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If your idea of fun is watching two metallic tribes slug it out, one option is to go see the new "Transformers" movie. The other is to look at what is going on with vehicles.
Aluminum is contending with its heavier counterpart, steel. This year will see the launch of Ford Motor's new F-150 truck, weighing in around 700 pounds lighter than the 2009 model largely due to replacing some of its steel with aluminum.


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Kimberly Buffington-Quaid has withdrawn her divorce papers from husband Dennis Quaid, People reports.
Kimberly filed a "notice of nonsuit" with Travis County court in Texas on April 26. No reason for dropping the divorce proceedings has been provided.
Dennis Quaid's wife files for divorce
The couple, who married in 2004, initially announced their separation in March. According to the documents, Kimberly stated, "The marriage has become insupportable because of discord or conflict of personalities... that destroys the legitimate ends of the marriage relationship and prevents any reasonable expectation of reconciliation." Later the actor's rep said, "Contrary to what has been reported, a satisfactory settlement is being worked out for both parties."
The pair has 4-year-old twins. Quaid stars in a pilot currently under consideration by CBS for the fall as a cowboy-turned-sheriff in 1960s Las Vegas.


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WALTHAM, Mass. – Brandeis University junior Alex Stoyle of Goffstown, N.H., and rookie Caroline Mattos of Providence, R.I., have been selected as University Athletic Association Athletes of the Week for men's basketball and women's fencing, respectively.
Stoyle, a forward, was honored for the first time in his career. In the Judges' 1-1 week against UAA foes, he averaged 21 points, 11 rebounds and three blocked shots per game. He hit 74 percent from the floor (14-19) and 64 percent from 3-point range (7-11) while making all seven of his free throws.
In a 72-67 win over Emory University on Friday night, Stoyle led Brandeis to victory with his first collegiate double-double, scoring 27 points and grabbing 13 rebounds, both career-highs, while also blocking three shots. Stoyle started the game on fire, scoring nine points and grabbing seven rebounds in the first 10 minutes of play. He had 14 points and eight boards by halftime and finished shooting 9-of-12 overall, 4-of-7 from 3-point range and 5-of-5 from the line.
Two days later, the Judges, ranked No. 25 in the nation by d3hoops.com at the time, faced top-ranked Rochester, falling 66-59. Stoyle had just two rebounds and no points in the first half after picking up two early fouls. Despite that, he still finished just short of a double-double with 15 points and nine rebounds. Stoyle went 5-for-7 overall, 3-for-4 from deep and 2-for-2 from the line with seven boards and two blocked shots in the second half as the Judges cut a 14-point deficit to one but could not claw all the way back.
Overall this season for the 15-5 Judges, Stoyle is averaging nine points and 5.4 rebounds per game, fourth and second on the team, respectively. He also leads the squad with 13 blocked shots.
Mattos, a first-year foil fencer, earned UAA honors for the fourth time this season. Competing at MIT's Eric Sollee Invitational, she tied for the team's best record at 11-4. She went 3-0 in a UAA match against NYU, a 15-12 Brandeis win, and against Haverford and Stevens as well. In addition to their win over NYU, the Judges also defeated Haverford (17-10) and Yeshiva (23-4) but fell to Stevens Institute of Technology (16-11), Duke (20-7) and Pennsylvania (20-7).
Overall this season, Mattos leads the Brandeis women with a 63-12 record. The Judges are 15-9 as a team.
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A crocodile has attacked a man at the Shoalhaven Zoo in front of school holiday onlookers.
Animal handler Trent Burton believed to be in his mid 30s, was performing one of the regular crocodile feeding shows at the zoo at about noon on Monday.
Shortly after, the resident croc, a 3.7 metre male known as John, grabbed him by the hand and dragged him into the water in the enclosure in front of horrified spectators.
'the croc just grabbed his hand and pulled him to the ground and dragged him into the water.'Witness Michelle Brady
Shaken witnessed told how the handler managed to get free of the croc's grasp and get out of the water.
Witness Marlene Orr, from Shellharbour, said it was the scariest thing she had ever seen in her life.
"We saw the trainer taken by the crocodile," she said.
"I've seen them in the wild, lying on river banks and have seen them at Steve Irwin's Zoo, but never like this.
"It was too scary."
Albion Park resident Michelle Brady and her daughters Monique and Georgia also saw the attack.
"The trainer was feeding him meat and the crocodile took it before the designated area to be fed. The trainer tried to take it out of the crocodile's mouth and the croc just grabbed his hand and pulled him to the ground and dragged him into the water," she said.
"Then the trainer got free and got out of the water.
"He had puncture holes in his hand," she said.
He was treated at the zoo by ambulance paramedics and walked to the ambulance.
He was taken to Shoalhaven District Hospital with bites to both hands.
Shoalhaven Zoo owner Nick Schilko said the Mr Burton had been with the zoo working with the crocodiles for more than a decade.
"Of course we are disappointed the attack happened, but thankfully it doesn't appear to be too serious," he said..0
"It's an attack and that is serious, but thankfully the injuries aren't life threatening, which it certainly had the potential to be.
"He's more disappointed with himself that it happened.
"He works with him on a daily basis."
It's not the first time John, named after the former owner if the park John Stone, has latched onto the odd digit or two.
Mr Schilko had been bitten by one the zoo's star attractions.
"At this stage we don't know how serious the damage to his hands may be. "He said he hasn't lost any fingers and thinks it would only require some stitches," Mr Schilko said.
He said the zoo would reassess its procedures.
"We will look at what happened and how it happened and review it," he said.
"We have procedures in place and they need to be followed.
"If the handler wants to get back involved with the big crocs, which I bet he will, I would be 100 per cent behind him," he said.
"Big John has been a resident of the park for more than 10 years and along with his female partner, Dawn, were named after the former owners of the zoo, John and Dawn Stone."
They are believed to be the southern-most pair of crocodiles to breed in an outdoor enclosure in the world.


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When I flew by myself last month, I scored a seat in the emergency exit row, with all of its leg room and responsibility.
The flight attendant came by to make sure I could lift the 50-pound door.
"I'm a mother,'' I said. "I could lift a 3,000-pound car if I needed to.''
I believe that.
Mothering has made me strong and fierce. It has showed me just how much mettle I've got and I am not sure I ever would have really known what was in there were it not for this child of mine, this child who pushes and pulls me toward myself and inspired me with her own daily strength.
She came to me only after years of infertility and then only after a labor so long it even exhausted the midwives. Maria pushed me to grow, to be strong, even before she got here.
I'm thinking about all of this, of course, because it will be Mother's Day this weekend. My fifth as a Mami.
And, I realize that this job of mothering also has made me feel weak in ways I never imagined. It has made me look at my shortcomings and strive to change them. I have learned I cannot force the gods to make sure my child always will be safe and happy. What a terrifying realization. News stories about children in pain strike my heart much more deeply than they ever did, and I am someone, who as a journalist, often wrote about tragedy and loss and quickly moved on to the next. The stories didn't mess with my head as much then. So, raising Maria has expanded my heart, strengthened my faith and forced me to admit vulnerability, to entrust her fate to something bigger than myself.
So while this Sunday is about celebrating mothers, I have to say I feel Mother's Day is about celebrating my child, because without her I would not be led into the places -- joyous, miraculous and even the difficult -- that have enriched my life and my soul and made me a woman so fierce I truly believe I could lift a 3,000-pound car.
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Is this 21st-century America? The images of armored vehicles, looting, fires, militarized police and the National Guard out of Ferguson, Missouri, this month seem jarringly out of place in a modern Midwestern suburb.
And yet our country's history — both recent and in decades past — reminds us that race-related violence is all too common in a country that prides itself on being a leader among nations. Tensions run especially high when the conflict is between white law enforcement and a black community. Think of the Watts Rebellion 49 years ago this month, or the 1967 Detroit riots, or Rodney King. Even Trayvon Martin.
Now the name Michael Brown has been added to this list, and once again the chasm that divides black and white America has come under a glaring spotlight.
It is not the aim of this Editorial Board to make a determination about what happened to 18-year-old Brown, who was shot and killed by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson on Aug. 9. The facts remain muddy, and eyewitness accounts vary drastically.
But we can draw three conclusions. First, what's happening in Ferguson goes beyond the death of Brown. The race-related frustration is but one more symptom of a larger, deeper problem of racism and inequality that persists in the United States. Second, two camps have been active during the nightly protests in Ferguson: demonstrators who are exercising peacefully their constitutional right to freedom of assembly and a smaller group of instigators in the crowd whose aim is to cause trouble. The community of Ferguson should not be judged by the actions of a few provocateurs. Third, community and political leaders must take concrete steps to address the underlying issues that divide blacks from whites.
And these are the issues: a fear and mistrust of blacks by whites, and vice versa; persistent stereotypes; a disparity of health, wealth and opportunity for many black communities; an education gap; a history of discrimination, injustice and inequality against blacks, particularly by law enforcement and the judicial system; and the lack of strong families and role models, especially for young black people.
But how do Catholics get beyond the racial finger-pointing and address these issues as a greater society? We must advocate for dialogue within communities to develop stronger understanding between races. All Americans must take note of the root causes of poverty, inequality and injustice and reach out to disadvantaged communities in a spirit of financial, physical and spiritual solidarity and support. We must pray for the Holy Spirit to bestow the gifts of understanding and wisdom on situations fraught with racial tensions.
We also need to confront the racial polarities and the lack of mutual understanding that are fueling the frustration in Missouri and on the national level. One option is for President Obama to create a commission like the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, established by President Lyndon Johnson to investigate the causes of the 1967 race riots in Detroit, Los Angeles and elsewhere. If such a commission could help build political and social consensus for not only avoiding further outbreaks of violence, but could also help heal the racial divisions that still exist in many communities, it would perform a valuable service.
The goals of the nation should be to create unity, not division, and to desire peace, not conflict. It is our wish that Ferguson be the last casualty of America's racial divide.
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Dear M.K.: Hiring a contractor who is not bonded, insured - and licensed, if applicable - is a risk you don't want to take.
Let's talk about the importance of insurance first. Contractors should carry two types of insurance: liability and workers' compensation. As a homeowner, these protect you in two ways. First, liability insurance will protect you in the event the contractor causes damage to your home. What if during an upstairs bathroom remodel, your uninsured contractor was doing work that caused the bathtub to crash through the floor? If you think your homeowner's policy would cover you, think again. It likely won't, unless you've purchased additional coverage for in-home employees.
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Bonding is often confused for insurance, but there is a notable difference. A bond is intended to act as a guarantee that the contractor will perform the work as he is supposed to. It is secured money that would be distributed to the homeowner in the event the contractor failed to perform as he or she should. Don't take a contractor's word that he is bonded. Ask for proof of the bond and be sure you understand exactly what it covers.
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It might be appealing when comparing the estimate of an unlicensed, uninsured and non-bonded contractor to one who has those credentials. Licensed, bonded and insured contractors usually charge more than those who haven't earned the credentials or paid for the insurance protection. I like to look at it this way: If a contractor doesn't follow the law (or good business practices) in being licensed, insured or bonded, what else is he cutting corners on? If something goes wrong, it's you who will be paying the price.
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It is often stated that a teacher's best reward comes from seeing former students lead successful lives. Quite true.
It is often stated that a teacher's best reward comes from seeing former students lead successful lives. Quite true.
Among those I taught in fifth and then third grade are a reporter, a prosecutor, police officers, firemen, EMTs, nurses, Little League coaches and simply good family people.
One is in prison, but working hard to clean up her life and prepare for her release.
Another was incarcerated for a time and is currently the loving caregiver for his mentally handicapped sister.
One, in particular, stands out.
Dale Terrell did not have an easy school life.
I was pessimistic about his prospects. Now Dale is the dean of students at Crystal Lake Middle School, holds a master's degree and recently earned a doctorate.
I've seen him in action in that job and was quite impressed with his handling of student problems.
I participated in The Great American Teach-In at his school and made sure I told every student I encountered about Dale's achievements in the face of adversity.
Recently, The Ledger displayed a picture of Dale being inducted into the Lakeland High School Hall of Fame. What's next for this fine young man?
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Switch to the ABAP perspective by clicking the Open Perspective button or using the menu: Window > Open Perspective > Other.
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After three hours of discussion Monday night, the San Rafael City Council voted 3-1, with Councilman Damon Connolly dissenting, to allow the construction of a soccer complex at the San Rafael Airport.
The controversial project, proposed by San Rafael Airport LLC, involves constructing an 86,000-square-foot building for indoor soccer, gymnastics and a cafe selling alcohol near Gallinas Creek and McInnis Park. It'll also include two outdoor turf fields, one of which will be lighted.
About 60 people gathered Monday to see whether the council would make a final decision on the project, which has been in the works for almost seven years, after it heard nearly six hours of public comment Dec. 3.
Mayor Gary Phillips made it clear during the council's discussion that he was ready to take a vote.
"I frankly don't want to put this decision off any longer," Phillips said.
City Senior Planner Kraig Tambornini reviewed questions raised by the public and City Council at its last meeting, including questions about safety lights, solar panel reflectivity and what would happen to the remaining land at the airport.
Tambornini said it's already been addressed that the rest of the land at the airport would be reserved for airport safety purposes, such as housing windsocks. Any additional development would require an amended or new use permit.
"There's no new issues or impacts that've been raised," Tambornini said about all of the questions.
The City Council voted unanimously to approve the project's final impact report, but continued to grapple with the project's pros and cons.
Project supporters, including several soccer leagues, the San Rafael Chamber of Commerce and Marin County Sheriff Bob Doyle, argue the complex will help with the severe shortage of soccer fields in the county and promote community health.
City Community Services Director Carlene McCart said the county should have at least eight to 10 soccer fields in order to meet National Park Standards. She said the city's two fields are often out of commission because of the need to re-seed them.
"There's too many feet trying to use the same facilities," McCart said.
She said the city doesn't have the money to build more fields, and that renovating the Pickleweed Park field costs anywhere from $30,000 to $80,000 a year.
Opponents to the project are concerned the complex would harm wildlife, disturb neighbors, worsen flood risks and place people in danger. Environmental groups such as the Marin Conservation League, the Gallinas Creek Watershed Council and the Center for Biological Diversity also are against it and its potential to harm the endangered clapper rail.
Connolly suggested the council make a compromise by only approving the project if the city conditions that the rest of the unused 24 acres be made into a conservation easement. He said the area is a prime site for restoration efforts.
"It's unique in that two creeks converge and surround the property. One can't help but notice the preponderance of habitat," Connolly said.
The other council members raised concerns about potentially being sued for placing such a condition on the permit — a concern the city's attorney said could or could not be a problem in court.
"I'm concerned about the litigation it presents," Councilman Andrew McCullough said.
Councilwoman Barbara Heller agreed. She said they should leave the project proposal as is.
"I'm pretty comfortable knowing any (future) application would have to come through the permit process," Heller said.
The council ultimately approved the soccer complex's permit on a 3-1 vote, but made a few modifications to the proposed project.
At Phillips' request, the council chose to reduce the complex's hours of operation. Instead of being open from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sunday to Thursday, the complex will be open from 9 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Instead of being open from 9 a.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday, it'll be open from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Phillips said he's concerned about late night traffic bothering residents.
"As a member of the community, those hours seem late to me," Phillips said.
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The primary goal of this research is to develop mechanisms for allowing a team of robots to carry out stealthy tasks in the presence of a single or multiple observers in outdoor environments. These tasks may be as simple as navigating to a goal or more complex such as surrounding a location/observer to form a sensor network. For these type of tasks, the robots may be carrying out operations within sensor range of the observers. Our initial approach is directed towards evaluating the reduction in exposure between team members as a result of sharing task-related information. The task chosen to demonstrate this approach is a low-visibility traverse to a goal location in the presence of a single observer with a known location. This is carried out with Pioneer AT robots in an outdoor environment that contains barricades for the robots to hide behind during their traverse. However, the robots have no a priori environment knowledge and must develop a map of the environment whilst keeping a low profile. The robots carry out their traverses sequentially with each benefiting from the experience of the previous to improve its performance.
The approach is based on using potential fields to determine good waypoints for a robot carrying out its traverse. Potential fields provide a medium for combining features of the task and environment. The result is an virtual feature space which can be analysed to determine task sub-goals. For our application, the features encoded in the potential fields are based on an occupancy grid each robot develops or maintains and the locations of the robot, goal and observer. Combining these fields produces an abstracted environment representation with embedded task knowledge from which a waypoint is extracted. From the manner in which the potential fields are modelled, the waypoint is typically in either a position obscured by the observer, or in an open, detectable space towards the goal location. The waypoint is the next subgoal for the robot until it changes on subsequent evaluations.
Once a robot has completed its traverse, it has its version of the environment encapsulated as an occupancy grid and a record of interesting waypoints along its path. The robot's path is analysed en route to generate these waypoints of interest which effectively summarise the path. When a robot is about to commence its traverse, it requests the occupancy grid and these waypoints from the preceeding robot. This information is used as a baseline for the robot's traverse and assists in waypoint calculations. As new environment information becomes available during the traverse, the robot overwrites the existing occupancy grid since each robot will present a different representation of the world. This allows more ego-centric decisions to be made but still use the older information for path planning. As such, it is anticipated that the relative locatlisation and sensor view between robots is not grossly different. Sharing information between robots results in more efficient and lower visibility paths.
The types of potential fields used in the approach are shown in Figure 1. The red dots repsent the source of creation. Each image represents a 3-d view of a potential field with peaks being lighter. High areas are generally areas the robots will not traverse to and are considered 'repulsive'. Figure 1b shows an attractive potential field with the most attractive point being at the source. Figure 1c shows how shadow potential fields are formed by generating a valley behind an object from the observer's position.
Figure 1a) Repulsive field. b) Attraction field. c) Shadow field on a repulsive field
These fields are generated from the information in the occupancy grid and about the task. Occupancy grid information consists mainly of the objects that have been found in the environment. Task information consists of the locations of the observer, goal and robot.
Combinations of these fields are used to determine the currently 'best' waypoint for the robot to travel to. Each field is weighted by an empirically adjusted parameter to determine the effect that abstract feature has on the waypoint selection process. For example, a heavy weighting the goal location potential field will cause the robot to converge to the goal quicker, and ignore the observer more than if it was weighted the same as the other fields.
Figure 2 shows the potential field view of the first robot during its traverse in an environment measuring 55m x 55m. The goal is the yellow dot on the right hand side, the observer's location is the red dot at the bottom of each image, the robot's start location is on the left side as indicated by the beginning of the track with the robot being at the end of the track. The robot's next waypoint is shown as the disassociated green dot in 2a and the brown dot at the end of the red waypoint track in 2b. The robot's path indicates places where teh robot assumed it was being detected as lighter colours than where it was undetected.
Figure 2b shows a similar traverse as 2a with the history of the waypoints shown in red. Each waypoint was generated with the limited environment object information available at the time, hence some appear inside of objects that did not exist at the time of calculation. Click on the figures for a larger, clearer image.
Figure 2a) Potential field with superimposed robot path. b). Similar image with the waypoint track.
Experiments have been conducted in simulation and the real environment. The simulation experiments were carried out using the Stage simlator and Player interface. Each environment was 35m x 35m with several barricades for the robots to hide behind. The configuration of the first environment is shown in Figure 3a. The robots start on the lower left side and traverse to the goal (yellow) in the presence of the observer (red). They initially have no knowledge of the environment objects and consequently, the first robot's traverse is highly reactive to the objects in the immediate vicinity. An example of its travserse is shown in blue in Figure 3b for simulation and in Figure 4a for the real environment. The subsequent robot traverses benefit from the information sent by their predecessors by producing better paths as examplified by the second (green track in Figure 3b, Figure 4b) and third (blue-green track in Figure 3b, Figure 4c) travserses. In each of the tracks, the lighter coloured areas indicate where the robot assumed it was being detected.
Figure 3a) Environment configuration for experiment 1. b) An example simulation trial superimposed over the occupancy grid of robot 3. The occupancy grid shows objects in white, explored space in black and unexplored in grey.
Figure 4. An example of the three real robot traverses for experiment 1.
Fast and furious movies of the real robot traverses for experiment 1:
The second experiment demonstrates the robots' performance in a dynamic environment. The configuration of this environment is shown in Figure 5a. The barricade around the observer (red) is added after the first robot's traverse and allows a zero-visibility path to the goal (yellow). Without the barricade, the first robot's traverse becomes a direct path to the goal in almost full view of the observer as shown in blue in Figure 5b and in the left image in Figure 6. The barricade is placed around the observer prior to the second robot's traverse. Initially, it will attempt to follow the first robot's path until it discovers the new barricade. Since this presents a lower-observable path, it changes direction and travels around the barricade and then to the goal as shown by the green path in Figure 5b and the centre image in Figure 6. The third robot's traverse capitalises on the second robot's path to follow one that is more efficient (the yellow path in Figure 5b and the right image in Figure 6).
Figure 5a) Environment configuration for experiment 2. b) An example simulation trial superimposed on the occupancy grid of robot 3.
Figure 6. The occupancy grid view of the real robot traverses for experiment 2. Note that the large horizontal object to the lower left of the goal in the left figure is an artifact added by an incorrect sensor reading whilst the robot was moving behind the goal.Consequently, it did not affect the path.
Movies of the real robot traverses for experiment 2:
And if you want truly stealthy operations:
Ashley Tews, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, and Maja J. Mataric'. A Multi-robot Approach to Stealthy Navigation in the Presence of an Observer. To appear in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2004. pdf
This project is funded by DARPA
Grant Description: MARS2020 via UPenn
Contract Number: 5-39509-A


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Lester helped beat Toronto on Thursday despite not being at his best, he allowed four runs and five hits with three walks over seven innings, but still improved to 8-4 to go along with a 4.61 earned run average (ERA).
However, in his last eight starts he is 2-4 with a 6.99 ERA and he was pulled out from his last match after aggravating a hip injury.
But Red Rox manager John Farrell appeared confident he would be fit for the final game of the series.
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Blackboard and Pearson Collaborate in Effort to Better Support K-12 Schools
Leading Education Companies Respond to Educators' Requests to Improve Data Flow Among Complementary Platforms
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Feb. 12, 2014 - Blackboard Inc. and Pearson, two of the largest providers of technology and services to K-12 education, today announced a collaboration that will improve the integration and flow of data between their complementary K-12 solutions, in direct response to requests from educators.
With this partnership, the companies are looking to improve the integrity, security and flow of data between Blackboard's comprehensive product portfolio that offers a range of K-12 solutions for teaching, learning, communication and parent engagement, and PowerSchool®, Pearson's leading K-12 student information system (SIS).
Massachusetts' Danvers Public Schools' illustrates the ways that districts around the country will benefit this partnership. Database manager Lisa Zaia said, "Danvers Public Schools uses both PowerSchool and Blackboard solutions and ends up having to manage several daily changes. We are thrilled that Blackboard and Pearson have agreed to improve their product integration to provide better accuracy of our student and staff information."
"We are pleased to announce this collaboration as a sign of our strong investment in the K-12 market and dedication to ensuring the success of our customers," said Mark Strassman, senior vice president of industry and product management for Blackboard. "Through our work with Pearson, we will be able to provide better access between two systems many faculty and administrators rely on daily to drive critical activities such as parent engagement and Common Core initiatives."
The first Blackboard solution that will benefit from PowerSchool integration is Blackboard Connect™, the leading mass notification provider in the country. Planned enhancements include the ability to send notifications from within PowerSchool and greater flexibility with automated notifications to parents. The companies are also actively working to enhance PowerSchool integration with other Blackboard K-12 solutions over the next year.
"Through this enhanced collaboration with Blackboard, we hope to make it easier for K-12 educators to use our solutions to access the information they need to engage students and parents and, ultimately, improve learning outcomes," said Oliver Wreford, vice president of strategy and partnerships at Pearson.
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Title: John S. Wright papers, 1884-1923
Predominant Dates:1884-1892
Primary Creator: Wright, John S. (John Shepard) (1870-)
Extent: 0.5 Cubic feet. More info below.
Arrangement: Chronological.
Date Acquired: 04/05/2008
Subjects: Purdue University--Alumni and alumnae, Purdue University--Students, Zoology
Forms of Material: Articles, Black-and-white photographs, Financial records, Notebooks, Personal papers
Languages: English
John Shepard Wright was born October 17, 1870 to John Ellis and Elma Shepard Wright. Wright graduated from Purdue University in 1892 and received an honorary LL.D. in 1940. In 1942 Purdue recognized him as one of seventeen "golden graduates," member of the class of 1892.
John S. Wright went to work for Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis, Indiana, immediately after graduation, where he served as a botanist and drug inspector until 1904. He was then made advertising director. In 1910 Wright was allowed to purchase 50 shares of Eli Lilly stock, only the second non-family member allowed to do so. In 1927 John Wright became a member of the Board of Directors. He later became a consultant in advertising. John Wright published two volumes dealing with pharmacy. He was secretary of the Indiana Academy of Science for nine years and president for one year. At one time he lectured on medical botany at Indiana Medical College. He was affiliated with several social, literary, historical, and scientific societies. He became semi-retired from active service in 1943, but he remained on the board of directors of the Eli Lilly until April 1951. He was also on the board of directors of the Lilly Endowment.
The John S. Wright Forestry Center, located at 1007 North 725 West in West Lafayette, on the site of Martell Forest, approximately 7.5 miles west of the West Lafayette campus is named in honor of John Shepard Wright. In 1964 Wright provided the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources with a generous endowment for the promotion of forestry in Indiana. Mr. Wright was a botanist and a friend of many forestry leaders in Indiana, particularly Stanley Coulter, Purdue University Professor Daniel DenUyl, and Charles C. Deam, the first state forester of Indiana.
Repository: Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections
Alternate Extent Statement: 1 mss box
Access Restrictions: Collection is open for research.
Acquisition Source: Transferred from Butler University archives
Acquisition Method: Transfer from Butler University archives via Sally Childs-Helton, April 5, 2008.
Preferred Citation: MSA 27, John S. Wright papers, Purdue University Libraries Archives and Special Collections
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Researchers at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) have compiled an atlas of Saturn's second largest moon, Rhea, which has been published by NASA today. The atlas includes a number of high-resolution images and a three-dimensional view of fractures on the icy world acquired by the Cassini spacecraft, which has been orbiting Saturn for six and a half years. The data was obtained during two fly-bys in September 2009 and March 2010, from distances as close as 100 kilometres. The atlas comprises the most detailed images of Rhea to date and provides an insight into the geological development and surface composition of the moon. Recently, two instruments on Cassini discovered a thin oxygen-carbon dioxide atmosphere, or exosphere, on Rhea.
Fractures in the brittle ice, with temperatures as low as minus 200 degrees Celsius
Of particular interest are a number of long, usually linear structures over 100 kilometres long, that are winding in some places. The origin of these thin lines was a mystery for a long time. "The high-resolution image data from Cassini was the first to reveal that the bright lines are actually tectonic in origin, meaning that they are fractures in the ice crust, created during sudden releases of crustal stress," explains Roland Wagner from the DLR Institute of Planetary Research (Institut für Planetenforschung; IPF). They may have arisen during periods of extensional and shearing tectonic activity. "By correlating the high-resolution images with spectroscopic data, we found that the conspicuous brightness of these lines is caused by the exposure of almost pure water ice on the escarpments of these tectonic structures," explains the planetary geologist. The tectonic graben on Rhea are up to four kilometres deep. "This means that there must have been an enormous amount of stress in the brittle crust of the Moon in the past," adds Wagner. "We can only speculate as to the cause of the stress."
Rhea has a diameter of 1528 kilometres and orbits Saturn at more than 500,000 kilometres from the planet's centre. With an average density of 1.23 grams per cubic centimetre (a little denser than water, but less than a quarter of Earth's mean density), it appears that Rhea is a largely homogeneous body consisting of two-thirds water ice and one-third rock. With these latest observations, it is evident that Rhea is a cousin of Dione, the adjacent Saturnian moon, given the similar nature of their surfaces. These two moons, are almost like twins, similar even under their icy crust in many ways.
Regional differences in the composition of the surface
Like Earth's Moon, Rhea orbits in 'synchronous rotation', meaning that it rotates on its axis exactly once as it orbits the planet. Hence, the same side always faces Saturn. By combining images of the side of Rhea facing Saturn taken through three filters (ultraviolet, green and infrared), Tilman Denk of the Free University of Berlin has been able to demonstrate that on the hemisphere of the moon that faces Saturn, there are distinctive colour and brightness differences between the quarter of the surface of Rhea facing in the direction of orbital motion, and the quarter of its surface facing opposite the direction of orbital motion. Such surface differences are not unusual on icy moons with synchronous rotation in the outer Solar System. They are presumed to be the result of regional differences in the composition of the surface or differences in the size and mechanical structure of the ice grains that form the crust. Such changes can be caused by numerous processes, such as a preferred direction of incidence for incoming microparticles or meteoritic fragments, or the penetration of ions that are trapped in Saturn's magnetic field.
30 years after Voyager 1 – a complete map of the large Saturnian ice moon
Voyager 1 flew by Saturn 30 years ago, on 12 November 1980. The spacecraft's images and measurements provided the first comprehensive insight into the ringed planet and its numerous moons. The two Voyager probes – Voyager 2 reached Saturn in August 1981 – revolutionised our view of the icy worlds of the outer Solar System.
This is even more true for Cassini, which has been in orbit around Saturn since mid-2004. Its Imaging Science Subsystem, ISS, is equipped with wide- and narrow-angle cameras and its experiment team is led by Carolyn Porco of the University of Colorado at Boulder, in the USA. Thomas Roatsch, from the DLR IPF, is the Associate Scientist in the science team responsible for the compilation of atlases for the seven largest moons of Saturn after Titan. "Following the atlases of Phoebe, Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione and Iapetus, we have now mapped Rhea in full and are able to reproduce its entire surface in an atlas of 15 map sheets," Roatsch explains. The International Astronomical Union has already adopted proposals for naming the craters and fractures on Rhea, using names derived from characters and places in creation myths and with an emphasis on Asian nations.
The camera system has taken a total of 4,386 images of Rhea over the past six years, with resolution ranging from 500 metres per pixel to 6.5 metres per pixel. For the current mapping project, 370 high-resolution images from the two close fly-bys and from nine passes at greater distances were used. The 30-year-old Voyager images proved useful too. "The 11th of January 2011 will be especially exciting, when Cassini flies just 76 kilometres above the surface of Rhea," says an enthusiastic Thomas Roatsch. "These will be by far the best images we've ever had of Rhea's surface – details down to just a few metres will become recognisable."
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, manages Cassini for NASA. The Cassini orbiter was designed, developed and assembled at JPL. NASA has extended the mission until the end of 2017. The Imaging Science Subsystem team consists of scientists from the US, UK, France and Germany. It is operated from the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colorado, and is led by Dr Carolyn Porco. Germany's financial contribution to the mission is approximately 120 million Euro. The DLR Space Agency has supported German involvement in the mission with funding from the Federal Government.


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Largely in German, with English subtitles
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Scene from Hitlers Hit Parade a film that illustrates Hitlers bizarre rise to power.
The art of seduction
Film shows how Hitler used culture to influence a generation
By Jerry Tallmer
It is a cartoon Jew out of Julius Streichers ferociously anti-Semitic newspaper, Der Sturmer, only this is an animated cartoon, or a brief fragment of one a hook-nosed, humpbacked caricature Jew clumping into some dark, conspiratorial woods as the sound track bizarrely supplements that image with the patched-in lyric of a soupy, sentimental German song of that era: A star that has fallen from heaven, straight into the human heart . . .
This is one of the dozens or maybe hundreds of striking moments, underplayed ironies, in Hitlers Hit Parade, a superbly edited 76-minute German-made documentary that opens Wed. Jan. 5, for two weeks at the Film Forum. It bears the date 2003 but it was actually 11 or 12 years in the making, or more precisely, in the financing that brought it to completion.
When Hannah Arendt wrote The Banality of Evil she wasnt talking about animated cartoons, sappy movies, or sloshy songs, but all those things, and many other elements of what is now called pop culture, unearthed and re-examined here, supply background music German style, so to speak, to the benificent civilization of cattle cars, railroad tracks, Arbeit Macht Frei, and Zyklon B.
Farmers, fat pigs, pretty girls with hoops, a female archer on horseback galloping down a beach, mountain climbers advancing a swastika, amusement-park rides, nude manikins glorifying the Aryan female form, tap-dancing chorus lines, a lonely lady dancing with her coat, campers in a mass exercise, beauty queens, Hitler in his touring car pushing its way through jam-packed streets, smiling Adolf amid girls and banners, tiny Adolf in a long-distance overhead shot strutting between the massed hundreds of thousands of storm troopers at Nuremburg all this to actual background music (from German films and records) that clearly owes a great deal to 1930s American jazz.
Except that it is very German, that music, very composed, no improvisation whatsoever, says C. Cay Wesnigk, the 46-year-old producer of Hitlers Hit Parade who has come to New York for its American premiere at Film Forum. His key role has been that decade-plus effort to raise the money to put the whole thing together.
The film itself was thought up, researched, assembled, and directed by two other Germans of his generation: Oliver Axer, who is fundamentally a designer, and Susanne Benze, a historian whose studies at the University of Hanover focused on anti-Semitism, National Socialism, and film music of the Third Reich.
Oliver Axer came to me 12 years ago, says producer Wesnigk, because I had made one full-length film called Strictly Propaganda. I was 30 and so was he. He said: We would like to make a film called Hitlers Hit Parade. I was really very suspicious. They came to my house. How they got me: They put on this tape of a song, The little town will go to rest . . .
I said: Okay, but this film will be very hard to finance. You cant even calculate it. You dont know what you are going to use. Before they were through their collage film had embraced archival footage, commercials, political propaganda, educational films, animations, home movies, and just plain movies.
They had a grant to write a screenplay. I told them: Use this money to make a raw cut. They went away and came back a year later with that raw cut, which is 70 or 80 percent of the film as it stands today. I watched it. Amazing. It made me laugh and made me cry.
This film was a quest for the truth, a look back, a very personal look back by two people of today trying to figure out what went on in that time. Oliver and Susanne were driving through northern Germany, for instance, when they heard on the radio that song, Ein Stern ist vom Himmel gefallen A star which has fallen from heaven.. .
Oliver is also a singer just for the fun of it. In fact he sings two of the songs in the film. We used the old sound tracks and dubbed him into it, and remixed it, and nobody notices.
Hitler was always underestimated by his opponents, Wesnigk observes. They thought him ridiculous. He looked ridiculous, and he WAS ridiculous. The music emphasizes it. It is much better to laugh at the beginning of the film, and then be shattered at the end.
We seduce the audience. When they watch, they start tapping to the music. And at one point the tapping freezes just freezes.
A very scary sequence that may be unclear to Americans (including this one) is when an otherwise unidentified young man and young woman, with cardboard signs dangling from around their necks, are being pushed around and forcibly having the hair on their heads sheared off.
Wesnigk clarifies:
The young man and the young woman are a loving couple. He is German. She is Polish. Her sign says: I am a Polish pig. His sign says: I am a traitor to the German race.
C. Cay Wesnigk was born in Bad Schwartau, near Lubeck, Germany, close to the border with the former East Germany, on November 4, 1962. The C is for Christian, and Wesnigk in Russian comes out Yesnick, which means I couldnt have made it up something like the messenger who brings the true message.
His paternal grandfather, a Berlin patent attorney, raised the wrong flag for Hindenburg, not Hitler and was informed on and brought to trial. He died of an ulcer. That grandfathers son, Wesnigks father, was 15 when World War II ended, at which point he jumped on his bike and pedaled west as fast as he could, to get away from the Russians.
The other grandfather, a farmer, was a Nazi party member who had fought in the first World War. Hitler was good to the farmers.
That grandfathers daughter, Wesnigks mother, was herself a party member in her youth, and in fact worked in the library at S.S. headquarters in Berlin, translating foreign newspapers. It was some years later that she would translate several of the lyrics used in this film.
In short, she changed her mind?
Oh yes, says her son. Definitely. The most anti-Nazi person I ever knew.
Wesnigk was himself a kid in the revolutionary 1960s. All this the Hitler years happened 20 years before I was born. It felt like 1,000 years ago. Self-righteous like everyone else, I was sure I would never have been a Nazi. I wasnt born then. Short pause. If I had been, of COURSE Id have been a Nazi. Id have been in the Hitler Youth.
When, 11 years ago, Wesnigk started trying to raise the money to make the film, nobody wanted to do it. It was only when he went to Hans Peter Kochenrath, an editor at German televisions ZDF, that he found an ear willing to listen, even if Kochenrath said: I only have 10 minutes.
The 10 minutes stretched to three hours as Kochenrath watched the raw cut, back and forth. And then went to work helping them to raise that money. In the end, Wenigk says, a million-dollar film was made for 180,000 euros (about $200.000). It is dedicated to the late Hans Peter Kochenrath.
It was only cleared for one broadcast (and one repeat) on the German cultural channel ARTE, but Karen Cooper, who runs Film Forum, saw it at an International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam.
One small incidental bonus. To watch Hitlers Hit Parade with all its kitsch and all its terror is to realize, once again, how great, how prescient, and how percipient was and is the Kander & Ebb & Isherwood & Van Druten & Masteroff & Prince musical of 1972.
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From East Texas Medical Center:
Registration for the 13th annual Henry M. Bell, Jr. Memorial Golf Tournament is now under way, with proceeds to benefit East Texas Medical Center's cancer outreach and community education. Hosted by the ETMC Cancer Institute and the ETMC Foundation, the charity tournament is set for Monday, Sept. 23, at Willow Brook Country Club in Tyler.
"ETMC's Bell Tournament is important to our cancer programs and patients, as it ultimately helps promote early awareness of cancer issues and provides funding that directly supports our patient-focused cancer care," said Dianne Adelfio, vice president over the ETMC Cancer Institute. "We appreciate the many people and organizations who work each year to continue this great tournament for a great cause."
Sponsors include corporate champion Suddenlink, medical champion Cyberknife, Inc. and golf ball drop sponsor Metro Aviation, as well as a host of area organizations. The event will feature a full afternoon of recreation and socialization, including a shotgun start, scramble tournament and awards reception. In addition to Bell Tournament prizes for the winning teams, players also have the chance to win a 2013 Silverado Crew Cab with a hole-in-one shot on hole number 15, courtesy of Peltier Chevrolet.
The exciting golf ball drop is set for 12:30 p.m., just before the tournament start at 1 p.m. The grand prize winner – for the golf ball that lands in the designated hole or closest to the hole – will receive $1,000. The second place prize winner will receive a $500 gift card courtesy of Brookshire's Grocery Co., with additional prizes awarded to the third through fifth place winners. A maximum of 1,000 golf ball chances will be sold for $5 each or six for $25.
For more information on the Golf Ball Drop, tournament registration and sponsorship opportunities, please contact the ETMC Foundation at (903) 596-3645.
The 2012 Bell Tournament raised approximately $25,000 for local cancer outreach and community education. The tournament also honors the late Henry M. Bell, Jr., former chairman of the board of the ETMC Foundation and long-term supporter of ETMC.
Additional event sponsors to date include: box lunch sponsor, Southside Bank; awards reception, USF Healthcare Consulting; cart sponsor, Tyler Hematology-Oncology; registration, Adams & Coker; and goody bag sponsor, Blood and Cancer Center of East Texas.
Hole sponsors to date are: ADAMS; Harold C. Beaird; Coca-Cola Bottling Co.; Design Center Signs and Banners; DRL Labs; H.R. Fender, MD; Hammel, Green & Abrahamson; Lake Ronel Oil Company; Lantana Communications; Heidi Roberts McKellar, MD; Presidio; RPR Construction Company, Inc.; Schumacher Group; SKAR Advertising; Southern Multifoods; Texas Bank & Trust; and YPM, Inc.
Additional sponsors to date include: putting contest, Allen and Cindy Bell/Henry M. Bell III; practice green and driving range, CenturyLink; closest to the pin, First National Bank of Mt. Vernon; Gollob Morgan Peddy & Co.; Merrill Lynch; and Mr. and Mrs. Wade Ridley and longest drive, Express Employment Professionals and RE/MAX Tyler.


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SAO PAULO (AP) — The head of the Sao Paulo state police quit Wednesday amid a surge of deadly violence in South America's largest city.
Sao Paulo state Gov. Geraldo Alckmin told reporters he accepted the resignation of Antonio Ferreira Pinto. He will be replaced by former state Attorney General Fernando Grella Vieira.
"This wave of violence is a major problem and we will have to work hard to reverse this situation," Vieira told the G1 news website.
Officials said 10 people were killed and 13 wounded in violence between late Tuesday and early Wednesday in Sao Paulo city.
Killings in the city began sharply increasing in September, a month in which 144 people were killed, according to the state Public Safety Department's website. On Wednesday, officials said 150 homicides occurred in October, a 92 percent jump from a year earlier.
The website says 94 police officers were slain in the first nine months of the year, most of them gunned down while off duty.
Police have said the killings of police are being ordered by imprisoned leaders of an organized crime group called the First Capital Command in reprisal for a crackdown on the drug trade.
Authorities also have said that many of the recent killings appear to be drug-related or involved settling of accounts between rival gangs.
First Capital Command is one of Brazil's most notorious crime gangs. Based in Sao Paulo state prisons, the group allegedly was behind several waves of attacks on police, government buildings, banks and public buses in 2006. Those assaults and counterattacks by police in the slums resulted in at least 175 deaths, including police officers, traffickers and innocents caught in the crossfire.
Sao Paulo state authorities have said incarcerated leaders of the gang suspected of using smuggled cellphones to order attacks and coordinate drug sales, murders of rival gang members and the purchase of weapons would be transferred to a maximum security federal prison outside the state.
Earlier this month, one of the gang's lower echelon leaders was sent to a federal penitentiary in northern Brazil. Others are expected be transferred by the end of November.


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How is this the same movie?
Glenn Ficarra and John Requa are the people who made Crazy, Stupid, Love. Their next project is called Focus, and it was originally intended for their CSL stars Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling. Gosling couldn't work it into his schedule and Stone was only doing it to work with him again so they were subsequently replaced by Kristen Stewart and Ben Affleck. Affleck was to play a veteran con man who trains a young protégée and they hook up. Then Affleck quit the project because he's also too busy or maybe Jennifer Garner told him to.
That left Kristen Stewart, and I was hoping it would be Leonardo DiCaprio to fill in since he seems to be a go-to for Warner Bros, the studio behind the picture.
Variety confirmed yesterday however that it would not be DiCaprio but Will Smith. So now we have a film that was initially written for Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling that will now star ... Will Smith?
How is that the same movie?
Not surprisingly, Kristen Stewart has now walked away from the project. Variety reports that she felt the age difference would be too much. Smith is only 4 years older than Affleck. Other outlets are less specific about the reasons for Stewart's departure, citing only that she "quietly" exited a few weeks ago.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Warner Brothers has been actively trying to re-engage Smith for a few years, especially after the success of I Am Legend. Will Smith isn't one of those actors who comes on board and stays in his trailer until he's told when to come out and what to do. Will Smith has a say. A big, big say. He would probably have a say tonally on what this movie will look like. And he has the clout to push that forward. As Sarah wrote recently, Smith's professional decisions also seem to be motivated not by artistic interest but by blockbuster potential, prioritising BIG over interesting and diverse.
It's probably not a bad move then that Kristen Stewart is no longer involved, regardless of whether or not that decision was made for her.
But it has been a while since she's been on a film set. Earlier this week Universal announced plans to move ahead with a Snow White sequel for release in 2015. She's also attached to a project called The Big Shoe with Jim Sturgess and Elizabeth Banks but with no set timeline for release and distribution, it could very well be that one of Hollywood's most promising young stars will have a gap of 3 years between theatrical appearances. Not that that hasn't been done before. Natalie Portman, for example, took a break to go to Harvard. That, of course, was voluntarily. But patience is a good idea, especially if it's supplemented by something productive. Like college, if we're on the subject. If only to develop an awareness of something, anything, away from Los Angeles. I would have never imagined it 6 months ago, but maybe Kristen Stewart is a candidate for Sarah's Career Prospectus series.


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No criminal charges to be filed in Jesus Huerta case
No criminal charges to be filed in Jesus Huerta case
The district attorney in Durham County says no charges will be filed in the death of a teenager who police say shot himself while handcuffed in the back of a patrol cruiser.
District Attorney Leon Stanback announced Tuesday that a review of a report from the State Bureau of Investigation, the chief medical examiner and other files showed there is not probable cause to charge that a crime occurred in the death of Jesus Huerta.
The 17-year-old Huerta died last Nov. 19 in the back of a squad car as it was approaching the parking lot at police headquarters.
Police say all evidence collected during their investigation indicates Huerta killed himself with a concealed large-caliber pistol that a rookie officer failed to detect when he frisked him.