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"Clearly we have to talk about techniques and strategies. They're important elements of education. But it's also about grappling with the big issues, like 'What is knowledge? How is knowledge constructed? How is knowledge connected to historical, political, and economic contexts?'"
When asked why she chose to teach at Transylvania, Jennifer McCloud's answer is simple. "My heart is with the liberal arts," she explains.
McCloud's own education is broad, and she likes approaching life's big questions from a variety of perspectives. She also seeks connections between what some might see as disparate academic disciplines.
"I'm very interdisciplinary. My undergraduate degrees were in sociology, Spanish, and philosophy. My master's degree was an interdisciplinary area studies focusing on Latin America, and I had graduate level work in Spanish, geography, and history."
At Transylvania McCloud found an education program whose faculty embraces that same philosophy. The courses are unusually integrated, and the emphasis is not solely on technique—although, of course, that is important, too, for a program preparing students for a future in front of a classroom.
McCloud also sees value in the type of cross-cultural study she pursued, which is another area of emphasis for students at Transylvania. Nearly 70 percent of Transylvania students study abroad, as McCloud did as an undergraduate, when she was able to do a mini-practicum in an elementary school in Barcelona. In the spring of 2014, three Transylvania students will have a similar experience in Panama.
"That's just invaluable, to be able to see how other cultures think about education. It's beneficial for our students to have that experience."
While pursuing her doctorate, McCloud's concentration was in English as a second language and multicultural education. During this time, she worked as a curriculum coordinator for a family literacy program that served immigrant families.
As students in a typical U.S. classroom become more and more diverse, multicultural awareness will be a critical skill for successful teachers. Understanding how to work with students of such varied backgrounds, with varying language abilities—and how to treat them all equitably—will be a growing challenge.
"A lot of my work focused on Paulo Freire, an educational theorist from Brazil. His work fits into the idea of knowledge and how it's really about consciousness of the world and consciousness of issues of inequality."
In the end, though, teaching for McCloud is all about the relationships she builds with her students.
"I'm always learning from them. There may be a text I've read many, many times. But then I have a discussion with students who help me see it in a different way. They may bring something to the context that I've never considered before. So, really, teaching is about personal growth."


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Dr. Karl Red is a principal in
TROBAS-Germany and has his
headquarters in the Bielefeld Office.
Among his other professional
and social activities, Dr. Red finds
time to be an active member in
the Rotary Club of Bielefeld.
A Report
IN THIS COUNTRY the profession of the auditor originated in the second
half of the last century from two different sources. Unhampered by
legal restrictions, the profession developed its own professional rules
and placed itself from the very beginning under strict self-discipline in
order to preserve independence, responsibility, and expert knowledge.
Public accountants were one of the sources. At first they were entered
in court registers, but later were admitted and supervised by Industrie-und-
Handelskammer (chambers of industry and commerce). These
chambers are public cooperatives and organs of self administration for
the members. They are independent of the government although they
perform some functions which in the United States are considered
government functions.
The other source was Treuhandgesellschaften (trust companies one
of whose functions was audit work) established by banks, which considered
the formation of such companies advisable because the internal
auditing departments of the banks did not seem to be independent

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In nearly 40 years as a college coach, Dusty Rhodes has taught countless numbers of student-athletes how to win.
The coach who put UNF on the national radar as a baseball power will be immortalized with arguably the greatest honor a college baseball coach can receive. The American Baseball Coaches Association has chosen Rhodes as a 2009 Hall of Fame inductee. The ceremony will take place Jan. 3 during the 2009 ABCA Convention in San Diego.
"I've been part of the ABCA for 40 years, and the fact that organization is not only honoring me but also this University is something I didn't expect," said Rhodes, one of more than 5,000 college and high school coaches who are ABCA members.
In 28 seasons as a head coach at UNF and Palm Beach Junior College, Rhodes has compiled a 1,130-481 record. He has guided UNF to 16 postseason appearances, including five College World Series appearances, four district NAIA championships and six conference championships in NCAA Division II.
"For me, I've been lucky because I started out as a junior college coach, then to the NAIA, then to Division II and now we're Division I, so I've met coaches from all over the country at all levels," he said.
Perhaps more important than the stellar record are the former players he inspired to become baseball coaches or administrators.
"I already knew I wanted to coach, but once I learned his system, I wanted to apply it to the way I coach," said former player Gil Morales, head coach at Eagles View Academy in Jacksonville. "Things that are normal at UNF are unique to a lot of other people. He's always able to get the best out of players who may not be the most talented, and he knows how to win with that system."
Rhodes has been named conference coach of the year eight times and regional coach of the year three. His 827 Osprey victories are the most by any UNF head coach. He ranks 12th all-time among Division II coaches with a .694 winning percentage. Under Rhodes, the Ospreys have been ranked No. 1 seven times – three in NAIA and four in NCAA Division II.
Rhodes built the UNF program from the ground floor, helping to raise funds to build UNF's on-campus facility, Harmon Stadium. In 1988, Rhodes' dream came true with UNF's first year of competition.
"UNF baseball was all based upon a dream of being a program that UNF could be proud of," said longtime UNF supporter Dave Polovina. "We had a vision and tried to appeal to people's dreams. We raised more than $1 million to get it off the ground … We were able to raise that money based on Dusty's reputation."
The Ospreys were winners from the beginning. In the first two seasons alone, UNF compiled 100 wins, which was a first for a beginning baseball program at any level to win that many games in two years. In 1989, Rhodes guided the Ospreys to an appearance in the NAIA World Series.
"We knew that Dusty was the right guy to start this program based on what he did at Palm Beach Junior College and Florida," Polovina said. "The proof is in what I call the three Rs. He does things right, he gets
the results and he has the reputation. This honor is richly deserved."
In addition to the magic he has worked with the Ospreys, Rhodes is an acclaimed international and professional coach. The pinnacle of that experience occurred when Rhodes was selected as the head coach of the Greek Olympic team for the 2004 Summer Games in Athens. He returned to serve as head coach of the Greek National Team in the 2005 European Championships. Previously, he served as an assistant coach for Greece in 2002 and 2003 and as an assistant coach for the 1996 Australian Olympic Team. In 1993, 1994 and 2001, he was an assistant coach for the U.S.A. National Team.
Rhodes also spent time as a hitting and infield coach with New York Yankees' Class A affiliate Greensboro Hornets (1982), as manager of the Milwaukee Brewers' Rookie League team in Helena, Mont. (1988-89, 1991), and as a coach with the Class A Beloit Brewers (1990).
He was inducted into the Palm Beach County Sports Hall of Fame in 1989. During his eight years there, Rhodes posted a record of 303-118, leading the school to a No. 1 national junior college ranking in 1979.
Between 1982 and 1987, He was an assistant baseball coach at the University of Florida before being selected to start the UNF baseball program.
Rhodes received an associate of arts degree from PBJC in 1966, a bachelor's degree in physical education from Florida Southern College in 1969 and a master's degree in education from Florida Atlantic University
in 1973.
Rhodes said he thanks UNF for giving him the opportunity to build the university's baseball program from the beginning all the way to Division I.
As for the Hall of Fame, he said he never thought he'd be in this situation. "It means a lot just to be in the category of the guys in the Hall of Fame," he said. "They're all great coaches, and to be considered in that category is really a great honor."


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The UK government faced renewed criticism of its controversial badger cull as figures showed new tuberculosis outbreaks in cattle had reached a decade low.
New figures showed the monthly incidence rate for bovine TB in England, which measures the proportion of new outbreaks discovered through testing, was around 3.25% in March 2014, the lowest rate since 2004.
It follows a similarly low rate in February of 3.5%, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said.
Ministers said the statistics showed that controls as part of the bovine TB eradication strategy were beginning to make a difference, and announced proposals for new measures to further tighten up movement controls on cattle.
But animal welfare campaigners said the figures showed there was no justification for the badger cull, which is being piloted in Somerset and Gloucestershire.
The government insists badger culling is needed as part of a strategy to eradicate TB in cattle in England.
But experts assessing the first year of the two pilot culls found that it was not humane and failed to kill the number of badgers, which can spread the disease to cattle, needed to reduce infection in herds.
Farming minister George Eustice said the statistics showed that the controls in the bovine TB eradication strategy were beginning to make a difference and the new measures would help even more to "bring this devastating disease under control".
"However we cannot become complacent," he said.
"The impact of bovine TB on our cattle farmers, their families and their communities cannot be overstated. That is why must do everything we can to reach our aim of making the whole of England TB free."
But campaigners said the latest figures, which also revealed significant reductions in the number of cattle being slaughtered because of TB in Somerset and Gloucestershire, did not justify a badger cull.
Dominic Dyer, of the Badger Trust and Care for the Wild, said: "These are pretty sensational figures and highly significant.
"There is no way that the badger culls from last year could have influenced these numbers at all, so the drop is purely because of the tighter farming controls that have come in over the last couple of years.
"If I was in the government I'd be shouting these numbers from the rooftops, but unfortunately they would rather keep quiet - because these figures don't justify a badger cull."
He suggested any farmer told that following a few rules could lead to the number of cattle being slaughtered for TB to be halved - as happened in Somerset in January to March this year, compared to the same period in 2013 - would take it.
"So let's now direct all our energy to ensuring that we repeat this success across the country, by doing what works, and not focusing on a badger cull which will achieve nothing."
He added that while tackling the disease in cattle worked, testing was flawed as it could miss infected cows, and the problem needed to be sorted out before bovine TB could be eradicated.


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ABC Reading Eggs Activity Books are an excellent way for children to learn to read and write. They are full of educational activities that children will enjoy.
ABC Reading Eggs Activity Book 1 is for children with little or no reading skills. It fully supports and reinforces the 10 lessons (lessons 1–10) of the ABC Reading Eggs program.
You can find the full program at www.readingeggs.com - the website where children learn to read!
This book will help children to:
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Välkommen till vår hemsida.
Den innehåller information om alkoholhaltiga drycker och vänder sig därför bara till dig som är minst 25 år.
Please verify that you are more than 25 years old.
Jag är över 25 år / I am at least 25 years old
En dunkel har tydlig maltarom och toner av bröd, kola, choklad. För att få fram den urtypiska stilen har vi valt att brygga vår Hedemora Dunkel med münchenermalt samt karamell- och rostad malt. Ölet är kalljäst, för att de fruktiga tonerna från jäsningen inte ska ta över. Tettnangerhumlen ger ölet beska men också en blommig arom.
Malts: Münchenermalt, karamellmalt, rostad malt
Hops: Tettnanger
EBC is an acronym for "European Brewery Convention" and is a measure of the beer's color. A lower value indicates a lighter beer and a higher value for darker beers. A really light American lager beer might have EBC 4 while a typical Irish stout has EBC 130
FG stands for Final Gravity and is a measure of the finished beer's density compared to water. FG is used together with OG to calculate the alcohol content.
OG stands for Original Gravity and is the wort's density compared to water before fermentation. It can be translated as the sugar content of the wort and is used to calculate the alcohol content.
International Bitterness Units: Is a measure of the beer's bitterness. Most beers are in the 10-110 IBU range, where 10 is a low bitterness and 110 extremely high bitterness. Beers with similar IBU may although taste more or less bitter depending on different alcohol levels or higher residual sweetness wich reduces the perception of bitterness. A bright, low alcoholic beer with IBU 25 can be perceived as more bitter than a dark strong beer with IBU 50. We send our beer for analysis to get a correct IBU-value. Therefore, our values seem low compared to those who only have a theoretical value of their products. Formulas for the IBU has a tendency to grossly overestimate the value. A clear example of this is Thurbo DIPA who has a calculated value of about 150, but measures as 74.
Malt is the main extract giver to the beer, accounts for the sugar that the yeast will break down into alcohol. But malt also contributes with mouth feel, color and gives flavor to the beer.
Alcohol by volume is the official measure of alcohol content in Sweden. We only measure the alcohol content indirectly by the density of the wort before fermentation (OG ) minus the density of the beer after fermentation (FG). That value is then inserted into a formula that gives the alcoholic strength by volume.
Cones from the plant Humulus lupulus which in modern times is the main spice in beer. It adds bitterness, flavor and contributes to the beer's shelf life with its anti-bacterial properties.
Gluten is the protein found in the grains; wheat, rye and barley. Gluten intolerance (celiac disease) is an inflammatory bowel disease in which the sufferer must avoid gluten. Sufferers of Celiac disease must adher to a gluten-free diet for life. Rules for labeling products as "gluten-free" or "very low gluten" is stipulated in EU Regulation (EC) No 41/2009. The limits for products labeled "gluten-free" and "very low gluten " are 20 mg respectively 100 mg gluten / liter.


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The energy and gun worlds are about to collide. Fundamentally, the two have almost nothing in common -- except that each has been or is about to be the subject of immense pressures from large institutional investors.
Money managers have long exercised their financial muscle. Energy companies, for example, have been rewarded for developing clean fuels or critical infrastructure. Now, some of those same investment managers are targeting gun manufacturers and particularly those that make semi-automatic weapons.
"The bottom line is neither the California Public Employees's Retirement System (Calpers) nor the California Teachers Retirement System (Calstrs) should have any investments in the makers of guns that are illegal in California, especially those guns that have been used to kill 20 innocent children and six innocent adults," says California State Treasurer Bill Lockyer.
While those investment managers must serve their shareholders, many would argue that they have a greater purpose -- to leverage their strength to achieve common good and to improve lives where they are conducting commerce. The best example is when the masses pressured their institutions to extract money from South Africa's former Apartheid government. Both corporate and scholastic icons responded, which became the impetus that brought down that regime.
Certainly, money managers could use their same influence to effect common-sense changes to gun laws and to penalize those weapons' factories that place their profits ahead of the concerns of the local communities where they co-exist. That's why Lockyer asked the country's two biggest pension funds to examine their allocations in these companies. His request was immediately felt, prompting Cerberus Capital Management to say that it is dumping the Freedom Group that makes one of the firearms used in the Newtown, Connecticut massacre.
"The tragic and devastating acts that took place December 14 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut have prompted many in this country to call for change: To determine what we can do differently to help ensure the unthinkable never happens again," says a statement by Calstrs. It has $750 million invested in Cerberus.
The flip-side of the argument is that those pension fund managers have a fiduciary obligation to maximize their returns to plan participants -- not to make political or social statements. But such thinking is one-dimensional. In the case of Cerberus, it has been reported that its chief executive has relatives in Newtown, meaning that the corporate boss has tied his business to what is now happening in that community.
Indeed, it's about corporate social responsibility -- or the idea that the companies and the cities in which they prosper are irrevocably linked. Business reputations have currency and as such, firms must project a positive image. Public outcry has significance. It's why the National Rifle Association's leadership, which exacts punitive retribution against those who cross it, has released a statement that says it will now try to be more accommodating -- at least until legislation starts moving to ban assault-style weapons that can trigger multiple bullets at once.
But the gun lobby gets its fire power from the gun manufacturers. As long as they are flush with cash, so too are its richly-rewarded lobbyists who intimidate those officials on Capitol Hill and in the state legislatures. But now, the actions of the California pension funds are spreading. The Massachusetts treasurer's office is making a similar request of its fund managers. More states are certain to follow, especially if the public anger coalesces into the kind of movement that destroyed Apartheid.
Bottom line: Share prices of the gun makers are taking a direct hit with both Smith & Wesson and Sturm Ruger & Co. going down. They may be able to bully lawmakers and legislators. But they can't threaten the institutional investment managers. Who wants to profit off the misery of others?
"It is apparent that the Sandy Hook tragedy was a watershed event that has raised the national debate on gun control to an unprecedented level," says Cerberus.
Investments with a higher purpose can beat market averages. Calpers has often said that socially responsible investing has enhanced its returns. Meantime, the International Shareholder Services says that such thinking is a business imperative: Two-thirds of the companies that it surveyed said that good governance is the right thing to do and that such standards also give enterprises a leg up.
Both shareholders and creditors have expressly said that business must actually live and breathe their corporate codes of conduct. Along those lines, many mainstream investors want to see companies become more "socially responsible" -- in essence, to expand their missions beyond serving just shareholders and into the communities where they work.
"With only rare exceptions, the financial community has not sufficiently recognized or rewarded corporate efforts to respond to environmental, labor or human rights challenges, even though such factors can be directly material to corporate performance," says Marshall Carter, chairman of the New York Stock Exchange Group, in a speech.
While shareholder activism has its cynics, the reality is that businesses must now appeal to a broad range of constituencies. Good corporate citizenship adds value while bucking the mores of a civil society will eventually kill enterprises.
The energy sector knows this first hand. It has seen the greediest of its members collapse. That's why the power and gas industry, generally, places a high value on stakeholder communications and community outreach, all with an eye on building consensus. The gun lobby, conversely, has long hidden behind specious arguments, reasoning that it can run roughshod over the people's will. But now, the institutional investors are the ones packing heat that could drop the gun makers to their knees.
The large pension funds would be justified to leverage their financial clout to effect social change here -- to accomplish what elected officials have failed to do, which is to better protect our local communities. And if its good for real people, it's also healthy for shareholders.


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Status: In Production
The SAM3S4C is a member of the Microchip's SAM3S series microcontrollers based on the high-performance 32-bit ARM® Cortex®-M3 RISC processor. It operates at a maximum speed of 64MHz and features 256KB of flash memory and 48KB of SRAM.
The extensive peripheral set includes a Full Speed USB device port with embedded transceiver, high-speed multimedia card interface for SDIO/SD/MMC, external bus interface featuring a static memory controller connecting to SRAM, PSRAM, NOR flash, LCD module and NAND flash, two USARTs, two UARTs, two TWIs (I2C), three SPIs, I2S, PWM timer, six 16-bit timers, RTC, 15-ch 12-bit ADC, 2-ch 12-bit DAC, and an analog comparator.
The QTouch library offers an easy way to implement buttons, wheels, and sliders. The parallel data capture mode on the PIOs complements the external bus interface for data collection from external devices not compliant with standard memory read protocols, such as low-cost image sensors. DMA transfers the data to memory, offloading the CPU.
It operates from 1.62V to 3.6V and is available in 100-pin QFP and QFN packages and is pin-to-pin compatible with the SAM3N4C.
Microcontroller Features
ARM® Cortex®-M3 revision 2.0 running at up to 64 MHz
Memory Protection Unit (MPU)
DSP Instructions, Thumb®-2 instruction set
256 Kbytes Single Plane embedded Flash, 128-bit wide access, memory accelerator
48 Kbytes embedded SRAM
16 Kbytes ROM with embedded bootloader routines (UART, USB) and IAP routines
8-bit Static Memory Controller (SMC): SRAM, PSRAM, NOR and NAND Flash support
External Bus Interface - 8-bit data, 4 chip selects, 24-bit address
Embedded voltage regulator for single-supply operation
Power-on-Reset (POR), Brown-out Detector (BOD) and Watchdog for safe operation
Quartz or ceramic resonator oscillators: 0.6 to 30MHz main power with Failure Detection and low power 32.768 kHz for RTC or device clock
High precision 8/12 MHz factory trimmed internal RC oscillator with 4 MHz default frequency for device startup. In-application trimming access for frequency adjustment
Slow clock internal RC oscillator as permanent low-power mode device clock
Two PLLs up to 130 MHz for device clock and for USB
Temperature Sensor
Up to 22 peripheral DMA (PDC) channels
Low Power Modes
Sleep and Backup modes, down to < 2 μA in Backup mode
Ultra low power RTC
100-lead LQFP, 14 x 14 mm, pitch 0.5 mm
100-ball TFBGA, 9 x 9 mm, pitch 0.8 mm
Temperature operating range
Peripheral Features
USB 2.0 Device and Embedded Host: 12 Mbps, up to 8 bidirectional Endpoints and Multi-packet Ping-pong Mode. On-Chip Transceiver
USB 2.0 Device: 12 Mbps, 2668 byte FIFO, up to 8 bidirectional Endpoints. On-Chip Transceiver
2 USARTs with ISO7816, IrDA®, RS-485, SPI, Manchester and Modem Mode
Two 2-wire UARTs
2 Two Wire Interface (I2C compatible), 1 SPI, 1 Serial Synchronous Controller (I2S), 1 High Speed Multimedia Card Interface (SDIO/SD Card/MMC)
two 3-channel 16-bit Timer Counters with capture, waveform, compare and PWM mode. Quadrature Decoder Logic and 2-bit Gray Up/Down Counter for Stepper Motor
4-channel 16-bit PWM with Complementary Output, Fault Input, 12-bit Dead Time Generator Counter for Motor Control
32-bit Real-time Timer and RTC with calendar and alarm features
32-bit Cyclic Redundancy Check Calculation Unit (CRCCU)
79 I/O lines with external interrupt capability (edge or level sensitivity), debouncing, glitch filtering and on-die Series Resistor Termination
Three 32-bit Parallel Input/Output Controllers, Peripheral DMA assisted Parallel Capture Mode
Analog Features
16-channel, 1Msps ADC with differential input mode and programmable gain stage
2-channel 12-bit 1Msps DAC
One Analog Comparator with flexible input selection, Selectable input hysteresis
Debugger Development Support
Serial Wire/JTAG Debug Port(SWJ-DP)
Debug access to all memories and registers in the system, including Cortex-M4 register bank when the core is running, halted, or held in reset.
Serial Wire Debug Port (SW-DP) and Serial Wire JTAG Debug Port (SWJ-DP) debug access.
Flash Patch and Breakpoint (FPB) unit for implementing breakpoints and code patches.
Data Watchpoint and Trace (DWT) unit for implementing watchpoints, data tracing, and system profiling.
Instrumentation Trace Macrocell (ITM) for support of printf style debugging.
IEEE1149.1 JTAG Boundary-scan on all digital pins.
Integrated Software Libraries and Tools
ASF-Atmel software Framework – SAM software development framework
Integrated in the Atmel Studio IDE with a graphical user interface or available as standalone for GCC, IAR compilers.
DMA support, Interrupt handlers Driver support
USB, TCP/IP, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, Numerous USB classes, DHCP and Wi-Fi encryption Stacks
RTOS integration, FreeRTOS is a core component
Studio 7 is the integrated development platform (IDP) for developing and debugging all AVR® and SAM microcontroller applications. The Atmel Studio 7 IDP gives you a seamless and easy-to-use environment to write, build and debug your applications written in C/C++ or assembly code. It also connects seamlessly to the debuggers, programmers and development kits that support AVR® and SAM...
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Zac Efron's latest bid to move away from his clean cut "High School Musical" image has him starring as a money launderer and coke runner in a new thriller.
Efron will produce and star in the American remake of "Snabba Cash" a hot Swedish property which has been snapped up by Warner Bros. in America, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Is that street enough for ya?
The movie is based on a novel by Jens Lapidus and was a major hit in Sweden. It follows three interconnected drug and organized crime storylines. Efron will play the main character, a young man who hopes to strike it rich quickly by becoming a runner for a coke dealer.
Joyful singing and dancing will not be needed as Efron is moving as far away from his movie past as possible. You had to know the road away from "High School" would lead to serious crime one way or another. It's just funny that out of all the countries to export a crime-movie, it's the homeland of ABBA.
The movie title "Snabba Cash" is a Swedish term for easy money which is what the co-producers hope Efron's involvement brings.


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I'm tutoring someone who can be described as a rank newcomer in C. Understandably, she does not know much about coding conventions generally practiced, and hence all her programs tend to use single letter vars, mismatched spacing/indentation and the like, making it very difficult to read/debug her endeavors.
My question is, is there a link/set of guidelines and examples which she can use for adopting basic code conventions ? It should not be too arcane as to scare her off, yet inclusive enough to have the basics covered (so that no one woulc wince looking at the code).
Any suggestions ?
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The face of the GOP Revolution in 1994, presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich, now plunging in some polls, has had little help from the former House colleagues he led out of the wilderness.
After leading in the Iowa polls last month, the former House speaker has taken a drubbing in negative ads, mainly referencing his character and fitness for office. The response from lawmakers who served with Mr. Gingrich has been, for the most part, more criticism or silence.
A new NBC/Maris poll, released on Friday, has Gingrich with a 13 percent approval rating by Iowans likely to go to Tuesday's caucus, down from 26 percent in the last poll in late November. In a highly fluid race, that leaves him roughly tied for third with former US Sen. Rick Santorum (R) of Pennsylvania at 15 percent and Texas Gov. Rick Perry at 14 percent. More than 1 in 3 respondents told pollsters that Gingrich would be unacceptable as the GOP nominee.
Former Rep. Bob Walker (R) of Pennsylvania, a longtime Gingrich ally, says that the campaign has yet to mobilize Gingrich supporters or surrogates on Capitol Hill, while rival campaigns have amplified the voice of his detractors.
"The campaign has not really organized them at this point, but there is an attempt to get them out on the surrogate circuit," he says. "There are a lot of people who served with Newt who have supported his candidacy and endorsed him."
"The Romney people organized their surrogates to attack Newt," Walker adds. "Some [House members] bear grudges from the time Newt was in power."
In early December, the pro-Romney group Restore our Future, which is not required to identify donors, announced a $3.1 million ad campaign in Iowa, mainly targeting Gingrich. Groups supporting Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Rep. Ron Paul (R) of Texas also generated a flood of negative anti-Gingrich ads. Anti-Gingrich ads accounted for nearly half of the ads that Iowans saw in December, according to the Campaign Media Analysis Group in Washington.
The ads target Gingrich for accepting consulting fees from home mortgage backer Freddie Mac and paying $300,000 in fines related to an 89-count corruption investigation during his tenure as speaker.
"I wouldn't vote for the person they're describing," said Gingrich, at a "CafeMom" event in Des Moines on Friday. "But I would be ashamed to run some of the ads they're running. And I will not participate in that kind of process."
It's a sharp turnaround for a lawmaker seen as spearheading a sharp spike in negative, personal attacks during this tenure in the US House.
Elected to the House on his third try in 1978, Gingrich arrived in Washington along with the first C-SPAN television cameras. He and other conservatives, such as Congressman Walker, took advantage of television coverage of "special orders" at the end of the day, typically used to communicate with voters back home, to instead launch attacks on majority Democratic leaders, especially targeting personal ethics.
The attacks created a cloud of corruption around Democrats, who had run the House without a break since 1955. They eventually toppled Speaker Jim Wright (D) of Texas, who resigned in 1989 following charges by Gingrich over $77,000 in bulk sales of a book to special-interest groups. When Republicans took back the House in 1995, Gingrich was elected speaker.
Democrats attribute today's toxic atmosphere in the House to Gingrich's tactics.
"Gingrich invented the politics of venom," says 16-term Rep. Barney Frank (D) of Massachusetts. "He's a very good political strategist, without a core. He cannot be consistently identified with any issue of substance."
"He was erratic, undisciplined, said different things on different days, even when dramatically opposed," says Rep. Henry Waxman (D) of California, who was first elected in 1974. "It was all about demonizing the Democrats."
Gingrich still inspires strong views among former GOP colleagues, as well. On the one hand, most still credit his role in rousing a dispirited House GOP caucus to even consider the possibility of taking control of the House.
"When we came in 1979, we understand that something drastic had to change," says Sen. Olympia Snowe (R) of Maine, who first came to the House with Gingrich's class. "Republicans had sort of adopted the minority culture. It took 16 years to break it," she says. "Newt understood how to use C-SPAN. He had bold ideas."
After Republicans took control of the House, Gingrich pushed to make the speakership a comparable bully pulpit to that of the White House. He was Time magazine's Man of the Year. But his standoff with President Bill Clinton over government spending led to two government shutdowns in 1995 and 1996, which most of the public blamed on Republicans.
As a House member in 1997, Sen. Tom Coburn (R) of Oklahoma helped plan a (failed) coup to remove Gingrich as speaker, mainly for "surrendering" to Mr. Clinton in the government shutdown. His leadership was "erratic," Senator Coburn wrote in his 2003 book, "Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders into Insiders."
"His inability to discipline himself in his public comments was also a serious liability," says Coburn. "His untimely comments came across as petty and excessively partisan."
Coburn says he will not comment on the current Gingrich campaign. "It's all in my book," he says.
Other Gingrich critics say the wildcard is whether Gingrich has changed over the years.
"He had a big ego, he was impulsive," says Sen. Lindsay Graham (R) of South Carolina, who served with Gingrich in the House.
"He's also very bright," he adds. "The big question for most of us is: Has he changed?"


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CHARLESTON, S.C.: Some scientists suggest it could be still another sign of climate change: Salamanders in the Appalachian Mountains are getting smaller, they say, because in a drier, warmer climate, the little cold-blooded creatures use more energy to stay alive.
�As their temperature rises, all their physiological rates increase,� said Michael Sears, a Clemson University biologist. �All else being equal, that means there is less energy for growth.�
In a study earlier this year in the journal Global Change Biology, Sears and other researchers compared museum specimens of salamanders collected over a half century beginning in 1957 with those measured at the same sites in 2011 and 2012.
In all, they measured almost 9,500 adult salamanders and found their bodies were on average about 8 percent smaller after 1980 than in the earlier decades.
The change was not universal. While in six species salamanders were smaller, there was no change in eight other species and salamanders in one species even increased in size. Samples were taken in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee.
�We point to climate change as our best guess of what we think is going on,� said Karen Lips, an associate professor in the University of Maryland�s Department of Biology and a co-author of the paper.
So if salamanders are smaller what does it matter? It matters to the creatures throughout their forest habitat, Lips said.
�Because they are so abundant they are a food source for birds, snakes and small mammals, things like raccoons, possums and shrews,� Lips said. If there are smaller salamanders �other animals will have to eat more, it will take them more time to find food and life becomes more difficult for everybody.�
The study was also co-authored by Nicholas Caruso of the University of Alabama and Dean Adams of Iowa State University.
Noted ecologist and author Paul Ehrlich, a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University, said climate change might be the cause of smaller salamanders.
�The climate is changing more rapidly than we expected and that�s a possible cause,� said Ehrlich, who did not work on the study. �But there�s a general loss of amphibians around the world with all kinds of reasons and all kinds of argument about it. Populations of amphibians are in bigger trouble than any other major group.�
And Kenneth Dodd, an associate professor in the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at the University of Florida who has worked in the southern Appalachians for decades, has problems with the study, saying the data presented doesn�t support the conclusion.
He said there could be other explanations, noting balsam and fir forests in the higher elevations of the Great Smoky Mountains are dying because of the introduction of an exotic insect, not climate change. With the dying forests, the area becomes less cool and wet, affecting salamander habitat.
�I could put forth a scenario that the change in body size, if it is valid, might be due to changes in forest composition or habitat changes which have absolutely nothing to do with climate change,� he said. He also said, in some cases, very small samples of some species were measured.
The greatest variety of salamanders in the nation is found in the Southeast with scientists having identified just over 100 species.
Smaller salamanders could be the result of individuals not growing as big or genetic changes in which entire species are smaller in response to a changed environment, the study suggests.
�The rapidity and the widespread extent of these changes ... may signal rapid adaptation to novel environmental conditions,� the paper said.
Smaller salamanders, like other small creatures, are at a disadvantage.
�One of the rules of biology or ecology is that bigger is better. If you�re a bigger animal, you are more likely to get a better mate, better territories and produce more offspring,� Lips said. �If you are smaller, everything can eat you.�
Sears said the study may make the impact of climate change more accessible to the public.
�If you were like me and a kid growing up in the South, it might be the first animal you caught yourself, flipping over a rock or leaves in the forest,� he said.


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I was thumbing through the Nov/Dec 2010 issue of Blues Revue magazine, where I picked up on a thread of continuity with three blues harp players, Grady Champion, James Cotton, and Charles Musslewhite. Each had advertisements in the magazine and all three harp players recordings are reviewed in the reviews section.
The first harp player reference I saw was a half page advertisement for the International Blues Challenge 2011, featuring an image of Grady Champion (last year's IBC winning band!). The Blues Foundation will present the 27th International Blues Challenge February 1-5, 2011 in Memphis, TN
Grady Champion is a new influence for me. His band's latest recording is Back In Mississippi Live at the 930 Blues Cafe on Earwig Records. Having a Microsoft Zune music account I decided to sample Grady Champion's recording. I liked what I heard immediately. Grady and the band have a sharp, fresh sound that commands your attention from the first note. Give them a listen 🙂
Charlie Musselwhite, is a veteran blues-man who is having a welcome resurgence of late. You may have seen him playing with Cyndi Lauper on her latest recording Memphis Blues. Charlie has been a sideman with many famous musicians such as Tom Waits, Bonnie Raitt, John Lee Hooker and The Blind Boys of Alabama, just to name a few. Charlie's latest recording on Alligator Records, The Well is up for a Grammy Award nomination in the Best Traditional Blues Album category. The Well has been hailed by critics and fans as one of the very best blues CDs of 2010. I wholeheartedly agree, The Well is a gritty, straight ahead blues rocker. One of my favorite tracks is "Cook County Blues" where you hear humorous diatribe about being in the slammer" 😉
"Superb, original and compelling…harmonica master Musselwhite sets the standard for blues." – Rolling Stone Magazine
Alligator Recording artist James Cotton at 75 years young has also received a well-deserved Grammy Award nomination in the Best Traditional Blues Album group for Giant. James Cotton began his career at the age of 9 under the tutelage of Sonny Boy Williamson. He is totally dedicated to his craft and will shake you to your bones on this recording.
"Among the greats of all time, He blazes on harp with brilliant virtuosity,"–Rolling Stone Magazine


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Millais's career struggled in the latter half of the 1850s, marred by a slew of pictures that garnered less income that his previous paintings. In 1859, he decided to produce a what Barlow calls a "commercial Pre-Raphaelite picture" (55) entitled The Black Brunswicker. This image features a scene of contemporary life, a trend started by Hunt and his Awakening Conscience. The painting features a young pair of lovers, the man comforting the woman, their young dog pawing at his owner's leg. According to the artist's son, the scene depicts the departure of a Black Brunswicker on the eve of Quartre Bras, June 1815 from his English lover, who stands strategically between him and the door (Walker Art Gallery, 29).
Millais's inclusion of Jacques-Louis David's painting of militaristic triumph Napoloeon Crossing the St. Bernard Pass lends particular interest to an otherwise artificial scene. This painting, famously commissioned after Napoleon and his army traversed the notoriously treacherous St. Bernard Pass before surprising the Austrians at the Battle of Merengo on June 14, 1808, features the victorious leader posing proudly atop his forceful steed. The painting wreaks of propagandistic lauding, its every detail included to further praise its featured protagonist. With exaggerated diagonals, clean lines, and neither the horse nor Napoleon with a hair out of place, the piece hardly communicates the terror for which the St. Bernard Pass was known. Inscribed on the stone over which the horse stands, is the word Bonaparte, a nod to the triumphant leader.
Millais's choice to feature the scene creates an element of humor in his picture, as the Battle of Quartre-Bras resulted in French victory thanks to Napoleon's military cunning. The painting's presence foreshadows French victory as it mocks the sentimentality of the two figures. Additionally, the artist introduces the theme of the Victorian craze for household goods, and how middle class citizens envisioned their own identities reflected in the material items they possessed. In this way, David's painting represents more than a symbol of materialism, but a victorious ideal to which its owners can aspire.
Both artists depict staged scenes. Napoleon actually rode a mule across the St. Bernard Pass, but requested of David to paint him sitting calmly on his horse. The contrived nature of this image is readily apparent from the static nature of what would have been a more dynamic setting. Napoleon's perfect posture despite a moving animal beneath him, his perfectly draped robe waving upward at an absurdly exaggerated angle, a beam of light singularly illuminating the battle's hero- these are signs of the painting's staged nature. Millais, while he worked from life, produces just as staged a rendering as his predecessor. His models, one a female aristocrat name Kate Dickens, the other a soldier of the 1st Life Guards, posed on separate occasions for the piece, leaning against lay figures in the other's absence (Walker Art Gallery, 45). While this method was hardly unusual for such a painting, it abates the piece's credibility as a convincing representation of an actual occurrence. The melodramatic facial expressions and the manufactured poses of the figures provide visual cues for the viewer as to the staged nature of the scene.
As with his painting Mariana, Millais pays particularly attention to individual objects in this work. While the David print possesses special significance, so does each item of Millais's interior. The wallpaper, a visual theme appearing in more than one of Millais's works, exemplifies the natural motifs typical of William Morris' style. Within the context of The Black Brunswicker, this natural wallpaper can be read as an association with the female being, as nature's beauty was often fused with female beauty in the nineteenth-century mind.
Scanning along the objects in the room, the figures' costumes stand out in their elaborate detail and realistic appearance. Dress was particularly important to Victorians, but in this piece especially, it signifies the roles of each figure. The soldier wears his military costume, appearing especially dapper as he enters the public sphere, and especially clean considering the grit of the battle he is about to face. His dark attire contrasts the comparatively gleaming costume of his partner, shining in white with a bright red ribbon on her sleeve, possibly as homage to her lover at war. The red ribbon theme appears again on the collar of the dog at his owner's feet, subtly conflating the longing beast with the needy woman. The ribbon, as a shared element of their attire, ties them both to the interior domain, the sphere in which they remain as the Brunswicker departs for battle. Millais's attention to material specifics communicates the message of his piece: the predicament of the woman at home as her lover leaves home.
The Black Brunswicker was inspired by earlier pictures of lovers torn apart by circumstance. A Huguenot on St. Batholomew's Day Refusing to Shield Himself from Danger by Wearing the Roan Catholic Badge, 1851 exemplifies Millais's careful hand and attention to detail. As with the Brunswicker, the Hugeunot must leave his lover's side. Based on Meyerbeer's opera Les Hugeunots, the painting features two lovers, one Protestant, one Catholic, within the factions of sixteenth-century Paris, where tensions escalated to the state-sanctioned massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day in 1572 (Barlow, 39).
The men in both pictures comfort the women they hold, the women differ in stance and attitude. The woman in The Hugeunot looks longingly at her lover, whereas the Brunswicker's lady averts her eyes, instead using her body as a shield between the soldier and the door. The paintings also differ in terms of setting. The Brunswicker and his lover appear indoors, a contrast to the exterior realm the soldier must inevitably face. The pair in The Hugeunotembraces outside, yet despite their embrace outside the confines of an interior, Millais paints nature in a constraining manner. The wall, rendered in high detail, appears uncomfortably close to the couple, the leaves similarly threaten to overpower the scene. These creeping leaves could symbolize the impending separation the couple will experience, approaching steadily yet undetectably. Nature's ominous power figures into other images by Millais, namely, Ophelia, painted in 1852. The natural elements in this composition frame her death scene, creating a claustrophobic sphere from which there appears no escape. The Hugeunot portrays a similar feeling of entrapment, where the enveloping threat of nature reflects the approaching threat of separation.
Related Discussions of Millais by the Same Author
- "Aweary" and Waiting: John Everett Millais's Mariana
- Knowledge and Family in Millais's The Ruling Passion
- Nudes and Knights: Millais's The Knight Errant
- Order in the Family in The Order of Release
Bennett, Mary. Walker Art Gallery. Millais: An Exhibition Organized by the Walker Art Gallery Liverpool and the Royal Academy of Arts London, Jan-Apr 1967. London: Royal Academy, 1967.
Barlow, Paul. Time Present and Time Past: The Art of John Everett Millais. Great Britain: Biddles Ltd, King's Lynn, 2005.
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MACON, Ga. – The No. 28 Georgia College baseball team continued its ongoing relationship with the Macon Miracle League by serving as Miracle League Buddies; helping out at a game Saturday.
"This is our third year with the Miracle League," said head coach Tom Carty. "Our players really enjoy being "buddies" at the games. Each year we learn so much from the players at Miracle League about determination, teamwork and sportsmanship. They give a lot more to us than we give to them. This is a great partnership between Bobcat Baseball and Miracle League. We hope we can continue to have them as our community partner for years to come."
With the slogan of "Every Child Deserves a Chance to Play Baseball" The Miracle League provides children with mental and/or physical challenges an opportunity to play baseball as a team member in an organized league. The league utilizes an ADA approved synthetic rubber turf field that allows all children with special needs an opportunity to play on a "level"-playing surface. The Miracle League allows these children an opportunity to finally play baseball for the first time in their lives.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information.


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The Cognitive Dynamics of Computer Science represents the culmination of more than thirty years of the author′s hands–on experience in software development, which has resulted in a remarkable and sensible philosophy and practice of software development. It provides a groundbreaking ontology of computer science, while describing the processes, methodologies, and constructs needed to build high–quality, large–scale computer software systems on schedule and on budget.
Based on his own experience in developing successful, low–cost software projects, the author makes a persuasive argument for developers to understand the philosophical underpinnings of software. He asserts that software in reality is an abstraction of the human thought system. The author draws from the seminal works of the great German philosophers Kant, Hegel, and Schopenhauer and recasts their theories of human mind and thought to create a unifying theory of computer science, cognitive dynamics, that opens the door to the next generation of computer science and forms the basic architecture for total autonomy.
- Four detailed cases studies effectively demonstrate how philosophy and practice merge to meet the objective of high–quality, low–cost software.
- The Autonomous Cognitive System chapter sets forth a model for a completely autonomous computer system, using the human thought system as the model for functional architecture and the human thought process as the model for the functional data process.
- Although rooted in philosophy, this book is practical, addressing all the key areas that software professionals need to master in order to remain competitive and minimize costs, such as leadership, management, communication, and organization.
This thought–provoking work will change the way students and professionals in computer science and software development conceptualize and perform their work. It provides them with both a philosophy and a set of practical tools to produce high–quality, low–cost software.
Chapter 1. Introduction.
1.1 The Retention of Software Jobs.
1.2 Depth of Experience.
1.3 The Scope of This Book.
1.4 The Nature of Computer Science.
1.5 The Future of Computer Science.
1.6 The Essence of Philosophy.
1.7 Why Autonomy?
1.8 An Architecture for Autonomy.
1.9 Other Notes.
Chapter 2. Prologue.
2.1 How This Book Originated.
2.2 The Importance of Management.
2.3 The Tie–in with Autonomy.
2.4 Major Themes of This Book.
2.5 The Challenge of a New Idea.
2.6 The Importance of Visualization.
2.7 The Move Toward Autonomy.
2.8 Why I Wrote This Book.
2.9 Merging Theory and Practice.
2.10 The Pace of Computer Science.
2.11 The Importance of Cognitive Dynamics.
Chapter 3. The Philosophical Foundations of Computer Software Design.
3.1 The Philosophical Origins of Computer Science.
3.2 Influence of the Cognitive Philosophers.
3.3 Abstracting the Human Thought System.
3.4 The Philosophical Foundations of Software Development.
3.5 The Phenomenon of Reality.
3.6 The Phenomenon of Subjectivity.
3.7 Low–Cost Software Development.
3.8 "On Budget and On Schedule."
3.9 The Time to Completion: Schedule.
3.10 Philosophy and Successful Design.
Chapter 4. The Philosophical Imperatives of Architectural Design.
4.1 The Manager as Architect.
4.2 The Manager as Teacher.
4.3 The Manager as Social Worker.
4.4 The Manager as Axman.
4.5 The Philosophical Imperatives of Architectural Design.
4.6 Availability of the Manager.
4.7 Project Manager: 10 Key Attributes and Responsibilities.
4.8 Philosophical Aspects of Engineering.
4.9 The Importance of Finishing the Job.
4.10 Visualizing an Architecture.
4.11 The Role of Intuition in Design.
4.12 Sufficient Reality and Inference in the Design Process.
4.13 Dialectics in the Achievement of Sufficient Reality.
4.14 The Relationship of Logic to Software Architectures.
4.15 The Logic of the Systems Design.
Chapter 5. Project and Task Organization.
5.1 The Role of Organization.
5.2 The Ability to Organize.
5.3 The Difficulty of Communication.
5.4 The Title of "Manager."
5.5 The Flat, Nonhierarchical Organization.
5.6 Projects, Tasks, and Work Units.
5.7 Large Organizations and Staffing.
5.8 Staffing Up: The Initial Team.
5.9 Balancing Hardware and Software.
5.10 Incremental Deliveries.
5.11 Functional Organization.
5.12 Interface Protocols of the Organization.
5.13 Completion of the Task.
5.14 Detecting the "Fraud."
Chapter 6. The Philosophy of Communication.
6.1 "Sanity Is an Achievement!"
6.2 Gauging Understanding.
6.3 Internal Team Communication Protocols.
6.4 External Team Communication Protocols.
6.5 Technical English as the Medium.
6.6 Engineers as Technical Writers.
6.7 Documentation: Articulation of the Requirements and Design.
6.8 The SRD: Software Requirements Document.
Chapter 7. Software Management Standards.
7.1 Three Good Standards.
7.2 Aspects Addressed by a Standard.
7.3 Preparing to Select the Standard.
7.4 Standards for Implementation.
Chapter 8. The Estimation of Software Cost.
8.1 Sponsor Costing Issues.
8.2 Types of Cost Estimates.
8.3 Lines of Code Metrics.
8.4 The Major Work Areas, Functions, and Tasks that Must be Included in the Estimation of Cost.
8.5 The Detailed Cost Estimate.
8.6 The SRD as a Contract.
Chapter 9. The Exercise of Project Control.
9.1 The Functions of Project Control and Oversight.
9.2 The Requirements Phase.
9.3 Contents of the Software Requirements Document.
9.4 The Design Phase.
9.5 The Implementation Phase.
9.6 The Test and Integration Phase.
9.7 Personnel Issues.
9.8 The Hacker and Other Personalities.
9.9 The Buck Stops at the Top.
9.10 How People Think, Pay Attention, and Remember.
Chapter 10. The Development Process Methodology.
10.1 The "Design Hub" as Implementation Tool.
10.2 The Architecture Definition Process.
10.3 The Use of Large–Scale Representations.
10.4 Design Team Meetings.
10.5 Rapid Development versus Prototyping.
10.6 The Traditional Development Methodology.
10.7 Action Items, Change Requests, and Software Discrepancy Reports.
10.8 Resolving Problems and Impasses.
Chapter 11. The Development of System Architectures.
11.1 Pushing the Architecture.
11.2 The Point of "Acceptable Reality."
11.3 The Importance and Imperative of Visualizing Phenomena.
11.4 Traditional Architectures.
11.5 The Inferred Architecture.
11.6 The Redesign or Upgrading of Existing Systems.
11.7 The Approach to New Systems.
Chapter 12. The Impact of Leadership on Software Development.
12.1 Recognizing Good Leadership.
12.2 The Concepts of Management and Leadership.
12.3 Rewarding Failure.
12.4 The Leader s Subordinate.
12.5 Indications of Poor Leadership.
12.6 Leadership and Ethics.
12.7 The Attributes of Leadership.
12.8 The Ramifications of Failure.
12.9 The Absence of Leadership.
12.10 The Basis in Leadership for Failure.
12.11 The impact of Poor or Nonexistent Leadership.
Chapter 13. Management of Software Systems Development.
13.1 Self–Respect in the Manager.
13.2 The Ethical Workplace.
13.3 Narcotics Use in the Workforce.
13.4 Spotting Narcotics Addicts.
13.5 Courage and Dynamic Energy in Management.
13.6 The Traveling Manager.
13.7 The Manager as Architect.
13.8 The Phenomenon of Decision Making.
13.9 The Concept of "Ability."
13.10 Manager: Administrator or Leader?
13.11 Authority, Responsibility, and Accountability.
13.12 The Issue of Contempt.
13.13 Management: The Fulcrum of Project Execution.
13.14 The Ascendance of Mediocrity.
13.15 The Pitfalls of Staffing Up.
13.16 Salary Issues.
13.17 Contracting Out Work.
13.18 Evaluating Proposals.
13.19 Cost Bidding too Early.
Chapter 14: Four Case Studies of Low–Cost Systems.
14.1 Case Study One: The Joint Theater Level Simulation (JTLS).
14.2 Case Study Two: The Global Decision Support System (GDSS).
14.3 Case Study Three: The Topex TCCS System.
14.4 Case Study Four: The Jason 1 TCCS System (JTCCS).
Chapter 15. Operations, Operators, and Users: Their Impact on Cost.
15.1 The Operational Requirement.
15.2 The Lack of an Operational Requirement.
15.3 The Operations Scenario.
15.4 The Cost of Operators and Analysts.
15.5 The Voyager Project Operations Center.
15.6 War Gaming.
15.7 The Value of Simulation.
15.8 Funds: A Perspective.
Chapter 16. The Autonomous Cognitive System.
16.1 Introduction.
16.2 The Scale of Autonomy.
16.3 "I Will, Because I Can."
16.4 Toward Cognitive Dynamics.
16.5 Building an Autonomous System.
16.6 An Appropriate Model.
16.7 System–Level Requirements for Autonomy.
16.8 Architectural Domains for Autonomy.
16.9 In Summary.
The Science of Computer Science.
The Professional Software Manager.
Cognitive Philosophy in a Modern Technical Context.
Cognitive Dynamics is the Unifying Theory.
The Issue of Software Cost.
The Paradigm Shift of Cognitive Dynamics.
Glossary of Acronyms.
Mark A. Tarbell


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The 1970s Swedish pop group ABBA is dancing its way into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, along with Genesis, Jimmy Cliff, The Hollies and The Stooges.
The list of the next class of inductees was released Tuesday by the hall, which is based in Cleveland.
ABBA — whose hits included "Dancing Queen" — and the Stooges made it in this time after being nominated previously but then not making the cut. Notably missing from the list of inductees are KISS and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Both groups were early frontrunners for the class of 2010.
The rock hall also has announced that an award for non-performers will go to music industry executive David Geffen, the songwriting teams of Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil and Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry, and individual songwriters Jesse Stone, Mort Shuman and Otis Blackwell.
The 25th annual induction ceremony is scheduled for March 15 in New York City.
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UCI to leave Tour de France winner list blank from 1999-2005
Lance Armstrong at a news conference after the Memorial Hermann Ironman 70.3 Texas triathlon in Galveston, Texas, April 1, 2012. (Houston Chronicle / Michael Paulsen)
GENEVA -- The seven Tour de France titles stripped from Lance Armstrong will not be awarded to any riders, and the disgraced American and his teammates should return their prize money, cycling's governing body ruled Friday.
Acknowledging "a cloud of suspicion would remain hanging over this dark period," the UCI said the list of Tour winners will remain blank for the years from 1999 to 2005.
"This might appear harsh for those who rode clean (but) they would understand there was little honour to be gained in reallocating places," the UCI said after a board meeting in Geneva.
The UCI said Armstrong and "all other affected riders" in the case should return their prize money. That amounts to almost $4 million in Tour money from Armstrong.
Armstrong attorney Sean Breen declined to comment on the prize money demand.
The UCI's decision not to award Armstrong's Tour victories to other riders was welcomed in a statement from the Tour de France's organizers.
"This decision fully coincides with the wishes expressed by the organizers of the race ten days ago," the statement said.
The UCI also ordered an independent outside investigation to examine allegations about the UCI's own conduct and relations with Armstrong raised by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency report that detailed systematic cheating by the Texan and his teammates.
UCI has been accused of accepting $125,000 from Armstrong to cover up suspicious doping tests.
Riders and officials involved in doping programs will also be targeted by the inquiry commission.
"Part of the independent commission's remit would be to find ways to ensure that persons caught for doping were no longer able to take part in the sport, including as part of an entourage," the UCI said in a statement.
A potentially explosive defamation suit filed by the UCI, its president Pat McQuaid and predecessor Hein Verbruggen against Irish journalist and former Tour rider Paul Kimmage has been put on hold, the board said.
Kimmage was scheduled to defend his claims that cycling's leaders protected Armstrong at a Dec. 12 hearing in Vevey, Switzerland. Kimmage has received more than $70,000 in donations from cycling fans to fight his case.
Armstrong's expulsion from the sport he dominated was confirmed Monday when the UCI acknowledged the USADA findings that his teams ran "the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen."
Friday's meeting of the UCI board was a necessary legal step to confirm a seven-year hole in the Tour de France roll of honour.
"UCI is determined to turn around this painful episode in the history of our sport," McQuaid said in a statement. "We will take whatever actions are deemed necessary by the independent commission and we will put cycling back on track."
An "independent sports body" will be chosen by UCI within two weeks to nominate members of the advisory panel, which is scheduled to report back by June 2013.
As well as leaving the Tour winner's list blank from 1999-2005, the UCI agreed "not to award victories to any other rider or upgrade other placings in any of the affected events." Other stage-race titles lost by Armstrong include the 2001 Tour of Switzerland and Dauphine Libere in 2002 and '03.
"The (management) committee decided to apply this ruling from now on to any competitive sporting results disqualified due to doping for the period from 1998 to 2005, without prejudice to the statute of limitation," the UCI said.
The UCI did not directly address the status of Armstrong's Olympic time-trial bronze medal from the 2000 Sydney Games, which could be stripped by the International Olympic Committee.
Further revelations of doping are expected in an Italian prosecutor's probe into sports doctor Michele Ferrari, who was identified by USADA as a central figure in the doping programs for Armstrong and the U.S. Postal Service team.
Ferrari was also banned from sport for life by USADA after he chose not to contest its findings at arbitration.
USADA chief executive Travis Tygart has urged the UCI to pursue more doping investigations, and the governing body had talked of seeking to offer limited amnesty in exchange for confessions.
"There are many more details of doping that are hidden, many more doping doctors, and corrupt team directors and the omerta has not yet been fully broken," Tygart said Monday.
Five riders finished second behind Armstrong in his record run of seven straight Tour wins: Alex Zuelle of Switzerland, Jan Ullrich of Germany, Joseba Beloki of Spain, Andreas Kloeden of Germany -- later a teammate of Armstrong at Astana and RadioShack -- and Ivan Basso of Italy.
Ullrich, the 1997 winner who was denied three more titles by Armstrong, has said he does not want to be upgraded in the standings.
Armstrong is one of three riders stripped of cycling's biggest prize but the only one not to be replaced.
When Alberto Contador lost his 2010 Tour victory for a positive doping test, organizers held a ceremony to award the yellow jersey to Luxembourg's Andy Schleck. In 2006, Oscar Pereiro was awarded the victory after the doping disqualification of American rider Floyd Landis.
Armstrong has not been wiped entirely from cycling's record books. He remains the UCI's world champion in the 1993 road race and winner of the San Sebastian and Walloon Arrow one-day classics in 1995 and 1996, respectively.


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Zend Platform Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities
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Hardened-PHP Project
-= Security Advisory =-
Advisory: Zend Platform Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities
Release Date: 2006/08/24
Last Modified: 2006/08/24
Author: Stefan Esser [sesser (at) hardened-php (dot) net [email concealed]]
Application: Zend Platform <= 2.2.1
Severity: Malformed session ids may lead to multiple security problems
Risk: Critical
Vendor Status: Vendor has a released an updated version
References: http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_052006.128.html
Quote from http://www.zend.com/downloads
"Zend Platform is the all-in-one production environment that ensures
your PHP applications are available, fast, reliable and scalable. It
uniquely guarantees application uptime and reliability through
enhanced PHP monitoring and immediate problem resolution."
During the development of suhosin, which is our new PHP protection
module, several compatibility tests with binary 3rd party PHP
extensions like the Zend Platform and the Zend Optimizer have been
made. When testing the session protection features of suhosin, we
discovered that the session clustering system, which is shipping
with the Zend Platform is vulnerable to several different attacks.
By exploiting these vulnerabilities, an attacker can crash the
session clustering daemon, which leads to a malfunction of the
session function and renders the attacked node useless. By
carefully crafting the attack session IDs, an attacker might
be able to either execute code within the context of the
session clustering daemon or within the mod_cluster module,
which is the communication link between PHP and the daemon.
Additionally a directory traversal vulnerability in the disk
storage module allows creating and reading the session file
anywhere on the hard disk. If for example a directory or file
within the document root of the webserver is writeable by the
session clustering daemon (which by default runs with the same
privileges as the webserver), this can lead to arbitrary PHP
code injection. On the other hand it might be possible to upload
a user defined file to the webserver and craft a session identifier
so that the data inside the file is used as session data.
This obviously leads to total control over the content of the
session and therefore to control over the application.
The Zend Platform comes with a session handler module that plugs
itself into the session management of PHP to support session
clustering. This module communicates with the ZendSessionManager
daemon. This daemon is responsible for transffering session data
between nodes and does most of the work.
Our analysis revealed that both components, the clustering
module mod_cluster and the daemon, itself have problems with
malicious session identifiers. By default the session identifier
is retrieved from the PHPSESSID request variable. Our first
observation was that sending the identifier as a string with
length 0 immediately crashed the mod_cluster module. The next
observation was that an overlong session identifier also leads
to a crash.
Analysing the responsible code within a debugger revealed that
a statement like:
strncpy(dst, src, strlen(src+1))
was used to copy the session identifier around. This is obvisouly
broken and leads to an overflow in the BSS segment, which makes
exploitation tricky, because the data behind the buffer is not
directly used again. However a later debugging session has shown
that when some conditions are triggered mod_cluster crashed
because the instruction pointer address was changed.
The other observation was that the long PHPSESSID never reached
the daemon. This changed when we took into account the special
layout of Zend Platform session identifiers. They look something
like this:
This special format encodes extra data into the first part of
the session identifier that determines the IP of the node
creating it. With this information it is possible for the daemon
to contact the node that is responsible for storing the session.
When the session data is stored on the hard disk, the last
component of the session identifier is used directly to create
the filename. Unfortunately this is again performed without any
size check. Therefore the filename might overflow its buffer. In
our tests overflowing with a long string resulted in a crash
inside glibc free(). Depending on the system's implementation of
malloc(), this can lead to code execution.
The final observation was that the last component of the session
identifier also allows directory traversal attacks on the place
where the session file is stored. This obviously allows creating
the session files anywhere on the hard disk, where the daemon has
write privileges. And to use any file on the hard disk as origin
for the session data. The later is very dangerous if the
application allows uploading files and the user is able to
predict its storage location. By uploading a file that contains
session data in a daemon compatible format, it is possible to get
total control over the session data, the application uses.
The ability to write session files for example into writeable
directories within the document root path can lead to PHP code
execution if the attacker is either able to put PHP code into a
programm variable that is stored within the session (some session
management systems store for example the User-Agent in the session
to make session hijacking/fixation a little bit harder).
Additionally in PHP < 4.4.3 and < 5.1.4, session identifiers are
not limited in their charset for 3rd party session handlers.
Therefore on these systems it is possible to have PHP code directly
in the session identifier. Because the last component of the
session identifier is also directly copied into the session file
this ensures that PHP code is within the file.
Proof of Concept:
The Hardened-PHP Project is not going to release exploits for
this vulnerability to the public.
Disclosure Timeline:
21. August 2006 - Contacted Zend by email
24. August 2006 - Zend released an updated Zend Platform
24. August 2006 - Public Disclosure
It is strongly recommended to upgrade to the newest version of
Zend Platform (2.2.1a) which you can download at:
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Copyright 2006 Stefan Esser. All rights reserved.
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Unisex circle scarf made in a soft and warm cotton, totally handmade in Italy.
One side is grey; the other side is burgundy.
Infinity scarves are the most fashionable and confortable scarves, ideal to keep you warm on winter avoiding the hassle to fix them on the neck. Just one single gesture and your scarf is ready and good-looking!
The length of this scarf is studied to be worn turning it 2 times around the neck.
You can wear it as a cowl scarf as well: just pull it up on your head and you'll be repaired from the cold wind.
Please, provide a phone number at the moment of placing your order: it is necessary to ship
Payments accepted:
- credit cards
- Paypal
- EtsyGift cards
Payments must be done at the time of purchase. Every order will be taken charge upon receipt of payment.
The cost paid at the time of purchase includes shipping charges and italian VAT taxes.
Order cancellations will be accepted no later than 24h from payment.
Sara Gambarelli Handmade in Italy ships worldwide.
Most of items are made to order, so the production time can vary.
Shipments are normally processed on time estimated in the table you can find in the description of each product, unless otherwise agreed with the buyer.
During periods of increasing demand (as december, for exemple), these times can be longer, so be sure to order the goods in advance so that I can make a good work.
Shipping costs can change depending to the item and to your location.
Regarding this, please check the shipping cost table in the product page by selecting the destination country.
If you're a buyer from outside EU, at the moment you'll receive the package you could find an extra charge to pay directly to the courier (he'll anticipate the amount for you when the package will pass through the custom).
The amount is determined by the importing Country and they could vary widely depending on the product imported. That's why I can't estimate the custom charge when I sell a product.
Custom charges are responsibility of the buyer.
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- 1 working day for orders equal or superior to 20€;
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These times are estimated in normal conditions according to the guarantees of the courier and in my personal experience as seller. I do not assume responsibility for non-delivery or delayed delivery due to the absence of the recipient during the delivery, to failures of the courier and errors of the the customer or any other cause that is not dependent by my direct responsibility.
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But please contact me if you have any problems with your order.
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If you find a manufacturing defect, if you've got a problem with size or if you've received a product different from what you've asked for, please contact me as soon as possible WITHIN 3 CALENDAR DAYS FROM RECEIPT of products. Write me a message on Etsy, specifying in the object: RETURN REQUEST and the order code number (released at the moment of purchase) and arguing why you would return the goods and get a refund, better if the request is accompanied by photographic material.
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Shipping costs and custom duties and taxes for returning the product are responsibility of the client.
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The automotive dream factory has pumped out a stunning array of concept cars over the last 12 months, and MOTOR has selected its 'Top-25 of 2012'.
Everything from hyper-hybrids and mega SUVs, to zero-emission cruisers and luxury limos of the future have debuted at motor shows around the world.
Check out MOTOR's image gallery of this year's best and boldest dream cars.