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As one impressive example of its enterprise integration abilities, Grails let's you quickly and easily build a web application backed by your existing EJB3 entity beans. But, it doesn't stop there. Grails gives your entity beans a hearty shot of steroids, but does so completely dynamically, without altering your EJB source code in any way. Grails Object Relational Mapping (GORM) is built on Hibernate 3 (but will eventually offer support for the Java Persistence API) and uses Groovy's Meta Object Protocol (MOP) to add all sorts of handy dynamic methods to your otherwise-static entity beans. And those methods are not only accessible from Grails and Groovy; your Java code can invoke those methods as well! We suddenly have all the enterprise-level capabilities of JEE/EJB3 and the benefits of RAD web application development!The integration angle is quite important, as reuse of existing investments in Java is a commonly cited problem the Java community has been saying about using Ruby on Rails. Grails brings a RAD framework bound together with our own dynamic language (Groovy) which is part of the Java platform. Integrated stacks RAD stacks with a strong EJB focus is an area of innovation for a number of frameworks wuch as RIFE, Trails, JBoss SEAM (JSF+EJB), but Grails is the only one built around the Groovy dynamic language. Could Grails become the Java community's answer to Ruby on Rails?
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Wow EJB is now legacy?
j c
And do it with another language. Ouch.
Floyd I cant figure if you think Java has a future or if you think we should all party on the VM like it was (a) 1999 (Corba container).
This is what frustrates me about the Java space right now. Everyone is so rattled by ruby and scripts and trying to wedge Java in a buzz trend that is so far removed from where Java is that its not even worth discussing Java in a "rails" context.
Or discussing rails in an EJB context.
If we have to port rails to the JVM to be happy then maybe we should just use the ruby interpreter and support its toolset and let IBM handle the legacy integration as they are so keen to do.
Its not interesting or all that relevant.
no, you missed the point
Floyd Marinescu
Considering strategies like Domain Driven Design, focusing on your domain model in Java and generating the UI around that is an emerging best practice that tools like Grails can enable.
Re: Wow EJB is now legacy?
Graeme Rocher
Java has a huge future and it speaks volumes for the strength of the platform that Grails and its underlying frameworks (Spring, Hibernate, SiteMesh, Quartz etc.) exist.
In terms of porting Rails, well yes that is one option, but Rails (as with Ruby's runtime) has a very different object model and idioms for developing web applications. One that its contradictory to existing knowledge about specifications like Servlets, JSP and, indeed, EJB.
Grails is not a port of Rails and in fact is very different in many ways including how it is based on Java frameworks.
Re: no, you missed the point
j c
"built on the PL/SQL language" and "fully integrated with Java"
"built on Javascript language" and "fully integrated with Java"
"built on ActiveX" and "fully integrated with Java"
"Built on Flash" and "fully integrated with Java"
I didnt miss the point. The point was accessing EJBs with something other than Java. And if EJB 3 is a big plus in combination with another language then *something* in this picture just went legacy.
And something just went "integration strategy"
Thats how you know what legacy is and isnt.
Integration w/ Legacy Apps versus Developing w/ Complimentary Technologies
Jason Rudolph
There's a distinct difference between...
* Using a current technology to integrate with a pre-existing (legacy) application,
* Using a current technology (like Grails) in concert with another complimentary and current technology (like EJB) to build a new application.
The point was accessing EJBs with something other than Java. And if EJB 3 is a big plus in combination with another language then *something* in this picture just went legacy.
I respectfully disagree. We've long been dependent on another language to make our Java apps work. That language is XML, and XML does not make Java a legacy language. They're complimentary technologies.
If the goal is to build a web user interface for your EJBs (which are, by their very nature, business-tier components), chances are you're going to invoke some other (complimentary) technology for your web tier. Maybe it's just JSP. Maybe it's Struts or Spring MVC or Tapestry or Grails. The use of those complimentary technologies does not make EJB a legacy technology. It's instead a choice of using the most efficient tool for the job at hand. And for many applications, Grails offers the productivity gains to make it a strong contender to be that tool.
Re: Integration w/ Legacy Apps versus Developing w/ Complimentary Technolog
j c
What if the smalltalk guys had insisted that Java run in a smalltalk VM? What would people have thought of them? The smalltalk VM was way ahead of Java in the early days.
So now the Java scene wants to steal ruby and rails from the cradle and I say well if Java is so great then let Java solve its own problems without coopting the vibe of the scripting languages.
I think Java is trying to change before anyone acknowledges or speaks aloud of a greater failure of OO or more specifically Java projects to deliver.
Re: Integration w/ Legacy Apps versus Developing w/ Complimentary Technolog
Steven Devijver
I think Java is trying to change before
anyone acknowledges or speaks aloud of a greater failure of OO or more
specifically Java projects to deliver.
I read in a magazine a couple of years ago that "the Hummer is the greatest off-road vehicle we ever drove". And "with a Hummer you can get through any terrain except through narrow streets".
Java, Groovy and Ruby are great in many areas but none is great in all areas. Particularly, Java is not so great to write web handlers. Alternatively you could use Ruby and Rails or Grails if you want to reuse Java code. In fact, we've created Grails to augment the Java platform.
You can hate us for doing so and being successful. There's however no need to start a flame war.
relationship management
Jeff Payne
bug in employee list?
ma pel
I followed up this step-by-step and successfully run 'grails run-app'.
Everything looked great except this case:
I assigned 3 computers to an employee, for example, jane and I got
3 instances of the same 'jane' listed in the browser(IE6.0) when I click on
employeeBean list link. That seems a bug. How can I fix it?
Re: relationship management
Graeme Rocher
Re: bug in employee list?
Jason Rudolph
There's apparently problem with the dynamic list method, which is used to fetch the list of employees. You can track the problem here: jira.codehaus.org/browse/GRAILS-284
Nice, but...
Randall Burt
Re: Nice, but...
Pat Osterday
Your comment is exactly what I was thinking! I read the article and there's no mention of an app server or anything like that! Just copying the entity code and using that. While Grails looks cool, we've got a lot invested in the JEE resources. Guess we'll have to see what develops!
Re: Nice, but...
Piero Sartini
Article in pdf format?
Fred Janon
having problems to run app with grails 1.0 RC2 & groovy 1.0
Michael Brinkmann
I am stuck following your steps in a very early stage ("run-app" directly after "create-app"):
(I am running the grails / groovy-versions mentioned above with JDK 1.6.0_03 on Windows XP SP2)
> grails run-app
Welcome to Grails 1.0-RC2 - grails.org/
Licensed under Apache Standard License 2.0
Grails home is set to: C:\Programme\Dev\grails-1.0-RC2
Base Directory: c:\Arbeit\Allgemein\Dev\Projekte\GrailsTest1
Environment set to development
Note: No plugin scripts found
Running script C:\Programme\Dev\grails-1.0-RC2\scripts\RunApp.groovy
groovy.lang.MissingPropertyException: No such property: war for class: java.lang.String
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.ScriptBytecodeAdapter.unwrap(ScriptBytecodeAdapter.java:48)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.ScriptBytecodeAdapter.getProperty(ScriptBytecodeAdapter.java:474)
at Config.run(Config.groovy:62)
Do you have any hints for me?
Kind regards
Re: having problems to run app with grails 1.0 RC2 & groovy 1.0
Michael Brinkmann
FYI: just fixed the error by changing the line
in the generated file "grails-app/conf/Config.groovy".
Kind regards
Issue GRAILS-2042
Venky VB
- Venky
Scrollable results?
Siddharth Bala Ravi
Thanks for the article - it's awesome.
I was wondering what needs to be done to make the following search scrollable...being very new to grails, i'm having a real hard time figuring it out...
generate-controller failure with Grails 1.0.4
Sherry Shen
in ejb3_grails dir
I am not sure about hibernate.cfg.xml location.
At Step 4 - Generate the Scaffolding, I got an error.
% grails generate-controller
No domain class found for name com.jasonroudolph.ejb3example.entity.EmployeeBean.
Please try again and enter a valid domain class name
How to move forward?
Thanks for the help!
Re: Nice, but...
Gazi Mushfiqur Rahman
Re: Nice, but...
Rajakumar Sennayan


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When Lynn Hicks started teaching at Cherryville High School in 1983, girls sports teams weren�t expected to perform at a high level.
�It was just an activity more or less. There were no expectations put on anybody,� said Hicks, a Shelby High graduate. �And now there are.�
That�s the transformation in female athletics Hicks has seen during her teaching and coaching career, a tenure that ended last week.
Hicks, who had guided Cherryville�s softball team to a state championship and nine conference titles, retired as a coach and algebra teacher on Thursday.
�I�m just ready to go,� said Hicks, 51, who had contemplated retirement since the fall but didn�t reach this decision until recently. Factoring in sick days, Hicks reached the 30-year teaching mark in November and figured staying until the end of the academic year wouldn�t benefit her financially.
Retiring in February also allows Hicks to officiate volleyball this fall after sitting out six months as required by the state�s return-to-work laws for members of the Teachers� and State Employees� Retirement System.
�When she told us, I got teary eyed and started crying,� senior pitcher Paige Wyont said. �She tried her hardest to get everybody to do their best. She wanted everybody to live up to their potential. She cared about us a lot and you could tell.�
Chavis Middle School coach Callie Hahn has been named the interim head coach.
Cherryville will be losing a coach that took its softball team to the highest level. The Lady Ironmen won the 1A state championship in 2001 after finishing second in the state in 2000, third in 1999 and fourth in 1998, the year Cherryville made the transition from slow-pitch to fast-pitch softball.
�That whole ride, that whole four years had to be pretty awesome,� Hicks said. �In �98 when we first went to fast-pitch, (assistant coach) Sam (Beam) and I looked at each other and said, �We don�t know what we�re doing.��
Winning became a tradition at Cherryville as Hicks finished with 336 games over 25 seasons. She said Cherryville�s success started at the recreation level, where the girls started winning at an early age.
Hicks served her entire career at Cherryville, where she started at age 22.
What will Hicks miss most from coaching?
�The competitiveness and seeing the girls play together and accomplish something that they maybe didn�t think they could do,� Hicks said.
Hicks also coached basketball, volleyball, boys and girls tennis and cheerleading at Cherryville High School. When the school was also a combined junior high/senior high, Hicks coached junior high basketball, junior high girls track and junior high softball.
Her junior high softball teams went 72-62 and won three county championships. Hicks� varsity basketball record was 93-190.
Hahn�s first year as Chavis� head coach was the eighth grade year for Cherryville�s current seniors.
�To me that�s a perfect transition,� Hicks said. �She knows the players already.�
As for Hicks, she plans on staying busy somehow during her retirement. In addition to officiating, she might obtain a personal trainer�s license. One thing not in her plans is a return to coaching.
�This is it,� she said.

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2017 EFMD Higher Education Research Conference23-24 Oct, Belgium
2017 EFMD Higher Education Research Conference
A. Conference Theme
We are delighted to announce that the 2017 EFMD Higher Education Research Conference (HERC) will take place at the Faculty of Economics and Business of KU Leuven on 23-24 October 2017. The theme of this year's conference will be:
Impact and interdisciplinarity in management education and research
The conference will focus on the impact and interdisciplinarity in management education and research and address these from three broad perspectives. First the conference will look at interdisciplinarity and the challenges for governance, incentive structures, faculty management, and autonomy/organisation of business schools and HEIs in general. It will also look at interdisciplinarity and its impact in management education and research and at innovations in management education and research.
The need for interdisciplinarity in management education and research is driven by grand societal challenges. Whether in education or research, studying and solving challenges such as global warming, clean energy and resource efficiency, poverty, social and financial inclusion, inequality and its link to economic growth, migration and demographic change, the prospect of free trade or the legitimacy of socio-economic and political institutions, inevitably consists of different aspects that need to be discussed with the specific knowledge of different disciplines.
It is to be expected that business schools and HEIs that successfully utilize the potential of interdisciplinary education and research, while keeping the balance with a strong disciplinary identity, will be able to achieve more impact, positioned as they will be at the centre of a system that produces knowledge to tackle the unprecedented challenges faced by the global economy and human societies.
Yet, schools aiming to realize such a vision of interdisciplinarity have to overcome several obstacles. Many business schools currently do not have the required interdisciplinary richness at their disposal. This raises questions such as how they can build the required capacity, open up their educational offering to inputs from other disciplines, set the right incentives for interdisciplinary research or create awareness among their students for the challenges ahead.
We would like to invite you to submit an outline paper by 20 May 2017. We welcome and encourage submissions of research work primarily within (and not necessarily limited to) the following areas of academic enquiry:
Track 1: Interdisciplinarity and the challenges for governance, incentive structures, faculty management, and autonomy/organisation of business schools and HEIs in general
Track 2: Interdisciplinarity and its impact in management education and research
Track 3: Innovations in management education and research
EFMD-EDAMBA Track 4: We have a special EFMD-EDAMBA track for PhDs this year. EDAMBA is the European Doctoral Association in Management and Business Administration: http://www.edamba.eu. We invite submissions on the following:
We are open to quality work from established scholars and from younger scholars entering these important field. We are also open to papers from scholars interested in the co-production of knowledge between scholars and practitioners and those interested in engaged scholarship whose purposes are to create more impactful social science and management research.
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All keynote speakers will be announced very shortly.
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Since 2012, EFMD is engaging in a community-building effort to encourage research on business schools and their role in higher education.
The Annual EFMD Higher Education Research Conference serves as an anchor event of this initiative. It serves as a platform to facilitate the cross-fertilization of research by scholars from management, higher education as well as other fields.
The forthcoming conference in Leuven will be the sixth conference organized in this series. Previous events have been hosted by The Lorange Institute in Switzerland, Paris-Dauphine University in France, Stockholm Business School of Stockholm University in Sweden, Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and IESE Business School in Spain, Barcelona.
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Conference registrations will start from March 2017. Participants registering by 1 September 2017 will receive an early bird discount and pay EUR 430 €. After this date the regular conference fee will be EUR 480 €. Doctoral students will be charged a special rate of EUR 290 € as long as they register for the conference by 1 September 2017.
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The city recently received a "Trees for Kids" grant from the State of Iowa for 50 trees, and on Wednesday, the entire Baxter High School was out around town planting the trees. Plantings were made at Restland Cemetery, the school playground and on both sides of South Main Street in Baxter. Approximately 150 volunteers, including high school students, teachers and city employees helped with the planting.
Trees along Main Street in the utility easement area will provide shade and community beautification. Trees in these areas have died over the years and no replacement program was in place.
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"Not only is this tree canopy visibly noticeable and appreciated by residents and visitors to Baxter, there are many economic, community and environmental benefits that can be attributed to these shade trees," Fuller said.
A recent inventory of Baxter's trees by Laura Wagner, Iowa Department of Natural Resources Forestry Bureau, determined that a majority of the trees in Baxter are maples. Wagner recommended the city plant a more diverse culture of tree species. The species planted on Wednesday included tulip trees, black gum, honey locust, hackberry, gingko, heritage river birch, sugar maple, scarlet oak, American linden, American hornbeam and serviceberry.


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It was a fairly vague, but basically stated that blizzard didn't want guild to build raids based upon one player having a specific buff for maximum damage. For instance, a guild shouldn't hold up a raid because they are looking for a Shadow Priest to provide Misery. Players should be chosen based upon ability and personal preference, not on a buff they provide.
In theory I agreed, but the post is big on generalities and light on specifics. So it was very hard to evaluate the post without really knowing what would change.
Last night Zarhym posted the specifics and the changes are HUGE!!!!! Find the post here.
This will have a big impact on all classes but I will of course focus on moonkin. They have made big changes to many of the proposed WotLK abilities and significantly changed many of the current live buffs and debuffs.
What's Changed?
Improved Scorch (Fire Mage):
New - Increases spell critical strike chance against the target.
Old - Increases Fire, Frost and Arcane damage, against the target.
Improved Moonkin Aura:
New - Grants 3% haste of all types.
Old - Grants 20% spell haste when they critically hit with spells for 8 sec. This effect has a 30 second cooldown.
Earth and Moon:
New - Increases spell damage taken from all schools by 13% on the target.
Old - Increases Nature and Arcane damage done to the target by 6%.
Misery (Shadow Priest):
New - Causes spells cast at the target to have +3% spell hit.
Old - Cause the target to take an additional 5% spell damage.
Improved Faerie Fire:
New - No longer benefits melee and ranged hit chance, only spell hit (3%).
Old - Increases Melee, Ranged, and Spell Hit chance by 3%.
What Doesn't Stack?
Spell Critical Strike Chance Buff: Moonkin Aura, Elemental Oath(Ele Shaman)
Spell Critical Strike Chance Debuff: Improved Scorch(Fire Mage), Winter's Chill (Frost Mage)
Increased Spell Damage Taken Debuff: Ebon Plaguebringer (Unholy DK), Earth and Moon, Curse of the Elements (Affliction Warlock)
Increased Spell Hit Chance Taken Debuff: Improved Faerie Fire, Misery (Shadow Priest)
Percentage Haste Increase (All Types): Improved Moonkin Aura, Swift Retribution (Ret Pally)
Melee Hit Chance Reduction Debuff: Insect Swarm, Scorpid Sting (Hunter)
Stat Add Buff: Mark of the Wild
What Does This Mean?
To be completely honest I don't really know. This is such a massive change that it is impossible to quantify how it will all play out, but I can already see some of the possibilities. This means very different things for 10-mans and 25-mans. Class balancing in terms of DPS is going to have to change dramatically.
Ten man raids:
I think this is a great change for 10-man raids. I will allow them to have most if not all of the same buffs that a 25 man raid will have. It should allow Blizzard to build tougher content for the 10-mans to make them real challenges instead of overly dumbed down versions of the 25-mans.
In fact it may bring the 10-mans up to the same level of toughness as the 25-mans. Blizzard is going to have to tune the 10-man fights for all of the buffs or the boss encounters are going to be a joke. This means that the 10-mans could be very unforgiving. If your Shadow Priest dies your casters are out 3% chance to hit if you don't have an Imp FF Moonkin. That would a significant drop in DPS, and spell a wipe if you could only barely kill the boss if things went perfectly.
Twenty Five Man Raids:
I am very unsure how this will affect 25-mans.
- It should make some of the fights a little more forgiving. If your moonkin dies then a Warlock can put of CoE, or you may have an Unholy DK to put up Ebon Plague.
- I bet we will see a lot more respecs before raid. People will build their specs around a normal raid set up. For instance, right now I don't see a reason to spec into Imp FF. An Spriest can put it up without losing a DPS Global Cooldown. However, if the Spriest doesn't show up one night, I will have to make a quick trip to Darn before a raid.
- If classes are balanced near perfectly, it will make life easier for the Raid Leader. The raid won't have to sit there and wait for another pally healer to long on to get a third buff. However, if there are issues with class balance it could make the life a lot harder on the guild's leadership. If one class can do more damage then most other classes, then guilds will be tempted to stack that one class more then others. The probably won't lose any buffs because some many class can provide the same buffs now.
It is clear that Blizzard realizes this is going to be an issue. In his post Zarhym said:
Before we are done, we will thoroughly test the
performance of every class. It should not be assumed that one class' current
performance relative to others in beta is final. Some classes (and
specializations) will need to be reduced in power and some increased. Many may
feel the change has more impact on class X than class Y. We will address all of
those concerns via our internal testing and community feedback.
In terms of DPS, if one class or spec lags behind others in the same role, that spec will be excluded from most serious raid guilds. All of the work that Blizzard has done to improve Shadow Priest, Ret Pallys, Moonkin, and all of the other "off specs" will be for not if those specs cannot keep up with the more traditional specs in terms of DPS. Healers and tanks will have less of an issue because their services are in greater demand, don't be surprised if the same thing happens here.
My Concluding Thoughts.
Blizzard is really making a bold move here. There are definitely positives in this change, but I see a whole lot of negatives. While I realize they are trying to make the game and raiding more accessible to all people, I worry that they are taking the uniqueness out of the classes. That uniqueness and customization is one of the main things that make this game fun. However, this is not my biggest worry.
I started playing Blizzard games with Warcraft 2, and since have played almost every game they put out since then. So, I have a lot of respect for Blizzards ability at game design, but they have proven overtime that they are not perfect (nobody is). I worry that those imperfections will break moonkin again just as I thought we were getting some respectability. Since it has taken Blizzard 4 years to fix moonkin the first time, I don't think I could wait another 4 for them to fix us again.
I don't know what is going to happen. I only see possibilities, but I will I will guarantee you one thing. Blizzard doesn't know how this is going to work out either. History has proved that the collective mind of 10 million players is smarter then the collective mind of several hundred Blizzard employees. Blizzard will build what they think is a well balanced game and the players will find the loopholes and exploit it to its fullest potential. If it wasn't true then we wouldn't have Powershifting by Feral Druids, Totem Twisting by Enhancement Shaman, and stacking 5 Warlocks for Imp Shadowbolt. Sure, they will fix these problems eventually, but if these examples are any indication it will take years and I don't know how many people will wait that long.
Follow ups:
1. There were quite a few changes to moonkin abilities that I didn't really analyze here. This post is getting to long. I will post something soon about what this info means for speccing moonkin and how this could change the value of some of our talents. Hopefully the polish pass will be released soon so I can do them together.
2. Several other bloggers are reacting to this same information. I will try and list them here.
Resto4Life: Blue: Changes to Buffs and Debuffs
Yet Another Warlock Nerf: Nobody Panic (Not yet, at least)


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Opinion: Why Republicans Should Support Sequester
Columnist Kim Strassel on President Obama's remarks urging a delay of sequester. Photos: Getty Images
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... our ways ... the tears Republicans proposed ... asks nothing of the wealthiest Americans are biggest corporations ... so the burden is all on first responders are seniors or ... middle-class families ... it's wrong to ask ... the middle class to bear the full burden of deficit reduction ... that's why I will not sign a plan ... the harms middle-class ... welcome to Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel ... that was present Obama in these last hours explaining the parade of pore of goals that will happen ... if the federal government goes ahead with the sequester is a tiny amount of cuts ... watch columnist Kim straw soul is here ... from Washington to explain ... him ... up why is the sequester such a bad thing if it's only eighty five billion dollars the year ... it's not it's eighty five billion dollars a year and three a half trillion dollar budget ... in Washington can cut that much that we might as well as give them go home ... the president had an interest here and this is what you saw him doing in that speech today ... at making it sound absolutely as dreadful as possible because he doesn't want to live under ... even the eighty five billion dollars cuts he would prefer to spend that money ... and so he is going to what your Tennessee over the next week it's good to be a great big game on the White House coming out and ... Andy tiling as many terrible things that they possibly can to suggest that they simply cannot live with the sequester so do you think that this quest years actually can happen ... I do think it's going to happen and here's why because Republicans and come to understand that this president is not interested in any sort of ... longer term fixes to entitlements or anything he just has not been willing to negotiate with them on that ... Ali wants our tax hikes ... and so they will take what they can get eighty five billion is not a lot of money ... but at least it's a wall that is going into effect and it is something that they can bank on ... I'd also has no to marry that you know even though the sequester is quite strict in its language ... there is in fact some discretion the ability of departments to try to direct many of these cuts to areas that won't have as big and that ... my guests choosing not to do that at the moment again because they want to up the pressure on getting rid of ... I can on a tax hike point I wonder if we've ever had a president who wants to hike taxes ... is much is this president seems to point ... um there's a new Simpson Bowles plan out ... again six hundred billion dollars in Quantum quote of savings ... by curbing are ending tax breaks his sister is dead on arrival ... that precisely for the reason you just mentioned that tax piece of it ... out with this ring stacker but last month by a significant amount ... and the problem with this new Simpson Bowles plan is that a significant amount of it takes the Democratic position on import ... taxes or maybe it's not really tax reform and tax hikes or to target certain industries and claim their closing loopholes ... and that he use that revenue to spend more work but for deficit reduction ... Republicans have dug in on this point they're not going to raise taxes if they engage in tax reform it's going to be the traditional definition ... of tax reform which is that you do close loopholes harmonize rate to reform the coal that you do it ... so that you can lower tax rates overall and had to economic growth ... to be pretty strong on the fact that they're not going to go down is democratic road ... of the using tax reform of using that term ... in order to just breeze tax hikes and sometimes favored industries are wealthier man took it what's the GOP strategy going for it is we start to have budget discussions on this continuing resolution ... look I think Erin as they got a good hand here in the head in the sequester is going to affect the is a lot ... they can as a result count on eighty five billion dollars in cuts its not much but it's the beginning ... and the president really doesn't like this if he's not happy with that ... admittedly is fairly blunt way that the sequester is is taking part ... the second which he controls the Democratic party controls has every right to come up with the legislation that would direct these cuts elsewhere ... or that would again began to look as some sort of long-term entitlement reform that would save more money down the route ... and they choose to do that I think Republicans are willing to meet them in a conference of Senate House conference and try to calm the legislation ... one of the present is insisting on more tax hikes I think what you see is this question going into effect in the Republicans ... working longer term I continue to fund the government at those levels going forward ... to the present has to come up with his own ideas and Harry Reid Senate has to do something ... both big tasks Potomac watch columnist Kim Strassel from Washington ... thank you so much for being with us


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X-Men The Animated Series: Volume 3 and 4 (US - DVD)
Gabe's new mutant power is the ability to pick up on PAL audio speed-up...
"Previously (clang) on X-Men (buzz)"
I covered the majority of my thoughts and memories concerning the 1990s X-Men animated series in my review of the first two collections of episodes that were released back in April. To read that please click here. I'll try not to repeat myself too much here, and will focus a little harder on aspects specific to this collection, specifically the episodes that make the show special despite its less than lasting visual impressions. The episodes that cross these collections are taken from the third and fourth seasons, and continue a marked improvement over the early and more simplified episodes. As the show gained popularity the writers were allowed to take the maturity of their storytelling to limits beyond those of American television animation (though they were regularly bested by the impossibly good Batman: The Animated Series). The animation remained pretty crude, the character designs were still gleefully ridiculous, and a lot of the dialogue was still crassly unrealistic, but the storytelling definitely improved as the show continued.
The major mark in quality here comes once the producers get the 'Dark Phoenix Saga' and 'The Savage Land' out of their systems. The whole of the 'Phoenix Saga' was still pretty advanced storytelling for children's animation at the time, but the sophistication was more in the abstract concepts of the fantastic elements like the internalized mind battles. Every episode post-'Dark Phoenix' is relatively strong, but there are distinct standouts. Some of the better episodes delve into the characters' pasts ('Weapon X, Lies and Videotape', 'Juggernaut Returns', 'Xavier Remembers' and 'Family Ties'), two are adaptations of classic motion picture motifs ('Lotus and Steel' forces Wolverine to replay the major themes of The Seven Samurai, and 'Secrets, Not Long Buried' sticks Cyclops in Gary Cooper's High Noon boots), and the intended series finale, 'Beyond Good and Evil', finds a relatively satisfying way to bring together all the series regulars, bad guys and good guys, for one last adventure. The major standout among every episode of the entire series is 'Nightcrawler', a poignant exploration of tolerance and religion that goes far beyond the normal constraints of children's programming. Without turning blatantly preachy issues of blind faith are tested, and following Nightcrawler's daring forgiveness of the sins of those around him tough guy Wolverine is forced to confront his own lack of faith. The episode is also gloriously gothic, taking its visual cues from Universal horror films and German expressionism.
There are some clear problems with these releases that pertain only to the discs themselves, not the content of the episodes. The first problem is the episode order, which apparently follows the original air order instead of the production order. Fortunately this doesn't create any major continuity issues because the multi-part episodes are presented in order and important standalones are only separated incorrectly. There is one exception in the continuity, and that is a missing episode, which has apparently been thrown back to the fifth release. 'No Mutant is an Island' is mostly a standalone that follows Cyclops' return to the orphanage he was found in. The problem is that Cyclops is wondering apart from the rest of the X-Men because he's upset over Jean Grey's supposed death following the first part of the 'Phoenix Saga'. It isn't until the end of the episode that Cyclops even hears Jean is still alive (which we are told via flashback in the first episode of the 'Dark Phoenix Saga'). The episode apparently had major animation problems, so there's a chance we won't ever see an official release (see this webpage for more information).
The final season of the show was only ten episodes long, so it's understandable that Disney wanted to fill out the discs evenly. I don't know why they didn't just fill things out based on production order though; it's not as if an ordered release would cut things short in the middle of a story arc or anything. The other episodes inexplicably missing from the collection that appeared throughout the centre of the third and fourth seasons are all standalones with roots in earlier, included episodes. These include 'Longshot', a follow up to the second season episode 'Mojovision', 'Deal with the Devil', a companion piece to season two's introduction to Wolverine nemesis Omega Red entitled 'Red Dawn', and 'Bloodlines', a Nightcrawler one-shot where the German monk discovers his mysterious parentage. Those last two episodes are pretty good, if I remember correctly, so between those and the 'Phalanx Covenant' there's something to look forward to.
These discs basically match last April's discs in the video department. For the most part these episodes are as clear as we can expect from the series, which was made with standard definition television broadcasts in mind. The sometimes crude animation and design aspects don't lend themselves to a lot of scrutiny. The cells are dirty, and occasionally shift, and the colours and frame-rates are inconsistent. The print is bright and colourful, and the colours themselves are relatively noiseless. There's a bit of bleeding, and the hard edges are occasionally jagged, but the basic make-up of each frame is relatively solid. The details are even a bit sharper than the April releases, but clearly not sharp enough to push the format to its limit (I don't think we'd want it much sharper considering how this detail alone reveals a little too much in the way of animator errors). It's possible a better clean-up would be possible, but frankly minor dirt and artefacts aren't a problem, the problem is in the choice of not making these transfers progressive. The interlaced nature is at time maddening, especially when trying to gather screencaps for this review.
The audio mostly matches the video, in that it mostly matches the other two releases from last April. The sound effects are cool, the dialogue is consistent, and the stereo effects are actually pretty exciting. That neat-o score also sounds great. It's all as good as we can expect from a '90s TV show. Oh, but there is this one thing… Parts one and three of the intended series finale 'Beyond Good and Evil', and a few episodes found on the final disc of the Volume Four collection feature a curious audio issue not found on any of the other episodes, or the first three Buena Vista releases. The voices are all noticeably higher in pitch, which is especially clear in the case of the normally baritone Apocalypse. One might even describe the effect as 'mousy', which is of course less than ironic given the studio that owns the release rights, and apparently the release rights of the entirety of the Marvel catalogue apparently. Ahem. Anyway, the problem also affects the music, and less obviously affects the sound effects. The obvious culprit seems to be a PAL source. The rumour is that these episodes were taken from a UK source, and the slight differentiation of runtimes seems to be in-keeping with the PAL speed up possibility. Bad form Disney.
Nothing but Buena Vista release trailers.
It's clearly no mistake that these DVDs are seeing a release the same day as X-Men Origins: Wolverine (on video this time), but it's surprising how much more sophisticated and intelligent this children's series from more than a decade ago is than Fox's big budget, PG-13 release. The costumes are gaudy, but the dialogue is no broader, the storytelling is much more calculated, and the characters are leagues deeper. I'm also forced to compare the series to the third season of NBC's Heroes, which coincidentally enough I just finished watching. Again, even with the benefit of hours and hours of back story, it's incredible how much more human these pen and ink creations strike me. Unfortunately these new releases—the first official DVD releases of many of the episodes in America—feature interlaced transfers and some seemingly PAL related audio problems. The episodes are presented out of order, but this is merely a curiosity in all but one case, as continuity is mostly maintained. It'd be nice to get some extras too, come time for the release of those final thirteen episodes.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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Well, that I would be adverse to...
[quote=Gabe Powers wrote]The costumes are hideous, and like I said in my review of the first two volumes, they problematically date the entire series. Part of making the show is costume choices, and they could've changed them. I understand why they went with them, but they're still ugly, and since the 'series' section of the review is entirely subjective I chose to consider it a bad choice.[/quote]
they should recall the DVDs and digitally paint all the costumes black, in keeping with the films, lol.
they should recall the DVDs and digitally paint all the costumes black, in keeping with the films, lol.
The costumes are hideous, and like I said in my review of the first two volumes, they problematically date the entire series. Part of making the show is costume choices, and they could've changed them. I understand why they went with them, but they're still ugly, and since the 'series' section of the review is entirely subjective I chose to consider it a bad choice.
Good review Gabe though I don't quite get why you harp on the costumes. Those are the exact costumes they wore from the books at the time. Of course they would use them and since they aren't show-created I'm not sure why it's a criticism of the DVDs.
Besides some of them hold up very well (Rogue and Cyclops especially). For many fans some of these costumes/looks are the iconic ones.
Besides some of them hold up very well (Rogue and Cyclops especially). For many fans some of these costumes/looks are the iconic ones.
Nic Mall you are mistaken. The line is NEARLY killed her father when she found out he was a mutant. Rogue did not kill her father and the subtitles are right.
stevepulaski wrote: I dont remember Rogue.
I dont remember Rogue.
Yes and Yes.
Gabe, are there any inserts listing the episodes included on the sets? And do the DVDs have color artwork on them?
The ghost effect is part of the interlaced transfer. The best site I've found to describe digital artefacts actually uses one of the X-Men Animated transfers as a perfect example of why interlaced is bad. You'll probably notice that there's also a combing effect on the mouth animation a lot of the time too.
Gabe, another great review. But one thing about these releases that bothers me is the picture quality. Just like my UK copies, the US copies seem to have the occasional "Ghost image" where it looks blurry or you can see inbetween the cells of animation. If you pause it you will be able to pick this up. It's almost like a double exposure when the characters move. I still think X-men Evolution was a far better animated cartoon and the voice acting was far superior for Evolution. Professor X from the 90's series, always sounded like he was whispering his lines. Or when he screamed in pain, it sounded like the actor was afraid to let it go in the recording studio. Wolverine in the 90's series sounded like a bad Clint Eastwood imitation and don't get me started on Cyclops, Jean or Storm. Did Storm have to annouce what she was doing everytime she used her powers? It reminded me of a bad Japanese robot cartoon of the 80's. The only voices worth anything were Beast and Rogue and also Gambit. But that's just my oppinion.
don't remember Rogue saying she killed her dad in the show. then again I haven't seen the show in a while. the show had some adult themes but I don't think they'd push it that far.
Are we talking the original series? I don't remember Rogue saying anything about killing her dad, and I'm far too lazy to put the disc in...
On the very first episode, Rogue says she had to kill her father when he found out that she was a mutant...but the subtitles say she NEARLY killed him...anyone know why? Stupid subtitler or a sneaky way of censoring? Without changing anything
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Disc Details
Release Date: 15th September 2009
Discs: 4
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 1.33:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Spanish
Subtitles: English and Spanish
Extras: Trailers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Various
Cast: Iona Morris, Lenore Zann, Alison Seasly-Smith
Genre: Action, Adventure and Animation
Length: 690 minutes
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Mrs Watson
"We so enjoyed our short break."
We did come back home a day earlier than planned as the weather forecast was so dreadful. And very glad that we did as there was a real problem on the A34 just north of where we live on our originally planned travel day. Our hosts had advised us that it might be best to cut short our stay and we were very appreciative of this sound local advice.
We did come back home a day earlier than planned as the weather forecast was so dreadful. And very glad that we did as there was a real problem on the A34 just north of where we live on our originally planned travel day. Our hosts had advised us that it might be best to cut short our stay and we were very appreciative of this sound local advice. The cottage was gorgeous and we hope to go back again at a different time of year to further enjoy the beauty of the barn and its location.
- Off road parking
- Open fire
- Smoke-free
- Garden / Patio
- Cot available
- Highchair available
- Washing machine
- Dishwasher
- Broadband / WiFi
The property
Buxton 8 miles.
A magnificent, detached stone barn conversion situated in unspoilt open countryside, with uninterrupted views across fields and Gradbach Forest, the site of Lud's Church, and the Roaches, in the Peak District National Park.
Lovingly restored and immaculately-presented throughout, the well-equipped kitchen in this spacious Wildboarclough cottage offers a dining area, original exposed beams and an exposed stone wall.
The bright and airy sitting room boasts patio doors overlooking Dane Valley, a woodburner and further exposed stone walls, adding to the property's charm and character, and making for a delightful room to sit in and relax after a day's walking.
Upstairs, this Buxton cottage continues to impress, with a large landing area housing a cot, and 3 steps leading down and up to the king-size bedroom with its exposed oak beams, wall joists and high galleried ceiling, creating a feeling of quality and style.
Located adjacent to the owners' home, this Buxton cottage sits within 20 acres of peaceful pastureland where there are sheep grazing and a public footpath, guests are welcome to wander through this picturesque land and enjoy the stunning surroundings.
The towns of Buxton and Macclesfield are within easy driving distance and both are renowned for their variety of shops and restaurants.
With fantastic walking right from the doorstep to sites such as the Hanging Stone and Three Shires Head, delightful countryside views, and original character, this is the perfect romantic Buxton base for exploring the Peak District.
One king-size double bedroom. Bathroom with bath, hand-held shower, separate shower, basin, bidet and WC. Kitchen with dining area. Sitting room with woodburner.
- Oil central heating with woodburner
- Electric oven, gas hob, microwave, fridge, freezer, washing machine, dishwasher, TV with Freeview, DVD, radio, CD, iPod dock, WiFi, selection of books, games and DVDs
- Fuel, power and starter pack for woodburner inc. in rent, additional logs available to purchase from owner
- Bed linen and towels inc. in rent
- Cot, highchair and stairgate
- Off road parking for 2 cars
- Bike storage
- Front patio with furniture
- Sorry, no pets and no smoking
- Shop 2 miles, pub 1 mile
- Note: Accessed down a steep farm track which can get slippery in certain weather
- Note: There is a public footpath and sheep in the surrounding 20 acres of land.
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About the location
Tideswell 7 miles; Bakewell 12 miles; Matlock 21 miles.
It was the constant 28 degrees centigrade of the bubbling blue waters of Buxton's eight thermal springs that originally attracted the Romans to the town. However it was during the 18th and 19th centuries, under the patronage of successive Dukes of Devonshire, that the Palladian splendour of the Buxton of today was designed and built - including the magnificent semi-circular Crescent, The Great Stable, Hall Bank, The Square, The Pavilion Gardens and The Opera House. Today visitors continue to enjoy these magnificent buildings and gardens, as well as the Opera House's full programme and annual festivals of music and arts. There is good walking close by with rugged peaks to the north and gentle hills and dales to the south and a number of pretty towns and villages are dotted throughout including Bakewell, Ashford-in-the-Water, Castleton and Edale. The stunning properties of Chatsworth House and Haddon Hall are within easy driving distance and must be seen while visiting this area. A great base for exploring the Peak District.
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A man imprisoned indefinitely in Western Australia after he was ruled among the most dangerous sex offenders in the state has been freed, despite a judge admitting he remains a "serious danger to the community".
In 2010, Shane Narkle, now aged 48, became one of the few sex offenders in WA to be detained permanently, after a judge decided he posed a significant danger to society having committed two rapes 17 years apart.
Locked up indefinitely under the state's Dangerous Sexual Offenders Act, Narkle had already been unsuccessful in one appeal against his detention, after the courts ruled he still posed a major risk to family members and the public.
But in a Supreme Court judgment handed down on Monday, Justice John McKechnie ruled Narkle could be released under the strictest supervision, despite concerns.
"I have concluded that the respondent remains a serious danger to the community," Justice McKechnie said.
"I am nevertheless satisfied that the community will be adequately protected if the respondent is released on a supervision order with strict conditions for a period of four years."
Those conditions include a monitored abstention from alcohol and drugs, a curfew for up to 12 months, regular reporting to authorities and consistent counselling.
In a previous ruling, Narkle was described as "violent, cowardly and callous".
In 1987, he was jailed for eight years after being convicted of drunkenly raping his 62-year-old aunt, an invalid pensioner who was blind in one eye and could only walk with a stick.
After being released, Narkle was involved in numerous acts of violence - including beating his de facto wife who was six months pregnant - until in 2004 he was sentenced to six years in for another sex crime.
He raped a female acquaintance while beating her around the head with a piece of wood, having enticed her back to his home after a drinking session at a local park.
After becoming eligible for release in 2009, the state's Director of Public Prosecutions appealed, arguing no supervision conditions were sufficient to protect the community.
Justice Stephen Hall agreed, saying Narkle posed a "serious danger to the community ... (and) a largely unpredictable risk that could occur opportunistically".
In late 2011, Justice McKechnie turned down an application for Narkle to be freed.
But on Monday, the same judge ruled differently, despite being told by a psychologist Narkle's risk of reoffending was "chronic", and his reluctance to find work means "he will have very little to do and the temptation of both alcohol and sexual offending will be great".
WA's laws allowing dangerous sex offenders to be jailed permanently were introduced in 2005, sparked in part by the repeat offending of Garry Narkle, who was described by former attorney general Jim McGinty as a "serial sex monster".


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Car News
2015 Cadillac Escalade Pricing Announced
- All-new Escalade to start at $72,690
- Mid-level Escalade Luxury starts at $76,690; Platinum at $81,190
- 2015 Escalade boasts a new look inside and out
The 2015 Cadillac Escalade will start at $72,690 when it reaches dealers this spring. That's the latest from Cadillac, which unveiled the redesigned full-size luxury SUV -- now entering its fourth generation -- in October.
With its new price tag, the 2015 Escalade sees a base price increase of around $3,700 over the outgoing 2014 model. That's a big number for one model year, as most automakers typically keep price increases to around $1,000 per year. But the 2015 Escalade's changes are far from typical.
On the outside, the 2015 Escalade boasts completely new styling that closely follows Cadillac's "edgy" design theme. That means the SUV offers sharper lines and more angles. There's also a huge grille, large taillights and massive wheel arches -- all designed to give the Escalade a bold, muscular presence.
But the biggest changes to the 2015 Escalade come on the inside, where the SUV ditches its former truck-based roots for a luxurious, carlike interior. There's a stylish, modern dashboard, a center console with capacitive touch controls and an LCD screen mounted in the gauge cluster. Of course, the Escalade also comes complete with leather upholstery across all three rows of seats.
With its near-$73,000 base price, Cadillac concedes the Escalade's starting price is more expensive than ever. But the brand notes that the SUV also offers more standard equipment than ever before. Newly standard items include Magnetic Ride Control, 20-inch alloy wheels and LED headlights and taillights. There's also a new 6.2-liter V8 that makes 420 horsepower and 460 lb-ft of torque.
Beyond the base-level Escalade, Cadillac will offer two other models. Starting at $76,690, the mid-level Escalade Luxury will add 22-in wheels, a head-up display and a lane-departure warning system. Topping the range is the $81,190 Escalade Platinum, which includes a rear-seat entertainment system and adaptive cruise control.
Drivers who want to add all-wheel drive will have to pay an additional $2,600 on top of the SUV's base price, while the extended-length Escalade ESV will also command a yet-unannounced price premium over the standard model.
What it means to you: The 2015 Cadillac Escalade is pricey, but thanks to the SUV's new interior and cutting-edge styling, Cadillac fans will likely pay the premium.


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Sociology focuses on the study of social life, social change, and social causes and the consequences of human behavior. It addresses the most challenging issues of our times, and in order to provide both explanations of the present conditions and suggestions for the future, it requires familiarity with all other social sciences, including history, political science, economics, anthropology and psychology.
It is a recommended major for students interested in employment in social services, health services, community work, corrections, international business, advertising, marketing and various types of applied research, or teaching — in elementary and secondary schools (with appropriate certification), and in colleges and universities, after completion of master's and doctoral degrees.
The program is flexible enough to meet individual student interests; it offers professional internships and blends well with majors or minors in business administration, criminal justice, political science, communication, education, psychology, ethnic studies, gender studies or international studies.
Program Overview
To earn an undergraduate degree in sociology, you will complete at least 120 semester hours total in general education and sociology courses.
The Bachelor of Arts in Sociology includes:
- 20 semester hours of required sociology courses
- 20 semester hours of elective courses


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Whether you passed your exam(s) in 1953, 1973 or 2013, please mark your achievement by posting a picture of yourself with your ABRSM certificate(s) to:
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If there is an interesting story behind your achievement, we'd love to hear it too!
How will we use the pictures?
We'll highlight our favourite photos and anecdotes on our website, Facebook and Twitter throughout 2015, so please be aware of our image policy and make sure you have parental permission to share your picture if you are under the age of 16.


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Dev Build 2110 is out now, with a final couple of fixes before the next regular build. For the sake of avoiding update spam, you won't get update notification prompts for 2110 - on OS X, this means you'll need to download it manually.
Does this fix the problem myself and others were experiencing with the Select Project window crashing?
I won't bother downloading if it still occurs.
Of course it was fixed I couldn't not download it could I?
So Build 2111 is the official ST2 release?
Yep - 2111 is identical to 2110, except 2111 will give update notifications for regular builds only, while 2110 will give update notifications for the dev builds.
I'm having some issues with indent guides with these dev build. After installing, if I open subl and open a file directly it works ok and shows me the indent guides, but if I go open one of my projects, the indent guides doesn't appear in that files... if I exit and then open again subl (which reopens my project files) they still dont appear.
Any solution?
If you close the files in question and reopen them, the per-file settings will be reset to the defaults, so your desired draw_indent_guides setting will be applied
Vintage mode and indent guides brought me back.Sorry I left. See I had this short affair with MacVimbut now that you have its bindings I'll never leave again.
Now to refamiliarize myself with the awesome shortcutsof ST. I seriously missed CMD+D
Great. So I will stick with 2110 then. Thanks fo all your hard work so far!


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Do you find that your hair lately has been a lot thinner than you remembered it being? When you put it up in a ponytail do you have to wrap the band around three times now instead of only two? Sometimes thinning hair can be an indication of something that's wrong in your body, or an unfortunate side effect of some medication you are taking, but quite often you are damaging it yourself! Here are a few things to consider before you go to see your doctor.
- Do you wear your hair up in a ponytail a lot? Do you use a flatiron every day? Your hair could be damaged and is breaking off. Generally you will notice a lot of flyaway's or shorter hairs around your crown if this is the case. Cut down on your heat styling, use a deep conditioner often, and change the position on your ponytail so it doesn't put pressure on the same area of your scalp.
- You dye your hair often. This can cause undue stress on your hair and scalp and cause more breakage. Make sure your hair is in good condition before you dye it and do not do it any more than every 6-8 weeks. If in any doubt – leave the dye job to the pros.
- Stress. If you are under stress – strange things can happen to your body. Your skin can break out, you can get sick, you can get rashes, and your hair could fall out. Try to incorporate some relaxation techniques into your daily life to keep your body and skin healthy.
- You're dieting. If you have recently cut out a certain food or are limiting your calories your hair could suffer. Make certain you are incorporating all your vitamins into your daily diet or take a supplement.
- Do you play with your hair a lot? Twirling your hair constantly can cause it to become weak at the scalp and break off. Keep your hands out of your hair, or at least twirl different areas.
- You style your hair while it's wet. All you should do to wet hair is blot – NOT rub – your hair with a towel to take out the excess water, and run a comb through it gently. Do not brush wet hair and wait until it is completely dry before using a flat iron, or attempting to tease or curl your hair.
Keep your hair and scalp healthy by following the above tips, not over washing your hair, and keeping it well conditioned.


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This is currently not possible with current XML functions but im hoping that by the time i finish the map it will be possible. (this is highly likely considering that i have worked on this map for about a month so far and done an eighth, you will see why later)
Before Ragnarök
Players would fight to control the 9 worlds of Norse mythology (but there will only be 8 bonuses because two of the worlds are the same with different names).
Then there would be some events that would signal the lead up to Ragnarök:
- 1. The birth of three beings — the offspring of Loki and Angerboda, namely Jörmungandr, Fenrir and Hel and the gods' subsequent actions to confine them;
2. The death of Baldr and the binding of Loki;
3. The arrival of Fimbulwinter.
- 1. Give a bonus of armies to whoever holds the territories containing Loki
2. the removal of Baldrs and Lokis territories.
3. The map will change to add loads of ice to block many attacks routes.
The map will change at a certain turn, (it is still to be decided which).
All the continents of the old map will only be represented by 1 territory, and whoever had the largest force there at the end of the turns will keep his majority on the territory, player will no longer get any bonuses or armies.
The middle of the map will be one big neutral countries, subdivided in to many territories, to represent the plains of Vigrid (where the battle takes place.)
To win the game they have to either control Vigrid or kill everyone else.
Sorry about the length of this, probably did not make much sense!
Thanks for your time.
by the way, i have approval from lack
lackattack wrote:I hope you'll still want to make the Norse mythology map at that time, because it sounds good to me!


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Florida in 3rd straight NCAA regional final with 62-50, ending No. 15 seed FGCU improbable run
ARLINGTON, Texas – Mike Rosario had 15 points and Florida is going to an NCAA regional final for the third year in a row after a 62-50 victory over Florida Gulf Coast, the No. 15 seed whose improbable tournament journey ended just before midnight Friday.
Florida Gulf Coast, the high-flying team from "Dunk City" few people knew before this NCAA tourney, jumped out to an early 11-point lead against the SEC regular-season champs.
But the No. 3 seed Gators (29-7), with a roster filled with NCAA tourney experience, were just too strong and too good.
Michael Frazier made a pair of 3-pointer to start a 16-0 run late in the first half. That came in a 4½-minute span when the Eagles (26-11) had four turnovers and missed their only shot. They trailed the rest of the game.
The Gators play Michigan in the South Regional final at Cowboys Stadium on Sunday. They are trying to get to their first NCAA Final Four since consecutive national championships in 2006 and 2007.


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�Did he take a knee?�
�Yes, he took a knee.�
With that question and that answer, a vision I had been carrying in my mind for several days vanished.
Poof! Gone! Nothing!
There would not be a new Toyota sitting in my drive that night.
In the instant that the knee of Elon University football player Kierre Brown touched the grass of the end zone in Samford University�s Seibert Stadium, my brief flirtation with a unique game of chance was over.
It started on Thursday afternoon when I got a call from a member of the staff at Cox Toyota. My name had been drawn for the special kickoff contest Cox sponsored for each of Elon�s 12 football games this season.
That meant that if an Elon player took the first kickoff of the game and ran it back for a touchdown, I would win a new Toyota.
Now that sounded like a good thing.
It was necessary for me to go over to the dealership and sign a paper and have my photo made � just in case that runback came to be.
I could hear the keys jingling in my pocket.
So I did as I was supposed to do � signed the paper, Rusty Cox made my photo, and Don Cox gave me a tour of the new dealership on Interstate 85. Quite an impressive place.
And then I waited.
I really did not expect to win. The odds of a first kickoff runback are pretty high for any team, but it was fun to be in the game all the same.
The Saturday game did not start until 3 p.m. our time, so I was at the Elon women�s basketball game at that time. I went out at halftime, and when I came back my friend Dr. Donna Van Bodegraven was listening on the radio to the football game, which had just gotten underway.
She gave me a sympathetic smile and said, �You did not win the car.�
�Did he take a knee?�
That indeed was what had happened.
But that is football. The kickoff went into the end zone, and by taking a knee, Elon got the ball at the 25 yard line. Had a runback been attempted, chances are Elon would have been backed up much closer to the goal line. So it was a smart move.
But there is a bit of irony in this story.
After Elon had its series with the ball, they gave it up to Samford, and then Samford had to punt.
Kierre Brown took that punt and ran it more than 50 yards for a touchdown. Had he only done that on the kickoff � but, oh well. You take touchdowns when you can get them, and this was a good one, putting Elon up 7-0 in its final game of the 2013 season.
I got home in time to hear the last half of the football game, and it could not have been more exciting. The Elon guys carried it to one of the top teams in the Southern Conference, and it all came down to one of the most exciting endings I have heard in a long time. Just went the wrong way.
There was even the element of a safety thrown into the mix. Elon backed Samford up into its own end zone and came away with two points. It appeared that those two points might actually be the difference, and with two field goals added for good measure, it meant Samford had to get a touchdown to win. And they had only two and one-half minutes to do it.
It all came down to the last series of downs in the shadow of the Elon goal post. Samford had four shots at it. Elon shut down the first three efforts, but on fourth down, from the 12 yard line and only 7 seconds left, Samford completed a pass and won by one point.
A real heartbreaker that ended a season with several similar heartbreakers. But the players had given everything they had. The breaks just went the other way.
By that time, the car had been forgotten.
So I will keep driving my Honda CRV which, by the way, is maroon.
When the Phoenix Club came up with the idea of �Live the Maroon Life,� I took them seriously.
Don Bolden is editor emeritus of the Times-News. His column appears every Sunday. He can be contacted at email@example.com.


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Northbound traffic facing detours for two exit ramps
Motorists heading into downtown Buffalo on the northbound Skyway (Route 5) will face detours Saturday if they want to use the exit ramps to Pearl Street or the northbound Niagara Thruway (I-190), the State Department of Transportation reports.
Both ramps will be closed from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. for bridge deck repairs. Drivers will be directed to alternative routes.


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Penn St. trustees seek to rebuild communications
Keith Masser was busy enough running his 4,600-acre potato farm
before his schedule got even tighter the past couple months.
In January, he became the vice chairman of Penn State's Board of
Trustees. He likened the time he's put into the leadership position
to that of a second full-time job.
Masser and other board leaders are working to foster openness
and ease tensions on a campus on the mend from the scandalous
aftermath of child sex abuse charges against retired assistant
football coach Jerry Sandusky, who was arrested last fall. Eight of
10 boys he is accused of abusing were attacked on campus,
prosecutors allege.
The trustees remain a target of criticism from vocal alumni
watchdog groups angered by what critics have called the board's
rash decision to fire longtime coach Joe Paterno, days after
Sandusky was charged.
Masser hopes increased interactions with students, faculty and
other university groups are helping repair the rift. Board leaders
recently met with some of the groups as part of an ongoing
listening tour.
"A key component is accessibility," Masser told The Associated
Press in an interview this month.
"We're making ourselves accessible to them," he said. "It
creates transparency and openness, which is relieving some of the
The board has begun an internal investigation of the Sandusky
case led by former FBI Director Louis Freeh, but some critics have
complained about a lack of transparency that they say has raised
questions about trustees' motivations.
"We've heard it all. We got grilled in some of these listening
groups," Masser said before a recent trustees meeting in
Masser assumed his post in January, when banking executive Karen
Peetz was also elected chairwoman after their predecessors stepped
"The biggest issue is keeping the difference between the
Sandusky matters and the crisis … and keeping focused on the
future," Peetz said. "A lot of what we're working on … is to
keep us focused on the future. That's an incredibly important role
for the trustees as we deal with what's current, but we focus on
where we go."
Peetz has stressed three themes early in her tenure: changes in
the board's committee structure related to governance; a continued
focus on "justice for the victims"; and increased
The listening tours appeared to have quelled dissatisfaction
among some members of one interested group, the University Faculty
Senate, which in January had voted down a largely symbolic vote of
no confidence in the board by a 2-to-1 margin. The measure sought
to chastise the board for its handling of the scandal.
There are lingering concerns among some faculty about the
independence of Freeh's investigation, said dairy and animal
sciences professor Daniel Hagen, the Faculty Senate chair who is
also a member of the investigations committee.
Overall, though, Hagen has said, Peetz and Masser have stressed
openness with the faculty. The Faculty Senate has also established
a committee to look at the functions and responsibilities of the
trustees in interacting with various university constituencies.
That report is due May 31. Freeh's report is also expected to be
ready later this year.
Peetz also points to the formation of a new trustees committee
focused on outreach as a way to increase communication.
Skeptics remain.
One watchdog group, Penn Staters for Reforming the Board of
Trustees, has said its mission is to amend the school's charter to
change the structure and functioning of the board.
Trustee candidate Joanne C. DiRinaldo, an educator and
researcher, said this week the board has shown "from my eyes,
incremental baby steps. I would like to see more drastic attempts
with transparency."
She suggested potential changes in bylaws that govern rules of
confidentiality of dissent on the board, and to open up trustees
meeting to public participation.
Unlike other vocal critics on social media, DiRinaldo said she
does not favor the entire resignation of the board because she
could not judge how they made their decisions behind closed doors.
"I will say they arrived at their decision hastily and without due
Another candidate, former Penn State defensive back Adam
Taliaferro, called the board's recent efforts to communicate "a
step in the right direction, more than what's been done previously.
… I'm sure there's more that can be done." He suggested an
interactive podcast, or live video chats, to talk with more
"They just want to know what's going on and be informed," he
said. "The more things we can do to inform the alumni, the
Candidates who win election should prepare to spend a lot of
time getting to work, trustee Paul Silvis said in Hershey.
"When individuals get on the board, they see things with a
different set of eyes, they see what goes on," he said. "We
welcome them to come on in, get ready to spend some time."


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Student Business Hopes to Profit from Class Project
Updated business plan gives HotWokDelivery promising direction.
A requirement of Senior Lecturer Frank Beil's Business Feasibility and Planning course at the Carlson School is to have groups of students craft and present a business plan. For one group this past spring, its plan was more than just a class exercise; it was designed for an already existing, nearly two-year old business.
The plan was for HotWokDelivery, a business founded by student Vuthy Taing in November of 2010. "I have cut my teeth in several different restaurants working as a host, waiter, and manager," he says. "From this experience and analyzing the marketplace I discovered that there are no franchisors of Asian delivery food." Seeing a niche, Taing recruited two of his friends to launch their first restaurant in Coon Rapids. The outlet generated $600,000 in revenue in its first year and expanded to another location in Buffalo. Where to go from here provided the impetus for generating the business plan.
"The idea was very stimulating and it was something that I haven't primarily seen before. Therefore, I wanted to join Vuthy's group and take this business plan to the next step," says fellow classmate Rahul Patel.
Seth Saeugling also was eager to join the group. "I was very interested because this was an already operating, existing business," he says. "The process of franchising and expanding was very new and very exciting to me."
Bringing Tyler Ueland on board completed the group. "After learning about what type of business this was to become, I was surprised throughout that it hadn't been done already," he says. "I was also surprised how quickly I developed a taste for Chinese food."
As a group, the four began work on their business plan. "We held many meetings that seemed only to decide what we would do during our next meeting. However, looking back, those were the meetings where the ideas of what the business was stewed in my mind," Ueland says. "When it finally came down to writing out the business plan, it did not feel like creating a new business on a sheet of paper as much as just finally writing down what we've been cooking the entire time."
Taing says the team began by sitting down with John Stavig, the director of the Gary S. Holmes Center for Entrepreneurship at the Carlson School, to tap into his business experience and expertise. They also interviewed individuals from Solo's Pizza and Davanni's to get insight on their business.
"In addition, we researched existing delivery restaurants such as Jimmy John's and Domino's Pizza to make sure HotWokDelivery projections were in line with the industry," Taing says. "We incorporated the research and the insight from local business leaders and what we learned in Frank's class to craft our own business plan."
This plan is a further development of Taing's existing business concept. "Basically his two existing locations serve great food in a great atmosphere but are in a crappy location," Saeugling says. "Our final plan tweaks what has worked and hasn't worked with HotWok in the past to find an even stronger concept for the business' third location."
Ueland says the group wanted to take the concept Taing started in the suburbs and make it something that would be successful in a city or college campus setting. Thus, the goal is to build the third location at the U. This will be followed by more units elsewhere in 2013 and 2014. "We plan on pursuing a fast-growth strategy by franchising the HotWokDelivery concept in 2015," Taing says.
Besides coming up with a feasible business plan, Taing says this class gave him much more. "You were able to build relationships with others that you would never have fostered on your own," he says. "This class has connected with local entrepreneurs and I've made lifelong friends with my fellow classmates."


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There are five rules (three sir!)... Three rules:
Rule 1: You only get to put up a new movie quote if you correctly guess the current quote.
Rule 2: Don't use google or any other online search engines. This isn't about who has the best search engine, it's about how well you know your movies.
Rule 5 (three sir!)... Rule 3: If no one has guessed your movie in 24 hours, we're gonna need a hint or two. Also, if the thread goes dead for three days, it's open for anyone to post a new quote.
That said, let's start off with an easy one:
I'm your huckleberry.


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Re: Halloween Safety
With Halloween right around the corner, it is crucial that you know which houses your children should avoid when trick-or-treating. It is the goal of the Texarkana Arkansas Police Department to provide accurate information to the public regarding the dangers of sexual predators, and to further build community awareness. To help us achieve this goal we utilize OffenderWatch® to manage, monitor the whereabouts, and conduct compliance checks of the registered sex offenders within our community. OffenderWatch® is the nation's leading sex offender management and community notification tool and we began using this software solution in 2011. OffenderWatch® provides the most accurate and timely information available to the public. To access OffenderWatch® on our website go to www.arkpolice.txkusa.org. Once you are there click on the OffenderWatch® link located on the right side of the home page.
The most beneficial aspect of this address monitoring feature is that once your important addresses and e-mail address have been registered, the system will automatically alert you via e-mail when registered sex offender moves within a specified radius of the registered address.
Register any and all addresses where your children spend a lot of time; for example friends, grandparents, or babysitter's addresses. Registering for this confidential e-mail alert service allows us to monitor your important addresses for you, thereby keeping you up to date of newly registered offenders and making it unnecessary for you to have to check these addresses daily or even weekly. While visiting our website you can also view and print important safety tips to review with your children.
The Texarkana Arkansas Police Department wishes children and parents a safe and happy Halloween. Any questions concerning Halloween safety may be directed to the Public Affairs Office of the Texarkana Arkansas Police Dept. at (903)798-3187.
Thank you and you can visit the Texarkana Arkansas Police Department online at http://www.txkusa.org/arkpolice.
Contact Information
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WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton writes in her new book that she wishes she could have made different, unspecified decisions as President Barack Obama's secretary of state but remains proud of her accomplishments as the nation's top diplomat, according to excerpts released Tuesday.
The potential 2016 Democratic presidential candidate writes in an author's note from her upcoming book, "Hard Choices," that her time at the State Department taught her about the nation's "exceptional strengths and what it will take for us to compete and thrive at home and abroad."
"As is usually the case with the benefit of hindsight, I wish we could go back and revisit certain choices. But I'm proud of what we accomplished," Clinton writes. "This century began traumatically for our country, with the terrorist attacks on 9/11, the long wars that followed, and the Great Recession. We needed to do better, and I believe we did."
Clinton's memoir will be released June 10 by publisher Simon & Schuster and has generated a debate on her record at Foggy Bottom. Clinton is expected to announce whether she will seek the White House by late 2014 — potentially becoming the first female president — and the book arrives as Republicans have questioned her handling of the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, and other decisions on her watch.
In the excerpts, the former first lady and New York senator says she didn't write the book for followers of "Washington's long-running soap opera," but Americans and people everywhere who are trying to make sense of a rapidly changing world. Clinton says, "One thing that has never been a hard choice for me is serving our country. It has been the greatest honor of my life."
She aims to describe her time at State in terms that average Americans can understand, writing that everyone faces difficult choices over how to balance careers with family responsibilities. For leaders and nations, she said, those choices "can mean the difference between war and peace, poverty and prosperity."
When she chose to move to Arkansas and marry future president Bill Clinton and start a family, Clinton writes that "my friends asked, 'Are you out of your mind?' I heard similar questions when I took on health care reform as first lady, ran for office myself," and became Obama's secretary of state.
The four years were a "personal journey," Clinton writes, that brought her an "unexpected partnership and friendship" with her former rival, Obama.
Addressing national security, Clinton says the need to keep America "safe, strong, and prosperous presents an endless set of choices, many of which come with imperfect information and conflicting imperatives."
She cites Obama's decision to authorize the raid to capture Osama bin Laden as a leading example, noting the president's top advisers were divided and the intelligence "was compelling, but far from definitive."
"It was as crisp and courageous a display of leadership as I've ever seen," Clinton writes.
In recent speeches, Clinton has pointed to the bin Laden raid and other highlights of her time at State, describing her work with Obama to address Iran's nuclear ambitions, set the groundwork for Middle East peace and help Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng. She has called the Benghazi attack her biggest regret as secretary of state.
Staying above the fray, Clinton writes the nation will continue to play a vital role, "so long as we stay true to our values and remember that, before we are Republicans or Democrats, liberals or conservatives, or any of the other labels that divide us as often as define us, we are Americans, all with a personal stake in our country."
By releasing the 1,400-word excerpt two weeks before the publication date, Clinton's publisher and advisers are setting the tone for the book ahead of any inadvertent leaks to news outlets. Vogue magazine published a short excerpt on Mother's Day about Clinton's late mother, Dorothy Rodham, and Clinton discussed the book's title in an interview with People magazine.
Clinton will give her first television interviews to ABC News beginning on June 9 with Diane Sawyer, followed by a live interview on June 10 with Robin Roberts on "Good Morning America."
Simon & Schuster said the initial printing will be 1 million copies.
-- The Associated Press


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HOUSTON — At this time last year, Jeremy Lin was sitting in front of a standing-room-only horde of media members in Orlando, a hastily called press conference arranged to ease his burden with the fourth estate, just ahead of the annual commissioner's address from David Stern.
Lin, of course, wasn't even supposed to be part of the weekend, but given his stunning rise last winter, and the fascination with his story and background, the league found a way to include him, even though he had made just 11 starts in his career.
And when he spoke, he was mobbed.
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This year, the crowd around Lin was more modest, and as much as last season might have been fun, he much prefers the level of attention he draws now.
He doesn't quite put it this way, but discuss the events of last year with Lin and there is a sense of sheepishness, a sense that he knew he was getting more attention than he deserved. Even the very word 'Linsanity' is something he tries to keep at arm's length.
"It was a catchphrase for a little bit," he said. "But I just don't let my friends and family call me that."
The changes in Lin's life over the past year go well beyond the attendance at his media gatherings—he had knee surgery to end last season, signed a restricted free-agent contract with the Rockets, was surprised when the Knicks didn't match it and has taken up a new role here in Houston, where his team is fighting for its first playoff spot since 2009.
He is participating as a host of the event and was a contestant in Saturday's skills competition, a situation that suited him just fine.
"It's a wonderful opportunity," Lin said. "For me to be able to roll out of bed, drive three minutes and be here, that's unique."
But for Lin, the thing is, he is not going to be playing for the host team of the All-Star game every year, and he doesn't want to be an annual participant in the skills competition. Back in 2010, when he went undrafted out of Harvard, Lin told friends that it didn't matter, that he would someday be an All-Star in the NBA. That belief hasn't changed.
"That is still something I believe I can do, it is still a goal for me," Lin said. "I just have a long way to go."
He did get some encouragement, at least, from one of his idols, fellow Bay Area native Gary Payton, who is a finalist for the Hall of Fame. Payton worked out with Lin in Las Vegas before the 2010 draft and told him at the time he would be in the NBA.
Having proven right on that prediction, Payton this weekend said he, too, thinks Lin will land an All-Star spot in the future — and Payton throws around compliments like manhole covers.
"I am just humbled that he would say something like that," Lin said. "I worked out with him a little bit before the NBA draft started and for him to say that, that's my relationship with him."
Lin scoffed at the notion that, perhaps, he should have been an All-Star this year. He is averaging 12.6 points, shooting just 43.4 percent. He's nowhere near the top of the heap among Western Conference guards. And he's pretty honest with himself about that.
That's where the reduction in attention he has been getting has been a bonus for him. He is no longer the sports world's top novelty — he is now just a young basketball player trying to figure out how to get better.
"Definitely, it has been more calm," Lin said. "That's good for me. As a young player, I need that space and that room to grow, make mistakes, learn. It's been good but it has been like any other learning process, you go through your ups and downs."
The ups have come in stretches like the one in mid-December, in which he averaged 18.8 points and 9.3 assists in four games. Or in the run leading up to the All-Star break, during which he scored 12 points or more in 10 of 11 games.
The bad, though, has been pretty bad, such as the first month of the season, in which he shot 37.7 percent from the field.
Lin is blunt in his assessment of himself. "I have had some rough moments this season," he said. "I have had moments where I was not playing very good basketball at all. Then I've had glimpses and flashes of the player I am striving to become down the road."
That player — the one we have not yet seen on a nightly basis — is one Lin still thinks will warrant an All-Star spot. We haven't seen that player yet, which Lin is the first to acknowledge.


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Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure
Towards a Leadership-Class Computing Facility - Phase 1
|Edward Walker
|(703) 292-4863
PROGRAM GUIDELINESSolicitation 17-558
Important Information for Proposers
ATTENTION: Proposers using the Collaborators and Other Affiliations template for more than 10 senior project personnel will encounter proposal print preview issues. Please see the Collaborators and Other Affiliations Information website for updated guidance.
A revised version of the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) (NSF 18-1), is effective for proposals submitted, or due, on or after January 29, 2018. Please be advised that, depending on the specified due date, the guidelines contained in NSF 18-1 may apply to proposals submitted in response to this funding opportunity.
NSF invites proposals for the acquisition and deployment of a High Performance Computing (HPC) system, called the Phase 1 system, with the option of a possible future upgrade to a leadership-class computing facility. The Phase 1 system will serve two important and complementary purposes:
- It will serve as a robust, well-balanced, and forward-looking computational asset for a broad range of research topics for which advances in fundamental understanding require the most extreme computational and data analysis capabilities; and
- It will serve as an evaluation platform for testing and demonstrating the feasibility of an upgrade to a leadership-class facility five years following deployment.
A competitive proposal in response to this solicitation will have the following five characteristics:
- A detailed acquisition plan for deploying a reliable and well-balanced HPC system with at least two- to three-fold time-to-solution performance improvement over the current state of the art, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's (UIUC) Blue Waters system, for a broad range of existing and emerging computational and data intensive applications;
- A thorough operations plan for the Phase 1 system to ensure that it will serve as an effective computational tool for the broad scientific and engineering community, and for the Nation at large;
- A detailed three- to five-year project plan for scientific and technical evaluation of the Phase 1 system that will lead to an upgrade design of a leadership-class system, called the Phase 2 system, as well as the physical facility that will host it: the Phase 2 system is expected to have a ten-fold or more time-to-solution performance improvement over the Phase 1 system;
- Clear and compelling science and engineering use cases, as well as detailed strategic project goals for a leadership-class computing facility; and
- A persuasive articulation of educational and industry outreach, and the achievement of other broader societal impact goals, in the long-term strategic plan for the leadership-class computing facility.
Note that the award of a Phase 1 system does not imply any commitment beyond support for beginning the initial planning process for a leadership-class computing facility. The facility planning process may be terminated at any time if satisfactory progress is not demonstrated through annual reviews.
What Has Been Funded (Recent Awards Made Through This Program, with Abstracts)
Map of Recent Awards Made Through This Program


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FRUITA, Colo. (AP) - A Colorado junior high school teacher has been accused of asking female students to send him topless photos.
Randy Majors, 58, was arrested this week on eight felony counts related to sexual exploitation of children in western Colorado, according to court records. He was released Thursday on $20,000 bond.
Police began investigating in November after a mother told police she found a Facebook message from the teacher asking her 16-year-old daughter to send nude pictures without telling anyone.
Shortly afterward, Majors turned over his laptop to Fruita police, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. He also acknowledged asking several girls for pictures, the warrant said.
Fruita police records identify at least four teenage girls who exchanged messages with Majors, including a 17-year-old who sent a picture of herself wearing a tank top.
Majors continued to ask for topless photos days after police took his computer and questioned him about the allegations, the warrant said.
Majors could not be located for comment Friday. Court records did not indicate that he has an attorney. He was arrested Tuesday.
A school district representative said Friday that Majors has been on paid administrative leave since November.
"If these allegations are true, it's grounds for dismissal," District 51 spokeswoman Christy McGee said.
McGee said the district is looking into the case and "not just waiting for the law enforcement investigation."
Majors has been teaching in Mesa County schools since 1994.
He is scheduled to return to court Jan. 10.
(Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
FRUITA, Colo. (AP) - A Colorado junior high school teacher has been accused of asking female students to send him topless photos.