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Call of the Wild: Cards earn berth in NLDSA disputed infield fly ruling stymied a late Braves rally as the Cards claimed the Wild Card game with a 6-3 victory Friday to reach the National League Division Series.
ALDS-bound O's earn long-awaited bash in TexasThe Orioles -- denied a proper celebration of their first postseason berth in 15 years because of plane troubles -- broke out the bubbly after punching a ticket to the ALDS on Friday in Texas.
Infield fly ruling draws Braves' ire, sparks disruptionThe National League Wild Card game erupted into controversy in the eighth inning at Turner Field on Friday night, when a disputed infield fly rule call sent the game into chaos.
Chipper's career ends in frustrating loss to CardsIn the final game of his career, Chipper Jones' throwing error fueled the three-run fourth inning the Cardinals used to propel themselves to a 6-3 win over the Braves in the National League's Wild Card playoff on Friday night at Turner Field.
Rangers stymied as reign atop AL comes to endThe Rangers, despite the best efforts of starter Yu Darvish, had their season end when they lost to the Orioles, 5-1, in the AL Wild Card game in Arlington on Friday night.
Hamilton shrugs off boos, ponders futureJosh Hamilton went 0-for-4 and struck out twice in a 5-1 loss to the Orioles at the Ballpark in Arlington as the Rangers' season came to an abrupt end. He returned to the dugout to resounding boos from the crowd at Rangers Ballpark after his last three at-bats.
With little help, Yu's effort spoiled in playoff debutRangers pitcher Yu Darvish had trouble coming to grips on Friday that his first Major League season is officially over.


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Challenging Windows Mobile 6.0
All right, you finally have it—Windows Mobile 6.0—handy. Everyone can download the new SDK from the Microsoft site. What should you expect from next version of the operating system? Is it as revolutionary as Windows Mobile 5.0 was? The quick answer is NO. Phew! I believe many of us agree that this is really good news. No significant changes, no suddenly stopped-to-work applications, and so forth. Instead, the mobile developer community gets many important improvements that make a programmer's life much easier (if it may ever happen).
The new version tries to achieve a few main targets: better user experience, better support for 'screen resoultion aware'-applications, and simpler development and deployment of business applications, especially for so-called Line of Business (LOB) applications, such as such as accounting, supply chain management, and resource planning applications. LOB applications are usually large programs that contain a number of integrated capabilities and tie into databases and database management systems. Thus, they do require good OS support to be effective.
Naming Again
As it became a good tradition, Microsoft takes care about entertaining developers and has altered the product line name once again. If you liked Windows Mobile 5.0 for Pocket PC, Smartphone, or various combinations of those with Phone edition, you now may enjoy a couple new ones. You may use Windows Mobile 6.0 Standard (aka Smartphone), Professional (PPC Phone edition), or Classic (regular PPC). However, there are only two SDK available: Standard SDK for the first platform and Professional SDK for the rest. These changes are reflected in project templates names and emulator images. In addition, only the following desktop platforms are officially supported for development environment:
- Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2
- Windows Vista
- Windows XP Service Pack 2
So, if you still have Windows 2000 around, your chances to meet WM 6.0 might seem to be completely vanished. But, it is not that bad; you nevertheless may easily install the SDK (and all pre-requisites) and continue to develop on Win2K.
Tools & Co.
Windows Mobile 6.0 comes very well armed to fulfill its goals. It is really nice that the .NET Compact Framework 2.0 SP1 and MS SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition are included in the ROM by default, so you can focus on using them and don't need to bother with deployment. The cash profit is obvious.
The end user experience was also significantly improved, so now GUI looks great, shiny, and more standard across the whole product family. Windows Mobile 5.0 applications should work seamlessly on the new platform because it is fully backward compatible unless you have used an undocumented API.
The next thing to notice is Device Emulator 2.0. It was available for a long time in beta version, but now it is released. First, it is a true ARM emulator, so it launches device code just like its old buddy POSE on Palm OS did. This facility enables you to keep fewer build configurations and be sure you debug the same code both on the emulator and the real device. Besides, it supports a few nice features such as a battery charging level and several peripherals. With all the new features, Device Emulator significantly decreases the need of purchasing a real device, thus getting you additional cash relief. Developers may try and test applications on a wide range of form factors, ensuring that the final product supports as many devices as possible. Device Emulator 2.0 is faster than the previous version, so the debugging process becomes easier to endure.
There is also Cellular Emulator working together with Device Emulator. This great facility gives you the unique opportunity to test an application's behavior with incoming calls or SMS, connectivity problems, and so forth. It doesn't seem to work on Win2K due to missing entry points in WS2_32.dll, though. To use it with Device Emulator, you will need to adjust Serial Port0 in Device Emulator's configuration settings to match the one Cellular Emulator uses and then the Soft-reset Device emulator.
The last thing to note—but not the least—is the GPS testing utility: FakeGPS. It makes it possible for you to develop and test location-based services without the ultimate demand of a GPS device. As its name states, this utility simply fakes it. All you need to do is to enable it via GUI and feed an appropriate file as an input. FakeGPS does the rest for you.
If you have a look into the Tools folder, you will find a few more useful utilities; for example, Hopper, which helps you stress-test your application while sending input keystrokes rapidly. It may discover some hardly detectable issues at the early development stages, so once your application is deployed, you can be more confident it is stable. There are also Security Manager and other tools in there, so I encourage you to have a look and try them. The Security Manager tool saves you a lot of time when you need to understand why your application doesn't work without any obvious reason. It can show recent settings for a connected device or emulator and also setup security policies for the emulator. The process of signing is also simplified, so it takes fewer headaches to get your application running on the real device.
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Fresh-baked berry pies were a seasonal rarity on a pioneer homestead, and they needed protection from small children and other varmints. Cook's answer was a pie safe: a cabinet with tight joints and close-fitting doors to exclude pests and retain enough humidity to keep pies moist, but also featuring tiny, ant and gnat excluding perforations in the door so air could circulate to prevent mold.
MOTHERS Pie Safe is 27" high and sized to hold four 9" pies on 22"-square shelves. It is built of tongue-and-groove (T&G) panels that are deck-screwed and epoxy-glued to 1"-square corner posts. Vent screens in the door are made from prick-punched, flattened tin cans.
Building MOTHER's Pie Safe Side Panels (2 Required)
For each, cut four lengths of 1"x 6" T&G pine to 27". Lay out boards, narrow ends up, best side down, aligned so bottoms of boards lie evenly along a horizontal line, square-to sides of panels.
Lay 30-minute epoxy in grooves. Make tongues and grooves. Tap joints to secure. When dry, saw, plane or cut the thin T&G millings from outer edges of outer boards. Trim panels to be even and square.
Corner Posts
Cut two lengths of 1"-square stock to be 1/2" less than height of sides. Screw and glue even with the outboard edges of panel. Bottoms should be even with bottom of sides (leaving X" at top for top-attachment filets). If using 1"-thick boards for the back, inset rear posts on each panel 1" inside of the rear edge. Leave flush for a thin-plywood back.
Shelf Cleats
Lay glued-up side panels side-by-side. Determine number of shelves and their spacing (6" for bread, 4" for pies and muffins) and mark locations on insides of side panels. So top of bottom shelf will be even with lip of door opening, locate upper edge of bottom cleat 5 1/2" from bottom edge of side boards.
For each shelf cleat, cut a length of 1"-square stock to rest along marked shelf lines, fitting loosely between vertical posts. Pilot-drill three holes in cleats, and select 1", 1 1/4" or 1 1/2" deck screws — whichever will not quite pierce outer surface of panel board. Screw and epoxy-glue cleats to panels.
Make 22" x 27" back from four 27" lengths of T&G (or from plywood if back won't be open to view). Trim millings from outboard edges of T&G of back panel and epoxy joints. Fasten two 20" lengths of 1"-square stock across plank, 3" from top and bottom.
When cabinet face is attached (see next step) fasten back to cabinet with deck screws through countersunk pilot holes into inset vertical posts. (Using plywood, fasten flush.)
Cabinet Face
Cut from the best-looking T&G: one 22"-long bottom rail, one 22"top rail and rough-cut two 20" vertical stiles. Saw, cut or plane off T&G moldings from 6"-wide bottom rail. Trim T&G milling off one side of top rail and rip the other edge so board is 4" wide. Countersink pilot holes 1" in from edge at each end of rails, one hole for 4"-wide top, two for 6" bottom rail.
Block sides parallel with bricks or blocks, and tack (fasten temporarily) the back panel and both rails in place. Rip two vertical stiles to be 4" wide and trim lengths even to fit snugly between rails on each side of the face frame. Countersink three pilot holes 1" from inside outboard edge at top, bottom and center of each stile and screw and glue in place. Permanently fasten horizontal rails.
Before fastening, you may jigsaw a 2" to 3" high cutout in the lower edge of the bottom board to simulate legs. Repeat in lower edge of back and side panels.
Bottom Shelf
The bottom shelf must be made varmint-tight. Cut enough 6" T&G boards to length (21" more or less) to fill bottom shelf snugly all around. Trim front and rear edges of T&G and as much more as needed to fit. Install shelf boards from back to front, gluing and snugging T&G joints tight as each goes in. Glue outboard edges where bottom shelf rests on cleats.
From scrap pine, cut four 3" x 3" x 4'a' right (90°) triangles. Screw and glue them into the corners over posts. Drill a small pilot hole near long edge of each. Plane or trim tops of filets to be even with top edges of cabinet if needed.
Make a top from glued-seam T&G, from butcher board or other material. Edge overhang should be 1" all around.
Place top on cabinet and fasten through holes in filets. Don't glue, in case you want to change the top some day.
Cut sufficient 21" or so lengths of T&G to fit between opposing shelf cleats. Cut shelf boards short so they are loose and removable. Arrange them close enough together to hold baked goods, but leave a 1/2" or more of space between to permit airflow.
Cut three 17" horizontal rails and two 19" vertical stiles from T&G. Rip to 4"width. Lay out in an open rectangle with third rail as a central crossmember — horizontals over verticals — and mark where boards overlap. Using multiple, parallel, close saw cuts and a chisel, remove half the thickness of boards where they meet. Square parts up, apply plenty of epoxy and weight each joint with a brick.
Punched-Tin Inserts
Open both ends of #2, one-pound coffee cans. With tin snips, split can at welded seam. Trim off weld and both rims. Flatten between two boards.
Punch vent holes smaller than the head of a pin in order to exclude fruit flies. You'll need a sharply pointed "prick-punch," a hammer and a carefully modulated hammer hand. Set tin on a hardwood board and punch holes about X' apart in both directions. After door is finished, place tin, unpainted surface facing out, in epoxy and staple to inside of door openings.
Seal all interior seams with a nontoxic, clear, flexible mastic. Install storm door, draft-proofing gaskets around inside of door frame.
Finish and Trim
Fill countersinks with plugs or buttons.
Stain or paint exterior as you like. Paint the inside with several coats of white hard-gloss enamel for easy cleaning and to prevent molds from infiltrating the wood.
Attach door with matching offset hinges and latch.
Wood: #10, 1/2" x 6"x 8' pine tongue-and-groove (T&G) paneling/siding; #5, 5/4 x 5/4" x 8' true-inch-square hardwood baluster stock; (for unseen back, 1/4 " or 3/8" plywood to fit).
Hard Goods: offset hinges and latch for flush door; fasteners: 1", 1 1/4" and 1 1/2" deck/drywall screws; cement: 30-minute epoxy; mastic: nontoxic, flexible sealer/adhesive; countersink plugs or buttons; finishing materials as required.
Tin snips; combination-blade saw (hand or power); right angle steel and pencil; electric drill/driver; 1/8" pilot-hole countersink/drill bit; block plane or utility knife stapler; bricks or blocks for support/weighting.


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A blow to tea party: Cochran wins in Mississippi
WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington's political establishment offered a sober assessment of the tea party movement Wednesday after six-term Sen. Thad Cochran's narrow win in Mississippi: The upstarts are down but not out.
"You cannot underestimate the anti-Washington feeling which translates into anti-incumbency, and it's out there and it's viable," Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., told reporters at a breakfast organized by The Wall Street Journal.
Still, McCain welcomed Cochran's comeback win as historic after a nasty, costly primary that forced a three-week sprint to Tuesday's runoff. With 99 percent of precincts reporting, Cochran held a 6,373-vote advantage over tea party favorite Chris McDaniel, who has refused to concede the race.
Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., speaks at his primary election night gathering, Tuesday, June 24, 2014, in New York. Rangel is seeking his 23rd term against opponent state Sen. Adriano Espaillat. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
While McCain sees the tea party groups as a strong presence, Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York argued that the grass-roots effort has peaked.
"I think mainstream Republicans are saying 'enough already, if we keep following the tea party we're going to follow like Thelma and Louise over a cliff,'" Schumer said at the same breakfast, referring to the 1991 movie of two women who tried to outrun the law.
Unsuccessful in earlier Republican primaries in Kentucky, Georgia and North Carolina, outside conservative organizations and tea party groups had invested millions in Mississippi in hopes of knocking out Cochran. They have few chances to reverse the trend in the remaining contests before November's elections.
Tuesday's results left them fuming.
"Unfortunately in Mississippi, nefarious campaign tactics seem to have won the day over ideas and a bold conservative vision," said Taylor Budowich, executive director of Tea Party Express. "We thank Senator Chris McDaniel for courageously standing up to the political machine. In politics, the righteous are not always victorious, but Americans across the country appreciate the values that his campaign was built upon."
In another setback for the tea party, two-term Rep. James Lankford of Oklahoma won the GOP nomination in the race to succeed Sen. Tom Coburn, who is stepping down with two years left in his term. In the solidly Republican state, Lankford is all but assured of becoming the next senator. Part of the House GOP leadership, Lankford defeated T.W. Shannon, a member of the Chickasaw Nation and the state's first black House speaker, who was backed by former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, two stalwarts of the right.
The Republican establishment blames the tea party movement and outside groups for costing it Senate seats — and majority control — in 2010 and 2012. Leaders in Washington were determined to avoid the same fate this election cycle, when they have a legitimate shot at netting the six seats to control the Senate. Cochran's win goes a long way to helping the GOP achieve its goal.
Earlier this month, McDaniel had beaten the veteran lawmaker in the initial primary round but had fallen short of the majority needed for nomination. In the days leading to the runoff, Cochran and his allies highlighted his seniority while McDaniel argued that Cochran was part of a blight of federal overspending.
In a last-ditch effort, Cochran reached out to traditionally Democratic voters — blacks and union members — who could cast ballots in the runoff. That possible factor in Cochran's victory was cited by critics in days and weeks to come.
At the Cochran party, Ronny Barrett, a 56-year-old mechanic from Jackson, said that until the June 3 primary, he had always voted for Democrats, but he decided to support Cochran after following news coverage and talking to friends.
"Sen. Cochran has done a lot of things for the black community, and a lot of people in the black community might not know that," said Barrett, who is black.
Cochran, a stalwart of the Senate Appropriations Committee, has funneled billions to his home state, one of the poorest in the nation, since he won a U.S. House seat in President Richard Nixon's GOP wave of 1972 and then was elected to the Senate in 1978.
The Mississippi contest was the marquee race on a busy June primary day.
In New York's Harlem and upper Manhattan, 84-year-old Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel, a 22-term congressman and the third-most-senior member of the House, held a slight lead over state Sen. Adriano Espaillat, bidding to become the first Dominican-American member of Congress. The race was too close to call with an undetermined number of absentee ballots still to be counted. Two years ago, Rangel prevailed in the primary by fewer than 1,100 votes.
In Colorado, former Rep. Bob Beauprez won a crowded gubernatorial primary that included 2008 presidential candidate Tom Tancredo, an immigration opponent. That was welcome news to national Republicans who feared that Tancredo could be a drag on the GOP ticket in November. Beauprez will face Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper.
In Mississippi, outside groups, from tea party organizations to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, spent some $12 million on the GOP Senate runoff. Former Green Bay Packers quarterback — and Gulfport, Mississippi, native — Brett Favre called the 76-year-old Cochran a "proven and respected leader" in one Chamber ad.
In November, Cochran will face Democrat Travis Childers, a former congressman, in the heavily Republican state.
AP writers Erica Werner in Washington and Emily Wagster Pettus in Jackson, Mississippi, Jack Elliott in Morton, Mississippi, Jeff Amy in Taylorsville, Mississippi, and Alex Sanz in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, contributed to this report.
Campaign memorabilia for Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y. lay scattered on a table during a primary election night gathering, Wednesday, June 25, 2014, in New York. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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- How to tweet using terminal? 6 answers
Based on some samples: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/176/update-twitter-via-curl
I'm trying to update my twitter status from command line (via cURL), but always get error. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
curl -u <anonymized> -d status="#curl test" -d source="cURL" https://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
Enter host password for user '<anonymized>':
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<error code="34">Sorry, that page does not exist</error>
Or possibly, do you have an alternative solution for this (maybe not over cURL)?


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John Hammond
He didn't just change the industry—he changed the world.
Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, these are just a few of the celebrated acts that John Hammond signed to Columbia Records. Furthermore, he played a critical role in integrating the music industry.
Legendary talent scout John Hammond discovered some of the greatest talents in jazz, folk, blues and rock and roll during his 54-year association with Columbia Records.
On the jazz and blues side, he played a major role in launching the careers of Billie Holiday, Count Basie and Aretha Franklin. Among rock and roll fans, he will no doubt be best remembered for signing Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. He met Dylan in 1961 and immediately recognized his genius, bringing him to Columbia and producing his first album over the protest of executives who referred to the signing as "Hammond's folly." Eleven years later, Hammond auditioned Bruce Springsteen in his office. Springsteen performed a number of original songs on acoustic guitar and piano, and Hammond's response was, simply, "You've got to be on Columbia Records."
Hammond's impact on the music industry dates back to 1931, when he dropped out of Yale to pursue a career in the music business. Insofar as race and music were concerned, he was a man on a mission. As he wrote in his 1977 memoirs, John Hammond on Record, "I heard no color line in the music...To bring recognition to the Negro's supremacy in jazz was the most effective and constructive form of social protest I could think of." To that end, he brought white clarinetist Benny Goodman and black pianist Teddy Wilson together. Their 1938 concert at Carnegie Hall marked the first time a racially integrated musical group appeared onstage at a major American music hall. In the words of folksinger Pete Seeger, "Jazz became integrated ten years before baseball largely because of John Hammond."
Hammond was born in 1910 in Manhattan and spent virtually all of his life there. His career at Columbia stretched from 1933, when he began working as a freelance producer, to his death in 1987, at which point he served as consultant for the company's series of digitally remastered jazz re-issues. One of his greatest accomplishments was From Spirituals to Swing, a series of concerts at Carnegie Hall in 1938 that brought mainstream recognition and respect to black music. He booked a potpourri of blues, jazz and gospel acts that included Big Joe Turner, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the Count Basie Orchestra. Hammond had wanted legendary bluesman Robert Johnson to appear as well, but Johnson could not be tracked down (and in fact had been murdered), so Big Bill Broonzy appeared instead.
Texas blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan was Hammond's last big signing. He brought Vaughan to the label in 1983 and was credited as executive producer on Vaughan's debut album, Texas Flood (1983). Hammond died in 1987 of complications following a series of strokes.
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original Start Date: September 06, 2009
Name: Sheridan Julian Mayfair
DOB: 30 October 1979
Place of birth: New Orleans La
Age: 38
Race: witch
marital status: Single
Languages spoken:English,French,Spanish,Creole
Children: Nia Mayfair (Daughter)
Powers (if any): Weather manipulation, Spirit command and vision, telepathy and telekenisis
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I was born and raised in New Orleans. My name is Sheridan Julian Mayfair. I am the great grand son of Julian Mayfair. I am 38 years old & I was born October 30, 1979 @ 852 pm. I am the first male witch in the Mayfair family since Julian.I am a cold case/ Homicide Det for the NOPD. All of my gifts are very strong. I have a screech owl named Helios , as my familar. Unlike the rest of my family I have Blue eyes instead of the known Green and my hair is dark brown instead of the red. Im about as different as anyone of my other Mayfair relations & I like it that way.
I was raised by my grand mother Stella Mayfair after my parents died when I was 10. My father, Sean Lacy I am told came home in a drunk rage and stabbed my mother, Antha Marie Mayfair 13 times during a fight they were having about his drinking. I was upstairs in bed sleeping and heard none of it til the police came and I heard a gun fire. Apparently my father thought they were demons of some sort and charged at one of the officers with the knife so he fired and one shot killed my father in self defense. It was one of the only times my great grandfather Julian made himself visable to someone outside the family. He told the detective that I was awake and up stairs and who he needed to call. I til this day think that is the only reason I didn't end up in foster care as a child.My one stress release was and still is playing the violin.
At least that was the story I was told when I was younger. I know now that was all lies. The truth was this: At 17 years old, my mother ran away to New York and supported herself by selling rare gold coins. Then she met Sean Lacy, an artist and married him. She became a writer and sold a poem the The New Yorker and one to a Parisian magazine. After falling pregnant, My father was killed in a car accident, and she became hysterical. Carlotta, my mother's aunt had finally won custody of her and committed her to St. Ann's Asylum. Not long after, she recovered and realized that she had inherited the legacy and started to write again. She gave birth to her only child, me. Carlotta through frustration, tried to make my mother blind so she could no longer see Lasher and give him power. She pushed my mother out of the third-floor window to her death and then told everyone that she was insane and jumped.
I am one of the only Mayfair men that my dear cousin , Mona Marie Mayfair has not tried to get with in some form or another. I seem to be the only one in the family that she cares enough about to actually listen to when I speak to her. I have had only but one true love and her name was and is Isis Dracul. She was and still is my light in the dark and vampire angel. I would give my very heart to be able to see,hear and touch her again. I would give my very soul and mortality to have her back for good and not just visions in a dream world. Where was Lasher when he was needed? Oh right dead and buried under that tree on First street. "Isis, my goddess where are you? Can you see me? Can you hear me? Do you care?"


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Glamourous Succulent Cake for Our Baby Girl Shower
We are being blessed with a little girl this time and it's BABY SHOWER time!
This is the cake my daughter wanted for the shower. I have posted the other treats I made too. The leaves and the succulent on a stalk are plastic, but I made all the other succulents and the tiny flowers out of gumpaste. I do regret our decision to try adding 24k gold foil accents to the main three succulents on the cake, which were all gumpaste. It was my first time working with gold leaf and I found my efforts much less than desirable on the succulents. I do like it on the cake though and oh is it gorgeous stuff!
To get this effect, I covered the cakes with homemade marshmallow fondant. Then I mixed vodka with bronze petal dust and painted a soft ombre on the sides. I spattered Pharaoh's Gold luster dust in places for interest. Then I filled my brush with clear vodka and "painted" around the top edges, washing the ombre down and this is the lovely result. I really like it.
(Sadly, this was before the gold leaf, flowers etc.)
That was a BIG gumpaste succulent!
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Celebrating the Military-Connected Child
During April, the Month of the Military Child, DoDEA focused on the educational transition issues that affect military-connected children by inviting three military-connected students (2 students attend public school and 1 student attends Quantico Middle/High School) to speak at their Headquarters (HQ) DoDEA Speaker Series event. Heartfelt, moving, and inspirational stories were shared by the students. Click here to view the event.
Military Children Share Their Experiences Through the Arts at the Department of Education
On Wednesday, April 3, in celebration of the Month of the Military Child, the U.S. Department of Education Student Art Exhibit Program partnered with the Military Child Education Coalition (MCEC) to host the art exhibit "America's Children." The exhibit featured some 50 works of visual art and writing from students based around the U.S., including Puerto Rico, and Canada and Germany. Communicating the unique life experiences of military-connected children at the event were Taylor Walton, MCEC Student 2 Student president at Mount Vernon High School in Alexandria, Va.; ED's Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Programs Eric Waldo; Mary Keller, president and CEO of MCEC; Patricia Shinseki, board member of MCEC; and student performers from Mount Vernon High School. To read about the day's event and see photos of the students, visit http://www.ed.gov/oii-news/military-children-share-their-experiences-through-arts-department-education.
Flint Arts on the Road Brings a Community Together for Education
On April 22, the U.S. Department of Education was proud to host the Flint Institute of Arts, Flint School of Performing Arts, Flint Youth Theatre, and Tapology for the Flint Arts on the Road student art exhibit, which opened. Flint Arts on the Road is the first initiative of Flint Cultural Center institutions to produce cross-disciplinary collaborative programming showcasing the special talents of exceptional students in the visual and performing arts. The visit to D.C. for the opening also provided them a once-in-a-lifetime educational experience as they met and performed with their peers at several D.C.-area arts education institutions. Click here to read more about the event and click here to view additional photos from the event.
Early Learning Conference Call Held
On April 24, the U.S. Department of Education's (ED) held a conference call as a part of the outreach on the President's early learning proposal, 'Preschool for All' to get input from stakeholders, Over 200 stakeholders from the parent /family, community, and faith-based organizations participated including representatives from over 20 State Departments of Education and 25 local school districts. Both ED and HHS senior staff were on hand to discuss the early learning plan, the funding, and respond to questions regarding early learning that affect the parent/family, community, and faith-based organizations.
Rev. Brenda Girton-Mitchell, Director of the Center for faith-based and neighborhood partnerships, moderated the conference call. Steven Hicks, Senior Policy Advisor, Office of Early Learning in Office of Elementary and Secondary Education From the US Department of Education, and Richard Rodriguez Senior Advisor for Early Childhood Development and Education, Administration for Children and Families, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary and Inter-Departmental Liaison for Early Childhood Development from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) led the discussion.
Questions asked included:
- Any sense of the criteria for grants under the new money that will be available for early learning?
- How will parents be engaged in the new programs?
- Many preschools are not affordable; will there be subsidies or reimbursement monies for parents?
To sign up to receive updates, please visit www.ed.gov/early-learning.
Department of Education and Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) D.C. Charter Schools Visit
Many military families are concerned with the variance of access to high-quality educational options for their students when transitioning between duty stations. A 2008 DoD GAO study recommended offering military families a public charter school option in areas with poorly-performing local schools. DoDEA will be leading the effort on developing guidance/standards that can be implemented by the military services in the establishment of these schools. On May 7, 2013, school tours were the first-step in the information gathering process for developing this guidance.
Stephan Huh, ED (Charter Schools Office), served as tour facilitator and provided participants with an overview guide to charter schools. The first school visited was E.L. Haynes, a Tier 1 DC PCS which currently serves 950 students from grades Pre-K through 10. The second school visited was the newly renovated Capital City Public Charter School, which serves 950 students in Pre-K through 12. Scott Pearson, PCSB Executive Director, provided comments and discussed how the PCSB is leading the transformation of public education in DC and serves as a national model for charter school authorizing and accountability. Discussion also included topics around change in current charter school laws to enable schools to give enrollment preference to military-connected students and specific questions regarding local military installation charter school initiatives. The last tour stop was the DC PCSB. The PCSB is the sole charter school authorizer in the district and annually evaluates charter schools for academic results, legal compliance and fiscal management, and holds them accountable for results using a Performance Management Framework (PMF). Officials discussed their various roles at the PCSB to include oversight and accountability. Information gathered from these visits will be used by the DoD Charter School Task Force (led by DoDEA) develop standards related to the establishment and operation of charter schools on military installations in coordination with the DoD Components, the Military Services and ED.
A New Family Engagement Partnership
The U.S. Department of Education's (ED) Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships was pleased to announce on May 9 a new partnership with the National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL) to advance family engagement in education across the country. Through the partnership, ED and NCFL will jointly develop and implement strategies to raise the awareness and understanding of effective family and community engagement in education. Emphasis will be placed on how teachers and families can better collaborate to improve student engagement and learning. NCFL brings to this work more than 20 years of experience providing tools and resources for educators and parents to create lifelong learning opportunities for the entire family. To learn more about the partnership, click here.
STEM Initiative to Advance Student Achievement
On May 20, to advance Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) in classrooms around the world Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) signed a partnership agreement. The partnership agreement will be an initiative and first STEM partnership between the U.S. Army and DoDEA. To relate directly to DoDEA's K-12 STEM content and curriculum, the program will include the development of a specific civil works project or other USACE functions. To learn more go to http://www.dodea.edu/newsroom/pressreleases/20130515.cfm.
New Student Loan Resource Available to U.S. Service Members
U.S. Department of Education and Student Loan Servicers Collaborate to Provide Timely, Useful Information
The release of a new brochure announced May 23 provides more information to America's servicemen and servicewomen about their federal education loans, special benefits available to them, and their repayment options with.
"We know that our servicemen and women are faced with an abundance of challenges and transitions while deployed and upon returning to civilian life," said U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. "With Memorial Day approaching, we want to redouble our efforts to ease their transition and provide them with educational opportunities, resources, and the ongoing support they have earned. This easy-to-read brochure is a small but important way to help – it outlines what service members need to know to manage their student loans and maximize their benefits."
The brochure, entitled For Members of the U.S. Armed Services: What You Need to Know About Your Federal Student Loan Benefits, was developed by the U. S. Department of Education and the four Title IV Student Loan Servicers: FedLoan Servicing, Great Lakes Educational Loan Services, Nelnet Education Loan Servicing and Sallie Mae Department of Education Loan Services.
The free brochure is divided into three parts: the first section describes the special benefits and repayment options available to service members; the second section offers helpful tips for active duty or deployed service members; and the third lists useful student loan resources. Some of the tips are:
- Establishing online access to student loan accounts to review and make payments online;
- Exploring repayment plans based on income, which could qualify borrowers for low or zero payment and possible loan forgiveness;
- Signing up for automatic payments to help keep loans current; and
- Placing an active duty alert on credit reports to reduce the risk of identity theft.
Consumers can access the brochure at http://StudentAid.gov/resources#military-loan-benefits
Expanded Funding for Early Learning
On June 4, the White House released state-by-state fact sheets, outlining what states could expect to receive in federal funding to expand early learning initiatives in their states.
The President's proposal builds upon the strong work already done by states across the country. Governors have called for expanded access to preschool to more four-year-olds. These state leaders recognize that early learning helps prepare young children for educational success, provides crucial support for families, and ultimately strengthens our nation's economy.
The fact sheets explain how the President's plan will:
- provide high-quality preschool for all four-year-olds,
- invest in high-quality infant and toddler early learning and development, and
- expand effective parent and family supports.
States Recognize Importance of Military Student Identifier in Education Data Systems
In 2011, the Government Accountability Office reported that: "There is no data available on these [military-connected] students that could be used to assess the academic achievement or educational outcomes, or determine where funding needs are the greatest." An identifier would recognize where military-connected students attend school, their academic performance in reading, math and science, graduation rates and how they perform over time. The identifier would not be intended to create an accountable subgroup, but rather establish a report-only requirement in the same manner as migrant and homeless children. Identifying this information would help military-connected students by:
- Facilitating data-driven decision making to improve distribution of DoD and local resources, interventions and other support for maximum impact to schools and students in need.
- Building awareness at the school and classroom level of students that might be affected by the deployment or service of a parent or guardian or by frequent moves. For example, collecting information on attendance can assist in ascertaining whether military children are absent more often during the deployment of military parents.
A few states have recognized the importance of assigning an identifier for military connected students in their educational data systems. Texas, Illinois, Michigan, South Carolina and now most recently Nevada all have some type of legislation in place to identify their military school age children and provide data on their attendance and educational outcomes.
Toyota Family Learning Grants
Toyota Family Learning is offering grants to communities to fund new family mentor programs and service learning programs targeting vulnerable families; mobile learning adventures for families; online resources; and a website community that will inspire hundreds of thousands of families across the nation to learn, interact, and thrive together. Toyota Family Learning is a six-year nationwide initiative that will directly address national educational needs to provide opportunities for families. Led by the National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL) and funded by Toyota, the program will feature an intergenerational solution to educational challenges that responds to societal changes and opportunities—including the latest innovations in mobile learning—while engaging families online, offline, and on the go. Click here to learn more and apply. Applications are being accepted now through June 24.
For more information and to see documents in additional languages, visit http://rems.ed.gov/HelpingYouthandChildrenRecoverFromTraumaticEvents.aspx.
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I'm attending beauty school this fall and during my registration I met a really cool girl (and quite a talented braider). I invited her over my house and we immediately clicked and began talking and joking like old friends. The conversation veered into the different clubs we'd been to in the area and our favorite drinks. I was having a great time. Ever since I came out as an atheist I haven't had much of a chance to be my usual extroverted self. It's hard to be an extrovert when your friends think you worship the devil :).
Then the bomb dropped. She went off in an anti-gay rant and quoted "god's word" to reinforce her ideas. I could understand if homosexuality made her uncomfortable but she really went the hell off. I steered the conversation back to other subjects and we discovered that we had a mutual (christian) friend. She says "Oh you know D? I'm the leader of her youth group at our church! You should come with me next Sunday". I said I'd be interested in going but then I told her under no uncertain terms that I am an atheist. The look on her face was a heinous mixture of disgust, anger, incredulity, and most of all fear. She left five minutes later because some supposed family obligation. Before she left she looks me dead in the eyes and says "Jesus loves you. You only need to lay your burdens on the cross to be forgiven. I'll pray for you" to which I replied "If I need forgiveness I ask the people I've wronged for it."
Is this a common experience for anyone else? I constantly feel duped by people. I mean for the first couple of hours we hung out she was talking about clubbing, sex, even strip clubs, then all of the sudden she gets so self-righteous. Would Jesus do that mess?
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After many months, I got the chance to sit down with my parents and watch a Hindi movie. Now usually I despise these movies, as they are usually rubbish, with no offense to the actors. These movies are just mass-produced, and are often intended for the poor, nearly illiterate population that resides in India. However, the movie I saw tonight was called No One Killed Jessica. Now, while this may seem like another B-grade film, it actually wasn't. This is a great movie, which provides an eye-opening insight into the Indian justice system. It's about a young girl who gets shot at a nightclub, and the struggles that her sister faces while trying to get the killer sentenced. As with everything in India, this is not easy. The family of the killer starts to pay off the witnesses to the murder, and it is only with the help of a prominent news anchor that the truth is revealed. This may seem a little far-fetched, but it is based on a true story. In the end, more than 200,000 people were rooting for this girl that they had never met before, because the miscarriage of justice made them all feel insecure. Instead of just sitting on their hands, however, these people brought about a change with peaceful demonstrations, in much the same way as their predecessors did during the time of Gandhi and the British Raj. All this happened as recently as 2006. The fact that people from all parts of such a diverse country can come together in support of one stranger, and ultimately bring about a positive change, gives me hope for the future of my motherland =).
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New Playing Field
Well, there is a green field at Citizens Bank Park again. Following the Winter Classic, the grass needed to be replaced. For the record, it is the third turf for the ballpark which is entering its ninth season.
Mike Boekholder, the head groundskeeper, is overseeing the nine-day project that includes ripping up the old Kentucky bluegrass turf and replacing it with Riviera Bermuda grass over-seeded with perennial ryegrass for the spring. The blend will better handle Philadelphia's weather extremes. It was grown at Collins Wharf Sod Farm in Eden, MD.
Rolls of turf were stored outside the ballpark, brought to the field and rolled into place. 100,000 square feet of turf came in 600 rolls.
Mother Nature certainly has helped with the warmer than usual winter. A year ago,
Philadelphia was clobbered with a ton of snow, literally. The lack of snow was welcomed by Boekholder and his crew.
The new turf has two months to settle before the April 2-3 On-Deck Series with the Pirates.
**Hunter Pence was the subject of photo shoot for the April cover Philadelphia Magazine on Tuesday.
**The Magazine is also doing a story on the 1993 National League champion Phillies. Publication date is to be determined.
**Phillies equipment truck departs for Bright House Field on Feb. 12. Phillies clubhouse is a ghost room now. Every locker is completely empty, even name plates which are traveling south.
**A week later, pitchers and catchers will work out for the first time.
**An exhibition game against Florida State University at Bright House Field is scheduled for February 29.
Alumni Birthdays
February 2: RHP Warren Brusstar (1977-82), 60 . . . February 3: OF Bake McBride (1977-81), 63; LHP Mike Wallace (1973-74), 61 . . . February 4: LHP Dan Plesac (2002-03), 50; C Chris Coste (2006-09), 39 . . . February 5: RHP Chris Brock (2000-01), 42.
(Phillies Insider will take a break until Feb. 9)
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Nationals launch 'Take Back the Park' campaign
By Dan Steinberg
Visits from the Phillies in recent years have meant quotes from the home clubhouse about getting booed at home — "You wish they were cheering for you," Michael Morse said last August. They've meant disgusted asides from media members — "It's a good thing (for me) that I'm not 18 again and going to ballgames with three of my old D.C. street-ball buddies," Thomas Boswell once wrote — and unsightly photographs of row after row filled with Philadelphia t-shirts and jerseys.
The visits have brought e-mails and phone calls from D.C. fans who say they now avoid going to Nats games when the Phillies are in town, and self-congratulatory gloating from Philadelphia fans about Citizens Bank Park South. And above all, they're brought laments about Stan Kasten's long-ago radio homage to Washington's rivals, in which he invited those fans to fill up Nationals Park.
I hated it. You hated it. Boswell hated it. Jayson Werth hated it. And now, the people who run the Nationals are trying to make a change.
"Frankly, I was tired of seeing it," Nats COO Andy Feffer told me this week. "Forget you, Philly. This is our park, this is our town, these are our fans, and it's our time right now."
Which is why, starting Friday morning at 8 a.m., the club will begin selling single-game tickets for just a single weekend series: May 4-6, against the Phillies. These tickets will remain on sale for a full month before the rest of single-game tickets go on sale. And they'll be available only to buyers with a credit card tied to an address in Maryland, the District or Virginia.
"We've heard it enough, we've seen it enough, and I don't like it any more than anyone else," Feffer said. "We're trying to build a team here, and nothing irks me personally or the people here more than to see another team's fans — particularly Philly fans — in our ballpark, holding up signs. That's not the way it should be. And I think we've got an opportunity here to do something different."
(To register for the offer, go to nationals.com/ourpark; once your address is verified, the team will send you a one-time password to complete your purchase.)
The team is also sending out a notice to season-ticket holders, alerting them about the pre-sale and encouraging them to make sure their tickets remain in the hands of Nats fans when the Phillies visit. "Take Back the Park," the Nats are calling it, and they want the whole community to rally behind this effort.
Now, this obviously isn't a perfect solution. There are thousands of Phillies fans who do live in the D.C. area, and won't be affected by the restrictions on home addresses. Tickets will always find their way to the secondary market, and the series — which includes a nationally televised Sunday night game — is unlikely to sell out before March.
Still, for all of us who have hammered the team for its embrace of rival fans, this is no small gesture, which is why I'll be happy to buy some tickets of my own to this series. And you should, too. Yes, I'll drop my cynicism and advocate for what's good and noble in the world.
"We've got some other things planned for the Phillies," Feffer also said. "Don't expect their buses to be hanging out and dropping off their fans right around the ballpark here. I'm gonna stick 'em across the river if I can, make 'em swim across."
This was a joke, of course. And neither he nor I would like you to be overtly rude to any out-of-town visitors who find their way inside.
"Seriously, for those fans who do come, we treat all guests with respect and courtesy," Feffer said. "But look, we're not gonna make it easy for group sales, for buses coming from Philly. I will not make it easy for those guys to buy tickets or get into this ballpark. Once they're here, obviously we treat all our guests as patrons, with respect."
I did wonder whether making this effort public could backfire. Whether asking Nats fans to lock Phillies fans out and suggesting out-of-towners "have a cheesesteak and watch it on TV," as Feffer joked, would just encourage them to make an extra effort to find tickets.
"Look, this is what a rivalry's about," Feffer said. "The Phillies and Nationals should be that rivalry that people get fired up about, and that's ok. I want Phillies fans to acknowledge that we're a legitimate contender and that we're for real. And you know what? If Phillies fans are a little bit irked, that means they're paying attention."
So buy some tickets for that first weekend of May, good citizens of D.C. Take advantage of your local credit card. Back your local baseball team up.
"There's a huge fan base here, and they're excitable, and they're ready," Feffer said. "What we really hope is that by creating and igniting a rivalry here, it'll be just as raucous here as they get up in Philly, and that we'll own our own ballpark
Oldest living Phillie, Freddie Schmidt, turns 96 this Thursday, February 9. At this time he is the fourth oldest living major leaguer. ( Ex-Washington Senators pitcher, Connie Marrero,is oldest at 100.)
Schmidt pitched in the majors from 1944 to 1947, pitching for the 1944 and 1946 Worlds Champion St. Louis Cardinals teams and he was a Phillie for part of the 1947 season
. (1944 St.Louis-NL, 1945 Military Service, 1946 -47 St.Louis-NL, 1947 PHILLIES).,
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Artists Gavin Bell, Jarrah de Kuijer and Simon McGlinn wanted to recreate the Apple product scent, from the smell of the plastic wrap covering the box, to the printed ink on the cardboard, and the aluminum laptop.
To achieve this, Air Aroma contacted fragrance suppliers in the South of France to send samples of fragrances with the aroma of glue, plastic, rubber and paper.
They then tested these samples as ingredients before coming up with the final product.
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Film Studies A Level at Stratton Upper School
Course description
Film Studies is designed to enrich your existing appreciation and enjoyment of the film. It is a well-established academic subject which offers you the opportunity to engage with a wide range of different films and gain confidence with a range of critical approaches to film, learning to 'read' a film, considering the nature of the relationship between an audience and a film, and studying the importance of social and institutional factors to film production. The subject lends itself to a wide range of approaches: class discussion, individual study and research, written analysis, essays, writing screenplays, producing storyboards and film journalism. There will also be opportunities for cinema visits. You will also have opportunities to develop skills of critical analysis, to examine the meanings and values contained in films, to understand and 'read' the language of films, and to understand cinema as an industry.
Course content
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of film as an audio-visual form of creative expression together with its contexts of production and reception and of the diversity in filmmaking across different historical periods and locations.
- Apply knowledge and understanding, including some of the common critical approaches that characterise the subject, when exploring and analysing films and when evaluating their own creative projects to show how meanings and responses are generated.
- Demonstrate the ability to devise film projects creatively, applying appropriate planning and production skills effectively.
- Demonstrate the ability to undertake, apply and present research into film topics.
AS aims to deepen students' understanding of film as an art form, and encourage them to engage with the ways in which meaning is created, conveyed and construed. The exam focuses on the contemporary film industry and the role of producers and audiences.
A2 requires students to look at various critical approaches, taking a broader approach.
The exam looks at the different ways in which emotional responses can be triggered in audiences, World cinema and their Urban stories or Empowering women and critical; study of Fight Club. Both years, the coursework consists of a written and practical element.
AS Level:
Exploring Film Form (FM1) – 40% coursework
Focussing on micro features of film and the construction of meaning and emotion.
British and American Film (FM2) – 60% examination
Focussing on two key aspects of Film studies: Producers and audiences and the relationships between them, and the role of macro features of the film (narrative and genre) in constructing meaning.
A2 Level:
Film Research and Creative Projects (FM3) – 50% coursework
Understanding will be fostered through completing a small-scale research project designed to develop research skills
within the framework of one or more critical approaches used in film studies and developing creative skills and a deepened understanding of the medium chosen for the creative project.
Film Experience: Issues and Debates (FM4) – 50% examination
This unit contributes to synoptic assessment. Understanding will be fostered through studying complex films from different contexts, extending knowledge of the diversity of film and its effects. Exploring spectatorship issues in relation to a particular type of film and applying key concepts and critical approaches gained throughout the course
to explore one film in a synoptic manner.
• 5 MacBooks complete with industry-standard software
• 5 iMacs in individual editing suites
• 2 Big Daddy Cameras
• SLR Camera
• 4 compact Cameras
• 12 HandyCams
• GoPro
• 8 individual PCs for independent research
Future opportunities
After A Level, students could take further education courses in film industry and management, as well as more specific courses to do with Photography and Filming or Script Writing. There are many careers relevant to Film Studies. Within the film industry itself such as: Directors, Video/film recorder operators, Broadcasters, Scriptwriting, Producing, Final editing, Journalism, or in the art/design/culture sector.
How to apply
If you want to apply for this course, you will need to contact Stratton Upper School directly.


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Olessa Pindakmbg Chief Content Officer
Olessa Pindak is the chief content officer at mindbodygreen. A former editor at Prevention, Whole Living (Body Soul), Martha Stewart Living, Natural Health, Fit Pregnancy, and Allure, she's traveled to places like Korea, Guatemala, and Belize to report on natural remedies. She's appeared on shows including the Today show, Good Morning America, and The Doctors and hosted a radio show on Sirius XM. A certified holistic health coach and amateur herbalist, she loves learning about new plants and drinks a lot of tea. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children.


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SPIE's recent history has seen an international expansion that helped the Group emerge as the European leader in electrical, mechanical and climatic engineering, as well as energy and communications systems. Today, SPIE is active in all sectors of the economy.
SPIE acquires its Building and Facilities Services business, which is formerly the electrical engineering division of the British group AMEC (renamed SPIE Matthew Hall). Emerging as SPIE's top subsidiary in terms of turnover, SPIE Matthew Hall helps expand the Group's activity located outside France from 28% to 40%. With the acquisition of Controlec, SPIE Nederland becomes a leading player in the Netherlands in electricity, automation and mechanics.
SPIE continues its external growth with the acquisition of several European companies: French companies Lapierre, Paternoster, GEFCA, Juret, Roussel and Socotech, Dutch company Heijmans Industrial Services (HIS) and Belgian company, Anca-Tech.
WHS, a British specialist in electrical installations and instrumentation in the energy sector, joins the SPIE Group.
Gauthier Louette, SPIE CEO since 2003, is named CEO and Chairman of SPIE SA on January 1 2010, following Jean Monville's retirement.
Approved by PAI Partners, SPIE joins a consortium led by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice together with AXA Private Equity and Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec.


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June's record ocean warmth worries fishermen, environmentalists
WASHINGTON — Ocean surface temperatures around the world were the warmest on record for the month of June, according to federal scientists, though they caution that one month doesn't necessarily imply global warming.
The warmer temperatures do confirm that an ocean phenomenon known as El Nino is building in the Pacific Ocean.
Some scientists think that the rising temperatures hint at broader changes, perhaps resulting from global climate change. Environmentalists and fishermen are wary of what it may mean.
"It's really kind of disturbing," said Zeke Grader, the executive director of the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations, based in San Francisco. "What we've seen right offshore here is a real variation in temperature. But we don't know what to expect in the future."
So far, the year has been among the warmest on record for ocean temperatures, ranking sixth based on January through June. The June temperature averaged 62.56 degrees Fahrenheit; the 20th-century average was 61.5 degrees. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has been keeping the records since 1880.
"The high ocean temperatures can threaten coral reefs, provide more energy to hurricanes, cause thermal expansion, which would raise sea level and inundate coasts, force the relocation of some aquatic species and thus impact fisheries," said Ahira Sanchez-Lugo, a NOAA climate scientist.
The hottest spots were the north Pacific south of Alaska, along the U.S. West Coast and the Atlantic Ocean off New England. Overall, the Pacific was the warmest. The measurements were taken for every 5 degrees of latitude, however, and an overall temperature for each ocean wasn't calculated, said Deke Arndt, a climate scientist with NOAA in Ashville, N.C.
"Individually, no single month can be attributed to long-term global warming," Arndt said, though he added that this June marked the 33rd consecutive June with a temperature above the 20th-century average, which may provide an indication of global warming.
In addition to having the warmest waters, this June saw the second warmest combined ocean and land temperature on record, 61.02 degrees, which was more than a degree above the 20th-century average of 59.9.
Though some climatologists dismiss the June heat as an anomaly, others say it's part of a traditional El Nino pattern. Occurring roughly every three to eight years, El Nino is a warming of water in the eastern Pacific Ocean, which can disrupt usual weather patterns. During an El Nino year, the Southwest United States tends to be wetter, the Northwest drier and there's an increased chance of severe weather, such as hurricanes, in the Southern United States.
"Current conditions and trends, as well as the majority of dynamic climate models, are suggesting that (El Nino) will indeed occur," said Karsten Shein, another climate scientist with NOAA.
Grader said fishermen were worried about their catches, and he, for one, thinks that it isn't just El Nino that's causing the higher ocean temperatures.
"Colder water fish will go north," he said. "It'll affect phytoplankton and krill production. You'll see salmon getting smaller."
Other fishermen aren't as concerned.
"We've fished El Ninos before," said Larry Collins, 52, a commercial fisherman based at Fishermen's Wharf in San Francisco. "There's good and bad things about El Ninos for the California coast. Nature will throw you a curveball."
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ICR Field Experience
Field Experience
ICR students must complete one (1) semester of field experience that provides experience in interdisciplinary response to family violence. Most students meet this requirement by choosing an internship through their department internship program that meets the field experience requirements for the ICR. These placements may already be designated as ICR preferred placements. Participation in the ICR requires that the field experience/internship provide family violence services and offer opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration.
Students go through the placement/internship program of their respective departments, selecting placements that meet ICR criteria. If the student's degree program does not provide such internship or field experience, the ICR can help students identify field experiences that meet ICR requirements. This may involve participation in one of the research teams being developed by the ICR in collaboration with CASA faculty.
The ICR is not a separate internship program and does not directly place students. The ICR identifies agencies that have internships that meet ICR criteria and designates these placements within the department internship placement listings. The ICR also does not limit students to preapproved internships/field placements. If you are in an agency that provides services for family violence and you have the opportunity to work across disciplines, your placement already meets ICR requirements...
ICR students have been involved in the following placements within the community:
- Community Solutions
- Santa Clara County Probation Department
- Santa Clara County Superior Court
- Santa Clara County Family & Children's Services
- Family Wellness Court
- Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence
- FACES Victim Assistance Center
- Domestic Violence Intervention Collaborative (DVIC)
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Department of Justice oversight of Microsoft could continue for another five years after five states and the District of Columbia today asked a judge to extend the 2002 antitrust decree. Attorneys general from California, Connecticut, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Massachusetts, and Washington, DC, made the request at a compliance hearing in the US District Court of the District of Columbia.
After a 2002 ruling that Microsoft abused its monopoly power in the operating system and web browser markets, the company, the individual states, and the DoJ signed off on a consent decree that would govern the company's conduct. The states originally asked for ten years of monitoring, but the judge decided half of that would be sufficient; the decree is scheduled to expire in November of this year.
Late last month, the dissenting states submitted a report to Judge Kollar-Kotelly in which they argued that the terms of the decree have not yet done enough to remedy Microsoft's previous monopolistic behavior. They fear that Microsoft will revert to its old, anticompetitive ways once the decree expires and believe that the recent release of Vista is another reason for further scrutiny.
The states are opposed by both the DoJ and Microsoft. The DoJ has given Microsoft a clean bill of health of Vista in the wake of Google's complaints about the operating system's integrated search feature. The US government has said that the software giant is in general compliance when it comes to the other areas being monitored.
The states are singling out three areas of concern that they want the compliance decree extended to cover. One of those concerns middleware. The state AGs want Microsoft to provide APIs for its middleware to third-party developers and OEMs (original equipment manufacturers). They also Microsoft prevented from keeping OEMs from making third-party software (i.e., Google Desktop Search) the default choice on new PCs. Lastly, they want to keep Microsoft from retaliating against OEMs that include competing applications with their PCs.
Microsoft wasn't expecting the filing, a company spokesperson told Ars Technica. "We're a bit surprised that a few states are now requesting an extension of the consent decree, since they indicated just last month that they're not too fond of it," said the spokesperson. "But in any event, the appropriate time for us to respond is after we've seen any filing supporting this request."
Google is also interested in seeing the decree extended. Late last week, Judge Kollar-Kotelly gave the search company the go-ahead to file a brief critical of Microsoft's support for third-party desktop search applications.


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All the Rick Perry mugshot memes you ever wanted
SAN ANTONIO - Before Gov. Rick Perry could post a photo of himself eating ice cream at an Austin burger joint in a defiant shrugging off of two felony charges he was just booked for, the internet began circulating altered images of his widely-circulated mugshot.
We've compiled some of the best memes from the Twittersphere in the gallery above.
Perry pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to "one count of abuse of official capacity, a first-degree felony punishable by five to 99 years in prison, and one count of coercion of a public servant, a third-degree felony carrying a punishment of two to 10 years in prison," reported Peggy Fikac, the Express-News Austin bureau chief.
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One house, one street, one neighborhood
RIT students help build a sustainable home in one struggling community
For many college students, the ideal Spring Break vacation consists of nothing more than a sandy beach, a bottle of sunscreen and some frosty refreshments to quench one's thirst. But for one group of dedicated students, time off from school presents a valuable opportunity to spend even more time constructing homes for needy families.
"This year, we will be working on a house in Sea Island, South Carolina," says third-year RIT business student Kaity Werner, who along with 20 volunteers from RIT's Habitat for Humanity student chapter, RIT's Leadership Institute and the Community Service Center, will sacrifice six days with her own family in order to build a home for a family she has never met. But, according to Werner, a veteran of the student group, nothing can replace the "purely satisfying and tingly feeling" of seeing a family in crisis walk through the doors of a home they can finally claim as their own. "It's kind of like the applause at the end of a good movie. That's what we all feel."
Before the group travels south during break week, they have a few other projects in the pipeline that require their attention. First and foremost on their agenda is the completion of the first RIT-sponsored Habitat home located at 167 Whitney St. in Rochester. The idea for the RIT-funded house started with President Bill Destler who issued the challenge to the members of the student club.
"We were overwhelmed at first," says Werner. "In order for this project to become a reality, we needed to commit to raising $75,000 for construction start-up costs and for purchasing building supplies. We started organizing fundraisers and working with Rochester's Flower City Habitat for Humanity organization to get some direction. We were pleasantly surprised that the university put so much faith in a group of students."
And, in true RIT fashion, the idea for the house blossomed into something even more amazing. The student builders formed an alliance with RIT's Engineers for a Sustainable World organization to brainstorm creative ways to make the house energy efficient and environmentally friendly on a budget.
Sustainable elements of the home include an efficient ventilation delivery system to prevent heat loss; a 95 percent energy-efficient furnace; an air-lock entry redesign system; tankless hot water heater; soy-based foam insulation; new pipe insulation; use of natural lighting and a roof designed to provide adequate summer shade; and solar panels. The walls of the home were raised in November and the home is now in the final stages of completion.
The remaining funding to complete the house comes directly from the homeowner, grants, gifts in kind, and RIT departmental and alumni support. And, it's not unusual for corporations to donate items to help defray some of the construction cost. Donors to the sustainable house include Frederico Construction and Demolition, LeChase Construction, Leo J. Roth Corp., William B. Morse Lumber Co., The Pike Co., VP Supply Corp. and Weckesser Brick Co. Inc.
According to Werner and her fellow volunteers, the sense of accomplishment is second to none. A few years ago, the group framed a house in Alabama in only six days.
"We work as a team, and I can't believe that I know how to build a home," she says. "Many people think that you need to have some kind of prior experience in homebuilding or construction to join this club. But, you don't. There are business students, like myself, artists who love the creativity of homebuilding and engineers who crave getting their hands dirty. Thanks to volunteering with Habitat, I have experience with pipefitting, insulation, electrical and circuitry work and roofing. How many college students can say that? If you can pick up a hammer, you can help make someone's dream of home ownership come true."
The 40 student volunteers work nearly every weekend—rain or shine, hot or cold—on homes primarily in Livingston and Monroe counties.
Katherine and Amanda Ancona are RIT students who have been volunteering for two years.
"My favorite part about helping out with Habitat is being able to give someone less fortunate an opportunity to improve their life," says Amanda. "I love giving back to the community, and it feels good to know that I am doing my part in making a difference."
Adds Katherine: "Working with Habitat has shown me that a small amount of people can make a big impact on the world. Through our teamwork—and with the help of experienced construction workers—we were able to help families in need. Working together accomplishes a goal much faster, and more efficiently."
Many outings involve working directly with the homeowners who the students call "remarkable and inspirational."
April Randall will soon reside in the sustainable house on Whitney Street with her family.
"Soon that house will be a home—my home," says Randall. "Through the good work of RIT and Flower City Habitat for Humanity, this statement in our community says being a trendsetter can and does change outlooks on people's lives and in our community. We are honored and blessed to be working with two valuable organizations and I thank them for their compassion toward my family and myself, and their understanding in revitalizing our city."
In the JOSANA neighborhood, located west of PAETEC Park and north of Interstate 490, 99 percent of properties were built before 1950 and 20 percent of children under age six tested at or above the highest levels of lead-paint poisoning. In addition, code violation calls to Rochester's Housing Council are the highest per capita in this area.
"Our sustainable house is in the heart of Rochester's crescent of poverty, and that neighborhood is struggling to survive," adds Werner. "RIT has strong roots in the heart of this city and it's good for us to go back to where we started; to lift them up however we can. This group of students is helping to bring the community back to where it once was."
For more information on RIT's Habitat for Humanity student club, visit www.rit.edu/~w-habit.