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For a fisher, earthworms are bait.
For a forest, they mean complete alteration of the forest floor environment, a loss of biodiversity and increased drought susceptibility.
"When we talk about the creatures that inhabit the world, some creatures have a disproportionate impact," says Evan Larson '02, an assistant professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. "These ecosystem engineers literally engineer the environment in which they live."
As a specialist in dendrochronology, Larson analyzed tree rings to determine when the earthworms arrived at sites in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin.
On Feb. 26, Larson shared his research with the Willamette community in a lecture titled, "Invasive Earthworms as Ecosystem Engineers: Using Tree Rings to Track Earthworm Impacts on Forests in the Great Lakes Region of North America."
During his visit to Willamette, Larson also interacted with an environmental science class, both in the lab and at Zena forest.
Stevie Gildehaus '13 valued the opportunity to learn from Larson, who helped her with the research for her environmental science thesis.
"He's been helping me with analysis, to determine what's affecting our tree rings at Zena forest," Gildehaus says. "Picking up the signals in the tree rings is really difficult, and it is fascinating to see how connected everything is."
In addition to his innovative work tracking earthworm invasions, Larson runs a tree ring lab at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville — using tree rings to reconstruct past disturbances to forests, such as fire, climate change and human activity.
Larson says he got hooked on dendrochronology as an undergraduate in Willamette's Science Collaborative Research Program (SCRP), under the mentorship of environmental science professor Karen Arabas.
"My SCRP experience is absolutely why I am where I am right now," Larson says. "The project that I was involved with laid the foundation for my career, it gave me the skills that I now use daily in my own research program and it connected me to the importance of research experience as an undergraduate student.
"Willamette is a wonderful place, so I'm glad I could come back and contribute to the culture that makes it great."
Larson's visit was sponsored by the Department of Environmental and Earth Sciences and an Atkinson research grant.


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A Restorative Justice Conference brings victims, an offender, and their respective families and supporters together with a trained facilitator to discuss the offense and its effects. The focus of a Conference is the offense itself and repairing the harm that has been done. A primary goal of this process is to have the offender take responsibility for his / her actions. The conference addresses the needs of victims and allows their voices to be heard while helping to bring closure to the incident.
Restorative Projects have been implemented for juvenile offenders at each facility as a means for youth to repair the harm they have caused to victims, communities and their families to assist with youth accountability and community safety. Another component of Restorative Justice that has been implemented at each facility is Restorative Justice Conferencing with victims, family members and others. Victim impact groups and community service projects are a major component of our treatment programs and restorative justice tenet.

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Ryu perfect through 4 in Dodgers' win over Angels
- Article by: JOE RESNICK
- Associated Press
- March 29, 2013 - 12:50 AM
ANAHEIM, Calif. - Hyun-Jin Ryu signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers on the same day Joe Blanton joined the Angels. They hooked up against each other Thursday night in the opener of the preseason Freeway Series, and neither gave an inch.
Ryu retired all 12 batters he faced in his final spring training start, combining with six relievers on a two-hitter, and the Dodgers beat the Angels 3-0 in the first of three straight exhibition games between the teams leading up to opening day.
Ryu, a 25-year-old left-hander from South Korea, agreed to a $36 million, six-year contract with the Dodgers after they bid $25.7 million to win exclusive rights to negotiate with him. He will become the first player to go directly from the Korean league to the major leagues when he makes his big league debut next week against the World Series champion San Francisco Giants.
"He's very poised, very confident, and obviously he's got good stuff," Dodgers pitching coach Rick Honeycutt said. "Each outing seems to be sharper and sharper, which is what you want going into the season. His last three or four outings can't be much sharper than what it's been. His fastball command has been there, and the velocity is starting to creep up with it, so it's a good combination. His breaking stuff is definitely improving, and the changeup is also there, so that's got to be in the back of your mind, too."
Ryu was 2-2 during the exhibition schedule with a 3.29 ERA in six starts and one relief appearance. Last Saturday, he held the Chicago White Sox to one hit over seven innings in a 10-4 victory while retiring 17 of his last 18 batters.
"He's kind of been as advertised to this point," manager Don Mattingly said. "He's been pretty good and he's had a really nice spring. He pitches quick and does everything you want him to do. So as we keep moving forward, I think everybody's pretty confident this guy knows what he's doing and he's ready to go."
The Angels didn't get their first baserunner until Alberto Callaspo greeted Matt Guerrier with a single leading off the sixth. Callaspo was stranded at second after winning pitcher Ronald Belisario retired Erick Aybar on a grounder.
The Angels' only other hit was a two-out single in the eighth by J.B. Shuck against Kenley Jansen. Brandon League pitched a perfect ninth for the save.
Blanton scattered five hits over six scoreless innings and struck out four against his ex-teammates. The right-hander, who signed a $15 million, two-year deal with the Angels as a free agent, was 2-4 with a 4.99 ERA in 10 starts for the Dodgers last season after they acquired him in a trade from Philadelphia on Aug. 3.
"I think Joe had an incredible spring, and he's where he needs to be in the fact that he got deep into the game," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "He did everything you could ask of a guy, the way he performed this spring, and we're starting to see how it's going to translate once he gets into the regular season. Hopefully, he'll be big for us."
The Dodgers broke through in the seventh against losing pitcher Mark Lowe after second baseman Howie Kendrick misplayed a tailor-made double-play grounder by Scott Van Slyke and had to settle for the out at first. One out later, Tim Federowicz singled home Uribe.
The Dodgers tacked on two more in the eighth against Austin Wood after Mark Ellis led off with a single. Matt Kemp drove him in with a triple down the right-field line and past a diving Shuck, and Andre Ethier followed with a sacrifice fly.
Due to Major League Baseball's realignment, which has shifted the Houston Astros to the AL after 51 seasons in the NL — thus giving each league 15 teams — the Dodgers will have only four interleague games against the Angels per season instead of six. They will all be played consecutively from May 27-30, the first two at Dodger Stadium.
NOTES: Tommy Lasorda, who just can't get managing out of his system at age 85, piloted a split squad of Dodgers in a 4-3 loss to their Class-A Rancho Cucamonga affiliate, which dedicated their clubhouse in his name. ... According to Forbes Magazine, the Dodgers have the second-highest value in Major League Baseball at $1.62 billion, and the Angels are ninth at $718 million. ... The Angels unveiled their new press box, which has been relocated from behind home plate to the right field club level. The objective was to build luxury suites where the media used to sit, creating more revenue for an organization whose opening-day payroll was reduced from $160 million to $148.5 million after OF Vernon Wells was traded to the injury-ravaged New York Yankees on Tuesday.
© 2018 Star Tribune


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Rolando McClain has revealed he was so angry before he walked away from NFL that he thought he was going to do something that he would regret.
After being released by the Oakland Raiders and then signing with the Baltimore Ravens, McClain retired from the game at just 23-years-old.
The star had struggled with problems in his personal life and has revealed that he wanted to kill somebody whilst in the game.
In an interview with ESPN The Magazine, McClain said: "I felt like Aaron Hernandez, like I just wanted to kill somebody."
A number of reports had shown serious problems within his personal life, for example the star was involved in a shooting in 2011 and was again arrested in 2013 for driving offences.
And he insisted that he had to leave the game, as he continued by saying: "would have ended up locked in a cage like an animal. That had to be the only outcome."
However, he could still make a return to the game in the near future, but has revealed he's unsure whether he's ready to attend therapy.
He finished by saying: "I don't know if I'm ready to know, man, why I was so angry,"
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A parameterized constructor that accepts a filename as a String argument. Your constructor will open the file. If there is a problem opening the file, the constructor will throw the appropriate exception back to the calling routine.
Here is what i have so far, and i am wondering if this is the correct way to go about it?
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Barbie is best known for her curvy figure and long blond hair — but Mattel plans to produce a doll that's a dramatic departure from that classic image.
This Barbie will be bald.
Mattel decided to make the doll after a campaign by Jane Bingham, a survivor of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in Philadelphia. She started a Facebook group with her friend called "Beautiful and Bald Barbie." She tells Audie Cornish, host of All Things Considered, that they wanted the toymaker to create a doll for kids who have cancer or have lost their hair for medical reasons.
"One of the major reasons was to reduce the stigma for women and children who have hair loss — being not accepted to be able to go out in public without something covering their head, whether it be a wig or a scarf or that sort of thing," Bingham says. "Their beauty and their self-worth is not dependent upon their hair."
Barbie Is An 'Icon Of Beauty'
Bingham says she was drawn to Mattel, in part, because the company made a one-of-a-kind bald Barbie for a girl in New York City who lost her hair to chemotherapy.
"Barbie [is] the icon of beauty in the toy industry — she's known all over the world," she says.
The main purpose of the doll is to make female baldness more acceptable, Bingham says.
"I don't think it will ever make it really normal, but to be accepted and to be seen as not scary or strange," she says. "That's what really we want to show — that children and women should not feel ashamed and have to cover up their heads."
An Effort To Reduce Stigma
Bingham was inspired to start the campaign after she lost her own hair during chemotherapy last year. She says she could handle it as an adult but realized children might have a harder time with it.
"I felt such a passion about reducing this stigma and that I shouldn't be ashamed," she says. "I mean, I was going through a major fight in my life. And [the bald head] is almost like a symbol of the fight that I was going through."
After the Facebook campaign, Mattel announced it would make a few of the dolls and donate them to kids experiencing hair loss in cancer wards and hospitals. And, as the company explained in a statement, "We made the decision not to sell these dolls at retail stores, but rather get the dolls directly into the hands of children who can most benefit from the unique play experience."
Bingham says she is still fighting to get the dolls sold in stores. "A big reason that I even started this, I thought of all the children who have a family member who are going through hair loss and how many children would benefit from this," she says. "And as of right now, none of those children would have an opportunity to have one of these dolls."
In the meantime, another toymaker, MGA Entertainment, says it plans to debut bald versions of Bratz and Moxie Girlz this summer.
Barbie is undergoing a bit of a change. Barbie dolls are best-known for their curvy figures and long blond hair. But toymaker Mattel has a bald Barbie in the works. The reason, Jane Bingham, a survivor of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and a friend launched a Facebook campaign for Beautiful and Bald Barbie. It's for kids who have cancer or lose their hair for medical reasons.
Jane Bingham joins us from Philadelphia to talk more about it. Hi there, Jane.
JANE BINGHAM: Hello.
CORNISH: So, Jane, to start, what was important to you about having a hairless Barbie? Why did you think that could help or make a difference?
BINGHAM: One of the major reasons was to reduce the stigma for women and children who have hair loss, being not accepted to be able to go out in public without something covering their head, whether it be a wig or a scarf or that sort of thing. Their beauty and their self-worth is not dependent upon their hair.
CORNISH: Why did you think Barbie in particular would help.
BINGHAM: I had read an article, where Mattel had made a one-of-a-kind bald Barbie for a little girl in New York City who had lost her hair due to chemotherapy and then thinking about Barbie as the icon of beauty in the toy industry and she's known all over the world.
CORNISH: Is the idea that it would somehow make the vision of somebody who is bald, who has suffered from hair loss, make it sort of more normal for kids who are going through this themselves or have relatives going through it?
BINGHAM: Yeah. I don't think it'll ever make it, like, really normal. But to be accepted and to be seen as not scary or strange - that's what, really, we want to show and that the children and women should not have to feel ashamed and have to cover up their heads.
CORNISH: And you're a survivor, as we mentioned, of non-Hodgkins lymphoma, so you've been through this yourself.
BINGHAM: Yes. This past summer and throughout the fall, I was bald from chemotherapy. And, you know, as an adult, it's something I could deal with. I was able to - after a while, I was able to even just go out bald without worrying about what people were going to stare at me or not because I felt such a passion about reducing this stigma and that I shouldn't be ashamed. I mean, I was going through a major fight in my life and that's almost like a symbol of the fight that I was going through is the bald head.
CORNISH: So, Mattel decided that they would make the dolls, but that they wanted to essentially donate them directly to kids suffering from hair loss to cancer wards and hospitals instead of shipping it to the stores to sell. And why weren't you satisfied with that answer?
BINGHAM: It's very honorable that they said that, you know, they don't feel comfortable making a profit on these dolls. But as of right now, they are donating them, you know, to the sickest children. Also, a big reason that I even started this is I thought of all the children who have a family member who are going through hair loss and how many children would benefit from this. And as of right now, none of those children will have that opportunity to have one of these dolls.
CORNISH: Now that Mattel has taken this step, I notice that other toy companies have jumped in. You have Bratz and Moxie Girlz. It's another line of toys that are going to come out with bald dolls. What's important about Barbie?
BINGHAM: Well, we're thrilled about MGA releasing the bald Bratz and bald Moxie line. The biggest thing about the Barbie is that she is the fashion icon of the industry. She is the symbol of beauty that people have known for 50 years. So, I think it's really important to make these dolls available on the shelves.
CORNISH: Jane Bingham and her friend Rebecca Sypin started a Facebook campaign to encourage Mattel to start selling a bald and beautiful Barbie. Thank you so much, Jane.
BINGHAM: Thank you.
CORNISH: You're listening to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright National Public Radio.


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BUFFALO — Long the Bruins' top faceoff man, Patrice Bergeron these days tops the club's chart for shots on net. Patrice the Thief, adept at clipping pucks off the sticks of fellow centermen throughout the league, increasingly is making life miserable for goalies.
"We emphasize that probably with most of our players,'' coach Claude Julien said prior to Friday night's 4-2 loss to the Sabres, noting an overall urgency for his players to take shots. "And [Bergeron] is a guy, you know, he has to shoot a little bit more.''
Over the previous two seasons, Bergeron amassed 402 shots on net over 161 regular-season games, an average of 2.5 per game. This season, he has 44 shots in 12 games, an average of 3.7, or a 40 percent increase. Twelve games may be a small sample, but it seemed at least to indicate a trend.
"There were times I thought he looked [too often] for the perfect play,'' added Julien. "And it took not only an opportunity to score, but also a shot on net. It doesn't always have to be scoring on an initial shot, but maybe creating a loose puck, a chance.''
Bergeron, usually flanked by Brad Marchand and Tyler Seguin, is tied for fourth in team scoring with Nathan Horton (7 points). Julien added that he has told first-line pivot David Krejci to shoot more this season, and Krejci is the club's top point-getter (4-8—12).
Krejci, in his sixth NHL season, has never finished a season with a point-per-game average.
"We have talked about sending guys more to the net," said Julien. "I thought last year we weren't as good as we should be in that area. And by doing that, then guys are more tempted to put pucks to the net because someone is there for the rebound. Already this year I think we have scored more goals from in tight than we did probably for half a season last year.''
Bergeron did his normal stellar work at the faceoff dot, winning 15 of 20 draws Friday night. He also landed five more shots on net, high for the night with Rich Peverley.
Krejci was one of only five Bruins without a shot on Ryan Miller. The top line of Krejci, Milan Lucic, and Horton contributed a lone assist, Krejci's relay on Dougie Hamilton's first career goal.
Khudobin concerned
Goalie Anton Khudobin, proud son of Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan, grew up some 200 miles from where the meteor caused such havoc on Friday in the Chelyabinsk region. Khudobin said he was thankful that both of his parents were nowhere near where the meteor left a large crater and reports of more than 1,000 injuries.
"It's only what I saw in the media, '' said Khudobin, chatting after the morning workout. "One friend sent me a message that a meteor just landed. And a picture. And it's this huge hole [in the ground]. But [initially] I don't know if it's true or not.''
The site, Khudobin said, is some three hours' drive from his home.
"It's really close,'' he said. "I don't know how scary it is. I heard the sound was really bad. I heard windows blew out in apartment buildings.''
Upon hearing the news, and seeing pictures over the Internet, Khudobin wasn't sure what to think.
"A buddy posted a picture and I figured, 'Oh, he's probably joking . . . oh, it was just the sky, whatever . . . clouds.' And after I saw the [posted] comments, you can go the video on YouTube, and after I watched the video. Everybody is safe . . . I hope everything is fine. I hope everybody is safe.''
Concern over the incident, said Khudobin, reminded him of all the e-mails he received last weekend, friends from across the world inquiring how he was coping in the 2 feet of snow that fell in Boston.
"Everybody was talking to me, asking, 'Are you safe, is everything OK?' '' he said. "That's kind of the same. They are in front of the world news right now. But I do my job here. They do their job there. And I hope everybody is going to be fine.''
Quick with compliment
Following his club's morning workout, Sabres coach Lindy Ruff said the Bruins are among the best clubs in the NHL, and likely the best in the Eastern Conference.
"I think that group of six defensemen is tough,'' said Ruff, his club struggling mightily. "I think with [Zdeno] Chara back there playing half the game, one of the best defenders in the league, one of the strongest.
"They have excellent team speed, maybe the best team speed in the league.''
Apprised of Ruff's comments, Julien said increasing speed was a team objective.
"It's part of our game that we've tried to work on,'' he said. "I said at the beginning of the year that our breakouts were pretty good over the years, but that our neutral zone could use some work. We have worked on our neutral-zone counters and certainly that has helped. We've got some players that have come into their own and have some speed up front and that certainly helps.
"Guess you take the compliments when they come your way, right?"
The speed, said Julien, has improved among individuals, as well as in the overall transition game.
"I think if you look at a guy like Lucic last year, and look at him this year, he is skating so much better,'' Julien said. "So, those are the kind of guys that make it happen. You know Peverley's got great speed and you can add Chris Bourque to that group. He is a good little skater and he is coming into his own. And the fourth line, we have a guy like [Daniel] Paille who skates the way he does. Then Seguin, Bergy, Marchand, I think they are all pretty good skaters. We like to think we are a pretty quick team, but we also have had to work at that.''
Newtown visit
Julien, along with a number of his players, including Bourque, Hamilton, Paille, Peverley, Andrew Ference, Aaron Johnson, and Adam McQuaid will visit the families affected by the Sandy Hook tragedy on Monday in Newtown, Conn. In addition, the team will honor Sandy Hook vice principal Natalie Green Hammond at the game against the Montreal Canadiens March 3 at TD Garden. Green Hammond, a lifelong Bruins fan, will drop the ceremonial first puck.Kevin Paul Dupont can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @GlobeKPD.


text: Valley Medical Center Earns a GHX Best 50 Customer Award3/28/2013Author: Valley Medical Center International healthcare technology and services company, Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX), has named Valley Medical Center (VMC) a 2012 GHX Best 50 Customer award winner. VMC earned this recognition for improving operational performance and driving down costs through supply chain automation. VMC works collaboratively with GHX to improve operational performance, control contract spending, increase vendor connections and automate purchase orders and invoices. "We are proud to receive this award," said Lindy Dillingham, Director, Materials Management, Valley Medical Center. "It underscores the great team of people at Valley who care about fiscal responsibility to our patients and our community." To select the Best 50, GHX looked at more than 4,000 hospitals in the U.S. and Canada currently connected to the GHX electronic trading exchange and identified top performers on a number of key metrics including purchasing and invoice volume, exception rates, exchange utilization and trading partner connections. Last spring VMC received the company's GHXcellence Award for U.S. Provider of the Year, in the small to mid-size facility category.


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June 8, 2004
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Senior first baseman and designated hitter Greg Powers became the second UCSB baseball player to be drafted when the Toronto Blue Jays selected him with their 33rd pick in the 2004 Major League Baseball draft. Teammate Ivan Ramirez, a senior left-hander, was then selected by the Texas Rangers in the 50th and final round Tuesday afternoon. The two join teammate Nate Sutton who was taken earlier in the 24th round by the Anaheim Angels.
The 23-year old Powers was the 987th overall pick in the draft and was taken by Toronto as a third baseman. Ramirez, the 1480th pick overall, will join his older brother Erasmo in the Rangers organization. The elder Ramirez has so far posted a 3.15 ERA in 20 inning pitched for Texas in 2004.
Powers spent two years at UCSB after two seasons at the University of Arizona in 2001 and 2002. In limited action in 2003, Powers hit .227 in just 44 at bats for Santa Barbara. Then in 2004, the Scottsdale, Arizona, native exploded to lead the Gauchos with a .349 average and a .474 on-base percentage. His 59 hits ranked fifth best on the team and his 10 doubles tied him for fourth.
"I'm really exicted," Powers said Tuesday. "It's such a good opportunity for me."
Ramirez, who also transfered to Santa Barbara prior to his junior season, was the Gauchos most heavily relied upon reliever over the past two seasons. With a 3.78 career ERA at UCSB, Ramirez moved into ninth place on UCSB's all-time appearance list after pitching in 60 games in his two years. Also in 2004, Ramirez came within one appearance of tying Frank Spear's 1984 record of 32 outings.


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Congratulations to Dr. Gökçe Sargut and Dr. Natalia Ermasova on their two recent publications.Dr. Sargut partnered with University of Kansas associate professor Argun Saatcioglu to write the article "Sociology of School Boards: A Social Capital Perspective." Their article appeared in the February 2014 edition of "Sociological Inquiry," the journal of International Sociology Honor Society Alpha Kappa Delta.Dr. Natalia Ermasova authored "Administrative Innovations in Capital Budgeting at the State Level in the USA during the Great Recession," which appeared in the Oct. 2013 edition of "Journal of Business and Economics."
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Thursday, September 20, 2007
Leave Coach Fran Alone!
If, in additional to your love of college football, you're a pop culture junkie who a) knows about Britney Spears' disastrous performance at the VMAs resulting in near-universal criticism/mockery and b) are familiar with Chris Crocker's YouTube response to said criticism, the clip below is actually pretty funny.
If, however, you are not familiar with both A and B, skip this and go to the next post.
(HT: wealeat09)
If, however, you are not familiar with both A and B, skip this and go to the next post.
(HT: wealeat09)
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6 comments:
- BootStraps said...
I think any college football fan can find some humor in that video. I personally was LMAO.
- September 20, 2007 10:09 AM
- Shaun said...
I'm here in the heart of the Big12, have seen the Britney performance (thanks youtube), and the Chris Crocker vid (again, thanks youtube), and THIS is hilarious!!!
"This is FOOTBALL!!! NOT 500!!!"
- September 20, 2007 10:41 AM
- carl tabb said...
Chris Crocker is a fucking dude?! You gotta be shittin' me.
- September 20, 2007 10:56 AM
- SteveMuzZ said...
Horn fan here and that was pretty funny..
- September 20, 2007 11:05 AM
- Jim said...
"...since when is it professional to throw the ball straight in the air!"
*That* was funny.
- September 20, 2007 11:22 AM
- whetstonebuck said...
Geez Louise. Change out that jersey to Maize and Blue and change a few words and think back to your first two...uh, sorry. Nevermind.
Too funny.
- September 20, 2007 1:06 PM
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Bears roaming neighborhoods at Tahoe have become almost common in recent years and it's no longer unusual for them to show up in neighborhoods in Reno, Carson City, and the Carson Valley.
But one bear set a new standard for urban rambling this morning. In his 5 years of life he's built an impressive rap sheet.
In May of last year he was captured in south Reno. He's also shown up in Douglas County. He may be a serial urban visitor but the Department of Wildlife will try to discourage this habit. Today while he was sleeping off the tranquilizer. Four other bears were being released at Heavenly Ski Resort. A lot of noise, rubber pellets in the rear and pursuit by a dog are meant to discourage their return. They were drawn here by an easy supply of garbage. Addressing that problem is difficult but not impossible
Some local governments do have ordinances concerning bear proofing garbage containers, but enforcement and compliance is spotty. Lackey says that makes it easy for bears to keep looking for an easy source. Each of the bears he's releasing is wearing a collar. He'll be able to track their movements over the next year.
His study should tell us more about our local bear population and how they move around.


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Armstrong fans react to doping allegations | News
BANGOR, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- Lance Armstrong has denied doping allegations for years, but reportedly confessed to using performance enhancing drugs during an interview with Oprah Winfrey Monday.
Winfrey told CBS This Morning that she was surprised by how the disgraced 7 time Tour de France winner confessed.
"For myself, my team, all of us in the room we were mesmerized and riveted by some of the answers," said Winfrey.
For fans that defended Armstrong through out the years, the interview comes as a huge blow. Jason Neal followed the cyclist's entire career and was there when he won his sixth Tour de France title in 2004.
"It's weird because you defended him. We as fans have defended him for years," said Neal.
Neal owns several items of memorabilia, and even named his son after the icon.
"We picked up cycling as a sport and then Lance Armstrong started coming along and we named our son Lance," said Neal.
Armstrong has been stripped of all 7 of his Tour de France titles, and has been banned for life from the sport he made famous. The cyclist separated himself last October from the Livestrong foundation that he became a part of after surviving testicular cancer. Neal, whos best friend died from cancer, hopes that the man he has looked up to for several years will still be remembered for surviving something that kills so many.
"He beat cancer. He came back from the depths of hell and came back to the top of his sport," said Neal.
Whether Armstrong was using performance enhancing drugs or not when he reached the top will be revealed tonight during his interview with Winfrey. That interview will run in a two part world wide exclusive starting Thursday night at 9PM on the Oprah Winfrey Network.


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The state of Tennessee is helping facilitate talks between city and county leaders about the coming deadline.
There are conflicting versions of what will happen at the end of the fiscal year. No one is certain or clear about what the federal response will be.
The issue at the center of all of this activity isn't the coming merger of Shelby County's two public school systems.
It is the planned June 30 end of city funding for auto emissions testing.
Shelby County government, so far, has not agreed to take on the inspections or their cost. The state, which does inspections for local governments in other parts of the state, wants to wait at least two years to see what new federal clean air standards look like.
Beyond that is the issue of whether inspections should be required countywide or remain for city vehicle owners only.
Bob Martineau, commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, said through a spokeswoman this week that the state hasn't made any decision but is encouraging city and county leaders to continue talking.
"No decision has been made on what, if any, action the state may take if the matter is not resolved locally," department spokeswoman Meg Lockhart said Tuesday, April 9, in an email. "While there have been extensive, thoughtful discussion among local officials, no local solution has yet been forthcoming."
The central point in the negotiations has been what happens in the two-year interim between the end of city funding with the end of the current fiscal year on June 30 and September 2014 when the Environmental Protection Agency sets new ambient air quality standards.
City and county leaders are convinced they are discussing what to do for the next two years, until the new federal air quality standards are set. At that point, they both have indicated they want the state to take over emissions inspections in Shelby County and to make the politically volatile decision about whether the inspections continue to apply only to Memphis vehicle owners or to vehicle owners across Shelby County.
The two-year timeframe city and county leaders are weighing is in direct conflict with what state Sen. Brian Kelsey of Germantown said last week he has heard from Martineau and the state several times about countywide emissions testing.
"I received a hard and fast commitment from the commissioner that this will not happen for six years and I believe him," Kelsey said on the WKNO-TV program "Behind The Headlines."
Lockhart didn't refute or affirm Kelsey's statement.
"I think this particular timeline he cited was more in line with EPA's planned revisions to the ozone standards," she wrote.
The timeline includes the September 2014 date for federal officials to set new ambient air quality standards.
By February 2019, six years from now, state and local air quality programs have to turn in to the EPA their state implementation plans that show how they will comply with the new federal standards including in those counties where the EPA determines the new air quality standards are not being met.
The state's timeline at that point indicates Martineau's department expects Shelby County will have three to five years from February 2019 to meet the new standards.
"Administratively, it's going to be very hard to do," Kelsey said of the emissions testing transition. "I don't think anybody should be having these inspections. … I wanted to keep county residents out of it for as long as possible and the city residents – I wanted to provide them with more locations so that they can do it a lot easier. It's just a pain."
Kelsey's comments have prompted Memphis City Council members to weigh such options as ending auto inspections by the city abruptly before the end of the current fiscal year or imposing an "environmental fee" and requiring an emissions test of county residents outside the city who drive their cars in the city at least twice a week.
City and county leaders have at times not even agreed on the nature of the discussions.
Some city leaders say the matter is simple.
"You're talking about numerous political entities and the EPA and their air quality standards," Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell said as he portrayed a regulatory thicket atop a politically volatile subject.
"I think the public needs to understand the complexity of this," he added. "You're talking about EPA and you're talking about contractual relationships between EPA and the state and what's in a contract. Those are things that say certain things we have to abide by."


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DIXON – A pay increase for the Riverfront Commission's executive manager is on tonight's City Council agenda.
Members will vote whether to increase Kay Miller's pay from $200 to $800 a month.
Miller's monthly salary has been $200 since summer 2011; before that, she was paid $1,000 per month – $200 plus $800 more if the sale of amenities supported it, which she consistently received.
Commissioner Dennis Considine raised concern about the proposed increase at the council's October meeting.
"I think for big picture, for our community, we need to start being aboveboard and being aware of where we're spending our money, whether it's $800 a month or $500 a month," Considine said.
Two people, Josie Almassy and John Weitzel, told the commission last year that they would do the job for free.
Mayor Jim Burke said the position has more responsibility than most of the public realizes, noting that Miller handles applications for amenities and organizes fundraisers with many details that include setting up electricity and obtaining proper permits.
"I can't see someone year in and year out handling that on their own time," Burke said.
The council is also expected to discuss the possibility of a municipal electric aggregation referendum, which grants the city authority to combine households and small businesses into a buying group, resulting in increased buying power and more competitive prices.
This has been defeated twice before as a referendum.
Other items on the agenda include discussion of facade grants for downtown businesses, approval of a tentative tax levy and appointments to the Dixon Tourism Board and Historic Preservation Commission.
To attend
The Dixon City Council meets at 6:30 tonight in council chambers at City Hall, 121 W. Second St.
Agendas and minutes are available at www.discoverdixon.org under "Citizens Information Center," or call City Hall, 815-288-1485.


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LOWELL - The City Council delayed final action Tuesday night on a zoning ordinance that would restrict where medical-marijuana dispensaries could be located in the city. The council did approve, on a 6-3 vote, the Planning Board's recommendation to revise the ordinance so that the dispensaries be allowed by special permit in light industrial and high-rise commercial zoning districts.
City Councilors Rita Mercier, Bill Martin and John Leahy voted against revising the districts where dispensaries would be allowed.
The original ordinance presented to the council and Planning Board would have only allowed dispensaries in regional retail and suburban mixed-use zoning districts through a special permit.
The council also voted unanimously to amend the ordinance so dispensaries are not allowed within 1,000 feet of an educational institution or a public library.
The council put off a final vote on the ordinance until next Tuesday.
In other business Tuesday, the council:
Went into executive session for about an hour to get an update from Police Superintendent Kenneth Lavallee and Capt. Jack Webb on the investigation of potential criminal misconduct at the Lowell Regional Water Utility. The probe has focused on whether Utility employees pocketed the proceeds from the sale of city scrap metal. City Manager Bernie Lynch told The Sun after the council meeting that the police investigation remains ongoing, but declined to comment further.Advertisement
Approved Councilor Marty Lorrey's motion requesting the city manager prepare a report for the council regarding estimated costs and preparedness plan for two (primary and general) upcoming U.S. Senate special elections.
Approved Lorrey's motion requesting the city manager have the proper department explore the possibility of creating educational training classes and/or videos for permitting and code ordinances to Lowell homeowners.
Approved Lorrey's motion requesting the city manager set up a training seminar or program for all new board members.
Sent to the Housing Subcommittee Councilor Rodney Elliott's motion requesting the City Council discuss reducing the apartment inspection fee of $50 per unit.
Approved, 9-0, a zoning ordinance establishing a new suburban-single-family zoning district including all parcels with frontage on Bigelow Street as well as 160.1 and 160.2 Swan St.
Voted to delay for a week a zoning amendment that would have extended the existing regional retail zoning district to include 228 Plain St. Approved an out of state travel request for one of the Health Department's school nurses to attend a class in New Hampshire on March 7.
Voted 9-0 to authorize the city manager to enter into a 20-year agreement with Soltas Energy Corporation for a Net Metering program. Soltas will sell net metering credits from solar-power facilities to the city at a discount. The agreement is expected to bring in $240,000 to the city a year.
Approved an order dedicating the community park and garden on Whiting Street in honor of Wilfred Levasseur, founder of Cote's Market. The council also ended the meeting before acting on several motions.
Councilor Joseph Mendonca's motion requesting the city manager identify a park location where a Cricket field could be established.
Mendonca's motion requesting the city manager provide an update of the transition to the new Residential Reserved Parking program.
Leahy's motion requesting the city manager have proper department present a plan to rejuvenate the City Council Chamber in the month of July including painting walls, replacing shades and sanding wood floors.
Leahy's motion requesting the city manager have the DPW present a comprehensive street sweeping plan, including current operations utilizing the small vacuum trucks.
Elliott's motion requesting the city manager provide a report on the status of trees cut down on the property adjacent to the new Walgreens at the Rourke Bridge.
Elliott's motion requesting the City Council have the mayor present retired Water Utility employee Jake Davis with a citation thanking him for his 22 years of service.
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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/15/ios_app_ratings/
How to get a top 10 iOS app: a Wednesday launch in Italy
The numbers you need for the iTunes store hit parade
Posted in Software, 15th December 2011 11:24 GMT
Getting into the top ten apps on iTunes is something developers aspire to, but figures from Distimo show the huge disparity between iTunes markets around the world and across the week.
Distimo styles itself as an app store consultancy, and so it set out to establish how many applications one needs to sell through iTunes in order to get a top 10 hit. As the lists are generated by country the numbers vary widely: eight thousand downloads will get one into the top ten in Australia and Italy, but ten times that number are needed to get into the American top ten.
The UK falls into the middle, with a top-ten entry needing at least 18,000 downloads, though that number falls significantly on a Wednesday and Thursday when fewer people seem to be interested in mobile applications. Distimo has a map of the top ten countries for the iTunes store.
There's nothing hugely surprising in the lists, though the predominance of weekends in downloading traffic (33 per cent of downloads are over the weekend) demonstrates that mobile applications are still a leisure time activity.
Almost all the app stores have become repositories for mountains of mediocrity, and standing out within them is next to impossible. Getting into the top lists is vital, and often self-sustaining if only one can get a foothold - so knowing the scale of the challenge, and when to best take it on, is information worth having. ®


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RENTON, Wash. — No San Francisco? Check.
No New England? Check.
No hard feelings? Well ...
There were ruffled feathers and bruised feelings from coast to coast Monday in the aftermath of the NFL's conference title games.
In Seattle, the Seahawks were both celebrating their victory over the 49ers and dealing with the fallout in the wake of cornerback Richard Sherman's unseemly, chest-thumping outburst on national TV, moments after he made the game-saving play.
In Foxborough, Mass., Patriots Coach Bill Belichick leveled a serious accusation against one of his former stars, Denver receiver Wes Welker, accusing him of dirty play in a hit that took out cornerback Aqib Talib in the Broncos' big win.
Outside of New England, Sherman was all the talk. A quick rewind: Sherman was interviewed within minutes of deflecting a would-be touchdown pass to San Francisco's Michael Crabtree, a tipped ball that the Seahawks intercepted. Sherman was flagged for putting his hands to his throat to make a choke sign. Minutes later, in an interview with Fox Sports' Erin Andrews, Sherman screamed: "I'm the best corner in the game! When you try me with a sorry receiver like Crabtree, that's the result you're gonna get!"
The reaction was swift and visceral, with fans and even players from other NFL teams ripping Sherman, a Stanford graduate who's typically good-natured and happy-go-lucky, and whose bombastic comments usually border on comically endearing. But not this time.
Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll said he had a talk with Sherman on Monday and reminded him how important it is that one outspoken player not steal the spotlight from one of the greatest team accomplishments in franchise history.
"He was really clear that the last thing he wanted to do was take something away from our team and what we had accomplished," Carroll said. "He got caught right in the throes of the battle and all that, and there's a little bit of leeway there, particularly for guys who play on such an edge emotionally, like Richard. ... It's something that came out in the heat of the game and all the emotion."
Across the country, on his weekly radio show, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady scolded Sherman for his on-air eruption. Brady and Sherman have a history, as Sherman got in Brady's face last season after the Seahawks beat New England in Seattle.
"I don't know [Sherman] at all," Brady said on Boston's WEEI. "I've watched him play. He's that kind of guy. So, you know, I approach the game — and I have respect for my opponents. That's the way our team always plays. We win with graciousness, and when we lose, we could do better. Some teams don't always do that, or that's not their program."
Sherman responded to a text from The Times on Monday afternoon, writing that he's going to "stay off the radar for a few days." But earlier, in a weekly column for TheMMQB.com, he wrote: "It was loud, it was in the moment, and it was just a small part of the person I am. I don't want to be a villain, because I'm not a villainous person."
Sherman said he attempted to shake Crabtree's hand after making the play "but he ignored me."
"I patted him, stuck out my hand and said, 'Good game, good game.' That's when he shoved my face, and that's when I went off," Sherman said.
There were also reports of fans throwing food at 49ers linebacker NaVorro Bowman after he was carted off the field with torn knee ligaments. A Seattle TV station aired footage of popcorn raining down on him as he was taken through the locker-room tunnel.
"If it's true," Sherman wrote, "it's beyond terrible. That's as low as it gets."
Meanwhile, Belichick implied Welker established a new low with his hit on Talib, who was attempting to cover Broncos receiver Demaryius Thomas on a crossing route in the second quarter. He was clobbered by Welker, who was running the opposite direction and slammed into him, their shoulders colliding. Talib left the game with a knee injury.
"I think it was a deliberate play by the receiver to take out Aqib, no attempt to get open," Belichick said. "I'll let the league handle the discipline on that play. It's not for me to decide, but it's one of the worst plays I've seen."
Welker said after the game he did not intend to hurt Talib.
"I wanted to come underneath and we just kind of collided," the receiver said. "It wasn't a deal where I was trying to hit him or anything like that."
Welker was not flagged on the play, and there's a great deal of speculation that Belichick reacted so strongly because of the raw feelings that linger about Welker's decision to leave the Patriots for the Broncos.
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The Miami Hurricanes (2-3) will look for their first-ever win in Chapel Hill Saturday when they take on the North Carolina Tar Heels (5-1). UM won last year's meeting at Sun Life Stadium 33-10, but against a North Carolina team depleted by injuries.
> ABOUT CAROLINA: Interim coach Everett Withers suffered his only loss 35-28 at undefeated Georgia Tech back on Sept. 24. The Tar Heels rank 52nd in total defense (363.67 yards), 39th versus the run (119.17) and 87th versus the pass (244.50) and are led on defense by senior linebacker Zach Brown, who leads the team with 42 tackles, five for loss, 2.5 sacks, an interception and a forced fumble. Offensively, UNC has the fourth most efficient passer in the country in sophomore Bryn Renner (99-136, 1,305 yards, 12 TDs, 6 INTs), a star freshman tailback in Giovani Bernard (657 yards, 103 att., 8 TDs) from Fort Lauderdale St. Thomas Aquinas and senior receiver Dwight Jones, who is second in the nation with seven TD receptions (37 catches, 605 yards). Carolina has scored on 16 of 19 opportunities in the red zone -- all 16 are touchdowns. In 21 trips inside the red zone, Tar Heels opponents have scored just eight touchdowns. UNC ranks eighth in the nation in red zone defense.
> WHAT TO LOOK FOR WHEN IT COMES TO THE CANES: UM's porous run defense figures to get abused again this week by Bernard and the Tar Heels. The usually slow starting Canes need to be wary of not falling behind by too much. Carolina hasn't allowed a first quarter touchdown this season and has outscored opponents 42-3 in the opening quarter and 94-42 in the first half. UM quarterback Jacory Harris has thrown for 837 yards, nine touchdowns and just three INTs -- and sparkled over the last 10 quarters. But his last trip to Chapel Hill wasn't a good one. He threw a career-high four INTs as UM lost. Redshirt sophomore running back Lamar Miller, who ranks third in the nation with 135.4 yards per game, is looking to record his sixth consecutive 100 yard game. Expect to see a lot of Miller early and often.
> MANNY'S PICK: UM 33, North Carolina 30. Nothing really favors the Canes in this game as UNC -- in the words of Al Golden -- probably the best team they Canes will face. Only, I'm not buying it totally. North Carolina struggled to beat lowly Louisville 14-7 last week and figures they have this one in the bag at home against a beat up and reeling Canes team they've owned at Kenan Stadium. UM has played out of its mind on offense of late while the defense has played with a cheese-like stench. I don't expect the offense to keep up this pace all season. But for this week, they will. I see big day from Jacory, a big day from Lamar, and a Wieclaw field goal in the fourth quarter that wins it for the Canes.
Herald Sports Writer Andre Fernandez will run today's live blog. Manny Navarro is covering the Miami Dolphins today. Remember to please keep your comments clean of profanity or you will be removed from the chat room.


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With tax collections running more than half a billion dollars above benchmarks through April, Governor Deval Patrick may reverse some of the $225 million in emergency budget cuts he made in December.
"Yes, we're looking at that now," Patrick told State House News Service Friday as he left his office for an event in Waltham with his dog Tobey after a Cabinet meeting.
House Republicans and five House Democrats wrote to the governor Thursday asking him to reverse $24.4 million in cuts made to programs that provide assistance to local cities and towns for special education, school transportation, and other expenses.
"We're going to or have looked at those, as well, just trying to sort out what works and what's practical," Patrick said.
April tax collections surged 14.3 percent over fiscal 2012, leaving the state $510 million above budget benchmarks with two months remaining in the fiscal year.
Patrick's budget chief, Administration and Finance Secretary Glen Shor, told State House News Service earlier this week that "spending pressures" are still affecting this year's budget, suggesting that unanticipated spending needs may exceed those already formally requested by the administration.
Shor called revenue performance strong over the past four months, but cautioned that it has been "largely due to one-time or volatile revenue sources, and not those most closely tied to current, underlying economic trends."
Earlier this week, a group of House Republicans urged Democrats negotiating a $500 million tax increase bill to abandon that proposal in light of recent revenue collections. That is unlikely since the House and Senate have approved the tax hikes, which are being counted on in part to prevent near-term increases in MBTA fares.
Treasurer Steven Grossman told State House News Service this week that efforts to boost the state's rainy day fund balance should be given serious consideration if a significant surplus emerges after the books are closed on fiscal 2013.


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Middle schools celebrate eighth grade graduation
On Thursday evening, local eighth grade students celebrated the conclusion of their middle school education as their families and friends gathered during separate ceremonies. Approximately 155 St. Marys Area Middle School students participated in the annual matriculation ceremony held at St. Marys Area High School. Across town, 67 St. Marys Catholic Middle School students celebrated their graduation during a Mass held at St. Mary's Church, followed by an awards ceremony. Photo by Amy Cherry.


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Lecture from author of historic Irish report on child sex abuse
8 March 2013
The author of Ireland's landmark report on the Catholic Church's handling of child sex abuse claims this week told a capacity audience at the Sydney Law School of the Irish experience of dealing with these claims.
Judge Yvonne Murphy spearheaded two inquiries relating to the sexual abuse of children by clerics in Ireland. Her Sydney talk came as Australia gears up for a similar - but wider ranging - inquiry into institutional handling of child sex abuse claims. It is also the forerunner to a Sydney Law School forum on how the law and society can best deal with child sex abuse. Listen to Judge Murphy's talk above.
Judge Murphy's 2009 report into how the Archdiocese of Dublin handled claims of sexual abuse shook the nation's deep faith in Catholicism. Held as the wider ranging "Ryan Commission" into institutional child abuse was progressing, it resulted in a rise in secularism and a precipitous drop in the recruitment of priests.
The 'Murphy Report' found the church - when dealing with complaints - was primarily concerned with avoiding scandal, protecting its reputation and preserving its assets. The welfare of children was reportedly given scant consideration.
In her address - the first of the Sydney Law School's Distinguished Speakers Program for 2013 - Judge Murphy outlined how revelations by journalists in the early 1990s about the sexual proclivities of priest Father Brendan Smyth brought clerical sexual abuse to public attention in Ireland.
"The 1990s saw the trickle of claims become a flood," she said.
Judge Murphy was asked to head a commission of inquiry into the Dublin archdiocese in 2006 in order to reduce the growing number of tribunals and enquiries underway in Ireland. The commission was charged with looking at how complaints were dealt with by church and state authorities.
Judge Murphy discussed the legal techniques involved during her inquiry. For instance, the commission employed a statistician to ascertain how many of the priests facing claims of abuse needed to be investigated to provide a view representative of all claims. She also referred to insurance taken out by the archbishop of Dublin in the 1980s, providing cover against civil awards for sexual abuse compensation. This insurance policy, she said, flew in the face of the church's claim it wasn't aware of the extent of the problem.
Judge Murphy's lecture offered a timely perspective of the Irish experience, coming as Australia prepares for a national Royal Commission of Inquiry into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse. Also timely in relation to the establishment of the Royal Commission, the Sydney Law School will host a forum, Engaging with Historical and Institutional Child Sexual Assault: A multi-disciplinary approach on 31 May. This forum will host speakers from the church, police, the legal profession and academia. It will inform debate about alternative approaches in responding to child sexual abuse. This event is part of the Sydney Social Justice Research Network Workshop Program for 2013.
Judge Murphy served as a judge of the Circuit Court in Ireland - an intermediate Trial Court in Civil, Criminal, Family and Tax cases - between 1998 and 2012.
Judge Murphy served as a judge of the Circuit Court in Ireland between 1998 and 2012. Her distinguished career includes membership of the Bars of England and Wales and of Northern Ireland; Editor of the Irish Times Law Reports; and author of two books on insider dealing and defamation.
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Good little MechWarrior that you are, you're may be reading this from your repurposed fighter jet seat, headset atop your melon, dual joysticks in hand and pedals underfoot, eagerly waiting for MechWarrior Online's open beta to launch today. Ah. Problem. You've clearly missed, as we did, developer Piranha's announcement on Friday that it has delayed the open beta to whip the stompy robot sim into better shape.
"We agree that the game's current state of stability is not allowing us to get the latest experience across to new and veteran players alike," Piranha said in the announcement, prompted by player concerns about the game. "This is a short push back on the date and will depend on the stability and playability of the build."
Piranha goes on to detail changes and plans including an instability fix, a three-stage scheme for improving matchmaking, balance tweaks, pushing the Community Warfare feature back, and more.
"Game development is similar to trying to steer a very large ship. To make changes in direction takes time and accurate judgement calls," Piranha explained. "Even after the decision to change direction has been made, it takes a lot of time to make sure the change is working and the direction is valid. A lot of the feedback on the forums specifically are in the **** for implementation, but again it comes down to time to get them ready and tested before sending it out to you folks on the live servers."


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Only time will tell what team Bishop chooses!
By Mike Florio
Linebacker Desmond Bishop may not be choosing his next team after meeting with the Chiefs, after all. At a time when Bishop is believed to be close to narrowing his options, they could be expanding beyond the Vikings, Chiefs, and Jaguars.* The former Packers linebacker joined SiriusXM NFL Radio on Thursday to explain that there's… Read more…
Only time will tell what team Bishop chooses!
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What are the best places to go in Mexico for 4 days (e.g. over Thanksgiving in particular) for hiking/peak bagging?
To avoid hassles with the airlines, I don't want to take technical gear, so something 4th class or less and snow-free is ideal. An area where we could dayhike a different peak each day would be perfect.
We're thinking of Guadalajara (e.g. Nevado de Colima, Parícutin, Tancítaro, and a day around Lake Chapala), but those peaks don't look terribly interesting. There must be better options in the country, but I don't know what they are (or even where to look to find out about them). Information on the web is scarce. Even SP only seems to have coverage of the Monterrey/Saltillo area, the big volcanoes around Mexico City, and the Guatemala border! (I'm interested in both of the latter two areas, of course, but there's too much to see/do in just a 4 day trip).
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.


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Dissertation Proposal Announcement by Rachel H. Rice
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Date and Time
- Wednesday, March 13, 2013 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Mother Rosalie Hill Hall, Room 141
Educational researchers, for the better part of thirty years, have argued whether or not teaching should be professionalized or deregulated (Teacher Education and the American Future; Hanushek & Pace, 1995; Kumashiro, 2010; Levine, 2005; Sedlak, 1989; Wang, Spalding, Odell, Klecka, & Lin, 2010). The purpose of this study is to explore what teacher-credentialing programs are doing to build teaching as a profession. Through interviews with deans, department chairs, and classroom professors at three prominent, yet diverse, universities in a large county in the southwestern region of the United States, this study will investigate how teacher preparation programs instruct student teachers in professional dispositions, knowledge, and skills to professionalize teaching. This research hopes to find what commonalities credentialing programs have and explain the differences surrounding standards for accreditation.
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I think convergence between Android and ChromeOS is the most insignificant part of this.
The most important thing to note is that people are getting fed up with the so-called "cloud". That approach has been hyped for a few years now, and while many of us realized it's a bad approach from the very start, the rest are finding this out the hard way. After so much failure and hardship, people want nothing to do with it.
It's basically the same situation that happened with Ruby and Ruby on Rails. They were "new" and "trendy" technologies that got a lot of hype. Smart people saw that Ruby was basically Perl with a slightly more readable (but less powerful) syntax, and that Rails was nothing but yet another web development framework. A lot of non-technical people who just wanted to sell books and host conferences built up a massive hype storm. Given that this foundation was not based on merit of any sort, Ruby and Rails were never able to prove themselves as being solutions to real problems. People soon got fed up with them, and went back to proven technologies.
People want to use real, locally-running applications that help get work done, where their data can be kept local and safe. They don't want to dick around with half-assed web "apps" that just make life miserable, and makes data retrieval damn near impossible.
Who, exacly, is fed up with the "cloud" besides we, the average slashdotters? People are using "cloud" services more and more, like Facebook, Flickr, Gmail, etc. Companies, Universities and even public organizations are moving to Gmail and other Google services (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/three-million-businesses-have-gone.html [blogspot.com]).
Where are this people moving from the "cloud" to locally based applications and services?
I thought "the cloud" was "the cluster", but with a billing model based on disk/cpu[/memory] used in a given timeframe, and these values being easily dynamically allocable during a given time frame.
I think it depends on the level of abstraction. EC2 is similar to that, but something like Google Apps (_not_ App Engine) is cloud too, just on a higher level (application instead of disk/cpu/memory).
Uh, the link I posted was about 3 million business moving to Google Apps, so I don't see how is my definition any different from yours.
Or do you mean Google App Engine, which is different from Google Apps? But even if you do, Google Apps runs on the Google cloud like any App Engine application, so I don't see the difference.
And Amazon EC2 is cloud computing, just at a lower level of abstraction. How could you do auto scaling otherwise?
Where are this people moving from the "cloud" to locally based applications and services?
While I agree with your basic premise that average people aren't sitting around raging about cloud services, I do disagree somewhat with the above. Speaking for myself, I very often choose to use the Amazon or eBay apps on my iPad rather than using the web sites. Let's face it, web sites SUCK compared to traditional applications. We tolerate it because we were drunk with the mass variety of web sites, but when you come right down to usability and responsiveness, HTML (yes, even 5) is a crude, crude, CRUDE tool.
Using a local binary app on the iPad is just so much better than using the respective web site. Maybe we'll see better web technology in the future, but it's hard to compete with a locally running application for responsiveness.
I feel like a lot of the apps could be implemented in html though. All you have to realize is that 100% wide clickable areas (like the lists in an android app) are just fine, even though they look weird on a monitor.
But you're still relying heavily on cloud based services to host and process the data - the app is just a frontend to a webservice. I don't think it's the language the UI is written or the way you download the code the difference between the "cloud" or locally-running apps.
In fact, moving towards cloud hosted webservices means you can have multiple UI frontends in any language and for any platform with much less porting effort.
I predict that after people get disillusioned with "the cloud", there'll be a strong push towards moving your data back onto devices you physically own.
See, I can make predictions, too.
I'm not making any predictions, I'm saying people are *already* moving, and posted a link about 3 million companies which have already moved.
Who, exacly, is fed up with the "cloud" besides we, the average slashdotters? People are using "cloud" services more and more, like Facebook, Flickr, Gmail, etc. Companies, Universities and even public organizations are moving to Gmail and other Google services (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/three-million-businesses-have-gone.html [blogspot.com]).
Where are this people moving from the "cloud" to locally based applications and services?
Meaning... lotsa businesses. You think that those businesses (trying to save a buck by moving into the "cloud") are going to buy new ChromeOS-powered netbooks for their employees to continue working?
I'm sort-of seeing the netbooks and the "cloud for businesses" as two separated market segments (and the very definition of a market segment says that what happens with the prices/sale-volumes in one won't influence what happens in others: if not so, the market segmentation is faulty).
I, for one, welcome our cloud-based overlords!
You're very late to that party.
People want to use real, locally-running applications that help get work done, where their data can be kept local and safe. They don't want to dick around with half-assed web "apps" that just make life miserable, and makes data retrieval damn near impossible.
I'm writing this in the safe mode of my windows laptop. Why? Because it crashes constantly. It didn't do that a week ago, it hasn't been physically damaged and it doesn't do that in the safe mode so I doubt that it is a hardware issue. Rather, some process has gone nuts and Windows can't handle it. Perhaps updater to some application I have has corrupted or began interacting poorly with my firewall or whatever... God knows. I, on the other hand, have been trying to stop all unnecessary processes from autostarting and constantly booting between safe mode and normal mode in order to find the culprit... But haven't succeeded yet. It is made more difficult by the fact that there is no way of knowing which processes are essential to the system and which are not.
I, for one, would love to use "half-assed web apps" instead of going through the hell that is managing all the applications on your computer. You can say "Haha, it sounds like you suck" or "Haha, Windows sucks". Well, perhaps. Let's assume that I, a third year software engineering student, don't have the basic skills required to maintain the computer. Or that the world's most used OS is a horrible piece of crap. Even if either of those is true, it's also a symptom of the underlying problem: Computers have became so complex that even if it is possible to understand everything that you desktop is doing at any given time, it's a shitload of work and there are very few people who really do understand that all (No, I don't believe that all Linux users do, even if they technically could). That being the case, there are rather obvious benefits for Joe Average (or even tech savvier people) for not having to deal with it. Oh, just think of the web apps: Little more than a group of bookmarks. No registry entries, no hidden processes... What you see is what you get. The things can be clearly divided to two categories: Simple things on your end, and the the cloud, details of which won't bother you. (IE: The original meaning of the cloud)
Sure, there are some problems but I don't know if they're all that serious. At least not for everyone. It's a rare condition that I don't have internet access. It's a lot more common condition that I have other minor computer woes. The problems with the cloud are different than the ones without it, but it's a stretch to call them greater and a massive stretch to say that people specifically want the old/current way. Also, your point about difficult data retrieval baffles me... I would say 9 times out of ten, the data in the datacenters, is better backed up, is less likely to get lost/stolen/etc. If you refer to a situation where you permanently deleted something and a regular hard drive would still let you recover it but you can't do it through the cloud apps... That's a feature that hasn't been implemented in cloud apps but not an inherent problem with the cloud.
its just a matter of reliability and speed. there is going to be a time when internet will be completely ubiquitous, high speed all over, and have an insignificant downtime percentage. as we move toward that ideal state, web apps will continue to inch toward 'good enough' for most people. the fact is that people won't need this powerful machines, they just need fast, always-there network access. what is it that you think can't be done over the internet? and please don't list research and other fringe cases.
How can people be fed up with 'the cloud' when most people don't even know what it is? You really think those MS commercials are enough to make people understand what the cloud does?
Like most techies you're completely focusing on the wrong thing. Most people don't care about clouds, rails, ruby, or any other tool. They care about solved problems. They care about storing their pictures in a way that they can access them from anywhere and never lose them. If it's the cloud and RoR that makes this happen
Random question:
What's the abbreviation for Google Chrome? There's IE and FF and SM and O10, but I'm typing on the non-google chromium right now, and can't think of a convenient abbreviation. Cr2O3 is the chemical formula but unwieldy. Maybe CrO or CR.
What's the abbreviation for Google Chrome?
Maybe I'm oversimplifying the problem, but GC seems to jump out...
>>>GC seems to jump out...
And of course Mozilla Firefox would be MF or Mo-Fo. Thanks!
(The bold text is the AC putting words into Paul Buchheit's mouth)
Former Google employee, Gmail creator, and FriendFeed founder Paul Buchheit has come right out and said what many people are thi
But I don't actually have ChromeOS yet, so I guess I proved I need it
Of course I'm not an actual first post troll either, so maybe I'm just too slow on the draw.
Whatever the heck ChromeOS is (never heard of it), I can tell you one thing for sure: this guy Paul Buchheit might be right, but he sounds more like he has an axe to grind with the ChromeOS team than anything else.
ChromeOS is basically a Linux distro that only has a browser. The Chrome browser is the desktop shell, it can't be minimized and it has a small systray with battery and network icons instead of maximize/minimize buttons. And that's it (really).
I agree with the guy from TFA, ChromeOS is not interesting because...well, the average Linux distro can also browse the web and nobody is adopting it massively because of that. IMO ChromeOS is only getting attention because people believes that everything that comes f
IMO ChromeOS is only getting attention because people believes that everything that comes from Google is cool. But when I tried [hexxeh.net] ChromeOS, I experience the same sensation I had when I tried Wave.
Same here. I even compiled it after trying the hexxeh binary in the hope that hexxeh had somehow disable the cool part of chromeos.
I really like all of google's products and really wish I could afford an android phone, but the chromeos is very disapointing.
I prefer jolicloud if I need to live in a cloud.
That said, I can see this being useful in setting where everything is internet based apps (like a library or kiosk.) I imagine the hardware requirements would be real low.
If you have never heard of it, what good is your prediction? Personally I think he's right, but I dont see any axe grinding -- He, like many, believes Android to be far superior to ChromeOS, which it really is. Google was recently put on the spot for why they are developing two different operating systems, and to have a former Google employee speaking frankly about which he thinks is better doesn't seem much like axe grinding. Anyways, if you have never heard of a product, next time maybe you should, you
You don't come here often, do you? "chromeos site:slashdot.org" -> 709 results.
The problem with ChromeOS is it is trying to solve a problem them doesn't exist. Why upload data into the cloud if you don't need to share it or have access to it on the move?
You don't want to need to upload all your data to the cloud before you can do anything with it.
Cloud computing makes sense for people who want to rent computer processing power on an adhoc basis to solve computational problems.
Computing needs to gradually move to new technologies, it rarely makes huge leaps. ChromeOS would be better being a full Linux desktop for now with cloud services instead of being fully cloud based.
Why upload data into the cloud if you don't need to share it or have access to it on the move?
1) so you can look hip and tell your friends you work "in the cloud"
2) because you generously want to share all your data with Google, so they can turn around and sell it for beaucoup bucks to marketers and get rich on your back
Personally I think the backup thing is a red herring in the consumer market. How hard is it to plug a USB hard drive in and use Time Machine/Windows Backup? It's a little more complicated in Linux, but not much and anyone with the technical chops to get Linux working in the first place can almost certainly handle it. Since Windows 7 (maybe Vista? I dunno, never used Vista seriously) and OSX 10.5 backups on the two major consumer OSes are incredibly easy. Granted, if you are hit by some major natural di
It's a little more complicated in Linux
On the server side, I would argue that Linux it is easier. I'm not an "expert" although I have used Linux for years, and I remote backup data with a script that simply tars, gzips, and sftp's the data securely using 'expect'. Including rotating a couple dozen backups, it is a few dozen lines of script, and since it is sftp, it is encrypted on the journey. Not for rookies, granted, but it is simple and easy and doesn't require THAT much to figure out and doesn't req
3) So you can trust other people with managing your backups.
4) So when the government or a corporation decides you are in violation of the law or ToS, they can take you offline and deny you access to your own data without due process.
Even if it were a problem, it's a problem they've solved on all the other OSes, because you can access the same Google apps on those. Investing in a ChromeOS machine provides you a set of advantages that are all present on lots of other machines, with none of those machines' other benefits. It'll have to sell on simplicity itself and a low device cost if it's to really work as a product.
I'm sure the market's there, I'm just not sure that the people who would benefit from this device understand the cloud computing metaphor, and I worry that they won't be able to put a big enough price gap between ChromeOS and Windows 7 Starter netbooks.
The problem with ChromeOS is it is trying to solve a problem them doesn't exist.
The problem that exists is that a fat OS with local apps is a bugger to maintain and keep up to date. Conceptually at least, the beauty of something like Chrome is that the footprint of what needs to ever be updated can be much, much smaller -- and hence, hopefully, need updating less frequently. Everything else is maintained remotely, so the user doesn't have to worry about it.
Application software upgrades "just happen" without the user having to do anything. (How many times have you performed a GMail upgr
Why upload data into the cloud if you don't need to share it or have access to it on the move?
So perhaps the target market for ChromeOS devices, when they actually hit the market, will be people who need to share data and have access to it on the move?
I'd see it as a product for the corporate market, where keeping central control of all your users data, banishing CDs and memory sticks and preventing the serfs from installing games and fart apps on their devices would be a selling point. Someone leaves their ChromePad on a train? No worries - just lock their account and check the log to see if anyb
>> Surely the point is that Chrome OS allows Google and other devs to push the boundaries of what functionality can be contained within a web browser i.e. Chrome.
But is that a real problem? If the same functionality already exists in native applications on various platforms, is it really novel and does it matter that it can be "contained within a web browser"?
>> If they can demonstrate that hey, you can do facetube/music/pics etc quite happily within a browser then a Google user could get a ver
With the ARM notebooks coming, and the fact that it' is rumored to support virtual machines, the cloud, and many other features, ChromeOS is far from dead. As soon as the ARM based notebooks are powerful enough, and the cost is in the $200-300 range, I'll buy one.
And I predict many others will buy it as well. Saying ChromeOS is dead is like saying Kindle is dead because of the Ipad.
Virtual Machines? I think you're thinking of "Chromoting" which I believe is a remote desktop-type feature.
I tried an HTML5 VNC client and it was as slow as molasses, though that's not a surprise because even on desktops I have found VNC to be slow. Hopefully Chrome Remoting will offer better performance.
Virtual Machines? I think you're thinking of "Chromoting" which I believe is a remote desktop-type feature.
"Chromoting" is not a word and should never become a word.
What the GP was thinking of was using a network device running a thin client. While I don't agree with consumers willfully moving their personal data to the cloud, I can see a very good case for it in enterprise computing using a private "cloud".
Of course I remember the days when we casually talked about running our multiuser OS on one or mor
With the ARM notebooks coming, and the fact that it' is rumored to support virtual machines, the cloud, and many other features, ChromeOS is far from dead. As soon as the ARM based notebooks are powerful enough, and the cost is in the $200-300 range, I'll buy one.
Please explain why you would want an ARM net/notebook running ChromeOS over an ARM net/notebook running Android and able to do everything ChromeOS can do and then some.
I would much rather have a Ubuntu based ARM netbook than a ChromeOS one. Just because an ARM netbook may be interesting.. Doesn't mean ChromeOS is.
Based on my experience, Chrome is a solution in search of a problem. I've had it running in a VM on my laptop. Seriously, if you're going to be springing for a low end notebook anyway, there's not much of a cost advantage to buying a ChromeOS machine and one that can run a full-featured OS. This might have made sense a few years ago when prices were higher, but a quick look around tells me I can get a refurbed notebook for around $200 that'll run Windows or Linux adequately to do anything Chrome does, and quite a bit more besides.
As a business tool, it's all but useless. Google provides no mechanism for installing even standard Linux VPN software which most companies provide for their remote employees. Or any other software, for that matter. Also, no company with a brain in their head is going to allow employees to be storing internal data on another company's servers. This might be a little more useful if a company could customize it to use internal servers rather than Google's, but as far as I've been able to tell, that option just doesn't exist.
As a striped down Linux distro, it isn't bad, but the lack of a mechanism for loading 3rd party software negates even that benefit. So you have to ask - who would use this, and why? There isn't even a cost advantage for the software. You can download a standard Linux distro that has all the features of Chrome, and a wealth of standard productivity tools to boot for the same price as Chrome - free.
People keep saying this kind of thing. I remember predictions of the failure of the ipod too. And Ken Olsen from DEC said in 1977 "there is no reason for any individual to have a computer at his home."
Smart companies are going to dig into this kind of r&d to help meet the needs that we can't predict from where we are. If all a company does is make things that are obviously necessary or immediate successes, then we don't really make much progress.
This might be a little more useful if a company could customize it to use internal servers rather than Google's, but as far as I've been able to tell, that option just doesn't exist.
Ever heard of Google Apps? [google.com]
He's right. But Google haven't spent 2 years and millions of dollars in a dead project just for fun.
Chrome was announced 2 years ago, when the tablet market was just a speculation, even the iPad was just a rumor at that time. But now, after millions iPads sold and the rise of competitor's tablets struggling for this new market, the netbooks -- the real Chrome OS target -- became irrelevant, or predicted to be dead in a 2-3 years from now.
The advent of the tablets killed the netbooks. So there will be no pla
But for what it is worth, iPads are still crushing the competition, even in corporate IT [slashdot.org].
The advent of the tablets killed the netbooks.
So with hundreds of millions of netbooks around the world and a few million iPads, and that means the netbook market is dead? Wow.
I'd certainly say it's probably saturated at this point, but netbooks have big advantages over tablets (most obviously a keyboard), as well as some disadvantages. I can't see myself replacing my netbook with a tablet any time soon.
So another article on Slashdot from techies confidently asserting that a new product will be a failure. Considering the record of similar attacks on iPod, iPhone, and iPad, this strikes me as the best evidence that it will succeed. Of course, the open system purists are inevitably up in arms over anything that is not general purpose or completely open to customization, and seem innately unable to comprehend just how small is the market segment for which this is a significant consideration.
So let's look at why it might succeed:
1. Cheap. It should work very well on very low end processors that chug when loaded down with a general purpose OS trying to multitask multiple applications. Power applications will run in the cloud. This could well become the dominant platform for the 3rd world as internet connectivity continues to rise.
2. Secure. I commonly have people coming to me complaining about their computer being "slow," and when I look it over, I find that it has been colonized by viruses and spyware. There is a large group of people who just want to browse the web, and don't feel like they should need to be computer security experts to keep their systems running smoothly. These may also be favored by businesses that don't want to deal with the potential security leaks due to people installing unapproved software on their PCs
3. Uniform. Every ChromeOS platform will be running essentially the same software, based upon the same browser. A company that delivers services through this platform will be relieved of a lot of support headaches arising from differences in user hardware or the presence of "nonstandard" software (see 2)
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