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Professor Penny Venetis Brings International Human Rights Law Focus to Clinical Program
When Penny Venetis joined Rutgers School of Law–Newark in 1993 from O'Melveny & Myers, she had experience both in complex commercial litigation and in projects focused on human rights abuses. The latter included working with the UN Special Rapporteur looking into war crimes in Bosnia and investigating human rights violations in Peru.
That kind of experience was what the Constitutional Litigation Clinic sought when it decided to expand the scope of its cases and projects to international human rights. With her scholarship and much of her litigation focused on methods of integrating human rights law into U.S. jurisprudence, Venetis, who is Clinical Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Constitutional Litigation Clinic, has furthered the conversation about an important area of law and enhanced the clinic's reputation for litigating landmark cases.
In 2008, the clinic was honored by the Clinical Legal Education Association for Jama, et al. v. Correctional Services Corp., et al., which set new precedent in international human rights law. The achievements of Jama, which Venetis and her students worked on for more than 10 years, as well as the commitment of the clinic, its faculty, students, and alums also were applauded by the New Jersey Law Journal in a 2007 editorial titled "A Tribute to Our Profession."
|Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (center) met with Clinical Professor Penny Venetis (3rd from right) and her Constitutional Litigation Clinic students at the U.S. Supreme Court when they attended oral arguments in the Kiobel and Mohamad cases. Students are (l-r): Michael Bittoni '12, Awinna Martinez '12, Erin Phalon '12, Diego Iniguez-Lopez '13, and John Burzynski '12.
Venetis's scholarship has also received recognition. Her 2011 Cleveland State Law Review article on the unconstitutionality of Oklahoma's amendment banning the application of Sharia law or international law was cited extensively by litigants who successfully challenged the law in the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.
And her latest paper, on the intersection of international human rights law and U.S. constitutional law, was selected for presentation at the International Human Rights Section during the January 2012 annual meeting of the AALS. The paper, "Making Human Rights Treaty Law Actionable in the United States: the Case for Universal Implementing Legislation," is forthcoming in the University of Alabama Law Review.
Venetis and her Constitutional Litigation Clinic students also continue to work on issues closer to home, including assuring the integrity of electronic voting machines used in New Jersey.
Venetis discusses her work in the following Q&A:
You have been teaching at Rutgers–Newark for nearly 20 years. What are your reflections on the law school and our students in your two decades here.
This law school is a very special place, and I am honored to be a part of it. The students that I teach are creative, hard-working, and dedicated to civil liberties and human rights. I am proud to report that many of my students continue to work with the Constitutional Litigation Clinic after they graduate. Even former students who practice corporate law in large law firms dedicate their time, pro bono, to work on civil liberties issues. Some former students even serve as co-counsel in lawsuits that the clinic has filed.
You and your Constitutional Litigation Clinic students filed an amicus brief in two cases in which the U.S. Supreme Court has been asked to hold corporations liable under the U.S. Alien Tort Statute for human rights violations committed overseas. What are the basic questions presented by these cases and what drew you to file the brief?
I was hired by Rutgers Law School almost 20 years ago because of my human rights law background, and to introduce human rights law into the Constitutional Litigation Clinic's docket and seminar. The issue of corporate and entity liability for human rights violations is one that I have worked on very closely in a number of litigations, most notably the Jama v. INS case that the clinic litigated from 1997-2007. That case broke new ground by establishing corporate liability for human rights abuses committed in the U.S.
The issue of corporate liability for human rights abuses committed abroad has been well-settled law since the mid 1990s. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals threw a wrench into that jurisprudence in 2010 in the Kiobel case. Notably, every other federal appeals court that has addressed the corporate liability issue has rejected the Kiobel analysis. The Supreme Court took the case to resolve the circuit court split. Given that the Constitutional Litigation Clinic has been working on this issue for 15 years, there was no question that my students and I would submit an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in the Kiobel and Mohamad cases.
After the oral arguments in February, the Court ordered one of the cases to be reargued in the fall. What is your reaction to the Court's decision?
The Court's action was highly unusual. The Court asked for re-argument on an issue that was not part of the appeal and that has been well-settled for quite some time. That issue is whether federal courts have any business hearing human rights cases where the abuses occurred extra-territorially. Although this is a legitimate question, in 2004, in Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain, the Supreme Court endorsed such lawsuits under the Alien Tort Statute. The ATS was enacted in 1789 by our very first Congress. There has been a turnover in the Supreme Court since Sosa was decided. But, starre decisis would dictate that the Sosa opinion be upheld. My students and I are drafting another amicus brief on to the U.S. Supreme Court on this very issue.
The last time that the Supreme Court asked for additional briefing on an issue that was not before the Court was in the Citizens United case. Many commentators believe that because of that case, a request for re-argument is a death knell. But I do not believe that is the case. The Supreme Court has decided only one human rights case. Several important cases are working their way through the federal courts. Perhaps the Supreme Court wants to resolve all outstanding issues in one case, so that lower federal courts and litigants know how to proceed.
The Constitutional Litigation Clinic has achieved significant success in litigating to require greater reliability and security with the electronic voting machines used in New Jersey. Can the state's citizens now be confident that their computerized votes will be counted as cast or is there more work to be done?
I wish that I could say that New Jersey's voting machines count votes as cast; but, unfortunately, I cannot do so. Even though we were instrumental in helping to draft and pass legislation that required that voting machines produce voter verified paper ballots, and that a certain percentage of those ballots be audited after each election, that legislation has not been enforced.
Every scientific study performed of computerized voting systems shows that they are insecure and can be hacked by someone with the equivalent of a bachelor's degree in computer science. That is why we need to be able to audit computerized voting machines through the use of voter verified paper ballots. At this point, most of the country votes on auditable systems. It is unfortunate that despite having enacted the "gold standard" of voter verification laws, New Jersey is far behind the rest of the nation in ensuring that every vote counts.
Our lawsuit, which is in its eighth year, asks the courts to step in to protect the franchise because the executive branch has failed to do so, in violation of the legislature's (and by implication, the public's) will.
You've published three major articles in the past year and are working on a book. What is the relationship between your scholarly work and your litigation?
Both my litigation and my scholarship focus on the interplay between international law and constitutional law, and how to incorporate international law into U.S. jurisprudence. My scholarship allows me to explore these issues in a less constrained way. The litigation process is adversarial, and arguments presented in briefs have to be guided by well-settled legal principles.
I do not have these same constraints when writing articles and books. There is more room to explore models of what the law should be. Additionally, my scholarship focuses on model legislation and model adjudicatory systems — things that I cannot explore in my litigation.


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Daily Top Ten School Reform News Roundup, Nov. 26 to 30
Friday's roundup:
1. A Louisiana judge considering the state's voucher program changes his mind, saying now he may need more time to decide after oral arguments today.
2. Los Angeles doubles the number of teachers in "rubber rooms."
3. Have education reformers drunk the Common Core Kool-Aid?
4. States spend $1.7 billion on testing each year, a new report estimates.
5. California schools borrowed $2.8 billion that will cost them $16.3 billion to pay off.
6. Boston school administrators are trying to predict which schools parents would choose if they could.
7. Teachers aren't the only ones who cheat--so do half of students.
8. Special education spending grows as enrollment and learning lags in Iowa.
9. Could Common Core tests establish low cut scores, making kids look better educated than they are?
10. Because Illinois keeps putting off paying its bills, schools and services have $3.6 billion less this year.
Thursday's roundup:
1. Louisiana's teachers union sues to keep kids inside failing schools. The case will likely conclude this week.
2. Wisconsin teachers explain why they are glad to have alternatives to joining a union.
3. Forty percent of Milwaukee students attend choice schools.
4. Oklahomans float the idea of vouchers for students attending unsafe schools.
5. Leaders of large, poorly performing Tennessee school districts don't like the idea of vouchers.
6. A Common Core testing coalition releases a draft of what it believes students should know at every grade level.
7. Ohio charter schools demand shutdowns of poor-performing charters.
8. Illinois lawmakers bicker over legislation to let Chicago name school closures four months later.
9. Approximately 17 percent of applicants for federal education grants have made the final round, the U.S. Education Department announced.
10. Is a college degree worth the cost (video)?
Wednesday's roundup:
1. After a tug of war with the feds, Pennsylvania will seek a No Child Left Behind waiver.
2. New Jersey charter schools perform better than traditional public schools, particularly with poor and minority students, a new report concludes.
3. Will the Common Core turn preschool into the work farm?
4. Utah is getting into tests that change as a student takes them.
5. Ohio lawmakers are moving a school A-F grading bill forward.
6. Technology in education is just a tool.
7. Chicago leaders try to compromise on inevitable school closings.
8. Follow a series on "where your public school dollars go" in large districts.
9. A student center in New Mexico will cost taxpayers $5 million more than the planned $15 million.
10. There is no one right way to redesign education.
Tuesday's roundup:
1. The U.S. Department of Education releases more accurate state-by-state graduation rates. Iowa tops the list at 88 percent, and Washington DC bottoms it out at 59 percent.
2. A fine article outlines how Kansas schools, like most in the country, work to implement federal teacher evaluation requirements.
3. A former New Orleans schools chief works a quiet, budding transformation in Saint Louis.
4. Tennessee vouchers should include public school choice, state lawmakers say.
5. Nearly a third of Minnesota high schoolers are expected to fail the graduation math test, so educators want to graduate them anyway.
6. Pennsylvania's pension system is eating away at every state expenditure.
7. One Florida college has taken up Gov. Rick Scott's challenge to create a $10,000 bachelor's degree.
8. More states are showing what an average graduate earns after graduating from different colleges.
9. South Dakota plans to use a one-time tax windfall partly on higher education spending.
10. A high number of education-related bill requests have been filed in Nevada ahead of the 2013 legislative session.
Monday's roundup:
1. A federal investigation uncovers teachers in three states allegedly hiring doubles to take their teaching certification tests.
2. After helping engineer the country's first successful "parent trigger" to wrangle control of a persistently failing school from local bureaucracy, a mother won election to the reform-opposing school board. She knocked out the school board president.
3. This week, a Louisiana judge hears a lawsuit aginst the state's voucher program.
4. Indiana's new schools chief says she'll unilaterally dispense with third-grade tests that could hold poor readers back.
5. Because Common Core lesson materials are still undeveloped while 45 states put it into place, Florida and a company are trading lawsuits.
6. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker sketches his plans for education changes.
7. Passing grades on Kansas tests are "embarassing as heck," an outgoing Kansas board of education member says.
8. Suburban schools are often as bad at helping the worst students as urban districts.
9. Redistributing property tax money can hurt poorer schools.
10. The forthcoming tests aligned with Common Core education standards are shifting how people think about tests and creating great uncertainty.
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If you're spellchecking against Correct English, then programme is fine for talking about TV, radio and management topics.
Here's a prime example:
For the most part, program, is the chosen spelling in computing.
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Along the lines of tag blacklist or auto-changing tags to more consistent ones, we should have auto-changing of strange foreign spellings to the correct one.
It's just a simple matter of programming.
Program is regarded as acceptable in British English to refer to a computer program, but in other uses the word is Programme.
I would regard a computer programme as pedantic.
Programme is British English. I once spoke to a British contractor at the European Space Agency's technical centre (ESTEC) in the Netherlands who was very insistent on using programme (about software), but I think most Britons are fine with program.
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SAWON, Theodore F. "Ted," Sr., 77, of Steubenville, died Friday, Feb. 22, 2013, at Presbyterian Hospital.
He was born Oct. 11, 1935, in Steubenville, the son of the late Frank J. and Katherine Vittek Sawon, Ted is also preceded in death by his sister, Pauline Quattrocchi.
Ted was a member of St. Peter's Catholic Church, was retired from Weirton Steel where he was an Electrician and served his country in U.S. Air Force during the Korean War.
Surviving are his wife; Mary Pusateri Sawon whom he married Jan. 10, 1959, two sons, Theodore F. "Ted" Sawon, Jr. (Companion, Sharon Cook) of Pasadena, MD and Brian (Laura) Sawon of Colliers, one daughter, Patty (Bob) Hammack of Mingo Junction; four grandchildren, Brittany and Brandon, Treston and Ethan, two great grandchildren, Khloe and Evan.
Calling hours are Monday 5-8 p.m. at the Mosti Funeral Home, Sunset Chapel, 4435 Sunset Blvd. Steubenville.
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FALL RIVER — Partners of Foxwoods and the investment group Crossroads Massachusetts LLC received six property offers from local land owners for the development of a $750 million destination resort casino in the city.
Fall River Office of Economic Development Executive Vice President Kenneth Fiola Jr. said the casino representatives received the six bids at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, the deadline for submission.
Besides Foxwoods partners, Fiola is reportedly the only other person to see the proposals.
"I had an opportunity to speak with them this morning (Wednesday) and they were happy to have choices," Fiola said. "Now they'll weigh out the plus and minuses, narrow it down and make a decision."
Fiola said he thinks people are eager to find a site so a host agreement can be reached and the issue can go before the voters.
"I don't think it will be a long delay in the choosing," Fiola said.
On Jan. 28 on the sixth floor of Government Center, Foxwoods Casino CEO Scott Butera unveiled plans to develop a facility that would include a 140,000-square-foot gambling floor, approximately 20 restaurants, a 350-room hotel, a "name-brand" shopping mall, an entertainment arena and a convention center and spa. The project would reportedly create between 3,000 and 5,000 jobs.
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New burst of bad news
Anyone who has been paying attention to the news of late knows the state fiscal crisis, which Gov. Dannel P. Malloy promised his $3.5 billion tax increase would solve, is far from over. The Office of Policy and Management's underestimate of this year's budget deficit, $365 million, is about to trigger a mitigation plan most expect will be chock full of the usual gimmicks and fuzzy math. Meanwhile, OPM also projects deficits totaling more than $3 billion over the next three years.
OPM's outlook is just the latest bad news for beleaguered Connecticut, where 1 in 11 adults is unemployed and joblessness is a state-record 1.1 percentage points higher than the national rate. Over the last 12 months, national unemployment has fallen a full point, but in Connecticut it has jumped 0.5 percent, the unambiguous consequence of government consuming a significantly larger share of the state economy.
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After Sandy, Tax Cuts Fade From Christie Plan
TRENTON—In his annual address to the state on Tuesday, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie laid out what he said would be a difficult road ahead as the state recovers from Sandy—a somber departure from last year, when he extolled the state's economic health and centered his agenda around an aggressive income-tax cut.
Mr. Christie, a Republican, painted a far more robust picture a year ago, hailing the "New Jersey comeback" and challenging legislators to deliver a 10% tax cut. On Tuesday, Mr. Christie said the state's economy is "catching up" but acknowledged that the October storm dealt a serious blow. "Make no mistake," he said during the 42-minute speech, "Sandy hurt New Jersey's economy."
The governor faces re-election in the fall after campaigning on lower taxes when he first ran in 2009. He was on the verge of some success last year when Democrats agreed to a property-tax credit. But lawmakers then shelved the proposal amid weak state budget revenues.
Analysts said it was unlikely voters would punish Mr. Christie for shying away from talk of tax reductions or credits while the state rebuilds. He has enjoyed record-high popularity for his performance during Sandy, which killed dozens of people, laid waste to the shoreline and left millions without power.
Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute, said that while the speech had few policy specifics, it helped burnish Mr. Christie's image as uniquely positioned to lead the state as it recovers and champion its interests. "It was masterful," Mr. Murray said. "It will be extremely difficult for Democrats to come up with a message to knock him down."
Democrats faulted Mr. Christie for failing to address the state's budget woes. Last week, the legislative budget chief testified that a projected $705 million hole had opened up in this year's spending plan.
"What did he say about the economy and how he's going to fix it?" asked Democratic Sen. President Steve Sweeney. "There wasn't one word about it."
A day earlier, Mr. Sweeney had drawn swift criticism from Republicans for saying that Mr. Christie "prayed" for Sandy to shift attention from a weak economy. The senator quickly apologized for the statement.
Mr. Christie spent the bulk of the speech detailing the devastation that New Jersey endured after the storm and lauding those who helped in the immediate aftermath. "For a lot of people, it's over. For New Jersey, it's not over," said 27-year-old Toms River lifeguard Tracey Keelen, who was invited by the governor's office to attend the speech with a colleague. Both helped rescue people from flooded homes.
Mr. Christie insisted he wouldn't allow New Jersey to adopt what he termed past bad habits of "wasteful spending and rising taxes." Still, he has said that property taxes could rise in towns where Sandy wiped out a large percentage of homes, and with them, the tax base. Under a 2010 law, property-tax increases are capped at 2% annually. But the limit can be lifted during a state of emergency.
Republican Assembly Leader Jon Bramnick said that a focus on an income-tax cut wouldn't have been appropriate given the storm. "That's just not the appropriate thing to talk about post-disaster," Mr. Bramnick said. "When you go around the state and you see that destruction and you see the faces and the pain and sorrow, it may change you a bit."
Mr. Christie called several times for bipartisanship in the speech, and contrasted his success in negotiating policy with the Democrat-controlled Legislature to Washington gridlock. He called on Congress to pass a full $60 billion Sandy relief package. "The people of New Jersey are in need, not from their own actions but from an act of God that delivered a natural, human and financial disaster," he said.
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1962 Chevy Biscayne - HurricayneWritten by Eric Geisert on July 1, 2010 Don Carlile's '62 Biscayne
Most of the time ownership of a hot rod is fueled by desire-the desire to own something that expresses your individuality. The problem is a lot of folks think the same thing is cool, which means, more often than not, you'll find an abundance of them (think red '32 Ford roadsters).
What you really want is what no one else has, which is the approach Don Carlile went with after deciding he'd like another nice car (he still owns the '39 Ford convertible that was on the cover of the May '03 issue of STREET RODDER), so he started looking for a '62 Chevy.
But while it seems everyone wants an Impala, or at least a Bel Air, it was the low-level Biscayne that caught Don's eye (partially due to the fact not a lot of people liked them). When it came to finding a stocker to purchase, Don, who lives in Carmel Valley on California's central coast, found a likely candidate in Ohio. An auto dealer had it, and it was already equipped with a 350, 14-inch redline tires, and stock hubcaps. Don bought the car and then drove it around for six months while he figured out what he was going to do with it.
Once his ducks were in a row, Don, with the help of Pete DeMaria, disassembled the car, going as far as removing the body from the chassis. The frame got powdercoated at Cross Link's in Salinas, California, and then DeMaria got to work reassembling the chassis with new parts. A pair of Heidts 2-inch drop spindles went in, as did a Posi rear end (3.08:1) with QA1 coilover shocks and a Hotchkis Sport Suspension rear sway bar. A similar shock and sway bar combo went in up front, and each corner got 14-inch Baer disc brakes. Budnik wheels, 19x8.5 and 19x10, were wrapped with Yokohama 225/40ZR-19 and 245/45ZR-19 rubber. Other items, such as replacing the stock gas tank with a similar-sized stainless steel unit, were also installed at this time.
The drivetrain went in next: a 6.0L LS2 backed to a 4L60 transmission. The engine is topped with an intercooled Magnacharger unit that works with the EFI system and breathes through a K&N filter and a cold-air intake fabbed at Barry White's Street Rod Repair Company (SRRC) in Corona, California. A Hot Rod Air water pump and a Mattson crossflow radiator and fan help keep the fluids cool while a set of Bassett headers and MagnaFlow mufflers help draw the hot exhaust away from the engine. An oil pan from an '02 Camaro, valve covers from Katek (with the car's "Hurricayne" name added), and a front pulley system from Vintage Air round out the engine parts list.
Once the body was reattached to the chassis and now a roller, Don delivered it to SRRC for some body and paintwork. SRRC turned the major metalwork over to Marcel's Custom Metal (also in Corona) where Marcel and his sons, Marc and Luc, went to task by adding a '59 dash and created in the new, smooth cowl section void of any air ducts. Marcel's also created new inner fender panels and hand-carved strips of brass to make the base for new, thinner chrome side trim.
Back at Barry's, the team designed a one-off grille, which had its pieces laser cut to perfection. Another mini grille was also created for the hole that was cut into the bumper, right where the front license plate would normally go. And speaking of bumpers, both front and rear were shaved of mounting bolt heads and re-chromed. SRRC also removed the wind wings and added electric door locks from Nu-Relics. From that point the Biscayne was rolled around the corner to Tony Correia's Speed Shop Custom Paint where it received several coats of a custom-mixed DuPont paint.
Coming down to the finish line all that was left was the interior but, in a car as big as a Biscayne, that's a lot of material! Gabe's Street Rods Custom Interiors in San Bernardino, California, got the call and added burgundy cut pile carpet before installing custom bucket seats stitched up with burgundy-colored leather. Gabe's also created the mini emblems added to each seatback.
Back at SRRC the Auto Meter gauges were fitted to the '59 dash pods, a Custom Autosound stereo system went in, the controls for the Hot Rod Air A/C system were set up, and a 14-inch American Retro wheel was bolted to an ididit tilt column.
Once the car was exactly the way he wanted it, Don towed it around to various car shows (where it started to collect awards) but as soon as the season is over (Don wants to protect the paint for the shows), he intends to drive it as often as possible. His '39 Ford cover car has 5,100 miles on it, but he says he stays a lot warmer in his Biscayne rather than the convertible, plus the grandkids like riding in the big Chevy because they can see everything through the car's big windows. The downside for the car, as it turns out, is its massive size (16 feet, 7 inches long, according to Don). His daily driver is tiny in comparison, and he has to get used to the boat-like dimensions of the '62. But in the few miles he's gotten to drive in it he says it's better than he'd hoped for, and he looks forward to many more miles of happy motoring in the future.
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A set of QA1 coilover shocks were attached to the Posi rear while up front a Hotchkis Sport Suspension sway bar kit smoothes out the rolls. The special-blend DuPont paint was sprayed at Tony Correia's Speed Shop Custom Paint in Corona, CA.The Hurry in the Hurricayne comes from a 6.0L LS2 motor that is topped with an intercooled Magnacharger system. The exhaust, with its catalytic converters intact, came from MagnaFlow while the headers are from Bassett.


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Project Olds Weekend Makeover: Take A Hike, Granny!Written by on June 1, 2012 Contributors: Robert McGaffin Over the course of a weekend, Project Olds goes from granny to racy with some scuff-and-shoot paint and fresh graphics
After a while, sometimes the old ride just doesn't have the same appeal that she used to. When the initial love affair subsides, the eye starts wandering and you want something new—but does that mean you necessarily have to give up on old Sally? Maybe the ol' girl just needs a makeover. We've been there with Project Olds, our '65 Cutlass project car. At first, the novelty of ripping up the autocross in a machine with a distinctly geriatric vibe was great fun, but eventually our enthusiasm waned. "It looked like a grandma car with bigger wheels," car owner and PHR photographer extraordinaire Robert McGaffin opines. "Over the course of the build, the performance of the car got ramped up big time. It's been on several road courses, the autocross, and driven across the country. The Cutlass needed a more aggressive look to match its performance, so it was time to give it a makeover."
It's been a while since Project Olds made its last appearance, so here's a quick refresher. Not long after purchasing our '65 Cutlass, we yanked the 330ci small-block and two-speed slushbox, and stuffed in a 514hp big-block Olds and Tremec TKO 600 five-speed stick. To plant the barrage of lb-ft dished out by the 461ci mill, the decrepit stock underpinnings got chucked for a complete Detroit Speed and Engineering suspension working in concert with 18-inch Rocket Racing wheels and some super-gooey Nitto rubber. Although building a Pro Touring car can easily become a pricey affair, we've tried to keep costs down throughout the entire build, and we had every intention of sticking with that theme with a makeover on the horizon.
Freshening up the look of any project car without spending a small fortune is no small feat, especially when laying down paint is involved, but it's definitely possible to spice things up over a weekend given enough planning and determination. Our simple plan called for trading in the two-tone look for a monochrome paint scheme highlighted with a racing stripe and refinished wheels. "According to the paint code, this was originally a blue car with a white top, but during its last restoration someone painted it red with a silver top. I don't mind the two-tone look, but wanted something more aggressive," McGaffin says. "In 1965, there was a 4-4-2 vinyl stripe kit that you could buy from the dealership. It's not a rally stripe, it's not centered, and it looks unusual, which are all things I liked about it. I found the original dealer instructions posted on www.442Bro.com that shows measurements for locating the stripes and used that as a template."
In addition to scuffing and shooting the roof red to match the body, we decided to paint the wheels silver to match the stripe. With the plan in place, we headed down to Windy City Rods and Restorations (www.WindyCityRR.com), where Miguel Menendez and Glen Shar put the makeover in motion. The beauty of a project like this is that just about anyone can do it over the course of a weekend in their own garage.
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After completely scuffing down the roof, it was sanded once again—this time with 80-grit paper—to clean the metal and promote primer adhesion. The roof was cleaned with wax and grease remover.Prepwork involved removing all trim pieces on the hood, trunk, and quarter-panels as well as covering the glass with cardboard. The roof was then scuffed with 36-grit sandpaper using an 8-inch dual-action sander. This revealed several areas of minor surface rust, which were removed with a grinder.Once in the paint booth, the car was masked and wrapped in plastic. Next, two coats of primer were applied while allowing for five minutes of flash time between each coat. The primer required one hour to dry, after which it was sanded down with 320-grit paper. Although we used a paint booth, if you opt for waterborne paint, this process can be performed safely and legally in your garage.Removing the trim piece at the bottom of the sail panels revealed five small holes on each side. While holding a piece of copper to the backside of the panel, the holes were MIG-welded shut. The copper provides a base for the weld material to fill into without sticking to the copper itself. Afterward, the welds were flattened smooth with a grinder.As with most old cars, we weren't quite sure what color Project Olds was sprayed with during its last restoration. Fortunately, John Murdock from Terrace Supply Company came to the rescue with his trick Aquire paint scanner. It works by scanning the paint in several locations, then comparing it to a database of paint codes. It turns out our Cutlass wears Ford Electric Currant Red, and as such, we ordered up a couple of quarts of the stuff for the roof.With the primer dry, four coats of paint were sprayed on the roof, A-pillars, and the tops of the quarter-panels. Next came three coats of clearcoat. After allowing the paint to dry overnight, it was wet-sanded and buffed.After laying down the tape, the car was covered in plastic once again, leaving only the stripe area exposed. After scuffing down the surface in the area to the painted, the stripe pattern was sprayed in three coats of silver, followed by a coat of satin clear. The paint was carefully blended to match the new color of the wheels.Since it's virtually impossible to get the color of the body and freshly painted roof to match perfectly, the tops of the quarter-panels were blended into the C-pillar. The process involves feathering the new paint onto the old paint of the adjacent panels, followed by wet-sanding. This makes the difference in color between the panels imperceptible to the eye. Think of it as purposeful overspray.Thanks to a schematic posted on www.442Bro.com, we were able to precisely locate the position of the original 4-4-2 stripe. The instructions called for offsetting the stripe on the driver side, 15.875 inches from the left edge of the hood and 17.125 inches from the edge of the trunk lid. Instead of applying vinyl, however, we decided to outline the stripe pattern with masking tape and paint the stripe on.
For just $6, you can completely change the look of your wheels. After cleaning and degreasing the wheels, and covering the tires with plastic, we sprayed them with Dupli-Color Perfect Match Light Champagne Mist paint. One can was enough to apply three coats of paint to all four wheels.For visual continuity throughout the car, after roughing up the surface of the sidescoops with scuff pads, they were painted the same color as the stripes. For not much extra effort, small details like this can really set your car apart from the pack. With all the paintwork complete, the trim was reattached to the body.The 4-4-2 stripe pattern features a large central stripe flanked by two 1/4-inch-wide stripes on each side. It was laid out using 1/4-inch masking tape, as it's easier to manage than narrower tape. Next, 1/2-inch tape was used to position the outer stripes.


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WELLSBURG - Morgantown took the first step en route to defending its tournament title.
The Morgantown boys' soccer team recorded a 7-1 victory over Weir in an OVAC Cup Tournament Quarterfinal Wednesday evening at Brooke.
Weir's lone goal of the game came from Alex Hannah on a penalty kick in the second half.
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GOAL KICK — Weir High goalkeeper Michael Ceraolo prepares for a goal kick during the second half of Wednesday's 7-1 loss to Morgantown in the OVAC?Cup Tournament at Brooke High.
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"We played a pretty good team," Weir (6-6-1) head coach Joe Pepe said. "They are a solid team. Take nothing away from them."
The No. 2 seeded Mohigans scored four goals in the first half and three more in the second half.
"We played well," Morgantown (9-1-1) head coach Joe Melia said. "We were able to get a lot of kids into the game. That was good. A lot of players got quality minutes."
Morgantown will now play a semifinal contest against Wheeling Park at 3 p.m. Saturday at Wheeling Island Stadium. The Patriots defeated St. Clairsville, 3-0, in Wednesday's second quarterfinal match at Brooke.
The Patriots defeated the Mohigans, 2-1, on Sept. 7 at Wheeling Island Stadium.
Linsly will play Catholic Central in the other tournament semifinal at 1 p.m.
Addison Luck and Kilian Stapen each netted two goals for Morgantown, while Qussay Sagr, Andres Saenz and Akshay Chandran all tallied one goal.
Sami Kanj, Nathan Bolles, Bayan Razzaq and Zack Whisler all recorded an assist.
Goalie Daniel Berrebi made 10 saves.
"In practice, we know what we need to work on," Melia said. "We just want to clean up our game. If we do that, we can compete with anybody."
Matt Tenagilo started the game in the net for the Red Riders. The senior co-captain made three saves before leaving the game with an injury in the first half. He did not return.
Michael Ceraolo replaced Tenagilo in goal. Ceraolo made 12 saves.
"I knew they were big. I knew they were quick," Pepe said.
"We are in a rebuilding year. It's OK. We are doing the best we can. The kids have nothing to be ashamed about."
Melia did not know much about the Red Riders heading into their game.
"I didn't know what to expect," he said. "I just knew their record from the OVAC standings."
The Mohigans outshot the Red Riders, 28-13. Morgantown took 25 shots on goal, while Weir ripped 11.
Weir was forced to take 13 goal kicks, while Morgantown only had to take four. The Mohigans took 11 corner kicks, while the Red Riders took only one.
"When you have a young team and you play a veteran team it can be tough," Pepe said. "It can be intimidating. Things happen.
"We only have three seniors. Two of them are starters. They are both captains. We lost one (Tenagilo) with an injury.
"We have nothing to be ashamed of. We are going to get it done. Our time is coming."
Last year, the Mohigans won the tournament title as the No. 8 seed.
Morgantown opened the tournament by defeating top-seeded Weir, 4-3, in the quarterfinals at Brooke. Then in the semifinals, Morgantown knocked off fourth-seeded Catholic Central, 4-1. Morgantown blanked No. 6 Wheeling Park, 2-0, to capture the tournament title.
"We want to do well in the tournament," Melia said. "We want to put on a good show. We want to defend our title well."


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Provided that the notion of "$\mbox{spacelike}$"-ness (of an interval) is symmetric: $$\text{spacelike}( \, x - y \, ) \Longleftrightarrow \text{spacelike}( \, y - x \, ),$$ then for any set $X$ (of sufficiently many elements) the set $X^2$ (of all pairs, regardless of order, of not necessarily distinct elements of $X$) may be partitioned into three disjoint and generally non-empty subsets
- of pairs containing the same element twice: $I_X := \{ x \in X: (x x) \}$,
- of pairs of distinct elements whose interval is (called) "$\text{spacelike}$": $S_X := \{ x \in X \, \& \, y \in X \, \& \, x \ne y \, \& \, \text{spacelike}( x - y ): (x y) \}$, and
- of all remaining pairs $K_X := X^2 \backslash (I_X \cup S_X)$.
Provided further that the notion of "$\mbox{lightlike}$"-ness (of an interval) is symmetric as well: $$\text{lightlike}( \, x - y \, ) \Longleftrightarrow \text{lightlike}( \, y - x \, ),$$ and given a suitable set $X$ (of sufficiently many elements) and a suitable set $S_X$ satisfying $X^2 \cap S_X = S_X$, how would the corresponding set $K_X$ be partitioned further into two disjoint and generally non-empty subsets
- of pairs of distinct elements whose interval is (called) "$\text{lightlike}$": $L_X := \{ x \in X \, \& \, y \in X \, \& \, x \ne y \, \& \, \text{lightlike}( x - y ): (x y) \}$, and
- of all remaining pairs $T_X := K_X \backslash L_X$ ?
The wording of this question (apart from formatting issues) as it presently stands appears not adequate to the title. (Helpful responses to it have been received nevertheless, which I try to incorporate in going forward.)
In trying to improve the detailed wording, what would need to be considered first is (put roughly, for the time being, as I've come to consider it only recently):
(1) Whether and how the topological notion of "boundary" can be suitably generalized to the context of sets of pairs such as $X^2$ and $S_X$, and
(2) Whether, given a particular set $X$, the predicate "$spacelike()$" in the definition of set $S_X$ implies certain relations to a corresponding set $K_X$ which I did not state explicitly above; such as the absence of "impossible figures" wrt. membership of certain pairs in $S_X$ or $K_X$.
I plan to defer editing (apart from possible formatting) until these preliminary questions have been expressed more adequatly elsewhere.


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Trojan Volleyball in Costa Rica Day OneAugust 6, 2014
The AU volleyball team is in the midst of a weeklong mission trip to Costa Rica.
The Trojans arrived in Central America Tuesday for their second visit in four years and are tentatively scheduled to play five or six matches against the Costa Rican Junior National team and various club teams, while also visiting orphanages and schools to share their Christian testimony during volleyball clinics for local teams.
Here is the team's update from its first day …
"The team has ventured out to a cafè today and an orphanage. At the Cafè the team was able to sample a very good coffee that comes from one of the best farms in the world. After that, we ate at a restaurant that served a traditional Costa Rican meal and it was delicious.
After that we dove into ministry at an orphanage that housed 45 children who were either abandoned or had experienced some kind of abuse. We played games with them, gave them candy and then the owner told us about some of the kids.
One in particular was a young girl who was abused by her parents and never allowed her to cry. If she did cry, they would beat her. At one point they broke both of her legs to the point the doctors said she'd never walk. Fortunately an American heard about her story and raised the funds for her surgery and rehabilitation. She is walking and playing now.
Tonight we will play our first match versus the University of Costa Rica."
Check back with www.autrojans.com, Facebook and Twitter (@autrojans) for more updates from the team.


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LITTLE ROCK, AR. (Aug. 12, 2011) - The Burn Center at Arkansas Children's Hospital (ACH) recently received notice reaffirming its rank among elite institutions that have received the prestigious Burn Center Verification status. The approval makes ACH the only verified burn center in a six-state region stretching from Tennessee to Oklahoma.
A joint venture by the American Burn Association (ABA) and the American College of Surgeons, Burn Center Reverification requires that an institution meet rigorous standards of organizational structure, personnel qualifications, facilities resources and medical care services. The Burn Center at ACH's verification now runs through 2013.
This voluntary program includes completion of a pre-review questionnaire and an in-depth on-site review by members of the ABA Verification Committee, as well as senior members of the ABA. The process included the entire Burn Center team: social workers, occupational therapists, physical therapists, child life specialists, clinical nutritionists, respiratory care technicians and nurses, as well as physicians and administrators. A written report by the site visit team is reviewed by the ABA Verification Committee and by the Committee on Trauma of the ACS. The review process includes many components and takes several months.
Verification status is an indicator to government, third-party payers, patients and their families and accreditation organizations that the Burn Center at ACH provides high quality patient care to patients during the entire treatment and recovery process, according to Burn Center medical director Anjay Khandelwal, MD. He is also an assistant professor of Surgery at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine.
ACH joins about 50 other institutions across the country that have passed the verification process. A list of them is available at: http://www.ameriburn.org/verification_verifiedcenters.php . The verification status will last for two years, at which time ACH will undergo the same review to renew the credentials.
The Burn Center at Arkansas Children's Hospital is the state's only dedicated burn center treating children and adults from throughout the state and surrounding areas. For more information about The Burn Center, visit www.archildrens.org/burncenter.
Arkansas Children's Hospital is the only pediatric medical center in Arkansas and one of the largest in the United States serving children. The campus spans 29 city blocks and houses 316 beds, a staff of approximately 500 physicians, 80 residents in pediatrics and pediatric specialties and more than 4,000 employees. The private, nonprofit healthcare facility boasts an internationally renowned reputation for medical breakthroughs and intensive treatments, unique surgical procedures and forward-thinking medical research - all dedicated to fulfilling our mission of enhancing, sustaining and restoring children's health and development. ACH recently ranked No. 75 on FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For®. For more information, visit www.archildrens.org.
UAMS is the state's only comprehensive academic health center, with colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Related Professions and Public Health; a graduate school; a 540,000-square-foot hospital; a statewide network of regional centers; and six institutes: the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, the Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute, the Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy, the Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, the Psychiatric Research Institute and the Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging. It is the state's only Level 1 trauma center. UAMS has 2,836 students and 761 medical residents. It is the state's largest public employer with more than 10,000 employees, including nearly 1,150 physicians who provide medical care to patients at UAMS, Arkansas Children's Hospital, the VA Medical Center and UAMS' Area Health Education Centers throughout the state. Visit www.uams.edu or
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I know that $-\frac{\mathrm{d}E}{\mathrm{d}t} \propto E^2$ for an electron losing energy to synchrotron radiation, but I can't find how to arrange this to give the time it would take for the electron to lose half of its original energy. How would I go about working that out?
Not to worry, it's fairly easy: right now you have a differential equation which can be written
$$\frac{\mathrm{d}E}{\mathrm{d}t} = -CE^2$$
for some constant $C$. You need to solve that differential equation for $E(t)$. (If you're wondering how to do that, you can find more information at the math site.) Then you can determine the electron's energy at the initial time $t_0$ as $E(t_0)$, and find the time at which its energy becomes half of that:
$$E(t) = \frac{E(t_0)}{2}$$
and solve for $t$.
$$\frac{dE}{dt} = -CE^2$$
$$d\left (\frac{1}{E}\right ) = Cdt$$
$$\frac{1}{E_2}-\frac{1}{E_1}= C(t_2-t_1)$$
$$\frac{1}{E_1} = C\Delta t$$ $$\Delta t = \frac{1}{CE_1}$$


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SUNRISE, Fla. – Florida Panthers Executive VP/General Manager Dale Tallon announced today that the club has reassigned G Jacob Markstrom to the San Antonio Rampage (AHL).
Markstrom, 23, played in Florida's last two games, making 65 saves on 71 shots, in the club's losses at Pittsburgh (2/22) and vs. Boston (2/24), while recording a .915 save percentage and a 3.15 GAA. For his career in the NHL, Markstrom has played in 10 games, all with Florida (2010-2013), going 2-7-1, posting a .919 save percentage and a 2.77 GAA
The Gavle, Sweden, native has played in 33 games with San Antonio this season going 16-15-2 with a 2.65 GAA and a .920 save percentage. The 6-foot-6, 195-pound goaltender has surrendered two or fewer goals in 11 of his last 16 AHL starts and has posted an 8-4-0 record in his last 12 starts. Markstrom is currently fourth in the league in saves (994) and owns a 10-5-2 record in games where he makes at least 30 stops.
Markstrom was drafted by Florida in the second round (31st overall) in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft.
Florida hosts the Pittsburgh Penguins tomorrow night in their second game of a three-game home stand at 7:30 p.m. The game can be seen live on FOX Sports Florida and heard on 560 WQAM.


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I am looking to create a multiplayer browser based game, similar to tribal wars and such, and i'm trying to think of better ways of handling the server, for example when troops and buildings are completed and the landing of troop movements
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Tribal Wars is a browser-based, massive multiplayer online real time strategy game, set in the Middle Ages.
Now Tribal Wars is a browser based game and was released in 2003 as a text based game.
Browser-based games usually rely on some kind of server-side code, such as Perl, PHP, Ruby, Python, or Java; though some will use technologies like Flash, ActiveX, and Java applets to store data on the client's computer.
Unlike a stand-alone client or video game, being confined to a browser limits to some degree the extent to which 3-D rendering can be supported.
The following resources may help you
Basic Guideline
Community Resources
You should have persistent connection with server as every connection takes time for extra resource, Point-to-point connection, Low latency for better interaction.
It varies from platform to platform. For example, for browser game tribal wars used the followings


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Top 20 Risks in Outsourcing(Offshoring) and mitigation tips.
By sathyan on Oct 08, 2008
I hope you find this table useful as a measuring tool to begin your Risk Management of such projects.
Please leave your comments/suggestions.
Please leave your comments/suggestions.
|Mitigation Plan Synopsis.
|Poor Selection of Vendor
|Consider a detailed Study about vendors
including current processes, customer references etc., rather than blindly believing the track record.
|Scope Creep- Scope of the project
getting wider with new requirements to be addressed.
|Phased approach with milestones and trade offs at various stages.
|Process and Quality standards incompatible with vendor.
|Agreed upon standards and processes must be part of the binding contract.
|Security breach including Confidentiality, IP and trade secrets.
|Require vendors to meet security standards and monitor with effective auditing.
|Infrastructure breakdown, could be a software/hardware/network
failure that may or may not be directly in vendor's control.
|Review and approve Business Continuity and disaster recovery plans of the vendor. Audit data from simulated disaster drills.
|Poorly designed disaster recovery systems/processes.
|Review and approve Business Continuity and disaster recovery plans of the vendor. Audit data from simulated disaster drills.
|Reduced Employee motivation as outsourcing is perceived as loss of job.
|Establish Employee retention strategies such as retention bonus, performance map etc.,
|Political/Cultural unrest.
|Be sensitive to cultural issues.
|Process non-alignment and differing governance model.
|Establish compatible and agreeable processes and include them as part of the contract.
|Increased labor rate as the project progresses. Vendor might try to
justify the increase with reasons such as Inflation, currency conversion fluctuations.
|Binding document should contain appropriate forecasts and waivers wherever applicable.
|Legal and Regulatory risks.
|Increase awareness about region specific laws and regulations to better plan for incompatibilities and allowable trade offs.
|Non-alignment of Management and Reporting Structure with vendor.
|Expect Governance model to be included in RFPs.
|Lack of control or insight into vendor progress.
|Well planned milestones, immediate deliverables along with appropriate documentation plan.
|Country specific issues such as differing laws, educational systems.
|Increase awareness of all stakeholders.
|Higher Project Transition cost.
|Factor in a detailed transition cost to overall project cost.
|Response time not within the acceptable/required limits as the vendor
is spread across time-zone.
|Flexible shits to respect time-zones and increased frequency of meetings.
|Project members of vendor lack project knowledge or technology know-how.
|Review vendor team selection process.
|Knowledge transfer issues such as inability to capture tacit knowledge.
|Recorded videos, tutorials, web casts to transfer knowledge.
|Dependence on a single vendor for all outsourcing needs.
|Core processes, deliverables designed to be loosely coupled with vendor's technologies, processes.
|Cultural differences.
|Increased cultural awareness through specialized trainings.


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I'm trying to set up an image of Ubuntu Lucid to install on some PCs at work. For that I'd like to add and remove some programs, settings, menus etc. I've heard about the /etc/skel directory.
If I configure both desktops and copy /my/ whole home-directory to /etc/skel, what will happen to the permissions? Also, are there any files referring to absolute paths, i.e. /home/alexxhardt/.. etc?


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Franklin University is pleased to announce it has been named an Honorable Mention winner in the prestigious Institute of International Education's (IIE) Andrew Heiskell Awards for Innovation in International Education (2014). Franklin's Honorable Mention designation recognizes the University's best practices within its international partnership with the Wroclaw School of Banking in Wroclaw, Poland.
Franklin's agreement with WSB offers the Franklin MBA program to Polish students in classes held on WSB's modern campus in Wroclaw, Poland. Classes are taught in English by a combination of Columbus-based Franklin faculty traveling to Poland and European faculty from WSB and other institutions. In addition, the agreement also provided for Franklin faculty to provide input to WSB counterparts in developing a Polish-language MBA program leading to a WSB degree.
The Franklin University Online MBA was awarded a Best Value designation by GetEducated.com as part of its 2014 business school rankings.The online university cost rankings are based on a comprehensive, independent survey of regionally accredited business schools that offer online masters of business administration, and cover the formal major areas of business administration.
A Best Buy designation indicates programs have been independently reviewed and found to offer a high quality distance MBA to online students at a cost rate well below the national average.
Established in 1989, GetEducated.com was the nation's first online counseling center for adult learners seeking accredited online degrees.
Franklin's Online Master of Science in Accounting Programs was awarded a Best Value by GetEducated.com as part of its 2014 business school rankings.The online university cost rankings are based on a comprehensive, independent survey of regionally accredited business schools that offer degrees via distance education. A Best Buy designation indicates programs have been independently reviewed and found to offer a high quality distance accounting program to online students at a cost rate well below the national average.
Established in 1989, GetEducated.com was the nation's first online counseling center for adult learners seeking accredited online degrees.
Franklin's online M.S. in Computer Science was awarded a top ranking for Regionally Accredited Online Computer Science Programs by GetEducated.com as part of its 2013 university rankings. Top rankings of the top best values in online computer science degrees were based on a national review of 77 regionally accredited universities that offer 115 different online master's in computer science and IT. The survey covered a wide range of computer science majors, including information systems, database mining, information assurance and technical communication. The rankings highlight the 45 best affordable online degrees in this field.
Established in 1989, GetEducated.com was the nation's first online counseling center for adult learners seeking accredited online degrees.
Adding validation to the University's long-standing reputation for providing access to quality education, Franklin University was awarded a "Best of Business in Online Degree Program" by Columbus C.E.O. as part of the BEST in Business 2014 Readers' Survey.
Of special note regarding the 2014 honor, Franklin has been named the winner in the Best in Online Education category for all four years the category has been available for voting.
Winners for the seventh annual survey were determined through a Columbus C.E.O. survey in which readers were asked about the things that make Central Ohio's business landscape great. Where are the best business services and products located? What are the best local law firms? And, who gives the best financial advice?
The Criminal Justice Administration Program has been designated a 2014 Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) Division of Distance Learning Best Practice Award winner. This award affirms the University's outstanding dedication to quality and its collaborative and innovative spirit that directly impacts our students' learning and success.
AECT is a professional association of thousands of educators and others whose activities are directed toward improving instruction through technology. AECT members may be found in colleges and universities; in the Armed Forces and industry; in museums, libraries, and hospitals; in the many places where educational change is underway. AECT members carry out a wide range of responsibilities in the study, planning, application, and production of communications media for instruction.
The Association has become a major organization for those actively involved in the designing of instruction and a systematic approach to learning. It provides an international forum for the exchange and dissemination of ideas for its members and for target audiences; it is the national and international spokesperson for the improvement of instruction; and, it is the most recognized association of information concerning a wide range of instructional and educational technology. Along with our members, AECT has 24 state and six international affiliates that are all passionate about finding better ways to help people learn. AECT is the oldest professional home for this field of interest and has continuously maintained a central position in the field, promoting high standards, both in scholarship and in practice. AECT has nine divisions and a Graduate Student Assembly that represent the breadth and depth of the field. The Association produces two bimonthly journals, Educational Technology Research and Development and TechTrends.
Franklin University's MBA offering at the Wroclaw School of Banking (WSB) in Poland recently ranked 8th in the 2013 Polish MBA program rankings provided by the Perspektywy Education Foundation.
The Perspektywy Education Foundation, an independent and non-profit national organization based in Poland, was established to promote and support education. The organization's magazine, the 'Perspektywy', organizes and publishes national university rankings and the rankings of the best secondary schools in the country. Respected for their level of credibility, the rankings are recognized as the most popular and reliable educational rankings in Poland.
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Senior Shane Basen (Waxhaw, N.C. / Marvin Ridge HS) had four hits and junior relief pitcher Hunter May (Cornelius, N.C. / Pitt CC) got his second win out of the bullpen this season as the Charlotte 49ers scored seven runs in the eighth inning to power to a 12-3 road win at High Point Wednesday afternoon at Coy Williard Stadium in non-conference baseball action. The 49ers improve to 2-1 on the season, scoring seven runs in a single inning in both early-season victories.
Charlotte scored in the first inning for the first time this season when sophomore outfielder Brad Elwood (Indian Trail, N.C. / Piedmont HS) hit the first of three two-out singles and scored off an RBI single by Grant Dunnegan (Clearwater, Kan. / Hutchinson CC) for the 1-0 lead.
A Niners error in the third allowed three unearned runs against Charlotte starter Jason Harris (Austin, Tex. / Barton County CC) as the Panthers (2-2) took a 3-1 lead.
That score held until the fifth, when Basen drove in a pair of runs to tie the game with the bases loaded in the frame. Basen is 2-for-2 with the bases loaded this season, driving in five runs in those situations this season.
Junior Justin Seager (Kannapolis, N.C. / Northwest Cabarrus HS) hit the first of two doubles to lead off the sixth, scoring on a double play groundout by catcher Brett Lang (Charlotte, N.C. / Ardrey Kell HS) for the 4-3 lead.
Charlotte put up another run in the seventh after a leadoff single by freshman Matt Creech (Moultrie, Ga. / Colquitt County HS) after he stole second and eventually scored on a sacrifice fly from Dunnegan for the 5-3 margin.
The seven runs in the eighth all came with two outs in the inning. Basen, Lang and pinch hitter J.J. Elseser (Brunswick, Ga.) all had an RBI single in the frame, with Seager adding two RBI with his hit in the inning.
May came in with one out in the fifth and after a base hit to the first batter he faced, he retired 11 in a row as the offense came alive. He struck out four and pitched 3.2 innings, with four strikeouts and no walks. May has seven strikeouts in seven total innings pitched this season with two hits allowed and two walks, with an earned run average of 1.29 in two appearances and a 2-0 record.
The loss went to HPU reliever Mike Krumm, who gave up the go-ahead run in the sixth. He got one out and allowed three hits and a walk.
Basen was 4-for-5 in the contest, leading all players with his hits and three RBI. He leads Charlotte with seven hits in three games and a .500 batting average. He also has a hit in all three games this season, extending his career-long hit streak to 12 games, dating back to May of last season.
The 49ers will play a home game Thursday against Pfeiffer at 4 p.m. in a second make-up game due to snowed out games from last weekend.
NOTES: Third baseman Justin Roland (Salisbury, N.C. / East Rowan HS) was hit by a pitch twice and now has reached base safely in 29 straight games, dating back to last season... Elwood has drawn five of the team's 18 total walks in three games this season.


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5 Complaints About Modern Life (That Are Statistically B.S.)
In general, it's easier to be negative. It's easier for us at Cracked, because it's easier to write jokes about terrible things than nice things. It's easier for us as a generation, because to admit that the world isn't that bad right now would be to admit that we have it easier than our grandparents did and that the world thus has the right to expect more from us.
But as much as we like to joke about the sorry state of the world, the facts really don't back us up.
#5. "Everything Is So Expensive."
The Complaint:
"The corporations and the government have us all living like slaves. I can back it up with numbers, too -- in 1950 you could buy a brand new nine-room brick home in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, for the whopping sum of $11,500. A decent family car was about $500, and the gas for it was about 25 cents a gallon. A large loaf of bread cost under 15 cents. A large coffee was a nickel, with a free refill. I could go on and on. But now between greedy corporations and the government confiscating our income with sky-high taxes, you have to work two jobs just to survive."
"One knife just isn't enough for all the mugging it takes to get by."
The Reality:
Let's start with the obvious: A low-end job in the service industry paid a dollar an hour in 1950. A fancy job in insurance or real estate? A buck-fifty an hour. You'd take home $50 a week after taxes. So please don't talk about the good old days of 50-cent steaks when people were getting paid what would now be Tooth Fairy money.
So how does this all average out, once you account for income? We don't have to guess. Punch anything into the cost of living calculator -- the one that uses the exact same formula that the government uses to decide things like tax rates -- and you'll see that the prices of most things have stayed pretty constant over the years. High-end manufactured goods have gotten cheaper. Much cheaper, as manufacturing costs drop.
Thanks, Shenzhen, China!
In 1954, the cost of a high-end Westinghouse color TV, with a massive 15-inch screen, was $1,295. No, not adjusted for inflation. That was the actual price at the time -- half of the yearly income for some families. Everybody writes this off as if it's a constant of the universe ("of course new technology gets exponentially better and cheaper with time!") instead counting it among the benefits of the modern system. Why? This economic system has resulted in handheld devices that can access all of the porn ever created, at a price affordable to the working man, and all we can do is complain about the cost of unlimited data plans?
"Yeah, it's as powerful as a PS3, but it barely fits in my pocket! THESE ARE THE NEW DARK AGES."
And the golden age of the $500 car... how many of you come from families with two cars? Statistically it's most of you, and far more than what it would have been in 1960, when there were half as many cars on a per-capita basis in the U.S. (it averaged about one car per household -- so if you had two, someone else had none).
And taxes? Again, the numbers don't lie -- in the U.S. taxes are the lowest they've been since 1950, and now that the Bush-era tax cuts have been temporarily extended, they will continue to be until 2012 at the soonest. The government even threw you an extra two percent reduction in payroll tax as a cherry on top. The U.S. has the second-lowest taxes among developed countries.
We're also the second whiniest, though.
Yes, we're going through a worldwide downturn and yes, a bunch of you are unemployed. Those of you who are reading this at a homeless shelter, we're not saying it's all in your head. But on the whole we could use a little perspective.
#4. "People Are Getting Stupider."
The Complaint:
"Two words: 'Jersey Shore.' People are getting stupider by the minute, and the stupid people are breeding faster than the smart people. They watch mindless reality shows, and all anybody cares about is celebrity gossip and bullshit. Teenagers are obsessed with Twitter and video games and have probably never read a book. Hell, Sarah Palin will probably be our next president."
Inevitably, someone in this discussion will mention Idiocracy
The Reality:
IQ scores have risen 24 points since 1914. And on top of that, you have to account for the Flynn effect, discovered by James R. Flynn, which is a way of compensating for increased education (but more on that in a moment). The intelligence quotient is set up in such a way that an average score is 100. So, what do you do if people keep getting higher and higher scores, to the point where 100 is no longer the average? You rejigger the way scores are calculated so that it goes back down to 100.
So, while IQ scores may appear to be similar from one generation to the next, the scores have to be constantly adjusted back down to 100 because children are doing better and better on the test. If you scored 100 on a test back in the day, you might actually be considered slightly mentally challenged now.
Meanwhile, the quality of education has been going up for the past 40 years, with children scoring higher in reading and mathematics. That's not just in the U.S. -- it's worldwide. Graduation rates, too, are on an upward trend. So by the sheer numbers, we are actively creating useful members of society at an increasing rate, and if we continue onward, we might someday see as much as 200 percent of the population with high school diplomas. (Ed.: Can somebody double-check the math on that one?)
The world collectively is getting smarter. If you treat the combined mass of human knowledge as a resource for the future (and you should), then we're drowning in riches like Scrooge McDuck.
Ed.: Actually, Scrooge McDuck is an exceptional swimmer.
It seems like part of the negative perception is from trying to judge the intelligence of a people by their pop culture. But remember that most people spend their whole day at work or school thinking and making decisions and doing complex troubleshooting -- they treat entertainment as the break from all that.
And if you think that it's a sad sign of the times that Jackass 3D made a ton of money at the box office, hop in your time machine and go back 80 years. You'll find audiences howling with laughter at these guys ...
... bonking one another on the heads with shovels.
#3. "All This Processed Food Is Killing Us."
The Complaint:
"Just look at a label. High-fructose corn syrup? 'Phenylketonurics'? Hell, a simple chicken dinner may have 36 ingredients. Who knows what chemical preservative bullshit we eat in an average day? What happened to old-time family meals, when a roast was just a roast, and a loaf of bread just had flour and yeast and other natural ingredients?"
"That's right, kids, I gutted that shit myself."
The Reality:
Think those ingredients in your TV dinner are scary? Prior to 1966, there was no ingredient labeling of prepared foods. You bought a tin of meat-and-potato stew, and what was in it was left to the goodwill of the manufacturer, who may have had to fatten profits by feeding people elk hooves and sawdust. You simply didn't know what you were eating.
Warning: Stuffing May Contain Drain Cleaner, Excrement.
The ingredient and nutrition labeling acts changed all that. Sure, food manufacturers can still try to lie and put bug shit and viruses in your food, but if caught, they get to pull all of their product off the shelf and dump it, at their own expense. And all those scary chemicals on the ingredients list? Many of those are preservatives. Meant to preserve the food. So it isn't rotten when you eat it.
Also, let's not forget that the refrigerator and freezer are both recent inventions -- go back to the Great Depression or earlier and you find that refrigerators cost more than a car. So keeping food cold or preserved was a crapshoot, with listeria, botulism and the shits acting as the dessert to granny's wholesome down-home country meal.
Remember all those cold Thanksgiving nights at the farm, lining up outside to shit with the family?
Oh, and feel free to browse through some recipes from the 1950s -- savor the Baked Corn Chex 'N' Cheese Custard and Spam fritters.
Again, we're not saying there isn't some gross stuff in your food -- there totally is and we have examined it in some detail -- just as we weren't saying that there are no stupid people in the world in our first entry up there.
All we're saying is that we're not at the disastrous nadir of some long downward trend.
Turducken notwithstanding.


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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Running Handprints Child Care, Inc. has been a labor of love for Mary Hughes.
"I always wanted 15 to 16 babies," she laughs. "But I only had one, so I started child care in November 1996."
"I like to see kids grow and plant their seeds before school so that they can get through life," she said of her business philosophy.
Hughes started out as a single mom having to provide for her child. She says she knows what parents go through.
"I just want to be of service to parents," she said. "You know you worry about your child and you need to concentrate on work, knowing your child is okay."
Hughes runs Handprints out of her home on 884 SE Brookside Drive. With her crop of 20 kids and four teachers, as well as her business, she makes sure they are always growing.
"We participate in Kansas quality rating scales. We are a four star day care," she said. "We go through as much training as we can."
And it pays of for her and for the children.
"I have kids who are 16 and they are "A" students and they are doing good and that makes me happy."
Being nominated by the Greater Topeka Chamber of Commerce was especially emotional since Hughe's has been diagnosed with breast cancer.
"I was just focused on healing," she said. "It was overwhelming. I cried for days," she said.


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Picaresque Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini remains one of cinema's most controversial figures. Though other Italian filmmakers who emerged after World War II—including Roberto Rossellini, Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni—also provoked audiences, none did so as pointedly as Pasolini, who had already achieved fame as a poet, novelist and leftist public intellectual before writing and directing his first film, "Accattone" (1961).
Religious hypocrisy, sexuality and issues of class were recurring themes for Pasolini, who often explored them on film in mordant fashion. But in the early 1970s, immediately after his adaptation of "Medea" (starring a nonsinging Maria Callas) and right before the notorious "Salò" (inspired by the writings of the Marquis de Sade), Pasolini took an unexpected detour, filming three well-known collections of picaresque tales: "The Decameron," "The Canterbury Tales" and "Arabian Nights." Unlike much of Pasolini's other cinematic work— which can be unremittingly dour and pedantically political—these pictures, usually grouped as "Trilogy of Life," exude robust (and raunchy) good humor.
Having previously released both the still-shocking "Salò" and Pasolini's deeply affecting "Mama Roma" (1962), starring Anna Magnani, the Criterion Collection has now boxed "Trilogy of Life" on DVD (four discs) and Blu-ray (three discs)—supplementing the films with documentary materials that help illuminate Pasolini's complicated (sometimes contradictory) philosophy and career.
"The Decameron" (1971)—loosely based on Boccaccio's 14th-century compendium of 100 tales and reset in Naples from Florence—is the first and funniest of these films, its nine episodes bookended by cinematic re-creations of two famous paintings (Brueghel's "Battle Between Carnival and Lent" and Giotto's "Last Judgment"). The stories of cuckolded husbands and randy nuns elicit easy laughs, but not all have happy endings: One of the later ones features a trio of overprotective brothers who kill their sister's sweet (if lowborn) lover. The film offers plenty of nudity and more base humor than some would prefer, but anyone who finds pleasure in the "American Pie" franchise or the comedies produced by Judd Apatow won't bat an eye.
For "The Canterbury Tales" (1972)—based on Chaucer but, again, freely adapted—Pasolini approved an English-language dub track, and Criterion includes the option. Using it makes sense given the many English actors enlisted for this project, including the great Hugh Griffith, who opens the film as an obnoxious Sir January. The details in familiar stories like those of the miller, reeve and wife of Bath have been modified, but there is no shortage of blatant sexuality and scatology. The film concludes with an unforgettable phantasmagoric depiction of hell that is entirely Pasolini's invention. Unfortunately, the film too often lacks the energy coursing through "The Decameron," and no mise-en-scène, no matter how artfully imagined, can compensate for that.
"Arabian Nights" (1974) is the longest picture in the trilogy and less a collection of discrete episodes than an intricate geometric tapestry of interconnected patterns, a feat partly accomplished by the telling of stories within stories. Here, too, Pasolini departs from convention—no Scheherazade, for example. Though the movie revels in exoticism, the ornate orientalism generally associated with these tales is largely banished thanks to the extensive location shooting Pasolini demanded—a virtual travelogue gorgeously shot by Giuseppe Ruzzolini in Eritrea, Ethiopia, India, Iran, Nepal and Yemen.
The film is framed by the forced parting and eventual reunion of two young lovers, a wily slave and her gentle master. Their separate adventures, as each searches for the other, generates the action. In the previous two movies (both set in medieval Christendom), sex happens in a repressed context, but that's not the case in "Arabian Nights," which is so thoroughly fantastical that Islam and its attendant prohibitions seem not to exist. Thus, in Pasolini's telling, homosexual acts are as viable as heterosexual ones, and women are so empowered they may exact brutal revenge on a feckless groom who cheated on his bride-to-be.
Beyond Pasolini's detailed evocation of the past in these films, they share with much of his previous cinema the use of frequent close-ups to capture disarming truths—much like the Renaissance and Mannerist painters he revered. In this regard and others, Pasolini must share credit with two longtime collaborators, the art director Dante Ferretti and the costume designer Danilo Donati, whose distinctive imprint the trilogy bears.
Bawdily entertaining and occasionally moving, "Trilogy of Life" gives film lovers a chance to appreciate the less solemn and disturbing—to say nothing of didactic—aspects of Pasolini's art. It also opens a window onto broader artistic currents characteristic of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Some viewers may still be offended by Pasolini's hearty, nonjudgmental embrace (and graphic depiction) of carnality, but it's hard to take issue with the exuberant humanity of these pictures. Ironically, the filmmaker distanced himself from the trilogy a year after its completion. He perceived that his intentions were co-opted by "consumerist powers" and wrote an essay, published after his murder in 1975, detailing his abstruse objections. Reading it—especially in light of his broader career—one wonders if Pasolini abhorred wide acceptance even more than he dreaded rejection.
Mr. Mermelstein writes for the Journal on film and classical music.