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Pajama Storytime
Monday, June 30, 2014 at 6:30 PM
Eldersburg Branch Library
For all ages
There is nothing better than bedtime stories with cookies and milk. Wear your PJs to this cozy storytime. Children 3 and under must be accompanied by an adult caregiver. Refreshments will be served.
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The state of Rhode Island struck a $75 million deal with 38 Studios in 2010, to be repaid in 10 years. In return, the company relocated to Providence and promised to bring 450 jobs to the state.
July 10 Bankruptcy meeting with 38 Studios creditors scheduled.
June 22 In an interview on WEEI-AM radio, Schilling says 38 Studios largely went bankrupt because it couldn't raise new capital. Schilling also says the money he saved from playing baseball, which he estimates at more than $50 million, is "probably all gone."
June 16 ESPN announces Curt Schilling on leave from part-time job as baseball analyst to deal with "his business issues."
June 15 Lawyer for five former 38 Studios workers files complaint against relocation company with Massachusetts attorney general.
June 7 RBS Citizens sues Curt Schilling for $2.4 million in loans to 38 Studios that Schilling personally guaranteed.
June 7 38 Studios files for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Reports nearly $22 million in assets, but debts of more than $150 million.
June 5 MoveTrek Mobility, the relocation company hired by 38 Studios, notifies some former 38 Studios workers that it is rescinding agreement to purchase their homes and they will be responsible for the mortgage.
May 25 Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island cuts off health insurance to former 38 Studios workers.
May 24 Curt Schilling's 38 Studios lays off all staff.
May 22 Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee said his administration has held up releasing the tax credits until it can find out more about the company's financial situation.
May 19 38 Studios makes a $1.1 million payment that was originally due May 1 and applies for another $6 million in tax credits.
May 17 38 Studios CEO Jennifer MacLean resigns.
May 16 Governor Lincoln Chafee acknowledges 38 Studios in trouble; state trying to keep company solvent. Economic Development chief Keith Stokes resigns over 38 Studios investment.
May 1 38 Studios misses $1.12 million loan guaranty payment to the Rhode Island Economic Development Corp.
March 31 38 Studios missed payment to Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island.
March 23 38 Studios CEO Jennifer MacLean takes unexpected leave of absence.
March 2012 (no exact date) 38 Studios pushes back internal launch date for project Copernicus from September 2012 to June 2013.
Feb. 8 Curt Schilling posts his stash of gold coins as collateral for loan from Bank Rhode Island.
Feb. 7 38 Studios releases first game, Kingdom of Amalur: Reckoning, in the United States.
Jan. 10 38 Studios signs deal to sell tax credits it expected to receive to Preservation Credit Fund, which in turn tries to sell credits to Blue Cross & Blue Shield.
April 38 Studios relocates to Providence from Maynard.
June 38 Studios first game, Kingdom of Amalur: Reckoning, still under development, receives positive reviews at major industry trade show.
June 24 38 Studios auditors raise doubts company can stay in business without additional funding.
March 9 Video game giant Electronic Arts Inc. announces it will distribute 38 Studios' first product.
March 6 Governor Donald Carcieri attends a barbecue at Schilling's Medfield home.
March 29 Schilling blogs that he is not looking for a government handout; threatens "give us tax credits or we bolt."
April 13 Rhode Island Legislature begins discussion of a $125 million fund for economic development but Schilling's firm never mentioned as possible recipient.
April 16 Schilling urges Massachusetts to offer public funds to help video game start-ups.
June 11 Carcieri signs legislation for a $125 million fund for economic development, but Schilling's firm never mentioned as possible recipient.
July 16 Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation meets to discuss $75 million loan guarantee to woo 38 Studios to Providence.
July 26 State approves $75 million loan; 38 Studios to create 450 jobs. Schilling said Massachusetts officials seemed indifferent to keeping his company.
Nov. 2 $75 million Rhode Island bond sale complete; 38 Studios to receive first installment of $13 million.
March 23 Schilling announces retirement from Boston Red Sox.
May 38 Studios acquires Big Huge Games, a Maryland game development studio that will help develop products for gaming consoles such as Microsoft Xbox 360.
May 27 38 Studios announces plans to acquire Big Huge Games of Timonium, Md.
Feb. 5 Schilling renames company 38 Studios LLC
Aug. 28 Schilling incorporates Green Monster Games LLC in Maynard, Mass

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Translators in Residence / Travel Support for 2011
The Icelandic Literature Fund and The Writers' Union of Iceland accept applications for grants for translators of Icelandic literature. Applicants selected will be granted a two to four weeks stay in Gunnarshús (The Writers' residence in Reykjavík) in March and April, and late July and August 2011. The grant consists of travel expenses, housing and a sum of ISK 20.000 pr. week to cover living expenses during the stay.
The applications, which indicate translated work/planned translations from Icelandic should be sent no later than October 15 2010 to:
The Icelandic Literature Fund
Austurstræti 18, 4th Floor
101 Reykjavík
The result will be announced no later than November 15 2010.


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Connie Kirk
Connie Kirk, age 34, of Malvern passed away Saturday, April 6, 2013 at her home.
She was born October 5, 1978, in Little Rock.
A Memorial Service will be held Saturday, April 27 at 2:00pm at Prairie Bayou Church of Christ.
Arrangements are by Regency Funeral Home. You may sign the guest book at www.regencyfuneralhome.com.


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Setting up authentication
Note: This is a WIP revision of the current "Setting up LDAP/Shibboleth" page. Note that the use of a forwardslash in naming the aforementioned page caused MediaWiki to create a directory structure in which the "Shibboleth" page is contained in the "Setting up LDAP" subdir, which could probably stand to be corrected.
Also: I'm in favour of rearranging this guide so that Shibboleth is discussed before LDAP, as I think it's easier to explain the difference between the two after having outlined what an SSO system does.
Finally: This guide previously stated falsely that OCS did not ship with LDAP -- in fact, I was able to get it running out of the box with OCS 2.3.2. Because user variables are consistent across OxS, it would seem to be that Shibboleth could be ported to OCS by simply adding the commented-out code within config.inc.php and including the plugins\implicitAuth dir from OJS, but I am unable to verify this as working.
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Setting up Shibboleth
- 3 Setting up LDAP
- 4 Frequently Asked Questions
- 4.1 I can't log in to OxS with my LDAP credentials.
- 4.2 OxS seems to hash passwords differently than in LDAP. How to I get OxS to conform to LDAP's hashing technique?
- 4.3 How can I use OxS attributes to authenticate other sources with LDAP?
- 4.4 I get this error when trying to connect to my LDAP server:
- 5 Resources
For synchronizing user accounts across multiple applications, OJS and OCS support Shibboleth and LDAP, both of which have varying degrees of support in other applications, including phpBB, Drupal, WordPress, and other content management systems.
Shibboleth is a popular open-source Single-Sign On (SSO) standard. SSO allows users to authenticate at any system login point using a common username and password combination, in a familiar interface, and be automatically signed in without ever seeing a password entry field within OJS. SSO is popular among universities, who need to manage a large, controlled userbase, as it provides a more seamless integration between your web applications. However, Shibboleth can be much more complex to install and configure than LDAP, as explained in some detail at https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/SHIB2/NativeSPOneMany.
LDAP, the "lightweight directory access protocol" cannot be used as a Single-Sign On (SSO) solution. It can be used to preserve meaningful connections between users' existing accounts on a server (ensuring, for example, that each new OJS user must be linked to one of a controlled list of email addresses, which can be specified externally), as well as for centralizing authentication (i.e. simplifying system architecture). A free, easy-to-configure Java LDAP server is available at http://www.opends.org.
Setting up Shibboleth
Note: Please note that Shibboleth support has not yet been ported to OCS. For future updates, see http://pkp.sfu.ca/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4224.
Shibboleth is maintained by the Internet2 Middleware Initiative (http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/), and their website provides a central location for downloads and documentation. Currently, they provide Shibboleth Service Provider 2.1 in binary form for all major operating systems, as well as providing source code. For further information on installing and setting up the Shibboleth Service Provider, please consult Internet2's support documentation.
Once Shibboleth is set up on your system, integration with your PKP application requires editing the config.inc.php file found in the base directory, in the [security] section. The variables in question all fall under the implicit_auth variable--Uncomment that by deleting the semicolon, and uncomment all of the other variables that begin with implicit_auth. Note that none of the other implicit_auth variables are consulted if the main variable is commented or not set to 'On'. By turning implicit_auth on, the login process will go through Shibboleth and several forms will be modified to not ask for personal information that is stored in Shibboleth.
Remember that integration with an SSO system disallows manual username and password entry within OJS, meaning that all user accounts must be mainained externally. This is to avoid leading SSO-naive users to register duplicate accounts.
Initially, all of the variables are set to generic values such as implicit_auth_header_first_name = HTTP_GIVENNAME and you will likely have to change the values to reflect your Shibboleth settings. If your application is part of an institutional federation, consult your technical support for these values. Otherwise, you will have to investigate the configuration files in Shibboleth. This can get complicated, and there is a difference between variables in Shibboleth 1.x and Shibboleth 2.x. As of Shibboleth 2.0, these values are stored as web server environment variables, and you can determine them by looking in the attribute-map.xml file (usually in the shibboleth_dir/etc/shibboleth/ directory), where the attribute is denoted by the 'id' attribute of each Attribute element. By default, the values should be Shib-EP-[AttributeId] where [AttributeId] is the value in the 'id' attribute, with the first letter capitalized. These values may also be in the form HTTP_SHIB_EP_[AttributeID] with [AttributeID] in all caps.
The implicit_auth_admin_list variable contains a list of UINs (email addresses) separated by spaces. If a user logs in with one of these UINs, they will automatically be logged in with administrator privileges. The implicit_auth_wayf_url can be found in the shibboleth.xml or shibboleth2.xml file (depending on what version you are using). It will be located in a <SessionInitiator> tag, as the URL attribute.
Setting up LDAP
Setting up an LDAP server is beyond the scope of this guide, but please consult the resources section for guides to doing so. Likewise, please consult the documentation for your other web applications for help with LDAP integration.
To set up LDAP in OJS and OCS, log in as the Site Administrator, and under 'Site Management' on the Administrator's home page, click on 'Authentication Sources'. Under 'Create authentication source', select 'LDAP' and click 'Create'. This will bring up the LDAP settings page.
The title for your LDAP setup is arbitrary; leave it as is or choose your own title. The next three settings customize the level of integration between OJS/OCS and your LDAP server.
- Enable user profile synchronization. If checked, user information (e.g. passwords, name, email address, phone number and other personal data) will automatically be synchronized between the LDAP source and OJS/OCS, allowing for a consistent user profile across applications.
- Enable user password modification. If checked, allows users to change their password and recover lost passwords.
- Enable user creation. If checked, any user created within OJS/OCS will automatically be added to the LDAP source, rather than having to specify users externally.
The next set of settings configures OJS/OCS to allow communication with the LDAP server.
- Server hostname. The domain/IP address of the server that hosts the LDAP source. If OJS/OCS is running on the same server as LDAP, you can enter 'localhost'.
- Server port. If LDAP is running on a non-standard port, enter the number here. Leave it blank if you're not sure.
- Base DN. This is where it gets a little complicated. LDAP is designed like a directory tree, much like your computer file system. To identify the directory entry to search for users, the LDAP plugin requires the base DN or 'Distinguished Name', on which to begin the search. In the example provided, ou=people,dc=example,dc=com, 'ou' (or 'Organization Unit') signifies the main group of users, which you should be able to determine from your LDAP source's configuration files. Likewise, the 'dc' (or 'Domain Component') should be under 'suffix' in your LDAP source's configuration file. Each domain component signifies a component of your domain name (e.g. example.com has the two domain components 'example' and 'com'. If you are using a localhost, use "dc=localhost,dc=localdomain".
- Manager DN. Like the Base DN, but this setting is required for the plugin to communicate with the LDAP source as an administrator, i.e. to make administrative changes. The domain components should be the same as the base DN, but the cn (or 'Common Name', i.e. the nickname of the root user) should be 'Manager' or whatever was set in your LDAP server configuration.
- Account name attribute. This value uniquely identifies a user object, and should be 'uid' for OpenLDAP, but may be different for other LDAP sources (e.g., it would be sAMAccountName for Microsoft Active Directory).
- Manager password. The password for the manager account (only required if the user profile/password synchronization or user creation options are enabled).
- Password encryption. For security reasons, it is recommended you use some form of password encryption. If you have PHP version 4.3.0 or greater, we suggest using SSHA.
Optionally, if your PHP is version 5.0 or greater, you can configure LDAP to use SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) for authentication. As this feature is for advanced users, please consult the links in the Resources section for more information.
Frequently Asked Questions
I can't log in to OxS with my LDAP credentials.
A major component of OxS is a consistent record of user activity, especially in respect to submissions and editing. If user records are stored outside of OxS, there is no guarantee that the record will stick around or stay consistent, causing problems with OxS. Thus, LDAP credentials won't work unless there is a matching user in OxS.
That said, there are several ways to get your LDAP users into your OxS database. If you wish to do a one time dump of users into OxS, you could build an XML file with user information to import into OxS (see the Users XML plugin). Further, code could be written to automatically insert users into the database when registered in another application. The execute function in classes/manager/form/UserManagementForm.inc.php shows how users are registered into OJS, and can be modeled in user registration functions in another application. Likely a variety of other solutions can be implemented to overcome this.
OxS seems to hash passwords differently than in LDAP. How to I get OxS to conform to LDAP's hashing technique?
By default, OJS and OCS append the username to the password before hashing. To change this behavior, modify the encryptCredentials function in classes/security/Validation.inc.php. If you change the password hashing behavior, you will have to reset all existing passwords in the database.
How can I use OxS attributes to authenticate other sources with LDAP?
If, instead of using LDAP entries to authenticate OxS, you wanted to give a certain OxS user role (e.g. journal managers) access to other server resources via LDAP, you would first need to add user attributes to your LDAP source. This is outside the scope of this guide, but should be detailed in your LDAP source's manual. Next, you'd need to alter the ToAttr() function in the LDAP function roughly as follows:
$roleDao = &DAORegistry::getDAO('RoleDAO');
if ($roleDao->roleExists($journal->getJournalId(), $editorId, ROLE_ID_READER)) $role = 'reader';
else if ($roleDao->roleExists($journal->getJournalId(), $editorId, ROLE_ID_JOURNAL_MANAGER)) $role = 'manager';
// Other role constants are defined in classes/security/Role.inc.php
if ($role) $attr['role'] = $role;
I get this error when trying to connect to my LDAP server:
PHP fatal error: Call to undefined function ldap_connect()
PHP's LDAP extension is not included by default, and may have to be compiled. See http://ca.php.net/manual/en/ldap.installation.php for more information.
- Quick HOWTO : Ch31 : Centralized Logins Using LDAP and RADIUS - http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch31_:_Centralized_Logins_Using_LDAP_and_RADIUS
- How to setup and maintain OpenLDAP server for your network - http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/How_to_setup_and_maintain_OpenLDAP_server_for_your_network
- OpenLDAP 2.1 Administrator's Guide: Using SASL - http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin21/sasl.html
- Java OpenDS LDAP Server - http://www.opends.org/
- Cyrus SASL for System Administrators - http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/cyrus/sysadmin.html
- Shibboleth Documentation - https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/SHIB/


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Part two of our behind the scenes look at The Boundless Show, plus an interview with Gary and Norma Smalley, and a question about ending the sexual aspect of a dating relationship. Featured musical artist: Group1Crew
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This week we bring you the second half of our discussion about what happens behind the scenes on the show. Dave is (again) a loose cannon, and the three of us dish on our favorite episodes ever, plus interviews that surprised us. Finally, we run down a list of the actual questions that you submitted.
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Gary Smalley has written around a million books on marriage; but what's his own marriage like? And are there two sides to the story? Gary's wife, Norma, rarely does interviews, but Martha and I used our considerable influence to woo her into the studio with her husband for a frank discussion on marriage and how theirs has weathered 48 years. This is a "legacy" interview you don't want to miss!
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They had sex as a dating couple, but now want to take a step backward and start over with purity in mind. What do they need to know? Counselor Danny Huerta provides some guidelines and encouragement.
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Fans of the 1988 movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" loved a lot of things about the movie. The story of a world where "toons" and humans could exist intrigued fans and movie critics alike, leading to four Academy Awards, and to date, grossing almost $1 billion.
But few fans realized the movie was based on a book, and even fewer local residents knew that Roger and Jessica and Baby Herman were born just down the road in Earlville.
Toontown was created by Gary K. Wolf, who spent his childhood in Earlville. Wolf credits much of his creativity to his early school days.
When Wolf was in first grade, he gave his teacher a picture of a cow he had colored blue.
"Look at this silly picture," she told the class. "Everybody knows cows are black, brown, or white. Never, ever are cows blue."
Fortunately for Wolf, his parents encouraged him to believe in himself and his creative vision.
"It is one of the things that I love the most about my parents," Wolf said. "I've gone out and colored a lot of cows blue since then, and I have them to thank for that."
Wolf developed an early interest in writing, but he put aside his writing when it came time to go to college.
"The people in Earlville who lived in the nice houses and got the big salaries and got all the respect were the electrical engineers working out at Marathon Electric," he said.
Fortunately the engineering classes didn't appeal to Wolf, who instead earned a degree in advertising from the University of Illinois.
Wolf turned to novel writing after college and sold his first science fiction novel "Killerball" to Doubleday in 1975. "Killerball" was followed by "Generation Removed" and "The Resurrectionist," and then Wolf decided to try something new.
"I always wanted to do something that would push the envelope, that would be different from anything anybody had done before," he said.
Wolf turned to the comic books and cartoons he had loved as a boy, and added the true crime mysteries his father had loved. It all came together one Saturday morning when Wolf was watching cartoons.
"I became fascinated, not with the cartoons, which were pretty horrible, but with the commercials," he said. "I started to see cartoon characters like Tony the Tiger, the Trix rabbit, Snap, Crackle and Pop, Cap'n Crunch. These were cartoon characters talking to real kids, and nobody seemed to think it was odd."
An idea was born.
"What kind of a world would it be if cartoon characters were real?" Wolf said.
So Wolf created that world, and wrote a book about it, which he called "Who Censored Roger Rabbit?"
"I wrote it, and it worked," Wolf said. "It was clearly the best thing I had ever done."
But not everybody thought so. Although Wolf had a contract with Doubleday for another novel, the company turned it down.
"For the first time ever, ever, I got a reject," Wolf said. "They rejected Roger Rabbit."
Wolf said the problem was with the marketing department.
"They said, 'We can't sell this. There's no category for it on bookstore shelves,'" Wolf said.
Nobody else felt they could publish it either. Wolf received a total of 110 rejections. Finally an editor at St. Martin's Press decided to give it a try, and a first printing of about only 5,000 copies was released in 1981.
But somebody — Wolf has no idea who — did something else with the book.
"They sent a copy of the manuscript to Disney and said, 'Here, we think you'd like this,'" Wolf said.
The book ended up on Roy Disney's desk, and he did like it.
One day Wolf's telephone rang.
"He says, 'Hi, this is Roy Disney, and I just read your book. Would you be interested in selling your rights to Disney and letting us make a movie?'" Wolf said.
Wolf sold his rights to Disney, but he never thought they would be able to turn the book into a movie. Nothing happened for a few years, but Disney kept working at it.
"Disney needed Roger Rabbit," Wolf said. "Their existing characters, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, had gotten kind of stale and they needed some new characters, mainly because they were just getting geared up for Disneyland and the Disney stores, and they needed characters for merchandise."
In 1984, Disney hired Michael Eisner, who brought along Jeffrey Katzenburg, who had previously worked with director Steven Spielberg. The men asked Spielberg if he would produce the Roger Rabbit movie.
It was an inspired choice.
"Without Steve Spielberg's name behind it, it would not have gotten going," Wolf said. "Steve had read the book when it came out and had always loved it and always thought it would make a great movie."
"Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" is a very different story than "Who Censored Roger Rabbit?" But despite the many changes, Wolf was pleased with the final movie.
"The things that they retained were the overall vision, a world where cartoon characters are real," he said. "They maintained all the characters and the central conceit. Everything after that is just gravy."
While Roger Rabbit cemented Wolf's reputation, he has continued to work on a number of other projects.
In 2007, he and his best friend from Earlville, John Myers, who is now the archbishop of Newark, released a book called "Space Vulture." "Space Vulture" is an homage to the science fiction books the two boys loved in grade school.
"John came to me one day with this book he'd gotten out of the library, and he said, 'You've got to read this book.' He said, 'It's science, but it's fiction. It's science fiction,'" Wolf said.
Recently Wolf bought two copies of that book, "Space Hawk" by Anthony Gilmore, so the men could relive their youth, but the book wasn't as good as they had remembered.
"One of us said, 'It's a shame we can't rewrite it the way we remember it instead of the way it actually was," Wolf said.
So they wrote "Space Vulture."
A movie and a sequel are also in the works for "Killerball," which Wolf describes as an "ultra-violent book about football being played as a blood sport with weapons on city streets."
"'Killerball' is still one of my favorites," Wolf said. "In non-Roger Rabbit circles — in science fiction circles — I am known as the guy who wrote 'Killerball.'"
In October, Wolf released "The Late Great Show," a story about Greek gods who have relocated to a mountain in Southern California. "Typical Day," a straight science fiction story with a fantasy twist, is scheduled for release in December.
Now 71, Wolf, who now resides in Brookline, Mass.,said he never tires of creating his own fantasy worlds.
"I just love spinning out things that don't exist, that may never exist, and writing them in such a way that I can make people believe," he said. "Making people laugh and entertaining people, it just gives me a lot of pleasure. I would do it even if I didn't get paid for it."


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Spotify is the killer app on my Android(s). I love learning about great new music from other like minded people, so I started a collaborative playlist. Feel free to add your current favorites to the playlist and tell us what you posted in this thread!
Android and Me collaborative Playlist –
Here's a sample of what I've been listening to lately:
"Only Son of the Ladiesman" – Father John Misty
"What Makes a Man?" – City and Colour
"River's and Roads" – The Head and the Heart
"Swim Until You Can't See Land" – Frighted Rabbit
"Stars Burn Out" – Mary Lou Lord
"Bad Boy Good Man" – Tape Five
"Clash" – Caravan Palace
"Warm and Easy" – The 2 Bears
"Chevy Marigold" – Boston Spaceships


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After completing our pre-optometry program you will hold a bachelor's degree. Because most of our students plan to apply to the Indiana University School of Optometry, we have based our curriculum on IU's admission requirements. To review complete course information, see the undergraduate catalog.
Other schools requirements may be different than IU's. For a list of other schools of optometry and their requirements, visit the Pre-Health Profession Office, located in Cooper Science Building, Room CL 232, or the Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry.
Students entering the Indiana University School of Optometry without a bachelor's degree must have the following courses in addition to the above: Arts and Humanities (6) Foreign Language** (6) Social Behavioral Sciences (6) Additional credits as needed Total: 90Of the 90 hours, at least 20 must be at the 300 or 400 level.
Other recommended courses CHEM 360 Essentials of Biochemistry (4) ANAT 425 Human Embryology and Histology (4) BIO 498 Undergraduate Research (1-3) ECON 116 Survey of Economic Ideas (3), or BUSAD 101 Introduction to Business (3), or MGT 200 or 300 Management Principles (3)
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The Language Learning Center (LLC) provides the audio-visual and computing resources for learning foreign languages and cultures. Students may use the lab to complete course assignments or simply to explore a foreign culture through film, CDs, DVDs, software programs, the internet or international satellite television. The Language Learning Center maintains a collection of more than 800 foreign films and has individual and group viewing rooms. The lab is permanently equipped with computers and an instructor workstation to accommodate classes in the center. The LLC supports e-mail, word processing and Internet access in the languages taught at the College. A projection unit enables the lab to be used for demonstration purposes or class use.


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I think I should be able to make this. Its the weekend before school starts, but that is ok. Would be nice to do a drive down to CS from Greeley. Anyone else from the Ft Collins/Greeley area going?
Well they are trying to make DATR more of a national draw, but I understand totally. DATR will be weaker this year due to the planning problems, so I'd say if you were going to have to decide, I might save the long drive to meet some new folks locally.
I think that was part of the issue. A lot of people have put in work on it, but I think Scott kept everyone in check and took care of stuff not getting done in the past.I'm not trying to create or imply anything negative, just what I have observed. I know Mike (kt037) has really stepped up and tackled a lot, hence the venue and date change late in the game.I am still very excited about it, but I don't see the big draw for out of state peeps. This will be more like the show of 3 years ago. However, I have been wrong before and will certainly be wrong again in my life.


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Utah basketball fans show their New Mexico knowledge
Utah basketball fans show their New Mexico knowledge
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah —
New Mexico has been catapulted to the national stage after the Lobos' successful 2012-2013 season.
Basketball fans outside the Energy Solutions Arena, however, did not know much about the state.
KOAT Action 7 News asked Becky Snarr of Utah what the state capitol was.
"Albuquerque," she said. "Is that right? Did I say that wrong? Oh, I'm so embarrassed."
However, it was a different story when it came to what fans knew about the basketball team.
"They're hot," said Steve Clark. "They're really hot and I really don't want to play them."
"I've got New Mexico going to the Final Four, so that's my pick," said Bill Peterson from Utah.


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March 24, 2011
A hitch in time: Advanced Manufacturing Institute helps Humboldt company with new product
Having a project end up with a hitch was just what a Kansas company and Kansas State University's Advanced Manufacturing Institute wanted.
B&W Trailer Hitches, Humboldt, sought the institute's help with developing a new hitch, testing its functionality and durability, and ensuring it met customer needs and industry standards. B&W manufactures high quality truck beds and trailer hitches.
"We've been working with B&W Trailer Hitches for several years and have developed a strong relationship by establishing ourselves as a knowledgeable and reliable engineering resource. We assist them with engineering design, analysis and testing as needed," said Taylor Jones, chief engineer at the institute.
"For this project, we assisted B&W with their Patriot 16K RV Hitch," Jones said. "The hitch is an industry-standard fifth wheel RV hitch that provides vertical adjustment and fits all standard tow vehicle mounting rails. B&W designed the hitch and AMI used finite element analysis to optimize the design and evaluate its structural integrity. We then utilized physical testing to prepare the product for market."
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A report released in January by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation found that "heavily weighting a single measure may incentivize teachers to focus too narrowly on a single aspect of effective teaching, and neglect its other important aspects." The report went on to say that "if the goal is for students to meet a broader set of learning objectives than are measured by a state's tests, then too-heavily weighting that test could make it harder to identify teachers who are producing other valued outcomes" (http://metproject.org/downloads/MET_Ensuring_Fair_and_Reliable_Measures_Practitioner_Brief.pdf).
The three-year study, which looked at student performance in 3,000 classrooms across seven states, found that the greater the emphasis placed on a single test, the higher the students scored on those tests and the lower they scored on other, higher-order assessments.
The report said another report, titled "Gathering Feedback for Teaching," found that "equally weighting three measures, including achievement gains, did a better job predicting teachers' success (across several student outcomes) than teachers' years of experience and masters' degrees, but that work did not attempt to determine optimal weights for composite measures."
The report did, however, look at four different ways of rating teacher performance and student outcomes, and found that rating student achievement at 33 percent, teacher observations at 33 percent and other measures, including student surveys at 33 percent, provided strong correlation with state tests. More importantly, it increased performance of students on other higher order assessments, and significantly increased the reliability of teacher performance scores.
The Louisiana Legislature and State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education need to look closely at the way they are using the LEAP, iLEAP, ACT and End of Course tests to limit the harm they may be doing to students in our state.
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Approximately 50 million Americans suffer from allergies or asthma, so you're probably acquainted with the sneezing, stuffy dripping nose, itchy and red eyes of airborne allergies. These allergies begin at any age and tend to run in families. The most familiar airborne allergy, called allergic rhinitis by doctors, is hay fever. This seasonal affliction arises whenever wind-borne pollen appears. If you're allergic to oak or elm pollen, then spring is your time of misery. Summer-time and autumn bring out grass and weed pollens. Because different plants grow around the United States, moving can solve (or aggravate) hay fever.
If your stuffed-up nose never seems to clear up and hearing has diminished due to nasal obstruction, then you likely suffer from perennial allergic rhinitis--year-round airborne allergies. In this case the molds that reside in your damp basement, house dust, dust mites or even your pet cat and dog are making you sneeze. While not classified as allergic rhinitis, allergic asthma can be aroused by similar allergens. Asthma attacks--wheezing, coughing, shortness of breath and chest tightness--characterize this more serious condition.
Your immune system provides wonderful protection against all the bacteria and other foreign invaders that can harm you. But in the case of an allergy, it goes overboard and begins attacking harmless substances like pollen and dust. The B cells, a part of your immune system that dwell in your lymph nodes, spleen and respiratory tract lining, make antibodies--five in all. One type, immunoglobulin E (IgE), normally parasite fighters, are responsible for allergic reactions.
No one with allergies reacts to a first encounter with pollen or cat dander. It takes many exposures for a person to make enough of the IgE antibodies to cause an allergic reaction. Once made, your body positions these antibodies on mast cells, immune cells that coat your nose. When you inhale mold or pollen, the allergen acts like a key that fits into a lock, the IgE antibody. This union then releases strong biochemical substances called mediators that trigger symptoms like itching and swollen eyes. Your doctor can identify allergies with a prick test, where extracts of suspected allergens are injected into your skin. If a reaction occurs, then you know you're allergic. Physical examination and a medical history confirm this diagnosis.
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While conventional medicine uses antihistamines, decongestants and allergy shots to treat allergies, more people are turning to homeopathic medicine. Instead of smoothing out physical complaints with drugs, this system uses minute amounts of plants, minerals or animal substances to cure a variety of ailments by promoting inner healing--what homeopaths call the vital force. Remedies are diluted so no side effects occur but healing does. In fact, the more dilute the remedy, the more potent it is. It's believed that the vigorous shaking, or succussions, used to prepare these medicines help potentize them.


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Imagine this hypothetical for a moment. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the foremost collective of pediatricians in the most medically advanced nation in the world, releases a statement. It says that the AAP officially endorses preemptive gastric bypass surgery for newborns. While it is an invasive and arguably unnecessary procedure, it's proven to have more benefits than risks. Why? Because preemptive gastric bypass surgery in infants greatly reduces the risk of them later having diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, atherosclerosis, cancer and heart attack.
After reading this hypothetical statement, you'd probably think that gastric bypass surgery for infants is an awfully long way to go to prevent health issues that may or may not happen later in life. You'd probably also think that if parents didn't feed their children fatty, sugary, processed foods, the doctors wouldn't have to get involved in the first place.
That's the situation we have this week with the AAP's controversial endorsement of circumcision. While families are encouraged to make their own decision (based on cultural background, religious belief, personal preference, etc.), the pediatric organization states that the surgical removal of a boy's foreskin offers more health benefits that it does risks. What health benefits are we talking about? The AAP's chief claim is that circumcision helps prevent sexually transmitted diseases: chlamydia, HIV, HPV, syphilis and gonorrhea, among others.
Let's distill this down to its very essence: Doctors support circumcision because we are raising uninformed male sluts.
Despite the public service announcements on TV and radio, despite sexual education in middle and high school, despite the increased prominence of condoms, despite our unlimited access to information and the ability to share that information instantaneously, a sizable (and growing) number of our sons are still putting themselves in risky sexual situations. Consider these statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
* There were 410,000 cases of chlamydia reported in 1992. Twenty years later, that number has increased to 1.3 million.
* In 1996, the number of gonorrhea cases was 328,000. In the 16 years since, that number has dipped all the way down to 310,000.
* In 2000, there were 31,618 cases of syphilis. Ten years later, the number was 45,834.
So what's happening here? Part of the problem is that parents are failing to do their job.
Let's be honest: Sex scares the bejesus out of us. It creates awkwardness and embarrassment and shame and secrecy. Throw our children into the mix, and we go catatonic. It doesn't help that circumcision's early history dovetails with the worst of our sexual terror: In the 19th century, circumcision was believed to eliminate "masturbatory insanity."
Because we're awkward and embarrassed, we're not biting the bullet and educating our kids about sex and relationships. We puritanical American parents have left The Talk to MTV, to middle school teachers, to older siblings, to friends in the neighborhood, to adult men's magazines, to the shadiest, creepiest corners of the Internet.
To all the people crying foul at the AAP's stance, to the "intactivists" who say circumcision is mutilation, I say this: Wake up. It's a doctor's responsibility to keep us healthy, to save our lives. It's their sworn duty (see: Oath, Hippocratic).
In keeping things with our sons nice, polite, pleasant and non-confrontational, we've left them to navigate sex and relationships on their own. As a result, they are making ill-informed decisions. They are putting themselves at risk. They are getting sick. They are costing the heath care system billions upon billions of dollars. They are dying. Wake up, take responsibility, and stop blaming the people who are saving us from ourselves.


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RedTree Development Inc. is a privately held company incorporated in 1992 in Alberta, Canada. It is wholly owned by myself, Craig Morris and my wife, Christine Muir and is run out of our home at the foot of the Fernie Alpine Resort, in the beautiful Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, Canada.
RedTree's main corporate function is to simply act as a holding company for a few investments, including a minority position in Virtual Materials Group. With the introduction of Alph, a process calculator for the iPhone and iPod touch, RedTree has also become a vendor of commercial software.
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