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The AIT team members are all leaders in their respective fields and bring to this effort not only an impeccable reputation for exceptional service, but also state-of-the-art technology, best-of-class service delivery, the most qualified and experienced staff in the industry, and demonstrated excellence in managing and implementing program efforts.
In assembling a team of world-class performers for our contracts, we seek out partners based on their capabilities and reputation, not on pre-existing relationships. Each of our partners plays a major role in the development of the operational model for our efforts. Below, AIT describes some case studies our related experience in support of our ongoing IT Asset Disposition initiatives.
AIT responded with a fixed cost solution to address the requirements of the firm. Each individual drive is scrubbed to a DOD 5220.22M industry standard. AIT's pricing solution has remained consistent since contract award and has been at or below the budgetary requirement of the firm. Furthermore, all asset tags are recorded and removed and all inventories are made available to Client's IT department so that their team can update the internal asset management database. All reports are specific to the date and location of the equipment as mandated by Client's IT Department. The firm's IT department also scans all assets prior to transfer to AIT as a means of controlling the flow of the asset disposition process.
AIT manages the logistics process and coordinates the removal of IT assets from various Client facilities on a regular basis. Client began transferring assets from sites outside of the metropolitan New York area to AIT because of the streamlined process that has been implemented by the IT department.
The primary objective to assisting the firm with the donation of IT assets was accomplished by introducing the nationwide charity to Client. Charity, a non-profit organization, assists other non-profit entities as a source for information technology equipment. These organizations, in some cases, are not eligible for federal support due to religious affiliation and the assets received to date from Client have gone a long way in providing necessary IT upgrades that might otherwise be neglected due to strained budgetary resources.
After providing AIT with an opportunity to perform related tasks on a pilot agreement, the company expressed an appreciation of the level of reporting and instantaneous share of information that was specific to AIT's process. Faced with the projection of upgrading over 300 facilities within an 18 month period and a centralized IT support team in Texas, that depends heavily on contractors to perform the upgrade, client indicated that the ease with which AIT was able to coordinate logistics for multiple sites simultaneously and provide for the disposition of various types of IT assets was the decisions that led to the selection of AIT as the selected partner.
AIT identified an area where this client could further reduce some of the project costs by suggesting the use of common delivery carriers (such as FedEx or UPS) to facilitate the logistics of limited quantities of assets. Client extended the relationship with AIT to include the processing of IT assets that may be returned to Houston for storage and future use, but require data cleansing and testing. Client processed in excess of 3,000 IT assets through AIT and has one of the lowest processing cost averages of AIT's clients due to the remarketing effort of excess and surplus systems. Today, AIT is assisting this client with a cost-effective, fixed price solution that is far below the initial budgetary requirements as originally outlined during our introductory phase.
As the frequency of pickups increased to almost daily and a coordinated effort of pickup up assets on a regular basis at end user clientÕs headquarters in Washington, DC began. Carefully coordinated in that the average number of systems pickup up at any one time is small due to significant space limitations. AIT also coordinated the effort of pickup up assets from approximately 11 remote facilities throughout the Continental United States. AIT has partnered with a logistics, partner to facilitate the transfer of assets to AIT.
Since AIT applies immediate credit for systems once they have been audited, as indicated on a proprietary valuation matrix, contractor has only realized credits from AIT to date for all system processing.
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The project was extremely time sensitive in that these devices are responsible for processing all End-user client credit card numbers for sales transactions and could not be down for more than 4 hours at any given time. Paramount to the process was the destruction of data that resided on each server as it was considered a highly classified and that of as sensitive nature to End-user client International.
AIT proposed a fixed cost solution that met the budget requirements of End-user client while delivering all services in a timely and efficient manner consistent with End-user client mandates and core objectives.
The process encompassed a 48-hour window of logistics for an AIT partner to perform onsite packaging, & removal of servers from highly secured banking facilities, some of which were managed out of normal business hours.
The servers were transported to AIT facility for receipt and processing whereby all hard storage media were either scrubbed using the DoD 5220.22M process or Degaussed (destruction passing the media through a magnetic field).
Each server had specific asset information that needed to be recorded and reported back to End-user client along with certificates of destruction for each site pickup that occurred.
Throughout the duration of the contract End-user client was extremely satisfied as to the ongoing support and problem resolutions that occurred related to retrieval of the servers in a timely manner. Since the completion of the project, AIT has performed numerous other projects for both the integrator and End-user client.

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Chairwoman Stabenow, Sen. Merkley Address Farm Bill Issues, Fiscal Cliff on Senate Floor- Monday Evening
Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D., Mich.) spoke in detail about the fiscal cliff and the Farm Bill on the Senate floor this evening. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D., Ore.) also took part in the discussion.
Sen. Merkley noted in part that agricultural disaster assistance was not included in the Sandy supplemental and was promised as part of the Farm Bill. To listen to the discussion he was referencing, which occurred on Friday on the Senate floor, just click here (MP3- 5:25).


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The first step in psoriasis therapy is to apply treatment directly to the surface of the skin. This may involve the use of prescription or non-prescription topical therapies. The purpose of these treatments is to heal inflammation and reduce other symptoms of psoriasis. Non-prescription topical therapies that work on the skin include, but are not limited to:
Coal Tar
A remedy used for centuries, coal tar improves scaling, itching, and inflammation. It is very effective as a shampoo or oil for scalp psoriasis or on the skin. The treatment may be used by itself or in conjunction with ultraviolet light. Although improved, coal tar products may be messy.
Bath Solutions and Moisturizers
Keeping the skin moisturized with emollients is an important part of psoriasis treatment and will reduce itching and inflammation and promote flexibility. It is recommended that non-irritating moisturizing creams or ointments be applied on a regular basis. In addition, soaking in water will soothe skin. Healing can be enhanced by adding solutions to bath water, such as Dead Sea salts, oiled oatmeal, and Epsom salts.
Exposure to sunlight can suppress the immune system (activated T cells) in the skin, thus reducing inflammation and slowing the rapid growth of skin cells. People with mild-to-moderate psoriasis may benefit from short, daily doses of sunlight, while people with more extensive psoriasis may require ultraviolet light A (UVA) or ultraviolet light B (UVB) treatment in medically approved centers. (See phototherapy section below.) You should always check with your doctor or dermatologist before self-treating.
Like natural sunlight, exposure to a certain wavelength of artificial ultraviolet light called ultraviolet light B (UVB) is effective for people with moderate to severe psoriasis or plaque areas that do not respond to other treatments. More severe psoriasis can be treated with ultraviolet light A (UVA) and a medication called psoralen. Psoralen is an oral or topical medication that makes the body more sensitive to light. This treatment is known as PUVA.
- PUVA: This treatment is used for more widespread psoriasis (involving more than 10% of the skin) and commonly for psoriasis limited to hands and feet (bath or soak PUVA). The treatment combines UVA with psoralen. After a person is given psoralen either orally or topically, he/she is exposed to a carefully measured amount of UVA light. This treatment may require up to 25 exposures over a 2-3 month period before clearing occurs. PUVA treatments over a long period of time may increase the risk of skin aging, freckling, and skin cancer.
Most phototherapy is given 3-5 times per week for 1-3 months by using a light panel or light box at a clinic or in your doctor's office. In certain cases, you may be able to use a light box or light panel in your home under your doctor's guidance.
This type of laser is designed to produce ultraviolet radiation at a very specific wavelength. The excimer laser is used to treat small, resistant plaque areas of psoriasis.
Special Considerations
Your should get exercise and eat a heart healthy diet since psoriasis increases your risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes.
Certain treatments may work well initially, but lose their effectiveness as your body develops resistance. Depending on your symptoms, your doctor may prescribe another type of treatment and continue trying new methods as needed to keep your psoriasis under control.
Dietary Changes
Obesity may be associated with increased severity of psoriasis. It may also make it more difficult to treat. Weight loss through dietary changes and regular exercise may help. Talk to a registered dietitian about weight loss methods and meal planning. Talk to your doctor before starting an exercise program.
When to Contact Your Doctor
Contact your doctor if:
- Your symptoms are not improving with treatment
- You experience an adverse reaction to treatment
- Your symptoms become more severe
Revision Information
- Reviewer: EBSCO Medical Review Board Michael Woods MD, FAAP
- Review Date: 11/2018 -
- Update Date: 03/14/2016 -


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(Reuters) - Caterpillar Inc uncovered "deliberate, multi-year, coordinated accounting misconduct" at a subsidiary of a Chinese company it acquired last summer, leading it to write off most of the value of the deal and wiping out more than half its expected earnings for the fourth quarter of 2012.
Shares of Caterpillar fell 1.5 percent in afterhours trading following news of the fraud, which was discovered after problems were found with the Chinese company's inventory.
Caterpillar, the world's largest maker of tractors and excavators, said on Friday it would take a non-cash goodwill impairment charge of $580 million, or 87 cents per share, in the quarter.
Analysts had expected the company to report $1.70 per share when it reports its results on January 28, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Caterpillar closed the purchase of ERA Mining Machinery Ltd and its subsidiary Siwei, China's fourth-largest maker of hydraulic roof supports, last June, paying HK$5.06 billion, or $653.4 million. ERA had been publicly traded in Hong Kong, doing business through Siwei, which is known for making equipment to support roofs in mines.
A member of the Caterpillar board during the course of the Siwei deal told Reuters the board was distracted at the time by a larger transaction and paid relatively little attention to the Siwei acquisition.
"It came as a complete surprise to us," the former board member said of the fraud, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation. "It was presented to us as a pretty straightforward transaction. It's a shame. It should have been investigated further."
The source said the driving force behind the deal was Ed Rapp, the former Caterpillar chief financial officer who now serves as a group president with responsibility for China, among other operations. The source said it was Rapp who presented the deal to the board and pushed for its completion.
A Caterpillar spokesman declined to comment on Rapp's role in the deal. Rapp could not be immediately located for comment.
At the time of the Caterpillar purchase, ERA Mining was listed in the Growth Enterprise Market (GEM) of the Hong Kong stock exchange, which is "designed to accommodate companies to which a higher investment risk may be attached," according to the offering circular filed by Caterpillar last year in Hong Kong.
The company was previously known as ERA Holdings Global Ltd. and provided "corporate secretarial services" before being acquired by Siwei in September 2010 through a reverse takeover.
Caterpillar's write-off could revive concerns over accounting scandals and corporate governance issues of Chinese companies voiced by investors including Muddy Waters founder Carson Block.
Reverse takeovers have been of particular concern, since most of the recent accounting scandals in the United States have come from small Chinese companies who went public via a reverse takeover, including China MediaExpress Holdings Inc. A Hong Kong arbitration panel on Wednesday ruled China MediaExpress was a "fraudulent enterprise."
In a statement, Caterpillar said an ongoing investigation launched after the deal closed "determined several Siwei senior managers engaged in deliberate misconduct beginning several years prior to Caterpillar's acquisition of Siwei."
According to a question-and-answer dialog Caterpillar included in its statement, the company found discrepancies in November between the inventory in Siwei's books and its actual physical inventory, triggering the probe.
The company also said it had replaced several senior managers at Siwei, adding that their conduct was "offensive and completely unacceptable."
Representatives for Siwei didn't respond to calls and requests for comment on the Caterpillar announcement. The company employs about 4,000 people in Zhengzhou and produces hydraulic roof supports used to prevent rocks from falling into a coal mine's working area.
Siwei competes with market leader Zhengzhou Coal Mining Machinery, according to Zhengzhou Coal's IPO prospectus filed in November.
Citigroup and law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP served as financial and legal advisers to Caterpillar on the transaction. Blackstone and DLA Piper acted as ERA's financial and legal advisers.
Freshfields said in an emailed statement that it wasn't able to comment on client matters. Representatives for Blackstone, Citigroup and DLA Piper didn't respond to requests for comment on Saturday.
The Siwei deal came as part of Caterpillar's larger ambitions in China. In early 2012, it added Jon Huntsman, the former U.S. ambassador to China, to its board of directors.
The company, which already has 23 manufacturing facilities in China and four more under construction, said the Siwei episode would not change its strategy in the country.
Caterpillar's experience with Siwei may also renew focus on the standoff between the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and audit firms over access to accounting documents of U.S.-listed Chinese companies suspected of fraud.
While Siwei was not U.S.-listed, the broader accounting question has been a thorny one for U.S. companies looking to grow their business in China.
Reporting by Ernest Scheyder; Additional reporting by Soyoung Kim in New York, Elzio Barreto in Hong Kong and Kevin Yao in Beijing; Writing by Ben Berkowitz; Editing by Gary Hill, Tim Dobbyn and Susan Fenton


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Rickey had several reasons to sign Robinson
By By Steven Goldman/MLB.com
Branch Rickey, right, with Preacher Roe, is the main reason the Brooklyn Dodgers won six pennants and one World Championship from 1947 to 1956.
"Next to Abraham Lincoln, the biggest white benefactor of the Negro has been Branch Rickey."
-- Grantland Rice, sportswriter
"As a matter of fact I do not deserve any recognition from anybody on the Robinson thing. It is a terrible commentary on all of us that a part of us should not concede equal rights to everybody to earn a living."
-- Branch Rickey
"The Negroes will make us winners for years to come. And for that I will happily bear being called a bleeding heart and a do-gooder and all that humanitarian rot."
-- Branch Rickey
"If the machinations of Rickey's mind had been observed through a super--powered fluoroscope showing the brain cells arriving at conclusions by serpentine excursions into labyrinthine passages, medical science might be amazed."
-- Fresco Thompson, Dodgers executive
If, as Branch Rickey said, luck is the residue of design, then design is the bastard child of circumstance. A revolutionary may have the inspiration and the will, but if he is in the wrong place at the wrong time, even an idea which could shake the world will wither on the vine.
Case in point: Rickey was a moral man, a Christian in the best sense of the word, by acclamation one of the smartest and canniest men ever to, as he said, "[devote] his entire life and all his energies to something so cosmically unimportant as a game."
Rickey had deeply felt the injustice of baseball's color line as early as 1904. In the 1920s, Rickey rose to be general manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, then as now one of the game's premier franchises. In those years Rickey was signing and developing more talent for his team than had any general manager in the history of the game. He was, perhaps, in a position to make some of that talent black. Rickey marshaled his tremendous energies, took a good look around him -- and gave up.
"I had made that effort in St. Louis," he said later, "only to find the effective opposition on the part of ownership and on the part of the public, press -- everybody." Rickey also noted that seating in St. Louis' Sportsman's Park was segregated, even though there was no official team or municipal policy in place. St. Louis was not a city that would easily break with Jim Crow.
"If I was in authority," Rickey lamented, "I would have changed that." But he was not in authority. Rickey put integration on the back burner and proceeded with his extraordinary career. Rickey, who lived 83 years, spent his entire executive career in the National League, creating championship teams in St. Louis, Brooklyn, and Pittsburgh (though in the case of the latter two, the championships came after he had moved on, the residue of his design).
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He had started in the game as a catcher and occasional outfielder, playing with the St. Louis Browns and New York Highlanders (Yankees). In 1907, his last season as an active player, Rickey played 52 games as an outfielder, catcher, and first baseman for the then-Highlanders. Rickey was coming off of an arm injury, which helps explain how on June 28 the Washington Senators set a record by stealing 13 bases against him. Years later a Dodgers employee commented that that was the last time anyone had stolen anything on Rickey.
That experience, as well as a .182 batting average, were enough to convince Rickey, who earned a law degree, to retire and coach baseball at the University of Michigan. Rickey was never enamored with the idea of practicing law, and in 1913 he joined the St. Louis Browns (now the Baltimore Orioles) as executive assistant. He quickly moved up to general manager and subsequently managed the team on the field.
In 1917 he moved to the Cardinals, where he also served as both manager and general manager. In 1925, after a few indifferent finishes, he gave up the field manager's job and became a full--time executive. Even before that, his great invention, the farm system, was beginning to work its magic for the Cardinals, and there would be a pennant and a World Series victory over the Yankees in 1926, followed by five more pennant winners and three more champions.
Rickey's relationship with Cardinals owner Sam Breadon steadily deteriorated over the years, and in late 1942, Rickey moved to the Brooklyn Dodgers, acquiring the title of president and 25 percent of the ballclub. Almost immediately, his mind returned to the subject of integration. First, though, he had to ask some of the same questions he did in St. Louis. "Admitting that racial equality in the sport must be an eventual fact, is this the right time to proclaim it in baseball? Is it too soon? Would the Negro cause -- and he has a cause -- be thrown for a loss, as the cause of temperance was thrown back at least fifty years by the premature acceptance of national prohibition?" By the time Rickey asked these questions during a public talk in April, 1945, he had already settled on the answers -- Dodgers scouts were, in secret, fanning out across the United States and Caribbean in search of the best African-American ballplayers. That October their search culminated in the signing of Jackie Robinson.
It would be a vast oversimplification to say that the rest was history. The color line was broken in Brooklyn not only because the time was right for men of Rickey's ideals to take action, though that was certainly part of it -- World War II had changed many minds about civil rights; if African Americans could fight for their country then they should be full participants in the victory of freedom that they had helped win -- but mainly Rickey succeeded in Brooklyn where he had failed in St. Louis because the Dodgers provided one additional impetus that had been missing before: economic necessity -- with political necessity finishing a close second.
Rickey was a practical man, and monetary concerns always informed his creative impulses. Consider his invention of the farm system. In the early part of the 20th century, teams in New York and Chicago swam in money. St. Louis did not. At that time young players were not developed by the major league teams but were purchased on the open market from minor league clubs that were owned by independent operators. Rickey found himself constantly being outbid for the best talent. The problem of staying competitive with the "big market" clubs while spending significantly less started his mind working.
"The farm system, which I have been given credit for developing," Rickey said later, "originated from a perfectly selfish motive: saving money."
Rickey figured that if the Cardinals could buy up minor league clubs, they could control prospects from the moment they entered organized baseball, when they were unproven and thus inexpensive. The Cardinals could also make sure that the players received the best instruction, which increased their chances of developing, and the big-league club would have accurate scouting information all the way through the process.
The Cardinals would have the pick of the litter, with excess players being used as trade bait or sold for cash. Best of all, Rickey figured the farm system would probably make enough money to pay for its expenses, which meant that the whole thing wouldn't cost the Cardinals a dime.
No one had thought of this before. It was a revolutionary and controversial idea in 1920. It was years before all Major League teams accepted that it was the best way to do things; it was only when Rickey started putting a great product on the field every single year that the idea began to catch on. Now, of course, it is the standard way that baseball operates.
Rickey's decision to bring Jackie Robinson to the majors was more complicated, but also had an economic aspect. A devoutly religious man, Rickey had strong feelings about the equality of men and the injustice of the color line. In 1904, while coaching the Ohio Wesleyan baseball team, he had seen the effects of Jim Crow first hand. The team had gone to South Bend, Indiana to play Notre Dame. Ohio Wesleyan's one black player, Charles Thomas, was told he could not stay at the team hotel. Rickey's impassioned argument on his player's behalf earned a compromise: Thomas could share Rickey's room. Rickey remembered Thomas crying in the incident's aftermath, obsessively ringing his hands. "Damned skin Damned skin!" Thomas moaned. "If only I could rub it off."
"That scene haunted me for many years," Rickey said later, "and I vowed that I would always do whatever I could to see that other Americans did not have to face the bitter humiliation that was heaped upon Charles Thomas."
Rickey's eyes were wide open, but as the St. Louis experience showed, he had to find the right time to act on his feelings. He had to amass the personal prestige and power to pull off such a move. He had to survive the first commissioner, Judge Landis, who was not a proponent of integration. He had to be in the right place. More than four decades went by. Then came the Brooklyn Dodgers.
As much as Brooklyn loved its Dodgers, the team didn't make very much money. Rickey's farm system helped put talent on the field, but in terms of revenues they still weren't on an even level with the Yankees and the Giants. Rickey looked around for an edge. "The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of the game is the black race," he said. "The Negroes will make us winners for years to come. And for that I will happily bear being called a bleeding heart and a do-gooder and all that humanitarian rot."
Branch Rickey said a lot of things -- he was a baseball executive, evangelist, and Shakespearian actor all rolled into one -- and so his statements, both the humanitarian and the coldly practical, should not be taken at face value. He had a generous spirit but was notoriously flinty with his players.
"Two things Mr. Rickey likes are money and baseball players," said Chuck Connors, "but he never lets them get together." He was both lofty and mean. He was famous for being able to pull the wool over the eyes of his fellow GMs when conducting trade talks.
"There's only one way to get the best of that Rickey," Casey Stengel once said. "You let him talk for three hours on the strong and weak points of the players he wants to scoop. Then when Branch says, 'Is it a deal?' you snap 'No!' and walk out on him."
Sportswriters called his office "The Cave of Winds" because of his grandiose pronouncements. The case of Jackie Robinson and the integration of baseball invoked all of his qualities. He was a humanitarian whose high ideals and actions had a pleasing mercenary by-product. It was Brooklyn's need for that by-product that made integration possible for Rickey to accomplish.
In other markets, economic factors actually argued strongly against integration. Baseball in the late 1940s, although enjoying an attendance boom that came with the return of the stars (and the spectators) from World War II, was almost fatally misaligned. Teams like the Philadelphia Athletics and Washington Senators had long been run as family sinecures, underfinanced and incompetently managed, complacent and unentertaining. Boston and St. Louis were called upon to support two teams and clearly could not. There was no baseball west of the Mississippi, yet the success of the Pacific Coast League, which came within a whisker of achieving Major League status on its own, combined with demographic trends in the booming nation, highlighted the game's anachronistic geographical orientation.
Ironically, it was the Negro Leagues that stepped in to bolster the weaker franchises, renting out their stadiums on Major League off days as well as some of their minor league venues. The Yankees claimed to receive upwards of $100,000 a year in Negro Leagues bookings. In cities like Washington, where the Negro League games often outdrew the major league Senators, the extra revenue was all that was keeping them afloat.
One team not profiting by the Negro Leagues was the Brooklyn Dodgers. In 1943, Rickey contacted William Leuschner, who had a monopoly on Negro League bookings in the New York City area. Rickey asked for the same agreement that the Yankees and Giants received and was refused. This too gave Rickey a push in the direction of desegregation.
There was also a political angle in New York City missing elsewhere in the country. Here there was actually a growing clamor for the integration of baseball. In 1945, New York State passed the Quinn--Ives Act, banning discrimination in hiring. This was followed closely by a Fair Employment Practices Act. Quinn-Ives created an investigatory committee to investigate discriminatory hiring practices, and one of the committees first moves was to call on baseball to hire black players.
Simultaneously, New York's Mayor Fiorello La Guardia made the subject of integration in baseball part of his reelection campaign, and began calling for an end to the color line. Committees were formed; some of them counted Rickey among their members. He wasn't much for public agitation, at least not at this time; he just wanted to be able to judge the prevailing winds. Having already decided to integrate the Dodgers, he did not want the politicians to get too far ahead of his own timetable.
As it was, they nearly did, forcing Rickey to abandon plans to corner the market on Negro ballplayers. Jackie Robinson was not meant to be a lone pioneer; Don Newcombe and Sam Jethroe, at the very least, were supposed to accompany him into the national spotlight. The politicians caused Rickey to announce his only signing before it appeared that he had been forced to integrate. Rickey may not have wanted credit for handing to Jackie Robinson what should have been his to begin with, but he did want credit for having the initiative to do so.
For the rest of his long life Rickey was an outspoken advocate of equal rights, but when it came to Jackie Robinson he alternated between humility and pride. This was because of a conflict in Rickey between the pious priest and the promoter. He knowingly embodied both of these qualities, and thus was aware that the Robinson signing occurred at the intersection of morality and commerce. Rickey was both a righteous man and a first class baseball operator; the former could not have thrived without the latter, and he knew it.
Steven Goldman writes the Pinstriped Bible for Yankees.com and the Attic of Baseball for MLB.com. Your questions and comments welcomed at firstname.lastname@example.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Makeup Monday How-To: Classic Winged Liner
I get a lot of requests for liner tutorials, so here is a quick classic: the winged eye. Step by step instructions are after the jump.
I prefer to use MAC fluidline (in either blacktrack or dipdown – I used dipdown here) and a Sonia Kashuk bent eyeliner brush. The bent shape makes it super easy and the brush is thin but dense, so you have more control of the thickness of your line. Also, I swear by fluidline – I kind of hate liquid liner – but it's completely up to you!
Step one: Apply primer. I used MAC bare study paint pot (not pictured), which acts as a primer.
Using short, dash-like strokes, apply a thin line just above your lash line. I usually work from the outside in but did the opposite here, to show about where you should start your line. I also like to line my entire upper waterline (life your lid a little and gently line) and get between my lashes (wiggle the brush between the base of your lashes to fill any gaps). Steady shaky hands by resting your pinky on your cheek. I hold my brush like a pencil and actually rest my hand the same way I would if I was writing on paper.
It's best to start with a thin line, because it's way easier to build it up than to make it thinner.
I like for my winged tip to look almost like a continuing line from my lower lash line. To find that direction, place your brush at your lower lash line, along the outer edge. Make a dot with the tip of your brush at the point where you would like the tip of the wing to end – you can make this as subtle or dramatic as you want.
NOTE: If you have issues keeping a straight line or problems achieving symmetry, it might benefit you to use tape as a guide, as seen here.
Connect the dot to the outer edge of your liner.
Connect from your inner lash line to the dot in a gradual slope (this is a continuous, straight line – it just looks curved because of my eyeball is also curved). You want the line to get thicker toward the edge and diminish toward the inner lash line, so start very close to the lash line and gradually increase the thickness/incline.
Fill in the gap and you're done! I obviously didn't line my lower lash line or remember to clean up my lower waterline, but this is the point where you do either of those things if necessary. You can clean up any mess with a q-tip and a little makeup remover. Things to remember: Use primer! It will help keep your liner in place.Buy that bent liner brush – it is the best and only $5.99.Make the winged tip a continuous line from your lower lash line. Keep it thin toward your inner lash line and build up and out.


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Once you have decided that you need a phone in the breakfast nook or that new flat screen TV must go over the fireplace, you then have to figure out how to get the phone or cable lines to these devices to make them work. Most of the time this is a simple task of routing these lines under the edge of the carpet or along the skirting board. Sometimes there is just no way around that block wall. If you absolutely have no alternative route available except going through a block wall to run these cables or wires, then just go ahead and do it. The best and the only way to do this is to drill a hole through the block wall. Drilling the actual hole through the wall is the easy part. The "Best Ways" part is all about what must be considered before, during and after you drill through the block wall.
There are some common sense considerations to keep you and your property safe while you are doing this job. Before you start drilling make sure you know what's on the other side of the wall. Never operate a power drill while you're standing in water. Make sure to use a grounded extension cord. Do not drill into existing house power lines which may be "hidden" inside the wall. Make sure that the cables you are running, phone, TV or data, have been properly grounded between their respective utility systems or antenna and the new lines that you are now installing. This grounding should already have been completed by the telephone or cable providers.
Determine the hole size
Your goal is to drill a hole that will accommodate whatever cables you want to run through this concrete block wall while keeping the hole size as small as possible. Include in your calculations any future need to run additional cables.
It is easy to calculate the size. For example, if you are running a single coaxial television cable you just have to measure the outside dimension of the cable and then select the next larger sized drill bit. The most common cable line is RG-6 Quad shield coaxial cable and it has an outside dimension of 7.5 mm (0.298 inches). The next larger size drill bit is 8 mm (5/16 inch). That is the size you should use.
If you are running multiple cables you can simply bundle these cables together in your hand and measure the outside diameter of the bundle. Then choose the next larger size drill bit. Keep in mind that you may need to step up even one more size larger to keep the hole large enough to easily place the cables through the hole without damaging the cables. Now you know the size of the hole and the size of the drill bit. Don't try to shortcut on the drill bit by using anything other than a masonry type bit.
Determine the location for the hole
You may not have any choice on the location because of the physical limitations of the cable route, the wall itself or restrictions on the interior of the wall. If you do have choices here are some considerations.
On an outside wall, exposed to the weather, you want to keep the hole up off the ground to avoid any water ingress problems. You also want to keep the cables away from lawnmowers and bush trimmers. Cosmetically, you want to hide the cables as much as possible and where you place the hole can help or hinder this effort. If the hole must go near the edge of the wall make sure to leave room for any wall on the inside which is perpendicular to the wall which you are drilling. You do not want to drill inside an existing wall or drill so close to an existing wall that you are unable to put on a wall plate or other covering on the interior side of the wall. Avoid drilling between the concrete blocks in the cement seams.
On the inside, consider the proposed cable route from the new hole to wherever the cable is going. Naturally you want to minimise exposed cable whenever possible. Most likely the cable(s) will exit the hole and go straight down to a skirting board and then on to wherever it's must go. Remember that there will be a bending radius associated with the cable(s). It is unlikely that it will be able to make a hard 90 degree turn and will end up sticking out of the wall approximately 2.5 cm (1 inch) to accommodate this bending radius without kinking the cable. Don't forget to mark the spot once you have determined the location for the hole.
Drilling the hole
Ideally, your power drill motor will have a "Roto Hammer" feature that vibrates the masonry bit as you drill through the wall. If this is a one-hole project, a regular power drill motor without this "Roto Hammer" feature will get the job done, it'll just take a little longer. The masonry bit should be 45 cm (18 inches) long. When drilling try to keep the drill bit level, horizontal and perpendicular to the wall. Don't forget that concrete blocks are hollow on the inside. Keep consistent pressure on the drill as you push it through the wall and let the drill bit do its job. Too much pressure can cause the concrete block to shatter around the exit hole when the drill bit finally breaks through.
Cable(s) placement
Do not place any connectors on these cables lines until you have completed routing them. Connector placement will be the last thing you do when you hook up the equipment to the cables and lines. Most likely you can simply push the cable through the new hole without much difficulty. If you have trouble pushing the cable straight through the concrete block and finding the exit hole, use a coat hanger to push/pull the cable through the block. If the concrete block wall is an exterior wall, exposed to weather, you need to leave enough slack in the cable to form an outside "drip loop" with the cable. This "drip loop" will prevent water from running down the outer sheath of the cable and into the hole. If the exterior cable is vertical on the outside wall, its route should take it down the wall and past the hole and then make a 180-degree turn up and into the hole. This way, any water running down the cable cannot travel back up the cable into the hole, this is why it is called a "drip loop." Even if the cable is horizontal, it should curve down and then up in a half circle before entering the hole.
If you plan to use plastic inserts to seal each end of the hole or a wall plate on the interior wall, don't forget to place these parts onto the cable before running the cable through the hole and permanently attaching the cable to the wall.
Sealing the hole
It is important that you seal both ends of the hole. You want to preserve the integrity of the block wall and you also want to protect the cable's entry and exit points. A silicon sealant is available, at your local hardware store, in either clear or light/dark colours to match its surroundings. The silicon sealant will not crack and deteriorate over time and if you need to replace cables or add cables at a later date, the silicon is easy to remove.


text: Oscar Zarate has been an admirer of artists like Hugo Pratt, Milton Caniff, Frank Robbins and Bob Schoenke since his youth. He decided to become a very famous comic artist. He studied architecture and worked in advertisement before he left Argentina and moved to Europe. Zarate illustrated some children's books and made the comic adaptations 'Lenin for Beginners', 'Freud for Beginners', and 'Faustus'. After creating some short stories for several European magazines like Crisis! (stories with Carlos Sampayo), he made the popular comic 'A Small Killing' with writer Alan Moore.


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I was going to get back to recording and posting about vinyl but this CD would not leave me alone. It has ingrained itself into my psyche. Quite frankly, it has been a very long time since I've heard a CD that I could not quit listening to. I listen to this CD constantly. I have to share it with cyberspace. I saw this band at Austin City Limits Music Festival. They were one of the highlights of the 3 day event. Although The Head and the Heart was formed in Seattle Washington in 2009, most of the members are transplants from California and Virginia. The band has three main singers: Josiah Johnson, Jonathan Russel, and Charity Rose Thielen. Jonathan and Josiah play guitar, sing, and play percussion. Charity sings, plays percussion, and violin. The other members are Chris Zache (Bass), Kenny Hensley (Piano) and Tyler Williams (Drums and Percussion). As you will hear, the band is piano driven and three part harmony driven. The blending of Josiah, Jonathan, and Charity is pure magic. This band is pulling off what other bands all over the country are aspiring to. That being the marrying of folk, rock, and country into a true Americana sound. Other bands like Bright Eyes, and Monsters of Folk may be getting more press but no one is accomplishing anything remotely as good as The Head and the Heart. The CD is on Sub Pop Records. The label made famous for it's role in creating the "Seattle Grunge Sound" with bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Mudhoney. As great as this CD is, this band is even better in concert. (See my review of their appearance at Austin City Limits Music Festival 2011.) ACL has released 3 YouTube videos of their performance at the festival, so I am going to include them in this blog. I think you will really enjoy getting a flavor for what The Head and the Heart are like in concert. So "Pump up the volume" and get ready to dance, sing along, and drum on your table your your knees or what ever else you can find to bang on; because this music is irresistible!
1. Cats and Dogs: This first song is very short and acts as a prelude to everything you are going to hear. I love the part where Josiah sings ""Fallin' from the sky, there are raindrops in my eyes, and my thoughts are digging in the back yard. My roots have grown but I don't know where they are…" All the elements of folk are here. A simple topic, cats and dogs, a mouse in the house. As the song nears it's close it surprisingly and effectively switches from 4/4 time to triple time then ends suddenly. If you're not paying attention you will think that the next song is still part of the first song.
2. Coeur D' Alene: Coeur is the french word for Heart. This piano driven song has a "Martha my Dear…" feel to it. It has a Beatle feel to it. I love the "La da da" chorus. The luxury of having three singers is exploited very well in this song. As one singer finishes a line another singer will start a line over the last word of the other singer. This creates a dramatic effect at the end of the La da da chorus when the vocal "Messes that I haven't tried to clean up in a while …" overlaps the last …da
3. Ghosts: This is another song about leaving home and blazing your own trail. "When Mary moved all her shit to Chicago, her Mother made sure she took her Bible. But you won't see her face on Sundays…" Again this song has a very catchy "du,du, du, du, du, du, du…" chorus. I love the refrain "One day we'll all be ghosts, tripping around someone else's house. Once day we'll all be ghosts, ghosts, ghosts…" Then the du,du, du's change to "Ba Dap, ba dap, ba, ba, da, da…" This is also kind of Beatle sounding somehow. There was a time in rock history that they believed if you had a da, da type chorus it was a guaranteed hit. This song should be all over the radio. It is infectious and catchy…
4. Down in the Valley: Starting with this song the CD really begins to soar. This is a great song. It starts out simply with Josiah singing with just a guitar "I wish I was a slave to an age old trade. Like ridin' around on rail cars and workin' long days. Lord have mercy on my rough and rowdy ways." This song is full of yearning, regret and the desire to start over. He sings in falsetto and then Charity joins him at the octave. Their voices blend perfectly. The song builds and builds until it becomes a tidal wave of emotion. Then the song ends quietly just as it begun. But the song is now in your memory bank and is unforgettable. It will stay with you for a long, long time. This is also a staple of their live shows. Listen to the song and then watch the video from ACL 2011.
5. Rivers and Roads: This is the song that The Head and the Heart always end their live shows with. Here they are a brand new band and they already have a traditional end er. It took the Rolling Stones years to get to the point where they had a song that they traditionally ended their shows with! (Jumpin' Jack Flash) After you hear this song you will understand why they end their shows with it. This song underscores the need for more featured vocals from the only woman in the band Charity Thielen. Listen to what she does in the live performance at ACL. She sings like a woman possessed. She is frenetic. It blew me and the crowd away. This is a show stopper!
6. Honey Come Home: This song starts out with beautiful 3 part harmony. A song about a broken home. A beautiful song with beautiful lyrics.
7. Lost in my Mind: This is their hit. This song just makes you want to sing along and dance your ass off. Which is exactly what happens in the video at ACL. A group of people got on stage and danced with the band during the song. If you watch carefully in the video you can tell the band is totally surprised but they go right along with it and have a blast with their fans. After the song was over Charity asked Jonathan: "Who were they? " Jonathan says: "I have no idea" Charity asks "Where did they come from" Jonathan says: "I don't know, but that was a lot of fun!"
8. Winter Song: This is a folk song that any folk singer would have loved to have written. This song also highlights the point made earlier that the band needs to give Charity more opportunity to feature her unique vocals.
9. Sounds Like Hallelujah: This is a beautiful song that almost becomes a prayer. From the count off that starts the song to the beautiful finale this song has heart. I love how the song changes meter in the middle with the "mama don't put that gun in my hand.." refrain then it switches to the Hallelujah chorus…
10. Heaven Go Easy On Me: Just when you think that a CD could not possibly have anymore great moments this CD stuns you with an unbelievable final song. The singer talks about the wind blowing through your window and your front yard and the music gives you that feeling of the breeze blowing through your window. The leads singers tells the listener "Don't follow your head, follow your heart…" Then the singers begs "Heaven go easy on me…" The song would be fairly normal but just as the CD starts with a Prelude (Cats and Dogs) it ends with a truly incredible Coda. The piano begins a repetitive motif and the guitar begins to strum and the magic happens. "It's damn good to have met you. I hope that you'll stay. We're well on our way, we're well on our way…" The band takes full advantage of having three great singers as they layer three lines over each other, each singing different lyrics at the same time. The effect is magic. "All these things go rushing by…" While another sings "We're well on our way…" and then the last singer sings "All things must end daring…" the singers fade away one at a time until all we hear is Charity's violin and a cello in a beautiful string quartet for the end of time. The CD ends and I just start it over again.
Bottom line? Go out and buy this CD now! The new Seattle sound is Folk Rock. Check out Fleet Foxes as well. Don't miss them when the play David Letterman on October 28th. You won't be disappointed. Personally I love this Americana sounding music and of all the bands that pursue this style of music, The Head and the Heart affect my Head and my Heart!


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By Teachers, For Teachers
MIAMI (AP) — Discussing education reform at Stanford University last year, the leader of one of the nation's largest teacher unions decided to turn the tables and ask a question of the audience.
"You're all technology people," said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers. "Could you actually help us?"
Weingarten said she received one call — from Louise Rogers, chief executive of TSL Education, a United Kingdom-based company that operates an online network that lets teachers around the globe access, review and discuss lesson plans and other learning materials.
The result of that call, to be unveiled Tuesday, is Share My Lesson, an online portal that teachers will be able to access free of charge. It is expected to contain more than 100,000 user-generated materials.
"We've been trying to find a way to have teachers be able to access information quickly, actively and share with each other," Weingarten said. "It felt to me almost too good to be true, that some private entity had created a platform for teachers to be able to share."
Share My Lesson is expected to be the largest online resource for teachers in the U.S. and comes at a time when cuts to education budgets have led many districts to slash professional development. AFT and TSL have pledged $10 million to develop and maintain the site, which should be ready for teachers by August.
"We must support the incredibly complex work teachers do at every opportunity, including by sharing and promoting best practices through online resources and communities of practice," Education Secretary Arne Duncan said.
He said the program would benefit teachers everywhere.
Teacher preparation and development in the United States vary dramatically. While some schools help beginning and veteran teachers hone and perfect their craft, many others complain of being left to their own devices to learn the best ways to communicate and teach students with different skill levels in one class.
"For a lot of people, I think teaching is a very isolating experience," said Karen Brennan, a research assistant at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "You don't have as many opportunities as you'd like to connect with the teacher in the classroom next to you, or in the school or district. And that's where I think network technologies have enormous potential."
TSL Education launched its network, TES Connect, in 2008, and Rogers said it has helped create a global dialogue among teachers about best lessons and learning practices. It has nearly 2 million members from 197 countries.
"There are 79 to 80 million teachers in the world," she said. "They are now starting to engage with each other."
In recent years U.S. education leaders have paid increased attention to examining teaching preparation and practices in countries where students are outperforming those in the U.S. On the most recent Program for International Student Assessment, the U.S. ranked 14th in reading, 17th in science and 25th in math out of 34 countries.
"In places that out-compete us, places like Singapore, Finland, Canada, what you hear is that their districts spend a lot more time providing them the resources and the tools to do their job," Weingarten said. "Teachers are far more equipped when they walk into the classroom."
There are 2.5 million lesson downloads from TES Connect a week. Most of those are matched with curriculum in the U.K., so in order to build a site for U.S. teachers, they needed to review and adapt the materials. AFT and TSL Education also wanted to make sure there were lesson plans that would help teachers implement the Common Core, a new set of academic standards that have been adopted by 46 states and the District of Columbia.
About 200 teachers from across the country helped review the lessons and prepare them for the site. Karen Gant, a science teacher in Miami, said she went to two marathon sessions in Baltimore in which teachers received spreadsheets with 100 lessons they had to review. In all, she says she reviewed more than 500 lessons — looking at language, software and content — some of which she plans to use with her own students.
"We were surprised by the amount of information we learned," Gant said.
One of the exercises Gant does with her elementary students each year is the classic egg drop. Students are asked to create something that will stop an egg from breaking when dropped at different heights. This year she plans to use add a PowerPoint presentation from the Share My Lesson site that will frame the exercise in the context of a mission to another galaxy.
"It will take my kids deeper, and they'll get involved in it a little more," she said.
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September 3, 2011, 12:24 pm
Girl hitchhiking home from Nederland high school tied up and murdered
Melanie "Suzi" Cooley was an adventurous girl.
The 18-year-old girl, who grew up during the 1970s, loved living with her family in the foothills halfway between Nederland and Boulder on Magnolia Road.
One time she camped for three days by herself in a tent in the mountains.
While she was hiking during the day a bear raided her camp, overturning a log teaming with ants, shredding a plastic container that had contained beef jerky and left huge footprints.
Suzi was so excited about the experience she brought her mother, Nina, to the site.


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The Unraveling of Affirmative Action
Racial preferences spring from worthy intentions, but they have had unintended consequences—including an academic mismatch in many cases between minority students and the schools to which they are admitted. There's a better way to help the disadvantaged.
Jareau Hall breezed through high school in Syracuse, N.Y. Graduating in the top 20% of his class, he had been class president and a successful athlete, and he sang in gospel choir. He was actively recruited by Colgate University in rural New York, one of the nation's top liberal-arts colleges.
None of Colgate's recruiters mentioned to Mr. Hall that his combined math and verbal SAT scores were some 250 points below the class median—let alone that this would put him at great risk of academic difficulty....
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International Recruitment of Research Specialist in Water Hazard and Risk Management
ICHARM (International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management) under the auspices of UNESCO is now accepting applications for a Research Specialist position. Applications are due 14 April 2014.
ICHARM (PWRI) employs researchers with particular skills and knowledge as Research Specialists. Researchers in this position will have access to ICHARM's (PWRI's) special research facilities and locally-collected data and engage in investigation and research with fellow researchers.Research Specialists also have chance to publish papers on research and investigation in which they will be involved, which will be a great benefit to their career as researchers. Moreover, the results of research and investigation will contribute to more efficient execution of quality social infrastructure development by being incorporated in, for example, technical training at the institutional level and technical guidelines at the governmental level.
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atomicdonkey needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 61 designs submitted by 26 freelance designers.
We need a logo for an elite volleyball club for 12-15 year old girls. The logo will be used primarily on uniforms, t-shirts and sweatshirts, but it will eventually become part of all identity materials, including brochures and a website.
Wildcat Juniors
Desired Color Scheme:
purple, white
Desired Style:
sophisticated, modern, clean
Accepted File Formats:
Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai); Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)
We need a logo for a new elite volleyball club for 12-15 year old girls. The club is called Wildcat Juniors, and although it is not officially affiliated with Northwestern University's volleyball program (http://nusports.cstv.com/sports/w-v…-body.html), the club owner is a coach at Northwestern so there is an unofficial connection -- hence the name "Wildcat" Juniors.
The Wildcat Juniors logo should not relate directly to the Northwestern Wildcats logo (attached), primarily because the Wildcat's logo is ugly and dated. The colors should definitely be purple and white though. Black is also an option.
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I have a problem with this code. The program is supposed to read a vector with Standard Input and choose randomly from that vector, put those numbers in another array and then print that array out. How large the first array is depends on N, from args, the size of the sample vector is M. Vector M is not supposed to choose the same number twice.
It seems that the calling method does'nt work from main readInt and to static readInt method and I don't know how to fix it.
public class Permexamp{ //Reading the vector with StdIn public static int [] readInt(int N) { int [] vectora = new int [N]; for (int i = 0;i<N;i++){ vectora [i] = StdIn.readInt(); } return vectora; } //Building a now vector chosen randomly from vectora, not choosing the same number 2 public static int[] randomchoose(int [] a, int M) { int [] vectorb = new int [M]; for (int i = 0; i < M; i++) { int r = i + (int) (Math.random() * (M-i)); int t = vectorb[r]; vectorb[r] = vectorb[i]; vectorb[i] = t; } return vectorb; } //Main call's the other methods and prints out vectorb public static void main(String args[]) { int N = Integer.parseInt(args[0]); int M = Integer.parseInt(args[1]); int[] vectora = readInt(N); int[] vectorb = randomchoose(vectora,M); for (int i = 0; i < M ; i++) StdOut.println(vectorb[i]); } }
When I compile it there are no errors. But the program seems to be in infenite loop. I do ctr Z to stop the program I get this error:
Exception in thread "main" java.util.NoSuchElementException
at java.util.Scanner.throwFor(Unknown Source)
at java.util.Scanner.next(Unknown Source)
at java.util.Scanner.nextInt(Unknown Source)
at java.util.Scanner.nextInt(Unknown Source)
at StdIn.readInt(StdIn.java:139)
at Permexamp.readInt(Permexamp.java:8)
at Permexamp.main(Permexamp.java:29)


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R is a powerful software system designed for manipulating, analyzing, and graphing data. Essentially anything you can do using other popular off-the-shelf statistical software can also be done in R. In addition, R is an integrated programming environment, allowing users to script their own functions (or modify existing ones) to do customized tasks. This provides much of the flexibility of languages such as C, but with the advantage of building upon R's robust numerical routines, data management functions, and graphing tools. While the base installation will be sufficient for many users, hundreds of downloadable add-on packages have been developed for accomplishing specialized tasks, often using cutting-edge methods. R is supported by a large and active community of developers, including many ecologists and other scientists, and is highly regarded at NCEAS.
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- Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) menu of user-contributed R packages.
- Bioconductor: Independent repository for genomics packages.
- RSeek.org: Customized Google search of the R universe. Extremely useful.
- Help for R and R Site Search resource finders, maintained by Jonathan Baron.
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- R Graph Gallery of example figures with source code.
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- Community wiki for R
- R Reference Card: Concise summary of common R functions, in a 4-page desktop reference format.
- University of Bristol (UK) Statistics Group: R: A Self-Learn Tutorial: The basics of the R session: command lines, R objects, and simple statistical and graphics operations.
- Universite Montpellier: R For Beginners (August 2002): An in-depth R introduction designed for life scientists. A good starting point, strong on R concepts.
- Paul Johnson's R tips: Many basic R recipes, gathered from the R-help list.
- Peter Adler's R cheat sheet (February 2005): Concise summary of useful R functions compiled by a former NCEAS postdoc.
Statistical analysis
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- Quick-R (for SAS/SPSS/Stata users): A website that helps experienced users of other statistical packages to ascend the R language learning curve.
- Support wiki for Ben Bolker's excellent book Ecological Models and Data in R.
- Ecology and epidemiology in R (2007): Short course on R statistics and spatial analysis by the American Phytopathology Society.
- Development page for lme4, a popular package for fitting mixed-effects models in R.
- Statistics with R (2002): One user's notes.
- Biological Data Analysis Using R (2009): Rodney J. Dyer, PhD / Department of Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University
Spatial processing and analysis
- CRAN Task View: Analysis of spatial data
- R Spatial Projects collection: A Registry of R-spatial websites, packages, and related resources.
- spatial-analyst.net: A non-commercial website intended for users interested in advanced use of geocomputational tools. The creator is a major contributor to the R spatial analysis code base.
- Geographic Data Analysis Using R: Course materials at the University of Oregon.
- Spatial Data Analysis course materials (August 2007): Scroll down for links to excellent R spatial analysis tutorials.
- A Practical Guide to Geostatistical Mapping: Introduction to geostatistical techniques, software, and data sources; compiled by a leading developer of R geostatistical analysis packages.
Phylogenetic analysis
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- NESCent's R-phylo wiki: Overview and tutorials on comparative methods in R.
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WHILE contemplating what I would say today I concluded that my remarks should be of a practical nature with the objective of providing you with some ideas on how to increase office productivity.
At the outset I think it important to put the function of the office in its proper perspective. Simply stated, the office is an operating department, not just pure overhead, charged with the prime responsibility of operating the information system of the business. It records, processes, and stores this information. Unfortunately today the office frequently performs these functions in an unintegrated and uncoordinated manner. Perhaps you can recognize these conditions in your own offices, for it is not uncommon, for example, to find several sets of comparable perpetual inventory records maintained at different
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Former Sheboygan Mayor Bob Ryan, who has admitted to battling alcoholism, was arrested late Sunday night and charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated, first offense.
Ryan was stopped on a county highway in the city of Kiel in Manitowoc County, by a Kiel police officer.
The officer took Ryan, 49, to an area hospital to have blood drawn, then to the Manitowoc County Jail where he was held on a 12-hour detention for OWI offenders.
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Mom disappears into thin air two days before Christmas without telling me? Of course it's complicated. Just because it's complicated, just because you think you can't ever know everything about another person, it doesn't mean you can't try. It doesn't mean I can't try. – from Where'd You Go, Bernadette –
Fifteen year old Bee is wise beyond her years and when she scores exceptional grades in school, her parents promise her a trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette, Bee's mom, is far from your average mother. Once a famous architect in Los Angeles, she now struggles to fit in with the super mothers in the elite Seattle, Washington area. When she disappears only days before Christmas, she leaves behind a guilty husband and a questioning daughter who will go to any extreme to find out what happened to Bernadette. Bee begins to piece together school memos, email messages, newspaper interviews and bits of "evidence" in the days leading up to Bernadette's disappearance. The result? A wildly entertaining, sometimes poignant, and often hilarious story about parenting in the 21st century, religion, American culture and finding oneself in the process.
Maria Semple is very funny. Her novel is often bitingly sarcastic as she skewers the superficiality of elitism. Semple has written for the television series Mad About You and also Ellen…and her ability to write satire is unparalleled. I found myself literally laughing out loud at the situations in which Semple's characters find themselves. The book pokes fun at the green movement, private school parents (and the administrators of those schools), and corporate America, while delivering a tale about the relationship between mother and daughter.
One of the themes of the novel is identity – specifically Bernadette's identity of artist which becomes lost amid her role as wife and mother. One character from Bernadette's past observes:
If you don't create, Bernadette, you will become a menace to society.
That observation is prophetic and it is this idea of being true to oneself which ultimately drives the narrative in this delightful book.
Where'd You Go, Bernadette delivers on many levels: great characters, an original plot, and a witty format. Short listed for the Women's Prize for Fiction this year, it also demonstrates that smart women's fiction has found its way into the literary circles.
Readers who are looking for humor, great writing, originality and ultimately characters who touch their hearts, need look no further.
Highly recommended.