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These writing assessment guidelines are premised on the idea that students learn to write not only by taking composition courses but also by taking writing-intensive courses in the disciplines. It is also based on the notion that writing across the curriculum is driven by the assessment of learning outcomes. As an instructor and advisor you have an important role to play in helping students develop writing skills. This guide is designed to acquaint you with writing assessment and writing across the curriculum efforts at UAS. We hope that you will find it helpful as you prepare and deliver your courses this year.
Faculty Support
Rod Landis and Emily Wall are Co-Directors of Composition for the 2014-2015 academic year. They are available to consult with faculty on a variety of issues related to writing assessment, writing across the curriculum, and the B.A. in English degree.
Rod Landis
Paul 507, Ketchikan Campus
(907) 228-4547
Emily Wall
Soboleff 213
(907) 796-6113
UAS Learning and Writing Center
The Roberta Stell Learning and Writing Center, located in the Egan Library, provides placement testing for UAS students. At the Writing Center students receive assistance from both instructors and peer tutors on improving their writing skills, revising their papers, and developing their portfolios. Tutoring in writing focuses on helping students at all stages of the writing process: prewriting, drafting, and editing. All Writing Center services, instruction, and materials are provided free of cost. Please call (907) 796-6348 for more information. Learning centers are also available on the Ketchikan Campus (907-228-4560) and the Sitka Campus (907-747-7717).
Assessment of Basic Writing Competency
• Placement Testing & Advising
All new and transfer students who have not completed English GERs must complete placement testing in English before registering for their first semester of classes. To take placement tests, students must go to the UAS Learning and Testing Center. It is highly recommended that transfer students take placement tests regardless of whether or not they have completed the English GERs. This will provide them with an accurate assessment of their writing skills so that they can be advised appropriately.
• English 110 Portfolio
About a third of UAS students taking the placement exam will qualify to enroll in English 110, Introduction to College Writing, while the others are placed in either English 092 or English 111. English 110 is designed for students who have not yet mastered basic essay organization and editing skills. It prepares students to take English 111, the required freshman composition course at UAS. To ensure that English 110 students achieve basic competency in writing and critical thinking skills, UAS faculty have instituted a required portfolio assessment activity in English 110. Students prepare mid-term and final portfolios of their writing that are reviewed by a panel of regional communications faculty. Students who pass the portfolio review are permitted to enroll in English 111. Those who do not pass are required to re-take English 110.
Important Note: English 110 students learn how to write descriptive, narrative, expository, analytical, and persuasive essays. They do not learn how to write research papers until they take English 111. If you are teaching a course that includes a research paper, you may want to consider requiring English 111 as a prerequisite for your course.
Assessment of Intermediate Writing Competency
• UAS Composition Sequence
All baccalaureate students at UAS are required to take English 111 and either English 211 or English 212. Composition GERs are designed to ensure that students have mastered the fundamentals of academic writing and critical thinking. Analytical and research writing are the emphasis of the composition sequence.
Course Descriptions
English 111: Methods of Written Communication (3 credits)
Instruction on techniques of essay organization and development, research, and analytical reading and writing. A critical analysis and a research paper are required. Prerequisite: "C" or higher in English 110, or placement test.
English 211: Intermediate Composition: Writing About Literature (3 credits)
This course focuses on understanding and appreciating literature. Students write analyses of at least three works from the various genres (poetry, fiction, drama, film, non-fiction, and/or novel). Traditional literary research among critical sources leads to at least one research paper. Prerequisite: "C" or higher in English 111.
English 212: Technical Writing (3 credits)
Instruction in composition of professional correspondence and technical reports. Develops a broad range of college and career writing skills, including audience analysis, readability, and effective style. Significant critical reading and a major investigative report required. Prerequisite: ENGL S111 (C or higher).
Assessment Activities
During each academic year, faculty work groups assess composition GER courses. The goal of such assessment activity is to ensure consistency in course requirements and outcomes on a region-and system-wide basis.
Writing Across the Curriculum
Writing across the curriculum is an essential component of writing assessment at UAS. Students learn the fundamentals of written communication in the composition sequence; however, these courses only provide a foundation for the intermediate and advanced skills we would like our baccalaureate programs to foster. The achievement of writing competency is developmental in nature, and consequently, faculty in all disciplines play an important role in helping students learn to write. This doesn't mean all faculty members should become English instructors; rather, it means that they should try to integrate writing into their course assignments and to teach the fundamentals of writing in their disciplines. Likewise, it means that faculty should refer students to the UAS Learning and Writing Center for individualized writing instruction. If you would like to discuss incorporating more writing into your syllabi, contact Rod Landis or Emily Wall, Co-Directors of Composition.
The Writing Process
Professional writers most often do not write documents in a single draft. Research shows that most successful writers follow a series of recursive steps when writing. First, they generate ideas for writing through a prewriting activity. This might involve conversing with others, conducting research, thinking about audience, creating an outline, and/or brainstorming ideas. Next they begin the process of drafting the document, usually revising it in multiple steps. Often they will solicit input from others as they revise their work. Finally, they edit the document carefully, making sure that it possesses the level of polish required by the intended audience.
Assignment Design
When designing writing assignments, it is best to reinforce the writing process wherever possible. This helps students create quality papers and develop effective work habits. In the composition sequence, each paper is written in the following steps
- Students brainstorm ideas for writing or present a thesis and outline before the first draft of the paper is due.
- Students turn in an ungraded draft of the paper, which receives extensive written feedback from the instructor. Students may also receive feedback from Learning and Writing Center tutors or from fellow students in peer response workshops.
- Students turn in a second graded draft that receives less extensive feedback from the instructor.
There are many ways to integrate prewriting, drafting, and editing activities into your classroom. Many faculty members require students to submit proposals or annotated bibliographies before submitting first drafts of longer papers. Others schedule peer response workshops or require students to visit the Learning Center when drafting their essays. A good guideline is that the longer and more sophisticated the assignment is, the more intermediate steps you should require students to complete as they work on the paper. For instance, one instructor at UAS requires the following steps for her research paper assignment:
Week 3: Library orientation.
Week 5: Library hands-on session. Research paper topic due.
Week 7: Research paper thesis, outline, and bibliography due.
Week 10: Draft of research paper due. Submit two copies.
Week 11: Peer response workshop.
Week 14: Final draft of research paper due.
Of course, not all writing assignments need to be this involved. Informal writing exercises, such as reading responses and journal entries, need not be written in several drafts. However, it is a good idea to give students the opportunity to write at least one paper in multiple steps.
Communicating Expectations to Students
In the UAS composition sequence, students learn general guidelines for good writing, including how to create an effective thesis, organization, and writing style. However, English faculty members cannot teach the conventions of writing in the disciplines. Discipline faculty members are experts on the conventions and expectations for writing in their fields. There are many ways faculty members can clearly communicate these conventions and expectations to students. You may want to
- Create a handout for each paper assignment you require in your course. The assignment sheet might include (1) due dates, (2) description of the assignment, (3) specific guidelines for how the paper should be organized and formatted, (4) steps the student should follow in carrying out the assignment, (5) grading criteria, or (6) a list or resources available for completing the assignment. The longer or more sophisticated the assignment is, the more detailed and specific the assignment sheet should be. See sample in Appendix B.
- Require or recommend that students purchase a writing handbook that is specific to your discipline (e.g., MLA, APA, CBE). For lower-division courses you might recommend that they purchase Diana Hacker's A Writer's Reference (currently in its 8th edition), the handbook required in most composition courses at UAS.
- Provide students with a sample paper for each of their formal writing assignments. Discuss with students what makes the paper a good example of writing in your discipline or successful in terms of fulfilling the assignment.
- Provide students with an evaluation rubric that shows the criteria you will use when grading their writing. See sample in Appendix C.
Evaluation Strategies
Written feedback is another important means of communicating your expectations to students. This doesn't mean that you need to edit your students' papers. What it means is that you provide commentary that will help students develop the kind of papers that are appropriate for college-level writing. If students have editing problems, you can send them to the Learning and Writing Center to work on these issues. Here are some other strategies for commenting on student writing
- Students generally do not read (or at any rate pay attention to) instructor comments on graded drafts. For this reason, you may want to consider commenting extensively on ungraded rough drafts of papers and only writing brief commentary on graded final drafts.
- If you feel comfortable responding to grammar issues in student writing, it is best to focus only on one or two types of error per paper. Otherwise, students will simply make your corrections without looking for patterns of error in their writing. If you don't feel comfortable marking grammatical errors, simply refer the student to the Learning Center to work with a tutor. Help students gain an awareness of their writing skills and problems.
- Provide students with the opportunity to comment on each other's papers. On the day a draft is due, require students to bring a couple of extra copies to exchange with fellow students. Provide the students with guidelines that will help them focus their commentary on fellow students' papers. During the next class period, provide students with fifteen or twenty minutes to exchange oral and written feedback with each other. Help students learn to garner feedback for their writings.
- When grading papers, consider marking "Rewrite" (instead of a grade) on papers that do not meet your minimum expectations for the assignment. Then mandate that the student revise the essay with the assistance of a Learning and Writing Center tutor before resubmitting it for a grade.
Many students come to college with a lack of understanding of plagiarism and a lack of adequate practice in differentiating their own thoughts from those of a research source. This leads to papers that are plagiarized. Though students learn the fundamentals of proper citation and the use of sources in the composition sequence, these skills must be reinforced across the curriculum. Here are some strategies for preventing plagiarism that you might want to consider
- Define and explain the consequences of plagiarism in your syllabus.
- Provide an example of a plagiarized paragraph in class and explain how to correct it.
- Require students to submit an ungraded draft of their research paper and then require them to revise it based on your commentary.
- Require students to turn in photocopies of all sources consulted. For books or long reports, you can simply require them to turn in copies of the pages they cite.
- Keep a departmental file of suspected plagiarized papers.
In order to accuse a student of plagiarism, a faculty member must have documentary proof that plagiarism has occurred. If you have found proof of plagiarism, it is best to consult with your department chair before confronting the student.
Appendix A: Sample Assignment Sheet
Paper Specifications: Education 423
Rough draft due: 11/4
Final draft due: 12/10
Presentation based on research due: 12/10 or 12/16
Assignment Overview
This paper assignment is meant to enhance your theoretical knowledge about a specific technique of writing instruction and to make you more knowledgeable about its practical implications in the classroom. Toward the end of September, you should identify a paper topic that particularly interests you. A list of possible topics will be distributed in class. You will then write a 5- to 7-page paper that explores recent research on the topic you have selected. At the end of the semester you will give a 10- to 15-minute presentation based on your research findings.
Components--Your paper should include:
- An explanation of your interest in this teaching strategy, what you knew before undertaking the research and what you wanted to learn.
- A brief discussion of the educational theory behind this teaching strategy.
- A discussion of how this theoretical base can be translated into practice in the classroom, both at your level of teaching interest and at least one other level. For example, if you are exploring the use of "talk-write" at the primary level, you would also include how teaching strategies in this area might change in higher-level elementary classrooms.
- A sample lesson plan that includes
Editing: Make sure your paper is written in a comprehensible, scholarly manner using APA style. It should also be carefully edited and proofread.
An "A" paper is excellent in overall quality.
- The thesis is clearly stated. It makes a point that is thought provoking and reflects critical thinking.
- The organization is clear, efficient, focused, and engaging.
- Topic sentences and transitions are used effectively to introduce and link body paragraphs.
- Examples, quotes, images, or other specific details are used effectively as support for the essay's thesis and topic sentences.
- Language is precise, appropriate, fresh, and vivid.
- Sentence structure is economical, varied, and elegant.
- There are virtually no errors in proofreading, grammar, punctuation, and syntax.
A "B" paper is good in overall quality.
- The thesis is clearly stated, but it may lack the originality or critical thinking of the thesis in the "A" paper.
- The organization is for the most part clear and focused. The paper may demonstrate some minor breaks in focus or some looseness in structure.
- Topic sentences and transitions are for the most part used effectively to introduce and link body paragraphs. There may be occasional problems with essay coherence but not enough to distract the reader significantly.
- Examples, quotes, images, or other specific details are used as support for the essay's thesis and topic sentences. However, the thesis is not developed as fully or effectively as in the "A" paper.
- Language is for the most part precise and appropriate.
- Sentence structure is for the most part economical and varied.
- There are some minor errors in proofreading, grammar, punctuation, and syntax. However, these errors do not significantly distract the reader.
A "C" paper is competent in overall quality.
- The thesis is adequately stated.
- An organizational scheme is present but is somewhat sketchy and/or hard to follow.
- Topic sentences are sometimes inadequate and transitions between paragraphs are abrupt.
- Examples, quotes, images, or other specific details are used but only to a minimal extent.
- Paragraphs are sometimes choppy and underdeveloped.
- Language is sometimes wordy, vague, unoriginal, and repetitive.
- Sentence structure is sometimes repetitive or hard to follow.
- There are errors in proofreading, grammar, punctuation, and syntax. These errors are somewhat distracting but they do not obscure the essay's meaning.
A "No Pass" or "Rewrite" paper is inadequate in overall quality. Substantial weaknesses in any of the following areas are sufficient justification for a "No Pass" grade:
- The thesis is unclear.
- An organizational scheme is hard to follow.
- Topic sentences are inadequate and transitions between paragraphs are absent.
- Examples, quotes, images, or other specific details are not used to support the thesis.
- Paragraphs are choppy and underdeveloped.
- Language is wordy, vague, unoriginal, and repetitive.
- Sentence structure is repetitive and hard to follow.
- There are errors in proofreading, grammar, punctuation, and syntax. These errors distract the reader to such an extent that the essay's meaning is obscured.


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This is irrelevant, but I love Jane Lych and I loved her acceptance speech so am posting it.
Monday, August 30, 2010
I Heart Jane Lynch
Posted by Victoria at 8:08 AM
2 comments:
- Amelia said...
Transcript, please?
- August 31, 2010 at 3:41 PM
- Victoria said...
I haven't been able to find the transcript online, Amelia, but I will keep looking.
- September 2, 2010 at 10:18 AM
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05 December 2013
Daily Quizzes Will Continue in 2014
There are two reasons for this change from my earlier plan to terminate the daily quiz.
First, I realized that I hadn't made it as easy as I should have to write and submit quizzes. I never really gave you, my dear players, much advice about how best to write a quiz, and the Submit Quiz wizard requires too much effort on your part.
Second, even with the suboptimal wizard available today, many more players have started writing quizzes, and pledge to do so in 2014.
So it would be mean-spirited to say the least to stop the daily quizzes at this point.
Bottom Line: daily quizzes will continue at least through the end of Q1 2014.
And very soon we will announce significant improvements to our quiz submission features, including templates, the QuickQuiz smart script, and more.
Many thanks for your interest, enthusiasm and devotion to your craft!
Steven Feuerstein
7 comments:
Thank you so much sir.. :)ReplyDelete
Hi Steven,ReplyDelete
wow, an early Christmas present. That's very good news indeed :-)
Kind regards,
Hi Steven,ReplyDelete
Very good news indeed. I will try to create a quiz myself soon. I was thinking to do something on best-practices, but it is hard to create good answers for that. As scripts with bad practices don't (always) return an error when being executed.
Hello Steven,ReplyDelete
Wow, you sound as if the "Forgiveness asking day" has arrived :)
Thanks a lot indeed for this so nice and happy decision :):)
I want to believe that taking the opposite one would not have been easier for you
than for us, the players, and hopefully also more and more authors :)
Easing on the process of creating quizzes is always welcome, though,
I only wish to myself to have enough nice quiz ideas "flowing into my brain",
then, the wizard will not be a problem :)
Enjoy fully your upcoming trip to Europe and fill up the batteries :):)
Have a great weekend & Best Regards,
- Anonymous06 December, 2013 19:42
Thanks. Great news.ReplyDelete
I still wonder if weekly PL/SQL quizzes might actually bring *more* players. A few people I've talked to that have dabbled in this think daily is too often, and would play if only weekly.ReplyDelete
No doubt you've already considered this (I think it's featured in past discussions), but I thought I'd bring it up again.
HI Sir,ReplyDelete
Thanks for helping and give pleasure to hear good news please don't think don't stop of daily quiz.
If you stop we will lost good morning skill PL/SQL Quizzes .


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Stress and survival
The choice of ex situ conservation strategy depends on whether seeds are desiccation tolerant or sensitive. Up to 100,000 species may have seeds that are intolerant of drying. To develop a better estimate of the frequency of species with desiccation sensitive seeds, we are combining geographical information with analysis of seed traits such as mass, seed coat ratio, tolerance of drying, rate of drying, and embryo morphology.
For desiccation tolerant seeds that can be stored under seed bank conditions, the processes that lead to the gradual deterioration of collections are studied. Ageing in all organisms is associated with the accumulation of oxidative damage such as lipid peroxidation and protein and nucleic acid oxidation caused by reactive oxygen species. Our research is:
- investigating how cell death processes in seeds differ on a tissue-specific basis, and the role that programmed cell death plays in viability loss in ageing seeds.
- utilising omics-based approaches to provide a complete overview of the changes in gene expression, protein expression and metabolite levels that occur as seeds age, and to identify potential markers of seed viability.
- developing non-invasive techniques for screening seed collections to assess viability without the need for germination. For example, the volatile compounds released by seeds as they age can be detected using gas chromatography – mass spectroscopy, and this approach may offer a means of detecting the early signs of seed ageing enabling action to be taken before seeds start to die.
- testing the possibility that some cells remain viable in seeds that otherwise appear dead (unable to germinate), and that these cells could provide an opportunity to recover germplasm from non-viable seed collections.
Recent Publications
*denotes Kew staff
- Colville*, L., Bradley, E.L., Lloyd, A.S., Pritchard*, H.W., Castle, L., Kranner*, I. (2012) Volatile fingerprints of seeds of four species indicate the involvement of alcoholic fermentation, lipid peroxidation, and Maillard reactions in seed deterioration during ageing and desiccation stress. Journal of Experimental Botany 63: 6519-6530.
- Gundel, P.E., Hamilton, C.E., Seal*, C.E., Helander, M., Martínez-Ghersa, M.A., Ghersa, C.M., Vázquez de Aldana, B.R., Zabalgogeazcoa, I., Saikkonen, K. (2012) Antioxidants in Festuca rubra L. seeds affected by the fungal symbiont Epichloë festucae. Symbiosis: 1-8.
- Hu, D., Ma, G., Wang, Q., Yao, J.H., Wang, Y., Pritchard*, H.W., Wang, X.F. (2012) Spatial and temporal nature of reactive oxygen species production and programmed cell death in elm (Ulmus pumila L.) seeds during controlled deterioration. Plant Cell and Environment 35: 2045-2059.
- Xia, K., Daws, M.I., Hay, F.R., Chen, W.Y., Zhou, Z.K., Pritchard*, H.W. (2012) A comparative study of desiccation responses of Asian Evergreen Oaks, Quercus subgenus Cyclobalanopsis and Quercus subgenus Quercus. South African Journal of Botany 78: 47-54.
- Zagorchev, L., Seal*, C.E., Kranner*, I., Odjakova, M. (2012) Redox state of low-molecular-weight thiols and disulphides during somatic embryogenesis of salt-treated suspension cultures of Dactylis glomerata L. Free Radical Research 46: 656-664.


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Intelligence Chief Defends Internet Spying Program
The nation's top intelligence official says a previously undisclosed program for tapping into Internet usage is authorized by Congress, falls under strict supervision of a secret court and cannot intentionally target a U.S. citizen. And he says it was reckless to reveal it and another intelligence-gathering program.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has taken the rare step of declassifying some details of an intelligence program to respond to media reports about the government's counterterrorism techniques.
His statement and declassification on Saturday addresses the Internet scouring program, code-named PRISM, that allows the NSA and FBI to tap directly into the servers of major U.S. Internet companies such as Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and AOL. Like the phone-records program, PRISM was approved by a judge in a secret court order. Unlike that program, however, PRISM allows the government to seize actual conversations: emails, video chats, instant messages and more.
Clapper says the program, authorized in the USA Patriot Act, has been in place since 2008 and "has proven vital to keeping the nation and our allies safe."


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Redmond is a partner in the King County Regional HMP update, which includes 57 local governments. Redmond City Council Adopted the plan in City of Redmond Resolution number 1421 on March 3, 2015. FEMA review and final approval was completed May 1, 2015.
View the full KCRHMP and frequently asked questions on: www.kingcounty.gov/hazardmitigation
The King County Basic Plan (435 pages) outlines hazards for the entire region.
The Redmond Annex, Chapter 20 of Volume 2c, (55 pages) provides Redmond-specific information including history of natural hazard events, hazard risk ranking, hazard mitigation action plan and mitigation strategy priority; demographic data; and hazard maps related to critical infrastructure, liquefaction susceptibility, National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program Soil Classification, flood hazard, and fire fuel behavior.
The Redmond Hazard Mitigation Plan (HMP) Update for 2009 - 2014 was reviewed and approved by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Redmond City Council subsequently adopted the plan in City of Redmond Resolution Number 1314 on December 15, 2009.
The Hazards Mitigation Plan is available as a complete document or by chapter and appendices. Below are the links to access the documents in Adobe (pdf) format.


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This Guest Post is by my friend and mentor Sensei Pat Nakata. Nakata Sensei is the head of the Okinawa Shorin-Ryu Karate Association in Hawaii. He was a student of Chosin (Choshin) Chibana in Kobayashi-Ryu Shorin-Ryu, and also studied Ryukyu Kobudo under Sensei Fumio Nagaishi. When he was a young man, he studied Wado-Ryu Karate under Sensei Walter Nishioka.
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It is said that karate without kime is not karate. Kime is seen as the explosive power at the end of the technique. Those who do not know how kime transfers power call it snap. So how does kime transfer power?
Kime (focus) is the timing of the transmission of power generated by movements of the body (torque, momentum, etc.) by locking all the muscles, ligaments, tendons, etc. of the whole body ( body, legs, arms, fingers,toes, etc.) as contact occurs, without any (or as minimal as possible) recoil.
The transmission of power is through the limbs (arms and legs). In general, use of our limbs are classified as two major techniques. The first is tsuki waza (thrusting technique) and the second being uchi waza (striking technique). Tsuki waza is force transmitted in a straight line. Uchi waza is force transmitted in an arc.
Again, kime is the timing of power generated by the body and the hitting limb simultaneously brought together on impact and penetration.
Also integral to kime is breathing (kokyu). At the point of impact, one exhales, which brings about the locking up process of the body.
Kime is the intensive concentration of power.
Pat Nakata


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Welcome to Fat Tuesday!
Straight from Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Fat Tuesday is the perfect place to go for fun in Tempe. On Mill Ave., we are convenient to downtown offices, ASU and Sun Devil Stadium.
Since 1990 we have been serving great drinks, great food and great fun in a colorful, upbeat atmosphere. Our specialties are our Fat Tuesday Frozen Daiquiris and authentic New Orleans style food. The menu does have classics such as cheeseburgers, chips, dips, and wings. We have a full service bar for those who prefer martinis, margaritas, and other non frozen drinks.
Get away from the office for lunch and, for late night, there is usually a party going on. Watch the world go by on Mill Avenue's premier patio as you enjoy our Happy Hour, Every day 4pm - 7pm, Reverse Happy Hour Sunday - Thursday from 9pm-11pm and Happy Hour all day on Tuesday.
We can host your next office get-together or private party and make it special with one of our theme parties, complete with decorations. We can accommodate parties of many different sizes. See our Private Parties page for more information.
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The solemnity of the Epiphany is a celebration of the epiphaneia — the revelation and manifestation — of God become man. It is a celebration of the Incarnation; it is also a recognition that Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Word of God, is both the joyous center of history and the cause for division and discomfort. The prologue to John's Gospel expresses this in stark terms: "The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world came to be through him, but the world did not know him. He came to what was his own, but his own people did not accept him" (Jn 1:9-11).
The light, as St. John wrote, shines in the darkness. However, if we cannot see and recognize the darkness — the sad and desperate state of a fallen humanity and a wounded creation — we will not see the light. The prophet Isaiah, in today's first reading, touches on this in his exhortation, "Rise up in splendor, Jerusalem! Your light has come, the glory of the Lord shines upon you." The city was in deep spiritual slumber, oblivious to both the darkness and light, existing in a sort of confusing mist: "See, darkness covers the earth, and thick clouds cover the peoples," declared Isaiah, "but upon you the Lord shines, and over you appears his glory." We might ask: Wouldn't it be obvious to all if God's light was shining upon us? How could anyone miss such an event?
The French poet Paul Claudel, in his "Hymn for Epiphany," delved into the mystery of spiritual sight and blindness. "But see!" he wrote, "the star has tarried, Mary holds God within her arms! … We have but to open our eyes and brush the mist away. ..." The mysterious magi saw the light in the darkness and sought it out. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, in "Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives" (Image, $20.00), noted that the wise men from Persia used their religious and philosophical wisdom "to set off in the right direction"; they are open to the directives of God, even if it involves the difficulty of a long journey.
Another poet, T. S. Eliot, in "Journey of the Magi," considered how daunting it must have been for the magi, traveling in the cold night and wondering if it "was all folly." The magi witnessed a birth, but "this Birth was/Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death." Returning home, the magi are "no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation/With an alien people clutching their gods." This is surprisingly melancholy, but it reiterates the fact that the Incarnation is not a nice story or a curious tale, but the shattering entrance of the true light into a world of darkness.
Who will stay in the darkness? Who will come into the light? Who will follow the star and arrive at the house, see Mary and prostrate themselves in worship? Who will take the gift of life and toss it away with passionate frivolity? And who will take their life and lay it before the newborn King?
The words of Herod were filled with obvious deception and unintended irony: "Go and search diligently for the child. When you have found him, bring me word, that I too may go and do him homage." The murderous king was right to command the wise men to search for the Christ-child. He said the right things; he gave public lip service. But he spoke from darkness and to darkness he returned. The magi, however, knelt within the light, and they would never be the same. Touched by the mystery, they were free of the mist, journeying home in light.
Carl E. Olson is the editor of Catholic World Report.
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Amy Hendrickson wrote:She eats Natural Balance LTD Venison and Sweet Potato Dry and I mix in the same in canned occasionally. She gets no other treats but her kibble or Natural Balance LTD treats. It's really not that much but it is 50.00 for a 25lb bag. It's not like you would be spending money on treats and chews since she can't get those other than nylabones or kongs or a real (unfilled) bone.
If you have other dogs that eat different things though it could be harder to manage if they don't finish their meals.....she is a little hoover. She will clean up spills lickety split so she has to be fed in her crate.
Wow, this is EXACTLY what my Mimi eats, same with the treats. So I wouldnt be put out at all, just buying MORE food, . And also have to bathe Meems twice a week, and clean her ears after bath because I am keeping an eye on one of them. Sounds like this dog would do great here because I am already doing exactly what she needs. Im in WA state though


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Giovanni Trapattoni has rested the old guard for the friendly with Serbia on August 15, but his squad selection has done little to fire the imagination after the European Championship flop.
Captain Robbie Keane, Richard Dunne, Damien Duff, Stephen Hunt and Shay Given have all been told they are not wanted for this game.
Instead Trapattoni has turned to the likes of James McCarthy, Seamus Coleman, Marc Wilson and
Andy Keogh for the first game since the Euros, with no place for the likes of Anthony Pilkington or Wes Hoolahan.
Trapattoni said, "This friendly offers us a great opportunity to try out younger players ahead of our World Cup qualifying campaign.
"As a result, I have decided to leave some of our senior players out of the squad for this fixture. Serbia are a very good team with a great football heritage, and will provide us with a great test before our game against Kazakhstan in September.
"I am looking forward to working with each of these players next month. As we prepare for a new journey for this team, it is important that we remember our last campaign as we build for a brighter future."
Trap did indicate that the senior players will play for their country despite recent speculation surrounding Keane's future in particular.
He said, "I said to the senior players after Poland 'I don't wish you for this game (Serbia) because I wish to try the other options.' They said, 'Yes Mister, no problem.' They know they can stay.
"I wish to see McCarthy in this game. I wish to see McCarthy and we prefer McCarthy at this moment.
Now we wish to try young players in this friendly game to give this opportunity to show us how what they can do."
Trapattoni also confirmed that Kevin Foley turned down the chance to return to the squad after he was axed from the Euros on the eve of the tournament.
The manager confirmed, "I called him, I spoke with him and he said that he was a little bit sad. He said to me, 'I am not ready in this moment and also I am a little bit disappointed.'
"I understood him and there is no problem. Maybe in the future he can be ready. I understood the disappointment, but he didn't say never."
Reflecting on the Euros, Trap said, "Our group was very, very tough, but I would like to start the Euro again tomorrow because I am sure it was an accident, this Euro for us.
"In my life I have won a lot, but I also lost a lot. When I start again, I start with a spirit of renewed vigor.
For me, it's a new campaign, a new life and we have new players.
"It is important to give them the same possibility to get the good results. I don't give up easily. It is like a drug for me. It is life for me."
The Republic of Ireland squad to play Serbia is Westwood, Forde, Randolph, Wilson, O'Shea, St. Ledger, O'Dea, Ward, Kelly, McShane, Whelan, Gibson, McCarthy, Green, Coleman, McGeady, Keogh, McClean, Treacy, Doyle, Long, Cox, Walters.
Celtic's Chase
CELTIC manager Neil Lennon is chasing Ireland striker Simon Cox, fueling speculation that Anthony Stokes could be sold before the transfer window closes in August.
Stokes has been linked with a return to the Premier League in England as Celtic come to terms with the financial implications of Rangers move to third division football in Scotland.
The manager says he wants to keep Stokes at Parkhead but has admitted that "every player has his price."
Now Lennon has been linked with West Brom's Irish striker Cox, set to leave the Hawthorns with Blackburn and Middlesbrough also interested in his services.
Lennon, whose experimental side was hammered 4-0 by Ajax in a pre-season friendly in Amsterdam last week, has repeated his call for Rangers to be stripped of titles won over the past decade if they are found guilty of signing players on illegal contracts.
Celtic's rivals could lose the five Scottish Premier League crowns and four Scottish Cups they won between 2002 and 2011 if allegations of wrongful registration of players is proven.
Boss Lennon, who played for and managed Celtic in that time, told the Daily Mail, "I will see what the commission finds and, if they are found to have broken the rules, then they should be stripped of their titles.
"It will not change what has gone on in the past but I suppose there will be a sort of moral victory in that respect.
"It is not going to change my life now, by any stretch of the imagination, but it would be good to be changed for historical reference."
Airtricity Results
LEAGUE leaders Sligo Rovers fought back from a two goal deficit to draw 2-2 with visitors Cork City in the Airtricity League on Sunday evening.
St. Patrick's Athletic saw their title hopes dented in a 1-1 draw with UCD while Dundalk left it late to secure a 1-1 draw at home to Derry City.
Drogheda maintained their impressive form with a 2-1 win at Shelbourne, while Shamrock Rovers were held to a scoreless draw by visitors Bray.
St. Patrick's Athletic fancy their chances of progressing to the next round of the Europa League after drawing 1-1 away to Siroki Brijeg in Bosnia last Thursday.
Sligo Rovers lost 3-1 to Spartak Trnava in Slovakia the same night with both return legs to be played this Thursday.
Pay Cut
FAI boss John Delaney announced at the association's AGM on Saturday that he has agreed to take a $50,000 pay cut on his near $500,000 salary.
Delaney told the meeting in Letterkenny, "We have a duty to our members to make the most effective use of our resources. No business survives unless it adapts. Difficult times are ahead for everyone, but we are prepared to meet the challenges.
"In my own case I will take a further 10% pay cut."


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SOURCE: Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
April 16, 2013 16:00 ET
Conference Call and Webcast at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Conference Call and Webcast at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Apr 16, 2013) - Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ONXX) today announced that it will report financial results for the first quarter 2013 ended March 31, 2013 after market closes on Tuesday, May 7, 2013. The company will host a webcast and conference call with management to discuss financial results, as well as provide a general business overview, at 5:00 p.m. ET (2:00 p.m. PT).
To access a live audio webcast of the conference call, log onto the company's website at: http://www.onyx.com/investors/event-calendar.
To access the live conference call, dial 847-585-4405 and use the passcode 34676954#. A replay of the call will be available on the Onyx website or by dialing 630-652-3042 and using the passcode 34679654# approximately one hour after the conference call concludes through May 21, 2013.
About Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Based in South San Francisco, California, Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a global biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development and commercialization of innovative therapies for improving the lives of people with cancer. The company is focused on developing novel medicines that target key molecular pathways. For more information about Onyx, visit the company's website at www.onyx.com.
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(CNN) –Hail! to the victors valiant
Hail! to the conqu'ring heroes
Hail! Hail! to Michigan, the champions of the West!
What in the name of a Wolverine does the University of Michigan fight song have to do with why, in the second decade of the 21st century, we cannot vote online for president?
"From a security point of view, it is an insane thing to do," David Jefferson, a computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories and chairman of Verified Voting, told Computerworld in March.
In this election cycle, estimates are that about 3.5 million voters in 32 states and the District of Columbia will be able to use their keyboards for at least some portion of the voting process, most of them military service members or Americans living overseas.
"The biggest concern I have about Internet voting is that we don't know how to do it securely. It sounds wonderful but it's an oxymoron. We don't have Internet experts who know how to secure big pieces of the Internet from attack," Ron Rivest, an expert in cryptology and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told a conference last year at Central Connecticut State University.
Meanwhile, there remain concerns about the voting machines currently in use.
"This is a national security issue. It should really be handled by the Department of Homeland Security," said Roger Johnston and he should know.
Johnston led a team at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, a research arm of the U.S. Department of Energy, in one of the most disturbing e-voting machine hacks to date, in the view of Brad Friedman, proprietor of the Brad Blog and a vocal critic on the subject of voting machine security.
Hacking on the cheap
Call it hacking on the taxpayers' dime -- and on the cheap, too. Voting machines used by as many as a quarter of American voters heading to the polls in 2012 can be hacked with just $10.50 in parts and an 8th-grade science education, Friedman reported in a review of the experiment.
"...the Argonne team's attack required no modification, reprogramming, or even knowledge, of the voting machine's proprietary source code. It was carried out by inserting a piece of inexpensive 'alien electronics' into the machine," he wrote.
This is just one of several hacks in recent years designed to reveal vulnerabilities in voting machines, including one in which the video game Pac Man was installed on a voting machine.
If you want to know what types of equipment your state uses for voting, check out www.verifiedvoting.org.
According to the group's website:
• One-quarter of the nation's registered voters will use paperless electronic voting machines that provide no paper record of votes cast. In six states (Delaware, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey and South Carolina) there is only paperless electronic voting. In five states (Indiana, Pennsylvania, Texas, Tennessee and Virginia), the heavy majority of ballots cast are paperless.
• Two-thirds of American voters use paper ballots. In 19 states, voters will use paper ballots statewide. In 13 states and the District of Columbia, optical scan voting will account for the majority of ballots.
• Thirty-three states plus the District of Columbia provide a paper record for every vote cast. That may be a paper ballot or a printout that the voter can view before casting a ballot on an electric machine.
'Voting systems frequently fail'
Check out countingvotes.org for a ranking of the states based on voting equipment security. This survey -- released in July by the Verified Voting Foundation, the Rutgers University Law School and Common Cause -- found that more than 300 voting machine problems were reported in the 2010 midterm elections and more than 1,800 in the 2008 general election.
"Every national election since 2000 has shown us the same thing: Voting systems frequently fail," the study said. "When they fail, votes are lost. Voters in jurisdictions without paper ballots or records for every vote cast, including military and overseas voters, do not have the same protections as states that use paper ballot systems. This is not acceptable."
Now, back to "Hail to the Victors."
Several weeks before the November 2010 election, University of Michigan computer science professor J. Alex Halderman and his students penetrated the District of Columbia's pilot project of an Internet-based voting system for overseas voters.
Granted, the District did challenge experts to test its system.
"Our objective was to approach the system as real attackers would: starting from publicly available information, we looked for weaknesses that would allow us to seize control, unmask secret ballots, and alter the outcome of the mock election,'' Halderman and the team wrote in a paper published earlier this year.
The Michigan team changed votes, reportedly casting one in a school board race for Bender, a robot from the animated series "Futurama," found voters' personal information, took control of remote cameras in the computer room and -- more worryingly -- found evidence of other attacks originating in Iran, China and India.
"Within 48 hours of the system going live, we had gained near complete control of the election server. We successfully changed every vote and revealed almost every secret ballot. Election officials did not detect our intrusion for nearly two business days and might have remained unaware for far longer had we not deliberately left a prominent clue," they reported.
A telltale clue
Oh, yes, that clue: The University of Michigan fight song played when a ballot was submitted.
"Nevertheless, it took two business days for officials to become aware of the infiltration," the paper noted.
The Michigan crew shared its findings with D.C. election officials, who opted not to use the system in November 2010.
While the D.C. officials acknowledged that, "...we learned many valuable lessons" they maintained: "Even more, voters expect that there will be a day when online voting will be as simple as paying bills or paying taxes. While there will always be citizens who choose to file their taxes on paper and there will always be voters who wish to visit their local polling place on Election Day, election officials know that voters expect, one day, to cast their ballot from their laptop."
That day already is a reality in the North European nation of Estonia, "the envy of the digital world" and "among the most wired and technologically advanced countries in the world," Estonia is the leader in Internet voting, CNN reported a year ago.
Critics say that the challenges of secure Internet voting in Estonia, a nation of 1.34 million people, pale in comparison with those in the United States, where roughly 100 times that number of people voted in the 2008 presidential election.
At the conference in Connecticut last year, Rivest estimated that mass online voting in the United States was at least two decades away from reality.
West Virginia leads the way
One of those who had seen the dawning of that day is West Virginia Secretary of State Natalie Tennant.
During the 2010 general election, 125 West Virginia voters, in the military and overseas, cast ballots online. In a paper published this year, Tennant wrote: "To date, no significant deficiencies or concerns have been identified with the West Virginia online voting pilot. In short, what West Virginia did worked. It was a small program that helped an admittedly small group of voters cast their ballot more conveniently. There were 125 opportunities for something to go wrong, but to our knowledge, nothing did."
Tennant said that for members of the armed forces, particularly those stationed in war zones, being able to vote was meaningful.
Tennant made this plea to skeptics: "Instead of continuing to focus on the shortcomings of Internet voting, opponents could help strengthen it. Computer experts could lend their skills to developing encryption software that guarantees that each ballot is securely transmitted. Election officials could help voters better understand how the process works.
"Internet voting should be a safe, secure, accessible option for voters. It is time that we, as a society, agree that our voting is far too sacred to compromise -- and that at some point in time this sacred right and accessible technology must intersect. I believe the time to explore that is now," Tennant said.
Companies touting online voting are confident they are the future.
"I believe everyone will have the option of voting online, certainly within our lifetime," Lori Steele, chief executive officer of Everyone Counts, a San Diego-based Internet voting company that provides services in several states, told The Wall Street Journal, "I believe everyone will have the option of voting online, certainly within our lifetime."


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