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Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Jealousy and romance aren't the typical words used in home buyer education, but they aptly describe an educational and entertaining telenovela that is currently used in Albuquerque to teach individuals about buying a home. Several local organizations are using DVDs of the Spanish-language TV mini series, Nuestro Barrio, which was funded by Freddie Mac. The show is about Hispanic life in the United States.... The 13-episode series, where hot storylines are combined with meaningful messages, subtly educates viewers on important financial issues including money management, credit, homeownership, predatory lending and foreclosure prevention. These storylines are played out against the traditional novela (soap opera) themes of romance, jealousy, greed and conflict.
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So what do you all think? Should soaps be used to educated people about mundane, real-life issues, or should they be pure escapist fantasy?
Let us know in the Comments section below!
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- We Love Soaps said...
Not all real life issues are mundane. I believe soaps have gone way beyond escapist fantasy. Those fantasies used to be based on a stitch of reality but these days all credibility is lost. It seems like medical stories are the biggest joke of all with no effort put in to make it realistic. No one wants it to be clinical, but Carly's abcess and Luke's paralysis are recent examples of stories that were not clearly explained or fleshed out.
In Oakdale, everyone is obsessed with having babies. This is what I consider mundane. Even teenage boys like Will are obsessed. Talk about a fantasy.
I prefer stories based in some kind of reality featuring multi-generational family members (Lucinda-Lily-Faith, Nancy-Bob-Chris, etc).
Lovers constantly lying and yelling at each other and plot holes a mile wide aren't going to work no matter what the story is though.
- Oakdalian said...
It's not about educating as much as respecting the audience enough to follow through with sensible plotting and scripting. Employment is always a joke on ATWT. People whose reputations should have destroyed their careers like Katie, Craig and Meg continue to work blissfully. The realities of a workplace can be quite dramatic, not mundane at all. I'd love to see a mundane act like phone calls to long departed characters. With Bob in a coma, I bet we'll never hear about Penny, Don, Ryder, Frannie and Sabrina's reactions.
- supersage21 said...
IF the executive producer and head writer are creative and experienced in their fields, I believe soaps can present real life issues AND be an escape to viewers. The problem with GL is that it is neither.
Wheeler has treated major real life issues as nothing more than fantasical forays into another "plot du jour." Thinking GL is an escape from the mundane, "everyday I do the same thing," is equally as confusing.
Soaps "used" to be both, and I don't see why they can't again, with the right people.
- Cait said...
Soaps have always tackled issues, social, emotional and otherwise. Why is this being presented as a question? Are the current writing teams really that oblivious to the history of the shows and characters they're writing?
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Currently the specification in Section 2.9.2, p88 indicates that allocatable
arrays named in the threadprivate directive are prohibited from persisting
across distinct parallel regions under any circumstances.
I am currently constructing a parallel library for Domain Decomposition for
scientific FORTRAN applications. The library is currently in MPI and I would
like to port it to OpenMP. However, it uses local/private allocatable arrays.
The library performs domain decomposition using locally allocated arrays for
each processor (thread). Users can then compute on these arrays using
call-backs through the "call Do_All(external function name)" library routine.
The Do_All routine has a single OpenMP parallel region.
The Do_All works fine if the allocated array is a single large global shared array.
However computations are faster if we split up the array across processors,
resulting in smaller, private arrays for each processor (thread). These local
arrays are contained in a module and are declared both with the "threadprivate"
directive and the Fortran "save" declaration.
These local arrays are allocated in a parallel region within an initialization
routine, callable by the user. When the application wants to perform
computations on these arrays using the Do_All routine, these arrays arrive at
the parallel region undefined!?, as the OpenMP specification mandates.
Why is this the case? Can this be changed so that allocatable arrays can
persist just like other local variables? See Section 2.9.2, p87.

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Every fall, volunteers from several Marion County churches meet at the Mennonite Central Committee distribution center in North Newton to can meat. Their efforts provide valuable protein to others in need, across the seas and closer to home.
Volunteers from Eden Mennonite Church near Burns joined workers from adjoining counties Nov. 1 and 2 to cut, weigh, can, and label several batches of turkey. The MCC mobile canning unit makes 33 stops at Mennonite churches throughout the United States and Canada each year.
"We don't know where it is going to go, but we feel it is some way we can help humanity," volunteer Galen Becker said. "The youth were here working the evening shift on Thursday, and the adults from the church came in on Friday morning to finish up."
Becker said about 20 youth and sponsors from his church met at the North Newton center for the work, while 10 adults contributed their time on Friday morning. It takes a crew of 10 to 12 people to run the pressurized canning machines, plus others to prepare the meat. Women from the organization worked to wash the finished cans and apply labels.
"We cleaned up 840 cans, and that was just one batch," Mrs. Galen Becker said. "There are 140 cans in each canner."
An official canning crew of three young men supervises the meat processing work. This year, Jason Unruh of Peabody is part of the four-member crew, serving the second year of his three-year-voluntary service term.
"It's good to be in my home area again," Unruh said. "It always amazes me how helpful and friendly people are wherever we go. That's what makes it fun, meeting the people who show up, even with the early hours, to volunteer their time to help the hungry."
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Battlefield 4's Battlelog Gets a Revamp
Interested in how you can keep track of everything in Battlefield 4 while you're away from your console? Don't worry, because the Battlelog's got your back.
A post on the Battlefield Blog details some of the changes that the team at EA have made to the Battlelog, the tool that Battlefield players can use to track stats, progression and leaderboards. One of the big things for the team was to integrate the Battlelog experience within Battlefield 4. This is accomplished with a widget that will be located in the top-right corner of your screen. In this area, you'll be able to spot how many of your buddies are currently playing the game, receive notifications for events and check out what active Missions are available for you.
They've also made it so that your Battlelog experience will be the same, no matter what device you're using. The Battlelog on the web will look and feel the same if accessed through a tablet, a phone or even in-game. To help you stand out from the crowd, Emblems can now be created through the Battlelog to let you showcase your own individual style.
The Battlelog is looking like a very comprehensive Battlefield experience, especially now that it will allow you to view your stats, customize your Loadout, check out the forums, keep up-to-date with Battlefield news and even contact your friends. A new feature they've added is called the Unified Game Manager. According to the blog, this will "show up on Battlelog as you start playing on PC or console, and will offer you quick access to our game-connected features: Real-time Loadout, Remote Joining and BattleScreen."
The Battlelog service is certainly looking like it's going to be a beefy companion for Battlefield 4. Look forward to utilizing it when Battlefield 4 is released on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on Oct. 29. The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions will launch with the consoles.


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The best of the best Part 2
In the second installment of this two-part series, Control Talk columnists Greg McMillan and Stan Weiner, PE, bring their wits and more than 70 years of process control experience to bear on your questions.
By Greg McMillan and Stan Weiner, PE
Stan: We continue our multi-part series of interviews with the big names in process control people we personally know. This time we talk with ISA Fellow Bob Otto.
Greg: What are the two applications you worked on with biggest benefits?
Bob: First was a process control computer that became one of three products that enabled Monsanto to merge with Fisher Controls and bring Fisher into the control room. The product called DC2 was a tremendous technical challenge. At the time, mass-memory devices such as disk drives were not available; no operating system was appropriate (UNIX was a fledgling); and the only I/O devices available were card reader/punches and teletypewriters with paper tape. We didn't think card readers would last in the control room so a teletypewriter at fifteen characters per second was the only choice. We ended up having to work with an all-RAM computer driven by a teletypewriter (also the operator's console) and no operating system.
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We developed a computer with a BASIC interpreter wired into read-only memory (ROM). And wired it was! Eight Kbytes hand-wired bit by bit. I developed extensions to BASIC, such as process I/O, that made it a rather sophisticated digital process controller even though you had to do everything yourself, including the PID algorithm. It was among the first computers to have a BASIC compiler in ROM.
A second item came in the early 1980s, when I was bowled over by Charlie Cutler's Dynamic Matrix Control (DMC) paper. I wrote an internal report on how to implement it in detail, and I modified it to be suitable for chemical process control rather than petroleum operations. A Monsanto colleague, Mark Sowell, applied it for concentration control of a process with a dead time of 120 minutes and a time constant of 60 minutes (settling time of 9 hours) with great results.
Greg: What were some of your greatest technical achievements in process control?
Bob: I am proud of the decoupler I developed for the control of the firing pattern in an ammonia reform furnace. The reform furnace consisted of sheets of tubes with a row of burners in between two sheets. The hotter you could run the tubes, the greater the efficiency of the furnace. Unfortunately, one row of burners would heat two sheets! I developed a matrix that represented the influence of each row of burners on the adjacent sheet exit temperatures and then inverted it to allow the algorithm to manipulate the burner valves to compensate for temperature deviations in the sheet-exit temperatures. The control system kept the exit temperatures of all sheets uniform thus allowing operation of all sheets at the maximum temperature. Without the control the hottest sheet would determine the limit of operation.
Maybe not the greatest, but the most satisfying one was the Williams-Otto process control model. It was my second or third job at Monsanto. Ted Williams, Director Emeritus of Purdue, was my boss at the time, and he suggested developing such a model. I designed the reactor, and Ted designed the distillation column. The design posed severe problems that gave two or three decades of chemical engineering students practice in the control of unstable processes and distillation columns.
Greg: What are the two greatest opportunities in process control today?
Bob: I agree with Terry Tolliver that fieldbus instrumentation opens huge opportunities in today's process control. An application presented at last fall's ISA Expo was eye-popping. The second opportunity is to use the speed of today's computers for elaborate process simulations.
Greg: Bob is the most enthusiastic supporter of advancing control technology. There has been significant validation of his vision that small model predictive controllers integrated in distributed control systems would prove useful for systems where there is a need to deal with interactions or large dead-time-to-time-constant ratios and provide first level optimization.
Stan: Glenn Givens answered the October puzzler that asked what wireless communication interval would start to cause a degradation in control for a loop with a small dead-time-to-time-constant ratio tuned with a Lambda factor of 2.
He says, "By 'wireless communication interval,' I'll assume you mean 'control period.' You should see degradation when the control period is greater than or equal to 1/3 of the time constant (in this case, 1/6 of Lambda). I think you should have at least four control actions within the main time constant."
Greg: There is certainly a quite noticeable loss in information for a scan or communication interval greater than 1/3 of the process time constant that would play havoc with process analysis. The ability to reject a load disturbance at the process input does not deteriorate much until the scan time approaches 1/2 the Lambda, minus the original dead time (Lambda is the product of the Lambda factor and the process time constant). For dead-time-dominant processes (dead time greater than time constant), the deterioration would set in at 1/3 of the time constant, as Glenn noted, or even sooner. See www.controlglobal.com. The peak error is actually worse than shown in these figures for large communication intervals due to the loss of information. An instantaneous measurement should have been included in the trends.
Stan: We conclude on a lighter note with a Top Ten List from our ISA book, Dispersing Heat Through Conviction.
Top Ten Signs You Are a Process Control Engineer
10. Your first and second language is for a computer.
9. You have photos of pH electrodes in your wallet.
8. Your riding lawn mower has a laptop holder.
7. Your laptop has a beer cup holder.
6. You have more muscles in your fingers than in the rest of your body.
5. You have X-rated pictures of people doing strange things with obsolete DCS consoles.
4. You dream "Baywatch" life guards wear hard hats and carry laptops.
3. You named your children 'Lightning' and 'Thunder' after DCS releases.
2. You are frustrated with noise band and dead time in your peer 360-degree feedback.
1. You have hired a private investigator to determine who gave your life to Dilbert.
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WASHINGTON — When Secretary of State John Kerry bounded up the steps to his converted Air Force 757 in Amman, Jordan, on Friday night, staffers greeted him with applause.
WASHINGTON — When Secretary of State John Kerry bounded up the steps to his converted Air Force 757 in Amman, Jordan, on Friday night, staffers greeted him with applause.
He grabbed a bottle of Sam Adams beer and strolled down the aisle to celebrate his most significant achievement yet in his short tenure as America's top diplomat: winning agreement from the Israelis and Palestinians on a framework for resuming stalled peace talks.
It was a necessary breakthrough, for sure, yet a modest one, with the lowest bar for success in a process that merely sets the stage for what comes next: difficult and protracted negotiations aimed at a goal that has eluded successive U.S. administrations despite investments of serious time, energy, prestige and money.
He has made six frenetic trips to the Middle East in as many months and spent countless hours shuttling from Jordan to Israel and the West Bank to cajole Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas into returning to the table. During his latest visit to the region this past week, Kerry finally had something to toast and back up his oft-stated claim that he was making progress in bringing the two sides back together.
Minutes before starting back home, at a hastily arranged event in a VIP lounge at the Amman airport, Kerry announced that his single-minded effort, derided by some in Washington and the Mideast as a waste of time, had resulted in a deal "that establishes a basis for resuming direct final status negotiations between the Palestinians and the Israelis." He said it was not yet formalized but called it "a significant and welcome step forward."
Top negotiators for the two sides would come to Washington in the "next week or so," he said, to begin preliminary direct discussions. Officials said Kerry would name a new U.S. point person to shepherd the negotiations on a day-to-day basis.
For all the buzz among Kerry aides who spoke excitedly of witnessing history in the making, the airport announcement was unusually subdued and brief.
Tired after a week of multiple meetings with Abbas and phone conversations with Netanyahu, and all the while concerned about the health of his ailing wife in Boston, Kerry appeared alone at the podium in front of an unadorned blue cloth screen.
There was no pomp. There were no Israeli or Palestinian officials at his side. There were no questions. And there were no details about either the framework or even the end game.
Secrecy would be paramount, he said. Neither Kerry nor his staff would go beyond his statement, even privately.
"We are absolutely not going to talk about any of the elements now," Kerry said. "Any speculation or reports you may read in the media or elsewhere or here in the press are conjecture. They are not based on fact because the people who know the facts are not talking about them."
But hours later, an Israeli official who should know something of the agreement, Intelligence and Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz, went on Israel radio to say that some Palestinian prisoners would be released as part of the plan.
Presumably, this violated the vow of silence that Kerry said the parties had made and it wasn't even done anonymously, as is usually the case. It almost will certainly be the first of many such violations.
It underscored some of the main obstacles that have bedeviled all previous Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts: the inability or unwillingness of the parties to keep quiet, coupled with the refusal of American mediators to reject leaks to the Israeli, Palestinian and wider Arab media aimed at either enhancing one side's negotiating position or inflaming public opinion to scuttle the talks altogether.
The problem for Kerry and his team is that the facts are known.
Both sides' demands long have been common knowledge and they are far apart on the most contentious issues: the borders of an eventual Palestinian state, the status of Jerusalem, Israeli security and the fate of Palestinian refugees.
The world knows the Palestinians want a state based on the 1967 lines, adjusted to accommodate land swaps, with east Jerusalem as its capital. The Israelis don't want to commit up front to the 1967 contours even with revisions. They insist on a secure Jewish state that would preclude the right of return for Palestinian refugees and on keeping Jerusalem as their undivided capital.
Kerry's announcement made no mention of these facts.
They are not easy, but they cannot be avoided or ignored in public if the negotiations are to produce a deal.
EDITOR'S NOTE — Matthew Lee covers the State Department and U.S. foreign policy for The Associated Press. He has reported on Middle East peace efforts since 1999.


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Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) chief administration officer and former general counsel Tom Mars will step down on March 13 after more than a decade with the company.
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The world's largest retailer, which confirmed the reports on Thursday, would not give a reason for his departure, noting the company doesn't "comment on personnel matters."
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Click on the Object Stores item in the Administration Console window's navigation pane and choose Add Object Store from the Actions menu.
Alternatively, you can right-click on Object Stores and choose Add Object Store from the pop-up context menu. In either case, the Add Object Store dialog box (Figure 2–11) will appear.
Enter a name for the object store in the Object Store Label field.
This provides a label that identifies the object store in the Administration Console.
For this exercise, type in the name MyObjectStore.
Enter the JNDI attribute values to be used for looking up administered objects:
Select the name of the attribute you wish to specify from the Name pull-down menu.
Type the value of the attribute into the Value field.
Click the Add button to add the specified attribute value.
The property and its value will appear in the property summary pane.
Repeat steps Adding an Object Store to Adding an Object Store for as many attributes as you need to set.
For this exercise, set the java.naming.factory.initial attribute to
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(or file:///tmp on the Solaris or Linux platforms). These are the only attributes you need to set for a file-system object store; see LDAP Server Object Stores for information on the attribute values needed for an LDAP store.
Click OK to add the object store and dismiss the dialog box.
The new object store will appear under Object Stores in the navigation pane, as shown in Figure 2–12. The red X over the object store's icon indicates that it is not currently connected to the Administration Console.
When you click on the object store in the navigation pane, its contents are listed in the result pane. Since you have not yet added any administered objects to the object store, the Count column shows 0 for both destinations and connection factories.
Once you have added an object store, you can use the Properties command on the Actions menu (or the pop-up context menu) to display an Object Store Properties dialog box, similar to the Add Object Store dialog shown in Figure 2–11, to view or modify any of its properties.


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The Central Connecticut football team will travel to Sacred Heart on Saturday afternoon for a Northeast Conference game. The Blue Devils (2-4, 1-0 NEC) and Pioneers (5-1, 0-1 NEC) are both playing their second NEC game of the season. The intrastate rivals will kickoff at 1 p.m. from Campus Field in Fairfield, CT.
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Here are some notes on the Blue Devils heading into Saturday's game.
Today's Game
The Blue Devils travel to Fairfield, CT, to play the Pioneers of Sacred Heart. CCSU is coming off a 38-29 victory over Saint Francis U on Homecoming, while the Pioneers enter the game at 0-1 in NEC play after a loss to Wagner last weekend. Sacred Heart started the year 5-0 and has the NEC's best overall record this season at 5-1. The Blue Devils are 2-4 on the season, but at 1-0 in NEC play CCSU shares the top of the standings with Bryant.
Up Next for CCSU
The Blue Devils will be off next week (Oct. 19) before hosting Salve Regina on Saturday, Oct. 26. After that CCSU will visit Wagner (Nov. 2), host Robert Morris (Nov. 9), play at Duquesne (Nov. 16) and host Bryant (Nov. 23) for the regular season finale at Arute Field.
Series History
This is the 16th meeting between the Blue Devils and Pioneers with CCSU holding a 9-6 advantage in the series. This series has been marked by winning streaks on both sides. CCSU won the first two meetings ('98, '99) and Sacred Heart the next four ('00, '01, '02, '03). Then the Blue Devils won seven straight ('04, '05, '06, '07, '08, '09, '10), but the Pioneers have won the two most recent meetings ('11, '12).
100+ Rushing Yards
The Blue Devils have rushed for 100+ yards in 29 consecutive games. The last time CCSU failed to reach 100 rushing yards was Nov. 6, 2010 against Robert Morris.
Last Season's Meeting
Last season CCSU and SHU met at Campus Field with the Pioneers earning a 34-21 victory. Quarterback Nick SanGiacomo threw for three touchdowns in that game to set a career-high, a mark he has matched twice this season with the latest coming last week against Saint Francis.
NEC Offensive Player of the Week
Junior Tyrell Holmes has made a successful transition from defensive back to wide receiver this season. A position switch that was highlighted by a huge performance in Saturday's Homecoming victory over Saint Francis U. Holmes accounted for the second-highest single-game total by a NEC receiver this season with five catches for 153 yards and one touchdown on Saturday. Averaging 30.6 yards per reception, Holmes saw all five of his catches go for either a first down or a touchdown.
Big Win on Homecoming
Last week the Blue Devils earned a 38-29 victory over Saint Francis U on Homecoming. Sophomore quarterback Nick SanGiacomo threw for a career-high 242 yards and a career-high matching three touchdowns to lead the CCSU offense. NEC Offensive Player of the Week Tyrell Holmes caught for five passes, including a touchdown. Holmes averaged 30.6 yards per catch on the day. Junior running back Rob Hollomon went for 123 yards and two touchdowns. Senior corner back Chris Linares made four tackles, including three solo stops, had an interception and broke up a pass in the game.
More on Holmes
Junior Tyrell Holmes leads CCSU in receptions (17), receiving yards (267), receiving touchdowns (3) and receiving yards per game (44.5). Holmes entered last week's game with 114 receiving yards this season, he doubled his season total with his 153-yard performance on Satruday.
SanGiacomo's Throwing
Sophomore quarterback Nick SanGiacomo has started the season with 637 passing yards threw the team's first six contests, although he has only seen action in four games (three starts). In his three starts, SanGiacomo has led the CCSU offense to 103 points or 34.3 points/game. Individually, SanGiacomo has totaled 632 passing yards and seven touchdowns in his three starts.


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April 10, 2010
IRVINE, Calif. - The Gaucho women were victorious at the Big West Challenge Cup, amassing 236 points to win the team title and claim the cup. The men's team finished a close second to Long Beach State, finishing with 188 points to Long Beach's 213.
Tayler Williams broke her own school record in the triple jump, leaping past the 40-foot barrier with a mark of 40'3.50" (12.28m). That eclipses the mark of 39'10.50" (12.15m) she set at last weekend's Cal Poly Invitational. Williams was the winner of the triple jump, and also was second in the long jump with her best mark measuring 19'5" (5.80m).
In the first events on the track, Katie Voigtlander won the steeplechase with a big personal best of 10:32.60, improving upon her Regional-qualifying mark from last season of 10:47.68. She remains second on the UCSB all-time steeplechase list, behind the school record of 10:11.03 by Bethany Nickless. Julian DeRubira won the men's steeplechase with a personal best of 8:57.92, which makes him the sixth Gaucho to run the steeple in under nine minutes. He moves into fifth on the UCSB all-time list.
Alex Umstead launched the hammer over 190 feet with his first attempt hitting 190-6 (58.06m). He won the men's hammer and moves up to sixth on the UCSB all-time list. Alex Francis posted a mark of 164'6" (50.15m) in the women's hammer to take second place. Her mark is currently seventh on the UCSB all-time list. Also in the throws, Michael Guerra was the winner of the men's javelin with his best toss reaching 194'6" (59.28m).
The sprints were highlighted by Ryan Martin setting a personal best in the 400m dash with a time of 47.13, which took second place behind the 46.94 of UC Irvine's Charles Jock. Martin moves up from eighth to fourth on the UCSB all-time 400m list.
Kelsey Bolden ran well in the 100m dash for the second week in a row, finishing with a time of 12.07. This time her result was wind-legal, which means she enters the Gaucho all-time list at fifth in the 100m. Grace Esslinger made it into the Gaucho all-time list in the 200m with a time of 25.00, which placed third at the meet. That time is good for eighth on the Gaucho list.
Rusty Parker got onto the UCSB all-time 800m list with his third-place performance of 1:51.02 in a fast men's 800m field. Parker is now 10th all-time for the Gauchos. Justine Diaz won the women's 800m with a time of 12:12.94, just off her seasonal best.
The Gauchos went 1-2 in the women's 3000m with Danielle Domenichelli winning at 9:51.53, and Breanne Strenkowski taking second at 9:56.53. Scott Smith won the men's race with a time of 8:33.03, and also won the 1500m with a seasonal-best time of 3:45.06.
Other event winners were Jane Doolittle in the high jump with a clearance over 5'8.75" (1.75m), and Barbara Nwaba in the 400m hurdles with a seasonal best time of 61.97.
The Gauchos are competing in several meets next week, including the California Invitational Multis on Wednesday and Thursday, April 14-15, the Bryan Clay Invitational on Friday, April 16, and the Mt. SAC Relays from Thursday-Saturday, April 15-17.
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About Me:
Name: Sophia
Nicknames: Sophie, Sofa, Cream, Creme, Creme of Pep, Drocell <----(I kid you not, thats a nickname I have) Asuka, Rolo, Roll, Lithy, Chicken Girl, Turbo, Fluffy, Sqeak, Hun, Beautiful, Yuki, Yumi, Amaya, Akari, Chibi-chan, Noodles, karou.
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Anime Projects: Fangirl Complex, Akai Kagami.
How long have I been drawing?: 5 years. . . still not long enough to get squat done.
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It's a reminder, this little fable, that the path for us to follow is already written within, that it's for each of us to find our own loves, and live them brightly for ourselves. Others may watch, they may admire our resolution or despise it, but our one freedom is for us to love and to choose every day of our lives, as we wish.
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Donald J. Wooden, 92, of Columbia City, passed away Friday, Jan. 11, 2013, at Parkview Hospital in Columbia City. He is survived by one daughter, Kathleen (Bruce) Hazelet of Columbia City; three grandchildren, Ellen, Rachel & Russell, all of Columbia City.Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 1:00 p.m. at Eagle Funeral Home-George White Chapel in Litchfield, Mich. with Reverend Clyde Wonders officiating. Interment will take place at a later date in Mosherville Cemetery. Visitation is scheduled Tuesday from 11 a.m. until time of service. Memorials are suggested to the Litchfield District Library Building Fund.Visit www.eaglefuneralhomes.com to deliver online condolences.


text: the folks on the linux-rdma mailing list can probably share some slides with you about app load over different cards. if you dont get a response, i can drop a few names of people who definitely have the info, but i dont want to do it at large on the list The last set of slides i can (thinking way back when i was still with qlogic) recall, yes the ipath cards could do 30m mesg/sec whereas the mlnx cards were half to a two thirds lower. this does have an affect on core count traffic, but only under certain application loads mlnx and qlogic made a trade off with their card designs, the qlogic cards have a real high msg/rate, but the rdma bandwidth performance can suffer in certain cases, where as mlnx has a higher rdma bandwidth but a lower mesg rate getting the balance right is a mastery of art. and the tipping point slides easily and with every application it's been a while since i was at qlogic and have forgotten a lot of the sales mumbo... On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Brian Dobbins <bdobbins at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi guys, > > I'm beginning to look into configurations for a new cluster and with the > AMD 12-core and Intel 8-core chips 'here' (or coming soonish), I'm curious > if anyone has any data on the effects of the messaging rate of the IB > cards. With a 4-socket node having between 32 and 48 cores, lots of > computing can get done fast, possibly stressing the network. > > I know Qlogic has made a big deal about the InfiniPath adapter's extremely > good message rate in the past... is this still an important issue? How do > the latest Mellanox adapters compare? (Qlogic documents a ~30M messages > processsed per second rate on its QLE7342, but I didn't see a number on the > Mellanox ConnectX-2... and more to the point, do people see this effecting > them?) > > On a similar note, does a dual-port card provide an increase in on-card > processing, or 'just' another link? (The increased bandwidth is certainly > nice, even in a flat switched network, I'm sure!) > > I'm primarily concerned with weather and climate models here - WRF, CAM, > CCSM, etc., and clearly the communication rate will depend to a large degree > on the resolutions used, but any information, even 'gut instincts' people > have are welcome. The more info the merrier. > > Thanks very much, > - Brian > > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > >


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Nachos Pizza
So, it's been a while since I did a pizza and this Nachos Pizza really kicked!
I used a Vicolo Organic Corn Crust pizza base, which I smothered in Pace Picante Salsa. Added a healthy layer of corn, grated a combo of sharp cheddar and Cacique Queso Quesadilla, sliced jalapenos and black olives, and topped with MorningStar Grillers Recipe Crumbles (a ground beef substitute from the freezer section, which I used for my Cornish Pasties with great success). I sauted the MorningStart Griller Crumbles (they need a better name for this) in a little olive oil and salsa for 2 minutes before adding it to the pizza. Baked the pizza for 12 minutes at 425.
The crumbles were superb and held their ground beef texture admirably. I love this product (my buddy J. recently used them in a lasagna to rave reviews)! The pizza was hot and superbly satisfying and a nice variation of my other Mexican style pizzas:


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Big change coming to Costco's $1.50 hot dog-soda combo
They've been a fixture at Costco for decades, drawing crowds for lunch, kid parties and date nights, with a price that hasn't changed in 27 years.
We're talking about Costco's $1.50 hot dog and soda combo at the food court. Last year the Issaquah, Wa.-based retail giant sold 109 million combos in its 600-plus warehouses worldwide.
But fans of the quarter-pound dog and 20-ounce fountain soda are in for a change. Starting in April, Costco will begin selling Pepsi instead of Coke in the food court, a switch that happened during Costco's cola bidding process, the industry site BevNET reported on Thursday.
Customers will still be able to get other sodas, but will cola drinkers still flock to the combo? It's so popular that customers have written the company's magazine, Costco Connection, with fond stories of longstanding lunch dates, family dinners and kid parties – one including a stretch limo – all involving the $1.50 meal.
Costco heard grumbling back in 2009, when it switched from Hebrew National to Kirkland Signature hot dogs. That was despite the new dog being slightly bigger than the old, kosher dog.
The other big change came earlier, when Costco upsized its soda, from the original 12-ounce can to the 20-ounce vat that now comes with free refills.
Now for the bigger question: Will the price remain $1.50? The article didn't answer that specifically, but it quoted Alan Bubitz, Costco's VP of food services, as sort of saying it.
Plus, Costco is proud that its famous hot dog combo has cost the same since 1985. "You're not going to be able to please everybody," Bubitz told BevNET, referring to the impending Coke-to-Pepsi switch. "It's our job to preserve the integrity of the price point."
Costco has grown profits and membership, despite charging a fee to shop and rarely advertising. (And making you wander through its warehouses with no aisle signs).


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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Aaron Kaufman, executive director of Penn State Hillel, has been lauded for his support of Jewish students at the University.
In July, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life gave Kaufman the 2013 Richard M. Joel Exemplar of Excellence Award for his work enhancing the campus life of Jewish students. He was one of seven higher education professionals to receive the award at Hillel's 2013 professional institute at Washington University in St. Louis.
"Although receiving this award is a great honor and one that I very much appreciate, the student leaders of Penn State Hillel, our staff and the student body are the ones whose contributions resulted in this award," Kaufman said. "Our mission at Penn State Hillel is to provide enriching Jewish experiences to students at Penn State so that they can go on to enrich the world; we take this mission seriously and strive for excellence each day."
Hillel has a worldwide presence with organizations at 550 colleges and universities. Penn State Hillel's mission is "To enrich the lives of the estimated 4,000 to 6,000 Jewish students at Penn State so that they may enrich the Jewish people and the world."
Under Kaufman's leadership, Hillel began organizing the monthly Jewish Leaders Roundtable, a gathering to strengthen the bond between Penn State's Jewish student organizations. Penn State Hillel also reaches students through JewPAC, a student-run organization that provides funds for Jewish student groups and individual students to create enriching events on campus. Each year at least 100 students travel to Israel on Penn State Hillel's Taglit-Birthright Israel trips, and many Hillel students participate in community service oriented spring break trips.
"Aaron's approach is about innovation not only of programming, but also culture and organizational operations," said Alex Bolotovsky, assistant director of Penn State Hillel. "He focuses on the how as much as the what and his drive, passion, creativity and strategic thinking continue to propel Penn State Hillel."
Kaufman attended the University of Michigan where he received a degree in Judaic studies, cultural anthropology and studies in religion as well as a master's degree in social work. He has been with Penn State Hillel since 2007, and was previously the director at Eastern Michigan University Hillel and the associate director at Cornell Hillel.
"Aaron has been an outstanding executive director of Penn State Hillel," said Penn State President Rodney Erickson, "and our students and community have benefited greatly from his leadership and mentoring."


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I wonder whats in those goodiebags ;)
les personnes aussi. et c'est pour ca que je ne pourrais jamais figurer dans votre blog, car malgres mes efforts, car j'aime la mode, j'ai toujours l'allure d'un thon…..grrr
Too bad the librarian looks like she's freezing to death.
I'm not a fan, mostly because of the shapes of the clothes. I think the woman on the left would be more appealing to me if her skirt didn't bulge underneath her sweater like that…
Actually, I am looking for that kind of black shoes on the girl with white skirt. So if you have any idea about the shoes, will you let me know? Thanks.
I really like where the strap is positioned on her shoes.
What an idiosyncratic pair – they're certainly not model clones. Here's a funny trick; block off the bottom half of the pic and you get two slouchy girls. Block the top, two elegant ladies. Perhaps this tension makes the outfits intriguing.
i cant read french so can someone please interpret what anon 4:42 said
Here's a stab at the translation:
Your photos are terrific; the people are, too. And that's why I could never be featured in your blog, because in spite of my efforts, because I love fashion, I always have the allure of a tuna.
les personnes aussi. et c'est pour ca que je ne pourrais jamais figurer dans votre blog, car malgres mes efforts, car j'aime la mode, j'ai toujours l'allure d'un thon…..grrr
The librarian shoes…wahou.
a dark grey pencil skirt and she could've been "The sexy librarian".
Hate the sweatshirt, looooove the pants and how she mixed them with high heeled shoes
i enjoy the long-sweater-skirt look, if its done well. it's definitely possible to cross over into total 80s redux/American Apparel nightmare, but if its done well, i think the play on proportions and visual expectation is great.
Oh !!! I really love the long sweaters !!! But it's so difficult to find it !!!
I guess harem pants are back. We saw it at MJ and now here in this photo. Not an easy look for a woman with hips but it's good to spice things up with a new shape versus all the stovepipes out there. Love her friend's Mary Janes and what looks like a grey wool quilted Chanel bag.
wow…i think all of it looks clowny
I love this blog when it shows what interesting people on the street wear while going about their daily business. I don't find myself the least bit interested in photos of fashion show attendees or executives. More shots from everyday life, please!
i too miss the everday life photos. of course i love all your photos, but its nice getting inspiration from everday people too! :)
Anon, 4:33: rough translation of Anon 4:42:
"Your photos are wonderful..as are the people in them. And it's because of that that I could never appear in your blog, because, despite my efforts, and though I love fashion, I always have the allure of a tuna!"
(Oh, dear!)
The one in black looks so frumpy- it's funny to me that her outfit probably cost many $100s of dollars when she looks so similar (aside from her shoes) to a lot of middle-aged ex-hippie women who buy their clothes at Chico's or something.
But if she were a 16-year-old model, harem pants still wouldn't be flattering. They're eternally ugly. (And I appreciate seeing non-models as well.)
The "librarian" looks quite cute, though!
i love your website and the pictures are fantastic.
it just makes me wonder, though, looking at these fashion insiders exactly why it is that almost everyone is caucasian or of european descent. as an young asian person i wonder why there aren't more people of colour in the fashion/media industry considering that cities such as New York and London are so diverse.
Regarding the translation request:
"Your photos are magnificent; the people are, too. And that's why I could never be represented in your blog, because despite my effort, for I like "la mode," I still have the style of a tuna."
I thought I'd attempt that translation because I'm not a native French speaker, so the last phrase really tickled me. A tuna? Surely something was lost in translation.
the lady says : the pics great!!!
the people…also, that's why (and this is the real cruelty of nature), despite all her efforts, cause she loves fashion, she'll always have the allure of a really yummy fish……..
oh lady pls lighten up, it's just fucking clothes!!!!
the librarian girl almost looks a little like scarlett johanson in disguise! i don't really like the black pants though, the shape is odd and probably wouldn't suit the regular person..
anonymous at 4.43pm, I'm really not sure what 4.42pm said, but babelfish translates it as: "GOOD YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS ARE SPLENDID; people too. and it is for Ca that I could never appear in your blog, because malgres my efforts, because I like the fashion, I always have the pace of a tuna…..grrr"
"Pace of a tuna" – I like that!
Anonymous 4:42 said that the photos are wonderful, so as the people. Nevertheless, her bad appearance (despite her passion for fashion) would prevent her from being in those pages.
in this photo, i love the grey/black/neutral geometric squares and rectangles in the foreground of the 2 girls, the car, the street, with the hit of the red rectangle of red from the girl's jacket in the background left.
this is like another painting.
sart, your photos are getting more and more amazing…
I LOVE them together- the librarian and the magician!
The librarian's shoes are pretty cute too!
I like the trousers but think they need minimalist accessories to highlight them better – like delicate ballet flats and a fitted, plain shirt/t-shirt.
Ooops: in the translation of anon 4:42, above, I incorrectly gave "allure" For the similar French "allure." The latter translates more appropriately as "bearing," which makes the original comment much funnier (and, to me at any rate, less painful!)
The design of the black pants reminds of a MC Hammer music video from the early 1990′s.
I find it frightening that I would wear the outfit on the left… and I'm a librarian.
Sometimes the stereotypes fit.
They seem to be tring to hard. It kinda remindes me of AB FAB.
I would actually have liked to have seen the girl that is cut off on the right side of the photograph. I can see half a cute outfit on someone who isn't 5 foot 10!
Red lips, geek glasses and Mary Janes = I'm in love.


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Wa Brigade, Eighth Group, Shinobazu: Actor Iwai Kumesaburô III as Ikita Benten, from the series Flowers of Edo and Views of Famous Places (Edo no hana meishô-e)
「江戸の花名勝会 わ 八番組」 「不忍」 「いきた弁天 岩井粂三郎」(三代目)
Edo period
1863 (Bunkyû 3), 8th month
Artist Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864), Other artist Kawanabe Kyôsai (Japanese, 1831–1889), Other artist Hasegawa Settei (Japanese,1819–1882), Publisher Katôya Iwazô (Seibei) (Japanese), Blockcutter Uemura Yasugorô (Hori Yasu) (Japanese)
Catalogue Raisonné
Kaikan sanjû shûnen kinen Kawanabe Kyôsai kinen bijutsukan cat. (2008), p. 101, #0765
Vertical ôban; 36.5 x 24.8 cm (14 3/8 x 9 3/4 in.)
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Medium or Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Not On View
The term "flowers of Edo" (Edo no hana) can refer, among other things, to fires. The title panel for each print in this series shows the lanterns and identifying standard (matoi) for one of the brigades of firefighters (hikeshi) assigned to various districts. On the west side of the Sumida River were 48 brigades named for the symbols of the kana syllabary and grouped into 8 numbered groups (1 to 10, minus the bad-luck numbers 4 and 7). On the east side of the river, brigades were numbered and assigned to directional groups. Outlying districts were covered by special brigades, here designated "extra" (bangai). Each title gives the name or number of a brigade, its group, and its district, followed by the kabuki scene chosen to match it.
Ôju Toyokuni ga, in toshidama cartouche (bottom center); Ôju Seisei Kyôsai (top); Ganshôsai (bottom left)
応需 豊国画(年玉枠)、応需 惺々狂斎、巌松斎
Censor's seal: Boar 8 aratame
Blockcutter's mark: Uemura Hori Yasu
By 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850–d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 19, 2005)
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection


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Some childhood memories are lost with whatever toy came in the cereal box that month, while others take a place up on a metaphorical brain mantle. For Aaron Metzler, one memory that lingered like a bad fever was his dad's old '71 Chevy truck. As he got older he realized that the only way to cure his fever was to get a Chevy of his own.
Six years ago Aaron turned 16. Just a few months before his birthday he spotted a '69 Chevy truck around the corner from his house. The truck wasn't in the best of shape-it was suffering from an identity crisis due to the fact it was sporting a '67 GMC grille. But the price was right, and Aaron was eager to get started on a project, so the '69 was headed to the Metzler driveway.
First, though, the kinks had to be worked out. At times it seemed as if the truck had an electrical mind of its own, so the first chore was for Aaron and his dad, Eric, to tackle the electrical system and rewire the truck. Next, the tired, old 327 was yanked from the engine bay. Although Eric may have gotten rid of his '71 Chevy years ago, one thing he did have besides memories was the original 350 motor that was in his truck, which he gladly handed over to Aaron. Before the engine was dropped in, Eric and Aaron had the motor bored 0.30 over. Then the two of them assembled the freshly milled block with new 70cc Chamber heads, an Edelbrock Air Gap intake manifold, and an Edelbrock 750-cfm carburetor. They also threw on a K&N air filter, DynoMax headers, and Billet Specialties valve covers. Once complete, the motor was dropped in place. Now the problem was that the rest of the drivetrain wasn't up to par, in terms of keeping up with a 370hp small-block. To correct that, the TH350 tranny was rebuilt by Wilson's Performance Transmission with a B&M converter and a 2,500-stall speed. Then a new PowerTrax 10-bolt with a no-slip differential was installed. Next up, the chassis was due for an upgrade. The stock front suspension was tossed in favor of a donor frontend from an '86 Chevy truck. At this time they also dropped the front end down 4 inches and added a factory front sway bar for those winding roads. At that point things were set. The Chevy became Aaron's mode of transportation.
During Aaron's senior year of high school the truck was hit in the parking lot. Seeing that the old Chevy was going to need a fair amount of work, Aaron decided that this was the time to activate his master plan. The Chevy was taken to Campa Custom Paint and Body in Visalia, California. The first order was to fix the collision work. Then Aaron had them shave the tailgate and mold in a roll pan. Next, he had them shave the front marker lights. Lastly, the truck had to be painted. Aaron had the perfect color in mind: Pontiac Salsa Red.
On the inside, Aaron and his dad made their own instrument cluster out of poplar wood. In the middle of the cluster is an Oakley sunglasses crossbones logo with its eyes drilled out to hold LED turn-signal indicators. The rest of the cluster is comprised of Auto Meter gauges. X-Klusive Customz in Visalia handled the stitching. X-Klusive covered the seats and door panels in black tweed with red-stitched flames. A Billet Specialties wheel and Pioneer sound system make up the rest of the interior. Because Aaron has gone off to college, the truck is no longer his daily driver. But you can be sure that when he's in town the truck gets driven daily!


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|Oracle® interMedia Java Classes Reference
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public int trimSource(byte[ ] [ ] ctx, int newLen)
Trims the data to the specified length.
Not all source plug-ins support trim operations. For example, applications can trim the data stored in a BLOB specified by the localData attribute; however, the "file" and "http" data source types do not support write access, and so do not support this method. Furthermore, those source plug-ins that do support write access may not support the trim operation.
Not all source plug-ins require that the data source be opened before it can be modified. However, to ensure that an application will work with any current or future source plug-ins, call the openSource(byte[ ], byte[ ] [ ]) method before calling this method.
The source plug-in context information. See Oracle interMedia Reference for more information.
The length to which the data is to be trimmed.
Return Value
This method returns the status as an integer, where zero indicates success and a non-zero value indicates a failure code specific to the source plug-in.
This exception is thrown if an error occurs executing the corresponding
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The whole world is watching Egypt as the Egyptian people make their collective voice heard. All bets are off as to what is going to happen, but it is clear that a new day is dawning, not just in Egypt but in the whole Middle East.
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Two weeks ago it was all about Tunisia, where another strongman, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali succumbed to the fury of his people--making a hasty departure to Saudi Arabia with his wife and a chunk of the national treasury. . Things are still pretty unsettled in Tunis where 33 members of Ben Ali's family are under arrest and where an international arrest warrent has been issued for Ben Ali and his wife.
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According to the 2009 printing of the Boy Scout Requirements, bugler is now a qualifying position of responsibility for Eagle Rank. See requirement 4 on page 16 of BSA publication 33216. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jkb973 (talk • contribs) 14:08, August 9, 2009. (Please, sign and date your posts on talk pages.)
- This was a printing error. Bugler is not a qualifying position of responsibility for Eagle. —RWSmith (Bureaucrat), 15:04, November 2, 2011 (EDT)
Category:Varsity Scout leader recognition awards
Shouldn't [[Category:Varsity Scout leader recognition awards]] be something like [[Category:Varsity Scout awards]], instead? —RWSmith (Bureaucrat), 01:21, March 23, 2010 (EDT)
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Deleted all copy-pasted text from Wikipedia... we shouldn't copy-paste swaths (for lack of a better word) of "information" from Wikipedia; a quote is sometimes acceptable, but must be referenced/cited. Quoting swaths of official BSA info is allowed, per BSA. —RWSmith (Bureaucrat), 12:57, April 28, 2010 (EDT)
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The Eagle Scout Plan document's links don't work in Protected mode. What is the unprotect password? --Proud2b4family 12:32, November 2, 2011 (EDT)
- I assume the creator of this document (Craig Lincoln) didn't want it to be modified (except, of course, for the user-fillable form fields) — hence, the reason he password-protected the document. I'm sorry, but I don't know the password to "unlock" the document's properties. If you could give me an idea of what –exactly– you want to change, I'll see what I can do about making a new one. (See next paragraph.)
- FWIW, with all the changes that are in the new Guide To Advancement, BSA Pub. 33088 (supersedes Advancement Committee – Policies and Procedures), I'll be looking for an updated Eagle Plan Worksheet . —RWSmith (Bureaucrat), 15:04, November 2, 2011 (EDT)
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- Workbook title does not have "leadership" in it anymore. It's just "Eagle Scout Service Project Workbook."
- Document number is 512-927. The page lists it as 521-927.
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New required merit badges
h) will change from "Environmental Science" to "Environmental Science OR Sustainability" upon the summer 2013 release of the Sustainability merit badge. There will be a new m) merit badge on 01 January 2014 -- Cooking will then be required. Note, it will not be a "everyone working on the old requirements may finish under those, new people working on Eagle have to hit the new requirements", if a Scout doesn't finish Eagle by the last day of 2013, the Scout must complete the Cooking merit badge to become an Eagle. 21 merit badges are still required, but another required merit badge isn't being removed. Instead of 12 required and 9 elective for Eagle, the new numbers will be 13 required and 8 elective. See http://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/2012/11/01/faqs-about-cooking-and-sustainability-merit-badges/ and http://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/2012/10/17/cooking-sustainability-merit-badges-to-become-eagle-required/ BartHumphries 13:00, November 25, 2012 (EST)
2016 requirments for egale scout rank is incorect.
The requirments for the 2016 rank is incorrect. Starting at #3 the numbers are incorrect for the requirments numbers. Then you are missing the requirement for the egale project which should be requirement #5 which is the same as the old requirement list and has not change at all. Please fix this asap.
- Done, thanks! :) BartHumphries 03:53, January 15, 2016 (EST)
Formatting mistake on list of Eagle-required merit badges.
In requirement #3, the list of Eagle-required merit badges has a formatting mistake for the first one. It shows as "(a) [[First Aid]," (missing second closing square bracket), but it should be "(a) [[First Aid]]," (added a closing square bracket). nicouds 18:05, June 3, 2017 (EDT)
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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- State-of-the-art TV studios above an ancient Mideast port signal Israel's arrival in a modern media landscape in which countries increasingly seek to broadcast their own perspective to the world.
TEL AVIV, Israel -- State-of-the-art TV studios above an ancient Mideast port signal Israel's arrival in a modern media landscape in which countries increasingly seek to broadcast their own perspective to the world.
Israel advocates have long alleged that their country is portrayed in an unfair and one-dimensional way by the international media, largely as an occupier of the Palestinians.
Now the answer has arrived in the form of i24news -- the first international channel dedicated to reporting the news from an Israeli point of view. Its goal is to tell the rest of the Israel story in English, Arabic and French.
The new station's founders insist they aren't an Israeli version of the Qatar-funded Al-Jazeera pan-Arab channel. They receive no government funding, hold no political affiliation and pledge to cover the news dispassionately and objectively.
The initiative, which follows dozens of other attempts to tell Israel's side of the story, highlights a deep-seated sense that Israel is losing the battle over international public opinion and that its voice has been missing from a smorgasbord of news outlets.
"When you are talking about Israel in the international media today, it is only through the perspective of the Arab-Israeli conflict. We have to show that there are a lot of things about Israel that people don't know about," said Frank Melloul, the channel's chief executive. "What I want to do with this channel is to connect Israel to the world and connect the world to the Israeli reality."
To do so, i24news broadcasts around the clock, devoting 30 percent of its content to local coverage, including culture, technology and sports.
Its spacious studios in Jaffa, an ancient port city merged with Tel Aviv, include three glass-encased sets for simultaneous broadcasts in three languages, along with an integrated news desk for its 150 journalists.
The station went on the air less than two weeks ago, and most of the office space is still under construction. Though it is not yet clear how many people are watching, i24news says it can potentially reach 350 million households via cable and satellite operators in Europe, Asia and Africa. An expansion to the North American market is expected in early 2014.
Melloul, a former French diplomat, helped launch France24, a satellite channel aimed at improving France's international image. Other governments have engaged in similar outreach efforts, resulting in Russia Today, China's CCTV and Qatar's Al-Jazeera.
The Israeli effort is funded by private money. Much of it comes from Patrick Drahi, a French-Israeli telecom tycoon who owns HOT, an Israeli cable network of TV channels and telephone service providers.
Calling i24news a "startup channel," Melloul said its private ownership frees the station from government intervention.
"We are not talking about propaganda," he said, "(But) it is time to listen to another voice from the Middle East besides Al-Jazeera."
Walid Omary, Middle East bureau chief of the pace-setting and influential Al-Jazeera, said he was not familiar with the new station, but he welcomed the competition and considered it a compliment that others were trying to emulate his network.
"Apparently Al-Jazeera has a quality that everyone wants to challenge," he said. "Even those who criticize us recognize we have an impact."
Israel accuses Al-Jazeera and others of endorsing the Palestinian and Arab narrative, providing slanted coverage of the Mideast conflict and contributing to anti-Israel sentiment. Such allegations become more heated during bouts of Israeli-Arab fighting.
Al-Jazeera denies it is biased against Israel.
Israel's critics argue that it needs to change its policies toward the Palestinians rather than look for more sophisticated tools in a propaganda war.
Others believe that the premise that news media are overwhelmingly anti-Israel is overstated. Israelis and their backers abroad are highly sensitive to criticism and tend to label any coverage that is less than totally supportive as anti-Israel - though Israel's own local media are frequently harder on their country and government than foreign outlets are.
i24news, particularly its Arabic broadcast, looks to show a different face of Israel by highlighting its diversity. The channel's main English-language anchor, for instance, is an Arab woman.
The content also tries to spotlight the tough choices the country faces.
A report about an Israeli Cabinet vote this week to release Palestinian prisoners ahead of renewed peace talks was followed by an in-studio debate between two parents over whether the killers of their children should be freed in return for the prospect of peace.
"It is part of the diversity of the Israeli society, and it is part of also showing the world that nothing is easy," Melloul said. "You can discover another face of Israel you don't see anywhere else in the world."
Even without direct influence, Israeli officials are predictably pleased.
Nitzan Chen, the head of the government press office, said such an outlet has been "definitely missing" and wished the new station success.
Marcus Sheff of The Israel Project, a pro-Israel advocacy group, said that a broadcaster that "does not instinctually bash Israel is probably a good thing."
Tal Azran, a professor of communications at Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, a college north of Tel Aviv, said the backing of private sponsors with ideological motivations represents a new breed in global news.
"i24news is part of a larger trend in international media where more and more countries, rulers and governments have begun to understand that international news reporting can be highly influential on what we call global public opinion," said Azran, who has written extensively about the effect of Al-Jazeera. "It has almost become something that every country `must have.'"
Given Israel's prominence in current affairs, he said i24news would likely become part of the new media marketplace, where consumers shop for several different perspectives before forming their own opinions.
"During operations in Gaza, for instance, those seeking the Israeli voice may tune into i24news," he said. "What's the Israeli angle? No one has ever heard it before on television."


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