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Watch the Rest of "Profile: Badr Hari"
- Written by Dave Walsh
You want to watch this. If you weren't afraid of what Badr Hari was capable before, you probably will be after this. Part two begins with his very candid retelling of a 2005 incident where his neighbors called the police to complain about the noise coming form Badr Hari's home and he went over and beat them. He talks about his self control -- or lack thereof and there is so much more in this. Wow.

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By The Associated Press
CORINTH — More than 60 education professionals from around the Appalachian region visited Corinth High School to learn more about the school's success in preparing students for college.
They were part of the Appalachian Higher Education Network's annual bus tour, a three-day trip to schools in Alabama and Mississippi with a spotlight on college access programs.
Participants were from Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee and West Virginia.
Corinth Superintendent Lee Childress was among those who addressed the group. Childress discussed changes in the district's curriculum and the implementation of the "Common Core" system that places a heavy emphasis on reading.


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A monthly e-newsletter with in-depth analysis of events and new developments in global health, from CFR's Global Health Program.
- The Federal Budget and Global Health--March 3, 2011
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Competition does not build character - It reveals it.
Home of:
FC/AFC Freeridin Wowie Zowie (2003 NARC Finalist)
FC/AFC Sky Hy Husker Power
FC/AFC Freeridin Smooth Operator
FC/AFC Freeridin Vampire Slayer (2007 NARC Finalist)
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Too bad you had to experience that! Sometimes pet dog people are the most ignorant. Yet their dogs are the most ill mannered! Cudos to that officer! Hope you have better training days ahead without meeting up with the likes of her again!IMO
HRCH Scaupgetters Tarnation QAA
HR Blackie 2 CGN, WCI
Hashtag Mickey
"Dont cry because its over. Smile because it happened."
Dr. Seuss
I think I'm going to weigh in at least partially on the side of the woman. I think that the best approach would have been to ask the desk to give you a few minutes as you had just stepped out of the shower and then take your shower, go down and be an ambassador for the sport. Meet the woman, show her how nice the accommodations are in the truck (I have never seen inside one of those either) and assure her that the dogs are well taken care of. That might have made a friend out of someone who was, after all, just concerned about the welfare of your animals. When people approach you concerned about the welfare of your animals in the trucks, why not take the opportunity to show off the truck? Would two or three minutes kill you? Wouldn't it be better to take a chance and possibly win a friend instead of absolutely solidifying an enemy? Dog trucks in parking lots is a close as many people will ever get to a hunt test of field trial. Why convince them that the folks who participate in these activities really are jerks?
Any doctrine that weakens personal responsibility for judgment and for action helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state.
(John Dewey)
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
(George Washington)
Gig'em Aggies!! BTCO'77HOO t.u.!!
If you spend all your time being an "ambassador" to noisy @$$holes ,you'd get nothing done. Handled well Ted ! (probably better than me)
Well HPL, I agree with you. I would have tried this first. And I have. One couple I met this way called me later for a friend looking for a lab pup. I pointed them in the right direction for the temperament that would best suit their family's lifestyle. There is always time to call in the law later.
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Medal Of Honor, QAA "Valor"
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Southland Rusty Nail - derby points, qual placements "Rusty"
Disoderly Conduct "Chaos" -qual placements
Ya'll know what opinions are like, don't ya?
I'm with Ted.
"Arguing with Idiots is like playing chess with a pigeon..... No matter how good you are, the bird is going to sh$t on the board and strut around like it won anyway."
You and Shawn are just flat wrong. I have met plenty of folks with attitudes like yours in all walks of life and they mostly just make things harder for the rest of us. I couldn't have given you anything like a good estimate as to what a dog box like that costs nor would the price you paid for your truck have ANY bearing on my guess as to how you treat your animals. How gentle would you be if someone came up to you and expressed concern for your dogs' welfare in person (as opposed to suggesting that they would call the cops)? As your first name is Charles I'm going to assume that you are a male. A woman might be afraid (and by your post, sounds like justifiably) to question your behavior in person, so calling the hotel manager and suggesting that the police should be involved might seem like a reasonable act. It is neither stupid nor rude to question someone's treatment of their animals. How many CHILDREN do we hear about every year that either die of cold or heat in a closed vehicle?
Any doctrine that weakens personal responsibility for judgment and for action helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state.
(John Dewey)
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
(George Washington)
Gig'em Aggies!! BTCO'77HOO t.u.!!
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Las Cruces, NM
"The thing that makes them good... is the thing that makes them bad" ~Pete Richardson Marble Mtn Walkers, Vermont
"You can't make chicken salad out of chicken sh*t.... " ~Ron Schaitel
"What's the difference between a pro and an amateur..... ""About a tenth of a second"" ~Bill Gibbons
"Ugh... my dog broke....! ""There's never been one worth a flip that hasn't"" ~John Steger
I like HPL's idea, but sometimes you just know when you meet people whether or not the'll be receptive to learning something new. I also like to reserve the right to NOT have to explain myself to strangers when I've done nothing wrong....moreso when I'm hot, and tired and in need of a shower, lol!


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AMORY – Turnovers were the story of the first-round 4A playoff matchup between Houston and Amory, and the Hilltoppers made the Panthers pay with a key interception in the fourth quarter for a 26-24 win.
Amory (9-3) forced eight fumbles, but Denver McQuary's pick of Panthers QB Jon David Poss in the fourth quarter that led to Houston's final score was the difference maker.
"The interceptions were what turned the momentum tonight," said Houston coach William Cook, whose team got the first playoff win in school history. "The one at the end was huge, and their offense never seemed to get back on track after the one before halftime."
Houston (10-2) got on the board first with a 6-yard run from Brandon Townsend, but Tanner Poole's 30-yard field goal brought the Panthers within 3 after the Hilltoppers' second fumble of the night.
Another fumble on Houston's next drive allowed Amory to take over at the Houston 40. Dario Robinson's 23-yard run set up a 20-yard scoring pass from Jon David Poss to Abaris Woodrick. Robinson added an 8-yard scoring run five minutes before halftime for a 17-6 lead, but Houston trimmed it to 17-13 when Chris Thorton picked off a Poss pass and returned it for a score.
Both defenses held strong to open the third quarter, but Amory used special teams to get back on the board. The Panthers blocked a punt to give their offense the ball at the Houston 12, and Poss found Devin McIntosh for a score two plays later.
Houston responded on the next drive with Townsend's 6-yard TD run, and Hilltoppers QB Sharone Wright punched the ball in from six yards out to take the final lead.
"Our seniors made the plays tonight. This was what they wanted and what they've worked for all year long," Cook said.
Despite being held to 13 yards passing in the first half, Wright finished the game 6 of 10 passing for 157 yards. Townsend led Houston with 77 yards on seven carries.
Poss threw a season-high three picks and was held to 116 yards passing while Robinson added 122 yards on the ground.
"This was just one of those games where we got outplayed tonight," Amory coach Trent Hammond said. "Hats off to them because they're a great team, and I think this is a good, hard-fought game for us to go out on."


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ARSC T3E Users' Newsletter 187, January 21, 2000
ARSC Guidelines Concerning Interactive Parallel JobsIn the code development phase, users occasionally need to run parallel jobs interactively rather than through the NQS batch system. To promote the development of new parallel codes, as well as interactive debugging and performance tuning, ARSC permits interactive work on yukon.
The following guidelines are designed to support interactive users while maximizing system utilization, and the throughput of production batch jobs.
- By default, users already have an interactive limit of 8 PEs. (Thus, any time PEs are available, you can run an interactive job.)
As a part of normal operations, and on request, ARSC will dedicate a maximum of 8 PEs to interactive work.
During such periods, these PEs will be dedicated to interactive work and will not be available to batch users. If two or more interactive users happen to be working at the time, they will share this pool of PEs.
- Dedicated interactive sessions will be available between the hours of 9am - 4pm, Alaska Time, Monday - Friday.
Users needing dedicated interactive PEs must contact ARSC consulting. E-mail us at: "email@example.com" or call us at: 907-450-8602.
In making your request, specify the period of time during which you will be working, and if you finish early, please let us know.
- In general, do not make production runs interactively and move your testing and work into the batch system as soon as possible. High priority NQS queues are enabled for 30-minute (or shorter) batch jobs.
Special arrangements are also available for real-time demos, unusual debugging situations, short-term high-priority projects, etc. Contact ARSC consulting.
A Tip on Using "qsub"NQS understands the time formats, "HH:MM:SS" and "MM:SS", so you don't need to figure your time requests in seconds! For example:
#QSUB -l mpp_t=30:00 # Request 30 minutes total MPP time #QSUB -l mpp_t=8:00:00 # Request 8 hours #QSUB -l mpp_t=2:15:00 # Request 2 hours and 15 minutesSee "man qsub" for details.
Numerical Simulations in Turbulent Flow Research[ This is part of our occasional series on the published work of T3E Newsletter Readers. Contributions are always welcome. ]
Two of our readers published some of their research (accomplished using the T3E) in the January edition of "Physics of Fluids." Here's an overview of the project, followed by the citation:
Jim Riley and Steve de Bruyn Kops of the University of Washington are testing new methods to predict turbulent and chemically reactive flows with direct numerical and large-eddy simulations. Turbulent flow research affects studies in a variety of areas, including the ozone layer in the atmosphere, the efficiency of fossil-fuel burning engines, and control of air pollution.
Turbulent flows are extremely difficult to simulate without resorting to modeling because of the massive processing power required to compute such complex events. In fact, Riley and de Bruyn Kops were the first researchers at ARSC to take advantage of all 256 processors on the ARSC Cray T3E, following the February 1999 upgrade.
To study turbulent combustion, de Bruyn Kops and Riley run direct numerical simulations (DNSs) of turbulent flows on massively parallel computers. In DNSs, the exact transport equations are solved numerically, without resorting to modeling. The computer code developed by de Bruyn Kops and Riley employs a pseudo-spectral scheme in which derivatives are computed in Fourier space and multiplication is performed in physical space. This method is both very accurate and computationally efficient.
As demonstrated in a recently published paper in Physics of Fluids, computers such as Yukon are finally powerful enough to simulate simple flows having the same conditions as those studied in wind tunnels.
The study of these "canonical flows," such as the scalar mixing layer discussed in the paper, enable researchers to develop theories and models that can be applied to more complex flows. In the laboratory, however, it is often very difficult to create an experiment that matches the desired conditions exactly because several parameters cannot always be adjusted independently. It is also not feasible to collect data as a function of three spatial dimensions plus time for large areas of the flow. As de Bruyn Kops and Riley discuss in their paper, both of these problems can be overcome in numerical experiments. If the simulations are closely matched to measured laboratory data, the results can be used with high confidence that they represent true physical phenomena, while providing extremely detailed information about the flow. From this solid base, the simulations can then be extended to include phenomena not present in the laboratory experiments, such as chemical reactions.The citation is:
S. M. de Bruyn Kops and J. J. Riley, "Re-examining the thermal mixing layer with numerical simulations", Physics of Fluids, v12, n1, Jan. 2000.The abstract is available at:
http://staff.washington.edu/debk/node5.htmlThose with an on-line subscription to Physics of Fluids can find the complete paper at:
AURORA Project PapersThe AURORA project is a special project of the Austrian government looking at the broad issues of HPC and involving applications, programming paradigms, tools, benchmarks etc. An overview gives more detail at:
http://www.vcpc.univie.ac.at/aurora/overview.shtmlalong with a breakdown of all projects and goals. An extensive and interesting collection of papers from the past three years covers such work as:
- Projects on HPF ranging from applications and tools plus compiler issues. There are also several results for both compiler and applications from the HPF+ project which looked at advanced algorithms in HPF and are worth reading.
- P3T+, a performance estimator for parallel programs which provides various information on performance at compile time.
- A number of matrix solvers for parallel systems in different languages, both be useful for those writing parallel applications or wanting to understand parallelism in general.
- FFT algorithms for serial systems are reviewed in detail in one paper in particular along with several novel parallel FFT algorithms being described in other papers.
- Applications ranging from advanced codes with HPF through innovative graphical/video processing and financial systems.
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A: {{ "mv -i" and "cp -i" only prompt when the move or copy would {{ overwrite an existing file. "rm -i", on the other hand, prompts {{ on EVERY file -- as expected! {{ {{ How can I get "mv" and "cp" to ask about every file too, so I {{ can issue wild-card commands like: {{ {{ mv -i *.F90 ../some/directory {{ {{ and then only move some of the files? Well, you can't change "mv" and "cp," but you can use "find" to create the desired behavior using the "-ok" option.
From "man find": -ok cmd Like -exec except that the generated command line is printed with a question mark first, and is executed only if the user responds by typing y. Here's the basic command: find . -name "*.F90" -ok mv {} ../some/directory \; And a sample run: $ find . -name "*.f90" -ok mv {} ../some/directory \; < mv ... ./out.f90 >? n < mv ... ./int.f90 >? n < mv ... ./Test2/out.f90 >? n There's a problem here. As the example shows, find doesn't stop at the current directory, but recursively searches all subdirectories. Here are two ways to restrict the search to the current directory: find * \( -type d -prune \) -o \( -name "*.f90" -ok mv {} ../some/directory \; \) find * \( -name "*.f90" -ok mv {} ../some/directory \; \) -o -prune (For more on "-prune," see: /arsc/support/news/t3enews/t3enews181/index.xml#qt Q: Is it a good idea to compress files which are to be DMF migrated?
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I was just dinking around on the KS site and I noticed a couple of changes in the 2013 regs.
They now have 6 zones instead of 4. If I read it right, zone 4 is by draw only and just for residents as it was, but in zones 1, 2, 3, 5, & 6 you can now harvest 2 turkeys. Before I think you could only harvest 1 in the NW zone.
Also during the archery season (April 1 thru 9 for 2013) hunters 55 and older can use a crossbow now. Guess who has a crossbow and quailifies as an old fart. :D


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The price has been lowered to $69.99, thankfully. The placard said it would be that price at SDCC and now Amazon has updated accordingly. Hopefully this will move more units now.
The price has been lowered to $69.99, thankfully. The placard said it would be that price at SDCC and now Amazon has updated accordingly. Hopefully this will move more units now.
Now if they'd only drop the TIE by $10 I'd be really happy.
RS is reporting that Amazon shipping is a hot mess right now. One guy got his shipped without a box, they just slapped the shipping label on the package and it arrived in HORRIBLE shape. Then another customer received his double boxed (Hasbro white mailer wrapped and put inside a regular box) which arrived in pristine condition.
I am planning on ordering one of these, but I will wait a few days until they get the shipping problem worked out.
Amazon has been notified about the problem.
May the force be with you.
I preordered mine awhile ago and am quite concerned about this shipping fiasco. My Omega Supreme had a dinged corner when they shipped it to me earlier this year.
No worries, look like Amazon is fixing this, they will mail out all vehicles in white mailer box inside a shipping box and will replace any wrongly shipped Slave I's no questions asked.
WOW, that's how to treat a customer!
May the force be with you.
I think someone or someones at the warehouse level screwed up. I've gotten a few Joe exclusives from Amazon before, and they always come in a plain brown mailer box, which contains the white box from Hasbro (and it's been packed with paper or bubbles each time, never a tight fit or one of their sloppy "toss it in a huge box or tiny envelope and hope it makes it there safe" fiascoes), which keeps the interior packaging in mint condition or close to it. (Kinda like SK99 said they'll be doing from now on.) Amazon should never have slapped a label on the white box, or, worse, taken the ship out and put the label on the actual packaging.
That's my jacket!
Mine is going to show up tomorrow. I had to take Amazon to task for overcharging me and not honoring the pre-order price guarantee, they refunded me the $30 difference but I shouldn't have to do that. Hopefully the shipping box disaster is a one-off mistake.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
I got mine yesterday and it was shipped in the white box. The front is in pristine condition but the sides have a couple of good dents in them.
Some people are saying when you make an order, say its a gift so they put some kind of cover on it. I didn't learn about that until later so I'm waiting to see what kind of shape mine comes in.


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Richmond, VA – Early childhood education plays a vital role in ensuring that children have the best chance to reach their academic potential and contributes to the overall well-being of families and communities. The Virginia Early Childhood Foundation (VECF) knows this and is working to expand access to early childhood education across Virginia through their Smart Beginnings initiative.
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Mike Petters, CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries, Virginia's largest manufacturing company, delivers remarks at the Virginia Chamber of Commerce Workforce Conference, "For us to keep our economy strong and to remain competitive on this global stage, we must invest in education at the very beginning.
Read More.
As part of VECF's W.K. Kellogg Foundation funded
initiative "Smart Beginnings for Southside Families" site visits took place in Danville, Emporia and Martinsville in mid September. This unique
dual-generation program will serve 100 families in the cities of
Martinsville, Danville and Emporia, and Henry, Pittsylvania, Brunswick,
Greensville and Sussex Counties. Read more about the trip
through Southside Virginia in this article from the Martinsville
Read Martinsville Bulletin article.
Great coverage on ABC13 WSET-TV about Smart Beginnings Central Virginia's efforts to help parents understand and find quality preschool for their children
Nearly 50 Shenandoah Valley business leaders gathered Wednesday in Harrisonburg to hear why investment in early childhood education builds a better workforce for tomorrow. Participants heard from early childhood expert, Dr. Craig Ramey and Wells Fargo Vice President, Monica Matherly on the importance of early childhood education and the work of Smart Beginnings.
Fifteen school systems in the Greater Richmond area offer region wide Kindergarten Registration Day on April 15th. This coordinated kindergarten registration is promoted by Smart Beginnings Greater Richmond and the United Way Greater Richmond.
Delegate Tag Greason and Dominion Executive Vice President Paul Koonce co-authored an opinion piece, "At the Starting Gate: Early Lessons for Education Reform" published in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Read Op Ed.
VECF President Kathy Glazer chosen for the 2015 Outstanding Women Awards by the YWCA of Richmond for Nonprofit Management. The awards will be presented at the April 24th luncheon to be held at the Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce.
Read more.
Article on business leader support for quality early learning as the foundation for Virginia's workforce success in The Roanoke Star. Nearly 100 business leaders from the New River and Roanoke Valley region attended on November 12th to learn more from speaker Barry DuVal, President and CEO of the Virginia Chamber of Commerce. The event was hosted by Smart Beginnings New River Valley and Smart Beginnings Greater Roanoke and held at The Inn at Virginia Tech.
Read The Roanoke Star article.
On October 14th, VECF and the Virginia Chamber of Commerce co-hosted an Executive Briefing on Early Childhood in Virginia at the Jepson Alumni Center at the University of Richmond. Mike Petters, President & CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries spoke about the value of preschool and why he supports the need for a greater emphasis on preschool education in Virginia.
Read Daily Press article.
The "Back to School with Q - School Readiness Starts with Quality" Campaign launched by the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation and Smart Beginnings partners highlights the Virginia Star Quality Initiative as children head back to school or step into a classroom for the first time.
Read The Roanoke Times article.
Governor McAuliffe announced the creation of the Children's Cabinet and the Commonwealth Council on Childhood Success. Improving early childhood care and education is one of five priorities for the Children's Cabinet. Additionally, the Commonwealth Council on Childhood Success is charged with addressing optimal development of Virginia's infants, toddlers, and young children.
Read More.
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President, Jeffrey Lacker, authors an opinion piece in the Washington Post on "Investing in people as an economic growth strategy." Lacker relates the economics of human capital to early learning investments and workforce development programs.
Read Washington Post article.
Smart Beginnings NRV for received an AmeriCorps State grant through the Virginia Office of Volunteerism and Community Service and the Corporation for National and Community Service to expand the Reading Hour program. Funding will provide 10 literacy specialists to promote reading and kindergarten readiness with families and childcare centers in this area.
Read article and view WSLS news clip.
WSLS Daytime Blue Ridge's interview with Meg Fitzwater (Smart Beginnings Greater Roanoke) and Amber Yopp (Roanoke City Libraries) discusses partnering with community libraries to introduce children to the joy of reading. The importance of child development during the first five years is being highlighted during the Smart Beginnings Start with Families Campaign.
View WSLS news interview.
Cynthia Pritchard, CEO, United Way of Greater Augusta and member of the Smart Beginnings Shenandoah Leadership Council and Barbara Hutchinson Director of Community Initiatives, Thomas Jefferson Area United Way and member of Smart Beginnings Thomas Jefferson Area Leadership Council discuss the Smart Beginnings Start with Families Campaign on WMRA Public Radio (Harrisonburg/Charlottesville.) Listen as they discuss helping to give children the best possible start in life while educating the public on the developmental stages of early life.
Listen to WMRA Radio Interview.
Del. Sam Rasoul and Del. Joseph Yost Op Ed: Later Success Starts Early in the Roanoke Times focuses on celebrating the role of parents and families during the Smart Beginnings Start with Families Campaign. They highlight the importance of commitment from public and private leaders to support parents and families so that all children can have the opportunity to be ready to succeed in school, work and life.
Read Roanoke Times Op Ed.
VECF President Kathy Glazer and Librarian of Virginia's Dr. Sandra Treadway participated in a segment together on CBS6 "Virginia This Morning" to discuss Smart Beginnings Start with Families and summer reading programs at local libraries.
View Segment.
The Smart Beginnings Start with Families Campaign was highlighted in the June Issue of Fredericksburg Parent & Family Magazine.
See page 16.
Del. Chris Peace and Librarian of Virginia, Dr. Sandra Treadway, teamed up for an Op Ed in the Richmond Times Dispatch: Focus on Young Children. During our Smart Beginnings Start with Families Campaign, this article discusses the importance of parental influence and the long term impact of a child's experiences during their first five years.
Read RTD article.
Read Chatham Star Tribune Article.
Read article.
Read Urban Views Weekly article.
The Virginia Early Childhood Foundation and the Library of Virginia have partnered to designate May 11- June 15, the time period between Mother's Day and Father's Day, as an opportunity to focus on the unique needs of young children and to recognize that Smart Beginnings Start with Families.
Several resources can be downloaded here.
Smart Beginnings is highlighted in the Spring edition of the Virginia Child Protection Newsletter published by James Madison University in partnership with the Virginia Department of Social Services. This edition focuses on children's early childhood development services and is a great resource outlining these services offered in Virginia. Smart Beginnings is featured on pages 10 and 11 and the work of Smart Beginnings Danville Pittsylvania is highlighted as an example of how Smart Beginnings makes a difference in local communities across the Commonwealth.
Read Spring Edition of the VCPN.
Smart Beginnings Southwest and Smart Beginnings Virginia Highlands celebrated the Week of the Young Child in their region with activities at several local child care centers. They took the opportunity to stress the importance of early learning in their communities through reading to children and providing professional training programs for teachers.
A Roanoke Times Op/Ed by Cox Communications Vice President, Vonya Alleyne, discusses making the business case for investment in early childhood education and highlights the great work of Smart Beginnings Greater Roanoke.
Read the article.
This video from Roanoke's WDBJ's news discusses the role of the Virginia Star Quality Initiative in improving quality early education programs in the region. Thanks to the work of Smart Beginnings Greater Roanoke, today there are 23 VSQI star rated child care centers compared to only 4 centers just five years ago.
View video.
Community leaders from across Virginia came together in Charlottesville for the final session of VECF's Leader Institute. For the last eight months, Leader Institute members have been meeting with national experts to learn more about sustaining local early childhood systems to improve young children's school readiness.
View WVIR-TV 29 News Clip.
Southwest Virginia and Roanoke in particular, is seeing an increase in the number of childcare programs participating in the voluntary Virginia Star Quality Initiative. Smart Beginnings Greater Roanoke Coordinator, Kris Meyers, is interviewed about how this is improving the quality of programs in the area.
View WSLS10 News Clip.
Funding from Nemours will combat childhood obesity through a grant awarded to Virginia, specifically targeting Hampton, Newport News, South Hampton Roads and Richmond - areas where the overall obesity and poverty rates are the highest. Smart Beginnings Virginia Peninsula is one of several organizations, led by the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation, who will collaborate to improve health practices in early childhood centers in these target areas.
Read more.
Smart Beginnings Rappahannock Area is presenting a series of articles on early childhood development in Fredericksburg Parent and Family. The first in the series was published in the February 2014 edition. "Impoverished Children Underperform in School, Life" discusses the impact of poverty on child brain development and how parent involvement and quality care can make a difference in school readiness. The second article, "Growing by Leaps and Bounds," celebrates the growth in the number of star quality rated child care centers in the Rappahannock area, from 4 centers to 40 in six years.
See pages 40 and 41 in Fredericksburg Parent and Family.
Emory University tracked a nationwide sample of more than 7,700 children through grade school in an effort to study childhood obesity. This new study was recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine. According to the study, upon kindergarten entry 12% were obese and 15% were overweight. The study also reported that the greatest increase in obesity occurred between the first and third grades.
Read more about the study.
Virginia business leaders gathered at the General Assembly to meet with lawmakers to discuss improving the state's economic competiveness during VA Chamber Day on January 29th. For the first time, early childhood education is one of the Chamber's statewide goals through its economic plan, "Blueprint Virginia." Business leaders included high-quality preschool opportunities for Virginia's children in their discussions with legislators.
US Senator Mark Warner met with Ann Stratton, Executive Director of Smart Beginnings Danville Pittsylvania and other local community leaders. Asked for advice about federal priorities for early learning, Ann noted that "the first priority should be holding programs to a high quality standard to ensure children are getting the best education possible." She also spoke about the importance of accountability and keeping standards high, making sure children are prepared as possible when they enter kindergarten.
Read more about Senator Warner's visit.
A column by Tony Miller, President of the Washington County Chamber of Commerce, posted in the Bristol Herald Courier supports investment in early childhood in the Southwest region. The Virginia Chamber of Commerce recently highlighted Virginia's need to improve access to high quality, early childhood education in its recently released Blueprint Virginia, a business plan for the Commonwealth.
Read Bristol Herald Courier column
An editorial in The Free Lance Star (Fredericksburg) discusses the value of local community investment in Smart Beginnings. The editorial highlights Smart Beginnings Rappahannock as one example of a community lead coalition with more than 40 public and private agencies, businesses and individuals governed by a board of community leaders committed to ensuring every child entering kindergarten has a chance for success in life. While early investment results are not instant, the long term benefits positively impact Virginia's future prosperity.
Read editorial in The Free Lance Star.
Dan Minahan, President of the Wise County Chamber of Commerce, acknowledges the Virginia Chamber of Commerce's support of early childhood education through their newly released economic plan, Blueprint Virginia. In an article published in The Coalfield Progress, Minahan discusses the importance of this emphasis on Virginia's future prosperity, most specifically in the southwest region of the Commonwealth. Minahan serves on the Smart Beginnings Appalachian Region and Smart Beginnings Southwest Virginia Leadership Councils.
Read Minahan's article in The Coalfield Progress.
In a letter to the editor of the Richmond Times Dispatch, Brad Armstrong, Partner with the Martin Agency, endorses the Virginia Chamber of Commerce's Blueprint Virginia. In particular he discusses the impact of early childhood education and school readiness on our Commonwealth's economic competitiveness. Armstrong serves on the Leadership Council for Smart Beginnings Greater Richmond.
Read Armstrong's Letter to the Editor, Richmond Times Dispatch
The Virginia Chamber of Commerce unveiled "Blueprint Virginia", its strategic vision for the Commonwealth's economy. Early childhood education is highlighted as one of the goals in this statewide plan. The business community is supportive of efforts to expand access to high quality preschools to help improve workforce development in the Commonwealth.
Read article from The Roanoke Times.
This editorial discusses the Nation's latest reading and math scores just released in the Nation's Report Card from the National Assessment of Educational Progress. While the Commonwealth's marks are slightly above the national averages, thanks in part to support from state leaders, Virginia's business community, and other private resources, ongoing investment is crucial to ensure Virginia remain competitive in a global economy. The work of the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation and Smart Beginnings is part of the vital effort to improve Virginia's scores.
Read The Roanoke Times Editorial
Dr. Robert Sandel, President of Virginia Western Community College, has been recognized as Roanoke's 2013 Citizen of the Year. He recently oversaw the successful completion of the Fralin Center opening opportunities for people to train for jobs in health care, a dominant industry in the valley. Sandel also offers strong support for early childhood learning as a member, and a past chairman, of the steering committee for Smart Beginnings Greater Roanoke.
Read more about Dr. Sandel's honor as Roanoke's "Citizen of the Year."
Industry leaders, local government officials, state legislators and educators from Southwest Virginia gathered at Hotel Roanoke on October 21st for "Building Our Region's Workforce: One Reader at a Time." Presenters included Dr. Michael Friedlander of the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute and Ralph Smith of the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Friedlander shared research on brain development and how it relates to early education, which ultimately leads to academic excellence and future prosperity for our young children. Smith spoke about the Campaign for Grade Level Reading, in which the Roanoke region participates.
Read the Roanoke Times editorial.
On October 21st, the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation and Smart Beginnings Greater Roanoke hosted "Building Our Region's Workforce: One Reader at a Time" at Hotel Roanoke drawing business leaders from the region. Ralph Smith, one of the nation's top literacy advocates addressed participants. Smith is a Senior Vice President and the Managing Director for the Campaign for Grade Level Reading with the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
Watch Smith's interview with WDBJ7.
Beth Rhinehart, Director of Government Relations for Wellmont Health System in Bristol, VA, wrote an op editorial on Smart Beginnings and the future success of children in the Southwest region. Published in the Bristol Herald Courier on October 2nd, this article discusses the importance of early education and regional collaboration to ensure young citizens in their region have access to quality school readiness experiences and every opportunity for success in the classroom, the workforce and in life. Rhinehart is a member of the Board of Directors of the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation.
Beth Rhinehart's Op Ed in Bristol Herald Courier.
Young children and their families on the Eastern Shore will benefit from a new school readiness initiative launched in the region through a partnership with the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation and grants from the PNC Foundation.
Read article on Smart Beginnings Eastern Shore.
Smart Beginnings Greater Richmond will be honored at the Valentine Richmond History Center 2013 History Makers Awards on October 15th for its work to raise public engagement and will for early childhood development.
View WRIC 8 News Clip.
In the Richmond Times Dispatch, Paul Koonce, Dominion Virginia Power CEO, discusses the importance of investing in school readiness as a strategy for ensuring Virginia's workforce and economic prosperity.
Read Paul Koonce's Op Ed in the RTD.
Dr. Robert Sandel's Op Ed on school readiness was featured in The Roanoke Times as students of all ages head back to school and campus. Dr. Sandel is President of Virginia Western Community College and member of the the Leadership Council of Smart Beginnings Greater Roanoke. He discusses the benefits of quality early learning initiatives and how early childhood development affects Virginia's workforce development.
Read Dr. Sandel's Op Ed in The Roanoke Times.
Jeffrey Lacker, President of the Federal Reserve Bank in Richmond recently discussed the state of the US economy in an interview with the Richmond Times Dispatch. When asked to discuss why he believes widely available and affordable early childhood education is one solution to the workforce skills gap, he explains, "If you look at the research on skills and human capital…it indicates that the earlier you intervene, the earlier you provide help, the bigger the payoff."
Read more in the Richmond Times Dispatch article.
Video clip of the Smart Beginnings Leader Institute which kicked off on Tuesday July, 30th in Charlottesville. Dr. John Thomas, Center Director of the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at UVA and member of the VECF Advisors Council, provided the welcome to participants.
View the CBS 19 News Clip.
Several Leaders from the New River Valley were selected to participate in the Smart Beginnings Leader Institute which kicked off on July 30th. Those leaders are David Moore, Coordinator-Smart Beginnings New River Valley; Kristi Snyder, Administrator-Rainbow Riders Childcare Center, and Delegate Joseph Yost, representing the 12th district.
The July 30th Leader Institute inaugural meeting at the LexisNexis building in downtown Charlottesville marked the launch of the Smart Beginnings Leader Institute. The seven-month series emphasizes locally driven systems of high quality early childhood care, education and health services.
Read The Daily Progress article.
As the first session of the Smart Beginnings Leader Institute was set to begin, VECF President Kathy Glazer was interviewed by WINA News Radio in Charlottesville.
Click here to listen to the July 29th 1070 WINA News Radio Interview.
Delegate Joseph Yost is one of several area leaders chosen to represent the New River Valley at the inaugural Smart Beginnings Leader Institute, which kicked off on July 30th in Charlottesville. Read more about his thoughts on the importance of early childhood development in the recent Southwest Times article.
Read The Southwest Times article featuring Delegate Yost.
More than 50 leaders from across the Commonwealth gathered in Charlottesville on July 30th to kick off the new Smart Beginnings Leader Institute for early childhood education.
View NBC29 News Clip.
Drs. Craig and Sharon Ramey recently wrote an editorial in the Roanoke Times focused on quality Pre-K and its impact on Virginia's future quality of life. They are distinguished scholars of human development at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute and professors psychology, pediatrics and psychiatry at Virginia Tech and the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine. The Rameys also serve on VECF's newly formed Advisors Council.
Read Roanoke Times Editorial
A partnership between United Way Virginia Highlands and Smart Beginnings will help bring improvements to child care centers across the Southwest Region. The local United Way received a $220,000 grant through the Virginia Department of Social Services which will fund the VSQI program through Smart Beginnings.
Read Bristol Herald Courier Article.
Read Washington County News Article.
Dr. William C. Rees, a pediatrician in Northern Virginia, has joined the VECF Board of Directors. He serves as the current President of the Virginia Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Learn more about Dr. Rees and his commitment to children's health and well being.
Dr. Gary L. Rhodes, President of J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College in Richmond, Va was elected to the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation's Board of Directors on June 12th. Dr. Rhodes' experience in higher education offers a unique perspective on the link between early childhood development and the workforce pipeline.
Smart Beginnings Greater Roanoke mentioned in Roanoke Times editorial.
Read Roanoke Times Editorial
VECF's newly elected officers and board members were featured in the Metro Business section in the June 24th issue of the Richmond Times Dispatch.
This conference will bring together active Pre-K-12 teachers and administrators from Virginia with educational researchers from across the country focused on effective teaching, and student growth and learning. The conference will take place on June 20-21 at the University of Virginia's Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning (CASTL).
Kendra Kielbasa, director of Smart Beginnings Greater Prince William, shared statistics on the number of children in Prince William who will enter kindergarten unprepared to learn. She was joined by Dalena Kanouse, a member of the Board of Directors for Smart Beginnings Prince William, whose message centered on the business case for investing in early childhood education. Dr. Mark Ginsberg, Dean of George Mason University's College of Education and Human Development and VECF Board Member, addressed the importance of quality, affordable access to early childhood education for all children.
To read more about the Summit, visit the Prince William Chamber of Commerce article.
On April 23rd, Smart Beginnings Rappahannock Area helped register 509 students at 37 elementary schools across three school divisions as Phase I of their "Ready Freddy" kindergarten registration promotion. In August, Phase II will pilot a community kindergarten orientation day in one elementary school in each of the five school divisions.
To learn more, visit the Free Lance Star article.
A unique partnership with Kings Dominion and Smart Beginnings Greater Richmond resulted in the installation of early learning messages in the new Planet Snoopy area of the park turning it into a place where families can understand the importance of early childhood learning while riding rides and enjoying the park. Smart Beginnings Greater Richmond helped launch the new Planet Snoopy on April 24, 2013.
Click here for images of the early learning messages.
The Kensington School, a pre-school and child development center in Williamsburg, VA, recognizes the importance of quality early education by applying to participate in the Virginia Star Quality Initiative. A new 2,000 square-foot expansion in January gave the pre-school, which serves children 6 weeks to age 5, additional capacity to serve families in their community.
Read Virginia Gazette article.
New York Times Economic Scene Business article by Eduardo Porter discusses Investment in early childhood education.
VECF and United Way Virginia Highlands partner to build a regional system of support and operations for local Smart Beginnings Initiatives. This new regional system was highlighted online at SWVA Today/Tricities.com.
View article here to learn more.
On March 19th, Smart Beginnings Virginia Highlands hosted an inaugural Pre-K Fair in partnership with United Way Virginia Highlands. The fair served nearly 130 people who registered for Pre-K screenings in both Washington County, Virginia schools and Bristol, Virginia schools. While the pre-screening appointments do not guarantee placement, it allows for speedier enrollment.
Read press release here to learn more about the Inaugural Pre-K Fair.
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond's Chief Operating Officer, Sally Green, wrote an article on how early investment in childhood development helps kids and the Commonwealth.
Click here to read Sally Green's Op Ed
VECF made additional investments in four Smart Beginnings coalitions in December 2012. Check presentations included: Smart Beginnings Hopewell Prince George ($112,500), Smart Beginnings Rappahannock Area ($186,933), Smart Beginnings New River Valley ($93,750), and Smart Beginnings Virginia Peninsula ($202,500).
Click here to read Hopewell Prince George Check Presentation article
Click here to read Rappahannock Area Check Presentation article
Click here to view New River Valley Check Presentation video
Click here to view Virginia Peninsula Check Presentation article
Three Smart Beginnings Coalitions recently received grant awards from VECF in support of their continued early childhood development efforts in their localities. Check presentations made in November 2012 include: Smart Beginnings Appalachain Region ($90,000), Smart Beginnings Shenandoah Valley ($75,000), and Smart Beginnings Southside ($70,500). Additional check presentations will take place in December for Smart Beginnings Hopewell Prince George, Smart Beginnings Rappahannock, and Smart Beginnings Virginia Peninsula.
Click here to read Appalachian Check Presentation Article
Click here to read Shenandoah Valley Check Presentation Article
Click here to read Southside Check Presentation Article
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Amazon has the Jango/Battle Droid set on half price, so I bought it. The droid is the one from the deluxe C-3PO AOTC set so it comes apart. Unfortunately, the way it's packaged has its right leg pretty warped and it won't stand at all, the feet are a quarter of an inch different in height.
As for Jango, it's an ok figure but I'm not as impressed in person as I was behind glass. The sculpt is decent but up close its fine details aren't as sharp as they initially seemed, this reminds me of some of the POTF2 figures from the first few years only minus the bulky bodies. The pose is a little wide but neutral and acceptable, I really don't like the extreme tilt of the head though, he's always stuck looking at the floor about 6 proportional feet in front of him - I think the idea is menace, but it doesn't come off quite right. The lack of waist articulation hampers it more than I expected. The visor on the helmet is sculpted very narrow and this is the thing that throws it off the most because it looks like a cartoon version of the character while squinting. Deco is pretty good on the figure, the backpack is cast in metallic blue plastic and has only dark purple paint at the nozzles and tips which comes off a bit simple. The backpack is also a little too big, between the color and size it almost seems like it's for a different toy line, but it's hardly a disaster. His blasters are almost twice as long as they should be, they're longer than his forearm, but I suppose that's so the kids don't lose them as easily or something. He has a hard time standing.


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We have just emerged from the holiday season, and were greeted by MiddleEasy.com turning into a Voltron-like entity that is the MiddleEasy Network. We all probably had to deal with some sort of crazed family members or crazed friends and family of our loved ones at some point, so what better way to alleviate that stress than to be wished a happy new year from a fighter whose knee could rip your head off. Check out K-1's photo album. While we are at it, the team at LiverKick.com would like to wish you a Happy New Year as well. I mean, if Overeem, Sakuraba, Aoki and the gang can, why can't we?


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Epic Voyage: The Extraordinary Life of Titanic Survivor Helen Churchill Candee
Exhibition curated by Stacey Danielson
Admission: $10 adults, $8 seniors, $6 children 8-18
Student tours: $3 per student. Reservations required
The exhibition will focus on the life and times of one of the survivors of the RMS Titanic, Helen Churchill Candee, mother of Edith Mathews, whose husband was one of the owners of the Mansion at the turn of the century. Photos, books, articles, letters, costumes and artifacts, many of which have never have been publicly exhibited, will interpret the history, customs and fashions of American life in the early part of the 20th century, allowing visitors to capture a glimpse of the Edwardian era.
The exhibit will feature personal belongings of Helen Churchill Candee, including her writing case, letters, unpublished manuscripts, first editions of her books, and photographs on loan from her great-granddaughter, Rosemary Gillham. Additional material includes artifacts from the LMMM collection and loans from the Darien Historical Society and the private collection of Paul and Hadley Veeder.
Ms. Candee grew up in New York and Connecticut and attended school in Norwalk and New Haven. She was a women's rights advocate, an author and a journalist. She published her first book, How Women May Earn a Living in 1900 and wrote for many publications including National Geographic, Atlantic Monthly and the Ladies' Home Journal. She eventually moved from New York to Washington, where she became a renowned interior decorator, one of the first in the U.S., working for President Theodore Roosevelt, among others. She was involved in Democratic politics and served on many civic boards. She had a very active social life, was a trustee of the Corcoran Gallery and a friend of First Lady Helen Taft.
Helen Candee was in Europe in the spring of 1912, when her son Harold was in an accident in the United States. She took the fastest way back, the RMS Titanic, on its fateful inaugural voyage to New York City. The largest passenger steamship in the world hit an iceberg on April 14, 1912, and sank, resulting in the death of 1,517 people. Ms. Candee fractured her ankle as she boarded Lifeboat 6, the same lifeboat as 'Unsinkable' Molly Brown. She was one of the last women off, one of the 706 who were rescued. After her rescue, she recuperated at Elm Park (now the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum), where she received a number of letters and congratulations from people like Mrs.Taft. She gave a short interview to the Washington Herald and subsequently wrote a detailed article for Collier's Weekly, which included her description of life on board the ship and sneaking up to the bow. The following year she was one of the leading riders in the 'Votes for Women' parade on Pennsylvania Avenue.
She was a nurse in Italy under the auspices of the Red Cross during World War I, and she continued to write books and articles, and travel to Japan, China, Indonesia and Cambodia. Her greatest work, Angkor the Magnificent, is considered the first major English language study on that Khmer temple, and led her to a subsequent career as a lecturer.
This year, the LMMM Student Program will introduce young visitors to the Mansion's history, architecture and collections as well as the opening exhibit, Epic Voyage: The Extraordinary Life of Titanic Survivor Helen Churchill Candee. Portions of Mystic Aquarium's new exhibit, "Titanic – 12,450 Feet Below," along with captivating video of Dr. Ballard's discovery of the doomed ocean liner, will also be on display. Students will experience Mystic's Immersion Learning's Return to Titanic program, which includes hands-on activities and games that engage youth in science, technology and exploration. At the Mystic Aquarium, students will join Dr. Robert Ballard and a team of scientists as they determine how much the ship has deteriorated since its initial discovery in 1985. Science topics covered include scale drawings, buoyancy, model-building, weathering, photo mosaics, remotely operated vehicles, latitude and longitude, coordinate grids, communication technology, radio waves, conservation and careers. To view Mystic Aquarium's major new exhibit, "Titanic – 12,450 Feet Below," and its student program in its entirety please contact www.mysticaquarium.org
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Robert George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions , will offer the Commencement Address at Spring Arbor University in Michigan on Sunday, May 6, 2001 and will receive the honorary degree of LL.D. (Doctor of Laws).
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Whatever Mitt Romney is doing in a few years — whether he's running the United States or hawking Salt Lake City Olympics merchandise on eBay — he'll always have the Summer of '07. These are heady days for Romney and his supporters: he just won the Iowa GOP straw poll; he's running strong in New Hampshire; John McCain is struggling mightily; and Rudy Giuliani's own daughter prefers Barack Obama. The idea of Romney actually being elected president used to seem far-fetched. Not anymore.
But plenty could happen between now and next year's gaggle of front-loaded primaries to affect Romney's hot streak, including three imminent media developments. September Dawn, a feature film about a nasty episode of Mormon-on-non-Mormon violence from the 1850s, comes out this week. A new book slamming Massachusetts's political mindset written by Jon Keller — the WBZ-TV political analyst and Phoenix alum — hits the shelves in early September. And A Mormon President — a documentary on the long-ago presidential aspirations of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), of which Romney is a member — is slated for release later this fall or early next year. With Romney running for the Oval Office, each is sure to get far more attention than it would otherwise. And each, in turn, could impact Romney's White House dreams.
Out of the blue
Let's start with Keller's book, The Bluest State: How Democrats Created the Massachusetts Blueprint for American Political Disaster (St. Martin's). The Bluest State is clearly intended as a successor to What's the Matter with Kansas?, Tom Frank's much-discussed analysis of Kansans' abiding loyalty to the GOP. Frank's book is cited on the back cover of review copies of Keller's book ("In a book that echoes What's the Matter with Kansas?. . . ") and invoked repeatedly in the text itself.
As such, it's going to be a great Romney campaign foil. Romney, of course, has elicited Red-state giggles by saying that running Massachusetts made him feel like a cattle rancher at a vegetarian convention. The Bluest State suggests that this quip is far too modest: Massachusetts politics are "poison," Keller claims, for the state itself and for the national Democratic Party:
Democrats have limped through a generation of tenuous grasp on national political power in part because they've been infected with the Massachusetts viruses I've described: addiction to tax revenues and a raging edifice complex couched in disrespect for wage earners; phony identity politics without real results for women and minorities; reflexive anti-Americanism in foreign affairs; vain indulgence in obnoxious political correctness; self-serving featherbedding; NIMBYism; authoritarian distortion of the balance of governmental power, all simmered in a broth of hypocritical paternalism.
Get the gist?
Obviously, Keller has a knack for turning potentially dry political concepts into prose that pops off the page. This makes The Bluest State an easy, engaging read, even if you don't buy Keller's argument. And verily, local liberals will find plenty to question: among other things, Keller collapses the Democrat-liberal distinction, states that Massachusetts Independents are really Democrats in disguise, and practically ignores the recent election of Deval Patrick — the second black governor elected in the US since reconstruction! — while playing up white political domination.
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CPAN v DTD (spoiler: CPAN loses)
I need to parse a DTD. Specifically I need to parse this DTD:
It's quite a well known one. Certainly there'll be a module on CPAN that can parse it. Let's have a look.
Looks promising, comprehensive. Unfortunately it fails with an error which is eventually tracked to a misspelled method name. So much for test coverage. Fix that and it throws a bunch of warnings that cause a rapid loss of confidence. No matter, let's try…
It's a "quick and dirty DTD parser". Hmm. "I'm too lazy to document
the structure". Nice.
"Since version 1.6 this module supports my "extensions" to DTDs. If the DTD contains a comment in form…"
Maybe I'll come back to XML::DTDParser…
SGML? That's got to be good, right? SGML is the daddy. Every fule no that. Unfortunately it doesn't really seem to have much of a Perl interface. It's all about translating DTDs to XML. I might be able to use that. I'm getting desperate.
I'll take a quick look at the test suite for a confidence boost. Here's one:
# Before `make install' is performed this script should be # `make test'. After `make install' it should work as `perl ######################### # change 'tests => 1' to 'tests => last_test_to_print'; use Test::More tests => 1; BEGIN { use_ok('SGML::DTDParse') }; ######################### # Insert your test code below, the Test::More module is use # its man page ( perldoc Test::More ) for help writing this
(I've cut the right hand side of the test off so it fits my stupid page layout. Don't worry - you're not missing anything good)
The other test is pretty similar. I'm not that confident now.
Running out of options. Let's look at XML::ParseDTD. From the documentation it appears to rock. The test results say "2 PASS, 2 FAIL". 50/50. So at least it's got some tests, right? Damn right! Here they are in their entirety:
#!/usr/bin/env perl -w use strict; use Test::Simple tests => 2; use XML::ParseDTD; my $dtd = new XML::ParseDTD('http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/D ok( defined $dtd, 'new() returned something' ); ok( $dtd->isa('XML::ParseDTD'), 'it's the right class' );
(Again I've cut the right hand side of the test off. Again you're not missing anything good)
I'm momentarily impressed that it managed to score two failures with that. I'm about to find out how.
Never mind, the DTD URI in the test looks a lot like the DTD I need to parse. I'm getting close. I can feel it.
Unfortunately it has a dependency on Cache::SharedMemoryCache (why?) which in turn depends on IPC::ShareLite - which doesn't install on my PowerBook. So now I need to fix / avoid IPC::ShareLite.
See kids: the great thing about CPAN is how much time it saves!


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Is anyone else happy that Hasbro may get their act together and make mini figures? Check it out.
Khoo-Ha...Please Pass The Jelly.
I hope there is some truth to this report!
MICRO MACHINES: Return of the Action Fleet Mini-Figs?
For those who are about to sit in Action Fleet cockpits, we salute you!
During the recent San Diego Comic Con, our reporter Tycho got an interesting piece of information from one of the Hasbro representatives about the new Action Fleet line. If you didn't know, the new Action Fleet vehicles come with no mini-figures - Hasbro has been quoted by various sources with several different reasons why this is. However, according to the report, Hasbro says they will be offering Action Fleet mini-figures in the 2003 Action Fleet sets. Even more interesting, because the 2002 Action Fleet vehicles don't have mini-figures, Hasbro says they are looking into a multi-pack of just mini-figures to fill the cockpits of the barren 2002 vehicles.
Hopefully, Hasbro will follow through with this and next year, we'll all be stuffing mini-figures into the Action Fleet solar sailer. A huge thanks to Tycho for getting this info!
- I really hope this pans out, I love Action Fleet for many reasons, great detail, cool size (not too big not too small) large range of ships included, play features, and of course, those super cool little figures, whose future is looking grim with the latest release of Action Fleet ships with no figures included. Hopefully they'll be back- and in greater numbers...
I also hope this pans out. Hasbro has been kinda vague or confusing with the line since they bought it 3 and a half years ago, one Hasbro person saying one thing and another saying the opposite, so I hope this is a case where Hasbro follows through instead of peters out. The mini-figs make the line IMO as much as anything else and if Lego can release tiny little pieces, why can't Hasbro? Put the choke hazard warning on there, we'll still flock to the line.
Hasbro, if you're reading this, don't go back on your statement, put the figures back!
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
Finally Hasbro, comes to it senses. MAY, anyway but what fantastis news. I think everyone who collected the AF got into the line, partly for the mini-figs. They were extremely detailed for their small size. And now the only thing to do is wait and see if Hasbro goes throw with this GREAT idea.
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I don't recall if the SW Insider had a list of all the upcoming SW books or just the New Jedi Order ones, but is there any other subject matter in the works (except for E2, of course)? I am getting SO tired of "hmm... let's kill HIM!" and "let's destroy THIS planet!" stories. Some have said this is like the downer plots of ESB, but c'mon! Even that "dark" film had some good points and side action.
Anybody else getting fed up with the NJO (Novelists Just Over-write) series?


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At a young age, Lacy Williams began imagining alternate endings for her favorite cartoon shows. She soon followed that with a newspaper for the neighborhood kids"published" on a dot matrix printer!and notebooks full of stories written in longhand. In high school she took a correspondence course and experienced an editor's red pen for the first time. Thankfully, her passion for writing was strong enough to survive the experience.
Lacy, her husband and her two young children live in Oklahoma, where they enjoy taking their three Cavalier King Charles spaniels to the park. One of the dogs (Mr. Bingleynamed after Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice character) is a registered Therapy Dog and Lacy volunteers with him at local libraries in their Kids Reading to Dogs program to help promote literacy in kids.
Lacy adores reading almost as much as writing, and usually reads the end of the book first. She promises readers happily-ever-afters guaranteed. Lacy's debut novel won the American Christian Fiction Writers' prestigious Genesis Award before being published. As an active ACFW member, she attends conferences and mentors new writers.


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Lawyers have been easy targets for popular humor since the dawn of lawyering. In Shakespeare's Henry VI Part 2, written over 400 years ago, Dick the Butcher cheerfully announces "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." In context the line is really quite funny (as black humor goes); it undoubtedly elicited the same howls from Globe audiences in the 1590's as it does today.
Lawyers are easy targets for popular humor at least partly because they're also easy targets for popular outrage. When lawyers defend people who have committed heinous crimes, they're just doing their job, but the inevitable perception is that they're helping the bad guys.
Lawmatch thinks lawyers deserve a better rep.
Despite its 1+ million lawyers, the United States is still the preferred destination worldwide for people seeking a better life. A primary reason for this is our society's almost universal respect for the rule of law. The key markers of our country's appeal (e.g. economic opportunity, political stability, personal freedom) all derive from the expectation that our laws will protect us and our property from unlawful actions, will be applied equally to all citizens, and will generally promote a fair and just society.
The US was the first nation ever to enshrine a set of man-made laws (the Constitution) as its prime governing authority. More than two-thirds of the delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention were lawyers. Throughout our nation's history lawyers have played a vital role in the evolution, interpretation and administration of the law - those functions that collectively result in the rule of law. One might easily conclude that America could not exist as it does today were it not for the contributions of the legal profession.
Lawmatch has a sense of humor; we can laugh at a good lawyer joke as heartily as the next C Corp . . . but for all the reasons cited above, plus many more (including the obvious but tried-and-true ploy of flattering our prospective customers), we've decided to dedicate this space on our homepage to Praise for Lawyers. We plan to update this space regularly: if you know of a lawyer-lauding narrative that you'd like to see featured here, please e-mail your suggestion to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Police name mother of toddler killed in traffic incident
Police: Wheelchair was being used as a stroller
MADISON, Wis. - Madison police said the mother of a 1 ½ year old girl who died following a car-pedestrian crash on East Washington Avenue early Thursday morning is 31-year-old Raya M. Hansen.
Police said the incident happened in the 3700 block of East Washington Avenue around 3:30 a.m. Thursday.
According to police, Hansen and the girl, who was in a wheelchair that was being used as a stroller, were on the sidewalk on East Washington Avenue near Mendota Street when the wheelchair rolled down the embankment and into the street.
Hansen told police she was out getting fresh air and was going to Walgreen's when she left the wheelchair unattended for a short time as she retraced her path looking for a baby bottle. She said she heard a crash and said it appeared the wheelchair rolled down a driveway and into the street.
Hansen has no permanent address and had been staying at a nearby motel. She was taken into custody on a probation hold, according to police.
The 53-year-old McFarland man who was driving the van that struck the child told police he didn't see the wheelchair but heard a noise and realized he must have struck something.
"The officers at the scene do not smell alcohol on either the mother or the van driver, but they both go to the hospital and consensually allow us to draw blood. So the investigation's continuing on that front," said Joel DeSpain, spokesman for the Madison Police Department.18556300
Police said the man stopped immediately and there was no evidence he was impaired.
"In reading the reports, the initial investigation certainly indicates no impairment on behalf of this driver. He has not been cited. He was very, very distraught at the scene," DeSpain said.
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Tonight I was invited by the Patrol that I am the Troop Guide for in W1-492-11 for their Patrol meeting between sessions.
They held their meeting at one of the Patrol members place of employment, Coffee Bean International. It was a neat meeting as they embodied the Scouting Spirit of learning something new. They acted like Tiger Cubs on a "Go See it". It was a lot of fun and informative to learn how coffee goes from raw beans to a wonderful cup of Joe.
They held their meeting in the companies Coffee bar and the coffee was fantastic.
The Buffalo Patrol worked on their menu's and Patrol presentation and then we held a short "Ticket Work shop" working out some of the kinks in their tickets and getting them focused in the right direction.
I am real happy with the progress the Patrol is making. They are quickly moving in the direction of a high performance team.
This is a great model for them to take back to their units. They are seeing first hand (assuming they have not before) what right looks like and how they can make their units better. I am certain that no matter what level they are coming from, this Wood Badge experience will make them better in their units and as a result they will all leave a lasting impact on Scouting. It makes me proud to be a part of this legacy building.
I can't wait for their upcoming second session and assisting in the working of their tickets as a faithful Troop Guide.
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Jesse is thinking about running in 2016.
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Jesse is thinking about running in 2016.
Sure wish we had him back as Gov. of MN.
I think he would make a good president. He is an educated man and knows how the military works. He wouldn't play the childish games with people. He'd be a take charge kind of guy and the senators and congress people would start working together to get the country back on track. He'd probably hold some private meetings with the elected officials that didn't want to play nice with others and let them know what their job is and instruct them to do their job. Just my opinion.
Ventura calls it as he sees it and I like the fact that he doesn't mince his words.
Maybe he will get after our enemies with a folding chair. :rolleyes:
The way he handled his kid partying at the mansion was just one of many major cock-ups he mishandled. What he did do was make it almost immpossible for an independant to be taken seriously in the future. Tom Horner would have been a good choice for Gov, but he didin't have a chance because of the residual fallout from Jesse.
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John Timoney is the controversial former Miami police chief well known for orchestrating brutal crackdowns on protests in Miami and Philadelphia- instances with rampant police abuse, violence, and blatant disregard for freedom of expression. It should be of great concern that the Kingdom of Bahrain has brought Timoney to "reform" Bahrain's security forces. Here's how that's going. (A hint…not well.)
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Professor Norman Finkelstein is an odious character, infamous for his anti-Israel activities and his book on the "Holocaust Industry". Finkelstein is also a supporter of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel. Which is why a video of Finkelstein calling out the BDS movement as dishonest is causing such a stir.
It's the video that the BDS movement didn't want you to see as Finkelstein leaves his BDS supporting interviewer speechless. Here's some of the highlights:
The video pretty much speaks for itself as one of the heroes of the BDS movement trashes it. That the person calling out BDS for what it really is happens to be Norman Finkelstein says it all about BDS's moral bankruptcy.
Here's just some of the highlights:
I've earned my right to speak my mind, and I'm not going to tolerate what I think is silliness, childishness, and a lot of leftist posturing.
I mean we have to be honest, and I loathe the disingenuous. They don't want Israel. They think they are being very clever; they call it their three-tier. We want the end of the occupation, the right of return, and we want equal rights for Arabs in Israel. And they think they are very clever because they know the result of implementing all three is what, what is the result?
You know and I know what the result is. There's no Israel!
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It's not an accidental and unwitting omission that BDS does not mention Israel. You know that and I know that. It's not like they're "oh we forgot to mention it." They won't mention it because they know it will split the movement. 'Cause there's a large segment of the movement that wants to eliminate Israel.
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Are you going to reach a broad public which is going to hear the Israeli side 'they want to destroy us?' No you're not. And frankly you know what you shouldn't. You shouldn't reach a broad public because you're dishonest. And I wouldn't trust those people if I had to live in this state. I wouldn't. It's dishonesty.
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By Tiernan Ray
Shares of Western Digital (WDC) are down $4.15, or 6%, at $63.38, and Seagate Technology (STX) is off $2.08, or almost 5%, at $42.10, after the one reported fiscal Q4 results that topped consensus yesterday afternoon while the other did so in the morning. Both companies reported an outlook for this quarter that was roughly in line with expectations.
Western and Seagate both got one downgrade today, from Craig-Hallum's Christian Schwab, who cut his rating on the stocks to Sell from Hold.
Price targets are on the rise today, and estimates are in some cases rising modestly. The bulls continue to see favorable structural conditions in the industry (rational supply and pricing), while bears are worried that the personal computer market is still a threat to the market outlook. The forecast by Western for a drive market of 135 million to 140 million units this quarter was slightly lower than some expected, which is reflecting poorly on both stocks today.
There is a sense Western took some PC disk drive share from Seagate, as the latter opted in the quarter not to chase declining prices.
Sherri Scribner, Deutsche Bank: Reiterates a Buy rating on Western shares and raises her price target to $78 from $72. "WDC delivered another better-than-expected quarter, with more stable pricing and positive mix helping to offset lower industry TAM. While F1Q-14 guidance was slightly lower, management expects TAM to improve modestly Q/Q and we continue to see HDD industry fundamentals as favorable. We have trimmed our Street-high estimates but have raised our PT to $78 (9x our FY-15E EPS) from $72, driven by our expectations of multiple expansion for the HDD names. We continue to be positive on the long-term trends for the HDD industry, and view valuation as attractive."
Richard Kugele, Needham & Co.: Reiterates a Strong Buy on Western stock, and a $77 price target. "In our view, the company continues to execute extremely well, outperforming on margins and earnings despite the handicap of a cost structure that has not been allowed to be optimized. Given the rational environment at work in the industry today, we expect additional strong qtrs in F14/F15."
Shebly Seyrafi, FBN Securities: Reiterates a Buy rating on shares of Western Digital, and raises his price target to $70 from $65. "The stock is looking to open lower today on profittaking (the stock is up 15% over the past month) and concerns about higher expenses (NG opex came in at $564M, higher than the "baseline" $550M level), but the opex increase was driven by incentive accruals and is expected to return to around $550M in the Sept. quarter. Therefore, we would be buyers on a pull-back. We continue to prefer WDC over STX due to lower valuation ratios and due to the opportunity to reduce costs in C2014."
Keith Bachman, BMO Capital Markets: Reiterates a Market Perform rating on both Western and Seagate shares. "To move the stocks higher, we think both STX and WDC
will require estimates to move higher. As we look out over the next four Qs,
we do not think estimate revisions will be material [...] The June Q TAM was 132-133 million vs. expectations of 133-135 million and the March Q TAM of 136 million. Moreover, the September Q TAM is expected to be 135-140 million, compared with expectations of ~140 million. We believe the December Q TAM will be around 140 million units. Consistent with our preview, the TAM continues to be pressured by PC weakness, offset by enterprise strength. Net, we project the TAM to be around 546 million in CY13, or down 6% y/y, and 548 million in CY14."
Jayson Noland, R.W. Baird & Co.: Reiterates a Neutral rating on shares of Seagate while raising his price target to $45 from $40. "Management acknowledged an evolving compute market but remains optimistic on cloud growth and the emerging opportunity in flash. We remain on the sidelines given uncertainty in the PC market and with the degree that Seagate can capitalize on the adjacent flash opportunity."
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LSI Rising: Bulls Cheer Growth Businesses, Bears Fret PC Market, July 25th, 2013.


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Jonesboro, Ark., – The Rebels turned in an efficient offense on Tuesday night and picked up a 20th win in non-conference play as No. 16 Ole Miss (30-12) defeated Arkansas State (22-19) on the road 11-1.
Ole Miss resumes the conference slate with a three-game series at home against Kentucky starting with Thursday's 6:30 p.m. game to be broadcast on ESPNU.
The Rebels's 11 runs came on 11 hits as they tallied three doubles and a triple to take a 5-0 lead in the first.
Brady Bramlett (5-1) picked up the win for the Rebels in a relief appearance, entering the game in the fifth inning and working 2 scoreless innings with a strikeout. Starter Josh Laxer was efficient in the start, allowing one run on four hits with three strikeouts, but left the game after 4 innings of work.
"It was nice to come out tonight and really turn in a sharp game in all phases of the game," said Ole Miss head coach Mike Bianco. "We really got off some good swings tonight, the pitchers pitched well and the defense made some tremendous plays. Josh Laxer was good in the start and the guys out of the bullpen all pitched well. We had some great plays defensively to get us out of a couple of jams."
Will Jamison, Stuart Turner and Auston Bousfield each drove in two runs.
Mississippi State 12, Memphis 1: The 12th-ranked Bulldogs pounded the Tigers at AutoZone Park.
MSU tops Memphis.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Mississippi State treated west Tennessee fans to a good show Tuesday night as the 12th-ranked Bulldogs clubbed Memphis 12-1 in a college baseball game played at AutoZone Park.
MSU visits No. 4 Vanderbilt this weekend, with Game 1 on Friday at 6:30 p.m. Saturday's noon contest will be shown on CSS.The Bulldogs (33-10, 23-2) have now won six of the last seven series meetings with the long-time rival Tigers. Memphis (25-17) had six wins against the SEC this year.
Brett Pirtle collected his first four-hit game in the Maroon and White and added two RBIs. Ross Mitchell (8-0) threw six shutout innings in relief to garner the victory.
"I thought we hit a lot of line drives early and got outs," MSU head coach John Cohen said. "Later in the game, those hard hits fell in."
MSU built an early 5-0 lead on Hunter Renfroe's conference-best 14th home run of the season – a three-run shot to left field. A five-run ninth inning blew the contest open for the Maroon and White.
MSU visits No. 4 Vanderbilt this weekend, with Game 1 on Friday at 6:30 p.m. Saturday's noon contest will be shown on CSS.


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A series of four lectures this fall on "The Politics of Contemporary Islam" will begin with a talk Wednesday, Oct. 17, titled "Wahhabism and Contemporary Jihadist Movements" by David Commins, the Benjamin Rush Distinguished Chair in Liberal Arts and Sciences at Dickinson College.
Commins' talk and others in the series will be held at 4:30 p.m. in 219 Burr Hall. The other lectures are:
• "The Genealogy of Revolutionary Islamism: A Historical Footnote" by Fawaz Gerges, the Christian A. Johnson Chair in International Affairs and Middle Eastern Studies at Sarah Lawrence College, on Wednesday, Oct. 24.
• "Martyrs Without Borders: The Puzzle of Foreign Fighters in the Iraqi Insurgency" by Mohammed Hafez, a visiting professor of political science at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, on Wednesday, Nov. 7.
• "Salafism in Yemen and the Question of Politics" by Laurent Bonnefoy, a doctoral candidate at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, on Wednesday, Nov. 28.
The lecture series is sponsored by the Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia.