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Twenty-five years ago, America's faith in the space system was shaken, and we all experienced the shock of watching the Space Shuttle Challenger break apart and fall out of the sky. The accident ended the lives of seven astronaut, including the first teacher to go into space.
From the Palm Beach Post: how the pain still lingers.
In Palm Beach, that teacher, Christa McAuliffe, was remembered.
From NPR, astronaut Ronald McNair's brother remembers him.
The big global story today: Egypt's day of rage. This as the government there cuts off Internet access and firing rubber bullets at the crowds, and protesters fear the world has passed them by.
From the New York Times: Al Jazeera channels the Muslim world's anger.
From the BBC: Obama's dilemma.
Also from the BBC: Nelson Mandela is discharged from the hospital.
In domestic news: Rahm Emanuel is back on the ballot. Cue the angry rantings of Carol Mosely Braun. And the ballot battle has upped his sympathy factor.
And in the White House: the era of outsider press politics is over; the age of Jay Carney begins.
Staying with Washington: Politico cites warnings for Romney, and fear of a tea party takeover.
To Florida, where Allen West is holding town halls … for very specific audiences.
And Tampa/St. Pete takes its turn burying police officers.


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If you were to base your opinion of the iPhone, and AT&T's service for it, solely on news stories and commentary, you might think the iPhone is one of the worst consumer electronics devices ever made. However, recent survey statistics on CNN.com show quite a different story.
To see just how satisfied users really are, the first thing you need to find out is how happy iPhone owners are with their devices. One way to judge that is by seeing how likely iPhone owners are to purchase another iPhone. While only 20% of those with Android devices say they want to buy another Android device, an outstanding 77% of iPhone owners would buy another iPhone. While the 77% number is great for Apple, they should also be just as excited about the 20% number for Android users. This shows that while there are currently a lot of sales for Android devices, 80% of them may be convinced to buy an iPhone in the future.
How about AT&T's service? On the whole, 68% of AT&T users reported that they were satisfied with their service. When you look at iPhone users only, that number goes up slightly to 73%. How would the iPhone fare on other networks? Likely about the same. When smartphone users on all networks were polled, their satisfaction rate with their provider was 69%. This is a slight decrease from the number for iPhone users alone, despite the fact that iPhone users pay $12 a month more for service than average.
The company that did the survey believes AT&T's satisfaction numbers are artificially inflated..
"Consumers transfer the high gloss of their Apple iPhone experience to AT&T," says Carl Howe, Yankee Group analyst and author of the study. "The iPhone creates a halo effect that rubs off."
It is definitely true that the two can have an effect on the other, it is hard to find out exactly how one effects the other, positively or negatively. AT&T however, takes a completely different view on the poll numbers.
"There's a gap between what people hear about us and what their experience is with us. We think that gap is beginning to close," says Mark Siegel, an AT&T spokesman. "It doesn't mean we're perfect; we still have work to do. But that's no surprise to us, because we have a great network."
While "Antennagate" has done little to help close that gap, it's obvious from these numbers that the average iPhone consumer is happy with their device and service. So what do you think? Will you get another iPhone? Given a choice, would you switch providers?

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LTU's Office of Career Services has a variety of materials to help with your career development.
Click on each of the following for Quick Tips in career preparation.
Each year, NACE asks employers to rate the importance of certain skills/qualities when hiring possible job candidates.1 Each year, without fail, strong communication skills come out on top. (See Figure 38.)
In this year's survey, employers were asked to distinguish betweenverbal and written communication skills, and results indicate that employers place far more emphasison verbal communication skills thanon written communication abilities and all other skills. (Interestingly,NACE's 2010 Student Surveyfound that, overall, students whoused the career center's practice interviewing program—where the focus is on verbal communication—fared better in the job market than their peers who didn't bother to polish their skills this way.) Using a weighted average calculation this year, a strong work ethic, teamwork skills and analytical skills also topped the list, having ratings above 4.5, indicating they are highly prized in candidates by employers.
1Although employers are provided with a list, they also have the opportunity to add other skills/qualities.
NACE reviews the "others" each year and adds them to the list as warranted.


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July 4, 2015
Stay Connected Anywhere
Stay Connected Anywhere
IOLA, Kan. (AP) -- The upcoming Southeast Kansas Farm-to-Fork Summit this month is focusing on policies to help Kansas farmers make healthful foods accessible and affordable for all residents.
The event is hosted by the Kansas Rural Center and the Allen County Growing Rural Opportunities Works Council. The daylong gathering will take place May 29 at the Fellowship Regional Church in Iola.
It's the second in a series of regional summits across Kansas this spring and summer intended to spur a dialogue about Kansas farms, food and community health. The first gathering last month in Greensburg focused on community food and water policy.
The next summit is planned for June 25 in Colby.
Posted by Greg Palmer
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Taking Possession of Our Own Soul
When a person is born again, there is a period of time when he does not have the same vitality in his thinking or reasoning that he previously had. We must learn to express this new life within us, which comes by forming the mind of Christ (see Philippians 2:5). Luke 21:19 means that we take possession of…Read More »


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Lab 14 (week one) is a very long lab.
Here are the points that seem important:
- KHP is an abbreviation for potassium hydrogen phthalate (KHC8H4O4). Lots of the students think they should add the molar mass of K, H and P to get to its molar mass !!! Make sure that doesn't happen.
- Lots of students have problem with calculating the GEM. I think it's a good idea to walk around and take a good look on their calculations and make sure they are doing it correctly. In my section some of them were using "Table 1" to figure out the # equiv of NaOH. Watch out for that.
- They have to keep their unknown and NaOH solution in their drawers for next week.
- Make sure they cap the NaOH bottles beside the scales.
- It's a good idea to show them an example of what we mean by pale pink. You can use one of the first students' solutions that turned out well, as an example.
- They would need to use Table 3 to answer Q10.
That's all for now,
Have a good spring break :)


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Swimming & Diving Gets Pair of Wins
Oct. 16, 2010
RALEIGH, N.C. - NC State men's and women's swimming and diving picked up season opening wins over VMI and Campbell on Saturday, Oct. 16, at the Willis R. Casey Aquatic Center.
The women moved to 1-0 with a 168-79 victory against Campbell, while the men secured a 165-81 decision over VMI for a 1-0 start.
NC State swimming and diving won 23 combined events, a strong showing to start the season.
The Wolfpack had four dual winners on the day. Jennifer Kopenitz, Lauren Poore, and Marifrances Henley won multiple events on the women's side. Ivan Kopas won two events for the men.
Kopenitz scored victories in the 200 freestyle (1:56.13) and the 100 butterfly (58.14). Poore won the 50 freestyle (24.69) and the 200 backstroke (2:06.51). Henley placed first in the 100 breaststroke (1:08.75) and the 100 freestyle (52.83).
Kopas captured first place honors in the 100 backstroke (50.24) and 200 backstroke (1:49.55). Kopas' time in the 200 backstroke marks the 10th-fastest time in school history.
Both the men's and women's teams swept first and second place in the 200-medley relay. The women's times of 1:47.84 and 1:50.66, and the men's 1:33.77 and 1:36.20 proved strong enough to earn the wins.
Including the relay win and Kopas's pair of victories, the men won a combined 12 events: Andrew Tollefson in the 1,000 freestyle (9:55.48), Brandon Kingston in the 200 freestyle (1:42.12), Dan Forsythe in the 100 breaststroke (58.76), Barrett Miesfeld in the 200 butterfly (1:55.43), Joe Martin in the 50 freestyle (20.97), Gaites Brown in the 100 freestyle (46.58), Maxim Litvinov in the 200 breaststroke (2:09.88), and Kohl Hurdle in the 400 individual medley (4:05.81). Hudson Rains won the only diving event of the day with a final score of 358.35.
Wins by Kaitlin Mills in the 100 backstroke (58.95), Jordan Paavola in the 200 butterfly (2:06.93), Jessica Ward in the 200 breaststroke (2:22.44), and Kelsey Liu in the 500 freestyle (5:09.43) rounded out the women's 11 victories Saturday.
NC State will return to action Friday, Oct. 22, in conference action against Maryland. Diving will take place on campus at the Willis R. Casey Aquatic Center, while all swimming will be held in nearby Cary at the Triangle Aquatic Center. Action is slated to begin at 2 p.m.


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Have fun improving your writing accuracy & speed!
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Full list of supported languages
English (US)
English (UK)
English (AU)
English (CA)
Arabic *
Armenian *
Azerbaijani *
Chinese (Simplified) !
Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan) !
Chinese (Traditional, Hong Kong) !
Danish *
Dutch *
Estonian *
Finnish *
French (CA)
French (FR)
Georgian *
German *
Hindi *
Hinglish *
Hungarian *
Icelandic *
Indonesian *
Korean *
Malay *
Norwegian *
Persian (Farsi) *
Portuguese (BR)
Portuguese (PT)
Romanian *
Spanish (ES)
Spanish (US)
Spanish (LA)
Swedish *
Thai !
Turkish *
Ukrainian *
Urdu *
(* = no smart space, ! = no Flow)
SwiftKey Keyboard requests access to your SMS messages in order to improve word predictions based on what you've typed before.
Some features are only supported by certain versions of Android. Emoji is supported on Android 4.1 and above. For more information on emoji support and other FAQs, please see https://support.swiftkey.com/.
ai.type keyboard Free + Emoji
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Design keyboard layout, change themes, colors, fonts, use more than 800 emoji, and express yourself exactly the way you want to.
★New features★
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♦ Personalize 🔧 your keyboard's look & feel, functionality and create your own custom keys & shortcuts.
o Dynamically resize your keyboard size according to your needs.
o Set ANY image as your background image.
o Use our top (5th) row to efficiently add numbers, punctuation (and other) characters, emoji, from within the primary keyboard screen.
o Long-press any key and conveniently use accented and alternative characters.
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Permission to read contacts database is needed to generate names based on contact list.
Permission to read SMS is needed to generate words based on SMS content.
All information is locally stored on smartphone's vocabulary.
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Emoji Keyboard Pro - Emoticons
Highlights of Emoji Keyboard Pro:
★Fast and convenient input of thousands of emojis, emoticons, stickers, smileys and text faces everywhere.★
★Customizable press sound, keyboard color, font, wallpaper and layout. Anything you want.★
★ Colorful themes - Over 30 beautiful themes and continuing to increase.★
★Smart auto-correction and smart word-suggestion.★
★Over 30 dictionaries of all major languages.★
Some telephones' initial keyboards can not see the colorful emojis because the system is not compatible, but in some certain third-party apps it's OK.
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FC Barcelona Official Keyboard
A smart, all-inclusive keyboard introducing astonishing features such as the FC Barcelona look and feel, an extensive news feed bringing you the most accurate and up-to-date information about your beloved team, and much more. Plus, new and exciting features coming up in the near future such as team emojis!
The FC Barcelona official keyboard allows you to enjoy all these special features:
1. An automatic spelling and style checker, protecting you from embarrassing mistakes.
2. An extremely convenient layout, making commonly used keys more accessible than on other keyboards.
3. Automatic word completion and correction, using a sophisticated algorithm that adapts suggestions to your vocabulary and style.
4. Next-word prediction that learns your vocabulary and style as you type.
Your privacy is important to us, and we at FC Barcelona keyboard have chosen to undertake strict safeguards to protect your privacy. Please note we don't save any credit card information or passwords keep that in mind when you receive the notification from android regarding privacy. we also strive to meet and exceed industry standards.
We welcome any comments and suggestions for improvement at: firstname.lastname@example.com
FC Barcelona Official Keyboard supports the following languages:
- English UK
- English US
- Catalan
- German
- Danish
- Dutch
- Italian
- French
- Turkish
- Russian
- Arabic
- Hebrew
- Indonesian
- Portuguese (Brazil)
- Portuguese (Portugal)
- Norwegian
- Spanish (Spain)
- Spanish (Latin America)
- Swedish
- Malay
- Filipino
- Hindi
- Bengali
- Telugu
- Polish
- Punjabi
In addition these following languages are partially supported (not including Completion & Prediction) :
- Thai
- Vietnamese
- Croatian
- Finnish
- Greek
- Korean
- Slovenian
- Czech
- Hungarian
- Lithuanian
- Latvian
- Slovak
- Bulgarian
- Tamil
- Marathi
TouchPal - Cute Emoji Keyboard
TouchPal - the No.1 Emoji Keyboard for mobile phone:
- Mobile Innovation Global Award winner
- 270 million users worldwide are using our emoticon collection and creating their own keyboard themes.
Highlights of TouchPal Emoji Keyboard:
- Input Emoji, Emoticon and smiley anywhere conveniently like message, text, email, note, contact, sms.
- Customizable keyboard color, wallpaper and layout. Anything you want.
- Colorful themes - 100+ Colorful Themes available and DIY your own theme.
- Contextual Prediction - Most powerful error correction: correct mistyping , spelling errors and capitalization automatically. (eg. type "cute emoji faces" and TouchPal Keyboard corrects it to "Cute Emoji Faces")
- Show Emoticons and Emoji as candidate
- Over 85 languages supported
- Text face ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°), (ʘ‿ʘ)
- Set personal photo as theme
- CLOUD PREDICTION: Enhance next word prediction and other predictions by cloud computing.
- TouchPal Curve – sliding input
- Copy, cut, paste and arrow key
- Set personal photo as theme
- Clipboard for multiple fast copy and paste
- Auto-pair for symbols like () "" . Long press on the symbol to try it.
HOW TO ENABLE TouchPal Emoji Keyboard ?
- Enable the Input, First go to HOME -> Setting -> Language & Keyboard, and then check TouchPal Keyboard to ENABLE it.
- To use Keyboard, you need to change the input method.
- Change the input method by holding the Text Box, and select the "Input Method", then choose TouchPal Keyboard.
Afrikaans, Albainan, Arabic, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Basque, Bengali, Bosnian(Cyrillic), Bosnian(Latin), Bulgarian, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English US, English UK, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malayalam, Malay, Marathi, Myanmar/Burmese(Unicode), Myanmar/Burmese(Zawgyi), Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese(Brazil), Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian(Cyrillic), Serbian(Latin), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Spanish (Latin), Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Zulu
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/touchpal
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GO Keyboard Lite + Emoji
GO Keyboard Emoji, Emoticons Free delivers smart auto-correction and a user-friendly interface. It supports 60+ languages and thousands of themes. The symbols and emoticons in the keyboard are compatible across all popular apps, like Facebook, mail, messenger, Hotmail and Whatsapp etc.
Emoji and Emoticons fully supported
Turn plain text into cute emoji and emoticons! Communicate with your emoji icons and emotions such as ( ^ω^) ! Emojis and emoticons speak 1000 times louder than words! Easy to find emoji and emoticons from keyboard area just by one click.
★ FREE Emoji, emoticons and other cute smiley faces explosion (ʘ‿ʘ)
It is free to use a pack of 800 emoticons, emoji, and smiley faces. They are cute to express your feeling smart in mail, messenger etc. They are just like facebook emoji.
There are 10000+ colorful themes compatible with GO Keyboard and new free themes are delivered weekly! You could also set keyboard background wallpaper free.
★ CUSTOMIZABLE toolbar
Want to access emoji, voice input in one click? Our toolbar provides shortcut entries for your typing habit. Also long press and set anytime.
Smart enough to recognize mistyping and provide correction suggestions.
★ VARIOUS LAYOUTS including QWERTY, gesture typing and support for tablet device
It provides various layouts such as QWERTY keyboard, QWERTZ and AZERTY keyboard for input mode and pad tablet.
★ TYPE what you speak
Free you with voice input.
★ PRIVACY and security
We will never collect your personal info including credit card information.
What our users said
" Love the colorful themes, cute emoji and smiley faces" - Sonia Garcia
1. How to enable GO Keyboard?
Step 1: click open GO Keyboard icon, and click through 2 steps to enable GO Keyboard and set as default one;
Step 2: You can select themes, set qwerty keyboard layout, type emoticons, and ….
For more info, follow us on FACEBOOK: http://goo.gl/kLxbSl
Korean- KO
Malay- MS
Philippines(Tagalog)- TL
Slovenian- SL
Thai- TH
Ukrainian –UG
Use of this app is governed by Terms of Service: https://goo.gl/ewazhp and Privacy Policy: https://goo.gl/43153H
GO Keyboard Lab + Emoji
GO Keyboard is a Emoji Free keyboard that delivers better auto-correction and a user-friendly interface. It supports 60+ languages and the language pool is expanding as you request. The symbols in the keyboard are compatible across all popular apps, including SMS, Gmail, Whatsapp etc. The most important: We are listening to you and let us know!
★ Free 800+ Emoji and other cute smiley faces explosion (ʘ‿ʘ)
It is free to use a pack of 800+ cute emoticons, emoji, and smiley faces. They are grouped into different categories so you are able to find it real fast. And more emojis are coming!
★ Colorful themes and useful plug-ins
There are 10000+ colorful themes in market that are compatible with GO Keyboard and we are delivering free themes every week! It is your choice to stand out among friends.
Plus, we have several features to make your typing more fun and faster. Voice input and voice recorder are must-try.
★ Highly configurable toolbar in keyboard area
Want to access all emoji emoticons or edit page in one click? Our toolbar provides two customized shortcut entries to adjust to your typing habit. You are able to set and change them anytime.
★ Word correction suggestions
GO keyboard is smart enough to recognize typo and provide correction suggestions to you while correction suggestions function is enabled. Sloppy typing is away from you.
★ Various layouts, support for tablet device and gesture typing
It provides various layouts such as QWERTY, QWERTZ and AZERTY for phone mode and other layouts specifically for pad tablet. You can also slide finger across screen for fast input.
★ Type fun and set free
You could set your own background images free as well as use a voice recorder plug-in to transfer your voice into a different sound. It is sooo fun to send to your friends. Try it out!
★ Privacy
We will never collect your personal info including credit card information and so on.
However, you may receive a warning when activating GO Keyboard saying "This keyboard may collect your personal data." The warning message is a standard message in Android for ANY third-party keyboard app, so don't worry.
What our users said
"Go keyboard is exactly what I want.. If you're looking for fast typing and enough personalization.. it is the right choice." - Mohd Hasbi
"This is not just a typing tool. Love the colorful themes, with free cute emoji and smiley faces" - Sonia Garcia
1. How to enable GO Keyboard on my mobile?
Step 1: click open GO Keyboard icon, click to enable GO Keyboard and set as default one;
Step 2: locate any input box and it is ready to go!
Follow us on FACEBOOK: http://goo.gl/kLxbSl
Supported languages
Pinyin, wubi, stoke, handwriting and voice input
Arabic-AR-اللغة العربية
Bulgarian-BG-Български език
cangjie,zhuyin,simple cangjie
Croatian-HR- Hrvatski
Czech-CS- čeština
Danish-DA- dansk
Dutch-NL- Nederlands
Finnish-FT- Suomi
French-FR- française
German-DE- Deutsch
Greek-EL- Ἑλληνική
Hebrew-HE- Ivrit
Hungarian-HU- Magyar
Indonesian-ID- Bahasa Indonesia
Italian-IT- Italiano
Korean- KO-조선어
Malay- MS- Bahasa Melayu
Norwegian-NO- norsk
Philippines(Tagalog)- tl- Tagalog
Polish-PL- język polski
Romanian-RO- română
Russian-RU-Русский язык
Slovak-SK- Slovenčina
Slovenian- SL-slovenščina
Spanish-ES- Español
Swedish-SV- svenska
Thai- TH -ไทย
Turkish-TR- Türkçe
Ukrainian -UG-українська мова
and more
Use of this app is governed by Terms of Service: https://goo.gl/ewazhp and Privacy Policy: https://goo.gl/43153H
CM Keyboard - Emoji, ASCII Art
English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Greek, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Dutch, Thai, Vietnamese, Polish, Romanian
More languages will be added later.
1. Main Keyboard Includes Numbers
The main keyboard has a row of numbers at the top, which can easily help you input numbers without having to switch keyboards. When you type in passwords, you can just focus on your memory and not on switching inputs..
You can long tap the top-right button to show characters.
2. Main Keyboard Includes Emoji and Emoticon Button
Want to type emoji but have trouble finding them? We've got you covered. There is an obvious button on the main keyboard which brings you emojis on a short tap and emoticons on a long tap.
Bring some color to your communication!
3. Easily Type Emoji
Emoji is supported on every platform, use emoji to make your senences more attractice.
Super stars like emoji too!
P.S.: We only show emoji which are already on your system
4. Plenty of Cute Emoticons
Never used emoticons before? Why not give it a try! It's magical when some symbols give a meaning which can't be expressed in words.
Emoticons are the easiest way to be cute so quickly!! o‿≖✧
Key Features
- Fresh UI design
- Flexible full keyboard input
- Numbers on top for easy access when entering passwords
- Emoji on the main keyboard
- Plenty of cute emoticons
- Adaptive input - intelligent and smart!
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Monday 3pm
I call the ranch management to tell them I'm coming out to pig hunt on a property to which the said they were cooling off the property for two weeks. Okay, no big deal there is a turkey property near by I can hunt that also has pigs. So I thought I can arrow a Thunder Chicken and scout for pigs at the same time. Mind you I have never been to this ranch.
530 pm
Work is over and I'm heading out, try to tell the wife where I'm going but cell reception drops. Ah no problem, just turkey hunting. First mistake.
615 pm
Unlock the gate to the ranch and camo up and strap on my snake guards. Spend the next hour glassing, calling and going over the map, oh wait I forgot to download Cabelas Recon to my new phone. Second mistake.
So armed with a map that was given to me by the ranch which looks to have been copied 10,000 times I ventured forth. No pigs or turks in sight or in each shot.
On the "High Def" map I did have I spotted an area that looked to have been some what clear and open with nice rolling hills so I trekked over there and found myself getting further and further back in the ranch and on roads the my little 2x4 was working harder and harder to keep going on. Third Mistake.
The above picture was taken just before all hell broke loose, the calm before the storm as it were. On the map I had it showed a road going back to the gate and it was the shorter than going back the way I came. I gave it a gamble and started down the trail, my nice road a low rider could drive on turned into a 4x4 trail from hell in one crest of a hill. By the time I figured this out and hit the breaks to reverse it was too late, I was committed and skidding down the trail. Fourth Mistake.
It's now getting dark and as I crest another hill the earth falls out just ahead of me. The trail now turns sharp left and runs about 24" from the cliff, I'm now stuck, can't go forward, reverse is now my only option. 50 yards in reverse with brush scratching my truck, a cliff to the passenger side and impenetrable brush to the driver. Mirrors are useless all I could do it use my back up camera and over the shoulder. I finally got to a place to turn around notice my road I was trying to find had a small road closed sign on it. So my only choice was turn around and head back the way I came in. Up a trail I barely made it down.
First attempt was unsuccessful despite flooring it ands when I was backing down it I started to slide of the trail again. Finally I was at a spot where I could take another run and just put some good ole Mountain Man determination in it and dropped the pedal to the floor. Stuff was flying all over my truck, dust, rocks and branches out the back. My truck redlined for the first time, but I got out of there.
So all being said it was a good time scouting and I pushed the limits of my truck. So now when I go back there on Thursday, I know which roads to stay away from.
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Western Athlete (n,v,ad.v) A Western Athlete is as proficient with a Bow and Gun as he is with a flyrod. Family, Hunting, Shooting, Flyfishing, Sheds and Cooking. All in a days work.
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WICHITA, Kan. – The University of Northern Iowa women's basketball team dropped an 80-47 decision to the Wichita State Shockers on Saturday night. UNI is now 7-9 overall and 3-2 in Missouri Valley Conference play.
UNI was led by Brittni Donaldson who finished with nine points against the Shockers. Hannah Schonhardt added seven and six rebounds while Stephanie Davison notched six points off two three-pointers.
Wichita State jumped out on a 12-2 run over the Panthers to start the game with Michelle Price coming up with six of the Shockers' point. Jen Keitel scored UNI's first points of the game and Schonhardt added two free throws to make the score 12-4 at the 15:58 mark in the first half.
The Shockers held a double-digit lead with 12:54 left in the half. UNI then got a spark from Davison's big three-pointer and went on a 6-0 run to cut the score to 22-16. UNI was then able to cut the lead down even more when Donaldson hit another trey to make the score 24-19 with 8:38 on the clock.
UNI chipped the WSU lead down to just two points after Madison Weekly dove for a ball out of bounds and sent a pass to a streaking Donaldson for an easy fast-break layup to make the score 29-27 with less than two minutes remaining. Wichita State was able to knock down two three-pointers in the final 1:30 of the first half to take a 35-27 lead heading into halftime.
The Shockers opened the second half on an 11-0 run to take a 46-27 lead before Schonhardt hit a jump shot to end the run and make the score 46-29. WSU was able to turn it into an 18-2 run before Schonhardt was fouled hard in the lane and converted on a free throw to make the score 53-30.
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OpenVMS Technical Journal - V17 November 2011
Welcome to V17 of the OpenVMS Technical Journal. It is indeed a great pleasure in bringing this edition of the Technical Journal to all the VMS enthusiasts around the world. We trust that you will find all the articles informative and useful.
In this version you will find many articles that will interest you, for example, an article written by Kris Clippeleyr on how to write an execlet to show a user the default device and directory specification of another process.
Additionally in this edition, you will find these articles:
- OpenVMS Time zone Troubleshooting, Sandeep Mathew
- Impact of the process quota on BACKUP performance, Shriniketan Bhagwat
- Hints and Tricks when using Directories on OpenVMS, Lokanath Bagh, P. Muralidhar Kini & Chinmay Ghosh
- A Guide to understanding the SCACP counters, SaiKrishna Manian
- Accessing RMS indexed files from non-VMS systems using SOAP and Python, Remi Jolin
- A whole re-engineering project on OpenVMS, Gerard Calliet
- OpenVMS native on x86, Arie de Groot
We would appreciate your feedback › not only on this issue but the OpenVMS Technical Journal as a whole.
If you would like to submit an article for the next issue please click here ›. Thank you for your continued support, and a big thanks to all the authors who contributed for this edition.
Table of Contents
OpenVMS Technical Journal V17
|OpenVMS Time zone Troubleshooting
|Abstract ›
|Impact of the process quota on BACKUP performance
|Abstract ›
|Hints and Tricks when using Directories on OpenVMS
|Abstract ›
|A Guide to understanding the SCACP counters
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|Accessing RMS indexed files from non-VMS systems using SOAP and Python
|Abstract ›
|A whole re-engineering project on OpenVMS
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|OpenVMS native on x86
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|Writing an execlet
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OpenVMS Time zone Troubleshooting
Article Title: OpenVMS Time zone Troubleshooting HTML, PDF
Article Abstract: This white paper outlines the OpenVMS time zone feature that allows users to configure the timezone related settings, build timezone rules. This paper also provides troubleshooting tips and techniques on timezone related issues.
Author Bio: Sandeep Mathew started his career in HP in 2010. He has been involved on part of the Operating System (Memory Management). Currently his work area includes Utilities, such as Time Zone, MONITOR, DCL.
Impact of the process quota on BACKUP performance
Article Title: Impact of the process quota on BACKUP performance HTML, PDF
Article Abstract: This article discusses the process quotas and limits that influence the performance of BACKUP operation. This also provides guidelines calculate appropriate values for these parameters and how these could be set using SYSGEN parameters.
Authors Bio: Shriniketan Bhagwat has been working for OpenVMS from past 5+ years. He has worked on OpenVMS utilities, such as BACKUP, SYSMAN, DIF, COPY etc. He was involved in latest V8.4 enhancements. He also works on RMS and file system. He holds 3 patents published in his name.
Hints and Tricks when using Directories on OpenVMS
Article Title: Hints and Tricks when using Directories on OpenVMS - HTML, PDF
Article Abstract: A directory is a file which contains information about other files stored in. On OpenVMS, it is a sequential file with some special attributes. The attributes are 1) directory file is logically contiguous 2) record format is variable length and maximum record length is 512. It contains file names and their associated file ID (FID) along with other attributes. Content of the directory files are only data records which are called directory records. The file names are stored in alphanumerically sorted order. OpenVMS file system component XQP modifies the content of directory file on several user request viz. file create, delete, etc.. XQP has to face many challenges while modifying a directory file. The challenges are 1) Over the period of time directory file used/allocated size can grow, used size may shrink and again can grow 2) File names may arrive in any order 3) file names may be deleted in any order. While dealing with above challenges XQP may also face resources scarcity which may impact OpenVMS file system (XQP) operations.
Here are some tips and hints which will help the user to take some precautionary measure, to tune file system SYSGEN parameters, modify their application to make file system operations faster, avoid some operations, and get performance boost.
Authors Bio: : Lokanath Bagh has been working for OpenVMS for past 12+ years. He has worked on OpenVMS utilities, such as all DECset components viz. MMS, CMS, DTM, LSE, etc in the past. He presently works on RMS and its associated utility components, OpenVMS file system (XQP) and also other utilities available in OpenVMS.
P Muralidhar Kini has been working with OpenVMS since 2004. His first project in HP involved working on the Archive Backup System (ABS) product. He worked on ABS for 3 years and then moved to the VMS File system team. Currently he is working on the VMS File system components. He is specialized in the File system components; especially XFC (eXtended File Cache).
Chinmay Ghosh has been working with OpenVMS for since 1999. His past projects were RTR, ACMS, DECforms, DATATRIEVE, matured products etc. Presently he is associated with OpenVMS cluster team and volume shadowing.
A Guide to understanding the SCACP counters
Article Title: A Guide to understanding the SCACP counters - HTML, PDF
Article Abstract: Systems Communications Architecture Control Program (SCACP) is the primary utility to monitor and manage a node in an OpenVMS cluster. SCACP provides a window to peep into the current state of cluster communication between the nodes through the varied counters it makes available to the administrator. These counters are the first piece of evidence for any issues with the cluster communication. Understanding the SCACP counters may not solve the problem at hand, but might give directions on where to start searching from. This document gives useful detail on each of these counters.
Author Bio: SaiKrishna Manian joined the VMS Engineering in 2008, just after completing his bachelor's in Computer Science and Engineering. He has been working on the networking stack of OpenVMS Clusters since then.
Accessing RMS indexed files from non-VMS systems using SOAP and Python
Article Title: Accessing RMS indexed files from non-VMS systems using SOAP and Python - HTML, PDF
Article Abstract: Accessing OpenVMS RMS data from other systems is more and more necessary. This article presents a step by step example of building a SOAP server to access an indexed file using Python and the soaplib and vms.rms packages.
Author Bio: Remi Jolin holds MS in telecommunications from Telecom Bretagne(ENSTBr) in France and "playing" with VMS in various organizations for almost 30 years. SysGroup is a French consultants' company where all the staff has a deep background on VMS; has ported, maintains and supports Python and MySQL on OpenVMS.
A whole re-engineering project on OpenVMS
Article Title: A whole re-engineering project on OpenVMS HTML, PDF
Article Abstract: The customer was in an uncomfortable situation regarding their Rally applications during their Alpha/ Itanium migration. Rally is not supported by Oracle since 1993. So, it does not port to Itanium. The only sources available were printable documents related to the applications, generated as 'Report Rally' by the Rally executable. The result of our labor is roughly 1,300,000 lines of COBOL and DecForms.
Our high productivity ratio (about 1,300 lines a day created from scratch, tested, and deployed) is explained by two factors : 1) we chose the right tool kit: jRuby for Regular Expressions, xml as the knowledge repository, antlr and scala as intelligent analyzers and generators, xslt as the final code producer, Xslt, scala and perl used again as refactoring tools - all of them running on OpenVMS or linux, with a little help from DCL 2) we chose a mixed method for a mixed team : semi-automatic analysis and semi-automatic generation, new-tech. guys and old school Cobol experts working together. And the lesson to draw from all this work is: "It's possible to reuse intellectual efforts that are recorded in old code, just read it very carefully, and all will be revealed.
Author Bio: Gerard Calliet is a senior development engineer on OpenVMS since 1985. Research on new technicals at CNAM, France, in 1995. He founded a professional association for VMS: 'provms' in France in 2005. He is the also founded the software company, Play It Again, SOFtwarE Renew (pia-sofer), three years ago, whose goal is providing new ways for software modernizing. In roughly one thousand days Gerard's team has managed to port twenty five huge Rally (Oracle L4G) applications, doing a 100% iso-functional rewrite in COBOL and DecForms.
OpenVMS native on x86
Article Title: OpenVMS native on x86 HTML, PDF
Article Abstract: Alpha virtualization is a good alternative to regular software migration, when you want to continue using your Alpha based software after the retirement of the Alpha system range. Unfortunately the alternatives run on Windows or sometimes a flavor of Linux, which introduces problems:
- Perceived security / reliability of the host operating system
- Version incompatibilities between virtual Alpha and host OS
- (Automatic) OS level upgrades or service packs
- User access to the host OS, jeopardizing operational security
- Ownership of the virtual Alpha now it runs on Windows / Linux
vtAlpha is a solution that installs directly on top of a x86 machine or in a Virtual Machine environment. No need to purchase, install and maintain a separate operating system. vtAlpha is developed and qualified on physical machines (HP Proliant) and can also be run on Virtual Machines.
Author Bio: Arie de Groot started his career in software engineering and moved via various assignments into the Digital OEM group where he joined the Alpha OEM group. After the spin-off of the Alpha OEM activity in 1999. Arie continued as independent entrepreneur working in the OpenVMS and Tru64 area. The most recent activity is the foundation of AVTware, a group of people to develop an Alpha virtualization product that is independent of the host environment and as reliable as the Alpha systems it replaces.
Writing an execlet
Article Title: Writing an execlet HTML, PDF
Article Abstract: How a simple question (what's the default device & directory specification of a process) can lead to some serious system programming.
This article tells the story of the development of a utility, with the necessary DCL bells and whistles, to show a user the default device and directory specification of another process. Writing this utility forced the programmer to develop a shareable image, a set of so-called user-written system services, and even a loadable executive image, aka an execlet. Several domains of the OpenVMS operating system are touched: command line parsing, help libraries, logical names, shareable images, system services, kernel mode programming, etc.
Author Bio: Kris Clippeleyr has been working in the IT industry for the best part of 30 years. He started working with OpenVMS in the mid 1980s, first as an application programmer, later on as a system programmer, and finally as a system manager. Currently working as an independent OpenVMS consultant, Kris is also visiting lecturer at Global Knowledge and at The Campus, where he conducts several OpenVMS courses (system management, programming and internals).
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OpenVMS Technical Journal V13 ›
OpenVMS Technical Journal V12 ›
OpenVMS Technical Journal V11 ›
OpenVMS Technical Journal V10 ›
OpenVMS Technical Journal V9 ›
OpenVMS Technical Journal V8 ›
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OpenVMS Technical Journal V6 ›
OpenVMS Technical Journal V5 ›
OpenVMS Technical Journal V4 ›
OpenVMS Technical Journal V3 ›
OpenVMS Technical Journal V2 ›
OpenVMS Technical Journal V1 ›
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Volume 40 ----- October 24, 2006 -----Number 2
The Senate Record is the official publication of the University Faculty Senate of The Pennsylvania State University, as provided for in Article I, Section 9 of the Standing Rules of the Senate, and contained in the Constitution, Bylaws, and Standing Rules of the University Faculty Senate, The Pennsylvania State University, 2006-2007.
The publication is issued by the Senate Office, 101 Kern Graduate Building, University Park, PA 16802 (telephone 814-863-0221). The Senate Record is distributed to all University Libraries and is posted on the Web at http://www.senate.psu.edu under "Publications." Copies are made available to faculty and other University personnel on request.
Except for items specified in the applicable Standing Rules, decisions on the responsibility for inclusion of matters in the publication are those of the Chair of the University Faculty Senate.
When existing communication channels seem inappropriate, Senators are encouraged to submit brief letters relevant to the Senate's function as a legislative, advisory and consultative, and forensic body for possible inclusion in The Senate Record.
Reports that have appeared in the Agenda for the meeting are not included in The Senate Record unless they have been changed substantially during the meeting, or are considered to be of major importance. Remarks and discussions are abbreviated in most instances. A complete transcript and tape of the meeting is on file. Individuals with questions may contact Dr. Susan C. Youtz, Executive Secretary, University Faculty Senate.
I. Final Agenda for October 24, 2006
II. Minutes and Summary of Remarks
Minutes of the September 12, 2006, Meeting in The Senate Record
40:1 [www.senate.psu.edu/record/index.html]
Senate Curriculum Report of October 10, 2006 and Update on the
Implementation of Uniform Course Abbreviation Legislation
C. REPORT OF SENATE COUNCIL – Meeting of October 10, 2006
University Budget and Planning Report - [Report withdrawn]
Presentation by Executive Vice President and
Provost Rodney A. Erickson
Revision to the Constitution, Article II, Section 1 (Membership)
Integration of Strategic Research Institutes with the Colleges
Report on Access and Affordability at
Penn State
Report on Faculty Senate Scholarships Awarded to Undergraduates
Academic Eligibility and Athletic Scholarships for 2005-2006
NCAA Faculty Athletic Representative Annual Report
Overview of Issues Related to the Administrative
Responsibilities for Intercollegiate Athletics within the University
The Effectiveness of Online Education
New Student Government Report – [Report withdrawn]
The University Faculty Senate
Tuesday, October 24, 2006, at 1:30 PM
The University Faculty Senate met on Tuesday, October 24, 2006, at 1:30 p.m.
in room 112 Kern Graduate Building with Joanna Floros, Chair, presiding.
Chair Floros: The April 25, 2006, Senate Record was not approved at the last meeting because of an attribution concern.
Professor Robert Speel of Penn State Erie has asked to have a notation appear in the April 25,2006,
Senate Record to reflect that he is not the author of the e-mail quote attributed to him by Harrisburg Senator Winston Richards at the April 25, 2006, Senate meeting during the discussion of the Disciplinary Communities report.
May I hear a motion to accept the minutes of April 25 and September 12, 2006, please say aye.
Senators: Aye.
Chair Floros: Opposed say nay. Ayes have it, motion carried.
The minutes of the April 25 and September 12, 2006, meeting have been approved.
Senate Curriculum Report of October 10, 2006. This document is posted on the University Faculty Senate Web site: http://senate.psu.edu.
Also included in the Communication to the Senate, Appendix A, is a copy of the letter sent to Deans, ACUE members, Chancellors, and DAAs with an update on the implementation of the Uniform Course Abbreviation legislation. On the back of the letter is a status sheet giving an overview of where we stand consolidating disciplinary abbreviations. We have made good progress but have more to do. There are 22 disciplinary areas where work is in progress and ten that are unresponsive (borrowing Lee Kump's phrase). Please urge your colleagues to move forward and submit the expedited proposals by the deadline of December 15, 2006.
REPORT OF SENATE COUNCIL – Meeting of October 10, 2006
Enclosed in today's agenda are the minutes from the October
10 meeting of Senate Council. I refer
you to the minutes of Senate Council at the end of your agenda. Included in the minutes are topics that were
discussed by the Faculty Advisory Committee to the President at the October 10
meeting. At the October 10 Senate
Council meeting a special presentation on
Web site: http:senate.psu.edu/aboutsenate/committees/SC/SC.html.
Chair Floros: Out of courtesy to our presenters, please turn off your cell phones and pagers at this time. Thank you.
The Senate officers have completed our fall visits to campuses and will debrief Provost Erickson and Vice President Romano on December 4.
The Senate has received a proposal for the establishment of
a new
Although the Senate is a faculty-driven body of governance, we believe that the Senate functions at its best when there is administrative input. To this end, we have requested the presence and participation of senior administrators in most of our standing committees. I want to remind all senior administrators that we value your input and encourage you to please attend and participate in Senate committee deliberations. If you can't attend a Senate meeting, please ask another administrator in your office to attend. I want to believe that reports coming to Senate Council and the full Senate are the result of genuine debate where all relevant faculty and administrative points of view are discussed.
On September 22, Jeremy Cohen, Associate Vice President and Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, and I co-charged a work group to examine the academic issues associated with online courses and programs. Senate Chair-Elect Dawn Blasko and ACUE Chair Dave Christiansen agreed to co-chair this work group. Also serving are Greg Ziegler, Chris Falzone, Nancy Herron, and Jack Selzer. This is a fast-track work group and they will make their recommendations to Jeremy and me by the end of November.
Because of questions raised over the last two months concerning student representation on the Senate, at its meeting this morning, the Committee on Committees and Rules has approved the following interpretation:
Based on the Senate Constitution Article 11, Section 5 and Electoral procedures approved by the Elections Commission, the student Senators elected in spring 2006 representing each of the 11 colleges and DUS at University Park are the duly elected student senators and their terms will end following the April 2007 meeting of the Senate.
procedures and elections for college student representatives developed by the
officially recognized
President Spanier is with us today, and I am pleased to ask him to come forward and make his comments.
President Spanier: Thank you and good afternoon
everyone. Let me begin by telling you
that within a few days we will have our official enrollment totals for this
fall, and they will end up being pretty much along the lines of what we were
expecting as classes began to unfold. We
will almost certainly have a record number of students on this campus. It probably will end up around 42,000
students, maybe a few more, pretty much at the upper limit of what we expect to
happen at this campus going forward. We
also had within that group the largest freshman class in
Our four Dean searches are well under way. One of them will be concluded very shortly and the others are into the process. We will continue to give you updates on the progress of those searches along the way.
A campus like this is very large and includes more than 50,000 people on campus on any given day, and tens of thousands more than that on a football weekend. It is like a small city in many respects and we do have our own special brand of issues and problems. Over the weekend, we had a very unfortunate violent suicide; I think most of you have probably read about it by now. I mention it now only to take an opportunity to commend our University police, our Student Affairs staff, and our staff at Housing and Residence Life, who did a phenomenal job. Many of these people were up around the clock as we had a bit of a stand-off that went throughout the night. We had to take care of our students and we had to take care of some public safety issues. We had to coordinate what we did with other law enforcement agencies and with family members of those involved. Our folks really stepped up and did a fabulous job and I am very grateful for the work they did.
The State of the University address that we did a little differently this year in September has now been downloaded and viewed by nearly 50,000 people. That is quite remarkable given that the fraction of that number saw or viewed the address previously in a more traditional format, so I think we will continue to use that format. I want to take this opportunity to thank many of you here who sent me emails afterwards and followed up with comments about the address. I think we will probably continue with doing things that way; the only difference will be for those of you that came to Eisenhower Auditorium expecting to get ice cream before the address. We can't transmit that ice cream to you via DVD, but if you bump into me on campus at some point and remind me that you are missing the ice cream, I'll buy you an ice cream cone at the Creamery.
My television show, To the Best of My Knowledge, is on tonight at 7:00, and I would like to point out to you that the topic this week is today's college students. Some of you have written me notes after my speech at the Chautauqua Institution this summer and suggested that it would be a good topic for a television show, so we have a couple of our students who are going to be on. It will be broadcast on WPSU TV, WPSU FM and the Pennsylvania Cable Network, for those of you who will be traveling back home and might want to tune in or call and ask these students a question. If you are out of touch with our students today, this would be a good time to tune in and see what some of them are all about.
I want to commend to you the
Finally, let me say that this Sunday morning daylight savings time ends, so change your clocks so you are not late to your classes Monday morning. With that I will open it up for your questions.
Chair Floros: Are there any questions for President Spanier? Please stand and wait for the microphone before you give your name and unit.
Robert Zambanini,
President Spanier: Let me say, first of all, that would be
an excellent question for our athletic director who is going to be making a
presentation here shortly. That is a
very disturbing episode that we saw and that we occasionally see on the field
in football and in some other sports at other universities. That would not come close to being typical
behavior that we would see at
Chair Floros: Any other questions?
Thomas Beebee,
College of the Liberal Arts: President
Spanier, in the packet for today's Senate meeting is a long report on financial
aid at
President Spanier: I haven't read this particular report; I have been out of town. It was included in the Senate agenda, I gather?
Thomas Beebee: Yes.
President Spanier: I have not looked at that yet, and I
don't know if there is any news. Is there anything new or different in that
report? Yes, the trends continue. The
trends have been very challenging for us, we give out a very substantial amount
of financial aid at
A major theme of our fundraising efforts right now is
scholarships. I am on the road the
majority of my time now as we begin the process of getting ready for our next
major capital fundraising campaign.
Scholarship financial aid for students will continue to be a very
significant part of what we are looking for in that campaign. That campaign
will focus very much on
Chair Floros: Any other questions?
JoAnn Chirico,
President Spanier: I think we have a pretty good balance at
Chair Floros: Ray Bryer, an officer of the Student Labor Action Project and member of United Students Against Sweatshops, has asked for the opportunity to ask President Spanier a question. The Senate Officers support his request. Ray, would you please stand, wait for the microphone and ask Dr. Spanier your question.
Racquel Scianna: I am speaking on behalf of Ray. President Spanier, I represent a growing
student organization at
President Spanier: Well, let's see. How many of you were in my office
recently? Just the two of you, and none
of you here. And how many of you read my
most recent letter to your organization about this? You all have?
I think you know pretty much where I stand right now; let me just
clarify a couple of things. I just
returned one hour ago from Washington D.C. from the Association of American
Universities Presidents' meeting where I think all of the presidents of the
institutions you mentioned were represented, and I think, first of al, you have
a bit of a misconception about those schools having signed on to the designated
supplier program; I don't think that is accurate. Several institutions, including
On September 29, a group issued a statement representing a
designated suppliers approach with a list of suggestions and compromises from
an earlier memorandum that they had issued on the subject. I have read that document and find that it is
a step in the right direction, but there are still many unanswered questions,
not the least of which is a major anti-trust issue. In fact, that memorandum concludes saying
that all of the things we've said here would require the Department of Justice
issuing an anti-trust opinion which would allow us to do the things that we are
proposing. Until such time as that
occurs, I think it would be very risky for Penn State or other institutions to
sign on to a program that has uncertain legality, at least according to
Chair Floros: Any other questions. Thank you President Spanier.
President Spanier: Thank you very much.
Chair Floros: As we begin our discussion of reports, I remind you to please stand, wait for the microphone, and identify yourself and the unit you represent before addressing the Senate.
Provost Erickson had a family emergency and is not able to be with us today. His presentation can be viewed at http://www.senate.psu.edu/agenda/2006-2007/oct24-06agn/appb_budget.pdf
We have a Legislative report from the Senate Committee on Committees and Rules. This report appears on today's agenda as Appendix C entitled Revision to the Constitution, Article II, Section 1 (Membership). Committee Chair Deidre Jago will present this report and respond to questions.
Because this legislative report is a proposed amendment to the Constitution, it will be discussed today and then tabled until the December 5 Senate meeting.
Revision to the Constitution, Article II, Section 1 Membership, Appendix C
Deidre E. Jago, Chair
Chair Jago: Thank you Joanna. Appendix C lists the request, the legislative item that the Committee on Committees Rules has requested to be made. The simple change is that the parenthetical phrase is being eliminated. There are four voting units that will be mostly affected by this: Business, Earth and Mineral Sciences, Health and Human Development, and Science. Those are the four units that we have identified. We think that this will probably enable the colleges to more uniformly identify their voting constituents or the representatives who are going to be considered for faculty representation. Do you have any questions about what this means to you?
Gary Catchen, Engineering: I don't have any question concerning the content, but I have a comment concerning the word faculty as it is used here. The word faculty is singular, and in this text it is used as plural, it is not correct. I think it should be corrected.
Chair Jago: Are you looking on Page 2?
Gary Catchen: No, I am thinking of Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution. Because you are amending it, why not amend the grammatical errors in it at the same time.
Chair Jago: Ok but on page two under the recommendation that's where faculty is showing up wrong.
Gary Catchen: That's ok; I am just pointing out that the Article II, as it stands has these errors in it, and we should correct them, being the people in the business of correcting errors.
Chair Jago: We will make that change.
Gary Catchen: Thank you.
Chair Jago: Anyone else? Again, this will be voted on next month
Inaudible: This is in terms of representation; it's also in terms of being a candidate for being on the Senate as well. Does it go both ways?
Chair Jago: Yes.
Chair Floros: Thank you Chair Jago.
We have two Advisory and Consultative reports today.
The first report comes from the Senate Committee on Research and appears on today's Agenda as Appendix E entitled Integration of Strategic Research Institutes within the Colleges. Committee Chair Mark Kester will present this report.
Integration of Strategic Research Institutes within the Colleges
Mark Kester,
Chair Floros: Questions for Mark? I see none. This report has been brought to the floor by the Committee and needs no second. Are we ready to vote? All those in favor of this report please say aye.
Senators: Aye.
Chair Floros: Opposed say Nay. The ayes have it and the motion carries. The Senate has approved this Advisory and Consultative Report. It will be sent to President Spanier for his approval and implementation. Thank you.
The second report comes from the Senate Committee on
Admissions, Records, Scheduling, and Student Aid, and appears on today's Agenda
as Appendix D entitled Report on Access and Affordability at
Access and
Affordability at
This is a very important report and has been in the making
for almost two years. I urge you to read
it carefully and discuss the contents with your colleagues. As
Committee Chair Catherine Harmonosky, subcommittee Chair Milton Cole, and subcommittee member Anna Griswold will present this report.
Catherine Harmonsky,
ARSSA: Milton Cole is not a senator
this year, and he has a class right now, and the reason why the reports were
switched is we were waiting for him to come, so we will continue without
him. I'll just make a few opening
remarks. There are three other members
of the subcommittee that are here today and will be happy to answer any
questions you might have. The report
that you have in front of you on Access and Affordability at
We feel that the report contains important information
regarding trends, both in tuition and sources for aid here at
Chair Floros: Thank you; any questions?
John Selzer, College
of the Liberal Arts: Thank you for
this fine report; it is very informative.
Is there a difference in the debt that graduating seniors have incurred
Catherine Harmonosky: With respect to the debt, I can't recall if we broke that out or if that was University-wide. I think Anna Griswold can help with that.
Anna Griswold: I do not have current information about average debt at the campuses. We did pull that several years ago. There were some differences but not significant,when you consider that there are a higher percentage of some of our immediate students located at the campuses. What we do know across all students with average debt, and our most recent data shows average debt across all graduating students that borrowed is right around $23,000. For students with the lowest income though, that averages $28,000. My guess is if we ran those numbers we would see on average somewhat higher than the average for the total population of all students. But again, lower income students are graduating with higher debt than our middle income and higher income students who hover closer to the average.
Catherine Harmonosky: Let me just also add something which was in the report; this is in addition to any loans that parents might secure. That is only the student loan information that you were just given, and in addition, many times parents incur loans on their own.
Chair Floros: Senator Berkowitz.
Leonard Berkowitz,
Catherine Harmonosky: Right, I think Randall Deike has some information regarding that question.
Randall Deike: We subscribe to a service through the
National Student Clearinghouse that allows us to actually track students who
Catherine Harmonosky: Thank you.
Gary Catchen,
Donald Rung, Retired
Senator: Maybe I missed it in the
report, is this for baccalaureate students or all students at
Catherine Harmonosky: It's for all undergraduate students.
Donald Rung: Does it include those students at the campuses, for example, that are in two year programs; is that correct?
Catherine Harmonosky: I believe it does.
Donald Rung: Yes, so therefore, the various statements about accumulated debt and success rates really have to be modified. I suggest that somehow you could either make notes about that or try to clarify it, because it is comparing apples and oranges.
Catherine Harmonosky: I think in terms of the loan debt information that we put in the report was a University-wide average, but we will mention it.
Anna Griswold: I think the loan debt information is for four-year degree students. Most of the data on the report is about financial aid to all students, associate degree and baccalaureate degree. The number of associate degree students, Randy, do you recall, enrolled?
Donald Rung: What I want to argue is that in your tables and in your information you should declare what the cohort is that you are talking about.
Catherine Harmonosky: Yes, good idea.
Jeffrey Dew,
Catherine Harmonosky: I'm not sure of the answer to the second question; I think Anna would have an answer to that. Also with respect to how they would identify sources once they are here, I believe there is quite a bit of information on Web sites and in some cases individual colleges and departments can be helpful and aggressive in that way in terms of letting their students know what scholarships might be particular to their major. I think Anna has some additional information.
Anna Griswold: I might just add on our Web site for the Student
Aid Office, there are links to major scholarship sites. In addition, outside scholarships, external
Catherine Harmonosky: Thank you, are there any other questions?
Chair Floros: This report has been brought to the floor by committee and needs no second, so we are ready to vote. All those in favor of this report, please say aye.
Senators: Aye
Chair Floros: Opposed nay. The ayes have it. The motion passes. The Senate has approved this Advisory and Consultative report. The report will be sent to President Spanier for his approval and implementation. Thank you Catherine, Anna, and other ARSSA members who contributed to this important report.
Report on Faculty Senate Scholarships Awarded to the Undergraduates Appendix F. Catherine Harmonosky, Chair of Senate Committee on Admissions, Records, Scheduling, and Student Aid presented a report on faculty Senate Scholarships Awarded to Undergraduates.
Academic Eligibility and Athletic Scholarships for 2005-2006 Appendix G. Scott Kretchmar, NCAA Faculty Athletic Representative gave an annual report on academic eligibility. Graduation Success Rate (GSR) rankings, and overall academic performance of student athletes.
NCAA Faculty Athletic Representative Annual Report Appendix
G. Tim Curley,
The Effectiveness of Online Education Appendix I. This report prepared by Melody Thompson Assistant Professor of Education and Coordinator of Doctoral Studies, Adult Education Program gives an overview of the effectiveness of online education.
The New Student Government Report was withdrawn until the December Senate meeting.
Chair Floros: Are there any comments?
Chair Floros: May I have a motion to adjourn?
Senators: So moved.
Chair Floros: All those in favor, please say Aye.
Senators: Aye.
Chair Floros: Motion carried. The next meeting of the University Faculty Senate will be held on Tuesday, December 5, 2006, at 1:30 p.m. in Room 112 Kern Graduate Building at 1:30 p.m. in Room 112 Kern Graduate Building.


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Pricare of Lake County, Inc. filed as a Foreign for Profit Corporation in the State of Florida and is no longer active. This corporate entity was filed approximately seventeen years ago on Wednesday, July 29, 1998 , according to public records filed with Florida Department of State. It is important to note that this is a foreign filing. A foreign filing is when an existing corporate entity files in a state other than the one they originally filed in. This does not necessarily mean that they are from outside the United States.
Michael Barton served as the President
Harold Simpson was the Director of Pricare of Lake County, Inc..
The registered agent for the company is Nrai Services, Inc.. Also known as a statutory or resident agent, the registered agent is responsible for receiving legal notifications regarding court summons, lawsuits, and other legal actions involving the corporate entity.
Key roles for Pricare of Lake County, Inc.
Michael W. Barton
President, Director
Harold D. Simpson
Director, Secretary
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The wait is over, The Battlefield 3 Beta is open!
When the dust settles in the next couple months one multiplayer FPS will reign supreme, at this time though, the heated battle between Call of Duty MW3 and Battlefield 3 is a lopsided one with the release of the open beta for the latter today!
If you're as excited for Battlefield 3 as I am then you were probably on the site at midnight like me, only to find out sadly you couldn't download the Beta Client at midnight. Luckily, I could download it this morning, and that is exactly what I am doing.
For those wondering where to get the beta you can download it from battlefield.com/battlefield3/1/beta. Enjoy.
Check back later tonight for my own Initial Impressions of the Battlefield 3 Multiplayer for the PC. See you on the Battlefield!
In case you missed it, the System Requirements for Battlefield 3 have been released.
Minimum Requirements
OS: Windows Vista Service Pack 2 32-bit
Processor: 2GHz dual-core (Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz or Athlon X2 2.7GHz)
Memory: 2GB RAM
Hard drive: 20GB
Graphics card AMD: DirectX 10.1 compatible with 512MB RAM (ATI Radeon HD 3000, 4000, 5000 or 6000 series, with ATI Radeon HD 3870 or higher performance)
Graphics card Nvidia: DirectX 10.0 compatible with 512MB RAM (Nvidia GeForce 8, 9, 200, 300, 400 or 500 series with Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT or higher performance)
Sound card: DirectX compatible
Keyboard and mouse
DVD-ROM drive
Recommended Specifications
OS: Windows 7 64-bit
Processor: Quad-core CPU
Memory: 4GB RAM
Hard drive: 20GB
Graphics card: DirectX 11-compatible with 1GB of RAM (Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 or ATI Radeon 6950)
Sound card: DirectX compatible
Keyboard and mouse
DVD-ROM drive
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Inquiry about lack of soldier's promotion, Auburn, 1863
Contributed by Maine Historical Society
Sumner Wood Jr. of Auburn wrote to Brig. Gen. George F. Shepley, military governor of Louisiana and former commander of the 12th Maine Regiment, asking why his brother, Sgt. William D. Wood of the 1st Maine Battery, had not been promoted.
Sumner Wood cited the case of a private who was promoted to lieutenant, while Sgt. Wood was not promoted.
Wood wrote, "I do not write wishing to be understood that I attach any blame to you ..."
Records indicate Sgt. William Wood mustered out of the 1st Maine Battery April 8, 1863.
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- Title: Inquiry about lack of soldier's promotion, Auburn, 1863
- Creator: Wood, Sumner
- Creation Date: 1863-04-02
- Subject Date: 1863
- Town: Auburn, New Orleans
- County: Androscoggin
- State: LA, ME
- Media: Ink on paper
- Dimensions (cm): 24.7 x 20
- Local Code: Coll. 117, Box 3/1
- Collection: George F. Shepley Papers
- Object Type: Text
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LC Subject Headings
United States--Civil War, 1861-1865
Recruiting & enlistment--1860-1870
Military service, Voluntary
Military service--1860-1870
Shepley, George F.
Wood, Sumner
Wood, William
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