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Despite criticism, USF can improve graduation rates
Though USF received heavy scrutiny at the Board of Governors (BOG) meeting last week for its low graduation rates, USF has already taken action to rectify what appears to be a solvable problem.
Only 34 percent of USFs first-time-in-college students graduate within four years, and about 52 percent graduate within six years.
BOG chairman Dean Colson said the numbers are too low for a school of (USFs) caliber and threatened to deny USF any tuition increases if the university did not improve its graduation rates within the next two years.
A low graduation rate not only taints the reputation of a university, but it also means that fewer resources are available for incoming students as existing students continue to consume resources.
Besides the effects on the university, lower graduation rates mean students are that much further away from a career. It means loans are held for a longer time, which translates into higher interest amounts paid by the students.
But as USF Provost Ralph Wilcox said at the BOG meeting, the university has begun to require freshmen to declare a major upon entrance to the university. First-year living communities are designed to encourage academic focus. College-readiness is being examined. USF has also narrowed its advisor-to-student ratio.
But the low numbers are not surprising in light of USFs demographics. Forty-six percent of USF students qualify for the Federal Pell Grant Program.
These students have to work, often full-time, to pay for their education and for their living. Wilcox said many times these students have lower college-entrance test scores or take lighter course loads to juggle work.
According to Complete College America, a nonprofit organization, 35.6 percent of full-time students and 11.7 percent of part-time students in Florida graduate in four years.
USF had 23 percent part-time students at the Tampa campus and 27 percent in the USF system in Fall 2010.
Whatever the cause, the problem must be solved, especially since the U.S. ranks 20th in global graduation rates.
Though some people tout technical schools and other career-oriented programs as happy alternatives for at-risk students, redefining the role of public universities is not necessary.
Nonetheless, creating more straight-forward programs that students can follow toward college graduation may serve to increase graduation rates.
With its accelerated 5-year BS/MS and 7-year medical programs, along with other such initiatives, USF is headed in the right direction. And compared to UFs 64.8 percent 4-year graduation rate, and FAUs 15 percent, USF is at a medium that can be improved.
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Blog: Wal-Mart puts down marker in India
Dean Best | 21 September 2012
Late last night UK time, the Indian government formally issued a notice to confirm reform of regulations on foreign investment in the country's retail sector would be implemented. A few hours later, an interview with Wal-Mart emerged in which it outlined its plans for expansion in the emerging market.
Scott Price, chief executive of Wal-Mart's operations in Asia, told The Wall Street Journal the US retail giant expects to open its first consumer-facing stores in India (where it already has a wholesale venture with local conglomerate Bharti Enterprises) in the next two years.
Price said it would take 12 to 18 months to open retail stores. However, he cautioned against expectations that India, where the idea of allowing foreign investment in multi-brand outlets has met with protests from politicians and small traders, would see a wave of investment. The Indian government has allowed individual states to decide whether to allow foreign-backed multi-brand outlets and some have publicly opposed the plans.
"We will commit to retail in India," Price said. "But this idea that the gates have been opened and there's going to be a flood [of investment] is overwrought."
India's reform has made business headlines around the world in the last week and was a hot topic at the World's Retail Congress in London.
Bharti chief Rajan Bharti Mittal and Rakesh Biyani, joint MD of Indian retailer Future Group, expressed their belief the reforms would be good for India's retail sector.
just-food interviewed Biyani on the sidelines of the event, which you can read in full here. His comments on the prospect of competition from the likes of Wal-Mart and Tesco, plus on whether Future Group, which owns Pantaloon Retail, would join forces with an overseas retailer make for interesting reading.
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Dartmouth President Jim Yong Kim nominated to head World Bank
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President Obama's decision to nominate a South Korean-born educator and health expert to lead the World Bank — and not someone with experience in global finance or diplomacy — reflects the increasingly fractious politics of international agencies and the need to address growing demands for representation outside the U.S. and Europe, analysts say. Obama's nomination of Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim to succeed Robert Zoellick comes...
North Korea leader Kim Jong Il meets with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
August 24, 2011
By John M. Glionna and Khristina Narizhnaya, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
Reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong Il traveled to Russia for the first time in nearly a decade, holding rare talks Wednesday with President Dmitry Medvedev that made progress on such issues as an energy deal and nuclear disarmament, according to Russian media reports. Meeting in remote eastern Siberia, the two leaders brought varying agendas, experts say: Kim is desperate for economic aid for his starving country while Medvedev seeks to bolster Russia's role in northeast Asia and promote its rapidly expanding economy.
L.A. Unified's healthful but unpopular lunch menus; the sad legacy of Kim Jong Il; praise for the U.S. Postal Service
December 20, 2011
Choices on the menu Re "School menu fails student test," Dec. 18 The failure of the new school lunch menus again proves that no matter how much the do-gooders in government wish it were different, they can't and shouldn't try to dictate taste and behavior. Whether it is the food we eat, the light bulbs we use, the mileage of the car we buy, the decision to gamble on the Internet or with whom we choose to be intimate — stay out of our lives. John Piccininni Newport Beach I read this article with skepticism.
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July 17, 2012
David Pierson and Paul Richter
North Korea's tough-minded military chief is out. Disney characters are in. Seven months after taking power in one of the world's most-closed societies, youthful Kim Jong Un appears to be consolidating his grip on North Korea, whose only two previous leaders were his late father and grandfather. At the same time, he appears to be putting his own, less hermetic, stamp on the nation's culture. Answers to bigger questions -- whether to expect any meaningful change in North Korea's relations with the outside world or its ability to feed and clothe its own people -- remain far from clear.
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August 7, 2012
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CHEONAN, South Korea - Kim Sung-eun let out a sigh as he checked email from a North Korean defector in China. The teenager had been sending the pastor emails for months, begging for help in escaping China. "I live in despair every day. I need to get out of here, pastor. Please save me," the email read. Agonized, Kim started to write a reply, his hand resting on his mouth as he selected words to comfort the teen. Such urgent emails and calls are common for Kim, who has been helping North Koreans find freedom from their repressive Communist nation for more than a decade.
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First-time feature director Kat Coiro gives an oft-tread story a snappy new spin in the hip and enjoyable comedy "Life Happens. " After underdog Kim (an endearing Krysten Ritter) loses out for the last nearby condom to brasher roommate Deena (Kate Bosworth, also fine) during the BFF's simultaneous one-night stands, Kim ends up a devoted but ill-prepared mother of a baby boy. With the child's me-first, surf star dad (Rhys Coiro, Kat's husband) decidedly absent, Kim must navigate the demands of single motherhood, her thankless job assisting a hellish canine patron (Kristen Johnston)
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November 18, 2011
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Every week, Kim Ou-joon does what was once unthinkable in South Korea: He gleefully lampoons the president. At the start of a recent installment of Kim's wildly popular political podcast, "Naneun Ggomsuda," or "I'm a Weasel," the narrator intoned with mock-solemnity: "Wall Street is occupied by protesters while Korea is peaceful and quiet. That's natural because Korea is heaven on earth! "Our president can cross the river on a bridge of fallen autumn leaves. " Next, listeners heard the name of President Lee Myung-bak repeated in a series of goofy vocal stylings that alternately imitated Alvin the Chipmunk, whining children and, finally, Bela Lugosi.
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A few nuggets from today's Guardian:-
"The Independent Police Complaints Commission said it was investigating the claim that Alfie Meadows, a 20-year-old student, suffered serious head injuries after being hit on the head with a police truncheon."
No doubt we can expect Meadows to be shortly charged with damage to police property – to whit, one truncheon. Along with hundreds of others who, with malice aforethought have wilfully headbutted Met riot shields, truncheons, knees and, doubtless, boots.
"Scotland Yard said it had launched Operation Malone, a "major criminal investigation" into all protests against tuition fees, and had arrested 175 people, including 34 from the Parliament Square demonstration.
The investigation was announced after the prime minister, David Cameron, said that the rioters should face the "full force of the law"."
Seriously? And yet not a single Met copper has charged with criminal assault? How, in a sane universe, does that work, unless old Durex-head (q.v. Steve Bell, the Guardian), really does see the police, like Thatcher before him, as his own private army? And is there a reason why this op has been given an Irish name?
Possibly it's to indicate, as happened it the seventies to a whole bunch of people, that being a student is, now, enough to see you fitted up and jailed for a large part of your life as, once, was being Irish.
And WTF is up with MP Nadine Dorries, and her whining about the poor police horses? Does she really think that these are some out-of-their-depth riding-school hacks, dragooned into the fight against the massed ranks of unarmed kids?
Police horses are highly trained for the job they do – which seems to comprise riding down innocent people in the street these days – and clad, to a degree, in armour. They might not actually be the modern-day equivalent of the destrier, no doubt to the great disappointment of the Met, for whom a horse that can be trained to maim and kill people, as was the destrier, is probably a wet dream. Long may it remain no more than that.
Why, you may ask, am I referring to the Met so much? Simple; while most police forces have committed some acts of violence against demonstrators, none appear to have made it a deliberate policy, as the Met has because, frankly, the bastards are out of control, as was demonstrated at the G20 demos, after which rules of dress and behaviour were imposed that are being blatantly ignored now – like removing their ID numbers from uniforms.
They seem to have no desire to keep order (isn't that their job?), but, rather, to launch attacks on anyone who takes their fancy, not excluding people in wheelchairs and members of the press.
The fact that 175 pissed-off kids have been arrested, but not a single, excessively violent, out of control, copper, speaks volumes.
It is perfectly legal to demonstrate in this country – for now, at least. It is the job of the police to stand by and observe, reacting to trouble if it occur, and then focusing only on those actually breaking the law.
It is not their job to actively cause trouble by wading in mob-handed, often totally unprovoked, bludgeoning to the ground anyone within reach, and kettling the rest. That is not, and never has been, in their job description. They are supposed to keep order, not create massive disorder.
And some out-of-touch commentator-moron on TV news the other day, was heard to observe that it was clear that the students were looking for trouble because – oh, look! – they were wearing hard-hats. From what I could see, most were wearing cycle helmets – I have no problem with that at all – given the level of violence they are up against, plate armour might not be entirely inappropriate.
The Observer asked, yesterday, if Sir Paul Stephenson is the right man to head up the Met. The answer, based on his current performance, or that of the men and women allegedly under his control, and his thinly-veiled threat, on Radio 4's Today programme, that it might just be OK to gun down protesting students, must surely be a resounding NO!
And if you think that the Met are NOT rabidly out of control, I suggest you look closely at this video clip of Jody McIntyre being tipped out of his wheelchair, near Parliament Square, and dragged along the road by the by Met's thugs http://j.mp/gl36bw
As I said before, 175 demonstrators have been arrested – why not these fuckers? They could very easily have simply wheeled him away, or or picked him up, chair and all. I don't have any idea what McIntyre thought he was doing, nor do I care. It's entirely irrelevant, as there is not – there never can be – any excuse for this.
Video quality is poor – sadly, it's more than adequate. And the language is pretty strong, understandably.
McIntyre has cerebral palsy – if he'd had, say, brittle bone disease (or any other potentially dangerous or fatal condition), we could be looking at a corpse, instead of a seriously shaken-up and pissed off young guy. The police had no clue what was wrong with him, nor did they care that violent handling might well have caused him serious, possibly fatal, injuries because, quite simply, they didn't give a shit.
And neither do Stephenson or Cameron.


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SUNNYVALE, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 06/19/14 -- AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that its APUs and GPUs enable accelerated performance for powerful new creative workflow features available for Adobe® Creative Cloud members. The latest additions to Adobe Photoshop CC will take advantage of AMD acceleration to provide valuable creativity and productivity tools. Some of these tools include motion blur effects for the next generation of Blur Gallery, a focus selection feature that enables users to quickly select in-focus areas of an image and an enhanced image resample option that preserves fine details when upscaling images.
"The collaboration of AMD and Adobe assures creative professionals access to the performance they need to make the most of incredible new features as they become available across Adobe Creative Cloud," said Steve Belt, corporate vice president, Strategic Alliances & Platform Enablement, AMD. "AMD acceleration connects the fantastic creative and productivity enhancements in Adobe Photoshop CC to the compute performance required for an effortless user experience."
Today also marks the availability of numerous creative and workflow enhancements to Adobe Creative Cloud video apps that were revealed in April at NAB 2014. These include high performance "debayering" for RED camera R3D media files, expanded support for CinemaDNG formats, new masking features and a new time-saving master clip capability. AMD App Acceleration takes advantage of the open standard OpenCL API to maximize performance and enable superior experiences with Adobe Photoshop CC for users with AMD FirePro Professional Graphics, AMD Radeon Graphics, and AMD A-Series APUs in their systems. This acceleration is also available across the suite of Adobe Creative Cloud video apps including Adobe® Premiere® Pro CC, Adobe SpeedGrade® CC, Adobe Media Encoder CC and Adobe Prelude® CC.
"Performance is just the starting point for understanding what AMD acceleration brings to the latest wave of Adobe Photoshop CC features," said Maria Yap, senior director of product management, Photoshop at Adobe. "The huge benefit that arises when Adobe and AMD work together is the fantastic user experience. Together we ensure that powerful tools respond quickly to support unrestricted creativity. Those benefits can be seen every day in the inspiring work of our Creative Cloud members everywhere."
Among the new accelerated features available for Adobe Photoshop CC are:
1) An expanded palette of AMD accelerated blur effects including Path Blur. Path Blur creates motion along a user-drawn path, enabling the user, for example, to simulate the type of look that occurs when the camera is in a moving vehicle or when an object is in motion. The user can control the shape, amount and even taper of the blur as well as add strobe motion effects. AMD acceleration enables instant response to changes made with the tool with smooth, live preview for undisrupted workflow.
2) Focus Mask is a new selection/masking feature that speeds up workflow by automatically selecting the clearest, in-focus areas of an image. After the automatic selection, the user can quickly refine and modify the selection area with sliders and brushes for complete control. This is a fantastic time-saver, helping eliminate much of the manual work previously required to select the subject or background of a photo for enhancement. AMD App Acceleration provides a highly responsive interface that speeds processing of the user selection and reacts quickly to every change to provide the visual feedback users need.
3) AMD accelerated image resampling preserves the integrity of details in an image when upscaling to higher resolutions through the Image Size dialog in Photoshop CC. This feature takes full advantage of multiple AMD GPUs to further speed the upscale processing of complex images while maintaining great levels of detail.
In addition, more than a dozen new features are now available in the Adobe Creative Cloud video tools that all take advantage of OpenCL acceleration through the Mercury Playback Engine that leverages the power of AMD graphics technology. These include the AMD GPU-accelerated feathering masks tool and the new Master Clip Effect tool workflow enhancement. Full details of these and other new AMD accelerated video features are available here. As part of AMD's ongoing collaboration with Adobe around video production solutions, AMD is pleased to be sponsoring the upcoming Adobe Premiere Pro World Conference, July 11-13 at Adobe headquarters in San Jose, Calif.
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But in an interview on Tuesday, Grail Chief Executive Bill Thomas said that RiverPark will serve as the primary adviser on that fund and handle running the portfolio.
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In January, Grail filed to launch GVT. But it also included an international-focused ETF using the same sort of fundamental analysis and active management as the original. No word when that will appear, however. (See related story here.)
Vanguard has also filed to come out with ETFs that would mimic some of its actively managed mutual funds. Those are in fixed-income categories, including the Vanguard Inflation-Protected Securities Fund (VIPSX).
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