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Give me a week to think about it." These dreaded words were uttered by the former owner of this double nickel Chevy when Rex Marshall asked about buying it. Before this story launches any further, a flashback in time will help shed some light on the details of this tale.
In the late 1960s, a high school student (for his senior auto shop project) built this very car you see here. And a high school kid with a radical car can sometimes be like a monkey with a machine gun. We can only imagine what kind of horsepower hijinks a high-schooler and a hot rod can be involved in, but a scant five years later this '55 was parked due to a blown engine. It sat on the side of the family garage for years collecting dust. And it was during this time period that another high school kid fell under its spell, Rex Marshall.
Rex vividly recalls seeing this car everyday as he passed it on his way to a buddy's house. Then one day in the mid '70s it was gone and that was that. Decades passed and Rex spent his time collecting Corvettes and other go-fast GM vehicles, but still, his high school impressions of that straight-axle '55 were alive. It was in 2001 while bench racing with a buddy that the homemade hot rod came up in the conversation. After several minutes of reminiscing and wondering what happened to it, Rex decided he would actually try to find out where it was.
The best place to start any search is the location in which the missing object was last seen. Over 26 years had passed since he last seen the car, so back to the scene of the crime, or in this instance, the house where the gasser was once parked. After knocking on the door and explaining to the occupant of the house why he was there, the man at the door proclaimed himself the owner of that '55 Chevy and informed Rex that he still had it and that it had been in storage for 20 years. He then asked Rex if he wanted to take a look at it.
What a terrible briar patch for any hot rodder to be thrown into-of course he wanted to see it! The car hadn't changed a bit in all those years. The red metalflake paint job, American mags, '64 Chevy bucket seats, fiberglass tilt front end, the straight axle, and even the Mickey Thompson Eliminator slicks were still all there. Rex held his breath as he asked that magic question: "Have you ever thought about selling it?"
The reply from the owner was, "Give me a week to think it over, then call me." After the longest week of his life, Rex made the call. The owner was starting to get sentimental, and we all know what that means. After some very careful word smithing on Rex's part, the owner stated "Well if I were to sell it, I would have to have at least 2,000 bucks for it; give me a week to think about it."
Once again the hands of time dragged slowly around the clock, and another very long week was spent wondering if this '55 would ever go. A week later Rex arrived at the garage, only this time he brought some extra loot to sweeten the deal. And true to form, the owner balked and said he was going to "fix it up someday." (How many times have we all heard that one?) Then suddenly he asked if Rex would pay a little more for it. Twenty-five hundred dollars later, Rex was the proud owner of a genuine surviving '55 Chevy hot rod.
Once the tall boy was back home, Rex tore into it and paid particular attention to keeping the period correct 1960s look and parts, which included just about everything. The interior was redone with some help from Danchuck, but kept faithful to the '60s-style 4-inch square upholstery pattern and '64 Impala seats.
And if that wasn't enough the all-important red metalflake paint job was applied just as it looked back in the day. Only Rex had to learn how to spray the metalflake, because no local painters knew how to do it. The gasser currently has a 1973 small-block currently displaced to 400 cubic inches and backed by a 5-speed Borg-Warner transmission. This small-block is cleverly disguised to look like a 409, and fools lots of people who glance at it.
A Pontiac/Olds rear running 4.56 gears delivers the power to the pavement while Ansen wheels hold the Mickey Thompson hides that are being smoked.
Don't think for a minute that this is some silly malt shop memories cruiser. Nope, this vintage rod is never trailered and has made it to the dragstrip and will stand the front wheels while taking off from the line. Rex's best time in the Chevy has been 11.90 at 115 mph and this was done at an elevation of 2,700 ft above sea level.


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Outcome of Multimodality Therapy for Elderly Colorectal Cancer Patients
The aim of this study was to analyze patterns of multimodality therapy in elderly patients with advanced colorectal cancer. We enrolled 272 patients with colorectal cancer. All patients received chemotherapy and some patients received secondary cytoreductive surgery and/or radiofrequency ablation. We compared differences between elderly patients (age >=75 years) and non-elderly patients (age <75 years), especially in relation to multimodality therapy. There were no significant differences in cancer-specific survival between elderly (n = 37) and non-elderly patients (n = 235).Twenty-seven percent of elderly and 35% of non-elderly patients received multimodality therapy, which resulted in prolonged survival. Although the main chemotherapy regimen was the same in both groups who received multimodality therapy, elderly patients who received chemotherapy alone seemed to be under-treated. For elderly patients, prognostic factors were host-related, such as comorbidities, whereas for non-elderly patients prognostic factors were tumor-related. Comorbidities and modified Glasgow Prognostic Score may be prognostic indicators in elderly patients receiving multimodality therapy. In conclusion, chronological age alone should not contraindicate multimodality therapy of colorectal cancer in elderly patients. Appropriate selection criteria for multimodality therapy in elderly patients should include not only tumor characteristics, but also host- and treatment-related factors.
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The flu has hit Whiteside County early, and the health department is urging people to get vaccinated.
Whiteside County had 25 confirmed cases of influenza as of Wednesday – up from 10 a week ago, said Beth Fiorini, administrator of the Whiteside County Health Department.
Lee County has no cases of the illness, said Kathy Ferguson, Lee County Health Department's administrator, and Dr. Tim Appenheimer, chief medical officer at KSB Hospital in Dixon.
Flu season runs from as early as October to as late as May, with the peak coming in January and February.
"It's making me nervous: If people aren't getting their flu shots now, then what's it going to look like later in the season?" Fiorini said.
Over the last few years, in the midst of the H1N1 scare, people were very wary of the flu and got the vaccine, she said.
But this year, with the flu flying under the radar, people might be too comfortable, she said.
"It might not seem important, but we want as many people as possible to get the shot to not only protect themselves, but also to stop the spread of the flu to others," Fiorini sad. "It's quick, easy and cheap."
The Illinois Department of Public Health and the federal Centers for Disease Control recommend everyone 6 months and older receive the flu vaccine.
But both agencies say it's especially important for those at high risk of serious complications from influenza, including young children; pregnant women; people with chronic health conditions such as asthma, diabetes or lung disease; and people 65 and older. Both organizations recommend caregivers of those people get the vaccine, too.
Flu shots are available at the county health department, as well as through local flu shot clinics and at many drugstores.
Symptoms of the flu include a fever, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, muscle or body aches, headache and fatigue.


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Mary Ruiz couldn't contain herself.
"Oh my god, she looked so gorgeous," the Elgin resident squealed. "I tried to tell her she was an inspiration to me. I can't believe I just saw her!"
Ruiz was talking about fashion icon Heidi Klum, one of four celebrity judges on this year's season of the hit competition show "America's Got Talent." Klum and her fellow judges -- actor/comedian Howie Mandel, ex-Spice Girls member Mel B. and radio personality Howard Stern -- appeared in Rosemont on Wednesday for the first of three days of taping at the Rosemont Theatre.
The judges' arrivals late Wednesday morning thrilled the crowd of thousands waiting for a chance to be in the audience for the shows.
After greeting and high-fiving numerous screaming fans, Mandel said he's ready to be "dazzled" by the contestants on tap to perform at the Rosemont tapings. Klum, host of the popular fashion-design show "Project Runway" and a new "Talent" judge this year, said she might critique contestants' fashion choices if she thinks they need serious help. Mel B., whose real name is Melanie Brown, is also a new judge. The British pop star said she's had a blast traveling around America as part of the show. And Stern, who received the most thunderous applause, said he believes "we'll find a superstar here in Chicago."
The line for Wednesday's noon taping was long enough to wrap around the building by 10 a.m. At one point, it snaked from the front of the theater down Balmoral Avenue nearly all the way to the Tri-State tollway.
"We can't wait to see the judges," said Buffalo Grove resident Valerie Thomas, who was in line with her 12-year-old daughter, Kaylee. "We like watching the show, but it will be so fun to see it in person."
Karen Dubinski and Susan Chiappetta, both of Arlington Heights, also said seeing the judges would be a highlight, though they disagreed on which one they liked the most, Mandel or Stern.
Jeff Skellenger of Romeoville said he's a big fan of Stern and the show in general.
"I was in the audience for a Jerry Springer show once, and that was nice, but I think this is really going to be fun," he said.
"America's Got Talent" will tape at the Rosemont Theatre through Friday, with two tapings each day. The Chicago area is one of several regions the show is visiting in an effort to find the most gifted contestants for the show's June 4 premiere on NBC.
The program showcases a number of traditional talents -- singers, comedians -- as well as more off-the-wall stuff, like ventriloquists and circus-style acrobatics.
Tickets to attend a taping on Thursday or Friday may still be available. Check the website on-camera-audiences.com and search for "America's Got Talent."


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GLADBROOK- A school bus with no students on board has been involved in a minor accident involving a truck in east central Iowa.
The Tama County Sheriff's Office says 77-year-old Charles Delfs, of Gladbrook, was driving the bus Monday afternoon on Highway 96 near Gladbrook when he failed to yield on a left turn toward a county road.
The bus turned in front of a truck with a livestock trailer driven by 68-year-old Gregg Eldon Reisinger, of Eldora. The vehicles collided, but neither driver was injured.
Delfs was issued a citation for failure to yield upon a left turn.


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By John R. Quain
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"Crowdsourcing" powers sites like The Huffington Post and Wikipedia. But not for much longer.
Readers are becoming skeptical, web searches are starting to block them, and now the mob of unpaid folks responsible for much of the work is turning on the hand that fails to feed it, demanding -- shock, horror! -- to be paid.
Imagine that.
Originally hyped using marketing buzzwords like "user generated content" and "crowdsourcing," the basic idea was simple: Convince people online to submit free information (reviews, song listings, citizen journalism reports, etc.), and then collect it all and sell it to advertisers and gullible investors. It was catnip to website developers: virtually no capital investment and pure profit.
It sounds too good to be true, but there have been successes. Music information site Gracenote used to get most of its information for free. It's now owned by Sony. Wikipedia put Microsoft's Encarta out of business, and it reduced the Encyclopedia Britannica to a $100-plus a year online subscription service.
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And money is pouring into hip destinations like question-and-answer networking site Quora (if you haven't heard of it yet, you will soon). Even AOL got sucked in, recently paying $315 million for one of the most well-known crowdsourced blogs, The Huffington Post. There are scores of others, of course, ranging from content farms like Demand Media and Seed to niche sites like Yahoo Answers, Stackoverflow and Ask.com.
But there are flies buzzing in the crowdsourcing pool.
Readers increasingly regard such sites as notoriously inaccurate, irrelevant and generally suspect. Restaurant reviews in Yelp may be posted by relatives of restaurateurs -- or competitors. Company profiles in Wikipedia may be written by the business' own PR department. And so-called citizen journalists at The Huffington Post may be publishing material that's actually written by marketing pros spinning "news" stories.
Indeed, HuffPo founder Arianna Huffington recently admitted as much, saying that her contributing authors are like those who appear on talk shows simply to promote their own books and movies.
The problem has also caught the attention of the world's search engine, Google. It launched a counterattack last week, changing its algorithm to kill listings from what it determines are content farms or "low-quality" sites. Bad news indeed for crowdsourced news.
An even more threatening groundswell may be underway. Some of the unpaid, unappreciated volunteers supplying all this free content are going on strike. Many have become disillusioned with others taking credit for their work. Some have simply become bored (witness the decline in the number of volunteer editors working on Wikipedia). Still others have begun to resent the fact that their gratis work is lining the pockets of the owners of sites like The Huffington Post.
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Instant Classic
It would have been a great game even without the late heroics. Both starters were brilliant in spots: Cain struck out four of the last six he faced and only allowed one hit after the 1st, Strasburg retired the last ten batters he faced. The Nationals turned two double plays early to snuff out the Giants chances, and the Giants pulled off a tough 3-6-1 double of their own in the 5th. Cain made a great play on a comebacker the inning before to get an out at the plate and save a run. Both teams played flawlessly in the field, a relief to Giants fans in particular after a long stretch of poor glove work. It was one of those classic match-ups of great pitchers that actually turned out to be a classic match-up of great pitching. The Giants bullpen deserves a lot of credit for three scoreless innings. Javier Lopez got two outs despite a hit and a walk, then Jean Machi, Sergio Romo, and Jeremy Affeldt retired seven straight. Lopez struck out Adam LaRoche looking with two on and Machi got a comebacker to end the 8th and turn it over to the big guns. The Nats have their own guns in the 'pen--Tyler Clippard was tough in the 8th and Soriano had a 15-inning scoreless streak going before The White Shark got it done in the 9th.
Somehow, again, the Giants found a way to win. Despite Panda's rocket launch, Blanco gets the game ball for his superb work against Strasburg and his ridiculous two-strike, two-out triple to save the day. Buster Posey led off the inning with a single that hit Maya on the foot, and Boch brought in Andres Torres to pinch-run, and he scored easily from first base. Guillermo Quiroz caught the top of the 10th and would have been the next hitter after Sandoval. Giants pitchers laid down nine scoreless innings after the 1st. Add the nine scoreless from last night and the Nats are hurting in the offense department. Let's hope that continues tomorrow afternoon. Madison Bumgarner gets the start against Gio Gonzalez. Two great lefties follow the two big righties.
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- M.C. O'Connor said...
Nice interview with Cain (Baggs' column).
It's a loooooooooong season, my friends. We should all strive to be as calm and steady as "Old Man" Matt Cain. That was his 245th start last night. Young Mr. Strasburg, by way of comparison, recorded his 55th.
- Wed May 22, 06:51:00 AM PDT
- JC Parsons said...
A truly great game, as you say a classic. I was going to be happy even if we didn't pull it out. I mean, losing to Strasberg is no crime. We needed a quality start bad and that is just what Matt gave us. We have a distinct formula that got us those beautiful trophies and we need to regain that identity. Winning anyway possible is always good but winning with STARTING PITCHING is how we roll. It is how we can win it all again
BTW are we still thinking that our level of calmness or excitement actually affects wins or loses? Or are u just suggesting a way to survive a long season. I can understand Cain staying calm but I don't see the value as a fan. Calmness is for old men. I live and die everyday with my team. I really can't control it and I don't plan on trying. It may make me a poor blogger but we already knew that. So be calm if you want but remember its just a silly hobby. Maybe we should save our calm for important, real life situations. I'm just sayin
- Wed May 22, 11:54:00 AM PDT
- M.C. O'Connor said...
I love the Giants and enjoy the ups and downs of the season, too. I was nervous as hell last night and you should have heard me scream at the TV after Blanco's triple in the 9th!
I just really like the way successful ballplayers have learned to accept all the variations in performance they go through. It's a fantastic skill to have. When I can embrace that way of living, I find I do things better. I write better, ski better, teach better, etc. If that makes me an old man, fine. I got no beef with old men--I hope I get to be one. I don't have a "calmness" bank account. I don't "use it up" or have to "save" it for "real life." Everything I do is part of my "real life"! Even my silly hobbies.
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IT'S AMAZING how important tomorrow's weather is.
Mothers want to know what's likely so they can have the proper clothing ready for their children come morning and it's time to get ready for school.
Farmers and ranchers need to know about tomorrow's weather because it affects so many things they do (or can't do).
Schools like knowing tomorrow's forecast as well as long range since it dictates preparations for operations in every department in a public education system.
That's why several times a day, every day, most of us are glued to a radio or TV to get the latest weather update.
Newspapers, particularly dailies and other multiple days of publication in a week, carry fairly extensive forecasts. Radio and TV stations devote a significant segment of their news programming to weathercasts, TV complete with maps, charts and other data.
TELEVISION, of course, changed how we get the weather report.
With TV, picking the right person to do the weather became significant. It has to be someone believable, who handles the techno-scientific aspects of our climate and who has the type of personality needed to attract viewers. Many stations use trained meteorologists.
In the blossoming of TV news and weather reporting in the 1960s-70s, there wasn't an abundance of specifically trained individuals to do that. There was some quick-study training, but a good on-screen persona was as important then as it is today.
My all-time favorite TV weatherman was from those early times. Sid Lasher was Houston's original friendly, chatty rain-or-shine man.
While, it was easy to like Sid in his on-air job, it was even easier to care about such a nice, warm, considerate human being in person. He was immensely popular and in demand for public appearances at civic and charitable events.
AND, SID couldn't say no. He worked a grueling schedule.
He was at the station before noon each day because, in those days, many weathermen performed a number of other functions, usually "hosting" some time slots with movies or other canned entertainment as well as being responsible for some technical control. Then, there were the 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. weather reports to prepare as well as bulletins as needed.
Sid averaged a half-dozen or so public appearances a week on top of a 50-60 hour work schedule.
As an officer in a few civic and social organizations within my community as well as publishing a weekly newspaper, I often had need for not only programs for those groups, but also a "celebrity" to be the host or master of ceremonies. I asked Sid to host perhaps 4-5 events a year. He rarely declined....my group or any other public service organization.
Then, one day came word that Sid had suffered a mild heart attack. He would be away from his television job for at least a couple of months.
He was missed both on TV and in his many stints as headliner for public service/fundraising events.
WHEN SID returned, the clamor for his presence at such functions did not let up. But, under doctor's orders, the affable TV weatherman had to say a word he'd had trouble with before — no.
Those of us who'd used him to draw crowds to our fundraisers and functions, had to find other ways to fill the house.
However, there weren't many with his drawing power available without some notice and some preparation. Of course, Sid worked for free, for the good will it created for his employer, KHOU-TV, the Houston CBS affiliate. And, people with any drawing power for such events were beginning to command fees.
Within weeks after his return to the air, one night in the 10 p.m. news opener, anchor Ron Stone came on screen and announced that Sid had suffered another heart attack and died just minutes before air time. KHOU's news team somehow managed through tear-blurred eyes to deliver the news that evening.
The original friendly, chatty TV weatherman went to meet his maker. It was a sad day for me, and I'm quite sure, for anyone who was drawn to his weathercast.
Willis Webb is a retired community newspaper editor-publisher of more than 50 years experience. He can be reached by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Between some high-profile departures and Microsoft's acquisition of the Gears of War franchise, it seems that Epic Games hasn't put much focus on games lately. It has ambitious plans for its Unreal Engine that has been taking up most of its press, but CEO and founder Tim Sweeney says that the studio still has games in the pipeline.
"We're building Fortnite, which is a bigger and way cooler game than we imagined," Sweeney told Polygon. "It started out as an internal game jam project at Epic and has grown over time. We have a combination of a great building game, an action-combat game and with some [light] elements of an MMO. We'll be saying more about that in the coming months.
He said Fortnite is taking some lessons from Valve and Riot, by making the game accessible and "giving them a great value with a game that can be played for hundreds or thousands of hours."
More than 90 Epic employees are working on Fortnite right now, according to Sweeney, and other teams are working on projects of their own. One in particular, in early development, "will continue the Epic tradition of pushing high-end, leading-edge graphics."
As for the Gears franchise, Sweeney said that was simply an issue of being focused in a different direction. Epic is more interested in fully connected games now, so a big-budget single-player experience isn't something they were interested in pursuing. "The core Gears values are really tied to being big event-based, single-player console games with awesome cover mechanics and other things that really didn't translate into the future approach we were taking with online games, and competitive and cooperative multiplayer," he said. "Because we weren't planning on building any more Gears games we were just going to let that sit on the shelf for a decade or more, in case it had any future value to us."


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Would you skip sleeping if you could?
New Scientist has a piece on the possibilities of 24 hr awake time and many sleep scientists believe it's inevitable that we'll get pretty close to this one day. With drugs like modafinil, people are already staying up many more hours without the side effects of caffeine or amphetamines (so they claim). This is just the first step toward doing away with sleep entirely. And it's one of those subjects that's going to face incredible division of opinion:
"The more we understand about the body's 24-hour clock the more we will be able to override it," says Russell Foster, a circadian biologist at Imperial College London. "In 10 to 20 years we'll be able to pharmacologically turn sleep off. Mimicking sleep will take longer, but I can see it happening." Foster envisages a world where it's possible, or even routine, for people to be active for 22 hours a day and sleep for two. It is not a world that everyone likes the sound of. "I think that would be the most hideous thing to happen to society," says Neil Stanley, head of sleep research at the Human Psychopharmacology Research Unit in the University of Surrey, UK. But most sleep researchers agree that it is inevitable.
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WOODSTOCK – A repeal of the county's ban on video gambling in unincorporated areas is headed to the full McHenry County Board next week for a vote.
Its Liquor and License Committee voted, 4-1, Monday to recommend that the County Board repeal the December 2009 ban, which it put in place shortly after the state legalized video gambling in establishments serving alcohol to help pay for a $30 billion capital bill.
Many county municipalities allow video gambling, which bar and restaurant owners in rural areas say is not only unfair but also a definite hit to their revenue. While the state approved video gambling almost four years ago, the machines just started going live in October.
Bonnie Miske is general manager of the Broken Oar in Port Barrington – which has video poker machines – and T-Bar outside of Island Lake – which falls under the county's ban. Miske told committee members Monday that business at the Broken Oar is good, but business has been suffering at T-Bar since video gambling started.
"McHenry County doesn't need yet another closed-down business and yet another vacant building," Miske said.
Kief's Reef owner Randy Kief shared a story of a group of customers who had dinner at his business in Burtons Bridge, but went to another bar to watch the Chicago Blackhawks game so their wives could play video poker.
"It's really starting to be a problem," Kief said.
Establishments that serve liquor can have up to five machines, provided their local government does not opt out. The state gets 30 percent of the proceeds and gives 5 percent back to local governments, with the remaining proceeds split between the business and the game machine operator.
McHenry County's ban affects 60 unincorporated establishments with licenses to serve liquor.
Municipalities that allow video gambling include Huntley, Marengo, Harvard, McHenry, Richmond, Hebron, Johnsburg, McCullom Lake, Fox River Grove, Lake in the Hills, Spring Grove, Ringwood, Woodstock and Algonquin, which approved video gambling last week.
Miske was one of 10 speakers Monday who want the ban repealed, while three speakers want the ban kept in place. McHenry resident Joyce Story told the committee that the impact of gambling expansion is taking an unseen toll that will get worse.
"The negative impact far outweighs and far exceeds the positives that may seem to be occurring," Story said.
A majority of the committee sided with the business owners, who since early March have been writing letters and speaking at County Board meetings to push for a repeal. Committee member Diane Evertsen, R-Harvard, cast the sole opposing vote.
"I still don't think this is appropriate for the county," she said. "I look at it as strictly a revenue stream for the state of Illinois."
But committee members Robert Nowak, R-Cary, Joe Gottemoller, R-Crystal Lake, and committee Chairman Ken Koehler, R-Crystal Lake, support a repeal. Member Sue Draffkorn, R-Wonder Lake, said she is still unsure where she stands, but voted "yes" so that the full County Board could make a decision. Draffkorn voted for the ban in 2009.
"I feel it's unfair that some businesses are allowed to have it and some aren't," Nowak said.
Barring changes of heart, the fate of the repeal likely will be in the hands of the nine new County Board members elected in November. Eight of the 13 who voted for the 2009 ban are still in office, compared with only three of the 10 members who voted against it.
There were 4,353 video gambling machines registered statewide as of the end of February with the Illinois Gaming Board, up from 3,400 the previous month. There are now 134 machines registered in 12 municipalities with territory within McHenry County, which netted those governments a total of $22,816 in February.
The state received $114,073 from those machines last month, and a total of almost $3.4 million statewide.
What it means
The McHenry County Board Liquor and License Committee voted, 4-1, Monday to recommend that the board repeal its ban on video gambling in unincorporated areas.
How they voted
Committee member Diane Evertsen, R-Harvard, cast the sole opposing vote. Voting "yes" were committee Chairman Ken Koehler, R-Crystal Lake, and members Robert Nowak, R-Cary, Joe Gottemoller, R-Crystal Lake, and Sue Draffkorn, R-Wonder Lake.
What's next
The full County Board is expected to vote on the repeal at its next meeting at 7 p.m. April 16 at the county Administration Building, 667 Ware Road, Woodstock.


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Ruby Sparks
Calvin Weir-Fields (Paul Dano, real-life boyfriend of Zoe Kazan) is a J.D. Salinger-esque one-hit wonder suffering from writer's block. His shrink (Elliot Gould) challenges Calvin to write a page about the young woman who has appeared in his dreams.
This writing exercise leads to pages upon pages of a new novel that he bangs out on an old-fashioned typewriter. His writer's block is cured and he now has a new female protagonist to obsess over. Much to his shock, she materializes in his kitchen cooking him breakfast and instantly becomes his new live-in girlfriend. The audience is asked to suspend disbelief and go along for this zany ride.
How will Calvin handle his control over his fictional creation turned flesh? Will he continue to revise his typewritten description of Ruby every time she exerts her independence from him or displays a quirk not quite to his liking? Or will he shower her with unique abilities like speaking French fluently? The attempt to be sympathetic to the creation, in this case Ruby Sparks, is the twist to the usual male fantasy-type movies such as "Splash" or "Weird Science."
Directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris of "Little Miss Sunshine" bring this indie movie to life. But the real star is Zoe Kazan (granddaughter of legendary filmmaker Elia Kazan), who plays the title role and is the screenwriter of the film.
"Ruby Sparks" takes the typical romantic comedy and turns it on its head. Kazan writes a more nuanced script than other screenwriters of romantic comedies about the power dynamics in relationships and shows the result of one partner having too much control over the other. The viewer hopes that Ruby will be free in the end, but that idea is not as fully developed as it could be.
Extras include: The Story; Real Life Couples; Be Careful What You Wish For; Theatrical Trailer; Sneak Peek
Format: Color, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Dubbed: English, French, Spanish
Run Time: 105 minutes
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Drop In The Bucket
Ever since the invention of the dopp kit, men have been getting more and more feminine in stockpiling their bathbags to the brim with eye creams and cover ups and teeth whiteners and softening gel masks.
Recently, however, a product that represents a return to manliness caught our eye. Nature Calls, from Ritual Grooming, presents a novel solution for an age-old problem. It's not often that a product comes along that addresses such a confidential issue in such a public manner, so when one does, it's almost always worth mentioning.
Be that as it may, we're going to stick with a more classic remedy: matches.


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Those up top (the Presidential Inaugural Committee) chose to utilize Microsoft's Silverlight technology to stream the upcoming inaugural events for the new president of the United States. Though Microsoft certainly likes this idea, this leaves out thousands of people in the US and elsewhere who still cannot run Silverlight or an open source alternative on their systems from viewing the streamed video online. Update by Thom: Linux and PowerPC Mac fans rejoice, as they can watch the inauguration as well using Moonlight. Migel De Icaza wrote: "Microsoft worked late last night to get us access to the code that will be used during the inauguration so we could test it with Moonlight." Microsoft and the Moonlight team fixed this issue in one afternoon, so it might be a little rough.
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RE[2]: Soooo .... especially given the IT team
by jabbotts on Tue 20th Jan 2009 13:11 UTC in reply to "RE: Soooo ...."
I'd expect the US President's IT team to be able to figure out how to stream video without requiring flash or silverlight. This decision was just plane lazy.
On the up side, moonlight had an overnight development cram session with access to the website code. Seems us lowly unix users are also allowed to watch the proceedings now. Would smoothing out the bugs over night happen in a proprietary company?


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During its E3 press conference, Sony showed off Bloodborne, the latest from From Software and Sony's Japan Studio and the apparent finalized name of the rumored Project Beast. It's coming in 2015, and a moody trailer shows off the grim spectacle.
A description accompanying the trailer says you're tasked with exploring the ancient city of Yharnam, as a curse now plagues the city. The result, apparently, is a lot of horrific things trying to kill you.


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Christine Benz: Hi. I'm Christine Benz from Morningstar.com. Is the 4% rule for portfolio withdrawals during retirement broken? Joining me to discuss that topic is John Rekenthaler. He is vice president of research for Morningstar.
John, thank you so much for being here.
John Rekenthaler: Good day, Christine.
Benz: John, there is a lot of confusion about what the 4% rule actually means. I often talk to people who think it means that you can take 4% of your portfolio--in perpetuity--that you just stick with that fixed rate. Let's talk about actually what the 4% rule posited.
Rekenthaler: Yes, the 4% rule or guideline has been around about 20 years. It's important to remember it's the output of a study. A study is different than a life. In the study, the financial planner--Bill Bengen, who did this--looked through past history up to the early 1990s from the market data--he had the '20s through the 1990s--and said, If I just used two asset classes, two asset classes alone, stocks and fixed-income bonds, and I want to run a test over various 30-year time periods to see if I'd run out of money, what figure is the highest figure I can do--what will never happen in any time period, ever--will I always be able to last for 30 years. And he came up with 4%. It's worth noting that he added another asset class a little bit later of small company stocks and he got to 4.5%, but nobody remembers that. Otherwise it could be the 4.5% rule, if it just were to come out.
What I'm trying to convey is there was work behind this, but it's arbitrary. It's arbitrary to decide on the 30-year time period. It's arbitrary to decide that the withdrawal rate adjusted for inflation is the same year after year after year--it never changes. It's arbitrary that there were only two asset classes chosen, and it's arbitrary that in any time period ever in the study that it demanded 100% success rate as opposed to 99%, for example.
Benz: Right. It's also important to understand that the 4% rule implies that you take 4% on day one of retirement. Then, you just inflation-adjust that dollar amount as the years go by. So it's not that you're taking a fixed percentage.
Rekenthaler: That's right.
Benz: Recently there have been some arguments that that 4% rule deserves modification. People have been talking about a 3% rule. Let's talk about why people are calling for a lower withdrawal rate--why they view that as perhaps a safer rate than the old 4% rule.
Rekenthaler: Right. Well, within the context of the original study, again, it's a study with these conservative assumptions, it's reasonable to say that going forward there might not be 100% success using a 4% withdrawal rate. Bond yields are relatively low right now and stock valuation is relatively high in the period from 1926 to 1993. You don't see both of those conditions happening. Sometimes bond yields were low, but stocks were quite cheap on price/earnings ratio, or stocks were fairly expensive, but bond yields were higher than today.
Asset prices do look more expensive now than at that time period. I would guess within the context of that study over the next 40-, 50-year period, there probably will be times when a 4% withdrawal rate will not work. David Blanchett of Morningstar, among others, has done work like this in running Monte Carlo simulations and testing, looking at current asset prices: Will 4% always be successful? And it won't.
Now the point I want to make, and I think everybody here at Morningstar--I've talked with David about that, I've talked with you about this, I've talked with Michael Kitces, who writes on our site and is a planner who is quite expert in this--we all agree that the thing to convey is within the context of the study that used to be 4%, it probably is 3% now, but that study never meant that's the withdrawal rate that you had to take. It's a very conservative sort of starting point, I would say, for a withdrawal rate.
Benz: There are aspects of the 3% rule that you disagree with, mainly because it's a worst-case scenario and also that it is asking for 100% success rate. Is that ...
Rekenthaler: It's asking for 100% success rate. It's a 30-year time horizon, which may not be appropriate, depends when you retire and health condition and so forth. I think the most important is it assumes inflexibility. It assumes absolutely no possibility of change, no adjustment to the fact. The key issue in sustaining a withdrawal rate during retirement is what happens in the first few years of the retirement. If there's pretty much any time there's a failure when you run a test situation, it's because a big bear market happens very early in retirement.
The first few years will tell. You can either start off with a little higher rate and adjust it down if you happen to hit that bear market. And you won't have to adjust it down if you don't. Or you could start off being a little conservative with a lower rate and then notch it up. But either way, if you're not hit with that bear market early, things become a lot more open. It's actually quite unlikely that you would have to stick--that anybody would have to stick--with a lower figure.
Benz: Do you think that people who had been operating with the 4% rule in mind should maybe think about ratcheting it down? If they're embarking upon retirement, should they think about starting conservatively, maybe with more like a 3% rate, take it up?
Rekenthaler: This is probably where I turn to your expertise, Christine. You look at these matters. Where I come in is just trying to step back, look at the bigger picture, and point out that this number comes from--it's a useful number and it's a useful exercise, but it's an exercise that doesn't represent how people live. Nobody is--unlike in the study--nobody is going to go 30 years and pretend they don't know what's going on or care what's going on in the market and do the same draw every single year and never change their habits. In the real world, as you loosen these assumptions, you're not trapped into that figure. There is no reason to be. In terms of the best way to execute it, I don't know, you tell me.
Benz: Well, I think a big component is what's actually in the portfolio. The Bengen research, I think, looks at a 60% equity, 40% bond portfolio. Certainly someone who has a more conservative portfolio with a heavier tilt toward bonds ought to be conservative, given what likely lies ahead.
John, I would like to cycle through what you see as sort of best practices in the realm of portfolio withdrawal rates. You touched on one, which is the value of being flexible, being willing to take your withdrawal rate down if you encounter a really bad market environment, and then maybe you can bring it up and take more if you've just come through a period like the one we've just experienced.
Rekenthaler: It sounds a little bad in a way to say, "Well, you might have to cut back," but certainly all of us during our accumulation phases--just in going through life--we have periods where we have relatively more income or more success or more or maybe just fewer costs, and then kids come or something else comes and you cut back, and we're all used to doing this. Assuming that there is a reasonable level of income so that the cuts don't really cut into absolute essentials, that seems something that we all should be comfortable with doing. Again, these are precautions that may not need to be exercised.
Benz: Right. You also note that you don't have to stick with a 100% success percentage. What is a reasonable level of success rate that someone could stick with if they wanted to ratchet that down a little bit? Where does it start to get scary? Obviously, if you're in the 50% range--50% success, 50% failure--that's not good.
Rekenthaler: That doesn't sound good, does it?
Benz: No.
Rekenthaler: I don't even know how you would do this scientifically. I have thought of 90% or 95% as numbers. When I talk to David, who's our director of retirement planning, David feels that 80% is a more appropriate number because, again, you can always adjust. You start out with a number that you project via some sort of simulation is 80%. If the first year in the markets are disappointing, you can cut back a little bit and adjust. If the first year or two are strong, you're probably already going to be within that 80%, very likely. Again, what happens early in retirement has such a big effect upon the withdrawal rate and one's withdrawal patterns 20, 25, 30 years out.
Benz: Obviously another big lever that people have is that they might be able to adjust the length of their retirement. There's been a lot of enthusiasm for this idea of working longer if people are able to do so. You note that that can actually be something that people can do to improve their overall success rate. If they're willing to shorten the time period when they expect to be retired that that improves their probabilities of success.
Rekenthaler: We also know that people tend to spend more money earlier in their retirements, as well, at least to be more active, too. A possibility is to take a little bit of a chance. But say, I know now I'm in good health and if I spend this money--there are things that I want to do with this money that are important to me--I don't know where I'll be 25 years from now. I'm not saying forget about where you're going to be 25 years from now, but I think one can overemphasize the possibilities or those issues. You don't want to forgo too much now because of what may or may not occur. This does depend on legacy issues. For those who are fortunate enough to have enough money to be thinking about a legacy, then that's an additional factor. It may be that you want to postpone some spending that you could do in order to leave more behind.
Benz: Longevity factors are also in the mix here. Part of making a good assessment here is that you've got to do some forecasting about your own longevity. Is it realistic for everybody to plan for a life that goes until 95?
Rekenthaler: Yes, my mother, she's not here anymore. She died at age 80, and if you would've looked at any sort of genetics or her health, it would have seemed when she was 75, she would have been here much longer. So, one doesn't know.
Benz: OK. A lot of uncertainties here, but it's a really important topic. We really appreciate you taking the time out of your schedule to be here with us today.
Rekenthaler: Thanks, Christine.
Benz: Thanks for watching. I'm Christine Benz for Morningstar.com.


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PFC Ludogorets Razgrad, the champions of Bulgaria, are in first place in group B with six points from two matches and goal difference of plus five.
They started their European campaign this season from the UEFA Champions League second qualifying round. After beating Slovan Bratislava with an aggregate scoreline of 4-2, they managed to eliminate the Serbian champions FK Partizan Belgarad winning at home and as visitors.
Their last obstacle before the group stage of the Champions League was Basel, but the semi-finalists in Europa League last year sealed the group stage appearance as they eased to a 6-2 victory on aggregate.
The team made its debut in the European competitions the last year as they were eliminated by Dinamo Zagreb in the UEFA Champions League second qualifying round with a goal in the sixth minute of the additional time. In the group stage of the tournament Ludogorets have already won against PSV at Phillips Stadium with 2-0 and at home against Dinamo Zagreb with 3-0.
In fact, of the 24 teams new to the competition, just four – PFC Ludogorets Razgrad, Swansea City AFC, Eintracht Frankurt and Fiorentina – have claimed six points from their opening two fixtures. On Thursday, the Bulgarian side will face Chernomorets Odessa in Ukraine in attempt to record another victory in the competition.
This team has a lot of potential, players who are motivated to success in the European competitions and if they continue to play at their best, PFC Ludogorets Razgrad will definitely be one of the surprises in the competition this year.
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Mr. Sulu in Riverdale? Oh my! Actor and equal rights advocate George Takei, whose portrayal of the "Star Trek" character on television and in films has made him a science fiction legend, is crossing a new frontier this week by appearing as himself in issue No. 6 of Archie Comics' ''Kevin Keller,'' a series about Riverdale's only gay teenager. Takei, who is also gay, said his appearance in the issue that is released Wednesday dovetails nicely with his real-life advocacy for equal rights because it helps bring home his message that anyone can aspire to be what they want to be no matter who they are.
A scare for Cooper
Anderson Cooper says a reporting assignment turned into a temporary blindness scare. On his talk show Tuesday, Cooper said he was in Portugal last week working on a story for ''60 Minutes'' and spent two hours on the water. The newsman says that later, he developed a burning sensation in his eyes and lost sight for 36 hours. Showing a photo he took of himself with an eye patch, Cooper joked it would be his new online dating picture.
Richards cast
TV Land says it has cast ''Seinfeld'' star Michael Richards in a pilot for a prospective new sitcom. The series, ''Giant Baby,'' also would feature ''Cheers'' alums Kirstie Alley and Rhea Perlman. TV Land said Tuesday the pilot will be taped next week. ''Giant Baby'' focuses on Broadway star Maddie Banks, played by Alley. Richards plays her limo driver while Perlman plays her assistant.
Wanna bet?
"Everybody has got a chance to experience it in their own way, right down to the fact of betting on the names — is it going to be Frances or James or Baby Gaga?" — Robert Lacey, a royals historian on the London bettor shops taking odds on the royal pregnancy outcome.


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Man its been forever since I have talked to you!
You will be missed maybe some day we can talk again.
I'll never forget you roon =(
Alas poor Roon, I knew thee not.
Rest in Peace, dear Roon.
We hardly knew ye, and yet thy kind soul hath touched the hearts of many.
Fare thee well, cap'n.
Oh that my too too sullied flesh should melt.
That thee should suffer these slings and arrows of fate.
To die, to sleep; to sleep, perchance to dream.
Embarking on my final hour, I walk the gates of Eden.
Looking back, I call out: "****** I LOVE YOU".
-exeunt Serix-
Roon, i never knew thee
Always in our hearts.
Rest in peace.


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PORTLAND, Ore. A new study concludes that many doctors appear to have largely ignored a Food and Drug Administration warning to screen users of new antipsychotic drugs for high blood sugar and cholesterol, which poses risks to their health and raises questions about the efficacy of warning protocols in general.
The research analyzed about 109,000 Medicaid patients taking "second generation" antipsychotic drugs, which can cause increases in blood sugar, cholesterol and significant weight gain, as well as other symptoms significantly raising the risk of diabetes. It was done by health researchers from Oregon, Colorado, Georgia and Missouri, and just published in the Archives of General Psychiatry.
It found that most doctors never changed their level of baseline screening for blood sugar and cholesterol, despite a warning in 2003 from the FDA and two other organizations that these antipsychotic drugs could raise the risk of diabetes in a patient population that already was at higher risk for this disease.
"The existing baseline screening and ongoing monitoring of glucose and lipid levels in these patients was already pretty low, and the FDA warning really had no impact in changing that," said Daniel Hartung, an assistant professor of pharmacy instruction in the College of Pharmacy at Oregon State University.
"The side effects that can be caused by these new types of antipsychotic medications, some of which were first approved in the 1990s, are not trivial," Hartung said. "Increases in blood sugar, cholesterol and body weight can lead to diabetes in some cases, and this patient group already has a problem with diabetes that's almost twice that of the general population."
By 2003, Hartung said, enough evidence of these problems had accumulated that the FDA, along with the American Diabetes Association and the American Psychiatric Association, issued formal statements and warnings about the issue, and recommended baseline metabolic testing and ongoing monitoring for anyone beginning these medications.
In this study group that examined more than 100,000 patients in California, Missouri and Oregon it never happened.
There were no significant changes in the level of baseline testing for blood sugar and cholesterol. There was some movement toward one drug that posed less metabolic risk, the study found, but much of that could have been caused by the elimination in California, around the same time, of required prior authorization for that drug.
Second-generation antipsychotic drugs, such as olanzapine, aripiprazole and others, are very powerful medications and were originally developed for treatment of schizophrenia, Hartung said. They were largely prescribed at first only by psychiatrists, but their use has now expanded widely into treatment for problems such as bipolar disorder and less serious mental health problems such as depression, and they are often administered by general practitioners.
The study noted that individuals with serious mental illness often have a higher risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease, and as such are already a vulnerable population. Since the new drugs can significantly increase those risks, monitoring blood sugar and cholesterol is very important, experts say.
"Part of the problem may be that simply sending doctors a letter about these issues, which come up every now and then with medications, is just not getting the job done," Hartung said. "With this group of medications, at least, it clearly wasn't effective, and it does raise questions about whether new approaches are needed. Part of the problem may also be people moving from one doctor to another, and inaccurate assumptions about testing being made."
"Also, changes in behavior are always slow," he said.
Anyone taking these medications, Hartung said, may wish to discuss with their physicians what type of metabolic screening they've had, and consider glucose and lipid testing if it has not already been done. If there are problems with high blood sugar, cholesterol or body weight, it may need to be considered by the physician in choosing the best treatment, he said.
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Grunthy wrote:I don't understand this country's obsession with college. This country so demonizes trade jobs in high school it is embarrassing. We need to get off of the every body needs to go to college.
If the government has to throw money around, this would be a great place for improvement.


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(WIBW) - President Barack Obama will not visit the University of Kansas Friday as previously announced.
In a news release issued Tuesday afternoon, the White House did not give a specific reason for the change. However, they same release said the President will be in Boston Thursday morning, where he will speak at an interfaith service for victims of the Boston Marathon bombing.
Three people were killed and more than 170 others were injured in a pair of explosions Monday near the race's finish line.
No details had been released on the President's planned KU trip,
including the reason for the trip.
Kansas Democratic Party Chair Joan Wagnon says the decision is understood.
"While the President is always welcome in Kansas, we understand that his leadership is needed in Boston during this time of healing," Wagnon said in a statement released Tuesday afternoon.
KDP Chair Responds To Cancellation Of President's KU Visit
TOPEKA - In light of the tragedy at the Boston Marathon, this afternoon the White House announced that President Barack Obama's April 19 event at the University of Kansas has been canceled.
"First and foremost, our thoughts and prayers are with the victims of yesterday's senseless tragedy," Joan Wagnon, Kansas Democratic Party Chair said. "While the President is always welcome in Kansas, we understand that his leadership is needed in Boston during this time of healing."


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All the better to torrent with, my dear!
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"Students shouldn't go to school and wonder if they turn on the light, is it going to dim the light in another room?" she said.
Trust me. They won't even consider that possibility. It's only a problem when it affects them.
Students also need to have access to broadband outside school, Fox said. "Students need to be able to leave school without wondering, 'Can I watch my teacher's algebra video when I get home?'" she said.
And that is the core problem.
The report, called " The Broadband Imperative," further suggests that schools should upgrade their networks to support speeds of 1Gbps per 1,000 users in five years.
Do they have any idea what the price is for that kind of Internet connection?
I'd be looking at huge caching servers first.
Do they have any idea what the price is for that kind of Internet connection?
When you get up to buying a gig, not as much
I would say caching servers is still doing it wrong. If thousands of students in a single building need access to "online textbooks and collaboration tools", why aren't those services hosted either on the premises or in some kind of colocation facility with a dedicated pipe?
Because, The Cloud... It's always good!
This requires organization. Good luck...
I'd be looking at huge caching servers first.
Christine Fox: "What's that?"
Someone mod parent up. Their requirements clearly indicate the need to repeatedly access same content. Which means that you could cut your bandwidth usage by 999 times when that content, accessed by 1,000 students, is cached locally when the first student accesses it. Can you imagine the cost savings of such a responsible solution instead of knee-jerk response resulting in head-on capacity accommodation?
Today's content providers seem to jump through every possible hoop to defeat caching.
You would think that a video provider would use some indirect URL to first log the access attempt and then point to a static location where the actual video is provided, and that can be cached locally, but no...
In a new deployment, including a caching proxy probably is a waste.
E.g. our existing proxy now has a byte-% hit ratio of 11%, falling all the time.
Thank HTML5 for the death of caching as much as the advertising.
It is all apps now. And in schools they KNOW they are all incompetent boobs so they want nothing that requires skilled labor to maintain. So outsourcing is the word. Everything. Gradebooks, attendance, cafeteria manegement, email of course, Courseware, scheduling and calendaring, yearbooks. If it isn't being delivered from the cloud now it is because they are still fighting over which vendor they want to write a check to. (read as the bidding is still fierce over who will kick back more.. ok, I'm a cynic) That pattern means they need LOTS of bandwidth now and will need an ever growing amount going forward into an HD Video for everything future.
And the vendors love it. It will of course drive lots of sales to schools themselves but when the kids can't do their homework without a constant high bandwidth connection it drives the 'Internet is a 'Right'' meme that leads to even more billions and billions of sweet sweet government money that will only be available to the politically connected.
Gradebooks, attendance, cafeteria manegement, email of course, Courseware, scheduling and calendaring, yearbooks. If it isn't being delivered from the cloud now it is because they are still fighting over which vendor they want to write a check to. (read as the bidding is still fierce over who will kick back more.. ok, I'm a cynic) That pattern means they need LOTS of bandwidth now and will need an ever growing amount going forward into an HD Video for everything future.
Having subbed in many local schools throughout the years and reading an article like this...BULLSH!T! You want to know what your tax dollars are being wasted on? Every class which had an assignment and needed computers...the kids weren't doing their work...they were playing games (web-based)...using You Tube...going to ESPN...racing web sites and going to Facebook/other social media sites. Reminding these "little angels" they had work to do and that if they were in an actual job doing these things...they would be reprimanded or fired...I was informed their teacher doesn't care. I let the teacher/the principal/IT department know this was going on...I was the bad guy and told to mind my own business.
This is what your tax money for education is going for. What a great use of our public resources.
One of the points: try to talk to someone at a school about squid services. Watch the blank stare. The web is simply magic; our technology training of teachers is still in the dumpers.
SETDA is funded, in part, by the likes of Verizon, Comcast, Intel, HP, CDW, Microsoft and TI.. http://www.setda.org/web/guest/sponsors [setda.org]
Trust me. They won't even consider that possibility. It's only a problem when it affects them.
That's because using metaphors that don't fit is stupid. Wondering whether there will be enough bandwidth is a real problem and it sucks to have to worry about it when you're trying to get something done. With as much bullshit as we've laden educators and students alike with, they shouldn't have to wait for lag when accessing educational resources.
Do they have any idea what the price is for that kind of Internet connection?
Schools used to get a deal, don't they still?
>>> 'Can I watch my teacher's algebra video when I get home?'
Aren't they exaggerating a bit? I watch hulu and youtube video with only 0.3 Mbit/s. It's called "video compression". So yes the student at home does need broadband to watch his teacher's video, but he doesn't need a monster amount. Comcast's or Verizon's Economy Service (1 to 1.5 Mbit/s) will provide more than the minimum.
why would the school ( assuming public school) not upload to you tube? HD content and let google manage it
> why would the school not upload to you tube?
You obviously know nothing about the way schools work. There is an entire industry devoted to reinventing every wheel for educational use. Some of it makes some sense, schools have a lot of mandates for privacy and so on, but most of it is simply because. YouTube would be right out, a contract with an edu specific video hosting site would be required, and it would of course require a hefty annual contract with each school system. Each school would have to get a customized portal with the school logo, colors and such or it is a no sale. Access controls are a must. You can't put a picture that includes a student on a school's public facing website without moving a lot of paper for clearances.... meanwhile the local paper's website has the same photo from the game up that day and the kids themselves post everything onto their facebook pages in realtime. And it simply must be this way, the idea that it could be different could never occur. If nothing else, schools simply wouldn't be able to handle the concept of a vendor that doesn't charge.
My local school district has several Verizon FiOS 115 Mb/sec connections for the district of 4,000 K-12 students. It isn't that expensive, but it is essentially residential-grade service.
They pay about $200/connection per month, probably $1K/month - much cheaper than the subsidized business class service the district had before, and much faster.
Our in school wire network is Fast Ethernet to the desktop, Gigabit backbone.
It was non-trivial to get this service at a public school, due to rate regulations.
Do they have any idea what the price is for that kind of Internet connection?
I'm sure they do, it's not that hard to price out. Do you have any idea how much heat and AC cost a school with 1000+ students every year? In a 4 season climate it absolutely dwarfs any ISP costs. And gets more expensive every year, while Internet access gets cheaper.
Depends where you're at. Some places offer gbps for ~$900/mo. I imagine a large, long-term connection like a university could negotiate a pretty good deal.
I suppose that local caching of something as relatively static as a textbook is out of the question? My dead-tree edition books were often cached for 5-20 years. Really, how frequently does arithmetic change from year to year? Literature? Science and "Social Studies" I buy as being a little more dynamic, but still within a year?
That would be contrary to the whole "send it to the cloud" trending mentality, which is aimed at saving local-server tech support costs.
I was never very good at adhering to fashion fads. I suppose that's why I wasn't very popular at school.
Well, on a more serious note, most schools already squid heavily, because it's built into their content filtering suite as an add-on feature.
But then, how often do you actually download truly "static" webpage that wasn't dynamically generated these days?
I think its more for the "rent per year" charging for access..
The corporate overlords realy dont want you purchasing something that can be used for 5 - 20 years, when they can enforce a new version of licensed content every year. The big win is that they dont have to go through full publishing costs, but the student access must be fully renewed every year.
I suppose that local caching of something as relatively static as a textbook is out of the question?
How do you ensure that the recurring fees are being paid? After all, the point of online textbooks is to bring in money for textbook publishers; making information available to students is just an unfortunate side effect.
Most "material" that the broadband is used for is already saved on local servers.
Kids need to learn how to find and investigate stuff online, not just access text books. Responsiveness is key to maintaining interest and attention too.
The focus in education has moved away from memorization towards being able to find the information you need. Obviously that has to be underpinned by strong basic skills in things like English and Maths, as well as good general knowledge of the particular subject being studied. Even when I was at school in the early 90s studying history there was as much emp
The ability to update textbooks on the fly presents an opportunity for too much bias to enter into them.
Last years updating crew really didn't like president X, and while they are professional enough to not write up a case study on libel, it's easy to see a bit of a slant one way or another.... only to be swung back the following year when a new editing crew comes on-board, and they really like president X, but hate president Y.
Not to mention things that haven't entirely come to light. Should American hist
yes but the advertisements that will be displayed with the book pages change every few seconds...
Just because you CAN buy a gold-plated car doesn't mean you should. Money is finite. We don't need to be spending ~40,000 a month (or ~$500,000 a year) on a high speed internet line when $10,000 worth of reusable textbooks can do the same task for an entire decade.
I have two children two years apart, in the public school system in the northeast US. Our school district is rated fairly well for the state, better than most but not as good as some.
Now that the context is established, let me say that I have been shocked and somewhat dismayed to see the annual changes to curriculum and approach at the elementary school. While I do understand that gains have been made in understanding childhood development and education, I really struggle to understand this constant churn from year to year. The students struggle with it as well. This is particularly noticeable in basic approaches to reading, spelling, and math. As an example, one year the focus will be on memorizing a list of 10 words, spelling them, and using them in sentences. The next year, the spelling quizzes are gone completely. Maybe this is a response to the standardized testing regimen that all schools are focusing on, but I have a tough time not feeling like this is some kind of ill-considered trend-chasing experiment and our communities' children are the unwitting guinea pigs.
While I'm in rant mode let me also express my surprise to find that precious little time is being spent on learning basic math facts. These children are being exposed to grouping, estimating, while they still don't know their basic addition/subtraction/multiplication/division tables. Having these facts committed to memory up front will save them a lot of time and effort down the road when they are trying to digest weightier subject matter. (Before you jump all over me, yes as a parent I have worked with my offspring to get them to know their math facts) Rote memorization may be boring, but it too is a skill that must be learned and why not learn it early on in the same way that's worked for at least the past 200 years? It's *not* broken!
OK so now that the rant is over - yes, caching is good and should be encouraged. Even if the texts are changing daily or weekly and being served "from the cloud" - there are still major performance gains and efficiencies to be found on the network with a little simple cache engine.
Having spent five years as the IT head for a school district I can tell you that much of it is following the trends in their field. Real data is hard to find and does not in fact always go to plan when you try it on your district's children. So the administrators see a growing trend to teach in XYZ form and the given improvement can be 10-30%, so they opt to try XYZ at their school. A year is typical for any such thing, so even if it doesn't seem to be working for them they will continue it for that period
The shift towards standardized testing, meanwhile, is meant to allow a variety of pedagogical method
I suppose that local caching of something as relatively static as a textbook is out of the question? My dead-tree edition books were often cached for 5-20 years. Really, how frequently does arithmetic change from year to year? Literature? Science and "Social Studies" I buy as being a little more dynamic, but still within a year?
I'm not the person that would ever use the term "rofl", but if I ever did, it would be about this comment.
I find your rational thought and naivety amusing.
Caching a textbook locally would require a huge license and licensing system, or would certainly be illegal. Are you a pirate? Pirates would think that they can make local copies for their own use and the use of others in the name of education, but they would be doing harm to the industry. (Potentially millions or even billions of dollars in harm.)
A publisher could easily offer (as an example) a PKI based scheme to cache content for a specific period of time.
There are easy technical solutions to a variety of these kinds of issues.
100Mbps for textbooks
It's a new DRM system.
9am. 5000 students accessing the same non-cached 25MB PDF on a 4mbps line.
Do I need to make the calculations, or can you see where I'm going with this?
you broke it by saying "same non-cached"
Um. If your text requires 100Mbps you're doing it wrong. Um. If your text requires 100Mbps you're doing it wrong.
It's *not* a "text file". It's more likely a locked down PDF or a similarly "heavy" format.
I used to work at a small 2 year college. We had about 30 classrooms, a few thousand FTE students. (12 credits = 1 FTE).. We got complements when we went from 2 to 4 Mb/s. The compliments were all about how much faster it was than their cable modems. (in our area, 5MB cable was the norm). But we had much, much lower latency, and a squid proxy server. I think the most I ever saw online at one time was about 80 people. However, most are reading something, or just have the internet connection open in th
Textbooks are often well illustrated. And the old style of textbook is a dinosaur that could do better. The idea is interactive game like lesson plans with quizzes and work areas to help practice the skills or memorize the lessons.
I took a licensing course online this weekend to pass a certification course (which it also tested for online) and without broadband it would have been painfully slow waiting to advance to the next page. There were also video sections... and if a kid has to wait a minute to wat
At first, I thought 100mbps seemed a bit low, after all it's only 100kbps per user, but pragmatically it's more like 3mbps per classroom. You don't need to be streaming individual content to each kid. As much as I despise the overt brainwashing that is most K-12 education, if those subservient lemmings can come out with a bit more content between the ears, maybe they'll be better equipped to think for themselves and add value to their surroundings, unlike the current sad state of affairs.
You don't need to be streaming individual content to each kid.
For self-paced learning you do.
Speaking as a Network admin at a major university, the amount of bandwidth-per-user really depends on the levels of control the school is allowed (or willing) to apply to the user's Network usage.
For example, in our residences, students are told they have unfiltered access to the Internet, as in, they are allowed to use any software they wish. The only stated restrictions are overall bandwidth related on a per-day basis. Behind the scenes, a we use packet shaping hardware to limit the total amount of per-user bandwidth usable for such things as P2P or VoIP (to prevent super-nodes) but otherwise leave it alone. In this model, 100Mbps per 1000 students is inadequate, but only just barely. We currently have it at approximately 120Mbps per 1000 students.
Under tighter control circumstances, where P2P is disabled and/or other controls, caps, and so on are enacted, you can likely get away with less bandwidth. Other networks we distribute have such tighter controls, and allow us to dial the number down further to around 70Mbps per 1000 students (without any web censorship).
This is pretty close to the situation in our network, and I suspect these are pretty typical numbers for a higher education residential campus.
Ted Stevens is still dead.
My wife is a kindergarten teacher. In order for her students to access the content she is required to teach them they must first logon to the machines in the computer lab. (I'll avoid a diatribe on the woes of the poor password practices they are forced to teach these minions...) It can often take 1/3 of her classes computer lab time just to log on; granted much of this wasted time is due to the fact that kindergarteners can't remember their passwords but, an equal amount is also caused by the lag caused when the network is flooded with their logon requests (she has less than 20 students).
Once they've accomplished the herculean task of getting the little minions logged onto the lab computers the real fun begins. Most of the content is only available online from the publishers of the text books the school uses. Adding insult to injury the publishers sites are difficult to navigate often requiring the students to manually type in long cryptic URLs that would make torrent users eyes bleed. While much of the content is colorful, animated and has pleasing sound effects try and imagine what accessing this content is like on a network that can't handle a few dozen simultaneous logons.
While I'm a fan of using online resources, the schools (as directed by their boards of education, county governments etc.) seem to have truly put the digital cart before the horse in the mad dash to move toward education online. Also without competent, which of course often means properly paid, tech support (she was once told by a tech the printer wouldn't print because she was using a japanese USB cable) adding bandwidth is pointless.
Passwords for kindergarteners? Seriously? What ever happened to the guest account, virtualization, deepfreeze, anything?
No - wrong
Next up. "West Virginia supplies 1 Gbps Networking to all schools using $100,000 routers and money from ARRA funds after it discovers that the T1 line routers they bought last year were obsolete!"
Rather than place what cannot be more than 10gb of textbooks for the whole school on a local server for students of the school, lets run $10,000/mo fiber to every classroom. The insanity of government waste obviously knows no bounds. The audacity of government "IT managers" is nauseating. What? Is everyone stupid now? We can't count? I know that textbooks don't require a 100 or 1000mbit connection! I don't care if you have 10,000 people per 100mbit! Get a fucking clue! Store commonly downloaded things localaly. Shit, you morons, put the fucking textbook on the local machine (DUH!). Since when is this moronic behavior acceptable?
While Rome burns the ubermench in the government fiddle away with these "solutions". Now we'll be told for every dollar that we spend on this internet connection we can expect to see 1 trillion dollars in returns in as few as 5 years! Of course, as with every single estimate the government makes, it will be off by orders of magnitude and end up costing 1 trillion dollars in 2 years. At the end of the day I predict that the schools in question will have <10mbit connection at the price of 1000mbit connection, it will somehow drive up the price of internet service for everyone and increase educational spending greatly. All of which will have a negative impact on grades.
And really, fellow geeks, who thinks that computers on a kids desk during class are anything but a huge distraction from learning? I know if I had a computer at my desk during school, I'd be all about hacking the shit outa that machine and 0% on the lesson. More than anyone, the government is bound by the law of unintended consequences.
As a visitor to the US (from Canada eh!) I think you are wasting your money.
Your kids can not spell, can not do basic math, can barely print their own names.
Your high school graduates are functionally illiterate: most can not spell well enough to use an online dictionary.
Your educational system is fundamentally broken, and nobody is addressing it.
If ignorance is bliss, you have the happiest students in the developed world.
So the State Educational Technology Directors Association says we need more
What schools really need is more education and less "State".
That's funny; I need 100 Mbps for ONE user - and would actually like more than that. OK I only have 16 now but I NEED 100.
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Tech accounted for 14.22% of all S&P 500 dividends as of midweek, according to S&P Indices analyst Howard Silverblatt. That's a hair above the 14.21% in consumer staples. For historical reference, that's still not huge. On a dollar basis, tech's $40.7 billion rate is still small versus the $71.8 billion paid by financials in 2007, Silverblatt notes.
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Thanks. Idk. I get your point Perfect Circle...It's just me then lol!
My mother used to use this reasoning on me when I wanted to stay home sick from school: "If you're sick enough to stay home, you're sick enough to stay in bed and not watch TV or read". It was her way of ascertaining whether I was genuinely sick or just trying to pull a fast one to get out of going to school. But as adults, this surely doesn't apply.Either way, I don't see how it's rude to anyone?
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