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The support staff is hired, the lunch prices have been set and iPad tablet computers are ready for teachers and 12th graders.
Brady school board members checked off the final to-do items for the 2012-13 school year during their regular monthly meeting Monday night.
Classes begin at 8 a.m. on Thursday.
Action items included approval of activity and faculty handbooks, adoption of activity pass costs, setting meal prices and authorizing payment of $22,000 to Educational Service Unit 16 for distance learning services.
The board also transferred $30,000 into the depreciation fund to cover anticipated bus upgrades, added $2,500 to the employee benefit fund and voted to pay CG Architects of North Platte $6,000 for work on the window replacement project.
The window project has stalled again, said superintendent Bill Porter, because specifications have changed enough to bid the project again.
Separating the window replacement into essentially two projects—upper level and lower level—has attracted the interest of additional contractors.
"They might come in lower yet," Porter said.
An original bid of $249,800 by Steele's Roofing and Construction was submitted in April with another bid from Steele's at $160,175 presented for a portion of the project in May.
Porter said the district will have to wait for further direction from the architectural firm.
In other action, the board approved work agreements and wages for support staff.
Board member Mary Ellen Mann questioned whether the board was offering enough salary for non-certified staff.
"Are we paying enough for what we get?" she questioned.
Porter agreed support staff salaries lag behind comparable positions at neighboring schools but said the district could not afford to increase pay.
In a related issue, board members chose to add a brief special meeting to their budget workshop on Aug. 30 to specifically address the hiring of paraprofessional Veronica Porter, the superintendent's wife.
She was selected after an interview by school principal Bruce Hird to serve as a teacher's aide.
The process abided by the board's policy on nepotism since paraprofessionals are not supervised by the superintendent but it did not necessarily fulfill the state's statute, according to board member Matt Hatch.
To prevent possible conflict and to cover all state requirements, the board will vote on Veronica Porter's work agreement prior to the budget workshop set for 6:30 p.m., Aug. 30.
Concerning the budget, the superintendent told the board that preliminary figures show the district will have what it needs financially for the coming school year.
He said if valuation is certified higher than previous estimates, the district might be able to lower its tax asking.
A public hearing for the 2012-13 budget will be conducted prior to the Sept. 10 board meeting.
In other business, the board:
learned the district has purchased SchoolReach, a parent notification system that works through PowerSchool to communicate school cancellations, schedule changes, emergency alerts and meeting reminders. The system has not yet been activated.
set the non-refundable laptop and tablet computer user fee at $50 for all 9-12 students.
voted to pay a $700 annual membership in the Nebraska Rural Community Schools Association and authorized a semi-annual payment of $5,845 to Kansas State Bank for a bus contract.
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Get ready to hear "Worldstar!" yelled on the big screen. The website that started with music videos but soon became a popular place to upload street fights (thus, the now-cliché "Worldstar!" shout when something's brewing) is getting its own movie thanks to Paramount Insurge, the studio's micro-budget wing, so expect this to look cheap ... like a Worldstar video. "Plot is being kept under wraps but is described as being akin to Ferris Bueller's Day Off in tone," reports Deadline, so expect at least one pretty amazing cafeteria fight. And we'll need that "Twist and Shout" remix, stat.


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High schooler gets 2 scholarship offers after 8 days of playing footballHigh schooler gets 2 scholarship offers after 8 days of playing football
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Dec 31, 2014; Miami Gardens, FL, USA; Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets running back Synjyn Days (10) celebrates a touchdown against the Mississippi State Bulldogs in the Orange Bowl game at Sun Life Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Brad Barr-USA TODAY Sports
It takes some high school football players years to earn a college scholarship. For Kevin Hester Jr., it was a matter of days.
The 6-foot-5, 230-pound Hester, who's a student at North Cobb High School in Kennesaw, Ga., received scholarship offers from Southern Miss on May 12 and Boston College on May 16.
As North Cobb football coach Jesse Lynch revealed on Twitter, Hester only had eight days of football under his belt before he received the offers. He's been playing basketball for far longer, and currently competes for the Atlanta Celtics of the AAU and Adidas Gauntlet Gold division.Read the complete news article here...
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Couple Works To Help Orphans
A local couple hopes their appearance on a national morning show will help shed light on the adoption need of earthquake-ravaged Haiti.
In October, the Rev. John Kraner, his wife Julie and seven other members of Wayne Street United Methodist Church traveled to Haiti as part of a mission trip to HIS (Haitian Interdenominational Shelter) Home For Children. Kraner said the orphanage, based in Port-Au-Prince, has seen a boom in children since the massive earthquake rocked the Caribbean island two years ago.
"As you can imagine, there was a tremendous transition because of it," Kraner told The Evening Leader, noting the trek was his fourth trip to Haiti. "HIS Home was able to have 70 kids receive their adoptions through diplomatic channels within days of the earthquake. That cleared out a lot, but the earthquake created thousands and thousands more orphan children. The Haitian government has been working hard to place these newly created orphans in orphanages throughout the country."
While at the orphanage, the volunteers painted a nursery, some beds and helped prepare a shop to open that will serve as a micro-enterprise business for some of the older orphans. Kraner said once an orphan turns 16, he or she is ineligible for adoption.
"They have to have a future," Kraner said. "They have a large number of dresses that have been donated that are formal and they will be setting up a dress shop where they can rent these dresses. The older girls are going to learn how to be seamstresses, do the marketing and customer service and basically run the store."
During their down time, Kraner said the volunteers got a chance to interact with the children. It was then when the Kraners met Rose Berline — a 10-year-old girl who would ultimately steal their hearts and prompt them to start the adoption process.
"We did not go down there with any intention to adopt," Kraner said. "Rose Berline, she gravitated toward Julie and spent a lot of time talking with Julie."
Rose Berline lost her mother in the earthquake. After bouncing around several different relatives, she ended up at HIS Home.
"On a recreation day when we were playing ball, she and I started connecting," Kraner said. "Each night, she would spend time with us. One night, she handed Julie a note that ended with the words, 'I love you very much, will you be my mom, adoption.'"
Kraner said his wife read the note and tried not to give Rose Berline any false hope, knowing Haiti's current adoption laws would make it difficult to take Rose Berline home soon.
"One of the laws we are running up against is they want you to be married 10 years," Kraner said, noting the couple has been married two years, but have each previously been married and have eight children between them.
"Haiti is changing that to five years. The problem is once a child hits 16, they cannot be adopted. By the time you do the math, that puts Rose at 14 and the process can take up to two years and she would be on that line of where she could become ineligible."
Julie Kraner said the handwritten note prompted mixed emotions.
"She's kind of shy and darted off a bit, but it was to where she could still see me," she said, noting she found out the day before the couple had not been married long enough to be eligible to adopt Rose Berline. "I knew she was watching me ... It was almost like a melancholy joy and sadness that she wanted that from me and chose me and the sadness of knowing we couldn't fulfill that dream. I didn't want to reject her, but I couldn't give her false hope."
Julie Kraner said she walked over and hugged the girl and told her she wasn't sure if she could make it happen. Given the language barrier, she said Rose Berline could not completely understand.
"That hurt me more than anything," Julie Kraner said. "Not understanding the laws that are in effect."
National airwaves
To coincide with the two-year anniversary of the earthquake, CBS This Morning is scheduled to air a story about Haiti that will feature Rose Berline and the Kraners. Kraner said officials at HIS Home told CBS staff about Rose Berline and the Kraners' adoption process and they jumped on board.
"We did a phone interview from New York for an hour and a producer and crew came about a week or so ago and spent five hours in our home in Celina," Kraner said.
"They flew to Haiti and met Rose Berline and interviewed her on camera and as a favor to us, delivered some Christmas gifts for us that we weren't able to get down there in time. They brought us back pictures of her opening her gifts."
The show is scheduled to air between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. Thursday.
"They were very gracious to come and our whole focus with them was to say we didn't want the story to be about Jon and Julie adopting, this is a story that focuses on the need of Haitian children to be adopted and the older children who don't get the attention they deserve."
The national story could be a double-edged sword for the Kraners. Kraner said if another couple sees the story and is able and willing to adopt Rose Berline — and they fit the five-year requirement — he and his wife would be willing to withdraw their application.
"If the good that comes out of this is another family would step forward to adopt Rose Berline, we would be thankful," Kraner said. "The goal is for her to come to this country to have a future. The last thing we want to do is be selfish and say it's our way or no way — she comes here or no one gets her ... If that doesn't happen, we will continue to move forward and get it done. It will just take longer."
Julie Kraner agreed.
"We have to be advocates if nothing else," she said.
"As much as we would like to have this little girl, we want her to have a forever home, especially those older kids as well. These are kids who have lost everyone they loved and they had a home and a family and they know what they are missing. They want someone to love them and take care of them and that's Rose Berline."
Fighting for Rose Berline and all the children
Kraner said while he understands the need to protect Haitian children from possible abuse, he hoped officials would understand exceptions should be made when the situation warrants one.
"We understand there needs to be laws to protect children from adoptions that can go wrong — there are times when children are horribly abused, so we know Haiti intends to do the right thing," Kraner said. "We understand they would prefer a couple married a few years, but we are not a couple who are 25 or 30 who just got married two years ago and never had children. We understand there needs to be regulations to protect children, there just seems there could be some case-by-case exceptions made like an instance where you've raised a number of children. We have eight children and of those eight, six are adults."
No matter the outcome, Kraner said he and his wife plan to continue their quest to bring Rose Berline to Celina to become their ninth child.
"You just never know what can happen — we have a lot of hope as we move forward," Kraner said.
"We'll have that dossier submitted so when five years hits, it's ready. We believe faith can move mountains and if by some way it's meant to be, we want to get Rose Berline here sooner rather than later."
Julie Kraner also said she planned to continue to fight to bring awareness to the situation.
"Our ultimate goal is to support the orphans and encourage adoptions," Julie Kraner said. "We feel very strongly the children are Haiti's future. Our goal is for those children, the older ones, to find them homes."
For more information on HIS Home, visit HisHomeForChildren.com.


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Hudson, Claussen Speak at 2nd World Journalism Education Congress Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Tim Hudson, Ph.D., dean and professor, and Dane S. Claussen, Ph.D., professor & director of graduate programs and faculty development, both in the School of Communication at Point Park University, spoke at the 2nd World Journalism Education Congress, held July 5-7 at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.
In a panel session called, "Changing Models, Shifting Foundations: Economic and Management Issues in the New Media Curriculum," Dr. Hudson made a presentation called, "Media Production Competencies for the Versatile 21st Century Journalist." In the presentation, he outlined a technologically updated bachelor's degree curriculum that would meet U.S. journalism accreditation requirements as well as the international journalism curricular standards developed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Other panelists were Greg Newton, Associate Director for Media Studies, School of Media Arts & Sciences, Ohio University; Greg Pitts, Chair, Department of Communications, University of North Alabama; and Glenda Williams, Coordinator of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Telecommunications & Film, University of Alabama.
In a separate session, Dr. Claussen presented a paper, "How U.S. Public Relations Education Leads the World, and Why That's Still Not Good Enough." The paper showed how almost no U.S. bachelor's degree and master's degree programs in public relations are requiring or allowing their students to take more than one (if any) business or economics course, despite two joint academic-industry (via Public Relations Society of America) studies calling for PR students to study business and economics. He also discussed reasons why this is the case, and what would need to change to solve the problem.
Dr. Claussen was the designated Discussant for a group of research papers in a session titled, "Chinese Experiences," and-in yet a different session-presented for its author, Yulia Medvedeva of Russia (who could not attend the Congress), the paper, "Developing Organizational Ethics Codes in Media Outlets."
Dr. Claussen, who is Editor of the international, refereed, quarterly Journalism & Mass Communication Educator for the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication (AEJMC), also participated in the Journal Editors' Roundtable at the Congress. Roundtable participants, among other decisions, agreed to establish a global email network of scholarly journal editors in journalism, mass communication, media studies, etc.
In July, Dr. Claussen also attended the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) conference at the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, on behalf of the Journalism & Mass Communication Educator journal and AEJMC.


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I am proud to announce that I will start making regular contributions to the Our America Initiative blog and am honored to be a part of what I hope will be an historic initiative to restore America to its former greatness by restoring her freedoms.
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One important question for our era is: How do we create clean, affordable, renewable energy? It would seem that Silicon Valley engineer, K.R. Sridhar has found an answer to that question, the Bloom Box. With its dazzling premiere on 60 minutes Sunday evening, the Bloom Box is making a big splash on the Internet as the next best solution to our energy needs. It's a small fuel cell that produces a lot of energy, allowing its users to unplug from the power grid and cheaply generate energy themselves.
Innovators like K.R. Sridhar and his company, Bloom Energy, offer a better alternative. Instead of limiting our environmental impact in a way that hurts the finances of American households and businesses, energy entrepreneurs seek to limit our environmental impact by creating value for Americans. The beauty of energy efficiency is that it needs no directive from a government central planner, because energy efficiency is cost efficiency, and Americans already have an incentive to cut costs. In the end, it will be people like you and me who want to save money in our homes and small businesses that will drive a true and lasting revolution in energy efficiency and sustainability.
Be sure to read the whole thing here, and while you're there, peruse the site and check out some of Governor Johnson's positions on other political issues.
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Real Time Reflection Question: Is Self-Law Harming Christianity?
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Truth Versus the Polls
By: Chuck Colson~Published: June 17, 2010 5:00 AM
According to a new survey by the Gallup organization, for the first time a majority of Americans—53 percent—believe that gay and lesbian relationships are morally acceptable. Only 43 percent of Americans call these relationships morally wrong.
This is a dramatic change from the beginning of the millennium. In 2001, only 40 percent of those surveyed called same-sex relationships "morally acceptable" while 53 percent called them "morally wrong."
According to Gallup, the "gradual increase in public acceptance of gay relations" is "almost exclusively" a result of changing attitudes among males towards homosexuality. This is especially the case among men under the age of 50.
The change in attitudes has happened despite little, if any change, in beliefs about the causes of same-sex attraction. Americans are evenly divided on the "nature versus nurture" explanation, and have been for a long while.
The only good news from the survey results is that 53 percent of those polled are against same-sex "marriage," which is "down slightly" from last year.
Not surprisingly, gay-rights activists are ecstatic over the results. At the Atlantic Monthly, Andrew Sullivan called the results a cultural "Rubicon" and rejoiced in the failure of those he labels "Christianists"—a nice backhanded comparison to "Islamists."
Christian commentator Rod Dreher, while he completely disagrees with Sullivan on the issue, agrees that the tide has turned.
But these results were to be expected—given the relentless barrage of pro-gay media coverage and the overwhelmingly positive depiction of same-sex relationships in popular culture.
A recent New York Times article noted that people are "starting not to notice" when celebrities come out of the closet. The Times lamented that what was "once seen as a defiant and courageous act of such social and political significance" has "has lost some of its potency."
I wonder why? Could it be that, if your perception of the world is shaped by pop culture, you expect a lot of people to be gay? Could it be that after years of being told by elite media, like the Times, that being gay is "no big deal," people treat the news that someone is gay as "no big deal"?
The elite molders of opinion have done their job well. We live in a world where moral qualms about homosexuality are regarded as bigotry. Today it requires more courage, as well as strength, to swim against the cultural tide and express any reservation about homosexual relationships.
But swim we must. What is true has never been a question to be decided by polls or popular opinion. Truth isn't "democratic"—it's something that God has written into the very fabric of nature.
Of course, that idea is even less popular than our beliefs about same-sex relationships. We in the West have elevated autonomy, which literally means "self law" into our highest value. Now listen to me folks, this is going to be a wake-up call. The tide has turned against Christian in the culture because we haven't been doing our job in the church. Culture matters. Politics follows culture. That's why we've got to start making a better case.


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BURLEY — Mallory Beth Monroe, the 1-year-old daughter of Matt and Shannon Turner Monroe of Burley, passed away peacefully in her daddy's arms in the early morning hours of May 3, 2011.
Our beautiful Mallory came into this world on Jan. 11, 2010, determined to change our lives forever – and she did! Though Mallory lived only 15 short months, this dark curly-haired, big blue-eyed, porcelain-skinned little girl shared with us and others what Heaven is truly like. Within milliseconds of seeing her, we knew she would face challenges on this earth that most of us wouldn't agree to if we had the choice before coming to this life. Her smile could melt a glacier.
She leaves with faith-filled broken hearts her parents, Matt and Shannon Monroe and siblings, Abby, Kate and Luke. all of Burley; her grandparents, Gary and Glena Turner and Lloyd and Julie Monroe, all of Burley; her great-grandparents, Lovell and Beth Turner of Declo, Ralph (LeNore) Henderson of Bountiful, Utah, and Miriam Monroe of Beaver, Utah; and a host of aunts, uncles, and cousins who simply adored her.
The funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 7, at the Burley LDS 3rd and 7th Ward Church, 2200 Oakley Ave., with Bishop Steve Garn officiating. Burial will be in the Pleasant View Cemetery in Burley.
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Technical Implementation Notice 13-39, Amended
National Weather Service Headquarters Washington DC
725 AM EST Mon Dec 16 2013
To: Subscribers:
-Family of Services
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Other NWS Partners, Users and Employees
From: Tim McClung
Chief, Science Plans Branch
Office of Science and Technology
Subject: Amended: Upgrade to RTMA and Initial Implementation
of URMA: Effective January 28, 2014
This notice was amended to reschedule implementation to
January 28, 2014
Effective on or about Tuesday, January 28, 2014, with the
1400 Universal Coordinated Time (UTC) cycle, the National Centers
for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) will upgrade the Real-Time
Mesoscale Analysis (RTMA) and introduce the Unrestricted
Mesoscale Analysis (URMA). The upgraded RTMA includes:
-Adding variables
-Changing resolution for Alaska
-Adding a new output grid
-Removing the 5km CONUS products except for those on NOAAPORT
URMA is an improved analysis created 6 hours after analysis time
(with the exception of precip, see URMA section below) to provide
a more complete set of observational data. There will also be a
change to the products available from the North American Model
(NAM) Downscaled Numerical Guidance (DNG) system. More specific
details of the changes are provided below.
Addition of New Fields:
Hourly grids of 10m wind gust and surface visibility will be
added to CONUS at 2.5km horizontal resolution, and Hawaii and
Puerto Rico at 2.5km. Similar grids, except 3-hourly, will be
added for Guam at 2.5km. These fields will be available in the
existing RTMA output files and will be disseminated over NOAAPORT
using the WMO headers listed in Table 1 below.
Change of Resolution for Alaska grid:
The current Alaska grid 6km resolution will be replaced with a
3km resolution grid (grid number 91). The output products will
contain hourly grids of 2m temperature, 2m dew point, 10m wind
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The 3km products will be disseminated via the NCEP server, NOMADS
and NOAAPORT. In addition, the 6km grids currently available in
the National Digital Guidance Database (NDGD) at
will be replaced by the new 3km grids. The 6km Alaska grids will
remain on NOAAPORT until such time as the Advanced Weather and
Information Processing System (AWIPS) can convert to using the
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New output grids will be generated on a 2.5km grid that covers
the area of responsibility of the North West River Forecast
Center (NWRFC). The geographic coverage of the grid can be seen
The output products will contain hourly grids of 2m temperature,
2m dew point, 10m wind speed, 10m wind direction, 10m u-wind
component, 10m v-wind component, 10-m wind gust, surface
pressure, surface visibility, and model terrain height. The
NWRFC products will be disseminated via the NCEP server and will
be available for http download on NOMADS.
Implementation of URMA:
Updated grids for the 2.5km CONUS and NWRFC domains, along with
the grids of 6-hour accumulated precipitation will be referred to
as the Unrestricted Mesoscale Analysis (URMA). URMA represents an
improved analysis more suited for verification since it adds
nearly all of the observations which are not used for the initial
analysis due to transmission latency issues. Grids of 2m
temperature, 2m dew point, 10m wind speed, 10m wind direction,
10m u-wind component, 10m v-wind component, 10-m wind gust,
surface pressure, and surface visibility will be made and
distributed 6 hours after the initial grids are made.
URMA will also include 6-hourly grids of accumulated
precipitation, remapped from the NCEP stage-IV precipitation.
The 6-hourly precipitation accumulation fields covering a 24h
(12Z-12Z) period are available beginning at 15:35 UTC; the CONUS
mosaic is remade each hour as NCEPS receives new regional
analyses from RFCs. Complete CONUS coverage is generally achieved
by 21:35 UTC.
With the exception of the precipitation grids, each of the above
analysis grids will be accompanied by a grid of the corresponding
analysis uncertainty. The GRIB encoding for the URMA grids will
be the same as that for the RTMA grids for the same elements,
except that the generating model process number for URMA will be
118 (RTMA is 109). URMA will be available on the NCEP server,
NOMADS, NDGD, and will be sent over NOAAPORT with the WMO headers
listed in Table 2
Change in filenames and directory structure:
Previously, the grids for the analysis and the analysis error
were contained in the same output files. This file will be split
into an analysis-only file and an analysis error-only file. On
NOMADS and the NCEP server, the following three filenames will be
available, with this example the 0000 UTC cycle for 2.5km CONUS:
rtma2p5.t00z.2dvaranl_ndfd.grb2 -- analysis grids
rtma2p5.t00z.2dvarerr_ndfd.grb2 -- analysis error
rtma2p5.t00z.2dvarges_ndfd.grb2 -- first guess field
In addition, the directory structure under which the RTMA
products are available on the NCEP server will change. Today, the
files are available in directories:
where {model} is akrtma, gurtma, hirtma, prrtma, rtma, and
rtma2p5, depending on geographic region. With this upgrade, the
first {model} will be replaced with a generic "rtma" directory
name, and then the multiple geographic region names will follow
after the "prod" directory level.
Removal of 5km CONUS RTMA products:
In TIN 11-20, NCEP announced that the 2.5km CONUS RTMA products
were a replacement for the 5km grids. The 5km products had to be
retained until such time as AWIPS could transition to the 2.5km
grids. While the 5km grids will remain on NOAAPORT for a while
longer, NCEP will remove the 5km CONUS grids from NOMADS and the
NCEP ftp server with this upgrade.
Additional RTMA enhancements:
The old grids for CONUS at 5km and Alaska at 6km that will be
distributed only on NOAAPORT will henceforth be sampled from the
corresponding double-resolution grids, thus benefiting from the
more recent, improved science used to create the latter.
An hourly cross-validation will be added to CONUS RTMA at 2.5km
and URMA at 2.5km.
There will be improved quality of the grids of surface pressure
for Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico thanks to the use of an
improved background field.
Associated change to the NAM DNG:
The NAM DNG is used as input to the RTMA. To support some of the
changes to the RTMA system, more NAM DNG data is being made
available. Output will now be available hourly up to forecast
hour 12 for the Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico domains. In
addition, 10m wind gusts and surface visibility will be added
hourly out to forecast hour 12, while today it is only available
every 3 hours. The NAM DNG products can be found at
with filenames with *smart* in the name.
More information about the RTMA and URMA is available at:
A consistent parallel feed of data will be available on the NCEP
server via the following URLs:
NCEP urges all users to ensure their decoders can handle changes
in content order, changes in the scaling factor component within
the product definition section (PDS) of the GRIB files, changes
to the GRIB Bit Map Section (BMS), and volume changes. These
elements may change with future NCEP model implementations. NCEP
will make every attempt to alert users to these changes before
Table 1: WMO Headings assigned to grids of wind gust and
visibility for all available domains. Here, * is C for Puerto
Rico, G for Guam, H for Hawaii, I for 2.5km CONUS RTMA, and K for
3km Alaska. For URMA, * is Q for 2.5km CONUS URMA.
LN*A98 KWBR wind gust analysis
LN*A98 KWBR wind gust analysis uncertainty
LK*A98 KWBR visibility analysis
LK*A98 KWBR visibility analysis uncertainty
Table 2: WMO Headings assigned to RTMA grids for 3km Alaska, and
to URMA grids for 2.5km CONUS. Here, * is Q for 2.5km CONUS URMA,
and K for 3km Alaska RTMA.
LT*A98 KWBR temperature analysis
LT*A98 KWBR temperature analysis uncertainty
LR*A98 KWBR dewpoint temperature analysis
LR*A98 KWBR dewpoint temperature analysis uncertainty
LN*A98 KWBR wind speed analysis
LN*A98 KWBR wind speed analysis uncertainty
LN*A98 KWBR wind direction analysis
LN*A98 KWBR wind direction analysis uncertainty
LU*A98 KWBR u wind component analysis
LV*A98 KWBR v wind component analysis
LP*A98 KWBR surface pressure analysis
LP*A98 KWBR surface pressure analysis uncertainty
LH*A98 KWBR RTMA model terrain height
LEIA98 KWBR 6-hour Accumulated precipitation (2.5km for
CONUS only)
For questions regarding these changes, please contact:
Geoff DiMego
NCEP/EMC Mesoscale Modeling Branch
College Park, Maryland
For questions regarding the dataflow aspects of these datasets,
please contact:
Rebecca Cosgrove
NCEP/NCO Dataflow Team
College Park, Maryland
NWS National Technical Implementation Notices are online at:


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Vegetable growers can now add Sandea herbicide to their weed control arsenal, under a Section 3 label approved in mid-January by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Sandea, which contains the active ingredient halosulfuron-methyl, promises control of yellow and purple nutsedge and select broadleaf weeds in several vegetable crops.
A dry flowable formulation, Sandea can be absorbed through roots, shoots and foliage and is translocated within the plant. Labeled crops include asparagus, cucumber, winter squash, pumpkins, cantaloupes, tomatoes, snap beans and dry beans. In addition, row middle/furrow applications are labeled for the curcurbit and fruiting vegetable crop groups.
The herbicide offers flexible application timing with pre-emergence and postemergence application options. Low use rates, and no required mechanical incorporation also make it east to use, according to Gowan Company, the product's manufacturer.
According to the product label, Sandea may not be applied by air, through an air assisted field crop sprayer, or through any type of irrigation system. In addition, producers are prohibited from applying more than 2.0 ounces of the product per acre in a 12-month period.
"The level of weed control following Sandea application is dependent upon application rate and method, weed species, size and infestation intensity at application time, and growing conditions. Soon after Sandea is applies, growth of susceptible weeds is inhibited, and they are no longer competitive with the crop. Following growth inhibition, the leaves begin to discolor, with complete control typically occurring within seven to 14 days, depending on weed size, species, and growing conditions," the product label states.
Crop use recommendations for the herbicide are divided into five geographically diverse regions, with Region C covering Arkansas and points west including Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. Region D covers most of the Mid-South and Southeast including Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. Product registration is pending in California.
Under the label, Sandea may be applied at a rate of 0.5 to 1.0 ounces per acre using a minimum of 15 gallons of water per acre, depending on crop and region.
In some cases, a second application of product may be necessary to optimize nutsedge control in those areas where nutsedge has emerged or re-grown.
For more information, or to obtain a copy of the product label, visit Gowan Company's website at www.gowanco.com.


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Hi everybody and Happy New Year!
I am wanting to put in the entries for The Northerns and Nationals today. There are a few people with question marks next to their names and a few people may have also changed their minds. Please let me know by 5 pm today 1st jan if there are any changes to the list Shirley sent you. People who have a question mark next to them will not be entered.
You can text, ring, email me or reply via this forum.
Thanks Sally


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I haven't been to a funeral in years. I guess I'm lucky. Well, at least in that it's been a while. I've been to quite a few funerals in my life with most of them being before the end of my high school days. People that I now barely remember in blurry memories, forgotten pictures and a whiff of smell now and then. People that I wish I could talk to once more. Learn from them. Share with them. Tell them how much they meant to me. But that is the nature of loss, remorse and regret. And the forgetting? That is the nature of humans.
Tonight I attended the funeral of one of my father-in-laws. Well not necessarily a funeral. More of a memorial. There was no service planned. He had been cremated so the only reminder of him was the hundreds of pictures throughout the room and the innocuous green marble container with his name written on it. I know people were planning on getting up and telling stories or just telling others how they felt. My wife among them. I didn't get to stay to hear those speeches because I had to take Kira back home. It was getting close to bed time and she was starting to fade into crabby-land. It was expected – no regrets.


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== Firmware ==
== Firmware ==
Revision as of 18:17, 29 June 2006
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Originally by mindbender.
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- 1 Firmware
- 1.1 I followed all tips from the FAQ-section...i disabled my Firewall, i try to directly connect the LS with a crossover-cable....i can connect to it over the webinterface, the samba shares and over telnet...but the firmware updater does not find the Linkstation....what else could be wrong?
- 1.2 I cannot connect to the Buffalo`s FTP-Server? Why?
- 2 OpenLink
Hz4711 had this problem: the linkstation has a service called ls_servd(apservd) which is needed for the firmware updater. it did not start. over telnet he could delete /var/run/ls_servd-eth0.pid because it was pretty old (you can check this by doing a "ls -a" in /var/run)...
afterwards start apservd:
/etc/init.d/apservd start
hopefully this happened only with an old openlink-version
I cannot connect to the Buffalo`s FTP-Server? Why?
Buffalo has changed the FTP-Server-Address....
IP: 220.127.116.11\\ Username: guest\\ Password: We1c0m3
or here is the link to go there directly over your browser:
/bin/more doesn't work. It says 'more: /dev/console: No such device'.
cd /dev\\ mknod tty0 c 4 0\\ mknod tty1 c 4 1\\ mknod tty2 c 4 2\\ mknod tty3 c 4 3\\ mknod tty4 c 4 4\\ mknod tty5 c 4 5\\ mknod tty6 c 4 6\\ mknod tty c 5 0
(by ramon. see http://linkstationwiki.org/forum/3_270_0.html)
After moving directory to hda3 to free up space on hda1, some symbolic links don't work any more.
(Can we add this back to the main FAQ?)
If you follow the FAQ to move /usr to say, /mnt/hda/moved_folder/usr and symbolic-link it back, some relative links won't work. For example, /usr/bin/wget has the symbolic link ../../bin/busybox, and that would get resolved to /mnt/hda/moved_folder/bin/busybox, which does not exist. Therefore, you can link all unmoved directory under root back to this /mnt/hda/moved_folder:
ln -s /bin /mnt/hda/moved_folder\\ ln -s /dev /mnt/hda/moved_folder\\ ln -s /etc /mnt/hda/moved_folder\\ ln -s /lib /mnt/hda/moved_folder\\ ln -s /lost+found /mnt/hda/moved_folder\\ ln -s /mnt /mnt/hda/moved_folder\\ ln -s /proc /mnt/hda/moved_folder\\ ln -s /root /mnt/hda/moved_folder\\ ln -s /sbin /mnt/hda/moved_folder\\ ln -s /sys /mnt/hda/moved_folder\\ ln -s /tmp /mnt/hda/moved_folder\\ ln -s /www /mnt/hda/moved_folder
A lot of commands stopped working. Busybox is overwritten after installing Development Tools.
This is very possible if you install some package which overwrites busybox through its symbolic links. For example, the Development Tools overwrites 'cmp' (through /usr/bin/cmp -> /bin/busybox) and this may ruin your busybox. One way to prevent this is add the k option (non-overwriting) for tar in install.sh.
If your busybox is overwritten, you might not even be able to boot. In that case, you'll have to rescue your busybox through other means, e.g. mount your HD under PC and use ext2_fix to write back the binary file.
I found busybox is easily overwritten, so I always keep another copy somewhere else and copy it back after any potential writing into /bin, /sbin, or /usr/bin.


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ThinkGeek has just released an innovative remote control for Siri on the iPhone 4S; called Iris 9000 it bears more than a little resemblance to HAL 900 of 2001 fame and will enable you to take control of Siri from across the room.
By simply placing your iPhone 4S into the Iris 9000 cradle you'll be able to utilise the micro remote in order to bring Siri to life from up to 50 feet away.
The mic on the remote means speech recognition won't be a problem, whilst the speaker will amplify any responses you get. You can also make and receive calls using the Iris 9000 like a standard speakerphone. Oh, and the Iris 9000's glowing eye flickers along with Siri's voice - creepy.
The Siri-enabled Iris 9000 will be available in spring 2012 for $60, and if you're interested ThinkGeek has begun taking email requests now.


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Why another application settings XML class?
See Read and Write application parameters
in XML for better reasons.
This class should make it easy to read, write and delete application settings
to an XML file using the familiar registry key/value nomenclature (ex.
"MyApp\Appearance\Font\Face"). If it doesn't make it easy, um... I
didn't write it.
To use the class, there are only 6 methods you will need to worry about.
void SetSettingsFile(CString cstrFile)
long GetSettingLong(CString cstrBaseKeyName, CString cstrValueName,
long lDefaultValue)
long SetSettingLong(CString cstrBaseKeyName, CString cstrValueName,
long lValue)
CString GetSettingString(CString cstrBaseKeyName, CString
cstrValueName, CString cstrDefaultValue)
long SetSettingString(CString cstrBaseKeyName, CString cstrValueName,
CString cstrValue)
BOOL DeleteSetting(CString cstrBaseKeyName, CString
Other methods in the class parse key/value "chains", and load, save, and
traverse the settings file.
That's it!
If the XML file does not exist or if a key/value does not exist, the Set
methods will create it and the Get methods will return the default value.
The class and the demo app use MFC and MSXML 4.0. Please let me know if you find any bugs are would
like to see improvements.
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Searching for some Game 7 karma? How about 'Giants Monday'?
After Sunday's Game 6 win over the Cardinals, I went searching for some kind of karma, some signal that would tell us the Giants would prevail in Game 7.
I tried looking for Game 7 history. But the Giants haven't played a Game 7 at home since 1962, and only played two other Game 7s since then … and lost both.
I tried looking for clinching games at home. But the Giants' last four playoff series clinching wins have come on the road. They've only played three potential series clinching games at home since 1962, all Game 5s: 1989 vs. Cubs (won), 2002 vs. Cardinals (won), 2010 vs. Phillies (lost).
But then, it hit me … Monday.
Mondays have been very good to the San Francisco Giants in the postseason.
The San Francisco Giants have NEVER lost a postseason game played on a Monday — a streak of seven consecutive wins. Five of those wins clinched the series for the Giants.
On Monday, in the postseason, the Giants have (games with asterick were series clinching games) …
- Monday, Oct. 15, 2012, Giants beat Cardinals 7-1 in Game 2 of the NLCS
- Monday, Nov. 1, 2010, Giants beat Rangers 3-1 in Game 5 of the World Series*
- Monday, Oct. 11, 2010, Giants beat Braves 3-2 in Game 4 of NLDS*
- Monday, Oct. 14, 2002, Giants beat Cardinals 2-1 in Game 5 of NLCS*
- Monday, Oct. 7, 2002, Giants beat Braves 3-1 in Game 5 of NLDS*
- Monday, Oct. 9, 1989, Giants beat Cubs 3-2 in Game 5 of NLCS*
- Monday, Oct. 8, 1962, Giants beat Yankees 7-3 in Game 4 of World Series
The last time the Giants lost a postseason game on a Monday was Game 4 of the 1951 World Series, when they were the New York Giants.
Now some might point to the 1998 one-game playoff for the wild card spot against the Cubs, which the Giants lost 5-3. But that wasn't a postseason game. Officially, it was regular-season game No. 163.
The Mamas and the Papas once sang "whenever Monday comes, you can find me cryin' all of the time."
And "Rainy Days and Mondays" always brought The Carpenters down.
But the San Francisco Giants LOVE Mondays.
Wait a minute. Mondays always bring The Carpenters down? The Cardinals have two Carpenters on their roster.


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We have some amazing sponsors already lined up but are still looking for more. If you have a product that you'd like to be featured during our event, please contact me.
This is our event button. Post it on your blog and leave a comment on this post telling me where to find it BEFORE our event starts and you will get TWO extra entries into the first few giveaways.


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There are some people we shouldn't hang out with not because we're too good for them, but because we're not good enough.
PART 1: To Judge or Not To Judge »
"Zack, I don't think you know what you're asking. You want me to take the splinter out of your eye, but I've had enough logs removed from my own eyes to make a forest."
He sat down. "That's no answer. It just means you've had a lot of experience removing them."
"Only because they keep getting back in."
"You've advised me about other things. Lots of times."
"This is different. 'Judging with right judgment' is just as difficult for me as it is for you. Your temptation is to try not to judge; mine is to judge too readily. When I was your age I was a regular Pharisee."
"But Professor Theophilus, if you were still a Pharisee I wouldn't be asking your advice. I'm asking because you're a repentant former Pharisee. Couldn't you tell me what you learned from repenting?"
I mulled it over. "I suppose I could do that."
He grinned.
"All right," I said. "You already understand that you have to make judgments of character and avoid bad companions. Take that as given. The most important thing I learned is that when you avoid them, you shouldn't do it because you think you're too good to be with them, but because you're not good enough."
"How's that again?"
"Think of it this way. The counsel to avoid bad companions is biblical. Why does the Bible warn against them?"
"I suppose because they might influence us. Maybe also because our example might have a bad effect on other people."
"Right. Now concentrate on the first reason — that they might influence us. What does that say about us?"
"I guess — that we're susceptible."
"Yes, exactly. So our character isn't much too brag about either."
"What about Jesus?"
"What about Him?"
"Well, the Pharisees criticized him for associating with notorious sinners like prostitutes, drunks, and tax-collectors, didn't they?"
"Yes. So?"
"We should do what Jesus did. So it seems that we shouldn't avoid people because of their way of life."
"Whoever told you that you can do everything that Jesus did?"
"You know – 'WWJD.' Doesn't that come from the Bible?"
I smiled. "I think it comes from a bracelet."
"But — "
"Jesus was the Son of God; not everything he did was for our imitation. We should imitate Him, yes, but only in the ways that he taught us to do so. Jesus Himself taught that we should avoid certain people."
"He said that?"
"Look it up. In Matthew 18, for example, he said that if your faith-brother commits serious wrong against you but won't accept patient correction — from you, from witnesses, or even from the church — then you should treat him 'as you would a pagan or a tax collector.'"
"But He didn't treat the tax collectors like tax collectors. He had dinner with Zacchaeus, he called Matthew to be a disciple — "
"Jesus came to seek lost sheep, and so He did. He didn't pal around with the ones who wanted to stay lost. Do you see the difference between sharing the gospel with a drunk, and hitting the bars with him?"
"Sure, but — "
"But what?"
"What's wrong with, say, establishing a street mission?"
"Nothing. At least, so long as you don't try to be a Lone Ranger. Jesus sent out the disciples two by two — probably so that they could encourage each other and hold each other accountable to what they set out to do." I laughed. "But Zack, isn't all that beside the point?"
"How is it beside the point? Why are you laughing?"
"You've forgotten how all this came up."
"No, I haven't." His eyes glinted. "My friends were criticizing me for associating with 'pagans and tax collectors.'"
"The 'pagans and tax collectors' in this case being Cleo and Anton."
"And I suppose you were sharing the gospel with Cleo and Anton in a street mission — right? Is that why your friends were so worried?"
"Well, no. It was more like — well — "
"Go ahead."
"Hanging out. You know."
"Hanging out? Doing what?"
"Different things. Going to hear music and — stuff. Stop looking at me like that."
"Sorry. Do you want to tell me about the stuff?"
Zack tried to look nonchalant.
"Anyway, nothing wrong with innocent music."
"That's what I say," he said.
"Music you could take Jesus to hear, eh?"
His look changed.
I waited him out.
"All right," he quavered. "Maybe Cleo and Anton did influence me a little."
"Maybe that was why your other friends were worried a little."
His voice became firmer. "But they didn't know about any of that."
"They just thought it — because of how Cleo and Anton looked. And that still burns me."
"Why should it burn you?"
"You can't judge a book — "
" — by its cover. You said that before. And I said I thought sometimes we can. Would you like to talk about the covers on these two 'books'?"
"Well, I did say I wanted to learn to 'judge with right judgment.' So yes."
"You mentioned that Anton wears Satanic clothing."
"Just the T shirt. Well, the chains too. And some other little things. But he says it doesn't mean anything."
I raised an eyebrow. "People say they wear their clothing to express themselves, but as soon as you ask what they're expressing, they say it doesn't mean anything."
"Anton's not a Satanist, if that's what you mean. It's all a put-on. The only thing he's expressing is his sense of humor."
"I didn't think you'd hang around with a real Satanist, Zack."
"You didn't? Then why — ?"
"Because even if he does wear those things just to be funny, doesn't that raise a question?"
"What question?"
"Why he thinks it's funny."
Zack shifted in his seat. "I don't know. There might be a lot of reasons."
"I can think of a lot of reasons too. But can you think of any good ones? Of any innocent reasons to make a joke of radical evil? Imagine yucking it up about Jeffrey Dahmer or the Holocaust."
"Since you put it that way – no, I can't." He met my eyes again. "Prof, what does that say about me? I, well, I sort of thought it was funny, too."
"Good question. Keep asking yourself."
He sighed.
I asked, "What was the other thing about him that you mentioned?"
"The piercings."
"Now I remember. You said that the metal set off security alarms."
"Uh huh. But he only got them for decoration." Zack looked up. "You're going to shoot me down again, aren't you?"
"How am I going to shoot you down?"
"You're going to ask 'Why would a person consider it decorative to make holes in himself?'"
"I was going to ask a different question, but that one will do. What do you think is the answer?"
"I guess he wants attention. Maybe he wants to shock people."
"By wearing his Satanist gear, isn't he already doing those things?"
"True. And the piercings are where you can't see them anyway. I guess I don't know why he gets them. And I have to admit that to have a two-inch screw driven through his — "
"Don't tell me where."
" — is pretty self-destructive."
"Has it occurred to you that bodily self-destruction might be the purpose?
Zack goggled. "Why would he hate his own body?"
"I don't know. What has he been doing with it to make it hateful?"
"Wouldn't it be easier to just shoot himself or something?"
"You'd think so, but most people who destroy themselves use slower methods."
"I guess you'd see Cleo's tattoo the same way."
"As an expression of self-contempt? You figure it out. A poisonous serpent crawling from her navel downward — isn't the symbolism pretty obvious?"
"But like I told you, Prof, she says it's just a joke on her name. The historical Cleopatra killed herself by letting a viper bite her, so Cleo uses a viper as her personal I.D."
"That just makes the symbolism plainer. What do names and I.Ds represent?"
"So what three things does that I.D. tattoo link together?"
"Um — herself, I guess."
"That's one."
"Go on."
"And, well, sex."
"That's how I read it too. Self, sex, and poisonous self-destruction. "
"But she doesn't talk anything like that!"
"She doesn't have to. The tattoo says it all, and you said yourself that she dresses so that it can't be missed. The meaning couldn't be plainer if she'd branded herself, poor girl."
"I thought she was so clean-minded."
"The most likely explanation of that — what was that word you used earlier? — how you said she seemed but really wasn't?"
"That's it. Can I say 'skankiness'? Is that a word too?"
"Yeah, I've heard it."
"The most likely explanation is that you were attracted to her because of her skankiness — but, just because you were attracted to her, you convinced yourself that she wasn't skanky."
Zack's ears and cheeks turned bright red. I let him sit for a few minutes while I busied myself with the coffee maker. By the time I sat back down, his color was normal. He said 'No' to coffee, and glanced at his watch.
"Have to get to class?" I asked.
"Yes. But, uh, can I say one more thing before I leave?"
"I thought this 'judging with right judgment' business was going to be all about other people. You know, being down on Cleo and Anton."
I took a sip of coffee and listened.
"But it's turned out to be more about me."
I smiled. "Isn't that what I said it should be?"
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The regulator said in conference call Thursday that the new recommended doses will be 5mg for immediate-sleep versions of the drug and 6.25mg for extended release iterations. The new guidelines will affect drugs including Sanofi's Ambien, Ambien CR and generic versions thereof. Transcept/Purdue Pharma drug Intermezzo, which is also a zolpidem sleep aid, will not have to issue a new label, as its 3.5mg dose is below the FDA's new threshold, but the drug makers' driving study is the force behind the FDA's new guidelines.
"Risk mitigation is a difficult business," Ellis Unger, of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research said, by way of explaining that patients will awaken with levels of zolpidem in their bloodstreams, but at lower levels, with the new recommendations.
Despite the lower dose, Intermezzo's PI also includes warnings that consumers may be impaired in the morning.
Unger said the agency had received adverse event reports for drugs zolpidem drugs since 2007, but could not create a one-to-one connection with effects such as impaired driving because driving incidents could have been associated with additional factors such as consumption of other drugs or alcohol, or when the sleep aid had been taken. The Intermezzo driving studies, which accompanied the drug maker's application, changed that.
The agency was able to use the Intermezzo driving studies as backdrop for other information the regulator already had on hand from other manufacturers. Cross-referencing the information allowed the agency to conclude that the blood levels of the other drugs were associated with morning impairment. Unger said the information check was not prompted by a particular incident, but was done because the agency had the data to do it.
Unger said that although all sleep drugs have drowsiness listed as a side effect, the new information is distinct because "alertness can be impaired even in people who don't feel drowsy." He also said the gender-based recommendation is due to the different ways men and women metabolize the agent: women need a lower dose because it stays in their blood longer.
Unger said that the driving study will be sufficient for current zolpidem drugs, but that the agency does want driving information on all sleep aids and this latest finding will mean applications for new sleep aids will have to be accompanied by driving data.
Consumers are also advised to keep taking their sleep aids until they can discuss doses with their physicians. Data from the Centers for Disease Control shows that eliminating a drug for sleeplessness can also have an effect – its latest data, from 2009, shows that 7.2% of sleep deprived 25-to-35-year-olds fell asleep while driving, and 5.7% of sleepy adults between 35 and 45 also nodded behind the wheel. The CDC said the National Transportation Safety Board estimates that "drowsy driving" is linked to almost 1,600 deaths and 40,000 nonfatal injuries every year.
Although the new safety information could be read as giving Intermezzo an edge, spokeswoman Libby Holman told MM&M in an email that it does not expect the latest news from the FDA will boost sales. Holman, who also noted that the drug has different indication than those of Ambien and its peers (it is for patients with interrupted sleep), also said the company does not expect today's news will alter the DTC campaign that started running in November 2012 and will continue through March. Intermezzo already includes a gender-based dosing recommendation.


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Top Pop Hits for Marching Band: Arrangers' Publishing Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Through next week, we're highlighting the top new pop hits by publisher for marching band for 2013! These charts are some of today's biggest pop hits. They're catchy, full of hooks, and your students are sure to love them! If you haven't picked up at least one of these titles, what are you waiting for? Don't miss out!!
Our second batch features 5 fantastic numbers from Arrangers' Publishing. They feature some of the biggest, most driving arrangements available with artists ranging from will.i.am with Britney Spears, to Pitbull, Nicki Minaj, and fun.. If you missed it, check out this year's Top Pop Hits from Hal Leonard, keep reading next week for the top pops from Alfred, and shop Stanton's for all your sheet music needs!
Beauty and a Beat – Justin Bieber featuring Nicki Minaj
Performed by pop sensations, Justin Bieber and Nicki Minaj, the rhythmic energy and contrasting melodies of this hit song provide the right mix for a sensational Tom Wallace chart.
Feel This Moment – Pitbull with Christina Aguilera
Feel This Moment features an interpolated melody from the 80s hit Take On Me by the group A-ha. This combination of rhythmic power and soaring lyrical melodies offers production variety easily coupled with music that translates naturally for marching bands.
Scream & Shout – will.i.am featuring Britney Spears
Having topped the charts in 18 countries worldwide, this upbeat, electro-pop mega-hit by will.i.am is perfectly titled to be performed in the stands… and you can rest assured that Tom Wallace's arrangement lives up to the title!
Starships – Nicki Minaj
Tom Wallace captures the feel-good vibe of this mega-hit by Nicki Minaj. Pulsating rhythmic sections coupled with one of the more popular hooks in recent memory make this a natural choice for the stands.
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Reproduction courtesy of the Supreme Court Historical Society. **Hugo La Fayette Black **
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The youngest of eight children of a farmer in rural Alabama, Hugo Black attended local schools but did not graduate high school. He briefly attended Birmingham Medical College at age 17, then entered the University of Alabama Law School, earning a bachelor of laws degree in 1906. He soon settled in Birmingham, where he established a successful practice and in 1911-1912 briefly served as judge in the Birmingham Police Court. In 1914 Black was elected public prosecutor for Jefferson County, Alabama, and won local fame for his investigation of brutal interrogations by police in the county jail. He resigned in 1917 and enlisted in the U.S. Army, serving for a year before returning to private practice.
In 1923, to further his political career, Black joined the Birmingham chapter of the Ku Klux Klan; he stayed with the organization for two years. In 1926 he was elected to the U.S. Senate, where he became an ardent populist and, in the early 1930s, one of President Franklin Roosevelt's most dedicated supporters. To address the widespread suffering of the Great Depression, he helped Congress pass several key pieces of legislation implementing Roosevelt's New Deal policies, only to see them overturned by the conservative majority on the Supreme Court.
After Roosevelt's reelection in 1936, Black strongly supported him in his unsuccessful attempt to reorganize the Court and ensure a liberal majority. When Justice Willis Van Devanter, one of the "Four Horsemen" (four staunch conservatives) on the Court, retired in 1937, Roosevelt nominated Black to succeed him. A furor erupted when the PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE published a series of articles telling the story of Black's membership in the KKK. Black made a nationally broadcast radio address explaining his actions, and he soon vindicated himself by establishing a judicial record strongly sympathetic to African Americans and the civil rights movement.
Black was an avid reader. He had an affinity for the works of Thomas Jefferson, and read such classics as Tacitus, Livy, Thucydides, and Plutarch, as well as works by modern political philosophers and historians. Black's judicial philosophy combined a literal reading of the Constitution with a passion for civil liberties and civil rights. Because the First Amendment stated that "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech," Black concluded that any law infringing free speech was self-evidently unconstitutional. He also interpreted the Fourteenth Amendmentbroadly, concluding that it incorporated the protections of the Bill of Rights to all actions by the states.
In the period of the "Red Scare" after the Second World War, when the Court upheld laws criminalizing speech regarding the overthrow ofthe U.S. government (Dennis v. United States [1951]), Black dissented, writing: "there is hope ... that, in calmer times, ... this or some later court will restore the First Amendment liberties to the high preferred place where they belong in a free society." Until his retirement in 1971 at age 85, he remained an ardent advocate of free speech, of civil rights, and of the separation between church and state.


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Lynn Cooper, Executive Director of the Inyo Council for the Arts, said the free admission is funded WESTAF and the California Arts Council/DOJ fund.
"We understand that these are tough economic times for many people, and we're very happy to be able to offer a few hours of high-quality, free entertainment for area families," Cooper said.
She said no tickets will be required for the free Sunday admission, just come to the main gate at Millpond County Park after 4 to enter.
"We also hope that if some people have been curious about the event, but haven't previously attended that they will take advantage of the free admission to try the festival," Cooper said.
The final two acts to take the Millpond stage on Sunday will be Celtic Fiddle Festival at 4 o'clock and Los Pinguos at 5:45. The Washington Post called Celtic Fiddle Festival "three of the finest folk violinists anywhere." Fiddlers Kevin Burke (Ireland), Christian Lemaître (France) and André Brunet (Canada), along with acclaimed guitarist Nicholas Quemener combine their talents, musical traditions, and spontaneous humor for a dazzling, high energy performance that no one should miss.


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Reasons to Bare Your Soil
Most gardeners and landscapers use mulch to help plants and trees grow healthy and strong. Mulch is great for deterring weeds, and stopping erosion and compaction. We all know how helpful mulch can be, but there are also times when you shouldn't use it.
Here are times when it is better to bare your garden soil:
- Early in the spring season, mulch can prevent the sun from warming the soil, making it more difficult to start your garden.
- Mulch retains water, which can saturate your garden if you already live in a swampy area.
- Mulch can create a habitat for crop-destroying pests such as slugs and mites. Small rodents can also burrow in thicker areas.
- Some inexpensive mulch has dyes or added chemicals to make them look aesthetically pleasing. These chemicals can break down in your soil and inhibit plant growth or change soil composition.
- If piled too high, mulch can cause stems or trunks to rot by holding too much moisture against them.
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A flipped classroom (or flip teaching) reverses the traditional teaching methodology, giving students access to new material at home, usually via screen casting, while class time is used to assimilate this knowledge via debates, problem solving and critical thinking. When flipping a classroom, the teacher is able to offer more personalized guidance and interaction with students, instead of lecturing.
In short:
- What? Replacing homework with lecture.
- Why? More time for critical thinking, problem solving, and inquiry during class.
- How? Tab casting: combining tablets and screen casting to deliver writing and voice to students online.
The flipped classroom: key components
There is no single structure or model to follow when turning traditional teaching into a flipped classroom. Flip teaching is used as an umbrella term to cover (almost) any form of teaching that replaces homework with prerecorded lectures and class time with practical work. Many educators are experimenting with different approaches to the flipped classroom model. However, in every flipped classroom approach, there are two key components: educational technology and active learning.
The evolution in educational technologies has driven the increased adoption of the flipped classroom model. Current mobile and internet technologies bring a wider range of educational resources to the student. The out-of-the-class portion in flip teaching is now for example supported by screencasting and vodcasting (video-on-demand casting), bringing a much richer experience to students, while having their lectures at home. Additional advantages are that students can watch the lecture at their own pace and communicate with teachers and peers via online discussion boards.
A classroom flip provides opportunity for active learning and student engagement through a wide range of hands-on activities, like individual assignments, discussions, debates, workshops, problem solving and critical thinking. In this scenario, the teacher functions as a guide and coach while students assimilate their knowledge through both individual tests and collaborative efforts.
Myths about flip teaching
As with every success story, every now and then some criticism on the flipped classroom model emerges. However, usually this is based on misinformation. Let's address some typical flip teaching myths and misconceptions:
Flip teaching is NOT:
- Replacing the teacher with videos. On the contrary, the role of the teacher becomes more important and active.
- An online course. Students do watch lectures online (or at least in a digital format) out of the classroom, but the true benefit of the flipped classroom model lays in the fact that this knowledge is assimilated in class via learning through activity and engaging the students.
- About students working with structure. In his role as coach and guide, it's the teacher's responsibility to keep the classroom structured with a right balance between individual exercises and group interaction.
A more elaborate response to the recent criticism can be found here, together with some real life examples why the flipped classroom model works.


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Genjutsu (幻術;Literally meaning "Illusionary Techniques") are techniques that are employed in the same fashion as ninjutsu, requiring chakra and hand seals. However, the primary difference between the two is that the effects of genjutsu are illusory; instead of attacking the victim's body, like taijutsu or ninjutsu, genjutsu techniques manipulate the flow of chakra in the victim's brain, thus causing a disruption in their senses. According to the Second Mizukage, genjutsu fittingly falls under the broad category of Yin Release. This is frequently used to create false images or to cause pain from trauma (because the body is led to believe it is in pain); however, there are plenty of other uses depending on the situation. <section end=summary />They are not used as often as ninjutsu because they don't physically harm the opponent, but several characters have made themselves well-known for their great prowess with genjutsu like Itachi Uchiha, Kurenai Yūhi, the Second Mizukage, and Tayuya. Genjutsu can also be used to manipulate others, similar to brainwashing by feeding the victim illusive suggestions, the primary example being Tobi controlling Yagura. However, there exists at least one genjutsu, Izanagi, that has the opposite effects to normal genjutsu, by changing reality to illusion and vice versa. Genjutsu can also be used for other supplementary purposes such as interrogating an individual by breaking their will.
Genjutsu is created when a ninja controls the chakra flow of the opponent's cerebral nervous system, thereby affecting their five senses. Those with special abilities like the Uchiha clan's Sharingan — which can cast generic genjutsu — or with high intelligence have an easier time executing and countering genjutsu. Those under the influence of genjutsu will either appear to be unconscious or continue to move around under the pretence of the genjutsu. The latter is very effective in battle as a genjutsu user can make themselves appear to be somewhere else and attack the victim from behind or change the environment to make the victim see a flat plain where there is a steep cliff.
Genjutsu attacks usually require a lot of skill, and, if performed incorrectly, will not work; even Jiraiya had trouble performing such techniques.[1] Genjutsu is most often used by ninja with very precise chakra control and very high intelligence, two notable users being Itachi Uchiha and Kurenai Yūhi.[2]
Because genjutsu affects activity throughout the prosencephalon structure of the brain, humans, dogs and other species of mammal are therefore all affected by genjutsu; however, the kikaichū, like all insects, lack such a structure to their brains, and so do not even notice it: as Shino Aburame put it, insects are ruled almost solely by their senses alone, which makes them immune to genjutsu and gives the Aburame clan an ability to detect it, even when heightened senses become succeptible.[3]
Shikamaru Nara states that among genjutsu the most dangerous are those that affect the opponent with sound allowing the user to stay out of sight. Tayuya is a great example of this sound-based, long-range type of combat.[4]
Combating Genjutsu Edit
To combat the effects of genjutsu, there are several options:
- The ninja needs to stop the flow of chakra in their body, and then apply an even stronger power to disrupt the flow of the caster's chakra; this is called Genjutsu Dissipation (幻術解, Genjutsu Kai; ; ; ). This can also be done by an unaffected ninja by applying a sudden surge of chakra into the affected person.[5] In addition, tailed beasts can break their jinchūriki out of genjutsu in a similar fashion if they have a good enough cooperation, as seen in Killer B's case.[6][7]
- Another is through intense pain not caused by the genjutsu and utilising the resulting pain to bring their senses back in order (of the first two options, the latter seems more effective in most situations, or at least is the easiest).[8]
- Another option is accessible only to Sharingan wielders. Members of the Uchiha clan can break or see through genjutsu using their Sharingan. Breaking Tsukuyomi is possible with an ordinary Sharingan, but requires a lot of skill.[9]
- Sharingan wielders can also use their dōjutsu to liberate each other from genjutsu. Through eye contact, they are able to literally insert themselves into each other's genjutsu freely allowing them to break whatever genjutsu it is that imprisons their comrade.[10]
- Ordinary people can sometimes train their eyes (without Sharingan) to break genjutsu through unknown means, like Deidara.[11]
- One can prevent a person from casting genjutsu using obstructive techniques like the Hiding in Mist Technique to prevent one from being trapped by an ocular genjutsu as Zabuza demonstrated against Kakashi.[12]
- In the anime it was shown that strong smells like that from the Chilli Pepper Bombs, can counteract genjutsu.[13]
In spite of these methods, some forms of genjutsu like Itachi's Tsukuyomi and Shima and Fukasaku's Demonic Illusion: Toad Confrontation Chant may not be broken easily, either due to their near-instant effect like the former, or their ability to render one unconscious and paralysed altogether like the latter. In addition, one must realise that he or she is under the effects of genjutsu before attempting to break out of it. This can be done by observing the changes in one's own chakra like Karin's chakra-sensing ability.[14]
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References Edit
- ↑ Naruto chapter 378, page 6
- ↑ Second Databook, page 163
- ↑ Naruto episode 206
- ↑ Naruto chapter 214, pages 13-14
- ↑ Naruto chapter 259, pages 8-10
- ↑ Naruto chapter 413, page 15
- ↑ Naruto chapter 549, page 14
- ↑ Naruto chapter 345, pages 8-9
- ↑ Naruto chapter 388, page 14
- ↑ Naruto chapter 585, page 13
- ↑ Naruto chapter 360, page 17
- ↑ Naruto chapter 26, page 13
- ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 187
- ↑ Naruto chapter 477, page 4