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Youth Development Study, 1988-2011 [St. Paul, Minnesota] (ICPSR 24881)
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The Youth Development Study was initiated to address the developmental and achievement-related consequences of employment during the adolescent years. Data collection began in the 1987-88 academic year with a panel of teenagers (G2) randomly selected from a list of 9th graders attending the St. Paul (Minnesota) Public Schools. G2 respondents have filled out surveys near-annually (exceptions are 1996, 2001, 2006, 2008, and 2010), first administered in their high school classrooms (Waves 1 through 4) and subsequently by mail, through 2011 (Wave 19), when the respondents were 37 and 38 years old. The G2 surveys included detailed questions about students' work and volunteer experiences, as well as experiences in their family, school, and peer group, with an emphasis on the ways that working affected other life domains. Shorter surveys containing many of the same topics were administered to students in 1992, 1993, and 1994, and included questions about current family and living arrangements. In 1995, a full survey was administered covering the wide range of topics included in the previous surveys as well as information on career plans and life events that had occurred in the past five years. G2 Waves 9 through 15 (1997-2004) included many of the same questions contained in 1992-1994 surveys with addition sections that focused on the respondents' school and work experiences, family relationships such as marital status and children, education level and career preparation, how the respondent learned of his or her job and his or her level of satisfaction with it, and economic support questions including income level and living expenses. The parents of the G2 cohort (G1) were surveyed in the first and fourth waves of the study, when their G2 children were in the first year of high school and four years later. The G1 surveys obtained information about socioeconomic background as well as attitudes toward teenage employment, their own employment as teenagers, their experiences in their current employment, and educational expectations for their children. In 2008, the children of G2 who were age 11 and older were recruited (G3). The first data collection (a mailed survey) from G3 occurred in 2009, followed by the second in 2010, and the third in 2011, again including those children who turned 11, as well as older children who had not joined the study previously. The topics covered by the G3 surveys are very similar to the G2 topics listed above. Demographic variables include child and parent sex, age, race, education level, religious preference, frequency of religious attendance, marital status, employment status, income, language used at home, and whether respondents were born in the United States, as well as the sex and age of all household members.
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Out of 1,139 participants, survey procedures differed for 129 Hmong youths due to language difficulties. Since the factor structure of standard mental health survey instruments differed for the Hmong and the non-Hmong youth, investigators should exercise caution in making comparisons. Separate analyses of Hmong and non-Hmong samples were conducted. The data regarding response are from the non-Hmong panel.
On-site questionnaires were administered to students in each of the four years of high school in the Spring (April 1988, April 1989, April 1990, April 1991) and continued through the school year. Students not available for two scheduled survey administrations in each school were sent surveys by mail. Parents of the participating students were surveyed by mail in 1988 and 1991, with the exception of the parents of Hmong students, who were not surveyed in 1991. From 1992 to 2004, with the exceptions of 1996 and 2001, students were resurveyed each Spring by mail.
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In the 1987-88 academic year, a panel of 1,139 teenagers (henceforth referred to as G2) was randomly selected from a list of 9th graders attending the St. Paul (Minnesota) Public Schools. At the time of the first survey in the Spring of 1988, most G2 respondents were 14 or 15 years old. G2 respondents have filled out surveys near-annually (exceptions are 1996, 2001, 2006, 2008, and 2010), first administered in their high school classrooms (Waves 1 through 4) and subsequently by mail, through 2011 (Wave 19), when the respondents were 37 and 38 years old. The parents of the G2 cohort (referred to as G1) were surveyed in the first and fourth waves of the study, when their G2 children were in the first year of high school and four years later. Data collection from G3 (the children of respondents in G2) occurred in 2009, 2010, and 2011.
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Students enrolled in the ninth grade in the St. Paul Public School District in Minnesota in the fall of 1987 (G2), their parents (G1), and their children (G3).
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G2: In 1988, 64% of students invited agreed to participate (N = 1,139). By 1991, 92.3% of the non-Hmong panel and 79.8% of the Hmong panel were retained. By 1995, 77.2% of the non-Hmong panel were retained, compared to 51.9% for the Hmong panel. Response rates for waves 9 through 12 of the G2 survey are as follows (Hmong panel in parentheses): 78% (37.2%) (1997), 75.2% (37.2%) (1998), 71.9% (17.8%) (1999), and 75.2% (33.3%) (2000). Response rates for waves 13 through 15 of the G2 survey are as follows: 71.4% (33.3%) (2002), 70.4% (27.1%) (2003), and 72.8% (33.3%) (2004). Response rates for waves 16 through 19 of the G2 survey are as follows: 70.4% (31%) (2005), 70.6% (32.6%) (2007), 66.3% (32.6%) (2009), and 65.7% (33.6%) (2011). G1: In 1988, 96% of the participating non-Hmong youth were covered by at least one parent and 79% were covered by 1991. Among the Hmong youth, 69% were covered by at least one participating parent in 1988. G3: In 2009, 89.4% of 311 G3 respondents who consented to participate in the study completed their surveys. The G3 response rates for 2010 and 2011 are, respectively, 78.5% (n=349) and 76.8% (n=449). Response rates for linked G2 surveys (i.e., % of G3 respondents with at least one linked G2 survey) are 94.6% (n=207), 96.7% (n=227), and 92.5% (n=281) respectively.
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The survey items were drawn from a variety of prior studies: Youth in Transition Study (Bachman), Quality of Employment Survey (Quinn and Staines), and the Study of Occupations (Kohn and Schooler). The survey contains standard mental health scales: Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale Pearlin Mastery Scale depressive affect from the "Current Health Insurance Study Mental Health Battery" (Ware, et al.).
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- Mortimer, Jeylan T. Youth Development Study, 1988-2011 [St. Paul, Minnesota]. ICPSR24881-v3. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2015-12-18. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR24881.v3
2015-12-18 Waves 1 through 8 Child Survey (G2) and Waves 1 and 4 of the Parent Survey (G1) have been updated. Waves 16-19 of the Child Survey (G2) and Waves 1-3 (G3) data have been added.
2012-09-28 Waves 1 through 8 Child Survey (G2) and Waves 1 and 4 of the Parent Survey (G1) have been updated. Waves 9 through 15 of the Child Survey (G2) have been added.
2009-11-18 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
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By Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Gina Wollman
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July 31, 2009 - First lady Michelle Obama welcomed home the crews of two Navy ships and expressed her support for their families while speaking to more than 500 servicemembers at Naval Station Norfolk here today. Obama commended the crews of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and the hospital ship USNS Comfort for a job well done. Eisenhower had been deployed to the Persian Gulf, and Comfort to Central and South America.
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(Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Gina Wollman serves with the Navy Public Affairs Support Element East.)
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St Peter,
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It was founded in 1836. It closed in 2007.
The present building dates from 1892.
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These games teach valuable skills and have a high fun and educational rating.
Your child will practice investigation skills by scanning the screen to find Teletubbies hiding in Teletubbyland.
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Deposits for reservations canceled 2 weeks or more before their starting date will be refunded less a $20 processing fee. Any reservation canceled 14 days or less before its starting date (including during the reservation) will be charged in full, unless the Bertram Inn/Samuel Sewall Inn is able to resell the room on the guest's behalf. Some reservations cannot be resold in full: if it is necessary to re-sell at a lower rate or for fewer nights total (in order to resell), you will be charged any difference in room cost.
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AUGUSTA, Maine — Lee Academy has been placed on probation for two years by the Maine Principals' Association for violations of that organization's athletic recruitment policy involving inducements to student-athletes attending the school.
The probation became effective Oct. 9 in the aftermath of an investigation conducted in response to a complaint filed March 20 by fellow MPA member Dirigo High School of Dixfield.
The complaint was lodged not long after Dirigo played Lee Academy in the Class C boys basketball state championship game for the second straight year. Dirigo won the 2012 matchup 74-67 after Lee had defeated the Cougars 65-55 in the 2011 final.
MPA Executive Director Dick Durost acknowledged the investigation emphasized Lee Academy's boys undergraduate basketball program, which has featured significant contributions from dormitory students in recent years, but he added that all athletic programs at the independent school were scrutinized during the investigation.
Durost would not elaborate on the nature of any specific inducements involved, though he did say, "Private and some public schools are expected to recruit students, but they are not expected to provide inducements for athletes to attend their schools."
And while Durost said officials from both Lee Academy and Dirigo accepted the findings of a three-person hearing panel of MPA principals that investigated the complaint, Lee Academy Headmaster Bruce Lindberg maintained his school's innocence.
"First of all, we don't agree that we've done anything wrong," Lindberg said. "We operate as a private school,and private schools have to function differently than a public school does.
"But we are going to respect the decision of the MPA committee; we'll file the appropriate information, and we know we're on probation."
Dirigo Principal Michael Poulin, who wrote the letter of complaint on behalf of his school, was satisfied with the ruling.
"I'm happy with the results and pleased with the action taken by the MPA," said Poulin. "I want to thank the MPA for how they handled the whole situation."
After Dirigo filed its complaint, the MPA appointed an investigator — a principal from another MPA-member school — who met with officials from both schools and subsequently filed a report with the MPA's Interscholastic Management Committee.
The two schools involved didn't agree on the investigator's findings, so a three-person hearing panel of principals, one selected by each school and a third chosen by the MPA central office, was created to further study the issue.
That panel issued its findings on Oct. 9, and they were subsequently approved by the Interscholastic Management Committee on Nov. 6.
The panel found Lee Academy to have violated Article II, Section 5-E of the MPA bylaws, titled "Inducements for Athletic Purposes"; as a result, Lee Academy was placed on probation for two calendar years effective Oct. 9.
Durost said schools rarely are placed on probation by the MPA, recalling no more than two previous occurrences during his 11½-year tenure as the organization's executive director.
He added that there is no protocol etched in the MPA's bylaws to address a school found in violation of its probationary status.
"If there was a next error, it would be looked at even more closely, with significant consequences," Durost said. "Given how rarely it's been done, probation from our standpoint is seen as a significant statement."
As part of the probation, Lee Academy was tasked within 60 days of the panel's findings to "develop and provide the MPA with written policies that will describe in detail the admissions process at Lee Academy including the roles and shared responsibilities of (if applicable) the headmaster, admissions director, guidance department and others.
"Further, Lee Academy will also develop within that same 60-day period written policies that will describe in detail the process and criteria for awarding financial aid to students admitted to Lee Academy, including the roles and shared responsibilities of the headmaster, admissions director, financial officer, guidance department and others.
"After each school year and no later than June 30, 2013, and June 30, 2014, the headmaster will provide the MPA with detailed information regarding tuition and room and board of all tuition students. Additionally, this information will also include a breakdown of participants in interscholastic athletics by sport for each student.
"The MPA executive director will provide periodic updates to the Interscholastic Management Committee as to the progress of these rulings."
Lee Academy has not yet provided the MPA with the information due within 60 days of the investigative panel's findings, but Lindberg said the school would comply with the deadline.
Lindberg said he hopes the case will have an enduring educational purpose of its own.
"The thing that pleases me most out of the whole situation is that the MPA now has a better understanding of the operation of independent schools, and they've developed a committee that will study the public versus private issue," he said.
"And only good will come from that because all schools will have a better understanding of how independent schools work."
Durost said the MPA for eight years has had an ad hoc committee that addresses issues related to private versus public schools. That group has met periodically since then, and there are plan for it to get together again for the current school year, though Durost said the meeting won't be specifically about the Lee case.
Maine and 45 other states include private schools as members of their interscholastic associations, with only Maryland, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia and the District of Columbia having separate public and nonpublic entities.
A private academy founded in 1845, Lee has contracts with local school boards to educate students from Lee, Springfield, Webster and Winn. The school also serves students from Greenbush, Kingman, Topsfield, Vanceboro and the Passamaquoddy Tribe of Maine. Tuition, room and board is approximately $26,000 a year for seven-day boarding students.
Under Lindberg's leadership, Lee Academy has been marketing American high school education to the Far East while expanding its enrollment of foreign-born students educated in Lee, a small northern Penobscot County town about 10 miles east of Lincoln and Interstate 95.
Lee Academy's undergraduate enrollment was listed as 270 in the 2012 MPA tourney basketball program.


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Munich, 10 July 2012 - The Executive Board of Linde AG approved today with the approval of the Supervisory Board the placement price for the intended capital increase with exclusion of the subscription rights of the shareholders at EUR 109.00.
The share capital will be increased from EUR 440,720,663.04 Euro by 32,880,734.72 Euro by issuing 12,844,037 new no-par-value bearer shares to 473,601,397.76 Euro. The total number of shares issued will increase from 172,156,509 to 185,000,546.
The proceeds from the capital increase amount to appr. EUR 1.4 bn.
The capital increase is one element of the funding of the intended acquisition of Lincare Holdings Inc. by Linde AG. The total consideration of the acquisition will be USD 4.6 bn.
The new shares will be entitled to the dividend for the full 2012 financial year.
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Southampton is a town in Massachusetts. It was formed in 1753 and was previously called Northampton. It can be found in Hampshire county and is a part of the Northampton registry of deed district. For more information, contact the county at 8 East St., Southampton 01073. On the attached map, Southampton is shown as 15 in Hampshire county.
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China International Medical Equipment Fair
April 17 - 20, 2013
Location: Shenzhen, China
Venue : Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition Center
Stand/booth: B23, 24, 2nd Floor
Website: http://www.cmef.com.cn/en/index.html
China International Medicinal Equipment Fair (CMEF), founded in 1979, is held twice a year - spring and autumn. After 30 years of continuous innovation and self-improvement, CMEF has become the largest exhibition of medical equipment, related products and services in the Asia-Pacific region. The exhibition widely covers ten thousands of products such as medical imaging, in vitro diagnosis, electronics, optics, first aid, rehabilitation nursing, medical information technology and outsourcing services, and it provides services to the entire medical industry chain from the source to the end of the medical equipment industry in a direct and all-round way.


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WBS necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 80 diseños de 21 diseñadores freelance.
We are a new orchard and farm on a small patch of land in the rolling hills of the Sierra foothills. We will sell a variety of all natural foods grown on our ranch. We need a logo suitable for business cards, stationery, and small iconic notations of our products in the menus/displays of local restaurants and groceries.
Wild Blackberry Springs
Our ranch gets its name from the 3 springs that are on our property and the wild blackberry briars that are prevalent in our area. The springs and the delicious berries are what relocated us to this beautiful area of grassy meadows and spreading blue oak trees. Our logo should reflect the land, nature and health rather than any of the foods we grow here locally (orchards, vegetables, eggs, mushrooms, etc. because those may change over time). The logo should contain our brand name, but not necessarily prominantly. It should be simple enough that it could be printed in the margin of a "weekly specials" menu at a local restaurant or used in the corner of a sign advertising our produce in a grocery store. Of course we'll use the logo for business cards and other typical business items.
- Our brand name must be in the logo
- A simple color palette, preferable natural/neutrals. If you are interested, some colors in nature on our ranch are golden/tan grass of summer, dark green/blue leaves of the oaks and blackberries, grey/blue boulders, and the wild blackberries that begin green, turn red and then finally reach a shiny black/purple.
- A logo that is recognizable as a 1/2-1 inch (1-3cm) icon but also looks good as a 3 ft (1 m) sign on the gate to our ranch.
- A logo that reflects nature, health, natural foods, and the simple dignity of growing food for our community
- A logo that reflects our locality in the rolling hills of the Sierra Foothills in northern California (golden sun-baked meadows of grass with majestic, intricately shaped blue oaks http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/blue_oak.htm and scattered rock outcrops)
- A winning design in a vector format file and also a copy in .pdf or .jpg of the design sized to approx. 1 inch (we aren't all designers with Adobe Photoshop, so we need something we can use in traditional business apps like word processors, spreadsheets, etc.)
- The word "organic." We are not a certified organic farm nor do we plan to go through that ordeal. We raise fresh food naturally and sell to local businesses and individuals. We work hard and shun chemicals, but we don't want to mislead people who are caught up in the current "organic" chic.
- A "busy" logo -- this is a simple business, a simple life...
- A logo that focuses on a single food product (other than perhaps blackberries since that is in our brand name)
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Welcome to the official website of the High Council of Clan Donald....
We hope you will find our new website useful and informative,
and will check back often as we develop these pages to be of service,
not only to those who are already members of our great Clan,
but to those who are discovering their ancestral roots among us...
This page was last updated: April 3, 2014
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and to bring unity to the world-wide Clan Donald.
To this end, the High Council of Clan Donald sponsors an Annual Clan Donald Forum.
The aims of this Annual Forum are:
To build a stronger Clan Donald
~ To create a vision for the future
~ To increase the role of the High Council by becoming
more accessible to the world-wide Clan Donald membership
~ To improve communication with the Clan
~ To provide a platform for bringing important Clan
matters to the attention of the High Council
~ To unite the Clan and bring leadership and direction world-wide
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Laugh It UpMonday, April 30th, 2007
Margaret Cho was in concert on TV last night. I went to bed way late. Why? Because Margaret Cho was in concert on TV last night. That woman is so laugh out loud funny…so I did…laugh out loud.
The only thing I have to take umbrage at is the completely unnecessary foul language. Woman, you are hilarious…the smut mouth? Not so much. Still, thanks for the humor workout.
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so I wanted to make sure that I said hello to it, for her :)
btw, she's doing great Char, and she's even marked down!... just FYI.
Yup. LOVE this place!
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It's an 11 x 8 ft rug and for only $199!!!
Definitely the color and size I needed, with the right kind of pattern we were looking for.
oh the joys of being, so-very-short.
Thanks for helping me with this monster, girl!...lol
I'm planning on putting this piece behind my couch, maybe with a matching set of lamps, to add some interest and height.
A bit like this fabulous dresser/lamp combo that The Nester sports.
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Next Episode of Fantasy Island (1977) is
In this 3rd "Fantasy Island" series the new take goes further in shaking up the original concept — about a tropical island where people pay to go and live out their fantasies — than the 1998 revival, also on ABC. Gone is the island where both series were set, with Fantasy Island as the name of a company that designs and executes fantasies for clients. In another major change, the enigmatic Fantasy Island owner Mr. Roarke, played by Ricardo Montalban and Malcolm McDowell in the two previous versions, will be a woman. The new Fantasy Island centers on a brilliant, dynamic and sexy woman who runs a San Francisco-based company that provides clients with his or her most intimate, dark or outlandish fantasy. Like the original series, each episode is expected to chronicle two fantasies, with an overarching serialized arc involving Roarke and her personal life.
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Captain Phil Harris, the star of Discovery Channel's "Deadliest Catch" fishing show, is fighting for his life after suffering a stroke Friday while his boat was docked in St. Paul Island, Alaska, The Associated Press reported.
The reality TV star was flown to a hospital in Anchorage for surgery, according to his crab fishing vessel, the Cornelia Maria, which posted news Harris' stroke on its web site.
Harris' sons, Josh and Jake, joined their father at the hospital over the weekend, according to the account.
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A statement released by Discovery said: "Josh and Jake Harris thank everyone for their heartfelt thought and prayers. 'The Deadliest Catch' community has always been more like family than just fans, and Discovery Channel joins the Harris boys in thanking everyone for their wishes of support. Captain Phil is resting comfortably and is in the care of excellent doctors and nurses. We will update everyone on his progress as best we can."
In 2008, Harris' health problems were documented on his show when a blood clot passed through the captain's lungs, E! News reported. At the time, doctors said Harris was lucky to be alive.
Harris family friend Derek Ray will over the role of relief skipper on the Cornelia Maria for the rest of Alaska's opilio crab season, the AP reported.


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PS4 users host phone-in chat show using Playroom & PlayStation Camera, watch it here
PlayStation 4 user SpartanM is hosting a chat-show on his console using Sony's Camera and Playroom app. It's live on Twitch now. Check it out.
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PS4 PlayRoom gets new trailer at Sony press event, watch here
PlayStation 4's PlayRoom tech has received a new trailer our of Sony's press event in Japan. Watch it here.
PS4's 'Playroom' tech demo may get expanded release at launch, says Sony
PlayStation 4's new controller and camera functionality was shown off at E3 using a series of tech demos called Playroom, and it was said to have wowed onlookers so much that Sony is now considering expanding it with more games and releasing it to the public.
Playroom will come pre-loaded on PS4
Playroom will come pre-loaded on PS4, according to the PlayStation website.


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Double O Podcast Special Edition
The rumours are true! Oestrus and I got together last night and recorded a shiny new episode of The Double O Podcast!
With Mists coming out in a few weeks and both of us anxious to be raid ready as soon as possible, we thought it would be fun to interview a Realm First – Level 80 feat of strength holder (and remember! While the grind to 85 was accomplished by many in under 15 hours, the grind to 80 took a solid 48 hours, if not more, making the achievement even more impressive).
So! For a tad over an hour, we chat with the awesome Serrath (who, in addition to being quite knowledgeable about productive and healthy gaming marathons, is also a really fun guy. You can't help but want to be friends with him.) about how to get to 90 as quickly as possible, without risking our health or our sanity.
If you haven't heard it yet – the Holy Paladin Roundtable
I promised a link and I didn't deliver… I hang in my head in shame.
Hopefully you've all (yes, including non-holy paladins… the awesomeness of the Light must be experience by EVERYONE) found your way to the show, maybe via Twitter, maybe via another blogger. But just in case, just in case you haven't, before Mists comes out, treat yourself to the sweet delight that is The Holy Paladin Roundtable.
If you prefer a more visual link, consider clicking this:
Big thanks to Walks for the gorgeous collage! (ps. It's almost scary how much I look like myself and like my character in that image!)
Mists is almost here, have you found your guild yet?
My guild, Occasional Excellence, still has a few spots open on our roster. We're a high efficiency guild, raiding 2 nights (or 7 hours) a week, but making the most of every second. (And you know that if they manage to satisfy an impatient, detail oriented, perfectionist like me, they've got to be good people!) We do 25s, we're all adults and we were killing Heroic Madness before it was cool.
We're especially looking for a resto shaman and a shadow priest, but we'd welcome most dps classes (except maybe hunters and ret pallies because everyone plays hunters and ret pallies these days).
Our standards are pretty high, so the application process can be demanding, but, trust me, it's worth the effort! We've got a solid team, a highly organized leadership and a very positive raid environment. And while we only raid 2 nights a week, there are a lot of optional events every week for those who just can't get enough.
Sound like a group you'd be interested in? Find out more on our website: http://occasional-excellence.com/.
You can get in touch with me via email as well, and add our guild on Twitter: @OExcellence
(Our Twitter page is still a work in progress, but I'm hoping to make it more active soon)
And even if it doesn't sound like a group you'd be interested in, I highly encourage you to read our About Us page. (I wrote it and worked hard on it, so I want to show it off ^_^)
'till next time!
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Chanalyzer turns data collected from a Wi-Spy into highly interactive charts and graphs, allowing users to visualize their wireless landscape. Chanalyzer, combined with a wireless network card, can also display available access points as they appear in the spectrum, giving quick insight into whether interference is Wi-Fi or non-Wi-Fi related.
Together, Wi-Spy and Chanalyzer enable both enterprise, small business and hobbyist users to visualize, troubleshoot, and optimize WLANs. MetaGeek products are affordably priced to allow everyone, from individuals to large teams, access to professional-grade wireless spectrum analysis hardware and software.
What is a Wi-Spy?
A Wi-Spy is a portable USB spectrum analyzer, similar to a cable tester, but for wireless. It displays all radio energy in a frequency range, such as the 915 MHz, 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz public spectrum. Unlike a Wi-Fi card, the Wi-Spy is a fine-tuned piece of hardware that shows non-Wi-Fi activity emanating from devices like microwave ovens, automation systems, bluetooth, cordless phones, wireless security cameras, or anything else operating wirelessly in those frequencies. It also helps users determine a viable channel for network communications.
What is Chanalyzer?
Chanalyzer turns data collected from a Wi-Spy (and a wireless network interface card) into charts and graphs that will help users determine if they are experiencing interference. With a Wi-Spy, its' data can be found in the Density, Waterfall and Channels Table views. With a wireless network card, Chanalyzer displays available access points and can be found in the Networks Table and Networks Graph. If you are running Chanalyzer in a virtual machine, like VMWare, you will need to connect an additional USB Wi-Fi adapter to see specific network information.
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Sometimes, the greatest sin a movie can commit is having greatness in its grasp and letting it slip away before your eyes.
You watch and you're realizing… they're soooo close.
But they never get there.
Such is the case with Oliver Stone's "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps", which made its debut on HBO Saturday night.


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Homer? Catch? It was neither for Cards, Reds
Instead of an out, Holliday's long single confirmed as ball hits top of wall
CINCINNATI -- For a few moments in the seventh inning of St. Louis' 7-6 win on Thursday, it wasn't clear if Cardinals slugger Matt Holliday had a wall-scraper home run or if the Reds had what could have been the defensive play of the year.
It turned out to be neither.
With St. Louis holding a 4-3 lead and Trevor Bell pitching for Cincinnati, runners were on first and second base with no outs. Holliday skied a fly ball to the right-center-field wall where center fielder Billy Hamilton made a leaping catch attempt.
At first glance, it appeared that the ball kissed off Hamilton's glove and into the glove of diving right fielder Jay Bruce, who was backing up on the play in spectacular fashion. At that point, there was confusion on what the call was as both Cardinals runners stopped and the Reds' defense attempted to convert a wild triple play.
"As Jay comes up, Bruce shows that he has the ball, and I think the base coaches have to be at least aware of that note to get a triple play," Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said. "And Kolten [Wong] had already stopped, too, [at second base], which kind of messed with the whole picture of what you saw. Ideally, what you want is to keep running, but you don't want to run into multiple outs either."
Television replays showed that the ball missed Hamilton's glove and hit off the top of the wall.
"I pretty much saw it the way that it was. I saw it hit the wall. It was a confusing play," Holliday said.
After a two-minute and eight-second review, the call was confirmed as a single for Holliday.
"It was not a challenge," Reds manager Bryan Price said. "I thought this was a great job by the umpiring crew to decide to review the play before there was ever a challenge."
The complications came when the umpires disagreed on the initial call.
"What ended up happening is, one umpire ruled out and the other one ruled safe," Price said. "There was a little bit of discrepancy there. Gary Cederstrom, the crew chief, decided to review the play without my request, because they wanted to get the call right. What we found was the ball got over Billy's glove, hit the top of the wall and came back in play, and they got the right call."
There was also discussion about where to position the runners. It was decided that the bases would be loaded and no one scored on the hit.
"If the umpire at first would have called out, which may have affected the way our guys ran the bases, we may have had a different discussion," Matheny said. "But he was clear that he called safe."
As it turned out, all three runners scored in the top of the seventh, and the Cardinals emerged with a series victory.


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Whatever you call it – the Affordable Care Act, health-care reform, Obamacare – one aspect of President Obama's signature health-care law is taken almost as if etched in stone: Americans "don't like it, they think it's unconstitutional, and they want it repealed," as Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell put it in the GOP's weekly television address last week.
As the US Supreme Court begins three days of argument over the 2010 health-care reform law, a close reading of several recent opinion polls shows that public sentiment may be more complex than that – and may complicate Republicans' push to make health care a central part of their political agenda through November.
The crux of the matter? Americans see the individual mandate, the law's requirement that almost every American buy health insurance or pay a penalty, as unconstitutional.
At the same time, the overall law – with popular measures like the ability to keep children on a parent's health-insurance policy through age 26 – either divides public opinion or tilts slightly toward Democrats' positions.
Americans have consistently shown a constitutional concern with the health-care law. Earlier in Senator McConnell's weekly remarks, for example, he cited a February poll conducted by Gallup/USA Today in which 72 percent of respondents said they believed that the individual mandate is unconstitutional. A poll released Monday by The Hill newspaper found half of voters believe Mr. Obama's health-care law should be overturned, versus 42 percent who say it should be upheld. A March 14 poll by Pew Research shows similar results – 41 percent "approve" of the individual mandate, while 56 percent "disapprove."
Those same polls, however, show that overall public opinion about the law is more evenly divided.
In the Gallup/USA Today survey, a slight 47 percent to 44 percent edge goes to those who would favor repealing the entire health-care law under a Republican president come 2013. The Pew poll, moreover, shows a majority of voters say the law should be either expanded (33 percent) or left as is (20 percent), compared with 38 percent who say it should be repealed.
Similarly, The Hill's poll shows a majority of voters (52 percent) say health-care quality will be about the same or better if the health-care law survives. Forty-two percent predict it will be worse.
Democratic voters are much more likely to support the health-care law than are Republicans. Independent voters, who are key to deciding the 2012 election, tend to be more sanguine than Republicans about the health-care reform law.
Independents are more likely to oppose repeal (47 percent) than favor it (43 percent), according to the Gallup survey. In the Pew report, a plurality of independents favor repeal (40 percent), but a combined 51 percent said Congress should expand the law (33 percent) or leave it as is (18 percent).
Finally, whom does the public trust to handle health care? Far and away, the answer is Democrats.
Pew's poll shows the public says Democrats are better able to handle health care than are Republicans, by a 14 percentage point margin. They are also deemed better able to handle Medicare (13 percentage points) and abortion (16 percentage points).
What does that add up to for this election season? While both parties have vowed to make health care a top issue going into November, Democrats are expected to hammer Republicans over proposed changes to Medicare contained in the House Republican budget plan, because the Democrats have a significant polling edge on that issue.
"The Affordable Care Act shows that Democrats remain firmly committed to Medicare," said Rep. Steny Hoyer (D) of Maryland, the House Democratic whip, in a statement. "This law strengthened Medicare by improving benefits, extending its solvency, and laying the foundation for reforms that will constrain costs and improve quality."
On the other hand, Republicans may have to fight the perception that the fight over the health reform law is much ado about little. Seventy percent of Americans told Gallup that the law has not affected them at all.
The margin of error in the Gallup/USA Today poll is plus or minus 4 percentage points. It is 3 points for the Hill and the Pew polls (but greater when the Pew poll results are broken down by party affiliation).


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Saturn's moon Titan offers clues to the origins and chemical evolution of the solar system
UH Manoa physical chemist leads interdisciplinary research team awarded $2.4 million to study Titan's atmosphereUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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Ralf Kaiser, a physical chemist and associate professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, is leading an interdisciplinary group of researchers from around the world recently awarded a five-year, $2.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Collaborative Research in Chemistry (CRC) Program to aid their study of Titan's atmosphere.
Titan's atmosphere is considered ideal for providing such scientific understanding because it offers the potential to reconstruct the scene of the primordial terrestrial atmosphere as Titan and proto-Earth are believed to have emerged with similar atmospheres from the Solar Nebula. In addition, the hydrocarbon molecules present in Titan's atmospheric layers absorb the destructive ultraviolet radiation from the sun, creating a low surface temperature and acting as "prebiotic ozone" to preserve astrobiologically important molecules.
"Understanding the formation and growth mechanisms of these molecules and applying these findings to better comprehend the hydrocarbon chemistry of Titan's atmosphere is a key objective of our project," says Kaiser. "We will be developing a tightly integrated collaborative network spanning the full range from fundamental studies in electronic structure theory, photochemistry, reaction dynamics, and kinetics, to applications in planetary chemistry and observations of Titan utilizing the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility on Mauna Kea in collaboration with astronomer Alan Tokunaga of the UH Institute for Astronomy."
Other institutions participating in the study include Wayne State University, Florida International University, Emory University, California Institute of Technology, and France's University of Rennes.
As part of the NSF CRC Program, the investigators will also collaborate on an educational outreach and training component to the project. These activities will include bringing teaching innovation to the research team's departments and preparing novel teaching material; organizing annual scientific workshops; encouraging researchers and graduate and undergraduate students to do hands-on research in chemical reaction dynamics, theoretical chemistry and astrochemistry; broadening the participation of underrepresented minorities in research and educational activities at the participating institutions; and expanding public awareness and relaying the latest breakthroughs to students and teachers at all levels.
The team is already organizing its first workshop on the subject, which is scheduled for February 2007. For more information about the Titan study and the workshop, visit www.chem.hawaii.edu/Bil301/Titan2007.html .
The grant received by Kaiser's research team is one of six awarded by the NSF CRC Program out of 118 preliminary proposals that were submitted. The program is designed to promote interdisciplinary, collaborative research in a coherent, defined project at the forefront of the chemical sciences.
For more information about the NSF CRC Program, visit www.nsf.gov .
For more information, visit: http://www.chem.hawaii.edu/Bil301/Titan2007.html


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D.C. United have returned home to RFK Stadium for a brief interlude between trips to warm-weather preseason locales, giving veterans and staff a chance to reconnect with family while newcomers like Danny Allsopp -- the Australian striker who was officially introduced in a Tuesday morning press conference -- scramble to find housing and get acquainted with the Washington, D.C. area.
Compared to the focus and isolation of offsite training camps, the squad's schedule is crowded this week as logistical duties like team photos, video shoots and media sessions are taking place in addition to daily practice activities.
On the field, Curt Onalfo's charges continue to improve their fitness levels and bond as a team, welcoming several familiar faces back into the fold as Troy Perkins and Chris Pontius returned from their stint with the U.S. national team while Santino Quaranta and Julius James rejoined full-contact activities for the first time since foot and shoulder surgeries, respectively.
"We've put a lot of quality work in to get the guys fit, played some good games down in Florida, some good competition, and saw signs of things coming together," said general manager Dave Kasper. "Pontius, Troy, they haven't really been with the team, so it's good that we can rate them. Tino is back, cleared, same for Julius James. It's good to get everyone back so we can start this next phase of preseason."
But those signs of progress have been tempered by injury setbacks for two key veterans.
Clyde Simms and Marc Burch, who collectively started 53 games and played more than 4500 minutes in league play for United lastyear, have been diagnosed with knee and foot injuries that seem likely to jeopardize their involvement in First Kick 2010 at the end of the month.
Simms has torn his meniscus and was set to undergo arthroscopic surgery on Tuesday afternoon. The influential holding midfielder could be sidelined for as long as a month and will be forced to play catch-up when he returns to action in the opening weeks of the season. His absence represents a blow to the D.C. defensive corps that has been a central focus of Onalfo and his staff thus far, though the news about Burch could turn out to be even worse.
The defender has a stress fracture in his foot, a condition that might or might not require surgery but likely means two months of recovery -- a major stumbling block for a player expected to make significant contributions at left back and center back, as well as left-footed set piece duties.
After Tuesday's training session at RFK, Quaranta described his chagrin at finding himself sitting next to Burch in the doctor's office this week, receiving permission to resume regular training just as his teammate began the long road back from a debilitating foot injury of his own.
"It's rough, man," he said. "I got cleared, and [Burch] was taking the reins over up there.
"We have a good group of players here. It's been unfortunate, some of the injuries that have happened in the first part of the season," added Quaranta, "but we'll deal with it. Some of the other guys will step in."


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All in the Family... And What I Think About It...
I had about 5 inches of hair cut off yesterday. Any hair style that has occurred was built into the haircut because all I've done is shampoo, comb, and air-dry it. That being said, the haircut doesn't look too bad and for most days in my life, "not too bad" is good enough.
I talked to my daughter last night and she wanted a photo of the new hairdo. Isaac took a quick and unflattering photo and I e-mailed it to her. When I looked at it today, I thought I'd try to get a better photo by myself. So I combed my hair, went outside into the wind which promptly removed any evidence of combing, and took my own picture a few dozen times.
It's not too difficult to hold the camera at arm's length, look at the lens, and click. The difficult part is getting one's entire head into the photograph, avoiding angles that peer into the nostrils, keeping the flash off the eyeglasses, presenting the most favorable profile, and finally, smiling while accomplishing all of this. When I downloaded the pictures onto my computer, I laughed at them. Too funny, some of those looks and poses! I need to make sure I got all the bad ones deleted. I could be blackmailed!
The above photo is the best of the lot although I did cut off one side of my hair. I look sort of determined, yet contemplative (and mature, haha.) I guess I'll use it for my Blogger profile for a while, since the one that has been there (a photo taken at the office for a newspaper ad) is probably 5 years old. Best to be honest about oneself.
Another self-portrait appears at left. When you look at these, imagine me with my arm stretched out taking the photo. I could have sworn I was smiling in every shot, but apparently this was the most pleasant look I could manage.
I really don't like having my picture taken, even when I do it myself!