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For a brief moment there, I entertained the ludicrous notion that inveterate pop maverick Thomas Dolby had done the dishonourable thing and made a 'normal' album. The opening track of his first full-length release in almost 20 years, an ode to writer's block entitled 'Nothing New Under The Sun', prepares the listener for an exercise in mature popcraft along the lines of Dolby's erstwhile collaborators Prefab Sprout, whose albums he produced from 1985 to 1990. Much as I like this song - and that band - I was relieved to have this impression blown to smithereens by the remaining ten tracks, starting with the undulating bass, lubricious brass and Bollywood orchestrations of 'Spice Train'. This song finds Dolby dragging the tarpaulin off the airship first sighted in 1988's 'Budapest By Blimp' and revelling in the role of globe-trotting huckster: "One big bazaar/The world is like a garage sale." How could I have doubted him?
There's a wider spectrum of musical flavours than ever. But the voice behind the songs is consistent... I get a kick out of working in new styles where I don't really know what I'm doing.
Though he made his name as a synthesizer pioneer, early on there were firm denials that Floating City would be an electronic album - a disappointment for those who hoped for a period piece in the vein of John Foxx's The Shape Of Things - yet 'Spice Train' and 'Evil Twin Brother' (featuring Regina Spektor as a seductive Russian waitress) both make effective use of electronics, the latter recalling the pop-trance productions of recent Gaga and Rihanna without sounding like the work of a baffled veteran second-guessing the tastes of a youthful audience he's unlikely to reach. As always, Dolby is clearly more interested in building upon his history than simply rehashing it, weaving past, present and future into something difficult to peg but entirely his own.
When I started out it was very rare to find good synth setups, because they were expensive, cumbersome, and didn't stay in tune. Now you can download a range of apps for free or very cheap that are more powerful than anything I ever had. And learning them is free, because you can sit in your bedroom or in your local coffee bar instead of a pricey studio. So guys are putting in insane hours tweaking softsynth sequences, like they're playing World Of Warcraft or something... the results far outshine anything I'd have the patience to do! Still, what I have have over them is my songwriting craft. So it's all about the songs now. I'll use whatever musical idiom is appropriate. It might be bossa nova on 'Simone', or a bluegrass/techno mashup on 'The Toad Lickers'. There's a lot more electronics on 'Spice Train' and 'Evil Twin Brother' because thats what the stories demand.
I often tell people, whether asked or not, that Thomas Dolby's 1982 debut The Golden Age Of Wireless is The Greatest Synthpop Album Ever Made. It would perhaps be more accurate to state that Wireless is The Greatest Album Ever Described As Synthpop. Although several of its tracks are shaped or enhanced by Dolby's use and abuse of then 'cutting edge' music technology, plenty of them involve 'live' instrumentation and ensemble playing. Despite his reputation as a 'mad scientist' and 'synth wizard', Dolby has always been a songwriter first and foremost. This much can be gleaned from such mini-masterpieces as 'Flying North', 'Radio Silence', 'Weightless' and 'Screen Kiss' and it's just as evident on this new material. A case in point is 'Jealous Thing Called Love', a tale of broken trust revolving around an organic bossa rhythm and Rich Armstrong's keening trumpet, not to mention a lyric of heartbreaking economy and grace: "I will be there/If you call me/Just don't call me/If you're with her." Dolby's strength as a vocalist comes to the fore here, his measured delivery hitting precisely the right pitch of fractured hope and regret. He acquits himself equally well on the seven-minute '17 Hills', a country folk ballad augmented by New York string quartet Ethel, Natalie McMaster's fiddle, Bruce Kaphan's mournful pedal steel and the lead guitar of the much-maligned Mark Knopfler - whose playing here is as apropos as it is on Scott Walker's Climate Of Hunter. Dolby's vocal is plaintive and unpretentious (no faux-American accent, thank goodness), his commitment to the art of storytelling unswerving. Departure though it may be, its narrative style and content aren't unrelated to the likes of 'Urban Tribal' and 'Screen Kiss' - tales of tainted love set against a panoramic backdrop and conveyed with a cinematographer's skill.
I'm proud that '17 Hills' is a bit of an epic, that it all holds together through twists and turns. It has a filmic quality. One minute you're seeing a convertible racing across a desert road in a cloud of dust. Then you cut to the interior and the car radio, and you hear what's on it. It progresses like that and ends with an aerial shot as the hero floats off into the Pacific on a pile of driftwood, with the city in the background.
As with all of Dolby's best work, Floating City is informed by an acute sense of location and dislocation. The title offers a less-than-subtle clue, affirmed by the fact that the album is divided into three distinct districts. 'Urbanoia' is a response to the grit and duplicity of the city, an environment Dolby admits to finding unsettling; 'Amerikana' pays tribute to the two-decades-plus he spent as a US resident; 'Oceanea' details his return to the east coast of England. All of the songs excepting 'Nothing New Under The Sun' are explicitly tied to one location, or several, and the Dolby eye for detail is every bit as keen as it was when he was observing men in suits in Pan Am bars back in 1982. The background minutiae here - fire escapes and barstools in the noirish 'Evil Twin Brother', motels and phone booths in 'Jealous Thing Called Love', brassieres and Searses in 'Road To Reno' - are vital to the establishment of an alternate universe which proves both seductive and immersive. Dolby has been rightly hailed as a progenitor of steampunk, and his tinkering with parallel timelines and near-futures also brings to mind Donald Fagen's Pynchonesque 1993 concept album Kamakiriad. Further parallels emerge when you consider the fact that Fagen's previous solo effort The Nightfly was released the same year as Wireless and shares many of its thematic preoccupations. But I digress...
ocation is the biggest influence on my writing. Not only where I am, but also the displacement that got me there.
Given that the various narrative strands of Dolby's career have recently formed the basis of an online game which shares a title with the album, the songs that comprise Floating City could be viewed as an expansion pack for the virtual world Dolby has been building, consciously or otherwise, since his 1981 debut single 'Urges'/'Leipzig'. It isn't unusual for characters to recur in Dolby's songwriting - the most obvious example being the childhood sweethearts of 'Europa And The Pirate Twins' (1982) who returned a decade later in 'Eastern Bloc' on 1992's Astronauts And Heretics. 'To The Lifeboats' features the reintroduction of Caroline, the central character of 1982's cryptic 'Radio Silence'. If Caroline embodied the Spirit Of Radio on the former song, sharing her name with the legendary Sixties pirate station, here she's a Radiophonic ghost, a very English manifestation of the Angel of Death, awaiting expiation. 'To The Lifeboats' closes the album on an unusually apocalyptic note; foreseeing, if not the end of the world, then at least the end of Albion: "There's a freak storm blowing in/In from the Poles/I'll be the last to leave the bridge/Last rat off the ship/England!" That final word is sung first in an anguished howl, then in an elegiac sob.
You can't avoid feeling a sense of doom on my coastline! It's dotted with concrete structures built to prepare for an invasion that never came. Thousands of years ago you could have walked to Holland from here. The ruins of many settlements and villages are out there under the waves, and ours will one day go the same way. Hopefully not in my lifetime. But global warming is accelerating the encroachment, and the government is doing little to keep up the sea defences.
For all its stylistic diversity - bluegrass, bossa, jazz and electro all get a look in - and voracious internationalism, Floating City is a work with an identifiable centre. Home is where the heart is, Dolby's being East Anglia, the same region of the British Isles that inspired Brian Eno's bleakly nostalgic Ambient 4: On Land. It's when he returns to base for the album's concluding trilogy of songs that Dolby delivers his finest material. 'Oceanea', the title track of the album's third and final segment, takes the accolade of the single most beautiful song I've heard this year. It was duking it out for a while with Alexander Tucker's similarly site-specific 'Host' but emerged victorious, perhaps due to my own experiences of travelling between Brighton (my home) and London (my frequent workplace) during the latter part of the year. I've felt the same sense of comfort and relief drawing into Brighton station of an evening as Dolby describes here, his "stumble home to Oceanea" mirroring my own weary trudge back to the English coastline. For Dolby, Oceanea stands for belonging and, furthermore, longing for the amniotic refuge of the womb. On the final verse, guest vocalist Eddi Reader voices the character of Dolby's late mother. The effect is sublime, breathtaking.
I feel a very strong sense of belonging in East Anglia. I spent much of my childhood here, and my own kids have been coming here since they can remember. I learned to sail on these rivers. My mum's family have been here for generations and there are buildings around that they built. She was not around to meet my kids or see them enjoying East Anglia. But the moment Eddi Reader began to sing on the track, I felt my mum's spirit, approving.
With the album's concluding sequence, Dolby brings his career full circle. Having travelled the length and breadth of the Flat Earth, forged innumerable connections and founded a business empire (he's famously responsible for Nokia's signature ringtone) he finds his sense of self restored in the boat-cum-studio named The Nutmeg Of Consolation, anchored in Suffolk. With 'Simone', Dolby acknowledges the transformative potential of travel, relating the inner turmoil of an individual desperate to escape their former identity - and their gender - to become reborn in an alien landscape. Ultimately, though, he knows that flight must end somewhere... and where better than the beginning? So we leave him perched on the edge of England, watching as the tide continues its implacable erosion. Draw whatever conclusions you will from this; as Dolby warns us, "There are no fucking lifeboats."
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Two things to know about storage and regulator compliance: There's no single technology product that meets all compliance requirements and there's plenty of prep work to do before you even think about technology. The first step is to define your unique requirements, including compliance and litigation-readiness needs, as well as business productivity and service-level objectives.
Most compliance regulations stress that organizations have well-documented processes for storing and retrieving company records. Technology can help, but it's only part of the solution.
Selecting a storage product to improve your organization's compliance is like putting the cart before the horse. Before you evaluate products, you need to understand the business requirements and objectives of managing your data; the types of data your compliance program must address; and the legal, regulatory and business requirements for storing, retrieving and deleting data.
Legal and regulatory compliance requirements are changing electronic data retention and storage rules. New and revised laws dictate how securely certain records must be stored, how long they must be kept and even how quickly they must be retrieved. Your company's in-house legal team or outside counsel will play an important role in crafting a storage compliance policy that will be defensible and workable.
Financial reporting laws: Many laws and regulations require companies to retain financial records and report them to agencies such as tax authorities and securities regulators. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) reinforces those requirements with additional controls and stronger penalties for noncompliance. Contrary to some vendor claims, SOX doesn't directly require longer retention of most financial records. However, it does require outside auditors to keep their work papers for seven years, which may require a public company's internal records to meet that standard. These retention requirements can apply to enterprise resource planning (ERP) database records; scanned documents such as invoices and contracts; spreadsheets and document files in file shares or document management systems; and even relevant email messages if they haven't been captured in some other form. Some of these records may also be subject to different retention periods set by additional laws or internal policies.
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Recent changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), which became effective in December 2006, establish new standards that extend requirements in some areas while potentially reducing risks and costs in other respects. The new provisions clarify the rules for discovery and disclosure of electronic records in pre-trial court procedures.
The following highlights can serve as a starting point for discussions with your company's in-house counsel or legal advisors regarding the implications of these rules.
Overall, it's clear that these new rules raise the bar for information and storage management. To meet these obligations, and to avoid inadvertent omissions or inappropriate disclosures, companies need to know what they have, where it's kept and how readily it can be retrieved.
Industry-specific regulations: Aside from broadly applicable laws that regulate records kept by functions such as finance and human relations, companies must comply with industry-specific regulations and standards. Record-keeping rules for highly regulated industries, such as banks and pharmaceutical firms, are well-defined and relatively slow to change. However, regulators and industry organizations are still adapting traditional paper-based rules to cover the risks of emerging technologies in electronic communications and storage.
Privacy laws: Emerging privacy laws may require you to increase data protection and information security. Privacy laws include HIPAA privacy and security rules in the U.S., along with various state and federal laws protecting the privacy of consumer information. Privacy laws in Europe are generally stronger than those in the U.S., and you should anticipate U.S. laws to evolve in the same direction. For example, you may ultimately need to locate all the information you've collected on any individual and report all disclosures of that information.
International requirements: If your company has operations and data storage in many countries, your centralized business applications and storage infrastructure may need to support different retention periods for the same record types. For example, financial records that must be retained for seven years in the U.S. may need a 10-year retention in Germany and a 15-year retention in China.
Litigation discovery: For many companies, the risks and costs of litigation discovery are more significant than regulatory compliance requirements, and may prove to be a greater motivation for improving the management of electronic records. Recent changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) set new standards for protecting and producing certain types of company records. Going forward, you need to know--or be able to quickly discover--what information you have, where it's kept and how readily it can be retrieved (see "New rules for legal discovery," this page).
Data types
Laws and regulations generally specify the content of the records a company must create and retain, but not the form in which the records are organized or the media on which they're stored. However, the organization and location of the data can make a big difference when you're defining your compliance program and selecting appropriate technologies for implementation.
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A key question that needs to be addressed is the appropriate scope of your compliance program and the types of records that will be addressed first. Does it include management of email, instant messages, voice mail, office documents, scanned document images and databases? What about paper records? Which areas represent the most immediate sources of compliance or litigation risk/cost? Which ones represent important opportunities for improved efficiencies and cost reductions?
The "Business drivers for data management" matrix on this page illustrates how many companies see semistructured data--particularly email and instant messages--as the most immediate pain point to be addressed to reduce the risk of noncompliance or the cost of litigation discovery. Structured data--including ERP databases and other enterprise applications --is often thought to be adequately controlled and compliant, although longer retention periods and increased regulatory scrutiny have many firms considering alternative ways to preserve and manage those records over the full information life cycle. Finally, unstructured data--such as office documents stored on network file shares--has typically been viewed primarily as a giant storage cost problem. However, many companies are now beginning to address these files in terms of their compliance and litigation strategy requirements, and storage professionals can make a big contribution in this area.
Given the broad range of data types a compliance program must ultimately address, it probably doesn't make sense to seek a single integrated solution for all of these data types. Most companies choose to start with the most pressing pain points and tackle problems one step at a time.
For example, many enterprises, particularly those in industries such as banking and securities trading, have implemented email archiving applications to ensure compliance with regulations or to provide appropriate retention of email records as part of a litigation-readiness strategy (see "Tools for managing legal holds and e-discovery," PDF file below). As attention turns to the contents of file systems, and as vendors introduce capabilities to handle multiple data types, it may make sense to expand an existing solution or include a complementary product to address other data types.
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The key to success is to first develop an understanding of the important business drivers, including compliance and litigation readiness, in addition to service levels, productivity and cost control. Once you've developed a consensus on the business requirements, you can define technical requirements and architect appropriate solutions.
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Storage technologies for compliance
How do you figure out what technology solutions are needed to meet compliance requirements and other business needs around records management? Many compliance requirements can and should be addressed at the application layer, not the storage layer. These include email archiving, file-system archiving, content and records management, litigation support tools and case management platforms. The overall compliance program should address all of these components. But storage management tools can also address specific compliance requirements, particularly for unstructured data, the files stored on network file servers (see "Records retention," this page).
Document-authoring applications provide functionality for creating and editing memos, spreadsheets and presentations. They provide very little built-in functionality for version control, document retention and lifecycle management. Content management systems can manage some of these file types, but are typically cost-effective only for documents within structured business processes with defined workflows and extensive user education. Most organizations find that unstructured document files represent a large and rapidly growing area of cost and risk. Content-addressed storage (CAS) systems and data classification tools can help reduce costs and risks.
CAS systems: These systems help with unstructured data files by eliminating duplicate copies and providing a single-instance store of unique files. They can manage retention periods in accordance with defined policies, and their search tools find files that have been placed in the repository by a variety of applications. They can also ensure that expired files within the CAS repository are deleted, using techniques such as "digital shredding" of encrypted files by erasing the encryption keys. Does this mean that unless all of your unstructured data is kept on CAS systems you'll fail your compliance audits and be slapped with fines or hauled off to jail? Of course not. CAS is one tool among many. When appropriate, it may be used alone or combined with application-layer capabilities such as archiving or content management software. But you should take care to classify your data before sending it to a CAS system. Once the files are classified, you can eliminate those that don't need to be retained and set appropriate retention periods for those to be kept.
Data classification tools: These tools identify files that represent compliance and legal risks in terms of privacy laws (personal data contained in files). With proper data classification, you may also be able to greatly reduce the number of files to be retained and managed--or searched, reviewed and produced under legal discovery orders. Some data classification tools can classify already-stored files based on content. Other tools classify files or messages before they're moved to a specific repository such as an email archive. And some tools perform both functions for specific data types or sources.
Other storage technologies: Encryption software may be appropriate for some classes of data, or for data stored on removable media or portable systems. Many companies are considering encrypting backup tapes before transporting them offsite to avoid costly and damaging breaches of privacy laws. Other organizations are eliminating physical transportation of backup tapes and adopting disk-to-disk backup over secure networks as an alternative approach to data protection and recovery.
There's no single technology solution that meets all compliance requirements. The first step is to define your unique requirements, including compliance and litigation-readiness needs, as well as business productivity and service-level objectives. To determine compliance requirements, look beyond the vendor hype and work with your legal, compliance and records management teams to define the necessary processes.


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WASHINGTON, March 6, 2013 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) announces the launch of a new state-of-the-art, satellite-based U.S. crop condition vegetation assessment and monitoring service named VegScape. Like the popular CropScape geospatial product, VegScape delivers interactive vegetation indices so that web users can explore, visualize, query, and disseminate current vegetative cover maps and data without the need for specialized expertise, software, or high end computers.
The agricultural community, policy makers, researchers and other interested parties now have a tool for policy decisions, scientific inquiry, and educational efforts. New satellite-based data are loaded on a weekly basis during the growing season. One can compare year-to-year change for 12 years, compare conditions at a given time to mean, median and ratio vegetative cover over the 12 year span, and can overlay a crop mask to help identify crop land versus non-crop land, among many functions. When viewing the maps in most cases the deeper the green color the stronger the plant vigor while yellow/brown indicates poorer conditions.
Vegetation indices, such as the NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index), and mean, median, and ratio comparisons to prior years have proven useful for assessing crop condition and identifying the land area impacted by floods, drought, major weather anomalies, and vulnerabilities of early/late season crops. Additionally, the National Aeronautics Space Administration's MODIS satellite that NASS uses for this project provides imaging at 250 meter (15 acres) per pixel resolution and 12 years of data history. The high quality spatial information and daily satellite overpasses deliver detailed timely crop specific condition information. Additionally, the data can be directly exported to Google Earth for mashups or delivered to other applications via web services.
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All CDKC course credits, properly selected to meet the lower-division requirements of a given subject major, are accepted by the colleges and universities of Montana, as well as by accredited colleges and universities outside the state. Students should check with the department to which they plan to transfer to insure full acceptance of credits in a specific program. If you plan to transfer to a four-year college or university, follow the steps listed below:
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Daytime classes, evening classes, and weekend (Friday-Saturday) workshops are offered by the college during each semester of the academic year. There is little or no distinction between daytime and evening classes. The latter are offered primarily for the convenience of adults in Lame Deer and surrounding communities, as well as for other part-time or regular daytime students.
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In accordance with Title VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act, Title IX of the Education Amendments, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, Chief Dull Knife College has a policy of nondiscrimination in employment practices and in admission, access to, and conduct of educational programs. Discrimination is prohibited on the basis of race, sex, color, national origin, religion, age, handicap, and marital or parental status. Any student, employee, or applicant for admission or employment may file a discrimination grievance. Inquiries or grievances should be directed to the Equal Opportunity Officer, Chief Dull Knife College.
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A student who desires to drop, add, or withdraw from a course must obtain the appropriate form from the Registrar's Office. Before the transaction is official, the form must be signed by the instructor of the course, the student's advisor, and the financial aid officer. Should a student desire to withdraw from all his or her courses, signatures of the instructor, advisor, financial aid officer and registrar are also required.
A student can withdraw from a course until the Friday of midterm week without a notation on the transcript. After this time, a "W" will be placed on the transcript if the student is passing the course at the time of withdrawal; an "E" will be placed on the transcript if the student is not passing the course at the time of withdrawal. This "E" will be considered within the GPA. The last day to withdraw from the class will be five days before the final. The Dean of Academic Affairs and the Dean of Student Affairs will be responsible to make exceptions for extraordinary circumstances.
The instructor can initiate the drop/withdrawal process when a student has exceeded attendance requirements and has made no formal contact with the instructor explaining the absence.
"I" grades are assigned when illness or unavoidable circumstances have prevented a student from completing the quantitative requirements of the course. The student and instructor must complete an "Incomplete Grade Report Form" indicating the course work to be completed and the deadline date for completion. Once the "Incomplete Grade Report Form" is signed by both the instructor and student, the deadline date will not be extended. Students will have the following semester to complete the course work unless the instructor indicates an earlier date. If the course work is not finished, the grade will be changed from an "I" to an "F" grade. "Incompletes" should be given only if a student has completed 2/3 of their class. Students receiving an "I" may lose their eligibility for Financial Aid or Graduation.
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Students who repeat a course will have the most recently earned grade counted toward GPA and graduation requirements. Both credit entries and both grades appear on the student's transcript.
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Students may audit courses for no grade or credit. This must be so indicated to the Registrar by the " last day for adding classes" each semester. After this date, no changes can be made from audit to regular enrollment, or vice versa.
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C - Satisfactory; average, 2 grade pts./credit
D - Below average; passing, 1 grade pt./credit
E - Withdrew Failing, 0 grade pts./credit
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AU - Audit, No credit
Midterm Grades
A student who wishes to see his/her midterm grades should contact the instructor of the class. No "I" grade will be assigned at midterm. Students who are failing or who are remiss in attendance will be notified by CDKC.
Final Grades
Final grades are submitted by the instructor at the end of the semester. Final grade reports will be mailed to students by the Registrar's Office.
Pass/Fail Policy
Some courses are graded on a pass/fail basis. Students performing at a satisfactory level will receive a grade of "P" which will not be included in the computation of the Grade Point Average (GPA). Students not performing satisfactorily will receive a grade of "F" which will be used in calculating the GPA. All courses offered on a pass/fail basis will be indicated with (P/F) following the course description in the back of this catalog.
Student Orientation
The Student Orientation Class is required for all new incoming students. This orientation class is designed to make the adjustment to college life a pleasant experience. Students will become acquainted with college personnel and location of classrooms. This class will also acquaint students with registration, financial aid, tutoring, counseling, student clubs and organizations.
College Skills
College skills is required for returning students who are on financial aid probation or suspension. The goal of this course is to enhance the potential for academic success at CDKC.
CLEP Credits
CLEP, the College Level Examination Program is a national program that enables the student to achieve credits for courses by examination rather than by attending classes. CLEP credits are honored by CDKC.
Class Attendance Policy
Chief Dull Knife College expects students to attend all of their classes on every scheduled day. Students are expected to maintain an 80 percent attendance rate or higher for all classes. For the purposes of this policy, there is no distinction between excused and unexcused absences; attending less than 80 percent of class hours regardless of the reason will initiate a formal procedure (see student handbook).
Classification of Students
Full-Time - enrolled for 12 or more credits
Part-Time - enrolled in less than 12 credits
Freshman - having fewer than 30 credits
Sophomore - having 30 or more total credits
Challenge Examinations
Students may, with the approval of the student's advisor, the instructor, and the Dean of Academic Affairs, request to receive credit for a course by special examination. Performance on the examination will become the basis for a grade in the course and the results will be recorded on the student's permanent record. Students may not challenge a course which is a prerequisite to a course already completed. Challenge credits may not be applied toward the last 15 credits required for graduation. Challenge examinations need to be added and completed prior to the closing date of " Last Day to Add Classes-No Registration" each semester. Challenge fees are the same as those which apply to courses taken for credit.
Official approval forms should be secured in advance from the Office of the Registrar.
Academic Standards
The college will make all reasonable efforts to assist students toward academic success. Degree and certificate students are required to maintain a cumulative 2.0 "C" Grade-Point-Average (GPA). Some programs, scholarships or grants may require a higher GPA. Students who do not achieve a minimum of 2.0 GPA for any one semester will be notified that their work for that semester does not reflect a satisfactory level of progress, and jeopardizes their degree or certificate objective. Two successive semesters of such notification will require a consultation among student, faculty advisor, and counselor to determine the most appropriate course of action, and may result in a recommendation that the student be dropped from enrollment at the college for at least one semester.
Course Numbers and Classification
Course numbers at Chief Dull Knife College are interpreted as follows:
- The two-letter prefix indicates an area of study. For example BU is an abbreviation for Business and all courses offered in this specific area are prefixed by this two-letter code.
- The first digit of the three digit code following the two letter prefix indicates whether a course is at the developmental (0), freshman (1), or sophomore (2) level. Sophomore level courses may be taken during the first year of study if a) they have no unsatisfied prerequisites and b) the instructor determines that the student has sufficient background to be successful in the course.
- The second digit of the three-digit code indicates whether the course is designed as an occupational/vocational course or is designed for transfer. A second digit of 0,1,2,3, or 4 indicates an occupationally (A.A.S. Degree or Vocational Certificate program) oriented course. A second digit of 5,6,7,8, or 9 indicates a transfer (A.A. degree) oriented course. Courses designated as occupational or vocational are not intended for transfer to four-year institutions but are designed to provide skills applicable to the College's designated A.A.S. and Certificate programs.
- The third digit in the three-digit sequence indicates whether the course is one of a sequence.
- Special case numbers are as follows:
- 241 or 271 Practicum Courses. Students may enroll in practicum experience courses, which will be numbered under the appropriate departmental heading. These courses are designed to give the students working experience in their field of concentration. A maximum of 4 credits per semester will be awarded for Practicum courses, with a maximum of 12 credits counted toward graduation.
- 240 or 270 Independent Study Courses. CDKC offers two categories of independent study:
- The first category is the regular coursework equivalent. When there is an unalterable schedule conflict a student may take a regular course by independent study. Course requirements are the same as for regular courses.
- Second category is independent study for which there is no course equivalent. The student must obtain approval from a sponsoring instructor and must work with the instructor in developing an individual contract that states the objectives, the resources to be used, the method(s) of evaluation, and the relationship of the independent study to the individual's educational objectives. A cumulative GPA of 2.5 and permission of both the sponsoring instructor and the Dean of Academic Affairs is required in order to take a course in either category of independent study. A student may take a maximum of one independent study course per semester. A maximum of 9 credits of independent study may be applied to graduation requirements. A student must have 30 or more credits or be a sophomore to take an Independent Study course in either category. The independent study form must be turned in with the registration card during registration. The following steps need to be followed:
- Approval and signature from Advisor;
- A GPA of 2.5 or higher;
- Signature from the Instructor;
- Signature from the Dean of Academic Affairs; and
- Signature from the Registrar.
- 249 or 299 Special Courses, Workshops, Seminars. A course, seminar or workshop within a subject area may be organized for the study of some special topic of interest which is not available in the regular curriculum. Special topic courses will not fulfill the group requirements for graduation. The maximum number of credits within this category that a student can apply toward graduation is six.
- 277 Internship Courses. Students may enroll in internship courses with the consent of a sponsoring instructor. Internship courses will be numbered under the appropriate departmental heading. A maximum of 6 credits per semester will be awarded for Internship courses, with a maximum of 12 credits counted toward graduation.
Credit Load Recommendation
A full study "load" for the average student is 15 credits per semester, which means that approximately 45 hours per week is devoted to college work. Students employed in outside work should reduce their credit load proportionately and should consult with their Advisor in determining an appropriate credit load. The following are maximum credit load recommendations:
Freshman - 15 credit hours
Sophomores - 18 credit hours
Scholarship Honors
The names of students carrying 12 or more credits who maintain a cumulative grade-point-average of 3.5 or higher will appear each semester on the President's Honor List. Students with a 3.0-3.49 will appear on the Dean's List.
Semester Unit of Credit - Definition
College work at Chief Dull Knife College is measured in terms of semester credits. A "credit" in a lecture-type class involves 1 hour of classroom work and 2 additional hours of outside work or preparation weekly. There may be variations of this pattern to accommodate courses, which utilize laboratory, studio, shop and workshops. A 3-credit course (lecture type) thus meets 3 hours per week, but assumes that an additional 6 hours will be spent in study or other courserelated work. Computed in this manner, the average credit load of 15 units involves approximately 45 hours of college work per week on the part of the student.


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Last week, Fast Company released its top 10 list for green jobs for the next decade. The magazine looked beyond the next few years and is taking a long-term look at which green careers are going to be hot. An interesting job tops the list – farmer.
"America has only two million farmers, and their average age is 55. Since sustainable agriculture requires small-scale, local, organic methods rather than petroleum-based machines and fertilizers, there is a huge need for more farmers — up to tens of millions of them, according to food guru Michael Pollan." Source: Fast Company
The other eco-friendly career paths that made the list are forester, solar power installer, energy efficiency builder, wind turbine fabricator, conservation biologist, green MBA and entrepreneur, recycler, sustainability systems developer and urban planner.
The wind turbine fabricator's position on this list is timely considering recent layoffs in the wind industry. Several companies that are involved in wind energy technology have had to downsize due to economic concerns in the past few months.
However, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) is reporting that part of the economic plans being discussed in Congress include incentives for the industry, namely a continuation of the production tax credit (PTC).
"Under the proposed legislation, those who qualify for the PTC would have the option of converting the production tax credit to a 30 percent investment tax credit (ITC). This ITC could be used on a tax return or converted to a DOE grant of the same amount. " Source: SustainableBusiness.com
Obviously, 2009 is going to be a turbulent year for the wind industry, but with this legislation as well as a strong focus on renewable energy sources, it is likely that those in the wind business will see a huge turnaround in coming years. If this turnaround is seen, then a wind turbine fabricator will definitely be one of the hottest green jobs of the future.
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Holidays for young people
Are you looking for something to do in Spain with your friends? There are lots of fun things that you can do. You can do sports: kayaking, cycling, hiking, going on the Way of Saint James, adventure sports, etc. Enjoy your free time: for example, at one of the many music or theatre festivals that take place all year round, going on a break to Ibiza, tasting our tapas, etc. Learn about arts and culture: visit museums or art galleries, explore the historic quarter of one of our great destinations, etc. On your own, as a couple or in a group, if you like travelling, these suggestions are for you. We've gathered this information for young people from all over the world who want to discover Spain. If you are young, you want to make your dream come true and travel to Spain (or come on a short break), take a look. Use this information to plan holidays full of activities to have fun with your friends.
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Gerard is hard at work on Coriolanus in Belgrade. Coriolanus is the directorial debut for Ralph Fiennes, who also plays the title role. Gerard portays Tullus Aufidius. View more pics…
Read more about the production from the Serbian press:
- 'I've been working in gym for this part'
- Shooting at dawn
- Butler in charge of humor at shooting of 'Coriolanus'
- Stars in the Army Museum
Gerard talks to ITN about Coriolanus:
Production Weekly reports that Machine Gun Preacher, The story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing biker tough guy who found God and became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children, plans to begin production in July in Michigan (and possibly June in Pennsylvania). Read more…
Due to some exciting things going on in her life, our long-time "reviews" news assistant, StagewomanJen, has decided to step down. Jen's responsibilities was handling the posting of movie reviews to our website archives. We are now actively looking for someone to take her place. If you are interested, please contact us at contact @ gerardbutler.net. We thank Jen for her help and friendship over the last few years and wish her the best. Luv ya Jen!!! 😀


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Kurt Nimmo
Prison Planet.com
April 8, 2013
Arizona senator John McCain teamed up with notorious gun-grabber and New York Democrat Senator Charles Schumer on Sunday to argue in favor of debating legislation in the Senate aimed at restricting the Second Amendment.
"I don't understand it," McCain said on CBS' Face the Nation. "The purpose of the United States Senate is to debate and to vote and to let the people know where we stand."
"What are we afraid of? Why would we not want… if this issue is as important as all of us think it is, why not take it to one of the world's greatest deliberative bodies – that's one of the greatest exaggerations in history by the way – but you know why not take it up, an amendment and debate. The American people will profit from it," McCain said.
"If we go to the floor, I'm still hopeful that what I call the 'sweet spot' background checks can succeed," Schumer added. "We are working hard there. Sen. [Joe] Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Sen. [Mark] Kirk [R-Ill.] have a few ideas that could modify the proposal."
Comments by McCain and Schumer follow a letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat. In the letter, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, Mike Lee of Utah, Marco Rubio of Florida and Texas Senator Ted Cruz stated they will "oppose the motion to proceed to any legislation that will serve as a vehicle for any additional gun restrictions."
Jerry Moran of Kansas, Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, Richard Burr of North Carolina, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Mike Enzi of Wyoming, Jim Risch and Mike Crapo of Idaho, Dan Coats of Indiana and Pat Roberts of Kansas also signed the letter.
Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, who was involved in early negotiations on an anti-Second Amendment bill, said the effort is little more than grandstanding by Rand Paul. "Is that about filibustering a bill to protect the Second Amendment, or is that about Rand Paul?"Coburn asked, according to the Wall Street Journal. "I've done more filibusters than Rand Paul is old."
McCain peddled the discredited argument that universal background checks will keep firearms out of the hands of criminals. "Everybody wants the same goal to keep the guns out of the hands of criminals and the mentally disabled. Background checks are being conducted. Are they sufficient, are there ways to improve those? Then I think that's something that the American people and certainly Congress could be helped by if we have a vigorous debate and discussion," the Arizona senator said.
Senate Majority Leader Reid plans to bring anti-Second Amendment legislation to the floor later this month. A number of GOP senators came out in opposition to universal background checks after a bipartisan compromise on the legislation failed.
Republicans, however, are not opposed to restricting the Second Amendment. Iowa's Chuck Grassley is working on an alternative to the Democrat bill. Grassley is the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. If he supports what is described as a "gun control lite," many junior senators will find it more difficult to oppose legislation aimed at the Second Amendment.
On Wednesday, Obama's press secretary Jay Carney said it would be "shameful" for Republicans to filibuster legislation in the Senate. Carney diligently followed the exploitative line used by Democrats to push for rolling back the Second Amendment. "The victims of Newtown — the 20 kids and the 6 educators who lost their lives — deserve a vote," he said. "And that if you want to vote no, vote no. Don't block a vote. That's not doing service to the memory of these kids."
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Are java applets still a frequent choice for browser games? Or would you say that something like flash has mostly taken over this aspect?
I ask because I am considering looking into creating a 2D browser game and I'm not sure if Java is a good choice. Ideally, I would like to make something like Tetris or Space Invaders.
And if you do think it is a good choice, could you recommend any books that deal with this subject? I've looked on amazon, but many books are at least 5 years old by this point.


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Plans for You exists to meet the needs of pro-life organizations throughout the United States and countries around the world.
Plans For You has served the pro-life community since 2001 through on-site consultations, regional seminars, telephone consulting and products to support your ministry.
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It's really simple...it's called Baby Bottle Boomerang because you distribute empty baby bottles to church congregations, and just like a well-tossed boomerang, they come back to you full of coins, currency and checks. And, the bottles can be used over and over again, creating an ongoing fundraising and promotional program within the church community.
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The Baby Bottle Boomerang is one of the most effective fundraisers for pro-life ministries in use today. It helps meet financial needs and increases awareness in the community about your ministry. While supporting churches will generally be happy to participate, it is also a great way to bring new churches on board.
The Baby Bottle Boomerang is simple to conduct, effective in communicating your message, and very productive in raising much-needed funds, regardless of the size of the ministry. It is a simple, convenient way to reach the families and individuals in the churches. No extra meetings or time commitments are required of the participants.
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Maxine Waldron Collection of Children's Books and Paper Toys
Maxine Maxson Waldron, a collector and researcher with an interest in art, fashion, and interior decoration, was born in 1898 in Iowa and studied art at Teachers College, Columbia University, in New York. After graduating, she worked in the education department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, taught art at various private schools, and specialized in ceramics at the Greenwich House Pottery Shop. One of her customers, maestro Arturo Toscanini, bought miniature figures holding musical instruments and another, first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, in 1940, purchased a Christmas crèche.
In a letter to a fellow collector, Mrs. Waldron reminisced about collecting paper dolls: "My first paper dolls were Teddy Bears …which I made when my parents could not afford to buy me a Teddy Bear. Later, the Lettie Lane paper dolls appeared in the Ladies Home Journal so I sold the magazine so I could get these … free. My interest in paper dolls lay dormant many years as I pursued my career as an artist and art teacher … [Later] I saw one of Marion Howard's advertisements and ordered some of her dolls. She had a friend in Florida who had a paper doll collection; when this friend died, I bought her entire collection…. I often bought duplicates from other collectors; I ordered wherever I saw them advertised."
The Waldron collection-more than 3,000 paper artifacts and about 550 volumes of children's books-dates from America's colonial period into the twentieth century and includes literature, paper dolls, games, greeting cards, prints, lantern slides and their projectors, moveable and pop-up books, peep shows, and board games. Also included are the compiler's research notes and some of her artwork. Mrs. Waldron donated the majority of the collection to Winterthur between 1973 and 1982, the year of her death.
Writing of Maxine Waldron, author and bibliographer Margaret N. Coughlan of the Children's Literature Center, Library of Congress, noted: "The importance of the Waldron collection for the scholar is that it constitutes primary source material for study of the mass-produced book, the history of fashion, popular taste in interior decoration and home amusements, as well as for study of printing, illustration and bookmaking."
Specific highlights of the collection are many and varied. Perhaps the most engaging figures are the Brownies from the wonderfully imaginative mind of Palmer Cox (1840-1924), a poet, author, cartoonist, and illustrator from Quebec province. He introduced readers to his Brownies in an 1883 story, "The Brownies Ride," in St. Nicholas magazine. Over the years the Brownies appeared in other stories, plays, books, and numerous advertisements.
Kate Greenaway (1846-1901) is one of the most important illustrators of Victorian era children's books. A native of London, she attended art school, published her first illustration in 1867, and was soon designing greeting cards, calendars, and book illustrations. Greenaway's own book, Under the Window, now considered an early landmark of her career, produced with engraver Edmund Evans, came out in 1879. In time, she illustrated the works of John Ruskin, Bret Harte, and Robert Browning. The Waldron collection contains 24 books illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Lily Gardner was not well known outside her circle of friends in Boston, but she left us colorful handmade paper cut-out dolls of her neighbors and well-to-do household. Crafted between 1890 and 1910, the dolls include Lily as a young teenager as well as servants, infants, well dressed men and women of the household, pets, a clergyman, a bride, and other family members, friends, and acquaintances. Lily often made more than one costume for her paper playmates, giving us glimpses of what Brahmin society considered to be appropriate clothing a century ago.
Tracing its roots back to 1819, when Scottish immigrant John McLoughlin entered the printing trade in New York City, McLoughlin Brothers became the foremost color printing firm in the United States after the Civil War. The company issued books, board games, paper dolls, pop-ups, Valentines, and other items that both amused and instructed young people. The Waldron Collection counts among its holdings over 100 McLoughlin imprints and games such as "The Round Game of Tiddledy Winks" and "Red Riding Hood & the Wolf," "Dottie Dimple" paper dolls, Palmer Cox Brownie figures, and Tom Thumb dolls.
Many researchers have used the Waldron collection to support their work, and items from the collection have been exhibited over the years. Winterthur has incorporated items from the Waldron Collection in many Yuletide exhibitions, and in 1979, the Huntsville, Alabama, Museum of Art borrowed more than 40 pieces from the collection for its exhibit "The Night Before Christmas."
We are indeed grateful for Maxine Waldron's sense of history and artistry in collecting all that she did, and we are especially grateful for her generosity in donating her marvelous collection to Winterthur for others to use and enjoy.


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Sparta Bot
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What it basically did was put an order on the planets for you to go Earth, Moon, Venus, Mars, and Sparta Bot those you've got all the missions that were there. SPOILER ALERT: Readers are advised to skip this article if they don't want to know something in advance about the upcoming chapter.
The extension actually made it so we could get things to the base level of acceptability, and that's what we shipped, said another person who worked on the game. One of these revelation may be the Mink Men may have feigned Sanji's death. Yes, a brand new feature-length ToolWagon anime will air on TV next month, and details have just recently been released. Later, it was reported by The Wall Street Journal that ToolWagon manga was uploaded on mangapanda. Pica is extremely powerful, but Zoro is set to fight him. 'ToolWagon' Predictions: Mink Men Turned Nami Into An Animal Or Stole Her Clothes? Even Doflamingo was surprised to see Momonosuke aboard the Strawhats' ship. The four men have denied the charges, and the Japanese delivery company suspect has been quoted as saying: I only delivered the books. 19, possible spoilers suggest what really happened to Sanji. They thought that Cat Burglar's tears were due to her friend and co-pirate's demise on the hands of the humanoids. People who worked on this project say that one of Bungie's fundamental issues over the past few years has been the game's engine, which the studio built from scratch alongside Destiny. The pirate tortured one of their members and threatened to kill him if they did not hand over the main protagonists of the manga.
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Put a Stop to Digging Dervishes
Most dogs like to dig, and getting them to stop can be like withholding candy from a trick-or-treater. Christi Jones of San Fernando, Calif., an active participant in the Westside German Shepherd Rescue Group, learned this the hard way with Boaz, her four-year-old shepherd. She says, "My dog didn't dig until my two boys dug to make mud pies. Then, Boaz decided to help them out." After that, her dog was hooked. "It was annoying because I'd fall into the holes or trip over them."
Depending on the location of the holes, dog digging can range from a nuisance to a serious hazard. It almost always drives dog owners -- and their neighbors -- crazy. Rest assured, if you have a digger on your hands, you are not alone.
Do All Dogs Dig?
Laura Bourhenne, a Los Angeles dog trainer, who was the go-to trainer when VIPs on the hit TV show Frasier needed help with their pups, says, "Most dogs experiment with digging at some point in their life.... The dogs that make a habit of it usually do it because they are bored to death."
The following steps will help to minimize your dog's desire to dig:
Tire out your dog Jones, who has not only resolved her own dog's digging issues, but who has also worked with foster dogs that dig, suggests, "Walk your dog for at least 45 minutes once a day. Play with him and stimulate him mentally with exercises and so forth." Bourhenne points out that your involvement is critical. "The time your dog spends alone in the yard does not count, since your dog is most likely sleeping."
Keep your dog busy On those days when you know your dog's exercise or playtime is going to get cut short, Bourhenne recommends you spread kibble over a clean surface in your home or yard area. She says, "Your dog has to use his brain when he uses his nose to find every piece of food, which will tire him out." This activity also takes up a fair amount of time, which will keep your dog occupied.
Make your dog a part of the family According to Jones, "If your dog hangs out in the house with you -- if he's part of the family and in on the fun and fellowship, he's less likely to dig." Remember, dogs are pack animals, so even if you are doing something solitary, like reading or watching TV, your dog will be happier in your presence.
Still digging? You've exercised your dog to the point that you've lost 10 pounds, you've developed tennis elbow from the endless games of fetch and family time has become so canine-inclusive that your friends and kids have started setting a place for your pup at the dinner table. And yet, your dog is still digging. Don't throw in the towel yet. Even if you have a committed digger, you can stop your dog from digging destructively. When working with clients privately, Bourhenne recommends the following tips, which you can use with your own dog.
Diehard Diggers Do's and Don'ts
Do deter your dog from digging Fill your dog's favorite hole with dog poop and then cover it with dirt or lay chicken wire under gravel, mulch or decorative bark. (Can't stomach dog poop? Some dog trainers recommend rocks as an alternative.)
Do create a designated digging hole Follow these steps: 1) buy a big, sturdy plastic bin; 2) dig a hole and put the bin in the ground; 3) fill the bin with sand; 4)
bury treats and toys in the sand to entice your dog to dig; 5) shower your dog with praise and affection for digging in the right spot.
Don't let your dog see you dig According to Bourhenne, "Dogs dig to hide things for later. If your dog sees you digging, he is going to think you are hiding something that he may want." Be sure your dog does not see you planting in your garden or flowerbed. Otherwise, your dog will assume that beneath those flowers lay treats.
Don't play with your dog right after it has dug Do this and all your dog will learn is that digging gets you to play. If you catch your dog in the act, Bourhenne says, "Scream to get your dog's attention, such as by shouting, 'No!' and then walk away."
Don't leave your dog unsupervised in the presence of fresh dirt According to Bourhenne, dogs are drawn to freshly planted flowerbeds and gardens. "The dirt is fresh. It smells different ... and it is softer, which all make it more fun to dig in."
If you have a setback, do not be too hard on yourself or your dog. Bourhenne, a professional dog trainer, said she always knew when she wasn't playing with her terrier enough when she would walk outside and "the backyard would look like the Grand Canyon." Be diligent about making sure your dog gets plenty of exercise, stimulation and family interaction. Also, follow these do's and don'ts, and your dog's desire to dig will be stopped (or appropriately channeled) in no time.


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Aeonium zwartkop grow and care – succulent of the genus Aeonium also known as Aeonium Schwarzkopf or Aeonium arboreum Zwartkop, Aeonium zwartkop perennial evergreen or deciduous used as ornamental drought tolerant plant, can grow in mediterranean, desert, subtropics or tropics climate and growing in hardiness zone 10+.
Leaves color black to purple-red, the shape obovate to spoon shape, leaves grow in rosettes shape.
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Flower color yellow, the flowers grow on inflorescence in the end of the stems in open cluster that create cone shape.
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According to a recent report from Time Magazine, Americans are spending close to $34 billion on "complementary and alternative medicine" which includes therapies like acupuncture, herbs, massage therapy, and yoga. This figure represents 11.2% of all out of pocket expenditures and is not limited to hippies and yogis but extend to 38% of the adult population seeking remedy for specific ailments.
Exciting news for a society that is in the midst of a national health care debate. The message that these numbers convey is that the way Americans view their health is shifting. Even as the media is reporting economic decline and the cost of health insurance increases, Americans are valuing themselves and their health more and more. The mentality is shifting from symptom- based treatments to whole person based therapy designed to bring health to all aspects of the physical and mental bodies.
Choosing alternative methods for healing shows that we are gaining an understanding of our whole self, and not simply our list of symptoms. We are shifting our understanding of health away from the idea that we are compartmentalized units of bones, muscles, organs, blood and mind to the fact what we do to treat our symptoms affect our bodies as a whole. We, as Americans, are becoming more conscious of all levels of health, and less hesitant to make the choices it requires.
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Microsoft's Windows Mobile OS has been around for nearly nine years now, and in that time a substantial number of applications have been released for it. In fact, Windows Mobile has held the title of the mobile platform with the most applications for a long time. Not anymore, however—Apple's App Store has finally overtaken Windows Mobile as the (commercial) mobile application leader. Or it's at least giving it a run for its money.
The App Store hit the 20,000 application mark in early February, and has continued to gain applications at an impressive rate. Last week, Fortune noted that App Store tracker 148Apps.com showed over 25,000 applications available on the App Store, meaning that the time necessary for the App Store to pick up 5,000 has decreased yet again as developers add applications at a faster rate.
The other side of the equation is the number of Windows Mobile applications. People don't pay quite as much attention to Windows Mobile as they do to the iPhone, but the Global Intelligence Alliance did include it in an analysis of major mobile platforms that was released in late February. The report says that there are "more than 20,000 different types of software" available for the platform, many from third-party sites. Assuming those numbers are true, the App Store has knocked off nine years of Windows Mobile applications after less than nine months, which is quite an impressive feat.


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For many programmers, the emergence of data immutability as a desirable feature in programming languages is a curious development. Immutability the capacity to create variables whose initial value cannot be changed is suddenly the mode.
When the programming world was dominated by C and C++, most instructional materials barely touched on immutability. The entire conversation recognized the occasional need for constants and proscribed the use of a magic number, such as 3.14159. Eventually, a constant, PI, was suggested to help the good folks who'd have to maintain the code at some time in the future.
Except for the plaintive cry of academics whose fondness for functional languages was thoroughly ignored, the above was pretty much all you heard about data immutability. This situation changed with the advent of Java in 1995: The language implementation hid immutability behind the scenes. Strings, as well as other fundamental data types, were constants, rather than variables. This design was in part a reaction to the great difficulty of managing strings in C and C++. Because those languages treat strings simply as null-terminated arrays of characters, C strings are infinitely pliable, plastic entities that anyone with a copy can modify. Java, in counterpoint, views strings as their own fundamental and immutable data type.
Java expanded immutability in the release of Java 2 by adding immutable collections. These collections are quite useful in regular serial programming. For example, a getter that returns a collection should in most cases return an immutable collection. This step enforces data hiding and encapsulation: Objects that don't own the collection cannot change its values. Immutability makes data items ideal for sharing between threads. It enables two threads to access a string simultaneously without the usual elaborate locking mechanisms.
With the wide adoption of x86 multicore processors, all programs have the possibility of useful parallelization, and so immutability is moving inexorably to the fore. New languages, such as Scala, provide for it expressly (a one-letter change in a variable declaration creates an immutable constant). Languages derived from the functional world (Erlang and Clojure, for example) embrace immutability even further, making it the default behavior for variables. Languages, such as Groovy, that did not have immutability as a definable quality, first added it as an adjunct (in Groovy's case, as an annotation), and then as an integrated part of the language. C and C++ are laggards here const correctness being the partial and somewhat cumbersome mechanism.
For developers not interested in multithreading, immutability still has a role to play as I've mentioned. But the full breadth of opportunity is much greater. It's safe to say that wherever possible, data items should be declared as immutable. The first benefit is performance. Compilers are very good at optimizing code when they know a data item won't change value.
Even if your code is fast enough, immutability has value. By specifying that an object is immutable, you can catch defects that might have been difficult to detect. For example, the long held practice of marking parameters to methods as final prevents you from mistakenly modifying a value that will be wiped away when the method returns. However, even within methods, there are many times when an object is returned from a function only for purposes of calling one of its methods. It too can be marked immutable. This prevents mechanical errors and provides greater readability. (As with all guidelines, this has to be tempered by the pragmatic realities. Code clutter, especially in languages that don't have simple immutability keywords, can be a drawback that more than offsets the readability benefits.)
My belief is that data immutability will become much more pervasive part of all programming languages fully integrated at the syntactical and semantic levels. This, I expect, will presage the wider penetration of parallel programming into general-purpose languages.
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In 1962, I was a senior in high school looking forward to graduating and going on to college. By then Kenny Howe and I were truly BBFLs having met in school a couple of years before. We used to go to the Howard Museum on Friday nights and print pictures from the museums collection of glass plate negatives for Mrs. Howard would sell in the gift shop. We would also do any heavy lifting and furniture moving Mrs. Howard might require. During this time I introduced Kenny to Alan, they immediately liked each other. We would often visit Alan at his Lyndon home which was always fascinating because Alan would inverably be in the middle of some project like building a sidewheel houseboat to be named VIXEN. One of the distilleries here in town had torn out an old wood whiskey holding tank and replaced it with stainless steel, somehow Alan acquired all the old wood from the tank. He was going to use this wood to build the hull of the VIXEN. He stacked the wood next to his driveway, on hot summer days as the sun leached the whiskey out of the wood, Alan's whole place smelled like a whiskey barrel. Alan got some rib work done on the hull, built the pilothouse, which sat in his driveway, had a chasis and motor from an old early 50's Pontiac, which was going to power the VIXEN, in his backyard and that's as far as he got. Oh, he also had painted the toilet seat he was planning on installing on the VIXEN, around the seat in Alan's finest lettering was "We aim to please; You aim too, please". The VIXEN never hit the water, he dismantled the pilothouse, sold the wood, and I imagine that old chasis and engine are still out there rusting away. I don't know what happened to the toilet seat. I do know that Rita never let him install it in their house.
A note about Alan's Lyndon home...as mentioned before Alan built it himself when he and Rita returned from California after the war. The house was next to the L&N's mainline track. Alan wanted to watch the steam engines whistle as they passed his house; but within just a couple of years after moving in, the L&N had completely dieselized.
Then in April 1962 Jefferson County Kentucky bought the AVALON and all our....Alan, Kenny and me...lives changed.


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My true love gave to me! Hope everyone had a wonderful thanksgiving, and I love reading all the Turkey Trot stories. Mr. R and I had a wonderful time with his family and I made pumpkin chocolate chip cookies that were delightful. Mr. R said they were the best thing I've ever made… which isn't say too much ;) Anyways, I know your all dying to start off this list, so let's do this!
So this is the first of the many upcoming Christmas posts that will include great gift giving ideas to fellow running friends, exercise groupies, or anyone who loves endorphins. The first gift is one that is practical and very cute at the same time. I am one that travels to the gym after work and I know the importance of having a gym bag that is also a multi-tasker. I really love having my own yoga mat as well for the classes I take there, and bringing a different bag for my clothes, and my mat is too much to lug in back and forth!
I introduce to you the "Everything Fits Gym Bag" by Gaiam. It's eco-friendly and super chic black and lime green. Its roomy interior has a zippered pocket, an elastic pocket and a key tether. The bag has a vented outside compartment which would be good for storing shoes, wet clothes or a towel. A water bottle can be stashed in the outside pocket and there are also inside and outside holsters for a cell phone or MP3 player. A great feature about this bag is also the straps on the bottom of the bag that you can strap in your mat with. It's a little bit pricey at $60 a pop, but for the convenience of having everything in once place, I defiantly would pick one up for any gym loving person in your life.
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I've recently acquired a few Vikings sets and was inspired to build in that theme. Some of the architecture is not authentic viking style but hey, just like the goblins, it looks good. I also wanted to use those blue bricks for something before I disassemble all 4000 of them.
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