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When Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry launched an unprecedented experiment in flexible work scheduling two years ago, he had high hopes it might ultimately transform the federal workplace.
"If flexibility can succeed in the federal government," Berry said, "it can succeed anywhere."
OPM's experiment was called the Results-Only Work Environment program, or ROWE, a unique management style first piloted at Best Buy in 2003. The ROWE method gives employees complete control over when and where they work, as long as they get the job done.
But in the end, the inability of managers to hold employees accountable for their performance scuttled the project.
According to a December 2011 report prepared by consulting firm Deloitte — obtained exclusively by Federal Times through a Freedom of Information Act request — OPM managers proved unable to hold poor performers accountable, work quality slumped in some cases, and employees had no idea if they were succeeding because they weren't getting enough manager feedback. The pilot fizzled and was abandoned after a year in the field.
OPM did not respond to requests for comment. Berry told reporters in March that ROWE ended up being "a mixed bag."
"We tried it, and we gave it a good run," Berry said in March. "We're not doing it anymore."
But Jody Thompson, who helped create ROWE with colleague Cali Ressler in 2003 when they worked at Best Buy, thinks OPM gave up too soon and didn't make the culture changes necessary for the project to succeed.
Thompson pointed to one of Deloitte's key findings: While the performance of the top 25 percent of claims processers who took part in the pilot improved, the performance of the middle 50 percent and the bottom 25 percent worsened.
Deloitte found several problems with managing employees during OPM's ROWE pilot, which ran from August 2010 to August 2011:
Most employees knew how their performance would be evaluated, but they weren't sure if they were meeting targets because managers weren't providing frequent, adequate feedback. As a result, employees who weren't getting the job done didn't feel like they needed to improve. Managers said they weren't sure how to enforce performance targets in such a flexible work environment — especially if the work employees produced wasn't quantifiable or easily defined.
Performance management was applied inconsistently. Some managers removed performance standards during the first phase of the pilot and, as a result, production and other performance measures dropped considerably.
Managers said they felt ill-equipped to measure employees' performance, reward high performers and hold poor performers accountable.
Deloitte said the improvement in productivity of top performers during the pilot "suggests that a results-focused workplace is most effective for performers who already have the ability to perform autonomously."
But Thompson said the solution is to fire underperformers.
"The consequences of not performing well shouldn't be, we're taking away your flexibility," Thompson said. "It's, you don't get to work here anymore. It's the inability to hold employees accountable [in the government] that's keeping ROWE from taking root."
Thompson said OPM's decision to abandon ROWE was disheartening.
"When we went to OPM to do the pilot, our hope was that they would step up to the plate and recognize weakness in their performance management and take that on," Thompson said. "Not stop ROWE, which is a foundation through which performance management can thrive. We saw with the OPM data, before we went in with ROWE, we knew people weren't performing. Why weren't they taking care of that before?"
Thompson and Ressler's company, CultureRX, has brought ROWE to companies such as Gap Inc. as well as parts of the Hennepin County government in Minnesota. Thompson said OPM subcontracted with CultureRX, through consulting firm ICF International, to help set up ROWE and train employees and managers. She said usually CultureRX guides its clients further after the initial training, but OPM never asked for more help.
After ROWE's demise, OPM launched a new effort to improve performance management called Goals-Engagement-Accountability-Results, or GEAR. Berry said in March that the lessons learned from ROWE will help initiatives such as GEAR.
But Thompson fears that GEAR won't succeed unless the government takes real steps that allow federal managers to hold poor performers accountable. "There's still that piece that's missing — managers being able to hold people accountable for results," Thompson said. "With GEAR or anything like that, you need to say here's exactly what we expect, here's how we measure, and either you perform to that or you don't have a job."
Thompson said many factors keep federal managers from disciplining or firing underperforming employees, such as complicated rules and grievance procedures, union protections, an unawareness of the options available for managers who need to take action and a real or perceived lack of support from senior leaders when they do.
"There's so many things that managers need to know and understand," Thompson said. "If we can distill it to performance and be real clear about that, it's easier for managers to work with [human resources] to manage that person out of the organization. If everybody [is] crystal clear on measurable performance, it's not personal then."
In March, Berry said employees' goals under ROWE weren't set clearly enough and the metrics used to hold employees accountable for getting their work done also were lacking. Also, communication between employees and managers was inadequate, Berry said, and OPM didn't do enough training to prepare everyone involved.
Employees who did not participate in the ROWE pilot said ROWE employees were less likely to respond to their phone calls and supervisors' requests in a timely manner and were less committed to helping as much as possible, according to the Deloitte report.
ROWE did succeed in at least one thing: improving employees' morale. The percentage of employees who felt they were "highly engaged" increased 12 percentage points, to 56 percent. Satisfaction with their organization increased 10 percentage points, satisfaction with work-life balance increased 18 percentage points, and the percentage of employees who felt they had the necessary resources to do their job increased 17 percentage points.
The amount of sick and personal leave taken by ROWE employees also decreased. Deloitte said pilot employees highly valued the flexibilities the experiment gave them.
But while employees' productivity under ROWE was questionable, managers thought more highly of them as the pilot proceeded. Deloitte said managers rated 82 percent of participants as "high performers" at the end of the project — 10 percentage points higher than at the beginning.
"While there may be several potential explanations as to why performance assessments have generally increased, it raises the question as to the degree to which employee performance is linked to organizational performance," the report said.
One ROWE participant who processes retirement claims, but asked to remain anonymous, said it was a wonderful program that should not have been cancelled. The workplace flexibility allowed him to efficiently work around doctor appointments or other personal matters, and use less leave.
"It was the perfect balance of mixing work and life events," he said.
He said that after ROWE's flexibilities were taken away last year, the productivity of retirement claims processors immediately slumped. He said that a month later, his managers restored some — but not all — of the flexibilities under ROWE and things improved.
"I believe this renewed flexibility is one of the main reasons we have been able to tackle the [pension] backlog so successfully," he said. "Just imagine what we could have done had ROWE never ended."


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Three event highlights
1 JasTay Community Services along with JasTay Enterprise and Bump It Loud Entertainment will sponsor an event at Dotson Park today to promote the services they offer.
2 The event will include a booth for boys ages 13-18 to enroll in JasTay's Athletic Youth Association, as well as drama and puppetry presented by Oneway Inner City Youth?Ministries of Alexandria.
3 If you have questions about recent changes to Medicaid, a booth will be set up with someone to provide answers and information about different insurance options.
Why you should attend
JasTay Community Services has been serving both children and adults in Morehouse Parish since 1996 through programs that range from daycare to personal care services. The JasTay Athletic Youth gets boys involved in activities such as sports and after-school tutoring. JastTay assistant director George Taylor said today's event at Dotson Park "is a project that we're doing to try and pull the community together."
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When: OICYM will begin at 6 p.m. Saturday.
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Senior Toby Ring on campus at Geneseo's InterFaith Center.
GENESEO, N.Y. - A Geneseo student has won a national leadership award from Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life, the largest Jewish campus organization in the world.
Toby Ring, a senior from Massapequa, N.Y., received a Philip H. and Suzi Rudd Cohen Student Exemplar of Excellence Award at the recent Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly in Denver. The annual award goes to five students who have displayed exemplary leadership on their campuses by inspiring others to act and lead, building meaningful relationships, fostering innovation and creativity and modeling and inspiring Jewish growth.
"I think this award is more of a reflection of the progress of Geneseo Hillel," said Ring. "In the past few years, Hillel at Geneseo has grown so much, now attracting over 70 students at our larger events. Our executive board has worked hard to grow Hillel with the ever-increasing Jewish population on campus, and I am just lucky to have been a part of it."
Ring is a history and adolescent education major at Geneseo. He has been an active member and leader of Geneseo Hillel for several years, currently serving as president of the Hillel Student Board.
"Toby has had a major impact on Hillel and the lives of Jewish students at Geneseo," said Judy Abelman, executive director of Hillel of the Rochester Area Colleges. "Through his leadership and commitment, Toby has been an inspiration for other students. When he graduates this spring, he will leave quite a legacy."
The four other awards went to students from Rutgers University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Emory University and Washington University in St. Louis. Each winner received a prize of $150 and a plaque in recognition of outstanding leadership efforts.
"Toby is well-deserving of this leadership award," said Hillel President and CEO Wayne L. Firestone. "He's set an example that every student -Jewish or otherwise - can follow."
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I have two monitors, one is DELL P2411H 24" and the other is BenQ FP91G+ 19". All the times when I restart the PC I have to reconfigure the absolute position. How can I fix that?
I fixed this by editing the monitors.xml file in your .config folder. You can see a more detailed description with example here...Ubuntu 11.10 dual monitor set up instructions
But briefly you can try this:
This will hopefully fix it for you too.
I have a solution that works in my case:
It is only after doing it twice, with AMD app. and default app. that my settings stay.
Note that I add the pictures of icon because I m not sure of the name of the application in english, most of the time a good picture is better than a good explication.
AND you better check the content of your
See instructions for how to configure lightdm to run a script before the login screen appears and/or desktop session starts here and here.
One improvement that you could do over the previously mentioned instructions is to change the script so that the xrandr command is executed only when your external monitor is connected (in case you have an external monitor attached to a laptop). Mine looks something like this:
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VAN ALSTYNE, TEXAS -- Today in Van Alstyne, the halls were void of students and the teachers were the ones getting schooled. Fifty Van Alstyne High School teachers are sacrificing some of their summer break to unlock new tools for the classroom.
"I feel blessed to have a group of teachers that are willing to give up part of their summer and explore how they can do a better job in the classroom," Van Alstyne Superintendent John Spies said.
Superintendent John Spies used grant money to strike a deal with the high school teachers; attend today's technology training and get an iPad for the classroom.
"There were so many perks to joining the training. I just couldn't refuse," Van Alstyne High School teacher Leigh Evans said.
Spies is one of 30 North Texas superintendents working to transform teaching to meet the needs of the 21st century.
"With all the technology being used in the schools today, it still appears that we're really teaching like we taught in the Industrial Revolution," Spies said.
The teachers say they're on board with integrating new technology into the curriculum.
"iTunes, iPhone, everything. You might as well harness that and use that. And then the kids are more interested, and when they're more interested, they're more likely to learn," Van Alstyne High School teacher Darrell Hardcastle said.
"It's the information age, so kids need to know how to search information and find results," Evans said.
Spies says just because students will have great technology at their fingertips doesn't make the teachers unnecessary.
"Teacher is still the critical piece to make sure engagement's taking place and that students are learning at a high level. I think that's happening here in the training that we're doing this summer with our teachers is even bringing that to a higher level," Spies said.
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Power of Thoughts…Power of Imagery
"Your thoughts shape your reality…" Imagination is more powerful than the will. Your images are a blueprint that shape your performance. See it. Believe it. Do it.
Run positive pictures on your mental TV" These are all quotes by Dr. Saul Miller
Difficulties can arise at any time in life. Being aware of this and accepting the fact that things can happen, will help you get through the process of life. Should you come across what might feel like an obstacle at
times, you might consider trying a simple affirmation ~ a few words to repeat to yourself ~ that can give you the strength and patience needed to get through the challenge.
Affirmations such as… "This is only temporary" no matter how uncomfortable you may feel during this time, the experience can be an opportunity for growth in more ways than one…Physically, Mentally, Emotionally and Spiritually.
When you feel Physically challenged ~ "The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine." ~John Howard
When you feel Mentally challenged ~ "Life
is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use". ~ Charles M. Schulz
When you feel Emotionally challenged ~ "Endurance
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William Barclay
When you feel Spiritually challenged ~ "A bicycle ride is a flight from sadness" ~ James E. Starrs
To enhance your Spinning® and/or cycling experience in your teaching or personal training, you will want to become more aware of how your thoughts can influence your performance. You will also want to develop a plan of power thoughts that will really make your experience a memory never to be forgotten.
Creating the "right" feelings, such as ease and power, and by using proper breathing techniques you can reach any goal in life. Becoming aware of the thoughts you create while striving to achieve your goal(s) and tuning into on your mental television and the feelings and images you bring to your mind can help you perform at your highest potential. Every one of us is a performer in some way. As a Spinning® Instructor, Enthusiast, or Cyclist, you perform even better by improving your focus and programming.
Training your mind is like training your body. When striving to achieve a certain goal, over time you create a plan, put in the effort by following a physical training program to obtain an aerobic base and improve your breathing and strengthen your heart. You have been working on your anaerobic base to strengthen your legs and your upper body for power and climbing. You have been eating properly to condition your body to utilize proper stores of energy at the right times. Now it's time
to implement your mental program.
Start by creating power words to help build your strengthen your confidence and your self-esteem. These
words should be strong enough to create a feeling and a picture that will increase your power, direction and potential.
Just like with your physical routines, repetition builds strength. Repeat often the words you choose to create your reality. Mentally rehearse your goal. Imagine your
performance and the end result. Once you choose your power words chain them together to make a script by selecting desired feelings, thoughts and affirmations. Here are some examples:
I am finding a rhythm, using the riders in front of me for pacing
I climb seated, standing when the incline gets steeper. This is fun! I love this!
As I reach the finish I know I will have given my best effort.
Affirmations that call out your strengths and highlight your potential might be…
I am very strong. I am a climber.
I use my breath to turn the wheel.
I see opportunities.
I use my breathing to pump and smooth.
Most of all remember why you decided to ride...be it indoors or out.
What are some of powerful thoughts that get you through your challenges?
Resource: Miller, S. Hill, P. (1999). Sports psychology for cyclists. Boulder, CO: Velo Press.


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Technology and science knowledge is increasing exponentially, making it difficult for teachers in grades K-12 to stay current. Few opportunities exist for them to update their skills and abilities in biotechnology and general sciences.
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The Department of Agricultural Education in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences developed an interdisciplinary science skills workshop that has reached almost 500 teachers per year over the past decade. Teachers learn hands-on technical skills in subjects such as biotechnology and aquaculture, and also the methods they can use to teach these skills in their classrooms. Sponsored by the Arizona Department of Education, this professional development project is designed to help Arizona public school teachers become more effective educators.
In addition, faculty members in the department have focused on improving instruction in the agricultural science programs by developing curricula and methodologies in the following areas: agribusiness, leadership, agricultural mechanics, companion animal care and management, equine science, American Indian agriculture, livestock production management, aquaculture and fisheries management, and livestock breeding. Most of these materials have been developed to enhance teaching in secondary schools.
The 500 teachers completing the science workshops each year teach their newfound skills to approximately 50,000 students throughout Arizona. These teachers represent 85 percent of Arizona high schools.
"I was able to walk away from the workshop with something readily adaptable to the classroom that would introduce my students to new ideas in science and technology." -teacher, Chino Valley High School, Arizona.
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STEUBENVILLE — City Council offered the vacant city manager position to the sole remaining candidate Saturday afternoon, and that person is expected to make his decision about accepting or rejecting......
Does it matter if the only thing found was misdemeanors and fines? I don't think so, if laws were broken they need to be held accountable. Simply because the crimes were not felonies does not mean that they are any lesser. I do pray that the AG was able to pinpoint who served up the alcohol to these teens as well as get to the bottom of why no adults intervened throughout the entire evening. That's something I just can't wrap my head around. Not one adult acted responsibly. That needs addressed by the AG. Whether intentional or not, a young girl was viciously victimized because the adults failed to respond appropriately which should be a felony in my opinion. Child neglect resulting in serious physical harm or at the very least child endangerment charges need to be filed. Whether they knew what was going on or not is irrelevant, what matters is they knew there were minors in there home and as such should have monitored the situation. .
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Yes, city council members are participating and members of our health care. As for the AG, from what I am hearing the only thing they are able to find are misdemeanors charges and fines. I guess we have to wait and wait for the conclusion if there ever is one. Also from what I have heard, if council does not pick a manager in time, there is a stipulation that they can ask for more time which will take it to almost the first of the year. Even if council is paying more for health care they voted for it plus the police. They still get many more perks , We need to do away with those, that way only Steubenville citizens on council will run because they want to see change and for the better of the city not the perks.
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The fact that " those boys raped that girl " will continue to be an embarrassment to this area until the AG , and the Steubenville Mafia stop kissing the ***es of those who are guilty in this case. After over a year of so called "investigation" It's about time to let people know WHO is responsible.
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Very thought provoking questions floatingtheriver. I still think a strong-mayor would serve the residents better. That way we can elect who WE think would do the best job instead of having someone thrust upon us that we know absolutely nothing about. The reaction from some after those boys raped that girl was slightly embarrassing. The citizens should have the chance to VOTE on who they think should be running the city. If Mucci is good enough to act as manager he's good enough to be mayor in a strong-mayor situation. The city could also save money by eliminating the city manager position.
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One more. The council passed an ordnance in early spring to establish a charter review committee what happened to this and was it a ploy to get rid of the former manager.
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The first thing is Ohio past legislation back a couple years ago stating no city could mandate residency (thank you Akron fire fighters), oh well Steubenville doesn't have to go by the state laws and the second is the fine mayor of Steubenville can't act as city manager for more than 120 days, guess what that time is up so the city needs to stop paying him 90k a year. I would also like to know if council members are participating in the health care, I would say not because that would cost them more than what they make. Steubenville you are walking on very thin ice. The question is are you going to step up and do something the way it is suppose to be done or are you going to continue business as usual? I'm guessing the later.
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How long do I need to cook fresh apples (sliced) in the oven (at 350 degrees) to get a good apple pie consistency?
Various factors influence the consistency of an apple when it bakes.
So you see there are no hard and fast answers. But knowledge of these factors might help you build up experience to make a qualified guess in each case.
It really depends on a lot of things, as Jay said in his comment, not just the preparation of the pie (its depth, the amount of liquid/goop, whether it's covered) but also personal preferences, and the crispness of the apples you've decided to use.
Use a recipe as a guideline, and then check it periodically as it approaches the end time. If the apples aren't cooked enough for you and the crust is starting to brown, you can cover it loosely with foil to protect it. Remember what worked for the next time, and you should be set.


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9 Apr 2012 9:15 AM #1
Cloud - can be internally hosted?
We're very interested in a data synchronization solution for our mobile enterprise applications, and Sencha.io looks promising for that, but we would need to store the server-side data behind our firewall.
Can we host the cloud storage on our servers, or does Sencha.io only work with a Sencha-hosted cloud?
Otherwise, are there other recommended ways to sync data using Sencha frameworks
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9 Apr 2012 10:23 AM #3
Thanks for the quick reply. Does the Sencha Touch framework otherwise lend itself to the task of synchronizing data between the device and server? Are there recommended approaches or tutorials addressing device/server data synchronization scenarios using Sencha?
28 Apr 2012 6:33 AM #4
Wow, I totally missed this thread. I'm sorry that we didn't reply sooner.
> Does the Sencha Touch framework otherwise lend itself to the task of synchronizing data between the device and server?
Yes, the sync store is designed for efficient synchronization of data from device to server.
>Are there recommended approaches or tutorials addressing device/server data synchronization scenarios using Sencha?
We do not yet have much documentation available other than a senchacon presentation, and the API documentation. There are some tutorial guides in the documentation, which might help you get going.
1 May 2012 5:57 AM #5
I'll look into the sync store functionality. Thanks for the info.
1 May 2012 6:52 AM #6
...sorry but I guess I have a few more questions as I'm not immediately finding sync store info looking at the docs...
Any quick hints, at least at a high level, on what API components or libraries come into play here? Is sync store a separate component/class or is it more a technique of using a store with a proxy and such? This is not a part of Sencha IO, right?
Is the respective Senchacon presentation made available as a link?
Thanks for any help!
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1 May 2012 4:37 PM #8
The sync store is actually a proxy, and you use it just like any other proxy:
Ext.define("Model", {
extend: "Ext.data.Model",
config: {
fields: [
{name: 'name', type:'string'},
var store= Ext.create('Ext.data.Store',{
model: 'Model',
proxy: {
type: 'syncstorage',
id: 'contacts'
2 May 2012 5:24 AM #9
Ok. It's becoming clear. Thanks again for the help.
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We're working on an update to the documentation, which we will publish later today. I'll email you the link when it's done.


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I am often making a basic leavened bread for some basic recipes, like naan, burek, focaccia, pizza, etc. However, I find that dry active yeast is prohibitively expensive, considering it is a self-replicating living organism. Is there a way to effectively create and store yeast for a reasonable period of time (~3 months) from a mother spore?
In order to store yeast for that period of time it has to be make inactive, and the process to do that yourself is challenging, time consuming, and you'd need specialist equipment. It would be prohibitive in both time and cost, far above just buying yeast.
You can of course make a starter by mixing equal amounts of flour and water plus some yeast, this will keep the yeast alive by feeding it, and you can keep it alive indefinitely by feeding it once per week. You add some of the starter to your bread and it supplies active yeast.
You can "hibernate" a yeast starter in various ways.
Firstly, if you leave a starter in the fridge, and neglect to feed it, it can be revived after months or even years, by kneading it into some fresh dough, and feeding it as normal for a few days.
Secondly, you can freeze a starter. After thawing it, again knead into fresh dough, and feed as normal, and once again you'll have a healthy starter after a few days.
Thirdly, you can preserve a starter by drying it. Spread some starter very thinly on parchment paper, and allow it to dry completely. Crumble this into fresh dough to create a new starter containing the old yeast.
If you bake regularly, though, you don't need to do any of this. Just keep a starter continuously fed. Never use all of it at once, but stir in some fresh water and flour to replace what you've used.
If you're lucky, or careful, you can preserve the strain of yeast you start with. Normally, however, even if you start with commercial yeast, a wild strain will soon become dominant, and what you have there is a sourdough. Many people prefer sourdough, but you do have to get used to its slower action and its more acidic flavour.
Preventing other strains from colonising, is one of the complexities that contributes to the cost of producing commercial dry active yeast. However, as others have noted, bought in tubs rather than sachets, it should be very cheap compared to the other ingredients in your bread.
You can also try to capture "wild" yeast. Place a glass with water and flour just covered with some fine mesh (so no insects or large particles fall into it) and leave it overnight exposed out. Some yeast you catch would be terrible for making bread but some others would yield a great sourdough. Once you find you you like you can keep it alive forever in the manner answer 1 describes.
I would also recommend going for the "starer idea", using water, flour and a little yeast. I did this last year for severeal months and it worked really well for me (used it to bake bread most of the time).
However, I just wanted to add, that I know this kind of starter-usage as sourdough, rather than yeast.


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After the end of the softball season, several Lady Bulldog softball players were the recipients of various honors.
Kelsey Rogers was named the Black Diamond Conference MVP and a member of the first team. Rogers was awarded the team's offensive award. Rogers was also an All-South selection and a second team All-State team member.
Alexa Combs was also a BDC first team member and an All-South selection. Combs was also names to the All-State third team.
Kaylea Chappelle was named to the Black Diamond Conference second team.
Bailey Winters was named to the Black Diamond Conference second team.
Emma Bachman was a Black Diamond Conference honorable mention and received a softball athletic scholarship to Rend Lake.
Jerrica Money was awarded the team's most improved award.
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I'm looking for a "personal" equivalent for the
/etc/fstab file, that apply only on my account (on login); does such a file exists? Or is it more complicated?
I'm looking for a "personal" equivalent for the
In case we need to always mount a drive after we log in to our account but do not want this drive mounted at boot we may want to consider mounting by udisks. Below command will e.g. mount the drive
This command can be added to a script, or put in autostart applications if needed.
See also these related questions here:
No you can not. But it is not too complicated to do: all you need to do is create a script that manually adds the mount points you need and execute that script from your login.
Lets assume this is the fstab entry for a personal mount that you want only mounted if you login:
the manual mount could be:
So if you put this in a script (
A similar command to Takkat's is the following:
this will mount the device
Note: The manpage for this command exists only in 12.10+, so I'm assuming this is only available for 12.10+.
Do you mean that you have several users of your system and you want them to have different access rights to different volumes on your machine?
If so, then we're in the same boat. I have a 'common' NTFS drive that I want to be available to any user of my machine. On the other hand I also have a 'work' NTFS drive that should be accessible only by me (save root, of course, but then again that's me).
To achieve this I edited
Note: you need to have create respective subdirectories (/COMMON, /WORK) in /media directory first.
If you happen to use KDE, you can go to
System Settings->Hardware->Removable Devices and check the appropriate box next to your partition. The options are Automount on Login and Automount on Attach.
This has been available for awhile - I think since karmic. Since it's part of the desktop, I'm pretty sure these settings would apply on a per user basis.


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Most Memorable Moments of 2013-14: No. 1July 18, 2014
For the first time, AUTrojans.com has counted down Anderson University athletics' 25 most memorable games, matches and meets from the 2013-14 academic year. This season's countdown began on Monday, June 16 and continued throughout the summer.
Be sure to check AUTrojans.com during the offseason to continue reliving all the highlights of another successful year at Anderson.
Trojan Softball Claims South Atlantic Conference Tournament Championship
April 27, 2014
HARROGATE, Tenn. – Abby Child continued her offensive assault and the Trojan pitchers dazzled in six innings on the mound as the second-seeded Anderson Trojans capped their unblemished tournament run by capturing a 5-0 win over the third-seeded Wingate Bulldogs in the title game of the 2014 Food Lion South Atlantic Conference Softball Championship at Dorothy Neely Field.
By virtue of claiming the SAC Championship, Anderson (42-10) earns the league's automatic berth to the NCAA Division II Southeast Regional, while Wingate (36-18) will seek an at-large selection.
Both the Trojans and Bulldogs used victories over the Catawba Indians on Saturday to set up Sunday's championship clash, as Anderson's Abby Child belted a two-run, walk-off home run in the bottom of the seventh against the Indians, while the Bulldogs nabbed an 8-0 win over the shell-shocked Indians just over an hour later. Wingate played its way out of the loser's bracket after dropping a 6-3 decision to these very same Trojans on Friday afternoon.
While Wingate entered Sunday's affair leading the SAC tournament field in ERA with a 1.53 mark in 32 innings pitched, the Trojans boasted six of the eight runs charged against the Bulldog staff in tournament play. Anderson nearly repeated that effort on Sunday, collecting five runs with at least one score in the second, third and fourth frames.
Anderson senior Abby Child went 2-for-3 with three RBI and a walk, finishing off a sensational all-around performance for the shortstop. Child posted a gaudy .583 average with seven hits, eight RBI and three homers in 12 official at-bats. Jessica Neidigh added a pair of hits with two runs in Sunday's title bout.
Courtney Czentnar slashed a leadoff double down the left-field line and Rebecca Martin was hit on the ankle by a 1-2 pitch to put the Trojans in business in the bottom of the second. Catcher Laura Jansky bunted the runners into scoring position for Bri Cason. Cason ripped a liner directly at Wingate shortstop Alexis Burrell, who snagged it for the second out of the inning. On the catch, Martin was left hanging off of second base, but Burrell's throw sailed into right field to score Czentnar from third.
Anderson went right back to work in the bottom of the third as Neidigh singled and Molly Child doubled to put a pair of runners on with no outs. A gutsy, 11-pitch at-bat for Abby Child resulted in a scorched two-run, two-bagger off of the bottom of the wall in left-center. Child fouled off five of the last six pitches she saw from All-SAC First Team selection Stacey Houser before narrowly missing her fourth home run of the tournament, which would have broken the SAC career record for bombs.
The Trojans added a crooked number to the scoreboard again in the bottom of the fourth as Charlotte Sieber was plunked by a pitch and Neidigh snuck a double into the gap in left-center. Molly Child bounced a grounder to second baseman Mellena Helms in the next at-bat, and Helms fielded it cleanly, but Sieber avoided the tag at home with a heads up slide. Abby Child crested the lead to 5-0 with an RBI single just past the outstretched hand of Helms.
While all that was happening for the Trojans at the plate, Anderson starter Katelyn Howser threw six-straight zeroes on the scoreboard, finishing her stellar outing without allowing a hit to the final 17 batters she faced. Howser picked up her third win of the SAC Championship, surrendering only two hits with two strikeouts and two walks in six innings before giving way to Lauren Rudesheim in the final frame. Rudesheim worked around a leadoff single to put Wingate away without a run.
Kayla Saliga went 2-for-2 for the Bulldogs, while Mellena Helms was 1-for-3, accounted for the only three hits charged against either Howser or Rudesheim. Wingate starter Stacey Houser was handed the loss after allowing six hits and five runs (four earned) with five strikeouts in four innings pitched. Taylor Bates stepped in for two innings of relief, and she did not allow a hit with two strikeouts during that stretch.
AUTrojans.com's Most Memorable Moments of 2013-14
25. Women's Tennis 6, Carson-Newman 3 – April 11, 2014
24. Setro Finishes Sixth at State Farm Intercollegiate – Oct. 14, 2013
23. Baseball 5, Southern Wesleyan 2 - March 5, 2014
22. Women's Cross Country Finishes 4th at SAC Championships - Oct. 14, 2013
21. Katie Eskew Earns All-Tournament Honors at Patsy Rendleman Invitational – Oct. 15, 2013
20. Men's Tennis 5, Erskine 4 - April 10, 2014
19. Men's Cross Country Finishes Third at SAC Championships – Oct. 26, 2013
18. Women's Soccer 1, Lincoln Memorial 0 – Oct. 19, 2013
17. Freshman Ben Boerma Sets School Record in 5000 meter (Outdoor) – March 21, 2014
16. Jones Drains Game-Winning Shot to Lift Trojans over Carson-Newman – Jan. 29, 2014
15. Men's Soccer 2, Young Harris 1 – Sept. 11, 2013
14. Swygert's Walk-Off Grand Slam Propels Trojans to Sweep of Tusculum - April 1, 2014
13. Women's Basketball 71, Lenoir-Rhyne 70 – Nov. 23, 2013
12. Baseball 8, Erskine 7 – April 21, 2014
11. Men's Basketball Stuns 13th-Ranked Railsplitters With Second-Half Rally – Nov. 26, 2013
10. Abby Child's Walk-off Home Run Lifts AU Past Catawba in SAC Tournament – April 26, 2014
9. Women's Basketball 71, Lincoln Memorial 64 - March 5, 2014
8. Men's Soccer 1, Mars Hill 0 - Nov. 8, 2013
7. Volleyball Upsets Tusculum, 3-2 – Nov. 23, 2013
6. Men's Basketball 100, Coker 89 – March 8, 2014
5. Wrestling's Hale Qualifies for NCAA Championships - March 1, 2014
4. Volleyball Defeats Tusculum, 3-1, in NCAA Regional - Dec. 5, 2013
3. Softball Sweeps Coker, 2-1 and 8-5 – April 18, 2014
2. Brooklyn Watt Named SAC Field Athlete of the Year – April 19, 2014
1. Softball Blanks Wingate, 5-0, to Win SAC Tournament – April 27, 2014


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In M. Schlichting's paper, he defines the negative $K$-theory for derived categories. In this he states that for $\mathcal{A}$ an idempotent complete (see below) triangulated category, $K_{-1}(\mathcal{A}) = 0$ is equivalent to the fact that for any full triangle embedding $\mathcal{A} \hookrightarrow \mathcal{B}$ of $\mathcal{A}$ into an idempotent complete triangulated category $\mathcal{B}$, we have that $\mathcal{B}/\mathcal{A}$ is also idempotent complete.
An additive category is said to be idempotent complete (sometimes called Karoubian) if for every idempotent $e: A \rightarrow A, \hspace{2pt} e^2 = e$ defines a splitting $A = Im(e)\oplus Ker(e)$.
My question is, what is the importance of this quotient category $\mathcal{B}/\mathcal{A}$ being idempotent complete?
I would even be happy if the following, more specific question were answered. For a ring R, Bass defined the negative $K$-groups to be the cokernel of the map
$K_{-(n-1)}(R[t]) \oplus K_{-(n-1)}(R[t^{-1}]) \rightarrow K_{-(n-1)}(R[t, t^{-1}])$, for $n \geq 0$.
If $R$ is regular, by the homotopy invariance property of the $K$-groups, $K_{-1}(R) = 0$. It is proven in Schlichting's paper that the negative $K$-groups for a ring defined this way coincide with the negative $K$-groups of the category $Ch^b(Proj(R))$ of bounded chain complexes of the exact category of projective $R$-modules. The more specific question is what is the significance of the above quotient condition where $\mathcal{A}$ is the category $Ch^b(Proj(R))$?


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Let $X$ be a compact complex manifold. By definition, $Pic(X)={\rm H^1}(X,\mathcal{O}^\times)$. We know a lot about this group. What is known about the groups ${\rm H^n}(X,\mathcal{O}^\times)$ for $n\ge 2$?
A bit more specialized question. It is well known that for a nonsingular projective complex variety $X$ the natural map $${\rm H^1}(X,\mathcal{O}^\times)\to{\rm H^1}(X,\mathcal{M}^\times)$$ is trivial. What is known about the kernel of the same map for $n=2$ or $n=3$? (Here $\mathcal{M}^\times$ is the sheaf of nonzero meromorphic functions, and the topology is the strong one).


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March 21 is Human Rights Day in South Africa, a public holiday in commemoration of the Sharpeville Massacre of 1960, when police opened fire on a crowd of people protesting South Africa's racist pass laws. About 70 people were killed in the ensuing violence, and the event marked a turning point in the history of South Africa's struggle – a history that would eventually lead to the establishment of a democratic system, and freedom for all South Africans.
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What is the difference in the purpose of DH and RSA? Aren't they both public-key encryption?
The difference is subtle.
RSA is used to come up with a public/private key pair for asymmetric ("public-key") encryption:
It just so happens that -- in practice -- RSA's results are subsequently used to generate a symmetric key.
Yes, they're both public key systems. The difference in the way that you're asking is that Diffie-Hellman relies on the hardness of taking logarithms (actually discrete logs, but just don't worry about that for now). RSA relies on the hardness of factoring.
Interestingly, the two problems are related. There are mathematical theorems that say that a structural problem in one means there's a structural problem in the other. But they are two distinct families of public key crypto, the logarithm family and the factoring family.
Elliptic curve crypto, by the way, is just logarithm-family crypto on a different finite field than modular arithmetic. If that just sailed over your head, I can explain later.


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In installing a dishwasher on a dedicated 20amp circuit on 12g wiring, I've come short about 5 feet to run a line. I have some surplus, heavier, 10g wire. Would it be safe to install a junction box and hook 10g wire to the existing 12g wire to bring enough wire to the dishwasher?
I don't like it since it risks potential confusion in the future as to whether the circuit could be upgraded to 30amps, but if you're going to do it, use the 10g wire at the end of the run and not at the breaker panel where the mistake would be easier to make.
Yes, you can use larger wire. However if you are putting in a junction box it must remain accessible. That means you cannot cover it with drywall or hide it behind anything.


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RB's new Director announced
Posted 14 June 2011 - 03:52 AM
Press release
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Posted 14 June 2011 - 08:18 AM
I was told last year it would be Wayne McGregor, my personal hope was that it would be Alexei Ratmansky, most thought it would be Bruce Sansom: this is a surprise.
I don't think Ratmansky would make sense as he doesn't have any connection to RB's heritage but I expect him to succceed Kevin McKenzie as ABT's artistic director. I thought Bruce Sansom was the front runner, so Kevin O'Hare is a surprise to me. The press release also mentioned Wheeldon will be part of RB's articstic team, any further detail on that? Will Wheeldon join RB as resident choreograher in additon to Wayne McGregor?
Posted 14 June 2011 - 11:49 AM
The press release also mentioned Wheeldon will be part of RB's articstic team, any further detail on that? Will Wheeldon join RB as resident choreograher in additon to Wayne McGregor?
There's no more information so far - it will be interesting to see if McGregor retains his current title and responsiblities, and if so how Wheeldon fits in. But I'd guess we won't hear about the details just yet.
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Posted 14 June 2011 - 05:44 PM
Well at least he's a dancer! I was afraid we were talking some sort of corporate executive... And it frees the choreographers from administrative duties...which is no small accomplishment.
Well, actually, I think that's exactly what they do have in O'Hare. A pleasent, unremarkable, efficient administrator who will do exactly what the board made up of executives tell him to do.
This isn't artistic direction, this is flaccid status quo being preserved.
Kevin O'Hare seems like a nice man. Who is happy to keep the huge onus on three act money spinners danced indifferently, an influx of foreign stars, the odd political promotion of a mediocre RBS product, the egregious wobblings of Mcgregor with a couple of nods to classicism with Wheeldon every other season.
The RB hasn't had a clear artistic goal or purpose in decades, what Mason has done is give some stability in what has been a fairly staid and artistically directionless tenure. What she has done is make the RB a nice place to go, with astronomical prices, which the corporate crowd is happy to pay because it's a "nice" night out, in a "nice" place to go and isn't ballet... "nice".
ADs, good ADs are bastards, they're uncompromising, they have clear vision, they revolutionise companies, their appointment causes excitement and most importantly they make the companies they head places to be, they rejuvenate and galvanise. This appointment is just terrible, Sansom could have been interesting, Nunn & Trevitt would have been extremely interesting, Ratmansky would never have stayed, though he would have been brilliant. O'Hare is just a man in a grey suit doing what the men in grey suits tell him to do.
Posted 14 June 2011 - 06:52 PM
ADs, good ADs are bastards
And so are bad ones.
Being a ruthless jackass isn't a mark of artistic genius.
It only signifies the intention to wield power.
Posted 14 June 2011 - 07:57 PM
Posted 14 June 2011 - 11:37 PM
I've got many happy memories of Kevin O'Hare as a dancer and as company manager of BRB for three years.
I cried for the first time watching ballet at one of Kevin's performances (in my early ballet watching days) - it was a big tent performance of Giselle with Samira Saidi as Giselle and Kevin dancing Albrecht. He is still my definitive Edward II and one of my most favourite Oberons. He was also terrific as both Beenstock and Prosser in Hobson's Choice.
He and his brother Michael (now ballet master at BRB), along with Joseph Cipolla, were synonymous with BRB for many years until their retirements.
I can also remember him organising a charity gala that was really good fun during his time as a dancer.
As company manager my experience of him was as a member of the public and I think he was a terrific public-facing ambassador for the company.
I do not know him personally but looking back at his education and career who can doubt that the best of the traditions of the Royal Ballet will be in safe and generous hands alongside any plans he may have to move the company forward.
All the BRB fans I know are thrilled by his appointment.
Posted 15 June 2011 - 12:31 AM
ADs, good ADs are bastards
And so are bad ones.
Being a ruthless jackass isn't a mark of artistic genius.
It only signifies the intention to wield power.
That's true Leigh, but the point is that I'm not talking about a ruthless intention to wield power, nor do I think that being power crazed is the mark of a good or bad AD, nor even the mark of a bastard, moreover being a bastard isn't necessarily a bad thing.
But one thing a great AD isn't, and the RB needs a great AD, it hasn't had one in forty years, but great ADs aren't nice men in admin roles who've bizarrely been elevated to top dog position when other better qualified and more exciting candidates were rejected.
Rock asks how can one know so much about him before he's done anything? And that's just it, one doesn't know anything about him except that everyone thinks he's a "good bloke", he's very good at organising a spread sheet and there's a certain partisan zeal (and understandably) from the old BRB audience who are delighted that one of their favourite dancers who went into middle management is now bizarrely AD.
If you look at O'Hare's "outline" of what he intends doing for the RB, it's basically a carbon copy of Mason, who while she has given a certain stability to the RB by turning it into a carbon copy of the ABT model, erosion of company style, stagnation of promoting home talent in favour of starry imports, political home promotions, overwhelming onus on three act moneyspinning classics, reduced performances, increased prices etc Basically turning the RB into a business model rather than a force of artistic direction. Okay, I get that times are hard, but there's no way that the RB can be classed as a world-class company anymore when it had phenomenal home grown talent dancing, choreographing. Though to their credit ABT know in Ratmansky that they have an artistic force who's the real deal.
I've no doubt that O'Hare's fans of which there are many are delighted, and that's cool, I'm not attacking him as a person nor am I attacking his BRB fans. But this is a truly depressing appointment because you know what you're going to get a caretaker, not an AD, who will carry on the same old same old for another 10/15 years. Nice man, doing what he's told, putting his spreadsheets and board meetings and directives before artistic direction. He's not an AD he's an administator, so let him administrate.
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Posted 15 June 2011 - 04:40 AM
It's all very well saying that an iconoclast would be welcome (paraphrasing) but I'm equally sure that any Director needs good administrative skills and perhaps the incoming incumbent has spent his time building on these skills while biding his time to lead the company in new directions firmly from the front.
No-one knows how he will perform in the role. The time to discuss that must surely be a couple of years in the future when he has got a season or two of his own under his belt.
Posted 15 June 2011 - 05:25 AM
As Rock said earlier "Let's give the guy a chance"!
It's all very well saying that an iconoclast would be welcome (paraphrasing) but I'm equally sure that any Director needs good administrative skills and perhaps the incoming incumbent has spent his time building on these skills while biding his time to lead the company in new directions firmly from the front.
No-one knows how he will perform in the role. The time to discuss that must surely be a couple of years in the future when he has got a season or two of his own under his belt.
I really have to disagree. Great ADs aren't administrators. The biggest mistake of the post Stretton era was extending Mason's contract from caretaker, which was necessary in the immediate aftermath, to AD lasting 11 years. In that time RB has lost all sense of direction, not just as a producing theatre, but in terms of its identity and purpose. Under Mason seat prices soared, the onus on three act classics became the dominant force, audiences dwindled in terms of ballet fans and the corporate sector was pursued at every other expense. The style of the RB became a homogenised mulch and the starry brought in principals hid the poor state of the school, the increasingly ragged corps, the almost zero chance of promotion and a company that looked, much of the time, as if it were phoning in their performances.
When Dowell got it right he really got it right, The Stravinsky Triple Bill, being a case in point, he also saw the benefit that one or two permanent guests could bring to the general level of technique, he also actively nurtured talent from within the ranks, which made the defections in the late 90s such a bitter blow for him. I'm certainly not saying he was brilliant, he wasn't, but he still saw that the identity of a company was intrinsic to its artistic purpose and direction.
We know what's happening in the coming seasons, another couple of McGregors, maybe another Wheeldon, 80% classics. There are going to be problems as the lions share of the princ.ipals are really reaching retirement, several have gone on too long. And then what's he going to do? He's answerable to the board, and the board aren't going to sanction rapid promotion to unknowns of talent from the lower ranks to three act evening length works where ticket prices now top $200 for a single seat. The RB isn't an artistic vehicle it's a star vehicle or a business vehicle
Saying that "an iconoclast would be welcome" isn't the point. What is an "iconoclast" anyway? What is needed is a strong, forceful, dynamic person capable of pushing a tired institution into a definite and thrilling direction. Look at Hubbe at RDB, Boal at PNB, even Eagling at ENB has dragged an incredibly beleaguered financially company, into a coherent, exciting body of dancers who when challenged really bring out the dancing goods.
Mashinka is right, the RB is mediocre, sure it has some great stars, and great dancers who are never given opportunities, but as an artistic institution it's mediocre and pretty directionless, or rather all directions lead to the boardroom. Where O'Hare, I'm sure looks very nice on a spreadsheet.
Only one ballet professional, Peter Wright was on the selection panel hiring the next AD. With this appointment it really shows.
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Features At A Glance
QuickScores.com is a website that benefits two distinct groups of users:
- Sports administrators who are tasked with creating schedules of games between teams or individuals.
- Athletes and coaches who need to know when their games are scheduled, and want to see the resulting scores and standings after the games have been played.
Quickly and easily create and configure your leagues and schedules
QuickScores makes it very quick and easy for an administrator to create a new league, define the teams in the league, define when games will be played during a week, and then generate the resulting schedule of games. Because the schedule is visible to everyone on the QuickScores website, the administrator no longer needs to "kill trees" by printing multiple copies of the schedule on paper and snail-mailing the paper to the team captains, who inevitably must make more copies to hand out to all of the team members.
Post schedules, results and rain-outs with ease
When rain-outs occur, the league administrator can reschedule the games online in seconds, and the new schedule is instantly available to all team captains and players.
When games are played, the league administrator can quickly and easily post the scores online. The individual games results, as well as the automatically-generated league standings, are displayed on QuickScores, instantly.
All schedule creations, rain-out rescheduling, and posting of results are performed by the league administrator on the password-protected administrative screens. The QuickScores staff ensures the website software works correctly and provides technical support as needed, but does not enter any of the data. Because league administrators have complete control over their own data, there are no middle-men or bottlenecks to slow down communications with the athletes, coaches and parents.
For players, QuickScores provides a very quick and easy way for them to see their team's schedule, from home or work, to review their own game results as well as their opponents, and to see the league standings that show how their team ranks compared to the other teams in the league. Because the players and coaches stay so well informed about the league status, they make drastically fewer phone calls, and send fewer emails, to the league administrator asking for information.
Online registrationQuickScores offers a full online registration capability that is flexible enough to do even more. Robust editor software allows any custom form to be created, either starting from scratch or modifying any one of several template forms. The customized form can be published to the web to allow teams or individual athletes to submit their information. After the information is submitted, the user can pay the registration fee by credit card. While sports registration is the primary intent of these forms, the software is flexible enough to allow registration for non-sporting events, as well as gather information for free, such as opinion polls or background checks. Information gathered through the forms is available in many ways - emailed to the event administrator, visible online, printable, and downloadable as an Excel spreadsheet.
For more information, read this Online Registration FAQ.
Pricing that everyone can affordOur simple per-team pay-as-you-go pricing makes it a no-risk no-brainer to give QuickScores a try. We don't charge to set up your website, and we don't charge you for the hour or more of personal training. We give you a free two-week trial so that you don't have to make a commitment until you've actually tried the software on your own.
When you do finally tell us that you want to use QuickScores, we don't require you to sign a long-term contract. There's no contract at all. If you use QuickScores for one season and decide you don't like it for any reason, you can simply stop. No penalties, no early termination fees. This has never happened before. No one has ever quit because they were unhappy or dissatisfied with the service, but we accept the remote possibility of it happening someday.
Because we charge on a per-team basis, your QuickScores costs are proportional to the size of your sports program. If you have a small program with a small number of teams, you pay a small amount. If you have a large program with a large number of teams, you pay a proportionately larger amount. Our nominal fees can very easily be passed along to your teams and athletes.
Web-based software is best for youWeb-based software has a huge advantage over PC-based software. First, there is no one special PC where the software and its database is installed. With web-based software, you access exactly the same software along with your entire database, no matter when or where you access the internet.
Second, with PC-based software, youre stuck with the same version, usually for years, until you can afford to buy an upgrade. With web-based software, every time you go to the website, you are using the very latest and greatest software available. QuickScores software online has been improved and enhanced every week for six years, and that will continue.
Third, no matter how good the PC-based software is, the results are still stuck on that PC. You still have the challenge of getting those results out to your players, coaches and parents. With web-based software, the results can be instantly published to the entire world. Web-based software combines the calculating power of a web-server with the communication power of the internet.


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Ready-Mixed Concrete
A proposed new ASTM International standard will cover the process, verification and record keeping procedures for recycling returned fresh concrete. The proposed standard, WK39876, Specification for Returned Fresh Concrete for Use in a New Batch of Ready-Mixed Concrete, is being developed by Subcommittee C09.40 on Ready-Mixed Concrete, part of ASTM International Committee C09 on Concrete and Concrete Aggregates.
A significant amount of concrete is returned to manufacturing plants, which can result in wasted material, the need for disposal unnecessary environmental impact. These issues can, however, be minimized since some of the returned concrete is suitable for reuse and can be incorporated into new batches. The proposed standard will ensure that returned fresh concrete mixed with new concrete has known and verifiable characteristics.
"Concrete is the most widely used building material in the world," says Eric Koehler, vice president, Verifi LLC, and chairman of the task group developing WK39876. "The proposed standard will help ready mixed concrete manufacturers reduce waste material and disposal requirements. Purchasers and specifiers of concrete can obtain concrete with greater recycled content while ensuring the concrete is of high quality."
Koehler notes that technology available to facilitate the reuse of returned fresh concrete includes hydration stabilizing admixtures that can be used to extend the setting time of concrete and ensure that concrete can be used in a new batch. In addition, truck-mounted equipment can be used to measure, manage and record concrete slump, water content, temperature and load size throughout the delivery cycle to reduce the need for manual testing.
Subcommittee C09.40 welcomes all interested parties, particularly those with experience in using returned fresh concrete, to contribute to the ongoing development of WK39876.
CONTACT Technical Information: Eric P. Koehler, Verifi LLC • Cambridge, Mass. • Phone: 617-498-4354 | ASTM Staff: Scott Orthey • Phone: 610-832-9730 | Upcoming Meeting: June 9-12 • June 2013 Committee Week • Indianapolis, Ind.


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JUNCTION CITY, Kan. (WIBW) -- The Junction City Police Department is seeking the public's assistance in identifying and arresting at least one man suspected in a recent series of aggravated burglaries that have been occurring in the city over the last month.
In all of the cases that have been reported to police so far, the suspect broke into homes across the city in the overnight hours while the residents where home and asleep in their beds. Officials say he quickly makes his way through the houses, grabbing cash and credit cards.
In several of the cases, the suspect has entered homes through unsecured doors or in one case through a "doggy door" and removed items from the home as the residents slept nearby. In other cases, an attempt has been made to enter the home while the residents slept inside but the suspect was frightened off by alarm systems activated in the homes. The suspect, in one case, attempted to pry the front door open and fled when the alarm was activated, and in
another case was frightened off by a resident who saw the man in the
backyard of their in the home in the early morning hours with a
The suspect is a male of unknown race wearing a baseball cap, a light colored shirt and pants and he is wearing gloves. He appears to have a several day growth of facial hair and has with him a flashlight. A surveillance camera mounted in one of the victim's homes captured him on surveillance in the kitchen.
Police are very concerned about the activities of this man and his method of operation of entering occupied homes in the middle of the night.
Junction City Police Chief Tim Brown says his department is investigating 6-7 break-ins involving the same burglar and in most cases, the suspect entered the homes through unlocked doors.
Citizens are urged to secure all their home's doors and windows and lock their cars. They are asked to call 911 if any suspicious activity is observed in their neighborhood. Citizens calling should give as complete a description as possible of the activity to guide police to the scene, and to remember to be a "good witness," officials said Friday in a press release. Make no attempt to apprehend the man or to alert him that's he been observed but call police as soon as possible, the press release stated.
If you have any information on the man or his identity, call Detective Sergeant Trish Giordano at 785-762-5912 or Crime Stoppers at 785-762-TIPS. You may remain anonymous and may be eligible for a reward of up to $1000.


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Keeping our eyes
on the target
Felons are not the persons who are doing the mass-killings of children and others. We do not need to keep felons from getting guns in order to make our school children safer. Our targets should be elsewhere. The shootings in various gatherings have been done by young white males with no criminal records. They surely have brain defects. Perhaps we can pass laws and establish screenings to pinpoint such persons before they indulge in slaughter. Such programs would conform to the thesis of those who say that "guns do not kill people; people kill people."
First, we must take the concrete and doable step, if we have the political and moral stamina, of making it very difficult or impossible for such murderers to obtain rapid-fire rifles - of whatever label - and magazines, clips and drums that hold dozens of bullets. Such items must be eliminated from this nation. People will still kill, but without these guns or clips, a killer might kill two or three or four before he is taken down while reloading, or kills himself, which he commonly does. The Newtown, Connecticut shooter used high-capacity guns legally purchased by his mother. Would she now wish that she had not been able to buy the gun that her son used to kill her and the twenty children?
Some want more guns for self-defense. Okay, so we could provide students with loaded pistols and teach them how to shoot. Or arm the teachers and train them to shoot. Then we could have the following scenario: A gunman with a semi-automatic and several high-capacity clips enters the school and starts shooting. The teachers rush to where they have guns safely locked safely away from the children. They shout to the shooter to wait until they get and load their guns to have a more fair fight.
Are lone psychopaths with military-type weapons "a well-regulated militia?" Do the parents of the lost children believe that lone murderers are to be protected by the second amendment?
The gun that killed the children in Connecticut was not an assault rifle, according to the legal definition of assault rifles. Care to guess who writes such definitions? Did we elect some of them?
Arland MeadeBartow


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Skada is a modular damage meter with various viewing modes. It is inspired mainly by Assessment, but also by Recount.
Skada sports segmented fights and detailed views, while being highly efficient with memory. This is accomplished by aggregating data on fight segments.
Skada is entirely modular. The built-in modes can all be toggled on/off.
- Automatic mode switching when entering combat. For example, you can have Threat mode be shown in combat. Skada can switch back after combat ends.
- Specific fight segments can be kept indefinately.
- Multiple windows. Each window can be configured fully.
- Threat mode can warn on high threat.
- Modes: Damage done, DPS, Threat, Enemy damage done, Enemy damage taken, Healing, Overhealing, Total healing, Absorbs estimated, Damage taken, Dispels, Mana regen, Debuff uptimes, and more.
- Reports can be done everywhere. For example, you can report a certain player's Debuff uptimes.
- Summary information for most modes (DPS, HPS, Fails, etc) in a LDB view/minimap button.
- LDB data feed can show personal/raid DPS or personal threat.
- Support for SharedMedia and Class Colors.
- Class and role icons.
- Stop/Resume fight segments to discount irrelevant data.
Skada is very easy to extend, and there are many "plug-in" addons out there that add functionality, such as:
- Skada Graphs: Adds graph display systems to Skada
- SkadaScroll: Provides additional options for scrolling the bar displays
- Skada Avoidance and Mitigation: Helps tanks benchmark their damage reduction performance via avoidance and mitigation
- Skada for Tanks: Adds information useful for evaluating a tank's performance
- SkadaEnsidiaFails: Display fails based on EnsidiaFails in Skada
- Skada_FriendlyFire: Display friendly fire damage done by players
- Skada Ability Tracker: Display abilities used and cooldown efficiency
There is a page with API information here.
Navigation in Skada is done by "drilling down" to the information you want. You go to a lower level, showing more detailed information, by clicking on it, and you go to a higher level by right-clicking.
The top level is the list of all saved fight segments. The second level is the list of all available data modes, such as Damage Done. The third level is one of these modes. Most modes let you drill down for further details. Some modes have several detailed views. In this case you choose alternate views by holding certain keys pressed while clicking. For example, in Damage mode, you can Shift-click a player to see what enemies the player caused damage to. Tooltips will display how to reach the different views.
You can also use window buttons for selecting fight segment and mode directly.
Scrolling in Skada is done with the mousewheel.
New Skada windows can be created from the configuration screen. Each window can be separately configured. A popular feature is "Mode switching", which lets Skada automatically switch to a specific mode on entering combat.
There is a forum thread for discussion on Skada.
Suggestions and bug reports here. Bug reports in comments will be deleted.
"Skada" is Swedish for "Damage".
Darkdavinci Feb 21, 2010 at 02:53 UTC - 0 likes
anyway the hide in pvp option can be fixed? it hides for a game or two then after that it pops up every single time even with it checked it always happens.
thanks for the addon and work put into it.
Aisenfaire Feb 19, 2010 at 13:20 UTC - 0 likes
How do I hide the minimap button?
Misanagi Feb 18, 2010 at 09:42 UTC - 0 likes
Unfortunately it's just Skada. I've run several memory intensive mods at once and had no problem. Recount/Gatherer/Xperl all at once. No problem what so ever.
I'll try the new revision you released and see what happens.
edit: My PC isn't the best, but it should be able to handle this no problem. 2x 2.0g processors and 3gb of ram, plenty of hard drive space that's defragged and virus free.Last edited Feb 18, 2010 by Misanagi
Misanagi Feb 14, 2010 at 07:44 UTC - 0 likes
I get a horrible problem with this mod that makes me crash sporadically during anything ranging from 5 mans to raids.
I've tried dropping a few of the modules I don't really need, debuff uptime, power, CC, fail reports.
I use the main Skada window and don't create any new ones. I generally have the window switch to threat mode during combat also.
Apart from changing font/bar sizes etc most of the configuration is default, save for only keeping boss segments.
I only use Bigwigs and EBB and I have tried using nothing but Skada but still run into crashes so I don't think its a mod conflict problem.
Has anyone experienced this problem and found a way to fix it?
I really do like Skada and would much rather use it than Recount, though this crash problem is not really letting me do that.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
cyberian Feb 05, 2010 at 00:53 UTC - 0 likes
Had a situation last night where the DPS bars in a 5-man kept showing the same damage after switching from threat mode. Almost like it froze data for a while. I had to reset Skada then it did ok. Any idea what that was?
Same issue as xxyz below - doesn't swap from threat to dmg.Last edited Feb 06, 2010 by cyberian
lcf80 Jan 21, 2010 at 21:19 UTC - 0 likes
A+HPS not displayed in absorbs and healing mode, could use a fix.
Triplany Jan 15, 2010 at 19:11 UTC - 0 likes
Fantastic Addon. Only thing I really wish it had is a set window size and scrollbars. Keep up the good work.
arjTPA Dec 18, 2009 at 15:56 UTC - 0 likes
Hi Zarnivoop, sweet addon, longtime user.
Recently, I have been asked to heal as Disc on certain encounters, and since I like to look at performance metrics (heh), I was puzzled by the low amount of mana regen from Rapture.
As an example, in the Absorbs, I had 350k, but only 12k in mana returned from Rapture. That stuck me as very low.
I thought I would throw it out in the forums just in case its a bug, but I will also go and so some controlled testing and report further. Perhaps I am nubbing it up and not using the shield spam correctly.
Keep up the great work!!!
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