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Peace Building Clubs connect Lebanese youth with their collective history
A group of Lebanese university students from different sectarian backgrounds set out from Martyr Square in Beirut, in June 2012, on a mission to discover The Bus that they have heard about so often.
Its story was not in their history books, but they heard of it from their parents, who all narrated their own version of the tragic "Ain el Remmaneh Bus incident" that sparked the outbreak of the Lebanese civil war from 1975-1990, leaving a mark on the history of the country and its people.
"I was not even born at the time but once I stepped into the wrecked and bullet-filled bus, the stories that I my family told about the Ain el Remmaneh Bus came to life instantly," said Helene Moukarzel, a student majoring in law and a member in the Peace Building Club at St. Joseph University.
"I felt the presence of those who were in the bus; I heard the gun shots; I could not believe that I am reliving the moment."
All over Lebanon, students have established these Peace Building Clubs at their universities which serve as "safe spaces" bringing together youth from different backgrounds and affiliations to discuss critical issues of concern and share values of tolerance and civic responsibility.
In order to promote a culture of peaceful dialogue and reconciliation among them, UNDP's Peace Building Project supported the establishment of 12 Clubs, equipping more than 200 students with effective conflict management, negotiation and mediation skills, and introducing them to approaches to deal with their past and to understand, accept and respect the "other".
In their text books, Lebanese students learn about World Wars, the French Revolution, and U.S. history, but their own history is subject to multiple and at times conflicting narratives; for some of their families history is even a taboo subject. It is just too painful.
Almost twenty-two years have passed since the end of the war with more than 200,000 deaths, yet there is no mention whatsoever about the civil war in Lebanese history schoolbooks.
The Taif Peace Accord that put an end to the conflict has called for the creation of a common history textbook among other subjects. Historians worked hard to prepare a curriculum to suit Lebanese from all backgrounds, but unfortunately political disagreement over the contents suspended the book's distribution.
Realizing the need for recounting the history of Lebanon and fostering a sense of collective memory, UNDP and a local NGO, UMAM in partnership with the EU, launched an informal and innovative project in 2011.
The initiative builds on the painful connotation of the old bus - at UMAM's premises - turning it into a positive one embodied by a new bus "The Bus Takes the Podium: Voyages into Lebanon's history and its people".
The mobile bus, currently touring the nation, is equipped with UMAM's archive on the civil war, from diaries, events, missing persons' data to media coverage. During its "memory stops", Lebanese citizens are engaging in various educational and awareness raising activities aimed at initiating dialogue on history and reconciliation.
University Peace Building Club members, inspired by UMAM's work, joined forces to shoot a documentary on the memory of the Lebanese Civil War funded by the UN Volunteers programme in Lebanon.
The film revolves around a mother whose son went missing; a photojournalist who covered the conflict and a psychoanalyst specialized in remembrance and trauma. The students also interviewed people in their villages who have been affected by the war.
In line with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education's National Education Strategic Framework: Education Sector Development Plan 2010-2015, UNDP's Peace Building Project* has been contributing to social integration and providing key actors with the knowledge and skills needed for living in a diverse society.
Today, Lebanese youth are starting to frame their own understanding of their common history. "We will showcase the documentary in our universities and hold discussion sessions to sensitize others about the importance of remembering our past and dealing with it, as it is the basis of building a sustainable peace in Lebanon," explains Moukarzel.
*The Peace Building Project (Phase I: 2007-2010) is also known as Strengthening Civil Peace in Lebanon Project (Phase II: 2011-2012)


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I'm currently trying to solve a Keyboard layout issue that somehow is VMware Fusion and MacBook related. In the KDE config you can alter that stuff:
Which normally maps Crtl + Command + Q = @.
Nevertheless I have these options I can't create an @. Of couse VMware tools are installed... Any ideas? It worked in bt3.
I tried an .xmodmap:
But maybe KDE 3 ignores this? This was intended to get the normal MacOS X German Layout. Nothing more .Code:# more .xmodmap remove control = Control_L Control_R keycode 115 = Super_L Super_L keycode 116 = Super_R Super_R remove mod4 = Super_L add control = Super_L Super_R


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Contemporary Challenges to Jesus (3 of 3)
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Dr. Mark Bailey: Welcome to DTS Dialogue: Issues of God in Culture. I am your host Dr. Mark Bailey and I have the privilege of serving as president of Dallas Theological Seminary. Today we have the opportunity to discuss contemporary challenges to the biblical accounts of Jesus.
Now what are some of the other alternative forms of religious life in the first few centuries, besides Gnosticism that would relate to some of these questions we have been raising?
Dr. Darrell Bock: Well you do have what you generally call Docetism, which is the idea that Jesus appeared to be human but really was divine. So one of the more exaggerated forms of this is Jesus walks on the beach and he doesn't leave any sand prints in the sand, which is pretty hard to do. If you have ever walked in sand, you are sinking if you have any weight. So that's pretty impressive. So that's certainly one view that's out there.
You also have the Ebionites who were Jewish Christians who didn't really believe in the deity of Christ and tried to be as absolutely Jewish as they could. And as far as I know, they are the only group -- and this is important -- they are the only group in the first few centuries who tried to argue that Jesus wasn't a transcendent figure of some kind.
That's interesting because critics today who use this material, want to see a kind of evolutionary development in the understanding of Jesus that takes him from being a human figure in his own teaching and in his own mind, with the early church putting on all the transcendence on top of him coming later.
Well, the bulk of the movements that grew out of Christianity didn't go there. I mean, only the Ebionites and the reason that the Ebionites didn't go there is because they were excessively attached to the Shema, that there is only one God. And so they couldn't reconcile in their minds how Jesus could be God and the God of Israel could be God at the same time. So that's what prevented them from it.
But everybody else -- everybody else saw a transcendent Jesus who responded to him. And so to ask that question of what is around Jesus is important because in all that variety, everyone is recognizing he is transcendent. The debate becomes well what kind of a transcendent figure is he?
Mark: In Luke's record of the life of Christ, in his growth statement where he says that Jesus grew in wisdom and stature in favor with God and man, there is almost an anticipation of many of the arguments against either the humanity or the deity of Christ.
It's almost an anticipation of what's going to get challenged. Could he grow in knowledge? Did he really become human and did he grow in what he knew? At the same time, did he have a physical body? And so those, whether it is Apollinarianism, the Ebionites that you mentioned, Gnostics -- Luke really anticipated with that statement and they wrestled with how do you put all of that together.
Darrell: And it takes centuries to sort that all out because what happened is is that there were different permutations on the table about how exactly is the human related to the divine. I think in fact we don't entirely understand that today. There is an element of mystery when the divine touches the human so closely that we can't entirely explain.
Now we have tried to articulate it theologically in a way that gives some level of clarity. But you never completely break through the mystery aspect of the person of Jesus Christ. He is that deep.
Mark: Let me ask a more methodological, practical question. What's the advantage of these kinds of issues as opposed to the disadvantages that we often think with regard to Christianity? What kind of advantages does this popular program like the Discovery Channel, like The Da Vinci Code, even like the Passion of the Christ film, what advantage does this give us as believers to speak into our current culture? Stephen?
Dr. Stephen Bramer: I'll tell you what. Our society is talking about Jesus. And we can expect almost every Easter and almost every Christmas for there to be some special on television that is going to cause people to start talking about our Savior. And it gives us the opportunity to engage them in conversation, to bring them to the Scriptures.
And I think another thing it does is it causes a little bit of hesitation among some believers who don't really know the Word when they hear some of these things and it drives them to a better Bible study. They want to get in. They really do want to know one.
So it gives us the opportunity both to reach outside the Church and it gives us the opportunity challenge our people in the Church and get some good answers so when they are standing around the water cooler and someone mentions, "What's so special about the Jesus tomb?" that they really have something to say and they can speak intelligently to the person and direct them to the Scriptures.
Mark: Let me ask each of you one question before our final question. Stephen, if you could say something to our pastors who are listening to this, those who are working with believers in a church context within the church, in the light of what we have just talked about, in the light of what you have just said, what would you encourage those pastors to do to help equip their people for these kinds of conversations?
Stephen: I think pastors need to make sure their people are in the Word of God. But they also need to be reading the newspaper and watching the documentaries and bringing that into the conversation. Not so that the people in church become expert in all of these, but so they are not caught with their mouth open wondering, "Does the Scripture have anything to say to it?"
In class I often practice what I call the inoculation approach -- and I don't want to have it misunderstood -- but I want to speak to the students and bring these conversations to the students so that when they get out of seminary they're not saying, "Well, this was never discussed at DTS."
Now I don't have time in class to do a full-blown exposition of all of these. And I think pastors can't spend their whole sermon talking about the documentary. But I think by bringing it into the sermon and by bringing it into their Bible studies, there is a proper application and a Scripture to the culture of the day. And Christians then come to understand that there is something true about Scripture and that we don't need to be embarrassed about it.
God can defend himself and his Word is true.
Mark: Dwight L. Moody used to have a statement that the way that you show that a stick is crooked is not to just examine the crookedness of the stick but to lay a straight stick alongside of it. And I think having the canon of Scripture, the rule of Scripture, well laid out and well taught and well memorized and well studied, well rehearsed and well preached is one of the best ways to prepare believers to know what isn't biblical in what seems to be a bit crooked from that straight.
Darrell, you bring to our conversation and incredible expertise in interfacing with the media those outside the church. What advice would you have for our front-line people, not at the church community but those Christians who then leave that church community and find themselves in much more neutral and at times even controversial situations? How do you help prepare that person for conversations at the water cooler?
Darrell: Well, it's a complementary approach to what Steve was suggesting. On the one hand you want to have the word. But on the other hand you want to have the -- you want to understand the world to which that Word spoke and to which the Word speaks.
And that means having a little bit of understanding about how other people put this kind of package together so that you can then take a look at that. And so it means sometimes saying, "OK, if I didn't believe that the Bible is the Word of God, OK, how would I think about this?" And then think through that scenario. And actually I think church leaders need to help people do this.
You know, Jesus has kind of come into primetime, and we need to help people think through how Jesus is being presented in primetime, and what the mindset is often times in primetime, and then ask ourselves how do we help people come from where they are to appreciate the uniqueness of Jesus?
There's a part of the experience of Jesus that is unprecedented. You're asking people to think completely differently about Him than you do any other human being you've ever encountered, or will ever encounter. So it is an unusual category. Let's acknowledge that at the start. Then, let's ask how do we bring people along to see that?
Sometimes this background information, this little touch of history, and most pastors are very fascinated with history. That's part of what's pulled them in to doing what they do. That will help them to give a context for what Jesus is saying, and how what Jesus is saying is unusual, and even the ancient people of the time who encountered him recognized that what Jesus was saying was a little bit unusual.
So then you come into the media situation and you're able -- or in the water cooler situation -- and someone raises the Gospel of Thomas, or the Gospel of Judas, or Gnostic Christianity or whatever -- what I call conversation stoppers, if you don't know anything about it. You're talking about Jesus, they throw it out, "What about those gospels that never made it into the Bible that possibly should have?" You know. [mimics brakes sound] end of discussion, because you don't know anything about it.
On the other hand, if you know a little something about Gnostic Christianity, it doesn't need to be much, you're able to then engage. I remember a conversation I had with a dear old man at Elmbrook College, in Illinois. I had just given a speech on the historical Jesus, and he came up to me and was saying, "These Gnostic gospels are really fascinating. They're great. Did you know they elevate the role of women?" I looked at him, and I said, "Have you ever read the Gospel of Thomas?" And he said, "Well yeah, I've glanced at it."
I said, "Do you know about the Gospel of Thomas saying in 1:14?" He said, "No." I said, "Well, in that text, Jesus says that unless a female becomes a male, she cannot enter into the kingdom of God. How pro-female is that text?" He looked at me, and kind of chuckled, and said, "Does it really say that?" I said, "Yeah, it really says that."
Well that wasn't a conversation stopper; that was a conversation turner. And our conversation changed direction as a result of that. That's just knowing one little piece of material, a strategic piece of material. And if you know where the key points are, and if pastors can find where the key points are, they can help their people redirect these conversations without shaking a finger at someone because a lot of people who are asking these questions are asking them very honestly, very sincerely.
The questions need to be treated with some level of respect, because all they're doing is parroting what they're hearing out there in the culture, that's coming from people who often are well documented as being scholars, or whatever. So they have no reason to think anything differently than what they're asking in many ways.
Mark: Pastors need to know, people need to know. As a final question, for both of you, what would be some resources that you would suggest for someone that wants to wrestle with these contemporary issues of Christianity?
Stephen: There's a number of internet sites, and I think Bible.org is just one of the best ones. You can go there. Darrell has a blog on Bible.org, as well as other material on there. Probe Ministries, here from Dallas, has a good website that you can go to. Usually when you go to a view of those "solid ones", they have links to other places. That gets you the latest, up-to-date information.
If you wait for the book to come out, it's usually six months or a year later, and your people are asking the question this Sunday, not six months from now. So to go to a couple of these websites that you can trust and are edited websites, I think are extremely helpful.
Darrell: I think this is an example of where things have changed. When the tomb thing came out, I was traveling the country at one point, people would come up to me and say, "What book can I read to get up to speed on this?" To which the answer is, "You can't read a book to get up to speed on this; the book hadn't been written yet. This just got released."
So then the question is where are you going to go? You're going to go to watch this thing get vetted, publicly, on the web. That's where it's going to get vetted. I also think that sometimes it's helpful to go to sites where you actually see the case argued out by the person who's holding it on the other side. This is where websites like Beliefnet.com are very helpful, because they cover everything. They cover Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism, the whole shooting match. They even cover Pilate, which I thought was "Pilate."
Anyway, in the process of doing that, they give you articles written by people coming out of those spaces, so you can see how someone who holds to that faith argues for it, thinks about it, and in some cases, in these controversial areas, they will have point/counterpoint arguments where you will see both sides interacting with each other on something. So sometimes that can be a helpful way to get your hands around what the issues are as well. Christianity Today has a nice site, and really there's not a lack of information out there.
The difficulty with going to the web is that sometimes you can't know simply by going to a site, where the site itself is coming from. Sorting out the truthfulness of that site, or the quality of that site, or its perspective, can sometimes be difficult. But if you go to some of the ones that Steve mentioned, like Bible.org, that can give you an orientation point. But it's going to be the web, at least for the first six months, that's going to get you started.
For some of the other stuff, there is stuff that's written. Dan Wallace has written a book with a couple of guys called Reinventing Jesus that's a good primer in some of this stuff. Some of the stuff that I've done, both with relationship to The Da Vinci Code and The Missing Gospels, is another one. We've got one coming out this year, Dan and I together, are doing one called Dethroning Jesus -- the title may make you nervous -- but really it's about six ideas that have made the best seller list in the last five years about Jesus, all of which we think are wrong.
We work through them, one at a time. Many of the things that you now see usually touch on one of these six areas. So hopefully that book will cover a multitude of sins, in terms of what's being said about Jesus in the public square.
Mark: That's great. I think it's important to finish with a council from Peter. He writes to the early church. He says, "Who is there to harm you if you prove zealous for what is good? But even if you should suffer for the sake of righteousness, you are blessed. And do not fear their intimidation, and do not be troubled. But sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone" -- that's pretty inclusive -- "to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you. Yet with gentleness, and reference. Keep a good conscience so in the thing in which you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ will be put to shame."
I think the heartbeat with which we interface with some of the detractors and attackers will be one of the ways that we can represent Christ well, and gain a hearing, gain an audience, stand for truth. At the same time, we do it with gentleness, we do it with respect, as you men have said.
Stephen, Darrell, thank you for spending the time with us. Jesus in Primetime, that reminds me. Dallas Theological Seminary and the Center for Christian Leadership here is going to sponsor a "Jesus in Primetime" event on our campus in the city.
Stay tuned to our website. Stay tuned to the information on the DTS website for the Christian Leadership Center. Dr. Bock and a number of others who are involved in media interaction will be presenters on that day.
Jesus is in primetime. How will we take advantage of the opportunity? Let's pray we do it well. God Bless You.
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BELLFLOWER - Randy Bomgaars - the city's longest-serving City Council member who was re-elected in March 2011 - is resigning simultaneously from the council and his teaching position to collect special pension benefits.
The move could cost the city up to $60,000 for a special election.
Bomgaars, 61, who was elected to the council in 1988, made his announcement at Monday's council meeting. He had already said last year that he would be retiring after 40 years with the Bellflower Unified School District.
He said his last day at the school district and on the council is June 21. His council term ends March 2015.
By resigning and retiring on the same day, Bomgaars is eligible under California law to receive special compensation increasing his total pension, he told the Press-Telegram Tuesday.
"By combining the two separate retirement plans, my family and I will benefit from an increase in the pension benefits I will receive," Bomgaars said.
The details of the special compensation couldn't be confirmed Tuesday, and Bomgaars wouldn't elaborate. A representative from the California Public Employees' Retirement System couldn't be reached for comment.
Bomgaars said he only learned of the special benefit about nine months ago and recently decided to resign from the council after he had won reelection.
In March 2011 he defeated four other candidates and came in third to keep one of three available council seats.
Bomgaars said his pension from the California State Teachers Retirement system is 2.4 percent of his highest salary, which was $82,000 from 2007 to 2008, for each year of service. At 40 years, that equates to 96 percent of his salary, or $78,720.
In Bellflower, his pension is 2 percent of his $12,723 council salary for each year of service. At 24 years, that equals 48 percent, or $6,107.
His total public employee pension will be $84,827, in addition to the extra compensation he will receive for retiring from both jobs at the same time.
The Bellflower council plans to discuss its options for filling Bomgaars' seat at its June 25 meeting.
City Manager Jeff Stewart said Tuesday that those options include appointing someone to the remainder of Bomgaars' term, holding a special election, or appointing someone until a special election is held, Stewart said.
The council has 60 days from Bomgaars' last day to make a decision.
A special election could be held in November or March, but Stewart said he doesn't know if it is logistically possible to still hold an election in November.
A special November election might cost up to $60,000. The cost of a special election in March would be minimal since a regular local election is already scheduled and all the logistics would be in place, he said.
However, Bomgaars said if the council wants to appoint him until a special election or asks him to finish his term, "I would be receptive to that."
If the council appoints him either way, Bomgaars wouldn't collect his special pension benefits, and his council pension would be frozen. He only would collect his council salary and his teachers' pension.
Apart from being the city's longest-serving council member, Bomgaars is the city's first five-time mayor.
He's on the executive board of the California Contract Cities Association, a delegate with the League of California Cities and of the Sister Cities organization with Los Mochis, Mexico.
Born in the Dutch farming community of Sheldon, Iowa, Bomgaars said he and his family moved to Artesia when he was 2 years old in 1952.
Bomgaars graduated from Cerritos' Valley Christian High School and received a bachelor's in education from Cal State Long Beach and a master's in education from Pepperdine University.
Bomgaars and his wife, Jennie, 60, are married for 38 years and have three children.
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| 2004D-0343 - Draft Guidance for Industry and Food and Drug Administration Staff; Hospital Bed System Dimensional Guidance to Reduce Entrapment; Availability
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|Mr. David Cunningham
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|12/10/2004 05:12:24
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| Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the FDA draft guidance: Hospital Bed System Dimensional Guidance to Reduce Entrapment.
We understand and appreciate the intention of this document, to minimize the potential of patient entrapment in a hospital bed. But we feel that the introduction statement and Appendix F will focus attention on proactive testing of existing beds with little or no actual risk reduction. In fact, this focus will stretch currently scarce resources that would be better spent on patient assessment and modification of the bed environment if warranted based on patient size and/or condition.
As written, this guidance will create an expectation of hospitals and long term care facilities inspecting all of their existing hospital beds for compliance with these dimensional limitations. Our understanding is that pilot testing of existing beds has revealed that most if not all existing beds will not meet these dimensional limitations. So the extensive time and effort that will be required to determine that our 225 existing hospital beds will not pass is wasted with no risk reduction. The dimensional guidance has value to existing beds if it is clearly stated that the primary focus must first be clinical assessment of the patient physical condition to establish that they are vulnerable to the risk of bed entrapment. At that point, the focus of the clinical and support staff should be the assessment of the hospital bed system with a clear plan for addition or modification of that system to meet that specific patient's needs.
FDA must revise this draft document to clearly identify existing beds are not inherently 'unsafe' even though they do not meet the new dimensional limits established in this document. The focus on dimensional limits must be on new beds manufactured after the implementation of this document. The focus on legacy equipment is patient assessment first, with risk mitigation efforts based on meeting that patient's need.
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This is my way to install bt3 into Usb.
What do you need?
Usb Stick 1 or 2 gb ( I have verbatim)
Download (i am not allowed to post url)
Bt3 cd image bt3-final.iso
Fixkp2 (go to the website pendrivelinux and search for usb-knoppix)
Ultra iso or daemon tools (or any other to open or extract iso)
After you download Bt3 cd image extract (or burn) the iso to your computer.
After you download Fixkp2 install it (a usb-knoppix folder is created).
Now insert the usb stick. Right click - Format. For File system select Fat32 and for Volume Label BT3. Click start and the format is done.
Ok now we are ready.
Open your bt3 cd image (that you have extracted) and copy the folders Boot and BT3 that are inside. Move this two folders to your usb drive. Now go to the folder USB-Knoppix (that is created from installing the Fixkp2) and copy only syslinux and makeboot to your Usb Stick. Now go inside your Usb Stick drive and click makeboot (FOR VISTA USERS RIGHT CLICK AND SELECT RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR). A command prompt is opened and you just press enter. Thats all. Now reboot your computer and select boot from usb (to bios) and enjoy your BT3 Usb.
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Madame Chair, and members of the Committee, good morning. I am pleased to be here today to discuss the President's 2003 budget proposal for the Department of Veterans Affairs ( VA) and tell you about the significant progress we are making on behalf of the Nation's veterans.
Our budget reflects the largest increase ever proposed for veterans' discretionary programs. It ensures more veterans will receive high-quality health care, that we will provide more timely and accurate benefit claim determinations, and that we will maintain a dignified and respectful setting for deceased veterans. Our proposal reflects the debt of gratitude we owe to those who have served our country with honor. It also signals our enduring commitment to the men and women in uniform who today defend our freedom many miles away.
We are requesting $58 billion for veterans' benefits and services - $30.1 billion for entitlement programs and $27.9 billion for discretionary programs. This is an increase of $6.1 billion over the 2002 enacted level. Our budget increases VA's discretionary funding by $3.1 billion over the 2002 level, including medical care collections. Increases for specific programs are as follows: $2.7 billion for medical programs; $17 million for burial services; $94 million for the administration of veterans' benefits; and $64 million for capital programs and other departmental administration.
Our budget request includes $197 million for a new grant activity that replaces programs currently administered by the Department of Labor and $892 million for certain Federal retiree and health benefits as proposed by the Administration's Managerial Flexibility Act of 2001. Excluding these new activities, our budget for discretionary programs reflects an increase of $1.9 billion, or 7.8 percent over last year's funding level.
For Medical Care, we are requesting budgetary resources of $25 billion, including $1.5 billion in collections. This amount includes $793 million for accrual for certain Federal retiree and health benefits and $260 million in increased collections related to the proposed legislation deductible initiative. Under current law without the impact of these two variables, the Medical Care increase is $1.5 billion - comprised of $1.4 billion in increased appropriations and $158 million in increased collections. This increase when combined with the $1.1 billion impact of the deductible proposal, equals $2.7 billion, the amount of the medical care increase that would be needed to support the projected 6 percent increase in 2003, which is 290,000 more veteran health care system users without the enactment of the deductible proposal.
Madame Chair, we are focusing on improvements needed to our billing and collection from third party insurers. While we have doubled our collections in the past couple of years, we know we need to do more. In a collaborative effort with an external contractor, we have identified 24 actions that will yield significant enhancements to our ability to collect revenue. While many of these actions require time and investment, we have already begun improvements to the revenue collection process. I have directed that we begin the process of consolidating billing and collection services, and that we explore the cost and benefits of outsourcing these services. In addition, we are aggressively pursuing insurance identification by obtaining new HIPAA compliant software to facilitate exchange of medical information with non- VA entities. We are also mounting increased veteran and employee awareness and training campaigns. Further, we have developed a web-based performance metrics program that is used by central office and medical center staff to monitor and evaluate the critical steps in the revenue cycle. Following the original implementation of reasonable charges in September 1999, we have implemented two updates. Work is nearly complete on the next reasonable charges update, which we expect to publish in the Federal Register as an Interim Final Rule and implement during Spring 2002. We expect to collect over $1 billion this year with continuing increases in 2003 and beyond. We are committed to maximizing our revenue opportunities from this source.
VA has experienced unprecedented growth in the medical system workload over the past few years. The total number of patients treated increased by over 11 percent from 2000 to 2001 - more than twice the prior year's rate of growth. For the first quarter of 2002, we experienced a similar growth rate when compared to the same period last year. The growth rate for Priority 7 medical care users has averaged more than 30 percent annually for the last 6 years, and they now comprise 33 percent of enrollees in the VA health care system. Based on current law, this percentage is expected to increase to 42 percent by 2010.
I am proud that an increasing number of veterans are choosing to receive their health care in the VA system. Despite this success, we have much to accomplish. Patient access to our medical facilities must be improved and this budget reaffirms our commitment to do so. Our goal is for veterans to receive non-urgent appointments for primary and specialty care in 30 days or less, while being seen within 20 minutes of their scheduled appointment. We have included an additional $159 million in our request to work toward this goal.
Madame Chair, I know you agree that VA's health care system should maintain timely, high quality care for service-connected and low income veterans and remain open to all veterans. To effectively manage participation in the system, we are proposing a $1,500 medical deductible for Priority 7 veterans. With no change in policy, the cost of care for Priority 7 veterans would grow from $1 billion in 2000 to over $5 billion in 2007. To assure that rising workload does not dilute the quality of care, Priority 7 veterans are being asked to pay for a greater portion of their health care than in the past. We are recommending that these veterans be assessed a deductible for their health care at a percentage of the reasonable charges up to a $1,500 annual ceiling. This is not a standard deductible that must be paid upfront and veterans' insurance may cover all charges. If all projections, funding levels, and the new deductible are realized, VA anticipates continued open enrollment to all veterans in 2003 without detriment to our traditional core patients - those with service-connected disabilities and lower incomes.
VA is working to meet the challenges in long-term care for veterans. However, we believe that a literal interpretation of P.L. 106-117, the "Veteran's Millennium Health Care and Benefits Act of 1999" will result in less than optimal solutions for increasing our long-term care capacity. The number of individual veterans who received care in VA increased from more than 3 million veterans in 1998 to more than 4 million veterans in 2001, due primarily to VA's efforts to expand access for primary care. During that same time period, efforts have been made to meet the increased demand for long-term care. Although the average daily census in VA nursing homes declined, veterans mandated under P.L. 106-117 to receive such care are being served in VA and contract community nursing homes. VA is also supporting a significantly increased census of veterans in state veterans nursing homes. At the same time, VA has been expanding care for veterans in home and community-based extended care, consistent with the mandates of P.L. 106-117. Indications we have received from veterans show that they are pleased with options providing long-term care closer to home, as well as alternatives to more traditional skilled-nursing environments. We look forward to working with Congress to pursue the best options to provide veterans with long-term care.
Our rapidly aging veteran population requires more health care services. Our request includes $817 million to address this rising demand. These funds will support our emphasis on access and service delivery, pharmaceutical support, prosthetics, CHAMPVA for Life, and information technology. Management savings of over $316 million will partially offset resource needs. For example, I am establishing a program across the VA system that will implement "best practice" standards for dispensing and prescribing pharmaceuticals.
The 2003 budget supports our cooperative efforts with the Department of Defense ( DOD) to improve federal health care delivery services. Over the past year, we have undertaken unprecedented efforts to improve cooperation and sharing in a variety of areas through a reinvigorated VA and DOD Executive Council. VA and DOD entered into a Memorandum of Understanding ( MOU) in December 1999, with the objective of reducing contract duplication. The first addendum to that MOU resulted in the conversion of DOD's Pharmacuetical Distribution and Pricing Agreements (DAPAs) to reliance on VA's Federal Supply Schedule ( FSS) contracts for pharmaceuticals, which was completed in December 2000. The second addendum is an agreement to convert DOD's DAPAs for medical/surgical products to reliance on VA's FSS. This effort was completed in December 2001. To address some of the remaining challenges, the Departments have identified four high-priority items for improved coordination: veteran enrollment, computerized patient records, cooperation on air transportation of patients, and facility sharing instead of construction.
VA's clinical research program is funded at the highest level in history with a partnership of government, universities and the private sector. Over $1.46 billion will be invested in 2003: $409 million in direct appropriation; $401 million in support from the VA Medical Care appropriation primarily in the form of salary support for the clinical researchers; $460 million from federal organizations such as DOD and NIH; and $196 million from universities and other private institutions. This investment will allow VA to expand knowledge in areas critical to veterans' and other citizens' health care needs including schizophrenia, diabetes, further implementation of cholesterol and other guidelines, aging, renal failure treatment, and clinical drug treatment evaluations. This investment is relevant to the medical needs of the entire Nation and will enhance future quality of life.
We continue our effort to transform the veterans' health care system under the Capital Asset Realignment for Enhanced Services ( CARES) initiative. We are evaluating the health care services we provide, identifying the best ways to meet veterans' future medical needs, and realigning our facilities and services to meet those needs more effectively.
Madame Chair, this initiative is not a perfunctory exercise. The CARES process has already had a significant impact on our planning process. Last week, I announced my decision on realigning VA health care facilities in VISN 12. For example, we will shift inpatient services to a remodeled Chicago West Side Division, and maintain a Lakeside Division multi-specialty outpatient clinic in the downtown area. The Hines VA Medical Center will be renovated, including the Blind Rehabilitation and Spinal Cord Injury Centers. Sharing opportunities between the North Chicago VA Medical Center and the adjacent Naval Hospital Great Lakes will be enhanced.
CARES is critical to the future of VA health care. It will allow us to redirect funds from the maintenance and operation of facilities we no longer need to direct patient care. I am prepared to make the difficult choices necessary to ensure accessible care to more veterans in the most convenient and appropriate settings. We will complete CARES studies of our remaining health care networks within two years. Any savings that result from CARES will be put back into the community to provide higher quality care and more services to veterans. Changes will affect only the way VA delivers care - health care services will not be reduced.
For all capital programs (construction and grants) this is the largest request since 1996. Specifically for major construction, new budget authority of $194 million is requested. We are requesting funds for four seismic projects in exceptionally high-risk areas: two in Palo Alto, one in San Francisco, and one in West Los Angeles, CA. These projects involve primary care buildings and a consolidated research facility - all of which will be part of any service delivery option resulting from the CARES process. Seismic improvements will ensure veterans and their families, and VA staff, will continue to be cared for, and work in a safe environment. The 2003 Major request also addresses critical National Cemetery needs. Resources are included for new cemeteries in Pittsburgh, PA and Southern Florida and a columbaria and cemetery improvements project at the Willamette National Cemetery, OR. Design funds are provided in the amount of $3.4 million for the design of new cemeteries in Detroit, MI and Sacramento, CA. We are also requesting funds to remove hazardous waste and asbestos from Department-owned buildings, perform an emergency response security study, reimburse the judgment fund, and support other construction-related activities.
To date, we have received $80 million in Major Construction funding to support the design and construction of projects that result from CARES studies. Our Major request for 2003 includes $5 million to continue efforts to realign our facilities.
New budget authority in the amount of $211 million is requested for the Minor Construction program. Particular emphasis will be placed on outpatient improvements, patient environment, and infrastructure improvements. A total of $35 million is earmarked for CARES-related design and construction needs. These funds have been proposed to allow VA to immediately implement CARES options that can be accomplished through the minor construction program (i.e., capital projects costing more than $500 thousand and a total project cost less than $4 million). In addition, $20 million is dedicated to a newly created category to fund minor seismic projects, which will allow VA to further address its seismic corrections needs.
For the administration of veterans' benefits, we are requesting $1.2 billion and an additional 125 employees over the 2002 level. The President has promised to improve the timeliness and quality of claims processing. Last year, I established a claims processing task force to recommend changes that would improve the time it takes to process claims. The results of that task force, as well as implementation plans, have been presented to me and we have already begun to execute many of the recommendations.
I have set a goal of reaching 100 days to process compensation and pension claims by the summer of 2003. While the annual average number of days for these claims is projected to be 165 for 2003, we expect to achieve the 100-day goal by the last quarter of the year. Four months ago, we began a major effort to resolve 81,000 of the oldest Compensation and Pension claims. A key element of this effort involves a "Tiger Team" at the Cleveland Regional Office that will tackle many of these claims over an 18-month period. The team became fully operational in November 2001. Additionally, consolidation of pension benefit maintenance at three sites will allow VBA to free up employees to focus on rating compensation claims.
At the same time we are reducing the time it takes to process claims, we continue to improve the quality of claims processing. During 2003, the national accuracy rate for compensation and pension claims is projected to grow to 88 percent - a significant improvement from the 59 percent rate evidenced in 2000. This budget contains $3.5 million to support 64 additional employees dedicated to the Systematic Individual Performance Assessment (SIPA) initiative. This is an important contribution to enhance internal control mechanisms and bring accountability to the accuracy of claims processing.
This budget provides additional staff and resources to continue the development of information technology tools to support improved claims processing. Over the last several years, VBA has developed and implemented major initiatives, established cooperative ventures with other agencies, and used technology and training to address accuracy and timeliness. This budget continues to focus on initiatives in these high payoff areas. For example, this budget requests $6 million in support of the Virtual VA initiative. This effort, when complete, will replace the current intensive paper-based claims folder with electronic images and data that can be accessed and transferred through a web-based application.
Our budget also addresses the mandate to ensure that Montgomery GI Bill (MGIB) education benefits provide meaningful transition assistance and aid in the recruitment and retention of our Armed Forces. Recent legislation has improved these benefits and our priority is to deliver them as efficiently as possible. I am pleased to report that the Imaging Management System (TIMS) is now functioning in all four Regional Processing Offices. The electronic folders that result from this effort have expanded access points, improved data access, and enhanced customer satisfaction. This budget requests $6.2 million to develop and install the Education Expert System (TEES). Among other benefits, this expert system will enable us to automate a greater portion of the education claims process and expand enrollment certification. In 2003, we will continue to improve the accuracy and timeliness of education claims and improve blocked call rates.
Madame Chair, I would like to take this opportunity to mention one of VA's great success stories - the administration of more than 4 million insurance policies in force. The American Customer Satisfaction Index (ASCI) and the University of Michigan conducted a study of the insurance death claims process and the satisfaction of beneficiaries who received awards. This study gave the VA's insurance program a score of 90 on a scale of 100. This is one of the highest scores ever recorded for either government or private industry. This budget provides funding to continue the Insurance Center's history of excellence. Our request includes a paperless processing initiative, which improves timeliness and quality of service while reducing the cost to policyholders.
Veterans represent a unique and invaluable human resource for American society and the economy. Service personnel leave the military knowing they have made a vital contribution to their country. Veterans want to continue making meaningful contributions as they return to civilian life. However, in 21 states, fewer than 10 percent of veterans between the ages of 22 and 44 were placed in employment after seeking job search assistance from state service providers; during 2001, there was an average of 519,000 unemployed veterans, and in the same time period, 32 percent of unemployed veterans experienced 15 or more consecutive weeks of unemployment.
America's labor exchange market has evolved in the time since the foundation for current programs was laid. This budget proposes legislation that will allow VA to create a new competitive grant program to help veterans obtain employment. VA is working with the Department of Labor (DOL), veterans' service organizations and others to propose a veterans' employment program tailored to the needs of 21st century veterans seeking assistance in finding suitable employment. The details of the legislative proposal to implement this initiative are not yet final. If authorized by Congress, the new program will broaden our ability to assist veterans with employment and training services. Our first priority will be serving unemployed service-connected disabled veterans and those recently separated from military service. We will also help other veterans searching for employment. Our budget request for discretionary programs includes $197 million for the grant initiative.
We have the flexibility to design a program that will incorporate elements currently contained in the DOL grant program - transition assistance; disabled veterans' outreach; local veterans' employment representatives; and homeless veterans reintegration. Veterans look to the VA for education benefits, home loan assistance and, in some instances, rehabilitation and employment, medical care and compensation benefits in the transition years after leaving active duty. Later in life, many veterans may return to the VA for health care and ultimately burial benefits. Adding an enhanced employment opportunity program to the spectrum of care and services provided by VA would provide veterans with a single access point to a full continuum of benefits and services throughout their lifetime.
I know there are many questions left unanswered regarding this new program. We are in the process of finalizing our legislative proposal within the Administration and will submit it to you in the near future. At that time, we will be prepared to address your questions in greater detail.
The budget proposal includes $138 million to operate the National Cemetery Administration. The request preserves our commitment to maintain VA's cemeteries as National shrines, dedicated to preserving our Nation's history, nurturing patriotism, and honoring the service and sacrifice of our veterans. It provides a total of $10 million to continue renovation of gravesites, as well as clean, raise, and realign headstones and markers.
As noted earlier in my testimony, our budget request for Major Construction includes funds for the development of two new national cemeteries in the vicinity of Pittsburgh, PA and Miami, FL. Operating funds also are requested to prepare for interment operations in 2004 at these two locations and to begin interment operations at new cemeteries at Fort Sill, OK, and near Atlanta, GA.
Madame Chair, last year I stated my commitment to reform VA's use of information technology. I am pleased to report that we have made substantial progress in this area and will continue our reform efforts. As VA moves forward with implementation of the One- VA Enterprise Architecture developed in 2001, we will manage information technology resources to account for all expenditures and ensure our scarce resources are spent in compliance with this Enterprise Architecture. A strong program is under development for Cyber Security. We are re-engineering our IT workforce to ensure we have the proper skill sets to support our program needs. I have recently approved a comprehensive change in how we manage our IT projects to ensure they deliver high quality products, meet performance requirements, and are delivered on time and within budget.
VA is bringing enterprise-wide discipline and integration of our telecommunications capability to increase security, performance, and value. Command and control capabilities are being established to support the Department in times of emergency. Electronic government will be expanded and internet capabilities will be enhanced to improve the delivery of services and the sharing of knowledge for the benefit of the veteran. All of these efforts will focus on meeting the objectives of the President's Management Agenda.
We are pursuing other important initiatives that will promote better management practices throughout the Department. For example, I recently convened the VA Procurement Reform Task Force to examine our acquisition process and develop recommendations for improvement. The Task Force has presented 60 recommendations to accomplish several major goals that will enhance our ability to: 1) leverage purchasing power; 2) obtain comprehensive VA procurement information; 3) improve VA procurement organizational effectiveness; and 4) ensure a sufficient and talented VA acquisition workforce. Mandatory use of the Federal Supply Schedule, reorganization and elevation of the VHA logistics function to more quickly standardize medical and surgical supplies, and establishment of a National Item File are some of the more prominent recommendations being made in order to maximize savings in our medical care procurements. We are well on our way to achieving savings and increased effectiveness in VA's acquisition arena.
Finally, our 2003 request includes funds for a new Office of Operations, Security and Preparedness (OS&P). Since the tragic events of September 11, 2001, we have made substantial investments to address the Department's security and preparedness, and to meet our primary and critical emergency response missions. VA is the only pre-deployed nationwide health care system. We must be prepared for any disaster response. OS&P will play an important role in the Federal government's continuity of operations in the event of an emergency situation. The new office is formed with the specific intent of improving VA's ability to respond to any contingency with minimal disruption to services for veterans and their families. This office will coordinate all VA involvement with the Office of Homeland Security, FEMA, the Department of Health and Human Services and DOD.
Madame Chair, that concludes my formal remarks. Although many challenges lie ahead, I am proud of the accomplishments that have taken place over the past year. Our budget request for 2003 is a good budget for veterans and positions us for continued success. I thank you and the members of this Committee for your dedication to our Nation's veterans. I look forward to working with you. My staff and I would be pleased to answer any questions.
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Il Giardino Dipinto
Betty Woodman
American, b. 1930
Il Giardino Dipinto, 1993
Earthenware, glaze, epoxy resin, lacquer, and paint
274.3 cm (108 inches) (height)
Gift of Charles and Andrea Woodman 2005.110
This large architectural installation, Il Giardino Dipinto, was inspired by a fresco painting of the same name found in the House of the Golden Bracelet in Pompeii, a thriving ancient Roman city buried and preserved by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 CE. Incorporating the idea and history of classical vessels, the flattened vase forms and the space around them place the viewer simultaneously inside the architectural framework looking out and outside looking in. The composition is animated by the fluid contours, bold color patterns, and placement of pots, vases, shelves, and handles. By deconstructing the vessels into their various parts—-neck, body, foot, handle, spout—- Woodman underscored the functions of traditional pottery while simultaneously abstracting the forms.


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It took nearly a decade to come to fruition, but the small city of Signal Hill will soon get a bigger, more technologically advanced police station.
Part of the delay, officials say, was due to the length of time it took to track down some 2,300 different investors who owned a stake in the Walnut Avenue property where the city wanted to build.
"We started looking into this in 2002," Deputy City Manager Charlie Honeycutt said. "At the time the chief of police started looking at the existing facility and recognizing it was just too small for their current operations and staffing, and the building was old."
The city evaluated 12 potential sites, looking for adequate size, centralized location and good access to major streets so police can quickly respond to calls.
Although the Walnut Avenue location met the criteria, research found that between 1922 and 1931, the property was divided into 1/7000th interest shares and sold to individuals.
It was estimated that over 5,500 shares were sold to 1,500 individuals. These shares were then passed on to relatives and heirs, and by the time the acquisition was completed in 2010, there were nearly 2,300 separate property owners identified.
Over the years attempts had been made by oil companies to purchase the ownership interests, but the Signal Hill Redevelopment Agency was able to consolidate ownership through eminent domain.
The project was paid for through an $18 million Redevelopment Agency Tax Allocation bond.
The 21,500-square-foot station and Emergency Operations Center will be about 8,200 square feet larger than the existing station at Cherry Avenue and Hill Street.
When the current station was built in the 1960s, it housed a police department staff of about 25 that served a community of 4,600. Today, about 11,400 people live in Signal Hill, along with several commercial businesses.
The new station, slated for completion in July, will house about 60 employees - including 36 full-time police officers.
The police department has grown in relationship to all the new businesses in town and a bigger population, Honeycutt said.
The new building, designed to allow for future expansion, will feature a modern dispatch center with state-of-the-art communications systems and a larger upgraded Emergency Operations Center, said Rick Sandona, a retired police captain working with the architects to help build the new station.
One of the most significant technological upgrades involves jail visitation, he said. Instead of taking visitors back into the jail, they will now visit with inmates through a special telephone with a camera and timer that regulates visits.
The new jail cells will be equipped with intercoms and video so that jailers can communicate with prisoners and can see the prisoners from their office area instead of going to the cells to check on prisoners.
The modernized EOC will also enhance the city's ability to assist the community after a natural disaster or provide mutual aid to another community, Police Chief Michael Langston said.
"In a major emergency this facility will serve the entire community," he said. "We anticipate this will become a focal point and a meeting place so we're graphing policies now about how to allow the public to use it as a meeting place."
In the present facility, briefings, lunch, meetings of any type and the EOC are all operating in the same room. They will soon be able to host more than one of these events at the same time, officials said.
And, in an effort to go green, solar power will provide electricity during daylight hours and help the building qualify for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification, Honeycutt said.
According to city officials, without the Redevelopment Agency, the property would likely have remained vacant for the foreseeable future.
A recent court decision leading to the demise of redevelopment across the state has put cities' plans in flux. But officials in Signal Hill say plans for a new library where the current station sits are still in the works, Honeycutt said.
"We're still trying to understand what the RDA decision means for the new library," he said. "That building will be demolished and we have plans to move forward with a new library, and within a few years the community will have a new police department and a new library. It's just positive for the community."
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Pelger, Donahue Named AVCA All-Region
Pelger, Donahue Named AVCA All-Region
Dec. 4, 2012
MANHATTAN, Kan. – After another trip to the NCAA Tournament this season, two K-State Wildcats have been recognized by the American Volleyball Coaches Association as members of the All-Central Region Team. Junior middle blocker Kaitlynn Pelger was named to the first team for a second straight year and senior setter Caitlyn Donahue ends her career as an honorable mention member of the team. The teams were announced Tuesday and voted on by the coaches.
Pelger led the Wildcats with 361 kills and a .317 hitting percentage. Her 3.65 kills per set ranked third in the Big 12 Conference this year. Pelger was one of only four middle blockers in the nation to play all six rotations, setting her apart from her peers. Playing all six rotations allowed her to post 2.76 digs per set from the back row and rank second on the team. With her selection to the first team, Pelger is eligible for the AVCA All-America Team.
Donahue was one of the top setters in the nation throughout the year ranking in the top 10 in assists per set. She directed the Wildcats to a team hitting percentage of .242 while averaging 11.63 assists per set. Donahue also contributed 2.33 digs per set and led the team with nine double-doubles. She ends her career at K-State ranked in the top 10 in assists and digs, one of only two players to do so. Donahue is the first setter to be named to the all-region team since Gabby Guerre in 2004 and 2003.
The All-Central Region Team is loaded with players from the Big 12 Conference and K-State's nonconference schedule this year. Nine of the 14 members of the first team play in the Big 12 with four coming from the conference champion Texas Longhorns in Khat Bell, Haley Eckerman, Sha'Dare McNeal and Bailey Webster. Iowa State's libero Kristen Hahn and setter Allison Landwehr were selected as first team as the only other Big 12 team with multiple first team selections. Oklahoma middle blocker Sallie McLaurin and Kansas middle blocker Caroline Jarmoc also made first team. Four of the five middle blockers on the first team hail from Big 12 schools.
Also making the first team are Creighton's Megan Bober and Kelli Browning. The Wildcats swept the Bluejays during nonconference play in a tournament hosted by Creighton.
Rounding out the first team was Wichita State's Emily Adney and Chelsey Feekin along with North Dakota State outside hitter Brynn Joki.
Five other players joined Donahue as honorable mention with all but one being seniors. Megan Lambertson of North Dakota State, Tessa McGill of IPFW, Krista DeGeest from Northern Iowa and Iowa State's Jamie Straube join Donahue as seniors. Sophomore Victoria Hurtt from Iowa State completed the list.
Iowa State's Mackenzie Bigbee was named Central Region Freshman of the Year and KU head coach Ray Bechard was selected as the Coach of the Year.
The Wildcats closed their season with a 21-9 record after falling to Northern Iowa in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. It was the team's 14th appearance in the tournament and the ninth in Head Coach Suzie Fritz's 12 years leading the program.


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I'm using the USB version. First, my hardware:
Intel 945GM Internal Video Card
Dell 1390 WLAN Mini Card
Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Controller
SigmaTel Audio
I installed to the USB drive from Windows using the batch script. That worked perfeclty, no issues at all. I didn't try the Linux script, but I'm assuming that works great too.
The video card was detected perfectly. 1280x800 resolution was selected by default, so that was great.
The sound worked perfectly.
Didn't get the wired network, but I'm sure that'll work perfectly too.
Didn't get wireless to work yet, but I only played with it for a few minutes. I'll play more and update with the results here (on in the problems section).
This is all to say that everything worked better than Ubuntu 7.10 right out of the box. So far, so good. Looking forward to doing more testing (with the ISO too).


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ZZ Top is taking their show on the road. The Texas trio will be performing Thursday night at the First Council Casino Hotel in Newkirk, Oklahoma to launch their 2013 tour.
The 18-date trek is concentrated throughout the Southern and Eastern portions of the U.S.,wrapping up in Biloxi, Mississippi on May 25th. ZZ Top will then head overseas. The band has 19 shows set across Europe in June and July, starting with an appearance at the Warsaw Student Festival in Poland on June 2nd.
ZZ Top is the day-three headliner for the six day event. The band will return to these shores in July for another round of shows, covering areas they miss in the spring. They'll launch the slate of 24 dates in Mountain View, California on July 28th. ZZ Top is touring behind their 2012 release, "La Futura," which was the group's first new studio effort in nine years.
ZZ Top U.S. Tour Dates
May 2 - Newkirk, Oklahoma, at the First Council Casino Hotel
May 3 - Concho, Oklahoma, at the Lucky Star Casino
May 4 - Memphis, Tennessee, at the Beale Street Music Festival
May 5 - Richmond, Kentucky, at the Eku Center for the Arts
May 8 - Wallingtonford, Connecticut, at the Toyota Presents The Oakdale Theater
May 9 - Morristown, New Jersey, at the Mayo Performing Arts Center
May 10 - Crewe, Virginia, at the Southside Electric Cooperative's Hooper Park
May 11 - Atlantic City, New Jersey, at Revel Ovation Hall
May 13 - Lancaster, Pennsylvania, at the American Music Theater
May 14 - Englewood, New Jersey, at the Bergen Performing Arts Center
May 15 - Westbury, New York, at the Theater at Westbury
May 17 - Hampton, New Hampshire, at the Hampton Beach Casino
May 18 - Lynn, Massachusetts, at the Lynn Auditorium
May 19 - Baltimore, Maryland, at Pier Six Pavilion
May 21 - Knoxville, Tennessee, at the Tennessee Theater
May 23 - Savannah, Georgia, at the Johnny Mercer Theater - Savannah Civic Center
May 24 - Panama City Beach, Florida, at the Aaron Bessant Park and Outdoor Amphitheater
May 25 - Biloxi, Mississippi, at the IP Casino Resort and Spa
July 28 - Mountain View, California, at the Shoreline Amphitheater
July 31 - Wheatland, California, at the Sleep Train Amphitheater
August 1 - Costa Mesa, California, at the Pacific Amphitheater
August 3 - Englewood, Colorado, at Fiddler's Green Amphitheater
August 4 - Sturgis, South Dakota, at the Buffalo Chip Campground
August 6 - St. Paul, Minnesota, at The Myth
August 8 - Interlochen, Michigan, at the Kresge Auditorium
August 9, 10, & 11 - Clarkston, Michigan, at the DTE Energy Music Theater
August 24 - St. Louis, Missouri, at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
August 25 - Indianapolis, Indiana, at the Klipsch Music Center
August 27 - Lewiston, New York, at the Artpark
August 28 - Cincinnati, Ohio, at the Riverbend Music Center
August 30 - Tinley Park, Illinois, at the First Midwest Bank Amphitheater
September 4 - Startoga Springs, New York at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center
September 6 - Bethel, New York, at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
September 7 - Burgettstown, Pennsylvania, at the First Niagara Pavilion
September 10 - Charlotte, North Carolina, at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
September 11 - Vienna, Virginia, at the Wolf Trap-Filene4 Center
September 14 - Atlanta, Georgia, at Aaron's Amphitheater at Lakewood
September 15 - Tampa, Florida, at the Live Nation Amphitheater at the Florida State Fairgrounds
October 9 - Austin, Texas, at Austin City Limits Live
October 18 - Catoosa, Oklahoma, at The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino
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Jim Rogers, CEO, chairman and president of Duke Energy Inc., made the presentation to USC President Dr. Harris Pastides while he was visiting USC for a clean energy and jobs forum.
"We see this gift to the university as an investment in the economic future of South Carolina," said Catherine Heigel, president of Duke Energy South Carolina. "Our investment will help develop a pipeline of talent and technology to spur the workforce development and technological innovations needed to fuel the state's economy."
The money also will enable researchers from USC's College of Engineering and Computing and Duke Energy to work together on nonproprietary joint energy projects.
Scholarships and fellowships are for students majoring in electrical or mechanical engineering or computer science and are open to students with a minor in nuclear engineering. The first awards will be given in 2012.
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I am building a web application (PHP) that allows users to create websites choosing some pre-designed templates. The admin area is password protected. Let's say the templates are located in the "templates" folder within the application. A couple of scripts in the application are accessing those template files to make modifications. I was wondering how I could protect that templates folder and all the files in it so that they can't be accessed outside the application (No .htaccess).
Thanks for any ideas.
Store them outside of a web accessible directory and use an absolute path for accessing them
Thanks for your suggestion but this is not a personal application, it will be distributed. I have been checking WordPress to get some clues because it also has templates. For example, on a WordPress site, when I try to directly access any of the files in the following folder, it gives a Server Error.
Is that done by .htaccess?
I'm not great with server configuration, but putting a .htaccess file in that folder with the single following line, should work. You'll be able to include them into your scripts without problem. The folder just won't be directly browsable. If this doesn't work, double check with somebody in our Server Configuration forum.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I know how to protect it via htaccess, I am looking for a solution without .htaccess if possible.
If you don't want .htaccess then some good security through obscurity should suffice in this case. Put all templates in a folder with a long random impossible to guess name, for example "/templates_JlABWSFW1HlbghZ57GFo". Store the folder name in some configuration or constant in your application and use it whenever your scripts need to access the files. But make sure that no one - even in the admin area - ever sees the real path to the templates so don't send the folder name to the browser. If you need someone to access a template file in the browser then let them do it through a proxy php script that will authenticate the user and serve the file from the secret folder. Also, suppress any php warnings for the functions you will be using to access the secret folder because if an error occurs (for example in file_get_contents('/templates_JlABWSFW1HlbghZ57GFo/...') or fopen('/templates_JlABWSFW1HlbghZ57GFo/...'), copy(), etc. ) then php may throw a warning outputting the file path to the browser.
This should be enough for most use cases. You may rename the secret folder periodically.
As additional security you can also append some random string to each file name you store in the secret folder.
Oh, and I have yet another solution: store all your templates in files with .php extension and let each file begin with this line:
<?php exit; ?>
Then make your application ignore the first line. If someone guesses the file name they will not be able to access it.
Or better yet:
<?php header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found"); exit; ?>
Thanks for the previous suggestion and this one. Actually, I was inclined to the latter solution but I wasn't sure if I wanted to do that. Is there a shortcut to ignore the first line in a PHP file or do I have to get the file content and filter the first line out?
None that I know of. Just use fgets() followed by fread().


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She has a message for any opponent who might consider the Eagles weaker than usual this season.
"Other teams might perceive us as down, but they have no idea what's going to be coming after them," Taylor said.
Taylor was just happy to be on the court as a sophomore. With Michelle Askew dominating in the post, Taylor locked into her role of playing defense, setting screens and scoring when the occasion called for it.
With a host of young players expected to man the post positions, first-year coach Lynette Schroeder plans to unleash a new brand of pressure defense at Skyline.
"We have a lot of up-and-comers that are very athletic," Schroeder said. "We're going to play fast-paced, in your face defense, and we want to get out in transition."
The 5-foot-11 Taylor, whose competitive fire comes from the constant backyard beatings she took from older brother Casey, will play a key role in the new defense.
"If I tried to drive, he would body me up and challenge me," Taylor said. "He never took it easy on me, and sometimes it wasn't much fun, but I think it made me a better player."
Taylor's mother, Kelli, noticed from a very early age that her youngest daughter was extremely coordinated. When Sydnee stopped playing soccer in the eighth grade, Kelli also noticed a dedication to basketball.
"My husband, David, is a physical therapist, and Sydnee really started asking him a lot of questions just before high school," Kelli said. "She stretches at night, goes to bed earlier than any other teenager I've ever raised and she's constantly working on strengthening her weaknesses."
Taylor posted solid number as a sophomore eight points per game, 4.6 assists and just less than two steals per game.
"Sydnee is just a great all-around athlete," Schroeder said. "She can drive to the basket, score off the dribble and defensively she's quick and she's long."
Taylor grew 2 inches over the summer and honed her skills while playing for the AAU team Salt Lake Metro. Even with the added length, Taylor's ball-handling skills improved, and she'll use those skills when playing either the point or shooting guard for the Eagles.
"If I get the rebound, I'm taking it down the floor and getting our transition game going," Taylor said.
That attitude and the leadership she's displayed are reasons why she and fellow junior Mia Mortensen were voted captains for this season's squad.
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Nicki Minaj is setting the record straight about DJ Khaled's marriage proposal. Khaled recently appeared on MTV bearing a ring and asked for Minaj's hand in marriage. She says in a radio interview that Khaled was "not serious" about the proposal.
Instead, she says the move was a stunt to "give the world a glimpse of the feeling" on his upcoming album Suffering From Success. She adds that Khaled's "not attracted" to her and that the two are "brother and sister."
Nicki Minaj also says she had no idea Khaled was going to pull off the stunt. When she saw the video, she was "shocked just like the rest of the world" and laughed at Khaled's antics.
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