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Family's wiretapping fears and Michael Hastings' death showcase the omnipresence of unconstitutional abuses.
Prison Planet.com
July 16, 2013
The Zimmerman family now share the same fears as the untold number of journalists under unconstitutional, domestic surveillance by the Obama Administration.
As reported recently by Steve Watson, Robert Zimmerman, George Zimmerman's brother, admitted that he is concerned that the Obama Administration is wiretapping his family's phones during a July 16 interview on Fox News.
"We do have concerns and always have of having our phones tapped," Zimmerman said. "Having our phones, you know, listened to by the administration or whomever because George's now as we know continuously the subject of ongoing investigation."
"So a lot of the things we do are connecting in person and that's how we've managed to stay hidden for so long."
Robert said that in-person communication is "old school" but still works.
Unfortunately, resorting to "old school" communication is an emerging trend as Obama's domestic spy gate continues to record all forms of digital communication known to man.
Back in May when the news broke that the Obama Administration seized the phone records of Associated Press reporters, it became clear that it was not safe for whistleblowers and leakers to talk on the phone.
Edward Snowden's revelations in June exposed that the government collected everyone's phone calls, not just reporters.
Informants are once again reduced to shifting potted plants around their patios in order to signal a meeting with journalists.
Even when journalists receive news tips face-to-face in a damp parking garage, they may not be safe with that information.
As we reported recently, Rolling Stone journalist Michael Hastings died when his front-engined Mercedes C250 burst in an explosion so powerful that the flames exceeded the heights of houses nearby.
The Mercedes' fuel efficient, four-cylinder engine was found nearly 150 feet behind the car.
A close friend of Hastings', Staff Sergeant Joe Biggs, confirmed that the journalist was working on a story involving the CIA, his "biggest story yet."
It is daunting to imagine the magnitude of the CIA story considering that his 2010 story entitled The Runaway General led to U.S. Army general Stanley McChrystal's resignation as commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.
Hastings was told he would be "hunted down and killed" over The Runaway General.
But his untimely death may have been triggered by bombshell information he received for his CIA story.
Through the nightmare ordeal of the Trayvon Martin shooting, the Zimmerman family became wide awake and aware of the massive extent of Obama's intrusive surveillance.
Yet these unconstitutional abuses effect the lives of everyone, not just the Zimmerman family and news journalists.
This article was posted: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 at 2:23 pm
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Made from a charm pack of "1974" by Urban Chiks for Moda. I used Amanda Jean's Hourglass Tutorial and I love how it turned out ... although, as she warned in the tute, I had some issues with bulky seams.
Isn't the backing fabric the best? I purposely tried to center the little bird so that he didn't get lost in a seam!
To label this quilt, I used the design of the fabric to find a little spot to sign with my new Micron pigma pen. I'm still not sure how I feel about using a marker to write on my quilt -- it made me VERY uncomfortable and VERY nervous! -- but I think it was the best solution for this quilt.
Oh, I forgot to mention that this was part of Kate's Another Little Quilt Swap (round 2). I hope you enjoy this little quilt, Dorothy ... it was really hard letting this one go!!


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An overview of complementary and alternative medicine therapies for anxiety and depressive disorders : supplement to efficacy of complementary and alternative medicine therapies for posttraumatic stress disorder
To be included, SRs had to be published within the past five years and be evaluated as a "fair" or "good" quality. Titles, abstracts, and articles were reviewed in duplicate, and relevant data were abstracted by authors trained in the critical analysis of literature. KEY FINDINGS...
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|To be included, SRs had to be published within the past five years and be evaluated as a "fair" or "good" quality. Titles, abstracts, and articles were reviewed in duplicate, and relevant data were abstracted by authors trained in the critical analysis of literature. KEY FINDINGS: We identified five relevant SRs on mind-body CAM therapies, but none on manipulative and body-based, movement-based, or energy therapies. Most primary studies were small trials that did not provide descriptions of CAM strategies adequate to permit replication. Dose, duration, and frequency of interventions sometimes varied widely. Key findings were: 1. For anxiety disorders, there is limited evidence on the effectiveness of meditation (n = 2 studies). Studies reported high rates of dropout, suggesting that adherence to meditation may be problematic in a clinical setting; therefore, it is difficult to draw conclusions about the efficacy of meditation for the treatment of anxiety disorders.2.
Reported results provided limited data on adverse effects or retention rates.The limitations of the current evidence preclude strong conclusions about specific CAM interventions for the treatment of depressive and anxiety disorders. However, limited evidence supports the use of meditation, relaxation training and/or breathing retraining, and mindfulness-based stress reduction for anxiety, as well as acupuncture for depression. This evidence should be considered together with the direct data on CAM treatments for PTSD when planning further treatment studies
BACKGROUND: VA is committed to expanding the breadth of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)-related services available to Veterans. Since depressive and anxiety disorders share common features with PTSD, this report was commissioned to examine the efficacy of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies for the treatment of depressive and anxiety disorders as a means to detect treatments that might be applicable to PTSD. METHODS: The key questions (KQs) were adapted from the parent report, Efficacy of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Therapies for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. We searched MEDLINE(r) (via PubMed(r)) and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews for recent English-language systematic reviews (SRs) that examined the literature on mind-body medicine, manipulative and body-based practices, and movement or energy therapies, excluding nutritionals, herbal remedies and other supplements.
Relaxation and/or breathing retraining show promise as a CAM therapy for panic disorders. Evidence, however, is limited.3. Acupuncture shows some promise as a CAM therapy for depression, but results were mixed. For major depressive disorder (MDD), acupuncture showed greater effects than sham control on depressive symptoms but did not improve response or remission rates. It did not differ significantly from short-term use of antidepressants. However, for patients with post-stroke depression, acupuncture was more effective than short-term use of antidepressants.4. Mindfulness-based stress reduction has shown positive effects on anxiety and depressive symptoms. However, studies are poor to fair quality.5. No included SRs reported effects on health-related quality of life.
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Today we'll run another tidbit from the errata of It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over: The Baseball Prospectus Pennant Race Book...
During which decade did baseball fans enjoy the best pennant races? Bill James, in The New Bill James Historical Abstract says unequivocally that the 1940s was "The Best Decade Ever for Pennant Races". Our compilation of Race Score by decade agrees.
Decade Aggregate Races Avg
1900s 375.5 12 31.3
1910s 234.9 9 26.1
1920s 423.6 12 35.3
1930s 226.1 13 17.4
1940s 390.9 11 35.5
1950s 371.5 12 31.0
1960s 385.1 12 32.1
1970s 310.0 17 18.2
1980s 354.1 20 17.7
1990s 247.0 16 15.4
2000s 431.5 27 16.0
The 1940s pulled out the highest average Race Score although the 1920s came in a close second and actually included one more race. Interestingly, the 1930s included 13 races, the highest percentage at 65% of any decade, and nine of those were in the NL with only 1931 excluded. However, many of the races were only marginal with the 1934 NL race won by the Cardinals on the strength of a 33-12 record down the stretch taking the highest score at 29.9 and ranking 43rd.
James ranks the races of the 1940s and so here is his list alongside our ranking.
James Year Lg Score Rank Teams Winner
1 1940 AL 46.0 16 3 Detroit Tigers (90-64)
2 1944 AL 21.0 80 2 St. Louis Browns (89-65)
3 1948 AL 72.0 3 3 Cleveland Indians (97-58)
4 1946 NL 32.9 35 2 St. Louis Cardinals (98-58)
5 1949 NL 37.0 30 2 Brooklyn Dodgers (97-57)
6 1949 AL 37.0 29 2 New York Yankees (97-57)
7 1942 NL 50.9 15 2 St. Louis Cardinals (106-48)
8 1941 NL 36.5 31 2 Brooklyn Dodgers (100-54)
9 1945 AL 18.0 86 2 Detroit Tigers (88-65)
10 1945 NL 29.9 43 2 Chicago Cubs (98-56)
1947 NL 9.8 2 Brooklyn Dodgers (94-60)
The only race from the 1940s that James doesn't include is the 1947 NL race which ranks 121st on our list in which the Dodgers overcame the Braves at midseason and held off the Cardinals, winning by a margin of five games. As James notes, the NL races of the 1940s were dominated by the Dodgers and Cardinals while in the AL the races were more diverse.
This compilation by decade also reinforces the notion that modern races garner lower race scores overall as not only the average Race Score has declined but also the number of races that have positive scores has fallen from around 57% before divisional play to 44% after.
But since our Race Score gives extra weight to races with multiple teams with good records, this trend can also be attributed to an increasing competitive balance over time. As shown in the graph below for the AL from 1901-2005, the standard deviation in winning percentage has noticeably declined over time (albeit with a number of bumps along the way and a small upturn in the past five years) as the dotted linear trend line indicates. As more teams are bunched closer together, it is statistically less likely that two or more teams will break away from the pack and therefore score very highly in the Race Score metric.
Just why competitive balance has generally increased with time is another story. The most accepted notion, popularized by the late paleontologist and baseball fan Stephen Jay Gould in the context of the disappearance of the .400 hitter , wrests upon two pillars. First, as knowledge about how to play the game has improved and become standardized it has become more difficult for players and hence teams to take advantage of their less skilled competitors. Second, the general level of play has increased due to better athletes produced through a larger population from which the best players are chosen, better diet and training, and better technology, all of which moves the game closer to the limits of human ability providing less space for variation. In the end that leaves great players and great teams, in Gould's words*, less "space for taking advantage of the suboptimality of others".
* The 1996 book Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould contains an extended discussion of Gould's argument. Also see my column "Schrodinger's Bat: The Myth of the Golden Age".


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A Hawaiian man saved his mother's home from a fire using a big pot of miso soup.
Reuben Prensky, 41, awoke to crackling sounds on Saturday and found a plastic sink in the laundry room on fire, with flames lapping at the roof, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported.
He quickly doused the flames with the first thing he could find -- miso broth.
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- 1/2 teaspoon ground fennel
- 2 teaspoons Italian seasoning
- 1 teaspoon sweet paprika
- 1/2 teaspoon ground coriander
- 1 1/4 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 4 (6-ounce) salmon fillets
- 4 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil
- Prepare grill.
- Combine all ingredients except salmon and olive oil in a bowl.
- Brush each salmon fillet with about 1 teaspoon oil.
- Press spice mixture on skinless side of salmon. Let stand 15 minutes.
- Place salmon, skin side up on grill grate. Cover grill. Cook over high heat about 3 minutes. Flip and cook, skin side down, 5 more minutes or until done but still red in the center. The grilling time depends on the heat of your grill and the thickness of the fillet.
- Serve with Orange-Fennel Relish.
Recipe by Chris Koetke.
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ftinetti wrote:thanks Fernando, what you said is right! I just have the questions to ask you in two cases:
1.if I came across memory issues that the number of data read is so larger (ex. 20,000,000), and I want to use it again in the next time, so the array(ex. array(20000000, 20) or twenty array(20000000) )will exist in the memory till the next time dealing. that will bring the memory consuming , how to deal with this problem.
2.in the upper cases, in the case that I split the program into several parts(I/O reading, computing(parallel), writing) which abides by your suggestions, but if there exists I/O in the subroutine1 which also exists in the parallel computing block, is there any problems and how to solve this problem?
I do not understand 1. would you explain/give other details?
what I meant is that if I accept your suggestions, I must split the I/O(read & write) and the calculations. so I must read data from files to specific arrays, the dim of one array in my computation is upto 20000000 and I have the total 20 arrays like that. so large memory consuming is here, how to deal with this problem if I read data into these arrays?
About 2.: if you have I/O in several threads, the minimum I suggest is protecting the I/O with the critical synchronization construct (other issues would depend on the application). However, remember that threads will make interleaved I/O, which, in particular, usually produces different output data (more specifically: the same output in different relative order). Thus, it would be necessary to take into account the interleaved output when reading/using the generated data.
thanks, but I don't understand what you means. can you explain to me again?


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Translate PDF Files and Office Documents
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The nice thing is that Google converts the documents on the fly even if they haven't been indexed by Google. Just paste the address of a document in Google Translate's textarea and wait until the translation shows up. Unfortunately, the service is not well-suited for long documents: it only translated the first 9 pages of a PDF file.


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Villanueva & Sappelt Go Deep at HoHoKam
Christian Villanueva and Dave Sappelt drilled solo home runs to lead the Cubs to a 4-2 victory over the Colorado Rockies this afternoon in Cactus League action at Dwight Patterson Field at HoHoKam Park in Mesa, AZ.
Jhoulys Chacin and Edwin Jackson were the starting pitchers, and both threw two innings of shutout ball. Chacin retired all six men he faced, while Jackson (making his Cub debut) allowed back-to-back two-out singles in the top of the 1st inning. Jackson really had his sinker working today (5/1 GO/FO), and after struggling a bit with his control in the 1st (although he did not issue any walks), he got into a groove and fired 12 out of 14 pitches for strikes in the 2nd (30 total pitches over the two innings - 21 strikes).
After the first eight Cubs hitters were retired, Christian Villanueva took Jorge de la Rosa deep with a towering home run over the LF fence and onto to the berm just to the right of the scoreboard. The Cubs added another run off de la Rosa in the 4th as Starlin Castro ripped a lead-off double into the left-center alley, advanced to 3rd on an Anthony Rizzo 4-3 GO, before scoring on a Brett Jackson sacrifice fly (on a two strike pitch against a LHP). Including an intrasquad game last week, B-Jax has struck out only once in four games (8 PA).
The Rockies plated a run off Drew Carpenter in the 4th (Carlos Gonzalez singled, stole 2nd, and scored on a Ben Paulsen RBI single), but the Cubs responded in the 6th when Dave Sappelt slugged a HR over the fence and to the base of the scoreboard in left off Edgmer Escalona to give the Cubs a 3-1 lead.
Chris Rusin followed Carpenter and threw two impressive & efficient shutout innings (30 pitches - 22 strikes), allowing a single in one inning and a double in the other, while inducing five ground outs. Rusin recorded another out when he showed a nifty pick-off move and caught Tyler Colvin leaning the wrong way off 1st base.
Ex-Rockie Zach Putnam threw a 1-2-3 7th (P-4, 1-3, F-9) at his former teammates, but Nick Struck gave up a lead-off triple to ex-Cub D. J. LeMahieu in the 8th, and LeMahieu scored on a sacrifice fly as the Rockies closed to the score to 3-2.
The Cubs added an insurance run in the 8th, as Brad Nelson, Welington Castillo, and Matt Szczur drew consecutive two-out walks off Adam Ottovino following a Dave Sappelt one-out single. Struck then recovered to throw a rocking-chair 1-2-3 9th (P-4, F-9, K-looking) to record the save.
Another sparse crowd at HoHoKam today (just over 4,000). The ticket scalpers working Center Street are on suicide watch.
Very encouraged by BJax and
AZ Phil: I haven't heard much
"Injured pitcher Matt Garza
re: Garza...
"He has gone through all the lower body (tests) and that went really well," Sveum said. "Today it will be more upper body (tests) and we will see how he responds to that. He is getting really close."Sounds like they will use a doctor fluent in Hockey/NHL speak to clear him.
aaron harang fail...cubs
8-7 after 4...shaping up to
Theo admits Colvin trade was
Apparently trading for Rizzo,
Apparently trading for Rizzo, a former Red Sox draft pick, represented one of two things every new executive does after taking over a team.
"Typically, they make a pretty good trade with a player they're familiar with (Rizzo) and, two, they'll screw up a trade because they won't have the first-hand knowledge you need with some players in their own organization,'' Epstein said. "We definitely did that.''
The rare mistake Epstein admitted came in December 2011 when the Cubs traded outfielder Tyler Colvin and infielder D.J. LeMahieu to the Rockies. Another happened when the Cubs left Ryan Flaherty unprotected in the Rule 5 draft and the Orioles signed the second baseman, who started in the playoffs.
and a handful on the Internet feel validated....nice bone for Theo to throw them.
t.wood/sappelt/torreyes have
That's not entirely fair,
if that's fair market value
Present value v Future value
given what wood/sapplett were
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Castro leaves game, after
"left hamstring tightness"
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Because you don't score at third base, dipshit
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Cubster 18 hours 7 min ago (view)
then said quietly by his elves: although it can take up to 1-2 days (or two tanks of gas) to get through test lines and then 7-14 days to get results.
crunch 18 hours 31 min ago (view)
5 cubs players + d.ross didn't work out with the team today because their tests were dealyed. 4 players + d.ross later came back negative and 1 test will have to be done again because it was compromised during transport and invalidated.
...turns out the compromised test was not a player, but a non-player/non-ross Tier 1 employee. neat.
crunch 20 hours 52 min ago (view)
v.caratini will continue to be darvish's preferred catcher this season.
crunch 20 hours 52 min ago (view)
j.hicks (STL) opts out. he's a T1 diabetic currently rehabbing from TJ. he was expected to return in august.
JustSayin' 1 day 18 hours ago (view)
I think what your saying applies to all franchises in all big-time team sports. The virus is asymptomatic in many carriers. The national positive test % rate is mid/high single digits. If your pro sports franchise does 3-4 x better than that, it still means some players and coaches will test positive and things will grind to a partial or complete halt. At least baseball didn't try to "bubble" in AZ and FL, which are looking like two of the worst (and worst-led) states in which to be located at the currrent stage of the pandemic.
crunch 1 day 19 hours ago (view)
rizzo took BP and did some field work today. also, almora is good to go...he ran into a wall on friday and got a little banged up.
Cubster 2 days 2 hours ago (view)
Aroldis Chapman is now Covid positive with mild symptoms
crunch 2 days 15 hours ago (view)
the COVID-Division should be fun.
teams from TX, AZ, CA, WA, and CO exclusively playing each other... CO is all "wtf, really?"
Cubster 2 days 16 hours ago (view)
...and so it goes (per Roto): Astros general manager James Click wrote in a statement that a member of the staff "was potentially exposed to a COVID-positive individual outside the organization." The team is working with MLB and team doctors on testing protocol and cleaning before resuming workouts.
Does the visiting team bring a Covid positive bio-weapon to the player's parking lot?
Charlie 2 days 23 hours ago (view)
I've been wondering how this would proceed. Since teams will have to figure out how existing contracts will be paid, I thought there was a *chance* they would proceed with free agency as usual and plan for payment under potential shortened seasons would just be figured out in negotiations with the MLBPA. But that was probably an overly optimistic thought.
Dolorous Jon Lester 3 days 2 hours ago (view)
Meanwhile Theo shoots down any potential of extension talks. I get that it's a crazy time financially in baseball, but it's really gonna suck when all these players leave after 21 and 22.
Cubster 3 days 13 hours ago (view)
WSox Michael Kopech has opted out of 2020. I didn't see a disclosed reason yet but he is recovering from TJ S
crunch 3 days 23 hours ago (view)
buster posey (SF) opting out of 2020...recently adopted twin daughters who were born premature.
Cubster 5 days 3 hours ago (view)
per Tribune: Kimbrel's OK, just working on his changeup (formerly his fastball).
Arizona Phil 5 days 15 hours ago (view)
The Cubs have released RHRP (and their erstwhile closer) Brandon Morrow. There is no indication that they plan to re-sign him to another (different) 2020 minor league contract without the Article XX-B $100K retention bonus provision (as happened with Jason Kipnis last week).
crunch 5 days 19 hours ago (view)
rizzo takes another day off (lower back). ross says the club is "exercising caution."
klye ryan is expected to join the team tomorrow after some mysterious holdup.


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ATLANTA - The Federal Aviation Administration has announced dates it plans to cut funding to 149 contract air traffic control towers - including five in Georgia.
Federal officials Wednesday announced funding will be cut to the Middle Georgia Regional Airport in Macon and the Athens-Ben Epps Airport on April 21.
Funding is slated to be cut at McCollum Field in Kennesaw, the Southwest Georgia Regional Airport in Albany, and the Gwinnett County Airport in Lawrenceville on May 5.
FAA officials say airport operators have the choice to continue operating as a non-towered airport, or continue providing services as a non-federal control tower.
Automatic spending cuts have moved the agency to close contract air traffic control towers in an effort to meet a federally mandated $637 million budget cut.


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Environmental swing voters? Nah.
New Mexico is shaping up to be one of the most interesting battleground states in the West this year. The presidential polls are starting to look good for Obama, and Representative Tom Udall, a member of the West's most famous environmentalist family, has a good chance of taking the Senate seat currently held by the legendarily anti-green Pete Domenici.
So New Mexico is just the sort of state where the Republican Party should be moving towards the center on environmental issues. Right? Not according to Heather Wilson, U.S House member from the state's first congressional district who recently lost a bid for the Republican nomination in New Mexico's Senate race. She lists jobs, the price of gas, and national defense as the three main issues for voters in her home state. The environment? "Not so much," she says. "The price of energy is a much bigger deal. The environment never even gets into double digits in the polls as the issue that voters think is most important."
Maybe she's right about the polls. Voters have plenty to worry about these days, what with a war and a recession going on. It's hard to care too much about Bush gutting the Endangered Species Act when your job just got offshored. But my guess is that there are a lot of New Mexico voters who count the environment as at least the second or third most important issue on their list. And my guess is that a candidate's position on the environment could sway some of these people's votes. And maybe that's why the oddsmakers at the web's most sophisticated electoral projection site give Tom Udall a 77% chance of winning the election this November.


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As always, I picked this one up from eBay together with the new Dream Cream Lip Palette in Hibiscus and Baked Eye Dreams Palette in Sandbar. Basically they are another variation on the Escape To The Tropics collection (reviewed here) with the same sparkly packaging. This is the third installment, the second one was reviewed here minues the blush because I'd already owned that one (Como).You can check out my collection of Laura Geller blushes here if you haven't seen it yet by the way!
So basically this is pretty much the same as other Laura Geller blushes, a pretty baked swirly design, in this case a mixture of shimmery pink, cream and brown which result in a pretty warm slightly shimmery pink shade. The texture is very smooth and fine, well pigmented, and the blush stays on well for a good few hours. As with all Blush n Brighten compacts you get 9 gramms. This particular one isn't available separately, but the 7 piece collection it came in was priced at $59.50 on QVC. I bought this for $20.50 on eBay as this set has not been available in the UK. I think it's a lovely addition to my Laura Geller blush collection, butnow I like Ms Geller needs to slow down a bit and give me a chance to use and enjoy these lovely blushes. Seriously, if I only owned Laura Geller blushes, I still couldn't use them up, there are just so many!
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There's probably no other sports reporter/columnist out there who can ingratiate himself so well to a coach as T.J. Simers of the Los Angeles Times, if by "ingratiate" we mean "antagonize coaches coming off a bad loss by uttering outrageous allegations that make them to want to strangle you in front of your peers." This technique is fast becoming old hat for Simers, who recently pulled these kinds of trolltastic shenanigans with UCLA head coach Jim Mora Jr. Now, Mike D'Antoni, fresh off a demoralizing road loss to the Cavaliers, is his latest target.
Hell yeah, we worked for a half hour on it. So get your—you're starting to—you're starting to piss me off. You're starting to piss me off because you're saying something that's not factually correct.
Can't imagine what Simers' column tomorrow will focus on. After all, this is pretty much all he knows.
h/t USA Today Sports, photo via @The_Only_Derm


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A paleobiogeography exercise
This exercise is designed for an upper level (junior to senior) undergraduate paleontology course taken by geoscience majors (Geology and Earth & Space Science Education majors) and individuals in related majors such as Anthropology or Biology (and Biology Education).
Skills and concepts that students must have mastered
The skills and concepts that students need coming into the course include basic familiarity with Earth History and the Geologic Time Scale (i.e, knowledge of the time units in the Phanerozoic and an understanding of how they are defined by chronostratigraphic ("time-rock") units); a bit of paleogeographic background so that they are familiar with such now-defunct continents and seaways as Laurentia, Iapetus, the Tethys, etc.; a rudimentary knowledge of Plate Tectonics, sedimentary facies and depositional environments, and the hierarchy of Linnaean grades; and fundamental mathematical skills to understand the simple equations used to calculate the indices.
How the activity is situated in the course
This exercise is part of a sequence of activities and can be used either as a stand-alone lab (expanded somewhat, if that is the case) or an in-class activity to reinforce and augment coverage of the same basic concepts in other labs and lectures on faunal provincialism, paleobiogeography, and quantitative comparison of different faunas. It is best used in the middle or later part of the course, after previous activities have ensured that all students have the necessary background on the spatial and temporal distribution, ecology, and biostratigraphic utility of trilobites and ammonites in the Paleozoic and Mesozoic, respectively.
Content/concepts goals for this activity
That the students develop
- a familiarity with the ecology, paleogeographic distribution, and utility of trilobites and ammonites for correlation and biogeographic/paleoenvironmental reconstruction
- both the ability to calculate diversity indices and an awareness of what it is we use them to quantify
- some knowledge of the paleogeography of the Early Paleozoic and early Mesozoic Eras
Higher order thinking skills goals for this activity
That students develop
- the ability to give proper consideration to, and accurately discriminate the relative influence of the method (e.g. which diversity index was used), aspects of the data (taxonomic grade selected for comparison, imperfections due to taxonomic and/or stratigraphic imprecision or inaccuracy), and real paleobiological/geological factors on the similarity indices.
-the ability to construct multiple hypotheses that cover a broad spectrum of geologically reasonable possibilities, and devise ways of testing them with new data.
-an awareness of the peril of simplistic and/or deductive interpretation of paleobiogeographic data (e.g., the terranes have very different faunas, therefore they were far apart) -- or any other kind of data, for that matter.
- an appreciation that the numbers that emerge from a quantitative analysis do not by themselves answer the question; they merely form the foundation for a critical analysis of the information
Other skills goals for this activity
How essential it is, when the goal is to arrive at a correct conclusion regarding events or conditions in earth's past, that paleontological data given due consideration as one of the most valuable types of information available for that purpose; conversely, that use of paleontological data alone for that purpose is no better than not considering them at all.
Description of the activity/assignment
After being introduced to some widely used similarity indices through a brief introductory lecture and reading assignment, students receive a handout that includes the genus-level presence/absence data for Jurassic ammonite faunas from the Boreal Craton and four accreted terranes that make up much of what is now western North America. The handout also includes several tables that present values calculated from those data for four different indices, and a map showing the current distribution of the terranes (all extracted from Hammer and Harper, 2006). The students then work collaboratively, in pairs or small groups, to answer a few rudimentary questions that require first-order interpretation of the data to get them comfortable with how the data are presented, and to demonstrate how different indices produce different rankings of relative similarity for the five faunas. For many of the students, it is their first encounter with quantitatively derived, but clearly ambiguous results – and the struggle begins ("but which one is right?") The exercise then tests them with more complex questions that require (without specific announcement) that they devise multiple explanations for low indices (dissimilar faunas) between Sonomia and the Boreal Craton, and critically evaluate those possible explanations. When they are led to the correct conclusion, that a simplistic interpretation of the dissimilarity as a product of geographic separation conflicts with the well established timing of Sonomia's arrival in the Triassic (based on other geologic evidence), it impresses upon them the importance of considering all the data available. In this case, the data falsify the hypothesis that Sonomia was still far away from North America, and require a different explanation for the faunal contrast, such as a latitudinal separation and/or physical separation by some barrier (perhaps highlands created by the Sonoman Orogeny). The second phase of the exercise involves analysis of a pronounced contrast reported by Loch (2007) in the taxonomic composition of Lower Ordovician trilobite faunas in what is now eastern and western North America, quantified by the Jaccard Index. With the geologic context leaving no doubt that both faunas inhabited the same paleocontinent, the stage is set for discussion of a strong (again, perhaps paleolatitudinal) contrast in environment/lithofacies that produced the contrast. The questions posed in this part of the exercise challenge the students to recognize the strong influence of relative sample sizes (a pitfall of that index), a different taxonomic level (trilobite species, as compared to ammonite genera), and perhaps other factors such as stratigraphic imprecision and inaccuracy in taxonomic assignment in producing values very different from those in the first case study.
Determining whether students have met the goals
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On November 6, I published a post entitled, "The professor as THE sexual outsider". This post focused on a post by Kentucky Youth Pastor Kyle McDanell which was published on his blog. The focus of the Pastor was on Paul Abramson and the content of his recent book. I was quite critical of the pastor's posting and now Pastor McDanell has responded to my post. And it is the dankprofessor's pleasure to respond to this intemperate and misdirected attack on me.
Pastor McDanell was particularly distraught with the following passage from my post which read as follows-
So when the pastor thinks of student professor relationships he thinks of child adult sex. The professor becomes the child molester because the student cannot be an adult. I believe that this is the default assumption held by many persons going way beyond Christian evangelicals. It goes back to our childhood when the teacher is always the adult and the student is always the child. Many persons just can't get beyond this framework. No matter that the student is 25 or 35 or 55; the student is always a child and always a victim. The idea of student and professor studying and learning together as two adults and loving each other as two adults and as marrying each other as two adults and parenting as two adults just goes beyond the mental capacity of those holding this hardcore default assumption.
So then the pastor states-
"For one, I never said such a think, and two, he only proves everything I have just said. First, let's deal with the whole child-sex thing. I never said that, and he is simply misinterpreting my own words. Apparently, he thought he saw something that was between the lines that wasn't there. I am not that dumb to think that most college students are under 18. I am a college graduate and am currently working on my masters, I know what a college student looks like, and how many varying ages there are. I never said that the professor was a child molester, and the further comments that he makes on this false assumption are ludicrous at best."
Unfortunately for the pastor somehow he bypasses his own key sentence which I indicated reflects that he embraces a default assumption that equates student professor sexual relationships with child adult sex. The sentence read as follows- "He (Abramson) doesn't want to be told that sex between a student and adult are wrong." Obviously, this sentence represents a characterization of the professor as an adult and the student not an adult and not an adult is equivalent to being a child. Default assumptions are not easily recognized by those holding them; the holder often is unable to see them and if questioned, one often becomes perplexed in the manner in which the pastor is perplexed. He cannot "see" the default assumption; he cannot find it in his text, but it is there in his text, out in the open so to speak, for all readers to see.
The pastor also characterizes my thinking in the following terms-
"And here lies where Dankprofessor and I differ. He sees my common sense view on human nature "extreme." Because I argue in favor of traditional morality, common sense, and (oh my gosh) Biblical standards, I am apparently too extreme for our society. I wonder if Dankprofessor ever sees his own views extreme. Probably not, which is typical of closed-minded leftist. They can preach about Conservative Christians like myself being intolerant and closed-minded without even seeing their own bigotry. I would argue that professors like Abramson and Dankprofessor are themselves extreme. But something tells me that I won't get the fanfare that the left gets."
But the good pastor will get fanfare and from all places it will come from close-minded "leftists" since it is usually authoritarian feminist leftists who are intolerant and close-minded when it comes to my viewpoint on student professor relationships. In fact, in the 14 years that I have been involved in this issue, this is the first time I have been labeled as a leftist! So be it; such effectively demonstrates the absurdity of throwing around labels rather than focusing on the issue. And as far as my being upset about his traditional morality and his Biblical standards, I have no trouble in accepting that the pastor believes what he believes. What I find troubling is when the pastor takes his views and wants them to be mandated as part of public policy, when he advocates for the abrogation of the rights of adults to engage in consensual sexual relationships.
And the pastor continues-
"Many of Abramson and Dankprofessor's own arguments prove this point. It doesn't matter if what they argue makes no sense, the important thing is to just love one another and make sure it's consensual. I'm all for love and being consensual, but I am also in favor of marriage and commitment. Chances are the student will likely split once they get that passing grade. so much for consensual sex!"
Now I must confess to being insulted, insulted when he implies that I am not in favor of marriage and commitment. Nothing could be farther from the truth since I am married and I am committed to my wife who I met when she was a student of mine in 1998, and then we married in 2000. And I have supported her through her battles with a number of life threatening illnesses as she has supported me. In illness and in health we have been there for each other. And to imply, as he clearly does, that female students who are involved with professors are prostituting themselves for grades is, of course, insulting not only to female students but to females in general. Believing that female students are gradediggers is similar to believing that females in general are golddiggers and reflects the sexual fantasies of the holder of such views. The reality here is that the pastor ends up pornographizing student professor relationships which might very well represent a form of psychological projection.
If the pastor knew anything at all about student professor relationships, he would know that often such relationships are formed in the context of a mutual love for a particular subject matter- of literature, or of history or of sociology, etc. Such love can become transformed from a love of knowledge to a knowledge of love. What I find ironic is that such love is so alien to what is so prevalent on today's university campuses- hookup sex, often in the context of binge drinking and then more drinking and then more sex…Of course, the pastor may not find there to be any significant differences between hookup and committed non-marital relationships since he apparently holds all pre-marital sex to be equally sinful, no matter the form of said sex.
And the pastor continues-
"Secondly, the argument that Dankprofessor lays out here proves my previous points. Notice the Utopian worldview. It seems just normal to him, apparently, that a college student can walk into class, fall in love with the professor, and they go off and get married and have "consensual" sex, and none of that would affect the professors professional opinion of the student. Somehow he can make the assumption that the two can be both sexual partners and then be unbias in grades and favoritism in the classroom. Such a world doesn't exist!"
If as the pastor claims that I am Utopian, I would counter claim that he is confusing utopianism with an ethical commitment. As a professor, I was ethically committed to treating/grading students as students equally. No matter whether I personally liked or disliked the student; no matter whether the student was a child of committed evangelical Christians; no matter whether the child of Christian or a Jew or an atheist. I know that few professors actually have such a commitment, however this was not the case for me. As a professor, I frequently engaged in questioning and self questioning not only in regards to the grading process but in regards to my life in general. As for conflicts of interest, I find it interesting that conflicts of interest are rife on campus, but it is often only so-called sexual conflicts of interest that receive the attention of more than a handful of faculty. In any case, I do not believe for a second that the pastor's predominant interest in this area is one of non-prejudicial grading or conflicts of interest. His interest in this issue is because it is a sexual issue. Take the sexual component out, and I think that the good pastor will ask to be excused.
And last but not least the pastor concludes-
"Finally, what my argument against Dr. Abramson's book have to do with homosexuality, I have no idea…
Apparently it is also extreme to oppose homosexuality. Apparently what is "mainstream" to him, and how the typical liberal like himself would define freedom, is liberation from all shackles of morality. That is, except for the morality that he defends, like opposing extremist like me. That is the moral thing to do apparently.Again, how he goes from me being against student-professor relationships to anti-homosexuals is unclear to me. Perhaps he could clarify for me. But I hope that it is obvious how right I was in my original posts concerning Professor Abramson and how Dankprofessor has only proven me right. I stand by my first post, and I welcome others to a friendly debate."
Well, as requested, here is my clarification. The pastor is clearly opposed to adult consensual sexual relationships which offend his version of morality. The problem as I see it occurs when the pastor wishes to impose his moral shackles in the framework of coercive institutional regulations to consenting adults; in the first case he wishes to coerce consenting students and professors and in the second case he wishesto coerce persons engaging in same sex consenting sexual behavior. And as I stated previously, true believers who view themselves as fighting what they consider the good fight against sexual "debauchery" and sexual predators often "see themselves standing at the abyss…fighting The sexual outsider united in a stand that they believe will save our children."
And, in conclusion, for the knowledge of the pastor, I spent a good part of my academic life working with Christian campus ministries in the engagement of ethical issues. However, in these partnerships I never dealt with Christians who wished to impose their morality on others. Rather the Christians I worked with were characterized by a humility and a communication of love. Such as I was told was compatible with the teachings of Jesus who never embraced any form of institutional formal religion and never practiced authoritarianism in any form.
If you wish, you can write to me directly at email@example.com
Guest commentaries should also be submitted for consideration to the same email address.
Barry M. Dank aka the dankprofessor™
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Hello from the future!
I'm on a special top secret assignment from Drinkbox Studios that requires me to live 5 days ahead of everyone else. So for me, right now the date is Monday, November 19th, and, man, do I have great news. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 was amazing! Well worth the wait. I can't believe that thing with Edward though, what a bummer.
So, by now you've probably heard that PlayStation Plus is coming to the Vita. I can confirm that this is true, time travelers honour. In case you missed out on the details, PlayStation Plus subscribers in North America will be able add Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack to their Playstation Vita game library for free on the 19th, European subscribers will be able to do so on the 21st. Not only will PS+ subscribers get Mutant Blobs Attack, you'll also get a whackload of other cool games and discounts and exclusives. You should check PlayStation Plus out for yourself if you haven't already.
As for me, I've got to hop on my hoverboard and get to Jodie Foster's birthday party. Peace out!


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Grimm's Grotto
The Grotto is the hardest of the completely random dungeons in the game. The boss and monster populations are randomly generated, and everything has vastly increased combat strength. Grimm's Grotto is the closest dungeon equivalent to ranked mode from the alpha. Since it only has a single boss that is chosen randomly its difficulty is going to be very random.
Grimm's Grotto uses a different monster placement algorithm than other dungeons. While most dungeons will weight the placement of low-level monsters towards the player's start location and high-level monsters away from it, Grimm's Grotto places them randomly. This means it has a significantly higher probability of creating unwinnable layouts of any dungeon. According to the developers, this is an intentional throwback to the alpha.
Due to the randomized boss, it is difficult to approach Grimm's Grotto with an overly-specialized strategy. Instead, it is better to prepare yourself to deal with a wide variety of different bosses. Your most important goal is to find ways to navigate around monsters that are blocking your path to avoid getting cut off. The ENDISWAL, WEYTWUT and PISORF glyphs all work very well for this purpose, as does the Bear Mace preparation.


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WeThePeople's Patron fork is all about choices. The 7mm full-investment casted heat-treated hollow dropouts are what make this fork so special and are offered in either a traditional 35mm offset or a more street orientated 25mm version for all the front-wheel jedis out there. This is the go to choice for most of the WTP pro team, so you know it's got to be good.
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Bats & Agriculture
Bats & Agriculture
Farmers and agriculture can benefit tremendously from bats. Pests, such as the corn earthworm moth, infest commercial plants ranging from melons to corn, soybeans to cotton. Bats directly impact our own food by eating bollworms, mosquitoes, and larvae harmful to agriculture reducing the need for toxic pesticides.
From the 2011 report in Science (Economic Importance of Bats in Agriculture): "Estimating the economic importance of bats in agricultural systems is challenging, but published estimates of the value of pest suppression services provided by bats ranges from about $12 to $173/acre (with a most likely scenario of $74/acre) in a cotton-dominated agricultural landscape in south-central Texas." If we extrapolate the Texas figures across the United States, the estimated value of bats to agriculture may be "as low as $3.7 billion/year and as high as $53 billion/year. These estimates include the reduced costs of pesticide applications that are not needed to suppress the insects consumed by bats." The dollar value estimate doesn't include environmental or timber industry savings. Here in Texas, bats save our farmers about $6.4 million per annual cotton harvest.
Farmers and ranchers who want to take advantage of the pest control benefits of bats can try the following to potentially attract bats:
- Provide a water source
- Establish hedgerows of native vegetation to provide habitat
- Consider installing bat houses to provide shelter
- Use bat-friendly lighting
- Maintain potential roost trees (snags)
- Help protect local roosts
- Maintain/enhance habitat at local bridges
Maintaining a fresh water supply can benefit both bats and agriculture. Improving or restoring water infrastructure can provide water for cattle and other livestock as well as water for wildlife. Land health can be improved through better grazing planning practices.
These practices are critical to deal with the tough challenges of drought. Producers can address multiple needs including maintaining wildlife habitat that provides important ecosystem services as well as serving as viable enterprises. Producers who wish to employ these practices can consult the Resources section below for guidance.
Water for Wildlife Handbook
Water for Wildlife Pocket Guide
Integrated Pest Management Booklet
Bat House Builders Handbook
Community Bat House Plans
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Bats & Forest Management
Bats in American Bridges
BATS Magazine Articles
Management Practices
NRCS Conservation Practice Standard – Hedgerow Planting
NRCS Conservation Practice Standard – Pond
Bats and Wind
Bats and Light Pollution
Agricultural Presentations
Bat Conservation International conducted a series of webinars for producers which began on 7/23/14 and concluded 8/27/14. Topics included "Bats and Integrated Pest Management in Agriculture", "Value of Foraging Bats: IPM Far and Wide", "Restoring and Creating Natural and Constructed Wetlands and Other Water Sources for Bats, Other Wildlife, and Livestock", "Monitoring for Bats", "Bats and Wind Energy: Best Management Practices", and "Agriculture, Bats and Mine Closures". Presentations from the webinars are available for download:
Bats and Wind
Monitoring for bats
Value of Foraging Bats (IPM Far and Wide)
Water for Wildlife
Bats and Mine Closures
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Review On Medicare Insurance Program
Insurance companies have introduced various Medicare insurance program for anyone who fit obtaining the insurance program.
In this case, the next thing that you need to do at this time is to ensure that you understand everything about the Medicare insurance because when you have all the information about them then you will have the chance of enjoying some benefits that you will get from this program because there are also of benefits that you will get. The number one thing that you need to do at this time is to ensure that you know how the Medicare insurance programs works is when you will be able to enjoy some benefits from it.
The following thing that you will have to consider when you want to enjoy some importance of the Medicare insurance program, is to know how to choose the best plans or is to know how to purchase the best Medicare insurance plans. The last thing that you need to do when you want to feel good with the Medicare insurance plans that you have is to ensure that you choose the best insurance company that will allow you to do some important hinges in going he best Medicare insurance plans ha will help you for a long time.
In finding the best insurance group, there's the thing that you will have to keep in your mind and in this way you will get the best that will offer youth best services. For the people who are old age and also disable, it is a good thing for you to have in your mind that the Medicare insurance plans are to help you take care of all your medical needs and this is the best thing that you will get from it when you are in the above sate.
All your health-related problems are covered by the Medicare plans and this is the next importance of the Medicare insurance program. The ascending thing that you need to have in your mind is that there are some insurance agents or brokers that you need to consult also when you are looking for the best Medicare insurance plans, and this is very important if you must know.
In the current world, since there are so many agents that you will get in the entire world, you need to knotty there are some tips that you can always use that will help you in getting the best according to what you need the to do for you. It is an important thing to work according to your budget because the value of the Medicare insurance will take your budget.
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Hello everybody,
i now that the 'policy' is to post the code and based on this talk.But i have not an idea about this,so no code is written by me?
-So you came here without googling?
Of course not!I searched the google but found complex programs,that i think that are for playing music,etc.
So what i need is to just make a single 'beep' in my program.Can please someone help?
PS- sorry for the post,but i really have no idea about audio and code


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About Milan S
Lives in Sydney, Australia
Since Sep. 2014
50-64 year old male
I like to travel light and adapt to local ways. On the road, patience and goodwill conquers all. I was born and raised in the heart of inner Sydney, playing on the streets as a kid and as an adult working on them too. It's my fascination. I once took a job as a street sweeper just for the experience of seeing life on the streets from that perspective. So I can say quite literally, I've covered every inch of the inner city! For the rest I drove a while as a cab driver. But the place never ceases to amaze me with something new and quirky.
Sydney has it all: deep blue harbour, awesome beaches and world-class iconic landmarks. And the best thing is, it's all so easy to do!
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Walking through the gardens and along the seawall is such a relaxed and quiet way to start your city experience - breathe in the harbour air and the trees as you go.
Even if you're not going to see a show, meandering in and around the Opera House is a visual performance in itself. I saw a karate tournament in the concert hall once, so you never know what you might find!
With The Rocks, the trick is to get up the hill and into its little alleyways as soon as possible. Put your guidebook in your back pocket and get deliberately lost - the cobblestones will do the thinking for you.
The Bridge is the Everest of attractions. Climb it. My friends bought me a bridge climb for my birthday, and it was one of the best experiences of my life!
No trip to Sydney is complete without a trip to Watson's Bay and a seafood splurge at Doyles. It's a tradition from the old days, when Doyles sold fish and chips to youngsters like myself, who marvelled at the huge sharks weighed in on the old wharf. Enjoy the sweeping views of the harbour!
Everything seems so playfully hedonistic here that even swimming seems like a chore. It is THE place in Sydney for 'people watching' - so much so that even the surfers spend a lot of time on their boards watching one another.
It's great to get a birds eye view of just how expansive Sydney is. From Sydney Tower Eye you can see all the way to the Blue Mountains and watch the storm clouds roll in from the south...
Chinatown is always busy, and a stroll down the main drag of Dixon st will leave you with the paradox of food choice. My preference is to walk another two blocks to the corner of Thomas and Quay streets where you'll find The Burlington Centre - the restaurants here are cheaper and very authentic.
Beautiful old terraced houses, leafy streets and some of the best live music pubs in Sydney make Balmain well worth a visit.
No matter how late in the night, you'll always manage to get a coffee or a drink in 'the cross.' Walking the main drag of Darlinghurst rd is worth it just for the experience, but walk further either to Macleay st or Victoria st to find the best cafes.
Even if you've lived here all your life, taking the ferry to Manly and back remains a classic experience. Passing between north and south head, the open sea meets the harbour and you can literally feel the swell rise. Manly itself is like the Bondi of the north, but with less attitude. Except when it comes to surfing - which Manlyites claim was invented there!
Once the port of entry for migrants to Australia, today the Wharf has some of the best fine dining by the sea. A great place to take stock and plan your next Sydney adventure.


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Sad news: Dave Hill is stuck in L.A. and won't be able to headline tonight's Always Remember with Alex and Corey, hosted by Alex Pearlman and Corey Cohen. BUT, at the last minute, Philly favorite Chip Chantry has agreed to step in! The day is saved!
The show starts at 8PM at L'etage and will also feature T.j. Hurley, Ryan Shaner and The Necrosexual. Admission was originally $10, but it's just been slashed IN HALF to $5. You can find full deets on the 'book: https://www.facebook.com/events/118455065007118/


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The WinSxS directory holds Windows Side-by-Side DLLs. WinSxS allows multiple versions of the same DLL (code libraries) to exist on the same system. This ensures that every application will get the DLL version they were tested and designed for. The result is improved application and system stability. See details for full directory location.
There are no known security risks in using Tiptsf.dll assuming it has not been modified or replaced by virus or malware and it resides in the default directory. This file is installed as part of the Windows operating system.


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A very well done story in the student paper of small liberal arts school Bowdoin College (in my back yard here in Maine) is confirmation of many of the trends we've been identifying lately in the paper and in the school security white paper we presented back in July. During the school's recent renovation of its museum, it used a continuing relationship with museum security guru Steve Keller to effect a significant upgrade, in the process helping its marketing department and adding to its overall building awareness, beyond traditional security matters. Exhibit A: "What good security does is allow us to borrow a lot of items from other museums. The people from whom we are borrowing want to make sure that the museum is the correct environment for their pieces," she added. This is security acting on behalf of the marketing department, right here. Good security means important art coming to the school, which means more headlines in papers local and national and means a higher profile for the school in general, which may mean more students willing to pay the ungodly amount in tuition Bowdoin's now charging. Exhibit B: "Among its security features are motion and vibration detectors throughout the building, and 24-7 video-surveillance monitoring of about 45 cameras. This surveillance monitoring occurs on-site, in the Communications Center, and at the headquarters of the museum's security company, Boulos," Nichols said. Here's that video monitoring and remote guarding as a service we've been harping about for the past six months. No doubt, Boulos gets a nice monthly payment for monitoring that video from its headquarters. Exhibit C: Keller's system takes all aspects of this environment into account, including temperature, air-quality, and humidity levels. Additionally, the museum's security guards play a large role in the process of monitoring these levels. Here's the security system being integrated into the building controls, as companies like TAC are pushing more and more often. If you can get the security budget to take on some maintenance duties, you're more likely to get a sale. Sounds like Bowdoin and Steve Keller are right on the edge of current security thinking. Good to see in little old Maine.
Even small schools need big security
This blog, by Paul Ragusa, the editor of Security Systems News, offers thoughts, news, and a forum for discussion for those who work in and around the physical security industry, integrating and installing security systems in North America.


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CENTER VALLEY, Pa. – Registration is now open for the 2013 Diverse Literacies Conference presented by Penn State Lehigh Valley and the Lehigh Valley Writing Project. The conference will focus on "Nurturing Diverse Learners through Student-Centered Instruction," and takes place from 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Sept. 28 at Bear Creek Mountain Resort and Conference Center in Macungie, Pa.
Yetta Goodman, Regents Professor Emerita at the University of Arizona College of Education in the Department of Language, Reading and Culture, will deliver the keynote speech titled "Revaluing Readers, Teachers and Reading" on Sept. 28. She will also lead a pre-conference workshop on Sept. 27 titled "What Are Your Major Questions About How the Learner's Language Influences Learning to Read and Write in the Classroom?"
Goodman consults with education departments and speaks at conferences regarding issues of language, teaching and learning. Her many publications in support of students and teachers focus on early literacy, miscue analysis, and reading and writing processes. She has popularized the term "kidwatching" encouraging teachers to be professional observers of the language and learning of their students. She is a past president of National Council of Teachers of English, Center for Expansion of Language and Thinking, and has served on the International Reading Association Board of Directors. She is a past president and member of the Reading Hall of Fame. Her whole language philosophy and extensive writing is focused on classrooms, students and teachers.
The early registration fee, which will be accepted until Sept. 20, is $59. Late and on-site registration is $69. On-site registration is limited. The pre-conference dinner workshop is $50.
To download a full conference schedule and registration form, or to register online, visit www.diverseliteracies.org.


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Advice on how to make a good presentation
The audience's attention should be mostly focused on you, not on Power Point
Here is a few things you need to keep in mind when it comes to any presentation.
- PowerPoint presentation is never the core and it's far from being the most important aspect of your presentation.
- Your written presentation only serves as an aid, to support your presentation not to actually do it instead of you. It's a rookie mistake to use it for that reason and it's completely wrong.
- You are in charge of the presentation. If you need your audience to pay attention to the slide you are to present make them pay attention on it the proper way. Every other times, the audience should focus on you instead of your slides.


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The workshop "NLP in the Enterprise: Envisioining the next 10 years" (PLN-E) will be held in Valencia (Spain), as a satellite workshop of SEPLN 2010, on September 6-7, 2010.
PLN-E aims to become a meeting point among academic researchers and companies interested on technologies all along Natural Language Processing and other related technologies like text mining, information retrieval, opinion mining, etc.
We aim the submission of works that shows how NLP can help enterprises to solve problems, or develop new products and services. We expect 3 different types of works:
* (Academic/enterprise) Research works at early stages but with a clear orientation to enterprise applications (products/services)
* Works showing how a certain or several NLP technologies have been successfully used to solve a certain problem (such as developing a new product/service)
* Works from companies explaining certain problems that can not be solved with the actual state of the art on NLP.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the next topics:
A) New NLP Technologies with a clear Application in the Enterprise
1. Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis
2. Monolingual and Multilingual Information Systems
3. Voice Question-Answering Systems
4. Social Intelligent Systems
5. Plagiarism Detection and Systems for Detecting Confidential Information
6. Recommender Systems
7. Illicit contents/Crimes Detection Systems
B) New Application Domains
1. Social Media
2. Mobile Devices
3. Videoconsoles and TDT
4. Virtual Worlds and Massive Multiplayer Games
C) Business Aspects of NLP
1. New Business Models
2. Unsolved Problems
3. Scalability and Performance of NLP Technologies
4. Production Environments for NLP Systems
5. Real-World Datasets Descriptions
6. Demands and Market Needs
* Deadline [extended]: 28 June 2010
* Acceptance: 15 July 2010
* Camera due: 15 August 2010
* Workshop: 6/7 eptember 2010
* Jose Carlos Cortizo (BrainSins, Universidad Europea de Madrid) - contact person (email@example.com)
* Jose Maria Gomez (Optenet)
* Francisco Manuel Rangel (Corex)
* Victor Peinado (MAVIR)
* Hugo Zaragoza (Yahoo! Research)
* Francisco Manuel Carrero (BrainSins, Universidad Europea de Madrid)
* Rodrigo Agerri (Vicomtech Research Centre)
* Matxalen Alfaro (Sarenet)
* Claudio Baccigalupo (VLEX)
* Sergio Berna (ExperienceOn)
* Enric Castellon (Thera)
* Juan Manuel Cigarran (UNED, Consorcio MAVIR)
* Jesus Contreras (ISOCO)
* Javier Cuervo (Redepyme, EOI)
* Luis Ignacio Diaz (Acciona I+D)
* Jose Gregorio Escalada (Telefonica I+D)
* Diego Exposito (Answare Technologies)
* Angel Faus (VLEX)
* Jorge Garcia Betanzos (Sarenet)
* Ricardo Farreres (Thera)
* Anabel Fraga (UC3M/REUSE)
* Juan Antonio Garrido (i2factory)
* Galo Gimenez (HP)
* Francisco Gomez Molinero (Visual Tools)
* Jose Carlos Gonzalez (Daedalus)
* Carlos Gonzalez (ExperienceOn)
* Alberto Gragera (Tuenti)
* Francesc Grau (Conzentra)
* Carlos Lamas (T-Systems Iberia)
* Didac Lee (Inspirit, Spamina)
* Juan Llorens (UC3M/REUSE)
* Miguel Lucas (Acteo Soluciones)
* Diego Martin (Stratebi Business Solutions)
* Javier Martin (Loogic)
* Juan Carlos Martinez (Corex)
* Daniel Martinez (Indra Software Labs)
* Borja Monsalve (Social Gaming Platform)
* John Paul Moore (ATOS Research)
* Cesar de Pablo (UC3M, Consorcio MAVIR)
* Enrique Puertas (UEM, Consorcio MAVIR)
* Joaquin Rieta (TICSinergies)
* Federico Rodriguez (Stratebi Business Solutions)
* Miguel Angel Rodriguez (Telefonica I+D)
* Antonio Sanchez Valderrabanos (Bitext)
* Estela Saquete (UA, Consorcio MAVIR)
* Isabel Segura (UC3M, Consorcio MAVIR)
* Jim Shur (Strands)
* Jose Luis Suarez (Corex)
* Yaiza Temprado (Telefonica I+D)
* Marc Torrens (Strands)
* Paulo Villegas (Telefonica I+D)
* Pedro Vivancos (Vocali)
* David Zaragoza (Avanzis)
Deadline extension: Workshop NLP in the Enterprise: Envisioning the Next 10 Years
The workshop "NLP in the Enterprise: Envisioining the next 10 years" (PLN-E) will be held in Valencia (Spain), as a satellite workshop of SEPLN 2010, on September 6-7, 2010.
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The new NLP technologies sound very interesting. Do you know any possibility to get the presentations on those topics after the workshop?
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Library Management Tools
- Collection Development: Resources, Weeding, Inventory
- Funding
- Grants
- Policies
Collection Development
The purpose of collection development is to identify, evaluate, select, organize and maintain high-quality information resources, in a wide variety of formats, to meet the needs of our diverse communities for life-long learning, cultural enrichment, intellectual stimulation and recreation in support of the missions of our libraries. Libraries strive to create a body of readers, where all citizens are literate, techno-literate, productive and contribute to and enjoy a high quality of life.
The following resources are available to help libraries with planning strategies for funding, selecting, evaluating, preserving and sharing an outstanding collection.
- Wisconsin Public Library Standards – Section 6: Collections
- Collection Development Policies – see Materials Selection, Collection Development
- Collaborative Collection Development – A guide to facilitating collaborative initiatives (available through American Library Association)
- Wisconsin Valley Library System Collaborative Collection Development Plan (A sample plan)
- Inventory Procedures
Wisconsin Library Legislation and Funding, Law, Standards, Policies and Planning are resources and links to information on library legislation and funding issues, including the state budget. This page also includes library law, standards, polices and planning.
Grants help libraries provide valuable resources to support the changing needs in their communities. The library grants blog lists many wonderful grant opportunities for libraries. Some of the more common grant providers include:
Better World Books LEAP – Better World Books is providing grant opportunities to libraries to significantly impact local literacy efforts.
IMLS – The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) works at the national level and in coordination with state and local organizations to sustain heritage, culture, and knowledge; enhance learning and innovation; and support professional development for libraries and museums across the country.
Kresge Foundation – Grant programs are designed to support an organization's immediate capital needs and to build its capacity to raise private support for the future.
Libri Foundation – The Libri Foundation is a nationwide non-profit organization which donates new, quality, hardcover children's books to small, rural public libraries in the United States through its BOOKS FOR CHILDREN program. The Foundation awards grants twice a year.
LSTA – The Library Services Technology Act (LSTA) consists of a state grants program with funds distributed to states on a formula basis, and programs administered directly from the federal level by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
Mead Witter Foundation (private foundation) –
NEH – The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Small Grants to Libraries program brings traveling exhibitions and other types of humanities public programming to libraries across the country.
Target – Target stores provide direct support to K-12 schools, libraries, and nonprofit organizations to provide art experiences and foster early childhood reading.
USDA Rural Development – Financial programs supporting library development fees (land, plans, construction, remodeling, legal, etc.) equipment, and furniture. Program assistance is provided in many ways, including direct or guaranteed loans, grants, technical assistance, research and educational materials. more…
Wisconsin Public Library Policy Resources links to a sample policy manual for small libraries and the policies of more than 20 public libraries across Wisconsin as well as other useful information.
The Wisconsin Public Library Standards are a helpful tool provided by the Department of Public Instruction for planning and evaluating library services including governance and administration (Chapter 3), staffing (Chapter 4), collection and resources (Chapter 5), services (Chapter 6), and access and facilities (Chapter 7).
Library Policy Resources – WebJunction Examples of a variety of policies successfully implemented at libraries across the nation.


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Yeah, that's right. They want to ban that.
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I don't get it, it has been proven it leaves no psychological effects and it's a religious thing. It doesn't appear to be any worse than not circumcising in terms of health, but there are different studies that aim to state different things.The San Francisco referendum was written by a San Diego man, Matthew Hess, who has been pushing for a national ban for a decade. The success of the measure so far has focused a spotlight on his comic book series, Foreskin Man, which depicts evil doctors and "Monster Mohel," an Orthodox Jewish circumciser.
Hess declined a request for an interview, but he has defended his work on Twitter: "Those who cut innocent children will be drawn like the villains that they are."
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