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Jeff VanderMeer and I had a nice lunch on Thursday with Eric Marin (of Lone Star Stories) and Rick Klaw (author of Geek Confidential). Rick works at Half Price Books, a large and extraordinary place, where, while touring the rare book room, I managed to prevent myself from buying a first British edition of Calder Willingham's first novel, End as a Man for $95, and Jeff managed to hold back and not buy a vintage copy of the proto-Ambergris novel Mushroom Town by Oliver Onions. I did, however, get a couple of cheap paperbacks by the Strugatsky brothers, which was quite exciting, as I've rarely encountered their books anywhere.
I spent a lot of time in the vast Book Fair of the conference, which is like being in an airplane hangar filled with tables where smart, interesting, and creative people hold court over piles of marvelous books. I got of copy of the first issue of Public Space, a new lit journal that includes, among other great things, a story by Kelly Link. I haven't had a chance to really read anything in it yet, but the production values are quite high, and so the journal feels nice to hold and look through. I stopped by the table of Hobart, a fun new journal I've been keeping my eyes on, and introduced myself to editor Aaron Burch, who seems much too nice and friendly to be an editor. (How does he reject people? Actually, I'll probably find out soon...) I also spent some time with Thom Didato, editor of my favorite webzine, Failbetter.com, who, as promised, was selling Failbetter beer steins.
The most interesting discovery of the day, though, was Visa For Avalon, a novel by Bryher, first published in 1965 and brought back into print by Paris Press. The description intrigued me too much to let it go:
In this chilling futuristic novel, five men and women attempt to immigrate to legendary Avalon after "the Movement" threatens the liberty and comforts they have taken for granted. Visa for Avalon takes place in an unnamed country and an unnamed time. As ordinary life comes to a standstill, escape is the only hope. But is Avalon truly the safe haven that it is rumored to be?In the evening, a bunch of us headed over to BookPeople, an amazing bookstore, where Brian Evenson, Gavin Grant, Kelly Link, Michael Moorcock, Jeff VanderMeer and I all read stories to celebrate the publication of ParaSpheres , a huge anthology published by Omnidawn that has a phenomenal table of contents.
The reading went well, and the audience was appreciative. Nobody took pictures, as far as I know, but we all looked great. (You just haven't lived till you've seen Jeff VanderMeer in a pink feather boa.)
Today I went to a lot of panels, the best of which were "The Surrealist Landscape as Text" and "Arab American Novelists". The first featured presentations by Judith Johnson, John Bradley, George Kalamaras, and Patrick Lawler, none of whom were particularly familiar names to me, but all of whom had insightful things to say, particularly Patrick Lawler, who gave easily the most memorable presentation I've ever seen at a conference or convention. He talked about surrealism as a kind of literary/artistic ecotone, using in particular some works by Marcel Duchamp. What made the presentation so good, aside from all the various and poetically-expressed ideas, was that Lawler did it in the third person, opening with something to the effect of, "Patrick Lawler would like to discuss the work of Magritte, but he is, unfortunately, obsessed with Marcel Duchamp. Magritte is the artist of ecotones, but Patrick Lawler insists that we talk about Duchamp." And continued from there. It was hilarious and also somehow beautiful and instructive. "I forgot to write a manifesto," he said, quoting either Duchamp or himself (my notes are incomplete), "and now I suffer." Here are the ends of my notes on the presentation:
A proliferation of energy. The ecotone btw question & answer. Performance, personae. The borders between what I had to say and what I didn't have to say, between what I had to say and what I needed to say. "Marcel Duchamp, you make my penis weep." To enter the glass not as reflection, but as participant.The other very good panel, "Arab American Novelists" was rather more down-to-Earth. The panelists were Gregory Orfalea, Patricia Sarrafian Ward, and Naomi Shihab Nye. Orfalea opened by saying that, to his knowledge, this was the first time the subject of Arab American novelists had been given its own panel at a conference that was not a Middle East-specific one, and that this is a sign of real progress. He then gave an overview of Arab American fiction, illustrated with some photographs included in his The Arab Americans: A History, and discussed some of the potentials and problems of defining "Arab American novelists" at all, and the use such a definition can serve in our current society. Patricia Sarrafian Ward discussed some of the influences on and inspirations for her novel The Bullet Collection, and Naomi Shihab Nye discussed young adult novels about Arab Americans and Middle Eastern people and situations, then read from her novel Habibi. There was time at the end for some questions from the audience, and the topic of "hyphenated writers" came up -- do they accept the hyphen, do they resent it, etc. Gregory Orfalea said that he doesn't put a hyphen in "Arab American", because to him Arab is the adjective and American is the noun, and most of the time the American holds sway. Naomi Nye said that in the current situation of the world, she now identifies her Arab background more, because of the need to be visible, to show ways of having a positive relationship with the Middle East and Middle Eastern people. An audience member, an Iranian-American (or Iranian American) said the hyphen can be a way of counteracting being "the other", to be proud of her self and to communicate a humanity beyond being a generic "foreigner". Patricia Ward noted that the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee puts "American" before "Arab" to show the need for unity first. (Plenty of other fascinating things were said, but I wasn't able to write fast enough to make a complete transcription, alas.)
While I don't think I have any other news of even potential interest, I do want to note here that Kelly Link highly recommends Vampires, Burial, and Death : Folklore and Reality by Paul Barber. She's been showing it to everybody she encounters, and it does, indeed, look fascinating.


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Hierarchical methods for power intent specification
The intent of this design article is to provide a comprehensive tutorial on both the value of and the "how to" in using a hierarchical low-power design methodology. The article first shows how to express power intent top-down in a hierarchical design, which allows the designer to set rules abstractly without worrying about the details of all the power domain crossings lower in the design hierarchy.
The article then describes the concept of macro modeling to capture power intent for IP blocks. Next, it illustrates a bottom-up hierarchical approach that enables the designer to integrate the same block in multiple situations that require different uses of the block's internal power intent capabilities. Finally, the article describes how to use virtual ports and virtual power domains to simplify specification of rules for design objects that will later appear lower in the hierarchy, as the design implementation is refined.
Although the Common Power Format (CPF) is used as the main format to illustrate these capabilities, not all of these hierarchical capabilities are truly unique to CPF. The hierarchy support currently provided in the IEEE 1801 standard, Unified Power Format (UPF) 2.0, is also covered. The article concludes by reviewing recent developments toward methodology convergence between the Silicon Integration Initiative Low Power Coalition, which is responsible for CPF, and IEEE P1801.
Why is hierarchical low-power design necessary?
Semiconductor companies today are able to produce integrated circuits (ICs) of unprecedented scale, with tens to hundreds of millions of transistors on a single die becoming commonplace. This complexity, enabled by rapidly shrinking process geometries, which relentlessly continue to obey Moore's Law, is a double-edged sword. It allows unprecedented integration of circuits, enabling many different functions to be integrated in a single system on chip (SoC). But it also produces leakier transistors, driving the need for low-power design techniques (such as power shutoff or power gating) that specifically address leakage power.
Complex SoCs are designed hierarchically, with many different low-level functions integrated together into sub-systems, which in turn are integrated onto the SoC. Therefore, a good low-power design flow must not only automate low-power design, verification, and implementation — it must also support a hierarchical design methodology. In practice, hierarchical design is almost always a combination of top-down specification and bottom-up integration, with partitioning of design tasks, some of which are designed from scratch and others are provided by reused IP blocks in the form of hard or soft design macros. The blocks are integrated and verified bottom-up, but along the way, the designer must validate that the integrated design (the result of the bottom-up integration) fully meets the system specification. Thus, functional design and verification for these SoCs tend to be iterative, working both top-down and bottom-up to divide and conquer the massive quantity of details, while maintaining a clear view of the whole SoC.
The same approach works for power intent specification too. The low-power architecture, consisting of power domains, their states, and the resultant power modes, follows from the top-level system functionality and architecture, and is specified top-down early in the process. However, to be able to design leaf-level functions and integrate IP blocks that fit into this architecture, and to verify them, we must also have a hierarchical understanding of power intent. The following sections show how to describe and use power intent for top-down design, IP blocks and macros, and bottom-up design.
Top-down low-power design
For a hierarchical low-power design, one of the first decisions that we must make is whether to code the power intent file in a top-down or bottom-up fashion. In a top-down flow, the designer codes the full-chip power intent and verifies it through low-power structural and functional checks. After successful verification, the designer can partition the full-chip power intent and write it out for each sub-block. The block designers take these block-level power intent files and implement the sub-blocks. In a bottom-up flow, the block-level power intent is coded first. After that, the full-chip power intent is formed by merging all the block-level power intent files.
We discussed earlier how the power domains, states, and power modes tend to follow from the high-level system functions and architecture. This implies that top-down is the way to go, but there are other reasons that often make top-down the best choice. First, coding the full-chip power intent is much easier than coding the block-level power intent. The reason is that we can use abstraction and successive refinement to our advantage.
What this means is that we can code only the information needed for the stage we are at in the design flow, and details pertaining to lower-level blocks can be added later when we get there. For example, we don't need to deal with the boundary ports of the internal power domains. We only need to specify isolation or level shifter rules between power domains, not worry about exactly how many nets are crossing these domain boundaries.
With today's design complexity, a sub-block can easily have more than ten thousand ports. Tracing all of these ports and manually determining the power domains from the bottom-up would be a daunting and prohibitive task. Abstract specification and successive refinement of power intent is supported by both leading power format standards: IEEE-1801 (UPF) and CPF. However, for reasons more fully explained in an EETimes article published earlier this year , this hierarchical approach is poorly supported in the UPF 1.0 subset of IEEE-1801 that is still currently in widespread use.
Second, in a top-down flow, the full-chip power intent has already been verified. Any block-level power intent generated or derived from this known-good full-chip power intent must also be golden to drive the sub-block implementation. In a bottom-up flow, not only is the block-level power intent difficult to code, but we also must also go through several iterations of merging and verifying the full-chip power intent. For example, if we specified an incorrect boundary port at the block level, there is no way we can verify and debug this until we interface with the other blocks' power intent.
A frequently heard objection to this top-down approach (and justification for a bottom-up approach) runs something like "You have to code the block-level power intent anyway for the block designers." This is where the tool support comes in. With a full-chip power intent file and the design (at the RTL or netlist level), a tool should be able to trace the design, establish the power domains, and write out the block-level power intent automatically. It can figure out all the boundary ports, where isolation rules should be specified, and so forth. This is analogous to a hierarchical synthesis methodology that involves characterizing the timing of a sub-block and writing out the block-level constraints in a standard delay constraint format. And this practice has been used by many design teams for a long time.
In reality, today's low-power designs are far too complex and highly integrated to use a purely top-down flow. These designs use a wide variety of low-power IP blocks that are described by macro models. The chip-level power intent must instantiate these macro models, which thus introduces some bottom-up flavor. These macro models are usually pre-written and pre-verified, and we will describe how this is done in the next section.
So, do some designers use the bottom-up flow? Yes, often because they don't have the tools to help them partition the full-chip power intent. But if you look closely, they have already created a full-chip power intent either in their head or on some drawing. It is just not possible to code power intent at the block level without an understanding of the full-chip power intent in one form or another.
Describing and integrating power intent for design macros
Two key features of CPF that support hierarchical design methodology are boundary ports and macro models. They help the designer with different levels of abstraction at different levels of hierarchy. This is best illustrated with an example.
Let's consider a team of three designers. The chip-level designer integrates a processor at the top level. The processor designer integrates a memory into the processor sub-system. The memory designer works at the lowest level of hierarchy and delivers a memory IP block. This arrangement is illustrated below.
Traditionally, a library cell can be fully described by a .lib (Liberty) file containing timing and power tables. For low-power designs, .lib alone is not sufficient. Complex IP blocks such as embedded memories often have complex power architectures that cannot be adequately described by .lib. A CPF macro model can describe built-in isolation and complex power modes that are not supported by .lib. In addition to the memory IP and the corresponding .lib, the memory designer will also provide a CPF macro model.
The CPF macro model hides the details of the internal circuits by simply specifying the expected power domain of the input pins and driving power domain of the output pins. In the example below, the input pin X will drive into PD1 and the output pin Y will be driven by PD2. This makes pin X a boundary port of PD1 and pin Y a boundary port of PD2.
With the memory's CPF macro model, the processor designer will know how to integrate and connect to the memory IP. The boundary ports of the CPF macro model will essentially specify the power domain of every data pin. For those memory pins with built-in isolation, the interfaces to these pins do not need additional isolation to be inserted. For those memory pins with different voltage levels, level shifters will need to be inserted.
The processor designer also needs to understand how to interface with the chip-level logic. Once again, we use the boundary port concept to describe the expected power domains driving the inputs and receiving the outputs of the processor. The processor designer can code up a CPF design model to completely describe the power intent of the processor and treat it as a standalone chip. This CPF design model will sufficiently drive low-power verification and implement of the processor.
In the example below, pin A is expected to be driven from PD3, and pin B is expected to drive PD4. In the processor's CPF design model, pin A is a boundary port of PD3, and pin B is a boundary port of PD4.
When the chip-level designer integrates the processor, he/she has two options. The most common option is to integrate the entire processor design at the chip level (RTL or netlist, depending on the design stage). This is sometimes called the "white box" or "glass box" model. When using this option, the boundary ports specified in the processor's CPF design model are ignored. These boundary ports were intended to represent the "expected" driving and receiving power domains of the chip-level logic. After integration of the processor, the "real" driving and receiving logic are known, so processor boundary ports are not needed.
The second option for the chip-level designer is to "black box" the processor. This approach assumes that the processor has been designed and can be treated as an IP block. Like the memory IP, the processor IP also must have a CPF macro model to describe the power domains of the interface pins. The CPF macro model hides the complexity of the processor and still allows verification and implementation based on power domains of the processor's data pins. The main reason for this approach is to reduce verification and implementation runtime. However, we would strongly advise the designer in this case to verify with the full processor netlist as a signoff check.
Bottom-up low-power design
While there are some advantages of a top-down approach to coding the power intent, in reality, a combination of top-down and bottom-up approaches is often required. Now, let's take a closer look at the bottom-up approach.
To recap, with the top-down approach, we code the full-chip power intent without having to worry about all the nets that cross power domain boundaries. Then we issue a few commands, and a tool writes out the block-level CPF. Pretty simple and straightforward! So, why would we want to code power intent bottom-up?
The most common reason is design reuse. Some designers take a building-block approach to assemble an SoC. Every block is a soft IP. It can be reused in several designs or instantiated several times in one design. In these cases, it makes a lot of sense to take the bottom-up approach.
For bottom-up design, we must architect the power scheme with a vision of how this block could be used. For example, a sub-circuit could be switched off to save power, so we need to create a switchable power domain. With a shutoff domain, we also need to create an isolation rule. Of course, boundary ports, state retention, and level shifting all need to be considered. Once the block-level power intent is coded, this block is ready to be used with all of the power-saving techniques that have been architected.
CPF has the concept of hierarchical integration. This is best explained with an example. We have a soft IP that has been architected to accommodate power shutoff. One instance of this IP will indeed shut off, but another instance will be always on. The manual approach to implement this would be to copy over and modify the CPF file to remove all references to switchable domain, isolation rules, and state retention for the always-on instance. The automated approach is to take advantage of the power-intent integration capability in EDA tools such as Cadence® Encounter® Conformal® Low Power. When the always-on block is instantiated in the top-level CPF file, we can map the lower-level switchable domain to a top-level always-on domain. Conformal Low Power will understand this power intent and automatically remove all block-level CPF commands associated with the switchable domain.
Another feature of power intent integration is to resolve conflicting power intent rules and remove redundant ones. For example, the block-level rule specifies isolation high, but the top level has a conflicting rule to isolate low. What do we do? Even if there is no isolation output conflict, do we want to insert two isolation cells when one will be sufficient? Tools that automate integration, such as Conformal Low Power, need to resolve all of these issues during the integration process.
Finally, any discussion about hierarchical low-power design would be incomplete without mentioning two key CPF constructs – virtual port and virtual domain. Between them, these constructs allow us to specify power intent rules early in the flow for artifacts in the design that do not exist yet, but will be introduced later.
A virtual port is a low-power control-signal port that does not exist in RTL but will be added once the corresponding low-power cells are inserted. For example, when isolation cells are inserted, an isolation control signal must be connected to all isolation cells. This connection requires adding ports to every module hierarchy. We certainly don't want to add these ports manually in the RTL. Once we split up the hierarchy, we must have a way to reference this port and the low-power control signal that is driven from the top level. In CPF, we use virtual ports.
A virtual domain is a power domain that does not have any instances within it. This usually occurs in the top-level CPF, where a switchable domain is defined in the block-level CPF. The lower-level switchable domain is not visible at the top level, but it must be referenced to specify power modes. Virtual domains are created in the top-level CPF and mapped to the lower-level real domains.
The future
We have highlighted how CPF constructs can be used to specify power intent hierarchically, in low-power designs complex enough to benefit from a hierarchical approach. As discussed earlier, hierarchical power intent and successive refinement are also supported in UPF, especially by UPF 2.0 constructs defined in the IEEE 1801-2009 specification, but are not sufficiently supported by UPF 1.0, which is the Accellera version of UPF currently in common use. Since Cadence tools are used in both CPF- and UPF-based flows, we see designers being successful with UPF 1.0 in designs with simpler power architectures that can easily be handled flat, while companies needing to complete more complex designs are either using CPF or driving better tool support for UPF 2.0.
One of the main improvements added in UPF 2.0 is supply sets, which allows the supplies to power domains to be specified more abstractly. This is supported by an improved way of specifying power states. However, for specifying power intent of library cells and macros, UPF 2.0 still relies heavily on Liberty, and as explained in more detail in the EETimes article previously referenced, IEEE 1801 needs to evolve to include some of the advantages of CPF, such as library CPF constructs and the macro model. There is no barrier to achieving this, following Si2's contribution last year of the CPF specification to IEEE 1801.
Hence, looking to the future, we expect two trends. First, the complexity of low-power designs will only increase, making hierarchical techniques to manage complexity more essential. Second, those designers using UPF will migrate quickly to use the improved hierarchical design provisions in UPF 2.0 once these are widely supported in available tools, then migrate further to future versions of IEEE 1801 that will support methodology convergence with CPF.
Chau, Dobre, Hardee, Holehouse & Lagerquist, Power Intent Formats: Light at the End of the Tunnel? EETimes, 2/13/2012
About the Author:
Luke Lang is an Engineering Director in the Cadence Low-Power Product Engineering group focusing on low-power architecture, methodology, and deployment. Before joining Cadence, Luke worked on ASIC and mixed-signal IC design and application at TI, Philips Semiconductor, and IBM. He received a BSEE degree from Santa Clara University, a MSEE degree from Stanford University, and holds two U.S. patents.
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BOSTON, Jan. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Solos Endoscopy, Inc. (OTCPK: SNDY) is pleased to announce that the Company experienced an approximate 16% increase in sales for the twelve months ended 2012 compared to 2011. Solos Endoscopy finished 2012 with $395,038.76 in sales, a 16% increase over 2011 sales of $340,626.22.
Solos Endoscopy's increase in sales for the twelve months ended 2012 can be attributed to a strong fourth quarter where the Company had three months of sales increases compared to the prior year. In October, Solos Endoscopy posted sales of $37,274.90; this represented an approximate 36% increase from the year prior sales of $27,455.52. In the month of November, sales increased by more than 53%; with sales of $27,818.96 for November 2011 compared to $42,631.56 for November 2012. In December 2012, Solos Endoscopy posted sales of $42,043.02 compared to $21,363.69 for the same period in 2011; this represented a 97% increase.
Solos management is pleased that it has been able to achieve these sales increases without any significant changes to its pricing or operations. In addition, management has previously announced that it has taken steps to increase the shelf life of its sterilized endoscopic instruments which should allow hospitals to order product in larger quantities. Solos Endoscopy posts its financial reports and disclosures according to OTC Market Guidelines. These disclosures can be viewed at http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/SNDY/filings.
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SANZAR has decided to do away with the hugely unpopular system whereby teams get awarded 'bonus' points when they have a bye in Super Rugby.
SANZAR CEO Greg Peters said on Thursday they listened to "feedback from the fans" and trust this makes it easier for all to track their team's log progress throughout the season.
Fan feedback indicated the additional four points given to teams on their bye weekends created confusion on the standings – particularly during the latter stages of the season in the lead-up to the Super Rugby play-offs.
"We want to make the competition as easy as possible for the fan to grasp," Peters told this website, adding: "This was one minor amendment we made for 2014."
The SANZAR boss, Peters, added that the staggered start to Super Rugby in Australia last year and again this year in South Africa has rendered any "comparative usefulness of the points for a bye round non-existent".
As was the case since the competition's last expansion, in 2011, each team will still play 16 regular season matches – eight home and eight away – and will have two byes.
Each team will play all four of the other teams in their conference twice, both home and away, and play against four of the five teams in each of the other two conferences
After the completion of the Regular Season, a three-week Super Rugby play-off series will take place involving the three conference winners and the three best-placed 'wildcards', irrespective of the conference in which they are based.
The teams ranked one and two have a bye during the first week of the play-off series, with the teams ranked three to six taking part in qualifiers to secure a place in the semifinals.
Teams one and two will host home semifinals against the two qualifier winners.
With the conference winners ensured of home advantage, at least one play-off match will be played in each country each year.
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We're seven games into the season and I feel that for the most part, we've avoided the dreaded "Morgan Rielly Question". To simplify Article 9.1 of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, an 18- or 19-year-old player that is eligible to return to junior hockey can have his entry level contract extended by a year if he doesn't play 10 games at the pro level.
At this point, you worry less about "burning" the year off of the ELC, since Rielly has played enough games at the NHL level that he'll probably surpass the 9-game limit once he gets recalled to the Marlies once his junior season is over (EDIT – @birky points out that only NHL games count here). It becomes a developmental question, whether you think that the benefits of having Rielly on your team now surpass the benefits of having Rielly on your team next year after a year of dominating the Western Hockey League.
How good has Rielly been? Well, it's tough to tell, since defencemen are inherently tough to judge by watching alone (since a good defensive play is something that didn't happen) and it's not worth going to the usual websites to find out Rielly's possession numbers. Underlying numbers mean little without context, and the context we'd apply to Rielly's situation is "it's only been five games".
He has three assists, ten shots on goal and has drawn a couple of penalties already in just five games. He's also become fairly active in the neutral zone, and while I don't have any hard numbers on his zone entry rate, it feels like it's been pretty high with him and Jake Gardiner running that show. Generally, he's faced second-pairing competition on the ice with Cody Franson, who has struggled to start the season. I don't know if Franson is struggling because of his inability to adapt with Rielly, but it's worth noting that even with Franson playing below a level he's capable of, that 44-4 pairing won't make a reasonable fan clench his or her sphincter.
At this point I'm leaning towards "A – keep him up in the NHL". The smallest of samples, but nothing has happened during his five-game tryout that makes me feel the guy isn't cut out for a regular NHL job, and as stated, it's likely that Rielly would pass the 10-game threshold when he rejoins the club at the conclusion of his junior year. We still have four more games left for the powers that be to make a decision, and it will probably be more a development-related than contract-influenced one. I'm a little more bearish on the club's depth than some, and while T.J. Brennan is cutting it up in the American Hockey League right now, he's never shown anything particularly tasty at the NHL-level. Depth is never a bad thing.
You could also flip a coin.
Rielly will play his sixth game of the season tonight, barring disaster, against Carolina.
Jeff Skinner's PDO numbers and his even strength points per 60 minutes are pretty interesting. I've normalized his points per 60, in the far right column, to 955 minutes a season, or 73 games worth of 13 even strength minutes per game:
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Skinner's a fascinating case study because he got off to such a hot start in his NHL career and won the Calder Trophy. He experienced the "sophomore slump" or regression to the mean, when his on-ice shot percentage was knocked down a couple of points. He slumped hard in the shortened season, getting just 24 points in 42 games, but as you can see, that was more related to percentages than performance.
Here are his individual shooting statistics:
It's nuts how much he's improved over his NHL career. Not many players can take more than three shots per game. Just 36 with at least 90 games played in the last three seasons (starting with 2011-2012) have taken than much, and Skinner is 12th with 3.51, tied with Henrik Zetterberg. His shot percentage though, is 32nd over the same span.
He was a player worth buying low on at the start of the season in any hockey pool you may be in. In my keeper league, I acquired him for Sergei Bobrovsky, since Skinner presents a unique opportunity: not many elite-level guys have had such pedestrian counting level stats over the last two seasons. So far in the season, the gamble has paid off, with Skinner on pace for his best offensive season yet at evens, but the catch is that his on-ice shot percentage is already much higher than it was in his 2011 season. If it can stay in the 9-10% range, my gamble will probably be a good one. If his individual shooting percentage numbers recover, he could be a goal-scoring force again.
Skinner's a fun case study, and if you play any fantasy hockey, he's the type of player I have a lot of success on because everybody else in the league overlooks him. His nose-dive in counting numbers seems to fit along with the time he sat on the shelf with a concussion, and it makes people wary that he will never recover to play at the same pace as his rookie year, ignoring that his rookie season was an outlier in terms of percentages.
Per dailyfaceoff. James van Riemsdyk won't play tonight and is listed as day-to-day, according to Arash Madani. Back issues.
Mason Raymond – Tyler Bozak – Phil Kessel
David Broll – Nazem Kadri – Joffrey Lupul
Josh Leivo – David Bolland – Jay McClement
Carter Ashton – Trevor Smith – Colton Orr
Carl Gunnarsson – Dion Phaneuf
Morgan Rielly – Cody Franson
Paul Ranger – Jake Gardiner
The big story yesterday was about how the Maple Leafs victory music is a Miley Cyrus track, picked out by Tyler Bozak. I still don't know what the Leafs goal song is, so if anybody can let me know in the comments, but the Leafs are very committed to horrible music right now. The current goal song, plus the weird fascination with Harlem Shake last year, makes you pine for the days of the relatively un-annoying Zombie Nation.
One of the interesting things about the Leafs is that last season, Carlyle used a dedicated checking unit, usually comprised of a Mikhail Grabovski-Nik Kulemin pairing, up against the opposition's top forwards. So far this season, van Riemsdyk-Bozak-Kessel have seen the highest share of the opposition's most used forwards, and that's been with the majority of the games at home. Carlyle has strayed away from his use of a checking line at home, which is something he's generally done throughout his career. Should the trend continue against Carolina, this could be worth a post on Friday.
Again, per dailyfaceoff, updated with some info from Chip Alexander:
Tuomo Ruutu – Eric Staal – Alexander Semin
Nathan Gerbe – Jordan Staal – Jiri Tlusty
Jeff Skinner – Riley Nash – Radek Dvorak
Drayson Bowman – Pat Dwyer – Kevin Westgarth
Justin Faulk – Andrej Sekera
Jay Harrison – Ryan Murphy
Ron Hainsey – Brett Bellemore
If you were naming somebody with the intent of him becoming a sports reporter in the American south, you'd call him "Chip Alexander".
Jeff Skinner was moved off that top line, where he'd spent most of the season to date. Elias Lindholm will miss the game due to a recurring upper-body injury. Generally, head coach Kirk Muller balances out the ice-time for his top three lines and gives limited minutes to his fourth. He's also a zone matcher: the Eric Staal line will get offensive zone starts and the Jordan Staal line will get the defensive zone starts. Westgarth is in the lineup to serve as Colton Orr's punching bag tonight.
Hilariously, the Hurricanes have played seven games this season, and are 0-2-3 in games Cam Ward plays. He's taken a loss in each of his appearances so far, despite a .913 save percentage and a very impressive .930 at even strength. He's been lit up in special teams situations so far this season, with just 10 stops on 13 shorthanded shots. Ward's had a heavy workload in his career, but he's also lost a lot of games to injury in the last four seasons, so it's unsurprising that the Hurricanes went to get some goaltender insurance in the summer in Anton Khudobin, who was the odd-man out of a pretty good goaltending triage in Boston.
The Leafs are going with James Reimer.
We currently have a promo rolling out with the fine fellows at DraftStreet.com, a Fantasy Hockey game that allows you to win cash each week. It's on Saturdays only, so it turns the season-long grind into a one-night, action-packed event. Best part, it's free to sign up and you can win $500 in prizes.
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So, uh, remember what I was saying about Jeff Skinner above? He's the kind of player that fantasy leagues undervalue.
The Leafs and the Hurricanes face off at 7:00 Eastern on LEAFS TV.


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Different Forms of Linear Equations
Lesson 9 of 13
Objective: SWBAT write linear equations in three different forms (standard, slope intercept and point-slope) and convert between these three forms.
Big Idea: What are different ways to write linear functions? Which ways are most helpful in different situations?
The purpose of this warm-up is to give students a chance to review all of the key concepts of the unit so far, and to give you a chance to assess their understanding.
As you circulate, constantly ask students to explain their answers and conclusions. Avoid telling them whether or not you agree with their answers. Rather, ask them to listen to each other's answers and determine whether or not they agree (MP3). The more you make a habit of this in the beginning of the year, the more likely they are to do this on their own throughout the year.
Problem (2) is the most computationally heavy task, so whenever you talk about this problem with students, make sure not to get bogged down on the computations. Instead, talk about the concepts behind the computation (MP1). Students may have developed their own method, but it is always important to ask them what their computations actually mean and why they make sense.
Students may not want to write down actual functions for the designs in problem (3). This is fine—they shouldn't be asked to do something that feels tedious. They can describe the relationship between the lines and explain how this shows up in the equations. In fact, this approach actually gets at big ideas more powerfully than writing the equations. For students to do this, they will need to think abstractly about the functions and the relationships between them (MP2).
Problem (4) is another problem that students can solve in many ways. Even though the entire lesson yesterday revolved around this type of problem, students may need to discuss the concepts again. It is important not to rush students or to get frustrated when they don't seem to remember things. The only way for students to feel safe trying to make sense of problems is if they don't have to memorize algorithms meaninglessly. Instead, I find it is more successful give students the chance to think through problems again and again until they establish ownership over the ideas (MP1).
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This lesson gives students the chance to make more connections between graphical and algebraic representations of linear functions and to examine the structure of each form of a linear function (MP7). By graphing any form of the function, students can discern information about the other forms.
A good question to ask is: How is graphing the slope-intercept form accomplished most easily? From an initial graph, students can easily find any other point to create point-slope form. They can also find the x- and y-intercepts which will help them find standard form. They may or may not have made these connections during their work on the lesson, so the closing provides them with the chance to do this.
Ask students to explain any graphical or algebraic methods that they have developed and emphasize the idea that they can think about these problems either way. This helps them get at the deeper structure of each form of the linear function.


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Members here are losing their touch. Someone should have come up with a pic of a bald Jesus by now.
Is baldness an ailment...? It worked for the vikings and the samurai.And I feel obliged to point out that Yul Brynner shaved his head in "The King and I." He wasn't actually bald....same thing with Krillin in DBZ. #shamelessgeek


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An Australian study found that more women are being diagnosed with cancer while pregnant than in the previous decades, reports NBC News. In 1994, 112 per 100,00 pregnant women were diagnosed with cancer; in 2007, that number increased to 192.
The study looked at data from New South Wales hospitals on births and cancer diagnoses, and discovered the increase. Researchers attribute the rise to advanced maternal age and better cancer screening and detection tests. In the study, pregnant women over 35 were three times more likely to get cancer than those under 30.
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The most common cancer diagnosis was melanoma, which affects 45 out of every 100,000 women; but Australia, where the study was conducted, also has the highest rate of melanoma worldwide.
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The lawyer hired by the NFL to investigate whether the New England Patriots improperly deflated footballs before the AFC championship game defended his report Tuesday in a conference call with the media.
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – After a tough 1-0 loss to Radford last
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"It's going to be about both teams just looking for their first win of the season," said Tennessee Tech coach Becky Fletcher. "It's going to come down to which team can put it together. Alabama State will be excited to be playing in front of their home crowd for the first time this season, and after our last match, our girls are excited to get back on the field too."
The Golden Eagles will meet the Hornets for the first time in program history on Sept. 4 in Montgomery, Ala. Tech has an 0-3-0 record through its first three contests, although the team gained confidence from its 1-0 loss to defending Big South champion Radford.
"We've gotten better every game we've played," Fletcher said. "The girls are really starting to click and come together. We've improved in area's that we've needed to, but there is still room for improvement. "
Alabama State stands at 0-2-0 after a pair of losses last weekend at The Citadel and Charleston Southern.
After its match up with Alabama State the Golden Eagles will visit a familiar venue, but face another new opponent. Former Ohio Valley Conference member Samford will serve as the host as Tech will square off with Texas State for the first time in program history in the neutral-site contest.
The Bobcats are looking to defend their 2008 Southland Conference title as they went 13-4-4 a season ago, including a 7-0-2 mark in league play. Texas State is 1-2-0 in 2009 after dropping a pair of one-goal decisions to UC Irvine and UC Riverside.
"Texas State is a quality team that returns a majority of their starters from a team that went to the NCAA tournament a year ago," Fletcher said. "They are going to be a very tough opponent. We will have to put together a full 90 minute effort in order to compete."
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Obama Signs Bill Lifting Ban On HIV-Positive Organ Donation
We reported earlier this month that Congress has voted to pass the HIV Organ Policy Equity Act (HOPE Act), which will allow the donation of HIV-positive organs to HIV-positive recipients.
President Obama signed the legislation into law on Thursday.
"For decades, these organ transplants have been illegal. It was even illegal to study whether they could be safe and effective," Obama said in a statement. "But as our understanding of HIV and effective treatments have grown, that policy has become outdated. The potential for successful organ transplants between people living with HIV has become more of a possibility."
Obama continued, saying that by lifting the ban on HIV-positive organ donations a door has been opened that could "lead to life-saving organ donations for people living with HIV while ensuring the safety of the organ transplant process and strengthening the national supply of organs for all who need them."
According to HRC, more than 100,000 patients are currently waiting for organ transplants, with about 50,000 added each year. Permitting HIV-positive organ transplants in HIV-positive patients with liver or kidney failure could save up to 1,000 people per year.
"Improving care for people living with HIV is critical to fighting the epidemic, and it's a key goal of my National HIV/AIDS Strategy," Obama said. "The HOPE Act marks an important step in the right direction, and I thank Congress for their action."
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Sometimes debates arise that clarify the values and conflicts of our society. They needn't involve the grand questions of the day — which most often are endlessly partisan and complex — but they nonetheless can offer unmistakable insights into who we really are. One example: the naval use of increasingly powerful sonar and the effect of those blasts of sound on marine mammals, especially whales.
As Joshua Horwitz makes convincingly clear in his new book, the connection between naval sonar and deadly mass strandings of whales is scientifically undeniable. Whales of all kinds — but especially the remarkable and deep-diving beaked whales — regularly wash up dead or dying after naval sonar use around the world. The U.S. Navy argues that these practice sessions with sonar provide essential training for sailors in charge of protecting their ships from submarine attack. That some whales might die as a result seems an acceptable price. After all, more whales are probably killed by boat strikes or the omnipresent noise of commercial ships and underwater oil-and-gas exploration.
But as War of the Whales lays out in a strong and valuable narrative, the stakes are quite high.
The story starts on the island of Abaco in the Bahamas, home to a former naval acoustics specialist turned freelance whale researcher, Ken Balcomb. For 10 years he and his then-wife, Diane Claridge, had documented the presence and habits of the whales that lived in the deep canyon nearby. Then one evening in 2000, a Cuvier's beaked whale washed up onshore 100 feet from Balcomb's house, which happened to be filled with volunteers helping with a census. Soon Balcomb was flying around the area to see if other whales had been harmed; he and his colleagues found and videotaped 17 whales of several species washed up on nearby islands in the largest mass stranding in recent memory. Balcomb also saw a Navy destroyer, and his initial suspicions that the whales had been blasted with sonar grew stronger.
Thanks to a public outcry after news of the strandings went viral, and to research and lawsuits by Natural Resources Defense Council, it was revealed that Navy war games with sonar had been under way. After losing their ability to conduct war games off the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, the fleet commanders had selected the Grand Canyon of the Bahamas as an alternative. Had this been public knowledge ahead of time, Balcomb would certainly have raised hell about the likely lethal effects of the sonar on the whales he had been studying for a decade.
As Horwitz explains, the Bahamas stranding drama helped open up a much larger world of secret sonar use and planning for ever-grander systems. It also refocused attention on the continuing plight of whales almost three decades after commercial fishing of the animals was banned internationally and four decades after the U.S. Marine Mammals Protection Act mandated presumably strict safeguards.
War of the Whales is particularly good at highlighting the role of individuals, working against long odds. Balcomb is a compelling figure: a reluctant whistle-blower whose love for whales is palpable. Joel Reynolds of the Natural Resources Defense Council did the heavy litigating, and either won most of his cases or reached significant settlements (though the conservative majority of the Supreme Court ultimately limited or rejected some of those victories). Navy and federal regulatory officials often do not come off well, but there are exceptions, and Horwitz presents the military's positions in full.
The stories and words of the key players propel the story along, though sometimes at the cost of some credibility. Quite a few quotes and exchanges in the book make readers feel they are right there, even if the writer clearly was not. A fuller explanation of this sort of re-created dialogue and its pitfalls would have reassured this reader.
By the end of the tale, the Navy has become far more transparent. It applies for sonar-training use permits rather than doing what it wants in secret. But in his epilogue, Horwitz writes that in 2012, the Navy applied to build a low-frequency sonar system that sends out loud sounds able to detect submarines. The new system would inevitably harm some (perhaps many) marine mammals, too, and another lawsuit was filed. In other words, much had changed, but even more had not.
This is why the book is so clarifying. Nobody wants to harm intelligent, grand, long-hunted and sometimes near-extinct whales. But a system is in place that pushes us all in that direction anyway.
Harmful, unintended consequences, which accompany so many technological advances, need to be discussed and debated, not denied or wished away. By telling the sonar-and-the-whales story in such detail and breadth, the author may provoke a more substantial debate about what human advances and priorities are doing to the rest of the planet.
Marc Kaufman reviewed this book for The Washington Post.


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Kesha : I've been playing around with JaxBoards code lately, figured I should share it here: Topic #1142
Kesha : always thinking about jaxboards
superdimentiobros : 2018 baby
Bibby : #MakeJaxboardsGreatAgain
Sean : Always good to know how many of you still use Jaxboards - thanks for texting me about the domain expiration. I've renewed it and updated the email address so that it won't happen again.
Jimmy : is anyone else posting here in 2016? I am
Bryan : WOOO!
Kesha : always impressed by jaxboards loyal fanbase
Bibby : JaxBoards4ever
Thomas : rip jaxboards
Mario_Man : not till i pull the plug, anyway
Mario_Man : we will never die
Bibby : I didn't know ODSC was still a thing.
Mario_Man : JB #1 BOARD SINCE DAY #1
Mario_Man : ODSC STRNG, ALWAYS AND FOREVER KID
Bibby : The BT Forums have more topics, though.
Bibby : Yeah, you've passed mine by 44 posts.
Jimmy : http://prntscr.com/48osma I think I have the biggest board on service now, can someone correct me if Im wrong
Bibby : Niiiiiiiiiice.
Jimmy : Maybe in one of these places? http://prntscr.com/42xzk3
Jimmy : anyway to make them visible in post view?
Sean : done
Bibby : I'd love to see country flags show up on member profiles.
Jimmy : BAMF has members in like 60 countries, so it's cool to see whos where
Jimmy : I want something like this coded, where it shows country flag somewhere in the post. http://prntscr.com/41gfru
Jimmy : my forum gets around 60-90
Jimmy : another NF fleet using jaxboards, gets 50 on per day
Jimmy : Got some decent sized boards around
Jimmy : it would be great to see this taken up
Bibby : But yeah, I spend a lot of time working and doing school stuff now.
Bibby : Same for me. I think I know enough about HTML and SQL now to be able to tinker with the inner workings of the software.
Kesha : I'd spend some time on it if work wasn't so draining haha
Kesha : if people wanted to work on JaxBoards I'm sure we could arrange something to push updates to the service
Jimmy : our record is 112 I think, but not sure if its this forum or the old zetaboard
Bibby : Whoa, 88 users online?
Jimmy : http://prntscr.com/3qoxdq that enough motivation? probably not...
Jimmy : now I want to see a jaxboards revival
Jimmy : For those interested, some guy came on asking to join my fleet, insulted some our members, edited all his post (but not the quotes) and then demanded I remove it or be sued.
Jimmy : \we attract all the tards
Jimmy : We've plopped ourself as #1 in the server
Jimmy :
Sean : oh shoot Jimmy, accidentally deleted your shout. You do know if he contacts me I'll have no ability to not comply with his request? haha, j/k.
Bibby : Grooooooooooovy.
JJstorm :
JJstorm : For those who care anymore. Click below vv
Kesha : i did get it earlier, just didnt get to respond to it until later :x
Kesha : sorry for getting back to you so late
Jimmy : would be great!
Jimmy : hey kesha, check email (prob shoulda pmed). I'm moving a board over here. http://bamf.jaxboards.com/# if you could get back to me on the email
Kesha : looks like they're sneaking back in huh
Bibby : I haven't seen as many spammers on the BT Forums lately, though.
Bibby : Effoxyvox sounds like a bot.
Kesha : we may have actually banned all of the spambot IPs since there hasnt been a new one in a while. or they were only interested in the chat boards...
Kesha : yeah it's still here
JJstorm : We still live?
JJstorm : Checkin in fa the REMIX! Hello all Jaxboardians!
sivart0 : suuuuuuuuuuup
Bibby : I didn't know Jimmy still went here. Hola.
Kesha : yes
Jimmy : are hosted boards going to keep being supported?
Kesha :
Bibby : La spambot fiesta!
Bibby : Alas.
Sean : only works in webkit browsers I believe
Bibby : Why doesn't Harlem work for me?
Bibby : Wow, a post. Amazing.
sivart0 : merp
Bibby : Mine still is, although it's a bit less active than it was in 2011. http://bibbyteam.jaxboards.com
JJstorm : Wats up checkin in. Forums still alive?
Bibby : I bet woshizifengRW is inorganic, too.
Bibby : (But if she actually has flesh and blood instead of circuits and AI, my apologies.)
Bibby : Amanda has a name that's too great to be anything but a spambot.
WreckingGoomba : Uhm hey there
Bibby : I'm happy to boost my living and all, but this Jesgreams fellow is a spambot.
Bibby : It's off to work we go!
lu9 : hi ho
Matt : That's a good thing. Harlem needs to die. Now.
Bibby : Also, Harlem doesn't seem to do anything.
Matt : anyways... ANSWER Z QHESTIONE!
Matt : glad i checked the link on that one before i clicked it >_>
Bibby : Neither does I!
Matt : what did you post to the source release? i no see it!
Sean : Hey everybody!
Bibby : Hello, JaxBoards spambots!
JJstorm : Better luck next time'
Matt : Missed Sean by a minute QQ
Matt : Lol. I talked to him the other night and he said he has been pretty busy. I'm just gonna post a topic.
Bibby : He comes on AIM once in a while. I haven't seen him anywhere lately, though.
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Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed new legislation into law June 27 that expands the state's school bullying laws to include harassment based on sexual orientation.
Bullying can paralyze a student and has challenged teachers and administers in their attempts to prevent it.
As CBS 2's Vince Gerasole reports a new Illinois law, signed Sunday, gives the state more muscle when it comes to protecting kids from bullies.
In a short film, Anna Rangos, a senior at Main South High School, documented the bullying gay and bisexual teens often endure. But recently, harassment because of her writings led Anna to miss a week of classes.
"I felt unsafe about going to school and nervous about being there and I didn't enjoy having to deal with the harassment," Rangos said.
Legislation signed into law by Governor Pat Quinn Sunday expands the state's school bullying laws to include harassment based on sexual orientation.
"It really has not been made clear to school administrators and principals that that's unacceptable in our schools," said Shannon Sullivan from the Illinois Safe School's Alliance, which lobbied in favor of the law.
"It can be traumatic and if someone is singled out, harassed, and bullied it can harm them for the rest of their lives," said Quinn, just after signing the law.
The new law also further defines bullying to include electronic harassment through texting or social networking sites -- that's whether students are subject to taunting based on race, gender, religion, physical disability and now sexual orientation, according to Darren Reisberg from the Illinois Board of Education.
"This allows us to go in and talk to a superintendent or principal and let them know what's happening is against the law," said Reisberg.
Supporters of the law say many districts felt students needed to toughen up when facing this type of bullying, but now they'll be required to have a plan in place to address these matters. If not, their state financing can be pulled.
"We ultimately have the ability to come in and address the district's funding," said Reisberg.
The law can't erase the pain felt by students like Rangos, but it gives schools a tool to challenge harassment when it surfaces.
This law also requires Illinois schools to have gang-prevention training and creates a 15-member School Bullying Prevention Task Force. The task force must prepare a report for the Illinois governor by March 1.


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Today, at 2pm Eoin Colfer will be reading from the last ever Artemis Fowl book live, I assume, from Puffin HQ. You need to register before you can watch and you can do that on their website here.
Oh, and here's Eoin himself telling you what you need to do and talking about farts and wind and tummy trouble. Of course.


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The Marine Transportation degree at California Maritime Academy is accredited by three very different agencies. First, as one of the many programs offered at Cal Maritime, and as one of the 23 campuses of the California State University, the MT program was granted accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). Second, as one of the seven state and federal maritime academies in the United States, Cal Maritime's marine education and training programs are subject to the oversight and approval of the US Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration (MARAD) and, thirdly, the United States Coast Guard's National Maritime Center (NMC).
The Marine Transportation Department completed the second WASC accreditation audit since Cal Maritime became a CSU campus in 1995. The results of this audit affirm the academic rigor, integrity, and sustainability of our degree program.
In March 2010, the MT Department underwent the third, five-yearly STCW* audit conducted by a team of inspectors made up of representatives of MARAD, USCG NMC, two industry representatives, and two faculty members from sister maritime academies. The audits ensure compliance with US and International licensing regulations. The auditors' report had nothing but praise for the quality of Cal Maritime's licensed curricula, facilities and faculty. In fact, not a single deficiency was found. The auditors were particularly impressed with Cal Maritime's dedication to continuous improvement and modernization of our programs to better serve our students, and the maritime industry as a whole.
*STCW - International Maritime Organization's Convention on the Standards for Training, Certification, and Watchkeeping 1995 and the 2010 Manila Amendments.


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True to its Jesuit, Catholic, humanist heritage, Gonzaga University educates students for lives of leadership and service for the common good by intentionally developing the whole person – intellectually, spiritually, physically, and emotionally. Consistent with its mission, Gonzaga University takes seriously its responsibility to safeguard the integrity of our natural world and is committed to a role of leadership in responsible environmental stewardship. Graduating men and women for others who respect and "care for the planet" is of central importance to Gonzaga's mission, the Jesuit charism, and the world. Accordingly, the first and most important goal of Gonzaga's Climate Action Plan (CAP) is to "Deepen sustainability across the curriculum."
The aim of the Sustainability Across the Curriculum (SAC) program at Gonzaga is to foster an informal learning community of faculty interested in exploring ways of incorporating sustainability themes into their courses.
Results of the "Sustainability in the Curriculum" faculty survey
If you are a faculty member interested in learning more about this initiative, contact Brian Henning (email@example.com).
Resources for integrating sustainability into your classes
- Curriculum for the Bioregion - Curriculum for the Bioregion engages faculty communities in exploring these issues and in building sustainability concepts and place-based learning into a broad array of courses and disciplines. Gonzaga has participated in the Curriculum for the Bioregion initiative since 2011.
- Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education - a comprehensive source of information on sustainability in higher education. It provides administrators, faculty, operations staff, students, and other campus stakeholders with the tools, information and guidance they need to lead the sustainability transformation (Gonzga is a member of AASHE).
- SERC Site Guides - a repository of syllabi and assignments searchable by topic or discipline
- Ponderosa Project - The Ponderosa Project at Northern Arizona University (NAU) is an interdisciplinary faculty group effort to incorporate environmental sustainability issues into university courses with the ultimate goal of providing future citizens the education and skills necessary to achieve sustainable communities and societies.
- Piedmont Project - a grassroots effort on the part of a group of faculty to strengthen Emory University's engagement with environmental issues and sustainability. At the heart of the project is a curriculum development effort that seeks to foster an invigorated intellectual community to address global issues and local sustainability challenges.