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In 1960, Philip Bono, a Space Vehicle Design Specialist with the Boeing Airplane Company, envisioned a manned Mars spacecraft which would outwardly have resembled the X-20A Dyna-Soar single-seat orbital glider that the company was developing for the U.S. Air Force at the time. Bono's Mars glider would, however, have been much larger than Dyna-Soar - large enough to hold an eight-man crew. The flat-bellied Mars glider would have measured a whopping 125 feet long and 95 feet across its delta wings.
Bono, in common with many Mars exploration enthusiasts of the early 1960s, optimistically targeted his expedition for the favorable 1971 Earth-Mars transfer opportunity, when the energy required to reach Mars would be at a minimum. Prior to launch, the forward section of Bono's glider would have been lowered into place atop its rear section on the launch pad. The rear section would have been mounted atop a living module which would in turn have rested upon a short central booster rocket stage. Six booster rockets would have surrounded and hidden the living module and short booster. Fully assembled and ready for launch, Bono's massive Mars launch stack would have stood 248 feet tall and weighed in at 8.3 million pounds.
On May 3, 1971, seven plug-nozzle engines in the base of the booster rocket would have ignited and powered up to provide a total of 10 million pounds of thrust (that is, 1.5 million pounds each). The plug-nozzle engine design would have done without large engine bells, reducing engine cooling requirements and booster mass. During first-stage operation, four of the outer boosters would have supplied propellants to all seven engines. The rocket would have climbed to 200,000 feet, where it would have cast off the four expended boosters, revealing the living module with its attached small rocket stage and the short central rocket booster stage. In the event of trouble during ascent, the eight-man crew would have blasted free in the glider's forward section.
The three remaining engines would have continued firing with the two remaining outboard boosters supplying all of their propellants. At 352,000 feet, the two boosters would have expended their propellants and detached. The short central booster would have continued firing until it placed the glider, living module, and small rocket stage on a trans-Mars trajectory, then would also have detached.
The astronauts would have crawled through a tunnel in the glider's tail into the 45-foot-long, 18-foot-diameter living module and deployed an inflatable 50-foot parabolic antenna for radio communication with Earth. They would have pointed the glider's nose - which would have contained a nuclear reactor for generating electricity - at the Sun. This would have placed the living module in shadow, and would have shielded the small rocket stage from solar heating. During the 259-day Mars voyage, the crew would have breathed a 40% oxygen/60% helium air mix, so would have sounded like Donald Duck.
On January 17, 1972, at the end of a 259-day Earth-Mars transfer, the crew would have strapped into the glider and separated it from the living module. The living module would have automatically discarded a 20,700-pound capsule containing human waste, then would have fired 20,000-pound-thrust Pratt & Whitney-built Centaur engines on its small rocket stage to slow down and enter Mars orbit. The waste capsule - the conical object between the living module and the glider in the image directly above - would have been permitted to strike Mars. Needless to say, this peculiar concept would have had few fans among scientists; it would certainly have introduced massive amounts of Earth bacteria into the martian environment, greatly complicating studies of martian biology.
The glider, meanwhile, would have carried the eight-man crew directly into the martian atmosphere. Bono's description of the glider's aerodynamic performance at Mars was based on an estimated martian surface air pressure about 8% of Earth's; the true figure is, however, less than 1% of Earth's surface pressure. The glider would have deployed a drag parachute to reduce speed. In the actual martian atmosphere, a single parachute of the size pictured above would not have been adequate. In addition, the glider's wing design would not have provided sufficient lift to enable effective gliding.
The Mars glider's pilot would have steered toward a level stretch of ochre desert. At an altitude of 2000 feet - which Bono declared was "adequate to clear the highest mountain of Mars," an assertion now known to be wildly inaccurate - three landing engines would have fired to slow it to a hover. The glider would then have lowered to the surface in a great cloud of yellow dust and sand and touched down on skids with its nose aimed 15° above the horizon.
During the "Mars Operational Phase," the eight Mars explorers would have set up a 20-foot-diameter inflatable living dome and relocated the glider's nuclear reactor several thousand feet away so that it could safely generate electricity for their encampment. During their 479-day conjunction-class Mars stay, the crew would have explored and moved equipment using a 4000-pound truck-like rover.
Near the end of their stay on Mars, the astronauts would have reconfigured their glider for launch from Mars by moving its landing engines so that they could serve as ascent engines and by returning the reactor to its place on the glider's nose. The glider's forward portion would then have blasted off using the aft portion as its launch pad. Its delta wings would have provided lift, reducing the amount of propellant and the size of the engines needed to attain Mars orbit. In the actual martian atmosphere, the combination would not have been adequate for flight to Mars orbit.
The glider forward section would have docked tail-first with the orbiting living module. Several of the astronauts would have spacewalked to link glider and living module and detach the empty torus-shaped propellant tanks on the living module's small rocket stage. The tanks would have been retained in Mars orbit after the Mars orbit insertion maneuver emptied them so that they could serve as meteoroid shielding protecting the expedition's Earth-return propellants.
The crew would have used the living module rocket stage to depart Mars orbit on October 21, 1973. Four months later (January 24, 1974), as the home planet shimmered invitingly ahead, the crew would have boarded the glider forward section, cast off the nuclear reactor and living module (these would have burned up in Earth's atmosphere), reentered directly, and glided to a triumphant desert landing on skids.
"A Conceptual Design for a Manned Mars Vehicle," Philip Bono, Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, Vol. 7, pp. 25-42; paper presented at the Third Annual West Coast Meeting of the American Astronautical Society, Seattle, Washington, 4-5 August 1960.


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Bethesda, Md — The Marine Corps recently unveiled its new running suit to Marines assigned to the Wounded Warrior Regiment at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD. The new running suit will become standard issue in addition to what is currently provided and does not replace the existing green physical training uniform. The new running suits are compatible with other physical training uniform items, according to Marine Corps officials.
Marines from the Wounded Warrior Regiment, including those at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC, were the first to receive the new gear, according to guidance set by Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James T. Conway.
"[The running suits are] the first ones off the sewing machines, and we gave them to you," Col. Gregory Boyle, commanding officer of Wounded Warrior Regiment, said to the Wounded Warrior Regiment. "It demonstrates to the American people where the commandant's priority is."
According to Boyle, the Wounded Warrior Battalions at Camp Lejeune, NC, and Camp Pendleton, CA, will receive the gear next. Following that, Marines assigned to recruiting commands and recruit depots will be issued the running suit, followed by the remainder of the Marine Forces, according to Marine Corps Systems Command.
"All Marines will be in the new running suit as soon as possible; widespread distribution is set to begin by October 2008 with a mandatory possession date of around October 2009," says Lt. Col. A.J. Pasagian, program manager of Infantry Combat Equipment, Marine Corps Systems Command.
Retailed at $112, the running suit is the first newly released gear that Marines do not have to pay for out of pocket.


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- The plan capitalizes on an attractive market, fueled by technology disruptions and digitalization across industries
- Building on seamless integration of Aricent , Altran assumes undisputed leadership, leverages a multi-industry footprint and a premier global delivery model
- Clients to benefit from both differentiating high-value services and R&D cost optimization
- Altran as a new league player, with enhanced growth profile, best-in-class financials, and delivering superior shareholder value
The High Road, Altran 2022 - STRATEGIC HIGHLIGHTS
- Engineering and R&D services market to grow by c. 9% p.a. to €240bn by 2022 (2017: €155bn) with highly differentiated growth patterns across geographies and industries.
- Altran to focus on high-tech, high-growth industries following Aricent acquisition Altran to leverage its leadership position and accelerate growth in North America, strengthen its number 1 position in Europe and pursue selective expansion in Asia
- Altran to address differentiated clients' needs with distinct ER&D services models: mainstream engineering, high-value services and Industrialized GlobalShore©
The High Road, Altran 2022 - 2022 FINANCIAL TARGETS
- Revenues: c. € 4.0 billion at constant perimeter
- Operating margin: c. 14.5%
- Free cash Flow: c. 9% of revenues
- Leverage ratio: below 1.5x
- Earnings per share: x2 (vs. reported 2017 of € 0.68/share)
London, June 28, Altran, the global leader in Engineering and R&D services (ER&D), today unveiled The High Road, Altran 2022, a new five-year strategic plan to elevate its service model and expand its footprint in key industries and geographies to meet client demand and powerful technological disruptions. The plan was presented to investors at a Capital Markets Day held in London.
The High Road, Altran 2022 will capitalize on the projected growth of the ER&D services market of c.9% per year between 2017 and 2022, from €155 billion in 2017 to €240 billion in 2022 with highly differentiated growth patterns across geographies and industries.
The ER&D market transformation is driven by:
- an avalanche of technology disruptions, with unprecedented changes brought by digital, AI, connectivity and autonomisation.
- the accelerated growth rate in hi-tech areas such as software, life sciences, semiconductors and automotive, reaching double-digit levels in the US and Asia;
- the geographic mismatch in talent where currently, 60% of R&D budgets are spent in the US, Western Europe and Japan, while 20% of engineers graduate in these geographies;
- and the shift in spending focus to industrialized and high-value services.
With our new strategic plan, The High Road, Altran 2022, we will capitalize on the opportunities that lie ahead as client demand rapidly evolves. By expanding our footprint in fast-growing industries and geographies, and sharpening our service models, we will continue to elevate our growth profile while expanding our margins to new levels. Leveraging our first mover advantage, great talents and our extensive portfolio of services, we are positioned to become a preferred partner of the Top 1000 R&D global spenders with both high-value and R&D cost optimization services. We are delighted with the progress on the Aricent integration and client feedback; as we continue to execute we will deliver superior return to shareholders. Dominique Cerutti Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Altran Group
Three Strategic axes and four enablers for The High Road, Altran 2022
The High Road, Altran 2022 relies on three strategic axes:
- Best-of-breed synergetic service models: Clients are now differentiating between (i) activities which truly create a competitive advantage for clients and other processes as well as between (ii) activities which have an immediate impact on their performance and those that do not. Altran will need to elevate its models to match the specific needs of each of these segments. High-value services will drive growth across the Group's portfolio of recognized brands in attractive domains such as Cambridge Consultants and Synapse in innovative product developments, frog in design, or the Group's portfolio of World Class Centers and software frameworks. Industrialized GlobalShore© will leverage the Group's Global Delivery Centers to seize global opportunities, offering clients access to global talents pools and cost competitiveness by increasing the number of near- and offshore engineers to 25,000 and focusing on industrialization.
- Focus on high-growth industries: Software and Internet, Semiconductor and Electronics, Automotive, Life Sciences and Next Gen Communications will add € 750m of revenues organically between 2017 and 2022. As some of these sectors morph into fundamental technology blocks enabling next gen innovations such as autonomous cars, the internet of things or 5G, they create significant opportunities across industries.
- Geographic leadership: Demonstrate Altran's leadership position in North America by reaching Revenues of c.$ 1.2bn in the region in 2022, up from $ 800m in 2017, through the building of a leading-edge Software Product Engineering company and developing aggressively in the Automotive sector by leveraging synergies with Aricent; strengthen leading position in Europe with a focus on accelerated organic growth and will initiate a selective expansion program in Asia.
The Group has also highlighted four operational enablers supporting the execution of the strategic plan:
- Convergence program: a phased and focused program de-risking the execution of the strategy, enabling synergy capture and preparing the deployment of a common target operating model between Altran and Aricent. 100-day after closing, the assumptions underpinning the path to success have been confirmed in terms of leadership stability, commercial pipeline building, operations efficiency as well as synergies that will be delivered.
- Organization: a sharpened organization focusing on execution within two zones: Europe and North America, supported by global industry leaders and Group transversal delivery, transformation, technology and innovation teams.
- Leadership bench: Altran has cultivated, including with the acquisition of Aricent, a leadership bench of very diverse and seasoned executives with complementary skills, business cultures and large scale operation transformation experiences which is unique in our industry.
- Operational excellence: The Group has reconfirmed operational excellence as a top priority and a lever for material margin improvement. It has appointed several Group Senior Executives focusing on operations and execution. One of the immediate priority will be to execute a profit turnaround in Germany. Altran has reinforced its German team and committed both Group and external resources to complete this turnaround.
2022 financial objectives: focus on profitable growth and deleveraging
The deployment of The High Road, Altran 2022 strategic plan is expected to generate:
- Revenues: c. € 4.0 billion at constant perimeter
- Operating Margin: c. 14.5%
- Free cash Flow (incl. financing costs): c.9% of Revenues
- Leverage ratio: 1.5x
- Earnings per Share: x2 (vs. reported 2017 of € 0.68/share)
The Group will deploy its capital in a balanced way between shareholder value creation, reinvestment in the business, and taxes and financial commitments is anticipated:
- The Group's financial policy will prioritize deleveraging, with the objective to be below 2.5x in 2020 and below 1.5x in 2022. This will be achieved by allocating the Free Cash Flow of the company to the gradual repayment of debt while maintain a cash balance above € 250m and remunerating shareholders in line with past practices.
Strong drivers are supporting the expansion of the Group's Free Cash Flow: (i) the increase in the operating margin including through synergies and cost savings, a capital intensity around 2% of Revenues, while working capital requirements will be commensurate with growth; (ii) Financial costs are expected to decrease over time as debt is repaid, while the Aricent cash commitments will decrease each year and end in 2021, finally the tax structure will be revamped and the group should benefit from an improving tax environment.
From Ignition 2020 to The High Road 2022
Altran has reconfirmed that on a standalone basis the Group had been on a growth and margin improvement trajectory that would have led to the achievement of the targets of its previous plan, Altran 2020. Ignition.
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Comments Related to Tucker/Wenzel Feud (Hint: ©).
The feud has to do with their respective stances on intellectual property, but seems to have spilled over into very petty nitpickery of late. Tucker criticizes IP as monopolistic. Wenzel defends it as no different than private property. I think that economics* and Natural Law Theory are on Tucker's side and that Wenzel, like most anyone on at least one issue, has his blinders on. In a related debate between Kinsella and Wenzel, I see the same thing going on. My comments touch on this a little, but also briefly on the distinctions between Anti-IP Natural Law anarchists (Tucker, Kinsella, Hoppe), Pro-IP Natural Law anarchists (Rothbard and Wenzel), and certain minarcists (in this specific case, the Theonomist, Gary North, but for other minarchists that support IP, look to the Objectivist school of Ayn Rand, and for minarchists that despise IP, start with this wonderful article), as well as the similarity between Rothbard's "Pro-IP" views and certain later Rothbardians' "Anti-IP" views. This similarity resides in their agreement that the human will trumps contracts. So, technically, even Rothbard was Anti-IP where enforcement of copyrights as contracts amounted to "voluntary slavery."


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The Tasmanian Tiger or Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus), the world's largest carnivorous marsupial once common throughout Australia and Papua New Guinea, is believed by many to have been hunted to extinction by the early European settlers of Tasmania, its last stronghold. Others believe that the Tasmanian Tiger survived the attempts at eradication and continues to exist in isolated groups in Tasmania's rugged bushland.
Sightings of this shy and elusive creature persist to this day.
This web site is dedicated to the continuing survival of this, one of the rarest mammals on earth.
Dr. Buck Embergs recent PhD thesis, Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Martin Cash/James Lester Burke Narrative/Manuscript of 1870 is available from the University of Tasmania at: http://eprints.utas.edu.au/12437/1/Emberg_final_thesis.pdf


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"Saying 'It's not about the technology' is like telling [Yo-Yo] Ma that 'It's not about the cello.'"
—Dean Shareski, educator
In November at Tech Forum Texas 2011 in Austin, keynote speaker Dean Shareski reminded us that "It's not about the technology. Except when it IS about the technology."
Westlake High School's iPad pilot initiative is perhaps one of those cases—intended to explore how a new portable technology, in the hands of teachers and students, can affect teaching and learning. Will the iPad's portability, ability to be personalized, and functionality impact its effectiveness in a school setting? In answering this question, so much depends on the purposes for which it is intended; the pedagogy accompanying its use; training afforded to teachers; the methods for implementing the new technology; and the tech support provided. By conducting 1:1 implementation in a pilot format, we are focused on these issues while we move through the process, keeping a close eye on what is working and what the impacts of the project are.
The iPad pilot began with just an idea. In the spring of 2011, Westlake principal Linda Rawlings and district technology coordinator Carl Hooker envisioned what could happen if Eanes ISD adopted iPads for teachers and some of the student body. Out of that and a fall 2010 iPad pilot conducted via our library was born the Westlake Initiative for Innovation (or WIFI), a pilot project for teachers interested in using iPads in their classrooms. (See Checking Out the iPad: A Pilot Project Tests the Hot New Tech Tool in the November/December 2010 issue of Internet@Schools, in print and online.)
Getting Started
To participate in the pilot, teachers had to complete a Google form application, describing how they anticipated using iPads in the classroom. Since the majority of teachers submitting applications taught upperclassmen, a decision was made to issue iPads (using technology bonds funding) to all 11th and 12th graders, as well as a few other students. To prepare for the implementation, all teachers were issued iPads during the summer and attended in-service sessions to become more familiar with the tool's functionality. A trial rollout was done with a few students in the late summer to smooth out any kinks before actually "rolling out" the devices to the general student body as a whole. Also during the summer, a team of mentor teachers organized and planned fall in-service sessions around using various features of the iPad. And on Day 3 of school, in English classrooms across the building, iPads were issued to all of the students in the pilot. (Many of the details chronicling the common apps used, the method of distribution, and other technical details can be found on the blog for the pilot at http://eaneswifi.blogspot.com.)
To support the project from a hardware/software standpoint, an iPad help desk called the Juice Bar was set up in the library's pre-existing cafe space and staffed part time by student mentors and district technology staff. (Students selected the name for the Juice Bar through a poll conducted via QR codes read by their iPads. Juice Bar stands for getting creative juices flowing or getting a charge on the iPad.) We're redesigning the library cafe space to suit the creative purpose better, with more casual seating, bar seating at the window, and rolling mini-plexiglass idea boards. But it's far more than the library space that's being transformed, and one thing has quickly become obvious—the flexibility of the iPad as a tool has made it a go-to device for teachers and students.
The Impacts—Classroom
At the most basic level, schoolwide use of the iPad has improved productivity—primarily because teachers are finding ways to do things paperlessly more often—saving the district money and saving teachers time. Teachers scan an assignment or save packets and readings as PDFs, post them on their websites, and then students open the documents in a PDF reader on their iPads. Several apps, including Notarize and Neu.Annotate, allow students to write directly onto a PDF file, save it, and then email it back. Teachers are able to grade the document using the same apps and, again, email it to the student. Other methods of online transfer include the app WebDAV Navt, which the school can set up to access student and teacher network folders, shared network spaces, or tools such as eBackpack, Dropbox, etc.
More significantly from a learning standpoint, it has spurred creativity as well because of the camera, video camera, and the apps that can be used for creative storytelling, video production, etc. For example, our American Sign Language (ASL) teacher is finding the iPad an invaluable tool since so much of her curriculum is visual. Students can now film one another signing or practicing homework, film her signing a lesson to the class, and create projects using Keynote to embed video of signing. Teacher Barbara Vinson relates, "The movie apps, Keynote and iMovie, have made ASL projects come alive in the classroom. The use of the camera has allowed me to give immediate feedback to a student in the classroom. The students can videotape their presentations in the classroom and then critique themselves."
And because the camera is embedded in the device, projects that might have taken weeks in the past can be completed in a matter of days. Students in our French classes are using the iPad's camera to videotape skits, our Environmental Science class is using the camera and an app called LeafSnap to document plants, and our student announcements are being filmed once a week via the iPad. Music, band, and art students are finding it a creativity tool as well; in fact, the Westlake band performed a number strictly with iPad instruments at the first football game of the year. Many other apps afford creative opportunities, such as Zapd, which is a blogging app that the AP Human Geography students are using to write blogs on natural hazards. At our recent workshop, Dean Shareski shared with teachers how to use the Fotolr Studio HD app to edit photographs and add text to create one-word stories. iPads also afford a great deal of accessibility for students with special needs. There are a variety of apps that students can use, many free or inexpensive, such as Tap to Talk or Dragon Dictation. The iPad also allows students with special needs the equity of access that other, more difficult devices might have not.
Classroom use of the iPads can impact instructional pedagogy as well. Teachers are having to learn to rethink their classrooms. Some are employing "flipped classrooms," and others are realizing, as Westlake collaborative education teacher Matt Zemo commented in a recent planning meeting, that it's important to examine how tight (or engaging) their lessons are from one moment to the next because if students have the opportunity to be distracted, they might be. There are also all sorts of intangibles that are of interest, as IESE Business School–Barcelona assistant professor Evgeny Kaganer has pointed out about the university's iPad pilot: "How does this [tablet device] affect team-based learning, social culture, collaboration. The critical thing is that it should go beyond delivering course materials" (http://tinyurl.com/Kaganer; http://tinyurl.com/ipadsinschls).
Impacts in the Library
In the library specifically, there have been a variety of impacts as well. For one thing, since the library is a student hang-out we've been able to observe student use of the iPad in a more natural setting—seeing what uses they are naturally gravitating toward. As the project goes on, we've seen more and more purposeful use, naturally—as teachers use these tools more and more in their classrooms and as students discover new apps, download books, set up their study lists, create or edit movies, etc. With students working even more collaboratively, we've defined some areas of the library more for "play" and exploration and others more for traditional study, and we are trying to refurnish them accordingly. Part of observing the process is rethinking the form and function of a space when students are using more mobile devices. We can't think of the library as a storage space, but rather as an interactive creation center.
In terms of books, it's evident that some students are downloading their own books or accessing classics for free. So it's critical to add more ebook sources, roll out database apps, help students set up a "library" folder with all types of library sites on their own iPads, and constantly assess how the iPad pilot is affecting both our library space and our collection.
It'll be interesting to see how the ebook model plays out for our library. With the boom in YA literature, our print fiction collection still circulates heavily, but the nonfiction use varies more. We have some ebooks already embedded in our catalog that are used occasionally, but we are also getting ready to roll out OverDrive, which allows the library to build a downloadable ebook collection specifically for the school, with books that can be circulated via an iPad app (or downloaded to other devices) and then returned to the library electronically. (OverDrive, Inc. is one of the only players in this market, other than the free Project Gutenberg collection of out-of-copyright items, and the iPad app is a convenient way for us to provide books for students. However, OverDrive's pricing model is currently a little unwieldy for many schools, and its recent addition of Amazon titles for the Kindle platform has caused some privacy concerns. But like many ebook platforms, it is evolving frequently and may see changes that make it more affordable for schools.)
If ebooks can be embedded in the library catalog so students have one central location to access them, it makes for a more effective way to deliver them, whatever platform is used. For research purposes, databases such as EBSCO and Gale already have apps for the iPad, which makes these databases much more accessible to students. Students can also create a library folder on the iPad desktop, with the library's website and catalog as links, a move that allows them easy access to the library from wherever they are. Having 1:1 mobile devices in a school really challenges libraries to sort out their role in information literacy instruction. With these devices, libraries can embed themselves more into the curriculum and function as technical support as well.
Gathering More Info
In order to better understand how student use of the iPad is evolving, students, parents, and teachers on our Vision Committee are studying the pilot carefully. (Students from The University of Texas–Austin and Texas State University–San Marcos are conducting a study on the iPad pilot as well.) The first local survey results have just been collected and show very positive impacts thus far. Overall, 88% of the 854 students surveyed report that using the iPad has enhanced their learning experience, and 90% reported that the iPad had a somewhat positive or positive effect on their motivation to learn. Eighty-nine percent reported that the iPad had a positive or somewhat positive impact on their "desire to dig deeper into a subject."
Another thing our student survey is investigating is the distraction factor. Survey results are somewhat predictable—about half of students indicated they are somewhat distracted at school, but they are also indicating more distractions at home. But having a device with them in the classroom and at school every day is a teachable moment for our student body. Since we have a primarily college-bound population, many of our students will soon be sitting in college auditoriums filled with laptops and gadgets, and they will have to learn how to manage distractions. This pilot gives them an opportunity to learn to manage this kind of device as a learning tool in a somewhat smaller environment and with more guidance. As district technology coordinator Carl Hooker points out: "Students that have graduated from Westlake and move on to college say they felt prepared for the academia and the rigor by our system. However, they didn't feel prepared when it came to managing their digital lives. The technology becomes a distraction to them in college because we didn't really allow them to learn and focus within the same context. Giving students the ability to access information 24/7 is great, but giving them the ability to manage the distraction and utilize these tools for learning is even greater." As student Arnab Chatterjee pointed out at a recent meeting, "It's better students have this experience here rather than later affecting their opportunity to get or to keep a job."
While they do cost financially, iPads are proving to save the district money in a number of ways. Of course, paper costs have been substantially reduced. Hooker documents some of the savings in a recent blog post (http://eaneswifi.blogspot.com/2011/10/swiss-army-knife-of-education.html), noting savings on document cameras, video cameras, still cameras, and newer mobile laptop carts. Even apps themselves are much less expensive than software we might have purchased for the same function. They are also saving teacher time—valuable this year when our budgets have been reduced, and teachers are tasked with more responsibilities. Having a common device, and being able to access email, grades, student documents and create lessons all portably, has really improved the workflow for teachers across the campus.
One of the questions the district faced initially was regarding personalization. While the iPad can work somewhat effectively as part of a "cart" setup, the most powerful use of the tool is as a personal device. So as a district, we chose to allow both students and teachers to make the devices their own and rolled out a limited set of consistent agreed-upon apps across campus. (We are using Apple's Volume Purchase Program for additional apps that various departments or campuses need or want for their curriculum.) While this might pose a dilemma for some districts, it has created a tremendous sense of ownership as students and staff customize it for their own learning needs and classroom use.
Fostering a Climate of Exploration
Where is the pilot headed from here? We've been holding bimonthly after-school Appy hours in the Juice Bar to share apps with teachers (and students) and conducting biweekly "lunch 'n' learn" sessions for teachers to share. We've invited guest speaker Dean Shareski to conduct a workshop on digital storytelling that incorporated the iPad, and our Vision Committee is studying other schools that are also piloting iPads to see what we can learn from them. Decisions will be made this spring regarding extending the pilot to other grade levels, either at the high school or elsewhere in the district. Staff members at other district campuses are also starting to receive iPads, and some carts are being purchased at the elementary and middle school campuses. The district is assessing the need for parent workshops and more intensive teacher academies as well, as we begin to implement the devices on other campuses or grade levels.
One of the best things about the implementation of our particular pilot is how the teachers and students have been very much a part of the process—teachers planned and delivered the workshops before school; students, teachers, and parents who are members of the Vision Committee devised the survey and compiled it; students are serving alongside tech staff in the Juice Bar at the help desk; and there is a great deal of collaboration involved between staff and students in sharing apps. In general, the iPad lends itself to collaboration in ways that a laptop doesn't, which fosters a great deal of sharing. The pilot has also created an exploratory climate on campus—as teachers, students, and administrators learn at the same time how to use the iPad and what it will mean for their teaching and learning. Perhaps that is the best benefit of all. And we have to continue to ask, as Globally Connected Learning consultant Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano asks, what is the difference between uses of the iPad that just automate processes and those with more transformative uses, such as differentiating curriculum or allowing for new forms of creativity and communication (www.scoop.it/t/ipad-lessons/p/657884656/ipads-in-education-part-2). When we all, students and teachers alike, ask these questions and become learners, we become real partners in this thing called education.
Carolyn Foote is a librarian at Westlake High School in Austin, Texas, and a past presenter at Internet@Schools. She can be reached via her blog, Not So Distant Future (www.futura.edublogs.org), or her email (email@example.com).


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Everything on the Nmap command-line that isn't an option (or
option argument) is treated as a target host specification. The
simplest case is to specify a target IP address or hostname for scanning.
When a hostname is given as a target, it is
via the Domain Name System (DNS) to determine the IP address to scan. If the
name resolves to more than one IP address, only the first one will be
scanned. To make Nmap scan all the resolved addresses instead of only the
first one, use the --resolve-all option.
Sometimes you wish to scan a whole network of adjacent hosts. For
this, Nmap supports CIDR-style addressing. You can append
/<numbits> to an IP
address or hostname and Nmap will scan every IP address for which the
first <numbits> are the same as for the
reference IP or hostname given. For example,
192.168.10.0/24 would scan the 256 hosts
between 192.168.10.0
(binary: 11000000 10101000 00001010 00000000)
and 192.168.10.255
(binary: 11000000 10101000 00001010 11111111),
192.168.10.40/24 would scan exactly the same targets. Given
that the host
is at the IP address 188.8.131.52, the specification
scanme.nmap.org/16 would scan the 65,536 IP addresses
between 18.104.22.168 and 18.104.22.168. The smallest allowed value is
/0, which targets the whole Internet. The largest
value for IPv4 is /32, which scans just the named host or IP
address because all address bits are fixed. The largest value for IPv6 is
/128, which does the same thing.
11000000 10101000 00001010 00000000
11000000 10101000 00001010 11111111
CIDR notation is short but not always flexible enough. For example, you
might want to scan 192.168.0.0/16 but skip any IPs ending with .0 or
.255 because they may be used as subnet network and broadcast addresses. Nmap supports
this through octet range addressing. Rather than specify a normal IP
address, you can specify a comma-separated list of numbers or ranges
for each octet. For example, 192.168.0-255.1-254 will skip all
addresses in the range that end in .0 or .255, and 192.168.3-5,7.1 will
scan the four addresses 192.168.3.1, 192.168.4.1, 192.168.5.1, and
192.168.7.1. Either side of a range may be omitted; the default values
are 0 on the left and 255 on the right. Using - by
itself is the same as 0-255, but remember to use
0- in the first octet
so the target specification doesn't look like a command-line option.
Ranges need not be limited to the final octets: the specifier
0-255.0-255.13.37 will perform an Internet-wide scan for all IP
addresses ending in 13.37. This sort of broad sampling can be useful
for Internet surveys and research.
IPv6 addresses can be specified by their fully qualified IPv6
address or hostname or with CIDR notation for subnets. Octet ranges
aren't yet supported for IPv6.
IPv6 addresses with non-global scope need to have a zone ID suffix. On
Unix systems, this is a percent sign followed by an interface name; a
complete address might be fe80::a8bb:ccff:fedd:eeff%eth0.
On Windows, use an interface index number in place of an interface name:
fe80::a8bb:ccff:fedd:eeff%1. You can see a list of
interface indexes by running the command
netsh.exe interface ipv6 show interface.
Nmap accepts multiple host specifications on the command line,
and they don't need to be the same type. The command nmap
scanme.nmap.org 192.168.0.0/8 10.0.0,1,3-7.- does what
you would expect.
While targets are usually specified on the command lines, the following options are also available to control target selection:
-iL <inputfilename>
Reads target specifications from
<inputfilename>. Passing a huge
list of hosts is often awkward on the command line, yet it
is a common desire. For example, your DHCP server might
export a list of 10,000 current leases that you wish to
scan. Or maybe you want to scan all IP addresses
except for those to locate hosts using
unauthorized static IP addresses. Simply generate the list
of hosts to scan and pass that filename to Nmap as an
argument to the -iL option. Entries can be
in any of the formats accepted by Nmap on the command line
(IP address, hostname, CIDR, IPv6, or octet ranges). Each
entry must be separated by one or more spaces, tabs, or
newlines. You can specify a hyphen (-)
as the filename if you want Nmap to read hosts from standard
input rather than an actual file.
The input file may contain comments that start with
# and extend to the end of the line.
-iR <num hosts>
<num hosts>
For Internet-wide surveys
and other research, you may want to choose targets at
random. The <num hosts> argument
tells Nmap how many IPs to generate. Undesirable IPs such
as those in certain private, multicast, or unallocated
address ranges are automatically skipped. The argument 0
can be specified for a never-ending scan. Keep in mind that
some network administrators bristle at unauthorized scans of
their networks and may complain. Use this option at your
own risk! If you find yourself really bored one rainy
afternoon, try the command
nmap -Pn -sS -p 80 -iR 0 --open
to locate random web servers for browsing.
Specifies a comma-separated list of targets to be
excluded from the scan even if they are part of the overall
network range you specify. The list you pass in uses normal
Nmap syntax, so it can include hostnames, CIDR netblocks,
octet ranges, etc. This can be useful when the network you
wish to scan includes untouchable mission-critical servers,
systems that are known to react adversely to port scans,
or subnets administered by other people.
--excludefile <exclude_file>
This offers the same functionality as the --exclude
option, except that the excluded targets are provided in a
newline-, space-, or tab-delimited
<exclude_file> rather than on the
command line.
The exclude file may contain comments that start with
# and extend to the end of the line.


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CitationsCenters for Disease Control and Prevention
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The mother of Puerto Rican former boxer Hector "Macho" Camacho says he is to be taken off a life support machine, against the wishes of his eldest son, the BBC reports.
The three-time world champion, whose opponents included Sugar Ray Leonard, is clinically brain dead after being shot in the head, doctors say.
He suffered a heart attack after a drive-by shooting on Tuesday outside the capital, San Juan.
A final decision is expected later on whether to remove life support.
It is thought the former champion's mother, Maria Matias, has the final say in the matter.
Burglary conviction
Ms Matias said doctors should remove life support from the boxer after three of his sons had been given a chance to see him for a final time on Saturday.
"I lost my son three days ago. He's alive only because of a machine," she said.
But Camacho's eldest son, Hector Jr, was quoted as saying he wanted to keep his father alive.
"He's going to fight until the end. My father is a boxer," he said.
Camacho, 50, was sitting in a car outside a bar on Tuesday with a friend when it was fired on.
His friend, Adrian Mojica Moreno, was killed in the attack. Police say they do not know of any motives for the shooting.
Camacho fought some of the great names of boxing – Oscar de la Hoya, Sugar Ray Leonard and Felix Trinidad.
But in recent years he was convicted of burglary, found in possession of drugs and the subject of domestic abuse complaints from his former wife.
He continued to box, losing a fight to Saul Duran in May 2010, and had been discussing another bout scheduled for next year.
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DailyDirt: Turkey Turkey Turkey
from the urls-we-dig-up deptIt's almost Thanksgiving (here in the US at least), and the traditional meal for this holiday is the humble turkey. So here are a few links about turkeys that might be informative or entertaining if this is your first time cooking a large bird. Have a fun (and safe) Thanksgiving, everybody!
- Underwriters Laboratories (UL) continues to deny a safety certification for any turkey fryers because they're so dangerous if used incorrectly. UL even states that the risks are not worth a great-tasting bird. [url]
- Turkeys have been known to "attack" people when taunted. Wild turkeys make lousy house pets. [url]
- There are a lot of meaningless food labels for turkeys -- such as "all natural" or "minimally-processed." But if it's labelled "fresh" that actually means the turkey has not been cooled below 26 degrees Fahrenheit and has not been fully frozen. [url]
- Alton Brown has a Thanksgiving turkey recipe that promotes the benefits of brining. Alton can't guarantee that you won't overcook your turkey, but brining increases the odds that a cooked turkey won't turn out dry. [url]
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Top Ten Cloves: Things that are confusing to people about Taco Bell's "Steal a Base, Steal a Taco" baseball promotion
By J. Thomas Duffy
10. Can I steal other things from Taco Bell, along with the taco?
9. October 30th isn't good for me... Can I steal a taco on another day?
8. Are there any trans-fats in tacos?
7. I don't get it... Do we have to steal a baseball player first?
6. Is this part of the immigration problem? Are illegal immigrants stealing tacos?
5. I heard it on Fox Sports -- Does that mean only Republicans get the free tacos?
4. Only baseball players are getting the free tacos?
3. Do they allow substitutions? Can I get a burrito instead?
2. I don't like tacos... Can I steal something from McDonald's?
1. This isn't a fake offer, is it?... Something like that FEMA news conference thing?
Bonus, but Stolen, Links
Red Sox Player Earns You a Free Taco; World Series Stolen Base Means Everyone Can Get a Freebie
Coco and Clayton ring Taco's bell with dougout chat
Free Taco Promotion at Taco Bell
(Cross-posted at The Garlic.)
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OROVILLE — A June 25 trial date has been set for a Chico doctor and nurse charged in connection with the death of their 2-year-old adopted son.
The trial date was set Thursday in Butte County Superior Court for Dr. James Yhip and nurse Edelyn Yhip, according to District Attorney Mike Ramsey.
The Yhips are each charged with murder and child endangerment for the April 19 death of their son, Benjamin.
The prosecution alleges the Yhips abused the boy, leading to Benjamin dying of blunt force trauma to the head following an incident on April 18.
The defense has claimed Benjamin had long-term medical and behavior problems. They assert a doctor can show the boy died of a serious medical condition.
The Yhips remain out of custody on bail.


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x'mas fiesta(food)
This is how sometime boyz boyz when we meet on some occation we do just split our stomach to absorb anything that is directed into.
There is this thing we call pepper soup (as the name implies pepper soup with meet preferably goat in our local dialet we say (aponkye). View some of the shots
People normally attribute this kind of setup to some tribes and people where one buys food and opt for a lot of meat and fish, in this is a splendor and an occational kind of celebration to sacrifice a goat to fulfill ones desire of eating and merry.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The cold weather didn't stop hundreds of kids from heading to EverBank Field to learn from the football pros.
Former Jaguar Donovin Darius hosted Nothing's Out of Bounds, his annual holiday sports camp Saturday. Channel 4's Kumasi Aaron found Darius and the pros share the fundamentals of football.
"I think it's pretty fun. And it kind of motivates you to keep pushing that little bit," said Ryan Kopplin.
With guidance from the pros, some said they were already getting sharper.
"It makes your calves get bigger and it improves on your footwork," said William Guyton.
The camp was free and open to boys and girls ages nine to 14 on a first come, first serve basis.
For the more than 200 kids who participated, the camp isn't just about what they are learning on the field but what they're taking away off the field as well.
The theme of this year's camp is "paying it forward." Before the participants hit the field, Darius talked to the athletes about being champions in sports and in life.
"I have something. It could be money. It could be clothing, could be an item, could be encouragement, could be something, could be a smile, and I want to give it to somebody else to help them," said Darius.
That's the message Darius wanted each participant to leave with, and a message he holds dear to his heart.
"I was blessed to play with the Jaguars. I was blessed to have the affiliation and relationships and now I want to pay it forward and help these parents help these kids with a next level training day experience," said Darius.
It was a message echoed by Mayor Alvin Brown, who stepped in as a camp coach.
"This gives young people an opportunity to be challenged to get them focused, because this is about the game of life," said Brown.
Not only do the athletes leave with sharper skills, but some leave with a gift card to give away to someone else.
"It's really fun, I enjoy coming here. It's a blast," said Ryan Kopplin.


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I mean, THAT IS GOOD because it means that the 2010 garden is almost, sort of, soon to be planted and growing and making me tomatoes just as soon as I can turn, test, amend and plant the soil.
Though that process is a little less FUCK YEAH than the eating of tomatoes because it involves math skills and patience, which are two things you well know I don't possess in any meaningful quantity.
I summon all my inner resources to complete this task every year and then I take a break from math and patience for the remainder of the year. Which you should know in case you're expecting me to listen gracefully while you explain your hernia procedure or request my help in calculating more than the tip on a dinner bill where there's more than two digits at any point beyond April 2010.
Though, you probably won't get much help from me now, but you knew that. I have to conserve my mental capacities! The garden requires it!
You understand.
Along with the fava massacre, there were two other momentous garden occasions this weekend which I will share with you now.
Momentous Garden Occasion #2: Potato planting
Yes, friends, we have decided to continue the WT theme from our hick front yard to the garden in back by adopting the Tire Method for potato growing.
Meaning, rather than planting potatoes in rows and then hilling them with soil when they require it like normal people, we instead fill a tire with soil, plant potatoes in there, and then when the potatoes sprout vines and grow up through that soil, we put another tire on top and fill that with soil through which the vines can grow. And on and on until we have a tower of potatoes and dirt looming at the back of the yard, further confirming how WT we are.
As though there's been a lot of doubt on the subject.
To accentuate the WTness of it all, I've dragged over a sprinkler line from the nearest bed and plugged it down in the center of the tire to provide automatic irrigation to the potatoes so that my lazy ass doesn't have to go dragging the hose all out there to do it by hand.
Because, water by hand? Oh, that's not going to happen.
So you know, I planted 2 red creamers, 2 gold creamers and 3 or 4 banana fingerling potatoes in that tire you see there, so we'll see how this goes since I don't know anything about growing potatoes. Experiment alert!
Momentous Gardening Occasion #3: Rain barrels
See, long ago, my Montana friend (as I call her to Bubba as though she and I have been BFF for a decade) Nici at digthischick, installed rain barrels at her place and I thought it was the coolest thing. I also thought, "I must have this now", and then proceeded to totally forget about it sort of while we were busy having our porch redone, relandscaping the backyard, putting in a patio and growing 200+ lbs of tomatoes.
But the thought has been back there. Loitering about, making trouble. Until a few weeks ago, when I bit the bullet and ordered my barrel and the diverter thing that, in no way, actually "goes with it" even though it appears to on the website.
Whatever. We made it work.
And then, just as Funny Contractor was finishing up our porch and putting the finishing touches on its facade, the barrel showed up with a label taped to the side and proceeded to highlight the generous proportions of the new concrete pad area ever so elegantly.
As you know, we're a class household, so this went very well with the new posts and paint and un-WTness of it all.
Thankfully, last Sunday morning I decided to take my morning brew on a walk over to the gutter's downspout in the pre-determined Future Rain Barrel site to "inspect" its integrity and figure out where the F I was going to put in this diverter creature.
And, as so often happens when I "inspect" things with the final thought of including them in a project, the project launches into action and, before I know it, I've lost my mug of tea in the shuffle and instead have a pocket full of sockets (band name, anyone?) and the stepladder - which I'm balancing precariously on half a concrete step and some really soft downspout moistened mud.
And then, thankfully again, Bubba comes out to find out how come the house is so quiet and what the hell is that woman doing NOW, to find me teetering on the stepladder removing screws from the downspout bracing, with the parts for the diverter all splayed out on the back patio.
Being the smart, and incredibly wise and self-preserving, man that he is - he offers up his help and then gracefully guides me through the diverter installation - all the while letting me feel like I'm doing it all by my tin snip wielding self. Which I can assure you, I am not.
I need this man. He keeps me from wrecking the house.
And, before long, one of our fabulous neighbors - who likely smelled snipped tin on the wind - showed up in our backyard with a new book for me (love her) and a demand to know how we could be putting in rain barrels without calling her first. She is an expert on the subject after all, since she's installed two on her house already, with a third waiting in the wings.
So, with the combined knowledge of a rain barrel-installing expert, one very handy man and caffeinated but mostly useless blonde (moi) - the rain barrel managed to get installed. And, because my fabulous neighbors continue on their quest to sainthood - I also received a second rain barrel for the water collecting efforts.
Because they had "an extra they weren't going to use". Again, so awesome these two.
I do hope they know we don't even have a will into which we could write them. *Eek*
Oh, and while this isn't quite so Momentous but rather just helpful - for any of you out there considering the repurposing of otherwise useless yard materials into an auto-filling birdbath, let me suggest an alternative sealing method to silicone gel: inner-tube scraps.
See, I'd had the birdbath all auto-filling since that weekend when I installed it, and I noticed that some water was leaking through the silicone seal into the surrounding landscaping.
Well, to be truthful, I just thought the dog was drinking the water for a while and chose to ignore the whole thing, but then I realized that was impossible because she hadn't been out there long enough to do that kind of drinking.
She's no boozer, this dog.
Anyway, when I came to terms with the fact that the seal was leaking and that, in order to fix it, I'd have to dismantle the whole thing, dry it out and take another go at it with the liquid sealant, I decided I needed a different approach.
So, in my truest form, I went out to the garage on the hunt for something like a rubber gasket. Except, we didn't have any rubber gaskets of proper size. And YOU KNOW I'm not pedaling off to the hardware store if I don't have to. So, instead I wandered the garage looking for something that fit the description of: thin rubber material, easily cut to size, preferably not the most important piece of whatever it lived in at that moment.
And, of course, my eyes fell on the ever useful busted bike inner-tubes just hanging around in the garage.
So - if you want to make this birdbath all watertight and what not - and you happen to have some busted inner-tubes laying about doing nothing - take your cutting device of choice, slice out 2, 2-3" chunks, open them up by slicing down one side of them vertically, then cut an X in each of them smaller than the diameter of your sprinkler nozzle spout (without the nozzle attached), slide one down over the nozzle spout and then push that through the hole you made in your birdbath bowl. Then slide the other over your nozzle (so that you have a layer of rubber below the spout and bowl and above the bowl and below the spout) and screw on the nozzle attachment.
Basically, you treat these two flat pieces of rubber inner-tube like ghetto gaskets that, when cinched down with the sprinkler nozzle, create a waterproof seal.
Not that the dog's going to stop drinking out of the fountain, but you get what I mean.
Enjoy all of that.


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Josh Pence starred in the most decorated American film of 2010, and nobody saw his face. His newest role should offer quite bit more exposure.
Pence, who served as a stand-in for Tyler Winklvoss--only to have Armie Hammer's face superimposed over his own in "The Social Network"--will play the young Ra's Al Ghul in "The Dark Knight Rises," according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The Al Ghul clan figures to play a prominent role in final chapter of Christopher Nolan's "Dark Knight" trilogy. Liam Neeson played him in the original, but his younger self will appear in flashbacks in the film, and there are rumors that Marion Cotillard will be playing his daughter Thalia, Batman's erstwhile mentor who becomes a foe.
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Christian Bale, Gary Oldman and Morgan Freeman are all returning for "Dark Knight Rises." They'll be joined by Anne Hathaway as Catwoman, Tom Hardy as Bane, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Juno Temple playing as yet unidentified roles.
"The Dark Knight Rises" July 20, 2012.


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DescriptionBuild-a-lot 3: Passport to Europe is another entry in the casual city-building series by HipSoft. As in the previous titles, the main objective is to construct a variety of buildings, but this time the action takes place on Europe. The main screen shows the top view of a terrain, with vacant lots and grayed-out buildings. On the campaign mode, the player goes from city to city all over the continent, where every place has a set of goals that must be accomplished before time runs out. The time meter at the top left has a notch, and if the level is completed before reaching it the player receives an efficiency award.
Buildings are erected by clicking on a lot and selecting one of the building options at the blue tab bottom of the screen. The blueprints tab shows all the available buildings, organized by function (houses, services, industrial buildings and landmarks). As the game progresses, more buildings blueprints become available to purchase. Each tab option shows the required number of materials and workers to start construction. After completing it, buildings can be upgraded up to three times, painted and landscaped (only available when the garden center is built), something the affects the value of the proprieties, and their effect on the neighborhood. Ruined places and industrial buildings have a negative effect on the curb appeal, decreasing the money influx.
All these tasks also require material and workers. Extra workers can be hired at the yellow tab, and more material can be purchased at the red tab. Buildings generate rent revenue every minute. Edifices and lots can be bought and sold. When buying, the player has an option to haggle. The buildings are afflicted by random disasters, like fire, mechanical failures, vandalism and other grievances. While on this status, they don't generate cash until the problem is solved by clicking on a button to summon firemen, workers, police cars and similar help.
In the casual mode, the player can choose one of the previously visited cities and play without a timer, trying to achieve a high score.
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