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UCLA junior guard Tyler Lamb will undergo arthroscopic surgery on his left knee Tuesday and is expected to miss four to six weeks.
Lamb played in 33 games -- 32 starts -- last season and averaged 9.0 points, 3.6 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game.
"I'm very optimistic that Tyler will be back in four weeks," head coach Ben Howland said. "He's going to be very diligent with his rehab, and we are hopeful that this will be a quick and successful procedure. He had similar surgery on this knee the summer before his freshman year, and he quickly recovered from that."
Lamb missed a month of action after undergoing a similar procedure on the same knee on July 2, 2010.

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Russia and Eurasia
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Projects currently include work on Russia's mobilization, Ukraine's reforms, Armenia's foreign policy, oligarchy and broader inter-state relations.
A major programmatic focus of this work for Chatham House is carried out by the Russia and Eurasia Programme and its projects.


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A web search engine is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web and FTP servers. The search results are generally presented in a list of results often referred to as SERPS, or "search engine results pages". The information may consist of web pages, images, information and other types of files. Some search engines also mine data available in databases or open directories. Unlike web directories, which are maintained by human editors, search engines operate algorithmically or are a mixture of algorithmic and human input.
-- from Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_search_engine
How Do Search Engines Work
- A Simpler Explanation from About.com
- A Detailed Explanation from HowStuffWorks.com
- A Visual Explanation from YouTube
- They search the Internet -- or select pieces of the Internet -- based on important words.
- They keep an index of the words they find, and where they find them.
- They allow users to look for words or combinations of words found in that index.
Do Search Engines Search the Entire Web?
"In a word, no. Search engines have millions of pages in their databases (Google alone indexes close to eight billion), but none of them even come close to indexing the whole Web, let alone the Internet. What are some pages that they exclude?" says Wendy Boswell from About.com. Visit About.com to see why.
How to Search the Internet With Search Engines?
- A Commoner's Guide to Search Engines (Tips and Tricks)
- Advanced Searching with Google and Other Search Engines
- Searching the Web—a Kentucky Virtual Library Tutorial
- Guide To Web Search Engines
- Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide (from Google)
- Guide to Search Tools: Why Searches Fail?
Web Search Engines vs. Libraries' Database
Apart from different search algorithm, the biggest difference is that Libraries' Databases are password protected. They are because they are purchased from vendors that have made efforts to purchase from scholarly publishers and make the publications available online and searchable. The majority of the resources from the databases are peer-reviewed. A peer-reviewed article found from the databases is as good as the copy of a print scholarly journal article you make from a copy machine, only that their access is made more convenient.
What Do You Do After You Find Your Stuff?
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As the showcase race for sophomore fillies each winter in New Orleans, four of the last seven Fair Grounds Oaks winners have gone on to win the Kentucky Oaks later in the spring during Kentucky Derby Week at Churchill Downs.
With that late development, Brereton Jones's Believe You Can, winner of Fair Grounds' $125,000 Silverbulletday Stakes Jan 21, has been pegged as the 3-1 second choice in the Fair Grounds Oaks, which will offer a $500,000 purse for the first time on Saturday.
Summer Applause, trained by Bret Calhoun, finished second to Believe You Can in the Silverbulletday, while Believe You Can, conditioned by Larry Jones, finished fourth behind Summer Applause in the Rachel Alexandra.
Seven-time Fair Grounds riding champion Robby Albarado will be aboard Summer Applause, while defending jockey champion and current leading rider Rosie Napravnik will be astride Believe You Can.
Third choice in the early line for the Fair Grounds Oaks at 4-1 is Jake Ballis's Inny Minnie, third in both the Silverbulletday and the Rachel Alexandra. Inny Minnie, trained by Steve Margolis, breezed five furlongs in 1:01.60 Sunday morning at Fair Grounds and will be ridden by Shaun Bridgmohan, Fair Grounds' leading rider two seasons ago.
Gainesway Thoroughbreds' Small Kitchen, undefeated in two trips to the post – both locally – is 9-2 in the Oaks early odds, is trained by Mike Maker, and will have Eclipse Award-winning rider Ramon Dominguez.
Glencrest Farm's Disposablepleasure, who won Aqueduct's Grade II Demoiselle last fall and was most recently third in Gulfstream's Grade II Davona Dale, will invade from South Florida for five-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer Todd Pletcher, will have defending Arlington Park jockey champion James Graham in the irons and is pegged at 5-1 in the Oaks early line.
Bluegrass Hall's Colonial Empress, a 20-1 long shot conditioned by Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas, is still a maiden but has finished on the board in stakes in both her lifetime starts. After finishing fourth in Oaklawn's $75,000 Martha Washington in her career debut Feb. 11, she rebounded to finish third in Oaklawn's Grade III Honeybee March 10. Louisiana native Corey Lanerie is slated for the saddle.
$100,000 BAYOU HANDICAP HEADS FAIR GROUNDS OAKS DAY UNDERCARD – The 44th running of the $100,000 Bayou Handicap for older fillies and mares over Fair Grounds' Stall-Wilson turf course is highlighted on Saturday's Fair Grounds Oaks Day undercard.
Oakcrest Farm et al.'s Upperline, trained by Mike Stidham and defending champion from last year's Bayou Handicap while also winner of last season's $60,000 Allen Lacombe Memorial Handicap, heads the field of seven.
$75,000 CRESCENT CITY OAKS, $60,000 RED CAMELIA ALSO SLATED SATURDAY – The feminine-themed Fair Grounds Oaks Day Saturday also includes two stakes restricted to accredited Louisiana-bred members of the distaff set.
Brittlyn Stable's Sunday's Child, trained by Al Stall Jr., captured Fair Grounds' $60,000 Sarah Lanes Oates at last asking and will be well regarded among the 10 accredited Louisiana-bred sophomore fillies that are entered in Saturday's seventh running of the $75,000 Crescent City Oaks.
In the $60,000 Red Camelia, for accredited Louisiana-bred fillies and mares to be run over the Stall-Wilson turf course Saturday, Russell Welch's Warrior Maid, trained by Eric Heitzmann and winner of Delta's $150,000 Premier Distaff in her last start Feb. 4, is expected to draw strong support in the field of nine.


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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/11/new_apache_nutch/
Hadoop's little buddy Nutch 2.0 gulps down web's big data
Apache projects united
Posted in Software, 11th July 2012 16:32 GMT
Hadoop daddy Doug Cutting's Nutch, the open-source web-search engine written in Java, has been updated to crawl through piles of big data on the web.
Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has released Nutch 2.0 featuring a data abstraction technique that plugs into big-data stores and frameworks Apache Accumulo, Avro, Cassandra, HBase and, yes, the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).
The abstraction layer that was employed is yet another Apache project, Gora – a framework that provides an in-memory data model and persistence layer for big data.
Gora works with NoSQL column stores, key value stores and document stores, as well as with RDBMSes.
The ASF website where Gora makes its home states its goal as becoming "the standard data representation and persistence framework for big data".
Nutch 2.0 also builds on the Apache open-source search server Soir, which adds a crawler, and a link-graph database with parsing support handled by the Apache Tika project.
Cutting wrote Nutch in 2003 with Mike Cafarella, while the pair were also developing Hadoop – using Google's MapReduce distributed data processing framework to make Hadoop system work at scale. Cutting also wrote Lucene, but it was Hadoop that made his name and he was brought in by Yahoo! to implement the system on its servers.
Nutch has since been somewhat eclipsed by Hadoop, which is used by Amazon.com, Facebook and Yahoo! to name just three web giants. Search engines written using Nutch include Krugle and mozDex. ®


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WAVERLY, Ohio — New owners of the site of closed cabinetry factory are planning on bringing new businesses and jobs to the southern Ohio county with the state's highest unemployment rate.
The Columbus Dispatch reports that officials in Pike County are enthused about the new uses for a 57-acre plant that closed nearly two years ago and took some 1,200 jobs. At its peak, it had employed 3,000 people.
Pike's unemployment rate in November was 11.9 percent.
Two real estate development partners with experience with finding new uses for such sites bought the former Mill's Pride plant this month for $5 million from Masco Corp.
The partners are Christopher Semarjian, who runs Industrial Commerce Ltd., near Cleveland, and Stuart Lichter, who heads Industrial Realty Group, near Los Angeles. They were joined in this project by Everett Hannah, owner of Gilco International Lumber in Varney, W.Va.
The company exports lumber to furniture and flooring manufacturers, and there are plans to start up a lumber operation at the Waverly plant in about six weeks. It initially would employ up to 28 workers. Gilco also is in talks with a Chinese furniture maker about using the Waverly plant.
Lichter said that he couldn't predict how many companies would lease or buy space at the large industrial property or how many jobs could be coming.
But he pointed to the former Hoover Co. campus in North Canton that he and Semarjian bought in 2008. They have brought in a half-dozen companies that include makers of heaters, vacuums and electrical equipment, a drug company and office tenants. He said the space in about 50 percent occupied, and they also hope to renovate some older buildings for loft apartments.
The longtime partners also have bought other industrial properties around Ohio, including the Ford Motor Co. van assembly plant in Lorain, and the Lockheed Martin Corp. complex and the Goodyear corporate campus, both in Akron.
The cabinetry plant had long been the largest employer in the Appalachian county of some 28,600 people has been reeling since the factory closed in early 2011. Workers made ready-to-assemble products sold at home-improvement retailers.
Waverly Mayor Greg Kempton was a manager there for nearly 20 years, and he is hopeful about the plans to bring in a mixture of businesses.
"If they fill it, we will have diversification there," Kempton said. "It should be more steady, more evened-out, as far as employment."
The plant's closure was "devastating" to Waverly's tax base, Kempton said. That meant fewer services in the community, with an annual operating budget of $2 million, he said.


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Add fun and unusual fabrics to your sewing repertoire. The first segment features couture designer Angela Wolf demonstrating easy ways to sew with silk. Next, Tricia Waddell and Katrina Loving introduce a whole new source of fabric - they recut existing garments for a fresh new style. Lastly, pattern designer Sheree Schattenmann introduces viewers to laminated cotton with an easy apron perfect for a first project.
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Influential New York hip-hop MC, actor and political activist Nas and Puerto Rican actor and reggaeton star Don Omar are the headliners for the Soulfrito Urban Latin Music Festival at Sun Life Stadium on Feb. 22.
Tickets for this seventh annual festival will be available Nov. 22 at all Ticketmaster outlets and at Soulfrito.com.
Nas (pictured) is an 11-time Grammy nominee with seven platinum albums and six No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200. In 2012, The Source ranked him No. 2 on their list of Top 50 Lyricists of All Time.
Don Omar has spent a decade as one of the top-selling Latin hip-hop artists, and he crossed over in a major way last year with the album "Don Omar Presents MTO2: The New Generation," featuring the ubiquitous "Dutty Love" duet with Natti Natasha. The singer has been working on a new album, "The Last Don 2," while pursuing a second career in drag racing.
Previous Soulfrito festival stars have included Pitbull, Wisin Y Yandel and Aventura. More performers are expected to be announced in the next several weeks.
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Deputy Secretary of Commerce and Trade for Rural Economic Development Mary Rae Carter joined state and local officials to celebrate the opening of the Noblis Center for Applied High Performance Computing (CAHPC) in Danville, Va., last Friday. CAHPC is home to the Cray XMT2, the latest generation XMT and the only XMT supercomputer in the U.S. outside of a federal or academic setting.
Taking the power of High Performance Computing (HPC) out of the lab, CAHPC will allow companies convenient access to a supercomputer to solve advanced, real-world problems involving large amounts of data. This access to a supercomputer is unprecedented outside of federal or academic setting and removes the cost barrier to entry for smaller Virginia businesses.
Initially announced in June 2011, one of the goals of this project is to build on the success of Danville's burgeoning River District by attracting additional high-tech companies. Located on the Dan River, the area's historic buildings are being renovated and quickly becoming a hub for technology companies. Luna Nanoworks, Lifebatt, Infinity Global Packaging and Horizontech have already invested in the area.
While Northern Virginia is certainly an impressive IT hub, Danville's location in Southside Virginia illustrates the expansiveness of Virginia's high-tech capabilities throughout the Commonwealth. Virginia has the highest concentration of high-tech companies as well as the highest concentration of high-tech workers according to Enterprising States 2011: Recovery and Renewal for the 21st Century prepared by Praxis Strategy Group and Cyberstates 2011, respectively.
To learn more about Virginia's world-class technology capabilities and why high-tech companies have invested more than $9 billion in Virginia over the last ten years, click here.
Pictured below is the Cray XMT2, the latest generation XMT supercomputer.
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DeKALB – Benjamin Black walked up to the stand last month at the Kane County Courthouse ready to tell everyone in the courtroom he was pleading guilty.
It was a moment captured on camera.
Black, 29, admitted to driving with heroin in his system during the Feb. 27 crash that killed 11-year-old Matthew Ranken and severely injured 19-year-old Teale Noble, both of Sycamore.
According to some circuit court officials, Black's case was a rare one.
"There have been very few cases where media has sought approval [for cameras] by the court," said Duke Harris, assistant state's attorney in DeKalb County. "It's not going to be routine cases, but the higher-profile cases where the public has more interest."
Since DeKalb County courts joined a pilot program allowing cameras in the courtroom Jan. 24, few local cases have been documented on camera.
Those that were include the Northern Illinois University hazing cases in which four of five Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity members were accused of hazing a 19-year-old NIU student who later died; the William "Billy" Curl case, in which the 36-year-old DeKalb resident pleaded guilty to the 2010 murder of Antinette "Toni" Keller; and the ongoing case of Patricia Schmidt, 48, who faces charges in connection with a traffic crash that killed Timothy Getzelman and Alexis Weber in 2011.
It has been about two years since the Illinois Supreme Court filed an order for a pilot program allowing cameras in the courtroom.
Since the order was filed, 13 of the 24 circuit courts in Illinois have approved extended media coverage, allowing still and video photography inside the state's courts for the first time in living memory.
DeKalb County, which shares the 23rd circuit court with Kendall County, approved the measure Jan. 24.
DJ Tegeler is Black's attorney. He said the presence of a camera does not affect how attorneys approach the case.
"I'd be shocked if an experienced attorney or judge played to the camera in the courtroom," he said. "Everyone's professional, and we do our job."
Under the rules in DeKalb County, reporters must apply to bring cameras into a hearing or trial at least two weeks in advance. Presiding Judge Robbin Stuckert, 23rd Judicial Circuit Chief Judge Tim McCann and the judge involved then review the request.
Attorneys and all parties involved also may object to having cameras.
Journalists can't choose any case to cover. State law prohibits media cameras in hearings for juvenile, divorce, adoption, child custody, evidence supression or trade secret cases.
The pilot program prohibits taking any images of jurors to protect their privacy.
Cameras could provide an educational tool for those unfamiliar with court proceedings, Tegeler said.
Joe McMahon, Kane County state's attorney, agrees.
He said other states have been using cameras in the courtroom for years, and Illinois could learn from those states.
"They found ways to make sure the process is fair, respectful and respects the privacy rights of victims," he said. "We'll work through those issues. I'm hopeful."
Tegeler said the media should also focus on covering civil cases and small claims court cases so the public can learn how things work and so that it will take away the fear of being in court.
Tegeler said he thinks media cameras in courts are here to stay in Illinois as long as they are used properly.
"I don't think [the public] realizes how hard attorneys and judges work at their craft and how detailed and long a trial can really be," he said. "I think, in that respect, [cameras] can really be good tool."


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Earl Palmer
Earl Palmer grew up in New Orleans and later moved to Los Angeles, impacting the music scenes in both cities as a first-call session drummer.
From 1950 to 1957, Palmer's powerful backbeat and mastery of second-line shuffle rhythms made him a much in-demand percussionist in his hometown. He was hired by bandleader Dave Bartholomew in 1947 after a stint in the army and recorded extensively with Bartholomew protege Fats Domino, Lloyd Price, Smiley Lewis and other New Orleans artists at Cosimo Matassa's famed J&M studio. He also played on the seminal rock and roll recordings of Little Richard, who wrote in his autobiography that Palmer "is probably the greatest session drummer of all time."
Lured to California to work for Aladdin Records in 1957, he's played on literally thousands of rock, jazz, R&B and soundtrack sessions over the years. From his home base in Los Angeles, Palmer drummed for producer Phil Spector and for Motown. His list of session credits includes artists as diverse as Ritchie Valens, Eddie Cochran, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Duane Eddy, Frank Sinatra, the Monkees, Bonnie Raitt, Johnny Otis, Neil Young and Elvis Costello. Though Palmer's first love was jazz—"I lived in a jazz world," he allowed in his 1999 autobiography Backbeat: Earl Palmer's Story—he laid the foundation for rock and roll drumming with his solid stickwork and feverish backbeat.


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With Proviso East shot blockers lurking around the basket, Willowbrook coach Terry Harrell looked to players like guard Molly Krawczykowski to attack in Saturday's home girls basketball game against the Pirates.
Krawczykowski was happy to oblige. Her strong drives coupled with the Warriors' overall unselfish play on the court and an opportunistic defense added up to an impressive 79-51 West Suburban Gold victory over Proviso East in Villa Park.
With the triumph Willowbrook improved its overall record to 6-2 and 2-0 in the conference.
This contest was over early as the Warriors jumped to a 8-2 lead and then used a 13-2 run in the final 2:35 of the first quarter to take a 25-11 advantage after eight minutes. They were up 39-18 at halftime.
Krawczykowski scored 10 of her team-high 17 points in the opening quarter. The junior's first two baskets came when she finished off fastbreaks that beat the Pirates press. Then she scored on some slashing moves to the hoop.
"I wanted Molly to be aggressive and attack the basket because Proviso East has shot blockers and you can get a foul when you attack the basket," Harrell said. "Molly is one of our girls who really goes to the basket."
"I had a good shooting day today -- I felt good," Krawczykowski said. "We wanted to get out to a good lead so we could work on our offense and really work on things."
Besides Krawczykowski, Willowbrook got good games in the post from Anita Sterling and Erma Udota, who scored 14 and 11 points, respectively. Melissa Rader also contributed 9 points off the bench. Point guard Angela Bruno did her usual superb job of quarterbacking the offense, especially when racing up the court.
The Warriors exhibit a high level of unselfish play, which is certainly a big part of their early success this season. Players frequently passed up open shots to get the ball to a teammate who was even more open and closer to the basket.
"All of the girls, they like playing with each other," Harrell said. "They don't mind delivering to a teammate for an open shot. That goes a long way, especially against the press."
The way Krawczykowski sees it, it is all about teamwork.
"We win as a team," she said. "One person does not win for everyone. We want to make sure that everyone gets part of our win. We do it together."
For the Pirates (3-4), they were led by a game-high 20 points from Diamond Courts. Turnovers hurt them as they gave up the ball 17 times in the first two quarters.
"We did not do a good job taking care of the ball and they capitalized on the turnovers that we made," said Proviso East coach Ezra PridGeon.


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1. Jay-Z
recently rocked the house at the SXSW music festival, and while our man on the ground in Texas - nzherald.co.nz Entertainment Editor Hugh Sundae - didn't have an Amex card to get into the show, he and everyone else can watch
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for the crowd. Lucky buggers. (YouTube)
2. The Western isn't a film genre normally associated with New Zealand, but Weta Digital's Mike Wallis is trying to change that with his debut feature. The quirky Good For Nothing is set in America but shot in New Zealand, and has been compared to the Coen Brothers' best work. While reviews have been mixed, you can watch the new trailer right now. It has a May 3 release date. (Apple)
3. Former Britney Spears collaborators and synth-lovers Miike Snow are gearing up for the release of their second album Happy To You, due out on March 27. So here's the explosive new video for The Wave, featuring a tonne of bodies, a lot of police officers and several dodgy mo's. (Pretty Much Amazing)
4. Here's the lengthy new trailer for Battleship, featuring new scenes, more explosions and several different kinds of Transformers-style metallic mayhem, courtesy of some wicked-looking robotic creatures. Man the lifeboats - Battleship is due out on April 12. (YouTube)
5. Kiwi singer Zowie sits somewhere between Ke$ha and MIA in the pop universe, and her new single My Calculator proves she's onto a winning formula. Stream it below:
6. "He bought pictures back that I've never seen before," says the director behind Catcam. And yep, that's exactly what you think it is - a movie about a cat with a camera strapped to its neck. Check out the trailer below. (YouTube)
7. In Human Centipede one, the film's protaganist joined three humans together as one. In the second, there were 10. And in the third, due to begin filming in the US later this year, the director is going to attempt a 500-person human centipede. Ugh. (NME)
8. Here's Jack White's new song Sixteen Saltines, first debuted on SNL and now streaming on his website. Good to see he's found his electric guitar again. (Stereogum)
9. Here's Hugh Sundae's interview with Anna Hutchison, talking up her new movie Cabin in the Woods, which, by the sounds of things, is actually quite good. (nzherald.co.nz)
10. Finally, check out this 1994 interview between a remarkably young Jon Stewart and the seemingly ageless Quentin Tarantino as the director talks up his new movie, a little something you might have heard of called Pulp Fiction. (Fark)
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Municipal authority gets DEP approval
JOHNSONBURG – The Johnsonburg Municipal Authority is one step closer to selling 300,000 gallons of water per day to the Hunt Marcellus Operating Company after receiving approval from the Department of Environmental Protection [DEP].The municipal authority began selling 157,000 gallons per day to Hunt on Aug. 22 for $8 per 1,000 gallons."As of last Friday, DEP gave us approval to bump up to 300,000 gallons per day for sale to Hunt, however, Hunt is still waiting for their approval," said chairman Eric Poague. "We are still selling 157,000 [gallons] until they get their written permission. It's out of our hands."According to Denny Lingenfelter of Uni-Tec, Hunt applied for approval of 300,000 gallons per day, but DEP requested the completion of two items.The first requested item was the installation of a pressure reducing valve vault, which allows water to flow from the Powers Run side to the Silver Creek side of the system. The pressure reducing vault went into operation Sept. 1.Pick up a copy of the Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011 edition of The Ridgway Record for more.


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KLRU announces a new channel featuring entertaining and inspiring shows about history, music, science, nature, food and more. The channel called Q will begin broadcasting Wednesday, July 1. Q will feature 'blocks' of programming throughout the day, with genres chosen specifically for the Austin audience. The channel will be available over the air on 18-3. KLRU also broadcasts its core PBS programming on 18-1 and KLRU Create on 18-2 featuring how to, do-it-yourself and crafting shows. Schedules for all channels are available on KLRU's Web site at klru.org/schedule.
"One of the great things about the switch to all digital broadcasting is our ability to deliver more programming to Austin viewers, and we have designed KLRU-Q to be diverse, informative, entertaining, and fun., We are really excited to be able to bring a new channel to our Central Texas viewers that features a different lineup from KLRU but with the same quality of programs you've come to rely on," said Bill Stotesbery, general manager of KLRU. "Some of the programming will be familiar and some will only be available on KLRU-Q, but it will all have the same high quality long associated with PBS."
The daily block schedule is include on the graphic (just click to enlarge it). For example every day at 11 p.m. you can tune to Q and find a music program like Austin City Limits or an American Masters documentary on a music legend or every Thursday at 8 p.m. you can watch Q to find a program on the theme of Sailors, Soldiers and Spies like Battlefield Britain, M15 or Carrier. Other Monday to Friday highlights of this channel are the morning and afternoon tea Britcom blocks at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.; the talk show block featuring encores of Charlie Rose and Tavis Smiley at noon; the Newshour at 7 p.m.; and the morning and afternoon stretch with some of your favorite PBS fitness programs at 6 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Examples of programs you can see in each of the KLRU Q blocks include:
News / Public Affairs – BBC World News, Worldfocus, Foreign Exchange, European Journal, Euromaxx, World Business
Exploration – Equitrekking, Culinary Travels, Travelscope, Smart Travels with Rudy Maxa/Rudy Maxa's World, Rick Steve's Europe, Burt Wolf's Travel and Traditions, Grannies on Safari
Health – Healing Quest, Fitness Show, Second Opinion
Talk Shows — Texas Monthly Talks, Interviews with Ernie Manouse, Scully: The World Show, La Plaza – Maria Hinojosa: One on One, Chef's Story, Theater Talk
Green – Design: E2, Natural Heroes, Wild Chronicles, Global Focus: New Environmentalists (specials hosted by Robert Redford)
Nature / Outdoor – CTG, P. Allen Smith's Garden Home, Cultivating Life, Art Wolfe's Travels to the Edge, Desert Speaks, Wild Florida
Animal / Pets – Animal Attractions, Lassie's Pet Vet, Saddle Up
Reality – Everyday Edisons, Volvo Ocean Race, Roadtrip Nation
Creative Lifestyle – Donna's Day, Katie Brown Workshop, Creative Living, Simple Living, Scrapbook Memories
Fitness – Classical Stretch, Body Electric, Wai Lana Yoga
Food – Gourmet Diary of a Foodie, Delicious TV's Totally Vegetarian, Uncorked: Wine Made Simple, Burt Wolf's What We Eat, Home Cookin' From Around the World, Everyday Food, Everyday Baking, Sara's Weeknight Meals, Joanne Weir's Cooking Class, America's Test Kitchen, Cook's Country, Perfect Day, Made in Spain, Tommy Tang's Let's Get Cooking, Martin Yan's China, Dutch Oven Cooking
Painting – Best of Joy of Painting (Bob Ross), Jerry Yarnell School Fine of Art, Terry Madden's Watercolor Workshop, Scheewe Art Workshop, Gary Spetz's Painting Wild Places, Wyland Art, Plein Air, Your Brush with Nature
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BATON ROUGE — Johnny O'Bryant III's composure at the free-throw line served as only the latest example of a maturing LSU team learning how to grind out close games.
BATON ROUGE — Johnny O'Bryant III's composure at the free-throw line served as only the latest example of a maturing LSU team learning how to grind out close games.
Anthony Hickey scored 14 points, O'Bryant hit two crucial free throws with 7.7 seconds left and LSU hung on for its third straight close victory, 57-56 over Vanderbilt on Wednesday night.
"It just shows the type of team we have to be in some close games and win," O'Bryant said. "We just believe we can win every game."
O'Bryant finished with 10 points for the Tigers (13-7, 4-5), who led by as many as 12 early in the second half before Vanderbilt (8-13, 2-7) pulled within 55-53 on Rod Odom's 3-pointer with 10 seconds left.
O'Bryant then made his free throws for a four-point cushion, which rendered Odom's 3 in the final seconds meaningless.
Odom finished with a game-high 20 points. Dai-Jon Parker added 11 points and nine rebounds for Vanderbilt, which has lost four straight.
"Our guys hung in there and almost gave us a chance to win the ballgame," Vanderbilt coach Kevin Stallings said. "We just don't do enough things right. That's all there is to it and maybe that makes us a bad team."
LSU, which has now won four of five, exploded for an 18-2 run that gave the Tigers a 31-18 halftime lead.
Both teams shot poorly in what was a sloppy first 15 minutes, and Vanderbilt went ahead 16-13 on Kyle Fuller's layup.
Soon after, however, Malik Morgan's jumper ignited the game-changing run to close the first half. The spurt included a dunk by Andrew Del Piero that energized the crowd and three 3s by Hickey, the last coming at the halftime horn.
"It was another really fun basketball game for our fans but another grinder for us," Jones said. "I knew we would have a tough ball game in front of us tonight. I thought our guys did an excellent job in the first half of building a lead, playing well defensively and holding (Vanderbilt) to only 19 percent shooting from the field. In the second half, I thought they did a great job of being poised."
Even after LSU's offense picked up, the Tigers still finished the night shooting 36 percent (18 of 50). Vanderbilt was even worse, at 31.5 percent (17 of 54). Only four players scored in double digits between the two teams, though LSU's Morgan and Charles Carmouche each had nine.
The Tigers took their largest lead on Andre Stringer's free throw that made it 35-23.
Sheldon Jeter's layup and Parker's 3 ignited an 8-0 Vanderbilt run, but LSU was back up by 11 when Stringer hit a 3 with 8:38 to go.
LSU led 54-47 with under a minute to go, but Odom hit a 3, Stringer missed 1 of 2 free throws on the other end and then Odom made his second 3 to make it a one possession game in the final seconds.
"We were really close," Parker said. "Some shots don't fall our way but we kept fighting and asking for a prayer at the end."
Instead, LSU held on for its second straight one-point victory, marking only the third time since 1972 the Tigers have won back-to-back one-point games. LSU's previous victory came on Hickey's 8-foot floater with 1.5 seconds left at Mississippi State. The Tigers' two previous wins came by four points (58-54) over Texas A&M and three points (73-70) over Missouri.


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The person who doubts that it's a female and makes a point of doubting it.
The person who goes out of their way to be a jerk to the female just to be a jerk.
The person who can't stop talking about the girl and sucks up to her and flirts with her and can't shut up about how hot he thinks it is that a person with breasts is playing his favorite game.
It would be nice if a female could join a server and we could all continue to play as normal without regressing into a pack of slobbering penises.
I also have a sister who has always played videogames. Not addictively like myself, my brother or any other male I know, but quite a bit nevertheless. She doesn't play online games, but has played almost everythign else on PS2/X-Box that she's come across. The frustrating thing is that it comes so natural to her. She's almost 20 now and as long as I can remember, she could walk into a room while my younger brother and I are playing and pick up a controller... and breeze right through things that we'd spent hours trying to beat. We'd take days or weeks to beat a game and she could do it in a couple sittings. ARGH! She's a bit of a tom-boy, but not much. She's just very *very* adept at the videogame thing, I guess.
There are a lot more- don't just assume that all FPSs have male characters exclusively. Because that would be wrong.
Next Muthafuckers gonna get my metal.
Yesterday I was "teaching" Discrete Mathematics and one of the students in that class has an older brother who also took the class with me a few years ago. She's doing much better in the class than he did. She mentioned in passing that her brother was better at math than she was, because you know, he's a guy. This is so far from the truth that I had to wonder where she could have gotten the idea. Maybe girls get these ideas from someplace. I admit that schools have something to do with it too.
It's really no worse than belonging to a minority part of any group, in my experience - especially with a group as historically homgenous as gaming. It's always tough to break new ground into such territory. With that said, I do think the sexism and machoism in gaming is sad and embarassing, but the only way of changing that is to keep diversifying gaming society until your minority of choice is seen as normal.
I don't know if the recently famous female Swedish CS team [cnn.com] do us all a disservice by being geeky
I don't agree with "girls are different". Males aren't all about violence and sex, and girls aren't all about pink, fluffly emotional stuff. These differences are partly forced on us by society at large, but also a gaming industry that is only beginning to realize that the differences, to the extent that there really are any, are much more subtle than that. From what I've seen, not even the old truth that males are into goal-oriented gaming and females are into social gaming are more than tendencies.
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As is mentioned on the main PHP.net site, the release of the first beta of the PHP 5.6.0 series has been released (PHP 5.6.0beta1). This is only a preview release and should not be used in production.
The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.6.0beta1. This release adds new features and fixes bugs and marks the feature freeze for the PHP 5.6.0 release. All users of PHP are encouraged to test this version carefully, and report any bugs in the bug tracking system.
Among the new features coming in PHP 5.6.0 are things like the addition of a fread method on the SplFileObject, an update to the DateTimeImmutable class, support for marks to the PCRE extension and support for asynchronous connections and queries to the Pgsql extension. If you'd like to test out this latest beta release on your systems, you can download it from the PHP QA site (or the Windows QA site if you're so inclined).


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 24th May 2013 17:26 UTC
So, the Xbox One disaster continues. Microsoft's policy for dealing with the used games market has reportedly leaked - and it's a clear and direct attack to destroy the used games market. Prices for used games will be set at the retail value of a new game, and retailers have to hook into Microsoft's computer systems and comply with Microsoft's terms and conditions.
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Video games also work on offer demand principles, if a company has mores costumers prices will fall as simple as that.
Nope. The games cost more-or-less the same as they did during the NES-era, even though the amount of customers is multiple times bigger. Sure, development costs have also gone up, but there is no incentive for the companies to actually lower their prices when they can just pocket the difference and keep the price the same.
Just wait and you'll see.


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Anyone thinking about visiting outer island groups of Tonga (Ha'apai, Vava'u) should keep an eye on the domestic airline situation, which is very much in flux:
Chathams Pacific is poised to pull out, thanks to the government's plan to start up another national airline (like the defunct Royal Tongan Airlines) that will apparently utilize Chinese aircraft.
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An exquisite steed, midnight black, treading like a dancer, its step so light that it does not scar the ground, its stride so fluent that you could sit in the saddle all day… if you needed one. Its golden eyes shine with intelligence and spirit, and it seems to know your every wish. Ah, who would not want such a fine beast to carry him?
Negev demons can take the shape of humans or elves and feed on emotions rather then on meat or vegtables.
Gahrafahas is Bastard Demonspeak and is derived from ghrazh'fualzh's, true DemonSpeak for ''those who come from the Skies'' or ''the Sky Ones.''
Hideous creatures, they stand motionless and filled with intense sorrow at their existence.
Buzurivambavas is Bastard Demonspeak, and comes from the true Demonspeak bzhuu'vhambv's, which means "carrying and crawling one", or "one that carries and crawls". They are a subtle kind of demon, and do not exhibit the terrible rage and bloodthirst of some other demons.
New and different types of infernal fiends. Give all the demons, devils and other evil creatures you can imagine.
Gaze into her lovely eyes and and revel in your throes of passion as your flesh enters a most pleasurable state of union with hers..
Enjoy it well, for what comes after will not be as pleasant..
''I am so very sorry to interupt your grand schemes for seizing control of the nether-realm, but I am afraid that my master, the Lord of the Desolate Shore, has raised some serious objections..''
The children of the Sea of Pandemonium, the Viles of Salt are always thirsty, and they draw water from living beings with even a single brush from their crusty white flesh, dessicating those who are touched.
The Seyeverasin are supernaturally excellent musicians- no other can play a cello as well as them, and when the moon wanes, one may hear their haunting phantom strains echoing about night-time mountain cliffs, by dark pools, and in places where mortals no longer go or have never gone.
The Lavas are animalistic warrior-demons who converge in packs like lice on the inconceivable walls of Hell, filled with inconceivable fury and berzerk bloodthirst.
"Check the right flank, it seems to be weakening. be damned for their commander. I knew of Convius when I was fighting my way up to this position. It grieves me to say this, send in a stalker. Without him standing among his legions they will fall on our flank.
it grieves me that after today, I will not pit myself against him in battle one last time."
Legatus Suuhai - Commander of the Minotaur Armies of the Blades - The Demon Wars
From the depths of the void the masses crash through the Gates of Forlorn and wreak havok on the world of men. The flood is an unending tide of chaos and destruction that is everlasting. Their thirst for blood is surpassed only by the rising of the son, on it stands eternal. On the comming of the Flood, the children of the lost god will reign supreme on a charred world where the people are enslaved, and the rulers are Demonblood.
- Excerpt from the tome of Caedmon.
"I see an upstart within the ranks of the Ba'craht. This can not be. I, Sarku the Impaler of a Thousand Children, am forced to qwell those who try to supplant their superiors yet again. It is good to be me."
Sarku the Impaler of a Thousand Children, Murder of the Coup of Hundred Souls, Judge of the Three
Abject beauty corupted with a dark soul and no heart. Can beauty be the ultimate evil?
"Sir, Legatus Suuhai has commanded us to hold and prepare for flank attacks from the enemy. He said we are to hold and be ready to sweep among them. Your order?
Order? If Legatus Suuhai says to hold then we wait. He among the half breeds I respect. He stands like a bastion of strength when those stronger leave puddles at their feet. He says hold, we hold. But tell the others, soon we shall run and blood shall spill this day at our hooves and claws and the Dark Moon shall reign superior yet again."
Sedecim Ductor Octavious - Commander of the 6th Divortium of the Army of Blades.
"Reports of those damned Atistaur are filtering back among the Hundtaur. Send a unit over to have them silenced. The last thing I need is something else in my brain telling me what I need to do.
Slaughter them all and pray to the Weapon that Kills that this day will be bloody. Sing the song of your God and may they get you through today!"
- Legatus Suuhai - Commander of the Minotaur Armies of the Blades
Midarans come from a middle island in the far sea. They have become well known for being traders and merchants. They are also know for being quite magical. Then there is their appearance.
The Black Ones are a paranoid's nightmare. They can take over any single body, or be hiding nearly anywhere. They can see as well in the dark as the light. They can hear nearly any sound, like the faintest heartbeat 10 paces away. They are totally alien, with motivations and drives that are nearly incomprehensable to humans. And the worst part is, they are here and you don't know it.
A fantasy version of the Klan, where it's "Grand Wizard" really is a mage, and a dangerous one at that. Instead of hating blacks most of all, they hate non humans most of all (although they are no friends of black people either and certainly don't let them join.)


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One presidential candidate showed up to debate Wednesday night. His name is Mitt Romney.
President Obama was often grim, mostly disengaged, and generally ineffective in their first showdown. He could have been standing next to anyone; he never seriously challenged Romney on any point he made. Romney was sharp, aggressive, and "likeable enough," to borrow a phrase from candidate Obama in 2008.
As the night wore on and Romney realized that debating Obama was not unlike standing next to an empty chair, the Republican nominee got cockier and less appealing. But for much of the debate, Romney — not Obama — offered up the anecdotes that connect a candidate with the people. He also had the soundbites that stick, like "trickle-down government" and "you just pick the losers," a reference to Obama's selection of green energy companies like Solyndra. But mostly he had command of the stage — and of debate moderator Jim Lehrer.
Obama must have spent his debate prep reading his poll numbers, instead of reading history, particularly as it applies to Romney's debating skills. In 2002, Romney won his only political office — governor of Massachusetts — by out-debating Democrat Shannon O'Brien.
But before that, Romney took the venerable Ted Kennedy by surprise. As the late, great Globe columnist David Nyhan wrote on Oct. 26, 1994, after the first debate in that legendary showdown: "My guess is that the Senate race, deadlocked two weeks ago, was breaking open for Kennedy. Last night's solid performance by Romney may keep that gap from widening immediately . . . I give Round One to Mitt Romney."
In Nyhan's view, "the old war horse" — Kennedy — had "too much going for him." He predicted he would come roaring back to win, and he did.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Nov. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Third quarter data for defined contribution plans administered by MassMutual shows that, combined, Gen X and Gen Y participants now account for 55% of the company's participant count, compared to 41% of Baby Boomer participants. Baby Boomers still control the lion's share of assets at 61%, with the combined Gen X/Gen Y group holding 31% of all defined contribution plan assets on MassMutual's platform.
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The percentage of MassMutual's total participant assets in age-based and risk-based options reached an all-time high during the third quarter of 2012, accounting for 26.6% of total defined contribution plan assets under management, which is well above the industry average. Gen Y participants (born between 1982 and 1995) led with 49.8% for the quarter vs. Gen X (born between 1965 and 1981) at 29.8% and Baby Boomers at 22.6%. Significantly, Gen X participants had the highest allocations in equities at 45.6% for the quarter ended September 30, compared with Gen Y savers at 32.2% and Baby Boomers at 38.4%.
Women continue to favor age-based investments far more than risk-based options – in fact, more than 2.5 times as much – at 72% vs. 28% respectively. Men remain more evenly divided on their preferences, with approximately 52% in age-based vs. 48% in risk-based investments. Average account balances for women grew 3.92% for the quarter vs. 4.17% for men, reflective of the generally more conservative investing profile of women. In terms of account balances, the gender gap continues to close, albeit at a slow rate. Average account balances for women now trail those of men by 38.4%, a slight improvement over a high of 40.5% in late 2010.
"Not surprisingly, Gen Y savers are taking full advantage of asset allocation investment options," says Elaine Sarsynski, executive vice president of MassMutual's Retirement Services Division and chairman and CEO of MassMutual International LLC. "We are so pleased to see that younger generations appear to understand the importance of starting early to save for retirement," says Sarsynski. MassMutual's percentage of participants who initiated loans in the third quarter (1.7%) was at its lowest level in four years and is significantly lower than the industry average. "We strive to educate participants that taking a loan from the 401(k) can have negative consequences and should be a last resort. We are very pleased that their behavior indicates they are grasping this message," adds Sarsynski.
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The Rise Restaurant, Terrace and Bar serves modern cuisine with a small plate concept, allowing guests to enjoy an immersive social dining experience. Afternoon tea is served on a daily basis while the lounge bar and Whisky Lounge offer beverages and snacks. Guests can indulge in soothing body wraps and facials at The Spa at the Grand, as well as take a dip in the indoor pool.
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Catholic high schools aren't just for the rich
The high cost of Catholic education leaves many in the dust. One mother argues that it will take the whole church to pick up the children who are left behind.
Last fall I found myself planting a yard sign in front of a modest house in Toledo, Ohio. I thought about the high school girl the sign was celebrating. "Home of a new NDA Eagle!" it announced.
By the look of her house, this girl was from a poor family. What a distance this teenager would be traversing every day to Notre Dame Academy! I don't just mean six miles across town. Girls from far-flung suburbs travel even farther. It's the emotional and cultural distance that strikes me as hard. What is it like to leave central city culture for the school's predominantly suburban culture? If you're a low-income scholarship kid, do you have to put on one persona for school and another for home? What's it like to be in school with girls who vacation in Europe while your family worries about the rent?
I don't know the answer to those questions, but they bring up a more pressing question for the larger Catholic community: Is this the way it's supposed to be? Are Catholic high schools supposed to be finishing schools for the affluent, with a light sprinkling of middle- and lower-income kids thrown in for good measure? With tuition at a national average of $7,000 in Catholic high schools, we are quickly pricing out families of modest means, not to mention the truly poor who stand to gain the most from our high schools.
According to the National Catholic Education Association (NCEA), unofficial estimates of the family incomes of Catholic high school students during the 2006-07 school year show that about half the students' families earn well above the national median household income of $48,200.
I don't think U.S. Catholic high schools intentionally exclude poor or middle-income families. Scholarships often exist, but many families never seek them out because they see Catholic high schools as completely out of reach—something for affluent families.
Sister Mary Frances Taymans, S.N.D., executive director of the NCEA Secondary Schools Department, says that tuition has been rising faster than the cost of living lately. If parents want to send their child to college, how can they afford an expensive high school?
Yet Catholic secondary education has clearly established itself as a stepping-stone to college success, and in the United States today, college success is economic success. It is an established fact that Catholic schools have lifted people out of poverty. Many of our college-prep high schools see 99 percent of their students go on to college. The rising wealth of U.S. Catholics has been well documented by sociologists, and many observers connect that affluence at least partially to Catholic schools.
In spite of this proud record, our high schools are rapidly becoming places restricted to those with plenty of pocket change. Economic forces have put our schools under great pressure to raise tuition. The staff and teachers at our Catholic high schools deserve to be paid well—much more, in fact, than they are. It is costly to pay faculty and staff well. The days of nearly free labor from religious orders are long over.
During his April 2008 visit to Washington, Pope Benedict XVI praised the U.S. Catholic education system. He encouraged us to make our Catholic schools accessible to all by opening our wallets and getting creative in how we finance schools:
"It provides a highly commendable opportunity for the entire Catholic community to contribute generously to the financial needs of our institutions. Their long-term sustainability must be assured. Indeed, everything possible must be done in cooperation with the wider community to ensure that Catholic schools are accessible to people of all social and economic strata. No child should be denied his or her right to an education in faith, which in turn nurtures the soul of a nation."
I'm with the pope. It seems to me that the only way to keep our Catholic high schools from turning into elitist institutions is to involve the whole community. The larger Catholic community must invest in our high schools, and the secular community—foundations and philanthropists who support the outstanding moral and academic success of Catholic high schools—should also invest in our schools.
A number of schools are becoming more creative in how they finance their operations, and they are models for what needs to take place nationwide if we want to make Catholic high school again available to a broad cross-section. There are the diocesan-supported schools in Wichita, Kansas; the corporately financed Cristo Rey Network; and many other examples.
With our increasing money and clout, we Catholics who have "made it" need to dedicate ourselves to keeping the doors of our high schools open to all. In every city and town, new students should be coming from every neighborhood, not just the prestigious ones. But that can only happen if we consciously—as an entire community—choose to make it so.
We have to embrace the mission of Catholic education: to educate the whole person, mind, body, and soul. We need to want our teenagers—not just the ones in our immediate families but all the teenagers in our cities and towns—to absorb Catholic theology, social teaching, and liturgy alongside academics. If we desire these things deeply, we'll be willing to pay for them and to work for them.
If we undertake major initiatives so that Catholic high schools open up to people of every social class, in many cities we will find that racial and economic issues will come to the forefront. If poor, middle-class, and affluent families are drawn together under the umbrella of their local Catholic high schools, we have the opportunity to listen and learn from each other.
My children have attended schools where they were the lone white faces in class. I know that some families would be uncomfortable in that situation. I know that in some cities, as demographics have shifted and neighborhood Catholic schools became poorer, more racially diverse, and increasingly non-Catholic, many white Catholic families have bailed. They won't send their kids to schools that are "too black" or "too brown" or "too poor."
These racial and economic dynamics are difficult issues, but they are worth talking about. Our schools provide an ideal foundation from which to address racial reconciliation and economic justice.
I'm hopeful that the common purpose of gospel values and excellent academic standards can draw together diverse groups of parents. I have seen it happen in my children's schools. No matter our race or economic status, parents want good, holistic, and morally and educationally sound schools for their kids.
I urge the bishops of the United States to respond to the pope's call on education with vigorous leadership. Bishops can take the lead in bringing together Catholic parents, Catholic donors, non-Catholic philanthropists, business and political leaders, and any others with a stake in strong schools. The whole community benefits when our Catholic high schools are strong, and the whole community needs to be part of the solution to rising costs.
If school presidents and high school boards make affordability a priority, then the energy needed for such a mission will follow. Alumni and families of graduates should give generously to their high schools since they have directly benefited from them. Furthermore, they should demand that the schools put a significant percentage of their donations into helping families of modest means pay for Catholic high school. Affluent families (or several families together) could "adopt a student" for four years.
Donors of all types should be asked for support. Businesses, foundations, philanthropists, all Catholics in a school's locale, and people of goodwill who want to alleviate poverty should be asked to support projects specifically aimed at bringing in and supporting lower-income students as they progress through Catholic high school. Quality education and faith formation prevents poverty and creates positive social benefits throughout the lives of graduates. There are many possibilities once we make access a priority.
The doors of our Catholic high schools are starting to shut on low- and middle-income families. Let's not allow that to happen. As we find creative ways to make our schools open to all, I'll keep planting yard signs.
"Catholic high schools aren't just for the rich" appeared in the November 2008 issue of U.S. Catholic (pgs. 17-21); Volume 73, Number 11.
If I were in charge of the Catholic high schools in my diocese, in order to keep them affordable to everyone I would. . .
Try to instill the stewardship program in every parish.
Ray Grabar
Bismarck, N.D.
Partner with public high schools to handle our students half the day. They could teach math, science, and certain non-academic classes such as "shop."
Audrey Iversen
Naperville, Ill.
Establish an income-producing investment fund.
Lawrence B. Hoge
Brandon, Fla.
Charge tuition based on income.
Bobbi DeVries
Jenison, Mich.
Work with alumni to encourage fundraising, scholarships, bequests. Help junior high kids' parents plan ahead.
Karen Franz
Lockport, Ill.
Urge my bishop to do all he can to promote vouchers for use in private schools. Solicit financial support from foundations and corporations.
F.P. Avellone
Lake Forest, Ill.
Reality check: It'll never happen. I'm a priest in a diocese where every Catholic high school has closed because of low enrollment. Here the grave is closed and sealed. There'll be no resurrection.
Father Mike Haney, O.F.M.
Bayfield, Wis.
Allot a small portion of tuition toward those who can't afford to pay. Or allot x number of service hours to x dollars in tuition. If students serve their diocese, their diocese can give back to them.
Maureen Johnson
Tinley Park, Ill.
In Minnesota the public schools are 98 percent top notch. I would close all "elite Catholic high schools" here and open Catholic schools where the public schools need competition.
Ginny Heldorfer
New Prague, Minn.
Utilize Americorps volunteers as teachers, make volunteering for school services mandatory for parents, and make sure every school has at least one part-time grant writer on staff.
Name withheld
St. Petersburg, Fla.
I would or would not send my child to a Catholic high school because . . .
I would if I hit the lotto or an unbelievable good fortune.
Name withheld
Carol Stream, Ill.
Having taught in and sent my children to Catholic high schools, I see the value of the prayer, retreats, high standards, and outstanding education.
Dinah Tichy
Louisville, Ky.
I would because too many public schools have severe discipline problems.
Robert E. Casey
Indianapolis, Ind.
I wouldn't because public schools in my district have more offerings, more diversity, and a high percentage of students attending college.
Doug LaVerdiere
Rockford, Mich.
I would because it is imperative that we as parents carry out the commitments we were entrusted with at our childrens' Baptisms. We need to instill in them a moral compass to guide them throughout their journeys.
Richard A. Gaietto
Tiffin, Ohio
I would. The high school years present an opportunity to help young people forge their personal identities, develop their relationships with God, form lifelong friendships, and discern their vocations. This is a window of human development the church simply can't ignore.
Roger Beaubien
Lake Shore, Minn.
I would not. I think it is important to support public education and for Catholic students to mix with the general population. Youth who are active in parish youth programs can be leaven for their peers in the public schools.
Daleann Kincaid
Lebanon, Ind.
To help keep Catholic high schools open to all, I personally would be willing to . . .
Sponsor a student—not through a quota system but through merit.
James Snider
Huntsville, Ala.
Support federally funded vouchers.
Deacon Thomas V. Johnston
Columbus, Ohio
Volunteer in study halls and libraries, as I have. Also I would tutor students in subjects in which I feel comfortable.
Carole Kinney
Fitchburg, Wis.
I have worked in Catholic high schools for 35 years. My co-workers and I make 30 to 50 percent less than public school teachers. We make this sacrifice because we believe in our mission. My school continues to offer more financial aid.
Name withheld
Arlington Heights, Ill.
Open the checkbook.
Dennis Novak
Fort Worth, Texas
Send my children to one! I know so many Catholic parents who don't because they feel they are being "hit up" twice: high suburban property taxes and then tuition.
Jeanie Lewis
Chicago, Ill.
Have part of my parish contribution support the Catholic high school.
Ann Clem
Clarksville, Tenn.
The biggest benefit of Catholic high schools is . . .
It makes a well-rounded teen move into a world of religious plurality with a sense of who they are as a Catholic.
Julie Worch
Westmont, Ill.
Learning the Catholic social gospel and serving the needs of the less fortunate. If a student doesn't graduate with that spirit, the Catholic school failed.
Jo Ann K. Jones
Magnolia, Miss.
The participation of many Catholic high school graduates in parish and community life as they become adults.
Mervin J. Hood
Fort Dodge, Iowa
None. The graduates of the high school our parish supports aren't deeply involved in the parish. I sing in the choir, and we never have graduates from the Catholic high school. They say they had enough of that in high school.
Name withheld
Mason City, Iowa
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In our diocese we are struggling to keep our Catholic grade schools open. I can't imagine how financially difficult this would be on our parishes if they were asked to support high schools as well.
Pat Wildenberg
South Range, Wis.
I don't want businesses supporting Catholic high schools. If we believe schools are necessary, then we should support them. They should be our schools.
Joann Shepard
Indianola, Iowa
I will quickly lose my passion for Catholic schooling if Catholic teaching begins to be de-emphasized or taught by those who do not know the faith, as at some of our liberal Catholic colleges.
Chris Pokovny
Monticello, Ill.
Personally I think the time for Catholic schools has come and gone. They are an enormous drain on resources that could be spent on innovative faith formation programs. Parents would be free to help correct what is wrong with some public schools, and parishes would be free to concentrate on teaching religion instead of computers skills.
Name withheld
Baraboo, Wis.
The end of Catholic schools will be the end of the Catholicism in our country.
Clarence Keller
Mobile, Ala.
We need to hear more good press about just how wonderful a Catholic education is. The good news needs to be disseminated to the general population, not just within Catholic circles.
Florence Laureira
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- Named after an evil Egyptian serpent god, Apophis swings by every seven years
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Apophis masses at more than 20 million tons. If it hit Earth, the impact would unleash a blast the equivalent of over a billion tons of TNT. That's not an extinction event, but it could easily cause billions of deaths and months, if not years, of climate disruption.
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In March 1966, J.E. Enever published his ground-breaking article, "Giant Meteor Impact," in the periodical Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact. Enever surveyed the available material on meteor and asteroid strikes, then published his own calculations and analysis of what such strikes could do, and have done, to the Earth, with cinematically vivid prose and equally terrifying physics.
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In the decades since Enever's article, writers, scientists, and engineers have proposed various ways to avert such disasters. Some have suggested we strap rocket motors to a threatening rock and nudge it away. A steady pulse of projectile "paintballs" could also do the trick.
Others have suggested we use nuclear weapons to "kick" an asteroid from its orbit, or even to shatter it into smaller debris -- a rather dim idea that misleads us into believing a single bullet is worse than the blast from a shotgun. Our atmosphere provides little protection against meteors larger than a truck.
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Wrap one of these peanut clusters in a giant steel net, then drag it off its deadly course? Intriguing, but for now -- like deploying tractor beams from the starship Enterprise -- it's just so much super-science.
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Personally, I feel it was Jacob, for me. He has a great personality - as in behaves like an actual soldier- and an interesting history that I would have liked to see more of. If you distribute his squad points right, he also has a valuable ammo and passive ability. I didn't get all the hate for him - apart from him possibly being the only squadmate that didn't have a personality disorder. Then there's "the PRIIIZE."
What characters do you think are underrated in the Mass Effect Universe?
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Miranda: She kinda sucks as a human being, but her abilities are unparelled in a fight, especially on Insanity.
Definately Jacob, he had the most well rounded personality out of any character in the first two games but he is also well rounded in combat which leads to him not being used very often. If you wanted firepower you used Grunt, if you wanted biotics you used Jack or Samara. Jacob was a well rounded fighter but he couldn't help you overwhelm enemies the way other party members could. I actually thought he would end up dying during the main storyline like the second person in your group in the first few ME 1 scenes because he just didn't seem like he would be practical to keep around.
@ thegodofwine7,
Miranda's passive abilities are definitely a must on Insanity. Did I mention those camera angles lol?
Yeah, his skills were definitely aimed toward defense. Though if you used the squadmate points glitch before they patched ME2 you could turn him into a monster lol.
I don't know, actually...I always brought along Garrus and Tali - the ME1 crew!
Probably Miranda, though.
Kasumi. That Shadow Strike does crazy damage.
You guys are right though. I always thought Jacob and Thane were both pretty useless...
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If it's only squadmates, then I would go with Jack. I get why many people don't like her, but I like how she grows if you take your time with her.
If it's for every character in the game then it would definitely be the corny krogan from Illium, It was a great insight on one of the most interesting races in the fiction.
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I agree with ElGato. I believe that Jack is very underrated. I really liked her as a character and had her in my team through most of the game.
Vega's passive abilities in ME3 made him indespensible for me. Miranda in ME2. I don't understand why Vega caught so much hate though, I thought he had some pretty good lines.
Don't care much for Miranda She is a B____, but Vega is pretty good character. Shood have been able to get with him as a fem shepard.
Does this have to be a squadmate? Because if not, I think Saren Arterius was the most underrated character in Mass Effect. He was highly intelligent, extremely efficient and incredibly dangerous. He even displays sufficient mental fortitude to break deep indoctrination, with only a little help. Tell me that's not cool.
If it has to be a squadmate, I'd say Miranda for practical reasons. I found her passive abilities invauable.
In my opinion I think Zaeed & Vega are quite underrated, there's not much that know about them Part from the odd mission & stuff, think in future games I would personally like to see more of James Vega :)
For me, I would have to say Jacob, Kasumi, and Jack. All for different reasons.
Jacob- He has the background of a military person.
Kasumi- For her powers and the damage she can cause.
Jack, Just because!
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Jacob earns his keep throughout the ME2 game. I agree that Grunt definitely brought the firepower. Samara' biotic definitely came in hand when doing the suicide mission. Idc for Jack; she was ok!
Vega gets hate? Quite a few of the people on the forums are mad that you can't romance him. But yeah, he's the human version of Grunt.