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Nebraska Battles Tar Heels In Sweet 16
Thursday, 05/16/2013
Huskers Advance To Sweet 16 First Time Ever - The No. 16 Nebraska Huskers women's tennis team (24-5), as the No. 15 in the NCAA Tournament head to Urbana, Ill. as one of the 16 teams to advance from the first- and second-round matches to qualify for the finals. The Huskers will face No. 2 North Carolina on Friday, May 17 at 7 p.m. CT. This match marks the first Sweet 16 appearance in program history, making this season's squad the most successful to come through Nebraska.
The matches will be played at the Khan Outdoor Tennis Complex/Atkins Tennis Center and hosted by the University of Illinois in Urbana, Ill. from Thursday, May 16 through Tuesday, May 21. The Tar Heels advanced to the Sweet 16 to face the Huskers after hosting Tennessee, VCU, and South Carolina State. North Carolina defeated South Carolina State in the first round 4-0 before ousting Tennessee 4-1 in the second round.
Huskers In The ITA National Rankings
Nebraska is currently ranked 16th in this week's rankings. The ITA Division I women's tennis rankings were released Thursday, May 2 and Nebraska remained at the No. 16 spot in the nation this week. The Huskers have remained in the top 25 of the nation the entire 2013 season to date peaking at No. 6, the highest in school history.
Mary Weatherholt remained at No. 11 in ITA singles holding a record of 25-1 (12-1 against ranked opponents) on the season, including victories against then-ranked No. 16 Ema Burgic of Baylor, No. 23 Brynn Boren of Tennessee, No. 58 Britney Sanders of Notre Dame, No. 41 Kelsey Dieters of Ohio State, No. 17 Petra Niedermayerova of Kansas State, No. 120 Melissa Kopinski of Illinois, and No. 55 Kate Turvy of Northwestern, No. 111 Leslie Hureau of Indiana, No. 57 Petra Januskova of Penn State, No. 28 Emina Bektas of Michigan, No. 123 Veronica Corning of Northwestern, and No. 38 Aleksandra Josifoska of UNLV. Her only loss to a ranked opponent came at the hands of No. 83 Malika Rose of Oklahoma State.
Mary Weatherholt and partner Patricia Veresova remained in the ITA doubles rankings at No. 3 this week. The two are 20-2 on the season, including six victories against ranked opponents over then-ranked No. 12 Brynn Boren and Kata Szekely of Tennesse, No. 31 Petra Niedermayerova and Karla Bonacic from Kansas State, No. 8 Linda Abu Mushrefova and Nida Hamilton of Northwestern, No. 75 Petra Januskova and Chelsea Utting of Penn State, No. 39 Krisztina Kapitany and Mara Schmidt of Purdue, and No. 2 Brooke Bolender and Emina Bektas of Michigan.
Nebraska is currently 13-4 against teams ranked in the ITA top 75, with six victories against opponents ranked inside the top 25. The Huskers have knocked off No. 7 Northwestern, No. 15 Baylor, No. 18 Notre Dame, No. 19 Purdue, No. 21 Vanderbilt, No. 23 Tennessee, No. 30 Penn State, No. 32 Kansas State, No. 32 Indiana, No. 37 Illinois, No. 55 Ohio State, No. 57 UNLV and No. 64 Wyoming. Nebraska's losses came from No. 10 Miami at the ITA National Team Indoor Championships on Feb. 8, No. 35 Oklahoma State on March 21, No. 7 Michigan on April 13, and No. 15 Northwestern during the Big Ten Tournament semifinals.
The Huskers are the third-highest ranked team in the Big Ten behind No. 10 Michigan and No. 11 Northwestern. Eight teams from the Big Ten are in the top 75 this week, with a total of three in the top 25. The remaining ranked Big Ten teams are No. 30 Purdue, No. 41 Indiana, No. 45 Illinois, No. 47 Penn State, and No. 73 Ohio State.
Mary Weatherholt Earns Athlete of the Week Three Times
The Huskers senior from Prairie Village, Kan. won the Big Ten Women's Tennis Athlete-of-the-Week honors on March 13 following her impressive undefeated record, including several victories over ranked opponents in both singles and doubles. This marks the third time that Weatherholt has earned the award this season thus far, after claiming the honors the week of Jan. 30 and Feb. 13.
Huskers in the Record Books
Weatherholt, with her 25 singles victories thus far this season, has set the record for Career Singles wins at 118, previously held by Sandra Noetzel from 1996-2000. She set the record on Friday, Feb. 22 with a victory agaisnt UALR.
Weatherholt, with an impressive record this spring season at 45-3 combined record (25-1 single, 20-2 doubles), has reached 201 combined victories to become the winningest women's tennis player in Huskers history, formerly held by former teammate Madeleine Geibert with 181 total career combined wins. Weatherholt notched her 200th career win with her singles victory over Rebecca Pedrazzi of Wichita State on Friday, May 10 in the NCAA First Round. Weatherholt has become the first and only women's tennis player to reach 200 combined victories as a Husker.
Stefanie Weinstein has notched 50 combined victories this season which places her at No. 2 on the Career Combined wins record board (with 185). She passed Madeleine Geibert on Friday, April 26 with her two victories against Minnesota.
Weinstein also has 28 individual doubles wins this season which puts her at the No. 1 spot on the school's Career Doubles Individual Wins list at 97. She surpassed former teammate Madeleine Geibert at 91 with her victory against Michigan State on Sunday, April 14 to achieve the top spot.
The 28 victories also puts Weinstein tied for No. 2 on the Season Doubles individual wins list. She needs just one more victory to match the No. 1 spot, currently held by teammate Weinreich, and Weinstein herself from her 2011-12 season last year.
Mary Weatherholt has accumulated 20 doubles individual wins this season putting her at No. 3 on the Career Doubles Individual wins with 83.
Janine Weinreich has amassed 29 doubles individual victories this season notching her at No. 4 on the Career Doubles Individuals wins list with 77 total. Weinreich toppled Reimers (74) with her victory on Friday, April 26 against Wisconsin.
Weinreich's 29 doubles wins this season puts her tied for No. 1 spot on the Season Doubles Individuals wins list. The record is shared with teammate Stefanie Weinstein's 29 wins in 2011-12. Weinreich only needs one more victory to position herself as the lone No. 1.
Weinstein and Weinreich, as a doubles team, have climbed to the top of the Season Doubles Team wins to be tied at No. 1 with their 28 victories this season. The duo needs only one more win to topple the other two pairs that hold the spot and become the most successful tandem in a lone season.
Weatherholt and Veresova Earn NCAA Bids
Nebraska has two seniors participating in the individual championships of the NCAA tournament after the team portion. Mary Weatherholt earned an automatic bid to join 64 players in the singles championships as well as earning an automatic selection with doubles partner Patricia Veresova to play in the 32-pair doubles championships. These matches are held My 22-27 following the team matches on May 16-21.
Huskers Win the Herman, Weatherholt Grabs Top Honors
The women's tennis team earned Nebraska's Herman Award, which goes to the team with the highest team GPA of all the Huskers sports, with a GPA of 3.793. The team won the award last season in 2012 as well.
Weatherholt also earned Nebraska's Student Athlete of the Year award. The award only goes to one male and one female student athlete from all Huskers sports every year and Weatherholt's hard work and success both on and off the court was able to see the senior attain the honor in her final season as a Husker student athlete.
Weatherholt Wins Cissie Leary Sportsmanship Award
Weatherholt received the Cissie Leary Central Region Sportsmanship Award this season. One of 11 candidates, she qualified for the award based on her outstanding capabilities both on and off the court. The ITA/Cissie Leary Award for Sportsmanship goes to a Division I women's player who displays inspiring dedication and commitment to her team, which has enhanced her team's performance and exemplified the spirit of college tennis. It dates back to 1997 and is memory of the late and widely admired Penn women's tennis coach Cissie Leary.
Scouting North Carolina
Head Coach: Brian Kalbas
Record: 28-3
National Ranking: 2
North Carolina enters the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 as the No. 2 seed and the No. 2 ranked team in the nation. The Tar Heels are currently 28-3 overall and have five players in the singles rankings with No. 7 Gina Suarez-Malaguti, No. 39 Whitney Kay, No. 46 Caroline Price, No. 49 Zoe De Bruycker, and No. 121 Ashley Dai. North Carolina has three duos ranked in doubles with No. 39 Whitney Kay and Ashley Dai, No. 58 Whitney Kay and Caroline Price, and No. 67 Gina Suarez-Malaguti and Zoe De Bruycker. The Tar Heels and Huskers have met only one time in history with the series led by the North Carolina 1-0.
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Engagement shoot in Temecula, CA at Falkner Winery.
Steven and Katie have been nothing but a joy to hang out with and shoot. Their wedding will be in March at Katie's gorgeous home north of Temecula. Connie (my wonderful and talented second shooter) and I went to check it out earlier and it is absolutely stunning. We're both looking forward to the big day but until then, here are the engagement shots.

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The ACU has always been dedicated to promoting knowledge and equality but, as its centenary approaches, it must set its sights higher, writes Kottilil Mohandas
The Universities Bureau of the British Empire embarked on its voyage of destiny 93 years ago with a membership of 53. The empire may be a distant memory, but membership of what would become the Association of Commonwealth Universities now stands at 500. And its aims are as relevant today as they were in 1913.
The ACU has always served as an agency for gathering and distributing information on all aspects of higher education, and one of its founding objectives was to promote its members' interests internationally.
Today, "globalisation" is a buzzword and the relevance of the Commonwealth is often disputed, so it has become necessary for the ACU to define its role clearly.
Perhaps its most important function is to enable member universities to share educational resources. Several programmes to encourage student mobility, faculty exchange and training of university administrators have helped to achieve this. Although the Commonwealth encompasses some of the world's most developed and some of the least developed countries, they share a common language and similar educational systems. These are key factors in the ACU's success.
Social inequality is a universal phenomenon that often transcends national and developmental barriers. Perhaps the most glaring example is gender inequality. The ACU is presently examining key gender issues in higher education.
Although Commonwealth institutions are engaged in research intended to benefit mankind generally, students are their raison d'etre. In future programmes and policies, the ACU must continue to focus on the health and welfare of that student body.
In sub-Saharan Africa, HIV/Aids is devastating the population and has claimed the lives of many in higher education. Such health issues inevitably have economic and developmental consequences, but their impact could be minimised or eliminated through proper health education programmes. University campuses are ideal places to implement such programmes. It is hoped that "campus health" will become a priority of the ACU.
The ACU should also explore the possibilities of organising Commonwealth-wide student programmes in sports, arts and culture, as well as staging academic and intellectual competitions. Such activities would promote understanding, tolerance and goodwill among the youth of the Commonwealth countries and contribute to world peace and harmony.
Universities play a major role in national development and students are the key. "Vision 2013" will commemorate the ACU's centenary and is expected to chart the association's course in the second century of its existence.
The universities of the Commonwealth must seize this opportunity to work towards equity in education and pave the way for a more just and rewarding future for our young people and, through them, the rest of humankind.
Kottilil Mohandas is chair of the ACU and director of the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, India.
Association of Commonwealth Universities supplement
Commonwealth university vice-chancellors will have more than the wine of South Australia's celebrated vineyards on their minds when they gather in Adelaide on April 9-12.
The Association of Commonwealth Universities is at one of the most critical turning points in its near-century history.
This supplement, which is published with the support of the University of Queensland to mark the 2006 executive heads meeting, celebrates the ACU's many achievements. However, altruism is no longer enough to justify the membership fee. ACU leaders must address the challenges of a changing world.


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Why Acoustic Treatment?
In the beginning, there was perfect sound…then man invented rooms and messed everything up. The end? Luckily, no. It's been said that the perfect recording environment is the great outdoors. But since that's not feasible, the next best thing is to acoustically treat our rooms so that they don't mangle the sound we record and/or listen to.
Sound Waves
Sound waves generated in a room radiate out to the room's boundaries, are reflected and then interact with each other, much as do ripples in a pond. Visually the effect can be mesmerizing; aurally the effect is guaranteed to be undesirable. There are three types of sound wave reflections. They are axial, tangential and oblique modes, which relate to which direction in a room sound is being reflected from one hard surface to another. The worst of these types is the axial mode, which means sound is being reflected from wall to opposing wall or floor to ceiling. Corners cause a lot of problems, too, boosting the apparent amount of bass in our rooms by 9dB, making us think we have 3 times as much bass as we actually do.
It is for this reason that the field of acoustics has become so important and why some acoustical consultants are literally paid millions of pounds for their work on single projects. But how do we accomplish this sound control that is so vitally important? Generally, by means of absorption and diffusion of the sound waves generated in the room.
Choices In Methodology
While some believe that making a room's surfaces totally absorbent or totally diffusive is the only way to make a room sound "good," this is most often not the case. While it's true that some rooms' acoustics are best controlled exclusively with specific types of treatments, the really great sounding rooms tend to be ones with a proper blend and placement of absorption, diffusion and low-frequency control.
Often, these rooms exhibit a pleasing degree of natural ambience with no flutter echoes or false bass buildup that could color the sound being recorded or monitored.
Many people like diffusion on control room rear walls. However, if your situation dictates, we have other products like TruTraps Broadband Absorbers which look great, absorb really well overall and allow you to gain significant sonic control (especially in the low-frequency department) without excessive dryness.
On the other hand, there are places like radio studios and voiceover booths where a very dry, controlled environment is definitely called for. Drying these rooms out ensures that when a talent is speaking into an open mic, all you hear is an up-close, direct, present sound, not a bunch of detrimental room ambience. Listen to network-quality voiceover work on commercials, movie trailers and the like, you virtually never hear the "room." If you desire liveliness in your performance space, it must be:
- Well-controlled in order to sound pleasing and professional
- Appropriate for your space's intended use.
How Dry Is Dry Enough?
Many standard rooms' acoustical needs can adequately be provided for by periodic (spread) absorptive treatment. For those of us who:
- Don't understand the intricacies of 'tuning' a room or
- Don't have the budget to really go the extra mile, this is good news!
The BBC studied the effects of spreading absorbent materials around a room instead of putting all the materials on one room surface and found that spreading the material around almost quadruples the amount of absorption! This is why we often recommend cutting our 2' x 4' Studiofoam panels into 2' x 2' sections and spreading them apart on the walls and ceiling. Rooms treated this way tend to have pleasing, well-controlled sound without being perceived as too dry.
Choices In Material
The two most common absorbent materials are high-quality acoustical foam and specialized acoustic fiberglass. For brevity, at times we'll generically call acoustical foam just plain "foam", although there are very dramatic differences in cell structure and density between acoustical foam and the thousands of other types we could manufacture. (This is why you can't just run down to the local Super Market and buy mattress pads with which to treat your studio.)
Acoustical foam is well-suited to alleviate slap and flutter echo, the two most common problems in rooms not specifically designed for music recording and performance. In fact, properly placed and chosen acoustical foam can turn even the most cavernous warehouse or gymnasium into a suitable acoustic environment.
You'd be amazed if you could see—and hear—what some of the spaces used to record CDs, commercials and movie soundtracks would look and sound like without acoustical treatments.
Features and Benefits
Foam is easy to work with, simple to trim to size and costeffective for virtually any budget. Foam will improve the sound picked up by your microphones and give you a more accurate monitoring environment, thus ensuring your recordings will sound better ("translate") wherever they're played.
In a listening or viewing space, foam allows you to hear recorded works the way the artist intended without your room detrimentally modifying the sound. Foam makes your environment more comfortable to be in, so you'll find yourself being more productive, at ease and creative, and in general, reaping more enjoyment out of the space.
Most people report much improved concentration and hearing acuity in welltreated spaces.
Many Options
Foam is available in a variety of thicknesses. Which size is correct for your particular room is determined by a variety of factors, including: room size and placement of monitors, types of sound being generated in the room, ceiling height, the materials used to construct the room and its surfaces, the amount of glass in the room, whether there is carpet on the floor (and over what type of pad it's installed) and other factors, not the least of which may be budget.
Based on physics, the thicker the foam, the greater the amount of overall absorption, but especially toward the low end of the frequency spectrum. The most common thicknesses of acoustical foam are 1", 2", 3" and 4". Auralex also has proprietary foam bass traps that are easy-to-install, more affordable than you'd think and phenomenally effective.
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As a companion to our well-received Metro 2" acoustic Absorber and Metro LENRD Bass Trap, we've recently introduced the MetroFusor Sound Diffusor. It's custom made from high quality EPS (expanded Polystyrene), so it's lightweight, affordable and can be easily painted using water-based paints ONLY (petroleum-based paints will 'eat' the expanded Polystyrene). They are also easy to mount and inexpensive…
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Fresh off the success of our best-selling Alpha 1 Acoustic Foam kit, Auralex introduces the sleek, new Alpha-DST Roominators Kit. Not only will the Alpha-DST take the guesswork out of acoustics, but it also improves the sound of everything you record! Now you can actually hear (and record) ONLY the source and NOT what's bouncing off the walls and ceiling.…
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Area Jewish congregations will be observing Passover in the coming week.
Area Jewish congregations will be observing Passover in the coming week.
n Chabad of Wilmington, a Hasidic congregation, will hold its community seder at 8 p.m. Monday at Chabad, 2714 Market St. No prior knowledge or instruction is necessary to participate. For information, call Chabad at 763-4770.
n The Temple of Israel, a Reform congregation, will hold its annual congregational seder at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Bluewater Grill, 4 Marine St. in Wrightsville Beach. For information, call the Temple office at 762-0000.
n B�nai Israel, Wilmington�s Conservative synagogue, will hold its annual second-night seder at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. This traditional seder with Rabbi Robert Waxman will include songs, prayers and dinner. Reservations are required. The cost is $35 for adults, $15 for students, $10 for children ages 6-12 and free for children ages 5 and younger. For reservations or more information, call the synagogue at 762-1117.
n Pesach, or Passover, commemorates the escape of the Israelites from Egypt and their rescue from slavery. It is observed with the seder, a ritual meal in which unleavened bread and other dishes recalling the Egyptian captivity are served with readings and prayers. This year, the holiday begins at sundown Monday and continues through sundown April 2.


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Albumen print by Walter Bentley Woodbury (1834-1885) who invented the Woodburytype photographic process. Born in Manchester, Woodbury lived in Australia and Java, and set-up photographic studios there using the Collodion process. In 1864 Woodbury patented the Woodburytype process, a form of photomechanical gelatin reproduction that went on to become popular in book illustration in the latter part of the 19th century.
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CVC Highlight: Rethinking the causes of canine aggression
Owners and practitioners had observed that aggressive behavior most often occurred when owners attempted to take food or valuable items away from their dogs. Aggression might also be exhibited when a dog was booted out of bed or when it had been harshly reprimanded, particularly after a prior confrontation. Small children were frequently targeted and might be bitten for climbing into a bed or onto a parent's lap when a dog was nearby.
Instead, aggressive dogs often exhibit an assortment of postures that can be difficult to interpret but that suggest a dog in conflict. A dog might have one ear forward and one ear back. Or a dog's ears might point forward assertively while its tail is tightly tucked, indicating fear. Owners routinely report that their dogs tremble after a bite and often slink away or "look sorry."
Furthermore, some aggressive dogs do not exhibit noticeable warning signals at all. Without attempting to communicate intent, they react by biting. But is biting a successful strategy for attaining a respected leadership position in a social group? Impulsive aggressive behavior instead may suggest an underlying pathology such as anxiety.
When aggression was considered secondary to a dog's motivation to dominate people, it made sense for therapy to focus on helping owners regain control. Unfortunately, underlying fear or anxiety often was not addressed.
More disheartening was the way some trainers and even veterinarians interpreted the dominance theory. Owners were told that they must fight to win, whatever the cost. Confrontational treatment strategies were routinely adopted, with corrections applied until there was evidence of submission. Mechanical devices might be used to increase the intensity of corrections, thereby enabling meek owners to more successfully punish their dogs' aggressive responses.
Of course, whenever any therapy is implemented, some patients will respond. But corrections were often poorly timed, and the intensity of the punishment might be too high or too low. These factors often served to increase the frequency and intensity of aggressive behaviors in dogs. With confrontational techniques, both people and dogs are at risk of being injured.
And when all the fighting was over, the dog's motivation for biting remained unchanged. Aggression began because of confusion, and aggression continued because of confusion. Moreover, the bond between the owner and dog was further damaged.


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SCons / BigSignatureRefactoring
The SCons wiki has moved to https://github.com/SCons/scons/wiki/BigSignatureRefactoring
The Big Signature Refactoring
This was an architectural redesign that SK had been working on, off and on, for a long long long long LONG time. It was finally released to the world in the
0.97.0d20070918 checkpoint release.
The basic idea was to change the signature information that's stored in
.sconsign files to:
- allow switching back and forth between content signatures and timestamps in different runs (that used to cause unpredictable behavior)
- provide flexibility to do things like use content signatures for all of a target's source files except for, say, the one huge file that takes too long to checksum, which can be configured independently to use timestamps
- allow SCons to work on just a subset of the dependency graph and still build consistently (i.e., be less rigid about having to read the whole DAG, which used to be necessary to make sure the build signatures were consistent between runs)
- provide for fast development builds of just one subdirectory in a big tree, possibly by supporting an
SConstructfile in each directory (with
SConstructfiles including subsidiary
SConstructfiles, instead of one
SConstructfile and the subdiaries all being
SConscript), or possibly by allowing direct execution of
- support the ability to read implicit dependencies from
.dfiles generated by (for example) the
gcc -MDoption
avoid rebuilds if explicit dependencies are re-ordered (although re-ordering source files or implicit dependencies does matter and will still cause a rebuild) One key effect of this change was that build signatures (re-MD5 summing the dependencies' signatures) went away entirely, mainly because build signatures make it impossible or difficult to do some of the things above. In particular:
a build signature can't be used if you want to mix-and-match content signatures and timestamps in the same target file decision
- build signatures can't be used for just a subset of the dependency graph without doing things like just "believing" the build signature stored in a
.sconsignfile, which allows inconsistent builds in various corner cases It's unclear what the overall performance impact has been. Update: after optimizing this code at VMware, it looks like this is a win -- not order-of-magnitude faster, but maybe 10%-20%-30% faster. It's possible this is just optimized for VMware's configuration, but the code should be easier to optimize for other bottlenecks that pop up.
There was a branch in the Subversion repository,
branches/sigrefactor, where SK had been working on this. It lay fallow for quite a while, but SK's contract employer during 2007 (VMware) revived the work for a number of reasons. The code was finished and promoted into
branches/core and then released to the world as checkpoint release
0.97.0d20070918. The promotion contained updates to all the necessary tests to validate the new behavior, but did not update the documentation concerning signatures and up-to-date decisions.
 Greg Noel, 2007-02-14:
There is a recurring scenario in determining the exact dependencies where an external change (e.g., a file is moved from one location to another, or the include path is changed) can cause a build to be out-of-date even though the signatures of all the upstream objects still match. SCons currently solves this problem by always rescanning the dependencies to confirm their location.
It occurs to me that this is really a signature problem and should be solved within the signature system. Since the Big Signature Refactoring will be a traumatic upgrade (viz., everything will be rebuilt), it would be a good time to incorporate this small change, since it will cause all signatures to be different.
In brief, the proposal is to include the name of the object in the signature. Since signatures of upstream objects aren't requested until after the upstream objects have been evaluated, their canonical name is known, so the signatures would be stable.
Here's an example: It doesn't matter if the file comes from
/source/foo.h, or
/build/foo.h; the file is considered the same. The canonical name of the file is '
foo.h' and that is the name folded into the signature. However, if the file is moved to
include/foo.h and the file is picked up at a different point in the include path, it is considered a different file. In that case, the canonical name is
include/foo.h and that is the name folded into the signature, and a rebuild would be triggered of any dependent targets.
It would mean that caching implicit dependencies would be safe and there would be no need to rescan on a routine basis. The Taskmaster would only need to determine that the signatures of the source(s) and implicit dependencies are unchanged. If the BSF also optimizes signature calculation by treating files whose timestamps are unchanged as OK, then the ideal case would only cost a single stat() call to identify that a file was unchanged.
Steven Knight, 2007-08-17, comments by Greg Noel, further comment by Steven Knight, yet more comments by Greg Noel:
SK gave a semi-formal talk at VMware about the Big Signature Refactoring a few months ago. The PowerPoint slides are saved here. I'm not completely sure how comprehensible it is without me being able to explain verbally the differences in the
.sconsign file formats (for example).
There were a number of good issues raised at the meeting. I've captured them here, along with my commentary in italics, mostly based on things I communicated back to the VMware attendees earlier but with some updates based on work since then:
- Don't store the signatures of source files in the
.sconsignfile (e.g. *.[ch] files) There are two places in the code where source files had the NodeInfo class attached and updated. Commenting out the update and re-running the tests was successful, so it looks like this won't be hard to eliminate entirely. Preserving these in the
.sconsignfile may end up as a configurable option, as a way to cache the results of MD5 checksum calculations of large files.
JGN: Is there ever a reason to store the full source (as opposed to hash of the source) in the
.sconsign file? Having to read the source from both the
.sconsign file and the actual file can only increase the run time.
SK: Overly-terse note-taking on my part. I underlined the clarification above. For a program
foo built from a single
foo.c file which
#includes a single
foo.h file, the old
.sconsign format was:
foo: 8f72e133e001cb380a13bcb6a16fb16f None 1176861920 6762 foo.o: e61afae6ccfe99a63b0b4c15f18422f6 foo.o: e61afae6ccfe99a63b0b4c15f18422f6 None 1176861920 1488 foo.c: b489a8c34c318fc60c8dac54fd58b791 foo.h: c864c870c5c6f984fca5b0ebd7361a7d
But the new format is:
foo: 5701724287c3d3847516781876f56d87 1176862330 6762 foo.o: cc74a5b5cd4b174a59b58495cd2ef1f9 1176862330 1488 c4245ece9e7108d276b3c8eb7662d921 [$LINK -o $TARGET ...] foo.c: b489a8c34c318fc60c8dac54fd58b791 1176861903 55 foo.h: c864c870c5c6f984fca5b0ebd7361a7d 1176861911 19 foo.o: cc74a5b5cd4b174a59b58495cd2ef1f9 1176862330 1488 foo.c: b489a8c34c318fc60c8dac54fd58b791 1176861903 55 foo.h: c864c870c5c6f984fca5b0ebd7361a7d 1176861911 19 d055c09cba5c626f5e38f2f17c29c6fa [$CC -o $TARGET -c...]
Note the separate entries for
foo.c and
foo.h, even though they're not built targets. The observation was made that these aren't strictly necessary, since you only ever really compare against the information stored in the dependency list for
foo.o (for example). Additional work since I wrote the above note revealed a reason why preserving these entries was necessary, though, although I can't remember why right now (nor find any comments as to why).
JGN: Ah, I see, the actual question is whether to store a signature for a DAG leaf; thanks for the clarification. I don't think so. Even in the case where the Decider doesn't use all the information, the extra information is saved in the dependency, so it's available somewhere. If you can remember why you thought so, we can reconsider, but for now, I see no reason to do it.
- If foo.o is an intermediate (target) file, it gets stored in the
.sconsignfile. If you really change it to a source file, when and how can you really prune its information from the
.sconsignfile, as opposed to keeping it around forever because it might be a target file again in the future? Probably the simplest way would be to just document that these go away when you remove a
.sconsignfile by hand. If we wanted to have a way to remove them automatically, the entry in the
.sconsignfile will have a timestamp for these files. One possibility would be to remove these if they're ridiculously out-of-date, like a built file with a
.sconsigntimestamp more than a year old and treated as a source file in this build would cause the
.sconsigninfo to be removed. The threshold would be configurable, of course.
JGN: I'm not sure I understand this scenario, but it's perfectly possible to be dealing with files more than a year old. If what you're recording is the last time you used this file, that would be fine, but if you're just using the file's timestamp, one run that didn't use the file would discard the information, then the next run that did would cause a rebuild, even if the file was still OK.
SK: In the example above, suppose
foo.o is built in a separate directory or something, and you run the build a second time without reading the
SConscript file that builds
foo.o. You still link the
foo executable, but you want to treat
foo.o as a source file this time, even though it has dependency information from the previous full-DAG build still in the
.sconsign file. So in the case building just a subset of a full-DAG build, you want to preserve this dependency information, even though you're not using it.
Now suppose you actually CHANGE the build configuration so that
foo.o really IS a source file--you check it in to your source code system and completely eliminate
foo.c from your build. If SCons normally preserves "vestigial" dependency information in a
.sconsign file because it might be a subsetted build, how can it ever decide to remove the information when it's really not necessary?
JGN: Yes, that's how I understood it: it's how long you keep the dependency information for
foo.o as well as the signature information (if any) for
foo.c. My concern stands: if you only use the file's timestamp, you could discard information prematurely. You need to record the last time you used the dependencies of
foo.o (checked to see if it needed to be rebuilt) and the signature of
foo.c (used it as a source); if these dates are more than mumble days ago, toss them. Since you always rewrite the
.sconsign file, this shouldn't add significant overhead. (A year seems too long; it's certainly a conservative choice.)
If we use .d files (and build signatures?) to store compiler-generated dependency info, a build in a freshly-checked-out tree will never pull a file from the CacheDir() the first time in a fresh tree, because it will be missing all of the .d file dependencies and won't be able to compute the correct signature. I don't have a good answer for this one. It may be that we just have to document that CacheDir() and .d files are not compatible. That's lousy, but I don't know how you could make this work.
If it's configured to look at the timestamp and then look at signatures if the timestamp is different, should it update the target (or source?) timestamp if the signatures are the same, to avoid the check in the future? The current scheme is to just record whatever's available as a by-product of the decision (or was already available from a preceding run). So if the
Deciderfunction for a given Node looks at both the timestamp and signature, both will get stored. If it looks at only one, then only one gets stored.
JGN: So if the Decider only looks at the timestamp in one run, the hash would be discarded? That's not right, unless there's a way for the Decider to say that it wants the hash to be kept.
SK: No, in general it does preserve information from preceding runs, so long as the file is up to date.
If we UnTar a file, "unpredictable" timestamp values would be put on all of the "target" files extracted from the tar file. Should we use a build signature to propagate rebuilds up the DAG? Not sure. This needs more thought/investigation.
Object files with timestamps in the header would cause rebuilds after a comment in a source file has changed to propagate "unnecessarily" up the DAG. This is simply something that would have to be configured by the user as appropriate for the toolchain. Tools that stamp the contents of a target file in this way would need to be configured to not use the file contents. I could also see adding a hook into the logic that fetches file contents that would allow the user to supply a function to ignore the timestamped header when return the contents for MD5-summing.
JGN: This hook would have to be dependent on both the source and target. Comments that would be discarded for the MD5 hash of a file to be passed to the C compiler are the real input to the Oxygen documentation generator, which would have a filter that discarded the C text.
SK: Actually, I'd say it's a function of the source and the Builder, not the target
per se. Implicitly that means it's dependent on the type of target involved.
JGN: Er, yes, I think we're saying the same thing. I did assume the filter would be attached to (or by) the Builder.
- SCons is missing dependencies on the actual tool binaries themselves. If you change compiler versions, it should know that everything needs to be recompiled. This is actually a general issue, not specific to the signature refactoring. Adding a dependency to the invoked binary itself isn't hard (the Perl-based Cons classic did it) and should have been done a while ago. It's not a complete solution, though, because a tool like gcc has a whole bunch of subsidiary executables and libraries it uses, so just depending on the gcc wrapper itself isn't sufficient in the general case.
JGN: I think it's more important to create dependencies to local executables to make sure they're built before use than it is to worry about whether the GCC wrapper represents the total executable. And I'd also make the dependency just a timestamp unless the object was also built by the
SConstruct, in which case I'd use whatever the default was. I think this functionality needs to be present as a part of the 1.0 release.
SK: Agreed. Right now I'm thinking of rolling it right in after merging
branches/sigrefactor, maybe even for the next checkpoint.
JGN: That would be great. It would be really good to get it in before the next (external) release; we should try to combine changes that affect the schema into a single release.
How do we handle dependencies on Alias Nodes? Should they be "expanded" into the list of underlying files when stored in the
.sconsignfile, or should they be stored them, or should their collected signatures be stored as-is? Storing "expanded" lists of underlying file signatures avoids unnecessary rebuilds if you change the Aliases in your SConscript configuration without touching the underlying files. But storing all those lists of files over and over might make the
.sconsignfiles pretty big. Really, you probably want to allow the user to configure this. I seem to have a fix to the code that allows storing Alias info as-is, but I haven't run it yet against the VMware code base. There's also an independent patch (to allow Aliases to be used as Builder sources) that might handle the "expansion" of signature information to the underlying files, but I haven't tried mixing that in yet.
Value Nodes? How are they handled? Dependencies on Value Nodes look like they're handled correctly. I can express a dependency and the right signatures get calculated and rebuilds happen or not based on whether the change occurs. I need to make sure the
sconsignscript that dumps
.sconsignfile info prints these correctly.
Should there be a way to delete
.sconsignvalues? Probably. I haven't thought through what this would look like. At first glance, it probably makes more sense to have it be an option to the
sconsignscript, not an option to scons itself.
JGN: Yes for an option to
sconsign; it should be the number of days since the value (either dependency or signature) was used, as per the comment above.
There should be a way to populate
.sconsignvalues from an up-to-date, fully-built tree. Yes. Actually, populating the values would already happen automatically -- scons always dumps its current build info in there. What this really means is that we want it to not rebuild the targets it already finds on disk, which shouldn't be too hard to code up.
Should we really use CPPPATH directories as direct inputs to a build? That is, shouldn't we rebuild if a new .h appears in any CPPPATH dir, because the dir contents changed...? I think this is a really great idea. It would make the CPPPATH directories first-order inputs to the builds they affect, with their "contents" (the list of entries in the directory) being what we track for changes. After all, the preprocessor does open up and search the directory for the files it includes...
JGN: Rescanning every time a directory changes is overkill. The signature for a file found by searching a directory list should include (a) the directories scanned where the file was not found, (b) the directory where the file was found, (c) the name of the file, and (d) the calculated values (timestamp, hash, whatever). This is generic; a file not located by a search simply has an empty list for (a). More than this is not needed: as long as the search for each source finds the same file again, it doesn't matter if the directories have changed in an unrelated fashion. (This is the essence of my block of comments above.)
SK: This really merits a whole separate discussion. The basic idea is to avoid unnecessary rescans by recording a dependency on each CPPPATH directory, where the "content signature" would be the
list of files in that directory. Then, if a directory in your CPPPATH hasn't changed--because it has the same list of named files--you know you don't need to rescan for the pathological corner case of a same-named file in multiple directories. But again, we need a more thorough, separate discussion of this...
JGN: I can believe that you'd want to gobble down the contents of a directory the first time you encountered it in a search as an optimization to make the 'is this file in that directory' test fast, but that's not the same thing as attaching the directory contents as a dependency. All that the signature needs to record whether or not the file was found in a directory; the fact that the directory contents may have changed in some unrelated way is not material to whether a rebuild should occur. In fact, think of the case where a directory's contents are changed by subsequent actions within the same run (another header copied into a local include directory, for example). This shouldn't trigger a rebuild in the next run (unless, of course, the new header had the searched-for name, in which case, the
SConscript probably doesn't have the right dependencies specified, but that's not SCons' problem).
Yes, it probably merits a separate discussion. Just untangling the requirements is tricky, and describing all the corner cases isn't easy. I don't think it's sufficient to have a conservative implementation that will rebuild too often; what's needed is a design that will rebuild exactly often enough.


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Software application used to produce interactive learning materials that bring together all components of a course, such as text presentation, graphics, tracking, and links.
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Any instructional event that can be accessed via a standalone computer.
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Information stored in a database and used to communicate skills or knowledge. It can be in any media format, including text, graphics, animation, video, audio, and HTML plug-in. It is combined with practice items and assessment items to create a RIO.
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reusable information object (RIO)
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reusable learning object (RLO)
Information, based on RIOs, overviews, summaries, and assessments, that supports a specific learning objective.
self assessment
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self-paced learning
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subject-matter expert (SME)
An individual who has substantial knowledge about and skills in a specific subject.
synchronous learning
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virtual classroom (VC)
A scheduled offering that is available at multiple locations (either desktop or classroom) via a network.
Web-based training (WBT)
Any instructional event that can be accessed via the Internet or the Web.
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The upside of using programmes like MUS, Sonlight, IEW, & Apologia Sciences is that it's pretty simple to just get the next book or level. Which is basically what will be happening here; there was some debate about the next SL level for Morgan, but that was quickly sorted.
It's always a relief to be at that halfway point in our year & be able to breathe a little easier. Mind you, we only breath easier if people are on point with their studies & for the most part everyone is. We had a stall with math in waiting for new curriculum to arrive {our fault} & so there's a small hiccup there, but we're not too worried about it. We've also made a small change to science {again} for Jayden, but that'll be okay too.
We wrapped up our current poet, Emily Dickinson in the poetry book we've been reading. We really enjoyed her poetry & the biography in this book has sparked ongoing chatter about this poet. The only downside we had with her poems were that they don't have titles & so at times we had a bit of confusion as the reader plunged from one poem right into the other thinking they were connected & just different stanzas.
We're still enjoying Anne Shirley's story. Oh the memories reading this book with my boys brings back. I still remember all the fuss & bother when the origional movie was on tv & how my father diligently recorded it so we could watch it over & over again.. As I read I hear those very voices all though I cannot mimic them. Morgan was dissapointed we didn't get to read as much of Anne's story this week as we would have liked, but we had a few late mornings & when that happens Anne's story is put on the back burner.
The Animal Whisperer has nearly wrapped up Ancient Rome in history. He's enjoyed aspects of this time period, but is really at that point in our term where he's ready for a break. He wrapped up the 1st volume of SOTW & is due to start the second one on Monday. He'll only read a couple of chapters before we'll have him lay it aside for the term. He's reading more chapters of MOH in order to wrap up Volume 1 before the end of term. That way he can jump into Volume 2 & enjoy hearing about the new church as he starts in on the middle ages. I also have a few books for that time period I'd like to pull out & read with him.
Morgan wrapped up Volume 5 with HUS this week & is eager to jump right into Volume 6. That's the last one to read before term break. He is, however, really missing hearing more than one view for his spine this year. In previous years we've always had a couple of spines going at a time so he can hear the same stories from different view points, allowing him to draw his own conclusions. One year, I think we had 3 spines going, which was crazy, but he absolutely loved it. He asked if we happened to have MOH IV on hand so he could read corresponding lessons. Unfortunately we don't, as it's still quite pricey, but I told him I'd pick up the MP3 Audios for him.
Yes, I mark up my IGs. I tend to sit down & highlight various sections for the weeks ahead. Yellow are discussion points, Green is vocabulary & Key people or times. Blue is geography. All though I think all you can see in the photo above is green & yellow.
Jayden's timeline is still rapidly growing. He's still adding to BC all thanks to MOH, while SOTW is up to AD. It's funny to be adding both at the same time! We're now up to 4 lines. We had 3, but he really wanted a fresh line for the AD pieces. We'll have to give an updated picture/video at the end of term. We have a few BC pieces out of place as the count down vs up causes a few hiccups when pieces are added at times.
Morgan's new math book arrived this week, hoorah hoorah! Yes, he was excited too, no seriously he was! However, it arrived late enough int he week that I suggested he wait to dig in until the weekend. He starts new lessons on the weekend so that if he needs any guidance Mr S is there to work with him. I suspect he'll breeze through the first lesson, but I guess we'll wait & see. He's relieved to have his new book, this kid takes his school pretty seriously. Yes, he's laying inside a pizza; his USA Gram crocheted that for him for Christmas. Isn't it awesome?
Jayden wrapped up another math lesson this week as well. He should finish his current math book in 2 weeks unless he gets hung up on any upcoming lessons, which I doubt. Despite his nervousness with math at the beginning of this term he's doing really well. I wasn't sure how the last few lessons in the book would go, but I'm delighted to see they've been a breeze. It never fails that the lessons that trip him tend to be the easier ones & the more complicated lessons are "no big deal" for him.
Morgan finally hit the point in Cover Story where he's been given some writing assignments, we'll see how that goes. Previous to hitting that point I'd suggested that if he didn't get some writing assignments soon we'd need to move into another writing curriculum & he was rather aggrieved at the mere thought! He has a large assignment that will be due next week, but he's pretty excited about it so I can't wait to see how it goes for him.
Jayden's writing {IEW} showed up this week, so he'll jump in with that in the new week. We're new to IEW, but we've had various people recommend it for the reluctant writer & our boy certainly fits that name to a T. I'm excited & leery to see how it goes for him, & totally delighted that they have video lessons.
Jayden wrapped up nearly all of the Chemistry in BkSk Science 6, & we've decided to shelve the remainder of this science programme. We ran into the same problems using it a second time as we did using it the first time. While we love this book the various sections are written for different age groups & the Chemistry section is actually quite thick. When I noticed my boys eyes were glazing over & he was no longer paying attention it was time to decide what to do next. It doesn't help that the experiments are limited & once you wrap up the chemistry section the experiments still only focus on chemistry. He'll return to his Science In The Beginning book for the remainder of this year & then we'll give BkSk Science 7 a whirl.
Morgan moved into Module 4 in Marine Biology & enjoyed kicking off the week with a lab. It was pretty simplistic in that he just needed to cut open sponge & determine what type he had, with the beach next door we were able to collect more than one sample for him to check out & he after the lecture he was quickly able to tell us which types of sponge he had. The postal satchel was just what he pulled out of the bin to cut open the sponge on as we had no newspaper on hand.
A better look at his awesome sponge. We'd gone to the beach last Sunday intentionally to pick up various pieces of sponge for him. There's always a bunch of it laying around the beach so we scouted out the three varieties we most often see on our beach. At the park on Friday he went down to the beach & found a magnificent specimen bigger than a human head! We use to find large chunks like that & the kids would wear them as hats when they were younger. Ahh, I don't miss all the sand in the hair. hehe
We should be wrapping our grammar book in another couple of weeks, just in time for the end of term break. I had to chuckle this week when my eldest grabbed the book off the table & said, "Wait, what? I didn't realise you meant the name of the story was really The Nose Tree! I thought you were just kidding." Ahh, that funny boy!
Wednesday things were completely chaotic in the house & when Morgan realised how late it was he asked if I'd like him to make dinner. Who am I to decline an offer like that? Pasta alla matriciana with Peas, better known as Bacon Pasta in our home, was on the menu so he set himself to work. Mr S generally makes this meal around here so when he came in & saw what was being cooked he found it really hard not to "help". As a note, we swap chicken broth for the wine & don't add chilli, I think when Mr S made it the first time he opted not to use chilli because the kids were younger & couldn't handle anything "hot". Due to dairy allergies cheese isn't mixed in the pot, but each person who can have cheese adds it on their own plate.
This funny blue blob was made from Jayde's thinking putty. He was using his putty during math, but had become distracted so I asked him to put it down so I could add a face to it.. Later he hid it in the hood of jacket to "surprise me", all though the surprise was on him because I didn't find it until the next day when it required extreme help to remove it from my jacket! Ha!
We had an outing on Friday, just the park, where the kids met up with a friend. We didn't stay incredibly long, but the boys still enjoyed themselves. Morgan has been attending to French & Piano during the week as well, but generally when I'm busy so no photos. His French is coming along well enough now that when I'm practicing mine of an evening & Mr S asks what on earth I'm saying Morgan can generally pick up the gist of it, or at least say, "Dad it's French, you wouldn't understand." All in all, another lovely week of school all wrapped up.


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Firstly thanks for awesome game
My question is how come parking mania has a different high score system than free parking mania when it's exactly the same game..
I have 280 medals and proudly tried to show a friend but the people topping the high score on his version does not include me!!! Why is this?
Also can you also get rid of the money glitch people topping the high score?
Thank you
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Last October, Autodesk announced support for AutoCAD 2010 on the Windows 7 operating system. Have you made the leap yet? I've been resistant to the change, not because I haven't heard great things about Windows 7, but because I've been traveling/presenting so much and I don't dare change operating systems (or anything else) right before a presentation. That would be crazy, right?
While I've been circling the globe, my husband (and personal IT expert) enthusiastically updated my extra computer with Windows 7. That was just over a week ago and I had only one day to transfer my data and get comfortable with my new system before hitting the road again. The file navigation and screen settings (resolution and projection) took a little getting used to. But, overall, it's been an incredibly easy transition. And, not only did I change operating systems, I went 64-bit!
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Graduating Students Relocating to the East, West, and Everywhere in Between
Each year about 12% of graduating seniors find job opportunities in other states.
With hard-earned diplomas in hand, graduates will leave behind campus and enter the "real world" this summer. For the majority of Carlson School undergraduate students that means starting a career at one of the great companies located in the Midwest. However, each year about 12% of graduating seniors find job opportunities in other states. This year is no exception as students have reported relocating to cities including New York City, San Francisco, Boston, Atlanta, and Memphis.
Supply Chain and Operations major Corissa Ranum is moving to Delaware to work as an Area Manager for Amazon, the online shopping giant. After completing an internship with Amazon last summer, Corissa fell in love with the company culture and decided to accept a full-time position. Corissa is excited for the move even though she has lived in Minnesota for most of her life. She would like to return to the Twin Cities eventually but says, "I first want to explore around."
On the opposite coast, Management Information Systems major Nate Tennant will be working as an Associate Consultant for Microsoft in Seattle. While he looks forward to expanding his network with people and companies outside the Midwest, he is also excited about exploring both the city of Seattle and all the outdoor activities that the Pacific Northwest has to offer.
Searching and interviewing for a job out-of-state can be overwhelming but fortunately students have many resources available to them. Corissa found her Amazon internship through the Undergraduate Business Career Center and explains, "They have a wealth of knowledge and can connect you with out-of-state opportunities."
Students can also tap into the strong network of more than 50,000 Carlson School alumni working in cities around the world. Marketing major Vallari Ajgaonkar will be relocating for the Customer Development Rotational Program at Unilever and she recommends talking with a Career Coach. "They can help you begin planning and reaching out to Carlson alumni living in the cities you may want to someday live in."
Vallari acknowledges she had wonderful internships with Minneapolis-based companies but was looking for an opportunity to challenge herself in another geographic location. "Because the idea of taking a job with Unilver, an international company, and moving to a new state scares me, I know it's what I need." Just like Corissa and Nate, Vallari is eager to discover a new city, and most of all, get started on her career.


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LODI - A former Lodi Unified administrator who is suing the district for wrongful termination after she ordered a citizen's arrest against a teacher has amended her complaint against the district, bringing forward additional allegations of campuswide retaliation she said was fueled by a "donut campaign."
LODI - A former Lodi Unified administrator who is suing the district for wrongful termination after she ordered a citizen's arrest against a teacher has amended her complaint against the district, bringing forward additional allegations of campuswide retaliation she said was fueled by a "donut campaign."
Lurdes Rosales, who was a vice principal at Lodi Middle School before being removed from her post after the 2011-12 school year, dropped the teachers union from her complaint but has reserved the right to seek damages from "Does 1 through 100", meaning any person who is found to have "worked behind the scenes to orchestrate retaliation against" Rosales, the educator's attorney Israel Ramirez said.
"It's routine," Ramirez said. "It just allows us, if we find that somebody played a large role, to name them later."
The amended complaint details how Rosales came to have a contentious relationship with physical education teacher Jon Lapachet. She claims Lapachet treated female and minority students poorly, and as a female and minority herself, she attempted to put an end to what she considered to be oppressive behavior by him.
She claims Lapachet would mispronounce her first name as "Lard ass" instead of "Lurdes" saying he couldn't pronounce her ethnic name, among other allegations.
Their conflict reached a boiling point in December 2011, just before holiday break, when Rosales said Lapachet assaulted her with a push during a PE course. The administrator did not handle the issue through district channels but called police and had Lapachet arrested.
Former Lodi Middle School Principal Patricia Lingerfelt likened Rosales to civil rights leader Rosa Parks, who refused to move to the back of a public bus in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955.
The San Joaquin County District Attorney's Office declined to file charges against Lapachet, and the criminal case against him was dropped. Lapachet has refused to comment throughout the case and could not be reached Wednesday.
Before the charges were dropped, Lodi Middle School teachers rallied against its administrators and mounted an anti-bullying campaign against Rosales, she claims in court documents. The teachers union began delivering donuts to the middle school with messages such as " 'Donut' meet with administration alone. You might end up in the 'hole' " and " 'Donut' be bullied! Always use the buddy system when meeting with administration."
Rosales perceived the messages to be directed at her, according to court documents.
Lodi Unified Personnel Director Mike McKilligan said he had few details on the case, and did not comment other than to say the case has not been settled.
Prior to the amended complaint, Lodi Unified had filed a motion to strike down the case. The district will now refile that motion, or answer the complaint, Ramirez said.
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... have been greatly exaggerated - so take a deep breath and relax, folks.
Sometimes life gets in the way and one must turn one's attention elsewhere. TI will return next week, once my teaching obligations have concluded for the semester.
For anyone needing a daily hit of mid-century art and discussion (and in the absence of new posts here on the blog) I encourage you to join the TI Facebook Group, where nearly a thousand members have already added well over a thousand scans of illustration, design, comic and cartoon art from the '80s all the way back to the late 1800s.
The lively, far-ranging discussion continues daily and around the clock. It's quite a marvelous thing. Hope to see you there!
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Knives & Needles Blog
Tattoos and food. If you add Beyonce into the mix, then you have my perfect trifecta of awesome. And it seems I'm not alone (except the Beyonce part), considering the response to our post on Chad Koeplinger's 10 Best Meals of 2013; so I wanted to share another great blog for those who hunger for the culinary and tattoo arts in one lovely bite.
Knives & Needles is the online home where "Where Chefs can talk tattoos and Tattooers can talk food." Written by Molly Kitamura (speaking of lovely!), the blog includes interviews with tattooed chefs (including photos of their artwork), favorite recipes of tattoo artists, and food tattoos featured on "Tattoo Tuesday." There are also cooking tips from Molly, who's background is in holistic nutrition.
Molly offered more on what inspired the blog on Tattoo Artist Magazine:
This is a blog that I started because I have a passion for food and a love for tattoos. I am a professional sushi chef of over 13 years and have worked all over the world for more than a decade. Over my travels working in various kitchens, I always noticed how many chefs are tattooed. Not only tattooed, but many heavily tattooed. I myself am pretty heavily tattooed. Not to get too deep but this has always interested me and I think that chefs and tattooers have similar personality types; artistic, transient punks who are traditionally the lowlifes of society working in a thankless profession. Tattooing and the chef profession have both seen a 180 to their popularity and reputation in recent years with TV shows and celebrity stars being formed in this modern-day atmosphere. I want to give all those tattooed chefs the chance talk about something other than food and give foodie tattooers a chance to talk about something other than their work with this blog!Molly's husband is renowned tattooer Takahiro Kitamura of State of Grace, so you'll see Taki making appearances on the blog and on its yummy Instagram page.
Check it for food as well as tattoo inspiration.
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Vanessa Hudgens Finds the Beast at the Gym!
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Ashley Judd: Harvard's Newest Student
Ashley Judd has enrolled in Harvard University's public policy and public administration school, her publicist tells The Harvard Crimson.
The 41-year-old actress will participate in at Harvard Kennedy School's Mid-Career Master in Public Administration (MC/MPA) program, which often attracts public officials and non-profit activists.
Ashley, 41, is active in humanitarian and political causes. She has testified about the need to fund measures to safeguard natural resources and is a Global Ambassador for YouthAIDS, which promotes AIDS prevention and treatment.


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Rogers back to work after non-stop calendar year
PHOENIX -- For the Brewers' reigning Minor League Player of the Year, it's difficult to determine where 2013 ended and '14 began.
"I did take two days off," Jason Rogers said with a shrug.
PHOENIX -- For the Brewers' reigning Minor League Player of the Year, it's difficult to determine where 2013 ended and '14 began.
"I did take two days off," Jason Rogers said with a shrug.
The 25-year-old utility man, who turns 26 on March 13, barely stopped moving during the past calendar year. He reported early last year for Spring Training before hitting .270 with 22 home runs and 87 RBIs in 133 games for Double-A Huntsville, earning him the Brewers' Robin Yount Performance Award, presented annually to the system's top player.
From Huntsville, he went to the Surprise Saguaros of the Arizona Fall League and batted .311 in 18 games. Then it was off to the Brewers' academy in the Dominican Republic to work on footwork at third base, a position Rogers manned in college but has seen only once as a professional. When the Brewers heard Este had an opening for an outfielder, Rogers joined the Dominican Winter League and played 13 more games.
"I was dead by January. Dead," he said. "It was a long season."
He got home to Florida on Jan. 15. Rogers took those two days off, then resumed weight training.
Does he worry about fatigue carrying into 2014?
"No, I think the experience from last year will help me," Rogers said. "I'll take it day by day, and when I see myself getting fatigued, I'll be able to make an adjustment a lot quicker."
Rogers credited former Double-A manager Darnell Coles for helping him get through tired stretches during the season, and spoke during the Brewers' January fanfest in Milwaukee with shortstop Jean Segura, who carried a similarly heavy workload into last season and wore down during the second half. Segura offered some tips.
A 32nd round Draft pick in 2010 who was just added to the roster this winter, Rogers relished his long grind of a season.
"It was really my first chance to play every day," said Rogers, who had dealt with some injuries, including a broken bone in his hand in 2011. "I finally got in good shape, and that helped a lot."
In his first big league camp, "I'm just taking it all in, talking to the older guys as much as I can about how they run things, how to go about your business. I'm a quiet person, but I know some of these guys from the Minor League side, a lot of them, really. I'll be trying to get to know everybody else."
Does Rogers see a position that offers the quickest path to the Majors?
"I think all of them are," he said. "I'll play wherever. Whatever gets me up the line."
Adam McCalvy is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Brew Beat, and follow him on Twitter at @AdamMcCalvy.