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Sundtek provides their own, closed source, commercially bundled framework and drivers for DVB and V4L.They state that their solution has support for both the S2-API as well as the Legacy DVBv3 API and Video4Linux1/2, and that they have a very high backward compatibility and provide for very easy installation because of independence from kernel drivers.
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Easter, St. Gianna and Blessed John Paul
"Christ my hope is arisen!" John Paul II was a living witness to Easter joy and the Divine Mercy message, all of which we celebrate at his beatification this weekend.
I never went to World Youth Day, but John Paul's writing was a focus of a marriage and family class I took in college, and his teaching was prominent at my college Newman Center (St. John's Catholic Newman Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), in my life and the lives of all of my young adult Catholic friends who are participating in all sorts of ways in the New Evangelization: as journalists, Catholic teachers (including my sister), Focus (Fellowship of Catholic University Students) missionaries, physicians and other health-care professionals, youth ministers, faith-filled parents and spouses, etc.
I was out of college when Benedict was elected, after all. So JP2 is the Pope I grew up with. His outreach to the faithful remains fresh in my mind. His promotion of a culture of life and unwavering proclamation of Church teaching remains strong in all of our hearts and minds — and resonates within the culture at large.
And May recalls his Marian devotion. He beatified and canonized many saints, including Mother Teresa and one of my other favorites, St. Gianna Beretta Molla, whom I wrote about in the Register a few years ago and whose feast day is today, April 28.
As John Paul said, "What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love him in return. In comparison to the love of Jesus, everything else is secondary. And, without the love of Jesus, everything is useless."

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CTWATCHDOG: Airlines sometimes have a heart and bend their rules
Airlines - which have myriad complaints against them - do sometimes have a heart and will sometimes bend their own rules for a customer. Take the case of Jane Potts who lives in the Groton area. She wrote me this month asking if I could do anything to help right a wrong she felt US Airways did in its treatment of her daughter.


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Club Nintendo, Nintendo's members with benefits club, is now asking members for permission to collect data. Just don't say no—if you want to be a member, that is.
According to website MCV, those who turn down Nintendo's request will have their Club Nintendo membership canceled and their redeemable Club Nintendo Stars (think points) lost. This goes into effect on May 31.
Club Nintendo is sending an email to members, alerting them of the changes. Here is an excerpt:
At Nintendo we respect the privacy rights of our online visitors and we recognize the importance of protecting your personal details.
To allow us to implement additional features on our website, to improve our products and to adapt them to our users' needs and preferences, we need your permission to gather information about your online activities on our website and with Nintendo products.
We look forward to seeing you again on our website soon, and hope you will enjoy the new generation in video gaming together with us.
It doesn't sound like Nintendo is actually asking, does it?
News: Nintendo highlights security following PlayStation Network hack [CVG]


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Zac Efron & Imogen Poots: Central Park 'Dating' Walk
Zac Efron enjoys a romantic walk with Imogen Poots in Central Park in New York City on Friday morning (January 18).
The two actors bundled up and sent each other flirty smiles while filming the new scene for their flick, Are We Officially Dating?
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Zac Efron
Zac and Imogen are continuing to film despite co-stars Michael B. Jordan and Miles Teller being at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.
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A California ISP called Cal.net is rolling out service in El Dorado county where almost 60,000 residents have minimal internet access. Cal.net is taking advantage of unused portions of the radio spectrum, called white spaces, to send wireless signal over long distances.
This is not a new idea, but concerns about interference and scaling have largely limited white space broadband to pilot programs so far in the U.S.. Cal.net's service uses a relay system of antennas called RuralConnect in combination with broadband radios to achieve reasonable internet speeds. Cal.net is currently promising 16Mbps, but we'll see. White space broadband is beginning to gain some traction worldwide, but will definitely require additional testing and improvement. [Engadget via ArsTechnica]
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News & Notes: Game 48
Thursday, May 26, 2011 (7:05 p.m.) – Coca-Cola Field
Radio: WWKB AM 1520, bisons.com
Buffalo Bisons (20-27, 5th(-8.0), North)
RHP D.J. Carrasco (1-2, 4.85)
Gwinnett Braves (24-21, T1st, South)
RHP Erik Cordier (NR)
TODAY'S GAME: Tonight, the Bisons take on the Gwinnet Braves in the first game of a four-game series from Coca-Cola Field (7:05 p.m.). Prior to yesterday's league-wide off day, the Herd split a four-game series with the Charlotte Knights. Buffalo is 13-13 at home this season, having split all four series they've played at Coca-Cola Field.
VS. THE BRAVES: Tonight's game is the Bisons first against the Gwinnett Braves this season. Buffalo won the season series, 5-3, last year and is 7-3 in their last 10 games against the Braves dating back to 2009. Buffalo has a win and three splits over Gwinnett in the two years of the franchise's existence.
|IN THE OUTFIELD: OF ANGEL PAGAN joins the Bisons today as part of his MLB injury rehab assignment. Pagan has been out of the Mets' lineup since April 22 with a strained left oblique. He's hit .261 (8-23) with a home run and two RBI in six games with Single-A St. Lucie. Pagan also had a rehab stint with the Bisons, May 12-16, 2009 as he recovered from off-season elbow surgery. In his first game (May 12), he hit a two-run walk-off triple in the 11th inning of a 4-3 Buffalo win in the first every meeting between the Bisons and Gwinnett.
HEY MR D.J.: RHP D.J. CARRASCO will be making his sixth start with the Bisons tonight. The veteran has not allowed more than three earned runs in any of his previous five outings. Carrasco is coming off a loss on May 20 in Indianapolis in a game he allowed just three runs in six innings of work. Carrasco has worked six innings in each of his past two outings.
OUR PAL, VAL: OF VALENTINO PASCUCCI has 20RBI in 20 games this month. The slugger is hitting .302 (19-63) with five doubles, three home runs and six runs scored this May. Pascucci leads the Bisons with 24RBI on the season. His .408 on-base percentage is just two plate appearances shy of qualifying as the second-best mark in the International League.
BISONS BITS: The Bisons are the only team in the International League that has yet to allow a passed ball…OF KIRK NIEUWENHUIS ranks 1st in the IL in games (47)…LHP JUSTIN HAMPSON has retired the first batter he has faced in 14 of his 15 outings this season (93% success rate).
METS UPDATE: The Mets (23-24) defeated the Cubs, 7-4 in a rain-shortened affair at Wrigley Field on Wednesday. Former Bisons RHP DILLON GEE got credit for a complete-game victory after allowing four runs in six innings of work. OF CARLOS BELTRAN had two hits and two RBI. The Mets take on the Cubs at 2:20 p.m. today.


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Squaw Valley, CA…Travis Ganong (Squaw Valley, CA) carved his home mountain to a .20 second super G victory at the Nature Valley U.S. Alpine Championships to regain a title he first held in 2010 and lead a commanding 1-3-4 performance by local skiers. NorAm overall and U.S. downhill champion Jared Goldberg (Holladay, UT) was second ahead of Mark Engel (Truckee, CA), who started with bib 16. Bryce Bennett (Olympic Valley, CA), who grew up on the Squaw Valley Ski Team along with Ganong, was the top junior in fourth. NBC will broadcast the super G as part of a special Nature Valley U.S. Alpine Championships highlights show on March 24 at noon ET.
- Travis Ganong (Squaw Valley, CA) arced his local race hill to a .20 second victory and the Nature Valley U.S. Alpine Championships super G title.
- Ganong, who grew up with the Squaw Valley Ski Team, first hoisted the super G gold in 2010, when he was also the downhill champion.
- Silver went to NorAm overall and U.S. downhill champion Jared Goldberg (Holladay, UT) ahead of another Squaw local Mark Engel (Truckee, CA).
- Bryce Bennett (Olympic Valley, CA), who was also on the Squaw Valley Ski Team, was fourth for the top junior spot.
- Next on the junior podium was Jack Auty (Durham, NH) and Robert Cone (Killington, VT), his second junior top three of the Championships.
- One of the most technically difficult U.S. Championships slopes in recent history, athletes lauded the set and slope preparation at Squaw Valley.
- NBC will broadcast the race at noon ET on March 24 along with highlights of the entire Nature Valley U.S. Alpine Championships.
Travis Ganong
It's really nice to actually be home and on home snow, sleep in my own bed, and have all my family and the hometown crowd out supporting. I grew up training on this hill every day so it's really nice to get on a familiar hill. The hometown crowd really motivates me to push it harder and really go for it.
This is more of a World Cup than a Nationals hill. It's pretty tricky, really steep out of the top with some blind turns. It's intimidating. The key sections for me were on the flats. There was this little roller where it's really blind and you have to find your edge really earlier before you even see the gate. I got word from the coaches that you had to do that so I was able to cut offline there and carry more speed onto the next flat part. And then this road on the bottom is always the infamous road. Everyone always has a lot of trouble with that. I've never skied super G on it but I knew that it might be smart to give a little there to gain more at the bottom, so that's what I did.
Squaw stepped it up big time. This is my seventh Nationals and they've stepped it up in a big way. We have The Wailers playing a concert tonight for the opening ceremonies with a GoPro Bombsquad flying in on their parachutes and parades for a big end of the season party – celebrating ski racing, celebrating skiing.
Jared Goldberg
The course is really good. This is a lot like what I'm used to. It's really rolly and there's blind rollers everywhere. It's like everything that we've always trained and I was super excited to ski it. It's one of the more fun courses I've run.
The expectations were high. I haven't had a whole lot of super G skiing lately, but I had some pretty good results. I was on the podium up in Nakiska at a NorAm last week. On the second day I knew that "Okay I'm back into it. I can do it here." Yeah, I was just super confident coming into today.
I've been really working on aerodynamics this year and I had my hands up in front as much as I could. I definitely had a little bit of trouble here and there but I know everyone else really did too. It was kind of like whoever can keep their head together the whole way.
Mark Engel
I skied on the Sugarbowl Ski Team from age 11 until I made the team at 19. They're a great program for the little guys. They have great training, great coaches, really positive vibe. That helped, because I've skied this hill probably nine-ten times and I'm more of a tech skier so I was able to handle the turns. Had a little mistake but I told myself to stay in it and it worked.
Coming into the steep pitch, they set some really turny, tight gates and I was able to just set it up and really make clean turns through there. I saw a lot of low lines and I was able to stay on the line and ski clean.
The course report was that the lines were too round, so I was just trying to go as straight as I could stand. If I had been rounder with the same air I would have not finished but since I went straight, I could land and pull it off.
Bryce Bennett
I was just remembering in the start about straightlining that when I was a J4 and how many runs I've had down this. I know what to do down it, so it just came.
The road in the middle of the course: you can ski it well or you're going to end up in the river. You want to go off with a non-loaded ski and carry speed through the bottom, which is a pretty important section. I skied that really well.
There's a lot of support. It's cool because when you're on the road in small races you don't get that support. But when you're home and the family, friends and community supports you, it's a really cool feeling.
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Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs Retno Marsudi to Finland
The Foreign Minister of the Republic of Indonesia, Retno Marsudi, will visit Helsinki on Monday 18 June and have a meeting with Minister for Foreign Affairs Timo Soini.
Minister Retno Marsudi's visit to Finland is related to the meeting of the UN Secretary General's High-Level Advisory Board on Mediation, organised in Helsinki. The Foreign Ministers will discuss the bilateral matters between their countries, the development of the EU and ASEAN, regional issues in Europe, Asia and globally, the relations between the superpowers, interreligious relations, and the UN's role.
Indonesia is the fourth most populous country of the world, the biggest country in Southeast Asia, the third biggest democracy in the world, and the world's most populous Muslim-majority country. Finland's relations with Indonesia are good. As far as the commercial relations are concerned, Finland is interested in the strongly growing markets of Indonesia. In the energy, education and forest sectors, the cooperation between the two countries is already well established.
Inquiries: Riikka Taivassalo, Special Adviser to the Foreign Minister, tel. +358 46 9234 581, and Anssi Kullberg, Desk Officer, Unit for Eastern Asia and Oceania, tel. +358 295 350088.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Jacksonville Sheriff John Rutherford says he has no plans to bring drones to Jacksonville, but the sheriff says he can see where they could be a benefit.
Rutherford has been to Tallahassee talking about drones, but for now, they're not in local skies.
The River City is no stranger to surveillance cameras. There are cameras on streets downtown, and they can see people from the air. But the cameras already in place are used for crowd control.
Now that small remote controlled devices with cameras are popping up in police departments around the state, what do people think about them possibly flying around Jacksonville.
"I think it would depend on the circumstances," resident Derrick King said. "If they were used for drug surveillance, something like that would be a good idea. But for everyday invasion of privacy, I would not agree to it."
"Depends on the area they were policing, you know, where they would be," resident Mike Gonzales said. "I would not want them over my neighborhood."
Rutherford has been tackling the use of drones in his position with the Florida Sheriffs Association. Legislation is being considered that would limit the use of drones in Florida, something the sheriff says he could support.
"If there was a situation where that could assist in keeping officers safe in the service of an arrest warrant, that sort of thing," Rutherford said. "Giving us the warrants, we need to approach a location that may be highly dangerous. And that is what the use of a drone would be limited to."
Rutherford says right now drones are not on the table in Jacksonville. Even though they would be cheaper than manned helicopters, he is not sure they would be as effective in life-saving situations. And he is adamant that they would never be used to spy on residents in their backyard.
"Just routine patrol where you are out there observing the public in general," Rutherford said. "No, we would not use them for that, and I don't think the law is going to allow that."


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The final week of the JLT is here and so is a new My Team. Version 3 is running through the JLT Series… so get your chatter happening as the games play out.
Post your team (in an easy to read format) and discuss where it's at in the comments below. Now that we have My Team cranking, discuss any players, team structure, etc in the comments. As always, keep it civil and if you're advice, make sure you dish out some of your own (make sure it well thought out and not blatant trolling – we're totally over that after 10+ years of DT Talk!).
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Has anyone watched fremantle over the pre-season. How is walters as an option, looks as if he is playing in the midfield this year?
Rank the following 3…
Hibberd, Devon, Sicily.
Hibbo, Devo, Sic Dog
3 spots left
Draft Sunday arvo 4pm ADEL time.
thoughts on having walters bell and hutchings as F3-5. Cant trust these FWD rooks?
Merrett and Banfield
Treloar and T Kelly?
what will walters average this year? is he a viable POD instead of devon smith
1st Every year feedback will be much appreciated
Thanking you in advance
R. Laird Z. Tuohy C. Salem A. Brayshaw T. Doedee S. Murray
D. Mirrav(S)
B. Mihocek(S)
T. Mitchell (C) P. Dangerfield Z. Merrett (VC) M. Crouch D. Beams A. Brayshaw N. Coffield B. Jacobs
D. Barry FRE (E)
B. Banfield (E)
S. Martin M. Gawn
D. Cameron
M. King
D. Smith J. Caddy J. Sicily A. Christensen C. Rayner D. Venables
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P. Ahern@ GCFC
R. Laird Z. Tuohy C. Salem A. Brayshaw T. Doedee S. Murray
D. Mirrav(S)
B. Mihocek(S)
T. Mitchell (C) P. Dangerfield Z. Merrett (VC) M. Crouch D. Beams A. Brayshaw N. Coffield B. Jacobs
D. Barry FRE (E)
B. Banfield (E)
S. Martin M. Gawn
D. Cameron
M. King
D. Smith J. Caddy J. Sicily A. Christensen C. Rayner D. Venables
J. Waterman
P. Ahern@ GCFC
Man i have changed what was the final version of my team twice today after two solid weeks with only one. Just about there but going through the JLT numbers and player history on footy wire makes for some thinking
Biggest change still to do = Bye rounds, have 15 players on round 14
is jelwood an option as a POD with value?
Priced at around 95 with 2 injury affected scores including a 2. He repeats what he did last year he is 8-10 points unders and with Gaz there he may see the tag less often than usual
Is LDU being overlooked because of the JLT? The kid is an absolute beast, clear best player of this years draft IMO and will play as a full time mid for North.
Different comp but….
Need 10 more teams for SUPERCOACH league 336928. Please join. – Cam
Is hutchings a viable option? only 1.5 % ownership and is touted for an attacking midfielder role instead of his usual run-with role. Got 70 odd points from about 40% game time in JLT 1 and a respectable 74 from 77 in JLT 2. Looks like a way better option than Christensen at the moment who is in everyones team and is playing asa a forward in Lions team that might struggle to get it in there.
Im with you Bavan, Hutchings is a good POD this year
Advice plz , quite happy but not sure whether to downgrade beams or Neale to dow to get a safer fwd line as have no confidence in rooks.
Lloyd , savage , Sicily , Coffield , Naughton , Murray (Finlayson , doedee)
Titch , zerrett , Treloar , beams , Rocky , Neale , Brayshaw , Kelly (Holman , Banfield)
Gawn , Sandi (Cameron, Flynn)
Heeney , billings , Smith , Fogarty , Fritsch , Keefe (Langdon , Venables)
Can someone have a look at this and let me know what you reckon?
DEF: Laird, Weitering, Savage, Biggs, Macmillan, O'Connor (S. Murray, L. Murphy)
MID: Mitchell, Zorko, Treloar, Gibbs, Fox, Banfield, Holman, Brayshaw (Barry, Constable)
RUC: Grundy, Bellchambers (Draper, Pittonet)
FWD: D. Smith, Caddy, Taberner, Cox, De Boer, Florent (Langdon, Fritsch)
Scrap that, a few changes:
DEF: Laird, Savage, Biggs, Sicily, Weitering, O'Connor (S. Murray, L. Murphy)
MID: Mitchell, Zorko, Gibbs, Treloar, J.Selwood, Fox, Brayshaw, Banfield (Holman, Barry)
RUC: Grundy, Cox (Pittonet, Draper)
FWD: Smith, Caddy, Taberner, Hutchings, Fogarty, Florent (Fritsch, Langdon)
hurley or hibberd?
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Ted Nugent sounds off on 'haters,' New Haven protests
By Register Staff
Rocker Ted Nugent launched a volley of invective at local protesters and the New Haven Register during an interview on the nationally syndicated "The Weekend," show broacast Saturday on a Maine radio station.
Anyone anticipating some wild remarks from the Motor City Madman was not disappointed by his interview broadcast on WGAN.
Nugent's planned Tuesday concert at Toad's Place in New Haven has drawn protests from area residents who took issue with Nugent's recent comments on race in America. There has been a petition drive calling for the cancellation of the show, and protests are expected outside Toad's during the show.
In the interview, broadcast nationwide, Nugent alluded to New Haven Register editorial writers and their supporters as "subhuman numb-nuts." A recent Register editorial denounced Nugent's statements on race and called for Toad's to cancel the show.
When asked about the "idiots" in Connecticut who think he "shouldn't play rock and roll," Nugent told the conservative host: "You and I stand on the line of reason" and must not be silenced.
"People who hate Ted Nugent hate freedom," he said, and promised to continue to speak what he sees as the truth.
Nugent also had some choice things to say about liberals, racial activists and Trayvon Martin during the interview.
Defending his previous comments about blacks and crime, Nugent insisted the statistics bear him out.
Of the Trayvon Martin case, Nugent said, "Trayvon got justice." He went on to say that Martin was a "gangsta wannabe" who had a "bloodthirst," as evidenced by the fact that he was supposedly eager to "get into fights with people." He said Martin showed racism in calling George Zimmerman a "cracka."
Barbara Fair, a West Haven resident heavily involved in the petition drive, said she first became aware of the show after her daughter told her about comments Nugent had made regarding Martin.
While Fair said Nugent has the right to free speech, "he has to agree that we have a right to protest."
Nugent said Zimmerman got only a "sliver of justice." Although Zimmerman was found not guilty, powerful people from President Barack Obama to Attorney General Eric Holder have targeted him, as have "Holder's best friends," the New Black Panthers. Nugent implied the president and Holder are trying to subvert the legitimate verdict in the case.
"It pains me deeply" to have to acknowledge that the president and some others in the administration are "just bad people," Nugent said. He said he had hoped to be able to speak better of the country's top officials.
James E. Rawlings, president of the Greater New Haven branch of the NAACP, said Nugent's comments Saturday did not merit a response.
"The Ted Nugents of the world are the most extreme," Rawlings said, noting that, "We will be there Tuesday."
Rawlings said, "We will deal with this as a community and come together. The sooner Mr. Nugent is out of our community, the better off we'll be."
Fair said Nugent's recent statements show "he's being more ridiculous than he's already been."
She said the protest is in response to Nugent's outsized voice in the political sphere. Fair said the protest isn't about Nugent's music or even his personal political views, but what he says on the national stage.
Nugent said his "humor meter" keeps him in good spirits, despite his detractors.
Asked about his family, Nugent said his is a "really good American family" because members are productive and "don't take" but "give" to society.
"Liberals" and "racists" have targeted Nugent's children, the rocker claimed, because political opponents are "mad" at him for "exposing the truth" about the Martin case and other issues.
Nugent said his children should be off-limits, and said his own whereabouts could always be tracked at Tednugent.com. He rattled off a list of people who might want to protest his appearances, including the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al "Not-too-Sharpton."
As a parting shot, the controversial musician told those he considers "haters" to "kiss my ass."
In a previous version of this story, it was stated that WGAN interviewed Nugent when they simply aired the program that is nationally syndicated.


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Your Home Is Your Prison
From Truth Out/By Maya Schenwar
On January 27th, domestic violence survivor Marissa Alexander will walk out of Florida's Duval County jail — but she won't be free.
Alexander, whose case has gained some notoriety, endured three years of jail time and a year of house arrest while fighting off a prison sentence that would have seen her incarcerated for the rest of her life — all for firing a warning shot that injured no one to fend off her abusive husband. Like many black women before her, Alexander was framed as a perpetrator in a clear case of self-defense. In November, as her trial date drew close, Alexander accepted a plea deal that will likely give her credit for time served, requiring her to spend "just" 65 more days in jail. Media coverage of the development suggested that Alexander would soon have her "freedom," that she would be "coming home."
Many accounts of the plea deal, however, missed what Alexander will be coming home to: she'll return to "home detention" — house arrest — for two years.
In other words, an electronic monitor, secured around her ankle at all times, will track her every movement. Alexander will also be paying $105 per week to the state in monitoring fees, as is the custom in Florida and more than a dozen other states.
Such a situation is certainly preferable to being caged in a prison cell. However, does Alexander's release — and that of others in her shoes — mean freedom? In reality, an ever-growing number of cages are proliferating around us, even if they assume forms that look nothing like our standard idea of a cage.
As mass incarceration is falling out of fashion — it's been denounced by figures across the political spectrum from Eric Holder to Newt Gingrich — a whole slate of "alternatives to incarceration" has arisen. From electronic monitoring and debilitating forms of probation to mandatory drug testing and the sort of "predictive policing" that turns communities of color into open-air prisons, these alternatives are regularly presented as necessary "reforms" for a broken system.
It's worth remembering, however, that when the modern prison emerged in the late eighteenth century, it, too, was promoted as a "reform," a positive replacement for corporal or capital punishment. Early prison reformers — many of them Quakers bent on repentance and redemption — suggested that cutting people off from the rest of the world would bring them closer to God. (The word "penitentiary" comes, of course, from "penitence.")


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PLAINVIEW, TX---Wayland Baptist University has announced the hiring of Will Flemons as new head coach of the Flying Queens basketball program. Flemons, the head assistant women's coach at Southwest Texas State University, becomes the 11 th head coach in Queen's history.
"We are extremely pleased to have Will Flemons join the university and our athletics program," says Dr. Greg Feris, Director of Athletics at WBU. "Coach Flemons is a bright, young coach with a great passion for the game of basketball. He has a tremendous enthusiasm for life coupled with a tireless work ethic. We are pleased that he has indicated a willingness to dedicate himself to the lofty goals and high principles set long ago for the Flying Queens."
A native of Paducah, TX, Flemons played collegiate basketball from 1989-1993 at Texas Tech University where he was a two-time unanimous All-Southwest Conference selection and the 1992 SWC Player of the Year and 1993 SWC Offensive Player of the Year. He is sixth in career scoring at TTU with 1,604 points.
Feris says that Flemons's West Texas roots were a major selling point in his selection. "Growing up in Paducah, playing and coaching at Texas Tech gives him a familiarity with our region that will assist him in recruiting West Texas, long known for its outstanding girls basketball."
After obtaining his bachelor's degree in Exercise Sports and Science in 1994, Flemons worked as a men's assistant coach for the Raider basketball program under James Dickey from 1994 to 1997 and again from 1999 to 2001.
He went to Bucknell University in 2001 where he served one year as women's head assistant coach, before moving to San Marcos and Southwest Texas State last year. At SWTSU, Flemons served as the primary recruiting coordinator and was directly responsible for the scheduling and organization of public appearances and community service projects for the team. He also worked specifically with the Bobcat's post players and monitored off-season conditioning activities.
Flemons, whose wife Lori is from Lubbock, is excited to bring his family, which consists of Colman (9), Collin (6), and Caylin (2), back to the Texas Panhandle.
"This is a great situation and a perfect fit for both me and my family. All along we have wanted to be closer to home and what better place to be than Plainview and Wayland Baptist University.
"Anybody would be honored to be able to inherit a program with the rich tradition of the Flying Queens," continues Flemons, who plans to bring a high tempo game to Hutcherson Center. "I want to thank the administration at Wayland for giving me this opportunity and I look forward to becoming a part of the Wayland family and the Plainview community."
Flemons replaces Johnna Pointer who compiled a record of 151 wins and 82 losses in seven years as Wayland's head coach.
Flemons will begin his duties as the Flying Queens head coach on August 1.


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Harvard University student and anti-Putin activist Maria Gaidar, 29, previously served as vice governor of the Kirov region. She will help manage a crowdsourced website that monitors polling stations across Russia this weekend.
By Becky Bratu, msnbc.com
Maria Gaidar knows first hand about the consequences of being a political activist in Russia.
A fierce critic of Vladimir Putin and founder of the youth opposition movement DA! (YES! in Russian and and acronym for Democratic Alternative), Gaidar was accused by pro-government media last year of fleeing the country after being involved in a car crash that killed a 13-year-old girl.
"I didn't hit a girl," the 29-year-old Harvard University student told msnbc.com.
Gaidar says she has also been detained after taking part in a peaceful dissenters' march, but she refuses to back down. Gaidar remains a leader of anti-Putin organization The Other Russia as well as the opposition Union of Right Forces party.
"Why would people tolerate something forever?" she asked.
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But despite huge protests amid claims for fraud in the wake of December's parliamentary elections, Gaidar is among the many Russians with little doubt that Putin will be re-elected as president when the country goes to the polls on Sunday. Putin served as president from 2000-2008 and then became prime minister when a constitutional bar prevented a third consecutive term as president.
And while the message of tens of thousands who attended rallies in Moscow quickly went from one in favor of fair elections to a straightforward "Putin, go!", the country's opposition movement has failed to put forward an alternative leader. It also hasn't coalesced behind one of the four candidates running against him.
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Gaidar credits prominent blogger Alexei Navalny for putting forward an important idea when he encouraged people to go to the polls and vote for anyone but Putin.
Sergei Karpukhin / Reuters, file
Opposition supporters take part in a rally in Moscow on Sunday. Thousands of Russians joined hands to form a ring around the city centre in protest against Vladimir Putin's likely return as president.
"The message is 'we don't want this anymore' and the way to transmit this is by not voting for Putin," Gaidar told msnbc.com.
However, that is unlikely to be enough to drive Putin from office.
Being an ocean and several time zones away won't stop Gaidar from doing to her part to try to ensure a fair vote this weekend.
Gaidar will help manage a crowdsourced website that monitors polling stations across Russia. She said several thousand people have already signed up as monitors and she suspects irregularities will keep them busy on Sunday.
"Monitoring elections is the right thing to do," she added. "[Putin] doesn't have more than 50 percent of support."
Gaidar says the opposition movement has so far focused on establishing fair elections, not finding leaders. Those who are the best opposition leaders are not always the best leaders of a country, she said, hinting at lessons learned following the Orange Revolution in Ukraine and the Rose Revolution in Georgia.
Russia's presidential election takes place on Sunday, Mar. 4. Rock Center Correspondent Harry Smith journeyed to Moscow where he met blogger Alexei Navalny, a vocal opponent of Vladimir Putin and his party United Russia. Navalny has galvanized protesters through social media and uses his website to expose alleged political corruption. The prospect of Putin returning to the presidency has generated protests in Russia not seen since the fall of Communism. The surging public outrage has left some wondering if a movement is afoot in Russia similar to that of last year's Arab Spring.
"Right now the protest is very healthy," said Gaidar, who is the daughter of former Russian prime minister Yegor Gaidar.
"This revolution is Russian and pragmatic. People understand what they want and they're asking for it."
'Party of crooks and thieves'
Among those leading the charge toward reform is Navalny, a 35-year-old lawyer and blogger who thrives on exposing corruption and often targets Putin's United Russia party. He calls it "the party of crooks and thieves."
Following December's elections, Navalny and other activists took to the Web to post reports of the alleged abuses, sparking even more outrage. On the second day of rallies, Navalny was arrested on charges of obstructing traffic after giving a speech in front of thousands of protesters. He was sentenced to 15 days in jail.
"I think that corruption has been a constant irritant which kept on building along with resentment," Navalny told NBC News' Harry Smith. "Putin's mistake is that he engineered an electoral fraud in the city of Moscow so obvious and arrogant that it was taken by the people as a slap in the face."
While Navalny was in jail, the rallies grew even larger. "Of course, we were very upset that we could not be there," Navalny said. "But we could not believe that such things were really taking place in Moscow."
Anton Golubev / Reuters, file
Prominent blogger Alexei Navalny, left, listens to opposition leader Garry Kasparov during a meeting on January 31.
Navalny was released on Dec. 21, and an even bigger protest followed on Christmas Eve.
"At the demonstration I said that right now we can go and take the Kremlin, which frightened many people. But it was true," Navalny told Smith.
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The activist said the government "did everything to make sure we did not exist." He told Smith there is a car that always follows him around, and another that follows his wife.
"And it's very funny because they are changing plates on the cars but they are not changing cars," he explained.
But Putin's press secretary downplayed Navalny's importance.
"[Putin] wouldn't over exaggerate his importance," Dmitry Peskov told Smith.
If Putin wins on Sunday, he could run for another six-year term in 2018. A victory then would mean Putin had chalked up 24 years in power out of the 33 years since the collapse of Communism.
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While the anti-Putin movement is unlikely to change the results of this election, experts agree the protests have eroded Putin's legitimacy.
Over the past decade, Putin benefited from a high approval rating, an economy that performed relatively well and an apolitical public that he kept under control through generous social spending.
"All three of those things are gone and not likely to return," Timothy Frye, director of Columbia University's Harriman Institute, told msnbc.com.
While the opposition has grown in recent months, Putin continues to do well in the countryside, among older voters, the empowered bureaucracy and people who are dependent on the state for their livelihood, but he has lost the support of the middle class and the urban population fed up with the endemic corruption. At the same time, his campaign strategy has been to appeal to the core rather than court the opposition.
"If there is no rigging, he would probably win half of the vote anyway," Maria Lipman, an expert at the Carnegie Endowment Moscow Center, told msnbc.com.
Russians rally for Putin -- and 2 days off work
Navalny has said he would participate in the political process if elections were open to anyone who wants to run.
Gaidar, who is currently pursuing a mid-career masters degree in public administration at Harvard and who previously served as deputy governor of the Kirov region, says she doesn't have any political ambitions. Being a politician in nowadays Russia is like hitting your head against a wall, she said.
But Gaidar does plan to return home after she completes her studies and try to enable change within the system.
"In five to 10 years we're going to live in a different Russia," she said.
More from msnbc.com and NBC News:
- Rival hard-liners face off as Iranians vote
- Anti-Putin activists pay high price but refuse to back down
- A global icon is reborn: Londoners meet $36,000 per seat red bus
- Red Cross convoy reaches 'medieval barbarity' of Homs
- Putin in power until '24? 10 key questions about Russia's election
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Billy Corgan had been off stage in Detroit for only five minutes when a friend who was acting as a roadie gave him a message every musician dreads: "Somebody just walked out the back door with your guitar."
Smashing Pumpkins was about a year removed from its seminal 1991 debut album, Gish. Corgan credited the album's unique fuzz-driven beauty to the yellow CBS-era Fender Stratocaster which he bought from drummer Jimmy Chamberlain just a few years earlier and repainted by hand.
"It instantly changed the way the band sounded and the way I played," Corgan told Rolling Stone of the guitar, which represented a major departure from the Gibsons he grew up playing. "When it was stolen, it wasn't like, 'Oh, gee, my guitar just got stolen.' It was the guitar that affected the way I played, and I was heavily identified with the guitar."
After the guitar was pilfered, Corgan called police and offered a $10,000 reward, no-questions-asked for the guitar's return.
Corgan later upped his offer to $20,000. But for 27 years, there were no takers.
Over the years he would occasionally hear rumors of the guitar's whereabouts — that a friend of a friend, knew who had it, but was protecting the identity of that person. He admits he'd been tricked a few times by some amazing replicas made by fans.
On Tuesday, the guitar found its way back to Corgan. The front man was immediately sure it was the real thing based on the initials 'KM' carved into it and the "unsightly" cigarette burns on the headstock that no copycat would have known about.
In the years since Corgan's Strat was stolen, it eventually made its was to a Detroit yard sale and was purchased for $200 — less than what Corgan paid his drummer for it in the late-'80s — by a Flushing, Michigan, mother of three who thought it would make a nice conversation piece for her basement, where it stayed for over a decade.
The woman, Beth James, doesn't play guitar and said the guitar hadn't been played since she bought it, though house guests always suggested the instrument looked like it was worth something.
About six months ago, a friend recognized the guitar from an article about Corgan's lost Strat. They set about getting in touch to see if it was the real thing. Eventually they got in touch with Corgan through a company called Sound Royalties.
He added that he "always felt the guitar would come back when it was time."
And no, he won't be paying James the $20,000 reward for returning his guitar.
"She didn't want anything," he said. "God bless her. It falls under the 'miracles can happen' category. Even for a cynic like me."
James said she was just relieved that the guitar was really Corgan's and that she hadn't wasted his time with a fake. She said he deserved to have it back.
Corgan gifted her a signed guitar as a thank you.
The timing is pretty good. Smashing Pumpkins just wrapped up a reunion celebration last fall, releasing its tenth studio album, Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun.
Corgan says he's going to have the guitar fixed up and will start using it again. He hopes it will be part of the band's next album, which he's writing now.
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Congress is returning to session but the same old problems on health care remain.
Despite a 40-day break from Washington spent meeting with constituents, lawmakers return to work today just as divided on how to proceed on health care reform as before they left, The Washington Post reports.
Citing interviews with 15 House Democrats and some of their aides, the Post found that freshmen members from the suburbs still worry about raising taxes to pay for reform, while progressives are threatening to block any bill that does not include a public insurance option. Meanwhile, conservatives have kept Obama on the defensive and having to explain away provisions that are not even in the bills currently circulating, lamented Rep. Brad Miller (D-N.C.).
If a breakthrough is to occur, look to 80 Democratic members elected in the past three years on a platform of change to make it happen, according to the Post. If Obama can deliver a knockout speech on Wednesday and win their votes, he may have a bill ready to sign by Christmas, the paper reported.
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The University of Utah Libraries have embraced QR ('quick response') codes as a means of delivering additional information to patrons via their mobile device. QR codes are two dimensional codes that can be scanned with a mobile device's camera and a reader application to link to various resources such as a URL, application, or video. This presentation will introduce QR codes and explore how they can allow libraries to connect faculty, students and visitors to the information they want at the point of need. The libraries on campus are currently using them to link to Web sites, access digital learning objects, promote classes, and guide users to specific library locations. Participants will learn how to use and create their own QR Codes in class. Come learn about the next generation bar codes and see how they can be useful to you!
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Phil Coke and Carlos Pena have at least one thing in common: They both loved the second pitch Coke threw in the top of the 10th inning Wednesday night.George A. King III, Post:
While the Yankee lefthander maintained that his 1-0 fastball to the Tampa Bay slugger was "as good as you're gonna get," Peña, thinking the exact same thing, grooved it into the right field seats for his major-league-leading 12th home run of the season and the decisive blow in Tampa Bay's 4-3, 10th-inning victory at the Stadium.
From the manager's office to the clubhouse lockers, there is a belief the Yankees will emerge from the dog days of May in good shape.Mark Feinsand, Daily News:
"When it clicks, it will be ridiculous," A.J. Burnett said. "When it clicks, it will be fun to watch."
Lately, the only clicking in the Yankees' universe is the sound of the handgun hammer Joe Girardi uses while playing the nightly game of Bullpen Roulette.
... given opportunities to win the game in both the ninth and 10th, the Yankees' bats went limp again. The Bombers were 1-for-9 with runners in scoring position, making them 4-for-32 (.125) during the four-game skid to bring their season average in those situations down to .249. ...
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SEOUL, May 23 (UPI) -- South Korea can now hold U.S. soldiers charged with serious crimes before they are formally charged, officials said Wednesday.
The United States and South Korea agreed to a change in the Status of Forces Agreement, the Yonhap news agency reported. Previously, South Korea had to indict U.S. military personnel within 24 hours of arrest, effectively protecting anyone who was not literally caught in the act of committing a crime.
"It will help our investigation authorities conduct an investigation more effectively, thereby contributing to strengthening our criminal jurisdiction," an official who did not want to be named said of the change.
About 28,500 U.S. soldiers are currently stationed in South Korea. In two recent high-profile cases, soldiers were charged with sexual assaults on young women.
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"Attitudes are contagious is yours worth catching"! I saw this quote on a billboard recently and loved it. I loved it because it immediately reminded me what the JUCY brand was all about.
JUCY is a tourism business with one clear goal and that is to be a major international brand. The brand is led by our 1950's pin up girl called LUCY who can be seen on everything from hotel walls to the side of campervans and the front of our cruise boat.
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There seems to be a lot of confusion around what a brand is and why it is so important to a business. For us it was actually really simple, we need to be different and the only way to be different was to be noticed and to stand for something unique. When we started our business there were over 200 car rental operators in Auckland alone, all of whom were offering basically the same cars, from the same locations and at the same price. We realized very early on that we had to stand out from the crowd in order to be noticed and that the easiest way to do this was to not become our competitors. To do that was to die a slow death!
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A brand's values
At JUCY we have four values that everyone across our businesses live by every single day both at work and in their personal lives. They are FUN, FAMILY, PRIDE and PASSION. These values are what drives our brand and what makes both our customers and staff feel part of the JUCY community.
A good example of that is our campervans. When we decided to operate campers, we initially thought we would do what our competitors did and have white vans with our logo on it. We then thought: "Bugger this - we have these great big billboards that we can have some fun with and that can also grow the JUCY brand." As a result we painted all our campers green and purple and put JUCY Lucy on the side similar to what they did with the B-52 bombers in WW2. This decision was a massive turning point for the business as not only did it launch the brand as a result of having hundreds of big green campers on the road, but it also created this amazing community amongst our customers as each time they passed each other on the road they would wave and scream. It also meant that at campgrounds all the JUCY vans would end up parking up together.
Our brand gives our customers the opportunity to connect and the permission to be playful.
Adopting a street fighter mentality
Unlike a lot of brand orientated businesses we could not sustain years of financial losses in order to build a brand. We had to be profitable to enable us to continue to invest in growing our fleet. As a result we had to adopt a street fighter mentality and use gorilla marketing to get noticed and grow the brand. I recall the early days of parking our campers outside tourist hotspots just to get noticed.
Social media
The birth of social media has also been amazing for the JUCY brand. The ability for our JUCY community to interact with each other through social media platforms has been a game changer for the business and has significantly grown the JUCY brand. Your customers become your brand ambassadors and through user generated content and customer forum sites like Trip Advisor, push your brand to the world. An example of that is a customer who did a three minute video of their road trip in a JUCY camper. The video went viral and over the last year has had 300,000 views on YouTube.
While social media is an amazing tool for growing a company's brand, it can also be a brand killer as it gives the customer a much louder voice which can have a major negative impact on your brand if you stuff up.
Turning into an international brand
The JUCY brand has universal appeal. The JUCY brand can move across into different sectors and different countries. We have proven that with our launch in Australia four years ago and the US last year. That gives us great confidence that we can "jucyfiy" the world.
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National Landscape Fragments as States Plan Common-Core Testing
Only a few years ago, the ambitious initiative to use shared assessments to gauge learning based on the new common-core standards had enlisted 45 states and the District of Columbia. Today, the testing landscape looks much more fragmented, with only 27 of them still planning to use those tests in 2014-15, and the rest opting for other assessments or undecided, an Education Week analysis shows.
For a variety of reasons, including the length and cost of the tests and political heat over the federal money supplied for their development, many states changed their minds about using the end-of-year accountability tests in English/language arts and math from the two state consortia that are leading the drive.
As of mid-May, 17 states planned to use the tests produced by the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium; just nine states plus the District of Columbia planned to use tests made by the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC.
Adding a level of complexity, seven states decided to split their assessment regimes, using one test designer for high school and another for lower grades.
Taken together, the shifts have produced a far less unified testing environment than existed even a year ago, when all but a half-dozen states still planned to use one of two assessments by Smarter Balanced or PARCC.
In sharp contrast, Education Week's analysis shows that states' current plans for 2014-15 encompass the use of at least 19 different tests.
A look at the membership of the two consortia suggests a more unified picture: Thirty-seven states and the District of Columbia still count themselves as members. But Education Week found that 11 of those, despite their membership, say they will use other tests. Six of the 11 have chosen assessments—largely sticking with their own state tests and adjusting for the new Common Core State Standards—while five are still weighing their options.
For this article, Education Week solicited assessment plans from all 50 states and the District of Columbia, and received responses from all but one state, Indiana. Drawing on those responses, along with Indiana's publicly reported plans and a variety of political maneuverings in the states, we produced a state-by-state profile for 2014-15.
States are grouped into four categories according to whether they plan to use PARCC, had picked Smarter Balanced, had chosen another test, or hadn't yet decided.
Misbegotten Idea?
For opponents of the common-core initiative, the increasing fragmentation is a step in the right direction.
Terry Stoops, the director of research and education policy studies at the John Locke Foundation, a think tank in Raleigh, N.C., said that his own state, a member of Smarter Balanced, illustrates the mismatch between the vision of a common test and the reality.
State leaders in North Carolina balked when the price of the new tests was projected to be twice as expensive as the current ones, Mr. Stoops said. Another set of worries, he said, centered on whether districts, especially in rural areas, were technologically ready to switch to large-scale online testing, which both consortia's tests demand.
Those problems, combined with skepticism about tests built with federal government money, produced a law that gave the legislature a power previously reserved for the state board of education: the authority to approve the state's assessments.
"This just goes to show that the idea of the tests doesn't correspond to the implementation of them," Mr. Stoops said.
For those who had hoped that PARCC and Smarter Balanced would design better, more instructionally valuable assessments, it's worrisome to see states backing away from that enterprise.
James W. Pellegrino, a distinguished professor of education at the University of Illinois-Chicago who serves on the technical-advisory committees of both consortia, said the trend "moves us back closer to where we were under No Child Left Behind." That federal law, though it sought to spur student achievement, left each state free to set its definition of "proficient" as low as it liked, he noted.
With many different tests measuring students' learning, Mr. Pellegrino said, the country loses the ability to reach a shared, rigorous definition of mastery or college readiness.
In analyzing states' plans, Education Week found that nearly every state fell easily into the PARCC, Smarter Balanced, "other test," or "undecided" category because its education department's response to our inquiry was not contradicted by positions taken by other key officials in the state, such as the governor, education commissioner, state board leaders or lawmakers.
Arkansas, for instance, stayed firmly in the PARCC category because it plans to use that group's tests in grades 3-11. Ditto for West Virginia, which is sticking with Smarter Balanced in those grades.
Iowa, Kansas, and Kentucky, meanwhile, are three states that are squarely in the "other" category, since they're using their own new or existing tests.
Uncertainty about which test to use for high school, or the selection of another vendor for that level, didn't automatically put a state into the "undecided" or "other" category in the Education Week analysis. In the six states that are using one test for grades 3-8 and another for high school, we categorized them according to their choice for grades 3-8, since typically more accountability tests are collectively given in those grades than in high school.
Accordingly, we placed Oklahoma in the "other" column because it has chosen Measured Progress, a Dover, N.H.-based test developer, to build assessments for grades 3-8, but is undecided at the high school level.
Rhode Island, on the other hand, stayed in the PARCC column because it is using that consortium's tests for grades 3-8, but retaining the New England Common Assessment Program, or NECAP, for high school.
Three other states—Missouri, Nevada, and Wisconsin—are using Smarter Balanced tests in grades 3-8 and other tests for high school.
Sizing Up States' Plans
In considering whether to classify a state's assessment plans as "undecided," we took into account three key dynamics: the progress of legislation that ruled out the use of consortium tests; a major dispute about the use of consortium tests among a state's top officials, such as its governor, commissioner of education, and state board president; and the issuance of a request for proposals for state assessments.
Some states that fell into the "undecided" category have leadership that strongly supports the common core, but political turmoil has led them to delay or waver about deciding to use consortium tests.
New York, for instance, belongs to PARCC, but anti-common-core sentiment there has led the state to hang back on a commitment to use PARCC assessments in 2014-15.
"The Board of Regents has yet to decide on the utility of these exams for New York state students," state education department spokesman Tom Dunn wrote in an email to Education Week.
Massachusetts, whose commissioner of education is the chairman of the PARCC governing board, is letting districts decide in 2014-15 whether to use PARCC or the state's current test, the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, or MCAS (though 10th grade students must still take the MCAS next year to graduate).
Categorizing Louisiana offered the trickiest terrain. State education department officials told us their plan was to use PARCC tests in 2014-15, and state Superintendent John White and a majority of the board of education support PARCC. The state still belongs to that consortium.
But most other indicators in the state tilt heavily against the use of those tests. Gov. Bobby Jindal, a Republican, appears strongly inclined to dump PARCC, and might well have the upper hand in doing so. The state House of Representatives has also passed a budget amendment barring use of consortium tests unless the state solicits other bids.
While winds could shift in PARCC's favor in Louisiana, for now Education Week deems its plans "undecided."
Michigan was in the Smarter Balanced category until early May, when both houses of its legislature approved language calling for a new version of its own test next year.
Vol. 33, Issue 32, Pages 1, 16Published in Print: May 21, 2014, as State Plans For Testing Fragmented
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Today (mon. 10/28/2019) I had a conversation about the 2020 presidential election. Over the weekend, Trump was booed and treated to the chant "Lock him up" at a World Series game. I recalled how I had thought a few years ago that 2020 may look a lot like 1860, when it comes to the presidential election. The person I was talking with agreed. Then we tried to figure out who the four major candidates will be. I don't recall who we determined on, but we didn't have confidence in the choices,


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HealthTap is an app available on iOS, Android, and the web that lets people ask medical questions of real doctors and get quick answers in return.
The app is the brainchild of Ron Gutman, a serial entrepreneur working to shake up the healthcare industry in the best way possible.
A Pew study on the relationship between the internet and healthcare revealed that 59% of Americans (including the author) have searched for health information online. The obvious issue here is the matter of trust — how credible is the information that you find?
HealthTap aims to solve this problem by connecting you with its network of real, living doctors to ask whatever question you need answered. It currently boasts 11,500 doctors in all 50 states, covering 112 different specialties (some as specific as aerospace medicine).
How is it that doctors are legally able to dispense medical advice over the internet outside of the US healthcare system? HealthTap teamed up with Lloyd's of London to create a new type of liability insurance that's never existed before. It enables doctors to interact with people exclusively over HealthTap, which is pretty cool.
HealthTap has a rigorous onboarding process for doctors that want to participate. Doctors need to be licensed in the US, in good standing, and have no disciplinary actions against them. In these respects, HealthTap is stricter than the state licensing board.
So why would doctors spend lots of time dispensing medical knowledge on the internet for free? It's a way for them to publicize their practice and attract new real-life patients. There are also residual SEO benefits, making it easier for people to find the doctor online and see that he or she has an active web presence. And because HealthTap automatically directs questions to doctors based on their specialties, doctors get to answer questions they care about.
HealthTap is very big on this idea of its community being a "transparent meritocracy" — as doctors answer questions, users can "Thank" doctors for helpful answers. The doctors can "Agree" with answers provided to questions by other doctors. If a question has lots of doctors agreeing with the answer, you can probably rest safe in its accuracy.
We were excited about the potential for this app and couldn't wait to try it.
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National Dairy Shrine (NDS) is pleased to announce the winners of the Guest of Honor, Pioneer, Distinguished Dairy Cattle Breeder, Graduate Dairy Production and Progressive Dairy Producer awards for this year. These awards were designed to honor dairy industry leaders that have already or will soon contribute to strengthening and enlivening the dairy industry.
Dr. David Galton is the Guest of Honor, the highest award from the National Dairy Shrine. This award goes to an individual that has had a dramatic impact on the dairy industry and its future. David Galton, a professor at Cornell University, has had a dominant effect on the modernization and growth of the dairy industry in New York and throughout the northeast. His innovative teaching style and his ability to relate to college students is exemplary. He was the driving force behind the very successful development of the Cornell Dairy Fellows program which provides students with unique opportunities for becoming active members of the dairy production industry. David also is well respected collegiate dairy cattle judging team coach with the highest number of elite contest winners…8 National Champion teams and 8 National Champion individuals.
The NDS Distinguished Dairy Cattle breeder is James S. Huffard from Crockett, VA. Huffard's Jersey herd carries the Schultz prefix and is known worldwide for producing quality and sought after cattle. Huffard has served on several national & regional Jersey committees and was a leader in development of Dixieland Jersey Sires Inc… He has shown the foresight to utilize innovative breeding and environmental research and has actively worked with his home state university, Virginia Tech, on numerous dairy research projects.
Through an anonymous selection committee, Don Seipt, George Opperman, James Baird, Francis Eustis and Dr. Charles Plumb were selected as National Dairy Shrine Pioneers. This year's honorees are an exemplary display of what this award is about. Don Seipt, Easton, PA., a well respected dairy leader, served as President of the U.S. Holstein Association during some of the toughest financial times of the association. His Keystone herd was one of the most respected Holstein herds for longevity and high production. George Opperman, Beloit, Wisconsin, started out as a very successful Iowa Brown Swiss breeder, but also served as the Executive Secretary of the Brown Swiss Association for 8 years. Later he pioneered the development of United States Livestock Genetics Export Inc program which aids all dairymen in increasing dairy cattle exports around the world. James Baird, Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, was the long time art director for Hoard's Dairyman. He created the Foster Mothers of the Human race artwork and his December Hoard's cover artwork was a special feature for every subscriber. Jim also was the designer of the first displays at the National Dairy Shrine Museum and a tireless museum volunteer. Francis Eustis, Cincinnati, Ohio, was also a world renowned artist. His artistic skill was utilized to develop custom resin cast true type models for the Brown Swiss, Holstein, Jersey and Guernsey breeds. His other artistic work is represented in many notable collections throughout the United States and abroad. Dr. Charles Plumb, Columbus, Ohio was the first professor of Dairying at Purdue University in 1890. There he started the Indiana State Dairy Association. He later became professor of Animal Husbandry at Ohio State University from 1902 until 1931. The Ohio State University In 1932 named the building housing the Dairy Department as Plumb Hall to honor Dr. Plumb.
The NDS Progressive Dairy Producers selected for this year are Matt & Katie Stoll in the small herd division and Todd Galton in the large herd division. This award is a $2000 travel stipend to attend a conference or seminar to learn new techniques to improve their dairy business. Matt & Katie Stoll have an excellent herd of 220 Holsteins and Ayrshires in Cascade, Iowa. This young couple is very involved in the dairy community. Both have had leadership positions in state and national breed associations. Galton operates Roll-N-View LLC in Nunda, New York and Groveland View LLC in Groveland, New York. With his wife Meg and family they manage the two dairies that milk 1800 cows. Mr. Galton has been very active in his local school board, was a youth basketball coach and a leader of his local milk cooperative. The Galton family enjoys showing cattle at local, state and national shows.
Diesel Hitt, Adams Center, New York has been selected as the Graduate Dairy Production award winner. This award goes to an active dairyman who has graduated from college in the last nine years and has already demonstrated excellent dairy management ability and financial stability. Diesel and his partners Bill Morgan & Jon Gilbert operate Windsong Dairy LLC with Diesel as the managing partner. Mr. Hitt will receive a $2500 award sponsored by Elanco to be used toward the purchase of cattle to improve his herd.
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I got the Dave wave (or was that the commute salute?) on 79th street. He was on his way home. Me? I passed by home, went to a sporting goods store to pick up a new pair of bike shorts (much needed) and CO2 Carts ($.48 each instead of $3.75 each at the LBS)
Then to Best Buy for more rechargeables before grabbing some food on my way home. I'm a bit more than 33 miles deep in today's stygian mile-fest of doom.
Surprisingly, I feel quite fresh and ready to rock. Chris and Dave are rolling through my apartment complex on the way to the June Full Moon Ride. We'll convoy out there, ride around a bit and head on back.
I'm cleaning up, recharging batteries, eating, and replenishing my seat wedge pack (flat kit). Can't wait to ride around in the dark some more. The sun is coming up pretty early, so it's been a few months since I needed to use headlights TO SEE WITH.
Off topic. My computer kept doing this all day after a graphics driver upgrade:
If you can't tell, the image is rotated 90 degrees. I spent a good chunk of my day fixing it. I hate Windows.
Friday, June 20, 2008
Hi, Dave!
I got the Dave wave (or was that the commute salute?) on 79th street. He was on his way home. Me? I passed by home, went to a sporting goods store to pick up a new pair of bike shorts (much needed) and CO2 Carts ($.48 each instead of $3.75 each at the LBS)
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- Sirrus Rider said...
That's okay. Windows hate you too. That's why it decided to display things "Chinese Style" [Teasing]
- June 20, 2008 10:04 PM
- Tacticus said...
Windows hates everyone
Then again if you have an intel video card i think it is ctrl + alt + an arrow key to change the orientation
- June 21, 2008 1:37 AM
- Dan said...
You could just stand the monitor on its side. :-)
- June 21, 2008 6:10 AM
- Noah said...
Tacticus: Oh, I know about ctl-alt-arrow. Now, imagine having to do that every time the screen saver kicks in, and then being greeted by 800x600 resolution on that nice 22" Wide screen after fixing the screen orientation, so having to go back into the desktop properties to fix the res. Every. Single. Time. UGH!
Dan: That's actually what I did for a while. The Dell widescreens pivot, and around here, some groups buy TWO widescreens for their employees and they end up running them side by side in portrait mode. I just get a crappy 15" CRT for my SunRay and one widescreen.
- June 21, 2008 6:38 AM
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Should Canada ditch the words "thy sons" in its national anthem, O Canada?
Periodically there are campaigns to amend the country's anthem to make it more politically correct. Some argue the phrase "in all thy sons command" doesn't reflect the country's real makeup as a homogenous society made up of men and women.
One of those advocating the change to "in all of us command" is Ottawa-based author Shari Graydon, who for the last three years has argued that the national anthem discriminates against women. She's mounted a campaign again this year and it has gained some traction, including the creation of a Facebook page.
But if we are going to change the words of the anthem because people think it doesn't reflect equality, shouldn't we also listen to others who also think it also imposes a Christian view with the phrase "God keep our land glorious and free!" What about people who either don't practice religion, or whose religion includes many gods?
On this weekend as we approach the celebration of Canada's 146th birthday, how important is it to revise our national anthem? Do you feel you're excluded if you are a woman or an athiest or a Hindu or a practicant of multi-god religions? How politically correct should our national songs, ceremonies and histories be?
To be sure, Canada's national anthem has been modified numerous times since it was first penned in 1880 by Calixa Lavallée based on a poem written by Judge Adolphe-Basile Routhier. Canada's official history of the anthem is here:
Some of the earliest versions used language that today people would likely cringe at.
Here's today's version, officially adopted by Canada in 1980, 100 years after the first version.
O Canada!
Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all thy sons command.
With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free!
From far and wide,
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
But how about this 1906 version by Toronto doctor Thomas Bedford?
" O Canada! Our fathers' land of old
Thy brow is crown'd with leaves of red and gold.
Beneath the shade of the Holy Cross
Thy children own their birth
No stains thy glorious annals gloss
Since valour shield thy hearth.
Almighty God! On thee we call
Defend our rights, forfend this nation's thrall,
Defend our rights, forfend this nation's thrall."
What about this one by Vancouver's Ewing Buchan, who in 1908 took Lavallée's French lyrics and composed a version that today would likely offend the French-speaking population of Canada:
" O Canada, our heritage, our love
Thy worth we praise all other lands above.
From sea to see throughout their length
From Pole to borderland,
At Britain's side, whate'er betide
Unflinchingly we'll stand
With hearts we sing, "God save the King",
Guide then one Empire wide, do we implore,
And prosper Canada from shore to shore."
In all of these, despite some words people may pick out, the message is the same: patriotism, love and pride in Canada.
But is this enough? Should we further amend our national anthem to remove bits and pieces some may object to? What should our anthem say about us?
Please comment at will.
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"Christmas at the Hospital," Friend, Dec. 2012, 28–29
Christmas at the Hospital
Have faith, have hope, live like his Son, help others on their way (Children's Songbook, 34–35).
Stacy only wanted one thing for Christmas.
Stacy's seventh Christmas was one her family would never forget. It was unforgettable because it was almost so very, very awful.
One autumn day, Stacy's family had gone for a drive to see the colorful trees. When a truck suddenly came into their lane, Dad swerved to miss it and hit a tree instead. Dad and Mom were fine, and so were Adam and Will. But Stacy was hurt. Dad called for an ambulance to take her to the hospital.
Stacy woke up in the hospital with a bandage on her head and her leg in a cast. She would need to stay in the hospital for a while until she got better.
Stacy shared a room with three girls named Jenny, Tamika, and Kelly. Kelly could get out of bed, so she played games and read stories with the other girls. Stacy was glad to meet new friends in the hospital.
Every day the doctor checked on Stacy. Her leg was healing well, and soon the nurses removed the bandage from her head.
One day Kelly went home. The girls hugged and said good-bye.
"I'm glad you're well, Kelly," Stacy said.
"Thanks. Now you and Jenny and Tamika get better too," Kelly said.
Eventually Stacy was allowed to get out of bed. Walking with crutches was hard, but once she learned to get around on her own she made friends with children in other rooms. There were many children in the hospital, all with different injuries and illnesses. Some were there only a short time, while others had to stay for many months.
In December, Stacy was finally able to go home. "I'm glad I get to go home, but I'm going to miss everyone so much," Stacy told her parents.
As Christmas drew near, Stacy's cast was removed, and she worked hard to walk without limping. One night Mom and Dad asked Stacy what she wanted for Christmas.
"There's really only one thing I want," Stacy said. "I want to take presents to the children in the hospital who don't get to go home for Christmas."
Mom hugged Stacy. "Is that really what you want? You don't want anything for yourself?"
"That's really what I want," Stacy said.
Mom and Dad explained the plan to Will and Adam and added that there wouldn't be much money left over for family presents.
"That's OK," Will said. "I think it's a good idea."
The family went shopping and picked out toys, games, and books. Then they wrapped the gifts and piled them in the car.
On Christmas morning, Stacy and her family drove to the hospital. Stacy grinned as she passed out the gifts. Some of her friends had gone home, and now other children were in their beds. Stacy had a gift for each one. Seeing their excitement when they opened their gifts filled Stacy's heart with joy.
"How do you feel?" Mom asked as they left the children's wing.
Stacy hugged her. "This might sound funny, but I loved Christmas at the hospital!"