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Well, I'm not sure what all is new. However, I can tell you what is new at the Pioneer Museum in Glasgow right now.
For the next month or so a special attraction will be the William Standing Art Collection which is on display for all of you to visit. William Standing done wonderful work – some with a great sense of humor.
Also on loan at this time from Gene Etchart is the bullet that killed the Pigeon Toed Kid when he was shot by Hugh Calderwood, a Deputy Sheriff. This was in the days before this corner of Montana had been tamed. The Pigeon Toed Kid was part of a gang of horse rustlers working out of Canada along the Montana border. The horses they stole were then taken to North Dakota to sell. If you wish to read more about this interesting character you will find the story of Hugh Calderwood in "Footprints In The Valley."
Also as you come and go from the Pioneer Museum, please be sure to check the vestibule where you will find an area that will be used for rotating exhibits. The reason for rotating exhibits is that all the artifacts available to use cannot be displayed at once. There is not enough room. So by rotating them they all get some exposure. Right now they are emphasizing Mother's Day and Father's Day at the Museum. It would be a wonderful way to celebrate your Father's Day or any time.
To help you check out all of the new things at the museum, as well as the old, the Friends Of The Pioneer Museum is hosting an open house on June 9 beginning at 1 p.m. and ending at 5 p.m. This would be a wonderful opportunity to visit and see "what's new" at your museum. The coffee pot will be on and the goodies will be waiting. Bring your family and friends and spend a wonderful afternoon visiting. We look forward to seeing you.


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As a former thug (translation: female athlete) I get warm fuzzies just reading this post. There is no joy in life that compares to a hot shower after a a long, chilly assault - preferably in the rain. Greatness.
Aren't we lucky that our girls have such chances to be as tough (or as vulnerable) as they would choose. We are so blessed even if we are still fighting!
- April 30, 2012 at 1:52 PM
i love all of this. no love like a sister love. your girls are lucky to have each other.
- April 30, 2012 at 3:57 PM
wow do you describe mothering so perfectly!!!! And yes darn you should brag as often as you want to, those girlies are gems!
- April 30, 2012 at 8:36 PM
- melissa loves said...
Ah....god. you slayed me AGAIN. Now, I am all choked up. It is only 10:29 in the morning my friend. sheesh....:) I know, I brag of mine all the time too because I am so with you. The shades I see make me all choked up. I am so f'ing proud of them, who they are & who they will become. It is everything you said. Yes.
- May 1, 2012 at 10:30 AM
- Kerry said...
Also choked up.
I wonder about my boys, too, and about the men they will be and whether or not I'm imparting wisdom or just going through the day-to-day motions.
Thanks for the perspective. You are an amazing writer.
- May 1, 2012 at 5:47 PM
- TX Girl said...
I'm a bit torn. It breaks my heart that my girl won't have a sister to call her own, BUT she does have a brother and she is not only his biggest fan, but also his protector. I think if she had a sister he would get lost because he lacks the common gene. Still, I also know there is nothing like having a sister.
- May 3, 2012 at 10:59 AM
- Estelle Hayes said...
O.k. I feel so much better after reading you. The world just seems to be in order after a visit. Love that your babes are tough as nails and protective of each other. That's how it should be, always. And for the record, I never read your stories as bragging. It's clearly just truth. So, now that we're clear you just carry on.
- May 3, 2012 at 5:39 PM
- Estelle Hayes said...
O.k. I feel so much better after reading you. The world just seems to be in order after a visit. Love that your babes are tough as nails and protective of each other. That's how it should be, always. And for the record, I never read your stories as bragging. It's clearly just truth. So, now that we're clear you just carry on.
- May 3, 2012 at 5:39 PM
- Elizabeth @claritychaos said...
damn, I hadn't been here in far too long. I love your stories about your girlies. Makes me grateful for my sisters and thrilled that my boys have each other. I love the way you tell stories.
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Thursday, December 1, 2016
Developing Countries Software Developers - on Their Way to Rule the World?
The pacific is small compared to the ocean of debate that has been held during the last decade concerning the possible evaporation of software development jobs out of western economies in favor of technologically developing economies (mainly India).
The main argument feeding that state of mind says that hiring developers in India (and other developing countries) in much less expensive than hiring personnel in developed economies. Let's have a look at the average annual hiring costs of software engineers in several countries:
Australia: $180,000
Canada: $155,000
Denmark: $146,000
United Kingdom: $145,000
United States: $130,000
Spain: $95,000
Poland: $50,000
India: $50,000
China: $36,000
Fine,now we all know that basically it's much more economical to close down your office in the the Silicon-Valley, Toronto, London (let alone Sydney) and move to the golden mines of Bangalore, Kiev or simply Beijing.
So why do you: Jeff, Philip. Francois, Jorgen and Kylie still employed? I guess that the decision-makers in high-tech firms also take into account the following arguments:
1. The hiring costs in developing countries rise constantly and quite sharply: about 10% annually. This means that by 2020 (if the trend continues), the hiring costs in India should be around $130,000. I assume that this trend deters mass transition of western firms to developing countries.
2. Mental gaps between continents may be excruciating: the mainstream cultures in the US, in W. Europe or in Australia are almost upside-down compared to those in most Asian nations, and those nearly reversed cultures should work together on a daily basis. Many decision-makers wouldn't take the risk.
3. Telecommuting is a fantastic idea, but most decision-makers just can't bear the possibility of not controlling face-to-face their employees, especially those involved in the core development of products. Let alone when the employees are located across the ocean.
4. Local patriotic concerns - many decision-makers can't come to terms with the idea of firing local employees in favor of foreigners, and do their utmost effort to avoid such steps. They know that they might meet the employee they fire at the local mall.
5. Disrespect for personnel in developing countries - Many decision-makers don't actually believe in the professional abilities of Programmers in developing countries, and tend to believe that the gap in the costs should materialize in gap of quality.
Conclusion - There are some decisive constraints on the move of software development to developing economies (primarily India). In my opinion, the large majority of software development is about to stay where it is today.
We should bear in mind that cultural changes (including organizational changes) take generally generations to take root. Think of how many services we can acquire on the web but still use the services of a professional: travel agents, matchmakers, newspapers, libraries and many more.
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"Internet activists in India are fuming over the country's sweeping new Internet restrictions on objectionable content, and are beginning to take extreme action to combat the law. This week we recognize Aseem Trivedi and Alok Dixit from Save Your Voice, who have begun a hunger strike in protest of the 'Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules 2011' which were quietly issued by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in April 2011.
One of the flaws of the new rules is that they mandate that website or domain owners must take down material within 36 hours when a third party issues a complaint, without giving a chance for content owners to defend the material. The Bangalore-based advocacy group Centre for Internet & Society also pointed out that the rule leads to a general chilling effect on freedom of expression over the Internet." READ MORE


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Lippis Report 223: An Open Approach to Network Automation
Modern day networking is labor intensive. Configuration, monitoring and change management are manual processes for the most part. In fact, at the last Open Networking User Group (ONUG) this past Fall at Credit Suisse, most IT business leaders said that one network engineer supports approximately 120 networking devices such as a router, switch, etc. Compare this to 20,000 servers that a single engineer manages at a hyper scale firm and you can see that networking needs automation. Manual networks are not helping IT business leaders who are feeling pressure from business unit managers demanding self-service IT delivery on par with cloud providers such as Amazon, Azure, etc., but without the implied loss of security, visibility and control. Case in point: at ONUG in Boston hosted by Fidelity Investments, large financial service firms showed what happens when they offer business unit managers on-demand virtual machine (VM) creation and deletion; the trend lines showed exponential growth, demand and consumption!


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Commonwealth local authorities have pledged to develop partnerships with business, the private sector and development agencies to help their communities out of the recession. The Cardiff Consensus for Local Economic Development, agreed by delegates at the conference also commits local government to become more strategic when developing local infrastructure, tourism and services. Local and central government representatives from 51 countries attended the event to look at how partnerships in local economic development can improve efficiency and prosperity.
"The Commonwealth has a vast range of experience in coping with economic change," said CLGF Chairperson Mayor Zenaida Moya-Flowers. "Canadian authorities have already been through a similar experience in the 1990s, whilst many of our African and Asian members have not felt the recession as badly as other parts of the world and are ahead of many developed countries in their approach to economic development. Everyone has lessons to learn."
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IFSC Bouldering World Cup 2013 #8 – Munich – Final 4
Women's Final 4
Jump across to a jug undercling/swing catch. Big move (Petra figure 4'ed) to another volume, two volumes with jibs, high right foot on large green volume, press into corner with whole body to finish. The end especially seemed difficult and competitors tried some interesting things.
Dinara – fell, then caught dyno dramatically with one hand, got into volumes but fell.
Petra – did dyno, stylish figure 4, tried some real shenanagins on volumes, fell out of them. No finish.
Melanie – stuck dyno, had trouble moving up.
Katha – slipped off jump, did jump, got to high volumes, fell, back up, left hand on high volume, pressed into corner, sent!
Alex – fell off jump, then did it, fell from volumes b/c wrong hand up first, went again, went left first like Katha did, pressed pressed pressed. Sent! It looked very very close but it worked! Good job Alex!
Shauna – tried to static jump, fell a couple times, stuck it, hiked the top even though she went up right to the top volume and that hosed everyone else who tried it. Very strong effort from Shauna.
Anna – falls off jump. If she sends this climb she wins the comp. Gets back up. Goes right to top volume, seems stuck, eventually gets hands right, stems out, finishes. She wins!
Men's Final 4
Weird moves from holds on a volume out to another huge volume with a little hold on the edge and another on the tip. Power move up left to the huge bonus blob. Rock up right to arete hold. Sit on bonus, move left to press finish.
Sachi – tried some interesting things to get out, didn't sort it out.
Rei – wow! Another impressive effort from Rei.
Rei figured out the bottom and then hiked carefully to last move, where he hung out for a while trying to decide what to do.
He finally committed to the dynamic move, rocked left and used his right elbow to press into the wall to keep him from barn dooring out.
It worked, he stuck the finish!
Mayhaylo – went out backwards at the start but made it work!
Up to bonus, stood up on arete, foot up on bonus, couldn't figure out last move, eventually fell. No send.
Rustam – fell from the start, then worked it out, stood up high at the top, crimped wall panel, left foot to final hold, leaned over, matched, done.
Dmitrii – fell from start repeatedly, after powering out first moves but getting stuck moving to bonus. Doesn't finish, and it ends this comp but he's still overall 1st place for the season.
Thomas – If he sends he wins. The crowd is chanting for him. Unfortunately he struggles on bottom, falls repeatedly, doesn't get through it. Silver.
Rei wins!
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Palm Beach Post columnist Frank Cerabino heard something strange on the radio last Tuesday. A local sports show host, Marc Hochman of The Ticket, said that while he might tune in to the Yankees vs. Tigers game that night instead of the presidential debate, he would definitely watch the third and final debate.
"That will really decide my vote at this point because I'm one of those undecided voters," Hochman said.
Undecided? Really? Cerabino was skeptical. He'd been thinking lately that undecided voters are kind of a myth; that there's no way anyone could still be undecided this close to the election, particularly in Florida, where there has been such relentless campaigning.
Lynn Vavreck, a political scientist from UCLA, has tracked a group of 44,000 self-described undecided voters all year, measuring who remains undecided in the presidential election. She says these kinds of voters are just less than 4 percent of the electorate, and that there have been many misconceptions surrounding this group and their power to tip the election.
Who Is Undecided?
This week, Vavreck received the same email from many friends: a clip from Saturday Night Live poking fun at the idea of undecided voters.
"Before you get our vote, you're going to have to answer some questions. Questions like: When is the election? How soon do you have to decide? What are the names of the two people running? And be specific," the "undecided voters" ask.
"The premise is wrong," Vavreck tells Guy Raz, host of weekends on All Things Considered. "It isn't that they're looking at Mitt Romney and looking at Barack Obama and weighing them. They're not looking yet."
She gives the example of a working single mother, balancing her job and home duties. For her, 20 days until the election is an eternity.
"So we rush a little bit to judgment when we say, 'Ugh, these people are idiots.' Well, they're not. They're busy people for whom politics is not the No. 1 concern in their lives," Vavreck says.
Do They Matter?
Meanwhile, politicians and media alike have focused on this group as having the power to swing the election. Vavreck says that's not quite accurate.
"First, I think we should stipulate that the reason they get so much attention from the media is because they are the only thing left that's moving," she says. "Nothing is more boring to a reporter than the same thing happening today that happened yesterday.
"I think it's a little unfair to say that the election is turning on their decision."
Just because they're making up their minds last, doesn't mean their votes are the most important, she says.
"They're making their decision late, but if the election were a blowout, their decision wouldn't matter at all," Vavreck says.
Vavreck has checked in with this demographic once a week since Jan. 1. She says those who still consider themselves undecided are split evenly among Democrats, Republicans and independents. About 7 percent have changed their minds (from Obama to Romney or from Romney to Obama).
Since July, undecided voters have been "as a whole breaking for Obama," Vavreck says.
"About 60 percent of undecided voters are women," she says, "and women undecided voters who have made up their minds are breaking heavily for the president — 75 percent for Obama, 25 percent for Romney."
In key swing states — Virginia, Florida, Ohio, Iowa, New Mexico and Colorado — the number of undecided voters comes out to about 900,000 people.
As former Clinton White House adviser Paul Begala called it, "The American president will be selected by fewer than half the number of people who paid to get into a Houston Astros home game last year."
Secretly Decided
As for Cerabino in Florida, he called up Hochman, the radio host, to confront him about his "undecided" comment. Hochman shared a secret: He's really a Democrat. He just didn't find it worth it to take a side on air, given how divided the country is politically.
This admission made Cerabino feel reassured about his belief that undecided voters don't actually exist.
He says that deep down those "undecided' voters asking the questions during Tuesday's town hall-style debate actually have a preference.
"I think [undecided voters] may be just like the unicorn or something," he says, "this character we like to imagine exists because it makes us feel good."
OK, let's go to a story we read about this week in Frank Cerabino's column in the Palm Beach Post. The story begins this past Tuesday. Frank is driving his son to school...
FRANK CERABINO: Right. I'm taking my 13-year-old son to school, and we like listening to this local sports show. Now, we do listen to NPR on occasion, but sometimes we like to listen to sports.
RAZ: No, that's OK. No apologies necessary.
CERABINO: No. It's true. I mean...
RAZ: It's OK.
CERABINO: ...we do both, but my son likes the sports channel. I do too. And this particular - there's a show on "790 The Ticket," the morning show...
CERABINO: ...with this guy, Marc Hochman, who's very funny. And he frequently talks about things other than sports...
CERABINO: ...which is one of the reasons we like it too.
RAZ: So Frank and son are listening to Marc Hochman's show, and not far into it, the conversation turns away from sports.
CERABINO: That night on television, there was the choice between watching the Yankees and the Tigers play a playoff baseball game or watching the second debate.
CERABINO: And he was carrying on with his partner there, Jonathan Zaslow.
CERABINO: And I heard Hochman say, I'm going to have to tune in at least for that third debate and see, because I'm one of those undecided voters.
RAZ: OK. At this point in the story, Frank Cerabino's ears perk up. He's been thinking that undecided voters are kind of a myth, that there's no way anyone could still be undecided this close to the election.
CERABINO: And the other thing, too, is that we live in Florida. In Florida, you can't get away from your phone ringing all night long, ads back to back to back on television. So the idea that somebody who's smart and literate has not paid attention enough to make a decision, to me, just didn't seem right. But then when I heard Hochman say...
CERABINO: ...that he was undecided, I thought, well, this is an intelligent guy. Maybe I have this all wrong.
RAZ: So Frank Cerabino called him up.
: Yeah, Frank Cerabino called me and he said, you know, I listened to your radio program every morning.
CERABINO: I told him, I said, Marc, I listen to your show and I happened to hear you this morning say you're an undecided voter.
: He said, it strikes me as odd that you wouldn't have made up your mind already. And I shared a secret with Frank. And I said, I'm a Democrat.
: I actually have made up my mind about the election. I was just saying that on the air because it's just not worth it on sports radio to take a side. I mean, this country, we've never been more divided, I don't think. We are 50-50 each way. So I wasn't saying whether I was Democrat or Republican. I was just kind of being aloof on the air and saying, well, I'm still an undecided voter.
CERABINO: Once he told me that, it kind of made me feel reassured because, of course, he's made up his mind. He just says that just because he doesn't want to get into a political conversation on the radio. And then I thought, well, see? I think I'm right.
RAZ: Did you watch that debate with those...
CERABINO: Yes.
RAZ: ...undecided voters? And what did you think?
CERABINO: Well, I thought if you waterboarded each of those people, they'd tell you exactly who they were voting for. No, I don't, you know, I don't - I think it may be just like the unicorn or something. This character that we like to imagine exists because it makes us feel good.
RAZ: We wanted a more scientific answer to this question, so we called up Lynn Vavreck. She's a political scientist at UCLA. She's been tracking the same group of 44,000 voters all year. She's been measuring which voters remain undecided in the presidential election. And this week, Lynn Vavreck got the same email from many, many friends.
LYNN VAVRECK: So many people send me this clip. You would not believe it.
RAZ: This is the link that Lynn got with a short skit from last week's "Saturday Night Live" on undecided voters. And, well, it's pretty self-explanatory.
RAZ: Now, as we mentioned, Lynn Vavreck says undecided voters are just under 4 percent of the electorate. I asked her who they are and whether there's any truth in that "SNL" skit.
VAVRECK: This is the problem. The premise is wrong. It isn't that they're looking at Mitt Romney and looking at Barack Obama and weighing them. They're not looking yet. So if we really wanted to write a skit that would stand next to "Saturday Night Live," it would be, you know, the single mother who has three kids, who has to get up early to make them breakfast, get them to three different schools because they're in different grades, go to her job, worry about what she's making for dinner. She's like, 20 days until the election? That's an eternity for her.
So we rush a little bit to judgment when we say, ugh, these people are idiots. Well, they're not. They're busy people for whom politics is not the number one concern in their lives.
RAZ: Yeah. I mean, this idea that they're - I think to the contrary, I haven't heard people say that they're idiots. I've just heard people say this is the most desirable, you know, this is the group of voters we are after.
VAVRECK: Well, first, I think we should stipulate that the reason they get so much attention from the media is because they are the only thing left that's moving, you know? Nothing is more boring to a reporter than the same thing happening today that happened yesterday. I think it's a little unfair to say that the election is turning on their decision.
It reminds me a little bit of the student who comes into my class at UCLA and says to me, oh, Professor Vavreck, your B is going to keep me out of law school. Well, yeah, my B and all the other B's that you got before mine. So just because mine comes last doesn't mean that it's pivotal. But if the election were a blowout, their decision wouldn't matter at all.
RAZ: You actually have been researching a group of self-declared undecided voters since the beginning of this year, since January 1st, and going back once a week to find out, you know, where they stand. How many of them have changed their minds?
VAVRECK: So among the set of people who claim they are still undecided, many of them actually call themselves Democrats or Republicans. It's about a third Democrat, a third Republican, a third independent. The percentage of people who have changed their mind at least once is roughly 7 percent, moving either from Obama to Romney or Romney to Obama. The undecideds are breaking, and they're breaking in interesting ways.
RAZ: How are they breaking?
VAVRECK: Well, since July, they are, as a whole, breaking for Obama. About 60 percent of undecided voters are women. And women undecided voters who have made up their minds are breaking heavily for the president - 75 percent for Obama, 25 percent for Romney. So women are more of the undecideds, and they're breaking predominantly for Obama.
RAZ: Lynn Vavreck. She's a political scientist at UCLA. Remember, undecided voters are around 4 percent of the population. In key swing states - Virginia, Florida, Ohio, Iowa, New Hampshire, Colorado - that comes out to about 900,000 people. Or, as former Clinton White House adviser Paul Begala said, the American president will be selected by fewer than half the number of people who paid to get into a Houston Astros home game last year.
Speaking of baseball, here's Marc Hochman again, that sports talk show host who said he was undecided, but he's actually voting for President Obama.
: I don't know. I mean, I guess I have a difficult time believing people are really undecided at this point in the election. You kind of - I think you kind of have to know where you're going at this point.
RAZ: Marc, can we talk baseball for a sec?
: Sure.
RAZ: Tigers, Cards or undecided?
: Wow. Who am I rooting for, or who do I think?
RAZ: You sound undecided.
: I, yeah, I am undecided on that one.
RAZ: Stay with us. Coming up, James Fallows, and later, new music from Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie. You're listening to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Misch shines, but Bisons can't capitalize
The Bisons battled into the ninth inning in a 1-1 tie, but shortstop Jordany Valdespin's throwing error scored Cody Overbeck, giving Lehigh Valley a walk-off win in the opener of Buffalo's final road trip of the season Friday night.
Fernando Perez scored from third on Luis Hernandez' fly out with the bases loaded, knotting the score at 1-1 in the fourth.
Pat Misch allowed just one run on six hits over seven innings, striking out five with three walks.
John Lujan (3-4) threw 1 2/3 innings in relief, taking the loss on the unearned run.
The Bisons threatened with the bases loaded and two outs after Phillippe Aumont intentionally walked Jesus Feliciano, but Aumont caught pinch hitter Bubba Bell looking for the third out. Aumont (1-0) earned the win.
Fernando Perez went 2-for-4 in the loss.
Lehigh Valley's Ryan Edell took a no decision, leaving the game after seven innings of one-run ball.
Game Notes: Misch leads all Bisons with 12 quality starts in 2011… Feliciano missed out on a chance to inch closer on the Bisons' modern-era career hit list, going 0-for-3. He's seven behind Bill Selby's 378.


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Fuquay-Varina thrift store expands job options for area adults with autism
Mills Park Middle School Teacher Nicole Poitras spends her days working with children with autism by keeping them active, engaged and learning.
But when Poitras runs into her students years later, she often finds they are spending most of their time sitting at home. While their peers are in college, the military or holding full-time jobs, adults with autism are left behind.
Employment options are few, and because autism is a spectrum developmental disorder that affects language, social interaction and emotional intelligence, it makes getting and maintaining a job that much harder.
Poitras is working to change that. She's opened Going Full Circle, a thrift store in Fuquay-Varina that sells clothing, housewares and decor items that will train those 16 and older who have autism with retail job skills.
Trainees will learn about sorting clothes, working with customers, restocking racks, pricing and working a register.
"Sadly there are a lot of misconceptions," said Poitras, who was named the 2010 Autism Teacher of the Year by the Autism Society of North Carolina. "People see them as lacking in ability. Which is not the case. They are perfectly capable of doing many tasks."
Poitras' store opened March 22 and is awaiting new trainees. She is offering the job skills classes for $25 an hour. Proceeds from the store will also go toward funding for families who can't afford the training fees.
Poitras' store isn't the only one in the Triangle aiming to meet the employment needs of adults who have autism.
Extraordinary Ventures in Chapel Hill has about 40 employees with autism or other developmental disorders who work in a laundry service, or have candle making, bus cleaning and maintenance, and events center jobs. Employees can also work in office services, which includes data entry, sorting and shredding.
HandmeUps Thrift in Raleigh provides job training and jobs for adults with autism. But even with these providers, the employment needs are overwhelming.
Understanding the need
There are more than 60,000 people in North Carolina with autism, according to the Autism Society of North Carolina.
About 13,000 of those are school-age children who at some point become employment age, spokesman David Laxton said.
The Autism Society has a JobTIPS group for adults on the autism spectrum seeking to develop work skills. The group meets once a week over a course of 12 weeks. Members also practice interviewing, completing an application, using key phrases and developing a resume.
The society also works with the state's Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services to get people jobs that include computer programming, accounting, food service and cleaning.
The division contracts out with more than 100 vendors to work with clients to develop interviewing skills, coach them through job tasks and work with employers to make any needed modifications, said Kenny Gibbs, chief of employment services.
In 2013, the department received 776 applications from people with a form of autism. About half were from the central region which includes the Triangle. The majority of applicants were between the ages of 18 and 24, according to the division's data.
Not all of those who apply are determined eligible to receive aid, or decide to continue through the process, Gibbs said.
In total, with some carryover from previous years, the division has 1,820 eligible employment cases for adults with autism. Of those, the division was able to place 203, according to the report.
Gibbs said when a match can be made there are benefits to their clients and employers.
"We try dispelling the myth that adults with disabilities bring a disruption to the workplace or have an inability to do the job," Gibbs said.
For the division's clients, jobs open up a whole new world.
"They can do a lot of the things they couldn't afford to do before," Gibbs said. "It means integration. In today's world we are identified by what we do. Versus sitting on the sidelines and waiting on a check, they get out and forge new relationships. They are paying taxes, contributing to society and feeling good about himself (or herself)."


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MX vs. ATV Alive is meant to hit during the spring of 2011, while Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine is set for a summer 2011 release. Saints Row 3 and a new WWE game are both showing a release for fall 2011. Finally a new UFC release is slated for the winter of 2012.
"THQ's creative organization is delivering a strong pipeline of core game franchises scheduled for release over the next several years, positioning THQ for significant net sales, earnings and cash flow growth," THQ President and CEO Brian Farrell said. "We continue to execute on our plan to deliver great games, market them aggressively and release them in the most advantageous windows."
Thanks to the updates release schedule for Armageddon, THQ now expects to bring in an extra $25 million in non-GAAP net sales in fiscal 2011.


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For the second week in a row, 49ers safety Donte Whitner is lashing out at the NFL over a penalty he received for a hit to an opposing player.
Whitner was called for unnecessary roughness for a hit on Rams wide receiver Chris Givens on Thursday, and on Friday Whitner said that penalty was a ridiculous call when all he was trying to do was knock the ball out of a receiver's hands, as that receiver was leaping for a pass in the end zone.
"I think I'm just supposed to let them catch a touchdown now," Whitner said on SiriusXM NFL Radio, via the San Francisco Chronicle. "I think that's what the National Football League wants, but I'm not going to give them that. I'm going to continue to play physical, continue to hit the right way, lead with my shoulder, and I'm not targeting anybody's head."
Last week Whitner complained that his penalty for a hit on Colts running back Ahmad Bradshaw was a bad call, and the NFL agreed, confirming this week that the penalty flag shouldn't have been thrown. We'll see with the hit on Givens whether the NFL once again admits the officials screwed up, or whether the NFL will hit Whitner's paycheck as hard as Whitner hits opposing players.


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As for the 28th Canon of Chalcedon, I think President Andrew Jackson's reply to Chief Justice Marshall is apt, "John Marshall has made his decision; let him enforce it now if he can." Or better yet when in the history of the Church has Istanbul actually had jurisdiction over all non-imperial lands? And since the empire is defunct now (in case you hadn't noticed its been gone a lot time now) the definition of who exactly are the Barbari remains. In imperial days a barbarus was one who didn't speak Latin or Greek. If you transfer the meaning of that concept and get past your literal fundamentalism you'd be able to accept that English, French and German are the Greek and Latin of the world today - so who really are the babarians now?What happens when the formerly great Church of Istanbul is finally eradicated off the face of the earth? Istanbul has long ceased to be the center of the Orthodox world...As for you assertation that non Greek jurisdictions are in America by the grace of the Istanbul Patriarchate - that would be like Saddam Hussein saying the American/British occupation is allowed to administer the situation in Iraq.ÂÂ
Regarding this here is a summary of the Russian understanding of Chalcedon 28:http://www.stlukeorthodox.com/html/currentissues/diaspora.cfm
It seems to me that the canon only gives Constantinople authority over Barbarians in the Pontic, Asian, and Thracian dioceses. Not anywhere where "Barbarians" are found.
It seems obvious that this inaccurate interpretation derives from an erroneous understanding of the term 'among the barbarians' (en tois barbarikois) and of the context of this _expression. It is erroneous in that it assumes that the issue here does not concern 'barbarian' peoples living either in the Roman Empire or beyond its limits, but administrative entities (defined by the State) and inhabited primarily by 'barbarians'. Yet there is no doubt but that this _expression refers not to provinces but to peoples; it is not used in an administrative, but in an ethnic sense.
By a decision (Canon 28) which is of universal status and validity, the 4th Ecumenical Synod confirmed a long tradition and action of the Church as regards the canonical jurisdiction and the territory of the Ecumenical Throne. The geographical extent of its own ground was extended to the then administrations of the Roman Empire in Pontus, Asia and Thrace, as well as to the "barbarian" lands, i. e. those which were outside the boundaries of the then Roman Empire: "... only the metropolitans of the Pontic, Asian and Thracian dioceses shall be ordained by the aforesaid Most Holy Throne of the Most Holy Church of Constantinople and likewise the bishops of the aforesaid dioceses which are situated in barbarian lands..."The adjective "barbarian" defines the noun "nations," which is omitted from the text of the canon, but which is to be inferred, as Zonaras interprets it [Interpretation of Zonaras of the above canon]. Barbarian nations or countries are, as has been said, those provinces which lay beyond the Roman Empire at the time of the 4th Ecumenical Synod: "While it called bishoprics of the barbarians those of Alania, Russia and others" [Interpretation of Valsamon of Canon 28 of the 4th Ecumenical Synod]. The other barbarian lands, apart from Alania and Russia, are, in general, "the Barbarians," according to the interpretation of Aristenos of Canon 28: "... the (bishops ) of Pontus and Thrace and Asia, as well as the Barbarians, are consecrated by the Patriarch of Constantinople..."
Liturgical evolution is one thing, such as the development in the differences between the Greek and Slavic liturgies that came about over the last 1000 years, but a significant and fundamental alteration to the Liturgy (e.g. western rite, cathedral rite, etc.) is not acceptable, for that is not an organic development of culture, but rather a revolutionary movement to alter the fundementals of Christian Praxis to be consonant with our own nationalistc biases.
In the proper sense of refering to the Culture of the Empire, you are correct, if you think that I want to be Greek in terms of the Modern EU Member Nation-State of Greece, though I have respect for their Culture and People, no I dont want to be Greek.
Is he Greek insofar as he maintains the Customs, Culture, and Traditions of the Empire or does he just have extra vowels in his last name?
I have respect for all the Orthodox Sees, but the See worthy of the Greatest Respect and Honour is Constantinople, and after her Alexandria, then Antioch, and Jerusalem...you get the picture.
I could, but it wouldn't be nearly as much fun
Six feet below the earth would suffice.
How in Mor's good nameone hundred fifty four postsNo Rachel Weisz picSelam
Not necessary.Oh, did I mention I like big fonts?
Ah, yes, the Nietzschean approach to Orthodox Ecclesiology, why didn't I consider this perspective and take it seriously? Hmmm...if you want to be Nietzschean fine, I actually respect the guy for the consistancy of his Philosophy, but his epistemology is fundamentally different than that of the Orthodox and really has no rational place in the discussion of Ecclesiology.
I see the Old Calendarists and the traditionalist anti-ecumenist New Calendarists as one in spirit albeit currently not united in approach
I guess I was dramatic, but it was to make a point.
If the Patriarchate is wiped out tomorrow (and not just the EP, assume any entire local church or even a few of them) it would not be an impossible loss for Orthodoxy (of course the huminitarian situation of it would be awful). The other local churches would have to pick up their weight, but essentially their daily life wouldn't change. It is not like Roman Catholicism that basicly cannot function without the Papal office - that is what I was getting at.
And I would like to point out that I have no axe to grind against the jurisdiction in which I was brought into Orthodoxy. I think I was one of the few in the GOA during my time there that thought that OCL style rebellion from the Patriarchate was wrong...
I have nothing in common with people such as Matthew of Vresthene nor the other opportunists and con artists of the Old Calendarist movement. Now I do believe many in the movement are probably sincere but the ubiquiety of the Matthewite Ecclesiology completely seperates the movement from those within the Church. Fr. Seraphim Rose realized this in his later years - that those who he had though were like minded "traditionalists" weren't friends of the church at all if they were infected with super-correctness.
...... and make the Archbishop of Athens patriarch.ÂÂ
Which one?ÂÂ
In all seriousness though, I think that should the Patriarchate be moved to Athens and be more influenced by the living, breathing.
hehe In all seriousness though, I think that should the Patriarchate be moved to Athens and be more influenced by the living, breathing Church of Greece, that it would lead to significant improvements such as less ecumenism that might bode well for an end to the Old Calendar-New Calendar dispute.Anastasios
One could even argue that he can't move now either - remember, the first title is "Archbishop of Constantinople" - he is still bishop of the city and responsible for the flock
Hah! Since when do the Greeks worry about a Bishop having a flock? They make them up as needed.
And even then he will still be there. The Greeks can never let go of the "Glory that was Byzantium!"
One could even argue that he can't move now either - remember, the first title is "Archbishop of Constantinople" - he is still bishop of the city and responsible for the flock; if the flock is this small and he is there, imagine how it would shrink if he left. His role as Patriarch of the Ecumeni is nice, and has its responsibilities - but it does not change the fact that his first responsibilities are to his local flock (the flock on whom his salvation largely rests).
There are still I believe around a hundred or so Orthodox in Antioch and the patriarch left there to reside in Damascus 800 years ago I wonder how long the Greeks in Constantinople will actually last.
if he was preaching things contrary to the faith, then comparison would be warranted.
I don't think that is a debate you would want to start with Anastasios...
I got nothing.
I forgot the maps
"Liturgical evolution is one thing, such as the development in the differences between the Greek and Slavic liturgies that came about over the last 1000 years, but a significant and fundamental alteration to the Liturgy (e.g. western rite, cathedral rite, etc.) is not acceptable, for that is not an organic development of culture, but rather a revolutionary movement to alter the fundementals of Christian Praxis to be consonant with our own nationalistc biases."So a "fundamental alteration" would have been the western right and the cathedral right, etc? IF that is true then we should stick with a "traditional" liturgy because it is not "an organic development of culture"? Wouldn't you say that today's American culture has organically developed into a cathedral style culture? There are very few monastic style churches left....right? It could be half and half I guess...but still, doesn't that call for half the churches to use such "liberal" liturgies for their communities? Or is it more broad and enveloping. Sorry for all the questions...take your time, I know you're busy.
Basically my point was this: if within the community of the Church the Liturgy changes over time - such as the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, for example, which has changed since the 10th century - then that is Liturgical Development and is the product of the Spirit and the Church working together to incarnate the Liturgy.But, to no offense to those practicing the Western Rite, what you have here is the introduction of a Liturgy to Orthodoxy that has been developing independently of Orthodoxy for hundreds of years, and thus when introduced into Orthodoxy is a radical change to the Liturgical tradition of the Church. I understand that at one time a liturgy of this style existed in the West, but because it has been gone from Orthodoxy it is now a foreign element being brought in - and the change is too radical to be calling just an "adaptation of the culture." Even if one wanted to go back to the Western Liturgy pre-schism, that would be a misstep as well, since that Liturgy has been out of the consciousness of the Church for a thousand years, and would thus be also a radical change to the Liturgical life.The reason why I don't see the adoption of the Western Rite into Orthodoxy as an "adaptation to culture" is that a change in the Liturgical Worship Core of the Church (the Anaphora) has not been a part of any adaptations to the Church for many centuries. When the Church has gone to Africa, South America, North America, Russia, etc., it has consecrated the culture, baptizing the elements that are good and discarding the elements that oppose the Christian way of life, but while doing so it has also translated the services of the Ancient Church - using one of the existing Liturgical offices, instead of taking any that were present or whatnot. So the Anaphoras of John, Basil, James, Mark - these are the consecratory prayers and systems used, translated into the local language and explained to them in their own terms and such.What I could see happening is, in those local Churches (and by this I mean dioceses, metropolises, synods... not individual parishes) that are more in a "western" liturgical mindset, slow adaptation of elements of the Western Liturgy into their own... since the liturgies we use today in the rest of the Orthodox world have changed over the centuries as well. But a radical change to the praxis of Orthodoxy I think is problematic.That said, the bishops of the Antiochian Archdiocese see it fit to have Western Rite parishes, so these points are moot in this place and time. If one of their bishops asked me my honest opinion, I would give it, but the only way to change it is for the bishops, their synod, their patriarch, or an Ecumenical Synod to do so.
I get back and the Antiochian Bashing continues. Why am I not surprised.
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It's always nice to have people contribute to 3K scholarship and make original sources available for a wider audience.
I like the idea of putting the source text together with the translation. If you're looking for people to help double check the accuracy of the translation, would you consider putting the texts side by side (hard to do on Tumblr, I know), or interspersing them like what Taishi Ci 2.0 is doing in the ZZTJ translations thread?
Also, if you're looking for feedback, would you consider posting the translations here so people can comment on them or discuss the contents? For example, in Jiang Qin's bio, I'd like to suggest an alternative translation for 盪寇將軍 instead of your "General Scalding Criminals". 盪 means to clean, to sweep away, so this may be better rendered as "General who Sweeps Away Bandits". However, I don't have a tumblr account, so there's no way for me to point out those things.
I'm also curious if you have plans to edit the bios to read more smoothly in English. I know you're trying to preserve the original as faithfully as possible, but the primary goal of a translation is to render a text understandable to someone from a different language background. By sticking so closely to the original Chinese syntax, your translations risk being ambiguous (thus causing confusion for your readers), or you're creating a work that is still inaccessible to the average English reader (may I add that "advanced students with a extensive knowledge of sources" would already be reading the original text and not relying on a translation?). It takes a lot more effort, but ultimately the ability to strike a balance between readability and fidelity is the measure of the art of a translator.
And if I may respond to your "criticisms" about other translation compilations: The fact is, if any one person could translate all of SGZ on their own, they would have done so already and published it. Not even the preeminent 3K scholars in the English-speaking world have done it. It is a huge undertaking, involving great amounts of research, as you know. That's why, to fill the gaps of knowledge, some people decided to collaborate and do what they can to help more people have access to the sources. I agree with you that there is a range in style and accuracy and it would have been better if kongming.net (or whatever translation compilation) had a professional copy-editor who could also read the source text. It's not just because there were many different translators, but also because the translations spanned years. I am actually now a published (and paid) literary translator, and if I were to translate a bio now it would be very different from my earliest work 15 years ago (which makes me cringe now, I admit). So, expect that by the time you finish translating all the SGZ bios (if you finish), you will have probably just as much editing to do as if multiple people had been contributing to the effort.
Secondly, regarding the difficulty in detecting errors, the majority of readers of bio translations do not read Classical Chinese. That's why they rely on the English translation. Which means, having the source text there is not helpful to them. But if you are a Chinese-reading reader who is interested in identifying errors, you would have your own text(s) already. And while you're at it, why not post here the errors you've found (I at least used to post bios in a thread for comments first before moving it to kongming.net), so you're doing a service to the community by correcting the record and by helping other translators with their craft?


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We've all seen what happens when natural capital is undervalued. Oceans that billions of people rely on for food and income get overfished and become dumping grounds for chemicals and waste. Mangroves that protect shorelines from storms are replaced with resorts.
Many countries are looking beyond GDP to help them address the challenges undervaluing natural capital has created. What they need is a measure of a country's wealth that includes all of its capital — produced, social, human, and natural capital.
In Botswana at the Summit for Sustainability in Africa this afternoon, 10 African countries endorsed the need to move toward factoring natural capital into systems of national accounting. By Rio +20, the upcoming UN Conference on Sustainable Development, we hope to see 50 countries and 50 private corporations join this effort.
Africa has several examples of natural capital accounting already at work.
Botswana is piloting water accounts that its government is using to determine how much water each sector of the economy is consuming and where that limited resource is possibly being overused. Knowing that information can help the government weigh economic tradeoffs and create effective incentives for water efficiency.
Biodiversity-rich Madagascar wants to know how to finance more than 60,000 square kilometers of protected areas. Natural capital accounting can help the country calculate the value of the forests in their entirety.
In all, at least 24 counties are using some form of natural capital accounting. For many low-income countries, natural capital is a critical asset that makes almost 36 percent of their total wealth.
We've been talking about natural capital accounting for years, but until a few months ago, there wasn't an agreed methodology to move it forward. That changed when the UN Statistical Commission approved the System for Environmental and Economic Accounts. SEEA provides methods for countries to account for natural resources like minerals, timber, and fisheries. The next step is to expand natural capital accounting to cover ecosystem services like the storm protection provided by mangroves.
A recent study of mangroves in Thailand shows what a different this knowledge can make. When you look at just the timber value of the mangroves, they are valued at around $955 per hectare. Replacing them with shrimp farms would return around $11,000 per hectare. So, conventional economics would favor conversion to shrimp farming. But when you factor in the mangroves' critical role as storm and flood barriers, their value rises to over $20,000 per hectare. If this information and this kind of thinking been active earlier, the large swathes of mangroves around the Gulf of Thailand that were destroyed for shrimp farming and coastal development, might still be intact.
We just released a report to help demystify the concept of natural capital accounting. To help countries overcome the challenges they face in undertaking natural capital accounting, the World Bank also recently launched the Wealth Accounting and the Valuation of Ecosystem Services partnership, or WAVES. It includes UN agencies, national governments, NGOs, institutions, and developed and developing countries — Australia, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Botswana, Colombia, Costa Rica, Madagascar, and the Philippines. The government of Japan just committed $US3 million to strengthen a partnership that is helping countries value their natural capital.
As we head to Rio, we are seeing increasing interest from ministers of finance in the idea of complementing GDP with a measure that better reflects their countries' natural assets.
We expect to see that interest grow.
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Hi.It is not a hidden fact that the accounting profession is not yet very clear on how best to combat the menace of under reporting or non disclosure of Natural Capital, particularly in Africa, do anyone have a brief on this?
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Systematize Natural Capital
We all live in an information economy yet we lack enterprise quality systems to measure and manage the diverse set of resources that make up all the goods and services we rely on. The current lack of significant action to manage ecosystem resources by default assigns a value of zero to natural capital assets.
Integrated Sustainable Management is needed to move the needle on Climate Change. It requires a crucial link between a corporate P&L plus GPD and the natural capital assets that support every economy.
There is needed focus by governments NGO and universities on quantifying how we measure the process of valuing natural capital. Yet what is too often missed is the fact there is enough data today to make directionally accurate decision by leaders of business and governments. The outcome can be efficient decision making that benefits todays stakeholders and future generations.


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Throughout his career, "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair lived the high life and partied will the best of them, but behind all the glitz and glamour is a very intriguing story. That story is told in the Highspots shoot interview, Diamonds are Forever, an in-depth and light-hearted look at the life and times of Ric Flair.
The four-disc version of the shoot interview, which covers Flair�s career in exceptional detail, clocks in at over 13 hours and is probably one of the most complete shoots on the market today. Flair appears open and honest throughout the course of the interview and seems genuinely excited to elaborate on certain parts of his career.
As the first disc begins, mention is made of Ric Flair�s black eye, which stemmed from a fight that Flair had been in with his daughter Ashley�s boyfriend. According the Associated Press, the police that responded to the domestic disturbance call said that Flair had a "no problems here" attitude and just wanted the incident forgotten. When the interviewer brought it up, Flair said that he wouldn�t comment, in order to "protect the innocent."
The shoot itself certainly compliments Flair�s autobiography, which the interviewer references to on several occasions. Highspots should be commended for the research they did in preparation for the interview, as the interviewer appeared knowledgeable and was able to expand on questions and coax better answers out of Flair.
Flair spent an entire segment of the shoot speaking about the infamous plane crash of 1975 and how he was nervous about bumping afterward. Flair showed great compassion for those involved with the accident and said he held no grudge with the pilot and feels as though the crash only took away some of his time, but also enhanced his legacy.
Flair talked about his run-ins with Ricky Steamboat, Harley Race and Wahoo McDaniel, dedicating a segment to each of them and going over the ideology behind the booking of each feud, which was interesting in its own right. Flair offered his opinions as to why each feud worked and what he liked about each opponent inside and outside the ring.
Each of Flair�s title reigns is discussed at one point or another during the shoot, as well as the challengers he faced during each reign. Flair also discussed his personal life and friendships within the business, citing Shawn Michaels and Triple H as two of his closest friends.
For example, Flair consistently put over Triple H and Shawn Michaels for being "old school." He touted Kurt Angle and Jack Brisco as being amongst the best crossover wrestlers from amateur to pro and put over Harley Race as being a man who would do what�s best for the company he worked for, no matter what the situation. That of course was in reference to Race�s dropping of the belt to Flair at Starrcade �83.
Flair did release some anger in the shoot specifically when speaking of Jim Herd and WCW. Flair said of WCW, "I was so happy to see that cluster**** come to an end." Other than a few shots here and there on the management of the company, Flair was pretty careful in terms of what he expressed.
Another bright note about the Four-Disc Special Collector�s Edition is the packaging and exclusive photos that come with it. Highspots went above and beyond expectations to make this DVD stand out in a class of it�s own. In addition, the pictures and footage shown throughout the interview adds to the production quality and puts this DVD over the top. A three-DVD set is also available.
Final Verdict: Buy it! Spend the extra money and get the four-disc set, it�s well worth it. The shoot may not be jaw-dropping and aggression-fueled, but it�s an enjoyable, well-produced look at a true icon, Ric Flair.


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While visiting the town of Gulu in Northern Uganda, Italian photographer Martina Bacigalupo discovered a very unusual set of studio portraits. Despite being perfectly composed, none of them featured a subject's face as they were all cut out leaving blank rectangles in the photograph. Oddly enough, it appeared to be a common practice in Gulu for taking ID photos.
Bacigalupo visited Uganda searching for ways to document this community, which was suffering from violent conflicts. The first faceless photograph she had stumbled upon lead her to meet Obal Denis, the owner of the oldest photography studio in town, the Gulu Real Art Studio (est. 1973).
"The portraits were well composed, with subjects seated on a chair or on a bench, with a blue, white or red curtain behind them, in various poses and modes of dress. Obal <…> told me the secret behind those pictures: he only had a machine that would make four ID photos at a time, and since most of his clients didn't need four pictures, he therefore preferred to take an ordinary photograph and cut an ID photo out of it."
For Bacigalupo, these 'leftover' images were the purest form of representation of Gulu's society. She gathered the unused prints and interviewed clients of Obal's studio. To most Ugandans, who suffered from more than two decades of war, taking new ID photos marked important changes in their lives: getting a driver's license, starting a new job or applying for a loan. The value of such events is perfectly conveyed through the subject's pose, gesture, clothing and other subtle details.


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Joseph Bruchac describes how his cultural heritage inspires and shapes his writing and storytelling. View Video
Octavia E. Butler describes how social, cultural, and political issues inspired her novel, Parable of the Sower. View Video
Christopher Paul Curtis discusses his writing process with middle grade students in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and answers questions about his novel, The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963. View Video
Edwidge Danticat discusses the immigration experience and reflects upon why she writes about Haiti and Haitian Americans. View Video
Alma Flor Ada discusses her novel My Name Is María Isabel with students in Oakland, California, and offers insights into how they can use writing to inspire change. View Video
Keith Gilyard reads his poem, "The Hatmaker," and discusses his writing process with students in Sante Fe, New Mexico. View Video
Nikki Grimes shares her passion for poetry and discusses her process of writing with middle school students in Vista, California. View Video
Lawson Fusao Inada meets with high school students at the Nikkei Legacy Center in Portland, Oregon, where he reads one of his poems and discusses living in a Japanese internment camp as a boy. View Video
Francisco Jiménez recounts growing up as a migrant worker in California and describes the ways in which his experiences have influenced his writing. View Video
Russell Leong talks with high school students in Los Angeles, California, about his experiences growing up in San Francisco's Chinatown, his love of poetry, and his writing process. View Video
Graciela Limón shares her Mexican American background with students in San Bernardino, California, and discusses her novel, Erased Faces. View Video
Ruthanne Lum McCunn discusses her biographical novel, A Thousand Pieces of Gold, and interest in the history of Chinese women in America with high school students in Portland, Oregon. View Video
Pat Mora reads her poem "Ode to Courage," and discusses her work with students in Sante Fe, New Mexico. View Video
Judith Ortiz Cofer discusses who inspired her to share her stories and then students in Vista, California respond personally to stories from Cofer's collection. View Video
Abiodun Oyewole explains why poetry is important today. He reads one of his poems and then listens as the students in Cathie Wright-Lewis's class read their poems to the class. View Video


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First, in the interests of disclosure: I'm one of the OpenSSH and OpenBSD developers, and the person responsible for the Portable branch of OpenNTPD. That said, the following is purely my own opinion.
I've decided to address some of the issues raised by Brad Knowles in an article entitled OpenNTPd Considered Harmful. While I think some of his points are valid (and some of those have been addressed since it was written), I disagree with others and some are quite misleading.
stratum and refid (ntptrace)
The comments about stratum and refid (the comment about ntptrace): these are valid points. They have been have been fixed for a while in the development tree and now in the openntpd 3.6.1 release.
I don't think the criticism about portability is warranted. At the time that article was written Portable OpenNTPD already supported Solaris (it was the 2nd target I did after Linux) and HP-UX support has since been added. I don't think it's valid to criticise a project that's only existed for a couple of months for "only" running on Linuxes, *BSD's, Mac OS X, and Solaris (which covers the 3 main *nix families in use today, Linux, BSD, System V). I suspect it's probably portable to any platform with a POSIX interface and an adjtime() syscall (or something that behaves like it) [update: and a good entropy source (such as /dev/random or a self-seeding OpenSSL)]; it already runs on every system that I have access that meets those criteria with the exception of one (and that one is for non-technical reasons).
Brad also says that the OpenNTPD developers "seem to be violently opposed to using certain methods which are known to be more portable, in favour of using techniques which are specific to OpenBSD". I'm not aware of what he's referring to here. There are several instances of changes in OpenBSD for the purposes of improving portability (eg 1, 2, 3) and if there are ways of doing things in -Portable to improve portability then I would be interested to hear them.
Finally, he describes the automated test procedures they use on the "flock of test/development machines we have at our disposal". Since the article was written I have added build and basic functionality tests for OpenNTPD to tinderbox automated tester that we also use for OpenSSH (the machines which appear will vary depending on which machines I have running at the time). BTW the key phrase here is at our disposal: we can't test on systems we don't have access to.
Split development
About the split OpenBSD/Portable development model, Brad says that it "pretty much guarantees that the two code bases will quickly diverge quite dramatically". This is not necessarily so: as a counterexample, OpenSSH has operated with this model for five years quite successfully. It requires discipline, but it can work. It is not a coincidence that OpenNTPD's portability layer looks like OpenSSH's.
In the case of OpenNTPD, the split between OpenBSD and Portable is quite clean and the differences in the common code are small, a total of approximately ~70 lines for 3.6.1p1 including man page diffs. (The diff is in the Portable tarball).
Clock disciplining
The comment about clock disciplining (compensation for systematic skew or drift) is a fair point, within limits. Right now OpenBSD doesn't permit changing of tickadj at the default securelevel so another mechanism is needed in the kernel. When this happens, ntpd will probably learn how to do it. (Note: this does not necessarily prevent it from being done on other platforms, for example see my experimental patch that adds crude skew compensation via adjtimex to Linux, which is implemented with zero changes to the common code.)
I would like to point out, though, that the charge of "jumping the clock forward or backward" is very misleading: at the time the article was written, OpenNTPD would never cause the clock to jump either forward or backward: the offsets are filtered (although the filters could be improved) and the adjustments were always done via adjtime (a "slew") which means the time is always monotonically increasing. Even now, the only time it will use settimeofday (a "step") for the first adjustment, and only if this behaviour is enabled with the -s option. In contrast, the reference implementation in its default configuration will step the clock any time the offset exceeds 128ms (see the ntpd man page, specifically the "-x" option).
Alternative server modes
Brad criticizes OpenNTPD for not imlementing broadcast, multicast and anycast modes because "the NTP protocol can put a heavy load on the server, and trying to handle thousands of clients, each in direct one-to-one communications, just isn't feasible".
Dr David Mills describes a Stratum-1 server running on a SPARC IPC (a 25MHz machine) serving 734 clients while using 1.54% of the CPU and concludes "that substantial numbers of clients with no significant degradation on other network services". Arithmetic suggests that even this long-obsolete machine could support thousands of clients.
While OpenNTPD doesn't support these modes now, it may in future, however it's not clear how much of a gain these would be in many environments. Broadcast mode is limited to the local network, thus it would only be necessary in environments where there are more clients in a single subnet or broadcast domain than can be handled by a single server. Multicast mode requires the network to support multicast routing (eg IGMP, DVMRP, MOSPF), although in an environment that supports it, it could result in a reduction of WAN traffic. Anycast mode is described in RFC 2030 as "provisional", and doesn't help with load, it only helps in locating a server, after which it operates in unicast mode.
Authentication and crypto
Regarding the comment about authentication and crypto: it depends on what your threat profile is. Brad correctly points out that it's not a zero-sum game. It is, however, a tradeoff: you're trading a reduction in risk that someone will be able to perform an active attack against your clock for an increased risk of a security issue in the additional code required to implement it. There's no way to prove the relative weights in this tradeoff, it's a matter of opinion.
As Brad points out, OpenNTPD's "cookies" always provides some protection against blind spoofing of responses. They're by no means perfect, but they're a simple measure that provides cheap insurance and requires no configuration or additional support in the server.
The symmetric-key authentication in NTP v3 seems to have limited deployment (probably due to key distribution issues and administrative overhead, and it appears that most public servers don't offer it) and is listed as optional in RFC 1305.
I can't comment much on the public-key modes in NTP v4 as at the time of writing the NTP v4 spec is not available, although from the description of the Autokey protocol it appears that it is based on X.509v3 certificates. I will only point out that OpenSSL's ASN.1 parser and X.509v3 code runs to around 15,000 lines (probably due to the general wackiness of X.509 [1]), and this is a significant amount of additional code to be running in a daemon that accepts input from the network (via a transport that, as Brad points out, can be trivially spoofed).
Lack of Features
(also known as "simplicity"). Guilty as charged.
If you need a feature the OpenNTPD doesn't have (and, indeed there are many), or need greater accuracy than it can provide, or if you just prefer it, then by all means use ntp.org's software (or any other software for that matter). If you want a small daemon that will do a decent job of keeping your clock in sync while running mostly unprivileged, then OpenNTPD may suit. If it does, great. If not, and you decide to use something else, that's fine too. You have another option, which is why I started the Portable branch in the first place.
[1] For an overview of said wackiness, see Peter Gutmann's PKI Tutorial, subtitled "Everything you Never Wanted to Know about PKI but were Forced to Find Out", and for a comprehensive treatment see his X.509 Style Guide).


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Campbell Lowers Sodium In Iconic Tomato Soup
As part of its commitment to wellness, sodium reduction is a strategic priority for Campbell Soup Co. The Camden, N.J., company has advanced its sodium reduction journey from a few select products to now replacing many of its products with lower sodium versions. Campbell's chefs are able to combine a unique sea salt naturally lower in sodium with their culinary expertise to reduce salt without compromising the taste.
Introduced in 1897, Campbell's Tomato soup, in the iconic red and white label later painted by Andy Warhol, was the first soup created by Campbell. Until now, the soup's recipe remained largely unchanged from when it was first developed. Some 25 million Americans regularly purchase Campbell's Tomato soup, and now they can enjoy the soup with less sodium: 480mg per serving, the healthy sodium level designated by the U.S. government. Adding a naturally flavorful sea salt to the recipe helped Campbell chefs use 32 percent less sodium and ensure this healthy soup delivers the great taste people have loved for more than 100 years.
It starts with the tomatoes. Campbell coordinates with farmers to grow more than 800,000 tons of tomatoes each year, which are used as ingredients for the company's soups, sauces and vegetable-based beverages. To guarantee use of the highest-quality tomatoes, Campbell established its Agricultural Research Center in Davis, Calif., in 1948 where the company field tests 300-500 tomato varieties each year in search of the perfect fruit to further develop for a future crop.
"We have worked with generations of farmers to grow tomatoes that deliver superior taste, outstanding color and provide the right consistency for our soups and juices," says Tim Gruenwald, Campbell's director of agriculture. "Our tomatoes also are naturally more disease-resistant and help our farming partners maximize their crop yields."
Campbell uses sustainable and cost-saving practices throughout the growing and harvesting process to ensure its products are Earth-friendly as well as a value. This is especially important today since people are focused on both eating well and trying to stretch their food budgets. Each can of Campbell's condensed soup is produced with less water, uses smaller cans, less metal and requires less fuel for shipping compared to Campbell's ready-to-serve soups.
To make sure the soup measured up to taste expectations, Campbell conducted extensive research, including taste tests with people in all 50 states. Results showed people overwhelmingly enjoyed Campbell's tomato soup now as much as ever. In fact, nine out of 10 people said they would buy Campbell's tomato soup as much or more often after tasting the new formulation.
"Introducing one of our top-selling soups with less salt is a major milestone in our sodium reduction journey, especially when you consider Campbell's Tomato soup is one of the top 10 grocery items purchased each week and accounts for about 16 percent of our condensed soup volume," says Denise Morrison, president of Campbell North America. "Because it's loved by millions of people, we took great care to make certain it still delivers the great taste people expect from their Campbell's Tomato soup."
Suggested retail price remains the same at 89 cents.


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And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
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DeMarcus Ware: 'Aggressive' Tyron Smith the first guy to ever lock me up
Most 21-year-old football players are prepping for their junior or senior seasons of college ball right about now. But Cowboys tackle Tyron Smith, still four months from his 22nd birthday, is getting ready to head into his second NFL season and has been heaped with verbal accolades all off-season long.
First, it was new Cowboys offensive line coach Bill Callahan saying he'd "never had anybody like" him. Then, it was former Browns scout Matt Williamson saying Smith would be the league's second-best lineman by 2015.
And now the praise is coming from arguably the greatest pass rusher of this generation -- and the man who lines up against Smith in practice each day -- in DeMarcus Ware.
"The crazy thing about Tyron is he's the first guy that when you lock up with him, you can't get off of him," Ware said during an interview on the Coop & Nate show on KESN-FM. "He's the first guy to ever do that to me. That shows the strength he has and how quick he is on the inside. He's a very good, young aggressive tackle. When you try to beat him inside, you can't. He's just that athletic. Cowboys fans don't have anything to worry about. He's getting the job done and working hard."
Ware knows plenty about abusing tackles, too. Since 2005, he's racked up 99.5 sacks for the Cowboys, the most of any player in the NFL over that stretch, and he's earned six straight Pro Bowl appearances for his efforts.
So it would seem that if anyone knew whether a player could hold his own at left tackle -- the position Smith has overtaken this off-season after spending his rookie year on the right side -- it'd be Ware. And the hulking linebacker says Smith is handling the transition as well as anyone could hope.
"When you think about a tackle that's coming from the right side to the left side, it's a different speed change, but the athleticism of Tyron and how he can latch on to you if you try to overpower him or when you go around the corner, he uses his hands really well," Ware explained. "Him being that left young tackle is what we need. We need him over there being aggressive. I beat him every once in a while, but he's been doing his job."


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Got this from Home Depot for $1.99 August 2011.
Seems to be holding its own but its in no way as prolific as the other snake plant and its not getting very tall.
You can make out two new sprouts to the left and right of the main one.
Not sure this has grown at all really.
I think its clear from the photo that this snake plant hasnt changed a bit since February. I would have hoped for more from such a prolific species.
Not a lot of change over winter, but its still alive. Looks like its sprouted a new stalk though.
Some reasonable growth here in the elongation of the leaves since August.
Apparently it likes shade


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How Can South Asia Overcome its Infrastructure Deficit?
Last week, I discussed the two very different South Asias and the need for regional cooperation to bring the lagging regions up to the standards of thriving regions. However, increased market integration by itself will not be sufficient to accelerate growth and benefit the lagging regions. South Asia suffers from a massive infrastructure deficit. Infrastructure is like second-nature geography, which can reduce the time and monetary costs to reach markets and thus overcome the limitations of physical geography.
Improved infrastructure that enhances connectivity and contributes to market integration is the best solution to promoting growth as well addressing rising inequality between regions. The Ganga Bridge in Bihar in India is a good example of second-nature geography. The bridge has reduced the time and monetary costs of farmers in the rural areas in north Bihar to reach markets in Patna, the largest city in Bihar. The Jamuna Bridge in Bangladesh is another good example of spatially connective infrastructure. The bridge has opened market access for producers in the lagging Northwest areas around the Rajshahi division. Better market access has helped farmers diversify into high value crops and reduced input prices.
South Asia suffers from three infrastructure deficits. First, there is a service deficit, as the region's infrastructure has not been able to keep pace with a growing economy and population.


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Noted and showcased over on Hellforge's gaming blog, trogdoriangrey's work is packed with SD details. From the oversized head of the Heavy to the not-very-safe cigarette burning in the Spy's hand, these things are a work of art.
Take a look over the images and prepare to be stunned. Bear in mind that trogdoriangrey has been kind enough to give up his papercraft designs for everyone to enjoy. Head over to his Photobucket page to see the TF2 papercraft, Gordon Freeman art and much, much more.
Meet one of the best things evar.
Bryn says: This is one of those things that flies around the net at warp speed, so no matter how much I'd like to think I'm doing the world a public service by getting the word out, I'm sure a lot of you net dwellers have already seen 'em.
I don't care. I'm seriously thinking about buying a color printer just so I can make my own TF2 papercraft army. Too cool.


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Do you use the internet to share information about yourself or others, communicate with friends, comment on what you see online, play games, get material for an assignment or buy stuff online? If you answered YES to any of these, you are a digital citizen.
Why is digital citizenship important? Do you want to get the best out of using the internet and keep yourself and others safe and healthy in an online world? Use these materials to learn what it takes to become a positive digital citizen.
RUA Cyber detective is a game for students in Stage 2 and Party Planner is a game for students in Stages 3-4. Teachers might also suggest some of the other digital citizenship games for their students.
How does digital citizenship relate to what you do at school? Take a look at the activities below to find out.
There are many great videos dealing with digital citizenship and how to keep yourself and others safe online. Choose from the videos below.
The resources, templates and tools in this section are designed to support schools to implement the Digital Citizenship program. The slideshow and flyer can be customised by schools to suit their needs. The professional learning course familiarises teachers with the materials in this resource and guides them through the process of implementing the program in their school.