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Going on a field trip? Want a spiffy new poster? Looking for a guest speaker? Or do you just need to know more about wildland fire, endangered species, coastal management, or invasive exotics? Many agencies are available to provide information, share resources, support field trips, and contribute to your environmental education (EE) programming and other needs relating to natural resources. This fact sheet explores federal and state agencies in Florida with major educational resources. It offers an introduction to these agencies so you can find the resources you need.
Several agencies of the federal government own and manage land in Florida and offer programs at the areas they manage. A few other federal agencies do not own land but offer programs and resources through their local offices or state agency affiliate. (See Table 1 for a summary of these federal contacts.) Each agency operates under separate legislative mandates, so you can expect to find different management goals, programs, and resources at each one. The federal government hosts a website (http://www.free.ed.gov) that lists hundreds of educational resources from over 45 federal agencies.
The recent interest in encouraging youth and families to spend time outdoors has created a number of special programs at both the federal and state levels. Hands on the Land (http://www.handsontheland.org), is a cooperative program of federal agencies to engage school groups with public lands through outdoor classrooms. Get Outdoors Florida! (http://getoutdoorsflorida.com/) is a coalition of partners that address natural resource conservation, health, and public well-being. Other initiatives are linked through the Children and Nature Network (http://www.cnaturenet.org), an outcome of Richard Louv's book Last Child in the Woods.
The US Forest Service, part of the United States Department of Agriculture, manages 193 million acres of national forests and grasslands, assists landowners through state and private forestry programs, and conducts natural resources research. National forests are managed for multiple use in order to protect biodiversity, as well as to provide water, wood, recreation opportunities, and other services to meet our needs. Forest Service employees help people use and enjoy the forest while conserving natural resources. Here in Florida, three national forests are managed through the National Forests of Florida office in Tallahassee (http://www.fs.usda.gov/florida). The three forests provide excellent recreation opportunities including hiking, swimming, motorized trails, and camping opportunities. They also help manage the Florida Trail, a 1,400 mile hiking trail across our state (http://www.fs.usda.gov/fnst).
Forest Service personnel often provide educational talks to school groups and other organizations and the Learning Center link on their website provides access to information for parents, teachers, and youth (http://www.fs.usda.gov/main/florida/learning). The national site has an exciting website for youth: http://www.discovertheforest.org. For more information on the USDA Forest Service, National Forests in Florida please contact one of their offices.
National Forests of Florida, Tallahassee Office: 850-523-8500. http://www.fs.usda.gov/florida
Ocala National Forest in north central Florida includes crystal-clear springs, off-road trail systems, three visitor centers, and the location of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' story The Yearling.
Apalachicola National Forest is south of Tallahassee and is the largest national forest in Florida. It includes habitat for the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker, recreation sites, and the watersheds for six different rivers.
Osceola National Forest straddles I-10 between Lake City and Jacksonville and helps maintain a biological corridor to the Okeefenokee Swamp to the north. It interprets cultural history as well as natural history with the Battle of Olustee, fought during the Civil War.
The Natural Resources Conservation Service, part of the US Department of Agriculture, helps private landowners protect the natural resources on their land. It emphasizes science-based assistance and partnerships at the community level (http://www.nrcs.usda.gov). The NRCS mission is to provide leadership in a partnership effort to help people conserve, improve, and sustain natural resources, primarily at the local level with each county's soil and water conservation district. The Florida branch of the NRCS is located in Gainesville (http://www.fl.nrcs.usda.gov/).
The NRCS provides publications and curriculum guides on soil, soil conservation, backyard conservation, conservation history, land stewardship, and natural resource management on their Teachers and Students link from their home page, (http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/asr/national/students/?atype=Teachers and Students). These materials can be ordered or downloaded from the Web (Table 1). The Gainesville office can provide posters, fact sheets, and brochures. NRCS Branch Office: Gainesville, 352-338-9500
The National Park Service, a branch of the US Department of the Interior, manages 390 national parks, monuments, recreation areas, battlefields, historic structures, parkways, and wild and scenic rivers (http://www.nps.gov). The NPS preserves the valuable natural and cultural resources for the enjoyment, education, and inspiration of this and future generations. Parks are managed for visitors but are not used to harvest resources. Florida has one world famous national park, the Everglades, and many smaller parks, battlefields, and monuments that preserve important aspects of our history. Most parks offer interpretive and educational programs, camping sites, and hiking trails.
The federal website has links on their home page for teachers (http://www.nps.gov/learn/) and kids (http://www.nps.gov/webrangers/). Many parks have curriculum resources specific to their location, which can be accessed from the Teacher/Curriculum link. Parks as Classrooms® is the curriculum-based education program that facilitates the connection between park education specialists and local educators. The resources available through this program vary from park to park but may include curriculum guides, videos, and workshops.
All twelve national park sites in Florida can be found on their index (http://www.nps.gov/state/fl/index.htm?program=parks), and each can be explored on its website:
Big Cypress National Preserve, Ochopee: http://www.nps.gov/bicy/
Biscayne National Park, Homestead: http://www.nps.gov/bisc/
Canaveral National Seashore, Titusville: http://www.nps.gov/cana/
Castillo De San Marcos National Monument, St. Augustine: http://www.nps.gov/casa/
De Soto National Memorial, Bradenton: http://www.nps.gov/deso/
Dry Tortugas National Park, Key West: http://www.nps.gov/drto/
Everglades National Park, Homestead: http://www.nps.gov/ever/index.htm
Fort Caroline National Memorial, Jacksonville: http://www.nps.gov/foca/
Fort Matanzas National Monument, St. Augustine: http://www.nps.gov/foma/
Gulf Islands National Seashore, Gulf Breeze: http://www.nps.gov/guis/
Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor, Jacksonville: http://www.nps.gov/guge/
Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve, Jacksonville: http://www.nps.gov/timu/
The Fish and Wildlife Service, a branch of the U.S. Department of the Interior, works to conserve, protect, and enhance fish and wildlife and their habitats for the benefit of present and future generations (http://www.fws.gov/). There are almost 700 field units and installations across the country, including National Wildlife Refuges, fish hatcheries, ecological field offices, and law enforcement offices. The National Wildlife Refuge System consists of more than 93 million acres of land set aside for wildlife. Much of this land is in Alaska, although there are 28 refuges and one hatchery in Florida. Many refuges offer recreational and educational opportunities for visitors; a partial listing of Florida refuges appears below. Visit the FWS website for a complete directory http://www.fws.gov/southeast/refuges/refuges-by-state.html#florida)
The FWS is responsible for protecting endangered species and can provide publications, maps, and videos on topics such as birds, fish, and wetlands. Let's Go Outside is the agency program that connects people with nature (http://www.fws.gov/letsgooutside/). Many national wildlife refuges offer educational programs as well.
Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge, Crystal River: http://www.fws.gov/crystalriver/
Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge, Vero Beach: http://www.fws.gov/archiecarr/
St. Vincent National Wildlife Refuge, Apalachicola: http://www.fws.gov/saintvincent/
St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, St. Marks: http://www.fws.gov/saintmarks/
Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge, Crystal River: http://www.fws.gov/chassahowitzka/
Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge, Chiefland: http://www.fws.gov/lowersuwannee/
J. N. Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge, Sanibel: 239-472-1100 http://www.fws.gov/dingdarling/
Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge, Naples: http://www.fws.gov/floridapanther/
Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge, De Leon Springs: http://www.fws.gov/lakewoodruff/
Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, Boynton Beach: https://www.fws.gov/refuges/profiles/index.cfm?id=41560
Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge, Hobe Sound: http://www.fws.gov/hobesound/
Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Titusville: http://www.fws.gov/merrittisland/
National Key Deer Refuge, Big Pine Key: http://www.fws.gov/nationalkeydeer/
Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, Vero Beach: http://www.fws.gov/pelicanisland/
The mission of the US Environmental Protection Agency is to protect human health and safeguard the natural environment upon which life depends (http://www.epa.gov/). The EPA regulates and protects clean air, clean and safe water, waste management, restoration of contaminated sites, environmental risk management, and compliance with environmental law. Florida is part of Region 4, with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, but the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is charged with carrying out many EPA programs to protect air and water quality and manage waste in Florida.
The EPA Office of Environmental Education offers a cornucopia of environmental education materials: curriculum and activity guides, technical reports, fact sheets, grants for environmental education projects, awards, community service project ideas, workshops, and conferences. The curriculum guides and other publications cover a vast array of topics including solid waste, non-point pollution, human health, endangered species, service learning, global warming, and energy conservation. The EPA sponsors the Adopt Your Watershed campaign to help individuals and organizations protect and restore rivers, wetlands, lakes, estuaries, and other water sources. A link to kids on the main page takes visitors to a site for students, educators, and parents with games, resources, and lesson plans. (http://www.epa.gov/students/index.html).
The US Geological Survey, in the Department of Interior, conducts research and provides information on natural hazards, natural resources, and the environment. USGS facilitates solutions to national and global natural resource issues by supplying vast amounts of earth and biological data (http://www.usgs.gov). The USGS maintains a state office in Tallahassee and field offices in Altamonte Springs, Ft. Myers, Gainesville, Homestead, Jacksonville, Miami, Ocala, Ochopee, St. Petersburg Beach, Stuart, Tallahassee, Tampa, and West Palm Beach.
The USGS offers an outstanding collection of educational materials about biology, geology, mapping, and water (http://education.usgs.gov/). You can order or download teaching packets, posters, fact sheets, booklets, and CD-ROMs. USGS has created several fascinating 3-D paper models that illustrate the dynamic concepts of many natural resources including volcanoes, earthquakes, and coral reefs. Topographic maps for any region of the country can be downloaded from their website as well (http://www.usgs.gov/pubprod/). Real-time information about water, stream flows, floods, and earthquakes can be collected from the Florida portion of the website (http://www.usgs.gov/state/state.asp?State=FL).
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is part of the Department of Commerce. NOAA's mission is to describe and predict environmental changes and to conserve and manage the coastal and marine resources in the United States (http://www.noaa.gov). There are five major agencies within NOAA: National Weather Service; National Ocean Service; Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research; National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Sources; and National Marine Fisheries Service. The National Weather Service has offices throughout the state and the National Marine Fisheries Service has offices and laboratories in St. Petersburg, Miami, and Panama City. NOAA supports the National Estuarine Research Reserve System, a network of 27 national reserves that protects over one million acres of estuaries. Florida is home to three Estuarine Research Reserves, which are managed by Florida DEP through a cooperative agreement with NOAA.
NOAA provides a wealth of educational materials on weather, climate change, oceans, coastal areas, satellites, space, and careers (http://www.education.noaa.gov/). NOAA is a major supporter of the Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program, a worldwide, school-based education program where teachers and students measure and report environmental data. NOAA is also the lead agency in the Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (http://cleanet.org). The three Estuarine Research Reserves in Florida have educational visitor centers and a variety of programs (http://www.nerrs.noaa.gov/).
Apalachicola Reserve, Franklin County: http://www.nerrs.noaa.gov/Reserve.aspx?ResID=APA
Guana Tolomato Matanzas Reserve, St. Johns and Flagler Counties: http://www.nerrs.noaa.gov/Reserve.aspx?ResID=GTM
Rookery Bay Reserve, Collier County: http://www.nerrs.noaa.gov/Reserve.aspx?ResID=RKB
Florida agencies have a long-term commitment to environmental education, though their funding for EE programs changes from year to year. In 1992, the State Committee for Environmental Education (SCENE) was established to facilitate the dispersal of the EE information and materials of all state agencies. The Get Outdoors Florida partnership (http://getoutdoorsflorida.com/) involves many state agencies that serve youth and families and encourage conservation activities.
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection protects air and water quality, ensures proper waste management, carries out EPA programs, manages the state park system, and oversees a land buying program (http://www.dep.state.fl.us/). DEP consists of six regulatory districts in Florida, with each office providing information, speakers, programs, and other services.
DEP's Office of Environmental Education (OEE) works to improve environmental literacy and citizenship among Florida residents and visitors (http://www.dep.state.fl.us/secretary/ed/). The OEE produces and maintains a collection of EE materials and is involved with public outreach and education for DEP. The award-winning LIFE (Learning in Florida's Environment) program (http://www.dep.state.fl.us/secretary/ed/lifeprogram.htm) links classrooms with local parks and other natural areas across the state and offers engaging field science activities. The Division of Recreation and Parks is responsible for the management of Florida's award-winning system of 159 state parks, trails, and recreation areas. These parks provide a myriad of recreation and education opportunities for visitors such as swimming, hiking, canoeing, camping, snorkeling, bird watching, and bicycling. A park guide is available by contacting DEP. The Office of Greenways and Trails oversees 38 canoe trails with over 1,000 miles of waterway, over 200 miles of multi-use trails, and the 110 miles of the Marjorie Harris Carr Cross Florida Greenway in north central Florida.
The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services works to protect consumers and support Florida agriculture (http://www.freshfromflorida.com/). This involves a wide range of responsibilities such as investigating business practices, inspecting scales and gas pumps, working with farmers, managing more than a million acres of state forest lands, and protecting homes from wildfires. They have a number of resources for teachers and students (http://www.freshfromflorida.com/teachers_students.html). The Department helps support Florida Ag in the Classroom, a non-profit organization that helps educate Florida youth about the role of agriculture and its relation to the environment, economy, health and quality of life for Florida citizens, as well as several resources on wildfire, Florida's forests, wildflowers, aquaculture, and honeybees.
The Florida Forest Service (FFS) a branch of DACS, works to protect and manage forest resources in Florida (http://www.floridaforestservice.com/). FFS's main programs focus on state land management, wildfire, and forestry technical assistance through fifteen field offices. DOF manages 35 state forests that cover more than one million acres (http://www.floridaforestservice.com/state_forests/index.html). Management of these forests combines public use and protection of biological diversity. Major education efforts include the Florida Teachers Forestry Tour, Bear Creek Educational Forest, Future Farmers of America (FFA) Forestry Contests and summer camp, and the Healthy Forest Education Kit (http://sfrc.ufl.edu/extension/ee/foresthealth.html). Contact information for your county forester can be found on their website: http://www.floridaforestservice.com/field_operations/county_foresters/index.html. FFS is a strong supporter of Project Learning Tree (PLT) in Florida (http://sfrc.ufl.edu/plt). PLT is an interdisciplinary, national curriculum resource for grades Pre-K-12. PLT provides activities to teach young people about trees and forests while developing critical thinking skills, decision-making abilities, and a commitment to the environment. Activities have been correlated to the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards. Educators attend workshops held across the state to obtain the curriculum materials and receive training in the use of these materials. Online workshops are also available to help educators receive materials.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission manages Florida's fish and wildlife resources for their long-term welfare and the benefit of people. The major units focus on habitat, hunting and game management, freshwater fisheries, marine fisheries, law enforcement, economic contributions, community relations, licenses and permitting, public access and wildlife viewing, planning and policy, and research.
The Education program (http://myfwc.com/education/)is responsible for a variety of programs that target adults and families, youth and students, educators, outdoor skills, and learning about wildlife. Educators can attend workshops and receive quality materials about schoolyard wildlife, Florida Black Bears, and Project WILD, all of which are liked to the Sunshine State Standards and have been evaluated for quality. Junior Hunter Safety, Junior Birder, archery, and aquatics education are also sponsored by this agency. FWCC operates several youth camps and nature centers that offer programs and workshops on wildlife, fisheries, and hunting. The Everglades Youth Conservation Camp offers one-day, three-day, and week-long programs for schools and individuals.
Project WILD is a national, interdisciplinary conservation and environmental education program that teaches young people, in grades K-12, about wildlife. The activities in the curriculum guide can be used in formal and informal programs and have been correlated to the Sunshine State Standards. Workshops are held throughout the state for educators to learn about and receive Project WILD resources (http://myfwc.com/education/educators/project-wild/).
The agency also sponsors programs for youth directly, including fishing camps, coloring books, and clinics (http://myfwc.com/education/youth/).
Joe Budd Youth Conservation Center, west of Midway: http://myfwc.com/education/outdoor-skills/joe-budd/
Beau Turner Youth Conservation Center, near Capps: http://myfwc.com/education/outdoor-skills/beau-turner/
Chinsegut Nature Center, north of Brooksville: http://myfwc.com/education/outdoor-skills/chinsegut/
The quality and quantity of Florida's wetlands and water resources are managed by five Water Management Districts. These districts are responsible for creating flood protection programs, developing water management plans, performing research, overseeing well construction, and acquiring and managing lands to protect water resources. The five districts are: Northwest Florida Water Management District, South Florida Water Management District, Southwest Florida Water Management District, St. Johns River Water Management District, and Suwannee River Water Management District.
Each WMD provides its own set of educational programs and materials and the extent and range of materials vary. One district may offer a speakers bureau, video library, and curriculum guides, while another district might offer grant opportunities and fact sheets on water conservation. All districts manage water conservation areas that are set aside to protect watersheds and are often open to the public. These areas can serve as field trip destinations and provide recreational opportunities such as hiking, camping, bicycling, and canoeing.
One educational program supported by the Southwest Florida Water Management District is Project WET (Water Education for Teachers). Project WET is an interdisciplinary, national curriculum promoting awareness and appreciation of water resources. The activities have been correlated to the Sunshine State Standards and can be used in classrooms and extracurricular programs. Educators interested in receiving the curriculum must attend a Project WET workshop and receive training in order to use the material. In order to obtain this training you must attend a Project WET workshop. Several program coordinators operate across Florida and can be located at the national website: http://projectwet.org/where-we-are/location/florida/.
The St. Johns River Water Management District supports an educational program called the Great Water Odyssey (http://floridaswater.com/education/). This program is designed for third, fourth, and fifth grade teachers to teach youth about water resources and their protection and conservation. The cartoon animation and web-based resource is free to educators. Students can be tested with practice questions modeled after the FCAT curriculum.
The Florida Department of Education provides assistance and resources for the educational system throughout Florida. DOE sets state standards, certifies teachers, and provides for school safety. The DOE provides for a system of education that provides opportunity to students for knowledge and skills through learning opportunities. Many of the Sunshine State Standards in science address environmental topics. Searching with keywords can help identify appropriate standards through a search engine (http://tools.fcit.usf.edu/sss/) or the state database (http://www.cpalms.org/Standards/FLStandardSearch.aspx).
The Bureau of Curriculum and Instruction houses an environmental education database of resources for educators (http://www.fldoe.org/bii/Curriculum/Environmental_Ed/).
The Florida Department of Transportation is responsible for moving people and goods efficiently through Florida while also preserving the environment. DOT, divided into eight districts, oversees 41,000 miles of the state highway system and 6,000 bridges and is involved with transportation alternatives, public transportation, and safety programs.
DOT offers an Adopt-A-Highway program where organizations make a two-year commitment to pick up trash along a stretch of highway. In return, DOT provides safety information, safety vests, litter bags, and litter pickup. DOT's Environmental Management Office (EMO) administers the Scenic Highways Program and Highway Beautification Program. EMO offers a number of publications on wildflowers, archeology, cultural resources, scenic highways, and greenways. The DOT also offers a bicycling and pedestrian safety program. This programs aids in the education and facilitation of safe bike riding and pedestrian safety. It governs the Florida Crossing Guard Training Program, the Florida Traffic Safety Education Program, and the Safe Routes to School Program.
The Florida DOT provides management of highways, scenic highways, seaports, pedestrian and bicycling paths, airports and the Florida Rail Commission. The Florida DOT maintains and dictates the policies and management of these public attributes to ensure safety and reliability. The Florida DOT is also a partner with MyFloridaBeautiful.com. This program provides for the Florida's highway Beautification Program that provides information to landscape architects, community leaders, and landscape contractors. This provides for the natural and scenic beauty of the Florida highway system.
The Florida Institute for Phosphate Research conducts and funds research that focuses on the phosphate mining and fertilizer industry in Florida. Phosphate is an essential nutrient for life and is mined in several regions of Florida. The FIPR provides resources, field trips and public information about the importance of phosphate and its management in Florida.
FIPR provides information and a K-12 curriculum that addresses phosphate-related issues while building skills in math, science, social studies, and language arts. The lessons in this curriculum have been correlated to the Sunshine State Standards. The FIPR offers workshops for teachers that are designed to enhance the knowledge teachers have of phosphate and its natural processes. Teachers in the workshop will be able to understand concepts through fieldtrips with experts in the field, as well as learn basic facts relevant to Florida and their classroom applications. Teachers will collaborate with one another to develop curriculum resources related the SSS.
The Florida Public Service Commission is responsible for setting utility rates and ensuring efficient, safe, and reliable utility services in Florida. The utilities they oversee are electric, gas, telephone, water, and water resources. The PSC provides numerous consumer brochures and fact sheets that address topics such as energy and water conservation (Table 2). The PSC offers resources and up-to-date news about the utilities in Florida, their rates, and the meetings regarding their implementation. The PSC website has a link to access all meetings and agendas with audio and video files in order to observe what type of management is being undergone in regards to utilities. These meetings are free to watch and are available any time.
The PSC is organized into a system of oversight and management that is dictated by the five Public Service Commissioners. This organization system is able to be viewed on the PSC website in its entirety. The system's goal is to maintain economical and safe utilities to citizens in the most reliable way possible.
Summary contact information for federal agencies.
Federal Agency |
Main Website |
Environmental Education Website |
Forest Service |
Natural Resources Conservation Service |
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/main/national/people/outreach/education |
National Park Service |
Fish and Wildlife Service |
Environmental Protection Agency |
United States Geological Survey |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
Contact details for state agencies
Florida State Agency |
Main Website |
Dept. of Environmental Protection |
Office of Greenways and Trails |
Division of Recreation and Parks |
Division of Recreation and Parks |
Dept. of Agriculture & Consumer Services |
Florida Forest Service |
Project Learning Tree |
Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission |
Water Management Districts |
Project WET |
Great Water Odyssey |
Dept. of Transportation |
Environmental Management Office |
Adopt-A-Highway |
http://www.dot.state.fl.us/statemaintenanceoffice/aah.shtm/moreDOT/adopt.htm |
Institute for Phosphate Research |
Public Service Commission |
Dept. of Education |
This document is FOR 100, one of a series of the School of Forest Resources and Conservation Department, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date September 2001. Revised January 2007 and December 2012. Reviewed December 2015. Visit the EDIS website at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu.
Martha C. Monroe, professor; and Alison W. Bowers, Extension assistant; School of Forest Resources and Conservation; UF/IFAS Extension, Gainesville, FL 32611-0410.
The Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) is an Equal Opportunity Institution authorized to provide research, educational information and other services only to individuals and institutions that function with non-discrimination with respect to race, creed, color, religion, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, political opinions or affiliations. For more information on obtaining other UF/IFAS Extension publications, contact your county's UF/IFAS Extension office.
U.S. Department of Agriculture, UF/IFAS Extension Service, University of Florida, IFAS, Florida A & M University Cooperative Extension Program, and Boards of County Commissioners Cooperating. Nick T. Place, dean for UF/IFAS Extension.


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Well kiss my Blarney Stone, I find it hard to believe that this traditional Irish delicacy has thus far escaped both our appetites and olfactory senses. This is especially true as I write this because Saint Patrick's Day is bearing down on us and proper preparations need to be made in advance
Wait…Hold on just a minute.
It just occurred to me that this year (2006) Saint Patrick's Day just happens to fall on a Friday and since the good Irish Catholics are forbidden to eat meat on that day during Lent, they'll probably be crying their eyes out in between glasses of green beer and Jameson's. There'll be the woeful wail of bagpipes sounding across the land as they stare down at their kilts and curse their bleedin' luck. What's a drunken rowdy Irishman to do under such trying circumstances?
Well, if tradition means anything, the good fella's at the Church will probably come to the rescue and grant some dispensation and make an exception to the rule. It seems even God himself or His representatives here on Earth can look the other way when it comes to eating corned beef and cabbage on St. Paddy's Day and as long as you give up meat another day during Lent, you'll still be in His good graces.
I can hear the chants of "Begorrah" echoing across the land!
First of all, I like to do my corned beef and cabbage in a crock pot. The ten to twelve hours that it takes to cook this monster will ensure that your house will stink for days on end and the aroma is a constant reminder of the delicacies and the pinpoint accuracy of the ingredients that comprise Irish cousine.
Based on the size of your appetite and the number of people you're trying to feed, this should fill up five to eight bellies with a little bit leftover for tomorrow.
Here's what you need…
Here's what you do…
Throw all that shit into the crock pot, turn it on low and go to your local neighborhood Saint Paddy's Day Parade. After that's over, stop by your local watering hole for a couple of hours and hoist a few back with your friends and neighbors. Make bold toasts, ogle members of the opposite sex, dance a jig or two, sing a few verses of Danny Boy and curse the bloody English. Repeat as often as necessary.
Depending on your tolerance level, this might last anywhere between four and six hours. If the weather's nice, take yourself a nice walk home to clear your head. If it's shitty outside, call yourself a cab. Either way, just before you open your front door, you'll be able to start smelling your creation and your mouth will start watering.
It's at this point you have to resist the temptation to pluck that puppy out of the crock pot and dig right in. The meat will probably still be a little tough and I prefer mine "fork tender". If you can, try and take a nap or watch some March Madness on television and root for your favorite team.
At the ten-hour mark, lift the lid off the crock pot and let the aroma permeate your nostrils. Lift the slab of meat out with a huge fork and get it to a cutting board before it falls apart. Let it cool down some before you slice it up. Pluck the taters and cabbage out with a slotted spoon and drop into a serving bowl.
Go to the fridge and get some mustard. Hopefully you have some rye bread on hand and slap some meat, mustard and pepper between a couple of slices. This is no time to be shy either, pile that shit on.
Ladle some potatoes and cabbage from the serving bowl onto your plate and smush them together with a fork. Add a healthy dose of pepper and grab a beer or ten from the refrigerator and dig in.
Some of you folks might think I'm being a bit sarcastic but this is the kind of meal I thoroughly enjoy. No fuss, no muss and great tastes all brought together simply and that are meant to be shared by friends and family alike.
Erin go bragh!
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The ever-sharp Ian Chappell once asked the then Indian skipper Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi what he did for a living.
"I'm a prince," was Pataudi's response.
Not getting the point, Chappell asked Pataudi what he did between nine and five.
Pataudi snapped and said, "Ian, I'm a f*****g prince!"
Yes, the game of cricket by design and structure was meant for the elite and the classes, the prince and the kings. Back in the early 20th century, the famous English author PG Wodehouse recounts in his book Now Talking About Cricket, "Do you like cricket better than footer?"
Cricket was a matter of pride for the gentlemen who thrived in playing one of the most unnatural sports known to mankind and devoid of mass infiltration. Settled into the class of a jazz, opera and the waltz, it was a natural weapon to reinstate power to the riches.
However, a sport so closely knitted into the culture of the English elite is failing to sustain itself in the upper steps of the wobbling ladder. The recent turn of events in the world of cricket has suggested that the International Cricket Council (ICC) is in desperate search for its mass appeal in order to ensure the survival of the sport. The latest development in offering the sport to the masses is the initiation of the Day/Night Test matches with coloured balls. It is not the first time that changes have taken place in the original form of the sport to increase its appeal, yet it almost seems a desperate attempt this time. Moreover, every time a format has been tried, it has ensured success — short-term, at least, if not for a long period.
The format was first used in a First-Class game recently in South Africa where it got an average response from the players and the officials. Of all the criticisms of the format, the changing playing conditions were the most severe, followed by the sight of funny coloured balls.
Former Australia wicket-keeper Adam Gilchrist told DNA, "I don't think the conditions remain the same as the game progresses beyond early afternoon. It is bit unknown whether to pick red ball under lights. It seems like a different proposition."
Michael Hussey and Kevin Pietersen didn't show great interest in the concept either, citing similar reasons.
Hussey also chose to see the lighter side of things. "The orange ball was a bit like a comet. I haven't really tried the pink ball, but I believe that's the next one they're trialing," he was quoted as saying by news.com.au.
Although it is quite evident that the format has not been well received across the cricket fraternity, it would be too early to rubbish it. Maybe a trial run would help a game that is walking blind on a path searching for its right audience. No, the ICC won't look foolish in doing so, because it is highly evident that game has seen a magnanimous shift in power over the years.
The power domination has inverted and India is proudly displaying the art of its colonial masters. While it still reserves an elitist position in the British land, India and other nations have managed with a certain degree of success to mobilize it to their masses.
It is not the first time that efforts have been made to revamp the game in order to help it survive the changing times. Yet, every time it has faced sharp criticism and denial for acceptance from the connoisseurs of the game.
For the Lords and the Nobles who once played the beautiful game, need to realise that the sport is not influenced and played by the riches anymore and that it needs to bank on what P Sainath would call 'The Wealth at the Bottom of the Pyramid'.
(While enjoying the small joys of life, rarely has anything mesmerised Aayush Puthran more than cricket. A student of Journalism in Mumbai, he is trying to figure out two things: ways to make Test cricket a commercial hot property and the best way to beat Mumbai traffic. He has a certain sense of obsession with novelty. He might seem confused, but he is just battling a thousand demons within his mind. Nonetheless, he is always up for a light-hearted chat over a few cups of coffee!)


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I think one of the two cables included should always work, accounting for the main button & mic even (though volume buttons on the iPhone cable one won't do anything on Android obviously)... That's why they bundle two different cables to begin with. There's basically two types of TRRS jack terminations, the first one was established by Nokia or Sony before the current smartphone era, and then Apple came around and decided to flip the ground and mic contacts around for the iPhone (of course)...
Now the problem is that for a while some Android OEMs used one termination and others used the other... I think they may all be on the same page now but I'm not sure. I know Samsung actually used both depending on the specific model. I think I remember reading the Galaxy Nexus in particular used the opposite termination from the S2, xda's forum is probably a good place to ask or search for an answer. There's always adapters like this one, but I doubt you'll need it.
On my HTC phone both cables actually worked just fine, the black iPhone one (3-button) and the red Android one (1-button); although I might've only tested whether the button paused music and not the mic, so take it FWIW. I traded my iPhone cable (with another Head-Fi'er) for the 1-button orange one that comes with the M-100, so I haven't got it anymore.
I do have a pair of Ety hf3 which are meant for iPhones (and even have the volume buttons) and it also works just fine with my phone, even though Ety sells the 1-button hf5 for Android/others. Not sure if the phones can sense what's plugged in and actually switch mic/ground around or if they're just doing something else for compatibility's sake.
This doesn't sound good, I don't really care for the iPhone cable, I'm just hoping that at least the android cable would work with the Galaxy Nexus properly.


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Sigh... seeing a brand new pair of 2.3s always makes me want to beat myself for not stocking up... down to 1 pair of Neptune blue left T_T
Bought some of the Shanghai Barricades. They look very nice, especially the gold stripes. Perform as barricades should: stable, durable, with good traction and ave. weight.
that's the way they are.... that's my only pair though actually just snatched it from the bay a month ago... you yourself got a sickass collection too Havent worn them all yet, will tell ya later
Just added these bad boys to the Collection! Should've been £100 which is $160 but I got them for a steal at £60 which is $98 a pair! Very happy!
Interesting. Not to get off topic but I've heard carpet surface can burn through shoes pretty quickly?
Interesting you say that, I picked them up from someone who scooped them at the outlets. Apparently whoever ordered them didn't agree with you haha. I thought they'd be perfect for clay given their color. Their also the wide version rather than the "tour fit" and they fit so much better than the retail version.
gonzalocatalino- Asics and babolat with dirt8) JSouza- warriors will be the next Barricade pickup for me. ductrung3993,MattCrosby,Finikas,Borrelli, and sports4eva115- nice collections and contributions!
Im betting the Nike's are Nano Grey w/Del Sol swoosh CB 2.3's. The Hot Lime models would have the Nike lettering in Hot Lime rather than white
Outlets bro, outlets! I think maybe since they canceled the 2kID, that the outlets are now getting the overstock, samples and returns?
Got these sexy pups on the bay, only $46.00 plus free shipping. Can't wait to get a set in. They are already more comfortable than my 3.3 and 4.3 CBs and feel as good as the Vapor 9s.
Nice. My closest nike outlet has absolutely no tennis stuff. They took out the tennis section a few years ago.
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can open MP be used only in case of loops?
Do open MP have timers associated with threads ( I wanted to compare with ACE thread frame work where Reactors are associated with timers)
zerothi wrote:1) No, you can use the "sections" extension which splits serial code into threaded code segments.
zerothi wrote:2) Yes, and no, I don't see anything wrong with creating an array the size of your threads and save to each thread-ID the timer, in this way you should be able to get the thread time (however, I have never tried this)
Rajesh1978 wrote:Timers I mean for to handle the timeouts.
Suppose you associate a thread with timer and set the timeout to 30.
So after each 30 second the time out will happen and a particular task can be done at that timeout.
Is there anything like this in OMP.
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- JPMorgan Chase Chief Executive Jamie Dimon told Senators on Capitol Hill Wednesday that he cannot defend the trades that led to the bank's massive multi-billion loss.
"The way it was contrived between January to March, it changed into something I cannot publicly defend," Dimon told members of the Senate Banking Committee during a two-hour hearing.
When asked by Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown whether he personally approved the trade, Dimon said: "No, I was aware of it, but I didn't approve it."
Dimon refused to call the intent of the trade anything other than a hedge to offset other potential risks to the bank.
Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez, one of the few committee members to grill Dimon, asked: "So this transaction that you said morphed -- what did it morph into? Russian Roulette?"
Dimon responded: "It morphed into something that I can't justify. It was just too risky for our company." When asked why JPMorgan didn't just unwind its position, Dimon said the the chief investment office, which handled the trade, thought what they were doing was more 'cost efficient.'
He also said he wasn't aware of the problems with the trade or the extent of the loss when he called news reports of massive losses from the bank's derivatives positions a "tempest in a teapot" during an April 13 call with analysts.
"When I made that statement, I was dead wrong," said Dimon. "Under no event did it look like it would be getting nearly as bad as it got after April 13th."
He declined to give any details about the actual trades or the size of JPMorgan's losses, during his testimony but he told CNBC shortly after the hearing that he would offer more information during JPMorgan's second-quarter earnings call on July 13.
While Dimon wouldn't defend the trades, JPMorgan's CEO repeatedly called the $2 billion loss "purely management's mistakes." He said, "It would have been very hard for regulators to catch this."
Dimon also said it was very "likely" that executives from the firm's chief investment office would be subject to so-called clawback provisions that would allow the bank to take back pay from the past two years. Dimon said he's waiting for the bank to wrap up its investigation of the trade before determining which executives could be subject to clawbacks.
Dimon, who has been an outspoken critic of Dodd-Frank financial system reform signed into law in 2010, refused to acknowledge that the legislation had made the financial system any safer. When pushed on the question, he would only say, "I don't know."
Dimon defended JPMorgan's size, but urged Congress to build systems that will let big banks fail. Calling it "bankruptcy for big dumb banks," he said "We shouldn't prop them up. We have to allow them to fail."
Several Senators asked Dimon for his opinion about how banks could be effectively regulated and how both Dodd-Frank and the Volcker Rule, which limits a bank's ability to trade with its own capital, might be rewritten.
Dimon called capital cushions the most important way to keep banks healthy and said that the Volcker Rule won't prevent financial institutions from racking up big losses like JPMorgan's.
Dimon stressed that despite the multi-billion dollar loss, the incident was "an isolated event" and that overall, JPMorgan remains "solidly profitable" in its second quarter.
Since Dimon first announced the losing trades on May 10, JPMorgan has lost roughly $30 billion of its market value. Shares of JPMorgan have dropped nearly 20% during that same time period.
Near the conclusion of his Q&A, Dimon was asked about the U.S. and European economies. He said both have "serious issues."
"We have to get our fiscal act together," he said. "The fiscal cliff may not wait until December 31."
"If we had done something remotely like Simpson-Bowles, in my opinion, you would have reduced uncertainty about taxes, you would have increased confidence in America, you would have shown a real fix of the long-term fiscal problem," he said.
Dimon will return to Capitol Hill next week to field questions from members of the House of Representatives.
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Would it make sense to allow a full regex in the matching part? Could use regex or oromatcher packages. Don't know how that would affect your hashing though... Alex -----Original Message----- From: Rodrigo Reyes [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 5:16 PM To: Lucene Developers List Subject: Re: Normalization Hi Alex, Thanks for your feedback, > The rules seem to be applied sequentially and each rule modifies the > output of the previous one. This is kind of risky especially if the > rule set becomes too big. The author of the rules needs to keep this > present at all times. For example, there is a rule for "ons$" and a > following one for "ions$". The second one will never be matched > because the string will be changed by the first rule it matches. Even > though aimons and aimions should be reduced to "em" they end up into > "em" and "emi". Maybe this could be solved if you do longest match > first. You're right, rule-masking is a real problem, but not exactly in the example you give. There rules are not applied sequentially as they appear in the file, they are stored in a (kind-of) transducer where the first state is the first letter of the focused string (i.e. not the right nor the left contextual rules). The rules are then hashed according to the first letter of the central string. The normalizer iterates through the letters of the string, applying the smallest subset of the rules on each letter, and reducing the string as it goes. In your example, the rules for "ions$" would be applied when the normalizer reaches the letter i, reducing the string and therefore the rule for "ons$" cannot be applied. However, when the strings have the same beginning char, you're right, there is a risk of having a rule never applied. For exemple "on" then "ont", the latter is unlikely to be used, ever. As you state it, this can be solved by sorting the rules of a given subset with the longest first (which is a very good point, I'll fix it on the source, thanks!). > The other consequence of the sequentiality is the possible change of > context. Some rules could never be reached therefore. Don't remember > how we got around this. The context is never changed in a single pass, as there is an input buffer and an output buffer. Rules read from the input buffer, and write in the output buffer. This way, the context is never modified. The description language in fact allows to have at the same time rules that rely on the context not being changed by other rules (this security is addressed by the input/output double buffer) and rules that rely on the changes made by other rules (with multiple passes on the data, using the #start keyword). Rodrigo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:email@example.com> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:email@example.com> | |
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Yes, Google's dominance extends beyond the desktop. Today, market research firm M:Metrics unveiled its latest rankings of the most popular mobile web destinations in the U.S. and Britain, and Google sits atop both lists.
That said, the Mountain View outfit is significantly more popular in the States than in the UK. This past April, according to the study, 62.48 per cent of U.S. smartphone users visited Google domains, compared with 30.94 per cent of UK users.
Google has topped M:Metrics' rankings since they were first introduced in March. In the U.S, the company's most visited mobile domain is its search site, followed by Gmail, Blogger, and YouTube, the video download service it purchased in October. More than 2 per cent of users visited YouTube - a hefty haul for mobile video.
On the M:Metrics U.S. list, Yahoo! ranks second, reaching 33.54 per cent of smartphone users, but it tumbles all the way to number nine in the British rankings, at only 10.97 per cent. In Britain, the runner-up is Orange (21.68 per cent), followed by the BBC (20.90) and Microsoft (17.75).
Predictably, Microsoft is third on the U.S. list, just a hair behind Yahoo! at 33.36 per cent. It's followed by mobile destinations operated by AT&T, Time Warner, Walt Disney, and News Corp.
Reaching nearly twice as many users as its nearest competitor, Google's dominance on in the U.S. mobile market mirrors its supremacy in the lucrative desktop search market. According to research firm Hitwise.com, Google handles 65.13 per cent of all U.S. web searches, followed by Yahoo! at 20.89 per cent.
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A bat-winged steed rears! Mighty space dragons thrash! Falcons swoop in for the kill as some kind of mushroom-headed dude looks on! And as if these things weren't cool enough, they're all inside a labyrinth in motherfucking OUTER SPACE! If I ever own a house, I will have no problem airbrushing the entire front façade with this exact scene. Money will be no object.
Real post coming later. I just couldn't ignore all this talk of Asia any longer.
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Heat of the Moment
Posted by Chris! at 11:46 AM
6 comments:
- Black Dog said...
A look from you and I would fall from grace, and that would wipe the smile off my face.
Just made my fucking Saturday, Chris! - 11/15/2008 12:34:00 PM
- Matt said...
How fucking hard did the people in the framing shop laugh when you brought that in?
- Art Vandelay said...
I will have no problem airbrushing the entire front façade with this exact scene. Money will be no object.
That's nuthin. I'm gonna build myself a Shakey's out of discarded embryonic cells.
Word verification: I was going to pet your dog, but he looked a little prionish. - 11/15/2008 03:54:00 PM
- Rock Deputy said...
Wow. They reached into the grab-bag of prog rock themes and took almost everything! All it needs now are some tron-esce grid lines receding into the background, a tiger and some grey-skinned androgynous nymphs crawling around some ruins.
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Betwixt the iron gates of fate
The messenger, winged, doth go!
Where the shadows greet, past the mountains reach,
To the queen of Icartho! - 11/17/2008 11:05:00 AM
- Dennis said...
That seems like a fun workplace though.
I mean do they look like cubicles to anyone else?:)
Anyway, glad to see you're still around, Chris. Maybe you can throw out some more silly album covers to note a post of yours every now and then.
This one gave me a good laugh. - 11/18/2008 05:03:00 AM
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What are some seldom thought of dioramas that would make for very cool scenes?
I have always thought of doing an award ceremony scene where i would use all vintage figures and have Hoth troopers, Hoth commanders, & Rebel pilots
amassed like in the movie. I myself couldn't do it with modern figures because I don't have nearly enough to do this scene in terms of troopers, etc.
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RESTON, VA, October 1, 2012 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today announced the global introduction of validated Campaign Essentials™ (vCE) for Video, which measures GRPs, demographics and behavioral profiles of audiences reached by video campaigns, as well as the extent to which video ads were actually viewable by consumers. This innovative new solution builds on comScore's existing video campaign measurement capability, which has been used extensively by clients over the past three years. By introducing comScore's video validation technology, vCE Video now also delivers unique insight on whether the video ad was actually seen by a real viewer, bringing these metrics into closer alignment with TV based on a similar 'opportunity to see' standard.
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Leading Video Platforms & Media Companies Highlight Benefits of comScore vCE Video
More than 120 advertisers and agencies and 80 publishers in 28 countries have conducted digital campaign measurement with comScore vCE, which received MRC accreditation in August for campaign verification. vCE Video is available on a global basis, and has the strong support of a broad range of leading partners, including the following:
Accordant Media | CPX Interactive | PointRoll |
Adap.tv | DataXu | Solve Media |
Adconion | Extreme Reach | SpotXchange |
AdJuggler | Firefly Video | TubeMogul |
Ad-Juster, Inc. | FreeWheel | Turn |
AdoTube | Innovid | Unanimis |
AOL | Jivox | Undertone |
Casale Media | LiveRail | Videology |
Centro | MediaMath | VINDICO |
Comcast Media 360 | Mediaplex | ZEDO |
"To get the best measure of campaign performance, buyers need insights that tell them which ads have the greatest opportunity to reach and impact the viewer. Improvements in campaign reporting like comScore's vCE Video enable those insights. It's this type of innovation that is helping advance our industry."
- Toby Gabriner, President, Adap.tv
"We have been working very successful with comScore validated Campaign Essentials for the past several months for our performance business, Adconion Direct, across several markets. We are absolutely thrilled to be able to roll this out as well to smartclip, our multiscreen video and brand advertising platform. The comScore vCE Video solution encompasses a vast array of advantages, which will benefit the entire industry, including the global scalability and – in particular – the reflection of the steady growth of video in the multiple-device world as we see it today and where we can see a huge amount of growth in the future. The precise and accountable measurements by comScore give all players in the market the transparency and accountability for campaigns on all devices."
- Tyler Moebius, CEO of Adconion Media Group.
"AOL has been a key driver for accelerating the flow of ad dollars from TV to online. We're proud to offer our clients a tool that helps ensure their campaign spend drives visibility among the most receptive audiences. It's this kind of equivalency with TV measurement solutions that will help push our industry forward."
- Ran Harnevo, SVP of Video, The AOL On Network
"The Digital Upfronts are quickly changing the dynamics of how online video advertising is bought and sold. The ability to verify viewability against a specific target audience helps bring digital video into closer alignment with TV, making the buying and selling process more seamless and integrated."
- Tom Straszewski, VP Interactive Sales, Comcast Media 360
"Innovid's integration with comScore's vCE Video platform provides our clients with familiar reporting metrics critical to evaluating the success of their video ad campaigns. As we continue to evolve towards 'TV Everywhere', data and analytics that facilitate apples-to-apples comparisons with traditional advertising empower brands to make sound media buying decisions across the multiple platforms available to them."
- Zvika Netter, CEO and Co-founder, Innovid
"Video campaign GRPs were a necessary first step to facilitate cross-media planning with TV, but viewability represents a giant leap forward in video's quest for TV dollars. It introduces a new standard for validated views that begins to leverage the immense measurement capabilities of digital video for traditional TV buyers."
- Mark Trefgarne, CEO, LiveRail
"We are really excited that comScore recognizes the importance of viewability and audience validation for online video. Being able to verify that video ads were actually seen by the target audience not only helps instill confidence in the online video advertising space, but it also creates better alignment with TV measurement. We are constantly looking for innovations like vCE that advance and provide value to the entire advertising ecosystem."
- Todd Pasternack, Director of Creative Technology, PointRoll
"We welcome comScore's commitment to addressing the issue of viewability within video advertising. Viewability is a key metric for valuing media and validation from an independent provider like comScore is important to ensure credibility and clarity for brand-focused advertisers."
- Young Jin, Senior Director, Video Product Management, Undertone
"While TV remains the preferred screen for video content, consumer behavior is morphing rapidly, and in some cases fans will watch a single episode across multiple platforms. It's clear that campaign measurement must quickly evolve to meet industry needs. vCE Video offers a compelling step in addressing incremental viewing in a way that's compatible with TV."
- Susan Hogan, VP Digital Ad Sales Research, Viacom
"Advertisers are demanding comprehensive audience demographic measurement to better understand their video campaign performance. Verifying the demo-make up of their target audience and using TV measurement solutions gives advertisers the best cross-platform assessment of their campaign. Integrating comScore's vCE product into VINDICO helps advertisers easily validate their audience at scale."
- Matt Timothy, President, VINDICO
"ZEDO is committed to measuring and validating results for its publisher and advertiser partners. That's why we worked with the original AdXpose, and why we are now signing on to a partnership with comScore for their validated Campaign Essentials (vCE) program. This is an added bonus for our customers, who understand the importance of their ads actually being seen. In fact, the viewable impressions metric for our InView Slider ad is consistently 99% as measured by comScore."
- Paul Prior, President, ZEDO
About comScore validated Campaign Essentials
comScore validated Campaign Essentials (vCE) is a holistic solution for complete campaign delivery validation and in-flight optimization. Unlike existing single-point solutions, vCE provides an unduplicated accounting of impressions delivered across a variety of dimensions, such as ads delivered in-view, in the right geography, in a brand safe environment and absent of non-human traffic. This measurement eliminates all impressions that never had a chance to make an impact, providing a more realistic and accurate picture of campaign delivery. vCE reports on comprehensive demographics, behavioral segments and reach and frequency, delivering a cross-media comparable GRP metric to the marketplace.
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The Spring Hill Board of Education has been focused on the district's long-term leadership plan in order to ensure that the district remains strong and continues to build on its successes. At a Feb. 10 meeting, board members unanimously selected Wayne Burke as district superintendent-elect beginning March 1, 2014.
In addition, the board approved Burke to become superintendent, following current superintendent Bart Goering's official retirement date of June 30, 2015. Goering, who has been superintendent of the district for more than 20 years, has poised the district for many future successes, including hiring excellent administrators and teachers as well as ensuring the district is financially sound.
"Selecting a new leader for the school district is the single most important decision that a board makes," said Nels G. Anderson, board president. "The goal was continued successes by students and staff members through a strong partnership between the board and new superintendent."
As part of the board's superintendent search, a cross-section of stakeholders participated in focus groups in order to help the board understand the desired characteristics of a new superintendent. The board seriously considered these characteristics when making a final decision about the long-term leadership of the district.
"As board members, we strongly believe that Dr. Burke is a great fit for both the characteristics desired by our stakeholders in the district and the communities that we serve as well as for the culture of our district," said Anderson. "We are delighted to announce Dr. Burke as the district's next superintendent and look forward to a long partnership with him, as he builds on Dr. Goering's strong legacy."
Burke, who is currently the Spring Hill School District's assistant superintendent will be focused on enhancing his knowledge of the superintendent's position, shadowing Goering, and ensuring a smooth transition. On July 1, 2015, Burke will move into the superintendent's position.
Beginning in 1997, Burke was the assistant high school principal and activities director of Spring Hill High School for four years and principal for another five years. He left the Spring Hill School District in 2006 to serve as the assistant superintendent for human resources in the Derby School District in Derby, Kan. He returned to the Spring Hill School District in 2009 to serve in his current position for the last five years.
Burke has his doctorate of education from the University of Kansas, a master's degree in education administration from Emporia State University and a bachelor's degree in business education from Kansas State University. He also is a member of numerous national and state level professional organizations as well as local community groups.


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Science isn't safe in Russia today. That, anyway, was Lev Gudkov's message this morning in a public statement published [ru] to the website of the Levada Center, one of Russia's oldest and best-respected sociological research organizations. The institute is also home to scholars with attitudes widely critical of the Putin regime. Gudkov, who leads the Center, announced that prosecutors in Moscow contacted him five days ago, on May 15, to issue an official warning that his outfit is operating in violation of a recently minted federal law requiring politically-active NGOs receiving funds from abroad to register with the government as foreign agents.
Gudkov posted to slideshare.net scans [ru] of the Moscow prosecutors' official warning, as well as his own public appeal in defense of the Levada Center. In that latter text, Gudkov announced that the application of the "foreign agents" law to the Center increases the odds that it will have to discontinue its work in the near future. In the statement, he insists that foreign funding comprises at maximum just 3% of Levada's income, and argues that the organization's scientific work does not amount to political meddling.
Specifically, the state accuses the Levada Center of conducting political work between 2009 and 2012 in exchange for donations from a handful of prominent Western institutions, including $150 thousand from the MacArthur Foundation, $290 thousand from the Ford Foundation, and $337 thousand from the OSI Assistance Foundation. (Disclosure to readers: RuNet Echo is currently funded by the Open Society Institute.) Additionally, Levada fulfilled several market research projects between 2010 and 2013 for foreign organizations such as the National Endowment for Democracy (for $40 thousand) and the University of Massachusetts (for $8 thousand).
Gudkov concludes gloomily:
Следуя логике Предостережения прокуратуры, мы должны были бы прекратить выпуск нашего журнала и закрыть сайт Левада-центра, перестать публиковать, открыто комментировать и анализировать результаты наших опросов в среде специалистов и в публичном пространстве – в СМИ, на семинарах и конференциях, на что согласиться мы не можем.
Following the logic of the prosecutors' warning, we would have to stop publishing our journal and close the Levada Center's website, stop publishing, [stop] publicly commenting and analyzing the results of our surveys in both the professional sphere and the public space—in the media, in seminars, and at conferences. We cannot agree to this.
On the Levada Center's Facebook page [ru], the organization has called on netizens [ru] to disseminate Gudkov's statement, which refutes the claim that sociological work amounts to political activity. At the time of writing this article, the Center's Facebook post has attracted 158 "likes" and 1,159 "shares." Many prominent sociologists have also weighed in [ru], arguing against conflating sociological study and political activism. In a Facebook post [ru] that has 79 "shares" of its own, sociologist Vladimir Magun alluded to Russia's history of Soviet crackdowns on the autonomy and integrity of science:
Какими бы словами и легалистскими аргументами эта постыдная кампания ни прикрывалась, речь идет о войне против современной науки, и ее организаторы и вдохновители должны ясно осознавать, что их имена навсегда войдут в позорный список безграмотных душителей мысли – таких, как Лысенко, Жданов или Трапезников.
Whatever words and legalistic arguments this shameful campaign is hiding behind, this is a case of war against modern science, and its organizers and masterminds should clearly realize that their names will forever be on the shameful list of crude stranglers of free thought—home to men like Lysenko, Zhdanov, or Trapeznikov.
Political analyst and former Kremlin-insider Gleb Pavlovsky wrote [ru] on Facebook to ask the heads of Russia's other two major sociological institutes, FOM and VTsIOM, what they thought of Levada's legal troubles. The latter's chief, Valery Fedorov, responded [ru] an hour later to report that VTsIOM, too, has received such warnings from state prosecutors.
On Twitter, Russian Internet users competed for wittiest remark about the prosecutors' warning to Levada. With 132 retweets, activist Ilya Yashin appears to be in the lead, having written:
ВЦИОМ и "Левада" зафиксировали снижение рейтингов Путина и ЕР. Прокуратура зафиксировала снижение шансов ВЦИОМ и "Левады" на существование.
VTsIOM and "Levada" have established a decline in the ratings of Putin and United Russia. Prosecutors have established a decline in the chances that VTsIOM and "Levada" will [continue to] exist.
In another popular post (which now enjoys 20 retweets), oppositionist Alexander Zalessky made light of the fact that Levada's main competitors, VTsIOM and FOM, are notorious for close ties to the Kremlin:
ВЦИОМ сообщает, что после закрытия Левада-центра рейтинги Единой России за неделю выросли на 35%.
VTsIOM reports that United Russia's [approval] rating has grown 35% in the week since the Levada Center's closure.
Not everyone, however, has rallied to Levada's defense. The predictably pro-Kremlin e-zine politonline.ru posted excerpts of Gudkov's public statement, tacking on the following question [ru]:
Стоп. Директор "Левада-центра" говорит, что иностранные гранты составляют лишь жалкие крохи – от 1.5% до 3% бюджета социологической службы. Но если это такие маленькие средства – почему же "Левада-центр" не готов от них отказаться и работать дальше без статуса "иностранного агента"? Вместо этого Лев Гудков говорит о "закрытии" центра. Вам тоже кажется, что это нелогично или где-то здесь нестыковка?
Stop. The director of the Levada Center says that foreign grants amount to just a few bread crumbs—from 1.5% to 3%—of the sociological institute's budget. But if these funds are so small, why isn't the Levada Center ready to reject them and continue its work without the "foreign agent" status? Instead of this, Lev Gudkov is talking about the "closure" of the center. Readers, does this also seem to you a bit illogical or somehow a bit off?
Stanislav Apetian, another RuNet presence commonly associated with the anti-opposition camp, raised the same questions on Twitter, writing:
Если в доходах "Левада-центра" иностранные деньги составляют 1,5%, то почему нельзя просто от них отказаться? К чему вопли о закрытии?
If in the Levada Center's income, foreign money is just 1.5%, then why can't it just reject such funding? What's the use of bawling about getting closed down?
As most of Russia's educated, Internet-conscious citizens share their disgust about the crackdown on Levada, the organization could do more to tackle questions like Apetian's. Is Levada's defense that it stopped receiving foreign donations after 2012, as its Twitter account indicated in a tweet [ru] earlier today? If that's the case, why does the prosecutors' warning mention OSI funding into mid-January 2013, and market research for foreign clients also into 2013?
Most important in the long-run, however, is the likely chilling effect that today's news will have on Levada's ability to maintain both clients (and donors) and key groups of respondents for its survey research. Indeed, in an interview [ru] with Kommersant Radio today, Gudkov revealed that clients and respondents alike are already increasingly reluctant to cooperate with an organization that carries Levada's political baggage.
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New to fly fishing
Hello all,
Doesn't look like there has been much activity on this forum of late so I'm not really sure what I can expect but I'll give it a shot anyway. My son and I are interested in fly fishing and would like to give it an earnest try. We live in Southeast Michigan, near Ann Arbor, and have multiple lakes in which to fish as well as the Huron River. My guess is that we will be mainly fishing for pan fish and various types of bass which leads me to assume that a 5/6 weight rod will fulfill our needs. Please, correct me if I'm wrong. Because we are just getting into this we obviously don't want to drop a ton of money into gear but would like something durable, that we can grow into and have fun with. I would love to hear your suggestions and recommendations because fly fishing is fascinating to us but we are coming from a spinning rod and reel world that is primitive when compared to fly fishing. Thank you for your help. Rob |
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Glad you found this Forum. You're right, though, things have been very slow. We're still kickin' and posts such as yours keep us going.
Fishing for pan fish in small lakes is a great way to learn fly-fishing, as you'll be rewarded with the odd take as opposed to the demands of trying to catch selective trout, which is a very tough way to start your fly-fishing career. You might try fooling around with small poppers. Most panfish like them, as do bass, and the surface action is very stimulating. Cast the poppers into likely openings in weed beds (which helps with accuracy). No need to go long -- thirty feet into the right spot (or twenty, for that matter) will get you rises and hookups. And it's the action that will keep you at it as you improve your casting and fishing skills. You'll find that as opposed to spin-gear, with poppers you can fish places that would foul you were you spinning. Pan fish (and bass) love structure and you can explore and probe spots (and, incidentally, catch fish) where you couldn't before. I cut my fly-fishing teeth on Bluegill. I still love to fish for them, even though I live in Steelhead country. Welcome to the Forum. This is a very general answer to your questions. If you have more specific questions or need more explanation, please ask. We're here to serve. Cheers, Eric |
Hi Eric,
Thank you for the warm welcome. I'll take your advice regarding the poppers and the small lake scenario but what about a "getting started" rod and reel combo? Cabela's and Bass Pro Shops have some great choices and Orvis has a very nice setup for beginner's. The ones that I am interested in range from around $150 to about $200 for a four piece rod, reel and line to get you started. Are there any specific names of manufacturers I should be looking for? I'm guessing that since we're just starting out high quality equipment probably isn't the most important thing - the high quality stuff can come later as we get better at casting and learning fly fishing techniques. Thanks, Rob |
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Well, here we go....
My son and I picked up our first fly rods and reels today. We ended up with two Mystic Inception 9 foot (4 pc) 5 wt rods and two Lamson Konic reels. Everything should be in by the end of the week and we will be receiving some tutelage on casting when we pick the up. Very excited. |
Well, here we go....
My son and I picked up our first fly rods and reels today. We ended up with two Mystic Inception 9 foot (4 pc) 5 wt rods and two Lamson Konic reels. Everything should be in by the end of the week and we will be receiving some tutelage on casting when we pick the up. Very excited. |
Let's hope it's the beginning of a lifelong journey for you two
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My lunch special; tempura bowl $2.50
I think there were total 4 tempura on top of the rice. shrimp, zucchini, carrots, sweet potato?? Not sure. But it was good, the batter was crispy.
My friend ordered this: Tempura and Salmon Teriyaki (comes with rice, salad and soup) $8.45
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