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Friday, October 19, 2012
The other night, as I drove home from my manly occupation of pecking at buttons on a keyboard and moving a mouse around, I got bored with the radio station I was listening to. Most of the time I listen to a Chicago Cubs game during the commute, but since it's October, well ... never mind.
As I took a trip around the radio dial, I stopped on a station as my ears beheld a song from the past. You're probably wondering what kind of masculine, he-man type of melody would catch the fancy of a macho type of guy like myself. You're probably thinking it has to be something from the Rolling Stones or Led Zeppelin. Alas, I wish it were only so.
No, the song that I turned up the volume for that day was by none other than, I can't believe I'm admitting this … Madonna. In my defense, "Material Girl" is a real toe-tapper.
Normally a guy as confident in his manhood as myself, wouldn't have been that concerned about his musical tastes that afternoon, however, a series of recent events have raised some red flags in my once virile brain. I believe that a conspiracy is afoot.
Ever since my son has moved out of the house and gone to college, there has been a slow, ongoing process by my wife and daughter to turn me into a woman. At this time, I can't really prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt, but allow me to present my evidence to you.
Exhibit A
I haven't been complaining as much as I usually do about my wife watching "Dancing With The Stars." I didn't used to know the difference between a samba and a waltz, and I didn't care. I used to put up a fight for the remote control when that show came on, but now I'm just a big old girly-man sitting in my chair just waiting to see what number that Bruno guy will hold up on his sparkly ping-pong paddle.
Exhibit B
A couple of days before the whole Madonna thing happened, I accidentally wore one of my wife's socks to work. That's right, I inadvertently cross-dressed. But it wasn't my fault! Whoever folded the socks (and I think we all know that could not have been me) combined one of my black socks with one of her black socks. I thought that there was something strange when there weren't any extra holes in the one sock.
I went through an entire day at the office with one of my Size-12 feet wearing a woman's size-whatever sock. The little heel part was wadded up in the middle of my shoe for most of the afternoon. The worst part is that I most likely have another pair exactly like it waiting for me in my sock drawer at home, and the chances that I will inadvertently cross-dress again are fairly high.
Exhibit C
My entire upstairs bathroom has been turned into a chick paradise ... from the absence of bar soap to the overabundance of hair care products like shampoos, conditioners, gels, mousses, sprays, barrettes, brushes, picks, hair dryers and curling irons. Admittedly, if you don't include my back, I don't own that much hair anymore, and what I do have can be handled rather nicely with one of those little black combs we used to get on picture day in grade school.
Exhibit D
I just used the phrase "rather nicely."
Exhibit E
I can't get enough of that "Honey Boo Boo" television show. I couldn't watch a major league playoff baseball game the other day because I was totally invested in the adventures of Honey Boo Boo and her hillbilly family. This doesn't, in and of itself, necessarily make me a woman, but combined with the other events, doesn't make me very much of a man either.
So as I sit here tapping this column out on my cute little silver keyboard, in the back of my mind, I'm thinking of finding a different occupation that will get me back in touch with my more primitive, manly characteristics. Maybe I can be a lumberjack up in the Yukon. Maybe I'll learn to be a heavy equipment operator and carve a highway out of the side of a mountain. Or maybe I'll get a 10-gallon hat, grow a big mustache, sit on a horse and watch cattle cross a stream while smoking Marlboros.
However, for the time being, with the economy the way it is, I guess I'd just better learn to live with the job that I have, so I can at least pay some of my bills. Because after all, like my home girl Madonna says, "You know that we are living in a material world. And I am a material girl."
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SAGE Days 4
The 4th SAGE days 2007 will be held the week of June 12-17, 2007 (a Tuesday through Sunday) in the Mathematics Department of the University of Washington in scenic Seattle. It was also be online at irc.freenode.net in the sage-dev room -- everyone should consider starting an irc chat session in that room.
The conference has been fully funded by the NSF UW/VIGRE and PIMS, so there is no registration fee and some participants costs will be reimbursed. Thanks NSF and PIMS!!
The focus will be on coding sprints. SAGE Days 4 will primarily be a developer-oriented workshop, with plenty of opportunities for participants to talk and work with others.
- [:days4schedule: Schedule]
- [:days4/projects: Coding Sprint Projects]
Campus wifi: Use NetID wire01346 and password drink-LoLLs
William Stein, [email protected]
David Joyner, [email protected]
Robert Bradshaw, [email protected]
Tom Boothby, [email protected]
The following people have expressed interest so far. If you wish to attend and do not see your name, please contact the organizers.
- Iyad Ajwa
- Martin Albrecht (remotely)
- Nick Alexander (UC Irvine grad student)
- Tom Boothby (UW undergrad)
- Ifti B. (UCLA postdoc)
- Craig Citro (UCLA grad student; first three days)
- Timothy Clemans (Seattle High School Student)
- Alex Clemesha (UCSD)
- Josh Kantor (UW math)
- Didier Deshommes (first 3 days (11-14). If you'd like to split the cost of a room, please contact me)
- Larry Eclipse (UW math alumni)
- Kirsten Fagnan (UW, applied math)
- Mike Hansen (Harvey Mudd College, remotely)
- David Harvey (Harvard)
- David Joyner (US Naval Academy)
- Kiran Kedlaya (MIT; remotely)
- Emily Kirkman (UW undergrad)
- Robert Miller (UW grad student)
- Joel Mohler
- Bobby Moretti (UW undergrad)
- Matteo Paganini
- Yi Qiang (UW undergrad)
- Dorian Raymer (UCSD)
- David Roe (Harvard grad student)
- William Stein (UW faculty)
- Gonzalo Tornaria (Uruguay in South America, faculty)
Soroosh Yazdani (University of McMaster, Postdoc, remotely)
Local Information
Getting from SEATAC to UW: http://depts.washington.edu/rna2006/transportation.shtml
Directions to Padelford Hall coming from the south via I-5 northbound: From I-5 northbound, take exit 168B (Bellevue/Kirkland) to State Route 520. Take the first exit off SR520; the sign will point to Montlake Boulevard NE. Turn left into Montlake Blvd. and continue north past Husky Stadium. Move over to the right and take the 3rd right after the Stadium. Park in lot E1. It will cost $ 4 (a machine takes ones and fives). Park your car and walk over the overpass and up the hill. Look for the math Dept using the campus map [http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/campusmappg.pdf campus map] (pdf) or [http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/northcentral.html?PDL Padelford Hall map].
[http://www.washington.edu/univrel/visitors/accommodations.html General hotel information]
The [http://www.seattleuniversityhotel.com/index.html Seattle University Travelodge] has free wifi and is conveniently located. Their rates are also reasonable (e.g., 78 and 88).
The [http://www.collegeinnseattle.com/ College Inn] is also a good choice, though sometimes gets booked up.

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Brittany Davidson is the Web Client Service Coordinator in the UMC Web Team at Loyola University Chicago. Brittany was brought on to help coordinate and streamline communication between all clients and the Web Team.
Prior to joining Loyola University's Marketing and Communication group, Brittany was one of UMC's clients and worked as the web content developer in Loyola's School of Law. The School of Law, with with 2,100 webpages, accounts for approximately 10% of the Loyola website.
Brittany graduated from Loyola University Chicago in 2011 with a BA in Political Science and Global and International Studies. She is currently pursuing an additional bachelor's degree in Spanish.


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Ticket scalping moved one step closer today to being made legal in Michigan.
The House Criminal Justice Committee sent House Bill 5108 to the House floor on an 8-0 vote, with two abstentions. The bill would repeal a state law from 1931 that barred the practice of selling tickets above face value, and it would bring Michigan in line with more than 30 other states that allow some form of the practice.
Rep. Tim Kelly, R-Saginaw Township, sponsor of the bill, said he recognizes it is a tough vote for some members because they have venues in their districts that oppose the idea.
A number of venues and organizations have indicated their opposition to the bill, including the Detroit Lions, Olympia Entertainment, Palace Sports & Entertainment, Saint Andrews Hall and the University of Michigan. Musician Kid Rock also has expressed his opposition to the bill.
Last week, Michigan International Speedway President Roger Curtis testified in opposition to the bill.
He said he feared the legislation would keep NASCAR fans from being able to attend the races because scalpers would buy up many of the tickets and sell them at a higher price.
Kelly said the bill still leaves venues in control of who they sell their tickets to — something he said seems to get lost in the debate.
"They are still in control of the process, they're just not in control of the price," Kelly said.
Curtis testified that at MIS, people can purchase a maximum of 10 tickets per email address, but there is nothing stopping people from registering multiple emails and buying as many tickets as possible.
No amendments were added to the bill in committee, and Kelly said he hopes it stays that way as it moves through the legislative process.
He said previous attempts to repeal the law failed when exemptions were added and complicated the bill.
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Botanical Garden of the Samara State University - State Natural Monument, located in the October district of the city of Samara. The only garden throughout the Middle Volga region, having a greenhouse.
The garden is organized in the Institute for the Study and Conservation of the Middle edge on the initiative of its director Smirnov. Currently, there are four academic departments: flora, Dendrology, flower, tropical and subtropical plants and household.
A collection of garden plants has 3,000 species, more than 800 of them - the trees.
Just in case you mistakenly heard that it was all ice and snow in Russia, take a peek at the Big Bikini Exposition. This is right on the river Moskva in Moscow!Moscow has been the capital of Russia for almost its entire history. The exception is during the period of the Russian Empire, which lasted from 1721 until the Russian Revolution 1917. For these two centuries the capital was St. Petersburg. The Russian Empire was the second largest contiguous Empire in world memory; only the Mongol Empire had been greater.Check out what's happening north of Mongolia these days, in ChitaAlthough you may not have heard of Sochi, on the Black Sea, they're building up quickly and hope to host the 2014 Olympics.Other periods of Russian history include the Tsardom of Russia, from Ivan IV to Peter the Great, and the Grand Duchy (14th-16th centuries).The earliest period of Russian history was ruled by the Novgorod Republic and Kievan Rus, which was the first Russian state dating back to 800AD in Kiev.Modern Russia remains one of the world's superpowers. They launched the earth's second satellite, called Sputnik 1, and were the first country to put a human being into orbit around earth. (The first one is called the Moon.)After the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia became a federal republic of 83 states.Text by Steve Smith.


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The Death of Beleg is the ninth chapter of The Children of Húrin.
When Beleg could not find the body of Túrin amongst the fallen on the summit of Amon Rûdh, he knew the orcs of Morgoth had took him; so after he was healed he took to the heels of the enemy and followed their tracks northward beyond Brithiach.
In the heights of Taur-nu-Fuin and the Pass of Anach, he came upon the shrunken form of an elf. Gwindor it was who had only recently escaped from the evil mines of Angband – the very elf who had fought in the Battle of Unnumbered Tears and had been taken at the doors of Morgoth.
There Beleg and Gwindor witnessed a horde of orcs swarm northward and in their midst was Túrin, chained and whipped. The evil soldiers took camp, guarded by wolves in a deep vale; and Beleg came silently with his great bow and shot each wolf dead so that he could steal into the heart of the encampment. There he seized Túrin and took him away.
Now Beleg cut Túrin's bonds with the sword Anglachel; but misfortune was amongst them and the blade slipped and pricked Túrin's foot. In rage, thinking he was to be tormented by orcs, Túrin leaped forth, and swiftly taking Anglachel, he slayed his attaker, only too late to see it was his friend Beleg.
There Túrin stood as stone in shock; for his friend lay dead before him.
He was roused only by Gwindor to help in burying Beleg, and the mighty bow Belthronding was laid upon his brest; but dark Anglachel Túrin took himself to take vengeance on Morgoth.
Then Gwindor took Túrin in his grief and they passed away westward to the calm and holy Eithel Ivrin where Túrin shook off his grief and was healed of his madness. There he sang the Laer Cú Beleg, the Song of the Great Bow, in memory of his friend.
Southward then they passed to Gwindor's realm until the elven scouts of Nargothrond took them as prisoners.
This chapter marks the greatest evil of the fate of Túrin thus far: his murder of his closest friend.
This doom struck Túrin deep.
His grief and madness lay heavy about him for many days; indeed this dark and terrible event had a deep authority over his future choices. The very action of his keeping Anglachel to take vengeance on Morgoth sets the tone of his later life; it is one more step in an effort to counter the enemy.
The breadth of Tolkien's world, his imagination of depth, and his use of entangled fates is demonstrated very simply through the reappearance of Gwindor. Such an event knits together Tolkien's broad web of stories; they ground his tales in established lines of ancestry; and help support the passing centuries through familiarity and the development of key figures and their families. They also force the reader to engage with the story: What would have happened if Morgoth had not taken Gwindor prisoner? Would Túrin have been taken to Angband? Would Beleg now be dead? Would Túrin now be lost in the Pass of Anach, mantled in the grief of Beleg's death? Would Túrin never come to Nargothrond?
The sword Anglachel rises forth here as a dark character in its own right, becoming the tool of retribution for Túrin; this also demonstrates the intricate web of Tolkien's saga, for this is [Eöl|Eöl's] blade, forged of iron from the sky and tempered with the darkness of the Eöl's heart. His use of named weaponry with a developed heritage continues to add richness and a delicate intricacy to Middle-earth.


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|November 2012
|OKLAHOMA'S eGOV NEWS REPORT
Welcome to Oklahoma's eGovernment News Report. We hope you enjoy the monthly report providing you with up-to-date information on Oklahoma's eGovernment achievements.
Oklahoma eGov News
OKLAHOMA CITY – November 29, 2012 – Governor Mary Fallin recently launched a new service that allows Oklahomans interested in serving the state to apply online for a gubernatorial appointment. The new online application can be accessed from Governor Fallin's official website, located at http://governor.ok.gov.
"My administration is looking for qualified and dedicated Oklahomans to serve on various agencies, boards and commissions," Fallin said. "It was my desire to have a system that allowed Oklahomans to submit their applications easily online. This new application delivers just that; it allows applicants to navigate through the process with ease and provides my staff with a more efficient way to make appointments. I would encourage all those interested in serving, to visit the Web site and submit their application."
Private citizens, members of the media and others interested in following the legislative process will find accessing actions in the State Senate easier than ever before, thanks to several new technological upgrades that are now being put in place.
New high resolution cameras have been added in the front and back of the chamber for those following the Senate on the Internet,with new software enabling bill information and links to the text of measures to appear next to the chamber video. The camera angle for the website will change depending on which microphone is being used.
In addition, a new voting board will enable the display of more information, including a full short title and a list of upcoming bills to be heard that day.
A University of Utah study suggests state governments can achieve significant budget cuts by shifting many of their in-person services to the Web.
Utah has saved more than $61 million during the past five years by moving state transactions online and contracting some Web services out to third-party vendors, the report said.
The state offers online options for more than 1,000 services such as renewing car registrations, ordering birth certificates and filing income taxes.
That reflects a growing trend among state governments, which have found shifting services online can save time for both citizens and employees. Federal agencies such as the Internal Revenue Service and Social Security Administration also are offering more services online.
The Utah study looked at 13 of the state's 25 highest demand online services that also were offered offline -- either in person or by phone. The study found an average per transaction savings of more than $13 for the online version, from $17.11 to $3.91.
Nine of the transactions were cheaper online and four were more expensive, the study said. Utah also outsources some of its online services to Utah Interactive, the state branch of NIC, a company that runs fee-for-service e-government operations in more than 20 states. These outsourced services accounted for $15 million of the state's $61 million in savings in five years, the study found.
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Agencies in pursuit of high-speed WIM accuracy
Alan Dron looks at where WIM is heading in the near future. As Weigh-In-Motion (WIM) systems grow in sophistication and accuracy, they are increasingly being used in more active roles to help ensure road safety through enforcement action against overweight vehicles.
When speed compliance becomes a safety issue
David Crawford finds that softly, softly can be safely, safely when it comes to speed enforcement. Comedians and controversial TV presenters have long made jokes about having to watch the speedometer so closely as they pass speed camera after speed camera that they mow down bus queues. But the joke may have some factual basis according to a study by researchers from the University of Western...
RAC survey shows big safety gains with average speed enforcement
Cheaper and easier communications are providing authorities with new options for influencing driver behaviour. Colin Sowman reports. It's official; Average speed cameras (ASCs) cut the number of fatal or serious injury crashes by more than a third.
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Federico is a character in Grand Theft Auto Advance. He is local drug dealer in the Trenton district of Portland, Liberty City, competing with the Mafia (presumably the Leone Family). He is killed by Mike, on orders from Vinnie, who is attempting to impress the Mafia to gain enough money to escape the city. Mike calls him Freddy and Fido during the mission Dirty Laundry.
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The Kyrgyz Republic is one of the poorest countries in the EECCA region and is facing difficulties servicing its large external debt (132% of GDP). In March 2002, and then in March 2005, the Paris Club creditors agreed with the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic to restructure its external debt. The agreements incorporated a clause which enables additional bilateral debt swaps, including also a debt-for-environment swap. At the initiative of the Ministry of Ecology and Emergencies, the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic has established an inter-ministerial working group to develop modalities for utilising the opportunity of debt-for-environment swap. In August 2002, the Ministry of Ecology and Emergencies requested the EAP Task Force Secretariat to assist in establishing a framework for further bilateral negotiations on debt-for-environment swap with creditors, similar to the assistance that the EAP Task Force has earlier offered to Georgia. The project was officially launched in November 2004 and implemented with support by EU Tacis.
The EAP Task Force has now completed the report from the project. The main conclusion of this analysis is that a debt-for-environment swap (DFES) between the Kyrgyz Republic and Paris Club creditors is feasible and could generate benefits for both the Kyrgyz Republic and the international community, including creditors. International experience with debt-for-environment swaps has shown that implementing a DFES is a complex, difficult, and lengthy process that requires thorough and careful preparations for the negotiations with creditor countries. The concerted efforts of the whole government are a crucial factor for the success of the debt-for-environment swap implementation.
The study undertaken in the course of this project has focused on three major issues: debt profile and sustainability, identification of project pipelines for the expenditure programme to be financed from potential DFES resources and governance issues related to the management of these resources. The results of this analysis and specific recommendations can be found in the report attached below.
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Uses independent judgment, ingenuity and initiative in performing diagnostic sonographic examinations utilizing ultrasound equipment in various modes and techniques to locate, evaluate, and record pertinent anatomical, pathological, and functional data. Responsible for initial assessments, summarizing diagnostic data and communicating this information with diagnostic images to the interpreting physician.
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You know, it occurs to me after seeing this video that there is something very wrong going on.
The open display of Hostile Intent as witnessed by anyone who watches this is indicative of a larger threat. The vocal admission of hatred and intolerance seen here demonstrates a clear and present danger to our society.
I want you to imagine that the man at the podium is not a Jew, but a Black American discussing Segregation and other related topics, and the questioner is not a Muslim college girl, but a southern White man. Now imagine the reaction that would be felt the nation over were the White man to profess his hatred of the Blacks and wish for their eventual removal from the Earth with a transparent statement of "For it."
This girl's open and disturbingly honest (she didn't even blink) answer to an equally open and honest question is the smoke, and to me, that is the proof of a fire.
That fire must be found and extinguished.
The question regarding the extent of our Freedom of Speech begins to arise. How far can someone go before they have committed a crime that is recognizable by society as a whole? Not just by one part, or some, but easily condemned by everyone as "Evil" and therefore punishable by the Law. Has this girl committed such an act?
No she has not.
As deplorable as it may be, the admission of moral support to any cause, however sick and twisted, is not a crime. One may profess one's love for any idea however wretched and decrepit without fear of reprisal by the Law. It is actions that concern the Law, and it is action that galvanizes a society to protect itself.
While the video above can be described as "Galvanizing", it is not the scene of a crime. So who is the true culprit here?
This girl referred to the Muslim Student Association (MSA) not with the neutral "it" but rather with the inclusive "we". She is a part of the MSA. She even demonstrated this inclusion by disclosing the fact that no one helps with the cost of their annual "Hitler Youth Rallies" (her words). Further, her question is not only requesting detailed explanations concerning alleged connections between her College Club (the MSA) and Terrorist Organizations, but also she is doing so in an obviously defensive and dismissively sarcastic manner.
This eliminates the ability for us to reflexively write her off as an "Individual", a "Lone Wolf", or an "Outsider". The possibility of her being a "Rogue" is possible, but I do not think that this is the case, as I hope to show. Regardless, it is safe to assume that she is someone's apparatchik. A puppet led by strings from above. She is a symptom, not the disease, and I am more than willing to propose for the sake of argument that she is not alone.
So my next question is where did she receive her indoctrination? How did she become so filled with hatred for the Jews? I posit that the MSA had something to do with it. Between her jarring answer and Mr. Horowitz's statements describing previous experiences with the same group on other UC campuses (and I'll show that they are in other places as well), it would seem that they were instrumental in the fomenting of her naked aggression.
Other sources lend weight to this idea, and I would remind you that this videographed incident did not take place in a vacuum.
The fact that Faisal Shahzad, notorious for his attempt to bomb Times Square in New York, attended the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut from 2000 to 2005 is one of those supporting sources. You see, the University's own website proudly shows the MSA to be one of their Registered College Clubs.
You don't suppose that a man born and raised in Pakistan to a Muslim family that later came to America would join something like the Muslim Student's Association in college would you? I would.
Am I saying that the MSA might have something to do with the attempted bombing of Times Square?
If the girl in the video is any indication of what "rolls off the assembly line", I doubt that they would argue much with the motivations necessary for such a horrific act.
This whole thing reminds me of a case that happened in 1970. A man was put on trial for murder, but not for any actual killing committed by him personally. He was a charismatic leader who convinced his "Family" to do it for him. That man was found guilty.
His name was Charles Manson.
He is currently living in the California Penal System, and every year, they bring him out to verify for the world to see that he is in fact still crazy, hateful, and perfectly willing to continue killing. California, to its credit, will never parole Charles Manson. No one who is right in the head thinks that he has any business out among the rest of us.
Mostly due to his existence as an Indelible Image of Evil, I imagine.
To sum it up, I think that it is time for the Federal Government to begin investigating certain groups to see if they have violated the law by doing the same thing. By preaching their particular brands of hatred to our impressionable youth, they are creating in effect thousands of potential seeds. The greater the number of seeds planted, the greater the chance of another Times Square attempt, another Oklahoma City Bombing, or another murdered abortion doctor.
Was Faisal Shahzad in the MSA? Did the MSA steer him in the direction of Radical Islam? If so, should the MSA or the responsible individuals within that organization face a Grand Jury on murder charges using the precedence that convicted Charles Manson? Can any organization in this country that promotes hatred and violence towards any other sub-section of society be held accountable for it's evil teachings?
I don't know.
But someone should find out, and soon…


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Accounting students take third at Deloitte National Trueblood Case Competition
Accounting students take third at Deloitte National Trueblood Case Competition
A team of Penn State Smeal College of Business Accounting students placed third in the Deloitte National Trueblood Case Competition, held on April 6 at the Deloitte University facility in Westlake, Texas. Penn Staters competed against teams from Michigan State University, the University of Southern California, Baylor University, the University of Iowa and Howard University.
The Penn State team was comprised of five students: Adam Gorodesky, Katie Hartman, Sabrina Herbst, Siynan Li and Dan Rost. Accounting instructor Ed Babcock joined the team as faculty adviser, and each team worked closely with a partner and technical adviser from Deloitte.
"The team did a fantastic job at the national competition," said Babcock. "This was a great opportunity for them to develop their accounting and presentation skills among several other top universities, and they really rose to the occasion."
The students tackled a case concerning current auditing issues, including performing a Step Zero analysis. Presentations were judged by Deloitte partners and included a 25-minute question and answer session.
"The question and answer session was tough; they didn't go easy on us," said Hartman. "We really had to focus on figuring out our stance and sticking to it as a team."
The team earned the trip by winning the local Deloitte Trueblood audit case study competition held at Penn State in February, in which about 30 students competed. This seminar and competition offers students the opportunity to discuss relevant, practical issues in accounting and experience aspects of the professional working environment.


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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
New targeted lung cancer drug produces 'dramatic' symptom improvement
Early-stage trial shows promise against tumors driven by ALK gene alternation
BOSTON – A clinical trial of a potential new targeted treatment drug has provided powerful evidence that it can halt or reverse the growth of lung tumors characterized by a specific genetic abnormality. In their report in the October 28 New England Journal of Medicine, a multi-institutional research team reports that daily doses of the investigational drug crizotinib shrank the tumors of more than half of a group patients whose tumors were driven by alterations in the anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) gene. In another one-third of study participants, crizotinib treatment suppressed tumor growth. Preliminary results of this study were reported at the June 2010 meeting of the American Society for Clinical Oncology.
"Traditionally phase 1 trials have been used to determine the safety of drugs that have never been given to people before," explains Eunice Kwak, MD, PhD, of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center, corresponding author of the study. "In this trial we were always looking for patients whose tumors might be more likely to respond to this drug, since we knew it inhibited the cancer-related proteins ALK and MET. Fortunately, once the first stage of the trial had established the maximum tolerated dose, we had the flexibility to enroll additional patients whose tumors had these molecular abnormalities."
In recent years, cancer researchers have found that genetic abnormalities which spur uncontrolled cellular proliferation underlie several types of cancer. About 12 percent of the cases of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), the leading cause of cancer death in the U.S., are driven by mutations in a protein called EGFR, and several drugs that target the molecular pathway controlled by EGFR have halted or reversed tumor growth, at least temporarily. In 2007 it was discovered that a rearrangement involving the ALK gene, already associated with several other types of cancer, was behind 2 to 7 percent of NSCLC cases.
Laboratory studies at the MGH and other centers had shown that crizotinib could inhibit activity of both ALK and the MET oncogene, so the current study was designed in two parts. In the first stage patients with any solid tumor that had not responded to standard therapies received increasing daily oral doses of crizotinib to establish the highest dose that would not cause intolerable side effects. Two of the participants in that stage of the trial had ALK-altered NSCLC, and both of them showed what the investigators characterized as 'dramatic' symptom improvement. Based on those results, the second stage was expanded from three to a total of seven sites to enroll additional NSCLC patients with ALK-rearranged tumors.
Of 82 patients with ALK-altered tumors who eventually enrolled in the trial, crizotinib treatment reduced tumor size in at least 47 and halted tumor growth in 27. Among those participants, 63 have continued receiving the drug, some for more than two years. "This therapy is allowing patients to function without pain or a constant cough," Kwak explains. "The most rewarding thing about treating patients with this drug is watching them change from being completely controlled by their cancer to resuming a very normal life."
While results of the current study are promising, additional trials are required to confirm the effectiveness of crizotinib for NSCLC. A phase 3 clinical trial has started enrolling patients, and more information on that trial is available by calling the MGH Cancer Center at 877 789-6100. Kwak, an instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, notes that the fact that the phase 3 trial started only three years after the phase 1 trial began – a process that took a decade for the first EGFR inhibitor – reflects the power of prospective tumor genotyping.
"The MGH already had the infrastructure in place to screen tumors for molecular abnormalities, so we were poised to test for ALK rearrangement," she explains. "We were actually able to identify the first patient with such a lung cancer and enroll him in the initial stage of this study four months after the original report of ALK-altered NSCLC was published. Then it was amazing to see his symptoms improve within a matter of weeks. These results are just one more compelling example of what we can do for our patients if we just learn more about their tumors."
"Innovative diagnostic testing of cancer tumors is leading to profound changes in patient treatment," adds John Iafrate, MD, of the MGH Pathology Service and the MGH Cancer Center, senior author of the study and co-director of the MGH Translational Research Lab. "Improvements in testing are allowing us to determine an individual's potential responsiveness to a treatment based on known mutations. This will allow clinicians to improve decision making on courses of treatment, leading to improved clinical outcomes and more effective patient care."
The study was supported by Pfizer, which is developing crizotinib for clinical application, and by grants from the Aid for Cancer Research Foundation, the National Cancer Institute, the American Society for Clinical Oncology and other funders. Co-authors of the NEJM report include Alice Shaw, MD, PhD, Jeffrey Clark, MD, and John Iafrate, MD, PhD, MGH Cancer Center; Yung-Jue Bang, MD, PhD, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Korea; D. Ross Camidge, MD, PhD, University of Colorado Cancer Center; Benjamin Solomon, MB, BS, PhD, MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia; Ravi Salgia, MD, PhD, University of Chicago; Robert Maki, MD, PhD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Sai-Hong Ou, MD, PhD, University of California, Irvine; Keith Wilner, PhD, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals; and Geoffrey Shapiro, MD, PhD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Additional co-authors are based at the institutions named above and at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
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Are you able to be a councillor or mayor?
All candidates must meet the mandatory eligibility requirements as set out in the Local Government Act 2009.
You are qualified to be a councillor or mayor provided you are:
- an adult Australian citizen
- currently residing in the local government area for which you are nominating (note: if you are standing for election in an electoral division of a divided local government area, you are not required to reside in the particular division but within the local government area as a whole)
- enrolled on an electoral roll kept under the Local Government Electoral Act 2011
- not disqualified from being a councillor because of a conviction for the following types of offences:
- a treason offence
- an electoral offence
- a bribery offence
- an integrity offence
- not subject to other circumstances including:
- being an undischarged bankrupt
- being in prison
- currently holding another high office
(Note: a member of a state or federal parliament cannot be a councillor).
To remove any doubt, an Australian citizen who holds dual citizenship with another country is eligible to nominate as a candidate for a local government election.
The details of offences and situations that disqualify you from being a councillor are identified in chapter 6 of the Local Government Act 2009 the City of Brisbane Act 2010 and in section 26 of the Local Government Electoral Act 2011.
What issues are councillors and mayors involved in?
The role of councillor or mayor requires enthusiasm and motivation. It may be helpful, when considering your final decision as to whether or not to nominate for election, to think about how interested you are in:
- being actively involved in resolving key local community issues
- ensuring all members of the local community have equitable access to services and opportunity
- advocating on behalf of community members and managing that responsibility against your responsibility to act in the interest of the broader community
- policy formulation, corporate planning, advocacy and budgeting.
Do you need party endorsement or sponsorship to be a councillor or mayor?
In Queensland, you can nominate as:
- an individual
- a member of a group of candidates
- a member of a political party.
For all Queensland local government elections, you may nominate as a candidate provided your nomination is endorsed by six community members who are on the electoral roll for the local government area (they do not need to be on the roll for the specific division). Section 27 of the Local Government Electoral Act 2011 provides the details about how and when you can nominate as a candidate.
If you belong to a group of candidates – i.e. not a political party – that contest the election as a team, your group must appoint an agent for the group and give a record of the membership of the group to the returning officer after the candidates in the group are nominated. The record must be on the approved form and signed by each of the candidates who are in the group. The returning officer must display a copy of the record of membership of the group. Section 41-43 of the Local Government Electoral Act 2011 provides details on the formation for a group of candidates.
In Queensland political parties can contest local government elections and endorse candidates. If you intend to run as a political party candidate you will need to be endorsed and nominated by that political party. Section 27 of the Local Government Electoral Act 2011 provides the details.
You can choose to stand for election as a councillor or as mayor but not for both as dual candidacy is not permitted. Your returning officer will advise you on which form to complete.
For detailed information about the Electoral Act provisions, refer to the Local Government Electoral Act 2011.


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I had hope that it wouldn't, but winter has arrived. It's the coldest morning of the season (at least in Chicago — brrr!). What more appropriate time to talk spring? The thrill of using a brand new eye shadow palette is a feeling I crave. And spring beauty gives me something to look foward to – like actual spring weather! Here are a few palettes in particular that have captivated our early attention.
Christian Dior once said, "After women, flowers are the most heavenly creation." So it makes sense that the brand's spring 2012 collection, Garden Party, is inspired by the garden he created in the cliffs of Normandy.And just LOOK at these eyeshadow palettes. The 5-Couleurs Garden Edition palettes ($59 each) in Garden Pastels and Garden Roses are stunning. I think the greens in the Pastels look so wearable. And the intricate pattern is beautiful.
Bobbi Brown's Ultra Nude Eye Palette ($45) from the upcoming Neons and Nudes collection is classic Bobbi. I've long loved her classic nude eyshadows, and this contains six of the best ((Stone, Chino, Pink Chandelier, Praline, Champagne, and Cocoa Berry.) Pair any of these shadows with a bright neon lip, per Bobbi's instructions, and you're set for spring.
The Smashbox "Be Discovered" palette ($44) includes eight shadows (six shimmer + two matte) that give you endless options. I love the bronzey neutrals, but the shimmery purple is what caught my eye most. Like all Smashbox palettes, there's not a lemon in the bunch!
Anything catch your eye? If you could splurge on just one, which would it be?


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Raspberry Lemon Mini Muffins Recipe
Breakfast snacks for those who get peckish first thing in the morning.
These lemony mini muffins make a statement with their one large raspberry in the middle.
Read more: Wake and Bake: Lemon Raspberry Mini Muffins
- Yield:makes 24 mini muffins
- Active time: 15 minutes
- Total time:30 minutes
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 packed teaspoon lemon zest and 1 teaspoon juice, from one lemon
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- 1 egg
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 24 raspberries
Adjust oven rack to middle position and preheat oven to 375°F. Grease a 24 cup mini muffin tin.
In a large bowl, rub together lemon zest and sugar until zest has released some of its oils and aromatics. Set aside.
In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, an salt; set aside.
Add melted butter to bowl with sugar and zest and whisk 1 minute. Add egg and whisk until well combined. Stir in milk. Add dry ingredients and stir until just combined. Stir in lemon juice.
Fill each mini muffin cup 3/4 full with batter. Place one raspberry, open side down, in center of each cup. Bake until golden and a cake tester inserted into a muffin comes out clean, 12 to 15 minutes. Let cool 15 minutes then release from pan.
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When Devin Hester signed a three-year contract with the Atlanta Falcons in March, the assumption was that he would be limited to kick returns -- just as he was in 2013 with the Chicago Bears.
A week into training camp, Falcons wide receivers are painting a different picture.
"The thing that people don't understand," Julio Jones told TheMMQB.com's Peter King, "is that for us, he's not just going to be a returner. We've seen it out here. He can help us as a receiver, and he is helping us."
Whereas the Lovie Smith-era Bears were obsessed with turning Hester into an every-down receiver, it sounds like the Falcons envision the return star as more of a decoy.
"What Devin is going to do for us is exercise the field," Roddy White explained. "Make the defense cover every corner of the field."
That sounds good in theory. Whether the Falcons can make it happen on game day is another matter.
Jones, White and Harry Douglas are locked in as the top three receivers. Offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter has rarely made use of four-wide sets in Atlanta.
In other words, skepticism is advised.
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The late Jean-Marie Loret, a French railway worker, claimed for many years to be the son of Adolf Hitler and while some believed him, more didn't.
Now, evidence has come to light that appears to support his argument. The story goes, his mother, Lobojoie Charlotte, met Hitler when she was working outdoors in France during World War I. A few months later Loret was born, the Daily Mail reports:
He was put up for adoption, and did not find out who his father was until the early Fifties, when his mother apparently confessed all. By that time, M Loret must have already borne more than a passing resemblance to his father; photographs suggest he was, in fact, the spitting image.
Over the years, M Loret's claim, initially seen as outlandish, has grown increasingly likely: apart from their facial resemblance, their blood-types were the same, there were paintings by Hitler found by Loret in his mother's attic, and it has now been established that German officers brought unexplained envelopes of cash to Loret's mother during the World War II.
For a good look at Monsieur Loret, click here.
After she divulged her secret, he spent the rest of his life, he died in 1985 at age 67, trying to determine whether it was true, ABCNews.com reports:
He enlisted geneticists, handwriting experts and historians. He wrote a book, Your Father's Name Was Hitler, that details that journey. It will now be republished to include the new studies that Loret believed confirmed his claim.


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Fashion's flirtations with lace are nothing new, but all the most deserving things in life are recycled for the better (apart from Madonna's version of American Pie). 2011's lace conversion is palpably antique and romantic. If you feel like you should be skipping through fields of buttercups in a Jane Austen novel, you've got the look right.
Coloured lace has replaced gothic black; not so much the smarties brights of S/S 2011, but tea-stained hues and dried flower petal colours.
Whether it's sheer lace layered over fitted fabrics or a lace body under a cute crop top, embrace the return of feminine and vintage. This trend has strong ballet influences, with billowing skirts, bodices and ballet pumps – so put your hair up in a bun, finish it with a flower clip and pirouette on the dance floor.
Team lace with leather for a rock chick look, a fur gilet for boho or flower prints to adopt this season's 70's hippy craze à la Erdem.


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When Medi-Cal Says "No" to Serostim
Medi-Cal recipients can obtain Serostim, a human-growth hormone which is prescribed to control HIV wasting syndrome, as one of the drugs covered by the program.
Because HIV wasting syndrome is not simply a decrease in body weight, but in fact involves the loss of lean body mass (skeletal muscle, organ tissue, blood and blood constituents and even intra- and extra-cellular water), it results in muscle weakness, organ failure and eventual death.
Nutritional intervention (a simple increase in the caloric intake each day) is not effective in the severe wasting syndrome cases, because an increase in calories results in an increase in body fat. Use of Serostim results in an increase of the lean body mass, a decrease in body fat and a significant increase in body weight.
Normal Medi-Cal Procedure
When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves a drug, it is approved for "label use," or a specific medical purpose. As the drug is prescribed and used, often the medical community and the public discover other effective uses for the drug. The medical community may begin to prescribe the drug for "off-label" uses.
If Medi-Cal has approved coverage of the drug, it approves the drug for label use. If a Medi-Cal recipient needs the drug for an off-label use, the recipient's treating physician has to provide written evidence to Medi-Cal documenting that this "off-label" use of the drug has become a common practice in treatment of the condition. This written evidence also must include literature (such as medical journal articles) that describes the medical research or testing to support this new use of the drug.
Serostim Medi-Cal Procedure
All bets are off when it comes to Medi-Cal approval of Serostim.
Serostim costs between $7,000 and $8,000 per month per recipient. Body-builders use it to increase lean body mass, and trade of the drug on the black market is thriving. Fraudulent attempts to obtain Serostim by Medi-Cal patients who, medically, do not "need" the drug are rising. As of May, the Department of Health Services has informed all Medi-Cal beneficiaries that Serostim, as well as several other drugs, are not available automatically upon the prescription of the medical doctor.
As of May, treating physicians must complete a Treatment Authorization Request (TAR) before Medi-Cal will pay for a Serostim prescription. The TAR includes a list of the recipient's HAART medications, the recipient's current weight, the recipient's height, and the results of a recent body cell mass test.
If the medical information in the TAR supports the treating physician's prescription of Serostim to control severe HIV wasting, then Medi-Cal should approve the TAR and pay for Serostim -- for that month. In the subsequent month, another TAR may be required, with another body cell mass test, to verify that ongoing use of Serostim is medically necessary.
If the treating physician does not submit a new TAR, the recipient probably will be unable to get a Serostim refill at the pharmacy, and the pharmacy may direct the recipient to speak directly with the treating physician.
If the treating physician submits a new TAR, but does not include the height, weight, medications list and body cell mass index, Medi-Cal will "defer" approval of the TAR until this information is received. Unfortunately, the pharmacy may not inform the recipient that the TAR approval is "deferred." The recipient may be told (incorrectly) that the TAR was denied, or the recipient may be told that the TAR was "not approved." The recipient then assumes that the TAR is denied. The recipient may ask the physician to submit another TAR or file an appeal with the California Department of Social Services, requesting a hearing with an Administrative Law Judge.
When a TAR is deferred, and the requested information is not received, the deferment becomes a denial. The recipient will not be able to file an appeal when the TAR is deferred -- only when the TAR is denied. The difficulty is that if the denial is based on a failure to receive requested medical information from the treating physician, the recipient may be unable to win an appeal: if the medical information which Medi-Cal has requested is reasonable, if it is not received within the deadline, and if the TAR therefore is denied, then the denial is likely to be considered valid under Medi-Cal law. Under these circumstances, the recipient has no option other than to request that the treating physician submit a new TAR and to ensure that the supplemental information is included as part of that TAR.
While it may seem like a lot of useless paperwork, the recipient may be required to have a TAR submitted (with that supporting medical information) for each month in which the Serostim is prescribed. Recent fraud cases involving Serostim and its incredible expense make these repeated requests for medical information and a monthly TAR requirement "reasonable" under these circumstances.
What to Do About Denials
Treating physicians may prescribe Serostim for an "off-label" problem or for a wasting condition which Medi-Cal decides is not so severe. This is when the recipient must file the appeal and request the hearing. This is when Medi-Cal may have made a mistake.
There is a problem with Medi-Cal's new approval system for Serostim: If the recipient has received Serostim in the past, has responded to the medication -- and therefore has experienced an improvement in his or her condition, that recipient may not meet the body cell mass and other wasting guidelines to qualify for ongoing Serostim payments by Medi-Cal. This suggests that the recipient's condition must re-deteriorate before Medi-Cal, once again, will cover this medication. If this sounds wrong to you, the doctors are not happy, either, since this could create ethical problems for the doctors who are supposed to prevent deterioration of the recipient's condition.
While Medi-Cal is allowed to implement reasonable regulations on its approval of prescribed medications, Medi-Cal is not allowed to substitute its medical judgment for the judgment of the recipient's treating physician. If the recipient's condition satisfies the "label use" for a Serostim prescription, then Medi-Cal must approve it. If the recipient's condition is for an "off-label" use, such as the reduction of lipodystrophy/the buffalo hump, Medi-Cal still should approve it, if supporting literature and other evidence has been submitted which justifies the use of this medication for this additional ailment. If the recipient's condition has responded to prior use of Serostim, but the treating physician believes that ongoing access to Serostim remains medically necessary, then the recipient has grounds for an appeal, if Medi-Cal denies a subsequent TAR.
If you believe Medi-Cal has denied a Serostim, or any other HIV-related medical prescription, in an improper manner, please call the HALSA intake line: (213) 201-1640 for more information.
If you have general questions about Medi-Cal eligibility, approved drug, and the TAR procedure, contact AIDS Project Los Angeles' Benefits Department at (213) 201-1472 or AIDS Service Center at (626) 441-8495.
Funded by the County of Los Angeles, Department of Health Services, Office of AIDS Programs and Policy.
|Leslie Kline-Capelle is the Public Benefits Staff Attorney at the HIV & AIDS Legal Services Alliance. HALSA can be reached by calling (213) 201-1640.
This article has been reprinted at The Body with the permission of AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA).


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We're a long time away from a casino in the South End but it seems fashionable these days to declare yourself on the issue.
We're a long time away from a casino in the South End but it seems fashionable these days to declare yourself on the issue.
I declared myself years ago when the casino that was "coming to Fall River" was either an Indian bingo hall or a riverboat. I forget which and it might not matter.
There's something about that industry I do not like. It's cheap, for one thing. Tawdry. And, as a moral consideration, I've always believed gambling is most attractive to people who cannot afford to gamble.
When I wrote my best anti-casino columns, Quaker Fabric employed 2,500 people, many of them making $15 an hour, 80 percent of them with a Fall River address.
When I started writing my anti-casino columns, 300 people worked at Globe Manufacturing. Hundreds more worked at Essex Manufacturing, Jensen Manufacturing, CHF, Joan Fabrics and more. Hell, there were secure jobs at BOTH of Somerset's power plants.
A working class city cannot survive if there is no place for the working class to work. Right now, other than the hospitals and city government, there is no work in Fall River.
Everything we've tried has failed or is a non-starter. You see any tourists? Are you driving to work in the bio-park?
No. You're not. You're driving to Stoughton, working construction, building nicer homes than you'll ever own. You're driving to Providence because Fall River can't generate $35,000 a year office worker jobs.
Or, worse yet, you're not working and you're 30 and you got kids. Or you're 50 and your teeth are starting to go and you're not working. That's life. In The Flint. In The South End.
And some people seem to think it would be OK if you worked scooping ice cream on a "tourist" waterfront for $10 an hour, but they don't think it's OK for you to tend bar at a casino, for a LOT more money.
It's OK for your kids to eat Cup O'Noodles six nights a week but it's not OK for you to work as a hotel maid at a casino.
What's the difference between valet parking cars at Saint Anne's Hospital and valet parking cars at a casino? Why is it OK for you to mop floors and empty trash at a nursing home but it's some kind of sin if you do the same work at a casino?
Why is everyone just fine with your poverty but no one wants you to degrade yourself by picking up trash in the parking lot of a casino?
Why? You know who has the most to lose if a casino locates in Fall River? The people in charge right now, the people who brought you the last 20 years of increasing poverty, decreasing employment and endless stupid promises about what's gonna happen when the first train pulls into Fall River.
And knock off the whine about, "We can't have a casino next to a school. Think about the little children!"
Oh yeah. In the 20 years, I've worked for this paper, there have been two murders within six blocks of the Mary L. Fonseca School. In the last 10 years, two people were beaten with hammers within a half-dozen blocks of that school. That's OK but slot machines aren't?
Students at Morton Middle School can walk to two bars and two liquor stores in less than five minutes.
I've changed my mind about a casino in Fall River not because I've changed my mind about gambling but because I'm tired of seeing my friends and neighbors struggle in a place where there is no work.
It's alright to stand on principle but when your principle is someone else's poverty, when your morality is someone else's hunger, then you have to change your mind.
And by the way, I got myself through school doing farm work, mopping floors and working in a hotel laundry.
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Ken Whisenhunt likely will need at least one victory in these last three weeks to keep his job as the Arizona Cardinals' coach. He also must prove this team still is motivated to play for him.
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Whisenhunt apologized to Cardinals fans and the entire organization following a 58-0 calamity of a loss to the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday. The Cardinals have lost nine in a row after a four-game winning streak to start the season.
Defensive tackle Darnell Dockett said before a team meeting Monday that he'll continue playing hard for defensive coordinator Roy Horton and his fellow defensive linemen, according to The Associated Press.
As for Whisenhunt? Dockett replied, "No comment."
Before we take this as a sign that a mutiny is afoot in Arizona, please consider the source. The Cardinals recently fined Dockett $200,000 for disobeying coaches' orders during a 7-6 loss to the New York Jets last Sunday.
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R is hot. Whether measured by more than 4,400 add-on packages, the 18,000-plus members of LinkedIn's R group, or the close to 80 R Meetup groups currently in existence, there can be little doubt that interest in the R statistics language, especially for data analysis, is soaring.
Why R? It's free, open source, powerful, and highly extensible. "You have a lot of prepackaged stuff that's already available, so you're standing on the shoulders of giants," Google's chief economist told the New York Times back in 2009.
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Because it's a programmable environment that uses command-line scripting, you can store a series of complex data-analysis steps in R. That lets you reuse your analysis work on similar data more easily than if you were using a point-and-click interface, notes Hadley Wickham, author of several popular R packages and chief scientist with RStudio.
That also makes it easier for others to validate research results and check your work for errors -- an issue that cropped up in the news recently after an Excel coding error was among several flaws found in an influential economics analysis report known as Reinhart/Rogoff.
The error itself wasn't a surprise, blogs Christopher Gandrud, who earned a doctorate in quantitative research methodology from the London School of Economics. "Despite our best efforts we always will" make errors, he notes. "The problem is that we often use tools and practices that make it difficult to find and correct our mistakes."
Sure, you can easily examine complex formulas on a spreadsheet. But it's not nearly as easy to run multiple data sets through spreadsheet formulas to check results as it is to put several data sets through a script, he explains.
Indeed, the mantra of "Make sure your work is reproducible!" is a common theme among R enthusiasts.
Who uses R? Relatively high-profile users of R include:
|Used by some within the company for tasks such as analyzing user behavior.
|There are more than 500 R users at Google, according to David Smith at Revolution Analytics, doing tasks such as making online advertising more effective.
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Why not R? Well, R can appear daunting at first. That's often because R syntax is different from that of many other languages, not necessarily because it's any more difficult than others.
"I have written software professionally in perhaps a dozen programming languages, and the hardest language for me to learn has been R," writes consultant John D. Cook in a Web post about R programming for those coming from other languages. "The language is actually fairly simple, but it is unconventional."
And so, this guide. Our aim here isn't R mastery, but giving you a path to start using R for basic data work: Extracting key statistics out of a data set, exploring a data set with basic graphics and reshaping data to make it easier to analyze.


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Orientation to the professional roles in the field of leisure services; the philosophy, academic requirements, standards, documentation, procedures of followed in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies; and computer applications required of all majors.
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Survey of public, private and non-profit agencies engaged in leisure services. Examination of populations served. Organizing principles of the recreation and leisure services profession.
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Muir's 8-0 start is the best start in nearly two decades, but as to when exactly the Mustangs had their best start in school history is just that, a mystery.
Muir coach Gamal Stalley said it's been a "really long time" since the Mustangs opened the season with eight consecutive wins, and its 6-0 start was its best in 16 years. Muir is coming off a win over Saugus last weekend to win the La Canada Tournament.
That the Mustangs, ranked No. 8 in the CIF polls, are playing well may not come as much as of a surprise considering they return 10 players from last year's team that reached the Division 5AA title game.
That success moved Muir to Division 4AA, dubbed the "super division" because it includes powerhouse La Verne Lutheran, L.A. Price and Windward, among others. Early in the season, Smalley said "we might as well be playing the Lakers" after learning Muir was moved up a division. But success in Division 4AA is not farfetched especially the way Muir has played as of late.
Over the summer, Muir played Loyola and Orange Lutheran, two powerhouses that were nationally ranked in the preseason. Muir lost to Loyola by two and lost to Orange Lutheran on a buzzer beater.
"So we know we have something special this year," Smalley said. "We have to find a way to remain consistent. We're still trying to find our way, but it's a good start, nonetheless."
Muir is one of two teams (the other being Crespi at 7-0) to remain unbeaten among the 44 teams in Division 4AA.


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The Jefferson Parish School Board approved a new policy that will impact all of the district's kindergarten students starting next school year.
Jefferson Parish Public School System kindergarten students will wear purple uniform shirts, regardless of their school's color, beginning in 2017-18. This change will help school staff better identify kindergarten students and support the unique needs of these young students.
Prekindergarten students in JPPSS already wear purple uniform shirts. Current pre-K students who are moving on to kindergarten at the same school may elect to still wear their purple pre-K shirt in kindergarten. New students should purchase a purple kindergarten shirt.
If you would like information on purchasing uniforms for your student before July 11, please contact our Compliance Office Call Center at 504-365-5312. You may contact your child's school starting July 11 when school offices reopen.
In addition to making the uniform change for kindergarten students, the school board also approved a policy that requires a parent/guardian or designee who is at least 12 years old to be present when that student gets on the bus in the morning and is dropped off at the bus stop that afternoon. It is the responsibility of the parent/guardian to provide the school and bus operator with the names and a working phone number for those persons authorized to receive a student at the bus stop.