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BRENHAM, TX -- It took 17 games for someone to hand the 12th-ranked Blinn Buccaneers their first loss of the season – and it took the No. 3 team in the nation to pull it off.
Trinity Valley Community College defeated Blinn 89-72 Wednesday night at the Blinn P.E. Building, ending a season-opening 16-game win streak for the Buccaneers. It was the longest season-opening win streak in program history.
Trinity Valley got a game-high 24 points from sophomore guard Shannon Smith.
"They're pretty stinking good," said Blinn (16-1, 2-1) coach Jeff Jenkins. "I thought in the first half we played about as well defensively as we're capable right now and in the second half we had trouble defending them. We know that's our weakness, and we're not going to face another team this year that's better than they are offensively."
Coming into the game, Trinity Valley had won 110 of their last 118 games and 84 of their last 88.
The Buccaneers kept it close early with some of their best defense of the season. Trinity Valley led 36-32 at halftime.
"I think we played as well in the first half as we have all year," Jenkins said. "I've been more upset with our defensive effort over some of our 16 wins than I was with tonight."
The defending Region XIV Conference champion Cardinals began to pull away in the second half. With 12:35 remaining, Smith hit a 3-pointer that extended Trinity Valley's lead to 59-45.
Blinn guard Aarika Reyna answered with a pair of 3-pointers in a two-minute span that cut the lead to 61-51, but Blinn was never able to cut the lead within single digits.
"I thought we started the second half pretty well, but then you look up and we're down 14 pretty quick," Jenkins said.
Reyna led the Buccaneers with 17 points. She had three 3-pointers on the night.
"She played the whole 20 minutes in the second half," Jenkins said. "She was not intimidated. She played like a third-year sophomore."
Sophomore Audrisa Harrison scored 12 points while freshmen Fatima Adams, Danielle Espinoza and Shanequa Gaston each scored nine.
The loss came on the same day that Blinn climbed from No. 14 to
No. 12 in the NJCAA polls. Blinn was one of just three undefeated teams remaining in the nation.
"I've coached 13 years in this league and hopefully I'll coach another 13, but I'll probably never another that goes 16-0 so I thanked them for that," Jenkins said. "That's a great start."
In addition to Smith's 24 points, Trinity Valley (15-1, 2-0) got 19 points apiece from Adut Bulgak and Shlonte Allen.
"We can just try to get better defensively so maybe things will be different when we meet them again in March," Jenkins said. "We scored enough to win with very little transition because we weren't getting any defensive stops."
The Buccaneers travel to Carthage, Texas on Saturday to play Panola College at 4 p.m. Their next home game will be Wednesday, when they host Angelina College at 5:30 p.m. in the Blinn P.E. Building.


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In Tera, you can gather different materials. On the US Tera, gathering falls under 3 categories : energy, plants, and mining. Each has their own stat, and successfully gathering the respective material raises that stat.
What's the maximum stats for energy, plants, and mining - how high can I go?
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If the idea of an "UnMeeting" seems unconventional at first glance, that's because it is. Following a successful inaugural event in 2013, NYU held its second annual IT UnMeeting on January 15th at the NYU School of Law's Greenberg Lounge. Over 100 people attended the event, which was organized by the NYU TorchTech steering committee.
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Ronald Cami '93, partner and general counsel at the global private investment firm TPG Capital, was honored by the Directors Roundtable at their "World Recognition of Distinguished General Counsel" event held on February 7 at the Harvard Club, New York.
The Directors Roundtable is a civic group that organizes programming for directors and their advisers on key problems and issues of concern to the directors of some 7,500 public companies as well as leading private companies and not-for-profit organizations.
The occasion served to acknowledge Cami's career accomplishments and leadership in the profession. Upon graduating from Rutgers Law, he clerked for the Hon. Kevin Thomas Duffy, Southern District of New York. He then joined Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP in New York, where he became a corporate partner in 2001. Cami focused his practice on mergers and acquisitions, leveraged transactions, and general corporate and board advice, and was recognized as a top dealmaker by several publications. He left Cravath in 2010 for the Fort Worth-headquartered TPG Capital, and is based in the firm's San Francisco office.
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What is the best opensource 3D game engine suitable for 1st person shooting game? This engine should be script-able with lua.
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You haven't told us your skill level. But, you can even try integrating Lua scripting functionality with any open source engine of your choice. There are libraries like Luabind & toLua++ for this.
After quick google search there are some interesting results,
If you are not satisfied yet, GPWiki & DevMaster have a huge list of game engines and scripting feature is specified there. Many well/less known engines has Lua with it. Check it out.
Found it from here: Easy to use cross-platform 3D engines for C++ game development?
OctaForge is:
The above I lifted from their about page. OctaForge is actually a fork of the popular Sauerbraten engine, with one of the goals replacing CubeScript with Lua.
Ogre or Irrlicht 3D are good for C/C++ game programmers.
The Blender Game Engine is pretty good for 3D games. It doesn't use Lua, but it uses Python, which is more comfortable to me (objects, classes, inheritance). It can definitely do FPS games, and supports GLSL shading. It also has the Bullet physics engine included, and, of course, is present inside of the 3D modeler, Blender.
Open source AND with Lua scripting?
Well, that pretty much leaves Ogre, although frankly it isn't a game engine, it's a renderer/scenegraph. You still need to plug in the other bits like IO, physics and audio, but plenty of options already exist.
If you drop the Lua requirement, your options open up a heck of a lot more, as does if you drop the Open Source requirement.
jMonkeyEngine is a very good open source 3D engine.
It runs on the JVM and you can also use Lua on the JVM for scripting if that is a requirement.
The Doom 3 engine was recently Open Sourced under the GPL.
It doesn't have Lua support through. However it does have it's own inbuilt c-like scripting language. If your working on your own game engine you can generally add it in yourself.


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I'm putting together an asian sauce to throw over some steamed greens & have made it a bit too salty (it contains soy, fish & oyster sauce).
What can I add to cut back the saltiness?
I'm putting together an asian sauce to throw over some steamed greens & have made it a bit too salty (it contains soy, fish & oyster sauce).
What can I add to cut back the saltiness?
The classic way to compensate for saltiness (especially in Asian cuisine) is to add something sweet (usually sugar), which tricks one's taste-buds into thinking that the food is both less salty and less sweet. (Ever wonder why a can of cola has 45+ mg of sodium? It's there partially to mask all the sweetness which gives you a sugar rush, and simultaneously make you thirstier!) I seem to recall reading a section on this phenomenon in On Food and Cooking, but my copy is back home.
Update #1: I haven't gotten a chance to look at OFaC yet, however, I did find this study:
It is a survey of research on both perceived and chemical reactions between different tastes.
The survey notes (see Sections 3.2 and 3.3):
and also
It goes on to note that at even higher concentrations sweetness and other tastes are symmetrically suppressive (i.e., their tastes cancel each other out).
If you have (or add) spinach in with those greens I wouldn't worry. Spinach dishes can take a lot of salt before they taste over salted.
Many foods can absorb quite allot of salt and still be palatable. Many vegetables such as potatoes and rice are cooked in brine and people often add table salt to their potatoes on top of this. Other foods that we accept salty include sea food such as shrimp, fish, shellfish etc.
I live in China, and notice that people rarely add salt to foods. The condiments they use such as soy sauce and oyster sauce have sufficient salt in them already. So it is quite normal that your Asian style condiment mix will taste salty but it might not taste so salty once combined with the final dish.


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SAN ANTONIO (December 27, 2013) – The San Antonio Rampage (12-17-0-3) took it to a shootout tonight against their instate rivals, the Texas Stars (18-9-2-3), but ended up victorious pulling through for a 3-2 win in front of 8,904 at the AT&T Center.
Captain Greg Rallo opened the scoring for the Silver and Black 1:19 into the second with a one-timer snipe from the left circle for his eighth of the year. Wade Megan netted his first of the season early in the third, and Denny Urban and Bobby Butler made it count in the shootout. Jacob Markstrom stopped a season-high 45-of-47 shots and all four Texas shooters in his first game since being sent down from Florida earning the game's First Star. Howden's assist on the Megan goal gives him two points in his last two games.
The Rampage were outshot, 47-35, and the win puts them at 2-4-0-0 against the Stars this season.
For the sixth straight game between the instate rivals, it was the Stars who drew first blood. After trading penalties throughout the opening frame, Texas finally made it count.
Chris Mueller threw a shot in from the slot, and Brett Ritchie was there to bang it home, beating Markstrom to put the Stars up 1-0 just 4:55 into the first. Brendan Randford earned the secondary assist on the power play marker. The goal would hold over until the first intermission.
The Rampage found their offense barely a minute into the second, as Vincent Trocheck dangled his way into the zone and passed it off to Rallo. The captain wasted no time and ripped a one-timer home from the left circle, beating Nilstorp clean and knotting the game at one.
Despite firing 15 shots on goal in the middle frame, the Stars were unable to find the equalizer, and the two teams headed into the final 20 locked in at one.
Megan picked up a drop pass from John McFarland about six minutes into the third, and fired it right past Nilstorp to give the Rampage the go-ahead goal and make it 2-1.
The goal was Megan's first of the year, and Quinton Howden earned the secondary assist.
In typical Texas fashion, the Stars did not go down easily. Ryan Button found the back of the net with just 1:40 remaining in regulation, and his second of the year sent the game into overtime.
The extra time wasn't enough for the two teams, and the game continued into the shootout. Urban and Butler beat Nilstorp in the skills competition and Markstrom stopped all four shooters to give the Rampage the 3-2 decision.
San Antonio went 0-for-6 with the extra man, but were able to hold the league's best power play at bay, as Texas went 1-for-5.
The Rampage will travel to Cedar Park tomorrow night to complete the home-and-home with Texas. The 7 p.m. game will be the first of five Rampage games broadcasted on FOX Sports Southwest this season, and it will be the first to include the "Tune In To Win" promotion. Individual and season tickets can be purchased at the AT&T Center Southeast Box Office, by calling a Rampage representative at 210-444-5554, or online at sarampage.com.


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I've been searching the askubuntu forum for the past 3 days trying to figure out what's going on with my system and I have tried a lot of things but to no avail. So, I will explain my situation and tell you what I have tried and I hope someone can help me :)
I have an: HP Workstation xw4100 Pentium(R) 4 3.00 GHz 1.5 GB RAM NVIDIA Quadro4 380 XGL graphics card
It came with Windows XP and I set it up (with WUBI) to dual boot with Ubuntu 12.04
After installation I had the problem that so many people had with it booting to a black screen (mine was actually booting to the terminal basic shell) that is fixed by adding
nomodeset into the grub. When I do that, MY screen resolution becomes stuck in 1280x768 (as opposed to 1366x768 before adding nomodeset) (and also, when running XP the best resolution is 1280x720)
When I go to "additional drivers" it doesn't show any proprietary drivers, so I manually downloaded them using this command:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current
but after rebooting, that made the graphics even worse (now stuck as 800x600) SO I tried to configure the drivers with
sudo nvidia-xconfig but that simply created an empty xorg.config file. I found one place where a guy gave information to manually input into the xorg.config file but that had no effect at all.
Lastly I tried to install previous versions of the NVIDIA drivers, but they wouldn't even fully install.
So now I have just re-installed Ubuntu 12.04 and I either need to find a better solution to the first problem (nomodeset) or get the nouveau driver to correctly configure to work with my nvidia graphics.
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When I need to read something, I have a really bad habit of just glazing over it and not really comprehending the words.
As a result I have no clue what I've read.
How can I stop glazing at a book and instead, really focus and understand what I am reading?


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The Clinton-Obama "feud" growing?
posted at 10:11 am on July 3, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
Yesterday we noted that Barack Obama had decided to leave his Secretary of State at home while he traveled to Russia to meet with Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev, perhaps not coincidentally after leaks indicated that Hillary Clinton thought Obama had responded too weakly to the Iranian crisis. Another Clinton has decided to defy Obama more openly. Former President Bill Clinton agreed to headline a fundraiser for Carolyn Maloney's primary challenge to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand — after Obama endorsed her in the special election:
In a slap at President Barack Obama, former President Bill Clinton will headline a fundraiser for a New York congresswoman challenging White House-backed Sen. Kristen Gillibrand in the state's Democratic primary.
Clinton has not endorsed in the race, but his efforts to help Rep. Carolyn Maloney could be seen as a snub to Gillibrand and the Obama White House. Matt McKenna, a spokesman for Clinton, said he will be attending a July 20 fundraiser in New York.
The White House has played an active role in clearing the field for Gillibrand, who was appointed earlier this year to fill the seat vacated when Obama tapped Hillary Rodham Clinton to be his secretary of state. Obama asked Rep. Steve Israel not to challenge Gillibrand, a request he honored. Just days ago, Vice President Joe Biden called Maloney to discuss the race, a clear sign that the White House didn't want a primary fight next year.
Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told reporters last week that the White House would help Gillibrand's re-election bid.
Clinton's spokesperson claims that this doesn't constitute an endorsement, but it's hard to read it any other way. Clinton hasn't campaigned for Gillibrand, after all. Since Gillibrand got appointed to replace Hillary Clinton earlier this year, Bill and Hillary have remained quiet about the seat — until now.
The Clinton-Obama relationship has always been strained, ever since Obama overtook Hillary in her bid for a history and a return to the White House. Obama appointed her as Secretary of State for his own political needs, not out of any sense of expertise on Hillary's part for diplomacy. It took her almost no time to demonstrate that herself, with unforced errors like proclaiming her complete bemusement on multi-party democracy and the "reset" button she presented Sergei Lavrov that was mistranslated — and not in Cyrillic script, either.
If the politics between the two have stopped working, then Obama has no other need for Hillary. If Obama jettisons her, though, Hillary could turn into a formidable foe within the Democratic Party, and might wind up challenging an Obama re-election bid the way Ted Kennedy did to Jimmy Carter, which turned into a disaster for both men. How much defiance can Obama handle?
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STEUBENVILLE - An exhibit commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War is on display at Historic Fort Steuben's Visitor Center through Nov. 16,
According to Judy Bratten, executive director of the fort, the exhibit will be open from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
Entitled Ohio & the Civil War, the exhibit provides information on the people and places in Ohio that played a significant role during that tumultuous period, with particular attention to Steubenville and Jefferson County participants.
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CIVIL WAR EXHIBIT — Mary Snyder of the Historic Fort Steuben examines a frock coat at the Ohio and the Civil War exhibit on display at the Historic Fort Steuben Visitors Center. - Dave Gossett
"The Civil War touched everyone's life. From the country folk to the city dwellers, everyone had a loved one involved in the war effort. The men of Jefferson County were eager to serve and many gave their lives in places they otherwise might never have gone to," explained Bratten.
The display portrays the many generals who came from Ohio, including some who went on to high office after the war ended. Also featured is information about "Camp Steubenville," a training site in Mingo Junction and the role of the telegraph during the war.
"Not many people are aware that Steubenville had two native sons who were in daily contact with President Abraham Lincoln in the War Room during this period," noted Bratten. "One who is well known is Edwin McMasters Stanton, Secretary of War. But the other person who is less known was David Homer Bates, a telegraph operator. Together they served to communicate strategies and news to and from the battlefields."
Historic Fort Steuben is located at 120 S. Third St.
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5 Medical Urban Legends (That Actually Came True)
Even if it's been a while since you enjoyed a lazy weekday morning watching All My Children, Guiding Light, or Donde esta Elisa? you're probably still familiar with old soap opera cliches. There's always some far-fetched medical drama, like a once dead lover ends up being totally alive, somebody turns out to be their own twin, or a character falls into a coma despite absolutely nothing else being wrong with their body. Maybe the main character gets diagnosed with a fictional disease like Wolf AIDS or Pocket Cancer. Regardless, no matter how crazy the soap opera medical drama might be, none of them compare to the real world plotlines these folks experienced ...
#5. A Dead Woman Woke Up Right Before Her Organs Were Harvested
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In 2009, 41-year-old Colleen Burns was not exactly feeling like bottled sunshine and, like most Americans, had crazily unrestricted access to dangerous "prescription" medicine. We shall leave the world's saddest math problem up to you, dear reader.
But as bad as things were, they could always get worse: At some point after Burns' pill overdose, she was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital in Syracuse, New York, and declared brain dead. Once given the news, her family agreed to honor Burns' wish to have her organs donated. Well, at least some good could come out of this tragedy.
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Everyone always goes for organ donation. Nobody ever picks the human marionette option.
So what if Burns didn't pass the "Are you sure you're brain dead and not just really lazy" test? So what if, when a nurse scraped the bottom of Burns' foot, Burns' toes curled downward? And so what if Burns' nostrils flared in the hours before she was scheduled to be gutted? Plenty of living corpses we know move around and vaguely react to stimuli; that's how we got both The Walking Dead and The Kardashians.
Despite two huge indications that Colleen Burns wasn't actually brain dead, a nurse dosed her with a sedative (which is odd, because you shouldn't need to sedate a brain-dead person), wheeled her into the operating room, placed her on the operating table, and prepped her for the surgery that would rid her of her pesky life-sustaining organs. It was about that moment that Burns opened her eyes. We sincerely hope she had the presence of mind to point at the nurse and mutter some sinister-sounding gibberish. You just don't get good curse opportunities every day, you know?
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At least curse him with a swarm of taint-devouring crotch-weasels.
Luckily, the doctors were feeling generous and decided not to go through with harvesting the living woman's organs. Burns eventually left under her own power, the hospital was fined a total of $22,000 by the state for this occurrence, and her doctors were promptly awarded the prestigious Holy Fuck, We Can't Believe You Almost Harvested the Organs Out of a Living Woman award.
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Joe Nagy spent over a year wiping snot on his sleeve before he finally decided to get his leaky honker checked out by a doctor. He probably expected to leave the office with an extra strong antibiotic and some hand sanitizer. Things didn't quite pan out that way.
Nagy's doctor tested what everyone thought was snot and discovered, well ... the subheading kind of gave it away, didn't it? It was brain fluid. Nagy had a hole in the membrane surrounding his brain, and clear brain juice was leaking out through his nose. And it had been leaking for years. He was like a walking zombie keg, already conveniently tapped.
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You don't even want to know how you're supposed to pump it.
As if the news that his brain was seeping out through his face wasn't horrifying enough, Nagy soon developed a raging case of meningitis, which probably had something to do with the fact that his brain protector had a hole in it. It wasn't until his meningitis cleared up that the doctor could patch the hole.
By sticking a needle up his nose and gluing it shut.
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That's right: They fix open brain wounds the same way you fixed that broken Hummel figurine of the naked kid fishing.
#3. The Man Who Lived With a Pencil in His Head
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If you woke up tomorrow with a headache, you'd probably chalk it up to stress, or a hangover, or maybe that regional amateur head-butting contest you entered on a lark. But if you wake up with a headache and impaired vision in one eye, it's time to put on your best Schwarzenegger voice and start telling everybody it's "not a tumah." Which was exactly what we presume this 24-year-old Afghanistan man was thinking when his headaches turned into blinding internal face punches.
It turns out doctors take impaired vision slightly more seriously than we do, so they ordered a brain scan right away. They didn't find cancer or a weird lesion in the guy's noggin. Nope. They found a pencil. This pencil:
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For our American readers, 7 centimeters is equal to way too fucking long to be stuck in your head and not know it inches.
It was lodged in the man's sinus all the way up to his pharynx and had somehow damaged his eye socket. After doing an obligatory spit take, someone had the sense to ask the man, "Hey, you're not missing a pencil, are you?"
He was not.
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Like so many of us, he was secretly grateful that they had not asked to X-ray his lower colon.
The man couldn't remember anything that might account for the pencil being lodged in his mug. However, he did recall taking a rough spill as a child and getting nosebleeds for a bit afterward. But, haha, that was 15 years ago! Surely this isn't ... the same ... oh God.
The man successfully underwent perhaps the first ever pencilectomy and made a full recovery, although his vision is still blurred in one eye. The pencil went on to marry its high school sweetheart, Arthur Gum. They had three beautiful children and enjoyed taking cruises together. Or else it got thrown away in a hospital garbage can. We don't know. We're not fucking pencil biographers.
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Who has the time when there are quills to be written about?


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If I give a check to someone (as a gift) and I change my mind, am I halachically allowed to cancel it, or do we say that the check is a shtar, and by signing it is considered as if I gave him the money?
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Based on the legal definition of a check it would seem to me that it is alot more than just a piece of paper, and you have no right to cancel it.
I would argue that part of the institution of check-writing is the understanding that one may cancel the transfer of funds at any time up until the funds have actually been drawn. Keep in mind:


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Self-knowledge. Compassion. A deeper understanding of Jewish identity. Beyond is a transformational experience that provides participants with unique opportunities to help them grow and learn. Through a variety of service projects, participants are able to make a difference in their host communities. There are also myriad possibilities for leadership development—through skill seminars and practical leadership opportunities within the Beyond community. BBYO has a long history of leadership development, and Beyond proudly continues this tradition.
Though Beyond is filled with opportunities for travel, service, networking, cultural enrichment and personal growth, perhaps its most practical benefit is the chance for participants to learn in an academic setting. Students have access to the dynamic campus of Tel Aviv University, with its illustrious faculty and world-class facilities. Beyond participants pursue their interests and grow while receiving college credit—a wonderful way of preparing them for the rigors of college life while instilling a love for learning.


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To the editor:
As I write this, Washington, D.C., and the media are all aquiver with the "sequestration blues," and waves of panic are issuing from the region, as doomsday draws nigh.
But what we all must remember is that President Barack Obama, now balefully warning of the coming disaster, was very much for the sequester, before he was against it. It was his idea, after all, formulated back during the debt ceiling debate of 2011.
Problem is, he didn't really expect the Republicans to actually take him up on it; now he has to flail around, trying to keep it from really happening.
This is because, while $85 billion sounds like, and is, a huge number, when matched against a $3.7 trillion budget, it's a relatively inconsequential drop in a very, very big bucket. Some say that, after all is said and done, the cuts will actually come to something less than half that amount.
The Democrats doubtlessly fear that, if and when the cuts actually happen, people may eventually notice how little that $85 billion - cut from said $3.7 trillion budget - actually affects the daily operation of our ridiculously-bloated government.
That could prove embarrassing, because more people might wise up; they might start demanding even more cuts, which would only strengthen Republican positions. If we can have $85 billion cut, with so little consequence, why not cut $100 billion? $500 billion? A trillion? Who wants that? Not the government; they like spending our money.
So, the administration and the Democratic Party's lapdogs in the Propaganda Ministry - oops, sorry; I should have said mainstream media - begin envisioning doomsday scenarios, purposely whipping up hysteria, attempting to obscure the fact that this was all their beloved leader's idea to begin with. Besides, it's a 3 percent - projected - cut over 10 years. We won't even notice the difference, and other increases will inevitably happen, which will negate the effects of these, anyway. That's how it works.
Even scarier, though, people may also stop listening to the patented Democrat fear-mongering, and then where would the party be? Like the boy who cried wolf, if people stop responding to their cries, they're in big trouble. After all, their party operates on a crisis mentality, appealing to emotion; that's how they get things done. Everything's a potential catastrophe that has to be dealt with immediately. No time for legislative debate. As such, they're masters of "wag the dog" tactics like crisis invention and manipulation.
Nonetheless, cuts have to be made; without serious, deep spending cuts, we will eventually end up like Europe; bankrupt, shifting paper around to cover the fact that there's no more money, and imposing painful austerity measures on ourselves, causing riots and resentment. Essentially what we're doing now, without the austerity measures, but by then it'll be too late.
It will happen, just not next week. Spending cuts have to be made. We simply cannot continue like this. Nobody in Washington, however, has the discipline, much less the moral courage, to stand up and willingly do it.
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Home > Research by Institute Staff > Third-Party Candidates Face Long Odds
by Anne Bauer, May 18, 2010
Voters in the 2010 elections can again expect to see few third-party candidates who seek to provide alternatives to politics as usual. Those few candidates face long odds. Of the 6,181 third-party candidates registered in the last nine years, only 2 percent won their races. Moreover, the traditional advantages of money and incumbency don't confer success onto third-party candidates to the same extent as they do mainstream party candidates.
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Fast Facts
- Vermont third-party candidates enjoyed the most success, gaining 14 percent of the seats sought, from 2000-2009.
- The advantages typically enjoyed by incumbents or top fundraisers did not apply to candidates outside the two major parties.
- From 2000-2009, only 2 percent of the candidates who belonged to a third party or claimed no party affiliation won their races.
- 92 percent of all the registered candidates in partisan races from 2000-2009 belonged to one of the two major parties.
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- Third-party Candidates and Self-finance
- Synopsis of Five States
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NWU News
February 14, 2013
Nebraska Wesleyan University's Panhellenic Council has been recognized nationally for its highest level of excellence in programming and council management.
February 12, 2013
Nebraska Wesleyan University's Mattingly Distinguished Scholars Program will bring two speakers to Lincoln — one who will discuss American Exceptionalism as it relates to Steven...
February 11, 2013
Students are invited to join NWU faculty and staff as we kick off Nebraska Wesleyan University's storytelling project.
January 30, 2013
A writer, filmmaker, and activist known as an "uncompromising fighter for racial equity and social justice" delivered a message on diversity and misunderstandings at a recent Nebraska...
January 17, 2013
Ninety-eight percent of the inmates currently incarcerated in Nebraska's 10 prisons will be released and returned to our communities and neighborhoods.
January 17, 2013
The artistic talents of high school students will be showcased at Nebraska Wesleyan's fourth annual juried art exhibition "Bridge."
January 15, 2013
Kyle Rohrich admits his senior year at Nebraska Wesleyan University was a little hectic.
January 14, 2013
Chances are good the names "Edgar Sheffield Brightman" and "L. Harold DeWolf" mean very little to you.
January 7, 2013
About 98 percent of the inmates currently incarcerated in Nebraska's 10 prisons will be released and will return to our communities and neighborhoods.
December 21, 2012
The nearly 2,000 hours that students enrolled in the Communication Research Methods class spent on their semester project not only saved their grade, but may potentially save lives too.
December 21, 2012
Nebraska Wesleyan has hired Richard and Jan Potter as faculty and co-coordinators of the university's new Omaha social work program for adults.
December 20, 2012
Members of Global Service Learning won't just be traveling to grandma's house over the holiday.
December 11, 2012
Students in Angeles Cossio's "Basic Design" class have created art you can literally walk all over.
December 11, 2012
Nebraska Wesleyan University students interested in Estonia learned about the northern European country firsthand during the fall semester.
December 5, 2012
Four Nebraska Wesleyan University students have won the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, which will send them overseas for the spring semester.
December 4, 2012
Last spring Sheryl Rinkol boarded the Azamara Journey, a memorial ship that traveled from New York City to the site of the Titanic's sinking in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the...
November 20, 2012
What can you do with an English degree?
November 15, 2012
Last year Rita Lester assigned Manufacturing Religion to students enrolled in her Liberal Arts Seminar titled, "Myth."
November 15, 2012
Clay Johnson, best known as the co-founder of the firm that built and managed Barack Obama's online campaign for presidency in 2008, will speak at Nebraska Wesleyan University.
November 14, 2012
A Nebraska Wesleyan social work student has been awarded a national scholarship honoring her service, scholarship and leadership in her academic field.
November 6, 2012
First year students in Rachel Droogsma's Liberal Arts Seminar, "The Hunger Games," are not taking just any introductory college course.
November 2, 2012
For the past five years, dozens of new Nebraska Wesleyan students have begun their collegiate careers by climbing in a university van and driving 700 miles to northeastern Minnesota.
November 1, 2012
Former NWU Professor Returns to Talk "Psychology, Liberal Arts, and the 21st Century"; Watch Lecture
Former Nebraska Wesleyan University psychology professor Ken Keith returned to campus on November 8 to deliver the annual Clifford Fawl Lecture Series.
October 29, 2012
Dr. Linda Hardy has been named the new Director of Nursing at Nebraska Wesleyan University.
October 29, 2012
Nebraska Wesleyan's Communication Studies Department likes to refer to its students and faculty as "Communication Superheroes." Dave Whitt, Associate Professor of Communication,...
October 29, 2012
Nebraska Wesleyan University has named Elizabeth MacLeod Walls as the new Dean of University College.
October 29, 2012
Generations of Johnson Hall residents — along with friends, family, current students and NWU employees — gathered in front of the 66-year-old all-female residence hall on October 20 to...
October 24, 2012
Cody Arenz, Associate Professor of Biology, is on sabbatical for a year in Devon, England.
October 23, 2012
America's longest running touring company, National Players, will make a stop at Nebraska Wesleyan University to perform "Animal Farm."
October 18, 2012
Nebraska Wesleyan University's annual Bravo! Bosendorfer Piano Series will feature pianist Norman Lee of Hong Kong.
October 17, 2012
Pulitzer-Prize winning author Douglas A. Blackmon spoke at Nebraska Wesleyan University on Thursday, October 25 in a lecture titled, "Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black...
October 17, 2012
Nebraska Wesleyan University has crowned Kelsey Reynoldson of Eagle and Joe Menousek of Gretna as its 2012 homecoming queen and king.
October 15, 2012
The talents of NWU art alumni are on display in Kepler Gallery.
October 10, 2012
Ezra Klein, a Washington Post blogger who recently was named one of the "50 Most Powerful People in Washington," delivered the lecture "The Unpersuaded: Who Listens to the...
October 9, 2012
A Nebraska Wesleyan University math professor has been awarded the "Exemplary Teaching Award."
October 8, 2012
Eight seniors have been selected to the 2012 Homecoming Royalty Court.
October 4, 2012
The artistic talents of Nebraska Wesleyan University's Art Department are now on display at the Lux Center for the Arts.
October 3, 2012
An ordained minister from Michigan who works with LGBTQIA-identified college students will deliver Nebraska Wesleyan University's Mattingly Visiting Distinguished Scholar Series lecture...
October 1, 2012
Global Service Learning is growing on campus – literally.
September 16, 2012
Fourteen Nebraska Wesleyan University students have been selected as 125th Anniversary Ambassadors.
September 10, 2012
All who share in the pride and commitment to Nebraska Wesleyan University have a wonderful opportunity this year to reconnect with friends, faculty, and staff as the University celebrates its 125th...
September 4, 2012
Global Service Learning has been recognized with the University's Roy G. Story Award for their work as true global ambassadors for Nebraska Wesleyan.
September 4, 2012
A local "Cameron Effect - Seven Acts of Kindness" movement will kickoff Tuesday, September 11 with a presentation that honors the memory of a former NWU student killed by a drunk driver...
August 23, 2012
Nebraska Wesleyan University's Elder Gallery will open with a five-week exhibition featuring the people and places of Africa as seen through the lens of photographer Betty Press.
August 16, 2012
Missy Franklin. Gabby Douglas. Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings. Sonya Richards Ross. The U.S. women's basketball team, soccer team, and water polo team.
August 13, 2012
One hundred new students moved into the cool new rooms of Johnson Hall, when the doors opened on August 22.
August 8, 2012
Move-in day for new Nebraska Wesleyan University students is typically hot and humid.
August 1, 2012
You can now follow the Weary Center on Facebook and Twitter!
July 24, 2012
Studies indicate coffee is good for cognitive abilities. So is green tea, dark chocolate, and red wine.
July 24, 2012
A Nebraska Wesleyan University choir director has been recognized by the Nebraska Choral Directors Association for his commitment to singers and choirs in the state.


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David Brooks: Can one man have a breakthrough in something as basic as screw threads?
Dale Van Cor has a brilliant-sounding idea, a whole new approach to creating the threads on screws or nuts and bolts, that he has spent years perfecting.
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William Ruger/Jason Sorens: How free is New England?
Ever since immigrants seeking liberty began arriving on its shores centuries ago, New England has been a symbol of freedom for the rest of the world. It has hosted the Pilgrims, birthed the American Revolution and sparked the Abolitionist Movement. But today many Americans see it as a place where government has grown too large and intrusive.
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Councillor David Pears
How to contact me
I hold regular Advice Bureaux for constituents within the Sutton Trinity Ward.
You can visit me at my Advice Bureaux for contact me on the details below.
Victoria Square
West Midlands
0121 303 2130
All about me
I am on my third term of office as Councillor Resident in my own ward, married, three children, school governor and deeply interested and involved in local community.
I believe in protecting our heritage, hence my involvement in local park groups and nature policy group for Birmingham.
It is important that we retain the character of our local environment in Sutton Coldfield, and the other Vibrant Urban Villages in Birmingham.
I want to see progress on Urban Design Study for Sutton Coldfield which will lead to other much needed improvements.
Council Service
Elected: Sutton Trinity Ward
Joined Council: 7 May 1987
Office Expires: 2018
Political Party: Conservative
Council Service: May 1987 to May 1991, May 1992 to May 1996, June 2004 to date
Committee Membership 2016-2017:
Trusts and Charities Committee.
As well as Regulatory Committees and Overview & Scrutiny Committees, Councillors also serve on their respective Ward Committee/Forum and District Committee.
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The security of the most powerful nation on earth has apparently been compromised by a couple of twenty-something techies who felt obliged to unilaterally expose what they perceived as wrongdoing by their country.
Pfc. Bradley Manning, 25, is currently facing a court-martial. The Army private is accused of handing over reams of classified documents to the international secrecy-fighting website, WikiLeaks.
According to reports, prosecutors claim the former U.S. Army intelligence analyst let military secrets fall into the hands of al-Qaida and its former leader Osama bin Laden. The young private has acknowledged giving WikiLeaks hundreds of thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan battlefield reports and State Department diplomatic cables, along with battlefield videos and other documents. He downloaded it all from a classified government computer network while working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq.
The Oklahoma native faces a possible life sentence if convicted.
Now comes Edward Snowden, a former Army enlistee who, while working most recently as a government contractor, released sensitive documents on U.S. surveillance programs to a London newspaper then made a get-away to Hong Kong. Most recently taking refuge in the friendly confines of the Moscow airport, Snowden is reportedly seeking political asylum from a handful of nations that are not exactly friendly allies of the U.S.
According to a report from Reuters, the fugitive former CIA employee, who just turned 30, still controls dangerous information that could become the United States' "worst nightmare" if revealed.
Both of these young men have alternately been called heroes or whistle-blowers by some, while others view them both as traitors or even spies who have committed acts of treason against the nation.
One burning question that needs to be answered is this: Why were these two young men, both of them fairly low-level operatives, given apparent unfettered access to critical government intelligence and then allowed to make off with a vast trove of sensitive information without proper oversight?
The U.S. military, the intelligence community, and its contractors have some explaining to do.


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If we accept the axiom of choice, we take the responsibility of living in a world in which, e.g., a ball in Euclidean 3-space is equiscindable to two isometric copies of itself (Banach-Tarski). So we have a very natural and seemingly harmless axiom (that most matehmaticians are probably willing to accept and use) on one hand, and a quite paradoxical and counterintuitive phenomenon arising from accepting that axiom on the other.
I would like to know if the assumpion of some large cardinal axiom is known to produce some sort of paradoxical phenomena in the "everyday world", as it happens in the case of the axiom of choice.


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What things should one know when shopping for flash-drives?
Things I would look for:
Read and Write speeds
physical size and shape (will it fit well with your PC/MAC)
These are pretty standard...
However, can anyone suggest a flash-drive with decent (easy to work with) encryption software included?
I have also noticed that some flash-drives will not allow you to boot from them... Does anyone know why that is or what someone could look for in knowing if their drive will boot?
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Humping is a feature you might be interested in.
Are you talking about a traditional USB flash drive?
I think the two most important considerations beyond items you have listed are warranty (some are notoriously unreliable) and making certain it doesn't block other USB ports.
How important is security to you, regarding encryption? Kingston has a "Locker" line of flash drives which have a pretty good reputation for reliability and security, but I wouldn't trust information of vital importance on there (say, thousands of customers credit cards or something).
If you REALLY need security, buy an IronKey USB. Pricey but you can't beat it at the moment.
@novastarj: Yep, traditional "thumb drives".
Edit: As far as the encryption goes, I'm more interested in ease of use first, then higher end security. Some built-in encryption kits have terrible usability.
After a short bit of research, I am still unable to figure out why some USB flash drives will let you boot from them and some will not.
Any insight on that would be greatly appreciated.


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March 14, 2013
City cranes – Flickr pic of the day
This image of a busy scene as seen from the V&A Waterfront harbour was captured by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. Flickr group member Graham Bartholomew, aka graham_bart.
Says Graham: "March is the best time of the year to be in Cape Town, usually the best weather. However, on this occasion we had an overcast day, a nice break from the summer sun. From the big harbour cranes to the construction sites in the background, Cape Town is a busy city."
Do you have images of Cape Town you'd like to share with us? We'd love you to join the Cape Town. Live it. Love it. Flickr group!


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Museum conservation in practice
Reveals the problems, questions and dilemmas - both practical and ethical - posed by caring for the material that brings our past to life for us. Dinosaur footprints, DNA, a prehistoric pot, oil paintings and even a whole coal mine are among the astonishing range of cases explored here. All this is brought to us engagingly by the voices of the experts themselves, whose work, all too often, goes unseen.
'This book both raises issues and answers questions about how we care for our past - whether your interest is general or professional, it's an invaluable read.'
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AUSTIN (AP) — Former Texas Supreme Court Justice Jack Hightower, a Democrat who also served a decade in Congress under three different presidents, has died. He was 86.
Osler McCarthy, a spokesman for the state's high court, said Hightower died Saturday in Austin. McCarthy said Hightower had Parkinson's disease.
"Texas has lost a true champion among its public servants and the Court has lost a colleague who at his very core was what a judge should be," Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson said. "Jack Hightower had integrity, wisdom and a singular purpose: to serve the public by the rule of law."
Hightower began his political career in both the state House and Senate before being elected to Congress in 1975. He won a seat on the court in 1988, stayed until 1996 and was the state's last justice with legislative experience.
Born in the Texas Panhandle town of Memphis in 1926, Hightower served in the Navy and graduated from Baylor University. He set up a law practice in Vernon, along the Texas-Oklahoma border, and was elected to the state House a year after getting his law degree.
He went on to serve as president pro tem of the state Senate before being elected to Washington. His congressional career ended when his bid for a sixth term coincided with a statewide political shift in the 1980s that began putting Texas firmly in control of Republicans.
Hightower is survived by his wife, Colleen, and three daughters.
Funeral services were pending. He will be buried in the Texas State Cemetery.


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SAN ANTONIO (February 11, 2013) – San Antonio Rampage general manager Mike Santos announced today that the American Hockey League (AHL) club has recalled from loan defenseman Josh McFadden from the team's ECHL affiliate, the Cincinnati Cyclones. In addition, the team announced that defenseman Mike Marcou has been released from his professional tryout contact and will return to the Greenville Road Warriors of the ECHL.
McFadden, 21, appeared in two games for the Rampage in October before departing for Cincinnati, where the blueliner has two goals and 10 assists in 22 games for the Cyclones. The Guelph, Ontario native played in 175 Ontario Hockey League games and spent the last three seasons with the Sudbury Wolves of the OHL. In three years with Sudbury, McFadden recorded 36 goals and 101 assists. While battling injuries last season, the 6-foot-1, 207-pound defenseman played in 47 games for Sudbury and tallied 41 points (15g, 26a).
Marcou, 23, played in two games for the Rampage since being signed to a PTO on Feb. 7 and owned a plus-two rating. The defenseman has played in 47 games for the Road Warriors this season, recording six goals, 16 assists and a plus-19 rating from the blueline en route to being named an ECHL All-Star. Last season, the 5-foot-11, 180-pound blueliner made his American Hockey League debut, playing two games for the Oklahoma City Barons after wrapping up his senior year at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. While at UMass-Amherst, Marcou played a total of 119 games in four years and tallied 17 goals and 26 assists.
The Rampage will continue their Rodeo Road with a three-in-three this weekend kicking off at Milwaukee on Friday at 7:00 p.m. The Silver and Black will return to AT&T Center on Saturday, March 2 at 7:00 p.m. to host their annual Military Appreciation Night. Individual and season tickets can be purchased at the AT&T Center Southeast Box Office, by calling a Rampage representative at 210-444-5554 or online at sarampage.com.


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Contact: Craig D'Ooge (202) 707-9189
November 21, 1997
New Cartoon Room Opens at the Library of Congress
On January 15, 1998, the Library of Congress will open the Swann Gallery, a new exhibition space in the Thomas Jefferson Building devoted to the art of caricature and cartoon. The inaugural exhibition, titled "Monstrous Craws & Character Flaws: Masterpieces of Cartoon and Caricature at the Library of Congress," will feature 18 original works by historical masters such as Thomas Nast and Honore Daumier, as well as recently acquired work by modern artists such as Garry Trudeau, Robert Minor, Oliver Harrington, Dale Messick, Jules Feiffer, and Al Hirschfeld.
The exhibition takes its title from James Gillray's 1787 etching Monstrous Craws, at a New Coalition Feast, which lampoons King George III and his family. Also included in the display are a seldom-seen original woodblock by Thomas Nast and the resultant engraving that was published in Harper's Weekly. French master Honor Daumier is represented by one of his most powerful political works, "Rue Transnonain, April 15, 1834," which depicts a republican worker killed by Louis-Philippe's troops.
In addition, the Swann Gallery offers a permanent facsimile exhibition on the history of caricature and cartoon, illustrated with images drawn from the Library's holdings. The Swann Gallery showcases the collections of the Library of Congress in rotating exhibitions and promotes the continuing Swann Foundation program in the study of cartoon, caricature and illustration, while also offering a provocative and informative selection of works by past masters.
New York advertising executive Erwin Swann (1906- 1973) assembled an extraordinarily diverse collection of nearly 2,000 works of cartoon art representing 400 artists and spanning two centuries. He developed the collection specifically to promote the preservation and connoisseurship of original cartoon and illustration drawings. Among the collection's highlights are sketches by such European masters as Guillaume Chevalier Gavarni and Richard Doyle; works by celebrated American illustrators, including John Held Jr. and Ralph Barton; American newspaper cartoon strip works by such pioneering cartoonists as Richard F. Outcault and Winsor McCay; and contemporary cartoons and illustrations by renowned artists, including Edward Sorel, Anita Siegel, Jean-Claude Suarez, Andre Francois, and Eugene Mihaesco.
The Library's related cartoon holdings include the largest collection of American political prints in existence, the finest assemblage of English satirical prints outside Great Britain, outstanding holdings of original drawings by generations of America's best cartoonists and illustrators, an important collection of early comic books, and extensive runs of rare satirical and comic journals from Europe and the United States. Curators for the exhibition are Harry Katz and Sara Duke. The gallery, located adjacent to the new Visitors' Center in the Jefferson Building, will be open to the public free of charge from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday. An illustrated checklist will be available to visitors. Photos are available to the media.
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I recently installed Ubuntu server x64; I then realized there was no window manager built in (in retrospect it makes sense, didn't think of it at the time).
I have been having recurring crash report messages (system remains functional though) mainly before a shutdown or on login. As in general in Linux I don't think it is something normal, I am thinking If I am doing something wrong or how I could investigate further.
I am wondering whether going for the x64 and/or Ubuntu server + kubuntu package might have left some problems behind.
From my past experience with another UNIX o/s (FreeBSD) I never had crash issues.


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GENESEO, N.Y. - U.S. News & World Report
magazine will revise its online listing of colleges with the highest
of students receiving merit-based aid after being notified by SUNY
Geneseo of
an incorrect statistic.
Geneseo was erroneously placed on top of the list with 99 percent of its students receiving merit-based aid for the 2010-11 academic year when the actual number was 10 percent. An extra zero -- inadvertently added to the number of students receiving such aid in the data gathering process (5,320 instead of 532) -- grossly inflated the percentage to the incorrect figure. Geneseo had 5,377 full-time undergraduates in 2010-11. The college offers a variety of need and non-need based financial aid.
U.S. News & World Report has assured Geneseo that it will correct the figure so that students and parents who use such surveys can make accurate decisions when considering Geneseo.
The Huffington Post also reported on the U.S. News & World Report list and the college has notified that publication of the error.
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It's a reaction felt by school districts across the state after receiving a letter from the Kentucky School Boards Insurance Trust.
"You open the mail one day and you see a $182,000 bill and you say ok we've got to continue to move forward," says Superintendent of the Barren County School District, Bo Matthews.
KSBIT is a former low cost, risk pool insurance offered to state districts. The group faces an estimated $50 million to $60 million deficit.
In the letter to superintendents, KSBIT says the estimate is on the high end.
School districts say either way, it's a payment that could hamper many budgets.
"It wouldn't take very long that this would impact a great number of employees if we had to reduce our staff in order to pay that assessment back to KSBIT," says Matthews.
As the competition for low cost insurance increased many districts opted out of KSBIT, which caused the deficit. Past and current members are now paying the price.
"The troubling part is that his organization has been able to go back to 1990 and create a calculation for school districts to have to pay," says Matthews.
Schools have the option to pay yearly or one lump sum. Many are left searching for more answers.
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When extensive research to re-create baroque operas as in the era they were created and extensive effort to find what is considered to be appropriate voices for the creation of a performance that shows fidelity to the works and their creation, why is the above question being posited for production of century old ballets?
I find someting nihilistic in such proposals.
I think Hans has replied to leonid's comments in a nuanced and thoughtful way. But I see leonid's point, as I am a huge fan of the baroque opera re-creation "movement"--indeed, I don't enjoy hearing Mozart played by a modern orchestra anymore--and often bristle at the ballet world's paradoxical elitist recourse to "tradition" and coarse market-driven resistance to historical accuracy (ballet company rhetoric often sounds more strategic than principled: middlebrow?). Yet I just don't think the playing fields are equal. The development of music/vocal technique has occured on a far different and older track than the development of ballet, with far less comprehensive documentation of past productions and performance details. "Revived" baroque operas don't entail any diminishment of technique or virtuosity on the part of the performers either. That's why I think we do need to posit questions about how to revive ballets, and consider carefully the effects of that reconstructing. For instance, I think Scholl's "revival" of Sleeping Beauty is amazing, but my love of it doesn't eliminate the problems in reception ("where's the dancing?") that I also acknowledge. (By contrast, historically "accurate" re-creations of baroque operas have found nearly universal acclaim.) While dance tends to operate in a zero-sum mentality--"if this version exists it will render all others impure/inaccurate/missing the essence, etc."--we might back up a bit and imagine that there's room for multiple interpretations. The Met Opera still does Mozart, after all, even if I won't go to see it there.


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In a recent episode of HBO's Girls, Hannah meets an editor at the fictitious website Jazzhate.com who offers her $200 to "step outside her comfort zone" and write about having a threesome or snorting coke. Eager to prove her writing chops, Hannah chooses the latter, procuring the goods from her downstairs neighbor and setting off an embarrassing bender with her roommate and gay ex-boyfriend Elijah. A friend mentioned the episode to me recently and commented that it was the "worst freelance assignment ever."
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That said, there are a few things we can glean from this train wreck of a TV character (who may or may not resemble 26-year-old Hollywood wunderkind Lena Dunham who created her and inked a book deal for more than $3.5 million last fall). Hannah is so caught up in her lofty writerly ambitions that it doesn't occur to her that she could decline the assignment altogether or negotiate a higher fee (after all, her substance-fueled escapade couldn't have been cheap – is $200 enough money to risk jail time and the loss of her dignity? I think not).
In all seriousness, though, you don't have to accept every assignment that crosses your desk. Hannah desperately wants to pen an edgy memoir that resonates with her generation and this assignment may seem like a steppingstone where she can get in touch with her crazy poet persona. But if she were willing to step outside not just her comfort zone but her genre, she could find plenty of writing opportunities that are more commercially viable and don't require illegal substances.
In fact, few writers aside from Lena Dunham herself actually pay the bills solely through the kind of confessional, zeitgeisty prose Hannah aspires to write. Ernest Hemingway covered WWI for The Toronto Star, an experience that clearly informs his later fiction. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote streetcar slogans by day and fiction by night. Before publishing Little Women, Louisa May Alcott did whatever paying work she could find, working as a seamstress, governess, and servant. There is no shame in doing commercial writing or taking on odd jobs while you pen a novel or memoir on the side.
Yes, the world can be a tough place for young aspiring writers like Hannah (and yes, I had some missteps of my own in my early twenties), but if she's serious about being a writer, she needs to lose the "crazy poet"/"starving artist" mindset, put on her "big girl pants" as her friend Shoshanna would say, and find better avenues for her talents.
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The Pittsburgh Business Times, the Beaver County Times, and Moon Patch published articles about President Dell'Omo's new five-year contract with the RMU Board of Trustees:http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/print-edition/2012/11/16/robert-morris-university-plots-course.html?page=all
http://tinyurl.com/c72dygaThe Business Times included RMU in a package of stories about the increasing cost of higher education, including how colleges and universities are helping students, and wrote about trustee and alumnus Richard Harshman's contributions to RMU:http://tinyurl.com/ahdlsem
The Business Times praised RMU's growth in an editorial:http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/print-edition/2012/11/16/rmu-point-park-make-an-impact.html?page=all
Research by the RMU doctor of nursing practice program was front and center in a Business Times article about clot prevention efforts at St. Clair Hospital:http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/print-edition/2012/11/09/st-clair-hospital-clot-prevention.html?page=all
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The Beaver County Times tapped the expertise of sociology Professor Bill Beaver for this article about couples delaying marriage:http://tinyurl.com/ccssyyb
Colonials football player Nolan Nearhoof was featured as a Newsmaker by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review for his academic achievements:http://tinyurl.com/a2h4hjo
The Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management at RMU was included in this story about Giving Tuesday:http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/business/news/today-return-holiday-gifts-in-positive-way-663831/
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I worked for a company that named the pc's after roman gods (zeus, mars...). That was quiet funny while there where only 5 pc's on the network, but after changing the pc's several times I didn't remember my pc name. What naming convention do you use or what was the most useless naming convention you ever used?
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Manufacturer - Serial Number. Uniquely connectable to hardware and never needs to be changed.
LENOVO-1234ABC for example. Hardware servers follow the same path - FS-12345ABCDE or IBM-1234ABC. Virtual ones are different. VM - Purpose - Number in farm. VM-MSSQL-6 or VM-ADDC-3.
I mostly use names from a set of names.
Sometimes when I can't think of a good set I use Google Sets.
For PCs, we use our company name, followed by the number from the asset tag. Simple, predictable, and makes it much easier for any remote user to tell you which machine they're on.
I'd call 'm HAL or DeepThought
Our servers are named by physical location first (we have thousands of servers and loads of datacentres) then an underscore and their function, as that often changes.
For instance 44lntmc09a07_wlo11 (uk,london,datacentre,rack,blade enclose,slot_weblogic on OEL server 11).
This way we always know where our servers are but have a 'temporary' short name for it's function.
Anime ships/mecha (yamato, swordfishII, eva, RX-75 Guntank, etc..)
We used to name computers after lochs, but I ran out of names of lochs. I then started naming them after the service tags (we use exclusively Dell machines) but that got silly quickly.
We now name them with the company initials and abrief description of the machine, such as
The only thing is that it's not very friendly!
we use the name of the room + cpu identifier + number that identifies the cpu (p if is pentium-intel; k if is k7-amd)
for example
accounting-p1 accounting-p3 accounting-p4
in this case i skipped p2 because accounting-p1 is a pentium 133mhz; while accounting-p3 is a pentium3 733mhz; accounting-p4 is a pentium4 3.06 ghz naming computers is funny
On a Mac lan, I have seen names from the Matrix trilogy funny
One word game names, e.g. unreal, doom, arkanoid, etc.
In our decentralized environment full of many servers, we use the following rule for servers: DDCCLo1Lo2Apxx
That system allows us to know where the servers are located from their name.
Servers: Drug names (cocaine, lsd, thc etc.) - just for fun
At work, we have 3 parts convention...
So the names are like this
We are currently trying to get the type of machine into the name (like, virtual PC, virtual Host, DHCP server, etc)
At home, I was used to use mythological greek names also (Zeus, Pegaso, Poseidon) But now i'm trying to use names from movie characters starting with some letter
I've used everything from Greek & Roman Mythology, Planets, Superheroes, and recently the Battlestar Galactica Phonetic Alphabet. I figure I'm mostly the one who is going to be looking at these, so I might as well have a little fun with it. Also, I don't like to name the hardware based on a specific employee because we move hardware around sometimes and/or employee turnover.
Some examples: Athena, Hercules, Jove, Jupiter, Mystique, Neptune, Poseidon, Punisher, Rogue, Sedna, Zulu
My wife and I are birdwatchers, so I name our computers after birds. I usually dig through my pictures directory, and pick one I can use as my screen background. For example, I recently took a great picture of a bald eagle, so my new Mac is "EAGLE".
Oh, and our router is named "AVIARY" of course.
The servers for the local church I named:
My personal computers are:
We use exercise terminology. Keeps hackers (most of whom are allergic to exercise) from poking around.
Workstations? alpha code for operating system followed by asset tag
So OSX4901 is the apple laptop on my desk with the asset tag number "4901" in our database XP4973 and WS4973 refer to one desktop machine (also on my desk as it happens), running a different operating system (XP and Windows 7).
Having this appear as the machine name in any event logs, as well as being physically tagged on the machine makes it easy for the helpdesk to know what asset someone is talking about when booking a call and for us to track things down in the systems admin/engineering department when we're reviewing a long and sorry traffic log of some random workstation banging out nonsense on its local subnet.
Asset tag is linked to physical location and/or "owner" in the helpdesk DB too. The moment we get a machine name we then can easily get a "full service history" of the computer from both a network/software point of view and a hardware / repair history point of view. Anything that makes it easier to put that information into the hands of anyone on the IT team who needs it has to be a good thing right?
We use the asset tags as computer names, which makes the audits (using TrackIt!) a little easier to explain to nonIT staff.
One little caveat- on Windows XP machines, we make sure and put a meaningful entry like "Joe Schmo BLDG Room 111" in the "Computer Description" field under the Computer Name tab in System Properties. When our antivirus console starts complaining that ASSET155 has a virus, the computer description will (if we remembered to) tell us where the PC is.


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School policies rely on judgment for student-staff communications
We told you over the weekend about a Carter County teacher accused of inappropriately texting a 13-year-old student. Click here to read that story.
That teacher, 30-year-old Kelly Smith, now faces charges, but are schools doing enough to keep the digital boundaries between students and teachers far enough apart? News 5 took a look at current policies.
When it comes to texting, email, and social media, how far is too far when it comes to students and teachers?
Peggy Campbell, assistant director for Carter County Schools, told us staff and student communication conduct is addressed every year before school starts. "We do not want any of our teachers to use text or email for any purposes other than work-related information to students about school activities," Campbell noted.
Even so, we discovered you won't find that spelled out in school board policy. "We made our policy general so that it states that without saying it," said Campbell.
News 5 got a copy of the staff-student relationship code. The policy states, 'Staff members shall use good judgment in their relationships with students beyond their work responsibilities and/or outside the school setting and shall avoid excessive informal and social involvement.'
We learned that's exactly what's outlined in Johnson City Schools' policy. "We see that there is a place for communication with technology, but it's very important that our employees use it appropriately," said Debra Bentley, the communications supervisor for Johnson City Schools.
Bentley told us stopping all electronic communication between students and teachers isn't logical, especially when it comes to keeping coaches and players connected.
But, Bentley said there are rules. "All players of the team receive the same text. Students are not texted individually," Bentley said.
Parents we talked to seemed to agree; these boundaries aren't black and white, but judgment is key. "It may be okay as far as homework assignments, or it they need to get to their field in time if they need to get to after school activities, but that should be it," said Melissa Palazzo, a mother of teenagers.
"Any type of student-teacher interaction that is a little excessive, I think would be a little inappropriate," said Nicole Ballard, another mother of teenaged children.
We also checked with Sullivan County Schools and found out their staff is also not directly prohibited from using Facebook and texting to communicate with students, but we're told it is strongly discouraged.
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