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Washington, D.C., is 262 miles from Raleigh. What's the best way to get there?
That depends on how much money, time and unpleasantness you can afford.
A few Fridays ago, a trio of Washington Post writers raced by train, plane and automobile from Washington to the Holiday Inn in downtown Raleigh. Then they competed to see who could make her chosen travel mode sound most appealing.
The plane was declared fastest and the car cheapest (but, hmm, only if you pretend that gasoline is your only expense). And both trips sounded horrible.
The low-stress winner, hands down, was the Amtrak Carolinian – described by writer Andrea Sachs as "a softly rocking cradle."
The comparisons are worth thinking about as North Carolina moves ahead with long-planned programs to make train travel faster, more reliable and more convenient – in other words, more competitive with cars for shorter trips and with airplanes for longer trips.
A trip between Raleigh and Washington is at just the middle distance where travelers still have good reasons to choose either of the three – car, train, plane. (And to this list some would add inter-city bus service, a discount-priced option lately on the upswing.)
But think about this: Train service in North Carolina has improved over the past decade and is on schedule to get better still. Nobody can say that about car or air travel.
Amtrak makes three daily round-trip runs now between Raleigh and Charlotte, with seven stops en route. Two more trains will be added to the daily schedule in the next few years.
The Raleigh-Charlotte journey is an hour faster today than it was 20 years ago, and that makes it almost as fast as driving. This year the state Department of Transportation is straightening curves and building bridges at train-car crossings in Morrisville and at Research Triangle Park – safety improvements that also will trim another couple of minutes from every train trip from now on.
Travelers of all persuasions will recognize something of themselves in the Post's travel stories.
Before writer Becky Krystal boards her flight at Reagan National, she endures 25 minutes packed on a hot airport bus that takes passengers from gate to plane. She has "barely room to breathe, let alone whip out my Kindle." But she's pleased to arrive at the Holiday Inn just 3 hours 41 minutes after leaving her D.C. apartment (round-trip cost including bus and taxi: $232).
'Stopping and cursing'
Writer Zofia Smardz is stressing out by the time she backs her car out of the alley behind her house – a seven-minute chore she refuses to count as part of her trip time. Her drive down Interstate 95 through Virginia is peppered with "a lot of braking and downshifting and stuttering and stopping and ... cursing." That sounds like a typical I-95 jaunt.
She shells out just $60 to $65 for the 524-mile round trip. But if her newspaper joins other employers who match the Internal Revenue Service mileage rate of 56 cents, Smardz would be in line for an expense-reimbursement check of $293.44. (Her one-way drive time to Raleigh: 4 hours 26 minutes).
Amtrak trains sometimes are slowed by freight-yard congestion in Virginia, but Sachs finds the Carolinian only a few minutes off its scheduled run of 5 hours 47 minutes.
Sachs chats with fellow train passengers, buys coffee in the cafe car and rhapsodizes about the scenery: "Fields with bales of hay rolled up like sushi." She clocks her total journey at 7 hours, with a round-trip cost of $122.80. (Read the three Post stories online at wapo.st/SHRuG8.)
"I love the train," Sachs said Monday by phone. "You see part of Virginia and North Carolina that you can't see on the highway. I would have gotten more reading done if I hadn't spent so much time looking out the window."
There are plans – but as yet, not enough money – for improvements that would cut 90 minutes from the train travel time between Raleigh and Washington.
The state DOT has won federal funding to finish the environmental work and much of the design for a short-cut track that would carry trains as fast as 110 mph between Raleigh and Richmond. More work is planned or underway farther north, adding tracks to relieve rail congestion in northern Virginia. Paul Worley, the state Rail Division director, said planners are looking for financing options that could help pay the full build-out cost – estimated at $3.8 billion.
Relaxed but lengthy
Worley's DOT Rail Division predecessor, Pat Simmons, made plenty of those Washington trips before he retired. He appreciated the different virtues of cars, trains and planes.
"In aviation, there are several commuter hops daily between Raleigh and Washington, and that was good when you had a one-day turnaround" for a business trip to the capital, Simmons said.
"The driving experience was white-knuckle," he said, "and sometimes you saw nothing but brake lights from Washington to Richmond.
"The folks who rode the train enjoyed the experience. It was relaxed – but it was lengthy, and you had to meet the train schedule," Simmons said.
These days, Simmons has time to find his own low-stress path between the two capital cities.
He starts out on a series of two-lane country roads that take him from Raleigh to northern Virginia. Then he picks up I-66 to finish the ride into Washington on his BMW motorcycle.


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Dexter is experiencing some major life changes - don't we all? And they're mostly wrapped up in the eight-pound curiosity that is his newborn daughter. Family bliss is cut short, however, when Dexter is summoned to investigate the disappearance of a 17-year-old girl who has been running with a bizarre group of goths who fancy themselves to be vampires. As Dexter gets closer to the truth of what happened to the missing girl, he realizes they are not really vampires so much as cannibals.
"Odd even for Dexter, but enjoyable!"
Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul - the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor, who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to do their job. She was an enviably perfect mother and the wife of Walter's dreams. Together with Walter - environmental lawyer, commuter cyclist, total family man - she was doing her small part to build a better world.
"Enjoyable book. Really liked the narration."
The most fundamental questions about the origins of the universe and of life itself, once the province of philosophy, now occupy the territory where scientists, philosophers, and theologians meet—if only to disagree. In their new book, Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow present the most recent scientific thinking about the mysteries of the universe, in nontechnical language marked by both brilliance and simplicity.
"Hawking succeeds in mind-blowing physics, real"
To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he lives with his Ma. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it is the prison where Old Nick has held her captive for seven years. Through determination, ingenuity, and fierce motherly love, Ma has created a life for Jack. But she knows it's not enough...not for her or for him. She devises a bold escape plan, but what she does not realize is just how unprepared she is for the plan to actually work.
"A truly memorable read"
One late fall Sunday in southern Minnesota, a farmer brings a load of soybeans to a local grain elevator - and a young man hits him on the head with a steel bar, drops him into the grain bin, waits until he's sure he's dead, and then calls the sheriff to report the "accident." Suspicious, the sheriff calls in Virgil Flowers, who quickly breaks the kid down...and the next day the boy's found hanging in his cell. Remorse? Virgil isn't so sure....
Where do we come from? Who created us? Why are we here? These questions have puzzled us since the dawn of time, but when it became apparent to Jon Stewart and the writers of
The Daily Show that the world was about to end, they embarked on a massive mission to write a book that summed up the human race: What we looked like; what we accomplished; our achievements in society, government, religion, science, and culture - all in a lavishly produced audiobook.
"Good book, not great. But let me explain."
Ken Follett's
World Without End was a global phenomenon, a work of grand historical sweep beloved by millions of readers and acclaimed by critics.
Fall of Giants is his magnificent new historical epic. The first novel in The Century Trilogy, it follows the fates of five interrelated families - American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh - as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
"Loved it and learned alot."
Rumor has it that a collection of priceless ancient relics representing the Seven Deadly Sins have made their way to Boston's North Shore. Partnered with pastry chef Lizzie Tucker, Diesel bullies and charms his way through historic Salem to track them down - and his mastermind cousin Gerewulf Grimorie. The black-haired, black-hearted Wulf is on the hunt for the relic representing gluttony. Now in a race against time, the pair soon finds out that more isn't always better, as they battle Wulf and the first of the deadly sins.
When Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet self-effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships: one with Alex, a widowed store owner with a kind heart and two young children; and another with her plainspoken single neighbor, Jo. Despite her reservations, Katie begins to let down her guard, putting down roots in the close-knit community..
"Safe Haven"
This is Tony Blair's firsthand account of his years in office and beyond. Here he describes for the first time his role in shaping our recent history, from the aftermath of Princess Diana's death to the war on terror. He reveals the decisions necessary to reinvent his party, the relationships with colleagues including Gordon Brown, the negotiations for peace in Northern Ireland, the implementation of the biggest reforms to public services in Britain since 1945, and his relationships with leaders on the world stage.
"History can only ever be accepted judgments"
Audible presents the multigenerational epic
Some Sing, Some Cry. Created by Ntozake Shange and Ifa Bayeza, this audiobook takes listeners on a journey through Reconstruction, two world wars, the Harlem renaissance, and Vietnam to modern day America.
Some Sing, Some Cry begins at the threshold of one family's freedom. We meet Betty Mayfield, newly emancipated from Sweet Tamarind, a lush and haunted rice plantation off the Carolina coast.
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Category: Get Started with Young Living
There are two ways to buy from Young Living...
Wholesale memberships are the most popular way to buy oils from Young Living. Just like other wholesale clubs like Costco or Sams, you're not committing to reselling products, but you do get an awesome 24% discount off of retail prices. Young Living has an amazing community of members who are driven to better their lives through healthy living and entrepreneurship. Over 90% of wholesale members only buy for personal use, but a wholesale membership will give you the opportunity to earn commissions if you end up loving the products as much as I do. To get started with a wholesale membership you'll choose from one of the discounted starter kits below.
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X-Photographers at the 24 horus of Le Mans
Most of Dirk Bogaerts' professional photography assignments concern lifestyle and motorsport photography (rally, race track, oldtimer). As such he is often an accredited photographer at the most spectacular WRC rallys and the most exciting race track competitions to supply photos for specialised magazines and the sports section of newspapers. Top of the bill is the biggest race in the world : the 24 h of Le Mans !
He started photography in 1989 while studying to be a master in mechatronical engineering and has ever since been passionate about the art of photography. At the age of 18, Dirk Bogaerts (°1971) fell particularly in love with the magnificent Ardenne Bleue region in Belgium, the region of wild, remote nature and of the beautiful Spa Francorchamps racetrack. Consequently, in 2012 he moved from Leuven to Rahier, a small authentic village in this region, to fully live his passion for motorsport and landscape photography.
He calls himself a World Photographer for his interest in a wide range of photographic subjects. He is passionate about motorsport, people, nature, travel, technology & books.
His images are represented and exposed on various exhibitions by a Belgian Art Gallery.
" In 2012 I undertook a photo journey to Marrakech. I didn't feel like carrying my heavy DSLR-equipment around the Medina. On top of that, the locals really don't like being shoved a big camera like that in their face. So I started looking for a lightweight and discrete camera. I bought the Fujifilm X-10. The image-quality was astonishing : deep, natural colours and a beautiful sharpness. Ever since I was eagerly awaiting a Fujifilm camera I could use for my autosport photography business. With the arrival of the X-T1, with its fast autofocus, its variety of lenses of superb quality, its high image rate per second, its dials that are very appealing to the real photographer, its toughness under the worse of weather conditions, its robust build quality, I didn't hesitate for a second!"


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Septimus Severus
Lucius Septimius Severus Augustus (A.D. 145 – A.D. 211), known as Septimus Severus, was a Roman Emperor who ruled from 193 to 211 AD. One of four different men vying for the throne after the assassination of the mad Commodus, Severus won out through military skill, harsh diplomacy, and winning at all costs. He arrived in Rome with an army shortly after the senate had one of his rivals executed. Realizing how fickle the situation could be, he abandoned the praetorian guard and replace it with frontier troops loyal to himself. He then gained the support of one of his rivals Septimus Albinus by proclaiming he would be his successor, and finally went to war with his last rival, Niger Justus. Defeating Niger in three battles at Cyzicus, Nicaea, and Issus, he overtook his adversary and ended his life outside the walls of Antioch. Making sure the empire was loyal to him, he ran into defiance at the city of Byzantium, which he then proceeded to siege and sack. The defiance ceased. Returning to Rome now that his empire was secure, he accused Albinus of treachery and had him executed.
Not wanting anyone to question his power, Severus established what was in effect a military government, ignoring and humiliating the Roman senate. He also renewed persecution of Christians. He died in 211 of natural causes while quelling trouble in Britain and left the Empire to his sons - one of whom immediately murdered the other. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.


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White House Christmas tree is NC Fraser fir
White House Christmas tree is NC Fraser fir
The official White House Christmas tree is making it arrival straight from a prize-winning farm in the North Carolina mountains.
First lady Michelle Obama on Friday is expected to welcome the tree and its growers from Peak Farms in Ashe County. Farm owners Rusty and Beau Estes are this year's grand champion winners of the National Christmas Tree Association, which has provided the White House tree each year since 1966.
This year's official tree is a 19-foot Fraser fir grown near Jefferson that was selected in early October and harvested this month. It will be displayed through the holiday season in the Blue Room of the White House.
The White House tree in 2008 was a 20-foot Fraser fir grown in Ashe County


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Rescue workers save people, pets from Texas flooding
SPRING, Texas —
The water continues to rise rapidly along Cypress Creek, where crews and even volunteers are desperately trying to get to people trapped in their homes. The big concern is river flooding and whether these dams will overflow.
The conditions became ever more dangerous as local rivers and bayous rose. Along Cypress Creek- north of downtown Houston- the rising water is pushing more people and pets from their homes.
"Today I would say water is rising to six feet right now inside my house and it's totally lost," said Andy Dang.
Rescue crews responded to 1,000 unanswered rescue calls near Cypress Creek alone-- forcing many, like Dang, to wait for help.
"They evacuated my mother yesterday and today's my turn and I'm glad. Still surviving," he told Channel 3's Jaclyn Kelley.
"Your just kinda in shock, ya know. You just never think it's going to happen to you. Everyone always says that and it's true," said Nancy White.
White is among the many rescued from her home by volunteers.
"Been to a couple houses already that were on the second story and water was entering the second story so it was definitely higher than we expected," said Stephen Lott.
Lott traveled through the night from Louisiana to help. He and his three friends cobbled together enough money to buy a boat. Meanwhile, those without boats are finding other ways to help.
"Wherever they need to go that's where we take them... wherever they need to go," volunteer Wyatt said.
Boats upon boats returning full of people, trying to get their loved ones and pets to higher ground.
But many are unsure of where they will go next as the water continues to rise. Help is rolling into Texas. The American Red Cross and Salvation Army are providing meals and other services.


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Carolyn Hax: Clingy beau drives her crazy
Dear Carolyn: I recently started dating "Mike." We have been dating for a few months, and we get along well and have fun together. But …
Several times a day, Mike will text me how happy he is we are dating, then ask if I feel the same. If I don't respond with enough enthusiasm, he is hurt and assumes I am losing interest.
When I ask what he wants to do, he'll say, "I don't care, as long as I get to be with you," leaving me to make plans. And he always finds some way to be touching me – holding hands, arm around my waist, and so on. I am not very "touchy-feely."
This is driving me crazy. I have tried to explain that I don't need to be reassured every day. I have explained that I would rather show my affection in real life rather than through a text.
My friends seem to think he is just insecure and I should be grateful to have someone who is obviously so interested. While I am trying to be patient, I'm starting to have real doubts. I feel smothered, rightly or wrongly, and am about to "accidentally" break my phone. I am having a hard time drawing boundaries and tactfully explaining that I need more space. I am afraid of hurting his feelings.
– Anonymous
A: When something irritates, oppresses or, especially, creeps you out in a relationship, never ignore that feeling. Never resolve to "be patient" for some larger cause, no matter how sparkly your friends make the cause seem. Your alarms are going off. It's not just (past) time to heed them; it's also time to look deeper into why you're so uncomfortable with setting boundaries, and with telling a clingy man to step off.
Putting "just" before "insecure" is a good way to set an advice columnist to bursts of frenzied typing. We all have insecurities, yes – but we are not all controlled by them. Many people take care (and summon the necessary discipline) to counterbalance those doubting inner voices with more productive truths about themselves and others.
People who live in service of their insecurities ignore those productive truths – such as what others want and need, what their relationships need, and what is healthy for themselves.
You know exactly in which category Mike lives.
Meanwhile, you're not even serving your "First hurt no feelings" goal. It's impossible, for one. And, only three things can happen here:
(1) You can love the way Mike shows love.
(2) You can not love it, and tell him so.
(3) You can not love it, and try and try to be "nice," all the while leading him to believe things are going great, until you finally go AAAUUGH! when you simply can't abide being touched.
So here: "Mike, I feel smothered – I'm uncomfortable with this much text and touch and torch-carrying."
Ouch, yes, but waiting indefinitely for a visit from the tact fairy is cruel. Tough break, Mike. If you respond to a hard truth by sulking, though, that's on you.


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2018 Blue Ridge Parkway Photo Weekend
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2018 - The Year of the Monarh
CNPA has an ongoing effort to preserve the environment of the Carolinas through our photography. We sponsor and are involved in many projects that promote protection and appreciation of the environment. We provide a platform for our members to learn and share their skills through networking, workshops, field outings and meetings. Building relationships with people who share the same passion for nature and wildlife photography is an important part of what we do.
If your photographic goals and ideals are in tune with CNPA, we invite you to join us in the many activities aimed at providing our membership new adventures in nature photography, while promoting the environment in the world around us. Membership is open to anyone interested in the photography of nature. We invite all nature photography enthusiasts, professional or amateur, to join a great group of people that share the passion.


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Toronto Food Takes Chicago
Cooking as an ambassador of Toronto food flavours, culture and Tourism Toronto, our Executive Chef Michael G. Smith is currently in Chicago, representing the Gladstone and the TO culinary scene. Along with esteemed fellow chefs like Patrick McMurray, World Champion Oyster Shucker, Toronto native and restaurant owner of Starfish Oyster Bed & Grill, Chef Smith served up a 3 course Toronto-inspired menu to 30-40 lifestyle, TV, food and travel media in the Chicago area.
Influenced by the diversity of Toronto culture and its food scene, Chef Smith created a cultural mash-up of the best Toronto eats yesterday at City Winery in Chicago. Starting with an ode to Koreatown and Little Italy, Chef Smith presented a Kimchi Caprese followed by a French-inspired crusted black cod with an Indian style pork shoulder and finished with a Greek play on Tarte Tatin, a classic French dessert with a Greek yogurt custard, figs and granny smith apples.
Thanks to our Chi-city friends for hosting and to Chef Smith for proving that the Toronto food scene is worth hyping over.


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We at the Flowdock team have found Pivotal Tracker to be an awesome tool for managing software development following agile principles. We run our entire process of feature and backlog planning on it, as well as our daily software development process.
Actions are a very important part of our working conversation. Now, you can import the all the activity on Pivotal Tracker right into the focal point of your conversation in Flowdock. The integration is done using the web hook functionality of Pivotal Tracker, so everything happens in real time.
To set it up, just go to the view in Influx, click the Pivotal Tracker icon and follow the on-screen instructions. It won't take you more than a couple of minutes. Also check out the full instructions for integrating Pivotal Tracker to Flowdock.


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Ok, I brought this up in the before but no one could help me. It is at: http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=222409
It is in the AO Addicts forum, so I figured I would bring it out here.
A friend of mine sent me an email message. It was encrypted with a program called rot13. I guess it is an old unix program, but I don't have a copy of it. Well, I have spent the last 4 days trying to figure it out, but I just can't get it. Here are the instructions that he gave me for a windows machine:
First, I have to open the file in a text editor.
Second, save the file as a .trp (token ring packet) file.
Third, send the file around our token ring (used for a barcode system). Note, It must run around 13 times (hence rot(ate)13)
Fourth, convert the file back to a text file.
Finally, open the file.
Well, I am having a problem. The file will only go around the ring 11 times before it gives me an error. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? How can I get the last 2 passes?


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rising home prices last year helped more homeowners get back above water on their mortgages in the fourth quarter, a fresh sign of improvement in the housing market, data from CoreLogic showed on Tuesday.
There were 10.4 million homeowners who owed more on their mortgages than their homes were worth in the final quarter of 2012, down from 10.6 million in the third quarter, said CoreLogic (CLGX.N).
That accounted for 21.5 percent of all mortgages, down from 22 percent. In 2012, 1.7 million properties returned to positive equity.
The housing market started to recover last year as prices rose, foreclosures eased and inventories tightened. Economists expect the sector to continue to gain traction in 2013.
"The scourge of negative equity continues to recede across the country," Anand Nallathambi, chief executive of CoreLogic, said in a statement.
"There is certainly more to do, but with fewer borrowers underwater the fundamentals underpinning the housing market will continue to strengthen."
Of the 38.1 million homes that were above water, 11.3 million had less than 20 percent equity. Considered to be "under-equitied," such borrowers can face difficulty getting new financing for their homes.
Another 2.3 million homes were near negative equity with less than 5 percent equity, making them vulnerable to a renewed downturn in home prices.
The average amount of equity for all properties was 31 percent.
Nevada had the highest rate of homes underwater at 52.4 percent of homes. Florida came in second at 40.2 percent, followed by Arizona, Georgia and Michigan. Those top five states accounted for 32.7 percent of negative equity in the country.
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Ensuring the survival of the wild Black Rhinoceros is a battle against poaching. South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Kenya collectively have most black rhinos (95.7 per cent). While the overall population has been slowly growing since 1995, in Zimbabwe they have declined alarmingly since 2007, dropping from 546 to 432 in 2009.
The illegal rhino horn trade in Asia is worsening and is the single biggest threat to the Black Rhino. Poachers have swapped spears and snares for more lethal firearms and governments in the countries known to receive horn need greater commitment to preventing illegal trafficking.
The increase in Black Rhino numbers in the other African countries is largely due to investment in field conservation, including protection, monitoring and translocations to maintain the growth rate of established populations and to create additional populations with good security and growth prospects.
Taronga Western Plains Zoo imported six Black Rhinos from Zimbabwe in 1994 for a zoo-based breeding program, as part of an initiative by the International Rhino Foundation. Since that time Taronga Western Plains Zoo has bred 11 Black Rhinos. In 2010 the first second-generation calf, descended from the zoo-bred rhinos, was born.


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The Emmy Awards air this Monday (NBC, 8 EST!), and we can't wait to watch. To hold us over until then, we've rounded up our favorite red-carpet looks from past shows that gave us a serious case of dress envy. Also, don't forget to join our Twitter party by following #LatinaEmmys to voice your thoughts on this year's show (and the fashion!).
1. Emmy Fashion: Sofia Vergara
Sofia Vergara
All eyes were on Sofia (once again) at The 65th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards last year. She slayed in a custom Vera Wang creation and proved ladies in red really do have more fun.
2. Emmy Fashion: Rocsi Diaz
Rocsi Diaz
Rocsi was next level in a cobalt blue, body-hugging Michael Costello gown in 2013. Not only is the color everything on her, but the plunging neckline doesn't hurt either!
3. Emmy Fashion: Morena Bacarrin
Morena Baccarin
Morena's pewter gray Basil Soda dress was one of our absolute favorites in 2012 and that's not just because we were obsessed with Homeland that year — it fit her flawlessly!
4. Emmy Fashion: Sofia Vergara
Sofia Vergara
In 2012, Sofia's zipper split on her stunning Zuhair Murand mermaid gown seconds before she went onstage to accept an award with her Modern Family co-stars, but that didn't fluster the Colombian belleza one bit! She was sewn into the dress and proceeded to dance the night away without another stitch misplaced.
5. Emmy Fashion: Aubrey Plaza
Aubrey Plaza
The comedian and actress looked stunning in this white high-neck dress with train at the 2011 awards. The wavy hair style only adds to the old Hollywood look.
6. Emmy Fashion: Naya Rivera
Naya Rivera
The GLEE actress rocked the 2011 show in this curve-accentuating dress with awesome bust detail. So elegant!
7. Emmy Fashion: Sofia Vergara
Sofia Vergara
The highest paid actress looked gorgeous at the 2011 awards in this coral dress with a tulle train and wrap-detail. We're obsessed!
8. Emmy Fashion: America Ferrera
America Ferrera
A blue, ruched dress looked amazing on America at the 2007 event. Her gorgeous smile was the perfect accessory!
9. Emmy Fashion: Dania Ramirez
Dania Ramirez
The actress showed off her goods at the awards in 2007. While it may have been a bit much, you've got to admit: she's got the body for it!
10. Emmy Fashion: Sara Ramirez
Sara Ramirez
The Grey's Anatomy star flaunted her curves in this pink, draped dress with waist contour and keyhole at the 2007 awards. The earrings add just a dash of glam.
11. Emmy Fashion: Ana Ortiz
Ana Ortiz
The actress shone (literally!) at the 2007 event in this strapless number. Who doesn't love sequins?
12. Emmy Fashion: Eva Longoria
Eva Longoria
Eva has sported many a dress over the years, but this is one of our favorites from the 2007 event. The over-the-top sparkle and plunging neckline make this a true winner.
13. Emmy Fashion: Christina Aguilera
Christina Aguilera
The singer looked chic in this reverse-tuxedo inspired gown with black ribbon detailing at the 2007 awards.
14. Emmy Fashion: Jamie-Lynn Sigler
Jamie-Lynn Sigler
The actress was all class at the 2004 event in a sleek green dress with a faux-necklace detail. Beautiful!


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Was the Big Revolution in 1775?
1775: A Good Year for Revolution
Explaining why the North American colonists revolted from Great Britain in 1776 has never been easy. The eighteenth-century colonists probably enjoyed the highest standard of living of any people in the Atlantic world. The white colonists were certainly not an oppressed people; they had no crushing imperial shackles to throw off. Most white Americans knew they were freer and less burdened with feudal and monarchical restraints than any other people in the eighteenth century. Indeed, they keenly realized that the liberties they enjoyed actually came from the heritage and traditions of the British nation of which they were a part. They were British subjects who had all the rights and privileges of British subjects—elected legislatures, trial by jury, habeas corpus, and widespread religious toleration. Why then would they have broken away from the nation that was the source of these rights and liberties?
These peculiar circumstances made the American Revolution seem different from other revolutions. With none of the legendary tyranny that had so often driven desperate peoples into rebellion, the American Revolution has always seemed strange. To its victims, the Tories or loyalists, the Revolution was totally incomprehensible. Never in history, said Daniel Leonard, John Adams's antagonist in the Massachusetts debates in 1775, had there been so much rebellion with so "little real cause." Peter Oliver, who wrote the most vitriolic Tory history of the Revolution, said that it was "the most wanton and unnatural rebellion that ever existed." The Americans' response seemed out of all proportion to the stimuli. "The Annals of no Country," declared a thoroughly bewildered imperial official at the outset, "can produce an Instance of so virulent a Rebellion, of such implacable madness and Fury, originating from such trivial Causes, as those alledged by these unhappy People."
In order to explain the inexplicable, both the Patriot participants and later historians tended to argue that the Revolution appeared to have been peculiarly an affair of the mind, that the Americans had somehow reasoned themselves into revolution. The Revolution, said Edmund Randolph, governor of Virginia and later Washington's secretary of state, was a revolution "without an immediate oppression, without a cause depending so much on hasty feeling as theoretic reasoning."
At the end of the nineteenth century, Moses Coit Tyler, the originator of what became the field of American Studies, was driven by the same logic to see the Revolution as "pre-eminently a revolution caused by ideas, and pivoted on ideas." Tyler conceded that ideas played a part in all revolutions. But, said Tyler, in most revolutions, like that of the French, ideas had become important only when they had been given meaning and force by long-experienced "real evils."
The American Revolution was different. It was directed "not against tyranny inflicted, but only against tyranny anticipated."…
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| January 29, 2013, 12:36 pm
Free yoga?! Who knew? Apparently this program has been going on for some time, but it starts up again this Saturday from 11 a.m. to noon and runs through Mar. 2 at the Denver Art Museum, and it promises to be the most diverse yoga Denver offers.
Part of the Im'Unique program, this yoga series is part of Illustrating Union Yoga Tours, classes meant to attract people of all ethnicities and income levels from around Colorado. The sessions take place in museums across the Denver-Metro Area and are designed for all ages and all skill levels, including those new to the discipline.


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Antitrust is an influential area of the law that seeks to maintain a competitive economy for the benefit of consumers and competitors. The government's victory in the Microsoft case, billion-dollar fines in price-fixing cases and the recent flood of multi-billion-dollar mergers are all examples of the impact of antitrust law on the daily lives of all.
The Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies is a non-partisan, independent academic center designed to explore the impact of antitrust enforcement on the individual consumer and the public, and to shape policy issues.
The Institute promotes a comprehensive, inclusive view of the benefits of competition law and policy that includes, yet goes beyond, prevailing narrow notions of economic efficiency. The Institute fulfills its mission by sponsoring symposia, academic colloquia, a unique student fellowship and the world's first online masters programs in Global Competition Law.


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Huge changes went into place for the Mists of Pandaria Talent Calculator, causing a huge storm of community posts about the various changes. One thing that is very clear is that Blizzard is really trying to perfect the idea of playstyle choice. Not just in terms of class specialization, but in the various tools and abilities that are now available for an entire class via the new talent system.
Mages were pretty excited during BlizzCon to see a talent tier dedicated entirely to affecting their main crowd control effect, Polymorph. However, that has now been replaced as a tier that gives more options and style to how a player regenerates their mana. Other major changes were visible in the Paladin's talent tree. Talents like Holy Prisim, can be cast on enemies or allies with varying AoE effects if it's cast on friend or foe.
But talents weren't the only thing getting changed. Even class abilities are being adjusted and even consolidated. For example, tanks now have a debuff called Weakened Blows, which weakens a target's physical damage by 10%. This debuff is applied when a normal rotation ability like Thrash, Thunderclap, and Hammer of the Righteous is cast. This helps eliminate the incursion of a global cooldown on abilities that felt less interesting and helps ensure the maximum amount of debuffs are up on a target.
These changes definitely are going to bring an entire new learning curve for the entire player base. The best recommendation is to familiarize yourself with the changes coming to your class and be ready to experiment when the beta finally launches.


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Thanksgiving Day 2020Thursday, November 26
Thanksgiving Day is an annual national holiday in the United States and Canada celebrating the harvest and other blessings of the past year. In the US Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November while in Canada nearly one month and a half earlier (second Monday of October). Thanksgiving has deep roots in religious tradition, but nowadays it is primarily celebrated as a secular holiday.
Thanksgiving tradition began in early XVII century, but the date and popularity varied between states. First nation-wide Thanksgiving was proclaimed on November 26, 1789 by George Washington. The contemporary date of fourth Thursday of November was set in 1941 by federal legislation.
Thanksgiving Celebration
Thanksgiving is a great time to be thankful and appreciate who you have and what you have. It is a time for families to meet, socialize and enjoy each other's company, sometimes the only opportunity in a year. Some prefer it to Christmas because of less emphasis on consumerism. Thanksgiving, for most, is also a start of a four day weekend which is great, too.
Thanksgiving Date
In 1863 President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed national Thanksgiving Day to be celebrated on the final Thursday of November. The rule of declaring the final Thursday of November as Thanksgiving Day was followed until 1939 [6]. In 1939 President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared the fourth (next-to-last) Thursday of November as Thanksgiving instead of the last, fifth one. The change of Thanksgiving's date was intended to extend the shopping season before Christmas and help bring the country out of The Great Depression. In the same manner, Thanksgiving in 1949 and 1941 was celebrated on third (next-to-last) Thursdays. In December 1941 Thanksgiving date was fixed as the fourth Thursday in November.
Interesting facts about Thanksgiving
- Canadian Thanksgiving predates American Thanksgiving by 43 years. The first Thanksgiving in North America was held in 1578 in what is now Newfoundland, Canada. It was 43 before the first American Thanksgiving which happened in 1621 at the site of Plymouth Plantation, in Massachusetts [1].
- Sarah Joseph Hale, who is the author of the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb" had contributed to the establishment of Thanksgiving as a national holiday. After 17 years of sending letters to President Lincoln, she had convinced him to support legislation establishing a national holiday of Thanksgiving in 1863. Before Thanksgiving, the only national holidays celebrated in the United States were Washington's Birthday (Presidents' Day) and Independence Day [5].
- The TV dinner was invented in 1953 when Swanson had 260 tons of leftover turkey from Thanksgiving and no idea what to do with it. When asked, one of the employees said that they should package it in trays with sides and freeze [2].
- There is a grocery in Paris named "Thanksgiving" that sells US food like Skippy peanut butter, Jello Instant Pudding, and Pop-Tarts to homesick ex-pats [3].
- The day after Thanksgiving is the busiest day of the year for plumbers and septic companies who call it "Brown Friday" [4].
- [1] Thanksgiving in America vs. Thanksgiving in Canada.
- [2] Mariah Trimarchi, History of TV Dinners.
- [3] Thanksgiving Grocery.
- [4] Alex Moore, Brown Friday: yeah, it's a thing; thankfully not quite as nasty as it sounds
- [5] Mary Had a Little Thanksgiving Obsession
- [6] Thanksgiving 1939-1941, Wikipedia


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Punishment by divine intervention for previously committed road crimes. For example , cutting people off on the freeway , turning from the wrong lane , doing a California roll instead of stop , etc .
I was on my way to the airport and just when I was about to exit , damn ! Road Karma !! A huge SUV cut me off and I missed my exit and missed the flight . Next time I cut someone off I will remember "Road Karma"
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March 20, 1981
To: All Department Chairs
From: President Gail Fullerton
Subject: 1980 Graduating Senior Survey Results
Attached is the Final Report of the results of the 1980 graduating Senior Survey. Please share this information with your faculty.
GF:er Enclosure
Acting Academic Vice President Executive Vice President School Deans
Final Report
1980 Graduation Senior Survey
In an effort to learn how graduating seniors perceive various aspects of their undergraduate experience at SJSU, a survey was administered to the 1980 graduating class. The survey Instrument was the same as that used by the Office of Undergraduate Studies at Stanford to survey Stanford graduates. The Stanford instrument was chosen for use at SJSU because it has been tested repeatedly and shown to be a valid instrument and because the data collected can be used for cross-comparison analysis between the two schools.
The rating scale section of the instrument is comprised of three parts. The first part asks the student to evaluate his/her undergraduate program from three different perspectives: 1) absolute, 2) relative to expectation and 3) the importance of the item. In the second part, the student is asked to assess his interactions with the faculty and staff using the same three divisions as part one. The third part of the survey provides rating scales for the student to use in ranking his/her ability in a broad range of topics. Again, the scales are divided into three areas: 1) absolute, 2) degree of improvement since entering SJSU and 3) importance of the item. As an example, each student can evaluate "the overall quality of their undergraduate education at SJSU" on an absolute scale, then rate the quality "relative to their expectation" and finally, judge the importance of this item in their own perspective.
Another section of the questionnaire elicits the student's views regarding outstanding or poor departmental and faculty performances and University services/programs. The written responses to this section are not made public. Only the School Deans, Department Chairpersons and certain academic officers have access to portions of the information.
The purpose of this report is to review the findings in three areas. The first part discusses the background of the procedures and the demographics of the senior class and the respondents. The next part provides a summary analysis of the sample response in total to the primary section of the survey; 1) evaluations of the undergraduate program, 2) interactions with faculty and staff, and 3) self-assessments of abilities (see Table 1). The final part of this report reviews the analysis of differences between respondents by sex and by majors in the various schools on campus.
The 1980 Senior Survey was mailed to a total of 3538 graduating seniors (1,316 Fall '79 and 2,222 Spring '80). There were two potential flaws in the methodology used in conducting this survey. First, the coding scheme used was not able to differentiate between the two groups although the Fall graduating seniors received the survey six months following their graduation. In addition, 243 graduating Masters candidates were mistakenly sent the instrument during the mailing to the Fall graduates. The 846 returned survey forms (about twenty-four percent of those surveyed) were carefully screened and the twenty graduate student responses were excluded from the tabulation of the statistics. The procedure used for future surveys will be revised to correct these two possible weaknesses in the survey methodology.
Although the respondents can in no way be considered a random sample, their characteristics were representative of the class as a whole. For example, of the senior population receiving the survey, 52% were females and 48% were males, whereas the respondents were 56% female and 44% male. As a further comparison, the survey distribution of majors in the various schools was as follows:
|% of Graduates who responded
|Applied Arts & Sciences
|Social Sciences
|Humanities and Arts
|Social Work
|Undergraduate Studies
There were five (.5%) respondents with no major reported. As a final note, 78% of the respondents identified. themselves as transfers. Thus, since the total population was surveyed and descriptive characteristics of the respondents nearly matched those of the population, the results found in this survey are presumed to be representative of the entire graduating class.
As a final note on the background of the respondents, the following provides some detail of their future plans and information on where they resided while attending SJSU. More than half, 64%, report that they plan to work full time in the year immediately following graduation; of these 51% were women and 49% were men. The proportion of students planning full time study in the year immediately following graduation was 14%. As for their future education plans, 68% eventually plan to do postgraduate work. During their years as undergraduate students, 16% responded that they lived in the dorms, 3.7% lived in fraternity or sorority houses, 2.5% lived in off campus co-ops, 70.8% lived in an apartment or house, 33.2% lived with their parents and 4.6% had other living arrangements at one time or another.
Evaluation of the Undergraduate Program
The graduating seniors responded favorably to the overall quality of their undergraduate education at SJSU with an overwhelming majority of 69% rating it as "good" or "excellent" (Table 1). Half of the respondents felt that this quality was "about as expected." This response by the seniors has even more weight when one considers that 75% indicated that this quality was of "great" or "very great" importance to them.
In light of this favorable attitude shown by the respondents, it is not too surprising that at least 70% also rated the general quality of the courses as "good" or "excellent" and a large majority gave a similar response to the "coherence of the overall program of study." In fact, the only area in this section of the survey which the respondents fail to rate highly was the item, "contribution of the campus living arrangements to their life and training." Since SJSU is known as a "commuter" campus, it is not suprising that over half (57%) of the seniors responded "not applicable" or "no experience" to this item.
Interactions With Faculty and Staff
On the whole, the respondents were less favorable of their interactions with SJSU faculty and staff. Although the majority of seniors (56%) rated the faculty as "good" or "excellent" scholars and researchers and another 52% gave the same rating to the faculty as teachers, only a third (33%) responded similarly when asked of the opportunities for individual work with faculty. In fact, 26% of the seniors stated they had "no experience" with these. opportunities.
A resounding 74% response of "not applicable" or "no experience" to the item rating the undeclared advisor appears to reflect the high proportions (78%) of transfer students among the respondents. On the other hand, only slightly over a third (39%) rated their major advisor as "good" or "excellent" while another quarter (24%) replied "poor" or "very poor" to this item. With the exception of the TA (teaching assistant) item, the rating of the major advisor was the most negative item among the faculty and staff interactions, especially in light of the fact that 56% of the respondents felt that this was of "great" or "very great" importance to them.
Although the TA rating was not that favorable (only 15% rated it as "good" or "very good"), the majority (59%) responded "not applicable" or "no experience" to this item. This response can be partially explained by the fact that many respondents stated that they did not know what the abbreviation "TAs" meant. In the future, the survey instrument will spell out the term "Teaching Assistant" to avoid this confusion.
Finally, the respondents had a less favorable opinion of the effectiveness of the administrative procedures in their major department with less than a third (30%) rating it as "good" or "excellent." It should be noted also that nearly 40% rated this item as of "great" or "very great" importance.
Assessment Of Abilities
In the area of skills and abilities, as a whole, the graduating seniors rated themselves slightly better than average on most of the items given in the questionnaire. The areas with the largest negative responses were in foreign language, mathematical sciences, technology and applied science and the use of computers. In the remaining items, where in most cases the seniors rated themselves at least "average," the item "write English prose" had the best showing with 68% responding "good" or "excellent."
When asked to rate their "degree of improvement" since entering SJSU, the seniors responded that they had a "moderate" improvement in most items with the exception of "foreign language." In fact, nearly a quarter of the respondents have had "very slight" improvement in their use of a foreign language during their schooling at SJSU. It is noteworthy to mention that in the remaining three items where the seniors tended to rate themselves less positively, in at least a third of the cases, they responded that they had "moderate" to "very great" improvement in their use or understanding of mathematical sciences (44%), technology and applied sciences (47%) and use of computers (34%).
As can be observed in Table 1, the seniors tended to rate all of the skills and abilities items as of "moderate" or of "great" importance. Again,, they emphasized that not only was the ability to "write clear English prose" their best skill but additionally, 69% of the seniors responded that the item was of "great" or of "very great" importance to them.
Thus, this ability item was deemed the most important to the respondents since this was the area where the greatest number rated themselves highly and showed the best degree of improvement since entering SJSU.
Before we review the differences found between respondents by sex and by school majors, the response to the item, "understand significance of gender, ethnicity and social class" needs a comment. The questionnaire had a misprint on this item which confused many recipients. The error resulted in 48% of the respondents either not rating these three items or rating them incorrectly. These respondents are excluded in Table 1, which explains the small percentages found in the three scales. Even so, of those who answered the items correctly, the distribution of the responses closely matched those of the other items.
Differences By Area Of Study and Sex
The following sections of this report review two areas of special interest; comparisons of the responses by the majors grouped by schools and by women with those of the men.
Differences Among Schools
The majors were grouped by schools according to their classification as outlined in the current 1980/82 SJSU General Catalog of Undergraduate Studies. There are nine schools; Applied Arts and Sciences, Social Sciences, Business, Humanities and Arts, Education, Engineering, Science, Social Work and, finally, Undergraduate Studies. Three schools, Education, Social Work and Undergraduate Studies, had only 23 reported majors and will be grouped in next year's study as one school in order to simplify the analysis and table development processes.
There were several areas in which differences in the responses by school/major were easily recognizable. When one examines the areas of "Overall Program" and "Adequacy of Training," the majors in the technical areas of study (i.e., Science, Engineering, Business) tended to give better ratings than those of the less technical, or liberal art oriented fields such as the Humanities and Arts or Social Sciences. Conversely, the majors in the Social Sciences and Humanities and Arts responded more positively to the "Adequacy of General or Liberal Education" than the technical majors.
With regard to the rating of the faculty and administration, there were few surprises. Most majors rated their major advisor favorably except for the Business majors who responded more negatively than positively to this item (43% "poor" or "very poor" vs. 27% 'good" or "excellent"). It should be noted that the Business majors also rated this item of less "importance" than the other majors.
The Humanities and Arts and Social Science majors also gave better ratings to their "faculty as scholars" and "faculty as teachers" than to the majors in the Science and Engineering.
In the remaining items related to evaluation of the faculty and administration, the distributions of responses by major were similar with only a couple worthy of a specific comment. The Engineering majors gave the "poorest" rating to the item regarding "opportunities for individual work with faculty" while both Humanities and Arts majors and Engineering majors gave large negative ratings to the "effectiveness of the Administrative procedures in your major."
When the rating of current abilities are grouped by majors, we find some striking differences between those with technical training versus liberal arts training. For example, the Social Science majors gave the highest positive response 84%) to the ability to "write English prose" while only 60% of the Engineering majors gave a similar positive rating.
Not surprisingly, the Science and Engineering majors gave higher scores to their abilities in understanding the "Mathematical Sciences," "Natural Sciences," and "Technology and Applied Sciences" than those in the other schools. On the other hand, the Social Science majors gave a better rating to the items, "understand the working of government" and to "make Judgments about international problems."
Finally, as one might expect, the Applied Arts and Science, Social Science and Humanities and Arts major had far less experience in the use of computers than those who majored in the technical fields.
Diffference By Sex
In the rating of their undergraduate program, there were few significant differences found between the responses of men and women. However, there are noteworthy contrasts where women rated the "importance" of the item "adequacy of Education for entering your chosen field much higher than men (56% women rated this its "very great' as compared to only 42% similar ratings for men) and men rated the 'overall quality of undergraduate education at SJSU' slightly more favorably than women (76% 'excellent" or "good" vs 69% "excellent" or 'good" respectively).
In their evaluation of the "interactions with faculty and staff," both men and women rated the items in a similar manner. Even so, women tended to rate certain items as slightly more important than did the men. For example, 51% of the women feel it's of "very great" importance for the faculty to be good teachers as compared to only 38% of the men responding in a similar manner. This point spread between the ratings of the men and women was, in general, the case for most of the items in the "importance" scale.
In rating their abilities, the women responded more positively than men in the items relating to the humanities and fine arts, such as "foreign language" or the "understanding of literature and fine arts." On the other hand men tended to rate themselves several points above those of women in the social and physical science related items. As an example, 28% of the women responded "excellent" to their ability to "write clear English prose" as compared to 17% of the men having a similar rating. Furthermore, 18% of the men rated their understanding of the "mathematical sciences" as "excellent" with only 6% of the women responding accordingly. Those phenomena can be partially explained by the fact that there still exists an uneven distribution of the sexes among the various majors. It can be expected that since males still comprise the overwhelming majority in majors such as Engineering and Math, they should have a larger percentage of their group rating themselves more favorably in the items related to these majors.
Finally, a similar pattern was found in the rating of the importance of an item by men and women. Where the men and women assessed their abilities more favorably, they also rated the item of more importance.
As a last note in the area of sex differences, it should be mentioned that there was a considerable gap between men and women's concern for the significance of gender, ethnicity and social class. The survey revealed a 5 to 17 point difference in their rating of these items within the three scales, particularly for the item regarding the significance of gender in understanding how the U.S. society functions.
The assessment of the graduating seniors of their overall undergraduate education at SJSU was on the positive side. In particular, they regarded the "general quality of the course work" and the "coherence of the overall program" as better than average.
The seniors responded less favorably to their interaction with the faculty and staff. They did give a good rating to the faculty as teachers and scholars but rated the remaining items, especially the major advisors, as "average" or below. This rating was in contrast to the "importance" that the respondents placed on the items. In fact, the students attached a high importance to all the items covered in this survey.
In the area of skills and abilities, the seniors rated themselves "average" or better. On the whole, their weakest areas were in the use of a foreign language and their understanding of the mathematical, technical and applied sciences. At least, in most cases, the students rated their "degree of improvement" in these areas as "moderate" or better while attending SJSU.
Among the differences noted between the respondents when grouped by school majors were several prominent observations. Those who majored in the "technical" majors gave better rating to their "overall program" and "adequacy of training" than the non-technical, liberal arts type majors. Majors from the Humanities and Arts and Social Sciences gave better ratings to their "faculty as scholars" and "faculty as teachers" than those who majored in the technical areas. In the rating of their abilities, the technical majors tended to rate themselves highly in their technical abilities. By contrast the liberal arts majors rated themselves more favorably in most of the nontechnical related areas covered in the survey.
There were few notable differences found when comparing the responses grouped by sex. In general, women placed more importance on the items than men. Not suprisingly women often rated their abilities in areas of the humanities and arts more positively than men. Conversely, men rated their skills in the technical subjects more favorably than did the women.
The information gleaned from this survey will be of considerable benefit to the campus planners and administrators. This instrument provides feedback from the graduating seniors regarding their attitudes and concerns. It will also provide important planning information which can be used in adjusting academic resources to meet the current demands of the student population. Overall, the information contained in these surveys should add to the foundation of better education at San José State University.
March 11, 1981
To: President Gail Fullerton
From:Patricia A. Stadel, Director, Information Systems and Computing
Subject: Public Release of 1980 Graduating Senior Survey Results
Attached is a copy of the final report of the 1980 Graduating Senior Survey which we had planned to release to the Spartan Daily and the Alumni Association.
Per your earlier instructions, copies of this report were distributed to the Executive Committee of the Senate and the Council of Deans. Although their reactions and/or comments were solicited, a response was received only from Vera Vadas, Jr. Staff Analyst, School of Business. According to Jack Williams, Ms. Vadas recommended:
- instructions be included on the essay portion of the survey (the middle, "loose" sheet) so that the students' responses would be more concise and easier for an analyst or administrator to interpret (a copy of her suggestions in this regard is attached);
- that we tailor the survey instrument to ask other kinds of questions, such as age, work, whether they were day or night students, etc., even though this would make it incompatible with the Stanford instrument and confound cross-institutional comparisons;
- that the depth of the analysis included in the general report distributed to the campus administrators be increased.
Since we have received no objections to the content of the report itself, I suggest that you go ahead and release it in the manner you deem most appropriate.
Jack Williams, Research Analyst
To: Mr. Jack L. Williams
Via: Dr. George C. Halverson, Dean, School of Business
From: Vera Vadas Junior Staff Analyst
I am in the process of analyzing graduating seniors` written responses to the request that they name particularly outstanding or poor professors (departments, or programs), and have run into some problems (mentioned below). I believe these problems could be easily eliminated by adding the following guidelines to the written instructions:
- Please, indicate the full name of the professor. (Reason: it
is impossible to guess which "Dr. Jones" the student had in mind
when there are several professors/instructors with the same surname
in a School/Department.)
- Give a brief description why you think this professor was particularly good or bad. (Reason: many "answers" consisted only of a surname with no indication of judgment criteria. In evaluating faculty performance it is important to know if a student has a bad opinion of a professor because he/she found exam questions difficult, or because the professor was consistently late for class.)
- Please, write legibly (Reason: obvious.)
Since these instructional additions would not affect the survey format in any way, I hope there will be no difficulty in including them in the next mailing (for 1981 Spring graduates).
August 14, 1980
To: Robert Sasseen, Associate Academic Vice
From: Patricia A. Stadel, Director Information Systems and Computing
Subject: Confidential Materials - 1980 Senior Survey
As you may be aware, President Fullerton conducted a survey of undergraduates who had graduated during academic year 1979/80 (ref. P80-7, dated May 30, 1980). Pages three and four of that survey asked the graduates for information about faculty, departments, and programs that is considered confidential and has been treated as such by my office as each questionnaire is received. Attached is the first batch of these evaluations received from participants in the 1980 senior survey which I understand your office has agreed to handle.
Also attached is a copy of the survey instrument itself. You may be interested to know that Stanford University (originator of the survey concept) assembles copies of the evaluation materials by individual faculty member, department, program, etc., and provides "sets" to appropriate individuals. The back-up materials are retained in the Dean's Office for reference, but no other use is made of them. By contrast, copies of the students' responses to Item F (page four) are made available to the President, Vice Presidents, and top administrative heads, and are often used as source materials for speeches, presentations, etc.
It is reported that these documents will provide "excellent bedtime reading." We will continue to forward batches of these materials to you as we receive additional responses from the students. If you have any questions, please call.
Hobert Burns, Academic Vice President (survey attached)
Gail Fullerton, President (w/o attachment)


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The Kinect is inspiring a lot of hacking — getting it to work with a PS3, for example — but some folks are seeing it as something that can enable more noble inventions. The people at NAVI — Navigational Aids for the Visually Impaired — hacked a Kinect, mounted it on a helmet, hooked it to a vibrating belt, and turned it into a device to help guide the blind:
The video explains how the thing works through measuring the room and using vibrations and audio cues to tell the wearer where to go. It's not anything you'll see being used in real-world situations anytime in the immediate future — besides the obvious bulk involved, the experiment involved placing code markers in strategic places to send those cues to the wearer, and that would be close to impossible to do everywhere, at least anytime soon — but if someone can rig up something like this with a game controller and some ingenuity, you have to think that we're closer than ever to some amazing things.
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Cave and Karst Management
Exhibit 2 - Cave Entrance Inventory
Inventory procedures consist of identifying cave locations and noting each cave's contents, significance, hazards associated with its exploration, and other specific information. Individuals experienced in caving using standard criteria can best accomplish uniformity of interpretation.
Cave number: Each cave should be numbered in sequence as discovered or historically listed in the park files. (Example: park acronym + type (C for cave, LT for lava tube, etc.) + number: GUMO C-01 or ELMA LT-01.)
Cave name: When a cave has an established name, this should be retained.
Cave markers: A brass cap may be set at the entrance of each cave. The cave number should be stamped on the cap.
Cave Location Maps: Each cave will be plotted on a mylar overlay as part of the park's 7.5 minute RBI/Ecosystem map series. Since confidentiality of cave locations is critical to the protection of cave resources, the maps will not be available for public viewing and are protected from disclosure through Freedom of Information Act requests by the FCRPA. A circle will designate cave locations. Cave numbers will be shown on the map. Cave locations should be incorporated into the park GIS.
Individual Cave Files: A file for each cave will be maintained separately from the regular files. Each cave file should contain as much of the following information as possible:
- When the cave was found.
- Identity of individual who found the cave.
- List of people present at the discovery.
- How the cave was located.
- How and why the cave was named.
- A topographical map of the area, showing the location of the cave.
- Directions for reaching the cave entrance and the approximate time to get there from the park office.
- Detailed descriptions of known hazards present within the cave and/or in reaching the cave entrance, including recommended equipment and procedures for reaching, entering, and exploring the cave.
- Detailed descriptions of major features of the cave, including speleothems, fauna, flora, biological, hydrological, geological, archeological, ethnographic, paleontological, etc.
- Recommendations on type and amount of use restrictions.
- Map of the cave, including plan view, vertical section, and all survey computation notes.
- Photographs showing the cave's entrance and at least the cave's major areas and features: notation will include the photographer and the date the photographs were taken.
- Trip reports of all visits, including date, participants, purpose, and other observations.
- Permanent record listing date of each cave entry and number of cavers on each trip.
- Bibliography of published papers, photos, and trip reports.
Cave Contents Inventory: Inventory items should be attached to the nearest survey station, not to exceed 50 feet. They should be stored in a database accessible to GIS applications. The inventory contents should include speleothems, mineralogy, biology, paleontology, historical/cultural items, hazards, etc.Cave and Karst Management Table of Contents | RM#77 Table of Contents


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Travel Request Information
A Travel Request form is designed to be a complete summary of a trip. While the charges may be estimates, it tells the who, when, where, and why's of a trip.The reasons for completing the Travel Request are to notify the supervisor about an absence, for budget approvals, and for insurance coverage for work related travel. The Travel Request form is now available on-line or in a two-part NCR format. Two-part NCR forms are available in the ASU Travel Office, RH 3-307. Four-part NCR forms will no longer be available.
A separate Travel Request form should be completed for each trip. The exception would be if the traveler is traveling to the same location, has the same purpose, and with the same/similar expenses expected for each trip, within a designated time frame. Exceptions may be made on a case-by-case basis, when approved by the Travel Compliance Designee in advance of any travel.
A separate Travel Request form is also required for each traveler. An exception would be if the trip is for a group, and one person is responsible for all of the charges. Each travelers' name should be listed on the form or an attached page, for insurance purposes. A Travel Request should be on file for you, as an individual if you are expecting to be reimbursed for any portion of the trip.
If attending a conference, training, or seminar, please send a copy of the conference brochure/training brochure, or other descriptive material, including the itinerary and list of classes and sessions you will be attending, along with the Travel Request. Indicate on the Travel Request what form of payment will be used to pay the registration fee, if there is one.
Incomplete Travel Requests will be returned.
The Travel Request should be submitted to the Travel Office at least two weeks before traveling. Once the Travel Office receives the completed request form, it generally takes 2-3 working days to process, longer if additional signatures are required. If a state vehicle is requested, a copy of the form will be sent to Facility Services to confirm the trip. The original form will be kept in the Travel Office for reimbursement purposes, once all of the signatures have been obtained. The traveler should keep a copy of the Travel Request with them during the trip. This copy will be required if the traveler is using a state vehicle.
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I know that smoking has been forbidden by some scholars. however, my question is what is the reason smoking is prohibited during fasting. when the person smokes, he is not entering a liquied or a solid through his mouth. I have asked this for so many people and their only answer was that it is haram. please advise me what to do.
Smoking is haraam and there is no doubt that it is forbidden. See questions no. 10922 and 7432.
With regard to the reason why it breaks the fast, that is because the smoke contains particles that reach the stomach.
Shaykh Ibn 'Uthaymeen was asked about the fasting person smelling perfume and he said:
It is permissible to use it during the day in Ramadaan and to smell it, except for bukhoor (incense), because incense contains particles that can reach the stomach, and that is smoke.
Fataawa Islamiyyah, 2/128.
Cigarette smoke is like incense in that they both contain particles, but they differ with regard to the basic ruling: incense is halaal and good, and smoking is haraam and bad.
And Allaah knows best.


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A 72 hour meth buzz followed by a $8 handski from an inattentive fuel lot hooker who lets it splooge in your eye
After a long day of Driving, Clay can really go for a handski. Hopefully he does not get an Angry Trucker pulled on him.
by kiesersozay January 19, 2011
A sexual position where you put on a dime store trucker hat and you put an 18 wheeler air horn pull chain around your gal pal's neck. Put her in that certain position that always creates powerful queefs. Pump away until you are certain there is a powerful queef just waiting to get out. Now quickly pull out, pull on the air horn pull chain around her neck and yell, "Get the F@#$! out of my way you son of a bitch" in an angry trucker voice as she queefs loudly like your own personal trucker horn. For an added effect, do this in the back of a pickup going 60 MPH while your friend watches you go by from the side of the road at the precise moment so he hears the Angry Trucker with the Doppler effect. The Ladies find this sexual position very romantic. I think it was featured in the movie, The Notebook.
For my 10th year anniversary I wanted to do something very romantic for my wife. So I pulled an Angry Trucker on it. I think she fell in love all over again.
by kiesersozay January 24, 2011
A situation where you smoke a pack a cigarettes while a cheap truck stop whore gives you an old school BJ in the back of your rig and then doesn't finish the job and instead takes your cash and runs.
Derek was really upset when the truck stop hooker pulled an Angry Trucker on him
by kiesersozay January 24, 2011
This situation arises when one stakes out a truck stop looking for trucker who is negotiating to obtain services from a commercial sex worker. While the trucker is distracted, one sabotages a vital component of the truck required for ignition (such as cutting the battery cable with bolt cutters). While disabling the truck, one would continue to listen to the negotiation using any one of a wide variety of available listening devices. At the moment of monetary exchange, the saboteur reveals himself by pulling around the truck in a muscle car (preferably a 1978 trans-am with T tops for ease of entry, though any Camaro or Mustang type car will work) and shows a full tooth count, thus seducing the commercial sex worker to hop into the car and accepting fees for services in about half the amount settled upon by the truck driver. This uniformly irritates the trucker. A word of caution: do not attempt this in a prius as the saboteur may end up on the wrong side of the bargain.
In other news, the rash of angry trucker incidents in Green River continues with another case reported today...The incident today involved a trucker who remains anonymous; he said his money was stolen without services rendered, and he had to spend $89 on a new battery cable...
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Shutdown Options Before Installation
After you install SP2, by default, updates are installed every time you shut down your computer.
When you click Shut Down, if the updates are downloaded and ready to install, a new option may appear. Depending on the Windows XP setting, you either get a Turn Off Computer screen or a Shut Down Windows screen.
Turn Off Computer
If the Turn off computer dialog box appears, it displays a new security shield icon that gives you the option to update and turn off your computer.
|It is best to install updates when you shut down your computer. However, the installation can take several minutes to complete, so the Click here to turn off without installing updates option allows you to shut down the system immediately.
Shut Down WindowsIf the Shut Down Windows dialog box appears, it includes the default drop-down option to Install important updates and shut down.
On the other hand, if you have configured Windows Update to Download but choose when to install, you will be prompted if you want to automatically install them on the next reboot.
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