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LU establishes James G. Smith Memorial Scholarship
A new scholarship has been established in memory of James Smith, a longtime Beaumont educator and leader. Smith's family, former students and friends established the James G. Smith Memorial Scholarship through their gifts to the Lamar University Foundation. The endowment will provide funds for science majors seeking teacher certification.
"My dad was a lifelong learner, taking at one time virtually every course of study Lamar offered," said Glenn Smith of The Woodlands, James Smith's son. "He loved Lamar, the professors and the students. He loved listening to the students and their ideas, who he always said were our future. It was our family's intent to honor his beliefs and provide a scholarship to assist science teachers becoming trained in both science and education."
As one of Smith's former students at Beaumont High School, Lamar University President Jimmy Simmons has "very fond memories" of not only his time in class with Smith, but also years of contact with him.
"He was an outstanding physics teacher who had a tremendous impact on literally generations of students who went through Beaumont High School," Simmons said. "The scholarship gives us the opportunity to memorialize Mr. Smith's legacy in perpetuity."
Born in Sour Lake, James Glenn Smith moved to Beaumont with his family in 1921. His father opened a jewelry store on Orleans Street, where James spent a lot of his time, and he later owned and operated several shops along with his father and brothers. He graduated from Beaumont High in 1935 at the age of 15, as a result of skipping fourth grade.
Smith attended Lamar Junior College in 1937 and played football for Coach John Gray before transferring to the University of Texas for pre-medical studies. Smith enlisted in the Army Air Force and became a navigation instructor after Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor. After the war, he worked in research at Humble Oil in Baytown.
Smith married Zulma Gay Knowles in 1941. He went back to school, attending night classes and earned a degree in business administration from Lamar University in 1955. He completed a master of education at the University of Houston in 1970, pursued additional graduate studies in a variety of fields and has received certification in science and education from institutions in the U.S. and abroad.
He worked for 27 years as an educator, teaching physics and chemistry at Beaumont High School (later Beaumont-Charlton-Pollard) and mentored legions of physicists, engineers, chemists and biologists, many of whom went on to doctorates and positions in industry and academia. In 1981, he was the only Texas teacher to have two students selected for the National Science Teachers Association/NASA Space Shuttle Student Involvement Project. Smith was recognized for his teaching skills when he was honored as Beaumont's Teacher of the Year and as finalist for state Teacher of the Year in 1976.
Zulma retired in 1982, and Smith followed shortly after, allowing the couple to spend more time traveling. In the mid-1980s, the Texas Legislature passed a law enabling senior citizens to audit college courses without paying tuition or fees. Smith pursued his passion to learn after retirement, enrolling at Lamar where he studied a variety of subjects for almost two decades and helped organize the Lamar Chess Club.
Smith served on many boards and agencies throughout his professional and personal life. He served as docent at the John J. French Museum, McFaddin-Ward House, Texas Energy Museum and Art Museum of Southeast Texas. He was instrumental in establishing the Sabine Area Science Teachers Association, which he served as president for several terms. He was active in Boy Scouts, Big Thicket Association, Southeast Texas Camellia Society, National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors and a host of teachers organizations. Some of his other memberships include Trinity Methodist Church in Beaumont, Christ Church United Methodist in The Woodlands, South Park Lodge No. 1320, the Optimist Club and Woodsmen of the World. Smith died in December 2010.
Through the years, Smith established five academic scholarships at Lamar as his way of giving back to university.
For information about establishing an endowed scholarship, contact the Lamar University Foundation at (409) 880-2117.


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And though both Jimmie Johnson and Kasey Kahne each have a win at Sonoma Raceway -- site of Sunday's Toyota/SaveMart 350 (3 p.m. ET on TNT) -- Gordon remains Hendrick's best bet to tie a Modern Era record for the longest win streak by a team.
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The Modern Era is considered to have begun in 1972, when the number of races in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season was drastically reduced, from 48 to 31. The all-time record for consecutive car owner victories is an incredible 16 by Carl Kiekhaefer in 1956. Kiekhaefer, like Hendrick, owned a multi-car team that dominated NASCAR's top series in 1955-56. Four different drivers won for Kiekhaefer during his streak: Buck Baker, Tim Flock, Herb Thomas and Speedy Thompson.
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Call it another hurdle cleared.
Following months of background work by the town committee, then Town Board informational sessions, support building in the community and then a failed vote of "not being consistent" May 21 from the Niagara River Greenway Commission, the Town of Lewiston Civic Center finally got an official go-ahead Thursday.
The Host Communities Standing Committee met and by a vote of 8-0 approved the town's requested funding for $9.2 million or $430,000 annually for the Lewiston Civic Center. The approval now permits the town to execute its contract with the Lewiston-Porter School District for the purchase of 10 acres of land in front of Lewiston-Porter High School for $50,000. All that remains to make the Civic Center construction a reality is approval of a town-wide voter referendum by Lewiston residents on July 15 to seal the deal.
Town of Lewiston Supervisor Steve Reiter was joined by town grant writer Bernie Rotella in delivering a convincing appeal for approval of the project before Standing Committee members. "This is quite an endeavor for a small community," Reiter began. He spoke of the facility's wide-ranging recreational appeal, not only for youth sports, but also to northern Niagara County area residents, and the Lewiston-Porter, Niagara-Wheatfield and City of Niagara Falls school districts. And in his remarks, he managed to bring the center beyond that of being just a Greenway enhancement, but an enhancement to the area's economic value.
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"He liked the Town of Lewiston, the Niagara region and our community," Reiter continued, telling the committee of how the individual toured the Niagara region and learned what and how much it has to offer in terms of youth sports and that he came away impressed. "He would (want to) make Lewiston part of a tournament tour," said Reiter, explaining the advisory group's idea for marketing not only Lewiston, but also the appeal of entire Western New York area to national youth sports tours. "It would start in Texas, then move up to Gatlinburg" and include Lewiston.
Reiter told the committee how Lewiston has the distinction of being one of only five communities in the country that puts on its own baseball tourney, how this type of event transcends to benefit the Niagara Falls area in terms of filled hotel rooms and greater economic activity and value. Bringing in a civic center and all the events it would entail would mean even more activity and greater economic value. "It's a great opportunity," he said.
Reiter's comments were met with overall strong endorsements from committee members, such as Second District Niagara County Legislator William Ross, who represents both Lewiston and the Town of Wheatfield and serves as Niagara County's representative on the Standing Committee. Ross noted the positive impacts from similar type centers built in Wheatfield and the Town of Niagara, saying they bring "lasting value" to a community.
Committee members concurred, declared the proposal to "have merit" and went on to approve it unanimously.
Another Lewiston project that went on to approval following a not consistent vote from Greenway members last month was the Lewiston-Porter School District capital improvements. Lew-Port was seeking funding approval of $6.3 million or $420,000 per year over 15 years for a host of improvements totaling $7.86 million at the high school.
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High School Principal Paul Casseri spoke of the Lew-Port district's success in establishing international partnerships with schools throughout Europe, Asia and in South America, and said improvements to the high school could put Lew-Port even higher up on the international level with its peers, with goals of hosting a super scientific fair that could bring 300 to 400 international students. "It's an exciting project; there are secondary, tertiary opportunities to promote Lewiston-Porter on an international level," said Casseri, telling the committee that Lew-Port's improvements, like that of the Civic Center, will mean an outer extension with a positive impact to the area's economy.
Standing Committee members were of the same thought as they declared the project to have merit and went on to approve, again by an 8-0 vote.
In fact, all projects reviewed on Thursday went on to be approved in unanimous 8-0 fashion by the Standing Committee. They included: $150,000 to fund improvements at Porter on the Lake Park; $100,000 to enable reconstruction of the Haseley Einhaus (an all-in-one house barn) for the Historical Society of North German Settlements in Western New York, located in the German Heritage Museum in Bergholz; $70,000 for a Town of Wilson harbor revitalization project; and $43,000 for ongoing Niagara 1812 Bicentennial Commemoration activities planned for Fort Niagara, Youngstown and Lewiston in December.


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Last year, my new year's resolution was to write in my journal every day. That actually stuck, I wrote 262 journal entries in 2011. While I've been keeping a journal intermittently since 1998, last year I doubled the number of entries in it. And wrote a novel's worth of entries -- 53 thousand words!
Most of it is of course banal and mundane stuff. Not good compared with Lars, who does something with his journal where he goes into some detail about code he's working on, and other work. The excerpts I've seen are quite nice. But after I've written code, written a commit message, documentation, perhaps bug reports etc, I often can't find much to say about it in my journal, beyond the bare bones that I worked on $foo today or faced a particularly hard bug. I also worry that the journal, and my reluctance to repeat myself, often tips the balance away from me blogging, if I write down something in the journal first.
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Compare what jokes are funny now with those in 1982. The 1982 ones from net.jokes on olduse.net seem juvenile. Now compare what Unix joke man pages are funny now with those I'm reading from 1982. They seem basically the same. What would Biella make of this?
Liw noticed ikiwiki OOM on pell. Tracked down to a perl markdown bug with long lines. Had quite enough of perl markdown; ikiwiki will be moving to a different engine. Added discount support to it today, still needs Debian package tho.
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Was going to roast a chicken today, but got distracted and had a large lunch besides. Need to find some quick food for supper.
I need to start a new book, should it be the River Cottage book about meat that I stole from Anna, or some SF?
Blogged about journaling, and put this journal entry in it, so also journaled about blogging. Wrote it somewhat self-conciously.
The benefits for me have ranged from being able to go back and work out dates of events, to forwarding the odd excerpts to others. The best thing though is certianly having a regular time of introspection, to look back over my the day.
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How to work out percentage differences - Step by Step
To find the percent difference between two values x and y, use this formula:
|% difference =
|x - y|
|× 100%
(|x| + |y|)/2
Where: x and y are two values of a give variable. Note that percent difference is not equivalent or equal to percent change. Percent change is used when comparing a new value to an old value where the old value is used as a reference. Percent difference is used just to compare two values without considering any order. It doesn't matter which of the two values is written first. That is why the absolute value(*) is often used. Percent difference is also called relative percent difference.
(*) Note: absolute value means that we must consider always a positive value as for example: |1|=1 (absolute value of 1 is 1) and |-1|= 1 (absolute value of minus 1 is also 1). See more about percent difference here.
Here are the solutions to the questions stated above:
1) What is the percentage difference between 12 and 14?
Use the above formula to find the percent difference between two numbers. So, replacing the given values, we have the percent difference equation
% Difference
= [(|14| - |12|) / (|12| + |14|)/2] x 100
= [(14 - 12) / (12 + 14) / 2] x 100
= [2 / 26 / 2] x 100
= (2 / 13) x 100
= 15.384615384615
Where: y = 12 and x = 14, so |y| = 12 and |x| = 14
2) What is the absolute difference between 12 and 14?
This problem is not about percent difference, but about absolute difference:
The absolute difference of two real numbers x, y is given by |x − y|, the absolute value of their difference. The minus sign denotes subtraction and |z| means absolute value. Absolute difference describes the distance between the points corresponding to x and y on the real line.
Now that you know what is absolute difference, The solution is very simple:
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You know that feeling you get when you talk to somebody and you get all excited and your brain goes into machine-gun mode and churns out all kinds of interesting ideas and in that conversation you spurt all kinds of interesting and clever things that make yourself go "Oh wow, I'm so impressed with myself!"?
I haven't that in a long while.
I wonder if it's the people that I've been meeting, or not meeting, or the books that I haven't been reading, or just the way life is for me at this point in my life - fucking boring. But nope, my life hasn't exactly been boring - I've done a really cool travelogue and going to do yet another one in April, I acted in a show that's quite cool (Rescue 995), and I've been involved in school outreach projects that challenge me to churn out possible ideas. So what is it???
I need to socialize more often with more people. I think? Or get a really smart boyfriend. Or read more. I need something that can engage me mentally, stimulate my having-become-mundane mind, and satisfy my soul.
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To: Vice Presidents, Associate Vice Presidents,
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Subject: Safe Operation of Utility Carts and Fork Lifts
Attached is Presidential Directive 91-05, regarding the safe operation of utility carts andfork lifts on campus. Please read and distribute or post, making certain that those employees whom you supervise who drive utility carts or fork lifts are informed of these regulations. The University Police have enforcement power, but anyone seeing a vehicle being operated in an unsafe manner is encouraged to call the supervisor, whose telephone number is displayed on the vehicle.
These regulations were proposed by the Campus Safety Advisory Committee. There has been frequent discussion, and a good bit of grousing, about the operation of such vehicles on campus for years, and it is my hope that these regulations will make a difference. Our records indicate that the following departments or divisions operate utility carts, fork lifts, or both:
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Attachment #1
July 25, 1991
To: Vice Presidents, Associate Vice Presidents,
Deans, and Directors
From: President Gail Fullerton
Subject: Safe Operation of Utility Carts and Fork Lifts
It is the purpose of this Presidential Directive to reduce the risk of injury to pedestrians by utility carts and fork lifts operated on San José State University (SJSU) property. It is not intended to discourage the use of utility carts and fork lifts. It is intended to establish reasonable regulations, consistent with university policies governing the use of other types of vehicles, and to facilitate the safe operation on campus of utility carts and fork lifts.
To accomplish these objectives, the following regulations are established, effective this date:
- Safe Operation. All utility carts and fork lifts shall be operated at all times in a manner that is safe and courteous to pedestrians. The driver shall use all safety devices as appropriate.
- Maximum Speed Limit. The maximum speed limit is five (5) miles per hour for the operation of a utility cart or fork lift on SJSU property.
- Right of Way. Pedestrians shall have the right of way at all times.
- Clear Ingress and Egress. Utility carts, fork lifts and other service vehicles shall not block ingress and egress to buildings.
- Utility Carts. Electrically powered carts and gasoline powered carts generally designed to accommodate one or two passengers and utility service equipment or materials.
- Fork Lifts Electrically powered or gasoline powered fork lifts generally designed to load and unload materials which have been placed on pallets.
- Driver Any person who operates or is in actual physical control of a utility cart or fork lift.
- Pedestrian Any person who is afoot or who is using a wheelchair or similar means ofconveyance but not a bicycle.
- University Property All propertyowned by SJSU: the main campus (including former public streetsnow owned by the University) , the south campus, the art foundry on Fifth Street; all property leased by SJSU, including the aviation facility and the Monterey County Campus.
Driver Qualifications:
- Drivers must possess a valid California Driver's license.
- Drivers must be certified as having completed the Defensive Driving Course offered by SJSU. Certificates must be renewed every four years and an endorsement of renewal affixed to the driver's Defensive Driving Certificate.
- Drivers must complete any other courses or training required by law or applicable policy.
Safety Modifications:
- Rotating Beacon Lights. Utility carts and fork lifts shall be equipped with rotating or flashing beacon lights to increase awareness of their presence.
- Warning Sound Devices. Utility carts and fork lifts shall be equipped with warning sound devices to increase pedestrian awareness of their presence.
- Identification System. Utility carts and fork lifts shall be labeled clearly as follows:
Name of department owning or operating vehicle Vehicle number
A prominent sign that states: "If you see this vehicle operated in an unsafe manner, please call 924 (telephone number of supervisor responsible for vehicle and driver).
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Picture a small boy. A pleasant lad, standing in sixth grade against a classroom wall. His classmates are lined shoulder to shoulder, faces forward, anticipation and determination gracing their eager faces. A list of words is proffered down the line, one to each child who, in turn, must spell back the word in clearly enunciated English. The words are easy at first. In the first pass none are expected to be asked to sit down. The first group of words are part of the 'confidence building' round. But as the first-round word reaches our young man, he stammers a bit, trying hard, but it is to no avail. He can't spell it. He is asked to sit. He sits alone for four more passes through every child in the line before the next person joins him at the lonely desks. It is a spelling bee and our little rapscallion is always first down, a reminder that he is lacking some aspect of normalcy—he is endowed with a deep flaw that he does not share with his peers.
Alas, the boy is me. I admit this in hopes that my story will inspire others who lack this basic human skill. A non-speller in a spelling world is a hard thing. Hard indeed. But you need more context. A few more incidents will set the stage for this blight upon my character, but there are some things you must know before I lead you into the depths of my humiliation. First, you must understand that I read voraciously. I always have. By eighth grade I was reading at a college sophomore level. Second, I love poetry and love to write (in all that follows when I imply I am a good writer that is to be interpreted in contrast to my spelling. I'm under no illusions of grandeur here believe me!). These things are common enough, but combined with my story that exposes the depth of my inability to spell, it will seem unbelievable and lead some of you to believe that I must be a prevaricator and teller of tall tales. A crass, BS-er if you will. For many have questioned when confronted with my scribblings whether I have any facility with the written word at all. As an employer said to my father in my senior year of high school, "He is, in fact, functionally illiterate."
It is more than spelling. My errors appear with abandon. "Their" and 'there' seem to be used almost randomly. A 'not' will appear where it should not, or be missing from where it should have place. 'Has' and 'as' are negotiated almost willy-nilly. Plurals form from nowhere and words are duplicated without reason. If there are two forms of a word I will choose the wrong one. It is a twisted and aberrant malady. And I cannot see them. They are as invisible to me as the air.
Let us begin on my mission, even though the story could easily start at any point after the second grade. I've just penned a heart warming story of missionaries who meet their goals by exercising the power of faith in true Grant von Harrison fashion. It is a masterful act of storytelling, a moving tale that left both Sister Davidson and Elder Norman in tears. I give it to my mission president and wait for the kudos that I know must follow such a bold excursion into creative genius, but he comes back in with my story covered in red circles and says simply, "This is unacceptable. You will not be able to do this kind of work in college." Cold and raw correction. Meant to inspire me? It did not I fear. For it allowed a modicum of the doubt and uncertainty (that we all can claim as humans I suppose) to bubble up and destroy a tad more of what self image I was trying construct around my desire to be a writer.
Freshman English. Our first paper is due. I work hard and turn it in. A friend helps me get the spelling right. Shortly thereafter, our papers are turned back. All except mine. Lark, my beautiful and stunningly gorgeous graduate student teacher, says I should see her after class (I was in love with Lark. We were the same age because the Army and my mission had left me an older freshman than usual and I fancied as I listened moon-eyed to her lectures that we must have made certain promises to one another in the pre-existence.) We retreat to her office. Should I ask her out? She holds up my paper, "I think you plagiarized this." I step back. "Do you know what plagiarism means?" Did she just say that slowly, like you would to a dim child? "No I wrote every word I say." She smirks sceptically like the Grinch. "I've seen your in-class essays. You can't write like this." (And it is true, all my class essays were returned with loads of the same red circles my Mission President was so fond of.) I tell her, "Admittedly, I can't spell. That's all." She says, "If that's true where did you learn to write like this" (The piece was later submitted to a radio writing contest and played on air. I won $50 gift certificate to Provo's fanciest restaurant and it could have been Lark who shared that meal if things had played out differently. Alas.). I'm reaching for anything to redeem myself, and so I challenge her in desperation, "I've read more books than you have." It was a weak attempt at a stall, but we start a "Have you read this?" contest. It soon becomes apparent that not only am I well read, but I can hold my own in discussing content and ideas. She finally believes I wrote the piece but decides I need help and maternally tells me to enroll in remedial spelling. A '99' level class designed to make up high school deficiencies. I thank her. I don't ask her out.
I take the class. Under its aegis I go from about a six grade spelling level to an eighth or ninth grade level. It is a triumph. Of sorts. But at the same time as I am plugging away at The most common misspelled words in the English language, Bruce Bastian and Alan Ashton are inventing WordPerfect—and the spell checker—a prosthetic device that will change my life. Freed at last from the need of passing everything by indulgent friends I can at make my move. I decide to major in English. A dream come true for the kid from Moab. A win in the Meyhew Short Story contest had emboldened me and I was feeling daring and empowered. With WordPerfect no one need ever know my secret shame.
I enroll in a class on English literature prior to 1600. I decide to bypass all the 200 level classes because I've read everything on the lists. The class is amazing and I am in heaven as we read Piers the Plowman, Canterbury Tales, The Song of Roland. I can't get enough. I am happier than I've ever been. In class I am Hermione Grangeresque— my hand waving in the air at every opportunity. Then it happens. Our first test is an in-class examination. Blue books. The request that we bring those little notebooks meant an essay test and this would be closed-book. I show up shaking with fear. I'm about to be exposed as a fraud, a pretentious charlatan. And so it is. The test comes back after about a week. I've been rather subdued in class lately, afraid of what the future holds. I open it, hoping for the best, but there are marks everywhere like some sort of post-modern art called red circles and blue lines. I've flunked. No comment on the content of my writing—only red circles with little '-1's beside them, each one removing a point from my starting 100. By the end of the exam I am well into negative numbers. I sit silently through the remainder of class with big wet eyes repeating the mantra, 'Don't cry, don't cry, don't cry'. I cannot major in English. I drop the class and wander in darkness for a time, ending finally in that gang of ruffians and ner-do-wells who care not a wit about your spelling as long you show some flash with a calculator and know how to handle the probabilities: Statistics. An unsavoury lot, yes, but we take what company we can get.
I discover in biology classes, the subject of ecology and evolution and start to frame an idea of doing quantitative and evolutionary ecology. Clearly my days of literature are over. I could not even hear the word 'English major' without cringing. I dated one once (a person not the word), but I felt so unworthy in her presence the relationship could not be sustained—what if she found out about my spelling? If we married would my refrigerator love notes be covered in red circles?
Well, word processors kept me hidden for the most part. I was discovered from time to time, to my harm and embarrassment, as happened once at UNC-Chapel Hill in my biostatistics program when my Wetlands Ecology professor passed out an in-class essay test. You know what's coming. It was returned; again with the shaming circles of red earmarking and highlighting my damnation. He wrote on my paper, "You can't spell. See me!" He was horrified. He told me my problem had its roots in that the schools today do not teach Greek and Latin. To him, I became a symbol for all that's wrong with 20th century education. Once gain I was reduced to the single dimension of my greatest character flaw. In class I quit raising my hand and starting sitting in the back. I quit caring about making an impression and became aloof, cavalier and supercilious. When he asked for a one-page technical write-up on a wetlands excursion to a nearby lake we had taken, I wrote a four page narrative poem in iambic pentameter, rhyming words like "zone one census" and "Impatiens capensis" He wrote on my paper, "Interesting format. This will do nothing for your career." Sadly, I had asked him prior to the 'spelling incident' to be a recommender for my Ph.D. applications to Biology programs at Harvard, Princeton and Berkeley (oh, I dreamed big in my starry youth). Unfortunately, he sent the letters after my exposure as base-minded scrub. I was accepted to nary a single program despite prior phone calls to my proposed dissertation advisors, who had been enthusiastic when they had only my CV to go on. Something about my letters of recommendation had changed their minds. There was no doubt who sank me and why.
But in math who cares about spelling. I was free of misjudgement and math came easily to me. A bunch of rules and recipes. And so, biomathematics became a drug; Functional Analysis, a way to drown the sorrow of failure; proofs, a narcotic for despair. But still, I was bitter, and in secret, late at night, I wrote novels that no one would read and wrote bête noire poems that piled up like scattered Styrofoam containers blown against the cold galvanized steel of a chain link fence surrounding an inner-city McDonalds. At Christmas each year I would join in singing with passion, gusto, and pathos the song "We're from the Island of Misfit Toys . . ." as I watched Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer. At the appropriate point, I would add to the list of islanders—Charlie-in-a-box, train with square wheels, cowboy riding an ostrich—'writer who can't spell.' I can't listen to that song without tears running down my face. Sigh.
So there you have it. It is only a sketch of my walk in this world as a non-speller. I can only give cursory outline to the major events in what amounts to thousands of such incidences, losses, and costs. It is a cautionary tale of sorts, about the hardness of the world and the snatching of dreams. I don't know why I can't spell, but if you've followed my blogs you'll see it often. No doubt it is in this post as well. It seems something deeply embedded in my neurology and its remaining after years of trying to fix is strange and disheartening and speaks of a cold determinism for some things in this world. But there it is. My shame exposed to the world. It does feel good to come out of the closet.


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|ASUS P7P55D-E Pro Motherboard
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|Written by Bruce Normann
|Thursday, 24 June 2010
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Final Thoughts
What's the last big lump of work you threw at your CPU? Financial calculations? Nah, too easy; unless you are a PHD mathematician working on Wall Street. MP3 encoding? Yeah, that's my offense. MKV video might be yours. Either one will chew up some clock cycles like crazy. But after you've ripped all your CDs to your home media server and done the same for all your DVDs, what's next? More, new content? Who thinks their CPU can't keep up with a broadband connection, fiber even? Is there anything worthy of the extreme amount of processing power we all covet, in a never ending upgrade cycle?
I have a dream, and it goes like this. Just about all day, every day, I have one of life's little question, like "How much did gasoline really cost when I was a teenager, adjusted for inflation?" I flip open my phone, the smallest, sleekest, and handiest device for personal carry, and in a quiet, dulcet tone, ask my burning question of the moment in plain English. The response is a reassuring, "Hmmmm, let me think about that." My phone, or whoever/whatever is in the background doing all the thinking, already knows when I was born, where I grew up, all the little details about my first car, and the Clark gas station on the corner where we all hung out, and everything there is to know about my best friend in High School, including the things that only he and I know, and all about my first girlfriend, ditto for her. My phone knows everything, and just like the best friend that it is, it won't tell anyone anything unless I ask it to. I have this same dream every night.
How are you going to fit all that into a phone, you ask? You cant, at least not yet. But I bet I could fit it all onto a medium-sized server and SAN in my house, if I tried hard enough. I also bet my phone can communicate with my server, that's child's play. Now all I need is an app.
Classic Systems Engineering principles teach that the way things are interfaced, or linked, is at least as important as the characteristics of the individual components. So it is with information. Maybe I can document every gallon of gasoline I've ever purchased, but without a rich network of contextual information, that list of purchases doesn't tell me enough. Maybe I want to write a chastising letter to BP and tell them how much money I've passed their way over the years, and an estimate of the future purchases I'm not going to make from them unless they clean up their act. I need a completely different set of contextual links, to go along with the base data set of my purchasing history, than I did to answer the first question I had today regarding gasoline.
Congressional Research Service or outsource it to Bangalore
The Personal Outsourcing Olympics: Bangalore Butler or American Assistant?
So, I already know that such an outcome is already available for a fee. Congress does it, the idle rich do it, my boss does it to me, and everybody's got a service monkey, except me.
By now, you're no doubt asking, "What does this have to do with an article about a mid-range motherboard that uses one of Intel's latest processors?" Well, there's a certain element of "Build it and they will come." at work here. The very existence of the iPhone generated an explosion of apps, and in amongst the drivel was some very useful functionality. So, I keep building faster and more powerful computers, in the evergreen hope that one day my app will come.
The success of Google is not an anomaly, you know; people have questions, and the answers are out there. The thing is, we all want our very own, personal Google. And my Google will be so smart, and so powerful, and so in touch with ME, that it will become a part of me. Here's the kicker: I don't want my Google in the cloud. I want it tucked away behind a firewall in my basement. I may use the cloud as a communication network, I will have to use it to access other pools of information, but my Google needs to belong exclusively to me. I don't ever want it in the public domain, ever! When I die, I want my Google buried along with me.
What do you think, dream or nightmare? Check out this discussion topic here at Benchmark Reviews and let me know your thoughts. Please don't use the comments section below, as this discussion is by design, a bit off-topic...and bound to get even further so as it unfolds.
I'm a little confused by the choice of ASUS p7p55d-e motherboards: standard, lx, pro, evo, deluxe, premium.
Is there is real reason to choose the deluxe version over the pro version reviewed above (I'm not an overclocker, so not sure if all the power lanes will make a difference, and the only other differences I see are the variety of audio ports and an extra LAN port)?
Thanks for any advice.
If you're not overclocking, then search for the best price to fit your needs. All P55 motherboards, regardless of manufacturer, will produce roughly identical performance results (minus OC). Just make sure that it has the extra features you might need down the road.
Putting it another way, is there a disadvantage of the Deluxe over, say, the Pro version (e.g. power consumption), apart from the price?
Dual LAN Controllers with "Teaming" feature.
TurboV remote control included with Deluxe.
16+3 PWM phases v. 12+2.
If you're not overclocking, and you don't need the two extra audio channels and you don't need dual NICs, then don't spend the extra money. I don't see any of the included features helping to future-proof your system. The USB 3.0 and the SATA 6Gb/s are the keys for that, and both boards have that.


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by Kathleen Duff
At its Monday evening meeting, the Grand Island Board of Education heard a report from Charlotte Sidway School teachers Alicia Szyprowski, Stephanie Powers and Joanne Johnson on their Reading Recovery program. In its sixth year, Reading Recovery assists first-grade students on a one-to-one basis with their alphabetics, fluency and general reading comprehension. The program accommodates the 20 percent of first-graders who are identified as the lowest performing in these skills.
Sidway touts a national Reading Recovery ranking above the national average of schools that use the program. Eighty-two percent of Reading Recovery students successfully exit the program reading at grade level. The daily program involves intensive one-on-one tutoring by the specially trained teachers.
Regarding capital project planning, Director of Business and Finance Joe Giarrizzo told trustees that the board and administrators should plan for public presentations on the new transportation center on Dec. 1, 5 and 12, with the referendum going to public vote on Dec. 18. Other modes of communication to Grand Island residents will be Facebook, a widely-distributed tri-fold brochure, and lobby boards in the schools - essentially the same vehicles used for the last push on the capital project.
Giarrizzo also detailed the upcoming Grand Island High School auditorium renovations, which are part of the district's $52 million capital project. The architects' list of changes include:
•New sound attenuation
•New doors by the band room
•Storage stage right
•Power infrastructure changes
•New sound board
•New curtain
•Leveling the "dip" in the presidium (stage)
•LED house lights
"The front half (of the auditorium) will have a lot of work," Giarrizzo stated. In addition, he told trustees that the Connor Middle School Little Theater is not a good option to replace the professional development space, which will be lost to new occupational and physical therapy spaces at the high school. Administrators will continue to work with architects to find a different area for teachers and staff to do their ongoing training.
In other business, trustees tabled approval of iPad purchases for the Board of Education. Board member Tak Nobumoto recommended purchasing a 3g service package for the iPads as use of Wi-Fi is spotty in district buildings. Huth Road School Principal Kerri Nowak did not see the need to spend the funds on 3g service. The board will further discuss the matter at its Oct. 29 meeting.
Miscellaneous items brought to the board's attention were:
•Charlotte Sidway School received money from an anonymous donor which will cover students' farm field trip in the spring.
•High school students and teachers will meet with the Niagara Sunday Flyers to discuss how the radio-controlled aircraft club will interface with the technology curriculum.
•The board approved a sabbatical leave for high school assistant administrator Andres Arroyo.
The next meeting of the Grand Island Board of Education is a joint meeting with the Grand Island Town Board on Monday, Oct. 29, in the senior cafeteria at the high school.


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What's wrong with me that I've never actually heard one of these run in anger before? After watching this video, I feel like I've spent my entire life living in a box in the middle of the Sahara. It's like waking up from a twenty-nine-year nap. Oof.
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The tea party movement's 2014 prospects began to crumble in North Carolina this week, and more trouble appears to be on the way around the country in the next few weeks.
North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis crushed the tea party's candidate in Tuesday's Republican U.S. Senate primary in the state.
Next up is a Nebraska Senate primary Tuesday featuring more tea party hopefuls, with a bigger test for the party on May 20. Tea party candidates are running behind establishment figures in Senate contests in Georgia and Kentucky that day, and they trail incumbent Rep. Mike Simpson in Idaho.
The contrast with 2010 and 2012, when tea party hopefuls upset well-known Republican establishment figures, is stark. The establishment is now fighting back hard.
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio easily defeated two tea party challengers in a Republican primary Tuesday. In Indiana, U.S. Reps. Susan Brooks and Larry Bucshon also beat tea party-backed opponents for re-nomination.
In North Carolina, with 97 percent of the vote counted, Tillis had 45.7 percent, more than tea party pick Greg Brannon and pastor Mark Harris combined. An array of Republican mainstream figures backed Tillis, including 2012 presidential nominee Mitt Romney, former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
The Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., a tea party hero, supported Brannon. Former Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas backed Harris.
Brannon was the first big 2014 victim of a series of trends that are plaguing tea party hopefuls this year, trends that also threaten candidates in other states.
The next closely watched Republican primary, Tuesday in Nebraska, is likely to produce a winner at least part of the tea party can embrace. But the result also might show the movement's fissures.
Midland University President Ben Sasse is endorsed by Tea Party Express, and he has a tough challenge from former state Treasurer Shane Osborn, who's backed by Tea Party Nation, and banker Sid Dinsdale.
Osborn is getting a boost from allies of Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. Dinsdale, stressing his long ties to the state, is thought to have momentum.
The involvement of McConnell allies is fresh evidence that the establishment is taking the insurgents seriously. Republicans have already embraced many key tea party principles, notably shrinking the size and scope of government, as well as a fervent insistence on repealing and replacing the 2010 Affordable Care Act.
The strategy is a change from 2010 and 2012, when Republican insiders figured that money and stature would easily boost their better-known candidates. Instead, many were upset by barely ¿known figures who surged with the new grass-roots support.
The oldest political motivation of all also is hurting tea party candidates this year: a desire to win. Democrats often won general elections in which tea party figures proved too extreme for the general electorate.
Republicans, and for that matter tea party leaders, have been chastened. After Brannon's loss Tuesday night, Jenny Beth Martin of Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund was conciliatory.
"While we obviously aren't happy with the outcome, we congratulate Speaker Tillis for his win," she said. "The important thing now is to pick up a U.S. Senate seat that's been in liberal hands for the last six years, and we hope all North Carolinians will make that a reality in November."
Republicans need a net gain of six seats to win control of the Senate. Seven seats now held by Democrats are in states Romney carried in 2012.
Among them are Georgia and Kentucky, where the tea party faces its next big tests.
In Kentucky, McConnell faces Louisville businessman Matt Bevin. The senator appears comfortably ahead.
Georgia's outlook is more muddled. Five Republicans are given a decent chance of winning the party's Senate primary, and unless someone gets more than 50 percent _ highly unlikely _ a runoff will be held. But that runoff might leave out onetime tea party favorite Rep. Paul Broun.
He's running well behind others in recent polls, and Tea Party Express backed former Secretary of State Karen Handel on Monday, who's seen as having more widespread appeal.
Todd Rehm, an Atlanta-based Republican consultant, looked at Tuesday's low North Carolina voter turnout and warned that anything could still happen in Georgia.
"A lower-turnout race usually favors ideologically driven and personally charismatic candidates like Paul Broun," he said. "Turnout remains the million-dollar question, and that is currently unsettled."
Then again, he also looks at the polls and gauges the mood of other Republicans, and finds, "I think the window of opportunity is closing fast for Broun."


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North Cascades National Park
Natural and scenic resources in North Cascades National Park (NP) are susceptible to the harmful effects of air pollution. Nitrogen, toxics, ozone, and fine particles impact natural resources such as lakes, streams, fish, and vegetation, and scenic resources such as visibility. Click on the tabs below to learn more about air pollutants and their impacts on natural and scenic resources at North Cascades NP.
- Nitrogen & Sulfur
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- Visibility
How much nitrogen is too much?
Nitrogen is a fertilizer and some nitrogen is necessary for plants to grow. However, in natural ecosystems, too much nitrogen disrupts the balance of plant and aquatic communities, allowing weed species to grow faster. In some areas of Washington State, including the Columbia River Gorge and the Willamette Valley, high levels of nitrogen deposition have changed lichen communities. In those areas, lichens adapted to low nitrogen conditions are being replaced by lichens adapted to a more disturbed, polluted environment (Geiser and Neitlich 2007; Geiser et al. 2010). A survey at North Cascades NP found that current levels of nitrogen deposition are low and impacts to the lichen community have not been observed. However, lichens may provide an early warning system if nitrogen deposition increases. Similarly, the composition of sensitive aquatic communities can provide an early warning system on nitrogen deposition effects to waterbodies.
Nitrogen and sulfur compounds deposited from air pollution may harm lakes, streams, soils, and vegetation in North Cascades NP. The largest regional sources of nitrogen and sulfur include agriculture, refineries, aluminum smelters, and automobiles. Certain high elevation ecosystems in the park are highly sensitive to over-enrichment or acidification from nitrogen and sulfur deposition. For example, short growing seasons and shallow soils at high elevations limit the capacity of soils and plants to absorb nitrogen. Excess nitrogen can result in soil nutrient imbalances and changes in alpine plant communities. And, while lakes and streams receiving base cation-enriched glacial melt are buffered from the acidifying effects of sulfur and nitrogen deposition, other more dilute, high elevation surface waters not receiving glacial melt are sensitive to acidification.
Effects of sulfur and nitrogen deposition at North Cascades NP include:
- Higher inorganic nitrogen deposition and slightly higher surface-water nitrate concentrations relative to Mount Rainier NP (Clow and Campbell 2008 [pdf, 2.12 MB]);
- Spring snowmelt, late summer storms, or rain-on-snow events can release accumulated acids in snow to streams and lakes, with potentially detrimental effects on fish, aquatic insects, and amphibians (Clow and Campbell 2008 [pdf, 2.12 MB]);
- Increased nitrate concentrations in alpine lakes as elevation increases, suggesting that atmospheric deposition contributes to the increasing levels of nitrogen in high elevation lakes (Larson et al. 1999);
- In addition to vehicles, power plants and industry, nearby agricultural sources contribute to nitrogen deposition in the park (Basabe et al. 1989a).
Toxics, including heavy metals like mercury, accumulate in the tissue of organisms and may alter key ecosystem processes. When mercury converts to methylmercury in the environment and enters the food chain, effects can include reduced reproductive success, impaired growth and development, behavioral abnormalities, reduced immune response, and decreased survival. Human activities have greatly increased the amount of mercury in the environment through processes such as burning coal for electricity and burning waste. Other toxic air contaminants of concern include pesticides, industrial by-products, and emerging chemicals. Some of these toxics are also known or suspected to cause cancer or other serious chronic health effects in humans and wildlife.
Effects of mercury and airborne toxics on ecosystems at North Cascades NP include:
- Contaminant accumulation including mercury, current-use pesticides, historic-use pesticides, and industrial by-products in air, vegetation, and fish (Moran et al. 2007; Landers et al. 2010; Landers et al. 2008);
- Fish from "contaminated" lakes (i.e., elevated mercury, DDE, and PCBs) in Washington's high elevation national parks including North Cascades NP, have altered metabolic, endocrine, and immune response-related genes, as compared to fish from uncontaminated lakes (Moran et al. 2007);
- Elevated concentrations of current-use pesticides (chlorpyrifos, endosulfans, dacthal, and lindane) found in park vegetation (Landers et al. 2010; Landers et al. 2008);
- Elevated levels of current use pesticides and other toxic air contaminants in air and vegetation samples as compared to other national parks studied (Landers et al. 2010; Landers et al. 2008).
Naturally-occurring ozone in the upper atmosphere absorbs the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays and helps to protect all life on earth. However, in the lower atmosphere, ozone is an air pollutant, forming when nitrogen oxides from vehicles, power plants, and other sources combine with volatile organic compounds from gasoline, solvents, and vegetation in the presence of sunlight. In addition to causing respiratory problems in people, ozone can injure plants. Ozone enters leaves through pores (stomata), where it can kill plant tissues, causing visible injury, or reduce photosynthesis, growth, and reproduction.
Ozone is transported to the park from the Puget Sound urban zone and trans-Pacific sources (Eilers et al. 1994 [pdf, 520 KB]; Barna et al. 2000; Jaffe et al. 2003). However, ozone concentrations in the region are generally low, and ozone injury to plants in the park has not been evaluated. Nevertheless, several species, including Pinus ponderosa (ponderosa pine) and Populus tremuloides (quaking aspen), are known to be sensitive to ozone.
Search the list of ozone-sensitive plant species (pdf, 184 KB) found at each national park.
Many visitors come to North Cascades NP to enjoy views of the "American Alps," including jagged spires, sheer cliffs, and glaciers. Unfortunately, these vistas are often obscured by haze caused by fine particles in the air. Many of the same pollutants that ultimately fall out as nitrogen and sulfur deposition contribute to this haze and visibility impairment. Organic compounds, soot, and dust reduce visibility as well.
Visibility effects at North Cascades NP include:
- Reduction of the average natural visual range from about 150 miles (without the effects of pollution) to about 90 miles because of pollution at the park;
- Reduction of the visual range from about 105 miles to below 50 miles on high pollution days;
- Human caused haze sometimes impairs scenic vistas at the park.
(Source: IMPROVE 2010)
Additional Information:
- Explore scenic vistas through a live webcam at North Cascades National Park!
- Learn about PREVENT, the Pacific Northwest Regional Visibility Experiment Using Natural Tracers special study. This 1990 study investigated the contribution of emission sources to fine particle concentrations and regional haze. more »
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