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Hi. I have a question.
I'm a Celta-certified English teacher with a degree from a Canadian university. I'm German by birth but have lived in Canada for the past twelve years.
I've been looking into ESL teaching jobs in Asia and have found that the fact that my first language isn't English is a huge stumbling block.
I'm qualified, my English is flawless, and I have the references to prove it, but all I ever hear in response to my applications is "Native speakers only. Native speakers only."
I am aware that some countries only grant teaching visa to nationals of English-speaking countries. I also understand the schools' reservations – if they promise their students native teachers, they are obliged to give them native teachers. But I'm getting very frustrated. Are there any schools out there that employ qualified non-native speakers?
I'd be happy about any feedback.

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Two serious crashes took place in Hubbard County on Saturday. In one, at the intersection of County Road 45 and County Road 16, two vehicles collided and a man and a women were each taken two the hospital by ambulance and a second man was airlifted.
In the second crash, a single motorcycle lost control on 354th Street just east of County Road 39. The driver of the motorcycle was airlifted to the hospital in Fargo.
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I'm Maura and this I guess would be my actual intro post. :)
How big of a project?
My Beloved is deployed right now and will be missing his birthday. I started out planning to make him a Jango helmet cake (still plan to) and realized while downloading the helmet templates, that this was the perfect time to finally get off my hindquarters and make the costume I had promised him 6 years ago when we met :) Anyway, he asked if we could go to ComicCon this year, so that's my deadline!
I think I'm supposed to be making armor for both of us. :eek So, he wants an original variant (this releives a little of the stress, since non-canon stuff allows more creativity), and I'd want to do the same because I always had to go off on my own when I was doing cosplay before. He is still trying to make up his mind about colors, and I'm not sure exactly how I want mine either. So, until he gets back, I'm going to be concentrating on the nuts and bolts and collecting accessory materials (like a pile of toy guns for weapon parts).
I have some experience with propmaking (budget and not-so-budget) and I've been costuming for the better part of my life, so I'm not totally inexperienced. He's a mad collector of Fett stuff, so we have piles of scale-model reference and I've been downloading all the templates and visual reference I can get my hands on. I've also been skimming the forums here for a while, just never got round to signing up until I was really ready to work on it. Which would be now.
I'm understandably nervous (about the deadline), but he's totally on board with me doing this and has promised lots of baby-watching so I have time to work on the fiddly stuff once he's home (soon!). He wants to do a lot of the painting and weapons mods, at least for his.
Why nervous? The last cosplay stuff I did was 4 years ago, a Captain Jack wig as a gift commision, and a baby Hellboy outfit with a soft stone hand for our firstborn. I'm feeling a little out of practice.
Wish me luck? ;) I'd like to have time to make a costume for Things One and Two as well, but I think that might be asking for too much.
ETA: I'm planning on scratchbuilding everything. See? CRAZY.


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Quote from: Joelel on September 25, 2009, 01:35:19 AM If anyone don't want to raise the best bees or fly the best airplane,be my guest.I don't think ANYONE is suggesting they WANT raise less than the best. Perhaps you are missing some interesting points. The race that Brother Adam spoke about being great fliers, was a particular type bee that happened to fly far and was small. You can not assume that all small bees will perform the same based on mere "association" of also being small. The same can be said about excluding larger bees based on this one specification. It takes research, not 100 year old quotes concerning a race of bee that is now extinct. That is not proof of anything. That is my point.
If anyone don't want to raise the best bees or fly the best airplane,be my guest.
Quote from: Joelel on September 25, 2009, 04:58:43 PMQuote from: deknow on September 22, 2009, 09:39:13 AMif you had wings and could fly, do you think you could fly just as far if you weighed 30-50% more?deknowYes,if i had the right motor and wings.and what if you had the right wings, but not the right motor?on this other stuff:imho, it's unreasonable to start or participate in a public forum discussion and expect to be able to dictate what other people say, or how they respond. if you want a one on one conversation, pm or email is better. there are a lot of people in on this conversation, all with different perspectives, levels of knowledge, and understanding of what is generally meant by "small bee".i think i understand that you want to know if (absent the influence of foundation) do strains of bees that run smaller or larger do better. i'm willing to bet that what your son read (and you started this thread with) was in regards to small cell, not small races. i also have no idea your level of knowledge, but am puzzled by your attitude that seems to indicate that you know a lot, but your lack of understanding of the statement your son made makes it appear (at least from here) that you don't really understand the question you are asking. I mean no disrespect or insult by this...it's just how things look from here. the internet is rife with discussions and claims about small cell bees....very little about small races of bees.in any case, if we are looking at different races to decide if those that run smaller or those that do larger run better, it depends greatly on location, environment, lattitude, and altitude. if what you want to do is compare races, why does size factor into this at all?
Quote from: deknow on September 22, 2009, 09:39:13 AMif you had wings and could fly, do you think you could fly just as far if you weighed 30-50% more?deknowYes,if i had the right motor and wings.
if you had wings and could fly, do you think you could fly just as far if you weighed 30-50% more?deknow
About this statement, It's about the size of bees,not the cells.
QuoteAbout this statement, It's about the size of bees,not the cells.do you understand that the size of the cell in large part determines the size of the bee? and when the size of the bee is changed in this way, it throws the body weight out of balance in relation to the mass of flight muscles? and that the enlarging of the cell size to enlarge the size of the bee was done intentionally, and is well documented?the reason that we are talking about small bees and large bees is because of this change in the size of foundation, not because some people are using bees of X race that are small, and some are using Y race that are large. this is not a genetic difference, it is a morphological difference based on the size cell the bee is raised in (from being in a larger space and/or from having more food put in the cell by the nurse bees).i don't mean to beat a dead horse here....but you keep asking questions and making statements that seem (to me) to indicate that you don't understand this.deknow
I have never found it necessary to agree with everything someone did, taught, said, or believed to learn from them or to share what I learned from them. The assumption that because I, or anyone else, quotes Brother Adam, or Jay Smith, or Dee Lusby, or Jim Fischer or G.M. Doolittle, or C.C. Miller (all of whom I have been known to quote) means I am in complete agreement with them on every point is quite incorrect, unfounded and frankly absurd. I suggest that such leaps of conclusion should be avoided if misunderstandings are to be prevented.


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Hello everyone!!! I live in Catonsville MD and I am currently building my TB costume. Grad school has made finishing a several year progress. I have been a member of Bikerscout.net and I need to check in with them again. But, I like looking at the different costume boards to see what others have done. I am currently building an ELG-3A pistol, an E-11 blaster and the DL-44 [sic?] Han solo blaster. I made a DC-15 blaster rifle to scale for my son but he said it was too big. It is not exactly movie accurate but I like it so I used it for some of my son's parties. I do have the Biker Pistol...but it does not get as much respect as the blaster rifle.
Anyway, I hope to pick up some tips and pass on any information I have acquired.
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This is so ironic its almost comical. My job has been outsourced. As in, the entire sales and marketing functional area. Did I mention I was the Director of Sales for a BPO (business process outsourcer)?
So, I thought I'd make a "project" thread about the process of me looking for work; since I'm never short on ideas about everyone else's job search My target is to have a job or offer by Nov 15. If I don't have something by that point, I won't expect anything until February 2013.
I've been casually looking for a few months anyway, so it's not like I'm at ground zero, but still, I'd have much rather found a job while I was employed. Oh well, the time off will be nice to spend with the kids. I love this time of year anyway.
I plan to use the hunt and steal method as opposed to applying for jobs. I'll post some screen shots of how I track the jobs I'm trying to land and the type of information I use to contact the people doing the hiring.
Hit me with any questions or comments.
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If you haven't seen my Lessons, here they are for your convenience.
Lesson 1 - So you need a job. What are you doing?
Lesson 2 - So you need a job. You do have a resume; don't you?
Lesson 3 - So you need a job. Where are you looking?
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Being a Mac user I love applications. Here are some of the tools I use religiously - both hosted and local:
Basecamp - Project Collaboration
Kashflow - Online Accounting / Bookkeeping
Coda - Website Development
Tweetdeck - Twitter
Skype - Cheap phone calls
Skitch - Great image screengrabs
JungleDisk - Online data storage
Freshbooks - Billing and Invoicing
1Password - Password / Login Storage
quicksilver - fast hot-key app to everything in the world
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just what i have been waiting for..
A nice laptop though
i know she will love it..
iceplusplus wrote:THE BIG PROBLEM IS NO WEBCAM. WHY WOULD ANY COMPANY MAKE A MACHINE WITHOUT A WEBCAM NOW? THAT IS WHY IT IS ON WOOT. THEY CAN'T SELL IT BECAUSE IT DOESN'T HAVE A WEBCAM! AND THEY GET TONS OF RETURNS ON THEM BECAUSE PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE IT.
From the specs:
Battery: 6-Cell Lithium-Ion
Speakers: Altec Lansing
Webcam: Integrated
Microphone: Integrated
Keyboard: Full-Size
My first lappy for college was an HP, mid-level at the time. The computer itself was OK...for a while. (this was during XP, so you can imagine how long ago that was).
BSOD all the time. Eventually I decided to try Linux and loaded Ubuntu...big mistake. HP's decision to use proprietary drivers made things a hassle, but that was ages ago. Probably better support for Ubuntu now, or Ubuntu has better support for proprietary devices (more likely)
Customer service is the worst I've ever dealt with. You hear all those jokes about how bad computer customer service is? I'm willing to bet that most of that comes from HP. Their warranties also don't cover certain parts that should be, like a hinge defect they had with the line at the time. The eventually made good, but my point is that while this computer is inexpensive and will meet most people's basic computing needs, there's plenty of other companies you can give your money to, and receive a better computer.
I use an Asus netbook and an Acer desktop, and I'm happy with them both.
jacvoyt wrote:I can't recommend it because the user experience with this machine is horrible. Of course it will allow you to basic things like go online/write papers/video chat, but so will any computer made in the last 5 years. That said, people buy computers to use over time. Every time I used this computer it was a test of my patience. You can't differentiate where the trackpad starts and where it ends. Every time you touch anything on the machine it makes that hollow cheap plastic sound. The screen resolution dimensions seem off. Typing on it is uncomfortable. For a basic use machine that is always plugged in, why not just buy used or buy a better machine for $399.
cheruvim wrote:This is a great deal but woot uses FedEx Home Delivery as its primary shipper. This means it would probably get cerried off by the first poooony they gave it to. The never can make sure that poooony is the recepient.
They suck, you take big risk ordering from here. Not because Woot is bad. Its FedEx that's bad.
Woot, change your shipper and I'll be a customer again.
Most of the Shipping is Fedex Saver. Which means it is your postman that is doing the actual delivering. Not sure how much peace of mind it gives that the neighborhood kid that steals it is breaking a federal crime. Course, anything this big, I would buy with a credit card just for the extra protection.
Although others have posted the gist, here's the HP Press Release covering the WebOS (Touchpad) and 'plans' for their 'Personal Systems Group', which I believe covers their notebook computers as well as the desktops (not servers though, so Proliants will apparently remain HP)
Press release here
I have an HP notebook (it's one of five notebooks, netbooks and tablets I own). I have been very pleased with it. I paid $450 for it (after rebate) and I can't imagine getting a different brand for such a great price and with specs similar to this Woot notebook.
I leave my HP on about 16 hours a day, as a "net access" machine. I have done that for about seven months and it's still running great. So while all computers have units that fail, I assume my HP exemplifies the quality of these machines. (Just to be safe with mine I spent $100 for a three year Square Trade warranty that includes accidental damage.)
And my HP (that looks similar to this machine) does not feel cheap nor shoddily made. So I don't know about those comments where people are saying these Pavilions look and feel cheap.
That said, just today I read HP is putting up its computer business up for sale and closing down its tablet and phone division. IMO that does not bode well for techinical support down the road.
Sidenote: It amazes me that big companies simply cease operations or discontinue new or fairly new products like they are flipping light switches. Recall Microsoft and its licensed cell phone, Cisco closing down its Flip camcorder business, and now this with HP.)
I guess the demise of HP's "personal computing" business means that we will see a lot of HP products on Woot. Nothing wrong with that, I guess, but Woot better have prices way lower than what this notebook is selling for, AND list the Touchpad for about $150, not the price Woot was selling it for.
Wondering why HP wants to dump its personal computing products business. Here's one reason:
While Best Buy took delivery of 270,000 HP TouchPads, it has sold less than 25,000 units. Best Buy is so angered by Touchpad sales it wants HP to take the unsold tablets back and issue a refund.
And apparently Walmart and Fry's are experiencing dismal TouchPad sales.
Kao1138 wrote:Funny. A few hours ago Woot was mentioned in an article about how HP only sold 10% of the tablets they sent to Best Buy for sale (25,000 out of 250,000) and only 612 sold on Woot, despite selling them for $50-$100 off at Best Buy and $120 off on Woot.
IMHO HP should go back to making printers. They make a decent printer on par with Epson, and that goes for their scanners and all-in-ones as well, but they suck at doing anything else.
Edit: Article Link (Ars Technica)
HP has announced it is closing down its tablet business. Guess it took your advice. ;)
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Are you referring to this Woot?
I am surprised you would say this.
Fact - All notebooks nowadays have webcams. The technology is so inexpensive (about $5 to $10 to the manufacturer) that it makes no sense to not include one.
Fact - In the pic you can see the webcam.
Fact - It says in the specs that it has an integrated webcam.
Where did you get your information from, that:
Very odd post, especially in all caps, considering it does have a webcam.
mjHession wrote:Is the tattle button used for reporting spam?
Yes, I just did that myself. It's popping up on all the sites.
dkeigley wrote:Yes, I just did that myself. It's popping up on all the sites.
Thanks for the reports, everyone
MichaelSF wrote:I guess the demise of HP's "personal computing" business means that we will see a lot of HP products on Woot. Nothing wrong with that, I guess, but Woot better have prices way lower than what this notebook is selling for, AND list the Touchpad for about $150, not the price Woot was selling it for.
Wondering why HP wants to dump its personal computing products business. Here's one reason:
While Best Buy took delivery of 270,000 HP TouchPads, it has sold less than 25,000 units. Best Buy is so angered by Touchpad sales it wants HP to take the unsold tablets back and issue a refund.
And apparently Walmart and Fry's are experiencing dismal TouchPad sales.
I knew when I saw the TouchPad here something was up. WebOS is great, but no Apps. Chumby has more. Thank goodness I just bit the bullet this weekend and bought a asus ep121 . There are mad and sad Touchpad owners now. But woot should have these for $ 99 pretty soon. The new "Sony Dash".
From what I have read HP is not really getting out of the tablet (or other hardware) business, they are just creating a spinoff company to take over those items. Probably some marketing attempt to have another shot at the tablet (and other hardware) world, as they have failed so greatly.
MichaelSF wrote:I am surprised you would say this.
Fact - All notebooks nowadays have webcams. The technology is so inexpensive (about $5 to $10 to the manufacturer) that it makes no sense to not include one.
Fact - In the pic you can see the webcam.
Fact - It says in the specs that it has an integrated webcam.
Fact - Bears eat beets.
Sorry, couldn't help myself.
And the ThinkPad I just ordered doesn't have a webcam. So not all notebooks have webcams. Granted, there was the option for one, I just chose not to get it.
Also, I can't believe someone ordered three of the laptops.
I like how it's almost a complete knockoff visually of the Macbook Pro...can't they come up with an original design, or did they have to fire their creative team to save money?
It's not FedEx that's bad... it's that the "home delivery" is handed off to the Post Office.
That hand-off is ugly ugly ugly!
I had one post-office guy decide to take off early, so he just marked the package "bad address" and returned it.
Another just sort of ... took a vacation ... for a week or so before it showed up.
And when you contact FedEx ... they say "it's with the Post Office, now, we have no information and no control..."
When you contact the Post Office they say, "It is a FedEx package, we have no information and no control..."
Which means ... in a regular postal delivery, the delivery person knows they'll catch a problem if they 'disappear' a package ...
but with a FedEx hand-off package ... they know if that package disappears or what-ever ... it will Never come back on Them...
so... it makes for a terrible terrible shipping choice!
What just happened? Woot taking a day off?
No new woot?
mkottman08 wrote:What just happened? Woot taking a day off?
Earliest complete cross-Woot sell-off EVER! Oh, wait... that's all yesterday's crap. We want new crap! We want new crap!
schmaboo wrote:bwooooooooooooot
where's my woot?
woot holiday?
come on woot, dont leave us hanging like this!
the one night i decide to checking on woot right at 1 EST... first no Bundle of Crops now this... for shame woot... for shame
Well, they sent out the daily digest email so at least I know the next item is going to be a 32" Philips TV... so when are they going to post it?
Have to stay up longer now.........
Woot, why have you forsaken me?!?
Is it because you have defected to Amazon?
Woot is drunk?
The woot-off must've broken it.
A new definition for woot-killer
I'm afraid.
skywarrior3 wrote:No new woot?
Philips 32" 720p LCD HDTV
$239.99 + $5 shipping
They called him "Saucy Jack". And there's like a 20% chance he'll show up while you're watching your Philips 32" LCD TV.
i think you have to solve the google puzzle to get the link to today's deal.
HP Sold their PC Division to Woot?
my guess... hacked by anonymous... they must have been cheesed that they didn't get a bounty of corn
Hallooooo? Anybody there? What are we waiting for? Another Bundle of Crops Just kidding, but I am tired of hitting refresh.
i stayed up till 1 to see if woot had a vacuum cleaner today! ahhh :[
Oh no! They quit on us!
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By Nik Brumsack
Arsenal captain Thomas Vermaelen says it is vital that the team stick together after losing for the second time in four days.
After going down to Norwich in the Premier League on Saturday, Arsenal again tasted defeat on Wednesday as two late goals fired German side Schalke to a 2-0 victory at Emirates Stadium.
The result ended a nine-year unbeaten run against foreign teams at home in the Champions League.
"It's a disappointing result for us," Vermaelen said at full time. "It's a little bit frustrating. It's difficult for us to create chances at the moment. At the end we concede two goals so it's a little bit disappointing.
"I heard we only created one shot and that's not good enough. Normally, that's our strength. Technically-wise, to create a lot of chances and score a lot of goals.
"At the moment it's a little bit more difficult but in these times you have to stay positive and work day in, day out really hard. In the end the positivity will come back.
"It's really important at the moment to stay together as a team. Of course results are not great at the moment, but in these times you have to stay together and in the end you are stronger as a group. I'm positive this group has a lot of quality to come back."
Arsenal will have the chance to get back on track when bottom club Queens Park Rangers visit the Emirates on Saturday afternoon - and Vermaelen is relishing the opportunity to pick up three points.
"I said it before, there's so many games coming up now, so every time you make a mistake, you can make up for it really quickly. We know what to do on Saturday. We have to concentrate, stay positive and work hard on Saturday and we'll win the game."
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Larry Hayes
There is an old sports cliché that reads "Behind every great team is a great coach." When you take a glance through the history of Texas Tech baseball, you will find this overused cliché come to life in Texas Tech head coach Larry Hays.
Perhaps one of the most respected men not only in Lubbock but in the coaching profession as well, Larry Hays has never lost sight of the important things in life and that focus has made him one of the most successful coaches in collegiate history. Hays, a native of Dora, N.M., is a loving family man, husband, father, grandfather and devoted son to L.D. and Pearl Hays. With all of these titles, however, Hays has been able to maintain his priorities of God first, family second and at a very distant third baseball. His amazing character, demeanor and baseball mind have made the Texas Tech baseball program one of the nation's elite.
His "elite" status was forever documented on February 26, 2005 when he became just the fourth coach in NCAA history to win 1,400 games. His 1,400th win came against the Lamar Cardinals in the first game of the 2005 Midland Rockhounds College Classic at Citibank Ballpark in Midland. He joined Texas' Augie Garrido and Cliff Gustafson, Wichita State's Gene Stephenson and Virginia Tech's Chuck Hartman as the only NCAA coaches to accomplish this feat.
Amazingly, Hays has spent his entire collegiate coaching career in Lubbock where he is the all-time win leader at Lubbock Christian University (695) and at Texas Tech (760). When Hays took over the Texas Tech baseball program in the fall of 1986, he inherited a very unusual situation. Prior to Hays arrival, the Tech baseball program had a losing overall record of 550-576 through 37 years of play meaning Hays had plenty of work cut out for him just to get Tech to the .500 mark.
In his first season at Tech, Hays had to endure the second and last losing season of his career as the Red Raiders went 21-28. The losing didn't last long as Hays started the turnaround at Tech the very next season by leading the Scarlet and Black to a 34-25-1 campaign in 1988. Texas Tech, the once ignored college baseball program on the South Plains, was under the leadership of a new skipper and it has been smooth sailing ever since.
Hays has led the Red Raiders to three conference championships, posted winning seasons in 19 of 20 years as head coach, led Tech to nine NCAA Tournament appearances and has established Texas Tech as a national power in baseball. His coaching strengths are apparent in his abilities to adapt his players on a year-by-year basis. Able to adapt different styles, Hays has won with strong pitching and defense one year and with power hitting the next. Perhaps the master of recruiting both the junior college and high school ranks, Hays has been able to rebuild an entire team every few seasons while maintaining a successful and winning program each year. In short, Hays has proved to be one of the nation's finest and most respected coaches in the profession.
In 2002, Hays led the Red Raiders to a 42-20 overall record and a second place finish in the Big 12 Regular-Season. After starting the season at 0-3 and sitting in the bottom half of the standings for most of the conference season, Hays and his players rattled off 15 straight wins to close out the regular-season including two sweeps of conference rivals Oklahoma and Baylor. Tech's dramatic late season surge propelled the Red Raiders into the NCAA Tournament for the eighth consecutive season. Hays reached another career milestone midway through the season when he picked up his 1,300th victory against Missouri on March 29, 2002.
In 1998 he guided Texas Tech to the Big 12 Conference Tournament title in Oklahoma City, Okla. The championship was especially impressive considering the Red Raiders accomplished that feat with only seven pitchers. The former professional softball pitcher also led Texas Tech to its first-ever Big 12 Conference regular season championship with a 23-7 conference and 46-14 overall record in 1997. Texas Tech also claimed the No. 1 ranking in collegiate baseball for several weeks, the first time a Red Raider sport was ranked No. 1 in school history. The Hays'-led squad also hosted its second consecutive NCAA regional and appeared in regional competition for the third time in three seasons.
Hays also guided the Red Raiders to their first-ever Southwest Conference championship in 1995 as they posted a school-record 51 wins (51-14) and advanced to the Midwest I Region championship game. In 1996, Tech posted a 49-15 ledger as the Raiders hosted both the Southwest Conference Post-Season Tournament (finished third), then hosted the NCAA Central II Regional.
In 1995, Tech joined the national rankings on Feb. 20 and never looked back. On March 22nd the Red Raiders were ranked No. 3 in one of the three major polls, marking the second highest ranking ever for a Tech baseball team. That same year Tech became only the fourth SWC team to ever reach the 50-win plateau. The Red Raiders won the national batting title by hitting .344 as a team and the club established school records for wins, winning percentage, runs scored, hits, RBI, doubles, total bases, walks and consecutive games with at least one home run.
Successful seasons have been the norm for Larry Hays, who won his 1,000th game on April 12, 1995. In his 36 years as a college head coach, he has produced 20 teams that have surpassed at least 40 wins. And he has led teams to 12 league titles and guided his 1983 Lubbock Christian University team to the National NAIA Championship.
Hays is also highly regarded by his coaching peers. He has been honored as "Coach of the Year" following nine different seasons including the 1997 season when he was selected Big 12 Conference Coach of the Year by both the Big 12 coaches, the Dallas Morning News and the Austin American-Statesman. Plus, he has been inducted into the NAIA Hall of Fame.
Hays' players have also seen unbelievable individual success. He has coached 29 NAIA All-Americans, one NAIA Player of the Year, 36 All-Southwest Conference performers, 18 First Team All-Big 12 recipients, 14 consensus NCAA Division I All-Americans, five NAIA Academic All-Americans and three NCAA Academic All-Americans. To date, 89 of his former Red Raider players have been drafted by Major League Baseball teams while 15 of his former Tech players have appeared in a major league uniform.
It all started for Hays as a standout athlete in both baseball and basketball at Dora High School in New Mexico. From there he went on to Lubbock Christian Junior College where he lettered in both sports and earned an Associate of Arts degree in 1964. He then attended Eastern New Mexico where he earned both Bachelor's (1966) and Master's (1969) degrees.
Hays then took over the Lubbock Christian head basketball coaching reins in 1969 and in 1970, helped start baseball as the school made strides to move from junior college to senior college status. While at the Chap controls he compiled a 695-381-1 record and led Lubbock Christian to eight NAIA District titles, two Area championships and the 1983 national title. He served as the school's Athletic Director from 1979 until he departed for Texas Tech in 1986. During his eight-year stint as athletic director, he served as chairman of the NAIA Baseball Rating Committee. Lubbock Christian rewarded Hays and his family as the school renamed its field "Hays Field" in a ceremony on April 20, 1999.
Among his more noteworthy Lubbock Christian and "civic" accomplishments were spearheading the effort to bring the NAIA World Series to Lubbock for three years from 1981-83. The Series became an official success in its final season of 1983 as the Chaps won the national title in front of the home crowd.
Tech has played in numerous (SWC/Big 12) conference tournaments, winning both the 1998 Big 12 Conference title and the 1995 Southwest Conference crown and placing runner-up in the inaugural 1997 Big 12 Conference tournament. Hays is currently ranked among the nation's top-5 all-time and active NCAA Division I head coaches in victories (1,425) and is the fourth winningest coach on the NCAA all-time list.
Hays has been married to the former Nell Ainsworth for 42 years. They have five children- Daren (41), Shanon (39), Bandi (36), Justin (32) and Melanie (27). They also have eight granddaughters: Brittany Kaye (born 8-19-92), Brogan Leigh (born 6-29-95), Allie (born 12-4-96), Ashleigh (born 9-13-98), Kaytee & Kelsee (born 5-11-01), Hampton Renee (born 7-25-01) and Mary Elizabeth (born 1-05-01) along with three grandsons- Hunter (born 10-23-96) and Heath (11-24-98) Joshua Hays Redding (10/8/02). Coach Hays' three sons have followed their father into the coaching profession. Hays hired Daren in June of 2000 as an assistant coach while Shanon is the head softball coach at Lubbock Christian University.
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Among it's other tourist draws that bring individuals in for the weekend, Merano is the home of a well known health resort and the largest on the south side of the Eastern Alps, complete with all the amenities you can conjure and its own Merano hotels. Many people visiting the resort take advantage of the thermal springs in the area. Of course, there are also a number of Merano cheap hotels to choose from, which also give visitors the opportunity to check out a number of attractions. For example, some of the hotels in Merano are located directly off the outflow of the River Passirio, which is the general location of the town of Merano.You'll also enjoy the view of the Adige Valley, which is broad and sprawls out from the Vel Venosta, another large valley near the town. Many people come to the area in hopes of staying in discount hotels. Merano is not known for these services, but with the help of EasyToBook.com, you can easily find something to meet your budget.


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ARSC HPC Users' Newsletter 237, January 18, 2001
- Jan 24: SV1ex Celebration and Reception
- Jan 25: High Performance Bioinformatics Lecture
- Tuning a C++ MPI Code with VAMPIR (part III of III)
- CUG SUMMIT 2002 Call For Papers
- Quick Tip
Jan 24: SV1ex Celebration and Reception
ARSC is proud to have installed the first SV1ex memory upgrade (last month) and the first SV1e processor upgrade (last April).
You are invited to attend a reception and multimedia presentation with ARSC staff, celebrating the first Cray SV1ex.
Visitors will include Cray representatives including CEO, Michael Haydock, and researchers from the Institute for Systems Biology and the National Cancer Institute. Local Alaskan researchers and UA leadership will also be present.
SV1ex Reception:
Thursday, Jan 24, 4:30 pm. Butrovich 109, Board of Regents Conference Room, UAF.
Jan 25: High Performance Bioinformatics Lecture
SPEAKER : Jack R. Collins, Ph.D. National Cancer Institute Advanced Biomedical Computing Center TITLE : High Performance Bioinformatics and Proteomics: Mining the Genome and Proteome DATE : Friday Jan. 25, 2002 TIME : 1:30 - 2:30pm LOCATION : Butrovich 109, Board of Regents Conference Room ABSTRACT : The public availability of the human genome along with protein, SNP, EST, and cancer databases has led to an effort to determine the underlying information content contained within the cornucopia of data. With the vast amounts of data and unending number of questions that can be asked, a high performance computational approach is the only practical approach to converting data to usable information. To this end, we are developing tools to analyze this data for both DNA and protein sequences. Specific examples of comparative genomics and analysis, protein family classification, and correlation with etiological implications using data from the Cancer Genome Anatomy Project (CGAP) and the Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM).
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Tuning a C++ MPI Code with VAMPIR (part III of III)
[ Thanks to Jim Long of ARSC for this series of articles. ]
In part one of this series ( issue #233 ) we looked at a C++ MPI tracefile of the Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (TEM) with VAMPIR in order to identify areas of the MPI code that might be tuned to improve scalability in a sensitivity analysis scenario. In part two ( issue #235 ) we implemented changes to the transient portion of the TEM MPI code and compared old vs. new, finding a platform dependent 10% to 40% reduction in the transient computation time for a typical run with 8 output variables written to file. In this last part, we examine the impact of the tuned MPI code on scalability for a full suite of runs on the Cray T3E and IBM SP.
The suite consists of a group of 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32, and 48 output variables written to file for each number of slave processors chosen. TEM always computes these variables, but requesting more of them to be written increases the load on the system.
On the T3E, the number of slave processors chosen was 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, and 128. On the SP, because there are 4 CPUs per node and resources are allocated by node, the total number of CPUs (slaves + 1 master) had to be either 1, 2, 3, or 4 CPUs/node times the number of nodes chosen. Thus the number of slaves used was 1, 2, 3, 7, 15, 31, 63, and 127.
In either case, we are interested in how well the code scales from the 1 slave case on each platform for each of the output variable scenarios. The traditional view of scalability looks at how close the speedup chart for a series of runs compares to the ideal linear speedup case. Figure 1 shows this view for the T3E (yukon) and Figure 2 for the SP (Icehawk). Both figures show the original code contrasted with the tuned code.
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Figure 2:
Speedup for a particular N output variable case is defined as [runtime for 1 slave case] / [runtime for number of slaves used]. Ideal speedup occurs when doubling the number of slaves halves the runtime. Increased speedups from the original code imply increased scalability, since the speedup curves for the tuned code are closer to the ideal linear speedup curve than the curves for the original code. Both the T3E and the SP show improved speedups for all cases of number of output variables.
Another way to view the results is to look at the cost for doing a computation. Cost in our case is defined as
Cost = [total runtime] x [number of CPUs (master+slaves) used]
In code that does not need a master, the minimum cost is usually attained on just one CPU, unless superlinear speedup occurs due to optimal cache use with more CPUs. For code that requires a master that does no computation, like TEM, the total cost is usually minimized using more than one slave, amortizing the cost of the master. In a sensitivity scenario, cost might be a factor since the model may be run thousands of times. Increased scalability might mean that cost will be a minimum for a greater number of processors than before. Figures 3 & 4 contrast the cost curves for both the T3E (yukon) and the SP (Icehawk).
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The "sweet spot" for minimum cost changes little for the T3E, although overall costs have dropped. Minimum cost has moved out to 8 slaves for 1 or 2 output variables, but remains at 4 slaves for other numbers of output variables. It should be noted, however, that numbers of slaves between 4 and 8 were not tested, and the flattening of the curves for the tuned situation might indicate that the sweet spot could move out a CPU or two to 5 or 6 slaves for minimum cost. For the SP, minimum cost is lower for more CPUs when asking for more outputs, in contrast to the T3E situation of lower cost with fewer output variables. A definite shift to the right of the minimum is more evident on the SP.
For those considering a cluster, the performance/price ratio, or "bang per buck", should be considered. How many nodes should you buy for your application? Figure 5 shows "bang per buck" for the IBM SP, nicely illustrating the idea.
Figure 5:
If performance is defined as [runs per day], and we divide that by the cost, we get our performance/price ratio. The ratio itself increased for all intermediate numbers of slaves, almost doubling for the case of 48 outputs with the peak value occurring at 16 CPUs. It is interesting that the maximum "bang per buck" occurred in both cases at 16 CPUs, and the effect of increased scalability only raised the value.
One final consideration. The analyses in this series of articles considered the MPI implementation only, not on TEM itself. Other opportunities for improvement exist, for instance I/O schemes and file formats.
CUG SUMMIT 2002 Call For Papers
Jan 25th is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the Manchester CUG. Details:
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Anyone else?
What size would be best for my build and riding style?
|Thanks man, I'll check those out. Maybe with a new board I'll just give in and slap some new bindings on it too. Good lookin out
I'm just gonna give you some boards I've been looking at for freeriding that I mentioned in another thread.
Ride - Highlife
K2 - Slayblade
Arbor - Element
Never Summer - Heritage
Just to make it clear, I have not ridden these boards so I do not know exactly how they perform. But from reading reviews sprinkled around the net I do know that others have enjoyed them and they're something to keep your eye on. Basically putting those names out there so you can somewhat jumpstart your search. Those are higher-end boards so you will have to look for last year's model(if there are even any left at this point in time) to get them under $300.
The boards I listed lean towards the stiffer side(except maybe the Element). A mid-flex all-mountain board with plenty of dampness might also suit you fine for what you want to ride. At your shoe size you may need to get the wide version of some boards... this part I suggest finding a local shop to measure up your boots to the board in person. The waist width measurement given on websites can be misleading.
I'd also personally get new bindings to match a new board, but that would put you over budget so you could always shoot for that for next year.
New Stick for the Mountain
What's good!
I've been on the same board for about 4 years and I am looking for a new setup. I am an intermediate rider with a good amount of experience. I live in Michigan where the snow isn't that great, but I have a Capita Stairmaster 156 to ride out here in the park. I need a new board to bring out west every year, the Stairmaster sucks out there. I am 6'1", 180 lbs, size 11.5 boots.
I want some input on the newer technologies as in core material, bases, etc, good for the mountain, as I havent looked at boards in quite some time. What really matters? This board would be strictly for freeriding and hitting rollers and kickers on the mountain.
These are important to me:
1. It should be stable at high mountain speeds, so fairly rigid
2. Good pop!
3. It should have enough flex to still be able to jump around on it though and feel nice to land on
4. Good in powder and wide enough for my 11.5 size boots (but I duck foot a good amount to each side)
5. Be long enough for stability at speed but short enough to throw a 3 off a roller without resistance
I have a set of Burton Customs, but might consider some new bindings to keep those on the Capita.
I might go used on the board because my budget is about $300, so I really just want to get an idea of how flexy/rigid I should go for this kind of riding, length, width, binding type, etc. I'm thinking about a 159 or so? Any boards and bindings in perticular I should look for? Maybe last season's to get a good price?
Thanks for your input, looking forward to the season!!
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Posted by Joe Galuszka on the Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals Blog on October 19, 2015
This is the third post in a series on strategies and tactics for negotiating your licensing agreements with software companies including SAP, Salesforce, and Workday.
Forrester's analysts and consultants are seeing an increase in the number of project discussions regarding Workday's SaaS solutions as we enter the fourth quarter of the calendar year. Two significant factors are contributing to our clients' interest:
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Posted by Liz Herbert on the Application Development & Delivery Professionals Blog on March 29, 2012
Deloitte continues to ramp up its software-as-a-service (SaaS) consulting practice, both through organic growth as well as acquisition. Today, Deloitte announced plans to acquire Workday implementation specialist Aggressor. Aggressor has been one of a very small set of Workday integrators (along with Deloitte), which means Deloitte now further boosts its already-impressive Workday practice.
This move furthers Deloitte's Workday practice, as well as Deloitte's overall practice in SaaS implementation and integration work. Deloitte also has strategic partnerships with other leading SaaS vendors, most notably salesforce.com.
For buyers, this means a stronger and deeper bench of consultants at Deloitte. But, on the downside, it removes a boutique/specialist option from the market, which appealed to some because of its laser focus, smaller size, and (perceived or real) ability to be more nimble, flexible, and price competitive.
Are you an Aggressor or Deloitte client or prospect? We would love to hear your thoughts!
Posted by Paul Hamerman on the Application Development & Delivery Professionals Blog on February 9, 2012
Oracle Corporation announced its purchase of Taleo for $1.9 billion on Feb. 9, 2012, signaling a major shift in its stance on software-as-a-service (SaaS) and talent management applications. The transaction is expected to close midyear 2012, subject to regulatory and stockholder approvals.
Oracle has long held a "we can build it better" position on talent management, learning, and recruitment applications but struggled to compete with best-of-breed talent management vendors like SuccessFactors (recently acquired by rival SAP), Taleo, Kenexa, Cornerstone, and SumTotal Systems. Oracle has been reticent to offer these (or any other) applications via SaaS, preferring a licensed/on-premises business model that provides early revenue recognition versus the deferred revenue model of SaaS.
In fact, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has been outspoken in his anti-SaaS stance in recent years, changing his posture somewhat with the Oracle Public Cloud announcement at last October's Oracle OpenWorld conference. Meanwhile, the HR apps market shifted overwhelmingly to the SaaS (subscription-based) deployment model, which has become virtually ubiquitous in recruitment, learning, and talent management and is also growing in core HRMS via ADP, Ultimate Software, and Workday.
By acquiring Taleo, Oracle puts itself back in the game for SaaS recruiting and talent management. Taleo is a market leader in recruitment automation and has a competitive portfolio of products across performance, compensation, and learning management. The $1.9 billion deal price is more than six times Taleo's 2011 annual revenues of $309 million, a high premium but substantially less than the $3.4 billion and 11-times revenues that SAP recently paid for SuccessFactors.
Posted by Holger Kisker on the Application Development & Delivery Professionals Blog on December 5, 2011
Some Reflections On The Deal For Competitors, Partners, and Customers
The Deal
On December 3, SAP announced the acquisition of SuccessFactors, a leading vendor for human capital management (HCM) cloud solutions. SAP will pay $3.5 billion (a 52% premium over the Dec 2 closing price) out of its full battle chest and take a $1 billion loan. SuccessFactors brings about 1,500 employees, more than 3,500 customers, and about 15 million users to the table. In 2010, the company reported revenues of $206 million and a net loss of $12.5 million. A price of $3.5 billion is certainly a big premium, but the acquisition catapults SAP into the ranks of leading software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution providers — a business that will grow from $21.3 billion in 2011 to $78.4 billion by 2015 (for more information, check out our report "Sizing The Cloud"). The deal will certainly help SAP to achieve its 2015 target of $20 billion revenue and 1 billion users as it mainly targets the 500,000 employees that SAP's already existing customers have. The deal is expected to close in Q1 next year. However, because most of the stocks are widely spread, stakeholders might hold back for now, waiting for possible counter bids from competition.
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Hall of Fame trainer Bobby Frankel has reached several milestones during an illustrious career, and he stands in a strong position to reach another Sunday when he sends out a powerful one-two punch of Precious Kitten and Visit in quest of a fifth straight victory in the $500,0000 Matriarch at Hollywood Park.
The Grade I test is for fillies and mares at one mile on turf and is co-featured with the $500,000 Hollywood Derby. The Sunday races climax the three-day Turf Festival, which begins Friday with the $400,000 Citation Handicap and $100,000-added Miesque Stakes.
"I don't keep track of those kind of records, but I think it would be great," said Frankel of his thoughts on hitting a Fab Five.
Frankel appears in the driver's seat with defending champion Precious Kitten and newcomer Visit, who was turned over to him by Juddmonte Farm after finishing fourth in the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf at Santa Anita.
"Both horses seem fine," said Frankel, categorizing Precious Kitten in the elite list of top female grass horses he has trained. The 5-year-old mare aims to become the first horse to repeat in The Matriarch since champion Flawlessly won three in a row from 1991-93.
With earnings of more than $1.8 million, Precious Kitten will be making the final start of her career under Rafael Bejarano, who rode her to victory last year. Precious Kitten began her career under Dale Romans but has made her last 15 starts for Frankel since being transferred to him in the autumn of 2006. Owner-breeders Ken and Sarah Ramsey sold her to Lael Stable at the beginning of the year.
"I think the shorter distance will help Visit," said Frankel of the 3-year-old filly, who took the lead in the stretch of the 1 ¼-mile Breeders' Cup race, only to be overtaken by three other horses. She ran well in two races at one mile in England before shipping for the Breeders' Cup.
Frankel has won The Matriarch a record eight times since 1996.
Frankel, who ranks second in Hollywood Derby victories with three, seeks to equal Charlie Whittingham's record of four with English invader Midships in the 1 ¼-mile grass test.
Midships, a son of Mizzen Mast, has worked at Santa Anita four times since joining the Frankel stable following a second-place finish in a handicap at Newmarket Oct. 3. He has run the ten-furlong Derby distance six times, with one first, three seconds and one third.
Frankel, the runaway leader with 17 Turf Festival wins, also entered Proudinsky in Friday's $400,000 Citation Handicap and Joe Bravo in Saturday's $150,000 Turf Express Handicap.
Rick Mettee, who worked on this circuit for more than two decades before joining Godolphin Stable in 2003, provides plenty of experience in winning the Citation Handicap and Matriarch, races in which Godolphin has entrants this weekend.
Mettee, who assists trainer Saeed bin Suroor, has high hopes for Formal Decree in the $400,000 Citation Handicap Friday and Cocoa Beach in the $500,000 Matriarch Sunday. Henry Spiller, another assistant, has trained the pair here for the past month.
Mettee, who began here in 1981 and assisted John Gosden before going on his own, saddled 1989 Citation winner Fair Judgment and was here in 2006 when Godolphin won with Ashkal Way. He also saw Gosden win The Matriarch with Royal Heroine in 1984 and Asteroid Field in 1987.
"Fair Judgment had just run in the D.C. International and didn't handle the yielding turf," recalled Mettee of one of his first major wins. "He came back and won on a firm course with Eddie D (Delahoussaye). The Citation was a Grade II then.
"Formal Decree just won at Belmont on soft turf," added Mettee, not expecting mid-week rains that soaked the course to hamper him. Mettee hopes the turf will dry by Sunday.
"I would prefer Cocoa Beach to run on firm turf because this will be the first time she will run on turf since she was two," he said. "She breezed so well on it here last week. If she gets a hold of it, a mile should be no problem."
Cocoa Beach, a stakes winner on three continents, finished second to Zenyatta in the Breeders' Cup Ladies Classic in her last start. Her last five outings have been at 1 1/8 miles, but she won at one mile in her only try at that distance in Dubai in 2006.
"She broke her maiden at five furlongs," said Mettee of the 4-year-old Chilean-bred filly. "She's inherently a fast filly.
"Saeed said this was the last chance to run her in a Grade I in the U.S., and her showing on turf will give us some ideas of options with her next year," explained Mettee. "She and (stablemate) Music Note will go to Kentucky for the winter and stay in training for next year, and we would like to split them up."
Mettee, who winters in Dubai for Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum's Godolphin operation, said Formal Decree and Cocoa Beach will be the final two Godolphin starters in the U.S. this year.
Front-running California Flag, who won the Grade III Morvich Handicap before fading to tenth in the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint on 25, will try to carry his speed all the way in the $150,000 Hollywood Turf Express Handicap at six furlongs Saturday.
"It's a little quick coming back, but he's doing well," said trainer Brian Koriner. "I guess One Union and Delta Storm are the ones I've got to worry about."
The California-bred gelding has won four of nine start since joining the Koriner barn. "He always had ability but had some ailments that bothered him," said Koriner.
French import Albahri, a supplementary entry to the $500,000 Hollywood Derby, was scheduled to join the Patrick Biancone stable at Santa Anita Thursday after clearing quarantine.
"He clears quarantine today at 1 p.m.," said Biancone. "He arrived Tuesday afternoon after a flight from Amsterdam. The report on his trip is good. He's eating well in quarantine, I'm told. He'll stretch his legs a little here tomorrow morning. He trained in France and is a fit horse. He just won a short time ago."
Albahri won for the third time in five starts Nov. 3 before being purchased at a sale by Ed Gann of San Diego.


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Liberals scarce in WaPo Q&A sessions, but right-wing bigots are welcome
Blog ››› ››› JAMISON FOSER
Earlier this month, I noted the massive ideological disparity in WashingtonPost.com online Q&As over the previous three months -- the Post hosted nine conservatives and only two liberals during that time.
On Friday, the Post added another conservative to the list -- Family Research Council senior fellow Peter Sprigg, who discussed his opposition to President Obama's extension of hospital visitation rights to same-sex partners. The Post also hosted a Q&A with a Human Rights Campaign staffer who supported the decision, an all-too-rare attempt at balance from the Post.
But the Post's decision to host Sprigg is alarming nonetheless. See, Peter Sprigg says "gay behavior" should be outlawed. And Sprigg has said "I would much prefer to export homosexuals from the United States than to import them into the United States because we believe that homosexuality is destructive to society."
It seems safe to assume the Washington Post would not provide a forum to someone who says the practice of Judaism should be outlawed, or that he would prefer to "export blacks from the United States." So why does the Post host anti-gay bigot Peter Sprigg?
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Saturday, January 19, 2013 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM (PST)
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Create The Life You Want January 2013!
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I'm interested to know if any of you are using technology more and more in the classroom and particuraly if your pupils are getting involved in coding or programming?
I'm doing some research on digital litercy and would love to get a feel what teachers are doing at the moment.


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S.C. atheists barred from volunteering
Upstate Atheists, a freethought group in the Spartanburg, S.C., area, was barred from volunteering at the Spartanburg Soup Kitchen, according to an Oct. 23 story in the Herald-Journal.
Eve Brannon, 25, Upstate Atheists president, said the group would instead hand out 300 "care" packages to the needy on Oct. 26. Packages contained socks, gloves, toothpaste, toothbrushes, combs, soap, rain ponchos, snacks, shaving razors, antiseptic wipes, deodorants, tissues and gum.
"I told them we wouldn't wear our T-shirts. We wouldn't tell anyone who we are with. We just want to help out," Brannon said. "And they told us that we were not allowed."
Lou Landrum, Soup Kitchen executive director, told the Herald-Journal she would resign before she let atheists volunteer and be a "disservice to this community."
"This is a ministry to serve God," she said. "We stand on the principles of God. Do they think that our guests are so ignorant that they don't know what an atheist is? Why are they targeting us? They don't give any money. I wouldn't want their money."
Landrum added, "They can set up across the street from the Soup Kitchen. They can have the devil there with them, but they better not come across the street."
Legion pulls support over pledge refusal
American Legion Post 134 in Morton Grove, Ill., withdrew its financial support for the city park district because park board member Dan Ashta refuses to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. Post Commander Joseph Lampert confronted Ashta at the Oct. 24 board meeting.
Ashta thanked Lampert for speaking his mind, according to the Morton Grove Champion, but stood his ground, as he did earlier when he told the village clerk that "I feel like we're compelling people to speak," adding that the First Amendment affords the right to also not speak.
Ashta objected to making people pledge allegiance to a government they might oppose. He said people with objections to religion or religious objections also shouldn't have to feel isolated or unwanted for not standing.
"I think the Constitution is what makes this country great and worth making sacrifices for. Countries with weak constitutions usually don't last," Ashta said.
Post 134, with about 800 members, contributes $2,600 annually to city-sponsored events.
Christian college group flush with cash
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, headquartered in Madison, Wis., had just over $99 million in 2012-13 revenues, according to an Oct. 9 InterVarsity press release. That amount puts InterVarsity atop a list of Wisconsin nonprofits compiled by KerstenDirect, a Texas fundraising and marketing agency. The ranking doesn't include hospitals, universities, museums and several other categories of nonprofits.
InterVarsity's National Service Center in Madison serves over 1,600 staff, including field staff who work with 909 InterVarsity chapters on 590 college and university campuses across the U.S.


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Vote for the MLB® All-Star Game 2014 at MLB.com and select the Angels as a "favorite" or "other favorite" Club anytime between 12:00 p.m. PT Friday, April 25, 2014, and 8:59 p.m. PT Thursday, July 3, 2014, and receive up to a 50% OFF discount offer for tickets in select locations for select eligible 2014 home games of your choice. The offer is available in View MVP, Lower View MVP, Field All-Star, Terrace All-Star, Field Reserved, Right Field MVP, Terrace All-Star WC, Terrace Box WC, and Right Field Pavilion WC seating locations. The offer is valid for the following 2014 games: April 28, 29, 30, May 4, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 24, 25, June 8, 9, 11, 22, 24, 25, 26, July 3, 6, 7, 9, 20, 21, 24, 27, August 12, 13, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, September 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 21. Offer is subject to availability, has no cash value, is not valid on previously purchased tickets and is not good in conjunction with any other promotional offer. Tickets are not exchangeable or refundable and cannot be replaced under any circumstances.
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22/11/2012 , 1:59 PM by Clugston Anne
WA rock band group Eskimo Joe are working on a new album, but they've also asked for their fans to help pay for it.
In a new trend called "Crowd sourcing" musicians ask their fans to chip-in to make their music. They're asking for $40-thousand dollars by February to pay for a top producer to make their sixth album. The band offers rewards depending on the amount of money pledged by the fan.
Joel Quartermain plays guitar and drums for Eskimo Joe and joined Geoff Hutchison on mornings.
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College of Engineering and Computer Science
Enhance our distinctive learning experience to produce talented graduates with the knowledge and skills essential for critical thinking, meaningful civic engagement, international competency, an appreciation for the arts, lifelong learning and the ability to lead and adapt in a rapidly changing world.
Objective B
Diversify and enrich academic and professional programs, including non-degree.
- Wright State's Institute of Defense Studies and Education unveiled a state-of-the-art professional training program designed to teach students how to defend against cyber attacks and construct computer systems that are more prepared to fend them off.
- Wright State was awarded a five-year, $2.86 million National Science Foundation ADVANCE grant to increase the representation of women in STEM fields in the region.
- Wright State, the University of Dayton, Central State University, and the Air Force Institute of Technology collaborated to start the state's first master's program in Clean and Renewable Energy.
- The Department of Computer Science and the College of Liberal Arts collaborated to provide dual majors to students interested in pursuing computer science or computer engineering and philosophy, English, or history degrees.
- The Department of Computer Science developed a Master of Science in Cyber Security program, the first of its kind in Ohio.
- The College of Engineering and Computer Science expanded distance learning courses to include computer science and mechanical engineering and to support the Lake Campus Mechanical Engineering program.
- The College of Engineering and Computer Science established the Distinguished Speaker Series.
Objective C
Recruit and retain a nationally/internationally recognized diverse, learning centered faculty and staff.
- Joseph Slater, Ph.D., received the Affiliates Societies Council Outstanding Engineering Educator Award, and Thomas Hangartner, Ph.D., received the Fulbright Scholar Award.
Objective D
Enhance the quantity and quality of dialogue with our various communities to ensure our academic relevance and distinctiveness.
- College of Engineering and Computer Science alumnus Eric Graham spearheaded the creation of Advaretech, a for-profit company focused on commercializing Wright State–developed technologies.
- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology graduate students received numerous honors: Khadijeh Alnajjar, Student Research Achievement Award at the International Biophysical Society Annual Meeting; Madhu Mahankali, American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship to research the connection between phospholipase D, reactive oxygen species, and the basis for arterial damage; and Christopher Vaiana, Air Force Director's Military Award.
Enhance student access to and successful participation in higher education through quality and innovative instruction and student life programs that increase graduation and career placement for a diverse student body.
Objective A
Improve the enrollment and retention of direct-from-high-school, graduate and nontraditional student populations.
- The Ph.D. in Engineering program celebrated its first 100 graduates in Fall 2011. The program, a unique interdisciplinary collaboration between the Departments of Biomedical, Industrial, and Human Factors Engineering; Electrical Engineering; and Mechanical and Materials Engineering, is set to realize unprecedented growth and is recruiting top students from around the world.
- Retention activities in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, under the leadership of Dean Nathan Klingbeil, Ph.D., have become a national model.
- The College of Engineering and Computer Science created new articulation and partnership agreements with community colleges in Ohio.
Objective B
Enhance the academic success of students.
- Introductory Mathematics for Engineering Applications, which is funded by the National Science Foundation, provided students with the necessary math skills to begin their fundamental engineering and physics courses. This course has received national recognition for its success in achieving high student retention.
- All first-year students are advised by College of Engineering and Computer Science academic advisors, who help students register for classes and learn about scholarship opportunities.
Objective C
Develop effective educational processes to assist students in meeting post-graduate career and educational goals.
- The College of Engineering and Computer Science offered an assistantship program to provide scholarships, internships, and a path to employment for 30 undergraduate students at the Air Force Research Laboratory.
- The Aerospace Professional Development Center helps match students and workers with jobs in the Ohio aerospace and defense industry.
Expand our scholarship in innovative and targeted ways to address regional, national and global needs.
Objective A
Build a national and international research reputation
- The College of Engineering and Computer Science is home to four Centers of Excellence: Product Reliability and Optimization, Human-Centered Innovation, Knowledge-Enabled Computing, and Micro Air Vehicles. These centers drive innovation through cutting-edge research and strategic industrial and government collaborations.
- College of Engineering and Computer Science students built an incubator to be used in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and created a design to improve artificial limbs for military veterans.
- Wright State received a $5 million contract from the Air Force for research related to unmanned aerial vehicles.
Objective C
Foster discovery at all levels in the educational pipeline (K–16+)
- Nearly 2,000 high school students from around the United States traveled to Wright State to participate in the National Science Olympiad Tournament, which features science and engineering competitions involving everything from astronomy and fossils to balsa structures and battery-powered vehicles. Leading up to the national tournament, the university hosted two Science Olympiad Invitationals.
Provide leadership to promote and support social, cultural and economic development within the region through our collaborations with local, state, national and global partners.
Objective B
Enhance the university's presence with the Dayton/West Central Ohio regions, and beyond, in ways that benefit communities.
- Wright State embedded a faculty member in the Mound Laser & Photonics Center, Inc., as part of an agreement to speed the commercialization of research and overcome roadblocks that often keep businesses and universities from working closely together.
Objective C
Offer degree and other education programs consistent with regional and state needs.
- The Aerospace Professional Development Center worked closely with the aerospace and defense industry and government, higher education institutions around Ohio, and on STEM initiatives in the Dayton region to offer career coaching, match employees with job openings, identify skills gaps in the workforce, and assist students in finding internships.
- The Department of Computer Science and Engineering offered Ohio's first Master of Science in Cyber Security, providing students the knowledge and skills needed to protect computer systems and computer networks.
- The College of Engineering and Computer Science received a $1.3 million grant from the State of Ohio that was paired with matching funds from 30 area businesses to create new internship opportunities for students in STEM fields.
Develop and sustain the human, financial and physical resources required to accomplish the university's strategic goals.
Objective C
Generate increased revenue.
- Created in 2008, the Institute of Defense Studies and Education provides educational programs using best practices relevant to the U.S. Department of Defense, including certificate programs in Supply Chain Management, Psychology of Terrorism, and Cyber Security.
Objective D
Increase investments in facilities/technologies to achieve strategic goals.
- The Neuroscience Engineering Collaboration Building, which is expected to be completed in 2015, will serve as a collaborative research location for Wright State's neuroscience and engineering departments.


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The installation of color laser printer is growing every year. More and more people use laser printer to print photography and disappoint in poor printing quality or paper jam. What is problem happening when using laser printer for photographic printing?
Color saturation:
Basically, the color calibration of laser printer is based on common paper (80~100 gsm) before delivery. If increase paper thickness such as the paper of conventional development system is over 180 gsm, the color saturation will be reduced. How to increase both of paper thickness and color saturation at same time?
Printing speed:
Slow down printing speed can take more time for toner transfer, avoid paper jam and increase color saturation. In the market, there are different types such as 4~5 ppm (pages per minute), 16 ppm and over 20 ppm. Fortunately, printing speed is possible to be controlled by selection icon of paper material. Recommend the setting of laser printer is 106~163 gsm to slow down printing speed!
Paper polarity:
Thank to the toner is negative polarity of almost laser printers. Use the paper with positive polarity for laser printing and it is possible to conduct more toner and increase color saturation as well.
Moisture tends to make pulp fibre expansion, raising paper thickness and uneven roughness. Coating skill perhaps is one of solutions to isolate moisture in air. Apply synthetic paper to replace pulp paper is a good alternative to resist moisture completely.
Thermal stress:
Many people recommend inkject glossy photo paper or premium paper for laser photographic printing. Be careful! The heating temperature of fuser can rise up to 200 degree C during printing. The potential risk of thermal stress is possible to melt-down the coating material of paper surface or crack happening. Particular, printing is operating at low speed. Thickness again! The thickness of those products is over 80~100 gsm.
Due to toner is dry powder in natural, the paper has no connection with resolution. The image resolution is decided by printer engine, toner dimension and printing language. 600 x 600 dpi can offer remarkable picture image quality. 1200 x 1200 and 2400 x 2400 dpi also increase more grades of gray level and improve better cubic effect.
Keep in mind! Toner is dry powder. Whatever your paper is high glossy or brightness, the surface of photo paper is covered by toner after printing. If it can present glossy, that means the toner density is not enough and the color of printing quality is very light. Actually, toner embraces wax inside and it can offer brightness after printer.
The testing had done with HP CLJ 2500/2550/5500/9500, EPSON Aculaser 900/1100/1900/3000/4000 and Konica Minolta magicolor 23xx. That means it is possible to overcome different printer engines for different printing speed, dpi, toner, fuser temperature and so on.
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'The Flames only had six shots in the first period, getting off to a rusty start in their first game in four days. "It was probably a little bit slow on both sides. To their credit, they came out and won the first period," Iginla said. But it was almost all Calgary after that.'
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Beyonce sits down with Oprah
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The last time Oprah sat down with Beyonce was back in 2008, shortly after her marriage to Jay-Z. Beyoncé wasn't nearly as open about her personal life then. But she's since brought her daughter Blue Ivy into the world and now she's gearing up for a huge world tour.
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|Opinion's or reality are what I'm looking for. No wrong answer. I told the guy today I want to see it on the concrete and air up tires. He had said he has already pulled it up to the drive and gathered everything that's going with it. I told him I would take it as long as there are no surprises when I see on Sat. after the swapmeet. That way he won't sell it out from under me and and I get a second look without the risk of loosing money. He did also say that he placed as well as 5th last year even with the chassis tweaked. HE only races it one year. That's just enough time to start getting a car figured out. Normally you can expect at least two season's before you are fast. It's a good indication.
|I would think just the peripheral parts would be well worth the asking price, minus the frame. Worst case scenario, the frame is tweaked beyond help, you could still part it out and make your money back. Sounds like a good deal to me. But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
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I need advice about a possible circle track car, B-mod. It's cheap (900) and is in good shape. It has a new body last year and four new shocks by Afco. Four new Hotchkis springs, front lower control arms and comes race ready minus engine and trans, even includes all guages and switches like right front brake and bias adjuster. It has a pull bar rear with a 9" and 5.67 gears. New tires as well. American Racers. It's won four Championships.
Sounds like a great deal right? Well, last year it took a hit in the right front and bent the frame. It was striaghtend but not by any professional. I saw it in the dark with a big flash light And I couldn't even see where the frame was bent at all. The owner say's he didn't really see a difference in how the car drove after the hit.
I want to buy the car to start my biusness with but I don't know if my enthusiasm is in the way. Does anyone have a opinion or can tell me what I need to be careful about. I don't want to get screwed, but man it seems like a deal I can't pass up.
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BOSTON, Mass. - Four Cavaliers notched hat tricks for the No. 7 Virginia women's lacrosse team Sunday afternoon, as the Cavaliers defeated Harvard in a high scoring affair, 19-18. Virginia fought off a late five-goal rally from the Crimson that evened the score at 17, before scoring two of the games final three goals to earn the victory. With the win, Virginia bumps to 7-5 on the season, while Harvard falls to 4-4.
Juniors Ainsley Baker, Charlie Finnigan and Josie Owen each notched four goals on the day, while sophomore Annie Thomas tied a career-high with three scores. Finnigan tacked on two assists for a game-high six points, while Owen, Baker and junior Julie Gardner each had five points. Gardner scored two goals and tacked on two assists.
The Cavaliers also received a goal from senior All-American Liz Downs - the first of her career - and freshman Maddy Keeshan.
Jess Halpern and Jen VanderMuelen led Harvard with five goals each, while Melanie Baskind had three goals and one assist.
Harvard and Virginia traded scores throughout the beginning of the game, with the score being tied at one, two and three, before the Cavaliers used a string of four-straight goals to pull ahead, 7-3. Owen started the streak with a goal from Baker at 14:59, before Finnigan converted a free position shot to give Virginia a 5-3 lead. Baker tacked on a goal from Gardner at 9:29 and Finnigan capped off the run with a goal 16 seconds later.
The Crimson halted the streak with a free position shot at 8:05, but back-to-back goals from Gardner and Baker gave Virginia a 9-4 lead. Harvard scored its final goal of the half at 3:05, before a goal from Owen at 2:26 gave Virginia a 10-5 halftime advantage.
Harvard opened the scoring in the second half with a goal at 28:07 and added a second score less than two minutes later.
Thomas got Virginia on the board at 25:42 and the Crimson tacked on another to bring the score to 11-8. Owen converted a free position shot at 21:05, before Downs fired her first career goal into the net on an 8-meter attempt at the 18:25 mark, giving Virginia a 13-8 lead.
The Cavaliers scored two of the next three goals, but Harvard responded with three of the next four to bring the score to 16-12, in favor of Virginia. Thomas scored her third goal of the day at 9:49, but Harvard responded with five-straight goals in less than two minutes to knot the score at 17 all.
A goal from Gardner at 6:05 gave Virginia the lead, 18-17, before Finnigan found Owen for a score at 5:50. The next five minutes were scoreless before Harvard closed out the game with a goal at the 53-second mark to bring the final score to 19-18.
Owen finished the game with six draw controls, while junior Bailey Fogarty had five.
Defensively, Downs caused two turnovers, while Finnigan and senior Marghi Walters each had three ground balls.
In goal, sophomore Kim Kolarik picked up nine saves.
Virginia will return to action on Wednesday, as the Cavaliers return home to host its final ACC rival, in-state foe Virginia Tech, in Klöckner Stadium at 7 p.m.


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A wonderful resource for younger students, this site contains tips for children about Internet safety and good manners. This is a great site for parents to interact together with their younger children.
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A branch of the SafeKids site, this site focuses on teens. Cell phone safety, protecting your privacy, and blog safety tips can be found here. There is also a link for a 24 page guide in Spanish!
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Founded in 1998 and endorsed by the U.S. Congress, this organization is a non-profit foundation dedicated to helping our youth understand their online experiences and assist in educating them to protect against any abuses.
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