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This grievance procedure provides a process for constructively resolving serious academic, supervisory or administrative grievances that undergraduate and graduate students may have with faculty, supervisors, staff or administrators. Its purpose is to resolve in a fair manner any grievances arising from grading, other evaluation or supervisory practices, and appeals that students may want to initiate if they are dissatisfied with decisions made by the committees that direct their degree program or the Academic Standards Committee of the Lynch School. To that end, all concerned should display a cooperative manner. Resolutions should be attempted between the parties involved and mediated rather than directed outcomes should be sought, and should be sought at the lowest possible administrative level. Confidentiality of the student(s) and faculty members(s) involved should be maintained at all times. In the event that the student's Chairperson, advisor, supervisor, Dean or Associate Dean is a party to the grievance that person should recuse him/herself from considering the matter, and the appropriate administrator at the next highest administrative level will replace that person.
If at any time in these procedures the student anticipates that discussing the matter directly with the faculty member, supervisor, committee or program staff would be uncomfortable, the student may request an ombudsperson. In this case, the Chair or appropriate Associate Dean will make a reasonable effort to assign an ombudsperson who is acceptable to the student.
If a student believes that he or she has been evaluated unfairly or has another serious grievance, the student should discuss the matter with the faculty member, supervisor or committee involved as soon as possible after the evaluation has been received or the grievance arises. This discussion should provide an opportunity for further dialogue and clarification between faculty and student about how the matter was determined, what criteria were used, and any related issues. If such a discussion results in a mutually acceptable resolution, the matter will be considered closed. If either party wishes to have a written statement of the outcome, the parties will put the resolution in writing, sign it, and each retain a copy. This written statement must be completed no later than two weeks after the mutually acceptable resolution has been reached.
If, however, a mutually acceptable disposition cannot be achieved, the student may present the matter in writing to the Chairperson of the department in which the faculty member, supervisor, or committee is located administratively. The student's written statement to the Chair must be submitted no later than two weeks from the date of the final meeting with the faculty member, supervisor, committee or program staff and clearly specify the nature of the complaint and the remedy requested.
The Chairperson will review the matter by meeting individually with each individual involved and reviewing any written materials related to the grievance. The Chairperson will meet again with the individuals involved, either separately or jointly or both, in an attempt to resolve the matter. The Chairperson will provide a written response within two weeks of this meeting. If a settlement is reached, it is to be put in writing and signed by the Chairperson and each of the parties, with each to retain a copy. If no resolution is reached, the Chairperson will prepare a written summary of events relevant to the grievance and provide a copy of it to the student and the faculty member or other individuals involved.
In the event that the grievance concerns treatment or evaluation in the practicum, the student should follow this same procedure, discussing the matter first with his or her field supervisor. If this discussion does not lead to resolution, the matter should be brought to the appropriate Director of Field Placements who will follow the guidelines described above for Department Chairs. If a field site grievance involves an organization other than Boston College, the student should pursue the grievance through that organization's applicable procedures. In such a case, the student is advised to inform his or her Lynch School supervisor of the grievance.
If an undergraduate or graduate student is dissatisfied by the outcome of the discussions and process at the Chairperson level, the student may initiate a formal appeal. The student must initiate the appeal as early as possible, but not later than thirty (30) days after receiving the Chair's resolution. A formal appeal consists of a written explanation of the grievance sent to the relevant Associate Dean of Graduate or Undergraduate Student Services, which should include the reasons the student believes the faculty member's, supervisor's, or committee's evaluation was arbitrary, unethical, or based on extrinsic error, and the reasons why previous discussions were not satisfactory. The Associate Dean may request that the faculty member, the Chair and any other individual involved provide the Associate Dean with a written evaluation of the merit of the appeal and a summary of the attempts to resolve the grievance.
The Associate Dean will then convene an ad hoc committee composed of three members. Two members will be members of the Academics Standards Committee and will be appointed by the co-chairs of that committee. A third member will be appointed by the Associate Dean. If a student is appealing a decision of the Academic Standards Committee, no member of the Academic Standards Committee would be included in the ad hoc committee. The ad hoc committee will conduct an independent review of the grievance, which will include discussing the grievance with the Chair, the student, and other individuals involved. Within thirty (30) days of receiving the formal appeal, the ad hoc committee will provide a statement of the committee's resolution of the matter to the student, the Department Chair involved in the earlier level of the process, the person(s) against whom the grievance was brought, and the Associate Dean.
If the student is dissatisfied with the conclusions of the ad hoc committee, the student may submit a written appeal to the Dean. The appeal must be submitted as soon as possible but no later than thirty (30) days after the student has received the conclusions of the ad hoc committee. A formal appeal to the Dean consists of a written explanation of the appeal which should include the reasons the student believes the faculty member's, supervisor's, or committee's evaluation was arbitrary, unethical, or based on extrinsic error, and the reasons why previous discussions were not satisfactory. Copies of decisions made by the Department Chair and the ad hoc committee will be forwarded to the Dean for the Dean's consideration in this review of the student's appeal. Within thirty (30) days of receipt of the student's appeal, the Dean will render a decision. The decision of the Dean is final, and will be communicated to the student in writing, with copies to the person(s) against whom the grievance was brought, and the relevant Department Chair and Associate Dean.
If a student's grievance relates to the student's legal rights under any law or regulation, the grievance will be addressed in accordance with the applicable legal requirements. In such cases, the faculty member or administrator responding to the grievance should consult with the Associate Dean of Faculty and Academic Affairs who will facilitate communication with the Office of the General Counsel.
In some cases, a student's grievance may be more appropriately addressed by another University grievance procedure. Students should pursue the matter through that procedure. For example, students who wish to grieve treatment or evaluation related to their second major outside the Lynch School should follow the policies of the relevant department. If the student believes that he or she has experienced discriminatory harassment, the student should follow the discriminatory harassment policies described in the University Policy against Discriminatory Harassment in the Boston College Policies and Procedure Manual.
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- 1/3 cup finely chopped shallot
- 1 teaspoon mild honey
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
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In the wake of a recent Washington Post article that details Mitt Romney's alleged bullying of a classmate in high school, CNN contributor Dana Loesch and conservative blogger Jim Hoft have responded by breathing new life into the zombie lie that President Obama voted in support of infanticide.
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This story is definitely a first for me. Not just because every story is unique in itself, but that it's one of personal matter. The thing is, I quit my well-paid job, just to spend time on the things I'm very passionate about: open source development and information security. Not only was quitting my job a serious step, also the decision to share my personal story after 10+ years of working with open source software and security. Well, here you go. It's my hope to intrigue others, find their passion in life and also go for it!
"My name is Michael Boelen and I'm an open source / security addict" "Hi Michael"
My first job
Let's go back 10 years ago, the year 2003. I was 21, graduated the year before and had my first full time job. My first duties were to renew some of the services we had running for some time, like this old Red Hat machine. It was one of the mail servers, but the only one running Linux. But maybe not for long, so it had to be replaced and a new mail server had to be configured. This might be simple task for the seasoned Unix veteran, but I was a rookie at the time and had no idea where to begin. Also, my chief preferred to move away from sendmail, so we had to choose something else. It needed to be stable, feature-rich and flexible to extend. After some research we picked Exim.
From clueless to achievement
In the days and weeks following, many configuration snippets were tested and everything was tried to get this new server running. My chief in the meantime was challenging me in a good way, checking my progress and assisting if needed. Actually, although it took some time, we were able to build a nice new mail server. Even my earlier acquired PHP skills were used, to build a fancy management interface. The final product was not just a replacement of the Red Hat server, but a complete new solution. Besides the normal mailbox handling, it had decent spam filtering, customers could manage their own mailboxes and reporting capabilities were available. Best of all, the software did not cost a penny. Everyone was happy with the result. Although I already used open source before and I definitely programmed many times before, I never experienced this great feeling before. It was like Legos, building new things with just basic building blocks. Not much later our DNS server was getting revamped and the story was similar: I had no clue, I read a lot, a nice product was born, everyone was happy.
1) don't make 'difficult' things too easy for clueless people, or they will definitely break it in a way you had not anticipated.
2) Sanitize your input.
So during this time being a sysadmin/programmer, or what we call a DevOps now, my interest for information security was increasing. I played with all kind of tools before, starting from the time I had my first personal computer. With machines connected to the internet, it was now also about protecting "my" machines. So it was time to find some security tools and build up the defense. While hunting for great tools in the /usr/ports/security directory (FreeBSD), I discovered a tool named chkrootkit. With a freshly installed server available, it was quickly installed from the ports collection. But then during its first run, it gave me a shocking message that this server was most likely been comprised. This couldn't be true.. So after validating it on a second machine, I knew for sure. It had to be a false positive, as these machines were definitely not compromised. So after showing it to my chief, I told him without hesitation: "This software can't be trusted, I can make a better tool". We laughed, but I was up for the task. The challenge was clear: create a tool to detect malware on at least FreeBSD and Linux.
First project
Most likely if I would have known what amounts of time it takes to develop, the tool was probably never been created. But less did I know, so I started with an initial piece of shell scripting and "Rootkit Hunter" was born. Since I wanted to keep my work duties and my new hobby separated, I only worked on it during my spare time. After all, I had enough to do during my normal work already, like researching new security tools.
After some weeks of development, it was time to release the first version, or beta, of my new security tool. It was announced on some mailinglists and actually people started trying it. They provided me directly with great feedback. Some even provided me with malware samples they discovered on their machines. I was amazed by the interaction and got in love with this "open source" thing. Quickly did I realize that using open source is one thing, but actually contributing to it, is a completely different league. During the few years ahead I kept programming in my spare time, even during my vacations. There was enough analysis to be done and the tool improved with every release. The amount of users and feedback only grew bigger.
But then time passed and I had some other priorities, let's call it "life". It was around 2006 and although I did some work on rkhunter, it was simply not enough. The research itself was draining my energy as there were simply too much malicious scripts. Also I was wondering more and more about why I was doing this. The question is still valid at this very moment: why would one voluntarily put all his spare time into researching malicious pieces of code? Sure, the knowledge is valuable. But it definitely won't make any impression on the girls..
Finally I decided to handover the project to a development team. They promised me to keep the project alive. The choice was definitely not easy. After all it was my baby, the thing I invested so much time into it. But on the other hand, I created the tool to be useful for others, not to be collecting dust. So this seemed to be a good alternative.
1) Pick product names of 8 characters or less, or people will abbreviate it for you.
2) Consider the time it takes to build something from scratch and instead provide a patch to an existing project.
So some time went by and it was 2007. Many changes in my work environment were happening, good and bad. Then it struck to me, I needed a new project. This time not something which only discovers malware, but one that actually helps people improving their systems. Also, it should not matter if the last version was 6 months old. The software had to remain useful.
The new project
Again, I looked at the existing software packages. With the experience from Rootkit Hunter freshly in my mind, I knew what I could expect. Yet, finding the right idea, name and building it, was a completely different story. But as always, at times you are not actively searching for an idea, it suddenly shows up. What I really liked to do, was checking systems and improving them. What better project could there be than creating an audit tool? It was checking systems, it was automating tedious work and its goal was to improve systems. Great, that would be the project!
So I had to come up with a name. After all, every project needs a name. After some thinking and fiddling with letters, the name "Lynis" showed up. The word had no further meaning, just a small word, with enough consonants and vowels. When searching on Google for the name, not many results showed up. So it was uniquely enough to use it. Secondly, it matched my "Should not be longer as 8 characters" rule. What I didn't release at that time is that the pronunciation would be tricky for some people. But well, people can always invite me to their podcast to hear my version!
The name was chosen and it was time for some serious development. Many spare hours went into the initial version. When it was ready, I announced it a similar way as with Rootkit Hunter. The timing of this first version was very interesting, as it was exactly between two jobs. The project was so much fun to work on, that I delayed my start date at my new employer with a month. This gave me a full month of "vacation", or better, development time. After this month of development, I started at my new employer with 5+ years of fulltime experience and two open source tools in the pocket.
Something new
This new employer was completely different: consultancy. Big companies hired their people, including me, for consultancy work. During my almost 6 years with the company, I was performing Unix administration, followed by some data storage management. In the meantime I expressed my passion for information security. It didn't take long and the opportunity was there to do fulltime information security. Great! After an outsourcing deal and a few years of being a security officer, it was time for a new challenge. Later I ended up in a very interesting role as service manager. Sometimes it's better to take a step sidewards, to determine if you are still following the right path.
Something lost
During the time at some big companies I learned an amazing amount about companies itself, about other people and even more about myself. Writing down all the learned lessons could actually become a book (one day..!). To summarize 6 years: I was so deep into my work, I completely had forgotten about my passions. No longer was I doing the work because I loved doing it. It was done to satisfy others, including earning their bonuses. So something had to change and I knew directly what it was: invest time in my projects again. It was always the answer! However this time it would have a slightly different goal. Not only would I do development just for the usage by others, but it should benefit me as well. I mean that in a positive way, not a selfish one. It should be in this way, so I can reinvest time into the project, while enjoying it and also growing on the ideas and work. Because one thing I definitely learned during the last 10 years, is that open source can provide great PR to your company or your personal brand.
With an interesting chain of events, I finally made the decision. So I quit my job and decided to go for it. Nothing is worth more than following a passion, right? Sure, it was safer to do it besides my day job, but this definitely gives more opportunities. Secondly the combination of passion and dedication is a much better mix, than passion and "when I have the time". So back to open source and development, doing the work I love to do.
While thinking about the possibilities open source can provide, I had also some worries. Like my personal finances, or how will it impact Lynis as being a free and open source tool. I studied several other projects and came up with a great alternative: let Lynis as-is and don't overcomplicate it. No nasty crippling or letting it die. We have seen those open source projects in the past and honestly, I don't think that's the open source spirit. Let me be clear: Lynis will remain free and open source. Additionally, the development will be active again and new tests will be added on a regular basis.
Lynis and the enterprise
Lynis will be used in a way similar to a client/server solution. In this case Lynis is the client and the server is a managed solution with enterprise capabilities. Examples include, but are definitely not limited to, reporting, enhanced documentation, mapping to compliancy requirements/standards and central management. It will also provide guidance like ready-to-use snippets and secured baselines. Additionally, you won't have to read very long benchmarks and hardening guides anymore! I know your pain and will fix it: just run the tool, check the gaps and Lynis Enterprise will tell what to fix and how to fix it. No longer researching many systems, or fiddling with configuration settings. Let's finally harden our servers the proper way!
The next big step now is to incorporate Lynis into a full solution. It's a work in progress and development is active (and fun!). Best of all, users can keep using Lynis for free, companies can invest in an affordable security solution and I get the resources to do the work I really love to do!
So now what? Well, I created the corporate entity (CISOfy), a business plan and launched the website last week. Right now I'm working on Lynis Enterprise. Interested? Go to http://cisofy.com/lynis/
My biggest lessons
It's safe to say I learned a lot during my last 10 years. If you are interested in technology and open platforms, consider the option of contributing to open source projects. It will provide you new insights, brings you in contact with other smart individuals and might be useful for your personal brand. Additionally, a passion is worth more than every job. Even if you can't afford to quit, then start something small. It will always provide you with something unexpected (a nice story, a new job, new friends).
Call to action
If you made it till the end of this article, nice job! Time to come in action. Let me give you 3 options:
- If you liked this article, share it with others. That's the open source spirit!
- If you care about the security of your systems, go to http://cisofy.com/lynis/, read the page and give Lynis a try. 2a) If you already used Lynis, then send me an e-mail and tell me what is you keeping up at night. Provide me feedback and let me help you!
- Think about your passion and take action.
Kind regards,
Michael Boelen
CISOfy / Rootkit.nl
Open source developer and security enthusiast


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Saturday, April 2, 2011
What (and Who) I Hope to Find on the 1940 Census
3) Where did your ancestral family members live in 1940 on Census Day? Have you found all of the addresses in city directories or telephone books? Please list the ones you know the addresses of, and the ones you need to find addresses for.
Most of my ancestral family members were living on farms at this time, so I do not know exact addresses, but I generally know counties and often the towns near which they lived. These are the main ancestors I will start looking for:
My great-grandmother Susan Elizabeth "Lizzie" Smith Bonner Brinlee. I imagine she will be in Collin County, Texas, living with her son Odell Brinlee and his family, or possibly with another son, Austin Franklin Brinlee. I am especially interested in finding more information on her, because she is my brick wall. Will this census finally provide an accurate age for her?
My grandparents Lawrence Carroll Brinlee and Sallie Frances Norman Brinlee. They will be living in Fannin County, Texas, somewhere near Bonham. I believe my Aunt Sarah Evangeline Brinlee will already be married and out of the house, but my father and most of his brothers will be living at home.
My grandparents Kirby Runion Moore and Eula Amanda Floyd Moore. They will be living in Baylor County, Texas, near Bomarton. I believe their four youngest surviving children (the youngest, Ray, died in 1932) will be shown living with them. My mother will be with her first husband; I believe they were still in Baylor County, but they might have moved to California. Baylor County has never had a very large population, so I will be going over all of the images; there are bound to be numerous other relatives living there.
My great-grandparents William Henry "Jack" Norman and Sarah Jane Sisson Norman had died during the previous decade, but a number of their children would have been living in Fannin County, or perhaps in neighboring Hunt or Grayson counties. I am particularly interested in finding my Great Uncle Oby Norman, whom I could not find on the previous three censuses. I know that in 1925 a son, H.P., was born to Oby and his wife Edith Beulah Watson Norman; H.P. died in 1928 and was their only child as far as I know. On the 1930 census I found Edith living alone in California and in that same year she travelled to Hawaii alone. Where was Oby? The separation was apparently not permanent; they lived together in California until Edith's death in 1956.
Lizzie Brinlee was the only one of my great-grandparents who was alive in 1940, but I do hope to find all of the siblings of my grandparents who were still living. Most were in Texas, but a few may have been in California. Of course, I do not have exact addresses for these siblings, but I will start by looking near where they lived on the 1930 census.
I am disappointed that the parents' birthplace will not be included, but I do hope that the question on who provided the information will help me to judge its accuracy.
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If your targets fall on one of two lines of the 40 line population schedule in 1940, they were asked additional questions on the bottom of the sheet...and one of those questions was the birthplace of the person's mother and father. So you have a 5% (1 out of 20) chance that you will see that information.ReplyDelete
Joel Weintraub
I can't wait for the 1940 census either, but I haven't taken the time to find out where they all were and what I want to see.ReplyDelete
jweintraub - I am definitely hoping that some of them (especially my great-grandmother) DO end up on those lines!ReplyDelete
Amy - This will be the challenge, won't it? Although I'm lucky in that I'm sure that some of my ancestors were living in low-population counties, some of these people were also really good at "hiding."


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Adapting to change? Remember the good, forget the bad!
It's not easy being a bacterium and constantly having to adapt to whatever your environment throws at you. Dr Robert Endres explains how bacteria rely on their 'memories' to fine-tune their ability to sense food and danger, in his talk at the Society for General Microbiology's spring meeting in Edinburgh today. Dr Endres and his team at Imperial College London developed a mathematical model to explain the dynamics of chemotaxis – the mechanism bacteria use to detect and respond to changes in their environment. The group tagged the surface molecules of Escherichia coli that act as 'antennas' with fluorescent labels. Tracking these labels allowed them to detect the speed at which the bacteria respond and eventually adapt to change.
The researchers found that E. coli adapts to potentially toxic molecules much more quickly than to beneficial molecules such as nutrients. "This makes sense since, when bacteria find themselves in unfavourable conditions, cells 'tumble' and randomly find a new direction for swimming - which is hopefully one that provides a quick escape!" said Dr Endres. "This kind of knowledge could potentially help us understand how pathogenic bacteria respond in the face of a host immune attack."
Bacteria such as E. coli are sensitive to even tiny changes in levels of chemicals around them. After altering their motility in response to these changes, cells must then return to their 'normal' swimming patterns. To adapt quickly, they must effectively 'forget' the initial stimulus soon after responding to it. Conversely, bacteria that 'remember' the stimulus continue to display altered behaviour patterns and are slower to adapt.
Source: Society for General Microbiology
Other sources
- Adapting to change? Remember the good, forget the bad!from Science DailyWed, 31 Mar 2010, 22:28:18 UTC
- Adapting to change? Remember the good, forget the bad!from PhysorgWed, 31 Mar 2010, 1:35:14 UTC


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Life Science: Session 8
MaryAnn Bernstein, Burlington, MA
"If kids are going to spend their time learning this material, investigating this material, it's important that their time be used well, and simply touching on the main ideas or the vocabulary involved doesn't leave them with any kind of understanding of the topic. In order for me to do that, I need to know what I'm teaching, I need to know the background, and it really has required a fair amount of research on my part, to be able to feel comfortable to field their questions and to be able to give them those big ideas that are important for them to keep when we leave the topic."
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8% Asian
3% African American
- Percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch: 6% versus a state average of 28%
MaryAnn Bernstein teaches third grade at the Fox Hill School in Burlington, MA, an affluent suburb about 20 miles north of Boston. Students at the school consistently score well above state averages on state tests and only 6% of them receive a free or reduced-price lunch. About 88% of the Fox Hill School's students are white.
In the past several years, state standards in Massachusetts have become more specific and have required teachers to cover new, and often more numerous, topics in science. With less time to spend on each topic, MaryAnn has noticed that she needs to focus carefully on the big or essential ideas in each lesson if her children are to build meaningful understandings.
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DIXON � Ashanti Curry had a senior moment Friday night in the Dixon Girls Christmas Classic.
DIXON � Ashanti Curry had a senior moment Friday night in the Dixon Girls Christmas Classic.
No, the 17-year-old didn�t misplace her keys � or her shot, which was obvious as the Northside senior scored a career-high 26 points to lead the Monarchs past New Bern 65-44 to claim their fifth straight tournament title.
Curry, who also had 6 steals and 6 rebounds, was named the tournament�s MVP.
�It�s my senior year and I just felt like the rest of the girls deserved it,� Curry said. �Before the game they told me to just come out here and do what I�m supposed to do and they�d do what they�re supposed to do. That�s just what I did.�
A senior moment? You bet it was. It was a moment to remember for the scrappy senior, who is bound for the Naval Academy.
�The alumni girls sent us texts today and they were like, �Bring it home, we won this so many times we need you girls to do it again,�� Curry said. �When they did that, that kind of hit home to me.�
The 5-foot-6 Curry scored 12 points in the opening period, which ended with the Monarchs up 25-9. She scored on a baseline drive, a baseline-to-baseline layup, two slicing, devil-may-care runners in the lane (twice) as well as 2 of 5 free throws, one coming after a drive in which she made the bucket and was fouled.
Talk about coming out hot.
�I took a nap before this game,� Curry said by explanation for her smoking start. �I normally don�t get a nap, but I need a nap. It�s just my senior year and I want really want to go all out my senior year. I�m proud of my girls. I�m proud of the coaching staff for training me to be a better player.�
First-year coach Chad Novelli said Curry turned in a game to remember.
�If anybody in the area did not know what kind of player she was before tonight, I�m sure they do now,� he said.
While Curry led the way, she got plenty of help from her teammates. Journee� Collins, who made the all-tournament team, and Kayla Hill each had 13 points. Collins also had 7 rebounds for the Monarchs (9-2).
J.J. Jones, who made the all-tournament team, led New Bern with 12 points.
�There�s a reason why they�ve won it five straight times,� New Bern coach Bill Bondurant said. �They�ve got shooters, not just her (Curry). They had shooters all the way around.�
After racing out to a 25-6 lead with 33 seconds left in the opening period, the Monarchs were never threatened by the Bears. Northside took a 38-21 lead into the half after a buzzer-beating 3-pointer by Collins from the wing.
Northside led by as many as 24 in the second half.
Along with Curry�s scoring, the Monarchs used their patented full-court pressure that then morphs into an equally intense half-court vise grip to cause turnovers � the Bears had 14 in the first half, double Northside�s total.
�We obviously rely on that a lot,� Novelli said. �We get a lot our points due to our pressure, and right now all five on the floor are part of it. Ashanti is playing great and the supporting cast is doing their job and we�re getting easy buckets out of it.�
Bondurant said this wasn�t the first time the Bears have faced that kind of pressure.
�We just didn�t respond to it as well as we can,� he said. �It was one of those nights. Again, as long as we�re fighting, as long as we�re competing, and I thought we did, that�s all you can ask. You�ve just got to give it to the other team. They make their shots, they get their stops. They were the better team tonight.�
And Novelli, for one, was breathing a little easier. As a first-year coach of arguably Onslow County�s top girls� basketball program, he didn�t want to be on the bench when the Monarchs� streak in the Dixon Christmas Classic ended.
�I am not going to lie. I�m not going to say that didn�t cross my mind. There�s no doubt the success they�ve had,� he said. �As I said when I got the job, all I wanted to do was continue to build on what they�ve already started.�
And after a 57-37 win over 3-A White Oak on Thursday and a 21-point win over the 4-A Bears, Novelli likes what he�s seeing from the Monarchs.
�Tonight and last night I think we played at the level that we expect to be playing at right now. We�re still not 100 percent where we want to be, but we�re sure as heck on our way,� he said. �We�re clicking right now.�
And again the champions of the Dixon Girls Christmas Classic.
New Bern 9 13 11 12 � 44
Northside 25 16 13 12 � 65
Jones 13, Mitchell 7, Coor 7, Lee 6, Hickson 5, McCullough 4, Lewis 2. Totals� 14 11-18 44
Curry 26, Collins 13, Hill 13, Bowerman 6, Moore 4, Perez 3. Totals� 26 9-18 65
3-Point Goals� NB 5 (Jones 3, McCullough 1, Hickson 1). NS 4 (Collins 3, Perez 1). Rebounds� NB 28 (Lee 5, McCullough 5). NS 34 (Collins 7, Moore 7, Curry 6, Hill 5). RECORDS� NB 3-12. NS 9-2.


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The first mention of the name Rhode Island or any of its variations in connection with Narragansett Bay is in the letter of Giovanni da Verrazzano, the explorer, dated July 8, 1524, in which he refers to an island near the mouth of Narragansett Bay, and likens the island to the Island of Rhodes in the Aegean Sea.
The name was first officially applied to the island on March 13, 1644 in these words: "Aquethneck shall be henceforth called the Ile of Rods or Rhod-Island." The name "Isle of Rodes" is found used in a legal document as late as 1646. In 1663 the name "Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations" was adopted in the Royal Charter granted by King Charles II of England.
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- Rhode Island was the first of the thirteen colonies to renounce its allegiance to the the British Crown.
- Rhode Island was governed under a Royal Charter, granted by King Charles II in 1663, for 180 years. Rhode has been governed under its Constitution since 1843.
- Rhode Island is the only state that still celebrates Victory Day (the end of WWII) as an official state holiday.
- The metal from which the Independent Man atop the Rhode Island State House was cast came from the breaking up of a statue of Simon Bolivar, which once stood in New York's Central Park.
- Rhode Island Governor Benedict Arnold, the first Governor elected under the Royal Charter in November, 1663, was the great grandfather of the infamous Revolutionary War figure, Benedict Arnold.


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A primary role of my art is to provide clarity and insight into issues of soul as inherent elements of man's role in creation. As awareness and consciousness increases, so does the clarity with which we are able to perceive the exquisite beauty and wholeness of creation. Ultimately, art acts as both a mirror and a lens that gives presence and visibility to that which previously was unseen, unknown and not understood, often residing in the underground of the conscious.
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It was one of those moments in Israeli politics – any nation's politics – in which the numbers just don't add up. Lawmakers had been toiling all night trying to fashion a budget. Now night had turned into dawn and debate into occasional tempestuousness when, at 7 a.m., Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strode into the Knesset in his trademark crisp white shirt, designer tie, and dark suit.
Fourteen years ago, when he was prime minister the first time around, Mr. Netanyahu likely would have marched straight to his desk, crunched his numbers, applied his macroeconomic theories, and come up with his answers to the budget gap. Not this time, according to Yuli Edelstein, his minister of information and diaspora.
Instead, Netanyahu headed for the back of the room where rank-and-file members sat. He shook their hands, asked about their spouses, inquired about their kids.
IN PICTURES: The Gaza flotilla and the aftermath of the Israeli naval raid
"I saw him shaking hands with all kinds of backbenchers. I looked at this scene and said with wonder, 'Is this the same person from 17 years ago?' " recalls Mr. Edelstein. "Back then, he was too much of a policy wonk to do anything like that."
The scene illustrates one way in which Netanyahu has changed since his first tenure as prime minister from 1996 to 1999. Although perhaps still someone who prefers the lecturer's podium to backroom politicking, he has learned to excel at the glad-handing art of governance, which was remarkably absent the first time around. "In the beginning it was hard for him to understand that outside the world of big ideas you have to do a lot of political homework, to give recognition to people – to members of Knesset, to coalition partners," Edelstein says.
Now it's about being a little less cerebral, a little more congenial. And, perhaps, taking things in stride. "I see him today being more patient and less jumpy, less overreacting to all kinds of things," says Edelstein. "There are people who are a natural at this. He's not."
Other things, however, seem to come easily: Netanyahu's ability to state his case. Even, that is, when much of the world disagrees, as it has with his stance on the flotilla crisis that erupted May 31. From the time he was a student at Cheltenham High School near Philadelphia, where he excelled on the debating team, to his world debut in the mid-1980s when he began defending Israel as its envoy to the United Nations, Netanyahu showed acumen in the persuasive arts. But it's still not clear where he will put these skills to the greatest use – in swaying fellow Israelis to take risks for peace or in convincing the rest of the world why an embattled Israel can't.
From the floor of the Knesset plenum to the door of the White House, from the halls of power in Europe and the Middle East to – perhaps most important – the Muqata in Ramallah where the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas sits, there seems to be a shared sense of mystery about who Benjamin Netanyahu really is and who he is ready to become. Perhaps he is his father's son, the heir apparent of an ultranationalist wing of Zionism whose founders saw no space – physically, strategically, ideologically – for an independent Palestinian state on the land now controlled by the Jewish-Israeli one. Or perhaps he dreams of following in the bold footsteps of other Israeli leaders – of Likud founder Menachem Begin when he signed a land-for-peace deal with Egypt in 1979 – and hopes to go down in history as a singular leader who ushered in some viable plan to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
It may be that he wants both. He wants to be Bibi, as he is widely known here, the man who defends Israel from outside pressure to make concessions that might endanger its survival – which is precisely how he has played his opposition to ending Israel's controversial naval blockade of the Gaza Strip. But he also wants to be Bibi, the man who would become Israel's equivalent of Nixon in China – the last man anyone expected to take a risk for peace with the enemy, and perhaps the only one who could do it.
Daniel Ben-Simon, a Labor Party member of the Knesset and therefore a member of Netanyahu's coalition government, says that anyone who tries to decipher the Netanyahu code will find himself exasperated. "Nobody really knows him. I've followed him for years as a journalist, and I really don't know who this man is," says Mr. Ben-Simon, who left a long career at Haaretz, Israel's liberal, intellectual paper, to enter politics last year. "He might bring us to war or he might make peace with the Syrians. Maybe his fans are right; maybe Netanyahu will deliver. I haven't given up yet."
The few people who are close to Netanyahu say they see a man who has evolved and matured. But probably not converted. "Is he entirely changed? Born-again? No, he's not," says one confidant. "People don't change entirely. But there are changes that come with experience. He's trying to do better this time. I think it's possible that he's ready to break through politically, but I'm not sure it's possible, given the limits we see on the Palestinian side."
If there's a new Bibi who has become more open to compromise, it was the old Bibi who seemed to be archly on display in the fallout over the flotilla crisis, sounding a note both defiant and defensive. Given Hamas's ongoing attempts to import arms to Gaza, he argued, Israel has an inalienable right to impose a naval blockade on the Gaza Strip. Israel's soldiers were just acting in self-defense when, in commandeering one of the six ships while in international waters they responded to attacks on deck with live fire, killing nine people.
Publicly, he has rejected calls for an independent international probe of the incident and continues to blame the world for applying "double standards" when it comes to Israel. But privately, he has told US officials he is willing to consider new arrangements on access to Gaza. And on June 10, he eased the blockade, allowing in previously banned food items in an attempt to mollify world criticism.
These different faces of Netanyahu suggest a complex man whom even confidants find difficult to read. His handling this summer of a series of incendiary issues with global implications – the flotilla crisis, the proximity talks with the Palestinians, and the dwindling months left to a freeze in West Bank settlement construction – will test how much he's evolved as a leader and an ideologue, not to mention his relations with Washington. More important, it may define whether he will go down as a statesman or a nationalist.
this time last year, on balmy June evenings, Netanyahu was getting ready to deliver the speech of a lifetime. He and his aides were hammering out the final version of the text they knew would become the most important landmark in his political career so far. He was preparing for an address at Bar-Ilan University – a bastion of political and religious conservatism in a world of more liberal Israeli academia – in which he would go where no Likud premier had gone before. He would declare his support for a two-state solution to the conflict, specifically referring to a Palestinian state.
He knew that many in his own rightist party would find this unacceptable. And so, the day before the speech, he sat down with Likud members and tried to use his best tool: the power of persuasion. Sworn opponents to this two-state concept were not surprised, but neither were they swayed. "I asked him not to use the words 'Palestinian state.' I was very direct with him and said he would be making a huge mistake because if you say it you'll be playing into the post-Zionism of the left," says Danny Danon, a young Likud member. "Unfortunately, he didn't take this advice. But I'm sure that deep inside he knows it's not going to happen."
Ambitious, assertive, articulate, and just shy of 40, Mr. Danon doesn't seem so far from the figure that Netanyahu himself cut 20 years ago when he was rising to international prominence. Though Netanyahu had already served as Israel's ambassador to the UN from 1984 to 1988, the rest of the world seemed most impressed when he deftly argued Israel's case during the Gulf War nearly two decades ago – occasionally donning a gas mask in the middle of a television interview when a new Iraqi Scud missile was headed in Israel's direction – and then continuing to make his point.
Netanyahu's focus on protecting an Israel under threat – then from Iraq, now from Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas – has dominated nearly everything he has done in public life. "Every living organism depends on its ability to recognize the threat to its life in time," Netanyahu said last month in a speech to Russian journalists. It's a maxim he quotes often. Of two political portraits on the wall in his office, one is of Winston Churchill, whom Netanyahu admires for his perception of the Nazi threat long before other Allied powers, including the US. (The other photo is of Theodor Herzl, considered the founder of modern Zionism.)
Indeed, fending off foes at home and abroad has long been Netanyahu's forte. In the past, that acumen in assessing threats has sometimes translated into a siege mentality in which Netanyahu was portrayed in the Israeli media as mistrustful and paranoid. (In a 1997 interview with the Monitor, he opened with the words, "OK, shoot to kill.")
It's a theme that replays itself over and over again. Netanyahu has taken the world's questions about the legality and morality of Israel's naval blockade on Gaza and morphed it into an international assault on Israel's right to self-defense and, by default, right to exist. "Today," Netanyahu told an elite army unit he visited on June 8, "Israel's very right to defend itself is under attack."
This March came in like a lion: The visit of US Vice President Joe Biden was derailed by an embarrassing announcement that Israel would build housing for several thousand Jews in East Jerusalem. It did not go out like a lamb. Things worsened when Netanyahu, during a visit with President Obama, got a palpably cold shoulder at the White House.
But the "tough love" – a term many veteran Middle East policymakers in Washington have come to use as a catchphrase for taking a firmer hand toward Israeli ambivalence and foot-dragging – got perhaps too rough and backfired. Members of Congress, and pillars of the American-Jewish community such as Elie Wiesel, began to chastise the administration for taking too harsh an approach and alienating Israel.
Other things began looking up for Netanyahu as well. In April, he survived a serious challenge from within his own Likud Party. In May, Israel was accepted to join the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a major nod toward Netanyahu's economic reforms. Long-sought Israeli-Palestinian proximity talks finally began.
Then, in mid-May, Mr. Obama told members of Congress that he'd made some missteps entering the Middle East minefield and, he joked, might have lost a few fingers. Underscoring Washington's move to mend fences, Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, hand-delivered an invitation for a White House meeting ahead of Obama's parley with Mr. Abbas. Those given to gloating said Bibi had wrestled with the giant and won – or at least had not been cowed. Those given to more diplomatic language said it was a sign of accepting that Netanyahu is here to stay.
"Perhaps there were hopes in Washington at one point of a different government constellation, one that would include the Kadima Party," says Zalman Shoval, a veteran Likud member, former Israeli ambassador to the US, and head of the prime minister's Forum on US-Israel Relations. "They realize now that this is not going to happen. The coalition is very solid, at least at present, and they have to deal with him whether they like it or not. So they decided to warm up the relationship."
But then came the raid. "Man plans, God laughs," holds a famous Yiddish saying, one that Netanyahu's ancestors in Eastern Europe probably knew well. (His ancestry is directly linked with a revered religious sage known as the Vilna Gaon, or genius, of Poland.) Instead of reaping the benefits of victories large and small won over the past few months, Netanyahu now finds himself on the defensive domestically and internationally – and jousting with Washington once again. It's a position he knows and plays well.
In his controversy-clouded first term, Netanyahu ran into a crisis early on when he allowed the opening of an underground tunnel, which ran beneath Jerusalem's holy places and exited in the Muslim quarter of the Old City. Ehud Olmert, then the mayor of Jerusalem, got the go-ahead from Netanyahu. Three days of deadly riots ensued.
While campaigning for the Labor Party a few years ago, Ami Ayalon, the former head of the Shin Bet, Israel's internal security service, blamed both of them for failing to cope with the fallout. A leader should be evaluated, Mr. Ayalon said, "according to the way he handles moments of crisis and pressure." He continued: "When the Western Wall tunnel opened in 1996, and the riots and pressure began, I know where Bibi and Olmert were. They were not there; they disappeared."
That negative image, one of fumbling or fading into the woodwork during crises, has dogged Netanyahu for years. Behind the smooth-talking exterior and the seamless, self-assured answers he can provide in flawless English or Hebrew is a man who is easily rattled, critics say. But longtime friend Dore Gold, who served as his ambassador to the UN in the 1990s, says it's not an accurate portrayal.
"There's a myth that he's nervous under pressure. But I've seen him be very firm," says Dr. Gold, now head of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Gold says he has learned much from his previous experiences as prime minister and foreign minister, as well as his stint as opposition leader in between. "He knows what it's like being at the apex of power. That's an advantage. I think now there are fewer surprises. He knows what's essential and what's just noise."
The botched flotilla raid was certainly unexpected. Netanyahu has surrounded himself with a tight group of six ministers, known as the "septet." The decisionmakers signed off on what they thought was a straightforward commandeering of the flotilla, as has been done with previous boats carrying activists trying to reach Gaza. Now, of course, everything looks different.
"He's trying to manage his way out from something he didn't even consider could happen," says Dan Meridor, a veteran Likud colleague who is deputy prime minister and minister of intelligence and atomic energy. "The decision was made to carry this out with actions that, judging on past experience, seemed routine, and which was presented as something that could be dealt with without violence. Whether it was a smart move or not, there was no intent to harm."
At 80, FORMER Ambassador Shoval has a half century of experience in Israeli politics; few active Likud Party figures have had as many years to observe and work with Netanyahu as he has. That is, unless one counts the luminaries of Likud's ideological forerunner, the Revisionist Zionist movement, in which Netanyahu's 100-year-old father, Prof. Benzion Netanyahu, was once a prominent figure. The movement, founded by Zeev Jabotinsky, attracted secular nationalists who were opposed to the practical (read conciliatory) Zionism in the style of David Ben-Gurion, who became Israel's first prime minister. Instead, they promoted the idea of a Greater Israel, arguing for a Jewish state on both sides of the Jordan River.
Netanyahu's hard line on terrorism may also have been shaped by having grown up in the shadow of his older brother, Yoni, the head of an Israeli army commando unit. Yoni was killed in 1976 in Uganda during Operation Entebbe, in which Israeli soldiers overtook a group of Palestinian hijackers who had seized an Air France plane.
Although the Greater Israel ideology has all but died out from mainstream rhetoric, some in the extended Netanyahu family – and that of his wife, Sara – still hold its ideals dear. It is because of such a right-wing pedigree that many doubt whether Netanyahu is sincere about his ostensible conversion to the concept of two states for two peoples.
Shoval insists that Netanyahu is more practical and less dogmatic than many would believe. "I always said that he was a pragmatist, much beyond some of his friends in the party," Shoval says.
But the fact that it took so much toiling on the part of Obama and his Middle East peace envoy, George Mitchell, just to get to proximity talks is seen as a downgrade from direct negotiations in the past. If there's one thing that many Israelis and Palestinians seem to agree on these days, it's a pessimism about the proximity talks.
"An agreement can only be an outcome of very detailed direct negotiations, and right now that doesn't look like something that will happen in the near future," Shoval says. "The term proximity is a euphemism. Proximity means nearness and what we have here is talks by remote control. It means the Palestinians are not ready to sit down and talk directly."
Palestinians say that is hardly the problem. Jibril Rajoub, a member of Fatah's central committee – a body that holds sway over Abbas – was one of the Palestinians best poised to observe Netanyahu when he was in power in the 1990s. Mr. Rajoub was then the Palestinian Authority's security chief for the West Bank, based in Hebron.
Netanyahu was openly against the Oslo Accords but promised to uphold them once elected. As such, the task of pulling out of Hebron, the last West Bank city Israel was still fully occupying in 1996, was now in his lap. He insisted on renegotiating the accords over several months until the sides reached a new agreement, called the "Note for the Record," in early 1997. It produced a division of the city that neither side is happy with – especially Palestinians, who can't enter once-vibrant areas of Hebron because of their exclusive use by about 500 Israeli settlers.
"The problem, then as now, is that Netanyahu can only see everything in terms of Israel's security needs and does not realize that the Palestinians need security as well," Rajoub says. "We feel we're trying to accommodate the American position in the Middle East, which for the first time has exerted pressure on Israel. But will Netanyahu act modestly and respond to the positive attitude of the Palestinians? I think neither his difficult character nor his alliance with the settlers and the extremists will allow him to move toward peace."
Mr. Meridor, once referred to as one of Likud's "young princes," insists Bibi has come far from where he started. But the maximum he is willing to give, he says, may not meet the minimum of what Palestinians feel entitled to receive. "When someone that high, of that stature, a leader of a nation and a political party, proposes that we are moving towards two states, it has a very important effect on the politics of this country, on the philosophy, on the Weltanschauung," says Meridor.
"I say this because I think he meant it. Does that mean he will go the length of the whole road necessary to get an agreement? I'm not sure. And I'm not sure that even I am ready to go as far as the Arabs want, although I'm ready to go a very long way. But I think he has crossed a bridge."
IN PICTURES: The Gaza flotilla and the aftermath of the Israeli naval raid
- Israel eases Gaza blockade, allowing building supplies and ketchup
- Israel announces Gaza aid flotilla inquiry, Turkey not satisfied
- Israel's Netanyahu balks at UN investigation of Gaza flotilla raid
- Never mind the 'Freedom Flotilla.' Is Israel's Gaza blockade legal?
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- Readers weigh in: Israeli blockade of Gaza: What would you change?


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Hot on the heels of Marko Ivanović's Enchantia, the National Theatre has another brand-new opera in store. Vladimír Franz (1959), an eminent Czech composer and painter, holder of six Alfred Radok Awards, has chosen to set to music Karel Čapek's celebrated novel War with the Newts. Franz wrote the opera in 2005 to commission for the National Theatre. The librettist Rostislav Křivánek used the lyrics of three songs by Jiří Suchý. The opera's creators were above all intrigued by the novel's theme of the endless human inability to realise nascent danger, the arrogant self-confidence and assumption of superiority of the human race, convinced as it is that it is capable of mastering everything that it creates. They were captivated by the theme of human adhesion to material gain, the belief that rising standards of living justify any means.
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While solving problems in SPOJ, I faced cases where I need to take Modulus of Big numbers like Fibonacci with 10^9 + 7 ( say MOD ). Now, consider the following case :
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As Fib(n) cannot be stored in 64 bit for high n, we are forced to take modulus in every loop of calculating Fibonacci number using Matrix exponentiation. But the division by 'x' later does not give the correct result. That is
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The sizzle in farmland values turned to a slow burn in the second quarter, and there's one reason why: the drought. The value of "good" farmland rose 1% from April to July, based on a survey of 205 ag bankers by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. With 22% of the bankers anticipating higher values for the third quarter, the drought does not seem to have stifled all the momentum, however.
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Even so, bankers were slightly more restrictive on collateral requirements in second quarter 2012 compared with a year ago. Agricultural loans with "major" or "severe" repayment problems comprised less than 2% of district loan volume.
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TEMPE, Ariz. – The Arizona Cardinals have acquired quarterback Carson Palmer from the Oakland Raiders.
The Cardinals gave up a conditional 2014 draft pick and swapped one of their sixth-round picks this year for Oakland's seventh-round selection.
Palmer, a Santa Margarita High graduate, reworked his contract as part of his move to the desert, agreeing to a two-year deal worth up to $20 million, with $10 million guaranteed.
New Arizona coach Bruce Arians gets a starting quarterback at a bargain basement price.
But at least the Raiders were able to get something for the quarterback rather than just release him. Oakland acquired quarterback Matt Flynn on Monday in a deal that sent two draft picks to the Seahawks.
The 33-year-old Palmer put up big numbers with the Raiders last season but the production didn't translate into sufficient wins. In 15 games in 2012, Palmer threw for 4,018 yards, becoming the second quarterback in Raiders history to throw for more than 4,000 yards in a season. He threw for 22 touchdowns with 14 interceptions.
His abilities fit the "throw long downfield" philosophy of Arians, who inherited a team with a woeful situation at quarterback.
Last year, Arizona had four starting quarterbacks — John Skelton, Kevin Kolb, Ryan Lindley and Brian Hoyer. They combined to throw for 3,383 yards with 11 touchdowns and 21 interceptions and a quarterback rating of 63.1 in an offense that ranked last in the NFL. The Arizona quarterbacks were sacked 58 times in 608 pass attempts. By contrast, Palmer was sacked 28 times last year in 585 throws.
The Cardinals have released Skelton and Kolb and have signed Hoyer to a tender offer. They also have signed free agent Drew Stanton, the backup last season to Andrew Luck in Indianapolis, where Arians was interim head coach.
Palmer was the first overall draft pick in 2002 by Cincinnati and was with the Bengals until his trade to Oakland two years ago. In two seasons with the Raiders, he started 24 games, completed 61 percent of his passes for 6,771 yards and 35 touchdowns and 30 interceptions. His career passer rating is 85.5.
"We'd like to thank Carson Palmer for his services over the past two seasons," Raiders general manager Reggie McKenzie said in a news release, "and we wish him well with the Cardinals."
For his career, Palmer has completed 62.5 percent of his passes for 29,465 yards and 189 touchdowns with 132 interceptions.
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text: My Ideal Competition Grade VHF/UHF Radio Wish list. It seems we are long over do for a Competition grade high performance VHF/UHF transceiver, which can also be used for Satellite operations. There are several competition grade HF transceivers on the market, however there are no high end competition grade VHF/UHF/Satellite systems on the marker. Most of the rigs I have seen which support VHF/UHF are either HF rigs that have had VHF/UHF slapped on, or low end VHF/UHF rigs, with HF slapped on. If we want the Amateur Radio manufactures to build us a "GREAT" VHF/UHF/Satellite system, then we need to tell them what we need. Here are some suggestions. Constructive comments welcome. This radio does not exist. If the manufactures are interested in providing a new state of the art VHF/UHF radio to the Amateur Radio community, here is one opinion of what should be in next Competition Grade VHF/UHF Transceiver and what should not be in the radio. I am going to give this fictional radio a name HR-956-Pro. What do we need: • We need a competition grade VHF/UHF transceiver that will support Terrestrial-DX, Satellite and EME operations (Voice, CW and Digital-JT65). • The HR-956-Pro, needs to be able to interface with modern computers (HTML Browser, USB and or CAT-5). • The HR-956-Pro, needs to able to interface with modern Externally mounted Pre-amplifier (both power feeds and transmitter sequencing). • The HR-956-Pro, need to be able to interface with modern Solid State Amplifiers and Tube based amplifiers. The RF output per band needs to be standardized with the Amplifier manufactures to prevent transceiver and amplifier failures due to sequencing problems and RF mismatching. • TX/RX Sequencer built-in, to control external Preamps, Amplifies and other accessories (programmable). Receiver: Of course we need a "Great" receiver, not another mediocre receiver. Each receiver for each band needs to be a "Great" performer. No Birdies: On a HF rig, a few Birdies do not usually cause serious issues, since the HF users are often listening to signals "Above" the noise floor. On a Satellite Radio, we are often listening to signals 10-30 dB, "Below" the Noise floor. Internally generated birdies are a serious problem for weak signal VHF/UHF operations. Filters: Each mode will need its own selection of DSP filters. The filters would also affect one of the Line-level outputs to the external PC. There are times when want to send Filtered or unfiltered audio to your external PC for Digital signal processing. One of the line-level outputs should be taped before the HR-956-Pro Filters, the other line-level output should be taped after the HR-956-Pro filters. The TX and RX filters should be independently selectable. The Filters need to be tested to verify they will support Satellite Mode-J (TX on 2-meters while listening on 435-438) Example: FM-5k, Filters 15k, 10k and 8k filters. AM Filters 10k, 6k, 3k, etc. SSB Filters 4.0k, 3.0k, 2.5k, 2.0k, etc. Other Modes: CW, FM-2.5k, Data Audio Quality: Life is too short for QRP or Poor Audio. It's not the number of contacts that's important, it's the quality of the contact. On the audio side, the HR-956-Pro needs to be able to support a wider range of audio through most of the stages. Of course the radio needs to meet FCC and other requirements, however we can still design the radio to deliver a wider bandwidth of good sounding audio. Let's shoot for 100-4000 Hz, on both TX and RX audio circuits. This will also mean, that a better stock microphone design will be required. VHF / UHF Bands built-in, with competition grade TX/RX: 6-meters 50-54 2-meters 144-148 70-cm 420 - 450 23-cm 1280 - 1300 (All frequencies localized for each country) Transmitter outputs: A high power transceiver is less desirable than a low power transceiver. Let me explain: For serious Terrestrial DX and EME you need to run more than 100 watts. A VHF/UHF transceiver designed for high power ( 100 watt range) transmitting, would not be compatible with third-party amplifiers or pre-amplifiers. Most VHF/UHF amps are designed for 25 or 50 watts maximum input. The manufactures of Transceivers and Amplifies need to agree upon a set of standard power level so the third-party amplifier manufactures can design properly matched Amplifiers and pre-amplifiers. This will also help reduce the number of transceiver and amplifier failures caused by mismatched RF settings. Suggested standards for VHF/UHF bases stations: 6 Meters 50 watts 2 Meters 25 watts 70 cm 25 watts 900 mc 10 watts 1.2 gig 10 watts The duty cycle of the competition grade system, will also need to be greater than a 70% duty cycle. A typical EME link running JT65 requires a 50% for 10-30 minutes at a time. The transistors and cooling system needs to be designed accordingly to meet the competition grade requirements. HR-956-Pro Must have list: Spectrum display screen: I can't imagine building a new competition grade system without this feature. It would be nice to see the band pass, before and after the filter stages. Full computer remote control: Memory read/Read and save. All memory channels options must be exportable to a CSV or similar file, including TX and RX frequencies, settings, including Repeater or split frequency settings. All protocols must be Public protocols, no propriety software or licenses. Doppler Control (Manual): LEO SSB satellites are some of the hardest satellites two work because of the amount of Doppler frequency change per second. Satellite Mode-B is very hard (70 cm Uplink and 2-meter Downlink). While you are talking through a SSB Mod-B satellite, you need to be simultaneously adjusting your transmitter with every other word, in order to keep your downlink signal centered inside the transponder. The Yasue FT-736R Satellite control knob, seems to work very well with dual VFO's and provides you the ability to quickly change either TX or RX to compensate for Doppler (among other features). The Knob style is much easier to use than "Buttons". I found the Doppler VFO correction on some newer radios to be very frustrating. The new HR-956-Pro must have the Yasue FT-736R control Knob and it must be functional for both VFO's and Memory Channels. DSP Noise tools: The usual stuff. FM Center Tuning Meter: Many of the new satellites are LEO's (Low Earth Orbit), and many of these satellites are running FM-5k. The reason for FM is because the Doppler causes the 70cm band to drift over 20, kHz during a 10-20 minute pass. The LEO SSB satellites using Mode J or Mode B are difficult to use because of the large Doppler change. The FM mode, helps reduce the impact caused by the higher Doppler. The FM Center Tuning Meter feature is a "must have" for a Satellite radio. When the FM satellite comes in range, just look at the FM meter and tune the receiver until the needle is centered and you now know the exact downlink for that Satellite. If the needle is left, turn the RX knob slowly Right, If the needle is Right, turn the RX knob slowly left, very simple. The Yaesu FT-736R has a FM Center Tuning Meter and it makes working FM satellites much easier. The IC-910 has a blinking light to tell you your FM satellite receiver frequency has drifted. Unfortunately, the blinking light is useless in telling you if your frequency is high or low. HR-956-Pro, Nice to have list: General coverage receiver (50 - 1000 megacycles): The addition of a general coverage receiver would help with the sales of the HR-956-Pro. However, it is very important that the general coverage receiver, NOT degrade the performance of the satellite receivers. We are not trying to build a super police scanner. One possible suggestion would-be to make the general coverage receiver a separate circuit board, which would be connected to a separate antenna port and thus would not degraded from the performance of the satellite receivers. VHF / UHF Optional bands or Transverter: The Amateur radio community is constantly experimenting with new bands. It would be nice to have a Transverter module or expansion module for future bands. In the USA these bands are becoming popular, 220mc, 900 mc, etc (All frequencies localized for each country) Size is important: To hold the hardware, band scope, filters and make the buttons easily accessible, a box about the size of the IC-756 product seems to be the right size. What should not be in the HR-956-Pro. No HF: No access to frequencies below 50 megacycles. The addition of HF to a satellite radio would only degrade the performance of the weak signal satellite receivers. HF would also add to the cost of the transceiver and reduce its sales potential. A competition grade VHF/UHF transceiver has no use for HF. HF would result in the radio being just another mediocre transceiver. No obsolete Serial ports: No RS-232 or TTL. These devices are so last century. DSTAR: The DSTAR mode is fun, I use it often and I have even been pushing ARISS to install it on the International Space Station. As much as I like this mode, it is not a requirement for a competition grade satellite system. I would much rather have the money put into making the VHF/UHF receivers the best possible. How much are we willing to pay for the HR-956-Pro: That depends on the performance, suggest price $2000 - $3000 USD Closing: If anyone knows of such a radio I would be interested to know who makes it. Sincerely WF1F Miles www.marexmg.org