSL termination and offload.
Finally, the attention turned to outbound traffic, and a series of techniques and features started appearing in the market to improve the performance of the applications being delivered across the network. Innovations migrated from a pure networking focus to infrastructure efficiencies to application performance optimization and security — from a networking product to one that touched networking, server, applications and security staff. The networking vendors that were big players when SLB was the focus, quickly became laggards in this newly emerging ADC market.
Current Obstacles
As the market shifts toward modern ADCs, some of the blame must rest on the shoulders of the new leaders (vendors such as F5 and Citrix NetScaler). While their products have many advanced capabilities, these vendors often undersell their products and don't do enough to clearly demonstrate their leadership and vision to sway more of the market to adopting the new features.
The other challenge for vendors (and users) is that modern ADCs impact many parts of the IT organization. Finally, some blame rests with the IT organization. By maintaining siloed operational functions, it has been difficult to recognize and define requirements that fall between functional areas.
Why We Need More and Why Should Enterprises Care?
Not all new technologies deserve consideration for mainstream deployment. However, in this case, advanced ADCs provide capabilities to help mitigate the challenges of deploying and delivering the complex application environments of today. The past decade saw a mass migration to browser-based enterprise applications targeting business processes and user productivity as well as increasing adoption of service-oriented architectures (SOAs), Web 2.0 and now cloud computing models.
These approaches tend to place increased demand on the infrastructure, because of "chatty" and complex protocols. Without providing features to mitigate latency, to reduce round trips and bandwidth, and to strengthen security, these approaches almost always lead to disappointing performance for enterprise and external users. The modern ADC provides a range of features (see Note 1) to deal with these complex environments. Beyond application performance and security, application delivery controllers can reduce the number of required servers, provide real-time control mechanisms to assist in data center virtualization, and reduce data center power and cooling requirements.
ADCs also provide simplified deployment and extensibility and are now being deployed between the Web server tier and the application or services tier (for SOA) servers. Most ADCs incorporate rule-based extensibility that enables customization of the behavior of the ADC. For example, a rule might enable the ADC to examine the response portion of an e-commerce transaction to strip off all but the last four digits of credit card numbers. Organizations can use these capabilities as a simple, quick alternative to modifying Web applications.
Most ADCs incorporate a programmatic interface (open APIs) that allows them to be controlled by external systems, including application servers, data center management, and provisioning applications and network/system management applications. This capability may be used for regular periodic reconfigurations (end-of-month closing) or may even be driven by external events (taking an instance of an application offline for maintenance). In some cases, the application programming interfaces link the ADC to server virtualization systems and data center provisioning frameworks in order to deliver the promise of real-time infrastructure.
What Vendors Provide ADC Solutions Today?
During the past five years, the innovations have largely segmented the market into vendors that understand complex application environments and the subtleties in implementations (examples would be F5, Citrix NetScaler and Radware) and those with more of a focus on static feature sets and networking. "Magic Quadrant for Application Delivery Controllers" provides a more complete analysis and view of the vendors in the market.
Vendors that have more-attractive offerings will have most or all of these attributes:
- A strong set of advanced platform capabilities
- Customizable, extensible platforms and solutions
- A vision focused on application delivery networking
- Affinity to applications:
- Needs to be application-fluent (that is, they need to "speak the language")
- Support organizations need to "talk applications"
*What Should Enterprises Do About This?
Enterprises must start to move beyond refreshing their load-balancing footprint. The features of advanced ADCs are so compelling for those that make an effort to shift their thinking and organizational boundaries that continuing efforts on SLBs is wasting time and resources. In most cases, the incremental investment in advanced ADC platforms is easily compensated by reduced requirements for servers and bandwidth and the clear improvements in end-user experience and productivity.
In addition, enterprises should:
- Use the approach documented in "Five Dimensions of Network Design to Improve Performance and Save Money" to understand user demographics and productivity tools and applications. Also, part of this requirements phase should entail gaining an understanding of any shifts in application architectures and strategies. This approach provides the networking team with much greater insight into broader IT requirements.
- Understand what they already have in their installed base. We find, in at least 25% of our interactions, enterprises have already purchased and installed an advanced ADC platform, but are not using it to its potential. In some cases, they already have the software installed, so two to three days of training and some internal discussions can lead to massive improvements.
- Start building application delivery expertise. This skill set will be one that bridges the gaps between networking, applications, security and possibly the server. Organizations can use this function to help extend the career path and interest for high-performance individuals from groups like application performance monitoring or networking operations. Networking staff aspiring to this role must have strong application and personal communication skills to achieve the correct balance. Some organizations will find they have the genesis of these skills scattered across multiple groups. Building a cohesive home will provide immediate benefits, because the organization's barriers will be quickly eliminated.
- Start thinking about ADCs as strategic platforms, and move beyond tactical deployments of SLBs. Once organizations think about application delivery as a basic infrastructure asset, the use of these tools and services (and associated benefits) will be more readily achieved.
Note: We have defined a category of advanced ADCs to distinguish their capabilities from basic, more-static function load balancers. These advanced ADCs operate on a per-transaction basis and achieve application fluency. These devices become actively involved in the delivery of the application and provide sophisticated capabilities, including:
- Application layer proxy, which is often bidirectional
- Content transformation
- Selective compression
- Selective caching of dynamic content
- HTML or other application protocol optimizations
- Web application firewall
- XML validation and transformation
- Rules and programmatic interfaces


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Eric Marbach of Waubonsie Valley returned to varsity tennis this season after two years away on the USTA circuit because he wanted a shot at the state title in his senior year.
On Saturday Marbach came very close to his goal when he finished second in the state tournament singles bracket losing 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 in a closely fought three-set match to the No. 1 seed, Hinsdale Central's Martin Joyce.
"He finished the season with a 29-1 record," said Waubonsie Valley coach Phil Galow. "And he went three sets, 4-6 in the final set, in the state finals with the best player in the state. Eric really impressed me with the way he played and with the way he conducted himself all season. I'm very proud of him."
"I was really close," Marbach said. "I was happy with the way I played, especially in the tournament. It was a great season."
In the semifinals Marbach faced Michael Lorenzini, also of Hinsdale Central, which successfully defended its Illinois state championship, in a grueling three-set match that took more than three hours to complete.
Marbach played the entire day on a taped ankle that he had injured in fourth-round play on Friday. He started slowly in both matches as he got used to the taping, but he said, he didn't think about he injury much after that.
"Last night I couldn't even walk," Marbach said. "But after the ankle loosened up in each match I was able to move fine. I had my opportunities early in the third set against Joyce. I could have taken more chances. But Joyce was too good today. "
Marbach thought he played better in the loss to Joyce than he did in the win against Lorenzini.
"Lorenzini is more crafty," Marbach said. "He wants you to attack him so he can get his passing shots against you. Joyce is the complete opposite. He gives you pace. I like playing an up-tempo guy like Joyce, rather than a cat-and-mouse game with Lorenzini."
Joyce praised Marbach for his play in the championship match.
"He has a pretty big serve and he gets his fair share of free points with it," Joyce said. "He moves real well, he's tough at the net and he comes up with big volleys."
The state doubles final was an all-Hinsdale Central match with Eddie Grabill and Harold Martin defeating Alex Hagermoser and Peter Henegan 6-3, 1-6, 6-4.
Lorenzini bested Jasper Koenen of St. Charles East 7-6 (4), 3-6, 6-1 for third place at singles.
"It feels good winning the state singles title," Joyce said. "But I'm even happier that the team got it done. We talked about getting the team championship from the first day of practice. It feels really good."
Until the loss in the semifinals, the Red Devils had won 43 straight matches.
"I feel happy for the kids," said Hinsdale Central coach John Naisbitt. "This is a very talented bunch of very determined athletes who wanted to win and were hungry all year. We stayed healthy and we went after it the past few days. I couldn't be more proud of the way they handled themselves."
Hinsdale Central finished with 59 points, far ahead of Lake Forest and Stevenson which tied for second with 36 points. Downers Grove South was seventh with 17 points. Neuqua Valley achieved its goal of a top-10 finish by finishing eighth with 18 points as did Naperville Central, which tied for ninth with 15 points.
With Marbach accounting for all of its 14 points, Waubonsie Valley finished just outside the top 10 in 11th place.


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Conference Board member companies have posed this question with great urgency. Faced with new opportunities, their executives have to be able to act fast and confidently in an increasingly competitive environment. They need to know:
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In short, how can organizations share knowledge at the speed of global business? How can rapid deployment be shortened from, say, six months to two months?
These firms see that social technologies can play an important role, but that's "the easy part". They also know that individual skills to provide team leadership and help a team learn are important. But overwhelmingly our members tell us that "organizational culture is 50% of the problem".
For instance, individuals and teams holding critical knowledge may feel threatened by a process that will assess the soundness of their knowledge, or they may hold on to knowledge as a source of power and be reluctant to share it, or they may not see an incentive to work on an emerging issue with limited immediate payback. Organizational culture—including systems and processes in place—may facilitate or inhibit using knowledge.
In response to these member concerns, The Conference Board will launch a Research Working Group (RWG) on this topic in January 2011. To learn more about this project, please join us for this webcast. A further description of the Research Working Group program can be found at: http://www.conference-board.org/workinggroups/index.cfm?id=2237
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We, as citizens, must tell our elected representatives to reverse the Citizens United decision by the Supreme Court. Call and remind your congressional representatives that Colorado voted in November for Amendment 65 to change the federal Constitution to limit campaign spending.
A recent Daily camera article stated that the ballot measure "directed the states nine-member congressional delegation to 'propose and support' an amendment to the U.S. Constitution limiting campaign spending." So far our delegation has not proposed any amendment.
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