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Great learning happens every day. Despite being put on a "financial starvation diet" school achievement is soaring, according to Mockler's research. Click here to see more of Mockler's findings.
31 to 82.2% = increase of high-scoring schools on the state's Academic Performance Index from 1999 to 2011 (700 to 1000).
63% = increase in students reading "proficient" and "advanced" from 2003-2012.
46% = increase in students "proficient" and "advanced" in math from 2003-2012.
63% = increase in English proficiency levels for English Learners from 2002 to 2012.
John Mockler
You wouldn't know it from reading the paper or watching the news, but California's schools are succeeding. Schools are making strong academic gains despite a fiscal starvation diet. And school budget expert John Mockler has the data to prove it.
"Every year I trundle around making speeches about this and people say it can't be true," says Mockler, who recently released a report titled "California's K-12 Public Schools: Great Results With Diminishing Resources."
Mockler crafted the state's constitutional minimum-funding guarantee for schools (Proposition 98) and has held the positions of state secretary of education, executive director of the State Board of Education, and aide to former Assembly Speaker Willie Brown. From his Sacramento outpost, Mockler shared data, his outlook on public schools and wry sense of humor with the California Educator in an interview that focused on his new report showing that schools are anything but failing.
Why is there so much talk about failing public schools in California?
I attribute this to the consistent drivel of the CSSI — or the California Schools Suck Industry, which has profited by declaring that public education students are not making sufficient academic gains and that public schools suck. You have people from business roundtables and chambers and big foundations criticizing public schools who are in favor of privatization. They are wealthy and successful people whose anger about schools borders on hysteria, even though most of these people have kids in private school. They say certain things are "facts" when there is no evidence to support what they have to say. For example, they'll say massive teacher evaluation results in better teacher instruction, or strong teachers unions impede achievement. But there is no evidence to support any of these things, and the states with the weakest teachers unions have poor achievement. They say they won't give schools more money until achievement goes up. And then achievement goes up and they are still not writing any checks — and still making a lot of noises that schools are bad.
"They" say have data…
Studies, like Getting Down to Facts and a multitude of other so-called studies, have pronounced California schools to be failures without looking at the data. Nobody looks at achievement tests in California except to deprecate schools. They look at National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) scores, even though these data sets are not aligned to our grade level academic content standards. In California, more than 60 percent of our eighth-grade students take algebra; NAEP does not test algebra in eighth-grade math tests. There are other problems when you compare us to different states. For example, California tests English learners the first year they are in school; Texas tests English learners after they've been in school three years. Yet even NAEP shows rapid academic growth over time. This is especially true in fourth- and eighth-grade math. Here, African American and Latino students' academic growth is at a rate faster than all students.
How are schools succeeding?
Judged by the state's Academic Performance Index, California's public schools have been on a steady path of academic growth for 10 years. All groups of students are increasing their achievement, and traditionally lower-achieving students are doing so at a faster pace. Latinos, African Americans and educationally disadvantaged students have an improvement rate nearly three times that of white students. All of the 10 deciles have increased, but initially low-performing schools have grown the fastest. Our lowest-performing schools in 2011 scored higher than our average schools in 1999.
Why haven't the media reported that schools are succeeding?
Not putting out information about the positive things in schools is a dereliction of duty by the media. If a kid goes out and steals a lunch, you're going to hear about that. But how about a headline saying 93 percent of students went to school today and got along just fine? You're not going to hear about that. Education coverage in the media seldom lapses into logic; good news doesn't sell.
If schools are succeeding, is the status quo OK?
No. Our schools can and should be better than they are today. There is a lot they need to do. Most but not all of those things cost money. Achievement for traditionally underachieving students started quite low and is still not high enough. The last nine years of rapid achievement increases provide strong evidence of major change for these students. We all want more for our children, yet we have essentially eliminated art, music, counseling, librarians, etc. But we are doing OK on measurable tests. Unfortunately, it's not in-depth learning, which is what we really want for our kids.
What about finances?
Our schools in California are substantially under-resourced in funding and personnel compared to our fellow states. The typical school in America has 30 percent more teachers and 30 percent more school administrators per student than schools in California. The average high school in America has 77 percent more teachers per student than the average California high school. Let's not even talk about counselors or librarians. So, put another way, if California education was a baseball team, we would be playing the other 49 states with six players and they would have nine. Who do you think would win?
Who funds your research?
Nobody. I do it by myself, and sometimes I make speeches and get funding for that. Nobody ever gave me a grant and said "Do this." A 14-year-old could take data and do in one hour on a computer what takes me three days to do, since I use an adding machine.
What would you like to say to teachers?
As a group they are magnificent. I haven't met them all, but I can see that from data. Considering the substantial reduction in real resources over the past decades, it is astonishing how dedicated California's educators are including teachers, administrators, nurses and cafeteria workers. You might say they are a six-person baseball team kicking the bejesus out of other teams playing with nine or more players.
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Borussia Dortmund will attempt to re-sign Manchester United midfielder Shinji Kagawa in January, according to the London Metro.
The Bundesliga giants have made the 24-year-old their top target when the transfer window reopens in the New Year, and will look to negotiate on the £15million valuation the Premier League champions have slapped on the player's head.
Kagawa left Dortmund to move to Old Trafford last summer, after helping Jurgen Klopp's side to back-to-back domestic titles, though his fitness and form has suffered a severe dip during the past 12 months in England.
After a promising start to his Manchester United career, the Japanese international is now struggling to hold down a regular first-team place, with David Moyes using the playmaker sparingly, and often out of his favoured position in 2013/14.
Last week, Kagawa told reporters he was "fighting for his life" at Old Trafford, but it is thought that failure to cement his place in the side by the end of the year will result in the attacking midfielder pushing for a January exit.
Dortmund fans have already launched 'free Shinji' and 'bring back Kagawa' campaigns, in an attempt to rescue the Asian superstar from his Premier League nightmare.
However, the fact he is under contract with Manchester United until 2016 means that the club will not be forced into a cut-price sale of the underachieving star, but could be willing to accept offers of £10million or higher.

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Portland Sate University's Institute for Sustainable Solutions and Research & Strategic Partnerships cosponsored this week a workshop with The National Academy of Sciences. The workshop focused on city-level approaches to climate change that brought city and government officials from around the country and the globe to Portland to share best practices and discuss new possibilities.
The two-day event, "Pathways to Urban Sustainability Workshop: A Focus on the Portland Region," was designed to use examples of climate-related policies and practices from Portland and the Cascadia region as a platform for discussing the future of urban sustainability. Participants were in attendance from cities including London, Houston and North Carolina's Research Triangle.
Throughout the workshop panels and presentations addressed topics such as sustainable development in Portland and how it has been leveraged by public and private sectors; integrating research into urban sustainability strategies; the role of federal agencies in promoting research and urban policy; and funding strategies for new sustainability initiatives.
Oregon Rep. Earl Blumenauer, who kicked off the workshop with remarks Tuesday morning, called the experts in attendance "the A-Team."
"I am pleased that you've joined us here in Portland for this conversation," Blumenauer said.
Blumenauer requested city leaders not give up on the federal government when it comes to support for urban sustainability, despite a lack of progress on the federal level to address climate change.
But the theme of much of the workshop sessions was that cities are uniquely positioned to make strides toward reducing carbon emissions and improving sustainability within their boundaries.
Jared Blumenfeld, EPA Regional Administrator for Region 9, which includes California, Nevada, Arizona and Hawaii, said that innovative policies and practices from cities can bubble up to the state level, and then eventually to the federal level. For many cities implementing alternative transportation and waste-reduction policies isn't just about reducing emissions, it's about preserving the livability and prosperity for citizens.
"The closer to the ground you are, the less the environment is politicized," he said.
PSU faculty played a prominent role on many of the panels and Jon Fink, PSU's Vice President of Research and Strategic Partnerships and co-moderator for the workshop, promoted the use of university research to solve urban sustainability problems. Portland State researchers have taken on city issues from watershed restoration to recycling programs to transportation behavior.
John Cleveland, founder of the Innovation Network for Communities, urged workshop attendees to communicate and work on standardizing sustainable practices that work at the city level so that other cities can adopt them.
"You can't solve the entire carbon problem with the cities that are working on it," Cleveland said. "What we need is standardization."


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STMicroelectronics and Alango to Make Automotive Applications More Entertaining
ST to integrate Alango's echo cancellation and noise reduction technologies into advanced Bluetooth silicon solutions for applications such as hands-free kits
May 19, 2010, 06:00 ET
GENEVA and TIRAT CARMEL, Israel, May 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), one of the world's leading chip makers for automotive solutions, and Alango Technologies Ltd, a leading developer and licensor of front-end voice enhancement technologies, today announced a licensing agreement in which ST will integrate Alango's leading software technologies into ST's advanced Bluetooth chips for car infotainment applications, such as hands-free kits. Automotive analysts currently forecast that approximately 45% of new cars will be equipped with hands-free equipment by 2012.
Automotive OEMs increasingly require turn-key car infotainment platforms that integrate hardware, Bluetooth software and voice-quality-enhancement algorithms. The integration of Alango's Voice Communication Package (VCP) into ST's leading-edge automotive chips will enable ST to offer single-combo platforms, leading to benefits such as lower bill-of-materials costs and smaller supply chains for automotive customers. The Alango VCP includes acoustic echo cancellation, single- and dual-microphone noise reduction, automatic gain control and other valuable and sound-improving technologies.
The Alango VCP technologies are available for immediate integration into ST's automotive infotainment portfolio, including the STA2500D Bluetooth IC and the company's leading-edge Cartesio application processor for navigation applications.
"Alango has a proven package of best-in-class and highly efficient voice-enhancement technologies," said Fabio Marchio, General Manager, Automotive Infotainment Division, Automotive Product Group, STMicroelectronics. "These technologies will further enhance ST's automotive products and our customers will benefit from the combined 'one-stop-solution' and unified customer support."
"We are very pleased that STMicroelectronics has chosen our Voice Communication Package for its integrated products," commented Alexander Goldin, CEO of Alango Technologies. "We'll be happy to give our full support to ST and its customers to enable car infotainment products with sharply increased sound clarity."
About STMicroelectronics
STMicroelectronics is a global leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications with innovative semiconductor solutions. ST aims to be the undisputed leader in multimedia convergence and power applications leveraging its vast array of technologies, design expertise and combination of intellectual property portfolio, strategic partnerships and manufacturing strength. In 2009, the Company's net revenues were $8.51 billion. Further information on ST can be found at www.st.com.
About Alango Technologies
Alango Technologies Ltd. is a leading developer and licensor of front-end DSP technologies for voice communication and mobile audio. Alango world-wide customers include companies of different scale covering a wide product range. Alango technologies can be found in mobile phones, hands-free car kits, Bluetooth headsets, audio conferencing systems, intercoms, assistive listening devices, security and military applications. Further information on Alango can be found on www.alango.com.
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Vancouver Dave needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 25 designs submitted by 7 freelance designers.
The Grape Escape Wineworks
We're a cool little wine-making shop in one of Vancouver's hippest shopping districts: Commercial Drive. The new owners love the plane/bottle concept and the marketing imagery it evokes as each month we jet off to explore a new wine-growing region. However, the current logo has a definite 'fighter' aspect to it that is not at all what we're about. We envision something that more reflects a small turbo-prop plane used to explore the far reaches of the world...or maybe a 'Casablanca'-esque airliner from a time when air travel was a very special event with fine food served on real china.
Shoppers love The Drive for its endless selection of cafes and ethnic restaurants (Italy and Portugal are well represented), delis, owner-operated boutiques, vegetable stands and specialty stores. Not at all touristy, The Drive is for locals who can be price-conscious but more importantly they are environmentally sensitive, prefer to shop locally, have a strong belief in community and love Canada's west coast. Specifically, our customers range from wine aficionados building up their wine cellars to working folk who just want a budget table wine. Our industry's customers tend to be over forty however TGEW's customers skew much younger (over thirty) because of The Drive and also our efforts to promote the positive environmental impact we can help people make in their lives. The quality of the finished wine is excellent and the presentation (with labels and shrink tops) is as good as any store bought; our customers are proud to share the fruits of their labour.
Today we're seeking a redo of the plane/bottle logo as a vector drawing (AI) on a transparent background.
Specifically the wings need to be swept back in a less aggressive fashion. We don't mind the current bottle. We could envision the plane including the tail, landing gear, propeller engines, or other details, but we also don't want it to be too cluttered. We like the sort-of 'graphic novel' feeling of the current version.
We've included the existing artwork for reference. We'll likely be using the new colours and background shown in the "TGEW-demo.png" example. In the example, the plane is being seen from below in a fairly steep take-off...feel free to suggest adjusting the angle and view on the plane a bit. Keep it fun with maybe a bit of "Indiana Jones".
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Just over a week after he released the controversial video for "Tunnel Vision," Justin Timberlake took to YouTube on Friday to premiere "Take Back the Night," the lead single from his upcoming album.
A slinky disco-soul cut reminiscent of "Off the Wall"-era Michael Jackson, "Take Back the Night" is the first sample from "The 20/20 Experience -- 2 of 2," Timberlake's sequel to this year's "The 20/20 Experience," which Billboard recently identified as the year's biggest-selling album so far.
The new disc, due out Sept. 30, contains 11 new songs, including "a special surprise from Justin," according to a statement.
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"I originally recorded a massive amount of material and decided on the 20 tracks that I wanted on the album over a year ago," Timberlake said in the statement. "But when I was mixing and going through all of the songs there were so many that I loved -- I couldn't resist... I had to throw in something extra on the second half."
Though its current place-holder video contains none of the nudity that got "Tunnel Vision" banned from (and then reinstated by) YouTube, "Take Back the Night" hasn't escaped criticism.
Early Saturday, RadarOnline reported that the anti-sexual-violence foundation with which Timberlake's song shares a name sent the singer "a letter Friday from our legal counsel saying, 'You used our name without our permission.' "
"Everyone at Take Back the Night is really shocked, because normally, we get asked when people want to use the name," Radar quoted the group's Katherine Koestner as saying. "Normally entities as large as Justin Timberlake do very kind and thoughtful things to support our cause."
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According to the website, one of Timberlake's representatives apologized and said the singer wasn't familiar with the Take Back the Night organization before he wrote the song.
We'll leave that matter to Koestner and her associates to sort out. But what bums out Pop & Hiss is that "Take Back the Night" sounds like a weak outtake from "The 20/20 Experience"; it's plush but not luxurious, funky but not propulsive. And, as is becoming Timberlake's wont, it goes on for too long.
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Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen (US - BD RA)
Gabe checks out a sequel to a TV series based on a Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury...
Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen is a pretty confusing proposition for those of us unfamiliar with its convoluted media history. I like to consider myself at least somewhat abreast of the basics of martial arts cinema, but I was still confused when I approached the back-story on imdb.com and wikipedia. Apparently Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury (directed by Lo Wei, released in 1972) inspired a whole slew of official sequels and remakes, including New Fist of Fury (also directed by Wei, 1976), Fist of Legend (staring Jet Li, directed by Gordon Chan and Yuen Woo-ping, 1994), and a television series staring Donnie Yen (one of six such series). This film is marked as a sequel to the television series, which, according to its official synopsis, ended the same way Lee's film did, with the character Chen Zhen being presumably killed in a hail of Japanese bullets following his brutal vengeance on the men that killed his master (in Fist of Legend Zhen's death is implicitly faked). The story picks up soon after as the apparently still living Zhen joins other Chinese soldiers to aide the Allies in Europe during the first World War. Zhen secretly returns to China after the war, taking on the identity of a fallen comrade, and joins the anti-Japanese underground. Soon enough, Zhen is fighting the oncoming second Sino-Japanese War as a Robin Hood/Zorro/Batman-like masked champion of the people. Though I assume that fans versed in the character and television series will come away from the film with a much more complete understanding of the events (for better or worse), us newbies can still find satisfaction in that this particular telling works fine as a standalone. There are some callbacks to the end of Fist of Fury (I assume, having not seen the series), but these are replayed with enough clarity to appear as flashbacks rather than callbacks.
The film opens with a Saving Private Ryan WWI battle sequence by way of John Woo and Tsui Hark that doesn't quite add up to the breathless thing of beauty it means to, but does promise something more primal and unique from both director Andrew Lau and star Donnie Yen. Soon after it's clear Legend of the Fist is actually just a reasonably potent mix of Lau's (when did he stop going by Andy?) usual tragic gangster shtick, with a bit of Yen's stoic hero shtick mixed in for flavour (not that Yen would stand out at all in any other Lau flick). There's nothing inherently wrong with this, but I've personally found myself fatigued by such things for quite some time now. Visually there are elements worth celebrating. The period setting is colourfully utilized, and adds quite a bit of colourful flare, even teetering into Dick Tracy territory at its most joyful moments. But more often than not the droning, weak plot is just a limp bathroom break stuck between stunning action sequences. Despite some strong performances (Shu Qi and Anthony Wong both do very much with very little) I found it maintaining interest in the story positively exhausting. Lau and his screenwriters Cheung Chi-shing and Gordon Chan (also producer) do best with the story's most pulpy bits, but never find a balance between these, the continuing tale of Chen Zhen, and the historical framing. Most of the superhero and hardcore gangland stuff is delegated to all too brief montage, leaving merely the taste of something great that never quite comes to fruition. There's a strange mix of too many cool and exciting elements here, and all the kung-fu infused war, gangster and superhero aspects sadly end up canceling each other out.
I've found myself pretty immune to Lau's charms in the past, and mark myself as likely the only person alive that didn't really like any of the Infernal Affairs movies, but I can't deny that the former Won Kar-Wai, Ringo Lam and Sammo Hung cinematographer seems incapable of making an unattractive movie. I'd even hazard to assume this particularly grand action spectacle is his best looking flick to date. The production design, cinematography and use of colour all go a long way to cover up a general lack of intriguing goings-on. The opening war sequence is quite silly, but almost impossible to resist, and this has everything to do with the way Lau shoots it. The same goes for the fight sequences, which aren't game changers, but slick, exciting, easy to discern mini-epics. Everything is also effectively brutal, and this tends to work best when Lau frames it in a slightly over-stylized comic book manner. Again, the idea of a serious pre-WWII, Shanghai-centric action film spiked with pulpy superhero traits sounds exciting, like a Chinese prequel to The Rocketeer, but Lau sits listlessly between these elements for too much of the film, and never fully commits to anything for more than a single sequence. The final act is mostly effective in its violent melodrama, in the same way all John Woo's American films are not, and the final battles are almost worthy of both Bruce Lee/Lo Wei's Fist of Fury and Gordon Chan/Yuen Woo-Ping's Fist of Legend, even if they're occasionally a bit too derivative.
Following some iffy early releases Well Go USA keeps their streak of solid 1080p transfers flowing with what might be their strongest release yet. The image is often quite clean, and varies throughout depending on the intended effect. The war sequence is chunk of dark, grainy, Spielberg influenced blue and black, with sharp, almost surreal warm highlights around the German uniforms, and skin tones. Details here are sharper, especially in close-up, and minute contrasts are incredibly crisp. The 'roaring '20s' stuff is colourful, warm, clean and soft, with blued blacks, and beautiful colour separation. These scenes aren't the sharpest things I've ever seen, but the vibrancy of the hues and complexity of the frame makes for a definitively DVD-unfriendly image. The war scenes do feature some minor edge enhancement, but nothing matching the occasionally grotesquery of the Ip Man disc, while the post-war scenes can suffer a bit of colour bleeding, occasionally out of place grain, and blocking blends in the deeper blacks. I also noticed some minor blurring and colour misalignment on the post-war scenes, but I'm thinking these are symptoms of the anamorphic lens effects, rather than transfer artefacts.
As has become the norm now for Well Go USA releases (thank goodness), this Blu-ray comes fitted with four audio track possibilities – DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 Mandarin, English, and stereo Mandarin and English. The system also defaults to the DTS-HD MA Mandarin, which is nice, because then you don't have to waste precious seconds avoiding the terrible English dub, or the dull stereo mix. As stated above, this release opens big with a war sequence, and the sound mix is worthy of Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down (in terms of aural business, not necessarily mix quality). All five channels erupt with the busywork of firing guns, ricocheting bullets, and exploding buildings. Here the basics of dialogue and smaller, incidental effects. The quieter post-war scenes feature an effective share of strong ambience mostly in the form of music during the club sequences. City streets, however, do remain strangely silent for the most part. The fight scenes feature bodies flying through screen and crashing into off-stage props, and a building blows up about ever 20 minutes to extreme LFE effect. During the montage at the center of the film the music and effects seem to be at battle, sometimes entirely outweighing one another at seemingly random intervals, and the lip-sync on some of the Japanese actors is terrible. I'd be curious to know if these problems exist in the original mix or only here.
Disc one extras begin with two behind the scenes featurettes. The first, 'Warzone' (8:00, SD), follows the cast and crew as they shoot the opening war sequence, while the second, Casablanca (9:30, SD), is shot around the Shanghai soundstages. This is raw footage, with little context, but it does feature subtitles, and is impressive in revealing how much of the action and décor was shot without digital enhancement. Yuen, ever the renaissance man, appears to actually be playing his own piano part. He also hurts himself pretty badly right after announcing he's going to at one point, which I found kind of funny. This disc also features the US and International trailers, along with trailers for other Well Go USA titles. Disc two, which is a standard DVD, and which only comes with this collector's edition release, continues with six more behind the scenes featurettes – 'Tianjin Street' (5:30), 'Market Place' (5:30), 'Newspaper Office' (3:20), 'Japanese Headquarters' (3:00), 'Student Movement' (3:50) and 'Hongkou Dojo' (11:00). Besides further proof that Yuen is a physically amazing specimen (he did the running car jump without a line or trampoline), it shows us that he actually had a sizable role as director himself. Yuen isn't only directing the action choreography, he's actually directing actors, and occasionally telling Lau what's what. Things are wrapped up with a rather long series of cast and crew interviews, including director Andrew Lau (16:00), co-writer/producer Gordon Chan (11:40), Donnie Yuen (9:20), Shu Qi (9:40), Anthony Wong (3:00), Huang Bo (5:20) and Kohata Ryuichi (4:00).
Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen isn't quite up to the task of walking into the footsteps of Fist of Fury and Fist of Legend, but it's a decent updating of the Chen Zhen legend, and an occasionally effective piece of grand scale period filmmaking. Too often it slows to a crawl, and threatens to buckle under the weight of its dueling serious and pulpy tones, but it's always good looking, and features a few genuinely exciting action scenes. The A/V quality is fantastic, and Well Go USA is officially on enough of a quality roll lately I'm willing to assume their releases will be impressive from here on out. The collector's edition exclusive extras aren't really entertaining or informative enough for me to recommend purchasing this more expensive set over the single disc edition.
*Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray image quality.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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Disc Details
Release Date: 14th June 2011
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 Mandarin and English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Mandarin and English
Subtitles: English
Extras: Behind the Scenes Featurettes, Cast and Crew Interviews, Trailers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Andrew Lau
Cast: Donnie Yen, Shu Qi, Anthony Wong, Huang Bo
Genre: Action, Crime and War
Length: 106 minutes
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I'm also looking of parts for my Kawai SX240.
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There are geek chic geeks, Star Wars geeks and then there are people like Bjorn, a Computer Science student at Trinity Western University who proposed to his girlfriend Jenny using a Mac Dashboard widget. At first I couldn't wrap my mind around the geekiness of the situation - but realized it is actually the cutest, most creative and charming proposal story I've heard in a while. I mean it beats the played out Golden Gate Bridge, Eiffel Tower options. Bjorn's comment: Last night I proposed to Jenny using a Dashboard Widget. Fortunately she still said yes.
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As we were getting ready to leave he said he wanted to show me something he had been working on, on his computer. He gave me his computer and actually told me his password (no I will NOT repeat it!), which is kind of a big deal because we had an argument about how he never tells me his passwords! At this point, a lot of you have for sure clued into what is going on…me on the other hand, probably due to being sick, I thought nothing of the whole situation. So I got on his computer and there's a picture of him and me from last year. He then tells me to press F12 like a true Computer science major, and up pops a picture of the ring he'd bought for me, and a little proposal (you can see below). He then got on his knees and confessed his true love for me. After some convincing, I said yes.
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I know that KEY works are more about the plot than the characters, but they should really work in the character originality department instead of just keeping the same basic traits and going to random.org every time they need a new character.
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Why do I have the feeling that even the Well-Famed Nice Boat Ending gonna be mere child play compared to Ryuukishi07's idea for a BAD END.
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When do you think this game will be released? I'm thinking around 2010. I was hoping for a 2009 release with the images and background CGs floating around, but no recent news or release date seems to point to 2010.
I wonder if we will get a Clannad-level delay for Rewrite. Clannad was supposed to be released in 2002 but was delayed 2 years, maybe to make it more epic. If that were the case, that would put Rewrite at a 2011 release. *hears screaming Key fanboys*
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2010? 2011? ahahahahahahaha. I'd count yourself blessed if it's release by early 2012. KEY is pretty much like Blizzard when it comes when game's planned 'release' dates. You have to count their time is not measured by solar years
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More rough translations:
Tennouji Kotarou (Protagonist):
Arrogant yet cheerful personality. Full of curiousity and loves poking his nose into everything. Doesn't realise it himself, but is quite a pain.
Kanbe Kotori (Brown hair, green eyes):
Close friend of Kotarou, they're always arguing like comedians. She always looks kind of like a small animal when moving around. Is good at gardening and is more able to sense the supernatural than others.
Ootori Chihaya (Orange hair):
Sheltered, naive girl who's suddenly transferred to Kotarou's school. Clumsy and frequently has to be saved by him, she never honestly says thanks and tends to get abusive instead.
Senri Akane (Light brown-y hair):
Head of the occult research society. Acts and talks with a sense of mystery and has quite a spiritual air about her, so has become known as the 'Campus Witch' and feared. Even more arrogant than Kotarou but quite simple at heart.
Nakatsu Shizuru (Blonde hair, eyepatch):
Shy girl from a lower year who's part of the public morals committee. Secretly attracted to Kotarou, she uses her committee position as an excuse to come and see him a lot. She wears an eyepatch to conceal her different coloured eyes.
Konohana Lucia (Blacck hair, blue eyes):
Commitee chairman of Kotarou's class. Has a strong sense of justice and responsibility, and is physically quite tough as well. Is an obsessive compulsive when it comes to cleaning and has no experience whatsoever with boys.
Nishikujou Touka (Blue-y hair):
New teacher in the school. Big hearted and relaxed personality, leading her to become popular with both sexes. Dotes on Shizuru, who she's known even before coming to the school.
Yoshino Haruhiko (Open jacket guy):
An outlaw who calls himself by the name of 'mad dog'. A little undecisive and tends to get messed with by Kotarou. Wants to settle things with him one way or another.
Ootori Sakuya (Glasses guy):
Calls himself Chihaya's older brother but they aren't blood related, and he takes care of her like a butler. Sociable, almost perfect personality, yet is cold only to Kotarou.
- Scenario is about 30% complete.
- Will be widescreen.
- There are other characters not yet introduced.
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The prospects about the characters themselves aren't exactly fancy, considering most are basically the usual settings of a school life VN.
That is to say, I believe these are mere "general indications" and nothing past this point (that's like summarizing clannad girls as: shy blob - tsundere - weirdo - peculiar genius - silent fighter, which are hardly giving justice to the depth of the character traits).
Design wise, it looks like Hinoue make another step forwards, and it is much more smooth here (I particularly have a fancy over Lucia, Kotori and Shizuru's design), though the "dress" as uniform is perhaps too much...
Too bad Na-Ga didn't take part of it, just like in LB. Well unless they decide to change their plans perhaps.
Considering it is only about 30% complete in term of scenario, seeing it released for 2010 might be too optimist (either end 2010 or early 2011 I guess...). Well depends how people are working though (Ryukishi did write most umineko episodes within 1 month for each ).
They were at 10% in January (or december 08?) so 20% within 2-4 months is encouraging.
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Key finally made a site for Rewrite.
Along with Kotori, I certainly like Shizuku and Lucia's design. I'm still rather bugged by this fancy seifuku but well...
Looks like Hinoue improved quite a bit, especially for boys design
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Rewrite of the Life
Yeah I wish Kotori, Sizuku and Lucia would be the main three girls their designs are more interesting. I'm interested in how the story will play out. I agree the uniform does seem a bit much I had hoped only Kotori would have it.
I'm quite fond of the male designs too. I wonder if more will be added ^-^
Also what animal will we have this go round >.>
|2009-04-03, 17:29
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Instead of thinking about the character designs, I'm wondering about how this game will play out, especially with Ryuukishi07 working on it. Umineko and Higurashi didn't have routes, right?
I'm really tempted to use one of their banners.
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Well, you "CAN" consider Higurashi and Umineko "arcs" as an alternative system of "route", since these arcs have a noticeable focus on specific characters. Actually, if you were to add romance or so in Higurashi (something more noticeable than the ambiguous one used here), you can even consider the first 3 arcs as "Rena's route, Mion's route, Satoko's route"
Well, that is even more hard to gauge is Tanaka... the guy promised the scenario will be god-like so
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The Impact (14-12-7) erased a 1-0 deficit in the 64th when Marco Di Vaio scored his MLS-leading 20th goal of the season with a curling shot off a feed from Davy Arnaud.
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The goal of unbreakable encryption has been a dream of governments since time immemorial. The ancient Greeks sent coded messages by way of a Scytale, which consisted of cloth wrapped around rods on which messages were written. The cloth was unwrapped during transit. An authorized viewer would then re-wrap the cloth around an identically sized rod to read the complete message.
Believe it or not, the Scytale, though easy to break, is in some ways similar to quantum encryption, which is likely unbreakable.
In a quantum computing code system, an object like a photon has its state measured, which is always changing. The state of the photon is the encryption key, which is sent along with a message. Any attempt to monitor this state slows down the data, which ruins the key and makes it very obvious on the other end that someone is trying to tap into the feed.
Cambridge University and Toshiba have put this quantum theory into practice, and they've been fairly successful in laboratory settings. The problem, which is where the Scytale has the advantage, is that these unbreakable encryption set-ups are point to point in nature. One computer can send data to another that is pre-programmed to get the signal, and that's it. The Toshiba/Cambridge setup has a maximum limit of 56 miles too.
The reason for the limitation is because if the signal is sent through a router, that router has to read at least part of the message to know where to forward it. And that is no different from someone trying to eavesdrop on the line. It corrupts the data about the quantum state ever so slightly, but more than enough to ruin the key and destroy and therefore protect the message.
Recently, MIT Technology Review reported that scientists at the Los Alamos National Labs in New Mexico have been running a quantum Internet for almost two years, with all computers on the network able to send and forward secure messages to every other one.
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As mentioned in another comment, there is no such thing as quantum encryption - the system does not do encryption. Because it's so slow, it's not even used for messages - just key exchange. And it's not really an improvement over existing systems, just different and complicated. And if you can use a router with this system, that means you're defeating the whole purpose of the system and showing that a man-in-the-middle attack is possible (which may be the case anyway since a second, conventional channel is required to make this system work). And no one who understands encryption is ever looking for an unbreakable system since that doesn't exist, except for the special case of a one-time pad.
I beg to differ. The problem is that the encryption is left intact for a brute force attack. By randomizing the data at the bit post encryption, there is nothing to attack and it just becomes noise. Why manipulate photons in a fiber optic when the data can be randomized at the bit level across multiple lambdas? People have been looking far too close at the problem and merely adding expense and complexity. By randomizing the data across multiple paths there is nothing to be captured or played back. No forensically discernible data is stored at any location. No storage location can be modified without the others being aware. That technology exists today. Feel free to use it at http://tinyurl.com/SFC-CTO
Quantum encryption isn't intended to be "unbreakable" - this article totally misunderstands the technology. It is intended to be verifiable, i.e. that any interception is immediately obvious to the sender and receiver according to the laws of physics. It is not an encryption scheme.
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Scientists at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in collaboration with the University of Tampere in Finland and the University of Basel in Switzerland, are developing a new research tool, which they call the "tissue chip," that they expect will eventually help clinicians design such individual treatment plans.
The chip technology, they believe, will illuminate the process of cancer development. Such detailed new information can then be used to identify critical molecules for development of cancer therapies. They also hope the tissue chip will help them learn how to distinguish among subgroups of cancer patients and eventually predict which ones will respond to specific therapies.
"Traditionally, pathology laboratories have analyzed patient tissues one specimen at a time," said Dr. Jeffrey Trent, scientific director of NHGRI's Division of Intramural Research. "However, this new technology now makes it possible to test thousands of specimens simultaneously The power of this technology will accelerate numerous areas of research, including testing of newly isolated genes to determine if they may be of clinical utility as molecular cancer markers."
Like the DNA chip, which scans the genome for alterations or abnormal gene expression, the tissue chip is a microarray that permits massive parallel processing of biological samples. But unlike the DNA chip, the tissue chip makes it possible for researchers to simultaneously compare a variety of molecular markers -- DNA, RNA, and protein -- in cancer tissues from hundreds or thousands of patients. The scientists report that as many as 1,000 tissue biopsies from individual tumors can be studied in a single tumor tissue microarray.
In their initial study of breast cancer tissue microarrays, published in the July issue of Nature Medicine, the researchers analyzed six gene amplifications and expression of the p53 and estrogen receptor genes believed to play a role in breast cancer.
The biopsies from up to 1,000 tumors are embedded and arrayed in paraffin to create a tissue microarray. This tissue array is sliced like a loaf of raisin bread into remarkably thin sections with each of the 1,000 tumors then being represented as minuscule dots on ordinary glass microscope slides. Because each array can be sliced into 200 consecutive sections of 5 micrometers each, it is possible to quickly analyze hundreds of molecular markers in the same set of specimens.
"Our analysis of eight cancer markers was completed in about one week." said Dr. Olli-P Kallioniemi, of NHGRI's Cancer Genetics Branch, the paper's corresponding author. "With traditional methods, going through the specimens one at a time would have taken from 6 to 12 months to analyze them all."
Kallioniemi emphasizes that the tissue chip is a tool for research, not diagnosis. It will be used to identify better diagnostic markers for distinguishing cancer from normal tissue, better markers to predict how aggressive a tumor will be, and biological properties of particular tumors that might have therapeutic value.
The tissue chip is expected to be particularly useful in analyzing the thousands of tumor tissue samples stored in pathology labs all over the world. "It's just not imaginable to stain and analyze thousands of archived tumor tissue samples for hundreds of molecular markers -- one at a time. Now with the tissue chip pathologists can take their existing archives, turn them into tumor arrays, and analyze an entire archive with just a few experiments," said Dr. Juha Kononen, also of the NHGRI and the first author on the paper.
Tissue chips could also help molecular biologists identify novel molecular pathways that play a role in cancer development. This is important in order to be able to design treatment methods specifically targeted against these critical pathways.
Pathologists can also array archived tissue samples from clinical trials of existing cancer drugs, and look for markers--a gene expression pattern or set of genetic changes in the tissue -- associated with whether or not a specific participant in the trial responded to the therapy. Eventually clinicians might be able to use those results to design individual treatments, comparing tumor tissue from a current patient with the historical samples in order to predict how quickly the tumor will progress and which therapeutic approach is likely to work best.
NHGRI oversees the NIH's role in the Human Genome Project, an international research effort to develop tools for gene discovery.
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In a world where some people make their living pouring grease onto Teflon slopes, how long will it be until we see law enforcement playing "gotcha" with truckers by searching their cell phones without a warrant?
The question bears asking.
In 2010, the feds banned texting while driving for commercial operators, but everyone knows that enforcing such a ban is nearly impossible without warrants, arrests, strong suspicions of illegal activity, or – help us all – a crash.
Right now, at least, it looks as if the average law-abiding trucker has rights and protections from unlawful search and seizure – and things need to stay that way.
The California Supreme Court recently ruled that it is OK for law enforcement to search a suspect's phone, including text messages, without a warrant, but only following an arrest of the suspect.
Note, they said "arrest" and "suspect."
Reasonable suspicion aside, if a driver is not doing anything wrong, he or she should not be subject to a search. Period.
With that said, we all know that there are people out there, including some law enforcement, with something to prove. If they want that phone, they have tactics to try and get it.
A Land Line Magazine feature in the May 2006 issue shed light on some of these persuasive tactics. It was called, "You don't mind if I look inside your truck, do you?"
Officers may already be asking, "You don't mind if I look inside your phone, do you?"
How you handle it is up to you, but remember you have rights. In the meantime, don't give them any more ammo than they currently possess.
And if you are out there texting and driving for any reason, cut it out. There's no sense poking the bear.


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Alliance Theological Seminary is the national seminary of The Christian and Missionary Alliance, centered in metropolitan New York with extensions in other parts of the United States and abroad. As a multicultural, evangelical seminary, ATS is committed to developing in men and women a personal knowledge of God and his work in the world in order to equip them for the ministry of the gospel of Jesus Christ and the expansion of his church.
The Alliance Theological Seminary offers the following degrees:
- MA Biblical Studies is offered onsite at both campuses and as a fully online 36-credit program designed to provide students with an enhanced understanding of biblical and theological studies for personal development or pedagogical enrichment. The program integrates biblical exposition with theology to equip the student for transformative ministry.
- Master of Divinity (MDiv) is a 93-credit curriculum offered onsite at both campuses and online* that blends biblical studies, social science theory, spiritual formation and practical training with an emphasis upon critical and reflective thinking. Tracks are available in Bible & Theology, Church Development, Missions and Urban Ministries.
*Not all concentrations are available online.
- Master of Professional Studies (MPS) is a 48-credit onsite program that focuses on training for persons in ministry. The Christian Ministry program offers several professional development tracks: Chinese Ministries, Church Development, Counseling, Korean Ministries, and Youth Ministry. The Urban Ministry program offers tracks in Church Development, Counseling and Urban Ministries.
- MA Biblical Literature is a 54-credit program offered onsite at both campuses and fully online that is designed to build a strong foundation in Biblical Studies. Students are taught to build a historical and cultural framework for interpreting biblical text. Emphasis available in Old Testament or New Testament.
- MA Intercultural Studies is a 54-credit onsite program designed for people engaged in cross-cultural Christian service and ministry. Through experience and practice in cross-cultural communication, students will gain an appreciation for the unique way God incarnates His message among diverse people groups.
- Doctor of Ministry (DMin) is a 36-credit onsite program integrating a disciplined reflective practice of ministry with a theological and biblical base. Offering a multi-denominational and multi-cultural learning experience that is transferable to a global context, this in-service program allows students to complete the degree while remaining in ministry.


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Flight Wings of Kindness
Strengthening Our Connections to One Another
by Alumna Laura Staley
I board a plane for a flight to Los Angeles from Columbus, with a stop in Las Vegas. I take the middle seat next to a man sitting by the window, and a young college-aged woman takes the aisle seat. I look up and notice in the aisle a man and woman who seem distressed. "I really must sit with my wife," the man says, looking concerned and glancing around at all the passengers. He repeats this request two more times. The woman sitting next to me unbuckles, gets up, and moves to a seat in the back of the plane. I get up and move too, quickly finding an aisle seat on the other side, a row behind them.
The man looks at me with utter relief. "Thank you so much, Miss." The fact that he addresses me as "Miss" fills my heart with such joy that I hardly process his gratitude, because it's been years since anyone has referred to me as "Miss." It was no big deal to move; I'm traveling alone.
During the four-hour flight, I glance over several times and notice that the man keeps his arm around his wife the entire flight. They cuddle while watching a movie on a phone he holds in his right hand. My heart fills with warmth as I witness this loving interaction. I feel happy that the young woman and I moved so they could have this experience.
Once I'm off the plane in Las Vegas, I make a beeline for the terminal where the gate for the flight to Los Angeles is located. I'm focused and intentional, hardly noticing anything except the signs guiding me to Terminal C. Arriving with plenty of time to spare, I see a Jamba Juice with no line. I place an order and hear a man's voice behind me. "May we please pay for your drink, Miss?" I turn around to see this couple glowing at me. I'm almost speechless, with tears in my eyes.
"That is so sweet and yes, you may. That is so kind of you!"
"We want to thank you so much for giving up your seat so we could sit together. We recently got married, and this was our first plane ride together."
"Oh, congratulations! That's so wonderful!"
We hug each other and chat some more. We exchange business cards and the man takes mine and says to his wife, "She's a feng shui consultant!" He knows how I help people! My fruit smoothie shows up on the counter and I thank them again, take it, and make my way to the black vinyl and stainless steel chairs at the gate. I'm so moved I almost cry. I think about how he called me "Miss" twice and it thrills me. I also have two revelations about my life in relation to the many kind strangers I have encountered: I love people, and I'm never alone in the world!
I remember Wayne Dyer talking about looking for opportunities every day to help someone, a practice he offered as a way to begin to reach beyond the ordinary and into the extraordinariness of life. It heartens me to think every day about the subtle flow of generous giving and gracious receiving happening between many people in the small moments of human interaction.
Scientists now know that giving, receiving, or even witnessing an act of kindness strengthens the immune system and increases serotonin, a neurotransmitter that regulates mood in the brain. This is great news for all of us. It can create a ripple effect, as people feel better after such interactions and choose to pay it forward. In this larger context, acts of kindness can be a path to wellness for the community. We don't need to wait for natural disasters or human tragedies to connect with others with presence, kindness, and awareness. There's positive energy and majesty in gentleness and simple acts of human compassion, and everyone benefits.
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The vehicle, a 2002 grey Chevy Avalanche, was taken from the 2700 block of South 7th Street West. After the theft, surveillance photos of the man above were captured at the same time that credit cards, left in the victim's vehicle, were used at gas stations and other stores in the Lolo and Missoula area.
Judging from the video, it appears that the suspect is left handed and that his right may be injured. He appears to be in his 20's, with a slim build, buzz-cut hair, and a possible tattoo on right forearm and wrist.
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