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Kelly Layman
Executive Director of Communications
PRESS RELEASE: Florida's "2+2 Pathways to Success Program" earns national nod
August 10, 2011
Florida's "2+2 Pathways to Success Program" earns national nod
University of Central Florida featured in national study from The College Board, is largest transfer institution in State University System of Florida
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—A national report released from one of the top entities involved in tracking trends and results in higher education – The College Board – has highlighted the success of Florida's "2+2 Pathways to Success program" in a discussion of the challenges and opportunities facing four-year colleges as they work to create more efficient pathways for transfer students.
The report – featuring 12 four-year institutions across the United States – specifically cites the University of Central Florida, while acknowledging that many institutions in the State University System of Florida have successful, growing transfer student programs.
UCF has the most two-year degree transfers amid the 11 institutions in the State University System of Florida, is the largest institution in the State University System, and is the second-largest public university in the nation based on student enrollment at more than 50,000.
The College Board report also examines best practices that universities and colleges can adopt to serve growing numbers of transfer students nationwide.
Nationally, there is a movement to drive up the number of Americans earning four-year degrees in order for the United States to regain the status it once had as one of the top countries where citizens have postsecondary education and college degrees, a ranking that has been falling steadily in recent years.
An international comparison in 2007 of the percentage of adults ages 25-34 with at least a bachelor's-type postsecondary degree showed the United States ranked 7th with about 30 percent of its population in that category – far behind Norway, the Netherlands, Korea and others.
Further, when reviewing bachelor's degrees awarded for every 1,000 citizens ages 18-44 in 2008, Florida ranked 41st of 50 states – Florida had 12.3 for every 1,000 citizens, while the national average at the time was 14.2 per 1,000 citizens.
(These and other informational slides were presented by the Strategic Planning Committee at the full Board of Governors meeting in March 2011:http://www.flbog.edu/documents_meetings/0124_0517_4071_2011_03_24_Strategic%20Planning_WebVersion.pdf).
This vexing issue of supply and demand has, in fact, been one of the driving points of discussion during ongoing conversation at the both Board of Governors and in its Strategic Planning Committee. Currently noticed Board regulations being amended are designed to help organize the State University System in preparation for future growth in the System. The current Strategic Plan of the Board of Governors covers 2005-2013; an updated planning process has been under way for more than a year in order to have strategic plan segments identified this year that can take the State University System toward 2020 and beyond.
One of the likely growth areas is the "2+2 Pathways to Success" program, and the statewide articulation agreement that provides the opportunity for any student who completes a two-year associate's degree at a community or state college in the Florida College System to be admitted to one of 11 institutions in the State University System.
All told, the State University System of Florida enrolled more than 40,000 new transfer students in 2010-11 alone. More than 30,000 – or about 75 percent – of those transferred as a result of the popular "2+2 Pathways to Success" statewide partnership. At last count, the official total student enrollment at all levels for the State University System is 321,503.
At UCF in the fall of 2010, nearly 5,600 of 5,900 new transfer students were admitted through the 2+2 program – nearly 95 percent.
The College Board report highlights how well the program at UCF and all institutions in the State University System prepare transfer students for upper-division university courses and campus life.
The 2+2 Pathways to Success partnership in our State University System was one of the first in the nation and remains a model that, most importantly, has helped thousands of Florida students pursue their bachelor's degree," said Chancellor Frank T. Brogan. "It takes many dedicated people from both the Florida College System and the State University System to keep the mechanics of the statewide articulation engine working. This is accomplished through the numerous faculty reviews, Board staff work teams for common course numbering, and the year-round work of the Articulation Coordinating Committee, which helps establish common prerequisites for all public baccalaureate programs and facilitate transfer of all general education requirements."
UCF Provost Tony Waldrop said many of the university's most outstanding students are transfers. Seven of the 10 students who received top awards at Founders' Day ceremonies last year transferred from a community or state college.
"From the moment students indicate they want to transfer to UCF until they earn their degrees, we work hard to provide them with the resources they need to make a smooth transition to a university environment," Waldrop said. "The result is that our transfer students perform very well in the classroom on their way to becoming productive contributors to our region's economy."
UCF professors are working with their peers at several nearby community colleges to develop a curriculum focusing on undergraduate research, Waldrop said.
UCF also partners with area community and state colleges and high schools to determine how to best provide students access to important educational opportunities in the face of increasing cuts in education spending, growth in college-bound students, and university selectivity.
Although The College Board report focused on a handful of institutions nationwide, it acknowledges that there are other institutions using very similar strategies.
Examples within Florida are numerous, and include the University of Florida's and Santa Fe College's "Gateway to the Gators" program; and The Florida State University-Panama City's campus "Connect" program with Gulf Coast State College. These types of agreements enhance the statewide articulation agreement.
The College Board is a nonprofit organization promoting excellence and equity in education and membership group of 5,900 institutions. Link to the full report on transfer students:http://advocacy.collegeboard.org/sites/default/files/11b3193transpartweb110712.pdf
The State University System is included in many of the top study priorities of The College Board and its annual tracking of important issues, including the annual documents, "Trends in Student Aid 2010," and "Trends in College Pricing 2010: www.flbog.edu/pressroom/news.php?id=368
About the State University System of Florida
The State University System is comprised of 11 institutions with a total enrollment of more than 320,000 students, making it the fourth-largest public university system in the nation in terms of enrollment (some states have more than one university system). The Florida Constitution (Article IX, Section 7) was amended by the State's voters in 2002 to establish a statewide system of governance for all Florida public universities. As a result, the Florida Board of Governors was created to oversee the State University System of Florida. Responsibilities include defining the distinctive mission of each institution and ensuring the well-planned coordination and operation of the System. The Board is comprised of 17 appointed members – 14 are appointed by the Governor and three are members by virtue of their designations (a faculty member, a Florida Student Association student representative, and the Commissioner of Education). The Board of Governors appoints a Chancellor who serves as the chief executive and administrative officer of the State University System. For more, including the Board's 2010 Annual Report that reflects accountability measurements and benchmarks occurring at each institution, see www.flbog.edu.


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MARION - Iowa Lakes freshman Brandon Klein finished fourth at the NJCAA Region XI Men's Golf Tournament to earn a trip to the national tournament later this month.
The Lakers wrapped up the region tournament on Tuesday and finished fifth with a 316 on their second day to finish with a two-day total of 630.
First-place Kirkwood finished with a 603.
After shooting a 75 on the first day, Klein came back with a 74 on the second day to finish with a 149.
Ben Nath, a national qualifier a year ago, finished with a 159 after shooting a 78 on the second day. Austin Sweeney fired an 80-81 for a 161. Jeremy Wollenburg went 79-83 for a 162.
Non-counting score was Blake Orton, who went 80-88 for a 168.
Klein will travel to the NJCAA Men's Division 2 National Tournament in Scottsboro, Ala., May 21-24.
"First a big congrats to Brandon for having a great tournament," said Iowa Lakes coach Andy Soper. "It was even better seeing him finish by rolling in a 10 foot birdie putt on the last hole to finish with a 74. It was a great tournament for him and it will be nice getting to see him play his last school event at the national tournament.
"We lose some guys from this year's top 5 and they will be greatly missed," the coach continued. "They were a great group to have and I wish them the best."

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HOUSTON (AP) - Bud Norris pitched into the eighth inning for his first win since May 21, and Jose Altuve homered and the Houston Astros avoided a sweep with a 2-0 win over the St. Louis Cardinals, who are vying for the second NL wild card, on Wednesday night.
Norris (6-13) allowed two hits and struck out seven without a walk in 7 1/3 innings to snap a career-long 12-game losing streak which spanned 18 starts in the last National League game in Houston with the Astros moving to the American League West for 2013.
The victory broke a 10-game winning streak for the Cardinals over Houston and cut their lead over Los Angeles and Milwaukee to 3 1/2 games for the second NL wild card spot after both teams won Wednesday.
Norris hurled the gem despite a tough stretch where he has been slowed by a blister on index finger of his right hand and flu-like symptoms.
Wilton Lopez got the final five outs to complete the three-hitter and get his eighth save. Norris clapped his hands once and smiled when Houston got the final out.
Chris Carpenter (0-1) allowed four hits and two runs in six innings in his second start since missing 150 games following right shoulder surgery.
Norris had retired 12-of-13 when he hit Adron Chambers to start the eighth inning. Daniel Descalso reached on an error by Brett Wallace, when his grounder rolled between the first baseman's legs.
Norris struck out Pete Kozma before he was lifted for Lopez. Pinch-hitter Carlos Beltran grounded into a forceout that left Descalso out at second and Chambers on third base, before Jon Jay grounded into a forceout to end the threat.
Altuve connected on Carpenter's first pitch of the fourth inning for Houston's first hit, a homer to the Crawford Boxes in left field to make it 1-0.
Scott Moore followed with a double which bounced off the wall in center field and moved to third on a flyout by Jed Lowrie. Justin Maxwell reached on a fielder's choice that left Moore out at home.
Maxwell stole second base before scoring on Wallace's double to right field that pushed the lead to 2-0.
Norris was perfect through the first three innings. Jay doubled to start the fourth for the Cardinals' first hit. But Norris got right back on track, retiring the next seven batters. Carpenter singled with one out in the sixth before Norris retired the next two Cardinals to end the inning.
Carpenter hit Fernando Martinez to start Houston's third, but faced the minimum through three thanks to a double play in that inning.
He threw 92 pitches after throwing 77 in five innings of a no-decision Friday in his first start since the injury. It was his first start against Houston since throwing a two-hitter last Sept. 28 to clinch the NL wild card.
Notes: Cardinals 3B David Freese missed his third straight game after rolling his right ankle in pregame warmups in the batting cage Monday. He said he's feeling better and expects to play when the Cardinals open a series against the Nationals on Friday after a day off today. ... Hall of Fame broadcaster Milo Hamilton, who had the memorable call on Henry Aaron's 715th home run, called his last game for the Astros on Wednesday night. Hamilton, who doesn't call out of town games, is retiring after 59 seasons calling major-league games. Hamilton has called the Astros for 28 seasons. He said Wednesday the call of Aaron's 715th home run was the most memorable of his career, and other top memories were his calls of Mike Scott's no-hitter in 1986 and Craig Biggio's 3,000th hit in 2007. Asked how many games he'd called in his career he answered: "It's thousands. But now who's counting?" ... Houston OF J.D. Martinez had surgery to repair the injured hamate bone in his left wrist Wednesday. He can resume baseball activities in four to six weeks.


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The latest cover from the Sweetheart 2014 compilation is here. We already heard some mighty covers of classic love songs from Vampire Weekend, Beck, and Fiona Apple. Phosphorescent is the latest artist to join them, as he has covered Bob Dylan's "Tomorrow Is a Long Time."
Stereogum who premiered the track, got the following quote from. Phosphorescent's Matthew Houck about the song:
Tomorrow Is A Long Time' is one of the most longing-est songs I've ever heard. It's special I think in that such a sparse, slight thing can carry so much emotion in just these few lines and chords. Just a simple direct declaration of love and devotion and longing. In a word: perfect.
Stream his cover below.


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Thomas R. BURNETT, Petitioner,
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, Respondent.
No. 95-3039.
United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.
May 12, 1995.
56 F.3d 82
NOTICE: Federal Circuit Local Rule 47.6(b) states that opinions and orders which are designated as not citable as precedent shall not be employed or cited as precedent. This does not preclude assertion of issues of claim preclusion, issue preclusion, judicial estoppel, law of the case or the like based on a decision of the Court rendered in a nonprecedential opinion or order.
Before MAYER, RADER, and SCHALL, Circuit Judges.
AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.


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The referenced source file has no actual implementation of the encryption in it, so claiming 100 lines is a bit silly...
It's just as well. If you'd ever looked at the qmail source code you'd have realized that DJB is not a programmer. That stuff looks like dog vomit. Neither is it efficient. Six or seven years back I converted a half dozen email systems from qmail to Postfix. For the exact same mail volume on the exact same hardware Postfix runs about a third the load average of qmail.
For the exact same mail volume on the exact same hardware Postfix runs about a third the load average of qmail.
Then you were probably doing it wrong.
NB: Qmail is a PITA to set up, and configure, and generally understand... but when tuned and customized properly it's incredibly efficient. Even more efficient if you're on underpowered hardware.
Qmail is a PITA to set up, andconfigure, and generally understand... but when tuned and customized properly it's incredibly efficient. Even more efficient if you're on underpowered hardware.
So it truly is a sendmail replacement, then; it's got exactly the same pros and cons!
Oh, wait... whenever a sendmail flaw gets discovered it's fixed in about two hours - without having to spend a week arguing with Dan over whether it's actually a flaw or not first.
Let's face it, if ease of configuration and use is impor
The referenced source file has no actual implementation of the encryption in it, so claiming 100 lines is a bit silly...
Yeap. The rest is in about 200 lines of code [bxr.su].
And being DJB, surely some of that 300 lines is comments insulting all his fellow cryptographers, the users, and generally complaining that the world is full of idiots?
And being DJB, surely some of that 300 lines is comments insulting all his fellow cryptographers, the users, and generally complaining that the world is full of idiots?
Or, you could click the link and find out how wrong you are....
On Slashdot, literalism knows no bounds.
Ah, well, that explains the missing rant then.
No, the code link in the post you replied to is for Chacha itself from DJB, not the DJM code that *used* it (which was linked in the article).
Not only it it free of rants, it's free of ANY useful comments, which IMO for mostly inscrutable crypto code based largely on C macros is worse than ranting.
I can see two bugs in it straight away.
Has this stuff been audited by a professional cryptographer?
And the other ~150 [bxr.su]
The referenced source file has no actual implementation of the encryption in it, so claiming 100 lines is a bit silly...
Using their metric of excluding the function calls that do the real work, OpenSSL only needs one line of source code to encrypt a file:
openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -salt -in somefile.txt -out somefile.txt.enc
I read through the implementation presented and the additional ~200 lines of code for each of the authentication (poly1305) and encryption (chacha.c) pieces of this protocol. Coming from the perspective of an experienced coder but relative crypto novice this just looks like a very sophisticated shifting algorithm (like ROT13, on steroids) keyed on the TCP sequence number. Is this considered acceptable security for a data stream? I'm honestly curious, I haven't played around with crypto functions very much.
A good encryption is beautiful and simple while still completely unpredictable unless you have the right key.
The less code that you have to use to perform the encryption the better.
...the tcp sequence number tells you the byte offset in the session's psudo-random bit stream to xor against.
Perfect explanation. I get it now. Thanks!
How about 108? https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/deps/nss/+/50796110f60d034dfab3d8876f62d715f31aaa9f/nss/lib/freebl/chacha20/chacha20.c [googlesource.com]
http://pastebin.com/3YaRWXFs [pastebin.com]
The nginx on BXR had a soft FD limit of 128 (:openfiles-cur=128:) through the default login.conf(5) [mdoc.su], which it doesn't seem to increase automatically, and which it was hitting at 17:59 (if not earlier) as per fstat(1) [mdoc.su], and which applies to internet sockets, too, so, during some time between 17:52 and 18:03, when nginx [bxr.su] was manually restarted with the increased soft limit, BXR [bxr.su] was indeed slashdotted!
BTW, this was probably due to the HTTP keep-alive feature, and not the raw number of requests, which are all ser
What on earth gave the submitter the idea that it was less than 100 lines? That file linked to is the interface, not the actual core implementation. I count 113 lines in that file, and 218-223 lines depending on which version of DJB's chacha-merged.c you look at (incorporated as chacha_private.h, several versions, several subdirectories).
Does DJB insist that his crypto library gets installed under
What's so dangerous about having executables and libraries in
/var is meant for variable content. Such as the mail spool and tmp directory. Data on this filesystem often comes from external sources such as email. It is recommended for this file system to be mounted with noexecute flag to reduce the likelihood of a downloaded data to be executed.
Having binaries on
Because mounting
It also fucks up and goes against every other system of organizing executables & libraries in linux, which makes it stupid on its face.
Because on production servers it is common to have var on it's own partition, and that is the filesystem that holds the logs, which an attacker can cause data to be written to. Also it has to be writable by the running services, and allowing services to write and execute new binaries is a step in many attacks. So it is a typical thing a sysadmin wants to do, to prevent executing code there.
That said, the distro I'm using puts the executables under
Its not uncommon for that very reason to mount
Why not separate every process from each other one
SELinux has a higher administrative burden. Mounting
In addition to the other answers, I will mention the FHS or Filesystem Hierarchy Standard: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html [pathname.com]
Note its descriptions of
"/var contains variable data files. This includes spool directories and files, administrative and logging data, and transient and temporary files."
"This hierarchy holds state information pertaining to an application or the system. State information is data that programs modify while they run, a
/var meant to be both writable and persistent. That makes it very sensitive and a good target for attackers. This is the reason why it is a good idea to avoid putting executable files in there. In fact the less you rely on
He's always insisted that his qmail binaries get installed under
Not true. He used to, but he has since placed qmail in the public domain [cr.yp.to], so you can do whatever you want.
10+ too late, postfix have since steamroller qmail in all fields
Caring about what goes in what filesystem is neck-beardy.
Who mounts
Caring about what goes in what filesystem is neck-beardy.
Using "neck-beardy" as an epithet is far worse, !@#hole.
How many people have already dispensed with a separate
You've never run Debian; gotcha. See
Citing the existence of a directory
Therefore, you fail.
Citing the existence of a directory
I was answering his, "How many people have already dispensed with a separate
My fast poly1305aes library is in the public domain. You can and should include it in your own programs, rather than going to the effort of linking to a shared library; the compiled code is between 6 and 10 kilobytes, depending on the CPU.
Of course, it being in the public domain, this is merely a suggestion, and, as a developer, one could basic
less than 100 lines of code!
Unfortunately, the actual correction should be "more."
Bruce Schneier has been suggesting that NIST call a competition for a new stream cipher like they did with AES and SHA-3. RC-4 is on its last legs, and there's isn't much of a consesus on what to replace it with.
Even if you don't completely trust NIST anymore (after the Snowden documents), at the very least such a competition would concenrate a lot of people's efforts on the problem, and you could look at the final candidate list and have a good number of choices in addition to the final winner.
There were t
RC-4 is on its last legs, and there's isn't much of a consesus on what to replace it with.
Not to mention patent trolls lurking wanting to sue you if you use TLS with RC4. [arstechnica.com]
I can't see anything strange about "triple-DES". "triple-DES" is exactly what the name suggsts: three times DES. And DES is just the abbreviation of Data Encryption Standard.
RC4 sounds like an abbreviation as well (probably version 4 of something), but I have no idea of what and am too lazy to look now. Anyway, nothing strange about that one, either.
OTOH, I cannot imagine how "Blowfish" came to its name.
> I can't see anything strange about "triple-DES". "triple-DES" is exactly what the name suggests: three times DES.
True for the purpose for which you posted it, but let me take this opportunity to point out something that
some programmers naively think makes encryption more secure. 3DES does not encrypt with DES three times.
So don't do that. Repeating encryption makes it WEAKER, not stronger, unless other sophisticated
stuff is done between the rounds of encryption.
Repeating the SAME encryption allows fo
While different hashes on top of each other are quite obviously just as good as the weakest, I don't see why this should be the case for encryption.
* It's legal 3DES to set k1 and k3 the same, which results in exactly the same output as weak old DES, it's just a waste of cycles. It was allowed for backward compatibility.
I was with you up to this point. E(K1, PT) -> CTe1. D(K2, CTe1) -> CTd2 (Something which since it was not decrypted with K1 is definitely not PT). E(K1, CTd2) -> CTe3 (which since PT != CTd2, is definitely not the same as CTe1). Whereas DES E(K1, PT) -> CTe1.
So 3DES((K1,K2,K1), PT) != DES(K1, PT)
Indeed I misspoke. It's the allowed keying option K1=K2=K3 that's strictly equivalent to DES.
The keying option K1=K3 is slightly more secure than DES.
Combining two encryption methods using separate keys can never be weaker than the inner encryption. Proof: if the combined method IS weaker, the attacker could just use the outer method as an attack with a small constant complexity on the inner method, which means the inner method is exactly as strong as the combined method (times a small constant). Unfortunately the same does not apply to the outer method, it is possible for a weak inner method to defeat the security of a strong outer method (e.g. if the i
> Combining two encryption methods using separate keys can never be weaker than the inner encryption.
Here are two trivial cases which each prove that false.
F1 is the inner encryption. It's flaw is something like multiplying by some X where X can be zero. Any flaw where one step in the method sometimes nullifies the earlier key-dependant step qualifies. That means that in those cases, some part of the key actually doesn't matter.
F2, the outer algorithm, is inverse of F1.
Thus, in those cases where the no
The attacker knows the algorithms in use. The attacker can just run F2 himself, it costs only a small constant time. If F2 exposes a flaw in F1, that flaw was already there from the start.
> If F2 exposes a flaw in F1, that flaw was already there from the start.
Flaws exist. Turning a possible flaw into plaintext counts.
Take for example a leaked database of 10 million encrypted credit card numbers. 99.99% of those look exactly like you'd expect encrypted text to look, random bytes. Of the 10 million, a few look exactly like credit card numbers, because those are the cases with the "multiply by zero" issue.
Yes, without F2, the attacker COULD do their own cryptanalysis and devise F2 themsel
The attack has no complexity. All you save the attacker by not running F2 for them is obscurity, the attacker does not have to spend any computational resources, they just have to know F2.
The security of modern cryptosystems is in the key, not in the obscurity of the algorithms or (at least not intentionally) the attacks.
> The security of modern cryptosystems is in the key, not in the obscurity of the algorithms or (at least not intentionally) the attacks.
Normally, we don't intentionally create attacks, but security absolutely DOES rely on there being easy attacks that
are well known - the obscurity of the attack. If there is an attack (and there's ALWAYS an attack), you're better of not
performing the attack yourself, but forcing the bad guy to first find, then carry out the attack.
An example from the physical world make
The first sentence should read "security absolutely DOES rely on there NOT being easy attacks that
are well known - the obscurity of any attack".
RC4 comes from Ron Rivest [of RSA fame] and stands for either "Rivest Cipher 4" or "Ron's Code 4" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC4 [wikipedia.org]
What I want to know is, do the interactive aspects of this new cipher actually resemble two computers doing the cha-cha?
And, is poly begging for a cracker?
To be is to program.


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By far the largest collection is in Google Books. A single word search in Google Books on "genealogy" returns over 160,000 books.
Here is a list of digital collections dealing with books pertinent to genealogy:
- Google Books [160,557] Only a minority of the books are completely digitized
- American Memory (Library of Congress)
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (Library of Congress)
- Digital Quaker Collection (Earlham School of Religion)
- Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina)
- Family History Archives (Brigham Young University)
- Internet Text Archive
- Making of America (Cornell University)
- Making of America (University of Michigan)
- The New York Times (from 1851)
- Perry-Castaneda Map Collection: Historical Maps (University of Texas)
- Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection (Cornell University)
Useful for clergy, anti-slavery activists, African Americans, local history
- Their Own Words (Dickinson College)
- Canadian Genealogy Centre
- Denver Public Library, Western History and Genealogy
- National Archives and Records Administration
- New York Public Library Digital Library
- Online Archive of California


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 11th May 2007 18:17 UTC, submitted by diegocg
"The Intel 965GM Express Chipset represents the first mobile product that implements fourth generation Intel graphics architecture. Designed to support advanced rendering features in modern graphics APIs, this chipset includes support for programmable vertex, geometry, and fragment shaders. Extending Intel's commitment to work with the X.org and Mesa communities to continuously improve and enhance the drivers, support for this new chipset is provided through the X.org 2.0 Intel driver and the Mesa 6.5.3 releases. These drivers represent significant work by both Intel and the broader open source community."
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by diegocg on Sat 12th May 2007 13:24 UTC in reply to "RE: Go Intel!"
"CPU drivers"? What are you talking about?
I was talking about choosing Intel because that's the one way of getting a "Intel system" with an intel SATA/network/graphics/wireless controller.
With AMD CPUs you're stuck with ati or nvidia. Basically, buying Intel is the one way to get a hardware platform with oipen source drivers. Thats was what I was talking about.


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Latest updates
Paddy Patterson commented on "Image of Wolbachia pipientis":
This image is showing here because the term 'phasmid' refers not only to a group of insects but the viral entities used in molecular biology, or because there are some phasmid names (such as Bacillus) that are also names of bacteria. The indexing system that we use is based on names and is clearly not distinguishing between these meanings of names. We are building tools that will allow editors to re-index the objects, but one option at this time is simply for a curator to hide the object.
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This is not a photo of a phasmid.


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When your job is to crisscross one of the world's most rugged and isolated mountainous areas to collect real-time information about the food security status of people living there, how would you do it in the most efficient way possible?
KATHMANDU - WFP Nepal has introduced Tablet PCs for field monitor staff to help them collect in-depth information about food security across the country, replacing the use of Personal Digital Assistant (PDAs) and satellite phones. This is part of an overall system upgrade of WFP Nepal's real-time information management system called eWIN.
Thirty-five WFP field monitors, who are based in different parts of Nepal, were provided with Tablet PCs in July of this year to help achieve efficient data collection and processing from the field.
By collecting and providing vital real-time information about the food security status of the most vulnerable in the country, WFP field monitors help ensure that these communities receive the right food at the right time. Walking is often the only mode of transport in remote areas of the Himalayas bordering Tibet where they face very difficult conditions, including isolation, adverse weather and altitudes above 4,000 meters. These monitors serve as the backbone of the Nepal Food Security Monitoring System (NeKSAP), the most comprehensive data collection and field surveillance system in Nepal.
During the handing over ceremony, Deputy Country Director Nicolas Oberlin expressed his expectations that the new technology would be "extremely convenient" to work with. "The field monitors work in difficult circumstances and we are pleased to provide them with the best tool to make their work easier," he said.
Work Made Easy With Technology
The tablet PC is a versatile tool that supports pen navigation, enabling the user to write text directly on the screen which can later on be printed. It combines the best features of paper, notebook PCs and PDAs, revolutionizing the way field monitors work -- now it is easier to capture, access and use information wherever the job takes them. The tablets also have GPS, SIM slot, wireless connectivity and multi-media capabilities. It runs on Windows 7 which allows the field monitors to use Microsoft Office applications and e-mails so that they can remain connected with the office while working in some of the remotest parts of the country.
"Over the years, technology and infrastructure have developed rapidly and the system that we were using (PDAs and Satellite phones) was getting obsolete. There was a pressing need to upgrade the entire system," said Mariko Kawabata, Head of the WFP Nepal's Food Security Monitoring and Analysis Unit (FSMAU).
"WFP Nepal has built a unique capacity and experience of collecting and processing real-time information from remote parts of the country. We are confident that the use of the new technology will be instrumental to achieve a greater accuracy, consistency and timeliness of the information collected from the field."
In Nepal, the WFP field monitors have been an unparalleled source of grassroots information on food security. They collect extensive data/information at household and community levels covering a wide range of thematic areas such as socio-economic and agro-ecological contexts, food supplies, markets, livelihoods, coping strategies, nutrition, health, education, etc. The data is then transmitted to a database system in Kathmandu which can be accessed instantly and analyzed by the FSMAU staff in the Country Office.
Inputs from field monitors have been an important source for WFP to identify the most food-insecure population, contributing to the achievement of effective targeting and design of the right type of interventions. Information from them have also been used by various stakeholders including UN agencies, donors and policy makers in designing and monitoring different food security programme and has helped provide early warning in various contexts including natural disasters, food price increases and political instability, facilitating a timely intervention by relevant stakeholders.
"We are all thankful to the country office for providing us this powerful tool, with the best technology to work with. We are encouraged to work even better," said Raju Chhetri, one of the field monitors.


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Tue Jan 08, 2013 11:35 pm
Wed Jan 09, 2013 12:10 am
Wed Jan 09, 2013 12:49 am
Elvisgirl wrote:how is funny?
Wed Jan 09, 2013 1:28 am
Wed Jan 09, 2013 1:33 am
tcb4 wrote:the guy is a excellent pianist but he shouldnt sing .... His voice is breaking in the high notes ... just my opinion
Wed Jan 09, 2013 2:07 pm
Wed Jan 09, 2013 10:48 pm
The Pirate wrote:Elvisgirl wrote:how is funny?
It's funny in a "laughing at the foreigner singing with an accent" kind of way. The fact that if tcb4 attempted to sing the same song in that guys native tongue, it would sound like a strangled goat, is neither here nor there.
Sat Jan 12, 2013 9:35 am
promiseland wrote:His singing makes about as much sense as a piano to lead a song about a guitarist.
Sun Jan 20, 2013 1:46 pm
Elvisgirl wrote:I'm not laughing?
Sun Jan 20, 2013 4:00 pm
tcb4 wrote:hi
Sun Jan 20, 2013 7:31 pm
eligain wrote:promiseland wrote:His singing makes about as much sense as a piano to lead a song about a guitarist.
"He could play a piano like a ringing a bell!"
Actually Chuck has said that the Johnny Be Goode guitar riff came from a piano riff. It is a note for note copy of the opening to Louis Jordan's Ain't That Just Like A Woman:
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Maybe this is the end whose arrival T.S. Eliot ordained would come "not with a bang, but a whimper." Ignore the puffed-up rhetoric. Set aside the dramatics of casting major votes less than 48 hours before a new Congress took the oath of office. The deal that staggered across the president's desk last week was a legislative whimper of the first order.
Where are the tough choices? Where are the sacrifices? Avoiding the immediate consequences of the "fiscal cliff" involved two actions that come naturally to most legislators: not cutting spending and not raising taxes. It was the easy path, and that's precisely why we're in trouble.
Say goodbye to the days when our leaders took a carrot-and-stick approach to important legislation. The stick was nowhere to be seen. For all of the agonizing, antagonizing, and endless negotiations, the bill that the House of Representatives disgorged on Tuesday resembled a big pile of overripe carrots.
Beyond maintaining the lower Bush-era tax rates for most Americans, Congress cleaned out just about every goodie on the shelf in the year-end salvo. They protected doctors from scheduled Medicare cuts, exempted millions of people from the Alternative Minimum Tax, extended research tax credits, renewed wind subsidies, and even found time to qualify algae for the biofuels tax credit. A carrot-fest if there ever was one.
From the beginning Republicans conceded that more revenues should be part of a package addressing fundamental budget problems. They insisted, however, that real spending control be part of the solution as well. Perhaps their mistake was believing President Obama wanted the same thing. He talked a big game, but as soon as Democrats complained about proposed changes to the inflation index for Social Security, even that small spending restraint was tossed out the window.
This latest failure to control spending keeps us fixed upon a dangerous path. The Congressional Budget Office calculates the deal adds $4.6 trillion to our deficits over the next 10 years. By 2016, the total national debt will stand at $20 trillion, up from $10 trillion as recently as 2008. Last week the president stood at the White House podium and said, "We're chipping away at this problem." Who is he trying to kid?
The most logical answer is himself. Nearly alone in Washington, Obama seems to believe that the deal somehow addresses the unprecedented imbalance in the federal budget. In this worldview — let's call it the "pixie dust theory" of the economy — reforming entitlement spending isn't really necessary. Now that the "rich" will be paying their "fair share," everyone will feel better, entrepreneurs will start creating jobs, and trillions of dollars in unfunded costs will magically disappear.
In the Capitol, however, they know a missed opportunity when the see one. Walk the halls today and you'll hear legislators on both sides despair over the growing danger posed by their collective failure to rein in spending. They also understand that the deal has squandered most of the incentives that might have attracted votes for a much bigger, more meaningful deal.
Given the opportunity to act on a much larger deficit-reduction package, Democrats could have explained to supporters that they had to accept some entitlement spending restraints but had won the long-demanded "higher taxes on the rich." Republicans could have justified their concession on taxes with steps made toward real deficit reduction — not the kind that the CBO scores as $4 trillion more in deficits. The president failed to put this ready-made political cover to use. Now, that chance is lost forever.
Congress even delayed the dreaded "sequester," a set of automatic budget cuts, for another two months. That debate will now coincide with action to raise the debt limit yet again — to make that $20 trillion national debt possible. Republicans are sure to push for new spending caps and entitlement reforms cast aside by the White House in the most recent talks. But with the carrot pile gone, they'll be working with nothing but stick.
The president won the political struggle over lines drawn in sand. He reveled in Republicans' acquiescence to higher tax rates, and berated them at a pointless White House cheerleading session slapped together on New Year's Eve. In time, that news conference may stand as the moment when the president embraced the petty, celebrated the hollow, and rejoiced in the whimper. He failed to comprehend the value of the concessions he won. For that we will all pay the price.John E. Sununu, a former Republican senator from New Hampshire, writes regularly for the Globe.


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Shred Reviews Announces Updates and Reviews on Several New 2012 Televisions from Panasonic, Samsung, Sony
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SHRED Editor Holdgren writes funny, crazy commentary on new 2012 high definition TV models with a lighthearted, easy-to-read angle that is enjoyable to read. Some of the new reviews focus on top end models with unusual features such as the Magic Remote from LG and the Smart Interactivity feature included on the top Samsung models which allows users to speak to the TV or use hand movements for control.
As one example, in the Samsung UN55EH6000 Review, Holdgren writes, This is a great HDTV entry level LED for a very attractive price. Its no-frills full 1080p HD for those not wanting to pay up for lots of extras. Foregoing many of the top end optional features on a TV provides a very strong price point. The UN55EH6000 will not disappoint in that area with pricing starting as low as $1300.
I like to create fun-to-read, creative reviews, states Holdgren. If they are not fun, people will get bored and not read much of a review there are plenty of boring product reviews out there. I wanted to do something different.
Some of Holdgren's commentary on the Sony KDL-46EX640 reads like this, The Kdl-46EX640 is designed to provide you with superb clear edge due to the digital noise reduction and lifelike motion assisted by the fast 240hz feature. This gives you less of that jerky motion lag you may have noticed in the past. Its great for fast action and sports!
Features commentary on the Sharp LC-60LE847U is reviewed as followed, Sharps Quattron technology adds that 4th yellow pixel to the traditional RGB which effectively gives you 25% more sub-pixels on a 1080p TV. Thats a fact. Its there to enhance yellow and gold tones that Sharp engineers felt could be improved and the technology is now widely accepted in its 3rd year after adoption.
Lastly, full length commentary on the new for 2012 Panasonic TC-L47E50, So many features in todays TVs are just eyewash, they dont really make much of a difference. But since off center side angle viewing is and has been a problem with LED Televisions for as long as they have been in existence. Panasonic has worked on the problem no doubt because they are generally known as a plasma TV manufacturer and have noted what a detrimental effect contrast and black level loss is on LED TVs.
Shred Reviews and Holdgren review and write commentary about Televisions, Blu-Ray players, Home Theater Surround Sound Systems, Movies, and many other electronics devices. Holdgren has been reviewing these types of devices for over 10 years. Shred Reviews began operations in late 2010 and Holdgren is based in Burbank, CA.
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Bulldogs Honored For Work In Classroom
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Over the last three years, the Yale volleyball team has compiled a very impressive 58-20 (.744) overall record. The Bulldogs have been just as successful in the classroom. On Tuesday, the American Volleyball Coaches Association announced that Yale is among the recipients of the 2009-10 AVCA Team Academic Award. It is the third straight year the Bulldogs have been honored.
Since 1993, the AVCA Team Academic Award has been presented to collegiate and high school volleyball teams that have displayed excellence in the classroom during the school year by maintaining at least a 3.30 cumulative team grade-point average. In 2009-10, 94 Division I schools were recognized and 450 teams overall were recognized.
"There is no better way to gauge the success of a sport than to track the accomplishments of the people who participate," said AVCA Executive Director Kathy DeBoer. "Each of these 450 teams represents 12 to 15 really smart kids. What a great day for the sport of volleyball!"
Yale finished with a 21-4 overall record last fall and was second in the Ivy League with an 11-3 mark.
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LAKE PLACID - The community was packed with Christmas-themed events Dec. 6-8 for the sixth annual Holiday Village Stroll, sponsored by the Lake Placid Business Association, but the number of visitors was lower than expected due to scheduling conflicts with other events in the region.
The Can/Am Hockey tournament packed hotel rooms with hockey families and neighboring villages such as Saranac Lake and Tupper Lake held Christmas events for local residents - factors that probably led to lower attendance, according to LPBA President Lori Fitzgerald.
"We chose a weekend that was crowded with other things," Fitzgerald said, adding that the Stroll is typically held the second weekend of December, and they held it Dec. 6-8 because Dec. 1 was the previous Sunday.
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The event, however, was deemed a success, and the seventh annual Holiday Village Stroll is already on the calendar for Dec. 12-13 in 2014.
"Overall, the experience for the people who came to the Village Stroll was a very, very positive one," Fitzgerald said.
The Saturday evening festivities culminated at 5 p.m. with the arrival of the yule log, a concert with the Lake Placid Middle School choir under the direction of Kim Weems and the Christmas tree-lighting ceremony, emceed by WSLP-FM radio personality Paul Varga.
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Lake Placid Middle School choir, under the direction of Kim Weems, sings a Christmas song during the Holiday Village Stroll Saturday, Dec. 7. (Photo by Andy Flynn)
"As the sun sets on Lake Placid, it is clear to see the holiday Christmas spirit abounds in Lake Placid, and Lake Placid's Holiday Village Stroll really brings out the spirit in local businesses," Varga told the crowd.
The tree-lighting ceremony was sponsored by Dr. David Balestrini's office at Lake Placid Family Dental, which gave out whistles equipped with red lights to show in the dark.
Many children took advantage of the whistles' power to fill the cold, night air with an abundance of of festive noise.
Varga introduced North Elba Supervisor Roby Politi to lead the countdown for the tree-lighting.
"I can't think of a better place to celebrate the wonder of the holiday season than here in our snow-covered two-time Olympic village," Politi said. "Lake Placid is a very magical place. It's also a place of great miracles. And so we hope that some of that magic and some of those miracles rub off on each and every one of you that are visiting our community."
Varga also explained the yule log tradition in Lake Placid, which had been in place from about 1911 to 1980 and was reinstituted in 2011 by the Holiday Village Stroll committee.
"Before we light a piece of that yule log to bring good cheer this year, we have to get rid of the 2012 yule log," Varga said. "We're going to put that on the fire to continue this tradition, and then we're going to cut off a piece of the 2013 yule log to bring good cheer into 2014."
The yule log tradition is centuries old, and it made its debut locally in the early 20th century at the Lake Placid Club, where the search for the yule log was completed on Christmas Eve, according to a story written by Mary Reinman in the Dec. 20, 1979 issue of the Lake Placid News:
"The 'master of merry disports' led the search dressed like a jester in green and red tights with a floppy cap and bugle. In the morning, he and an assistant hid a 6-foot log on the club grounds.
"The first master of merry disports was Godfrey Dewey, and the role was later played by Harry Wade Hicks.
"Later in the day, blowing his bugle and singing carols, he led a group of young people in brightly colored capes to the vicinity where the log was hidden.
"After a short search, the log was dragged behind a horse team back to the clubhouse, usually straddled by courageous children. The log was split on the putting green.
"Following a buffet supper that same evening, the log was lit in the huge flagstone fireplace in the Agora Theater."
This year, Lake Placid's Godfrey Dewey character was played by Glen Cameron, who led a team of students to The Cottage, where they found the yule log nearby. They toted the log with a hand cart and dropped it off at the fire pit at Mid's Park before the tree-lighting ceremony. There, in front of the fire, a piece of the log was cut off and saved for next year.
Holiday decorating contest
During the Dec. 7 ceremony, Varga announced the Retail Window winners for the townwide holiday decorating contest: first, Lake Placid Christmas Company; second, the Bookstore Plus; and third, the Adirondack Trading Company. The rest of the winners were announced at the Sunday night skating show.
The commercial winners will be receiving plaques for display at their locations. Winners in the other commercial categories were:
*Best of Show: Whiteface Lodge
*Olympic Theme: Mirror Lake Inn
*Civic/Churches: Pilgrim Holiness Church
*Resorts: tie between the High Peaks Resort and Golden Arrow Resort
*B&B: Stage Coach Inn
*Hotel/Motel/Inn: Adirondack Inn with an honorable mention to the Placid Bay Inn
*Best New Display: Antediluvian Antiques & Curiosities
*Commercial: Lake Placid Family Dental with honorable mention to Mykonos and the Lake Placid Flower & Gift Shop
Residential winners
*Classic Elegance: Andy and Carol Perkins (McKinley and School streets)
*Children's Delight: Bonnie Fitzjames and Eric Lincoln (Liberty Hill) with an honorable mention to Carol Mikalonis and Jean Mitchell (Mill Pond)
*Olympic Theme: Kathy Johnson (121 Averyville Road)
*Most Creative: tie between Randy Patterson (19 Summer St.) and Larry and Nancy Master
*Jewel Box: May/Gonzales (22 Greenwood) with an honorable mention to Paul Ellsworth (24 Fawn Ridge)
*Gingerbread House: Angie and Charlie Huffman (Old Military Road) with an honorable mention to Brad and Sheila Preston (Mill Pond Drive)


text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - teachers: need help w/ photography project! Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in teachers: need help w/ photography project! Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Australia/New Zealand View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message kennylooJoined: 08 May 2006Posts: 8 Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 1:41 pm Post subject: teachers: need help w/ photography project! Is anyone interested in receiving disposable cameras to distribute to some of your students, allowing them to take pictures, and then sending back the cameras to me(I can pay for postage)??? I have just received $10,000 from the Donald A Strauss Scholarship Foundation, to implement my own public-service project. Basically, I want to distribute cameras around the world to local youth, and have them capture the essence of their experiences through the lens of a camera. Have those cameras sent back to me, and use those images to create an international photo gallery that will travel to local schools around Orange County, California. My project seeks to humanize the vast global experience while empowering American youth to think critically about todays international issues. If you are at all interested in playing a crucial role in this project, please e-mail me at [email protected], and I can send you more details about my project! Thank you so much! Sincerely, Kenny Back to top ls650Joined: 10 May 2003Posts: 3484Location: British Columbia Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 3:42 pm Post subject: Sounds like a great idea. I'll PM you... Back to top grwitJoined: 20 Apr 2006Posts: 329Location: Dagobah Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 12:35 pm Post subject: Kennyloo I'm living in China at the moment teaching college students (aged 18 - 25) your idea sounds interesting. Couple of questions? 1. How many cameras are we talking about? 2. How long do we have to take the photos and send the cameras back? I'm not sure if your cameras will even make it to me without the address written in chinese. Sorry I cannot help you out with that one because I can't read or write chinese either. But I could send you the address of my college. I will ask some of my students to see if they are interested. Or I could just simply send you some interesting photos with my digital camera and email them to you. I'm not exactly a youth though at 30 yrs old. Maybe I could loan my digital camera to some trustworthy students to help with your idea. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Australia/New Zealand All times are GMT Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Where to Begin----------------General DiscussionNewbie ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumOnline Teaching Forum Africa Forums----------------General Africa Forum Asia Forums----------------CambodiaChina (Job-related Posts Only)China (Off-Topic)Hong KongIndiaIndonesiaJapanMalaysiaPhilippinesSingaporeTaiwanThailandGeneral Asia ForumVietnam Caribbean Forums----------------General Caribbean Forum Europe Forums----------------Czech RepublicFranceGermanyGreeceItalyMacedonia and the BalkansPolandRomaniaRussia & C.I.S.SpainTurkeyUkraineUnited KingdomGeneral Europe Forum Latin America Forums----------------ArgentinaBrazilChileColombiaCosta RicaMexicoMexico (off-topic)PeruGeneral Latin America Forum The Middle East Forums----------------BahrainEgyptIsraelKuwaitOmanQatarSaudi ArabiaUnited Arab EmiratesGeneral Middle East Forum North America Forums----------------General North America Forum Oceania----------------Australia/New Zealand You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Contact Dave's ESL Cafe Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved. Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group Teaching Jobs in China


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The billowing political issue of plastic bags comes Hood River City Council's direction when it meets Monday starting at 6 p.m.
The council will hear a request from David Skakel, solid waste specialist of the Tri-County Hazardous Waste and Recycling Program, to support SB 536 which prohibits the use of single-use plastic checkout bags in Oregon. Under the bill, retailers would have to charge a 5-cent deposit on paper bags.
The council meeting will be the second one this week. The council met in special session Monday at noon to deal with the necessary steps in the $28-million water line project.
The council approved a $12,219,570 bid to low bidder Moore Excavation for phase two of the project, set to start as early as mid-March. In phase two, another 12 miles will be replaced, in two sections north of Dee, as well as an upgrade to the reservoir at Dee and a seismic upgrade for the 15 miles of line.
The $3.5-million phase one of the project, replacing three miles of line, started in April 2010 and is scheduled to be completed in March.
Also on Monday's agenda:
Fire Chief Devon Wells will report on the 2010 SAFER Grant received by the city. "SAFER" stands for Staffing Adequate Fire and Emergency Response. The SAFER Grant is a federal grant administered by the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency.
In the 7 p.m. regular session, the council will consider an approval to go out to bid for fire station renovations, a bond-funded project approved by voters in 2009.
Also on the work session agenda, the council will consider an agreement with PacifiCorp for the Indian Creek Lift Station Project; the city needs to acquire a permanent easement for locating the lift station on PacifiCorp property and a temporary construction easement for constructing the lift station and stockpiling materials on the property.
This project is part of the city's capital improvement plan and is needed to be completed to accept the additional flows that are a result of the county's Windmaster sewer project.
According to City Manager Bob Francis, the project is also necessary to reduce the risk of sewage flowing into the Indian Creek from the main line that is currently located along Indian Creek Trail.
The council will also consider extension of the city's franchise agreement between the city and Charter Communications (Falcon Cablevision), which is due to expire March 16.
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PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Department of Health (HEALTH) is recommending pertussis vaccinations in Coventry after the HEALTH Laboratory confirmed a total of four pertussis (also known as "whooping cough") cases in that community. HEALTH recommends that individuals see their primary care physician to be immunized, or be immunized at the community vaccination clinic scheduled for tomorrow, January 19, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Coventry High School at 40 Reservoir Road in Coventry. This clinic will offer pertussis (Tdap), influenza, and pneumonia vaccinations.
Three pertussis cases have been confirmed by HEALTH in students who attend the Alan Shawn Feinstein Middle School in Coventry and one case has been confirmed in a student who attends Tiogue Elementary School.
"The best protection against pertussis and influenza is vaccination," said Michael Fine, M.D., director of HEALTH. "Any child who is not up to date on his or her pertussis vaccination should be vaccinated, and we encourage all unvaccinated adults to get a Tdap vaccine as well."
Based on recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), HEALTH encourages anyone age 10 or older who has not previously received a Tdap vaccine and lives in Coventry to get vaccinated. It is especially important for the following individuals to be vaccinated:
-Coventry students ages 10 and older who need to receive Tdap (This will meet the Grade 7 vaccination requirement) -Pregnant women and anyone in their household (Pregnant women should be at least 20 weeks into the gestation period) -Anyone in close contact with or caring for an infant less than one year old -Anyone with a weakened immune system or other chronic disease (such as asthma, heart disease, diabetes, etc.) and anyone in their household -Professionals, including school staff, daycare workers, and healthcare workers -All adults, including those ages 65 and older
Individuals may receive all three of the vaccinations offered during one clinic visit.
Those who have health insurance should bring their health insurance card to the clinic. Those who are uninsured will be vaccinated at no cost to the individual.
Children less than 10 years old who are not up to date in their five-dose series of DTaP should be vaccinated at their healthcare provider's office.
HEALTH staff have worked closely with school officials to identify symptomatic students, identify close contacts at home and at school who may need antibiotic prophylaxis, assess student immunization coverage rates, and consult with the CDC on recommended next steps. Advisories have been sent to all licensed providers statewide and monitoring is ongoing.
Pertussis typically begins with cold symptoms and a cough, which becomes much worse over one to two weeks. Symptoms of pertussis include cough lasting more than two weeks, a long series of coughs that may be accompanied by a whooping sound (although not all patients make the whooping sound), short periods without breathing, turning blue, difficulty catching the breath, and gagging or vomiting after coughing spells. Fever may also be present. The cough is often worse at night and is not alleviated by cough medicines.
Infants less than one year of age, especially those less than six months old, are most likely to experience severe pertussis illness. Young infants should be kept away from anyone with a cough, and infants with a cough illness should be seen by a doctor right away.
Caused by a bacterial infection of the lungs, pertussis is highly contagious and vaccine-preventable. Those with suspected or confirmed diagnoses of pertussis should stay out of work, school, or childcare until they have been on antibiotics for at least five days.


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Over the course of two centuries, the Ballona Wetlands have, more or less, survived grazing cattle, Howard Hughes and Marina del Rey. Now, nearly a decade after the state acquired the 640 acres of the Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve that stretch from Westchester to the marina, the cherished preserve may finally be getting the substantial restoration it needs and deserves. The Annenberg Foundation has agreed to put up at least $50 million to build an interpretive center in the wetlands and help with the restoration of the land around the center. The agreement is laid out in a memorandum of understanding among the California Department of Fish and Wildlife — which controls the wetlands — the state's Coastal Conservancy, the Santa Monica Bay Restoration Commission and Annenberg. The state is in the early stages of an environmental review of the restoration plans for the wetlands.
As with many preservation projects, passionate advocates disagree deeply on how best to map out the future: An interpretive center or no interpretive center? If yes, should it be located on the edge of the preserve or outside the preserve? Should the fragile wetlands be repaired by hand or by machine? Preservationists don't even agree on just how degraded the wetlands are. Some stalwart defenders of the wetlands, including the nonprofit Ballona Institute, see Annenberg's plans as an effort to manicure a historic marshland into another pretty Westside park and, in the process, destabilize or possibly destroy its delicate ecosystem.


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When it came time to select a new boys basketball coach at Whitmer High School to replace Bruce Smith, athletic director Tom Snook said the school followed the formula it used last year for football.
Whitmer stayed in house, choosing assistant coach Ryan Brown, who served the past three seasons with the varsity team under Smith.
For Brown, 37, this will be his first head coaching post, pending approval May 15 from the Washington Local Schools board of education.
"I'm obviously very excited," Brown said. "We've had a great few years, we've got some great talent here still, and I think we've got some great younger talent coming up.
"We want to stay on the same track that we've been on. We want to compete every year for a [Three Rivers Athletic Conference] championship and, more importantly, for district and regional titles, and the opportunity for a state championship."
An optimistic Snook compared the selection to Whitmer's choice of Jerry Bell, who succeeded Joe Palka as the Panthers' head football coach. In Bell's first season last fall, Whitmer went 14-1 and finished as Division I state runner-up, the best season in school history.
Whitmer will return four players from its 2012-13 basketball varsity, which posted an 18-6 overall record (12-2 TRAC), but included in the graduation void will be Wisconsin-bound All-Ohioan Nigel Hayes, and All-TRAC guard Ricardo Smith, who will play at Findlay.
"Guys like that aren't replaceable," Brown said. "We don't have any players in our program like that right now.
"But we're two weeks in [to offseason workouts], and every kid has been at every weight-training session we've had. We're going to put the time in, and we're going to work hard."
Brown, a 1995 Start High School graduate, earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Toledo. He has taught physical education at Whitmer for the past 11 years, and been been coaching basketball since entering college.
He began as an assistant under his brother, Bob Brown, as the junior varsity girls coach at Start. His coaching trek has also included boys basketball stops at St. Francis de Sales, Central Catholic, a previous season under Smith at Whitmer, and two seasons as the JV coach under Ed Heintschel at St. John's Jesuit (2008-10).
He was part of the Titans' program that advanced to the Division I state semifinals in 2009, and Whitmer's run to the D-I title game under Smith in 2012.
"I didn't get to do as much under Ed, because I was the JV coach, but I was with them enough," Brown said. "Being a varsity assistant under Bruce gave me a lot more opportunity to learn.
"I've had the opportunity to be around successful programs. That's going to help me. I've also been in situations where we weren't successful. I've been able to take different things from different coaches and see what works and what doesn't work."
Following the season, coach Smith retired from his Whitmer basketball position after 22 seasons (306-165 record). He was 359-202 overall as a head coach, including his previous time as head coach at Delta. Smith will also be retiring from Washington Local as a teacher following this school year.
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It was Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012, a day that proved to be one of the most disappointing of Bryan Gaul's life.
Gaul, who had dreamed of being a professional soccer player since he was 10, had not been taken in this year's MLS SuperDraft. Scouting combine interest from the Montreal Impact, Real Salt Lake and Chicago Fire did not pan out, nor did a heads-up from his then-agent that he would be selected late in the second round. Gaul understandably was crushed.
Five days later, however, his fortunes underwent a complete transformation when Gaul was taken with the final pick in the first round of the Supplemental Draft by the defending MLS Cup champion LA Galaxy.
"At that point it was like everything happens for a reason," Gaul said. "Getting picked up by them, getting a call from (Galaxy associate head coach) Dave Sarachan saying they wanted to draft me. It was the greatest feeling ever.
"I called everyone and texted everyone. It was an awesome day."
What has transpired since then hasn't been bad, either. Capable of playing in central defense, as well as at left back, the rookie has made 15 appearances with the first team in all competitions, including eight starts. He made his debut in a 2-0 loss to Seattle on May 2 – playing the full 90 minutes at left back – and earned his first assist as a professional in a 3-1 victory over Chivas USA on July 21.
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Head coach Bruce Arena agreed the Illinois native has been a pleasant surprise.
"We've been looking for center backs and left backs," Arena said of the 6-foot-5, 200-pounder who actually played up front the last two years at tiny Bradley University in Peoria, Ill., and in 2011 finished his college career second in the Missouri Valley Conference in scoring with 11 goals and 4 assists. "He had a little bit of a promising profile with his size and his feet were good.
"In college he played a lot at forward, and we knew it would be a little bit of a challenge to get him acclimated to this and he's done a pretty good job. I think he's got a good future with the right kind of attitude and mentality. He can become a good left back or center back in the league."
Gaul, who turned 23 on Aug. 10, said nerves never have been a problem this season, thanks to advice from the likes of Landon Donovan, A.J. DeLaGarza and Todd Dunivant. When he arrived at training camp, he knew what had to be done and how to do it.
"Honestly I wasn't nervous," he said. "I wanted to show why I thought I deserved to be drafted in the SuperDraft. I always came out with a chip on my shoulder, thinking I need to prove myself, that every day is a grind.
"I remember when I made my debut I was just ready."
His comfort level increased as well.
"I feel really comfortable, honestly," he said. "As I continue to play left back, now that I'm solidified in that exact position, it's been an easy transition. I'm getting it more defensively.
"I think that was the biggest struggle at the beginning of the season; I didn't necessarily know exactly what to do defensively. But it's coming along and it's a lot easier now."
DeLaGarza, for one, has been impressed.
"He's gotten a little bit more physical, he's a great passer of the ball, he's good with the ball at his feet. It's fun to watch him,"
DeLaGarza said. "I can't say anything wrong about him."


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We haven't heard much from Blizzard's own entry into the Dota clone arena, Blizzard All-Stars, since the developer settled/lost its trademark dispute with Valve, but fear not, "it's still actively being worked on." That's the word from StarCraft 2 production director Chris Sigaty, who says it's held up while Blizzard works on bits for its business model. While Blizzard still won't formally confirm it'll be free-to-play, it's looking awfully likely.
"A lot of the stuff that's remaining right now that we need to focus on are the systems necessary to pull off a game with a different business model than StarCraft 2," Sigaty told Eurogamer.
"StarCraft 2 is a box. We intend to do something different with the business model in Blizzard All-Stars, something more closely resembling the other types of games in that genre, the MOBA-style games that are out there today, and being able to sell smaller amounts of things to players, the things they want."
The standard MOBA model is a free-to-play game which makes money from selling character unlocks and cosmetic pretties like skins and hats, as seen in Dota 2, League of Legends, and heaps more. Blizzard All-Stars was originally planned as a free custom game mode for SC2, but plans have grown as time wore on.
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Unequal treatment: The bishops' uneven responses on racism and sexuality speak volumes
If we need proof that the unequal treatment of the races in the United States is still an insoluble problem—49 years after the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, a century and a half after the adoption of the 13th and 14th Amendments—all we need do is look at how the races see the Trayvon Martin verdict. As our president said, "When you think about why, in the African American community at least, there's a lot of pain around what happened here, I think it's important to recognize that the African American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a—and a history that—that doesn't go away."
It is easy to know where the Lord would have stood on a question of racial inequality. He directly took on one of the most racially sensitive questions of his time in the parable of the Good Samaritan. Recall that the hatred of Jews for Samaritans and of Samaritans for Jews was of historic proportions when the Lord walked the earth. Yet, when pressed for an example of who was that neighbor whom we must love as we love ourselves, the example he gave to his Jewish audience was, not a Jew—the priest and the Levite walked on by—but a Samaritan.
When our Supreme Court issued a judgment that will allow racism in our land to endure and fester in their decision striking down the Voting Rights Act of 1965, those who would speak for the Lord in the United States, our American Catholic bishops, were almost inaudible. Yes, they issued a pro-forma statement against the decision, all of one paragraph long, but like throwing a pebble into the ocean, the ripples faded under the waves.
Our bishops are capable of making waves when they want to. When the very next day after the Voting Rights Act decision the U.S. Supreme Court declared the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional, the bishops were front and center. Their statement condemning that decision was five paragraphs long, and the bishops, not content with just a statement, were on national TV and in the national press lamenting the destruction of western civilization. Add to this the fact that the bishops were exercised enough about the DOMA case to file a friend of the court brief urging that DOMA be upheld while doing nothing to support the legal arguments in favor of maintaining the Voting Rights Act.
What is more important to them—defeating racism or insisting that civil law match the church's sexual teachings? They are convicted by their own words. In their excellent document, Faithful Citizenship, they put racism on the spectrum of intrinsic evil along with abortion. As they say, "A Catholic cannot vote for a candidate who takes a position in favor of an intrinsic evil, such as abortion or racism, if the voter's intent is to support that position. In such cases a Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in grave evil." Both are abhorrent, unacceptable evils. But when words come down to deeds, the bishops' deeds clearly imply that same-sex civil marriage is a greater evil than the intrinsic evil of racism, that sexual ethics are more important than social justice.
This was a terrible lost opportunity for our bishops. Our church teaches some things on sexual ethics that modern society finds very hard to accept: every sexual act outside of marriage is immoral; every marital sexual act must be open to new life; same-sex sexual activity is intrinsically disordered. Each of these has a long foundation in the church's teachings, but the current age actively challenges these teachings. The culture has become distant from and hostile to the sexual teachings of the church, either considering them irrelevant or judging them biased. And increasingly, the tendency of some of our bishops to be "culture warriors," to attack the culture for its rejection of the church's sexual ethics, is making our church into a Johnny One Note. The pelvic issues predominate the public perception of our church.
But this need not be the case. Cardinal John O'Connor of New York never wavered from faithfully teaching the church's sexual ethics, yet when the AIDS crisis struck in his archdiocese, he saw to it that hospices were opened for AIDS sufferers, going himself regularly to tend to victims, bathing and feeding them, at a time when the larger society was treating them as lepers. As a result, when the cardinal preached the church's sexual ethics it was in the context of his concern for the victims of the worst sexual plague to strike our country, and so what he said was much more credible. He saw clearly that the church was not just a collection of rules on sexual conduct but the living body of Christ which had an obligation to tend to the poor and weakest among us. The latter gave a context and a credibility to the former.
There is a richness in the church's social justice teachings that gives a context to its sexual ethics. Pope Francis clearly recognizes this fact. Indeed, in his first four months as the bishop of Rome he has come back time and time again to themes of social justice, to solidarity with the poorest of the poor. It is in this context that the church acts most like Christ, and hence, is most credible.
Imagine if our bishops had resisted the Voting Rights decision as loudly as they did the same-sex marriage decision of the Supreme Court; if they emphasized social justice as they much as they did sexual ethics. Surely our bishops know that racism is a rampant an evil in our country and that it gravely offends against the church's teachings. Racism tramples personal dignity, from entrapping generations in cycles of poverty and crime to devaluing their right to vote. Make no mistake about this. Despite the "voter fraud" language (fraud that has yet to be established on anything like a scale that matches the legislative response), the true purpose of voter id laws is to depress voter turn-out, especially minority voter turn-out.
How creative of the conditions for social justice and equality is a voting law that basically tells one group of persons that their vote is not as important as the votes of others, that our democracy is weighted against them and those like them? Think of the damage that such an attitude wreaks on its targets. The rush to pass restrictive voter id laws after the Supreme Court's Voting Rights decision sends a clear message, not of value, but of devalue, to the Trayvon Martins of our country.
Our bishops need to do a rethink. If they want the world to hear what they teach about sexual ethics, it must be in the context of a church that values social justice, and speaks out about social justice above all; a church which, like Pope Francis says, "is poor and for the poor."
Francis is not a radical in his theology. He, too, when he gets around to it, will be preaching the same demanding sexual ethical teachings. But when he does so, it will be much more acceptable and understandable, because it will be clear that he is doing so out of a true sense of concern for and solidarity with those who suffer, and not as a culture warrior interested in power more than anything else.
This guest blog post reflects the opinions of the author and does not necessarily represent the position of U.S. Catholic, its editors, or the Claretians.
If you are interested in reading more about both the Voting Rights and Trayvon Martin cases, see U.S. Catholic's commentary:
A closer look at the Voting Rights Act by Kira Dault
The Voting Rights Act, revisited by Kira Dault
U.S. bishops (finally) take a stand in favor of voting rights by Scott Alessi
A surprising moment of faith emerges at the George Zimmerman trial by Scott Alessi
When profiling is "reasonable," injustice becomes excusable by Fr. Bryan Massingale
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SCYSL is offering a Grade 8 referee course this summer. The class will meet at the Santa Clara Youth Soccer Park located at 5409 Centennial Boulevard on the following dates:
Mon, Jul 15 - 6-9pm
Wed, Jul 17 - 6-9pm
Thurs, Jul 18 - 6-9pm
Mon, Jul 22 - 6-9pm
Wed, Jul 24 - 6-9pm
Tues, Jul 30 - 6-9pm Review/Final Exam/Badge
Sat-Sun Aug 24-25 Jamboree Scrimmage games for Entry Level
Students/Referees (location TBD )
How to Registrer for the Referee Course
1. Follow this link to register online
Step 1 - Use your existing Active Networks account or Create a New Account
Step 2 - Register as Adult or non-player
2. Course fee $25 + $2 prosessing fee- pay by credit card or by check (If paying by check, please make check payable to "SCYSL" and mail to SCYSL, PO Box 2014, Santa Clara, California, 95055-2014. The $25 referee license fee will be refunded by the league to referees who successfully complete all required training (the course and all requirements) AND work five(5) games for SCYSL in the subsequent Fall season. We especially encourage those who are under 18 years old to take the Mentor Training with one of your parents and to officiate some games with them.
3. Before you take the exam, you will also need to bring a separate check for each attendee for $45 payable to "CNRA". This covers your annual registration with the USSF. Please bring it to the first class session. If you do not pass the exam at the end of the class, this check will be returned to you.
We will also need the following information for each attendee:
Name: __________________________________________
Address: __________________________________________
Your E-mail: _______________________________________
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Phone: _H__________________Cell____________________
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Some of the above information needs is required for your USSF registration and is kept confidential.
Attendance will be taken at all sessions. In addition to the 6 classes that are set aside for USSF Instructor presentations of the Laws of the Game, we have scheduled a field clinic on August 12. This session will focus on taking the theory from the class and applying it in the real world – out on the field. The goal of our new training format is to send new referees to their first league games as JOB READY as possible.
In addition, on August 25th-26th, there are two Jamboree training dates where you will officiate in Mentor-supervised scrimmage games prior to the start of the Fall Season. Dates will be announced, and this is part of the required training. Attendance at these additional sessions is mandatory for students wishing to officiate games for SCYSL, but students who do not intend to officiate with us do not have to attend the additional sessions. Because these sessions are required (for SCYSL referees), I must receive advance notice of any attendance scheduling conflicts as we have a firm policy of 'make-up' sessions planned for such contingencies.
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Archaeology on British Columbia's coast is never dull. In this instance, the group is following Duncan McLaren, a University of Victoria (UVic) archaeologist preoccupied with the past of this remote and soggy place, costly to reach and formidable to researchers used to milder landscapes. But it's also a rich place, where the buried past presses close to the surface, evidence of a people's home since the end of the last glacial period over 11,000 calendar years ago.
The discipline of archaeology has traditionally viewed the islands and fjords of the Central Coast as a corridor to somewhere else, imagining it as the route out of Asia to the Americas, speeding travelers on their way to what would become California, Texas, and southern Chile—a faceless service area on the turnpike heading south.
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Lee helps Phillies beat Twins, snap 5-game skid
By BY ADAM CZECH
Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- After just missing a diving catch, nothing
was going to stop Ben Revere from scoring the go-ahead run one
inning later.
Not former teammate Justin Morneau. Not Joe Mauer. Not
third-base coach Ryne Sandberg
Cliff Lee allowed two runs in seven strong innings, Revere had
four hits and scored the decisive run, and the Philadelphia
Phillies rallied to beat the Minnesota Twins 3-2 on Thursday
night and snap a five-game losing streak.
The speedy Revere slid home under catcher Mauer's tag with
nobody out in the eighth, scoring from third base on Jimmy
Rollins' chopper. Morneau was playing in at first base, but his
throw was too late to catch Revere - formerly of the Twins.
"I'm just going on contact, no matter what," Revere said.
"Actually, Sandberg was like, `On a swinging bunt, don't go.' I
was like, `I'm going. I don't care, I'm going.' He said all
"Luckily, Jimmy put it in the right spot and I could score."
Lee (8-2) gave up only one hit and faced the minimum number of
batters through 6 1-3 innings before Mauer walked and Ryan
Doumit reached on an infield hit.
Morneau lined a two-run double past a diving Revere to give
Minnesota a 2-1 lead in the seventh.
"Perfect placement. I was ticked, I was so ticked," said Revere,
who reached on a bunt in the eighth. "That eighth inning was
good to get that victory because Lee pitched his tail off."
Pinch-hitter Kevin Frandsen opened the eighth with a double
against reliever Jared Burton (0-4) and scored the tying run on
Michael Young's single.
"It snowballed quick there, but I kept making pitches, limited
the damage. That's all I could do at that point," Burton said.
After surrendering a four-run lead in a loss to Milwaukee last
Friday, Lee was locked in and performed well again following a
In eight starts this season after a Phillies defeat, Lee is 7-1
with a 2.54 ERA.
The Phillies needed Lee to be as sharp as he was because even
though they had 16 hits, they stranded 16 runners - including 10
in the first five innings against Kevin Correia.
"That was frustrating losing the lead," said Lee, who might have
pitched longer if not for a blister on his middle finger. "All
game it seemed like we had a ton of hits, but somehow never
scored. We scored when we needed to."
Mike Adams pitched a perfect eighth, and Jonathan Papelbon
worked the ninth for his 12th save.
The Phillies bullpen had given up late leads in the first two
games of this series and entered the game with a 4.56 ERA -
third worst in baseball.
In contrast, the Twins bullpen had a 1.78 ERA in its previous 18
games before Burton allowed the first four runners to reach in
the eighth.
Correia allowed one run and eight hits, and struck out six in
five innings. It wasn't as pretty as Lee's performance, but
nearly as effective.
"I felt like he was out there for three minutes an inning and I
was out there for 30 minutes an inning," Correia said.
Ryan Howard had three singles - all grounders through a Twins'
defense shifted to the right side - and an RBI.
Young tried to score on Howard's third single in the sixth, but
was thrown out by Doumit.
Mauer had the only other Twins hit, a single in the fourth.
At the end of the night, it was Revere who did the most to
change the game's momentum one last time.
"Best game I've seen him play so far," Phillies manager Charlie
Manuel said. "Without a doubt. It's the best he's hit the ball.
It's the best he's run. His speed definitely played a factor in
the game."
NOTES: Philadelphia optioned rookie right-hander Tyler Cloyd to
Triple-A Lehigh Valley to make room in the rotation for John
Lannan, who is returning from a strained quadriceps tendon in
his left knee. He will start Monday at Washington. The Phillies
also recalled infielder Michael Martinez and left-hander Jake
Diekman. ... New Minnesota Gophers men's basketball coach
Richard Pitino threw out the first pitch. ... Twins manager Ron
Gardenhire on former closer Eddie Guardado, who will be inducted
into the team's hall of fame on Friday: "He was an everyday guy.
He really did take the ball it seemed like every day. Any time
you needed him to take the ball, he did it." ... Scott Diamond
(4-5, 5.19 ERA) will start the series opener for the Twins
against Detroit's Rick Porcello (3-3, 4.86 ERA) on Friday at
Target Field. ... Kyle Kendrick (6-4, 3.22 ERA) starts Friday
when the Phillies travel to Colorado and open a three-game
series against the Rockies and Juan Nicasio (4-2, 4.61 ERA).